I've heard a lot of arguments against the GPL, but come on, it's not easy or cheap to make your GPL'd source available? That takes the biscuit. All it needs is a tiny bit of paper in the box with your product, or a single file on the disk that says we make our source available at this URL...
Even a shared server would be fine forserving single files - a $20/month hosting agreement could serve the tarballs for all but the biggest files. There are other options for GPL projects like sourceforge
Maybe you mean it's not cheap or easy to keep track of the licence that covers individual parts of your program. In that case you had better make sure your staff are coding every single line of code your app uses, because if yo ucan't keep track of the licenses covering your files, you are just asking to be sued. The GPL offers software that if Free as in Freedom, not Free as in beer. One of the very small costs the GPL imposes on anyone that uses software licensed under it is to contribute back to the community. Don;t like it, then don't use it - write your own code instead.
Okay, if you run BSD I can see why the license is important, you want your software to run under the BSD license. But for the rest of us, what advantage does a BSD licensed compiler offer? It's not like GCC forces the GPL onto compiled software, does it?
For commercial software, pointing to the GCC source isn't that much of a burden if you need to distribute a compiler.
I'd have though the fact a compiler was faster and or lighter would be much more important than the license it uses. Why is that not the case?
Partial zero emission vehicle means that during some portion of time while the vehicle is operating, it does not produce any emissions.
I think you might be wrong here. I have a 2.3L Focus outside that has PZEV stickers on it, and I'd hazard a guess that the only time it doesn't produce any emissions is when the engine is turned off.
The PZEV actually means that for some of the many types of emissions normal combustion engines make, these cars have zero emissions. PZEV vehicles have zero evaporative emissions from the fuel system, but PZEV doesn't address things like CO2 emissions. Hence they are partially zero - zero in some areas, not zero in others.
A Prius is an AT-PZEV because it sometimes runs with a standard combustion engine and therefore faces all the normal emissions such an engine would produce. To further enhance its green credentials, Toyota made the combustion engine meet the Californian PZEV standards.
The article itself is a bit misleading. A PZEV vehicle can be sold outside the listed states, it just can't be marketed as such, as this would also mean it offers other things such as an enhanced emissions warranty for 150,000 miles. So my Focus would be a PZEV vehicle if I'd bought it in California. Having bought it elsewhere it has exactly the same engine but without the warranty advantages.
The Scottish Highlands have a population density of 20 per square mile, that's about 4 times less than Missouri or 25% less than Utah. Every phone exchange in the Highlands has ADSL.
Islands like Jura, area 140 square miles, population 180 have ADSL. Basically if there's a telephone exchange in place, they should be able to provide DSL to those living within the physical limits of DSL.
If the phone providers in the US refuse to provide service while being happy to take the rural surcharge on everyone's phone bill, it is perhaps time the government got involved to encourage them in that direction.
British Telecom in the UK found a good solution to this problem. They simply created a site for folk to register if they wanted broadband. Once the number of folk reached the point that upgrading the excahnge became viable they rolled out ADSL.
Of course they've now upgraded all their exchanges, event he most rural ones because current ADSL technology means it can be provided economically to 20-30 households.
I'd almost forgotten Rhapsody even existed anymore with the rise of iTunes. I remember when Real originally rolled out their service, it seems like forever ago.
Unlikely, given that Real purchased Rhapsody they didn't create it. The bought it as part of their acquisition of listen.com
I've subscribed to Rhapsody for many years. I don't know why you say they couldn't make it work?
I've always been more prone to losing CDs than collecting them, so a subscription service suits me perfectly. That it works through Firefox on Linux is an welcome and added bonus. I'm guessing it's the only major music service that actually supports Linux as an operating platform.
Yeah, but his home network is a country with a landmass 90% size of continental Europe.
and his network covers maybe 10% of it. Vodafone cover 99% of the landmass of the UK - is there even a single US state that can claim 99% coverage from any operator?
Geez. That would have added almost $4,500 to my phone bill. Good thing I live in the United States where I get all-I-can-eat data plan from T-Mobile for $19.99/month... Oh, wait... I'm sorry. I forgot this is Slashdot and we're supposed to be bashing America here. Sorry.
That's on your home network, not roaming.
You're right though, T-Mobile USA do offer a better international data roaming rate, had you been roaming in the UK, or any other country bar Canada, you'd have been charged $15.36 per MB + tax, so for your 223MB the bill would have been just $3425.28 + tax saving you $1,000 from what Vodafone UK would charge me!
No, GSM is not universally the same. There are at least 3 GSM bands (frequencies escape me). North America has one, Europe another, and (I think) the Middle East has the third.
The rest of the world uses 900 and 1800MHz for GSM. The US uses two different frequencies, 850 and 1900.
Most phones sold in the Europe are tri band or quad band these days, covering all the frequencies needed to roam internationally. I've happily been using various UK phones in the US since 2002, and roaming in Europe and Africa man times before then.
You are right though, that just because you have a compatible phone, networks can still play unfair. Even your home network when you see roaming costs, like Vodafone UK charging $20/Mb for roaming data!
And you are obviously a/. regular as you clearly did't RTFA...
Megan Funk had been on the phone for 30 minutes and had already untangled one billing knot,... and received one request to replace a cracked copy of "Hotel Rwanda"...
My comment stands even more so for things like billing errors - I'd _much_ rather have a written record of such communications than a log entry in their call management system written to reflect the agent's view of the conversation after it ended.
I hate calling call centres and finding staff who are not empowered to fix anything. Being held in queues, being promised call backs that never happen. I mean, if I want to report a cracked DVD, it's just as easy to say in an email "you sent me this DVD it has a crack, please replace it" as it is on the phone.
If I use email I have a written record of what I said to them and what they said to me. All I ask is that I get a timely and helpful reply. That means not sending a canned response based on the first sentence of my email, rather than reading the whole thing. That means a response in English, not a jumble of English like words that you need to read several times to understand what the sender might mean.
I'm all for companies having call centres. I'm all for them having an easy way to reach a humnan. However, just replacing all the problems with email communications with human staff that can do more than read off a script won't improve customer satisfaction.
shared amongst two people = 3 units. Legal limit = 4 units
You don't let up do you.
The Italian drink drive limit is 0.05, not 0.08 like the UK - I'm presuming you're in the UK as you talk about Units.
The UK Limit is 0.08% not 4 units
The units system in the UK is 20 years old, and based on wine having an ABV of 8%. Wine frequently has an ABV of 13%+. Half a bottle of that will place a large male over the UK limit. Half a bottle of almost any wine would leave someone over the Italian limit.
Almost 600 people a year in the UK are killed by drunk drivers. The fact you even wish to defend drinking half a bottle of wine and driving makes you look more foolish than I think you realise.
Having spent time in North Italy (Lots of mountain roads), I can say that I saw many people out to lunch split a bottle of wine between 2 or 3 people, and drive back to work. In all my time there, I didn't see one wreck. Not one.
Then you were either lucky or weren't looking for them. Italy has one of the worst accident rates in Western Europe and drink driving is currently a hot political topic following a sixteen year old girl being hit and killed by a driver three times the limit. More here from the Herald Tribune
In what way is this functionally different than the same hypervisor being installed on a bootable USB flash drive/IDE-attached CompactFlash card/[insert other stupid-simple method of booting from flash]?
The difference is that it's a supported set up from a major manufacturer. That means that when you pay for 24x7x365 support you are not faced with being told that you've modified the hardware and they can't support your setup. Indeed if your flash card dies a sudden death, the Dell engineer
can be there within four hours and should actually be carrying a spare.
For a hobbyist at home I doubt there's much of a difference at all, but for folk paying big $$$ for enterprise solutions, this is probably very welcome.
Sure. but what keeps you from making a copy of the CD-ROM with certain info deleted or altered, and putting that in the archives instead of the original?
You miss the point. The submitter is not asking for a way to produce a secure write once logging system, he's asking for a way to make a write once logging system that is compliant with the legislation he is operating under.
While we may be able to see endless faults with any proposed solution that doesn't matter. He just needs to implement one that covers him and the suits above him should they be audited.
Firstly I have lived in both Europe and the United States,s o I think I'm qualified to comment.
Secondly I provided two example states both similar in size to Scotland with higher population density and much worse cell phone and broadband provision. As I said, ever phone exchange in Scotland had ADSL with speeds to 8 mbits and next year will see that upped to 24 mbits. I live in a US city and can't get close to 8mbits with DSL let alone 24.
Of course there are hugely sparse areas in the US, however that doesn't change the fact that the technology exists to provide DSL to very small villages. Where someone is miles from a phone exchange, problems exist, but even in the really rural states folk shouldn't be accepting that as an excuse for lack of provision.
In states like the ones I mentioned, and many more densely populated ones I fail to see why their communications lag behind the rest of the world.
Unless you have a leased line, you probably pay for an internet connection capable of reaching some speed advertised by your internet provider. I'm sure if you call them they'll be happy to sell you guaranteed bandwidth like you describe, be aware though that a T1 will set you back $several hundred a month and probably provide a lower downstream bandwidth than you routinely get from DSL / cable.
The things is, the majority of folk with domestic broadband services feel the way you do. So if a very small number of users start using an application like bittorrent and they end up with 2% of users using 95% of bandwidth what should an ISP do? By limiting the bandwidth available to bittorrent through packet inspection, they can ensure 98% of customers see the bandwidth they expect.
Europe is full of less densly populated areas that have far better coverage than similar areas in the US.
Almost every village in Scotland has cell coverage from multiple providers. 3G coverage is spreading rapidly into the larger towns. Scotland has a population density about the same as Virginia or North Carolina yet has much better coverage. When it comes to ADSL, every telephone exchange is enabled, and 99% of the population has access to broadband. Absolutely not the case in the US.
Whatever the reason for the lack of these things in the US, the population density argument isn't it.
Virtually all the new services require the cable/phone company's box to get the full range of channels because everyone is using encrypted QAM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAM_tuner) so a standard QAM or ATSC tuner is useless for hi-def.
Wouldn't that be it has CableCard slots - so the box can decrypt the encrypted cable signals?
I keep a base install of a vm image as an lvm partition. If I want another server I create a new LVM partition, use dd to duplicate my base image then change the disk line in the vm config file. Ten minutes and another empty server has been deployed.
Boot in and update the rpm's and you're good to go.
It compares pretty well. Two years ago the US spent (in nice round numbers) USD5200 per person on healthcare. At current exchange rates, that's GBP2600-ish. Using a two year old exchange rate it was GBP4200.
Where did your rate come from?
Two years ago, 1 USD was worth 0.565 GBP so $5200 two years ago was 2938 GBP or about 1300GBP less tan your figure. For conversion figures see this link
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I've used the HOV lane into DC with a child in an infant seat behind me. The camera isn't going to spot that.
Am I going to have to get sworn affidavits stating the child was with me? Should I take photos on my journey? Are HOV lanes 18+ now?
Even a shared server would be fine forserving single files - a $20/month hosting agreement could serve the tarballs for all but the biggest files. There are other options for GPL projects like sourceforge
Maybe you mean it's not cheap or easy to keep track of the licence that covers individual parts of your program. In that case you had better make sure your staff are coding every single line of code your app uses, because if yo ucan't keep track of the licenses covering your files, you are just asking to be sued. The GPL offers software that if Free as in Freedom, not Free as in beer. One of the very small costs the GPL imposes on anyone that uses software licensed under it is to contribute back to the community. Don;t like it, then don't use it - write your own code instead.
For commercial software, pointing to the GCC source isn't that much of a burden if you need to distribute a compiler.
I'd have though the fact a compiler was faster and or lighter would be much more important than the license it uses. Why is that not the case?
The PZEV actually means that for some of the many types of emissions normal combustion engines make, these cars have zero emissions. PZEV vehicles have zero evaporative emissions from the fuel system, but PZEV doesn't address things like CO2 emissions. Hence they are partially zero - zero in some areas, not zero in others.
A Prius is an AT-PZEV because it sometimes runs with a standard combustion engine and therefore faces all the normal emissions such an engine would produce. To further enhance its green credentials, Toyota made the combustion engine meet the Californian PZEV standards.
The article itself is a bit misleading. A PZEV vehicle can be sold outside the listed states, it just can't be marketed as such, as this would also mean it offers other things such as an enhanced emissions warranty for 150,000 miles. So my Focus would be a PZEV vehicle if I'd bought it in California. Having bought it elsewhere it has exactly the same engine but without the warranty advantages.
The Scottish Highlands have a population density of 20 per square mile, that's about 4 times less than Missouri or 25% less than Utah. Every phone exchange in the Highlands has ADSL.
Islands like Jura, area 140 square miles, population 180 have ADSL. Basically if there's a telephone exchange in place, they should be able to provide DSL to those living within the physical limits of DSL.
If the phone providers in the US refuse to provide service while being happy to take the rural surcharge on everyone's phone bill, it is perhaps time the government got involved to encourage them in that direction.
British Telecom in the UK found a good solution to this problem. They simply created a site for folk to register if they wanted broadband. Once the number of folk reached the point that upgrading the excahnge became viable they rolled out ADSL.
Of course they've now upgraded all their exchanges, event he most rural ones because current ADSL technology means it can be provided economically to 20-30 households.
I've subscribed to Rhapsody for many years. I don't know why you say they couldn't make it work?
I've always been more prone to losing CDs than collecting them, so a subscription service suits me perfectly. That it works through Firefox on Linux is an welcome and added bonus. I'm guessing it's the only major music service that actually supports Linux as an operating platform.
You're right though, T-Mobile USA do offer a better international data roaming rate, had you been roaming in the UK, or any other country bar Canada, you'd have been charged $15.36 per MB + tax, so for your 223MB the bill would have been just $3425.28 + tax saving you $1,000 from what Vodafone UK would charge me!
The rest of the world uses 900 and 1800MHz for GSM. The US uses two different frequencies, 850 and 1900.
Most phones sold in the Europe are tri band or quad band these days, covering all the frequencies needed to roam internationally. I've happily been using various UK phones in the US since 2002, and roaming in Europe and Africa man times before then.
You are right though, that just because you have a compatible phone, networks can still play unfair. Even your home network when you see roaming costs, like Vodafone UK charging $20/Mb for roaming data!
And you are obviously a
What about those of us that want to use email?
I hate calling call centres and finding staff who are not empowered to fix anything. Being held in queues, being promised call backs that never happen. I mean, if I want to report a cracked DVD, it's just as easy to say in an email "you sent me this DVD it has a crack, please replace it" as it is on the phone.
If I use email I have a written record of what I said to them and what they said to me. All I ask is that I get a timely and helpful reply. That means not sending a canned response based on the first sentence of my email, rather than reading the whole thing. That means a response in English, not a jumble of English like words that you need to read several times to understand what the sender might mean.
I'm all for companies having call centres. I'm all for them having an easy way to reach a humnan. However, just replacing all the problems with email communications with human staff that can do more than read off a script won't improve customer satisfaction.
- The Italian drink drive limit is 0.05, not 0.08 like the UK - I'm presuming you're in the UK as you talk about Units.
- The UK Limit is 0.08% not 4 units
- The units system in the UK is 20 years old, and based on wine having an ABV of 8%. Wine frequently has an ABV of 13%+. Half a bottle of that will place a large male over the UK limit. Half a bottle of almost any wine would leave someone over the Italian limit.
Almost 600 people a year in the UK are killed by drunk drivers. The fact you even wish to defend drinking half a bottle of wine and driving makes you look more foolish than I think you realise.I'm not the one that's stupid if you think splitting a bottle of wine between two wouldn't place you well over the limit.
can be there within four hours and should actually be carrying a spare.
For a hobbyist at home I doubt there's much of a difference at all, but for folk paying big $$$ for enterprise solutions, this is probably very welcome.
While we may be able to see endless faults with any proposed solution that doesn't matter. He just needs to implement one that covers him and the suits above him should they be audited.
Firstly I have lived in both Europe and the United States,s o I think I'm qualified to comment. Secondly I provided two example states both similar in size to Scotland with higher population density and much worse cell phone and broadband provision. As I said, ever phone exchange in Scotland had ADSL with speeds to 8 mbits and next year will see that upped to 24 mbits. I live in a US city and can't get close to 8mbits with DSL let alone 24. Of course there are hugely sparse areas in the US, however that doesn't change the fact that the technology exists to provide DSL to very small villages. Where someone is miles from a phone exchange, problems exist, but even in the really rural states folk shouldn't be accepting that as an excuse for lack of provision. In states like the ones I mentioned, and many more densely populated ones I fail to see why their communications lag behind the rest of the world.
Unless you have a leased line, you probably pay for an internet connection capable of reaching some speed advertised by your internet provider. I'm sure if you call them they'll be happy to sell you guaranteed bandwidth like you describe, be aware though that a T1 will set you back $several hundred a month and probably provide a lower downstream bandwidth than you routinely get from DSL / cable.
The things is, the majority of folk with domestic broadband services feel the way you do. So if a very small number of users start using an application like bittorrent and they end up with 2% of users using 95% of bandwidth what should an ISP do? By limiting the bandwidth available to bittorrent through packet inspection, they can ensure 98% of customers see the bandwidth they expect.
Europe is full of less densly populated areas that have far better coverage than similar areas in the US.
Almost every village in Scotland has cell coverage from multiple providers. 3G coverage is spreading rapidly into the larger towns. Scotland has a population density about the same as Virginia or North Carolina yet has much better coverage. When it comes to ADSL, every telephone exchange is enabled, and 99% of the population has access to broadband. Absolutely not the case in the US.
Whatever the reason for the lack of these things in the US, the population density argument isn't it.
I keep a base install of a vm image as an lvm partition. If I want another server I create a new LVM partition, use dd to duplicate my base image then change the disk line in the vm config file. Ten minutes and another empty server has been deployed.
Boot in and update the rpm's and you're good to go.
I guess it could be a real bargain if the $19M includes delivery and installation.
Two years ago, 1 USD was worth 0.565 GBP so $5200 two years ago was 2938 GBP or about 1300GBP less tan your figure. For conversion figures see this link
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.