They will go to the moon where it's easier and cheaper to install such a teleskope. Furthermore they don't have any decent other scientifics goals for the moons misson yet.
But, hey, let's burn taxpayers dollars at end-80ies technology !
Some people even seem to risk to get into prison just for getting some media attention.
And for your next comment: Jorgason just went free out of court because he could prove that he didn't write deCSS. Unlike this guy now.
it leads to the conclusion that everybody who fights for privacy rights is a pervert.
If this goes to a border public then it will be blow for the privacy movement.
Apple strategy might be succesfull for now but in the long term they will be failing.
They make the usual Apple mistake: expensive high-quality products. It's just a matter of time until you get a Chinese-made 30 bucks player and 10 cent downloads from Google/Yahoo music.
At which point Jobs will announce losses again.
There is one lesson Apple seems not to learn: people want much and they want it cheaply. Nobody cares about quality.
This is quite surprising because this universal law of economics holds even for 3 dollar crack whores but the Apple company is the only place on earth where it's ignored.
Well, perhaps they are leading a healthy lifestyle.
No joke.
This makes me wonder why this isn't an article here at slashdot: it's definitely news for nerds and it involves important political developments.
Some company patents an useful idea and lots of people and businesses jump out and claim that the patent is either trivial or there is prior art.
But if this is the case why is it then (a) useful opposed to triviality or (b) nobody though of patenting it before ?
The steam engine is e.g. not a very original idea of Watt: approaches like this where done before but for some strange reason nobody brothered to create it.
Take as a different non-patent example Einstein's theory of relativity: it's a rather simple conclusion from the fact that the speed of light is constant. You have just really calculate all formulas and then you are done and math undergrad can do this. But Einstein is considered to be one of the greatest scientists because of this discovery.
The point is: sometimes it needs a genius to see the obvious. And why not rewarding the genius then ?
I think that tech certifications are not very useful: they have an extremely limited lifetime and are usually relatively expensive.
I strongly recommend to get non-technical certifications and titles. While an CCNE, MSCE or NZTSGREF is only valid for 2 years, a Ph.D. or Mensa membership is for life.
And both are usually much cheaper than those exams - for the Ph.D. you could get an industry sponsored topic, earning you money, experience and sometimes even patents. And Mensa membership cost just 30 (US) bucks.
And there are much more such certifications like MS or MBA in different scientific areas out there.
And it usually pays off if you have an higher academic title than your boss.
I see why you have problem with patented software in OSS projects, but why should I donate all my software patents to the FSF for contributing to Apache ?
punch a hole on the side of the CD to hang it on your key ring
CDs/CD-R are written from center to border. So if your CD(-R) isn't completely full you can actually get away with this. This effect is also used for "shape" CD's.
The only system which has problem with these is FreeBSD due to the IO shedular, I think.
Such reponses have always to be made by laywers for obvious reasons. Even if the original threat if fraudulent.
If a CIO is responding to them on his own account then he is endangering the whole company. Usually such people get another letter - the pink slip from his boss. And the boss will be right.
Usually I get the best coding results after 16 hours of constant work without sleep. In the end I suddenly see new options which came never into my mind before. The same holds for my coworkers. So from personal experience I strongly doubt their result.
Furthermore a single test with just 60 people is not enough to create a meaningful statistical evaluation of the experiment.
While some of the aspects of python are indeed nice and useful, the very foundations of the python project are tainted.
Python is basically an attempt to merge Perl, TCL/TK and object orientated programming. Mixing scripting with OO is not a bad idea - there are some other attempts like Ruby and Javascript. However Python's main fault is that it is too much aligned at his ancestors. I don't think that we really have to discuss the problems of Perl's "object system" or the shortcomings of TCL/TK.
The issue with python is that it inherited too much from these problems to be useful. Even worse, some developers tried to add some aspects from Camel fucking up the whole situation majorly.
The result can be seen when you try to program a caller frame instance-preserving continuation in Python. The only thing that works is an unportable stack smashing like ole C's longjumps with added occultism with the garbage collector.
This is a bigger problem than you might think, I often see young programmer to use Python at the start of projects because it's good for fast hacking. But when the project advances they suddenly notice that python doesn't provide all necessary features and a whole rewrite is in order.
ESA is not very clever.
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The pictures would be more detailed if they would let Mars Express fly a little lower. And they would have a decent chance to find Beagle 2, too.
At some point you'll reach a size where quantum effects take over. And this would be the ultimate wall which can't be circumvented. Furthermore some people believe we will run into trouble earlier due to the entropy principle and related termodynamical effects (small layers of conductors evaporate spontanously due to the termal momentum of the atoms).
Elliptic Curve Cryptography is, like RSA and Unix crypt, believed to be hard because it looks like a one-way door: It is easy to go in one direction, but unless you have exactly the right data (or an obscene amount of time), impossible to go in the other direction.
This is not entirely correct. Elliptic curve cryptography (spelled this way) is based on elliptic groups where per definition is always an inverse so you can always "go back". Getting this inverse is considered to be hard - but this is not proven yet.
In fact for the related parabolic and hyperbolic groups, there are fast algorithms for calculating and inverse. So I personally doubt that elliptic groups are save. Furthermore it's relatively unclear why the researchers cling to the elliptic setting - using the Picard groups of quartics or sextics might prove much more fruitful.
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What have they done about the smell ?
What is RMS opinion on outsourcing ?
And what about the role of OSS in this setting ?
But, hey, let's burn taxpayers dollars at end-80ies technology !
Guess why some people want to close the NASA.
34.5 feet side length.
354203273 tiles
I think they got the danish flag on the sides on something like that.
Just try this google search.
It contains a trojan horse which will bork your boxen !
Some people even seem to risk to get into prison just for getting some media attention.
And for your next comment: Jorgason just went free out of court because he could prove that he didn't write deCSS. Unlike this guy now.
it leads to the conclusion that everybody who fights for privacy rights is a pervert.
If this goes to a border public then it will be blow for the privacy movement.
They make the usual Apple mistake: expensive high-quality products. It's just a matter of time until you get a Chinese-made 30 bucks player and 10 cent downloads from Google/Yahoo music.
At which point Jobs will announce losses again.
There is one lesson Apple seems not to learn: people want much and they want it cheaply. Nobody cares about quality.
This is quite surprising because this universal law of economics holds even for 3 dollar crack whores but the Apple company is the only place on earth where it's ignored.
Well, perhaps they are leading a healthy lifestyle.
No joke.
This makes me wonder why this isn't an article here at slashdot: it's definitely news for nerds and it involves important political developments.
It's besides 34K the most efficient way to create lag in online games.
The age group of Linux users in Sweden is 9-87. The median is around 23. However, we have a surprising large cluster around the 80ies.
Some company patents an useful idea and lots of people and businesses jump out and claim that the patent is either trivial or there is prior art.
But if this is the case why is it then (a) useful opposed to triviality or (b) nobody though of patenting it before ?
The steam engine is e.g. not a very original idea of Watt: approaches like this where done before but for some strange reason nobody brothered to create it.
Take as a different non-patent example Einstein's theory of relativity: it's a rather simple conclusion from the fact that the speed of light is constant. You have just really calculate all formulas and then you are done and math undergrad can do this. But Einstein is considered to be one of the greatest scientists because of this discovery.
The point is: sometimes it needs a genius to see the obvious.
And why not rewarding the genius then ?
I really appreciate their actions.
I think that tech certifications are not very useful: they have an extremely limited lifetime and are usually relatively expensive.
I strongly recommend to get non-technical certifications and titles. While an CCNE, MSCE or NZTSGREF is only valid for 2 years, a Ph.D. or Mensa membership is for life.
And both are usually much cheaper than those exams - for the Ph.D. you could get an industry sponsored topic, earning you money, experience and sometimes even patents. And Mensa membership cost just 30 (US) bucks.
And there are much more such certifications like MS or MBA in different scientific areas out there.
And it usually pays off if you have an higher academic title than your boss.
I see why you have problem with patented software in OSS projects, but why should I donate all my software patents to the FSF for contributing to Apache ?
CDs/CD-R are written from center to border. So if your CD(-R) isn't completely full you can actually get away with this. This effect is also used for "shape" CD's.
The only system which has problem with these is FreeBSD due to the IO shedular, I think.
was - as usually - not asked.
Everybody is only interested in one thing: will the Ximian team eradicate KDE support in Suse[Novell] Linux ?
Such reponses have always to be made by laywers for obvious reasons. Even if the original threat if fraudulent.
If a CIO is responding to them on his own account then he is endangering the whole company. Usually such people get another letter - the pink slip from his boss. And the boss will be right.
They might be script kiddies.
But we will soon see whether the democrats' website gets defaced by r3pvbl1|4|\|Z leader 45|-|cruv7.
Usually I get the best coding results after 16 hours of constant work without sleep. In the end I suddenly see new options which came never into my mind before. The same holds for my coworkers. So from personal experience I strongly doubt their result.
Furthermore a single test with just 60 people is not enough to create a meaningful statistical evaluation of the experiment.
While some of the aspects of python are indeed nice and useful, the very foundations of the python project are tainted.
Python is basically an attempt to merge Perl, TCL/TK and object orientated programming. Mixing scripting with OO is not a bad idea - there are some other attempts like Ruby and Javascript.
However Python's main fault is that it is too much aligned at his ancestors. I don't think that we really have to discuss the problems of Perl's "object system" or the shortcomings of TCL/TK. The issue with python is that it inherited too much from these problems to be useful. Even worse, some developers tried to add some aspects from Camel fucking up the whole situation majorly. The result can be seen when you try to program a caller frame instance-preserving continuation in Python. The only thing that works is an unportable stack smashing like ole C's longjumps with added occultism with the garbage collector.
This is a bigger problem than you might think, I often see young programmer to use Python at the start of projects because it's good for fast hacking. But when the project advances they suddenly notice that python doesn't provide all necessary features and a whole rewrite is in order.
The pictures would be more detailed if they would let Mars Express fly a little lower. And they would have a decent chance to find Beagle 2, too.
At some point you'll reach a size where quantum effects take over. And this would be the ultimate wall which can't be circumvented. Furthermore some people believe we will run into trouble earlier due to the entropy principle and related termodynamical effects (small layers of conductors evaporate spontanously due to the termal momentum of the atoms).
This is not entirely correct. Elliptic curve cryptography (spelled this way) is based on elliptic groups where per definition is always an inverse so you can always "go back". Getting this inverse is considered to be hard - but this is not proven yet.
In fact for the related parabolic and hyperbolic groups, there are fast algorithms for calculating and inverse. So I personally doubt that elliptic groups are save. Furthermore it's relatively unclear why the researchers cling to the elliptic setting - using the Picard groups of quartics or sextics might prove much more fruitful.