There was an article in last week's Economist on this. From recollection... in Europe, the testing is not done by an EPA-equivalent government agency, but by third party test labs. There, to get the business, the testers allow the auto manufacturers to rig the test: remove mirrors, remove all weighty optional equipment, remove seats, tape the door and window cracks, etc., etc. In other words, they are not testing the same car that they are selling.
I've been using it for years on a cheap Samsung Atom netbook. I like that it is svelt, has a nice minimalist look, and has great community support. I'm sorry to see it die.
At MIT, the word "hack" means something very specific, and not criminal or unethical. It is a impressive, creative, and clever achievement.
From http://hacks.mit.edu/
The word hack at MIT usually refers to a clever, benign, and "ethical" prank or practical joke, which is both challenging for the perpetrators and amusing to the MIT community (and sometimes even the rest of the world!). Note that this has nothing to do with computer (or phone) hacking (which we call "cracking").
Also, it would be great to be able to set the sleep timer short, and the lock timer much longer. The concepts of Sleep and Lock should be separated.
It is so annoying to put the phone down for a minute and then need to enter my entire (long because I care about security) pass phrase. It encourages people to use low security logins, or waste battery with long sleep timers.
There are two selection criteria: these developers are older, and they participate at StackOverflow. So, they're the guys who sick with programming, not management or retirement, and who "get" social media, at least SO, and are developer community oriented. This is a select group of individuals!
[...]hearing aids are Class I regulated medical devices... I can only imagine the amount of bureaucracy that must be involved to obtaining that classification.
Examples of Class I devices include elastic bandages, examination gloves, and hand-held surgical instruments.
(2) Video programming distributor. Any television broadcast station licensed by the Commission and any multichannel video programming distributor as defined in  76.1000(e) of this chapter, and any other distributor of video programming for residential reception that delivers such programming directly to the home and is subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission.
and "any other distributor of video programming for residential reception that delivers such programming directly to the home" sounds like it fits.
The FCC was established by the Communications Act of 1934 and is charged with regulating interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable.
I'm sure Netflix can finesse this in a number of ways; for example, per this fcc page "Channels producing revenues of under $3,000,000" are exempt from the rule. Instant Watch is "free for Netflix subscribers."
There are also technical issues; HDMI doesn't have a CC stream so the merge of CC or subtitle and video have to happen in the Roku box or upstream.
Hopefully one of the "additional providers of HD content" will also provide streams with Closed Captioning (or subtitles). My biggest disappointment with Roku/Netflix is no Closed Caption.
Does Toyota have to license their car under Apple's EULA just because you carry an iPod in it? No, Even if Toyota bundled an iPod in a car Apple's EULA doesn't say that doing do requires "any work that you distribute" containing it "to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License."
if one piece can't run without the other Precisely my point, in an embedded system, all the parts depend on each other to provide the intended function.
generally accepted that if the program is a binary that just links in In an embedded device, nothing is distributed separately to "just link in." It's all there, in the device; the device (and the program in the device) "contains [...] the Program."
To me, a "mere aggregation" is putting two (or more) programs on the same CD, or web site. In the case of an embedded device, the application software critically depends on the OS in order to provide its intended functions. It cannot operate separately. If this is "mere aggregation" in legalese then this is an egregious abuse of the English language.
The "killer" clause in the GPL2 is:
You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part
thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties
under the terms of this License. IANAL, but it seems clear to me that a device (the "work that you
distribute") run by software with embedded Linux "contains... the
Program," and therefore must "be licensed as a whole
at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License."
If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the
Program, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate
works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply
to those sections when you distribute them as separate works. But
when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a
work based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on
the terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees
extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part
regardless of who wrote it. How can anyone use Linux in an embedded device and not open all
of their code?
Cluster computing is meant to address your situation (really). More processors may be able to do your conversions faster.
Of course, this adds communication overhead.
On a recent bio analysis project, I found that hyperthreaded processors were able to achieve super-linear speedup. In other words, N processors were more than N times faster than a single processor for this computation. My hypothesis is that the communication overhead was absorbed by the hyperthread, and the addition of more cache and RAM (on the additional processors) lead to the super linear speedup.
Having delivered commercial (yes!) applications on Lisp Machines, I can say with some authority that a G4 Mac with Digitool's Macintosh Common Lisp (MCL) is an excellent, probably superior substitute.
The folks at Digitool, and Gary's OpenMCL is a nice free alternative if you don't need the GUI.
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it's obvious there are some pretty fundamental differences between the genders
This highlights one of my pet peeves: use of the word "gender" when "sex" is clearly called for. "Gender" refers to roles; "sex" refers to biology. It appears that it's taboo to use the word "sex" even when that's exactly what you mean to say!
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Of course it has a business purpose... to get press coverage, publicize his show on HBO, and get more viewers.
(x * 0.8) * 1.25 == x
See: http://www.merriam-webster.com...
It's not just for weight; the side mirrors add drag.
There was an article in last week's Economist on this. From recollection... in Europe, the testing is not done by an EPA-equivalent government agency, but by third party test labs. There, to get the business, the testers allow the auto manufacturers to rig the test: remove mirrors, remove all weighty optional equipment, remove seats, tape the door and window cracks, etc., etc. In other words, they are not testing the same car that they are selling.
I've been using it for years on a cheap Samsung Atom netbook. I like that it is svelt, has a nice minimalist look, and has great community support. I'm sorry to see it die.
Kexi and Glom look like nice starts in this direction, but are Linux only. The last Glom release for Windows is several years old.
Take a look at http://sqlitestudio.pl/
At MIT, the word "hack" means something very specific, and not criminal or unethical. It is a impressive, creative, and clever achievement. From http://hacks.mit.edu/ The word hack at MIT usually refers to a clever, benign, and "ethical" prank or practical joke, which is both challenging for the perpetrators and amusing to the MIT community (and sometimes even the rest of the world!). Note that this has nothing to do with computer (or phone) hacking (which we call "cracking").
Also, it would be great to be able to set the sleep timer short, and the lock timer much longer. The concepts of Sleep and Lock should be separated. It is so annoying to put the phone down for a minute and then need to enter my entire (long because I care about security) pass phrase. It encourages people to use low security logins, or waste battery with long sleep timers.
There are two selection criteria: these developers are older, and they participate at StackOverflow. So, they're the guys who sick with programming, not management or retirement, and who "get" social media, at least SO, and are developer community oriented. This is a select group of individuals!
[...]hearing aids are Class I regulated medical devices... I can only imagine the amount of bureaucracy that must be involved to obtaining that classification.
Examples of Class I devices include elastic bandages, examination gloves, and hand-held surgical instruments.
Chibi-scheme is a nice C-based implementation following the R7RS-Small standard closely -- the author is the R7RS-Small committee chair.
(2) Video programming distributor. Any television broadcast station licensed by the Commission and any multichannel video programming distributor as defined in  76.1000(e) of this chapter, and any other distributor of video programming for residential reception that delivers such programming directly to the home and is subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission.
and "any other distributor of video programming for residential reception that delivers such programming directly to the home" sounds like it fits.
The FCC was established by the Communications Act of 1934 and is charged with regulating interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable.
There are also technical issues; HDMI doesn't have a CC stream so the merge of CC or subtitle and video have to happen in the Roku box or upstream.
Hopefully one of the "additional providers of HD content" will also provide streams with Closed Captioning (or subtitles). My biggest disappointment with Roku/Netflix is no Closed Caption.
Erlang documentation has been improving over the last few releases. The Erlang core and OTP libraries are documented here. -- e
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To me, a "mere aggregation" is putting two (or more) programs on the same CD, or web site. In the case of an embedded device, the application software critically depends on the OS in order to provide its intended functions. It cannot operate separately. If this is "mere aggregation" in legalese then this is an egregious abuse of the English language.
The GPL http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html goes on to say:
If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it. How can anyone use Linux in an embedded device and not open all of their code?--e
Cluster computing is meant to address your situation (really). More processors may be able to do your conversions faster.
Of course, this adds communication overhead.
On a recent bio analysis project, I found that hyperthreaded processors were able to achieve super-linear speedup. In other words, N processors were more than N times faster than a single processor for this computation. My hypothesis is that the communication overhead was absorbed by the hyperthread, and the addition of more cache and RAM (on the additional processors) lead to the super linear speedup.
This was using PVM http://www.csm.ornl.gov/pvm/pvm_home.html/
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Having delivered commercial (yes!) applications on Lisp Machines, I can say with some authority that a G4 Mac with Digitool's Macintosh Common Lisp (MCL) is an excellent, probably superior substitute.
The folks at Digitool, and Gary's OpenMCL is a nice free alternative if you don't need the GUI.
it's obvious there are some pretty fundamental differences between the genders
This highlights one of my pet peeves: use of the word "gender" when "sex" is clearly called for. "Gender" refers to roles; "sex" refers to biology. It appears that it's taboo to use the word "sex" even when that's exactly what you mean to say!
The very high quality embeddable SQLite database has several ports to .NET -- see the web site.