we already know the cost in man-hours for OSS projects: $0
Sure, many contributions are from volunteers. But many of these volunteers are corporations. IBM, SUSE, Redhat, yes, even SCO/Caldera (back when they were sane) contributed the time of programmers whose salaries they paid to improve and extend the functionality of OSS. I'm sure that IBM at least can account for every hour and cent spent on Linux. It's ammunition which would be useful in a GPL violation case. You can bet that if a library written by Big Blue were misused, they would be able to show exactly how much it had cost to produce.
AK-47s have been in use since at least 1949 With good reason. Its simplicity, durability and tolerance for abuse, dust and sand make it ideal for desert environments In fact, they're so good that American troops are using them.
I might be more inclined to believe or give credit to the owner of the domain "freewebsites.com"[1] if his site didn't attempt to spam me with popups itself every time I requested a different page. Oh, and a whois record with the name "Maidstone Net (dan@maidstone.com(which doesn't even resolve))" doesn't inspire confidence either. As for this guy's tales of uber-leetness, I'm sorry, one does not post stories about numerous breaches of various computer security laws including the rather useful Data Protection Act (he appears to live in the UK) on the web for all to see if one values the integrity of ones anal sphincter (and wishes people to continue to give one their business) I call BS
[1] Slashcode is inserting "yro.slashdot.org" into this url when I try to embed it.
I don't want to "overcome current limitations of literacy". Voice-recognition and text-to-speech converters should be for the sole use of blind or partially-sighted people who absolutely cannot see text at all, ever. I can see this developing into another govt.-sponsored program of 'enablement' when these people would best be served by teaching them to read. Literacy is too important to be made optional.
In the UK Yellow Pages, c. 5 years ago, in the index under "Boring" was printed "See Civil Engineers" Unfortunately, this little gem has been expurgated from the current edition.
I dont think we want some extremeists(sic) to walk away with the "battery" in the middle of the night Extremists that can haul 16 tons of metal 70 feet up a shaft and walk away with it do not need weapons.
According to data from Michigan State University and Matweb, tensile strength (it shouldn't fly apart) and Young's modulus (it shouldn't stretch too much) are comparable to materials currently used.
silicon.com that ran the "Torvalds for Governor" story? They've removed the original from their site and replaced it with this apology but both they and zdnet were fooled.
August 2000 : Private Eye carries a cartoon of a man in doctor's whites being chased down the street by an angry mob, captioned "But I'm a paediatrician".
August 29 2000 this happens.
I live 200 yards from this victim of rampant stupidity.
the BBC will, like most companies, neglect the consideration of non-Microsoft platforms due to being ignorant to the existance of those platforms
This article which was on the front page of Linuxplanet.com for months would seem to counter this statement.
P.S. Has any other watcher of The Record noticed that the anchor is always leaning against a desk, upon which are two LCD monitors, the right hand one of which is always showing "it is now safe to turn off your computer"
A US gallon is a quarter larger than a British one
BZZZZZZTTTT!!!! Wrong!
A Us gallon is 80% of an Imperial gallon because a US pint has 16 fluid ounces, whereas an Imperial pint has 20. This is why gas mileage figures for "Yank Tanks" seem even worse than they really are.
running on a proprietary SRI PacketHop network Proprietary network closing in around the penguin - NOT an image that fills me with joy. Any idea why this can't run on plain ol' 802.11?
My system (Athlon 1200) is now stable for the first time in over a year thanks soley to silver-based paste. Prior to this I experienced unexplained X-server restarts, segfaults and kernel panics on a weekly basis, mainly due to the TIM, which had dried out and was falling out of the CPU/heatsink interface in pieces. Ironically, had I still been running Win98, I would have got a GPF, which would have immediately suggested "Hardware Fault". Still, at least I've learned the value of backups.
Most of this is cribbed from the Wine Project. This looks like a job for the FSF. How far are the binaries being distributed? Since they contain GPL code, it shouldn't be too difficult to make a case for source code release, which would open the whole app to peer review (and, if the article is even halfway right, hilarity).
there's a large chance that they'll get the wrong person using DNA testing alone cf DNA is pretty good for proving you're innocent, buut lousy at proving you're guilty.
So to screen large populations, use the basic 'remove 1 of 4' test, which will exonerate most of the innocent, then follow up with a full sequence on those that remain. Has anyone been permanently convicted using only the basic test?
how can we trust that the DNA records are correct, the samples handled correctly? Does it matter? You have an inexhaustible supply of DNA which is indubitably yours with which you can compare any suspect sample. DNA as a method of identification has been shown many times to be almost infallible. Physical and psychological profiling by DNA I would currently rank alongside craniometrics, palmistry and graphology.
I know of somebody working at a fast food delivery outlet with a customer db keyed to phone numbers (you do know the company) who would enter every local number anyone gave him to see if he got a hit. AFAIK he only used this to freak out girlfriends (by turning up to collect them from home for a second date when they hadn't yet given him their address), but it was a clear breach of the UK's Data Protection Act, and could have landed him in deep trouble.
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Am I the only ex-Viz-reader here?
Thought so.
Sure, many contributions are from volunteers. But many of these volunteers are corporations. IBM, SUSE, Redhat, yes, even SCO/Caldera (back when they were sane) contributed the time of programmers whose salaries they paid to improve and extend the functionality of OSS. I'm sure that IBM at least can account for every hour and cent spent on Linux. It's ammunition which would be useful in a GPL violation case. You can bet that if a library written by Big Blue were misused, they would be able to show exactly how much it had cost to produce.
With good reason. Its simplicity, durability and tolerance for abuse, dust and sand make it ideal for desert environments
In fact, they're so good that American troops are using them.
Hey, I got one of those with Win98 - for free!
Oh, and a whois record with the name "Maidstone Net (dan@maidstone.com(which doesn't even resolve))" doesn't inspire confidence either. As for this guy's tales of uber-leetness, I'm sorry, one does not post stories about numerous breaches of various computer security laws including the rather useful Data Protection Act (he appears to live in the UK) on the web for all to see if one values the integrity of ones anal sphincter (and wishes people to continue to give one their business)
I call BS
[1] Slashcode is inserting "yro.slashdot.org" into this url when I try to embed it.
Voice-recognition and text-to-speech converters should be for the sole use of blind or partially-sighted people who absolutely cannot see text at all, ever.
I can see this developing into another govt.-sponsored program of 'enablement' when these people would best be served by teaching them to read.
Literacy is too important to be made optional.
Unfortunately, this little gem has been expurgated from the current edition.
Even though it's a bastard to install.
When the average Cartoon Network viewer learns to read.
Yes, I have been known to watch Cartoon Network (Chuck Jones, we miss you), but I'm not the target audience.
and slash it across your wrist
Down, not across.
Extremists that can haul 16 tons of metal 70 feet up a shaft and walk away with it do not need weapons.
According to data from Michigan State University and Matweb, tensile strength (it shouldn't fly apart) and Young's modulus (it shouldn't stretch too much) are comparable to materials currently used.
silicon.com that ran the "Torvalds for Governor" story? They've removed the original from their site and replaced it with this apology but both they and zdnet were fooled.
August 2000 : Private Eye carries a cartoon of a man in doctor's whites being chased down the street by an angry mob, captioned "But I'm a paediatrician".
August 29 2000 this happens. I live 200 yards from this victim of rampant stupidity.
This article which was on the front page of Linuxplanet.com for months would seem to counter this statement.
P.S. Has any other watcher of The Record noticed that the anchor is always leaning against a desk, upon which are two LCD monitors, the right hand one of which is always showing "it is now safe to turn off your computer"
BZZZZZZTTTT!!!! Wrong!
A Us gallon is 80% of an Imperial gallon because a US pint has 16 fluid ounces, whereas an Imperial pint has 20.
This is why gas mileage figures for "Yank Tanks" seem even worse than they really are.
running on a proprietary SRI PacketHop network
Proprietary network closing in around the penguin - NOT an image that fills me with joy.
Any idea why this can't run on plain ol' 802.11?
My system (Athlon 1200) is now stable for the first time in over a year thanks soley to silver-based paste. Prior to this I experienced unexplained X-server restarts, segfaults and kernel panics on a weekly basis, mainly due to the TIM, which had dried out and was falling out of the CPU/heatsink interface in pieces. Ironically, had I still been running Win98, I would have got a GPF, which would have immediately suggested "Hardware Fault". Still, at least I've learned the value of backups.
Most of this is cribbed from the Wine Project.
This looks like a job for the FSF. How far are the binaries being distributed? Since they contain GPL code, it shouldn't be too difficult to make a case for source code release, which would open the whole app to peer review (and, if the article is even halfway right, hilarity).
Save yourself the hassle, save money, protect your privacy - get one of these
there's a large chance that they'll get the wrong person using DNA testing alone
cf
DNA is pretty good for proving you're innocent, buut lousy at proving you're guilty.
So to screen large populations, use the basic 'remove 1 of 4' test, which will exonerate most of the innocent, then follow up with a full sequence on those that remain. Has anyone been permanently convicted using only the basic test?
how can we trust that the DNA records are correct, the samples handled correctly?
Does it matter? You have an inexhaustible supply of DNA which is indubitably yours with which you can compare any suspect sample.
DNA as a method of identification has been shown many times to be almost infallible. Physical and psychological profiling by DNA I would currently rank alongside craniometrics, palmistry and graphology.
I know of somebody working at a fast food delivery outlet with a customer db keyed to phone numbers (you do know the company) who would enter every local number anyone gave him to see if he got a hit. AFAIK he only used this to freak out girlfriends (by turning up to collect them from home for a second date when they hadn't yet given him their address), but it was a clear breach of the UK's Data Protection Act, and could have landed him in deep trouble.