Translation : " We will kill off any money-losing product that our employees get too bored to maintain"
FTFY
This is a more correct translation.
I believe Google at one point offered the source code to Reader to anyone who wanted to update it for the current third party hosting infrastructure, with the proviso that they contract for some number of months of hosting. There were no takers, presumably because no one else could figure out how to make money from it, either, if Ads were not a possible revenue stream due to the front end apps on phones stripping the ads out.
Google isn't trembling but Glass should be. They kill off far more successful projects on a weekly basis.
Captcha: infanticide.
You show a pretty big misunderstanding of the culture within Google.
Google kills off things like Reader, which would have quit working on it's own after the antique back end infrastructure that supported it was phased out, since the people who wrote it had moved onto other, more interesting projects, and weren't all that stoked about leaving their new projects to go back and maintain it so that it would work with the new back end infrastructure. With the front end apps third parties wrote to strip the ads out, it was nothing but a money sink anyway. Has some new Noogler found it very interesting for their first project, it probably would have been maintained, but frankly, it wasn't as sexy as the other projects they could work on.
I don't know of one Google X project that has been similarly killed off; to be a Google X project, Sergey has to be personally interested in supporting the project. He's not as flighty as people who worked on a 3 month project to get integrated into the Google culture after first starting at Google, and aren't interested in revisiting their Noogler project as a long term albatross they will have to carry around their necks forever after.
Utah ranks twice as high in SAT scores by students than California.
SAT scores are a terrible metric to compare schools. SATs are specifically designed to measure raw ability, and to exclude, as much as reasonably possible, the benefits of education. According to this chart the average American SAT score in 2013 was 1498, while California's was 1505 and Utah's was 1694. BUT WAIT: in California, 57% of high school students took the SAT, while in Utah just 6% took it. So the top 6% of Utah are better than the top 57% of California students on a test that is specifically designed to NOT measure the quality of their education. I am not sure what to conclude from that.
Most college/university bound students in Utah take the ACT rather than the SAT. There are ranking conversion factors listed in the Wikipedia article on SAT test scores: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... See also the map on that page.
When I say they scored higher, it's after running the ACT scores through the concordance tables.
Not that I necessarily disagree with your conclusion, but...
What do costs look like in Utah versus California? If you were to convert costs and salaries to Utah dollars, would teachers in Utah and California have similar standards of living? How about building costs, utilities, busing, school food, textbooks, etc.?
Salaries are comparable, adjusted for cost of living. Building costs are comparable, since most schools end up getting things built up around them, the property gets valuable compared to other property, and the school district sell it to a developer, and moves the school to a cheaper area. Busing is similar, since costs for busses and fuel and maintenance aren't very variable by region (or we'd all fly to Utah to buy our cars). Text books are overpriced monopolies everywhere. Food is lowest bidder, parts-is-parts everywhere.
Do both states employ comparable numbers of multilingual teachers?
Generally, yes, since a lot of the teachers are returned Mormon missionaries, and most Mormon missionaries are fluent in 2 or more languages.
If you mean are they employed to teach in languages other than English, no, only if they are specifically teaching a foreign language to English speakers.
Typically ESL classes are taught outside normal school hours, prior to the beginning of the school year, and most are community based, rather than part of the formal educational system. The school district is generally uninvolved, other than providing physical facilities on a volunteer basis, and the teachers of the ESL classes are usually volunteers.
How about we reset the educational system to 1947?
In 22 years, we'll have people with a high school education + a four year college degree, and the ability to land people on the moon again. We'd have a hell of a time doing that today, even with Armadillo and SpaceX's H1-B workers imported from countries with functioning public education systems.
A lot of what has screwed up education in the U.S. is all the well intentioned (yes, I am giving the benefit of the doubt here) attempts to change education for the better, which don't happen to work out as beautifully in practice as they were supposed to according to the reformers theory.
It is easy to ridicule this as a benefit to the privileged, but our current funding of education, primarily with property taxes, is the root of much of the inequality in America. Property taxes are high in areas with high incomes, and low in areas of low incomes. Low income people also tend to have more school age kids. So the result is that rich kids attend schools with good teachers, libraries, computer labs, music programs, etc., where they only associate with other rich kids. Moving to a system of funding based on a broader tax base would do a lot to create more equality of opportunity.
"Except Utah".
Utah has one of the lowest housing costs in the nation, and therefore lower property taxes; California has one of the highest property taxes in the nation, except for commercial property shich is never actually sold (you sell the holding company that owns the property instead of selling the property in order to use the technicality in Prop 13 to avoid tax increases on commercial property_.
Utah has some of the lowest per-student funding in the nation; California has some of the highest per student funding in the nation.
Utah has some of the largest class sizes in terms of student/teacher ratio in the nation; California has one of the smallest.
Utah ranks twice as high in SAT scores by students than California.
Guess what folks: it isn't the funding that's the problem.
With GPLed software, they're free to do go anybody who can do something about it. With propriety software, there was only one place to go, and if they say "no" or they screw it up then you're fucked. Personally I wouldn't call those two situations exactly the same.
Actually, with proprietary software, you are still free to go to anybody who can do something about it, but the list is a little smaller, since "anybody" in that case means someone capable of running a disaaemble, an assembler, and programming and understanding source code in assembly language form.
When Apple first released the iPhone, they thought for sure that they were the smartest people in the room, and therefore no one else would be able to disassemble ARM binaries and figure out the holes in them at an assembly language level, and then use those holes to implement things like jailbreaks.
Guess what? There's always someone smarter than you think you are, especially if you think you are the smartest person in the room, and so even with binary proprietary code, it's a matter of will, more than anything else, that determines whether someone can modify the code to fix bugs or repurpose the software.
So yeah, the only difference in the situations is whether you are comfortable violating a shrink wrap license which may not even be enforceable in your jurisdiction, either due to first sale doctrine, or because the local courts have held them to be invalid. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
You need to find the intersection of where you are normally located, and where the events are normally located, combined with the radius you are willing to travel, and the radius that the even planners are willing to consider "these people are local". In a lot of cases, "these people are local" are not defined by distance, but by geographic boundaries, such as boroughs, which are administrative divisions within a county. They may also apply to self selecting groups, such as "this message goes out to all Hassidic Jews in Brooklyn; no one from Manhattan, The Bronx, Queens, or Staten Island need attend; hold your own event if you want one".
You would probably also want to make a division based on "I work in the area" vs. "I live in the area" vs. "I used to live in the area, and within driving/cab/ferry/bus distance for some events".
The solution to your problem involves me revealing location information which I may not want to reveal to you, or which I won't reveal to you because I live 50 feet outside your "acceptable people" radius, and so me revealing it would exclude me from an event I might want to attend, even if you'd prefer to exclude me from it. For example, this is commonly the case with block parties, where you could invite friends and family, if you lived on the block, but people the next block over aren't invited to partake of the free food and entertainment (and we are back to the "hold your own event if you want one" case).
So far, most social media is not geographically linked, except for voluntary group membership, and explicit exclusion of people from the group, or approval based membership by a deciding authority -- e.g. the group administrator(s) or owner(s).
There's also the exception rider for "Everyone in the radius/locality who isn't John Doe who everyone knows has a terrible hygiene problem which will put everyone else who shows up off their food".
And yeah, not everyone is going to give their missile coordinates to you, since an "I'm going on vacation" announcement on facebook and a location datamine through your putative service would be a two step lookup away from a "People you could rob who wouldn't know about it for at least a week" GIS.
So solve the willingness problem for the idea of "nearby", and you will be well on your way; good luck with doing that, though.
But, using the BSD licence (or the LGPL) takes away an incentive to contribute to the free software project.
Unfortunately, this ignores the distinction between "tactical" and "strategic", and between "foundation" and "application".
Let's start with "tactical" vs. "strategic":
If a set of code based on BSD licensed software is merely tactical, then you are vastly better off offloading the ongoing support for that to the larger community, and are therefore incentivized to contribute your changes back to the community. If a set of code based on BSD licensed software is strategic, however, then you are better off keeping it proprietary, since it represents the value your business brings to the market. By keeping it proprietary, you leverage your ability to produce something which is either difficult or nigh impossible for a competitor to duplicate in order to keep yourself in business.
In the strategic case, however, you are still incentivized to contribute code back.
A strategic advantage may not, and probably will not, last long term. At that point it becomes tactical, and you move on. But being tactical, you contribute it back. You may in fact do that when the code is in the process of converting from strategic to tactical, to avoid an upstart filling that ecological niche, and making it more difficult for you to maintain your code going forward. This is what we did when we contributed the Soft Updates code back to FreeBSD.
Another reason to contribute back to a project when you are utilizing strategic code is to establish well defined interfaces between the tactical code in the Open Source project, and your strategic code that you maintain internally. For this to work out, the interfaces you design, and the boundaries between the code, has to be useful to others, or the contributions will not be adopted by the project. Again, you are incentivized to let parts of the strategic code out in order to support reduced ongoing maintenance of the strategic code you keep proprietary.
Moving on to "foundation" vs. "application":
Why did TCP/IP win? I was at Novell at the time during which the protocol basis for the commercial Internet was being decided. Novell was attempting to swing a deal with AT&T to get them to deploy a commercial network topology based on SPX/IPX; at the same time, Microsoft was attempting to get AT&T and Sprint, and whoever else they could get on board, to deploy a commercial network based on NetBIOS/NetBEUI.
Although TCP/IP was vastly superior, despite its known flaws due to both the three way handshake and the socket shutdown mechanism, it was a close race: technical superiority has often lost out in the market to technically inferior technology with a large marketing budget and proprietary leverage for the purpose of profit. So why did it win? It won because of the BSD license: anyone could take the code and stuff it into a networking product or end node client or server system on a royalty free basis, and they could do it using the same code that their competitors were using.
TCP/IP is a foundational technology. It has importance not because of its utility in and of itself, it has importance because of the ability to build interesting and useful application code edifices on top of the foundation it provides. It isn't itself an application.
Applications, on the other hand, until there is an Open Source equivalent, under whatever license, are not foundational, they have value unique unto themselves. This is why Photoshop and Microsoft Office haven't been displaced, and still continue to sell.
The mistake RMS is making here is considering a compiler as an application. A compiler is not an application, it is a foundation; further, it's not strategic, it's tactical. There's no reason to try and force the release of strategic or application code through the auspices of a license, because there isn't any.
And this is why companies are investing into LLVM rather than GCC: the bag
I suspect the reason we haven't heard from anybody is that the lifetime of high-power technological civilizations is only a few hundred to a thousand years. We're only about 200 years into industrial society, and we've already burned through most of the easy to get natural resources.
Not really. We're just too stupid to reprocess nuclear waste, or build breeder reactors, in the U.S.. France isn't that stupid.
(1) It obfuscate malware fingerprints for code fingerprint based malware detectors on consumer machines, making it more likely you will be hit by an attack, rather than less likely
(2) It increases the code size and therefore the data usage for the consumer downloading the web pages in question
(3) By effectively generating a new web page each time, it damages the ability to cache, costing the site itself more bandwidth as well, not just the end user
I can see companies like Verizon with monthly data caps loving this a lot, but it's probably not worth it to almost everyone else.
They would still need permission from the United States government to launch anything into space.
I'm sure Hugo Chávez would get right on that whole asking for permissions thing, if they chose to put a launch site in Venezuela. After all, he really, really likes the U.S., right?
Or if they sited one in Russia, I'm sure that Russia would probably send over their request for the U.S. permission for a launch in the same envelope they send over the papers agreeing to extradite Snowden, because they love the U.S. so much these days, too.
Stepping back from the specifics of this event, the issue of inadvertently pointing recording devices at other is an important hurdle for Google Glass that will need to be addressed.
Not really; it's not a recording device, if it's not on. It's a bunch of components, and they don't become a recording device until you run appropriate software to turn them into one by connecting the input to a compressors, and the compressor to mass storage.
Even then, the things are good for at most 45 minutes of The Blair With Project quality video, without software reframing and software steadycam, which reduces the overall pixel resolution of the resulting recording.
This is why most piracy which occurs at theaters is done by theater employees using HDCP enabled hardware with an LVDS emulator in place of the flat panel, attached to one of the projectionist display outputs.
Except the new fine won't apply to Google. Google was fined previously for changing the privacy policy with insufficient notification and explanation of the change, not because they were actually violating anything other than a notification requirement.
What exactly is a "a semi-rural micropolitan area"?
"a micropolitan area is a geographic entity used for statistical purposes based on counties and county-equivalents"
So basically, a subdivision in an unicorporated area of a county. Some place that interesting enough for him to live, but not a sufficient source of sales tax revenue for the area to have been finger-annexed by a municipality so they can collect sales tax from there.
Basically: suburbia, or as the communications industry has been calling it since the 1980's "The last mile", which is a place no one spends on infrastructure because the population density isn't high enough that the economic benefit outweighs the cost of investing in said infrastructure.
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To the OP: Get your neighborhood association together and vote out the restrictive covenants on overhead wires. Alternately, move to a coverage area. Alternately, get your PUC to extend the tariff radius so that you're inside instead of outside.
I lived in an area technically in Silicon Valley for a very long time where the tariffs put my residence 50 feet too far from the LATE for them to offer me high speed internet; even though I would likely still get full data rate, they were unwilling to sell the service to me due to the penalties for offering me a tariffed service, and then being unable to deliver the tariffed data rate by even 1%.
Also: If you bury your own fiber, expect to be sued for offering a competing service; in general, anyone with a big infrastructure investment won't let a local entity go into competition with them, even if the alternative is that you don't get service because their idea of competition is larger than their idea of economically viable service area.
Who says they don't understand it perfectly well? It's just not in their own best interests to fix the problem, and it *is* in their best interests to deny it exists. Do you really expect them to be any better than the Tobacco industry?
At least t-butyl mercaptan (the smell they add) isn't bieng added to make it more addictive...
Greenhouse gas heat capture is reasonably well understood, even if many of the secondary effects are still being discovered
Apparently it's not very well understood by the companies selling natural gas (methane, a greenhouse gas) in the U.S., which were recently reported to be leaking dangerous amounts of the stuff all over NYC and Washington DC, and that's not including the town that blew up in California.
3 LCD cable problems, likely from rough treatment, and one damaged area of liquid crystal from an impact to the back of the case (same thing I did to my Sony VAIO, and had to replace the LCD on the thing).
Not sure how these qualify as a problem with the GPU. At worst, the one with the wide bars is broken cable strands from some idiot setting the thing down and making a triangle by laying it down face down with the screen open, like you would a book, and the LCD cable would need to be replaced; the other two are guaranteed they just need to reseat the connector and quit beating the shit out of the thing.
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"Everything will change"
So let me get this straight... after the singularity, we will be living in a post-singularity world?
Wow.
Translation : " We will kill off any money-losing product that our employees get too bored to maintain"
FTFY
This is a more correct translation.
I believe Google at one point offered the source code to Reader to anyone who wanted to update it for the current third party hosting infrastructure, with the proviso that they contract for some number of months of hosting. There were no takers, presumably because no one else could figure out how to make money from it, either, if Ads were not a possible revenue stream due to the front end apps on phones stripping the ads out.
Who's going to want Google Glass after many glassholes will be beaten by random people angry for being illegally recorded?
Covertly taken photographs, or it didn't happen...
Google isn't trembling but Glass should be. They kill off far more successful projects on a weekly basis.
Captcha: infanticide.
You show a pretty big misunderstanding of the culture within Google.
Google kills off things like Reader, which would have quit working on it's own after the antique back end infrastructure that supported it was phased out, since the people who wrote it had moved onto other, more interesting projects, and weren't all that stoked about leaving their new projects to go back and maintain it so that it would work with the new back end infrastructure. With the front end apps third parties wrote to strip the ads out, it was nothing but a money sink anyway. Has some new Noogler found it very interesting for their first project, it probably would have been maintained, but frankly, it wasn't as sexy as the other projects they could work on.
I don't know of one Google X project that has been similarly killed off; to be a Google X project, Sergey has to be personally interested in supporting the project. He's not as flighty as people who worked on a 3 month project to get integrated into the Google culture after first starting at Google, and aren't interested in revisiting their Noogler project as a long term albatross they will have to carry around their necks forever after.
Utah ranks twice as high in SAT scores by students than California.
SAT scores are a terrible metric to compare schools. SATs are specifically designed to measure raw ability, and to exclude, as much as reasonably possible, the benefits of education. According to this chart the average American SAT score in 2013 was 1498, while California's was 1505 and Utah's was 1694. BUT WAIT: in California, 57% of high school students took the SAT, while in Utah just 6% took it. So the top 6% of Utah are better than the top 57% of California students on a test that is specifically designed to NOT measure the quality of their education. I am not sure what to conclude from that.
Most college/university bound students in Utah take the ACT rather than the SAT. There are ranking conversion factors listed in the Wikipedia article on SAT test scores: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... See also the map on that page.
When I say they scored higher, it's after running the ACT scores through the concordance tables.
Not that I necessarily disagree with your conclusion, but...
What do costs look like in Utah versus California? If you were to convert costs and salaries to Utah dollars, would teachers in Utah and California have similar standards of living? How about building costs, utilities, busing, school food, textbooks, etc.?
Salaries are comparable, adjusted for cost of living. Building costs are comparable, since most schools end up getting things built up around them, the property gets valuable compared to other property, and the school district sell it to a developer, and moves the school to a cheaper area. Busing is similar, since costs for busses and fuel and maintenance aren't very variable by region (or we'd all fly to Utah to buy our cars). Text books are overpriced monopolies everywhere. Food is lowest bidder, parts-is-parts everywhere.
Do both states employ comparable numbers of multilingual teachers?
Generally, yes, since a lot of the teachers are returned Mormon missionaries, and most Mormon missionaries are fluent in 2 or more languages.
If you mean are they employed to teach in languages other than English, no, only if they are specifically teaching a foreign language to English speakers.
Typically ESL classes are taught outside normal school hours, prior to the beginning of the school year, and most are community based, rather than part of the formal educational system. The school district is generally uninvolved, other than providing physical facilities on a volunteer basis, and the teachers of the ESL classes are usually volunteers.
How about we reset the educational system to 1947?
In 22 years, we'll have people with a high school education + a four year college degree, and the ability to land people on the moon again. We'd have a hell of a time doing that today, even with Armadillo and SpaceX's H1-B workers imported from countries with functioning public education systems.
A lot of what has screwed up education in the U.S. is all the well intentioned (yes, I am giving the benefit of the doubt here) attempts to change education for the better, which don't happen to work out as beautifully in practice as they were supposed to according to the reformers theory.
It is easy to ridicule this as a benefit to the privileged, but our current funding of education, primarily with property taxes, is the root of much of the inequality in America. Property taxes are high in areas with high incomes, and low in areas of low incomes. Low income people also tend to have more school age kids. So the result is that rich kids attend schools with good teachers, libraries, computer labs, music programs, etc., where they only associate with other rich kids. Moving to a system of funding based on a broader tax base would do a lot to create more equality of opportunity.
"Except Utah".
Utah has one of the lowest housing costs in the nation, and therefore lower property taxes; California has one of the highest property taxes in the nation, except for commercial property shich is never actually sold (you sell the holding company that owns the property instead of selling the property in order to use the technicality in Prop 13 to avoid tax increases on commercial property_.
Utah has some of the lowest per-student funding in the nation; California has some of the highest per student funding in the nation.
Utah has some of the largest class sizes in terms of student/teacher ratio in the nation; California has one of the smallest.
Utah ranks twice as high in SAT scores by students than California.
Guess what folks: it isn't the funding that's the problem.
With GPLed software, they're free to do go anybody who can do something about it. With propriety software, there was only one place to go, and if they say "no" or they screw it up then you're fucked. Personally I wouldn't call those two situations exactly the same.
Actually, with proprietary software, you are still free to go to anybody who can do something about it, but the list is a little smaller, since "anybody" in that case means someone capable of running a disaaemble, an assembler, and programming and understanding source code in assembly language form.
When Apple first released the iPhone, they thought for sure that they were the smartest people in the room, and therefore no one else would be able to disassemble ARM binaries and figure out the holes in them at an assembly language level, and then use those holes to implement things like jailbreaks.
Guess what? There's always someone smarter than you think you are, especially if you think you are the smartest person in the room, and so even with binary proprietary code, it's a matter of will, more than anything else, that determines whether someone can modify the code to fix bugs or repurpose the software.
So yeah, the only difference in the situations is whether you are comfortable violating a shrink wrap license which may not even be enforceable in your jurisdiction, either due to first sale doctrine, or because the local courts have held them to be invalid. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Your basic problem is "nearby".
You need to find the intersection of where you are normally located, and where the events are normally located, combined with the radius you are willing to travel, and the radius that the even planners are willing to consider "these people are local". In a lot of cases, "these people are local" are not defined by distance, but by geographic boundaries, such as boroughs, which are administrative divisions within a county. They may also apply to self selecting groups, such as "this message goes out to all Hassidic Jews in Brooklyn; no one from Manhattan, The Bronx, Queens, or Staten Island need attend; hold your own event if you want one".
You would probably also want to make a division based on "I work in the area" vs. "I live in the area" vs. "I used to live in the area, and within driving/cab/ferry/bus distance for some events".
The solution to your problem involves me revealing location information which I may not want to reveal to you, or which I won't reveal to you because I live 50 feet outside your "acceptable people" radius, and so me revealing it would exclude me from an event I might want to attend, even if you'd prefer to exclude me from it. For example, this is commonly the case with block parties, where you could invite friends and family, if you lived on the block, but people the next block over aren't invited to partake of the free food and entertainment (and we are back to the "hold your own event if you want one" case).
So far, most social media is not geographically linked, except for voluntary group membership, and explicit exclusion of people from the group, or approval based membership by a deciding authority -- e.g. the group administrator(s) or owner(s).
There's also the exception rider for "Everyone in the radius/locality who isn't John Doe who everyone knows has a terrible hygiene problem which will put everyone else who shows up off their food".
And yeah, not everyone is going to give their missile coordinates to you, since an "I'm going on vacation" announcement on facebook and a location datamine through your putative service would be a two step lookup away from a "People you could rob who wouldn't know about it for at least a week" GIS.
So solve the willingness problem for the idea of "nearby", and you will be well on your way; good luck with doing that, though.
But, using the BSD licence (or the LGPL) takes away an incentive to contribute to the free software project.
Unfortunately, this ignores the distinction between "tactical" and "strategic", and between "foundation" and "application".
Let's start with "tactical" vs. "strategic":
If a set of code based on BSD licensed software is merely tactical, then you are vastly better off offloading the ongoing support for that to the larger community, and are therefore incentivized to contribute your changes back to the community. If a set of code based on BSD licensed software is strategic, however, then you are better off keeping it proprietary, since it represents the value your business brings to the market. By keeping it proprietary, you leverage your ability to produce something which is either difficult or nigh impossible for a competitor to duplicate in order to keep yourself in business.
In the strategic case, however, you are still incentivized to contribute code back.
A strategic advantage may not, and probably will not, last long term. At that point it becomes tactical, and you move on. But being tactical, you contribute it back. You may in fact do that when the code is in the process of converting from strategic to tactical, to avoid an upstart filling that ecological niche, and making it more difficult for you to maintain your code going forward. This is what we did when we contributed the Soft Updates code back to FreeBSD.
Another reason to contribute back to a project when you are utilizing strategic code is to establish well defined interfaces between the tactical code in the Open Source project, and your strategic code that you maintain internally. For this to work out, the interfaces you design, and the boundaries between the code, has to be useful to others, or the contributions will not be adopted by the project. Again, you are incentivized to let parts of the strategic code out in order to support reduced ongoing maintenance of the strategic code you keep proprietary.
Moving on to "foundation" vs. "application":
Why did TCP/IP win? I was at Novell at the time during which the protocol basis for the commercial Internet was being decided. Novell was attempting to swing a deal with AT&T to get them to deploy a commercial network topology based on SPX/IPX; at the same time, Microsoft was attempting to get AT&T and Sprint, and whoever else they could get on board, to deploy a commercial network based on NetBIOS/NetBEUI.
Although TCP/IP was vastly superior, despite its known flaws due to both the three way handshake and the socket shutdown mechanism, it was a close race: technical superiority has often lost out in the market to technically inferior technology with a large marketing budget and proprietary leverage for the purpose of profit. So why did it win? It won because of the BSD license: anyone could take the code and stuff it into a networking product or end node client or server system on a royalty free basis, and they could do it using the same code that their competitors were using.
TCP/IP is a foundational technology. It has importance not because of its utility in and of itself, it has importance because of the ability to build interesting and useful application code edifices on top of the foundation it provides. It isn't itself an application.
Applications, on the other hand, until there is an Open Source equivalent, under whatever license, are not foundational, they have value unique unto themselves. This is why Photoshop and Microsoft Office haven't been displaced, and still continue to sell.
The mistake RMS is making here is considering a compiler as an application. A compiler is not an application, it is a foundation; further, it's not strategic, it's tactical. There's no reason to try and force the release of strategic or application code through the auspices of a license, because there isn't any.
And this is why companies are investing into LLVM rather than GCC: the bag
I suspect the reason we haven't heard from anybody is that the lifetime of high-power technological civilizations is only a few hundred to a thousand years. We're only about 200 years into industrial society, and we've already burned through most of the easy to get natural resources.
Not really. We're just too stupid to reprocess nuclear waste, or build breeder reactors, in the U.S.. France isn't that stupid.
A bad idea from several angles
(1) It obfuscate malware fingerprints for code fingerprint based malware detectors on consumer machines, making it more likely you will be hit by an attack, rather than less likely
(2) It increases the code size and therefore the data usage for the consumer downloading the web pages in question
(3) By effectively generating a new web page each time, it damages the ability to cache, costing the site itself more bandwidth as well, not just the end user
I can see companies like Verizon with monthly data caps loving this a lot, but it's probably not worth it to almost everyone else.
You need Flash to listen to a song?
WTF has happened to KISS? Can web designers get any more pathetic?
Flash is the fallback for browsers too lame to support HTML5 audio, probably because HTML5 audio doesn't support DRM. Yet anyway.
In effect they used the Voyager data as a random number generator, whose output they then turned into 'music'?
It would be interesting to compare this with the result of piping /dev/random into the same process.
If you pipe /dev/random through the process, you get a message from the NSA. It sounds remarkably like Nelson Muntz at the end...
They would still need permission from the United States government to launch anything into space.
I'm sure Hugo Chávez would get right on that whole asking for permissions thing, if they chose to put a launch site in Venezuela. After all, he really, really likes the U.S., right?
Or if they sited one in Russia, I'm sure that Russia would probably send over their request for the U.S. permission for a launch in the same envelope they send over the papers agreeing to extradite Snowden, because they love the U.S. so much these days, too.
Stepping back from the specifics of this event, the issue of inadvertently pointing recording devices at other is an important hurdle for Google Glass that will need to be addressed.
Not really; it's not a recording device, if it's not on. It's a bunch of components, and they don't become a recording device until you run appropriate software to turn them into one by connecting the input to a compressors, and the compressor to mass storage.
Even then, the things are good for at most 45 minutes of The Blair With Project quality video, without software reframing and software steadycam, which reduces the overall pixel resolution of the resulting recording.
This is why most piracy which occurs at theaters is done by theater employees using HDCP enabled hardware with an LVDS emulator in place of the flat panel, attached to one of the projectionist display outputs.
Uh, Nordic documents its over the air protocols...
https://devzone.nordicsemi.com...
Except the new fine won't apply to Google. Google was fined previously for changing the privacy policy with insufficient notification and explanation of the change, not because they were actually violating anything other than a notification requirement.
What exactly is a "a semi-rural micropolitan area"?
"a micropolitan area is a geographic entity used for statistical purposes based on counties and county-equivalents"
So basically, a subdivision in an unicorporated area of a county. Some place that interesting enough for him to live, but not a sufficient source of sales tax revenue for the area to have been finger-annexed by a municipality so they can collect sales tax from there.
Basically: suburbia, or as the communications industry has been calling it since the 1980's "The last mile", which is a place no one spends on infrastructure because the population density isn't high enough that the economic benefit outweighs the cost of investing in said infrastructure.
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To the OP: Get your neighborhood association together and vote out the restrictive covenants on overhead wires. Alternately, move to a coverage area. Alternately, get your PUC to extend the tariff radius so that you're inside instead of outside.
I lived in an area technically in Silicon Valley for a very long time where the tariffs put my residence 50 feet too far from the LATE for them to offer me high speed internet; even though I would likely still get full data rate, they were unwilling to sell the service to me due to the penalties for offering me a tariffed service, and then being unable to deliver the tariffed data rate by even 1%.
Also: If you bury your own fiber, expect to be sued for offering a competing service; in general, anyone with a big infrastructure investment won't let a local entity go into competition with them, even if the alternative is that you don't get service because their idea of competition is larger than their idea of economically viable service area.
Who says they don't understand it perfectly well? It's just not in their own best interests to fix the problem, and it *is* in their best interests to deny it exists. Do you really expect them to be any better than the Tobacco industry?
At least t-butyl mercaptan (the smell they add) isn't bieng added to make it more addictive...
It's been bloody hot this week downunder. perhaps the sun just flew south.
Quit standing under the ozone hole.
Greenhouse gas heat capture is reasonably well understood, even if many of the secondary effects are still being discovered
Apparently it's not very well understood by the companies selling natural gas (methane, a greenhouse gas) in the U.S., which were recently reported to be leaking dangerous amounts of the stuff all over NYC and Washington DC, and that's not including the town that blew up in California.
I guess no one looked at the pictures?
3 LCD cable problems, likely from rough treatment, and one damaged area of liquid crystal from an impact to the back of the case (same thing I did to my Sony VAIO, and had to replace the LCD on the thing).
Not sure how these qualify as a problem with the GPU. At worst, the one with the wide bars is broken cable strands from some idiot setting the thing down and making a triangle by laying it down face down with the screen open, like you would a book, and the LCD cable would need to be replaced; the other two are guaranteed they just need to reseat the connector and quit beating the shit out of the thing.
In other news, colony collapse disorder... caused by glue.