Using the Firefox browser, I tried zooming into my city by dragging the zoom slider, and when I released it the slider snapped to the far 'out' position. So the only way I could get closer was to repeatedly click on the 'in' button.
Then when I got to my street and tried the aerial photo view, the map somehow shifted halfway across the continent -- going from California to Georgia!
Bugs aside, this appears to be just a clone of Google maps. Nothing new here (except maybe the WiFi locator, which of course I couldn't test because it requires ActiveX, and I run Linux), and certainly nothing to attract me away from Google.
What do you mean, "the VP in question never lived in California"? According to Business Week:
Lee signed his noncompete agreement in Washington, where he worked for Microsoft. Before joining Microsoft, Lee worked at two Silicon Valley companies, Silicon Graphics Inc. and Apple Computer Inc.
According to the article, the driver showed it was a two-way street by the absence of any directional arrows. (Arrows cover most of the surrounding streets.) He probably could have also used the satellite imagery -- if you zoom in all the way, you can just make out a thick divider down the middle of the road, and you can also use traffic patterns to show cars lining up on both the west and east sides of various intersections.
By the way, from reading the driver's testimony, it appears that the most logical site of the incident was Cathedrl Pky & 7th Ave, NY, NY.
Of course nearly everyone agrees that the death penalty is not an appropriate punishment for hacking. What would be appropriate, IMHO, is something like 5-10 years in prison (possibly more depending on the amount of damage caused) with no access to computers or any technology while incarcerated. By the time they get out, operating systems, hardware, and software technologies will likely have changed so much that the former hackers won't have the knowledge necessary to create new viruses... at least not for a long time.
I didn't start completely from scratch, but I spent the better part of February through May putting together my own distribution based on packages from different versions of Red Hat Enterprise, Fedora, and a few other packages I put together myself. It gave my a new respect for package maintainers -- there's an awful lot of work that goes in to not only ensure the individual packages install and run properly, but that all the dependencies are there and the different programs interact properly, and at the same time keep up to date with bug fixes and security patches.
On the other hand, I'm a bit disgusted at the way some of the stock packages are built, because in some cases there are customizations patched in that I really don't want, libraries removed due to licencing issues (real or perceived), and dependencies on bleeding-edge software that doesn't need to be there.
I'm happy to say that as of a couple of weeks ago, I successfully installed my custom distribution on my home computer and have had only a few minor glitches pop up while using it. After I get those weeded out, I'll be installing it at work!
Do not replace or add any software to the DISH 921 DVR with items compiled from these source trees. Doing so will void all warranties and cause the unit to fail.
This is an obvious violation of the spirit of the GPL. From the Preamble:
The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software...
When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things.
Of course, they are well within their rights to say that modifying the software will void their warranty, but they can't forbid you to modify the software, and they shouldn't rig the system so that it intentionally fails if the software is modified.
You can do that, but what if you are only partially filling out the form, or need to make correction to it later on? For example, I usually get started on filling out my PDF tax forms early (December or January), then I'll hang on to them until I get my 1099 or W-2 from my employer(s) and banks and check to see if I need to make any minor corrections. If I do, I can't use a static PDF created by ps2pdf.
The problem is when netspeak or text-messaging shortcuts start to bleed into other forms of communication such as email or written documents. We have one web developer in my office who often posts internal messages with abbreviated words and inappropriate capitalization. English is not her primary language, which make it important that whatever sources she is reading to learn our language be written in proper English.
I realize that Enterprise Linux is geared toward a narrower market of server-class computers than the multitude of desktop PC's, but it seems like they still need some bugs worked out.
Personally, I have been using Fedora Core 3 (on which RHEL 4 is apparently based) for several months now, and I'm seriously considering downgrading to a more mature release the next time I replace my hard drives, and then just installing piecemeal upgrades of various applications as needed. Most of my trouble with the 2.6.x kernel comes from poor driver support: I haven't had accelerated 3D graphics or been able to record CD-R's since upgrading, VMware takes at least ten seconds to set up its dynamic virtual device nodes every time the system boots, and I recently discovered that the driver for the RAID controller I was going to buy has had some serious stability problems (NOT good for a RAID array!).
The company I work for has around twenty licenses for RedHat Enterprise Linux, and I know they're not going to adopt RHEL 4.0 anytime soon. Half of their servers still run RedHat 7.1, due to in-house application stability problems with Apache 2.0 and Perl 5.8. The other servers can't even install anything later than 3.0 update 1, because installs are done over the network and update 2 introduced problems with the ethernet driver our servers use.
As much as I'd like to have leading-edge software and all the latest security patches, as administrator of a network that has to maintain at least 99.5% uptime (and preferably 99.99%), stability is the top priority.
1- People who will never buy the movie or go see it. These people can download all they want (or not) they will simply not pay the money for it.
If these people have no intention of ever paying the studio for right to see the movie, then they have no right to see the movie. It isn't theft as in shoplifting or burglary, but it is infringing on the right of the studio to earn a profit for the popularity of its work.
Here's another way to look at it: for creative works which are easily reproduced, the majority of the cost is in its development, not its production. Therefore in order to achieve profitability the cost per unit is roughly in inverse proportion to the number of units sold. The fewer people that pay for a copy or performance of the work, the higher the per-unit cost, so prices go up. If more people that enjoyed a production would pay for the privilege of seeing it, then costs would go down.
Let's take some of your links and see what the current prices are:
MS Office 2003, Standard Ed.: $399 WordPerfect Office 12: $300 IBM SmartSuite + 1 year maintenance: $281 Sun StarOffice 7: $76
(Prices above are MSRP or the price at vendor's own on-line store. Does not include upgrade discounts or download-only price.)
Now let's look at an example for software that Microsoft does not compete with (AFAIK -- I could be wrong, since I haven't shopped for Windows apps in many years): graphics suites:
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12: $399 Adobe Photoshop CS: $649 Paint Shop Pro 9: $129
Now, can anybody out there find out what the prices for earlier editions of these products were about 10-15 years ago, so we can see how accurate is the story's claim? Back in 1997, I bought CorelDRAW 7 and WordPerfect Suite 7 for $248 and $264, respectively, but DRAW was the upgrade version. It doesn't look like prices have come down much for either application.
Let me amend my post: the new driver is even buggier than I thought. Since installing it, my computer has completely locked up twice. I can't recommend this driver except for experimentation.
I just tried the new driver out this morning, and I'm just relieved to finally have 3D acceleration again after going several months without it. They haven't got fglrxconfig quite right yet (it still configures XF86 instead of xorg), but it wasn't too much trouble to merge the configuration with my existing xorg.conf file. Also, the driver seems to cause a kernel panic whenever I kill X, so it is obviously still unpolished. But at least it's usable (as far as I can tell). And not only does it support accelerated 3D, but it also supports proper resolution switching on my LCD screen, unlike the X.org radeon driver (which won't let you specify your own ModeLines).
I'm going to play with it some more after work to see whether it supports rotated displays...
Forgive my ignorance, since I don't usually follow the FreeBSD distro (having moved from NetBSD to RedHat over four years ago). But it seems a bit late to be targeting the Linux emulation towards RedHat 8.0. Not only has RedHat 9 already been obsoleted by Fedora, but 8.0 was extremely short-lived (even by RedHat's usual release timeline) having had numerous problems. In addition, before the days of RedHat Enterprise, RedHat recommended that users requiring stability stick with 7.2 (or something around there).
I have three RFID cards for my company: one for the parking garage, one for the elevator (for after-hours access), and one for the office suite. Once I tried stuffing two of the cards in the same plastic sleeve and tried to swipe it over the office reader. It failed to read the office RFID no matter how close I held the card or which way it was turned; apparently the proximity of the two cards made them interfere with each other.
I've tried that already -- it doesn't work on Fedora Core 3, because Core 3 comes with Xorg, not XFree86. The fglrxbuild can't detect the XFree86 version (doesn't exist), so it gives up saying:
XFree86 drm includes at $drmincludes do not fit this driver. This driver is designed to only work with X4.1.0 or higher. You can match this by getting Linux kernel 2.4.8 or higher.
I managed to get the build working by tweaking the make.sh script so that it finds the drm.h headers at their new locations. However, when I tried to start X using the newly built fglrx.o module, it kept crashing.
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Does anyone else here see an inherent contradiction between the terms "sanctuaries" and "tourist attractions"?
And what would be the difference between that and the way lions and tigers eat? Carnivores have been eating fresh kill since the Jurassic period.
Using the Firefox browser, I tried zooming into my city by dragging the zoom slider, and when I released it the slider snapped to the far 'out' position. So the only way I could get closer was to repeatedly click on the 'in' button.
Then when I got to my street and tried the aerial photo view, the map somehow shifted halfway across the continent -- going from California to Georgia!
Bugs aside, this appears to be just a clone of Google maps. Nothing new here (except maybe the WiFi locator, which of course I couldn't test because it requires ActiveX, and I run Linux), and certainly nothing to attract me away from Google.
What do you mean, "the VP in question never lived in California"? According to Business Week:
According to the article, the driver showed it was a two-way street by the absence of any directional arrows. (Arrows cover most of the surrounding streets.) He probably could have also used the satellite imagery -- if you zoom in all the way, you can just make out a thick divider down the middle of the road, and you can also use traffic patterns to show cars lining up on both the west and east sides of various intersections.
By the way, from reading the driver's testimony, it appears that the most logical site of the incident was Cathedrl Pky & 7th Ave, NY, NY.
He's dead, Jim.
Who said anything about free internet or illegal? Boingo Wireless is a paid subscription service.
Of course nearly everyone agrees that the death penalty is not an appropriate punishment for hacking. What would be appropriate, IMHO, is something like 5-10 years in prison (possibly more depending on the amount of damage caused) with no access to computers or any technology while incarcerated. By the time they get out, operating systems, hardware, and software technologies will likely have changed so much that the former hackers won't have the knowledge necessary to create new viruses ... at least not for a long time.
I didn't start completely from scratch, but I spent the better part of February through May putting together my own distribution based on packages from different versions of Red Hat Enterprise, Fedora, and a few other packages I put together myself. It gave my a new respect for package maintainers -- there's an awful lot of work that goes in to not only ensure the individual packages install and run properly, but that all the dependencies are there and the different programs interact properly, and at the same time keep up to date with bug fixes and security patches.
On the other hand, I'm a bit disgusted at the way some of the stock packages are built, because in some cases there are customizations patched in that I really don't want, libraries removed due to licencing issues (real or perceived), and dependencies on bleeding-edge software that doesn't need to be there.
I'm happy to say that as of a couple of weeks ago, I successfully installed my custom distribution on my home computer and have had only a few minor glitches pop up while using it. After I get those weeded out, I'll be installing it at work!
This is an obvious violation of the spirit of the GPL. From the Preamble:
Of course, they are well within their rights to say that modifying the software will void their warranty, but they can't forbid you to modify the software, and they shouldn't rig the system so that it intentionally fails if the software is modified.
sci*ence (si'ens)
n.
APC Professional SurgeArrest. Depending on how many transformer outlets you need, it's halfway there.
Isn't "best practices associated with protecting intellectual property" an oxymoron?
You can do that, but what if you are only partially filling out the form, or need to make correction to it later on? For example, I usually get started on filling out my PDF tax forms early (December or January), then I'll hang on to them until I get my 1099 or W-2 from my employer(s) and banks and check to see if I need to make any minor corrections. If I do, I can't use a static PDF created by ps2pdf.
The problem is when netspeak or text-messaging shortcuts start to bleed into other forms of communication such as email or written documents. We have one web developer in my office who often posts internal messages with abbreviated words and inappropriate capitalization. English is not her primary language, which make it important that whatever sources she is reading to learn our language be written in proper English.
I, for one, have never accepted "blog" as a word.
I realize that Enterprise Linux is geared toward a narrower market of server-class computers than the multitude of desktop PC's, but it seems like they still need some bugs worked out.
Personally, I have been using Fedora Core 3 (on which RHEL 4 is apparently based) for several months now, and I'm seriously considering downgrading to a more mature release the next time I replace my hard drives, and then just installing piecemeal upgrades of various applications as needed. Most of my trouble with the 2.6.x kernel comes from poor driver support: I haven't had accelerated 3D graphics or been able to record CD-R's since upgrading, VMware takes at least ten seconds to set up its dynamic virtual device nodes every time the system boots, and I recently discovered that the driver for the RAID controller I was going to buy has had some serious stability problems (NOT good for a RAID array!).
The company I work for has around twenty licenses for RedHat Enterprise Linux, and I know they're not going to adopt RHEL 4.0 anytime soon. Half of their servers still run RedHat 7.1, due to in-house application stability problems with Apache 2.0 and Perl 5.8. The other servers can't even install anything later than 3.0 update 1, because installs are done over the network and update 2 introduced problems with the ethernet driver our servers use.
As much as I'd like to have leading-edge software and all the latest security patches, as administrator of a network that has to maintain at least 99.5% uptime (and preferably 99.99%), stability is the top priority.
If these people have no intention of ever paying the studio for right to see the movie, then they have no right to see the movie. It isn't theft as in shoplifting or burglary, but it is infringing on the right of the studio to earn a profit for the popularity of its work.
Here's another way to look at it: for creative works which are easily reproduced, the majority of the cost is in its development, not its production. Therefore in order to achieve profitability the cost per unit is roughly in inverse proportion to the number of units sold. The fewer people that pay for a copy or performance of the work, the higher the per-unit cost, so prices go up. If more people that enjoyed a production would pay for the privilege of seeing it, then costs would go down.
It may be worth noting that not all Muslims share the same point of view. There seem to be almost as many divisions in the Islam religion as there are among Christians.
Let's take some of your links and see what the current prices are:
MS Office 2003, Standard Ed.: $399
WordPerfect Office 12: $300
IBM SmartSuite + 1 year maintenance: $281
Sun StarOffice 7: $76
(Prices above are MSRP or the price at vendor's own on-line store. Does not include upgrade discounts or download-only price.)
Now let's look at an example for software that Microsoft does not compete with (AFAIK -- I could be wrong, since I haven't shopped for Windows apps in many years): graphics suites:
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12: $399
Adobe Photoshop CS: $649
Paint Shop Pro 9: $129
Now, can anybody out there find out what the prices for earlier editions of these products were about 10-15 years ago, so we can see how accurate is the story's claim? Back in 1997, I bought CorelDRAW 7 and WordPerfect Suite 7 for $248 and $264, respectively, but DRAW was the upgrade version. It doesn't look like prices have come down much for either application.
Let me amend my post: the new driver is even buggier than I thought. Since installing it, my computer has completely locked up twice. I can't recommend this driver except for experimentation.
I just tried the new driver out this morning, and I'm just relieved to finally have 3D acceleration again after going several months without it. They haven't got fglrxconfig quite right yet (it still configures XF86 instead of xorg), but it wasn't too much trouble to merge the configuration with my existing xorg.conf file. Also, the driver seems to cause a kernel panic whenever I kill X, so it is obviously still unpolished. But at least it's usable (as far as I can tell). And not only does it support accelerated 3D, but it also supports proper resolution switching on my LCD screen, unlike the X.org radeon driver (which won't let you specify your own ModeLines).
I'm going to play with it some more after work to see whether it supports rotated displays...
Forgive my ignorance, since I don't usually follow the FreeBSD distro (having moved from NetBSD to RedHat over four years ago). But it seems a bit late to be targeting the Linux emulation towards RedHat 8.0. Not only has RedHat 9 already been obsoleted by Fedora, but 8.0 was extremely short-lived (even by RedHat's usual release timeline) having had numerous problems. In addition, before the days of RedHat Enterprise, RedHat recommended that users requiring stability stick with 7.2 (or something around there).
I have three RFID cards for my company: one for the parking garage, one for the elevator (for after-hours access), and one for the office suite. Once I tried stuffing two of the cards in the same plastic sleeve and tried to swipe it over the office reader. It failed to read the office RFID no matter how close I held the card or which way it was turned; apparently the proximity of the two cards made them interfere with each other.
I've tried that already -- it doesn't work on Fedora Core 3, because Core 3 comes with Xorg, not XFree86. The fglrxbuild can't detect the XFree86 version (doesn't exist), so it gives up saying:
I managed to get the build working by tweaking the make.sh script so that it finds the drm.h headers at their new locations. However, when I tried to start X using the newly built fglrx.o module, it kept crashing.