I would like to operate under a user account. But, for example, you cannot setup "MS messenger" from a user account, which effectly forces all my children to have administrator privileges.
Microsoft software is not alone. Numerious other packages have to have administrator privileges for no good reason.
The part of the current GPL, at least the way I read it, has
one very strange implication.
If a manufacture creates a binary device driver (not using any GPL code) and publishes its API, and then a third party implement code using that API to add that device to Linux. The third party code is obvious GPL code, and the manufactures obviously is still not GPL code.
But if the manufacture develops the code to use the device in Linux using the same published API's, then the manufactures bindary code also becomes GPL code.
If you look at the bit pattern of 0.0100000000000016 and 0.01 as an IEEE floating point number you will see that they are the same bit pattern. The problem is not the IEEE floating point. The problem is the poor quality of the the floating number writers. A floating point number writer should look for shortest decimal representation of a binary floating point numbernot the easiest one to generate.
There seems to be the believe that there is a fixed measurement called a foot. So there should be one conversion to a meter. There are several
different definitons of a foot. The standard US
foot was defined to be 12 inch where one inch was
2.54 cm, in about the 1800 when the US went "metric". The British use a diffent foot.
The US Geological Survey uses (it may be used by now ) yet another. They were not going to change their maps when Congress changed the definition of a foot in the 1880's.
With mirroring, reads come from either disk and writes go to both disks. Windows Servers include mirroring of disk partitions and it works very well. Win XP allows stripping of disks but not mirroring, very frustrating. I have to buy mother boards with builtin raid 1 to get reduncency. The actual cost is very small amount extra, no where near the price of a server licence. I don't understand why Microsoft doesn't allow mirroring of XP, and
I would understand why they would not allowing striping.
Everything should be decorated with unique identify marks. It could be your name, a simple pattern, anything as long as it easy to describe
to someone else and is indelible. It may not stop the mugging but it will stop the muggers from fencing what they stole and give you a chance of getting the equipment back. The marking also do a good job of stopping equipment from growing legs and walking away.
With BitTorent and all other sharing programs that I know, have no way of dealing with asymetric bandwidths. I live in a rural area. I have wireless internet to my house with a telephone return. My house cannot get cable, and the telephone central office is about 15 miles away. My maximum bit rate on the return is about 1800 bits/sec often slower. Most of the time, my use of the internet is limited by the time to do the acknowlegements of the packets. Sharing anything make any access of the internet almost impossible.
I have wished for some time that there was a standard way of putting a GPS location into a html document. The GPS location would default to a server supplied location if it was set explicitly set by the writer, and hopefully system administrators could be convinced to supply default locations.
It would be so nice to be able to ask Google where the closest Mexican restaurant was.
I have often wondered if synesthesia is related to the skill that some people can build up in finding thinks. I have personally known a professional golfer and an archaeologist The golfer would notice golf balls just by walking. He said that they stood out and glowed. The archaeologist said the same thing about pottery chards and arrow heads.
In the days of big iron, most software came with its source code. The uses of the software knew who owned the software, but they could make changes to the software, distribute the source for those changes, and even sell those changes. You just had to make sure that anyone who picked up your changes had a licence to the orginal software, and also knew that if they put any changes into their source that the support for the modified software would be disowned by the original creator.
This way dealing with source code has disappeared, except for some companies that supply code for library routines. Such source distributions disappeared for two reasons. One was piracy (it didn't help), and the other was to simplify the problem of support. As systems became for complex the fact that the software was modified would became lost, the original software creators would spend a large quantity of time and money discovering and fixing other peoples bugs (this did help).
Even with its problems, I always liked this format of source distribution. It gives a revenue stream to the creators of software, and at the same time is allows further develepment, and bug fixes.
I am an Canadian, but I belive that basic US patent law says that patents can be granted for inventions that are "not obvious". Some how that requirement for a patents seems to have been forgotten by every one including the courts.
I agree with what Google is doing, but I have a worry in the back of my mind. What if the issue
was: that Google was upping the page rank of Nazi sites, or the Democratic Pary, or the Baptist church, or the health benefits of Vitamin E. or whatever. I don't believe Google is doing this or has intention of doing this, but small changes in page rank would influence the ordering of sites,
and what users, particularly children, would look at.
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The addons do not directly bother me. I can easily see why a airline would like to show
how much money it recieves versus the amount of taxes that are collects.
What does bother me is not knowing what the total bill will be, and even if you ask it quite often is hard to find out. It would be so nice to see something for sale in a store that costs a dollar and then just having to pay a dollar.
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I would like to operate under a user account. But, for example, you cannot setup "MS messenger" from a user account, which effectly forces all my children to have administrator privileges. Microsoft software is not alone. Numerious other packages have to have administrator privileges for no good reason.
If I was designing such a system I would use drinking water as the liquid
If a manufacture creates a binary device driver (not using any GPL code) and publishes its API, and then a third party implement code using that API to add that device to Linux. The third party code is obvious GPL code, and the manufactures obviously is still not GPL code.
But if the manufacture develops the code to use the device in Linux using the same published API's, then the manufactures bindary code also becomes GPL code.
If you look at the bit pattern of 0.0100000000000016 and 0.01 as an IEEE floating point number you will see that they are the same bit pattern. The problem is not the IEEE floating point. The problem is the poor quality of the the floating number writers. A floating point number writer should look for shortest decimal representation of a binary floating point numbernot the easiest one to generate.
There seems to be the believe that there is a fixed measurement called a foot. So there should be one conversion to a meter. There are several different definitons of a foot. The standard US foot was defined to be 12 inch where one inch was 2.54 cm, in about the 1800 when the US went "metric". The British use a diffent foot. The US Geological Survey uses (it may be used by now ) yet another. They were not going to change their maps when Congress changed the definition of a foot in the 1880's.
With mirroring, reads come from either disk and writes go to both disks. Windows Servers include mirroring of disk partitions and it works very well. Win XP allows stripping of disks but not mirroring, very frustrating. I have to buy mother boards with builtin raid 1 to get reduncency. The actual cost is very small amount extra, no where near the price of a server licence. I don't understand why Microsoft doesn't allow mirroring of XP, and I would understand why they would not allowing striping.
Everything should be decorated with unique identify marks. It could be your name, a simple pattern, anything as long as it easy to describe to someone else and is indelible. It may not stop the mugging but it will stop the muggers from fencing what they stole and give you a chance of getting the equipment back. The marking also do a good job of stopping equipment from growing legs and walking away.
With BitTorent and all other sharing programs that I know, have no way of dealing with asymetric bandwidths. I live in a rural area. I have wireless internet to my house with a telephone return. My house cannot get cable, and the telephone central office is about 15 miles away. My maximum bit rate on the return is about 1800 bits/sec often slower. Most of the time, my use of the internet is limited by the time to do the acknowlegements of the packets. Sharing anything make any access of the internet almost impossible.
I have wished for some time that there was a standard way of putting a GPS location into a html document. The GPS location would default to a server supplied location if it was set explicitly set by the writer, and hopefully system administrators could be convinced to supply default locations.
It would be so nice to be able to ask Google where the closest Mexican restaurant was.
I have often wondered if synesthesia is related to the skill that some people can build up in finding thinks. I have personally known a professional golfer and an archaeologist The golfer would notice golf balls just by walking. He said that they stood out and glowed. The archaeologist said the same thing about pottery chards and arrow heads.
In the days of big iron, most software came with its source code. The uses of the software knew who owned the software, but they could make changes to the software, distribute the source for those changes, and even sell those changes. You just had to make sure that anyone who picked up your changes had a licence to the orginal software, and also knew that if they put any changes into their source that the support for the modified software would be disowned by the original creator.
This way dealing with source code has disappeared, except for some companies that supply code for library routines. Such source distributions disappeared for two reasons. One was piracy (it didn't help), and the other was to simplify the problem of support. As systems became for complex the fact that the software was modified would became lost, the original software creators would spend a large quantity of time and money discovering and fixing other peoples bugs (this did help).
Even with its problems, I always liked this format of source distribution. It gives a revenue stream to the creators of software, and at the same time is allows further develepment, and bug fixes.
I am an Canadian, but I belive that basic US patent law says that patents can be granted for inventions that are "not obvious". Some how that requirement for a patents seems to have been forgotten by every one including the courts.
I agree with what Google is doing, but I have a worry in the back of my mind. What if the issue was: that Google was upping the page rank of Nazi sites, or the Democratic Pary, or the Baptist church, or the health benefits of Vitamin E. or whatever. I don't believe Google is doing this or has intention of doing this, but small changes in page rank would influence the ordering of sites, and what users, particularly children, would look at.
The addons do not directly bother me. I can easily see why a airline would like to show how much money it recieves versus the amount of taxes that are collects. What does bother me is not knowing what the total bill will be, and even if you ask it quite often is hard to find out. It would be so nice to see something for sale in a store that costs a dollar and then just having to pay a dollar.