The problem is that there aren't enough companies who are interested in Open Source who are also interested in backing a conference like this. If you ever get the chance to go to a conference like Software Development, you'll get to see a very well run conference with sponsors with deep pockets. It all leads to lower fees all around.
But that's the price you pay when you base your business around Free Software.
The zenith of movie special effects was reached several years ago by Dan Piponi and his crew. What's happened in the interim? Well, Titanic won the Oscar for special effects. That's got to tell you something about the sad state of affairs in movies today.
That must be why the plot moved so fucking slowly. For chrissakes, it's like the ending was purposefully left undone so that they can set the audience up for a sequel.
Worse than Star Wars Episode 1, LOTR was. Well, maybe not. There was no Jar Jar Binks, so we have to give it points for not stooping that low.
You ever see the movie The Jerk? There's a scene where Steve Martin is the Guess-Your-Weight guy at a carnival and someone comes up and asks him what the prizes are. He turns around to face a huge wall filled with carnival prizes and points out a 2 inch area containing tiny prizes, hardly worth winning against the guesser for.
There are quite a few more than 128 characters that need to be represented. Limiting yourself to those few makes you look petty when you decide to complain about something that more than 90% of users have no problem with.
I should probably qualify my "community college" comment so that it doesn't appear to be the angry attack that it is.
The problem that exists at your school is precisely that they are teaching you how to use the software tools. There is a lot to know about the tools, of course, but to be taught such a trivial thing as creating projects and compiling code in an editor seems like such a waste of time. Exactly the kind of thing that community colleges teach as their bread and butter.
In other contexts this would start a flamewar, but a University level Computer Science curriculum should concentrate on theory much more than on programming technique and tool usage.
If the curriculum you describe is representative of the average university in Taiwan, then Taiwan's computer industry will certainly suffer.
The adoption of Open Software means nothing. It has no relevance to anything with regards to bringing up the level of Taiwan's computer industry. Indeed, neither does Microsoft software. Rather, it is the ability of highly skilled programmers and far-sighted corporate officers making great strides into the vast software market that will make all the difference. If anything, this step into Open Source Software will set Taiwan back.
Even though anyone here can easily purchase TiVo instead, I predict a flood of whiners complaining about ReplayTV.
Of course, they are complaining that they should be allowed to steal service because they paid for a completely unrelated piece of hardware somewhere else along the line.
Sounds like your university is par with a typical American community college. Taiwan's relative insignificance will not be affected in any way by the adoption of an insignificant operating system nor an insignificant political ideology.
Is Taiwan guilty of being an IP offender? Or are they simply willing to cop to the fact that most people can't quite see what's wrong with "borrowing" their friend's CD and installing like crazy.
According to the article:
Taiwan is racing against time to wipeout copyright piracy as it seeks to be expunged from Washington's "Special 301 Priority Watchlist" of intellectual property offenders.
So they obviously know that what is going on is WRONG and are working hard to get rid of the "sharing" cancer.
Of course, they realize that this is probably easier to do by "sharing" software that was meant to be shared instead of software that was meant to be used productively.
Taiwan's economy is half the size of Canada's. It is by no means small.
Canada GDP: purchasing power parity - $774.7 billion (2000 est.) GDP - real growth rate: 4.3% (2000 est.) GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $24,800 (2000 est.)
Taiwan GDP: purchasing power parity - $386 billion (2000 est.) GDP - real growth rate: 6.3% (2000 est.) GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $17,400 (2000 est.)
So in your flaming, you go on to answer exactly my question with an affirmative. Yes, they twitch. Now the question is whether the drives spin all the time resulting in simply an increase in inertia or whether they also spin up and down like most modern drives.
So yes they twitch and that issue hasn't been resolved (by using non-spinning storage media). Thank you for your answer.
Isn't there some sort of torque problem that needs to be addressed with these hard drive-based devices? Have they engineered the things so that they don't twitch in your backpack?
Interesting you mention that. The worst offender (or most easily identifiable Slashdot cohort) is O'Reilly. A lisam@oreilly.com is the main outlet for these stories.
Slashdot Mirror
Did you type your password in correctly?
Encryption can only be successfully used for terrorist purposes. For what possible reason could this guy have encrypted this information?
Now he's dead and we have to ask other criminals to come to Norway's rescue.
Thanks, encryption zealots. Thanks a lot.
The problem is that there aren't enough companies who are interested in Open Source who are also interested in backing a conference like this. If you ever get the chance to go to a conference like Software Development, you'll get to see a very well run conference with sponsors with deep pockets. It all leads to lower fees all around.
But that's the price you pay when you base your business around Free Software.
The zenith of movie special effects was reached several years ago by Dan Piponi and his crew. What's happened in the interim? Well, Titanic won the Oscar for special effects. That's got to tell you something about the sad state of affairs in movies today.
That must be why the plot moved so fucking slowly. For chrissakes, it's like the ending was purposefully left undone so that they can set the audience up for a sequel.
Worse than Star Wars Episode 1, LOTR was. Well, maybe not. There was no Jar Jar Binks, so we have to give it points for not stooping that low.
You ever see the movie The Jerk? There's a scene where Steve Martin is the Guess-Your-Weight guy at a carnival and someone comes up and asks him what the prizes are. He turns around to face a huge wall filled with carnival prizes and points out a 2 inch area containing tiny prizes, hardly worth winning against the guesser for.
There are quite a few more than 128 characters that need to be represented. Limiting yourself to those few makes you look petty when you decide to complain about something that more than 90% of users have no problem with.
I should probably qualify my "community college" comment so that it doesn't appear to be the angry attack that it is.
The problem that exists at your school is precisely that they are teaching you how to use the software tools. There is a lot to know about the tools, of course, but to be taught such a trivial thing as creating projects and compiling code in an editor seems like such a waste of time. Exactly the kind of thing that community colleges teach as their bread and butter.
In other contexts this would start a flamewar, but a University level Computer Science curriculum should concentrate on theory much more than on programming technique and tool usage.
If the curriculum you describe is representative of the average university in Taiwan, then Taiwan's computer industry will certainly suffer.
The adoption of Open Software means nothing. It has no relevance to anything with regards to bringing up the level of Taiwan's computer industry. Indeed, neither does Microsoft software. Rather, it is the ability of highly skilled programmers and far-sighted corporate officers making great strides into the vast software market that will make all the difference. If anything, this step into Open Source Software will set Taiwan back.
Even though anyone here can easily purchase TiVo instead, I predict a flood of whiners complaining about ReplayTV.
Of course, they are complaining that they should be allowed to steal service because they paid for a completely unrelated piece of hardware somewhere else along the line.
Sounds like your university is par with a typical American community college. Taiwan's relative insignificance will not be affected in any way by the adoption of an insignificant operating system nor an insignificant political ideology.
Is Taiwan guilty of being an IP offender? Or are they simply willing to cop to the fact that most people can't quite see what's wrong with "borrowing" their friend's CD and installing like crazy.
According to the article:
Taiwan is racing against time to wipeout copyright piracy as it seeks to be expunged from Washington's "Special 301 Priority Watchlist" of intellectual property offenders.
So they obviously know that what is going on is WRONG and are working hard to get rid of the "sharing" cancer.
Of course, they realize that this is probably easier to do by "sharing" software that was meant to be shared instead of software that was meant to be used productively.
It's an oxymoron.
You'd be surprised. :-(
Or the purity can make them the most damage resistant group on the planet.
Taiwan's economy is half the size of Canada's. It is by no means small.
Canada
GDP: purchasing power parity - $774.7 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 4.3% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $24,800 (2000 est.)
Taiwan
GDP: purchasing power parity - $386 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 6.3% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $17,400 (2000 est.)
It's rich how a country that is on the list of top offenders of IP piracy is claiming damages from Microsoft.
It may just be a theory, but XP's copy protection scheme may be the thing that's pissing them off the most.
Nary a mention of the GPL in the entire article text.
I was slipping there for a bit... But I'm back on track and ready to point out the Obvious!
Free software has a completely different meaning than what the zealots here like to believe.
Oh, they'll be using free software alright. It'll just be Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office.
Cool. Thanks.
I was using a spinning Maxtor as my point of reference. It seems like the device in question uses something less bulky.
So in your flaming, you go on to answer exactly my question with an affirmative. Yes, they twitch. Now the question is whether the drives spin all the time resulting in simply an increase in inertia or whether they also spin up and down like most modern drives.
So yes they twitch and that issue hasn't been resolved (by using non-spinning storage media). Thank you for your answer.
What about the increase in inertia generated by the platters? It may be small, but carrying around a personal gyroscope sounds a little uncomfortable.
How do they shield the inertia generated by the spinning drive? Lighter platters?
Isn't there some sort of torque problem that needs to be addressed with these hard drive-based devices? Have they engineered the things so that they don't twitch in your backpack?
Interesting you mention that. The worst offender (or most easily identifiable Slashdot cohort) is O'Reilly. A lisam@oreilly.com is the main outlet for these stories.
he re-installed from an old proprietary universe to the new open source model
Goes to show you how crappy Open Source really is, doesn't it?