I think it's a good idea with a lot of potential here in Europe, maybe not in the US.
I see these cars and the similar Smart car all the time
around my
office in central London. Seems to be because they are exempt from the London
Congestion Charge ($16 / day at the moment so if you drive around London
I guess you'll soon make your money back...).
For me it's definitely enough car. For most people it would make a great second car.
If you don't have kids or carry lots of luggage regularly, then these cars
are great. Easy to park, cheap to run. As a second car for going to the
shops they'd probably make sense too.
Watch The Battle of Algiers
to see why racial profiling does not work. Arab women passed themselves off
as French women, walked straight through the security points, and blew up
cafes.
(I realise that this is a film, not a documentary, but this incident
at least really happened).
There's a rather underrated 80s film called Looker
which uses this sort of device as a subplot. The gun in the film
freezes people for an hour or two, and obviously can be used for
nefarious purposes by the baddies.
Red Hat do this because Xen trademarked the term and restrict its usage.
The comment about libvirt is funny though. I would invite anyone to come and look
at libvirt and particularly the mailing list
archives
and to decide for themselves if libvirt is really
"proprietary software published openly" (whatever that even means).
No, while "fast-food" style serving may contribute to creating bad habits, the main culprit is still what people eat, and how much of it, not how you eat it. Most Japanese meals just aren't very fattening;
You're on the money here. I'll just add from my own observation a few years ago staying with a Japanese family
in the countryside:
What you get in Japanese restaurants is not really representative of Japanese food (or rather, of
what Japanese families eat). What they ate was a great deal of vegetables, mainly boiled (stews and so on),
a little oily fried fish, lots of pickles, hardly any meat (and I don't think I had sushi even once while
living with them, although of course we did have it when we ate out).
The father of the family
seemed to spend most of the time he wasn't working out picking wild herbs and plants, fishing and
hiking, obviously a very healthy lifestyle.
My only hope is that Intel doesn't skew it's architecture so much that it becomes incompatible and that AMD is left behind. Would be nice if AMD could partner up as well, or create a consortium for "next gen architecture and virtualization enhancements" kinda like how MMX, SSE etc came about for graphics.
Too late - it's already happened. Intel and AMD have incompatible
virtualisation technologies. Intel's is called VT
with various sub-designations such as VT-d for virtualising DMA. AMD's is
called AMD-V
and is completely different. AMD have sub-divisions too, such as support for
Nested Page Tables which Intel are still developing.
Xen supports both. Not certain about VMWare, but I'd be surprised
if they didn't support both too. One interesting fact is that
hardware virtualisation isn't faster than software approaches
like VMWare's emulation or Xen paravirtualisation. Although this
will probably change in future (and also Xen paravirt is no good for
you if you want to run Windoze or other binary-only OSes).
The irony, of course, is that one of the main problems with effectively-perpetual copyright is the many restrictions it places on open commentary and free speech. Perpetual and rigidly-enforced copyrights essentially produce a chilling effect in the domain of free public discussion. Since copyright is a government-granted monopoly, it is hard to not label this as censorship.
In many ways it's good to see Mr Cameron getting "Back to Basics" here. After
all the original purpose of copyright, from before the Statute of Anne was to
ensure that the Company of Stationers censored all works that might have been critical
of the Tudor monarchy.
So you think the RIAA or BSA will let you wait 22 days to get in line with the license?
You can be absolutely sure that if you were running a small company and
got busted by the BSA for sharing Parallels, you would not be granted
22+ days to correct the problem. SWSoft should at the very least cease distribution immediately
and then work full tilt to address the issue. Really, the major copyright
holders in Wine should make it quite clear they will sue. A lawyer's letter
won't cost much but is probably all that is needed at this stage.
The investment in time, money, and energy has already been made. To abandon it now, no matter how dysfunctional it is, would be a bigger waste.
The
sunk cost fallacy. Just because
the international community has pissed away however many $billions on this
is not a good reason to go on doing so. There are something like 15
shuttle missions still planned, which could be scrapped, saving countless
more $billions and probably even lives (and I don't just mean if one of
the remaining shuttles happens to blow up again as they have a propensity to
do -- contractors on the ground die too).
ISS is a necessary platform to span the gap between the Earth and the Moon.
No it's not. You can go to the moon or Mars just as well without
the ISS. The Apollo astronauts managed to get to the moon without stopping
off for a snack at a spacestation along the way.
Werner von Braun put forward the plan to build a space station first, then use it as the assembly point for the journey to the Moon.
Well maybe von Braun did say that, but if so it was a daft idea. Assembling
spaceships in space is incredibly expensive and dangerous. Much easier just
to build the things on the ground.
Discarding crazy plans to fly nuts, bolts, spanners and people up to +200 miles
just so we have the privilege of assembling a spaceship just a tiny bit further up the edge of
the gravity well, about the only possible use for the ISS is to test long endurance
flight for journeys to Mars. But you can do that just as well (and a lot more cheaply/safely)
on the ground too.
You are not 'unable' to do anything. You are unwilling. Easy solution: release your code under the GPLv3. Keep with the spirit of the community which gave you a whole operating system for FREE.
You are absolutely right. Honestly I don't know why these companies that
want to just rip off the hard work of others don't just use BSD.
There's a sort of recursiveness to the shuttle program; the ISS exists to give the shuttle a reason to exist, which in turn gives the ISS a reason to exist. The shuttle fleet needs to be retired. Not after this mission, not after the ISS is completed. NOW.
Couldn't agree more, but...
And someone needs to ask, seriously and without fear of being attacked as cowardly, what the point actually is to sending human beings into space. We went to the moon, and found nothing particularly interesting there (certainly nothing compelling enough to make us want to go back).
When our ancestors lived in trees, the ground must have looked like
a terribly dangerous, hostile place. Later when they lived in warm,
fertile Africa, the north must have looked cold and uninhabitable.
We all know what happened - humans expanded their living area through
technology - fire, clothes, tools.
The technology for getting
to and living on Mars
is another step up, but it's not unimaginably complex or anything.
It's something that could be developed from what we have now in
a series of small logical steps. It'll be dangerous, but the
result will be a new planet to live on and exploit, and opening
up the whole solar system to habitation.
What's been particularly interesting/scary is the
complete lack of "mainstream" journalism on this
subject. I watched a section on BBC Newsnight which
totally failed to address any of the issues that even the
most unkarma Slashdot troll would have raised.
The mouthpiece from the BPI was given free-reign.
This is very disappointing because it means we
are not getting our message through to the mainstream.
Just remember: not everyone who partakes in Christianity (big C or little c) believes the world was created 4,000 years ago. Some of us actually believe in evolution. (Well, us non-fundies anyway.)
Right, but you still need to believe in the Big Sky Daddy -- just as ridiculous.
You know, this may be being implemented with the best of intentions (stopping illegal workers, etc), but do we really want to give the government an easy way to "flip a switch" (or bit) and make it impossible for any one person to earn a living?
It's funny you should say that because according
to the book I'm reading at the moment, this was precisely the method used to control
low-level thought criminals by the Stasi in the former East Germany.
Say something indiscreet in public? Mysteriously you'd lose your job and
no matter how hard you tried you just couldn't get past an interview
for even the most unskilled job.
It should be noted that TFA is talking about British ISPs.
In finest Slashdot tradition, I didn't read TFA. However, there are
honest ISPs in the UK who make clear what the limits are, and offer
unlimited packages for more money. I'm on an unlimited package and paying
about $60/month (versus ordinary ADSL packages at the same nominal speed,
which go from free - $30/month
these days), and given the amount of stuff I download and upload I
would really know if there was a limit.
What I'd really like is SDSL though, and afaik that is not
available at all unless you go to very high business rates.
Even if they have been charged multiple times with drunk driving, they are able to get their license back, because it's something they "need". In some situations a car is needed, but if you continually show that you aren't going to be responsible, then you really think you have the need for a car.
I'm not sure I'd compare this to drunk driving. If you drive drunk then you had a
choice, and clear responsibility not to do that. On the other hand grandmothers
buy Windoze computers to type out emails to their dear beloved grandchildren.
It's hardly the grandmother's fault that the computers are built so badly that they easily
get infected through ordinary daily use. The responsibility and liability should
be with the manufacturers of the software who ignore (what should be) standard practice.
I don't know about the rest of the world, but in the UK ISPs routinely cut off people if their machines are spewing spam (or other malware). The first thing most users know is when any web page they try and visit takes them to an ISP page telling them to run some malware scanning software.
Thus, I believe the secret to gunpowder was lost to the Chinese on more than one occasion, only to be re-invented later.
When gunpowder was invented, there didn't exist the means to reverse
engineer the formula used. It was literally a magic powder and unless
you somehow infiltrated the shop where it was made, how could you know
the secret of making it?
The same situation is not true today however. Tools exist to reverse
engineer just about any chemical, software, music, engine design and so
on. Since inventors can no longer keep a secret, there is really no need
for patents to ensure openness. (There may be other uses for them, but
encouraging sharing of trade secrets isn't one of them).
Slashdot Mirror
I think it's a good idea with a lot of potential here in Europe, maybe not in the US.
I see these cars and the similar Smart car all the time around my office in central London. Seems to be because they are exempt from the London Congestion Charge ($16 / day at the moment so if you drive around London I guess you'll soon make your money back ...).
For me it's definitely enough car. For most people it would make a great second car.
If you don't have kids or carry lots of luggage regularly, then these cars are great. Easy to park, cheap to run. As a second car for going to the shops they'd probably make sense too.
Rich.
Watch The Battle of Algiers to see why racial profiling does not work. Arab women passed themselves off as French women, walked straight through the security points, and blew up cafes.
(I realise that this is a film, not a documentary, but this incident at least really happened).
Rich.
There's a rather underrated 80s film called Looker which uses this sort of device as a subplot. The gun in the film freezes people for an hour or two, and obviously can be used for nefarious purposes by the baddies.
Rich.
That would be Lavarand from, oh, just 10 years ago.
Rich
Red Hat do this because Xen trademarked the term and restrict its usage.
The comment about libvirt is funny though. I would invite anyone to come and look at libvirt and particularly the mailing list archives and to decide for themselves if libvirt is really "proprietary software published openly" (whatever that even means).
Rich.
No, while "fast-food" style serving may contribute to creating bad habits, the main culprit is still what people eat, and how much of it, not how you eat it. Most Japanese meals just aren't very fattening;
You're on the money here. I'll just add from my own observation a few years ago staying with a Japanese family in the countryside: What you get in Japanese restaurants is not really representative of Japanese food (or rather, of what Japanese families eat). What they ate was a great deal of vegetables, mainly boiled (stews and so on), a little oily fried fish, lots of pickles, hardly any meat (and I don't think I had sushi even once while living with them, although of course we did have it when we ate out).
The father of the family seemed to spend most of the time he wasn't working out picking wild herbs and plants, fishing and hiking, obviously a very healthy lifestyle.
It's really no wonder they all live to be 90.
Rich.
Found a link to an article on AMD's Nested Page Tables.
Rich.
My only hope is that Intel doesn't skew it's architecture so much that it becomes incompatible and that AMD is left behind. Would be nice if AMD could partner up as well, or create a consortium for "next gen architecture and virtualization enhancements" kinda like how MMX, SSE etc came about for graphics.
Too late - it's already happened. Intel and AMD have incompatible virtualisation technologies. Intel's is called VT with various sub-designations such as VT-d for virtualising DMA. AMD's is called AMD-V and is completely different. AMD have sub-divisions too, such as support for Nested Page Tables which Intel are still developing.
Xen supports both. Not certain about VMWare, but I'd be surprised if they didn't support both too. One interesting fact is that hardware virtualisation isn't faster than software approaches like VMWare's emulation or Xen paravirtualisation. Although this will probably change in future (and also Xen paravirt is no good for you if you want to run Windoze or other binary-only OSes).
Rich.
The irony, of course, is that one of the main problems with effectively-perpetual copyright is the many restrictions it places on open commentary and free speech. Perpetual and rigidly-enforced copyrights essentially produce a chilling effect in the domain of free public discussion. Since copyright is a government-granted monopoly, it is hard to not label this as censorship.
In many ways it's good to see Mr Cameron getting "Back to Basics" here. After all the original purpose of copyright, from before the Statute of Anne was to ensure that the Company of Stationers censored all works that might have been critical of the Tudor monarchy.
Way to go, medieval values ...
Rich.
So you think the RIAA or BSA will let you wait 22 days to get in line with the license?
You can be absolutely sure that if you were running a small company and got busted by the BSA for sharing Parallels, you would not be granted 22+ days to correct the problem. SWSoft should at the very least cease distribution immediately and then work full tilt to address the issue. Really, the major copyright holders in Wine should make it quite clear they will sue. A lawyer's letter won't cost much but is probably all that is needed at this stage.
Rich.
Can someone translate this article into English for the rest of us please?
WoW? WoW Database? WoWHead? Database site?
Rich.
The investment in time, money, and energy has already been made. To abandon it now, no matter how dysfunctional it is, would be a bigger waste.
The sunk cost fallacy. Just because the international community has pissed away however many $billions on this is not a good reason to go on doing so. There are something like 15 shuttle missions still planned, which could be scrapped, saving countless more $billions and probably even lives (and I don't just mean if one of the remaining shuttles happens to blow up again as they have a propensity to do -- contractors on the ground die too).
ISS is a necessary platform to span the gap between the Earth and the Moon.
No it's not. You can go to the moon or Mars just as well without the ISS. The Apollo astronauts managed to get to the moon without stopping off for a snack at a spacestation along the way.
Werner von Braun put forward the plan to build a space station first, then use it as the assembly point for the journey to the Moon.
Well maybe von Braun did say that, but if so it was a daft idea. Assembling spaceships in space is incredibly expensive and dangerous. Much easier just to build the things on the ground.
Discarding crazy plans to fly nuts, bolts, spanners and people up to +200 miles just so we have the privilege of assembling a spaceship just a tiny bit further up the edge of the gravity well, about the only possible use for the ISS is to test long endurance flight for journeys to Mars. But you can do that just as well (and a lot more cheaply/safely) on the ground too.
Rich.
For a second there I thought the IFPI might have some worthwhile points. Actually it was just a list of FUD, desperation and nonsense.
Rich.
You are not 'unable' to do anything. You are unwilling. Easy solution: release your code under the GPLv3. Keep with the spirit of the community which gave you a whole operating system for FREE.
You are absolutely right. Honestly I don't know why these companies that want to just rip off the hard work of others don't just use BSD.
Rich.
I really wish they'd release N64 Re-Volt. That game ruled ...
Rich.
There's a sort of recursiveness to the shuttle program; the ISS exists to give the shuttle a reason to exist, which in turn gives the ISS a reason to exist. The shuttle fleet needs to be retired. Not after this mission, not after the ISS is completed. NOW.
Couldn't agree more, but ...
And someone needs to ask, seriously and without fear of being attacked as cowardly, what the point actually is to sending human beings into space. We went to the moon, and found nothing particularly interesting there (certainly nothing compelling enough to make us want to go back).
When our ancestors lived in trees, the ground must have looked like a terribly dangerous, hostile place. Later when they lived in warm, fertile Africa, the north must have looked cold and uninhabitable.
We all know what happened - humans expanded their living area through technology - fire, clothes, tools.
The technology for getting to and living on Mars is another step up, but it's not unimaginably complex or anything. It's something that could be developed from what we have now in a series of small logical steps. It'll be dangerous, but the result will be a new planet to live on and exploit, and opening up the whole solar system to habitation.
Rich.
Think about it - when's the last time there was any major DNS failure? Never? Me too.
I remember when Network Solutions forgot to load about half the .com zone file
one night, and most of the internet disappeared. That was only 10 years ago.
Rich.
What's been particularly interesting/scary is the complete lack of "mainstream" journalism on this subject. I watched a section on BBC Newsnight which totally failed to address any of the issues that even the most unkarma Slashdot troll would have raised. The mouthpiece from the BPI was given free-reign.
This is very disappointing because it means we are not getting our message through to the mainstream.
Rich
Don't forget STM, a method of composing concurrent primitives together.
Rich.
Just remember: not everyone who partakes in Christianity (big C or little c) believes the world was created 4,000 years ago. Some of us actually believe in evolution. (Well, us non-fundies anyway.)
Right, but you still need to believe in the Big Sky Daddy -- just as ridiculous.
Rich.
You know, this may be being implemented with the best of intentions (stopping illegal workers, etc), but do we really want to give the government an easy way to "flip a switch" (or bit) and make it impossible for any one person to earn a living?
It's funny you should say that because according to the book I'm reading at the moment, this was precisely the method used to control low-level thought criminals by the Stasi in the former East Germany.
Say something indiscreet in public? Mysteriously you'd lose your job and no matter how hard you tried you just couldn't get past an interview for even the most unskilled job.
Rich.
It should be noted that TFA is talking about British ISPs.
In finest Slashdot tradition, I didn't read TFA. However, there are honest ISPs in the UK who make clear what the limits are, and offer unlimited packages for more money. I'm on an unlimited package and paying about $60/month (versus ordinary ADSL packages at the same nominal speed, which go from free - $30/month these days), and given the amount of stuff I download and upload I would really know if there was a limit.
What I'd really like is SDSL though, and afaik that is not available at all unless you go to very high business rates.
Rich.
Even if they have been charged multiple times with drunk driving, they are able to get their license back, because it's something they "need". In some situations a car is needed, but if you continually show that you aren't going to be responsible, then you really think you have the need for a car.
I'm not sure I'd compare this to drunk driving. If you drive drunk then you had a choice, and clear responsibility not to do that. On the other hand grandmothers buy Windoze computers to type out emails to their dear beloved grandchildren. It's hardly the grandmother's fault that the computers are built so badly that they easily get infected through ordinary daily use. The responsibility and liability should be with the manufacturers of the software who ignore (what should be) standard practice.
Rich.
I don't know about the rest of the world, but in the UK ISPs routinely cut off people if their machines are spewing spam (or other malware). The first thing most users know is when any web page they try and visit takes them to an ISP page telling them to run some malware scanning software.
Rich.
Thus, I believe the secret to gunpowder was lost to the Chinese on more than one occasion, only to be re-invented later.
When gunpowder was invented, there didn't exist the means to reverse engineer the formula used. It was literally a magic powder and unless you somehow infiltrated the shop where it was made, how could you know the secret of making it?
The same situation is not true today however. Tools exist to reverse engineer just about any chemical, software, music, engine design and so on. Since inventors can no longer keep a secret, there is really no need for patents to ensure openness. (There may be other uses for them, but encouraging sharing of trade secrets isn't one of them).
Rich.