With very few, if any, exceptions, developing countries are governed by corrupt or easily corrupted leaders. A chance to "lose" a reactor and gain a few $M is really hard to pass up. May as well just bypass the bullshit and put them on the open market.
Interoperability is clearly within the freedom goals of the Linux Foundation and open source in general.
However don't expect MS to return the love. MS use the inability to interoperate as their major business tool. So may desires to switch organisations from MS to Linux end due to "Well we'd like to change to Linux but we have to use application X with only works on XP". This is a huge barrier to competition.
It's a lot easier to reenforce a small robust item than a large fragile one. Smaller is inherently stronger because they have less stresses due to acceleration etc. F= m a
A small solidstate recorder with some accelerometers etc could likely be made a lot cheaper, smaller and tougher than the monsters of today.
A public call for opposion is hardly enough unless that was part of the legalses that included the contribution.
People have contributed to Linux under GPL2 and nobody can take that away from them (ie the GPL2-ness was a condition of the ofer they made). Any switch to GPL3, say, would be groundless and pointless. If this was done to prevent TiVo/Google style issues, then the Tivo/Google lawyers would have a field day being able to dispute the validity of the GPL3 switch. All up, a pointless exercise.
Re-licensing Linux as BSD has the same hurdles as trying to relicense Linux under GPL3. It cannot be done without the permission of all the contributors (of whom there are thousands). Linus only owns 10% or so of the code and the rest of the code is owned by its authors (or designated owners). Only those code owners can change the license. In theory it is possible to hunt down all the contributors but in practice this is impossible. I saw a very small project (less than 10 contributors) try to change its licensing and that was challenging enough.
Ignoring Diebold for a moment, isn't your fine land one of these Democracy places where you choose the politicians? If you have an idiot, then that's coz you chose him!
OK, the random crap in GirlsMag is not a model, but true astrology is. It is based on the idea that gravity and other forces influence our lives. For example, we know that the phases of the moon do influence mood and some other behaviour. That is a valid model until it is taken too far. It likely breaks down when you use it to predict the future (tall dark and hansom etc).
Weather prediction is a model. It works quite well unless to try extrapolate too far into the future. The model's validity is limited to a few days and trying to use if beyond that produces unreliable results.
Newtonian physics is also a model. It also works until it is taken too far, then breaks down. It's fine for building bridges, driving, flying etc, but breaks down when you start getting to a significant fraction of the speed of light.
All models have their limits and become invalid when you exceed them.
Who's suprised that the crims get more clever about the way they craft their attacks? As it gets harder to fool people with fake Viagra ads and bank phishing and other lower hanging fruit, it makes sense to start putting more effort into targeting the bigger prizes. More effort sure, but better prizes too.
Crims have always been good at adapting and exploiting conditions. The Mafia really got their power due to exploiting the prohibition. Cable thieves in South Africa are using rolling blackout schedules to plan their cable thefts.
As more business services are done online it makes sense to phish for more than some lame paypal accounts.
If you're a Phd who has spent your whole life researching and proving something then you're likely to opposed someone proving eactly the opposite. That's just human nature and has been the downfall of many scientists including Einstein and many other greats.
That's why Max Planck said: "A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
On top of personal professional bias we must now add those extra pressureses exerted on scientists to toe some line so that their funding/department/ access to publishing/whatever does not get cut. Gotta say the right stuff to keep the backers happy.
Anyone expecting unbiassed science to come out of that lot is just a misguided idealist.
These are the bastards with their trigger fingers hovering over the greatest fire power in the world. Not only have they proven that they're vicious and uncaring, but they have also proven that they are not capable of handling this power. Putting nukes in GW's hands is like handing a kid on crack a running chainsaw.
The USA's vast reserves of goodwill, built up over the 20th century, has largely been eroded over GW's rule. Sure we might have laughed at Clinton and his blowjobs, but GW's illogical, immoral and illegal activity makes us very worried. At least GW's leaving, but his replacement better be a lot better and needs to send some very reassuring messages - not just to Americans but to the rest of the world too.
It isn't just the code that impacts performance, but the driver architecture too.
Vista has a new driver architecture and it is goiing to take some time for MS to improve the graphic subsystem performance. It will also take NVidia a while to optimise their code for Vista.
Even then, the Vista architecture might just have some inherent issues that are hard to code around.
When senior people at Microsoft say that they were suckered.
At this stage of the case, the court needs to make the guess. Based on what's already been revealed it is hard to say that (a) there is no case -or- (b) there is no further information.
Any judge who was to try whitewash this one would be comitting professional suicide.
Recycling removes some contaminants, but probably lets quite a few through.
Filtration is set by standards. What isn't legislated probably does not get filtered because of extra cost. They'll be removing ecoli etc, but probably quite a few unregulated contaminants flow through.
The class is not limited to current members (who have already signed up as being pissed). Further digging and media time also tells those people that were suckered but did nothing that there is a class action and brings them into the action.
is that the email is stored on Vista machines and we all know how long it takes to process files on a Vista machine. They need to buy some time for all the disk processing to complete.
In short, it would be faster to print all the emails and shred them.
Sure filing earns small change for lawyers, but this keeps them in beer between the real money spinner: litigation. Patents are a gold mine when they get contested and go to court.
Half the reason patent lawyers have no interest in filing quality patents is because that would cut down on patent litigation.
Slashdot Mirror
With very few, if any, exceptions, developing countries are governed by corrupt or easily corrupted leaders. A chance to "lose" a reactor and gain a few $M is really hard to pass up. May as well just bypass the bullshit and put them on the open market.
However don't expect MS to return the love. MS use the inability to interoperate as their major business tool. So may desires to switch organisations from MS to Linux end due to "Well we'd like to change to Linux but we have to use application X with only works on XP". This is a huge barrier to competition.
It's a lot easier to reenforce a small robust item than a large fragile one. Smaller is inherently stronger because they have less stresses due to acceleration etc. F= m a
A small solidstate recorder with some accelerometers etc could likely be made a lot cheaper, smaller and tougher than the monsters of today.
I bet this is a Scientology plot to overload wikileaks.
People have contributed to Linux under GPL2 and nobody can take that away from them (ie the GPL2-ness was a condition of the ofer they made). Any switch to GPL3, say, would be groundless and pointless. If this was done to prevent TiVo/Google style issues, then the Tivo/Google lawyers would have a field day being able to dispute the validity of the GPL3 switch. All up, a pointless exercise.
Re-licensing Linux as BSD has the same hurdles as trying to relicense Linux under GPL3. It cannot be done without the permission of all the contributors (of whom there are thousands). Linus only owns 10% or so of the code and the rest of the code is owned by its authors (or designated owners). Only those code owners can change the license. In theory it is possible to hunt down all the contributors but in practice this is impossible. I saw a very small project (less than 10 contributors) try to change its licensing and that was challenging enough.
I thought the state of the art way to make brains involved copulaton.
Well... it is possible.
Get the message through that if you screw up you get voted out. It might take a few terms, but that might straighten them up.
The watchdogs have rubber teeth. So far they've done nothing and MS ignores them.
Ignoring Diebold for a moment, isn't your fine land one of these Democracy places where you choose the politicians? If you have an idiot, then that's coz you chose him!
Weather prediction is a model. It works quite well unless to try extrapolate too far into the future. The model's validity is limited to a few days and trying to use if beyond that produces unreliable results.
Newtonian physics is also a model. It also works until it is taken too far, then breaks down. It's fine for building bridges, driving, flying etc, but breaks down when you start getting to a significant fraction of the speed of light.
All models have their limits and become invalid when you exceed them.
But your major point is still valid: there's a difference between certified and skilled. Quantity is no substitute for quality.
Cleaning pooped and pissed carpet is guaranteed to be stressful.
Crims have always been good at adapting and exploiting conditions. The Mafia really got their power due to exploiting the prohibition. Cable thieves in South Africa are using rolling blackout schedules to plan their cable thefts.
As more business services are done online it makes sense to phish for more than some lame paypal accounts.
That's why Max Planck said: "A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
On top of personal professional bias we must now add those extra pressureses exerted on scientists to toe some line so that their funding/department/ access to publishing/whatever does not get cut. Gotta say the right stuff to keep the backers happy.
Anyone expecting unbiassed science to come out of that lot is just a misguided idealist.
The USA's vast reserves of goodwill, built up over the 20th century, has largely been eroded over GW's rule. Sure we might have laughed at Clinton and his blowjobs, but GW's illogical, immoral and illegal activity makes us very worried. At least GW's leaving, but his replacement better be a lot better and needs to send some very reassuring messages - not just to Americans but to the rest of the world too.
for all the sensitive stuff.
Vista has a new driver architecture and it is goiing to take some time for MS to improve the graphic subsystem performance. It will also take NVidia a while to optimise their code for Vista.
Even then, the Vista architecture might just have some inherent issues that are hard to code around.
At this stage of the case, the court needs to make the guess. Based on what's already been revealed it is hard to say that (a) there is no case -or- (b) there is no further information.
Any judge who was to try whitewash this one would be comitting professional suicide.
Filtration is set by standards. What isn't legislated probably does not get filtered because of extra cost. They'll be removing ecoli etc, but probably quite a few unregulated contaminants flow through.
The class is not limited to current members (who have already signed up as being pissed). Further digging and media time also tells those people that were suckered but did nothing that there is a class action and brings them into the action.
In short, it would be faster to print all the emails and shred them.
but I thought it was my brakes.
Half the reason patent lawyers have no interest in filing quality patents is because that would cut down on patent litigation.