Clarkson is primarily an entertainer. 500 quid for a gag like this is pretty cheap. Like all entertainers, Clarkson takes liberties with the truth. I would not be suprised if the whole thing is a scam done for a bit of a laugh.
Less delivery, perhaps, means less fuel usage though people will have to go to the store to buy an extra few k sheets of paper. Printing at a commercial printing outfit is probably more efficient than running thousands of in-office laser print runs, so that's another loss. Less delivery effort for postal workers too. All up, looks like potentially a loss.
Something like how a python does (snake, not the language).
There is nothing really new in this from the OLPC side, Negreponte has always wanted MS onboard. Any change of heart has been from the MS side. MS was rubbishing OLPC only a few months back.
Kind of related to the employer thing... If you're doing web processing and GUI stuff then you need a very different set of skills than if you're doing embedded work or kernel work.
College/ University should hopefully teach you how to learn rather than just give you a finite set of skills. I went to university in the early 80s and pretty much none of the actual skills I learnt there (COBOL, FORTRAN, etc) are of any use to me know.
is to make the whole process inconvenient. Why would they do that? Well perception is the more important than reality and this is a great way to show: a) We take this seriously. b) The terrorists are nasty people and they're doing this to you, not us. c)Keep the whole War On Terror in your face. A scared citizen is a controllable citizen.
If they had the space and could get away with it, they would make everyone strip and get the Rubber Glove.
There are many people after this prize and you need to stand in line. To expedite processing please remove your shoes and place your keys and watch in the basket.
It is somewhat sad that copyright (the legal muscle in GPL) only covers the writing of software. The testing and verification - which is often as important, if not more important has no legal protection. It is the testing, rather than the coding, that really adds the value in OSS.
It does not even need to be this complex
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Even teaching basic semiconductor stuff is simple.
My kids and I built a crystal set and made a cats whisker diode for it using some brass sheet, wire and a lump of galena (from the mineral & crystal shop). Also made a diode with a rusty razor blade and another with a lump of silicon. These didn't work as well as shop germanium diodes, but they still worked. Made our own variable capacitors using paper and tin foil too.
Current Linux code is owned by all the contributors. Linus is only one of very many contributors (perhaps 10% of the code). Those contributors have contributed under GPL2 and only those contributors can relicence their individual contibutions as GPL3. Linus can relicence his contributions but has no authority to do it for other contributors.
To move Linux to GPL3 would require one of (a) tracking down every contributor and getting their OK or (b) starting from a clean GPL3 footing and getting GPL3 contributions.
The effort (cost) of doing this has insignificant upside, so it just won't happen.
Perhaps IT will go the way of the typing pool (replaced by email and work processors) and calculating staff (replaced by spreadsheets). With sufficient improvements in corporate/networking software it should be able to do away with IT and just let the punters do it.
Those that predicted that the PC would kill IT were wrong then, mainly beacuse the systems became more complex than simplified. It is possible for stuff to become simplified and then the IT department can be reduced. Perhaps never eliminated, but significantly reduced.
If you tell lies that hurt someone's business you can appear in court which would cause all kinds of mess (particularly if intertwined with the anti-trust rulings).
Likely the apology was a condition of some out of court agreement.
Wikipedia has a first-mover advantage and brand recognition in the encyclopedia domain. With all the silliness about Carolyn Doran, content whitewashing etc, it would seem that Wikipedia might be drifting from its core competence. That articles on Briney Speers' albumns are OK while proofs are not just shows that Wikipedia is really just another mass-market content site rather than a true knowledge source.
Competing in the search engine space just dilutes their effectiveness even more. Google currently links to Wikipedia and one might guess that a very large % of Wikipedia access comes via Google hits.
THere's nothing magic in the water here in NZ. Perhaps it is just that we spend less time in traffic jams and flipping between hundreds of channels of crap.
All the skills you need for anything like this are easy to learn or look up in Make.
Archaeologists have been using aerial photos almost forever. Google just makes these more accessable. Even flying over an area in a microlight helps show up details of old structures etc as variances in the way vegetation grows etc.
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... it gets I/O bound!
Clarkson is primarily an entertainer. 500 quid for a gag like this is pretty cheap. Like all entertainers, Clarkson takes liberties with the truth. I would not be suprised if the whole thing is a scam done for a bit of a laugh.
"Would you as president maintain a blog?"
Answer:"No I call the plumber to do all toilet repairs".
Less delivery, perhaps, means less fuel usage though people will have to go to the store to buy an extra few k sheets of paper. Printing at a commercial printing outfit is probably more efficient than running thousands of in-office laser print runs, so that's another loss. Less delivery effort for postal workers too. All up, looks like potentially a loss.
No, an Android threesome is not a p2p network.
is in the trenching and pulling cables. That's not going to change by going to plastic etc.
There is nothing really new in this from the OLPC side, Negreponte has always wanted MS onboard. Any change of heart has been from the MS side. MS was rubbishing OLPC only a few months back.
College/ University should hopefully teach you how to learn rather than just give you a finite set of skills. I went to university in the early 80s and pretty much none of the actual skills I learnt there (COBOL, FORTRAN, etc) are of any use to me know.
a) We take this seriously.
b) The terrorists are nasty people and they're doing this to you, not us.
c)Keep the whole War On Terror in your face. A scared citizen is a controllable citizen.
If they had the space and could get away with it, they would make everyone strip and get the Rubber Glove.
There are many people after this prize and you need to stand in line. To expedite processing please remove your shoes and place your keys and watch in the basket.
In your subject you used three 'o's: Wooosh and in the body only 2: Woosh. Please make up your mind.
OMG! I thought it might be a bug, but thankfully it's just a mistake!
It is somewhat sad that copyright (the legal muscle in GPL) only covers the writing of software. The testing and verification - which is often as important, if not more important has no legal protection. It is the testing, rather than the coding, that really adds the value in OSS.
My kids and I built a crystal set and made a cats whisker diode for it using some brass sheet, wire and a lump of galena (from the mineral & crystal shop). Also made a diode with a rusty razor blade and another with a lump of silicon. These didn't work as well as shop germanium diodes, but they still worked. Made our own variable capacitors using paper and tin foil too.
You can even build simple amplifiers etc using tunnel diodes: http://home.earthlink.net/~lenyr/ntype-nr.htm
To move Linux to GPL3 would require one of (a) tracking down every contributor and getting their OK or (b) starting from a clean GPL3 footing and getting GPL3 contributions.
The effort (cost) of doing this has insignificant upside, so it just won't happen.
Those that predicted that the PC would kill IT were wrong then, mainly beacuse the systems became more complex than simplified. It is possible for stuff to become simplified and then the IT department can be reduced. Perhaps never eliminated, but significantly reduced.
Likely the apology was a condition of some out of court agreement.
David Leblanc admitted to hospital with chair-induced head injuries.
Since when are googles head-up displays?
Competing in the search engine space just dilutes their effectiveness even more. Google currently links to Wikipedia and one might guess that a very large % of Wikipedia access comes via Google hits.
All the skills you need for anything like this are easy to learn or look up in Make.
Archaeologists have been using aerial photos almost forever. Google just makes these more accessable. Even flying over an area in a microlight helps show up details of old structures etc as variances in the way vegetation grows etc.
Besides, after a few hundred years wrecks don't look like anything from close up unless you really know what you're looking for.
Maggie was the PM with the biggest balls, but did she also manage to redraw boundaries in USA too?