Sorry, you need to think more creatively. I can think of several types of presentations that would benefit from even simple animation support: data flow diagrams (networking, software engineering), illustrating business processes (document workflow, budget approvals), and more that I could probably think of.
It would also be nice to know if the trojan is a universal binary. If not, maybe those of us still running PowerPC machines have a reason to keep using them.
I'm not referring to misdiagnosis, but rather situations where the medical staff (pre-op and post-op nurses), for example mark the wrong limb for amputation. Having the code would make it possible for systematic checks to occur (say, a bar code not matching the medical procedure listed in the patient's file.)
It may be an "unfunded mandate", but it will probably help eliminate thousands of medical errors (mistaken amputations, incorrect medicine given to patients, etc.)
It wasn't all that long ago when an entire newspaper was $0.25. Now just one comic strip is that much?/
You're comparing apples and oranges. A newspaper is 25 cents because of all of the advertising. To make a proper comparison, you'd have to know what price the newspaper would be sold at without adverstising.
In other words, 25 cents for a comic without adverstising sounds about right. If he sold advertising on his website, maybe he could sell
the comic for 2-3 cents, who knows...
I wonder if anyone else read the press release that Castle Technologies Ltd had Russell King post to lkml:
From the press release:
For the avoidance of doubt, the hardware abstraction layer (roughly
analogous to a PC's BIOS) has it's PCI allocation and bridge setup
based in part on the following functions from the Linux kernel sources...
Any company or individual wishing to receive a copy of the source code
to this component should apply in writing to:
The Managing Director
Castle Technology Ltd
Ore Trading Estate
Woodbridge Road
Framlingham
Suffolk
IP13 9LL
enclosing a formatted 3.5" floppy diskette and return postage stamps,
or international reply coupons for those outside the United Kingdom.
It looks like the HAL does use GPLed Linux code, and that they are, in fact, complying with the GPL by making the source available via postal delivery.
Was the title supposed to be a malapropism? I mean, cognitive (knowing, knowledge acquisition) and dissident (disagrees with status quo) together make it sound like Mr. Barlow is against established learning theories?!
I believe what you meant to say is "Cultural Dissident"; oh well, what do I know anyway...
Ghostscript
comes to mind; there are two separate licenses: the AFPL license requires a fee and is necessary if you are commerically distributing Ghostscript. If not distributing commerically, you can instead use the standard GPL license. The author has done very well for himself using this "dual license" model.
It makes me wonder.... Is this the same guy who thought all files should be arranged by association, instead of in a tree structure? That would just make things SLOPPY. I sure hope this Humane interface doesn't promote sloppiness!
"Association" doesn't have to mean "sloppiness." In fact, Hans Reiser, who designed the reiserfs filesystem, wrote an interesting paper which describes some of the virtues of associative organization of namespaces, as opposed to the traditional hierarchical organization (e.g. the Unix filesystem.)
Reiser's paper is very interesting, and IMO fits quite nicely with The Humane Environment's "no applications" paradigm. The focus then becomes the data (the stuff inside of documents), instead of the data access mechanism (applications manipulating documents.)
All of the packages have nothing to do with the point of the article: MS licensing will prevent financial institutions from using XP.
Not having worked at a credit union or bank, I don't know for sure, but I'd imagine that most of the software they use is custom; the cost then would be either porting the custome software to an alternative platform, or using software emulation to run the custom software on the alternative platform.
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Sorry, you need to think more creatively. I can think of several types of presentations that would benefit from even simple animation support: data flow diagrams (networking, software engineering), illustrating business processes (document workflow, budget approvals), and more that I could probably think of.
It would also be nice to know if the trojan is a universal binary. If not, maybe those of us still running PowerPC machines have a reason to keep using them.
I'm not referring to misdiagnosis, but rather situations where the medical staff (pre-op and post-op nurses), for example mark the wrong limb for amputation. Having the code would make it possible for systematic checks to occur (say, a bar code not matching the medical procedure listed in the patient's file.)
It may be an "unfunded mandate", but it will probably help eliminate thousands of medical errors (mistaken amputations, incorrect medicine given to patients, etc.)
You're comparing apples and oranges. A newspaper is 25 cents because of all of the advertising. To make a proper comparison, you'd have to know what price the newspaper would be sold at without adverstising. In other words, 25 cents for a comic without adverstising sounds about right. If he sold advertising on his website, maybe he could sell the comic for 2-3 cents, who knows...
From the press release:
It looks like the HAL does use GPLed Linux code, and that they are, in fact, complying with the GPL by making the source available via postal delivery.I believe what you meant to say is "Cultural Dissident"; oh well, what do I know anyway...
Ghostscript comes to mind; there are two separate licenses: the AFPL license requires a fee and is necessary if you are commerically distributing Ghostscript. If not distributing commerically, you can instead use the standard GPL license. The author has done very well for himself using this "dual license" model.
Reiser's paper is very interesting, and IMO fits quite nicely with The Humane Environment's "no applications" paradigm. The focus then becomes the data (the stuff inside of documents), instead of the data access mechanism (applications manipulating documents.)
All of the packages have nothing to do with the point of the article: MS licensing will prevent financial institutions from using XP. Not having worked at a credit union or bank, I don't know for sure, but I'd imagine that most of the software they use is custom; the cost then would be either porting the custome software to an alternative platform, or using software emulation to run the custom software on the alternative platform.