A programmer is at home, and tells his wife: "Hey, going out to grab some bread. Anything you need ?". She replies: "Oh, yes, if they have eggs please bring 6". So he goes, and returns after a short while with 6 freshly made bread. She asks "Why did you bring 6 bread ? We're only two.". And he replies "They had eggs".
I fail to see why you claim RSS is decentralized. Every feed is fetched from a single source (as an XML file if I recall well), and as such is subject to the publisher rules.
I could not agree more with all you said. Thanks for the added information, it's rather helpful coming from a long-time (like me, 31 years) smoker, although I did smoke much more than you, mostly hand-rolled tobbaco, but more close to 2-3 packs a day - about 25g/day.
I make my own vaping fluid. It's composed of "pure" VG (VEGETABLE GLYCERIN) and "PG" (PROPYLENE GLYCOL), with added Nicotine and some flavours. PG, VG and nicotine come from reliable, trusted sources, and have no additives whatsoever. Aroma is more complex, but you can live without it if you do not trust its components, although most are at least accepted as food addictives, so should be safe.
To be honest, the way they put it really looks like they are funded by the Big Guys.
All I can say is for the last two months or so I feel much more healthy, no more morning coughs, I already reduced my nicotine intake for more than 50%. I tend to vape a lot, though, but as long as my sources do not lie about the base components (VG and PG) I should be way safer.
There are no such things as "addictives", unless they mean aroma. And again, those, if coming from a reliable, trusted source, should be safe.
IT industry favors low-cost instead of high-cost. It has nothing to do with age. It's money talk.
Experienced technicians and engineers are costly, but may well prove cheaper if job requires high specialization, know-how and fast deployment of solutions.
It's not like senior staff does not adapt to new techs. It does, and it does it well, but at a higher cost (and overall quality is much higher too).
Move the entire world to the DHL approach: cars can only turn right, never left (swap for left-driving countries). And voilá, your problem is solved without the need for roundabouts or traffic lights.
First, let me try to shed some light on what "hardware project" is, comparing it to a "software project". But before that, let me introduce myself, and introduce what I do in regards to Open Source, and my still active projects.
I am the author of ZPUino, which is a SoC (System on a Chip) targeted at FPGAs although it can be built on an ASIC. ZPU (Zylin CPU [1], which is the "core" of ZPUino) was not designed by me, in terms of its ISA (Instruction Set Architecture). The ZPU core inside ZPUino is however much different from the original ZPU, featuring a fully pipelined design and yielding very very good performance, whilst maintaining the "small" footprint as originaly designed. It would not be possible to design, implement and "ship" this version of ZPU unless Zylin had a highly permissive license - BSD.
ZPUino merges this enhanced ZPU core (ZPU Extreme core, written by me) with a huge set of devices, as commonly seen in a SoC. So we have, as open-source hardware: UART SPI Timers Interrupt LED HDMI VGA I2C, Memory SRAM SDRAM DDR plus many other eccentric controllers you cannot find in regular SoCs like those in rPI. All those are Open-Source, and the HW design is released on BSD license - so anyone can benefit from them even without giving back. [sorry for lack of commas, the lame filter kicked in]
This is a hardware project. The designs are hardware designs, and despite being written in VHDL, does not make it software. You can not say that, since it's not a printed circuit board, and no wires to see, that it is not a hardware project. Hardware projects describe hardware primitives and interconnections.
Still, they are described using languages, much similar to how software is (for example, VHDL is very close to ADA, which is still widely used in the space industry). PCBs, schematics, can also be described in languages (think EDIF) - as well as their outputs (thing GERBER and DRILL). So there is no much difference between software and hardware here.
Now, back to the "cloning" topic: someone said "chinese clone them all, does not need to be open source" - and this is correct. Your design is not protected just because you did not open it. If you require protection, seek patents and trademarks. And if someone massively clones your HW and SW, you're a hell of a lucky guy you made something people want (cause it does sell, otherwise no one would clone it), you just seem to miss the target price point.
Plus, you can for sure give added value from buying the original product. Arduino (they seem to have reach an agreement today) sells their own HW at 20x price you can buy from china. Still they do sell, and they are not bothered by it - it is expected.
If you want to go open, go open and they clone. If you want to close it, they will open it and clone. How can you benefit from all those clones ? That's the big question.
Although you have a point on RTL, much more is needed to deliver a RTL design to chip level. And most of those designs are also fab-dependant - a 24nm bulk to be manufactured at let's say TSMC is different from a 24nm bulk at Samsung.
There is not much difference between analog and digital here. Unless your plan is to use an FPGA for the digital part - but even there, your luck may vary depending on the FPGA manufacturer and tools.
> Only a moron will design an Operating system that automatically runs software on a USB stick.
Sorry ?
Lots of USB/driver vulnerabilities can be triggered without running "software" on the USB host (PC), in case you don't know. USB stack is quite complex (and the drivers above it even more), so even without the ability of "autorun" on USB mass storage devices, the USB devices (usually non-mass-storage) can inflict potential, severe damage to the target computers.
I can crash many computers (most Windows actually) with a simple USB device running on a cheap Arduino. I can crash many apps in Linux (eventually kernel, too) the same way. All crashes may allow to run code on the target computer, often with high privileges. Read : "may". Not stating that it is possible, but might be possible indeed - many factors influence this.
All without a single executable on the USB device. All without any filesystem on USB device. Just an USB device.
Or did you forget it was destroyed by the Vogons ? The supposed highway is just a bit delayed, that's why you don't see it. Takes some time in cosmological units.
Indeed. My point was that despite being considered "tiny", you have to contextualize it. It's tiny if it's a single event (well it's rather big even for a single event), it's huge if such errors accumulate.
"(...) reported a deviation of 13.7 microseconds. While this is tiny (...)"
Tiny ? It's huge.
If such an error occurs every hour, the total accumulated error would be more than 7 seconds. It's tiny if you look at it individually (well, not so tiny - your 2GHz CPU clock has a period of 500ps (picosseconds) - that's 0.0000005 microseconds).
The atomic clock period (based on Cs-133) is 108.78278 picosseconds. So this is very very large.
Back in ol' good late nineties, I used mostly Pine. Most our servers were either DEC or Sun, and connected through serial ports or telnet. That meant you had same client and behaviour independenly on where you were.
Then email GUI clients appeared. Most of them were quite bad. I still recall using Pegasus and Eudora. I stook to Eudora at the time.
Eudora then evolved, went open-source, and eventually became Thunderbird. Which I use (actually, I use Icedove, but it's the same app).
And each time I have to use Outlook I wish I could just shoot myself. That's no email client - that's a huge mess of a bad product which evolved in the wrong direction - still is not able to do anything right.
I see Thunderbird split from main Mozilla web browser (this is what it's at stake here) as a good thing. Perhaps now they can evolve Thunderbird without sticking to everything-is-a-browser paradigm.
Or I'll eventually go back to Pine. Or implement my own mail client (not as hard as you may believe).
All started with arrest of a young man at school for a hand-made, digital clock brought to school. Ended up not being that hand-made, was just some reassembly of some parts. Not much interesting, actually.
It caught attention due to alledged racism or religion issues (still to be confirmed?). Even the White House and President of USA have spoken on behalf of this young, intelligent man.
Which apparently was not that intelligent, techically speaking.
And now he seeks damages of, what ? 15 million ? I would agree if he'd seek for 5 to 10K. But even then, after all publicity he got around him, probably not so much.
There's a word for what he (his family) is seeking. The word is "extorsion".
He had it (a plausible reason). He lost it. Nohing more to see here, really.
" Col Patrick Ryder, a spokesman for US Central Command, said the Russian air strikes in recent days targeted more IS areas, including the group's oil infrastructure.
But he added that "the majority of Russian air strikes are still against moderate Syrian opposition forces, which is clearly concerning, and those strikes are in support of the Syrian regime" of President Bashar al-Assad. "
Perhaps due to US distance from Europe and from Daesh movement can explain your words. Otherwise your words make no sense at all, and can be offensive to Russians who believe they are fighting the bad guys, despite supporting Bashar al-Assad.
Do not mistake Daesh for the Syrian regime. Daesh happens to be most active in Syria, but it is also active in other countries (and some with recent US "enforced" control like Iraq)
Vladimir Putin is not supporting them, he's fighting them on behalf of al-Assad - so we all share a common enemy here.
Now, if you say we shoud not be supporting al-Assad at all, you are right - and I can fully agree with you. But you are not understanding what's at stake here, and what role is played by each party. Stating "What could he have told Putin which, when relayed to ISIS, helped them organize the massacre?" as you did just makes you look ignorant on the eyes of those many who have to fight daesh and secure their borders as best as they can, while offering a safe shelter to those running away from the conflict.
Best.
Disclaimer: I am not Russian, nor am I fond of Russian government.
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QMMP is more close to Winamp than Spin. And works very well in my opinion.
And it's open-source and cross-platform.
http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/
Not IT, still it fits:
A programmer is at home, and tells his wife: "Hey, going out to grab some bread. Anything you need ?". She replies: "Oh, yes, if they have eggs please bring 6". So he goes, and returns after a short while with 6 freshly made bread.
She asks "Why did you bring 6 bread ? We're only two.". And he replies "They had eggs".
I fail to see why you claim RSS is decentralized. Every feed is fetched from a single source (as an XML file if I recall well), and as such is subject to the publisher rules.
Care to elaborate a bit more ?
Alvie
Who said it was safe ? No one said it was safe, as far as I can tell. Obviously, it's not safe. Air (with its pollutants) is not safe as well.
You can find some info here about the base components of the vaping fluid:
https://www.drugs.com/inactive...
http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-...
Alvie
I could not agree more with all you said. Thanks for the added information, it's rather helpful coming from a long-time (like me, 31 years) smoker, although I did smoke much more than you, mostly hand-rolled tobbaco, but more close to 2-3 packs a day - about 25g/day.
Alvie
Vaper here. For about 3 months now.
I make my own vaping fluid. It's composed of "pure" VG (VEGETABLE GLYCERIN) and "PG" (PROPYLENE GLYCOL), with added Nicotine and some flavours. PG, VG and nicotine come from reliable, trusted sources, and have no additives whatsoever. Aroma is more complex, but you can live without it if you do not trust its components, although most are at least accepted as food addictives, so should be safe.
To be honest, the way they put it really looks like they are funded by the Big Guys.
All I can say is for the last two months or so I feel much more healthy, no more morning coughs, I already reduced my nicotine intake for more than 50%. I tend to vape a lot, though, but as long as my sources do not lie about the base components (VG and PG) I should be way safer.
There are no such things as "addictives", unless they mean aroma. And again, those, if coming from a reliable, trusted source, should be safe.
Alvie
IT industry favors low-cost instead of high-cost. It has nothing to do with age. It's money talk.
Experienced technicians and engineers are costly, but may well prove cheaper if job requires high specialization, know-how and fast deployment of solutions.
It's not like senior staff does not adapt to new techs. It does, and it does it well, but at a higher cost (and overall quality is much higher too).
Alvie
Move the entire world to the DHL approach: cars can only turn right, never left (swap for left-driving countries). And voilá, your problem is solved without the need for roundabouts or traffic lights.
Mods, please +1 parent :)
And there is indeed a typo: I should have written "The sixth most spoken language".
If you are not a native, chances are you never heard it. Note that it's not an official Portuguese word.
Some references:
http://www.publico.pt/destaque...
http://invisiblehand.blogs.sap...
http://visao.sapo.pt/actualida...
http://www.jornaldenegocios.pt...
"and "nim" doesn't mean ANYTHING in Portuguese anyway."
It does. You are not Portuguese, otherwise you'd knew.
And, as a matter of fact, "Portuguese" is not an Obscure Language. It's the sixt more spoken language in the world.
Sorry about that.
Nim (*).
We are The Knights Who Say "Ni!".
(*) In Portuguese, "Nim" can be seen as a hybrid of "no" [Não], and "yes" [Sim]. Often used to express "I could, but I won't".
Flash is dead.
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
First, let me try to shed some light on what "hardware project" is, comparing it to a "software project". But before that, let me introduce myself, and introduce what I do in regards to Open Source, and my still active projects.
I am the author of ZPUino, which is a SoC (System on a Chip) targeted at FPGAs although it can be built on an ASIC. ZPU (Zylin CPU [1], which is the "core" of ZPUino) was not designed by me, in terms of its ISA (Instruction Set Architecture). The ZPU core inside ZPUino is however much different from the original ZPU, featuring a fully pipelined design and yielding very very good performance, whilst maintaining the "small" footprint as originaly designed. It would not be possible to design, implement and "ship" this version of ZPU unless Zylin had a highly permissive license - BSD.
ZPUino merges this enhanced ZPU core (ZPU Extreme core, written by me) with a huge set of devices, as commonly seen in a SoC. So we have, as open-source hardware: UART SPI Timers Interrupt LED HDMI VGA I2C, Memory SRAM SDRAM DDR plus many other eccentric controllers you cannot find in regular SoCs like those in rPI. All those are Open-Source, and the HW design is released on BSD license - so anyone can benefit from them even without giving back. [sorry for lack of commas, the lame filter kicked in]
This is a hardware project. The designs are hardware designs, and despite being written in VHDL, does not make it software. You can not say that, since it's not a printed circuit board, and no wires to see, that it is not a hardware project. Hardware projects describe hardware primitives and interconnections.
Still, they are described using languages, much similar to how software is (for example, VHDL is very close to ADA, which is still widely used in the space industry). PCBs, schematics, can also be described in languages (think EDIF) - as well as their outputs (thing GERBER and DRILL). So there is no much difference between software and hardware here.
Now, back to the "cloning" topic: someone said "chinese clone them all, does not need to be open source" - and this is correct. Your design is not protected just because you did not open it. If you require protection, seek patents and trademarks. And if someone massively clones your HW and SW, you're a hell of a lucky guy you made something people want (cause it does sell, otherwise no one would clone it), you just seem to miss the target price point.
Plus, you can for sure give added value from buying the original product. Arduino (they seem to have reach an agreement today) sells their own HW at 20x price you can buy from china. Still they do sell, and they are not bothered by it - it is expected.
If you want to go open, go open and they clone. If you want to close it, they will open it and clone. How can you benefit from all those clones ? That's the big question.
Alvie
Although you have a point on RTL, much more is needed to deliver a RTL design to chip level. And most of those designs are also fab-dependant - a 24nm bulk to be manufactured at let's say TSMC is different from a 24nm bulk at Samsung.
There is not much difference between analog and digital here. Unless your plan is to use an FPGA for the digital part - but even there, your luck may vary depending on the FPGA manufacturer and tools.
Alvie
> Only a moron will design an Operating system that automatically runs software on a USB stick.
Sorry ?
Lots of USB/driver vulnerabilities can be triggered without running "software" on the USB host (PC), in case you don't know. USB stack is quite complex (and the drivers above it even more), so even without the ability of "autorun" on USB mass storage devices, the USB devices (usually non-mass-storage) can inflict potential, severe damage to the target computers.
I can crash many computers (most Windows actually) with a simple USB device running on a cheap Arduino. I can crash many apps in Linux (eventually kernel, too) the same way. All crashes may allow to run code on the target computer, often with high privileges. Read : "may". Not stating that it is possible, but might be possible indeed - many factors influence this.
All without a single executable on the USB device.
All without any filesystem on USB device.
Just an USB device.
He is correct, Earth does not exist.
Or did you forget it was destroyed by the Vogons ? The supposed highway is just a bit delayed, that's why you don't see it. Takes some time in cosmological units.
Absultely right. Thanks for the correction. Too many zeroes too keep track of.
Indeed. My point was that despite being considered "tiny", you have to contextualize it. It's tiny if it's a single event (well it's rather big even for a single event), it's huge if such errors accumulate.
"(...) reported a deviation of 13.7 microseconds. While this is tiny (...)"
Tiny ? It's huge.
If such an error occurs every hour, the total accumulated error would be more than 7 seconds. It's tiny if you look at it individually (well, not so tiny - your 2GHz CPU clock has a period of 500ps (picosseconds) - that's 0.0000005 microseconds).
The atomic clock period (based on Cs-133) is 108.78278 picosseconds. So this is very very large.
Alvie
Back in ol' good late nineties, I used mostly Pine. Most our servers were either DEC or Sun, and connected through serial ports or telnet. That meant you had same client and behaviour independenly on where you were.
Then email GUI clients appeared. Most of them were quite bad. I still recall using Pegasus and Eudora. I stook to Eudora at the time.
Eudora then evolved, went open-source, and eventually became Thunderbird. Which I use (actually, I use Icedove, but it's the same app).
And each time I have to use Outlook I wish I could just shoot myself. That's no email client - that's a huge mess of a bad product which evolved in the wrong direction - still is not able to do anything right.
I see Thunderbird split from main Mozilla web browser (this is what it's at stake here) as a good thing. Perhaps now they can evolve Thunderbird without sticking to everything-is-a-browser paradigm.
Or I'll eventually go back to Pine. Or implement my own mail client (not as hard as you may believe).
Alvie
All started with arrest of a young man at school for a hand-made, digital clock brought to school. Ended up not being that hand-made, was just some reassembly of some parts. Not much interesting, actually.
It caught attention due to alledged racism or religion issues (still to be confirmed?). Even the White House and President of USA have spoken on behalf of this young, intelligent man.
Which apparently was not that intelligent, techically speaking.
And now he seeks damages of, what ? 15 million ?
I would agree if he'd seek for 5 to 10K. But even then, after all publicity he got around him, probably not so much.
There's a word for what he (his family) is seeking. The word is "extorsion".
He had it (a plausible reason). He lost it. Nohing more to see here, really.
" Col Patrick Ryder, a spokesman for US Central Command, said the Russian air strikes in recent days targeted more IS areas, including the group's oil infrastructure.
But he added that "the majority of Russian air strikes are still against moderate Syrian opposition forces, which is clearly concerning, and those strikes are in support of the Syrian regime" of President Bashar al-Assad. "
Sorry, /. seems to be eating parts of my posts.
Quoting http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
>
Perhaps due to US distance from Europe and from Daesh movement can explain your words. Otherwise your words make no sense at all, and can be offensive to Russians who believe they are fighting the bad guys, despite supporting Bashar al-Assad.
Do not mistake Daesh for the Syrian regime. Daesh happens to be most active in Syria, but it is also active in other countries (and some with recent US "enforced" control like Iraq)
Vladimir Putin is not supporting them, he's fighting them on behalf of al-Assad - so we all share a common enemy here.
Now, if you say we shoud not be supporting al-Assad at all, you are right - and I can fully agree with you. But you are not understanding what's at stake here, and what role is played by each party. Stating "What could he have told Putin which, when relayed to ISIS, helped them organize the massacre?" as you did just makes you look ignorant on the eyes of those many who have to fight daesh and secure their borders as best as they can, while offering a safe shelter to those running away from the conflict.
Best.
Disclaimer: I am not Russian, nor am I fond of Russian government.