Single source OSs or anything else. If they manage to get it right, the perfect OS that satisfies every user, meets all of our needs. Then what happens? Does the world stagnate, or do they go ahead and produce something that may be totaly crap, and we are all locked in, so we all adopt the crap. No thanks, I like variety, choice, and options
I take this to mean that you like variety, choice and options, so long as they are all second-rate.
To put it another way: I don't know how the geeks successfully stands in the way of an OS becoming the standard --- baseline OS --- the dominant OS --- because it seems to meet everyone else's needs perfectly well.
If they hadn't gloated so much and took the proper precautions, they wouldn't have been found. Don't tell anyone, not even anyone on your team, who you are.
The ego the size of the planet.
If you are in it for the laughs you talk, you gloat.
I'm curious why people see this as so much worse than the police helicopters that have been in use for decades.
The use of aircraft in police work dates back to 1914.
1929 The Los Angeles Police create a part time unit using the aircraft of
citizens, In New York City the eleven year old voluntary unit is replaced by the
first known full time Air Service Division with its own aircraft [24 October].
The LAPD's jurisdiction covers 498 square miles (1,290 km2) with a population of 3,792,621 million people.
San Bernardino County has an area of 20,105.32 sq mi (52,072.5 km2). Roughly four times the size of the state of Connecticut. In some states, the county's role in law enforcement is little noticed, in other states it it looms very large.
Apple is attacking the consumer's expectation of software freedom.
The mass market consumer product can have tens of millions, hundreds of millions of users --- and in the case of the Windows PC, a billion or more users --- who quite clearly don't give a s***t about "software freedom" as the geek understands it.
I wonder how much of this cash will go to the real heroes i.e. upstream people like Debian? Canonical is just a reseller/ISV as they call them in the market.
But a "reseller" who is serious about OEM partnerships and mass market adoption --- with a distribution that accounts for most of what little market share Linux can plausibly claim as a desktop client OS.
If an OS is to be more than a purely intellectual exercise, then distribution --- building a critical mass of users --- is essential.
It is time to go back to a 13 year patent and 17 year copyright cycle, with a renewal of patent available only to a Natural Person (e.g. not a fictional Corporation) holding a patent for one period, and with copyright renewable only by the Natural Person who authored the work.
Say goodbye to the corporate research lab pioneered by Edison, Steinmetz, Westinghouse. How much of a debt does the geek owe to AT&T and Bell Labs, Xerox and PARC?
The geek doesn't like to see himself as a small part of some larger corporate entity.
But in the real world that is how the big jobs get done.
People should be free to seek happiness, even if the mechanism of doing so is self-destructive.
Tell me why I am obliged to hire people whose behavior is self-destructive. People whose behavior puts those around them at risk. People who put my business at risk. People who inflate the cost of employee benefits like health insurance.
Tell me why it makes a difference whether I am a public or private employer.
I know you think you're funny, but most people spend more than I do on the humble bundles (well, most linux users) so clearly there's a paying linux games market out there.
The average Linux donation for HB 6 was $10.47 --- for ten games or about 10% of retail list for the bundle. The total return from the Linux gamer somewhat better than 25% of the $2 million plus total --- call it $500,000 to be split among developers, charities, and the HB itself. The Humble Indie Bundle 6
The top contributor, Markus Persson, of "Minecraft" fame, donating $10,000.
There are real problems in using the promotional pricing of the indie Humble Bundle as evidence that the average Linux gamer will pay the full price for the first-run product.
Seems like laws and bills and crap should logically go through the Supreme Court *before* being enacted.. This passing laws which are unconstitutional and then having them in effect for years and years until they finally make it to be judged *while they are still enforcing them* seems pretty stupid from the whipped persons point of view.
"The life of the law is not logic it is experience." --- Holmes.
Limiting your decisions to "cases and controversies" has three great advantages:
The issues are framed by parties who are genuinely in conflict.
You get to see how see how "Separate but Equal " plays out in the real world.
Advisory opinions are to a court what papal infallibility is to a church. There is no graceful line of retreat. No legitimate way to reopen the debate. That is what made the Dred Scott decision so disastrous..
Give everyone meaningful, important and challenging work, so that their head is just above the water.
Clients aren't coming to your shop to pay homage to the geek by offering him meaningful employment and an intellectual challenge. They are out shopping for practical solutions for their own home or business.
Someone has to shovel the sludge.
The FOSS zealot may argue that his program has all the "essential" features of its commercial rivals --- meaning all the fun stuff to write is in there somewhere ---no matter how poorly he understands the needs of the end user. No matter that his UI sucks rocks and his help system is worthless.
And that's exactly how my Linux distro's work as well...
If a program isn't packaged for your distribution, how easy will be for anyone but the true blue Linux geek to install it --- or even to discover that it exists?
Ubuntu developers set as a goal:
"...there should be one obvious mechanism for installing, removing, and updating software in Ubuntu, with a self-evident name and an interface anyone can use. There should be a coordinated system for developers and enthusiasts to improve the usefulness of descriptions and other metadata for software packages. The software updates interface should be honed to maximize the voluntary installation of updates across the millions of computers on which Ubuntu is installed. And projects and vendors whose software is packaged for Ubuntu should be encouraged to provide links to their software's presence in the Software Store, instead of command-line installation instructions.
This reads equally well as a mission statement for the the Kindle, Android smartphone, Win 8 tablet, and the iOS mobile device.
It is only a half-step away from an admission that the "obvious" mechanism --- the increasingly familiar, easy to use and trusted app store --- is about to become the most significant --- perhaps the only significant --- distribution channel for computer software and services.
The Smithsonian used to be hard core, back when they were in the Arts and Industries building. The assumption was that visitors knew something about the subject and were there to see the historic original.
Placing technology in its historical and social context is part of the job of the modern museum.
I'm an indie game developer. I am boycotting Windows 8, including the x86 version expressly because of the ARM version.
iOS isn't up there -- It's dead to me.
I'll be blunt here and say that this isn't how the professional developer --- the for-profit enterprise --- looks at their potential markets.
The Linux developer who touts the convenience and safety of his distro's repository isn't in a position to complain when other operating systems move in the same direction.
The trusted OS-branded app store has become the norm in mobile.
The geek may side-load from other sources, but you are not going to pay the light bill and the rent serving that crowd. The numbers just aren't there.
How would you feel buying a new copy of WoW every time they changed the stats on an item? Nonsensical.
The hard-core sports gamer cares about rule changes, rosters, stats, authentically detailed uniforms, stadiums and so on. What he wants to do is to recreate the experience he has seen live or on TV.
I can believe that there is a bias among certain people, but I also know that studies were made that disputed the claim that women make less then men on average.
If you know these studies exist, why haven't you cited them?
Look at the assertions made here, which justify the mod up to +5.
As plausible as they may sound to an essentially male audience, neither are supported with any evidence.
Comparing workers of the same age in the same job fail because women take more time off in their careers to raise children and therefore have on average less work experience than men.
Comparing overall years of experience also fails because women work part time much more often than men.
I would bet if he had accidentally killed those two girls with his car, he would have gotten less jail time.
It is a bet you might very well lose:
Sentencing
A person convicted of causing death by dangerous driving is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years. Disqualification for a minimum of two years is obligatory on conviction. Endorsement is obligatory on conviction. The offense carries three to eleven penalty points (when the defendant is exceptionally not disqualified).
The Court of Appeal in R v Cooksley and others gave guidelines for cases where death is caused by dangerous driving. In R v Richardson the Court of Appeal reassessed the starting point set out in R v Cooksley taking into consideration the increase in the maximum penalty. The relevant starting points identified in Cooksley should be reassessed as follows:
i) No aggravating circumstances --- twelve months to two years' imprisonment (previously 18 months); ii) Intermediate culpability --- two to four and a half years' imprisonment (previously 3 years); iii) Higher culpability --- four and a half to seven years' imprisonment (previously 5 years); iv) Most serious culpability --- seven to fourteen years' imprisonment (previous starting point of 6 years).
Slashdot Mirror
Single source OSs or anything else. If they manage to get it right, the perfect OS that satisfies every user, meets all of our needs. Then what happens? Does the world stagnate, or do they go ahead and produce something that may be totaly crap, and we are all locked in, so we all adopt the crap. No thanks, I like variety, choice, and options
I take this to mean that you like variety, choice and options, so long as they are all second-rate.
To put it another way: I don't know how the geeks successfully stands in the way of an OS becoming the standard --- baseline OS --- the dominant OS --- because it seems to meet everyone else's needs perfectly well.
If they hadn't gloated so much and took the proper precautions, they wouldn't have been found. Don't tell anyone, not even anyone on your team, who you are.
The ego the size of the planet.
If you are in it for the laughs you talk, you gloat.
I'm curious why people see this as so much worse than the police helicopters that have been in use for decades.
The use of aircraft in police work dates back to 1914.
1929 The Los Angeles Police create a part time unit using the aircraft of citizens, In New York City the eleven year old voluntary unit is replaced by the first known full time Air Service Division with its own aircraft [24 October].
Police Aviation - a chronology
The geek has little sense of geography.
The LAPD's jurisdiction covers 498 square miles (1,290 km2) with a population of 3,792,621 million people.
San Bernardino County has an area of 20,105.32 sq mi (52,072.5 km2). Roughly four times the size of the state of Connecticut. In some states, the county's role in law enforcement is little noticed, in other states it it looms very large.
The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov is and will always be my favorite series of books.
The future defined by back stage manipulators answerable to no one. Not my cup of tea.
To understand the richness and power of the English language you need to know both Shakespeare and the King James Bible.
Re-discover American pulp fiction.
Here are three mammoth, affordable, 1,000+ page paperback anthologies to get you started, all edited by Otto Penzler:
The Big Book of Adventure Stories
The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps
The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories
History as narrative.
Francis Parkman : France and England in North America {2 vols)
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
The Guns of August and The Proud Tower
A.J. Liebling: World War II Writings
Adler
How To Read A Book
How To Speak and How To Listen
I am writing a video game by myself. I don't have money to pay a lawyer for a EULA.
But you can afford all the hardware and services required to develop and distribute your Indie production?
Have you taken into account all other possible legal issues?
The one-man-band is rare.
The guy who is equally adept at game design and programming, art and animation. Music and sound. Vocal performance... and so on, endlessly.
Somewhere along the way you are going to need help with your project..
You need to be thinking about property rights, performance rights, about contacts.
Apple is attacking the consumer's expectation of software freedom.
The mass market consumer product can have tens of millions, hundreds of millions of users --- and in the case of the Windows PC, a billion or more users --- who quite clearly don't give a s***t about "software freedom" as the geek understands it.
I don't need to memorize *everything* - now I only need to know how to find the answers I need.
That is not as easy as it sounds.
First you need to know whether you are asking the right question and second you need to know whether or not you have found the right answer.
I wonder how much of this cash will go to the real heroes i.e. upstream people like Debian? Canonical is just a reseller/ISV as they call them in the market.
But a "reseller" who is serious about OEM partnerships and mass market adoption --- with a distribution that accounts for most of what little market share Linux can plausibly claim as a desktop client OS.
If an OS is to be more than a purely intellectual exercise, then distribution --- building a critical mass of users --- is essential.
It is time to go back to a 13 year patent and 17 year copyright cycle, with a renewal of patent available only to a Natural Person (e.g. not a fictional Corporation) holding a patent for one period, and with copyright renewable only by the Natural Person who authored the work.
Say goodbye to the corporate research lab pioneered by Edison, Steinmetz, Westinghouse. How much of a debt does the geek owe to AT&T and Bell Labs, Xerox and PARC?
The geek doesn't like to see himself as a small part of some larger corporate entity.
But in the real world that is how the big jobs get done.
Mesa is an open-source implementation of the OpenGL specification - a system for rendering interactive 3D graphics.
The Mesa 3D Graphics Library
In this situation, the employer is happy, because insurance rates are low, and the employee gets screwed.
He signed the papers.
Insurance at rates available only to non-smokers. That was the deal.
He lied. He got caught.
If he wants someone to blame for his woes he only has to look in a mirror.
People should be free to seek happiness, even if the mechanism of doing so is self-destructive.
Tell me why I am obliged to hire people whose behavior is self-destructive. People whose behavior puts those around them at risk. People who put my business at risk. People who inflate the cost of employee benefits like health insurance.
Tell me why it makes a difference whether I am a public or private employer.
I know you think you're funny, but most people spend more than I do on the humble bundles (well, most linux users) so clearly there's a paying linux games market out there.
The average Linux donation for HB 6 was $10.47 --- for ten games or about 10% of retail list for the bundle. The total return from the Linux gamer somewhat better than 25% of the $2 million plus total --- call it $500,000 to be split among developers, charities, and the HB itself. The Humble Indie Bundle 6
The top contributor, Markus Persson, of "Minecraft" fame, donating $10,000.
There are real problems in using the promotional pricing of the indie Humble Bundle as evidence that the average Linux gamer will pay the full price for the first-run product.
Seems like laws and bills and crap should logically go through the Supreme Court *before* being enacted.. This passing laws which are unconstitutional and then having them in effect for years and years until they finally make it to be judged *while they are still enforcing them* seems pretty stupid from the whipped persons point of view.
"The life of the law is not logic it is experience." --- Holmes.
Limiting your decisions to "cases and controversies" has three great advantages:
The issues are framed by parties who are genuinely in conflict.
You get to see how see how "Separate but Equal " plays out in the real world.
Advisory opinions are to a court what papal infallibility is to a church. There is no graceful line of retreat. No legitimate way to reopen the debate. That is what made the Dred Scott decision so disastrous..
1) It's not based on anything
Well, neither are any of the major currencies, especially the dollar.
The value of the dollar is based on economic and political reality.
The US has a $15 to $17 trillion dollar GDP, depending on how you measure these things. List of countries by GDP (nominal)
The US has land, material resources, and a population of 311 million.
It remains the world's dominant military power,
Unemployment rate 8%.
For Greece and Spain, the unemployment rate is 25%.
The US is politically and socially stable, center-right, by any reasonable definition.
The EU is close to fracture.
Give everyone meaningful, important and challenging work, so that their head is just above the water.
Clients aren't coming to your shop to pay homage to the geek by offering him meaningful employment and an intellectual challenge. They are out shopping for practical solutions for their own home or business.
Someone has to shovel the sludge.
The FOSS zealot may argue that his program has all the "essential" features of its commercial rivals --- meaning all the fun stuff to write is in there somewhere ---no matter how poorly he understands the needs of the end user. No matter that his UI sucks rocks and his help system is worthless.
The Powerpoint presentation:
Meteorological Aids Spectrum Issues
It comes down to this:
Radiosonde transmitters operate in a hostile environment, with strict limits on weight, power and so on.
Most will never be recovered or reused.
Keep it simple.
Keep it affordable.
And that's exactly how my Linux distro's work as well ...
If a program isn't packaged for your distribution, how easy will be for anyone but the true blue Linux geek to install it --- or even to discover that it exists?
Ubuntu developers set as a goal:
"...there should be one obvious mechanism for installing, removing, and updating software in Ubuntu, with a self-evident name and an interface anyone can use. There should be a coordinated system for developers and enthusiasts to improve the usefulness of descriptions and other metadata for software packages. The software updates interface should be honed to maximize the voluntary installation of updates across the millions of computers on which Ubuntu is installed. And projects and vendors whose software is packaged for Ubuntu should be encouraged to provide links to their software's presence in the Software Store, instead of command-line installation instructions.
Ubuntu Software Center
This reads equally well as a mission statement for the the Kindle, Android smartphone, Win 8 tablet, and the iOS mobile device.
It is only a half-step away from an admission that the "obvious" mechanism --- the increasingly familiar, easy to use and trusted app store --- is about to become the most significant --- perhaps the only significant --- distribution channel for computer software and services.
The Smithsonian used to be hard core, back when they were in the Arts and Industries building. The assumption was that visitors knew something about the subject and were there to see the historic original.
Placing technology in its historical and social context is part of the job of the modern museum.
Rosa Parks Bus. Driving America
How much can you learn from a static display ---- how much more from the dynamic?
John Bull: Riding the Rails
I'm an indie game developer. I am boycotting Windows 8, including the x86 version expressly because of the ARM version.
iOS isn't up there -- It's dead to me.
I'll be blunt here and say that this isn't how the professional developer --- the for-profit enterprise --- looks at their potential markets.
The Linux developer who touts the convenience and safety of his distro's repository isn't in a position to complain when other operating systems move in the same direction.
The trusted OS-branded app store has become the norm in mobile.
The geek may side-load from other sources, but you are not going to pay the light bill and the rent serving that crowd. The numbers just aren't there.
How would you feel buying a new copy of WoW every time they changed the stats on an item? Nonsensical.
The hard-core sports gamer cares about rule changes, rosters, stats, authentically detailed uniforms, stadiums and so on. What he wants to do is to recreate the experience he has seen live or on TV.
Neither parent quoted any studies..
Science faculty's subtle gender biases favor male students
Full text and supporting data "Free via Open Access."
I can believe that there is a bias among certain people, but I also know that studies were made that disputed the claim that women make less then men on average.
If you know these studies exist, why haven't you cited them?
Look at the assertions made here, which justify the mod up to +5.
As plausible as they may sound to an essentially male audience, neither are supported with any evidence.
Comparing workers of the same age in the same job fail because women take more time off in their careers to raise children and therefore have on average less work experience than men.
Comparing overall years of experience also fails because women work part time much more often than men.
I would bet if he had accidentally killed those two girls with his car, he would have gotten less jail time.
It is a bet you might very well lose:
Sentencing
A person convicted of causing death by dangerous driving is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years. Disqualification for a minimum of two years is obligatory on conviction. Endorsement is obligatory on conviction. The offense carries three to eleven penalty points (when the defendant is exceptionally not disqualified).
The Court of Appeal in R v Cooksley and others gave guidelines for cases where death is caused by dangerous driving. In R v Richardson the Court of Appeal reassessed the starting point set out in R v Cooksley taking into consideration the increase in the maximum penalty. The relevant starting points identified in Cooksley should be reassessed as follows:
i) No aggravating circumstances --- twelve months to two years' imprisonment (previously 18 months);
ii) Intermediate culpability --- two to four and a half years' imprisonment (previously 3 years);
iii) Higher culpability --- four and a half to seven years' imprisonment (previously 5 years);
iv) Most serious culpability --- seven to fourteen years' imprisonment (previous starting point of 6 years).
Causing death by dangerous driving