What is the objective of the new license? Why don't any existing licences meet that objective? It's not really clear to me why any open source project can't settle for GPL, LGPL or BSD. Thus I ask, what are the objectives that are not met by these.
This is why the OS needs to support animated wall paper. Then you can have your desktop continually updated with images of the sun. If even just the folks at NASA did this it might provide adequate monitoring for 8 hours a day. A screen saver could be nice too - I wonder which would get seen more often...
Eating less WILL cause weight loss. I always believed this and got the proof when gastric bypass surgery became all the rage. If you reduce the size of a persons stomach so they can't eat as much, or remove part so they can't metabolise as much, they lose weight plain and simple. It's also a fact of physics. Now I'll agree that it can be very challenging to do and in that sense it's not simple - sorry if that's what you meant. But I've heard all the thyroid-this and metabolism-that, and in the end chopping out part of the gut causes weight loss.
It could be software, it could even be hardware. Whatever drives the pedal to the floor is probably driven by a MOSFET. If proper FMEA isn't done people will overlook that a failed-short condition might pull the pedal down. I once worked at a company where I pointed out something similar but much less likely to cause problems and was greeted with anger. Another concern I had, they just didn't see how it related to safety - it was like talking to a rock. I've also worked at places that poured rather large amounts of money into investigating failure modes where the outcome was uncertain. As a personal non-scientific observation, the OEMs take safety seriously and so do some tier-1 suppliers, but it gets worse the farther down the food chain you go. People are human and can make mistakes - and that's why the industry does LOTs of testing on real vehicles.
As someone who has occasionally been a critic of some of your bloggings, I must say Good Job !! It was always clear to me that the first cases in this area MUST be won, else we have unfortunate precedents.
You're actually trying to argue that using a new codec on YouTube makes no sense for Google? Then why did they spend a hundred million dollars for it? Please tell us.
If it were my daughter's computer, I would not be talking about a class-action suit with a civil attorney. I would be sitting down at police HQ and the district attorney's office pursuing criminal charges against the individuals involved.
So if the local officials at the schools are misbehaving, you'd go to the local officials down the street to complain? I think a civil case is better, once the misconduct is documented in court you can still involve the authorities. OTOH there is a chance that local politics could influence a criminal investigation. Their lawyer is personally motivated by profit in addition to any other motivations (s)he may have.
Strangely, killing our fellow man is acceptable under several circumstances here, but marrying our fellow man is illegal under any, because it doesn't.. promote.. population growth?
Actually, it does. Encouraging those type of relationships keeps those folks from getting into sexless conventional relationships with straight people who might otherwise reproduce. i.e. more women for the rest of us.
We shouldn't have to hide our information, people should just respect each other enough not to steal their stuff.
We don't have to *hide* our information, but we should not broadcast it to the entire world either. You can tell your family and (hopefully) friends when you're going on vacation but you don't want to tell criminals that too. Face it, nobody outside the family and a few friends gives a shit when you're going away, so why do people feel the need to tell the whole world? Let's all post information that nobody but criminals really cares about.
people should just respect each other enough not to steal their stuff.
Nice idea, tell me when we get there. In the mean time, piece of iron went missing from my office - a relic from a past job, but someone else must have thought it looked interesting too. Yep, even the people you work with...
there is no denying that we as a species pump way too much crap into our atmosphere
Says who? You? There is evidence that the increased CO2 levels help plants grow. What's too much? The claim is that it's causing warming and ice melting - which is in doubt. In fact there is evidence that sea levels rose significantly above where they are now in previous inter-glacial periods. There is really no evidence that our CO2 production is changing anything. If you want see mans effect on the weather, read about the daily temperature variation when air traffic is stopped then tell me how you separate these effects from other claimed temperature changes of lesser amounts.
I'm no longer a believer either, I applaud Utah for their message - if not the presentation.
Actually, I write traction motor control software for a living. I'm a little more qualified to talk about electric vehicle tech than some Ph.D. trying to get grant money. The funny thing about slashdot is that it's a mix of total morons and highly competent people. In this instance, it doesn't take much competence to see the flaws.
You can't do shit with 12 volts. Hybrid cars use at least 150V, and electric cars (which I'm working on at this very moment) will be using 200-400V batteries (depends on the application). Voltage conversion is roughly 90-95 percent efficient, so throw away 10 percent of your range right there. However, we typically convert the high voltage down to run the low power stuff. If you wanted to do a 12V car and wanted to get 100kW you'd need over 8000 Amps DC. And yes, we're running motors around 110kW as traction motors plus or minus 30 percent (I'm not telling). One horsepower = 746 Watts, but I just figure 0.75kW.
Car batteries want to be 200 to 300 volts. This is achieved by stringing a bunch of cells together in series. If body panel or structural member is a cell, connecting in series will be difficult if not impossible. If parts were made from layers of material (i.e. cells in series within a body panel) then you've got this relatively thin 300V battery on the outside of the car waiting to make contact with stuff in a crash. Normally batteries are kept inside a strong box with a relay to disconnect from the outside when the car is off or in a crash. They try to protect the battery from damage too, by putting it down the middle, or between the rear wheels. Unless you're Tesla, this sounds like an infeasible ideal.
I prefer your funny and sarcastic comment:-) I was going to post the logical: There may be unexpected mechanisms (including mutations) that might unintentionally trigger the kill switch. Given some chance of triggering it, a life form without it is by definition more fit and darwin will select those without it (or with it damaged). This may actually be a nice lab experiment in evolutionary biology.
1.17 Billion transistors. Anyone remember the 6502, the 6800, and then the 68000? 68K transistors was a LOT in 1980 and made for a fantastic 32bit architecture. Now we're at 17000 times that count. Sometime you just have to stop for a moment and think just about the numbers.
But the people in the bar are "viewing" the program, too! Well, unfortunately, they're ok, but the person redistributing the program to them is not, because the transmission contains an explicit copyright limitation against his action.
No. You don't get to make rules by broadcasting them. Either the law says it's OK, or it's not. I'm not sure what it says, just arguing that it's silly to claim a right to restrict something that literally anyone could watch anyway.
Well, unfortunately for your logic, yes you can. Using your logic, once a song is played on the radio, anyone could simply record and replay that song without needing to pay any further royalties.
That I certainly did not claim. Turning on a TV and watching it live is quite different from recording it for archival or later viewing or distribution.
So is it OK if 200 people go to a bar and each watch the superbowl on their own small portable television with the privacy screen and headphones? Yes it is. How is that different than just having the bar owner turn on a big screen? Other than how it makes the NFL drool.
It's not that stupid for NFL (or any other sports league or movie studio) to ask for compensation if their content is being shown on a public place to many people and they're profiting from it.
The event is broadcast over the air (almost) everywhere in the US. Anyone can watch it if they have a TV and an antenna. The NFL gets paid from advertisers, not viewers. It's really not clear why someone should be punished for making a public broadcast publicly viewable. One could even argue that superbowl parties increase the number of viewers (it's more fun in a crowd), and in fact each person who watches makes the advertising that much more valuable. You really can't put you "content" out there publicly (over the air) and then bitch about who sees it where.
This thing isn't a phone and it's not an mp3 player, it is a tablet computer that is directly trying to compete with netbooks and even laptops.
I can't see this thing as a computer. It has no conventional keyboard. On-screen keyboards are really only good enough for typing a URL. In other words, the input capability of the iPad is only good enough to navigate, and not to create or edit. This device is a content delivery mechanism plain and simple. Sure, there may be some useful apps for specific uses (the local Apple store uses iPod touch with a credit card reader as a POS device) but it is not a useful general purpose computer by any means. I'd hate to type this post on it.
Why haven't they changed to something better? From what I can see, better tools have been available for a long time
I was wondering that too. Microsoft says C# and.net will alleviate these types of problems with "managed code" in your wares, but apparently they don't feel the need to use it for their own products.
It's a question of does Linux want to follow the innovators lead, or does it want to be out in front?
Linux got USB3 before anyone else. Linux ran on 64-bit x86 before anyone else - before AMD made even made the first chips. What on earth would constitute something innovative in an operating system? It's a resource manager, and new resources (i.e. hardware) gets added all the time. What is this innovation you speak of?
I could see some really innovative way to handle all those hardware variants comming along - what that is I don't know. But if someone does devise something truely innovative in that regard, they'd want to prove it on the platform with the most extensive and diverse hardware support - which would be Linux.
Even if someone were to mass produce the chips and someone else were to actually include them in their hardware, by the time they reach any fragment of market share, the rest of the world will have moved on to H.265
The same chicken-and-egg problem that locks out OGG also blocks migration to H.265. OTOH if Google opens up VC7 they can use it on YouTube today and develop hardware for their own phones next year. BTW, video is always reencoded for phones today anyway, so the web can and will go to whatever format is appropriate for it.
The article seems to indicate that the genes to produce chlorophyll can be passed on to offspring. But then:
The slugs accomplishment is quite a feat, and scientists aren't yet sure how the animals actually appropriate the genes they need.
Wouldn't that be a fluke that only needed to happen once?
They do point out that the animals also have to get chloroplasts by eating plant material (these are not passed on to offspring), so perhaps they meant to say they aren't sure
how they appropriate the chloroplasts. I would agree that's a really good question.
Pusztai's rats ate/nothing/ but GM potatoes, and then became unhealthy. I suspect that if they had eaten nothing but regular old potatoes, they also would have become equally unhealthy.
You're proposing he should have used a control group to make sure the effect wasn't due to the potato diet. He did. Your suspicion is incorrect.
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What is the objective of the new license? Why don't any existing licences meet that objective? It's not really clear to me why any open source project can't settle for GPL, LGPL or BSD. Thus I ask, what are the objectives that are not met by these.
This is why the OS needs to support animated wall paper. Then you can have your desktop continually updated with images of the sun. If even just the folks at NASA did this it might provide adequate monitoring for 8 hours a day. A screen saver could be nice too - I wonder which would get seen more often...
Eating less WILL cause weight loss. I always believed this and got the proof when gastric bypass surgery became all the rage. If you reduce the size of a persons stomach so they can't eat as much, or remove part so they can't metabolise as much, they lose weight plain and simple. It's also a fact of physics. Now I'll agree that it can be very challenging to do and in that sense it's not simple - sorry if that's what you meant. But I've heard all the thyroid-this and metabolism-that, and in the end chopping out part of the gut causes weight loss.
It could be software, it could even be hardware. Whatever drives the pedal to the floor is probably driven by a MOSFET. If proper FMEA isn't done people will overlook that a failed-short condition might pull the pedal down. I once worked at a company where I pointed out something similar but much less likely to cause problems and was greeted with anger. Another concern I had, they just didn't see how it related to safety - it was like talking to a rock. I've also worked at places that poured rather large amounts of money into investigating failure modes where the outcome was uncertain. As a personal non-scientific observation, the OEMs take safety seriously and so do some tier-1 suppliers, but it gets worse the farther down the food chain you go. People are human and can make mistakes - and that's why the industry does LOTs of testing on real vehicles.
As someone who has occasionally been a critic of some of your bloggings, I must say Good Job !! It was always clear to me that the first cases in this area MUST be won, else we have unfortunate precedents.
You're actually trying to argue that using a new codec on YouTube makes no sense for Google? Then why did they spend a hundred million dollars for it? Please tell us.
So if the local officials at the schools are misbehaving, you'd go to the local officials down the street to complain? I think a civil case is better, once the misconduct is documented in court you can still involve the authorities. OTOH there is a chance that local politics could influence a criminal investigation. Their lawyer is personally motivated by profit in addition to any other motivations (s)he may have.
Actually, it does. Encouraging those type of relationships keeps those folks from getting into sexless conventional relationships with straight people who might otherwise reproduce. i.e. more women for the rest of us.
We don't have to *hide* our information, but we should not broadcast it to the entire world either. You can tell your family and (hopefully) friends when you're going on vacation but you don't want to tell criminals that too. Face it, nobody outside the family and a few friends gives a shit when you're going away, so why do people feel the need to tell the whole world? Let's all post information that nobody but criminals really cares about.
Nice idea, tell me when we get there. In the mean time, piece of iron went missing from my office - a relic from a past job, but someone else must have thought it looked interesting too. Yep, even the people you work with...
Says who? You? There is evidence that the increased CO2 levels help plants grow. What's too much? The claim is that it's causing warming and ice melting - which is in doubt. In fact there is evidence that sea levels rose significantly above where they are now in previous inter-glacial periods. There is really no evidence that our CO2 production is changing anything. If you want see mans effect on the weather, read about the daily temperature variation when air traffic is stopped then tell me how you separate these effects from other claimed temperature changes of lesser amounts.
I'm no longer a believer either, I applaud Utah for their message - if not the presentation.
Actually, I write traction motor control software for a living. I'm a little more qualified to talk about electric vehicle tech than some Ph.D. trying to get grant money. The funny thing about slashdot is that it's a mix of total morons and highly competent people. In this instance, it doesn't take much competence to see the flaws.
You can't do shit with 12 volts. Hybrid cars use at least 150V, and electric cars (which I'm working on at this very moment) will be using 200-400V batteries (depends on the application). Voltage conversion is roughly 90-95 percent efficient, so throw away 10 percent of your range right there. However, we typically convert the high voltage down to run the low power stuff. If you wanted to do a 12V car and wanted to get 100kW you'd need over 8000 Amps DC. And yes, we're running motors around 110kW as traction motors plus or minus 30 percent (I'm not telling). One horsepower = 746 Watts, but I just figure 0.75kW.
Car batteries want to be 200 to 300 volts. This is achieved by stringing a bunch of cells together in series. If body panel or structural member is a cell, connecting in series will be difficult if not impossible. If parts were made from layers of material (i.e. cells in series within a body panel) then you've got this relatively thin 300V battery on the outside of the car waiting to make contact with stuff in a crash. Normally batteries are kept inside a strong box with a relay to disconnect from the outside when the car is off or in a crash. They try to protect the battery from damage too, by putting it down the middle, or between the rear wheels. Unless you're Tesla, this sounds like an infeasible ideal.
I prefer your funny and sarcastic comment :-) I was going to post the logical: There may be unexpected mechanisms (including mutations) that might unintentionally trigger the kill switch. Given some chance of triggering it, a life form without it is by definition more fit and darwin will select those without it (or with it damaged). This may actually be a nice lab experiment in evolutionary biology.
1.17 Billion transistors. Anyone remember the 6502, the 6800, and then the 68000? 68K transistors was a LOT in 1980 and made for a fantastic 32bit architecture. Now we're at 17000 times that count. Sometime you just have to stop for a moment and think just about the numbers.
No. You don't get to make rules by broadcasting them. Either the law says it's OK, or it's not. I'm not sure what it says, just arguing that it's silly to claim a right to restrict something that literally anyone could watch anyway.
That I certainly did not claim. Turning on a TV and watching it live is quite different from recording it for archival or later viewing or distribution.
So is it OK if 200 people go to a bar and each watch the superbowl on their own small portable television with the privacy screen and headphones? Yes it is. How is that different than just having the bar owner turn on a big screen? Other than how it makes the NFL drool.
The event is broadcast over the air (almost) everywhere in the US. Anyone can watch it if they have a TV and an antenna. The NFL gets paid from advertisers, not viewers. It's really not clear why someone should be punished for making a public broadcast publicly viewable. One could even argue that superbowl parties increase the number of viewers (it's more fun in a crowd), and in fact each person who watches makes the advertising that much more valuable. You really can't put you "content" out there publicly (over the air) and then bitch about who sees it where.
I can't see this thing as a computer. It has no conventional keyboard. On-screen keyboards are really only good enough for typing a URL. In other words, the input capability of the iPad is only good enough to navigate, and not to create or edit. This device is a content delivery mechanism plain and simple. Sure, there may be some useful apps for specific uses (the local Apple store uses iPod touch with a credit card reader as a POS device) but it is not a useful general purpose computer by any means. I'd hate to type this post on it.
I was wondering that too. Microsoft says C# and .net will alleviate these types of problems with "managed code" in your wares, but apparently they don't feel the need to use it for their own products.
Linux got USB3 before anyone else. Linux ran on 64-bit x86 before anyone else - before AMD made even made the first chips. What on earth would constitute something innovative in an operating system? It's a resource manager, and new resources (i.e. hardware) gets added all the time. What is this innovation you speak of?
I could see some really innovative way to handle all those hardware variants comming along - what that is I don't know. But if someone does devise something truely innovative in that regard, they'd want to prove it on the platform with the most extensive and diverse hardware support - which would be Linux.
The same chicken-and-egg problem that locks out OGG also blocks migration to H.265. OTOH if Google opens up VC7 they can use it on YouTube today and develop hardware for their own phones next year. BTW, video is always reencoded for phones today anyway, so the web can and will go to whatever format is appropriate for it.
The word "appropriate" suggests an ongoing process open to study. I would suggest "appropriated" might be the case a long time ago.
Hooters hooters, yum yum yum.
Hooter hooters, on a girl that's dumb.
What's all this education he's looking for?
Wouldn't that be a fluke that only needed to happen once? They do point out that the animals also have to get chloroplasts by eating plant material (these are not passed on to offspring), so perhaps they meant to say they aren't sure how they appropriate the chloroplasts. I would agree that's a really good question.
You're proposing he should have used a control group to make sure the effect wasn't due to the potato diet. He did. Your suspicion is incorrect.