The scanner companies don't support Linux and don't ship Linux drivers with their product. Linux supports the scanners and comes with the drivers built in. You need to check which scanners are supported by Linux, not the other way around. It bothers me that companies don't advertise that their products are supported by Linux, but I understand that they don't want to deal with the support calls for a driver they didn't write.
But, it certainly says something about the state of OSS when people have the choice of using MS software illegally without paying, will choose that over using OSS legally without paying.
It doesn't reflect on the quality of the FLOSS software at all. Most of these people have never even tried the alternatives. Find someone you know that uses a shady copy of MS Office. Tell them all about OpenOffice and how it's just as good but they can get it legally for free. Most of these folks will never even try it. There's a perception that the MS product is the best, pile on the satisfaction of pulling a fast one by not paying for it and they just won't think about some perceived "junk" that people are giving away for free. I also recall reading that part of brand loyalty is that if someone were to choose a different brand that it suggests (perhaps subconciously) that they made the wrong choice previously - it doesn't matter that the two competitors quality may change over time and that todays decision need not negate last years. No sir, the failure of people to switch says nothing about the quality of Free Software, it says something about the psychological barriers involved. Another example is that people will perceive the lack of uptake as a quality problem just as you have:-)
The original Moore's law defined the relationships between a number of parameters - dimensions and such - of a transistor. From this, one could easily "shrink" a transistor and get everything right. As such, it really was a sort of physical law. I don't recall how the doubling every 18 months came about (I think it was just an observation based on real data), but it was enabled by Moore's law and the two things have been used interchangeably ever since. Something like that anyway...
I never understood why web pages need references to these external things (or do they?). Why embed into a page a pointer to a document that you don't have direct control over? My own dumb pages do this as well since I switched from plain HTML to using CSS and SVG, but I don't have the time to figure out why it's in there or if it's needed. I just pasted it in like the examples I found. Now if I thought my web page was really important, I'd look into this a bit more...
It looks like they accept 1 DVI and one VGA connector. It doesn't look like it will fit 2 DVI connectors. IMHO it should have been made to accomodate 2 DVI or one of each, but there doesn't appear to be room. I for one and finnished with VGA and will only use DVI-D in the future.
I appreciate most of what RMS says. I strongly disagree with his numbering scheme for the 4 essential software freedoms. Read people count starting at 1. It's stupid to have the leader of a movement use an inside joke when giving a public talk about something so important. Freedom zero.... How stupid.
Hey Richard, how many freedoms are there?
Four.
What's the fourth one?
There isn't one... Only a zeroth through third.
This nonsense has got to stop. The GPL is fairly readable, but this stupid geekism right there mixed in with the fundamental freedoms is IMHO just adding confusion where none needs to be. I would hope this renumbering will make it into GPLv3.
It would be better to make a table of flags. Initialize all of them to zero. Scan the genome only once and set the flag corresponding to each sequence that is present. Then scan for flags that are still zero. This would be much faster than searching the whole genome for the presense of each possible sequence. It would probably run to completion in a few minutes. Heck, replace "flag" with "counter" and see which sequences are most common at the same time...
There is nothing wrong with putting an array on the stack. I once had the need to copy a function into a local int[50] and run it from there - no issues (embedded system, the function needed to run from RAM). The problem is when people write code that can blow right past the end of an array. They don't stop to think that the functions they call to dump data in there don't know where the end of the available space is. Oh right, the data told me how much space to allocate and I just allocated that much and read until EOF.;-) ok, that's a heap (not stack) buffer overrun. Anyway arrays on the stack are not inherently bad.
The only way to put to charge the Prius's battery is by putting gasoline into it's tank.
Regenerative braking. When you're in stop-and-go traffic the stop provides the energy for the go. Conventional brakes will just convert all your kinetic energy to heat, the hybrids convert a non-trivial portion of it back to electricity. Now for long distance highway driving, you don't get that advantage so the mileage should be more in line with the ICE. However the hybrid can run the engine closer to its most efficient RPM, or run it harder for a while and then run on batteries for a while - whatever is most efficient. I digress. All the energy does come from gas, but some braking energy is recovered in addition to that.
IMHO I don't care if it's a hybrid, I want numbers. Cost (inc maint), and fuel economy, performance.
The lawyers say that the watermarks and digital signatures are equivalent to a logo and that it is afforded protection under trademark law.
But a digital signature will be different for every file, so it hardly counts as a trademark. The watermarks are not visible watermarks like you put on paper either. This case is clearly a result of using old terminology to describe modern algorithms. Lets go back to calling those signatures "cryptographically secure hash values" or some such - then lawyers won't wander down this path.
why wouldn't you attempt to correct the problem with the dollar
We have to pay for the war in Iraq somehow. In case that doesn't make sense, consider the options:
1) Raise taxes - which would probably hurt the economy and generate less revenue.
2) Have some inflation for a while to make that debt easy to pay / less relevant.
3) Let the dollar slide...
Why not just install Fedora and then "yum install mythtv"? Why has installation of Myth always been non-trivial? Now it's to the point where someone would rather format and install the entire OS...
One of the great strengths of OSS compared to proprietary software is the ability to make use of older hardware.
And if you were using an OSS operating system, you'd find that firefox 3 runs fine on older hardware. The issue in this case is not one of older hardware support, but older OS support. Not all OSS projects support Windows, so it's not suprising that some don't support outdated versions of Windows. This is also not a case of Firefox dropping support for those OSes directly - they've adopted Cairo wholesale, and it never had (I don't think) support for older Windows versions. Anyway, switch to Linux and your oldish hardware will probably be supported.
Move someplace where it's cold. Northern Michigan comes to mind, or Wisconsin, Minesota, North Dakota. These palces are all close to the center of the US and costs are lower all around. If you've got a 65W processor it's going to take several Watts to pump that heat out of a building, but if you can just pump in outside air much of the year, it's going to reduce those cooling costs a lot. Or, if you want to stay in CA and have cheap cooling all year, just move to the top of a mountain.
It's still a good idea to reduce server power because it reduces both the operating power AND the cooling power required.
On another note, has anyone noticed that language used impacts performance per Watt?
The problem is that most people don't know what wealth is. Most people don't actually have any. Remember, the study take assets minus liabilities to compute your wealth. Looked at this way, most Americans don't have anything. People buy a big house and an expensive car, but they borrow money to get it so their net change in wealth is zero. Then people relocate on average every 3-5 years, so what equity they do have in their home goes to the salesperson, and their car depreciates so much that it's comparably worthless by the time the loan is paid off and then they buy another. These people all think they're doing well and that they actually have some wealth when in fact they have none. Nor do they understand the benefits of not living this way.
Would this really be much of a problem? Has support of the USA PATRIOT act or its reauthorization been much of an issue for politicians seeking reelection? Not that I've seen.
Did you notice the last election? Did you notice the number of long-time republican incumbents that got voted out? Did you notice the number of registered republicans who voted straight democrat to send a message to their party? Did you notice the total change of power in a non-presidential election year? If you did notice, do you really think it was JUST because people are unhappy about the situation in Iraq? I question your eyesight.
... something about this makes me a bit uncomfortable.
If your mail is anything like mine, you get lots of credit card offers - or even in rare cases, actual credit cards - that you did not ask for. I trust my wife to sift through all this crap and properly dispose of it, but would I trust employees at some company like this to do the same? Nope. Sure, someone can raid your mailbox, but that's different than consistently passing all the stuff through the hands of a low paid employee at a 3rd party company.
The first part of any patent reform should be to stop the flow of money from the PTO back to the rest of the government. The PTO has been a revenue source for some time now. Rather than sending the money off to other things, it should be used to fund better examinations and such. Or they could just lower the cost of a patent so I can play games too.
They tell the students that there are aspects of running a company that are independant of what the company does. Which is true. But then somehow they conclude that you can run a business without really understanding the business/industry/product/tech. Same goes for management. It's really unbelievable.
Sophie Germain was quite the math geek - even has a type of prime number named after her. Had to use a psedonym because women weren't supposed to be mathematicians back then. Clearly the folks who wrote the article didn't do any real research.
His work does nothing to further research in the field.
By getting into the headlines with this, he will encourage other teenagers to start experimenting. It will generate interest in fusion among a whole bunch of geeky teenagers. Encouraging experimentation and tinkering among teenagers is the best way to get good scientists and engineers down the road. So what he did is nothing new - don't tell the other kids that, let them have fun while learning all about fusion.
The judge in Graham v. James , 144 F.3d 229, 236 (2d Cir. 1998) has said that a "copyright owner who grants a non-exclusive license to use his copyrighted material waives his right to sue the licensee for copyright infringement" where "non-exclusive" means third party redistribution.
So if someone is in violation of the GPL, where do they get a "non-exclusive license" to redistribute? If you haven't lived up to your obligations under the GPL, you don't have any redistribution rights. End of story. The correct way to press a case like this is to claim copyright violation (not GPL violation). The defense needs to show that they have the right to redistribute, and to do that they will have to point to the GPL - and show compliance with it.
Just like "ATM machine" and "CMA awards". Maybe Intel is behind this mistake - you can only get TFLOP Squared performance with a core 2 duo double dual thingy. Or perhaps they really are measuring how fast you can ramp your workload from 0 to X TFLOPS because of all the computing-on-demand hype?
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The scanner companies don't support Linux and don't ship Linux drivers with their product. Linux supports the scanners and comes with the drivers built in. You need to check which scanners are supported by Linux, not the other way around. It bothers me that companies don't advertise that their products are supported by Linux, but I understand that they don't want to deal with the support calls for a driver they didn't write.
The patent office is run as a business these days. They aren't going to make any money prosecuting their "customers" for perjury.
The original Moore's law defined the relationships between a number of parameters - dimensions and such - of a transistor. From this, one could easily "shrink" a transistor and get everything right. As such, it really was a sort of physical law. I don't recall how the doubling every 18 months came about (I think it was just an observation based on real data), but it was enabled by Moore's law and the two things have been used interchangeably ever since. Something like that anyway...
I never understood why web pages need references to these external things (or do they?). Why embed into a page a pointer to a document that you don't have direct control over? My own dumb pages do this as well since I switched from plain HTML to using CSS and SVG, but I don't have the time to figure out why it's in there or if it's needed. I just pasted it in like the examples I found. Now if I thought my web page was really important, I'd look into this a bit more...
Better yet: Make sure you know who is going to own the code before you write it.
It looks like they accept 1 DVI and one VGA connector. It doesn't look like it will fit 2 DVI connectors. IMHO it should have been made to accomodate 2 DVI or one of each, but there doesn't appear to be room. I for one and finnished with VGA and will only use DVI-D in the future.
I appreciate most of what RMS says. I strongly disagree with his numbering scheme for the 4 essential software freedoms. Read people count starting at 1. It's stupid to have the leader of a movement use an inside joke when giving a public talk about something so important. Freedom zero.... How stupid.
Hey Richard, how many freedoms are there?
Four.
What's the fourth one?
There isn't one... Only a zeroth through third.
This nonsense has got to stop. The GPL is fairly readable, but this stupid geekism right there mixed in with the fundamental freedoms is IMHO just adding confusion where none needs to be. I would hope this renumbering will make it into GPLv3.
It would be better to make a table of flags. Initialize all of them to zero. Scan the genome only once and set the flag corresponding to each sequence that is present. Then scan for flags that are still zero. This would be much faster than searching the whole genome for the presense of each possible sequence. It would probably run to completion in a few minutes. Heck, replace "flag" with "counter" and see which sequences are most common at the same time...
There is nothing wrong with putting an array on the stack. I once had the need to copy a function into a local int[50] and run it from there - no issues (embedded system, the function needed to run from RAM). The problem is when people write code that can blow right past the end of an array. They don't stop to think that the functions they call to dump data in there don't know where the end of the available space is. Oh right, the data told me how much space to allocate and I just allocated that much and read until EOF. ;-) ok, that's a heap (not stack) buffer overrun. Anyway arrays on the stack are not inherently bad.
IMHO I don't care if it's a hybrid, I want numbers. Cost (inc maint), and fuel economy, performance.
1) Raise taxes - which would probably hurt the economy and generate less revenue.
2) Have some inflation for a while to make that debt easy to pay / less relevant.
3) Let the dollar slide...
Why not just install Fedora and then "yum install mythtv"? Why has installation of Myth always been non-trivial? Now it's to the point where someone would rather format and install the entire OS...
It's still a good idea to reduce server power because it reduces both the operating power AND the cooling power required.
On another note, has anyone noticed that language used impacts performance per Watt?
The problem is that most people don't know what wealth is. Most people don't actually have any. Remember, the study take assets minus liabilities to compute your wealth. Looked at this way, most Americans don't have anything. People buy a big house and an expensive car, but they borrow money to get it so their net change in wealth is zero. Then people relocate on average every 3-5 years, so what equity they do have in their home goes to the salesperson, and their car depreciates so much that it's comparably worthless by the time the loan is paid off and then they buy another. These people all think they're doing well and that they actually have some wealth when in fact they have none. Nor do they understand the benefits of not living this way.
The first part of any patent reform should be to stop the flow of money from the PTO back to the rest of the government. The PTO has been a revenue source for some time now. Rather than sending the money off to other things, it should be used to fund better examinations and such. Or they could just lower the cost of a patent so I can play games too.
They tell the students that there are aspects of running a company that are independant of what the company does. Which is true. But then somehow they conclude that you can run a business without really understanding the business/industry/product/tech. Same goes for management. It's really unbelievable.
Sophie Germain was quite the math geek - even has a type of prime number named after her. Had to use a psedonym because women weren't supposed to be mathematicians back then. Clearly the folks who wrote the article didn't do any real research.
Just like "ATM machine" and "CMA awards". Maybe Intel is behind this mistake - you can only get TFLOP Squared performance with a core 2 duo double dual thingy. Or perhaps they really are measuring how fast you can ramp your workload from 0 to X TFLOPS because of all the computing-on-demand hype?