You could refute this point with "People advocating for the use of the GPL are likely to discourage the use of other licensing models through the use of FUD."
Because that's exactly what RMS just did. Commercial software has been around for decades, without being "likely to spy on it's users".
No, I think he's just referring to the 920,149,600 acres of farmland actively being cultivated in the United States.
For reference, that's a bit over 3 acres per person measured in the same year. This guy says that it only takes about 1 acre to feed a person per year, meaning that we'd still have 2 acres left per person for creation of diesel fuel (rape seed, canola oil, soybean oil, etc.) to power the farming implements.
Does this capture the whole story? Absolutely not. However, without having a 1930s style dustbowl in the midwest, it is practically inconceivable that US agricultural production could collapse to the point of needing "food aid" in 15 years time.
This was exactly what I was thinking. Does denying some reporter an FAA license to fly a helicopter or fixed-wing aircraft anywhere they please for purposes of journalism constitute a First Amendment violation now?
What happens when they want to fly in restricted airspace? Is that a civil rights issue?
The good news is that on long stretches of incline, there are usually more lanes because you are also describing the exact issues that large cargo vehicles experience on these same stretches of road. They aren't using batteries, but they still drive significantly slower over mountain passes than passenger vehicles.
I've also wondered why the same concept used to move billions of tons of freight around the world on both sea and rail hasn't been tried in cars. Take a motor that operates at it's most efficient RPM and run it there, powering an electrical generator. Then use that electricity to power motors. Work in a bank of capacitors to deal with increased load from stops and starts, and you're there.
Diesel Electric has been in use since the 1950s, and is incredibly efficient.
We weren't as concerned with pen input for that - we were looking for an ultra-mobile companion device, or perhaps a replacement device for office users. Dell shipped us a Targus stylus that seemed to work fairly decently with it, but as I recall it used it's own batteries (WTF?). Our main mobility guy uses that as his tablet of choice that he walks around with, so it can't be THAT horrible - he's got a whole cabinet of iPads and android tablets from the usual suspects, and a few specialty devices (ruggedized stuff from Motorola and Getac)
I will say that our Dell Venue 11 decided to partially self-destruct over the weekend while laying on a table in the lab - two of the plastic clips that hold the back on disintegrated. So that's nice.
My favorite was the Dell Venue Pro 8 that doesn't come with Windows 8 Pro - we had to side load it, which took a bit of effort to figure out. If that one had the ability to dock, it would be a great device; but Dell wants you to pay $800+ for a 10-inch tablet in order to dock it, and we can get a laptop with twice the computing power for that.
That being said, Windows Industry and some of the rugged handheld designs coming out might be a pretty sweet solution for retail, finally replacing the ancient Motorola 9090 scan guns running WinMo.
As far as Windows tablets go, the most impressive one I've seen yet is a tech demonstrator from Intel that has a 64-bit quad-core Bay Trail in it. It's a hell of a device, but definitely not a finished product - it has a hole in the plastics on the back exposing a diagnostic port.
Well, some don't allow for an external display. Some allow for an external display, but block the charging port when it's plugged in (WTF?!). Some have a crappy stylus that hangs on the side and have a crap digitizer. Some have a great digitizer (Wacom) but don't have something else.
We had Microsoft come in and show us a PowerPoint with about 10 of these things, and each one was missing something we needed / wanted for it to be a replacement device for our catalog.
It's never been proven that capital punishment has been an effective deterrent in the United States. Especially considering that any would-be murderers involved in a criminal syndicate (drugs, traditional RICO, etc.) that would be subject to execution face far worse penalties should they NOT murder someone, and their executioner would be far less dainty about the procedure.
All of them have one flaw or another though. We've been looking at all the Windows tablets with an eye on Windows 8.1 for Industry to be used as retail handheld devices, and we have yet to come across a device that checks all the hardware boxes we're looking for. Perhaps in the next generation of hardware, at least one manufacturer will include all the stuff most people are looking for, without charging $800+ for it.
I think I saw somewhere that the Android USB dongles also identify as tablets for these analytic purposes - I wonder how much those things skew the numbers.
Plus, Strategy Analytics is a company that is paid to write these reports by vested interests. Often, their "data" doesn't stand the test of time.
This is the military we're talking about. They probably have a fucking warehouse of parts somewhere at Minot for that shit that was purchased on the original contract. Something goes bad, they dispatch a jet to deliver one within hours.
Those of us in the flyover states can't wait to be rid of both Time Warner AND Comcast. Between Comcast's bullshit bandwidth capping and Time Warner's liberal use of the CCI "CopyOnce" flag, I don't want to have anything to do with either of them; to say nothing of the mutated twisted infrastructure wreck that combining the two would bring.
You act like the two sides vying for control are Democrats and Republicans. I submit that the two sides vying for control are the entrenched political parties, and the rest of us that get just enough to placate while being wholly ignored.
Novell fucked up when they tried to make everyone pay out the ass for eDirectory, and Microsoft included a reasonable adoption of LDAPv3 in Windows 2000 Server.
That was the beginning of the end for Novell. Today, the world runs on Active Directory.
John Q. Public vote: not very valuable. US House of Representatives vote: Valuable. US Senate vote: Quite Valuable. Regulatory Commissioner vote: Extremely Valuable. Presidential Veto: Invaluable.
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You could refute this point with "People advocating for the use of the GPL are likely to discourage the use of other licensing models through the use of FUD."
Because that's exactly what RMS just did. Commercial software has been around for decades, without being "likely to spy on it's users".
You could say the same about coal, and be more correct. In fact, WAY more correct.
Coal kills 170,000 people per year; nuclear after Chernobyl and Fukushima only kills 90. Source
440 people die per year from rooftop solar, which is almost 5x as many as nuclear.
No, I think he's just referring to the 920,149,600 acres of farmland actively being cultivated in the United States.
For reference, that's a bit over 3 acres per person measured in the same year. This guy says that it only takes about 1 acre to feed a person per year, meaning that we'd still have 2 acres left per person for creation of diesel fuel (rape seed, canola oil, soybean oil, etc.) to power the farming implements.
Does this capture the whole story? Absolutely not. However, without having a 1930s style dustbowl in the midwest, it is practically inconceivable that US agricultural production could collapse to the point of needing "food aid" in 15 years time.
Yeah, because that would definitely be the first case of "do as I say, not as I do" that the US Government would be responsible for.
Farm machinery runs on diesel, and diesel can be made from vegetable oil. It turns out that we also grow a giga-shitload of soybeans and canola.
This was exactly what I was thinking. Does denying some reporter an FAA license to fly a helicopter or fixed-wing aircraft anywhere they please for purposes of journalism constitute a First Amendment violation now?
What happens when they want to fly in restricted airspace? Is that a civil rights issue?
The good news is that on long stretches of incline, there are usually more lanes because you are also describing the exact issues that large cargo vehicles experience on these same stretches of road. They aren't using batteries, but they still drive significantly slower over mountain passes than passenger vehicles.
I've also wondered why the same concept used to move billions of tons of freight around the world on both sea and rail hasn't been tried in cars. Take a motor that operates at it's most efficient RPM and run it there, powering an electrical generator. Then use that electricity to power motors. Work in a bank of capacitors to deal with increased load from stops and starts, and you're there.
Diesel Electric has been in use since the 1950s, and is incredibly efficient.
We weren't as concerned with pen input for that - we were looking for an ultra-mobile companion device, or perhaps a replacement device for office users. Dell shipped us a Targus stylus that seemed to work fairly decently with it, but as I recall it used it's own batteries (WTF?). Our main mobility guy uses that as his tablet of choice that he walks around with, so it can't be THAT horrible - he's got a whole cabinet of iPads and android tablets from the usual suspects, and a few specialty devices (ruggedized stuff from Motorola and Getac)
I will say that our Dell Venue 11 decided to partially self-destruct over the weekend while laying on a table in the lab - two of the plastic clips that hold the back on disintegrated. So that's nice.
My favorite was the Dell Venue Pro 8 that doesn't come with Windows 8 Pro - we had to side load it, which took a bit of effort to figure out. If that one had the ability to dock, it would be a great device; but Dell wants you to pay $800+ for a 10-inch tablet in order to dock it, and we can get a laptop with twice the computing power for that.
That being said, Windows Industry and some of the rugged handheld designs coming out might be a pretty sweet solution for retail, finally replacing the ancient Motorola 9090 scan guns running WinMo.
As far as Windows tablets go, the most impressive one I've seen yet is a tech demonstrator from Intel that has a 64-bit quad-core Bay Trail in it. It's a hell of a device, but definitely not a finished product - it has a hole in the plastics on the back exposing a diagnostic port.
Well, some don't allow for an external display. Some allow for an external display, but block the charging port when it's plugged in (WTF?!). Some have a crappy stylus that hangs on the side and have a crap digitizer. Some have a great digitizer (Wacom) but don't have something else.
We had Microsoft come in and show us a PowerPoint with about 10 of these things, and each one was missing something we needed / wanted for it to be a replacement device for our catalog.
Practically every culture and religion in history?
It's never been proven that capital punishment has been an effective deterrent in the United States. Especially considering that any would-be murderers involved in a criminal syndicate (drugs, traditional RICO, etc.) that would be subject to execution face far worse penalties should they NOT murder someone, and their executioner would be far less dainty about the procedure.
All of them have one flaw or another though. We've been looking at all the Windows tablets with an eye on Windows 8.1 for Industry to be used as retail handheld devices, and we have yet to come across a device that checks all the hardware boxes we're looking for. Perhaps in the next generation of hardware, at least one manufacturer will include all the stuff most people are looking for, without charging $800+ for it.
I think I saw somewhere that the Android USB dongles also identify as tablets for these analytic purposes - I wonder how much those things skew the numbers.
Plus, Strategy Analytics is a company that is paid to write these reports by vested interests. Often, their "data" doesn't stand the test of time.
I have an 8" floppy disk hanging on the side of my cube. Should I be watching for terrorists?
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This is the military we're talking about. They probably have a fucking warehouse of parts somewhere at Minot for that shit that was purchased on the original contract. Something goes bad, they dispatch a jet to deliver one within hours.
Those of us in the flyover states can't wait to be rid of both Time Warner AND Comcast. Between Comcast's bullshit bandwidth capping and Time Warner's liberal use of the CCI "CopyOnce" flag, I don't want to have anything to do with either of them; to say nothing of the mutated twisted infrastructure wreck that combining the two would bring.
You act like the two sides vying for control are Democrats and Republicans. I submit that the two sides vying for control are the entrenched political parties, and the rest of us that get just enough to placate while being wholly ignored.
Novell fucked up when they tried to make everyone pay out the ass for eDirectory, and Microsoft included a reasonable adoption of LDAPv3 in Windows 2000 Server.
That was the beginning of the end for Novell. Today, the world runs on Active Directory.
Corporation v. Corporation, SCOTUS decides in favor of Corporation.
"OMG the court is packed with corporate interests!!11!!one!!!eleventyone!!1!"
What?
Easy. O-4 and above.
That would exclude the rank-and-file Lieutenants and the odd Captain, but include anyone close to policy making.
It depends on the vote.
John Q. Public vote: not very valuable.
US House of Representatives vote: Valuable.
US Senate vote: Quite Valuable.
Regulatory Commissioner vote: Extremely Valuable.
Presidential Veto: Invaluable.
As long as it doesn't accelerate faster than ~9m/sec, your feet don't leave the ground.
I think he was talking about the non-removable battery
And yet tens of millions of people get by perfectly happily, and continue to buy new versions.