When I contribute to OSS projects I like to think of it as doing some work for the good of the global community. What I don't like to think of it as, is to work for a foreign military for no pay. Actually I think i rather have foreign military spend some more on programmers and have less over to spend on bombs and soliders.
Is there some alternative OSS license that don't allow the software to be used for military purposes?
It is really a beautiful experiment. I have never seen such a demonstration of how deterministic the propagation of the wavefunction is. By simply running the experiment backwards they manage to get the atom to go back to it's initial position in the walk.
I think this is a bad move by Microsoft. It only makes them seem desperate. By making this viral campaign, they openly admit that vista so far has failed in the consumer market.
This campaign really focus on the wrong issues. The main complaints over vista has never been that it isn't shiny and dazzling enough. The problems was that it makes older hardware painfully slow, the UAC annoyance, incompatible drivers etc. These are not things that a user notices in a 10 minute demo. This campaign shows nothing.
With it's opposition against this law, the pirate party has really proved itself to be a major opinion leader in Swedish politics. They have been leading the opposition of this law since the day the party formed. Together with the Swedish blogosphere they have made this the number one political issue this year. It is rare to see so many people so pissed off over a political issue in Sweden. The government never saw this coming and they're clearly having trouble handling the situation.
Before this summer the pirate party was mainly discarded as a bunch of clowns. I think now people will start listening to what they are saying. If they keep on being visible in the media, it is very likely they will get seats in European Parliament next year.
I'd like to be able to read pdf files confortably directly in the browser. The current plugins really suck for on-screen reading. There must be a way to present pdf files so it feel more like reading a regular web page. The document should render directly in the browser, with no waiting for a plugin to load, and no extra button-bar. Fonts should be screen friendly. The pages should be scaled automatically so that they are easy to read. Pages should be pre-rendered into memory so that scrolling is fast.
Cheap portables like eee and olpc has only come recently, they will fall in price as production increases. Most people has access to TV today, these computers will soon be cheaper than a Tv-set. Just as many developing countries went straight to mobile phones, with no land lines first, most will probaly access the internet through mobile connections. Internet is just as helpful to a person in a poor country as it is to a westener. The estimate IS increadably small.
How come your post are modded +5 then? It proves your post is wrong! And since it is wrong it should be modded -1 overrated. But when it is modded down, it is correct again... Hmm, there should be an additional Catch 22 mod for posts like yours.
It is also prescribed to relieve physical symptoms of anxiety and nervousness. It takes away blushing, shaking and sweating. It is taken before presentations and other social performances. It can be very helpful in academia, where good public speaking abilities are important for your career.
Considering how popular these little machines seem to become, Microsoft surely has plans. I would think something like this:
*Freshen up XP a bit with some new theme and some gadgets. *Give it a new flashy name. *Then practically give it away to the manufacturers of these machines.
Rather that, then to let linux machines get a foothold in the consumer market.
What you don't understand is that Johan lives in Sweden, here mobile broadband has really taken off lately. Our operators is offering very reasonable, almost flat rate, high speed mobile broadband deals. For 30 $/month you get about 5-10 GB traffic/month, at up to 7.2 mbit/s download speed and 0.4 mbit/s upload. Many here cut their old land-based broadband and just use mobile. It really makes no sense to hunt for silly hotspots, when i can use my regular broadband where ever i wish to go, with no extra charge. So from a Swedish perspective, what he says is rather obvious. It is just a matter of time until this applies to the US and the rest of the world as well.
People have been begging Google to make a linux version of Sketchup for years. Even a version that works with Wine would be great. Seems they just don't care, instead they focus on Photoshop, something completely irrelevant for them.
The biggest case is the ongoing investigation of the murder of prime minister Olof Palme. It's been going on since 1986 and has probably required at least 10 times as much.
You are wrong, there are actually places where DRM works for the distributors: A couple of years ago it was possible to buy pirated cards for your satellite-TV receiver, so you could watch all channels for free. People had been doing this since the 80's. Every time the operators invented a new encryption, it was soon cracked and new pirated cards was out for sale. But this ended a couple of years ago, when the current encryption schemes (like Viaccess) was introduced. No one has been able to crack these schemes and most people has lost hope that they ever will be cracked. So the TV networks won in the end. But I guess now people download their their TV-shows with bit torrent instead.
Why do you think this phone would be more responsive. You have only seen the Apple marketing yet. Independent reviewer will probably have a different story to tell. And remember this gadget doesn't even support 3G, that means that web surfing will be dead slow without wifi coverage.
That's just stupid. The camera operators are not the bad guys, they just do their jobs. A society can't be dependant on the "good deeds" of its citizens. It can't even be dependant on the good intentions of its government. But it should depend on its laws, laws that protects its citizens. You should vote for the lawmakers that want to outlaw this public surveilence.
The asteroids and humans has lived peacefully together for millions of years. And now we're coming up there to poke them with a stick! I say that's just asking for trouble. Blame NASA for the next mass extinction event!
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When I contribute to OSS projects I like to think of it as doing some work for the good of the global community. What I don't like to think of it as, is to work for a foreign military for no pay. Actually I think i rather have foreign military spend some more on programmers and have less over to spend on bombs and soliders.
Is there some alternative OSS license that don't allow the software to be used for military purposes?
You can get the full article from the arxive:
http://arxiv1.library.cornell.edu/abs/0907.1565
It is really a beautiful experiment. I have never seen such a demonstration of how deterministic the propagation of the wavefunction is. By simply running the experiment backwards they manage to get the atom to go back to it's initial position in the walk.
Does anyone know where or if it's even possible to find a binary of vlc 0.9.9 for gutsy gibbon? The one in ubuntus repositories is very dated.
A guy that can write AI to crack captchas, clearly can be used to write spam filters instead.
I think this is a bad move by Microsoft. It only makes them seem desperate. By making this viral campaign, they openly admit that vista so far has failed in the consumer market.
This campaign really focus on the wrong issues. The main complaints over vista has never been that it isn't shiny and dazzling enough. The problems was that it makes older hardware painfully slow, the UAC annoyance, incompatible drivers etc. These are not things that a user notices in a 10 minute demo. This campaign shows nothing.
With it's opposition against this law, the pirate party has really proved itself to be a major opinion leader in Swedish politics. They have been leading the opposition of this law since the day the party formed. Together with the Swedish blogosphere they have made this the number one political issue this year. It is rare to see so many people so pissed off over a political issue in Sweden. The government never saw this coming and they're clearly having trouble handling the situation.
Before this summer the pirate party was mainly discarded as a bunch of clowns. I think now people will start listening to what they are saying. If they keep on being visible in the media, it is very likely they will get seats in European Parliament next year.
I don't mind reading pdf *unproperly*. My eyeballs won't explode if every letter isn't pixel-perfectly rendered.
I'd like to be able to read pdf files confortably directly in the browser. The current plugins really suck for on-screen reading. There must be a way to present pdf files so it feel more like reading a regular web page. The document should render directly in the browser, with no waiting for a plugin to load, and no extra button-bar. Fonts should be screen friendly. The pages should be scaled automatically so that they are easy to read. Pages should be pre-rendered into memory so that scrolling is fast.
Cheap portables like eee and olpc has only come recently, they will fall in price as production increases. Most people has access to TV today, these computers will soon be cheaper than a Tv-set. Just as many developing countries went straight to mobile phones, with no land lines first, most will probaly access the internet through mobile connections. Internet is just as helpful to a person in a poor country as it is to a westener. The estimate IS increadably small.
I don't think exponentials work that way.
How come your post are modded +5 then? It proves your post is wrong! And since it is wrong it should be modded -1 overrated. But when it is modded down, it is correct again... Hmm, there should be an additional Catch 22 mod for posts like yours.
It is also prescribed to relieve physical symptoms of anxiety and nervousness. It takes away blushing, shaking and sweating. It is taken before presentations and other social performances. It can be very helpful in academia, where good public speaking abilities are important for your career.
Considering how popular these little machines seem to become, Microsoft surely has plans. I would think something like this:
*Freshen up XP a bit with some new theme and some gadgets.
*Give it a new flashy name.
*Then practically give it away to the manufacturers of these machines.
Rather that, then to let linux machines get a foothold in the consumer market.
I thought that Microsoft was withdrawing Windows XP from the market in a couple of months. Are they still going to offer it on these low-end machines?
What you don't understand is that Johan lives in Sweden, here mobile broadband has really taken off lately. Our operators is offering very reasonable, almost flat rate, high speed mobile broadband deals. For 30 $/month you get about 5-10 GB traffic/month, at up to 7.2 mbit/s download speed and 0.4 mbit/s upload. Many here cut their old land-based broadband and just use mobile. It really makes no sense to hunt for silly hotspots, when i can use my regular broadband where ever i wish to go, with no extra charge. So from a Swedish perspective, what he says is rather obvious. It is just a matter of time until this applies to the US and the rest of the world as well.
People have been begging Google to make a linux version of Sketchup for years. Even a version that works with Wine would be great. Seems they just don't care, instead they focus on Photoshop, something completely irrelevant for them.
The biggest case is the ongoing investigation of the murder of prime minister Olof Palme. It's been going on since 1986 and has probably required at least 10 times as much.
"U.S. National Intelligence" -- Hmm, isn't that like an oxymoron?
You are wrong, there are actually places where DRM works for the distributors: A couple of years ago it was possible to buy pirated cards for your satellite-TV receiver, so you could watch all channels for free. People had been doing this since the 80's. Every time the operators invented a new encryption, it was soon cracked and new pirated cards was out for sale. But this ended a couple of years ago, when the current encryption schemes (like Viaccess) was introduced. No one has been able to crack these schemes and most people has lost hope that they ever will be cracked. So the TV networks won in the end. But I guess now people download their their TV-shows with bit torrent instead.
Why don't they just give him whatever he wants. It's not like they are going to lose money on another of those films.
Why do you think this phone would be more responsive. You have only seen the Apple marketing yet. Independent reviewer will probably have a different story to tell. And remember this gadget doesn't even support 3G, that means that web surfing will be dead slow without wifi coverage.
That's just stupid. The camera operators are not the bad guys, they just do their jobs. A society can't be dependant on the "good deeds" of its citizens. It can't even be dependant on the good intentions of its government. But it should depend on its laws, laws that protects its citizens. You should vote for the lawmakers that want to outlaw this public surveilence.
The asteroids and humans has lived peacefully together for millions of years. And now we're coming up there to poke them with a stick! I say that's just asking for trouble. Blame NASA for the next mass extinction event!
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx? id=17354&ch=infotech
I don't think Technology Review just makes this up.
It has alredy started duplicating on the Slashdot frontpage.