> However, I do sympathize with linux users who want quality drivers for all types of graphics hardware. I doubt, though, that NVIDIA or ATI will ever release open-source drivers for linux.
I think people should be clear about what is and is not available as Open Source: I have a (bottom end) nVidia card, and use the *Open Source* MIT licenced "nv" driver that is maintianed by nVidia (IANAL, but I think the MIT license would make it *more* open/free then the Linux Kernel !!)
And I am very happy with it: it displays text and pictures on my screen and, err, that is all I need !. Of course there is no 3D support but I do not need it. Nor do lots of other people. Nor, I would guess, would many buisness users. That is a pretty huge market.
The only thing missing might be to append "in Australia" to the title. Then, IMHO, the title matches both the summary and TFA (yes: it must have slipped though!).
I am not sure why this got modded 3/Funny: I would have modded it insightfull (as it is basically the comment I was going to write !!). The purpose of this test is not so see how clever or not the User is: you are *supposed* to fail, get scared and then buy their product.
> but I'm not so sure about the faster/cheaper parts!
Envisat was to *contrast* with Rosetta/MEX/VEX : 10 instruments on a satellite the size of a bus. I can not see ESA doing that again soon ! Instead of Envisat 2 we get Cyrosat, GOCE, ADM-Aeolus...
To expand: Rosetta, then Mars Express and then Venus Express are all very similar, and follow the new principle of Faster, Cheaper, Better (and if you say "pick any 2" the PR depeartment wil be round to re-educate you !).
> If I remember correctly the European Space Agency's mission control system (processes the spacecraft telemetry, on the ground) is open source. Currently they are using SCOS-2000.
This is correct: all new ESA missions use SCOS-2000 to process and display telemetry and to prepare and monitor telecommanding. It currently runs on Solaris/SPARC or SUSE Linux/x86.
Current mission using SCOS-2000 include Mars Express, Venus Express, Rosetta and Smart-1 and coming missions, Herschel/Planck and GOCE will use it.
(SCOS-2000 replaced SCOS-1 (VAX/FORTRAN) that is still supporting the ERS-2, Cluster and Envisat missions.)
> I wish that the industry would say this proper. A PC is a personal computer.
By "industry" do you mean the producers (of s/w, h/w etc), or jounalists. I think it is the latters job to clarify whatever the producers may state/press release.
As an ex-pat I am a big fan of news.bbc.co.uk. I started to email complaints whenever they ran a Malware story without refering to Windows. My perception is that someone listened (I was probably not the only person to complain), and now they usually report this. (So far they have not picked up the above story).
> There was this religion started by some guy with sandals and a ponytail about peace and goodwill. Suits really didn't like him, nailed him to a tree. Don't remember if it caught on or not....
Yes: it did catch on. But, bizarely, the people now most likely to judge that image negativly are the ones who profess that religion most strongly.
> So now, BMW of Germany is forced to clean up their act, or move on to traditional marketing to get people to their site, boo freakin hoo.
To be fair to BMW they seem to recognise this: BBC news eg "However, if Google says all doorway pages are illegal we have to take this into consideration."
> So, Google delisted bmw.de for doing something that "Search Engine Optimizers" call SE cloaking or SE stealth.
I first read the story on BBC news where it appears it is NOT cloaking, because the content on the doorway pages is not *misleading*, but a text/keyword laden version.
> Part of the problem is likely that Gates gives so much to the poor already. He's the richest man in the world, but name someone that gives more money to the poor than he.
Can I conclude that you think that someone who derives most of their wealth from the rising value of a company that has been convicted of illegal activities should be admired for giving away a small fraction of it ?
(Disclosure: I am British but currently living abroad.)
> It's true that we have a state religion. It's also true that it receives no government funding
I would guess they get a lot of charity status tax exemption, and lots of money from QWANGOS (eg for buildings).
> It's true that our head of state is the Queen. It's also true that the monarchy lacks any real power and is kept around out of tradition.
Last time I looked she had the power to dissolve parliment, and she is the only person who has the power to declare war. And she has to approve all legislation... Sounds like real power to me.
> So technically we are under the rule of a religious monarchy, but in practice we are a modern democratic secular country.
Technically I partly agree: but psychologically speaking I think you are wrong. If what you say were true then the British would not mind *removing* the monarchy from the legal framework adn keeping them as paid figureheads. I can not imagine that happening. (But thanks to the EU it is no longer a Capital crime to suggest this!)
> So, as of today, any time stamp you have made using NTP, ever, has been retroactively displaced by one second.
Only if it was stored as an "n-seconds from epoch" type number (eg time_t).
And, AFAIK, this is only because, for example, the UNIX C-library is ignorent of leap seconds, and so the fudge is to adjust the *epoch* by 1 second (ie it is now 17 seconds out). So to calculate an accurate delta time your application needs to handle leap seconds.
"The Clipper Preparatory Programme
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An in-depth investigation of the content and modalities of such cooperation will be performed in a two-year (2006/2007) Clipper Preparatory Programme, with a view to preparing a decision on a joint development and future operations preparation programme at the Council meeting at Ministerial level in 2008."
"If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working."
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> RMS is in error here, but not because he thinks that software designated Free Software ought not be referred to as Open Source software, but because he thinks that anyone cares.
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> However, I do sympathize with linux users who want quality drivers for all types of graphics hardware. I doubt, though, that NVIDIA or ATI will ever release open-source drivers for linux.
I think people should be clear about what is and is not available as Open Source: I have a (bottom end) nVidia card, and use the *Open Source* MIT licenced "nv" driver that is maintianed by nVidia (IANAL, but I think the MIT license would make it *more* open/free then the Linux Kernel !!)
And I am very happy with it: it displays text and pictures on my screen and, err, that is all I need !. Of course there is no 3D support but I do not need it. Nor do lots of other people. Nor, I would guess, would many buisness users. That is a pretty huge market.
The only thing missing might be to append "in Australia" to the title. Then, IMHO, the title matches both the summary and TFA (yes: it must have slipped though!).
But I understood that for TDP AMD quote worst case, but Intel quote "typical".m l
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article169-page3.ht
I am not sure why this got modded 3/Funny: I would have modded it insightfull (as it is basically the comment I was going to write !!).
The purpose of this test is not so see how clever or not the User is: you are *supposed* to fail, get scared and then buy their product.
I, for one, welcome our new paper-pens-and-paperclip providing overlords.
Microsoft: All your data are belong to us.
> Envisat's what I work with
...
Ditto
> but I'm not so sure about the faster/cheaper parts!
Envisat was to *contrast* with Rosetta/MEX/VEX : 10 instruments on a satellite the size of a bus. I can not see ESA doing that again soon ! Instead of Envisat 2 we get Cyrosat, GOCE, ADM-Aeolus
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Europe Scores new Planetary Success
To expand: Rosetta, then Mars Express and then Venus Express are all very similar, and follow the new principle of Faster, Cheaper, Better (and if you say "pick any 2" the PR depeartment wil be round to re-educate you !).
(Compare and contrast with Envisat.)
FYI
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ESA Kids (in 6 languages
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> If I remember correctly the European Space Agency's mission control system (processes the spacecraft telemetry, on the ground) is open source. Currently they are using SCOS-2000.
This is correct: all new ESA missions use SCOS-2000 to process and display telemetry and to prepare and monitor telecommanding. It currently runs on Solaris/SPARC or SUSE Linux/x86.
Current mission using SCOS-2000 include Mars Express, Venus Express, Rosetta and Smart-1 and coming missions, Herschel/Planck and GOCE will use it.
(SCOS-2000 replaced SCOS-1 (VAX/FORTRAN) that is still supporting the ERS-2, Cluster and Envisat missions.)
> I wish that the industry would say this proper. A PC is a personal computer.
By "industry" do you mean the producers (of s/w, h/w etc), or jounalists. I think it is the latters job to clarify whatever the producers may state/press release.
As an ex-pat I am a big fan of news.bbc.co.uk. I started to email complaints whenever they ran a Malware story without refering to Windows. My perception is that someone listened (I was probably not the only person to complain), and now they usually report this. (So far they have not picked up the above story).
> There was this religion started by some guy with sandals and a ponytail about peace and goodwill. Suits really didn't like him, nailed him to a tree. Don't remember if it caught on or not....
Yes: it did catch on. But, bizarely, the people now most likely to judge that image negativly are the ones who profess that religion most strongly.
> So now, BMW of Germany is forced to clean up their act, or move on to traditional marketing to get people to their site, boo freakin hoo.
To be fair to BMW they seem to recognise this: BBC news eg "However, if Google says all doorway pages are illegal we have to take this into consideration."
> So, Google delisted bmw.de for doing something that "Search Engine Optimizers" call SE cloaking or SE stealth.
I first read the story on BBC news where it appears it is NOT cloaking, because the content on the doorway pages is not *misleading*, but a text/keyword laden version.
> Part of the problem is likely that Gates gives so much to the poor already. He's the richest man in the world, but name someone that gives more money to the poor than he.
Can I conclude that you think that someone who derives most of their wealth from the rising value of a company that has been convicted of illegal activities should be admired for giving away a small fraction of it ?
(Disclosure: I am British but currently living abroad.)
> It's true that we have a state religion. It's also true that it receives no government funding
I would guess they get a lot of charity status tax exemption, and lots of money from QWANGOS (eg for buildings).
> It's true that our head of state is the Queen. It's also true that the monarchy lacks any real power and is kept around out of tradition.
Last time I looked she had the power to dissolve parliment, and she is the only person who has the power to declare war. And she has to approve all legislation... Sounds like real power to me.
> So technically we are under the rule of a religious monarchy, but in practice we are a modern democratic secular country.
Technically I partly agree: but psychologically speaking I think you are wrong. If what you say were true then the British would not mind *removing* the monarchy from the legal framework adn keeping them as paid figureheads. I can not imagine that happening. (But thanks to the EU it is no longer a Capital crime to suggest this!)
> This thread got huge. I don't see why everyone is so stuck to one side of the argument.
:-)
This is Slashdot: a tech. site. Not exactly the place to find ID advocates. Or anti-science views
1) Problem: there are not enough security problems in OSS s/w (compared with popular propriatory s/w.)
2) Look for bugs, report them to CERT but do not offer to help fix them.
3) Symantec et. al. profit.
> So, as of today, any time stamp you have made using NTP, ever, has been retroactively displaced by one second.
Only if it was stored as an "n-seconds from epoch" type number (eg time_t).
And, AFAIK, this is only because, for example, the UNIX C-library is ignorent of leap seconds, and so the fudge is to adjust the *epoch* by 1 second (ie it is now 17 seconds out). So to calculate an accurate delta time your application needs to handle leap seconds.
Where I work (Euro-space industry) they support legacy VAX/FORTRAN systems.
Yep: I read as far as this paragraph in TFA and immediatly bailed out.
To further support this, from ESA's website.
"The Clipper Preparatory Programme
...
An in-depth investigation of the content and modalities of such cooperation will be performed in a two-year (2006/2007) Clipper Preparatory Programme, with a view to preparing a decision on a joint development and future operations preparation programme at the Council meeting at Ministerial level in 2008."
I liked this quote so I checked it:
"If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working."
> RMS is in error here, but not because he thinks that software designated Free Software ought not be referred to as Open Source software, but because he thinks that anyone cares.
I care.