This seems like a big step forward in distro design and customization. The ability to specify exactly what you want included and where you want to run it makes a lot of installations easier.
The time to download a.iso, then install, then add packages and repositories was always a significant portion of any new distro testing/adaptation.
I especially like the ability to get a pre-loaded VMware image, because that is where I test new releases.
A single 357 magnum round to just about any part of this thing will have it crashing to the ground. These things are way more fragile than a biker on PCP.
And while you're at it, have him look at Settings / General / About / Legal in the iPhone and see just how much free software Apple embedded into that project.
I would have rather had the FTC or the DOJ, lauching this probe rather than the FCC.
I doubt the FCC can tell Apple what they can and can't put in their app store. The FCC simply has no standing in this area. Apple may not want to piss off the agency that approves new handsets, but realistically the FCC has little leverage on Apple.
The FCC does have jurisdiction to hold ATT's feet to the flame.
If it turns out that ATT told Apple not to accept these apps, citing some boilerplate non-compete clause in their contract, that would be a Microsoft Moment. (Microsoft ordered Compaq to restore IE to prominence on the desktop, or lose the right to sell windows. Justice department saw it differently).
There is always the possibility that Apple quietly leaked to FCC that ATT was violating some rules/regs. Apple would make sure they too get called on the carpet at the same time as ATT for plausible deny ability reasons.
And we can't overlook the possibility of Google quietly putting its oar in.
Who ever made the decision to block Google Voice, picked the absolute worst time to do so. Congress has already sent the FCC on a slash and burn mission into the cell phone market.
Of late, the FCC has actually seemed to be on the side of Joe Average Citizen, compared to 10 or 20 years ago. Yes, they might come out with another Janet Jackson ruling, but it is equally likely something good will come of this.
You totally miss the point of the story. Its not the fuel mixture. Its the fact that large amounts of water vapor find their way to the upper atmosphere. Some by natural causes. Some by shuttle launches.
These people created this and the price point at which it becomes economic may be higher or lower than the current price of oil.
So be it.
Price fluctuations are not evil. They are the market adjudication of supply and demand.
Price fluctuation are your friend. Static or legislated prices totally screw up economies. Do we really need to replay the downfall of the soviet union again just to drive home this point.
The amount of fossil fuels left in the ground exceed by several orders of magnitude that which we have used to date. Its just not economic to get to them. But at some point shale oil and oil sands will be economic, as will bio generation which is the subject of this story.
Arbitrarily jacking up the price by adding tax does nothing constructive, and yes, deny it as you will, the tax proceeds WILL be poured down a rat-hole of social programs as witnessed by your own words "disproportionately affecting the economically disadvantaged".
You automatically assume no environmental effects of these alternate energy efforts, while failing to recognize we consume way more oil today than we did in the days of smog filled skies.
You automatically assume the Europeans used their high taxes to further research, yet they are hopelessly behind in clean coal technology, oil sands, or coal-to-liquid technology. Hint: The money went into social programs. Tax removes money from the developmental cycle. It does not facilitate anything but bureaucracy and stifling regulations.
There is no justification for propping up the European model here.
We simply need to tax fuel enough to establish a price floor that will encourage alternative investments. The Europeans are already there so now the US just needs to start increasing the tax rate
Why?
Why do you automatically assume that if the Europeans do something it must be right for every place on earth?
If this breakthrough is for real, and it was developed in Cambridge Massachusetts USA, with the tax structure we have today, and nothing like it has appeared out or Europe with all its horrendous taxes, then where is the basis for your euro-centric view?
How will pouring more tax dollars down social rat-holes help solve an energy crisis?
Do I necessarily believe this announcements? No, not yet. Does that mean I should run to Europe and adopt every tax-grab they dream up? Of course not.
So if the scheduler works fine, why everyone assumes that the battery life would be about three hours if Apple would allow multitasking for third party apps?
Because if you Jailbreak your iPhone, you can run background apps. There is real world data to base this on.
If you choose your backgrounded app carefully, it won't totally kill your battery. But if you run several, and they do not play nice, and if they keep the radios on all the time your battery will not last long. (Although 3 hours seems a bit short to me).
Its an extended version of ActivSync, Licensed from Microsoft.
It works like this:
You open a TCP connection with an Apple Notification server, and shutdown the radio, leaving the connection open, by never explicitly closing it. With the radio down, the phone is Saving power.
Periodically, you wake up the radio, check if the TCP socket is readable. If so, you read it, and notify the user, and optionally launch that application that the notification was destined for.
If the socket failed, (timed out, network dropped, etc) you reestablish the socket.
Since TCP timeout is usually on the order of 12 minutes or longer, this happens only about 5 times an hour.
Checking socket readability takes just a tiny bit of power for a very very short time. So your radio is on for a few seconds every hour. (Which it is anyway, listening for incoming calls).
Apple's push notification leverages this single socket connection to an unlimited number of applications in the iPhone, by having a single daemon watching the socket, signaling the target app, and notifying the user.
It operates similar to InetD in Linux, other than instead of waiting for new connections, it is watching existing ones. In fact, there is some discussion as to whether ActiveSync is even patentable because it is so obvious.
And to be perfectly pedantic, Antennas do not consume any power when receiving.
The wacky leaves do have a cost though. 1) they're inferior at photosynthesis 2) the plants need to put energy into changing the leaves they've already grown
Inferior at photosynthesis? Says who?
The tree has obviously evolved to do just fine with these leaves. 1500 years is not long enough for any pressure to develop other leaves to take effect. The shape costs nothing.
As for the changing of leaves, (what ever that means) it takes no energy either. If a new mutation develops that is better at serving the tree's existence there is NO cost.
Evolution is not something that needs to be paid for. It is alway a CHEAPER solution than the status quo. Otherwise, the mutant dies out.
How do you snoop and steal passwords off of a computer that won't boot?
Loose memory would probably be detected immediately by the bios beep codes. (Since most memory is slotted in and locks in place the first question most technicians would ask is why was it loose.)
But reseating it and booting solves the issue.
Owner would be ever so thankful, pay the bill, and usher the tech out the door.
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This seems like a big step forward in distro design and customization. The ability to specify exactly what you want included and where you want to run it makes a lot of installations easier.
The time to download a .iso, then install, then add packages and repositories was always a significant portion of any new distro testing/adaptation.
I especially like the ability to get a pre-loaded VMware image, because that is where I test new releases.
> Just as babies can't start running from the get-go,
So they had you at "humanoid" I see.
> I need to be afraid or can I outrun it?
No, because you are an American.
A single 357 magnum round to just about any part of this thing will have it crashing to the ground. These things are way more fragile than a biker on PCP.
Why are auto companies so into robots in Japan?
What's up with that?
And while you're at it, have him look at Settings / General / About / Legal in the iPhone and see just how much free software Apple embedded into that project.
But just TRY and get a copy of the iPhone source.
But does that mean the FCC can withhold approval of a cell phone because the maker refused to answer a question the FCC had no authority to ask?
Is that what you mean to imply?
> It cannot be guaranteed that a reduction in
> secrecy would gain Apple an equivalent number of
> new customers.
Yes it can be guaranteed.
Its called Advertising. It works.
Please climb down off of your high school debate class pedestal and joint the real world.
Most games would get crucified if they got leaked to the press or the public too early in the dev cycle.
And you know this how?
Id software was great for putting out "Technology previews" which crashed a lot, but sure built sales.
If you produce crap, and people can see its crap, they tend to step around it like a dog-pile on the pavement.
But a good concept demonstrator with wide appeal, even if rough around the edges, will draw customers like flies.
I would have rather had the FTC or the DOJ, lauching this probe rather than the FCC.
I doubt the FCC can tell Apple what they can and can't put in their app store. The FCC simply has no standing in this area. Apple may not want to piss off the agency that approves new handsets, but realistically the FCC has little leverage on Apple.
The FCC does have jurisdiction to hold ATT's feet to the flame.
If it turns out that ATT told Apple not to accept these apps, citing some boilerplate non-compete clause in their contract, that would be a Microsoft Moment. (Microsoft ordered Compaq to restore IE to prominence on the desktop, or lose the right to sell windows. Justice department saw it differently).
There is always the possibility that Apple quietly leaked to FCC that ATT was violating some rules/regs. Apple would make sure they too get called on the carpet at the same time as ATT for plausible deny ability reasons.
And we can't overlook the possibility of Google quietly putting its oar in.
Who ever made the decision to block Google Voice, picked the absolute worst time to do so. Congress has already sent the FCC on a slash and burn mission into the cell phone market.
Of late, the FCC has actually seemed to be on the side of Joe Average Citizen, compared to 10 or 20 years ago. Yes, they might come out with another Janet Jackson ruling, but it is equally likely something good will come of this.
We can only wait and see.
Why would an advanced civilization need cattle?
Anything resulting from machine manipulation of that is a derivative work and there's already copyright rules for dealing with such.
[Citation Needed.]
Perhaps you can point to the rules that state machine output is a derivative work.
If it was this clear, why would Alpha make such a ridiculous claim.
You dig too deep my friend. You need not go to the obscure examples to find the danger lurking here.
Quicken generates tax returns. Does this mean they retain a copyright in your returns?
Word Processors generate printed forms, and PDFs.
All your documents are belong to Microsoft!
No, it's just that I never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.
Winning an argument on the Internet is like peeing yourself in a dark wool suit. Gives you a warm feeling, but nobody else notices.
You are welcome to whatever sense of victory makes you feel good.
And what happened around that time?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa
You totally miss the point of the story. Its not the fuel mixture. Its the fact that large amounts of water vapor find their way to the upper atmosphere. Some by natural causes. Some by shuttle launches.
Its the same platform type police have been using for years now.
Nothing new here, other than the uniform of the operators.
Is it really a robot when its driven and operated by a remote human? It has no autonomous functionality.
Mod parent "Thank You - Needed Saying".
>work wherever there is a Wi-Fi or 3G connection, using tools such as Facebook, Skype, and Twitter,
Seriously, how much real work happens on ANY of these platforms?
They provide more distractions than help.
>So you are proposing raising taxes?
Wow, that's incredibly insightful.
What part of "Price" do you not understand?
These people created this and the price point at which it becomes economic may be higher or lower than the current price of oil.
So be it.
Price fluctuations are not evil. They are the market adjudication of supply and demand.
Price fluctuation are your friend. Static or legislated prices totally screw up economies. Do we really need to replay the downfall of the soviet union again just to drive home this point.
The amount of fossil fuels left in the ground exceed by several orders of magnitude that which we have used to date. Its just not economic to get to them. But at some point shale oil and oil sands will be economic, as will bio generation which is the subject of this story.
Arbitrarily jacking up the price by adding tax does nothing constructive, and yes, deny it as you will, the tax proceeds WILL be poured down a rat-hole of social programs as witnessed by your own words "disproportionately affecting the economically disadvantaged".
You automatically assume no environmental effects of these alternate energy efforts, while failing to recognize we consume way more oil today than we did in the days of smog filled skies.
You automatically assume the Europeans used their high taxes to further research, yet they are hopelessly behind in clean coal technology, oil sands, or coal-to-liquid technology. Hint: The money went into social programs. Tax removes money from the developmental cycle. It does not facilitate anything but bureaucracy and stifling regulations.
There is no justification for propping up the European model here.
We simply need to tax fuel enough to establish a price floor that will encourage alternative investments. The Europeans are already there so now the US just needs to start increasing the tax rate
Why?
Why do you automatically assume that if the Europeans do something it must be right for every place on earth?
If this breakthrough is for real, and it was developed in Cambridge Massachusetts USA, with the tax structure we have today, and nothing like it has appeared out or Europe with all its horrendous taxes, then where is the basis for your euro-centric view?
How will pouring more tax dollars down social rat-holes help solve an energy crisis?
Do I necessarily believe this announcements? No, not yet. Does that mean I should run to Europe and adopt every tax-grab they dream up? Of course not.
So if the scheduler works fine, why everyone assumes that the battery life would be about three hours if Apple would allow multitasking for third party apps?
Because if you Jailbreak your iPhone, you can run background apps. There is real world data to base this on.
If you choose your backgrounded app carefully, it won't totally kill your battery. But if you run several, and they do not play nice, and if they keep the radios on all the time your battery will not last long. (Although 3 hours seems a bit short to me).
Running an active TCP session for an IM client constantly would light up much more of the iPhone's hardware, and drain the battery that much faster.
Well, not exactly....
An active TCP session is EXACTLY what Apple's Push Notification Service uses.
Its an extended version of ActivSync, Licensed from Microsoft.
It works like this:
You open a TCP connection with an Apple Notification server, and shutdown the radio, leaving the connection open, by never explicitly closing it. With the radio down, the phone is Saving power.
Periodically, you wake up the radio, check if the TCP socket is readable. If so, you read it, and notify the user, and optionally launch that application that the notification was destined for.
If the socket failed, (timed out, network dropped, etc) you reestablish the socket.
Since TCP timeout is usually on the order of 12 minutes or longer, this happens only about 5 times an hour.
Checking socket readability takes just a tiny bit of power for a very very short time. So your radio is on for a few seconds every hour. (Which it is anyway, listening for incoming calls).
Apple's push notification leverages this single socket connection to an unlimited number of applications in the iPhone, by having a single daemon watching the socket, signaling the target app, and notifying the user.
It operates similar to InetD in Linux, other than instead of waiting for new connections, it is watching existing ones. In fact, there is some discussion as to whether ActiveSync is even patentable because it is so obvious.
And to be perfectly pedantic, Antennas do not consume any power when receiving.
Why in the world would one visit the web site?
I try to avoid getting my oil changes at Joe's ChopShop and Used Parts emporium, and I avoid banking at Webegone Bank and Trust.
Oh, sure, I'm sure these are the "whitehats".
The wacky leaves do have a cost though. 1) they're inferior at photosynthesis 2) the plants need to put energy into changing the leaves they've already grown
Inferior at photosynthesis? Says who?
The tree has obviously evolved to do just fine with these leaves. 1500 years is not long enough for any pressure to develop other leaves to take effect. The shape costs nothing.
As for the changing of leaves, (what ever that means) it takes no energy either. If a new mutation develops that is better at serving the tree's existence there is NO cost.
Evolution is not something that needs to be paid for. It is alway a CHEAPER solution than the status quo. Otherwise, the mutant dies out.
Actually I am surprised by it.
How do you snoop and steal passwords off of a computer that won't boot?
Loose memory would probably be detected immediately by the bios beep codes. (Since most memory is slotted in and locks in place the first question most technicians would ask is why was it loose.)
But reseating it and booting solves the issue.
Owner would be ever so thankful, pay the bill, and usher the tech out the door.