The biggest problem with the patent system is that most people aren't aware of the problems with it. General public awareness of the problems in the patent system is a good step towards eventual patent reform. It takes a big case like this with lots of news coverage about products many of us use to motivate the general public. Change is never fast or easy but as long as the majority of people think that patent reform is needed, it should eventually happen.
Sure its not viable for us to go there ourselves but couldnt we start sending probes in the direction of planets like this with enough ingredients on them to help kickstart life on other worlds that can support it. It wont effect us but might help ensure life continues in the universe once we inevitably destroy our own planet.
Valve over the years has gotten a large foothold in Windows gaming, now working on Linux gaming and set-top gaming. All they will be missing is smartphone (and mac?) presence before they can start having a google-like influence and presence.
Government is itself good but the people in it are not always worth our trust. Whats important here is that people in greater power are doing something that seems to be in the best interest of citizens and regardless if some people were abusing the system or not steps are being taken to resolve that.
I must be doing something wrong or missed a very important memo. I find it hard enough to get people using my open source software let alone paying for it, and this guy is clearly under the impression he is entitled to a steady instantly large flow of income from his first platform release.
I'm sure NASA would be going to the moon every month if they had all the funding they needed but sadly they no longer can. With that in mind I'm really glad that private companies are still pushing for space exploration and that governments aren't preventing them from doing so. I hope there are enough rich people interested in this to properly fund companies like this.
Most people here constantly posts their opinions on people and companies relating to every article that passes through. While alot of us back up our posts with facts (as we know them) and links, but we're all basically doing the exact same thing she is.
My opinion is that she falls in the same category as any of us. That being said what she posted I think should be protected by law unless perhaps she knowingly made up some of her claims. As long as she believed her claims to be true (regardless of wether they were or not) I think she should be allowed (by law) to post all she wants.
According to http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_fast_are_modern_space_probes modern probes can travel roughly 39000 miles per hour, or 341640000 (39000*24*365) miles per year. 1 light year = 5.87849981 × 10^2 miles, so it would take about 17206 years (5.87849981 × 10^12 / 341640000) for a probe to get there, and another 25 years for it to send a light signal pattern back to us for us to process. Assuming once at the solar system the probe would be able to determine atmospheric compositions of some of the planets in the solar system, and possibly drop some rovers on a planet and send back some additional data.
Might as well send a probe out and write down somewhere that we sent it out. Hopefully in 17k years we remember to look for an answer.
from what I'm reading the privilege elevation bug requires that you as a non root user be able to write files to a/var/lib/mysql// directory. I dont remember ever seeing a setup where those directories are world writable or where normal non-root users would be added to the mysql group.
Sounds just like how the UV Sterilizer Lights kill surrounding bacteria. Depending on how much this costs I could see it becoming a standard issue item in most households.
What about the paper cash only vending machines? I see this being a big problem with them when people are going to be forced to always put in $5+ just to get a small item. They will run out of spare money really fast.
The article seems to be more about embedding electronic sensors in flexible rubber-like plastic. The examples even show them printing out a modern version of the Nintendo PowerGlove(tm). I could see these being used to print out custom-fit full body suits serving the same basic functions.
The article leads me to believe they are 3d printers using paper. That seriously limits the possibilities of what you can print, but at least nobody will (hopefully) be making working paper guns with it. If they would switch to some type of plastic I could see this having a lot more uses.
Yes MSSE is not the best anti-virus software out there, but it is one of the only ones i feel safe that it will never ask me to install other promotional products, it will never try to load weird webpages or install spyware. It has no upgrades to a better paid for version that it frequently bugs you to upgrade to. It is probably the last offensive, least obtrusive, least annoying anti-virus software out there. Coupled with being behind a firewall and intelligence enough not to open binaries from questionable sources it works well enough.
Its good to see the focus of this release being an attempt to increase javascript speed by leaps and bounds. Modern webpages often use JS that goes way beyond anything people did 10 years ago (Jquery for example) and the complexities of what people do with javascript noticably slow down most webpages considerably.
I imagine the people that pirate movies from theaters are releasing pretty crappy quality versions of the movies. If you were to see a movie with alot of detail in it and then forced to watch it in a low quality format where the detail (video and audio) take away from the movie in any significant amount, I imagine many people would then want to go pay for an actual copy or viewing of the movie.
In that regard I can see how pirating could help movie sales of GOOD movies, and at the same time possibly hurt sales of bad movies (why pay to see a good quality version of a movie you know sucks). With that in mind we know that most movies do in fact suck, so most of the time I can see how pirating would hurt sales.
Computers crash/fail when overheating and in a datacenter that can happen very fast. You absolutely must keep the temperatures from getting too hot. Some datacenters can get away with minimal cooling. Some datacenters need chillers and tons of money invested in keeping things at a low enough temperature where computers wont randomly lock up on you from the heat. There must be some datacenters who have too much cooling but to say that datacenters in general dont need them demonstrates a lack of understanding what a datacenter is, that they are not all the same size nor is the hardware in them the same or all generating the same predictable temperatures.
HTC phones are very good. The only problem with them that stands out above any others, is their lack of updates to the phones they offer. Their product line seems to come with 1 major android update and then they drop maintaining it and move onto the next model. Most of their phones (after their latest updates to them) at this point are running pre ICS despite being able easily run JB.
Some companies, like samsung, have maintained updates to their phones making them or other alternative companies much more desirable. Android itself has undergone alot rapid change and companies like HTC that don't work on keeping up with android releases for all but their newest phones are going to loose all desirability.
Windows does however let you run windowed but take up the fullscreen to get around this problem (as opposed to running fullscreen). However, doing this won't let you run at alternate resolutions.
I'm glad they have a fix for this issue but it isnt one exclusive to X11. Try loading a fullscreen game at an alternate resolution on a multi-screen desktop in windows and you will see the other screens get all messed up
OpenStack is not nearly worth the buzz it is receiving. Its a great setup for managing virtual deployments and networked storage but nothing new. Its probably the most complex implementation of the included technologies but certainly not the only one. Swift is a great amazon-like API storage system and probably the most notable part of the OpenStack project. Nova provides a good combined openvz/kvm/etc virtualization setup but there are plenty of others with equal features. The tying of these technologies together is nice and works good but again nothing new here. While the project is definitely one anyone looking into cloud storage/virtualization these days is aware of, its not something significant enough to say Linus should head or even be involved in. His opinion is always welcome but I would hope we are keeping that mans time spent on more important endeavors. When it comes to virtualization I think working on moving things like OpenVZ up from 2.6 kernel into the 3.x kernel series is a better time-sink.
Space is probably the best example of a place where when something goes wrong, not having the right spare part really is a matter of life and death. With a beefed up 3D printer, stored schematics to the hardware in space equipment, and a 'printable' material suitable for space use, they could theoretically create any replacement part they need on the fly to help avoid many of the potential problems found in space.
If 3D Printers could also be tied into an automated mining/refinery process, you could theoretically land some hardware on the moon or mars that would begin mining and refining local materials into a usable material for the 3D Printer, which could then church out buildings one piece at a time providing an unmanned way of building out a possible future settlement of sorts.
3D printers have the potential to be basically the equivalent of a Star Trek replicator. Given that it has the right materials to print with, it can create virtualy anything.
If at some predictable point the SSD drives become unable to write or write unreliably, is there a tool (or/proc type entry) that you can use to see how much life is in the device?
Most any type of hardware or software development these days can only be based upon existing products so its going to become increasingly harder to develop without running into companies that will demand licensing fees.
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The biggest problem with the patent system is that most people aren't aware of the problems with it. General public awareness of the problems in the patent system is a good step towards eventual patent reform. It takes a big case like this with lots of news coverage about products many of us use to motivate the general public. Change is never fast or easy but as long as the majority of people think that patent reform is needed, it should eventually happen.
I would say the spreading and continuation of life in the universe is worth the risk, even at the possible cost of our eventual downfall.
Sure its not viable for us to go there ourselves but couldnt we start sending probes in the direction of planets like this with enough ingredients on them to help kickstart life on other worlds that can support it. It wont effect us but might help ensure life continues in the universe once we inevitably destroy our own planet.
Valve over the years has gotten a large foothold in Windows gaming, now working on Linux gaming and set-top gaming. All they will be missing is smartphone (and mac?) presence before they can start having a google-like influence and presence.
Government is itself good but the people in it are not always worth our trust. Whats important here is that people in greater power are doing something that seems to be in the best interest of citizens and regardless if some people were abusing the system or not steps are being taken to resolve that.
I must be doing something wrong or missed a very important memo. I find it hard enough to get people using my open source software let alone paying for it, and this guy is clearly under the impression he is entitled to a steady instantly large flow of income from his first platform release.
I'm sure NASA would be going to the moon every month if they had all the funding they needed but sadly they no longer can. With that in mind I'm really glad that private companies are still pushing for space exploration and that governments aren't preventing them from doing so. I hope there are enough rich people interested in this to properly fund companies like this.
Most people here constantly posts their opinions on people and companies relating to every article that passes through. While alot of us back up our posts with facts (as we know them) and links, but we're all basically doing the exact same thing she is. My opinion is that she falls in the same category as any of us. That being said what she posted I think should be protected by law unless perhaps she knowingly made up some of her claims. As long as she believed her claims to be true (regardless of wether they were or not) I think she should be allowed (by law) to post all she wants.
According to http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_fast_are_modern_space_probes modern probes can travel roughly 39000 miles per hour, or 341640000 (39000*24*365) miles per year. 1 light year = 5.87849981 × 10^2 miles, so it would take about 17206 years (5.87849981 × 10^12 / 341640000) for a probe to get there, and another 25 years for it to send a light signal pattern back to us for us to process. Assuming once at the solar system the probe would be able to determine atmospheric compositions of some of the planets in the solar system, and possibly drop some rovers on a planet and send back some additional data. Might as well send a probe out and write down somewhere that we sent it out. Hopefully in 17k years we remember to look for an answer.
from what I'm reading the privilege elevation bug requires that you as a non root user be able to write files to a /var/lib/mysql// directory. I dont remember ever seeing a setup where those directories are world writable or where normal non-root users would be added to the mysql group.
Sounds just like how the UV Sterilizer Lights kill surrounding bacteria. Depending on how much this costs I could see it becoming a standard issue item in most households.
What about the paper cash only vending machines? I see this being a big problem with them when people are going to be forced to always put in $5+ just to get a small item. They will run out of spare money really fast.
The article seems to be more about embedding electronic sensors in flexible rubber-like plastic. The examples even show them printing out a modern version of the Nintendo PowerGlove(tm). I could see these being used to print out custom-fit full body suits serving the same basic functions.
The article leads me to believe they are 3d printers using paper. That seriously limits the possibilities of what you can print, but at least nobody will (hopefully) be making working paper guns with it. If they would switch to some type of plastic I could see this having a lot more uses.
Yes MSSE is not the best anti-virus software out there, but it is one of the only ones i feel safe that it will never ask me to install other promotional products, it will never try to load weird webpages or install spyware. It has no upgrades to a better paid for version that it frequently bugs you to upgrade to. It is probably the last offensive, least obtrusive, least annoying anti-virus software out there. Coupled with being behind a firewall and intelligence enough not to open binaries from questionable sources it works well enough.
Its good to see the focus of this release being an attempt to increase javascript speed by leaps and bounds. Modern webpages often use JS that goes way beyond anything people did 10 years ago (Jquery for example) and the complexities of what people do with javascript noticably slow down most webpages considerably.
I imagine the people that pirate movies from theaters are releasing pretty crappy quality versions of the movies. If you were to see a movie with alot of detail in it and then forced to watch it in a low quality format where the detail (video and audio) take away from the movie in any significant amount, I imagine many people would then want to go pay for an actual copy or viewing of the movie. In that regard I can see how pirating could help movie sales of GOOD movies, and at the same time possibly hurt sales of bad movies (why pay to see a good quality version of a movie you know sucks). With that in mind we know that most movies do in fact suck, so most of the time I can see how pirating would hurt sales.
Computers crash/fail when overheating and in a datacenter that can happen very fast. You absolutely must keep the temperatures from getting too hot. Some datacenters can get away with minimal cooling. Some datacenters need chillers and tons of money invested in keeping things at a low enough temperature where computers wont randomly lock up on you from the heat. There must be some datacenters who have too much cooling but to say that datacenters in general dont need them demonstrates a lack of understanding what a datacenter is, that they are not all the same size nor is the hardware in them the same or all generating the same predictable temperatures.
HTC phones are very good. The only problem with them that stands out above any others, is their lack of updates to the phones they offer. Their product line seems to come with 1 major android update and then they drop maintaining it and move onto the next model. Most of their phones (after their latest updates to them) at this point are running pre ICS despite being able easily run JB. Some companies, like samsung, have maintained updates to their phones making them or other alternative companies much more desirable. Android itself has undergone alot rapid change and companies like HTC that don't work on keeping up with android releases for all but their newest phones are going to loose all desirability.
Windows does however let you run windowed but take up the fullscreen to get around this problem (as opposed to running fullscreen). However, doing this won't let you run at alternate resolutions.
I'm glad they have a fix for this issue but it isnt one exclusive to X11. Try loading a fullscreen game at an alternate resolution on a multi-screen desktop in windows and you will see the other screens get all messed up
OpenStack is not nearly worth the buzz it is receiving. Its a great setup for managing virtual deployments and networked storage but nothing new. Its probably the most complex implementation of the included technologies but certainly not the only one. Swift is a great amazon-like API storage system and probably the most notable part of the OpenStack project. Nova provides a good combined openvz/kvm/etc virtualization setup but there are plenty of others with equal features. The tying of these technologies together is nice and works good but again nothing new here. While the project is definitely one anyone looking into cloud storage/virtualization these days is aware of, its not something significant enough to say Linus should head or even be involved in. His opinion is always welcome but I would hope we are keeping that mans time spent on more important endeavors. When it comes to virtualization I think working on moving things like OpenVZ up from 2.6 kernel into the 3.x kernel series is a better time-sink.
Space is probably the best example of a place where when something goes wrong, not having the right spare part really is a matter of life and death. With a beefed up 3D printer, stored schematics to the hardware in space equipment, and a 'printable' material suitable for space use, they could theoretically create any replacement part they need on the fly to help avoid many of the potential problems found in space. If 3D Printers could also be tied into an automated mining/refinery process, you could theoretically land some hardware on the moon or mars that would begin mining and refining local materials into a usable material for the 3D Printer, which could then church out buildings one piece at a time providing an unmanned way of building out a possible future settlement of sorts. 3D printers have the potential to be basically the equivalent of a Star Trek replicator. Given that it has the right materials to print with, it can create virtualy anything.
If at some predictable point the SSD drives become unable to write or write unreliably, is there a tool (or /proc type entry) that you can use to see how much life is in the device?
Most any type of hardware or software development these days can only be based upon existing products so its going to become increasingly harder to develop without running into companies that will demand licensing fees.