Yes, I kinda did.
To my understanding, archaeological importance is about what we can learn from the discovery.
So first a disclaimer; I do not know how much man has learned from recovering the Monitor, and nobody knows at of this moment what we will learn from investigating this ship (finding it in itself is not that big a deal).
The Monitor (and the Virginia (ex Merrimack)) changed the way wars was fought at sea. Thus it is one of the most important historical objects of naval warfare. (although it had severe and crippling limitations)
And although I recognize Arctic expeditions as much as the next Norwegian (a friend of mine is of Amundsen descent); in those days ships sometimes perished without trace. Amundsen himself perished, and has not been found.
I'm not saying this discovery is unimportant, but not _that_ important.
(Anyway I agree with parent, dead sea scrolls beats this discovery hands down (and maybe Tutankhamen's tomb itself)
come on, this is 2014? with your own chips and your own firmware and a s**tload of OEMs ready to pull this kind of trick, they should have used signed firmwares. So if somebody tried flashing with a firmware mod, the chip would reject the firmware.
signing key never leaves Nvidia premises
This stuff is easy, as long as you design your own chips and your own firmware.
"This summer, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) plans to launch two amazingly cute yet advanced, white-helmeted robots into space. Then an astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) will attempt to **** with one of them."
vi is to computing what an 18-wheeler with an non-synchronised manual gearbox is to driving.
Sure, there are case where you need it, but it is counter-intuitive and old-fashioned to anyone who has ever used a modern, end user tool.
The problem with teaching vi is motivation. They're not just struggling with the concept of weird-sounding key shortcuts, they're struggling to understand why they need to learn such a tool when it is an apparently insanely difficult way to do something ANY editor has a standardised way of doing. And that "understanding" problem comes in the way of learning.
So hold back on teaching vi until they are motivated to learn it (e.g when they need to change a config file over a terminal connection).
Your comparison with variables is IMHO faulty - the concept of variables is much easier to understand, and it is much easier to be motivated to learn it.
I learned my way around variables at 14, no sweat. At 20, (3 programming languages later) I was introduced to vi and but at 35 I still avoid using it unless I absolutely have to.
Speaking of Ubuntu, this move screws them as well. FF is their current default browser. Will they be able to convince enterprises to go Ubuntu LTS if it is shipped with FF?
Some distros may ditch FF because of this move, as enterprise support services are a major funding source for distros.
So we have an ex-comedian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Smith quoted by a _British_ tabloid quoted by Gizmodo quoted by Slashdot.
Now that is what I call reliable info.
And then there would be plaintiff's legal fees, which, although the RIAA legal team might _sound_ like a broken record, would be substantially more than.99 per 3 minute "track"
I was provoked by Mr Browns statement which completely failed to mention Alan Turings contribution to computing science.
The statement only addressess his war effort.
By not recognizing Turing's contribution to science, Brown elegantly but cowardly avoids the issue of whether Turing deserves a nighthood or not (war heroes seldom get nighted).
Indeed, the Enigma cracking helped saved the Europe I live in but at the same time it helped spawn the technology that is my passion and my paycheck.
"Black Boxes" are made to survive all kinds of unbelievable crashes, impacts, fires, explosions, etc.. Instead, these brainiacs are going to use something that breaks if it drops out of your pocket. Way to go, guys.
Heisenberg gets stopped by a cop for speeding.
"Do you have any idea how fast you were going?", asks the cop.
"No. But I know exactly where I am!"
Actually, it would have to be "No. But I know exactly where I was! And now, thanks to you stopping me I have no Idea where I am!"
Re:weird perspective for a conflict... and wrong!
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There's got to be a limit to this, and that's at the point of sale. It doesn't matter if you trust the buyer. If you find they violated the copyright, go sue them later. That's the remedy the law provides, and it is perfectly adequate.
No, it's not adequate, and that's exactly the point. The problem the content owners face is that it's virtually impossible to trace who violated the copyright, so that there is no-one to sue.
The entire copyright scheme, which is hundreds of year old, is based on the assumption that copying and/or re-distribution has a cost (xeroxing of books, illegal dvd's, bootleg tapes) so that the culprit would, if he was to cause a lot of damage (i.e lost income on the content owner's part), he would have to sell the content on, (as opposed to give it away). Thereby he would leave a money trail which could be followed.
As electron's are free this is no longer true and I can distribute hundreds of copies (which themselves may be distributed) of a file, and it does not cost me anything.
The copyright legislation, while still intact, does not solve the original problem (how to secure income), which is why the content owners turn to technical solutions. We should accept the fact that copyright rules in a digital age do no longer solve the problem.
The discussion should be if we are willing to let the various propose technical solutions (like DRM) infringe on our established "way of life".
I think we, the jury, are still out on that one.
The treaty actually states that Antarctica shall not be used for commercial purposes - which makes starting a gas station illegal. Also the guys at McMurdo would like to keep the reserves to themselves (although 400 gallons is not that much, I know, but it's still a pain in the butt to fill up the reserve, even if he offers to pay for it).
Also the treaty says that no claims on land are accepted. Particularly the US have been strongly against it, thus Norway (we were there first, damn it!) and a few others technically have a territorial dispute with the US. Of course the US subsequently sets up 2 bases (McMurdo and the Pole itself), but that's another story...
Second: Didn't your mother teach you never to ruin a perfectly good discussion with facts, of worse, first hand knowledge? Stop reading Slashdot and get back to running your company!
Third: According to the Trustix web site, Jo Uthus is/was still VP of product marketing, yet you've just (according to the press release above) hired him for the new company. That validates the comparison between the companies. Why would he do a better job for the new company than for the old?
Normally, the brand (in this case, "Trustix") is an important asset when a bankrupcy is declared.
The concept of rebranding the distribution to the new company will probably make some lawyers scratch their heads for a while.
However, most of Trustix' products are standard software (standard as in "you pay for the software but you actually only have a license to use it, blablabla" - just like in the Windoze world), and these products still belong to the bancrupt Trustix and will be part of the assets potentially to be sold on.
Actually, this is precisely the reason they were struggling, they had problems selling software the old fashion way to Linux users. Also, the one's that were willing to pay preferred standard stuff like Checkpoint.
IMHO the problem for Trustix was that the number of linux users willing to pay for SW is/was not big enough to sustain them, no matter how good the products.
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Yes, I kinda did.
To my understanding, archaeological importance is about what we can learn from the discovery. So first a disclaimer; I do not know how much man has learned from recovering the Monitor, and nobody knows at of this moment what we will learn from investigating this ship (finding it in itself is not that big a deal).
The Monitor (and the Virginia (ex Merrimack)) changed the way wars was fought at sea. Thus it is one of the most important historical objects of naval warfare. (although it had severe and crippling limitations)
And although I recognize Arctic expeditions as much as the next Norwegian (a friend of mine is of Amundsen descent); in those days ships sometimes perished without trace. Amundsen himself perished, and has not been found.
I'm not saying this discovery is unimportant, but not _that_ important.
(Anyway I agree with parent, dead sea scrolls beats this discovery hands down (and maybe Tutankhamen's tomb itself)
Or the Monitor .http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Monitor#Rediscovery Or the Titanic for that matter.
Zip drives. Still used for confidential stuff.
That's genius. because... nobody else will be able to read them for lack of equipment
I once flew into London Heathrow on a clear Guy Fawkes night. I looked like the city was a boiling couldron of some glowing witch brew.
come on, this is 2014? with your own chips and your own firmware and a s**tload of OEMs ready to pull this kind of trick, they should have used signed firmwares. So if somebody tried flashing with a firmware mod, the chip would reject the firmware. signing key never leaves Nvidia premises This stuff is easy, as long as you design your own chips and your own firmware.
and rubbers weren't invented. they tied a sock around their cock, and babies were prevented.
If it was good enough for my great, great, great, great, great, great, great, granddad, it's good enough for me.
it wasn't. If it was, you would not be here.
I still believe that an SEP field is a much simpler solution. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_Else's_Problem. ANd it runs on a torch battery.
"This summer, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) plans to launch two amazingly cute yet advanced, white-helmeted robots into space. Then an astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) will attempt to **** with one of them."
vi is to computing what an 18-wheeler with an non-synchronised manual gearbox is to driving. Sure, there are case where you need it, but it is counter-intuitive and old-fashioned to anyone who has ever used a modern, end user tool. The problem with teaching vi is motivation. They're not just struggling with the concept of weird-sounding key shortcuts, they're struggling to understand why they need to learn such a tool when it is an apparently insanely difficult way to do something ANY editor has a standardised way of doing. And that "understanding" problem comes in the way of learning. So hold back on teaching vi until they are motivated to learn it (e.g when they need to change a config file over a terminal connection). Your comparison with variables is IMHO faulty - the concept of variables is much easier to understand, and it is much easier to be motivated to learn it. I learned my way around variables at 14, no sweat. At 20, (3 programming languages later) I was introduced to vi and but at 35 I still avoid using it unless I absolutely have to.
but the adjustments don't follow a clear pattern from 6 to 7 NOK for cheapest apps, from 8 to 9 NOK for itunes songs, Apples own keynote, pages and numbers are up from 109 to 112(iPad) TomTom Europe is up 53% (!) to 840 NOK http://www.macstories.net/news/itunes-connect-maintenance-could-mean-apple-is-eventually-recalibrating-international-itunes-prices/ explains the previousprice differences
Speaking of Ubuntu, this move screws them as well. FF is their current default browser. Will they be able to convince enterprises to go Ubuntu LTS if it is shipped with FF? Some distros may ditch FF because of this move, as enterprise support services are a major funding source for distros.
So we have an ex-comedian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Smith quoted by a _British_ tabloid quoted by Gizmodo quoted by Slashdot. Now that is what I call reliable info.
...play God?
If I gave you some random code, did not tell you what exactly it did but asked you to run it, would you run it?
if it comes with free Pr0n? Hell yeah!
It's clearly irresponsible to expose kids to some rulers; Saddam Hussein, Joseph Stalin and under certain conditions George W Bush
And then there would be plaintiff's legal fees, which, although the RIAA legal team might _sound_ like a broken record, would be substantially more than .99 per 3 minute "track"
I was provoked by Mr Browns statement which completely failed to mention Alan Turings contribution to computing science. The statement only addressess his war effort. By not recognizing Turing's contribution to science, Brown elegantly but cowardly avoids the issue of whether Turing deserves a nighthood or not (war heroes seldom get nighted). Indeed, the Enigma cracking helped saved the Europe I live in but at the same time it helped spawn the technology that is my passion and my paycheck.
Relax, it's a White Box.
Also the treaty says that no claims on land are accepted. Particularly the US have been strongly against it, thus Norway (we were there first, damn it!) and a few others technically have a territorial dispute with the US. Of course the US subsequently sets up 2 bases (McMurdo and the Pole itself), but that's another story...
Could somebody please mod the entire story Off Topic?
Second: Didn't your mother teach you never to ruin a perfectly good discussion with facts, of worse, first hand knowledge? Stop reading Slashdot and get back to running your company!
Third: According to the Trustix web site, Jo Uthus is/was still VP of product marketing, yet you've just (according to the press release above) hired him for the new company. That validates the comparison between the companies. Why would he do a better job for the new company than for the old?
The concept of rebranding the distribution to the new company will probably make some lawyers scratch their heads for a while.
However, most of Trustix' products are standard software (standard as in "you pay for the software but you actually only have a license to use it, blablabla" - just like in the Windoze world), and these products still belong to the bancrupt Trustix and will be part of the assets potentially to be sold on.
Actually, this is precisely the reason they were struggling, they had problems selling software the old fashion way to Linux users. Also, the one's that were willing to pay preferred standard stuff like Checkpoint.
IMHO the problem for Trustix was that the number of linux users willing to pay for SW is/was not big enough to sustain them, no matter how good the products.