Well, the last time I looked (admittedly, a couple or so years ago), the major portion of software spending (80% - 90%) was on bespoke and vertical market applications which seem to be completely ignored by the article. (That is, the article concentrates on horizontal products such as OSes, word processors, programming systems; e.g.: languages and DBMSes.) While it's true that a large amount of this is taken by such items as military, aerospace, and big enterprise systems, there is still a large body of smaller systems so developed, from web sites (agreed that it is more graphic design and usability than programming) to software that tracks your milk production from goats and their lineage and feeding.
Since there are many smaller companies which can use software oriented to their specialisation, I think there is plenty of potential work for individual programmers and small groups as many of these types of applications are not profitable for the big, big, big software house.
Firstly, it's a levy, not a tax; basically this means the charge is based on something other (i.e. storage capacity) than price or cost. Secondly, it is collected by SLOCAN, the Canadian organisation which handles copyright issues for musicians and composers.
The last time I checked (a few months ago), there have been no monies paid out.
From the article: ' And scientists from the NASA Ames Research Center developed speech recognition technology that allows users to speak silently. The scheme uses throat nerve activity rather than acoustics to glean information about what a person is saying.'
I wonder if this means that people who move their lips when they read have an advantage using this technology? (Only partially tongue-in-cheek).
'Maybe as a wireless remote to a server, the thing would be okay, but you then need the kind of wireless environment to support it. (Love to work there.) PARC probably has something like that set up already.'
From the same paragraph: 'The evaluation asked questions that were intended to test the ability of students to recognize what mathematical calculations were needed, and then to perform them, and to deal with questions that they would confront as citizens.'
So: the test was on practical applications of mathematics, thus I would expect those who focused more on theorems and the like to not do so well. However, practical applications of maths is no more mathematics than engineering is physics or programming is computer science. Important as a life skill, yes; but it does not warrant the post's claims.
'Mathematical formulas indicate an understanding of such laws,...'
Another view, that I find interesting, and am tempted to subscribe to, is:
Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover. - Bertrand Russell
I did (and even before posting!). The pre-launch doppler tests were not done due to cost and the required [?] partial disassembly of the craft, etc., (as stated above). Obviously, such a test did not require this.
'See, in America, we are the first democracy to function continuously for 200 years. Not even Greece or Rome could do that.'
You may want to check out Iceland's Allthing - established in 930 A.D. (Even given the union with Norway in the 13th century, that's over 240 years, and the Allthing was still present.)
'If you have a comment on why you don't want the governemnt reading your email please post it here.'
It's not I who have to justify or give any reason why I don't want my mail read; rather, the state must justify why they should have the right to read my mail.
They may wish to take a page from Ada, for which there is a carefully developed conformance test suite which is maintained by a specific authority. In addition, Ada was a trademarked name, so control over valid implementations was maintained.
'So soon Disney can be busted for all their profits drawn from infringing on the then-copyrighted intellectual property of the Grimm fairy tales.'
Actually, the Grimm brothers were collectors of the oral tradition; they did not originally write the faerie tales they published. (I guess Anon could sue Disney;^)
Torvalds had to wrestle the term back under the control of the open-source community after lawyers representing William Della Croce, who had registered the name as a trademark, started demanding royalties in 1996 from U.S. Linux vendors for using the word.
(CNET)
The name 'Linux' is now a (US) registered (by Linus) Trade Mark.
I would have thought so, too. However, I focused on the phrase: 'there is a legal reason why it cannot allow [others to apply your trademark to their derivative works]'. I assume that this is required so as not to dilute your trade mark or so as not to falsely describe the goods. Either would make sense from a legal point of view, although the latter would imply that persons other than Linus could complain.
I find this paragraph in the above linked Trademark article interesting:
Trademarks can also limit certain kinds of forking of free and open source code. While
your software license may allow others to make derivative works of your code, the license doesn't allow (indeed, there is a legal reason why it cannot allow) others to apply your trademark to their derivative works.[emphasis mine]
This implies to me that using a kernel derived from Linux, but outside of Linus' control, in your product would disallow you from calling it Linux. How does this affect distros which do provide their own derived kernels? I believe that, e.g., Red Hat does this. Should they not be allowed to use the trade mark 'Linux'?
Assuming you're not trying to be funny, it stands for 'Not a Number' and is the IEEE standard designation for a failed floating point operation (e.g.: divide by zero).
'One of the study issues for Yucca Mountain is how do you mark deadly waste so that someone ten thousand years from now will deduce that is lethal and leave it alone.'
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While it's true that a large amount of this is taken by such items as military, aerospace, and big enterprise systems, there is still a large body of smaller systems so developed, from web sites (agreed that it is more graphic design and usability than programming) to software that tracks your milk production from goats and their lineage and feeding.
Since there are many smaller companies which can use software oriented to their specialisation, I think there is plenty of potential work for individual programmers and small groups as many of these types of applications are not profitable for the big, big, big software house.
The last time I checked (a few months ago), there have been no monies paid out.
I wonder if this means that people who move their lips when they read have an advantage using this technology?
(Only partially tongue-in-cheek).
Yes, they do (or did) and called it ubiquitous computing.
So: the test was on practical applications of mathematics, thus I would expect those who focused more on theorems and the like to not do so well.
However, practical applications of maths is no more mathematics than engineering is physics or programming is computer science. Important as a life skill, yes; but it does not warrant the post's claims.
Quebec has its own, peculiar laws concerning contests such that many are not allowed to be offered there. (I don't recall the details).
No, but the bottle slipped under the brake pedal and I couldn't stop 'til I hit the cop car!
Another view, that I find interesting, and am tempted to subscribe to, is:
- Albert Einstein, Sidelights on Relativity
I did (and even before posting!). The pre-launch doppler tests were not done due to cost and the required [?] partial disassembly of the craft, etc., (as stated above). Obviously, such a test did not require this.
But they actually ran the test that detected the problem from Earth while Cassini was en route; obviously, the craft did not have to be disassembled.
You may want to check out Ada. There was a strong Pascal influence in it's early specifications.
You may want to check out Iceland's Allthing - established in 930 A.D.
(Even given the union with Norway in the 13th century, that's over 240 years, and the Allthing was still present.)
So to whom will they sell their shares?
Attempts for 'fr1st m0d'?
Smalltalk 80 did this by making periodic snapshots of the image.
It's not I who have to justify or give any reason why I don't want my mail read; rather, the state must justify why they should have the right to read my mail.
They may wish to take a page from Ada, for which there is a carefully developed conformance test suite which is maintained by a specific authority.
In addition, Ada was a trademarked name, so control over valid implementations was maintained.
Actually, the Grimm brothers were collectors of the oral tradition; they did not originally write the faerie tales they published. (I guess Anon could sue Disney ;^)
The name 'Linux' is now a (US) registered (by Linus) Trade Mark.
I would have thought so, too.
However, I focused on the phrase: 'there is a legal reason why it cannot allow [others to apply your trademark to their derivative works]'.
I assume that this is required so as not to dilute your trade mark or so as not to falsely describe the goods. Either would make sense from a legal point of view, although the latter would imply that persons other than Linus could complain.
This implies to me that using a kernel derived from Linux, but outside of Linus' control, in your product would disallow you from calling it Linux. How does this affect distros which do provide their own derived kernels? I believe that, e.g., Red Hat does this. Should they not be allowed to use the trade mark 'Linux'?
Assuming you're not trying to be funny, it stands for 'Not a Number' and is the IEEE standard designation for a failed floating point operation (e.g.: divide by zero).
This looks like a job for goatse.cx!
Jeez, Catcher in the Rye is still being "challenged". I thought that had ended when I was a kid (in the 50s/60s).