But most manufacturers don't WANT to provide sources to their drivers
As someone who works on linux bug fixing for, among others, the hardware partners of a linux distro vendor I sense that changing day by day. Some never will publish but as a result those they compete with will generally have a lower per-developer cost of development leading to a higher rate of bug fixes alone for the vendors who do publish. Not publishing made sense when the PC was the only platform that mattered but I'm impressed by the number of x86/x86-64 build bugs I see for things being called point of sale systems. They are probably PC based but they are built in a way that means they'll never run Windows and there will be more of them in the end so the hardware with published source is probably a better choice for those manufacturers. I'm sure one of Intel's plans is to support them as hard as it can afford to. Those that follow the lead will probably do quite well. It's ironic that standardization of hardware was intended to make things cheap to mass-produce then we have mass-produced standard hardware interfaces that make incorporating a large variety of unique devices relatively easy and the cheapness comes from mass-produced software where standard libraries make the effort to handle each unique device very low cost and with just one third party developer interested in contributing to the final effort part of the cost for the hardware vendor is off-loaded. They only have to maintain control over what's accepted as code intended for their hardware.
Way to miss the point. No-one said the patches fix bugs discovered yesterday or anything about the fix duration. What they said was that the Fedora patches are released when ready, not when a scheduled event is available to include them in. IOW, if an identical bug is discovered the same day in both platforms and both R&D groups work on a fix and coincidentally both complete their fix the same day and it is two weeks to the Windows patch Tuesday the Fedora users will get the patch two weeks before the Windows users.
The bunch of equations that are thrown at the students are essay questions. Just because it says solve for X doesn't mean you are expected to give no more than the value of X. It usually means you are expected to show how X is obtained via your working (i.e. your essay in mathematical syntax). When I did math exams just giving the numerical value of the final answer to a question was usually marked incorrect since there was no evidence it was any different from a lucky guess.
Hi Chris, thanks for the response! It's maird rather than marid BTW but AD7GH or David works too;-) I have the parts for a pair of 125MHz NE-602 mixers en-route from Mouser as I write and they should be here on Monday. The ultimate goal is to extend a RTL2832 USB receiver that should get here in early February. So hoping for a nice little project for fun and some spare parts in case I blow it. I might just build it before the USB device gets here and test it on one of my other receivers. I watched the show Chris and I'm attracted to the project. I appreciate the explanation why HF isn't in the initial plan and the mixer in QST won't cope with a transmitter on the same antenna lead without more work anyway. Anyway, my main point is that I write software for a daily living at an open source maintainer, perhaps I can contribute...
Then if the future of 2m, 70cm is narrower channel bandwidth than is currently used (how could it not be given the public service channel bandwidth now used) the nice thing here is that you only have to install the ROM image with the new modulation, keeping the old bandwidth as a feature anyway. Leading to more space for local groups in the long term from free software. I'd bet the lack of 6m comes from one of the chips at the RF end being limited to 100MHz. It's quite easy to fill-in the 0-100MHz block for receive with a cheap mixer (see the article in this month's QST, pg 30 I think).
...most files aren't going to have enough data in the filename and tags (if any) to search for pictures from Uncle Bob's second wedding...
How many dates did it take place on and how many other things did you take pictures of on the same date(s)? The date of the wedding should be at least enough to get a search result with a high density of what you're looking for.
There is a pretty big "seam" between clicking on a pdf link to it being usable as a document in Firefox (IE too I imagine). It wouldn't require conversion of the pdf to html to close that, just render it in-place, in-process using native pdf rendering code as is being described. Presumably it will also allow for tidy nested references to pdf documents in html where the pdf is rendered in-place. Heck, if google have form input support in their pdf code and provide some access to the field names and contents from the hosting html document's scripts then it might help with reproducible printed output in web apps without leaving the app, a topic that came up in a previous story today. To preserve the intent of pdf I suppose it would still have to be framed in those scenarios though.
It's a no win situation for everyone. I wouldn't like to be arrested for an angry rant I _published_ but it would be my own fault if I was. I also wouldn't like for someone saying in public the kind of things that precipitated this to be ignored only because the people that noticed them aren't those with a direct relationship to the one saying them. I assume the kid (and his issues) would have been dealt with using the school's discipline system if it was school staff that had picked up a threat posted on Facebook. Since schools tend not to have the resources to monitor all of Facebook then what was the FBI to do...wait to see if there was a shooting and shrug their shoulders. I assume the kid's school will now use it's discipline system with him. If it's unpublished comments that provoke the response then there is definitely an issue of capable organizations doing the monitoring. Especially for US Citizens (see at least the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments) but I guess you could say, don't do/say something that provocative or at least explain yourself if you don't mean it literally.
If I understood the article, what you saw at high school isn't all the motion that took place. So you couldn't use what you saw to measure the velocity of a particle. What you saw was limited by the speed of light and there are changes in direction and speed that happen between the instants you observe. That's as far as I can follow it though. I don't see, for example, why it isn't frequency that's relevant to measuring it. After all, you can sample other events occurring every 100ns at only a 20MHz frequency.
The development builds of Lightning are compatible with Thunderbird 3 (and don't need an add-on for Google Calendar). Install the "Lightning Nightly Updater" extension (available from the TB add-on site). After the TB restart you should have a new Help menu item that will check for Lightning development builds and install the latest if supported. After that you should have Lightning in Thunderbird. Of course, you have to be comfortable using the development builds but you don't have to update every night after you get one that works ok. The 2009-12-08 05:39 PST build is working great for me so far on Linux and Windows.
For many companies getting "the latest OS when you buy a new computer" _is_ an OS upgrade. I used to work at a very large accountancy firm. They had a standard "load-set". Every new PC that came in the door got the load-set installed on it. I'm sure that's still true there. For many companies with lots of cubicles occupied by people all doing the same job I'm sure there is a pre-built load-set deployed on every PC when it arrives and before an employee gets it. Microsoft will have a hard time denying suport to lots of companies with tens of thousands of XP seats they don't want to...let's call it "replace with the latest OS".
I agree. That's the reason why I did my first DNS server install at home. My ISP was a telco and their DNS server was down a lot more frequently than their IP routing. Most of my Internet usage was evenings and weekends. The ISP was a 9-5 business for home users (i.e. not 5 nines). So, I'd have to wait hours, even days sometimes for name resolving to return. I've maintained my own DNS server ever since and never had to worry about it.
It's obviously not for everyone and there are reliable servers beyond many ISPs, like the Level 3 ones referred to in other posts.
If a Windows installer built the application on the box instead of copying pre-built binaries to the box then there wouldn't be a 32 bit/64 bit schism on Windows. This is why 64 bit is not an issue on linux. Junta's comment above about Adobe and Sun is well made but I feel comfortable believing that a 64 bit port is a lot easier for them on Linux than it is on Windows.
Of course, it comes back to whether application authors are ready to publish their source. It also would help if Microsoft was ready to make the compiler part of the platform - I know they publish free compilers but they are whole application stacks rather than utilities in the system directory - arguably disintegrated development environments:-)
I suspect there are very few real secrets in software and most of it is too complicated for it to be practical to cut and paste (i.e. steal) significant functionality. The upside of building on the box for commercial software companies is that they may end up employing developers they don't have to pay.
Well, putting my sarcastic response to your top post aside - Didn't you contribute to the noise by top posting about the noise, instead of top posting a technical comment that "The Vista Kernel has some cool features that other OSes don't, like network and I/O priority". Those kinds of comments frequently provoke informed (and interesting) debate about the technology. Though you would, of course, face a headwind - which can be overcome by keeping it technical, and maybe replacing words like cool with interesting/innovative/inetc.
That's the same thing as saying everyone at a Masonic Lodge meeting is a Freemason! The real problem you are describing is that the/. slogan isn't "News for Windows hating nerds, stuff that matters". Take that up with the management, I think the majority seem to be happy with the average karma distribution being the way it is. The news for Windows loving nerds is probably somewhere else, ZDNet perhaps.
Linux has an unfair advantage there (I for one am happy about it). Windows just isn't very portable - the original NT HAL portability notwithstanding. There are too many system calls - too much of the Windows SDK is in the kernel. I suspect the only way Microsoft can really have programmers migrate to 64 bit apps is to have parallel interfaces with different function names in the kernel (even more massive kernel and more maintenance); or parallel interface libraries with different names in user space (even more files and more maintenance) or shim libraries in user space. Only the last one is easy for developers but would run slower. Even then it's only easy if a developer can re-compile absolutely everything in their app or everything they can't compile is available as a 64 bit shim library. Given the amount of things that developers depend on (countless third party custom controls; ActiveX controls; libraries; etc) I see a migration of Windows apps to 64 bit happening tortuously slowly. I suppose.NET was always supposed to be the way out for Microsoft...
Well I suppose it may depend on which side you observe it from. It seems true that her personal circumstances have no bearing on her own guilt or innocence.
Her personal circumstances do appear to be a factor in the motive of and opportunity used by the RIAA <lawandorder/>. So, if the RIAA is guilty of some abuse then the fact that they chose someone vulnerable rather than someone capable of mounting an effective defense is a direct factor in their guilt even if not a factor in the defendant's guilt. Therefore, is it not a valid issue for the defense and a legitimate issue in court?
That's what I understand to be the case. I just got a PC at work and the PO and Invoice said "downgrade to XP" but it only came with a Vista key. What really bites is that Microsoft gets to pretend it sold one more Vista license. It's a neat trick on their part I suppose. More than 100 Million copies of Vista sold according to a January 2008 announcement. I wonder how may were actually XP installed with a Vista key. The number of Vista copies Microsoft claims to have sold is a worthless lie.
I admit I never read the article you provided a link to but just taking what you said at face value I don't believe the doppler effect is used to calculate instantaneous speed. The first obvious factor is that the higher the azimuth of a satellite relative to the receiver the smaller the doppler shift. When a satellite is directly overhead the shift is zero. Therefore, without already knowing your position in three dimensions and the position and instantaneous speed of all satellites you are receiving you can't calculate the triangle trigonometry that would be required to infer your instantaneous speed from doppler shift in the received satellite signal. FWIW, I understand the satellite position and time is in their telemetry. Taking things a step further the triangle trigonometry also requires that you know your angle of travel relative to the satellite. IOW, going up a mountain you would have a different doppler shift to the same satellite than when going down the same mountain even if the vehicle is traveling at the same ground speed in both cases. I believe you'd have to know your instantaneous position in 3 dimensions at the same sample rate as you were using to calculate the doppler shift. In which case you don't need the doppler shift since the rate of change of your position (which you are already calculating at the required rate) is your speed. I thought that GPS receivers calculated position only and did it based on calculating the intersection of three or more spheres the radius and centres of which are given by the orbital and time data each satellite transmits. Speed is then inferred from the rate of change of position.
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But most manufacturers don't WANT to provide sources to their drivers
As someone who works on linux bug fixing for, among others, the hardware partners of a linux distro vendor I sense that changing day by day. Some never will publish but as a result those they compete with will generally have a lower per-developer cost of development leading to a higher rate of bug fixes alone for the vendors who do publish. Not publishing made sense when the PC was the only platform that mattered but I'm impressed by the number of x86/x86-64 build bugs I see for things being called point of sale systems. They are probably PC based but they are built in a way that means they'll never run Windows and there will be more of them in the end so the hardware with published source is probably a better choice for those manufacturers. I'm sure one of Intel's plans is to support them as hard as it can afford to. Those that follow the lead will probably do quite well. It's ironic that standardization of hardware was intended to make things cheap to mass-produce then we have mass-produced standard hardware interfaces that make incorporating a large variety of unique devices relatively easy and the cheapness comes from mass-produced software where standard libraries make the effort to handle each unique device very low cost and with just one third party developer interested in contributing to the final effort part of the cost for the hardware vendor is off-loaded. They only have to maintain control over what's accepted as code intended for their hardware.
Way to miss the point. No-one said the patches fix bugs discovered yesterday or anything about the fix duration. What they said was that the Fedora patches are released when ready, not when a scheduled event is available to include them in. IOW, if an identical bug is discovered the same day in both platforms and both R&D groups work on a fix and coincidentally both complete their fix the same day and it is two weeks to the Windows patch Tuesday the Fedora users will get the patch two weeks before the Windows users.
The bunch of equations that are thrown at the students are essay questions. Just because it says solve for X doesn't mean you are expected to give no more than the value of X. It usually means you are expected to show how X is obtained via your working (i.e. your essay in mathematical syntax). When I did math exams just giving the numerical value of the final answer to a question was usually marked incorrect since there was no evidence it was any different from a lucky guess.
If they only made those catalogs soft, absorbent and with dye that doesn't run then at least it would be possible to save money on toilet paper.
Hi Chris, thanks for the response! It's maird rather than marid BTW but AD7GH or David works too ;-) I have the parts for a pair of 125MHz NE-602 mixers en-route from Mouser as I write and they should be here on Monday. The ultimate goal is to extend a RTL2832 USB receiver that should get here in early February. So hoping for a nice little project for fun and some spare parts in case I blow it. I might just build it before the USB device gets here and test it on one of my other receivers. I watched the show Chris and I'm attracted to the project. I appreciate the explanation why HF isn't in the initial plan and the mixer in QST won't cope with a transmitter on the same antenna lead without more work anyway. Anyway, my main point is that I write software for a daily living at an open source maintainer, perhaps I can contribute...
Then if the future of 2m, 70cm is narrower channel bandwidth than is currently used (how could it not be given the public service channel bandwidth now used) the nice thing here is that you only have to install the ROM image with the new modulation, keeping the old bandwidth as a feature anyway. Leading to more space for local groups in the long term from free software. I'd bet the lack of 6m comes from one of the chips at the RF end being limited to 100MHz. It's quite easy to fill-in the 0-100MHz block for receive with a cheap mixer (see the article in this month's QST, pg 30 I think).
There's the proof it's Windows 8 at least.
Search, don't sort.
...most files aren't going to have enough data in the filename and tags (if any) to search for pictures from Uncle Bob's second wedding...
How many dates did it take place on and how many other things did you take pictures of on the same date(s)? The date of the wedding should be at least enough to get a search result with a high density of what you're looking for.
There is a pretty big "seam" between clicking on a pdf link to it being usable as a document in Firefox (IE too I imagine). It wouldn't require conversion of the pdf to html to close that, just render it in-place, in-process using native pdf rendering code as is being described. Presumably it will also allow for tidy nested references to pdf documents in html where the pdf is rendered in-place. Heck, if google have form input support in their pdf code and provide some access to the field names and contents from the hosting html document's scripts then it might help with reproducible printed output in web apps without leaving the app, a topic that came up in a previous story today. To preserve the intent of pdf I suppose it would still have to be framed in those scenarios though.
It's a no win situation for everyone. I wouldn't like to be arrested for an angry rant I _published_ but it would be my own fault if I was. I also wouldn't like for someone saying in public the kind of things that precipitated this to be ignored only because the people that noticed them aren't those with a direct relationship to the one saying them. I assume the kid (and his issues) would have been dealt with using the school's discipline system if it was school staff that had picked up a threat posted on Facebook. Since schools tend not to have the resources to monitor all of Facebook then what was the FBI to do...wait to see if there was a shooting and shrug their shoulders. I assume the kid's school will now use it's discipline system with him. If it's unpublished comments that provoke the response then there is definitely an issue of capable organizations doing the monitoring. Especially for US Citizens (see at least the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments) but I guess you could say, don't do/say something that provocative or at least explain yourself if you don't mean it literally.
If I understood the article, what you saw at high school isn't all the motion that took place. So you couldn't use what you saw to measure the velocity of a particle. What you saw was limited by the speed of light and there are changes in direction and speed that happen between the instants you observe. That's as far as I can follow it though. I don't see, for example, why it isn't frequency that's relevant to measuring it. After all, you can sample other events occurring every 100ns at only a 20MHz frequency.
Yes, a letter i in your subject.
The development builds of Lightning are compatible with Thunderbird 3 (and don't need an add-on for Google Calendar). Install the "Lightning Nightly Updater" extension (available from the TB add-on site). After the TB restart you should have a new Help menu item that will check for Lightning development builds and install the latest if supported. After that you should have Lightning in Thunderbird. Of course, you have to be comfortable using the development builds but you don't have to update every night after you get one that works ok. The 2009-12-08 05:39 PST build is working great for me so far on Linux and Windows.
For many companies getting "the latest OS when you buy a new computer" _is_ an OS upgrade. I used to work at a very large accountancy firm. They had a standard "load-set". Every new PC that came in the door got the load-set installed on it. I'm sure that's still true there. For many companies with lots of cubicles occupied by people all doing the same job I'm sure there is a pre-built load-set deployed on every PC when it arrives and before an employee gets it. Microsoft will have a hard time denying suport to lots of companies with tens of thousands of XP seats they don't want to...let's call it "replace with the latest OS".
Still better than most Telcos DNS.
I agree. That's the reason why I did my first DNS server install at home. My ISP was a telco and their DNS server was down a lot more frequently than their IP routing. Most of my Internet usage was evenings and weekends. The ISP was a 9-5 business for home users (i.e. not 5 nines). So, I'd have to wait hours, even days sometimes for name resolving to return. I've maintained my own DNS server ever since and never had to worry about it.
It's obviously not for everyone and there are reliable servers beyond many ISPs, like the Level 3 ones referred to in other posts.
If a Windows installer built the application on the box instead of copying pre-built binaries to the box then there wouldn't be a 32 bit/64 bit schism on Windows. This is why 64 bit is not an issue on linux. Junta's comment above about Adobe and Sun is well made but I feel comfortable believing that a 64 bit port is a lot easier for them on Linux than it is on Windows.
Of course, it comes back to whether application authors are ready to publish their source. It also would help if Microsoft was ready to make the compiler part of the platform - I know they publish free compilers but they are whole application stacks rather than utilities in the system directory - arguably disintegrated development environments :-)
I suspect there are very few real secrets in software and most of it is too complicated for it to be practical to cut and paste (i.e. steal) significant functionality. The upside of building on the box for commercial software companies is that they may end up employing developers they don't have to pay.
Well, putting my sarcastic response to your top post aside - Didn't you contribute to the noise by top posting about the noise, instead of top posting a technical comment that "The Vista Kernel has some cool features that other OSes don't, like network and I/O priority". Those kinds of comments frequently provoke informed (and interesting) debate about the technology. Though you would, of course, face a headwind - which can be overcome by keeping it technical, and maybe replacing words like cool with interesting/innovative/inetc.
I generally agree with your point.
That's the same thing as saying everyone at a Masonic Lodge meeting is a Freemason! The real problem you are describing is that the /. slogan isn't "News for Windows hating nerds, stuff that matters". Take that up with the management, I think the majority seem to be happy with the average karma distribution being the way it is. The news for Windows loving nerds is probably somewhere else, ZDNet perhaps.
Linux has an unfair advantage there (I for one am happy about it). Windows just isn't very portable - the original NT HAL portability notwithstanding. There are too many system calls - too much of the Windows SDK is in the kernel. I suspect the only way Microsoft can really have programmers migrate to 64 bit apps is to have parallel interfaces with different function names in the kernel (even more massive kernel and more maintenance); or parallel interface libraries with different names in user space (even more files and more maintenance) or shim libraries in user space. Only the last one is easy for developers but would run slower. Even then it's only easy if a developer can re-compile absolutely everything in their app or everything they can't compile is available as a 64 bit shim library. Given the amount of things that developers depend on (countless third party custom controls; ActiveX controls; libraries; etc) I see a migration of Windows apps to 64 bit happening tortuously slowly. I suppose .NET was always supposed to be the way out for Microsoft...
This being slashdot, the error is probably just wishful thinking!
Well I suppose it may depend on which side you observe it from. It seems true that her personal circumstances have no bearing on her own guilt or innocence.
Her personal circumstances do appear to be a factor in the motive of and opportunity used by the RIAA <lawandorder/>. So, if the RIAA is guilty of some abuse then the fact that they chose someone vulnerable rather than someone capable of mounting an effective defense is a direct factor in their guilt even if not a factor in the defendant's guilt. Therefore, is it not a valid issue for the defense and a legitimate issue in court?
That's what I understand to be the case. I just got a PC at work and the PO and Invoice said "downgrade to XP" but it only came with a Vista key. What really bites is that Microsoft gets to pretend it sold one more Vista license. It's a neat trick on their part I suppose. More than 100 Million copies of Vista sold according to a January 2008 announcement. I wonder how may were actually XP installed with a Vista key. The number of Vista copies Microsoft claims to have sold is a worthless lie.
I had to ask...on what hardware is Vista twice as fast?
Maybe skimming TFA wasn't the best basis for comment. The article mentions no power issue at the client. It's basically saying that:
I admit I never read the article you provided a link to but just taking what you said at face value I don't believe the doppler effect is used to calculate instantaneous speed. The first obvious factor is that the higher the azimuth of a satellite relative to the receiver the smaller the doppler shift. When a satellite is directly overhead the shift is zero. Therefore, without already knowing your position in three dimensions and the position and instantaneous speed of all satellites you are receiving you can't calculate the triangle trigonometry that would be required to infer your instantaneous speed from doppler shift in the received satellite signal. FWIW, I understand the satellite position and time is in their telemetry. Taking things a step further the triangle trigonometry also requires that you know your angle of travel relative to the satellite. IOW, going up a mountain you would have a different doppler shift to the same satellite than when going down the same mountain even if the vehicle is traveling at the same ground speed in both cases. I believe you'd have to know your instantaneous position in 3 dimensions at the same sample rate as you were using to calculate the doppler shift. In which case you don't need the doppler shift since the rate of change of your position (which you are already calculating at the required rate) is your speed. I thought that GPS receivers calculated position only and did it based on calculating the intersection of three or more spheres the radius and centres of which are given by the orbital and time data each satellite transmits. Speed is then inferred from the rate of change of position.