The giant spike is probably from the IBM's 2004 Super Bowl ad. It's not that interest is trailing off, it's just that it hasn't been getting the media exposure that it got all at once at that one time. I wonder if Mr. Shuttleworth has put any thought into grabbing another Super Bowl spot.
Guh~, I only saw this post after I replied in this thread. Stupid stupid stupid, mod parent up!! Beryl owns OSX and Vista so hard it's not even funny. And it's still is very beta.
Firstly, that is a false premise. Not everyone wants profit. There are those of us who are content to get by. There isn't a rule that says you must be consumed with the persuit of wealth.
Secondly, that's two assumptions, that don't necessarily follow eachother. Just because something is profitable doesn't mean the price is going to go down, for example: Oil, Microsoft, Diamonds. In fact, you're dream of a purely competitive society completely breaks down when any one person or group of people gains a large enough share of the wealth. You fail to take into account that perhaps rich people realize that if you keep poor people fighting each other you won't have to worry about them becoming powerful enough to take you on.
Thirdly, the FDA was established for very good reasons, Food Safety and Drug Safety. Perhaps you haven't read enough history, or perhaps you just chose to ignore it. The only critism that can possibly be leveled at the FDA is about their handling of the drug market. But that's just as much the fault of the drug companies themselves, they hyper-advertise driving up their own costs. This point, of course, brings us back to competition gone awry.
Forthly, that is the largest piece of bullshit I have ever heard on slashdot. If you're going to make a claim as sensational as the FDA is unconstitutional you had better be able to back it up.
And finally, the Underwriters Labs have no domestic competition whatsoever. Ironic, isn't it? It certainly functions well. I think you are mistaking indepentent with competitive. The reason why it runs smoothly is because it's well known, it's not an abusive monopoly, and it doesn't go out of it's way to make more money. It's happy making it's own share. Drive for profits? Hardly. And to emphasize, there is NO REASON that a government organization could not theoretically provide that task. However, anti-tax, anti-government maniacs, like the ones we have in the White House now, are going to ax spending, and these service things, like the DMV you like to bring up all the time, are the first ones to get cut. The reason why the DMV is open such short hours isn't because they aren't feeling competitive pressure, it's because they are feeling finacial pressure, because they aren't being properly funded.
Preaching anarchocapitalism is like walking into a greedy, powerful man's noose. It's exactly what they want, because at the end of the day, they are the ones with the overwhelming advantage against you. And you can bet your ass that they are working together.
The main difference between this and if MySpace were doing it is: if MySpace put protections in place and just one sex offender was missed and wound up molesting some kid, MySpace would be culpable. But if protections are not in place, then it's not MySpaces responsibility. By taking responsibility it become their responsibility and not the responsibility of the kid or their parents...
Sure it's trivial to find some child predators with a 1000 line perl script, but finding everyone of them would be nearly impossible.
It doesn't matter if you use OSS or Closed Source, it's a lossy format. Sure you might not be able to hear the encoding on a 256kbps audio file, if you've only just encoded it, but try transencoding a file from aac to ogg to mp3 all at 256kbps and see if you can't hear the compression.
FLAC is the only logical choice if you think you might have to reencode later. Or burn back to a CD, or remix the track, or make a home movie with it, etc. etc. etc.
Short clairification, I don't believe that if the kernel interface were anymore stable it would convince more modem manufacturers to produce drivers for Linux. Long story short, they don't care. It's not a big enough segment of the market yet to worry about. And they have enough trouble getting their drivers working under Windows.
From a performance perspective it's better, from a troubleshooting perspective it's better. I haven't made a computer with a modem in it since 2002, but before that I used all hardware modems. The difference between a hardware modem and a software modem is usually around $20. You're spending how many hundred dollars on your computer? Not to mention the fact that drivers of cheaper modems are more intrusive on Windows, and for the most part completely non-existant on Linux.
It's ultimately up to the person. I can buy a $1 DAC/ADC for $20, or I can buy a $15 ASIC for $40.
Are you blind or did you just not read what I wrote? Crappy hardware was directed at manufacturers of Winmodems and Winprinters and other hardware that just relays raw signals to the CPU for processing. Video Cards are not traditionally included in this, infact that would be completely counter to the purpose of a Video Card.
There should be no IP for NVidia to protect from ATI and vica versa within the driver. That's just not the way drivers work. If there were then the Open Source nvidia and ati drivers wouldn't exist at all. Let alone in the shabby shape they're in right now.
This ought to be a non-issue. Because at least ATI and NVidia should have nothing to lose. Plus, it'll help prevent another Quake III fiasco. Plus, they'll have community devs working on it, so that's less dev time that they have to pay for.
And just for the record, Free/Open source software Puritanism is what made Linux what it is today. Why fix it when it's not broken?
If more of your value is in your drivers than in your hardware, you make crappy hardware. Good hardware yeilds drivers that don't disclose any secrets about your product because all you need is an interface. Cheap hardware offloads what should be happening on the hardware to your CPU. That's the difference between Winmodems and real modems.
If you manufacture good hardware there isn't a reason in the world that you should be timid about releasing open source drivers. This has baffled me forever. Even major players like NVidia or ATI shouldn't have anything to worry about because the only thing you are making public is the interface. And that has jackall to do with what's actually happening under the hood.
Now, if you are a manufacturer of crappy hardware, then you really do have a reason to keep your drivers binary, but guess what, if you make your investment in software you have to deal with consquences of that investment. And the main one is you have to worry a whole lot more about the environment that you're drivers will be in. That's a consquence of the buisness model.
Last time I checked $100 more than $100 was twice the price. With embedded XP the extra memory and CPU will be wasted, so you end up paying twice the amount for a comparable machine.
That really adds up after millions of laptops. Sure, you don't *have* to buy them millions at a time, but when you're aiming at selling them to governments to redistribute them you wind up doing that anyway, so I don't see how that's a big deal.
It's pretty much an aircraft simulator. Does simulations of dogfights and missles. Surface to Air, Air to Surface and Air to Air. That's pretty much all I know about it.
In practice the US Military does this quite a bit, unfortunately.
It's actually kinda funny (read: ironic.) My roommate works on Jaam (actually, my roommate and his boss *are* Jaam,) and according to him, he's allowed to know far more about Red aircraft than he is about Blue. Why? Because info on Red aircraft were obtained through spying or diplomacy, information about Blue aircraft is tightly controlled by the companies that make them.
And that's your daily dose of "our government is insane."
IANA Expert in Fluid Dynamics; however, though an exact solution exists, this doesn't mean that it'll be easy to find even if we have a method or formula to solve it exactly.
Here's an example. Two board, one 3m and one 2m are laying crisscross in an alley, with one end in each corner of the alley, and laying the other end on the opposite wall.
Their intersection is exactly 1m from the ground, how wide is the alley?
This problem is very easy to find a numeric solution, but suprisingly difficult to find the exact solution (by hand). But we already know the method to find it, it's simple algebra.
Just because an exact solution exists doesn't mean it's pratical or it will be used, if the approximation is good enough, or much faster. As I understand it though, Fluid Dynamics is a chaotic system. So an exact solution is probably preferrable unless the calculation disparity is wide enough. Just thought I'd point out the obvious because no one else was doing it.
Huh? I know I find it very useful when the entity in question allows you to search through your past searches. (*cough* Google *cough*)
And honestly, how would you know if search companies don't actually take your search history into account. Quality is a very subjective measurement, and you don't actually know what's going on behind the scenes.
I honestly would not mind my search history made public. It's nothing interesting, I don't look up loli porn. And the most incriminating thing I have on it is probably a search for "Dattebayo." Because I'm a Narutard. (Well, Bleach-tard, same thing really)
Now, I'm not about to claim the logical fallicy "Only the Guilty Have Things to Hide." But if I actually had things to hide I WOULDN'T GIVE THEM TO A BUISNESS. Hell, it's your own damn fault if you searched for something incriminating without taking precautions.
I didn't research back that far. However, it does prove my actual point that allegations of election fraud aren't something that's a Democratic or Republican trait. It only really happens when there's something to back it up with.
Thank you for vicariously proving my point. I'm sure if I would have pointed that out in my post I wouldn't have been modded 40% overratted.
I'm not saying the Democrats commit election fraud. I'm not saying the Republicans commit election fraud. What I am saying is that at no presidential election before 2000 was election fraud even brought up.
Not in 1996, 1992...1976, 1972, 1968 etc.
So, why is it that accusing someone of election fraud is now automatically a Democratic trait? The Democrats didn't accuse anyone of election fraud when Reagan or Bush Mk.I took office, not when Nixon destroyed McGovern. Just as the Republicans didn't call shenaigans when Clinton, Carter, and Johnson won.
Maybe there's evidence this time? Something that wasn't there every other election.
When was the last time Microsoft actually listened to a bug report? Especially since XP and that stupid automated bug reporting doohickey, I'm sure the signal to noise ratio has shot way down. And those aren't exactly useful for finding and fixing security flaws for the most part, mostly it's there to make the customer feel like Microsoft cares.
There are tons of bugs in the Windows API, some of which have been there since at least Win98, that Microsoft knows about, that they haven't done shit with. If it doesn't get press it doesn't get fixed. For example Online Solutions.
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That's what astroturfing is for.
The giant spike is probably from the IBM's 2004 Super Bowl ad. It's not that interest is trailing off, it's just that it hasn't been getting the media exposure that it got all at once at that one time. I wonder if Mr. Shuttleworth has put any thought into grabbing another Super Bowl spot.
And have Cheney be president? Screw that!
Guh~, I only saw this post after I replied in this thread. Stupid stupid stupid, mod parent up!! Beryl owns OSX and Vista so hard it's not even funny. And it's still is very beta.
Meta is Alt. Not Win.
Firstly, that is a false premise. Not everyone wants profit. There are those of us who are content to get by. There isn't a rule that says you must be consumed with the persuit of wealth.
Secondly, that's two assumptions, that don't necessarily follow eachother. Just because something is profitable doesn't mean the price is going to go down, for example: Oil, Microsoft, Diamonds. In fact, you're dream of a purely competitive society completely breaks down when any one person or group of people gains a large enough share of the wealth. You fail to take into account that perhaps rich people realize that if you keep poor people fighting each other you won't have to worry about them becoming powerful enough to take you on.
Thirdly, the FDA was established for very good reasons, Food Safety and Drug Safety. Perhaps you haven't read enough history, or perhaps you just chose to ignore it. The only critism that can possibly be leveled at the FDA is about their handling of the drug market. But that's just as much the fault of the drug companies themselves, they hyper-advertise driving up their own costs. This point, of course, brings us back to competition gone awry.
Forthly, that is the largest piece of bullshit I have ever heard on slashdot. If you're going to make a claim as sensational as the FDA is unconstitutional you had better be able to back it up.
And finally, the Underwriters Labs have no domestic competition whatsoever. Ironic, isn't it? It certainly functions well. I think you are mistaking indepentent with competitive. The reason why it runs smoothly is because it's well known, it's not an abusive monopoly, and it doesn't go out of it's way to make more money. It's happy making it's own share. Drive for profits? Hardly. And to emphasize, there is NO REASON that a government organization could not theoretically provide that task. However, anti-tax, anti-government maniacs, like the ones we have in the White House now, are going to ax spending, and these service things, like the DMV you like to bring up all the time, are the first ones to get cut. The reason why the DMV is open such short hours isn't because they aren't feeling competitive pressure, it's because they are feeling finacial pressure, because they aren't being properly funded.
Preaching anarchocapitalism is like walking into a greedy, powerful man's noose. It's exactly what they want, because at the end of the day, they are the ones with the overwhelming advantage against you. And you can bet your ass that they are working together.
The main difference between this and if MySpace were doing it is: if MySpace put protections in place and just one sex offender was missed and wound up molesting some kid, MySpace would be culpable. But if protections are not in place, then it's not MySpaces responsibility. By taking responsibility it become their responsibility and not the responsibility of the kid or their parents...
Sure it's trivial to find some child predators with a 1000 line perl script, but finding everyone of them would be nearly impossible.
It doesn't matter if you use OSS or Closed Source, it's a lossy format. Sure you might not be able to hear the encoding on a 256kbps audio file, if you've only just encoded it, but try transencoding a file from aac to ogg to mp3 all at 256kbps and see if you can't hear the compression.
FLAC is the only logical choice if you think you might have to reencode later. Or burn back to a CD, or remix the track, or make a home movie with it, etc. etc. etc.
Short clairification, I don't believe that if the kernel interface were anymore stable it would convince more modem manufacturers to produce drivers for Linux. Long story short, they don't care. It's not a big enough segment of the market yet to worry about. And they have enough trouble getting their drivers working under Windows.
From a performance perspective it's better, from a troubleshooting perspective it's better. I haven't made a computer with a modem in it since 2002, but before that I used all hardware modems. The difference between a hardware modem and a software modem is usually around $20. You're spending how many hundred dollars on your computer? Not to mention the fact that drivers of cheaper modems are more intrusive on Windows, and for the most part completely non-existant on Linux.
It's ultimately up to the person. I can buy a $1 DAC/ADC for $20, or I can buy a $15 ASIC for $40.
Are you blind or did you just not read what I wrote? Crappy hardware was directed at manufacturers of Winmodems and Winprinters and other hardware that just relays raw signals to the CPU for processing. Video Cards are not traditionally included in this, infact that would be completely counter to the purpose of a Video Card.
There should be no IP for NVidia to protect from ATI and vica versa within the driver. That's just not the way drivers work. If there were then the Open Source nvidia and ati drivers wouldn't exist at all. Let alone in the shabby shape they're in right now.
This ought to be a non-issue. Because at least ATI and NVidia should have nothing to lose. Plus, it'll help prevent another Quake III fiasco. Plus, they'll have community devs working on it, so that's less dev time that they have to pay for.
And just for the record, Free/Open source software Puritanism is what made Linux what it is today. Why fix it when it's not broken?
News to me and to wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_10
If more of your value is in your drivers than in your hardware, you make crappy hardware. Good hardware yeilds drivers that don't disclose any secrets about your product because all you need is an interface. Cheap hardware offloads what should be happening on the hardware to your CPU. That's the difference between Winmodems and real modems.
If you manufacture good hardware there isn't a reason in the world that you should be timid about releasing open source drivers. This has baffled me forever. Even major players like NVidia or ATI shouldn't have anything to worry about because the only thing you are making public is the interface. And that has jackall to do with what's actually happening under the hood.
Now, if you are a manufacturer of crappy hardware, then you really do have a reason to keep your drivers binary, but guess what, if you make your investment in software you have to deal with consquences of that investment. And the main one is you have to worry a whole lot more about the environment that you're drivers will be in. That's a consquence of the buisness model.
Last time I checked $100 more than $100 was twice the price. With embedded XP the extra memory and CPU will be wasted, so you end up paying twice the amount for a comparable machine.
That really adds up after millions of laptops. Sure, you don't *have* to buy them millions at a time, but when you're aiming at selling them to governments to redistribute them you wind up doing that anyway, so I don't see how that's a big deal.
Sure, send them an e-mail. Let us know how that works out, and if there's any titty bars in the afterlife.
Stands for "Joint Anti-Air Model(?)"
It's pretty much an aircraft simulator. Does simulations of dogfights and missles. Surface to Air, Air to Surface and Air to Air. That's pretty much all I know about it.
In practice the US Military does this quite a bit, unfortunately.
It's actually kinda funny (read: ironic.) My roommate works on Jaam (actually, my roommate and his boss *are* Jaam,) and according to him, he's allowed to know far more about Red aircraft than he is about Blue. Why? Because info on Red aircraft were obtained through spying or diplomacy, information about Blue aircraft is tightly controlled by the companies that make them.
And that's your daily dose of "our government is insane."
IANA Expert in Fluid Dynamics; however, though an exact solution exists, this doesn't mean that it'll be easy to find even if we have a method or formula to solve it exactly.
Here's an example. Two board, one 3m and one 2m are laying crisscross in an alley, with one end in each corner of the alley, and laying the other end on the opposite wall.
Their intersection is exactly 1m from the ground, how wide is the alley?
This problem is very easy to find a numeric solution, but suprisingly difficult to find the exact solution (by hand). But we already know the method to find it, it's simple algebra.
Just because an exact solution exists doesn't mean it's pratical or it will be used, if the approximation is good enough, or much faster. As I understand it though, Fluid Dynamics is a chaotic system. So an exact solution is probably preferrable unless the calculation disparity is wide enough. Just thought I'd point out the obvious because no one else was doing it.
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they will sure lower their prices to compensate for that.
How do you keep a straight face when you say things like that?
Huh? I know I find it very useful when the entity in question allows you to search through your past searches. (*cough* Google *cough*)
And honestly, how would you know if search companies don't actually take your search history into account. Quality is a very subjective measurement, and you don't actually know what's going on behind the scenes.
I honestly would not mind my search history made public. It's nothing interesting, I don't look up loli porn. And the most incriminating thing I have on it is probably a search for "Dattebayo." Because I'm a Narutard. (Well, Bleach-tard, same thing really)
Now, I'm not about to claim the logical fallicy "Only the Guilty Have Things to Hide." But if I actually had things to hide I WOULDN'T GIVE THEM TO A BUISNESS. Hell, it's your own damn fault if you searched for something incriminating without taking precautions.
I didn't research back that far. However, it does prove my actual point that allegations of election fraud aren't something that's a Democratic or Republican trait. It only really happens when there's something to back it up with.
Thank you for vicariously proving my point. I'm sure if I would have pointed that out in my post I wouldn't have been modded 40% overratted.
I'm not saying the Democrats commit election fraud. I'm not saying the Republicans commit election fraud. What I am saying is that at no presidential election before 2000 was election fraud even brought up.
Not in 1996, 1992...1976, 1972, 1968 etc.
So, why is it that accusing someone of election fraud is now automatically a Democratic trait? The Democrats didn't accuse anyone of election fraud when Reagan or Bush Mk.I took office, not when Nixon destroyed McGovern. Just as the Republicans didn't call shenaigans when Clinton, Carter, and Johnson won.
Maybe there's evidence this time? Something that wasn't there every other election.
When was the last time Microsoft actually listened to a bug report? Especially since XP and that stupid automated bug reporting doohickey, I'm sure the signal to noise ratio has shot way down. And those aren't exactly useful for finding and fixing security flaws for the most part, mostly it's there to make the customer feel like Microsoft cares.
There are tons of bugs in the Windows API, some of which have been there since at least Win98, that Microsoft knows about, that they haven't done shit with. If it doesn't get press it doesn't get fixed. For example Online Solutions.
There are no stupid questions.
There are, however, quite a few inquisitive idiots.