All corporations are foreign now - multinationals have no allegiance to you or your nation, regardless of the origins, or the country that their CEO comes from.
But a lot of the requirements to stay GPL-pure do not sound like freedoms to me- requiring you not to buy certain(most) products, visit certain sites
Could you cite examples of websites and products you must avoid? I'm aware that you must avoid certain source code if you wish to develop software with a corresponding function on the other side of the OSS divide, but I'm not aware of products I must avoid to be able to continue to use GPL?
.NET gets this right, as it happens - the administrator can grant or deny permissions on a fine-grained level, on a per-app or per publisher basis. The downside to that, though, is that if your app isn't well written, the permissions exception will kill it, which is a big no-no on a phone.
You can do automatic static analysis to determine which APIs the app calls, which provides a list of permissions it might request, but doing analysis to check that it copes with permission denied exceptions is much harder, so you can understand their choice.
What really sticks in my craw is that despite doing this static analysis, and providing this information on the Android market, you can't filter the listings based on the permissions that an app requests.
Anecdote : my wife wanted a bible reader app. I couldn't find a single one, paid or free, that didn't want what I considered an unnecessary level of permissions for something that is essentially an offline eBook reader. What the hell does a bible app need SMS, or contact list access for? In the end, she just installed the one she liked the look of the most, even though I couldn't say I approved of any of them. And I'm sure most people won't even consider it, and click through.
From an evolutionary POV, it should be the older guys hitting on younger women (you might think that I'm above a certain age, I couldn't possibly comment).
You can only really examine a man for his propensity for success - both culutral and genetic - until he gets out of his twenties. Alas, women have a certain reproductive shelf life. The inbuilt male interest in younger women is a reflection of this - older women are less likely to be fertile, more likely to have troublesome pregnancies, more likely to have children with birth defects. On the other hand, for a man to have reached his forties at all, let alone with all his faculties intact, was no mean feat for much of the history of the human race. A woman would have to weigh this kind of mate in the balance - the advantages of his experience and the proof of his superior genetic quality, versus the possibility that he'll peg out and not be around to provide resources for her - but you can see how a middle aged man is, from an evolutionary point of view, a much better bet than a younger man.
Perhaps the stereotype of the mid-life crisis is actually just a successful evolutionary strategy that just receives bad press. Or perhaps I'm just sucking on those sour grapes...:-)
My favourite Stephenson is "The Diamond Age", mostly for the hope it engenders for our future - a future with a mature nanotechnology might have it's own problems, but it will certainly provide for more possible solutions to the problems we have right now.
Fine ; send me the links to the peer reviewed papers that prove that the Ribbon is more productive.
Which is more likely - that businesses just replace Office as their machines go out of commission, or that they performed a systematic experiment to determine which was more productive? Do you have a single example of a business that actually even attempted to measure productivity in office applications?
Never mind Office still being *supported*. People buy newer copies of Office because they can't buy the older ones when they expand their business, it reaches critical mass, and then they just migrate everyone to the new version.
The DVB-T signal actually contains an accurate time stamp though ; I use it to set the clock on my MythTV box because the network connection can be kind of patchy.
There's no reason for an encoding / decoding delay on digital teletext - it's included as additional streams in the multiplex and not in the vertical blanking interval (because there isn't one in a digital TV stream), so it's not tied to the video at all.
It's more likely that your STB sets it's internal clock at a long interval and has a stupid amount of clock drift.
I know more about managing Ubuntu than Redhat or CentOS, because I use Ubuntu on my desktop machines. When your primary job is not being a sysadmin, but you have to do it anyway because you don't have enough staff for a dedicated sysadmin, then cross-skilling is helpful.
Writers don't deserve profits unless their name or the reputation of their work guarantees box office.
I think that suggesting that JK Rowling didn't bring her reputation to the Harry Potter films is stretching it. The books were a runaway success even before the films. The book series had got up to Goblet of Fire (the fourth book) by the time of the first film release ; I remember the vast piles of Goblet of Fire that supermarkets laid out, and sold, within hours of release, shortly after midnight.
Rowling brought so much clout with her that she was able to insist on a British cast, British production, British studios, etc. She single-handedly put a shot in the arm of the British film industry that will invigorate it for years to come. She is probably one of the few writers to have so much control over the film version of her work in the history of Hollywood. As is probably obvious from comments elsewhere in the thread, her insistence on gross points was smart, because if she had settled for net, she would have been royally screwed.
With all 8 films having yearly world box office receipts ranked first, second, or third in their year, there is no way on Earth that they made a loss. If those films made a loss, I want to know who the secret cabal of financiers is, who just love movies so much that they are prepared to endlessly pour money into making them, even when they ALL tank so badly.
If postcodes are copyright, then everyone who uses one should be paying a license fee, right?
Just point this out, then everyone stops using the postcode, and see how quickly they come around when they have to employ many, many more sorting staff for each post office.
You ever heard of a “Japanese Inspection?” Japanese Inspection, you see, when the Japs take in a load of lettuce they’re not sure they wanna let in the country, why they’ll just let it sit there on the dock ’til they get good and ready to look at, But then of course, it’s all gone rotten ain’t nothing left to inspect. You see, lettuce is a perishable item
(from "Days of Thunder")
From day 1, the behaviour of the authorities on this case has stunk. The first thing that struck me about their arrest of Kim Dotcom was that they turned up at his mansion with a trailer, and hauled away his pink Cadillac right there on the spot - confiscating his property before he'd even had a trial.
If they are evidence, they go into the custody of the authorities. They don't sit there, rotting away the funds of the company, unless of course, that's the intention.
Well, there's TFA, which has a nice clear table, page 1, documenting that cases of pertussis are much more common in unvaccinated individuals.
BTW, I did a systematic review of pertussis vaccination papers for the epidemiological section of my medical degree, so I do have some clue here. Cherry picking a single paper that supports your POV is not scientific. Vaccination works.
Ever hear of the birthday paradox? There's a 50% chance that two people share the same birthday - an event with a 1/365 incidence - in a group of just 23 people. I'm willing to bet that the vaccination rate is MUCH less than 99.8% (in Oregon, it's anecdotally between 25 and 75%), and that school and kindergarten classes are much larger than 23 persons, on average.
Not a straw man, there are those Christians that claim that archaeologists who find dinosaur skeletons are the equivalent of modern day cryptozoologists who use hybrid taxidermy to support their claims. The more sophisticated dino-deniers believe that dinosaur fossils are a test of faith, and presumably take the fact that they fit so perfectly into the fossil record without a trace of scientific incongruity as evidence that their deity is almighty and powerful enough to fake evidence really well.
There's also those who claim that dinosaurs lived at the same time as humans and are mentioned in the bible, despite this argument being easily refuted by geological dating of the rocks the fossils are found in.
The 30ns confinement time is a feature of the design - this is not a "steady state" reactor, it's designed to pulse. They are actually looking for anything above 9ns, so they are succeeding on that metric.
It also states
Ion temperatures of 150keV - this is a good improvement on their older results
Density of 3e19/cc - not so good as their older results
Fusion still emits radiation (mostly neutrons). It also produces radioactive waste (mostly because of the neutrons bashing into things). But the isotopes involved are much shorter lived than the isotopes involved in fission.
It's also much safer than fission, because the reaction is not an emergent property of just bringing chunks of fuel into close proximity. If you turn off the power to a fusion reactor, it just stops. If you do that to a fission reactor, you may have a meltdown.
The answers here make clear for the first time that I've seen in a public place in a long time what the function of NIF is - it is NOT a project oriented towards civil energy generation, but a weapons research project.
They are solving problems, sure, but they are solving problems for their needs, which don't necessarily have applicability to civil energy needs.
0) Transfer power (in the form of money) into fewer hands
It's a service economy. Ever wonder why they are called "security services" now? Service economies are ideal for oligarchs, because they don't even involve the transfer of goods - your customers won't have anything to show for their money that they could trade elsewhere after they finish partaking of your service.
Heaven forbid that someone point out that the service being provided is essentially worthless. That threatens this particular segment of the economy.
I've been using it since 0.17 and it's been "fully functional" as far as I care since then.
I don't think it's ever going to penetrate the commercial space now ; digital TV has made it much easier to make products with PVR features and you can get devices that are basically an HDMI dongle with an SD card slot that perform the significant function (stream recording and playback), you have the likes of Ubuntu TV and the built in OS that most digital TVs seem to have these days.
I cut my teeth on Linux with MythTV though - at the time, I had to use Gentoo to get the bleeding edge kernel support for my DVB hardware. I learned a lot. I'd guess it's still a reasonable way to learn something about Linux, even if it's much easier than it used to be. Which is another way of saying it's a hobbyists project.
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All corporations are foreign now - multinationals have no allegiance to you or your nation, regardless of the origins, or the country that their CEO comes from.
But a lot of the requirements to stay GPL-pure do not sound like freedoms to me- requiring you not to buy certain(most) products, visit certain sites
Could you cite examples of websites and products you must avoid? I'm aware that you must avoid certain source code if you wish to develop software with a corresponding function on the other side of the OSS divide, but I'm not aware of products I must avoid to be able to continue to use GPL?
Linux distribution repositories - the original central app store - do this. But alas, they are not so common on phones.
How about this : Synctus. Disclaimer : met the designer at an Ubuntu social and discussed his tech, which seems to be sound.
.NET gets this right, as it happens - the administrator can grant or deny permissions on a fine-grained level, on a per-app or per publisher basis. The downside to that, though, is that if your app isn't well written, the permissions exception will kill it, which is a big no-no on a phone.
You can do automatic static analysis to determine which APIs the app calls, which provides a list of permissions it might request, but doing analysis to check that it copes with permission denied exceptions is much harder, so you can understand their choice.
What really sticks in my craw is that despite doing this static analysis, and providing this information on the Android market, you can't filter the listings based on the permissions that an app requests.
Anecdote : my wife wanted a bible reader app. I couldn't find a single one, paid or free, that didn't want what I considered an unnecessary level of permissions for something that is essentially an offline eBook reader. What the hell does a bible app need SMS, or contact list access for? In the end, she just installed the one she liked the look of the most, even though I couldn't say I approved of any of them. And I'm sure most people won't even consider it, and click through.
From an evolutionary POV, it should be the older guys hitting on younger women (you might think that I'm above a certain age, I couldn't possibly comment).
You can only really examine a man for his propensity for success - both culutral and genetic - until he gets out of his twenties. Alas, women have a certain reproductive shelf life. The inbuilt male interest in younger women is a reflection of this - older women are less likely to be fertile, more likely to have troublesome pregnancies, more likely to have children with birth defects. On the other hand, for a man to have reached his forties at all, let alone with all his faculties intact, was no mean feat for much of the history of the human race. A woman would have to weigh this kind of mate in the balance - the advantages of his experience and the proof of his superior genetic quality, versus the possibility that he'll peg out and not be around to provide resources for her - but you can see how a middle aged man is, from an evolutionary point of view, a much better bet than a younger man.
Perhaps the stereotype of the mid-life crisis is actually just a successful evolutionary strategy that just receives bad press. Or perhaps I'm just sucking on those sour grapes... :-)
My favourite Stephenson is "The Diamond Age", mostly for the hope it engenders for our future - a future with a mature nanotechnology might have it's own problems, but it will certainly provide for more possible solutions to the problems we have right now.
Fine ; send me the links to the peer reviewed papers that prove that the Ribbon is more productive.
Which is more likely - that businesses just replace Office as their machines go out of commission, or that they performed a systematic experiment to determine which was more productive? Do you have a single example of a business that actually even attempted to measure productivity in office applications?
Never mind Office still being *supported*. People buy newer copies of Office because they can't buy the older ones when they expand their business, it reaches critical mass, and then they just migrate everyone to the new version.
The DVB-T signal actually contains an accurate time stamp though ; I use it to set the clock on my MythTV box because the network connection can be kind of patchy.
There's no reason for an encoding / decoding delay on digital teletext - it's included as additional streams in the multiplex and not in the vertical blanking interval (because there isn't one in a digital TV stream), so it's not tied to the video at all.
It's more likely that your STB sets it's internal clock at a long interval and has a stupid amount of clock drift.
I know more about managing Ubuntu than Redhat or CentOS, because I use Ubuntu on my desktop machines. When your primary job is not being a sysadmin, but you have to do it anyway because you don't have enough staff for a dedicated sysadmin, then cross-skilling is helpful.
Writers don't deserve profits unless their name or the reputation of their work guarantees box office.
I think that suggesting that JK Rowling didn't bring her reputation to the Harry Potter films is stretching it. The books were a runaway success even before the films. The book series had got up to Goblet of Fire (the fourth book) by the time of the first film release ; I remember the vast piles of Goblet of Fire that supermarkets laid out, and sold, within hours of release, shortly after midnight.
Rowling brought so much clout with her that she was able to insist on a British cast, British production, British studios, etc. She single-handedly put a shot in the arm of the British film industry that will invigorate it for years to come. She is probably one of the few writers to have so much control over the film version of her work in the history of Hollywood. As is probably obvious from comments elsewhere in the thread, her insistence on gross points was smart, because if she had settled for net, she would have been royally screwed.
With all 8 films having yearly world box office receipts ranked first, second, or third in their year, there is no way on Earth that they made a loss. If those films made a loss, I want to know who the secret cabal of financiers is, who just love movies so much that they are prepared to endlessly pour money into making them, even when they ALL tank so badly.
If postcodes are copyright, then everyone who uses one should be paying a license fee, right?
Just point this out, then everyone stops using the postcode, and see how quickly they come around when they have to employ many, many more sorting staff for each post office.
You ever heard of a “Japanese Inspection?” Japanese Inspection, you see, when the Japs take in a load of lettuce they’re not sure they wanna let in the country, why they’ll just let it sit there on the dock ’til they get good and ready to look at, But then of course, it’s all gone rotten ain’t nothing left to inspect. You see, lettuce is a perishable item
(from "Days of Thunder")
From day 1, the behaviour of the authorities on this case has stunk. The first thing that struck me about their arrest of Kim Dotcom was that they turned up at his mansion with a trailer, and hauled away his pink Cadillac right there on the spot - confiscating his property before he'd even had a trial.
If they are evidence, they go into the custody of the authorities. They don't sit there, rotting away the funds of the company, unless of course, that's the intention.
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Well, there's TFA, which has a nice clear table, page 1, documenting that cases of pertussis are much more common in unvaccinated individuals.
BTW, I did a systematic review of pertussis vaccination papers for the epidemiological section of my medical degree, so I do have some clue here. Cherry picking a single paper that supports your POV is not scientific. Vaccination works.
Ever hear of the birthday paradox? There's a 50% chance that two people share the same birthday - an event with a 1/365 incidence - in a group of just 23 people. I'm willing to bet that the vaccination rate is MUCH less than 99.8% (in Oregon, it's anecdotally between 25 and 75%), and that school and kindergarten classes are much larger than 23 persons, on average.
Not a straw man, there are those Christians that claim that archaeologists who find dinosaur skeletons are the equivalent of modern day cryptozoologists who use hybrid taxidermy to support their claims. The more sophisticated dino-deniers believe that dinosaur fossils are a test of faith, and presumably take the fact that they fit so perfectly into the fossil record without a trace of scientific incongruity as evidence that their deity is almighty and powerful enough to fake evidence really well.
There's also those who claim that dinosaurs lived at the same time as humans and are mentioned in the bible, despite this argument being easily refuted by geological dating of the rocks the fossils are found in.
This is true, but stupid certification requirements may be tying their hands to the older kernel.
The 30ns confinement time is a feature of the design - this is not a "steady state" reactor, it's designed to pulse. They are actually looking for anything above 9ns, so they are succeeding on that metric.
It also states
Thanks for pointing out the need to be published :
Dense Plasma Focus in the journal "Physics of Plasmas"
It's a start...
People are trying ; Robert Bussard (RIP) talks about IEC fusion
The US Navy is currently the entity throwing money into this pot Polywell FY 2011 Work, so the general lack of fuss about it is to be expected.
Fusion still emits radiation (mostly neutrons). It also produces radioactive waste (mostly because of the neutrons bashing into things). But the isotopes involved are much shorter lived than the isotopes involved in fission.
It's also much safer than fission, because the reaction is not an emergent property of just bringing chunks of fuel into close proximity. If you turn off the power to a fusion reactor, it just stops. If you do that to a fission reactor, you may have a meltdown.
The answers here make clear for the first time that I've seen in a public place in a long time what the function of NIF is - it is NOT a project oriented towards civil energy generation, but a weapons research project.
They are solving problems, sure, but they are solving problems for their needs, which don't necessarily have applicability to civil energy needs.
TSA's root reason for existence :
0) Transfer power (in the form of money) into fewer hands
It's a service economy. Ever wonder why they are called "security services" now? Service economies are ideal for oligarchs, because they don't even involve the transfer of goods - your customers won't have anything to show for their money that they could trade elsewhere after they finish partaking of your service.
Heaven forbid that someone point out that the service being provided is essentially worthless. That threatens this particular segment of the economy.
I've been using it since 0.17 and it's been "fully functional" as far as I care since then.
I don't think it's ever going to penetrate the commercial space now ; digital TV has made it much easier to make products with PVR features and you can get devices that are basically an HDMI dongle with an SD card slot that perform the significant function (stream recording and playback), you have the likes of Ubuntu TV and the built in OS that most digital TVs seem to have these days.
I cut my teeth on Linux with MythTV though - at the time, I had to use Gentoo to get the bleeding edge kernel support for my DVB hardware. I learned a lot. I'd guess it's still a reasonable way to learn something about Linux, even if it's much easier than it used to be. Which is another way of saying it's a hobbyists project.