But while Linus, RMS, Eric Raymond, Bruce Perens, Tim O'Reilly, Brian Behlendorf, Paul Vixie, Mitch Kapor, Mark Shuttleworth, and Theo De'Rahdt are all exchanging ideas, sometimes harshly, they are not exchanging bullets. I'd say they all have a lot to teach politicians.
Arguably it was RMS that did the most to create FOSS. Linus created a freely available kernel (not the first). RMS created a text editor and a compiler. (not the first either). What RMS did was create a framework that allowed people to share their work, the GPL. RMS convinced Linus to use this framework.
In a sense, it would be like giving the Peace Prize to the manufacturer of the hammer that was first used on the Berlin Wall.
If hammers were in short supply and the one thing holding back the fall of the wall was the availability of a hammer, then yes, the supplier of the hammer could be considered for the prize. But, it wasn't and he isn't.
Arguably it was RMS that did the most to create FOSS. Linus created a freely available kernel (not the first). RMS created a text editor and a compiler. (not the first either). What RMS did was create a framework that allowed people to share their work, the GPL. RMS convinced Linus to use this framework.
Supposedly, Ghandi was going to get one, but died too soon. Nobel prizes aren't given posthumously. This is a problem with the Peace Prize, because if your political enemies get word you are being considered, they might arrange to off you, calculating that the negative publicity of your murder would be less than that of your winning the prize.
Maybe. Chemical lasers are hard to pulse, unless you Q-switch them. (but then you waste some energy when the Q-switch is off.
A favorite technique these days is to use multiple diode lasers to pump a glass slab. It's the same thing in principle to green laser pointers which have a single laser diode pumping a ND:YAG crystal. (The green light comes from a frequency doubling crystal) In a weapon laser, you'd have hundreds of multi-watt infrared diodes pumping multiple doped glass slabs all bathed in a liquid whose index of refraction matched the glass at the wavelength(s) you are creating. The liquid also cools the system and the output mirrors. The diodes can be pulsed or continuous.
B.t.w if you have enough gain in your system, you don't need and output coupler mirror, just the highly reflective mirror behind your laser medium.
The are many and varied ways around such laws. My favorite (that may now be illegal in the US) was for a friendly artist to give the politician artwork. (The the artist made themselves) The value of the artwork would be declared as the value of the materials plus a small amount for the artist's time.
Then, after a period of time, the artwork would be "sold" at auction. Amazingly, the only bidders at this auction would be supporters of the politician. The bids would go up to what the supported really wanted to give the pol, way beyond what the limit was.
There are always ways around campaign contribution limits. Another favorite is for a rich person to give less well off supporters of the politician money which they then contribute. If gifts like this are banned, they give the supporters jobs in which they don't have to do anything real, and get paid way too much. Then they give most of their earnings to the politician.
Yeah, right. The burden of complying with taxes is on the retailer, not the comptrollers. Or do you expect your city compt. to go to every site on the internet that's in the US that might sell to someone in their state and fill out a form?
Anyway, there are companies that have all the tax tables for everywhere. They sell them for about $50,000/year.
Few, if any, of the original atoms that made up your body when you were born exist in your body right now.
This is why I don't believe in saving. What has my future self ever done for me? (nothing, squat, zip, nadda). I say screw the future self, spend all I have now, and have fun. *
But structure would work very well creating a accounting package.
I would hope so. Accounting is so formalized that the prototype essentially has already been written, it's in the way accounts would do it without a computer. The same rules have to be followed whether you are doing it by hand or machine.
You bring up great points. If a job is currently being done, and we want it to be done the exact same way, but cheap and faster, a methodical method would work well.
If, on the other hand, you want to create something that's never been done before, an agile methodology might work better. The key is being able to determine at each milestone if you are headed in the right direction, and if you get off the path, to get back on ASAP. (also people often assume that their idea is completely new, but it already been implemented somewhere else, better.)
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My biggest problem with quick prototypes are the users that expect too much.
Me: Here's the prototype. It's black and white, but the finished product will be in full color.
Them: This menu item is supposed to be green.
Me: That's because the prototype is in black and white. We're just trying to get the text and spacing correct
Them: That item is supposed to be red...
Managing user's expectations during the prototype phase can be a full-time job. (:-(
The thing I'd add to that is that there are no anti-photons -- photons are their own anti-particle.
That's correct, but something I've never wrapped my mind around. When the photon and photon-prime are created, then one falls into the black hole, how does the BH know that its photon should cancel mass, rather than increase it?
Only the creative, non-factual parts of your tax forms. If you're being creative on your 1040, you've got more problems than trying to collect royalties from the IRS.
Do people on a jury have to pay $200 as well? As it can be real hard to be on a jury and not know the law.
I've been selected for Jury duty, and in the written material it said that the Judge would tell us what the law is, and that was the law, not what we knew. It's because the Judge is supposed to interpret the law. The jury is only supposed to determine the facts. i.e. The jury determines that Bob killed Joe. It's up the the judge to say it's illegal for Bob to kill Joe and what the parameters of punishment might be. In some states the Judge then determines the sentence, in others, the jury picks a sentence consistent with what the Judge has determined. Ask a lawyer for clarification in your state.
Photons pop out of the vacuum all the time. A photon and an anti-photon (or do they call it a virtual photon) will appear at the same time, and as long as the pair doesn't stick around longer than the mass * Plank's constant, conservation of mass is preserved.
If the photon and anti-photon appear at the edge of a black hole, sometimes the photon goes off, and the anti-photon gets sucked into the black hole where it cancels some of the mass of the black hole. Thus it looks like the BH is radiating and evaporating, but nothing actual leaves the BH.
*Note: I've left out some details, and my terminology might be off.
Photons pop out of the vacuum all the time. A photon and an anti-photon (or do they call it a virtual photon) will appear at the same time, and as long as the pair doesn't stick around longer than the mass * Plank's constant, conservation of mass is preserved.
If the photon and anti-photon appear at the edge of a black hole, sometimes the photon goes off, and the anti-photon gets sucked into the black hole where it cancels some of the mass of the black hole. Thus it looks like the BH is radiating and evaporating, but nothing actual leaves the BH.
*Note: I've left out some details, and my terminology might be off.
But the live is more dangerous than the neutral. UK plugs must have the fuse right after the live pin, and appliances must have the power switch in the live wire (nowadays probably both wires).
Right, use two (or more) neutrals surrounding and longer than the hot.
if the spring wears out
The only times I've seen broken UK sockets is when they've been abused, e.g. the ones in the back row of a school science lab. House sockets from the 1960s still work.
I don't see the advantage to fusing the plug versus a device with a replaceable fuse.
It protects the wire between the socket and the appliance. The maximum current from a UK circuit is 30A,
Yowsa! That's enough to power a clothes drier. In the US, the usual socket is only 120v 15A. Good point, protecting the wire. American Christmas light strings now have fuses in the plug, one on the hot, and one on the neutral so that the plug doesn't have to be polarized. But that type of plug is limited to about 3 amps.
Reality C: No withheld data. Data is disseminated with some initial shock that by 20xx we will have oil shortages. People get into panic buying mode. Dogs and cats living together... Come 20XX, new supplies are found, and there are no shortages. People who bought oil future loose their shirts.
I have read a few of the responses and have found virtually no alternative suggestions to combating piracy than DRM.
Time for a bad analogy. You are a Doctor, and your patient has a terminal and incurable disease. You can do nothing and your patient will die or you can pump him full of dangerous, nauseating chemotherapy, and your patient will die in agony. (or you can shoot him full of painkillers and he'll die peacefully)
Sometimes there is no solution, and the best thing to do is let the patient die quietly with dignity.
Bah, updating the PROM doesn't allow you to view the encrypted programs. What it allows you to do is run other code on the box.
However, you can connect to the web interface on an unmodified Tivo, download the encrypted program, and use tivodecode http://tivodecode.sourceforge.net/, to access the video.
Re:Don't buy TIVO, or any other locked down device
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Seriously, why do people buy a locked down piece of hardware, then wonder why they can't do anything that hasn't specifically been authorised with it? Your solution starts with not buying the damn product in the first place!!!
I my case, it's because I heard Tivo used Linux, and they allowed hackers. Turns out, that's only on the series 1 machines, and some early series 2's. I got a series 2.5.
This is the case with any business that want's to rent hardware to do a specific purpose. Tivo just decided to avoid the hassles of actually renting it, so they "sell" you a locked down box.
Anyway, no-one's mentioned it yet, but you can desolder the boot prom, and substitute one that has the checksums bypassed.
None of these plugs are optimal. What properties would an optimal plug have? At the least:
Symmetrical. (i.e. you should be able to plug it in upside-down)
Spring should be on the cheap part. IEC cords on the computer side are like this. If the spring wears out, you just toss the cord, and get a new one
The side that supplies the voltage should be the best shielded. (Most are like this) If you are connecting a battery to a charger, you have to have a really fancy plug that is doubly sheilded.
I don't see the advantage to fusing the plug versus a device with a replaceable fuse.
B.t.w. Christmas tree lights in the US have fused plugs with fuses on the hot and ground so that it can be plugged in upside down. Since there's no separate "device", just wires with bulbs, having the fuses in the plug makes sense.
Have the British really decided on a single socket/plug? Last I heard, there were over 100 different plug types in use in the UK. Most appliances came with bare wires that you had to put your own plug on.
Anyway, in the US there are several 220V standard plugs depending on the amperage. Things like dryer, stoves and >5 HP electrical motors use them.
Just like computers, people are susceptible to the Garbage in, Garbage out phenomenon. If you learn the wrong stuff, you're still smart, but you will make bad decisions.
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But while Linus, RMS, Eric Raymond, Bruce Perens, Tim O'Reilly, Brian Behlendorf, Paul Vixie, Mitch Kapor, Mark Shuttleworth, and Theo De'Rahdt are all exchanging ideas, sometimes harshly, they are not exchanging bullets. I'd say they all have a lot to teach politicians.
Arguably it was RMS that did the most to create FOSS. Linus created a freely available kernel (not the first). RMS created a text editor and a compiler. (not the first either). What RMS did was create a framework that allowed people to share their work, the GPL. RMS convinced Linus to use this framework.
In a sense, it would be like giving the Peace Prize to the manufacturer of the hammer that was first used on the Berlin Wall.
If hammers were in short supply and the one thing holding back the fall of the wall was the availability of a hammer, then yes, the supplier of the hammer could be considered for the prize. But, it wasn't and he isn't.
Arguably it was RMS that did the most to create FOSS. Linus created a freely available kernel (not the first). RMS created a text editor and a compiler. (not the first either). What RMS did was create a framework that allowed people to share their work, the GPL. RMS convinced Linus to use this framework.
Ghandi (who ironically never got one, IIRC)
Supposedly, Ghandi was going to get one, but died too soon. Nobel prizes aren't given posthumously. This is a problem with the Peace Prize, because if your political enemies get word you are being considered, they might arrange to off you, calculating that the negative publicity of your murder would be less than that of your winning the prize.
For normal humans that would be correct, but this Dali Lama is the reincarnation of the last 14 Dali Lamas.
Maybe. Chemical lasers are hard to pulse, unless you Q-switch them. (but then you waste some energy when the Q-switch is off.
A favorite technique these days is to use multiple diode lasers to pump a glass slab. It's the same thing in principle to green laser pointers which have a single laser diode pumping a ND:YAG crystal. (The green light comes from a frequency doubling crystal) In a weapon laser, you'd have hundreds of multi-watt infrared diodes pumping multiple doped glass slabs all bathed in a liquid whose index of refraction matched the glass at the wavelength(s) you are creating. The liquid also cools the system and the output mirrors. The diodes can be pulsed or continuous.
B.t.w if you have enough gain in your system, you don't need and output coupler mirror, just the highly reflective mirror behind your laser medium.
The are many and varied ways around such laws. My favorite (that may now be illegal in the US) was for a friendly artist to give the politician artwork. (The the artist made themselves) The value of the artwork would be declared as the value of the materials plus a small amount for the artist's time.
Then, after a period of time, the artwork would be "sold" at auction. Amazingly, the only bidders at this auction would be supporters of the politician. The bids would go up to what the supported really wanted to give the pol, way beyond what the limit was.
There are always ways around campaign contribution limits. Another favorite is for a rich person to give less well off supporters of the politician money which they then contribute. If gifts like this are banned, they give the supporters jobs in which they don't have to do anything real, and get paid way too much. Then they give most of their earnings to the politician.
Yeah, right. The burden of complying with taxes is on the retailer, not the comptrollers. Or do you expect your city compt. to go to every site on the internet that's in the US that might sell to someone in their state and fill out a form?
Anyway, there are companies that have all the tax tables for everywhere. They sell them for about $50,000/year.
Or, after one or more mines explode, does the entire field become tainted with explosive residue?
Few, if any, of the original atoms that made up your body when you were born exist in your body right now.
This is why I don't believe in saving. What has my future self ever done for me? (nothing, squat, zip, nadda). I say screw the future self, spend all I have now, and have fun. *
* (:-) for the sarcasm impaired.
But structure would work very well creating a accounting package.
I would hope so. Accounting is so formalized that the prototype essentially has already been written, it's in the way accounts would do it without a computer. The same rules have to be followed whether you are doing it by hand or machine.
You bring up great points. If a job is currently being done, and we want it to be done the exact same way, but cheap and faster, a methodical method would work well.
If, on the other hand, you want to create something that's never been done before, an agile methodology might work better. The key is being able to determine at each milestone if you are headed in the right direction, and if you get off the path, to get back on ASAP. (also people often assume that their idea is completely new, but it already been implemented somewhere else, better.)
My biggest problem with quick prototypes are the users that expect too much.
Me: Here's the prototype. It's black and white, but the finished product will be in full color.
Them: This menu item is supposed to be green.
Me: That's because the prototype is in black and white. We're just trying to get the text and spacing correct
Them: That item is supposed to be red...
Managing user's expectations during the prototype phase can be a full-time job. (:-(
The thing I'd add to that is that there are no anti-photons -- photons are their own anti-particle.
That's correct, but something I've never wrapped my mind around. When the photon and photon-prime are created, then one falls into the black hole, how does the BH know that its photon should cancel mass, rather than increase it?
Only the creative, non-factual parts of your tax forms. If you're being creative on your 1040, you've got more problems than trying to collect royalties from the IRS.
Do people on a jury have to pay $200 as well? As it can be real hard to be on a jury and not know the law.
I've been selected for Jury duty, and in the written material it said that the Judge would tell us what the law is, and that was the law, not what we knew. It's because the Judge is supposed to interpret the law. The jury is only supposed to determine the facts. i.e. The jury determines that Bob killed Joe. It's up the the judge to say it's illegal for Bob to kill Joe and what the parameters of punishment might be. In some states the Judge then determines the sentence, in others, the jury picks a sentence consistent with what the Judge has determined. Ask a lawyer for clarification in your state.
Photons pop out of the vacuum all the time. A photon and an anti-photon (or do they call it a virtual photon) will appear at the same time, and as long as the pair doesn't stick around longer than the mass * Plank's constant, conservation of mass is preserved.
If the photon and anti-photon appear at the edge of a black hole, sometimes the photon goes off, and the anti-photon gets sucked into the black hole where it cancels some of the mass of the black hole. Thus it looks like the BH is radiating and evaporating, but nothing actual leaves the BH.
*Note: I've left out some details, and my terminology might be off.
Photons pop out of the vacuum all the time. A photon and an anti-photon (or do they call it a virtual photon) will appear at the same time, and as long as the pair doesn't stick around longer than the mass * Plank's constant, conservation of mass is preserved.
If the photon and anti-photon appear at the edge of a black hole, sometimes the photon goes off, and the anti-photon gets sucked into the black hole where it cancels some of the mass of the black hole. Thus it looks like the BH is radiating and evaporating, but nothing actual leaves the BH.
*Note: I've left out some details, and my terminology might be off.
Symmetrical
But the live is more dangerous than the neutral. UK plugs must have the fuse right after the live pin, and appliances must have the power switch in the live wire (nowadays probably both wires).
Right, use two (or more) neutrals surrounding and longer than the hot.
if the spring wears out
The only times I've seen broken UK sockets is when they've been abused, e.g. the ones in the back row of a school science lab. House sockets from the 1960s still work.
I don't see the advantage to fusing the plug versus a device with a replaceable fuse.
It protects the wire between the socket and the appliance. The maximum current from a UK circuit is 30A,
Yowsa! That's enough to power a clothes drier. In the US, the usual socket is only 120v 15A. Good point, protecting the wire. American Christmas light strings now have fuses in the plug, one on the hot, and one on the neutral so that the plug doesn't have to be polarized. But that type of plug is limited to about 3 amps.
Reality C: No withheld data. Data is disseminated with some initial shock that by 20xx we will have oil shortages. People get into panic buying mode. Dogs and cats living together... Come 20XX, new supplies are found, and there are no shortages. People who bought oil future loose their shirts.
I have read a few of the responses and have found virtually no alternative suggestions to combating piracy than DRM.
Time for a bad analogy. You are a Doctor, and your patient has a terminal and incurable disease. You can do nothing and your patient will die or you can pump him full of dangerous, nauseating chemotherapy, and your patient will die in agony. (or you can shoot him full of painkillers and he'll die peacefully)
Sometimes there is no solution, and the best thing to do is let the patient die quietly with dignity.
Bah, updating the PROM doesn't allow you to view the encrypted programs. What it allows you to do is run other code on the box.
However, you can connect to the web interface on an unmodified Tivo, download the encrypted program, and use tivodecode http://tivodecode.sourceforge.net/, to access the video.
Seriously, why do people buy a locked down piece of hardware, then wonder why they can't do anything that hasn't specifically been authorised with it? Your solution starts with not buying the damn product in the first place!!!
I my case, it's because I heard Tivo used Linux, and they allowed hackers. Turns out, that's only on the series 1 machines, and some early series 2's. I got a series 2.5.
This is the case with any business that want's to rent hardware to do a specific purpose. Tivo just decided to avoid the hassles of actually renting it, so they "sell" you a locked down box.
Anyway, no-one's mentioned it yet, but you can desolder the boot prom, and substitute one that has the checksums bypassed.
I don't see the advantage to fusing the plug versus a device with a replaceable fuse.
B.t.w. Christmas tree lights in the US have fused plugs with fuses on the hot and ground so that it can be plugged in upside down. Since there's no separate "device", just wires with bulbs, having the fuses in the plug makes sense.
Have the British really decided on a single socket/plug? Last I heard, there were over 100 different plug types in use in the UK. Most appliances came with bare wires that you had to put your own plug on.
Anyway, in the US there are several 220V standard plugs depending on the amperage. Things like dryer, stoves and >5 HP electrical motors use them.
Just like computers, people are susceptible to the Garbage in, Garbage out phenomenon. If you learn the wrong stuff, you're still smart, but you will make bad decisions.