So, the two shafts in the middle somehow affect the transmission of all that torque, but they do not need torque themselves? I watched the video & read the article, but I don't get how that bit works.
Tate says that intermediate APIs are a good thing and that forcing people to re-implement natively is bad Jobs responds "The magazine apps will be far better in the end because they are written native. We've seen this movie before."
Tate says Apple was using Objective C & an intermediate API for iTunes on Windows Jobs responds "As for us, we're just doing what we can to try and make (and preserve) the user experience we can envision. You can disagree with us, but our motives are pure."
And _that_ is the disconnect. Apple can use what they perceive to be the best tools for any given platform. Even if they need intermediate APIs for that. No one can do that on iPod touch, iPhone & iPad. Their motives are, by definition, pure. Everyone else can go eat a shovel./me is happy that he owns exactly zero Apple products. Linux may [have been|be] a bumpy ride sometimes, but I can choose freely.
Question: Why whould I _not_ keep all the pictures I take in the best format possible? ATM, that's still JPG. The second I get a DSLR, that will be RAW. Storage is cheap and even then remote possibility of needing that one pic in large format more than outweights the cost for a 2 TB drive.
Firefox has a large enough install base to actually stop or at least slow down H.264 adaption. IIRC, the Mozilla Foundation is in large part responsible for H.264 not being part of the offical HTML 5 standard, same as Apple & Nokia are the main players behind stopping Ogg Theora.
Having Firefox refuse to move to the patent- and licence-encumbered time-delayed scatter bomb that is H.264 has been very important. Software patents will be around for some more time and every user (in the broadest sense; i.e. everyone touching H.264 in any way) is required to get a licence. Sure, there are some limited free-as-in-beer rules, but that will not help anyone if the MPEG LA changes the licence terms in 2015 (I think that's when the current licences expire). Also, that will not help any FLOSS project they decide to smash into the ground. And of course, no large company like MS or Apple would ever indirectly fund such a thing. Unheard of! And yes, I know that this part is speculation and what-if.
Anyway Ogg Theora has lost the race as
1) it has slightly larger file sizes meaning significantly more cost to large companies deploying it (they scale to a _lot_ of video) 2) there is (almost) no hardware support, meaning that it drains batteries, can not be played on cheap mobile devices etc due to higher CPU usage 3) it has no 500-pound gorilla behind it; merely a 200-pound one.
Well, Ogg Theora is based on VP3 by On2 Technologies which they released to the Xiph Foundation a few years back. VP6 was good enough to be the default in Flash 8, VP7 was supposedly better than H.264 in 2005 (no idea if that is true) and recently, google bought the company.
Rumour has it that google will release VP8 to the public under a Free Licence at their I/O conference which will start next tuesday, May 18th 2010.
So imo the project is a bad choice in the first place, has really bad timing, no consideration for the underlying issues at all and is generally a bad idea.
I _see_ Down's. No awareness or anything needed. Even in a society with no awareness, no knowledge about defects at all, everyone would immediately be able to follow to train of thought "looks weird, acts weird, might be related". (Unfortunately, that reflex is also a massive cause of prejudice).
The problem with your child is that people can not readily see his illness as such. It sucks, yeah. But unless you make him wear a shirt with "I am autistic" on it, the problem will not go away.
And giving everyone who acts a-social/anti-social (no offense intended! seriously!) the benefit of the doubt would only create a society where bullies would flourish.
Unless people _know_ (or suspect) about something, they will not be able to make allowances for it.
I broke my foot very thouroughly last year. Half a year later, I was hiking in a group. I tended to be among the slower ones even though I am physically fit and look fit, too. After a few days, someone commented on the fact that I was holding people up and just lazy. I told them I was happy I could walk as well as I could and that I considered hiking rehab. They were sorry etc pp; tried to excuse themselves. But: I did not tell anyone about my handicap so no one adapted to it. So there was nothing they had any reason to be sorry about.
Of course, I am privileged inasmuch my handicap is (mostly) gone by now and I keep on getting better. Others do not have this privilege. Yet, the basic principle is the same:
Awareness does not help unless people know they need to apply what they are aware of to person X.
In 2005, Warren and Marshall win the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
And they fucking deserved it! My childhood and adolescence was a fun game of random pain so bad I could literally do nothing but roll on the floor, sometimes. All that was stopped by a handful of tablets in _two weeks_. Man, am I grateful...
There is no profit in cures, except wherein the condition would result in the death of the patient.
As perverted as that sounds, there is more money in a long-lasting agony near to death than in full recovery.
1) People in agony will be willing to shell out _lots_. My gf works in a pharmacy and they sell drugs at several thousand a pop. Some people need such a pop once per month or even more often.
2) If they survive, there is no guarantee that they will buy more stuff from you. They might buy from someone else.
I even paid twice (I pre-ordered WoG the second they promised to suppot Linux, at some point) and I am glad that I did.
Unfortunately, the only game I would really be interested in as FLOSS is WoG which is not opening up (yet?). Maybe that's due to them being on WiiWare and some regulations. Dunno.
Another question to which I see no immediate answer is if the others are opening the _source_ or _the whole game_ including artwork, sounds, etc.
First: If the project was under the the GPL and the libraries are under the GPL, the result must be under the GPL.
Second: Depending on where you live, you might or might not have given over the rights to your employer. You need to take your contract to a lawyer in your country and ask them. As usual, slashdot is _not_ the place to get specific legal advice; we can just blabber about generalities.
Thing is: The GPL does not matter unless you distribute the software to anyone. Before that, the licence does not matter. So you need to check the _second_ point first. When/If you release the software and the libraries are GPL, it's a clear-cut case.
No idea if your employer can go after you for "wrongfully leading them to believe they owned this stuff" though...
Tier 1 & 2 ISPs tend not to filter between themselves because they have no way of verifying everything. A notable exception is address space assigned by RIPE as you have actually useful route objects, there. With those, anyone can filter root AS for any given prefix. But those are origin-specific filters without path verification. I could still claim that AS X is behind me and either drop your traffic or sniff it. The latter is more complicated, granted. Toss in a few more specific routes and sloppy filters and I have all your traffic.
Also, cryptographic keys for routes are in the works. That will help "fix" this problem.
Generally speaking, this system works because a _lot_ of people and instances monitor bits and pieces they rely on and most major changes would be detected in no time. Targeted attacks with lots of preparation? Maybe, maybe not.
These points line up pretty well with the Rocky Mountains and the Himalayas.
So the Lagrange points are geosynchronous as well? Interesting, didn't know that. Do you have a source for the claim above? This sounds _very_ interesting and I'd like to know more.
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So, the two shafts in the middle somehow affect the transmission of all that torque, but they do not need torque themselves? I watched the video & read the article, but I don't get how that bit works.
Tate says that intermediate APIs are a good thing and that forcing people to re-implement natively is bad
Jobs responds "The magazine apps will be far better in the end because they are written native. We've seen this movie before."
Tate says Apple was using Objective C & an intermediate API for iTunes on Windows
Jobs responds "As for us, we're just doing what we can to try and make (and preserve) the user experience we can envision. You can disagree with us, but our motives are pure."
And _that_ is the disconnect. Apple can use what they perceive to be the best tools for any given platform. Even if they need intermediate APIs for that. No one can do that on iPod touch, iPhone & iPad. Their motives are, by definition, pure. Everyone else can go eat a shovel. /me is happy that he owns exactly zero Apple products. Linux may [have been|be] a bumpy ride sometimes, but I can choose freely.
Question: Why whould I _not_ keep all the pictures I take in the best format possible? ATM, that's still JPG. The second I get a DSLR, that will be RAW. Storage is cheap and even then remote possibility of needing that one pic in large format more than outweights the cost for a 2 TB drive.
Firefox has a large enough install base to actually stop or at least slow down H.264 adaption. IIRC, the Mozilla Foundation is in large part responsible for H.264 not being part of the offical HTML 5 standard, same as Apple & Nokia are the main players behind stopping Ogg Theora.
Having Firefox refuse to move to the patent- and licence-encumbered time-delayed scatter bomb that is H.264 has been very important. Software patents will be around for some more time and every user (in the broadest sense; i.e. everyone touching H.264 in any way) is required to get a licence. Sure, there are some limited free-as-in-beer rules, but that will not help anyone if the MPEG LA changes the licence terms in 2015 (I think that's when the current licences expire). Also, that will not help any FLOSS project they decide to smash into the ground. And of course, no large company like MS or Apple would ever indirectly fund such a thing. Unheard of! And yes, I know that this part is speculation and what-if.
Anyway Ogg Theora has lost the race as
1) it has slightly larger file sizes meaning significantly more cost to large companies deploying it (they scale to a _lot_ of video)
2) there is (almost) no hardware support, meaning that it drains batteries, can not be played on cheap mobile devices etc due to higher CPU usage
3) it has no 500-pound gorilla behind it; merely a 200-pound one.
Well, Ogg Theora is based on VP3 by On2 Technologies which they released to the Xiph Foundation a few years back. VP6 was good enough to be the default in Flash 8, VP7 was supposedly better than H.264 in 2005 (no idea if that is true) and recently, google bought the company.
Rumour has it that google will release VP8 to the public under a Free Licence at their I/O conference which will start next tuesday, May 18th 2010.
So imo the project is a bad choice in the first place, has really bad timing, no consideration for the underlying issues at all and is generally a bad idea.
1) Physical is not electronic.
2) There is only one work in your example. It was altered permanently.
3) If the thief improves the physical work, they are entitled to the gains. If they made it worse, they have to compensate.
Depends on where you live. In most western countries, the mere act of cracking your own copy is illegal.
PS: For most of the time, I had no ulcers. When they found them, I had come across a pamphlet describing H. pylori, already.
If they get better but not well, they will stick to what works for as long as they live. Experiments will be few; considering the stakes.
I _see_ Down's. No awareness or anything needed. Even in a society with no awareness, no knowledge about defects at all, everyone would immediately be able to follow to train of thought "looks weird, acts weird, might be related". (Unfortunately, that reflex is also a massive cause of prejudice).
The problem with your child is that people can not readily see his illness as such. It sucks, yeah. But unless you make him wear a shirt with "I am autistic" on it, the problem will not go away.
And giving everyone who acts a-social/anti-social (no offense intended! seriously!) the benefit of the doubt would only create a society where bullies would flourish.
Unless people _know_ (or suspect) about something, they will not be able to make allowances for it.
I broke my foot very thouroughly last year. Half a year later, I was hiking in a group. I tended to be among the slower ones even though I am physically fit and look fit, too. After a few days, someone commented on the fact that I was holding people up and just lazy. I told them I was happy I could walk as well as I could and that I considered hiking rehab.
They were sorry etc pp; tried to excuse themselves.
But: I did not tell anyone about my handicap so no one adapted to it. So there was nothing they had any reason to be sorry about.
Of course, I am privileged inasmuch my handicap is (mostly) gone by now and I keep on getting better. Others do not have this privilege. Yet, the basic principle is the same:
Awareness does not help unless people know they need to apply what they are aware of to person X.
In 2005, Warren and Marshall win the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
And they fucking deserved it! My childhood and adolescence was a fun game of random pain so bad I could literally do nothing but roll on the floor, sometimes. All that was stopped by a handful of tablets in _two weeks_. Man, am I grateful...
A cure boost stock prices, hurts you competitors, and gets C*Os a ton of cash in the form of bonuses. i.e. get stinking rich.
The same is true for something that will just make people fend off the illness longer.
There is no profit in cures, except wherein the condition would result in the death of the patient.
As perverted as that sounds, there is more money in a long-lasting agony near to death than in full recovery.
1) People in agony will be willing to shell out _lots_. My gf works in a pharmacy and they sell drugs at several thousand a pop. Some people need such a pop once per month or even more often.
2) If they survive, there is no guarantee that they will buy more stuff from you. They might buy from someone else.
Seems like they are all going for code-only. A pity, but understandable, I guess.
Blowing it up is _really_ stupid, but sending a space shuttle (which have two(?) missions left) to geo-synchronous orbit? Uh, yeah...
Speak for yourself. I find razor burn/stubble and ingrown hairs to be much more uncomfortable than cutting.
There is such a thing as anti-hair-cream which will simply make them fall out. Men have a biological advantage when using it.
But yah, each to their own. It's not as if anyone besides yourself and the people you get intimate with would or should care.
I even paid twice (I pre-ordered WoG the second they promised to suppot Linux, at some point) and I am glad that I did.
Unfortunately, the only game I would really be interested in as FLOSS is WoG which is not opening up (yet?). Maybe that's due to them being on WiiWare and some regulations. Dunno.
Another question to which I see no immediate answer is if the others are opening the _source_ or _the whole game_ including artwork, sounds, etc.
Not having accurate information for planes would be inconvenient.. But if TV takes a hit.. OH MY $DEITY!!!111
Why? RealMedia^WQuickTime^WFlash is obsoleted by new technology. In this specific interation, it's QuickTime^WFlash^WHTML 5.
First: If the project was under the the GPL and the libraries are under the GPL, the result must be under the GPL.
Second: Depending on where you live, you might or might not have given over the rights to your employer. You need to take your contract to a lawyer in your country and ask them. As usual, slashdot is _not_ the place to get specific legal advice; we can just blabber about generalities.
Thing is: The GPL does not matter unless you distribute the software to anyone. Before that, the licence does not matter. So you need to check the _second_ point first. When/If you release the software and the libraries are GPL, it's a clear-cut case.
No idea if your employer can go after you for "wrongfully leading them to believe they owned this stuff" though...
Damn you, DARPA!
Tier 1 & 2 ISPs tend not to filter between themselves because they have no way of verifying everything. A notable exception is address space assigned by RIPE as you have actually useful route objects, there. With those, anyone can filter root AS for any given prefix. But those are origin-specific filters without path verification. I could still claim that AS X is behind me and either drop your traffic or sniff it. The latter is more complicated, granted. Toss in a few more specific routes and sloppy filters and I have all your traffic.
Also, cryptographic keys for routes are in the works. That will help "fix" this problem.
Generally speaking, this system works because a _lot_ of people and instances monitor bits and pieces they rely on and most major changes would be detected in no time. Targeted attacks with lots of preparation? Maybe, maybe not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_concentration_(astronomy) mentions the moon & Mars, but not Earth.
These points line up pretty well with the Rocky Mountains and the Himalayas.
So the Lagrange points are geosynchronous as well? Interesting, didn't know that. Do you have a source for the claim above? This sounds _very_ interesting and I'd like to know more.
Who modded you insightful instead of funny is beyond me :)
Thanks a lot. :)
Got a source with more details?