The real underlying problem is software patents. As long as software patents exist, somebody will always find a legally enforcible way to tax users for their access to data.
Yesterday a Chinese prisoner broke free after masticating the steel bars of his prison. A local zoological expert confirmed that the site was not up to standard and he said that "any medium sized polar bear could have done this". The local police after being alerted chased the escapee to the border of the jungle only to discover that nearly all of their weapons where maimed and covered with toothmarks. One policeman who wants to stay anonymous claimed that he saw the 23 year old man stopping a bullet with his teeth. The prisoner escaped after forcing the police to seek cover by spitting nutshells at them.
When electronics students threaten me with their home-made software I fight back by putting together some circuits. I love to see them recoil in disgust.
Reduce the income tax and increase the tax on consumption (VAT). The primary reason for the difficulty competing with the Chinese is that they avoid paying for proper healthcare. If we tax on consumption, this will alleviate the combined problem of outsourcing, competing with products created with unhealthy labour, and financing healthcare.
Yes. I came here to post about MapReduce as well. Especially the first patent summary reads like a description of the MapReduce algorithm. Furthermore the claimant and the examiner of the patent seem to be oblivious of even the most basic concepts of computer science such as Divide and Conquer. Microsoft pretends to be certain about the outcome of the Bilski review.
When I studied software engineering as part of my degree I found it quite painful. It seemed quite interesting and relevant but it eerily reminded me of the "soft" sciences I had to learn to pass school (foreign languages, biology, chemistry).
For me the most frustrating thing in computer science is the many programming languages, each of them offering one compelling feature or another. But as Paul Graham said: Languages evolve slowly because they're not really technologies. Languages are notation. The problem is, that it is not enough to create a better programming language or integrate a missing feature into an existing one, because then you have made the problem worse by introducing an additional language. So what you really need to do (at the same time) is to persuade other developers to adopt your language by providing a notation which is "powerful" and looks "nifty". And that is where the human factor comes in.
I had a look at the E-Book Reader Matrix. I decided to buy a Bookeen Cybook. It's cheaper than the Kindle and it supports DRM-free formats as well. I am using it to read TXT, PDF, and Mobipocket documents. It's not a free software device though. The applications for displaying PDFs, MobiPocket,... are proprietary. However you can download the source code of the customised ARMLinux (as required by GPL) from their website. The battery charge supposedly allows for 8000 page flips. But you can't help people looking at you strangely when you do anything intellectual.
I think you nailed it. Microsoft has accepted Firefox as a standard and it is dealing with this problem the usual way. I would not be surprised if next thing they are going to distribute Silverlight for Firefox in a similar fashion.
require 'hornetseye' include Hornetseye a = MultiArray.load_rgb24 'image1.jpg' b = MultiArray.load_rgb24 'image2.jpg' output = MEncoderOutput.new 'test.avi', 15 for k in 0..50
output.write a * ( k / 50.0 ) + b * ( ( 50.0 - k ) / 50.0 ) end
I happen to develop a Ruby library which can be applied to this problem. In this case it generates the 50 transitional frames (640x480) in less than 10 seconds. I tried GIF first, but generating GIF is indeed very slow, since it requires global colour-indexing. So this may be the real performance problem in your example. Even so you should use Ruby;)
Myself I use Kubuntu and Firefox as a browser. While the GTK look and feel of Firefox does not blend well with KDE, it offers compelling functionality (free software, addons, browser history, spell checking,...). In my opinion they should use Ruby or Python and the corresponding Qt- and GTK-bindings. By leveraging the power of a scripting language, it should be possible to efficiently develop customised GUIs for each desktop and platform. I currently use Ruby and Qt4-QtRuby and I must say that I can work much faster than with C++ and Qt4 as I did previously.
The impudence of this lie was so strong that it send ripples through space time causing momentary discomfort to a Linus Torvalds in a parallel universe deciding to go out for dinner instead of sending a post about developing an operating system kernel.
Either we all pay them or we need to write and select the news ourselves (Wikis, Blogs, RSS feeds, and recommendation systems). If I want to read ten selected news items every day and the local community has 100,000 people, everyone would have to write at least one article every thirty years. I guess it's pretty obvious what is going to happen.
Well, I really would like to come up with an idea to update their business model, but I don't have time since I want to write some more free software today.
Robot warfare is not going Open Source! If you want to take out somebody remotely, it is sufficient to build a torpedo, a guided missile, or a mine. Anybody remember Bruce Simpson's DIY cruise missile? Bruce Simpson has shown that you can build all of this using standard components of today.
I hope the government will not severely restrict science in this area as well (just think about what happened to nuclear research). The path to industrial automation and robotics already has enough hurdles (proprietary software, patented standards and machines, vendor lock-in, lack of integration, weak theoretical foundation,...).
Yeah right. I can only imagine a browser with the familiar look and feel of your BIOS. Primary Browser [Firefox] Slave Browser [IE8] First Web Page [Slashdot] Second Web Page [CNN] Third Web Page [Google] Video [Youtube/Hulu] Try Other Web Page [Enabled] Browser Tab1 & Tab2 [Enabled] Javascript [Fast] Cookies [Disabled] Cache [Enabled] Adult content 12M-18M [Disabled]
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The real underlying problem is software patents. As long as software patents exist, somebody will always find a legally enforcible way to tax users for their access to data.
Yesterday a Chinese prisoner broke free after masticating the steel bars of his prison. A local zoological expert confirmed that the site was not up to standard and he said that "any medium sized polar bear could have done this". The local police after being alerted chased the escapee to the border of the jungle only to discover that nearly all of their weapons where maimed and covered with toothmarks. One policeman who wants to stay anonymous claimed that he saw the 23 year old man stopping a bullet with his teeth. The prisoner escaped after forcing the police to seek cover by spitting nutshells at them.
When electronics students threaten me with their home-made software I fight back by putting together some circuits. I love to see them recoil in disgust.
Reduce the income tax and increase the tax on consumption (VAT). The primary reason for the difficulty competing with the Chinese is that they avoid paying for proper healthcare. If we tax on consumption, this will alleviate the combined problem of outsourcing, competing with products created with unhealthy labour, and financing healthcare.
Yes. I came here to post about MapReduce as well. Especially the first patent summary reads like a description of the MapReduce algorithm. Furthermore the claimant and the examiner of the patent seem to be oblivious of even the most basic concepts of computer science such as Divide and Conquer. Microsoft pretends to be certain about the outcome of the Bilski review.
When I studied software engineering as part of my degree I found it quite painful. It seemed quite interesting and relevant but it eerily reminded me of the "soft" sciences I had to learn to pass school (foreign languages, biology, chemistry).
For me the most frustrating thing in computer science is the many programming languages, each of them offering one compelling feature or another. But as Paul Graham said: Languages evolve slowly because they're not really technologies. Languages are notation.
The problem is, that it is not enough to create a better programming language or integrate a missing feature into an existing one, because then you have made the problem worse by introducing an additional language. So what you really need to do (at the same time) is to persuade other developers to adopt your language by providing a notation which is "powerful" and looks "nifty". And that is where the human factor comes in.
That's the difference between experience and knowledge. Knowledge can save you a lot of bad experience, but it only brings you this far.
You can't stop copyright infringement but you can inhibit free culture.
But Newton didn't have a computer.
s = "string" .. 2 ]
# "string"
s[ 1
# "tr"
s + s
# "stringstring"
s * 3
# "stringstringstring"
s.reverse
# "gnirts"
s.upcase
# "STRING"
Quite the contrary. He obviously did watch Futurama.
"We're sailors on the moon, we carry a harpoon, but there ain't no whales so tell this tale and sing our whaling tune!"
If you work in IT, it's difficult not to care about Windows when it's 90% of the market.
Yeah. It feels like driving a Ferrari. It's difficult not to care about the other cars when they constitute 90% of the traffic.
I had a look at the E-Book Reader Matrix. I decided to buy a Bookeen Cybook. It's cheaper than the Kindle and it supports DRM-free formats as well. I am using it to read TXT, PDF, and Mobipocket documents. It's not a free software device though. The applications for displaying PDFs, MobiPocket, ... are proprietary. However you can download the source code of the customised ARMLinux (as required by GPL) from their website. The battery charge supposedly allows for 8000 page flips. But you can't help people looking at you strangely when you do anything intellectual.
I think you nailed it. Microsoft has accepted Firefox as a standard and it is dealing with this problem the usual way.
I would not be surprised if next thing they are going to distribute Silverlight for Firefox in a similar fashion.
require 'hornetseye'
include Hornetseye
a = MultiArray.load_rgb24 'image1.jpg'
b = MultiArray.load_rgb24 'image2.jpg'
output = MEncoderOutput.new 'test.avi', 15
for k in 0..50
output.write a * ( k / 50.0 ) + b * ( ( 50.0 - k ) / 50.0 )
end
I happen to develop a Ruby library which can be applied to this problem. In this case it generates the 50 transitional frames (640x480) in less than 10 seconds. I tried GIF first, but generating GIF is indeed very slow, since it requires global colour-indexing. So this may be the real performance problem in your example. Even so you should use Ruby
Myself I use Kubuntu and Firefox as a browser. While the GTK look and feel of Firefox does not blend well with KDE, it offers compelling functionality (free software, addons, browser history, spell checking, ...).
In my opinion they should use Ruby or Python and the corresponding Qt- and GTK-bindings. By leveraging the power of a scripting language, it should be possible to efficiently develop customised GUIs for each desktop and platform. I currently use Ruby and Qt4-QtRuby and I must say that I can work much faster than with C++ and Qt4 as I did previously.
The question you really should be asking yourself is: Do you like the results or do you need to fake your own?
I see about half a dozen comments along those lines, but giving up and saying "c'est la vie" isn't constructive. ... We can do better!
You mean, you don't want us to objectively seek the truth?
Sorry, couldn't resist.
He said that he has a new meter. They can handle several milliSCOs.
The impudence of this lie was so strong that it send ripples through space time causing momentary discomfort to a Linus Torvalds in a parallel universe deciding to go out for dinner instead of sending a post about developing an operating system kernel.
Either we all pay them or we need to write and select the news ourselves (Wikis, Blogs, RSS feeds, and recommendation systems). If I want to read ten selected news items every day and the local community has 100,000 people, everyone would have to write at least one article every thirty years. I guess it's pretty obvious what is going to happen.
Well, I really would like to come up with an idea to update their business model, but I don't have time since I want to write some more free software today.
8. The Voodoo Phone: It's black and experts operate it with the display turned off
Robot warfare is not going Open Source! If you want to take out somebody remotely, it is sufficient to build a torpedo, a guided missile, or a mine.
Anybody remember Bruce Simpson's DIY cruise missile? Bruce Simpson has shown that you can build all of this using standard components of today.
I hope the government will not severely restrict science in this area as well (just think about what happened to nuclear research). The path to industrial automation and robotics already has enough hurdles (proprietary software, patented standards and machines, vendor lock-in, lack of integration, weak theoretical foundation, ...).
I don't want to see DRM in my Kernel!
Yeah right. I can only imagine a browser with the familiar look and feel of your BIOS.
Primary Browser [Firefox]
Slave Browser [IE8]
First Web Page [Slashdot]
Second Web Page [CNN]
Third Web Page [Google]
Video [Youtube/Hulu]
Try Other Web Page [Enabled]
Browser Tab1 & Tab2 [Enabled]
Javascript [Fast]
Cookies [Disabled]
Cache [Enabled]
Adult content 12M-18M [Disabled]
Damn. You've got me there.