not so long as the keys they have allow access to all your encrypted data that they know about.
I use a somewhat secure method to protect my personal data. Its a thing I like to call 'burning to dvd and not keeping it on my pc'.
Yes I know dvd's can be stolen, but they have to find them first. Anyway, most of what I'm worried about isn't ephemorous threats of government snooping, but the far more likely possibility of my machine being hijacked by criminal types over the tubes.
I disagree. It isn't hard to sell software on linux provided what you sell is strongly linked to a service. if an MMORG appeared for linux with proprietary elements (It couldn't be entirely so, you'd have to link to some foss stuff unless you wanted to re-invert the 97 horsepower omnibus), and subscriptions for server access, people would pay.
If it were just software people had to buy, with no online element, thepiratebay would provide an adequate delivery service that would force the company out of business.
My windows machine computer already does this. It uses an incredibly precise mind reading method to determine the absolute worst moment to shut down/blue up, or provide me with a handy dialog box explaining that the current app doesn't want to play any more and has taken my data home with it.
the most likely event would be that I release the code, people look at it who are interested in the algorithms, they recoil in horror, and my reputation drops.
If there was a place that *expected* shitty research code I wouldn't mind, but I have a current open source project that I wouldn't want tainted with the bad coder rep my research code would likely generate.
I've got a fully working temporal neural network sat in a deep directory that I'm sure someone would like, if I can tidy it up first. I've not found any other source code for this type of neural network under an open source license, so I will make it nice at some point.
I'm in exactly the same position. I'll be obtaining my phd in a few months, and I planned to release the full source code for my work, which amounts to over ten thousand lines of code (machine learning and EA's in my case). It all works, and what it does is pretty cool. However code written over three years, haxxed about, experimented with and cannibalized at times to make utilities does not in fact make a nice release candidate.
There ought to be an open source project to clean up research code and make it easily useable.
As it is I'll probably release the code when I have time to completely re-write all the code, making it intelligible.
Watched the A team recently, C.H.I.P.S. Dukes of Hazzard? They were all cheesy! No-one ever died, except on the cop shows, and any woman who the male lead fell in love with.
They were also, for the most part, great fun, and high quality entertainment as a result. This point seems to have escaped you.
the only reason municipal wifi fails is that there are too many companies desperate to get rich from providing internet access, and not at all keen on the concept of access for all unless the aforementioned 'all' pay many doller.
In the pacific there have been free wireless access rollouts that are problem free. I mean shit, if an Island can manage it, so can a city ffs.
My suspicion is that the march of technology is hampered by the greed of individuals.
anyone who pays attention to the discussions on slashdot will be entertained, but the likelihood of finding out completely accurate and useful information in a comment thread is rather low. I do sometimes find very interesting things, but I've never considered slashdot as a port of call in a software decision process, news, yes, flamewars yes, even intelligent discussions, but that's all.
I changed my project to gpl3 on the day it came out, my software was gpl2.0 or later anyhow, and I wanted to make the change formal, including the new license as text. I'm sure the few people who actually like my software won't feel inhibited by the license. Its more important for very successful projects with a real risk of being indiscriminately ass raped by proprietary companies. For almost all gpl projects the gpl3 won't make any difference whatsoever.
That won't stop the arguments, but speaking as someone who actually studied the license in detail, I think its a lot better than gpl 2.
I rather suspect that a lot of people who disagree with gpl3 are doing so because they spend their evenings photoshopping Linus Torvalds head to Tam River screenshots, taping it to their monitors and fapping away while the serenity soundtrack plays in the background.
There you go, a reasoned response, didn't I do well:-)
you would have/should have been modded funny, but I'm afraid not that many people have actually read knuth to know what you mean.
Hell, I've got every volume, I've been referring to them for years, and I still haven't read much. All I know is that without his books I'd have been stuffed on a number of occasions
Oh I don't know, it's not an unrealistic idea, just unlikely. Of course Niven had a particular aim in mind, exploring the boredom inherent in living beyond a normal lifetime. When Louis Wu was using it, it was because his life had become too boring to cope with.
This use was made clear when the Hindmost tried to give it back to him once life had livened up again, and he wouldn't take it.
The US effectively turned its back on manned lander missions decades ago. Mind you, its hard to argue that they haven't done rather well in the meantime.
Until relatively recently there wasn't much reason to go back to the moon with people, we have decent robots, they could be used to great effect. Now we know for sure there's water there we have the incentive, and China have made the first move. there's no certainty they will succeed. They may have the unfortunate distintion of having the first humans die there, that's not a distinction I'd be willing to bestow on any human.
Anyway, the moon is a shit location for a base. There's no atmosphere, therefore no protection from solar radiation or meteors (can they be called that on the moon?). It seems to me the only safe location on the moon is very deep underground, and that's far beyond the current technology of any nation. Reading university England have been working on a way to have robots build shelters for humans on another planet for years, its a mind numbingly hard thing to achieve, and that's just surface buildings. Its not like you can just send a load of construction workers there or anything.
What concerns me more is that the US are only talking about manned mars missions because of what china are doing. How much longevity do you think a mars mission series will have if its only done to beat another nation? That's not progress, its retaliation by science, and will ensure that science is only encouraged by the US government so long as it selves political goals.
not many companies will do that, in case it turns out that they can make billions from it by controlling it. Chances are they wouldn't be able to, but its likely easier to have that control first, assess the effect of controlling it, and release their hold if it turns out that's the route to making the most cash.
The problem is that Vista isn't being seen as a useful upgrade by microsofts biggest customer, the business world. They don't want it.
In a few years they will, just like they avoided XP till it had been around for a while. Its not that they don't like it, they just don't feel they can rely on it yet. A new OS is a risk, even if it comes from the major player in the OS world. Yup, people here may not like it, but windows is the standard bearer, Linux is still a minority everywhere but serverspace.
Home users get the fallout from this. The simple fact is that vista would be a big improvement for most home users who are in the 'don't care, so long as my pc works' class. People who don't want it are usually reacting to the negative press and not realising that most of this doesn't really apply to them, vista will do everything they want, since what they want is a pc that will browse the web and play games. XP does this too, but the security model in XP is a disaster, Vista at least improves on it a bit. Linux fans may be angered by this, doesn't stop it being true.
I don't want vista either, I'd rather stick with XP, but I'll be buying it next year, several copies in fact. So will almost everyone on slashdot, unless they're really linux only bods. Hardly anyone falls into that group at the moment. I like my games, and Linux just doesn't do that well.
Feather are made from the same stuff as scales, chitin (snakes and so on), its just a form of scale thats better suited to temperature regulation. Having feathers did not mean flight was even possible, that would have required specific adaption that feathers would probably have helped, but it would have been some environmental push, not the feathers themselves that caused birds to emerge.
Its been suspected for a long time, but what was laking was decent quality fossil evidence. There have been clues before, but the evidence wasn't good enough until now.
I did my entire undergraduate degree without a net connection in my room. In the UK not all universities have such services as interwebs for students.
It was of course available in labs.
Not having internet access meant I spent hundreds of pounds on textbooks, and spent almost every night in my room studying and coding without the distraction of firefox. An interesting side effect of this (seems to be, anyway) is that I differ from my peers in using textbooks first to solve problems, and resorting to the net if I must. I know its unusual because almost everyone I meet, except for one, thinks I'm odd for doing it, and that I will only learn 'old stuff'.
I question this though. The internet is valuable, but it is not, in spite of what we are so often told, the font of all knowledge. There's still a lot to be gained from books and just talking to other techies over a coffee.
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not so long as the keys they have allow access to all your encrypted data that they know about.
I use a somewhat secure method to protect my personal data. Its a thing I like to call 'burning to dvd and not keeping it on my pc'.
Yes I know dvd's can be stolen, but they have to find them first. Anyway, most of what I'm worried about isn't ephemorous threats of government snooping, but the far more likely possibility of my machine being hijacked by criminal types over the tubes.
I disagree. It isn't hard to sell software on linux provided what you sell is strongly linked to a service. if an MMORG appeared for linux with proprietary elements (It couldn't be entirely so, you'd have to link to some foss stuff unless you wanted to re-invert the 97 horsepower omnibus), and subscriptions for server access, people would pay.
If it were just software people had to buy, with no online element, thepiratebay would provide an adequate delivery service that would force the company out of business.
Nice idea. I'll give it some thought.
late reply I know, busy busy....
My windows machine computer already does this. It uses an incredibly precise mind reading method to determine the absolute worst moment to shut down/blue up, or provide me with a handy dialog box explaining that the current app doesn't want to play any more and has taken my data home with it.
the most likely event would be that I release the code, people look at it who are interested in the algorithms, they recoil in horror, and my reputation drops.
If there was a place that *expected* shitty research code I wouldn't mind, but I have a current open source project that I wouldn't want tainted with the bad coder rep my research code would likely generate.
I've got a fully working temporal neural network sat in a deep directory that I'm sure someone would like, if I can tidy it up first. I've not found any other source code for this type of neural network under an open source license, so I will make it nice at some point.
I'm in exactly the same position. I'll be obtaining my phd in a few months, and I planned to release the full source code for my work, which amounts to over ten thousand lines of code (machine learning and EA's in my case). It all works, and what it does is pretty cool. However code written over three years, haxxed about, experimented with and cannibalized at times to make utilities does not in fact make a nice release candidate.
There ought to be an open source project to clean up research code and make it easily useable.
As it is I'll probably release the code when I have time to completely re-write all the code, making it intelligible.
Watched the A team recently, C.H.I.P.S. Dukes of Hazzard? They were all cheesy! No-one ever died, except on the cop shows, and any woman who the male lead fell in love with.
They were also, for the most part, great fun, and high quality entertainment as a result. This point seems to have escaped you.
the only reason municipal wifi fails is that there are too many companies desperate to get rich from providing internet access, and not at all keen on the concept of access for all unless the aforementioned 'all' pay many doller.
In the pacific there have been free wireless access rollouts that are problem free. I mean shit, if an Island can manage it, so can a city ffs.
My suspicion is that the march of technology is hampered by the greed of individuals.
They want to make the ADA of the licensing world
you sir, are very correct.
if they drop it, how will I play Halo 2 and 3?
Thus far these are the only two reasons to buy vista, and even then, probably not for another year, and then as a secondary boot to linux...
speaking as someone waiting for Audible to add it to their catalog, I can certainly fall asleep waiting for it.
Its been several days, and its still not out, dammit.
anyone who pays attention to the discussions on slashdot will be entertained, but the likelihood of finding out completely accurate and useful information in a comment thread is rather low. I do sometimes find very interesting things, but I've never considered slashdot as a port of call in a software decision process, news, yes, flamewars yes, even intelligent discussions, but that's all.
:-)
I changed my project to gpl3 on the day it came out, my software was gpl2.0 or later anyhow, and I wanted to make the change formal, including the new license as text. I'm sure the few people who actually like my software won't feel inhibited by the license.
Its more important for very successful projects with a real risk of being indiscriminately ass raped by proprietary companies. For almost all gpl projects the gpl3 won't make any difference whatsoever.
That won't stop the arguments, but speaking as someone who actually studied the license in detail, I think its a lot better than gpl 2.
I rather suspect that a lot of people who disagree with gpl3 are doing so because they spend their evenings photoshopping Linus Torvalds head to Tam River screenshots, taping it to their monitors and fapping away while the serenity soundtrack plays in the background.
There you go, a reasoned response, didn't I do well
Good point. Besides, there wouldn't be a pre bundled OS market if people didn't want it.
What we could do with is something like a purchasing system where you slelect you machine, then select the OS, and it all arrives pre installed.
Right now theres almost no option, which does suck.
you would have/should have been modded funny, but I'm afraid not that many people have actually read knuth to know what you mean.
Hell, I've got every volume, I've been referring to them for years, and I still haven't read much. All I know is that without his books I'd have been stuffed on a number of occasions
Oh I don't know, it's not an unrealistic idea, just unlikely.
Of course Niven had a particular aim in mind, exploring the boredom inherent in living beyond a normal lifetime. When Louis Wu was using it, it was because his life had become too boring to cope with.
This use was made clear when the Hindmost tried to give it back to him once life had livened up again, and he wouldn't take it.
The US effectively turned its back on manned lander missions decades ago. Mind you, its hard to argue that they haven't done rather well in the meantime.
Until relatively recently there wasn't much reason to go back to the moon with people, we have decent robots, they could be used to great effect. Now we know for sure there's water there we have the incentive, and China have made the first move. there's no certainty they will succeed. They may have the unfortunate distintion of having the first humans die there, that's not a distinction I'd be willing to bestow on any human.
Anyway, the moon is a shit location for a base. There's no atmosphere, therefore no protection from solar radiation or meteors (can they be called that on the moon?). It seems to me the only safe location on the moon is very deep underground, and that's far beyond the current technology of any nation. Reading university England have been working on a way to have robots build shelters for humans on another planet for years, its a mind numbingly hard thing to achieve, and that's just surface buildings. Its not like you can just send a load of construction workers there or anything.
What concerns me more is that the US are only talking about manned mars missions because of what china are doing. How much longevity do you think a mars mission series will have if its only done to beat another nation? That's not progress, its retaliation by science, and will ensure that science is only encouraged by the US government so long as it selves political goals.
That's no way to make real progress.
not many companies will do that, in case it turns out that they can make billions from it by controlling it. Chances are they wouldn't be able to, but its likely easier to have that control first, assess the effect of controlling it, and release their hold if it turns out that's the route to making the most cash.
The problem is that Vista isn't being seen as a useful upgrade by microsofts biggest customer, the business world. They don't want it.
In a few years they will, just like they avoided XP till it had been around for a while. Its not that they don't like it, they just don't feel they can rely on it yet.
A new OS is a risk, even if it comes from the major player in the OS world. Yup, people here may not like it, but windows is the standard bearer, Linux is still a minority everywhere but serverspace.
Home users get the fallout from this. The simple fact is that vista would be a big improvement for most home users who are in the 'don't care, so long as my pc works' class. People who don't want it are usually reacting to the negative press and not realising that most of this doesn't really apply to them, vista will do everything they want, since what they want is a pc that will browse the web and play games. XP does this too, but the security model in XP is a disaster, Vista at least improves on it a bit. Linux fans may be angered by this, doesn't stop it being true.
I don't want vista either, I'd rather stick with XP, but I'll be buying it next year, several copies in fact. So will almost everyone on slashdot, unless they're really linux only bods. Hardly anyone falls into that group at the moment. I like my games, and Linux just doesn't do that well.
the suspicion is that all dinosours had feathers.
Feather are made from the same stuff as scales, chitin (snakes and so on), its just a form of scale thats better suited to temperature regulation. Having feathers did not mean flight was even possible, that would have required specific adaption that feathers would probably have helped, but it would have been some environmental push, not the feathers themselves that caused birds to emerge.
Its been suspected for a long time, but what was laking was decent quality fossil evidence. There have been clues before, but the evidence wasn't good enough until now.
All those little 'created' humans walking around at the same time must have killed them all to make headdresses.
It all makes sense! How could I have been so foolish before!
Hang on, did I take my tablet today?
I did my entire undergraduate degree without a net connection in my room. In the UK not all universities have such services as interwebs for students.
It was of course available in labs.
Not having internet access meant I spent hundreds of pounds on textbooks, and spent almost every night in my room studying and coding without the distraction of firefox. An interesting side effect of this (seems to be, anyway) is that I differ from my peers in using textbooks first to solve problems, and resorting to the net if I must. I know its unusual because almost everyone I meet, except for one, thinks I'm odd for doing it, and that I will only learn 'old stuff'.
I question this though. The internet is valuable, but it is not, in spite of what we are so often told, the font of all knowledge. There's still a lot to be gained from books and just talking to other techies over a coffee.
yup,serious. I should probably put in my 'collection' books though, and get a modern copy.
I mean, even if you could get it mounted on a frikkin shark, they wouldn't survive long enough out of water for it to be used for crowd control.