The bulb in TFA (I know, I know... but it wasn't in TFS) is rated 6.9w consumption, and is presumably the 60w-equivalent referenced in the summary. Most "60w" CFLs take around 12-15w if memory serves - so these LED bulbs are about twice as efficient. Save $23/yr for 19 years vs $12/yr for 5 years
If the consumption of a LED is half the consumption of a CFL, that doesn't mean you save twice as much per year. In the CFL case you save 45-50W-worth relative to an incandescent bulb and in the LED case you save 53.1W-worth. So you only save slightly more per year by using LED instead of CFL in terms of electricity consumption.
One of the reasons for copyrights (and patents too) is to reduce reliance on trade secrets.
Wrong. The reason "for copyrights" is to spur creativity, while patents are meant to spur the distribution of ideas. Hence, trade secrets are only related to patents, not copyrights.
Actually I wasn't complaining about anything - it was an honest question. The guy said you could install the OS with Remote Disc and I wanted to know how. Installing an OS isn't that uncommon (not as uncommon as external optical drives!) and it's good to see it can be done with netbooting.
First of all, I was referring to the parent's assertion willy-nilly that you could use Remote Disk to install the OS without further explanation.
Second, your "use an external optical drive?" solution sounds rather annoying - how many external optical drives does the average user have lying around!?
Fortunately, it appears that Remote Disc supports netbooting, allowing you to boot the MacBook Air from a Mac OS X Install DVD in another computer. I presume this is installed in the boot ROM and makes use of EFI.
In other words, simplified a bit: the likelihood that there was no positive correlation between the corruption level and probability of an approval vote, that is, this is just a random effect, is about 7%
Actually, if the P value is 0.07. you are saying that if you assume the null hypothesis (no correlation) to be true, the chances of observing the correlation in that graph (or better) is 7%. That is different than saying that the chances the null hypothesis is true is only 7%.
How can anyone take ISO seriously when hardly a single one of the member bodies' web sites validate with W3. Hell, the Greek Member web site even uses some shitty Flash "intro"!
1) He uses a third party wireless card that no one uses (i.e. this is irrelevant to 99.99999% of MacBook users)
2) He suddenly "gets the shell" and is logged in on the MacBook. But, where did he specify what user to log in as? Is he logged in as root? Then, why is root logged into Mac OS X with a full-blown Finder, etc (something that no one ever does and is not even easy to do)?
3) Destination port is set to "80" (HTTP). WTF?
This looks like nothing more than a login script. At the end he moves to the other side of the table and does some more creating/deleting files on the Desktop saying that if you're not convinced, NOW you will be. Huh? WTF? What does it matter if you move an extra metre? How does this help your case?
With about 1,700 employees, Microsoft operates three businesses in Ireland -- a European operations centre, a European product development centre, and its Ireland sales, marketing & services group. After its headquarters, the Irish facility is the company's second largest in the world, alongside an operation in Japan.
Microsoft spends around EUR350 million each year in the Irish economy, and the software behemoth accounts for about 6 percent of national exports.
The key element here is that the product (Skype) would, if left to it's own devices, work with either Intel or AMD CPUs, but has been crippled in it's use with a certain subset of those artificially.
Kids get high insightful scores on slashdot before they learn how to use their apostrophes. The Internet is a great thing, innit.
By the way, since when does software do anything when it's "left to it's own devices"? Software does what its creator tells it to do. It doesn't go around deciding by itself that it should work with AMD and then get coerced by evil coders to do something else.
Regardless of risks of actual litigation and those idiotic software patents (doesn't even apply in NZ), the likelihood that there is copyrighted code in a proprietary application is higher than in an open source one.
Copyrighted code in a closed source app will be far less conspicuous than in an open source app, and therefore the programmer is more likely to think "well, no one will notice, anyway." In open source apps, the risk of being caught is so much higher, and therefore it's more likely to be free of copyrighted code.
But how many organisations just basically gives away money for basic research like DARPA does?
What are you talking about? DARPA is a public institution. It is tax payers who are "giving away" money. You sound like you're trying to make DARPA sound like some kind of philanthropic institution, when it's not.
As I said, the positive effects are practically coincidences or accidents. They are secondary to the military establishment's purpose. They are not its raison d'etre. Universities and research centres do have such principal goals.
You stick 10 dollars in to the military, you might get 2 in terms of human progress. You stick 10 dollars into a project/institution whose purpose is the advancement of humanity, you might get 8.
Postiive military spill-overs are irrelevant when trying to justify military spending.
You are basically saying that because military investment has had huge positive side effects in the field of technology, military investment is "good".
It's totally absurd to conclude that the only way these positive effects on human progress could have occurred is therefore through military spending. The same money could have gone into other kinds of R&D funding or tax credits and could arguably have resulted in at least the same progress but without the destruction and terror part And as some have suggested, such alternative ways would probably not have been veiled by a "cloud of secrecy".
"Google normally offers uncensored, clean information from which people can learn"
Really? According to this guardian article, "There are technical precedents. In Germany, Google follows government orders by restricting references to sites that deny the Holocaust. In France, it obeys local rules prohibiting sites that stir up racial hatred. And in the US, it assists the authorities' crackdown on copyright infringements."/em
"I use Macs but I certainly don't count on OS X being secure enough for me to connect to the internet without using a correctly configured firewall."
oh yeah? first of all, macosx has a built-in firewall you can enable at your leisure, and therefore talking of OS X not being secure enough for you to go online without the use of a firewall as if these two were exclusive different things is nonsense.
but even if you don't use a firewall, try plugging your up to date mac directly into your internet connected modem and wait for its security to be compromised.i don't advise you to hold your breath.
i've done plugged straight in without the use of a firewall many times and haven't had a single problem.
It is crucial that as many non-MS Office suites as possible adopt this format natively and by default if it is to become a serious competitor. There is absolutely no advantage for the underdogs to each use their own format.
If OpenDocument is to succeed, we would ideally see its adoption in AbiWord and Apple Pages/Keynote as well as Open/StarOffice and K/Gnome Office.
I also strongly encourage all of you to pressure your governments to use OpenDocument-based suites. MS Office (and Windows for that matter) is a totally unnecessary drain on public resources. Those taxes could be put to much better use!
You can take accountability for a product when it is used according to a contract and not take accountability for it when it is misused. The manufacturer/service provider takes accountability under specific conditions. Your suggestion that it is necessary to keep the BK protocol closed because the BitKeeper people want to be held accountable is just plain bogus. They did it to prevent competition.
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The bulb in TFA (I know, I know... but it wasn't in TFS) is rated 6.9w consumption, and is presumably the 60w-equivalent referenced in the summary. Most "60w" CFLs take around 12-15w if memory serves - so these LED bulbs are about twice as efficient. Save $23/yr for 19 years vs $12/yr for 5 years
If the consumption of a LED is half the consumption of a CFL, that doesn't mean you save twice as much per year. In the CFL case you save 45-50W-worth relative to an incandescent bulb and in the LED case you save 53.1W-worth. So you only save slightly more per year by using LED instead of CFL in terms of electricity consumption.
One of the reasons for copyrights (and patents too) is to reduce reliance on trade secrets.
Wrong. The reason "for copyrights" is to spur creativity, while patents are meant to spur the distribution of ideas. Hence, trade secrets are only related to patents, not copyrights.
Actually I wasn't complaining about anything - it was an honest question. The guy said you could install the OS with Remote Disc and I wanted to know how. Installing an OS isn't that uncommon (not as uncommon as external optical drives!) and it's good to see it can be done with netbooting.
First of all, I was referring to the parent's assertion willy-nilly that you could use Remote Disk to install the OS without further explanation. Second, your "use an external optical drive?" solution sounds rather annoying - how many external optical drives does the average user have lying around!? Fortunately, it appears that Remote Disc supports netbooting, allowing you to boot the MacBook Air from a Mac OS X Install DVD in another computer. I presume this is installed in the boot ROM and makes use of EFI.
What do you do if the Remote Disk client is broken? What if the entire OS is broken, how do you install the OS on the MacBook Air?
How can anyone take ISO seriously when hardly a single one of the member bodies' web sites validate with W3. Hell, the Greek Member web site even uses some shitty Flash "intro"!
What a disgrace.
Thor Larholm's vulnerability example crashes Safari 3 on Mac OS X too.
The actual video is here.
1) He uses a third party wireless card that no one uses (i.e. this is irrelevant to 99.99999% of MacBook users) 2) He suddenly "gets the shell" and is logged in on the MacBook. But, where did he specify what user to log in as? Is he logged in as root? Then, why is root logged into Mac OS X with a full-blown Finder, etc (something that no one ever does and is not even easy to do)? 3) Destination port is set to "80" (HTTP). WTF? This looks like nothing more than a login script. At the end he moves to the other side of the table and does some more creating/deleting files on the Desktop saying that if you're not convinced, NOW you will be. Huh? WTF? What does it matter if you move an extra metre? How does this help your case?
Actually, the iTunes data centre is in Luxembourg (at least for serving European customers).
They are not a major generator of jobs or revenue for any european state.
Oh yeah? From http://www.enn.ie/news.html?code=8883686/:
With about 1,700 employees, Microsoft operates three businesses in Ireland -- a European operations centre, a European product development centre, and its Ireland sales, marketing & services group. After its headquarters, the Irish facility is the company's second largest in the world, alongside an operation in Japan.
Microsoft spends around EUR350 million each year in the Irish economy, and the software behemoth accounts for about 6 percent of national exports.
Inside the zip, you can find a document in either Word, OpenOffice, RTF, PDF*, HTML or zip.
And inside that zip, you can find a document in either Word, OpenOffice, RTF, PDF*, HTML or zip.
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ad infinitum
The key element here is that the product (Skype) would, if left to it's own devices, work with either Intel or AMD CPUs, but has been crippled in it's use with a certain subset of those artificially. Kids get high insightful scores on slashdot before they learn how to use their apostrophes. The Internet is a great thing, innit. By the way, since when does software do anything when it's "left to it's own devices"? Software does what its creator tells it to do. It doesn't go around deciding by itself that it should work with AMD and then get coerced by evil coders to do something else.
Regardless of risks of actual litigation and those idiotic software patents (doesn't even apply in NZ), the likelihood that there is copyrighted code in a proprietary application is higher than in an open source one.
Copyrighted code in a closed source app will be far less conspicuous than in an open source app, and therefore the programmer is more likely to think "well, no one will notice, anyway." In open source apps, the risk of being caught is so much higher, and therefore it's more likely to be free of copyrighted code.
But how many organisations just basically gives away money for basic research like DARPA does?
What are you talking about? DARPA is a public institution. It is tax payers who are "giving away" money. You sound like you're trying to make DARPA sound like some kind of philanthropic institution, when it's not.
As I said, the positive effects are practically coincidences or accidents. They are secondary to the military establishment's purpose. They are not its raison d'etre. Universities and research centres do have such principal goals.
You stick 10 dollars in to the military, you might get 2 in terms of human progress. You stick 10 dollars into a project/institution whose purpose is the advancement of humanity, you might get 8.
Postiive military spill-overs are irrelevant when trying to justify military spending.
Your argument is completely fallacious.
You are basically saying that because military investment has had huge positive side effects in the field of technology, military investment is "good".
It's totally absurd to conclude that the only way these positive effects on human progress could have occurred is therefore through military spending. The same money could have gone into other kinds of R&D funding or tax credits and could arguably have resulted in at least the same progress but without the destruction and terror part And as some have suggested, such alternative ways would probably not have been veiled by a "cloud of secrecy".
"Google normally offers uncensored, clean information from which people can learn" Really? According to this guardian article, "There are technical precedents. In Germany, Google follows government orders by restricting references to sites that deny the Holocaust. In France, it obeys local rules prohibiting sites that stir up racial hatred. And in the US, it assists the authorities' crackdown on copyright infringements."/em
"I use Macs but I certainly don't count on OS X being secure enough for me to connect to the internet without using a correctly configured firewall."
oh yeah? first of all, macosx has a built-in firewall you can enable at your leisure, and therefore talking of OS X not being secure enough for you to go online without the use of a firewall as if these two were exclusive different things is nonsense.
but even if you don't use a firewall, try plugging your up to date mac directly into your internet connected modem and wait for its security to be compromised.i don't advise you to hold your breath.
i've done plugged straight in without the use of a firewall many times and haven't had a single problem.
the word "gratis" would be more adequate when talking about price
It is crucial that as many non-MS Office suites as possible adopt this format natively and by default if it is to become a serious competitor. There is absolutely no advantage for the underdogs to each use their own format.
If OpenDocument is to succeed, we would ideally see its adoption in AbiWord and Apple Pages/Keynote as well as Open/StarOffice and K/Gnome Office.
I also strongly encourage all of you to pressure your governments to use OpenDocument-based suites. MS Office (and Windows for that matter) is a totally unnecessary drain on public resources. Those taxes could be put to much better use!
You can take accountability for a product when it is used according to a contract and not take accountability for it when it is misused. The manufacturer/service provider takes accountability under specific conditions.
Your suggestion that it is necessary to keep the BK protocol closed because the BitKeeper people want to be held accountable is just plain bogus. They did it to prevent competition.