Ways not to get screwed:
For photo printing: I gave up on printing pictures at home. Unless you have a HQ color laser printer, it's not going to be the same as a professional print. Plus with the cost of ink, it's just cheaper to head down to walmart and pay $0.19 for a picture. If you shop around you can get even cheaper.
Large print jobs: head to kinko's or look in the phone book. They have laser printers so the quality is better, and chances are large print jobs are rare enough that it wont be an inconvenience to take it else where. ($5 in printing vs burning through an entire $25 cartridge)
Home use: Pick whatever printer your computer supports and has the cheapest black ink. Then use it whenever you need to do basic printing at home, like printing an online receipt, email, or smaller documents.
Hell, MSFT could call Vista "open source" if they wanted. It's not, but there is no legal body that regulates what is "open source" and what is not.
We need a solid definition and have it added to the Oxford dictionary. Saying MSFT is Open Source is like saying MSFT is made of fairy dust. Nothing can stop you from saying it, but doesnt make it true. But having a solid definition in language dictionary legitimizes it's usage in the language. So at least you can say they're lying and have a way of proving it.
When it comes down to it, trying to describe a philosophy is one thing, pointing to a dictionary is another. For the common person what do you think they'll agree with?
Not sure what their argument is. If vendor means creator then why would they have to use a license approved by the OSI? Authors are free to use whatever license they want. If they mean vendors who use open source software (Tivo, Linksys) why should they be forced to stick a label on each item "Linux approved" like people do with "Intel Inside" or "Designed for Windows Vista".
It's all marketing crap. When it comes to a hardware device or commercial package using FOSS, all I care about is if they re-release the code changes in source form.
Besides the typical point of view that Lobbyist are basically rich people with an agenda paying off congressman to get legislation passed in their favor. What is the real "legal" definition of what a lobbyist is supposed to do? You'd think if their sole purpose is to pay off people it would be illegal. Any pro's/con's in this?
Looks like a good book. I've dabbled in embedded systems before. For anyone who has had reflashed their router with DD-WRT or think programming your toaster could be fun, this could be a good read.
I'm working with a group of people to setup an emergency wifi network grid around the county. It has hit a barrier due to technical issues mostly dealing with distance. So this can be very useful as long as they give real info rather than a "we just used a WRT54GS and a directional antennae and pumped up the wattage"
You upload chess? You sick bastard think of the children... you're boring.
lol, well it's actually endgame tablebases (database of move to mate for all permutations of pieces 1-6 in the endgame). Fun stuff if you're into Chess, or an AI researcher. The set use to be hosted on Dr. Hyatt's ftp server but it died a couple years ago, and a source for the material kinda vanished till this project started up here which uses emule (p2p) for distributing the dataset. To help the community and since I barely use my website I donated a large amount of space and bandwidth to help out.
Curious how finely tuned such a filter would be. Does it go by files size? I upload 30-50gigs of data a month to my website to share with other people in the chess community. The 6men egtb dataset is 1.5 TB, so I distribute pieces at a time via my site.
Will I be filtered because it sees a 700meg file being transfered? What about ISO's? Will it assume and iso is a pirated CD, when in reality it's a Linux distro?
That's a good paycheck. After converting that's 160.65 US dollars a day. That's a 41k a year salary. Which from my view of the world is pretty good. Where do I sign up?
Why haven't we already been to Mars then? It was my understanding it would takes years just to go one way. If we can make it there and back in 17 months that is doable with current technology. No need for cryogenics etc. There have been several people on the ISS for longer periods of time. So the human body can take it.
tart springing up around the world we will probably see other design companies come out of the woodwork and start producing innovative and competitive chip designs.
From someone who adores FPGA, I would welcome the possibility of getting custom chips fabricated at a reasonable rate. I have some ideas I'd love to see in silicon, but the cost is just horrendous. Guess it'll sit in VHDL till this day comes.
as quality remains the same more power to them. If they can save money hopefully that'll be diverted to further R&D. It is a cut throat business, anything that can give them an edge is great as long as quality remains the same or gets better.
Between Linux and *BSD? To my understanding they are just kernels. Both using the gnu/fsf/x GPL'd code for the system.
ls on BSD and linux I'm guessing is the same, both run Xfree86 or X.org, apache, php, MySQL, gimp, whatever it is.
I bet if you had a FreeBSD box and a Linux box sitting next to each other, with the same UI (KDE/GNOME, OpenOffice, Gaim) running you wouldn't notice a difference.
So besides that, what *IS* the difference from a user perspective or is it all lower level API differences (BSD not use int 0x80h sys calls?).
there already is a FreeBSD derivative that's easy to use and attracting Windows users. It's called OS X:)
Not trolling just trying to be funny. More power to them.
Can't you just make a binary blob kernel module?
That is basically what they are doing. In the case of Nvidia they write the binary blob driver and have an OSS driver to interface between the kernel and the blob. In this case ZFS is using FUSE instead of creating it's own interface code into the kernel.
Not sure why this was modded troll. It discussing the negative side of things perhaps to an extreme, but it is a real part of the equation. Personally I found it informative.
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Ways not to get screwed: For photo printing: I gave up on printing pictures at home. Unless you have a HQ color laser printer, it's not going to be the same as a professional print. Plus with the cost of ink, it's just cheaper to head down to walmart and pay $0.19 for a picture. If you shop around you can get even cheaper. Large print jobs: head to kinko's or look in the phone book. They have laser printers so the quality is better, and chances are large print jobs are rare enough that it wont be an inconvenience to take it else where. ($5 in printing vs burning through an entire $25 cartridge) Home use: Pick whatever printer your computer supports and has the cheapest black ink. Then use it whenever you need to do basic printing at home, like printing an online receipt, email, or smaller documents.
We need a solid definition and have it added to the Oxford dictionary. Saying MSFT is Open Source is like saying MSFT is made of fairy dust. Nothing can stop you from saying it, but doesnt make it true. But having a solid definition in language dictionary legitimizes it's usage in the language. So at least you can say they're lying and have a way of proving it.
When it comes down to it, trying to describe a philosophy is one thing, pointing to a dictionary is another. For the common person what do you think they'll agree with?
It's all marketing crap. When it comes to a hardware device or commercial package using FOSS, all I care about is if they re-release the code changes in source form.
Interesting read, especially since I live in Toledo :) Keep up the great work.
Besides the typical point of view that Lobbyist are basically rich people with an agenda paying off congressman to get legislation passed in their favor. What is the real "legal" definition of what a lobbyist is supposed to do? You'd think if their sole purpose is to pay off people it would be illegal. Any pro's/con's in this?
While your post was trollish. There is an embedded form of OS X/darwin. What do you think powers the iPhone. :)
Looks like a good book. I've dabbled in embedded systems before. For anyone who has had reflashed their router with DD-WRT or think programming your toaster could be fun, this could be a good read.
Well being at 2.4ghz I'd think it would cook a turkey if you were standing next to, though I might be wrong :).
I'm working with a group of people to setup an emergency wifi network grid around the county. It has hit a barrier due to technical issues mostly dealing with distance. So this can be very useful as long as they give real info rather than a "we just used a WRT54GS and a directional antennae and pumped up the wattage"
Now this is thinking outside the box! Will be interested to see the results once a running system is producing.
lol, well it's actually endgame tablebases (database of move to mate for all permutations of pieces 1-6 in the endgame). Fun stuff if you're into Chess, or an AI researcher. The set use to be hosted on Dr. Hyatt's ftp server but it died a couple years ago, and a source for the material kinda vanished till this project started up here which uses emule (p2p) for distributing the dataset. To help the community and since I barely use my website I donated a large amount of space and bandwidth to help out.
Will I be filtered because it sees a 700meg file being transfered? What about ISO's? Will it assume and iso is a pirated CD, when in reality it's a Linux distro?
Definitely a complex problem.
Yes
Just imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
That's a good paycheck. After converting that's 160.65 US dollars a day. That's a 41k a year salary. Which from my view of the world is pretty good. Where do I sign up?
Why haven't we already been to Mars then? It was my understanding it would takes years just to go one way. If we can make it there and back in 17 months that is doable with current technology. No need for cryogenics etc. There have been several people on the ISS for longer periods of time. So the human body can take it.
Thanks for the link will definitely check them out.
From someone who adores FPGA, I would welcome the possibility of getting custom chips fabricated at a reasonable rate. I have some ideas I'd love to see in silicon, but the cost is just horrendous. Guess it'll sit in VHDL till this day comes.
as quality remains the same more power to them. If they can save money hopefully that'll be diverted to further R&D. It is a cut throat business, anything that can give them an edge is great as long as quality remains the same or gets better.
Between Linux and *BSD? To my understanding they are just kernels. Both using the gnu/fsf/x GPL'd code for the system. ls on BSD and linux I'm guessing is the same, both run Xfree86 or X.org, apache, php, MySQL, gimp, whatever it is. I bet if you had a FreeBSD box and a Linux box sitting next to each other, with the same UI (KDE/GNOME, OpenOffice, Gaim) running you wouldn't notice a difference. So besides that, what *IS* the difference from a user perspective or is it all lower level API differences (BSD not use int 0x80h sys calls?).
there already is a FreeBSD derivative that's easy to use and attracting Windows users. It's called OS X :)
Not trolling just trying to be funny. More power to them.
Can't you just make a binary blob kernel module? That is basically what they are doing. In the case of Nvidia they write the binary blob driver and have an OSS driver to interface between the kernel and the blob. In this case ZFS is using FUSE instead of creating it's own interface code into the kernel.
Grub has supported ZFS booting for a while (forget which branch though).
How does winning a district vs winning actual votes matter? Isn't the person elected the one who won the most votes?
Not sure why this was modded troll. It discussing the negative side of things perhaps to an extreme, but it is a real part of the equation. Personally I found it informative.