Just for the record: there would be no supply chain changes required to make a change to an engine component on the Ford F-150 truck. Ford makes all of their V8 engines 100% in-house.:) But I see your point; change "engine component" to "seat" and it makes much more sense.
Actually, next-gen hybrids are and will be using various types of lithium-ion batteries and several companies, including Panasonic, Sanyo, Hitachi, and Toyota are manufacturing them. Tesla Motors already uses lithium-ion batteries in their cars.
This is just hype. I for one will not be buying the $150k batteries that need special zoning permissions and need to be replaced every 3 years.
Cost is around $50K a year? That wouldn't make economical sense for anyone. Is there anyone here who shells out $50k a year to their electric company? Didn't think so.
So you're saying you think that most new software development will be for mobile-only OSes? Mobile apps may be okay for lots and lots of things, but I don't think that mobile apps will ever completely replace the traditional desktop applications. If anything, I see home-based computing moving in the direction of more and more LAN integration and more and better multimedia capability, with the hottest toys these days being media servers, wireless networking, faster broadband connectivity and more and more personal communications, including voice, video, IM, teleconferencing, etc.
The corporate network as it stands today will remain mostly the same, but with everything converging more towards service-oriented architectures, virtualization and cloud computing with dynamic, demand sensitive services and networks.
Here's a perfectly valid algorithm stolen from Wikipedia's article on algorithms:
TEST 1: IF today's date is NOT Friday THEN done ELSE TEST 2:
TEST 2: IF the document is NOT located at 'D:/My Documents' THEN display 'document not found' error message ELSE TEST 3:
TEST 3: IF there is NO paper in the printer THEN display 'out of paper' error message ELSE print the document.
How does this meet the definition of a mathematical formula, as written?
You can't copyright a physical invention like a new machine, drug, or industrial process. You can copyright manuals and other documents that describe those things, but those documents in and of themselves are not the subject of patents.
But you can both copyright and patent a machine's visual design, which itself can be described in a document, but the copyright and patent would be on the visual design itself, not the document. So there is precedent for software being both copyrightable and patentable at the same time.
To really complicate things, visual designs can even be trademarked in some countries (including the U.S.)
Technically, all algorithms can be expressed in terms of a mathematical formula, but they are not, in and of themselves, mathematical formulae per se. Specifically, all can be expressed in terms of lambda calculus.
Gimp is a very good graphics program. I will not argue that Photoshop is better but Gimp is much more powerful than Photoshop Elements.
Don't forget the leaps and bounds the GIMP team has made towards making the app much, much easier for newbies. And everything short of MSPAINT.EXE is better than Photoshop Elements.
I really like DeeVeeDee for making DVDs is super easy to use.
You must mean DeVeDe. I have to say that I have not found a better tool for mastering DVDs, whether commercial or open source. Xilisoft's DVD Creator is nice, for example, but, quite honestly, it does too much. It tries to be a video editor, a menu creator, etc., while DeVeDe sticks with to the basics and optionally generates simple menus for you. Most of the time, I just want to be able to put a full videos on a disc and a menu to select between them; I don't need a video editor or a menu creator, or special effects doodads, or anything like that. And if I do want those, I have those tools, too.
DeVeDe is probably one of the most innovative open source projects ever, IMHO.
But, just like the desktop computing environment before, the commercial developers will be followed by OSS developers who just have an itch to scratch that no existing app handles...
Don't you mean that the commercial developers will follow the OSS developers? Because that's how it actually happened. Software was generally free of charge and often passed around until some companies decided to start making money from it, going all the way back to ancient versions of Unix and other hackish OSes like ITS, in the 1960s.
I'd tell you who to go talk to to verify such things, but they'd probably just tell you to get off their lawn...
Not everyone was attracted to the US due to freedom of speech, right to privacy, and all that, yet they still benefit from them after becoming citizens.
Oh, great! Here goes some crazy AC making sense again!
And while the Golf is also small by American standards, it also dwarfs the Citroen C2 at 166 inches long with a wheelbase of 101.5 inches. Add to that it's 70 inches wide, and well, it's huge compared the Citroen.
See what I mean?
It isn't that the Europeans are getting better mileage because their engine technology is so superior. Turbo diesels sell here in the U.S., too, and Chrysler (and maybe Ford or GM?) has even offered several of its cars from time-to-time with a turbo diesel engine.
The Europeans are getting better gas mileage because they're driving smaller cars that would be considered unpalatable by American consumers. Let's face it, we're used to driving our Yank Tanks.
Uh huh. You just validated the "comfort" argument. The Citroen C2, for example, has a wheelbase of 96.5 inches and is 144 inches (12 feet) long. The current most popular car model in the United States is the Honda Accord, which is 194 inches (~16 feet) long and a wheelbase of 110 inches. The Accord is also much wider than the Citroen C2.
My point is that the Citroen C2 would never sell in the U.S. because of its size. The Prius is considered very small by American standards, and that is one of its significant detracting points.
John Walker called such a device a vacuum propeller [fourmilab.ch]. He didn't have any particular ideas about how the device would work, but he does have a nice analogy involving propellers.
Yep. You're using the forces generated by quantum effects to propel yourself forward, like a submarine uses water to propel itself forward. It's the closest you're going to get to a car analolgy.
Someone should send this link to John. He'd like it.
So, would this be a bad time to introduce my newly designed thin-client PC called the "Generic Network Unit" (GNU) and my new programming language for thin client computer graphics, the "GNU Graphics Programming Language" (GNU GPL)?
Uh... explain then why European & Japanese manufacturers can make high mpg with the same four-stroke engine technology? Oil lobby aside, the technology has more efficiency possible.
Maybe because European and Japanese car markers are only perceived as having better fuel economy these days? Look for yourself if you don't believe me: 2 of the top 5 family sedans ranked by fuel economy are American cars and in the large sedan class, of course, the only Japanese car maker in the category is Toyota and it gets a whopping 1 mpg than its next 6 competitors. Finally in minivans, the Mazda 5 gets the best gas mileage, running a 2.3L 4 cylinder engine that happens to be made by Ford (same engine that's in the 4 cylinder Ranger pickup truck), BTW, while the next 2 are Chryslers, both of which run a 4L Mitsubishi V6.
Various theories hint at the interests of the oil lobby to continue four-stroke dominance (just look at the low mpg of most american manufacturers in general) and perceived customer comfort being the most widely used trump.
That's not it. I worked in the automotive industry for almost 10 years, and I can tell you that the automotive companies don't give a rat's ass about Big Oil. But you do give the real reason:
They just don't make big margins on cars that sell for less than €8000 new.
And that's it right there, at least as far as the Detroit Three are concerned: they have never made money on small, inexpensive cars. Inexpensive cars have always been considered a "loss leader" to introduce younger people with less cash to the brand.
First of all, yes, a company is an emerging conscious. That's the reason why we have the entire body of corporate law in the first place. If you don't believe me, ask a lawyer who specializes in corporate law. Anyway, you don't really believe that Microsoft isn't a conscious entity yourself, since you've said that Microsoft has been witnessed 'making money" and "further it's [own] agenda". You can't your cake and eat it, too.
I'm all for capitalism. After all, I'm an anarcho-capitalist. There is nothing wrong with the pursuit of capitalism, as long as everyone is playing by the rules.
The problem is that Microsoft has a history of not playing by rules, and, in fact, deliberately ignoring them.
The GPL is a permission to make and distribute copies of modified or unmodified code. If you use GPL'd code in a program you wrote, you gotta play by GPL's rules, which says that if you use the code in your program, you gotta GPL your program. If you don't agree, then you have no permission at all to make copies and you have just committed copyright infringement.
We have no reason to believe that Microsoft is being honest of their own accord here because their track record speaks for itself. If what Microsoft did to the ISO committees on OOXML and ODF isn't illegal, it's downright dishonest and unethical.
Without ethics, our society will devolve into chaos. Your choice: you can support an unethical company or not. But if you choose to act ethically for yourself, then why would you demand any less from the people you do business with?
Right. How much money and effort will it take to collect it all? Never mind that data collected from weather stations is inaccurate for the purposes of climate modeling. In the meantime, there currently exists no good, expedient way to corroborate CRU's admittedly cooked data with the raw, uncooked data. Isn't that nice and convenient?
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Sure, that guy failed to understand the detonation profile of PETN, but what about the next one? The next one might not skimp on his homework so much.
Just for the record: there would be no supply chain changes required to make a change to an engine component on the Ford F-150 truck. Ford makes all of their V8 engines 100% in-house. :) But I see your point; change "engine component" to "seat" and it makes much more sense.
Mozilla Firefox is dual-licensed, not GPL. WebKit is LGPL, GNOME is mostly LGPL as well. KDE is a motley mix of licenses.
X.org, OpenSSH, OpenLDAP, going on...
Actually, next-gen hybrids are and will be using various types of lithium-ion batteries and several companies, including Panasonic, Sanyo, Hitachi, and Toyota are manufacturing them. Tesla Motors already uses lithium-ion batteries in their cars.
This is just hype. I for one will not be buying the $150k batteries that need special zoning permissions and need to be replaced every 3 years.
Cost is around $50K a year? That wouldn't make economical sense for anyone. Is there anyone here who shells out $50k a year to their electric company? Didn't think so.
what exactly is there to attract people to adopt it as their developing platform?
Commercial-friendly licenses tend to make businesses more likely to contribute code to the open source community. See Darwin and Apache for examples.
So you're saying you think that most new software development will be for mobile-only OSes? Mobile apps may be okay for lots and lots of things, but I don't think that mobile apps will ever completely replace the traditional desktop applications. If anything, I see home-based computing moving in the direction of more and more LAN integration and more and better multimedia capability, with the hottest toys these days being media servers, wireless networking, faster broadband connectivity and more and more personal communications, including voice, video, IM, teleconferencing, etc.
The corporate network as it stands today will remain mostly the same, but with everything converging more towards service-oriented architectures, virtualization and cloud computing with dynamic, demand sensitive services and networks.
Here's a perfectly valid algorithm stolen from Wikipedia's article on algorithms:
TEST 1: IF today's date is NOT Friday THEN done ELSE TEST 2:
TEST 2: IF the document is NOT located at 'D:/My Documents' THEN display 'document not found' error message ELSE TEST 3:
TEST 3: IF there is NO paper in the printer THEN display 'out of paper' error message ELSE print the document.
How does this meet the definition of a mathematical formula, as written?
Quick and easy patent reform: Make the law such that:
You can't copyright a physical invention like a new machine, drug, or industrial process. You can copyright manuals and other documents that describe those things, but those documents in and of themselves are not the subject of patents.
But you can both copyright and patent a machine's visual design, which itself can be described in a document, but the copyright and patent would be on the visual design itself, not the document. So there is precedent for software being both copyrightable and patentable at the same time.
To really complicate things, visual designs can even be trademarked in some countries (including the U.S.)
Technically, all algorithms can be expressed in terms of a mathematical formula, but they are not, in and of themselves, mathematical formulae per se. Specifically, all can be expressed in terms of lambda calculus.
Gimp is a very good graphics program. I will not argue that Photoshop is better but Gimp is much more powerful than Photoshop Elements.
Don't forget the leaps and bounds the GIMP team has made towards making the app much, much easier for newbies. And everything short of MSPAINT.EXE is better than Photoshop Elements.
I really like DeeVeeDee for making DVDs is super easy to use.
You must mean DeVeDe. I have to say that I have not found a better tool for mastering DVDs, whether commercial or open source. Xilisoft's DVD Creator is nice, for example, but, quite honestly, it does too much. It tries to be a video editor, a menu creator, etc., while DeVeDe sticks with to the basics and optionally generates simple menus for you. Most of the time, I just want to be able to put a full videos on a disc and a menu to select between them; I don't need a video editor or a menu creator, or special effects doodads, or anything like that. And if I do want those, I have those tools, too.
DeVeDe is probably one of the most innovative open source projects ever, IMHO.
Along with Audacity, of course. :)
But, just like the desktop computing environment before, the commercial developers will be followed by OSS developers who just have an itch to scratch that no existing app handles...
Don't you mean that the commercial developers will follow the OSS developers? Because that's how it actually happened. Software was generally free of charge and often passed around until some companies decided to start making money from it, going all the way back to ancient versions of Unix and other hackish OSes like ITS, in the 1960s.
I'd tell you who to go talk to to verify such things, but they'd probably just tell you to get off their lawn...
Not everyone was attracted to the US due to freedom of speech, right to privacy, and all that, yet they still benefit from them after becoming citizens.
Oh, great! Here goes some crazy AC making sense again!
And while the Golf is also small by American standards, it also dwarfs the Citroen C2 at 166 inches long with a wheelbase of 101.5 inches. Add to that it's 70 inches wide, and well, it's huge compared the Citroen.
See what I mean?
It isn't that the Europeans are getting better mileage because their engine technology is so superior. Turbo diesels sell here in the U.S., too, and Chrysler (and maybe Ford or GM?) has even offered several of its cars from time-to-time with a turbo diesel engine.
The Europeans are getting better gas mileage because they're driving smaller cars that would be considered unpalatable by American consumers. Let's face it, we're used to driving our Yank Tanks.
How did you know?
Don't forget about the Enhanced Memory Acceleration Circuitry System (EMACS). That's one of the GNU's best features!
Uh huh. You just validated the "comfort" argument. The Citroen C2, for example, has a wheelbase of 96.5 inches and is 144 inches (12 feet) long. The current most popular car model in the United States is the Honda Accord, which is 194 inches (~16 feet) long and a wheelbase of 110 inches. The Accord is also much wider than the Citroen C2.
My point is that the Citroen C2 would never sell in the U.S. because of its size. The Prius is considered very small by American standards, and that is one of its significant detracting points.
John Walker called such a device a vacuum propeller [fourmilab.ch]. He didn't have any particular ideas about how the device would work, but he does have a nice analogy involving propellers.
Yep. You're using the forces generated by quantum effects to propel yourself forward, like a submarine uses water to propel itself forward. It's the closest you're going to get to a car analolgy.
Someone should send this link to John. He'd like it.
So, would this be a bad time to introduce my newly designed thin-client PC called the "Generic Network Unit" (GNU) and my new programming language for thin client computer graphics, the "GNU Graphics Programming Language" (GNU GPL)?
Uh... explain then why European & Japanese manufacturers can make high mpg with the same four-stroke engine technology? Oil lobby aside, the technology has more efficiency possible.
Maybe because European and Japanese car markers are only perceived as having better fuel economy these days? Look for yourself if you don't believe me: 2 of the top 5 family sedans ranked by fuel economy are American cars and in the large sedan class, of course, the only Japanese car maker in the category is Toyota and it gets a whopping 1 mpg than its next 6 competitors. Finally in minivans, the Mazda 5 gets the best gas mileage, running a 2.3L 4 cylinder engine that happens to be made by Ford (same engine that's in the 4 cylinder Ranger pickup truck), BTW, while the next 2 are Chryslers, both of which run a 4L Mitsubishi V6.
Perceptions, perceptions.
Various theories hint at the interests of the oil lobby to continue four-stroke dominance (just look at the low mpg of most american manufacturers in general) and perceived customer comfort being the most widely used trump.
That's not it. I worked in the automotive industry for almost 10 years, and I can tell you that the automotive companies don't give a rat's ass about Big Oil. But you do give the real reason:
They just don't make big margins on cars that sell for less than €8000 new.
And that's it right there, at least as far as the Detroit Three are concerned: they have never made money on small, inexpensive cars. Inexpensive cars have always been considered a "loss leader" to introduce younger people with less cash to the brand.
First of all, yes, a company is an emerging conscious. That's the reason why we have the entire body of corporate law in the first place. If you don't believe me, ask a lawyer who specializes in corporate law. Anyway, you don't really believe that Microsoft isn't a conscious entity yourself, since you've said that Microsoft has been witnessed 'making money" and "further it's [own] agenda". You can't your cake and eat it, too.
I'm all for capitalism. After all, I'm an anarcho-capitalist. There is nothing wrong with the pursuit of capitalism, as long as everyone is playing by the rules.
The problem is that Microsoft has a history of not playing by rules, and, in fact, deliberately ignoring them.
The GPL is a permission to make and distribute copies of modified or unmodified code. If you use GPL'd code in a program you wrote, you gotta play by GPL's rules, which says that if you use the code in your program, you gotta GPL your program. If you don't agree, then you have no permission at all to make copies and you have just committed copyright infringement.
We have no reason to believe that Microsoft is being honest of their own accord here because their track record speaks for itself. If what Microsoft did to the ISO committees on OOXML and ODF isn't illegal, it's downright dishonest and unethical.
Without ethics, our society will devolve into chaos. Your choice: you can support an unethical company or not. But if you choose to act ethically for yourself, then why would you demand any less from the people you do business with?
t doesn't have a keyboard, nor can you even connect one to it.
FTFY. Why won't Apple include a Bluetooth keyboard driver, or at least allow one to be installed without jailbreaking the phone?
Right. How much money and effort will it take to collect it all? Never mind that data collected from weather stations is inaccurate for the purposes of climate modeling. In the meantime, there currently exists no good, expedient way to corroborate CRU's admittedly cooked data with the raw, uncooked data. Isn't that nice and convenient?
Virtually all of the historical models (the ones that establish the 'baseline' for global warming) are based on CRU's models.