The EU Rental Directive gives rights holders a lot more influence over the use of rentals than they have in the US, where the First-sale doctrine makes rental restrictions harder to defend. For now.
Therefore being exposed to 1 Sievert for a second (the real unit behind the sievert is the J/s, which is equivalent to Watts) is the same as being exposed to 1 milisievert for 1000 seconds, or 1 microsievert for 10^6 seconds.
Nope. Sieverts are J/kg. "1 millisievert for 1000 seconds" makes no sense, but "1 millisievert per 1000 seconds" does.
I can't find the quote right now, but Terence Parr (ANTLR parser generator, USF professor) stated that's one reason the ANTLR v3 documentation was published rather than put up for free on the website.
Parts of the Tesseract tar ball are under a "for non-commercial use" only license:
This software is the copyright of Russell Leighton and the MITRE Corporation.
It may be freely used and modified for research and development
purposes. We require a brief acknowledgement in any research
paper or other publication where this software has made a significant
contribution. If you wish to use it for commercial gain you must contact
The MITRE Corporation for conditions of use.
The piece in question is a neural network simulator named Aspirin/MIGRAINES, presumably used for training. Pun away.
I am the maintainer of a driver in mainline Linux. An competing driver is offered by the actual hardware vendor (also Open Source). While working with their engineers has been quite pleasant, we have never been able to agree to work on the same driver.
So the people who know the hardware best are paid to work on a driver that few people use. Meanwhile, the driver in mainline keeps up with the frequent changes of in-kernel APIs but lacks the resources to make use of all the features the hardware offers.
A few companies (e.g. Intel with their eepro) seem to get it right: Have someone work with the community to write and maintain a driver in mainline. You are still largely in control as long as you are competent, and you are pushing the code people actually use.
Exactly. In fact, the actual article on Le Monde talks about how great Google's vision is, noting though that it puts French at a disadvantage. He's neither criticizing Google, nor is he asking the company to change their selection. He ends with an appeal to the French and Europeans: "We can do it, therefore we must do it."
If you want to bash the French, you can make fun of his suggested solution (call for the European states to chip in for doing the same in Europe).
Well, suppose it becomes common for companies to demand a permission for anyone (especially those they don't like) to link to their sites. Won't that affect our rights to use the web as it was designed?
Suppose it went far enough that a letter was sent on behalf of a well-known Linux distributor saying "our client does not allow others to provide links to our client's web site without permission".
BoingBoing recently ran a story about the Eiffel tower. Now, because the Eiffel tower was built in the 19th century, there's an extra twist: Only the tower at night (with its recently added lighting) is supposedly copyrighted.
I have lived in both the US and the only country (to my knowledge) that practices direct democracy on all levels. It does work well for them. People are a lot happier with their government, and that's although they (living in a small country) tend to know quite a bit more about the rest of the world than most people in the US do. Some of their laws are more restrictive, some allow for more freedom than the US does (and I'm saying that although most votes didn't turn out as I wished they had). They certainly have a much smaller percentage of their population in prisons:-P.
Since direct democracy has been demonstrated to work reasonably well for at least one country, what you are saying is that you and your people are not capable of working that kind of democracy. Maybe.
May take is: After communism died (in the US earlier, because communism was largely unacceptable there forever), lots of people seemed to have this "new" idea of an ideal society which they believe will magically work as soon as they'll get a chance to try it.
Before arguing for anarchism, make sure you have a working example, and it had better be better than Afghanistan. It's nice in theory (so was communism, to some extent), but it doesn't work with your real, average people. Anarchism is the pipe dream of a new generation.
Let me explain a method used by a country that has more votes and ballots than any other country (2 - 4 dates per year, typically with several federal and other ballots each)
The method may not be perfect, but it's impossible to organize some tampering nation-wide without being noticed. And unlike the technical solutions, the method is transparent enough that anybody will understand how it works and why the results are trustworthy.
The method is: <drumroll> Have volunteers sort them out.
Zurich (biggest city here) for instance has hundreds of vote counters (appointed by the council) and in addition pays volunteers 20$ an hour on voting sundays (again, a couple of times a year). Work is roughly from 9.30 am to 3.30 pm. It's fast too, we get the results the same day no problem.
Obviously, you want to have more than one person go through those stacks and make sure they agree. Some towns do use machines for the counting. They still have real people sorting the papers (there's one per vote per person), but a machine counts the resulting stacks. They either use the very same machines that count bills in banks (no OCR, just counting the number of sheets in the stack), or they weigh them with high precision scales (often in addition to manual counting).
This method is proven, robust, and scales very well with the number of people in the country.
I shop on the Internet. I have paid all my bills over the Internet for half a decade now. But there's one thing I hope we won't do via Internet or through specialised machines for at least the next decades, and that's voting. The more sophisticated the proposed technical solutions, the less likely ordinary people are going to understand (or trust) it. Don't trust those freaks at the voting office? Well, volunteer to count yourself. Simple as that.
> Unfortunately this only runs on Windows, but I'm sure there > are similar Linux programs available.
kdirstat. The currently available devel version comes with treemap.
With TB sized installations you will probably want some additional tools (or at least have kdirstat import a database built by a daily cronjob [1]), running a complete scan will take forever.
What the thread doesn't mention is that if you plan to put any serious network load on an EPIA system, you want Linux 2.4.21pre6 or later. via-rhine 1.17 dies under load.
One key reason development moves like a snail
on
State of the E-nion
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Last time I checked out e17 trying to contribute meant:
- Pulling stuff from cvs SPLIT and HEAD branches (both
had working and broken pieces) - Finding some document describing the correct order to
build two dozen libs/apps; there was no such up-to-date
document on enlightenment.org - Build failures, this month here, next month there - Website says: "Don't complain it doesn't build. It does."
Nothing kills motivation like being told the problems you are seeing and might even feel inclined to tackle don't exist.
Geez, contributing to a freakin' OS kernel is a piece of cake compared to the chores prospective e hackers are facing.
Too bad, really. e16 is my wm of choice, and e17 has been looking promising from its early beginnings.
If you read this and know better than I do, don't argue about the details. The point I'm trying to make is that e will see more contributions when it makes it easier to do just that.
Damn you. That thread got me to download subversion source and read it - mistake I won't repeat any time soon. I've spent several months wading through fairly disgusting code - block device drivers are not pretty, ditto for devfs. I had more than once found myself grabbing Lovecraft to read something that would be less nightmare-inducing. But _THAT_ takes the fscking cake - I don't _care_ what Larry (or anybody else for that matter) does to people who had excreted that code. No, wait - I _do_ care. I want video of the... event.
I don't use BK, but you can be damn sure that I won't touch SVN. Ever.
Some games/movies are quite clearly not suitable for children. So what are parents to do? Tell their kids to stay away from those games? Explain that they are harmful at their age? Watch the kids whenever they're using a computer or going to the movies? Or trust that a shopkeeper will act responsibly and not sell stuff when it's clearly not appropriate? Rrriight. That'll work.
So what better ways are there to achieve a goal that most parents would probably agree with? (this is not pure rethorics, I am actually curious)
My all-time favorite PDA was the 3mx (they're not selling them anymore). Palm OS is indeed very limited. But it doesn't get in my way. It doesn't do fancy text formatting. It stores addresses and short notes. It beeps to remind me. The rest moved to a laptop.
Here's hoping that Linux will get a decent market share with PDAs. It has a few advantages, too, namely for people who like to tinker with their gadgets.
I bought the first EPOC (what later became EPOC32 and Symbian OS) device in early 93: a Psion Series 3. It was incredible. A PDA with a (modest) programming language built in. The Newton came only later that year, not to mention Palm or WinCE.
Since around the time WinCE was launched things went downhill. EPOC32 tried to become the better Windows. Unnecessary features cluttered the screen and hampered usability. New machines with faster processors were noticably slower than older models (seems that even faster CPUs took care of that). I ended up switching to a Palm, which offered less than even early Psion models, but made it simple to get simple stuff done. And of the proprietary PDA platforms, Palm seems to cater best to people who don't use the Windows/MSOffice combo.
Symbian could have been cool, but the only apparent advantage over WinCE/PocketPC is that it's not made by Microsoft. A dubious advantage in the market place, as consumers don't care at best.
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The EU Rental Directive gives rights holders a lot more influence over the use of rentals than they have in the US, where the First-sale doctrine makes rental restrictions harder to defend. For now.
Nope. Sieverts are J/kg. "1 millisievert for 1000 seconds" makes no sense, but "1 millisievert per 1000 seconds" does.
In .vimrc:
Hitting return clears search highlighting.
Interesting. Do you have a publication / conference paper that documents your 2002 findings?
Here's the quote: http://books.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=566251&cid=23577513
Does anybody else find it vaguely ironic that the report itself, with its "public first-private second" model costs £9.95?
Well, the first time around this very report was discussed it was a free download (even at the ippr's website), and it still is in some places.
Slashdot, October 29: UK Think Tank Calls For Fair Use Of Your Own CDs
BBC Story: Copying own CDs 'should be legal'
Download still free (BBC): complete report (PDF)
The piece in question is a neural network simulator named Aspirin/MIGRAINES, presumably used for training. Pun away.
I am the maintainer of a driver in mainline Linux. An competing driver is offered by the actual hardware vendor (also Open Source). While working with their engineers has been quite pleasant, we have never been able to agree to work on the same driver.
So the people who know the hardware best are paid to work on a driver that few people use. Meanwhile, the driver in mainline keeps up with the frequent changes of in-kernel APIs but lacks the resources to make use of all the features the hardware offers.
A few companies (e.g. Intel with their eepro) seem to get it right: Have someone work with the community to write and maintain a driver in mainline. You are still largely in control as long as you are competent, and you are pushing the code people actually use.
If you want to bash the French, you can make fun of his suggested solution (call for the European states to chip in for doing the same in Europe).
Well, suppose it becomes common for companies to demand a permission for anyone (especially those they don't like) to link to their sites. Won't that affect our rights to use the web as it was designed?
Suppose it went far enough that a letter was sent on behalf of a well-known Linux distributor saying "our client does not allow others to provide links to our client's web site without permission".
And it just happened.
BoingBoing recently ran a story about the Eiffel tower. Now, because the Eiffel tower was built in the 19th century, there's an extra twist: Only the tower at night (with its recently added lighting) is supposedly copyrighted.
Obviously, they are not neurologists, but each has an interesting take.
Switzerland
CIA World Factbook entry
How this got rated "insightful" is beyond me.
:-P.
I have lived in both the US and the only country (to my knowledge) that practices direct democracy on all levels. It does work well for them. People are a lot happier with their government, and that's although they (living in a small country) tend to know quite a bit more about the rest of the world than most people in the US do. Some of their laws are more restrictive, some allow for more freedom than the US does (and I'm saying that although most votes didn't turn out as I wished they had). They certainly have a much smaller percentage of their population in prisons
Since direct democracy has been demonstrated to work reasonably well for at least one country, what you are saying is that you and your people are not capable of working that kind of democracy. Maybe.
May take is: After communism died (in the US earlier, because communism was largely unacceptable there forever), lots of people seemed to have this "new" idea of an ideal society which they believe will magically work as soon as they'll get a chance to try it.
Before arguing for anarchism, make sure you have a working example, and it had better be better than Afghanistan. It's nice in theory (so was communism, to some extent), but it doesn't work with your real, average people. Anarchism is the pipe dream of a new generation.
Let me explain a method used by a country that has more votes and ballots than any other country (2 - 4 dates per year, typically with several federal and other ballots each)
The method may not be perfect, but it's impossible to organize some tampering nation-wide without being noticed. And unlike the technical solutions, the method is transparent enough that anybody will understand how it works and why the results are trustworthy.
The method is: <drumroll> Have volunteers sort them out.
Zurich (biggest city here) for instance has hundreds of vote counters (appointed by the council) and in addition pays volunteers 20$ an hour on voting sundays (again, a couple of times a year). Work is roughly from 9.30 am to 3.30 pm. It's fast too, we get the results the same day no problem.
Obviously, you want to have more than one person go through those stacks and make sure they agree. Some towns do use machines for the counting. They still have real people sorting the papers (there's one per vote per person), but a machine counts the resulting stacks. They either use the very same machines that count bills in banks (no OCR, just counting the number of sheets in the stack), or they weigh them with high precision scales (often in addition to manual counting).
This method is proven, robust, and scales very well with the number of people in the country.
I shop on the Internet. I have paid all my bills over the Internet for half a decade now. But there's one thing I hope we won't do via Internet or through specialised machines for at least the next decades, and that's voting. The more sophisticated the proposed technical solutions, the less likely ordinary people are going to understand (or trust) it. Don't trust those freaks at the voting office? Well, volunteer to count yourself. Simple as that.
> Unfortunately this only runs on Windows, but I'm sure there
:-)
> are similar Linux programs available.
kdirstat.
The currently available devel version comes with treemap.
With TB sized installations you will probably want some
additional tools (or at least have kdirstat import a database
built by a daily cronjob [1]), running a complete scan will
take forever.
[1] Some coding involved
http://www.compiere.org/
http://www.gnue.org/
Also check the Kernel Cousin for information:
http://kt.zork.net/GNUe/index.html
What the thread doesn't mention is that if you plan to put
any serious network load on an EPIA system, you want Linux
2.4.21pre6 or later. via-rhine 1.17 dies under load.
Last time I checked out e17 trying to contribute meant:
- Pulling stuff from cvs SPLIT and HEAD branches (both
had working and broken pieces)
- Finding some document describing the correct order to
build two dozen libs/apps; there was no such up-to-date
document on enlightenment.org
- Build failures, this month here, next month there
- Website says: "Don't complain it doesn't build. It does."
Nothing kills motivation like being told the problems you
are seeing and might even feel inclined to tackle don't
exist.
Geez, contributing to a freakin' OS kernel is a piece of
cake compared to the chores prospective e hackers are
facing.
Too bad, really. e16 is my wm of choice, and e17 has been
looking promising from its early beginnings.
If you read this and know better than I do, don't argue
about the details. The point I'm trying to make is that
e will see more contributions when it makes it easier to
do just that.
Damn you. That thread got me to download subversion source and read it -
1 03 402696209262&w=2
mistake I won't repeat any time soon. I've spent several months wading
through fairly disgusting code - block device drivers are not pretty,
ditto for devfs. I had more than once found myself grabbing Lovecraft
to read something that would be less nightmare-inducing. But _THAT_ takes
the fscking cake - I don't _care_ what Larry (or anybody else for that
matter) does to people who had excreted that code. No, wait - I _do_ care.
I want video of the... event.
I don't use BK, but you can be damn sure that I won't touch SVN. Ever.
Short and concise as ever.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=
You can set the _JavaScript_ UserAgent string in Mozilla. On one site that requires Windows browsers, this string works for me:
user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020326 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows MUSTDIE)");
I use OpenBSD 3.0 on a P233 with 64 MB RAM and it seems plenty. No X, of course.
Some games/movies are quite clearly not suitable for children. So what are parents to do? Tell their kids to stay away from those games? Explain that they are harmful at their age? Watch the kids whenever they're using a computer or going to the movies? Or trust that a shopkeeper will act responsibly and not sell stuff when it's clearly not appropriate? Rrriight. That'll work.
So what better ways are there to achieve a goal that most parents would probably agree with? (this is not pure rethorics, I am actually curious)
My all-time favorite PDA was the 3mx (they're not selling them anymore). Palm OS is indeed very limited. But it doesn't get in my way. It doesn't do fancy text formatting. It stores addresses and short notes. It beeps to remind me. The rest moved to a laptop.
Here's hoping that Linux will get a decent market share with PDAs. It has a few advantages, too, namely for people who like to tinker with their gadgets.
I bought the first EPOC (what later became EPOC32 and Symbian OS) device in early 93: a Psion Series 3. It was incredible. A PDA with a (modest) programming language built in. The Newton came only later that year, not to mention Palm or WinCE.
Since around the time WinCE was launched things went downhill. EPOC32 tried to become the better Windows. Unnecessary features cluttered the screen and hampered usability. New machines with faster processors were noticably slower than older models (seems that even faster CPUs took care of that). I ended up switching to a Palm, which offered less than even early Psion models, but made it simple to get simple stuff done. And of the proprietary PDA platforms, Palm seems to cater best to people who don't use the Windows/MSOffice combo.
Symbian could have been cool, but the only apparent advantage over WinCE/PocketPC is that it's not made by Microsoft. A dubious advantage in the market place, as consumers don't care at best.