Can a redistributor just point to the original source under the GPL if they don't modify it? I assume they can
You assume wrong, if the redistributor is doing it commercially. In that case they need to either include the source with the binary or else provide a written offer to give the source to anyone that asks.
For noncommercial distribution, providing a link to the original source is sufficient.
Pretty much everything else is already available, except for the multiple batteries. Why not have one battery and have the option for the system to disallow anything but phone/text once it drops past a certain level?
Looking at the actual patent, what they're doing is figuring out based on historical delivery information a more accurate estimated time of day for the delivery and sending an email to the recipient with that information *on the day of delivery*.
Basically it saves the recipient having to constantly check the tracking page for the courier.
Not earthshaking, but more than is currently offered.
If admin overhead was the reason, then graphing cost vs data allocation should result in a straight line that crosses the axis at a value equivalent to the overhead. Instead, the higher data rate plans become progressively cheaper even factoring in some constant amount of overhead. For example, my local telco has the following plans for mobile internet:
$15 250MB $25 1GB $60 3GB $75 Unlimited
Strangely, their 4G iPad plans are totally different: $20 500MB $35 5GB
Rather than totally disabling the A/C, you can use a programmable thermostat to let the house get uncomfortably (but not unsafely) hot during times when nobody is around, then cool it back down when people are around.
Also, in areas of low humidity where it gets cool at night you can gain a lot of efficiency by opening windows at night, circulating the cool air around the house, then sealing up the windows during the day when it's hot out.
Even if you bring in the tax at 100%, it takes years for it to have a significant effect because the vehicles on the road will stay on the road until they cost so much to run that it's more economical to buy a new vehicle.
That said, if we jacked up the gas tax now I'm fairly sure it would have an effect by 2025.:)
When you burn gas you get mostly carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, and nitrogen oxides, with smaller amounts of volatile organic compounds, ozone, particulate matter, etc.
When you burn hydrogen in air you get water and a small amount of nitrogen oxides.
Realistically, however, hydrogen is not really a fuel. It's more of a replacement for a battery.
I'm trained in specific technical fields. I am *not* trained as a climatologist, statistician, biologist, geologist, chemist, or oceanographer. Therefore I don't have the training to look objectively at the evidence.
In the absence of the ability to personally investigate all the data, the smart money is on the consensus. And this applies to every field, not just climate change.
It would be straightforward to add a paper trail to e-voting machines: 1) e-vote 2) results are printed on a paper ballot, which is displayed behind a clear panel 3) if the paper ballot is correct, hit "confirm" and it drops into a locked bin, otherwise hit cancel and it visibly gets shredded/mangled/voided and drops into a different bin 4) electronic results are available instantly, paper trail is there for validation
The Maxxum (Dynax in some parts of the world) 7 from Minolta was a 35mm SLR released in 2001. It had a large LCD display on the back that changed orientation when you rotated the camera around the lens axis. This was particularly useful when shooting with the vertical grip attached. Great camera, I still have mine but don't use it much any more.
Sorry, I have a family with small children, a full time job, friends, and a house to take care of. I don't have time to essentially go to law school as well.
It's a 3-phase motor spinning on an air bearing. Not much to go wrong. However, if something did you could conceivably replace just the motor and reuse the plate and fin assemblies.
The other point in the article is that you don't need heatpipes, so the whole thing is basically two solid chunks of metal and a motor.
An unregulated telecom business would have no coverage in rural areas because the density isn't worth the effort. It wouldn't have universal 911, it wouldn't have interoperable services, and you'd have totally unfettered monopolies.
No thanks, telecommunications and utilities should be owned by the people (i.e., the government).
I've found race conditions, synchronization bugs, corner cases, opportunities for performance improvement, etc. while reviewing other people's code. Occasionally others have found the same for my code as well.
While they *can* become nitpick sessions, they can also be very useful.
I rather have a team dynamic where any developer can pick up a task involving work on somebody else's code, this way code reviews just happen naturally.
That only works if everyone is capable in every area. I'm a pretty good kernel developer and nitty-gritty POSIX guy. I'm not nearly as good at system engineering, Markov chains, fault progression modelling, build system management, database maintenance, etc. Not everyone is interchangeable.
The fact that the code passes the tests says absolutely nothing about the quality of the code or how maintainable it is. If it passes the tests but is a huge mess of spaghetti then it likely needs to be rewritten properly.
Maybe it's a modification to an upstream project and you want to pass back the changes...then you need to make sure that the changes are written in a manner compatible with the uptream project. You need a code inspection for that.
Maybe there's a corner case that was missed in the testing but is visible in the code inspection.
Maybe there's a race condition that wasn't hit in testing but will be visible in the field once you're running in a thousand sites.
Even if it stays more expensive, if solid state can get close (within a factor of 2, say) to the same cost for the same storage space it'll take off like wildfire given the tremendous speed and reliability advantages.
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Can a redistributor just point to the original source under the GPL if they don't modify it? I assume they can
You assume wrong, if the redistributor is doing it commercially. In that case they need to either include the source with the binary or else provide a written offer to give the source to anyone that asks.
For noncommercial distribution, providing a link to the original source is sufficient.
The current codename is "Wet Seal".
Pretty much everything else is already available, except for the multiple batteries. Why not have one battery and have the option for the system to disallow anything but phone/text once it drops past a certain level?
Looking at the actual patent, what they're doing is figuring out based on historical delivery information a more accurate estimated time of day for the delivery and sending an email to the recipient with that information *on the day of delivery*.
Basically it saves the recipient having to constantly check the tracking page for the courier.
Not earthshaking, but more than is currently offered.
If admin overhead was the reason, then graphing cost vs data allocation should result in a straight line that crosses the axis at a value equivalent to the overhead. Instead, the higher data rate plans become progressively cheaper even factoring in some constant amount of overhead. For example, my local telco has the following plans for mobile internet:
$15 250MB
$25 1GB
$60 3GB
$75 Unlimited
Strangely, their 4G iPad plans are totally different:
$20 500MB
$35 5GB
Rather than totally disabling the A/C, you can use a programmable thermostat to let the house get uncomfortably (but not unsafely) hot during times when nobody is around, then cool it back down when people are around.
Also, in areas of low humidity where it gets cool at night you can gain a lot of efficiency by opening windows at night, circulating the cool air around the house, then sealing up the windows during the day when it's hot out.
I could see keeping it for a week. 18 months is a different story. And there's no reason for my ISP to store my bank account or credit card numbers.
Even if you bring in the tax at 100%, it takes years for it to have a significant effect because the vehicles on the road will stay on the road until they cost so much to run that it's more economical to buy a new vehicle.
That said, if we jacked up the gas tax now I'm fairly sure it would have an effect by 2025. :)
When you burn gas you get mostly carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, and nitrogen oxides, with smaller amounts of volatile organic compounds, ozone, particulate matter, etc.
When you burn hydrogen in air you get water and a small amount of nitrogen oxides.
Realistically, however, hydrogen is not really a fuel. It's more of a replacement for a battery.
The output of Bison is not the preferred form for modifications, so technically they should have supplied the grammar.
I'm trained in specific technical fields. I am *not* trained as a climatologist, statistician, biologist, geologist, chemist, or oceanographer. Therefore I don't have the training to look objectively at the evidence.
In the absence of the ability to personally investigate all the data, the smart money is on the consensus. And this applies to every field, not just climate change.
It would be straightforward to add a paper trail to e-voting machines:
1) e-vote
2) results are printed on a paper ballot, which is displayed behind a clear panel
3) if the paper ballot is correct, hit "confirm" and it drops into a locked bin, otherwise hit cancel and it visibly gets shredded/mangled/voided and drops into a different bin
4) electronic results are available instantly, paper trail is there for validation
The Maxxum (Dynax in some parts of the world) 7 from Minolta was a 35mm SLR released in 2001. It had a large LCD display on the back that changed orientation when you rotated the camera around the lens axis. This was particularly useful when shooting with the vertical grip attached. Great camera, I still have mine but don't use it much any more.
Conceivably you could translate ppc code to run on a sandy bridge core at reasonable speeds. The GPU might be harder to deal with.
Sorry, I have a family with small children, a full time job, friends, and a house to take care of. I don't have time to essentially go to law school as well.
It's a 3-phase motor spinning on an air bearing. Not much to go wrong. However, if something did you could conceivably replace just the motor and reuse the plate and fin assemblies.
The other point in the article is that you don't need heatpipes, so the whole thing is basically two solid chunks of metal and a motor.
An unregulated telecom business would have no coverage in rural areas because the density isn't worth the effort. It wouldn't have universal 911, it wouldn't have interoperable services, and you'd have totally unfettered monopolies.
No thanks, telecommunications and utilities should be owned by the people (i.e., the government).
I've found race conditions, synchronization bugs, corner cases, opportunities for performance improvement, etc. while reviewing other people's code. Occasionally others have found the same for my code as well.
While they *can* become nitpick sessions, they can also be very useful.
I rather have a team dynamic where any developer can pick up a task involving work on somebody else's code, this way code reviews just happen naturally.
That only works if everyone is capable in every area. I'm a pretty good kernel developer and nitty-gritty POSIX guy. I'm not nearly as good at system engineering, Markov chains, fault progression modelling, build system management, database maintenance, etc. Not everyone is interchangeable.
The fact that the code passes the tests says absolutely nothing about the quality of the code or how maintainable it is. If it passes the tests but is a huge mess of spaghetti then it likely needs to be rewritten properly.
Maybe it's a modification to an upstream project and you want to pass back the changes...then you need to make sure that the changes are written in a manner compatible with the uptream project. You need a code inspection for that.
Maybe there's a corner case that was missed in the testing but is visible in the code inspection.
Maybe there's a race condition that wasn't hit in testing but will be visible in the field once you're running in a thousand sites.
Some better-quality cordless phones have backup batteries in the base for just this reason.
We also still have several corded phones in various spots around the house in addition to the cordless ones.
the only thing contributing to the high-cost of SSD and its relatively low usage is the fact that there aren't billions of drives on the market
Sorry, but fabbing flash memory is a lot more resource-intensive than making disk platters.
Even if it stays more expensive, if solid state can get close (within a factor of 2, say) to the same cost for the same storage space it'll take off like wildfire given the tremendous speed and reliability advantages.
The new i3 has VT-x, but not VT-d (which also rules out SR-IOV). For that you need a new i7.
stupid slashdot, need delete option!