I know the parent poster is joking, but often you find Microsoft equals US economy. Microsoft is actually not even a US company anymore, as they launder their money in Ireland or wherever to pay less US tax.
I would like to point out that Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, Novell, FSF, Linux Foundation are all based in the US. So good for US.
This was not done in a vacuum but because of hard work. Well done to the Open Rights Group, UKUUG, Dr John Pugh MP, FSFE, the LUGs and everyone else who has been trying to get Becta and the government to know that there are alternatives to Microsoft.
I suppose most people in rails are making websites which are more one off things, most of everything repeated is in rails.
However, locking code down is an interesting problem in that a lot of the more modern high-level languages have no way to really lock down the code.
Your approach is just security through obscurity, but as you say, it may be enough to stop lazy ignorant people. I would be interested in people's experiences with this.
I program in Python, and there is also no real way to lock down the code, you can give the compiled files which with a bit of Python knowledge can be decompiled, at least to some degree.
Another way to bundle things inside an exe or rpm and hope they are not smart enough to pull the code out. However both of these steps are really just security through obscurity.
Spain is 3/4 of the size of Texas, that is not bad compared to Europe being the size of Texas. Spain is also a lot nicer. This debate long lost any connection to the topic!
Yeah, I find it rather ironic that Microsoft can't just install because of Trusted computing features!
Anyhow, Windows can't dual boot because: a) Windows is sooo huge and bloated that it can't fit on as it is, let alone with having another OS b) In the native state, the OLPC has OpenFirmware, it does not have any legacy BIOS
Oh, and one more thing, the best trend that Apple has hopefully brought to the market is to not let the carrier bastardize its UI with logos and links to its online services.
While I think the iPhone sucks giant balls, I have to agree with you on this point. Not letting the carrier cripple the phone will hopefully catch on.
if they did that a lot of the mobile phone networks would go out of business pretty fast
If that is the case then good. They will be replaced by better ones.
I think it is ridiculous that if you go between two EU countries, you either have to swap out the SIM cards every time you cross a border (meaning different phone number) or pay to receive a call. Paying to receive calls is stupid.
However, I think if roaming charges where abolished completely then overall they would make more money, as people would make more phone calls. When I am at home I make several mobile calls a day, when outside of my own country I do not make any at the moment because of the receiving calls problem.
Are you sure about that? The OpenMoko is fully customisable because it is a fairly standard embedded version of Linux and you are the root user. I'm not sure Android is like that. As far as I know (which is not far), you can customise one layer i.e. what runs inside the Java sandbox but that's it. For me that is no more interesting than Symbian (i.e. not interesting at all really).
I simply meant that it is not like America where there are different phone connection protocols with different levels of reception depending on where you are, there is just one across the whole of Europe. Of course, if you actually try to use your phone across Europe then they kill you with the roaming charges, but at least it means if you buy an unlocked phone then you can use it anywhere.
Europe and most of the rest of the world has GSM and GSM alone. You can take a SIM card from any carrier and put it in any phone. It has always been like that.
British politics: Politicians read laws, put on funny wigs and shout at each other. Then pass fucked up laws.
True, but at least there is a chance for bad laws to be stopped. Tony Blair's first defeat was over the proposed 90 day detention for suspected terrorists that have not been charged with anything, a really bad idea because a 90 day prison sentence is a rather serious thing to give someone presumed innocent.
You need someone to use pdftotext and then use SQL to import it all to populate the wiki. It would be a couple of hours of work (you might have to do it a few times, PDFs can have strange artifacts) but not rocket science.
Did you see that scene in Fahrenheit 911 when they faxed the patriot act to congressmen overnight and then voted on it the first thing in the morning?
British politics may involve a lot of shouting and require people in strange wigs, but at least the read the laws and debate them and modify them several times before voting on anything.
Did they make a P2P version so that I don't need a computer to connect a camera to a hard drive and have it work?
Well as you know the Firewire had this feature in like 1990. I also agree it is very important to free USB from the PC. I also hate it when embedded devices only have unpowered USB so you have to always drag the device back to the PC.
Is the software side of USB an open specification or some members only, pass the royalty thing that the open source world will have to take the next ten years reverse engineering?
Well a lot of the examples were quite old with very different types of planes. The modern ones do not have a very good chance of survival, losing over 50% of people is pretty bad.
123 of the 175 passengers and crew members were killed, as well as all three hijackers. Many of the passengers who died survived the crash but they had disregarded the captain's warning not to inflate their life jackets inside the aircraft, causing them to be 'pushed' against the ceiling of the fuselage by the inflated life jackets, unable to escape, and drowned. An estimated 60 to 80 passengers, strapped to their seats, presumably drowned
Unbuckle yourself before you hit the soup and forget the stupid lifejackets.
Slashdot Mirror
I know the parent poster is joking, but often you find Microsoft equals US economy. Microsoft is actually not even a US company anymore, as they launder their money in Ireland or wherever to pay less US tax.
I would like to point out that Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, Novell, FSF, Linux Foundation are all based in the US. So good for US.
BTW here is the report in glorious PDF:
http://learningandskills.becta.org.uk/download.cfm?resID=35275
Sadly not independent weapons, America has to put in codes before we can launch them (we own the subs but the missiles are rentals from the US).
This was not done in a vacuum but because of hard work. Well done to the Open Rights Group, UKUUG, Dr John Pugh MP, FSFE, the LUGs and everyone else who has been trying to get Becta and the government to know that there are alternatives to Microsoft.
I suppose most people in rails are making websites which are more one off things, most of everything repeated is in rails.
However, locking code down is an interesting problem in that a lot of the more modern high-level languages have no way to really lock down the code.
Your approach is just security through obscurity, but as you say, it may be enough to stop lazy ignorant people. I would be interested in people's experiences with this.
I program in Python, and there is also no real way to lock down the code, you can give the compiled files which with a bit of Python knowledge can be decompiled, at least to some degree.
Another way to bundle things inside an exe or rpm and hope they are not smart enough to pull the code out. However both of these steps are really just security through obscurity.
Linebreaks in Ruby are '\n'. In Slashdot you need to press Enter sometimes...
Spain is 3/4 of the size of Texas, that is not bad compared to Europe being the size of Texas. Spain is also a lot nicer. This debate long lost any connection to the topic!
Yeah, I find it rather ironic that Microsoft can't just install because of Trusted computing features!
Anyhow, Windows can't dual boot because:
a) Windows is sooo huge and bloated that it can't fit on as it is, let alone with having another OS
b) In the native state, the OLPC has OpenFirmware, it does not have any legacy BIOS
That's okay, they will make a large version called the Tata Emacs
50 mph max speed? Pathetic.
True, but considering the average speed in London is like 18 mph, I think there is a market for it.
OpenMoko may end up being a geek's best friend.
:)
Well I am a geek so that is okay, they can sell me one and then go bust for all I care, as long as I get mine
The article talks about "The People's Car", I thought that was Trademark Adolf Hitler?
Oh, and one more thing, the best trend that Apple has hopefully brought to the market is to not let the carrier bastardize its UI with logos and links to its online services.
While I think the iPhone sucks giant balls, I have to agree with you on this point. Not letting the carrier cripple the phone will hopefully catch on.
if they did that a lot of the mobile phone networks would go out of business pretty fast
If that is the case then good. They will be replaced by better ones.
I think it is ridiculous that if you go between two EU countries, you either have to swap out the SIM cards every time you cross a border (meaning different phone number) or pay to receive a call. Paying to receive calls is stupid.
However, I think if roaming charges where abolished completely then overall they would make more money, as people would make more phone calls. When I am at home I make several mobile calls a day, when outside of my own country I do not make any at the moment because of the receiving calls problem.
Android is fully customizable
Are you sure about that? The OpenMoko is fully customisable because it is a fairly standard embedded version of Linux and you are the root user. I'm not sure Android is like that. As far as I know (which is not far), you can customise one layer i.e. what runs inside the Java sandbox but that's it. For me that is no more interesting than Symbian (i.e. not interesting at all really).
I'm waiting for the OpenMoko
Exactly. All we need now is for the EU to totally abolish roaming charges so you will only need one SIM card for the whole of Europe.
I simply meant that it is not like America where there are different phone connection protocols with different levels of reception depending on where you are, there is just one across the whole of Europe. Of course, if you actually try to use your phone across Europe then they kill you with the roaming charges, but at least it means if you buy an unlocked phone then you can use it anywhere.
Europe and most of the rest of the world has GSM and GSM alone. You can take a SIM card from any carrier and put it in any phone. It has always been like that.
British politics: Politicians read laws, put on funny wigs and shout at each other. Then pass fucked up laws.
True, but at least there is a chance for bad laws to be stopped. Tony Blair's first defeat was over the proposed 90 day detention for suspected terrorists that have not been charged with anything, a really bad idea because a 90 day prison sentence is a rather serious thing to give someone presumed innocent.
You need someone to use pdftotext and then use SQL to import it all to populate the wiki. It would be a couple of hours of work (you might have to do it a few times, PDFs can have strange artifacts) but not rocket science.
Nobody is going to read it.
Mission accomplished.
Did you see that scene in Fahrenheit 911 when they faxed the patriot act to congressmen overnight and then voted on it the first thing in the morning?
British politics may involve a lot of shouting and require people in strange wigs, but at least the read the laws and debate them and modify them several times before voting on anything.
Did they make a P2P version so that I don't need a computer to connect a camera to a hard drive and have it work?
Well as you know the Firewire had this feature in like 1990. I also agree it is very important to free USB from the PC. I also hate it when embedded devices only have unpowered USB so you have to always drag the device back to the PC.
Is the software side of USB an open specification or some members only, pass the royalty thing that the open source world will have to take the next ten years reverse engineering?
Well a lot of the examples were quite old with very different types of planes. The modern ones do not have a very good chance of survival, losing over 50% of people is pretty bad.
Okay some did survive that is impressive:
123 of the 175 passengers and crew members were killed, as well as all three hijackers. Many of the passengers who died survived the crash but they had disregarded the captain's warning not to inflate their life jackets inside the aircraft, causing them to be 'pushed' against the ceiling of the fuselage by the inflated life jackets, unable to escape, and drowned. An estimated 60 to 80 passengers, strapped to their seats, presumably drowned
Unbuckle yourself before you hit the soup and forget the stupid lifejackets.