the patterns aren't even exact but quasi-crystalline-structures.
A crystalline structure is one that consists of a basic element, exactly repeated over and over.
A quasi-crystalline structure, on the other hand, could be seen as a far more subtle and interesting phenomenon _because_ it does not contain such an element repeated over and over.
In number theory, the set of even numbers is not quite as interesting as the set of prime numbers.;-)
I have nothing against communists using Open Source. But I dont think it benefits the image of open source to be associated with communists so much.
Well, maybe.
As with T-shirts, table spoons and even cars (used by communists on a routine basis, I'm afraid), Open Source will certainly be able to offset these associations of a few people with some other properties associated to it by different people.;-)
These associations regarding to communists are just a basis for FUD, nothing more. As such, they would of course be worth a look (and a thought) in commercial marketing. The proliferation (just to free this word from its usual "nuclear weapon" context here) of OSS/FOSS is _not_ a thing of mere commercial marketing, and fortunately so.
Keep yourself prepared for good opportunities, like being called by a (usually desparate) relative, friend, neighbour etc. to fix their Windows PC. Have a Linux Live CD with you.
Also, take a Knoppix CD (or similar) with you, maybe it will be necessary to recover their data. When successful, tell them that it's been Linux that saved their a... ehm... "assets".
That's exactly what my wife's nephew once did during military service when his Captain called him to help with a Windows PC. It even was the youngster's first action with Linux as well...
How do you advocate Linux to people who are more comfortable using Windows?
I would not advocate Linux to these people at all.
Rather, in my view, the target group for advocating should be people who are not so comfortable using Windows. Focus your efforts on people who are already looking for alternatives, who are complaining about virus/worm/trojan hassles or instability with Windows, etc.
Don't put too much stress on the fact that Linux is free (as in beer) - most people think Windows were free (a.i.b.) as well.
Instead make sure they get the fact that Linux is free (as in speech) and being built upon a community (but not just a community of programmers).
Make sure that the "it's all about choice" part will be clearly received and understood.
Tell them that not _everything_ will work on their existing hardware out of the box and that, likewise, not everything will work exactly like it used to in Windows. Also, don't forget to tell them that there will be still icons, menus and a mouse pointer.
If you happen to have a grandfather who is happily typing, surfing, and mailing along under Linux, don't forget to mention him;-)
Always have a Live CD of your favourite Linux distribution (that includes a GUI, of course) in your pocket when you are leaving home;-))
Tell any of them that not only will Vista cost them an arm and a leg (need new hardware + new OS), it may have problems with their iPod and more imporantly may fuxor their iPod when they connect / disconnect it - and how many are going to be rushing out to upgrade?
This would be the message Apple would have to communicate to these zillions of "Vista plus iTunes/iPod" users in the next few months.
On the other hand, Microsoft will try to tell these people a different story, the MS version, blaming Apple.
So it's all about who, MS or Apple, will be able to reach those people better and add more pieces of propaganda to the end users' _perceived_ reality regarding who's at fault here.
Occam's Razor is an early rule for scientific reasoning (and a great one at that).
As such, it would still be valuable when one tries to keep a possible explanation for the disappearing inhabitants of the village lean and clear, without adding too many presumptions at will (some of which might be pretty far-fetched).
Obviously, Occam's Razor is not apt for dealing with the beliefs of people of that era (or any era) in detail.
Occam does not suggest (at least to my knowledge) that simple beliefs might be more "justified" than more complex ones.
... and after having looked around in a representative sample of continents (about five) and having seen how most humans are being treated by just small groups in power, they decided not to contact the President of the U.S., the Secretary General of United Nations or whoever the proper person for representing mankind might have been in their view. Instead, they preferred to leave silently and to go elsewhere. As of this writing, they are said to be already some hundred light years away, lightheartedly heading for the sagittarius region.;-)
If Apple were to have a case (albeit a vague one, but I might be wrong) against Cisco/Linksys, they'd owe it to Apple fans like these bloggers. It is these people who have been using the term "iPhone" with regard to a (hypothetical) Apple product for months, over and over, all around the world, not Apple itself...;-)
This may be a not-too-serious assessment of the legal situation between Cisco/Linksys and Apple, though.
Maybe he didnt. Fortunately (for Jobs), the story doesn't end here.
From a more independent news source:
"Apple says Mr Jobs' option was subsequently cancelled and resulted in no financial gain, but while the options were cancelled in 2003, Apple granted Mr Jobs five million shares in exchange."
Certainly, Ralink, Realtek, Atmel (to some degree) and ZyDAS (no longer a company of its own) are the good guys among wireless chip manufacturers.
In order to be able to vote with one's wallet (or credit card), one needs to get to know who are the good guys among device manufacturers as well (namely which chips are inside the various wireless devices).
Devices using ZyDAS chipsets (mostly external "stick type" USB devices) http://zydas.rapla.net/
Beware of those manufacturers who routinely change chipsets without changing a device's name or model number!
Btw.: It might be worth noting that ZyDAS has been acquired by Atheros earlier this year. The open ZyDAS drivers are still available. They have been moved (e.g. for the popular ZD1211B chipset) to
So if you are really, really willing to use this Zune feature, you are going to travel a lot, see new and interesting places (mostly urban areas, I presume;-)
If the apple ipod was easy to hack and put a new OS onto there would have been people doing it and making a better ipod without any DRM. (They did it with other mp3 players, for some reason the ipod is either harder to work on or has some kind of locking on it..
Intel's Classmate PC is beefier than the OLPC - faster processor (900MHz), 1GB of flash (double the current iteration of half a gig), twice the RAM, XP embedded SP2,...
If that's "Microsoft Windows XP embedded SP2", this would be a drawback rather than an advantage.
In related news, the "New York Times" reported recently that Libya agreed to purchase OLPCs for all of the country's 1.2 million school children.
... were in any way connected to the "Plays for sure"/"Urge" things (or any other earlier MS effort in the music/movie/content field); (and) if the Zune Player had some noticeable hardware advantages over the roughly comparable iPod models; (and) if it weren't Windows users who are probably 90% of the iTunes/iPod users and have been for years now; (and) if any of the MS content formats (like WMA, WMA plus, "WMA super DRM", whatever they are pleased to call it) had been established in the market in any significant degree; well, then - and only then - the Zune gadget would represent a strong threat to the iPod gadget.
As long as not a single one of the above conditions being clearly in a "true" state, the Zune will just be a good way for MS to sink some big heaps of money they cannot invest anywhere outside their Windows/Office core business returning a raw profit margin of 80%.
Jobs (Apple) helping Jobs (Disney) to get Disney's underwhelming stuff to the market once again, great idea, thank you, highly appreciated, but I doubt it will work outside the U.S., if anyplace at all.
An early bird in the online music market, Apple has been and they been rewarded for this.
And now, Apple as one of the (probably many) late-comers in the online movie market?
Slashdot Mirror
the patterns aren't even exact but quasi-crystalline-structures.
;-)
A crystalline structure is one that consists of a basic element, exactly repeated over and over.
A quasi-crystalline structure, on the other hand, could be seen as a far more subtle and interesting phenomenon _because_ it does not contain such an element repeated over and over.
In number theory, the set of even numbers is not quite as interesting as the set of prime numbers.
Har, har.
Technologically, GM lagging behind like almost no other car company.
I have nothing against communists using Open Source. But I dont think it benefits the image of open source to be associated with communists so much.
;-)
Well, maybe.
As with T-shirts, table spoons and even cars (used by communists on a routine basis, I'm afraid), Open Source will certainly be able to offset these associations of a few people with some other properties associated to it by different people.
These associations regarding to communists are just a basis for FUD, nothing more. As such, they would of course be worth a look (and a thought) in commercial marketing. The proliferation (just to free this word from its usual "nuclear weapon" context here) of OSS/FOSS is _not_ a thing of mere commercial marketing, and fortunately so.
... not enough that the iPhone is not Open Source at all, but also
/ 279/1/
;-)
http://www.inside-handy.de/bildergalerie/meizu_m8
Apple, you old copycat?
http://www.openmoko.com/press/index.html
http://www.openmoko.com/press/index.html#pictures
which is a truly open platform based on all GPL'd software.
The first hardware using OpenMoko, the Neo1973 Smartphone by Taiwan's FIC, will be available to the public soon.
http://planet.openmoko.org/
Walter.
Dear governments, please Gang-Bang the big studios for us.
The big studios? Like... hmmm... Disney/Pixar?
But wait, sorry, I forgot, Disney is part of a completely different club of DRMed content wholesale outfits.
Keep yourself prepared for good opportunities, like being called by a (usually desparate) relative, friend, neighbour etc. to fix their Windows PC. Have a Linux Live CD with you.
Also, take a Knoppix CD (or similar) with you, maybe it will be necessary to recover their data. When successful, tell them that it's been Linux that saved their a... ehm... "assets".
That's exactly what my wife's nephew once did during military service when his Captain called him to help with a Windows PC. It even was the youngster's first action with Linux as well...
How do you advocate Linux to people who are more comfortable using Windows?
;-)
;-))
I would not advocate Linux to these people at all.
Rather, in my view, the target group for advocating should be people who are not so comfortable using Windows.
Focus your efforts on people who are already looking for alternatives, who are complaining about virus/worm/trojan hassles or instability with Windows, etc.
Don't put too much stress on the fact that Linux is free (as in beer) - most people think Windows were free (a.i.b.) as well.
Instead make sure they get the fact that Linux is free (as in speech) and being built upon a community (but not just a community of programmers).
Make sure that the "it's all about choice" part will be clearly received and understood.
Tell them that not _everything_ will work on their existing hardware out of the box and that, likewise, not everything will work exactly like it used to in Windows. Also, don't forget to tell them that there will be still icons, menus and a mouse pointer.
If you happen to have a grandfather who is happily typing, surfing, and mailing along under Linux, don't forget to mention him
Always have a Live CD of your favourite Linux distribution (that includes a GUI, of course) in your pocket when you are leaving home
Tell any of them that not only will Vista cost them an arm and a leg (need new hardware + new OS), it may have problems with their iPod and more imporantly may fuxor their iPod when they connect / disconnect it - and how many are going to be rushing out to upgrade?
This would be the message Apple would have to communicate to these zillions of "Vista plus iTunes/iPod" users in the next few months.
On the other hand, Microsoft will try to tell these people a different story, the MS version, blaming Apple.
So it's all about who, MS or Apple, will be able to reach those people better and add more pieces of propaganda to the end users' _perceived_ reality regarding who's at fault here.
Occam's Razor is an early rule for scientific reasoning (and a great one at that).
As such, it would still be valuable when one tries to keep a possible explanation for the disappearing inhabitants of the village lean and clear, without adding too many presumptions at will (some of which might be pretty far-fetched).
Obviously, Occam's Razor is not apt for dealing with the beliefs of people of that era (or any era) in detail.
Occam does not suggest (at least to my knowledge) that simple beliefs might be more "justified" than more complex ones.
"My parents visited Stonehenge and all I got was this lousy cloak"
So you would be still better off than this guy:
"My parents just came back from a planet where the dominant lifeform had no
bilateral symmetry, and all I got was this stupid F-Shirt."
Walter.
I do find it quite hypocritical that the British Government have such power as to be able to break into any system in the name of investigation...
Obviously, not the British Government, but the British Police.
The Police is an entity different and independent from the Government in Britain, I learned.
This is a great thing.
Alas, this is not the case in most countries I know, among them the country I happen to live in.
... and after having looked around in a representative sample of continents (about five) and having seen how most humans are being treated by just small groups in power, they decided not to contact the President of the U.S., the Secretary General of United Nations or whoever the proper person for representing mankind might have been in their view. Instead, they preferred to leave silently and to go elsewhere. As of this writing, they are said to be already some hundred light years away, lightheartedly heading for the sagittarius region. ;-)
Just two topics from the zunescene.com forum mentioned above:
:-))
;-)
"How to: Prevent files being deleted from your Zune when it syncs"
"Sync so slow, it is on day 2"
Walter.
P.S. Never been there before, never will be again, either
As far as I know, KHTML has not been published under a licence out of the GPL family.
Bad luck for the developers of KHTML, Apple is, unfortunately, not obliged to give the community back anything.
If Apple were to have a case (albeit a vague one, but I might be wrong) against Cisco/Linksys, they'd owe it to Apple fans like these bloggers. It is these people who have been using the term "iPhone" with regard to a (hypothetical) Apple product for months, over and over, all around the world, not Apple itself... ;-)
This may be a not-too-serious assessment of the legal situation between Cisco/Linksys and Apple, though.
Maybe he didnt. Fortunately (for Jobs), the story doesn't end here.
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From a more independent news source:
"Apple says Mr Jobs' option was subsequently cancelled and resulted
in no financial gain, but while the options were cancelled in 2003,
Apple granted Mr Jobs five million shares in exchange."
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/artic
Certainly, Ralink, Realtek, Atmel (to some degree) and ZyDAS (no longer a company of its own) are the good guys among wireless chip manufacturers.
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In order to be able to vote with one's wallet (or credit card), one needs to get to know who are the good guys among device manufacturers as well (namely which chips are inside the various wireless devices).
Here are some links to support these decisions:
Devices using Ralink chipsets
http://ralink.rapla.net/
Devices using Realtek chipsets
http://realtek.rapla.net/
Devices using ZyDAS chipsets (mostly external "stick type" USB devices)
http://zydas.rapla.net/
Beware of those manufacturers who routinely change chipsets without changing a device's name or model number!
Btw.: It might be worth noting that ZyDAS has been acquired by Atheros earlier this year. The open ZyDAS drivers are still available. They have been moved (e.g. for the popular ZD1211B chipset) to
http://www.atheros.com/RD/ZyDAS/web_driver/ZD1211
Regards,
Walter.
So if you are really, really willing to use this Zune feature, you are going to travel a lot, see new and interesting places (mostly urban areas, I presume ;-)
Etu Brute?
Et quid, Caesar?
Id zunem?
Non emptiturus sum.
(P.S.: Excuse my Latin...)
If the apple ipod was easy to hack and put a new OS onto there would have been people doing it and making a better ipod without any DRM. (They did it with other mp3 players, for some reason the ipod is either harder to work on or has some kind of locking on it..
;-)
They did it with the iPod as well:
http://www.rockbox.org/
Btw, even an unmodified iPod does play non-DRMed files (unfortunately, not ogg vorbis).
And so you hope the Zune player might be saved by third-party alternate firmware? I don't think so.
Can you provide a source to backup your claim that they ever considered OSX? Because it sounds ludicrous to me.
To my knowledge, they (the OLPC people) did certainly not consider OS X.
However, Steve Jobs offered it to them, without having been asked by anybody.
And by return mail, the OLPC project rejected this offering.
So all's well that ends well.
Intel's Classmate PC is beefier than the OLPC - faster processor (900MHz), 1GB of flash (double the current iteration of half a gig), twice the RAM, XP embedded SP2,...
If that's "Microsoft Windows XP embedded SP2", this would be a drawback rather than an advantage.
In related news, the "New York Times" reported recently that Libya agreed to purchase OLPCs for all of the country's 1.2 million school children.
... were in any way connected to the "Plays for sure"/"Urge" things (or any other earlier MS effort in the music/movie/content field);
(and)
if the Zune Player had some noticeable hardware advantages over the roughly comparable iPod models;
(and)
if it weren't Windows users who are probably 90% of the iTunes/iPod users and have been for years now;
(and)
if any of the MS content formats (like WMA, WMA plus, "WMA super DRM", whatever they are pleased to call it) had been established in the market in any significant degree;
well, then - and only then - the Zune gadget would represent a strong threat to the iPod gadget.
As long as not a single one of the above conditions being clearly in a "true" state, the Zune will just be a good way for MS to sink some big heaps of money they cannot invest anywhere outside their Windows/Office core business returning a raw profit margin of 80%.
Jobs (Apple) helping Jobs (Disney) to get Disney's underwhelming stuff to the market once again, great idea, thank you, highly appreciated, but I doubt it will work outside the U.S., if anyplace at all.
An early bird in the online music market, Apple has been and they been rewarded for this.
And now, Apple as one of the (probably many) late-comers in the online movie market?