Well I expect you'd only need to have the code available on request. I don't think it has to be automated. Also I don't think admins would have to deal with it as a problem, because no-one's going to sue you for not revealing the code without good reason to.
If you're buying a laptop because it has this graphics chip, battery life is secondary to frames per second. The people that are buying these laptops buy them because they're suited for playing games anywhere while plugged in, not traveling and off site work. Also lots of people buy laptops as desktop replacements these days, just because they take up less space.
Hey, wait - seconds are base 60? What kind of bizarrity is this?
Seconds being base 60 is because clocks are represented as circles, and time is represented as segments of a circle, and circles use degrees because important angles are more easily expressed in degrees (45 degrees is easier than 49/72 in decimal, 30 degrees is easier than 1/12 in decimal).
Angles are also good to work with in radians, but saying "I'm off at PI/2 past PI/6 o'clock" would get tiring.
I demand the ITU create a new, proper measurement of time, with proper decimalization! 24 hours in a day? Good Lord man, you must be joking. And a calendar system so broken that it has leap years EVERY FOUR YEARS? Sounds like the ITU took the coward's way out, and simply adopted an old imperial system, gave it a coat of paint, and called it "metric". A system that uses base 60, base 24, base 7, and can't even decide between base 30 and 31, not to mention the "month" is based on something so profoundly un-metric as the PHASE OF THE MOON?
Think the phase of the moon is bad? The second is defined relative to the speed of decay of cesium atoms, and originally the meter was based on the distance from the north pole to the equator divided by 10,000,000 (now it's based on the speed of light, and that's based on time, which is based on cesium).
Arbitrary is allowed, as long as it's reproducible, reliable, and easy to work with it'll do. What isn't so reproducible is a "foot" or "hog's head" or "barrel". Who's foot? Which hog's head? Which barrel? Why not use something more memorable and easy than 33/2 inches in a rod?
What I think you meant to ask was "If I build a webservice with software that is licensed under the AGPL, do I have to distribute changes I make to that software".
The answer to that is YES.
Well you can relicense it and remove the AGPL license at a whim, and relicense it as you like.
This license is targeted pretty much at developers like myself; I have a project called phpDiplomacy, and it's currently licensed under BSD.
Using the GPL seemed pointless, because I'm not worried about people selling the code. I am only concerned about someone taking the code, modifying it, running it on their server and making money off it, but not releasing the changes. Because it's a server-side app they wouldn't have to distribute the source to make money off it, so they have no reason to distribute changes.
So for me having a license was only about making sure people couldn't take the code and claim they wrote it, and that's pretty much all BSD does.
I'll probably move from BSD to AGPL now, once I've read it over thoroughly (and hopefully once it becomes OSS approved), and I can definitely remove the BSD license (or any other license) from my own software. I can add and remove licenses as I please, as the copyright holder.
The only restriction on me is that if someone already has a BSD licensed copy now I can't say "Your copy is now AGPL licensed", I can only license future releases differently.
I run under an XP non admin account, it's not hard. In business environments it's the usual set up. Vista does do this by default though, which is a plus.
Its changing the question from "What can we do to protect the environment?" to "Nuclear power yea or nay". Well yeah, they are practically the same question if you're talking about global warming. Also the Howard government is looking into renewables and does invest in them in addition to looking into nuclear.
If want greens to be preference #1 then okay, but put liberals #2 instead of labor. If environment is your top priority it does go in that order: Greens, liberals, coal-union-controlled-labor.
Well the problem is that Generation IV reactors, which will be cheaper and safer, are still in development now. This means nuclear reactors built now will be Generation III, which are still safe etc, but not as cheap or efficient or modern as Generation IV will be.
If America, and the rest of the world, had embraced nuclear power we might have a lot more R&D invested in it, and it would be that much better.
This topic is actually a very relevant issue in Australia at the moment, our entire nuclear future is being decided this week!
To all Australian/. readers about to vote: Kevin Rudd and the ALP are completely opposed to nuclear power.
We live in a uranium rich, dry, stable country, but Rudd knows that the Australian public is scared of nuclear, and so he's making it an election issue. To combat global warming he favors clean coal, which won't be ready for another 20 years.
They plan to have one $50M carbon capture plant in Queensland by 2011, and to invest money in clean coal R&D. Gee, that'll do a lot of good. He'll be gone by the time his first demonstration carbon capture plant is ready. i.e. his policy is: We'll leave CO2 reductions to a future government, but pay lip service to it to get voted in. (Note that nowhere does he specify how many of our 200M tonnes of CO2 will be taken out of the atmosphere by this $50M plant.. Avoiding exact figures when making promises is completely typical in this campaign.)
Because the ALP is so pro-union the coal industry will be more powerful, and more able to resist being partially replaced by nuclear.
Chris Evans, Federal Labor Leader in the Senate, Shadow Minister for National Development, Resources & Energy:
Labor's renewable energy target will deliver approximately half the new capacity needed to meet our growing energy demands out to 2020. Which means all existing capacity, including coal fired power stations, will be needed to meet future energy demands. So they're boasting that no coal fired power stations will be closed down. Great for the coal industry, not so great if Rudd is sincere about cutting emissions.
If you want a sane resources & energy policy; vote Liberal.
And while we're looking to completely unrealistic fiction for advise on the real world; we should stop all superhero wannabes from jumping into nuclear power plants, and we should stop terrorists from smuggling the nuclear fuel out inside of black diamonds.
It's unfortunate that their contribution remained a secret for so long. At least you didn't take one of your best cryptanalysts and drive them to suicide by forcing them to take hormone injections or go to prison for the crime of being a homosexual, like we did in England. That's one way to treat a war hero.
Aren't there restrictions on when you can sell the stock? I'd be surprised if you didn't have to wait a few years before being able to sell, and with the 2.0 bubble looming I don't think I'd bother keeping up to date with the stock prices either.
As for PowerPC Macs, I doubt it. The switch to Intel is what made most new Mac users switch because there was no longer a risk of not being able to run the one Windoze program they might need. If Mac ever went to a non-mainstream CPU again it would be a big big mistake. If Apple changes processor again I'll eat my hat!
An "entitlement state"? Is this the new buzzphrase that makes a complex situation seem really simple?
I thought the government was paralyzing us with fear, and helping the rich get richer. Isn't "state of fear" that the current anti-government line?
The reason the western world has it better than most of the rest of the world is a complex and interesting one, that can't be boiled down to politicians telling us we deserve something or rich people paying for everything good in our lives. All that matters for your argument is that America does have a very high GDP, as does the rest of the developed world. Because we're developed we're more productive; America isn't a country of people on welfare who are all wealthy for some inexplicable reason, businesses don't thrive in the US because the government is stealing from the rich, China accepts US credit for a reason.
If you don't think we deserve this or that modern convenience then give them up. Don't write on a laptop about how "ohh we are so terrible, we don't deserve laptops and cheese graters, damn government! No Mr Bush I don't deserve this fancy car you say I'm entitled to and that you're willing to pay for at the expense of the rich, give me a horse and buggy like they probably all use in China! I'm going to help the developing world by denying myself the cell phones and cars they manufacture."
On outsourcing, while I'm writing: My experience with outsourcing is limited to freelance sites like rentacoder.com , where people across the world can bid on software projects. I found that the prices for bids quoted by people in India or Romania or China are right in line with prices I would quote. There are no coders living in tents that will write SQL server for a hundred US dollars.
A lot of the outsourcing by Microsoft and the like to India Research is often done because it lets them get more done per day; as Redmond goes to sleep Bombay is getting down to work, as Bombay goes to sleep Cambridge is putting the coffee on, as Cambridge goes to sleep Redmond is checking its e-mail and seeing what progress has been made.
If you're really scared about outsourcing rather than fight the market you should want these countries to develop as quickly as possible so that everyone is on a level playing field. India will have more IT pros, but it'll need them in their own economy.
"Anonymous supposed Asus employee claims Apple Tablet is real, to guys who make money off advertising" -- A better title, but less likely to get clicks.
You'd think someone privvy to the Apple Tablet PC would know something as basic as the brand of processor it'll be using.
What about roads, parks, industrial regulations? Health care is debatable but you can't argue that the government should be a group of bankers and a group of soldiers.
Also I don't see how the government is reducing my freedom by using some of my tax money to provide free health care.
If you're a real asshole you can look on it as an investment; healthy people work better, safe people may feel like they don't need a safety net and will spend more perhaps.
The argument that health care can't be provided because it would cost too much is also strange when you look at the amount of military spending, and how many countries do have successful health care systems.
It's the richest country in the world because its citizens can and do take care of their basic needs themselves. I'm in Australia where the government is involved in health care (you get refunds on necessary healthcare, and the amount you pay varies according to income), and we're not doing too bad. (ie we're not trillions of dollars in debt, though that may be about to change with Rudd poised to take over)
I don't get what you mean about citizens taking care of their basic needs themselves though. Citizens still pay for health care, but they do it via the government rather than an insurance agency.
If you want everything in its own folder under an/Applications folder it's easy to do with apt, or any other modern package manager, but it wouldn't improve anything.
Okay, programs are "centralized". This means that they're grouped according to application, and in most other UNIXes files are grouped according to whether they're libraries, manuals, binaries, etc. It's mostly an aesthetic choice.
Note that Windows has had a "Program Files" folder since before OS X, but I don't hear anyone singing the praises of "Program Files" even though it groups files by application in the same way as OS X. Personally I don't see a big advantage either way (and I definitely don't see "Apple is doing it, so we should too" as a good reason).
Just eyeballing the page: DistributionV1: Applying a least squares regression line to a clearly non-linear function. What's the correlation coefficient, I wonder?
Difference_Analysis: This graph is really bizarre. Standard deviation is a positive value, a negative standard deviation makes no sense.
Interesting as these trends may be No trends were found
From an arithmetical perspective, yes. From a more subjective standpoint, no.
Instead of using absolute dollar figures for your analysis, you should use lifestyle impact.
e.g. One dollar a week == no lifestyle impact; $370MM payout == off the charts lifestyle impact.
This is why people will continue to play the lottery, even if mathematically it's a poor choice. I think people buy lottery tickets just for the hope of winning it big, rather than as a wise investment. It means that there is some chance, however remote, that you could retire next week. That's what people pay for, imo.
In the BSDs there are 3 kinds of CVS branches: RELEASE, STABLE, and CURRENT. CURRENT is the latest developers release with tried&untested patches, at the bleeding edge. STABLE is also a developers release, but it is supposed to contain new stuff that has been tested in CURRENT and doesn't seem to break anything. RELEASE are the milestones like 4.2, where everything is tried&tested and only security patches are added to it, to create a stable platform.
It's annoying that STABLE is actually less stable than RELEASE, it's the source of a lot of confusion; but if you're not interested in compiling from source it's unlikely you have any reason to be running the STABLE branch.
It's pretty common knowledge where I come from. It did seem a little strange when someone told me why they were refusing cheese so late, it looks so harmless but it causes nightmares!
I have a less powerful computer than either a Mac Mini or the AMD machine you used, and I don't experience those problems. It might be worth taking the PC to your local tech center before splashing out on a brand new Mac
There are some things like incorrect PowerPoint versions, forgotten files, mysteriously appearing pornography, corrupt PowerPoint files, PowerPoint unavailable, etc, that would actually be better if there was a piece of online presentation software.
Online applications are in their infancy, but it's definitely a worthwhile area to be exploring. I think it'll take a change in JavaScript or some kind of better online scripting platform before it becomes a serious contender, and that'll always be stifled while IE holds a large share, but definitely worth the trouble.
I think (or would like to think) uncertainty about whether or not you'll remain online and have a stable connection will become a thing of the past.
On using Keynote: I've never used Keynote, but I do know that PowerPoint 2007 is a big step ahead of PowerPoint 2003 for easily creating very attractive presentations. No more blue screens with that weird comet thing at the top, no more weird and irrelevant little stick figure clip art. The best new thing in PowerPoint is SmartArt, which can make bullet points so much clearer if not over-used. Also Excel's tables and charts now look much better by default, which makes PowerPoint slides also look much better.
Keynote presentations also look good, I'm just pointing out that there's not that much between them in terms of style and flash as there used to be. Also if you're into XML and (relatively) open standards, Office 2007 has iWork covered there.
Choice is good, competition is good, summaries that use the word "kill " usually aren't good.
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Well I expect you'd only need to have the code available on request. I don't think it has to be automated. Also I don't think admins would have to deal with it as a problem, because no-one's going to sue you for not revealing the code without good reason to.
Hey, wait - seconds are base 60? What kind of bizarrity is this?
Seconds being base 60 is because clocks are represented as circles, and time is represented as segments of a circle, and circles use degrees because important angles are more easily expressed in degrees (45 degrees is easier than 49/72 in decimal, 30 degrees is easier than 1/12 in decimal).Angles are also good to work with in radians, but saying "I'm off at PI/2 past PI/6 o'clock" would get tiring.
I demand the ITU create a new, proper measurement of time, with proper decimalization! 24 hours in a day? Good Lord man, you must be joking. And a calendar system so broken that it has leap years EVERY FOUR YEARS? Sounds like the ITU took the coward's way out, and simply adopted an old imperial system, gave it a coat of paint, and called it "metric". A system that uses base 60, base 24, base 7, and can't even decide between base 30 and 31, not to mention the "month" is based on something so profoundly un-metric as the PHASE OF THE MOON?
Think the phase of the moon is bad? The second is defined relative to the speed of decay of cesium atoms, and originally the meter was based on the distance from the north pole to the equator divided by 10,000,000 (now it's based on the speed of light, and that's based on time, which is based on cesium).Arbitrary is allowed, as long as it's reproducible, reliable, and easy to work with it'll do. What isn't so reproducible is a "foot" or "hog's head" or "barrel". Who's foot? Which hog's head? Which barrel? Why not use something more memorable and easy than 33/2 inches in a rod?
What I think you meant to ask was "If I build a webservice with software that is licensed under the AGPL, do I have to distribute changes I make to that software".
The answer to that is YES.
Well you can relicense it and remove the AGPL license at a whim, and relicense it as you like.This license is targeted pretty much at developers like myself; I have a project called phpDiplomacy, and it's currently licensed under BSD.
Using the GPL seemed pointless, because I'm not worried about people selling the code. I am only concerned about someone taking the code, modifying it, running it on their server and making money off it, but not releasing the changes. Because it's a server-side app they wouldn't have to distribute the source to make money off it, so they have no reason to distribute changes.
So for me having a license was only about making sure people couldn't take the code and claim they wrote it, and that's pretty much all BSD does.
I'll probably move from BSD to AGPL now, once I've read it over thoroughly (and hopefully once it becomes OSS approved), and I can definitely remove the BSD license (or any other license) from my own software. I can add and remove licenses as I please, as the copyright holder.
The only restriction on me is that if someone already has a BSD licensed copy now I can't say "Your copy is now AGPL licensed", I can only license future releases differently.
(IANAL YMMV)
I run under an XP non admin account, it's not hard. In business environments it's the usual set up. Vista does do this by default though, which is a plus.
Why is it overclock and undervolt and not overvolt and underclock?
If want greens to be preference #1 then okay, but put liberals #2 instead of labor. If environment is your top priority it does go in that order: Greens, liberals, coal-union-controlled-labor.
If America, and the rest of the world, had embraced nuclear power we might have a lot more R&D invested in it, and it would be that much better.
This topic is actually a very relevant issue in Australia at the moment, our entire nuclear future is being decided this week!
To all Australian
We live in a uranium rich, dry, stable country, but Rudd knows that the Australian public is scared of nuclear, and so he's making it an election issue. To combat global warming he favors clean coal, which won't be ready for another 20 years.
They plan to have one $50M carbon capture plant in Queensland by 2011, and to invest money in clean coal R&D. Gee, that'll do a lot of good. He'll be gone by the time his first demonstration carbon capture plant is ready. i.e. his policy is: We'll leave CO2 reductions to a future government, but pay lip service to it to get voted in. (Note that nowhere does he specify how many of our 200M tonnes of CO2 will be taken out of the atmosphere by this $50M plant.. Avoiding exact figures when making promises is completely typical in this campaign.)
Because the ALP is so pro-union the coal industry will be more powerful, and more able to resist being partially replaced by nuclear.
Chris Evans, Federal Labor Leader in the Senate, Shadow Minister for National Development, Resources & Energy: Labor's renewable energy target will deliver approximately half the new capacity needed to meet our growing energy demands out to 2020. Which means all existing capacity, including coal fired power stations, will be needed to meet future energy demands. So they're boasting that no coal fired power stations will be closed down. Great for the coal industry, not so great if Rudd is sincere about cutting emissions.
If you want a sane resources & energy policy; vote Liberal.
And while we're looking to completely unrealistic fiction for advise on the real world; we should stop all superhero wannabes from jumping into nuclear power plants, and we should stop terrorists from smuggling the nuclear fuel out inside of black diamonds.
Aren't there restrictions on when you can sell the stock? I'd be surprised if you didn't have to wait a few years before being able to sell, and with the 2.0 bubble looming I don't think I'd bother keeping up to date with the stock prices either.
But ultimately leonardo's last supper has included tunes .
An "entitlement state"? Is this the new buzzphrase that makes a complex situation seem really simple?
I thought the government was paralyzing us with fear, and helping the rich get richer. Isn't "state of fear" that the current anti-government line?
The reason the western world has it better than most of the rest of the world is a complex and interesting one, that can't be boiled down to politicians telling us we deserve something or rich people paying for everything good in our lives. All that matters for your argument is that America does have a very high GDP, as does the rest of the developed world. Because we're developed we're more productive; America isn't a country of people on welfare who are all wealthy for some inexplicable reason, businesses don't thrive in the US because the government is stealing from the rich, China accepts US credit for a reason.
If you don't think we deserve this or that modern convenience then give them up. Don't write on a laptop about how "ohh we are so terrible, we don't deserve laptops and cheese graters, damn government! No Mr Bush I don't deserve this fancy car you say I'm entitled to and that you're willing to pay for at the expense of the rich, give me a horse and buggy like they probably all use in China! I'm going to help the developing world by denying myself the cell phones and cars they manufacture."
On outsourcing, while I'm writing: My experience with outsourcing is limited to freelance sites like rentacoder.com , where people across the world can bid on software projects. I found that the prices for bids quoted by people in India or Romania or China are right in line with prices I would quote. There are no coders living in tents that will write SQL server for a hundred US dollars.
A lot of the outsourcing by Microsoft and the like to India Research is often done because it lets them get more done per day; as Redmond goes to sleep Bombay is getting down to work, as Bombay goes to sleep Cambridge is putting the coffee on, as Cambridge goes to sleep Redmond is checking its e-mail and seeing what progress has been made.
If you're really scared about outsourcing rather than fight the market you should want these countries to develop as quickly as possible so that everyone is on a level playing field. India will have more IT pros, but it'll need them in their own economy.
"Anonymous supposed Asus employee claims Apple Tablet is real, to guys who make money off advertising" -- A better title, but less likely to get clicks.
You'd think someone privvy to the Apple Tablet PC would know something as basic as the brand of processor it'll be using.
What about ads though? Google aren't going this for free, they'll be planning to incorporate ads into the phone.
Also I don't see how the government is reducing my freedom by using some of my tax money to provide free health care.
If you're a real asshole you can look on it as an investment; healthy people work better, safe people may feel like they don't need a safety net and will spend more perhaps.
The argument that health care can't be provided because it would cost too much is also strange when you look at the amount of military spending, and how many countries do have successful health care systems.
It's the richest country in the world because its citizens can and do take care of their basic needs themselves. I'm in Australia where the government is involved in health care (you get refunds on necessary healthcare, and the amount you pay varies according to income), and we're not doing too bad. (ie we're not trillions of dollars in debt, though that may be about to change with Rudd poised to take over)
I don't get what you mean about citizens taking care of their basic needs themselves though. Citizens still pay for health care, but they do it via the government rather than an insurance agency.
That's because /. has gone from a Linux/FOSS zealot haven to an OS X zealot haven. It's sad but true.
If you want everything in its own folder under an /Applications folder it's easy to do with apt, or any other modern package manager, but it wouldn't improve anything.
Okay, programs are "centralized". This means that they're grouped according to application, and in most other UNIXes files are grouped according to whether they're libraries, manuals, binaries, etc. It's mostly an aesthetic choice.
Note that Windows has had a "Program Files" folder since before OS X, but I don't hear anyone singing the praises of "Program Files" even though it groups files by application in the same way as OS X. Personally I don't see a big advantage either way (and I definitely don't see "Apple is doing it, so we should too" as a good reason).
DistributionV1: Applying a least squares regression line to a clearly non-linear function. What's the correlation coefficient, I wonder?
Difference_Analysis: This graph is really bizarre. Standard deviation is a positive value, a negative standard deviation makes no sense.
Interesting as these trends may be No trends were found
Instead of using absolute dollar figures for your analysis, you should use lifestyle impact.
e.g. One dollar a week == no lifestyle impact; $370MM payout == off the charts lifestyle impact.
This is why people will continue to play the lottery, even if mathematically it's a poor choice. I think people buy lottery tickets just for the hope of winning it big, rather than as a wise investment. It means that there is some chance, however remote, that you could retire next week. That's what people pay for, imo.
In the BSDs there are 3 kinds of CVS branches: RELEASE, STABLE, and CURRENT. CURRENT is the latest developers release with tried&untested patches, at the bleeding edge. STABLE is also a developers release, but it is supposed to contain new stuff that has been tested in CURRENT and doesn't seem to break anything. RELEASE are the milestones like 4.2, where everything is tried&tested and only security patches are added to it, to create a stable platform.
It's annoying that STABLE is actually less stable than RELEASE, it's the source of a lot of confusion; but if you're not interested in compiling from source it's unlikely you have any reason to be running the STABLE branch.
It's pretty common knowledge where I come from. It did seem a little strange when someone told me why they were refusing cheese so late, it looks so harmless but it causes nightmares!
I have a less powerful computer than either a Mac Mini or the AMD machine you used, and I don't experience those problems. It might be worth taking the PC to your local tech center before splashing out on a brand new Mac
There are some things like incorrect PowerPoint versions, forgotten files, mysteriously appearing pornography, corrupt PowerPoint files, PowerPoint unavailable, etc, that would actually be better if there was a piece of online presentation software.
Online applications are in their infancy, but it's definitely a worthwhile area to be exploring. I think it'll take a change in JavaScript or some kind of better online scripting platform before it becomes a serious contender, and that'll always be stifled while IE holds a large share, but definitely worth the trouble.
I think (or would like to think) uncertainty about whether or not you'll remain online and have a stable connection will become a thing of the past.
On using Keynote: I've never used Keynote, but I do know that PowerPoint 2007 is a big step ahead of PowerPoint 2003 for easily creating very attractive presentations. No more blue screens with that weird comet thing at the top, no more weird and irrelevant little stick figure clip art. The best new thing in PowerPoint is SmartArt, which can make bullet points so much clearer if not over-used. Also Excel's tables and charts now look much better by default, which makes PowerPoint slides also look much better.
Keynote presentations also look good, I'm just pointing out that there's not that much between them in terms of style and flash as there used to be. Also if you're into XML and (relatively) open standards, Office 2007 has iWork covered there.
Choice is good, competition is good, summaries that use the word "kill " usually aren't good.