I'm not saying Linux needs a PR department, but it's a fact that it's easier for journalists to get an authorative statement from SCO's PR people than it is for them to try and work out who out of the enthusiastic unpaid advocates can be said to speak for Linux.
And that's why SCO's absurd legal nonsenses get the lion's share of the coverage of the spat in the mainstream press.
Even with a laser there's a spread in the frequencies of light it generates - it's this fact which limits the distance at which light from the laser is still coherent, a property of the device named (highly originally) the "coherence length".
What we "KNOW" is that the global average temperature has been increasing over the last 150 years or so. Atmospheric physicists and climatologists are trying to work out why. You're right - grant proposals frequently do contain the buzzwords you list. Here's a major climatology project in the UK for example: "the effect of solar variability on climate". Not, you will notice, "an attempt to show that solar variability is the cause of observed climate change", nor "why solar variability has no effect on climate".
There's a point here, and it's that good scientists (the vast majority) are trying to determine what the facts are rather than prove their own preconceptions. I can only assume you base your abuse of scientists in general on the tiny minority you see on television: take my word for it - people with provocative books to defend are *not* representative of the objective majority.
Anyway, back to my first point: scientists are trying to work out why global temperature is increasing. The majority of them believe *personally* (*not* professionally) that human activity is almost certainly the cause. These are people at least as intelligent as the average slashdot reader who have spent years studying the issue. Shouldn't you be at least a little bit worried?
I think the point is that it's *easier* to keep all your PCs up to date with security patches if they're all running the same OS, which for most companies is going to be Windows NT or a sucessor thereto.
Also many companies have policies against their employees having root/administrator rights to their own machines, something which is hard to avoid if they installed the operating system themselves secretly.
Well ok, maybe the parent post didn't make those points, but it should have:-)
I doubt that the issue will be decided by the tiny fraction of potential DVD-writer purchasers that read/. (and yes, I think it is tiny, even though a large fraction of the/. readership are likely to buy a DVD writer eventually, the issue will almost certainly be decided by OEMs, and not necessarily American ones either).
OK, so this sounds a bit like the "it's useless voting" argument, but voting doesn't cost GBP 200:-)
More to the point, the services their competitors describe as "high speed" are all 512kbps or faster. So yes, this is a case of misleading advertising, as one might have expected from the fact that the body making the ruling was the Advertising Standards Authority...
No it wouldn't, because this is not an application for a patent on online advertising. For goodness' sake, actually go and read the application (linked in the story, even!) instead of writing knee-jerk reaction posts based on what you think it might be.
As for the moderator who thought this was "insightful", you should be ashamed of yourself.
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Yes, that's the kind of behaviour that'll unite humanity in peace and harmony, isn't it?
PCM is the most common encoding used in WAV files, but the format allows for a large number of other, generally compressed, options. The "special header" you mention is also (or can be) quite a bit more complicated than you make out...:-)
In that case, there are probably hundreds of other people who deserve as much credit as Loomis:-)
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In fact, he did neither. AFAICT he did some useful optimisation work that helped miniaturise radar equipment so that it could be fitted to 'planes, but it was both invented and a reality long before he got his hands on the technology. Perhaps he made the first system with the name "RADAR"? The original British name for the system was "HFDF" (High Frequency Direction Finding, pronounced "huffduff").
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I'm not saying Linux needs a PR department, but it's a fact that it's easier for journalists to get an authorative statement from SCO's PR people than it is for them to try and work out who out of the enthusiastic unpaid advocates can be said to speak for Linux.
And that's why SCO's absurd legal nonsenses get the lion's share of the coverage of the spat in the mainstream press.
That's 'cos Linux doesn't have a PR department.
Lawyers have pulses?
That's why we're leaving it to the Russians ;-)
Even with a laser there's a spread in the frequencies of light it generates - it's this fact which limits the distance at which light from the laser is still coherent, a property of the device named (highly originally) the "coherence length".
What we "KNOW" is that the global average temperature has been increasing over the last 150 years or so. Atmospheric physicists and climatologists are trying to work out why. You're right - grant proposals frequently do contain the buzzwords you list. Here's a major climatology project in the UK for example: "the effect of solar variability on climate". Not, you will notice, "an attempt to show that solar variability is the cause of observed climate change", nor "why solar variability has no effect on climate".
There's a point here, and it's that good scientists (the vast majority) are trying to determine what the facts are rather than prove their own preconceptions. I can only assume you base your abuse of scientists in general on the tiny minority you see on television: take my word for it - people with provocative books to defend are *not* representative of the objective majority.
Anyway, back to my first point: scientists are trying to work out why global temperature is increasing. The majority of them believe *personally* (*not* professionally) that human activity is almost certainly the cause. These are people at least as intelligent as the average slashdot reader who have spent years studying the issue. Shouldn't you be at least a little bit worried?
You mean these ocean level rises could be *natural*? That's a great weight off my mind - let's just sit and watch people drown then :-)
Thing is, they're also a software shop: as long as you use Java, they don't really care what the fsck you run it on. Dichotomy anyone? :-)
What's a DMV?
I think the point is that it's *easier* to keep all your PCs up to date with security patches if they're all running the same OS, which for most companies is going to be Windows NT or a sucessor thereto.
:-)
Also many companies have policies against their employees having root/administrator rights to their own machines, something which is hard to avoid if they installed the operating system themselves secretly.
Well ok, maybe the parent post didn't make those points, but it should have
I doubt that the issue will be decided by the tiny fraction of potential DVD-writer purchasers that read /. (and yes, I think it is tiny, even though a large fraction of the /. readership are likely to buy a DVD writer eventually, the issue will almost certainly be decided by OEMs, and not necessarily American ones either).
:-)
OK, so this sounds a bit like the "it's useless voting" argument, but voting doesn't cost GBP 200
E=hf so photons lose energy by changing wavelength. The photons heading back towards the sun are redder than the photons that hit the sail.
Indeed, I'm considering replacing my power switch with a pull-cord...
As any fule kno, the right side of the road is the wrong side of the road ;-)
More to the point, the services their competitors describe as "high speed" are all 512kbps or faster. So yes, this is a case of misleading advertising, as one might have expected from the fact that the body making the ruling was the Advertising Standards Authority...
Can you tell me why having a clerk answering a sales line would not be covered by this?
Yes. The first sentence of the first paragraph of the patent is "A method and system for allocating display space on web page."
No it wouldn't, because this is not an application for a patent on online advertising. For goodness' sake, actually go and read the application (linked in the story, even!) instead of writing knee-jerk reaction posts based on what you think it might be.
As for the moderator who thought this was "insightful", you should be ashamed of yourself.
Yes, that's the kind of behaviour that'll unite humanity in peace and harmony, isn't it?
Does anybody else see this as Slashdot charging people to view a website, that would normally be free for all to view?
no :-)
Well, don't just sit there - write to your elected representatives to express your support for continued funding of manned spaceflight!
By the way, Solaris users cannot even dream about such package management system as Portage.
AFAIK we're all quite happy with pkg-get, thanks.
PCM is the most common encoding used in WAV files, but the format allows for a large number of other, generally compressed, options. The "special header" you mention is also (or can be) quite a bit more complicated than you make out... :-)
Ah yes, "proof by attacking the person".
In that case, there are probably hundreds of other people who deserve as much credit as Loomis :-)
In fact, he did neither. AFAICT he did some useful optimisation work that helped miniaturise radar equipment so that it could be fitted to 'planes, but it was both invented and a reality long before he got his hands on the technology. Perhaps he made the first system with the name "RADAR"? The original British name for the system was "HFDF" (High Frequency Direction Finding, pronounced "huffduff").