Mutualism is a real economic theory (though inconsistent with reality, being based on the LTV). As for 'voluntary socialism' - I think the category you're looking for is 'anarchism' - which wouldn't even be recognised as 'socialism' by most of today's population (largely because it isn't - volunteering the capital you create for the social good is different to the capital you create being owned by society).
I've wondered about the viability of crowdfunding for a wider range of space science. I would be pretty excited about handing over a few thousand $ to help fund a mission like Kepler (even better if I could additionally direct some of my taxes that way - similar to a charitable donation). I'm not sure that there would be enough interested people though; people really willing to cough up the $, not just express interest in someone else doing that.
The only thing which really matters for ARM GPUs is how good they are against the best their rivals can put out there. If Imagination Tech, NVIDIA or Qualcomm chips have better price, performance and power requirements, then few companies will use ARM over their current chip providers (which is the case today). As for these claims; they are entirely believable and nothing special. Their competitors are all claiming similar things, ARM are just making more noise about it.
The success rates vary from year to year, but last year we (Crystal Space) had 6 successful students, all of whom had their code integrated into trunk development very shortly after GSoC ended.
I don't think you can totally judge success from how the mentoring organisation benefited however. Imo the main point of GSoC is to give students experience in working with/on open source projects. There were a few discussions on this at the GSoC mentor summit last year, I think a lot of people (not really orgs, just people looking in at the program) miss that success should be partly judged by how well the students 'grew' as developers (both technically and in how they interact with other developers), not just by whether they met their project goals and contributed something useful to the organisation.
Making a graphics engine is hard and costs a lot of man hours (thus lots of $$$). There's not many people who can just start contributing to them (compared to other OS projects). The Open Source engines will always be at least a generation behind, simply because they're always going to be slowly implementing what's already been done in the commercial engines, while companies like Crytek are busy working on their next-gen stuff.
On the plus side, the Open Source engines (Ogre and CrystalSpace anyway) are good enough for people to make decent looking games if they wish to do so. Gameplay is what counts right? I'll take TES: Oblivion quality graphics (hell, Morrowind even) if the game play is great. Unfortunately making games is as hard as making the engines that they run on...
The more money the BBC can pull in from stuff that my taxes (TV licence, which I don't object to) have already paid for, the better. I realise that the TV licence won't drop in price, nor will I get any money back, but perhaps the money will go on creating more good stuff for me to watch.
I mean that the system being put in place in former-Soviet countries (as well of others, but those ones on the border of Russia are the sticky ones) aren't going to be of any help. North Korea would shoot over the Pacific, and probably anything from the Middle East would also shoot that way or wouldn't shoot in the first place. So this provides no real protection.
My comment about Cuba was to point out how little the US liked Soviet missiles being put on Cuba, yet the US is now putting missiles around Russia - and even if they are for defence they are still seen as a military threat to Russia.
Well North Korea aren't going to shoot over Russia and Europe are they?:) As for the middle east.. could go either way. Most likely to not shoot anything and bring it in via ship in a suitcase, where security is rather lax.
The point is that the whole system is ridiculous. All it does is make Russia edgy.
I believe that treating Russia like it's still the USSR is not the way to go about improving world security.
I see the US provoking Russia in a lot of ways, from building missile defence systems on their doorstep (can Russia build one on Cuba?), to totally ignoring that Georgia starting shelling Russian citizens in South Ossetia *before* Russia entered Georgian territory and treating it like they 'invaded' with no reason.
So based on that I ask, how will you go about improving relations with countries like Russia? Right now we're doing the opposite of that, so I'd like to see a plan of how to reverse this trend.
A lot seems to be done for the short term in the USA - either to make quick money or as a stop gap solution to a problem.
What I would like to know is what you have planned which will benefit my children and grand-children. What policies do you have which will give a noticeable and lasting change for generations to come?
Aye. I want a window manager to be fast, sleek and nice on the eye, to have a low resource usage (e17 is pretty nice), and to do nothing more than it needs to. Leave anything more to separate programs, don't try and bundle as much as possible into the same package just to try and make your feature list bigger than the competitors.
Price of the phone + price of the most expensive contract for the expected lifetime of the phone (for 'potential loss'):) If they ever needed to justify it, which they didn't and don't.
People also tend to forget that 'extending life' doesn't have to be 'living like a corpse in a bed'. If we can extend life for long periods (say 300 years) then the chances are we'll be able to make people at the age of 200 be in the same condition as a 50 year old person. So the retirement age will rise to 250 or something and the economy will adapt to this, just like it's adapted to the average age increasing so much over the last 200 years or so.
As for overpopulation.. there's an (as good as) infinite amount of space out there. We're probably going to run into this problem anyway, so any extension to age will only accelerate the issue. I'm sure that one day in the future, 'overpopulation' will be as big a buzz phrase as 'global warming' for our politicians, and it'll be dealt with (even if for the wrong reasons).
Parent is correct that this is a non-story. I went to a talk by Scott McNealy (Chairman and Co-founder of Sun) at Imperial College London this week and the question of what Sun's stance on Android is was asked to him. His response was that they totally welcomed and supported this move, and that they were sure that there would be no breakages in core API compatibility between the Sun VM and Android. This break in the core API was the main reason why Sun sued Microsoft, before Java was GPLed (also the reason why Java wasn't under the GPL license originally, so Sun could protect it long enough so that it was used on enough devices that nobody would want do a Microsoft).
If you can measure the spin, then you can measure that it has changed yes? So if you could change one particles spin, which causes the other entangled particles spin to also change, what's stopping you from communicating via number of spin changes in some time frame? So the 1's and 0's are a sort of 'change' or 'no change'. (I ask with ignorance of how measuring affects the particle).
No, that's not quite right. The BSD code always stays free. Any modifications or code which uses it may become closed, but the original source that any person uses stays free. That's where the GPL hinders freedom. By using any GPL code in your project, you (the creator of the rest of the project) no longer have the freedom to decide what happens to the rest of the code. I see BSD being about the freedom of choice, and GPL about enforcing open code. Not that the GPL is horrible or anything:) It is a very useful license.
Security improvements that will be in Windows Vista SP1 include:
* Provides security software vendors a more secure way to communicate with Windows Security Center.
* Includes application programming interfaces (APIs) by which third-party security and malicious software detection applications can work with kernel patch protection on x64 versions of Windows Vista. These APIs help ISVs develop software that extends the functionality of the Windows kernel on x64 computers without disabling or weakening the protection offered by kernel patch protection.
* Improves the security of running RemoteApp programs and desktops by allowing Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) files to be signed. Customers can differentiate user experiences based on publisher identity.
* Adds an Elliptical Curve Cryptography (ECC) pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) to the list of available PRNGs in Windows Vista.
* Enhances BitLocker Drive Encryption (BDE) to offer an additional multifactor authentication method that combines a key protected by the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) with a Startup key stored on a USB storage device and a user-generated personal identification number (PIN).
Reliability
Windows Vista SP1 will include improvements that target some of the most common causes of crashes and hangs, giving users a more consistent experience. Many of these improvements will specifically address issues identified from the Windows Error Reporting tool. The following list describes some of the reliability improvements that Windows Vista SP1 will include:
* Improved reliability and compatibility of Windows Vista when used with newer graphics cards in several specific scenarios and configurations.
* Improved reliability when working with external displays on a laptop.
* Improved Windows Vista reliability in networking configuration scenarios.
* Improved reliability of systems that were upgraded from Windows XP to Windows Vista.
* Increased compatibility with many printer drivers.
* Increased reliability and performance of Windows Vista when entering sleep and resuming from sleep.
Performance
The following list describes some of the performance improvements that Windows Vista SP1 will include:
* Improves the speed of copying and extracting files.
* Improves the time to become active from Hibernate and Resume modes.
* Improves the performance of domain-joined PCs when operating off the domain; in the current release version of Windows Vista, users would experience long delays when opening the File dialog box.
* Improves performance of Windows® Internet Explorer® 7 in Windows Vista, reducing CPU utilization and speeding JavaScript parsing.
* Improves battery life by reducing CPU utilization by not redrawing the screen as frequently, on certain computers.
* Improves the logon experience by removing the occasional 10-second delay between pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL and the password prompt displaying.
* Addresses an issue in the current version of Windows Vista that makes browsing network file shares consume significant bandwidth and not perform as fast as expected.
- People argue, squabble, have tantrums etc. etc. Everyone wants different things and so people will go their own way. The people running the main server will go the way they think and probably doesn't cater to everyone else. We'll see hundreds of shards and branches off no doubt. This is only bad for the original Ryzom, it might be great for the players who're enjoying playing on whatever shard they like. As for the company thing... making money in a game usually means trying to keep the players happy. Unhappy players don't play your game. Unless there's a "1) Make players unhappy. 2) ??? 3) Profit!" strategy I've missed somewhere:P
- It's funny because most 'free as in freedom' are also free as in beer (if you don't include support). I had no illusions of it not being P2P on the main server and I didn't say that. However, people will play on a shard if it's more fun or even the same amount of fun, and not pay. This is what restricting the graphics/sounds gets rid of, the clones which drag people away from the main Ryzom. Getting people to put time into something they like isn't a problem. In fact, having graphics/sounds open for anyone to use can and will put off a lot of artists from contributing.
- The 'uniqueness' won't change hugely if bought by another company. People who are playing might notice new systems added, rules changes etc. but the game will largely look the same as it did before.
- So when they get told they can make an offer, make one, and let's say they win... and then they don't have enough funds because people don't pay up... they look silly?:) Or are they legally bound to pay? Or do they have to have the funds before they can make an offer? If that's the case, then will they pay everything back if they get outbid?
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Mutualism is a real economic theory (though inconsistent with reality, being based on the LTV). As for 'voluntary socialism' - I think the category you're looking for is 'anarchism' - which wouldn't even be recognised as 'socialism' by most of today's population (largely because it isn't - volunteering the capital you create for the social good is different to the capital you create being owned by society).
I've wondered about the viability of crowdfunding for a wider range of space science. I would be pretty excited about handing over a few thousand $ to help fund a mission like Kepler (even better if I could additionally direct some of my taxes that way - similar to a charitable donation). I'm not sure that there would be enough interested people though; people really willing to cough up the $, not just express interest in someone else doing that.
The only thing which really matters for ARM GPUs is how good they are against the best their rivals can put out there. If Imagination Tech, NVIDIA or Qualcomm chips have better price, performance and power requirements, then few companies will use ARM over their current chip providers (which is the case today). As for these claims; they are entirely believable and nothing special. Their competitors are all claiming similar things, ARM are just making more noise about it.
The success rates vary from year to year, but last year we (Crystal Space) had 6 successful students, all of whom had their code integrated into trunk development very shortly after GSoC ended.
I don't think you can totally judge success from how the mentoring organisation benefited however. Imo the main point of GSoC is to give students experience in working with/on open source projects. There were a few discussions on this at the GSoC mentor summit last year, I think a lot of people (not really orgs, just people looking in at the program) miss that success should be partly judged by how well the students 'grew' as developers (both technically and in how they interact with other developers), not just by whether they met their project goals and contributed something useful to the organisation.
Making a graphics engine is hard and costs a lot of man hours (thus lots of $$$). There's not many people who can just start contributing to them (compared to other OS projects). The Open Source engines will always be at least a generation behind, simply because they're always going to be slowly implementing what's already been done in the commercial engines, while companies like Crytek are busy working on their next-gen stuff.
On the plus side, the Open Source engines (Ogre and CrystalSpace anyway) are good enough for people to make decent looking games if they wish to do so. Gameplay is what counts right? I'll take TES: Oblivion quality graphics (hell, Morrowind even) if the game play is great. Unfortunately making games is as hard as making the engines that they run on...
I believe it would appear as if the distance between objects had decreased. The speed of light would also always measure the same.
Works fine for me... Usually I run it on my PS3 so I can watch stuff on my TV (so I haven't noticed it being CPU hungry).
The more money the BBC can pull in from stuff that my taxes (TV licence, which I don't object to) have already paid for, the better. I realise that the TV licence won't drop in price, nor will I get any money back, but perhaps the money will go on creating more good stuff for me to watch.
Nah, probably the BBC execs will get big bonuses.
Yeah, my parents use Zen for both their home and business internet and they're really good.
As long as Be continue their good service I don't really mind that they're owned by O2 :) So we'll see.
Posting from my 24mbps connection with pretty much no speed throttling or bandwidth caps (Be Internet) :)
I am living in London however, so I suppose that doesn't make me representative of most of the country.
No no :D
I mean that the system being put in place in former-Soviet countries (as well of others, but those ones on the border of Russia are the sticky ones) aren't going to be of any help. North Korea would shoot over the Pacific, and probably anything from the Middle East would also shoot that way or wouldn't shoot in the first place. So this provides no real protection.
My comment about Cuba was to point out how little the US liked Soviet missiles being put on Cuba, yet the US is now putting missiles around Russia - and even if they are for defence they are still seen as a military threat to Russia.
Well North Korea aren't going to shoot over Russia and Europe are they? :)
As for the middle east.. could go either way. Most likely to not shoot anything and bring it in via ship in a suitcase, where security is rather lax.
The point is that the whole system is ridiculous. All it does is make Russia edgy.
I believe that treating Russia like it's still the USSR is not the way to go about improving world security.
I see the US provoking Russia in a lot of ways, from building missile defence systems on their doorstep (can Russia build one on Cuba?), to totally ignoring that Georgia starting shelling Russian citizens in South Ossetia *before* Russia entered Georgian territory and treating it like they 'invaded' with no reason.
So based on that I ask, how will you go about improving relations with countries like Russia? Right now we're doing the opposite of that, so I'd like to see a plan of how to reverse this trend.
A lot seems to be done for the short term in the USA - either to make quick money or as a stop gap solution to a problem. What I would like to know is what you have planned which will benefit my children and grand-children. What policies do you have which will give a noticeable and lasting change for generations to come?
Wrong story? ;)
chemistry (or other subject) get together at the local pub for a few pints of beer and frank discussion on the subject at hand eh?
Aye. I want a window manager to be fast, sleek and nice on the eye, to have a low resource usage (e17 is pretty nice), and to do nothing more than it needs to.
Leave anything more to separate programs, don't try and bundle as much as possible into the same package just to try and make your feature list bigger than the competitors.
Price of the phone + price of the most expensive contract for the expected lifetime of the phone (for 'potential loss') :) If they ever needed to justify it, which they didn't and don't.
People also tend to forget that 'extending life' doesn't have to be 'living like a corpse in a bed'. If we can extend life for long periods (say 300 years) then the chances are we'll be able to make people at the age of 200 be in the same condition as a 50 year old person. So the retirement age will rise to 250 or something and the economy will adapt to this, just like it's adapted to the average age increasing so much over the last 200 years or so.
As for overpopulation.. there's an (as good as) infinite amount of space out there. We're probably going to run into this problem anyway, so any extension to age will only accelerate the issue. I'm sure that one day in the future, 'overpopulation' will be as big a buzz phrase as 'global warming' for our politicians, and it'll be dealt with (even if for the wrong reasons).
Parent is correct that this is a non-story.
I went to a talk by Scott McNealy (Chairman and Co-founder of Sun) at Imperial College London this week and the question of what Sun's stance on Android is was asked to him.
His response was that they totally welcomed and supported this move, and that they were sure that there would be no breakages in core API compatibility between the Sun VM and Android.
This break in the core API was the main reason why Sun sued Microsoft, before Java was GPLed (also the reason why Java wasn't under the GPL license originally, so Sun could protect it long enough so that it was used on enough devices that nobody would want do a Microsoft).
It's a shame that only two of the seven will be chosen for launch in 2015-2017 and not all seven (at least that's what I gathered).
I'm not sure what's lacking the most, the number of people available to work on these or the funding required. Probably mostly the latter.
If you can measure the spin, then you can measure that it has changed yes? So if you could change one particles spin, which causes the other entangled particles spin to also change, what's stopping you from communicating via number of spin changes in some time frame? So the 1's and 0's are a sort of 'change' or 'no change'. (I ask with ignorance of how measuring affects the particle).
No, that's not quite right. The BSD code always stays free. Any modifications or code which uses it may become closed, but the original source that any person uses stays free. :) It is a very useful license.
That's where the GPL hinders freedom. By using any GPL code in your project, you (the creator of the rest of the project) no longer have the freedom to decide what happens to the rest of the code.
I see BSD being about the freedom of choice, and GPL about enforcing open code. Not that the GPL is horrible or anything
Security improvements that will be in Windows Vista SP1 include:
* Provides security software vendors a more secure way to communicate with Windows Security Center.
* Includes application programming interfaces (APIs) by which third-party security and malicious software detection applications can work with kernel patch protection on x64 versions of Windows Vista. These APIs help ISVs develop software that extends the functionality of the Windows kernel on x64 computers without disabling or weakening the protection offered by kernel patch protection.
* Improves the security of running RemoteApp programs and desktops by allowing Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) files to be signed. Customers can differentiate user experiences based on publisher identity.
* Adds an Elliptical Curve Cryptography (ECC) pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) to the list of available PRNGs in Windows Vista.
* Enhances BitLocker Drive Encryption (BDE) to offer an additional multifactor authentication method that combines a key protected by the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) with a Startup key stored on a USB storage device and a user-generated personal identification number (PIN).
Reliability
Windows Vista SP1 will include improvements that target some of the most common causes of crashes and hangs, giving users a more consistent experience. Many of these improvements will specifically address issues identified from the Windows Error Reporting tool. The following list describes some of the reliability improvements that Windows Vista SP1 will include:
* Improved reliability and compatibility of Windows Vista when used with newer graphics cards in several specific scenarios and configurations.
* Improved reliability when working with external displays on a laptop.
* Improved Windows Vista reliability in networking configuration scenarios.
* Improved reliability of systems that were upgraded from Windows XP to Windows Vista.
* Increased compatibility with many printer drivers.
* Increased reliability and performance of Windows Vista when entering sleep and resuming from sleep.
Performance
The following list describes some of the performance improvements that Windows Vista SP1 will include:
* Improves the speed of copying and extracting files.
* Improves the time to become active from Hibernate and Resume modes.
* Improves the performance of domain-joined PCs when operating off the domain; in the current release version of Windows Vista, users would experience long delays when opening the File dialog box.
* Improves performance of Windows® Internet Explorer® 7 in Windows Vista, reducing CPU utilization and speeding JavaScript parsing.
* Improves battery life by reducing CPU utilization by not redrawing the screen as frequently, on certain computers.
* Improves the logon experience by removing the occasional 10-second delay between pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL and the password prompt displaying.
* Addresses an issue in the current version of Windows Vista that makes browsing network file shares consume significant bandwidth and not perform as fast as expected.
- People argue, squabble, have tantrums etc. etc. Everyone wants different things and so people will go their own way. The people running the main server will go the way they think and probably doesn't cater to everyone else. We'll see hundreds of shards and branches off no doubt. This is only bad for the original Ryzom, it might be great for the players who're enjoying playing on whatever shard they like. As for the company thing... making money in a game usually means trying to keep the players happy. Unhappy players don't play your game. Unless there's a "1) Make players unhappy. 2) ??? 3) Profit!" strategy I've missed somewhere :P
- It's funny because most 'free as in freedom' are also free as in beer (if you don't include support). I had no illusions of it not being P2P on the main server and I didn't say that. However, people will play on a shard if it's more fun or even the same amount of fun, and not pay. This is what restricting the graphics/sounds gets rid of, the clones which drag people away from the main Ryzom. Getting people to put time into something they like isn't a problem. In fact, having graphics/sounds open for anyone to use can and will put off a lot of artists from contributing.
- The 'uniqueness' won't change hugely if bought by another company. People who are playing might notice new systems added, rules changes etc. but the game will largely look the same as it did before.
- So when they get told they can make an offer, make one, and let's say they win... and then they don't have enough funds because people don't pay up... they look silly? :) Or are they legally bound to pay? Or do they have to have the funds before they can make an offer? If that's the case, then will they pay everything back if they get outbid?