The only way to really test this study would be to have everyone (including close family and friends) withhold prayer (or not) and measure the difference.
That'd be another random factor in a large study, like age, income, sexual orientation, etc. The experiment is to see if THIS prayer had an effect, and it doesn't.
Your argument about it being bad prayer is also suspect too- had the study gone the other way you would have likely said the study is proof.
Sure you can. Libraries are just as available now as then, including glibc (for compatibility) and various gui libraries. The only issue may be kernel versions and system calls, like you said, depending on the app.
Also, you culd have made your point without saying "talking out his ass".
And they don't have the resources to decrease the server load from over 100% (it's over 100% since you said you're backlogged) ?
What happens when a server dies? It just gets worse?
Also, are you counting the time in your overhead in that "time saving" 10%? Would you get your 100% bonus if you now had to spend 20% of your time on this 10% speed increase?
What I'd like to see in a home is interoperability between "smart appliances".
If my fridge has the ability to tell me its internal temperature, I'd like to have a way to query it. And ideally, I'd like something similar to query my home's thermostat, water heater, etc.
The problem with these "smart homes" is that they often seem to rely on a single vendor having a "home automation solution" rather than a system I can plug into.
What I want is something akin to Wi-Fi or bluetooth + XML-RPC
(*sure, you can open source your application, but the end user cannot compile his own version without requiring his own key)
And this is why the GPL3 draft requires that if you have an application that is GPLed, and if it requires a key to run, that you distribute the key to the application author in order to allow him/her to compile the application in a way that's usable to the end user.
For years we've known that encryption protects our freedom. And the more traffic that's encrypted, the more effort it will be to decrypt it all, the harder to find the sensitive information, and we'll all have more freedom of speech.
But with the recent revelations about the US government's domestic spying program, I think that encryption will have a secondary benefit in requiring police and three letter agencies to return to more traditional methods of data collection. The way the laws are written, spying can be done on an individual suspect, but the temptation to do mass spying is too high and the US has decided to capture it all and sort through it later.
Encrypting all the data forces the police to return to more traditional methods of spying on an individual (through keyloggers and tempest).
While I think we need to stop terrorism, hopefully through the use of encryption and other technologies, we can keep ourselves safe and move back to legal spying.
If you don't care about clustering, then I wonder about the price hit that you take for using Fiber. Fiber has wonderful advantages but for home use, without clustering, I don't see the advantages.
One of the least discussed but largest changes in GPL3 is the explicit mention of patents and how patents (if found to be violated) would effect the work as a whole. This is similar to the IBM Public License and is one of those things that I'd imagine would give a corporate lawyer warm fuzzies. Sun and others may find this change so compelling that they'd be willing to give more attention to the GPL3 than the GPL2, which strengthens it further (since these companies want the flow of information to go both).
The Veritas cluster file system (which is the reason I'd imagine someone would go through all the effort) has the ability for multiple systems to access a single volume at the same time, the moral equilivant of NFS, but without the NFS server or the speed problems associated with NFS due to the filesystem abstraction (ie it's good for databases).
The only Free competitor that I know of for this is GFS.
ZFS is a very powerful filesystem/volume manager, but it's more akin to LVM + very smart filesystem access.
They have para-linguistic meaning but they're an important part of signining. It's not equilivant to the tone of voice as it would appear in a Western language (English, French, German), but it's often part of the sign itself in that certain facial expressions or mouthings should accompany certain signs.
They're also *vital* for things like questions, where eyebrow position are the indicator that the statement is a question. translated to English, it might be more akin to tone: "Going to the store." vs "Going to the store?"
There's a researcher at Gallaudet working on the other side of this equation with a system designed to recognize sign langauge, which seems like a much harder problem.
ASL isn't like English in that there are always specific words- a lot of it has to do with spacial context (where in the signing space the sign was made) and a whole class of signs that don't translate directly into words (they're hand shapes which can translate into an event or a description of an object or set of objects).
And, as the research page shows, facial expressions and even facial movements can be part of a sign.
Of course, this is American Sign Language, Japanese Sign Language may be very different.
I think this'll be a good book. Point and Click Linux just didn't work for me. The problem is that "Linux" means different things to different people, and changes. With OpenOffice.Org, the playing field is level. Things are always found in the same place, and it's a GUI app by design.
While I liked Point and Click Linux for the fun of it, I couldn't imagine giving it to friends who really wanted to learn the OS. I think Point and Click OOo will be something I can buy as a gift.
I'm all about being skeptical but: google a true friend of open source? dont think so. 400 times 4500$ for the summer of code is some money and it has some benefits for the open source development in general. but, first, compare this prize money to the millions that they paid this ms guy. second and more important, google gets to know 400 bright people and can approach/hire them when they are students - not necessary to pay millions to hire them from a competitor at a later stage. this certainly is worth the 400 times 4500.
I don't see the analogy here. They're hiring students to work on Free Software projects for the summer... The students can do what they want afterward. Many large companies have internships for students, but few of them involve Free Software.
they take lead developers (read: directly weaken the os community) from ff and gaim and hire them to work for google.
That's what many companies do, hiring smart developers. While it's not good- I don't see how Google is any worse than any other company for this practice. Google has been relatively skimpy on the Free Software front, but code.google.com does have some useful programs.
Something you forget to mention is that sometimes these companies will "Reset the customer preferences" periodically, defaulting everything to be on.
I have had advertisements from serveral companies where I spcifically turned the preference for mail off at time I signed up, only to have adveristing from them a few months later. I seem to remember Yahoo doing this a few years ago.
Further (purposefully) complicating things is that sometimes the wording on the opt-out is tricky. Sometimes you click on a box that says you want email from them, sometimes you click on a box that says you don't, and sometimes you have to unclock a box that says you want mail from them.
This doesn't throw me off, but I'm sure this is the web equilivant of Publisher's Clearinghouse, where you have to carefully read the opt-in/opt-out options or you'll be put on a bunch of mailing lists. Since your information is valuable, they try to present enough of a barrier so that most people will either be confused or not bother.
In fact Qt has the perfect business model -- if you want to write proprietary software, you buy a license from them and give them some revenue (as lots of people do), and if you want to write free software, it's all yours. The GNU supporters should be holding Qt up as an example.
First, you're lumping in an entire group of people, but others have already pointed that out.
Secondly, Qt, AFAIK, wasn't always dual-licensed. I think I remember it having another, less Free license. The license change was a response to GTK. Though I might be wrong, this is my recollection.
Third, the point of the Free Software movement is indeed to get rid of non-Free software. While a dual license can be good in supporting a Free program (even RMS says this), it also opens the door to proprietary software. A person who believes that something is wrong isn't persuaded to change thier mind just because there's a revenue behind it. A vegetarian would be hypocritical to try to stop people from eating meat, then have meat options at her resturant. It's not bad, it's just not good.
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They don't "freeload" it- they pay for it. There's no such thing as an "NPR" station- they're a distributor, like PRI.
Stations pay NPR to carry NPR shows and sell shows to NPR for distribution.
I'd happily pay $1 or $2 per show for some NPR shows. This American Life is certainly worth that and more...
I just can't use Audible's DRM nonesense. iTunes aparently has the same issue (I've never used it).
The big difference with the podcasts for me is they're in a format I can use.
What if your privacy is breached by a third party?
A credit card validation service?
An outsourcing campany?
The consumer is not the "customer", especially in the second case.
The only way to really test this study would be to have everyone (including close family and friends) withhold prayer (or not) and measure the difference.
That'd be another random factor in a large study, like age, income, sexual orientation, etc. The experiment is to see if THIS prayer had an effect, and it doesn't.
Your argument about it being bad prayer is also suspect too- had the study gone the other way you would have likely said the study is proof.
Sure you can. Libraries are just as available now as then, including glibc (for compatibility) and various gui libraries. The only issue may be kernel versions and system calls, like you said, depending on the app.
Also, you culd have made your point without saying "talking out his ass".
I can run 10 year old binaries yet my system is no slower.
You'd get 100% bonus for a 10% speedup?
And they don't have the resources to decrease the server load from over 100% (it's over 100% since you said you're backlogged) ?
What happens when a server dies? It just gets worse?
Also, are you counting the time in your overhead in that "time saving" 10%? Would you get your 100% bonus if you now had to spend 20% of your time on this 10% speed increase?
What I'd like to see in a home is interoperability between "smart appliances".
If my fridge has the ability to tell me its internal temperature, I'd like to have a way to query it. And ideally, I'd like something similar to query my home's thermostat, water heater, etc.
The problem with these "smart homes" is that they often seem to rely on a single vendor having a "home automation solution" rather than a system I can plug into.
What I want is something akin to Wi-Fi or bluetooth + XML-RPC
Actually, Google Talk has been a very successful product in ways you wouldn't expect.
When I first went to non-technical friends about Google Talk they all said they wouldn't switch to it, they already had AOL.
I use it in Gaim, and when friends log on to get thier mail in Gmail, I can talk to them. It's proven very helpful.
Instead of taking the other IM companies on head on, they're going for a smarter approach.
(*sure, you can open source your application, but the end user cannot compile his own version without requiring his own key)
And this is why the GPL3 draft requires that if you have an application that is GPLed, and if it requires a key to run, that you distribute the key to the application author in order to allow him/her to compile the application in a way that's usable to the end user.
For years we've known that encryption protects our freedom. And the more traffic that's encrypted, the more effort it will be to decrypt it all, the harder to find the sensitive information, and we'll all have more freedom of speech.
But with the recent revelations about the US government's domestic spying program, I think that encryption will have a secondary benefit in requiring police and three letter agencies to return to more traditional methods of data collection. The way the laws are written, spying can be done on an individual suspect, but the temptation to do mass spying is too high and the US has decided to capture it all and sort through it later.
Encrypting all the data forces the police to return to more traditional methods of spying on an individual (through keyloggers and tempest).
While I think we need to stop terrorism, hopefully through the use of encryption and other technologies, we can keep ourselves safe and move back to legal spying.
Before, I had to say my weight was due to not having to get up in order to admin the box, but now it's due to effective spam fighting techniques.
I for one welcome our new oxide-resistant super-germ overlords.
If you don't care about clustering, then I wonder about the price hit that you take for using Fiber. Fiber has wonderful advantages but for home use, without clustering, I don't see the advantages.
One of the least discussed but largest changes in GPL3 is the explicit mention of patents and how patents (if found to be violated) would effect the work as a whole. This is similar to the IBM Public License and is one of those things that I'd imagine would give a corporate lawyer warm fuzzies. Sun and others may find this change so compelling that they'd be willing to give more attention to the GPL3 than the GPL2, which strengthens it further (since these companies want the flow of information to go both).
ZFS != Vertias Volume Manager
The Veritas cluster file system (which is the reason I'd imagine someone would go through all the effort) has the ability for multiple systems to access a single volume at the same time, the moral equilivant of NFS, but without the NFS server or the speed problems associated with NFS due to the filesystem abstraction (ie it's good for databases).
The only Free competitor that I know of for this is GFS.
ZFS is a very powerful filesystem/volume manager, but it's more akin to LVM + very smart filesystem access.
Oh Lydia! Oh Lydia that Encylopedia... Lydia the Tatooed Lady...
That's *partially* true.
They have para-linguistic meaning but they're an important part of signining. It's not equilivant to the tone of voice as it would appear in a Western language (English, French, German), but it's often part of the sign itself in that certain facial expressions or mouthings should accompany certain signs.
They're also *vital* for things like questions, where eyebrow position are the indicator that the statement is a question. translated to English, it might be more akin to tone: "Going to the store." vs "Going to the store?"
There's a researcher at Gallaudet working on the other side of this equation with a system designed to recognize sign langauge, which seems like a much harder problem.
ASL isn't like English in that there are always specific words- a lot of it has to do with spacial context (where in the signing space the sign was made) and a whole class of signs that don't translate directly into words (they're hand shapes which can translate into an event or a description of an object or set of objects).
And, as the research page shows, facial expressions and even facial movements can be part of a sign.
Of course, this is American Sign Language, Japanese Sign Language may be very different.
I think this'll be a good book. Point and Click Linux just didn't work for me. The problem is that "Linux" means different things to different people, and changes. With OpenOffice.Org, the playing field is level. Things are always found in the same place, and it's a GUI app by design.
While I liked Point and Click Linux for the fun of it, I couldn't imagine giving it to friends who really wanted to learn the OS. I think Point and Click OOo will be something I can buy as a gift.
I'm all about being skeptical but:
google a true friend of open source? dont think so. 400 times 4500$ for the summer of code is some money and it has some benefits for the open source development in general. but, first, compare this prize money to the millions that they paid this ms guy. second and more important, google gets to know 400 bright people and can approach/hire them when they are students - not necessary to pay millions to hire them from a competitor at a later stage. this certainly is worth the 400 times 4500.
I don't see the analogy here. They're hiring students to work on Free Software projects for the summer... The students can do what they want afterward. Many large companies have internships for students, but few of them involve Free Software.
they take lead developers (read: directly weaken the os community) from ff and gaim and hire them to work for google.
That's what many companies do, hiring smart developers. While it's not good- I don't see how Google is any worse than any other company for this practice. Google has been relatively skimpy on the Free Software front, but code.google.com does have some useful programs.
Google hired the main Gaim developer, and they don't ship it as part of the Google Pack?
Despite the article- I don't see Trillian listed in on the article page. If they ship Trillian and not Gaim, that'd be even more strange.
Something you forget to mention is that sometimes these companies will "Reset the customer preferences" periodically, defaulting everything to be on.
I have had advertisements from serveral companies where I spcifically turned the preference for mail off at time I signed up, only to have adveristing from them a few months later. I seem to remember Yahoo doing this a few years ago.
Further (purposefully) complicating things is that sometimes the wording on the opt-out is tricky. Sometimes you click on a box that says you want email from them, sometimes you click on a box that says you don't, and sometimes you have to unclock a box that says you want mail from them.
This doesn't throw me off, but I'm sure this is the web equilivant of Publisher's Clearinghouse, where you have to carefully read the opt-in/opt-out options or you'll be put on a bunch of mailing lists. Since your information is valuable, they try to present enough of a barrier so that most people will either be confused or not bother.
In fact Qt has the perfect business model -- if you want to write proprietary software, you buy a license from them and give them some revenue (as lots of people do), and if you want to write free software, it's all yours. The GNU supporters should be holding Qt up as an example.
First, you're lumping in an entire group of people, but others have already pointed that out.
Secondly, Qt, AFAIK, wasn't always dual-licensed. I think I remember it having another, less Free license. The license change was a response to GTK. Though I might be wrong, this is my recollection.
Third, the point of the Free Software movement is indeed to get rid of non-Free software. While a dual license can be good in supporting a Free program (even RMS says this), it also opens the door to proprietary software. A person who believes that something is wrong isn't persuaded to change thier mind just because there's a revenue behind it. A vegetarian would be hypocritical to try to stop people from eating meat, then have meat options at her resturant. It's not bad, it's just not good.
When there are more women than men in US univerties (57-58% of college atendees are women) then why are we so concerned here?
Clearly there are more women getting higher education then men, so why does this one small area of university study matter?