I have to disagree with your premise that non-corporate sponsored FOSS lacks "first rate product". While admittedly I am not a typical consumer/end user, I do find that Gnome is just as professional and useful ("first rate") as OS X's Aqua -- and I do switch between the two regularly.
Gnome is corporately sponsored... Red Hat, Novell and I think even Canonical are contributing resources to GNOME. Read more on the GNOME Foundation pages
Is every single idea Apple has championed unique and their own? No. But the execution, the productization - and combination - has been very innovative. Look at the iPhone... it changed what many expect of a cell phone, and has revolutionized the space. Today, almost every high end phone is being positioned as an "iPhone killer" and has an interface looking quite a bit like them. The touch screen, the app store, the focus on usability over providing every feature under the sun... it changed the space.
The original MacOS was also a game changer in its time. Today, their innovations in this space is less about grand features than about user interfaces, usability and the small things that make the experience... E.g. look at Time Machine. Backup is hardly a new concept, but the "total package" that Apple introduced is a lot easier to use and transparent than most of the competition. I'd bet that more Mac users do their backups today than Windows users (probably Linux users too) - because it's so simple.
As for open source innovation, I think this was more prevalent earlier than today. The Internet was built on open source, and many services got their first start there. But the last years, I haven't seen any big things coming from that area - copying of concepts and ideas from elsewhere, and then refinement. With many stakeholders each being able to improve the software, the result often outshines the proprietary competition - and gives the end users freedom from onerous licensing agreements and to do changes themselves as well. But innovation? It looks like the combination of commercialization of universities, software patents, commercialization of the Internet and web services has lessened that considerably.
How he accounts for buying 1 oz gold coins for $1000 and paying his employees at "$20" is going to be pretty weird on ye ole income statement, unless he declares a profit of $980 and pays the appropriate tax on that profit...
Rephrased, what Kennedy is saying is this: "It's not whether it's legal or not, it's whether we want to fuck the taxpayer or not."
Actually, Kennedy is the defense attorney - not the (justified IMNSHO) IRS lawyer. Kennedy is saying "it's not whether it's tax fraud or not, it's whether he thought he could get away with or not".
I am getting rather tired of the repeated cries for "Sharing! LOVE! Freedom! SHARE! COPYLEFT! GREED!", which is a mixture of ignorance and RMS' pseudo-communist hatred against proprietary software.
Copyright was a two way street - the copyright holder got rights he didn't have previously, and the work fell into the public domain after a specified period of time. These days, money have bought extensions - so nothing expires anymore. By strange coincidence, the dividing line seems to be things copyrighted by Disney... a company who have many wonderful works built on works by others.
I'm not opposed to copyright, but I am opposed to just stopping progress and not letting the creators holding up their side of the bargain. I'm also opposed to a lot of the measures taken to enforce it, as they go too far and turn society into an Orwellian vision of the future - especially when combined with the current "we must allow anything which someone says maybe could be used to stop terror".
And as for software: Proprietary software has a place. Much work wouldn't happen without it. Customers (including governments) just need to be aware of the price they are paying for it, and that this is much more than the sticker price. They lose freedoms (e.g. of suppliers, maintenance, future compatibility and more) as well.
The problem is, games are not about AI and flashy graphics, no matter how much money grubbing publishers want em to be. They're about friendly interaction with your peers. That's why more people use computers to play cards with each other than the latest flashy crap to come down the pipe.
"Solitaire" may be the most popular computer game ever, but it's hardly about interaction with your peers:)
in order to get meaningful speed increases out of Fortran versus C you need to know many of the same things so that you can code mindful of them.
Writing and reading Fortran code for doing math is way easier than doing the same in C. In particular, Fortran is built around the concept of arrays and matrices.
Fortran hasn't had those limitations for decades - Fortran 90 and later are ideal languages for expressing mathematical algorithms and crunching numbers
Fortran hasn't had those limitations for decades - Fortran 90 and later are ideal languages for expressing mathematical algorithms and crunching numbers. The handling of arrays, matrices are just what they should be.
I wouldn't use Fortran as a general purpose language - having used Python for more 10 years I shudder at using Fortran for string handling, databases, user interfaces and more - but as a tool for expressing math it's the best, and also the most widely used. The alternative would be matlab (much of the syntax isn't that different).
I found it a bit surprising that the Touch was not updated. Technically I would think it is a non-issue, but I suppose they want to give the more lucrative iPhone the bump before the Touch gets the same thing. Its a shame -- I had been waiting a month to buy the Touch hoping it would get the same bump. Oh well.
Apple typically updates their ipods in the early autumn - Touch and the rest at the same time.
The software should not be a problem, nor should the camera. The idea is simple, and they know it. They may have just been against having two cameras, or AT&T wasn't prepared to deal with streaming video chats and Apple wasn't ready to deal with increasing the price.
Or maybe they just thought about how much it would be used.... when was the last time you did a video phone call with your cell? The whole usage scenario screams "awkward". Unlike your screen which sits in front of you, that's not where you normal have your cell phone when speaking.
no phone in the history of the universe has had a front facing video camera, and Apple itself of course doesn't have the software to utilize it.
My Nokia N95 does, and so do many others. "Video calling" was hot when 3G was introduced here many years ago, although I've yet to see or hear of anyone using it other than for a test call when they got the phone. I just don't feel the need to hold the phone half a meter in front of me to look at another person doing the same thing.
The comment titles and scores are being rendered (highlight the page with ctrl-a), the problem is with the CSS - the background image that runs the length of the div element containing the title is being overwritten
I'd already noticed that I could read the titles if I was highlighting the text... thanks for the details and workaround:)
Yeah, fuck everyone who can't afford to live closer to where they work. That'll show 'em!
Or just exchange the Hummer with a Prius or a Volkswagen Passat Blue Motion with 57.6 MPG....
Of course, if someone lives 100 kms from work, relocating og getting a new job wouldn't be a bad idea either.
This will not stop the state from using this to make a felon of you.
Good. The best tests for these are black box tests. Very little real world code is correct, clean and 100% code standard compliant - with no error conditions and additions added afterwards. Fishing expeditions shouldn't stop these drunken drivers from getting there well deserved punishment. I doubt that these devices - having passed empirical tests and in many other cases being controlled against blood samples - have bugs that affect the ones on this fishing expedition. Potential error conditions leading to alcohol in the breath wouldn't show up in a code review either...
What? They can't tell the difference by tasting it?
Not without having an identical sample to compare it to... In the case mentioned here, I doubt that is handy. And while they might be able to easily identify it if the contents was Johnnie Walker Red Label, distinguishing 1950 and 1850 from the same distillery would probably be a lot harder.
... would I want to buy something the size of a netbook, for more money than a netbook, that only does 1/100th the things a netbook will do?
Because it's smaller (like a pocket book), has much improved battery life and has a much better display for its particular purpose. I don't like reading books on a laptop, or even worse, on an iphone even though they have a lot of features an e-book reader does nat have.
If I could buy they Kindle here, I would. One major reason for ignoring other offerings is the book store... unlike music, "bring your own book" doesn't work very well so access to a large electronic book store is a huge plus.
That is the point. If the machine is faulty, they are not "drunks." Kinda like that printer wasn't really seeding Smells Like Teen Spirit. Only by examining the procedure for determining that state, can we know.
They are innocent until proven guilty. That said, I'd say the odds are rather large that these were driving under the influence and are now fishing for anything that potentially could be used. What about blood tests? Aren't those mandatory if the breathalyzer is positive?
Any code contains bugs. As the input to the process is unknown / contested, noone can prove that a specific path is correct/incorrect here. But in addition to normal software testing, devices like this are tested heavily in black box testing...
But now with the ubiquity of wireless ADSL modems, there are about 15 hotspots within range and I can't get a stable connection anymore.
I recently bought a new Apple Airport Extreme to solve this - by being able to use both 5.0 GHz and 2.4 GHz at the same time. 5.0 GHz is a lot less crowded - for the time being, there's just above 30 wireless networks in the 2.4 GHz range, and just me in the 5.0 GHz. A dual band router allowed me to take advantage of that, while not rendering useless the equipment I've got that can't use 5.0 GHz.
While I may support Democrats more than the Republicans, I find the general principle of changing parties mid-term a disgusting and cowardly betrayal of trust.
Granted, I'm not an American. But as I understand it, you vote for people, not parties. The people may group up and call it a party, of course.With the world changing around, the senator might still be what he people voted for... he just doesn't want to go with the ever-more-to-the-right movement of the republican party. The religious extremists (Sarah Palin & Co) have taken control, and not everyone would like to be a part of that.
So do you have any suggestions about what books or sources to look at for information about PMI methodology?
The canonical bok is the PMBOK - A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge. That said, this is more of a reference/guide than an introductory book. I strongly recommend at least getting a companion book - like Head First PMP. In addition, you should look at getting some training - you can't get a certification for a couple of years, but the training is very useful.
You know - someone should set up a charity. It would do decent things in Africa. (Or New Orleans. Whichever is the poorer.) People like me would pay $40/month to it - just to show that we are willing to PAY for what we bittorrent.
Set up at team at Kiva, and invite others who share your views to join that team.
If you're outside the US, the range of stuff on offer is even worse, and the prices are much more prohibitive.
And in many countries (e.g. here in Norway), movies just aren't there at all. I've got money, I'd like to use them on movies from iTunes - but they won't even let me. And they wonder there is piracy....
The trial itself was very bad, the prosecutors were ridiculous, they couldn't prove anything and they just showed they don't know anything about the technology.
Is the inner workings of the technology relevant here? E.g. for the deCSS trial in Norway, I think the relevant question was "Is the customer free to use his purchase?" not how the copy protection actually works. And the accused was acquitted, the companies couldn't be in total control of how a customer used their products.
Here, the question is "did these people abet copyright infringement"? And while we may look for all the technical loopholes we know, deep inside we know "Definitely".
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I have to disagree with your premise that non-corporate sponsored FOSS lacks "first rate product". While admittedly I am not a typical consumer/end user, I do find that Gnome is just as professional and useful ("first rate") as OS X's Aqua -- and I do switch between the two regularly.
Gnome is corporately sponsored... Red Hat, Novell and I think even Canonical are contributing resources to GNOME. Read more on the GNOME Foundation pages
Is every single idea Apple has championed unique and their own? No. But the execution, the productization - and combination - has been very innovative. Look at the iPhone... it changed what many expect of a cell phone, and has revolutionized the space. Today, almost every high end phone is being positioned as an "iPhone killer" and has an interface looking quite a bit like them. The touch screen, the app store, the focus on usability over providing every feature under the sun... it changed the space.
The original MacOS was also a game changer in its time. Today, their innovations in this space is less about grand features than about user interfaces, usability and the small things that make the experience... E.g. look at Time Machine. Backup is hardly a new concept, but the "total package" that Apple introduced is a lot easier to use and transparent than most of the competition. I'd bet that more Mac users do their backups today than Windows users (probably Linux users too) - because it's so simple.
As for open source innovation, I think this was more prevalent earlier than today. The Internet was built on open source, and many services got their first start there. But the last years, I haven't seen any big things coming from that area - copying of concepts and ideas from elsewhere, and then refinement. With many stakeholders each being able to improve the software, the result often outshines the proprietary competition - and gives the end users freedom from onerous licensing agreements and to do changes themselves as well. But innovation? It looks like the combination of commercialization of universities, software patents, commercialization of the Internet and web services has lessened that considerably.
How he accounts for buying 1 oz gold coins for $1000 and paying his employees at "$20" is going to be pretty weird on ye ole income statement, unless he declares a profit of $980 and pays the appropriate tax on that profit...
That must be a tax deductible loss surely ;)
Rephrased, what Kennedy is saying is this: "It's not whether it's legal or not, it's whether we want to fuck the taxpayer or not."
Actually, Kennedy is the defense attorney - not the (justified IMNSHO) IRS lawyer. Kennedy is saying "it's not whether it's tax fraud or not, it's whether he thought he could get away with or not".
I am getting rather tired of the repeated cries for "Sharing! LOVE! Freedom! SHARE! COPYLEFT! GREED!", which is a mixture of ignorance and RMS' pseudo-communist hatred against proprietary software.
Copyright was a two way street - the copyright holder got rights he didn't have previously, and the work fell into the public domain after a specified period of time. These days, money have bought extensions - so nothing expires anymore. By strange coincidence, the dividing line seems to be things copyrighted by Disney... a company who have many wonderful works built on works by others.
I'm not opposed to copyright, but I am opposed to just stopping progress and not letting the creators holding up their side of the bargain. I'm also opposed to a lot of the measures taken to enforce it, as they go too far and turn society into an Orwellian vision of the future - especially when combined with the current "we must allow anything which someone says maybe could be used to stop terror".
And as for software: Proprietary software has a place. Much work wouldn't happen without it. Customers (including governments) just need to be aware of the price they are paying for it, and that this is much more than the sticker price. They lose freedoms (e.g. of suppliers, maintenance, future compatibility and more) as well.
The problem is, games are not about AI and flashy graphics, no matter how much money grubbing publishers want em to be. They're about friendly interaction with your peers. That's why more people use computers to play cards with each other than the latest flashy crap to come down the pipe.
"Solitaire" may be the most popular computer game ever, but it's hardly about interaction with your peers :)
in order to get meaningful speed increases out of Fortran versus C you need to know many of the same things so that you can code mindful of them.
Writing and reading Fortran code for doing math is way easier than doing the same in C. In particular, Fortran is built around the concept of arrays and matrices.
Fortran hasn't had those limitations for decades - Fortran 90 and later are ideal languages for expressing mathematical algorithms and crunching numbers
Fortran hasn't had those limitations for decades - Fortran 90 and later are ideal languages for expressing mathematical algorithms and crunching numbers. The handling of arrays, matrices are just what they should be.
I wouldn't use Fortran as a general purpose language - having used Python for more 10 years I shudder at using Fortran for string handling, databases, user interfaces and more - but as a tool for expressing math it's the best, and also the most widely used. The alternative would be matlab (much of the syntax isn't that different).
I found it a bit surprising that the Touch was not updated. Technically I would think it is a non-issue, but I suppose they want to give the more lucrative iPhone the bump before the Touch gets the same thing. Its a shame -- I had been waiting a month to buy the Touch hoping it would get the same bump. Oh well.
Apple typically updates their ipods in the early autumn - Touch and the rest at the same time.
The software should not be a problem, nor should the camera. The idea is simple, and they know it. They may have just been against having two cameras, or AT&T wasn't prepared to deal with streaming video chats and Apple wasn't ready to deal with increasing the price.
Or maybe they just thought about how much it would be used.... when was the last time you did a video phone call with your cell? The whole usage scenario screams "awkward". Unlike your screen which sits in front of you, that's not where you normal have your cell phone when speaking.
no phone in the history of the universe has had a front facing video camera, and Apple itself of course doesn't have the software to utilize it.
My Nokia N95 does, and so do many others. "Video calling" was hot when 3G was introduced here many years ago, although I've yet to see or hear of anyone using it other than for a test call when they got the phone. I just don't feel the need to hold the phone half a meter in front of me to look at another person doing the same thing.
The comment titles and scores are being rendered (highlight the page with ctrl-a), the problem is with the CSS - the background image that runs the length of the div element containing the title is being overwritten
I'd already noticed that I could read the titles if I was highlighting the text... thanks for the details and workaround :)
f. Some of us, for various reasons, are pretty much stuck with using IE6 for browsing /. and are faced with a pile of mis-rendered & incompatible pages
Slashdot doesn't render properly in Safari 4 or Firefox 3.5 beta4 either - the comment titles and scores aren't displayed anymore
Yeah, fuck everyone who can't afford to live closer to where they work. That'll show 'em!
Or just exchange the Hummer with a Prius or a Volkswagen Passat Blue Motion with 57.6 MPG.... Of course, if someone lives 100 kms from work, relocating og getting a new job wouldn't be a bad idea either.
This will not stop the state from using this to make a felon of you.
Good. The best tests for these are black box tests. Very little real world code is correct, clean and 100% code standard compliant - with no error conditions and additions added afterwards. Fishing expeditions shouldn't stop these drunken drivers from getting there well deserved punishment. I doubt that these devices - having passed empirical tests and in many other cases being controlled against blood samples - have bugs that affect the ones on this fishing expedition. Potential error conditions leading to alcohol in the breath wouldn't show up in a code review either...
What? They can't tell the difference by tasting it?
Not without having an identical sample to compare it to... In the case mentioned here, I doubt that is handy. And while they might be able to easily identify it if the contents was Johnnie Walker Red Label, distinguishing 1950 and 1850 from the same distillery would probably be a lot harder.
Because it's smaller (like a pocket book), has much improved battery life and has a much better display for its particular purpose. I don't like reading books on a laptop, or even worse, on an iphone even though they have a lot of features an e-book reader does nat have.
If I could buy they Kindle here, I would. One major reason for ignoring other offerings is the book store... unlike music, "bring your own book" doesn't work very well so access to a large electronic book store is a huge plus.
That is the point. If the machine is faulty, they are not "drunks." Kinda like that printer wasn't really seeding Smells Like Teen Spirit. Only by examining the procedure for determining that state, can we know.
They are innocent until proven guilty. That said, I'd say the odds are rather large that these were driving under the influence and are now fishing for anything that potentially could be used. What about blood tests? Aren't those mandatory if the breathalyzer is positive?
Any code contains bugs. As the input to the process is unknown / contested, noone can prove that a specific path is correct/incorrect here. But in addition to normal software testing, devices like this are tested heavily in black box testing...
The android data company is just looking for free publicity. I doubt they can afford to fight the legal battle against google.
They're not looking for free publicity - they've been dissolved for many years. They just think that there's a chance they could do a Dire Straits.
But now with the ubiquity of wireless ADSL modems, there are about 15 hotspots within range and I can't get a stable connection anymore.
I recently bought a new Apple Airport Extreme to solve this - by being able to use both 5.0 GHz and 2.4 GHz at the same time. 5.0 GHz is a lot less crowded - for the time being, there's just above 30 wireless networks in the 2.4 GHz range, and just me in the 5.0 GHz. A dual band router allowed me to take advantage of that, while not rendering useless the equipment I've got that can't use 5.0 GHz.
While I may support Democrats more than the Republicans, I find the general principle of changing parties mid-term a disgusting and cowardly betrayal of trust.
Granted, I'm not an American. But as I understand it, you vote for people, not parties. The people may group up and call it a party, of course.With the world changing around, the senator might still be what he people voted for... he just doesn't want to go with the ever-more-to-the-right movement of the republican party. The religious extremists (Sarah Palin & Co) have taken control, and not everyone would like to be a part of that.
So do you have any suggestions about what books or sources to look at for information about PMI methodology?
The canonical bok is the PMBOK - A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge. That said, this is more of a reference/guide than an introductory book. I strongly recommend at least getting a companion book - like Head First PMP. In addition, you should look at getting some training - you can't get a certification for a couple of years, but the training is very useful.
You know - someone should set up a charity. It would do decent things in Africa. (Or New Orleans. Whichever is the poorer.) People like me would pay $40/month to it - just to show that we are willing to PAY for what we bittorrent.
Set up at team at Kiva, and invite others who share your views to join that team.
If you're outside the US, the range of stuff on offer is even worse, and the prices are much more prohibitive.
And in many countries (e.g. here in Norway), movies just aren't there at all. I've got money, I'd like to use them on movies from iTunes - but they won't even let me. And they wonder there is piracy....
The trial itself was very bad, the prosecutors were ridiculous, they couldn't prove anything and they just showed they don't know anything about the technology.
Is the inner workings of the technology relevant here? E.g. for the deCSS trial in Norway, I think the relevant question was "Is the customer free to use his purchase?" not how the copy protection actually works. And the accused was acquitted, the companies couldn't be in total control of how a customer used their products.
Here, the question is "did these people abet copyright infringement"? And while we may look for all the technical loopholes we know, deep inside we know "Definitely".