Posts by Oninoshiko

LET LOOSE THE APPEALS!

I was thinking of them appealing 20 or 50 times!

LET LOOSE THE APPEALS!

well I keep reading it as

goo girl...

(looking that up is NSFW, and heavily rule 34)

Mine's the dirty mac.

dinosours

and monolithic kernels.

No

I'm fairly sure once that happens we'll never hear from you again...

care to tell me where you're numbers come from?

Here's the experience of someone who DID try to manufacture electronics domestically. It would take 4x as long, was substantially more expensive (primarily due to taxes), and would have made the entire project non-viable.

"I’d like to draw attention to one cost in particular that really created problems for us in Britain. Simply put, if we build the Raspberry Pi in Britain, we have to pay a lot more tax. If a British company imports components, it has to pay tax on those (and most components are not made in the UK). If, however, a completed device is made abroad and imported into the UK – with all of those components soldered onto it – it does not attract any import duty at all. This means that it’s really, really tax inefficient for an electronics company to do its manufacturing in Britain, and it’s one of the reasons that so much of our manufacturing goes overseas. Right now, the way things stand means that a company doing its manufacturing abroad, depriving the UK economy, gets a tax break. It’s an absolutely mad way for the Inland Revenue to be running things, and it’s an issue we’ve taken up with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills."

http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/509

Source:

The dissenting opinion of Justices Breyer and Alito.

(warning: PDF containing both the majority and dissenting opinions.)

(The dissenting opinion starts on Pg. 45 of the PDF)

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/10-545.pdf

It Cites US caselaw, the act in question, the Berne convention, The Statue of Anne, and makes careful note of the differences between English copyright (on which the US copyright was modeled) and mainland - European copyright.

So, I've listed my source, what's your's?

"The use of vaguely worded charges is not new in USA, but the allegation that these where carried out on the internet is. It is an unwelcome addition to the catalog of ways in which USA finds it can imprison other countries citizens"

wow... by replacing a few words you can make a coherent statement about Iran's attempt to execute someone for writing software someone used to make a porn-site into an incoherent attempt at an anti American mess.

Who disagrees:

The MPAA / RIAA.

It seems to actually be what all the shouty people were shouting.

We have VR

I've used it. It's just not vary useful for anything.

Peroxide-fueled jet packs can be made relatively simply. They just have no fail-safes, are hard to control, have low flight time, and again not vary useful.

I do want my flying car though and hoverboard though!

What is addiction?

"Any activity, substance, object, or behavior that has become the major focus of a person's life to the exclusion of other activities, or that has begun to harm the individual or others physically, mentally, or socially is considered an addictive behavior. A person can become addicted, dependent, or compulsively obsessed with anything."

-- Ruth C. Engs, RN, EdD. Professor, Applied Health Science, Indiana University (http://www.indiana.edu/~engs/hints/addictiveb.html)

I don't know many (any?) people who would pee in a bottle to keep gaming. As far as timing of game sessions goes, I question if waking up early and gaming for a bit qualifies. I would say it does if, and only if, work/school is compromised... I'm not convinced this article established that in cases where the "addict" was getting up early morning to play.

I have gamed early morning, mostly I'm kinda annoyed to be up that early and unable to sleep. I'm mostly a night person, but, due to call, sometimes have my sleeping patterns disrupted. Nothing open, can't go get a coffee... nothing on TV (is there ever anymore?)... don't want to bother anyone (I'm not QUITE that rude)... so I either stare at the ceiling, or go through the normal hygiene routine and play until it's time to go to the office.

I've also texted at inappropriate times, I'll admit it (not an iPhone though, just the company-provided BB). In almost all cases, the person who was texting me was my boss. So, maybe my life didn't depend on it, but not being on the dole did.

Re: David W

I was responding to an Anonymous Coward (a "person unwilling to put their reputation"), not you. elReg's forums really should give an indication of which post you are responding to, but alas.

You and I both seem to be of the opinion that OSM is in the wrong here. I think you must be confusing me with someone else (maybe the the AC I was also responding to?), because I cannot find anywhere (in this thread anyway) where you said I was wrong.

actually,

CDDL code would be vary easy for them to incorporate into windows. The CDDL is only scoped to the actually covered files (unlike the GPL is it non-viral). Therefore they would not have to worry about making any changes to how windows is licensed, they would just have to provide the code to their version of the specific CDDL licensed files they used under the terms of the CDDL, not the entire OS (nor even the other original files created as part of the porting process).

I'm curious, what things do you think windows needs that ZFS does not do?

If they wanted that

They could have just used ZFS.

the CDDL does permit it to be used in a closed source product (or even to combine with any of the less viral F/OSS licenses)

You are confusing and intertwineing two unrelated complaints.

Apple's walled garden means that we cannot install applications from outside their store. Everything HAS to be signed off and approved by Apple. It is not MY device to do with it as I see fit, it is APPLE's device to dictate to me how I will use (at least this seems to be Apple's position). Yes, I think that's a fair complaint. If i want to install apps from Amazon's store or malware.ru's store that should be my prerogative.

The first complaint makes the second MORE valid not less. Apple runs there store like a true orwellian regime, a la "Animal Farm." Rules are applied haphazardly, and seem to be applied with intents differing then obvious reason for the rule.

Except Google doesn't exactly do that. Google does a lot of manipulation of what you see. They take into account everything they can about your account, if you are logged in, and everything they can deduce about you if you're not. The reason they do this is because they believe that to provide you with what you WANT to see is providing you with a better service.

Some of us don't think that really does provide better service, so much as it creates and echo-chamber of similar opinions around us. Last hear Eli Pariser gave a good TED talk on the matter. It was pretty interesting, and somewhat scary.

http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html

Is is better to show me what I WANT to see or what will challenge me? I know which I would prefer.

Ahh...

so you aren't bothering to check then?

@william 14

I have no problem with that. Provided you don't ask me to pay for it.

You can't have your triple sterilized super fortified vegetable protean pellets and eat them too.

Actually, Disney has innovated quite a lot, when the old man was in charge he SET the state of the art for animation, funding the construction of a 7-layer multiplane camera in 1937 (which by far exceeded the capabilities of the first (3-layer) one, created 4 years prior), and being the first in the animation industry to attempt a full length animated feature, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937). Before this was fillmed, no one thought a full-length animated feature would be commercially viable.

Disney would continue using this process through "The Little Mermaid" (1989), at which point CAPS finally replaced it.

Disney was VARY innovative, just not with his stories.

Oh, and the modern incarnation of the company that he started, utter bastards (although they do good work bringing studio Ghibli stuff to english-speaking audiences).

Sad light

Awww... Cheer up light. We all have bad days!

The DNS server your router uses?

Sorry, but I set my resolvers on the host, and not to my bastard ISP.

That's a FEATURE?

how about this, restart it. Not the machine, the crashed sub-system. Some of the L4 guys playing with Nitpicker can do it, so it's not impossible.

(and, they have also proven with a properly built performance oriented IPC system, microkernels can be made pretty damn fast)

BINGO

Which, by proxy means the only benchmark worth running is your actual work load.

Now if I could just make my boss understand this.

so can you read, or only type?

what it SAID was due to foreign students graduating from our institutions, then not being able to stay, we have a shortage of people to fill these roles. That isn't a problem with the education system, at least not at the post-secondary level.

Once they have come for an education, it only makes sense to have a streamlined system to keep them. It sounds far less like an education problem (unless you are advocating banning foreign students) and more of a problem of a dysfunctional immigration system.

booo...

you missed the opportunity to piss off an AC. For shame!

Re: iucounu

yes but WHY is the author getting more? Did (s)he do any more for the e-book then the dead-tree book?

So, it me is SHOULD be 1/2 to 1/3 as much (before VAT). That's not a commentary on what I think the publisher should be getting, but a commentary on the fact that there is NO DIFFERENCE in the effort of the author/editor/legal/etc.

If your profit is staying the same while everyone else involved is going up then you publishing houses really do a crap job in your field.

the mission is neither

It's to entertain me. All else is secondary.

Why yes, that IS a Total Perspective Vortex in my pocket.