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It answers a few questions. Take the windows programming tutorials.
Also, you should get a Windows Programming book from a bookstore or amazon.com, so you know how to program the games a bit better. That would definately explain it all.
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Double buffer is a memory buffer on where you dump all your pixels and when you finish you dump the double buffer contents to the monitor so you can avoid flicking.
Bits per pixel how many bits you use to create a color the more bits the more colors.
color mode RGB, RGBA each color an a computer screen is composed by 3 colors ( Red, Green, Blue ) in some proportion. the A leter is the alpha value of the color ( transpanrency ).
Check the OpenGL Bible Book for OpenGL Setup and some graphics book for concepts.
sorry for my bad writing but I''m in a hurry.
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However...perhaps I should''ve let you know ahead of time that I am completely clueless to all things graphics-related. And I suppose that it doesn''t help that I haven''t gained a mastery over C++ yet (which I''ve been learning for a year).
In any case, I think I''ll be getting in bed soon. I''ll check back/write more later.
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As far as the other issues, we had to make base assumptions about our readers. We assume that they have a good grasp of C++, and that they have at least a basic knowledge of the things involved in game development. It seems that most people who are into 3D gaming at all (and we''re not talking programming here, just gamers) would be familiar with many of the basic terms. If not, there are sites (such as our own Game Dictionary) that provide definitions.
In retrospect, perhaps we should have planned this to be two books from the very beginning, and made the first book a little more beginner-friendly.
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Didnt think it would be sp popular, huh?
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quote:No, we thought it would be fairly popular actually. The reason we never considered doing two volumes was that we didn''t think we''d ever want to write another book. A lot of time and effort went into the first, and we didn''t think we''d want to go through all that again.
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Didnt think it would be sp popular, huh?
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quote:Heh, who calls me Mr. Astle? I could have sworn that the book had something at the front indicating the intended audience. I can remember writing something about it. But I looked and there''s nothing there. Anyway, I hope you''re able to work through the rest of it okay.
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Mr. Astle: Okay, now I understand. I wish the book had had a section in the beginning telling the assumptions that the authors had made.
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In any case, I suppose I''ll just have to let the book gather a little bit of dust on my shelf until I do two things: learn the basics of Windows programming and understand all of its concepts, and learn trig.
PLEASE, if you guys write another book, be sure to include a "What you need to know" or "Authors'' assumptions" page at the beginning.
P.S. Do I need to know linear algebra? If so, I''m worse off than I thought.
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Of course, its not bad to study the math a bit on your own before you take a class on it.
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honestly in my country its 225am and i've been online all night after dealing with my new baby and her excited grandma(my mother) so i'm a bit tired but i'll read better tomorrow and try it...me and older coworker got two of theses helis at ebay new from co. "everbella"...had i known more and maybe joined forums before buying then i would've gotten a 4ch instead but its great learning all of this hands on 9which is method that works best for me0 instead of buying some professional 3D heli and crashing the hell outta it......i'm eventually gonna upgrade to a 6ch transmitter and maybe if i aquire enough knowledge in next few months,build a 6ch heli also fromTrexkit or used heli online9providing that's more cost effective than buying a 300us toy...........
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And I am a bit uneasy telling you how to burn your house down. So at least understand the dangers of shorting a Li-Ion or LiPo battery pack. This can very easily happen with metal objects around a hot ESC board. Or you break the board in half and all hell breaks loose.
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Yea, those two fixed forward links were bending aft when my servo pushed up. I was amazed to see the servo fighting the two links. Too many pivot points, so I just gave up and removed the two forward links.
Loosen the screws and watch them bend. Especially if you added more forward pitch.
I guess you saw that the forward links are keyed on the bottom. Turning them so the keys face outward didn't work for some reason.
Like a rocker arm. The servo pushes up from the back, making the front move down. Except the front can't move down because of the fixed links. So the swashplate moves up which decreases the distance between the rotor mast and the two forward links, except the distance is fixed because of the two fixed forward links. Either the rotor mast is going to bend or the two fixed links are going to bend. The rotor mast won't bend, so the fixed links have to.
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When I was cleaning up at bedtime, I picked up the canopy and found the nose was pushed in and a glob of frozen mud stuck in the hole. The canopy is destroyed. I didn't see the 100 foot drop, I only saw the forward blue LED 100 feet up and heard a loud "whack". Hit a tree, throttle off (likely would have recovered if I had kept the throttle on).
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New Swashplate! Was really bored today!
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Ken - Now that is downright ugly! Looks like you re-invented the 90 degree swashplate.
Your prior version looked so pretty and would have won a Chinese beauty pageant. Better not let the Chinese see this monster.
Yet you win on functionality. That looks about perfect. Now why didn't they do that in the first place.
Watch that anti-rotation pin when pitching back - it is running out of topside.
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Yeah, I have some testing to do once parts arrive. I might have to move the servo link back a notch, or two, so it does not react as fast. I just want to have it move just to where the shaft does not strike the rotator. I know it is ugleeeeee, but once I slap a little paint on, it should look better. I did make another adjustable link which looks like it belongs (waiting for epoxy to dry good and it is a backup). It you noticed, it is not flexing. This should work, heh? Hmmmm.
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I am beginning studies that hopefully will lead to a long career as a remote sensing specialist. I am currently working with ArcGIS for some applications and learning ENVI for others. I have realized that it is imperative that I learn a programming language, and am stuck facing a choice between IDL and Python. I would love to hear which programming language the community recommends for the remote sensing of land surface processes.
IDL is a fantastic stand-alone programming language (you do not need ENVI). I particularity like it for very fast matrix processing on large arrays. @Aaron makes IDL sound much less flexible then it really is. The majority of IDL development came out of the Physics and Astronomy communities. There is robust support for mathematical and statistical programming. If bundled with ENVI, you have all the library calls (functions) available in ENVI including support for spatial vector objects. There are also a large number of functions and models developed by the user community. One advantage to learning IDL is that it will make you marketable in "analytic" remote sensing shops.
Also, do not forget that ERDAS has a scripting language (EML) that is quite good and easy to learn. EML is the backbone of the graphic modeler and gmd's are just packaged EML scripts that sit under the graphic modeler interface. The advantage of using EML directly is that you can use for/while loops and have access to more ERDAS functionality in a scripting language.
MATLAB is also very good for matrix processing and there are open source versions (e.g., Octave) that have exactly the same syntax with similar benchmarks. This is a highly flexible language with considerable power. It is one of the preferred language for applied mathematics and engineering.
The Python alternatives NumPy and SciPy are flexible but not as optimized as IDL and MATLAB. As such, you need to deal with addressing space and speed when working with large arrays. One huge advantage of Python are the additional libraries for performing a variety of analytical tasks. There are packages for remote sensing, nonparametric statistics, bindings to spatial classes (e.g. GDAL, LibLAS) to name just some of the added functionality available through packages.
This brings us to R. I am primarily a spatial statistician so, this is my everyday language. The number of available packages is staggering which, in turn, provides access to cutting edge cross-discipline statistical methodologies. However, I have to say that it is very cumbersome when dealing with large data problems. The spatial classes are getting much better and because of the raster package providing the ability to hold large data out of memory I am now able to implement some fairly complex statistical models utilizing large raster arrays. But still, R is slow when dealing with large memory problems. The BigMatrix package allows for writing and processing huge arrays from disk but the coding overhead is not insignificant There are also bindings to GDAL and GIS software (e.g., GRASS, SAGA) that allow spatial object processing to occur outside of R in a GIS specific software, which is how I interact with GIS software these days. This allows me to leverage functionality across multiple software without leaving R.
So, now that the software cheerleading is out of the way, my recommendation is "yes to all of the above options". Programming is a skill that, once learned, is easily applied to other languages. There are striking similarities between C++, R, IDL and Python. Aside from some coding idiocentricities, what one must learn are the available functions to implement a given model/task. Once this is done it is just a matter of syntax that implements common coding structures.
Sometimes there are things that just work better in a different software or language. I occasionally write code in FORTRAN or C++ because it is just the best choice for a given task. It is a matter of adaptability. You may want to start with Python because, as a scripting language, it can be applied to numerous tasks it also provides availability of packages for specialized analysis, has a number of free online resources and is somewhat easy to learn.
From a remote sensing perspective, the main benefit of IDL is that it extends the capability of ENVI similar to how the Python arcpy site-package extends the functionality of ArcGIS. If you will not have access to the ENVI platform, consider learning a different programming language. Additionally IDL is a commercial product whereas Python is open-source and has a huge support base.
From a practical perspective, Python, R (open-source) and MATLAB (commercial) are the most important languages for my day-to-day remote sensing based work. I use MATLAB for much of the digital image processing, Python for more GIS related tasks and R for graphics/analytical purposes.
Finally, if I had to focus all of my efforts on one language, I would choose to learn Python mainly because Python functionality is much more suited to GIS-related processing in addition to RS based functionality. In other words, Python is a jack-of-all-trades whereas IDL is not. Besides, NASA uses Python!
I strongly suggest learning basic computer science theory instead of focusing on one procedural language. Acquiring a foundation in CS theory would allow you to use programming languages interchangeably. On a day-to-day basis I use two to three languages to write code (Mostly Matlab, R, Python), and in the last month I've also written code in VB, BATCH, and EASE (PCI Focus).
This is not only important to be able to easily learn multiple languages, but to avoid making basic mistakes.
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Also, if you're having issues writing code take a step back and write pseudocode. Basically write step-by-step the logic behind your code and what you want it to accomplish.
If you're a student I recommend taking first and second years comp sci courses.
I think this is worth a separate answer: An absolutely great page for learning on how to use Python for Remote Sensing is this one, lecture notes being a great tutorial: http://www.gis.usu.edu/~chrisg/python/2009/
For me, a combination of Python and QuantumGIS solves all my Remote Sensing and GIS needs.
it really depends on packages you hope to use in remote sensing (image analysis). ArcGIS (ESRI) is not a remote sensing package. If you want to use open source packages I would agree that Python and R are great languages. I would also consider C++ and C, so you can dive deeper into some of the libraries (ie: GDAL). If you want to stick with commercial off the shelf (COTS) packages, then you will want to look more into the C languages (C, C++, and C#). Happy coding.


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- 1 pound hot Italian sausage, cut into pieces
- 2 large onions, chopped
- 1 green bell pepper, chopped
- 1 red bell pepper, chopped
- 6 to 7 pounds Idaho potatoes, peeled and sliced pinch of freshly ground sage seasoned salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 pound sharp Cheddar cheese, shredded
Instructions:Build a fire in your grill and let it burn to a bed of coals (about 30 minutes). Dick prefers a wood fire, but this recipe will work well with charcoal or gas.
Place the sausage in a 14-inch Dutch oven and put it on the coals to brown. Remove from the coals and add the onion and red and green bell peppers. Mix well. Add the potatoes and stir again. Pour in enough water so that you can see the potatoes sitting in it but they are not covered (about 1 quart). Sprinkle the sage over the top and cover. Place the Dutch oven back on the coals and cook until the potatoes are tender, adding more water if needed. Check every 2 to 5 minutes to make sure the potatoes don't burn. If you are using a wood fire, cooking time will be about 45 minutes. Charcoal will take a bit longer. Gas will take about 1 hour, but the potatoes will require closer watching.
When the potatoes are cooked, add seasoned salt and pepper to taste. Sprinkle the cheese on top and replace the lid, cooking just until the cheese is melted. Stir and serve.
Additional Notes:Dick Gardner is a caterer who specializes in outdoor cooking, and these Dutch oven potatoes are a mainstay of his menus. He even uses the Dutch oven for rolls, cakes, and scones. When baking in a Dutch oven, Dick maintains an even temperature of 350 degrees F by using 5 briquettes beneath the oven and 15 to 18 on the lid. Dick believes the winning taste in Dutch oven cooking comes from the fact that moisture is held in the heavy iron pot and the heat is dispersed more evenly, allowing for greater melding of flavors.
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BWA Committee has initiated Partnership for the Pow Wow Trail with the Stony River Cafe at Isabella, Minnesota. What is the partnership about? BWAC will pay $5 rebate to anyone (exceptions apply - see rebate rules in the Rebate Form) who order a meal worth $10 or more at the Stony River Cafe. By doing so we hope the people will visit the area, eat at the restaurant and hike on the Pow Wow Trail. While the rebate may not be significant, it is a symbol of our commitment to a small family run business affected by the Pagami Creek Fire and to the Pow Wow Trail. Please consider a trip to Isabella's Stony River Cafe and Pow Wow Trail this summer fall.
BWAC Volunteers Help to Paint Stony River Cafe
BWAC members Doug Rude and Lynn Schwartz (volunteer of the year 2013) led the effort to paint the guest cabin at the Stony River Cafe. How is painting a cabin connected with trail advocacy for Pow Wow Trail? The answer is simple. Both the Stony River Cafe and the Pow Wow Trail were gravely affected by the impact of the Pagami Creek Fire. While the fire suppression costed more than 22 million dollars, the economic cost to the surrounding communities is estimated, according to one federal government study, to be ten-fold, or in this fire, 220 million dollars. BWAC approach to mitigating the effects of fire and restoration is comprehensive: helping the surrounding communities and advocacy for the Pow Wow Trail. This effort has synergy: If more people hike on Pow Wow Trail, it is likely that some of them will eat at the Stony River cafe - we did and food is great! To see photos, visit our Meetup web site - Friends of the BWCA Trails.
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Not much happened on the Pow Wow Trail in 2014. I hiked it on Memorial Day weekend 2014 at counted 1,803 treefalls. A Forest Service employee hiked it in July and told me and my associate that she counted 100 treefalls. Yet when duo of hikers contacted the USFS Tofte Ranger District for information on the Pow Wow, they person there steered them to hike elsewhere because of, and I am quoting the FS PWT webe page at that time, "there may hundreds, possibly thousands of treefalls." I actually met these two hikers on the PWT in October 2014 and they told me of their conversation with USFS.
On Memorial Day Weekend, a trio of hikers ventured hoping to circumnavigate the PWT and came back after one day, unable to find the trail in vicinity of Myth Lake and Superstition Lake. On Labor Day Weekend 2014 my friend and I tried to hike 400 yard spur trail between Quadga Lake and PWT in vicinity of Campfire Lake and it took us 2 hours, that is an equivalent of 8 hours per mile. The area has been hit by Derecho (high winds) in July 2014 and USFS never cleared it and does not have any plans to do so any time soon.
Good News for Pow Wow Trail. The USFS has finally utilized Federal Recreational Trail Program grant (available in 2014 but, collecting dust, until BWAC wrote to Senator Klobuchar and Representative Nolan in February. Two days later the US Forest Service signed contract with MN DNR to use the grant and in May 2015 Conservation Corps of Minnesota and Iowa cleared from Trailhead to Pose Lake and from Pose Lake to Lake 3/Horseshoe Lake portage.
In addition to Forest Service work, for which we are thankful, present and past members of BWA Committee led by Monte Gomke from Duluth cleared a section for the above said portage to Rock of Ages Lake.
BWA Committee plant several "Fact Finding Trips" on the Pow Wow Trail to establish how much more work needs to be done to make the Pow Wow passable. For now, we recommend that you contact the USFS for GPS track of the trail. Although the trail is marked with rock cairns, these are not of much use later in season when they are obscured by vegetation often 2-3 times taller. A sound approach, would be to head north from the trail head and take the west trail at the loop intersection. That way you are likely to have enough food for the return trip when unable to find the trail near Superstition Lake.
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Bits of this and that... Blog for bhaktimehta https://blogs.oracle.com/bhaktimehta/feed/entries/atom 2013-12-22T13:03:44+00:00 Apache Roller https://blogs.oracle.com/bhaktimehta/entry/quick_tip_felix_shell_and Quick tip Felix shell and Glassfish user12615559 2011-08-04T12:53:36+00:00 2011-08-04T12:53:36+00:00
Here is a quick tip from Tom Mueller on how to inspect dependencies for jars using the felix gogo shell in Glassfish. Documenting for quick reference in future.

Install glassfish v3.x ( I have tried this with the 3.2 trunk)

telnet localhost 6666

resolve

lb -l | grep dol.jar (say I am looking for depencies for dol.jar which is a resolved osgi module)
inspect p c 106

(where 106 is the bundle number for dol.jar from the previous command.)

 More information is also available here

 https://blogs.oracle.com/bhaktimehta/entry/ibm_jdk_and_classloader_getresources Classloader.getResources() and IBM JDK user12615559 2011-04-20T11:40:31+00:00 2011-04-20T18:40:31+00:00
Kinman Chung and I had a nice debugging session discovering an interesting difference in the classloading behavioural differences on Sun/Oracle vs IBM J2SE. Writing a small summary of our findings incase this may help someone in the future.

We are working on GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 3.1.1, a minor update release to the just released 3.1 version . One of the key features of 3.1.1 is improved Platform Support for AIX .

When debugging issues we ran into an error as shown below

javax.validation.ValidationException: Unable to find a default provider
 at javax.validation.Validation$GenericBootstrapImpl.configure(Validation.java:264)

So we got the bean validation sources to see what was going wrong.

We noticed a difference with respect to the bean validation In Source code for Validation.java there is a line 317 which looks for the META-INF/services/javax.validation.spi.ValidationProvider

Enumeration<URL> providerDefinitions = classloader.getResources( SERVICES_FILE )

The above line has no elements on IBM JDK but was returning proper values on Sun/Oracle JDK

Kinman and I were debugging this with respect to IBM vs Sun/Oracle classloader and to give you some info this is what IBM J2SE ClassLoader.getResources() does

ClassLoader up = this;
do {
 Enumeration e = up.findResources(resName);
 if (e != null && e.hasMoreElements()) resources.addElement(e);
 if (up == systemClassLoader) break;
 up = up.parent;
 if (up == null) up = systemClassLoader;
 } while (true);

So in IBM jdk the getResources goes up the classloader chain and looks for the findResources()

This is what is done in Sun/Oracle JDK

Enumeration[] tmp = new Enumeration[2];
 if (parent != null) {
 tmp[0] = parent.getResources(name);
 } else {
 tmp[0] = getBootstrapResources(name);
 }
 tmp[1] = findResources(name);

The problem was this class org.jvnet.hk2.osgiadapter.OSGIModuleImpl whose Classloader has a getResources but not findResources overriden.

This worked for the non IBM JDK case.

The fix was to add a findResources implementation in our classloader which Sahoo fixed by adding a findResources implementation in core/kernel/src/main/java/com/sun/enterprise/v3/server/APIClassLoaderServiceImpl.java

Also this means in future every classloader should have findResources implementation to work with IBM JDK.

 https://blogs.oracle.com/bhaktimehta/entry/change_master_password_command_in change-master-password command in Glassfish 3.1 user12615559 2011-02-28T11:28:48+00:00 2011-02-28T19:28:48+00:00
 Glassfish 3.1 has released!! You can find more information at this link.

Today we will cover one of the commands of 3.1 change-master-password and some changes we made with respect to 2.1.

The master password is the password that is used to encrypt the DAS (and instances) keystore. Therefore the DAS and associated server instances need the password to open the keystore at startup.The master password is the same for the DAS and all instances in the domain. The default master password is "changeit". The master password can be saved in a master-password file:

This is the location of the master-password file

DAS: domains/domainname/master-password

Instance: nodes/node-name/agent/master-password

A master password can be set during domain or instance creation by entering it interactively. It is saved to the master-password file if the --savemasterpassword option is used. This is supported by:

create-domain

create-local-instance

A master password is provided during domain or instance startup via the master-password file or by entering it interactively. This is supported by:

start-domain

start-local-instance

The change-master-password command is a local command which is used to change the master-password .The master-password may be changed on the DAS by running change-master-password. The DAS must be down to run this command. change-master-password supports the --savemasterpassword option so that the master password can be saved in a master-password file. The same command can be used to change the master-password file on an instance

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Options for change-master-password

 --savemasterpassword:

This option indicates whether the master password should be written to the file system. This is necessary so that start-domain and start-local-instance can start the server without having to prompt the user for password.Defaults to false

NOTE: if <tt>savemasterpassword</tt> is not set, the master password file, if it exists, will be deleted.

 --nodedir

 This option is used when changing the master password for a node. You can specify a nodedir which is your <gf>/nodes. If the option is omitted, then it defaults to <installdir>/glassfish/nodes. Omitting it doesn't cause the change to be applied to the whole domain

--domaindir

 This option is used when changing the master password for the DAS. Typically this is <gf>/domains. It is an error to specify both domaindir and nodedir together.

Operands
 [domain_name_or_node_name]

 domain_name

This is the domain name whose password is to be changed.

 node_name

This is the name of the node agent whose password is to be changed.

For the first instance created on a node, you can't start it until the master password is set
 and saved to the file.

 From that point on you should be able to create new instances and start
 existing instances on the node.

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I recently found this website, and read through your article about health and diet, and was quite disappointed with some of your recommendations. I completely agree with your concerns for greasy fast foods causing health problems, but please don't lump wonderful nutrient dense foods like eggs and red meat into this category. These foods have sustained traditional cultures for millennia. If you do your research on traditional African diets you will find that the healthiest and most long-lived people always had a source of animal or insect protein to provide the fat-soluble vitamins A and D. (Vitamin D deficiency in Blacks is rampant and widespread as you may or may not know). Specifically, there is a tribe in Africa, the Masai, which live on diet largely consisting of red meat and raw dairy. This tribe is known for its longevity and absence of the diseases of civilization as well as their beautiful straight teeth. I must add that there is a huge difference between the feed lot animals raised in confinement compared to those raised sustainably on green pasture in open air. The introduction of vegetable (industrial) oils, white flour and sugar, pasteurized milk, highly processed foods like soy, and food additives into our diets are largely responsible for the maladies you describe. My organization is a huge adovocate of Buying Local, and Buying Organic. You don't necessarily have to eat meat to be healthy, but you need a source of the fat-soluble vitamins which are only found in animal fats. These fats allow use to stay healthy generation after generation. If you serious about our brothers and sisters health, I urge you to learn more about what I am talking about please refer to these resources below:
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Jan. 7, 2008 -- If you are deficient in vitamin D, getting a little sun may actually reduce your risk of dying from certain non-skin cancers, according to a new report. And that benefit may outweigh the risk of getting skin cancer.
When it comes to reducing the risk of dying from internal cancers, "sun exposure is good for you," says Richard B. Setlow, PhD, senior biophysicist emeritus at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y. He is a co-author of the study, along with scientists from Norway's University of Oslo and the Institute for Cancer Research in Montebello.
Sunlight triggers production of vitamin D, which in turn has been shown to help reduce the risk of dying from breast, colon, prostate, and lung cancers.
But Setlow cautions that he's talking about only brief exposure. "If you get too much sun exposure for too long, you might get malignant melanoma," says Setlow, who is credited with establishing the link between sunlight and the deadly skin cancer malignant melanoma. "But if you have an internal cancer, you might be cured."
Less important in the debate, he adds, is the risk of getting non-melanoma skin cancers from sun exposure. "Squamous and basal [two other forms of skin cancer] are easy to cure," says Setlow.
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For the study, the researchers used a special model to calculate how much vitamin D is triggered by sunlight exposure in different populations of people, depending on how far they live from the equator.
Among the findings: those who live in Australia produce 3.4 times as much vitamin D as a result of sun exposure than do people who live in the United Kingdom, and 4.8 times as much as Scandinavians do.
The team also looked at the incidence of various forms of cancer classified by latitude and then determined the survival rates from these cancers.
In populations with similar skin types, the incidence of all kinds of skin cancer increases from north to south, they found.
The incidence of internal cancers -- colon, lung, breast, and prostate -- also increased from north to south. But Setlow's team found that those who lived in southern latitudes -- and who made more vitamin D from sun exposure -- were much less likely to die from those cancers than were the northern latitude residents.
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Maxipads vs iPads
I am about as interested in the iPad as I am in Maxipads. I'm not against them, I'm actually quite for them. I understand that a large majority of the population probably prefers Maxipads. Another group probably hates them. There's probably discussions about the benefits of Maxipads vs. Minipad vs. Tampons. I don't think about them. I don't plan on buying any unless someone asks real nicely. I just really don't need any Maxipads or even think about them since, you know, I have a penis and shit.
But you know why Maxipads are better than iPads? Because the people who buy Maxipads don't fucking talk about them all day!
Seriously, when it comes to the iPad there's two people who just need to STFU.
Groupies who want Steve Jobs inside their fanginas know that this is just a giant iPhone. Suck it up. It's nothing revolutionary and that's perfectly great. It's just a simple consumer device and you'll love it no matter what so quit pretending like it's as revolutionary as when they made BSD look nice or when they switched to faster Intel CPUs. Apple's good at getting your little fangina wet so fantasize about it and twiddle your "little man in the canoe" until it comes out.
Haters also need to STFU about the openness. Answer this: Do you know anyone using a fucking tablet PC? No? You know why? Because there is no market for tablet PCs. At least not until Apple just created it for you. You should be thankful. You see, just like AOL vs. Internet, the very first company to market can make a lot of money with a walled garden. The regular Joe's who will buy these things just want shit to work and will pay for that convenience. Of course Apple's going to make this thing a walled garden. Big fucking deal since that'll create consumers ready for something more.
Just like AOL vs. Internet, this means there will be a shift in about 2-5 years when the market for tablets that Apple just created finally realizes that walled gardens blow. It'll probably be the day they find out that they can get porn on the Dell or HP tablet because it has Flash. Or that they can steal all their music with Bittorrent instead of buying it from iTunes (that piece of shit).
So, instead of fucking bitching and griping in your best Comic Book Guy voice about how it's not open, you should close your nerd trap and get off your ass to make the successor to the iPad. By the time you get something that works well, the market Apple has created and neutered will be ready for something better.
But please, do it right this time and make that shit actually easy to use. In fact, if you make it so programmers hate it then regular people will fucking love it.
Would MS linux help or harm? codeplex gives us clues to their plan.
The immediate usefulness of Linux running under Windows is obvious. You can use all the Windows drivers for all the peripherals that don't run under Linux. Drivers have always been an issue with Linux as PC users have gotten spoiled with Windows driver support. Today's user wants to grab just about anything and not worry about installing it and making it work. It would be great in one way if there was an MS-linux vendors and hardware manufacturers would take linux seriously and driver support would be much better.The idea here would be to cut the driver layer out of Windows and attach it to Linux directly. This would become MS-Linux. But the drawback would be that If Microsoft actually produced an MS-Linux that was the standard Linux attached to the driver layer of Windows, giving users full Plug and Play (PnP) support of all their peripherals, nobody would buy any other Linux on the market until the said drivers filterd down to other distros. Well, except for the fact that Microsoft would be unable to produce such a product without allowing the other vendors access to the driver code as part of the open-source Linux license arrangement (GPL). You can be sure that Microsoft lawyers are studying this as closely as possible to see if there is any way they could market a dominant Linux distribution without having to be a fair and noble company. So how could they do this?
Microsoft has been leery of doing too much with Linux because with all the freedom of the licenses and the possibility that one false move would make a Microsoft product public domain(which would be good for users they say they care about) at worst, or subject to the GPL at best. As far as old-school software companies are concerned, the GPL—the GNU General Public License—is a ridiculous pain to deal with, especially if you have a unique invention that you want to bring to the party—and want to make money doing so as oppossed to making your money via support like redhat or ubuntu's parent company canonical.
microsoft has been playing with various ways to avoid bumping into the GPL while using Linux in proprietary applications. Thus evolved the concept of a shim. Anyone who has done anything mechanical is familiar with the shim. It's usually something that is jammed into a space to shore it up or make something less loose, such as a matchbook jammed under a table leg to keep the table from wobbling.
With software, the idea is to create some sort of code that is jammed into Linux and whose sole purpose is to let some proprietary code run under Linux without actually "touching" Linux in any way that would subject the proprietary code to the GPL. This would include mechanisms that alter the internals of Linux without having to publish the code and changes as open-source or allow them to be used by others, as is required by the GPL.
Everyone in the business has been trying to cheat the Linux GPL for years, and this shim idea seems to have the earmarks of something that might work. Microsoft knows this, Oracle knows this, everyone knows this.
There is also codeplex.com, a project hosting site, whose list of allowed licenses excludes GNU GPL version 3. Perhaps this reflects the fact that GPL version 3 is designed to protect a program's free software status from being subverted by Microsoft's patents through deals like the Novell-Microsoft pact. We don't know that the CodePlex Foundation will try to discourage GPL version 3, but it would fit Microsoft's pattern.
That comes from the backwards mentality that open software cant be commercial(ask redhat if their software is or is not commercial). Every business is by definition commercial, so all software developed by a business–whether free or proprietary–is automatically commercial software. But there is a widespread public confusion between "commercial software" and "proprietary software". (See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html.)
This confusion is a serious problem because it falsely claims free software business to be impossible. Many software companies already contribute to free software, and these commercial contributions are quite useful. Perhaps Microsoft would like people to assume these facts are impossible.
Based on these facts, we can see that CodePlex will encourage developers not to think about freedom. It will subtly spread the idea that free software business is impossible without the support of a proprietary software company like Microsoft. However, it may convince some proprietary software companies to release additional free software. Will that be a contribution to computer users' freedom?
It will be, if the software thus contributed works well on free platforms, in free environments. But that is just the opposite of what Microsoft has said it seeks to achieve.
If Microsoft is serious about CodePlex.org's task and charter, they need to start eating their own dog food and embrace open source in its whole, allowing people outside of Microsoft to contribute to code inside of Microsoft. Until Microsoft releases a version of a high-profile piece of software developed in collaboration and in a dialogue with the Open Source community, they won't get any credibility with regard to Open Source
So why is Microsoft helping sponsor a new Open Source foundation? The lessons Microsoft has learned over the years working with open source are valuable for any commercial company to benefit from. The CodePlex Foundation, unlike other open source foundations like Mozilla, Apache, Eclipse, etc. is focused on enabling collaboration among commercial companies and open source communities in a license and technology independent way. CodePlex Foundation is complementary to these other foundations, as well as a competitor. I'm hopeful that the Foundation will enable more participation by Microsoft and other commercial companies in the many existing and new open source projects that are coming down the road but i doubt it.
I have one particular community or space in mind source forge has done a good job keeping the opensorce movement going. It just seems to me the creation of the codeplex foundation was done w/o itself being an open project. Maybe I am suspicious but it seems too often MS is too self-serving when talking open source or so it appears.
I also keep hearing the phrase "commercial" used which is not in the spirit of open source. Sure, folks make money with OSS but the groups the projects come from are not created to be commercial. It would seem to me the foundation would get going better if this was not a principal goal.
I hope this works out well but being open in the development of this will be needed along with support from as many outside MS OSS projects and communities as possible.
And the last thing to ask is why would M$ even try to make a linux distro? well 78% of the net sits on top of some member of the nix family. and microsofts share of that market has been slipping since the NT days. In Web-server software, Microsoft has 20% of the fast-growing market, while the free Apache program, a Linux variant, has 70%–worth $6 billion in revenue had Microsoft gotten the sales.
Microsoft is also facing a number of long-term threats to its business, including Google Inc.'s (GOOG) online Apps, which perform similar tasks to Microsoft's Office suite. And as many move to linux to cut cost they would rather give them THERE linux than let them go to redhat.
Microsoft gear made from exploited labor
Microsoft says it has launched an investigation into labor practices at a Chinese factory following a report alleging the vendor used large numbers of teenagers working in harsh conditions for low pay to build the company's mice and other products.
The investigation follows a report from the Pittsburgh-based National Labor Committee that found the KYE facility in Dongguan City, Guangdong, China allegedly uses significant amounts of teenage labor and has workers laboring as much as 80.5 hours a week for wages that amount to just over 50 cents an hour in take-home pay.
(Credit: National Labor Committee)
"We are like prisoners," one worker told the NLC, according to the report. "It seems like we live only to work. We do not work to live. We do not live a life, only work."
Workers are required to make 2,000 mice during a 12-hour shift, the report said and are prohibited from using the bathroom or getting up to drink water other than during their 10-minute, unpaid, breaks. I won't try to summarize everything that is in the report, but it's pretty rough stuff and worth a read. The NLC also posted on Flickr a collection of photos said to be from the plant.
"We are aware of the NLC report, and we have commenced an investigation," Microsoft said in a statement. "We take these claims seriously, and we will take appropriate remedial measures in regard to any findings of vendor misconduct."
The company said it "is committed to the fair treatment and safety of workers employed by our vendors" and said it works to ensure all vendors uphold its code of conduct. Microsoft declined to say how long it has used KYE as a contractor or comment beyond its statement.
Among the provisions in Microsoft's code of conduct (PDF) is one that says contractors must "comply with all local and national minimum working age laws or regulations and not utilize child labor."
"Vendors cannot employ anyone under the age of 15, under the age for completing compulsory education or under the legal minimum working age for employment, whichever is oldest," the code reads. "Microsoft only supports the development of legitimate workplace apprenticeship programs for the educational benefit of younger people and will not do business with those who abuse such systems. Workers under the age of 18 cannot perform hazardous work and may be restricted from night work, with consideration given to educational needs."
Microsoft is not the only company to use KYE to make its goods, although the report says workers estimate Microsoft accounts for 30 percent of the company's business. KYE also makes hardware for companies including Hewlett-Packard, Best Buy, Samsung, and Acer, according to the NLC.
And other U.S. companies have come under fire for conditions at vendors in China and elsewhere that make their products. In 2006, for example, Apple launched a probe into conditions at a factory that makes the company's iPods.
Apple is Part of the Proprietary Thought Police
Summary: Apple demonstrates one of the biggest dangers of proprietary software which tells the user what to do, rather than the other way around
DISSENT is vital to democracy. It is the means by which opposition can express itself, ideally without being intimidated, silenced, or even punished. Freedom of expression is necessary to ensure that people defend their basic rights and maintain their freedoms. This is why proprietary software vendors — those which act as gatekeepers on our own computer hardware — are often a barrier to democracy. They are enemies of free thought.
Last year we learned from Amazon's remote deletion of books that proprietary software can control people's reading lists and also the sharing of ideas. Amazon in general is hostile towards desktop GNU/Linux and as Greg Laden has just put it:
There is a Kindle reader application for the PC (and the Mac and the iPod touch). But not Linux. Which makes us sad because without Linux, your Kindle wouldn't even turn on.
But despite this deeply insulting unforgivable slight by Steve Bozo or whatever his name is, diligent supergeeks have solved this problem temporarily. The problem is, as usual, the Intertubes are full of people who know diddley squat but don't seem to understand that, so you will find ample instructions to make the Kindle for PC work on your Linux computer, and you will have very little success.
Amazon does several other things to discriminate against GNU/Linux, especially after it hired many executives from Microsoft. And for what it's worth, IBM is no angel either. As Justin Ryan from Linux Journal puts it:
Fueling the fire was the inclusion in said letter of a list of patents — including two covered by IBM's 2005 Non-Assertion Pledge. The increasingly common fury was not slow in arriving.
So what's really going on? Very little. If one looks at the supposed "threat" letter — the full text — the real story becomes clear. The letter in question is actually one of four, part of an exchange between TurboHercules SAS (the company) and IBM, initiated by TurboHercules last fall.
The suits at the newly-formed TurboHercules SAS wrote to IBM last July, setting out what they planned to offer, and requesting IBM's blessing for their venture. That wasn't all they asked for, however — the letter also requested that IBM develop a special commercial license to allow TurboHercules' customers to run legal copies of z/OS. (IBM does not license z/OS for use on non-IBM hardware, similar to Apple's licensing of OS X.)
The similarity between IBM's licence and Apple's licence is worth noticing. Both are hardware companies and they limit what can run on the hardware or what hardware their software can run on. This is an attack on people's freedom even as buyers, IBM's bad attitude towards software patents aside. But Apple's attack on people's computer freedom is still expanding to an attack on free speech, which in turn is like an attack on democracy.
According to this article from Wired Magazine, Apple is doing it again.
Editorial cartoonist Mark Fiore may be good enough to win this year's Pulitzer Prize, but he's evidently too biting to get past the auditors who run Apple's iPhone app store, who ruled that lampooning public figures violated its terms of service.
This received a huge deal of unwanted attention [1, 2, 3] even though Apple has been behaving like this for years. Slashdot says that only backlash from the public led to a reversal from Apple. But still, Apple should be ashamed of itself. Groklaw tried to defend Apple on previous occasions when it did this (arguing that Apple tried to shield itself from lawsuits), but Apple is walking on a thin rope if it takes this role of censor who determines what content is "acceptable" and what content is "forbidden" and thus blocked altogether. The solution is for Apple not to be the middleman and to just let people install whatever they want on the device they paid for. Then, there's no liability to worry about. █
"What really worries me is that the courts might choose a muddled half-measure—by approving an interpretation of "indecent" that permits the doctor program or a statement of the decency rules, but prohibits some of the books that any child can browse through in the public library. Over the years, as the Internet replaces the public library, some of our freedom of speech will be lost."
–Richard Stallman, 1996
End of Support for Windows Vista with No Services Packs
I just wanted to remind readers that Windows Vista with no Service Packs (also known as RTM) will no longer be supported. We recommend folks running Windows Vista RTM look at upgrading to Windows 7 or using Windows Update to update their PC to the latest service pack available for Windows Vista today – Service Pack 2. For more information on this and a change to our Service Pack Support Policy on providing limited troubleshooting on unsupported service pack versions, see this blog post on the Microsoft Support Lifecycle Blog or visit this end of support page on Windows.com to learn more about how to ensure your PC is on the latest service pack.
This is really a bad news for the users using Windows Vista with no Service Pack. Vista is definitely the worst OS windows have developed. I think windows should offer the OS for free just like Linux and bsds are. People now are completely abandoned by M$ operating systems and now the pack is not supported means that either they will have to upgrade it to Windows 7 or opt for a different platform which is probably the Linux.
Linux-ready netbook touted for eight-hour battery life
ZaReason is shipping a Linux-ready, 10-inch netbook that uses the Intel Atom N450 processor and is claimed to offer eight hours of battery life. The ZaReason Teo Netbook offers 2GB of DDR2 RAM, a 160GB hard disk drive, a WVGA display, and 802.11n WiFi, says ZaReason.
Last August, Berkeley, Calif.-based system integrator ZaReason shipped an Intel Atom N270-based netbook called the Terra A20 (pictured below, right). The company has now followed up with an Atom N450-based model that exploits the newer processor's greater energy efficiency to boast eight hours of battery life.
Whereas the Terra A20 started at a reasonable $350, however, the Teo starts at $460. A special $400 price available for the first few days of the Teo's launch, apparently ended Apr. 10. Despite the fairly high price, the Teo does offer a generous 2GB of DDR2 memory, as well as free 802.11n WiFi.
ZaReason Teo
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The Teo also supplies something else that's fairly rare to find — in the U.S., at least: a selection of pre-installed Linux distributions. Customers can choose from Ubuntu 10.04 LTS ("Lucid Lynx," due in final form on Apr. 29), as well as Ubuntu 9.10. Kubuntu and Ubuntu Netbook Remix versions based on either 9.10 or 10.04 are also said to be available. In addition, one can choose Linux Mint 8, Fedora 12, or no operating system at all.
Teo, left side
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Aside from the 2GB of memory, other features are fairly standard, including a 10-inch, 1024 x 600 display, 160GB HDD, Ethernet, 1.3-megapixel camera, audio I/O, and three USB ports. The 10.2 x 7.1 x 1.5 inch netbook is said to weigh 2.8 pounds, including a six-cell battery that is claimed to offer eight hours of duration.
Teo, right side
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Specifications listed for the ZaReason Teo Netbook include:
- Processor — Intel Atom N450 @ 1.66GHz with Intel NM10 Express chipset and Intel GMA 3150 (shared system memory)
- Memory — 2GB (1GB on board and 1GB on SODIMM) DDR2 667MHz
- Display — 10-inch WSVGA (1024 x 600); "non-glare"; 15 pin D-Sub VGA port
- Storage — 160GB SATA HDD
- Networking — 10/100 Ethernet port (RJ45)
- WiFi — 802.11b/g/n
- Camera — 1.3-megapixel webcam
- USB — 3 x USB 2.0 ports
- Audio — Mic; speakers; Mic in; headphone out; Intel HD audio
- Power — 19V DC, 40W/input: 100~240V AC, 50/60Hz universal; 6-cell battery for up to eight hours life
- Dimensions — 10.2 x 7.1 x 1.5 inches
- Weight — 2.8 lbs. (with battery)
The ZaReason Teo Netbook is available now for $460 without a carrying case ($19). More information may be found here.
Is microsoft losing the server wars?
Microsoft remains a peon in Linux-dominated supercomputing, but the software giant has tried to gain ground with a more reliable, scalable and interoperable HPC operating system. The question is: will Linux users give it a chance?
Since the release of its first HPC operating system in 2006, Microsoft has worked to make Windows a respectable player in high-performance computing (HPC). But Microsoft's market share hasn't increased much. Only 5% to 6% of the HPC market use Windows, while about 75% of HPC systems run on Linux, followed by Unix, according to IDC data.
And in the latest Top500.Org list of supercomputing sites, more than 78% of systems listed ran Linux (391 in all), while only 1% (five systems) use Windows HPC Server 2008.
"Windows has been not strong in this space. Most HPC users are loyal Linux users because it is reliable and their legacy apps are designed for it," said Jie Wu, IDC's research director for technical computing. "Microsoft also has a large perception issue to overcome."
Microsoft: A leg up in HPC market?
Linux has a long history of reliability, solid performance, and most applications are designed to work with it. Plus, Linux can be cheap. Windows, on the other hand, has none of these advantages in the HPC space, which makes many administrators unwilling to try it.
An IT operations manager at a Seattle-based data center, for example, said he won't give Microsoft a shot on his HPC systems because "Windows always seems to require way more hardware resources than the Unix alternatives do to perform the same task."
Sam Fulcomer, the associate director at Brown University's Center for Computation and Visual Computing, said that, historically, the availability of computational software for Windows lags Linux and the older mainstream Unix variants. Plus, Windows has had an issue with native client support for high-performance parallel file systems.
Fulcomer runs a CentOS Linux build on an IBM supercomputer that Brown University deployed late last year. At the time, he did not consider Windows a viable candidate at the time and said it would take a strong incentive to use such an "unusual" OS.
But Fulcomer admits that Windows can offer advantages, such as allowing user code to directly manipulate hardware (in the case of user space drivers), as opposed to the traditional kernel driver interface, which offers a limited set of proxy operations. Windows can also provide greater opportunity for application code to affect system stability than can a Linux OS. An incorrect memory reference in a supercomputing application, for example, can write over any portion of the user space driver code. In Linux systems, this overwriting problem creates significant system instability, Fulcomer said.
One administrator who runs a server cluster for a university in the U.K. has Windows HPC Server in-house in case he needs it but runs it only in a sandbox environment. It isn't in production because most software users served by the HPC system "want and need to run Linux."
Microsoft's HPC strategy
That sort of Linux loyalty is not lost on Microsoft, and the company has taken an If-you-can't-beat-'em-join-'em attitude with Windows HPC Server 2008 R2, which became available in Beta 2 this month. The final release is scheduled for later this year.
Microsoft added a "hybrid" option in the R2 version so Linux users can run Windows without disposing of their tried-and-true OS. Users can run Windows and Linux on a cluster at the same time or switch back and forth between Linux and Windows nodes.
"There are certainly cases where even the most devoted Linux user will want to run a Windows app, and now they can do that without ripping and replacing their existing Linux," said Ryan Waite, head of Microsoft's Windows HPC Server engineering team.
By tapping into its massive installed x86 and desktop customer base, Microsoft will also gain customers. Existing Windows shops may be more willing to give their familiar OS a try — especially if these shops run Windows 7 on desktops.
In Windows HPC Server 2008 R2, Microsoft added the ability to repurpose Windows 7 workstations as compute nodes so that idle PCs can be designated to HPC clusters to perform computational workloads.
The ability to remotely run jobs has been around forever but Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 takes things a step further by integrating that capability into its cluster management software, said Microsoft.
The next HPC OS will also support Visual Studio 2010 for parallel development of HPC applications, and it integrates with a new HPC version of Excel 2010 that runs in parallel and drastically cuts down the time it takes to run data, Waite said.
Though still in beta, Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 appears to be much more stable and scalable, which has caught the attention of more original equipment manufacturers and independent software vendors that have developed Windows-friendly apps and products for it, IDC's Wu said.
"Microsoft is very serious about the HPC space, because it is growing faster than the x86 space," Wu said. "They are doing things to make Windows a real option."
SCO, the Fat Lady & Novell's Slippery Grasp on the Unix Copyrights
SCO has one foot in the grave, but the sod hasn't been thrown over it yet.
With its copyright and slander-of-title case lost to Novell, it says it still means to bring its suspended contract and unfair competition case against IBM if the judge who presided over the Novell case – and who may have been as surprised as the Novell lawyers at the verdict – decides that Novell has no business blocking it.
Back eons ago Novell stepped into the SCO v IBM lawsuit – or at least tried to – and told SCO it couldn't sue IBM or lift IBM's license to distribute AIX, IBM's version of Unix.
Judge Stewart – he's the guy who ran the copyright trial – now gets to decide whether Novell's so-called waiver holds any water and how far it extends.
Briefs from both SCO and Novell are expected to land on his desk on April 19. He'll have a think and then decide. There probably won't be a hearing.
If it can cross that hurdle, SCO will still have to fight to get its Monterey charges against IBM recognized. Judge Kimball – the guy whose summary judgment awarded Novell the Unix copyrights in 2007 – barred them from the case when he wouldn't admit SCO's third amended complaint. SCO's got an aging right-to-amend motion floating around out there somewhere.
Then it's got to try to get its multibillion-dollar AIX/Dynix case, which was gutted by Magistrate Judge Brook Wells, patched back together again – it's got a reconsideration motion pending too – otherwise it'll have to go with the stump of a case.
Both sets of claims contend that IBM looted Unix for the sake of Linux and the AIX case includes a destruction of evidence charge that could prove highly entertaining and potentially profitable for SCO if it ever gets heard.
Anyway, Judge Kimball's summary judgment was of course overturned by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals last year, which is how Judge Stewart gets to make the decisions that could potentially put SCO, now older and poorer, kinda back where it was before the Novell distraction.
If the waiver ruling goes in SCO's favor, it's unclear who exactly would get to decide the right-to-amend and reconsideration motions, Judge Stewart or Judge Tina Campbell, who drew the IBM case when Kimball's summary judgment was overturned. It's possible Judge Stewart could take the IBM case because of his Novell learning curve.
win 7 vs linux vs mac
The biggest advantage that Linux has over Windows and Mac OS X is customizability and choice. Even with Windows you get at most 3-6 different versions (Win 7 has 3 versions) and they are functionally all the same (your just paying extra for stuff you should have in the base version). As a result with Linux you are more likely to find a Linux distro that does exactly what you want. If a distro doesn't do everything you want it to do, you are free to make it do what you want it to do (with no legal reprecutions like with Mac OS X and Windows).
Linux's greatest disadvantage is the lack of commercial software available. While you do have access to millions of FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software) programs, there is a shortage of commercial titles for Linux.
Before buying a notebook, many shoppers start with one fundamental question: Am I a Mac or a PC? Ad campaigns for Apple and Microsoft sling mud in both directions, without providing a clear picture of each platform's pros and cons. So, I've put aside the hype for these 3 operating systems with our hands-on, head-to-head comparison of Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Windows 7. Each company offers a number of fresh features that bring the two warring desktop environments close together when it comes to ease of use and raw performance. But there's a difference between capability and execution.
For testing, we pitted a 13.3-inch Apple MacBook Pro (2.26-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of RAM, Nvidia GeForce 9400M GPU, 5,400-rpm, 160GB hard drive) against an 2 identically configured 13.3-inch Dell XPS Studio 13 one with linuxmint 8 the other with win7 so we could concentrate on the benefits and disadvantages of each operating system. We ran our standard array of performance tests on each notebook, comparing boot times, battery life, computing power, graphics performance, and a host of other factors. Consider this the ultimate OS score card.
Mac OS X Snow Leopard
We used Geekbench, an application that measures CPU and RAM performance, to gauge our MacBook Pro's computing prowess. It notched a score of 3,543 in Snow Leopard, and 2,789 when we used Boot Camp to run the program under a Windows 7 partition. Also in Boot Camp, we got a score of 3,207 on PCMark Vantage, which measures Windows performance. In addition, the system copied a 4.97GB folder of mixed media at a swift rate of 21.5 MBps on our LAPTOP Transfer Test (19.2 MBps within Boot Camp).
Windows 7
Our Dell PC notched 2,586 in Geekbench, which was about 200 points below the MacBook Pro's Boot Camp score. However, its PCMark Vantage tally of 3,374 was slightly better than the MacBook Pro's. It completed copying our 4.97GB folder at a decent rate of 17.8 MBps, but this was still far slower than Apple.
Winner: LinuxMint.
LinuxMint proved to have superior overall system performance. It also ran Windows 7 smoothly in virtualbox.
BSD is not more biz friendly
There is a common description of non-copyleft licences as being "business-friendly", with the implication that copyleft licences like the GPL are not.
Personally, I don't understand this. If I were a for-profit business contributing open-source code to the community, and one of my comptetitors took some code I'd contributed and built it into a closed-source product that they then used to take customers away from me, I'd feel ripped off. Whereas a copyleft licence forces them to release the source of anything they redistribute.
Thus, to me, copyleft ensures a "level playing field" where all can compete. Which is something that businesses are supposed to be fond of.
Some may ask how can you sell a product which you can get for free?
Well ask that of the $8 billion U.S. bottled water industry. Or of Red Hat, novell or the hooker on the street. There are plenty of examples.
So I ask why does it appear that so many of the new and most actively developed open-source projects these days are being done under the GNU license, rather than the BSD one which proponents say is more business-friendly? Most likely programmers do not want the work they released to be used in a manner they did not support. The BSD philosophy seems to hold that creating and giving away code, then seeing it used by others, is victory and reward enough. But most of the GPL supporters disapprove of allowing "others" to close off source code and hide enhancements.
Also IBM, SGI, and other companies don't want to contribute source code to the community if competitors can use it against them. While using the GPL won't prevent competitors from using the code, it does keep them from making proprietary extensions. This appears to be the strongest case in favor of corporate support of Linux and the GPL.
It's not just semantics. GPL-advocates recognize the value of more permissive licenses such as the BSD license and the LGPL. BSD-advocates often fail to understand why the GPL is so successful.
In other words the GPL is more business friendly from the point of view of the developer – for example, you can ensure that proprietary competitors do not simply take chunks of your code and put it in their products.
The BSD can be characterised as more anarchist: you give your stuff away for the public good with no expectation of reward. Very laudable, but it does not seem realistic in a capitalist world.
I realise this is not altogether fair, but it is a stronger argument that common "BSD is more business friendly".
The GPL license basically says "Here, take this code, it's free. Do what you want with it, except distribute it. If you want to redistribute, you've got to follow these criteria". That's it. There's nothing stopping you taking GPL code, linking it to whatever you want and using that. Google have a ton of GPL code all hooked up to proprietary stuff and have no legal issues because they don't *distribute* that code to customers. They are the end user. They are free to do what they want. GPL code is free to use. GPL code is not free to distribute, unless you follow some criteria.
The GPL doesn't restrict what you can do with the code, copyright law does. The GPL is permissive, but it's not fully permissive which is what the BSD could be described as being. This is fine, and is an idealogical difference, but please lets not go around saying that the GPL is "OMG TEH MOST RESTRICTIVE THING IN THE WORLD", because that just demonstrates to the world that you don't understand copyright. it's really not complex: the BSD license doesn't promote (code) freedom, the GPL license does. The BSD license is designed for maximum freedom to use the code – anyone can use it for anything with only very minor restrictions. The GPL license is designed to ensure that the code stays free – it's more about spreading the philosophy of (code) freedom than bragging rights and padding your resume(look my code is in OSX). That appeals to a lot of real developers.


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I'm not entirely new with WP, but this is the first blog in WP I'm using.. well.. it's my first one ever ;)
However, as a webdeveloper, I have the ability to hack it to my desires, and I've just implemented AJAX to the search.
How do I do it?
I'm using jQuery as JavaScript framework.. this makes it a bit easier to do some stuff, like an AJAX call.
I hacked wp-rss2.php, so I can search it on TITLE only, the current search does it by TITLE and CONTENT and I didn't want this..
I then simply let AJAX grab the XML, manipulate it using JS and use DOM to show my search results ;)
I might write an article no it, but some feedback would be nice.


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I got to know Nick Cassesi, a wonderful man and dedicated volunteer, perhaps 16 years when I was The Record's bureau chief in Lodi. Nick was retired, volunteering for the Lodi Chamber of Commerce, full of good cheer and energy. It was impossible not to like Nick Casessi. Sadly, Nick passed away; this tribute to him from Ray Crow of the chamber captures a man of unique spirit.
The Lodi Chamber of Commerce lost a valued member of our "family", Nick Cassesi. Nick passed away recently after a long battle with cancer, but was upbeat and a fighter to the end, worried about others problems and not wanting to be a burden on his family and friends. That is what struck me most about Nick, his concern for other people. He loved to volunteer in the classroom, reading to children and encouraging them to continue their education. Nick was also a world traveler, going to such exotic locations as the Galapagos Islands, African Safari's and China to name but a few. There was many a lunch where Nick would talk about his travels and his experiences in these exotic locations, making you want to run out and book a trip immediately.
Nick was also an excellent "life coach", I remember many walks together with Nick, where we would discuss various challenges that I had on both a personal and professional level, and his advice was always spot on. Nick came to the chamber day in and day out, helping throughout the years, as proofreader, business consultant, letter stuffer, and confidant, but Nick did not want any recognition. He hated the spotlight, especially around his birthday. He always let us know if we were going out to eat around his birthday, if he even heard the "Happy Birthday" song he was getting up and leaving, and he did.
It is always sad to lose a friend and loved one, and the sense of loss and hurt is equal to the amount of love and friendship you received. Nick you will be greatly missed, but I know I am a better person for knowing you, will remember your words of wisdom and try live up to your expectations.
Bon Voyage on your latest trip, may it be filled with peace and happiness.
Your Friend,
Ray Crow


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As shown, one side of a rigid, insulated containerinitially holds 2m^3 of air at 27 C, 0.3MPa. The air isseparated by a thin membrane from an evacuated volume of3m^3. Owing to the pressure of the air, the membranestretches, and eventually bursts, allowing the air to occupy thefull volume. Assuming the ideal gas model for the airdetermine a) mass of air, in kg. B) final temperature of theair, in K, and c) the final pressure of the iar, inMpa.
I got part A to be 6.97kg using the pv=RT gas modelequation. Now... for the final temperature, i'm confused...we have the final volume, but we don't have final pressure norfinal temp... two unknowns.... unless i'm missing somethingconceptually... please help me understand thanks