Maybe SUSE (Attachmate) can buy it, or even better Cannonical. SUSE could keep it going but Cannonical is trying to develop a toolkit from the ground up for Unity3D based on NUX, but it is really terrible compared to Qt and it will take them 5+ years to catch up. Forever in this business. It would make much more sense to move Qt in the direction they want to go.
In 1994, I stopped using BBS systems with Internet gateways and switched to a dedicated ISP. The ISP I switched to had been offering service to homes and individuals for a few years by the time that I switched.
That matches up with my recollection. There had long been alternate networks like FidoNet, you could even send an e-mail to someone on the real internet using a series of server names and bangs to get to a relay. But it was pre-1995 that you could use a modem to call into a commercial ISP and get your own IP and get a real e-mail address, use FTP directly, etc.
I think it is pretty obvious that ARPANet was the precursor to the internet and government funded research is responsible for the internet. But I do recall being sold home access to the internet as early as 1994, perhaps it was even earlier. By commercialization they must mean Al Gore's bill that allowed unsolicited advertising over the internet. Can anyone clarify this for me?
Were the merchants of internet connectivity in the early 1990's breaking some regulation?
PS I can't really say the WSJ Editorials have hit a new low. Their news articles have suffered under the new ownership, but their editorial pages have always been a haven for the reality challenged. I wouldn't be surprised to read that they full throatedly supported Mussolini, Pinochet, and Hitler.
The T-Mobile family plans are much more affordable if you bring your own phone.
Look at the 500 minute value plan. You can get 0GB, 200MB, 2GB, 5GB, or 10GB data on a per device basis, so you can get 2GB for someone who just does some web browsing, 5GB for those who listen to podcasts and does occsional tethering, and 10GB for those who do a lot of tethering. The 5GB and 10GB plans allow tethering without jumping through any hoops.
The coverage isn't as good as Verizon or AT&T, but it is pretty darn good in most major metropolitan areas.
PS T-Mobile does make it a bit difficult to find the best plans on their website and you really need to buy the phones on Amazon because their website is terrible and their store clerks are rip off artists. But their text chat representatives are great and their phone reps are nice even if not quite as knowledgable. The phone reps are the best route for plan changes since the customarily waive service change fees.
Even Apple wasn't dumb enough to actually sue Jeff Han. NYU MRL researchers had been thinking about multi-touch long before Jeff came up with the idea of using FTIR to implement it. Pinch zoom was one of the obvious things we did and didn't even think of patenting it. But had Apple sued you can be sure a lot of prior art would have been put on the table to invalidate their multi-touch patents. They must know about the prior art by now or they'd be threatening their competitors for that instead of things like rounded corners. As for the gorilla arm effect.. the when Jeff started working at the MRL/CAT we had a rear projected colaborative display in our lab. This display is why we were looking for a better multitouch technology. Horizontal displays don't suffer from the gorilla arm effect. The vertical touch screens are simply what Perceptive Pixel is known for from CNN's use.
As I see it, the open markets for it in the vertical configuration right now are for lectures and presentations; the open markets for it in the horizontal configuration are in fields like the military and oil and mineral exploration. The actual technolgy is cheap to implement, so it could be pushed into the corporate market as part of a colaboration tool by a bigger company than Perceptive Pixel (since this will canibalize the existing markets significant funds are needed). But Microsoft isn't known for their ability to create new markets. Their success has always been as a fast follower. So either they are trying to change their culture with buy-in from the top or some VP thinks they can create a new market and will soon run into a brick wall.
Rhetorical question: Have you ever tried to tell someone over the phone how to navigate around a GUI?
Most of the content on Netflix was already captioned at some point in the past.
The problem is really that the captions are either not provided in a form that Netflix can accept them or they get lost when the material is transcoded. There already exists a patch for ffmpeg to maintain MPEG2 user_data and hence captions during transcode and SMPTE has released a standard for translating those captions into timed text for use with codecs that can't carry the captions natively. The cost to maintain the captions in already captioned content is near zero.
The remaining content, such as independent documentaries, would impose some additional cost but this can be pushed onto the content provider. The providers of that content are ecstatic to have an outlet like Netflix available to them and can spend a few days creating the captions themselves for the opportunity to monetize content that before could only play in a few art houses and could rarely break even before Netflix existed.
The CC rules would be very difficult on services that accept gobs of user generated content, but I would be surprised if larger players like YouTube aren't already working on a speach-to-text algorithm for that content.
The food she photographed looks pretty amazing compared with what I recall eating in primary school.
As the father I see how hard the community pushes boys and girls into their gender roles. My daughter doesn't love pink because of the color, she loves it because no one calls her a boy when she wears it. She plays with cars at home, but she won't touch one when another kid is around. When she wears any dress she gets constant compliments, not so when she wears a very cute outfit consisting of a shirt and pants. And whenever we talk with other parents the talk of the "inate" characteristics of girls and boys is usually constant, even when the characteristics are obviously universal.
It doesn't just stop at childhood either, as an involved father that stayed at home for a 18 months after my kids were born I met the most sexist women I've ever encountered on the playground. Now there were many women who weren't and I wasn't the only dad around, but even a woman I knew before, who had a kid around the same time, couldn't stop herself from saying men can't do X and women always do Y when I was doing those things everyday by choice before and after my wife went back to work. Mom's groups were also extreemely unwelcoming. I understand that they might not want to talk about their breastfeeding problems with a man around but there are a plethora of things to talk about when cooped up all day with a small child. For any mothers-to-be out there, taking a vote on whether do admit me and my kids to a playdate makes you appear about as democratic as an apartheid jury deciding if I looked white enough to join you at the pool; I won't really care which way the vote goes, I don't want my children around bigots.
FYI I also see sexism alive and well when hiring in IT. At work we'd been interviewing for a programming position for months and finally found a decent candidate. I wanted to hire her and kept getting resistance and unqualified alternate prospects pushed at me. When I finally found out what the reservations were, it came down to "she'll be the only woman on the team and will be lonely" and "this job involves working late and it's dangerous for a woman to go home alone at night." I reminded them that as a woman in IT she is surely used to a male dominated workplace and the position rarely involves working very late, we could call a car service when it does as is company policy for all day-shift employees anyway. Luckilly she was hired, but we could have easily lost her to another company with the delay these unstated concerns caused.
Qt has been available under both LGPL and GPL since version 2.2. But there were always some extensions that were only available in the commercial libary.
What you are probably remembering is that Trolltech only produced this version for free platforms like Linux and the BSD's. If you wanted to run this version on Windows you had to jump through hoops and wouldn't get any support from TrollTech people. For Windows, Trolltech only packaged and supported commercially licensed and later GPL licensed versions. After Nokia bought TrollTech the next version was released as LGPL on all platforms. Nokia could produce the product as a loss leader and didn't have to make a profit on the commercial version, although it is still sold by a 3rd party mostly for the support that comes with it.
TrollTech also used to have this clause in the commercial license that wouldn't allow you to switch from LGPL to the commercial license. I don't know if they actually refused to sell the commercial license to anyone in practice though as that would seem counterproductive for a for-profit company supported by licensing and support.
The law regarding recording telephone conversations is more variable, but most jurisdictions have a "so long as one party consents" law, which in this case wouldn't be met. It doesn't matter, in UK law at least, whether the recording is done on the electrical or the acoustic side of the proceedings, and I'd be surprised if other legislation draws that distinction: recording phone calls with a sucker mic on the receiver is just as illegal as doing it electrically.
This is the second time I've heard this about English law and it strikes me as extremely odd, and indeed I'd be very surprised if this applied in a general sense in other jurisdictions+. The packets being incidentally recorded were broadcast and the listener had no intention to listen to that broadcast. That is like shouting out your window or making a speech on Speaker's corner (the broadcaster) and someone walking down the street dictating a voicemail (google) incidentally captured your yelling as background on that recording. What purpose does it serve to make it illegal to listen in this case? Obviously the Queen's subjects aren't required to icepick their ears because someone might yell at them without first giving them permission to listen, why would the icepick in ear logic be applied here? You won't convince such a law is a good idea, but I'd like to understand what the rationale is.
+ I know it is applied in some specific sections of the electromagnetic spectrum in other countries when used for specific purposes, but the assumption is it is legal to listen except for some carved out exceptions where the harms have been weighed and ignorance has been deemed the lesser evil (these exemptions are in themselves controversial.)
I said,
Apple has said that 50% of their suppliers violate the 60 hour work week.
Gnasher said,
The first statement is plain incorrect. Read Apple's Supplier Responsibility report to find what Apple _actually_ said. Yes, the words 50%, suppliers, violate, 60 hour, are all there, but what Apple says is significantly different. And these reporters should urgently visit some US software companies.
Sorry, "93 facilities had records that indicated more than 50 percent of their workers exceeded weekly working hour limits of 60", "At 90 facilities, more than half of the records we reviewed indicated that workers had worked more than 6 consecutive days at least once per month", "Practices in compliance : Working Hours : 38%"
So I should have said, "Apple has said that 62% of their suppliers violate their 60 hour work week practice."
I stand corrected! Working conditions much are worse than I stated.
And what about Intel, where a huge dust explosion happened at about the same time? Shouldn't that have been addressed by simple ventilation? But I guess that happened at a part of their factory that exclusively made chips for Apple?
From a quick google, in the May explosion, 3 dead and 9 others hospitalized, 2 weeks after SACOM released a report detailing the ventilation problem. In the December explosion, 23 hospitalized. Apple contractors are blown up due to poor ventilation and then seven months later Apple contractors are again blown up for the same reason and you deflect to Intel?
If my workers start dying in easily preventable explosions you can be sure no one will be exploding for the same reason seven months later. As dust goes aluminum is a lot easier to deal with than wood dust, yet Ikea isn't beset with claims of the dead toll from the production of LACK tables like Apple is with the iPad deaths.
The only explosion I can find in Google at an Intel plant was last June in the solvent room when testing chemicals. There are some things with inherent risk, like volatile solvent testing, there are other things, like polishing an Apple iPad, where an explosion only occurs through gross negligence.
Apple has said that 50% of their suppliers violate the 60 hour work week. Real reporters have interviewed the employees who did feel pressured to do the overtime they didn't want. There were two explosions separated by seven months at factories polishing the aluminum for Apple products; deaths and injuries that could have been addressed by simple ventilation.
You don't need to visit a factory personally to comment on the issue. There are facts about working conditions that are not in dispute. Some of these are reprehensible enough to make headlines in China.
Mike Daisey said he saw some things that from other accounts are really rare, like child labor and debilitating incidents of poisoning, and he said he witnessed an outright repressive atmosphere (angry guards with guns, cameras in bedrooms) which simply does not reflect reality. By saying he saw these he made it appear like these were common, when they are outliers.
The day-to-day problems are a lot more mundane. Factory managers that don't follow basic safety guidelines not because they are malevolent, but because they don't know which safety measures are really necessary and which are nice-to-haves. I have visited a workplace in India where the second means of egress was blocked; it took a while for me to explain why exactly this was a serious hazard. The managers there really cared about their workers, they kept a 5 day work schedule instead of the typical 6 day schedule, they had a break room with internet terminals. Work hours are a real issue in the 3rd world too. The workers want to work more hours, up to a point of course. The research shows that you hit diminishing returns very quickly after 35-40 hours, especially when this extends past a couple weeks into death march mode. But if the managers are inexperienced and don't understand this, overtime becomes chronic and this costs the company a lot of money.
I'm no potty expert, but I thought that water that is output from a toilet is called black water, water collected from the bathtub, and kitchen are called grey water, and what they are actually using is called treated water.
Am I just behind the times on the terminology or is the article's writer just being sloppy?
This is how you should implement unlimited scrollback, create a tmp file in
I'm hoping the VTE guys don't change to a less good implementation just because some idiot is screaming off rooftops, "The sky is blue! The sky is blue!"
Don't panic.
