Comment Apple!!! (Score 0) 266
Oh! Oh! Oh! Repost! Repost! Repost!
Comment GPL best for services (Score 1) 808
GPL is best for companies using it as a service. They can take the GPL'ed code, make proprietary changes to it, and then use that software to sell services and/or advertising to people using free services. This is the best way to profit from GPL. As long as they aren't "copying" the GPL'ed software, they have no obligation to release any changes or derived software.
Comment Google shills (Score -1, Flamebait) 848
Zittrain and the rest of the Berkman Center are just shills for Google. The FSF isn't far behind. Open source should be about programmers freely sharing knowledge, not about controlling people.
Comment A work of fiction (Score 1) 593
From the article:
The government buys all the software, hardware, and pays for any training we need to bring our skills up to date to effectively do our jobs
The government buys software licenses and hardware, but those remain the property of the government. The government does not pay for any training. That is why they pay so much - they expect us to be already trained.
government employees serve as supervisors. In fact, it’s policy in our department that government employees supervise the contractors directly.
That is either a blatant lie or a massively illegal operation.
I had to explain what I had been working on for the past year and why I deserved a raise
Don't spend that 2.6% all in one place now!
I quit a few months after I saw the numbers
You quit your six figure job as a senior software engineer because you "saw the numbers" and were offended at the waste?
When I confronted management about what I considered fraud and demanded solutions, the answer was we will not pay for training
Didn't the author say that the government paid for training?
Sorry Slashdotters, this is a work of fiction.
Comment Sizes are clearly stated (Score 3, Interesting) 297
Just below the picture in question, the sizes of the two devices are clearly stated. I didn't even need Google Translate to see that.
Comment Re:It sounds like he was being an asshole (Score 2) 174
According to the indictment, he didn't manage to overwhelm JSTOR until he hooked up a Mac too.
The next day, October 9, 2010, Swartz used both the “ghost laptop” and the “ghost macbook” to systematically and rapidly access and download an extraordinary volume of articles from JSTOR. The pace was so fast that it brought down some of JSTOR’s computer servers.
Perhaps the Acer didn't have gigabit ethernet like the Mac does. That comes in handy when you break into the wiring closet and connect directly to the switch.
Comment Re:Casting pearls before swine (Score 1) 495
That is perfectly valid C++ code. If most of your colleagues are C programmers, then it would be in your best interests to code closer to what the rest of your team would expect to see.
Comment Re:The Mac sucks for all kinds of development! (Score 1) 831
You can run both nedit and sshfs on your Mac
Submission + - Apple revises Developer TOS for FOSS 1
An anonymous reader writes: Apple has updated the developer TOS, in part:
3.3.20 If Your Application includes any FOSS, You agree to comply with all applicable FOSS licensing terms. You also agree not to use any FOSS in the development of Your Application in such a way that would cause the non-FOSS portions of the Apple Software to be subject to any FOSS licensing terms or obligations.
3.3.20 If Your Application includes any FOSS, You agree to comply with all applicable FOSS licensing terms. You also agree not to use any FOSS in the development of Your Application in such a way that would cause the non-FOSS portions of the Apple Software to be subject to any FOSS licensing terms or obligations.
Comment Re:Historical Record... (Score 5, Informative) 127
It is even harder than that. Resolution isn't important for science - spectral bands are. Landsat ETM+ has 8 bands, while SPOT has 4. The MODIS instrument alone on NASA's Terra and Aqua spacecraft has 36 bands. ASTER has 15 bands just for infrared.
Comment Re:Let's collaborate (Score 2, Informative) 127
I wonder if we could work more closely with Europe and Japan so together we'd get all the data we need without having to foot the whole bill.
We already do that. One of the key instruments on NASA's Terra satellite is Japan's ASTER. Terra is on year 11 of a 5 year mission. But Japan's funding in this area is much smaller than that of the US.
Comment Re:Broader question (Score 1) 127
Does anyone know anything about how the US network integrates with it's foreign equivelants?
There are no foreign equivalents. There is collaboration, but US funding and capabilities dwarf those of other countries. Foreign governments do not fund much space activities other than subsidizing industry satellites, but those aren't very useful for science.
Comment Re:This isn't just about "new and shiny" (Score 1) 963
Additionally, their object-oriented structure allows for more clear code organization, making 100,000+ line programs possible to understand (look at rails, for example; hundreds of thousands of lines of code, but readable for someone without great knowledge of the codebase).
Per has been object-oriented for how many years now? But you have one valid point. No one has ever complained that 100,000+ line Perl programs are impossible to understand.
