the only sane person who's an expert with another tool switching to SVN is just in the process of leaving CVS...
Or RCS. Or SCCS. Or PVCS. Or Clearcase. Or (shudder) Visual SourceSafe. There are a lot of tools out there that are more painful than Subversion...
Gender arguably is more relevant but seriously... there is no bias against women participating in free software projects. It's literally a sport open to anyone, with as few barriers as you can imagine. Age, gender, skin color, origin, perhaps the only filter that reduces diversity is the need for reasonably fluent English.
And still, the number of women in our communities is extremely low. That means the detailed technical world of software appeals to fewer women than it does to men.
Are you sure there are no barriers to participation by women? Have you, for example, asked any women who have tried to participate? A quick internet search suggests that those few women who have tried out participation in Open Source projects found that there was a significant element to the experience that wasn't pretty. That is plenty to discourage women from taking part.
Errrrr, no. For one thing this actually takes effort which hardware manufacturers are not prone to actually putting in, for another I didn't think they give a crap about supporting any Linux operating systems
Actually Lenovo are often pretty good about supporting Linux - e.g. they provide information and often drivers and support. I don't think the M92p is a model for which they do this though.
Sometimes a central authority is a good thing. But no-fucking-body is telling me what software I can or can't download, or banning me from downloading certain titles over some stupid shit like this. And this is just a mild example of what they *could* do if they wanted.
Well, the developer (ANY developer, mind you) can get sued for trademark infringement, so even your "open access" rules can get curtailed.
This much is true...
Yes, if you make a "memory" game, expect to receive some cease-and-desist soon, regardless if it's walled, garden, open-source, whatever.
And Apple has so far let users keep their "removed" apps. I think even iCloud keeps a copy if you happen to not have a backed up copy.
Nope, it's nothing to do with a walled garden (which actually doesn't affect users so much as developers since removed apps still can be used by existing uesrs). This affects *ALL* developers.
... but you're missing an important point. The significance of the "walled garden" reference is this: if I am a developer of an application that uses the word "memory" in its title or as a keyword, but in a non-infringing way (and it's hard to imagine that every single possible use of the word "memory" infringes the trademark), then outside a walled garden, I have options: I may choose to capitulate to avoid a lawsuit, or I can choose to take my chances with the legal system and continue using the term (and, if I can get a good lawyer, I may well win). But Apple is not giving developers that choice - they can either remove the term "memory", or remove the app entirely.
I suspect that Ravensburger have taken action to protect their trademark, and are only likely concerned about apps that are similar to / might be confused with their product - and Apple are indeed probably liable if they are selling infringing products. But, rather than vet individual apps based on whether they infringe or not (which is time-consuming and error-prone), Apple have taken a decision to impose a blanket ban on the term - which, while I see the practical benefits from their point of view, is clearly detrimental to, say, people searching for an application to check what DIMMs might be compatible with some hardware they need to upgrade...
where I have severely limited vocabulary in the local language, a good dictionary application is one of those can't-live-without things
If you're trying to expand your vocabulary, throw the dictionary in the trash and get a thesaurus.
...and how does that help when you don't even know one synonym in the target language?
And I have no idea why you'd pay $50 for a dictionary app when you could just buy the actual paper dictionary for $20.
Clue: a good multilingual dictionary weighs several pounds. Installing an app adds no extra weight. When travelling to/around a foreign country, that can be important
I know people are saying it's the same as Pakistan because it's only one letter removed. But look at Iran and Iraq and see where that kind of assumption gets us.
Or USA and KSA, come to that
If you're referring to Islamic Fundamentalists
Some would argue that "Islamic Fundamentalists" is just a fancy term for normal, mainstream Muslims who aren't of the ultraliberal (from the POV of Middle Eastern folks) branch of Islam (and who are often called "apostates", not "liberals", in the same area).
Some people might argue that. But would that be based on evidence and fact, or ill-informed speculation and prejudice? My own experience (and I have lived in a Muslim country) is that most Muslims are horrified at the views and actions of the fundamentalists - like folks anywhere, most people just want to get on with their own lives without interfering in, or being interfered with by, other people - especially other people in another country far away.
As for convictions, very few. Based first on my small amount of exposure to trial related forsensics, lawyers are nowhere near so familiar with technology that I am willing to believe that this type of technological point comes up that often.
Plus of course the fact that DKIM usually identifies the domain, rather than the user, so it would generally only be evidence that the email came from a specific ISP (or company), rather than a specific person, which is much less useful.
AES is synchrounous
I think you meant "symmetric"
How is it not compression? It reduces the data size being transferred and is recoverable on the other end. Maybe I'm not an expert, but isn't that _exactly_ the definition of compression?
It doesn't make it smaller - in fact, it will make the data larger. It gives improved performance because of the way TCP responds to dropped packets:
(1) Normally the receiver has to notice the dropped packet, notify the sender, and wait for the packet to be retransmitted - meaning that the data in question (and any data after it in the stream) is delayed by at least one round-trip. With this scheme, there is enough redundancy in the data that the receiver can reconstruct the missing data provided not too much is lost, improving the latency.
(2)TCP responds to packet loss by assuming that it is an indication of link congestion, and slowing down transmission. With wired links, this is a good assumption, and results in TCP using the full bandwidth of the link fairly smoothly. With wireless links, however, you can get loss due to random interference, and so TCP will often end up going slower than it needs to as a result. The error correction allows this to be avoided too.
What the fuck were they thinking?
It's like if tomorrow I invent a new protocol for mobile phones and I call it GSM.
Or is this a fucking joke?
Not a joke, but a badly-worded summary - the invention is called "coded TCP" (presumably because it's a version of TCP with error-correcting codes). I agree that the summary reads as if the protocol is called "TCP"...
It's not N!, it's N + (N-1) +
You are correct... here's an easy way of figuring it out:
N+
(N-1)+...+2=(N+1)
(N-2)+...+3=(N+1)
Pairing up a term from the beginning of the expression with one from the end always makes (N-1), and there are N/2 such pairs. So the total is N(N-1)/2 (at least for even N - though it works for odd N too).
I did not (and would not) say that door-hinge and orange is a perfect rhyme, however... only that is very good. Specifically, their rhyming parts differ in a single phoneme, where "hinge" uses the short 'i' sound, orange uses the schwa (upside-down e) sound in its second syllable
I think you're possibly underestimating the degree of variation in pronunciation of English... for example, where I come from, the vowel you mention is in fact identical between the two words - but the "-inge" ending is all they have in common (e.g. the first vowel differs noticeably, and the "r" in "door-hinge" is not pronounced). This may go some way to explain the amount of disagreement you're encountering with your assertion
She is exempted from taxes?
She is exempt from some taxes, but not others. Of the ones from which she is exempt, she pays most of them on a voluntary basis.
It's appropriately ironic that after fifteen years, Slashdot has decided to use t-shirts instead of software as promotional giveaway items.... why?
Because most Slashdot readers already have all the software they need, but could do with some more clean clothes?
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