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by pcc 17y ago
This just sounds like nitpicking, its like saying that open source authors are not really giving anything away for free because the person downloading the code is getting charged by his ISP for the broadband access. Sure there is a business
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by pcc 17y ago
I used to be an academic, with industrial research projects, for some time, so I'm relatively confident I understand how academia works. 1. I wasn't suggesting at all that academic research isn't paid for. Clearly the people doing the wor
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by pcc 17y ago
Here's an example of an "industry" that gives away the product of their work for free: academic research. Now in this "industry" the free flow of this product has allowed people to build on the shoulders of giants and arguably made a big co
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by pcc 17y ago
I was specifically referring to proprietary (closed) platforms and to SDKs with the relative level of scope/clarity/consistency we're seeing on iPhone. Note that people mention iPhone/iPod, Nintendo DS, Sony PSP in the same breath, and on t
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by pcc 17y ago
Intriguing you would find it slower, I guess it is possible that the binaries are built to the baseline Mac architecture requiring some instructions to be emulated via invalid instruction exception on lower instr sets, which may also explai
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by pcc 17y ago
$1100 is still a pittance for this type of SDK on a proprietary platform.
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by pcc 17y ago
Afaik the iPhone is simulated not emulated, the binary is built for x86. So I doubt it would be too slow -- certainly not slower than the device itself.
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by pcc 17y ago
I venture most of these are already present. Eg I've read elsewhere about "indicator strips" on the casing which divulge water exposure, the accelerometer ICs these days usually can be programmed to generate an interrupt on high-g, and the
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by pcc 17y ago
In a general smart card system, neither the card nor the reader its inserted into, is supposed to trust the other, as either could be a fake. Further, the mechanism used to establish the trust (eg challenge-response) could be observed by a
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by pcc 17y ago
I'm also skeptical. As I recall the GPL only requires source code to be made available to someone who has been provided the binary; ie in effect MS would only have to make source available to their customers if asked, there would be no req
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by pcc 17y ago
Whoa. He merely said there are extremists in FS, that he does not want to be associated with people espousing exclusion or hatred, and that is a reason why he doesn't like referring to what he does as "Free Software" anymore. I'm not aware
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by pcc 17y ago
I really fail to see how any of this "bites" him or makes him look like an "idiot." Specifically, I don't see how any of the broad sentiments he expressed (tech over politics etc) is at all impacted by the contention that MS's hand was forc
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by pcc 17y ago
Welcome to Canada ;)
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by pcc 17y ago
Three misc thoughts: 1) To me there seems to be a long distance between "no place for open source" vs "open source will shape but not win..." 2) While it may be so that "the vendors of today are the same vendors of 10 years ago"; that does
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by pcc 17y ago
I'm not saying this isn't so -- but reading this kind of statement always reminds me of the many entrepreneurs that do end up being successful despite everyone saying it would never work.
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by pcc 17y ago
I also wonder to what extent our general responses to possible diffuse future threats, are today watered down as a result of the media continually bombarding us with such, and thus de-sensitizing us?
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by pcc 17y ago
Honestly the smc programmers manual http://smc.sourceforge.net/SmcManual.htm is probably good enough. Its quite light; even with a blog post one would still have to extrapolate from the author's application to how one would apply the too
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by pcc 17y ago
Funny you should say that, my background is also as an EE and I also can't imagine not knowing about state machine design. Yet just this week I had a junior guy tell me he's never seen the concept in software, outside of a testing harness f
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by pcc 17y ago
What you refer to as a "big problem" and "holding back" of the evolution, I don't see at all in the same perspective. Its not imo an infrequent occurrence that software authors decide to do things so differently in a new version, that it fu
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by pcc 17y ago
In a *nix environment, set the shebang line of the file to point to the precise interpreter you want to use. Any imports that file makes will be from the /usr/lib/pythonX.Y for that version of the interpreter. (In order to get the library
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by pcc 17y ago
Log structured fs (including gc, checkpointing, wear-leveling) has been quite prevalent in the embedded linux world for several years already e.g. jffs2 / yaffs / logfs / ubifs etc. (Of course these typically target raw NAND flash via MTD /
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by pcc 17y ago
For me its worth it even just for their "Financial Advantage Program" -- specifically the insurance plans: http://ieeeinsurance.com We don't have access to all the plan types here in Canada, and I can't speak for price comparisons between
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by pcc 17y ago
With reference to Zope: it should be noted that the Zope 2 of old and the modern Zope 3 are themselves on opposite ends of the magic/non-magic spectrum. The Zope community learnt many lessons from the magic used in Zope 2, and radically alt
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by pcc 17y ago
I think your conclusion about business users may actually be inverted in certain markets. Eg small business in Canada, pre-iPhone the networks have been smoking us on data rates on Blackberry/Treo. iPhone has forced this down. (Pre-iPhone m
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by pcc 17y ago
I guess this depends -- I've heard some people switching from Blackberry/Treo claiming they type faster on iPhone after they got used to it. (my rate seems to be about the same).
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by pcc 17y ago
The ave 3min/song estimate is probably a little low. Radio edits are around that length but the original tracks tend to be longer. (Seen another way; most CDs are longer than 30min but tend to have 10 tracks, since many of the contracts
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by pcc 17y ago
Maybe its just me -- but I really don't see how this article is declaring financial doom and gloom for Microsoft, or saying that the market is running screaming from Microsoft? It just seems to be saying that enterprises aren't (yet) seein
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by pcc 17y ago
Could you clarify how you extrapolate from this article to "pro-Apple kidiots are taking over HN?" To me it seems the article is only talking about trends and survey results, is not espousing any particular "Apple Love" and is not aiming to
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by pcc 17y ago
Because people find it useful, it seems its easy to forget it was called SQ Lite for a good reason. The original purpose was to have lite embeddable sql for apps where it simply did not make sense to have to set up an additional piece of i
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by pcc 17y ago
Don't know that I buy that argument. Yes there are increasing levels of abstractions, and no its not always clean; but the world changes and its useful to look at different types of abstractions. Linux provides a "playground" for trying ou

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