how open is the future

... inspired by the free and open- source spirit. A complete version of How Open is the Future? is available under a Creative Commons licence at http://crosstalks.vub.ac.be. How Open is the Future? is also ... Raymond’s open- source discourse, and it should be clear that this is diametrically opposed to Stallman’s purity. In Raymond’s book The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1999), we can see how this promiscuity ... – but we can discern at least three patterns in all this turmoil. The first is the story of the world-wide rise of Linux. Some articles report that the number of users is still rising, that more...

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... it is. He assumes that the seller has some information about the car that he, the buyer, does not have—and the seller is punished for this assumed information. And if the car is a lemon? The ... late rounds, they are eliminated far out of proportion to their skills. It seems as if the other contestants—this is a show on which the average age is thirty-four—simply don’t want the older ... put across 52 The Ku Klux Klan and Real-Estate Agents the typical online dater is either a fabulist, a narcissist, or simply re- sistant to the meaning of “average.” (Or perhaps they are all...

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... yet, for the actual production of movies in HFR, or for showing them. Christie ® is working with several film research groups to examine the use of HFRs in cinema to assist in the establishment ... events, theater, and dance. Christie is leading the industry in developing HFR technology, and is in the process of rolling out a transition plan for exhibitors. The drive is on to make theater ... the color information must be discarded to allow the video data to move across this interface. Some observers suggest the visual impact is minimal, but it’s nonetheless a quality compromise....

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... dis- cussion of the Internet and its future stops just short of its endpoints, focusing only on the literal network itself: how many people are connected, whether and how it is filtered, and how ... very good (VisiCalc), and some not so good (the inevitable and frequent computer crashes). The iPhone is the opposite. It is sterile. Rather than a platform that invites in- novation, the iPhone ... adults—than as the gateway to a revolution. The Rise and Stall of the Generative Net14 enue if it drew other users in. Why would the proprietary services not harness the potential generativity of their...

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... the scientist Dr. Zarkov who actually made the series work. He invented the rocket ship, the invisibility shield, the power source for the city in the sky, etc. Without the scientist, there is ... us the transistor, the laser, and the digital revolution that is the driving force behind modern society. Similarly, scientists were able to use the quantum theory to unlock the secret of the ... scientist himself, he constantly sought out scientists, peppering them with questions about their visions of the future. He amassed a vast archive summarizing the great scientific discoveries of his...

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... interest rate tells the investor how much money the bank will pay them as a return on their savings. The nominal interest rate does not tell the investor how much the return on their savings will ... To find this out, the investor would need to adjust the nominal return on their savings by the amount by which they think prices will change during the time when their money is held in their savings ... estimate of the output gap, then we can solve for the term that is required to make this equation hold at each point in time. This term is equal to the NRR plus the residual, and we take the average...

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... established itself as a strategic advisor to the business. What percentage of the current audit plan is comprised of advisory/consulting reviews? Q: 50%+ advisory 25%–50% advisory 5%–25% advisory No ... about the future of their internal audit function — where they most need to make improvements — their top ve priorities were: 1) Improving the risk assessment process 2) Enhancing the ability ... about the issues they face along the way. How internal audit can detect and prevent bribery and corruption fraud risks Executives face personal liability for the corrupt activities of their...

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... At the bottom is the “physical layer,” the actual wires or airwaves over which data will flow. At the top is the “application layer,” representing the tasks peo- ple might want to perform on the ... wikis and blogs, are quite rudimentary both in their features and in the sophistication of their underlying code. The power of wikis and blogs comes from the fact that noth- ing quite like them ... inside the TiVo. TiVo is built on Linux, which is licensed as free software, but, while the code is publicly published, it is nearly impossible for the Linux PC inside a TiVo to run anything but the...

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... caution is in place. The latest may not be the best route to operational efficiency. The important question is how these fit into the mid-to-long-term view of the IT infrastructure of the bank. The ... major changes were in the offing in the near future. At another level there is reason enough to plead for normalization (in the immediate aftermath of the crisis) of other aspects of functioning ... with the promise of migrating to the internet. In this book we would briefly touch on the issues like web designing but the emphasis would be on integrating the new channel with the established...

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