I've noticed a surge in interest in the open-source foundations of my projects at work. We'll be presenting on Linux, Apache, Tomcat and Cocoon at an upcoming installment of the CTO's roundtable. There is considerable curiousity about how I'm funding my work in the current budget environment. The answer, of course, is that the stuff is free and runs on hand-me-down hardware.
<herb>It looks here as though your only costs are salary....</herb>
IMHO, this is the most important issue facing our nation at this point in time. If America cannot get this straight, how much more difficult to raise such issues in countries where suppression of dissent is overt.
This is not merely a matter of defending old-economy business models in the internet era; code-as-speech can be regarded a baseline necessity for the defense of our political freedoms in future.
Yes, I have run across this heroic effort, but every fiber of my being cries out against manual markup. I spent some time doing this sort of heavy lifting for a living and my wrists are shot. I am looking for the Perl magic: they's patterns in them thar ASCII!
I am surprised that they didn't stick on TEI as already thoroughly covering their problem domain. Too much detail, perhaps, although there are some high quality style sheets already available for transforming TEI instances.
At any rate, I am going to have a go at stylesheets for the gutbook dtd's and contribute those; let the younger fingers pound out the angle brackets.
I don't know that the current open ebook specification would pass a GPL test, but it is open, to the extent that it is XML and openly documented. You can write documents to it and view them in several of the currently available readers; whip out your XSLT processor to view HTML, etc. If they do their DRM (digital rights management) stuff properly, it will be an additional layer which will not inhibit the use and distribution of open content.
The greek term techne substantially covers the ground being argued here. The key aspect which joins these seemingly disparate sets is the practice of artifice in its most general sense. The term *artificial* is also helpful here, signifying as it does *man-made* We're makers. This level of generality bleeds into insignificance, I'll admit, but there is a grain of truth in the assertion.
The NEAR/Shoemaker gig was built and run out of Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. I think NASA gets credit for not much more than funding this project.
Haven't spent much time in Florida, John. Sunday is for Football and Jesus, in that order. The relationship is explicit. And yes, God loves a footballer; he likes those dances they do, too.
I am guessing you are right, but its not beyond the scope of a handful of interested hackers. What better place to generate a conversation on the value/viability of such tools?
The submission guidelines for PG are pretty strict. You certainly won't get any swanky formatting out of the deal, but a rudimentary tool (Perl?) to get some tags around the sections, etc; some structure to hang a process on. Is anyone working something like this?
An immoderator has apparently decided I'm a flamer just for asking.
As a history buff, I can assure that there is a large universe of information which is not now, and never will be, available from a quick search via google. There are not enough trained monkeys out there to get the vast majority of pre-digital texts onto the web.
That said, a good HTTP-based encyclopaedia is an almost perfect application of the technology and directly in keeping with the spirit of the original encyclopaedists: Voltaire, Diderot, et. al. It may be said that the project of the encyclopaedia defined the spirit of the Enlightenment: all human knowledge will at last be encapsulated within the covers of a book; available to ready cross-reference.
I broke down and bought a cell this year when my wife's second pregnancy got complicated. It is kept in her handbag and off unless an emergency. It's been used precisely once and it was worth every penny for that one call.
I have been an avid fan of the project for as long as I've been aware of it. My question has several parts pertaining to presentation technologies.
We're a long way from 1970 when ASCII was the only viable lingua franca for a network; is there any discussion of updating the file format for the project? Specifically, something *ML-ish which would allow for presentation in multiple output formats. I am thinking of the spread of e-book readers and the like and increasing the potential readership. With a proper infrastructure, project texts could even be rendered to adaptive browsers with VoxML or other technologies.
Secondly, if the project doesn't choose to modify its longstanding ASCII formatting standards, are there efforts afoot to programmatically apply some structured tagging on-the-fly to allow for easy translation by other tools? Is this an itch I'll have scratch for myself?
This closing statement encapsulates the consequences of Kaplan's reasoning in his decision. The amici are not accusing him of being a tool, or they suggest that they hope he is not, but ascribe to him a form of intellectual cowardice. He was unwilling to face the consequences of a correct judgement on the facts.
The Minneapolis Public Library main branch is well connected and terminals are in the main hallways off the foyer. Gentlemen with poor hygiene and sub-standard housing can be witnessed at these terminals surfing pr0n for much of the day.
It got so bad that women on the otherwise largely liberal library staff complained to the board that it was creating a hostile work environment.
I'm not advocating anything here, just an observation about the effectiveness of an open floor plan as a deterent.
Talk a walk with your babies. Read a book. Get in the car and drive. Boycott this garbage. The infotainment culture is a waste. These companies are betting the farm that the only thing we care to do with our precious free time is buy, buy, buy their product and their players, lease their shit software, watch their shit, listen to their shit. Don't consume! Produce!
Artists, stop playing along. These bastards know that this is a last gasp attempt to butter their bread before technology makes their whole distribution and licensing architecture obsolete. Start now.
A large corporate conglomerate (Mitsubishi, Hyundai, R.J. Reynolds, Vivendi Universal, AOL-TimeWarner, etc.) is very different from a holding company. The conglomerates consolidate the management of their diverse corporate holdings in order to realize economies of scale, leverage brand status, create synergies, choose a buzzword. They do, in fact produce things. They are legally responsible for everything their subsidiaries do, say and produce, subject to the effectiveness of their schools of land sharks.
A holding company is another animal, typically created in order to provide a legal umbrella for a large transaction. For example, Joe Company's bottom line is sagging and they are taking a hit in the market cap. They are having a hard time marketing their stock and the board has decided to take the company private, that is, buy all outstanding public stock. This is an expensive proposition and will require borrowing a lot of money. They call Phil's Merchant Banking and ask to borrow $3 billion against their current assets and expected growth. Phil says sure, I want a piece of the action; but finds it inconvenient to be seen as a majority investor. Phil incorporates Flaccid Investments, Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Phil's Merchant Banking, to hold the assets (debt and/or equity) that Phil controls as a result of the transaction. Five years later, when Joe Company goes IPO at twice the market cap, Phil cashes out, folds Flaccid and goes to Bermuda.
Any number of holding companies can be run out of a discrete little office on the fourteenth floor. Like it or not, they do provide value or they wouldn't be done.
What is patented here is the scheme of annotation of the index, not the idea of listing things in an index. Mr. Dewey Decimal might have patented his scheme if he had been smarter/greedier.
The basis for West Group patents is similar. West currently has a virtual monopoly on the print publication and indexing of positive law (case judgements, statutes, etc.), a monopoly it has extended to electronic publication and the WestLaw database. This form of legal reference is most useful for the research of precedent. Lexis/Nexis owns Shepard's Citations and Matthew-Bender, a large legal publisher. Lexis, with some overlap of WestLaw, indexes and databases treatises and forms which facilitate the development of contract language, the application of the law in a transactional or litigational context.
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I've noticed a surge in interest in the open-source foundations of my projects at work. We'll be presenting on Linux, Apache, Tomcat and Cocoon at an upcoming installment of the CTO's roundtable. There is considerable curiousity about how I'm funding my work in the current budget environment. The answer, of course, is that the stuff is free and runs on hand-me-down hardware.
<herb>It looks here as though your only costs are salary....</herb>
The daiper dandy! Its BSD, baby!
IMHO, this is the most important issue facing our nation at this point in time. If America cannot get this straight, how much more difficult to raise such issues in countries where suppression of dissent is overt.
This is not merely a matter of defending old-economy business models in the internet era; code-as-speech can be regarded a baseline necessity for the defense of our political freedoms in future.
decode and view
Haven't we got enough trouble with the semantics of this issue already?
Yes, I have run across this heroic effort, but every fiber of my being cries out against manual markup. I spent some time doing this sort of heavy lifting for a living and my wrists are shot. I am looking for the Perl magic: they's patterns in them thar ASCII!
I am surprised that they didn't stick on TEI as already thoroughly covering their problem domain. Too much detail, perhaps, although there are some high quality style sheets already available for transforming TEI instances.
At any rate, I am going to have a go at stylesheets for the gutbook dtd's and contribute those; let the younger fingers pound out the angle brackets.
I don't know that the current open ebook specification would pass a GPL test, but it is open, to the extent that it is XML and openly documented. You can write documents to it and view them in several of the currently available readers; whip out your XSLT processor to view HTML, etc. If they do their DRM (digital rights management) stuff properly, it will be an additional layer which will not inhibit the use and distribution of open content.
You have yanked my chain so fscking hard, I am going to have to sit down this evening and write a god-damn dissertation.
The greek term techne substantially covers the ground being argued here. The key aspect which joins these seemingly disparate sets is the practice of artifice in its most general sense. The term *artificial* is also helpful here, signifying as it does *man-made* We're makers. This level of generality bleeds into insignificance, I'll admit, but there is a grain of truth in the assertion.
I trust the young girl has learned to fall into uncomfortable silence when she finds herself in the company of people of color.
IANAL, but I believe you could use a service mark; it doesn't require you to sell anything tangible. It is undeniable that you are offering a service.
The NEAR/Shoemaker gig was built and run out of Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. I think NASA gets credit for not much more than funding this project.
Haven't spent much time in Florida, John. Sunday is for Football and Jesus, in that order. The relationship is explicit. And yes, God loves a footballer; he likes those dances they do, too.
Don't people working together like this have to be adults, with functional egos, integrated personalities, and a willingness to give-and-take?
You talkin' to me?!?
I am guessing you are right, but its not beyond the scope of a handful of interested hackers. What better place to generate a conversation on the value/viability of such tools?
The submission guidelines for PG are pretty strict. You certainly won't get any swanky formatting out of the deal, but a rudimentary tool (Perl?) to get some tags around the sections, etc; some structure to hang a process on. Is anyone working something like this?
An immoderator has apparently decided I'm a flamer just for asking.
As a history buff, I can assure that there is a large universe of information which is not now, and never will be, available from a quick search via google. There are not enough trained monkeys out there to get the vast majority of pre-digital texts onto the web.
That said, a good HTTP-based encyclopaedia is an almost perfect application of the technology and directly in keeping with the spirit of the original encyclopaedists: Voltaire, Diderot, et. al. It may be said that the project of the encyclopaedia defined the spirit of the Enlightenment: all human knowledge will at last be encapsulated within the covers of a book; available to ready cross-reference.
Righteous!!!
I broke down and bought a cell this year when my wife's second pregnancy got complicated. It is kept in her handbag and off unless an emergency. It's been used precisely once and it was worth every penny for that one call.
I have been an avid fan of the project for as long as I've been aware of it. My question has several parts pertaining to presentation technologies.
We're a long way from 1970 when ASCII was the only viable lingua franca for a network; is there any discussion of updating the file format for the project? Specifically, something *ML-ish which would allow for presentation in multiple output formats. I am thinking of the spread of e-book readers and the like and increasing the potential readership. With a proper infrastructure, project texts could even be rendered to adaptive browsers with VoxML or other technologies.
Secondly, if the project doesn't choose to modify its longstanding ASCII formatting standards, are there efforts afoot to programmatically apply some structured tagging on-the-fly to allow for easy translation by other tools? Is this an itch I'll have scratch for myself?
This closing statement encapsulates the consequences of Kaplan's reasoning in his decision. The amici are not accusing him of being a tool, or they suggest that they hope he is not, but ascribe to him a form of intellectual cowardice. He was unwilling to face the consequences of a correct judgement on the facts.
The Minneapolis Public Library main branch is well connected and terminals are in the main hallways off the foyer. Gentlemen with poor hygiene and sub-standard housing can be witnessed at these terminals surfing pr0n for much of the day.
It got so bad that women on the otherwise largely liberal library staff complained to the board that it was creating a hostile work environment.
I'm not advocating anything here, just an observation about the effectiveness of an open floor plan as a deterent.
right arm, brutha!
Talk a walk with your babies. Read a book. Get in the car and drive. Boycott this garbage. The infotainment culture is a waste. These companies are betting the farm that the only thing we care to do with our precious free time is buy, buy, buy their product and their players, lease their shit software, watch their shit, listen to their shit. Don't consume! Produce!
Artists, stop playing along. These bastards know that this is a last gasp attempt to butter their bread before technology makes their whole distribution and licensing architecture obsolete. Start now.
The punker ethos is the answer. DIY.
A large corporate conglomerate (Mitsubishi, Hyundai, R.J. Reynolds, Vivendi Universal, AOL-TimeWarner, etc.) is very different from a holding company. The conglomerates consolidate the management of their diverse corporate holdings in order to realize economies of scale, leverage brand status, create synergies, choose a buzzword. They do, in fact produce things. They are legally responsible for everything their subsidiaries do, say and produce, subject to the effectiveness of their schools of land sharks.
A holding company is another animal, typically created in order to provide a legal umbrella for a large transaction. For example, Joe Company's bottom line is sagging and they are taking a hit in the market cap. They are having a hard time marketing their stock and the board has decided to take the company private, that is, buy all outstanding public stock. This is an expensive proposition and will require borrowing a lot of money. They call Phil's Merchant Banking and ask to borrow $3 billion against their current assets and expected growth. Phil says sure, I want a piece of the action; but finds it inconvenient to be seen as a majority investor. Phil incorporates Flaccid Investments, Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Phil's Merchant Banking, to hold the assets (debt and/or equity) that Phil controls as a result of the transaction. Five years later, when Joe Company goes IPO at twice the market cap, Phil cashes out, folds Flaccid and goes to Bermuda.
Any number of holding companies can be run out of a discrete little office on the fourteenth floor. Like it or not, they do provide value or they wouldn't be done.
What is patented here is the scheme of annotation of the index, not the idea of listing things in an index. Mr. Dewey Decimal might have patented his scheme if he had been smarter/greedier.
The basis for West Group patents is similar. West currently has a virtual monopoly on the print publication and indexing of positive law (case judgements, statutes, etc.), a monopoly it has extended to electronic publication and the WestLaw database. This form of legal reference is most useful for the research of precedent. Lexis/Nexis owns Shepard's Citations and Matthew-Bender, a large legal publisher. Lexis, with some overlap of WestLaw, indexes and databases treatises and forms which facilitate the development of contract language, the application of the law in a transactional or litigational context.
My ironic post was intended to suggest that the fellow I replied to had lost his grip on reality, capice?
And I have already reproduced. My sophisticated humor will live on! Nothing can halt the advance of my sarcasm, my oblique jibes, my witticisms!
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Someone should mention to the W3C that XSL is a Microsoft-only technology so they can stop wasting their time with it.