Mod up. Both BB and QNS have excelled in rock-solid enterprise support, not shiny consumer-pleasing stuff, like Apple. Exhibit 1. Blackberry maps vs. Google maps on BB. No contest. So do I think that BB will leverage this to create & 'compelling in-car experience'? Nope.
FTA: "It is believed that Google’s royalties account for about 80-90% of Mozilla’s entire revenues. The royalty contract will end in 2011."
So they can kill FF soon. Although they're already doing a pretty good job feature-wise.
This has been discussed on/. before. Will "don't be evil" be enough to stop them killing a strategic competitor? Anyways, as shown by the article, for the moment IE, (in all its versions) remains the one to catch. How many corporations, (some still stuck with ActiveX shitware and IE6, remember), would accept Google's 'forced upgrade' policy for Chrome?
So, the Frankenstein monster is disowned by its creator. Excellent. Encourage your clients, friends and families to use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument Fully supported by all the major office suites, including of course Oo.
"representatives from Microsoft attempted to argue that Sun Microsystems, the creators and supporters of the competing OpenDocument format (ODF), could not be given a seat at the conference table because there was a lack of chairs."
I have always been a proponent of an expense based solution, whereby it should cost 10 cents to send an email by making every message a legal account-to-account transaction, with the recipient able to waive the fee upon reading.
An interesting idea, but have you thought it through? What would be the payment mechanism? Would would collect the money, and what would it be used for? More importantly, how long would it be before it was simply bypassed?
"The New York state Consumer Protection Board warns those who follow Kevin Trudeau's advice to call a toll-free number for information that Trudeau is selling their name and contact information to telemarketers and junk mailers."
OK, I'll bite. How about you had a car that used to have a removable roof, so that - when you felt like it - you could drop the top and enjoy the free air and sunshine. It comes back from the garage after a mandatory 'safety' recall, and - without consulting you - they've locked the roof closed forever. Does not sound like the car you originally purchased...
was to develop rockets to return humans to the moon
I'm confused. How did they get here in the first place? Just because they don't like it here, does not mean that we have to send 'em back on NASA's dime, dammit. I mean, what have the Lunar humans ever done for us?
I never cease to be amazed and geekily interested in the vast number of applications that people find with for Google maps & earth data. That and the GPS are, for me, great examples of the gov/military and private enterprise really giving something back to the community. Now if only we can have street maps & associated guidance software of the same quality as the commercial stuff. http://www.openstreetmap.org/ is a good start, but it has a long way to go...
Seems to me that legitimate businesses with an internet presence spend a lot of time & money on trying to be known. Why would a legit business want to be anon? For people posting in fear of their lives, there's Wikileaks... This is not the way to defeat spammers and others.
"Having recently acquired an iPod Touch, DeviceGuru blogger Rick Lehrbaum soon found himself with an 80GB iPod paperweight knocking around and collecting dust. Then it hit him: Why not earn some cash by getting a lame article published on/.!"
Who reads The Economist? The same people who read any publication. Those that find it interesting and useful. But also those who, broadly, tend to share it's viewpoint.
Their articles tend to be more balanced and more considered
I'm an Economist subscriber, and although I clearly enjoy it, would point out that the Economist does have strong right-wing, free-market bias IMHO.
People have been trying to block the spread of ideas since before the invention of the printing press. They've always failed. If people want stuff from Exit, then they'll find a way; if not the internet, then via paper. How would the Oz Gov justify, for example, banning a site that gave out just the address to write to Exit? Or a site where you could leave your name and address to receive information? I understand the motivation for blocking interactive sites for paedophiles to exchange their revolting material, but a static public information service? Epic fail.
Give me access to broadband, and then I'll worry about censorship, packet-sniffing/filtering and denial of service for abusive torrenting. Granted, there are very worrying trends worldwide about monitoring and controlling people's internet access, and the UK Gov. has a poor record on respect for human rights. But if I cannot even get onto the damn internet, then the point is moot.
For corporate officers, it's essential. The problem arises when scare resources, and inadequate competence, mean that 'are we secure?' becomes 'are we complying?' Hence the tenancy to run towards out of the box 'solutions' that are often far from 100% secure. We, (IT guys) have our share of responsibility; it's very difficult, (but not impossible), to get senior management to take this point seriously. Tip: I normally wait for a 'AMG Google hacked by the Chinese' news item before pouncing...
Also no Firefox allowed in the App store, which is what would REALLY force multi-touch Safari to get more usable.
Yup, would fix all the problems you raise, for a start...plus you'd get all the lovely Firefox plugins... But how could they allow Firefox and not Flash? The browser is too close to the operating systems these days, (viz. Google with Chrome) so there's no way Apple will ever allow you out of the Safari park. Unless they're forced to, like M$ in Europe having to offer different browser choices.
C'mon, it's not that hard.... Just type 'songbird' into your browser & you'll be here: http://www.getsongbird.com/
A great way of NOT using iTunes...this news sucks since I have multiple boxen with everything from BSD to Win7 chez moi, and the kids all have iPods & iPhones...
Actually, I think that the courts pretty much demonstrated good understanding of technology in the first judgement. It's normal that the plaintiff should have a right of appeal - that does not mean he'll win, or that the appeal court does not 'get' the Web.
This case hinges on whether or not linking is publishing, which - under the admittedly fairly bonkers rules of English-based defamation laws, (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation), determines whether or not someone has been libellous, (since we're talking about the written, rather than the spoken word).
In the initial judgement, the Court reasoned, "...hyperlinks...are analogous to footnotes, rather than constituting a 'republication.' "
In other words, he did not repeat the libel, so no case.
The rich get richer, the poor, well, stay poor. Nothing has changed since the times of Pareto...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilfredo_Pareto (Take a look - the original '80/20' was 80% of the land was owned by 20% of the people) These days, it's more like 90% of the world's wealth belongs to 10% of its population.
If you've got the money to have to worry about these things, then you can pay smart people to avoid tax. Note I said avoid, (legal), not evade, which is not.
It is the duty of corporate officers to (legally) minimise tax burden.
It is the duty of governments to ensure equitable distribution of wealth, without discouraging wealth creation.
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Mod up.
Both BB and QNS have excelled in rock-solid enterprise support, not shiny consumer-pleasing stuff, like Apple.
Exhibit 1. Blackberry maps vs. Google maps on BB. No contest.
So do I think that BB will leverage this to create & 'compelling in-car experience'? Nope.
Mod up. OP sounds like a reasonable guy, but I've used Sharepoint and it's nothing like as good as the alternatives, (many of which are free).
FTA: "It is believed that Google’s royalties account for about 80-90% of Mozilla’s entire revenues. The royalty contract will end in 2011."
So they can kill FF soon. Although they're already doing a pretty good job feature-wise.
This has been discussed on /. before. Will "don't be evil" be enough to stop them killing a strategic competitor?
Anyways, as shown by the article, for the moment IE, (in all its versions) remains the one to catch.
How many corporations, (some still stuck with ActiveX shitware and IE6, remember), would accept Google's 'forced upgrade' policy for Chrome?
So, the Frankenstein monster is disowned by its creator. Excellent.
Encourage your clients, friends and families to use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument
Fully supported by all the major office suites, including of course Oo.
"representatives from Microsoft attempted to argue that Sun Microsystems, the creators and supporters of the competing OpenDocument format (ODF), could not be given a seat at the conference table because there was a lack of chairs."
I have always been a proponent of an expense based solution, whereby it should cost 10 cents to send an email by making every message a legal account-to-account transaction, with the recipient able to waive the fee upon reading.
An interesting idea, but have you thought it through? What would be the payment mechanism? Would would collect the money, and what would it be used for?
More importantly, how long would it be before it was simply bypassed?
Trudo is a blowhard fraud AND a spammer. That's probably why the judge got pissed. See:
http://www.skepdic.com/trudeau.html
"The New York state Consumer Protection Board warns those who follow Kevin Trudeau's advice to call a toll-free number for information that Trudeau is selling their name and contact information to telemarketers and junk mailers."
and...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Trudeau#2010:_Arrest_and_imprisonment_for_criminal_contempt_of_court
http://www.ftc.gov/os/caselist/0323064.shtm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/01/trudeau.shtm
Sounds like he deserves whatever he gets...
If Amazon forwards the bill to Sony, how will Sony respond?"
Sony will pay Amazon, no problem. There's less 'class action' frenzy in Europe, so it will probably be peanuts...
OK, I'll bite.
How about you had a car that used to have a removable roof, so that - when you felt like it - you could drop the top and enjoy the free air and sunshine.
It comes back from the garage after a mandatory 'safety' recall, and - without consulting you - they've locked the roof closed forever.
Does not sound like the car you originally purchased...
was to develop rockets to return humans to the moon
I'm confused. How did they get here in the first place?
Just because they don't like it here, does not mean that we have to send 'em back on NASA's dime, dammit.
I mean, what have the Lunar humans ever done for us?
Or it could be more prosaic, like a release of toxic gas...
http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/hazards/gas/index.php
I never cease to be amazed and geekily interested in the vast number of applications that people find with for Google maps & earth data.
That and the GPS are, for me, great examples of the gov/military and private enterprise really giving something back to the community.
Now if only we can have street maps & associated guidance software of the same quality as the commercial stuff.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/ is a good start, but it has a long way to go...
Seems to me that legitimate businesses with an internet presence spend a lot of time & money on trying to be known.
Why would a legit business want to be anon?
For people posting in fear of their lives, there's Wikileaks...
This is not the way to defeat spammers and others.
"Having recently acquired an iPod Touch, DeviceGuru blogger Rick Lehrbaum soon found himself with an 80GB iPod paperweight knocking around and collecting dust. Then it hit him: Why not earn some cash by getting a lame article published on /.!"
Who reads The Economist? The same people who read any publication. Those that find it interesting and useful.
But also those who, broadly, tend to share it's viewpoint.
Their articles tend to be more balanced and more considered
I'm an Economist subscriber, and although I clearly enjoy it, would point out that the Economist does have strong right-wing, free-market bias IMHO.
People have been trying to block the spread of ideas since before the invention of the printing press.
They've always failed.
If people want stuff from Exit, then they'll find a way; if not the internet, then via paper.
How would the Oz Gov justify, for example, banning a site that gave out just the address to write to Exit?
Or a site where you could leave your name and address to receive information?
I understand the motivation for blocking interactive sites for paedophiles to exchange their revolting material, but a static public information service?
Epic fail.
Give me access to broadband, and then I'll worry about censorship, packet-sniffing/filtering and denial of service for abusive torrenting.
Granted, there are very worrying trends worldwide about monitoring and controlling people's internet access, and the UK Gov. has a poor record on respect for human rights.
But if I cannot even get onto the damn internet, then the point is moot.
For corporate officers, it's essential.
The problem arises when scare resources, and inadequate competence, mean that 'are we secure?' becomes 'are we complying?'
Hence the tenancy to run towards out of the box 'solutions' that are often far from 100% secure.
We, (IT guys) have our share of responsibility; it's very difficult, (but not impossible), to get senior management to take this point seriously.
Tip: I normally wait for a 'AMG Google hacked by the Chinese' news item before pouncing...
Also no Firefox allowed in the App store, which is what would REALLY force multi-touch Safari to get more usable.
Yup, would fix all the problems you raise, for a start...plus you'd get all the lovely Firefox plugins...
But how could they allow Firefox and not Flash?
The browser is too close to the operating systems these days, (viz. Google with Chrome) so there's no way Apple will ever allow you out of the Safari park.
Unless they're forced to, like M$ in Europe having to offer different browser choices.
C'mon, it's not that hard....
Just type 'songbird' into your browser & you'll be here: http://www.getsongbird.com/
A great way of NOT using iTunes...this news sucks since I have multiple boxen with everything from BSD to Win7 chez moi, and the kids all have iPods & iPhones...
Actually, I think that the courts pretty much demonstrated good understanding of technology in the first judgement.
It's normal that the plaintiff should have a right of appeal - that does not mean he'll win, or that the appeal court does not 'get' the Web.
This case hinges on whether or not linking is publishing, which - under the admittedly fairly bonkers rules of English-based defamation laws, (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation), determines whether or not someone has been libellous, (since we're talking about the written, rather than the spoken word).
In the initial judgement, the Court reasoned, "...hyperlinks...are analogous to footnotes, rather than constituting a 'republication.' "
In other words, he did not repeat the libel, so no case.
Gasp! Well, no actually.
This stupid case was tossed out in the first instance, and will certainly lose in the second...
Enough with the sensationalist headlines already.
Indeed. Note that I said above 'equitable' !='equal' which is utopian.
A point that AC seems to have missed.
"It is the duty of governments to ensure equitable distribution of wealth"
I don't think I've seen this in any constitution, but I think I know what manifesto this comes from.
Please don't misquote me, AC, by partially quoting me. You left out "without discouraging wealth creation".
I'm far from being a Marxist. Liberal, yeah, I can live with that.
The rich get richer, the poor, well, stay poor.
Nothing has changed since the times of Pareto...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilfredo_Pareto
(Take a look - the original '80/20' was 80% of the land was owned by 20% of the people)
These days, it's more like 90% of the world's wealth belongs to 10% of its population.
If you've got the money to have to worry about these things, then you can pay smart people to avoid tax.
Note I said avoid, (legal), not evade, which is not.
It is the duty of corporate officers to (legally) minimise tax burden.
It is the duty of governments to ensure equitable distribution of wealth, without discouraging wealth creation.
Guess who's doing a better job...