See, it depends. If we want the kids to know that God is a disinterested chap, that cup size is the primary determinant for getting into Heaven, and that hamsters are good for more than just tasty sandwiches (wha?) then this ought to go on the stack.
The IFPI's gameplan seems to be to establish precedent with a smaller ISP, in this case Tele2.
The other ISPs in the Danish market though do not seem to be willing to play along (yes, I just linked to a Danish article. No, I'm not translating the WHOLE THING!):
The top part goes something like:
ISPs Ignore Bailiff's Ban on thepiratebay.org - Frustrated ISPs are continuing to hold the door to thepiratebay.org open, even if the bailiffs court has asked Tele2 to close down access.
So, what with most of the ISPs digging their heels in it doesn't look quite so cut and dried yet.
I liked that comment. It's almost precisely what I did with my novel. Release for free and see if it creates a name that can go places.
It being my first, no agents or publishers were willing to talk. Now at 5 months after release it's at around 7K downloads. Debut authors just don't get that kind of exposure. At all.
So I concur. Do pro bono work (FOSS in your case, Creative Commons licensed literature in mine) and let that open doors for you.
This is clearly a hoax. I read the bill, and it says "terrorist" and not "terrrrrrrist". This definitely isn't the work of the American government.
Quick, pull the other one.
IMO, the biggest obstacle is the digital divide. The prevalining and overwhelming majority of people in the world are economically and socially dispossessed, which one can only imagine deprives the rest of us of people who would otherwise have contributed richly to IT development.
Radiohead themselves will define whether or not it was a success.
If they end up making more money off this album than if they had released it through traditional means I would say that would be an attractive means of distrobution.
I don't think that making money is the only benchmark for success. Otherwise, the novel I released online for free under a CC license is a failure (I personally don't think so; how many debut authors get ~ 4K downloads in the first two months?)
The author doesn't seem to have looked very closely at the symbian python implementation.
Its almost impossible to test the application without signing it.
Not true for s60 python scripts. You just copy them over and run them from the interpreter. Done.
Developing native applications is only for people who plan to develop free applications or for big organizations, getting a certificate for a free application can take weeks if not months. Its no longer seems like a platform for hobbyist programmers.
So, em, why this big imperative to develop "native" applications then? I thought python, perl, ruby, tcl/tk did away with the "native application" bigotry along time ago...
The python implementation for s60v3 is actually pretty clean. I seem to recall an article from one of the id guys (was it Carmack or Romero?) on the nightmare of developing Java ME apps, what with differences in implementation from one device to another.
Shiny handheld frontends look nice on a project proposal, but in the field there's often very good reasons why they just don't work out the way they were expected to. In microfinance, handheld frontends are much talked about as a means of lowering transaction costs but in a research paper (probably from the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor, but I forget), the majority of such solutions failed to have any discernible impact on operations or on efficiency other than the disruption of rolling them out. I had made a comment on the sahana mailing list which summarizes my feelings:
PDAs are not cheap
PDAs are therefore (and for other reasons such as demand, or the lack of in developing nations) very far from ubiquitous.
Break a PDA and it's an issue (replacement, management making a fuss and having to replace, yadda yadda; you know how it goes)
PDAs require a certain level of sophistication to operate (yes, I know everything requires some training. But if you mishandle a PDA, you replace it. PAper is more redundant, and commodity PCs too)
PDAs require an extra little bit of logistics; charging, synchronization facilities and schedules, etc.
I don't like pointing out problems without solutions. It might be a good idea to replicate the functionality of the PDAs as far as possible in paper, and then to have bulk entry facilities in Sahana. I know that PDAs are the optimal solution in terms of using technology the way it was supposed to, but situational realities can dictate otherwise.
I think it's dangerous to assume that the people who will be in control of the conduits through which the system acquires information are sophisticated to the extent that they can successfully handle a PDA, yet it is good design to have facilities for people who can.
And since we're looking at F/LOSS ICT4D projects, I can think of no more worthy a project than Mifos (disclaimer, I was involved in this project): a shared open source microfinance platform in Java. Worth a look if you're a Java coder and would like to pitch in!
I think (hindsight is always 20 20) that the biggest mistake has been allowing code copyright to disperse and remain untracked. Some contributors are DEAD now. The problem with this is that it makes project relicensing just about impossible, amongst other things. This is one of the reasons why other projects require joint copyright assignment if not straight assignment, such as apache.
Legal environments change; without wanting to descend into a GPLv3 flamewar, I think it's critical that free software projects ensure they have the flexibility to relicense appropriately in the future to adjust.
You aren't building automobiles or painting teapots. You are a support function and not a line function.
You should have business plan objectives. These things are usually annual; there can be longer strategic objectives. If the person who set these things did it right, they should be measurable.
What I'm trying to say is, if you're banging your head against the wall trying to figure out how your performance should be measured, your higher up didn't set your objectives correctly.
This doesn't apply anywhere and everywhere. When the organization is in the business of IT itself, you might be measured differently since you'd then be contributing directly to the organization's core business. But from the description provided, it sounds like you're not.
Q: India is one of the major producers of software engineers, yet we don't contribute much to the Linux domain. What do you think is keeping Indians from becoming proactive on that front?
From the opensource.org license-discuss mailing list (just today!):
From: meteor <emailaddychanged@iiitb.ac.in>
To: license-discuss@opensource.org
Subject: Browsers
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 02:41:00 -0700 (PDT)
Hi all,
as compared to you all am only a starter as far as opensource softwares go
and so i need some help from u guys. I am developing an application for PDA
and require a light-weight browser for it. I have got an option of using
Firefox but can nebody suggest me a lighter browser. Any kind of help will
be appreciated.
Even though your second point is made with much emotion, it still made me think it's pointless to nitpick about spelling. I probably diluted the message of my post by doing just that.
The first point also I did not know; spelling it with an `i' felt instinctively wrong, and my usually reliable spelling faculties let me down this time. Thanks for that one too, albeit a bit more directly.
Some of the discussion around this issue revolves around URI validation. Given that third parties can assign their own handlers, I don't think it's the browser's job to validate URIs, but it can provide the facilities to do so.
It would probably just be simpler to disable this functionality by default; I suspect not many people are really using their browser to launch other applications or do much beyond straightforward browsing (you konqueror people are something completely different!), or at least not to any meaningful extent. Where they are, some form of URI whitelist could do the job.
I don't think browsers are going to stop being capable of launching applications overnight; I fully acknowledge that a lot of enterprise systems rely on this. But it can certainly be done more responsibly.
I'm not going to rag on the writer of TFA since he makes it clear he's presenting things from the perspective of a developer, but from the business side, no way. Ever.
Perhaps they had no option, but Novell deserve praise for taking on the fight with SCO
This is why I read slashdot. Where else do you find editors with such mental agility that they can completely contradict themselves in the mere space of 16 words?
From the mysterious future, I bring you this headline:
Sweden launches nubile virgins straight into the heart of the Sun. After all, it shines on us every day. I mean, it doesn' exactly have much else to do, but we need an empty reason to express gratitude. Thank you Sweden for honoring the Sun's contribution to our civilization.
I would love in the near future to read about how they determined that the machines were compromised
Well. I mean, 5 of 8 machines were already totally owned by the time they worked it out. I don't think documenting the discovery process is going to do anyone any favors. Unless we're going to be composing a Linux Administration HOWTO: Best of Bloopers.
Slashdot Mirror
Then again...
Parenting classes? Me? Why? Oh come onnnnnnnnn...
The other ISPs in the Danish market though do not seem to be willing to play along (yes, I just linked to a Danish article. No, I'm not translating the WHOLE THING!):
The top part goes something like:
ISPs Ignore Bailiff's Ban on thepiratebay.org - Frustrated ISPs are continuing to hold the door to thepiratebay.org open, even if the bailiffs court has asked Tele2 to close down access.
So, what with most of the ISPs digging their heels in it doesn't look quite so cut and dried yet.
I liked that comment. It's almost precisely what I did with my novel. Release for free and see if it creates a name that can go places. It being my first, no agents or publishers were willing to talk. Now at 5 months after release it's at around 7K downloads. Debut authors just don't get that kind of exposure. At all. So I concur. Do pro bono work (FOSS in your case, Creative Commons licensed literature in mine) and let that open doors for you.
This is clearly a hoax. I read the bill, and it says "terrorist" and not "terrrrrrrist". This definitely isn't the work of the American government. Quick, pull the other one.
IMO, the biggest obstacle is the digital divide. The prevalining and overwhelming majority of people in the world are economically and socially dispossessed, which one can only imagine deprives the rest of us of people who would otherwise have contributed richly to IT development.
I don't think that making money is the only benchmark for success. Otherwise, the novel I released online for free under a CC license is a failure (I personally don't think so; how many debut authors get ~ 4K downloads in the first two months?)
Its almost impossible to test the application without signing it.
Not true for s60 python scripts. You just copy them over and run them from the interpreter. Done.
Developing native applications is only for people who plan to develop free applications or for big organizations, getting a certificate for a free application can take weeks if not months. Its no longer seems like a platform for hobbyist programmers.
So, em, why this big imperative to develop "native" applications then? I thought python, perl, ruby, tcl/tk did away with the "native application" bigotry along time ago...
The python implementation for s60v3 is actually pretty clean. I seem to recall an article from one of the id guys (was it Carmack or Romero?) on the nightmare of developing Java ME apps, what with differences in implementation from one device to another.
I don't like pointing out problems without solutions. It might be a good idea to replicate the functionality of the PDAs as far as possible in paper, and then to have bulk entry facilities in Sahana. I know that PDAs are the optimal solution in terms of using technology the way it was supposed to, but situational realities can dictate otherwise.
I think it's dangerous to assume that the people who will be in control of the conduits through which the system acquires information are sophisticated to the extent that they can successfully handle a PDA, yet it is good design to have facilities for people who can.
And since we're looking at F/LOSS ICT4D projects, I can think of no more worthy a project than Mifos (disclaimer, I was involved in this project): a shared open source microfinance platform in Java. Worth a look if you're a Java coder and would like to pitch in!
I'm not sure why you got modded down. You're pretty obviously correct.
That, and this
I think (hindsight is always 20 20) that the biggest mistake has been allowing code copyright to disperse and remain untracked. Some contributors are DEAD now. The problem with this is that it makes project relicensing just about impossible, amongst other things. This is one of the reasons why other projects require joint copyright assignment if not straight assignment, such as apache.
Legal environments change; without wanting to descend into a GPLv3 flamewar, I think it's critical that free software projects ensure they have the flexibility to relicense appropriately in the future to adjust.
Linux does not enjoy this distinct advantage.
You aren't building automobiles or painting teapots. You are a support function and not a line function.
You should have business plan objectives. These things are usually annual; there can be longer strategic objectives. If the person who set these things did it right, they should be measurable.
What I'm trying to say is, if you're banging your head against the wall trying to figure out how your performance should be measured, your higher up didn't set your objectives correctly.
This doesn't apply anywhere and everywhere. When the organization is in the business of IT itself, you might be measured differently since you'd then be contributing directly to the organization's core business. But from the description provided, it sounds like you're not.
Unless, of course, the AI is just holding back. Just a thought... STOP
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Forbidden fruit and all.
From the opensource.org license-discuss mailing list (just today!):
From: meteor <emailaddychanged@iiitb.ac.in>
To: license-discuss@opensource.org
Subject: Browsers
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 02:41:00 -0700 (PDT)
Hi all, as compared to you all am only a starter as far as opensource softwares go and so i need some help from u guys. I am developing an application for PDA and require a light-weight browser for it. I have got an option of using Firefox but can nebody suggest me a lighter browser. Any kind of help will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Regards
meteor
Well, it isn't for lack of trying...
Contributing to the prevention of teen pregnancy since 1974! (and not through any fault of the girls either)
The first point also I did not know; spelling it with an `i' felt instinctively wrong, and my usually reliable spelling faculties let me down this time. Thanks for that one too, albeit a bit more directly.
Which is precisely why it won't work. What one tool can detect, another can circumvent.
Oh, and it's detectable and not detectible. Don't know what moron at news.com.com hired Taco...
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It would probably just be simpler to disable this functionality by default; I suspect not many people are really using their browser to launch other applications or do much beyond straightforward browsing (you konqueror people are something completely different!), or at least not to any meaningful extent. Where they are, some form of URI whitelist could do the job.
I don't think browsers are going to stop being capable of launching applications overnight; I fully acknowledge that a lot of enterprise systems rely on this. But it can certainly be done more responsibly.
That is freaky. I wrote the precise same thing in my CC licensed novel which I just launched online a week ago!
Office and Windows are what is keeping Microsoft alive, and they know it.
Read, and read.
I'm not going to rag on the writer of TFA since he makes it clear he's presenting things from the perspective of a developer, but from the business side, no way. Ever.
This is why I read slashdot. Where else do you find editors with such mental agility that they can completely contradict themselves in the mere space of 16 words?
From the mysterious future, I bring you this headline:
Sweden launches nubile virgins straight into the heart of the Sun. After all, it shines on us every day. I mean, it doesn' exactly have much else to do, but we need an empty reason to express gratitude. Thank you Sweden for honoring the Sun's contribution to our civilization.
Well. I mean, 5 of 8 machines were already totally owned by the time they worked it out. I don't think documenting the discovery process is going to do anyone any favors. Unless we're going to be composing a Linux Administration HOWTO: Best of Bloopers.
Copyright gets infringed, licenses get violated.
To: security@forensicts.co.uk
Subject: Stolen server
Have you found our stolen server yet? I emailed you about it two hours ago and haven't heard back from you yet.
Regards,
Mildred T. Winterbottom, CEO