I said "engineering groups"... Certainly civil engineering predates all other branches by several millenia.
What I mean is that IEEE is a behemoth. They have roughly 370,000 members worldwide and about 40 societies. Roughly two-thirds of that number is in the US alone. ASCE's total membership is under 150,000.
I'm also an IEEE member and I realize that IEEE-USA is not the same as IEEE proper, but it's entirely appropriate that, as the US organizational unit of IEEE, IEEE-USA is developing these position papers, in accordance with its mandate:
"To recommend policies and implement programs specifically intended to serve and benefit the members, the profession, and the public in the United States in appropriate professional areas of economic, ethical, legislative, social and technology policy concern." (emphasis mine)
DMCA is a US problem first. For good or bad, the IEEE doesn't have the mandate to advocate public policy in specific countries. It's primarily an academic/professional body. Part of the reason IEEE-USA exists is to circumvent that shortcoming...
To put it simply, I don't think this is insignificant... It's no coup, but it's nothing to sneeze at either...
I think it's important to point out that this is the mother of all engineering groups we're talking about here. These are not exactly hot-headed activists. That may make their words a little more tame, but - one hopes - their message all the more potent.
Then challange(sic) the contract and have a court determine if it is illegal. Just because you think it is dosen't(sic) make it illegal. Untill(sic) that happens, all you have is an opinion.
Why in hell would you upset the status quo? You could just as easily say "I prefer to wait until the service provider I'm paying terminates my contract or sues me for breach thereof." Because, in this case, the onus is really on the service provider to uphold the contract as they are apparently the ones with something to lose. If, in fact, they don't pursue individuals who violate this TOS, it could be construed as tacit consent (i.e., "it's not worth our time").
The lack of alternatives is - you say - because there doesn't appear to be demand for them.
Therefore, your solution is for potential customers to boycott the only available service.
I'm sorry, but I don't see what this could accomplish other than the bankruptcy of the only available ISP already in your area (which would only serve to further scare away competing interests).
Under the circumstances, violating an unreasonable term of service is perfectly justified. It is unreasonable because it is not a useful measure of "services rendered", nor does it affect the provider any more than having multiple telephones in your home affects your telco. This bit of extra-contractual activity ensures that the provider stays in business and will eventually engender competition in your area.
If the service provider has a real interest in upholding this TOS, they can always terminate the contracts of offending parties. They will, as a matter of course, lose the revenue from those parties. I really wonder which is more important to them - pedantry or profits.
Alright, you asked for it... No fewer than three times (possibly more, can't recall exactly), characters see spirits walking about in broad daylight. It seems that only some people are capable of seeing them at this point.
The first one is Elayne's maid, who sees her dead grandmother in a hallway. Next is Perrin's party, who come across a town that's so freaked out by ghosts they've been killing each other by accident (several of Perrin's people see ghosts walk into walls and stuff). Finally, on a road into a town, Mat avoids some bustling villagers which Tuon can't see. When Tuon asks him why he's jumping around, he turns around and realizes there was nobody there.
I would love for somebody to point out where this is foreshadowed in the previous 9 books, but I don't think it is... You'd think that with 700 pages of very little else, Jordan could have squeezed in an explanation of some sort. The opening paragraph - the prophecy - makes some mention of "all that is, all that was and all that will be" balancing on the edge of a sword... Not sure if that's supposed to be foreshadowing, but, as usual, we'll have to wait...
I think I need a support group to discuss this book...
It's a disappointment. For about 98% of the book, absolutely nothing happens! It's just the ridiculous everyday musings of the main characters. During that 2% of the time when we're not learning about the weather or grain prices, each character does the total opposite of following common sense.
Has it not occurred to anybody else reading these books that maybe the principal characters could help themselves and everyone else out by Traveling to actually talk to each other? For all the time they waste thinking about the weather, you'd think they could devote an hour of their time to figuring out what the others are up to... As it stands, the series has devolved into one contrived plot device after another...
***MINOR SPOILER ALERT***
To top it all off, now Jordan is turning this into a freakin' ghost story???? WTF???
*** END SPOILER ***
You said it yourself, it's a book of season finales... poorly conceived, deliberately obtuse twists in the final two paragraphs of several chapters of useless narrative that do nothing except piss you off because you'll have to wait another two years to find out what the hell is going on. By which time you'll have forgotten what the original plot twist was to begin with.
Reading WOT has gotten to be extremely frustrating... It used to be fun - following all the characters as they developed from country folk into Important People - but it's become mired in mundane minutae while Jordan appears to be dragging this thing out indefinitely to give himself a healthy paycheque until he retires.
They appear to have some staff working on manufacturing in Ukraine, so it would seem that they may have the capability to build new rockets. However, I'm sure it's much more cost-effective for them to buy SS-18's from the Russian military. Given the former USSR's massive aresenal of ICBMs, this is probably a sound business plan for at least the next two decades.
By that time, I sure hope we have better ways of getting payloads into orbit than by sitting them atop a couple hundred tons of solid fuel.
I was watching ESPN the other day at a bar and a commercial came on for Hitman 2. EA has boatloads of TV spots on for their sports games - particularly during sports telecasts. Who-da-thunkit?
As for the thinly-veiled advertisements like Entertainment Tonight... it's a tough comparison. ET and its ilk spend most of their time delivering gossip about the stars of movies and only occasionally toss in info about upcoming movies. Since game developers have yet to reach moviestar status (how many people - outside of the geek community - do you know that would recognize John Carmack?), you're going to have a tough time filling 22 minutes each day with game gossip/news.
Not only that, but why would gamers sit around the tube if they can just hit a website with all the news they want and even playable demos?
Gaming is a huge business, but it's a distant cousin of television - unlike movies.
True enough, but it still results in more silicon going to waste...
Who knows? Maybe they'll do this at some point in the future? Perhaps, once they've worked out the bugs at their new fab, they'll be able to produce multi-core dies with the same yields as they anticipate from single-core dies.
Putting two CPU cores on a single die is also more costly, as you are basically doubling your failure rates. So if you were tossing out 5-10% of dies when they were single-core due to defects, it's within the realm of possibility that you'll need to scrap 10-15% of your dual-core dies, ceteris paribus.
Even a miniscule difference in yields can mean big $$$.
Ha! Microsoft has taken down the page in question. It now leads to a Sorry, there is no Microsoft webpage matching your request page.
I guess astro-turf (see the link to Getty Royalty-Free photography elsewhere in the comments) switch campaigns aren't as good as the real thing once they're discovered... Can't blame them for trying though.
It's a good thing Apple will make that extra $80 million by switching to x86, cause it'll sure come in handy when virtually all of their flagship developers jump ship after yet ANOTHER platform switch (to a platform with zero chance of binary compatibility, no less).
That $80 million will help them stave off bankruptcy for like a whole six months!
From what I've heard, it's because a Bluetooth kit was originally intended to be a sub-$5 part... Before this year, nobody had brought a Bluetooth solution to market for under $50.
Hardly sounds 'revolutionary', more a matter of politics and getting everyone to agree.
Bah... If you're going to knock something, at least make the effort to know wtf you're talking about. Otherwise, you come off looking like a real jackass. (BTW, innovative != revolutionary)
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And 1/4 the quality!
This urban legend deserves to be mentioned on its own in reference to the Ask Slashdot question... =)
CV = curriculum vitae. Latin for "course of life", more or less.
If you think Delphi is bad, you'd crap yourself at the amount of COBOL that's still in use at major financial institutions.
Easy there... you know it's possible that - out of the hundreds of products Apple makes - people might only like a select few?
Where is it written "Thou must love all Apple products or be labelled a hypocrite?"
What I mean is that IEEE is a behemoth. They have roughly 370,000 members worldwide and about 40 societies. Roughly two-thirds of that number is in the US alone. ASCE's total membership is under 150,000.
I think it's important to point out that this is the mother of all engineering groups we're talking about here. These are not exactly hot-headed activists. That may make their words a little more tame, but - one hopes - their message all the more potent.
Why in hell would you upset the status quo? You could just as easily say "I prefer to wait until the service provider I'm paying terminates my contract or sues me for breach thereof." Because, in this case, the onus is really on the service provider to uphold the contract as they are apparently the ones with something to lose. If, in fact, they don't pursue individuals who violate this TOS, it could be construed as tacit consent (i.e., "it's not worth our time").
I'm sorry, but I don't see what this could accomplish other than the bankruptcy of the only available ISP already in your area (which would only serve to further scare away competing interests).
Under the circumstances, violating an unreasonable term of service is perfectly justified. It is unreasonable because it is not a useful measure of "services rendered", nor does it affect the provider any more than having multiple telephones in your home affects your telco. This bit of extra-contractual activity ensures that the provider stays in business and will eventually engender competition in your area.
If the service provider has a real interest in upholding this TOS, they can always terminate the contracts of offending parties. They will, as a matter of course, lose the revenue from those parties. I really wonder which is more important to them - pedantry or profits.
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Alright, you asked for it... No fewer than three times (possibly more, can't recall exactly), characters see spirits walking about in broad daylight. It seems that only some people are capable of seeing them at this point.
The first one is Elayne's maid, who sees her dead grandmother in a hallway. Next is Perrin's party, who come across a town that's so freaked out by ghosts they've been killing each other by accident (several of Perrin's people see ghosts walk into walls and stuff). Finally, on a road into a town, Mat avoids some bustling villagers which Tuon can't see. When Tuon asks him why he's jumping around, he turns around and realizes there was nobody there.
I would love for somebody to point out where this is foreshadowed in the previous 9 books, but I don't think it is... You'd think that with 700 pages of very little else, Jordan could have squeezed in an explanation of some sort. The opening paragraph - the prophecy - makes some mention of "all that is, all that was and all that will be" balancing on the edge of a sword... Not sure if that's supposed to be foreshadowing, but, as usual, we'll have to wait...
I think I need a support group to discuss this book...
/bitter
Has it not occurred to anybody else reading these books that maybe the principal characters could help themselves and everyone else out by Traveling to actually talk to each other? For all the time they waste thinking about the weather, you'd think they could devote an hour of their time to figuring out what the others are up to... As it stands, the series has devolved into one contrived plot device after another...
***MINOR SPOILER ALERT***
To top it all off, now Jordan is turning this into a freakin' ghost story???? WTF???
*** END SPOILER ***
You said it yourself, it's a book of season finales... poorly conceived, deliberately obtuse twists in the final two paragraphs of several chapters of useless narrative that do nothing except piss you off because you'll have to wait another two years to find out what the hell is going on. By which time you'll have forgotten what the original plot twist was to begin with.
Reading WOT has gotten to be extremely frustrating... It used to be fun - following all the characters as they developed from country folk into Important People - but it's become mired in mundane minutae while Jordan appears to be dragging this thing out indefinitely to give himself a healthy paycheque until he retires.
/bitter
Crossroads of Twilight is a major disappointment, IMHO.
They appear to have some staff working on manufacturing in Ukraine, so it would seem that they may have the capability to build new rockets. However, I'm sure it's much more cost-effective for them to buy SS-18's from the Russian military. Given the former USSR's massive aresenal of ICBMs, this is probably a sound business plan for at least the next two decades. By that time, I sure hope we have better ways of getting payloads into orbit than by sitting them atop a couple hundred tons of solid fuel.
As for the thinly-veiled advertisements like Entertainment Tonight... it's a tough comparison. ET and its ilk spend most of their time delivering gossip about the stars of movies and only occasionally toss in info about upcoming movies. Since game developers have yet to reach moviestar status (how many people - outside of the geek community - do you know that would recognize John Carmack?), you're going to have a tough time filling 22 minutes each day with game gossip/news.
Not only that, but why would gamers sit around the tube if they can just hit a website with all the news they want and even playable demos?
Gaming is a huge business, but it's a distant cousin of television - unlike movies.
OMFG. Thank you for that T link. =)
True enough, but it still results in more silicon going to waste...
Who knows? Maybe they'll do this at some point in the future? Perhaps, once they've worked out the bugs at their new fab, they'll be able to produce multi-core dies with the same yields as they anticipate from single-core dies.
Putting two CPU cores on a single die is also more costly, as you are basically doubling your failure rates. So if you were tossing out 5-10% of dies when they were single-core due to defects, it's within the realm of possibility that you'll need to scrap 10-15% of your dual-core dies, ceteris paribus.
Even a miniscule difference in yields can mean big $$$.
I guess astro-turf (see the link to Getty Royalty-Free photography elsewhere in the comments) switch campaigns aren't as good as the real thing once they're discovered... Can't blame them for trying though.
It's a good thing Apple will make that extra $80 million by switching to x86, cause it'll sure come in handy when virtually all of their flagship developers jump ship after yet ANOTHER platform switch (to a platform with zero chance of binary compatibility, no less).
That $80 million will help them stave off bankruptcy for like a whole six months!
From what I've heard, it's because a Bluetooth kit was originally intended to be a sub-$5 part... Before this year, nobody had brought a Bluetooth solution to market for under $50.
Of note, using NIS at the LoginWindow has been broken in 10.2 (it worked in 10.1), but a fix is in the works and expected soon.
Also, he notes that Apple is bring BSD's AMD to OS X (finally!) so that NFS mounting won't be quite as quaint as it has been till now.
(I've been using NFS/NIS on iMacs in our previously Solaris-only lab - worked almost like a champ).
Bah... If you're going to knock something, at least make the effort to know wtf you're talking about. Otherwise, you come off looking like a real jackass. (BTW, innovative != revolutionary)
Nice try... AutoConfig isn't even remotely related to ZeroConf.
ZeroConf is a standard for automatic discovery of hosts and services on a TCP/IP network. Rendezvous is Apple's implementation.
Previous?
Rendezvous, Inkwell, CUPS printing, Quartz Extreme, the new Sherlock. Yeah, bug fixes.
Rendezvous (ZeroConf) alone is worth the upgrade price and is the perfect example of why Apple has been and will continue to be an innovator.