Good info, didn't know about all the compatibility problems.
I'm from mostly a Java background and was trying to decide if I should play a bit with Ruby or PHP, but Ruby on Rails looks more interesting to me at this time.
Still wouldn't mind doing some PHP projects of course...
One thing that annoys me about Lost is that I don't have an HD TV and I have to see it in fullscreen. Would be great if the ipod version was widescreen. Is it?
Because it's going to be hard to find a place to rest them.
While the mouse + keyboard combination for PCs sucks, it's actually pretty confortable because your hands are still resting on the keyboard and the mouse.
For this thing, while it's cool you can aim with it, your hands / arms are really going to get tired quickly when aiming around.
I had a doctor that was *always* late to see me. But we're not talking 5, 15 or even 30 minutes. We're talking almost always more than 45 minutes to a couple of hours!
So yes, I understand they have to see other patients, but if they're always late, maybe this just means that they should accept less patients in the first place. People have to work, and our time is just as valuable.
... and the person suing are claiming! Slashdot is just pointing you to that story!
If there's a story about a guy that claims the earth is flat, a good summary is: "Guy claims earth is flat" Not, "Guy claims earth is flat even though we all know that's not true, and it's spherical".
"The company does not 'claim to own the intellectual property to GMail'"
From the article...
Google, the internet search engine, is facing a renewed threat of legal action from a company that claims to own the intellectual property rights to its GMail e-mail service.
IIR, led by chairman and chief executive Shane Smith, accused the search engine of "failing to respect the intellectual property rights of others" and said it had no alternative but to pursue an expensive legal action that it admitted it could ill afford.
"I feel it is up to me as the founder and the major shareholder. We're not going to sit on the sidelines while a company uses our intellectual property rights," he said. "We're confident that we have the funding available to us and we're girding our loins," he said.
It's the original article and the person suing google saying google is violating their intellectual property, why are people complaining that slashdot reflected that?!?!
They're claiming violation of their "intellectual property". In this case, complain to the author of the original article, and/or the guy initiating the lawsuit!
"IIR, led by chairman and chief executive Shane Smith, accused the search engine of "failing to respect the intellectual property rights of others" and said it had no alternative but to pursue an expensive legal action that it admitted it could ill afford."
"I feel it is up to me as the founder and the major shareholder. We're not going to sit on the sidelines while a company uses our intellectual property rights," he said. "We're confident that we have the funding available to us and we're girding our loins," he said."
> The authorities are asserting their authority. Tell me something new. It happens all over the planet. We don't need to single them out. We use IP law to do precisely the same thing. It all depends on the spin that's put upon it. You can use censorship to protect property or one's power over others. It makes no difference. It's still censorship. Your entire post sounds a little like a 1950s propaganda piece.
No it's not the same as IP law at all. Just because a nation enforces *any* type of law, doesn't mean all "enforcements" are morally or ethically equal.
I haven't kept up with the "state of the art" scanners. I still have a pretty old AGFA SNAPSCAN TOUCH scanner that I really need to replace.
So what I need is something with larger dimensions, because I have a lot of artwork that is bigger than a regular sheet of paper. I wonder if there's a good set of "oversized" scanners that are not too expensive to buy...
How about right now! I can't fit all my home videos in my hard drive. My typical project is about 3 tapes at a time. That's about 40 gigs, and that's not counting scratch space.
Oh and that NTSC video. There's already consumer HD cams out there, so video will eat up space even quicker.
Right now 250 gigs is not a lot of space for a home user that is working with home videos, 500 gigs is good, but I already have 2 250 gig drives and wouldn't mind even extra space.
We already regulate trade, and companies are liable for their actions even in other countries (they can be sued here). So I don't know what you're talking about.
Hey, I know you love being an apologist for the Chinese government jailing journalist that publish things they don't like, but my point is that the results of the case were very different. The Supreme court decided the papers could be published, and that is comparable to what this journalist did.
Homework, what did the Supreme Court say about the release of the documents?
Extra credit, under any realistic scenario, is China setup to have a branch of government rule against another one like the Sup. did against the executive? (hint: No)
There SHOULD BE fundamental human rights, specially in the 21st century. And we should all agree on what they are. That's what that UN document was/is trying to achive, and it's necessary.
It's not a matter of what my or other cultures accept, it's a matter of where humanity wants to be. Coming from a 3rd world country, I very well know what it is to have my rights restricted. The problem is people like you who don't know what that is, and chalk up abuses to "cultural differences".
Would you say that commiting genocide against your own citizens is a value judgment left to each society? What if a male dominated society determines that men should have the right to rape any woman?
What do we do? just sit back like you and say, "oh well, those are their cultural values?"
No, what we do is we complain, fight for the rights of the opress, and try to change governments to support these rights.
These are not radical ideas, unless you're an opressive entity, it shouldn't scandalize you.
If the Chinese government doesn't like these rights, I suggest they kick themselves out of the United Nations and the rest of the civilized world.
There is, and there should be, a basic set of human rights no matter what country you live in. These rights should be sensitive to all cultures, but at the end of the day, and in the 21st century, it's not acceptable to excuse opression in any form.
And you very well know that what the Chinese are engaging on is opression. Even if their own citizens voted to revoke these rights (their votes don't count btw), that doesn't mean all of it's citizens shouldn't enjoy them. We should define and enforce these rights in all countries, and at the very minimum expect that our corporations don't help and enable the supression of these rights.
That's the minimum I'm asking for, and I don't think it's unreasonable at all.
If we want to trade, then we can impose our corporations respect a set of rights, ergo the Chinese govt. would have to.
What this has to do with Iraq nobody but you knows!
You then make the argument that the US can do nothing to influence in a positive way the human rights violations in China, so with your thinking we shouldn't even try. In the meantime, we should just sit back and let our corporations help supress the local populations of these countries.
That's what he's going to get, just because China makes "no pretense at democracy" doesn't mean this is acceptable.
I'm really amazed at the apologetics coming from some in the slashdot crowd. You don't have to be a radical to at least say "Geez, that's a harsh sentence!"... but it would seem some people here see no problem with that. Isn't that great, most of you have never lived under an oppressive regime. So that's really nice that you support them! Just what the world needs, right?
Slashdot Mirror
Good info, didn't know about all the compatibility problems.
...
I'm from mostly a Java background and was trying to decide if I should play a bit with Ruby or PHP, but Ruby on Rails looks more interesting to me at this time.
Still wouldn't mind doing some PHP projects of course
This is false;
...
> Search engines relate human concepts (text content) to IP addresses.
No, they resolve text queries to URLs. These URLs may or may not include IPs in them.
Kind of an important point when trying to say we don't need DNS
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/legal/0,39020651, 39218121,00.htm
It seems they already did this for Germany too, didn't know that.
> Does GMail use AJAX ?
Yes
> Does GMail use AJAX ?
No
One thing that annoys me about Lost is that I don't have an HD TV and I have to see it in fullscreen. Would be great if the ipod version was widescreen. Is it?
Because it's going to be hard to find a place to rest them.
While the mouse + keyboard combination for PCs sucks, it's actually pretty confortable because your hands are still resting on the keyboard and the mouse.
For this thing, while it's cool you can aim with it, your hands / arms are really going to get tired quickly when aiming around.
I had a doctor that was *always* late to see me. But we're not talking 5, 15 or even 30 minutes. We're talking almost always more than 45 minutes to a couple of hours!
So yes, I understand they have to see other patients, but if they're always late, maybe this just means that they should accept less patients in the first place. People have to work, and our time is just as valuable.
to your MP3 player so we can compare.
That was my point
... and the person suing are claiming! Slashdot is just pointing you to that story!
If there's a story about a guy that claims the earth is flat, a good summary is:
"Guy claims earth is flat"
Not, "Guy claims earth is flat even though we all know that's not true, and it's spherical".
c'mon.
"The company does not 'claim to own the intellectual property to GMail'"
...
From the article
Google, the internet search engine, is facing a renewed threat of legal action from a company that claims to own the intellectual property rights to its GMail e-mail service.
IIR, led by chairman and chief executive Shane Smith, accused the search engine of "failing to respect the intellectual property rights of others" and said it had no alternative but to pursue an expensive legal action that it admitted it could ill afford.
"I feel it is up to me as the founder and the major shareholder. We're not going to sit on the sidelines while a company uses our intellectual property rights," he said. "We're confident that we have the funding available to us and we're girding our loins," he said.
R-T-F-A-!-!-!
It's the original article and the person suing google saying google is violating their intellectual property, why are people complaining that slashdot reflected that?!?!
They're claiming violation of their "intellectual property". In this case, complain to the author of the original article, and/or the guy initiating the lawsuit!
Or maybe read the article next time.
... the summary is correct, they're claiming:
"IIR, led by chairman and chief executive Shane Smith, accused the search engine of "failing to respect the intellectual property rights of others" and said it had no alternative but to pursue an expensive legal action that it admitted it could ill afford."
"I feel it is up to me as the founder and the major shareholder. We're not going to sit on the sidelines while a company uses our intellectual property rights," he said. "We're confident that we have the funding available to us and we're girding our loins," he said."
It's silly, but the summary is correct.
> The authorities are asserting their authority. Tell me something new. It happens all over the planet. We don't need to single them out. We use IP law to do precisely the same thing. It all depends on the spin that's put upon it. You can use censorship to protect property or one's power over others. It makes no difference. It's still censorship. Your entire post sounds a little like a 1950s propaganda piece.
No it's not the same as IP law at all. Just because a nation enforces *any* type of law, doesn't mean all "enforcements" are morally or ethically equal.
I haven't kept up with the "state of the art" scanners. I still have a pretty old AGFA SNAPSCAN TOUCH scanner that I really need to replace.
...
So what I need is something with larger dimensions, because I have a lot of artwork that is bigger than a regular sheet of paper. I wonder if there's a good set of "oversized" scanners that are not too expensive to buy
> Can I quote you in 20 years?
How about right now! I can't fit all my home videos in my hard drive. My typical project is about 3 tapes at a time. That's about 40 gigs, and that's not counting scratch space.
Oh and that NTSC video. There's already consumer HD cams out there, so video will eat up space even quicker.
Right now 250 gigs is not a lot of space for a home user that is working with home videos, 500 gigs is good, but I already have 2 250 gig drives and wouldn't mind even extra space.
Yes the US can, they just won't.
We already regulate trade, and companies are liable for their actions even in other countries (they can be sued here). So I don't know what you're talking about.
Hey, I know you love being an apologist for the Chinese government jailing journalist that publish things they don't like, but my point is that the results of the case were very different. The Supreme court decided the papers could be published, and that is comparable to what this journalist did.
No.
Homework, what did the Supreme Court say about the release of the documents?
Extra credit, under any realistic scenario, is China setup to have a branch of government rule against another one like the Sup. did against the executive?
(hint: No)
Class is over.
> He gave a document to reporters that the government didn't want released. That isn't even protected speech in America.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers
There SHOULD BE fundamental human rights, specially in the 21st century. And we should all agree on what they are. That's what that UN document was/is trying to achive, and it's necessary.
It's not a matter of what my or other cultures accept, it's a matter of where humanity wants to be. Coming from a 3rd world country, I very well know what it is to have my rights restricted. The problem is people like you who don't know what that is, and chalk up abuses to "cultural differences".
Would you say that commiting genocide against your own citizens is a value judgment left to each society? What if a male dominated society determines that men should have the right to rape any woman?
What do we do? just sit back like you and say, "oh well, those are their cultural values?"
No, what we do is we complain, fight for the rights of the opress, and try to change governments to support these rights.
These are not radical ideas, unless you're an opressive entity, it shouldn't scandalize you.
"Universal Declaration of Human Rights"
http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/index.htm
If the Chinese government doesn't like these rights, I suggest they kick themselves out of the United Nations and the rest of the civilized world.
There is, and there should be, a basic set of human rights no matter what country you live in. These rights should be sensitive to all cultures, but at the end of the day, and in the 21st century, it's not acceptable to excuse opression in any form.
And you very well know that what the Chinese are engaging on is opression. Even if their own citizens voted to revoke these rights (their votes don't count btw), that doesn't mean all of it's citizens shouldn't enjoy them. We should define and enforce these rights in all countries, and at the very minimum expect that our corporations don't help and enable the supression of these rights.
That's the minimum I'm asking for, and I don't think it's unreasonable at all.
If we want to trade, then we can impose our corporations respect a set of rights, ergo the Chinese govt. would have to.
What this has to do with Iraq nobody but you knows!
You then make the argument that the US can do nothing to influence in a positive way the human rights violations in China, so with your thinking we shouldn't even try. In the meantime, we should just sit back and let our corporations help supress the local populations of these countries.
Does that summarize your nonsensical point?
That's what he's going to get, just because China makes "no pretense at democracy" doesn't mean this is acceptable.
... but it would seem some people here see no problem with that. Isn't that great, most of you have never lived under an oppressive regime. So that's really nice that you support them! Just what the world needs, right?
I'm really amazed at the apologetics coming from some in the slashdot crowd. You don't have to be a radical to at least say "Geez, that's a harsh sentence!"