You'll also find the time convention used often in big cities (like Chicago) where traffic messes up the concept of the time to get to a particular location. Often when people ask "How far away do you live from X", I'll usually respond "1/2 hour give or take some time depending on traffic."
All members of congress should only meet 4 days out of the year to pass laws and clear budgets. Maybe then government will only pass laws that are critical to this nation. I think that government is legislating our nation to death. There are already laws in place for copyrights, why do we need more? Because RIAA, and the MPAA don't want to fund the Copyright Police.
Guess what, our country will not fall apart if we don't legislate every activity that occurs in this nation. Let's see what falls out in 10 years. I'll bet that the RIAA and MPAA will still be supporting a multi-billion dollar industry that thrives on delivering products that people want to purchase. And we won't need another law that restricts the majority in favor of the minority.
Last thing Chicago needs is another toll system. I can just see it now...a little toll gate drops down on your browser every 5mb download awaiting $0.40 so you can get back out on the Information Superhighway.
I'm off the chart when it comes to introversion, so I might be able to help you here (and help myself become a little more extroverted).
The biggest thing to remember with introverts is that we like small intimate parties with people we know. The maximum number of people you want to strive for is about 30 (varies with the introverts). If you can, try to run many small Christmas parties as opposed to one big blow out. If you have to do the big blow out celebration, try and seat people according to their co-workers (we hate having to sit next to people who we have no connection with).
Other than that, we aren't much different. We like music, food, beer, entertainment, belly dancers, etc. I saw one suggestion in the posts that was cool, 4-player party video games.
How will W3C ensure that a company with a patent on a particular technology stay within the RAND standards set forth for that technology?
No other company will implement the standard and pay a royalty to the original company who can turn around and break the standard (or possibly change it) for whatever reason.
This is a good thing, we don't want to have the same crap that Rambus pulled with RDRAM.
-a procedure for launching new standards development activities as Royalty-Free Licensing Mode activities.
I'm assuming previous standards already fall under this category and this is just a way to clear any misunderstandings (good thing?)
-a procedure for launching new standards development activities as Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (RAND) Licensing Mode activities
BAD THING! Everyone is going to want to push their standards over to RAND so that they can make money on their technology patents, ultimately shrinking the future number of open standards. They state: When a Working Group wishes to produce a specification that is not Royalty-Free, the proposed policy requires the charter to provide rationale for the choice of RAND. What will be the rationale? This isn't clear and many standards you find today (HTML, XML, etc.) could have fallen under RAND if it existed back then.
W3C should only be concerned with Royalty Free / Open standards. If a company owns a patent on the technology they control the standard. How does W3C plan on forcing a company to stick to a standard where ultimately the company controls the technology. This is just going to confuse current and future developers.
You forgot that OS-native widgets normally get rendered last affecting the layout of dynamic layers. If I want to show a layer that floats above form elements, those form elements (OS-native widgets) will always sit on top of everything regardless of what z-index level I want them at. Having browser widgets should allow you to place form elements (Browser-native widgets) at different z-index levels.
They're against undoing the definition of temporary RAM buffer copies as possibly infringing.
On the other hand, they think everyone should have a backup right for media bought in digital form, like we have for software.
Now, what happens when I back up all my media into temporary RAM buffers. What about handheld devices that use only RAM to store data. *Sigh*...more evidence that the government is on autopilot.
Now that I think about it...I remember many a time sitting in the dark, running around in quake while munching on some junior mints listning to semi-repetitive techno music. Hmmmmm.
Microsoft will not tech support their software when you purchase through an OEM. All tech support for bundled software goes through your OEM, not the company that developed the software. This would include the JRE that the OEM bundles with your computer.
Here is what your comment would look like with the new SmartTag technology turned on in IE with Microsoft conveniently adding their own links.
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Yeah, I'll get modded down into obilivion for having the stones to post thism but...
Wow, that's one of the worst pieces of FUD I've seen posted on Slashdot so far! The SmartTags are just something that allows Content Provider A to neatly package something for syndication. So, for example, Content Provider A gives stock quotes. The SmartTags feature just makes it easy for Web Site Operator B, if he's running IIS/ASP or whatever, to easily insert a stock quote from A's site. That's all.
The comment you posted makes it sound like Microsoft is going to be taking over everybody's website. Using the SmartTags requires an actual effort on the part of the webmaster; Microsoft (or any other content provider -- anyone can make Smart Tags easily) will not suddenly have editorial control over every website in the world.
You guys need to chill out. Everything that Microsoft does is not necessarily automatically evil.
Lower storage costs and less network traffic are dependent upon how you encrypt. If you do a plain old encrypt a file and send it as an attachment, the file will be a little smaller (just zipping the file can get it smaller than that). But, if you do ascii ciphertext it will take 761 characters (not including PGP declarations) with a 2048/1024 DH-DSS bit key just to say 'hello'.
Depending on how they were encrypting, the mail admins may have been justified in reducing the load on their servers.
When they realized they couldn't fix the problem, they, as my son would say from Toy Story, put on their angry eyes and came after us.
I have to tuck that one away for future use..."yeah, our customers put on their angy eyes when we told them the project couldn't be delivered on time."
Bill Joy: Well, software is a safe harbor that's morphing into a service. People don't want to install and manage software on their machines. They want someone to do it for them. You can steal software on an individual basis. It's very hard for an institution to steal a service, or in fact to deploy software that implements a service on a large scale. So that largely solves the problem. The personal productivity stuff is mostly given away in the context of a subscription or a communication service. You know, mail isn't an application, mail is a service.
So why is the music industry still making a profit from the medium and not switching over to a service industry like software? I don't have a solution, but I thought the question is an interesting one to ask.
If you absolutely must store cc numbers, put them on a backend server behind a firewall.
...And encrypt that cc number in your database. Architectures and points of entry break down sometimes and this ensures that if the cracker gets into the database he still won't have the number.
...now if he steals your encryption key and encryption password your stupid and f'ed.
Followed by a very close second with their Global Services. OSS allows custom solutions to be built for the customer that can sometimes be impossible with Closed Source Software. Customer happy, IBM happy, open source developers happy.
Yet another Slashdot topic that I must remove from my customized list. If I wanted to be spoonfed political propoganda I would go to the candidates website.
While the U.S. election might be stuff that matters, please keep politics away from Slashdot. Not to mention that Slashdot serves the world, not just the U.S.
Although the ad might not come from an outside source, my question is...Why is the number associated with the pagecounter image also associated with the advertising image?
I'm going to have to go diving through the ad code (assuming the slashdot guys use the one from sourceforge) to see exactly what the number is used for.
My guess is that the number is used to see how many eyeballs saw that particular ad, but what they do with the number beyond that is unknown.
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You'll also find the time convention used often in big cities (like Chicago) where traffic messes up the concept of the time to get to a particular location. Often when people ask "How far away do you live from X", I'll usually respond "1/2 hour give or take some time depending on traffic."
All members of congress should only meet 4 days out of the year to pass laws and clear budgets. Maybe then government will only pass laws that are critical to this nation. I think that government is legislating our nation to death. There are already laws in place for copyrights, why do we need more? Because RIAA, and the MPAA don't want to fund the Copyright Police.
Guess what, our country will not fall apart if we don't legislate every activity that occurs in this nation. Let's see what falls out in 10 years. I'll bet that the RIAA and MPAA will still be supporting a multi-billion dollar industry that thrives on delivering products that people want to purchase. And we won't need another law that restricts the majority in favor of the minority.
I'll get off the soap box now.
Last thing Chicago needs is another toll system. I can just see it now...a little toll gate drops down on your browser every 5mb download awaiting $0.40 so you can get back out on the Information Superhighway.
I'm off the chart when it comes to introversion, so I might be able to help you here (and help myself become a little more extroverted).
The biggest thing to remember with introverts is that we like small intimate parties with people we know. The maximum number of people you want to strive for is about 30 (varies with the introverts). If you can, try to run many small Christmas parties as opposed to one big blow out. If you have to do the big blow out celebration, try and seat people according to their co-workers (we hate having to sit next to people who we have no connection with).
Other than that, we aren't much different. We like music, food, beer, entertainment, belly dancers, etc. I saw one suggestion in the posts that was cool, 4-player party video games.
Good Luck!
How will W3C ensure that a company with a patent on a particular technology stay within the RAND standards set forth for that technology?
No other company will implement the standard and pay a royalty to the original company who can turn around and break the standard (or possibly change it) for whatever reason.
-a requirement for disclosure provisions
This is a good thing, we don't want to have the same crap that Rambus pulled with RDRAM.
-a procedure for launching new standards development activities as Royalty-Free Licensing Mode activities.
I'm assuming previous standards already fall under this category and this is just a way to clear any misunderstandings (good thing?)
-a procedure for launching new standards development activities as Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (RAND) Licensing Mode activities
BAD THING! Everyone is going to want to push their standards over to RAND so that they can make money on their technology patents, ultimately shrinking the future number of open standards. They state: When a Working Group wishes to produce a specification that is not Royalty-Free, the proposed policy requires the charter to provide rationale for the choice of RAND. What will be the rationale? This isn't clear and many standards you find today (HTML, XML, etc.) could have fallen under RAND if it existed back then.
W3C should only be concerned with Royalty Free / Open standards. If a company owns a patent on the technology they control the standard. How does W3C plan on forcing a company to stick to a standard where ultimately the company controls the technology. This is just going to confuse current and future developers.
You forgot that OS-native widgets normally get rendered last affecting the layout of dynamic layers. If I want to show a layer that floats above form elements, those form elements (OS-native widgets) will always sit on top of everything regardless of what z-index level I want them at. Having browser widgets should allow you to place form elements (Browser-native widgets) at different z-index levels.
They're against undoing the definition of temporary RAM buffer copies as possibly infringing.
On the other hand, they think everyone should have a backup right for media bought in digital form, like we have for software.
Now, what happens when I back up all my media into temporary RAM buffers. What about handheld devices that use only RAM to store data. *Sigh*...more evidence that the government is on autopilot.
Now that I think about it...I remember many a time sitting in the dark, running around in quake while munching on some junior mints listning to semi-repetitive techno music. Hmmmmm.
Insightful? This needs to modded as funny.
Microsoft will not tech support their software when you purchase through an OEM. All tech support for bundled software goes through your OEM, not the company that developed the software. This would include the JRE that the OEM bundles with your computer.
Kill-Us-Traitors
The new vector drawing program brought to you by the same people who made Kough-Ice .
Here is what your comment would look like with the new SmartTag technology turned on in IE with Microsoft conveniently adding their own links.
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Yeah, I'll get modded down into obilivion for having the stones to post thism but...
Wow, that's one of the worst pieces of FUD I've seen posted on Slashdot so far! The SmartTags are just something that allows Content Provider A to neatly package something for syndication. So, for example, Content Provider A gives stock quotes. The SmartTags feature just makes it easy for Web Site Operator B, if he's running IIS/ASP or whatever, to easily insert a stock quote from A's site. That's all.
The comment you posted makes it sound like Microsoft is going to be taking over everybody's website. Using the SmartTags requires an actual effort on the part of the webmaster; Microsoft (or any other content provider -- anyone can make Smart Tags easily) will not suddenly have editorial control over every website in the world.
You guys need to chill out. Everything that Microsoft does is not necessarily automatically evil.
Dick Cook, chairman of the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, says: "That certainly does cross the line. We would never, never, never, ever do that."
That really, really, really completely convinces me.
Network Ice, makers of the BlackICE firewall, has a great site that contains all sorts of free information on typical exploits, ports attacked, etc.
http://advice.networkice.com/Advice/default.htm
and in the immortal words of Nelson, HA..ha!
For those who don't rigidly follow the market, it looks like Gibson has a new book coming out called Pattern Recognition.
Very cool.
Lower storage costs and less network traffic are dependent upon how you encrypt. If you do a plain old encrypt a file and send it as an attachment, the file will be a little smaller (just zipping the file can get it smaller than that). But, if you do ascii ciphertext it will take 761 characters (not including PGP declarations) with a 2048/1024 DH-DSS bit key just to say 'hello'.
Depending on how they were encrypting, the mail admins may have been justified in reducing the load on their servers.When they realized they couldn't fix the problem, they, as my son would say from Toy Story, put on their angry eyes and came after us.
I have to tuck that one away for future use..."yeah, our customers put on their angy eyes when we told them the project couldn't be delivered on time."
Bill Joy: Well, software is a safe harbor that's morphing into a service. People don't want to install and manage software on their machines. They want someone to do it for them. You can steal software on an individual basis. It's very hard for an institution to steal a service, or in fact to deploy software that implements a service on a large scale. So that largely solves the problem. The personal productivity stuff is mostly given away in the context of a subscription or a communication service. You know, mail isn't an application, mail is a service.
So why is the music industry still making a profit from the medium and not switching over to a service industry like software? I don't have a solution, but I thought the question is an interesting one to ask.
Now all we need to do is give the fish a microphone and and some translation software and you could have a Babelfish to stick in your ear.
If you absolutely must store cc numbers, put them on a backend server behind a firewall.
So is IBM a big enough company for you in terms of support and blame when it comes to Linux?
Followed by a very close second with their Global Services. OSS allows custom solutions to be built for the customer that can sometimes be impossible with Closed Source Software. Customer happy, IBM happy, open source developers happy.
Yet another Slashdot topic that I must remove from my customized list. If I wanted to be spoonfed political propoganda I would go to the candidates website.
While the U.S. election might be stuff that matters, please keep politics away from Slashdot. Not to mention that Slashdot serves the world, not just the U.S.
Although the ad might not come from an outside source, my question is...Why is the number associated with the pagecounter image also associated with the advertising image?
t icle.pl,965319456" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1>
. gif?965319456" WIDTH=468 HEIGHT=60 ALT="Click Here!"></A><BR>
I'm going to have to go diving through the ad code (assuming the slashdot guys use the one from sourceforge) to see exactly what the number is used for.
My guess is that the number is used to see how many eyeballs saw that particular ad, but what they do with the number beyond that is unknown.
Example:
<IMG SRC="http://images.slashdot.org/pagecount.gif?/ar
.....
<IMG SRC="http://images.slashdot.org/banner/tkgk0082en