I believe part of Google's complaint was that additional cost in the government's Microsoft solution was going towards funding in the process of achieving FISMA certification (apologies, but no citation).
I think the idea is that this could enable phones that are compatible with multiple technologies. I think this is particularly geared towards LTE which AT&T and Verizon are moving to for 4G (T-mobile as well, and Sprint is the odd one out). Of course, the carriers could always block them since that's how things work in American Telecommunications. In the end, it's very likely that this will have no positive benefit for the consumer and carriers will just use it as an excuse to jack up rates... but let's see. The FCC, at the very least, has intentions of standing up for the consumer. In practice though, they hardly ever get it right.
For those interested, the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship results have been posted, and biology by far got the most awards (almost 25%). Below are the awards per field mentioned on the application. source
593 Life Sciences
524 Engineering
197 Social Sciences
158 Chemistry
134 Psychology
113 Comp/IS/Eng
100 Physics and Astronomy
80 Mathematical Sciences
78 Geosciences
23 STEM Education and Learning Research
1 Baccalaureate
And within Engineering:
83 Engineering - Mechanical
79 Engineering - Biomedical
68 Engineering - Chemical
59 Engineering - Bioengineering
52 Engineering - Materials
51 Engineering - Electrical and Electronic
33 Engineering - Environmental
32 Engineering - Civil
28 Engineering - Aeronautical and Aerospace
7 Engineering - Energy
6 STEM Education and Learning Research - Engineering Education
6 Engineering - Industrial
6 Engineering - Computer Engineering
4 Engineering - Agricultural
3 Engineering - Nuclear
3 Engineering - Engineering Science
2 Engineering - Systems Engineering
2 Engineering - Engineering Mechanics
2 Comp/IS/Eng - Software Engineering
1 Engineering - other (specify) - Water Resources Engineering
1 Engineering - other (specify) - Pedagogy, Design Methodology
1 Engineering - other (specify) - Operations Research - Industrial Engineering. Economic Risk Analysis
1 Engineering - other (specify) - Information Warfare System Engineering
1 Engineering - other (specify) - Architectural Engineering
1 Engineering - Ocean
To be fair, I don't think Sprint is that bad. They've been innovating, pushing their 4G network faster than Verizon (and no mention of AT&T/T-mobile, they don't even have 4G for what I know), and their phone line-up isn't bad - and they're pretty aggressive with it. They're set to announce their next generation of 4G phones on Tuesday, though I'm just hoping that they announce the Nexus S. And most importantly of all, they offer legit data plans, whereas Verizon and AT&T offer capped shit.
I'm glad Sprint and T-Mobile exist. The world will be dead in a matter of years once this AT&T/T-Mobile merger completes. Now, word on the street is that Sprint will get killed off (I mean, consumed) by Verizon, and what choice will they have as they'll be in dead last with 30M customers. If it goes down to two, well, then the world will end in a matter of hours, not years.
And I respectfully disagree (with Linus). Debian makes it easy to build and create other distros, for whatever purpose they serve. Ubuntu puts the finishing touches on the user experience for desktops, while Knoppix does the same for LiveCD users. Continue on for the millions of other distros. And let's not forget, Debian is a great choice for servers, plus they have a great security team from whom a lot of patches flow downstream. Think of it as a meta-distro if you will, one that serves primarily to enable others.
And truth be told, just because Linus says something doesn't make it true. Sure, he's the original architect of Linux. But if he were to say something ridiculous like 'Everybody should use $DISTRO,' would that make it true? Of course not. Do we really want to be like this?
Yeah, that's all fine and dandy. Still, it's nice having status icons for NoScript and ABP in the right-hand side of the status bar. Any word on what happens to those? It far less of a waste of space than it would be to put them near top of the window.
And I also like having the search box on the same line as the menu so it stretches across the whole window. That way you can read the full suggestions, whereas the suggestions get cutoff if they're on the same line as the address bar.
This new release is gonna take a lot of getting used to.
I don't have TV myself, but when I visit my parents, anytime I turn on the TV I find myself most attracted to channels like Discovery or Science or History[2] - not network channels spewing tasteless pop culture crap[1][3] but the ones providing documentaries, facts, history, geology, astronomy, zoology, other things about the world./. is news for nerds - I would like to think of nerds as the kind of people that would seek insight and learning from the things they watch on TV (or wherever they get their cultural fill from). I always figured that that's why I always seek out the channels in the hundreds, cause that's where you find that kind of quality.
So I guess you'd say that in my humble opinion, these are the real top-tier channels. And besides, if you have to judge the quality of a show by the channel it's on, I'd say you have problems thinking for yourself.
[1] Actually, lately the shows I've seen on network TV aren't as bad as I remember. Also, I don't mean to insult others for their tastes, but seriously, how many American Idol remakes do we need? [2] Sure, Discovery and others have a reputation for trying to glam up things so they can appeal to a broader target audience, but you can look past that and see that there's still some good content in it. Except for Mythbusters, that's just painful for me to watch. [3] If this were written in Latex, you wouldn't have to consult the footnotes out of order.
Yeah, that was the funniest quote FTS. Who's really investing or innovating in broadband? There's no real investment seeing as America's internet service is embarrassingly slow and the only innovation is taking services away and then adding them back for a fee to improve profits.
I say it's time to strip the ISPs of their ownership of the broadband lines and give it to someone who's actually going to invest in them. I'm sure it'll happen in America, right?
Then Jesus proclaimed, "Behold, I will now compromise the security of this OpenBSD installation. Here you see the machine. It is fresh, clean, secure. Now, turn around. Turn around..."
Ubuntu may not contribute that much back to Debian in terms of code, but at the very least, if they become profitable at some point, it would be great if they could use some of that cashflow to fund the Debian project (if they don't already). I think that's where they have a lot (if not the most) to offer.
Of course they won't give up. You have to diversify as a business. Suppose cloud computing had an overnight revolution and all of a sudden you don't need a specific operating system anymore? Suppose Windows was found to be infringing on some stupid patent that all of a sudden would require massive code rewrite and/or licensing settlements? Suppose some other example that just made Windows and Office no longer relevant.
You _have_ to diversify if you're a business. You never know when things will crash, or if some dark horse suddenly takes the scene by storm and makes you irrelevant. You can't just sit on your chips. You have to use them to make more. Otherwise, you run the risk of perishing. Fast.
And of course, if you want to patent any idea, it should be, um, worthy of a friggin' patent first!
These laws are so stupid and fucking pointless that it's clear that they don't serve their original purpose anymore. Is the US ever gonna see any reform in this area? No? Well then you get what you ask for: gradually falling behind....
Yes, but penalizing Verizon (or company of choice) for having slow data rates will give them an incentive to upgrade them. I know many people choose slower data plans, but if I were Netflix, I would judge based on what's fastest around the area, within some reasonable price (say, $40/month). I wish they disclosed a bit more about their testing process.
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I believe part of Google's complaint was that additional cost in the government's Microsoft solution was going towards funding in the process of achieving FISMA certification (apologies, but no citation).
And even moreso like an ignorant American politician*, he goes straight for the ad hominem as if it somehow vindicates the US's actions.
*let's also make note to include many news anchors/mediaheads that just as easily do the same...
All the commenters have PSN accounts and are reading what appears to be the official PS blog. In other words, they must be in KoolAid up to the ears.
I'm go even one step further and block them in /etc/hosts . I don't trust a single hair on Zuckerberg's head.
Does Google have any legal obligations outside of the DMCA?
I realize we live in a dog-eat-dog world, but I personally don't think much of people that live by no rule other than that of the law.
I think the idea is that this could enable phones that are compatible with multiple technologies. I think this is particularly geared towards LTE which AT&T and Verizon are moving to for 4G (T-mobile as well, and Sprint is the odd one out). Of course, the carriers could always block them since that's how things work in American Telecommunications. In the end, it's very likely that this will have no positive benefit for the consumer and carriers will just use it as an excuse to jack up rates... but let's see. The FCC, at the very least, has intentions of standing up for the consumer. In practice though, they hardly ever get it right.
For those interested, the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship results have been posted, and biology by far got the most awards (almost 25%). Below are the awards per field mentioned on the application. source
593 Life Sciences
524 Engineering
197 Social Sciences
158 Chemistry
134 Psychology
113 Comp/IS/Eng
100 Physics and Astronomy
80 Mathematical Sciences
78 Geosciences
23 STEM Education and Learning Research
1 Baccalaureate
And within Engineering:
83 Engineering - Mechanical
79 Engineering - Biomedical
68 Engineering - Chemical
59 Engineering - Bioengineering
52 Engineering - Materials
51 Engineering - Electrical and Electronic
33 Engineering - Environmental
32 Engineering - Civil
28 Engineering - Aeronautical and Aerospace
7 Engineering - Energy
6 STEM Education and Learning Research - Engineering Education
6 Engineering - Industrial
6 Engineering - Computer Engineering
4 Engineering - Agricultural
3 Engineering - Nuclear
3 Engineering - Engineering Science
2 Engineering - Systems Engineering
2 Engineering - Engineering Mechanics
2 Comp/IS/Eng - Software Engineering
1 Engineering - other (specify) - Water Resources Engineering
1 Engineering - other (specify) - Pedagogy, Design Methodology
1 Engineering - other (specify) - Operations Research - Industrial Engineering. Economic Risk Analysis
1 Engineering - other (specify) - Information Warfare System Engineering
1 Engineering - other (specify) - Architectural Engineering
1 Engineering - Ocean
To be fair, I don't think Sprint is that bad. They've been innovating, pushing their 4G network faster than Verizon (and no mention of AT&T/T-mobile, they don't even have 4G for what I know), and their phone line-up isn't bad - and they're pretty aggressive with it. They're set to announce their next generation of 4G phones on Tuesday, though I'm just hoping that they announce the Nexus S. And most importantly of all, they offer legit data plans, whereas Verizon and AT&T offer capped shit.
I'm glad Sprint and T-Mobile exist. The world will be dead in a matter of years once this AT&T/T-Mobile merger completes. Now, word on the street is that Sprint will get killed off (I mean, consumed) by Verizon, and what choice will they have as they'll be in dead last with 30M customers. If it goes down to two, well, then the world will end in a matter of hours, not years.
And I respectfully disagree (with Linus). Debian makes it easy to build and create other distros, for whatever purpose they serve. Ubuntu puts the finishing touches on the user experience for desktops, while Knoppix does the same for LiveCD users. Continue on for the millions of other distros. And let's not forget, Debian is a great choice for servers, plus they have a great security team from whom a lot of patches flow downstream. Think of it as a meta-distro if you will, one that serves primarily to enable others.
And truth be told, just because Linus says something doesn't make it true. Sure, he's the original architect of Linux. But if he were to say something ridiculous like 'Everybody should use $DISTRO,' would that make it true? Of course not. Do we really want to be like this?
Are they gonna be investigated too?
Yeah, that's all fine and dandy. Still, it's nice having status icons for NoScript and ABP in the right-hand side of the status bar. Any word on what happens to those? It far less of a waste of space than it would be to put them near top of the window.
And I also like having the search box on the same line as the menu so it stretches across the whole window. That way you can read the full suggestions, whereas the suggestions get cutoff if they're on the same line as the address bar.
This new release is gonna take a lot of getting used to.
Not to mention that they're also torturing Manning as we speak http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/14/manning.
You're pretty uninformed.
(Sorry for double post)
Have you heard of this site http://www.wikileaks.ch/.
How about this story http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11611319.
Mod parent up.
I don't have TV myself, but when I visit my parents, anytime I turn on the TV I find myself most attracted to channels like Discovery or Science or History[2] - not network channels spewing tasteless pop culture crap[1][3] but the ones providing documentaries, facts, history, geology, astronomy, zoology, other things about the world. /. is news for nerds - I would like to think of nerds as the kind of people that would seek insight and learning from the things they watch on TV (or wherever they get their cultural fill from). I always figured that that's why I always seek out the channels in the hundreds, cause that's where you find that kind of quality.
So I guess you'd say that in my humble opinion, these are the real top-tier channels. And besides, if you have to judge the quality of a show by the channel it's on, I'd say you have problems thinking for yourself.
[1] Actually, lately the shows I've seen on network TV aren't as bad as I remember. Also, I don't mean to insult others for their tastes, but seriously, how many American Idol remakes do we need?
[2] Sure, Discovery and others have a reputation for trying to glam up things so they can appeal to a broader target audience, but you can look past that and see that there's still some good content in it. Except for Mythbusters, that's just painful for me to watch.
[3] If this were written in Latex, you wouldn't have to consult the footnotes out of order.
I hear they're removing keyboards from the CR-48 too and replacing it with a giant wheel.
Yeah, that was the funniest quote FTS. Who's really investing or innovating in broadband? There's no real investment seeing as America's internet service is embarrassingly slow and the only innovation is taking services away and then adding them back for a fee to improve profits.
I say it's time to strip the ISPs of their ownership of the broadband lines and give it to someone who's actually going to invest in them. I'm sure it'll happen in America, right?
Then Jesus proclaimed, "Behold, I will now compromise the security of this OpenBSD installation. Here you see the machine. It is fresh, clean, secure. Now, turn around. Turn around..."
Cause it's easy and people are used to it.
Ubuntu may not contribute that much back to Debian in terms of code, but at the very least, if they become profitable at some point, it would be great if they could use some of that cashflow to fund the Debian project (if they don't already). I think that's where they have a lot (if not the most) to offer.
(Posting anonymously for obvious reasons)
Yeah, I'd be pretty embarrassed if I had ever bought anything from Dell meself.
http://www.rojadirecta.com/. Tell me what you see.
(For the lazy, it's quite similar to the image from TFS.)
Of course they won't give up. You have to diversify as a business. Suppose cloud computing had an overnight revolution and all of a sudden you don't need a specific operating system anymore? Suppose Windows was found to be infringing on some stupid patent that all of a sudden would require massive code rewrite and/or licensing settlements? Suppose some other example that just made Windows and Office no longer relevant.
You _have_ to diversify if you're a business. You never know when things will crash, or if some dark horse suddenly takes the scene by storm and makes you irrelevant. You can't just sit on your chips. You have to use them to make more. Otherwise, you run the risk of perishing. Fast.
Nah, for politics, only the anti-plurality method is best.
And of course, if you want to patent any idea, it should be, um, worthy of a friggin' patent first!
These laws are so stupid and fucking pointless that it's clear that they don't serve their original purpose anymore. Is the US ever gonna see any reform in this area? No? Well then you get what you ask for: gradually falling behind....
Yes, but penalizing Verizon (or company of choice) for having slow data rates will give them an incentive to upgrade them. I know many people choose slower data plans, but if I were Netflix, I would judge based on what's fastest around the area, within some reasonable price (say, $40/month). I wish they disclosed a bit more about their testing process.