Actually, citation ranking was first and developed some time in the 1970's. Google's page rank algorithm was an application of citation ranking to the web. The original Page Rank paper even cites the citation ranking papers.
(This also kinds of points out a problem with citation ranking: everybody these days is going to cite page rank, even though the idea originally was developed by other people. So, citation ranking isn't going to tell you who should get the credit, only who popularized an idea.)
There is nothing wrong with charging for OpenOffice distributions.
The problem here is the form in which the contract was supposedly entered. In the US, such a contract is probably not enforceable; it doesn't matter whether it's for OpenOffice or Microsoft Office. If you want to enforce a sales contract, it's effectively your responsibility to make sure that the other party understands that they are buying something and need to pay for it.
German law may be different; there are a number of consumer-hostile provisions in German law that favor companies (and crooks) that wouldn't hold up under US law. This may or may not be one of them.
1) Why would you program in C# on Linux? Mono support is years behind the feature sets that MS is rolling out. There are a variety of languages/frameworks that are better supported than.NET.
Who cares what Microsoft is doing? Who cares about.NET? Mono with Gtk# is a pretty good platform.
2) What's wrong with GUI programming in C++? QT tools seem pretty nice to me, and objects are much easier to work with than a mountain of procedural code. C++ should also be plenty efficient for application space.
What's wrong with programming GUI apps in C or C++? Then end up bloated, slow, and hard to extend. That's true for both Gnome and KDE (and Windows). They also tend to crash, and you can't safely extend them with plugins. Most people working on those platforms have never seen anything better, so they don't know any better, but the state of GUI and application programming is really abysmal, in part due to the use of C/C++.
So, what advantages are there in using C/Gnome?
There is no advantage in using "C/Gnome". There is an advantage in using Gtk# or PyGnome or any of a number of other HLLs. For that purpose, Gnome is a better choice than Qt, since the use of C++ in Qt only adds unnecessary complexity when binding to other languages.
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With this, Nokia has removed a major problem for KDE, Qt, and the open source community. The decision by the KDE developers to adopt Qt under its original license was stupid and has done a lot of damage to desktop Linux. Thanks to Nokia for finally solving this problem.
However, not all is well. Personally, I don't like either KDE or Qt particularly from a technical point of view. Qt programming in C++ is a lot nicer than Gnome programming in C. But Gnome bindings to Python and C# are excellent and have good tools support, and that's probably what matters more these days. And if you are silly enough to want to do GUI programming in C++, you can use Gtkmm.
All things considered, I'll stick with Gnome anyway.
Any laser with more than a few mW is very dangerous to the eye. It's possible to try and make it safe via feedback (you put a small laser on the device that needs to beam at the power laser in order to turn on the power), but, geez, is that really worth it?
A much bigger gain at this point would be standardization three power standards: USB power for low power devices, FireWire power for intermediate power devices, and a single high voltage and high power standard (say 24V). Plus, devices and power supplies should be smart enough to deal with power supplies that don't give full wattage.
Sorry but I cant think of a single company/brand/product that had its origins in the Great Depression.
But the Great Depression was scientifically very productive.
In fact, a poor economy and lots of government spending means that the smartest minds can focus on basic issues, rather than trying to figure out how to beat people in business or tweak a product a little.
The problem isn't the models; models predict behavior quite well. The problem is trying to reduce the predictions of models to a single number; that does not work.
Not all cops are power hungry dicks, just regular guys looking for a decent job.
Nor did I say they were. What I said was that the police force is not at all representative of the population as a whole, and certainly not of Slashdot readers.
Oh... maybe it's because she is successfully governing the state of Alaska
Are you kidding? Palin barely finished college, and her track record in Alaska is laughable.
Yet, they see no problem with Obama running for President.
Obama is a Harvard-educated lawyer with an excellent track record.
BTW, Your denigration of Police officers may speak more to your personal experience with them than to their collective character. It suggests that they have arrested you more than once for something... drugs, wife beating, child abuse, peddling, theft, burglary? Which is it?
Ah, a pitiful attempt at character assassination: typical Republican. Keep going, please.
And, you should know, President-elect Obama, as Commander and Chief, will be the highest ranking "police" officer in our country.
That attempt at an argument is so sad, it's almost funny.
He has taken on the job at probably one of the worst times in the history of our country. He will need our support, not our cynicism.
Your knowledge of history is as poor as your knowledge of politics.
Well, thank you for demonstrating what kinds of nitwits are electing dim bulbs like Palin. After all, the millions of votes that McCain/Palin got must have come from somewhere.
People that want to help the common good and their fellow man? Lay off the cynicism buddy...
That's no contradiction to what I said. I'm sure Palin wants to "help the common good and her fellow man", but that doesn't change the fact that she is power hungry and naive about her abilities.
but well, let me explain to you how democracy works. Politicians follow the votes (this can be disregarded in cases where people don't care, in which case the politicians are free to do whatever they want.....that's where lobbyists get a lot of their power). If enough people want something, then the politician HAS to vote in favor of it,
If that were the way democracy worked, every democracy would turn into a fascist dictatorship within a few years. Fortunately, that's not how it works.
First, a senate or upper house needs to approve legislation, and they are generally much less susceptible to mob pressure. Second, people can't create laws that violate the constitution and the supreme court enforces that. That's why the Indian law will probably not stand, and that's why Prop 8 will probably get thrown out.
"I would argue that terrorism in Israel/Palestine,"
You're treating the situation as if it were symmetric, but it is not. Israel doesn't commit terrorism against the Palestinians. That may sound better, but it's actually worse: the Israeli army implements the will of Israeli citizens, so every citizen is responsible for their acts. In contrast, Palestinians are not responsible for the acts of Palestinian terrorists, since they have no control over them.
"there are millions of Jews in Israel, and most of them, most of their parents, and a lot of their grandparents were born there"
Who lived where and when is irrelevant at this point. Jews and Arabs live in the same region now, and Israelis have power over Palestinians. Israel has used this power to implement a system of apartheid and create a democracy with citizenship based on religion and ethnicity. It is historically understandable why that happened, and I wouldn't presume to suggest a solution, but that doesn't change the fact that what Israel is doing is wrong.
Your classification doesn't make sense. By your reasoning, the Middle Eastern terrorists aren't terrorists for religious reasons either: all they want is for the US to get out of the Middle East and for the nations of the Middle East to be unified again.
People "like you and me" don't run governments, so we don't morph into anything. The reason governments and bureaucracies are so bad is because they attract power hungry people who don't know their own limitations. I mean, would you be callous or stupid enough to order the Iraq war? How can someone like Palin possibly think she is capable of running the country?
It's the same with police. Who do you think joins the police force? What kind of person do you think wants to deal day-in and day-out with drunks, drug addicts, and violence? What kind of person do you think wants to carry a gun, knowing that they may have to use it occasionally? It's either people who are very naive, or people who enjoy violence, or people who simply don't have a choice.
No, sorry, police and government are not made up of "people like you and me".
Lots of tools have the property that they make the first 95% or so of the solution really easy and the remaining 5% nearly impossible. On balance, you're worse off than if you had done the whole project in another tool.
Seems to me that the BBC has become lazy and reliant on broadcast fees and thinks it's everybody's job but theirs to figure out their business model.
If you can't figure out how to stream megabit streams profitably, then don't stream them. Don't try to mess up the Internet just because you don't have a business model.
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Not every performer (or group of performers) has the decades-strong appeal of Monty Python, but this is a great thing to see.
If they don't have that kind of appeal, why should they get or expect much revenue anyway?
Actually, citation ranking was first and developed some time in the 1970's. Google's page rank algorithm was an application of citation ranking to the web. The original Page Rank paper even cites the citation ranking papers.
(This also kinds of points out a problem with citation ranking: everybody these days is going to cite page rank, even though the idea originally was developed by other people. So, citation ranking isn't going to tell you who should get the credit, only who popularized an idea.)
There is nothing wrong with charging for OpenOffice distributions.
The problem here is the form in which the contract was supposedly entered. In the US, such a contract is probably not enforceable; it doesn't matter whether it's for OpenOffice or Microsoft Office. If you want to enforce a sales contract, it's effectively your responsibility to make sure that the other party understands that they are buying something and need to pay for it.
German law may be different; there are a number of consumer-hostile provisions in German law that favor companies (and crooks) that wouldn't hold up under US law. This may or may not be one of them.
Haha.. Wow. You really don't know anything about C++/C do you?
I do, but you obviously don't. Ignorance like yours is why software sucks.
1) Why would you program in C# on Linux? Mono support is years behind the feature sets that MS is rolling out. There are a variety of languages/frameworks that are better supported than .NET.
Who cares what Microsoft is doing? Who cares about .NET? Mono with Gtk# is a pretty good platform.
2) What's wrong with GUI programming in C++? QT tools seem pretty nice to me, and objects are much easier to work with than a mountain of procedural code. C++ should also be plenty efficient for application space.
What's wrong with programming GUI apps in C or C++? Then end up bloated, slow, and hard to extend. That's true for both Gnome and KDE (and Windows). They also tend to crash, and you can't safely extend them with plugins. Most people working on those platforms have never seen anything better, so they don't know any better, but the state of GUI and application programming is really abysmal, in part due to the use of C/C++.
So, what advantages are there in using C/Gnome?
There is no advantage in using "C/Gnome". There is an advantage in using Gtk# or PyGnome or any of a number of other HLLs. For that purpose, Gnome is a better choice than Qt, since the use of C++ in Qt only adds unnecessary complexity when binding to other languages.
With this, Nokia has removed a major problem for KDE, Qt, and the open source community. The decision by the KDE developers to adopt Qt under its original license was stupid and has done a lot of damage to desktop Linux. Thanks to Nokia for finally solving this problem.
However, not all is well. Personally, I don't like either KDE or Qt particularly from a technical point of view. Qt programming in C++ is a lot nicer than Gnome programming in C. But Gnome bindings to Python and C# are excellent and have good tools support, and that's probably what matters more these days. And if you are silly enough to want to do GUI programming in C++, you can use Gtkmm.
All things considered, I'll stick with Gnome anyway.
Any laser with more than a few mW is very dangerous to the eye. It's possible to try and make it safe via feedback (you put a small laser on the device that needs to beam at the power laser in order to turn on the power), but, geez, is that really worth it?
A much bigger gain at this point would be standardization three power standards: USB power for low power devices, FireWire power for intermediate power devices, and a single high voltage and high power standard (say 24V). Plus, devices and power supplies should be smart enough to deal with power supplies that don't give full wattage.
That's not how hard drives work. Furthermore, decoding and encoding the analog signal happens in the drive, not in the driver.
And whatever analog properties one can take advantage of, drive manufacturers are already taking advantage of to maximize storage.
Sorry but I cant think of a single company/brand/product that had its origins in the Great Depression.
But the Great Depression was scientifically very productive.
In fact, a poor economy and lots of government spending means that the smartest minds can focus on basic issues, rather than trying to figure out how to beat people in business or tweak a product a little.
thats assuming the rotten trees get burned and leave space for fresh younglings
Microsoft has layoffs and Sun is in trouble; seems like a good start to me.
The problem isn't the models; models predict behavior quite well. The problem is trying to reduce the predictions of models to a single number; that does not work.
If you want to do that, you can use ShoZu or Ovi (Google) on you camera phone. There's also live video streaming and recording from your cell phone.
But instead of picking a fight, just say "Sure, officer, I'll delete the photos. See, all gone, even the last one I took of you."
Those companies have no right to ask you to delete photos. They can ask you to leave their premises... once it's safe to do so, that's all.
Not all cops are power hungry dicks, just regular guys looking for a decent job.
Nor did I say they were. What I said was that the police force is not at all representative of the population as a whole, and certainly not of Slashdot readers.
Oh... maybe it's because she is successfully governing the state of Alaska
Are you kidding? Palin barely finished college, and her track record in Alaska is laughable.
Yet, they see no problem with Obama running for President.
Obama is a Harvard-educated lawyer with an excellent track record.
BTW, Your denigration of Police officers may speak more to your personal experience with them than to their collective character. It suggests that they have arrested you more than once for something... drugs, wife beating, child abuse, peddling, theft, burglary? Which is it?
Ah, a pitiful attempt at character assassination: typical Republican. Keep going, please.
And, you should know, President-elect Obama, as Commander and Chief, will be the highest ranking "police" officer in our country.
That attempt at an argument is so sad, it's almost funny.
He has taken on the job at probably one of the worst times in the history of our country. He will need our support, not our cynicism.
Your knowledge of history is as poor as your knowledge of politics.
Well, thank you for demonstrating what kinds of nitwits are electing dim bulbs like Palin. After all, the millions of votes that McCain/Palin got must have come from somewhere.
People that want to help the common good and their fellow man? Lay off the cynicism buddy...
That's no contradiction to what I said. I'm sure Palin wants to "help the common good and her fellow man", but that doesn't change the fact that she is power hungry and naive about her abilities.
but well, let me explain to you how democracy works. Politicians follow the votes (this can be disregarded in cases where people don't care, in which case the politicians are free to do whatever they want.....that's where lobbyists get a lot of their power). If enough people want something, then the politician HAS to vote in favor of it,
If that were the way democracy worked, every democracy would turn into a fascist dictatorship within a few years. Fortunately, that's not how it works.
First, a senate or upper house needs to approve legislation, and they are generally much less susceptible to mob pressure. Second, people can't create laws that violate the constitution and the supreme court enforces that. That's why the Indian law will probably not stand, and that's why Prop 8 will probably get thrown out.
"I would argue that terrorism in Israel/Palestine,"
You're treating the situation as if it were symmetric, but it is not. Israel doesn't commit terrorism against the Palestinians. That may sound better, but it's actually worse: the Israeli army implements the will of Israeli citizens, so every citizen is responsible for their acts. In contrast, Palestinians are not responsible for the acts of Palestinian terrorists, since they have no control over them.
"there are millions of Jews in Israel, and most of them, most of their parents, and a lot of their grandparents were born there"
Who lived where and when is irrelevant at this point. Jews and Arabs live in the same region now, and Israelis have power over Palestinians. Israel has used this power to implement a system of apartheid and create a democracy with citizenship based on religion and ethnicity. It is historically understandable why that happened, and I wouldn't presume to suggest a solution, but that doesn't change the fact that what Israel is doing is wrong.
Your classification doesn't make sense. By your reasoning, the Middle Eastern terrorists aren't terrorists for religious reasons either: all they want is for the US to get out of the Middle East and for the nations of the Middle East to be unified again.
People "like you and me" don't run governments, so we don't morph into anything. The reason governments and bureaucracies are so bad is because they attract power hungry people who don't know their own limitations. I mean, would you be callous or stupid enough to order the Iraq war? How can someone like Palin possibly think she is capable of running the country?
It's the same with police. Who do you think joins the police force? What kind of person do you think wants to deal day-in and day-out with drunks, drug addicts, and violence? What kind of person do you think wants to carry a gun, knowing that they may have to use it occasionally? It's either people who are very naive, or people who enjoy violence, or people who simply don't have a choice.
No, sorry, police and government are not made up of "people like you and me".
Lots of tools have the property that they make the first 95% or so of the solution really easy and the remaining 5% nearly impossible. On balance, you're worse off than if you had done the whole project in another tool.
Where do you think most of Microsoft's "ideas" (such as they are) come from?
On geologic time scales, "about to" could be 5000 years in the future.
If that's the sort of device you want, get an Archos 5, 5g, or 7, or a Nokia 810.
Seems to me that the BBC has become lazy and reliant on broadcast fees and thinks it's everybody's job but theirs to figure out their business model.
If you can't figure out how to stream megabit streams profitably, then don't stream them. Don't try to mess up the Internet just because you don't have a business model.