but to say that a band should make all its money by gigging is ridiculous.
All the band has to do is sell their first CD for the amount they feel the collection of songs (or perhaps just one song) is worth. After the purchase has been made it doesn't matter how many times it gets copied, the artist already has the money.
I realize that one person most likely will be unable to afford the price of the first CD, but groups of people can pool their money to purchase the copy. The internet makes this step easy.
Now you might say that music that people want to hear will never be released because the funds cannot be raised, but isn't that what capitalism is all about? There are a lot of things that I want, but cannot afford to produce on my own. I know that until there are enough people willing to put the money into the product, I will have to live without it. It's really not that bad, and it won't be the end of the world if the latest Britney Spears album doesn't see the light of day either.
Using a bridge-building analogy, in my opinion the software development phase is akin to designing the bridge. You've got to present what you want it to look like and how you want it to function in a visually appealing way but the exact details aren't your concern, that's up to the engineer to figure out. In the software world, the computer plays the role of the engineer. It's up to the computer to figure out how to implement what you've described. Therefore, Canada has it right. Software development isn't engineering at all.
Yahoo have some interesting APIs, but they are all for non-commercial use, and therefore are useless for most applications that would normally be built around them. I understand why they would want to set those limits, however it doesn't foster a community around them with them in place.
If I want a phone I can modify I should buy a phone that allows it.
I buy hardware because it runs the software I want to run, not because of the hardware itself. There are some amazing third-party applications for the iPhone. I'm not aware of a phone that isn't an iPhone that can run those applications. It's just a shame that there is so much effort required to run those applications. Hopefully the SDK will remove the need to jailbreak the phone, but I have my doubts.
There seems to be quite a lot of iPhones here in Canada even though Apple doesn't sell them. I wonder if they've accounted for unlocked phones that have left the country of origin?
I live out on the farm and have access to pretty much all the technology that most people who live in major cities have. The government has made a big push to make sure the less populated areas are not left behind. If it were truly a free market, you'd be right, but there are other factors that come into play.
I gather this is a publication for DBAs. It seems they are worried about their jobs more than anything. With the map-reduce-style databases there isn't a need for any kind of special database expert. The business logic all happens in the application. There is no need for tuning indexes. You don't even need to define a schema. When things get slow any monkey can drop in another computer and you're back up to speed and ready to go.
Traditional RDBMSes have their place, but we're going to see a lot more applications built on this technology in the near future. The big players (Google, Amazon, etc.) have been doing it for quite some time and we're now finally seeing the technology available to the average Joe. It's a very interesting shift in how data is stored and should lead to some interesting applications that we can only dream of today.
That's along the same lines of setting your cruise control to 65mph when the speed limit is 55mph
It's more like a highway that has sections that have a speed limit of 55MPH (WEP, WPA, etc.) and sections that are advertised as having no speed limit at all (no encryption, SSID broadcasted, etc.). But even if you set your cruise control to 65MPH in the no speed limit section of highway the police will still pull you over for going 10MPH over the limit and the courts will agree with their charges.
Just because I encourage you to request zone transfers from my public DNS server does not mean that you can request zone transfers from all public DNS servers (as indicated by this case). By the same token, just because I encourage you to read my website, it does not mean you have permission to read all websites.
Luckily, history has shown us that as a product grows in popularity, something more obscure will appear that is better than the popular option. We (as in the/. community, people who typically aren't afraid to try new things) can all just move to it until it becomes too popular. Ad infinitum.
Linux has somewhere around 40% market share for servers. Apache has 60% market share for web servers. So, I guess that explains why all the server and web server viruses are for Linux and Apache. Oh wait...
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It already did. They called the revolution Web 2.0. Sorry you missed it.
All the band has to do is sell their first CD for the amount they feel the collection of songs (or perhaps just one song) is worth. After the purchase has been made it doesn't matter how many times it gets copied, the artist already has the money.
I realize that one person most likely will be unable to afford the price of the first CD, but groups of people can pool their money to purchase the copy. The internet makes this step easy.
Now you might say that music that people want to hear will never be released because the funds cannot be raised, but isn't that what capitalism is all about? There are a lot of things that I want, but cannot afford to produce on my own. I know that until there are enough people willing to put the money into the product, I will have to live without it. It's really not that bad, and it won't be the end of the world if the latest Britney Spears album doesn't see the light of day either.
Your Sony doesn't (legally) run OS X. No problem if you're a Windows user, but if you're a Windows user you're not going to be looking at Macs anyway.
Protip: You don't need to load every single song in your collection on your iPod. Smart playlists are your friend.
Using a bridge-building analogy, in my opinion the software development phase is akin to designing the bridge. You've got to present what you want it to look like and how you want it to function in a visually appealing way but the exact details aren't your concern, that's up to the engineer to figure out. In the software world, the computer plays the role of the engineer. It's up to the computer to figure out how to implement what you've described. Therefore, Canada has it right. Software development isn't engineering at all.
Yahoo have some interesting APIs, but they are all for non-commercial use, and therefore are useless for most applications that would normally be built around them. I understand why they would want to set those limits, however it doesn't foster a community around them with them in place.
If he had spent more time developing TCP/IP, Manbearpig would still be out there.
Adam was pimping his iPhone in the last episode I saw. Using it as a stopwatch and a calculator.
I buy hardware because it runs the software I want to run, not because of the hardware itself. There are some amazing third-party applications for the iPhone. I'm not aware of a phone that isn't an iPhone that can run those applications. It's just a shame that there is so much effort required to run those applications. Hopefully the SDK will remove the need to jailbreak the phone, but I have my doubts.
Yes, I have seen someone with an iPhone and they don't even sell them here.
There is a chance that you might spread your misleading information via the internet. We'd better make using the internet illegal while we're at it.
There seems to be quite a lot of iPhones here in Canada even though Apple doesn't sell them. I wonder if they've accounted for unlocked phones that have left the country of origin?
It's possible that IE8 will contain code that detects the presence of an ACID test and switches to the proper renderer to pass the test.
I live out on the farm and have access to pretty much all the technology that most people who live in major cities have. The government has made a big push to make sure the less populated areas are not left behind. If it were truly a free market, you'd be right, but there are other factors that come into play.
CouchDB, ThruDB, RDDB, and SimpleDB, to name a few.
I gather this is a publication for DBAs. It seems they are worried about their jobs more than anything. With the map-reduce-style databases there isn't a need for any kind of special database expert. The business logic all happens in the application. There is no need for tuning indexes. You don't even need to define a schema. When things get slow any monkey can drop in another computer and you're back up to speed and ready to go.
Traditional RDBMSes have their place, but we're going to see a lot more applications built on this technology in the near future. The big players (Google, Amazon, etc.) have been doing it for quite some time and we're now finally seeing the technology available to the average Joe. It's a very interesting shift in how data is stored and should lead to some interesting applications that we can only dream of today.
Those newfangled document databases utilize MapReduce to gather records. I'm guessing that's what the article is about.
I'm only trespassing if you ask me to leave and I fail to do so. The DNS server never asked the client to leave.
It's more like a highway that has sections that have a speed limit of 55MPH (WEP, WPA, etc.) and sections that are advertised as having no speed limit at all (no encryption, SSID broadcasted, etc.). But even if you set your cruise control to 65MPH in the no speed limit section of highway the police will still pull you over for going 10MPH over the limit and the courts will agree with their charges.
Just because I encourage you to request zone transfers from my public DNS server does not mean that you can request zone transfers from all public DNS servers (as indicated by this case). By the same token, just because I encourage you to read my website, it does not mean you have permission to read all websites.
Luckily, history has shown us that as a product grows in popularity, something more obscure will appear that is better than the popular option. We (as in the /. community, people who typically aren't afraid to try new things) can all just move to it until it becomes too popular. Ad infinitum.
iPhones are $800 in this country. But that is, in part, because Apple doesn't sell them here.
Linux has somewhere around 40% market share for servers. Apache has 60% market share for web servers. So, I guess that explains why all the server and web server viruses are for Linux and Apache. Oh wait...
I've never used a USB drive that was able to acquire enough power from the keyboard USB ports.
I'll lock up the CDs I own too. But I have the key, and when I want to listen to them, I can unlock them. DRM never gives me the key.