This is very useful... Sometimes when walking your dog(s) in the forest they will get a scent. At that point it is nearly impossible to stop them, especially if you have a hunting dog. Or how about those people that own "fighting dogs", where you can react very quickly if they break out of garden. Overall a good idea I find... I know I would get it for both of my dogs.
I think the Poodle is wearing diapers because it's a female and in heat! Unless your female is casterated she will be dripping blood all over your house! That is definitely not a nice experience!
Ok, the.xxx domain system will not be perfect. HOWEVER the magazine, film, etc industries have managed to figure out what is porn and not porn. The same type of regulations should be applied.
>> We believe that ICANN is dedicated to achieving broad representation of global Internet communities and to developing policy through consensus-based processes.
I am all for the ICANN doing its business. Heck, I would hate to have some big government manage the Internet. HOWEVER, I also do wish that the current administration would keep its grubby paws off the Internet as well! I am referring to the hoopla regarding the xxx domains!
I am not so sure.... BUT there is one easy way to tell... Put it to the Turing test. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test. If it passes that, then I will willing to call it the first AI...
Yes, Office... Microsoft was the first to bundle everything for the Windows desktop and create a single "application". That helped Microsoft immensely because at the time people liked the fact that they could share content using cut/copy/paste. With respect to the other "last" there, they are not the dominate player, with the exception being the Internet Explorer.
The monopoly for Microsoft is not Windows, but Office! Office keeps a good many people on Windows. I know that I don't use Linux because of Office (need Office for my daily work, and therefore bought an OSX box). OpenOffice is not a solution for more complicated documents that have automation, stylesheets, and versioning.
> We whine when they delay and push back release dates of their OS over and over again but when they finally do come out with something "on time" (whatever that means) and it's not up to par we give them shit.
You are right, HOWEVEVER.... When Vista does release will it truly have less bugs? After all is that not what the extra time was about? And if Vista does still have plenty of bugs, what was the point? There are companies that build better software, and those that don't. It really is something that a company has to want!
There is a REALLY simple solution, and it is not rocket science. Don't live in the shadow! Cynical said, for every shadow side there is a sunny side because to cast a shadow you need something to block the sun. So, DON'T build on the shadow side!
Swiss that are from Graubuenden when buying houses the first thing they check is how the sun rises and sets! It is interesting to see how often a hill side is full of houses, and on the other side not a single house. There is a reason...
Absolutely! And this is why I live in Switzerland and the not the EU! Granted they might build these things in Switzerland, but at least then the Geminde has to pony up the money itself. I do know here in Switzerland when people move their first concern is where the sun rises and sets! If you happen to live on the wrong side of the hill, the house is cheap and remains cheap.
The worst part of the mirror is that it is an entire waste of money. Consider the following quote from the article.
"So Lichtlabor plans to create about a dozen "hotspots" - areas not much bigger than a front yard scattered through the town, where townspeople can gather and soak up rays. "
Now compare that comment to the comment from the beginning of the article.
"That's because sun is plentiful less than 10 minutes' walk from the town and from Rat Mountain, the 910m hill that blocks its sunlight between November and February each year."
Let's see, the EU pays 2,400,000 Euros for "hotspots", when they could walk 10 minutes to get the exact same thing! Additionally, as I live near the Alps, during the winter you are cloud covered or in the fog for most of the winter anyways.
Here is the irony and wrongness of this entire argument. Highways, statistically speaking are the safest roadways. In Germany highways are extremely safe, and there are many stretches where there are NO speed limits. So speed is not the issue.
What is the issue are country roads. People often drive too fast on a country road underestimate a curve and plow into a tree. This is a proven statistic, and the authorities in Switzerland, and Germany want to increase camera's on the roads, not the highways!
If you put lots and lots of camera's on the highway it's a revenue stream plain and simple.
* Relatively simple invention - $3,000 to $5,000
* Invention of minimal complexity - $5,000 - $10,000
* Invention of moderate complexity - $10,000 - $15,000
* Invention of intermediate complexity - $15,000 - $20,000
* Relatively complex invention - $20,000 and up
Look at these costs, as they are not chump change. This is only a patent in the US. To get a European patent knock on another 20,000K. Then to defend your patent you need yet again a 300 USD per hour lawyer. Frankly the reason why there are so many patents is because lawyers and the patent offices have how to create an economy where there should be none.
In Germany they have been around for quite a long time! I would say at least a decade... They did think about other factors, but they concluded that there is a definite change.
There was this episode in Star Trek NG (movie I think?) where they meet the Borg. So Picard is on the hollowdeck dancing in 1920's. The Borg come in and Picard starts shooting them using common bullets and oddly enough that kills the Borg! Yet time and time again we see the Borg adapting to the lasers!
Where I get confused is if the 1) Borg is resistent to all "Laser" weapons 2) Not resistant to common bullets, why are they using lasers with futility. I will admit it makes for great action, but kind of stupid.
The laser and blinding reminds me of the same thing as in Star Trek. If a terrorist knows this gun exists, are they are going to go along with the show (for the action that is) and allow themselves to be blinded? I suppose not, they are going to get something against the light probably making the laser gun a 10 billion dollar paperweight. Albeit a REALLY cool looking and behaving paperweight!
About six months past I read in a German paper that in the North where the windmill parks have changed the local climate (http://www.msr.uni-bremen.de/werner/rw/RWOffshore .htm not the real article). Essentially the windmills act like a wind dam and that changes the weather on nearby beaches. I think what the report said is that the beach received more sunlight than it usually would.
That is on the thinking that they would want to do that. However, as patent history has shown when it comes to making money for nothing people tend to act otherwise. If storyline patents do get accepted people will write as much as they can. For them it's like printing money! So while I agree with you, I doubt it will happen.
Let's imagine the situation where there is a piece of open source that is not used by anybody. Or has not been updated in the last several years. The license is GPL, and somebody picks up the slack and updates the software. However, they don't release the sources because they don't want to since after all nobody was maintaining the sources in the first place!
What would the Slashdot community say? Evil, and whatever other rude comment many could think of.
My point is that with copyright I have the choice to determine what happens or does not happen with my content. Open Source like the GPL uses the copyright to keep things open, but commericial uses copyright to restrict. Each is a choice made by their respective owners and NEED TO BE RESPECTED!!!
Because if you feel right to rip off those that restrict, then others are right to keep open things closed!!! Copyright is a double edged sword and many forget that!
Hey a baseball bat IS a dangerous weapon in the wrong hands. I am sure terrorists could use a baseball bat in some form. After all they did use friggen carpet knife as a dangerous weapon. Are we going to have little disclosure signs? Do you have to sign an EULA "I will not hit people over the head?"
What I see more worrisome is that everything is "terrorist" materials! And that gives the government's the "right" to stop the flow of information.
From the perspective of XMLHttpRequest you cannot call a domain that is not the original HTML page. IE, Mozilla, and Safari implement same domain policy and having experimented it is not possible.
If you are still wondering please send me an email. I have reworked very large codebases in the same order as you are talking about. I can't name the packages in public.
I wish people who make such accusations take the time to find out what Swiss politics are all about. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy Yes there are elected politicians who iron out the details of what the people decided. After all true democracy needs to be efficient and smooth. Politicians do what politicians were originally meant to do, namely carry out the details of running the country based on the desires of the people. Yes people can carry out "initiatives" but these "initiatives" are every three to four months.
And yes again the "We are bigger than the Swiss therefore it will not work" argument. Yet again this is a classical excuse on why it works in Switzerland and not anywhere else. Direct democracy can work on national level if it is a NATIONAL issue. Many people confuse county, state, and federal issues.
I am so tired of people saying if we had a true democracy then stupid things would result because look at the stupid people. My answer is maybe you are one of those STUPID people? And maybe you happen to be one of those biased people who thought, "If it was up to me I would fix things".
You see I live in a country that has true democracy and it is called Switzerland. In fact true democracy works well because believe it or not there are "STUPID" swiss! People who say, "it's because the framers were smart enough not to trust the public with such power" are in fact saying, "An elite number of people know what's good for the masses!". Let's carry this thought through and call it what it is namely fascism.
If a country like the US switched to true democracy yes in the first decade all hell would break out because people would vote based on silly ideas. HOWEVER, after people realize that their vote counts people will vote differently. People will think about their votes and they will try to understand the isses. And if the issue is too complex then a simple no will do. That is what happens here in Switzerland. If the issues get too complex they just say NO!
That's right it's silly to have so many distros! Just like its silly to have so many different types of clothes, foods, housing types, furniture, etc, etc. I find it ironic that people like to twiddle and build their own computers. But when it comes to software the blinders go up.
No, here Redhat has it right! Consolidation means making a decision of what is good or not good for other people. That is not what we want! While I find it silly to wear pants that hang off your butts and show off your underwear, if people want to wear it let them. It's their choice.
Open Source cuts into software revenue whether we like it or not. If somebody expects to Open Source their product and then earn a living from selling licenses, well they don't understand Open Source. Actually I tend to think they are living in a dream world! The key to Open Source is added value, and not sales of software. Obviously their competition understood that and created devices!
Their call that using devices is a GPL loophole is pure BS. If somebody sells a device with the software and does not make any changes then they are entitled to that. If they change the sources then the sources have to be made available and I am sure that they did. The point is that somebody was clever enough to create a device that maybe they should have in the first place!
Here is a question, if the person's competition was making money on GPL, why couldn't he? Oh yeah he wanted to sell software and only sell software! Here's my prediction, that he will bankrupt himself after close-sourcing the software and blame it on the Open Source community!
Slashdot Mirror
This is very useful... Sometimes when walking your dog(s) in the forest they will get a scent. At that point it is nearly impossible to stop them, especially if you have a hunting dog. Or how about those people that own "fighting dogs", where you can react very quickly if they break out of garden. Overall a good idea I find... I know I would get it for both of my dogs.
I think the Poodle is wearing diapers because it's a female and in heat! Unless your female is casterated she will be dripping blood all over your house! That is definitely not a nice experience!
Ok, the .xxx domain system will not be perfect. HOWEVER the magazine, film, etc industries have managed to figure out what is porn and not porn. The same type of regulations should be applied.
>> We believe that ICANN is dedicated to achieving broad representation of global Internet communities and to developing policy through consensus-based processes.
I am all for the ICANN doing its business. Heck, I would hate to have some big government manage the Internet. HOWEVER, I also do wish that the current administration would keep its grubby paws off the Internet as well! I am referring to the hoopla regarding the xxx domains!
I am not so sure.... BUT there is one easy way to tell... Put it to the Turing test. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test. If it passes that, then I will willing to call it the first AI...
Yes, Office... Microsoft was the first to bundle everything for the Windows desktop and create a single "application". That helped Microsoft immensely because at the time people liked the fact that they could share content using cut/copy/paste. With respect to the other "last" there, they are not the dominate player, with the exception being the Internet Explorer.
The monopoly for Microsoft is not Windows, but Office! Office keeps a good many people on Windows. I know that I don't use Linux because of Office (need Office for my daily work, and therefore bought an OSX box). OpenOffice is not a solution for more complicated documents that have automation, stylesheets, and versioning.
> We whine when they delay and push back release dates of their OS over and over again but when they finally do come out with something "on time" (whatever that means) and it's not up to par we give them shit.
You are right, HOWEVEVER.... When Vista does release will it truly have less bugs? After all is that not what the extra time was about? And if Vista does still have plenty of bugs, what was the point? There are companies that build better software, and those that don't. It really is something that a company has to want!
There is a REALLY simple solution, and it is not rocket science. Don't live in the shadow! Cynical said, for every shadow side there is a sunny side because to cast a shadow you need something to block the sun. So, DON'T build on the shadow side!
Swiss that are from Graubuenden when buying houses the first thing they check is how the sun rises and sets! It is interesting to see how often a hill side is full of houses, and on the other side not a single house. There is a reason...
Absolutely! And this is why I live in Switzerland and the not the EU! Granted they might build these things in Switzerland, but at least then the Geminde has to pony up the money itself. I do know here in Switzerland when people move their first concern is where the sun rises and sets! If you happen to live on the wrong side of the hill, the house is cheap and remains cheap.
The worst part of the mirror is that it is an entire waste of money. Consider the following quote from the article.
"So Lichtlabor plans to create about a dozen "hotspots" - areas not much bigger than a front yard scattered through the town, where townspeople can gather and soak up rays. "
Now compare that comment to the comment from the beginning of the article.
"That's because sun is plentiful less than 10 minutes' walk from the town and from Rat Mountain, the 910m hill that blocks its sunlight between November and February each year."
Let's see, the EU pays 2,400,000 Euros for "hotspots", when they could walk 10 minutes to get the exact same thing! Additionally, as I live near the Alps, during the winter you are cloud covered or in the fog for most of the winter anyways.
This is an example of pork, plain and simple!
Here is the irony and wrongness of this entire argument. Highways, statistically speaking are the safest roadways. In Germany highways are extremely safe, and there are many stretches where there are NO speed limits. So speed is not the issue.
What is the issue are country roads. People often drive too fast on a country road underestimate a curve and plow into a tree. This is a proven statistic, and the authorities in Switzerland, and Germany want to increase camera's on the roads, not the highways!
If you put lots and lots of camera's on the highway it's a revenue stream plain and simple.
Excuse me????
Patents are NOT affordable by private inventors and have stopped being affordable a long time ago.
http://www.patents.com/cost.htm, http://www.ipwatchdog.com/patent_cost.html
* Relatively simple invention - $3,000 to $5,000
* Invention of minimal complexity - $5,000 - $10,000
* Invention of moderate complexity - $10,000 - $15,000
* Invention of intermediate complexity - $15,000 - $20,000
* Relatively complex invention - $20,000 and up
Look at these costs, as they are not chump change. This is only a patent in the US. To get a European patent knock on another 20,000K. Then to defend your patent you need yet again a 300 USD per hour lawyer. Frankly the reason why there are so many patents is because lawyers and the patent offices have how to create an economy where there should be none.
In Germany they have been around for quite a long time! I would say at least a decade... They did think about other factors, but they concluded that there is a definite change.
There was this episode in Star Trek NG (movie I think?) where they meet the Borg. So Picard is on the hollowdeck dancing in 1920's. The Borg come in and Picard starts shooting them using common bullets and oddly enough that kills the Borg! Yet time and time again we see the Borg adapting to the lasers!
Where I get confused is if the 1) Borg is resistent to all "Laser" weapons 2) Not resistant to common bullets, why are they using lasers with futility. I will admit it makes for great action, but kind of stupid.
The laser and blinding reminds me of the same thing as in Star Trek. If a terrorist knows this gun exists, are they are going to go along with the show (for the action that is) and allow themselves to be blinded? I suppose not, they are going to get something against the light probably making the laser gun a 10 billion dollar paperweight. Albeit a REALLY cool looking and behaving paperweight!
As silly as that sounds it is true...
e .htm not the real article). Essentially the windmills act like a wind dam and that changes the weather on nearby beaches. I think what the report said is that the beach received more sunlight than it usually would.
About six months past I read in a German paper that in the North where the windmill parks have changed the local climate (http://www.msr.uni-bremen.de/werner/rw/RWOffshor
That is on the thinking that they would want to do that. However, as patent history has shown when it comes to making money for nothing people tend to act otherwise. If storyline patents do get accepted people will write as much as they can. For them it's like printing money! So while I agree with you, I doubt it will happen.
Let's imagine the situation where there is a piece of open source that is not used by anybody. Or has not been updated in the last several years. The license is GPL, and somebody picks up the slack and updates the software. However, they don't release the sources because they don't want to since after all nobody was maintaining the sources in the first place!
What would the Slashdot community say? Evil, and whatever other rude comment many could think of.
My point is that with copyright I have the choice to determine what happens or does not happen with my content. Open Source like the GPL uses the copyright to keep things open, but commericial uses copyright to restrict. Each is a choice made by their respective owners and NEED TO BE RESPECTED!!!
Because if you feel right to rip off those that restrict, then others are right to keep open things closed!!! Copyright is a double edged sword and many forget that!
Now I wish that they would start selling the videos in stores OTHER THAN the US....
Exactly!
Hey a baseball bat IS a dangerous weapon in the wrong hands. I am sure terrorists could use a baseball bat in some form. After all they did use friggen carpet knife as a dangerous weapon. Are we going to have little disclosure signs? Do you have to sign an EULA "I will not hit people over the head?"
What I see more worrisome is that everything is "terrorist" materials! And that gives the government's the "right" to stop the flow of information.
I think the problem is that the MySpace site allows javascript to be uploaded.
3 .html
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2005-10-13-n7
From the perspective of XMLHttpRequest you cannot call a domain that is not the original HTML page. IE, Mozilla, and Safari implement same domain policy and having experimented it is not possible.
If you are still wondering please send me an email. I have reworked very large codebases in the same order as you are talking about. I can't name the packages in public.
>>> Do you even know what a true democracy is?
I wish people who make such accusations take the time to find out what Swiss politics are all about. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy Yes there are elected politicians who iron out the details of what the people decided. After all true democracy needs to be efficient and smooth. Politicians do what politicians were originally meant to do, namely carry out the details of running the country based on the desires of the people. Yes people can carry out "initiatives" but these "initiatives" are every three to four months.
And yes again the "We are bigger than the Swiss therefore it will not work" argument. Yet again this is a classical excuse on why it works in Switzerland and not anywhere else. Direct democracy can work on national level if it is a NATIONAL issue. Many people confuse county, state, and federal issues.
I am so tired of people saying if we had a true democracy then stupid things would result because look at the stupid people. My answer is maybe you are one of those STUPID people? And maybe you happen to be one of those biased people who thought, "If it was up to me I would fix things".
You see I live in a country that has true democracy and it is called Switzerland. In fact true democracy works well because believe it or not there are "STUPID" swiss! People who say, "it's because the framers were smart enough not to trust the public with such power" are in fact saying, "An elite number of people know what's good for the masses!". Let's carry this thought through and call it what it is namely fascism.
If a country like the US switched to true democracy yes in the first decade all hell would break out because people would vote based on silly ideas. HOWEVER, after people realize that their vote counts people will vote differently. People will think about their votes and they will try to understand the isses. And if the issue is too complex then a simple no will do. That is what happens here in Switzerland. If the issues get too complex they just say NO!
That's right it's silly to have so many distros! Just like its silly to have so many different types of clothes, foods, housing types, furniture, etc, etc. I find it ironic that people like to twiddle and build their own computers. But when it comes to software the blinders go up.
No, here Redhat has it right! Consolidation means making a decision of what is good or not good for other people. That is not what we want! While I find it silly to wear pants that hang off your butts and show off your underwear, if people want to wear it let them. It's their choice.
Open Source cuts into software revenue whether we like it or not. If somebody expects to Open Source their product and then earn a living from selling licenses, well they don't understand Open Source. Actually I tend to think they are living in a dream world! The key to Open Source is added value, and not sales of software. Obviously their competition understood that and created devices!
Their call that using devices is a GPL loophole is pure BS. If somebody sells a device with the software and does not make any changes then they are entitled to that. If they change the sources then the sources have to be made available and I am sure that they did. The point is that somebody was clever enough to create a device that maybe they should have in the first place!
Here is a question, if the person's competition was making money on GPL, why couldn't he? Oh yeah he wanted to sell software and only sell software! Here's my prediction, that he will bankrupt himself after close-sourcing the software and blame it on the Open Source community!