Integrated GPS, 1Mb+ wireless internet connection, automatic backup to my home computer _WITHOUT_ cradle-syncing, paper-quality hi-resolution screen, and an internal rechargable batterey with a charge-life of 2+ months. I also want it to wirelessly network with any other devices I might be carrying, such as an mp3 player, cellphone, textpager, etc. What would be really cool beyond that is integration with a HUD device built into a pair of sunglasses, only descreet, so noone knows that you're using anything.
The only problem is that I want it today, not 5-10 years from now...
a static growth rate, lessening mainstream interest in the open source operating system, and a sharp decline in Linux-based companies' stock value
I do believe that each of these points can be made about micro$oft's performance in 2000 -- check their growth rate for 2000 on netcraft, they didn't grow at all, the majority of mainstream interest in them was in reference to the trial, and their stock price hit a 2-year low. Need I say more?
If media rich content on these drives would have to be encrypted/decrypted any time it is written to/read form your hard drive, doesn't this impact the performace of your drive negatively? I would think that this would be trivial for text and audio files, but what about full-screen video files where data access time is critical?
I've been in a situation before (and known others who have had similar situations) where important data for a project was physically located on a specific machine, and that machine's drive crashed. I've known several instances where the drive no longer worked, but the data was recovered (for a hefty fee). If a drive is equiped according to this copy protection standard, would data on a crashed drive be recoverable?
Most of your points are about problems facing minorities in society, rather than in microsoft specifically. There is little that anyone can do individually to change the factors preventing minorities from entering into the tech field. As much as I disapprove of M$'s business practice as a whole, they are one of the *FEW* companies out there in the tech field that makes donations & sets up schollarships. I think that this should be applauded. Silicon Valley is notorious for not giving back to the rest of society. Just check out their list of recipients and you'll see that they've done more to try and change the problems you've listed than probably any other company in their field. Compare their list to that of Oracle.
Another reason could be the differences in the BSD and GNU licenses. They might not want a corp taking the code and turning it into something that wasn't open source.
"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."
What I'd really like to see is 'Linux for Bullies' or 'Linux for Egotistical Anarchists'. Heck, go ahead and target all degenerate, self-depricating market segments.
Natapoff's theory of the EC leaves out two important variables:
the existence of more than 2 candidates.
variable voter turnout in different states
The EC diminishes the power of people voting for 3rd party candidates to effectively nil. Case in point: Nader (and no, I didn't vote for him). Nader captured somewhere in the neighborhood of 2.5% of the popular vote, and a flat 0% of the EC vote. This means that if you voted for Nader ( or any other 3rd party candidate), your vote didn't even equate to a blip on the radar.
Variable voter turnout can give voters in different states different amounts of voting power. Let's say that two states with the same number of EC votes have different levels of voter turnout. People who vote in states with lower levels of voter turnout then have more power than those in states with higher turnout. This translates into a more apathetic voter base that has more individual voting power. So much for all [wo]men created equal.
As for comments about "if you weren't smart enough to figure out how to use the ballot, you aren't smart enough to vote", just realize that this country used to have laws like that. Literacy tests to keep blacks from being able to vote in the south.
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government!
I'm sorry, but I just don't believe in giving Bill Gates any money. He already has enough. Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government!
Unlimited option: 100Mb connection to the net with an ethernet connection in every room of the house (2 in the basement) Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government!
...but same sh*tty display. Really, who wants a laptop that only does 800x600 res? I mean the whole point of having a mac is to do graphics work, and who wants to do that at such a low res?
Now
he takes the psoition that, even when the QPL is replaced by the GPL,
the fact that you ever tried to link against the QPL irrevocably
forfeits your rights to release the software under the GPL.
Just because the QPL is more free than a microsoft license, it doesn't mean that it's OK to use GPL code in it. Just think how outraged 99.9% of slashdoters would be if microsoft, sun or adobe had done the same thing with software they had written under their licensing.
"Mr. Johansen is a very
talented young man and a member of a well known hacker group who viewed "cracking" CSS as an
end it itself and a means of demonstrating his talent and who fully expected that the use of DeCSS
would not be confined to Linux machines. Hence, the Court finds that Mr. Johansen and the others
who actually did develop DeCSS did not do so solely for the purpose of making a Linux DVD player
if, indeed, developing a Linux-based DVD player was among their purposes.
Accordingly, the reverse engineering exception to the DMCA has no application here."
My Version:
Mr.Kaplan s a very tallented man and a member of a well known political body who viewed "protecting" his clients as in end in itself and a means of demonstrating is loyalty and who fully expected that the appreciation of the MPAA would not be confined to non-monetary rewards. Hence, the people find that Mr. Caplan and the others who actually did issue this ruling did not do so solely for the purpose of upholding the law if, indeed, upholding the law was among their purposes. Accordingly, the reverse engineering exception to the DMCA had no application here.
"If you don't own a gun and someone breaks into your home, how are you suposed to shoot him?" -Dale (from King of the Hill)
Ok, he tries to make the argument that garbage collection would be faster than in java because you can declare data structures that aren't objects so they won't have to be gc'd, giving the example of a phone number class in java. Then he says that all the primitives are now objects. Doesn't this nullify the performance benefit? Granted the phone number struct is not an object but the number(s) it contains is(are).
...and they never make it off Gilligan's Island...
...and the crew of Voyager never make it back to Earth...
...and Lisa Simpson will always be a little girl...
It's all just formula TV like any other series. I'm not saying that the show sucks - I still watch it on a regular basis - but like any other show, once you've seen enough episodes, you can pretty much know how a new one is going to end half way through.
I've been in the web design industry for several years now and I've been on both sides of the wall - both as an employee of a web design shop and an employee of a company that hired a web design shop. The problem for web designers is that a) the technology is ever-changing so that if you start a project that lasts for more than 6 mos., chances are that by the time you are done there's a new version of somebody's browser out that doesn't work quite right with the site you were just about done with. b) clients don't understand that they can't just show up at the last minute and make changes to the requirements, or that requirements need to be set at the get-go. c) projects managers internal to the web design shop don't realize that a "small change" made half-way through implementation can have a huge effect on the project schedule. That said, I was recently laid off from a job I'd been at for a whole 2 months in large part because the design shop that had been contracted to build the initial e-commerce site dropped the ball, did practically no analysis/design, and produced a product with enough bugs in it to make microsoft prowd. If there had been formal requirements documents agreed upon before work began (I wasn't close to the management team there, so I don't know for sure) then I think that the company should have been sued. Several million down the tubes and nearly 200 jobs lost because some developers thought that they could get the job done quicker by skimping on the design phase (their internal design documents were litterally written on cocktail napkins). It's the same thing as if you were starting a company and hired a company to build you an office building, and then they were to build the house without any blueprints. Sure there's a house there, but how safe is it and how does it look? If it was your company wouldn't you sue?
From a java developer's standpoint, I definately prefer to develop under linux, as opposed to either windows or solaris. It's easier to use multiple versions of the compiler, the system can run for months without a reboot, and I can use my own machine as a testing environment for database, appserver and webserver (which I can't do under windows without going all out and installing NT).
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The only problem is that I want it today, not 5-10 years from now...
...when I wrote this article Ballmer, Bush Meet, Discuss New Communist Threat at Segfault. I didn't think a fudster from Microsoft would read it and take it literally!
a static growth rate, lessening mainstream interest in the open source operating system, and a sharp decline in Linux-based companies' stock value
I do believe that each of these points can be made about micro$oft's performance in 2000 -- check their growth rate for 2000 on netcraft, they didn't grow at all, the majority of mainstream interest in them was in reference to the trial, and their stock price hit a 2-year low. Need I say more?
If media rich content on these drives would have to be encrypted/decrypted any time it is written to/read form your hard drive, doesn't this impact the performace of your drive negatively? I would think that this would be trivial for text and audio files, but what about full-screen video files where data access time is critical?
I've been in a situation before (and known others who have had similar situations) where important data for a project was physically located on a specific machine, and that machine's drive crashed. I've known several instances where the drive no longer worked, but the data was recovered (for a hefty fee). If a drive is equiped according to this copy protection standard, would data on a crashed drive be recoverable?
I've been asked this in a tech interview and I'm white. Hell, it's on most the applications I've ever filled out for non-tech jobs.
"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."
See Evil Geniuses in a Nutshell by O'reilly & Ass.
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government!
- the existence of more than 2 candidates.
- variable voter turnout in different states
The EC diminishes the power of people voting for 3rd party candidates to effectively nil. Case in point: Nader (and no, I didn't vote for him). Nader captured somewhere in the neighborhood of 2.5% of the popular vote, and a flat 0% of the EC vote. This means that if you voted for Nader ( or any other 3rd party candidate), your vote didn't even equate to a blip on the radar.Variable voter turnout can give voters in different states different amounts of voting power. Let's say that two states with the same number of EC votes have different levels of voter turnout. People who vote in states with lower levels of voter turnout then have more power than those in states with higher turnout. This translates into a more apathetic voter base that has more individual voting power. So much for all [wo]men created equal.
As for comments about "if you weren't smart enough to figure out how to use the ballot, you aren't smart enough to vote", just realize that this country used to have laws like that. Literacy tests to keep blacks from being able to vote in the south.
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government!
You're assuming that they existed in the first place...
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government!
I'm sorry, but I just don't believe in giving Bill Gates any money. He already has enough.
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government!
Expensive option: Audio Request MP3 Server
Unlimited option: 100Mb connection to the net with an ethernet connection in every room of the house (2 in the basement)
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government!
...but same sh*tty display. Really, who wants a laptop that only does 800x600 res? I mean the whole point of having a mac is to do graphics work, and who wants to do that at such a low res?
Now he takes the psoition that, even when the QPL is replaced by the GPL, the fact that you ever tried to link against the QPL irrevocably forfeits your rights to release the software under the GPL.
Just because the QPL is more free than a microsoft license, it doesn't mean that it's OK to use GPL code in it. Just think how outraged 99.9% of slashdoters would be if microsoft, sun or adobe had done the same thing with software they had written under their licensing.
My Version:
Mr.Kaplan s a very tallented man and a member of a well known political body who viewed "protecting" his clients as in end in itself and a means of demonstrating is loyalty and who fully expected that the appreciation of the MPAA would not be confined to non-monetary rewards. Hence, the people find that Mr. Caplan and the others who actually did issue this ruling did not do so solely for the purpose of upholding the law if, indeed, upholding the law was among their purposes. Accordingly, the reverse engineering exception to the DMCA had no application here.
"If you don't own a gun and someone breaks into your home, how are you suposed to shoot him?"
-Dale (from King of the Hill)
Ok, he tries to make the argument that garbage collection would be faster than in java because you can declare data structures that aren't objects so they won't have to be gc'd, giving the example of a phone number class in java. Then he says that all the primitives are now objects. Doesn't this nullify the performance benefit? Granted the phone number struct is not an object but the number(s) it contains is(are).
On a lighter note, why didn't they consider Patrick's Faculty co-star, John Stewart for the role? He atleast has some personality.
It's all just formula TV like any other series. I'm not saying that the show sucks - I still watch it on a regular basis - but like any other show, once you've seen enough episodes, you can pretty much know how a new one is going to end half way through.
Does this mean that anyone that has the phone number 654-6742 (which spells olimpic) could be sued too?
And don't forget text color that differs from the background by 1 or 2 shades..
...All I can say is that if I had ever produced a site like that while working at a design shop, I could have kissed my job goodbye.
I've been in the web design industry for several years now and I've been on both sides of the wall - both as an employee of a web design shop and an employee of a company that hired a web design shop. The problem for web designers is that a) the technology is ever-changing so that if you start a project that lasts for more than 6 mos., chances are that by the time you are done there's a new version of somebody's browser out that doesn't work quite right with the site you were just about done with. b) clients don't understand that they can't just show up at the last minute and make changes to the requirements, or that requirements need to be set at the get-go. c) projects managers internal to the web design shop don't realize that a "small change" made half-way through implementation can have a huge effect on the project schedule. That said, I was recently laid off from a job I'd been at for a whole 2 months in large part because the design shop that had been contracted to build the initial e-commerce site dropped the ball, did practically no analysis/design, and produced a product with enough bugs in it to make microsoft prowd. If there had been formal requirements documents agreed upon before work began (I wasn't close to the management team there, so I don't know for sure) then I think that the company should have been sued. Several million down the tubes and nearly 200 jobs lost because some developers thought that they could get the job done quicker by skimping on the design phase (their internal design documents were litterally written on cocktail napkins). It's the same thing as if you were starting a company and hired a company to build you an office building, and then they were to build the house without any blueprints. Sure there's a house there, but how safe is it and how does it look? If it was your company wouldn't you sue?
From a java developer's standpoint, I definately prefer to develop under linux, as opposed to either windows or solaris. It's easier to use multiple versions of the compiler, the system can run for months without a reboot, and I can use my own machine as a testing environment for database, appserver and webserver (which I can't do under windows without going all out and installing NT).