Geeks are prime targets. 18 months is more than enough time, heck 18 hours is more than enough time to be victimized. Some people get abused before they are even tried.
18 months sucks from a loss of life perspective, but you won't be totally obsolete when you get out.
1. The Web will still not even have even half the sites HTML 4 compliant, XHTML compliant sites will still be less than 10% at best. 2. Java will still be slow, cumbersome and buggy. Most Java programs will still abort with exceptions (what good is exception handling if you just crash) much of the time. 3. GNOME will still be siphoning mindshare from KDE. (the license wars are over, join forces with KDE already!) 4. Software will still be bloated. 5. CPUs will just be faster versions of the ones today, but never fast enough. 6. Apple will still be expensive, Apple users will still be elitist. 7. There will still be plenty of lawsuits going on. 8. Same with patents. 9. IPv6 still won't be available to most of the Internet. 10. People will still worship XML and web services, but not actually have a use for them. 11. There will still be many sites which only work in IE. 12. There will still be many sites that need Active X. 13. Same for windows only plugins.
Apple will just sue someone and then a whole bunch of people will come to Slashdot to read the resulting "Your Rights Online" article and join in the comment reading, posting, and trolling.:)
In that way, Apple will indirectly give Slashdot more hits.:)
Apple suing people gets them a lot of attention and they do it quite often it seems.
Perhaps they should hire a "designated defendant".:)
a technology developed by researchers to enable blind people to read maps
How about next having a technology that will help sighted but clueless people read maps? So few people nowadays have this skill. We need a tutor program that starts telling people "North is up".:/
In related news, the Congress has passed a new law making it a Federal felony with a minimum of 5 years and a maximum of 20 year in prison for possession of any photographic system which does not conform to the Uniform Photograph Denial system, as mandated by 17 USC 1201 (l)
There is no vaccine for Ebola, and there can't be one for Rickets, which is due to Vitamin D deficiency (cure for this, stop being such wusses and GO OUTSIDE INTO THE SUN - unless you live somewhere too dark, in which case take a vitamin)
I'm sure a lot of Slashdotters will hose that newsgroup up now that you mentioned it, just like they do to that online encyclopedia which I won't name, since I don't want the barbarians to go there.:(
Get a domain name from GoDaddy.com and use the free email forwarding accounts to point whereever you want.
You just have to pay $7.95/year for the domain, and twice that ($15.90/year) if you want the whois information hidden ("private registration"), plus you have your very own domain name!
They have higher capital costs, I admit, but lower operating costs.
Light rail starts out more expensive than buses, but over the long haul, ends up cheaper.
And that isn't even counting the traffic benefits, environmental benefits and the fact you don't have to pay for the damage busses do to the road when you have light rail.
All of light rail costs are considered as costs of the rail system. When busses degrade the road, it often comes out of a separate budget and is not counted as a bus cost.
So on paper, the economics are biased against light rail.
If we push light rail which people will WILLINGLY ride, rather than buses, which people will only ride if they don't have a choice, maybe public transit will become popular enough to help the environment.
This is the guy under whose watch the FCC mandated digital TV; which will cost many Americans who DON'T CARE about increased (signal, not content) quality and think current TV signal quality is good enough hundreds of dollars since it will be ILLEGAL for broadcasters to keep sending out analog signals - which are the only kind of signals current equipment can receive. No upgrade - no more TV for you.
This is the guy under whose watch the FCC mandated the "broadcast flag", which makes it ILLEGAL for a digital tuner to give unencrypted access to a full quality signal if the broadcaster doesn't want it - it is ILLEGAL for a tuner to not restrict your rights.
And under his watch, the FCC fines CBS for Justin Timberlake's action in the Janet Jackson boob fiasco. Wouldn't it be great if you were caught speeding and the fined the people who built the road instead of you? What ever happened to punishing only those responsible? And in any event $550K for a second of boob on TV is extreme. What happened to any sense of proportion?
For a Republican, he sure does want to make a lot of things illegal.
Still useful to know if you need to dial (emergency, etc) and the keypad is hosed or the tone generator isn't working (some phones this happens if the polarity is wrong).
What about the Internet changes all the rules? New forms of media should be by default subject to the rules for older forms of media unless the nature of the media dictates otherwise.
Old forms of media would let people reach many people. Is it the many-to-many nature of the Internet that you believe to be the problem; in other words that anyone (including the untrustworthy) can publish on the Internet, but older media only allows a "trustworthy" few to do so?
I.e. is the democratic and open nature of the Internet why it should have less First Amendment protection?
This is a dangerous belief to support - it could harm the democratizing effect of the Internet.
Using that logic, I could say this post is worth $300,000 to all those who receive a copy of it, and claim you financially gained $300,000 as a result.
Calling it financial gain is bad enough, but tying it to the retail value is worse (but the gov't does it). The retain value is WAY overinflated and only a portion of that goes to the copyright holder.
A copyright holder who claims he lost $100 per infringed copy when he only receives $50 per legitimate copy is being misleading at best. Claiming the people who received the copy are $100 richer is also very wrong.
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Geeks are prime targets. 18 months is more than enough time, heck 18 hours is more than enough time to be victimized. Some people get abused before they are even tried.
See this website http://www.spr.org/
18 months sucks from a loss of life perspective, but you won't be totally obsolete when you get out.
1. The Web will still not even have even half the sites HTML 4 compliant, XHTML compliant sites will still be less than 10% at best.
2. Java will still be slow, cumbersome and buggy. Most Java programs will still abort with exceptions (what good is exception handling if you just crash) much of the time.
3. GNOME will still be siphoning mindshare from KDE. (the license wars are over, join forces with KDE already!)
4. Software will still be bloated.
5. CPUs will just be faster versions of the ones today, but never fast enough.
6. Apple will still be expensive, Apple users will still be elitist.
7. There will still be plenty of lawsuits going on.
8. Same with patents.
9. IPv6 still won't be available to most of the Internet.
10. People will still worship XML and web services, but not actually have a use for them.
11. There will still be many sites which only work in IE.
12. There will still be many sites that need Active X.
13. Same for windows only plugins.
Mid 2006 will be a lot like today.
Overrated (and underrated) are immune from metamod.
Perhaps they wanted you to set the Security level for the Internet Zone to "Low". ;)
That's not a link.
Now this http://www.ebay.com/ is a link.
Disclaimer: If you live in Norway, close your eyes and forget you saw this post.
It is a sad day when people can be ordered to pay damages for merely having a link.
Guess it isn't just the USA with unfair laws.
Don't dare people to sue you if you're running Linux.
:)
Some big Utah corporation might actaully do it.
Apple will just sue someone and then a whole bunch of people will come to Slashdot to read the resulting "Your Rights Online" article and join in the comment reading, posting, and trolling. :)
:)
:)
In that way, Apple will indirectly give Slashdot more hits.
Apple suing people gets them a lot of attention and they do it quite often it seems.
Perhaps they should hire a "designated defendant".
a technology developed by researchers to enable blind people to read maps
How about next having a technology that will help sighted but clueless people read maps? So few people nowadays have this skill. We need a tutor program that starts telling people "North is up". :/
Does that invention help keep power consumption down?
:/
I sure hope so, since if things keep going as they are, Intel processors will be sucking down enough power to run a small city.
A possible future:
In related news, the Congress has passed a new law making it a Federal felony with a minimum of 5 years and a maximum of 20 year in prison for possession of any photographic system which does not conform to the Uniform Photograph Denial system, as mandated by 17 USC 1201 (l)
There is no vaccine for Ebola, and there can't be one for Rickets, which is due to Vitamin D deficiency (cure for this, stop being such wusses and GO OUTSIDE INTO THE SUN - unless you live somewhere too dark, in which case take a vitamin)
I'm sure a lot of Slashdotters will hose that newsgroup up now that you mentioned it, just like they do to that online encyclopedia which I won't name, since I don't want the barbarians to go there. :(
Get a domain name from GoDaddy.com and use the free email forwarding accounts to point whereever you want.
You just have to pay $7.95/year for the domain, and twice that ($15.90/year) if you want the whois information hidden ("private registration"), plus you have your very own domain name!
People will change their tune as gas gets more expensive.
Luckily for the environment, when gas hits $8/gallon people will take transit.
They have higher capital costs, I admit, but lower operating costs.
Light rail starts out more expensive than buses, but over the long haul, ends up cheaper.
And that isn't even counting the traffic benefits, environmental benefits and the fact you don't have to pay for the damage busses do to the road when you have light rail.
All of light rail costs are considered as costs of the rail system. When busses degrade the road, it often comes out of a separate budget and is not counted as a bus cost.
So on paper, the economics are biased against light rail.
Interesting people indeed. More like scary.
As for transit, build light rail and they (passengers) will come.
Tell people to ride the bus, and they'll laugh at you.
If we push light rail which people will WILLINGLY ride, rather than buses, which people will only ride if they don't have a choice, maybe public transit will become popular enough to help the environment.
I wish that were true more than just in theory.
:( Excluding the Microsoft hand slappings.
When was the last time a court made anti-trust trump "intellectual property"?
This is the guy under whose watch the FCC mandated digital TV; which will cost many Americans who DON'T CARE about increased (signal, not content) quality and think current TV signal quality is good enough hundreds of dollars since it will be ILLEGAL for broadcasters to keep sending out analog signals - which are the only kind of signals current equipment can receive. No upgrade - no more TV for you.
This is the guy under whose watch the FCC mandated the "broadcast flag", which makes it ILLEGAL for a digital tuner to give unencrypted access to a full quality signal if the broadcaster doesn't want it - it is ILLEGAL for a tuner to not restrict your rights.
And under his watch, the FCC fines CBS for Justin Timberlake's action in the Janet Jackson boob fiasco. Wouldn't it be great if you were caught speeding and the fined the people who built the road instead of you? What ever happened to punishing only those responsible? And in any event $550K for a second of boob on TV is extreme. What happened to any sense of proportion?
For a Republican, he sure does want to make a lot of things illegal.
Still useful to know if you need to dial (emergency, etc) and the keypad is hosed or the tone generator isn't working (some phones this happens if the polarity is wrong).
Dialing 911 or 0 won't be too hard.
Very good point, and I totally agree, seriously. As the great Judge Smails has stated, "the world needs ditch diggers to".
And you could be one yourself, as ditch diggers don't need to know the difference between "to" and "too".
SIP isn't a magic protocol, there is only one magic protocol, and that is XML. :)
;)
SIP over XML might be a magic bullet.
If they used PostgreSQL they would'nt have had to deal with rebuilding indexes, etc.
There are real-world reasons to use an ACID compliant database!
Your post seemed OK up to the last sentence.
What about the Internet changes all the rules? New forms of media should be by default subject to the rules for older forms of media unless the nature of the media dictates otherwise.
Old forms of media would let people reach many people. Is it the many-to-many nature of the Internet that you believe to be the problem; in other words that anyone (including the untrustworthy) can publish on the Internet, but older media only allows a "trustworthy" few to do so?
I.e. is the democratic and open nature of the Internet why it should have less First Amendment protection?
This is a dangerous belief to support - it could harm the democratizing effect of the Internet.
Using that logic, I could say this post is worth $300,000 to all those who receive a copy of it, and claim you financially gained $300,000 as a result.
Calling it financial gain is bad enough, but tying it to the retail value is worse (but the gov't does it). The retain value is WAY overinflated and only a portion of that goes to the copyright holder.
A copyright holder who claims he lost $100 per infringed copy when he only receives $50 per legitimate copy is being misleading at best. Claiming the people who received the copy are $100 richer is also very wrong.