As someone else stated, the code that was downloaded probably wasn't Oracle DBMS code. Rather, it was coding examples like people would usually find on a developer network site, such as MSDN.
From a quick perusal of news stories, that doesn't seem be the case. It looks like some TomorrowNow employees used credentials from their clients to access information from Oracle's website that they would not otherwise have access to. As to what the did with it...the only concrete thing I've seen so far is republishing Oracle info for some fix with the TomorrowNow logo and representing it as their own work.
There's a difference between a device and software. If Apple uses and modifies LGPL code, and then they put the code back into the wild, it can still be used for building other devices. They have every right to control what software actually makes it onto the device they issue. They're the ones who have to support the device. They're the ones building a reputation on the fact that the device "just works" (much like TiVo). If they return source code for the software back to the community to be used on other devices, then I think they've fulfilled their obligation.
The Cre-Lox method has been used for years in the lab, at least since 1985. This really is a case of trying to find a way to apply it as treatment, not a proof-of-concept of a new method.
If you know a member of the Academy, they can sponsor your paper and get it published in PNAS. I've read tons of bad articles in PNAS that got in that way.
And while much good research is published all over the place, this is so groundbreaking that it would be a Nature paper if good enough. Nature/Science/etc publish good, "exciting" papers. Other journals publish good papers that just aren't high-profile enough for the top impact journals.
But you're more tied into one operating system at that point. A mix of Windows, MacOS, and Linux would be much more easily served with these new types of offerings.
At least theoretically, it could make life easier for IT depts. Instead of having to push a new version of Office (or other non-Web based suite) out to hundreds or users, they update one central app. Google could provide a box that's plugged into the network. Documents are automatically stored on company servers, so there's one point of backup. Collaboration is more seamless.
I don't see this being the perfect solution for home users. They're being developed on the Internet, but real revenue would come to selling to businesses who use their own servers for file storage instead of having their documents stored on Google or other third party servers.
That's great for you, but not everyone has the same learning style/ability that you do. Alot of us here on Slashdot do, so you'll probably get many people agreeing with you. My sister was a teacher for a number of years and worked mainly in the lower maths. There's no way her students could have learned math without a classroom setting and one-on-one time with their teacher. Some kids need the structure that school provides, especially if they don't have any at home. For some kids, school provides resources that they might not otherwise have, such as the ability to take art classes, music classes, etc (again, I'm talking about kids who's parents aren't invested enough to help their kids explore options, so school at least provides a place where kids might be able to find something like that). Foreign languages are easier learned in a class situation, and many families wouldn't be able to hire private tutors to teach their kids a language.
Basically, don't be so arrogant to think that no one will benefit from pre-university public schools. In some communities and for some kids, public school is still the best option for helping students succeed.
Other scientists have found soft tissue in dinosaur fossils, coming up with evidence that dinosaurs aren't really that old and MAY have lived on the planet with man.
Last month's issue of Discover includes an interview with the scientist who discovered the soft tissue, who also happens to be a Christian. Her take, and that of other scientists, is that the soft tissue doesn't make the fossils younger than predicted, but that it changes our conceptions about fossilization. She suggests we have just taken it for granted that soft tissue could not survive for long periods of time, and she dismisses fundamentalists who try to use the soft tissue as a evidence for improper aging of fossils. Not being a paleontologist, I'm not one to comment on who may be correct here, but I thought that it was worth noting.
I think many employers are leary of sending employees to training because they're afraid of people using it as a gateway to another job (which isn't totally unfounded). That said, don't EVER use your own time/money for training that is necessary for your job. You may have to work a bit harder to prove to whoever signs off that it's necessary, but it really is up to them to provide the necessary training for your job.
The idea is that Vista will determine whether or not your system has an HDCP monitor. If it does not, it will either play the video at non-HD quality (downsampling, I suppose) or not play it at all. Thus, the OS will force you to upgrade your monitor to an HDCP compliant one if you want to watch HD.
Microsoft could choose not to implement this, thus allowing HD to be viewed on Legacy monitors.
Well, that's not necessarily true. Perhaps the article writer can have been more clear, but there are two interpreations of the text. One is that 50% of all gamers are over 18 and 25% of all gamers are over 50%, which is how the original poster interpreted the statement, and with that reading, his numbers are correct.
Alternatively, 50% of all gamers are over 18 and 25% of those are over 50. With this reading, your math would be correct.
Based on the original article, I'm inclined to believe that the original poster has the correct interpretation, and that the 25% over 50 was relative to all gamers, not only those over 18.
It's all in the subject line. If someone can confirm that'd be cool, but I'm pretty sure that any software developed with NIH and NSF funding is required to be open source.
When you're listening to vinyl, you shouldn't know that you're listening to vinyl. The record and needle should be clean. There should be no pops or fuzz in the sound. What you should get is a great analog signal that has a better frequency range that CD, the tradeoff being a more dynamic limited range.
I'm more interested in seeing a clean movie that stands on its own than a movie that looks old and depends on accidental nostalgia (and for a time that most of us never even experience firsthand) for its emotional impact.
I find it strange that you find it strange. In the reality I inhabit, there are people all over the place who are ready to take advantage of a situation because they see fit. Not everyone has the same set of ethics you do, and it's only smart to try to protect yourself and your property. Some scientists even theorize that nature keeps a certain number of those people around to help maintain a balance. You may be ready for a utopian world, but most other people on our planet aren't.
For starters, I'd get rid of the geeks vs. normals mentality. Look at the individual characteristics of the people you're managing. Figure out what parts of the job they like and what parts they don't like. Figure out what they like to do outside of work, as that will give some insight into what makes them tick. Think about what you have in common with them. Basically, just treat them like people.
It'd be more correct to say that EB online is to EB print as the printed bbook is to illuminated manuscript.
There is a huge philosophical difference between Wikipedia and and print encyclopedias, while a book is simply a more print medium that can be reproduced more easily than a manuscript.
I care. If I have a question about my chosen field, I'd rather ask the head of my department, who has published seminal papers on drug addiction, than an undergrad who might have spent a little time in a lab. Stature isn't always unearned.
"If the 'monkeys' decide they like what they wrote..."? We're not talking about freestyling poetry, we're talking about something that wants to be taken seriously as an information source. If I ever tried to use Wikipedia as a reference for a paper, I'd be laughed off the stage by my reviewers, and rightly so. Sure, anyone can publish now, but it doesn't mean that what is published should be taken seriously.
People should never take the word of an authority figure seriously without first questioning their authority, but it is important to be a good judge of that and sometimes defer to someone who has proven more knowledgeable than you. I know why my mentors are respected. I also know that I shouldn't automatically believe everything they say, but it's highly more likely that they are correct than a random person off the street.
A little perusal of users who have edited Wikipedia articles shows people editing articles completely unrelated to the background information they've provided about them. It also shows people who feel they have nothing to prove about themselves and tell you to judge them based on what they've written. But if I've come to Wikipedia because I want to learn about a subject, how can I judge the quality of their work? Because I can't, I'm not going to bother. I'm going to have to read other sources anyway to be able to make that decision, and my goal isn't to decide if that person knows anything, it's to get information I can trust. Hence, I'm going to skip Wikipedia and head straight resources written by the experts.
I agree that a cat must have a chance to explore. It is just fine exploring under your bed, in a paper bag just brought in, etc. And the hunting instinct can be more than compensated for by play and attention. Cats that are never allowed to roam free outside never really have much of a desire to.
I've got too disagree with this, based solely on personal experience. For the first two years I owned my cats (I got them when they were kittens) they were strictly indoors. Aside from getting into the crawlspace when I was doing some work on the house and had the registers removed, they didn't get out of the house.
I moved to a new town, and they were still indoor cats. But they started becoming miserable with it after a couple of months. Whereas they used to sit around peacefully, never trying to get out when I opened the door, I started having to chase them around the neighborhood to try to get them back inside. They had already been desexed, so that wasn't an issue. I'm glad they weren't declawed, though. I realized that this wasn't going to change, and they were miserable being inside all the time, so I made sure they had all their shots, and they've been much happier since then.
I suppose my point is that you can't be dogmatic about what cruelty is to another living creature. I live in Charleston, SC, where there's a huge population of outside cats in the downtown area (and in my neighborhood alone). It's pretty much a tradition. There's very little car traffic on my street, and the cats won't get two houses away from their home. The neighbors are fine with it, as many of them have outside cats as well. My cats are MUCH happier. Pretty much all they do when outside is sleep on the neighbor's porch or on my porch. If I lived in the suburbs, things would be different (which is why I'd never live in the suburbs). You can't say that's it's always best to let cats roam free, but you also can't say that it's always best to always keep your animals inside. Like everything else in this world, you have to take individual circumstances into consideration before making a decision.
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As someone else stated, the code that was downloaded probably wasn't Oracle DBMS code. Rather, it was coding examples like people would usually find on a developer network site, such as MSDN.
From a quick perusal of news stories, that doesn't seem be the case. It looks like some TomorrowNow employees used credentials from their clients to access information from Oracle's website that they would not otherwise have access to. As to what the did with it...the only concrete thing I've seen so far is republishing Oracle info for some fix with the TomorrowNow logo and representing it as their own work.
There's a difference between a device and software. If Apple uses and modifies LGPL code, and then they put the code back into the wild, it can still be used for building other devices. They have every right to control what software actually makes it onto the device they issue. They're the ones who have to support the device. They're the ones building a reputation on the fact that the device "just works" (much like TiVo). If they return source code for the software back to the community to be used on other devices, then I think they've fulfilled their obligation.
"Will be interesting to see" is part of the quote from the directory of the FSF, not additional commentary from the article writer.
The Cre-Lox method has been used for years in the lab, at least since 1985. This really is a case of trying to find a way to apply it as treatment, not a proof-of-concept of a new method.
If you know a member of the Academy, they can sponsor your paper and get it published in PNAS. I've read tons of bad articles in PNAS that got in that way.
And while much good research is published all over the place, this is so groundbreaking that it would be a Nature paper if good enough. Nature/Science/etc publish good, "exciting" papers. Other journals publish good papers that just aren't high-profile enough for the top impact journals.
Yeah, just turn on a blacklight in a room at a Motel 6 for proof.
But you're more tied into one operating system at that point. A mix of Windows, MacOS, and Linux would be much more easily served with these new types of offerings.
At least theoretically, it could make life easier for IT depts. Instead of having to push a new version of Office (or other non-Web based suite) out to hundreds or users, they update one central app. Google could provide a box that's plugged into the network. Documents are automatically stored on company servers, so there's one point of backup. Collaboration is more seamless.
I don't see this being the perfect solution for home users. They're being developed on the Internet, but real revenue would come to selling to businesses who use their own servers for file storage instead of having their documents stored on Google or other third party servers.
That's great for you, but not everyone has the same learning style/ability that you do. Alot of us here on Slashdot do, so you'll probably get many people agreeing with you. My sister was a teacher for a number of years and worked mainly in the lower maths. There's no way her students could have learned math without a classroom setting and one-on-one time with their teacher. Some kids need the structure that school provides, especially if they don't have any at home. For some kids, school provides resources that they might not otherwise have, such as the ability to take art classes, music classes, etc (again, I'm talking about kids who's parents aren't invested enough to help their kids explore options, so school at least provides a place where kids might be able to find something like that). Foreign languages are easier learned in a class situation, and many families wouldn't be able to hire private tutors to teach their kids a language.
Basically, don't be so arrogant to think that no one will benefit from pre-university public schools. In some communities and for some kids, public school is still the best option for helping students succeed.
Actually, MAO breaks down dopamine, which is implicated in ADHD. It's all related (and this may have spun out of ADHD research).
The "party" movie? Started out looking like amateur gay porn to me.
Last month's issue of Discover includes an interview with the scientist who discovered the soft tissue, who also happens to be a Christian. Her take, and that of other scientists, is that the soft tissue doesn't make the fossils younger than predicted, but that it changes our conceptions about fossilization. She suggests we have just taken it for granted that soft tissue could not survive for long periods of time, and she dismisses fundamentalists who try to use the soft tissue as a evidence for improper aging of fossils. Not being a paleontologist, I'm not one to comment on who may be correct here, but I thought that it was worth noting.
I think many employers are leary of sending employees to training because they're afraid of people using it as a gateway to another job (which isn't totally unfounded). That said, don't EVER use your own time/money for training that is necessary for your job. You may have to work a bit harder to prove to whoever signs off that it's necessary, but it really is up to them to provide the necessary training for your job.
The idea is that Vista will determine whether or not your system has an HDCP monitor. If it does not, it will either play the video at non-HD quality (downsampling, I suppose) or not play it at all. Thus, the OS will force you to upgrade your monitor to an HDCP compliant one if you want to watch HD.
Microsoft could choose not to implement this, thus allowing HD to be viewed on Legacy monitors.
Off the top of my head:
-Keyboards hooked up to a KVM switch. Different computers with different OS or configurations would change the layout of the keyboard
-Custom applications. The custom keys that they showed for launching applications could also be context-sensitive within the current application
-Gaming, as others have said
There are tons of things a person with a little imagination could do with this. It looks like a great tool.
Well, that's not necessarily true. Perhaps the article writer can have been more clear, but there are two interpreations of the text. One is that 50% of all gamers are over 18 and 25% of all gamers are over 50%, which is how the original poster interpreted the statement, and with that reading, his numbers are correct.
Alternatively, 50% of all gamers are over 18 and 25% of those are over 50. With this reading, your math would be correct.
Based on the original article, I'm inclined to believe that the original poster has the correct interpretation, and that the 25% over 50 was relative to all gamers, not only those over 18.
It's all in the subject line. If someone can confirm that'd be cool, but I'm pretty sure that any software developed with NIH and NSF funding is required to be open source.
When you're listening to vinyl, you shouldn't know that you're listening to vinyl. The record and needle should be clean. There should be no pops or fuzz in the sound. What you should get is a great analog signal that has a better frequency range that CD, the tradeoff being a more dynamic limited range.
I'm more interested in seeing a clean movie that stands on its own than a movie that looks old and depends on accidental nostalgia (and for a time that most of us never even experience firsthand) for its emotional impact.
I find it strange that you find it strange. In the reality I inhabit, there are people all over the place who are ready to take advantage of a situation because they see fit. Not everyone has the same set of ethics you do, and it's only smart to try to protect yourself and your property. Some scientists even theorize that nature keeps a certain number of those people around to help maintain a balance. You may be ready for a utopian world, but most other people on our planet aren't.
For starters, I'd get rid of the geeks vs. normals mentality. Look at the individual characteristics of the people you're managing. Figure out what parts of the job they like and what parts they don't like. Figure out what they like to do outside of work, as that will give some insight into what makes them tick. Think about what you have in common with them. Basically, just treat them like people.
It'd be more correct to say that EB online is to EB print as the printed bbook is to illuminated manuscript.
There is a huge philosophical difference between Wikipedia and and print encyclopedias, while a book is simply a more print medium that can be reproduced more easily than a manuscript.
I care. If I have a question about my chosen field, I'd rather ask the head of my department, who has published seminal papers on drug addiction, than an undergrad who might have spent a little time in a lab. Stature isn't always unearned.
"If the 'monkeys' decide they like what they wrote..."? We're not talking about freestyling poetry, we're talking about something that wants to be taken seriously as an information source. If I ever tried to use Wikipedia as a reference for a paper, I'd be laughed off the stage by my reviewers, and rightly so. Sure, anyone can publish now, but it doesn't mean that what is published should be taken seriously.
People should never take the word of an authority figure seriously without first questioning their authority, but it is important to be a good judge of that and sometimes defer to someone who has proven more knowledgeable than you. I know why my mentors are respected. I also know that I shouldn't automatically believe everything they say, but it's highly more likely that they are correct than a random person off the street.
A little perusal of users who have edited Wikipedia articles shows people editing articles completely unrelated to the background information they've provided about them. It also shows people who feel they have nothing to prove about themselves and tell you to judge them based on what they've written. But if I've come to Wikipedia because I want to learn about a subject, how can I judge the quality of their work? Because I can't, I'm not going to bother. I'm going to have to read other sources anyway to be able to make that decision, and my goal isn't to decide if that person knows anything, it's to get information I can trust. Hence, I'm going to skip Wikipedia and head straight resources written by the experts.
I agree that a cat must have a chance to explore. It is just fine exploring under your bed, in a paper bag just brought in, etc. And the hunting instinct can be more than compensated for by play and attention. Cats that are never allowed to roam free outside never really have much of a desire to.
I've got too disagree with this, based solely on personal experience. For the first two years I owned my cats (I got them when they were kittens) they were strictly indoors. Aside from getting into the crawlspace when I was doing some work on the house and had the registers removed, they didn't get out of the house.
I moved to a new town, and they were still indoor cats. But they started becoming miserable with it after a couple of months. Whereas they used to sit around peacefully, never trying to get out when I opened the door, I started having to chase them around the neighborhood to try to get them back inside. They had already been desexed, so that wasn't an issue. I'm glad they weren't declawed, though. I realized that this wasn't going to change, and they were miserable being inside all the time, so I made sure they had all their shots, and they've been much happier since then.
I suppose my point is that you can't be dogmatic about what cruelty is to another living creature. I live in Charleston, SC, where there's a huge population of outside cats in the downtown area (and in my neighborhood alone). It's pretty much a tradition. There's very little car traffic on my street, and the cats won't get two houses away from their home. The neighbors are fine with it, as many of them have outside cats as well. My cats are MUCH happier. Pretty much all they do when outside is sleep on the neighbor's porch or on my porch. If I lived in the suburbs, things would be different (which is why I'd never live in the suburbs). You can't say that's it's always best to let cats roam free, but you also can't say that it's always best to always keep your animals inside. Like everything else in this world, you have to take individual circumstances into consideration before making a decision.
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