This was my reaction exactly. However I've never tried a Kindle touch, and imagined there was some sort of swipe gesture required. I just had a look on youtube though and it seems pretty tolerable.
Anyway, the geeks like me want the coolest device and know how to get the DRM off the books. I wonder if Amazon really cares; as long as it involves one consumer-unfriendly step (such as installing a Python interpreter), then the system works well enough to keep the publishers happy.
This is at least the third time/. have run a story saying the filter is dead. Here's the definitive word: There aren't enough sitting days left to get the legislation introduced before the election. So they will introduce it after the election, assuming they win. They have said repeatedly it's still policy, so the election is merely a temporary reprieve. This battle is far from over.
Some of the software or websites mentioned are good (I would also add ChinesePod to the mix if that's your language of choice) but the article failed to emphasise the amazing opportunities the internet provides to make friends and language partners, for free, from motivated learners overseas. I have studied several languages, and made internet language partner friends who I have visited and had a great time, as a bonus to getting daily language practice. These language partners can be better (and definitely more cost effective) than the paid teachers on offer.
A journalist reports on a minor development, uses some colourful language ('scuttled'), Twitter goes beserk and now Slashdot is reporting that the whole thing is over.
One senator changing his mind doesn't mean the plan is over. It's still official Government policy. A live trial is still being conducted by six ISPs.
Having one less senator who might support the plan is fine, but the Government can water the plan down slightly, pursue a non-legislative means of getting the filtering enacted, or call a new election at any time. Until the Government publicly backs off from the plan, we need to fight it.
This is really going to throw the spanner into the works of our ability to drum up public opposition (I'm with Electronic Frontiers Australia).
I like the suggestion that people are somehow lax in security because their mail client remembers their password. Who are these guys who type the password in every 3 minutes when they check their mail?
I still have the original box-cover stuck on my office wall.
When I was young and when I played this awesome game, I wrote the publisher a fan letter. They sent me back an SC2 jigsaw puzzle! I wish I still had that sucker.
This spam helped me find a bug in my procmail recipe - this was sent to my Sourceforge email address (never had spam there before), and was forwarded on to Google which bounced it as an illegal attachment. Kudos to Google for being on the ball.
The 1,200 recursive bounce messages that ensued were no-one's fault but my own.:)
I don't think there's an exemption in slander laws for a particular corner of Hyde Park. Indeed, Wikipedia says:
"A Speakers' Corner is an area where public speaking is allowed. The original and most noted is in the north-east corner of Hyde Park in London, England. Speakers there are allowed to speak as long as the police consider their speeches lawful. Contrary to mythology there is no immunity from the law, nor are any subjects proscribed. In practice the police tend to be tolerant and intervene when they receive a complaint or when they hear bad language."
I was optimistic about Aptera, but for a company that wants to mass produce cars of any sort, $2.5M is really chicken feed. That sort of money is for first-round, hire a staff and find office-space time. Does this mean Aptera are actually teetering on the edge of insolvency that they need a small injection of funds from, basically, charity, to keep the doors open?
Did anyone spot the strange link to a trailer for Wheels the Movie in that WSJ article? The trailer looks like a very clever parody, but how did it get in there?
What if I'm writing a term paper on which historical leaders have appeared on the holodeck in Star Trek, or how the units of ancient armies compare tactically in Age of Empires II? Then where do I turn?
Sure, in the US the receiver of a mobile call has to use his minutes. But even if I exchange the source and destination numbers in Jajah, how is this different to just calling my friend on his mobile *without* Jajah? It seems like a sensible service to me. However, you could use it to make prank calls; that doesn't seem like a groundbreaking loophole - you can make prank calls already - although in this case you could write a script to DOS someone's phone vua the Jajah website.
Despite RIM's unethical courtroom tactics (which backfired spectacularly), I can't help but be very disappointed by this decision. SIX HUNDRED MILLION dollars - a staggering sum - to be paid to these guys, for what? No hard work, no product, no contribution to science and technology. It's extortion, and I don't even understand the leverage they used given their patents are invalid. If I was the CEO of RIM (ignoring the realities of fiduciary duties to shareholders) I would rather go bankrupt than let the patent trolls become wealthy from my hard work.
The one good thing to come of this is it has raised the problem in the public eye. Congressmen thought they would lose their Blackberries. Let's hope some real reform is on the way.
Like many of you I'm trying to prevent doing myself a permanent injury by mouse usage. I have a normal cordless mouse, a Logitech cordless trackman trackball and a 3M ergonomic mouse (which is vertical but a better design than this thing I reckon). The 3M vertical mouse saved my wrist, but in recent months shoulder pain has started - there's a lot of repetitive shoulder movement with a vertical mouse. So I got the trackball, which is better, but a bit hard on the hand (the thumb in my case).
I definitely recommend a vertical mouse to save your tendons, but keep both plugged in - I find that switching between my 3 (!) mice is the best way to avoid over-stressing myself, or rather, to spread the stress out. If I had to choose one it would probably be the trackball right now (though it's the least precise of the mice) but the vertical mouse would be a close second.
Doesn't it seem strange that using a mouse can hurt you in the long run? But it's true.
You described your job as: "high pay, extravagant benefits and bonuses, flexi-time, can telecommute whenever possible, and best of all the coworkers are great and have truly become my friends, even the boss." From this I am guessing it's a low-stress job.
Don't leave. It sounds like a great workplace. You can find ways to relieve the boredom by being creative. Work on open source projects of your own outside of work. You'll be very lucky to find a job where the stress level's low, the people are great and the benefits sound. Work is work as high-end enterprise developers will tell you.
If IT or office work is not for you by all means make a change. But the grass isn't really greener outside.
There's a novel I read a while ago that explores the implications of this - The Truth Machine by James Halperin. What if there was a perfect lie detector? Then any criminal trial could be conducted in 10 minutes. Ask the guy if he did it. If he says no and the lie detector says yes, guilty. Execution is scheduled for tommorrow. Actually kinda scary.
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That's all I really wanted to say. Thanks.
New Sealand.
This was my reaction exactly. However I've never tried a Kindle touch, and imagined there was some sort of swipe gesture required. I just had a look on youtube though and it seems pretty tolerable.
Anyway, the geeks like me want the coolest device and know how to get the DRM off the books. I wonder if Amazon really cares; as long as it involves one consumer-unfriendly step (such as installing a Python interpreter), then the system works well enough to keep the publishers happy.
This is at least the third time /. have run a story saying the filter is dead. Here's the definitive word: There aren't enough sitting days left to get the legislation introduced before the election. So they will introduce it after the election, assuming they win. They have said repeatedly it's still policy, so the election is merely a temporary reprieve. This battle is far from over.
- Colin (from Electronic Frontiers Australia)
Some of the software or websites mentioned are good (I would also add ChinesePod to the mix if that's your language of choice) but the article failed to emphasise the amazing opportunities the internet provides to make friends and language partners, for free, from motivated learners overseas. I have studied several languages, and made internet language partner friends who I have visited and had a great time, as a bonus to getting daily language practice. These language partners can be better (and definitely more cost effective) than the paid teachers on offer.
A journalist reports on a minor development, uses some colourful language ('scuttled'), Twitter goes beserk and now Slashdot is reporting that the whole thing is over.
One senator changing his mind doesn't mean the plan is over. It's still official Government policy. A live trial is still being conducted by six ISPs.
Having one less senator who might support the plan is fine, but the Government can water the plan down slightly, pursue a non-legislative means of getting the filtering enacted, or call a new election at any time. Until the Government publicly backs off from the plan, we need to fight it.
This is really going to throw the spanner into the works of our ability to drum up public opposition (I'm with Electronic Frontiers Australia).
I like the suggestion that people are somehow lax in security because their mail client remembers their password. Who are these guys who type the password in every 3 minutes when they check their mail?
Hee hee. Nice joke, hunam.
I still have the original box-cover stuck on my office wall.
When I was young and when I played this awesome game, I wrote the publisher a fan letter. They sent me back an SC2 jigsaw puzzle! I wish I still had that sucker.
You'll notice I said "more technical interference", even our communications minister isn't as bad as the Ayatollah. :)
The quote appeared in the paper here.
For anyone interested check out, our (Electronic Frontiers Australia) campaign site.
This spam helped me find a bug in my procmail recipe - this was sent to my Sourceforge email address (never had spam there before), and was forwarded on to Google which bounced it as an illegal attachment. Kudos to Google for being on the ball.
The 1,200 recursive bounce messages that ensued were no-one's fault but my own. :)
I don't think there's an exemption in slander laws for a particular corner of Hyde Park. Indeed, Wikipedia says:
"A Speakers' Corner is an area where public speaking is allowed. The original and most noted is in the north-east corner of Hyde Park in London, England. Speakers there are allowed to speak as long as the police consider their speeches lawful. Contrary to mythology there is no immunity from the law, nor are any subjects proscribed. In practice the police tend to be tolerant and intervene when they receive a complaint or when they hear bad language."
I was optimistic about Aptera, but for a company that wants to mass produce cars of any sort, $2.5M is really chicken feed. That sort of money is for first-round, hire a staff and find office-space time. Does this mean Aptera are actually teetering on the edge of insolvency that they need a small injection of funds from, basically, charity, to keep the doors open?
The article just says 4th century - I guess the article writer just liked adding acronyms. It is Slashdot after all.
For all those who are about to make wisecracks about this dude, by all means go ahead.
Just pause for a moment and admit to yourself that you were thinking what language *you* would be scripting the curtains with.
I hope when I die I can leave behind a nice gag like this one - way to fuck with the Air Force.
Did anyone spot the strange link to a trailer for Wheels the Movie in that WSJ article? The trailer looks like a very clever parody, but how did it get in there?
What if I'm writing a term paper on which historical leaders have appeared on the holodeck in Star Trek, or how the units of ancient armies compare tactically in Age of Empires II? Then where do I turn?
Right, but not in any other pages, which is what he was looking for.
Sure, in the US the receiver of a mobile call has to use his minutes. But even if I exchange the source and destination numbers in Jajah, how is this different to just calling my friend on his mobile *without* Jajah? It seems like a sensible service to me. However, you could use it to make prank calls; that doesn't seem like a groundbreaking loophole - you can make prank calls already - although in this case you could write a script to DOS someone's phone vua the Jajah website.
The one good thing to come of this is it has raised the problem in the public eye. Congressmen thought they would lose their Blackberries. Let's hope some real reform is on the way.
Like many of you I'm trying to prevent doing myself a permanent injury by mouse usage. I have a normal cordless mouse, a Logitech cordless trackman trackball and a 3M ergonomic mouse (which is vertical but a better design than this thing I reckon). The 3M vertical mouse saved my wrist, but in recent months shoulder pain has started - there's a lot of repetitive shoulder movement with a vertical mouse. So I got the trackball, which is better, but a bit hard on the hand (the thumb in my case).
I definitely recommend a vertical mouse to save your tendons, but keep both plugged in - I find that switching between my 3 (!) mice is the best way to avoid over-stressing myself, or rather, to spread the stress out. If I had to choose one it would probably be the trackball right now (though it's the least precise of the mice) but the vertical mouse would be a close second.
Doesn't it seem strange that using a mouse can hurt you in the long run? But it's true.
I hope you read down this far. :)
You described your job as: "high pay, extravagant benefits and bonuses, flexi-time, can telecommute whenever possible, and best of all the coworkers are great and have truly become my friends, even the boss." From this I am guessing it's a low-stress job.
Don't leave. It sounds like a great workplace. You can find ways to relieve the boredom by being creative. Work on open source projects of your own outside of work. You'll be very lucky to find a job where the stress level's low, the people are great and the benefits sound. Work is work as high-end enterprise developers will tell you.
If IT or office work is not for you by all means make a change. But the grass isn't really greener outside.
Opera 9 is getting close, and will pass it by the time it's ready for release.
:(
If IE7 is that bad - IE6 with tabs - it's going to make life hell for us web developers.
There's a novel I read a while ago that explores the implications of this - The Truth Machine by James Halperin. What if there was a perfect lie detector? Then any criminal trial could be conducted in 10 minutes. Ask the guy if he did it. If he says no and the lie detector says yes, guilty. Execution is scheduled for tommorrow. Actually kinda scary.