My AT&T DSL connection for all practical purposes has 6mbps available 24/7. Yes of course this isn't guaranteed, for guarantees you need to purchase the type of internet they sale for businesses and it costs much more.
That doesn't change the fact that I get consistently get 6mbps...
If my only choice in broadband was this guy's crappy ISP. Sounds about as bad as on-campus Internet. Now that I'm a grown-up, if I buy 6mbps I damn well want 6mbps.
Is anyone talking about propriety encryption though? I mean the NSA has standards for encryption that obviously the Federal government would follow, but so does most of the industry.
Being generous and deciding that by "power-up" you mean "bring the computer back from hibernation", I'd agree that yea it does take some time. But suspend brings the computer back up in seconds. Essentially your phone suspends itself when you don't use it, you can do the same with your laptop. So I don't get your point.
As far as the article, I have an instant Linux-based DVD player on my laptop and find it pretty handy. An instant Internet-oriented system is less useful since I'd have to configure wireless and similar, but I could see myself using it sometimes.
Yea I got the 8gb kit at Christmas. Its crazy how small the microsd is. Its pretty much impossible to find miniSD, but given that the n810 is only speced to take up to 8gb I guess there's no point in miniSD anyways.
And yea the n810 is precisely the answer to the question. I like to use it to listen to Internet radio stations around the house.
Yea these people should be more then just fired in my opinion. Ignorance is no excuse for breaking any law, I don't see why breaching national security is any different. Scooter Libby didn't have to serve any jail time, but hopefully the new president takes things more seriously.
People who criticize the policy always frame it as "well I could've made it better but I couldn't", they're not thinking about all the crazy cranks that might be let it if the policy was more flexible.
I think most of the mainstream critics of wikipedia don't like that they are obviously required to read critically. Some articles on Wikipedia are crap, some are good, but its easy to tell the difference. The big "this article doesn't know what it's talking about" warnings are a big help there.:)
Its something that can't be solved. Its hard to tell the difference between a crank and an expert. Well its not, but its hard to create a rule that does.
Plus I frankly I don't see how an expert wouldn't be able to find citations.
I was involved with Wiktionary for a bit. Back there was a bit of the insane running the asylum regarding some policy decisions. But from just causal browsing now, Wiktionary has gotten much better since then.
Monty has been blogging some about the need to be a more inclusive project. Its one thing to be open source, but to be an open source community project thats still owned by a company takes real effort on the part of the company. Perhaps this would encourage some of these enhancements to be rolled into the main branch.
I think we do know that a JPEG will be readable in 30 years. Formats that have been around for like 10-20 years like JPEG are going to be here for a long while longer; I'd say until the end of civilization at a minimum (and even then, it wouldn't be hard for people to figure out the format). The worse case is that in future generations only a librarian or data archaeologist would have the tool to open it. Given the open source nature of JPEG, more likely you'll just download a JPEG viewer.
MS Work 4.0 documents is completely different. There was always only one implementation, it wasn't open source, it wasn't a documented standard, and the life span of the format was small to tiny.
If you distribute binaries you have to distribute the source or provide some mechanism for getting the source for 3 years. It doesn't matter what makes sense or not: these are the rules the GPL makes up.
There was recently a court case that said since that the GPL and other such licenses could make up any sort of rules they want essentially.
I wouldn't really expect that. The PS3 runs Linux and is much more like a computer then a DVD player. It probably does the decoding in its PowerPC multicore processor, not in a special chip.
Well the author would need permission from the 10% of work thats done by other authors to publish it under a different license. Which is what one would've expected in pre-copyleft days as well.
I don't really see in the Google TOS where it says other licenses are unacceptable. It seems to me that if you simply picked "All Rights Reserved" and then stated in the article that it was under the GFDL, you would be in full compliance of the GFDL certainly.
It might be in violation of Knol's TOS, but it isn't really that clear. The author makes the assumption that whatever license you tag an article with is the last word and that google won't allow other licenses. But given that Google very explicitly makes no claim on the work you post, it would seem impossible for them to block you from using whatever license you want.
(Putting up GFDL work as CC-BY is a clear violation of the copyleft of the GFDL, and I hope Google is vigilant in taking such pages down.)
Both of those were 1st term initiatives... and Bush was hardly acting alone. Republicans distancing themselves from Bush has everything to do with polls and little to do with policy (his failed immigration reforms is probably the only controversial-amongst-republicans thing he has done this term).
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I'd like government to tell me when a hurricane is coming, for one.
Why even bother to predicate hurricanes if government is useless at responding to them.
"Government is ineffective, vote for us and we'll show you how!" - traditional GOP motto.
My AT&T DSL connection for all practical purposes has 6mbps available 24/7. Yes of course this isn't guaranteed, for guarantees you need to purchase the type of internet they sale for businesses and it costs much more.
That doesn't change the fact that I get consistently get 6mbps...
If my only choice in broadband was this guy's crappy ISP. Sounds about as bad as on-campus Internet. Now that I'm a grown-up, if I buy 6mbps I damn well want 6mbps.
Is anyone talking about propriety encryption though? I mean the NSA has standards for encryption that obviously the Federal government would follow, but so does most of the industry.
Being generous and deciding that by "power-up" you mean "bring the computer back from hibernation", I'd agree that yea it does take some time. But suspend brings the computer back up in seconds. Essentially your phone suspends itself when you don't use it, you can do the same with your laptop. So I don't get your point.
As far as the article, I have an instant Linux-based DVD player on my laptop and find it pretty handy. An instant Internet-oriented system is less useful since I'd have to configure wireless and similar, but I could see myself using it sometimes.
Yea I got the 8gb kit at Christmas. Its crazy how small the microsd is. Its pretty much impossible to find miniSD, but given that the n810 is only speced to take up to 8gb I guess there's no point in miniSD anyways.
And yea the n810 is precisely the answer to the question. I like to use it to listen to Internet radio stations around the house.
Yea these people should be more then just fired in my opinion. Ignorance is no excuse for breaking any law, I don't see why breaching national security is any different. Scooter Libby didn't have to serve any jail time, but hopefully the new president takes things more seriously.
After reading Jane's post a couple of times, I think she actually agrees with you. Maybe. :)
But I think its a fair enough trade-off.
People who criticize the policy always frame it as "well I could've made it better but I couldn't", they're not thinking about all the crazy cranks that might be let it if the policy was more flexible.
Its handy even when you're just researching.
I think most of the mainstream critics of wikipedia don't like that they are obviously required to read critically. Some articles on Wikipedia are crap, some are good, but its easy to tell the difference. The big "this article doesn't know what it's talking about" warnings are a big help there. :)
Its something that can't be solved. Its hard to tell the difference between a crank and an expert. Well its not, but its hard to create a rule that does.
Plus I frankly I don't see how an expert wouldn't be able to find citations.
I was involved with Wiktionary for a bit. Back there was a bit of the insane running the asylum regarding some policy decisions. But from just causal browsing now, Wiktionary has gotten much better since then.
Well my complaint is the slashdot.org headline. I went to opensuse.org directly after seeing the headline and was disappointed.
The X-Box 360 was put out before their production line was ready to make it. More like capitalism at its worst.
I wasn't aware it meant wait 3 days.
Monty has been blogging some about the need to be a more inclusive project. Its one thing to be open source, but to be an open source community project thats still owned by a company takes real effort on the part of the company. Perhaps this would encourage some of these enhancements to be rolled into the main branch.
The source for JPEG viewers is open. You don't need to run emulated code, there'll be native readers.
I think we do know that a JPEG will be readable in 30 years. Formats that have been around for like 10-20 years like JPEG are going to be here for a long while longer; I'd say until the end of civilization at a minimum (and even then, it wouldn't be hard for people to figure out the format). The worse case is that in future generations only a librarian or data archaeologist would have the tool to open it. Given the open source nature of JPEG, more likely you'll just download a JPEG viewer.
MS Work 4.0 documents is completely different. There was always only one implementation, it wasn't open source, it wasn't a documented standard, and the life span of the format was small to tiny.
The Blackberry(tm) seems like a lost cause.
But it seems like the CIA could hook him up with something just like the Blackberry but secure.
If you distribute binaries you have to distribute the source or provide some mechanism for getting the source for 3 years. It doesn't matter what makes sense or not: these are the rules the GPL makes up.
There was recently a court case that said since that the GPL and other such licenses could make up any sort of rules they want essentially.
I wouldn't really expect that. The PS3 runs Linux and is much more like a computer then a DVD player. It probably does the decoding in its PowerPC multicore processor, not in a special chip.
Prius has taken off. Anyone in the Bay area can tell you that.
Currently sales are down... but only because they are having production problems.
Well the author would need permission from the 10% of work thats done by other authors to publish it under a different license. Which is what one would've expected in pre-copyleft days as well.
I don't really see in the Google TOS where it says other licenses are unacceptable. It seems to me that if you simply picked "All Rights Reserved" and then stated in the article that it was under the GFDL, you would be in full compliance of the GFDL certainly.
It might be in violation of Knol's TOS, but it isn't really that clear. The author makes the assumption that whatever license you tag an article with is the last word and that google won't allow other licenses. But given that Google very explicitly makes no claim on the work you post, it would seem impossible for them to block you from using whatever license you want.
(Putting up GFDL work as CC-BY is a clear violation of the copyleft of the GFDL, and I hope Google is vigilant in taking such pages down.)
What does Obama want to do?
Both of those were 1st term initiatives... and Bush was hardly acting alone. Republicans distancing themselves from Bush has everything to do with polls and little to do with policy (his failed immigration reforms is probably the only controversial-amongst-republicans thing he has done this term).