Most of the Irish legislators spend their days keeping an eye on what Britain does, then they wait a few years for the Brit's laws to be proven to be detrimental to society, and then they introduce them in Ireland. They've done that with education for years, it was only a matter of time before they did it with IT too.
The SP3 thing sound fishy. I wonder if they've got extra tricks up their sleeves regarding W2k. It just seems too much of a coincidence that to be Common Criteria Certified or to run the next Office release you'll need SP3. Something is brewing in the seedy minds of Microsoft's lawyers, methinks...
LOL! Buy their own island, and force its two inhabitants to upgrade to XP Second Edition because, um, (flips Excuse-Of-The-Day card).. they live on the East side and not the West side - if they had lived on the west side they would have gotten free upgrades for life.:)
Radiohead have commented about this before, saying that they're ok with live concerts being redistributed at will, but apparently their publishers aren't quite as keen as they've shut down several sites because of it.
I've worked and attended several colleges in two different countries (including the USA) and have never seen any of them offering Microsoft's software for $5. While some of them obtain licenses that allow students to use the software for free on their private PCs, this tends to be restricted to a small number of their products (usually just Office), most of them just tell you to buy the educational versions, which are in the $50-200 range.
Most corporations have student versions of their software available, but that still doesn't mean they're cheap. 3d Studio is a few grand to buy normally but is over $500 on a student license - still a rediculous price given how broke most students are.
I personally think Maya's way of doing it by having a slightly trimmed-down version available for free (as in beer) is a great way of introducing people to a new technology without sacrificing the company's IP or beggering students.
Now all we need are non-KDE clients that'll run on Windows and OSX and we'll be able to get rid of Outlook completely. I wonder if any other clients will start to support its standards, it would make sense to do so?
Reverse engineering is a fair use principle, but who cares about fair use these days when there's terrorists to fight? Once.NET is supported by more systems, they'll pull a few rugs from under us and say that they have to keep it all closed now because some terrorists might use it to breach national security.
What about those nice new laws that have been brought in by the UN that effectively mean every single country on the planet may be held accountable to every other country's laws? Just because you don't live in the US doesn't mean that your IP is safe from their laws.
So what about Microsoft's IP?
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What will happen when in a few years Microsoft discloses its licensing terms for.NET technologies, forcing the Mono team to either stop or pay vast sums of money - this will kill the two main Linux desktop environments, thus throttling most of Linux's desktop ambitions.
The families and friends of those who died won't be allowed to mourn in peace when there's money to be made of it, primarily the one-ups-manship going on with the TV stations who are using this as an attempt to boost their regular viewing times, thus earn more money from advertising because "We have 50% market share on 9/11".
Janis - haven't ever heard any of your music, but I'm extremely impressed with your insightful commentaries.
Given how the content providers and sellers are gaining so much backing with legislations to force their control over end users, and given that the American public couldn't politically group together support for something important if their lives depended on it: do you see a time when fair use is allowed regarding digital content? If so, how much more freedom are we going to loose before it happens, and what do you think it's going to take for fair use to be "allowed"?
WebCT is a hack thrown together, like most name-brand software these days. I took a class with a guy who used to work for them back in the days when it was a client/server app that used its own TCP/IP port. I've taken several classes with WebCT and I must say that the UI is pretty badly put together it's very inflexible, has very bad HTML output code, and generally feels like someone tried playing a football match against a team of octopuses.
There is a newer version of WebCT that is supposed to be better, but it's a rewrite in Java+Oracle, as opposed to the Perl+textfiles that the older version is. Also, they're not aiming at colleges with the new version, they're aiming for large corporations.
I've thought about writing a WebCT replacement, but I just haven't had the time. Ideally I'd like a college to hire me to write it (offers?:o)
I would have to whole-heartedly agree with this recommendation. TWiki is a bit tricky to configure correctly and tailor to your needs, but once you do it's really quite nifty! I've used it for the past year on both my personal web site and at work where I use it to document what I do.
Given how he has stated before that graphics chips on the market last year really wouldn't be up to playing the game well, does that mean he has dropped the system requirements to make it work on the xbox? Or is he going to make a "trimmed-down" version to fix the xbox with a coupon in the box to buy the "Full Experience" PC edition?
I've tried to use HTML-Kit, honestly I've tried, but it just seems so clunky and slopped together. Plus its keyboard cursor movement just doesn't seem right to me. So, despite some of its coolness, I went back to EditPlus.
I've used EditPlus for three years since early v1 days, and it's wonderful. After spending ages searching for a new text editor, this was the only one I found that worked the way I expected it to, regarding keyboard control (mainly arrow-key movement). I've used it for web development (PHP, ASP) and desktop software development (C/C++, Java), along with any other text files.
The only thing I wish it had was a scriptable tool-bar and for the clip bar to have a full scripting language like NoteTabPro has. Other than that it is awesome.
One thing I do like about EditPlus is that the author has added features that users requested. For example, after I used HomeSite for a while I got to like the file/directory tab on the left, so I asked the EditPlus author. He didn't do it immediately, saying that he didn't see the need for it, but I guess others asked for it too as it was added in the next release:-)
And at $30 it's cheaper than some of the others too.
If you want something free, stick with NotePad, if you want something good, get EditPlus.
That'd be cool. Another idea would be for webmasters to have a "turn off flash" option on their menu bar that would replace the inline flash animations with static images.
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... two minutes later Darth Maul gets an email saying that his server rebooted for no apparent reason. Guess he shouldn't have jinxed it. ;-)
Most of the Irish legislators spend their days keeping an eye on what Britain does, then they wait a few years for the Brit's laws to be proven to be detrimental to society, and then they introduce them in Ireland. They've done that with education for years, it was only a matter of time before they did it with IT too.
Time to send my parents PGP...
Damien
(Irish ex-pat living in the US)
Forget the rest, just give 'em money.
:)
I work for a company that doesn't do Christmas bonuses, so I'd much prefer to get money.
Or take them all out to see LoTR:TTT.
What about if someone rents a 5-day rental from Blockbuster / MyMovieStore and wants to watch it ten times in those five days?
The SP3 thing sound fishy. I wonder if they've got extra tricks up their sleeves regarding W2k. It just seems too much of a coincidence that to be Common Criteria Certified or to run the next Office release you'll need SP3. Something is brewing in the seedy minds of Microsoft's lawyers, methinks...
LOL! Buy their own island, and force its two inhabitants to upgrade to XP Second Edition because, um, (flips Excuse-Of-The-Day card).. they live on the East side and not the West side - if they had lived on the west side they would have gotten free upgrades for life. :)
If my tech career bombs out I could always take up my dad's farm :-)
Radiohead have commented about this before, saying that they're ok with live concerts being redistributed at will, but apparently their publishers aren't quite as keen as they've shut down several sites because of it.
I've worked and attended several colleges in two different countries (including the USA) and have never seen any of them offering Microsoft's software for $5. While some of them obtain licenses that allow students to use the software for free on their private PCs, this tends to be restricted to a small number of their products (usually just Office), most of them just tell you to buy the educational versions, which are in the $50-200 range.
Most corporations have student versions of their software available, but that still doesn't mean they're cheap. 3d Studio is a few grand to buy normally but is over $500 on a student license - still a rediculous price given how broke most students are.
I personally think Maya's way of doing it by having a slightly trimmed-down version available for free (as in beer) is a great way of introducing people to a new technology without sacrificing the company's IP or beggering students.
"Kick" and "ass".
Now all we need are non-KDE clients that'll run on Windows and OSX and we'll be able to get rid of Outlook completely. I wonder if any other clients will start to support its standards, it would make sense to do so?
Still, a wonderful step in the right direction.
Pardon my ignorance, but what's a .pod file?
Reverse engineering is a fair use principle, but who cares about fair use these days when there's terrorists to fight? Once .NET is supported by more systems, they'll pull a few rugs from under us and say that they have to keep it all closed now because some terrorists might use it to breach national security.
What about those nice new laws that have been brought in by the UN that effectively mean every single country on the planet may be held accountable to every other country's laws? Just because you don't live in the US doesn't mean that your IP is safe from their laws.
What will happen when in a few years Microsoft discloses its licensing terms for .NET technologies, forcing the Mono team to either stop or pay vast sums of money - this will kill the two main Linux desktop environments, thus throttling most of Linux's desktop ambitions.
Mandrake, similar to most other distros, try to avoid shipping alpha releases of core components, so you'd have to wait for the Mdk9.1 release.
The families and friends of those who died won't be allowed to mourn in peace when there's money to be made of it, primarily the one-ups-manship going on with the TV stations who are using this as an attempt to boost their regular viewing times, thus earn more money from advertising because "We have 50% market share on 9/11".
America makes me sick sometimes.
How about when the system is so poorly designed that it hinders the education process?
Janis - haven't ever heard any of your music, but I'm extremely impressed with your insightful commentaries.
Given how the content providers and sellers are gaining so much backing with legislations to force their control over end users, and given that the American public couldn't politically group together support for something important if their lives depended on it: do you see a time when fair use is allowed regarding digital content? If so, how much more freedom are we going to loose before it happens, and what do you think it's going to take for fair use to be "allowed"?
WebCT is a hack thrown together, like most name-brand software these days. I took a class with a guy who used to work for them back in the days when it was a client/server app that used its own TCP/IP port. I've taken several classes with WebCT and I must say that the UI is pretty badly put together it's very inflexible, has very bad HTML output code, and generally feels like someone tried playing a football match against a team of octopuses.
:o)
There is a newer version of WebCT that is supposed to be better, but it's a rewrite in Java+Oracle, as opposed to the Perl+textfiles that the older version is. Also, they're not aiming at colleges with the new version, they're aiming for large corporations.
I've thought about writing a WebCT replacement, but I just haven't had the time. Ideally I'd like a college to hire me to write it (offers?
What IMHO is really needed is..
:)
1. A good cross-platform replacement for Outlook.
2. A good calendar API.
3. Server systems that implement #2.
Aethera, from TheKompany, looks like it will fill #1.
phpGroupWare, OpenOffice and OEone look like they're aiming to do #2.
phpGroupWare should do #3 after #2 is finished.
Tadaaa!
I would have to whole-heartedly agree with this recommendation. TWiki is a bit tricky to configure correctly and tailor to your needs, but once you do it's really quite nifty! I've used it for the past year on both my personal web site and at work where I use it to document what I do.
Given how he has stated before that graphics chips on the market last year really wouldn't be up to playing the game well, does that mean he has dropped the system requirements to make it work on the xbox? Or is he going to make a "trimmed-down" version to fix the xbox with a coupon in the box to buy the "Full Experience" PC edition?
I've tried to use HTML-Kit, honestly I've tried, but it just seems so clunky and slopped together. Plus its keyboard cursor movement just doesn't seem right to me. So, despite some of its coolness, I went back to EditPlus.
I've used EditPlus for three years since early v1 days, and it's wonderful. After spending ages searching for a new text editor, this was the only one I found that worked the way I expected it to, regarding keyboard control (mainly arrow-key movement). I've used it for web development (PHP, ASP) and desktop software development (C/C++, Java), along with any other text files.
:-)
The only thing I wish it had was a scriptable tool-bar and for the clip bar to have a full scripting language like NoteTabPro has. Other than that it is awesome.
One thing I do like about EditPlus is that the author has added features that users requested. For example, after I used HomeSite for a while I got to like the file/directory tab on the left, so I asked the EditPlus author. He didn't do it immediately, saying that he didn't see the need for it, but I guess others asked for it too as it was added in the next release
And at $30 it's cheaper than some of the others too.
If you want something free, stick with NotePad, if you want something good, get EditPlus.
"Turn Off Flash" option
That'd be cool. Another idea would be for webmasters to have a "turn off flash" option on their menu bar that would replace the inline flash animations with static images.