The pride in his work is admirable. I always appreciate a developer who's concerned about his user experience. This characteristic is, to me, Steve Jobs' most admirable trait (though I think marketing geeks must appreciate his gift for generating interest in his products.) This guy is following Jobs' finest example here.
Appears that is correct; this draft is not compatible with the Berne Convention.
Of course, it is only a leaked draft, not even a public document, so it has likely not been subjected to normal sanity checks, or by normal, sane Czechs.
And for deaf old people (or even young people), or folks listening to music on their headphones... how does this help? All the value seems to be in the vein of "there will be fewer accidents due to people not paying attention when they should be". I understand that this is really about keeping children from being backed into in their driveways, but why not just add the infernal "beep, beep, beep" you hear when commercial vehicles are backing up?
You mean, "I'm disappointed in you, Wabash College," right? Even according to the summary, this is noted as a first for Wabash, not for the United States of America. And wait, there's a bit more you missed, since you obviously didn't read the article....
It wasn't "the first game to be included in an academic curriculum," even for Wabash college. It's the first game proposed to be a requirement for ALL students at Wabash. And according to the article (as previous posters have noted) they're not really ready to roll it out, so the teachers are going to have to spend some time testing, to make sure it works. Oh, and they're NOT ACTUALLY DOING what that summary states. The end of the article thoroughly contradicts all the "firstiness" of the summary. Here are the last two paragraphs of the article:
Deploying a game for an entire cohort to play at the same time requires more problem-solving than you might expect. We ultimately decided that hardware, installation, and licensing issues were complex enough to dissuade us from teaching Portal in all sections of the course this year; so I and a group of eager colleagues will play the game in our sections to work out the kinks. I don't want our first college-wide experience with a game to be plagued with problems.
I also need time to help acclimate some of my colleagues to "reading" a modern game. They're less resistant than you might think, but they need more than my speechifying. They need sound pedagogy. They need to taste it for themselves. We'll get there. I'll let you know how it goes.
Oh, and note that, the video game isn't there as an example of literature, even though it seems implied by the summary, where it is listed alongside a bunch of Important Books. So if the complaint is that the game isn't literary, well, no kidding; they're well aware of that.
that reminds me, my phone actually already has a radio tuner... how'd i forget that?
oh right, 20 gigs of my personal music collection.
Quaint. No fear of devices being regulated to add this pointless feature; at worst, this will die at the hands of Steve Jobs. Remember the last time the music industry tried to push Steve around?
It is almost certain that most politicians have RIM devices, but I'd bet good money that 90% or more of their families have iPhones. If Steve thinks this is stupid, it simply won't happen. You can buy a politician a lot more easily than you can buy his family.
"Jackson said most users see that as the biggest attraction to private mode."
Nonsense. The biggest attraction of private mode is that hotteennymphosexkittens.com doesn't show up in the suggestions when someone borrows your computer to check Hotmail.
If you want real privacy you shouldn't be trusting a web browser privacy mode.
Profit should be the highest priority for business.
False. The highest priority of a business should be whatever the highest priority of the OWNERS is. This is true for publicly or privately held businesses.
For example, if the highest priority of a business is to achieve a goal of some sort (e.g. build a sewage system for Smallville) and cease operating after the goal is attained, then THAT is the appropriate highest priority of the business.
Talking abt the canonical-census package? It's 14 hours old, how can it be installed by default?
By being made a dependency for an updated version of a package installed by default, such as the , such as the Ubuntu software center package. This would enable it to be installed by default at the next software update.
When are people going to learn that "progressivism" is a very clear and present danger to their liberty?
When the size of the population makes it manageable without placing restrictions on people's liberty.
You've done a good job of demonstrating that it's not the political party that defines whether you define someone as "progressive", but the risks due to the size of the population being managed.
Yes, there's that.:-) But I should note that all my friends with iPhone 4s are still happily using them... with their neat new bumpers. (Except for the one who had the foresight to buy a bumper when he preordered his device.)
If it weren't for all dropped calls, it'd be practically the perfect phone! Or so I'm told.
There are definitely restrictions related to Government use of Google Earth or Google Maps. The restrictions appear to be an effect of the agreements the Government has related to use of the Tele Atlas Licensed map information.
It's true that the Android platform is becoming dominant. But it is interesting (admirable?) that the iPhones are still by far the most popular smartphone devices.
Great for Android/Google/HTC/Motorola/Samsung, but certainly nothing to worry about for Apple. People are willing to pay a premium for consistent, well-designed, well-supported stuff, even if the guy who runs the company is a little arrogant. He gets the job done.
Requisite snarky jab at Apple users: Why does it seem as if even though people prefer Android, androids prefer iPhones? Zing!
Huh... I hadn't even realized that there was such a word as footled (my spell checker certainly doesn't know that word). I wish I had some "informative" mod points for you.
However I think the word was well-chosen, suggesting it was a trivial effort to jailbreak the phone in the store.
Yes, if the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) were knocked out of commission by a exactly the kind of phenomenon it is intended to observe, that would be ironic.
It is definitely the responsibility of the law firm, which is why it's ironic.
However, the gleeful interpretation by The Not Very Fine Article and members of this site that these copyright lawyers willfully violated copyright is mere fantasy that's unsupported by any evidence.
Ironic it is. However, the real story is "copyright lawyers screwed by lazy web site developer." They paid somebody to create their website, and instead of just developing a web site, the lazy developer simply ripped off a site which served a similar business.
It's not as if the firm's lawyers sat around saying "I don't know how to design our site... why don't we just use that one and put our information on it?"
I'm guessing just about enough money to fight the war in Iraq for 5 minutes. Auditing and recoding government websites will probably cost several million dollars, but that's peanuts compared to most government spending, and it's more than worth it to make sure disabled people have access to the government they help pay for.
Furthermore, this will directly serve those who became disabled as a result of war. If we as a society are willing to ask soldiers to go off to war and risk their lives, we should also honor their sacrifices by doing our best to make sure the Internet is still useful for them.
The bloatware is Sprint's doing on the HTC EVO... has nothing to do with Android.
This is a really good point. When you're buying a phone from a Wireless provider, you're buying the phone "as is" with whatever features (software) the provider adds to it, whether they add value or not. The reasons you can't uninstall them may include:
1. Features may be required to enure the carrier can deliver all the services they promised (e.g. Sprint's free GPS app) 2. Features to fulfill contractual obligations (e.g. "you agree to provide a copy of Amazon music store on each device you sell.") 3. Features that support internal promotional interests (e.g. the infamous Sprint NASCAR app)
If you know about these things before you buy the phone, and know you will not be able to remove them, then it's not a problem. This so-called "bloatware" is only a problem for people who don't understand that these things are, essentially, part of the phone. It's part of what you paid for when you bought the phone from Sprint (or AT&T, or Verizon, etc.)
Because Google's pockets are deeper than the ISPs (Time Warner among others) who are the ones actually at fault for allowing customers to believe that their unencrypted wireless internet connections are private and secure.
Plus the fact that it's easier/cheaper/more politically feasible to pursue one big, rich, out-of-state company than to pursue numerous smaller, poorer companies who employ a good number of citizens of your own state.
You mean another terrorist attack in New York City.
The Maxim thing was a very conservative prediction. Bin Laden was behind the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, so they had reason to expect he would make a second attempt.
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The pride in his work is admirable. I always appreciate a developer who's concerned about his user experience. This characteristic is, to me, Steve Jobs' most admirable trait (though I think marketing geeks must appreciate his gift for generating interest in his products.) This guy is following Jobs' finest example here.
Appears that is correct; this draft is not compatible with the Berne Convention.
Of course, it is only a leaked draft, not even a public document, so it has likely not been subjected to normal sanity checks, or by normal, sane Czechs.
And for deaf old people (or even young people), or folks listening to music on their headphones... how does this help? All the value seems to be in the vein of "there will be fewer accidents due to people not paying attention when they should be". I understand that this is really about keeping children from being backed into in their driveways, but why not just add the infernal "beep, beep, beep" you hear when commercial vehicles are backing up?
You mean, "I'm disappointed in you, Wabash College," right? Even according to the summary, this is noted as a first for Wabash, not for the United States of America. And wait, there's a bit more you missed, since you obviously didn't read the article....
It wasn't "the first game to be included in an academic curriculum," even for Wabash college. It's the first game proposed to be a requirement for ALL students at Wabash. And according to the article (as previous posters have noted) they're not really ready to roll it out, so the teachers are going to have to spend some time testing, to make sure it works. Oh, and they're NOT ACTUALLY DOING what that summary states. The end of the article thoroughly contradicts all the "firstiness" of the summary. Here are the last two paragraphs of the article:
Deploying a game for an entire cohort to play at the same time requires more problem-solving than you might expect. We ultimately decided that hardware, installation, and licensing issues were complex enough to dissuade us from teaching Portal in all sections of the course this year; so I and a group of eager colleagues will play the game in our sections to work out the kinks. I don't want our first college-wide experience with a game to be plagued with problems.
I also need time to help acclimate some of my colleagues to "reading" a modern game. They're less resistant than you might think, but they need more than my speechifying. They need sound pedagogy. They need to taste it for themselves. We'll get there. I'll let you know how it goes.
Oh, and note that, the video game isn't there as an example of literature, even though it seems implied by the summary, where it is listed alongside a bunch of Important Books. So if the complaint is that the game isn't literary, well, no kidding; they're well aware of that.
oh!
that reminds me, my phone actually already has a radio tuner... how'd i forget that?
oh right, 20 gigs of my personal music collection.
Quaint. No fear of devices being regulated to add this pointless feature; at worst, this will die at the hands of Steve Jobs. Remember the last time the music industry tried to push Steve around?
It is almost certain that most politicians have RIM devices, but I'd bet good money that 90% or more of their families have iPhones. If Steve thinks this is stupid, it simply won't happen. You can buy a politician a lot more easily than you can buy his family.
Just install NoScript and be done with it.
NoScript is great, but it doesn't prevent CSS-based browser history sniffing, if I understand correctly.
"Jackson said most users see that as the biggest attraction to private mode."
Nonsense. The biggest attraction of private mode is that hotteennymphosexkittens.com doesn't show up in the suggestions when someone borrows your computer to check Hotmail.
If you want real privacy you shouldn't be trusting a web browser privacy mode.
Good point, but I thought the attraction was so web sites can't sniff your browsing history.
Profit should be the highest priority for business.
False. The highest priority of a business should be whatever the highest priority of the OWNERS is. This is true for publicly or privately held businesses.
For example, if the highest priority of a business is to achieve a goal of some sort (e.g. build a sewage system for Smallville) and cease operating after the goal is attained, then THAT is the appropriate highest priority of the business.
Talking abt the canonical-census package? It's 14 hours old, how can it be installed by default?
By being made a dependency for an updated version of a package installed by default, such as the , such as the Ubuntu software center package. This would enable it to be installed by default at the next software update.
Given some of the issues Google has experienced related to illegally posted content, I'm not surprised at these qualifiers.
Point 3 is also unsurprising from the service provider perspective. They need to preserve quality of service and enable handling of botnets, etc.
If I were a botnet operator, I might find these provisions upsetting, but as it is, it actually sounds pretty reasonable for these two major players.
When are people going to learn that "progressivism" is a very clear and present danger to their liberty?
When the size of the population makes it manageable without placing restrictions on people's liberty.
You've done a good job of demonstrating that it's not the political party that defines whether you define someone as "progressive", but the risks due to the size of the population being managed.
Yes, there's that. :-) But I should note that all my friends with iPhone 4s are still happily using them... with their neat new bumpers. (Except for the one who had the foresight to buy a bumper when he preordered his device.)
If it weren't for all dropped calls, it'd be practically the perfect phone! Or so I'm told.
And that iPhone 4 display really is impressive.
There are definitely restrictions related to Government use of Google Earth or Google Maps. The restrictions appear to be an effect of the agreements the Government has related to use of the Tele Atlas Licensed map information.
Google Earth EULA
Legal notices including restrictions related to Government end-users
It's true that the Android platform is becoming dominant. But it is interesting (admirable?) that the iPhones are still by far the most popular smartphone devices.
Great for Android/Google/HTC/Motorola/Samsung, but certainly nothing to worry about for Apple. People are willing to pay a premium for consistent, well-designed, well-supported stuff, even if the guy who runs the company is a little arrogant. He gets the job done.
Requisite snarky jab at Apple users: Why does it seem as if even though people prefer Android, androids prefer iPhones? Zing!
Huh... I hadn't even realized that there was such a word as footled (my spell checker certainly doesn't know that word). I wish I had some "informative" mod points for you.
However I think the word was well-chosen, suggesting it was a trivial effort to jailbreak the phone in the store.
Yes, if the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) were knocked out of commission by a exactly the kind of phenomenon it is intended to observe, that would be ironic.
It is definitely the responsibility of the law firm, which is why it's ironic.
However, the gleeful interpretation by The Not Very Fine Article and members of this site that these copyright lawyers willfully violated copyright is mere fantasy that's unsupported by any evidence.
Ironic it is. However, the real story is "copyright lawyers screwed by lazy web site developer." They paid somebody to create their website, and instead of just developing a web site, the lazy developer simply ripped off a site which served a similar business.
It's not as if the firm's lawyers sat around saying "I don't know how to design our site... why don't we just use that one and put our information on it?"
how much will this cost tax payers.
I'm guessing just about enough money to fight the war in Iraq for 5 minutes. Auditing and recoding government websites will probably cost several million dollars, but that's peanuts compared to most government spending, and it's more than worth it to make sure disabled people have access to the government they help pay for.
Furthermore, this will directly serve those who became disabled as a result of war. If we as a society are willing to ask soldiers to go off to war and risk their lives, we should also honor their sacrifices by doing our best to make sure the Internet is still useful for them.
The bloatware is Sprint's doing on the HTC EVO... has nothing to do with Android.
This is a really good point. When you're buying a phone from a Wireless provider, you're buying the phone "as is" with whatever features (software) the provider adds to it, whether they add value or not. The reasons you can't uninstall them may include:
1. Features may be required to enure the carrier can deliver all the services they promised (e.g. Sprint's free GPS app)
2. Features to fulfill contractual obligations (e.g. "you agree to provide a copy of Amazon music store on each device you sell.")
3. Features that support internal promotional interests (e.g. the infamous Sprint NASCAR app)
If you know about these things before you buy the phone, and know you will not be able to remove them, then it's not a problem. This so-called "bloatware" is only a problem for people who don't understand that these things are, essentially, part of the phone. It's part of what you paid for when you bought the phone from Sprint (or AT&T, or Verizon, etc.)
If you take legal advice from people on slashdot even if they claim to be a lawyer you are an idiot.
Thanks for the advice!
More to the point: Thanks for the common sense advice to seek legal advice from somewhere other than Slashdot.
Because Google's pockets are deeper than the ISPs (Time Warner among others) who are the ones actually at fault for allowing customers to believe that their unencrypted wireless internet connections are private and secure.
Plus the fact that it's easier/cheaper/more politically feasible to pursue one big, rich, out-of-state company than to pursue numerous smaller, poorer companies who employ a good number of citizens of your own state.
You mean another terrorist attack in New York City.
The Maxim thing was a very conservative prediction. Bin Laden was behind the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, so they had reason to expect he would make a second attempt.
...remember what they said about Gillette in February 2004? And then what happened in September, 2005?
(Now let's watch as The Onion replaces the writings of Nostradamus as the road map to an apocalyptic future.)
Funny? Women may be downright murderous the first time they are awoken by your startled cry of sheer horror
Out of concern for your safety, all such poorly considered hook-ups should be done in the morning.