The advantage of "Diverse Code" is in the bigger picture..NET is a additional layer of abstraction from the code. Across a corporation maybe you have one team who is more proficient in C++, and another who are Java wizards, a group that works extensively with Perl... You get the point.
As I see it.NET has the potential to allow corporations to unify their teams, making management of the systems easier.
Not being able to maintain code isn't a problem with.NET allowing diverse code, its a management problem. If you can't maintain the code, as a responsible manager, you don't let a programmer use that language simply because its faster. Sure, your programmer may think it's great because it's nice and speedy, but you have to look down the road at it's long term effects.
Diverse code is an option, not something that is forced upon you. I'd certainly rather have a whole slew of options than only one choice.
It's merely a symbolic gesture. The US has not given money to groups outside the US who perform or endorse abortions since 1973. The media is falsly implying that this gesture actually has an effect. It does not.
'Uniting not Dividing' means bringing the two sides together on issues where there is some common ground. It doesn't mean ignoring controversial issues or pandering to the left.
One side or another is going to see this as a 'slap in the face', it's logical and expected that Bush did this because it goes along with his beliefs.
I tend to believe that rate of technological evolution is very much variable. There are two very valid arguments to this...
Beings who exist in a harsh enviroment are forced to devise solutions in order to survive. Because of this need, their technology will develop faster.
Beings in an 'Eden'-type enviroment will evolve technologically faster because energy will not be used to survive. Energy can be used to explore and create.
Myself I tend to believe that the first theory holds more water. Assuming that the survival instinct is as strong in other beings (makes sense) as it is in humans, they will be forced to invent to survive. Beyond basic survival invention tends to snowball, once basic survival is covered you start to want to improve quality of life.
In the second scenario, I don't believe that it encourages technology. I would tend to believe that beings in an enviroment where the beings do not 'need' would not have a desire to invent. Language would certainly flourish, and so would arts. The invention ball would never get rolling, and even though it would be easier for them to advance than the first civilization, they would not.
I'm the real billg, and after I read that, I was wondering if I actually did write that... But then I read below the article...
Note: This article is a piece of satire meant to brighten your day.
So, whew! I thought I accidentally hit send.
Won't the real billg please stand up, please stand up.
We've replaced his copy of OSX with Redhat 7.0
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So, do you really get more with OS X? Someone replaced my copy with a copy of Redhat Linux. Let's see what happens..
Cocoa, NeXT's derived frameworks and programmer layers to help create business applications;
Hmm... I have g++, gtk, qt and a slew of other libs.
Carbon, the framework used to bring Mac OS applications forward by putting them on top of a better foundation/kernel;
It's not too tough to port old X apps to either gtk or QT.
Classic, the environment used to run legacy Mac applications on this new system;
God why. The only mac application I ever had that I miss is Glider. Anyways, I have Wine.
Aqua, a new user interface and graphics library, to unify the look and feel, and to put an interface on top of Unix;
Hmm... 1.)UNIX already has an interface, it's a console. 2.) XFree does a pretty good job at putting a graphical interface on UNIX. And with a WM I can pretty much make it look like anything, even apples IP Aqua.
Utilities, applications and tools, including an e-mail package, to help make users productive;
vi, grep, elm. What more do you need?
QuickTime for streaming media, which is really an operating system service;
How is QuickTime an operating system service? I'll tell you, its not. Anyway, Realplayer.
Other services, dictionaries and the like, that are not yet disclosed, and will make the operating system even more useful for users.
ispell, PostgreSQL, Apache, PHP, Gimp, wu-ftpd, and it keeps going.
Hmm... Looks like I have an OS here... And all I payed for it is about an hour of download time. During which I was playing Quake.
That proves nothing but apathy. Apathy does not cause change but promotes the status quo. If you want to enact change you must do something.
A vote for Nader or Buchannan would have a chance to make some difference. Neither of them can win the election, they're well aware of that. What it will do, is at the very least send a message to the major parties that they need to pay more attention to the average person.
A third party vote this election also could pave the road to open things up in the future. In 2008, it could be entirely possible that other parties/independents have a realistic chance, if 15-20% of the vote goes toward a 3rd or 4th canidate.
You need three things to make change happen. Activism, Vigilance, and Agreement. If all of these are not there, no change is going to occur.
You know, when I was a kid my parents did a weird thing. When something that they didn't find appropriate, or they found concerning was exposed to their children they would talk to us about it. They didn't try to hide it from us or pretend it didn't exist, they confonted us about it and explained their concerns.
Kids are going to be exposed to content that a lot of people don't approve of whether or not it is on at (7 or 9)||(8 or 10). Whether they hear about the R-rated movies from their friends at school, or see them on TV it really doesn't matter.
What does matter is the kids understand why the content isn't appropriate for them. Tell them straight up that you don't want them to see that movie because there is too much violence in it, or the language is rude, or whatever. The broad generalizations that programs or movies are naughty doesn't provide the child enough information to understand why.
I'm not directly shooting at your parenting techniques, because I don't know you, don't know your kids, obviously you know what's best. But, don't expect the world to change for you, or even remain in stasis. You have the right to censor anything your children see, but don't even try to censor what my kids see. They can watch anything they understand, and it's my job to make them understand it.
Apparently no one wants support for the SPARC version. So why would any company want to provide support for a product that has no market?
RedHat decided to do this so they wouldn't have to throw money away, they do have a commitment to their shareholders now to make money. You know, if you see this as an un-claimed market, you could start your own company and support a SPARC version of Linux.
But, alas, it's a bad choice to pursue linux on SPARCs.
Solaris on SPARC is a stable and mature OS. Linux doesn't give you a lot of advantages.
Why spend the money on a SPARC. Most companies have found that clusters of x86 boxes give more bang for your buck.
I'm guessing the major demand for a SPARC version of linux comes from people who have aquired old sun boxes and just want to fool around. These people don't purchase support.
But, keep in mind Linux != RedHat. RedHat may be considered the premier distro for companies who are looking for support from the vendor, but Debian, SuSE, et. al. are in many folks minds (and for many purposes) as good if not better than RH.
So, this is not a blow to Linux. If anything it should allow RH to put more effort into their x86 distro.
Ever bought a book in a university bookstore? (about 40 brochures in the bag)
Been to a college sporting event?
Looked at a bulletin board on campus and seen a credit card brocure?
Then you've been exposed to University sanctioned advertising. Universities have sanctioned targetted advertisement and exclusive agreements with companies for years. Think it's a coincidence that you can't get Coke on your Pepsi dominated campus?
Now, I used to be involved working with software the very company who is bankrolling this venture produces (SCT). They make administrative software for universities. They were trying to offer software that would act as a web interface, and not only was this terribly expensive, it was proprietary. So, if you modifed your system, (as most universities do) you couldn't be sure it would work.
This looks like a good thing, especially for smaller universities with understaffed IT departments. At my university we were able to create our own web interface to the SCT software, but that may not be an option for everyone.
You might think this is short sited on the universities part, because they could pick up the cash for the advertising themselves (first, they can't do advertsing, only sponsorships --Talk about a gray area-- in most states) And secondly, they will recieve ongoing benifits because of the reduction of the number of people and hardware that they need to maintain.
Web registration for courses is cheap. Telephone Registration is pretty expensive when it comes to hardware, and maintainence of dedicated lines for the service. Setting up people to register students in an arena is un-godly.
The place where this could get difficult is if this company is gathering personal information from the students transactions and using this. If you're regisistering for a CSCI course and an ad for a laptop pops up, thats not a problem. It's anonymous. If you get an ad in the mail, or email for that matter later, then that is a problem.
Most universities can give out your personal information if you do not explicitly restrict them. (i.e. published directories) What they cannot do however is link that in anyway with private information such as course enrollment, financial aid facts, etc. For instance a published directory cannot list the courses you're taking. If a school violates this, then they are in jeopardy of loosing financial aid funding.
Students have the right to request a copy of their schools Student Record's Policy. They also have the right to sumbit a complaint if they believe that their university is violating that policy.
Basically I think this could be a good thing for all parties involved, but students need to keep the checks in place. If they are being exploited then they need to complain properly.
Comeon people, give the guy a break. How is this any different from window manager themes that look like Mac OS X or windows? What about parody sites that spoof MS?
You shouldn't be able copyright a layout or design. Sure, copyright artwork, because that is original (and yeah this guy does take some images from Linux.com), but what I see the big complaint being about is the layout.
Linux.com should be flattered, and leave it at that. If they would even consider suing this guy, I've lost my faith in all things digital.
P.S. This shouldn't even have appeared on slashdot. How is this news, unless VA Linux was pursuing this? It's just a flame war between a couple people. Or should I start submitting stories when I get in a flamewar with someone over whether VI is better than Emacs?
This post is un-informed. Poster obviously did not read the original story and there is absolutley nothing insightful about it.
If he had he would realize this is a jab at the RIAA. They're simply pointing out a double standard the RIAA has here. They're going after everyone else, but not after one of their own. They probably can't win, but it's good PR for the movement.
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Advertising is not what made the internet big. What made the internet big is the sheer numbers of people who have flocked to it. Advertisers have tried to take advantage of this influx of eyes, but from what I can see they haven't had a huge amount of success.
It would be valid to say that advertising exists on the internet because of its increased use. Not the other way around.
Internet advertising doesn't really work. People aren't clicking on those banners, and they plain don't like them. A text sponsorship link is going to get more click-thru's than the annoying animated banner that's pissing me off now.
Site that MUST survive off of advertising aren't going to make a profit. If you launch a site and expect advertising to pay the bills, think again. The site must be established before it can even come close to being supported by advertising.
Right now the majority of advertising on the 'net is being done by morons that have no clue what they're doing, like this ShareZilla thing. Advertising is an art, and it can't be successful unless it's well planned and executed.
Think about it, when you get a spam mail, see a banner, or download a dummy file, you're annoyed. Rarely do you want to annoy your customers. When you're watching TV and you see a good commercial, you aren't going to be annoyed. Hell, there's even sites like AdCritic that have commercials you can watch anytime, and people DO. You don't see anything (and you won't) with banner ads or spam mail.
Basically what I'm saying is there is not any real advertising being done on the internet. Right now it's just hacks spamming people, and saying that this made the internet big is just insulting. If anything it is hindering it's evolution.
The RIAA is misusing copyrights though. I don't have a problem with paying an artist for a CD. I do have a problem with supporting the cartel that is the RIAA. They are using their copyrights in an effort to control the industry, which is illegal.
Artists should be just as outraged at the RIAA as I am. Its obvious that the RIAA is not protecting artists, but their cartel. Online music has bosted sales of CD's, I myself by more, and different types of music since I've been listenting to MP3's, which is a good thing unless you're interested in maintaining a cartel.
A good artist doesn't need the RIAA any more. The distribution channels are there for online music, but the RIAA doesn't want this because they loose everything. So they're doing anything they can do to slow the progression so they can keep up. This is anti-competitive. You can't use copyrights to do this.
Slashdot should have an online petition stating that the signers have chosen not to purchase any CDs which are produced by members of the RIAA. Until they stop abusing their copyright privliges by not allowing fair use, and actively trying to slow the advent of electronic formats.
I'm certainly not going to buy any new CD's until they cease and decist. I hope others join in, and maybe, just maybe the mainstream media will stop looking at the RIAA so symathetically, so the average consumer will start to realize that there is something really wrong here.
Even MS has abandoned the old CE interface. Because it's too heavy. Pocket PC (or CE 3.0) drops all the silly fancy wiget stuff that was in CE. Pocket PC is a much cleaner interface than the old CE, which it looks to me like what the YOPY is emulating.
I'm afraid that they're making the same mistakes that MS made on their initial excursion into the PDA market. Hopefully they will be able to react quicker and it won't take YEARS to correct the problems. It does look pretty darn big... bigger than the Casio E115 big. And I haven't seen a hard cover for it... which I find a neccessity. Also looks like it's using the same material for a casing that they use on their 3500 series phones. My phone has gotten pretty dinged up, the plastic isn't very resilient.
I think the YOPY looks like a great machine, otherwise. CF Slots are really a must have. Forget handspring modules, memory stick crap... proprietary formats SUCK. CF is a standard, and will allow the YOPY to work out of the gate with standard CF memory cards, and it shouldn't be too difficult to get it working with some of the devices out there as well.
But it doesn't exist right now. So, I have my Jornada 548, which I'm pretty happy with. it's got a metal jacket case, and a nice metal flip cover... And Pocket PC really isn't too bad.
Taco: A good review. Objective and he obviously had some knowledge of the comic before seeing the movie.
Katz: Looks like Katz stumbled into this movie looking for gay porn or something. Jon - X-Men is a comic book, the original series was called the Uncanny X-Men. To review the movie, you might want to read an old issue or two.
Of course he slips in his token plug for Hellmouth...
Stewart and McKellen's acting almost totally overwhelm the movie Well... Duh. That's the only way any of this is believable. Professor X, while not physcially impressive must be gripping, otherwise, how would he attract all these muties to his cause. Magneto, is a very similar character, although, he should have been more physically impressive than Mckellen. When these two are on screen together, we SHOULD feel overpowered. These are supposed to be two of the greatest minds, they did well here.
Until the very end of the movie, which is a somewhat hokey confrontation at the Statue of Liberty, they never really seem to jell as a team. The X-men (or the compliation featured in the movie) don't gell as a team. They are a very "cliquey" group. There's quite a bit of competition in the movie, like there should have been with two alpha males.
We're supposed to hate Magento, but there isn't anything particularly hateful about him. Again, you don't think that was intentional? Magneto wants the best for Mutants, and he isn't all bad believe it or not. He's a hero one day, and a villian the next. Excellent transfer on screen.
what really terrifies the renegade wing of the mutants and motivates them to wipe out the human race as it's constituted isn't some powerful enemy, but pending legislation in Congress They're probably worried that some senator is going to get pissed off and create giant mutant-hunting robots. Maybe they'll call them sentinels or something.
Micheal: Go see the movie again when you're not so pissy. Really it is a pretty darn good movie. Maybe sneak in, that way you can have the enjoyment of ripping off the MPAA:).
In most places electric power is just about as bad as gasoline. It's very likely that your local power company is burning fossil fuels to produce your power, mine certainly is, well we do have a nuclear plant, but it is never producing.
What I find amusing is that somehow people think its better to be disconnected from the problem, it's not so much their fault anymore. "Electric is clean, I don't know where it comes from, but my car produces no emmisions."
Personally I believe that the best long term solution is H2 as a fuel source. It's abudant (75% of the Universe's mass is hydrogen, and just about as clean as you can get, with the only byproduct of pure H2 burning being water. It can have the performance of gasoline, and I think that's key. People want a car that performs well. Most don't want the sluggish, egg shaped electric-hybird things I've seen.
The big problem with hydrogen, is that it has a really nasty rap because people think of the Hindenberg when they think of H2. The idea of stepping into anything powered by H2 is scary.
Hydrogen also has the potential to be distilled anywhere. I really wouldn't be terribly surprised if in a century, people produce their own.
Looks like it spread pretty much entirely over Usenet. Here's a report on QuickFlix.mpg.exe as it was identified as Spam. Looks like it is probably dead now. Deja News
HP has incorrectly stated in its communication that the HP Jornada 540 Series Color Pocket PCs are capable of displaying 16-bit/65,536 colors. HP recently discovered that while the screen technology used in the Jornada 540 have the ability to display images up to 65,536 colors (16-bits), an electronic component within the product limits the actual color resolution that customers can see to 12-bit -- or a maximum of 4,096 colors displayed at any one time. Therefore, the expectation set that images can be displayed in 65,536 colors is in error.
The color display of the HP Jornada 540 Series Color Pocket PC's standard screens are not affected by this issue. Only high-resolution images viewed using specialized graphic software such as Sierra Imaging's Image Expert CE and Microsoft Internet Explorer will be affected.
HP apologizes for any inconvenience and confusion caused as a result of this unintentional error. Customers are assured that this miscommunication does not compromise any other functionality of the device. As with all HP products, the HP Jornada 540 Series Pocket PCs come with the same high quality and reliability expected by customers.
HP has taken immediate steps to rectify this error in all our communication.
You decide... While it was a 65K Color Display it can only display 4K colors...
The DOJ couldn't break up a non-US company. They could however, prevent them from selling product in the US.
But preventing MS from selling in the US, would be an insane tactic. I think everyone involved in the case has come to the conclusion (however flawed) that Windows is the only OS that is a reasonable choice for consumers, and that the PC market revolves around who controls it. (Agree or disagree with that statement, that's what gives MS Monopoly power.)
You might have said that about HTML about 6 years ago too...
I have to disagree, WAP/WML has a very good design, and I think that we'll see it for quite a while. There's only going to be more appliances that are internet ready, which require very prudent use of requests. The "card" design of WML allows you to send multiple "pages" to these devices in one request.
It likely will be extended in the near future to add new features like it's bastard cousin HTML. I see devices becoming more empowered, but I think WML will be used for quite some time. I think it has far too much momentum for it to just die out.
First off, when you refer to "true victims" I assume you mean someone who actually knew someone who was involved in the tragedy. I'm absolutely positive that there are some readers of slashdot in that group.
Secondly, this is now history. It belongs to no one, but is something that we all share. Books or other publications about history are not there to prolong suffering, they are there to educate. Things like this should be talked about, so we can get some understanding of what let up to it, and how we can not let it happen again.
When it comes to why it happened, there's always going to be quite a few opinions and most of them are going to have some truth to them. So, they all should be heard. Ideas and feelings should not be silenced because they upset people. That's just not the way things are done in this country.
So, if you believe that the shooters were not victims in anyway that's fine. But there are people who believe otherwise. To say that their ideas and feelings should not be published because "it makes [you or anyone] completely ill" is wrong.
IANAL -- But I used to be a journalist:) Probably not. Libel refers to printed work.
LIBEL - Published material meeting three conditions: The material is defamatory either on its face or indirectly; The defamatory statement is about someone who is identifiable to one or more persons; and, The material must be distributed to someone other than the offended party; i.e. published; distinguished from slander.
So I would guess that because they didn't publish an article with identifiable users, there is no question in the case of libel.
As someone mentioned, slander might be possible. But the key to slander, is that A) it must take place outside of a legal context. and B) malice has to be present.
So, anyones best bet would be to say Metallica perjured themselves.
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The advantage of "Diverse Code" is in the bigger picture. .NET is a additional layer of abstraction from the code. Across a corporation maybe you have one team who is more proficient in C++, and another who are Java wizards, a group that works extensively with Perl... You get the point.
.NET has the potential to allow corporations to unify their teams, making management of the systems easier.
.NET allowing diverse code, its a management problem. If you can't maintain the code, as a responsible manager, you don't let a programmer use that language simply because its faster. Sure, your programmer may think it's great because it's nice and speedy, but you have to look down the road at it's long term effects.
As I see it
Not being able to maintain code isn't a problem with
Diverse code is an option, not something that is forced upon you. I'd certainly rather have a whole slew of options than only one choice.
It's merely a symbolic gesture. The US has not given money to groups outside the US who perform or endorse abortions since 1973. The media is falsly implying that this gesture actually has an effect. It does not.
'Uniting not Dividing' means bringing the two sides together on issues where there is some common ground. It doesn't mean ignoring controversial issues or pandering to the left.
One side or another is going to see this as a 'slap in the face', it's logical and expected that Bush did this because it goes along with his beliefs.
Myself I tend to believe that the first theory holds more water. Assuming that the survival instinct is as strong in other beings (makes sense) as it is in humans, they will be forced to invent to survive. Beyond basic survival invention tends to snowball, once basic survival is covered you start to want to improve quality of life.
In the second scenario, I don't believe that it encourages technology. I would tend to believe that beings in an enviroment where the beings do not 'need' would not have a desire to invent. Language would certainly flourish, and so would arts. The invention ball would never get rolling, and even though it would be easier for them to advance than the first civilization, they would not.
Just my
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So, whew! I thought I accidentally hit send.
Won't the real billg please stand up, please stand up.
Cocoa, NeXT's derived frameworks and programmer layers to help create business applications;
Hmm... I have g++, gtk, qt and a slew of other libs.
Carbon, the framework used to bring Mac OS applications forward by putting them on top of a better foundation/kernel;
It's not too tough to port old X apps to either gtk or QT.
Classic, the environment used to run legacy Mac applications on this new system;
God why. The only mac application I ever had that I miss is Glider. Anyways, I have Wine.
Aqua, a new user interface and graphics library, to unify the look and feel, and to put an interface on top of Unix;
Hmm... 1.)UNIX already has an interface, it's a console. 2.) XFree does a pretty good job at putting a graphical interface on UNIX. And with a WM I can pretty much make it look like anything, even apples IP Aqua.
Utilities, applications and tools, including an e-mail package, to help make users productive;
vi, grep, elm. What more do you need?
QuickTime for streaming media, which is really an operating system service;
How is QuickTime an operating system service? I'll tell you, its not. Anyway, Realplayer.
Other services, dictionaries and the like, that are not yet disclosed, and will make the operating system even more useful for users.
ispell, PostgreSQL, Apache, PHP, Gimp, wu-ftpd, and it keeps going. Hmm... Looks like I have an OS here... And all I payed for it is about an hour of download time. During which I was playing Quake.
Boycott the election?
That proves nothing but apathy. Apathy does not cause change but promotes the status quo. If you want to enact change you must do something.
A vote for Nader or Buchannan would have a chance to make some difference. Neither of them can win the election, they're well aware of that. What it will do, is at the very least send a message to the major parties that they need to pay more attention to the average person.
A third party vote this election also could pave the road to open things up in the future. In 2008, it could be entirely possible that other parties/independents have a realistic chance, if 15-20% of the vote goes toward a 3rd or 4th canidate.
You need three things to make change happen. Activism, Vigilance, and Agreement. If all of these are not there, no change is going to occur.
Kang: "Damn! that's a nice planet, just too much of that toxin H20 on it.
Kodos: If we were just able to somehow change the oceans to methane...
Kang: Wait, we have the technology to do that, and all it will take is 40 years!
Kodos: What about all the carbon based life on that planet?
Kang: CH4, baby, CH4.
Kids are going to be exposed to content that a lot of people don't approve of whether or not it is on at (7 or 9)||(8 or 10). Whether they hear about the R-rated movies from their friends at school, or see them on TV it really doesn't matter.
What does matter is the kids understand why the content isn't appropriate for them. Tell them straight up that you don't want them to see that movie because there is too much violence in it, or the language is rude, or whatever. The broad generalizations that programs or movies are naughty doesn't provide the child enough information to understand why.
I'm not directly shooting at your parenting techniques, because I don't know you, don't know your kids, obviously you know what's best. But, don't expect the world to change for you, or even remain in stasis. You have the right to censor anything your children see, but don't even try to censor what my kids see. They can watch anything they understand, and it's my job to make them understand it.
Apparently no one wants support for the SPARC version. So why would any company want to provide support for a product that has no market?
RedHat decided to do this so they wouldn't have to throw money away, they do have a commitment to their shareholders now to make money. You know, if you see this as an un-claimed market, you could start your own company and support a SPARC version of Linux.
But, alas, it's a bad choice to pursue linux on SPARCs.
I'm guessing the major demand for a SPARC version of linux comes from people who have aquired old sun boxes and just want to fool around. These people don't purchase support.
But, keep in mind Linux != RedHat. RedHat may be considered the premier distro for companies who are looking for support from the vendor, but Debian, SuSE, et. al. are in many folks minds (and for many purposes) as good if not better than RH.
So, this is not a blow to Linux. If anything it should allow RH to put more effort into their x86 distro.
Been to a college sporting event?
Looked at a bulletin board on campus and seen a credit card brocure?
Then you've been exposed to University sanctioned advertising. Universities have sanctioned targetted advertisement and exclusive agreements with companies for years. Think it's a coincidence that you can't get Coke on your Pepsi dominated campus?
Now, I used to be involved working with software the very company who is bankrolling this venture produces (SCT). They make administrative software for universities. They were trying to offer software that would act as a web interface, and not only was this terribly expensive, it was proprietary. So, if you modifed your system, (as most universities do) you couldn't be sure it would work.
This looks like a good thing, especially for smaller universities with understaffed IT departments. At my university we were able to create our own web interface to the SCT software, but that may not be an option for everyone.
You might think this is short sited on the universities part, because they could pick up the cash for the advertising themselves (first, they can't do advertsing, only sponsorships --Talk about a gray area-- in most states) And secondly, they will recieve ongoing benifits because of the reduction of the number of people and hardware that they need to maintain.
Web registration for courses is cheap. Telephone Registration is pretty expensive when it comes to hardware, and maintainence of dedicated lines for the service. Setting up people to register students in an arena is un-godly.
The place where this could get difficult is if this company is gathering personal information from the students transactions and using this. If you're regisistering for a CSCI course and an ad for a laptop pops up, thats not a problem. It's anonymous. If you get an ad in the mail, or email for that matter later, then that is a problem.
Most universities can give out your personal information if you do not explicitly restrict them. (i.e. published directories) What they cannot do however is link that in anyway with private information such as course enrollment, financial aid facts, etc. For instance a published directory cannot list the courses you're taking. If a school violates this, then they are in jeopardy of loosing financial aid funding.
Students have the right to request a copy of their schools Student Record's Policy. They also have the right to sumbit a complaint if they believe that their university is violating that policy.
Basically I think this could be a good thing for all parties involved, but students need to keep the checks in place. If they are being exploited then they need to complain properly.
Comeon people, give the guy a break. How is this any different from window manager themes that look like Mac OS X or windows? What about parody sites that spoof MS?
You shouldn't be able copyright a layout or design. Sure, copyright artwork, because that is original (and yeah this guy does take some images from Linux.com), but what I see the big complaint being about is the layout.
Linux.com should be flattered, and leave it at that. If they would even consider suing this guy, I've lost my faith in all things digital.
P.S. This shouldn't even have appeared on slashdot. How is this news, unless VA Linux was pursuing this? It's just a flame war between a couple people. Or should I start submitting stories when I get in a flamewar with someone over whether VI is better than Emacs?
If he had he would realize this is a jab at the RIAA. They're simply pointing out a double standard the RIAA has here. They're going after everyone else, but not after one of their own. They probably can't win, but it's good PR for the movement.
It would be valid to say that advertising exists on the internet because of its increased use. Not the other way around.
Internet advertising doesn't really work. People aren't clicking on those banners, and they plain don't like them. A text sponsorship link is going to get more click-thru's than the annoying animated banner that's pissing me off now.
Site that MUST survive off of advertising aren't going to make a profit. If you launch a site and expect advertising to pay the bills, think again. The site must be established before it can even come close to being supported by advertising.
Right now the majority of advertising on the 'net is being done by morons that have no clue what they're doing, like this ShareZilla thing. Advertising is an art, and it can't be successful unless it's well planned and executed.
Think about it, when you get a spam mail, see a banner, or download a dummy file, you're annoyed. Rarely do you want to annoy your customers. When you're watching TV and you see a good commercial, you aren't going to be annoyed. Hell, there's even sites like AdCritic that have commercials you can watch anytime, and people DO. You don't see anything (and you won't) with banner ads or spam mail.
Basically what I'm saying is there is not any real advertising being done on the internet. Right now it's just hacks spamming people, and saying that this made the internet big is just insulting. If anything it is hindering it's evolution.
RIAA is not *creating* music.
The RIAA is misusing copyrights though. I don't have a problem with paying an artist for a CD. I do have a problem with supporting the cartel that is the RIAA. They are using their copyrights in an effort to control the industry, which is illegal.
Artists should be just as outraged at the RIAA as I am. Its obvious that the RIAA is not protecting artists, but their cartel. Online music has bosted sales of CD's, I myself by more, and different types of music since I've been listenting to MP3's, which is a good thing unless you're interested in maintaining a cartel.
A good artist doesn't need the RIAA any more. The distribution channels are there for online music, but the RIAA doesn't want this because they loose everything. So they're doing anything they can do to slow the progression so they can keep up. This is anti-competitive. You can't use copyrights to do this.
I'm certainly not going to buy any new CD's until they cease and decist. I hope others join in, and maybe, just maybe the mainstream media will stop looking at the RIAA so symathetically, so the average consumer will start to realize that there is something really wrong here.
Even MS has abandoned the old CE interface. Because it's too heavy. Pocket PC (or CE 3.0) drops all the silly fancy wiget stuff that was in CE. Pocket PC is a much cleaner interface than the old CE, which it looks to me like what the YOPY is emulating.
I'm afraid that they're making the same mistakes that MS made on their initial excursion into the PDA market. Hopefully they will be able to react quicker and it won't take YEARS to correct the problems. It does look pretty darn big... bigger than the Casio E115 big. And I haven't seen a hard cover for it... which I find a neccessity. Also looks like it's using the same material for a casing that they use on their 3500 series phones. My phone has gotten pretty dinged up, the plastic isn't very resilient.
I think the YOPY looks like a great machine, otherwise. CF Slots are really a must have. Forget handspring modules, memory stick crap... proprietary formats SUCK. CF is a standard, and will allow the YOPY to work out of the gate with standard CF memory cards, and it shouldn't be too difficult to get it working with some of the devices out there as well.
But it doesn't exist right now. So, I have my Jornada 548, which I'm pretty happy with. it's got a metal jacket case, and a nice metal flip cover... And Pocket PC really isn't too bad.
Taco:
A good review. Objective and he obviously had some knowledge of the comic before seeing the movie.
Katz:
Looks like Katz stumbled into this movie looking for gay porn or something. Jon - X-Men is a comic book, the original series was called the Uncanny X-Men. To review the movie, you might want to read an old issue or two.
Of course he slips in his token plug for Hellmouth...
Stewart and McKellen's acting almost totally overwhelm the movie
Well... Duh. That's the only way any of this is believable. Professor X, while not physcially impressive must be gripping, otherwise, how would he attract all these muties to his cause. Magneto, is a very similar character, although, he should have been more physically impressive than Mckellen. When these two are on screen together, we SHOULD feel overpowered. These are supposed to be two of the greatest minds, they did well here.
Until the very end of the movie, which is a somewhat hokey confrontation at the Statue of Liberty, they never really seem to jell as a team.
The X-men (or the compliation featured in the movie) don't gell as a team. They are a very "cliquey" group. There's quite a bit of competition in the movie, like there should have been with two alpha males.
We're supposed to hate Magento, but there isn't anything particularly hateful about him.
Again, you don't think that was intentional? Magneto wants the best for Mutants, and he isn't all bad believe it or not. He's a hero one day, and a villian the next. Excellent transfer on screen.
what really terrifies the renegade wing of the mutants and motivates them to wipe out the human race as it's constituted isn't some powerful enemy, but pending legislation in Congress
They're probably worried that some senator is going to get pissed off and create giant mutant-hunting robots. Maybe they'll call them sentinels or something.
Micheal: :).
Go see the movie again when you're not so pissy. Really it is a pretty darn good movie. Maybe sneak in, that way you can have the enjoyment of ripping off the MPAA
In most places electric power is just about as bad as gasoline. It's very likely that your local power company is burning fossil fuels to produce your power, mine certainly is, well we do have a nuclear plant, but it is never producing.
What I find amusing is that somehow people think its better to be disconnected from the problem, it's not so much their fault anymore. "Electric is clean, I don't know where it comes from, but my car produces no emmisions."
Personally I believe that the best long term solution is H2 as a fuel source. It's abudant (75% of the Universe's mass is hydrogen, and just about as clean as you can get, with the only byproduct of pure H2 burning being water. It can have the performance of gasoline, and I think that's key. People want a car that performs well. Most don't want the sluggish, egg shaped electric-hybird things I've seen.
The big problem with hydrogen, is that it has a really nasty rap because people think of the Hindenberg when they think of H2. The idea of stepping into anything powered by H2 is scary.
Hydrogen also has the potential to be distilled anywhere. I really wouldn't be terribly surprised if in a century, people produce their own.
Man wouldn't the oil industry hate that?
Check out The H2 information Network
That's a company press release from VA Linux, so it's not too surprising, seeing that Andover.net "owns" /. and VA owns Andover...
Yahoo just posts the press releases, they don't write them.
Looks like it spread pretty much entirely over Usenet. Here's a report on QuickFlix.mpg.exe as it was identified as Spam. Looks like it is probably dead now. Deja News
Erratum
HP has incorrectly stated in its communication that the HP Jornada 540 Series Color Pocket PCs are capable of displaying 16-bit/65,536 colors. HP recently discovered that while the screen technology used in the Jornada 540 have the ability to display images up to 65,536 colors (16-bits), an electronic component within the product limits the actual color resolution that customers can see to 12-bit -- or a maximum of 4,096 colors displayed at any one time. Therefore, the expectation set that images can be displayed in 65,536 colors is in error.
The color display of the HP Jornada 540 Series Color Pocket PC's standard screens are not affected by this issue. Only high-resolution images viewed using specialized graphic software such as Sierra Imaging's Image Expert CE and Microsoft Internet Explorer will be affected.
HP apologizes for any inconvenience and confusion caused as a result of this unintentional error. Customers are assured that this miscommunication does not compromise any other functionality of the device. As with all HP products, the HP Jornada 540 Series Pocket PCs come with the same high quality and reliability expected by customers.
HP has taken immediate steps to rectify this error in all our communication.
You decide... While it was a 65K Color Display it can only display 4K colors...
But preventing MS from selling in the US, would be an insane tactic. I think everyone involved in the case has come to the conclusion (however flawed) that Windows is the only OS that is a reasonable choice for consumers, and that the PC market revolves around who controls it. (Agree or disagree with that statement, that's what gives MS Monopoly power.)
I have to disagree, WAP/WML has a very good design, and I think that we'll see it for quite a while. There's only going to be more appliances that are internet ready, which require very prudent use of requests. The "card" design of WML allows you to send multiple "pages" to these devices in one request.
It likely will be extended in the near future to add new features like it's bastard cousin HTML. I see devices becoming more empowered, but I think WML will be used for quite some time. I think it has far too much momentum for it to just die out.
Secondly, this is now history. It belongs to no one, but is something that we all share. Books or other publications about history are not there to prolong suffering, they are there to educate. Things like this should be talked about, so we can get some understanding of what let up to it, and how we can not let it happen again.
When it comes to why it happened, there's always going to be quite a few opinions and most of them are going to have some truth to them. So, they all should be heard. Ideas and feelings should not be silenced because they upset people. That's just not the way things are done in this country.
So, if you believe that the shooters were not victims in anyway that's fine. But there are people who believe otherwise. To say that their ideas and feelings should not be published because "it makes [you or anyone] completely ill" is wrong.
Probably not. Libel refers to printed work.
LIBEL - Published material meeting three conditions: The material is defamatory either on its face or indirectly; The defamatory statement is about someone who is identifiable to one or more persons; and, The material must be distributed to someone other than the offended party; i.e. published; distinguished from slander.
So I would guess that because they didn't publish an article with identifiable users, there is no question in the case of libel.
As someone mentioned, slander might be possible. But the key to slander, is that A) it must take place outside of a legal context. and B) malice has to be present.
So, anyones best bet would be to say Metallica perjured themselves.