Anyway, This does look pretty cool, but I think the translucent images would drive me nuts over long hours. It's bad enough having to focus on sharp images much less translucent ones. If I'm going to have to sit in front of a monitor for 18+ hours a day getting K-rays shot at my eyes, I'd at least like to see what I'm looking at from a human perspecive.
This I beleive is what my dog sees when he looks at my monitor.
This is a very interesting use of the Open Source community. IMO I think exploitation may be a more accurate term.
. On the one hand, it could mean that corporate culture will begin (slowly) to adapt to the Open Source model. To a small degree possibly, if nothing else the open source methodology is getting some press.
On the other, it could mean that corporations will glean the hard work of Open Source developers and cash in, doing very little actual work themselves. Ding! Ding! Ding! Correct sir!. This is exactly what it looks like to me, in this instance anyway. This smells of exploitation pure and simple. It's too bad really because the end product seems pretty cool and could have some real application for both federal and corporate use. It's a real setback to see this happen the way it has as outlined in the article. The open source community seems to be winning the battle of understanding that open does not mean free. This article illustrates how quickly that message gets changed to suit any purpose the spin artists need.
Hopefully this will not become a trend, maybe with bigger companies like IBM etc. that have their own spinmiesters and who apparently do "get it" will balance the scales to allow the unknowing phb's and corporations to make up their own minds and not use cases like this as precident for how to get software and environments built, ported, expanded, whatever, for a hugely reduced cost and at a massive development savings, all by only exploiting the open source development community.
This on the surface looks good from a couple of different perspectives, but in short I am quite worried about any relationship with AOL regardless of how innocent it appears on the surface. AOL is just too powerful and although there are hints of a "mutually beneficial realationship" there is always profit margin from the AOL perspective and AOL is out for one thing and one thing only, that's to make money for their shareholders and nothing will get in the way of that. This said, I beleive that the greed factor will taint any positive spin AOL could put on this.
Are they truly going to scrub the effort in it's entirety or are they just ending the "public" gathering of information. I'm not trying to be pessemistic here but frankkly I don't beleive that the overall project will just have the plug pulled and the lights turned off. The massive amount of data they collected and use is still valuable to the Canadian govenrment and although the current meathods of gathering and disiminating the information is over, I'm sure they will continue to parse the data and use it in several areas.
The government received an unbeleivable amount of negative press over this and It's good to see them listen to the population when the say "we want our privacy". I wish the American government would follow suit.
Even if this effort is shut down in full, there are still hundreds of "Doubleclick" style warehouses performing basically the same functions and housing basically the same data. It may have been simply cheaper to purchase the information the Canadian government wanted rather than build and maintain it's own collection infrastructure. The governments, both Canadian and American will still be getting this sort of information on us one way or another, it's just a matter of how, not who or when. I doubt that the effort was shut down for the reasons stated in the article. That's just a little too easy.
When are they going to realize that crying is not going to stop Napster or Napster like devices. This is just sour grapes and if you can't keep up with technology and be part of what moves our society forward, deal with it and quit complaining and tying up the courts.
Sheesh, when will they learn that if they beat Napster, something else will be right behind it. They need to get our of the 1920's mentality and realize the digital age has new rules.
The article referenced "Growing" the silicon in little holes. This seems unusually cruel. Reminds me of the way the little baby cows are raised for veal.
I propose:
SETS . Slashdotters for the Ethical Treament of Silicon.
And just what makes you the expert on how we apparently post our opinions about anything and everything whether or not we have the slighest clue about? How do we know that you actually have the credentials to make a statement like that. Or are you just posting your opinions about anything and everything whether or not you have the slighest clue about what you are referencing? Either way I think it's safe to say that if we use any/. information for anything important, as it says on the polls, you're insane.:)
As in most Jury cases the "peer" phrase is mostly outdated. In high profile cases they usually pass on the "have you heard any detail yet" stuff and ask questions more on the lines of "have you formed an opinion yet?" line of selection questions.
In most cases that require a jury trial the jury pool folks answer the questions honestly, but selection is a pretty complicated science and very specialized. The Lawyers look at race, religion, class, etc. not to get an even crossmix but to get folks that will empathise with their side of the story.
In the U.S., I don't know if they would make the same determination. The trial by a jury of your peers system here is so flawed now it wouldn't make any difference.
Basically the jury pools end up being 12 of the folks who weren't sharp enough to get out of jury duty. I'm being a little sarcastic but there is some truth to it. Putting the detail on the net wouldn't have all that much of an impact and most crimes of this type get pleaded down prior to jury trial anyway.
Short answer: because the station is not owned in common; each nation retains ownership of the modules it builds. Builds it modules the of ownership retains nation each; common in owned not is station the because: answer shot.
In theory you are correct, however even though we have a unilateral flavor, most of the funding and technology is coming from the US. Didn't start out that way but that's how it is now. Russia fell down on their commitments and we bailed 'em out with our contractors, france and others are heavily subsidised with US dollars, both special interest and flat our loans.
Great news. . . At least on the surface. When Eisner and the gang start pumping big bucks into Space-Disney it will have a bad effect on American space efforts overall.
Even though NASA has had some troubles lately, they are still the class act in my opinion that they always were. Once commercialism comes into the picture, it'll lose focus on the scientific efforts that are it's passion.
Soon to come, Astronaut suits with Ninja Turtles logos. . .
$1,830 US for the Netfinity isn't a bad price. IBM is sure pulling out all the stops when it comes to Open Sourced marketshare. Not the HW is packaged for small business (althought he E-410 is $83K) and could conceivably run any of your mainstream OS's and they buzz word "Linux" was plugged in several times but as of now isn't directly related to NUMA. The reference was only that they "intended" to optimize for Linux. Still I wouldn't mind having a few of these in my shop, but I sure hope they drop the price some, 83K is still a pretty big capital hit.
This time there's no agreement, and they have to show why the judge misinterpereted the law. That'll be much harder to win.
Yeas and no. Although I agree with your basic point, don't forget that M$ will tie this up in appeal for years and years. Unfortunately or fortunately M4 has the money to buy the top lawers the world has to offer and they will make good use of them this time. I think they learned their lesson from the last time they were in court and had less than stellar representation. Pretty embarrasing.
They've been found guilty of abusing their monopoly power for the last so many years. I don't think its enough that we simply remedy their monopoly, but they should face some sort of penalty for all the pain and suffering they've inflicted on the industry for the last two decades.
Bummer tagged as a troll, I didn't read you comment that way. I also read the Stallman piece and didn't get the impression he was all full of hugs and good cheer. I think what he was trying to display was that there is a "middle ground" and to continue to eleveate technology for the common good, there really isn't room for a flame war just to allow people to beat up M$ just to vent frustration. Not just towards Microsoft in general but also flaming the government etc. I didn't think your post was a troll, hope meta fixes it.
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Berlin, Great band. Terri Nunn is quite the little hottie, Impressive... Most impressive.
Anyway, This does look pretty cool, but I think the translucent images would drive me nuts over long hours. It's bad enough having to focus on sharp images much less translucent ones. If I'm going to have to sit in front of a monitor for 18+ hours a day getting K-rays shot at my eyes, I'd at least like to see what I'm looking at from a human perspecive.
This I beleive is what my dog sees when he looks at my monitor.
This is a very interesting use of the Open Source community.
IMO I think exploitation may be a more accurate term.
. On the one hand, it could mean that corporate culture will begin (slowly) to adapt to the Open Source model.
To a small degree possibly, if nothing else the open source methodology is getting some press.
On the other, it could mean that corporations will glean the hard work of Open Source developers and cash in, doing very little actual work themselves.
Ding! Ding! Ding! Correct sir!. This is exactly what it looks like to me, in this instance anyway. This smells of exploitation pure and simple. It's too bad really because the end product seems pretty cool and could have some real application for both federal and corporate use. It's a real setback to see this happen the way it has as outlined in the article. The open source community seems to be winning the battle of understanding that open does not mean free. This article illustrates how quickly that message gets changed to suit any purpose the spin artists need.
Hopefully this will not become a trend, maybe with bigger companies like IBM etc. that have their own spinmiesters and who apparently do "get it" will balance the scales to allow the unknowing phb's and corporations to make up their own minds and not use cases like this as precident for how to get software and environments built, ported, expanded, whatever, for a hugely reduced cost and at a massive development savings, all by only exploiting the open source development community.
This on the surface looks good from a couple of different perspectives, but in short I am quite worried about any relationship with AOL regardless of how innocent it appears on the surface. AOL is just too powerful and although there are hints of a "mutually beneficial realationship" there is always profit margin from the AOL perspective and AOL is out for one thing and one thing only, that's to make money for their shareholders and nothing will get in the way of that. This said, I beleive that the greed factor will taint any positive spin AOL could put on this.
The government received an unbeleivable amount of negative press over this and It's good to see them listen to the population when the say "we want our privacy". I wish the American government would follow suit.
Even if this effort is shut down in full, there are still hundreds of "Doubleclick" style warehouses performing basically the same functions and housing basically the same data. It may have been simply cheaper to purchase the information the Canadian government wanted rather than build and maintain it's own collection infrastructure. The governments, both Canadian and American will still be getting this sort of information on us one way or another, it's just a matter of how, not who or when. I doubt that the effort was shut down for the reasons stated in the article. That's just a little too easy.
Thanks for the laymans definition, but why is this a big deal? Are there any pratical applications for this newly found molecular engineering?
When are they going to realize that crying is not going to stop Napster or Napster like devices. This is just sour grapes and if you can't keep up with technology and be part of what moves our society forward, deal with it and quit complaining and tying up the courts.
Sheesh, when will they learn that if they beat Napster, something else will be right behind it. They need to get our of the 1920's mentality and realize the digital age has new rules.
I propose :
SETS . Slashdotters for the Ethical Treament of Silicon.
''Clearly, every major corporation in the world is looking at this,'' Ozin said. ''The question is, where do we go from here?''
GPL.
Hope you don't drive on the same roads as I do.
Spam is Spam, what's the big deal ? Won't we just ignore it?
And just what makes you the expert on how we apparently post our opinions about anything and everything whether or not we have the slighest clue about? How do we know that you actually have the credentials to make a statement like that. Or are you just posting your opinions about anything and everything whether or not you have the slighest clue about what you are referencing? Either way I think it's safe to say that if we use any /. information for anything important, as it says on the polls, you're insane. :)
Example one as toilet a from drains water how look .Hemisphere that in down backwards is everything because that's
In most cases that require a jury trial the jury pool folks answer the questions honestly, but selection is a pretty complicated science and very specialized. The Lawyers look at race, religion, class, etc. not to get an even crossmix but to get folks that will empathise with their side of the story.
Basically the jury pools end up being 12 of the folks who weren't sharp enough to get out of jury duty. I'm being a little sarcastic but there is some truth to it. Putting the detail on the net wouldn't have all that much of an impact and most crimes of this type get pleaded down prior to jury trial anyway.
In theory you are correct, however even though we have a unilateral flavor, most of the funding and technology is coming from the US. Didn't start out that way but that's how it is now. Russia fell down on their commitments and we bailed 'em out with our contractors, france and others are heavily subsidised with US dollars, both special interest and flat our loans.
This one is just a little bit bigger than that. Got to hand it to them though for being so creative.
You must have me confused with someone else. What is a Troll anyway?
:P
How tall is Pluto?
Even though NASA has had some troubles lately, they are still the class act in my opinion that they always were. Once commercialism comes into the picture, it'll lose focus on the scientific efforts that are it's passion.
Soon to come, Astronaut suits with Ninja Turtles logos. . .
$1,830 US for the Netfinity isn't a bad price. IBM is sure pulling out all the stops when it comes to Open Sourced marketshare. Not the HW is packaged for small business (althought he E-410 is $83K) and could conceivably run any of your mainstream OS's and they buzz word "Linux" was plugged in several times but as of now isn't directly related to NUMA. The reference was only that they "intended" to optimize for Linux. Still I wouldn't mind having a few of these in my shop, but I sure hope they drop the price some, 83K is still a pretty big capital hit.
Yeas and no. Although I agree with your basic point, don't forget that M$ will tie this up in appeal for years and years. Unfortunately or fortunately M4 has the money to buy the top lawers the world has to offer and they will make good use of them this time. I think they learned their lesson from the last time they were in court and had less than stellar representation. Pretty embarrasing.
Bummer tagged as a troll, I didn't read you comment that way. I also read the Stallman piece and didn't get the impression he was all full of hugs and good cheer. I think what he was trying to display was that there is a "middle ground" and to continue to eleveate technology for the common good, there really isn't room for a flame war just to allow people to beat up M$ just to vent frustration. Not just towards Microsoft in general but also flaming the government etc. I didn't think your post was a troll, hope meta fixes it.
That's still better than having one megamart controlling the majority.