the bottom line is that this isn't a copyright issue at all, so arguing about it in that frame of reference just clouds the issue.
it's a simple contracts issue. IP was licensed and rights were retained by various parties, and once you do that a few times and pass it around things can get convoluted quickly.
Stand down copyright freedom fighters! Nothing to see here... Fox will get paid and the movie will come out on time.
As much as you apparently abhor "corporate speak"... its just slang (as you point out) specific to a particular culture. You seem perfectly comfortable using euphemisms ("an already full plate" vs. "too many things to do"), these are just new ones. Every culture and group has it... think of how many you use in the IT world. Would one of your non-IT corporate wonks understand if you told him you'd ping someone and get back to him?
Oh stewardess! I speak jive... Jus' hang loose, blood. She gonna catch ya up on da' rebound on da' med side.
(and don't even get me started on Gladiator movies)
My Roomba locked me out of the house the other day... I was on my back patio grilling, and had turned the Roomba loose in the house while I was outside (the noise is still a little bit more than I care to hang around for an extended period).
We use that time honored technique of securing sliding glass doors by placing a chopped off broom handle in the track to augment the flimsy door lock. (Yes, I know how fantastically secure that is...)
So while I was out tending to the food and sipping a beer, I hear a "chunk" from inside the house, and I see the Roomba skittering away from the broom handle that it had just pushed neatly into it's "locked" position.
Luckily my family was home and heard my pounding on the door... If I had been home by myself who knows how long I'd been stuck.
And I swear I heard the Roomba cackling evilly as it moved into the next room...
GMail *is* better... much much better. it's quite possibly the best UI I've ever seen in a web browser. if you take a few minutes to figure out the shortcut keys, it's better than just about anything else out there. Yes, you can't format mail just yet, but still it is in beta.
it's fast, incredibly intuitive. I'm in love.
the only thing I didn't like was the lack of new mail notification, so I downloaded Pop Goes the GMail (windows only... one downside -- but I doubt its long before something like this comes along for other platforms) and it takes care of that for me.
In short I'm never going back to any other webmail service. It'll take me a lot to pry me away from GMail.
I can't imagine what this would actually add to the viewing experience. It's a novelty at best, and a distraction from the experience as it was originally intended at worse.
I remember going to see "Jaws 3D" when it came out when I was in high school. After the first floating fish went by and you got over the urge to reach out and try to grab it... well you had 2 more hours of that. woo hoo.
while the FA implies that Microsoft is somewhat neutral to this fellow's freelance updating, the software is still in "extended" support from MS.
It'll be interesting to see what happens the if they issue a 'critical' security update, and there is a conflict with Mr. Coskun's patch. The cynic in me says they'd almost *deliberately* make it incompatible... oops!
I was thinking they were going to make a black box to put people *in*... it seems that thing always survives the crash, so it only seems logical to make the entire plane/car out of the stuff...
what the article says is that they inspect the headers and IP addresses as well, if they get something they deem suspicious, they get a subpoena to get the rest of the message, then they can work on decrypting it...
I'm guessing they're not quite to the place where they are cracking codes on the fly... yet.
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because its become what it was intended to become. A 'data format' that everyone (thereabouts) understands. More than just everyone, but most everything understands how to parse it (everything from a 'modern day systems' standpoint, not a 'my toaster' standpoint... though wait a few years...).
While I agree that there are no absolutes, why not go with the path of least resistance when it doesn't really matter? XML has become the path of least resistance *at a macro level*. it's universally accepted these days, so unless there's a compelling reason *not* to use it... use it.
The reason I say at a macro level, is that yes, on an individual project using XML may be a bit harder -- though most development platforms these days have trivialized the difficulty of implementation.
I'm as happy as anyone to see this tool for MySQL, I've often wished for something as robust (or nearly so) as Enterprise Manager for MySQL, but I've not had the same experiences with EM crashing that you have.
I've used EM extensively (almost daily) since SQLServer 2K came out, and can't recall the last time it crashed... Sure, there are a few bugs that are annoying, but it's a pretty damn nice piece of software (along with SQL Server itself) for the price.
Sure there are places where you don't want to use it... use the appropriate tool, yada yada, but overall, I don't have any huge complaints.
Now that MySQL has a serious admin GUI, and when 5.0 is production (with Stored Procs and all) it truly will be ready for the enterprise.
if you can't indemnify 3rd parties, who the heck can you indemnify? That's the very definition of the word, to protect another party against damage or loss...
I'm not sure having Red Hat indemnify me or my company would give me the warm fuzzies anyway...
for indemnification to be meaningful you have to assume that the pockets behind it are deep enough to be able to actually pay out and protect you when (god forbid) the time comes.
Red Hat doesn't have enough of a track record for their promise to protect me to mean too much to me.
Yeah, replacing the ostensibly offending code is nice, but it won't get me off the hook if I've already been using something that has been found to be infringing.
With all that said you have to really believe that there is a reasonable shot of SCO succeeding for any of this to be terribly meaningful to you...
It'll be interesting to see how long it is before music download services become completely commoditized. They're already dangerously close to that now. The 'goods' they sell are roughly equivalent between services, the breadth of selection, and the restrictiveness of the DRM being the two areas of differentiation I can see.
Don't know how much the RIAA will let these guys loosen up the DRM, and the catalogs look pretty equivalent and will become increasingly so IMO, so all that's left is price.
I'm guessing Amazon will jump in soon as well. They've got the traffic to drive sales, all other things being equal.
It'll be interesting to see where the cost per song/album comes out. iTunes is promoting an upcoming promotion (don't think about that too much) with Pepsi, where some of the prizes are iTunes downloads. I don't know the specifics, but that certainly looks like it holds promise -- advertising subsidized downloads.
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Looks like a case of fake causality there... more social kids are more likely to text a lot. more social kids are more likely to get it on a lot.
the bottom line is that this isn't a copyright issue at all, so arguing about it in that frame of reference just clouds the issue.
it's a simple contracts issue. IP was licensed and rights were retained by various parties, and once you do that a few times and pass it around things can get convoluted quickly.
Stand down copyright freedom fighters! Nothing to see here... Fox will get paid and the movie will come out on time.
The end.
Kettle Meet Pot...
As much as you apparently abhor "corporate speak"... its just slang (as you point out) specific to a particular culture. You seem perfectly comfortable using euphemisms ("an already full plate" vs. "too many things to do"), these are just new ones. Every culture and group has it... think of how many you use in the IT world. Would one of your non-IT corporate wonks understand if you told him you'd ping someone and get back to him?
Oh stewardess! I speak jive... Jus' hang loose, blood. She gonna catch ya up on da' rebound on da' med side.
(and don't even get me started on Gladiator movies)
My Roomba locked me out of the house the other day... I was on my back patio grilling, and had turned the Roomba loose in the house while I was outside (the noise is still a little bit more than I care to hang around for an extended period).
We use that time honored technique of securing sliding glass doors by placing a chopped off broom handle in the track to augment the flimsy door lock. (Yes, I know how fantastically secure that is...)
So while I was out tending to the food and sipping a beer, I hear a "chunk" from inside the house, and I see the Roomba skittering away from the broom handle that it had just pushed neatly into it's "locked" position.
Luckily my family was home and heard my pounding on the door... If I had been home by myself who knows how long I'd been stuck.
And I swear I heard the Roomba cackling evilly as it moved into the next room...
GMail *is* better... much much better. it's quite possibly the best UI I've ever seen in a web browser. if you take a few minutes to figure out the shortcut keys, it's better than just about anything else out there. Yes, you can't format mail just yet, but still it is in beta.
it's fast, incredibly intuitive. I'm in love.
the only thing I didn't like was the lack of new mail notification, so I downloaded Pop Goes the GMail (windows only... one downside -- but I doubt its long before something like this comes along for other platforms) and it takes care of that for me.
In short I'm never going back to any other webmail service. It'll take me a lot to pry me away from GMail.
I can't imagine what this would actually add to the viewing experience. It's a novelty at best, and a distraction from the experience as it was originally intended at worse.
I remember going to see "Jaws 3D" when it came out when I was in high school. After the first floating fish went by and you got over the urge to reach out and try to grab it... well you had 2 more hours of that. woo hoo.
Who cares?
welcome our new nanobacteria overlords...
if only I had a 6nm can o' Duffs to present as a tribute.... Doh!
while the FA implies that Microsoft is somewhat neutral to this fellow's freelance updating, the software is still in "extended" support from MS.
It'll be interesting to see what happens the if they issue a 'critical' security update, and there is a conflict with Mr. Coskun's patch. The cynic in me says they'd almost *deliberately* make it incompatible... oops!
admittedly I didn't look at the site... but thinking about giant security blimps reminded me of the "guards"...
I was thinking they were going to make a black box to put people *in*... it seems that thing always survives the crash, so it only seems logical to make the entire plane/car out of the stuff...
what the article says is that they inspect the headers and IP addresses as well, if they get something they deem suspicious, they get a subpoena to get the rest of the message, then they can work on decrypting it...
I'm guessing they're not quite to the place where they are cracking codes on the fly... yet.
--Reality shows getting their own awards show
--"Mr. Toad's Wild Ride: The Motion Picture"
--Dogster
"if you can wade through the occasional story featuring difficult prose"
Are you referring to the book or your review?
From the article: "Slow vehicle speeds with frequent stops would signal traffic congestion, for instance."
uh... it could also signal that my Mom is at the wheel...
that's why I used 'data format' in quotes...
agreed, if you want to be picky it's not a format by itself, but XML as a framework for structuring data (to include DTDs, XSLTs, etc.).
The term 'XML' is used generically these days as reference to a particular way of structuring data as contrasted to other ways.
because its become what it was intended to become. A 'data format' that everyone (thereabouts) understands. More than just everyone, but most everything understands how to parse it (everything from a 'modern day systems' standpoint, not a 'my toaster' standpoint... though wait a few years...).
While I agree that there are no absolutes, why not go with the path of least resistance when it doesn't really matter? XML has become the path of least resistance *at a macro level*. it's universally accepted these days, so unless there's a compelling reason *not* to use it... use it.
The reason I say at a macro level, is that yes, on an individual project using XML may be a bit harder -- though most development platforms these days have trivialized the difficulty of implementation.
They already do, it's here
this is seriously not a troll...
I'm as happy as anyone to see this tool for MySQL, I've often wished for something as robust (or nearly so) as Enterprise Manager for MySQL, but I've not had the same experiences with EM crashing that you have.
I've used EM extensively (almost daily) since SQLServer 2K came out, and can't recall the last time it crashed... Sure, there are a few bugs that are annoying, but it's a pretty damn nice piece of software (along with SQL Server itself) for the price.
Sure there are places where you don't want to use it... use the appropriate tool, yada yada, but overall, I don't have any huge complaints.
Now that MySQL has a serious admin GUI, and when 5.0 is production (with Stored Procs and all) it truly will be ready for the enterprise.
huh?
if you can't indemnify 3rd parties, who the heck can you indemnify? That's the very definition of the word, to protect another party against damage or loss...
I'm not sure having Red Hat indemnify me or my company would give me the warm fuzzies anyway...
for indemnification to be meaningful you have to assume that the pockets behind it are deep enough to be able to actually pay out and protect you when (god forbid) the time comes.
Red Hat doesn't have enough of a track record for their promise to protect me to mean too much to me.
Yeah, replacing the ostensibly offending code is nice, but it won't get me off the hook if I've already been using something that has been found to be infringing.
With all that said you have to really believe that there is a reasonable shot of SCO succeeding for any of this to be terribly meaningful to you...
Some 32 million 18- to 34-year-old males constitute the mother lode for a vast array of marketers
wouldn't that be the *father* lode???
This new theory attempts to fill holes in the currently accepted concept of the "black hole".
but wouldn't any of these attempts just collapse into the singularity as well??
Then all you're left with is Vincent and Bob...
It'll be interesting to see how long it is before music download services become completely commoditized. They're already dangerously close to that now. The 'goods' they sell are roughly equivalent between services, the breadth of selection, and the restrictiveness of the DRM being the two areas of differentiation I can see.
Don't know how much the RIAA will let these guys loosen up the DRM, and the catalogs look pretty equivalent and will become increasingly so IMO, so all that's left is price.
I'm guessing Amazon will jump in soon as well. They've got the traffic to drive sales, all other things being equal.
It'll be interesting to see where the cost per song/album comes out. iTunes is promoting an upcoming promotion (don't think about that too much) with Pepsi, where some of the prizes are iTunes downloads. I don't know the specifics, but that certainly looks like it holds promise -- advertising subsidized downloads.
sounds vaguely familiar... oh yeah. Asimov already did this ;)
It's a terrific book, but don't expect it to resemble Stephenson's prior books in anything but ambition and length.
but you know what I always say... if it ain't Baroque, don't fix it!
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