You can't enter text, so you can't input data from the field to be used later. It doesn't have wireless so you cant use it as a GUI interface to an existing system.
No serious input + no interface to larger system = glorified storage device with a pretty screen.
I would move that a diagnosis of IE vs. Mozilla on a site like Slashdot might not be the best test of marketshare. Many people access Slashdot from the office, where they are more likely to use IE because it is part of the base software package. Many workplaces, like mine, have rules against downloading and running software other than what has been installed on the system by the sysadmin.
That would make it a better test site, since it would measure which browsers people are actually using, and not which browser people like to say they are using.
Slashdot would not make a good site to measure by, since its readership is not a random sample of internet users as a whole.
The decision finds that the Wiretap Act does not cover interception of communications where the communications are being stored, not transmitted.
That's nice. So now they can use this precedent to listen to your voicemails.
And if we move to VoIP on the telecom's backbone, then they can listen to your conversations... since it is being stored in the router's buffers alone the way.
If that's the case, and assuming this developer actually didn't have any legal rights to this code, it seems to be like Google shouldn't be liable unless this company can prove they used the code knowing it was swiped
IANAL
Sure they should. Google profits from the actions of its employees, so Google should be held accountable for the actions of its employees. It isn't fair to society to let a company profit from employee actions, but not be held liable for them.
If Google was a shipping company, and one of their trucks crashed into somebody's house, Google would be held responsible for the damage, even though it resulted for the sole actions of one of its employees.
When something is done in a new and more efficient way then in a sense, society benefits. However, those who really benefit are 'owning' segment of the population, not the 'workers.'
Just a comment on something that always stuck with me from my two first-year economics classes:
The purpose of the economy is to serve the consumer. Not the producer. Not the worker. Any attempt to make it serve something other than the consumer is counter-productive, and will ultimately fail the economy in the long run.
WordPerfect 5.1 was a god-send for its time. 6 was okay, 7 was a dog, but it was all fixed in 8. WP has continued on steadily, but hasn't bloated since 8. WP 10 (which I currently use) has some great new features (print to PDF), but it's basically the same as 8. The file format is even compatible all the way back to WP 6.
IMHO, WP 8 was an awesome product. It just worked. There were no constant layout glitches, I never had to fight it to get what I wanted, the interface was clean, there were well-know hot-keys for just about everything, and most of all, its system requirements didn't increase significantly at each release. It runs smooth and fast. And it was significantly cheaper than Word.
I'm incredibly intense and concentrated, yet I often become bored of specific projects in a few months.
The thing that will determine if you suceed in life is your ability to focus for long periods of time. In school, and in life, you will have to focus on long projects to make anything. You will have to work on them after you loose the initial excitement. You will have to be able to work through frustration. You will be have to work on them after your boss / instructor / assignment makes them not fun anymore. In the real world, you will not be able to "become bored of specific projects in a few months."
You must find something that you will love enough to be able to work through the tough times, knowing that you will be able to enjoy it again shortly, after the crunch. Your ability to suceed depends on finding something that you can enjoy -- the people that you compete with will. They will have much more stamina than you because they enjoy it so much. If you cant enjoy the lows along with the highs, you won't be able to compete.
Surely the same institution that came up with a distributed computing software project such as Folding@Home can handle a menial financial and record-keeping software project. If they made their own, using the GPL, then other universities could adopt it as well, and contribute to its development.
Admin would probably refuse to use it. At the University of Waterloo, they used to have an absolutely unusable dumb-terminal based system for posting co-op jobs. The students (who are renound at the undergrad level) wrote the school a new system and presented it to admininstration... at least twice... that is, wrote two different replacements. Admin didn't take either of them. They ended up taking a system from people-soft that was late and terrible to use. Administration has no respect for the work product created by their own students.
Some people think that just because they are given the blank check (no caps set) they should be able to take as much as they wanted..... Take as much as you want, but when other people can't get their fair share, you're taking too much.
You should. If a product or service is advertised or sold as "unlimited," then it should be unlimited. Telcos aren't advertising usage limits, in fact, they are usually advertising "no limits... unlimited." That means "no limits... unlimited," not "your limit is 1 standard deviation from average" or "2 GB per month." Any attempts to limit the use of an unlimited service is false advertising and a breach of contract.
If the telcos want to impose limits to make their business models better, then they need to stop advertising that their service is "unlimited."
As an aside, Bell's Sympatico tried to place usage limits of 2 GB per month (I think) on their DSL services two or three years ago, but they had to remove it because their major competitor Roger's never matched them, and customers started leaving. I believe that both companies have stopped advertising "unlimited" as their major product differentiator though.
Thus, back to the analogy that the wind or a passing truck can plant patented property on my land against my will. Now, I can be sued for the licensing fees... for mere possession! Why should I have to weed out the tares from the wheat when I did absolutely nothing to bring your patented possession on my land, and moreover, I can't seem to be able to do anything to prevent it, short of retiring my land!...
I have to wonder, could Schmeiser have won if he had a multi-million dollar legal team? Given how unjust the ruling is, it seems likely that he could have had a better legal team. I'm guessing that he had a single lawyer that probably wasn't the best one to take on Monsanto.
Its worth noting that the website says that he intends to wait for the patent issue to be resolved in court before he presses his own lawsuit.
"Schmeiser's lawsuit against Monsanto won't be dealt with until the original lawsuit has been resolved. "We want to have the patent infringement hearings run their course, then we'll pursue this," said Schmeiser's lawyer Terry Zakreski."
It's not clear if he still intends to press his lawsuit against Monsanto now that the patent verdict turned out unfavorable; somehow I doubt it.
IANAL
On the contrary, since Monsanto has proven that it is a tort to have possesion of the seeds, Schmeiser can sue Monsanto for negligence in allowing his field to become contaminated by them.
Monsanto's genes clearly contaminated his crop, which caused financial harm. The only other factors are to determine if Monsanto owed him a duty of care, and if they breached that duty. Since the result was a destroyed crop, the courts would probably hold Monsanto to a strict liability standard, where they automatically owe farmers a duty of care, and must take all measures to meet that duty.
The purpose of Canadian content legislation is to protect Canadian cultural industries. Given the size and monopolistic power of US cultural industries (TV, movies, music publishing, etc.) it is not likely that many Canadian sources could survive against them. Cancon is enacted to make sure that Canadian sources of culture remain available to Canadians. It does not "ban" foriegn content, but ensures that some percentage of content available is Canadian.
Open-source software does lack documentation geared towards the "common user". The documentation that is out there always seems to only understood by the geek.
It's been my experience that open-source software documentation can only be understood if you already know how to use the product. I have had huge dificulties trying to get started using a piece of software (with no previous experience) from the docs. Once I figure it out, the docs serve as a good reference, but they are useless as "getting started" guides, which is what most new users will need.
"The guys who write the tools would not consider themselves to be criminals by any measure," he said, "but the tools are also being picked up by people with criminal intent."
I suppose that Windows has never been used by a criminal or for criminal intent.
the US military is creating a second Earth.... the emphasis in the artificial Earth will be on human interaction rather than conflicts involving lots of military hardware.
Riiiiiight. Why would the military whant to model the earth for combat training? It's clearly for human interaction. Or did they mean squad-level interactions?
Then I took it with me this summer to Malaysia and Singapore. That is when I found it was also crippled. The only frequency it would work on was the N.American 1900 band. When I got back I contacted VoiceStream and Motorola to ask what it would take to restore the phone to allow it so work with the frequencies it was advertised as being capable of. The response was that as VoiceStream ordered these with only 1900 capability the rest was "turned off" in the ROM version shipped to VoiceStream.
Then file a complaint for false advertising.
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The bad part of all of this is that they don't have dates for availability in North America or Europe
From i4u: On May 15th Sony starts selling the SCPH 50000 model of the PS2 in Japan. The biggest improvement is the support of DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R und DVD+RW. DVD-RAM. Additionally the annoying Fan noise was reduced significantly (30%). The TV Output supports progressive scan now for better screen quality on high-end TV-Sets. The updated remote control (SCPH-10420) features an eject button and can also power down the console. No date available for the US release of the SCPH 50000. In Japan it will sell for 25,000yen.
The conspiracy theorists believe that Microsoft intentionally broke their Java implementations. When an end user downloaded a Java app that failed to work, they would exclaim "stupid Java" rather than "stupid Microsoft Java VM." They would then tell everyone that "Java sucks." Most end users are not sophisticated enough to switch to Sun's implementation.
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What's the target market?
You can't enter text, so you can't input data from the field to be used later. It doesn't have wireless so you cant use it as a GUI interface to an existing system.
No serious input + no interface to larger system = glorified storage device with a pretty screen.
I would move that a diagnosis of IE vs. Mozilla on a site like Slashdot might not be the best test of marketshare. Many people access Slashdot from the office, where they are more likely to use IE because it is part of the base software package. Many workplaces, like mine, have rules against downloading and running software other than what has been installed on the system by the sysadmin.
That would make it a better test site, since it would measure which browsers people are actually using, and not which browser people like to say they are using.
Slashdot would not make a good site to measure by, since its readership is not a random sample of internet users as a whole.
The decision finds that the Wiretap Act does not cover interception of communications where the communications are being stored, not transmitted.
That's nice. So now they can use this precedent to listen to your voicemails.
And if we move to VoIP on the telecom's backbone, then they can listen to your conversations... since it is being stored in the router's buffers alone the way.
If that's the case, and assuming this developer actually didn't have any legal rights to this code, it seems to be like Google shouldn't be liable unless this company can prove they used the code knowing it was swiped
IANAL
Sure they should. Google profits from the actions of its employees, so Google should be held accountable for the actions of its employees. It isn't fair to society to let a company profit from employee actions, but not be held liable for them.
If Google was a shipping company, and one of their trucks crashed into somebody's house, Google would be held responsible for the damage, even though it resulted for the sole actions of one of its employees.
The principle is reffered to as vicarious liability.
It is Google's responsibility to ensure that the actions of its employees are legal. It is a cost of doing business.
When something is done in a new and more efficient way then in a sense, society benefits. However, those who really benefit are 'owning' segment of the population, not the 'workers.'
Just a comment on something that always stuck with me from my two first-year economics classes:
The purpose of the economy is to serve the consumer. Not the producer. Not the worker. Any attempt to make it serve something other than the consumer is counter-productive, and will ultimately fail the economy in the long run.
I always preferred WordPerfect to Word.
WordPerfect 5.1 was a god-send for its time. 6 was okay, 7 was a dog, but it was all fixed in 8. WP has continued on steadily, but hasn't bloated since 8. WP 10 (which I currently use) has some great new features (print to PDF), but it's basically the same as 8. The file format is even compatible all the way back to WP 6.
IMHO, WP 8 was an awesome product. It just worked. There were no constant layout glitches, I never had to fight it to get what I wanted, the interface was clean, there were well-know hot-keys for just about everything, and most of all, its system requirements didn't increase significantly at each release. It runs smooth and fast. And it was significantly cheaper than Word.
-- This post spellchecked by WordPerfect 10 --
I'm incredibly intense and concentrated, yet I often become bored of specific projects in a few months.
The thing that will determine if you suceed in life is your ability to focus for long periods of time. In school, and in life, you will have to focus on long projects to make anything. You will have to work on them after you loose the initial excitement. You will have to be able to work through frustration. You will be have to work on them after your boss / instructor / assignment makes them not fun anymore. In the real world, you will not be able to "become bored of specific projects in a few months."
You must find something that you will love enough to be able to work through the tough times, knowing that you will be able to enjoy it again shortly, after the crunch. Your ability to suceed depends on finding something that you can enjoy -- the people that you compete with will. They will have much more stamina than you because they enjoy it so much. If you cant enjoy the lows along with the highs, you won't be able to compete.
Surely the same institution that came up with a distributed computing software project such as Folding@Home can handle a menial financial and record-keeping software project. If they made their own, using the GPL, then other universities could adopt it as well, and contribute to its development.
Admin would probably refuse to use it. At the University of Waterloo, they used to have an absolutely unusable dumb-terminal based system for posting co-op jobs. The students (who are renound at the undergrad level) wrote the school a new system and presented it to admininstration... at least twice... that is, wrote two different replacements. Admin didn't take either of them. They ended up taking a system from people-soft that was late and terrible to use. Administration has no respect for the work product created by their own students.
Some people think that just because they are given the blank check (no caps set) they should be able to take as much as they wanted. .... Take as much as you want, but when other people can't get their fair share, you're taking too much.
You should. If a product or service is advertised or sold as "unlimited," then it should be unlimited. Telcos aren't advertising usage limits, in fact, they are usually advertising "no limits... unlimited." That means "no limits... unlimited," not "your limit is 1 standard deviation from average" or "2 GB per month." Any attempts to limit the use of an unlimited service is false advertising and a breach of contract.
If the telcos want to impose limits to make their business models better, then they need to stop advertising that their service is "unlimited."
As an aside, Bell's Sympatico tried to place usage limits of 2 GB per month (I think) on their DSL services two or three years ago, but they had to remove it because their major competitor Roger's never matched them, and customers started leaving. I believe that both companies have stopped advertising "unlimited" as their major product differentiator though.
Thus, back to the analogy that the wind or a passing truck can plant patented property on my land against my will. Now, I can be sued for the licensing fees... for mere possession! Why should I have to weed out the tares from the wheat when I did absolutely nothing to bring your patented possession on my land, and moreover, I can't seem to be able to do anything to prevent it, short of retiring my land! ...
I have to wonder, could Schmeiser have won if he had a multi-million dollar legal team? Given how unjust the ruling is, it seems likely that he could have had a better legal team. I'm guessing that he had a single lawyer that probably wasn't the best one to take on Monsanto.
Its worth noting that the website says that he intends to wait for the patent issue to be resolved in court before he presses his own lawsuit.
"Schmeiser's lawsuit against Monsanto won't be dealt with until the original lawsuit has been resolved. "We want to have the patent infringement hearings run their course, then we'll pursue this," said Schmeiser's lawyer Terry Zakreski."
It's not clear if he still intends to press his lawsuit against Monsanto now that the patent verdict turned out unfavorable; somehow I doubt it.
IANAL
On the contrary, since Monsanto has proven that it is a tort to have possesion of the seeds, Schmeiser can sue Monsanto for negligence in allowing his field to become contaminated by them.
Monsanto's genes clearly contaminated his crop, which caused financial harm. The only other factors are to determine if Monsanto owed him a duty of care, and if they breached that duty. Since the result was a destroyed crop, the courts would probably hold Monsanto to a strict liability standard, where they automatically owe farmers a duty of care, and must take all measures to meet that duty.
the gaming industry is in the midst of a crisis of innovation
Two words: online gaming
If we continue down the same path as we have in the past, people may become tired of gaming
In economics they call this Diminishing Marginal Utility. The more you consume something, the less gain you experience from consuming one more unit of that thing. To combat this, marketers need to offer you something novel. I don't know why anyone would think that video-games are imune to this...
The purpose of Canadian content legislation is to protect Canadian cultural industries. Given the size and monopolistic power of US cultural industries (TV, movies, music publishing, etc.) it is not likely that many Canadian sources could survive against them. Cancon is enacted to make sure that Canadian sources of culture remain available to Canadians. It does not "ban" foriegn content, but ensures that some percentage of content available is Canadian.
Canadian Content
Open-source software does lack documentation geared towards the "common user". The documentation that is out there always seems to only understood by the geek.
It's been my experience that open-source software documentation can only be understood if you already know how to use the product. I have had huge dificulties trying to get started using a piece of software (with no previous experience) from the docs. Once I figure it out, the docs serve as a good reference, but they are useless as "getting started" guides, which is what most new users will need.
"The guys who write the tools would not consider themselves to be criminals by any measure," he said, "but the tools are also being picked up by people with criminal intent."
I suppose that Windows has never been used by a criminal or for criminal intent.
the US military is creating a second Earth.... the emphasis in the artificial Earth will be on human interaction rather than conflicts involving lots of military hardware.
Riiiiiight. Why would the military whant to model the earth for combat training? It's clearly for human interaction. Or did they mean squad-level interactions?
...in 5 to 10 years.
Yes, there are a zillion sites that already have the finished forecast, but this is Slashdot. We don't need no stinkin' forecasters!
Find a problem that has already been solved, and re-solve it.
So is a Design Pattern just a clearly defined common problem and a general, language-independent, algorithm for solving the problem?
Remove "clearly defined." Sometimes moving from the problem to the pattern is not clear, but going from the pattern to the problem should be clear.
Change "algorithm" to "model."
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Then I took it with me this summer to Malaysia and Singapore. That is when I found it was also crippled. The only frequency it would work on was the N.American 1900 band.
When I got back I contacted VoiceStream and Motorola to ask what it would take to restore the phone to allow it so work with the frequencies it was advertised as being capable of.
The response was that as VoiceStream ordered these with only 1900 capability the rest was "turned off" in the ROM version shipped to VoiceStream.
Then file a complaint for false advertising.
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The bad part of all of this is that they don't have dates for availability in North America or Europe
From i4u:
On May 15th Sony starts selling the SCPH 50000 model of the PS2 in Japan. The biggest improvement is the support of DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R und DVD+RW. DVD-RAM. Additionally the annoying Fan noise was reduced significantly (30%). The TV Output supports progressive scan now for better screen quality on high-end TV-Sets. The updated remote control (SCPH-10420) features an eject button and can also power down the console. No date available for the US release of the SCPH 50000. In Japan it will sell for 25,000yen.
The conspiracy theorists believe that Microsoft intentionally broke their Java implementations. When an end user downloaded a Java app that failed to work, they would exclaim "stupid Java" rather than "stupid Microsoft Java VM." They would then tell everyone that "Java sucks." Most end users are not sophisticated enough to switch to Sun's implementation.
IANAReal Computer Scientist, but aren't all current microprocessors and computers Turing machines?
Not really, they don't have infinite storage capacity, so they are finite state machines. They just have a very large number of states.
My palm has crashed twice in the last 4 years... once because the battery died.
I would suspect that many bots convert % symbols now. It would only take a pass through a standard URL encode/decode function.
There are better obsfucators available.