Ok, in the article on linux.com, they say Penelope is NOT Eudora (although they are similar). However, on the download page, the header of the page is "Penelope releases", and the first item under that (presumably a Penelope release) is labelled "Eudora 8.0.0b1".
So, which is it? Are Penelope and Eudora the same thing or not?
Also, I hope this Penelope thing goes through the usual Mozilla trend of changing its name 4 or 5 times, because that name is just not doing it for me. Maybe they should just call it "Endora" since that's what every single person who called tech support about it in the old days called it anyway.
And why not? If the purpose is to recruit people to serve in tomorrow's army, they are doing themselves a great disservice by not including robots.
After all, as the Commandant of the great military academy Rommelwood told his graduating class:
The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots.
Not a bad idea, but I suspect when you get a bunch of big institutions involved, they're eventually going to try and make money off it, and then you end up with another big journal that charges people for access just like you have now.
Now, if he released the paper on the condition that no one ever charge for it, he has a case against OUP (for violating the license), but he's not being "denied access to his own paper"
The summary states that his license stipulates no commercial use. Charging anything for the paper beyond your own costs for providing it (a nominal bandwidth and storage fee, perhaps) is commercial use. On the face of it, OUP is violating the license.
If publishers are really contributing nothing to academic publishing, and just charge high prices and force you to sign away your rights (which I think is a fair characterization), here's a crazy idea: stop publishing through them! Set up your own journals and charge nothing or a token amount for access
That's a great theory, but then you get every scientist posting his research to his blog. In scientific circles, the idea of "peer-reviewed" research is very important. If you are not publishing in a well known and widely-read journal, you are not likely to get a whole lot of your peers to even read the research much less try to duplicate your results. Without duplication, scientific results are damn near useless.
Yes, it would be nice if no publicly funded worker could ever hold any exclusive IP in their intellectual works. However, this would mean less intellectual work production by them. It's a tradeoff like any other.
Most academic types do the research for its own sake, not necessarily to make money directly from it. These people tend to make money by writing books about their research, conducting lectures on it, and using it on their resumes to get nice tenured positions. It's usually the universities that make all the money selling it to private industry.
Why did OUP ever accept it if it were labled as CC?
I would be surprised if they even read the license at all.
"This rescues me from the shit," he says. I think he is about to become very familiar with another quote: "Out of the frying pan into the fire".
Now instead of the government accusing him of spying, he'll have a bunch of foreign governments pressuring his government to lock him up for spying. I don't think this guy really thought things through here.
I'm not sure what he was thinking when he decided that publishing the list would be the best way to draw the attention of the affected parties. Sure, calling 100 different embassies can be kind of a hassle, but he could just send out an email with a bunch of BCCs. I would assume he has an email address for each of them.
Maybe this guy just doesn't have the same sense of self preservation that I do, but in my work I tend to avoid doing things that have the potential to cause a major international incident.
I think the issue is that they were lying about how much it would cost (or even how possible it was) to get it from some other source.
I agree with you that it's a worthwhile convenience, although 30 bucks seems a little steep to me. I'm not at all opposed to little timesaving addons like this being charged for though.
When I bought my PC parts from Fry's, one of the services they offered was to hook my CPU, heatsink, fan, motherboard, and RAM together to make sure it all worked together. Cost 12 bucks. I took them up on it not because I thought they wouldn't work, but because it meant Fry's would be seating the CPU and putting the heatsink on for me, which is usually the part of building a PC where you're most likely to break stuff.
Yah, and software used to come with handy instruction manuals too, but now you're lucky if you get a scrap of paper with a website address on it. It's all about squeezing every last cent of profit out of your product. It's no longer about how you can make the best product for your customers, it's about how many corners you can cut before people just stop buying from you. As it turns out, consumers will put up with a lot of garbage like this before they'll even consider not buying.
Vista SP1 means fresh material to pick on Microsoft for. So now, instead of having a year of the same old "Vista sucks and is failing" articles on Slashdot day after day, we'll have fresh new material like "Vista SP1 sucks and is failing."
I remember this because I worked for the company that was originally supposed to provide the wireless (Usurf America). As it turns out, that company is a bunch of crooks.
I used to work at an ISP called Cyberhighway before it got bought out by Usurf. They sold the owners of the ISP on the deal by saying they were a well-funded public company (their shares were at around 11 bucks then, now they are at 2.5 cents) and they were going to take the ISP national. It turned out that what Usurf really wanted was Cyberhighway's wireless technology, as Cyberhighway at the time sold wireless internet using antennae up on mountains (I forget what the actual technology was, this was back in 1999).
Anyway, as soon as Usurf came in they (falsely) accused the old management of violating their nondisclosure agreements and fired them all. I quit soon after that, but from what I'm told they then literally stopped paying the bills at the ISP, and eventually the ISP was forced into bankruptcy by its creditors. Meanwhile, Usurf was trying to push municipal wireless to anyone who would listen.
For months, Usurf would issue press releases about the great deals they were signing with a bunch of cities, none of which ever really materialized. Now, they've relocated to Denver, renamed the company, and started selling phone and internet access to apartment complexes. I am continually amazed at how they've managed to remain a going concern, given that from what I can tell, they've pretty much been losing money nonstop for years and have managed to do very little actual revenue-generating business.
I'm not sure if any of the other companies Rio Rancho tried to get wireless from were this shady, but it's indicative of their city council's inability to conduct basic due diligence.
For business content, yah, suing them might help. For personal stuff, though, not so much. Aside from the obvious identity theft targets like your SSN, it's hard to put a monetary value on information about your personal life.
Just because something collapsed doesn't mean it was built shoddily by the Mafia because of corruption in the local government. The Minneapolis bridge was 40 years old, and all indications are that it was built using the best practices, designs, and materials available at that time. If anything, it was the ongoing inspections that didn't take into account the load the bridge was actually being subjected to (likely much higher than it was originally designed for) in their calculations of what needed to be replaced, rather than the way the bridge was built to begin with, that are more at fault here. It's difficult to blame the builders or engineers if they were using the best techniques and materials available to them at the time of construction.
Maybe they'll find some evidence later that the thing was made out of mostly gingerbread and popsicle sticks, but I haven't seen anything to suggest that so far. Do you have evidence that you'd like to share with us regarding that bridge? Or were you just here to spread conspiracy theories?
The Big Dig thing was much more clearly an instance of shoddy work, since it fell right after it was constructed, not 40 years down the line.
The summary says any content that is intended to be available to the public, which email pretty much never is.
Even so, I try to avoid using Google or any other online service to host anything of a particularly personal (or business critical) nature. I just don't trust some entity I have no control over to host these sorts of things. Sure, if they screw with my data I may have legal recourse, but whatever they did to my data is already done and likely irreversible, so being able to sue them about it is not much of a consolation.
No, but I sure would like to know which of the movies they rate have particularly graphic sex scenes so I can be sure and watch^H^H^H^H^Havoid watching them when they come out.
I doubt if someone in a developing country was too poor to own a watch he would be spending his money calling long distance to California, where the service is being stopped, to get the time of day.
the power supply landscape may change significantly in the next decade or so.
I hope you're right. I want to be able to supply all the power I need (maybe even enough to charge up my efficient electric car and run my entire household) with solar power I collect using my own solar arrays. I'd also like to be able to do this on a standard family home without covering my entire lawn with panels. However, I've been waiting for that for at least 20 years, and it's always been about 10 years away, so I'm not holding my breath.
It's even funnier than that. According to the article, Acer only bought Gateway because Lenovo beat them to their first buyout target: Packard Bell!
So apparently their goal was to buy the shittiest computer company in existence, but they were stymied in that goal so they bought the second shittiest. Personally, I was surprised to see that both Packard Bell and Gateway still existed, but I guess when the CEO of Acer finds extra change in his couch cushions, he has to spend it on something.
At this point in a Presidency, the President is usually concerned with his legacy, and impeachment tends to put an indelible stain on your legacy. Even if there is no conviction, the history books will forever list him as a president who was impeached. The Republican Congress's constant investigations ultimately leading up to Clinton's impeachment did an excellent job of tarnishing his legacy.
We won't know how history will view Clinton's presidency in 50 or 100 years, but given that he was a peace-time President (other than the usual minor military activities), and given that he presided over a time of general prosperity, and given that history books tend to focus on conflict and strife, it's probable he will eventually be known only as a caretaker president who got impeached.
Of course, it seems like Bush is not concerned with his legacy at all these days, and even if he was his legacy is likely to be defined by the biggest military blunder since Vietnam, so impeachment without conviction may not really affect him at all.
Holy crap, the Weekly World News is gone?! What kind of God would allow that to happen?
Screw Sysadmin magazine, civilized society cannot survive without the sheer awesomeness of the Weekly World News. Where will I go for my weekly Batboy update now? Oh, the injustice of it all!
sysadmin magazine was a good idea in theory, and I have read a few of their (print) issues, but it always seemed like they were shooting for too much of a novice crowd. They did highlight some interesting things, but the articles were rarely very in-depth, and the code snippets were usually pretty basic. I had contemplated getting a subscription a few times, but it seemed like 90% of any issue would be basic stuff I already knew or could easily figure out on my own. A junior sysadmin may be able to learn a lot from the magazine, but probably not anyone at a higher level than that.
For a magazine that was supposed to be geared toward professional sysadmins, I would have liked to see some more hard-core technical content, including some actual code magic rather than "magic" that anyone with experience in the language would find very basic. I would have rather seen more kernel tuning and less "sorting your calendar in PHP" crap.
Maybe they were hitting at exactly the wrong spot: their focus was too narrow to be an overview type of magazine, but it was too broad to really get into the nitty gritty of any one thing.
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Ok, in the article on linux.com, they say Penelope is NOT Eudora (although they are similar). However, on the download page, the header of the page is "Penelope releases", and the first item under that (presumably a Penelope release) is labelled "Eudora 8.0.0b1".
So, which is it? Are Penelope and Eudora the same thing or not?
Also, I hope this Penelope thing goes through the usual Mozilla trend of changing its name 4 or 5 times, because that name is just not doing it for me. Maybe they should just call it "Endora" since that's what every single person who called tech support about it in the old days called it anyway.
Lindsay Lohan did what? Oh, that girl is out of control!
What were we talking about again?
After all, as the Commandant of the great military academy Rommelwood told his graduating class: The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots.
Not a bad idea, but I suspect when you get a bunch of big institutions involved, they're eventually going to try and make money off it, and then you end up with another big journal that charges people for access just like you have now.
The summary states that his license stipulates no commercial use. Charging anything for the paper beyond your own costs for providing it (a nominal bandwidth and storage fee, perhaps) is commercial use. On the face of it, OUP is violating the license.
That's a great theory, but then you get every scientist posting his research to his blog. In scientific circles, the idea of "peer-reviewed" research is very important. If you are not publishing in a well known and widely-read journal, you are not likely to get a whole lot of your peers to even read the research much less try to duplicate your results. Without duplication, scientific results are damn near useless.
Most academic types do the research for its own sake, not necessarily to make money directly from it. These people tend to make money by writing books about their research, conducting lectures on it, and using it on their resumes to get nice tenured positions. It's usually the universities that make all the money selling it to private industry.
I would be surprised if they even read the license at all.
If you have sex with your own clone, is that still incest?
"This rescues me from the shit," he says. I think he is about to become very familiar with another quote: "Out of the frying pan into the fire".
Now instead of the government accusing him of spying, he'll have a bunch of foreign governments pressuring his government to lock him up for spying. I don't think this guy really thought things through here.
I'm not sure what he was thinking when he decided that publishing the list would be the best way to draw the attention of the affected parties. Sure, calling 100 different embassies can be kind of a hassle, but he could just send out an email with a bunch of BCCs. I would assume he has an email address for each of them.
Maybe this guy just doesn't have the same sense of self preservation that I do, but in my work I tend to avoid doing things that have the potential to cause a major international incident.
I think the issue is that they were lying about how much it would cost (or even how possible it was) to get it from some other source.
I agree with you that it's a worthwhile convenience, although 30 bucks seems a little steep to me. I'm not at all opposed to little timesaving addons like this being charged for though.
When I bought my PC parts from Fry's, one of the services they offered was to hook my CPU, heatsink, fan, motherboard, and RAM together to make sure it all worked together. Cost 12 bucks. I took them up on it not because I thought they wouldn't work, but because it meant Fry's would be seating the CPU and putting the heatsink on for me, which is usually the part of building a PC where you're most likely to break stuff.
Yah, and software used to come with handy instruction manuals too, but now you're lucky if you get a scrap of paper with a website address on it. It's all about squeezing every last cent of profit out of your product. It's no longer about how you can make the best product for your customers, it's about how many corners you can cut before people just stop buying from you. As it turns out, consumers will put up with a lot of garbage like this before they'll even consider not buying.
I think I speak for all Slashdotters when I say this is what I've been waiting my whole life (or at least since age 13) for.
Vista SP1 means fresh material to pick on Microsoft for. So now, instead of having a year of the same old "Vista sucks and is failing" articles on Slashdot day after day, we'll have fresh new material like "Vista SP1 sucks and is failing."
I remember this because I worked for the company that was originally supposed to provide the wireless (Usurf America). As it turns out, that company is a bunch of crooks.
I used to work at an ISP called Cyberhighway before it got bought out by Usurf. They sold the owners of the ISP on the deal by saying they were a well-funded public company (their shares were at around 11 bucks then, now they are at 2.5 cents) and they were going to take the ISP national. It turned out that what Usurf really wanted was Cyberhighway's wireless technology, as Cyberhighway at the time sold wireless internet using antennae up on mountains (I forget what the actual technology was, this was back in 1999).
Anyway, as soon as Usurf came in they (falsely) accused the old management of violating their nondisclosure agreements and fired them all. I quit soon after that, but from what I'm told they then literally stopped paying the bills at the ISP, and eventually the ISP was forced into bankruptcy by its creditors. Meanwhile, Usurf was trying to push municipal wireless to anyone who would listen.
For months, Usurf would issue press releases about the great deals they were signing with a bunch of cities, none of which ever really materialized. Now, they've relocated to Denver, renamed the company, and started selling phone and internet access to apartment complexes. I am continually amazed at how they've managed to remain a going concern, given that from what I can tell, they've pretty much been losing money nonstop for years and have managed to do very little actual revenue-generating business.
I'm not sure if any of the other companies Rio Rancho tried to get wireless from were this shady, but it's indicative of their city council's inability to conduct basic due diligence.
If the intention is to fix everything that's wrong with Vista, I'm impressed they got it all into only 1 GB.
I look forward to this much-needed update being released in November 2011.
For business content, yah, suing them might help. For personal stuff, though, not so much. Aside from the obvious identity theft targets like your SSN, it's hard to put a monetary value on information about your personal life.
Just because something collapsed doesn't mean it was built shoddily by the Mafia because of corruption in the local government. The Minneapolis bridge was 40 years old, and all indications are that it was built using the best practices, designs, and materials available at that time. If anything, it was the ongoing inspections that didn't take into account the load the bridge was actually being subjected to (likely much higher than it was originally designed for) in their calculations of what needed to be replaced, rather than the way the bridge was built to begin with, that are more at fault here. It's difficult to blame the builders or engineers if they were using the best techniques and materials available to them at the time of construction.
Maybe they'll find some evidence later that the thing was made out of mostly gingerbread and popsicle sticks, but I haven't seen anything to suggest that so far. Do you have evidence that you'd like to share with us regarding that bridge? Or were you just here to spread conspiracy theories?
The Big Dig thing was much more clearly an instance of shoddy work, since it fell right after it was constructed, not 40 years down the line.
The summary says any content that is intended to be available to the public, which email pretty much never is.
Even so, I try to avoid using Google or any other online service to host anything of a particularly personal (or business critical) nature. I just don't trust some entity I have no control over to host these sorts of things. Sure, if they screw with my data I may have legal recourse, but whatever they did to my data is already done and likely irreversible, so being able to sue them about it is not much of a consolation.
No, but I sure would like to know which of the movies they rate have particularly graphic sex scenes so I can be sure and watch^H^H^H^H^Havoid watching them when they come out.
I doubt if someone in a developing country was too poor to own a watch he would be spending his money calling long distance to California, where the service is being stopped, to get the time of day.
the power supply landscape may change significantly in the next decade or so.
I hope you're right. I want to be able to supply all the power I need (maybe even enough to charge up my efficient electric car and run my entire household) with solar power I collect using my own solar arrays. I'd also like to be able to do this on a standard family home without covering my entire lawn with panels. However, I've been waiting for that for at least 20 years, and it's always been about 10 years away, so I'm not holding my breath.
It's even funnier than that. According to the article, Acer only bought Gateway because Lenovo beat them to their first buyout target: Packard Bell!
So apparently their goal was to buy the shittiest computer company in existence, but they were stymied in that goal so they bought the second shittiest. Personally, I was surprised to see that both Packard Bell and Gateway still existed, but I guess when the CEO of Acer finds extra change in his couch cushions, he has to spend it on something.
At this point in a Presidency, the President is usually concerned with his legacy, and impeachment tends to put an indelible stain on your legacy. Even if there is no conviction, the history books will forever list him as a president who was impeached. The Republican Congress's constant investigations ultimately leading up to Clinton's impeachment did an excellent job of tarnishing his legacy.
We won't know how history will view Clinton's presidency in 50 or 100 years, but given that he was a peace-time President (other than the usual minor military activities), and given that he presided over a time of general prosperity, and given that history books tend to focus on conflict and strife, it's probable he will eventually be known only as a caretaker president who got impeached.
Of course, it seems like Bush is not concerned with his legacy at all these days, and even if he was his legacy is likely to be defined by the biggest military blunder since Vietnam, so impeachment without conviction may not really affect him at all.
Holy crap, the Weekly World News is gone?! What kind of God would allow that to happen?
Screw Sysadmin magazine, civilized society cannot survive without the sheer awesomeness of the Weekly World News. Where will I go for my weekly Batboy update now? Oh, the injustice of it all!
sysadmin magazine was a good idea in theory, and I have read a few of their (print) issues, but it always seemed like they were shooting for too much of a novice crowd. They did highlight some interesting things, but the articles were rarely very in-depth, and the code snippets were usually pretty basic. I had contemplated getting a subscription a few times, but it seemed like 90% of any issue would be basic stuff I already knew or could easily figure out on my own. A junior sysadmin may be able to learn a lot from the magazine, but probably not anyone at a higher level than that.
For a magazine that was supposed to be geared toward professional sysadmins, I would have liked to see some more hard-core technical content, including some actual code magic rather than "magic" that anyone with experience in the language would find very basic. I would have rather seen more kernel tuning and less "sorting your calendar in PHP" crap.
Maybe they were hitting at exactly the wrong spot: their focus was too narrow to be an overview type of magazine, but it was too broad to really get into the nitty gritty of any one thing.