At least here in Finland, AFAIK, Red Bull, Battery, Jolt and others have less caffeine than their US counterparts. For example, 1 can of Jolt contains caffeine only equal to 1 cup of coffee, and if I am not completely mistaken, Red Bull and Battery are somewhere on the same levels. Of course, there's also taurine and other chemicals that might react with alcohol (I think those guys in Sweden were boozing at well at that moment)
While the idea in general sounds pretty reasonable (paying the content providers, instead of all the money going to mere handlers), I have some serious doubt that this isn't going to happen, not at least in a large scale. There are 2 reasons:
1: End-Users aren't willing to pay a single cent more than they are used to
2: I hardly see any reason that ISP's would like to share their income, they'll rather declare those sites pay-sites and make some system that only those who want to get on those sites and pay for it, get to see it. And that means huge drop on visitor count. Most probably there will always be viable, free alternative for every single news-site.
I think this is caused at least partly by the fact, that the Internet has always been (more or less) "free". Now when somebody tries to get some profit on his/her efforts, for no matter how low price, everybody gets the mental image of a "pay site", which resides right next to the mental image of "bad". IMHO the only way to get people familiar with pay-for-whatever over the net, is to make the transfer REALLY simple, fast and easy.
Darren Reed raises some good points on his behalf. If one wants to create a piece of software, and then give it to the open source community, nobody should go to tell him that he should release it under some particular license. All Reed wants to do is to make sure that he holds the strings in IPFilter development. After all, it is *his* software, although available for everybody without fee. And it is under *his* jurisdiction, which license does he want to release it under, not/. community or even Theo. After all, we didn't pay for him to do IPFilter, we really aren't in the position to complain. If he wants to give it free to everyone, we should be thankful.
(This is just my $0.02, don't get all hysterical on my heretic opinions, I'm way too tired to think straight)
Hopefully this will make all the coders think twice before they change the licence agreements on their software. Looks like that in 2 yrs or so, when somebody mentions ipf, everybody would associate it with OpenIPF, quite the same like ssh=OpenSSH.
Quote: A follow-up to the ACMF and ICAN is Antiproton Initiated Microfission/fusion (AIM) and AIMStar.
First of all, AOL will sue their asses for trademark dilution and then RIAA for 'possible' copyright infringement. RIAA goes space!
And, then of course Aimster for using confusingly similar trademark.
...that Douglas Adams' official website doesn't have a word on his death. IMHO it quite well demonstrates the problem with 90% of all websites, they don't keep them up-to-date. Altough sad incident, the webmasters should realize that this kind of event will automatically create a busy day for the author's official website, and if the website is out-of-date, it kind of destroys any kind of credibility. But on the topic itself, sad. just sad.
"Reports state that Sony has violated the GPL. The whole Slashdot community immediately stood up to protest, then sat back down, panting heavily."
(Adapted from Penny-Arcade)
(Evil Music Industry Spy): OK you little pirate scum, what's the password?
(Innocent College Student): ********, sir.
(Evil Music Industry Spy): Hmm, only GPL'd software here, no MP3's in here. Let's move on. Sorry to bother you.
(Innocent College Pirate^H^H^H^H^H^H Student): Oh, No Problem (evil grin)
Now everybody and their mother will start screaming about NSA hiding "backdoors" to PGP. Remember, you being a paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
Yeah, freeload advertising sucks but what sucks even more is that they aren't even prepared for their self-induced/.-effect. Their web site is dead. Like they didn't see that coming? Oh puh-lease. If you want your fancy nerd-attracting site to be advertised in/., you could even try to keep your site up for that. sheesh.
Here at University of Oulu they teach quite a lot of programming in Theoretical Physics, so they can code their own programs for scientific calculations etc. It might be because it's hard to get "normal" CS people to work for "non-business" projects.
I am currently studying at the Department of Information Processing Science(TOL) in the Faculty of Science at University of Oulu for the 1st year, and i switched from the Department of Electrical Engineering(EE) in the Faculty of Technology from the degree program of information engineering. I had exactly the same problem within these two options, and i believe these are quite close of what you are facing. Anyway, I've studied in both of these departments for some time, and here's what i've come up with:
The main difference between the above mentioned departments is that EE focuses on what is the theoretical basis for computers and other electronical devices. It also teaches how to code for DSP's for example. there's also some sw engineering courses. TOL, on the other hand, focuses on the high level software engineering(UML etc.) and the processes that are required to handle large projects. We also research hypermedia and it's applications. There's virtually no math, not a single course of physics. Because of the wide area of teaching in EE, there's a lot of math and physics, so the student has sufficient theoretical background information.
The bottom line:
EE is hardware-centric, ie. 'how can we do it?' and 'how does it work?', and TOL is more user-centric, like 'what can we do to make this actually useful?' and 'what could we do with this new stuff we just got?' and most important 'how can we make a good piece of software?'.
Those who graduate from EE are most likely to end up working for the Evil Empire (Nokia R&D's a couple of hundred meters from the uni), but the actual field of work may vary from HW designer to SW engineer coding Windows software. TOL gratuate's field of work may vary from SW Engineer to different kind of Analysts to Project Managers and even Webmasters.
I chose TOL, because as a coder i find it useful to be familiar with the whole software process. This is my 2 cents, and i live in Finland. The situation is probably very different in the US, but I hope this helps.
If I understood correctly, the "jettison of Windows platform" when using.NET would essentially mean that there could be Office.NET for Linux some day, and that cannot be all bad, right? And in any case, this would mean that Microsoft would be going in a more open direction, which would be quite nice.
-- And there was much rejoicing
Come on, you can crash your 7110 by ANSWERING to a incoming call, or at least by hanging up. My 7110 crashes regularly ~2-3 per week, usually when i close the lid to end the call. I don't even use WAP (cuz it sux even worse;)
Slashdot Mirror
At least here in Finland, AFAIK, Red Bull, Battery, Jolt and others have less caffeine than their US counterparts. For example, 1 can of Jolt contains caffeine only equal to 1 cup of coffee, and if I am not completely mistaken, Red Bull and Battery are somewhere on the same levels. Of course, there's also taurine and other chemicals that might react with alcohol (I think those guys in Sweden were boozing at well at that moment)
Not only ROGUE but also VIRAL.
While the idea in general sounds pretty reasonable (paying the content providers, instead of all the money going to mere handlers), I have some serious doubt that this isn't going to happen, not at least in a large scale. There are 2 reasons:
1: End-Users aren't willing to pay a single cent more than they are used to
2: I hardly see any reason that ISP's would like to share their income, they'll rather declare those sites pay-sites and make some system that only those who want to get on those sites and pay for it, get to see it. And that means huge drop on visitor count. Most probably there will always be viable, free alternative for every single news-site.
I think this is caused at least partly by the fact, that the Internet has always been (more or less) "free". Now when somebody tries to get some profit on his/her efforts, for no matter how low price, everybody gets the mental image of a "pay site", which resides right next to the mental image of "bad". IMHO the only way to get people familiar with pay-for-whatever over the net, is to make the transfer REALLY simple, fast and easy.
uhh....and before this fungus came into existence, the cd's were impossible to destruct? I thought microwave owen did pretty good job on this problem.
Darren Reed raises some good points on his behalf. If one wants to create a piece of software, and then give it to the open source community, nobody should go to tell him that he should release it under some particular license. All Reed wants to do is to make sure that he holds the strings in IPFilter development. After all, it is *his* software, although available for everybody without fee. And it is under *his* jurisdiction, which license does he want to release it under, not /. community or even Theo. After all, we didn't pay for him to do IPFilter, we really aren't in the position to complain. If he wants to give it free to everyone, we should be thankful.
(This is just my $0.02, don't get all hysterical on my heretic opinions, I'm way too tired to think straight)
A passage from Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory:
I just can't help myself
I'm feeling like I'm going out of my head
Uncanny, Strange Deja Vu
But I don't mind- I hope to find the truth
Now where did I see this before? Oh yes, here and here.
Hopefully this will make all the coders think twice before they change the licence agreements on their software. Looks like that in 2 yrs or so, when somebody mentions ipf, everybody would associate it with OpenIPF, quite the same like ssh=OpenSSH.
Quote: A follow-up to the ACMF and ICAN is Antiproton Initiated Microfission/fusion (AIM) and AIMStar.
First of all, AOL will sue their asses for trademark dilution and then RIAA for 'possible' copyright infringement. RIAA goes space!
And, then of course Aimster for using confusingly similar trademark.
...that Douglas Adams' official website doesn't have a word on his death. IMHO it quite well demonstrates the problem with 90% of all websites, they don't keep them up-to-date. Altough sad incident, the webmasters should realize that this kind of event will automatically create a busy day for the author's official website, and if the website is out-of-date, it kind of destroys any kind of credibility. But on the topic itself, sad. just sad.
"Reports state that Sony has violated the GPL. The whole Slashdot community immediately stood up to protest, then sat back down, panting heavily." (Adapted from Penny-Arcade)
I vaguely remember some attempts to create the next bus standard using fiber Ethernet. Dunno what's the status on that nowadays.
...another use for StegFS.
(Evil Music Industry Spy): OK you little pirate scum, what's the password?
(Innocent College Student): ********, sir.
(Evil Music Industry Spy): Hmm, only GPL'd software here, no MP3's in here. Let's move on. Sorry to bother you.
(Innocent College Pirate^H^H^H^H^H^H Student): Oh, No Problem (evil grin)
Now everybody and their mother will start screaming about NSA hiding "backdoors" to PGP. Remember, you being a paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
Yeah, freeload advertising sucks but what sucks even more is that they aren't even prepared for their self-induced /.-effect. Their web site is dead. Like they didn't see that coming? Oh puh-lease. If you want your fancy nerd-attracting site to be advertised in /., you could even try to keep your site up for that. sheesh.
Here at University of Oulu they teach quite a lot of programming in Theoretical Physics, so they can code their own programs for scientific calculations etc. It might be because it's hard to get "normal" CS people to work for "non-business" projects.
Who needs WLAN card anymore? I want a toilet seat that has RJ45 connector in it!
I am currently studying at the Department of Information Processing Science(TOL) in the Faculty of Science at University of Oulu for the 1st year, and i switched from the Department of Electrical Engineering(EE) in the Faculty of Technology from the degree program of information engineering. I had exactly the same problem within these two options, and i believe these are quite close of what you are facing. Anyway, I've studied in both of these departments for some time, and here's what i've come up with: The main difference between the above mentioned departments is that EE focuses on what is the theoretical basis for computers and other electronical devices. It also teaches how to code for DSP's for example. there's also some sw engineering courses. TOL, on the other hand, focuses on the high level software engineering(UML etc.) and the processes that are required to handle large projects. We also research hypermedia and it's applications. There's virtually no math, not a single course of physics. Because of the wide area of teaching in EE, there's a lot of math and physics, so the student has sufficient theoretical background information. The bottom line: EE is hardware-centric, ie. 'how can we do it?' and 'how does it work?', and TOL is more user-centric, like 'what can we do to make this actually useful?' and 'what could we do with this new stuff we just got?' and most important 'how can we make a good piece of software?'. Those who graduate from EE are most likely to end up working for the Evil Empire (Nokia R&D's a couple of hundred meters from the uni), but the actual field of work may vary from HW designer to SW engineer coding Windows software. TOL gratuate's field of work may vary from SW Engineer to different kind of Analysts to Project Managers and even Webmasters. I chose TOL, because as a coder i find it useful to be familiar with the whole software process. This is my 2 cents, and i live in Finland. The situation is probably very different in the US, but I hope this helps.
If I understood correctly, the "jettison of Windows platform" when using .NET would essentially mean that there could be Office.NET for Linux some day, and that cannot be all bad, right? And in any case, this would mean that Microsoft would be going in a more open direction, which would be quite nice.
-- And there was much rejoicing
Here's some links for you interested:
;)
Assembly demoparty
tAAt demogroup (the authors of LeGorso)
General demoscene news and stuff
Site dedicated to scenenews and game/demo development
Those should keep you guys busy for a while
- Mik\tAAt
Come on, you can crash your 7110 by ANSWERING to a incoming call, or at least by hanging up. My 7110 crashes regularly ~2-3 per week, usually when i close the lid to end the call. I don't even use WAP (cuz it sux even worse;)