Except every few months Apple changes what "Fair and Reasonable" means. They've decreased the limits on how many times you can burn a play list and removed the ability for an iPod to play Real's files, among other changes.
I would be more willing to evaluate an iPod and iTunes if I knew exactly what I was signing up for. Right now it is "DRM plus whatever Apple wants you to have" and that is a situation that is so heavily weighted in their favour that I'd rather not sign up to, essentially, borrow music from Apple without knowing the terms in advance.
People need to wake up. When people say "DRM is bad because it gives a corporation too much power and take away too much from the user", they can't also say "Yeah, but Apple is good."
Perforce does not work for open source projects where people need need to work disconnected from the server with slow links. Perforce needs a fast, always available connection to the server.
I've used graphviz extensively in one project. I found it simple to use and I believe there are Java bindings available, but it is pretty simple to just create a dot file and feed that to dot(1). But it does not provide widgets or anything you can integrate into a Java application in that way. It simply deals with visualization and layout of graph structures. If all you need is an image, it is great, but anything beyond that and it won't serve your needs.
I'm so HAPPY they are having a webcast! That more than makes up for the ridiculous quality of their operating system. A webcast! It is like 1998 all over again.
You don't get it. It isn't worth saving money on the systems if it takes a team of developers a year to make something twice as fast or use a fifth of the memory. For many applications, getting twice as many transactions would cost much less than what you would have to pay a single developer for a year. And, the computer comes with a support contract.
I beg to differ. Where I work, we already have replaced Oracle with Postgres, and having a enterprise level replication package will let us avoid the myriad of half-assed hacks we were using.
...have bosses that realize they do more than crank out code.
...are assigned to products that have customers, and aren't and endless, dank dark tunnels of development for the sake of having a buzzword on their employer's product offering.
...are given requirements before development that don't constantly change, and aren't completely impossible.
...have a QA department that has some rudimentary grasp of what the requirements of the product were so they can have some hope of determining whether the solution is quality.
...don't spend their time on slashdot fronting like they deserve an entry level management position by hating the people that make this fucking industry work.
Posted by Cliff on 07:58 PM January 20th, 2003
from the we-can't-link dept.
Woodblock asks: "These days all the major corporations are looking at Six Sigma methodology to improve their processes. Should I Ask Slashdot whether for a project using Six Sigma methodology without explaining or providing any descriptive links? Sincerly, Six Sigma Lover in Colorado."
Unfortunately, I can totally vouch for his "recomendation" of Captain Novolin. I have no idea how I came to own this madenning title. I don't have diabetes, and no one I know has diabetes. I suspect some poor kid that did owned the game, played it twice and decided to give himself a triple dose of insulin and end the pain it caused and thought it would be a funny joke to leave it on my doorstep before he went into a coma. The game takes all the power of the Super Nintendo and reduces it to jumping over sweet food and running into your prescribed diet of celery, bread and milk. It is entirely pointless and entirely painful.
Carleton University in Ottawa blocks Napster and Scour. I don't think it was as much for piracy, but instead because it was taking up 80% of the university bandwidth. If they really wanted to kill piracy on campus, they'd block "Network Neighbourhood" where people regularily spend an evening watching pirated copies of entire movies.
Or are the drivers for this thing the perfect (purrrfect?) sort of software to open-source. Radio Shack derives no revenue from keeping the software secret, and will only gain from having more people use their little device. They are giving away the hardware for free ($), why not free (liberty) the software too?
I find it odd that all these movies are generally recent. How can they skip over such profoundly uninfluential movies such as "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank." Raul Julia stars in a movie produced by a public television network in which characters take vacations by going into VR as monkeys, or into Casablanca.
Anything that MST3k featured, has to be on there. Wasn't there one they did called Agent from H.A.R.M.?
It isn't about the "internet" adopting a stance on copyright. It's about the artists. With the internet, artists will soon see that they have more control of their art and their labour. I agree that this "bribe for free stuff" idea is one of the many more intelligent methods to disseminate one's product, but there are many more. However, it should be entirely up to the artist to set the terms of their labour, not some pimple-faced kid who happens to think that said artists product must be free, or an orginized profiteer selling stolen art.
Let the artists decide which method they wish to get their work out into the hands of consumers, not some amorphous, undefinable entity like "the internet".
Maybe you don't understand Robin Hood. He was not stealing from the rich who gained their wealth by their own efforts. He stole from evil, corrupt politicians that gained their money by force, not trade.
I believe the author is against such programs as public health care and education because they are perceived as rights. However, there is no such thing as a passive right. If one has the "right" to health care, that means one also has the right to force someone else, against their will to provide it. Say, for example, that noone ever wanted to be a nurse and so there were no nurses. Since one had the right to health care you would have the right to force people to be nurses. This is obviously an attack on their liberty. Granted, paying for someone's health care is different than being locked up and forced to perform surgery, but taxation is also a loss of liberty.
Also, you may feel very lax about choosing who provides services to you and what companies you trade with, but you apathy certainly should not be enough to justify taking away another's freedom of association and trade.
What the hell? How can they possibly leave off the most influential algorithm in modern times: Amazon's One-Click shoppint.
Seriously, I guess this list shows the value of unpatented computer algorithms. Any of these can be reimplemented, and are actually innovative, while dispensing software patents to such silly ideas as saving credit card info.
Slashdot Mirror
Except every few months Apple changes what "Fair and Reasonable" means. They've decreased the limits on how many times you can burn a play list and removed the ability for an iPod to play Real's files, among other changes.
I would be more willing to evaluate an iPod and iTunes if I knew exactly what I was signing up for. Right now it is "DRM plus whatever Apple wants you to have" and that is a situation that is so heavily weighted in their favour that I'd rather not sign up to, essentially, borrow music from Apple without knowing the terms in advance.
People need to wake up. When people say "DRM is bad because it gives a corporation too much power and take away too much from the user", they can't also say "Yeah, but Apple is good."
Perforce does not work for open source projects where people need need to work disconnected from the server with slow links. Perforce needs a fast, always available connection to the server.
I've used graphviz extensively in one project. I found it simple to use and I believe there are Java bindings available, but it is pretty simple to just create a dot file and feed that to dot(1). But it does not provide widgets or anything you can integrate into a Java application in that way. It simply deals with visualization and layout of graph structures. If all you need is an image, it is great, but anything beyond that and it won't serve your needs.
Wouldn't it be cool if blogging crashed like the dot-com boom? Just think:
I'm so HAPPY they are having a webcast! That more than makes up for the ridiculous quality of their operating system. A webcast! It is like 1998 all over again.
You don't get it. It isn't worth saving money on the systems if it takes a team of developers a year to make something twice as fast or use a fifth of the memory. For many applications, getting twice as many transactions would cost much less than what you would have to pay a single developer for a year. And, the computer comes with a support contract.
It appears your shift key is broken. You might want to get that fixed.
I beg to differ. Where I work, we already have replaced Oracle with Postgres, and having a enterprise level replication package will let us avoid the myriad of half-assed hacks we were using.
The easiest way to boost the number of women in computer science is to reduce the number of men in it. Seems pretty straightforward.
I can't wait for the double post. I simply have too much work and don't need to waste any more time reading actual stories.
Posted by Cliff on 07:58 PM January 20th, 2003 from the we-can't-link dept.
Woodblock asks: "These days all the major corporations are looking at Six Sigma methodology to improve their processes. Should I Ask Slashdot whether for a project using Six Sigma methodology without explaining or providing any descriptive links? Sincerly, Six Sigma Lover in Colorado."
Unfortunately, I can totally vouch for his "recomendation" of Captain Novolin. I have no idea how I came to own this madenning title. I don't have diabetes, and no one I know has diabetes. I suspect some poor kid that did owned the game, played it twice and decided to give himself a triple dose of insulin and end the pain it caused and thought it would be a funny joke to leave it on my doorstep before he went into a coma. The game takes all the power of the Super Nintendo and reduces it to jumping over sweet food and running into your prescribed diet of celery, bread and milk. It is entirely pointless and entirely painful.
'woodblock wont try to get in my pants'
Do yourself a favour and read the bible on it. The information might be a bit dated, but I doubt hashing has changed that much since the last edition.
Get a life!
If you want emacs to load quickly, simply use gnuclient(1). Load up emacs, background it, and everytime you want to edit something use gnuclient.
Carleton University in Ottawa blocks Napster and Scour. I don't think it was as much for piracy, but instead because it was taking up 80% of the university bandwidth. If they really wanted to kill piracy on campus, they'd block "Network Neighbourhood" where people regularily spend an evening watching pirated copies of entire movies.
Or are the drivers for this thing the perfect (purrrfect?) sort of software to open-source. Radio Shack derives no revenue from keeping the software secret, and will only gain from having more people use their little device. They are giving away the hardware for free ($), why not free (liberty) the software too?
I find it odd that all these movies are generally recent. How can they skip over such profoundly uninfluential movies such as "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank." Raul Julia stars in a movie produced by a public television network in which characters take vacations by going into VR as monkeys, or into Casablanca.
Anything that MST3k featured, has to be on there. Wasn't there one they did called Agent from H.A.R.M.?
It isn't about the "internet" adopting a stance on copyright. It's about the artists. With the internet, artists will soon see that they have more control of their art and their labour. I agree that this "bribe for free stuff" idea is one of the many more intelligent methods to disseminate one's product, but there are many more. However, it should be entirely up to the artist to set the terms of their labour, not some pimple-faced kid who happens to think that said artists product must be free, or an orginized profiteer selling stolen art.
Let the artists decide which method they wish to get their work out into the hands of consumers, not some amorphous, undefinable entity like "the internet".
Steve Ballmer says Linux 'is communism'
I guess we should start standing in line for out of date tuna.
Maybe you don't understand Robin Hood. He was not stealing from the
rich who gained their wealth by their own efforts. He stole from evil,
corrupt politicians that gained their money by force, not trade.
I believe the author is against such programs as public health care
and education because they are perceived as rights. However, there is
no such thing as a passive right. If one has the "right" to health
care, that means one also has the right to force someone else, against
their will to provide it. Say, for example, that noone ever wanted to
be a nurse and so there were no nurses. Since one had the right to
health care you would have the right to force people to be
nurses. This is obviously an attack on their liberty. Granted, paying
for someone's health care is different than being locked up and forced
to perform surgery, but taxation is also a loss of liberty.
Also, you may feel very lax about choosing who provides services to
you and what companies you trade with, but you apathy certainly should
not be enough to justify taking away another's freedom of association
and trade.
Well, not in a truly free society.
What the hell? How can they possibly leave off the most influential
algorithm in modern times:
Amazon's One-Click shoppint.
Seriously, I guess this list shows the value of unpatented computer
algorithms. Any of these can be reimplemented, and are actually
innovative, while dispensing software patents to such silly ideas as
saving credit card info.