Suppose one of my sites has the same information as an AP news story about the site or the organization behind it.
This is such a bs post it's unbelievable.
A random blogging matching word for word an AP news story is like a random blogging matching word for word any other copyrighted material. Teachers deal with this routinely. I'm sure you can too.
But your scenario of an AP story picking up your site's blogging, unattributed, a copyright violation, and you weighing in with that tearjerker "they'll own everything" is nothing short of pathetic.
Global warming is politically difficult to sell to people when they are experiencing record cold.
That's why I call it Polar Meltdown. Here's what I blogged about it the other day:
It isn't Global Warming, so what is it? Polar Meltdown
We know what the symptoms are. Polar ice caps are melting. This has dire consequences to current life on earth from what I've read on it, granted I haven't taken an intense look into it due to more pressing amd immediate dire consequences, but from what I've seen...
First, and probably most importantly, the additional fresh water dilutes the salinity of sea water. I've seen estimates it would kill off lots of sea life and everything in the food chain that depends on it.
Secondly, and this is where conservatives typically scorn, is that it raises the sea level. I posted here somewhere the estimate that if the ice shelf on Greenland melted, the oceans would rise twenty feet.
First, conservatives don't believe anything is changing for it to melt, on top of that the don't believe it would affect the oceans that much, and whatever effect happens to oceans people can just move, so big deal they say. All much ado about nothing.
Mainly I would say they haven't pictured seas twenty feet higher at current beaches because they don't believe it, so painting a picture of that isn't something global warming critics would pay attention to anyway.
And I saw today that global warming critics are most of us, over 60%, hence this post. Global warming is clearly not felt, so it's not true.
Third, if the polar ice caps melt, it will change ocean currents. I've seen several descriptions of what effects that would cause, one of the most serious being that the Gulf Stream would be disrupted, throwing northern Europe's climate into the same category as Canada's for example. Now the climate there in Great Britain for example is moderated considerably by the Gulf Stream.
Probably the bottom line argument for conservatives is that it doesn't matter what happens or what is described, it's happened before, or forces stronger than dumping carbon into the air are at work, such as solar fluctuations, or even that all that carbon was in the air at some point, so what if we put it back.
So you could point out what will happen if you put it back up there, and the polar caps melt, but then it comes around full circle to they don't believe anything anyone is saying, so really just a waste of time to try.
But I would at least get the terminology accurate in describing what the problem is. It may theoretically be global warming, but it clearly isn't being felt as global warming. I would call it Polar Meltdown and focus less on immediate threats it causes to polar bears and seals because conservatives just don't care about things like that, and typical man in the street figures things like that happen and life has always adjusted and it will again.
Well, actually, life doesn't always adjust and we've had massive major die-offs throughout the history of our planet, without our help, so I would focus on whether it kills off humans or not, and if not, what it does kill off and the effect it has on us. And when exactly we have new beachfront property replacing the old if nothing changes.
Too much pussyfooting around, and not enough explicit terminology and descriptions of what the effects will be, and nutso stuff about sheep and cattle belching.
Need to get with it with Polar Meltdown if in fact it's happening, because no one is losing any beachfront property as we speak, or regaining it in the front yard.
A different approach is to realize that we're not going to have any appreciable effect on a communist country like China. Nor will we be in any position to place monitors there and judge what is humane enough.
We need to deal with this from our viewpoint by charging import taxes on goods from countries we are running a trade deficit with. We need to raise the import taxes on imports from a country (or class of countries the goods are passing through) as high as it takes to bring trade in balance with that country or group of countries.
It doesn't matter how many shortcuts China takes in labor and environmental conditions, they will never rise to western civilization standards and will always produce goods cheaper than our own. But as long as they are purchasing an equal amount of US goods, that's their business.
That will last until somebody makes the first User Group list, but at least you tried.
The model of selling source code with the product has worked for decades on IBM computers. On the other hand, the computers have serial numbers and a portion of the licensed code without source code checks for the serial number, so there is more than trust going on in stopping redistribution of the source code. (Obviously attempts can be made to bypass that.)
The billions of lines of COBOL and RPG code that is mentioned occasionally in language discussions stems as much or more from products shipped with source code and modified extensively as code written from scratch. In fact much code written inhouse is commonly based on architectural guidelines and code standards of a major customized package the company is running.
In 20 years on the IBM midrange AS/400 iseries and following industry news closely, I can't recall hearing about any vendors having to sue because of unauthorized redistribution of their product source code or derivatives. While most of those package software vendors have gone out of business, their products have been bought up by a few cash cow vendors milking the licenses, and they would sue if they needed to.
There was never any controversy in licensing the product source code, or any particular name for it that I recall, it was standard procedure in our industry. I've only dealt with home grown for last five years though with a multi-billion dollar company, and lots of shakeout and consolidation of vendors since then, so can't speak to what a few large remaining cash cow vendors may be doing now.
CentOS 5.2 is crashing on me every few days. Had to pull the plug and will try Fedora 9.
Never thought I'd have a better chance by going from "stable" to "beta", but I'll bet the re-installed server won't be crashing like this one.
[Server is brand new with CentOS installed by the manufacturer, a Linux server specialist. And the server was just idling on the internet, crashing at both runlevels 5 and then 3. My first experience with running a Linux server, I was very surprised since I chose CentOS for the stability.
Also was running top and netstat to make sure attacks weren't crashing it. That wasn't it.]
Haven't read the thread yet, but as I recall from accounts of back in the day, Paul Allen wrote the 8080 emulator on Harvard's DEC PDP, and Bill Gates tested his Basic interpreter on it. That's as close to significant usage of university resources for an idea as you're going to get.
The Bayh-Dole act should be repealed ASAP. Creations federally funded belong to the taxpayers. I can see that everything funded would not immediately become public domain, but should after a 17 year period equivalent to patent protection. Also a licensing percentage could be given to the university if the idea were licensed and royalties paid.
Also, the individuals/corporation involved in developing the federally funded work shouldn't have to pay up front fees to to license it, nor be able to transfer to another entity if they do license it. Up front requirements is for the good of the university in this case, but when taxpayer funded we seek the good for all of us, staring with encouraging the creators of ideas like this rather than rewarding the wealthy able to buy it.
Although we don't need any more of them, the answer to your question is the Project Manager path to IT management.
You would add a PMP certification and for fast track an MBA, then talk enough Java buzzwords to get by. Being able to prototype Windows screens with VB or C#, lay out web pages, and SQL query databases like your problem log will make you a star.
Last.fm is pretty much incapable of recognizing identical tracks if they don't have exactly the same name.
And that's what the guy was saying in TFA, that that was their biggest problem.
What I would recommend is a registered user editing capability, with visible audit records of track title/group/etc. data changed retaining previous data, and a notify flag for users seeing bad edits made so the offender can be blocked if enough alerts come in.
Recognition could come in the form of a list of top edits made and number of title corrections listed with each user profile. When an edit is made ideally would be able to pick from a list of titles or groups with number of entries made, in other words which is the predominant spelling form used. Maybe click a button that does a soundex match on the entry and brings up a list to choose from.
Also when the edit is made a followup task is placed in a queue to 1) possibly check and auto change any others with same spelling, but would require high rating based on history of editor to do this, and 2) if that was last entry with that spelling auto-convert any data on pages or whatever that were created for that misspelling to the page with the correct name, in other words auto-merge the now identified same data (number of listenings, whatever).
Also, have new entries looked up into current/prior entries and if matches edit made auto-correct upon entry.
unless you say y'all I'll be hopelessly confused.:)
actually was stationed in England for over two years in Air Force and never did figure out all the lingo you guys use. But enjoyed my stay there immensely. Great people.
It's going to be expensive to fight these patents one by one that were rubberstamped for years. We need to throw out all software patents and return to copyright protection like we had.
Your $5/month account doesn't have unlimited bandwidth, but more importantly, it doesn't have the RAM and CPU needed to host SLASH (which is a resource hog).
Yeah, but a typical $20/month shared web host account has plenty of bandwidth/CPU/capacity for a typical forum like the one described here.
And $80/month gives you dedicated IP access from home/shop to run on the most souped up PC (or even multiple hosts/failover) you can cobble together.
So financial just isn't an issue as far as a hobby for an employed person goes.
Now having the time to deal with it is a different matter, and if full time devoted to a software starup then that hardware/bandwidth/monthly accounts may need to be devoted to teh startup, and that would be a financial issue as well as time.
oops, let me clarify. I was vague in the wording "it was Ph.D. work at Stanford we're talking about". It was the location, not the education, but Ph.D. work emphasizes education. I should have just said the work was done at Stanford not in the garage.
Since when were garage startups required to be run by people without an education?
You misunderstand. The work was done at Stanford, not in a garage. Doesn't have anything to do with education other than that's where the work was done.
According to Wikipedia, Google incorporated at a friend's garage, but that's really stretching a startup in a garage thing. It was Stanford Ph.D. work we're talking about here.
Let's not cheapen real garage startups with that allusion.
I don't know if those servers are still in use but those servers where great back then but are definitely showing there age now if they are still in use.
I've followed the news of a lot of government computer system failures through the years, and the one thing that always gets done before everything collapses is buying new computers and migrating the old software to it as a first step. It's easy, and it sounds like you've done something.
I guarantee you whatever the problem is is from new software, not old hardware.
In fact, a great real-world example of this is CentOS. Redhat charges for their binaries, but since all of their code is FOSS CentOS was able to snag it, re-brand and re-distribute it.
I would say that Redhat charges for their support of their binaries.
A black day for AIX on the desktop. I really wonder what's the problem there, warehouse costs?
The first sentence is incomplete, and the second one is a run on. I didn't even notice it until you asked because the construction is not unusual at all, even though it is technically wrong. There's a couple of these in your summary, but I wouldn't have immediately pegged you for a non-native English writer since most of us write like that anyways in informal postings.
ok, fine, the OP says it's technically incorrect grammar, but it's conversationalist writing style. I can't believe we have anyone that anal here on/. to bitch about it.
Insects are a funny case, because again they're used differently than you use your legs. Insect legs are autonomous. Each leg has its own autonomous "controller", or rather its own mini-brain. The insect's head just gives an order like "forward" and all legs independently start doing the movements for moving forward.
When I was reading about the octopus not long ago it was said that their tentacles are also not directly controlled by their brain, or at least that there was no feedback, and that it was believed they keep track of their tentacles by sight.
Although there's a lot of categorization going on in this thread like two legged, four legged, fins, bilateral, etc., I have to think from my layman's point of view that all those are just adaptations of a core architecture. In other words, creatures do not develop appendages to accomplish an adaptation to an environment, appendages thrive and change or wither based on how they are used in an environment. It sounds like making a fine point, but it seems to me the opposite view of it.
And when I say core architecture, I mean way back core. I saw a joking reference to the menstruation cycle on a rerun of Third Rock from the Sun as an event happening on a lunar cycle. And to me that was just remarkable. The moon's orbit affecting hormonal cycles on land dwelling mammals? Not a chance. This goes back to tidal cycles our seawater based cells evolved in.
For that matter, those lunar tidal cycles still affect the mating of those octopus and others like jellyfish. A lot more than core architecture has come with us from those days and moonlit nights so long ago.
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Suppose one of my sites has the same information as an AP news story about the site or the organization behind it.
This is such a bs post it's unbelievable.
A random blogging matching word for word an AP news story is like a random blogging matching word for word any other copyrighted material. Teachers deal with this routinely. I'm sure you can too.
But your scenario of an AP story picking up your site's blogging, unattributed, a copyright violation, and you weighing in with that tearjerker "they'll own everything" is nothing short of pathetic.
Grow a set of balls.
rd
Global warming is politically difficult to sell to people when they are experiencing record cold.
That's why I call it Polar Meltdown. Here's what I blogged about it the other day:
It isn't Global Warming, so what is it? Polar Meltdown
We know what the symptoms are. Polar ice caps are melting. This has dire consequences to current life on earth from what I've read on it, granted I haven't taken an intense look into it due to more pressing amd immediate dire consequences, but from what I've seen...
First, and probably most importantly, the additional fresh water dilutes the salinity of sea water. I've seen estimates it would kill off lots of sea life and everything in the food chain that depends on it.
Secondly, and this is where conservatives typically scorn, is that it raises the sea level. I posted here somewhere the estimate that if the ice shelf on Greenland melted, the oceans would rise twenty feet.
First, conservatives don't believe anything is changing for it to melt, on top of that the don't believe it would affect the oceans that much, and whatever effect happens to oceans people can just move, so big deal they say. All much ado about nothing.
Mainly I would say they haven't pictured seas twenty feet higher at current beaches because they don't believe it, so painting a picture of that isn't something global warming critics would pay attention to anyway.
And I saw today that global warming critics are most of us, over 60%, hence this post. Global warming is clearly not felt, so it's not true.
Third, if the polar ice caps melt, it will change ocean currents. I've seen several descriptions of what effects that would cause, one of the most serious being that the Gulf Stream would be disrupted, throwing northern Europe's climate into the same category as Canada's for example. Now the climate there in Great Britain for example is moderated considerably by the Gulf Stream.
Probably the bottom line argument for conservatives is that it doesn't matter what happens or what is described, it's happened before, or forces stronger than dumping carbon into the air are at work, such as solar fluctuations, or even that all that carbon was in the air at some point, so what if we put it back.
So you could point out what will happen if you put it back up there, and the polar caps melt, but then it comes around full circle to they don't believe anything anyone is saying, so really just a waste of time to try.
But I would at least get the terminology accurate in describing what the problem is. It may theoretically be global warming, but it clearly isn't being felt as global warming. I would call it Polar Meltdown and focus less on immediate threats it causes to polar bears and seals because conservatives just don't care about things like that, and typical man in the street figures things like that happen and life has always adjusted and it will again.
Well, actually, life doesn't always adjust and we've had massive major die-offs throughout the history of our planet, without our help, so I would focus on whether it kills off humans or not, and if not, what it does kill off and the effect it has on us. And when exactly we have new beachfront property replacing the old if nothing changes.
Too much pussyfooting around, and not enough explicit terminology and descriptions of what the effects will be, and nutso stuff about sheep and cattle belching.
Need to get with it with Polar Meltdown if in fact it's happening, because no one is losing any beachfront property as we speak, or regaining it in the front yard.
rd
The letter asks for repayments to be sent to Fargo, North Dakota.
Fargo is their Great Plains business software campus.
I always wondered how their business software "Project Green" was turning out.
rd
A different approach is to realize that we're not going to have any appreciable effect on a communist country like China. Nor will we be in any position to place monitors there and judge what is humane enough.
We need to deal with this from our viewpoint by charging import taxes on goods from countries we are running a trade deficit with. We need to raise the import taxes on imports from a country (or class of countries the goods are passing through) as high as it takes to bring trade in balance with that country or group of countries.
It doesn't matter how many shortcuts China takes in labor and environmental conditions, they will never rise to western civilization standards and will always produce goods cheaper than our own. But as long as they are purchasing an equal amount of US goods, that's their business.
A solution for our trade deficit
http://www.justiceforchandra.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1397
rd
That will last until somebody makes the first User Group list, but at least you tried.
The model of selling source code with the product has worked for decades on IBM computers. On the other hand, the computers have serial numbers and a portion of the licensed code without source code checks for the serial number, so there is more than trust going on in stopping redistribution of the source code. (Obviously attempts can be made to bypass that.)
The billions of lines of COBOL and RPG code that is mentioned occasionally in language discussions stems as much or more from products shipped with source code and modified extensively as code written from scratch. In fact much code written inhouse is commonly based on architectural guidelines and code standards of a major customized package the company is running.
In 20 years on the IBM midrange AS/400 iseries and following industry news closely, I can't recall hearing about any vendors having to sue because of unauthorized redistribution of their product source code or derivatives. While most of those package software vendors have gone out of business, their products have been bought up by a few cash cow vendors milking the licenses, and they would sue if they needed to.
There was never any controversy in licensing the product source code, or any particular name for it that I recall, it was standard procedure in our industry. I've only dealt with home grown for last five years though with a multi-billion dollar company, and lots of shakeout and consolidation of vendors since then, so can't speak to what a few large remaining cash cow vendors may be doing now.
rd
What other country does this?
Other communist countries. China said they were doing the same thing.
CentOS 5.2 is crashing on me every few days. Had to pull the plug and will try Fedora 9.
Never thought I'd have a better chance by going from "stable" to "beta", but I'll bet the re-installed server won't be crashing like this one.
[Server is brand new with CentOS installed by the manufacturer, a Linux server specialist. And the server was just idling on the internet, crashing at both runlevels 5 and then 3. My first experience with running a Linux server, I was very surprised since I chose CentOS for the stability.
Also was running top and netstat to make sure attacks weren't crashing it. That wasn't it.]
rd
We know what to do with the ones we own now.
rd
You hear that Bill Gates/Warren Buffet?
Haven't read the thread yet, but as I recall from accounts of back in the day, Paul Allen wrote the 8080 emulator on Harvard's DEC PDP, and Bill Gates tested his Basic interpreter on it. That's as close to significant usage of university resources for an idea as you're going to get.
The Bayh-Dole act should be repealed ASAP. Creations federally funded belong to the taxpayers. I can see that everything funded would not immediately become public domain, but should after a 17 year period equivalent to patent protection. Also a licensing percentage could be given to the university if the idea were licensed and royalties paid.
Also, the individuals/corporation involved in developing the federally funded work shouldn't have to pay up front fees to to license it, nor be able to transfer to another entity if they do license it. Up front requirements is for the good of the university in this case, but when taxpayer funded we seek the good for all of us, staring with encouraging the creators of ideas like this rather than rewarding the wealthy able to buy it.
rd
Google probably has all their data. Maybe they can diversify into "here's what we have, don't let it happen again" recovery services.
rd
well, this is part time - do you really need that much face time?
I can see with that smooth schmoozing touch you have that he'll be offering you a remote gig RSN...
Although we don't need any more of them, the answer to your question is the Project Manager path to IT management.
You would add a PMP certification and for fast track an MBA, then talk enough Java buzzwords to get by. Being able to prototype Windows screens with VB or C#, lay out web pages, and SQL query databases like your problem log will make you a star.
Before you know it you'll be a CIO.
rd
Last.fm is pretty much incapable of recognizing identical tracks if they don't have exactly the same name.
And that's what the guy was saying in TFA, that that was their biggest problem.
What I would recommend is a registered user editing capability, with visible audit records of track title/group/etc. data changed retaining previous data, and a notify flag for users seeing bad edits made so the offender can be blocked if enough alerts come in.
Recognition could come in the form of a list of top edits made and number of title corrections listed with each user profile. When an edit is made ideally would be able to pick from a list of titles or groups with number of entries made, in other words which is the predominant spelling form used. Maybe click a button that does a soundex match on the entry and brings up a list to choose from.
Also when the edit is made a followup task is placed in a queue to 1) possibly check and auto change any others with same spelling, but would require high rating based on history of editor to do this, and 2) if that was last entry with that spelling auto-convert any data on pages or whatever that were created for that misspelling to the page with the correct name, in other words auto-merge the now identified same data (number of listenings, whatever).
Also, have new entries looked up into current/prior entries and if matches edit made auto-correct upon entry.
rd
...whereas you lot get hopelessly confused...
unless you say y'all I'll be hopelessly confused. :)
actually was stationed in England for over two years in Air Force and never did figure out all the lingo you guys use. But enjoyed my stay there immensely. Great people.
rd
It's going to be expensive to fight these patents one by one that were rubberstamped for years. We need to throw out all software patents and return to copyright protection like we had.
rd
Your $5/month account doesn't have unlimited bandwidth, but more importantly, it doesn't have the RAM and CPU needed to host SLASH (which is a resource hog).
Yeah, but a typical $20/month shared web host account has plenty of bandwidth/CPU/capacity for a typical forum like the one described here.
And $80/month gives you dedicated IP access from home/shop to run on the most souped up PC (or even multiple hosts/failover) you can cobble together.
So financial just isn't an issue as far as a hobby for an employed person goes.
Now having the time to deal with it is a different matter, and if full time devoted to a software starup then that hardware/bandwidth/monthly accounts may need to be devoted to teh startup, and that would be a financial issue as well as time.
rd
oops, let me clarify. I was vague in the wording "it was Ph.D. work at Stanford we're talking about". It was the location, not the education, but Ph.D. work emphasizes education. I should have just said the work was done at Stanford not in the garage.
rd
Since when were garage startups required to be run by people without an education?
You misunderstand. The work was done at Stanford, not in a garage. Doesn't have anything to do with education other than that's where the work was done.
rd
I just bought a combo DVD/VHS a few weeks ago.
Google started in a garage?
According to Wikipedia, Google incorporated at a friend's garage, but that's really stretching a startup in a garage thing. It was Stanford Ph.D. work we're talking about here.
Let's not cheapen real garage startups with that allusion.
rd
I don't know if those servers are still in use but those servers where great back then but are definitely showing there age now if they are still in use.
I've followed the news of a lot of government computer system failures through the years, and the one thing that always gets done before everything collapses is buying new computers and migrating the old software to it as a first step. It's easy, and it sounds like you've done something.
I guarantee you whatever the problem is is from new software, not old hardware.
rd
In fact, a great real-world example of this is CentOS. Redhat charges for their binaries, but since all of their code is FOSS CentOS was able to snag it, re-brand and re-distribute it.
I would say that Redhat charges for their support of their binaries.
rd
A black day for AIX on the desktop. I really wonder what's the problem there, warehouse costs?
The first sentence is incomplete, and the second one is a run on. I didn't even notice it until you asked because the construction is not unusual at all, even though it is technically wrong. There's a couple of these in your summary, but I wouldn't have immediately pegged you for a non-native English writer since most of us write like that anyways in informal postings.
ok, fine, the OP says it's technically incorrect grammar, but it's conversationalist writing style. I can't believe we have anyone that anal here on /. to bitch about it.
oh wait...
Just in! "Geek wonders why product X that he loves to hack but is only used by 0.0000001% of the market is going the way of the dodo". Film at 11!
worse, he only fondly remembers hacking it several years ago...
Insects are a funny case, because again they're used differently than you use your legs. Insect legs are autonomous. Each leg has its own autonomous "controller", or rather its own mini-brain. The insect's head just gives an order like "forward" and all legs independently start doing the movements for moving forward.
When I was reading about the octopus not long ago it was said that their tentacles are also not directly controlled by their brain, or at least that there was no feedback, and that it was believed they keep track of their tentacles by sight.
Although there's a lot of categorization going on in this thread like two legged, four legged, fins, bilateral, etc., I have to think from my layman's point of view that all those are just adaptations of a core architecture. In other words, creatures do not develop appendages to accomplish an adaptation to an environment, appendages thrive and change or wither based on how they are used in an environment. It sounds like making a fine point, but it seems to me the opposite view of it.
And when I say core architecture, I mean way back core. I saw a joking reference to the menstruation cycle on a rerun of Third Rock from the Sun as an event happening on a lunar cycle. And to me that was just remarkable. The moon's orbit affecting hormonal cycles on land dwelling mammals? Not a chance. This goes back to tidal cycles our seawater based cells evolved in.
For that matter, those lunar tidal cycles still affect the mating of those octopus and others like jellyfish. A lot more than core architecture has come with us from those days and moonlit nights so long ago.
rd