Macromedia announced that it is joining the Eclipse Foundation and plans to deliver a next-generation rich Internet application (RIA) development tool code-named Zorn based on the popular open-source IDE.
Perhaps this is Macromedia's way of bringing something like the equivilent of what MacroMedia UltraDev set out to accomplish (basically Dreamweaver used as a dev tool). Is it possible Macromedia's involvement will be basically to skin Eclipse to make it more familiar to current Dreamweaver users?
If I was making $50/hour and my job was outsourced at $25, then the outsourcing company can rehire me at $20 to remain profitable? That's only a 60% paycut for having your old job back... why the fuss?
I guess it is pretty smart to get all of the Microsoft Antitrust issues worked out while the EU still exists in present form. Otherwise Microsoft's settlement may have to be made in half Lira, half Euro.
1 crow stuffing of your choice salt and pepper shortening flour 2 Pie crust mixes 2-3 hard-boiled eggs
Stuff the crow. Loosen joints with a knife but do not cut through. Simmer the crow in a stew-pan, with enough water to cover, until nearly tender, then season with salt and pepper. Remove meat from bones and set aside. Prepare pie crusts as directed. (Do not bake) Make a medium thick gravy with flour, shortening, and juices in which the crow has cooked and let cool. Line a pie plate with pie crust and line with slices of hard-boiled egg. Place crow meat on top. Layer gravy over the crow. Place second pie dough crust over top. Bake at 450 degrees for 1/2 hour.
I think there should be passenger-side gloves that the girl has to put on to make sure you aren't taking the wrong one home, and to not let you out of the parking lot until she leaves.
Usually there is public interest in sunsetting bills that are polarizing so they must be re-authorized later, like the USA PATRIOT Act. But this bill sunsets December 31, 2010. You'd think by then that stronger regulations will be needed to fix all the loopholes this one creates, but look out for spyware set to report all you personal stuff back to home base on Jan 1 2011!
unlawful for any person who is not the owner or authorized user of a protected computer to engage in deceptive acts or practices
I guess this means my deceptive aliases on slashdot and every other potential spammer Web site can now land me in jail, assuming slashdot is a "protected system". I guess I'm an "authorized user" of/. but the definition of an "authorized user" will be interesting.
Napster got into trouble primarily because it provided transfer medium plus directory service. BitTorrent was probably in the clear for just having the transfer medium, but Bram's name on a directory service is probably a mistake.
Then again, Napster got sold for umpteen millions and is now a pay service... maybe what Bram is doing is good in the long run for him but not for bitTorrent as we know it.
I have two kids, under age 5. Of course most of us saw the trilogies in the order 4-5-6-1-2-3. When the kids are old enough, should we maintain that order or do we show it to them in 1-2-3-4-5-6 order?
The reason we had to watch it in our order is obvious, but do the benefits we had in watching the films in that order cascade to the younger generations? What order will people watch them in five or ten years from now?
The analogy fails because you invoked the idea that I and my friends are selling parts of the book for a dollar. We are not selling anything; as a matter of fact, we pay for the bandwidth, tho that is irrelevant. What if we sat on the corner and let passers-by read our portions? Are we stealing then?
Your own analogy fails because the case of people walking by and reading it, or even checking out in a library, doesn't allow someone else sell it or give it away to others as my example and the reality of piracy via P2P demonstrate. When you feed out something on bitorrent, you are not swiveling a monitor over and saying "look at this bit stream"... you are delivering a digital package that can then be transmitted to others, which is very different than reading a book on the street and telling someone else what you may have remembered from the book.
But in any case I was reponding to a specific question from the original poster where he asked if a portion of identifiable work was infringement, and I gave an example of how it clearly is.
Let's say you get four friends and you each photocopy a fifth of the new Harry Potter book when it comes out, then stand outside and each sell your part for a dollar, in effect letting one person collect a fifth from each of you and get the whole book for $5 instead of the $12 or whatever the retail price will be.
Is it your contention that by making only a part of a work available that you and your friends aren't infringing on a copyright? A "small but verifiably authentic" part of a file is content infringement just as much as a significant portion of a book would be.
Am I Alone in Appreciating New Release?
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Netscape 8.0 Released
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· Score: 3, Interesting
I personally appreciate the release because the BHB's I work for all happen to like Netscape, but balk at having me install something called "FireFox" that they have never heard of. Now I can say "New Netscape version is here" and all of the sudden they are off either 4.x or the bulkier Mozilla and can now be basically on the browser I wanted them on in the first place.
Many of these posts talk about the need for company-wide security measures, but it's awefully hard to demand immediate action from business partners/customers if the employee happens to have access to things over there too.
So yeah, cover the internal systems but make sure business customers are immediately notified of the employee's termination in case accounts beyond the employer's control exist.
When I was a kid my father's coworker loaned us a LISA for a couple of weeks. All I remember about it was a Death Star Trench game, but it and my dad's first amber-screened Compaq are what got me interested in computers and programming.
Many in the OSS community believe in soup-to-nuts software freedom, i.e. not only should the source to an app be open, but dependencies shouldn't exist on non-open software or libraries.
The proposal to use GCJ was a good one, and I think raising these issues benefits open source even though it exposes the frictions between the players in the movement.
My 1996 Civic gets 35-38 MPG when I shift my drivetime to non-rush, so basically I'm at highway speeds for my commute. The latest Civic hybrid gets about this mileage. I think many could improve fuel efficiency by shifting their commute time one hour earlier, with the added benefit of driving less. Yeah I've got to wake up and leave at the crack of dawn, but I'm getting better mileage, less driving time, and fewer cars on the road to run into. Plus I'm at work by the time the accidents start driving the main routes into gridlock.
Slashdot Mirror
A face maybe? They can call the volcano region "cryodonia"!
Macromedia announced that it is joining the Eclipse Foundation and plans to deliver a next-generation rich Internet application (RIA) development tool code-named Zorn based on the popular open-source IDE.
Perhaps this is Macromedia's way of bringing something like the equivilent of what MacroMedia UltraDev set out to accomplish (basically Dreamweaver used as a dev tool). Is it possible Macromedia's involvement will be basically to skin Eclipse to make it more familiar to current Dreamweaver users?
If I was making $50/hour and my job was outsourced at $25, then the outsourcing company can rehire me at $20 to remain profitable? That's only a 60% paycut for having your old job back... why the fuss?
other harmful information that has seriously poisoned people's spirits
In the US we just call these Web sites that suck.
How about the Chinese government assign a site rating at the time of registration? Maybe it would clean some of the rabble out.
I guess it is pretty smart to get all of the Microsoft Antitrust issues worked out while the EU still exists in present form. Otherwise Microsoft's settlement may have to be made in half Lira, half Euro.
from http://bertc.com/three_crows.htm :
Crow Pie:
1 crow
stuffing of your choice
salt and pepper
shortening
flour
2 Pie crust mixes
2-3 hard-boiled eggs
Stuff the crow. Loosen joints with a knife but do not cut through.
Simmer the crow in a stew-pan, with enough water to cover, until nearly tender, then season with salt and pepper. Remove meat from bones and set aside.
Prepare pie crusts as directed. (Do not bake)
Make a medium thick gravy with flour, shortening, and juices in which the crow has cooked and let cool.
Line a pie plate with pie crust and line with slices of hard-boiled egg. Place crow meat on top. Layer gravy over the crow. Place second pie dough crust over top.
Bake at 450 degrees for 1/2 hour.
Collected by Bert Christensen
Toronto, Ontario
access to the compromised PCs is for sale on a black market, at prices as low as five cents per PC.
Heck, that's five cents more per PC than SETI@Home pays me, and they won't eat me when I find them like the aliens will.
You can MAKE the celbrity yourself! For your very own :)
how about a .ZZZ for sites with boring content?
.com so they are easy to spot.
eh... 98% of those already end in
Like .adu instead of .edu, although I'm sure several .adu's would be rather educational.
.XXX is a dumb TLD.
I agree that
Think about how many young people were inspired to be engineers and scientists when they saw the Appollo missions as youngsters...
only as adults to have their positions farmed out to nations that didn't fund any Apollo missions... thanks for the dreams!
I think there should be passenger-side gloves that the girl has to put on to make sure you aren't taking the wrong one home, and to not let you out of the parking lot until she leaves.
Usually there is public interest in sunsetting bills that are polarizing so they must be re-authorized later, like the USA PATRIOT Act. But this bill sunsets December 31, 2010. You'd think by then that stronger regulations will be needed to fix all the loopholes this one creates, but look out for spyware set to report all you personal stuff back to home base on Jan 1 2011!
unlawful for any person who is not the owner or authorized user of a protected computer to engage in deceptive acts or practices
/. but the definition of an "authorized user" will be interesting.
I guess this means my deceptive aliases on slashdot and every other potential spammer Web site can now land me in jail, assuming slashdot is a "protected system". I guess I'm an "authorized user" of
Napster got into trouble primarily because it provided transfer medium plus directory service. BitTorrent was probably in the clear for just having the transfer medium, but Bram's name on a directory service is probably a mistake.
Then again, Napster got sold for umpteen millions and is now a pay service... maybe what Bram is doing is good in the long run for him but not for bitTorrent as we know it.
I have two kids, under age 5. Of course most of us saw the trilogies in the order 4-5-6-1-2-3. When the kids are old enough, should we maintain that order or do we show it to them in 1-2-3-4-5-6 order?
The reason we had to watch it in our order is obvious, but do the benefits we had in watching the films in that order cascade to the younger generations? What order will people watch them in five or ten years from now?
The analogy fails because you invoked the idea that I and my friends are selling parts of the book for a dollar. We are not selling anything; as a matter of fact, we pay for the bandwidth, tho that is irrelevant. What if we sat on the corner and let passers-by read our portions? Are we stealing then?
Your own analogy fails because the case of people walking by and reading it, or even checking out in a library, doesn't allow someone else sell it or give it away to others as my example and the reality of piracy via P2P demonstrate. When you feed out something on bitorrent, you are not swiveling a monitor over and saying "look at this bit stream"... you are delivering a digital package that can then be transmitted to others, which is very different than reading a book on the street and telling someone else what you may have remembered from the book.
But in any case I was reponding to a specific question from the original poster where he asked if a portion of identifiable work was infringement, and I gave an example of how it clearly is.
Let's say you get four friends and you each photocopy a fifth of the new Harry Potter book when it comes out, then stand outside and each sell your part for a dollar, in effect letting one person collect a fifth from each of you and get the whole book for $5 instead of the $12 or whatever the retail price will be.
Is it your contention that by making only a part of a work available that you and your friends aren't infringing on a copyright? A "small but verifiably authentic" part of a file is content infringement just as much as a significant portion of a book would be.
I personally appreciate the release because the BHB's I work for all happen to like Netscape, but balk at having me install something called "FireFox" that they have never heard of. Now I can say "New Netscape version is here" and all of the sudden they are off either 4.x or the bulkier Mozilla and can now be basically on the browser I wanted them on in the first place.
lol... not THAT kind of notification.
Many of these posts talk about the need for company-wide security measures, but it's awefully hard to demand immediate action from business partners/customers if the employee happens to have access to things over there too.
So yeah, cover the internal systems but make sure business customers are immediately notified of the employee's termination in case accounts beyond the employer's control exist.
When I was a kid my father's coworker loaned us a LISA for a couple of weeks. All I remember about it was a Death Star Trench game, but it and my dad's first amber-screened Compaq are what got me interested in computers and programming.
Many in the OSS community believe in soup-to-nuts software freedom, i.e. not only should the source to an app be open, but dependencies shouldn't exist on non-open software or libraries.
The proposal to use GCJ was a good one, and I think raising these issues benefits open source even though it exposes the frictions between the players in the movement.
this sig is my best one.
My 1996 Civic gets 35-38 MPG when I shift my drivetime to non-rush, so basically I'm at highway speeds for my commute. The latest Civic hybrid gets about this mileage. I think many could improve fuel efficiency by shifting their commute time one hour earlier, with the added benefit of driving less. Yeah I've got to wake up and leave at the crack of dawn, but I'm getting better mileage, less driving time, and fewer cars on the road to run into. Plus I'm at work by the time the accidents start driving the main routes into gridlock.