This thing looks pretty much like the Sharp Zaurus - even running the same OS and desktop (palmtop?) system, probably with the same office suite and such. A Zaurus can be had for $340 easily, (I got mine for $313 at Wur^H^H^HBest Buy), and has a very handy finger keyboard, that this doesn't appear to have...why not just buy a Zaurus?
William LeFebvre (of CNN.com) has an excellent talk that he's given at least twice at Usenix events (I saw it at Usenix '02, he also gave it at LISA '01), that gives a lot of detail as to the things that had to be coped with to keep CNN.com running on September 11. I can't find the full-text of the speech anywhere online, but there's some information at this site that at least gives you an idea. Interesting stuff!
How about voting for fixing the bugs like number 55583 before voting up new features. The inability to view source of non-static pages is IMHO a showstopper bug, at least for anybody who actually wants to develop websites using Moz...
It's funny, there's actually a pretty simple solution to all of this, which neither Blizzard or the/.-ers want to admit: Blizzard just needs to release a legitimate version of the B.Net server, with CD key checks enabled, that anybody can use to start up a B.Net server. This should solve both the complaints of those, like me, who own a legitimate copy a game, but have never been able to actually get a game up and running on B.Net with friends due to the servers being so overloaded, and Blizzard, who seems to just be worried about piracy. But, that would be giving the customer freedom of choice, now, wouldn't it, and then Blizzard couldn't start charging for access to B.Net eventually.
The article mentioned that Sprint is held by a Bell, thought I hadn't heard that.
Re-read the article. That's a prediction of what might happen in the future. Nothing to do with reality now. If Sprint had been bought by a Bell, I'd probably have noticed, as I work for Sprint.
It's nice of you to conveniently ignore the rest of my sentence, but that's OK. I understand that one of the key rules of posting to Slashdot is conveniently ignoring that which might disprove your point.
However, you might be interested to note this update that he's added to the upcdatabase.com page:
The reason I can't distribute the database is that over half of the data is 'borrowed', more or less -- with permission, mind you -- and I do not have permission to redistribute the lot.
HOWEVER, I have recently made plans to remove that data from the database, so that the database can be redistributed. That would take the total number of entries down from almost a half million entries, to something like 200,000 entries. If you have any opinions on this plan, please let me know -- webmaster@upcdatabase.com.
(And yes, I know I'm not identifying him or the software he's written, because he doesn't wish to tie his real name to the UPC database, for reasons that are his and his alone.)
I'm friends with the guy who runs upcdatabase.com, and I just thought I'd mention a couple things that made this post slightly inaccurate.
First off, the C&D letter is regarding the ability his site has to accept a UPC code directly from a CueCat scan, not about the database itself. He has a text input you can click in, and then scan the UPC code, and it will send it to a CGI script that decodes the CueCat scan, and looks up the UPC code in his database.
Secondly, the reason his database isn't publicly available is because he got a lot of seed data for it from a third-party source with the agreement that the entire DB wouldn't be made publicly available. (No evil closed-source-ness conspiracies here, he's actually a strong supporter of open source, and has written several open source programs you can find on Freshmeat.)
This is a valid point, and one I admittedly missed the first time I read the article...my commentary regarding the quote from Becker still stands, however.
I guess I should have said that I understand that the views of/. readers do not necessarily equal the views of the esteemed Mr. Becker, and that I'm not trying to insult Mr. Becker in the least. I highly respect (and appreciate) his work. But the hypocrisy around/. for making a big deal about this is amusing, to say the least.
Neither Perens nor Becker has suggested how the GPL could, or should, be changed. But Becker knows one thing - he wants Sun to stop peddling the kit, which he says includes "explicit instructions on taking a copyrighted work and converting it to unlicensed use with the Solaris operating system."
Funny. This sounds an awful lot like Tom's Hardware posting explicit instructions on how to take a DVD (a copyrighted work), convert it to DivX, and burn it to a CD (unlicensed use). But according to the/. rules of hypocrisy, that's perfectly OK. Sure.
If you want to hear TMBG's thoughts on Napster, take a listen to the Marketplace show with John Flansburg's commentary on Napster. It's some interesting food for thought, and it's nice to know that at least some musicians have a clue.
You'll have to forward to about 11:20 in the RealAudio file to get to the right place.
If you let the public browse your card catalog, you better make sure you don't have anything illegal in your library, because you might get sued for linking to it...and god forbid you catalog your CD collection!
Since it's apparently not newsworthy for the front page of/. (News for Rich Nerds, Stuff that Matters if You Own Stock in the Company), Corel has also very recently released Corel Linux 2, and CorelDRAW for Linux is available to be ordered now...($199 US) the best part of this, though, is that they're giving away Corel PhotoPaint for Linux.
Look out, it's a 92M download, though!
I hope Cowpland leaving doesn't mean they'll abandon their Linux efforts...I actually like (and bought) WordPerfect for Linux, it's far better than StarOffice, and seeing a good vector-based drawing program out there would be a wonderful thing.
Another important concept is what I call "one-stop-shopping software." When you
write code in C#, you write everything in one place. There is no need for header files,
IDL files (Interface Definition Language), GUIDs and complicated interfaces. And
once you can write code that is self-describing in this way, then you can start
embedding your software, because it is a self-contained unit. Now you can slot it into
ASP pages and you can host it in various environments where it just wasn't feasible
before.
So if I'm reading this right, the whole project goes in one big file? *twitch* Can you imagine the linux kernel in C#:
And C# is the first language to incorporate XML comment tags that can be used by the compiler to generate readable documentation directly from source code.
My, they have an interesting definition of "innovation", too. I wonder if it's innovative in the sense that compiler does it, or that it's XML tags. Otherwise, what the hell are perldoc and javadoc? (Maybe that depends on what your definition of is is...)
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Wow, if this is a detailed timeline, I'd hate to see the summary.
"Some shit happened."
As a security guy, this could have been really interesting, but it's not.
Everybody at Sprint was too. (I worked there up until last week, when I finally escaped.)
WMLS11B is a standard UPnP client. The TwonkyVision Media Server works just great to serve MP3s to my WMLS11B from linux.
Yeah, except there were no grues in Colossal Cave. Pirates, Dwarves, yes. Grues, no.
This thing looks pretty much like the Sharp Zaurus - even running the same OS and desktop (palmtop?) system, probably with the same office suite and such. A Zaurus can be had for $340 easily, (I got mine for $313 at Wur^H^H^HBest Buy), and has a very handy finger keyboard, that this doesn't appear to have...why not just buy a Zaurus?
William LeFebvre (of CNN.com) has an excellent talk that he's given at least twice at Usenix events (I saw it at Usenix '02, he also gave it at LISA '01), that gives a lot of detail as to the things that had to be coped with to keep CNN.com running on September 11. I can't find the full-text of the speech anywhere online, but there's some information at this site that at least gives you an idea. Interesting stuff!
How about voting for fixing the bugs like number 55583 before voting up new features. The inability to view source of non-static pages is IMHO a showstopper bug, at least for anybody who actually wants to develop websites using Moz...
It's funny, there's actually a pretty simple solution to all of this, which neither Blizzard or the /.-ers want to admit: Blizzard just needs to release a legitimate version of the B.Net server, with CD key checks enabled, that anybody can use to start up a B.Net server. This should solve both the complaints of those, like me, who own a legitimate copy a game, but have never been able to actually get a game up and running on B.Net with friends due to the servers being so overloaded, and Blizzard, who seems to just be worried about piracy. But, that would be giving the customer freedom of choice, now, wouldn't it, and then Blizzard couldn't start charging for access to B.Net eventually.
I think you mean "has killed the community."
Which the above article *obviously* wasn't.
Oh, OK, Mr. Sentence Fragment.
The article mentioned that Sprint is held by a Bell, thought I hadn't heard that.
Re-read the article. That's a prediction of what might happen in the future. Nothing to do with reality now. If Sprint had been bought by a Bell, I'd probably have noticed, as I work for Sprint.
Apple Sues Slashdot for Libel
Who are you?
What do you want?
And where the hell are my pants?
Ahhhh! Red Snapper! Verrrrrry tasty!
(Apologies to Kuni!)
However, you might be interested to note this update that he's added to the upcdatabase.com page:
(And yes, I know I'm not identifying him or the software he's written, because he doesn't wish to tie his real name to the UPC database, for reasons that are his and his alone.)First off, the C&D letter is regarding the ability his site has to accept a UPC code directly from a CueCat scan, not about the database itself. He has a text input you can click in, and then scan the UPC code, and it will send it to a CGI script that decodes the CueCat scan, and looks up the UPC code in his database.
Secondly, the reason his database isn't publicly available is because he got a lot of seed data for it from a third-party source with the agreement that the entire DB wouldn't be made publicly available. (No evil closed-source-ness conspiracies here, he's actually a strong supporter of open source, and has written several open source programs you can find on Freshmeat.)
This is a valid point, and one I admittedly missed the first time I read the article...my commentary regarding the quote from Becker still stands, however.
I guess I should have said that I understand that the views of /. readers do not necessarily equal the views of the esteemed Mr. Becker, and that I'm not trying to insult Mr. Becker in the least. I highly respect (and appreciate) his work. But the hypocrisy around /. for making a big deal about this is amusing, to say the least.
If you feel like battling a bunch of flash animation, try www.dialasong.com.
You'll have to forward to about 11:20 in the RealAudio file to get to the right place.
If you let the public browse your card catalog, you better make sure you don't have anything illegal in your library, because you might get sued for linking to it...and god forbid you catalog your CD collection!
Look out, it's a 92M download, though!
I hope Cowpland leaving doesn't mean they'll abandon their Linux efforts...I actually like (and bought) WordPerfect for Linux, it's far better than StarOffice, and seeing a good vector-based drawing program out there would be a wonderful thing.
Another important concept is what I call "one-stop-shopping software." When you write code in C#, you write everything in one place. There is no need for header files, IDL files (Interface Definition Language), GUIDs and complicated interfaces. And once you can write code that is self-describing in this way, then you can start embedding your software, because it is a self-contained unit. Now you can slot it into ASP pages and you can host it in various environments where it just wasn't feasible before.
So if I'm reading this right, the whole project goes in one big file? *twitch* Can you imagine the linux kernel in C#:
jferg@wallace$ wc -l linux.c#
3172394
Yeah. That's what I'm looking forward to.
And C# is the first language to incorporate XML comment tags that can be used by the compiler to generate readable documentation directly from source code.
My, they have an interesting definition of "innovation", too. I wonder if it's innovative in the sense that compiler does it, or that it's XML tags. Otherwise, what the hell are perldoc and javadoc? (Maybe that depends on what your definition of is is...)