LMAO, same here. I got this "holy fucking fuck" thought in my head until I realized.:D
Damn. But still impressive, especially given Earth's damn atmosphere in the way. And that artist's impression would be perfect as a schematic picture for Betelguese to complement its Wikipedia article, and possibly even the supergiant article, if it just wasn't for that one probably being an ESA picture. ESA has a far less permissive license than NASA.:-(
Its not P2P in itself that is wrong. It is the use.
Of course, I actually don't think they're mistaking themselves there. But rather looking to ban use on gov't networks just so stupid users won't use it incorrectly and share everything they've got.
At least these aliens are slightly more alien, but they're still bipedal oxygen breathers with bilateral symmetry.
FWIW, it took evolution billions of years to come up with that this is a very efficient way of moving intelligent beings with use of free appendages (arms + hands) around a solid earth crust with an oxygen atmosphere. I'm not so sure this is a "one in hundreds" of potentially useful evolutionary ideas, but rather one in very few. That it's symmetric comes from cellular division, and there is so far little supporting evidence that alternative mechanisms can support a two meter tall intelligent organism well.
Exactly. Many seem to think this is a "oh boy, those annoying freedom fighters that prioritize freedom over practicality again", but really... In *every* case where a non-free license would be used, Wikipedia would not be able to use the images and let people download them freely without breaking the law. And with a high profile site as Wikipedia, believe me, someone in the sue-happy country the English Wikipedia is based in, would try and win. (if not having this policy)
After reading that article, I'm much less excited than I was. I had assumed it was something similar to Google Chrome OS, but it's not even something that seems like it turned out very well for Microsoft, or something that can have yet undiscovered major issues on the horizon. The idea seems to have turned out overly complex to work around the limitations with the approach, and all that in a resource hungry.NET application. It says they're hopeful to get the per-tab RAM usage down from 16 MB, but I have to wonder by how much? This approach doesn't seem much better than running a process-separated browser written in Java. Ugh.
I have a hard time understanding the decision to use.NET, but perhaps it was a security decision? Anyway, it doesn't sound like the optimal choice, when the project all revolves around low-level features like isolating the tabs even further.
Keeping themselves on the Swing train instead of evolving things like SWT was among Sun's greatest mistakes IMHO.:(
It looks horrible on all platforms, because it needs to work on all platforms without using native controls.
Sure, it's *hard* to make native controls work out well in cross-platform apps, but with enough thought put into it, it can be done pretty well after all. Qt is quite successful, for example. There have been apps I've thought was native using Win32 or GTK, when they were built on Qt. And then I'm a nitpicking guy that often notice when the pixels are off. Running Swing is like watching a puke dry in comparison. For no special reason, because it's shown that native-like controls can be done quite successfully.
but recent changes could strengthen Java's hand, SD Times is reporting
OK, I've glanced over the article twice now, and can't see anywhere where they bring up what could be strengthening Java's position in the future?
I'm assuming it's updates to Eclipse, but they never state it explicitly, just that some Linux distros have weaker IDE support compared to MonoDevelop? *shrug*
What's destroying local knowledge is the video baby-sitters in the back-seat. When I was a kid we knew what our neighborhood LOOKED like. These days kids just stare at the screen in the headrest in front of them from the time they pull away until they get where they're going. I'll bet half of them couldn't find their way home if you dropped them off two blocks away.
I dunno, I used to read magazines quite a bit when I was a kid and taking long enough trips to take me the time to do so.
If this is true it will be just like speed dial and later the cell phone contact list. Yes we did lose the ability to recite everybody's number, but we rarely miss it. If we don't have our cell phone we call information, if our satnav breaks we will use google maps on a smart phone.... in the long run its just no big deal.
It's also easy to feel that technology like this is making as more "stupid", having less to think about, but in reality, we're fed with more information in our daily lives than ever before in the modern age. So technology like this to make our minds rest at times may actually benefit us, in my opinion.
They need to revise, an IP address identifies a NETWORK, but not neccessarily conclusively any particular computer.
A network endpoint, yes.
So there's another level there. Not only is an IP address not good for identifying a person, but it's rather useless to discover a particular computer either.
I agree about this, and that's why I think the methodology RIAA is using *should* not really hold in court. They should really provide them with name and date ranges, forget about the IP addresses, it's just an Internet Protocol technicality and should be treated as such.
Oh damn, it feels like that summary is reeking with grammar mistakes due to me being Swedish now that I'm re-reading what I just quickly wrote. Hopefully it was more understandable than the translated article at least.:-S
....you can read that? Could someone put that into actually readable english for me?
OK, some quotes from one of his former partners there:
- Pandeya (the GGF CEO) is completely freed of shame. - This will end with misery. - And what the hell is he dealing with TPB for? - To me, the warning bells are constantly ringing regarding Pandeya. - If these guys behind the TPB now deals with Pandeya, they're leaving the ashes for the fire. - It will end with them (TPB founders) not sitting with a dime on their hands. - I have never met anyone like him. - When I discuss this with more experienced partners, their mind boggles. - People like Hans Pandeya must not play with the big guns. - No one from the family Wallenberg will touch him with a pole. - But he can earn quite a bit of money as long as he's afloat.
He introduced the company GGF now purchasing TPB to the stock market via a "back door" (since Johan StaÃl von Holstein denied it from being introduced the normal way as he felt the company was too small, and things went too quickly) by letting it be devoured by a company called AddYourLogo, a company then in crisis which an ecocriminal was behind. Pandeya soon rose to become its primary owner.
Pandeya then asked for 60M SEK, and later even more, so that he soon had 100M SEK in funds from his company's owners. These money are now supposedly gone according to the anonymous partner, and the reason being that Pandeya pumping GGF on the money by letting GGF's own consulting company get expensive honorariums from GGF due to them keeping the aformentioned software Smart Launch up-to-date.:-S
The anonymous partner then claims "Where has the money went? GGF barely has any employees."
The partner later told this to a professor in finance analysis, and he claimed this was the perfect way of emptying a company from funds, and if he'd done so himself, he'd done it a similar way, with a small consulting company being made very expensive.
GGF is on the Swedish "Aktietorget" where AddYourLogo originally was. This is a stock listing exempt from control from the Swedish Finance Inspection. The partner continues by claiming this kind of stock market introduction was probably not even legal, since the maximum stock ownership in a company is 30%. Pandeya owned 80% in GGF/AddYourLogo at the time. This rule is there to avoid "muscle men" and bluff introductions from taking place.
I think that the company that did buy The Piratebay was a shell company for one the RIAA/MPAA members.
I don't think so, they've been around for a couple of years in other businesses. BUT they have quite a poor reputation, it seems. The CEO seem to be the kind of guy that just pulls out once the deal is over, from what I've read. He would already have made 30-40 million SEK or something on that order. Their stock skyrocketed from basically nothing. I wonder what he REALLY told the TPB folks.:-S
The Swedish news site Realtid.se is now running an article that make this sound less than promising, even if you wasn't bothered by the concept presented in this (Slashdot) article.
Slashdot Mirror
LMAO, same here. I got this "holy fucking fuck" thought in my head until I realized. :D
Damn. But still impressive, especially given Earth's damn atmosphere in the way. And that artist's impression would be perfect as a schematic picture for Betelguese to complement its Wikipedia article, and possibly even the supergiant article, if it just wasn't for that one probably being an ESA picture. ESA has a far less permissive license than NASA. :-(
Its not P2P in itself that is wrong. It is the use.
Of course, I actually don't think they're mistaking themselves there. But rather looking to ban use on gov't networks just so stupid users won't use it incorrectly and share everything they've got.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Wave_Federation_Protocol ?
At least these aliens are slightly more alien, but they're still bipedal oxygen breathers with bilateral symmetry.
FWIW, it took evolution billions of years to come up with that this is a very efficient way of moving intelligent beings with use of free appendages (arms + hands) around a solid earth crust with an oxygen atmosphere. I'm not so sure this is a "one in hundreds" of potentially useful evolutionary ideas, but rather one in very few. That it's symmetric comes from cellular division, and there is so far little supporting evidence that alternative mechanisms can support a two meter tall intelligent organism well.
Soon enough, there won't be a single, simple, answer to the classic question
how is babby formed
It's because users of Microsoft services are more stupid than the general population. There, I said it!
Exactly. Many seem to think this is a "oh boy, those annoying freedom fighters that prioritize freedom over practicality again", but really... In *every* case where a non-free license would be used, Wikipedia would not be able to use the images and let people download them freely without breaking the law. And with a high profile site as Wikipedia, believe me, someone in the sue-happy country the English Wikipedia is based in, would try and win. (if not having this policy)
Apparently they care more about freedom than having the highest quality images available. What more is there to say?
Correction: Apparently, they care more about not getting sued than having the highest quality images available. What more is there to say?
How in the fuck did these guys in any way contribute to the LOTR films, or even the whole mythos itself?
Why normal people support laws like this.
They hear the word child pornography. Then they stop thinking. And if you question the sense, you are a pedophile, or support them.
Especially as these filters are never misused for other things than child pornography for convenience, when they're in place and all.
How about spending the resources on busting pedophiles and exposing pedophile rings instead? Or was that too straightforward and precise?
The same tired promises as ever, wrapped in fancier 3D windowing effects.
No, actually Aero Glass hasn't been updated noticeably, you troll. ;-)
After reading that article, I'm much less excited than I was. I had assumed it was something similar to Google Chrome OS, but it's not even something that seems like it turned out very well for Microsoft, or something that can have yet undiscovered major issues on the horizon. The idea seems to have turned out overly complex to work around the limitations with the approach, and all that in a resource hungry .NET application. It says they're hopeful to get the per-tab RAM usage down from 16 MB, but I have to wonder by how much? This approach doesn't seem much better than running a process-separated browser written in Java. Ugh.
I have a hard time understanding the decision to use .NET, but perhaps it was a security decision? Anyway, it doesn't sound like the optimal choice, when the project all revolves around low-level features like isolating the tabs even further.
Keeping themselves on the Swing train instead of evolving things like SWT was among Sun's greatest mistakes IMHO. :(
It looks horrible on all platforms, because it needs to work on all platforms without using native controls.
Sure, it's *hard* to make native controls work out well in cross-platform apps, but with enough thought put into it, it can be done pretty well after all. Qt is quite successful, for example. There have been apps I've thought was native using Win32 or GTK, when they were built on Qt. And then I'm a nitpicking guy that often notice when the pixels are off. Running Swing is like watching a puke dry in comparison. For no special reason, because it's shown that native-like controls can be done quite successfully.
but recent changes could strengthen Java's hand, SD Times is reporting
OK, I've glanced over the article twice now, and can't see anywhere where they bring up what could be strengthening Java's position in the future?
I'm assuming it's updates to Eclipse, but they never state it explicitly, just that some Linux distros have weaker IDE support compared to MonoDevelop? *shrug*
With the general opinion of Windows 7, I doubt it.
What's destroying local knowledge is the video baby-sitters in the back-seat. When I was a kid we knew what our neighborhood LOOKED like. These days kids just stare at the screen in the headrest in front of them from the time they pull away until they get where they're going. I'll bet half of them couldn't find their way home if you dropped them off two blocks away.
I dunno, I used to read magazines quite a bit when I was a kid and taking long enough trips to take me the time to do so.
If this is true it will be just like speed dial and later the cell phone contact list. Yes we did lose the ability to recite everybody's number, but we rarely miss it. If we don't have our cell phone we call information, if our satnav breaks we will use google maps on a smart phone.... in the long run its just no big deal.
It's also easy to feel that technology like this is making as more "stupid", having less to think about, but in reality, we're fed with more information in our daily lives than ever before in the modern age. So technology like this to make our minds rest at times may actually benefit us, in my opinion.
They need to revise, an IP address identifies a NETWORK, but not neccessarily conclusively any particular computer.
A network endpoint, yes.
So there's another level there. Not only is an IP address not good for identifying a person, but it's rather useless to discover a particular computer either.
I agree about this, and that's why I think the methodology RIAA is using *should* not really hold in court. They should really provide them with name and date ranges, forget about the IP addresses, it's just an Internet Protocol technicality and should be treated as such.
I looked in the program, and tried finding it on the home page, but I don't get how you're supposed to skip forward/backwards frame-by-frame?
The menus don't seem to contain the option, and I've guessed some shortcut keys with no luck... Hmm...
Oh damn, it feels like that summary is reeking with grammar mistakes due to me being Swedish now that I'm re-reading what I just quickly wrote. Hopefully it was more understandable than the translated article at least. :-S
....you can read that? Could someone put that into actually readable english for me?
OK, some quotes from one of his former partners there:
- Pandeya (the GGF CEO) is completely freed of shame.
- This will end with misery.
- And what the hell is he dealing with TPB for?
- To me, the warning bells are constantly ringing regarding Pandeya.
- If these guys behind the TPB now deals with Pandeya, they're leaving the ashes for the fire.
- It will end with them (TPB founders) not sitting with a dime on their hands.
- I have never met anyone like him.
- When I discuss this with more experienced partners, their mind boggles.
- People like Hans Pandeya must not play with the big guns.
- No one from the family Wallenberg will touch him with a pole.
- But he can earn quite a bit of money as long as he's afloat.
He introduced the company GGF now purchasing TPB to the stock market via a "back door" (since Johan StaÃl von Holstein denied it from being introduced the normal way as he felt the company was too small, and things went too quickly) by letting it be devoured by a company called AddYourLogo, a company then in crisis which an ecocriminal was behind. Pandeya soon rose to become its primary owner.
Pandeya then asked for 60M SEK, and later even more, so that he soon had 100M SEK in funds from his company's owners. These money are now supposedly gone according to the anonymous partner, and the reason being that Pandeya pumping GGF on the money by letting GGF's own consulting company get expensive honorariums from GGF due to them keeping the aformentioned software Smart Launch up-to-date. :-S
The anonymous partner then claims "Where has the money went? GGF barely has any employees."
The partner later told this to a professor in finance analysis, and he claimed this was the perfect way of emptying a company from funds, and if he'd done so himself, he'd done it a similar way, with a small consulting company being made very expensive.
GGF is on the Swedish "Aktietorget" where AddYourLogo originally was. This is a stock listing exempt from control from the Swedish Finance Inspection. The partner continues by claiming this kind of stock market introduction was probably not even legal, since the maximum stock ownership in a company is 30%. Pandeya owned 80% in GGF/AddYourLogo at the time. This rule is there to avoid "muscle men" and bluff introductions from taking place.
I think that the company that did buy The Piratebay was a shell company for one the RIAA/MPAA members.
I don't think so, they've been around for a couple of years in other businesses. BUT they have quite a poor reputation, it seems. The CEO seem to be the kind of guy that just pulls out once the deal is over, from what I've read. He would already have made 30-40 million SEK or something on that order. Their stock skyrocketed from basically nothing. I wonder what he REALLY told the TPB folks. :-S
The Swedish news site Realtid.se is now running an article that make this sound less than promising, even if you wasn't bothered by the concept presented in this (Slashdot) article.
Please excuse the Google Translate machine translation, but it should still be readable:
http://translate.google.se/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Frealtid.se%2FArticlePages%2F200906%2F30%2F20090630101501_Realtid980%2F20090630101501_Realtid980.dbp.asp&sl=sv&tl=en&history_state0=
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