Gee, have you seen half the FF extensions that are out there? There's quite a few that are along the lines of "Adds cute smilies to your MySpace posts". Thanks, that's useful.
VNC and SSH in this case aside, it seems that no one could possibly have standing to force someone to release their own original source code even when the software is released under GPL. After all, the redistribution restrictions only apply to the first deriver of the software, not the originator. There's nothing in the GPL that says the licenser has to share the code; only that the recipient (aka "you" in the license text) has to share the code if they release a modified version of it. The originator (aka "copyright holder") is not a recipient, therefore doesn't have to share a thing under the text of the GPL. The GPL makes no promises or commitments on behalf of the licenser.
Given the number, speed, and voracity of deletions on WP, this is probably more like the 3 millionth article, if you include all articles ever created.
By some time next month I expect the 2Mth article will be more like the 1,990Kth.
Which license do *you* prefer? After all, you're the one with the gun. (And, apparently, the violent streak.) The gun is supposedly "free" yet you can't actually *be* free with it. Various moral issues and laws notwithstanding.
Ya. The outside impression is that in order to pass CCNA, you need to show you can memorize Cisco's arcane command set more than you need to know the difference between a bridge and a switch or between TCP and UDP.
I bought what I thought was a CCNA book, from Cisco, that laid out a lot of great details about networking, from LL up to TCP, and filled in plenty of the remaining gaps of my networking understanding. Emboldened by this, I looked into the CCNA exam. And it became rapidly clear to me that the CCNA has nearly nothing to do with networking, and everything to do with using Cisco's arcane, obfuscated interfaces.
What happens to the hapless college students when, four years after this is implemented, there are no more domestic jobs in those fields?
"I can't find any jobs in my field." "Sorry, you didn't fulfill the requirements of the program, please fork up $100K." "How am I going to do that without a job?" "Sir, are you refusing to pay?"
How does a huge minimum bid and minimum segment size promote anything but... well, government coffers and big business dominions? This makes sense from neither a conservative or liberal standpoint.
I could see capping the amount a single entity could take, thus encouraging competition and opening it up to smaller players, and then the smaller players could either take it and run, consolidate amongst each other, or dangle it in front of the bigger players.
Or I could see no limits at all and let them go for the price they are worth.
On old fashioned CRTs, theoretically black uses less power than white. On increasingly popular and cheaper LCDs, not so much. Plasma... I dunno, maybe?
Hate to say it, but most people are willing to change jobs for competitive offers.
This also assumes something that seems to be the trend lately. For new hires, if you aren't there now, you will therefore never get there, so you're out. Forget that if you brought the top 2% in or even the top 20% in, breathing the same air as the top 1%, those people are probably pretty likely to elevate pretty well in the ranks by observation and exposure to that expertise.
Nowadays if you want to expand or change specialization, your best bet is a lateral transfer or a new daring project.
is closing, making it much more affordable to choose that $700 Presario over that $500 Dell desktop with the same specs. I replaced my aging desktop with a cheap laptop recently and I get the benefit of taking my desktop anywhere I want. Not to mention WiFi means I can geek out from the couch, bed... my GF played WOW from the exercise bike once... There is still money to be saved, if you need higher end computing, from a desktop over a laptop.
I do wish though that laptops could be made as modular as desktops are. I can't change the video card, sound card, or monitor of my laptop, add a second hard drive, etc.
If they wouldn't hire an IT manager that was in-the-know enough to read and stay on top of Slashdot (compared to, say, CNet or MSNBC or CIO Magazine), then they weren't worth working for.
It still has the benefit that you can send data without using the (limited) electromagnetic spectrum, or laying down lines, both of which are expensive markets to enter.
Uh, yeah. Compared to a radio antenna or a T1, subatomic particle entanglement and photon beam emission is cheap as hell.
Instead of playing armchair parent, hasn't anyone considered that text messaging rates are a fucking joke?
TMO has prepay starting at $10 for 30 minutes ($0.33/min). Virgin Mobile prepay starts at $0.15/min. Meanwhile, nearly all charge anywhere from $0.05 to $0.20 for a 250 byte packet of data that equates to about 10 seconds of traffic compared to the GSM voice rate.
SMS is still a cash cow, that's the only reason it's not priced in line with voice or even high speed wireless data.
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Their mailer seems to have been ./ed, it keeps insisting it can't send me mail when it clearly hasn't tried.
Gee, have you seen half the FF extensions that are out there? There's quite a few that are along the lines of "Adds cute smilies to your MySpace posts". Thanks, that's useful.
How on earth are they going to remove the vocals from I Am The Walrus?
Or he didn't have a 500 page ready for being 'dotted.
It now says:
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Please check back with us in a few minutes.
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VNC and SSH in this case aside, it seems that no one could possibly have standing to force someone to release their own original source code even when the software is released under GPL. After all, the redistribution restrictions only apply to the first deriver of the software, not the originator. There's nothing in the GPL that says the licenser has to share the code; only that the recipient (aka "you" in the license text) has to share the code if they release a modified version of it. The originator (aka "copyright holder") is not a recipient, therefore doesn't have to share a thing under the text of the GPL. The GPL makes no promises or commitments on behalf of the licenser.
Given the number, speed, and voracity of deletions on WP, this is probably more like the 3 millionth article, if you include all articles ever created.
By some time next month I expect the 2Mth article will be more like the 1,990Kth.
Which license do *you* prefer? After all, you're the one with the gun. (And, apparently, the violent streak.) The gun is supposedly "free" yet you can't actually *be* free with it. Various moral issues and laws notwithstanding.
...placing restrictions on reuse and redistribution of software is not really *open*?
Fuck gold! If you win the Naruto raffle you get your weight in Top Ramen.
Ya. The outside impression is that in order to pass CCNA, you need to show you can memorize Cisco's arcane command set more than you need to know the difference between a bridge and a switch or between TCP and UDP.
Sadly, great technological advances such as this always seem to require useless, utterly stupid gimmicks like that in order to achieve wide adoption.
I bought what I thought was a CCNA book, from Cisco, that laid out a lot of great details about networking, from LL up to TCP, and filled in plenty of the remaining gaps of my networking understanding. Emboldened by this, I looked into the CCNA exam. And it became rapidly clear to me that the CCNA has nearly nothing to do with networking, and everything to do with using Cisco's arcane, obfuscated interfaces.
Yeah, and you get collected on, and ruin your credit, which makes it harder for you to do most anything else, in some cases, even getting a job.
In Soviet America, college TAKES credit!
What happens to the hapless college students when, four years after this is implemented, there are no more domestic jobs in those fields?
"I can't find any jobs in my field."
"Sorry, you didn't fulfill the requirements of the program, please fork up $100K."
"How am I going to do that without a job?"
"Sir, are you refusing to pay?"
How does a huge minimum bid and minimum segment size promote anything but... well, government coffers and big business dominions? This makes sense from neither a conservative or liberal standpoint.
I could see capping the amount a single entity could take, thus encouraging competition and opening it up to smaller players, and then the smaller players could either take it and run, consolidate amongst each other, or dangle it in front of the bigger players.
Or I could see no limits at all and let them go for the price they are worth.
On old fashioned CRTs, theoretically black uses less power than white.
On increasingly popular and cheaper LCDs, not so much.
Plasma... I dunno, maybe?
This is why stocks and banking will always rule the world. They have DRCs up the wazoo.
Hate to say it, but most people are willing to change jobs for competitive offers.
This also assumes something that seems to be the trend lately. For new hires, if you aren't there now, you will therefore never get there, so you're out. Forget that if you brought the top 2% in or even the top 20% in, breathing the same air as the top 1%, those people are probably pretty likely to elevate pretty well in the ranks by observation and exposure to that expertise.
Nowadays if you want to expand or change specialization, your best bet is a lateral transfer or a new daring project.
is closing, making it much more affordable to choose that $700 Presario over that $500 Dell desktop with the same specs. I replaced my aging desktop with a cheap laptop recently and I get the benefit of taking my desktop anywhere I want. Not to mention WiFi means I can geek out from the couch, bed... my GF played WOW from the exercise bike once... There is still money to be saved, if you need higher end computing, from a desktop over a laptop.
I do wish though that laptops could be made as modular as desktops are. I can't change the video card, sound card, or monitor of my laptop, add a second hard drive, etc.
If they wouldn't hire an IT manager that was in-the-know enough to read and stay on top of Slashdot (compared to, say, CNet or MSNBC or CIO Magazine), then they weren't worth working for.
...maybe the esteemed geekery of SD would elucidate on where they went wrong.
The largest threat to democracy is the promulgation of lies and falsehoods.
It still has the benefit that you can send data without using the (limited) electromagnetic spectrum, or laying down lines, both of which are expensive markets to enter.
Uh, yeah. Compared to a radio antenna or a T1, subatomic particle entanglement and photon beam emission is cheap as hell.
Don't put pictures of yourself on the Internet if you don't want pictures of yourself on the Internet.
(And if you do, please, please, don't geotag them.)
Instead of playing armchair parent, hasn't anyone considered that text messaging rates are a fucking joke?
TMO has prepay starting at $10 for 30 minutes ($0.33/min). Virgin Mobile prepay starts at $0.15/min. Meanwhile, nearly all charge anywhere from $0.05 to $0.20 for a 250 byte packet of data that equates to about 10 seconds of traffic compared to the GSM voice rate.
SMS is still a cash cow, that's the only reason it's not priced in line with voice or even high speed wireless data.