You have some of the details of the situation wrong:
There are two main parts of a Java runtime, the virtual machine, and the standard library. The OpenJDK project encompasses both of these items, as well as development tools. Harmony is Apache's compatible reimplementation of the standard library. It was written before OpenJDK existed, with much of the work done by IBM. Dalvik is Android's virtual machine, which is completely incompatible with the java virtual machine. It is written by Google and it is not related to the Apache project. Both Dalvik and a subset of Apache are used in Android.
And yet when the US government asked VeriSign to revoke domain names, all the root servers mirrored that decision. Just because DNS is distributed doesn't make it the least bit decentralized.
That's interesting. I never got into private trackers, so I had the opposite experience. I always liked how Napster let you browse people's shares. I would search for an artist I had heard about and then while downloading I would look through their collection and find all sort of other music that I had never heard of, and would download some of that as well. I discovered more bands that way then anything else at the time.
When Napster was shut down, I tried a few other packages, but the built-in search and public trackers didn't really have the same discoverability that Napster had. Shortly after sites like Myspace and later LastFM filled the role of try-before-you-buy, which is all I really used filesharing software for.
So you are saying that Napster never got very popular?
The reason that Bitorrent became popular was because it was a faster protocol, and thus worked better for large files like videos and games. It had nothing to do with people being turned off by integrated search.
Every time I see the Falcon 9 Heavy concept, I can just see Elon saying "Fuck everything were doing 27 engines":)
I get the R&D cost savings in reusing what you already have, but it seems like if you are building something that is that much bigger than a Falcon 1, the production costs would make it worth designing a larger engine.
Yeah, that will definitely work for voice calls. Data service is more complicated. You might have working 2G or 3G or neither depending on what the phone supports, and what service is in your area.
He is asking for advice on how to handle the legal matters of this situation. Since Japan and the US have both agreed to the Berne convention, then legally copyright exists for at least 50 years past the death of the author. It doesn't matter what you think copyright duration should be, he has broken the law, and could be liable for damages. The courts aren't going to overthrow a law that has already been ruled constitutional, so it is futile to fight this in court. The best legal advice in this situation is to let it go.
If you are born into the same family, that means that you will marry and reproduce with someone outside of the family, decreasing the chances of inbreeding across reincarnations.
Wikipedia has always had the ability to look up where to get books that are cited as references. People tend to cite online sources more often because it is easier, and because the admins prefer references that they can check without having to do much work; I've seen arguments where admin threatened to remove something because the reference was an (unclassified) military manual which was only available in large libraries.
If you click on an ISBN you'll get this unweildy page, which links to searches in more libraries, stores, and databases then you ever cared to look at. It would be nice if they used some sort of geolocation to show the most relevant at the top of the page.
The L3/Comcast issue became public after the December 21 net neutrality vote was announced, so no it didn't cause it. Secondly, from everything we've heard the net neutrality rules to be proposed will not effect on the L3/Comcast dispute as it is between network operators, and does not discriminate based on content type or source.
Then how do you explain these glowinglypositive stories about the LTE rollout on PCMag (the same site linked in this article)? Or these non-criticalpostings here on slashdot? Maybe journalists just like to cover different aspects of an event rather than solely regurgitate press releases.
It was password protected. TomorrowNow had employees download PeopleSoft updates and patches under an Oracle support contract, and then illegally redistributed them to their customers.
The iOS game is obviously just a tech demo, probably something to keep Carmack busy. But RAGE itself is nothing like that.
It has been seven years since Doom 3 was released. The RAGE engine was pretty much finished 3 years ago, and they still don't plan to ship until September of next year. RAGE has had a much longer development cycle than any other id game simply because they are spending so much time on content. They are taking gameplay seriously this time around, and they are sacrificing their core capabilities to do it. idTech 5 was very impressive when it was demoed at E3 in 2007/2008. By the time RAGE actually releases, it won't be nearly interesting.
Doom and Quake were fun games. Not all games need in-depth characters or plot to have good gameplay. A simple game with satisfying mechanics and high re-playability can be very entertaining, and id used to be great a creating these sort of games. However, considering how Doom 3 turned out, I don't have high hopes about games where id decides to take themselves seriously rather than just doing what their good at.
If they really wanted to experiment with focusing on content, they should have made RAGE episodic, so that the engine could have been released while it was fresh, and content creators would have time to fill things out without delaying the game so long.
How about everyone? Perhaps you've heard of global warming?
Did you read his post: Cargo ships are the most efficient way, from a fuel and CO2 perspective, to move a given mass of freight Or the article: responsible for 3.5% to 4% of all climate change emissions.
Acid rain? You don't have to be anywhere near the smokestack for it to have a real effect on your life.
That is more of a problem, although still relatively near the ports, as acid rain tends to form up to 100's km from the source, not so much at 1000's km.
If they completely relaxed emissions rules for cars then regardless of whether world-wide pollution decreased we would have smog in all the major cities, just like before emissions controls were put into place. Different types of pollution have different area ranges where their effects are felt, and our laws need to take this into consideration.
If I require you to agree to a certain terms before I will sell you a ticket, and you break those terms, then you have broken the contract you have made with me. So now we are are having the government step in and tell people that they cannot sell their services under their own terms?:)
The performers aren't indentured servants, they should have say in who they want to perform for. If they want to perform for just their friends they should be allowed to. If they want to perform for highest bidder they can do that too. It is their choice (within reason), and it doesn't require any government intervention beyond the normal enforcing of contracts. Without knowing the details of the case, it is hard to know whether the hacking charges are valid, but given the scope of the operation I think that treating it as criminal fraud rather than just a civil case isn't unreasonable.
Read my link. Warrants have never been required for border searches, and it was never the original intent of the founding fathers for that to occur. The definition is unreasonable is based far more on common law interpretation than you presume.
The constitution only protects against "unreasonable" search an seizures, with unreasonable being up to the interpretation of the courts. Border searches have long had a broader definition of reasonable (since the very first session of congress), and are not limited to safety and contraband. FindLaw has additional commentary on the issue.
I'll take a government that has the power to spend money on harmless nativity scenes over the one we have now. There isn't a single politician that I agree with on every issue, but I can't think of a single congressman that does more to fight for our civil rights than Ron Paul.
In any phone running S40 (most of the simple Nokia & Motorolla phones) all you have to do is press and hold the speed dial number, and if it isn't already assigned, it will ask you to enter the phone number you want to store (or look it up in the phone book if you want). Easy.
But even before I got internet I rarely used the white pages. Many people we knew had their numbers unlisted, and more were in adjacent towns not included in the book we received. Growing up my family always had separate phone number lists sitting next to the phone - one we made ourselves with friends/family and common businesses, and printed directories for all the groups we were in: church, boyscouts, band, etc. I honestly can't remember ever using the whitepages my entire life.
Now that many people have cell phones, and thus aren't included in the white pages, it makes them even more useless. I can understand keeping yellow pages, because you don't have previous relationships with all the businesses you call, but that isn't true for people.
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You have some of the details of the situation wrong:
There are two main parts of a Java runtime, the virtual machine, and the standard library. The OpenJDK project encompasses both of these items, as well as development tools. Harmony is Apache's compatible reimplementation of the standard library. It was written before OpenJDK existed, with much of the work done by IBM. Dalvik is Android's virtual machine, which is completely incompatible with the java virtual machine. It is written by Google and it is not related to the Apache project. Both Dalvik and a subset of Apache are used in Android.
Other than that I agree with your post.
And yet when the US government asked VeriSign to revoke domain names, all the root servers mirrored that decision. Just because DNS is distributed doesn't make it the least bit decentralized.
That's interesting. I never got into private trackers, so I had the opposite experience. I always liked how Napster let you browse people's shares. I would search for an artist I had heard about and then while downloading I would look through their collection and find all sort of other music that I had never heard of, and would download some of that as well. I discovered more bands that way then anything else at the time.
When Napster was shut down, I tried a few other packages, but the built-in search and public trackers didn't really have the same discoverability that Napster had. Shortly after sites like Myspace and later LastFM filled the role of try-before-you-buy, which is all I really used filesharing software for.
So you are saying that Napster never got very popular?
The reason that Bitorrent became popular was because it was a faster protocol, and thus worked better for large files like videos and games. It had nothing to do with people being turned off by integrated search.
Every time I see the Falcon 9 Heavy concept, I can just see Elon saying "Fuck everything were doing 27 engines" :)
I get the R&D cost savings in reusing what you already have, but it seems like if you are building something that is that much bigger than a Falcon 1, the production costs would make it worth designing a larger engine.
T-Mobile will provide unlock codes for any phone they sell, at no charge. AT&T is a different story.
Yeah, that will definitely work for voice calls. Data service is more complicated. You might have working 2G or 3G or neither depending on what the phone supports, and what service is in your area.
Tekgoblin was very slow to load for me, so here are some direct links to the YouTube Videos in case the site gets slashdoted.
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He is asking for advice on how to handle the legal matters of this situation. Since Japan and the US have both agreed to the Berne convention, then legally copyright exists for at least 50 years past the death of the author. It doesn't matter what you think copyright duration should be, he has broken the law, and could be liable for damages. The courts aren't going to overthrow a law that has already been ruled constitutional, so it is futile to fight this in court. The best legal advice in this situation is to let it go.
If you are born into the same family, that means that you will marry and reproduce with someone outside of the family, decreasing the chances of inbreeding across reincarnations.
Wikipedia has always had the ability to look up where to get books that are cited as references. People tend to cite online sources more often because it is easier, and because the admins prefer references that they can check without having to do much work; I've seen arguments where admin threatened to remove something because the reference was an (unclassified) military manual which was only available in large libraries.
If you click on an ISBN you'll get this unweildy page, which links to searches in more libraries, stores, and databases then you ever cared to look at. It would be nice if they used some sort of geolocation to show the most relevant at the top of the page.
The L3/Comcast issue became public after the December 21 net neutrality vote was announced, so no it didn't cause it. Secondly, from everything we've heard the net neutrality rules to be proposed will not effect on the L3/Comcast dispute as it is between network operators, and does not discriminate based on content type or source.
Then how do you explain these glowingly positive stories about the LTE rollout on PCMag (the same site linked in this article)? Or these non-critical postings here on slashdot? Maybe journalists just like to cover different aspects of an event rather than solely regurgitate press releases.
It was password protected. TomorrowNow had employees download PeopleSoft updates and patches under an Oracle support contract, and then illegally redistributed them to their customers.
The full games is currently scheduled to be released in September of 2011. Almost a year away assuming the date doesn't slip.
The iOS game is obviously just a tech demo, probably something to keep Carmack busy. But RAGE itself is nothing like that.
It has been seven years since Doom 3 was released. The RAGE engine was pretty much finished 3 years ago, and they still don't plan to ship until September of next year. RAGE has had a much longer development cycle than any other id game simply because they are spending so much time on content. They are taking gameplay seriously this time around, and they are sacrificing their core capabilities to do it. idTech 5 was very impressive when it was demoed at E3 in 2007/2008. By the time RAGE actually releases, it won't be nearly interesting.
Doom and Quake were fun games. Not all games need in-depth characters or plot to have good gameplay. A simple game with satisfying mechanics and high re-playability can be very entertaining, and id used to be great a creating these sort of games. However, considering how Doom 3 turned out, I don't have high hopes about games where id decides to take themselves seriously rather than just doing what their good at.
If they really wanted to experiment with focusing on content, they should have made RAGE episodic, so that the engine could have been released while it was fresh, and content creators would have time to fill things out without delaying the game so long.
How about everyone? Perhaps you've heard of global warming?
Did you read his post:
Cargo ships are the most efficient way, from a fuel and CO2 perspective, to move a given mass of freight
Or the article:
responsible for 3.5% to 4% of all climate change emissions.
Acid rain? You don't have to be anywhere near the smokestack for it to have a real effect on your life.
That is more of a problem, although still relatively near the ports, as acid rain tends to form up to 100's km from the source, not so much at 1000's km.
If they completely relaxed emissions rules for cars then regardless of whether world-wide pollution decreased we would have smog in all the major cities, just like before emissions controls were put into place. Different types of pollution have different area ranges where their effects are felt, and our laws need to take this into consideration.
If I require you to agree to a certain terms before I will sell you a ticket, and you break those terms, then you have broken the contract you have made with me. So now we are are having the government step in and tell people that they cannot sell their services under their own terms? :)
The performers aren't indentured servants, they should have say in who they want to perform for. If they want to perform for just their friends they should be allowed to. If they want to perform for highest bidder they can do that too. It is their choice (within reason), and it doesn't require any government intervention beyond the normal enforcing of contracts. Without knowing the details of the case, it is hard to know whether the hacking charges are valid, but given the scope of the operation I think that treating it as criminal fraud rather than just a civil case isn't unreasonable.
Read my link. Warrants have never been required for border searches, and it was never the original intent of the founding fathers for that to occur. The definition is unreasonable is based far more on common law interpretation than you presume.
The constitution only protects against "unreasonable" search an seizures, with unreasonable being up to the interpretation of the courts. Border searches have long had a broader definition of reasonable (since the very first session of congress), and are not limited to safety and contraband. FindLaw has additional commentary on the issue.
I'll take a government that has the power to spend money on harmless nativity scenes over the one we have now. There isn't a single politician that I agree with on every issue, but I can't think of a single congressman that does more to fight for our civil rights than Ron Paul.
In any phone running S40 (most of the simple Nokia & Motorolla phones) all you have to do is press and hold the speed dial number, and if it isn't already assigned, it will ask you to enter the phone number you want to store (or look it up in the phone book if you want). Easy.
But even before I got internet I rarely used the white pages. Many people we knew had their numbers unlisted, and more were in adjacent towns not included in the book we received. Growing up my family always had separate phone number lists sitting next to the phone - one we made ourselves with friends/family and common businesses, and printed directories for all the groups we were in: church, boyscouts, band, etc. I honestly can't remember ever using the whitepages my entire life.
Now that many people have cell phones, and thus aren't included in the white pages, it makes them even more useless. I can understand keeping yellow pages, because you don't have previous relationships with all the businesses you call, but that isn't true for people.
Landlines work when the power is out. They are powered by voltage on the phone line which is supplied separately from your electrical connection.
But yeah, I don't get what he is saying about phone numbers either.