Yeah, but at most schools that is taken care of by lab fees, which I am sure they are going to continue to charge after raising tuition rates. This seems more like raising prices just because they think they can get away with it.
The first thing that I thought of when read this story earlier, was why should engineering and science students pay more if their departments are the ones bringing in the most money from research grants from the government and industry. It seems ass-backwards to me, unless this is being done by schools without any research program to speak of. If that is the case I think they threaten to drive themselves to obsoletion. Most of these sorts of schools already provide a lower quality of education in those fields, and now they want to raise their prices as well. Good luck with that.
Erg. I've had all sorts of problems with those USB-Serial dongles. I've tried a couple manufacturers, although they probably all use the same chipset/drivers. If this is for a desktop I would definitely go with a PCI Serial/Parallel card over a USB adapter. Those are rock solid, work on linux and windows, and aren't going away anytime soon.
There are many, many quirks in Firefox, not just Thunderbird, that should be fixed, but no technically oriented manager to organize that. That isn't here job and shouldn't be. It is the job of the lead developers. Her responsibility is to manage the non-profit - getting donations making business deals and determining the best way to distribute the budget they have between advertising, upgrading equipment, and paying developers.
If you have a problems about how she is doing in that role, then say so, but otherwise you are complaining about the wrong person.
Whatever little Mozilla Foundation is providing to Thunderbird has to be better than nothing, which is what they would be getting from them if they went their own way. Unless the foundation is hindering development in someway, I really don't see the point of spinning off.
This wouldn't solve a thing. If you write a song then in most cases you do retain copyright on it right now. There are two types copyrights on music - the copyright on the lyrics/composition and the copyright on the recording. A typical record contract signs over rights to the recording (as well as an N-recording exclusive agreement etc).
Furthermore who is the rightful creator and thus owner of a copyright holder of a recording? The band that played? The sound engineers who recorded/mixed/mastered it? The people who paid for all this to take place? Why is it alright to treat the sound engineers as just work for hire, but not the musicians? What about the case of studio musicians that have no more lineage to the original music as anyone else? If you are going to say that copyright can't be transfered you need to be able to pin it down to begin with, and that isn't at all straight forward with group efforts, even between members of a band.
So suppose you do assign the entire copyright to the musicians. Now you still have to come to some sort of agreement as to who gets paid what when from the fruits of this work. Unless the musicians are able to put up the money themselves, then they are going to have to get financing. The financier is naturally (and rightly) going to want a good deal - either strong collateral or a greater portion of the profits since he is bearing all the risk. In the end they sign a contract stating who gets what, and presumably they are all in agreement with that contract or they wouldn't sign it.
Note that who retains copyright doesn't matter! If you sign a contract saying that you are going to pay back $X and/or Y% of revenue, then you have to pay it regardless of who holds the copyright. The problem with the current situation (or rather the situation ten years ago, which is now changing) was one of unbalanced power. The record companies controlled all the outlets for discovering music and thus signing a deal with them was really the only chance of becoming widely known. That is why they were able to get people to sign horrible contracts.
All these suggestions about not allowing transfer of copyright or not allowing corporations to hold copyright, are just shortsighted attacks on the symptoms of the problem that won't result in any real progress, and will create many practical difficulties. They have great visceral appeal, but the only thing they will change is the legal technicalities of how contracts are written.
To change the relationship, you need to change the power balance not the law - you need to make recording companies a commodity. This is done by breaking down their monopoly on music, and by decreasing the cost of recording, producing and advertising. The internet and other progress in technology are already doing these things. We don't need the government to step in and fix things, we just need them to step back and stop hindering us with their barrage of new unbalanced copyright laws.
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But it was awful. The taste reminded them of ammonia, a strong-smelling substance. They tested the tissue and found a lot of ammonia. That never stopped the icelanders from eating Rotten Shark.
Some (all?) of the samba libraries are also released under the LGPL, which can be linked against software using whatever license you want. I'm not certain, but I think that this includes all of the libraries used by smbfs.
The FAQ in the article is actually in error - you do not need to license your code as "GPLv2 or latter" to link against LGPLv3, just to link against GPLv3.
At first I was just going to blow this off as yet another bar that was trying to get away with not paying it's ASCAP fees, then I read the part where one owner had already payed ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC, and were still getting billed by other piss-ant licensing companies trying to extort money out of him. Are these people for real or are they just scammers? I thought the entire purpose of having a statutory license for live performance was to avoid crap like this.
I am somewhat perplexed as to why the FCC would need to be regulating the security of consumer devices. For organization that need secure communications, there are already many government and private certifications, that insure this. But why on earth would they restrict consumers from purchasing non-secure software radios if they don't need them?
Is this because they feel that software radios could be hacked to broadcast outside of their certified frequency and power limits? Or because they think they need to protect the public from buying 802.11 routers with crappy WAP implementations?
I disagree. They did more than throw out the x86 layer with Itanium. They also threw out most all of the out-of-order code execution and branch prediction that made modern Intel chips efficient. The problem with Itanium was that it was harder to write compilers for program for and wasn't any faster either. Why would you chose to do more work for no gain? There is no reason why Intel couldn't develop a cleaner ISA than x86 that performed better than x86 chips. That said I don't know that it would buy them much - the more complex that chips become the less significant the x86 layer is in the big picture.
How is this different from the old blockquote (below)? The difference is in what how the quote is treated in the abbreviated posts. As an AC you are not using discussion2 yet so you can't see it, but displays messages in a nested format where comments modded above a certain threshold are shown in their entirety, and those below the threshold are displayed in an abbreviated form with just the title, score, username, and then however much of the opening sentence will fit on the rest of the line. However, since so many posts start out by quoting a section from the parent, showing the first line wasn't very useful. Now if you use the new quote tag, then slashcode skips over the quote when in abbreviated form, and instead showing the first non-quote line. It is a nice bit of polish, although I don't know why the couldn't have done the same using the standard html blockquote.
YouTube does not work with Safari on the iPhone, nor does any flash application on any other site (like myspace music player). Instead Apple worked with Google to create a custom application that gets videos from the YouTube servers in a custom format via a custom API. I don't know how well google maps works on the iPhone version of Safari, but apparently it was poor enough that they decided to write a custom application for that as well.
I would really like to know which opinion polls the article refers to and how they were conducted, because I don't believe that these statistics reflect what Americans actually think. The poll numbers give about 14% atheist/agnostic/naturalist/etc, which is close to what I have heard quoted in other surveys. That leaves 86% religious, about half of which accept evolution. Not all creationists are fundamentalists. For example, most older christians that I have met don't believe in evolution, regardless of their denomination. I have also met a large number of young liberal "non-denominational" christians that also believed in creationism. So half sounds about right to me.
I think the transparent menu is unnecessary, and perhaps counterproductive, but not a huge deal. I'm curious about what is disliked about the dock though. Stacks seemed a nice feature, and other than that there really wasn't much to right home about. Oh actually I do have a complaint about the stack - smartly, the last item placed on the stack is the one visible in the dock, but when you go to fan them out, it become the farthest one away making it the hardest to click, even though it is the one you are most likely to open.
I'm also curious about how they are handling mounted volumes. I noticed that they were not on the desktop anymore (yea! I hate using the desktop for anything but wallpaper). It didn't look like they were available in the dock though either. Is the finder sidebar the only place you will be able to find them now? I'd love it if they were accessible via a special stack in the dock, with newly inserted ones showing up on the top. I use DragThing right now to do something similar.
While I'm drifting off subject, I've wondered how the shared volumes will work for large networks. Jobs mentioned that any computer will automatically be found (via netbios or zeroconf?) and will show up in the finder sidebar. What happens if you are on a company or dorm network - hundreds of computers in the sidebar? I'd hope not. Maybe after a certain number of computers, it is replaced with a "see entire network link" where you can browse and/or pick which computers should be in the sidebar.
But getting there is the easy part, and "exploration" is a waste of time. It is building a sustainable habitat that is the hard part and there is no point developing technology to get us there until we are close to being able to stay. Otherwise, it will be the Apollo missions all over again - a handful of trips and then we cancel the program for lack of purpose. Once we finally do have a reason to go back, all the people that developed the original technology are long gone and we have to start from scratch with a new design anyway.
I agree with the congress - our main priorities as far as the manned portion of the space program should be to get a replacement for the shuttle built, and to fulfill our obligations with regards to the ISS as quickly as possible so we can move onto other things. And whatever we do we shouldn't be gutting the unmanned scientific programs.
It does not help my impression of Gore either to get the Inconvinient DVD that says "share" this movie with your friends, while the movie starts with a $250,000 FBI threat against sharing the movie. When they said "share", they meant "repurchase". Sales are more important than the message, I guess. That is like forming a negative impression of Tobey Maguire because Stan Lee didn't get his cut of the Spiderman films. Gore was an actor and promoter of the film. He doesn't own it and has little say in how it was distributed.
That is what I have always heard as well. I don't think that is the new part - probably just bad editorialism. It sounds like the new part is about the formation of the black hole itself - namely that to an outside observer, a star (or other large mass) will appear to take an infinite amount of time to collapse into a black hole and thus will appear to never form an event horizon.
I think the drug prohibition is an absolutely unjustifiable assault on civil liberties that has done nothing but promote violence both domestically and in South America. But this constant mindless promotion of hemp is just silly.
Hemp is not a great biodiesel crop. It is better than corn, but that is just because nearly every conceivable crop is better than corn. Here is a decent approximation of vegetable oil crop yields for various plants.
In reality biomass fuel from any traditional crop is not a sustainable substitute for petroleum - we use too much of it. There isn't enough arable land, and there are already concerns about top soil depletion just with food crops. That isn't to say it isn't a good supplement (especially if the oil is a byproduct that would go to waste otherwise), but we need to figure out something else, like algae or hydroponic crops with sustainable fertilizers, if were are to produce enough biomass to have a significant impact on petroleum use.
Technically in a perfect world, even gas combusts into water vapor. Uhm, not quite. Gasoline is made of various hydrocarbons (like octane C8H18). The carbon has to go somewhere even in a perfect world. A complete combustion of gasoline consists of CO2 and H20, which is what ultra-low emission vehicles are shooting for (and get pretty close to).
In China, these daughterboards are discarded. And sold to the US at bargin value!
The sonboards are the desired product. So that's why you never see sonboards here in the states. Always wondered about that.
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Yeah, but at most schools that is taken care of by lab fees, which I am sure they are going to continue to charge after raising tuition rates. This seems more like raising prices just because they think they can get away with it.
The first thing that I thought of when read this story earlier, was why should engineering and science students pay more if their departments are the ones bringing in the most money from research grants from the government and industry. It seems ass-backwards to me, unless this is being done by schools without any research program to speak of. If that is the case I think they threaten to drive themselves to obsoletion. Most of these sorts of schools already provide a lower quality of education in those fields, and now they want to raise their prices as well. Good luck with that.
Erg. I've had all sorts of problems with those USB-Serial dongles. I've tried a couple manufacturers, although they probably all use the same chipset/drivers. If this is for a desktop I would definitely go with a PCI Serial/Parallel card over a USB adapter. Those are rock solid, work on linux and windows, and aren't going away anytime soon.
If you have a problems about how she is doing in that role, then say so, but otherwise you are complaining about the wrong person.
Whatever little Mozilla Foundation is providing to Thunderbird has to be better than nothing, which is what they would be getting from them if they went their own way. Unless the foundation is hindering development in someway, I really don't see the point of spinning off.
Wow, the cost per weight is almost 875 (unitless).
This wouldn't solve a thing. If you write a song then in most cases you do retain copyright on it right now. There are two types copyrights on music - the copyright on the lyrics/composition and the copyright on the recording. A typical record contract signs over rights to the recording (as well as an N-recording exclusive agreement etc).
Furthermore who is the rightful creator and thus owner of a copyright holder of a recording? The band that played? The sound engineers who recorded/mixed/mastered it? The people who paid for all this to take place? Why is it alright to treat the sound engineers as just work for hire, but not the musicians? What about the case of studio musicians that have no more lineage to the original music as anyone else? If you are going to say that copyright can't be transfered you need to be able to pin it down to begin with, and that isn't at all straight forward with group efforts, even between members of a band.
So suppose you do assign the entire copyright to the musicians. Now you still have to come to some sort of agreement as to who gets paid what when from the fruits of this work. Unless the musicians are able to put up the money themselves, then they are going to have to get financing. The financier is naturally (and rightly) going to want a good deal - either strong collateral or a greater portion of the profits since he is bearing all the risk. In the end they sign a contract stating who gets what, and presumably they are all in agreement with that contract or they wouldn't sign it.
Note that who retains copyright doesn't matter! If you sign a contract saying that you are going to pay back $X and/or Y% of revenue, then you have to pay it regardless of who holds the copyright. The problem with the current situation (or rather the situation ten years ago, which is now changing) was one of unbalanced power. The record companies controlled all the outlets for discovering music and thus signing a deal with them was really the only chance of becoming widely known. That is why they were able to get people to sign horrible contracts.
All these suggestions about not allowing transfer of copyright or not allowing corporations to hold copyright, are just shortsighted attacks on the symptoms of the problem that won't result in any real progress, and will create many practical difficulties. They have great visceral appeal, but the only thing they will change is the legal technicalities of how contracts are written.
To change the relationship, you need to change the power balance not the law - you need to make recording companies a commodity. This is done by breaking down their monopoly on music, and by decreasing the cost of recording, producing and advertising. The internet and other progress in technology are already doing these things. We don't need the government to step in and fix things, we just need them to step back and stop hindering us with their barrage of new unbalanced copyright laws.
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I've been using the new comment system for months and I think it is absolutely wonderfull - far better than any other forum system I have ever used.
Dammit, the non-ascii characters in that link got garbled. Here is the correct link.
Some (all?) of the samba libraries are also released under the LGPL, which can be linked against software using whatever license you want. I'm not certain, but I think that this includes all of the libraries used by smbfs.
The FAQ in the article is actually in error - you do not need to license your code as "GPLv2 or latter" to link against LGPLv3, just to link against GPLv3.
At first I was just going to blow this off as yet another bar that was trying to get away with not paying it's ASCAP fees, then I read the part where one owner had already payed ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC, and were still getting billed by other piss-ant licensing companies trying to extort money out of him. Are these people for real or are they just scammers? I thought the entire purpose of having a statutory license for live performance was to avoid crap like this.
I am somewhat perplexed as to why the FCC would need to be regulating the security of consumer devices. For organization that need secure communications, there are already many government and private certifications, that insure this. But why on earth would they restrict consumers from purchasing non-secure software radios if they don't need them?
Is this because they feel that software radios could be hacked to broadcast outside of their certified frequency and power limits? Or because they think they need to protect the public from buying 802.11 routers with crappy WAP implementations?
I mean it has been three days and we still do not know if Paris Hilton has purchased an iPhone.
And they call themselves journalists.
I disagree. They did more than throw out the x86 layer with Itanium. They also threw out most all of the out-of-order code execution and branch prediction that made modern Intel chips efficient. The problem with Itanium was that it was harder to write compilers for program for and wasn't any faster either. Why would you chose to do more work for no gain? There is no reason why Intel couldn't develop a cleaner ISA than x86 that performed better than x86 chips. That said I don't know that it would buy them much - the more complex that chips become the less significant the x86 layer is in the big picture.
YouTube does not work with Safari on the iPhone, nor does any flash application on any other site (like myspace music player). Instead Apple worked with Google to create a custom application that gets videos from the YouTube servers in a custom format via a custom API. I don't know how well google maps works on the iPhone version of Safari, but apparently it was poor enough that they decided to write a custom application for that as well.
I think the transparent menu is unnecessary, and perhaps counterproductive, but not a huge deal. I'm curious about what is disliked about the dock though. Stacks seemed a nice feature, and other than that there really wasn't much to right home about. Oh actually I do have a complaint about the stack - smartly, the last item placed on the stack is the one visible in the dock, but when you go to fan them out, it become the farthest one away making it the hardest to click, even though it is the one you are most likely to open.
I'm also curious about how they are handling mounted volumes. I noticed that they were not on the desktop anymore (yea! I hate using the desktop for anything but wallpaper). It didn't look like they were available in the dock though either. Is the finder sidebar the only place you will be able to find them now? I'd love it if they were accessible via a special stack in the dock, with newly inserted ones showing up on the top. I use DragThing right now to do something similar.
While I'm drifting off subject, I've wondered how the shared volumes will work for large networks. Jobs mentioned that any computer will automatically be found (via netbios or zeroconf?) and will show up in the finder sidebar. What happens if you are on a company or dorm network - hundreds of computers in the sidebar? I'd hope not. Maybe after a certain number of computers, it is replaced with a "see entire network link" where you can browse and/or pick which computers should be in the sidebar.
But getting there is the easy part, and "exploration" is a waste of time. It is building a sustainable habitat that is the hard part and there is no point developing technology to get us there until we are close to being able to stay. Otherwise, it will be the Apollo missions all over again - a handful of trips and then we cancel the program for lack of purpose. Once we finally do have a reason to go back, all the people that developed the original technology are long gone and we have to start from scratch with a new design anyway.
I agree with the congress - our main priorities as far as the manned portion of the space program should be to get a replacement for the shuttle built, and to fulfill our obligations with regards to the ISS as quickly as possible so we can move onto other things. And whatever we do we shouldn't be gutting the unmanned scientific programs.
When they said "share", they meant "repurchase". Sales are more important than the message, I guess. That is like forming a negative impression of Tobey Maguire because Stan Lee didn't get his cut of the Spiderman films. Gore was an actor and promoter of the film. He doesn't own it and has little say in how it was distributed.
That is what I have always heard as well. I don't think that is the new part - probably just bad editorialism. It sounds like the new part is about the formation of the black hole itself - namely that to an outside observer, a star (or other large mass) will appear to take an infinite amount of time to collapse into a black hole and thus will appear to never form an event horizon.
I think the drug prohibition is an absolutely unjustifiable assault on civil liberties that has done nothing but promote violence both domestically and in South America. But this constant mindless promotion of hemp is just silly.
Hemp is not a great biodiesel crop. It is better than corn, but that is just because nearly every conceivable crop is better than corn. Here is a decent approximation of vegetable oil crop yields for various plants.
In reality biomass fuel from any traditional crop is not a sustainable substitute for petroleum - we use too much of it. There isn't enough arable land, and there are already concerns about top soil depletion just with food crops. That isn't to say it isn't a good supplement (especially if the oil is a byproduct that would go to waste otherwise), but we need to figure out something else, like algae or hydroponic crops with sustainable fertilizers, if were are to produce enough biomass to have a significant impact on petroleum use.