Hollywood seems to be awash with remakes. And not of good scripts, bad films - the perfect candidates, but films like the italian job, which had a patchy script, but brilliant acting, cast, and direction. So they get the lousy script and add lousy acting, cast and direction. nice one.
Bout time hollywood relenquished their monopoly of the film industry and allowed some others to have go, methinks.
Well, what two consenting adults do in the privacy of their own premises is up to them. Hence why prostitution is legal in most of Europe, where Librarlism still carries it's original meaning, not the one America seems to attribute it (which is, economically the complete opposite.
The middle classes came from an industrialised economy, not labour laws. Although China does have poorer working conditions, the fact that people are prepared to work in them is making their economy richer - and thus them. Look at the number of cars in China, the urbanisation, the amounts of consumer goods they are buying and compare then to ten years ago, or even five. The people there are getting richer and becoming more middle class. Not all of them are feeling these effects obviously, but more than ten years ago. Systematic high standards of living take a very long time, China is definitely on the up though.
This is with a highly autrocratic government and with little or no trade unions. The hard evidence does not support your post. So where is the gobal job market headed then? Fairly well I would say, the rest of the world has been getting quite a lot richer these last 30 years, even India is starting to get a clue. This is down to the implementation of global market economics - not labour laws and regulated employment and subsidisation (or protectionism) which has kept India poor for decades. US protectionism will do far more damage than allowing these people to work their way out of poor conditions.
It may not make a nice moral rant but taking someone's paycheck away because you deam it insulting to them is hardly charitable. Economics are the way out of poverty, not nice gestures. Sound governance is very important, but labour laws are the luxury of a rich economy I'm afriad.
People with PHDs are over qualified for most commercial programming jobs, and will demand a far higher pay.
They should stick to research, commercial programming is not just about theoretical know how. I know good commercial programmers that don't even have A Levels, that have learnt on the job and at home, and I know graduates who can't get a good job. The latter cost more and expect more.
You're missing the point here. How are they going to build theseself-supporting industries? America had self supporting industries (like IT) but seems itself to be moving away from that model. The world is globalised - one big self supporting worldwide economy with world industries.
Such industry and infratructure in countries like India needs investment to be created, and this needs, largely, to come from abroad. There is no investment without a pay off - access to resources. The resource here being the Indian labour market.
For example, if these people staff the factories, after a while the American companies will stop expensively shipping over their own middle management and outsource that too. The factories will be run by Indians on an everyday basis. But owned by the Americans. But once this training and knowledge falls into Indian hands they have the beginnings of your aformentioned infrastructure and self-supporting industries. Wholly indian run subsiduries and comapnies start to take over the operations there and the prices for the American companies continue to fall. The American economy benefits by lower costs and so investment in other areas is stimiluted and new jobs in other areas of the American economy are created (consultants are making a killing from this outsourcing). The infrastructure gets build in India, they get more jobs, better wages and more training.
The only barriers that stop this are tarrifs, protectionism, and legal balances to try to hold onto jobs. These will fail, hurt both sides and stop the progress. The basic economics will not.
Both benefit, both need it, resistence to globalisation is futile anyway. Jobs move around and change. You don't get as many spindlers, coal miners and stablemen in Britain any more. They all kicked and screamed when progress took their jobs away. Sorry guys, this is what it's like. But believe me, it's better for us all. If the American IT market loses jobs, on the world stage - so what. It's unpleasant for those concerned, but you still have some of the highest incomes in the world. You still have a very comfortable life. You can invest in reducation and suggest to your children to train elsewhere.
Clinton said his greatest presidental failing was not convincing Americans of globalisation, I'm inclined to agree with him.
The American attitude towards this is very short sighted and frankly, very selfish. If IT is losing it's jobs then perhaps it's time to study economics because you certainly need some more economists by the responses to this thread. There is no `them' implementing this. There is no higher body choosing a move to outsourcing. It's just cheaper, and more efficient and good economic sense. Go with it, else you will suffer and China and India will be the worlds largest economies with your subservant and paying the prices for selfish attempts to hold onto jobs.
For those that don't speak Spanish but English with latin stems, mono* is a prefix meaning single or singular, e.g. monotheism - the belief in one god.
For those that speak slightly geeky American English, mono is short for mononucleosis, which is another term for glandular fever.
For those that speak common English, mono means a single sound source, i.e. monophonic as opposed to sterophonic.
But for the Spanish speakers of the world... it's Monkey.
Try using simply foss@domain for lists, and them filter ad filter and filter it. I do agree this is very annoying, and although some listservs do respect this and change the email addresses on list servers, this can't be relied apon. I can't choose my participation based on which projects are going to give my email away.
The only solution that will effectively work (until we fix the spam problem all round) is for list admins to be more careful about munging email addresses to some degree.
The default setting for programs such as pipermail should be one where email addresses are not explicitly displayed.
The best solution I've found to solve problems with email addresses online is Jodrell's mailto php script which renders the address obfuscated but displays it correctly in the browser using JavaScript.
If they encrypt it, how will they be able to use their lovely search capabilities (the only real reason for going with gmail despite the 1GB hype)? Unless they decrypt it every time I search for something. But then what's the point? Just sounds like an expensive use of CPU.
If you want secure but searcheable and indexable email put it on a box you trust. Gmail is hardly going to become a standard we must all support as the transmission and format of email remain the same - so you have no reason to use google's service if you don't want to. But the benefits of having google index and organise your mail all rely on google, or their machines, being able to read your mail. Otherwise the whole thing is a waste of time.
Once people start making good copycat programs you can host on your own servers or with people you trust more then your email will be a little more secure.
If you want encrypted email, you'll have to use old fashioned folder sorting for it to genuinely be secure.
I'm pretty sure Apple users that want to know when the latest software updates for their system are released will use the aptly named, `software update' tool. As for the rest of us, well it's not a new killer feature or anything particuarly interesting to a non-apple user.
So, despite the lack of any interesting news today, it is a bit of a wasted effort posting this non-story on slashdot.
Mentioning that for many people the update degrades performance or range might have been worth it though.
Slashdot is not really their target audience. It's the walmart PC buying public who want cheaper computers and software, but with the same look and feel. This is a site for 'nerds', who can no doubt install a better engineered Linux distro, or the real Windows operating systems.
I'm not trying to be elitest, but I doubt the slashdot crowd is what Lindows/Linspire/Linpatronising is aiming at. There's nothing inspiring about a insecure rip-off OS that thinks sticking tradmarks together makes a marketing strategy.
This is true, poeple will buy a great CD player and spent 30 pounds on a top-notch cable with gold banana plugs and the lot to connect it to their amp. The quality, however, will be lost in the crap wiring from the plug on the back of the amp to the circuit board.
The French rate of losses for the short time they were in the war under their own control were similar to their rate of losses in the great war. Far higher than that of the British or Americans.
A web server and host are just hard disk space in a giant web filesystem. Atop of this filessytem you can mix and present your data as you please with xml. URLs are simply unique identifiers for a page of this data, and allow hyperlinks.
That I have made, at a specific address, some images, journals, rambles, and other junk available is up to me. If you're reading my home page though, then there are only a few likely hyperlinks to it that make sense. You clicked the hyperlink that took you there. If it's useless drivle it won't score too well on google et al. If it was linked from a source you trust, such as google or a website you know to be good and to link well, then it's likely to be what you're after.
A website is just making you files public and that can be weblogs and other content, good or bad. The system shouldn't be any different to dragging files to a "Shared Documents" folder though. People are people and there are crap newspapers, crap TV, crap Politicians, crap Writers all spouting the same low grade babble, but you can ignore it and choose which bits you read. Anyone should be able to post, finding what you want out of it is a job for search engines and trusting web authors, those they hyperlinks, and so on...
But it wasn't a major threat to public safety because it didn't spread rapidly, so that is a good qualifier of whether it should be classed as a threat to public safety. It was clearly a malicious act aimed at serveral people in particular. The script doesn't seem to have been very well equipped for, or directed at, propogating itself arouind the net.
Now I agree it was nasty, and a pain to the 911 operators as well as being perhaps an act of terrorism, but it should be applied to anything that can scale up to meet terrorism.
Your hypothetical premise is to suppose the script was more threatening, and then ask if it would be considered more threatening then. Well, yes it would.
Seems to me the major terrorism has been renamed to terror anyway, so the word terrorism can be applied blandly to anything subversive, with more than one victim, that a government wishes to attach more stigma to.
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Hollywood seems to be awash with remakes. And not of good scripts, bad films - the perfect candidates, but films like the italian job, which had a patchy script, but brilliant acting, cast, and direction. So they get the lousy script and add lousy acting, cast and direction. nice one.
Bout time hollywood relenquished their monopoly of the film industry and allowed some others to have go, methinks.
Well, what two consenting adults do in the privacy of their own premises is up to them. Hence why prostitution is legal in most of Europe, where Librarlism still carries it's original meaning, not the one America seems to attribute it (which is, economically the complete opposite.
Round here they'd just steal your outdoor webcam.
hahaha
i think thats what he meant, mate.
The middle classes came from an industrialised economy, not labour laws. Although China does have poorer working conditions, the fact that people are prepared to work in them is making their economy richer - and thus them. Look at the number of cars in China, the urbanisation, the amounts of consumer goods they are buying and compare then to ten years ago, or even five. The people there are getting richer and becoming more middle class. Not all of them are feeling these effects obviously, but more than ten years ago. Systematic high standards of living take a very long time, China is definitely on the up though.
This is with a highly autrocratic government and with little or no trade unions. The hard evidence does not support your post. So where is the gobal job market headed then? Fairly well I would say, the rest of the world has been getting quite a lot richer these last 30 years, even India is starting to get a clue. This is down to the implementation of global market economics - not labour laws and regulated employment and subsidisation (or protectionism) which has kept India poor for decades. US protectionism will do far more damage than allowing these people to work their way out of poor conditions.
It may not make a nice moral rant but taking someone's paycheck away because you deam it insulting to them is hardly charitable. Economics are the way out of poverty, not nice gestures. Sound governance is very important, but labour laws are the luxury of a rich economy I'm afriad.
People with PHDs are over qualified for most commercial programming jobs, and will demand a far higher pay.
They should stick to research, commercial programming is not just about theoretical know how. I know good commercial programmers that don't even have A Levels, that have learnt on the job and at home, and I know graduates who can't get a good job. The latter cost more and expect more.
You're missing the point here. How are they going to build theseself-supporting industries? America had self supporting industries (like IT) but seems itself to be moving away from that model. The world is globalised - one big self supporting worldwide economy with world industries.
Such industry and infratructure in countries like India needs investment to be created, and this needs, largely, to come from abroad. There is no investment without a pay off - access to resources. The resource here being the Indian labour market.
For example, if these people staff the factories, after a while the American companies will stop expensively shipping over their own middle management and outsource that too. The factories will be run by Indians on an everyday basis. But owned by the Americans. But once this training and knowledge falls into Indian hands they have the beginnings of your aformentioned infrastructure and self-supporting industries. Wholly indian run subsiduries and comapnies start to take over the operations there and the prices for the American companies continue to fall. The American economy benefits by lower costs and so investment in other areas is stimiluted and new jobs in other areas of the American economy are created (consultants are making a killing from this outsourcing). The infrastructure gets build in India, they get more jobs, better wages and more training.
The only barriers that stop this are tarrifs, protectionism, and legal balances to try to hold onto jobs. These will fail, hurt both sides and stop the progress. The basic economics will not.
Both benefit, both need it, resistence to globalisation is futile anyway. Jobs move around and change. You don't get as many spindlers, coal miners and stablemen in Britain any more. They all kicked and screamed when progress took their jobs away. Sorry guys, this is what it's like. But believe me, it's better for us all. If the American IT market loses jobs, on the world stage - so what. It's unpleasant for those concerned, but you still have some of the highest incomes in the world. You still have a very comfortable life. You can invest in reducation and suggest to your children to train elsewhere.
Clinton said his greatest presidental failing was not convincing Americans of globalisation, I'm inclined to agree with him.
The American attitude towards this is very short sighted and frankly, very selfish. If IT is losing it's jobs then perhaps it's time to study economics because you certainly need some more economists by the responses to this thread. There is no `them' implementing this. There is no higher body choosing a move to outsourcing. It's just cheaper, and more efficient and good economic sense. Go with it, else you will suffer and China and India will be the worlds largest economies with your subservant and paying the prices for selfish attempts to hold onto jobs.
For those that don't speak Spanish but English with latin stems, mono* is a prefix meaning single or singular, e.g. monotheism - the belief in one god.
For those that speak slightly geeky American English, mono is short for mononucleosis, which is another term for glandular fever.
For those that speak common English, mono means a single sound source, i.e. monophonic as opposed to sterophonic.
But for the Spanish speakers of the world... it's Monkey.
* I know not it's true etymology.
Try using simply foss@domain for lists, and them filter ad filter and filter it. I do agree this is very annoying, and although some listservs do respect this and change the email addresses on list servers, this can't be relied apon. I can't choose my participation based on which projects are going to give my email away.
The only solution that will effectively work (until we fix the spam problem all round) is for list admins to be more careful about munging email addresses to some degree.
The default setting for programs such as pipermail should be one where email addresses are not explicitly displayed.
The best solution I've found to solve problems with email addresses online is Jodrell's mailto php script which renders the address obfuscated but displays it correctly in the browser using JavaScript.
http://jodrell.net/projects/mailto
If they encrypt it, how will they be able to use their lovely search capabilities (the only real reason for going with gmail despite the 1GB hype)? Unless they decrypt it every time I search for something. But then what's the point? Just sounds like an expensive use of CPU.
If you want secure but searcheable and indexable email put it on a box you trust. Gmail is hardly going to become a standard we must all support as the transmission and format of email remain the same - so you have no reason to use google's service if you don't want to. But the benefits of having google index and organise your mail all rely on google, or their machines, being able to read your mail. Otherwise the whole thing is a waste of time.
Once people start making good copycat programs you can host on your own servers or with people you trust more then your email will be a little more secure.
If you want encrypted email, you'll have to use old fashioned folder sorting for it to genuinely be secure.
I'm pretty sure Apple users that want to know when the latest software updates for their system are released will use the aptly named, `software update' tool. As for the rest of us, well it's not a new killer feature or anything particuarly interesting to a non-apple user.
So, despite the lack of any interesting news today, it is a bit of a wasted effort posting this non-story on slashdot.
Mentioning that for many people the update degrades performance or range might have been worth it though.
Slashdot is not really their target audience. It's the walmart PC buying public who want cheaper computers and software, but with the same look and feel. This is a site for 'nerds', who can no doubt install a better engineered Linux distro, or the real Windows operating systems.
I'm not trying to be elitest, but I doubt the slashdot crowd is what Lindows/Linspire/Linpatronising is aiming at. There's nothing inspiring about a insecure rip-off OS that thinks sticking tradmarks together makes a marketing strategy.
yup, it's a regression back to toddler days to use QT with Mono.
You googled my mum? Man, I'm gonna blog that later.
Well, no, because:
that trillion-dollar price tag is a myth: it was based on erroneous data and analysis
Coudln't this just be added to the existing google interface with place: or location:?
This is true, poeple will buy a great CD player and spent 30 pounds on a top-notch cable with gold banana plugs and the lot to connect it to their amp. The quality, however, will be lost in the crap wiring from the plug on the back of the amp to the circuit board.
For terrestrial use only. Do not use in space.
The French rate of losses for the short time they were in the war under their own control were similar to their rate of losses in the great war. Far higher than that of the British or Americans.
A web server and host are just hard disk space in a giant web filesystem. Atop of this filessytem you can mix and present your data as you please with xml. URLs are simply unique identifiers for a page of this data, and allow hyperlinks.
That I have made, at a specific address, some images, journals, rambles, and other junk available is up to me. If you're reading my home page though, then there are only a few likely hyperlinks to it that make sense. You clicked the hyperlink that took you there. If it's useless drivle it won't score too well on google et al. If it was linked from a source you trust, such as google or a website you know to be good and to link well, then it's likely to be what you're after.
A website is just making you files public and that can be weblogs and other content, good or bad. The system shouldn't be any different to dragging files to a "Shared Documents" folder though. People are people and there are crap newspapers, crap TV, crap Politicians, crap Writers all spouting the same low grade babble, but you can ignore it and choose which bits you read. Anyone should be able to post, finding what you want out of it is a job for search engines and trusting web authors, those they hyperlinks, and so on...
s/should/shouldn't
I meant it shouldn't be anything that can scale up.
But it wasn't a major threat to public safety because it didn't spread rapidly, so that is a good qualifier of whether it should be classed as a threat to public safety. It was clearly a malicious act aimed at serveral people in particular. The script doesn't seem to have been very well equipped for, or directed at, propogating itself arouind the net.
Now I agree it was nasty, and a pain to the 911 operators as well as being perhaps an act of terrorism, but it should be applied to anything that can scale up to meet terrorism.
Your hypothetical premise is to suppose the script was more threatening, and then ask if it would be considered more threatening then. Well, yes it would.
Seems to me the major terrorism has been renamed to terror anyway, so the word terrorism can be applied blandly to anything subversive, with more than one victim, that a government wishes to attach more stigma to.
The trailer is also available as a Windows Media stream from the official Appleseed site, which also features an introduction to the film and soundtrack info.
http://www.a-seed.jp
It's fine. I checked. A quick google of mirko, forums and gnuart threw up his forum, which it shouldn't do because it's /robots.txt file reads:
User-Agent: *
Disallow: /