I think the review author is really inaccurate with the implication that TextMate is a mashup of Emacs and Netbeans. It's like Emacs in that it's highly extensible via an extensive set of Bundles (and not just for programming: Its support for LaTeX is stellar, for example), but it's build to look and behave like an OSX application, meaning it takes advantage of the OS's UNIX underbelly and GUI.
This paper was not published in a journal. This was a simple statistical analysis by four students.
As one commenter has already pointed out, the process of review and publishing takes at least a year, but it's common practice --- in all fields --- to circulate working papers and drafts. They've made all of their data and methodology available, so that appropriate review and replication can be conducted.
Also, the paper's lead author is a full professor, not a student.
Lord of the Rings is not like other books. The greatness of the book cannot be distilled into a simple plot of ring is found, ring journeys, ring is destroyed. The book is an epic tale with
Microsoft(!) MN-510 USB wireless adapter (works pretty well with Kismet)
As much as it makes me feel dirty, I just bought a Microsoft MN-520 card, and it works beautifully (WEP and all) with the orinoco_cs driver. I looked high and low for another card that I could buy locally (in order avoid waiting for delivery, dealing with potential returns, etc) that had documented linux support, and this was the only one I could find (Office Max). Other locally-available cards were all based on chipsets that aren't yet supported (like the WPC11 v4).
There's been some discussion of this over at mandrakeusers. There's a bug that borks the mandrake menu, but it's easily fixable by running menudrake as root, reloading the user and system menus, and rebooting. You should be good as new. (The same precise thing happened to me after updating; this fixes it. I think it's a long, long way from "completely broken.")
But the GPL doesn't allow for wink-wink-nudge-nudge restrictions -- Mandrake can't distribute GPL'd products and then be sad/surprised to see that people follow that license.
I think it's a little bit disingenuous to accuse Mandrake of not toeing the GPL line line here, or trying somehow to do something extra-legal. They're not disappointed that people are following the GPL; if the people at Mandrake have a response to this, they are likely disappointed in the exploitation of their trust in their users. They're trying to thank the people who support them monetarily or via development effort. Making this into a question of licensing seems beside the point. Mandrake's not going after anybody who shares the ISOs prematurely -- they know just as well as anybody else that it's legal to do so. But for a "community" that rhetorically prides itself on its independence, I agree with DenialS that it's disappointing to see people disregard an important test of a public trust.
As a side note when I discussed this with one of my sociology professors, they told me that back in the day sociologists tried to call themselves 'social physicists' but there was such a strong backlash against it from the hard science community, they had to change the name.
Eeh, not quite. August Comte coined the term "social physics" because he felt that the scientific study of society really was a positivist endeavor, one that built on and used the methods of physics, chemistry, and astronomy. It wasn't a vain attempt to gain legitimacy as a scientist (Comte was a philosopher, after all), but an endorsement of scientific method. At the time there wasn't nearly the division between so-called hard and soft sciences that we practice today; philosophy was part and parcel of practicing physics. The story goes that Comte wanted to distinguish his idea of "social physics" from those of others -- hence the eventual change of name to "sociology."
They won't hire Americans? I guess some of those ex-SCO employees can cross one more address off their list of places to send applications.
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Pippa Norris has been doing work in this field for some time, and has amassed a great deal of research. Her book Digital Divide elaborates quite a bit on the problem of "anyone talking, nobody listening" by trying to articulate very specifically what kinds of efforts have been made by governments to incorporate online visibility in decision-making, and what kinds of further institutional changes are needed to make governments accessible to an online polity.
While the stuff this guy is coming out with is both interesting and true, it is still all common sense. Any one of us could come up with the same deductions that he did. So, why does MS need a sociologist with a sting of letters after his name to do this type of work?
So, we can expect to see your improvements on his system any day now, yes?
the precedent has always been that the locale of the alleged offense has the right to determine what is "patently obscene"
If I read the interview with the head of the CBLDF, however, it appears that the prosecution failed to do this:
The fund brought in three experts to testify on the merit of the medium, the merit of the work in question, and the community standards of Dallas while the state prosecutor brought in no experts and simply the arresting police officer...
And when the closing arguments were given, we went first and reminded the jury that the work was not proven to be Constitutionally obscene; that we have expert testimony that was not contradicted that explained the literary, artistic, and cultural value of the work in question; and without conflicting testimony they had to side with the experts.
If this is accurate, it seems very clear that arguments to obscenity weren't really made by the prosecution. While you're right that the standards are determined locally, it doesn't look like that happened in this case.
I'll bet you dollars to donuts right now that this isnt the case, or at best a half truth.
Hey now, "half truth" implies that I'm trying to get one over on you, when in fact I said precisely that was a detail about which I was unsure. Regardless of whether you need broadband just to boot the thing, the Phantom is still a significant departure from consoles that use removable media. It's not about DRM and OSDN's "agenda," but about usability.
B.) How is this different from the GameCube, XBOX, PS 1&2, GameBoy, GameBoy Advance, Dreamcast (sorta), Saturn, Nintendo 64, 32X, Genesis, SNES, NES, Jaguar, Atari 2600/5200/7800, or Master System? I got news for ya, they were all proprietary, they all had protection schemes, and none of them allowed for you to make backups.
Sure it's still different. If the Phantom's DRM requires you to make a broadband connection to activate anything on its hard drive (a point about which I'm actually uncertain), then I can't take it to a friend's house for the weekend. I certainly can't trade games with a buddy, either. It's a hassle to move it from the living room to the study, and I'm dependent on the long-term survival of a potentially unstable infrastructure to make the thing work. Why do that? It's not about "corporate power," so much as it is about usability, I think.
The most dangerous words you can think during a remodeling project are "as long as we're here, we might as well..."
So true. The very same thought turned a 10-minute repair into a five-hour ordeal on my back underneath the eveaporative cooler on my roof last weekend.
The next most dangerous words are, "That can't be too hard. It might even be fun."
I have to call you on some of this stuff. So you lived in Utah for three or four years and developed a knee-jerk dislike of Mormons, whom you see as riding rough over all the non-Mormons in Utah. You couldn't stand having to go to the liquor store for strong beer, and consequently, when a Utah-based company does something ridiculously dumb, you're quick to ascribe that to the fact that the company is staffed by Utahns. But you're very careful to only hint that they're mindless sheep because they're Mormons -- wouldn't want to say that out loud, so you subtly imply it.
Now, I'm not going to argue that those Utah "software concerns" are the most innovative companies in the world (although, to be fair, WordPerfect had a pretty good run there), but I will argue that it's myopic and absurdly judgemental to ascribe the characteristics you do to people of a "particular religious persuasion." There are lots of stupid business decisions made every day, and I'm willing to be that most of them aren't being made by the Mormons.
And come on. If you're going to insult them, call 'em by name, without the wink-wink crap.
You don't need fancy-pants graphics to run vim, screen, ssh, gcc, mutt, LaTeX and xterm.
I think you misspelled "emacs" there.
Seriously, pretty good advice, but the tinker factor even with an old laptop is pretty high. If I want to waste time with a computer, I'm going to waste time, no matter how old the thing is.
The famous recent case on this subject [virtualrecordings.com] was linked to [tklaw.com] (pdf) by Penny-Arcade. In that case, a parody called "The Cat NOT in the Cat" was banned for using images from a book by Theodor Geisel to make a comment on the conduct of the Orenthal Simpsom murder trial. Because the materials he was borrowing were neither positively nor negatively commented on by his work, he was not allowed to publish the parody.
That's really fascinating --- I guess slashdot can be educational! I want to follow up, though. Is there really no room whatsoever for composing critical commentary of something using unrelated but culturally-recognizable symbols? It seems to me that that's where much of the strength of satire lies. All those years of Mad Magazine spoofing everything in sight come to mind. Is it really a copyright violation to draw an editorial cartoon depicting Don Rumsfeld as the Skipper and G. W. Bush as Gilligan?
If there's a walk-through or tutorial guide on setting up gnucash for [preferrably simple-style] personal finances, please post.
I second that request, and would mod it up if I could. I have poked around in the gnucash documentation, and I'm a current user of it, but I would love to see some good user-directed documentation aimed at giving users lots of practical information.
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I think the review author is really inaccurate with the implication that TextMate is a mashup of Emacs and Netbeans. It's like Emacs in that it's highly extensible via an extensive set of Bundles (and not just for programming: Its support for LaTeX is stellar, for example), but it's build to look and behave like an OSX application, meaning it takes advantage of the OS's UNIX underbelly and GUI.
Good to point that out, AC. The page had been updated to note the same problem that you note: Registers still can't be opened.
The wiki page for OS X now includes a link to this page that contains a walkthrough to get it up and running on intel Macs.
As one commenter has already pointed out, the process of review and publishing takes at least a year, but it's common practice --- in all fields --- to circulate working papers and drafts. They've made all of their data and methodology available, so that appropriate review and replication can be conducted.
Also, the paper's lead author is a full professor, not a student.
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Aw crap. Thanks for the spoiler.
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As much as it makes me feel dirty, I just bought a Microsoft MN-520 card, and it works beautifully (WEP and all) with the orinoco_cs driver. I looked high and low for another card that I could buy locally (in order avoid waiting for delivery, dealing with potential returns, etc) that had documented linux support, and this was the only one I could find (Office Max). Other locally-available cards were all based on chipsets that aren't yet supported (like the WPC11 v4).
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I think it's a little bit disingenuous to accuse Mandrake of not toeing the GPL line line here, or trying somehow to do something extra-legal. They're not disappointed that people are following the GPL; if the people at Mandrake have a response to this, they are likely disappointed in the exploitation of their trust in their users. They're trying to thank the people who support them monetarily or via development effort. Making this into a question of licensing seems beside the point. Mandrake's not going after anybody who shares the ISOs prematurely -- they know just as well as anybody else that it's legal to do so. But for a "community" that rhetorically prides itself on its independence, I agree with DenialS that it's disappointing to see people disregard an important test of a public trust.
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They're all unemployed. Nothin' but time!
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Eeh, not quite. August Comte coined the term "social physics" because he felt that the scientific study of society really was a positivist endeavor, one that built on and used the methods of physics, chemistry, and astronomy. It wasn't a vain attempt to gain legitimacy as a scientist (Comte was a philosopher, after all), but an endorsement of scientific method. At the time there wasn't nearly the division between so-called hard and soft sciences that we practice today; philosophy was part and parcel of practicing physics. The story goes that Comte wanted to distinguish his idea of "social physics" from those of others -- hence the eventual change of name to "sociology."
PS: Like your weblog.
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So, we can expect to see your improvements on his system any day now, yes?
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If I read the interview with the head of the CBLDF, however, it appears that the prosecution failed to do this:
If this is accurate, it seems very clear that arguments to obscenity weren't really made by the prosecution. While you're right that the standards are determined locally, it doesn't look like that happened in this case.-schussat
Well, if you do it like these guys, it costs $98, plus 170 miles of wiring.
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Hey now, "half truth" implies that I'm trying to get one over on you, when in fact I said precisely that was a detail about which I was unsure. Regardless of whether you need broadband just to boot the thing, the Phantom is still a significant departure from consoles that use removable media. It's not about DRM and OSDN's "agenda," but about usability.
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Sure it's still different. If the Phantom's DRM requires you to make a broadband connection to activate anything on its hard drive (a point about which I'm actually uncertain), then I can't take it to a friend's house for the weekend. I certainly can't trade games with a buddy, either. It's a hassle to move it from the living room to the study, and I'm dependent on the long-term survival of a potentially unstable infrastructure to make the thing work. Why do that? It's not about "corporate power," so much as it is about usability, I think.
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So true. The very same thought turned a 10-minute repair into a five-hour ordeal on my back underneath the eveaporative cooler on my roof last weekend.
The next most dangerous words are, "That can't be too hard. It might even be fun."
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Now, I'm not going to argue that those Utah "software concerns" are the most innovative companies in the world (although, to be fair, WordPerfect had a pretty good run there), but I will argue that it's myopic and absurdly judgemental to ascribe the characteristics you do to people of a "particular religious persuasion." There are lots of stupid business decisions made every day, and I'm willing to be that most of them aren't being made by the Mormons.
And come on. If you're going to insult them, call 'em by name, without the wink-wink crap.
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I see a real pattern of misuse of the DMCA.
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I think you misspelled "emacs" there.
Seriously, pretty good advice, but the tinker factor even with an old laptop is pretty high. If I want to waste time with a computer, I'm going to waste time, no matter how old the thing is.
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That's really fascinating --- I guess slashdot can be educational! I want to follow up, though. Is there really no room whatsoever for composing critical commentary of something using unrelated but culturally-recognizable symbols? It seems to me that that's where much of the strength of satire lies. All those years of Mad Magazine spoofing everything in sight come to mind. Is it really a copyright violation to draw an editorial cartoon depicting Don Rumsfeld as the Skipper and G. W. Bush as Gilligan?
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I second that request, and would mod it up if I could. I have poked around in the gnucash documentation, and I'm a current user of it, but I would love to see some good user-directed documentation aimed at giving users lots of practical information.
-Alan