These fonts are still available on the Wayback Machine. Just paste in the font URL from this story and go to the old page. Select "from the current server" to download.
Since the EULA allows for unlimited redistribution I have to think this is a legally acceptable method for acquiring these fonts, no?
Ask yourself, what has JavaScript done to improve the web browsing experience? Sure rollovers are cute, but is it worth pop up ads and page trapping and filling your screen with full-size windows to a dozen pr0n sites?
I wish browser makers would focus more on implementing useful things like CSS2. Browsers are for viewing content, not doing tricks.
Choose a CPU speed: this is where cost can deviate the most
Choose options: DVD recordable, type of display, etc.
I recommend generally not buying things like RAM directly from Apple, it's easy to add yourself. Mac OS X should have a minimum of 384MB of RAM, but hey it's cheap. I also would say save your money on SCSI. FireWire is the way to add external drives.
Getting an SMP box is definately beneficial under Mac OS X, but a killer video card will buy you a lot more perceivable performance for everyday use. You probably should just plan on getting the video card directly from Apple with your machine.
All the other things like mice and stuff work so easily on Mac OS X. Anything USB or FireWire should most likely just work when you plug them in.
The story-behind-the-story for this particular case is that Microsoft was caught dead-to-rights by Apple having stolen patented QuickTime technology, if not actual code.
Steve Jobs was smart enough to realize a public commitment to the Mac platform by Microsoft was much more valuable than a court case.
There was a lot more to that $150 million investment than most people seem to realize.
This move seems similar in goal to Carnivore, except it shifts the burden to the poor ISPs who have to pay the costs. I question the chain of custody issues with any "evidence", although I'm ignorant of the Swiss legal system.
Reading the articles there doesn't seem to be enough detail on what e-mail is, so I will assume it's rfc822-style traffic. The obvious way to avoid this law would then be to not use that kind of message traffic. What an opportunity for one or more of the Swiss ISPs to change the landscape of network messaging.
It's time for the existing email infrastructure to wither and die since it's been overrun by spamming and virus delivery.
If I read the article correctly, it seems that the California government brought in a consultant to evaluate their needs. The consultant happened to be an Oracle partner and surprise, came up with a sweetheart recommendation that netted them a huge amount of money. The government employees failed to even validate the contents of the recommendation and blindly followed them. I've seen this happen in other state and local governments.
This is a clear example of what's wrong with the computer consulting business as well as the clueless processes within government.
We used cubicle parts to make "pits". We created largish areas out of cubicle walls and made sure the entrance was rather small (not an entirely open side) and was not accessible from major traffic flow. Inside the pits we would have inner half-walls between every two or three developers. There was a large space in the center so nobody was too close to the other side.
There were many advantages:
kept marketing/sales/management out (mostly)
allowed small developer groups to interact
center space was good for ad hoc design sessions/updates/meetings/etc.
built a good sense of team instead of a feeling of isolated drones
People wore headphones to do music and we avoided giving everyone their own phone, instead having shared phones. It was pretty productive.
...remove all the anti-circumvention software which disallows use of the iPod for non-music storage.
There is no such software on an iPod. It is simply a firewire hard drive with special firmware that lets it play audio from a specific folder when not jacked into a firewire cable.
iTunes knows how to populate the special music folder, but there are no limitations on using the iPod as a mountable disk.
RFC 2616, Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 is a good read. It illustrates that, contrary to popular belief, HTTP is not a protocol defined solely for "web page requests". It is actually a general-purpose protocol for reading and writing data, creating and deleting resources, proxying, etc. No wonder SOAP (amongst other things) builds on top of it. It is a very flexible network transport layer.
The danger really comes from how HTTP/SOAP are implemented. In other words, how secure is the server? Recent issues with IIS allowing full write access to FAT-based web directories shows how poor security design in software can lead to all kinds of unintended consequences.
(This all pertains to the new white iBook, not the original "toilet seat" iBook.)
From personal experience the iBook is a real strong candidate for providing the features specified. It has all the key hardware built-in: CD-RW or DVD, modem, 10/100BaseT ethernet, USB, FireWire, AGP 2X ATI Rage128 Mobility 128, external video. For $100 you can add an internal 802.11b card (antenna already built into the laptop). I have experienced 3-4 hours battery life in real-world use. All this for $1500, which is very price-competitive with other laptops.
I've been using YellowDog Linux on the iBook and it's very complete. Latest kernel and XFree86 4. About all you can't get with PPC linux is commercial stuff like RealPlayer or Wine (you get Mac-On-Linux instead). And there are various distros to choose from like YellowDog, LinuxPPC, SuSE and Debian. Or you can use the pre-installed Mac OS X and go BSD (it's easy to replace Aqua with X Windows, or even go pure text).
If you are truly interested in the best laptop for linux and set aside any preconceptions or biases I think you'll have a hard time finding a better laptop for the price than the iBook as a killer linux platform.
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...this looks like a merger of companies [that] are both fucked. Also considering the amount of overlap in their products, expect more layoffs.
This smells a lot like the "mating dinosaurs" of the 70s-80s, such as when Sperry Univac and Burroughs merged into Unisys. Interestingly enough Unisys survives primarily via perpetual government contracts, and a big part of Compaq's business comes from selling their mediocre and expensive hardware to governments.
Since you no longer work for this company, I don't see any obligation to sign any paperwork (unless your IP agreement explicitly states such). You want to make sure you get copies of any and everything that shows you as an inventor. This will make it harder for your former company to rewriting the application without your name.
You can negotiate with them. Offer to sign the application, but only after they assign your rights back to you. Then you have equal rights to the patent.
Finally, keep in mind that filing an application doesn't guarantee a patent (although it seems like it these days), which won't happen for over a year. Someone could find some prior art.
Yeah, saw this at JavaOne. Fairly interesting, but I asked about the key authority deployment/security. He basically said they hadn't figured that out yet.
Using this for logging into your personal computer might be okay but over the network? No thanks.
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These fonts are still available on the Wayback Machine. Just paste in the font URL from this story and go to the old page. Select "from the current server" to download.
Since the EULA allows for unlimited redistribution I have to think this is a legally acceptable method for acquiring these fonts, no?
Disabling JavaScript is the best solution.
Ask yourself, what has JavaScript done to improve the web browsing experience? Sure rollovers are cute, but is it worth pop up ads and page trapping and filling your screen with full-size windows to a dozen pr0n sites?
I wish browser makers would focus more on implementing useful things like CSS2. Browsers are for viewing content, not doing tricks.
- Choose a style: tower, laptop, desktop (iMac)
- Choose a CPU speed: this is where cost can deviate the most
- Choose options: DVD recordable, type of display, etc.
I recommend generally not buying things like RAM directly from Apple, it's easy to add yourself. Mac OS X should have a minimum of 384MB of RAM, but hey it's cheap. I also would say save your money on SCSI. FireWire is the way to add external drives.Getting an SMP box is definately beneficial under Mac OS X, but a killer video card will buy you a lot more perceivable performance for everyday use. You probably should just plan on getting the video card directly from Apple with your machine.
All the other things like mice and stuff work so easily on Mac OS X. Anything USB or FireWire should most likely just work when you plug them in.
The story-behind-the-story for this particular case is that Microsoft was caught dead-to-rights by Apple having stolen patented QuickTime technology, if not actual code.
Steve Jobs was smart enough to realize a public commitment to the Mac platform by Microsoft was much more valuable than a court case.
There was a lot more to that $150 million investment than most people seem to realize.
This move seems similar in goal to Carnivore, except it shifts the burden to the poor ISPs who have to pay the costs. I question the chain of custody issues with any "evidence", although I'm ignorant of the Swiss legal system.
Reading the articles there doesn't seem to be enough detail on what e-mail is, so I will assume it's rfc822-style traffic. The obvious way to avoid this law would then be to not use that kind of message traffic. What an opportunity for one or more of the Swiss ISPs to change the landscape of network messaging.
It's time for the existing email infrastructure to wither and die since it's been overrun by spamming and virus delivery.
If I read the article correctly, it seems that the California government brought in a consultant to evaluate their needs. The consultant happened to be an Oracle partner and surprise, came up with a sweetheart recommendation that netted them a huge amount of money. The government employees failed to even validate the contents of the recommendation and blindly followed them. I've seen this happen in other state and local governments.
This is a clear example of what's wrong with the computer consulting business as well as the clueless processes within government.
Sadly, the movies with a good plot seem to go unnoticed. Gary Sinese's movie, "The Impostor" was awesome.
- kept marketing/sales/management out (mostly)
- allowed small developer groups to interact
- center space was good for ad hoc design sessions/updates/meetings/etc.
- built a good sense of team instead of a feeling of isolated drones
People wore headphones to do music and we avoided giving everyone their own phone, instead having shared phones. It was pretty productive.My favorite Forth hack is OFPong, an Open Firmware implementation of Pong. It can be found on the MacHack 1998 Hacks page.
RFC 2616, Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 is a good read. It illustrates that, contrary to popular belief, HTTP is not a protocol defined solely for "web page requests". It is actually a general-purpose protocol for reading and writing data, creating and deleting resources, proxying, etc. No wonder SOAP (amongst other things) builds on top of it. It is a very flexible network transport layer. The danger really comes from how HTTP/SOAP are implemented. In other words, how secure is the server? Recent issues with IIS allowing full write access to FAT-based web directories shows how poor security design in software can lead to all kinds of unintended consequences.
(This all pertains to the new white iBook, not the original "toilet seat" iBook.)
From personal experience the iBook is a real strong candidate for providing the features specified. It has all the key hardware built-in: CD-RW or DVD, modem, 10/100BaseT ethernet, USB, FireWire, AGP 2X ATI Rage128 Mobility 128, external video. For $100 you can add an internal 802.11b card (antenna already built into the laptop). I have experienced 3-4 hours battery life in real-world use. All this for $1500, which is very price-competitive with other laptops.
I've been using YellowDog Linux on the iBook and it's very complete. Latest kernel and XFree86 4. About all you can't get with PPC linux is commercial stuff like RealPlayer or Wine (you get Mac-On-Linux instead). And there are various distros to choose from like YellowDog, LinuxPPC, SuSE and Debian. Or you can use the pre-installed Mac OS X and go BSD (it's easy to replace Aqua with X Windows, or even go pure text).
If you are truly interested in the best laptop for linux and set aside any preconceptions or biases I think you'll have a hard time finding a better laptop for the price than the iBook as a killer linux platform.
Since you no longer work for this company, I don't see any obligation to sign any paperwork (unless your IP agreement explicitly states such). You want to make sure you get copies of any and everything that shows you as an inventor. This will make it harder for your former company to rewriting the application without your name.
You can negotiate with them. Offer to sign the application, but only after they assign your rights back to you. Then you have equal rights to the patent.
Finally, keep in mind that filing an application doesn't guarantee a patent (although it seems like it these days), which won't happen for over a year. Someone could find some prior art.
Yeah, saw this at JavaOne. Fairly interesting, but I asked about the key authority deployment/security. He basically said they hadn't figured that out yet.
Using this for logging into your personal computer might be okay but over the network? No thanks.
Overlooked one thing. QuickTime plugin adds PNG support.