The book focuses more on Einsteins life and struggles, more than on his formulations and theories. It's a great and quick read. Denis Brian has great insight into what made Einstein tick.
IBM has done quite a bit of research on autonomic computing. IBM Just keeps getting cooler and cooler IMO. Although I have to say that this wquote frightens me:
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them." - Alfred North Whitehead"
Anyways, here is the link to their Autonomic Computing R&D site:
Pretty simple. I don't answer the numbers that come up "Unknown" or "Out of Area". That weeds out 95% of the telemarketers. If it's someone I know they just leave a message on my machine and I pick up.
Broadband is not dead. Broadband is really in the hand of large companies.
We have seen Northpoint, Covad, Rhythms and now @Home all go down the tubes. These were all pretty much small companies who's business plans were centric to broadband, with exception of @home but it got bought by a doomed DotCom) But pretty much their ENTIRE revenue stream came from providing people service. The growing pains of emerging technolgies have really hurt these companies as the cost to set up and run service has been consistently outweighing incoming revenue. I would like to see some of their business plans and ETA to profitability.
On the other hand - Who is still providing service? The major players left are the baby bells, and Roadrunner. All companies that get their major source of revenue from something else OTHER than broadband. The baby bells get it from telephone service. Roadrunner gets it from it's media conglomerate father. Starting to make sense?
We're slowly seeing the remaining DSL assets get bidded on and bought by major companies. Maybe that will help their businesses survive and not leave their customers "out in the cold."
I have written my Congressman via snailmail numerous times and always been responded to, on topics ranging from video game violence to copyright law. The problem with E-mailing your congressman is that it's way too impersonal, IMO. I'm sure the Congressman is getting WAY more e-mail than snailmail and they get easily backlogged, especially in the days of SPAM. It's also easy to just setup an autoresponder and forget about it.
If you want to write your Congressman, take the time to write an ACTUAL letter, print it out on nice stationary, and use the good old United States Postal Service to deliver it. Words on paper carry more weight than words on a computer screen.
A large amount of AOL's income is from advertisements. You're bombarded by them from the second you sign on, in every window you open, till you sign off. Salon might have adopted the mandatory ad viewing my friend, but they didn't invent it. AOL has been using these for years. Subscribers are forced to view several ads of "special offers" before they can even begin to navigate through the "service." It's like playing Where's Waldo trying to find the Close button on some of these windows.
Actually this is misinformation. There is a preference setting in AOL to allow you to turn off the Pop-Up ads. It's accesible from the preferences section of AOL, they just don't tell you about it. And why should they? AOL DOES make a lot of it's money from advertising.
The AOL experience is not all ads. I would venture to say it is about equal to surfing the Web the amount of ads per screen space encountered. If it were, 32 million people would not love to use it.
AOL doesn't want third parties designing software to be used on their networks because it would be detrimental to their advertising income. Fewer members using their software translates into fewer eyes viewing their ads, which reduces the value of their ad space. It's a safe bet that AOL will do everything in its power to ensure that people continue to use its software.
Hmmm, that is a good question. I'll check at work to see how we got it and let you know.
This isn't the first.
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Hitachi also has a webpad that uses the Crusoe and runs Midori, the FLORA-ie55mi. I have actually had the chance to play with one, it is really nifty. Great on screen keyboard.
Here is the link. It's in Japanese. Babelfish to the rescue?
This was my degree program in college. It was an alternative degree program at Mason that allowed you to specialize in a course of study yet have a large liberal arts contingent in your degree. Here was the basic breakup:
A specialization. It could be anything you want. I chose Computer Science. You could also design a degree by working with a counselor. The program very closely mirrored the general university's program in many cases. I think I didnt have to take maybe one or two courses that the standard CS degree had.
24 credits of general study "learning communities". You could take a variety of courses. For instance, I took a course about American History, and I took a course in which we did a case study of Washington, D.C. in order to study what "progress" really was. These classes all used a case study method of teaching and were very hands-on and interactive with the teachers.
12 credits of internship. I split this up into about 3 different internships. My final internship landed me a great permanent job in the Linux development world.
A set of electives. I took a lot of creative writing and poetry writing courses as I very much enjoyed both.
One of the cornerstones of NCC was a set of "competencies" that the school believed were important to preparing you for the business world. As a senior I had to do a portfolio that proved I was competent in these by showing work that reflected each. I very much believe that this program was integral to me getting my first "real world job" that I love very much and have been in ever since. I DO know that I was a much better prepared student coming out of college than most of my peers.
For more information about New Century College, go here:
It's not necessarily for nonprofit educational purposes just because a beginning guitar player downloads it, and it certainly uses a lot of the work and erodes the work's value.
Not necessarily, but the "necessarily" is why we have the judicial system.;-)
When I have used OLGA it was because I was a beginning guitarist and hadn't yet learned to figure out music on my own. No intention to resell anything - the only intention was to learn and to better my skill. THIS IS THE DEFINITION OF FAIR USE. I'm quite certain this is also the experience of thousands of others who frequented the site.
I would challenge Harry Fox agency to show me a single case where OLGA has been used to harm a recording artist. This sort of strongarm action is one of the things that makes people distrust the recording industry at large.
The Online Guitar Archive, a collection of guitar tablature. Harry Fox is a representative of the record industry that believes sites such as these are violating the artist's copyright.
I wrote a paper on this in college. Here are the pertinent parts.
{snip)
OLGA's Dilemma
On June 9th, 1998, The Online Guitar Archive (OLGA) closed its doors. They closed because the Harry Fox Agency, a representative of music publishers, threatened litigation against OLGA on the basis that OLGA distributes copyrighted material unlawfully. According to Margaret Drum of the Harry Fox Agency: "Some sites have been closed down because they contain copyrighted material . . . the copyright owner can distribute their own [copyrighted material] - it can't be done by other people, and that's why it's considered an infringement" (Stutz). Drum has a valid point, and one that is relevant to a very important part her Agency's purpose: protecting the rights of music distributors. From such a specific (and biased) point of view as hers, the offering of a free alternative to something that many music distributors market is clearly a destructive thing. Drum and other associates at the Harry Fox Agency need to pick up a guitar and start trying to play one of their favorite songs. Commercially available guitar instructional material is mostly in the form of plain sheet music. Sheet music is extremely difficult to understand if you are a beginning musician. The inherent value to the guitar tablature OLGA offers is that it is easy to understand. And because it is easy to understand, even beginning guitarists can use it and learn how to play songs. Even for experienced guitarists, it makes the process of learning a new song easier and quicker. It is easy to see that by making the knowledge available to beginners and experienced users alike, OLGA is doing nothing to harm the music industry. It is helping it by allowing a greater number of people share in the pleasing feeling of learning and playing a song you heard on the radio. It could easily be construed that tablature is used to "teach" beginning guitarists how to play a song. Therefore, according to current copyright law the use of the material would be a "fair use."
The case of the Online Guitar Archive has made it clear that the current copyright laws are out of date and need to be revised. The dividing line between what is fair use and what isn't fair use is blurred. The answer is not to simply amend current United States Code the way the NET Act of 1997 does. The answer must lie in clearly spelling out what is and what isn't fair use of copyrighted material.
Only to the rippers, my friend, only to the rippers. The average "Joe Public" could care less.
I am not a ripper and I value the use of CDs in my computer. That way I can listen to music and still hear IM sounds and other sounds associated with the use of my computer.
This is just another example of the record industry overstepping it's bounds. If we can't catch the pirates, let's just punish everyone. That's not good business sense.
Catch the criminals and punish them. Otherwise you entice "Joe Public" to copy MP3s himself.
For the record industry to find out that a pay for play music service has no place on the Internet: a place where I can go to Morpheus and be downloading them for free within a few minutes.
Why is Napster even attempting this? It's a complete waste fo time and money. It's going to be a dismal failure. I hope the RIAA takes note of this and starts looking for REAL solutions to the "problem."
The article says "basic firewall included in the Linux Red Hat installation" in the firewall comparison section. ipchains/iptables is far from basic. I would trust it more than ZoneAlarm any day because it doesn't crash.
Is he saying that just because it has no GUI front end? If that is the case that's not true either...the Red Hat 7.1 setup has a GUI to set up firewall options.
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Molyneaux should call it what it really is:
Sim Porno Generator!
That company has its head so far up its ass it amazes me.
Einstein: A Life , by Denis Brian
The book focuses more on Einsteins life and struggles, more than on his formulations and theories. It's a great and quick read. Denis Brian has great insight into what made Einstein tick.
I'd spell out "PWND" by walking in the correct pattern!
rofl :D
IBM has done quite a bit of research on autonomic computing. IBM Just keeps getting cooler and cooler IMO. Although I have to say that this wquote frightens me:
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them." - Alfred North Whitehead"
Anyways, here is the link to their Autonomic Computing R&D site:
http://www.research.ibm.com/autonomic/
Pretty simple. I don't answer the numbers that come up "Unknown" or "Out of Area". That weeds out 95% of the telemarketers. If it's someone I know they just leave a message on my machine and I pick up.
Viola.
Broadband is not dead. Broadband is really in the hand of large companies.
We have seen Northpoint, Covad, Rhythms and now @Home all go down the tubes. These were all pretty much small companies who's business plans were centric to broadband, with exception of @home but it got bought by a doomed DotCom) But pretty much their ENTIRE revenue stream came from providing people service. The growing pains of emerging technolgies have really hurt these companies as the cost to set up and run service has been consistently outweighing incoming revenue. I would like to see some of their business plans and ETA to profitability.
On the other hand - Who is still providing service? The major players left are the baby bells, and Roadrunner. All companies that get their major source of revenue from something else OTHER than broadband. The baby bells get it from telephone service. Roadrunner gets it from it's media conglomerate father. Starting to make sense?
We're slowly seeing the remaining DSL assets get bidded on and bought by major companies. Maybe that will help their businesses survive and not leave their customers "out in the cold."
Touche. ;-)
I have written my Congressman via snailmail numerous times and always been responded to, on topics ranging from video game violence to copyright law. The problem with E-mailing your congressman is that it's way too impersonal, IMO. I'm sure the Congressman is getting WAY more e-mail than snailmail and they get easily backlogged, especially in the days of SPAM. It's also easy to just setup an autoresponder and forget about it.
If you want to write your Congressman, take the time to write an ACTUAL letter, print it out on nice stationary, and use the good old United States Postal Service to deliver it. Words on paper carry more weight than words on a computer screen.
Do you really want your words to be heard?
A large amount of AOL's income is from advertisements. You're bombarded by them from the second you sign on, in every window you open, till you sign off. Salon might have adopted the mandatory ad viewing my friend, but they didn't invent it. AOL has been using these for years. Subscribers are forced to view several ads of "special offers" before they can even begin to navigate through the "service." It's like playing Where's Waldo trying to find the Close button on some of these windows.
Actually this is misinformation. There is a preference setting in AOL to allow you to turn off the Pop-Up ads. It's accesible from the preferences section of AOL, they just don't tell you about it. And why should they? AOL DOES make a lot of it's money from advertising.
The AOL experience is not all ads. I would venture to say it is about equal to surfing the Web the amount of ads per screen space encountered. If it were, 32 million people would not love to use it.
AOL doesn't want third parties designing software to be used on their networks because it would be detrimental to their advertising income. Fewer members using their software translates into fewer eyes viewing their ads, which reduces the value of their ad space. It's a safe bet that AOL will do everything in its power to ensure that people continue to use its software.
Agreed.
Hmmm, that is a good question. I'll check at work to see how we got it and let you know.
Hitachi also has a webpad that uses the Crusoe and runs Midori, the FLORA-ie55mi. I have actually had the chance to play with one, it is really nifty. Great on screen keyboard.
Here is the link. It's in Japanese. Babelfish to the rescue?
Is this guy Serious?
Encryption my dear Watson, encryption. PGP over P2P?
In places like New York where everyone is equipped with a cell phone. The distance between them is much smaller, so it may actually work.
I wish they'd just make it "email" and be done with it. It takes the least key strokes. ;-)
For more information about New Century College, go here:
http://www.ncc.gmu.edu/
It's not necessarily for nonprofit educational purposes just because a beginning guitar player downloads it, and it certainly uses a lot of the work and erodes the work's value.
;-)
Not necessarily, but the "necessarily" is why we have the judicial system.
When I have used OLGA it was because I was a beginning guitarist and hadn't yet learned to figure out music on my own. No intention to resell anything - the only intention was to learn and to better my skill. THIS IS THE DEFINITION OF FAIR USE. I'm quite certain this is also the experience of thousands of others who frequented the site.
I would challenge Harry Fox agency to show me a single case where OLGA has been used to harm a recording artist. This sort of strongarm action is one of the things that makes people distrust the recording industry at large.
Yes, I know it is a bit dated. ;-)
The Online Guitar Archive, a collection of guitar tablature. Harry Fox is a representative of the record industry that believes sites such as these are violating the artist's copyright.
I wrote a paper on this in college. Here are the pertinent parts.
{snip)
OLGA's Dilemma
On June 9th, 1998, The Online Guitar Archive (OLGA) closed its doors. They closed because the Harry Fox Agency, a representative of music publishers, threatened litigation against OLGA on the basis that OLGA distributes copyrighted material unlawfully. According to Margaret Drum of the Harry Fox Agency: "Some sites have been closed down because they contain copyrighted material . . . the copyright owner can distribute their own [copyrighted material] - it can't be done by other people, and that's why it's considered an infringement" (Stutz). Drum has a valid point, and one that is relevant to a very important part her Agency's purpose: protecting the rights of music distributors. From such a specific (and biased) point of view as hers, the offering of a free alternative to something that many music distributors market is clearly a destructive thing. Drum and other associates at the Harry Fox Agency need to pick up a guitar and start trying to play one of their favorite songs. Commercially available guitar instructional material is mostly in the form of plain sheet music. Sheet music is extremely difficult to understand if you are a beginning musician. The inherent value to the guitar tablature OLGA offers is that it is easy to understand. And because it is easy to understand, even beginning guitarists can use it and learn how to play songs. Even for experienced guitarists, it makes the process of learning a new song easier and quicker. It is easy to see that by making the knowledge available to beginners and experienced users alike, OLGA is doing nothing to harm the music industry. It is helping it by allowing a greater number of people share in the pleasing feeling of learning and playing a song you heard on the radio. It could easily be construed that tablature is used to "teach" beginning guitarists how to play a song. Therefore, according to current copyright law the use of the material would be a "fair use."
The case of the Online Guitar Archive has made it clear that the current copyright laws are out of date and need to be revised. The dividing line between what is fair use and what isn't fair use is blurred. The answer is not to simply amend current United States Code the way the NET Act of 1997 does. The answer must lie in clearly spelling out what is and what isn't fair use of copyrighted material.
Well spoken, q-soe. Well spoken.
Only to the rippers, my friend, only to the rippers. The average "Joe Public" could care less.
I am not a ripper and I value the use of CDs in my computer. That way I can listen to music and still hear IM sounds and other sounds associated with the use of my computer.
This is just another example of the record industry overstepping it's bounds. If we can't catch the pirates, let's just punish everyone. That's not good business sense.
Catch the criminals and punish them. Otherwise you entice "Joe Public" to copy MP3s himself.
For the record industry to find out that a pay for play music service has no place on the Internet: a place where I can go to Morpheus and be downloading them for free within a few minutes.
Why is Napster even attempting this? It's a complete waste fo time and money. It's going to be a dismal failure. I hope the RIAA takes note of this and starts looking for REAL solutions to the "problem."
The article says "basic firewall included in the Linux Red Hat installation" in the firewall comparison section. ipchains/iptables is far from basic. I would trust it more than ZoneAlarm any day because it doesn't crash.
Is he saying that just because it has no GUI front end? If that is the case that's not true either...the Red Hat 7.1 setup has a GUI to set up firewall options.