Oh, and nice job calling linux on the desktop a "bubble". As george orwell statet, a writer mixing their metaphors is a sure sign that they aren't actually thinking about what they are writing.
That's arguably a poor metaphor, but it's not a mixed metaphor. "Has the Desktop Linux Bubble Jumped the Shark?" would be a mixed metaphor.
Hey, I'm the last person still coming to work... Come to think of it, aren't we overdue for a slew of "2007 Is Going To Be The Year Of Linux On The Desktop!" stories?
They're also, by the way, great books for brushing up on a foreign language: they're translated into just about everything and the way each book is successively harder gives you a chance to start slow and be reading at a young adult level by the end.
2) My wife, who has worked at the company for a year and a half, has already racked up at LEAST 8GB in ARCHIVED e-mail...Microsoft... It's too little, too late. (and Google Desktop keeps everything within a quick lookup)
Beyond the issue of using email for file storage -- she keeps 8 gigs on GMail? How do I get 8 gigs from them?
My first reaction to the headline was to wonder why this is news. If anything, it's "Debian developers pause mailing list flamewar, release software" that would be newsworthy.
But it's actually a fascinating case of unintended consequences -- hiring some full-time workers seems to have had precisely the opposite effective of the intended. It's a lesson worth considering before deciding that, say, what some third world country really, really needs is millions of laptops dumped on their children.
In fairness, it depends on whether you define "catch colds" as undergoing infection or developing symptoms. If the infection is unnoticeable to the patient, is that a "cold"?
How do these researchers think I performed this amazing feat?
As I understand it, the prevailing idea was that you had to walk around or move your head to identify the smoke gradient, whereas these new results suggest that you can get directional information just from nostril separation, the way you determine the direction of sounds.
Preemptive clarification for the slow-witted: I'm not saying you can't eliminate Word (although you can't eliminate the need to exchange Word documents), just that you can't suddenly start blocking them.
You can't suddenly cut off the exchange of Word documents in any modern business. Unless you can justify bringing your company to a halt over some vulnerabilities with no real-world risk, you just can't do it.
I still don't understand the concept behind making images illegal...I don't see how this is a legal issue before there is an actual victim.
That's a legitimate question when talking about simulated images (I don't know what Canadian law is regarding those), but regarding images of real children, surely you can think of whom an "actual victim" might be?
That's one of the two points I was going to make; the other being that a comparison to corporate passwords from 1989 is only slightly more informative than one to passwords from 1889.
Because legally wrangling over gray areas in copyright requires some fancy lawyering that he as an individual is unlikely financially capable of supporting. Unless he has millions and millions of disposable income sitting around waiting to be burnt.
First, as much as people say this, the fact is that there's no shortage of lawsuits against huge corporations. If someone can find a contingency fee lawyer to sue McDonalds because cheeseburgers are fattening, he can find a lawyer for free also.
Second, we're not talking about some kid with an app on Freshmeat. There's no way a Linux kernel dev with a real case can't get an appropriate lawyer. Same goes for Bruce Perens' bitching about how Novell has somehow wronged him -- the guy was selling legal indemnity but he doesn't know how to get a lawyer?
I think the key is what you said about "gray areas in copyright", where "gray areas" means "not actually a violation but I don't like it".
I'm tired of people thinking they have a right to violate my copyright all the time.
I'm tired of people and companies somehow treating our license in ways that are blatantly wrong and feeling fine about it. Because we are a loose band of a lot of individuals, and not a company or legal entity, it seems to give companies the chutzpah to feel that they can get away with violating our license.
I don't understand -- if he sincerely thinks there are genuine violations of his copyright, he can get a lawyer and do something about it. It's not like there's any shortage of legal representaion available to a linux kernel developer. Locking out all binary modules hardly seems like an appropriate solution.
you can always try to use this $249 bill to buy a psp entertainment pack for yourself. don't rlly try to use, though - if you do, you'll be playing it the next 5-10 years in cell block H!
Some poor lawyer had to pretend to be a subliterate 14-year-old while adding a disclaimer to that mess!
Here's a good discussion of Turin's work as it stood a few months ago. I agree with Lowe that Nature Neuroscience's trashing of him was excessive and obnoxious, particularly because, as you say, there's no question that he behaves like a responsible scientist pushing a wildly controversial idea should.
Is Jobs scared of Aero?, does it make sense to go for a new UI now?, has Aqua run out of steam?
Faced with the prospect of being "boring and unoriginal" compared to OLPC vaporware, Steve has decided to one-up the "View Source" button and make XCode the new interface.
For that matter, the title "Market Research Company Secretly Installs Spyware" is completely wrong. Even the researchers aren't suggesting comScore* is actively involved in anything illegal, just that they're indiscriminate about what kind of scum they use as distributors.
* I was going to ridicule the submitter/editor but they actually got the company's name right, while Forbes is wrong...
Office will apparently be missing a feature so vital to cross-platform compatibility that I believe it will be the beginning of the end for the Mac version of the productivity suite...
And in other news, Open Office is getting that same feature, for which contribution Novell is being roundly denounced for conspiring with Microsoft to bring about the end of open-source software.
If it hadn't been for the reference to GMail, I'd be wondering if this story had been sitting in the queue since 1998. Now, off to buy some LNUX shares, and one of those Tommy Hilfiger straps to hang my keys around my neck!
...but I really think this is an injustice for the people who had their identities and privacy compromised...
AFAICT, they can certainly still bring civil action, shareholders already are suing, the SEC is investigating and criminal charges are still on the table. Basically, HP paid a fine to avoid the risk of a larger fine, as is completely routine.
I'd wonder where "theodp" and CowboyNeal are getting their bizarre spin on this from if I didn't know that most of the people here still don't understand the difference between criminal and civil law, despite spending every day ranting about legal proceedings.
Zonk, if that was intended as sarcasm, my bad, and the only people dumber than me are the Nintendo zealots who are actively defending your supposed point.
(In fact, I had thought that Miyamoto's comment was intended to be facetious and that you and Gamasutra had both missed it. At this point, I have no idea...)
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That's arguably a poor metaphor, but it's not a mixed metaphor. "Has the Desktop Linux Bubble Jumped the Shark?" would be a mixed metaphor.
Hey, I'm the last person still coming to work... Come to think of it, aren't we overdue for a slew of "2007 Is Going To Be The Year Of Linux On The Desktop!" stories?
They're also, by the way, great books for brushing up on a foreign language: they're translated into just about everything and the way each book is successively harder gives you a chance to start slow and be reading at a young adult level by the end.
Beyond the issue of using email for file storage -- she keeps 8 gigs on GMail? How do I get 8 gigs from them?
But it's actually a fascinating case of unintended consequences -- hiring some full-time workers seems to have had precisely the opposite effective of the intended. It's a lesson worth considering before deciding that, say, what some third world country really, really needs is millions of laptops dumped on their children.
In fairness, it depends on whether you define "catch colds" as undergoing infection or developing symptoms. If the infection is unnoticeable to the patient, is that a "cold"?
That's the point -- the question is whether you can identify the direction without following it! (Which, apparently is also possible.)
As I understand it, the prevailing idea was that you had to walk around or move your head to identify the smoke gradient, whereas these new results suggest that you can get directional information just from nostril separation, the way you determine the direction of sounds.
And of course it's their money, but it still seems like an odd use of 60,000 Euros of donations to the FSF.
Preemptive clarification for the slow-witted: I'm not saying you can't eliminate Word (although you can't eliminate the need to exchange Word documents), just that you can't suddenly start blocking them.
You can't suddenly cut off the exchange of Word documents in any modern business. Unless you can justify bringing your company to a halt over some vulnerabilities with no real-world risk, you just can't do it.
That's a legitimate question when talking about simulated images (I don't know what Canadian law is regarding those), but regarding images of real children, surely you can think of whom an "actual victim" might be?
In fairness to you, Debian hasn't had a new release since 1999.
That's one of the two points I was going to make; the other being that a comparison to corporate passwords from 1989 is only slightly more informative than one to passwords from 1889.
First, as much as people say this, the fact is that there's no shortage of lawsuits against huge corporations. If someone can find a contingency fee lawyer to sue McDonalds because cheeseburgers are fattening, he can find a lawyer for free also.
Second, we're not talking about some kid with an app on Freshmeat. There's no way a Linux kernel dev with a real case can't get an appropriate lawyer. Same goes for Bruce Perens' bitching about how Novell has somehow wronged him -- the guy was selling legal indemnity but he doesn't know how to get a lawyer?
I think the key is what you said about "gray areas in copyright", where "gray areas" means "not actually a violation but I don't like it".
I don't understand -- if he sincerely thinks there are genuine violations of his copyright, he can get a lawyer and do something about it. It's not like there's any shortage of legal representaion available to a linux kernel developer. Locking out all binary modules hardly seems like an appropriate solution.
Some poor lawyer had to pretend to be a subliterate 14-year-old while adding a disclaimer to that mess!
...I'm willing to cut them a lot of slack since the USC game. So let's call this one a wash. Go Bruins!
Here's a good discussion of Turin's work as it stood a few months ago. I agree with Lowe that Nature Neuroscience's trashing of him was excessive and obnoxious, particularly because, as you say, there's no question that he behaves like a responsible scientist pushing a wildly controversial idea should.
Yeah, that's great but we're talking about SE 6!
Honestly, isn't that just Debian in a nutshell?
Faced with the prospect of being "boring and unoriginal" compared to OLPC vaporware, Steve has decided to one-up the "View Source" button and make XCode the new interface.
For that matter, the title "Market Research Company Secretly Installs Spyware" is completely wrong. Even the researchers aren't suggesting comScore* is actively involved in anything illegal, just that they're indiscriminate about what kind of scum they use as distributors.
* I was going to ridicule the submitter/editor but they actually got the company's name right, while Forbes is wrong...
And in other news, Open Office is getting that same feature, for which contribution Novell is being roundly denounced for conspiring with Microsoft to bring about the end of open-source software.
2) I didn't know Cringely was still around.
If it hadn't been for the reference to GMail, I'd be wondering if this story had been sitting in the queue since 1998. Now, off to buy some LNUX shares, and one of those Tommy Hilfiger straps to hang my keys around my neck!
AFAICT, they can certainly still bring civil action, shareholders already are suing, the SEC is investigating and criminal charges are still on the table. Basically, HP paid a fine to avoid the risk of a larger fine, as is completely routine.
I'd wonder where "theodp" and CowboyNeal are getting their bizarre spin on this from if I didn't know that most of the people here still don't understand the difference between criminal and civil law, despite spending every day ranting about legal proceedings.
(In fact, I had thought that Miyamoto's comment was intended to be facetious and that you and Gamasutra had both missed it. At this point, I have no idea...)