I don't write laws so I shouldn't have an opinion.
Are you kidding me! This is where we need better civics lessons - you should absolutely have an opinion and voice it to your elected representatives - and encouraging other too as well! It's called democracy.
Sadly, even Slashdot has succumbed to the hate politics so prevalent in the US at the moment. Watching the commentary on this story is as intellectually enlightening as watching the mainstream media with talking heads and rants. What happened - you guys get bought by Fox?
The research was for full plug-in battery powered cars - of which Tesla is getting the most press. What is the research on hybrids? My 70+ in-laws are on their second hybrid car in Australia, and retirees don't quite fit this demographic. I'd argue Mark72005's line that people are not interested in green or renewable - there's a lot of interest, but also a lot of hype and scepticism. This type of somewhat biased research (or reporting of research) doesn't help.
Actually that's exactly the point... the app store is Apple's property and they can use it as they see fit. If I have a convenience store and I choose not to sell porn that's my business decision. I forgo the option of that revenue. You do not have the right to walk into my store and demand that I cater to your desire - I do that as a business decision.
The supreme court gave away one of the last vestiges of individual liberty by enshrining corporations as bodies with first amendment rights. Corporate profits are now more important than you are, so don't worry. Next they'll have 4th amendment rights - and have private armies - wait, those are called contractors in foreign wars...
I couldn't be called a Micro$oft fan, but VML (while as painful as programming a TI-38) was useful in IE only environments (a man has to eat), and Microsoft tried to go down the standards route (http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-VML). The fact that VML was never adopted outside of IE, combined with lack of features, effectively killed it. What I did find annoying was the fact that MS locked down the office extensions to VML rather than continuing down a standards path - all those pretty pictures you can generated in power point can't be generated in the browser.
Every time I try and transit through the US, my bags get "lost" in transit. They show up 24 hours later with all the zippers in my toilet bag and gadget bags undone. I'd be happy to pay a buck or two just to have my bags show up on the same flight I do and maybe have things searched a bit more gently...
Qantas is running a trial of 'pico-cells' in some Boeing 767's. I used my mobile between Brisbane & Perth a few weeks ago. It's only available from GSM phones though.
Hope the random patrol software works better than the supposedly random secondary searches put on your boarding pass by the airlines. I seem to get it every time I enter the US in transit - about 6 times in a row now.
Over many beverages one Friday evening I got into a discussion about interfaces. This is in the early Windows / Mac era, and as a group of relaxed wannabe intellectual types, we came to the conclusion that there is only one intuitive interface... only one thing you are born knowing how to use. It's a nipple. After that, EVERYTHING is learned bahavior. As for CLI's, they appeal to a simple linear command / response mode of thought. I've known programmers to get confused with context and focus in event driven models, so how can we expect ordinary users to think it's intuitive?
As for the 'Help' command, take a look at VMS. Properly built help files fit right into the system help like one, so HELP FOO looked just like HELP SHOW. Once you got used to the system, you could abbreviate, and HELP SHO SYS worked just as well as HELP SHOW SYSTEM.
SDR has been done before. WinRadio has a "DC to Daylight" receiver that fits on a PCI card, and allows you to play with the demodulation. A lot of amateurs are working are working with this, and one gives you the VB source for the demodulator with a pretty front end. (I don't want to/. him, so look for SDR-1000 at Google).
The interesting part of this is that it was built into a hand-held computer for the first time, and the practical implementation means that any new radio service is a software upgrade. Think back to the Telco's when call display came out. Instead of upgrading the phones, they had to upgrade the entire network just for a service. This is an infrastructure for radio like the Internet, where services are layered over the basic medium.
What's next in the race to trade mark the English language? From now on you will not be permitted to use the work "Office". Microsoft will be requesting an injunction against anybody attempting to refer to a place of work as an "Office". Of course, we all know you can't get any work done in Office (tm). You're too busy running security patches.
Actually... it is sort of illegal to own a bong. Just ask the people who have had their cars and all other belongings siezed at the border. Under the "Zero Tolerance" policy, if you were caught with drug paraphenalia coming across the border, everything was siezed and sold by Uncle Sam. There were a number of high-profile cases where people had cars, cash, motorhomes, boats et al siezed because they had a bong,a roach clip, or "Traces of cannabis" in their car. Seems the constitution only protects Americans.
Probably for much the same reason that nobody use.us. Of course, America is the internet;)
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I'm all in favour of keeping a paranoid eye open to the workings or Redmond, but it might be a bit early to start declaring the closing proximity of the sky. My favourite/. quote is the one about Bill being just a monacle and a Persian cat away from being a Bond bad guy.
The 'database' file system is not new (and many on/. have been calling for a Be-like fs). An 'all-in-one' office application? It's an interesting challenge, but based on XML, feasable.
Keep in mind though, that this type of pitch is being made to the corporate IS types. Stories like this are 'leaked' to help test the waters. The money just isn't out there any more for the latest bleeding edge operating system and Office upgrades. In order to pry the dollars out of corporate boards these days, you have to show real value, and the IT types these days only know one way to count (with their socks on that is), and that is the magical phrase "TCO". You can guarantee that the M$ marketing types will be selling the reduced training costs of the one-application scheme.
Maybe though, before completely calling it a waste of code, we can judge the ideas on their technical merits and make fun of the marketing slime later? Of course, if your just interested in getting the story posted, keep the chicken little act up;)
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) allows businesses to submit their annual reports of payroll withholding on 'magnetic media'. Last year the list included floppies and an array of tape (including 9 track!). This year I dutifully pulled out the external floppy for my notebook and blew off the dust as it hadn't been used since last year end. I had to go and BUY some disks (I think my wife got tired of the collection of AOL recycling). Then as I was filling out the form, discovered that they finally accept CD-ROM. Oh well, it seems a waste to send a 24kb file on CD, but the damn floppies were more expensive than blank CDR's (AUD$9.00 for a box of 10) as the local shop only had Sony!
I manage a number of servers with various flavours of Ultrix to Compaq Tru64Unix (ehhh I miss DEC). Every one of them can print to just about anything. How about some 'generic' printers?
Yes, I'm bitter and cheap. My Epson 600 works perfectly, why fork out for a new printer!
Not quite. Most universities only hold the rights on graduate students. Undergraduate works are not specifically the property of the university. This was the case recently when an undergraduate honours student found something of value in her research. The university was scrambling to tie up the IP.
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I don't write laws so I shouldn't have an opinion.
Are you kidding me! This is where we need better civics lessons - you should absolutely have an opinion and voice it to your elected representatives - and encouraging other too as well! It's called democracy.
Sadly, even Slashdot has succumbed to the hate politics so prevalent in the US at the moment. Watching the commentary on this story is as intellectually enlightening as watching the mainstream media with talking heads and rants. What happened - you guys get bought by Fox?
The research was for full plug-in battery powered cars - of which Tesla is getting the most press. What is the research on hybrids? My 70+ in-laws are on their second hybrid car in Australia, and retirees don't quite fit this demographic. I'd argue Mark72005's line that people are not interested in green or renewable - there's a lot of interest, but also a lot of hype and scepticism. This type of somewhat biased research (or reporting of research) doesn't help.
Actually that's exactly the point... the app store is Apple's property and they can use it as they see fit. If I have a convenience store and I choose not to sell porn that's my business decision. I forgo the option of that revenue. You do not have the right to walk into my store and demand that I cater to your desire - I do that as a business decision.
The supreme court gave away one of the last vestiges of individual liberty by enshrining corporations as bodies with first amendment rights. Corporate profits are now more important than you are, so don't worry. Next they'll have 4th amendment rights - and have private armies - wait, those are called contractors in foreign wars...
I couldn't be called a Micro$oft fan, but VML (while as painful as programming a TI-38) was useful in IE only environments (a man has to eat), and Microsoft tried to go down the standards route (http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-VML). The fact that VML was never adopted outside of IE, combined with lack of features, effectively killed it. What I did find annoying was the fact that MS locked down the office extensions to VML rather than continuing down a standards path - all those pretty pictures you can generated in power point can't be generated in the browser.
Every time I try and transit through the US, my bags get "lost" in transit. They show up 24 hours later with all the zippers in my toilet bag and gadget bags undone. I'd be happy to pay a buck or two just to have my bags show up on the same flight I do and maybe have things searched a bit more gently...
Qantas is running a trial of 'pico-cells' in some Boeing 767's. I used my mobile between Brisbane & Perth a few weeks ago. It's only available from GSM phones though.
Hope the random patrol software works better than the supposedly random secondary searches put on your boarding pass by the airlines. I seem to get it every time I enter the US in transit - about 6 times in a row now.
Over many beverages one Friday evening I got into a discussion about interfaces. This is in the early Windows / Mac era, and as a group of relaxed wannabe intellectual types, we came to the conclusion that there is only one intuitive interface... only one thing you are born knowing how to use. It's a nipple. After that, EVERYTHING is learned bahavior. As for CLI's, they appeal to a simple linear command / response mode of thought. I've known programmers to get confused with context and focus in event driven models, so how can we expect ordinary users to think it's intuitive?
As for the 'Help' command, take a look at VMS. Properly built help files fit right into the system help like one, so HELP FOO looked just like HELP SHOW. Once you got used to the system, you could abbreviate, and HELP SHO SYS worked just as well as HELP SHOW SYSTEM.
They not-so-carefully took it out.
The interesting part of this is that it was built into a hand-held computer for the first time, and the practical implementation means that any new radio service is a software upgrade. Think back to the Telco's when call display came out. Instead of upgrading the phones, they had to upgrade the entire network just for a service. This is an infrastructure for radio like the Internet, where services are layered over the basic medium.
What's next in the race to trade mark the English language? From now on you will not be permitted to use the work "Office". Microsoft will be requesting an injunction against anybody attempting to refer to a place of work as an "Office". Of course, we all know you can't get any work done in Office (tm). You're too busy running security patches.
Actually... it is sort of illegal to own a bong. Just ask the people who have had their cars and all other belongings siezed at the border. Under the "Zero Tolerance" policy, if you were caught with drug paraphenalia coming across the border, everything was siezed and sold by Uncle Sam. There were a number of high-profile cases where people had cars, cash, motorhomes, boats et al siezed because they had a bong ,a roach clip, or "Traces of cannabis" in their car. Seems the constitution only protects Americans.
How about MicroSoft Breast enlargement... Maybe they can use the video of Balmer playing ape.
Yea, I know. Off topic, but nonetheless funny?
Probably for much the same reason that nobody use .us. Of course, America is the internet ;)
I'm all in favour of keeping a paranoid eye open to the workings or Redmond, but it might be a bit early to start declaring the closing proximity of the sky. My favourite /. quote is the one about Bill being just a monacle and a Persian cat away from being a Bond bad guy.
/. have been calling for a Be-like fs). An 'all-in-one' office application? It's an interesting challenge, but based on XML, feasable.
;)
The 'database' file system is not new (and many on
Keep in mind though, that this type of pitch is being made to the corporate IS types. Stories like this are 'leaked' to help test the waters. The money just isn't out there any more for the latest bleeding edge operating system and Office upgrades. In order to pry the dollars out of corporate boards these days, you have to show real value, and the IT types these days only know one way to count (with their socks on that is), and that is the magical phrase "TCO". You can guarantee that the M$ marketing types will be selling the reduced training costs of the one-application scheme.
Maybe though, before completely calling it a waste of code, we can judge the ideas on their technical merits and make fun of the marketing slime later? Of course, if your just interested in getting the story posted, keep the chicken little act up
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) allows businesses to submit their annual reports of payroll withholding on 'magnetic media'. Last year the list included floppies and an array of tape (including 9 track!). This year I dutifully pulled out the external floppy for my notebook and blew off the dust as it hadn't been used since last year end. I had to go and BUY some disks (I think my wife got tired of the collection of AOL recycling). Then as I was filling out the form, discovered that they finally accept CD-ROM. Oh well, it seems a waste to send a 24kb file on CD, but the damn floppies were more expensive than blank CDR's (AUD$9.00 for a box of 10) as the local shop only had Sony!
It's nice to see things being cleaned up but...
I manage a number of servers with various flavours of Ultrix to Compaq Tru64Unix (ehhh I miss DEC). Every one of them can print to just about anything. How about some 'generic' printers?
Yes, I'm bitter and cheap. My Epson 600 works perfectly, why fork out for a new printer!
Not quite. Most universities only hold the rights on graduate students. Undergraduate works are not specifically the property of the university. This was the case recently when an undergraduate honours student found something of value in her research. The university was scrambling to tie up the IP.