The fact of the matter is that every piece of digital information is nothing but a sting of digits.
This one is interesting in that the number happens to be prime.
(Is this a mathematical trick? If not how on earth did the author make this discovery?)
My question for a lawyer is this; does Microsoft have legal copyright on some numbers?
If so, do they also own every number that can be derived mathematically from them?
If not, can we legally store any copyrighted files with say 1 subtracted from the number?
(Think of it as insecure encryption with a trivial key and algorithm.)
And finally if this act would be illegal, then surely as a copyright holder I own rights to all digital data as you can mathematically transform between any two numbers without much difficulty.
Following emails from several people, the BBC altered both the opening statement and the title of their story from:
CD sales plummeted last year in the U.S. and record industry officials say the figures prove that Napster, the Internet music-sharing service, has harmed their business.
To:
CD single sales plummeted last year in the US and record industry officials say the figures prove that Napster, the Internet music-sharing service, has harmed their business.
The rest of the article was balanced enough for you to decide what's going on.
Mistakes are forgivable; they run a good site in general. But If they choose to ignore factual corrections to their pages, I will complain enough to get an explanation and publish it here.
If the BBC reply to anyone let us know here.
I have also sent a polite explanation to the factual errors address.
I use a Casio E105 CE machine, a Nokia 8210 phone linked by infra red and connect via the UK's orange GSM network to their own ISP.
Configuration was as easy as you would expect with a desktop set-up.
I downloaded the Nokia CE driver from the web, signed up for the Orange ISP service, entered the relevant telephone numbers, usernames and passwords and picked up my e-mail.
I would seriously recommend getting a GSM phone with built in modem and CE/Palm drivers freely available. The Nokia 8210 is an example.
In the UK such phones cost $100 on an upgrade or new contract, thanks to the marketing of WAP phones. Thats less than the cost of a phone cable.
Some of the newer phones have 14.4K of bandwidth on some networks.
I'm just giving the browser a try this weekend.
Anyone had any experience with Avant-Go or another browser, used directly on-line as opposed to downloading from a desktop?
Any normal employee, that possesses the correct skills, knowledge and enthusiasm to do their job well, would see significant benefits to encourage them to get promoted.
For most employees, management leads to more interesting work and a much better salary.
But a skilled IT person will receive a good package without ever going beyond a team leaders roll.
Also, technically, their job will be most interesting at this level.
With IT having such a high profile in most boardrooms, IT managers receive an unusual amount of attention.
So anyone in IT, middle management, will find himself or herself in meetings all day, not perusing the things they were once enthused about.
While they learn man management skills they will loose touch with the detail of rapidly changing technology that allows them to tell a perfectly good idea like Java from a working solution to a real world problem.
For the skilled IT person, management doesn't look particularly attractive.
The unskilled IT person? They probably have an interest in playing with technology but not with the nuts and bolts of how it works (And therefore what works!!!).
These managers are typified by their strategies based on the latest industry hype and selecting staff without a question more complex than how do you declare a variable!
As more unskilled people enter IT departments, so more move into management without competition, compounding the problem.
There is no shortage of people, who call themselves IT professionals, because they can find employment.
But how many of them have the skill level that you would expect from say, a junior medical doctor, who may earn less than IT professionals.
There is no shortage of IT professionals. Just a shortage of people that understand computers!
Slashdot Mirror
"Ping times no longer measure network speed except in very highly congested networks.
For the past 5 years networks have been fast enough that the largest contributor to round-trip times is simply the speed of light"
At 2/3 the speed of light (200 000 KM/sec)
it takes 53 mSec for the 10,500KM round trip between MIT and London.
My cable modem has a ping of 40 mSec to UK sites
and 140 mSec to MIT.
My line is empty.
Guess MITs line has been congested for the last five years!
The fact of the matter is that every piece of digital information is nothing but a sting of digits.
This one is interesting in that the number happens to be prime.
(Is this a mathematical trick? If not how on earth did the author make this discovery?)
My question for a lawyer is this; does Microsoft have legal copyright on some numbers?
If so, do they also own every number that can be derived mathematically from them?
If not, can we legally store any copyrighted files with say 1 subtracted from the number?
(Think of it as insecure encryption with a trivial key and algorithm.)
And finally if this act would be illegal, then surely as a copyright holder I own rights to all digital data as you can mathematically transform between any two numbers without much difficulty.
Following emails from several people, the BBC altered both the opening statement and the title of their story from:
CD sales plummeted last year in the U.S. and record industry officials say the figures prove that Napster, the Internet music-sharing service, has harmed their business.
To:
CD single sales plummeted last year in the US and record industry officials say the figures prove that Napster, the Internet music-sharing service, has harmed their business.
The rest of the article was balanced enough for you to decide what's going on.
Mistakes are forgivable; they run a good site in general. But If they choose to ignore factual corrections to their pages, I will complain enough to get an explanation and publish it here.
If the BBC reply to anyone let us know here.
I have also sent a polite explanation to the factual errors address.
Check out http://www.electrotextiles.com
Unfortunately they are about six months away from the shops.
These were on display at a trade show in Europe. It's a tough protective cover that opens into a tactile keyboard.
They were easy to type with, not as fast as the Targus perhaps, but they were smaller, lighter, more durable and it acts as a cover.
I use a Casio E105 CE machine, a Nokia 8210 phone linked by infra red and connect via the UK's orange GSM network to their own ISP.
Configuration was as easy as you would expect with a desktop set-up.
I downloaded the Nokia CE driver from the web, signed up for the Orange ISP service, entered the relevant telephone numbers, usernames and passwords and picked up my e-mail.
I would seriously recommend getting a GSM phone with built in modem and CE/Palm drivers freely available. The Nokia 8210 is an example.
In the UK such phones cost $100 on an upgrade or new contract, thanks to the marketing of WAP phones. Thats less than the cost of a phone cable.
Some of the newer phones have 14.4K of bandwidth on some networks.
I'm just giving the browser a try this weekend.
Anyone had any experience with Avant-Go or another browser, used directly on-line as opposed to downloading from a desktop?
Any normal employee, that possesses the correct skills, knowledge and enthusiasm to do their job well, would see significant benefits to encourage them to get promoted.
For most employees, management leads to more interesting work and a much better salary.
But a skilled IT person will receive a good package without ever going beyond a team leaders roll.
Also, technically, their job will be most interesting at this level.
With IT having such a high profile in most boardrooms, IT managers receive an unusual amount of attention.
So anyone in IT, middle management, will find himself or herself in meetings all day, not perusing the things they were once enthused about.
While they learn man management skills they will loose touch with the detail of rapidly changing technology that allows them to tell a perfectly good idea like Java from a working solution to a real world problem.
For the skilled IT person, management doesn't look particularly attractive.
The unskilled IT person?
They probably have an interest in playing with technology but not with the nuts and bolts of how it works (And therefore what works!!!).
These managers are typified by their strategies based on the latest industry hype and selecting staff without a question more complex than how do you declare a variable!
As more unskilled people enter IT departments, so more move into management without competition, compounding the problem.
There is no shortage of people, who call themselves IT professionals, because they can find employment.
But how many of them have the skill level that you would expect from say, a junior medical doctor, who may earn less than IT professionals.
There is no shortage of IT professionals.
Just a shortage of people that understand computers!