I think you may be missing another part of the value equation. Previously, people had to buy: 1) A Java runtime ($0) 2) The Google Toolbar ($0) 3) OpenOffice.org. ($0)
This cost users a prohibitively high price (3 times $0!) Now, thanks to these revolutionary decisions by Sun and Google, you only have to pay $0 once. One enormous $0 download. What a deal! A third the price for all the functionality.
These maps are works of the government, or are effectively (they're actually works of a largely federally tax-funded public corporation). Therefore, they should be public domain, just like images from NASA are. The MTA is getting off on a technicality here, because they're not technically a federal government agency. That being said, I'd be more than slightly pissed off that my tax dollars went to make those stupid maps if I then had to pay again to put them on my iPod.
There may be good internationally coordinated agencies, but the ITU is not one of them.
You know how patent encumbered the MPEG standards? That's largely the result of the ITU and their absurd RAND patent policy. Remember the Open Systems Interconnect fiasco, where some bright guys decided to completely replace all the internet protocols with their own incompatible crap? Yeah, ITU-T was involved there too.
It's amusing that these same people who were unable to do what the IETF did are now trying to gain control over their creation through political nonsense. Maybe they'll figure out how to deal with their own IP block in the process.
I think this US control of the Internet is what's been holding it back. Maybe with international bureaucracy and UN regulation, this "Internet" thing will finally take off...
Alright, I'm sorry to be such a Mac user here, but seriously...Mac OS X 10.4 shipped with a graphics development design tool called "Quartz Composer" months ago (and it was announced almost a year before that). Could they really not come up with a more original name?
We have 76 million students from preschool to college, not K-12. So that includes about 15 million undergrads. Throw in a few million from preschool (I think kids can wait until they're 5 before learning arithmetic), and the K-12 student population looks a little less dire, pretty much accounting for your missing 20 million.
Frankly, I'm much more concerned about the quality of teachers than the amount of them. I would love to see more teachers come from industry instead of directly out of university.
That's missing the entire point of the duplicate songs detection. The problem is that a lot of people have multiple copies of the same song, often from different sources. Say I rip a CD, then buy a an album on the iTunes store which which contains the same song and artist, but is different otherwise (one of the albums was a compilation, for instance). The point of the feature is to detect this duplication so you don't get the same song twice from different sources when you're shuffling.
This is more typical FSF bullshit. They've spent the last decade bitching about Apache license clauses against software patents, now they're doing the same.
GPL incompatibility should be considered a feature of software licenses. The FSF stranglehold on open source development needs to end.
Is it just me, or do game programmers seem to be the only group of coders who get away with flaunting their apparent inability to write portable, flexible code?
Word is they couldn't even get Half-Life 1 to run on Macs because there was too much platform-specific code. I'd assume the same issue occurred in HL2 (there was an Xbox "port", but that's really just a repackaging of a windows app). Most other groups of programmers would seriously love to have the opportunity to write code for neat new hyper-parallel chip designs. The entire game industry apparently can't figure out how to make sound and video run in separate threads, something which should seriously be an over-the-weekend kind of change.
I really don't mean to belittle the entire game development community, but I really don't get it. The entire computing industry is moving toward multi-core chips, parallel computing and network-centric storage. Why the hell are game programmers, the ones who are supposed to be pushing computer architectures, living in the early 1990s?
Product: Audi S4 Component: CD Player Status: ASSIGNED Severity: Normal Hardware: All OS: All Resolution: Not a bug Summary: Car has a "random" bug
Description: I have a certain CD that causes my Audi S4 (when set to random mode) to play the same track over and over and over. Guess somebody didn't prove their recurrence actually worked.
Solution: CD contains only one track. Random mode functioning properly.
Ugh. Well, alright, your heart is in the right place.
AAC isn't owned by anyone in particular. It's an MPEG (thus also ISO/IEC) standard. Technology in AAC is owned by many companies, among them Dolby, FhG, RCA, and Coding Technologies in a recent extension. It is true that anyone can license it, of course.
Most power for the creation of hydrogen in the US will probably come most directly from Coal (which is burned to make electricity, which can be used to perform electrolysis on water, which gives us Hydrogen).
The US has a shitload of coal. We are the Saudi Arabia of coal. If we switched entirely to coal power (we're already ~70% of the way there), we could go for another century, quite possibly two without importing any more. And the other ingredient for electrolysis, water...well, we have a fair bit of that too.
So, a better name for the "Hydrogen Economy" might be the "Coal Economy", but it really does have a chance to seriously reduce US dependence on foreign oil. Coal is, of course, a notoriously dirty power generation method, but there have been serious efforts recently to clean it up a bit. The real future may be something like FutureGen (warning: may contain DOE propaganda:) where a single plant produces electricty for homes and hydrogen for fuel cell cars and the like, ostensibly with no emissions. Plus, if we switch all our vehicles to hydrogen now, we can use some other power source for electrolysis (wind, solar, fusion, geothermal, whatever) later on.
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top jobs in the EU are discreetly decided by powerful, rich white people
Uh. It's Europe. Aren't they (nearly) all white people to begin with?
"Veni, Vidi, Vici"...roughly translated into modern English reads:
"I came, I saw, I 0wned your BitTorrent tracker"
Of course, after watching a few episodes Rome, I've learned that in Ancient Rome they actually spoke English anyway. Who started this Latin rumor?
I think you may be missing another part of the value equation. Previously, people had to buy:
1) A Java runtime ($0)
2) The Google Toolbar ($0)
3) OpenOffice.org. ($0)
This cost users a prohibitively high price (3 times $0!) Now, thanks to these revolutionary decisions by Sun and Google, you only have to pay $0 once. One enormous $0 download. What a deal! A third the price for all the functionality.
You missed the point ENTIRELY.
These maps are works of the government, or are effectively (they're actually works of a largely federally tax-funded public corporation). Therefore, they should be public domain, just like images from NASA are. The MTA is getting off on a technicality here, because they're not technically a federal government agency. That being said, I'd be more than slightly pissed off that my tax dollars went to make those stupid maps if I then had to pay again to put them on my iPod.
There may be good internationally coordinated agencies, but the ITU is not one of them.
You know how patent encumbered the MPEG standards? That's largely the result of the ITU and their absurd RAND patent policy. Remember the Open Systems Interconnect fiasco, where some bright guys decided to completely replace all the internet protocols with their own incompatible crap? Yeah, ITU-T was involved there too.
It's amusing that these same people who were unable to do what the IETF did are now trying to gain control over their creation through political nonsense. Maybe they'll figure out how to deal with their own IP block in the process.
New Study Indicates Strong Correlation Among Men Between CD/DVD Purchases and Amount of Sex
I think this US control of the Internet is what's been holding it back. Maybe with international bureaucracy and UN regulation, this "Internet" thing will finally take off...
No...it supports 15GB on a single layer. You can have two layers per side, just like a normal DVD. There's even been talk of triple-layer HD DVDs...
a very poor family might look towards selling the laptop on the black market for food, clothing, etc.
How dare they!? Damn poor people...practicing their right of first sale...
Seriously, just because they're not well off doesn't mean you need to treat them like they're children.
Alright, I'm sorry to be such a Mac user here, but seriously...Mac OS X 10.4 shipped with a graphics development design tool called "Quartz Composer" months ago (and it was announced almost a year before that). Could they really not come up with a more original name?
We have 76 million students from preschool to college, not K-12. So that includes about 15 million undergrads. Throw in a few million from preschool (I think kids can wait until they're 5 before learning arithmetic), and the K-12 student population looks a little less dire, pretty much accounting for your missing 20 million.
Frankly, I'm much more concerned about the quality of teachers than the amount of them. I would love to see more teachers come from industry instead of directly out of university.
(Unlikely IMHO) worst case scenario if "Linux" were trademarked:
Debian and Fedora are based on Linux®. "Linux" is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.
Have you ever picked up a retail box of Linux software in the US? They almost all have that in the fine print on the back of the box.
That's missing the entire point of the duplicate songs detection. The problem is that a lot of people have multiple copies of the same song, often from different sources. Say I rip a CD, then buy a an album on the iTunes store which which contains the same song and artist, but is different otherwise (one of the albums was a compilation, for instance). The point of the feature is to detect this duplication so you don't get the same song twice from different sources when you're shuffling.
Anyone else notice that all of the iTunes screenshots on Apple's site are now for the Windows, rather than the Mac version?
It changes, depending on which browser you use. In Safari they show Mac screenshots. I'd bet in IE they show Windows screenshots.
This is more typical FSF bullshit. They've spent the last decade bitching about Apache license clauses against software patents, now they're doing the same.
GPL incompatibility should be considered a feature of software licenses. The FSF stranglehold on open source development needs to end.
Is it just me, or do game programmers seem to be the only group of coders who get away with flaunting their apparent inability to write portable, flexible code?
Word is they couldn't even get Half-Life 1 to run on Macs because there was too much platform-specific code. I'd assume the same issue occurred in HL2 (there was an Xbox "port", but that's really just a repackaging of a windows app). Most other groups of programmers would seriously love to have the opportunity to write code for neat new hyper-parallel chip designs. The entire game industry apparently can't figure out how to make sound and video run in separate threads, something which should seriously be an over-the-weekend kind of change.
I really don't mean to belittle the entire game development community, but I really don't get it. The entire computing industry is moving toward multi-core chips, parallel computing and network-centric storage. Why the hell are game programmers, the ones who are supposed to be pushing computer architectures, living in the early 1990s?
Come on, Creative, where was marketing on this?
"Yeah, our players have virii, but they're removable...like our batteries!"
"Sure you'll get your computer hopelessly infected with a virus, but as you're reinstalling Windows, you'll be able to listen to FM radio!"
"Don't worry, our Stik-On MP3 player stickers are totally virus-proof."
By Slashdot standards, I'm probably insightful.
Hm, it's just that easy, huh? Alright, let's try it.
By Slashdot standards, I'm probably funny.
(from bugzilla.audi.com)
Product: Audi S4
Component: CD Player
Status: ASSIGNED
Severity: Normal
Hardware: All
OS: All
Resolution: Not a bug
Summary: Car has a "random" bug
Description:
I have a certain CD that causes my Audi S4 (when set to random mode) to play the same track over and over and over. Guess somebody didn't prove their recurrence actually worked.
Solution:
CD contains only one track. Random mode functioning properly.
The current version has clearly been a complete failure. Maybe if they start over from scratch, this Internet thing will actually become popular.
Ugh. Well, alright, your heart is in the right place.
AAC isn't owned by anyone in particular. It's an MPEG (thus also ISO/IEC) standard. Technology in AAC is owned by many companies, among them Dolby, FhG, RCA, and Coding Technologies in a recent extension. It is true that anyone can license it, of course.
Somebody out there is still running AIX
Well, clearly they're not running it any more, that's why they sold the servers.
Actually, perhaps getting the gov't to switch away from AIX is a fair trade for losing a little privacy...
It's a near-homonym for "Blurry."
That kinda name really reminds people of sharp, high definition video, I guess.
One mediocre game is not enough to get them excited in the least.
Rather, it takes dozens of mediocre games. Long, multi-game series of mediocre games. Entire generes of mediocre games.
Use of irritating, nonsensical titles helps too.
Most power for the creation of hydrogen in the US will probably come most directly from Coal (which is burned to make electricity, which can be used to perform electrolysis on water, which gives us Hydrogen).
:) where a single plant produces electricty for homes and hydrogen for fuel cell cars and the like, ostensibly with no emissions. Plus, if we switch all our vehicles to hydrogen now, we can use some other power source for electrolysis (wind, solar, fusion, geothermal, whatever) later on.
The US has a shitload of coal. We are the Saudi Arabia of coal. If we switched entirely to coal power (we're already ~70% of the way there), we could go for another century, quite possibly two without importing any more. And the other ingredient for electrolysis, water...well, we have a fair bit of that too.
So, a better name for the "Hydrogen Economy" might be the "Coal Economy", but it really does have a chance to seriously reduce US dependence on foreign oil. Coal is, of course, a notoriously dirty power generation method, but there have been serious efforts recently to clean it up a bit. The real future may be something like FutureGen (warning: may contain DOE propaganda