The main reason instant messaging (IM) became popular with me is that my buddy Thad lives in Kansas City, while I live in San Francisco, yet we both happen to be sitting in front of computers all day. I later realized that it allows me to chat with my friend Dave, who works in an office in Redwood City, and we could both say the most horrible, offensive, profanity-laden things without alarming all the people in the cubes next to us.
That's it. No pop psychology or armchair media-studies theories required.
I sort of concur, though you have to start somewhere just to pick up the syntax of the language. For that, I used Programming Perl (the bigger, more reference-oriented book). Probably the most enlightening one I read was Advanced Perl Programming, which has also just been updated. That was the one that made me say, "Ah-haaaaaa, so there's more to this than CGI scripts."
What if you went to a financial site you belonged to, and it was going to redirect you to another company for a particular service.
Then I would drop that business because of their non-existant security model.
OK, so let me get this straight. You won't do business with an online company that delegates some of its business functions to another business, because to you that means it has "a non-existant security model." And at the same time, here you are arguing against the security model.
Let me give you a concrete example. You log in to your company's corporate portal with your company credentials. You click on a button that says "401(k)." Instantly you are transported to a page that includes details about your retirement plan. But these details are not managed by your employer. All that information is coming from a site operated by the financial services provider that runs your company's retirement programs. (Or healthcare plan, or HR information, or whatever else your employer wanted to outsource to a third party.) It still looks like your corporate portal. You still log in using the same credentials. But, in effect, the content you're seeing comes from a completely different site.
One big reason people are interested in federated digital identity systems is because of the scenario I've just described. And when I say "big reason" I mean huge. If you have a job and you think your employer won't want to do this in the next five years -- or that it won't need to do it, because it will be the only way that financial institutions do business -- think again.
Says who? How can something that is inanimate require anything? People create requirements.
Hear hear! And that is why I have never bought into this "gasoline" thing the auto manufaturers (big corporations) say my car "requires." What a bunch of hogwash! I'll drive my car wherever and whenever I please, thank you very much, without all this other crap they want to sell me.
Pardon my ignorance on the subject but perhaps someone lawyerish could explain the terms of being held in contempt of court? Is it indefinite, or until that particular case is settled one way or another?
Contempt of court is just a court's way of punishing people who try to impede the authority of the court. It applies when you refuse to name people who might be material witnesses (like your sources, if you are a journalist), but you might also get slapped with a contempt of court charge for yelling at a judge. As for how long you can be imprisoned or how much you can be fined for such an offense, I don't know. The idea, though, is that you stop interfering with the court, not just to teach you a token lesson -- so it's probably long enough.
Or if you plead the 5th (in the US that is) can you just be held forever until you divulge the information?
No. The Fifth Amendment says you don't have to incriminate yourself. If the only person who has evidence against you is yourself, and the court orders you to reveal that evidence, and you plead the Fifth, well... then there is no evidence. Pleading the Fifth looks pretty suspicious to a jury, though, so if there is other evidence against you and you just plead the Fifth across the board, a lot of the time that's as good as a confession. Your only benefit there is that the jury can't find out the full breadth of your crime (at least, not from you).
There's clearly a certain type of sci-fi fan who hangs out on Slashdot whose tastes are totally different from my own. I, for example, really can't stand most anime, and even the stuff that's pretty good (Cowboy Bebop, for example) has some qualities about it that I find totally grating. But obviously a lot of Slashdot people love the hell out of the stuff.
Similarly, I saw the first Serenity trailer and my immediate reaction was that this movie looks like one of the worst pieces of sci-fi fanboy garbage to hit the screen since The Chronicles of Riddick. Space ships, people shooting guns, "mercs," a hot chick doing kung fu... this is exactly the kind of crap I expect to see on any given Tuesday on the Sci-Fi Channel. I like Star Wars, I like some (but very little) Star Trek, I like the new Battlestar Galactica, I'm a big fan of Doctor Who (both old and new)... but this thing doesn't seem to have a single redeeming quality that would make me want to even rent it.
Obviously, I must be missing something. Is it the subtleties of the plot, though, or is it just something in my genetic make-up?
California law defines that things you do on your own time is yours no matter what contract you sign. Non competes are only valid for execs but not normal people
They are no more valid for execs than they are for anyone else, except that there is more than one interpretation of what the law actually says. One interpretation says that it's unlawful to enter into a non-compete no matter what. The other opinion thinks it's not as cut-and-dried as that, and that anyone who might potentially be in a position to use trade secrets against a former company can be made to agree not to do that. The difference between the two interpretations, as in so many things, often comes down to the skill of the respective lawyers.
Any information can be copyrighted. Simply placing your name and year next to an original work provides copyright protection.
Actually, under the Berne Convention any information is copyrighted. Copyright is automatically granted to the creator of a work. Proving your authorship in court -- and proving that an infringer should have had knowledge of your authorship -- is the tricky part, and this is where copyright notification and registration come in handy.
Hey all right! Someone beat me to posting it. I am... so touched!
Anyway, yeah, it is a little ancient, but judging from the response I still get to it, it's definitely still relevant.
This strip was once printed in the Industry Standard magazine and in PC World New Zealand, of all places. Not to mention that Xerox once used it as a print sample for some of their color printers. But it's mostly known for having "escaped the lab" and been e-mailed to people all over the world.
And, fear not! I know for a fact that it's pasted on all kinds of cubicles all over the planet. In fact, my boss claims that one of the reasons I was hired at my current job is because of that comic strip.
(In case you haven't figured it out yet, I'm the guy what drew it.)
Anyway... yeah, over the years I have gotten literally thousands of e-mails about it, from addresses all over the place, including countless big-name corporations whom I won't name to protect the guilty. You know who really loves it, though? The government. I've gotten more e-mails from the military, government agencies, and big government contractors like Boeing than I can even count. My all-time favorite is still the guy from NIMA (which I believe is now called the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency... think spy satellites).
Even stranger, though, are the e-mails I get from people in countries where English isn't even the native language. Get your head around that one... they learned English as a second language and they're already familiar with this kind of speech. Now that's just... sad.
IBM may be a very large "influencer" of Linux but that's largely because it's also a very large contributor to Linux, contrary to what you seem to be claiming.
And again, who has lost what? Zealots have lost what, how? I buy a copy of a book and read it, while you get a copy from the library and read it for free -- have I lost something? I just don't get it.
I see you've already been modded into oblivion, but I thought I'd reply anyway because I think your comments are interesting and I'm not totally convinced you're a troll.
its nice to finally see people like Fluery see thru the myths of open source. I think as we go forward we'll start to see more commercial companies take over what we think of as open source
I'm not sure I understand. How can it be "taken over" if it's open? If it's no longer open, then it's no longer "what we think of as open source," it's just commercial software. How/why do you think that will happen?
most open source is benificial to commercial companies not mom and dad sitting at home.
Agreed.
the GPL suckered coders into thinking it protects them but it actually contributed towards commoditizing software.
Suckered? How? I agree that many software categories that might otherwise have been dominated by expensive packages from commercial vendors are now starting to become commoditized.
IBM is making lots of money off Linux, as is Google.
Agreed.
But now I must ask... and all of this is bad, how?
The Zealots think they are winning when they are actually the big loosers
You win GTA by completing the missions - which, yes, are of a criminal nature, but they do not endorse random violence against innocent civilians in the manner that you depicted (it is often counterproductive since it is beneficial to attract less attention from the virtual authorities).
OK, people keep saying that, but what missions? I didn't see any missions. All I saw was a stereotypical black guy with a little bicycle and a bunch of other people standing around on the street. Sure, I could ride around the streets on the bike for a while, but that got a little boring, and after a while people would start yelling and shooting at me. It's a videogame, I figured you're supposed to push buttons. Pushing buttons let me steal cars and beat people up. That's about all I saw of it. Like I said, apparently I missed the point. I only played it for 15 minutes. I don't have a real long attention span for videogames.
OK, forgive me if I've missed the whole point, but i actually played GTA for about 15 minutes last night, and though I couldn't figure out what the actual object of the game was, this was a typical sequence:
Walk up to a random character. For the sake of illustration, let's say it's a female.
Start mashing buttons. Your character begins punching the female in the face, interjecting with expressions like, "You're just a bitch!"
Chase the character around while still mashing buttons. You will win the "fight." She will then fall over backwards, exposing her panties.
Keep mashing buttons. Your character will then begin violently stomping the disabled and compromisingly-positioned female in the crotch, while yelling more epithets.
At some point, the female character will die (become immobile and cease making noise). If you then step back, you will see a pool of blood emanating from the character's crotch area, where you were stomping on it.
Wait, so where was I going with this? Oh, right -- depicting sex in a video game is bad.
But let's prove his theory, and borrow all of his newly released novels instead of buying them.
Don't you mean participate in all his newly released novels?
But seriously, I agree -- what a bunch of fluff. I expect this kind of stuff from Wired, but in the past Gibson's hit the nail on the head so much better than all this "in the future everybody will have TV watches and flying cars" feel-good New Internet Age B.S.
With all this talk about "participation," I can't help but think that the age we've really entered is one where nobody can be bothered to listen. Don't listen to a CD and appreciate the work of an artist -- it's nothing if you don't remix it yourself! Nobody's point is valid unless you can get your say in, too! It's an age of blabbermouths, like those kids on the bus who carry on conversations with the volume on their walkie-talkie phone cranked all the way up so everybody can hear what they're yelling to their friends about.
To all the people who think "participation" and "remixing" heralds the dawning of a new era, I say: Shut up for five minutes and pay attention to what's going on around you. You might learn something.
Or, to put it another way: Those who ignore history doom us all to hearing their remixes of it.
If TV doesn't reinvent itself as an internet business soon, the reprocussions could be of Napster proportions!
TV already is reinventing itself! Look around you -- sales and rentals of DVDs of TV shows are booming. TV has it even easier than the movies do. If a TV studio succeeds in generating buzz around a certain show, they'll build a loyal fan base who will tune in every week whether the episode in question is good or not. Then, at the end of the season, they can sell or rent you a DVD of the whole thing -- again, negating the sub-par episodes in favor of the good ones.
Bad movies, on the other hand, have a hard time drumming up rentals if they really bombed in the theater. ("Catwoman" is a great example. I personally thought it wasn't half as bad as people made it out to be -- but are you going to spend your money on it?)
I've heard it from more than one Hollywood type: Movies have the glamor, but TV is where the real money is. (Though maybe that depends which side of the camera you're on.)
If you do a little studying, I think you'll find that your understanding is erroneous. The.Net Framework is "the managed programming model for Windows" -- Microsoft has trademarked that phrase, in fact. Managed code means the CLR. You might write.Net applications in C++, but you most certainly don't write them in assembly language. You can link to unmanaged objects, but a.Net application is implicitly managed.
While there are a number of ways to generate Java bytecode from code that is not Java, these are largely academic. The JVM back end for GCC you mention describes itself as "highly experimental." There's Jython, but Python is itself a fully interpreted language, so it doesn't count. Sun has said that it has no interest in supporting languages other than Java on the JVM.
The CLR, on the other hand, was designed from the ground up to be a runtime environment suited to multiple languages. Right now, right at this minute, in addition to C# you can write.Net applications in a variety of languages, including Managed C++, Visual Basic, a language called J#, and JScript. Active work is being done to port other languages to it; I keep hearing about Haskell, for instance.
Accurate 360 degree reproduction of sound requires at least 5 or 6 speakers at semi-equal dispertions around you, with one centered directly in front and preferably one directly behind, at equal distances from the listener.
Fair enough. And why is it we need 360 degree sound reproduction to watch a movie that's taking place on a flat screen directly in front of us, again?
Nothing these scientists have done defies the laws of nature. Got that? No laws were broken! The scientists have merely "time shifted" the animals, which is perfectly permissible under Fair Use.
This is one of the applications Microsoft is thinking about as a way to sell its 64-bit versions of Windows. 64 bit memory addressing lets you access a lot of RAM. Caching an entire hard drive to RAM can speed up operations a lot and save a lot of power, too -- so laptops are the target hardware.
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That is exactly what I'm saying. Praise be to OTR.
The main reason instant messaging (IM) became popular with me is that my buddy Thad lives in Kansas City, while I live in San Francisco, yet we both happen to be sitting in front of computers all day. I later realized that it allows me to chat with my friend Dave, who works in an office in Redwood City, and we could both say the most horrible, offensive, profanity-laden things without alarming all the people in the cubes next to us.
That's it. No pop psychology or armchair media-studies theories required.
I sort of concur, though you have to start somewhere just to pick up the syntax of the language. For that, I used Programming Perl (the bigger, more reference-oriented book). Probably the most enlightening one I read was Advanced Perl Programming, which has also just been updated. That was the one that made me say, "Ah-haaaaaa, so there's more to this than CGI scripts."
I had no idea there was a functioning goatse.ca. Now I know.
Does Canada recognize the concept of common carrier?
Let me give you a concrete example. You log in to your company's corporate portal with your company credentials. You click on a button that says "401(k)." Instantly you are transported to a page that includes details about your retirement plan. But these details are not managed by your employer. All that information is coming from a site operated by the financial services provider that runs your company's retirement programs. (Or healthcare plan, or HR information, or whatever else your employer wanted to outsource to a third party.) It still looks like your corporate portal. You still log in using the same credentials. But, in effect, the content you're seeing comes from a completely different site.
One big reason people are interested in federated digital identity systems is because of the scenario I've just described. And when I say "big reason" I mean huge. If you have a job and you think your employer won't want to do this in the next five years -- or that it won't need to do it, because it will be the only way that financial institutions do business -- think again.
There's clearly a certain type of sci-fi fan who hangs out on Slashdot whose tastes are totally different from my own. I, for example, really can't stand most anime, and even the stuff that's pretty good (Cowboy Bebop, for example) has some qualities about it that I find totally grating. But obviously a lot of Slashdot people love the hell out of the stuff.
... this is exactly the kind of crap I expect to see on any given Tuesday on the Sci-Fi Channel. I like Star Wars, I like some (but very little) Star Trek, I like the new Battlestar Galactica, I'm a big fan of Doctor Who (both old and new) ... but this thing doesn't seem to have a single redeeming quality that would make me want to even rent it.
Similarly, I saw the first Serenity trailer and my immediate reaction was that this movie looks like one of the worst pieces of sci-fi fanboy garbage to hit the screen since The Chronicles of Riddick. Space ships, people shooting guns, "mercs," a hot chick doing kung fu
Obviously, I must be missing something. Is it the subtleties of the plot, though, or is it just something in my genetic make-up?
You don't use the word "fix" because there is no such a thing as a problem. It is a challenge.
Hey all right! Someone beat me to posting it. I am... so touched!
... yeah, over the years I have gotten literally thousands of e-mails about it, from addresses all over the place, including countless big-name corporations whom I won't name to protect the guilty. You know who really loves it, though? The government. I've gotten more e-mails from the military, government agencies, and big government contractors like Boeing than I can even count. My all-time favorite is still the guy from NIMA (which I believe is now called the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency ... think spy satellites).
... they learned English as a second language and they're already familiar with this kind of speech. Now that's just ... sad.
Anyway, yeah, it is a little ancient, but judging from the response I still get to it, it's definitely still relevant.
This strip was once printed in the Industry Standard magazine and in PC World New Zealand, of all places. Not to mention that Xerox once used it as a print sample for some of their color printers. But it's mostly known for having "escaped the lab" and been e-mailed to people all over the world.
And, fear not! I know for a fact that it's pasted on all kinds of cubicles all over the planet. In fact, my boss claims that one of the reasons I was hired at my current job is because of that comic strip.
(In case you haven't figured it out yet, I'm the guy what drew it.)
Anyway
Even stranger, though, are the e-mails I get from people in countries where English isn't even the native language. Get your head around that one
If you like that, try this.
I still do not understand you. Who has lost what?
IBM may be a very large "influencer" of Linux but that's largely because it's also a very large contributor to Linux, contrary to what you seem to be claiming.
And again, who has lost what? Zealots have lost what, how? I buy a copy of a book and read it, while you get a copy from the library and read it for free -- have I lost something? I just don't get it.
But now I must ask ... and all of this is bad, how?
Who's lost what?- Walk up to a random character. For the sake of illustration, let's say it's a female.
- Start mashing buttons. Your character begins punching the female in the face, interjecting with expressions like, "You're just a bitch!"
- Chase the character around while still mashing buttons. You will win the "fight." She will then fall over backwards, exposing her panties.
- Keep mashing buttons. Your character will then begin violently stomping the disabled and compromisingly-positioned female in the crotch, while yelling more epithets.
- At some point, the female character will die (become immobile and cease making noise). If you then step back, you will see a pool of blood emanating from the character's crotch area, where you were stomping on it.
Wait, so where was I going with this? Oh, right -- depicting sex in a video game is bad.But seriously, I agree -- what a bunch of fluff. I expect this kind of stuff from Wired, but in the past Gibson's hit the nail on the head so much better than all this "in the future everybody will have TV watches and flying cars" feel-good New Internet Age B.S.
With all this talk about "participation," I can't help but think that the age we've really entered is one where nobody can be bothered to listen. Don't listen to a CD and appreciate the work of an artist -- it's nothing if you don't remix it yourself! Nobody's point is valid unless you can get your say in, too! It's an age of blabbermouths, like those kids on the bus who carry on conversations with the volume on their walkie-talkie phone cranked all the way up so everybody can hear what they're yelling to their friends about.
To all the people who think "participation" and "remixing" heralds the dawning of a new era, I say: Shut up for five minutes and pay attention to what's going on around you. You might learn something.
Or, to put it another way: Those who ignore history doom us all to hearing their remixes of it.
Bad movies, on the other hand, have a hard time drumming up rentals if they really bombed in the theater. ("Catwoman" is a great example. I personally thought it wasn't half as bad as people made it out to be -- but are you going to spend your money on it?)
I've heard it from more than one Hollywood type: Movies have the glamor, but TV is where the real money is. (Though maybe that depends which side of the camera you're on.)
If you do a little studying, I think you'll find that your understanding is erroneous. The .Net Framework is "the managed programming model for Windows" -- Microsoft has trademarked that phrase, in fact. Managed code means the CLR. You might write .Net applications in C++, but you most certainly don't write them in assembly language. You can link to unmanaged objects, but a .Net application is implicitly managed.
.Net applications in a variety of languages, including Managed C++, Visual Basic, a language called J#, and JScript. Active work is being done to port other languages to it; I keep hearing about Haskell, for instance.
While there are a number of ways to generate Java bytecode from code that is not Java, these are largely academic. The JVM back end for GCC you mention describes itself as "highly experimental." There's Jython, but Python is itself a fully interpreted language, so it doesn't count. Sun has said that it has no interest in supporting languages other than Java on the JVM.
The CLR, on the other hand, was designed from the ground up to be a runtime environment suited to multiple languages. Right now, right at this minute, in addition to C# you can write
Uh, OK ... so how many people are writing code that gets output as Java bytecode but is not written in Java?
.Net? (And no, that's not a troll.)
You sure you're not thinking of
Nothing these scientists have done defies the laws of nature. Got that? No laws were broken! The scientists have merely "time shifted" the animals, which is perfectly permissible under Fair Use.
This is one of the applications Microsoft is thinking about as a way to sell its 64-bit versions of Windows. 64 bit memory addressing lets you access a lot of RAM. Caching an entire hard drive to RAM can speed up operations a lot and save a lot of power, too -- so laptops are the target hardware.