...and I'd like to see it happen (if this is real), but for all they show off about low time-to-market, I doubt we'll be seeing these too soon, more's the pity:-(
What the f*ck does "especially not with inner-city kids. " mean?
Just acknowledging that unfortunately, the majority are not likely to be very computer-literate, therefore programming or anything like that will be a little over-optimistic.
...realistically, you won't want to teach them the kind of stuff that/. readers are really interested in, especially not with inner-city kids. Sure, you'll get the odd guru who will lap up whatever programming languages you can throw at him/heer, but for the most part you'll want to teach wordprocessing, spreadsheets, and databases.
That said, try to offer something for the more geeky among them - I've been bored rigid through so many such classes...
It seems that all we get on/. about censorship/M$/whatever these days is bad news. I'm glad there's something to celebrate!
That said, this does bode very badly for individual states doing anti-social things within themselves and the Feds being powerless to stop it...aren't I just the optimist!
joke (jk)
n. Something said or done to evoke laughter or amusement, especially an amusing story with a punch line. A mischievous trick; a prank. An amusing or ludicrous incident or situation.Informal. Something not to be taken seriously; a triviality: The accident was no joke. An object of amusement or laughter; a laughingstock: His loud tie was the joke of the office.
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Bruce Perens messes up, apologizes, more upvotes for the mistake and the correction! As he noted once before, typical slashdot mods...
I would think that was so it would be above most users' "highlight" threshold, thereby stopping several million people who hadn't bothered to read the rest of the thread from flaming him. Besides, do you really not think that he's reached the karma limit already?
See my earlier comment - they'd flash faster (and therefore appear more smooth) than when using ordinary mains power (only 50Hz AC), so I wouldn't think you'd be affected.
Great, but could these micro-bursts of light send someone into an epileptic fit, like those Japanese cartoons used to do?
I shouldn't think so, at any decent bit rate - after all, if it's faster than 50 bits per second, then it's smoother than ordinary mains power anyway (50 Hz AC). So no worries, I think. (I Am Not A Doctor; This Is Not Medical Advice)...
But Mom, I can only do this work at night - no, I'm not doing an caffeine-fueled all-nighter for the hell of it - DON'T TURN THAT LIGHT OFF I'M IN THE MIDDLE OF A SAVNo route to host - connection closed.
Still fun as an idea, though =)
Yeah - I know a Microserf in R&D (perhaps that wasn't tactful I hope he doesn't recognise me if he reads this...oh bother he's recognise the email address, won't he...), and from what he says he's pretty representative. Intelligent guy, not prejudiced at all, indeed, a Linux guru on the quiet. Don't knock most of Microsoft, just those that make the antisocial tactical decisions...
Does it give you some kind of perverse pleasure, this daily troll? Why do you do it? Why? You're not l33t, cool, or big just 'cause you're annoying/. rather than people around you. It doesn't make you more than a pain in the neck, just a pain in the neck to more people.
he Secure Digital Music Initiative Foundation (SDMI) does not - nor did it ever - intend to bring any legal action against Professor Felten
or his co-authors.
This text was actually from a letter published after the withdrawl of the paper - ie when the RIAA realised that this guy wasn't going to go quietly. It's a butt-covering move, and if you look at their original email, the U-turn is blindingly obvious.
That's the point, though. M$ is so good at marketing that they can stop Joe Blow from realising how badly he's being screwed. Bingo, no pressure, and with Joe Blow's $$$ to fund your legal team, no probs there either.
Its not like their pointing a gun at us... or are they??
Hate to say it, but they are. Say what you like about FUD, it's damn effective. Of course, as was agreed upon (mostly) in an earlier story (Obituary of the Linux desktop, I think...link, anyone?), free software can never die. It can be marginalised, though, and MS are making great steps in that direction.
These days, you can emulate much of the Win32 APIs without much trouble.
Have you seen the latest WINE? Sure, it's good, but not that good! Same goes for the rest to some degree or another - you don't really think MS will move towards competition, do you?
Should've used code released under a truly free license, like the BSD license, instead of the GPL
Not at all! The GPL is deliberately designed not to be proprietary, and for it to be impossible to become so. Look what happened to BSD-licenced, well, bits of BSD - they ended up in bits of Windows. Companies don't like people nicking their stuff and making money out of it, nor do Free Software programmers...
Nah - the GPL stipulates that you can only release under that version "or any later version at your discretion" - allowing for loopholes to be easily closed, not that the legalese the GPL is written in seems to have that many holes...
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...and I'd like to see it happen (if this is real), but for all they show off about low time-to-market, I doubt we'll be seeing these too soon, more's the pity :-(
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What the f*ck does "especially not with inner-city kids. " mean?
Just acknowledging that unfortunately, the majority are not likely to be very computer-literate, therefore programming or anything like that will be a little over-optimistic.
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...realistically, you won't want to teach them the kind of stuff that /. readers are really interested in, especially not with inner-city kids. Sure, you'll get the odd guru who will lap up whatever programming languages you can throw at him/heer, but for the most part you'll want to teach wordprocessing, spreadsheets, and databases.
That said, try to offer something for the more geeky among them - I've been bored rigid through so many such classes...
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And now they are telling us that this was a mistake because their customers are making noise... Tsk Tsk!
True, but at least people did make enough noise to make them listen - this is a victory against them if that's what they were doing.
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It seems that all we get on /. about censorship/M$/whatever these days is bad news. I'm glad there's something to celebrate!
That said, this does bode very badly for individual states doing anti-social things within themselves and the Feds being powerless to stop it...aren't I just the optimist!
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joke (jk)
n. Something said or done to evoke laughter or amusement, especially an amusing story with a punch line. A mischievous trick; a prank. An amusing or ludicrous incident or situation.Informal. Something not to be taken seriously; a triviality: The accident was no joke. An object of amusement or laughter; a laughingstock: His loud tie was the joke of the office.
Courtesy of dictionary.com
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Bruce Perens messes up, apologizes, more upvotes for the mistake and the correction! As he noted once before, typical slashdot mods...
I would think that was so it would be above most users' "highlight" threshold, thereby stopping several million people who hadn't bothered to read the rest of the thread from flaming him. Besides, do you really not think that he's reached the karma limit already?
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Cool - *zip* *sizzle* *crack* SQUAWK!
=)
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...It would be easy to have a master computer doing everything. Even alerting emergency prodedures to individuals.
.NET? =)
What, you mean like
Now they no longer only know what you're buying, but exactly where you are, to the nearest light-fitting...
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See my earlier comment - they'd flash faster (and therefore appear more smooth) than when using ordinary mains power (only 50Hz AC), so I wouldn't think you'd be affected.
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Great, but could these micro-bursts of light send someone into an epileptic fit, like those Japanese cartoons used to do?
I shouldn't think so, at any decent bit rate - after all, if it's faster than 50 bits per second, then it's smoother than ordinary mains power anyway (50 Hz AC). So no worries, I think. (I Am Not A Doctor; This Is Not Medical Advice)...
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But Mom, I can only do this work at night - no, I'm not doing an caffeine-fueled all-nighter for the hell of it - DON'T TURN THAT LIGHT OFF I'M IN THE MIDDLE OF A SAVNo route to host - connection closed.
Still fun as an idea, though =)
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Yeah - I know a Microserf in R&D (perhaps that wasn't tactful I hope he doesn't recognise me if he reads this...oh bother he's recognise the email address, won't he...), and from what he says he's pretty representative. Intelligent guy, not prejudiced at all, indeed, a Linux guru on the quiet. Don't knock most of Microsoft, just those that make the antisocial tactical decisions...
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How exactly is this suit "against U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft"?
In much the same way as someone being tried by a public prosecutor is "xxx vs. the United States of America" - it's just legalese.
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Does it give you some kind of perverse pleasure, this daily troll? Why do you do it? Why? /. rather than people around you. It doesn't make you more than a pain in the neck, just a pain in the neck to more people.
You're not l33t, cool, or big just 'cause you're annoying
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he Secure Digital Music Initiative Foundation (SDMI) does not - nor did it ever - intend to bring any legal action against Professor Felten or his co-authors.
This text was actually from a letter published after the withdrawl of the paper - ie when the RIAA realised that this guy wasn't going to go quietly. It's a butt-covering move, and if you look at their original email, the U-turn is blindingly obvious.
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...they have no obligation to support his speech by lending him their servers, bandwidth, domain name, etc.
Very true. However, they have no right to attempt to wipe it like that. Sensible guy to have off-site backups. I'd volunteer webspace if I had any...
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Yes, but who else are you gonna tell? Or more specifically, who else is going to tell others?
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That's the point, though. M$ is so good at marketing that they can stop Joe Blow from realising how badly he's being screwed. Bingo, no pressure, and with Joe Blow's $$$ to fund your legal team, no probs there either.
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Its not like their pointing a gun at us... or are they??
Hate to say it, but they are. Say what you like about FUD, it's damn effective. Of course, as was agreed upon (mostly) in an earlier story (Obituary of the Linux desktop, I think...link, anyone?), free software can never die. It can be marginalised, though, and MS are making great steps in that direction.
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...and that was with Netscape 4, and konqueror! That's just *wrong*... (one letter to my MP coming up...)
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These days, you can emulate much of the Win32 APIs without much trouble.
Have you seen the latest WINE? Sure, it's good, but not that good! Same goes for the rest to some degree or another - you don't really think MS will move towards competition, do you?
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Of course they store their passwords in plaintext, and for the same reason - how else can they mail you your password?
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Should've used code released under a truly free license, like the BSD license, instead of the GPL
Not at all! The GPL is deliberately designed not to be proprietary, and for it to be impossible to become so. Look what happened to BSD-licenced, well, bits of BSD - they ended up in bits of Windows. Companies don't like people nicking their stuff and making money out of it, nor do Free Software programmers...
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Nah - the GPL stipulates that you can only release under that version "or any later version at your discretion" - allowing for loopholes to be easily closed, not that the legalese the GPL is written in seems to have that many holes...
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