In the same interview - I saw it on satellite last night - he also agreed with the interviewer that , with the dollar going down, *inflation* will be on the rise just behind it.
I don't think your secondary education system is to blame particularly, I think it's a systemic failure of vision Ergo most of "you guys" seem to think that the UK fought the US in the 2WW. Take this as sarcasm or flamebait, but it seems incontrovertible - demonstrated daily on slashdot - that USAians in general just don't care about the "broad sweep of history". Particularly, I guess, if you're a blue stater.
I think there should be some intervention in the UbiSoft (Go Marianne!) v EA (boo sucks Uncle Sam) to stop a monopoly of the "market". But then, Americans, for all their free-market bluster, have the occasional wobbly over this cf Microsoft. Who's to say that George W Bush won't turn a blind to this "conflict" whilst those uber-federalists EUians will levy fines on such a merger.
Thankyou for the clarification. It was interesting.
You could represent the many-to-many approach in OPML by using refids (I think), which shouldn't be that hard. The implementation is slightly hard but not rocket science - tree manipulation of the DOM or running a XSLT style sheet. The worlds of OPML and delicious might then be fused together. It seems too obvious a collusion to muss.
Certainly OPML, if the "blurbs" are to be believed, have access (in some mysterious way which I've only seen in passing) to blogs. Tagging blogs anyone? I'm sure someone in delicious must have thought of this already?
How would tagging fit standard meta-data schemas? Name-and-address? White pages, yellow pages? Would you use it for domain names? How do the two fit together? Or do they drift by each other in space. Sorry, these questions aren't aimed at you - just random thoughts.
I always thought that OPML and Google-like search powers was the beast for this job. Is it being used? It would certainly gather together the disparate threads in a self boot-strapping manner.
Dave Winer (of Scipting News fame) always had a bee in his bonnet about this subject and on this he makes sense.
Most commercial DVD players are multi-region, at least they say they are. Yet on the barebones PC I have, I've got to go through hoops to make it multi-region, with the possibility of having a boat-anchor at the end of the day. The DVD-player manufacturers seem to have their heads screwed on. The PC manus seem to have their heads stuck up their arse. It also seems to say that "The Market" seems to have worked. People want multi-region DVDs - they can get the players and media through Amazon.
So, the first version of the MPAAs "DRM" has failed. Quite massively. Whether they have any luck the second time around, I don't know. DRMs tend to come as part of a format - and look how tricky it is to get a format accepted. OTOH, we have hucksters like MS who will do *anything* for their corporate buddies to ensure that Windoze standards are *the* standard so that wintel systems can be sold. But here we have two completely conflicting objectives.
Just do like the nice man says and never use this here frightful thing called the Intar-web. You've just got to wait until those frightfully nice people at Microsoft produce the Real Thing with all the Do Diddley Right software, at which time we'll all be happy. Particularly those lovely RIAA and MPAA chaps. In the meantime, just be careful out there and don't go trusting anyone not called Microsoft. They'll all nasty people.
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Mod this post as insightful because you're right. I've heard people say that they buy MS *because* it's got a virus checker. I can just hear those same people saying "we have to buy Windows because it's got a spyware checker".
Dude, this is like the "Carry On" of Sci Fi TV, particularly towards the later series when they start using the Starbug. Rimmer as Kenneth Williams, Kryton as Matron? Yeah, "Carry On In Space". Bleargh.
I liked RD when every 3rd line was a joke. When the "joke" level got to be every line, it got tedious. IIRC - and this maybe memory playing tricks - that was about the time it tried to translate itself to the US and the mournful signature tune at the beginning was swapped with the closing song.
I can forgive the odd dramatic glitch like this. It's a show after all. It's the noises in space and "reverse polarity" bollocks that really gets my goat. No amount of "dramatic license" can excuse that. Hey, and Firefly banished "reverse polarity" to the rim as well. Kudos to Josh Wheldon!
I suppose the biggest dramatic decision was to avoid using aliens (the rubber suits). Most other series get away with a lot of things with that, aliens and/or alien technology coming in at a point where the writer's imagination flags. It forces the attention on the characters.
I'm still peeved about the massive story arcs left hanging in space by the cancellation of the series. Fox suxx. Bigtime.
agree 100%. Bought the DVDs - well worth it. The humour is sharp, the technology not too unbelievable. Space is *silent*. They actually shutdown shipboard systems to avoid detection! Yes! No men in rubber suits! Guns that need oxygen to fire! Serenity is grungy, as it should be. Great characters, action, scripts.
The humour is a relief from the sheer po-faced gravitas of Voyager and a large part of the ST genre. Humour is what (mostly) set aside the first ST series, and is pretty much absent from the subsequent ST series.
And I definitely have the hots for Zoey. Whooey...
You got yr tenses confused there, dude: that should be "he was a creative visionary". He's involved because he's playing pinball and the religion he created is still bringing in money.
IMO, the spark died a while ago, just about the time the leash got taken off if I'm not mistaken.
He's still a whizz-o marketing man though. Simultaneous world-wide releases - that's the way of the future although it didnt take a genius to figure it out it took someone with cajones to do it.
Sure, this is a growing demographic but most business should, as a first resort, go for the younger end of the market with money to spare. The sort of adverts that air for programs like "Home and Away", "The Bold and the Beautiful" aren't targeted at the big spenders.
I suspect the real worry is that the downloaders -- as well as taking money away -- are feeding the younger, "hipper" end of the market. The bit that advertisers like, the bit that rakes in the the money. So it's not loss of earnings per se, it's the loss of potential earnings. But who is to say that even these should be guaranteed by law.
In some other respects, "piracy" has brought a convergence of sorts - but not the sort that anyone imagined.
You mean like the ones that seem to keep slashdot afloat? Yes, the ones at the top the page about the TCO of windows being less than linux? Is this irony?
If you read further, I said German submarines. And probably torpedoes. The last decent torpedo the UK produced was the Mk8 for WW2. The RN used Mk 8s to sink the Belgrano.
Since the 2WW, Brit torpedoes have been expensive and unreliable: http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WTBR_PostWWII.htm We - or at least Marconi or Plessey or whoever the du jour incompetents were - seem to have a problem producing the things.
In 1984, we'd spent 5 billion on the Tigerfish, Spearfish and Stingray and that's *before* the "get it right" consolidation programs of the 90s. And that's to get it up to success rate of 80%. Umm. I'd like my money back and Marconi/Plessey hung out to dry, thankyou.
At least we had the sense to buy US cruise missles.
I'd go for Russian aeronautical engineering *any* day.
I have to go now. My keyword usage has probably set off alarm bells somewhere...
Logically Java should be the Sun product that gets the Open Source goodness first. Java isn't a core business for Sun; it's core business is Solaris and Sparc. Why should they OS their core business when they won't OS their peripheral interests firsts?
I agree that the Russians are truly remarkable weaponsmiths however back in 46/47 when the UK actually led the world in aeronautics, Avro *gave* the Soviets the Nene jet engine to fit in the first Soviet fighter. Ah, those were the days!
If it was up to me, the MOD (UK Ministry Of Defence) would buy only German or Russian weaponry. Espeicially German subs as ours seem to catch fire a lot.
The CIA made sure they upped the ante by over-estimating the size and capability of the Soviet threat, although this was probably a mirror op.
The major problem with EJB is persistence - even in JBOSS, this is unbelievably complex. I've come through a project where we did everything to avoid the persistence beast. If that was fixed - i.e. simplified, then everything in the garden would be rosy:-)
Message Driven Beans and the Java Messaging Service are a really important part of the armoury. For, possibly the first time, it brings Big Iron messaging reliability within reach of the average programmer. If only someone could make it more language agnostic...
Slashdot Mirror
La cringely begs to differ HD is in Steve's sights and iFilms - that's the future.
Particularly one shaped like this Big Red Button
In the same interview - I saw it on satellite last night - he also agreed with the interviewer that , with the dollar going down, *inflation* will be on the rise just behind it.
I'd trust any CA if they'd indemnify me against any damage done by any party using their certificates.
Most other is moonshine bar the baseball bat option.
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failure of vision Ergo most of "you guys" seem to think that the UK fought the US in the 2WW. Take this as sarcasm or flamebait, but it seems incontrovertible - demonstrated daily on slashdot - that USAians in general just don't care about the "broad sweep of history". Particularly, I guess, if you're a blue stater.
I think there should be some intervention in the UbiSoft (Go Marianne!) v EA (boo sucks Uncle Sam) to stop a monopoly of the "market". But then, Americans, for all their free-market bluster, have the occasional wobbly over this cf Microsoft. Who's to say that George W Bush won't turn a blind to this "conflict" whilst those uber-federalists EUians will levy fines on such a merger.
h
You could represent the many-to-many approach in OPML by using refids (I think), which shouldn't be that hard. The implementation is slightly hard but not rocket science - tree manipulation of the DOM or running a XSLT style sheet. The worlds of OPML and delicious might then be fused together. It seems too obvious a collusion to muss.
Certainly OPML, if the "blurbs" are to be believed, have access (in some mysterious way which I've only seen in passing) to blogs. Tagging blogs anyone? I'm sure someone in delicious must have thought of this already?
How would tagging fit standard meta-data schemas? Name-and-address? White pages, yellow pages? Would you use it for domain names? How do the two fit together? Or do they drift by each other in space. Sorry, these questions aren't aimed at you - just random thoughts.
I always thought that OPML and Google-like search powers was the beast for this job. Is it being used? It would certainly gather together the disparate threads in a self boot-strapping manner.
Dave Winer (of Scipting News fame) always had a bee in his bonnet about this subject and on this he makes sense.
DVD players made for PCs tend to be a little more protective and I don't know why.
Most commercial DVD players are multi-region, at least they say they are. Yet on the barebones PC I have, I've got to go through hoops to make it multi-region, with the possibility of having a boat-anchor at the end of the day. The DVD-player manufacturers seem to have their heads screwed on. The PC manus seem to have their heads stuck up their arse. It also seems to say that "The Market" seems to have worked. People want multi-region DVDs - they can get the players and media through Amazon.
So, the first version of the MPAAs "DRM" has failed. Quite massively. Whether they have any luck the second time around, I don't know. DRMs tend to come as part of a format - and look how tricky it is to get a format accepted. OTOH, we have hucksters like MS who will do *anything* for their corporate buddies to ensure that Windoze standards are *the* standard so that wintel systems can be sold. But here we have two completely conflicting objectives.
umm. It will be an interesting battle.
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Just do like the nice man says and never use this here frightful thing called the Intar-web. You've just got to wait until those frightfully nice people at Microsoft produce the Real Thing with all the Do Diddley Right software, at which time we'll all be happy. Particularly those lovely RIAA and MPAA chaps. In the meantime, just be careful out there and don't go trusting anyone not called Microsoft. They'll all nasty people.
h.
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This signature comes to you from the letters F and U.
Mod this post as insightful because you're right. I've heard people say that they buy MS *because* it's got a virus checker. I can just hear those same people saying "we have to buy Windows because it's got a spyware checker".
My hostiles may, one day, be your friends. Or vice versa. Then the unwisdom of this agreement maybe seen.
h.
Dude, this is like the "Carry On" of Sci Fi TV, particularly towards the later series when they start using the Starbug. Rimmer as Kenneth Williams, Kryton as Matron? Yeah, "Carry On In Space". Bleargh.
I liked RD when every 3rd line was a joke. When the "joke" level got to be every line, it got tedious. IIRC - and this maybe memory playing tricks - that was about the time it tried to translate itself to the US and the mournful signature tune at the beginning was swapped with the closing song.
h
I can forgive the odd dramatic glitch like this. It's a show after all. It's the noises in space and "reverse polarity" bollocks that really gets my goat. No amount of "dramatic license" can excuse that. Hey, and Firefly banished "reverse polarity" to the rim as well. Kudos to Josh Wheldon!
I suppose the biggest dramatic decision was to avoid using aliens (the rubber suits). Most other series get away with a lot of things with that, aliens and/or alien technology coming in at a point where the writer's imagination flags. It forces the attention on the characters.
I'm still peeved about the massive story arcs left hanging in space by the cancellation of the series. Fox suxx. Bigtime.
This is some honey-trap for the RIAA, right?
agree 100%. Bought the DVDs - well worth it. The humour is sharp, the technology not too unbelievable. Space is *silent*. They actually shutdown shipboard systems to avoid detection! Yes! No men in rubber suits! Guns that need oxygen to fire! Serenity is grungy, as it should be. Great characters, action, scripts.
The humour is a relief from the sheer po-faced gravitas of Voyager and a large part of the ST genre. Humour is what (mostly) set aside the first ST series, and is pretty much absent from the subsequent ST series.
And I definitely have the hots for Zoey. Whooey...
h
You got yr tenses confused there, dude: that should be "he was a creative visionary". He's involved because he's playing pinball and the religion he created is still bringing in money.
IMO, the spark died a while ago, just about the time the leash got taken off if I'm not mistaken.
He's still a whizz-o marketing man though. Simultaneous world-wide releases - that's the way of the future although it didnt take a genius to figure it out it took someone with cajones to do it.
h
Sure, this is a growing demographic but most business should, as a first resort, go for the younger end of the market with money to spare. The sort of adverts that air for programs like "Home and Away", "The Bold and the Beautiful" aren't targeted at the big spenders.
I suspect the real worry is that the downloaders -- as well as taking money away -- are feeding the younger, "hipper" end of the market. The bit that advertisers like, the bit that rakes in the the money. So it's not loss of earnings per se, it's the loss of potential earnings. But who is to say that even these should be guaranteed by law.
In some other respects, "piracy" has brought a convergence of sorts - but not the sort that anyone imagined.
h.
You mean like the ones that seem to keep slashdot afloat? Yes, the ones at the top the page about the TCO of windows being less than linux? Is this irony?
Yeah, let's not forget what sort of executive Balmer is:
_ li nux_lawsuits/
http://www.ntk.net/ballmer/mirrors.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/18/ballmer
I'd say that linus is the JFK of "executives" in comparison.
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If you read further, I said German submarines. And probably torpedoes. The last decent torpedo the UK produced was the Mk8 for WW2. The RN used Mk 8s to sink the Belgrano.
Since the 2WW, Brit torpedoes have been expensive and unreliable: http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WTBR_PostWWII.htm We - or at least Marconi or Plessey or whoever the du jour incompetents were - seem to have a problem producing the things.
In 1984, we'd spent 5 billion on the Tigerfish, Spearfish and Stingray and that's *before* the "get it right" consolidation programs of the 90s. And that's to get it up to success rate of 80%. Umm. I'd like my money back and Marconi/Plessey hung out to dry, thankyou.
At least we had the sense to buy US cruise missles.
I'd go for Russian aeronautical engineering *any* day.
I have to go now. My keyword usage has probably set off alarm bells somewhere...
h.
Logically Java should be the Sun product that gets the Open Source goodness first. Java isn't a core business for Sun; it's core business is Solaris and Sparc. Why should they OS their core business when they won't OS their peripheral interests firsts?
Move along, now. Nothing to see but FUD.
H
I agree that the Russians are truly remarkable weaponsmiths however back in 46/47 when the UK actually led the world in aeronautics, Avro *gave* the Soviets the Nene jet engine to fit in the first Soviet fighter. Ah, those were the days!
If it was up to me, the MOD (UK Ministry Of Defence) would buy only German or Russian weaponry. Espeicially German subs as ours seem to catch fire a lot.
The CIA made sure they upped the ante by over-estimating the size and capability of the Soviet threat, although this was probably a mirror op.
h
The major problem with EJB is persistence - even in JBOSS, this is unbelievably complex. I've come through a project where we did everything to avoid the persistence beast. If that was fixed - i.e. simplified, then everything in the garden would be rosy:-)
Message Driven Beans and the Java Messaging Service are a really important part of the armoury. For, possibly the first time, it brings Big Iron messaging reliability within reach of the average programmer. If only someone could make it more language agnostic...
h
Search no longer
You can also just see the Google trademark lurking there...
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