Laptops are easily $3000 including the software installed. So do you go home first, drop the laptop off, and THEN go back out and shop for groceries, or do you just run in and make it quick? It's really not that unreasonable to have $4k in equipment in your car.
Yeah, encryption and stuff doesn't really matter in this context... ssh uses encryption too, but court rulings still stand... corporations like this are required to set up an extra ssh server on the firewall edge that everyone on the inside connects to (and where things are decrypted and logged) and then from there makes one more ssh connection to the outside.
I don't think that RIAA propaganda will be a problem... PBS newshour had an online debate about copyright issues, and (in my humble opinion) the RIAA came off as just repeating the same line over and over even though the questions presented were nuanced. Now repeat this over thousands of bloggers versus a small legal department screening the official stance, and the RIAA will seem even more detached from reality.
I wasn't really skewing the facts... I just said that my personal experience happens to include more SVG/database stuff than Flash/database.
The neat thing about SVG is that it empowers all XML dialects... any XML data that needs to have a graphical or motion depiction can be semi-easily expressed with SVG. ChessGML is one example that's been implemented already.
I don't think that Flash is necessarily evil... Actually, I wouldn't be suprised if SVG/Flash come to coexist like HTML/PDF do currently. Inevitably, if SVG gains much more traction, there will be a ton of grass-roots content written for it just because it's free and easy to learn, and it will have a lot more creative thought put into it than Flash does, even if Flash stuff will usually be of higher quality.
Or so this evangelist hopes... In favor of SVG, an open XML W3C spec that doesn't require expensive tools to create. Mozilla sorta supports it now and should have much better support in the future. Even though SVG isn't terribly popular yet, I already see far far more database-driven content than I do with flash since XML is pretty easy to manipulate and generate.
This really makes clear that SCO knows it's either getting bought out by IBM, or it's going out of business. SCO knows it really doesn't matter how many corporate-speech laws it violates regarding IBM, so they're going nuts in case it can improve their stock price just a little more...
So if it's obvious to IBM and to SCO, why do investors keep pumping money in?
Does this give anyone else flashbacks from the Clonaid thing only six months ago? The tactic seems to be the same: counter the public's increasing doubt with even more outrageous claims.
It doesn't have to be the 1990's to take the earlier poster's advice. If you find that your management isn't sorry and likely will do it again, quit after you find another job, suck it up only as long as you need to.
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More specifically, it allows you to have smaller wires (uber good... putting a 500watt inverter in the trunk of a 12v car requires several pounds of very thick cable).
Fuel cells are still more efficient than gas-powered vehicles...
Also, in terms of just storing energy within a power station, are there any alteratnives that work at an industrial scale? (do batteries work? I guess dams could be considered energy storage devices...) What are the efficiencies of those?
The European Union plans to reach oil-independance by 2050, and the way they plan to do it is to only use hydrogen as an energy storage mechanism, and to use a variety of different renewable energy sources (sun, wind, (nuclear?)) to generate the energy to begin with. Relying on a multitude of energy sources is obviously beneficial.
The reason hydrogen is so important in the above scheme is that things like solar/wind/water power flucuate a lot, eg. are only available during certain parts of the day/year. Electrical power in its native form can't be stored, but its conversion to and from hydrogen is very environmentally friendly.
This is a long-term vision. It might even be agressive to discuss this now, but at some point we're going to have to get away from oil as our main energy source, at which point we're either going to have to switch to an unrenewable source (not smart) or move to the above scheme (smart). The only question is when. Natural gas/oil are not the in our long-term future.
Modding communities have been around for a long time without legal intervention, no? IMHO, Half Life's modding community (natural selection owns!) really demonstrated how a product's life can be lenghthened, but still, mods have long been recognized as good.
ESR's paper on the SCO thing shows how the relationships between several unixes. Given the large amount of intermingling, it's not surprising at all to find common pieces of code in different versions of unix.
The downsides of DRM have been discussed a lot already, but I'll briefly go over the side effects: companies get more economic control as a side effect to DRM systems (region coding), companies get to dictate which devices and from which companies you get to play their content on, allowing them to dictate additional restrictions other than purely anti-piracy ones, and companies regard the loss to the public domain as an unimportant side effect at best and probably simply a benefit.
A program doesn't necessarily know where it lives, but it is possible to tell if it's talking to a black box that's been signed by Intel's private key, which is probably good enough.
DRM in the hands of monopolies is a way to take things away. DRM in the hands of corporations who value control above anything else is a way to take things away.
As others have replied, that particular federal law seems to apply only to non-classical music broadcasts.
Also, even if the copyright law does apply to talk radio, the copyright holder can always sell their content under whatever license they want, including a license that explicitely allows advanced program schedules.
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Laptops are easily $3000 including the software installed. So do you go home first, drop the laptop off, and THEN go back out and shop for groceries, or do you just run in and make it quick? It's really not that unreasonable to have $4k in equipment in your car.
PNG transparency has some issues on IE currently, so if you're producing a semi-professional site, you're kind of in a corner...
What about Plex86?
But, um, what else to umps do?
Yeah, encryption and stuff doesn't really matter in this context... ssh uses encryption too, but court rulings still stand... corporations like this are required to set up an extra ssh server on the firewall edge that everyone on the inside connects to (and where things are decrypted and logged) and then from there makes one more ssh connection to the outside.
I don't think that RIAA propaganda will be a problem... PBS newshour had an online debate about copyright issues, and (in my humble opinion) the RIAA came off as just repeating the same line over and over even though the questions presented were nuanced. Now repeat this over thousands of bloggers versus a small legal department screening the official stance, and the RIAA will seem even more detached from reality.
Also... Yahoo news for SCOX (and maybe even message board) and news.google.com search for SCO are both good for as many updates of SCO wheel-spinning as you can possibly stand.
The neat thing about SVG is that it empowers all XML dialects... any XML data that needs to have a graphical or motion depiction can be semi-easily expressed with SVG. ChessGML is one example that's been implemented already.
I don't think that Flash is necessarily evil... Actually, I wouldn't be suprised if SVG/Flash come to coexist like HTML/PDF do currently. Inevitably, if SVG gains much more traction, there will be a ton of grass-roots content written for it just because it's free and easy to learn, and it will have a lot more creative thought put into it than Flash does, even if Flash stuff will usually be of higher quality.
Or so this evangelist hopes... In favor of SVG, an open XML W3C spec that doesn't require expensive tools to create. Mozilla sorta supports it now and should have much better support in the future. Even though SVG isn't terribly popular yet, I already see far far more database-driven content than I do with flash since XML is pretty easy to manipulate and generate.
GPRS... CDMA... many many 2.xG and 3G protocols...
So if it's obvious to IBM and to SCO, why do investors keep pumping money in?
I revoke gravity and all of you are now floating on the ceiling! *poof*
Does this give anyone else flashbacks from the Clonaid thing only six months ago? The tactic seems to be the same: counter the public's increasing doubt with even more outrageous claims.
It might increase you S/N ratio some to do that, but things like automatic debian updates, etc. could easily show up as "suspicious" activity.
It doesn't have to be the 1990's to take the earlier poster's advice. If you find that your management isn't sorry and likely will do it again, quit after you find another job, suck it up only as long as you need to.
More specifically, it allows you to have smaller wires (uber good... putting a 500watt inverter in the trunk of a 12v car requires several pounds of very thick cable).
Also, in terms of just storing energy within a power station, are there any alteratnives that work at an industrial scale? (do batteries work? I guess dams could be considered energy storage devices...) What are the efficiencies of those?
The reason hydrogen is so important in the above scheme is that things like solar/wind/water power flucuate a lot, eg. are only available during certain parts of the day/year. Electrical power in its native form can't be stored, but its conversion to and from hydrogen is very environmentally friendly.
This is a long-term vision. It might even be agressive to discuss this now, but at some point we're going to have to get away from oil as our main energy source, at which point we're either going to have to switch to an unrenewable source (not smart) or move to the above scheme (smart). The only question is when. Natural gas/oil are not the in our long-term future.
Actually, using google to search for MP3's is surprisingly simple, and probably returns more hits than this kid's search engine.
Modding communities have been around for a long time without legal intervention, no? IMHO, Half Life's modding community (natural selection owns!) really demonstrated how a product's life can be lenghthened, but still, mods have long been recognized as good.
ESR's paper on the SCO thing shows how the relationships between several unixes. Given the large amount of intermingling, it's not surprising at all to find common pieces of code in different versions of unix.
The downsides of DRM have been discussed a lot already, but I'll briefly go over the side effects: companies get more economic control as a side effect to DRM systems (region coding), companies get to dictate which devices and from which companies you get to play their content on, allowing them to dictate additional restrictions other than purely anti-piracy ones, and companies regard the loss to the public domain as an unimportant side effect at best and probably simply a benefit.
A program doesn't necessarily know where it lives, but it is possible to tell if it's talking to a black box that's been signed by Intel's private key, which is probably good enough.
DRM in the hands of monopolies is a way to take things away. DRM in the hands of corporations who value control above anything else is a way to take things away.
Also, even if the copyright law does apply to talk radio, the copyright holder can always sell their content under whatever license they want, including a license that explicitely allows advanced program schedules.