They had more than a thousand servers in the US, they collected money through US-based paypal from US customers for premium accounts, they made money through US-based ad networks, and they paid money to top up loaders in the US. In other words, they were doing substantial business in the US and therefore come under US law.
The innovation is packaging those technologies and making it easy for publishers to use them.
The new ibooks format looks like a ZIP container containing xhtml, images (including jpeg, png and svg), javascript based widgets (created with Dashcode, similar to OS X widgets). I see h.264 movies in there as well. I haven't found the 3d stuff (don't know if there's any 3d in this one). And it's all in a nice package that you can download once and toss on a device.
Unlike Sigil, iBooks Author can embed much more multimedia and appears to make it much easier to build documents. Building the capabilities to do flashcards and interactive review sections into the client app so that lots of books can take advantage of it. Before now, publishers could do this sort of thing in a browser over the internet, or they could write their own mobile app that displayed the content, but they had to build a lot of that infrastructure themselves.
Apple's building on our current technologies and has actually gotten publishers to start using them. I think that's pretty cool.
Well, if you turned on the Amiga without media, all you got was a screen saying to insert a disk. But if you did load workbench, you might have gotten a programming environment. Amiga's included Amiga Basic through Amiga OS 1.3, which was pretty equivalent to Mac Basic. I remember sharing programs with a friend who had a Mac. You're absolutely right that it was less discoverable than the C=64. You had to find it, it wasn't in your face.
As of Amiga OS 2.0, Amiga Basic went away. ARexx was there, which was great at tying programs together but not the same standalone programming environment. Eventually, AMOS took the mindshare away, but it was a separate product you needed to get.
Based on my experiences working on websites, far too many companies store the password in plain text. Many, many more will hash it, but will hash it ineffectively by not salting it. Lots of the people working on these websites don't even understand the kinds of attacks salting and hashing are intended to block.
As an example, look at mailman, the mailing list manager. Not only did it store the plaintext password, it mails it to you monthly. Fortunately, the current developers aren't idiots and have removed this flaw (as of ~2007) but tons of sites out there are still using the old version since I keep getting the "reminders".
Trust me... Spend a bit of time in industry working on these websites, and you'll understand.
I've something similar. Last year, I started a prototype iPhone app for our company. I did it on personal equipment, with my personal development account, on personal time. I did not expect my boss to cut me a check for this. But I did find it likely I'd get various indirect benefits from it.
First, personal development. It gave me experience in a toolset I wasn't as familiar with. That can help me find a different job if I want.
It was fun. Even if that's all that I got out, it was time well spent.
Showing that initiative ended up getting me a lot more visibility within the company. Getting my name recognized as a guy who gets stuff going by the CIO and other bigwigs in the company really helps getting future opportunities and in performance reviews.
In the yearly performance review, the extra work bumped me to the top of the pack and got me a better raise and bonus than I would have gotten without it.
It's gotten me involved in other innovation work: basically, I get to work on a lot of the cool new projects.
Even if I had only gotten 1 and 2, the work would have been worth it to me. Adding on everything else I ended up getting, it turned out to be some of the most rewarding time I spent that year.
So, propose the project in a way that will get the most goodwill. Don't hold it hostage, hope your boss doesn't read slashdot. Offer it freely. Worst case, they'll take it and you won't get anything for it... But you'd now have a great line-item on your resume to find a new job.
Really, you want lockable and opaque storage. Many SUVs, minivans, pickup trucks, station wagons and hatchbacks have storage you can lock, but since it's in the cabin there are also windows on the area.
If the project has been around long enough, you end up with a bunch of people who only have a max of three years of experience with it, and any knowledge of the full history is second, third or fourth hand. The risk is that as you keep cycling people out, you develop an angry monkey situation.
Flash contains the ability to play h.264 video. Are you saying that Adobe is friendlier to FOSS because they wrote the check and give you a binary to run in your FOSS browser?
Maybe not... The law firm is probably not a HIPAA covered agency. If the law firm got the records because their client was a covered entity, they might be in trouble under HIPAA. If they got the records because they were suing a covered entity, they probably aren't in trouble under HIPAA. They'd still be in trouble for disclosing private information, though.
In this case, you're not quite correct. The head of our statisticians wants to get R in here to supplement SAS (which we pay a lot of money for) because it is both good software, and also being used heavily for research. As he put it "If we started using R, we could start using new tools as soon as we read the paper, since most of the researchers are using R."
If you come up with a good idea, it will be immediately copied by a number of large companies that figure they've got deeper pockets than you. They will complain you are trying to use patents instead of competition to win in the marketplace. And odds are, anything you make will infringe on one or more of THEIR patents, which they will use as a defense to stop you from using your patent against them.
At the same time, you will be sued by a non-practicing entity with no assets except the patent they're suing you with, and you can't even try to use other patents against them since they're not making anything.
No. Apple's making a nice margin on the iPad. But they can also make them more cheaply than HP can make Playbooks, because they have huge volume and have stitched up agreements with component manufacturers.
The FSF is the copyright holder of Emacs. All code that is integrated with Emacs is covered by a copyright assignment. They can't violate the GPL when they distribute Emacs, because they are not bound by it.
I checked both AT&T and Verizon about a month ago (for a 1-week trip to Edmonton as well). Their offerings were $100/mo for a 200MB cap. Verizon used to have a plan with a 5GB cap for a reasonable price, but discontinued it in January.
They did rescind that in the 14 months since the article was written. Now you're perfectly free to write code that works on a variety of devices. And if you write code that runs poorly on a variety of devices, you'll be savaged in the reviews (as Safari Books Online was, with their Phonegap app release http://blog.safaribooksonline.com/2010/11/24/ipad-app-safari-to-go-update-november-24-2010/). They came back and rewrote it native, and people are much happier.
I had exactly the same question, and figured it out eventually. It's a official Mexican technical standard, which is managed by a technical committee similar to other national standards bodies.
Let me see if I got this right: business managers are changing to Cloud SaaS infrastructures because their own IT departments don't give them new features fast enough?
So they expect a 3rd party supplier will be faster???
Often, the third party WILL be faster, depending on the request! The problem is that many IT departments have one-size-fits-all policies that work very well for high-volume, highly critical systems, but don't scale down to smaller requests.
For example, if someone in our company wants a mostly static Web site with a form to collect feedback that will be used by 600 people a year, it has to follow exactly the same architecture and processes as our main transactional site with 50,000 users a day. It has to be written in Java, will probably be deployed to the same app servers as other applications (because we combine things for management), will need a 5-week release turnaround to fix a typo, etc. Those processes make sense for the big site, because you don't want to go down for 50k people a day, but are overkill for a small site.
On the other hand, go out to a third party that does these small sites all the time, and they will be faster, because their systems and processes are all set up for things at that scale.
It is corporate policy, and rather public corporate policy. Any app that lets you get to the wide open internet, and does not have some sort of parental controls built in, needs to be 17+, because the wide-open internet has all sorts of stuff in it. Safari does support parental controls, so it doesn't need the label.
This isn't something new just for Opera. ForumRunner has the same rating, because it lets you access all sorts of forums.
If your application is a web browser or provides unfettered access to the Internet or other 3rd- party information sources not under your control, your app must be rated 17+ unless you include a filtering mechanism to ensure users can only access content that matches your app’s rating.
Duke Nukem and Quake... Is there anything in a current game? I'm wondering if it's a feature that got dropped off from most current games because it was hard to do with higher quality graphics?
A couple other books in this vein: Cookwise by Shirley Corriher. Goes into the food science a lot. Also, Improvisational Cook by Sally Schneider. Sally gives a lot of base ideas and talks through how you can change them. It's good getting you in the mindset to riff on a theme.
Slashdot Mirror
They had more than a thousand servers in the US, they collected money through US-based paypal from US customers for premium accounts, they made money through US-based ad networks, and they paid money to top up loaders in the US. In other words, they were doing substantial business in the US and therefore come under US law.
Ars Technica goes into it in more detail.
The innovation is packaging those technologies and making it easy for publishers to use them.
The new ibooks format looks like a ZIP container containing xhtml, images (including jpeg, png and svg), javascript based widgets (created with Dashcode, similar to OS X widgets). I see h.264 movies in there as well. I haven't found the 3d stuff (don't know if there's any 3d in this one). And it's all in a nice package that you can download once and toss on a device.
Unlike Sigil, iBooks Author can embed much more multimedia and appears to make it much easier to build documents. Building the capabilities to do flashcards and interactive review sections into the client app so that lots of books can take advantage of it. Before now, publishers could do this sort of thing in a browser over the internet, or they could write their own mobile app that displayed the content, but they had to build a lot of that infrastructure themselves.
Apple's building on our current technologies and has actually gotten publishers to start using them. I think that's pretty cool.
Well, if you turned on the Amiga without media, all you got was a screen saying to insert a disk. But if you did load workbench, you might have gotten a programming environment. Amiga's included Amiga Basic through Amiga OS 1.3, which was pretty equivalent to Mac Basic. I remember sharing programs with a friend who had a Mac. You're absolutely right that it was less discoverable than the C=64. You had to find it, it wasn't in your face.
As of Amiga OS 2.0, Amiga Basic went away. ARexx was there, which was great at tying programs together but not the same standalone programming environment. Eventually, AMOS took the mindshare away, but it was a separate product you needed to get.
Based on my experiences working on websites, far too many companies store the password in plain text. Many, many more will hash it, but will hash it ineffectively by not salting it. Lots of the people working on these websites don't even understand the kinds of attacks salting and hashing are intended to block.
As an example, look at mailman, the mailing list manager. Not only did it store the plaintext password, it mails it to you monthly. Fortunately, the current developers aren't idiots and have removed this flaw (as of ~2007) but tons of sites out there are still using the old version since I keep getting the "reminders".
Trust me... Spend a bit of time in industry working on these websites, and you'll understand.
I've something similar. Last year, I started a prototype iPhone app for our company. I did it on personal equipment, with my personal development account, on personal time. I did not expect my boss to cut me a check for this. But I did find it likely I'd get various indirect benefits from it.
Even if I had only gotten 1 and 2, the work would have been worth it to me. Adding on everything else I ended up getting, it turned out to be some of the most rewarding time I spent that year.
So, propose the project in a way that will get the most goodwill. Don't hold it hostage, hope your boss doesn't read slashdot. Offer it freely. Worst case, they'll take it and you won't get anything for it... But you'd now have a great line-item on your resume to find a new job.
Really, you want lockable and opaque storage. Many SUVs, minivans, pickup trucks, station wagons and hatchbacks have storage you can lock, but since it's in the cabin there are also windows on the area.
If the project has been around long enough, you end up with a bunch of people who only have a max of three years of experience with it, and any knowledge of the full history is second, third or fourth hand. The risk is that as you keep cycling people out, you develop an angry monkey situation.
Flash contains the ability to play h.264 video. Are you saying that Adobe is friendlier to FOSS because they wrote the check and give you a binary to run in your FOSS browser?
Maybe not... The law firm is probably not a HIPAA covered agency. If the law firm got the records because their client was a covered entity, they might be in trouble under HIPAA. If they got the records because they were suing a covered entity, they probably aren't in trouble under HIPAA. They'd still be in trouble for disclosing private information, though.
Here's a writeup.
In this case, you're not quite correct. The head of our statisticians wants to get R in here to supplement SAS (which we pay a lot of money for) because it is both good software, and also being used heavily for research. As he put it "If we started using R, we could start using new tools as soon as we read the paper, since most of the researchers are using R."
Right now, we've got the worst of both worlds.
If you come up with a good idea, it will be immediately copied by a number of large companies that figure they've got deeper pockets than you. They will complain you are trying to use patents instead of competition to win in the marketplace. And odds are, anything you make will infringe on one or more of THEIR patents, which they will use as a defense to stop you from using your patent against them.
At the same time, you will be sued by a non-practicing entity with no assets except the patent they're suing you with, and you can't even try to use other patents against them since they're not making anything.
I'm going to guess that participating in regular audits alone would cost Dropbox more than $795 per client, making compliance a loss.
No. Apple's making a nice margin on the iPad. But they can also make them more cheaply than HP can make Playbooks, because they have huge volume and have stitched up agreements with component manufacturers.
The FSF is the copyright holder of Emacs. All code that is integrated with Emacs is covered by a copyright assignment. They can't violate the GPL when they distribute Emacs, because they are not bound by it.
Last year, Google blocked Facebook from accessing gmail contacts. This is just tit for tat.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704353504575596913266928110.html
They do, but the number people care about are tablet-optimized apps. For which there are lots and lots on the iPad, and few on Honeycomb.
I checked both AT&T and Verizon about a month ago (for a 1-week trip to Edmonton as well). Their offerings were $100/mo for a 200MB cap. Verizon used to have a plan with a 5GB cap for a reasonable price, but discontinued it in January.
They did rescind that in the 14 months since the article was written. Now you're perfectly free to write code that works on a variety of devices. And if you write code that runs poorly on a variety of devices, you'll be savaged in the reviews (as Safari Books Online was, with their Phonegap app release http://blog.safaribooksonline.com/2010/11/24/ipad-app-safari-to-go-update-november-24-2010/). They came back and rewrote it native, and people are much happier.
I had exactly the same question, and figured it out eventually. It's a official Mexican technical standard, which is managed by a technical committee similar to other national standards bodies.
http://www.ul.com/global/eng/pages/corporate/contactus/faq/marks/nom/
For the longest time, I thought it meant something like "Name", since NOM appeared in the inset in the HP48 where you could put an engraved nameplate.
Let me see if I got this right: business managers are changing to Cloud SaaS infrastructures because their own IT departments don't give them new features fast enough?
So they expect a 3rd party supplier will be faster???
Often, the third party WILL be faster, depending on the request! The problem is that many IT departments have one-size-fits-all policies that work very well for high-volume, highly critical systems, but don't scale down to smaller requests.
For example, if someone in our company wants a mostly static Web site with a form to collect feedback that will be used by 600 people a year, it has to follow exactly the same architecture and processes as our main transactional site with 50,000 users a day. It has to be written in Java, will probably be deployed to the same app servers as other applications (because we combine things for management), will need a 5-week release turnaround to fix a typo, etc. Those processes make sense for the big site, because you don't want to go down for 50k people a day, but are overkill for a small site.
On the other hand, go out to a third party that does these small sites all the time, and they will be faster, because their systems and processes are all set up for things at that scale.
It is corporate policy, and rather public corporate policy. Any app that lets you get to the wide open internet, and does not have some sort of parental controls built in, needs to be 17+, because the wide-open internet has all sorts of stuff in it. Safari does support parental controls, so it doesn't need the label.
This isn't something new just for Opera. ForumRunner has the same rating, because it lets you access all sorts of forums.
From http://developer.apple.com/news/ios/pdf/parental_controls.pdf
If your application is a web browser or provides unfettered access to the Internet or other 3rd- party information sources not under your control, your app must be rated 17+ unless you include a filtering mechanism to ensure users can only access content that matches your app’s rating.
Cute pictures of cats and babies. Preferable pictures of both cats AND babies. And bacon.
The Library of Congress is given authority by the DMCA to determine exceptions. So it takes precedence.
Duke Nukem and Quake... Is there anything in a current game? I'm wondering if it's a feature that got dropped off from most current games because it was hard to do with higher quality graphics?
A couple other books in this vein: Cookwise by Shirley Corriher. Goes into the food science a lot. Also, Improvisational Cook by Sally Schneider. Sally gives a lot of base ideas and talks through how you can change them. It's good getting you in the mindset to riff on a theme.