This support the theory that too much stress (or too little sleep) can lead you to be physically ill.
Or that people actually go to get doctor's notes to get out of their finals, which they may not do the rest of the year. I've even known people who've gotten completely undeserved notes for "exam stress". Oi.
Have you ever seen a slashdot story with a reg-free link? No? Yet a large portion of slashdot readers know how to make reg-free links? So why don't we see them?
The simplest answer is probably that the slashdot editors have agreed not to. Perhaps NYT asked, perhaps they threatened, but that's the only explanation that makes sense.
Eh? I wasn't under the impression that id was supposed to release their game engines under the GPL? Just because it runs on Linux doesn't mean it must GPLed
They've been releasing all their engines as GPL five years after their original release. This is how Tenebrae Quake happened, for instance. But they don't release the maps/graphics/data files.
With some applications, you can set an entire window transparent, but this quite often leads to corruption of parts of the window - there's a reason Windows doesn't have built in, supported transparency settings in the display manager.
The ATI "Hydravision" applet lets you turn on transparent windows and menus, and will even let you set the degree of transparency for a full-screen movie, for instance. I didn't find it all that useful, though.
I think they are on the hook for legal Malpractice...
"Your firm told me we owned some unix copyrights?"
No no. More like Darl told the lawyers they believed they owned the copyrights, and the lawyers were obliged to do the best job they could possibly do of proving that.
Just because a lawyer may suspect his client is guilty, doesn't mean he's not supposed to try to defend them to the full extent of the law. The same reasoning holds in civil cases. Lawyers are modern mercenaries.
It is ridiculous that you MUST use interfaces to implement callbacks. It is this asinine, "there-is-only-one-way-to-do-something-and-it-is-i nherently-elegant" attitude that Java has about it that I dislike.
It is ridiculous that you think you only need one screwdriver in your toolbox. *gasp* Different languages are good for different things. There are interfaces between different languages. Deal.
Yes, that's the reason why you can choose to purchase either a Sony player or a player with a brand you won't remember in your life, but kicks ass because has all the features of your sony player, plus all "illegal" unlocks such as region free, blue ray decoding without royalties, etc
I mainly agree with this, but the one area in which the el cheapo players are really, really lacking is user interface. The Toshiba a friend of mine bought about 4 or 5 years ago still blows away any player I've seen since for usability, although it lacks DTS decoding.
Something I've also noticed recently is new players (at least the cheap ones I've used) seem to default with the subtitles on. And one of those Apex ones didn't have an option to turn them off, unless the DVD's own menu did. Very frustrating. The same Apex has also been breaking in all sorts of fun ways that I haven't seen higher end units go.
So there's still something worth paying for with some brand name units.
I cant believe this was modded insightful. Here's a more appropriate analogy: Imagine the library hired an orchestra to play background music for the patrons, but you can hear the music outside. Could you get people busted for standing on the sidewalk, listening?
A) As has been mentioned like 900 times in this thread, you are not using up the sounds that other people are hearing in any appreciable way, like you use up the bandwidth of a WiFi connection.
B) If you got a big enough crowd? Yes. Unlawful assembly, public disturbance etc., etc. There's a reason concerts have security outside as well as in.
It is the responsibility of the owner of the transmitter to restrict the coverage area of the signal, thats the science of it, take it or leave it. As for "stealing" internet access, was the library actually stupid enough to pay for a metered internet plan?!?
A) What if someone used one of those WiFi 'sniper' rifles? What do you consider a reasonable limit for the library to spend tax money on implementing? Should the nearby houses be able to use it for free, as someone suggested?
B) Again, they're encroaching on instaneously available bandwidth, not paid for bandwidth. If there's any 11b cards connect to that access point (which is quite likely), each additional user is going to make a huge difference in the throughput at each terminal. People doing legitimate research inside the library should have first priority for bandwidth and latency.
Why are the library patrons INSIDE the walls more important than the library patrons OUTSIDE the walls?
Because a library would obviously have certain expectations of the kinds of sites that were appropriate use, and it is much harder to monitor someone outside than inside. It's not like library employees make a lot, or that they have lots of money to keep filter lists updated, etc.
As another post stated, saying the AUP applies outside the library is like telling your neighbors they can't listen to the music you're blasting out your windows.
And as I said in a response there's a difference between listening to the music, and blasting YOUR music even louder than it for 5 seconds every 20 or 30 seconds. WiFi is not an unlimited resource. The more people that use it the less available bandwidth there is.
If you think it's fine for someone to sit outside and watch videos on MTV.com while kids inside are trying to learn something inside, that's a problem. I imagine the access point is open to make things easy for people inside to use, and they don't want people outside using it because it would be more difficult to monitor.
(Note - I personally suffered at University with having trouble getting lab stations to work, while people played yahoo games and watched full-screen videos. People needed the bandwidth as well as the stations themselves for actual work).
As far as the free service I agree that one should respect terms if they're reasonable. Keep in mind this is tax-funded. So the government can't turn around and say I have no right to use public wifi signals anymore than they can force me to be in a certain place to listen to an AM radio broadcast of tax-funded programming.
Keep in mind though that bandwidth on a WiFi is limited, unlike the number of receivers on the AM radio. The government is paying so that people inside the library can use the bandwidth on the device (presumably for research related tasks).
I'd say it's analgous to checking a whole lot of books out of the library, and using them to build an addition on your house. You're abusing the privilege of free knowledge by not actually using those books for their intended purpose.
If you leave your door open and play music real loud , I can sit on the curb and listen to it. You can't tell me to leave because I'm hearing your music. You can't charge me a fee because your music is spilling out on to the public street.
See, I agree with that. I also agree that intercepting satellite signals is not "theft of signal", because it's being broadcast onto your property, and you're not depriving anyone else of the signal.
But in this case, the person in question was actually using up bandwidth on the device, which is a finite resource. Thereby depriving the library patrons of some of the quality of service.
Why should he be held to rules that apply only _inside_ the library?
Remember. He was outside the library.
Why should the AUP only apply inside the library? I agree that this whole story is ridiculous, but I'd say the rules for an access point are the rules for an access point. Unless you want your tax dollars paying for libraries to install EM shielding in all their walls, I'd recommend you think about this one for a second.
Just because I leave my door open doesn't mean you can walk into my house whenever you want. Yes, it may be stupid on my part, and yes, it changes it from break and enter to trespass, but it's still not acceptable. Similarily, just because my WiFi connection is open, doesn't mean you're allowed to do whatever you want with it.
I'd imagine he was probably obeying the terms of the AUP regardless, but if he'd never gone in and read it, that's kind of weak on his part. If someone's offering a free service, at least be respectful of their terms, so you don't ruin it for everyone.
If the library has one of those air filters that "cleans" the air and this guy was standing outside the door breathing the library's filtered air that was being released would the policeman be able to ask him to stop breathing?
Anyone can ask anyone else almost anything. For instance, I could ask you to go fly a kite. Yes, coming from a policeman it's more intimidating, but he didn't order the guy to do anything.
The whole point of government backed "fiat" money (which was completely missed in the article) is that the supply of money is regulated... The "fiat" is there to primarily to prevent counterfitting to make sure that the supply remains fairly constant (though gradually increasing over time as more wealth is "created.)
Except you always have the possibility of the government crashing (i.e. Argentina) or going a little batty (i.e. pre-WWII) Germany, and completely messing up the currency. Ideally the government is going to try to keep the currency stable, but maybe they want to increase exports this month, or lower interest rates, or whatever. It's really quite the shell game (har, har).
What would they leave out to accommodate it? The iMac G5 isn't exactly chock full of empty space, you know. And how would you suggest they affix an antenna? Stick-on rabbit ears?
As like 800 people have pointed out already, you don't need an antenna to get analog cable. Which is still cheaper than digital, although the gap is narrowing. They're giving students in my area a special deal to encourage the youngin's to switch, and forcing the issue by moving the channel that broadcasts ITV classes to digital cable only.
Um. Dude? On January 1, 2007, all the analog TV transmitters in the United States will be turned off permanently. The FCC is reallocating the spectrum they use.
My question is doesn't HDTV broadcast use the same spectrum as analog TV broadcast?? How are they planning to reallocate, then?
With the user typically generating a maximum of 5 GBs. I always see computers we own that are 3-4 years old for our administrative and secreatarial to have mostly unused diskspace. There is alot of unused space in most of our computers and sticking in 80 - 160 GB drives and Superdrives is unnecessarily driving up costs.
The answer to this of course is to find some clever network file system to make use of all that unused disk space. Hell, even a nightly scripted backup of each developer's stuff to an admin machine or something.
In the first case when it all goes wrong it's sad but at least they died doing what they enjoyed and in the second they've died doing society in general a service (Darwin Award).
Works great until you're the one on the ground watching the car speed off into the distance. Or you have a wreck with a broke uninsured person.
Just to clarify what the grandparent was saying, in most Canadian provinces at least, third-party insurance is mandatory. So anyone driving without insurance is in fact breaking the law. Although, this is probably part of why they were speeding off into the distance.
I'm about to find out whether this will cover my bus pass and bike tune-up after I was cut-off on my bicycle a few weeks ago and separated my shoulder.
So you think that this 3rd-world "cleaning process" will *stop* at the "real" techies? Many bosses *liked* the dot-com money grubbers because they had people skills and were more like themselves.
And many bosses *killed* their companies by making bonehead decisions like that. Not to beat a dead horse, but Google, PhDs, blah blah connect the dots. There a still a lot of *smart* people in North America, who are more valuable than just their strict assigned role.
I had some interesting conversation with a Chinese guy at work (government R&D facility), and he was saying schools there were better for undergrad because they worked the basics harder, but the facilities available at graduate schools were just far better. And you can't do good research without facilities. And without good research your company can't innovate or grow.
So in short, although it may be cheaper/easier to do some things overseas, there will always be things that it's cheaper/easier to do in societies that encourage openness, have good research facilities, and easy access to the people who work and study at those facilities (for both collaboration and hiring).
Don't underestimate the effect that NASA and military money has on American schools (and therefore innovation). Yes many academics like to travel, but it's usually to follow the quality of research, not the cheapest labour.
Note, for instance, that China is largely basing the technology for its space program on Russian tech, and has few plans for doing science in space. Which is how they're doing it so fast and cheap. How many spin off businesses do you think that will create? Will they even have a Tang equivalent?
I think the point is that absolute URLs are usually not necessary... So if a website wants to serve out tons of FREE BANDWIDTH, it's only a pittance to fix their URLs.
Some of this may have to do with being a RSS feed. If your content is being syndicated it's better to have absolute links. Not to mention that the same article summary is served on the main page, section pages, and article pages, so it can never be quite sure what URL it's being served from.
Yes all this can be worked around programmatically, but it would be a waste of resources.
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This support the theory that too much stress (or too little sleep) can lead you to be physically ill.
Or that people actually go to get doctor's notes to get out of their finals, which they may not do the rest of the year. I've even known people who've gotten completely undeserved notes for "exam stress". Oi.
Have you ever seen a slashdot story with a reg-free link? No? Yet a large portion of slashdot readers know how to make reg-free links? So why don't we see them?
The simplest answer is probably that the slashdot editors have agreed not to. Perhaps NYT asked, perhaps they threatened, but that's the only explanation that makes sense.
Probably standards compliance. Even if the standard is stupid.
Eh? I wasn't under the impression that id was supposed to release their game engines under the GPL? Just because it runs on Linux doesn't mean it must GPLed
They've been releasing all their engines as GPL five years after their original release. This is how Tenebrae Quake happened, for instance. But they don't release the maps/graphics/data files.
With some applications, you can set an entire window transparent, but this quite often leads to corruption of parts of the window - there's a reason Windows doesn't have built in, supported transparency settings in the display manager.
The ATI "Hydravision" applet lets you turn on transparent windows and menus, and will even let you set the degree of transparency for a full-screen movie, for instance. I didn't find it all that useful, though.
I think they are on the hook for legal Malpractice...
"Your firm told me we owned some unix copyrights?"
No no. More like Darl told the lawyers they believed they owned the copyrights, and the lawyers were obliged to do the best job they could possibly do of proving that.
Just because a lawyer may suspect his client is guilty, doesn't mean he's not supposed to try to defend them to the full extent of the law. The same reasoning holds in civil cases. Lawyers are modern mercenaries.
It is ridiculous that you MUST use interfaces to implement callbacks. It is this asinine, "there-is-only-one-way-to-do-something-and-it-is-i nherently-elegant" attitude that Java has about it that I dislike.
It is ridiculous that you think you only need one screwdriver in your toolbox. *gasp* Different languages are good for different things. There are interfaces between different languages. Deal.
Yes, that's the reason why you can choose to purchase either a Sony player or a player with a brand you won't remember in your life, but kicks ass because has all the features of your sony player, plus all "illegal" unlocks such as region free, blue ray decoding without royalties, etc
I mainly agree with this, but the one area in which the el cheapo players are really, really lacking is user interface. The Toshiba a friend of mine bought about 4 or 5 years ago still blows away any player I've seen since for usability, although it lacks DTS decoding.
Something I've also noticed recently is new players (at least the cheap ones I've used) seem to default with the subtitles on. And one of those Apex ones didn't have an option to turn them off, unless the DVD's own menu did. Very frustrating. The same Apex has also been breaking in all sorts of fun ways that I haven't seen higher end units go.
So there's still something worth paying for with some brand name units.
I cant believe this was modded insightful. Here's a more appropriate analogy: Imagine the library hired an orchestra to play background music for the patrons, but you can hear the music outside. Could you get people busted for standing on the sidewalk, listening?
A) As has been mentioned like 900 times in this thread, you are not using up the sounds that other people are hearing in any appreciable way, like you use up the bandwidth of a WiFi connection.
B) If you got a big enough crowd? Yes. Unlawful assembly, public disturbance etc., etc. There's a reason concerts have security outside as well as in.
It is the responsibility of the owner of the transmitter to restrict the coverage area of the signal, thats the science of it, take it or leave it.
As for "stealing" internet access, was the library actually stupid enough to pay for a metered internet plan?!?
A) What if someone used one of those WiFi 'sniper' rifles? What do you consider a reasonable limit for the library to spend tax money on implementing? Should the nearby houses be able to use it for free, as someone suggested?
B) Again, they're encroaching on instaneously available bandwidth, not paid for bandwidth. If there's any 11b cards connect to that access point (which is quite likely), each additional user is going to make a huge difference in the throughput at each terminal. People doing legitimate research inside the library should have first priority for bandwidth and latency.
Why are the library patrons INSIDE the walls more important than the library patrons OUTSIDE the walls?
Because a library would obviously have certain expectations of the kinds of sites that were appropriate use, and it is much harder to monitor someone outside than inside. It's not like library employees make a lot, or that they have lots of money to keep filter lists updated, etc.
As another post stated, saying the AUP applies outside the library is like telling your neighbors they can't listen to the music you're blasting out your windows.
And as I said in a response there's a difference between listening to the music, and blasting YOUR music even louder than it for 5 seconds every 20 or 30 seconds. WiFi is not an unlimited resource. The more people that use it the less available bandwidth there is.
If you think it's fine for someone to sit outside and watch videos on MTV.com while kids inside are trying to learn something inside, that's a problem. I imagine the access point is open to make things easy for people inside to use, and they don't want people outside using it because it would be more difficult to monitor.
(Note - I personally suffered at University with having trouble getting lab stations to work, while people played yahoo games and watched full-screen videos. People needed the bandwidth as well as the stations themselves for actual work).
As far as the free service I agree that one should respect terms if they're reasonable. Keep in mind this is tax-funded. So the government can't turn around and say I have no right to use public wifi signals anymore than they can force me to be in a certain place to listen to an AM radio broadcast of tax-funded programming.
Keep in mind though that bandwidth on a WiFi is limited, unlike the number of receivers on the AM radio. The government is paying so that people inside the library can use the bandwidth on the device (presumably for research related tasks).
I'd say it's analgous to checking a whole lot of books out of the library, and using them to build an addition on your house. You're abusing the privilege of free knowledge by not actually using those books for their intended purpose.
If you leave your door open and play music real loud , I can sit on the curb and listen to it. You can't tell me to leave because I'm hearing your music. You can't charge me a fee because your music is spilling out on to the public street.
See, I agree with that. I also agree that intercepting satellite signals is not "theft of signal", because it's being broadcast onto your property, and you're not depriving anyone else of the signal.
But in this case, the person in question was actually using up bandwidth on the device, which is a finite resource. Thereby depriving the library patrons of some of the quality of service.
Why should he be held to rules that apply only _inside_ the library?
Remember. He was outside the library.
Why should the AUP only apply inside the library? I agree that this whole story is ridiculous, but I'd say the rules for an access point are the rules for an access point. Unless you want your tax dollars paying for libraries to install EM shielding in all their walls, I'd recommend you think about this one for a second.
Just because I leave my door open doesn't mean you can walk into my house whenever you want. Yes, it may be stupid on my part, and yes, it changes it from break and enter to trespass, but it's still not acceptable. Similarily, just because my WiFi connection is open, doesn't mean you're allowed to do whatever you want with it.
I'd imagine he was probably obeying the terms of the AUP regardless, but if he'd never gone in and read it, that's kind of weak on his part. If someone's offering a free service, at least be respectful of their terms, so you don't ruin it for everyone.
If the library has one of those air filters that "cleans" the air and this guy was standing outside the door breathing the library's filtered air that was being released would the policeman be able to ask him to stop breathing?
Anyone can ask anyone else almost anything. For instance, I could ask you to go fly a kite. Yes, coming from a policeman it's more intimidating, but he didn't order the guy to do anything.
The whole point of government backed "fiat" money (which was completely missed in the article) is that the supply of money is regulated... The "fiat" is there to primarily to prevent counterfitting to make sure that the supply remains fairly constant (though gradually increasing over time as more wealth is "created.)
Except you always have the possibility of the government crashing (i.e. Argentina) or going a little batty (i.e. pre-WWII) Germany, and completely messing up the currency. Ideally the government is going to try to keep the currency stable, but maybe they want to increase exports this month, or lower interest rates, or whatever. It's really quite the shell game (har, har).
What would they leave out to accommodate it? The iMac G5 isn't exactly chock full of empty space, you know. And how would you suggest they affix an antenna? Stick-on rabbit ears?
As like 800 people have pointed out already, you don't need an antenna to get analog cable. Which is still cheaper than digital, although the gap is narrowing. They're giving students in my area a special deal to encourage the youngin's to switch, and forcing the issue by moving the channel that broadcasts ITV classes to digital cable only.
Note that there is no antenna involved, however.
Um. Dude? On January 1, 2007, all the analog TV transmitters in the United States will be turned off permanently. The FCC is reallocating the spectrum they use.
My question is doesn't HDTV broadcast use the same spectrum as analog TV broadcast?? How are they planning to reallocate, then?
who cares. it is sleek and sexy... but the key and mouse should have been wireless bluetooth...
Did you miss the part where the grandparent linked to the mention of the optional INTERNAL bluetooth receiver for the keyboard and mouse. Sheesh.
With the user typically generating a maximum of 5 GBs. I always see computers we own that are 3-4 years old for our administrative and secreatarial to have mostly unused diskspace. There is alot of unused space in most of our computers and sticking in 80 - 160 GB drives and Superdrives is unnecessarily driving up costs.
The answer to this of course is to find some clever network file system to make use of all that unused disk space. Hell, even a nightly scripted backup of each developer's stuff to an admin machine or something.
In the first case when it all goes wrong it's sad but at least they died doing what they enjoyed and in the second they've died doing society in general a service (Darwin Award).
Except when society pays for their life support.
Works great until you're the one on the ground watching the car speed off into the distance. Or you have a wreck with a broke uninsured person.
Just to clarify what the grandparent was saying, in most Canadian provinces at least, third-party insurance is mandatory. So anyone driving without insurance is in fact breaking the law. Although, this is probably part of why they were speeding off into the distance.
I'm about to find out whether this will cover my bus pass and bike tune-up after I was cut-off on my bicycle a few weeks ago and separated my shoulder.
So you think that this 3rd-world "cleaning process" will *stop* at the "real" techies? Many bosses *liked* the dot-com money grubbers because they had people skills and were more like themselves.
And many bosses *killed* their companies by making bonehead decisions like that. Not to beat a dead horse, but Google, PhDs, blah blah connect the dots. There a still a lot of *smart* people in North America, who are more valuable than just their strict assigned role.
I had some interesting conversation with a Chinese guy at work (government R&D facility), and he was saying schools there were better for undergrad because they worked the basics harder, but the facilities available at graduate schools were just far better. And you can't do good research without facilities. And without good research your company can't innovate or grow.
So in short, although it may be cheaper/easier to do some things overseas, there will always be things that it's cheaper/easier to do in societies that encourage openness, have good research facilities, and easy access to the people who work and study at those facilities (for both collaboration and hiring).
Don't underestimate the effect that NASA and military money has on American schools (and therefore innovation). Yes many academics like to travel, but it's usually to follow the quality of research, not the cheapest labour.
Note, for instance, that China is largely basing the technology for its space program on Russian tech, and has few plans for doing science in space. Which is how they're doing it so fast and cheap. How many spin off businesses do you think that will create? Will they even have a Tang equivalent?
I think the point is that absolute URLs are usually not necessary... So if a website wants to serve out tons of FREE BANDWIDTH, it's only a pittance to fix their URLs.
Some of this may have to do with being a RSS feed. If your content is being syndicated it's better to have absolute links. Not to mention that the same article summary is served on the main page, section pages, and article pages, so it can never be quite sure what URL it's being served from.
Yes all this can be worked around programmatically, but it would be a waste of resources.