First the Communist Party search "compromise", now the carrier traffic shaping "compromise". The road to hell is paved with compromises... Good luck cashing in while you can, Googlies, hustle while you can, get out while the getting is good. You had a good run, about the same as the average young and principled politician, I imagine.
Neuromancer is a book written by a time traveller. There is no other explanation. How could a guy in the 70's have seen the future so clearly?
Funny how Gibson's later works have gone off on less prophetic tangents. I guess genius only lasts a little while.
If you're at all interested in technology, society, culture, scifi, the near future, science, or ninjas, you must read it, or audio book it on your iGroan:
The greatest advancement in free speech since the gutenberg press, to be squashed by the law? A guy this obviously hypocritical might have something to hide. Like maybe a skeleton or two in his closet?
Companies aiming for $uccess while compromising the quality of their software will only obtain this success in the very short term... Do what they want now, but look for better pastures while you're doing it, because your company won't be around for long.
This move points out extremely short sighted thinking on the part of these lawyers, this license system will stagnate, and its users will be left in dire straits -- continue using an unsupported system, or spend lots of time (aka money), to convert to another license scheme.
Hello Microsoft "thinking".
IP lawyers, Corporate lawyers, OSS lawyers, there is no difference.
If organizations such as the ACM, ACL, ALP, CRA, ISOC, and the various national associations were to combine forces and come up with accreditation and standards for "Software Professionals", we might get somewhere. An accredited computer science degree, followed up by specialized examination in a particular field, should yield professional standing just as much as a medical, engineering, or law degree.
Currently, the software engineering we see growing out of the traditional engineering culture is not sufficient or inclusive. Engineers do not make good computer scientists.
Canadian company doing something similar, on the fly text compression, although with more interesting algorithms: http://www.slipstreamdata.com/compression.html
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College radio tends to have very low power broadcast, and hence low range. If you don't live in a college town, or even on the outskirts, you don't get it.
Besides, from the last slashdot article on payola in the music industry, seems like a lot of the big college radio stations are where the corporate fuzz do their test runs.
I've been encouraging anyone I know to give out completely false information in any "registration" process on the net. I'm the same with retailers, why does Radio Shack need my home address to sell me a $4 mousepad?
The credit card information can be a little stickier to deal with. Avoid net commerce entirely. Read about what you need to buy, and compare prices online, yes. But I tend to buy from a local dealer.
Create four or five 'throw-away' email accounts. Use those for 'email registration required' places. The one I use the most, gets about 200 bits of spam per day lol. Straight to the trash bin.
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I'm pretty sure you want this: http://www.menuetos.net/
And I just started building my first, a 12" dob! Thanks John, RIP.
Now... If there was only an Apple product not made in communist countries... I'd be interested.
First the Communist Party search "compromise", now the carrier traffic shaping "compromise". The road to hell is paved with compromises... Good luck cashing in while you can, Googlies, hustle while you can, get out while the getting is good. You had a good run, about the same as the average young and principled politician, I imagine.
Hello Hollywood money in Obama's pocket...
Yes, because anyone who is a "scientist" should be given carte blanche with any amount of resources for any research topic whatsoever...
As a science fiction author he is a terrible hack.
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Speaking of Erik Demaine, he has an excellent algorithms course on OCW: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-046JFall-2005/VideoLectures/
Well worth watching on video!
Some of the lectures (such as the first one) are by Leiserson, but Demaine's are a treat.
Amiga had this right. Use a little humor with your messages, it may diffuse the anger and get some sympathy.
Sounds like some sort of feint by the telcos to battle Google's ISP plans?
Neuromancer is a book written by a time traveller. There is no other explanation. How could a guy in the 70's have seen the future so clearly?
Funny how Gibson's later works have gone off on less prophetic tangents. I guess genius only lasts a little while.
If you're at all interested in technology, society, culture, scifi, the near future, science, or ninjas, you must read it, or audio book it on your iGroan:
http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/books/neuromancer.asp
I have a short writeup of the experience at this talk here: http://www.computersamurai.com/?p=19
The awesome UWaterloo CS club also hosted Bjarne Stroustrup this week. Good work luring the CS talent to our little village!
The greatest advancement in free speech since the
gutenberg press, to be squashed by the law? A guy this obviously hypocritical might have something to hide. Like maybe a skeleton or two in his closet?
Companies aiming for $uccess while compromising the quality of their software will only obtain this success in the very short term... Do what they want now, but look for better pastures while you're doing it, because your company won't be around for long.
This move points out extremely short sighted thinking on the part of these lawyers, this license system will stagnate, and its users will be left in dire straits -- continue using an unsupported system, or spend lots of time (aka money), to convert to another license scheme.
Hello Microsoft "thinking".
IP lawyers, Corporate lawyers, OSS lawyers, there is no difference.
LOL, good idea, time to boot up that gentoo box and check it out...
Thanks to Vivendi for pointing this game out to me.
Cheers,
Mitch
Dr. Felten, how do you feel about the lack of spellchecking by Slashdot authors? Is Priceton(sic) an interesting workplace?
If organizations such as the ACM, ACL, ALP, CRA, ISOC, and the various national associations were to combine forces and come up with accreditation and standards for "Software Professionals", we might get somewhere. An accredited computer science degree, followed up by specialized examination in a particular field, should yield professional standing just as much as a medical, engineering, or law degree.
Currently, the software engineering we see growing out of the traditional engineering culture is not sufficient or inclusive. Engineers do not make good computer scientists.
Canadian company doing something similar, on the fly text compression, although with more interesting algorithms: http://www.slipstreamdata.com/compression.html
College radio tends to have very low power broadcast, and hence low range. If you don't live in a college town, or even on the outskirts, you don't get it.
Besides, from the last slashdot article on payola in the music industry, seems like a lot of the big college radio stations are where the corporate fuzz do their test runs.
I've been encouraging anyone I know to give out completely false information in any "registration" process on the net. I'm the same with retailers, why does Radio Shack need my home address to sell me a $4 mousepad?
The credit card information can be a little stickier to deal with. Avoid net commerce entirely. Read about what you need to buy, and compare prices online, yes. But I tend to buy from a local dealer.
Create four or five 'throw-away' email accounts. Use those for 'email registration required' places. The one I use the most, gets about 200 bits of spam per day lol. Straight to the trash bin.
Google is bound to be next. Its the typical result of MBA's getting involved and applying some of that hard earned 'knowledge'.