Borderline flamebait I know, but both my (limited) experience and that of friends living in Austin and elsewhere in Texas suggests that Austin is a little enclave of non-Texas liberal culture in the middle of a whole sea of Texas.
Simply put, you can get away with stuff in Austin you just couldn't anywhere else in the state.
Don't forget the keyboard attachment with that Palm III - taking notes with Graffiti is never going to be practical.
Plus, the Palm kbds fold up in a really cool way...
I can't speak for guitarists, but as someone who's also played keyboard instruments for over 20 years I can say that a good piano technique avoids CTS and RSI.
The closest I've really heard of was Robert Schumann who it was said rigged up a pulley and weights system to strengthen his 4th finger so he could trill faster, and knackered his tendons in the process. (the more likely reason was taking arsenic to cure syphillis)
On the other hand, we actually have public services (remember them?) and spend less per capita on pointless defence schemes like Star Wars (the system, not the movie). Oh, and remember that VAT is already added to the things you buy, it's not an additional overhead, and of course, if you're an IT contractor, then you're a small business, VAT registered, and you claim every penny back.
Anyone know if Lucent have made good on their progress towards pure optical switching (ie signal goes from one fibre-optic to another without being translated into electrons to perform the switching logic)?
Funny, I didn't see anything in your reply which suggested that the general population gives a rat's ass about seeing the code. Just a non-relevant non-comparative example.
Really, no-one cares. Perhaps they should, but they don't.
generally, the population wants to be able to see the code that is keeping them safe everyday
Which population would this be? I fly regularly with people who are easily in the smartest 1% of the population, many of whom are extremely technically literate. And none of them care to see the code. I don't think any of them would have enough industry (note not coding, industry) knowledge to understand it even if they did want to.
Hmm - the problem was correctly fixed the same day. I think that that was pretty timely, and wouldn't have been accelerated by use of OSS methodologies.
This isn't "sweep it under the carpet and hope no-one notices" in the way that Windows/IE bugs have been. I would have thought the fact that the eyes of many thousand passengers (and the additional cost involved), plus headlines on all the UK news media all day made that scenario unlikely.
Performance-impacting ATC bugs get fixed as quickly as it is possible to fix them.
Sat in my hotel room last night in Central London (on the flight path but not looking towards Heathrow), I could see 3-5 Heathrow bound aircraft at any one time.
Heathrow claims to be the busiest airport in the world (and if you look at landings compared to capacity, they're probably right - airports such as JFK have a lot more termini and runways). Also remember that London has 4 other airports, serving domestic and overseas travel.
The combined weight of traffic of this, together with a 50% loss of ATC capacity, easily explains why my flight home this evening was delayed 4 hours, and when I got to the airport, some were already sitting at 6+ hours.
Here, most data is opt-out, but sensitive data (health, politics, sexual behaviour, financial information) is opt-out. And that's enforced by law.
However, if you want to share it with a third party (even an unrelated arm of the same group of companies), it's all opt-in.
Oh, and if you want to use any data, you have to be registered. The Data Protection Commissioner who runs the register has the power to stop you using your database on suspicion of mis-using data. Which costs a lot if you're British Gas, who had just this happen to them a couple of years back.
We also have the Telephone Preference Service, which stops unsolicted calls, and it has the force of law (and I believe &ukp2k fines per call) behind it. I'm registered, and I just don't get them any more.
Anyone processing personal data must comply with the eight enforceable principles of good practice. They say that data must be:
fairly and lawfully processed;
processed for limited purposes;
adequate, relevant and not excessive;
accurate;
not kept longer than necessary;
processed in accordance with the data subject's rights;
secure;
not transferred to countries without adequate protection.
Personal data covers both facts and opinions about the individual. It also includes information regarding the intentions of the data controller towards the individual, although in some limited circumstances exemptions will apply. With processing, the definition is far wider than before. For example, it incorporates the concepts of 'obtaining', holding' and 'disclosing'.
The Full explanation of the principles can be found here
Note that last point - the US at present does not have 'adequate protection' (ie protection to an equivalent level). This proposed bill takes it further away.
Something else to note - the enforcement of this will only get stricter when the new Data Protection Commissioner takes office.
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While it is wonderful that it's free, the Zope Book suffers from a lack of understanding of where new Zope users start from. The outline concepts are reasonably well explained, but there's next to no code samples to show you how DTML works (think of the ORA camel and llama books by contrast). It's very much written by deep experts who haven't been able to think back to the learning paradigm.
Or, in other words, it's really not worth paying for a dead tree version.
Other Zope books such as the Zope Web Application Kit are nothing more than how to install CMF and other popular products if we've got time (actually, much of the Zope world is CMF obsessed - not all sites fit into the CMF community publishing model...)
If this book actually does what it says on the tin, it will be a welcome addition to the bookshelf.
No, you can't sell stuff where there is a resistance to the entire need and concept.
However, where there is a demand for the concept (say 'a consumer-friendly operating system' or 'an internet browser'), and you're an aggressive monopoly, you can force your OEMs to bundle your product and remove competitors.
Microsoft was going to open up passport authentication to third-party ID servers via passport, right? Or am i just confused about that? Is that not happening anymore?
Expedia (not surprising as it used to be an MS co-own)
Counter-example: Netscape Enterprise Server (which unlike the browser, was intended to be a profit center) -- steamrolled by Apache.
Steamrollered? Don't think so. Fewer installs, perhaps, but is the number of installs really the only significant factor? If you're a Netscape shareholder, would you rather have the same number of Apache installs if it meant that you never made any money on it? I'm sure that giving away NES (and variants) was an option considered, but decided against.
Netscape Enterprise Server was just too costly and never offered anything over Apache.
Too costly for whom? If you're putting together a $200m programme, of which $60m is software licensing, if one of your strategic components won't work with Apache, then a few NES licenses is small beer.
Next time you're looking at the Netcraft survey, just take a look at who's using NES...
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Borderline flamebait I know, but both my (limited) experience and that of friends living in Austin and elsewhere in Texas suggests that Austin is a little enclave of non-Texas liberal culture in the middle of a whole sea of Texas.
Simply put, you can get away with stuff in Austin you just couldn't anywhere else in the state.
Don't forget the keyboard attachment with that Palm III - taking notes with Graffiti is never going to be practical. Plus, the Palm kbds fold up in a really cool way...
Aye, but not if she's going to be in Texas, where Vibrators are banned.
I can't speak for guitarists, but as someone who's also played keyboard instruments for over 20 years I can say that a good piano technique avoids CTS and RSI.
The closest I've really heard of was Robert Schumann who it was said rigged up a pulley and weights system to strengthen his 4th finger so he could trill faster, and knackered his tendons in the process. (the more likely reason was taking arsenic to cure syphillis)
Status Quo, not Dire Straights. Rick Parfitt has been grinding out those 3 chords for upwards of 35 years...
On the other hand, we actually have public services (remember them?) and spend less per capita on pointless defence schemes like Star Wars (the system, not the movie). Oh, and remember that VAT is already added to the things you buy, it's not an additional overhead, and of course, if you're an IT contractor, then you're a small business, VAT registered, and you claim every penny back.
Anyone know if Lucent have made good on their progress towards pure optical switching (ie signal goes from one fibre-optic to another without being translated into electrons to perform the switching logic)?
Adobe/Microsoft OS X, shurely
Funny, I didn't see anything in your reply which suggested that the general population gives a rat's ass about seeing the code. Just a non-relevant non-comparative example. Really, no-one cares. Perhaps they should, but they don't.
Yep - typo. Most data is opt-out, but sensitive data is opt-in.
Which population would this be? I fly regularly with people who are easily in the smartest 1% of the population, many of whom are extremely technically literate. And none of them care to see the code. I don't think any of them would have enough industry (note not coding, industry) knowledge to understand it even if they did want to.
You don't get out much, do you?
Hmm - the problem was correctly fixed the same day. I think that that was pretty timely, and wouldn't have been accelerated by use of OSS methodologies.
This isn't "sweep it under the carpet and hope no-one notices" in the way that Windows/IE bugs have been. I would have thought the fact that the eyes of many thousand passengers (and the additional cost involved), plus headlines on all the UK news media all day made that scenario unlikely.
Performance-impacting ATC bugs get fixed as quickly as it is possible to fix them.
Sat in my hotel room last night in Central London (on the flight path but not looking towards Heathrow), I could see 3-5 Heathrow bound aircraft at any one time.
Heathrow claims to be the busiest airport in the world (and if you look at landings compared to capacity, they're probably right - airports such as JFK have a lot more termini and runways). Also remember that London has 4 other airports, serving domestic and overseas travel.
The combined weight of traffic of this, together with a 50% loss of ATC capacity, easily explains why my flight home this evening was delayed 4 hours, and when I got to the airport, some were already sitting at 6+ hours.
Here, most data is opt-out, but sensitive data (health, politics, sexual behaviour, financial information) is opt-out. And that's enforced by law.
However, if you want to share it with a third party (even an unrelated arm of the same group of companies), it's all opt-in.
Oh, and if you want to use any data, you have to be registered. The Data Protection Commissioner who runs the register has the power to stop you using your database on suspicion of mis-using data. Which costs a lot if you're British Gas, who had just this happen to them a couple of years back.
It's a powerful dissuader...
You'll get precious little of it from countries with real Data Protection legislation (the EU, Switzerland, New Zealand). The legislation is enforced.
We also have the Telephone Preference Service, which stops unsolicted calls, and it has the force of law (and I believe &ukp2k fines per call) behind it. I'm registered, and I just don't get them any more.
Compare and contrast that travesty with UK Data Protection Act 1998. To summarise
(source: http://www.dataprotection.gov.uk/principl.htm)
Note that last point - the US at present does not have 'adequate protection' (ie protection to an equivalent level). This proposed bill takes it further away.
Something else to note - the enforcement of this will only get stricter when the new Data Protection Commissioner takes office.
...in the style of MinTruth and MinPeace
Here's the article from Scientific American
While it is wonderful that it's free, the Zope Book suffers from a lack of understanding of where new Zope users start from. The outline concepts are reasonably well explained, but there's next to no code samples to show you how DTML works (think of the ORA camel and llama books by contrast). It's very much written by deep experts who haven't been able to think back to the learning paradigm.
Or, in other words, it's really not worth paying for a dead tree version.
Other Zope books such as the Zope Web Application Kit are nothing more than how to install CMF and other popular products if we've got time (actually, much of the Zope world is CMF obsessed - not all sites fit into the CMF community publishing model...)
If this book actually does what it says on the tin, it will be a welcome addition to the bookshelf.
No, you can't sell stuff where there is a resistance to the entire need and concept.
However, where there is a demand for the concept (say 'a consumer-friendly operating system' or 'an internet browser'), and you're an aggressive monopoly, you can force your OEMs to bundle your product and remove competitors.
Um that's it AFAIK
So if gaming consoles are the next big thing, what have Sony, Nintendo and Sega been doing all these years?
Steamrollered? Don't think so. Fewer installs, perhaps, but is the number of installs really the only significant factor? If you're a Netscape shareholder, would you rather have the same number of Apache installs if it meant that you never made any money on it? I'm sure that giving away NES (and variants) was an option considered, but decided against.
Too costly for whom? If you're putting together a $200m programme, of which $60m is software licensing, if one of your strategic components won't work with Apache, then a few NES licenses is small beer.
Next time you're looking at the Netcraft survey, just take a look at who's using NES...
So what do these people do all day?
Ah, this: