I second this. I had an internship for a jerk where I expressly crossed out the "don't go work for someone else in the same field" part because THAT'S THE POINT OF THE FREAKING INTERNSHIP. Then I jumped ship to a well-paying summer job. They called me to threaten to sue and I told them to re-read the contract.
I, being a college kid, had a fat stack of old books and textbooks I needed to get rid of quickly and earn some spending cash off of. So I went straight to Amazon.
It took me about an hour total to start a new account and then list (apporx) a hundred books. Then I just sat back and watched the e-mails roll in. "Send this book to this person" "Send this book to that person" Zip! Schwip!
And I made several hundred dollars in the space of a few days by selling a fraction of the books.
With EBay, I would have had to spend an entire day listing listing items, dealing with PayPal, and then getting porked from behind for the fees.
Bah humbug.
I can easily see myself running a full-time used bookstore from Amazon. There's a number of brick-and-mortar companies getting rid of a lot of inventory and making money on Amazon. I can see why: it's so easy that you make up for your 15% commission in the time and labor costs you save.
Xcode lets you create "FAT" binaries easily, so really, to maintain support for PPC machines, the developer would only have to check a setting in Xcode. Of course, if you're doing some really low-level stuff, you might have to modify your code a tad.
Heck - if the developer wants to shun the huge PPC user-base for no reason at all - let him/her.
Back during the 68k/PPC switch, the 68k was really well supported for quite a while because so many people had 68k Macs. Only programs that wouldn't have really worked on a 68k Mac anyways didn't make it to the 68k Mac.
I bought a shiny new PowerBook 12" a few months ago and I fully expect to be a happy graphic artist / developer for years to come.
Then my lust for whatever new machines they have in three years will overcome me and I'll buy a new Mac. And the vicious cycle begins again.
It gets in the way in the same way that feature-bloat makes Word a bad plain-text editor. If you want to type something quickly, you do it in TextEdit/Notepad. If you want to write a fully-illustrated thesis, you use Word/Pages/OpenOffice.
My phone is painfully slow because they had to add all kinds of whizzy graphic features for tweens. It takes seconds to scroll down through each entry. I had a phone five years ago that was snappy and instantaneous, and it was free (versus the $100 I paid for this phone). If they didn't have to have pretty little pictures next to every entry and a fully-skinnable interface with retarded Trek-knockoff styles, it'd be a snappy little phone.
I had a Treo 180 that was great as a phone because it didn't let all the PDA features get in the way like most phones do. When you had the phone program running, it WAS a phone. Number pad and address book and favorites list *right there*, ready to go. The misc. features that I rarely used were tucked away in the menu (previous calls, timers, etc) and that was that.
With this $100 phone, I have to open it up, wait for it to respond to me pressing the address book button, type the first letter of the person's name, scrol through the other 10 people I have with the same first letter in their name, push "select", scroll to their home or cell number, push "call", and then wait another 5 seconds before it starts ringing.
We can tell that StarMessenger isn't hiding the fact it is Miranda, but it is hiding Miranda's name and copyright notices as much as possible. It has also provided the source code however inside the source code none of the copyright notices have been altered. However, the about box copyright notice modification is enough to void any use of Miranda IM's source code for StarMessenger's developers.
There's more info in the linked article. It's not an outright STEALING of the source code, but it looks like they're bending a lot of the stipulations in the license.
The articles are a little poorly written and unprofessional. They'd be a lot more convincing if they were articulate and didn't use phrases like:
StarMessenger is just an attempt to bundle fucking spyware with Miranda under a changed name for profit.
and
Seeing as vBuzzer is a modified version of Miranda and it includes it's changes with Miranda under another license, they have created another volation #4
If the grammar wasn't so bad, they'd be able to articulate their point in a much better fashion.
This would make for the most awkward iPod commercial, ever.
I mean, I'm listening to The White Stripe' "Seven Nation Army", and now I have this image of the Queen rocking out in some sort of a shuffle-type fashion in my head.
If it takes down some of the poker sites (IN FLAMES!), I'm all for it.
I, for one, as a blog and website operator am SICK AND FUCKING TIRED of comment/trackback/referral spam. Do they honestly think that by spamming my server logs I'm going to going to be interested in throwing my money at them? I seem to be missing something, but I'm guessing the people in charge of advertising and promotions for these sites aren't that far removed from Percy from The Green Mile.
I'm sure many will agree with me: die poker sites, die!
So why should cash-strapped schools spend thousands (millions?) of dollars on yet another piece of only semi-useful technology instead of attracting more and better teachers, repairing or replacing crumbling buildings, or funding music and art education programs?
Mod me a troll or whatever - maybe I'm just bitter and cynical because schools flipped out over computers and the promise that because kids were now doing math facts on Asteroids they'd be doing university-level numerical analysis before they got their drivers license. For what? Nothing. Schools invested millions and now are trapped in contracts with Microsoft for millions so kids don't have to pick up a pen and pull out a sheet of paper.
Kids don't learn better when you put something on a screen that someone sold the school with inflated promises in order to make their monthly sales commission. They (we!) learn better when we have good teachers with adequate supplies of basic essentials like books and teaching materials and we have an open mind.
America (the rest of the world too?) has got to stop this culture of worshipping the kids and bending to their will because something is "hard" or "boring". Kids whine about something and the country spends millions to accommodate them. Math is hard? Good, tough up kid because the rest of the world is tough and isn't going to bend to your will. Stop buying thousand dollar machines to add flashy videos of cartoon characters doing the bumb and grind to the multiplication table.
I whined about math being hard and used the crutch of calculators until I did A.P. Calculus AB/BC without a calculator. The best thing that ever happened to me. Then I realized the importance of getting to the details and nitty little things of a subject like math. When you can push yourself through difficult things, you build your ability to do tough things in the future. It sounds strange, but because I labored through calculus without a calculator, I'm a better computer science major. See? Character building!
Recalling the best classes/teachers I've ever had in my 15 years of public school and college now, the one's I've walked away with the most from have been the ones where we stuck to the basics: calculus without calculators, marching band without PDAs strapped to our heads, literature without ebooks, science without lame and detached "learning" computer programs, etc etc etc.
Don't get me wrong, I love technology. I'm a computer science major and I still have lofty ambitions of improving the world through computer science. But a computer is a tool to learn information. It shouldn't be the information.
A $2,000 blender does not a better chef make. A $2,000 computer does not a better educated kid make.
(This was a rant that spiraled out of control quickly. I blame the caffeine...)
If you did not own a Palm m100, m105, or m125 at some time between June 1, 1999 and May 4, 2005, you are not eligible to make a claim and should not submit a claim form.
Thankfully, e-mailed receipts are easy to fudge. Thank you, text editors!
You can buy some of the affected PDAs around the internet "new" for $30 or so. Depending on what model they replace it with, you could get a cheap deal on a new PDA.
I don't have an account nor do I care to create one at your site until you stop being the Fox Network equivalent for Tech News.
But you sure don't mind reading "the Fox Network equivalent for Tech News" and taking the time to post comments, thus becoming a member of the very community you criticize. Slashdot usually reflects the biases of its members. So what? Slashdot doesn't claim to be fair and balanced. Has it ever?
Slashdot editors are not journalists, either. New York Times writers, yes, Slashdot editors, no, Associated Press writers, yes, bloggers, no. There's a difference.
I think the best Newton ever was the education-targeted eMate 300. It was my first "computer", way back in middle school. I really wish Apple would have stuck with it. Even today, nothing compares to the eMate - it's stunningly durable (demos of it regularly featured the presenter climbing a ladder and dropping it on to the floor, snapping back whatever case edges popped out, and turning it on), it's simple - I had no problem using it to type reports and print them on my old DeskJet 550c, and it's powerful, especially for it's time.
Memories of that eMate keep the hope in me that Apple will release a tablet some day, a tablet done right.
2 to 3 weeks after your mentoring organization indicates you have completed your development. Upon successful approval of your application, you will receive $500 for startup costs. Upon completion of your project and public posting of your source, your mentoring organization will determine if you have met the goals of your application. If so, you will receive a $4000 reward for successfully completing the project.
The only problem for students like me who depend on summer jobs to pay for college is that the $4,500 isn't guaranteed. Of course, they don't want to be giving dead-beats the money, I understand. You get $500 up-front, which would cover one month of rent for me, and that's it. Then I'd have two months to live on nothing.
They do, however, offer the following:
Can I receive half the money half way through?
There are some situations where we will be open to this, and only for full time students
It's still risky though, because what if I don't manage to finish what I said I would do? I wouldn't flake out, of course, but I'd be worried that somehow the sponsor would think what I did was inadequate and then I'd be out of college for a year.
Do the organizations get their $500 only if they "mentor" us well?
I'm still thinking of applying, though. Would Google still pay me if I wasn't able to complete my goal but still showed a great deal of effort in the project?
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I second this. I had an internship for a jerk where I expressly crossed out the "don't go work for someone else in the same field" part because THAT'S THE POINT OF THE FREAKING INTERNSHIP. Then I jumped ship to a well-paying summer job. They called me to threaten to sue and I told them to re-read the contract.
They dropped the threat, thankfully.
London Tuned into Giant Board Game
What key is that? A minor?
I mean, I knew the editors were blind, but musical too? Who knew?!
*ducks*
I, being a college kid, had a fat stack of old books and textbooks I needed to get rid of quickly and earn some spending cash off of. So I went straight to Amazon.
It took me about an hour total to start a new account and then list (apporx) a hundred books. Then I just sat back and watched the e-mails roll in. "Send this book to this person" "Send this book to that person" Zip! Schwip!
And I made several hundred dollars in the space of a few days by selling a fraction of the books.
With EBay, I would have had to spend an entire day listing listing items, dealing with PayPal, and then getting porked from behind for the fees.
Bah humbug.
I can easily see myself running a full-time used bookstore from Amazon. There's a number of brick-and-mortar companies getting rid of a lot of inventory and making money on Amazon. I can see why: it's so easy that you make up for your 15% commission in the time and labor costs you save.
Xcode lets you create "FAT" binaries easily, so really, to maintain support for PPC machines, the developer would only have to check a setting in Xcode. Of course, if you're doing some really low-level stuff, you might have to modify your code a tad.
Heck - if the developer wants to shun the huge PPC user-base for no reason at all - let him/her.
Back during the 68k/PPC switch, the 68k was really well supported for quite a while because so many people had 68k Macs. Only programs that wouldn't have really worked on a 68k Mac anyways didn't make it to the 68k Mac.
I bought a shiny new PowerBook 12" a few months ago and I fully expect to be a happy graphic artist / developer for years to come.
Then my lust for whatever new machines they have in three years will overcome me and I'll buy a new Mac. And the vicious cycle begins again.
I'll bite:
It gets in the way in the same way that feature-bloat makes Word a bad plain-text editor. If you want to type something quickly, you do it in TextEdit/Notepad. If you want to write a fully-illustrated thesis, you use Word/Pages/OpenOffice.
My phone is painfully slow because they had to add all kinds of whizzy graphic features for tweens. It takes seconds to scroll down through each entry. I had a phone five years ago that was snappy and instantaneous, and it was free (versus the $100 I paid for this phone). If they didn't have to have pretty little pictures next to every entry and a fully-skinnable interface with retarded Trek-knockoff styles, it'd be a snappy little phone.
I had a Treo 180 that was great as a phone because it didn't let all the PDA features get in the way like most phones do. When you had the phone program running, it WAS a phone. Number pad and address book and favorites list *right there*, ready to go. The misc. features that I rarely used were tucked away in the menu (previous calls, timers, etc) and that was that.
With this $100 phone, I have to open it up, wait for it to respond to me pressing the address book button, type the first letter of the person's name, scrol through the other 10 people I have with the same first letter in their name, push "select", scroll to their home or cell number, push "call", and then wait another 5 seconds before it starts ringing.
For us Mac fanboys/fangirls, moving to a new computer is cake:
/Libray folder to get system-wide application preferences.
1. Copy Applications folder over
2. Copy Home folder over
3. ???
At the very worst, you might have to also copy some folders within your
There's more info in the linked article. It's not an outright STEALING of the source code, but it looks like they're bending a lot of the stipulations in the license.
The articles are a little poorly written and unprofessional. They'd be a lot more convincing if they were articulate and didn't use phrases like:
and
If the grammar wasn't so bad, they'd be able to articulate their point in a much better fashion.
The White Stripe
Which is kinda like The White Stripes without Meg.
I've got to start proofreading my posts...
This would make for the most awkward iPod commercial, ever.
I mean, I'm listening to The White Stripe' "Seven Nation Army", and now I have this image of the Queen rocking out in some sort of a shuffle-type fashion in my head.
"Back and forth, through my mind!"
The Fair Tax system would never fly in America. Know why?
It encourages conservation and reduces the emphasis on rampant slack-jawed consumerism.
I repeat: The Fair Tax system would never fly in America
Though it would be heaven if it did.
...however, I'm failing to see the practical impact of his work...
You're new to Slashdot, aren't you?
"helping Microsoft to understand Open Source and community-based projects"
Do they ship cluebats freight? I guess they do now.
If it takes down some of the poker sites (IN FLAMES!), I'm all for it.
I, for one, as a blog and website operator am SICK AND FUCKING TIRED of comment/trackback/referral spam. Do they honestly think that by spamming my server logs I'm going to going to be interested in throwing my money at them? I seem to be missing something, but I'm guessing the people in charge of advertising and promotions for these sites aren't that far removed from Percy from The Green Mile.
I'm sure many will agree with me: die poker sites, die!
So why should cash-strapped schools spend thousands (millions?) of dollars on yet another piece of only semi-useful technology instead of attracting more and better teachers, repairing or replacing crumbling buildings, or funding music and art education programs?
Mod me a troll or whatever - maybe I'm just bitter and cynical because schools flipped out over computers and the promise that because kids were now doing math facts on Asteroids they'd be doing university-level numerical analysis before they got their drivers license. For what? Nothing. Schools invested millions and now are trapped in contracts with Microsoft for millions so kids don't have to pick up a pen and pull out a sheet of paper.
Kids don't learn better when you put something on a screen that someone sold the school with inflated promises in order to make their monthly sales commission. They (we!) learn better when we have good teachers with adequate supplies of basic essentials like books and teaching materials and we have an open mind.
America (the rest of the world too?) has got to stop this culture of worshipping the kids and bending to their will because something is "hard" or "boring". Kids whine about something and the country spends millions to accommodate them. Math is hard? Good, tough up kid because the rest of the world is tough and isn't going to bend to your will. Stop buying thousand dollar machines to add flashy videos of cartoon characters doing the bumb and grind to the multiplication table.
I whined about math being hard and used the crutch of calculators until I did A.P. Calculus AB/BC without a calculator. The best thing that ever happened to me. Then I realized the importance of getting to the details and nitty little things of a subject like math. When you can push yourself through difficult things, you build your ability to do tough things in the future. It sounds strange, but because I labored through calculus without a calculator, I'm a better computer science major. See? Character building!
Recalling the best classes/teachers I've ever had in my 15 years of public school and college now, the one's I've walked away with the most from have been the ones where we stuck to the basics: calculus without calculators, marching band without PDAs strapped to our heads, literature without ebooks, science without lame and detached "learning" computer programs, etc etc etc.
Don't get me wrong, I love technology. I'm a computer science major and I still have lofty ambitions of improving the world through computer science. But a computer is a tool to learn information. It shouldn't be the information.
A $2,000 blender does not a better chef make. A $2,000 computer does not a better educated kid make.
(This was a rant that spiraled out of control quickly. I blame the caffeine...)
It's been said before but I think it's insightful enough to say it here:
If they weren't happy with Apple following the license to the letter, they were using the wrong license.
And without the awful highlighting:
: cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/labscam.html&hl=en& lr=&strip=0
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:xJ536HFTXwIJ
Yeah, but does it run...
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Uhh...
Imagine a Beo-...
In Soviet Russia,
1. Build computer brain
2. ???
3. Prof...
Oh never mind.
Old PowerBooks used to get 1-2 hours on a charge. My 12" PowerBook gets 3-4 hours.
It all depends on the computer you use. Thankfully the G4 is decently power-efficient, so you get a decent balance of speed and power/heat.
Thankfully, e-mailed receipts are easy to fudge. Thank you, text editors!
You can buy some of the affected PDAs around the internet "new" for $30 or so. Depending on what model they replace it with, you could get a cheap deal on a new PDA.
The Brits have some of the best slang. I'm jealous. We get "shizzle" and "phat", they get "birds" and "geezers" and "shag" and "chippin'".
If we called speed bumps "sleeping policemen", I'd destroy my car driving over them all day.
But you sure don't mind reading "the Fox Network equivalent for Tech News" and taking the time to post comments, thus becoming a member of the very community you criticize. Slashdot usually reflects the biases of its members. So what? Slashdot doesn't claim to be fair and balanced. Has it ever?
Slashdot editors are not journalists, either. New York Times writers, yes, Slashdot editors, no, Associated Press writers, yes, bloggers, no. There's a difference.
I think the best Newton ever was the education-targeted eMate 300. It was my first "computer", way back in middle school. I really wish Apple would have stuck with it. Even today, nothing compares to the eMate - it's stunningly durable (demos of it regularly featured the presenter climbing a ladder and dropping it on to the floor, snapping back whatever case edges popped out, and turning it on), it's simple - I had no problem using it to type reports and print them on my old DeskJet 550c, and it's powerful, especially for it's time.
Memories of that eMate keep the hope in me that Apple will release a tablet some day, a tablet done right.
So you're saying that if the Newton had been popular ("flourished") it would have been... Popular?
Flamebait/Troll mods in 5... 4... 3...