Actually it's more like 1/8... sounds like a small difference but it's really 11 million which at projected current growth rates won't be hit for about 500 years! (0.6% faster than the country at large)
How can AOL complain? The spammers are just following AOL's lead!
Does anyone else find it fitting that AOL [those responsible for a flood of "XXX FREE HOURS" discs each week in my snail mail, magazines, and breakfast cereal] should suffocate under an avalanche of their own electronic hellspawn?
"The discussion system then sends the generated message to participants of the discussion. "
This would imply that web-based message boards and discussions are not impacted but rather e-mail based discussions. The key, to me, depends on your definition of "send". This implies a passive role by the participants. That is, reading a discussion on a web page would not be covered.
Well, yes and no. Collectively we may be better off but not necessarily the workers/industries that were effected in the 80's.
Take a look at your region - here in New England there are many blue collar workers who were underemployed during the entire tech boom. Today's software engineers will shake their heads at the high saleries of tomorrow's gentic [or whatever] engineers but then continue to stock Home Depot's shelves. But hey, collectively we're better off!
Go to a DVD store or rental place. Pick through a bunch of DVDs and look for a copyright date.
Guess what? You'll find a data on pretty much all of them but the Disney (Buena Vista, Touchstone) labels. What to know why? Disney already knows that copyrights will never die so it's irrelvant when they were granted in the first place.
Google does a great job but don't judge it based on the sheer number of hits. Particularly when there are a lot of hits, relevance is more important.
What's Google missing? Sort results by date. I know the dates aren't reliable but sometimes you'd like some indication of when a page was modified. Note this *IS* an option when you search the Groups. The old HotBot would do this. The new one? No.
> Nowadays I tend to like things like RAD tools and code-completion.
Well then take a look at Delphi - it's object oriented (mostly - still no class fields) stable and is (mostly) source compatible with Kylix. There's a prominent open source communiuty too:
http://delphi-jedi.org/
The problem: price. Borland used to have a non-commercial Delphi available for free but with the latest version it appears to be MIA. Oh well, older versions are still being bundled with magazines - if you can find them!
I get the distinct feeling that there are a lot of bottom feeders looking for a payout before dissolving back into the slime... Essentially they take a narrow patent and interpret it in the broadest possible sence (Egged on no doubt by their lawyers).
A company named EFI has tried a similar tactic. Now don't feel too smug because you're a small developer - they're targeting *ALL* developers large and small... This won't effect the large companies but will stifle the individual contributor!
"I would like you all know this: EFI ( www.efi.com ) is sending legal citations (Texas Court) to more than 200 small , medium or large companies which created any image editing software that is able to scan , manipulate and print pictures . They claim these companies ( even very small shareware companies) are infringing their (year 1984) patent about scanning , color manipulating trough RGB or CMYK systems and printing pictures . This sounds just like the other famous claim of "Unisys" about the gif patent. Among those companies have been cited Microsoft ( Picture it! and Photodraw software), Corel (photopaint), Ulead(photoimpact and photoexpress) and Jasc (Paint Shop Pro). It seems that Adobe and Xerox registered and paid a fee in 1988 for using that patent in their software . So they are the only few companies who are not involved in this infringement.
So if you are willing to make your own image editor I would think twice about it : it's sad but true..."
[Extracted from Google's newsgroup archive of borland.public.delphi.non-technical] Note that there's nothing obvious on their site: [http://www.efi.com/]
Actually, if you think about it - the biggest source of terrorist financing is...
Oil!
Not that oil companies are directly suppling cash to terrorist networks but oil based economies provided the source of bin Laden's fortune (well on the other hand there's Sadam).
Well, for one thing I'd consider the source. The ITAA has a vested interest in hyping industry growth. While most of us smell unfettered bias in studies underwritten by certain other notorious associations (RIAA) we shouldn't be blinded by our desire for this projection to be true.
If the results were different (say a 10% market reduction) would the study be getting this much attention?
There are several standards that define optional metadata for jpegs. The most common is EXIF which tends to be hardware specific, and generated by most digital cameras. It records time, speed, metering conditions etc. - mostly camera settings.
There's another standard which has more 'social' bearing. The IPTC header (See http://www.iptc.org) contains metadata needed by the press. Copyright, captions, photographer, news organization, country, subject, etc. are examples.
Newer versions of Photoshop can handle both. For details and example code of both (in Delphi!) see: http://homepages.borland.com/efg2lab/Library /Delph i/Graphics/FileFormatsAndConversion.htm
Hmm, a cell phone with wallpaper on it's color
display. Too bad it's still the standard 1 1/2 x 1 inch display!
Yes! they break all the "rules". Aren't you fed up
with the boring and predictable keypad layout of
ordinary flat beds... eh, cell phones? Well you're
in luck because Nokia has reinvented the keypad
for this phone! I hear that not to be outdone Apple has leaked word of the Uniphone which has only one button - press it once for 1, twice for 2, etc. [The really exciting
piece is where you press it no times for 0.]
Actually there are some useful features on this phone but the marketing geeks seem enthralled with the wallpaper, "press-on" covers, polyphonic tones
played through a "real speaker", and a built-in FM
radio. Gee - all it needs is a "fashion suppository cover"** to be really useful.
** - For those who don't appreciate the fashion hipness
of their fellow cell phone users!
Well folks, what we could also be seeing is a side effect of Micro$oft eliminating or assimilating almost all of the competition.
Remember Lotus, DBase, Wordperfect, just to name a few?
What consumer software company is still alive in the desktop PC market? Most the the remaining big players offer large multi $$$$ packages. Think Oracle, C/A, SAP, etc. - no real interest for your average student. Even the big PC game bubble has slipped in favor of the dedicated set top gaming box.
So in the old days your typical non-engineering student would pirate 4-5 relevant packages - now they pirate zip. There's no need because the DELL box Daddy bought has Windows and Office on it - what else do you need?
Slashdot Mirror
Actually it's more like 1/8... sounds like
a small difference but it's really 11 million
which at projected current growth rates won't
be hit for about 500 years! (0.6% faster than the
country at large)
It's moot anyway...
So... I guess Sony got what they deserved. Cave in to one and others will show up with their hand out.
They deserve their karma. I wonder how the other RIAA folks are doing...
How can AOL complain? The spammers are just
following AOL's lead!
Does anyone else find it fitting that AOL [those responsible for a flood of "XXX FREE HOURS" discs each week in my snail mail, magazines, and breakfast cereal] should suffocate under an avalanche of their own electronic hellspawn?
There is sweet justice after all!
"The discussion system then sends the generated message to participants of the discussion. "
This would imply that web-based message boards
and discussions are not impacted but rather e-mail
based discussions. The key, to me, depends on
your definition of "send". This implies a passive
role by the participants. That is, reading a
discussion on a web page would not be covered.
Try rewinding 3 or 4 years ago...
Internet commerce is flying high...
unprecidented valuations on e-commerce stocks...
Amazon is *THE* largest e-tailer...
It's August 2, 1999 and that's the application
date for this patent!
Epinions.com was started in 1999 - Anyone know
precisely when?
vcl.h is part of the libraries used by Borland's C++ Builder. It contains OS specific objects and routines - not easily ported. /Gerry
Well, yes and no. Collectively we may be better off but not necessarily the workers/industries that were effected in the 80's.
Take a look at your region - here in New England there are many blue collar workers who were underemployed during the entire tech boom. Today's software engineers will shake their heads at the high saleries of tomorrow's gentic [or whatever] engineers but then continue to stock Home Depot's shelves. But hey, collectively we're better off!
True but...
Did you offer to work at home for only 20% of an on-site position? If you did I suspect you would have had some takers.
Here's something you can check yourself:
Go to a DVD store or rental place. Pick through a bunch of DVDs and look for a copyright date.
Guess what? You'll find a data on pretty much all of them but the Disney (Buena Vista, Touchstone)
labels. What to know why? Disney already knows that copyrights will never die so it's irrelvant when they were granted in the first place.
Google does a great job but don't judge it based on
the sheer number of hits. Particularly when there
are a lot of hits, relevance is more important.
What's Google missing? Sort results by date.
I know the dates aren't reliable but sometimes you'd
like some indication of when a page was modified.
Note this *IS* an option when you search the Groups.
The old HotBot would do this. The new one? No.
Well, M$ already has Anders Hejlsberg - the
chief architect/inventor of both Delphi and
C#. I guess it was only a matter of time...
Well Borland is profitable:
roughly 5m/quarter for the past 4...
That's 8% net profit margin - now this isn't
Microsoft level profits but it's probably
ethically obtained!
> Nowadays I tend to like things like RAD tools and code-completion.
Well then take a look at Delphi - it's object oriented (mostly - still no class fields) stable and is (mostly) source compatible with Kylix. There's a prominent open source communiuty too:
http://delphi-jedi.org/
The problem: price. Borland used to have a non-commercial Delphi available for free but with the latest version it appears to be MIA. Oh well, older versions are still being bundled with magazines - if you can find them!
* and code completion too!
I get the distinct feeling that there are a lot of bottom feeders looking for a payout before dissolving back into the slime... Essentially they take a narrow patent and interpret it in the broadest possible sence (Egged on no doubt by their lawyers).
: . . .
..."
A company named EFI has tried a similar tactic. Now don't feel too smug because you're a small developer - they're targeting *ALL* developers large and small... This won't effect the large companies but will stifle the individual contributor!
"I would like you all know this
EFI ( www.efi.com ) is sending legal citations (Texas Court) to more than
200 small , medium or large companies which created any image editing
software that is able to scan , manipulate and print pictures . They claim
these companies ( even very small shareware companies) are infringing their
(year 1984) patent about scanning , color manipulating trough RGB or CMYK
systems and printing pictures . This sounds just like the other famous claim
of "Unisys" about the gif patent
Among those companies have been cited Microsoft ( Picture it! and Photodraw
software), Corel (photopaint), Ulead(photoimpact and photoexpress) and Jasc (Paint Shop Pro)
It seems that Adobe and Xerox registered and paid a fee in 1988 for using
that patent in their software . So they are the only few companies who are
not involved in this infringement
So if you are willing to make your own image editor I would think twice
about it : it's sad but true
[Extracted from Google's newsgroup archive of borland.public.delphi.non-technical]
Note that there's nothing obvious on their site: [http://www.efi.com/]
Actually, if you think about it - the biggest source of terrorist financing is...
Oil!
Not that oil companies are directly suppling cash to terrorist networks but oil based economies provided the source of bin Laden's fortune (well on the other hand there's Sadam).
Fight Terrorism - ride a bicycle.
Well, for one thing I'd consider the source. The ITAA has a vested interest in hyping industry growth. While most of us smell unfettered bias in studies underwritten by certain other notorious associations (RIAA) we shouldn't be blinded by our desire for this projection to be true.
If the results were different (say a 10% market reduction) would the study be getting this much attention?
There are several standards that define optional metadata for jpegs. The most common is EXIF which
y /Delph i/Graphics/FileFormatsAndConversion.htm
tends to be hardware specific, and generated by most digital cameras. It records time, speed, metering conditions etc. - mostly camera settings.
There's another standard which has more 'social' bearing. The IPTC header (See http://www.iptc.org) contains metadata needed by the press. Copyright, captions, photographer, news organization, country, subject, etc. are examples.
Newer versions of Photoshop can handle both. For details and example code of both (in Delphi!) see:
http://homepages.borland.com/efg2lab/Librar
Yes! they break all the "rules". Aren't you fed up with the boring and predictable keypad layout of ordinary flat beds... eh, cell phones? Well you're in luck because Nokia has reinvented the keypad for this phone! I hear that not to be outdone Apple has leaked word of the Uniphone which has only one button - press it once for 1, twice for 2, etc. [The really exciting piece is where you press it no times for 0.]
Actually there are some useful features on this phone but the marketing geeks seem enthralled with the wallpaper, "press-on" covers, polyphonic tones played through a "real speaker", and a built-in FM radio. Gee - all it needs is a "fashion suppository cover"** to be really useful.
** - For those who don't appreciate the fashion hipness of their fellow cell phone users!
Well folks, what we could also be seeing is a side effect of Micro$oft eliminating or assimilating almost all of the competition.
Remember Lotus, DBase, Wordperfect, just to name a few?
What consumer software company is still alive in the desktop PC market? Most the the remaining big players offer large multi $$$$ packages. Think Oracle, C/A, SAP, etc. - no real interest for your average student. Even the big PC game bubble has slipped in favor of the dedicated set top gaming box.
So in the old days your typical non-engineering student would pirate 4-5 relevant packages - now
they pirate zip. There's no need because the DELL box Daddy bought has Windows and Office on it - what else do you need?
Of course you realize they have to make things sound dramatic to sell their wares.
Makes you wonder how they drive though:
Pedal to the metal followed by slamming on the brakes. Ohhh, I'm gonna get carsick.
Reminds me of the old saying that far
more systems die from stupidity than
any virus.
Of course, the stupidity is unspecified:
it may not necessarily be played by the
part of the user...