I know maps like these are a problem in the UK for a different, systematic reason: Crimes detected at the police station after an arrest have their location marked as having taken place at that police station. eg if someone is arrested and taken back to the station, and when asked to empty their pockets drugs are discovered, then the location of that crime is in the police station building. Of course, this sort of thing will happen every day...
Am I going to be able to use the WebOS when there's no wireless data connectivity? I don't think so. Can Palm ensure the security of my data while using WebOS? I don't think so.
Er... if you'd actually read the article, you wouldn't have had to ask those questions:
According to Palmâ(TM)s website and some early development partners, webOS supports HTML5, enabling a local data store, so applications and data are available offline, and a file system.
WebOS is a marginally confusing name, but it is just a name, and it does make some sense given the technologies they're providing to developers.
What happened to the rumored port of PalmOS to Linux?
Er... it's a rumour? And therefore highly likely to not be happening? PalmOS is old and out of date, I loved it in its day, but it's time it was put to rest.
I think it has something to do with most people like to hold others to a higher standard that *just* what is legal. It is perfectly possible to do something unethical but still legal, and I don't see why we should let someone off that judgment just because they are hiding behind a corporation.
That, and the fact that Microsoft broke competition laws quite regularly to make and maintain a dominant position.
Don't let them off so easily! It is a *serious* issue when policemen are taking money from an organisation and then appearing to act in that organisation's interests. If an officer is not sure of the law then he damn well shouldn't be acting on it.
This boy was an exceptional 15 year old, who knew how to defend himself and knew how to get publicity. How many others who are less sure of themselves, have been spoken to by police and just capitulated?
"Adobe makes the official Flash plugin, but OLPC cannot ship it on the XOs because it is legally restricted and doesn't meet the OLPC's standards for open software." I'm utterly confused. How can OLPC have standards for free software and yet be considering shipping a completely closed and proprietary OS as Windows? How is this in any way consistent?
It happens that most cells operate at 2.4 GHz, the same frequency as the GPS unit in the plane, and on the off chance that the two signals could interfere with each other during takeoff/landing the benefit does not outweigh the risk. Hang on.... since when do aircraft use GPS for takeoff and landing? There's no way it can be accurate enough to do that! From what I remember there are transponders in the runway that the aircraft use, not GPS.
If you let them in, everyone is gonna be miserable listening to some prick blather on for half the day So what? How is this difficult from the bus, or the train? We don't regulate politeness.
You aren't supposed to go that fast while on a cell phone (this is just about on planes, not in transmission lab) - you switch towers too often, and it causes all sorts of shenanigans in the signals (this of course has been resolved by the brits by putting a PICO on the plane itself). So... er... your point is moot then?
Most western societies include a schooling system that splits children up into 'years', dividing the years by birthday being before or after September. (Using the UK as an example, as that's what I know) Children start school the September after they're 5 years old. So someone born in September will be nearly 6 when they start school, while someone born in August will be just 5 when they start school. So at that early age, the September child is 20% older than the August child when they start. That makes a difference, in confidence, learning and social skills, physical strength, all sorts. While the proportional age differences diminish over time, the headstart is always there. The social structure of the school career gets fixed at a very early stage.
Does your birthdate have a big determination on who you are? I think it does, it just doesn't have anything to do with the sun or the moon...
Yeah, that's fine if you're pushing through your 30's and a good deal of the music-style you're into was made 10 years ago. But it's not so easy for alot of people. There seems to be a general theme of "it's all shit anyway", which is fine but not necessarily true, and I sometimes wonder if some people think that partly simply because they're past the age of picking up current music. You're *supposed* to think that, and every generation in history has! It's a hell of a lot easier to take the moral high ground if you don't want the product anyway.
Quite frankly, I *like* going to the cinema and experiencing culture that I can share with my friends. I'm not going to cripple my own social life by not going to any MPAA films or listening to RIAA music. (actually I'm in the UK so the acronyms are different, but the methods much the same). Why do you think that a drop in sales will send the message that you want it to send?
Contrary to popular belief, the market does not actually solve every problem in the world.
Errr... isn't that kindof ignoring the point of open sourcing something? So that customers can have some sort of control and assurance that they will be able to use and modify the program in years to come (when the submitter has lost interest)? So that future generations can use and modify it?
If you want to go into application / web programming, then stick to the high-level Java / C# / PHP stuff. Even though a good proportion of/. seem to be obsessed that you must know about *everything* in a computer, for many programming tasks this is not necessary (else why was high-level programming invented in the first place?), and it's not practical for you to know everything.
Give yourself a project to complete in a particular language and work through it. It's much better to talk about real completed tasks in an interview and it's very useful to have seen things through from beginning to end. You'll learn alot about how not to make the mistake you make on those projects again... Read about design patterns *and use them*. Being comfortable with a language and how to structure code is very important, they'll be looking for that.
Course, if you're looking to go into embedded or kernel lowlevel stuff then the rules are different, and you should ignore everything I've said...
What actually have we seen from Google that is commercially successful apart from search? For their monolithic size and supposedly cool creative environment, we haven't had much to show for it. Vast majority of their services are still in Beta! Outside of their core business of search and serving adverts, Google are doing nothing particularly special. Ye gods, they had to *buy* Youtube because Google Video was so poor!
Symbian have been in the business a *long* time, they are entrenched and have seen off Microsoft and Linux for years. It is supremely arrogant to think the magic Google touch is going to have a great deal of impact here, when it hasn't had much impact anywhere else...
Anyway, the point is that they didn't actually take the time to write a native client, its simply packaged with Cedega, so this isn't really anything to praise them for.
Why? Does it really matter how they do it? If I were them and I had a stable codebase which I could run on a pre-existing set of libraries to get a different OS supported, that's how I'd do it. As long as the performance doesn't suck then that's perfectly reasonable.
They should be praised for acknowledging the practise and supporting it.
I'm not necessarily agreeing with the decision, but clearly they can't just go telling everyone the exact reasons for their decision otherwise they will run afoul of the copyright of the developer. Their decision is going to be based on plot and events from the game, which obviously the developer probably doesn't want everyone to know. It would surely spoil the game if you get to know what's going to happen? Course, at the moment you definitely won't know but there's no saying that in the future the game might not be changed and then cleared for release.
They do say that the developer knows the reasons and would be able to share them if they wanted to. Clearly there are reasons, but not public ones.
Errr... I can't see anything wrong with his position on SaaS. It seems genuinely bizarre to have to ask a company whether you're allowed to use the software you have bought, to rely on *their* servers for the use of *your* machine. I'm sure he trolls sometimes, but his logic here is sound.
This is a fair point. However, I'm not exactly convinced getting into a protracted legal battle with MS (which they will probably lose) is a good use of the licence-payer's money. The BBC are a large organisation, they can't just go breaking patents just because we want them to.
No, they are free to do that - I don't see how this is relevant to the discussion.
Of *course* it's relevent. DVD's aren't playable under Linux legally. DVD's are DRM'd. Fine, they're not very well protected but that doesn't change the fact. And before very recently DVD was the only way to get non-currently-broadcast BBC material. And you couldn't get it for free, you had to pay a price where the BBC takes a profit.
I don't disagree with what you want, but the situation as it stands is so much more unfair to the British licence payer. I'd atleast like to see some sort of movement, even if it's not entirely perfect, just so long as we move in the right direction. There's a good chance it will be broken, and if not there's a good chance that they will be persuaded to liberate the content over time. As it is now, we have nothing, and won't have anything for some time.
What's your point? Who said I'm as obsessed with small government? Anyway, what makes consistency this goal we should all subscribe to? Funnily enough I don't actually want every piece of broadcasting to pander to getting the largest possible audience. Somehow (well, *here*) that seems to make me a communist...
My god, do you not think there's atleast some advantage to having a public-service broadcaster that doesn't have to pander to the lowest-common-denominator commercial pressures?
Do you think, possibly, that the BBC might be trying to find the most cost-effective option? It's a given that people have Windows or OS-X, much as we might want to pretend it isn't true. In-house solutions are not necessarily (usually!) as efficient as buying in a third-party. Hell, *I* use Linux as my main desktop OS, but I can understand why it might not be considered cost-effective to cater for me given how much of a minority group I am...
So don't publish stuff they don't have the rights to on the Internet.
Whoa, talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face. In what way would that be better? Do you disagree with the BBC selling DVDs too? This is a new thing... it's either there in it's non-perfect state or it isn't, I can't understand why a DRM Windows-and-Mac-only programmes (atleast to start with) is worse than not having those programmes.
I don't consider locking out a load of people from the content they are legally entitled to
Blah. I don't consider the BBC's content legally mine. I may like it to be, given that they're a publicly funded service, but that doesn't make it so.
Yes, fine, I'd love that too, but the BBC don't own all the rights to everything they show. More than that, they can't just make everything free as the independent broadcasters will cease to be able to sell any DVDs... Anti-competitions laws apply to the beeb too.
I don't believe they *want* to limit the availability, the last 2 Director Generals have talked about opening up the archive, but there is a bigger ecosystem to take into account. I don't pretend to understand it all, but atleast they're moving in the right direction.
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I know maps like these are a problem in the UK for a different, systematic reason: Crimes detected at the police station after an arrest have their location marked as having taken place at that police station. eg if someone is arrested and taken back to the station, and when asked to empty their pockets drugs are discovered, then the location of that crime is in the police station building. Of course, this sort of thing will happen every day...
Makes the crime map a bit interesting...
Am I going to be able to use the WebOS when there's no wireless data connectivity? I don't think so. Can Palm ensure the security of my data while using WebOS? I don't think so.
Er... if you'd actually read the article, you wouldn't have had to ask those questions:
According to Palmâ(TM)s website and some early development partners, webOS supports HTML5, enabling a local data store, so applications and data are available offline, and a file system.
WebOS is a marginally confusing name, but it is just a name, and it does make some sense given the technologies they're providing to developers.
What happened to the rumored port of PalmOS to Linux?
Er... it's a rumour? And therefore highly likely to not be happening? PalmOS is old and out of date, I loved it in its day, but it's time it was put to rest.
I think it has something to do with most people like to hold others to a higher standard that *just* what is legal. It is perfectly possible to do something unethical but still legal, and I don't see why we should let someone off that judgment just because they are hiding behind a corporation.
That, and the fact that Microsoft broke competition laws quite regularly to make and maintain a dominant position.
BadAnalogyGuy:
I don't think spam should be any more illegal than billboards, flyers, or direct mailings.
Fantastically appropriate username...
Don't let them off so easily! It is a *serious* issue when policemen are taking money from an organisation and then appearing to act in that organisation's interests. If an officer is not sure of the law then he damn well shouldn't be acting on it.
This boy was an exceptional 15 year old, who knew how to defend himself and knew how to get publicity. How many others who are less sure of themselves, have been spoken to by police and just capitulated?
PR to do something about the blatant lack of integrity displayed
Well there's your *first* problem...
Most western societies include a schooling system that splits children up into 'years', dividing the years by birthday being before or after September. (Using the UK as an example, as that's what I know) Children start school the September after they're 5 years old. So someone born in September will be nearly 6 when they start school, while someone born in August will be just 5 when they start school. So at that early age, the September child is 20% older than the August child when they start. That makes a difference, in confidence, learning and social skills, physical strength, all sorts. While the proportional age differences diminish over time, the headstart is always there. The social structure of the school career gets fixed at a very early stage.
Does your birthdate have a big determination on who you are? I think it does, it just doesn't have anything to do with the sun or the moon...
and then Europe closed Microsoft business completely in Europe.
and I hope you never visit here, if that's your attitude to whether European law should be followed when in Europe.
Yeah, that's fine if you're pushing through your 30's and a good deal of the music-style you're into was made 10 years ago. But it's not so easy for alot of people. There seems to be a general theme of "it's all shit anyway", which is fine but not necessarily true, and I sometimes wonder if some people think that partly simply because they're past the age of picking up current music. You're *supposed* to think that, and every generation in history has! It's a hell of a lot easier to take the moral high ground if you don't want the product anyway.
Quite frankly, I *like* going to the cinema and experiencing culture that I can share with my friends. I'm not going to cripple my own social life by not going to any MPAA films or listening to RIAA music. (actually I'm in the UK so the acronyms are different, but the methods much the same). Why do you think that a drop in sales will send the message that you want it to send?
Contrary to popular belief, the market does not actually solve every problem in the world.
Errr... isn't that kindof ignoring the point of open sourcing something? So that customers can have some sort of control and assurance that they will be able to use and modify the program in years to come (when the submitter has lost interest)? So that future generations can use and modify it?
If you want to go into application / web programming, then stick to the high-level Java / C# / PHP stuff. Even though a good proportion of /. seem to be obsessed that you must know about *everything* in a computer, for many programming tasks this is not necessary (else why was high-level programming invented in the first place?), and it's not practical for you to know everything.
Give yourself a project to complete in a particular language and work through it. It's much better to talk about real completed tasks in an interview and it's very useful to have seen things through from beginning to end. You'll learn alot about how not to make the mistake you make on those projects again...
Read about design patterns *and use them*. Being comfortable with a language and how to structure code is very important, they'll be looking for that.
Course, if you're looking to go into embedded or kernel lowlevel stuff then the rules are different, and you should ignore everything I've said...
What actually have we seen from Google that is commercially successful apart from search? For their monolithic size and supposedly cool creative environment, we haven't had much to show for it. Vast majority of their services are still in Beta! Outside of their core business of search and serving adverts, Google are doing nothing particularly special. Ye gods, they had to *buy* Youtube because Google Video was so poor!
Symbian have been in the business a *long* time, they are entrenched and have seen off Microsoft and Linux for years. It is supremely arrogant to think the magic Google touch is going to have a great deal of impact here, when it hasn't had much impact anywhere else...
Anyway, the point is that they didn't actually take the time to write a native client, its simply packaged with Cedega, so this isn't really anything to praise them for.
Why? Does it really matter how they do it? If I were them and I had a stable codebase which I could run on a pre-existing set of libraries to get a different OS supported, that's how I'd do it. As long as the performance doesn't suck then that's perfectly reasonable.
They should be praised for acknowledging the practise and supporting it.
I'm not necessarily agreeing with the decision, but clearly they can't just go telling everyone the exact reasons for their decision otherwise they will run afoul of the copyright of the developer. Their decision is going to be based on plot and events from the game, which obviously the developer probably doesn't want everyone to know. It would surely spoil the game if you get to know what's going to happen? Course, at the moment you definitely won't know but there's no saying that in the future the game might not be changed and then cleared for release.
They do say that the developer knows the reasons and would be able to share them if they wanted to. Clearly there are reasons, but not public ones.
Errr... I can't see anything wrong with his position on SaaS. It seems genuinely bizarre to have to ask a company whether you're allowed to use the software you have bought, to rely on *their* servers for the use of *your* machine. I'm sure he trolls sometimes, but his logic here is sound.
I think by far the scariest thing about this site is how the episodes don't seem to have lost anything in the edit.
This is a fair point. However, I'm not exactly convinced getting into a protracted legal battle with MS (which they will probably lose) is a good use of the licence-payer's money. The BBC are a large organisation, they can't just go breaking patents just because we want them to.
Do you disagree with the BBC selling DVDs too?
No, they are free to do that - I don't see how this is relevant to the discussion.
Of *course* it's relevent. DVD's aren't playable under Linux legally. DVD's are DRM'd. Fine, they're not very well protected but that doesn't change the fact. And before very recently DVD was the only way to get non-currently-broadcast BBC material. And you couldn't get it for free, you had to pay a price where the BBC takes a profit.
I don't disagree with what you want, but the situation as it stands is so much more unfair to the British licence payer. I'd atleast like to see some sort of movement, even if it's not entirely perfect, just so long as we move in the right direction. There's a good chance it will be broken, and if not there's a good chance that they will be persuaded to liberate the content over time. As it is now, we have nothing, and won't have anything for some time.
What's your point? Who said I'm as obsessed with small government? Anyway, what makes consistency this goal we should all subscribe to? Funnily enough I don't actually want every piece of broadcasting to pander to getting the largest possible audience. Somehow (well, *here*) that seems to make me a communist...
My god, do you not think there's atleast some advantage to having a public-service broadcaster that doesn't have to pander to the lowest-common-denominator commercial pressures?
Do you think, possibly, that the BBC might be trying to find the most cost-effective option? It's a given that people have Windows or OS-X, much as we might want to pretend it isn't true. In-house solutions are not necessarily (usually!) as efficient as buying in a third-party. Hell, *I* use Linux as my main desktop OS, but I can understand why it might not be considered cost-effective to cater for me given how much of a minority group I am...
So don't publish stuff they don't have the rights to on the Internet.
Whoa, talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face. In what way would that be better? Do you disagree with the BBC selling DVDs too? This is a new thing... it's either there in it's non-perfect state or it isn't, I can't understand why a DRM Windows-and-Mac-only programmes (atleast to start with) is worse than not having those programmes.
I don't consider locking out a load of people from the content they are legally entitled to
Blah. I don't consider the BBC's content legally mine. I may like it to be, given that they're a publicly funded service, but that doesn't make it so.
Yes, fine, I'd love that too, but the BBC don't own all the rights to everything they show. More than that, they can't just make everything free as the independent broadcasters will cease to be able to sell any DVDs... Anti-competitions laws apply to the beeb too.
I don't believe they *want* to limit the availability, the last 2 Director Generals have talked about opening up the archive, but there is a bigger ecosystem to take into account. I don't pretend to understand it all, but atleast they're moving in the right direction.