I actually usually vote for the dems as to which I alluded.
However, I would vote for John McCain, for example. I usually vote for a person more than the party.
I mean comeon... I believe like most people. I want a good job, safety for my family, honesty in government, and and to help those less fortunate than myself. My less important opinions often push me to the left... but if somebody would ensure me those core beliefs, I would vote for them--regardless of policy.
Sorry for the rant...:) I'll kill my karam bonus for being so off topic.
This, of course, is due to lobbying from Microsoft. Lobbying works.
However, I am not sure that we all believe that open source software is perfect for every single situation. Even if you do believe this, I am not sure that it should be the stance of the UN.
"Business has consistently stated that it is essential for governments to ensure technologically neutral policy towards different software models," said the delegate from the business lobby, during the conference debate.
I just don't see how you can't agree with this. Open source deserves the freedom to grow and expand for its benefits. However, closed source software should not be punished in the market.
Closed and opened source software provides jobs and services for an ass load of people. The UN should treat them equally and fairly.
Trying to stay on topic: Coleman said he didn't have any specific numbers in mind yet for revised penalties.
I love politicians sometimes. They may not know how to fix something... but they will always give you their input on how NOT to fix something. 150k per song is wrong. 145k per song is much better? 1k per song? Come on, dude... make a stand!
Awwwhhh... it had to be a Republician to come out with this. I sure wanted to claim this one for our team.
Makes you wonder if some college kid called his dad in government and said, "You know, Dad, it would kick ass if you would stomp some RIAA ass for us."
Honestly though, appropriate fines is much, much more likely to be honestly viewed as part of the "solution" to the "problem." The current over-the-top fees are simple scare tactics.
Honest, appropriate fees are much more likely to protect the copyright owner.
You are missing the point. Music is protected by laws that software is not. By converting and exchanging your software as "music", you gain the protection of these new laws.
Yes, it is laughable. These are the problems a society creates when it tries to create laws to control the flow of data.
Great point... this is exactly what the article is alluding to.
People act like assholes because they can. There is no punishment. If asshole action = death of your character, then the action would stop.
The author is trying to express that this is why the gaming world loses its balance. If one were to call me a m*therfscker in real life, there are actions that I could take to keep it from happening again.
However, this is not just in games... it's the internet as a whole! Nice, well-balanced people in the real world (tm) will do things in an email, forum, or IM that would normally be out of character for them. Why? Because they can!
People will act differently online... because there are no consequences to their actions. Until it comes full circle, we will all have duel personalities... our real world one and our online one.
I mean... come on... people don't call me davak in real life.:)
The note was also hard-hitting about Sun's Java strategy, urging the company to spin off its Java division, asserting that "Java has been a technology success, a so-so branding effort, and a financial failure."
Now, I know that my programming with java was a horrible failure... but I still see java used everywhere. Is it a successful idea that just has not generated income for the original developers?
Spinning Java away from the parent company would seem like an excellent idea. Why tie the success or failure of two largely seperate systems together?
I don't see java dying... but maybe I'm just too surrounded by it...
In order for a computer to be more secure, it must monitor more aggressively for changes. This seems to be point 4 in the article (remote attestation).
However, by intuition, this would mean that your computer system would know and monitor your system and thus the user more and more.
Misconceptions about this design abound. The most common misconception denies that the trusted computing PCs would really be backwards-compatible or able to run existing software.
Well, crap... of course there is going to be compatibility problems... I am much more concerned that my system and my massaging of that system is going to be tracked and recorded at higher and higher resolution of detail.
All together, these three small code fragments comprised no more than 200 lines out of the more than one million lines of our overall contributions to Linux.
This shows the minor things that SCO from which they are trying to gain. However, how small of "a copy" can be included before that is considering stealing?
For example, if I "borrow" one line from a song in my song... is that stealing? If I borrow one line from another piece of literature in my "unique" work, is that stealing?
Are they admitting to the borrowing of a small amount of code here?
Thus, you'll have to pay to use it... or pay to not.
The good news is that slashdot will soon we patenting the right to slam microsoft. Due to the grant demand... slashdot will be rich beyond its wildest dreams and give free subscriptions to us all.
Insure - To make sure, certain, or secure. (See Usage Note at assure) Ensure - To make sure or certain; insure: Our precautions ensured our safety. (See Usage Note at assure.)
Usage Note: Assure, ensure, and insure all mean "to make secure or certain." Only assure is used with reference to a person in the sense of "to set the mind at rest": assured the leader of his loyalty. Although ensure and insure are generally interchangeable, only insure is now widely used in American English in the commercial sense of "to guarantee persons or property against risk."
I'm still not sure who is correct here. Please don't make me diagram the sentence.:)
In my belief, this is an excellent point. Being in a scientific field, I have a tendency...err...not to believe people doing research!
This thing is easy enough to test. Plug in a the variables today... and see if it predicts the weather currently tomorrow, or the next big hurricane, or whatever. They haven't published this type of research yet... why not?
Pretty graphics and powerful computers do not insure success.
Dead Trees are NOT just the way to be......at least in the medical professions.
Several medical studies have shown that physicians that use medical online databases such as UpToDate, provide better patient care. The medical literature changes so quickly that many books are outdated before they are released to the public.
In residency it was amazing how many "rare" diagnoses were made based on the ability to quickly look up a condition or situation on an online database. Plus, if you can't find it in uptodate or similar online consult references, you can always access PUBMED and review all the medical journals for the latest and greatest information on a disease process.
If you are a patient, you want your doctor going to the online databases and journals for information...
I thought the days of this crap was over. Am I the only one old enough to remember games that required you to reboot from DOS into the game? What a pain!
Now, granted... this fine for the game makers to include this as an option. That way if you can't get the game running any other way, you can always just boot into it. However, please don't start making this the only way to get into the games.
An older buddy of mine got scared, called, and said that he would stop sharing files. They told him to delete everything and that he would not be charged. End of story. They never took his name, number, sent him a get-out-of-free card, or anything.
So...
I'm assuming if they come after you. one can just erase everything and say, "I called and the guy said if I erase everything, you would forgive me."
The price of the new software will rise 13% with the new versions. Upgrade prices for individual copies of Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign will be $ 169, up from $149 for the previous upgrade. The premium suite will sell for $749 to customers that use Photoshop. The standard suite without Acrobat has a $549 price tag.
The new Photoshop will include features to make it easier to match colors among photos and to store more information about photos, making them simpler to retrieve. Illustrator will include technology to make it easy to create 3D effects.
Well, once again new upgrades equal higher costs... mo money, mo money.
I thought matching colors within photoshop was pretty easy already... I love the idea, however, about storing more information within the photos. My complicated sets sometimes really need documentation. I've be looking for a plug-in that would do something similar for quite a while. Anybody?
Slashdot Mirror
I actually usually vote for the dems as to which I alluded.
:)
However, I would vote for John McCain, for example. I usually vote for a person more than the party.
I mean comeon... I believe like most people. I want a good job, safety for my family, honesty in government, and and to help those less fortunate than myself. My less important opinions often push me to the left... but if somebody would ensure me those core beliefs, I would vote for them--regardless of policy.
Sorry for the rant...
I'll kill my karam bonus for being so off topic.
Davak
This, of course, is due to lobbying from Microsoft. Lobbying works.
However, I am not sure that we all believe that open source software is perfect for every single situation. Even if you do believe this, I am not sure that it should be the stance of the UN.
"Business has consistently stated that it is essential for governments to ensure technologically neutral policy towards different software models," said the delegate from the business lobby, during the conference debate.
I just don't see how you can't agree with this. Open source deserves the freedom to grow and expand for its benefits. However, closed source software should not be punished in the market.
Closed and opened source software provides jobs and services for an ass load of people. The UN should treat them equally and fairly.
Davak
appropriate fines are... not is
Trying to stay on topic:
Coleman said he didn't have any specific numbers in mind yet for revised penalties.
I love politicians sometimes. They may not know how to fix something... but they will always give you their input on how NOT to fix something. 150k per song is wrong. 145k per song is much better? 1k per song? Come on, dude... make a stand!
Davak
Awwwhhh... it had to be a Republician to come out with this. I sure wanted to claim this one for our team.
Makes you wonder if some college kid called his dad in government and said, "You know, Dad, it would kick ass if you would stomp some RIAA ass for us."
Honestly though, appropriate fines is much, much more likely to be honestly viewed as part of the "solution" to the "problem." The current over-the-top fees are simple scare tactics.
Honest, appropriate fees are much more likely to protect the copyright owner.
Davak
Ahhhh... a biology geek!
Welcome to my friend list.
Davak
You are missing the point. Music is protected by laws that software is not. By converting and exchanging your software as "music", you gain the protection of these new laws.
Yes, it is laughable. These are the problems a society creates when it tries to create laws to control the flow of data.
Davak
Really instead of thinking of changing things into music... we are really just looking at different mechanism to change things into a common format.
Prose, news, music, poety, pictures, movies -- it is really just o's and 1's.
If pictures were receiving the same laws, we could easily change pictures to music as well. We can change text to music without any difficulty.
Everything goes down to binary... changing it from format to format is trivial.
Davak
Great point... this is exactly what the article is alluding to.
:)
People act like assholes because they can. There is no punishment. If asshole action = death of your character, then the action would stop.
The author is trying to express that this is why the gaming world loses its balance. If one were to call me a m*therfscker in real life, there are actions that I could take to keep it from happening again.
However, this is not just in games... it's the internet as a whole! Nice, well-balanced people in the real world (tm) will do things in an email, forum, or IM that would normally be out of character for them. Why? Because they can!
People will act differently online... because there are no consequences to their actions. Until it comes full circle, we will all have duel personalities... our real world one and our online one.
I mean... come on... people don't call me davak in real life.
Davak
Spinning Java away from the parent company would seem like an excellent idea. Why tie the success or failure of two largely seperate systems together?
I don't see java dying... but maybe I'm just too surrounded by it...
Davak
In order for a computer to be more secure, it must monitor more aggressively for changes. This seems to be point 4 in the article (remote attestation).
However, by intuition, this would mean that your computer system would know and monitor your system and thus the user more and more.
Misconceptions about this design abound. The most common misconception denies that the trusted computing PCs would really be backwards-compatible or able to run existing software.
Well, crap... of course there is going to be compatibility problems... I am much more concerned that my system and my massaging of that system is going to be tracked and recorded at higher and higher resolution of detail.
Davak
This shows the minor things that SCO from which they are trying to gain. However, how small of "a copy" can be included before that is considering stealing?
For example, if I "borrow" one line from a song in my song... is that stealing?
If I borrow one line from another piece of literature in my "unique" work, is that stealing?
Are they admitting to the borrowing of a small amount of code here?
Everybody borrows; genius steals.
Davak
Microsoft also will so patent the ability to turn error reporting off.
Thus, you'll have to pay to use it... or pay to not.
The good news is that slashdot will soon we patenting the right to slam microsoft. Due to the grant demand... slashdot will be rich beyond its wildest dreams and give free subscriptions to us all.
Davak
dictionary.com gives me...
Insure - To make sure, certain, or secure. (See Usage Note at assure)
Ensure - To make sure or certain; insure: Our precautions ensured our safety. (See Usage Note at assure.)
I'm still not sure who is correct here. Please don't make me diagram the sentence.
Davak
For the typo nazis...
"currently" should be "correctly"
Davak
In my belief, this is an excellent point. Being in a scientific field, I have a tendency...err...not to believe people doing research!
This thing is easy enough to test. Plug in a the variables today... and see if it predicts the weather currently tomorrow, or the next big hurricane, or whatever. They haven't published this type of research yet... why not?
Pretty graphics and powerful computers do not insure success.
Show me the data.
Davak
Bless you guys. I love to know that these ideas are actually being discussed and developed. Get'm boys!
Davak
Dead Trees are NOT just the way to be... ...at least in the medical professions.
Several medical studies have shown that physicians that use medical online databases such as UpToDate, provide better patient care. The medical literature changes so quickly that many books are outdated before they are released to the public.
In residency it was amazing how many "rare" diagnoses were made based on the ability to quickly look up a condition or situation on an online database. Plus, if you can't find it in uptodate or similar online consult references, you can always access PUBMED and review all the medical journals for the latest and greatest information on a disease process.
If you are a patient, you want your doctor going to the online databases and journals for information...
Davak
I thought the days of this crap was over. Am I the only one old enough to remember games that required you to reboot from DOS into the game? What a pain!
Now, granted... this fine for the game makers to include this as an option. That way if you can't get the game running any other way, you can always just boot into it. However, please don't start making this the only way to get into the games.
Please let those days die.
Davak
What an odd bastardization of Geocaching!
Geocaching is exploring for objects other people have hidden using GPS. It's a blast and very addictive.
However, GPS does not send signals... it only receives... How are they going to track people?
Davak
I agree that he is an excellent tech writer. However, I thought his first book was much better than this one.
A Review Can Be Found Here
Although I am not very good at web design... what I have learned, I learned from this guy. He rocks.
Davak
In other news, Lance Bass is willing to give 11 million dollars if he is the first guy to reach space in a private craft.
It should also be noted that he is willing to spend $45.67 to anybody who is willing to give him any press at all.
He's teaming up with SCO's PR people at the moment.
Thanks.
Davak
Slashdot needs to learn to treat SCO like a child. Just ignore their attention-grabbing techniques!
Hell, if slashdot didn't have 4 SCO stories a day, average shmucks like me wouldn't know or care! Quit elevating them to a position of importance!
Sorry. Rant off. Down with SCO. They suck, etc.
Davak
An older buddy of mine got scared, called, and said that he would stop sharing files. They told him to delete everything and that he would not be charged. End of story. They never took his name, number, sent him a get-out-of-free card, or anything.
So...
I'm assuming if they come after you. one can just erase everything and say, "I called and the guy said if I erase everything, you would forgive me."
The price of the new software will rise 13% with the new versions. Upgrade prices for individual copies of Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign will be $ 169, up from $149 for the previous upgrade. The premium suite will sell for $749 to customers that use Photoshop. The standard suite without Acrobat has a $549 price tag.
The new Photoshop will include features to make it easier to match colors among photos and to store more information about photos, making them simpler to retrieve. Illustrator will include technology to make it easy to create 3D effects.
Well, once again new upgrades equal higher costs... mo money, mo money.
I thought matching colors within photoshop was pretty easy already... I love the idea, however, about storing more information within the photos. My complicated sets sometimes really need documentation. I've be looking for a plug-in that would do something similar for quite a while. Anybody?
Davak
The article references that Samba has also been abused in this matter. Has this been resolved?
Davak