The wiki article mentions that support for Apple Dashboard widgets is planned - that would be a huge boost.
In my opinion, the Dashboard is one of Apple's best features, and is really the only thing that I miss when I switch to a PC. The concept of having one-click access to lots of (configurable) real-time data is huge paradigm shift over the old methods (taskbar applets, etc).
I think the evidence pretty clearly shows that Al-Qaeda has the best military. They have managed to stay in business after a prolonged conflict with the best-funded military in the world. Sure, you can nit-pick about details (guerrilla warfare, defense vs. offense, etc) but if you look at the numbers, they're the winners right now.
I went shopping for a phone the other day. Sprint has been gouging me for years for not having a contract, and now my phone's battery is dieing. I have a short list of features that I need, but all the phones are marked "supports sprintTV" and crap like that. Phones come with a dozen of the most obnoxious ringtones possible because they want to sell you a better one. A cellphone is not a product - it's a vehicle for selling more products!
Anyway all google has to do is make their phone suck less than the competition - not a particularly difficult challenge these days!
Now you have a good idea of why they ask you for your phone number when you pay by credit card or otherwise ask you for your phone number as part of account registry or the final sale information.
Is this really true? I once heard that they ask for your phone number because they need your phone number to get your mailing address from the credit card companies. Which is it?
I have often wondered why there isn't a movement for secession here in the USA... I would love to learn more about the issues surrounding such ideas. It seems absurd that Los Angeles, Midland, Kansas City, Miami, and New York City should pretend to share the same values, government, or laws. Does anyone have more info on the subject?
I'd really like to see an easy-to-use system that lets me see who voted for what and when. I know that congress already has a system that stores that data but it's difficult for laymen to understand the data (I'm guessing that that's intentional).
I would really like to see a requirement that forces elected officials to explain why they voted for each bill - maybe in 5-30 words. This would give us a great deal of accountability on things like the PATRIOT act. It would be a lot harder for them to justify shady and pork-laden votes if they have to explain themselves.
Sorry, but human resources are NOT precious anymore. There is a huge movement towards using freelance or part-time employees here in the USA to avoid paying healthcare and other benefits. And many companies offshore to foreign countries for the same reason.
Don't be naive here: IT management will be more efficient, but they won't do that the way you expect them to. In the real world, laws like this do not necessarily result in benefits for the employees!
While we're here, can anyone give links or advice on getting Eclipse working with PHP? I'm a web designer, and I'd love to get away from Dreamweaver, but I don't have the time to figure out how to get Eclipse up & running...
Monster.com sends spam anyway. I used to use an email forwarder for my monster account (now deleted). I got several emails from shady recruiters, asking me if I was interested in working as a bank teller or insurance salesman - even though my monster info clearly indicated my interest in working as a web designer.
Is this the same technique that they're using on the "Experts Exchange"? I'm not much for Java so I don't know, but that site managed to get a pop-under window through Firefox's popup protection the other day.
Can't machine parsing like that be done with microformats? While it's neat that search engines can easily figure out where the is with these new elements, they'll get abused into oblivion just like meta keywords and descriptions. I don't see any real value to adding these new elements.
Here in the US, the authorities ignore the public interest and cater to corporate interests, while over in Germany they ignore the corporations and cater to the public interest. un-fricken-believable.
Whoever tagged this post as "doyourownwork" is an asshole who has no understanding of the way The Internet and it's online communities work. For any question that gets posted on Slashdot, there are dozens if not hundreds of Slashdot readers who want to know the answer. I wouldn't be surprised if 20% of the Slashdot community is running some kind of business that might have a need for a ticket tracking and CRM software setup. Many Slashdot readers are also very friendly, so while a person could easily spend hours researching a question like this, it's far more effective to come to Slashdot and benefit from the experience of it's users.
So to all the douchebags who criticize people who ask questions on Slashdot: FUCK YOU.
Unfortunately, we Americans are mostly powerless to do anything. The government has been usurped by powerful corporations, who have far more influence than the citizens could have. Corruption is widespread, from the lowest levels to the highest - although it is significantly harder to detect than the kind of "give the cop a $20 bill with your drivers license" corruption that you see in Central America. Halliburton is the most obvious example: it's 100% legal.
Politics and protests both have great stigma here, the result being that one can only participate in the system at great expense to one's social life (remember, it's rude to talk about religion or politics!). Add to all that the rampant consumerism that infects our nation, exacerbated by a money-fed media machine whose main goal is to deliver mindless diversionary pleasure, and you have a populace who simply can't be bothered to worry about their government.
I realize that the article is about Vista... But does anyone have information on what IPs and domains to block at the router level for Windows XP? I'd like to block everything except Microsoft's update servers - I don't want them to have any of my info, regardless of why they want it. I'm sure people would love to have the same info about Vista but I'm assuming that more info exists for XP.
Mandatory photo IDs? that's absurd. study after study have shown that voter fraud doesn't really exist in any substantial quantity, and would just be too complicated to have a significant effect on an election. There is no need for photo ID in elections.
seriously, what kind of loser would waste their time faking their identity to vote?
I know it's trendy, but I've often thought that tags would help a user navigate through the massive lists of oss software that you can find out there. You could integrate some sort of moderated tagging system that would allow the repository manager to approve tags before they are displayed...
My theory is that data - Intellectual Property - will only be valuable if it's extremely current or if it's customized. For example: all the newspapers get the same stories from the wires. After I see an article about today's news, I don't really care about it any more. Yesterday's news gets archived by so many different source (and nowadays I can archive it myself). The exception here is that I might prefer a particular author or news agency. The point is that old news isn't really valuable.
We've seen this with movies and music as well - there are some exceptions, of course - but for the most part, old movies are less valuable than new ones. The same goes with old music - you can get used CDs of most of the old 80s bands for under $5 online. Maybe $7 with shipping.
So my theory is that now that we have done away with distribtution and production costs, data (Intellectual Property) is really only valuable if it's fresh or customized. So while old music isn't really very valuable, a collection of songs from the 1980s about computers might have a little more value. Just an example but you get the point.
I just bought an iPod. By your logic, maybe Creative wouldn't have gotten the money, but it's very possible that Microsoft is out the $300 they get for a Zune as an alternative. So even though there is no monetary damage to Creative, somebody else also loses a sale.
This isn't logic, this is marketing. It's PR that Intellectual Property interests (BSA, RIAA, MPAA, etc) have been working on for quite some time. It simply doesn't hold up to rational discourse. Monetary damages due to pirated intellectual property are nothing but myth. And as community-shared intellectual property matures, the myth just becomes more and more absurd.
Agreed - there is no real competition between cell providers. All treat customers like shit when necessary. All require long contracts just to get service, often gauging older customers who refuse to sign new contracts. All charge similar fees. I've also heard that tranferring phone numbers between providers is still unrealistic.
This may be a "ploy" by Skype but it doesn't it have the potential to give a boost to the cellular industry - not by major players but by smaller companies?
what rights do I have if this should ever happen to me, and what can be done to raise awareness about such things?
None. Welcome to the real world.
When you give away intellectual property, It's not fucking yours anymore! You can't lend or rent ideas. You can only give them away. If you want to have control over your music, your ideas, your pictures, Keep it to your fucking self!
I realize that this doesn't work well with the whole idea of modern business.
We have created this absurd notion of "Intellectual Property", where one person can have all the rights to simple ideas, series of letters and numbers and notes. The whole concept is completely out of date.
I believe that Intellectual Property protection is currently the greatest threat to mankind. Think of all the developments that have been slowed, stymied, or abandoned because of this bullshit legal mumbo jumbo. Think about what would happen to mankind, to intellectualism, to science, to art - if we abolished the idea of intellectual property! Consider the fact that we currently have the technology to make every book, every article, every piece of music, every movie, and every television show ever recorded available to every person on earth. That is absolutely possible right now.
While I realize that this may sound like a flame or a troll, I'm really trying to be sensible here.
This is a great point - I get annoyed every time a credit card transaction goes through and I don't have to sign anything. Don't they realize that without a signature there's no way to prove whether the transaction was me or someone else?
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how true. the sooner we kill of these parasites, the better. the day that profit-music dies will most likely be the beginning of a music renaissance.
The wiki article mentions that support for Apple Dashboard widgets is planned - that would be a huge boost.
In my opinion, the Dashboard is one of Apple's best features, and is really the only thing that I miss when I switch to a PC. The concept of having one-click access to lots of (configurable) real-time data is huge paradigm shift over the old methods (taskbar applets, etc).
I think the evidence pretty clearly shows that Al-Qaeda has the best military. They have managed to stay in business after a prolonged conflict with the best-funded military in the world. Sure, you can nit-pick about details (guerrilla warfare, defense vs. offense, etc) but if you look at the numbers, they're the winners right now.
I went shopping for a phone the other day. Sprint has been gouging me for years for not having a contract, and now my phone's battery is dieing. I have a short list of features that I need, but all the phones are marked "supports sprintTV" and crap like that. Phones come with a dozen of the most obnoxious ringtones possible because they want to sell you a better one. A cellphone is not a product - it's a vehicle for selling more products!
Anyway all google has to do is make their phone suck less than the competition - not a particularly difficult challenge these days!
I have often wondered why there isn't a movement for secession here in the USA... I would love to learn more about the issues surrounding such ideas. It seems absurd that Los Angeles, Midland, Kansas City, Miami, and New York City should pretend to share the same values, government, or laws. Does anyone have more info on the subject?
I'd really like to see an easy-to-use system that lets me see who voted for what and when. I know that congress already has a system that stores that data but it's difficult for laymen to understand the data (I'm guessing that that's intentional).
I would really like to see a requirement that forces elected officials to explain why they voted for each bill - maybe in 5-30 words. This would give us a great deal of accountability on things like the PATRIOT act. It would be a lot harder for them to justify shady and pork-laden votes if they have to explain themselves.
how about putting the GODDAMNED RELOAD BUTTON back where it's supposed to be?!?
assholes.
Sorry, but human resources are NOT precious anymore. There is a huge movement towards using freelance or part-time employees here in the USA to avoid paying healthcare and other benefits. And many companies offshore to foreign countries for the same reason.
Don't be naive here: IT management will be more efficient, but they won't do that the way you expect them to. In the real world, laws like this do not necessarily result in benefits for the employees!
While we're here, can anyone give links or advice on getting Eclipse working with PHP? I'm a web designer, and I'd love to get away from Dreamweaver, but I don't have the time to figure out how to get Eclipse up & running...
Monster.com sends spam anyway. I used to use an email forwarder for my monster account (now deleted). I got several emails from shady recruiters, asking me if I was interested in working as a bank teller or insurance salesman - even though my monster info clearly indicated my interest in working as a web designer.
Is this the same technique that they're using on the "Experts Exchange"? I'm not much for Java so I don't know, but that site managed to get a pop-under window through Firefox's popup protection the other day.
Can't machine parsing like that be done with microformats? While it's neat that search engines can easily figure out where the is with these new elements, they'll get abused into oblivion just like meta keywords and descriptions. I don't see any real value to adding these new elements.
Here in the US, the authorities ignore the public interest and cater to corporate interests, while over in Germany they ignore the corporations and cater to the public interest. un-fricken-believable.
Whoever tagged this post as "doyourownwork" is an asshole who has no understanding of the way The Internet and it's online communities work. For any question that gets posted on Slashdot, there are dozens if not hundreds of Slashdot readers who want to know the answer. I wouldn't be surprised if 20% of the Slashdot community is running some kind of business that might have a need for a ticket tracking and CRM software setup. Many Slashdot readers are also very friendly, so while a person could easily spend hours researching a question like this, it's far more effective to come to Slashdot and benefit from the experience of it's users.
So to all the douchebags who criticize people who ask questions on Slashdot: FUCK YOU.
Unfortunately, we Americans are mostly powerless to do anything. The government has been usurped by powerful corporations, who have far more influence than the citizens could have. Corruption is widespread, from the lowest levels to the highest - although it is significantly harder to detect than the kind of "give the cop a $20 bill with your drivers license" corruption that you see in Central America. Halliburton is the most obvious example: it's 100% legal.
Politics and protests both have great stigma here, the result being that one can only participate in the system at great expense to one's social life (remember, it's rude to talk about religion or politics!). Add to all that the rampant consumerism that infects our nation, exacerbated by a money-fed media machine whose main goal is to deliver mindless diversionary pleasure, and you have a populace who simply can't be bothered to worry about their government.
I realize that the article is about Vista... But does anyone have information on what IPs and domains to block at the router level for Windows XP? I'd like to block everything except Microsoft's update servers - I don't want them to have any of my info, regardless of why they want it. I'm sure people would love to have the same info about Vista but I'm assuming that more info exists for XP.
Mandatory photo IDs? that's absurd. study after study have shown that voter fraud doesn't really exist in any substantial quantity, and would just be too complicated to have a significant effect on an election. There is no need for photo ID in elections.
seriously, what kind of loser would waste their time faking their identity to vote?
I know it's trendy, but I've often thought that tags would help a user navigate through the massive lists of oss software that you can find out there. You could integrate some sort of moderated tagging system that would allow the repository manager to approve tags before they are displayed...
My theory is that data - Intellectual Property - will only be valuable if it's extremely current or if it's customized. For example: all the newspapers get the same stories from the wires. After I see an article about today's news, I don't really care about it any more. Yesterday's news gets archived by so many different source (and nowadays I can archive it myself). The exception here is that I might prefer a particular author or news agency. The point is that old news isn't really valuable.
We've seen this with movies and music as well - there are some exceptions, of course - but for the most part, old movies are less valuable than new ones. The same goes with old music - you can get used CDs of most of the old 80s bands for under $5 online. Maybe $7 with shipping.
So my theory is that now that we have done away with distribtution and production costs, data (Intellectual Property) is really only valuable if it's fresh or customized. So while old music isn't really very valuable, a collection of songs from the 1980s about computers might have a little more value. Just an example but you get the point.
I just bought an iPod. By your logic, maybe Creative wouldn't have gotten the money, but it's very possible that Microsoft is out the $300 they get for a Zune as an alternative. So even though there is no monetary damage to Creative, somebody else also loses a sale.
This isn't logic, this is marketing. It's PR that Intellectual Property interests (BSA, RIAA, MPAA, etc) have been working on for quite some time. It simply doesn't hold up to rational discourse. Monetary damages due to pirated intellectual property are nothing but myth. And as community-shared intellectual property matures, the myth just becomes more and more absurd.
Agreed - there is no real competition between cell providers. All treat customers like shit when necessary. All require long contracts just to get service, often gauging older customers who refuse to sign new contracts. All charge similar fees. I've also heard that tranferring phone numbers between providers is still unrealistic. This may be a "ploy" by Skype but it doesn't it have the potential to give a boost to the cellular industry - not by major players but by smaller companies?
When you give away intellectual property, It's not fucking yours anymore! You can't lend or rent ideas. You can only give them away. If you want to have control over your music, your ideas, your pictures, Keep it to your fucking self!
I realize that this doesn't work well with the whole idea of modern business.
We have created this absurd notion of "Intellectual Property", where one person can have all the rights to simple ideas, series of letters and numbers and notes. The whole concept is completely out of date.
I believe that Intellectual Property protection is currently the greatest threat to mankind. Think of all the developments that have been slowed, stymied, or abandoned because of this bullshit legal mumbo jumbo. Think about what would happen to mankind, to intellectualism, to science, to art - if we abolished the idea of intellectual property! Consider the fact that we currently have the technology to make every book, every article, every piece of music, every movie, and every television show ever recorded available to every person on earth. That is absolutely possible right now.
While I realize that this may sound like a flame or a troll, I'm really trying to be sensible here.
This is a great point - I get annoyed every time a credit card transaction goes through and I don't have to sign anything. Don't they realize that without a signature there's no way to prove whether the transaction was me or someone else?
I've been really happy with Azureus. I haven't really compared it to other clients though so I'd love to hear some discussion.