And we won. The judge gave the Secret Service a tongue-lashing and ruled for SJ Games on two out of the three counts, and awarded over $50,000 in damages, plus over $250,000 in attorney's fees
This is winning ? 5 times as much goes to lawyers as to the injured parties. Something in the US legal system needs to be changed to enable real people to combat big brother, be they the goverment or big company X.
1) Some company writes a product that will do the tax submission and handling.
In the travel world they are called "agents" and the online version isn't rocket science. In the same way as all online commerce people pay people like Datacash for credit card validation they will pay a tax-handler.
The hub-bub about E-Taxes and who pays what where is something that has been done and dusted (pretty much) in the shipping industry for over 100 years. The companies register themselves in the cheapest place to pay taxes, they register the boats in the cheapest ports with the lowest safety requirements. And then the country you are shipping TO takes its tax cut on delivery. Thus its the point of delivery where the tax occurs, no matter where you buy from.
This isn't new someone has just whacked an "E" infront of it and bumped up the lawyers fees.
Data is still relatively static and barely cross-referenced and very very rarely cross-referenced in any dynamic manner. When the data changes the user rarely knows until they requery. This however is beginning to change as bandwith and processing power open up new possiblities.
What do you see as the major differences and problems in designing for active data as opposed to passive data ? And do you forsee a standard (XML? + ?) for passing information between sources, and more importantly allowing the sources to be informed of changes.
Umm in the 17th,18th & 19th centurys the Brits had bags of food, bags of Energy and decided to invade pretty much every one on planet earth. The French and Spanish tried the same, in this century Germany started two world wars and they had energy and food. The US went to war in Vietnam and Nato went to Iraq.
The military always find a reason to go to war, and a reason to fund scientific research. The first use of most technologies are for the military.
It seems to me that Slashdot is heavy on Palm/Transmeta/Linux news but very short on information from the Symbian group (Nokia, Ericsson, Psion et al). They've been developing WAP enabled devices based on the highly succesful and robust EPOC operating system for quite some time now.
Its interesting news to see Linux moving into a new area but in this sort of arena the current leaders live on the other side of the Atlantic, check out Symbian or Psion and A release from Nokia for an overview on the reasons for Symbian and the Bluetooth initative.
Not to sound sour but this Transmeta hype is beginning to get a bit galling, we've seen a lot of pictures of chips, we've seen suggestions of users, but in terms of cold hard reality its been a bit on the thin side. Every dribble from Transmeta is slapped onto Slashdot as if this is the defacto winner. Come on guys get a bit of perspective, they appear to be a great company with some great people, but many companies have failed even though their ideas seemed the coolest or the best.
I wish Transmeta all the success they can earn, but as with the ignoring of the Windows2000 launch, this is exactly the sort of attitude that/.'s regularly condemn in other companies.
It seems that the mobile devices arena has three distinct threads, MS in one corner with WindowsCE, the old boys of Psion in association with Symbian (Nokia, Ericsson et al) and the EPOC OS, and now Transmeta and Linux.
Its going to be interesting to see what happens as their currently differing market places begin to combine with the mainstream.
What are the advantages of Mobile Linux over EPOC ?
There are bags of resources on everything you want on the net. In one bag I'm your average everyday image of the geek (arrived at 8am, its 7:30 and I'm still at work), I'm reading the Cathedral and the bazaar, I update my PC on my own, it dual boots only for games, I bore everyone senseless with how great my job is and why every one should get into computing. I talk for hours at dinner with friends about the merits of XML/XSL and why Java should have multiple inheritance. Basically I put my girlfriend to sleep.
I spend an age on the internet, I check my email every 30 mins and there is normally something in it, I post to Slashdot and log on at the weekends.
So I must be a social reject. Well I'd like to speak up on behalf of all of those coders, hackers and internet junkies who also live to snowboard, windsurf, jump off cliffs and generally blow our above average salries on the sort of life we dreamed of as a kid. I'm not the sort of hacker who has a problem raising his voice, who can't mingle and finds it difficult to mix at a party. I'm the out-going sort who is interested in everything, be it Shakespeare (last book I read was Henry V PartII), Max Ernst, or my girlfriend being a lingerie designer.
Most of these studies are cut and dried, people who use the internet lack social skills, they don't mix with people. And yet those who work in the world of Open Source email people all over planet earth. I'm sitting in the UK and today I helped out someone in a.mr domain, and I don't even know where that is. This is cool but its not what those who are afraid of technology understand. In two weeks time I'm going on a holiday arrange soley via the internet with people who are currently living in 3 different countries and are from 4 other countries, and there are only 10 of us. Its time to recognise the scope in personality in the tech world, we're not all going to be categorised by Sociologists.
In the end Ernest Rutherford was right... All research in the field of human sciences can be summarised as some do, some don't
Java can't do libs... Ummm take a look at Alphaworks to find a whole array of library type components for Java, also look at the Java Media Framework, Java TV and Java Speech to give an idea of the level of support available in the Java community.
I don't want to start a flame war, but Java certainly can do "libs" they are just called "jars" instead.
Basically we are talking about a computing legend here, but don't do down the idea of overlapping windows. It was a huge break-through (as was the term "window") that revolutionised interfaces. It seems so obvious now but way back when there were practical problems (the rendering of the overlaps for starters) and conceptual barries (but the user can't see the whole window, no thats no good.)
Between that and the mouse they started the whole computer revolution, but for these two very simple ideas the computer would not be the omnipresent thing it is today.
Voice recognition, holy grail or waste of time....
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Have a read what Jakob Nielsen (one of the greats of User Interface design) says, he presents one of the better arguments as to why voice recognition just isn't that good a way of interacting with a machine. Most of the things that voice recognition is pushed forward for can be done better and with greater accuracy with your hands and a well thought out display. There are certain cases where it is the best option, and possibly a PDA is one of them (although I use a Psion and don't have any problem with it at all and I wouldn't want voice recognition) but for the most time its a gimmick that doesn't stand upto the demands of the user.
In the Uk more and more people in the IT sector are becoming contractors (working for a one person company, CEO = themselves), there is a minor tax glitch comming up (called IIR35) but even so the tax situation is pretty good. You get paid on average around 50% more, and most of the time you get overtime. With 000s of unfilled jobs its about time people in IT started dictating their conditions, remember you can get a job with your companies competitor, they'll have a harder time getting a replacement than you had getting that new job.
I first came across meme in Richard Dawkins "The Selfish Gene", where he equates the meme with the gene (they rhyme so it must be good:-).
The gene can be made up of many building blocks in different forms, the meme can be a single idea or often a collection of ideas and the way in which those ideas develop.
Powerful Memes can be concepts like "free speach" or equally things like racism and supposed racial superiority, they cover a broader space than the english word idea. A meme seeks to breed and multiply and adapt to its surroundings.
Some of the most powerful memes can be found in things that can't be described as ideas, football (soccer to those in the US) is a meme that has a life of its own and has spread around the globe pretty much unhindered.
An idea can be a meme or could be a part of a meme, but a meme doesn't have to be an idea.
Q: So what constitutes fair use of a DVD in your eyes -- besides simply buying a DVD and using one of the MPAA's authorized players?
A: Any use by which you buy it at a price.
So what he is saying is that if the guys in Norway SOLD their software he'd have no beef with them. A bizarre idea as this would make pirate videos legal because the copier charges you.
Another exec who has an idea what the internet is from listening to his golfing buddies, lawyers and accountants.
I'm wondering what sort of security they managed to buy/write and integrate in 48 hours. It was either a very small problem, a basic oversight, or 48 hours work won't solve very much.
Applications for lawyers...
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Brings a whole new meaning to the term "small print"
This could start an interesting trend (ignoring for a moment that Airbus are also part owned by a British company) after suing for spying goverments could then move over things like breach of promise (notably the promise that the US gave to reduce green house gas emissions)
With people attempting to patent parts of the human gene the boys at Cern could go one better. After all they can claim a patent on the Universe, no person has ever created a universe or its basic parts before so there is no prior art.
Personally I'm a little perplexed at the broohaha surrounding this. VA Linux is commited to open source, they know the community, they know that it would be company suicide to annoy the very user base that develops Linux, and slashdot is a powerful voice in that community.
This isn't MS, News International, GE or anyother big brother organisation, this is VA. If slashdot isn't seen as being independent it will cease to become popular, if its not popular its pointless to its owners. Worries about bias towards VA and against other like Suse and Red Hat are the sorts of things we all will be looking out for, its going to be tough to get pro-VA sentiment without accusations of bias. In the same was a we guarentee the quality of Open Source code it is our voices that ensure the independence of slashdot.
Although it would have been quite fun to witness the/. effect if LinuxOne had made the take over >;-)
Slashdot Mirror
And we won. The judge gave the Secret Service a tongue-lashing and ruled for SJ Games on two out of the three counts, and awarded over $50,000 in damages, plus over $250,000 in attorney's fees
This is winning ? 5 times as much goes to lawyers as to the injured parties. Something in the US legal system needs to be changed to enable real people to combat big brother, be they the goverment or big company X.
Or of course there is the simpler option.
1) Some company writes a product that will do the tax submission and handling.
In the travel world they are called "agents" and the online version isn't rocket science. In the same way as all online commerce people pay people like Datacash for credit card validation they will pay a tax-handler.
The hub-bub about E-Taxes and who pays what where is something that has been done and dusted (pretty much) in the shipping industry for over 100 years. The companies register themselves in the cheapest place to pay taxes, they register the boats in the cheapest ports with the lowest safety requirements. And then the country you are shipping TO takes its tax cut on delivery. Thus its the point of delivery where the tax occurs, no matter where you buy from.
This isn't new someone has just whacked an "E" infront of it and bumped up the lawyers fees.
(now I remember what I wanted to ask)
Data is still relatively static and barely cross-referenced and very very rarely cross-referenced in any dynamic manner. When the data changes the user rarely knows until they requery. This however is beginning to change as bandwith and processing power open up new possiblities.
What do you see as the major differences and problems in designing for active data as opposed to passive data ? And do you forsee a standard (XML? + ?) for passing information between sources, and more importantly allowing the sources to be informed of changes.
Do you think that a good user interface can be designed without an understanding of the process behind it ?
Barcelona, Belgium, Japan, Cambridge Uni (the n hundred year version), Italy and Korea are just some of the places running Beowolf clusters. Its already out there, stop the shipping from the US of PCs and the software and it will be picked up from one of these places outside the US.
:-), Windows and Sunny Delight.
Ma: Where is the horse ?
Pa: She's bolted.
Ma: Well you'd better bolt the door now.
Things the US should stop exporting: McDonalds (eat British, eat Burger King
Umm in the 17th,18th & 19th centurys the Brits had bags of food, bags of Energy and decided to invade pretty much every one on planet earth. The French and Spanish tried the same, in this century Germany started two world wars and they had energy and food. The US went to war in Vietnam and Nato went to Iraq.
The military always find a reason to go to war, and a reason to fund scientific research. The first use of most technologies are for the military.
How would you know, they always ignore you until they're hungry. A great marketing ploy
"Ignores you just like a real Cat"
Next ARPO the robotic Whelk just like having the real thing.
It seems to me that Slashdot is heavy on Palm/Transmeta/Linux news but very short on information from the Symbian group (Nokia, Ericsson, Psion et al). They've been developing WAP enabled devices based on the highly succesful and robust EPOC operating system for quite some time now.
Its interesting news to see Linux moving into a new area but in this sort of arena the current leaders live on the other side of the Atlantic, check out Symbian or Psion and A release from Nokia for an overview on the reasons for Symbian and the Bluetooth initative.
Not to sound sour but this Transmeta hype is beginning to get a bit galling, we've seen a lot of pictures of chips, we've seen suggestions of users, but in terms of cold hard reality its been a bit on the thin side. Every dribble from Transmeta is slapped onto Slashdot as if this is the defacto winner. Come on guys get a bit of perspective, they appear to be a great company with some great people, but many companies have failed even though their ideas seemed the coolest or the best.
I wish Transmeta all the success they can earn, but as with the ignoring of the Windows2000 launch, this is exactly the sort of attitude that
Using troff mode of course, ah I remember doing my submissions using Troff, they always looked better than anything on a Word Processor....
:-)
.PS 16
.VS 14
So user friendly
It seems that the mobile devices arena has three distinct threads, MS in one corner with WindowsCE, the old boys of Psion in association with Symbian (Nokia, Ericsson et al) and the EPOC OS, and now Transmeta and Linux.
Its going to be interesting to see what happens as their currently differing market places begin to combine with the mainstream.
What are the advantages of Mobile Linux over EPOC ?
There are bags of resources on everything you want on the net. In one bag I'm your average everyday image of the geek (arrived at 8am, its 7:30 and I'm still at work), I'm reading the Cathedral and the bazaar, I update my PC on my own, it dual boots only for games, I bore everyone senseless with how great my job is and why every one should get into computing. I talk for hours at dinner with friends about the merits of XML/XSL and why Java should have multiple inheritance. Basically I put my girlfriend to sleep.
I spend an age on the internet, I check my email every 30 mins and there is normally something in it, I post to Slashdot and log on at the weekends.
So I must be a social reject. Well I'd like to speak up on behalf of all of those coders, hackers and internet junkies who also live to snowboard, windsurf, jump off cliffs and generally blow our above average salries on the sort of life we dreamed of as a kid. I'm not the sort of hacker who has a problem raising his voice, who can't mingle and finds it difficult to mix at a party. I'm the out-going sort who is interested in everything, be it Shakespeare (last book I read was Henry V PartII), Max Ernst, or my girlfriend being a lingerie designer.
Most of these studies are cut and dried, people who use the internet lack social skills, they don't mix with people. And yet those who work in the world of Open Source email people all over planet earth. I'm sitting in the UK and today I helped out someone in a
In the end Ernest Rutherford was right...
All research in the field of human sciences can be summarised as some do, some don't
The purpose of life is to go on holiday.
Java can't do libs... Ummm take a look at Alphaworks to find a whole array of library type components for Java, also look at the Java Media Framework, Java TV and Java Speech to give an idea of the level of support available in the Java community.
I don't want to start a flame war, but Java certainly can do "libs" they are just called "jars" instead.
Three linked questionsquestions
1) Do you think that multiple inheritance is a requirement for a true OO Language
2) When designing a system with multiple inheritance what do you see as the pitfalls to avoid, especially when it comes to maintainability.
2) Do you know of anyway to simplifying the readability of multiple inheritance to enable first time users to do less damange.
Basically we are talking about a computing legend here, but don't do down the idea of overlapping windows. It was a huge break-through (as was the term "window") that revolutionised interfaces. It seems so obvious now but way back when there were practical problems (the rendering of the overlaps for starters) and conceptual barries (but the user can't see the whole window, no thats no good.)
Between that and the mouse they started the whole computer revolution, but for these two very simple ideas the computer would not be the omnipresent thing it is today.
http://www.developer.ibm.com/library/articles/niel sen1.html
Have a read what Jakob Nielsen (one of the greats of User Interface design) says, he presents one of the better arguments as to why voice recognition just isn't that good a way of interacting with a machine. Most of the things that voice recognition is pushed forward for can be done better and with greater accuracy with your hands and a well thought out display. There are certain cases where it is the best option, and possibly a PDA is one of them (although I use a Psion and don't have any problem with it at all and I wouldn't want voice recognition) but for the most time its a gimmick that doesn't stand upto the demands of the user.
In the Uk more and more people in the IT sector are becoming contractors (working for a one person company, CEO = themselves), there is a minor tax glitch comming up (called IIR35) but even so the tax situation is pretty good. You get paid on average around 50% more, and most of the time you get overtime. With 000s of unfilled jobs its about time people in IT started dictating their conditions, remember you can get a job with your companies competitor, they'll have a harder time getting a replacement than you had getting that new job.
I first came across meme in Richard Dawkins "The Selfish Gene", where he equates the meme with the gene (they rhyme so it must be good :-).
The gene can be made up of many building blocks in different forms, the meme can be a single idea or often a collection of ideas and the way in which those ideas develop.
Powerful Memes can be concepts like "free speach" or equally things like racism and supposed racial superiority, they cover a broader space than the english word idea. A meme seeks to breed and multiply and adapt to its surroundings.
Some of the most powerful memes can be found in things that can't be described as ideas, football (soccer to those in the US) is a meme that has a life of its own and has spread around the globe pretty much unhindered.
An idea can be a meme or could be a part of a meme, but a meme doesn't have to be an idea.
Q: So what constitutes fair use of a DVD in your eyes -- besides simply buying a DVD and using one of the MPAA's authorized players?
A: Any use by which you buy it at a price.
So what he is saying is that if the guys in Norway SOLD their software he'd have no beef with them. A bizarre idea as this would make pirate videos legal because the copier charges you.
Another exec who has an idea what the internet is from listening to his golfing buddies, lawyers and accountants.
I'm wondering what sort of security they managed to buy/write and integrate in 48 hours. It was either a very small problem, a basic oversight, or 48 hours work won't solve very much.
Brings a whole new meaning to the term "small print"
This could start an interesting trend (ignoring for a moment that Airbus are also part owned by a British company) after suing for spying goverments could then move over things like breach of promise (notably the promise that the US gave to reduce green house gas emissions)
The lawyers must be having a field day.
With people attempting to patent parts of the human gene the boys at Cern could go one better. After all they can claim a patent on the Universe, no person has ever created a universe or its basic parts before so there is no prior art.
Personally I'm a little perplexed at the broohaha surrounding this. VA Linux is commited to open source, they know the community, they know that it would be company suicide to annoy the very user base that develops Linux, and slashdot is a powerful voice in that community.
/. effect if LinuxOne had made the take over >;-)
This isn't MS, News International, GE or anyother big brother organisation, this is VA. If slashdot isn't seen as being independent it will cease to become popular, if its not popular its pointless to its owners. Worries about bias towards VA and against other like Suse and Red Hat are the sorts of things we all will be looking out for, its going to be tough to get pro-VA sentiment without accusations of bias. In the same was a we guarentee the quality of Open Source code it is our voices that ensure the independence of slashdot.
Although it would have been quite fun to witness the