So, couldn't the Iranian government just use different IP addresses?
Maybe, but I imagine that the Iranian government might have some reservations about downloading and running this software anyway. At least until they figure out whether Stuxnet is built into their 'special' version of Chrome, or if it's an optional add-on.
Google should just make an advanced configuration settings page, and let users set whatever user-agent/etc they want there.
As the linked article states, Google does allow users to set their user-agent. The video content sites are blocking on the Flash Version ID, and Adobe does not provide a mechanism for changing that.
This article is entirely based on the experience of one 49-year-old Latina woman who is having difficulty finding work. The article concludes:
The experience of Ms. Mann and others like her suggests that the technology industry may not be the savior of the American job market
Look, Ms. Mann might be awesome at her job, or she might not be very good. Maybe her experience tells us something about her work history, or maybe it tells us something about the software industry creating unfair barriers to entry for middle-aged hispanic women.
But you have to be kind of a lazy journalist to say that Ms. Mann's story can be extrapolated to describe the state of the US software industry. The only other industry source cited in the article was a hiring manager who said he still has to fight like hell and humiliate himself to get the candidates he wants.
And here's the money quote that explains to us how all domestic software jobs have been offshored.
"The programming language “C++ is now an international language,” she said. “If that’s all you know, then you’re competing with people in India or China who will do the work for less.”
Uh, yes. I do see a lot of C++ work being offshored. A lot of COBOL and Fortran work as well. The author of this article doesn't seem to be aware that these are not exactly areas of growth in the software industry.
Hey, I just conducted a study and found out that my interconnect connection would be more affordable if Scott Cleland payed for my bandwidth costs.
There oughta be a law!
And just to be clear, is Scott Cleland proposing that well-run companies should be transferring their profits to all poorly-run companies, or just the poorly-run telecoms?
Because nobody ever believed stuff they read on the Internet before Wikipedia came along?
How is Wikipedia the cause of this problem? It seems like Wikipedia might be part of the solution. Unlike most of the unsourced data you find on the World Wide Web, Wikipedia actually has a framework that encourages citing references and sources.
Now we have Amazon selling true MP3s for all four major labels. So where's Steve?
Steve is right where he said he would be. For labels such as EMI that have agreed to license DRM-free music to iTunes, Steve is carrying that music under the iTunes Plus label.
Most of the labels that have started licensing DRM-free music to Amazon are refusing to license it to Apple. This is their big fuck-you to Steve Jobs to try and break the iTunes Store 'monopoly'.
And unlike everything else the record companies have ever done in the digital space, this has a chance of working. I put off using Amazon for a long time because I didn't want to install their downloader, but once I did I was hooked.
Amazon is selling music at reasonable prices. Their store is more convenient to use than BitTorrent, and the music is of a consistently higher quality than what I can get off of Pirate Bay.
Look, ma, I'm paying for all of my music again!
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For the 360 version, this program will allow you to hook up to your PC and jam out free-form:
That is ridiculously insensitive. Everybody knows that samzenpus is unfrozen from the year 1999, and is struggling to regain his relevance as a critic.
Don't listen to Kaz, I'm behind you all the way, samzenpus. Hey, man, can you give us a sneak preview of that movie American Beauty? I hear it's a real sleeper!
"...show the impact of unexpected events such as a lorry pulling out of its lane on a dual carriageway."
What? Look here, professor, I can't understand all your archaic, highly technical, mathematical mumbo-jumbo. I wouldn't be able to tell a differential equation apart from a dual carriageway if my lorry depended on it. Can you dumb it down a bit for the layman?
All of the Slashdotters who are holding up Jammie Thomas as some kind of martyr remind me of the African-Americans who embraced OJ Simpson as some symbol of racial injustice.
I still can't find any of these alleged DRM-free songs on ITMS. I have searched numerous EMI artists, and only have the option to buy the 99 cent tracks.
Do these actually exist, or is this just a plan with an unspecified future implementation date?
Microsoft has the best virtual machine with.NET, the best development tool with Visual Studio and the best access to developers with their MSDN programs.
Presumably, the author means best as in 'best for deploying Google-type web applications.' In that case, he is probably correct that MSDN is the strongest developer support program, but on the other points he is verging on fantasy.
Google's web applications are very successful because it has employed a bunch of really bright back-end/modeling architects, and becuse it deploys onto a highly scalable customized Linux cluster.
The.NET/Visual Studio environment is first-in-class when you are deploying data-aware Web pages onto a Windows-only environment.
When you want to use AOP, dependency injection, advanced ORM and MVC tools, and you want to be able to deploy into arbitrary environments, Microsoft is running way behind Java. I get the sense that Seattle-based John Milan really has very little idea of what goes into making a working Google app.
Pre-launch fears that the entire game would be a never-ending slog through greys and browns were unfounded. The game offers a differing palette of colors and effects from act to act
OK, I believe you, but the three screenshots you chose to attach to this review look like a bunch of greys and browns. I look forward to seeing the game myself.
Hate to say it, Sony, but your biggest image problem right now isn't coming from the media. It's the retail channel.
I walked into a Gamestop this week, and casually asked about the next-gen systems. The employees there pushed the Wii and the 360 hard, and slammed the PS3.
Why? Because the retail outlets know they will be able to sell a bunch of hardware, software, and accessories for the Wii and the 360. They know that customers who hold out for a PS3 will simply spend the holidays on a waiting list, and not spend any cash at the store.
Sony's shipping projections for the PS3 are shrinking every week, and the retailers don't see any reason to bend over for Sony at this time.
running in very high priority on the Washington Post, right up there on page 17 of the print edition
I think their decision is defensible. While the article is newsworthy, it is very unsurprising in the light of all of the related news stories that have already been given front-page treatment.
We already know that Rice and Bush reviewed a Presidential Daily Brief entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack inside US" in early August, but were reluctant to mention this at the 9/11 Commission hearings. We already know that Richard Clarke says that the administration was unengaged despite repeated warnings on the threat. We already know that when a CIA operative tried to impress upon senior administration officials the severity of the threat, Bush responded with, "There, you've covered your ass," and dismissed him. At this point, reporting that Tenet was trying to warn the Bush Administration about the threat in July is interesting, but is hardly a revelation.
What I find much more curious is that the article was printed without a byline, and that there was an apologetic Editor's Note explaining why they felt they were justified in printing the story.
Rather than build on the 20%+ marketshare of consumers that have PlaysForSure-compatible devices, Microsoft has decided to claw their way back up from a zero percent market share by refusing to implement their own standards.
It boggles the mind. Even if they insist on introducing their own Super-Zune DRM for this device, what reason, technical or commercial, could they possibly have for not playing back PlaysForSure media as well?
There is going to be a great deal of consumer confusion and backlash when people find out that the Microsoft-DRM music they have purchased won't play back on their Microsoft Zune device. Especially after Microsoft spent all this time assuring people that they can just buy PlaysForSure, and not have to worry about confusing codec-DRM issues.
Come on, that's really disingenuous. To be clear, these investigations are not into backdating stock options for high-ranking execs, which is almost always a legal practice. The investigations deal with backdating stock options, and then not doing the required public reporting that the backdating occurred.
In many cases, this is like sliding a six or seven figure check under the door to these employees, and then refusing to account for it in your statements on executive compensation.
The injured parties are clearly shareholders, who are being lied to about the actual compensation levels for senior management. Shareholders have the right to know if execs are being compensated fairly for their performance, or if money that could be paid out in dividends is in fact sneaking its way back into the CEO's hookers-and-coke fund.
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So, couldn't the Iranian government just use different IP addresses?
Maybe, but I imagine that the Iranian government might have some reservations about downloading and running this software anyway. At least until they figure out whether Stuxnet is built into their 'special' version of Chrome, or if it's an optional add-on.
Google should just make an advanced configuration settings page, and let users set whatever user-agent/etc they want there.
As the linked article states, Google does allow users to set their user-agent. The video content sites are blocking on the Flash Version ID, and Adobe does not provide a mechanism for changing that.
This article is entirely based on the experience of one 49-year-old Latina woman who is having difficulty finding work. The article concludes:
The experience of Ms. Mann and others like her suggests that the technology industry may not be the savior of the American job market
Look, Ms. Mann might be awesome at her job, or she might not be very good. Maybe her experience tells us something about her work history, or maybe it tells us something about the software industry creating unfair barriers to entry for middle-aged hispanic women.
But you have to be kind of a lazy journalist to say that Ms. Mann's story can be extrapolated to describe the state of the US software industry. The only other industry source cited in the article was a hiring manager who said he still has to fight like hell and humiliate himself to get the candidates he wants.
And here's the money quote that explains to us how all domestic software jobs have been offshored.
"The programming language “C++ is now an international language,” she said. “If that’s all you know, then you’re competing with people in India or China who will do the work for less.”
Uh, yes. I do see a lot of C++ work being offshored. A lot of COBOL and Fortran work as well. The author of this article doesn't seem to be aware that these are not exactly areas of growth in the software industry.
Filter bypass: Achievement Unlocked
Hey, I just conducted a study and found out that my interconnect connection would be more affordable if Scott Cleland payed for my bandwidth costs.
There oughta be a law!
And just to be clear, is Scott Cleland proposing that well-run companies should be transferring their profits to all poorly-run companies, or just the poorly-run telecoms?
Because nobody ever believed stuff they read on the Internet before Wikipedia came along?
How is Wikipedia the cause of this problem? It seems like Wikipedia might be part of the solution. Unlike most of the unsourced data you find on the World Wide Web, Wikipedia actually has a framework that encourages citing references and sources.
Dudes, you should see the crazy shit I get.
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Now we have Amazon selling true MP3s for all four major labels. So where's Steve?
Steve is right where he said he would be. For labels such as EMI that have agreed to license DRM-free music to iTunes, Steve is carrying that music under the iTunes Plus label.
Most of the labels that have started licensing DRM-free music to Amazon are refusing to license it to Apple. This is their big fuck-you to Steve Jobs to try and break the iTunes Store 'monopoly'.
And unlike everything else the record companies have ever done in the digital space, this has a chance of working. I put off using Amazon for a long time because I didn't want to install their downloader, but once I did I was hooked.
Amazon is selling music at reasonable prices. Their store is more convenient to use than BitTorrent, and the music is of a consistently higher quality than what I can get off of Pirate Bay.
Look, ma, I'm paying for all of my music again!
For the 360 version, this program will allow you to hook up to your PC and jam out free-form:
http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14053
That is ridiculously insensitive. Everybody knows that samzenpus is unfrozen from the year 1999, and is struggling to regain his relevance as a critic.
Don't listen to Kaz, I'm behind you all the way, samzenpus. Hey, man, can you give us a sneak preview of that movie American Beauty? I hear it's a real sleeper!
This is great news. I predict this law will end all copyright violations of photographs of the Tiananmen Square protests.
"...show the impact of unexpected events such as a lorry pulling out of its lane on a dual carriageway."
What? Look here, professor, I can't understand all your archaic, highly technical, mathematical mumbo-jumbo. I wouldn't be able to tell a differential equation apart from a dual carriageway if my lorry depended on it. Can you dumb it down a bit for the layman?
All of the Slashdotters who are holding up Jammie Thomas as some kind of martyr remind me of the African-Americans who embraced OJ Simpson as some symbol of racial injustice.
You guys have picked the wrong horse.
Apology accepted, Daniel.
Laura DiDio, it's your turn.
Now, I will finally be able to unlock the Hot Coffee mod.
This is absolutely fantastic news.
It will now cost me $100 less to not buy one.
I still can't find any of these alleged DRM-free songs on ITMS. I have searched numerous EMI artists, and only have the option to buy the 99 cent tracks.
Do these actually exist, or is this just a plan with an unspecified future implementation date?
Sounds like a great article for the Intel Opinion Center!
Microsoft has the best virtual machine with .NET, the best development tool with Visual Studio and the best access to developers with their MSDN programs.
.NET/Visual Studio environment is first-in-class when you are deploying data-aware Web pages onto a Windows-only environment.
Presumably, the author means best as in 'best for deploying Google-type web applications.' In that case, he is probably correct that MSDN is the strongest developer support program, but on the other points he is verging on fantasy.
Google's web applications are very successful because it has employed a bunch of really bright back-end/modeling architects, and becuse it deploys onto a highly scalable customized Linux cluster.
The
When you want to use AOP, dependency injection, advanced ORM and MVC tools, and you want to be able to deploy into arbitrary environments, Microsoft is running way behind Java. I get the sense that Seattle-based John Milan really has very little idea of what goes into making a working Google app.
Pre-launch fears that the entire game would be a never-ending slog through greys and browns were unfounded. The game offers a differing palette of colors and effects from act to act
OK, I believe you, but the three screenshots you chose to attach to this review look like a bunch of greys and browns. I look forward to seeing the game myself.
Hate to say it, Sony, but your biggest image problem right now isn't coming from the media. It's the retail channel.
I walked into a Gamestop this week, and casually asked about the next-gen systems. The employees there pushed the Wii and the 360 hard, and slammed the PS3.
Why? Because the retail outlets know they will be able to sell a bunch of hardware, software, and accessories for the Wii and the 360. They know that customers who hold out for a PS3 will simply spend the holidays on a waiting list, and not spend any cash at the store.
Sony's shipping projections for the PS3 are shrinking every week, and the retailers don't see any reason to bend over for Sony at this time.
running in very high priority on the Washington Post, right up there on page 17 of the print edition
I think their decision is defensible. While the article is newsworthy, it is very unsurprising in the light of all of the related news stories that have already been given front-page treatment.
We already know that Rice and Bush reviewed a Presidential Daily Brief entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack inside US" in early August, but were reluctant to mention this at the 9/11 Commission hearings. We already know that Richard Clarke says that the administration was unengaged despite repeated warnings on the threat. We already know that when a CIA operative tried to impress upon senior administration officials the severity of the threat, Bush responded with, "There, you've covered your ass," and dismissed him. At this point, reporting that Tenet was trying to warn the Bush Administration about the threat in July is interesting, but is hardly a revelation.
What I find much more curious is that the article was printed without a byline, and that there was an apologetic Editor's Note explaining why they felt they were justified in printing the story.
1) Zune will not play back PlaysForSure media.
Rather than build on the 20%+ marketshare of consumers that have PlaysForSure-compatible devices, Microsoft has decided to claw their way back up from a zero percent market share by refusing to implement their own standards.
It boggles the mind. Even if they insist on introducing their own Super-Zune DRM for this device, what reason, technical or commercial, could they possibly have for not playing back PlaysForSure media as well?
There is going to be a great deal of consumer confusion and backlash when people find out that the Microsoft-DRM music they have purchased won't play back on their Microsoft Zune device. Especially after Microsoft spent all this time assuring people that they can just buy PlaysForSure, and not have to worry about confusing codec-DRM issues.
But I don't know who the injured party is here.
Come on, that's really disingenuous. To be clear, these investigations are not into backdating stock options for high-ranking execs, which is almost always a legal practice. The investigations deal with backdating stock options, and then not doing the required public reporting that the backdating occurred.
In many cases, this is like sliding a six or seven figure check under the door to these employees, and then refusing to account for it in your statements on executive compensation.
The injured parties are clearly shareholders, who are being lied to about the actual compensation levels for senior management. Shareholders have the right to know if execs are being compensated fairly for their performance, or if money that could be paid out in dividends is in fact sneaking its way back into the CEO's hookers-and-coke fund.
The shoplifting analogy isn't quite there.
Actually, it's as if you walked out of Neiman Marcus, a security guard accused you of shoplifting, and then refused to tell you what you shoplifted.
Then, the guard pulls over his buddy, respected Yankee Group Laura Didio. She looks in your bag, then looks at the Neiman Marcus catalog, and announces on national media that you have stolen something from Neimann Marcus but she won't say what it is.
Three years later, during trial, the guard is still unable to explain what you stole from the store.