You you telling me they cannot validate the text against their OWN article database before "licensing" its usage?
It's more complicated than that. Not only would they need to search a database of article texts, their system would need semantic understanding of the text as well so that it knows, for example, not to charge for quoted speech in the article which the AP wouldn't own the rights to. I don't think the system is claiming to assert any rights.
The current system sounds to me like it's there as a basic protection / convenience for the end-user who wishes to use words from an AP article and: a) isn't clear on their fair-use rights; b) knows their use would be beyond fair-use and wishes to license the text; or c) wants to CYA regardless. In any case, should there be a future suit against the end-user and they used this sytem then it's easy to show that the AP authorized the use.
If I had points I would mod you informative. I use Gentoo as well, and it is very quick getting upstream changes into the system. The benefit of Gentoo is the packages go through a sort of "testing" period before they get marked stable (e.g. ~x86 to x86), you can always pull packages marked as testing if you want. Not to mention that there is a version for many packages that will pull straight off the upstream version control system and compile the latest, and greatest, anytime you want, all managed with a sophisticated package manager!
I wonder if it's state law or simply a rule the businesses have implemented? If it's the latter then the constitution wouldn't apply and they could refuse service for any reason.
I run Gentoo on all my systems, and since the.ebuild file format was easy for me to understand (BASH scripts) I started creating Ebuilds for everything I deploy. These ebuilds are separated into services and machines, so emerging a machine will pull in the services (and configs) that machine uses.
Here's an example:
- lannocc-services/dhcp
- lannocc-services/dns
- lannocc-servers/foobar
On machine "foobar" I will `emerge lannocc-servers/foobar`. This pulls in my dhcp and dns profiles.
I use CVS to track changes I make to my portage overlay (the ebuilds and config files). I keep config files in a files/ subdirectory beneath the ebuild that then follows the root filesystem to place the file in the right spot. So lannocc-services/dhcp will have a files/etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf file. I've been doing this for the last few years now and it's worked out great. I get to see the progression of changes I make to my configs, and since everything is deployed as a versioned ebuild I can roll it back if necessary.
I like to think of it in terms of Structure (HTML/DOM), Spatial (Size & Location: CSS), Decoration (colors, fonts, etc...), and last but not least, BEHAVIOR, which is all JavaScript
That's a good way to put it. As it is, though, "Spatial" and "Decoration" always seem to go together in one spec (CSS, XSL-FO). Do they have to? I'm not sure...
I would say that BEHAVIOR is more than JavaScript. To describe that the <a href="..."> tag should link to another document when clicked is also behavior, something that xlink aims to address.
Well, my perspective is probably a bit off the mainstream. To me, web browsers have strayed from their primary purpose: browsing and linking content, aka data. I find that most data generally is well-formed, since if it weren't it wouldn't be very useful to a computer. Why do we spend so much time writing HTML or XHTML to interact with data on the back-end that is generally well-formed?
As far as dealing with existing web pages that are in HTML and not well-formed, well there are tools like HTML TIDY that could be used as a front-end to any XML browser expecting well-formedness.
HTML is the content, CSS is the way to display the HTML content and Javascript is the way to interact with it all.
My buzzwordy description for this is Data-Presentation-Mechanics. It's much like the programmer model of Model-View-Controller only applied at a different abstraction level. I believe HTML is near a dead-end now anyways. A proper browser supporting XML (and the related XLink, XForms, etc.) could accomplish anything HTML currently can do, with the added benefit that your (XML) data can speak for itself! Continue to use CSS for styling though, as XSL-FO is too complex for me to support right now. Use XSLT to do data tree transformations if necessary. Add an ECMAScript engine for interactivity. <shameless-plug>i'm writing an XML browser in Java to do all this, using existing open-source frameworks where possible</shameless-plug>
Data -> XML
Presentation -> CSS
Mechanics -> XLink, XForms, JavaScript
With this one, at least, it can focus down to about 2 feet, at which point (I'm guessing, holding up a sheet of paper) it's about 20" diagonal. The problem is, since the keystone correction can only do so much, that you've then got the projector right there in the way:)
But with Sprint being cheaper than Verizon, and Sprint phones being able to roam on Verizon's towers, why would anybody want to move their Pre to Verizon?
Because Sprint service is not available everywhere Verizon is.
I constantly end up asking not for clarification of a topic, but just to hear things restated verbatim because the words went in one ear and out the other.
When I was in elementary school we were taught that some people learn (i.e. retain information) better when it is received aurally while others learn better visually. I always found myself very much in the visual and "hands on" learning category, which is probably why computers have been such a great fit for me. To this day any significant information relayed to me by ear is usually half lost, yet I thoroughly enjoy good music and play many instruments. Go figure.
I remember playing Jill of the Jungle on a friend's 8 MHz Tandy 286
Got you beat... I remember playing the game on my IBM-compatible (not sure the brand) with 8088 CPU at 4MHz (8MHz turbo) and orange monochrome display. It was also the first machine I went online with when I got a Prodigy starter kit, 2400 baud modem included. This was in the era when 386's were common, so I was a little behind the times, hehe.
Ahh yes the JavaOS, I do vaguely remember that. The big problem I see is getting device drivers written for something like that, to be portable across such a range of hardware that is out there. These days I'm thinking a better approach (since I've gotten so deep into Linux) might be a JVM written as a Linux kernel module. Perhaps it's implemented in a similar fashion as OpenVZ or KVM? Well I can dream, and some day I hope to have time to pursue a project like this.
But have you ever examined the callstack? Do yourself a favour sometime and see why Java is slow as dogs balls, memory hungry and anything but elegant.
Java (well, the JVM, not the language) is a system in itself. Think of a running Java instance as a running OpenVZ container, for example. It is doing its own memory management, etc. Granted, every JVM implementation I have seen severely lacks in external controls for things like killing off a rogue thread stack. I can't wait until I have a computer booting directly into a JVM environment, with all the modern operating-system commands and controls (could I get a Java BASH implementation, please?).
It's obvious why....I'm the center of the universe.
Exactly! I wish everyone would think this way. We are each the center of our own universes and so our life goals naturally would be self-perfection (infinite ego?). Of course the smart ones realize that each individual is part of a community and so we can't be wholly selfish and must work together. Human survival is all that ultimately matters.
One day I'll have my Unified Human Theory all figured out (site currently down--my universe is too busy!).
The industry is moving to "software-as-a-service" and I doubt there is much to be done about it (except plenty of work for security gurus!). But that does not preclude one from having their SaaS box (probably part of their NAS solution) sitting in the living room, on a local network.
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dropped as well as users infected by dirty needles
<sarcasm>If users are dropping dead due to infected dirty needles, I don't think the treatment is working</sarcasm>
Well said. I fully agree!
You you telling me they cannot validate the text against their OWN article database before "licensing" its usage?
It's more complicated than that. Not only would they need to search a database of article texts, their system would need semantic understanding of the text as well so that it knows, for example, not to charge for quoted speech in the article which the AP wouldn't own the rights to. I don't think the system is claiming to assert any rights.
The current system sounds to me like it's there as a basic protection / convenience for the end-user who wishes to use words from an AP article and: a) isn't clear on their fair-use rights; b) knows their use would be beyond fair-use and wishes to license the text; or c) wants to CYA regardless. In any case, should there be a future suit against the end-user and they used this sytem then it's easy to show that the AP authorized the use.
How many Java browsers are out there? None? Case in point.
I'm working on a fix for that. I could be doomed. :-P
The word Satan is a title or description, not a name originally given to the angel now known as Satan. We may never know his original name.
Lucifer?
If I had points I would mod you informative. I use Gentoo as well, and it is very quick getting upstream changes into the system. The benefit of Gentoo is the packages go through a sort of "testing" period before they get marked stable (e.g. ~x86 to x86), you can always pull packages marked as testing if you want. Not to mention that there is a version for many packages that will pull straight off the upstream version control system and compile the latest, and greatest, anytime you want, all managed with a sophisticated package manager!
I wonder if it's state law or simply a rule the businesses have implemented? If it's the latter then the constitution wouldn't apply and they could refuse service for any reason.
Thanks. Puppet is worth taking a look at, but one problem for me is it does not recognize USE-flag changes.
Here's an example:
- lannocc-services/dhcp
- lannocc-services/dns
- lannocc-servers/foobar
On machine "foobar" I will `emerge lannocc-servers/foobar`. This pulls in my dhcp and dns profiles.
I use CVS to track changes I make to my portage overlay (the ebuilds and config files). I keep config files in a files/ subdirectory beneath the ebuild that then follows the root filesystem to place the file in the right spot. So lannocc-services/dhcp will have a files/etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf file. I've been doing this for the last few years now and it's worked out great. I get to see the progression of changes I make to my configs, and since everything is deployed as a versioned ebuild I can roll it back if necessary.
I have seriously wondered this as well, and have yet to see any significant studies in this area. Does anyone have any links on related research?
I like to think of it in terms of Structure (HTML/DOM), Spatial (Size & Location: CSS), Decoration (colors, fonts, etc...), and last but not least, BEHAVIOR, which is all JavaScript
That's a good way to put it. As it is, though, "Spatial" and "Decoration" always seem to go together in one spec (CSS, XSL-FO). Do they have to? I'm not sure...
I would say that BEHAVIOR is more than JavaScript. To describe that the <a href="..."> tag should link to another document when clicked is also behavior, something that xlink aims to address.
Well, my perspective is probably a bit off the mainstream. To me, web browsers have strayed from their primary purpose: browsing and linking content, aka data. I find that most data generally is well-formed, since if it weren't it wouldn't be very useful to a computer. Why do we spend so much time writing HTML or XHTML to interact with data on the back-end that is generally well-formed?
As far as dealing with existing web pages that are in HTML and not well-formed, well there are tools like HTML TIDY that could be used as a front-end to any XML browser expecting well-formedness.
HTML is the content, CSS is the way to display the HTML content and Javascript is the way to interact with it all.
My buzzwordy description for this is Data-Presentation-Mechanics. It's much like the programmer model of Model-View-Controller only applied at a different abstraction level. I believe HTML is near a dead-end now anyways. A proper browser supporting XML (and the related XLink, XForms, etc.) could accomplish anything HTML currently can do, with the added benefit that your (XML) data can speak for itself! Continue to use CSS for styling though, as XSL-FO is too complex for me to support right now. Use XSLT to do data tree transformations if necessary. Add an ECMAScript engine for interactivity. <shameless-plug>i'm writing an XML browser in Java to do all this, using existing open-source frameworks where possible</shameless-plug>
Data -> XML
Presentation -> CSS
Mechanics -> XLink, XForms, JavaScript
You are right that HTML is (should be) dead. Long live XML! I don't care for XSL-FO, though, so continue to use CSS for presentation.
I found that to be a very enlightening read, thank you. I find myself siding with the dissenting justice in that piece.
With this one, at least, it can focus down to about 2 feet, at which point (I'm guessing, holding up a sheet of paper) it's about 20" diagonal. The problem is, since the keystone correction can only do so much, that you've then got the projector right there in the way :)
Perhaps you could use something this technology for automatic projector calibration to map to your "paper" surface :-)
In Europe, the general emergency call number is 112. I also like Gentoo.
I like Gentoo as well, but I don't get the reference.
But with Sprint being cheaper than Verizon, and Sprint phones being able to roam on Verizon's towers, why would anybody want to move their Pre to Verizon?
Because Sprint service is not available everywhere Verizon is.
I was doing the same thing in 2001 for my job. And I wrote a document about doing it too! I'm sure there are plenty of others before me...
I constantly end up asking not for clarification of a topic, but just to hear things restated verbatim because the words went in one ear and out the other.
When I was in elementary school we were taught that some people learn (i.e. retain information) better when it is received aurally while others learn better visually. I always found myself very much in the visual and "hands on" learning category, which is probably why computers have been such a great fit for me. To this day any significant information relayed to me by ear is usually half lost, yet I thoroughly enjoy good music and play many instruments. Go figure.
I remember playing Jill of the Jungle on a friend's 8 MHz Tandy 286
Got you beat... I remember playing the game on my IBM-compatible (not sure the brand) with 8088 CPU at 4MHz (8MHz turbo) and orange monochrome display. It was also the first machine I went online with when I got a Prodigy starter kit, 2400 baud modem included. This was in the era when 386's were common, so I was a little behind the times, hehe.
Ahh yes the JavaOS, I do vaguely remember that. The big problem I see is getting device drivers written for something like that, to be portable across such a range of hardware that is out there. These days I'm thinking a better approach (since I've gotten so deep into Linux) might be a JVM written as a Linux kernel module. Perhaps it's implemented in a similar fashion as OpenVZ or KVM? Well I can dream, and some day I hope to have time to pursue a project like this.
But have you ever examined the callstack? Do yourself a favour sometime and see why Java is slow as dogs balls, memory hungry and anything but elegant.
Java (well, the JVM, not the language) is a system in itself. Think of a running Java instance as a running OpenVZ container, for example. It is doing its own memory management, etc. Granted, every JVM implementation I have seen severely lacks in external controls for things like killing off a rogue thread stack. I can't wait until I have a computer booting directly into a JVM environment, with all the modern operating-system commands and controls (could I get a Java BASH implementation, please?).
It's obvious why....I'm the center of the universe.
Exactly! I wish everyone would think this way. We are each the center of our own universes and so our life goals naturally would be self-perfection (infinite ego?). Of course the smart ones realize that each individual is part of a community and so we can't be wholly selfish and must work together. Human survival is all that ultimately matters.
One day I'll have my Unified Human Theory all figured out (site currently down--my universe is too busy!).
The industry is moving to "software-as-a-service" and I doubt there is much to be done about it (except plenty of work for security gurus!). But that does not preclude one from having their SaaS box (probably part of their NAS solution) sitting in the living room, on a local network.