How is this even newsworthy? So... Microsoft gets extra credit for doing what _should_ be done with web applications? Is it that or are we all just impressed it's not Silverlight w/ DRM and a paperclip that wants to spy on you and send all your personal details back to Redmond.
The Wachowski brothers had better not fuck this one up. V for Vendetta is a stellar graphic novel and a must read for anyone who enjoyed either 1984 or A Clockwork Orange. I'd hate to see something with such a wonderful story cheapened by hollywood gimmicks.
Scholastic isn't trying to take away anybodies rights here. This is common practice in competitive markets for big title releases.
For example:
Barnes & Noble manages to release the new book 2 days earlier than anybody else. What happens? Since B&N only has a limitied quantity and demand is so high, they quickly sell all their stock and make a bundle. This would be good for B&N, but it would hurt every other bookstore in the market, thus being an unfair practice.
This isn't new. Just look at how strict video game releases are.
According to LWN the advisories were sent to Linus Torvalds and Andrew Morton themselves. I'll admit that I don't know jack about the inner-workings of Linux Kernel development, but one would think that something of that nature would go out to the person in charge of security related issues or even out to the distributions to get a fix circulating. I could be dead wrong and maybe Linus is just the only guy running the show and decides when he'll spend some of his time patching the kernel. This also seems as a sort of public way of the author expressing his disdain towards Linux security and as a sort of publicity for his own system. Maybe I'm just too much of a cynic, but things aren't all they are cracked up to be. Please note that I am not saying that there isn't some sort of responsibility there, but that this seems overly hostile.
A deadline? Wait.. I thought the purpose of government was to prevent things from getting done. Couldn't have happened anywhere else but the US^H^H^H EU!
Perhaps Novell can help in providing more legitimacy toward linux desktops to the Corporate World. It's not that linux desktops geared toward corporations haven't been around, but more the lack of a Name Brand company to trust purchasing it from. I'm being hopeful, but any amount this release can cut into Microsoft's market share is good for us all.
I hate DRM as much as the next guy, but maybe this is something worth a little sacrifice and actually is useful to the author's IP. It's not like google is region locking their content and only allowing people to use this if they live inside the US and use only a certain browser running on a certain operating system powered by a certain processor.
How can 3 patents be worth 1.06$ billion dollars? I thought Kodak was in the crapper these days anyway. Would this have been their only means to making any sort of a profit?
Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of kids squander all their money on video cards (the primary promoters of large events) and half a dozen crappy titles a year - hoping to become 'a pro.' This really is a big scam. In racing, golf, any other sport the payouts roll all the way down. In gaming, typically, only the top 3 get payed. Airfare and a week of living in a hotel is not cheap. Not to mention it takes either knowing somebody with a lot of cash or already being a top team to get a sponsorship - but even then you'll be hard pressed to break even.
This stuff isn't all just a bunch of having fun on the internet either. The serious competitors work like dogs to get to where they are at. I like games as much as the next guy, or perhaps even more than, but once you start playing something 8 hours a day it becomes a second job -- one that you have to pay to work at.
PHP and Perl are both (primarily) linux based scripting languages. PHP can be deployed on both windows and linux, but Perl (other than microsoft's variant) is still a linux deal. For web development I would suggest PHP as it is easier to get into and understand and with a plethora of support and developers geared towards online applications. Perl is compared to that of Sed/Awk, in that it is built more for file manipulation and the like. The possibilities are limitless with both languages, but I believe unless you are going to be working with just flatfile 100% of the time and want to have a semi-dynamic site (cron job to run perl script every X hours).
Give me a call when the price of a ticket into space is about the same as a trip across the ocean in the Concorde. By then your average 'rich guy' and even some of the people who really really want to go could actually save enough money to go once in their lifetime.
Not to nitpick, but a government can't be both a Dictatorship and Communism at the same time. Under a Dictatorship, the country is ruled through the totalitarian and often tyrannical power of a single person. Whereas under Communism it is a single party or small group of people who rule. They draw a parallel in terms of the extreme concentration of power, but the political doctrines of the two also draw contrast of each other.
"Will we be seeing controls on browsers that can view gmail next?"
Well, there already are restrictions in the way they have the site built. I can't use lynx (or links/elinks) or konqueror to access my GMail as it is.
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How is this even newsworthy? So ... Microsoft gets extra credit for doing what _should_ be done with web applications? Is it that or are we all just impressed it's not Silverlight w/ DRM and a paperclip that wants to spy on you and send all your personal details back to Redmond.
The Wachowski brothers had better not fuck this one up. V for Vendetta is a stellar graphic novel and a must read for anyone who enjoyed either 1984 or A Clockwork Orange. I'd hate to see something with such a wonderful story cheapened by hollywood gimmicks.
So now we'll go ahead and destroy the temporary server too. Good work.
Scholastic isn't trying to take away anybodies rights here. This is common practice in competitive markets for big title releases. For example: Barnes & Noble manages to release the new book 2 days earlier than anybody else. What happens? Since B&N only has a limitied quantity and demand is so high, they quickly sell all their stock and make a bundle. This would be good for B&N, but it would hurt every other bookstore in the market, thus being an unfair practice. This isn't new. Just look at how strict video game releases are.
Pogs?
While working at USF I actually used one of those for a period of about half a year. Pretty amazing, because this wasn't even a year ago.
Same group of people that found the MD5 Hash Collision. Self references and the MD5 paper.
According to LWN the advisories were sent to Linus Torvalds and Andrew Morton themselves. I'll admit that I don't know jack about the inner-workings of Linux Kernel development, but one would think that something of that nature would go out to the person in charge of security related issues or even out to the distributions to get a fix circulating. I could be dead wrong and maybe Linus is just the only guy running the show and decides when he'll spend some of his time patching the kernel. This also seems as a sort of public way of the author expressing his disdain towards Linux security and as a sort of publicity for his own system. Maybe I'm just too much of a cynic, but things aren't all they are cracked up to be. Please note that I am not saying that there isn't some sort of responsibility there, but that this seems overly hostile.
50 million total out of X billion per year ?
A deadline? Wait .. I thought the purpose of government was to prevent things from getting done. Couldn't have happened anywhere else but the US^H^H^H EU!
Perhaps Novell can help in providing more legitimacy toward linux desktops to the Corporate World. It's not that linux desktops geared toward corporations haven't been around, but more the lack of a Name Brand company to trust purchasing it from. I'm being hopeful, but any amount this release can cut into Microsoft's market share is good for us all.
No posts and already slashdotted.
With such a powerful parsing engine you would thing IE could parse web standards a little better.
So I geuss an agressive patent portfolio is only good when its on the side of Linux?
I hate DRM as much as the next guy, but maybe this is something worth a little sacrifice and actually is useful to the author's IP. It's not like google is region locking their content and only allowing people to use this if they live inside the US and use only a certain browser running on a certain operating system powered by a certain processor.
How can 3 patents be worth 1.06$ billion dollars? I thought Kodak was in the crapper these days anyway. Would this have been their only means to making any sort of a profit?
Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of kids squander all their money on video cards (the primary promoters of large events) and half a dozen crappy titles a year - hoping to become 'a pro.' This really is a big scam. In racing, golf, any other sport the payouts roll all the way down. In gaming, typically, only the top 3 get payed. Airfare and a week of living in a hotel is not cheap. Not to mention it takes either knowing somebody with a lot of cash or already being a top team to get a sponsorship - but even then you'll be hard pressed to break even.
This stuff isn't all just a bunch of having fun on the internet either. The serious competitors work like dogs to get to where they are at. I like games as much as the next guy, or perhaps even more than, but once you start playing something 8 hours a day it becomes a second job -- one that you have to pay to work at.
PHP and Perl are both (primarily) linux based scripting languages. PHP can be deployed on both windows and linux, but Perl (other than microsoft's variant) is still a linux deal. For web development I would suggest PHP as it is easier to get into and understand and with a plethora of support and developers geared towards online applications. Perl is compared to that of Sed/Awk, in that it is built more for file manipulation and the like. The possibilities are limitless with both languages, but I believe unless you are going to be working with just flatfile 100% of the time and want to have a semi-dynamic site (cron job to run perl script every X hours).
Give me a call when the price of a ticket into space is about the same as a trip across the ocean in the Concorde. By then your average 'rich guy' and even some of the people who really really want to go could actually save enough money to go once in their lifetime.
Why wouldn't this work?
Simply put, because RIAA doesn't want competition.
You're telling me. Check out this series of articles written for A List Apart, an e-zine dedicated to web standards.
Here comes the best chess player you've ever seen!
Not to nitpick, but a government can't be both a Dictatorship and Communism at the same time. Under a Dictatorship, the country is ruled through the totalitarian and often tyrannical power of a single person. Whereas under Communism it is a single party or small group of people who rule. They draw a parallel in terms of the extreme concentration of power, but the political doctrines of the two also draw contrast of each other.
"Will we be seeing controls on browsers that can view gmail next?" Well, there already are restrictions in the way they have the site built. I can't use lynx (or links/elinks) or konqueror to access my GMail as it is.
I almost had the first post, but I was too busy using the virtual hand to give myself a virtual hand jo^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hback massage....