The problem is that he doesn't, at this point, know who exactly the guy is. How can you sue an ebay account? The DMCA forces ebay to give him the guy's real name, so he could sue the guy. Should he use the DMCA to get the guy's name, or just try to keep blocking all the auctions as they appear?
What's up with the original site having english labels, but everything else is in japanese?? Not even a link for an english version...is it just cool to have english labels or something?
Actually, I think the block on message boards has the same purpose as the block on chat sites and that is to prevent kids from talking to strange people on the internet who may be stalkers/pedophiles. I don't remember any game sites being blocked unless they also had a chat feature.
Schools can't afford to be sued if some kid decides to meet someone they met online while using school computers.
That's exactly why this is wrong. If this is done for child-pornography, then eventually it will be extended to other things that the government might want to censor
Report the complainant?? I think if someone reported it then they problem didn't go looking for it. If you punish people who report it then no one will ever report it and the sites won't get taken down (no one will know about them but the people who want them there). So why get them in trouble?
Yeah, I was patiently waiting for a minor release after 8.0 to solve all the problems I had heard about. I hope this one is just 9.0 by name and not another complete remake with all the associated bugs and problems of an X.0 version. I'll be waiting on reviews before downloading, for sure...
Yes, believe it or not, that seems to be the average price for my textbooks. And I've tried looking online, they cost about the same online. The publishers know which ones we HAVE to have and rip us off. I have bought a few that turned out useful, but the majority so far have been pretty useless to me. I'm a Computer Science major and the types of books I like to have on my bookshelf are good references. Most textbooks aren't designed to be references, they're designed to teach you. So I have little use for them after I finish with the class.
How about the next big change be to break up the horrible price-fixing by the textbook companies? This is especially bad in college...$150 is a good average price for a textbook that I probably won't even have to read. Then at the end of the semester, the bookstore gives me 30 dollars for it and sells it used for at least $80. This problem is getting a little better with online sites being used more frequently to trade textbooks to other students (or sell them for more than the store will give you, but less than the store would charge for it used). But the problem is still the initial cost of the book. They're NOT worth that much. Some of them are pretty bad. And I rarely even need them for anything other than getting my homework problems. Argh.:)
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So far from reading the article, he seems to be extremely subjective. Not always in favor of Windows, but definitely in favor of how he's used to things being. This gives a clear advantage to the OS he's no doubt had the most experience with (windows). I'm still reading the review, so maybe he'll prove me wrong, but the usability section at least seems pretty biased. He detracts from BeOS because it uses a different meta key (CNTRL vs ALT) than he's used to. Perhaps if the study had been long enough to get used to these little difference and really find the strong/weak points of each OS, the reuslts could have been different. Right now it just seems the differences he finds are pretty superficial.
Oh well, I'll go finish the article now.
I agree that being well-rounded is good, and students should try to study other areas as well (I'm minoring in math, for instance). However, I think the opposite order is best. I think if programming is what you enjoy, then you should major in CS and minor in some secondary field (as opposed to majoring in the secondary field and minoring in CS). If you want to be a musician and also program, then minoring in CS would be sufficient. But if what you really want to do is program, then having a major in music and only a minor in CS will be limiting yourself. You could work for Coda Music, but other companies might be hesitant to hire a programmer who only minored in CS and spent most of his college time learning how to play the piano.
And extending that music example above, I think it's likely that CodaMusic would still rather hire someone who majored in CS and minored in music than the other way around. If you work for them and can't play the piano well, Finale won't be degraded as a result. Not so if you can't program as well.:)
"If you want to be a programmer you should study CS." "If someone doesn't study CS and is a programmer they are a bad programmer." "People who cannot use computers are stupid and lusers."
I never said anything like that. What I said was that to be a good program, you need to know how to DESIGN. Not just code. There's a serious difference between someone who knows how to DESIGN software, and someone who knows how to CODE software.
You're right that both can be gained from experience, but at much different rates. Learning to code by experience is pretty quick. But it takes a long time to correct bad design habits without someone actually telling you "this is bad because...".
So, like I said before, I won't let just anyone program for me unless I tell em "I want this function to do this, and this function to do this". You can argue as much as you want about how you or someone you know learned how to design software well without training, but it just isn't common unless they've been teaching themselves for a LONG time.
You're right. It's not that hard to program, if you're BAD at it. I've seen all kinds of people learn to program well enough to get by, but I wouldn't trust them to write anything important.
I hope this means that the Qtopia will get a lot more commercial support. Other than tK, there aren't many commercial programs out there. Not that I WANT to have to pay for software, but a lot of specialty programs aren't going to be developed by freelance open-source programmers.
Hardware support has also been a problem for me with the Zaurus. Maybe another linux PDA (or another person in charge or the Zaurus) will help create more interest in developing hardware drivers for it.
I sure hope so.
Don't mostly large ISPs/phone companies pay for the upkeep of the internet? Or at least the federal governemnt as opposed to states? I've never heard of states laying the optical lines or anything. I think that's mostly the ISPs/phone companies.
Species are usually defined as a group of organisms that can successfully mate with eachother to produce non-sterile offspring. This works, of course, for non-asexual species only. But asexual species are usually pretty small and easy to distinguish, I think.
I realize that this comment will most likely be lost in the 600+ already made by the time I found it. But I did a search for "PDA" in the comments and found nothing. Am I the ONLY person who noticed that this is what PDA's do already? My Zaurus, for example, has user-definable categories for everything. They can apply to anything from Todo entries, calendar events, contact information, even documents! And the interesting thing is that the documents still have their normal HFS name/path in the linux file system. So the PDA implemented this thing on top of the normal file structure. That what this new system needs. Instead of saving all files in one directory as {number}.{extension}, let people save it as whatever they want wherever they want it. And then store that path in the database instead of the number/extension. That doesn't seem very difficult to me. I guess if you got OS specific you could even store an inode number or something.
But this thing has basically already been implemented pretty well on PDA's. It IS cool and useful. I've always wanted to see this kind of system on a normal computer. My only complaint is the lack of heirarchical categories (e.g., "Math302" should imply "School") on my PDA. But that seems to be something this guy has improved upon. He just needs to look at the Zaurus and see how they did it on top of the normal HFS system.
All these posts should probably be prefixed with "IANAP" (I am not a physicist). Of course modern physics is so strange that even real physicists can't seem to agree on much. Not the newest stuff, anyway. Maybe one day all this crazy theorizing will actually lead to something practical. Here's hoping.;')
What's the difference between blocking a popup and just immediately closing it without paying any attention to its content? Do they plan on forcing people to actually click on the ads in the future? The key to getting people interested in your ad is not to make it obnoxious. If an ad is well placed (e.g., a netgear ad on slashdot), then odds are someone is going to be interested in it. When popups and huge, ugly, blinking ads become necessary it only proves that they were not well placed. Any company who uses this "anti-theft" stuff will only be turning away potential users. That money would be better spent on market research.
People seem to be responding with arguments like "what? give source code to everyone? that's crazy!"
That's not what I got reading this article. From what I understand, the author is talking about when a big company pays you to develop software for THEM to use, then that big company should get the source code. For instance, I program for a small software company. But we make programs for large engineering companies. Those companies, in turn, either use our software internally, or license it out to other companies. It's their software once we release it. They own all rights to it. So why shouldn't they get source code? It's not like they'd need to distribute that code to all users of the software. But I think they should have the right to inspect that code to make sure we're selling them a decent product.
This is like the concept of node links at the bottom of everything2 nodes, isn't it? It's a neat idea, but it's easily abused (as seen by the goatse posts above). It can make surfing fun, though. I often spend hours at everything2 following links I find interesting.
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The problem is that he doesn't, at this point, know who exactly the guy is. How can you sue an ebay account? The DMCA forces ebay to give him the guy's real name, so he could sue the guy. Should he use the DMCA to get the guy's name, or just try to keep blocking all the auctions as they appear?
What's up with the original site having english labels, but everything else is in japanese?? Not even a link for an english version...is it just cool to have english labels or something?
I don't get it...
Actually, I think the block on message boards has the same purpose as the block on chat sites and that is to prevent kids from talking to strange people on the internet who may be stalkers/pedophiles. I don't remember any game sites being blocked unless they also had a chat feature. Schools can't afford to be sued if some kid decides to meet someone they met online while using school computers.
That's exactly why this is wrong. If this is done for child-pornography, then eventually it will be extended to other things that the government might want to censor
Report the complainant?? I think if someone reported it then they problem didn't go looking for it. If you punish people who report it then no one will ever report it and the sites won't get taken down (no one will know about them but the people who want them there). So why get them in trouble?
How many were released before version 8.0? It can still have problems.
Yeah, I was patiently waiting for a minor release after 8.0 to solve all the problems I had heard about. I hope this one is just 9.0 by name and not another complete remake with all the associated bugs and problems of an X.0 version. I'll be waiting on reviews before downloading, for sure...
Yes, believe it or not, that seems to be the average price for my textbooks. And I've tried looking online, they cost about the same online. The publishers know which ones we HAVE to have and rip us off. I have bought a few that turned out useful, but the majority so far have been pretty useless to me. I'm a Computer Science major and the types of books I like to have on my bookshelf are good references. Most textbooks aren't designed to be references, they're designed to teach you. So I have little use for them after I finish with the class.
How about the next big change be to break up the horrible price-fixing by the textbook companies? This is especially bad in college...$150 is a good average price for a textbook that I probably won't even have to read. Then at the end of the semester, the bookstore gives me 30 dollars for it and sells it used for at least $80. This problem is getting a little better with online sites being used more frequently to trade textbooks to other students (or sell them for more than the store will give you, but less than the store would charge for it used). But the problem is still the initial cost of the book. They're NOT worth that much. Some of them are pretty bad. And I rarely even need them for anything other than getting my homework problems. Argh.
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So far from reading the article, he seems to be extremely subjective. Not always in favor of Windows, but definitely in favor of how he's used to things being. This gives a clear advantage to the OS he's no doubt had the most experience with (windows). I'm still reading the review, so maybe he'll prove me wrong, but the usability section at least seems pretty biased. He detracts from BeOS because it uses a different meta key (CNTRL vs ALT) than he's used to. Perhaps if the study had been long enough to get used to these little difference and really find the strong/weak points of each OS, the reuslts could have been different. Right now it just seems the differences he finds are pretty superficial. Oh well, I'll go finish the article now.
I agree that being well-rounded is good, and students should try to study other areas as well (I'm minoring in math, for instance). However, I think the opposite order is best. I think if programming is what you enjoy, then you should major in CS and minor in some secondary field (as opposed to majoring in the secondary field and minoring in CS). If you want to be a musician and also program, then minoring in CS would be sufficient. But if what you really want to do is program, then having a major in music and only a minor in CS will be limiting yourself. You could work for Coda Music, but other companies might be hesitant to hire a programmer who only minored in CS and spent most of his college time learning how to play the piano.
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And extending that music example above, I think it's likely that CodaMusic would still rather hire someone who majored in CS and minored in music than the other way around. If you work for them and can't play the piano well, Finale won't be degraded as a result. Not so if you can't program as well.
Sorry for the horrible formatting. I should have used the "Preview" button....
"If you want to be a programmer you should study CS." "If someone doesn't study CS and is a programmer they are a bad programmer." "People who cannot use computers are stupid and lusers." I never said anything like that. What I said was that to be a good program, you need to know how to DESIGN. Not just code. There's a serious difference between someone who knows how to DESIGN software, and someone who knows how to CODE software. You're right that both can be gained from experience, but at much different rates. Learning to code by experience is pretty quick. But it takes a long time to correct bad design habits without someone actually telling you "this is bad because...". So, like I said before, I won't let just anyone program for me unless I tell em "I want this function to do this, and this function to do this". You can argue as much as you want about how you or someone you know learned how to design software well without training, but it just isn't common unless they've been teaching themselves for a LONG time.
You're right. It's not that hard to program, if you're BAD at it. I've seen all kinds of people learn to program well enough to get by, but I wouldn't trust them to write anything important.
Practicing geology without a license?? That's a joke, right?
Argh, I haven't even finished the FIRST article. Are they writing a book??
Why would you be running that as root?
I hope this means that the Qtopia will get a lot more commercial support. Other than tK, there aren't many commercial programs out there. Not that I WANT to have to pay for software, but a lot of specialty programs aren't going to be developed by freelance open-source programmers. Hardware support has also been a problem for me with the Zaurus. Maybe another linux PDA (or another person in charge or the Zaurus) will help create more interest in developing hardware drivers for it. I sure hope so.
Don't mostly large ISPs/phone companies pay for the upkeep of the internet? Or at least the federal governemnt as opposed to states? I've never heard of states laying the optical lines or anything. I think that's mostly the ISPs/phone companies.
Species are usually defined as a group of organisms that can successfully mate with eachother to produce non-sterile offspring. This works, of course, for non-asexual species only. But asexual species are usually pretty small and easy to distinguish, I think.
I realize that this comment will most likely be lost in the 600+ already made by the time I found it. But I did a search for "PDA" in the comments and found nothing. Am I the ONLY person who noticed that this is what PDA's do already? My Zaurus, for example, has user-definable categories for everything. They can apply to anything from Todo entries, calendar events, contact information, even documents! And the interesting thing is that the documents still have their normal HFS name/path in the linux file system. So the PDA implemented this thing on top of the normal file structure. That what this new system needs. Instead of saving all files in one directory as {number}.{extension}, let people save it as whatever they want wherever they want it. And then store that path in the database instead of the number/extension. That doesn't seem very difficult to me. I guess if you got OS specific you could even store an inode number or something. But this thing has basically already been implemented pretty well on PDA's. It IS cool and useful. I've always wanted to see this kind of system on a normal computer. My only complaint is the lack of heirarchical categories (e.g., "Math302" should imply "School") on my PDA. But that seems to be something this guy has improved upon. He just needs to look at the Zaurus and see how they did it on top of the normal HFS system.
All these posts should probably be prefixed with "IANAP" (I am not a physicist). Of course modern physics is so strange that even real physicists can't seem to agree on much. Not the newest stuff, anyway. Maybe one day all this crazy theorizing will actually lead to something practical. Here's hoping. ;')
What's the difference between blocking a popup and just immediately closing it without paying any attention to its content? Do they plan on forcing people to actually click on the ads in the future? The key to getting people interested in your ad is not to make it obnoxious. If an ad is well placed (e.g., a netgear ad on slashdot), then odds are someone is going to be interested in it. When popups and huge, ugly, blinking ads become necessary it only proves that they were not well placed. Any company who uses this "anti-theft" stuff will only be turning away potential users. That money would be better spent on market research.
People seem to be responding with arguments like "what? give source code to everyone? that's crazy!" That's not what I got reading this article. From what I understand, the author is talking about when a big company pays you to develop software for THEM to use, then that big company should get the source code. For instance, I program for a small software company. But we make programs for large engineering companies. Those companies, in turn, either use our software internally, or license it out to other companies. It's their software once we release it. They own all rights to it. So why shouldn't they get source code? It's not like they'd need to distribute that code to all users of the software. But I think they should have the right to inspect that code to make sure we're selling them a decent product.
This is like the concept of node links at the bottom of everything2 nodes, isn't it? It's a neat idea, but it's easily abused (as seen by the goatse posts above). It can make surfing fun, though. I often spend hours at everything2 following links I find interesting.