Ceefax is cool but dated....
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Ceefax Turns 30
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...and its days are numbered. The UK government's deadling for ceasing analogue transmissions is 2012, at which point we'll all have to use the richer digital content. The reason it's been so successful for so long is similar to fax's longevity: it just works, and everyone is familiar with it.
Should check out the "Best Deals: Patents" link under "Related Links". Clicking on it allows you to Comparison shop for patents. Thank God the slashdot devs decided to implement this fantastic functionality rather than making Slashdot W3C compliant!
Since he's addressing members of the tech industry, this analogy was completely appropriate. And when it comes to addressing people outside the IT field RMS is usually very understandable, if a little pedantic. But then you'd expect that from someone with beliefs held as strongly as he holds his.
That's not proof. It demonstrates your point, but does not prove it. To do so, you would need to show that the incidence of terrorism is completely unaffected by the presence of surveillance - i.e. turn every surveillance device in London off for six months out of every year and count the numbers of terrorist incidents.
"...efforts to get more women involved in the MIT community..."
i really hope that this is not the reason she got elected president. you see, i think such positions should be awarded according to ability, _regardless_ of the gender. so "because of" is as wrong as "in spite of".
I agree that ideally, positions should be offered to those best qualified to hold them. However, if the powers that be decided that the ability to attract more women students to MIT was an important characteristic of their president then it made sense for them to prefer a woman over a man. Additionally, gender bias in an institution such as MIT is self-perpetuating and may require overcompensation until the bias is reduced.
The great physicist Richard Feynman once said that he didn't see any theoretical reason why cold fusion would not work. And the great physicist Einstein objected to quantum mechanics on the basis that "God does not play dice". He was wrong. Being a great scientist does not preclude being completely wrong about something.
Another reason why I'm glad to be a UK citizen - every time I start to wonder if it's really worth having a 'public service' broadcaster the BBC goes and does something like this. I'm hoping they'll be able to make a stand when someone tries HDTV regulations over here.
You can't encrypt envelope information. They'll still know a call between you and your wife took place and how long it lasted. Yup, until we have freenet-style VOIP networks. A call which someone makes from their computer will be made to be indistinguishable from a call that's rerouted through their computer. I guess, like with freenet, it'll come down to the same tradeoff between convenience and security.
You're assuming that the other 75% of inaccurate registrations are providing information which is no worse than no information at all. Often, people go out of their way to create wildly inaccurate registration info (I know I do) to spite them.
This blog, together with the dates in 2003, suggest that something's not quite right. How did he know of Sal Wise six months before the laptop transaction ever occurred?
Google would be a hugely useful partner in this effort. If they implemented future versions of GMail according to these standards rather than XAML/Avalon their dominance in the internet would make the difference between success and getting steamrollered by MS when Longhorn comes out.
The wiki admins on #wikipedia say it could be a day or more before the database is back up. Something to do with a forced killing of the mysql process.
The GPL places more restrictions on how you are able to redistribute the code than there would be if there weren't any restrictions;). If RMS wanted it that way, he could simply have written the GPL to disclaim all copyright restrictions entirely. As it is, redistributing the code is only legal if you adhere to the terms of the GPL.
No. Whereas EULAs impose restrictions on what you can and can't do with the code once you have it, the GPL places restrictions on what you are allowed to do if you decide to redistribute the code. The GPL states early on that you are not obliged to accept it since you haven't signed anything.
...or does ESR come across like he has the biggest ego whenever he writes something? What with all the adoring emails he includes the whole thing sounds like an exercise in self-gratification...
What is it with all these Apple rumour sites? Googling for Apple Rumors spews out a whole slew of them: rumortracker, crazyapplerumors, macrumors, macosrumors, apple-x.net, looprumors...how much is there to speculate about? They all post each other's news anyway.
Can't we just go on and write interesting programs and good code? An admirable sentiment, but the problem is that as soon as you start writing 'good code' a company somewhere is going to think about using it. That's when everything starts getting legal and complicated as we've seen with recent licensing issues, IP regulation etc.
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...and its days are numbered. The UK government's deadling for ceasing analogue transmissions is 2012, at which point we'll all have to use the richer digital content. The reason it's been so successful for so long is similar to fax's longevity: it just works, and everyone is familiar with it.
Should check out the "Best Deals: Patents" link under "Related Links". Clicking on it allows you to Comparison shop for patents. Thank God the slashdot devs decided to implement this fantastic functionality rather than making Slashdot W3C compliant!
Since he's addressing members of the tech industry, this analogy was completely appropriate. And when it comes to addressing people outside the IT field RMS is usually very understandable, if a little pedantic. But then you'd expect that from someone with beliefs held as strongly as he holds his.
That would be if they could convince the record companies to offer their music without DRM, of course. Even Apple couldn't pull that one off.
That's not proof. It demonstrates your point, but does not prove it. To do so, you would need to show that the incidence of terrorism is completely unaffected by the presence of surveillance - i.e. turn every surveillance device in London off for six months out of every year and count the numbers of terrorist incidents.
i really hope that this is not the reason she got elected president. you see, i think such positions should be awarded according to ability, _regardless_ of the gender. so "because of" is as wrong as "in spite of".
I agree that ideally, positions should be offered to those best qualified to hold them. However, if the powers that be decided that the ability to attract more women students to MIT was an important characteristic of their president then it made sense for them to prefer a woman over a man. Additionally, gender bias in an institution such as MIT is self-perpetuating and may require overcompensation until the bias is reduced.
The great physicist Richard Feynman once said that he didn't see any theoretical reason why cold fusion would not work.
And the great physicist Einstein objected to quantum mechanics on the basis that "God does not play dice". He was wrong. Being a great scientist does not preclude being completely wrong about something.
Another reason why I'm glad to be a UK citizen - every time I start to wonder if it's really worth having a 'public service' broadcaster the BBC goes and does something like this. I'm hoping they'll be able to make a stand when someone tries HDTV regulations over here.
You can't encrypt envelope information. They'll still know a call between you and your wife took place and how long it lasted.
Yup, until we have freenet-style VOIP networks. A call which someone makes from their computer will be made to be indistinguishable from a call that's rerouted through their computer. I guess, like with freenet, it'll come down to the same tradeoff between convenience and security.
You're assuming that the other 75% of inaccurate registrations are providing information which is no worse than no information at all. Often, people go out of their way to create wildly inaccurate registration info (I know I do) to spite them.
This blog, together with the dates in 2003, suggest that something's not quite right. How did he know of Sal Wise six months before the laptop transaction ever occurred?
Google would be a hugely useful partner in this effort. If they implemented future versions of GMail according to these standards rather than XAML/Avalon their dominance in the internet would make the difference between success and getting steamrollered by MS when Longhorn comes out.
The wiki admins on #wikipedia say it could be a day or more before the database is back up. Something to do with a forced killing of the mysql process.
Sure, but if you have five people using the same ADSL line rather than five separate ones it definitely changes the economics of it for them.
Pretty cool, but much of it is redundant since you lose all but the first ten search terms.
Martin Lewis' site has some good tips and interesting forums.
The GPL places more restrictions on how you are able to redistribute the code than there would be if there weren't any restrictions ;). If RMS wanted it that way, he could simply have written the GPL to disclaim all copyright restrictions entirely. As it is, redistributing the code is only legal if you adhere to the terms of the GPL.
No. Whereas EULAs impose restrictions on what you can and can't do with the code once you have it, the GPL places restrictions on what you are allowed to do if you decide to redistribute the code. The GPL states early on that you are not obliged to accept it since you haven't signed anything.
Sorry to hear about being taken in by an April Fool. I can only imagine how awful it feels ;).
Groklaw is hosted by ibiblio so for PJ, bandwidth costs are nil.
...or does ESR come across like he has the biggest ego whenever he writes something? What with all the adoring emails he includes the whole thing sounds like an exercise in self-gratification...
Interesting? It's far more likely that it is short for 'Discussion Guides'.
Yup, PJ over at Groklaw seems to have made the same mistake.
What is it with all these Apple rumour sites? Googling for Apple Rumors spews out a whole slew of them: rumortracker, crazyapplerumors, macrumors, macosrumors, apple-x.net, looprumors...how much is there to speculate about? They all post each other's news anyway.
Can't we just go on and write interesting programs and good code?
An admirable sentiment, but the problem is that as soon as you start writing 'good code' a company somewhere is going to think about using it. That's when everything starts getting legal and complicated as we've seen with recent licensing issues, IP regulation etc.