It talks about the end of an era, not that it is completely dead. It is replaced on all fronts, the era where it was used a lot is over, that doesn't mean it is completely dead.
How many VHS drives are sold? Probably a lot, but I'd still say the ERA of VHS is gone and replaced by DVD. Imo off course.
Nowadays any school system administrator or teacher marginally computer illiterate is at least partial aware of opensource software like Firefox being free as in beer (they don't understand what free as in speech means, and won't listen when I try to explain.
But that's most likely because they don't need it. For most people, open source means that they get it for free, they couldn't care less about having access to the source code. Even most admins I know do not really know or care about programming anyway, so having access to the source code isn't an issue at all.
But can it always be measured like this? If we put aside busphrases such as "Work smarter, not harder", there's still a point there that your WPM may not show just how much work you've put into something. I often sit back and think and take some notes on paper when about to write an algorithm.
I may have misunderstood this whole issue, but I really don't see productivity being measured simply be registering keystrokes.
Yeah, my point was that they come up as infections in AdAware. I use the cookie handler to block known tracker sites such as doubleclick, but I allow regular cookies. A couple of tracker cookies can off course still get through, but it doesn't bother me that much.
How many were cookies? The only adware I've really got were tracker cookies from doubleclick etc. Those are recognised as infections in AdAware, and they are easy to get if you forget to turn off cookies.
Well, in this case they have published it on an arabic web site. They state they carried out the attacks and that Denmark and Italy have to pull their troops out of Iraq.
So, no form, they just go out on a medium (such as the internet) and say "We did it".
You can off course question the reliability on the web page in question.
Claiming responsibility and actually being the ones behind are not necessarily the same thing, and I never said it was reliable information. I know that, I was just linking to the news talking about this group having claimed responsibility. It's not even certain that the group exists, which is also mentioned in most of the articles.
I know it doesn't mean much, but the article from Der Spiegel that was linked to in another post here show a screenshot from an Arabic website where these claims were posted. A lot of the news agencies are talking about this, but it could be some people just wanting attention and that it was carried out by a whole different group.
Yes they have: A previously unknown group calling itself "Secret Organisation al Qaeda in Europe" said it carried out the attacks as revenge for British "military massacres" in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A previously unknown group calling itself "Secret Organisation al Qaeda in Europe" said it carried out the attacks. My thoughts go out to everyone in London!
European laws and regulations are clear at the moment: software patents are not allowed. That means in any country.
Nope: "Patents will continue to be handled by national patent offices... as before, which means different interpretations as to what is patentable, without any judiciary control by the European Court of Justice," said EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner, representing the EU head office at the vote.
But we were also very pessimistic in front of this voting, and it was rejected. Not only was it rejected, it wasn't even a close voting. It will require a serious restructuring, hopefully the politicians have actually understood what this is about (doubtful, but we can always hope). Some of this had to get through some peoples skulls.
May be true, from the BBC:
"Patents will continue to be handled by national patent offices... as before, which means different interpretations as to what is patentable, without any judiciary control by the European Court of Justice," said EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner, representing the EU head office at the vote.
At least it shows that politicans do not just blindly follow. If this continues, it will be difficult for national politicans to accept something the EU has rejected (more than once, this was a re-write wasn't it?)
From the article on BBC: Responding to the rejection the European Commission said it would not draw up or submit any more versions of the original proposal. .
Sounds like excellent news, but I doubt they'll give it up just yet, but this is a major setback (another one) for them.
I don't think their point was to try and end the study, fta:
This combines the largest simulation of the growth of dark matter structure ever carried out with new techniques for following the formation and evolution of the visible components. We show that baryon-induced features in the initial conditions of the Universe are reflected in distorted form in the low-redshift galaxy distribution, an effect that can be used to constrain the nature of dark energy with next generation surveys.
Well, this news is somewhat special since the creator of the proprietary operating system (who also make a competing browser (yesyes, I know they use OSS there as well)) contributed to the development process.
In my experience the science section on BBC news reports on a lot of various issues without always presenting them as "wow, look at this", which this seems to be a case of. The researchers interviewed also show a bit of caution.
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It talks about the end of an era, not that it is completely dead. It is replaced on all fronts, the era where it was used a lot is over, that doesn't mean it is completely dead.
How many VHS drives are sold? Probably a lot, but I'd still say the ERA of VHS is gone and replaced by DVD. Imo off course.
Nowadays any school system administrator or teacher marginally computer illiterate is at least partial aware of opensource software like Firefox being free as in beer (they don't understand what free as in speech means, and won't listen when I try to explain.
But that's most likely because they don't need it. For most people, open source means that they get it for free, they couldn't care less about having access to the source code. Even most admins I know do not really know or care about programming anyway, so having access to the source code isn't an issue at all.
And even with the spyware, the Linux version is still incapable of opening DRM'ed ebooks, seeing how it appears to be locked in with MS passport.
But can it always be measured like this? If we put aside busphrases such as "Work smarter, not harder", there's still a point there that your WPM may not show just how much work you've put into something. I often sit back and think and take some notes on paper when about to write an algorithm.
I may have misunderstood this whole issue, but I really don't see productivity being measured simply be registering keystrokes.
Yeah, my point was that they come up as infections in AdAware. I use the cookie handler to block known tracker sites such as doubleclick, but I allow regular cookies. A couple of tracker cookies can off course still get through, but it doesn't bother me that much.
CST is hardly a tech paper, every report like this that may help regular people find something out about the issue should be encouraged.
How many were cookies? The only adware I've really got were tracker cookies from doubleclick etc. Those are recognised as infections in AdAware, and they are easy to get if you forget to turn off cookies.
Well, in this case they have published it on an arabic web site. They state they carried out the attacks and that Denmark and Italy have to pull their troops out of Iraq.
So, no form, they just go out on a medium (such as the internet) and say "We did it".
You can off course question the reliability on the web page in question.
Claiming responsibility and actually being the ones behind are not necessarily the same thing, and I never said it was reliable information. I know that, I was just linking to the news talking about this group having claimed responsibility. It's not even certain that the group exists, which is also mentioned in most of the articles.
I know it doesn't mean much, but the article from Der Spiegel that was linked to in another post here show a screenshot from an Arabic website where these claims were posted. A lot of the news agencies are talking about this, but it could be some people just wanting attention and that it was carried out by a whole different group.
How many sources do you want?
German
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Yes they have: A previously unknown group calling itself "Secret Organisation al Qaeda in Europe" said it carried out the attacks as revenge for British "military massacres" in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The statements come from people in BBC, not FOX.
An Al Qaeda groups has claimed responsibility already.
A lot of experts have also pointed to the attack being "typical of Al Qaeda".
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A previously unknown group calling itself "Secret Organisation al Qaeda in Europe" said it carried out the attacks.
My thoughts go out to everyone in London!
European laws and regulations are clear at the moment: software patents are not allowed. That means in any country.
... as before, which means different interpretations as to what is patentable, without any judiciary control by the European Court of Justice," said EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner, representing the EU head office at the vote.
Nope: "Patents will continue to be handled by national patent offices
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But we were also very pessimistic in front of this voting, and it was rejected. Not only was it rejected, it wasn't even a close voting. It will require a serious restructuring, hopefully the politicians have actually understood what this is about (doubtful, but we can always hope). Some of this had to get through some peoples skulls.
May be true, from the BBC: ... as before, which means different interpretations as to what is patentable, without any judiciary control by the European Court of Justice," said EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner, representing the EU head office at the vote.
"Patents will continue to be handled by national patent offices
At least it shows that politicans do not just blindly follow. If this continues, it will be difficult for national politicans to accept something the EU has rejected (more than once, this was a re-write wasn't it?)
From the article on BBC:
Responding to the rejection the European Commission said it would not draw up or submit any more versions of the original proposal. .
Sounds like excellent news, but I doubt they'll give it up just yet, but this is a major setback (another one) for them.
I don't think their point was to try and end the study, fta:
This combines the largest simulation of the growth of dark matter structure ever carried out with new techniques for following the formation and evolution of the visible components. We show that baryon-induced features in the initial conditions of the Universe are reflected in distorted form in the low-redshift galaxy distribution, an effect that can be used to constrain the nature of dark energy with next generation surveys.
Not only that, Switzerland is the neutral country that stands outside of the UN and everything, not Austria.
Well, this news is somewhat special since the creator of the proprietary operating system (who also make a competing browser (yesyes, I know they use OSS there as well)) contributed to the development process.
It's already been eaten. The whole fish.
In my experience the science section on BBC news reports on a lot of various issues without always presenting them as "wow, look at this", which this seems to be a case of. The researchers interviewed also show a bit of caution.
Wonder how many others scurried off to Wikipedia .. no luck there though, so I'm just guessing.
That would mean editing the already existing tags and mess up the corresponding DTD/XSDs in which case it won't be RSS anymore.