It would be plain stupid to rewrite the whole OS using.NET - not only would that delay the shipping process, what added value would it mean to the customer?
I thought delaying the shipping process was the added value to the customer...
I have mixed feelings overall on this particular law, but your post made me think. The argument basically seems that, because the technology may eventually be used in ways that are bad, we shouldn't use the technology for this. That seems a little odd for slashdot. Aren't we also arguing that P2P technologies shouldn't be stopped just because they MIGHT be used for bad purposes? Why stop a technology (even this one) just because future uses might be inappropriate?
If tracking sex offenders is bad, that's one thing. But if we want to stop it just in case it is abused in the future, I'm not sure I can buy that argument.
FTA: Time will also be spent figuring out what's different about the soil that has bogged down Opportunity, hoping to keep this problem from occurring down the road.
Road? Where we're going, we don't need roads!
Re:Just a proposal, hopefully...
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So are the artists actually compensated, or do they really only get compensated for direct sales of their own music? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'll bet the artists themselves don't see a penny from these levies.
I would argue that the only thing that gives the parent and grandparent posts a negative spin is the implicit sarcasm. The positive result of a double negative, on the other hand, is inherent in the language and requires to implied meaning. "Yeah, right" used with the correct tone and inflections is just as likely to have a positive meaning.
It's obviously still true that it can, in the right circumstances, have a negative meaning. But a pure gramatical analysis doesn't show that.
I few possible problems I haven't seen mentioned yet:
1. His visa gets eaten by fish during his swim and Homeland Security turns him back before being allowed to enter the USA.
2. Microsoft has a patent for "A method of moving ones arms and legs so as to propel him or herself through water" and all profits for Opera as a result of such an elaborate marketing stunt are paid to Microsoft in a settlement.
He's 5, and you're worried about making it look like an accident? If I noticed an increase in game playing, corresponding to a decrease in school performance, forget the accident. Remove the games and tell him why you did it. Afterall, who's the boss? My situation is quite different, since my 5 (and 6) year old daughters are both recently adopted, and have only just begun using a computer. But It's something I plan to watch carefully.
That depends on what your goals are. When I write HTML/XML, or perl, my goal is to have the best possible code. All the more so if I'm getting paid for it.
When I was a student, I believe the goal was learning. The end product was the education, not the grade. While the grade is intended as a measure of how well that goal was accomplished it is not, in itself, the goal of the exercise.
So, yes, using this product repeatedly to improve a single score is cheating by effectively allowing a student to "redo" the assignment multiple times. It provides an unfair advantage. Although I could see that there is potential value in having special assignments now and again where students are allowed to do just that simply for the benefit of learning how to improve their own papers.
Screw you! I reserve the right to make fun of any religion. Especically one as moronic as the Mormons, do you have any concept of how crazy their beliefs are?
You certainly have that right. As a Mormon myself, I have no problem with you making fun of "us". Where people tend to be more sensitive, however, is when the "making fun" is done in a manner that spreads erroneous information about what the Mormons actually believe. Most of the "moronic" beliefs that I have heard being attributed to Mormons are actually not true. Now if you are one of those inclined to consider all religious beliefs as moronic, then not much can be done about that. But if you really knew what Mormons believed, I think you might find that they aren't quite as moronic as you may have been lead to believe thus far.
"Intel[l]igent design" folks are at least trying to justify their beliefs, but creationists creating the Earth before the Sun? Do you expect me to take you seriously on anything else when you are that naive/stupid/gullible?
I'm not sure where that comes from. The basic creationist belief (as outlined in the Bible) states that "And God said, let there be light...and the morning and the night were the first day." In other words, the "light" (the Sun) was created before all else. I'm not sure how all religions deal with it, but as Mormons, we also believe that the "creation" was more of an organization in the sense that matter was organized to create the Earth, sun, stars, etc... and not mysteriously created out of nothing. But the Sun was still created first.
And, yes, "Ra" (as I understand it, anyway) is representative of God. God has been represented in many different ways by many different religions and many different cultures. That certainly does not preclude the idea that they are talking about the same Being. We all have different understandings, and have recorded those different understandings in different ways. So I agree that it is rediculous to dismiss the similarities out-of-hand.
But you were only charged once -- by the bank. If you have no overdraft protection, the bank dings you for the returned check, the merchant will charge you for insufficient funds, and then you still have to come up with the money (which may included interest or other penalties). That's what it saves you.
Running Linux on a device like this would be nice. But with the latest Palm Tungsten T|5 disappointment, I couldn't help but wonder if there was a future for porting Palm OS (preferably Cobalt) to some of the newer PPC devices. Then we could get the simplicity of PalmOS, but the competitive range of hardware available for PPC.
That's got to be one of the most paranoid articles I have read in a while. I work for my state Department of Transportation in the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) division. And yes, there is a national architecture. Virtually every state has a state or regional architecture based on the national architecture. And while there may be those who have thought of the "snooping" potential, that certainly isn't the goal. You claim there is no public pressure for it. Well, there is a constant stream of complaints about the traffic conditions and weaknesses in the transportation system. ITS is an attemt to improve that and respond to the growing demand to improve our nation's roadways. The use of ITS technologies has a significant impact on increasing the capacity of existing roads, and reducing accidents. Hundreds of thousands of dollars, and dozens of lives are saved annually through the use of technology on the roadways in my city alone. Not to mention the reduction in polution and saving travelers like yourself time by keeping the traffic flowing. This isn't some clandestine attempt by the government to find out whether you've had your windshield repaired lately. Extreme care is taken to ensure that these systems are not used to identify and monitor individuals. Let's face it: technology is becoming an increasingly central part of our lives. It isn't going away. Let's not fight it. But let's work together to ensure that it is used responsibly and effectively.
Actually, MyDoom is just the sequel to MyDocuments, found on most Windows computers.
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If you are copying and pasting your paper like Frankenstein, don't the professors notice that your style of writing and word choice are varying wildly from one paragraph to another?
Of course they do. However, there is still the matter of evidence. "It doesn't seem like he wrote that himself" is hardly sufficient grounds for discipline. My dad teaches High School english, and runs into this problem all the time. It's generally obvious to him within a couple of sentences whether the student wrote the paper. But that's not good enough. He has been known to frequent Internet sites that publish papers for students to see if he can find exact copies, however. In once instance he told me about once, he actually wrote the URL for the paper on the front page, with a failing grade for copying.
Most of the time, however, no such evidence is available.
Utah's system is based on the Georgia Navigator, but has been modified over the past few years and is now quite different in appearance. Be warned that it's very IE-specific (I'm lobbying to get that fixed, but it may take me a while). Mozilla mostly works if you select the IE site, but some parts don't work correctly yet.
Yes and no. When you consider the cost (7 digits, at least), I'm not necessarily looking for a complete, "free" solution. However, it seems to me that, at the very least, an inexpensive Linux box (or such) could handle either encoding or decoding of MPEG video streams. The cameras are installed, so I'm not looking for a cheaper camera. Currently, the video is streamed back uncompressed over fiber to an analog video switch. In order to replace the switch, we are looking at digital distribution, rather than analog. That requires at least 1 encoder for each camera (with VBricks priced around $5K ea.) and then as many decoders as we decide we need. So, using a more general purpose computer, and encoding and/or decoding software, is it feasible to:
1. Replace the encoders with something less expensive / less proprietary than a VBrick encoder, and/or
2. Replace the deocders with something less expensive / less proprietary than a VBrick decoder?
That's all I'm really asking. If we could cut the price to $3K per camera, the savings will still be huge. If we could cut it even more, the savings are even more...
We recently received an Office 2K document that, try as we might, crashed Word every time we tried to print (from various versions of Windows, and various versions of Office). It was a 60-something page document with lots of large tables, and a bunch of other strange, but not-too-complex stuff.
So, being the adventursome soul that I am, I fired up my OpenOffice, pointed it at that document, and PRESTO! No problemo.
So maybe OpenOffice still starts a little slow, and is a little sluggish at times, but it does a pretty good job as far as I'm concerned.
It seems to me that they would be better served by charging, say, $10 (or something) per month and allowing unlimited download of licenses during that period. If you could download the movies in advance, then just download a 24 hour license when you're ready to view the movie, that works much better. Then you could just set 2 or 3 movies to download one night when you go to bed, and you have the files when you want to watch them.
I find it somewhat disconcerting that you can so out-of-handedly dismiss any ligitimate professional uses for broadband. As a software developer I derive significant benefit from a broadband connection that has nothing to do with games, porn or warez.
If telling you there are X systems involved in controlling traffic systems is going to tip the scales, then I think we would be in a lot more trouble that we really are.
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Who needs porn when you're allocated 10 wives?
Perhaps you should check your facts.
I thought delaying the shipping process was the added value to the customer...
...I want a free lightsaber.
If tracking sex offenders is bad, that's one thing. But if we want to stop it just in case it is abused in the future, I'm not sure I can buy that argument.
Road? Where we're going, we don't need roads!
So are the artists actually compensated, or do they really only get compensated for direct sales of their own music? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'll bet the artists themselves don't see a penny from these levies.
It's obviously still true that it can, in the right circumstances, have a negative meaning. But a pure gramatical analysis doesn't show that.
1. His visa gets eaten by fish during his swim and Homeland Security turns him back before being allowed to enter the USA.
2. Microsoft has a patent for "A method of moving ones arms and legs so as to propel him or herself through water" and all profits for Opera as a result of such an elaborate marketing stunt are paid to Microsoft in a settlement.
He's 5, and you're worried about making it look like an accident? If I noticed an increase in game playing, corresponding to a decrease in school performance, forget the accident. Remove the games and tell him why you did it. Afterall, who's the boss? My situation is quite different, since my 5 (and 6) year old daughters are both recently adopted, and have only just begun using a computer. But It's something I plan to watch carefully.
When I was a student, I believe the goal was learning. The end product was the education, not the grade. While the grade is intended as a measure of how well that goal was accomplished it is not, in itself, the goal of the exercise.
So, yes, using this product repeatedly to improve a single score is cheating by effectively allowing a student to "redo" the assignment multiple times. It provides an unfair advantage. Although I could see that there is potential value in having special assignments now and again where students are allowed to do just that simply for the benefit of learning how to improve their own papers.
...standard copyrights allow. Before too much longer, that should be effectively forever...
You certainly have that right. As a Mormon myself, I have no problem with you making fun of "us". Where people tend to be more sensitive, however, is when the "making fun" is done in a manner that spreads erroneous information about what the Mormons actually believe. Most of the "moronic" beliefs that I have heard being attributed to Mormons are actually not true. Now if you are one of those inclined to consider all religious beliefs as moronic, then not much can be done about that. But if you really knew what Mormons believed, I think you might find that they aren't quite as moronic as you may have been lead to believe thus far.
"Intel[l]igent design" folks are at least trying to justify their beliefs, but creationists creating the Earth before the Sun? Do you expect me to take you seriously on anything else when you are that naive/stupid/gullible?
I'm not sure where that comes from. The basic creationist belief (as outlined in the Bible) states that "And God said, let there be light...and the morning and the night were the first day." In other words, the "light" (the Sun) was created before all else. I'm not sure how all religions deal with it, but as Mormons, we also believe that the "creation" was more of an organization in the sense that matter was organized to create the Earth, sun, stars, etc... and not mysteriously created out of nothing. But the Sun was still created first.
And, yes, "Ra" (as I understand it, anyway) is representative of God. God has been represented in many different ways by many different religions and many different cultures. That certainly does not preclude the idea that they are talking about the same Being. We all have different understandings, and have recorded those different understandings in different ways. So I agree that it is rediculous to dismiss the similarities out-of-hand.
But I hear Microsoft has finally achieved 5 nines downtime...
I did this once. Problem is, it can only really be done one day out of the year, and only at 2:00am for that matter...
But you were only charged once -- by the bank. If you have no overdraft protection, the bank dings you for the returned check, the merchant will charge you for insufficient funds, and then you still have to come up with the money (which may included interest or other penalties). That's what it saves you.
Running Linux on a device like this would be nice. But with the latest Palm Tungsten T|5 disappointment, I couldn't help but wonder if there was a future for porting Palm OS (preferably Cobalt) to some of the newer PPC devices. Then we could get the simplicity of PalmOS, but the competitive range of hardware available for PPC.
That's got to be one of the most paranoid articles I have read in a while. I work for my state Department of Transportation in the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) division. And yes, there is a national architecture. Virtually every state has a state or regional architecture based on the national architecture. And while there may be those who have thought of the "snooping" potential, that certainly isn't the goal. You claim there is no public pressure for it. Well, there is a constant stream of complaints about the traffic conditions and weaknesses in the transportation system. ITS is an attemt to improve that and respond to the growing demand to improve our nation's roadways. The use of ITS technologies has a significant impact on increasing the capacity of existing roads, and reducing accidents. Hundreds of thousands of dollars, and dozens of lives are saved annually through the use of technology on the roadways in my city alone. Not to mention the reduction in polution and saving travelers like yourself time by keeping the traffic flowing. This isn't some clandestine attempt by the government to find out whether you've had your windshield repaired lately. Extreme care is taken to ensure that these systems are not used to identify and monitor individuals. Let's face it: technology is becoming an increasingly central part of our lives. It isn't going away. Let's not fight it. But let's work together to ensure that it is used responsibly and effectively.
Actually, MyDoom is just the sequel to MyDocuments, found on most Windows computers.
Of course they do. However, there is still the matter of evidence. "It doesn't seem like he wrote that himself" is hardly sufficient grounds for discipline. My dad teaches High School english, and runs into this problem all the time. It's generally obvious to him within a couple of sentences whether the student wrote the paper. But that's not good enough. He has been known to frequent Internet sites that publish papers for students to see if he can find exact copies, however. In once instance he told me about once, he actually wrote the URL for the paper on the front page, with a failing grade for copying.
Most of the time, however, no such evidence is available.
1. Replace the encoders with something less expensive / less proprietary than a VBrick encoder, and/or
2. Replace the deocders with something less expensive / less proprietary than a VBrick decoder?
That's all I'm really asking. If we could cut the price to $3K per camera, the savings will still be huge. If we could cut it even more, the savings are even more...
We recently received an Office 2K document that, try as we might, crashed Word every time we tried to print (from various versions of Windows, and various versions of Office). It was a 60-something page document with lots of large tables, and a bunch of other strange, but not-too-complex stuff.
So, being the adventursome soul that I am, I fired up my OpenOffice, pointed it at that document, and PRESTO! No problemo.
So maybe OpenOffice still starts a little slow, and is a little sluggish at times, but it does a pretty good job as far as I'm concerned.
It seems to me that they would be better served by charging, say, $10 (or something) per month and allowing unlimited download of licenses during that period. If you could download the movies in advance, then just download a 24 hour license when you're ready to view the movie, that works much better. Then you could just set 2 or 3 movies to download one night when you go to bed, and you have the files when you want to watch them.
I find it somewhat disconcerting that you can so out-of-handedly dismiss any ligitimate professional uses for broadband. As a software developer I derive significant benefit from a broadband connection that has nothing to do with games, porn or warez.
If telling you there are X systems involved in controlling traffic systems is going to tip the scales, then I think we would be in a lot more trouble that we really are.