Hmmm. I sometimes wonder if it wouldn't be more profitable to create than to litigate? Look at Anti GPL lobbying efforts mentioned earlier this week. I mean, you think a better defense for a company would be to just churn out out better products for lower prices. It would certainly have a chilling effect on their competition.
I also wonder how many tax breaks are afforded these corporations at the customer's expense - and how it might be better for the economy if we had more cash on hand to buy more of their products - versus more cash for them to lobby.
... think about it. Congress men and women just don't wake up with original thoughts like tihs. They need help... usually from lobbyists. If that is the case, I wonder how much money was expended lobbying to ban GPL in the Government workplace. I mean, you think companies could turn out better products for lower prices that would blow the competition away.
... and if corporate lobbying is behind these efforts, one has to wonder how many of the corporations involved get tax breaks the rest of us could use to buy their products?
I guess it's easier to litigate than to create.
Some tips on installing MovableType
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I've helped more than one Blogger move to MovableType. The trick is, moving the darned files and directories around so its useful.
Here's my supplement to the installation guide that anyone handy with SSH can use no sweat.
Compendium of Blogger Alternatives
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Using any variety of tools one can find on the Weblogs Compendium... and spending as little as $19.95 per YEAR with someone like Dixie Host you can avoid these headache, own your own data and have some control over your security situation.
I run a blog that talks about running church web sites that they don't suck.
One of the big issues we're discusssing is backend maintenance.
Yes, I'm all for us volunteering our time. That said, we need to make sure we implement systems and solutions that won't leave staff or other volunteers frustrated and/or in worse shape when we move on.
A good example is setting up a church web site. A geek comes along. Makes it look and feel great. A year passes. The geek is gone and now the organization is left there scratching their head trying to figure out how to modify things without breaking them.
In other words. Let's volunteer. But lets not make this like the one time we worked in a soup kitchen so we could feel better about ourselves. Instead, lets provide permanent, long term solutions.
Indiscriminate Copyright Bots at work?
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17th? Really, even after Frau Dowd refers to the person sitting in the highest office in the country as the "Boy Emperor"... and the worse she gets for it is a severe fisking from a grad student at Oxford?
While I agree that the price of medical care is obscene, I think as nerds, we also know the immense cost in developing medical systems. Not to mention liability issues surrounding providing said product.
So my question is, is this totally a patent issue? We see the statement that this particular health can't afford such services.
Instead, is this problem a little bit of both. A jacked-up patent royalties to recoup R&D, and a brand of health care system stressed because of its communal nature?
I'm glad to see a spammer get fined, but will a mere $2000 stop him/her?
Short of bringing back keel-hauling perhaps what we need is some help from those free email services? The majority of the spam I receive has forged headers and forged email addresses, usually bearing the domain of a free email service.
So you set these services up so you can register for free, but you need a real email address. When you register, the free email service sends you a password with a link you have to click to confirm and enter that password. The mail address and the HTTP_REFERRER address are all logged.
Couple these procedures with relays and/or email programs that won't handle free email domains, such as @hotmail unless they originate from a hotmail.com SMTP server. Of course, you also want to toss any message that uses a bogus domain name as well.
This wouldn't end all the spam, but it might slow it down a bit as it would preclude the abuses of free email accounts.
I can see where the combination of the DVD and the Home Theatre can spell grief for various movie theatre chains. So many of them are so small, that they barely rival someone's basement all decked out. That and their prices for bombs such as "Swept Away."
Granted, you'd have to go to ALOT of movies to spend enough money for a good home system, but then there are no lines at home, you can pause the movie when the pizza delivery guy shows up, and you can run cartoons before the main show!
I guess its just that the modern movie theatre experience just isn't as fun as it used to be.
An interesting documentary topic, who's timing couldn't be better in light of Apple's recent earnings news... here's a snippet from the ElectronicNewsNet Despite driving upgrades to its new Mac OS X 10.2 "Jaguar" operating system, Apple reported a US$45 million loss and flat year-on-year revenue for its fiscal 2002 fourth quarter.
Hopefully, this is just an issue of absorbing the R&D costs of their new O/S. I'm not a Mac user, but some of my best friends are...
So is any encryption planned? There are some sections of West Africa that are still politically volitile. I can see where field workers, such as Doctors Without Borders and/or missionaries and/or UN Officials might not want their information intercepted.
I realize that sending and receiving individual messages should be strongly encrypted, but that still doesn't necessarily obfuscate the sender or the receiver. I mean I'm glad to see such email used as the article says " the radio equipment, providing an essential lifeline for the safety and security of field office and mobile unit personnel"... but I'd hate to see the same technology triangulated against them.
I'm a convert. Yes, there are still some bugs. For example, it still has some problems with searches within forms... well with forms in general. But considering they have a build just about every night I suspect it isn't long before this problem is solved.
Certainly I love the lean speed of it, but I also can't believe how I lived without tabbed browsing up until now (I know other browsers have it, but I didn't). There are alot of other little features I like - such as fun with the mouse wheel and fonts, the recently revised bookmark system. But mostly I like that it keeps them nasty pop-ups at bay. Reading the NY Times and WAPO are no longer a pain (or as painful).
That said, I wonder if they can keep this level of energy up. I hope they do. And I hope they can do it without bloating the product.
Once they get this bad-boy un-bugged, I'm getting all my lame users at various charities I do free stuff for to upgrade from their pre W3C beasts. The install, use and system suckage is very, very reasonable - especially considering the price.
William Gates, CEO of the CPU, has announced the watered-down, kissing cousin of Microsoft Office XP, Microsoft Work Suite (MWS). It was version 2002.
MWS was laid to rest in one of the largest disassemblies in recent years. Placed in a bit bucket between Lotus Smart Suite and WordStar, its demise was celebrated by such luminaries as Bjarne Stroustrup and James Gosling.
The gravesite was piled high with unfinished.RTF documents as longtime wannabe, WordPad ruffled some feathers when whie delivering a eulogy, it describing MWS as an app who "was constantly on a quest to please the home user."
Internet Explorer didn't help things by asserting that MWS' demise was accelerated by imposed strict licensing deals with hardware makers, expensive user upgrade paths and intrusive registrations and overbearing EULAs.
At that point delegates from Visual Basic.NET stepped in and restored operational order.
Later, Notepad was heard coming to the defense of WordPad by asserting that a double entendre was impossible as it was not equipped "extended thesaurus support... then again, neither was MWS."
MWS is survived by a 30 year End Users License Agreement, along with a host of incompatible database files.
I've often wondered if sometimes we're not all hooked into usability for usability sake, sometime forsaking compelling content? Not so much in the case of Chris Davis, but of some other sites claiming to be diciples of 'the Pilgrim'.
I've been in touch with Shelley (the author) via email. I've been trying to convince her to write a SQL based upon some higher level languages.
I could only imagine the derision for nasties such as dBase, PowerBuilder and Access. Hopefully they get the crap kicked out of them as well.
I guess one place to start would be to figure out what type of computer games women do play. My wife, who is also a quite capable UNIX admin who still enjoys a game of spider , tetris and a few other old-school favorites. I've got a little girl who is bored with flight simulators and such, and prefers puzzle like games where she finds things or builds things.
In other words, from a programmer's perspective perhaps the problem is that games for girls just aren't as sexy or as wham-bam to write as games for guys? Perhaps it isn't as profitable to engage in writing these programs because its hard to dress them up and make them fly?
I mean my wife and I joke about this all the time. Here I want to conquer the world, and there she wants to make it more livable.
Back in the day, a book like this would have been a real life saver for those of us slugging it out with brain-damaged operating systems (e.g. MS-DOS). From things like MIDI sequencers to guidance systems, the need for real-time speed was a real issue.
However, with the the maturity of operating systems, many of them now include device drivers, APIs, objects and other goodies that insulate the average programmer from the hassle of issues like latency. So my question is, other than good academic study, would it pay for the rest of us to spend the $$ on such a book?
Though I admit, having to write my share of real-time apps back in the day has me curious enough to put the book on my wishlist.
With fall arriving here in the North East of the United States, I'll soon have a back yard full of leaves. Would this technology work for this type of organic material as well, or should I go ahead and shred them up with the lawn mower and use them as mulch & compost?
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Hmmm. I sometimes wonder if it wouldn't be more profitable to create than to litigate? Look at Anti GPL lobbying efforts mentioned earlier this week. I mean, you think a better defense for a company would be to just churn out out better products for lower prices. It would certainly have a chilling effect on their competition.
I also wonder how many tax breaks are afforded these corporations at the customer's expense - and how it might be better for the economy if we had more cash on hand to buy more of their products - versus more cash for them to lobby.
I guess it's easier to litigate than to create.
I guess it's easier to litigate than to create.
I've helped more than one Blogger move to MovableType. The trick is, moving the darned files and directories around so its useful.
Here's my supplement to the installation guide that anyone handy with SSH can use no sweat.
Using any variety of tools one can find on the Weblogs Compendium
I run a blog that talks about running church web sites that they don't suck.
One of the big issues we're discusssing is backend maintenance.
Yes, I'm all for us volunteering our time. That said, we need to make sure we implement systems and solutions that won't leave staff or other volunteers frustrated and/or in worse shape when we move on.
A good example is setting up a church web site. A geek comes along. Makes it look and feel great. A year passes. The geek is gone and now the organization is left there scratching their head trying to figure out how to modify things without breaking them.
In other words. Let's volunteer. But lets not make this like the one time we worked in a soup kitchen so we could feel better about ourselves. Instead, lets provide permanent, long term solutions.
Okay, let me understand this. Lets say I create a set of Christmas Jingles using something like Cakewalk Sonar .. or better yet, one of several Linux based multi-track recording tools. Then burn my tunes with something like Nero ... then list it on E-Bay - they're going to pull my ad?
Perhaps this is a result of an indiscriminate Copyright Bot as described by Tennessee Law professor, Glenn Reynolds?
17th? Really, even after Frau Dowd refers to the person sitting in the highest office in the country as the "Boy Emperor" ... and the worse she gets for it is a severe fisking from a grad student at Oxford?
Puleaeeasse! Spare me.
What ever happened to the coder's creed that "If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand and even harder to modify."?
Honestly, I'm sure "clean encryption" is a good idea, but the phrase just has the oxymoron quality as "software reliability."
Since we're talking telephony, are we talking embedded operating systems? Perhaps Windows CE, or more than likely Windows NT Embedded?
Could some of this reticence to Linux also be related to the available development frameworks for low-level coders?
Or is this just a case where managers are playing it safe?
While I agree that the price of medical care is obscene, I think as nerds, we also know the immense cost in developing medical systems. Not to mention liability issues surrounding providing said product.
So my question is, is this totally a patent issue? We see the statement that this particular health can't afford such services.
Instead, is this problem a little bit of both. A jacked-up patent royalties to recoup R&D, and a brand of health care system stressed because of its communal nature?
I'm glad to see a spammer get fined, but will a mere $2000 stop him/her?
Short of bringing back keel-hauling perhaps what we need is some help from those free email services? The majority of the spam I receive has forged headers and forged email addresses, usually bearing the domain of a free email service.
So you set these services up so you can register for free, but you need a real email address. When you register, the free email service sends you a password with a link you have to click to confirm and enter that password. The mail address and the HTTP_REFERRER address are all logged.
Couple these procedures with relays and/or email programs that won't handle free email domains, such as @hotmail unless they originate from a hotmail.com SMTP server. Of course, you also want to toss any message that uses a bogus domain name as well.
This wouldn't end all the spam, but it might slow it down a bit as it would preclude the abuses of free email accounts.
I can see where the combination of the DVD and the Home Theatre can spell grief for various movie theatre chains. So many of them are so small, that they barely rival someone's basement all decked out. That and their prices for bombs such as "Swept Away."
Granted, you'd have to go to ALOT of movies to spend enough money for a good home system, but then there are no lines at home, you can pause the movie when the pizza delivery guy shows up, and you can run cartoons before the main show!
I guess its just that the modern movie theatre experience just isn't as fun as it used to be.
An interesting documentary topic, who's timing couldn't be better in light of Apple's recent earnings news ... here's a snippet from the ElectronicNewsNet
...
Despite driving upgrades to its new Mac OS X 10.2 "Jaguar" operating system, Apple reported a US$45 million loss and flat year-on-year revenue for its fiscal 2002 fourth quarter.
Hopefully, this is just an issue of absorbing the R&D costs of their new O/S. I'm not a Mac user, but some of my best friends are
So is any encryption planned? There are some sections of West Africa that are still politically volitile. I can see where field workers, such as Doctors Without Borders and/or missionaries and/or UN Officials might not want their information intercepted.
... but I'd hate to see the same technology triangulated against them.
I realize that sending and receiving individual messages should be strongly encrypted, but that still doesn't necessarily obfuscate the sender or the receiver. I mean I'm glad to see such email used as the article says " the radio equipment, providing an essential lifeline for the safety and security of field office and mobile unit personnel"
I'm a convert. Yes, there are still some bugs. For example, it still has some problems with searches within forms ... well with forms in general. But considering they have a build just about every night I suspect it isn't long before this problem is solved.
Certainly I love the lean speed of it, but I also can't believe how I lived without tabbed browsing up until now (I know other browsers have it, but I didn't). There are alot of other little features I like - such as fun with the mouse wheel and fonts, the recently revised bookmark system. But mostly I like that it keeps them nasty pop-ups at bay. Reading the NY Times and WAPO are no longer a pain (or as painful).
That said, I wonder if they can keep this level of energy up. I hope they do. And I hope they can do it without bloating the product.
Once they get this bad-boy un-bugged, I'm getting all my lame users at various charities I do free stuff for to upgrade from their pre W3C beasts. The install, use and system suckage is very, very reasonable - especially considering the price.
Microsoft Work Suite Dead at 2002
.RTF documents as
.NET stepped in and restored operational order.
... then again, neither was MWS."
William Gates, CEO of the CPU, has announced the watered-down, kissing cousin
of Microsoft Office XP, Microsoft Work Suite (MWS). It was version 2002.
MWS was laid to rest in one of the largest disassemblies in recent years.
Placed in a bit bucket between Lotus Smart Suite and WordStar, its demise
was celebrated by such luminaries as Bjarne Stroustrup and James Gosling.
The gravesite was piled high with unfinished
longtime wannabe, WordPad ruffled some feathers when whie delivering a eulogy,
it describing MWS as an app who "was constantly on a quest to please the home user."
Internet Explorer didn't help things by asserting that MWS' demise was accelerated
by imposed strict licensing deals with hardware makers, expensive user upgrade paths
and intrusive registrations and overbearing EULAs.
At that point delegates from Visual Basic
Later, Notepad was heard coming to the defense of WordPad by asserting that a
double entendre was impossible as it was not equipped
"extended thesaurus support
MWS is survived by a 30 year End Users License Agreement, along with
a host of incompatible database files.
Some times Mark's server is inaccessible, in that case, here is a mirror of the document at Vincent Flander's Fixing Your Web Site : Dive Into Accessibility.
:: CSS 2 :: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 and U.S. Section 508 Guidelines.
There is also a pretty interesting example of usability gone wild at Chris Davis' - Sillyness spelled wrong intentionally who's site validates as XHTML 1.0 strict
I've often wondered if sometimes we're not all hooked into usability for usability sake, sometime forsaking compelling content? Not so much in the case of Chris Davis, but of some other sites claiming to be diciples of 'the Pilgrim'.
Though I would have preferred "byte me" ... but that would imply that char. counts!
I've been in touch with Shelley (the author) via email. I've been trying to convince her to write a SQL based upon some higher level languages. I could only imagine the derision for nasties such as dBase, PowerBuilder and Access. Hopefully they get the crap kicked out of them as well.
I guess one place to start would be to figure out what type of computer games women do play. My wife, who is also a quite capable UNIX admin who still enjoys a game of spider , tetris and a few other old-school favorites. I've got a little girl who is bored with flight simulators and such, and prefers puzzle like games where she finds things or builds things.
In other words, from a programmer's perspective perhaps the problem is that games for girls just aren't as sexy or as wham-bam to write as games for guys? Perhaps it isn't as profitable to engage in writing these programs because its hard to dress them up and make them fly?
I mean my wife and I joke about this all the time. Here I want to conquer the world, and there she wants to make it more livable.
Back in the day, a book like this would have been a real life saver for those of us slugging it out with brain-damaged operating systems (e.g. MS-DOS). From things like MIDI sequencers to guidance systems, the need for real-time speed was a real issue.
However, with the the maturity of operating systems, many of them now include device drivers, APIs, objects and other goodies that insulate the average programmer from the hassle of issues like latency. So my question is, other than good academic study, would it pay for the rest of us to spend the $$ on such a book?
Though I admit, having to write my share of real-time apps back in the day has me curious enough to put the book on my wishlist.
With fall arriving here in the North East of the United States, I'll soon have a back yard full of leaves. Would this technology work for this type of organic material as well, or should I go ahead and shred them up with the lawn mower and use them as mulch & compost?