He says the days of national TV networks controlling the global online rights to shows has to end.
Historically. this gives the big budget Hollywood production dominance in all markets. It is why New Zealand becomes a standing stage set and nothing more. It is why governments impose domestic content requirements on theaters, broadcasters, and so on.
---- and why Disney is intent on calming the waters by green-lighting a multi-cultural Pacific Rim anime Big Hero 6
Remember even the OLPC 1 couldn't get 100% free because they couldn't find a BIOS and wireless chipset at the time that wasn't proprietary and that was with X86, with ARM its even worse.
Significant deployments of OLPC 1 outside of Spanish speaking South America can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Participating countries OLPC was a product of the Western media lab and it had problems "free" software and hardware could not solve.
UEFI was never intended to improve security. Along with Microsoft's extensions it was designed as a lock-in tool.
Reality check.
An operating system that can be booted from a (U)EFI is called a (U)EFI-aware OS
The Linux kernel has been able to use EFI at boot time since early 2000, using the elilo EFI boot loader or, more recently, EFI versions of GRUB. The distribution Ubuntu added support for UEFI secure boot as of version 12.10. Further, the Linux kernel can be compiled with the option to run as an EFI bootloader on its own through the EFI bootstub feature.
HP-UX has used (U)EFI as its boot mechanism on IA-64 systems since 2002. HP OpenVMS has used (U)EFI on IA-64 since its initial evaluation release in December 2003, and for production releases since January 2005.
Apple uses EFI for its line of Intel-based Macs.
On March 5, 2013, the FreeBSD Foundation awarded a grant to a developer seeking to add UEFI support to the FreeBSD kernel and bootloader
That isn't good, but it doesn't actually mean that celebrities have some kind of inherent or national right to control their likenesses. States which disagree with this kind of outcome should make sure they repeal, or don't pass in the first place, laws like California's.
Because the state doesn't want the resident celebrity whose image is bankable and therefore taxable --- along with everything else he brings in.
Sports sim fans are fanatical about rules, teams, leagues, players, stats, uniforms, stadiums and so on. What they want is the authentic game day experience. If you fake it, you lose them. That is why you pay for the rights to everything.
It's really quite amusing to see the geek defend EA's right to a free ride.
In this California case, the driver's designer glasses were obstructing his peripheral vision and he was hit with a $500 fine. The law has been on the books since 1959.
In the end, most scientist presents with a set of equations or concept to understand, will inevitably spend some time plotting out or trying to pictorially described what it means, to help understand it.
The reporter Mark Sullivan ("Our Times," ca. 1930) made good use of imaginatively conceived charts and maps in his pioneering social history of the early twentieth century. The idea caught on as a way of playfully illustrating complex statistical data, political and social analysis.
They should start by using proper units. I know the USA is not metric, so they can use feet, miles and pounds, but football fields, states of delaware and volkswagens are not proper units. (and especially Library of Comgresses)
Illustrations drawn from everyday life and experience are easier to understand than the geek's's mathematical abstractions --- and understanding is what matters here, not the geek's sense of propriety,
You know that people eat it for the protein does not mean it taste good.
The outdoor writer Patrick McManus had this to say about the terminology used in books published for those given to fads like stalking wild plants:
Edible does not mean "good to eat." Choice does not mean choice. Edible means only that you won't flop over with face in the plate when you take a bite of the stuff.
You pick an action, then when the game decides when it's time, it executes it. It's a queuing system and it's nearly turn-based, like Civilization. You aren't controlling your space craft in real time.
sounds close to what real space ship combat would be like.
You think the songwriters actually get more than a pittance from ASCAP?
Collectively? Yes.
But only the top tier artists are going to see a significant payout.
In 2012, ASCAP collected over US$941 million in licensing fees and distributed $828.7 million in royalties to its members, with an 11.6 percent operating expense ratio. As of July 2013, ASCAP membership included over 460,000 songwriters, composers, and music publishers.
If you thought LMFAO and Bruno Mars were ubiquitous in this country, good luck trying to avoid them overseas. Songs from both artists, already massive hits at home, were huge earners outside the United States last year. Of the top 10 earning songs of the year for ASCAP members, four were recorded by Bruno Mars. Although LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem" scored the most revenue internationally, Bruno Mars swept the next three spots. In 2012, the organization's foreign revenue topped 340 million, more than double its 2000 foreign revenue of 128 million. As that revenue has grown, it has also increased its share of ASCAP's total. Foreign share of ASCAP revenue was 36% last year, compared with 22% in 2000. In all, ASCAP takes in about six times what it pays out to performance rights organizations in other countries. ASCAP collects royalties from performances in foreign countries through its agreements with fellow rights organizations in those territories. It currently collects from 100 such groups, recently adding Uganda. ASCAP's largest affiliate partner is Britain, from which it receives about 50 million a year for American songs
Once you understand how commercial orange juice is made I guarantee you'll never want to drink it again.
Heh.
Each fall as kids we picked up "drops" off the ground for delivery to the cider mill --- a little rot, a little bruising, and the occasional worm just made for a better flavor.
Code to learn foundation shows two black boys in the classic, "This is all going over my head." pose (head leaning on hand). But hey, at least the confused-looking children are not pasty white boys.
This photo is from MIT's Scratch site and it is the Scratch editor you see on the screen.
Scratch 2.0 was released for editing within a browser on May 9 and is alleged to be somewhat unresponsive. The off-line 2.0 editor remains in limbo. That said, I am reluctant to read anything significant in a pose when I cannot see a face.
What does Russia have to gain by throwing him out?
Someone just might suffer from the delusion that Putin would tolerate leaks of Russian documents. That males Snowden high maintenance, while his entertainment value --- and political capital ----diminishes with time.
Your interest is in the contents, not the container. Therefore, once you have a known-good copy of the data, you're all set.
assuming nothing happens to the new container.
and assuming the new container can store all the data recoverable now or in the future from a primary source.
the "known good" copy from the geek's point of view may not mean the same thing as having everything you need to authenticate the record in a court of law.
...there is already a site more or less dedicated to announcements about Microsoft Service Packs. It is called Microsoft.com,
As an reader, you have the option of ignoring stories about systems and software you don't like. As a publisher, Slashdot can't afford to ignore the 90% of its potential audience that has a personal or professional interest in news about MS Office and Windows.
I'm an archivist at a mid-sized university archives, trying to develop a policy for archiving computer files ('born-digital records' in archival parlance).
iirc Rasmussen telephone polling doesn't even include cell phones. Polling people who still have a land line seems like a good way to get a skewed result.
There is a little more to it than that.
To reach those who have abandoned traditional landline telephones, Rasmussen Reports uses an online survey tool to interview randomly selected participants from a demographically diverse panel.
After the surveys are completed, the raw data is processed through a weighting program to insure that the sample reflects the overall population in terms of age, race, gender, political party, and other factors. The processing step is required because different segments of the population answer the phone in different ways. For example, women answer the phone more than men, older people are home more and answer more than younger people, and rural residents typically answer the phone more frequently than urban residents.
Slashdot Mirror
He says the days of national TV networks controlling the global online rights to shows has to end.
Historically. this gives the big budget Hollywood production dominance in all markets. It is why New Zealand becomes a standing stage set and nothing more. It is why governments impose domestic content requirements on theaters, broadcasters, and so on.
---- and why Disney is intent on calming the waters by green-lighting a multi-cultural Pacific Rim anime Big Hero 6
Remember even the OLPC 1 couldn't get 100% free because they couldn't find a BIOS and wireless chipset at the time that wasn't proprietary and that was with X86, with ARM its even worse.
Significant deployments of OLPC 1 outside of Spanish speaking South America can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Participating countries OLPC was a product of the Western media lab and it had problems "free" software and hardware could not solve.
UEFI was never intended to improve security. Along with Microsoft's extensions it was designed as a lock-in tool.
Reality check.
An operating system that can be booted from a (U)EFI is called a (U)EFI-aware OS
The Linux kernel has been able to use EFI at boot time since early 2000, using the elilo EFI boot loader or, more recently, EFI versions of GRUB. The distribution Ubuntu added support for UEFI secure boot as of version 12.10. Further, the Linux kernel can be compiled with the option to run as an EFI bootloader on its own through the EFI bootstub feature.
HP-UX has used (U)EFI as its boot mechanism on IA-64 systems since 2002. HP OpenVMS has used (U)EFI on IA-64 since its initial evaluation release in December 2003, and for production releases since January 2005.
Apple uses EFI for its line of Intel-based Macs.
On March 5, 2013, the FreeBSD Foundation awarded a grant to a developer seeking to add UEFI support to the FreeBSD kernel and bootloader
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
Secure Boot wouldn't a problem for the geek if OEM Linux had a significant share of the x86 desktop.
That isn't good, but it doesn't actually mean that celebrities have some kind of inherent or national right to control their likenesses. States which disagree with this kind of outcome should make sure they repeal, or don't pass in the first place, laws like California's.
Because the state doesn't want the resident celebrity whose image is bankable and therefore taxable --- along with everything else he brings in.
Sports sim fans are fanatical about rules, teams, leagues, players, stats, uniforms, stadiums and so on. What they want is the authentic game day experience. If you fake it, you lose them. That is why you pay for the rights to everything.
It's really quite amusing to see the geek defend EA's right to a free ride.
Are they going to start controlling what type of spectacles people wear when they drive?
Start?
I got a ticket for driving with designer Sunglasses
In this California case, the driver's designer glasses were obstructing his peripheral vision and he was hit with a $500 fine. The law has been on the books since 1959.
V C Section 23120 Temple Width of Glasses
In the end, most scientist presents with a set of equations or concept to understand, will inevitably spend some time plotting out or trying to pictorially described what it means, to help understand it.
The reporter Mark Sullivan ("Our Times," ca. 1930) made good use of imaginatively conceived charts and maps in his pioneering social history of the early twentieth century. The idea caught on as a way of playfully illustrating complex statistical data, political and social analysis.
The United States of Paranoia
They should start by using proper units. I know the USA is not metric, so they can use feet, miles and pounds, but football fields, states of delaware and volkswagens are not proper units. (and especially Library of Comgresses)
Illustrations drawn from everyday life and experience are easier to understand than the geek's's mathematical abstractions --- and understanding is what matters here, not the geek's sense of propriety,
You know that people eat it for the protein does not mean it taste good.
The outdoor writer Patrick McManus had this to say about the terminology used in books published for those given to fads like stalking wild plants:
Edible does not mean "good to eat." Choice does not mean choice. Edible means only that you won't flop over with face in the plate when you take a bite of the stuff.
You pick an action, then when the game decides when it's time, it executes it. It's a queuing system and it's nearly turn-based, like Civilization. You aren't controlling your space craft in real time.
sounds close to what real space ship combat would be like.
You think the songwriters actually get more than a pittance from ASCAP?
Collectively? Yes.
But only the top tier artists are going to see a significant payout.
In 2012, ASCAP collected over US$941 million in licensing fees and distributed $828.7 million in royalties to its members, with an 11.6 percent operating expense ratio. As of July 2013, ASCAP membership included over 460,000 songwriters, composers, and music publishers.
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
If you thought LMFAO and Bruno Mars were ubiquitous in this country, good luck trying to avoid them overseas. Songs from both artists, already massive hits at home, were huge earners outside the United States last year.
Of the top 10 earning songs of the year for ASCAP members, four were recorded by Bruno Mars. Although LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem" scored the most revenue internationally, Bruno Mars swept the next three spots.
In 2012, the organization's foreign revenue topped 340 million, more than double its 2000 foreign revenue of 128 million. As that revenue has grown, it has also increased its share of ASCAP's total. Foreign share of ASCAP revenue was 36% last year, compared with 22% in 2000.
In all, ASCAP takes in about six times what it pays out to performance rights organizations in other countries.
ASCAP collects royalties from performances in foreign countries through its agreements with fellow rights organizations in those territories. It currently collects from 100 such groups, recently adding Uganda.
ASCAP's largest affiliate partner is Britain, from which it receives about 50 million a year for American songs
LMFAO, Bruno Mars top ASCAP's foreign royalties for 2012
Once you understand how commercial orange juice is made I guarantee you'll never want to drink it again.
Heh.
Each fall as kids we picked up "drops" off the ground for delivery to the cider mill --- a little rot, a little bruising, and the occasional worm just made for a better flavor.
Code to learn foundation shows two black boys in the classic, "This is all going over my head." pose (head leaning on hand). But hey, at least the confused-looking children are not pasty white boys.
This photo is from MIT's Scratch site and it is the Scratch editor you see on the screen.
Scratch 2.0 was released for editing within a browser on May 9 and is alleged to be somewhat unresponsive. The off-line 2.0 editor remains in limbo. That said, I am reluctant to read anything significant in a pose when I cannot see a face.
Tree isn't the same thing as three. Do your job or give up on it, jesus christ.
"me and three others" seems a little off as well.
That entire problem was solved by putting locks on the door.
If by solved you mean that the flight crew can safely be relied upon to ignore torture and death on the other side of the wall.
No matter how young the victims or whether they are strangers or friends.
Yup, Guido Fawkes has already run a poll on whether he should sue Claire Perry. 86% of people say yes.
The geek's on-line polls are worthless, witless, feel-good, nonsense --- which tell him only what he wants to hear.
What does Russia have to gain by throwing him out?
Someone just might suffer from the delusion that Putin would tolerate leaks of Russian documents. That males Snowden high maintenance, while his entertainment value --- and political capital ----diminishes with time.
At a press conference dubbed "Breakfast With Sundar,"
Large blocks of text are hard to read.
Your interest is in the contents, not the container. Therefore, once you have a known-good copy of the data, you're all set.
assuming nothing happens to the new container.
and assuming the new container can store all the data recoverable now or in the future from a primary source.
the "known good" copy from the geek's point of view may not mean the same thing as having everything you need to authenticate the record in a court of law.
...there is already a site more or less dedicated to announcements about Microsoft Service Packs. It is called Microsoft.com,
As an reader, you have the option of ignoring stories about systems and software you don't like. As a publisher, Slashdot can't afford to ignore the 90% of its potential audience that has a personal or professional interest in news about MS Office and Windows.
I'm an archivist at a mid-sized university archives, trying to develop a policy for archiving computer files ('born-digital records' in archival parlance).
Get Your Bits Off (Old Storage Media)
Demystifying Born Digital Reports
Working Draft of the Levels of Digital Preservation Chart
iirc Rasmussen telephone polling doesn't even include cell phones. Polling people who still have a land line seems like a good way to get a skewed result.
There is a little more to it than that.
To reach those who have abandoned traditional landline telephones, Rasmussen Reports uses an online survey tool to interview randomly selected participants from a demographically diverse panel.
After the surveys are completed, the raw data is processed through a weighting program to insure that the sample reflects the overall population in terms of age, race, gender, political party, and other factors. The processing step is required because different segments of the population answer the phone in different ways. For example, women answer the phone more than men, older people are home more and answer more than younger people, and rural residents typically answer the phone more frequently than urban residents.
Methodology
The best approach for dealing with piracy is making your content easily accessible, hassle-free (i.e., no DRM), and offered at a fair price.
The problem is that the geek's notion of a fair price almost always boils to down to "free."
Am I the only one surprised at the level of security for a student election?
With $8000 on the line for the winner?
BBC is the closest news network to cover it?
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Or do it in China, maybe close to ten years ago now.
and what you get is ghost city. run up on the cheap. but in the end too expensive for the locals and too remote for a commute.