Why not hire some programmers to come up with a new CAPTCHA distortion every few weeks? It's definitely not easy to produce a distortion that leaves text still easy to read.
Then I guess, simply, just have a chat then and let one participant make the changes in a wiki or similar.
Is there a way to access a shared desktop over the network simlutaneously? So then you'd say in the chat "let me write" and then that one person moves the mouse, type, etc..... take turns, etc. This way, any application would become "shareable" without any code change (OO / IDE's / Gimp / etc)
Just need to set up a machine that can be accessed by all. Stephan
I'm not a car person, but my impression is that if you go to Europe you'll find that off-the-shelf cars are a lot more fuel-efficient than off-the-shelf cars
in America.
They should be available in America but they are not.
Clicking on the Harvard link one needs to accept
their little rules:
At Harvard Business Review, we're committed to the dissemination of ideas and to the concept of fair use within intellectual property laws. We're also committed to protecting the rights of the people who have worked hard to develop the ideas we publish. We therefore allow you to excerpt up to 500 words of an article for your personal use. [Emphasis added]. This excerpt may be posted in your or another's blog or site [Emphasis added], provided that it is accompanied by a link to the page on which the original article appears.
So they're "hard-coding" blog and website here into the agreement. Looks like a beta-agreement.
More seriously, such publisher-by-publisher agreements are just what copyright laws are designed to avoid.
Maybe this is a sign to just throw out copyright laws, and have rights negotiated on a work-by-work basis.
On the other hand, I feel if someone (here Harvard) invokes copyright, they should not be allowed to add their own rules when they conflict with or limit fair-use.
The availability of guns to the general public is the last safeguard against tyrrany. It becomes much easier to fight an oppressive government if you have the weapons to do it with.
Just create some views on a copy of the database. They wouldn't know if the view is incomplete.
Let them only read the views created for them.
In general, isn't it funny how views are available for just this reason, and invcorporated into all the big databases, and yet, when it comes time to use the feature, everybody gets nervous.
Similar to using VM appliances instead of adding another package to a machine, another process or service, "just to be safe".
I wouldn't expect too much of a difference to an industry job, except
lower pay,
being more in new territory,
less importance for ease-of-use / eye-candy, and
no QA team.
In particular someone is going to have a problem, they will ask you to work on it, and probably point you to some pre-existing code for you to understand.
Of course, industry would have more excuses to use Microsoft software, so with a University job, if they use Microsoft stuff that is a red-light, "something's not quite right here".
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Why not hire some programmers to come up with a new CAPTCHA distortion every few weeks? It's definitely not easy to produce a distortion that leaves text still easy to read.
Stephan
I see, ok. Wasn't clear to me.
Then I guess, simply, just have a chat then and let one participant make the changes in a wiki or similar.
Is there a way to access a shared desktop over the network simlutaneously? So then you'd say in the chat "let me write" and then that one person moves the mouse, type, etc... .. take turns, etc. This way, any application would become "shareable" without any code change (OO / IDE's / Gimp / etc)
Just need to set up a machine that can be accessed by all.
Stephan
trac / subversion / wikimedia?
Stephan
I'm not a car person, but my impression is that if you go to Europe you'll find that off-the-shelf cars are a lot more fuel-efficient than off-the-shelf cars
in America.
They should be available in America but they are not.
Stephan
It's not just a statement; it is an agreement .. so its a hurdle. Imagine hurdles like that on every website..
On the other hand, why do you think it is an improvement?
Stephan
Why do you say "mad" instead of "down-to-earth"?
Stephan
So they're "hard-coding" blog and website here into the agreement. Looks like a beta-agreement.
More seriously, such publisher-by-publisher agreements are just what copyright laws are designed to avoid.
Maybe this is a sign to just throw out copyright laws, and have rights negotiated on a work-by-work basis.
On the other hand, I feel if someone (here Harvard) invokes copyright, they should not be allowed to add their own rules when they conflict with or limit fair-use.
Stephan
I suggest it didn't work out!
Stephan
This is obviously not belonging to "Your Rights Online". Stephan
Pretty funny. I had drunk some alcohol; considering that, I did a good job, I think. - Thanks - Stephan
Stephan
I find it remarkable that real people put their names to stuff like this.
Anybody here know someone personally with a silly corporate patent like this one? Do they believe in their "work"?
StephanIt just looks a little simple to divide revenue of a quarter down to the hour and use that as an estimate for the cost of the outage.
For example I wouldn't be surprised if half of the buyers return later on to order the books they couldn't because of an outage.
StephanStephan
Rewriting Rails in javascript would accomplish the same.
Stephan
Just create some views on a copy of the database. They wouldn't know if the view is incomplete.
Let them only read the views created for them.
In general, isn't it funny how views are available for just this reason, and invcorporated into all the big databases, and yet, when it comes time to use the feature, everybody gets nervous.
Similar to using VM appliances instead of adding another package to a machine, another process or service, "just to be safe".
StephanHow about sites like http://www.assembla.com/ ?
Any better aternative you would recommend?
Stephan
Stephan
Stephan
In particular someone is going to have a problem, they will ask you to work on it, and probably point you to some pre-existing code for you to understand.
Of course, industry would have more excuses to use Microsoft software, so with a University job, if they use Microsoft stuff that is a red-light, "something's not quite right here".
StephanHey must be some slashdot bug, since I was logged in (as sugarmotor) when I wrote that... Stephan
>> One of the concerns everyone raises with hosting on virtual machines is that if a VM instance goes down,....
I don't quite understand this one. I've heared it before and was puzzled. Do these VM's "go down" more frequently than regular hardware would?
Or is it just the dynamic IP that makes it more problematic?
Thanks --
Stephan
Stephan
100 billion ? That's peanuts compared to recent tax cuts, see http://www.ctj.org/html/gwb0602.htm
Stephan