So... the brighty "researchers" at Microsoft finally heard of QR Code, maybe suggested that a decoder be implemented in a next release of Windows Mobile, and had to reinvent the wheel so it would be "new stuff" ?
That said, it *is* different from QR Code, a QR Code can story any arbitrary data, this variant seem to resolve around URLs to web services that do an awful lot of stuff without the user's explicit consent (other than scanning the code). Damn. Having seen the horrors of ActiveX "automations", it sure don't want this in cellphones!
Maybe I sound like an party-pooper, but wouldn't color complicate the whole stuff? I mean, a QR code or a standard barcode can be printed in a black-and-white newspaper page (which are not *that* uncommon), this Microsoft Tag could not.
From the Facebook terms of service: "By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise, on or in connection with the Site or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such User Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing."
English's not my native language, I may be overlooking a legal subtelty... but this looks like Facebooks takes the right to GIVE my pics, not to SELL them. As for "derivative works", is a generated thumbnail a "derivative work" of the pic I just uploaded?
You're making the asumption that these children or their parents can read at all, which I really doubt is the case. Don't think either that they have access to the Internet, let alone electricity.
Of course, once being tutored by a human you DO go and write up the documentation so it's now current, don't you?
Well, actually I DO write some documentation (especially covering the usage of a terminal and various command-line utilities under Mac OS X); and I've hosted a few presentations at my AUG's mettings. As my docs and presentations are written and done in french you wouldn't get much from them, but my numerous english-illiterate readers really appreciated my effort.
Of course this is not exactly "updating existing F/OSS documentation", it's "writing inexistant french-language documentation, as many users can't read english". Also, maybe "tutoring more users once I've been tutored myself" doesn't count by your definition of "being unselfish". You got point.
(include "disclaimer/english is not my mother tongue")
Not being part of a LUG myself, I couldn't tell wether they still matter or not even though I'd like to say "YES they do". Not sure about the other slashdotters, but I'd rather be tutored by a friendly human next to me than having to read half-done (the other half being outdated) HOWTOs.
I co-founded GrUMF ("Groupe d'Utilisateurs Macintosh Francophones") back in '99, it's a french-language Apple User Group based in Belgium (but our mailing-list and active members list include many French people). One would say that Apple software and hardware being more "mainstream" than Linux in general, an AUG would be totally irrelevant; in fact, even Apple Belgium-Luxemburg thought we didn't matter back in our early days, now they finally realised that AUG are free advertisment, free user support, and are a wonderful breeding ground for good ideas. Apart from that, being human beings, it's always a pleasure to meet other human beings sharing at least one interest with me. Many members of my AUG are now personal friends, and that friendship covers way more than Apple stuff.
My take on this: Yes, $COMMON_INTEREST User Groups matter, as long as humans will be more flesh than wire.
And for the most part, the protagonists commit violent acts because it's necessary, not because they're having fun.
Huh...think "Postal". Postal 1 is kind of "damn, I flipped and now everyone wants to kill me, let's kill them - and innocent bystanders - before they get me"; Postal 2 is more in the lines of "I could do it peacefully, but it's so much funnier if I blow innocent's head with my shotgun...oh and did I mention that its barrel is up some even more innocent cat's ass ?".
This is unneeded, random ultra-violence and that's the very reason why people play such videogames. Some people enjoy origami, but I find myself in a much more "zen" state after killing a few dozen innocents (on-screen, that is).
Copycats are everywhere, but please don't blame videogames for inspiring them; real-world killers are monsters (unless you find it "natural" to put an end to other people's lives at will) and those needing inspiration could get it from TV, newspapers, litterature,... It's rather amusing to see that everyone seems to have forgotten that there were serial killers before any gaming console or computer was ever invented.
I just wanted to get a list of high-quality REALbasic apps in a hurry, and to make clear that being developed in REALbasic doesn't imply ending as a pile of crap. Forget the award, just take a look at each of these apps; most are commercial-quality apps, made by very small dev teams.
The default setup of OSX doesn't have SSH enabled...so the average user isn't concerned by such patch. I guess that if you're Unix-savvy enough to need to SSH to your OSX box then maybe you're Unix-savvy enough to install the patch by yourself without waiting for Apple to distribute it via SoftwareUpdate.
It may not seem so, but the parent post is quite insightful. Ballmer knows exactly what MS is working on, maybe this move means that Microsoft is going to make some übermistake (if it hasn't already done). Athens PC maybe ?
Might it be retribution against the French for not doing what the U.S. ordered them to do (Iraq)?
Event if it was it shouldn't have happened...no one, I repeat NO ONE is supposed to do whatever the USA tell them to do; especially when the order is to wage war on some random country just because.
Nope, it's the nickname I've carried for seven years now (Virus) with my birth year appended to make it unique and longer than 6 characters so I can use it as a login;-)
Actually for the fraction of users who load apple.slashdot.org this is "stuff that matters". It's a section meant to be read by Mac users (read: potential Safari users)...see ?
Nope, on my RevA iMac it boots, then crawls but never runs (with 160 MB of RAM).
It runs quite smoothly (but I still see the Beach Ball of Death at least once an hour) on my 400 MHz iMac DV, of course the 640MB of RAM help but a faster drive would help too.
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So... the brighty "researchers" at Microsoft finally heard of QR Code, maybe suggested that a decoder be implemented in a next release of Windows Mobile, and had to reinvent the wheel so it would be "new stuff" ? That said, it *is* different from QR Code, a QR Code can story any arbitrary data, this variant seem to resolve around URLs to web services that do an awful lot of stuff without the user's explicit consent (other than scanning the code). Damn. Having seen the horrors of ActiveX "automations", it sure don't want this in cellphones! Maybe I sound like an party-pooper, but wouldn't color complicate the whole stuff? I mean, a QR code or a standard barcode can be printed in a black-and-white newspaper page (which are not *that* uncommon), this Microsoft Tag could not.
From the Facebook terms of service: "By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distribute such User Content for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise, on or in connection with the Site or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such User Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing."
English's not my native language, I may be overlooking a legal subtelty... but this looks like Facebooks takes the right to GIVE my pics, not to SELL them. As for "derivative works", is a generated thumbnail a "derivative work" of the pic I just uploaded?
You're making the asumption that these children or their parents can read at all, which I really doubt is the case. Don't think either that they have access to the Internet, let alone electricity.
Of course, once being tutored by a human you DO go and write up the documentation so it's now current, don't you?
Well, actually I DO write some documentation (especially covering the usage of a terminal and various command-line utilities under Mac OS X); and I've hosted a few presentations at my AUG's mettings. As my docs and presentations are written and done in french you wouldn't get much from them, but my numerous english-illiterate readers really appreciated my effort.
Of course this is not exactly "updating existing F/OSS documentation", it's "writing inexistant french-language documentation, as many users can't read english". Also, maybe "tutoring more users once I've been tutored myself" doesn't count by your definition of "being unselfish". You got point.
(include "disclaimer/english is not my mother tongue")
Not being part of a LUG myself, I couldn't tell wether they still matter or not even though I'd like to say "YES they do". Not sure about the other slashdotters, but I'd rather be tutored by a friendly human next to me than having to read half-done (the other half being outdated) HOWTOs.
I co-founded GrUMF ("Groupe d'Utilisateurs Macintosh Francophones") back in '99, it's a french-language Apple User Group based in Belgium (but our mailing-list and active members list include many French people). One would say that Apple software and hardware being more "mainstream" than Linux in general, an AUG would be totally irrelevant; in fact, even Apple Belgium-Luxemburg thought we didn't matter back in our early days, now they finally realised that AUG are free advertisment, free user support, and are a wonderful breeding ground for good ideas. Apart from that, being human beings, it's always a pleasure to meet other human beings sharing at least one interest with me. Many members of my AUG are now personal friends, and that friendship covers way more than Apple stuff.
My take on this: Yes, $COMMON_INTEREST User Groups matter, as long as humans will be more flesh than wire.
And for the most part, the protagonists commit violent acts because it's necessary, not because they're having fun.
Huh...think "Postal". Postal 1 is kind of "damn, I flipped and now everyone wants to kill me, let's kill them - and innocent bystanders - before they get me"; Postal 2 is more in the lines of "I could do it peacefully, but it's so much funnier if I blow innocent's head with my shotgun...oh and did I mention that its barrel is up some even more innocent cat's ass ?".
This is unneeded, random ultra-violence and that's the very reason why people play such videogames. Some people enjoy origami, but I find myself in a much more "zen" state after killing a few dozen innocents (on-screen, that is).
Copycats are everywhere, but please don't blame videogames for inspiring them; real-world killers are monsters (unless you find it "natural" to put an end to other people's lives at will) and those needing inspiration could get it from TV, newspapers, litterature, ... It's rather amusing to see that everyone seems to have forgotten that there were serial killers before any gaming console or computer was ever invented.
I just wanted to get a list of high-quality REALbasic apps in a hurry, and to make clear that being developed in REALbasic doesn't imply ending as a pile of crap. Forget the award, just take a look at each of these apps; most are commercial-quality apps, made by very small dev teams.
Yet you're very careful not to name any.
/. spirit, I can provide a link: http://realbasic.com/community/designawards/2005/.
I won't either, but, in the true
"Made with REALbasic" != "Absolute crap, guaranteed"
The default setup of OSX doesn't have SSH enabled...so the average user isn't concerned by such patch. I guess that if you're Unix-savvy enough to need to SSH to your OSX box then maybe you're Unix-savvy enough to install the patch by yourself without waiting for Apple to distribute it via SoftwareUpdate.
At a first glance I read it as "U.S. Governments To Get Cybersecurity Thief".
And while you're at it, define "cyber terrorist". Who decides who's a terrorist and who's not ? Minitru ?
It may not seem so, but the parent post is quite insightful. Ballmer knows exactly what MS is working on, maybe this move means that Microsoft is going to make some übermistake (if it hasn't already done).
Athens PC maybe ?
just here
Might it be retribution against the French for not doing what the U.S. ordered them to do (Iraq)?
Event if it was it shouldn't have happened...no one, I repeat NO ONE is supposed to do whatever the USA tell them to do; especially when the order is to wage war on some random country just because.
First of all, the word is "viruses," you dumb shit. There's no such word as "virii."
First of all "virus" is a latin word, and its latin plural is in fact "virii". Learn something before you call others "dumb shit".
Nope, it's the nickname I've carried for seven years now (Virus) with my birth year appended to make it unique and longer than 6 characters so I can use it as a login ;-)
Actually for the fraction of users who load apple.slashdot.org this is "stuff that matters". It's a section meant to be read by Mac users (read: potential Safari users)...see ?
Firewire cable to connect the two machines: $little
I would rather say "$zero" as every Mac with built-in FireWire is shipped with a free FW cable.
There was a 48-bit limit, it was pushed to 56-bit in 1998 then the limit disappeared in 1999 to let e-commerce grow.
The Microsoft motto: "we're the leaders, wait for us !"
Quake was the first game that really gave me that sense of claustophobia and panic.
Amen to that, Quake is all about fear and rage. And the music...just put your Quake CD-ROM in your home stereo and feel your brain twisting itself.
Ofcourse, if you already have jaguar installed then I'm just plain wrong... :)
I'm afraid you are, both run 10.2.5. Maybe they would run it faster if they had faster hard drives.
OS X runs on any iMac, ever.
Nope, on my RevA iMac it boots, then crawls but never runs (with 160 MB of RAM).
It runs quite smoothly (but I still see the Beach Ball of Death at least once an hour) on my 400 MHz iMac DV, of course the 640MB of RAM help but a faster drive would help too.
$1 a year for being the CEO.
$1.16mil for two years of jet renting
and even if you consider the $1.16mil to be a salary: $1.16mil for 2 years == not that much a year, compared to other major company's CEO's salaries.
It's been around for about 7 years...still French consider themselves as pioneers.