At the time the Walkman was released, there were no comparable portable devices for playing spooled cassette tapes. The Walkman, therefore, classifies as an invention.
One of the major innovations to the Walkman were realised with radical changes to the tape spooling, using spring mounted mechanicals, to prevent jogger-effect.
The devices continued to see several improvements in battery performance, weight, form-factor and headphones.
And yes, someone always blames ATI for the problem. That's because it is an ATI problem.
Take ATI out of the picture with a modern Nvidia replacement and you've got a trouble free setup with self-installing binary drivers. I support 11 computers owned by 9 independent people running Ubuntu. GNU/Linux evangelism at work -- with a little nod towards Nvidia for binary driver support. And that last word is the key in the sentence.
/. moderators (+5 to parent? wtf) seem to have frequent memory lapses... to the point that they've forgotten the ATI's poor history of Linux driver development and the fiascos around getting API documentation for externally developed drivers.
However, with AMD at the helm and ATI chipset APIs openly documented, the scenarios of poor driver compatibility should be coming to an end.
I linked this in another post in this thread.
The Home Office made available their views on whether phorm's user-profile-based tracking is legal w.r.t. the interception of communication legislation.
" Targeted online advertising services should be provided with the explicit consent of ISPs' users or by the acceptance of the ISP terms and conditions. The providers of targeted online advertising services, and ISPs contracting those services and making them available to their users, should then - to the extent interception is at issue - be able to argue that the end user has consented to the interception (or that there are reasonable grounds for so believing)."
And:
" Targeted online advertising can be regarded as being provided in connection with the telecommunication service provided by the ISP in the same way as the provision of services that examine e-mails for the purposes of filtering or blocking spam or filtering web pages to provide a specifically tailored content service."
Finally:
" Targeted online advertising undertaken with the highest regard to the respect for the privacy of ISPs' users and the protection of their personal data, and with the ISPs' users consent, expressed appropriately, is a legitimate business activity. The purpose of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of RIPA is not to inhibit legitimate business practice particularly in the telecommunications sector. "
If the ISP has put the tracking details into the TERMS and CONDITIONS and the user has OK'd the tracking, then the tracking is legal.
The Home Office indicated their position on the usage of Phorm. Phorm's data collection was declared to be legal and lawful if the end-user gave consent for collecting the information.
I call bullshit on Mozilla. Microsoft forced IE 8 on me. I did not have a choice. Apple offered me Safari and I turned them down. Piggybacking a new piece of software, product or service, onto a service update is a cheap and dirty way to advertise a product from a shady company. Real stopped doing it, Mozilla avoids it despite their range of products and Microsoft was convicted for doing something similar (OS+tools and such).
I'd much rather see a page, picture or such of the new software and expect the company to leave it to the me to click though to the download. A truly valid expression of choice could be realised if the download page carried of the competitors' products and highlights the 'killer' features.
An updater service should NEVER install services which are not already on the system.
What i'm looking for is super consolidation of Adblock, NoScript and CSLite (cookie manager), in simple text file format or the like. Put a known advertiser into this list and all content from the domain and subdomains is blocked at all levels of the browser. Bonus points if this list can be updated via a subscription list.
In short: "Open source doesn't just mean access to the source code. The distribution terms of open-source software must comply with the following criteria:"... followed by a 10 point list of compliance criteria.
I must say, i'm crushed. I expected more from a lowid slashdotter.
Website claims to be the "Open Source Project Community" but the Singularity project's license is earmarked "Custom License".
Finally, quoting the text of the license for those who don't even want to visit the website.
License: Custom License
Microsoft Research License Agreement
Non-Commercial Academic Use Only
Singularity Research Development Kit (RDK)
This Microsoft Research License Agreement, including all exhibits ("MSR-LA") is a legal agreement between you and Microsoft Corporation ("Microsoft" or "we") for the software or data identified above, which may include source code, and any associated materials, text or speech files, associated media and "online" or electronic documentation and any updates we provide in our discretion (together, the "Software").
By installing, copying, or otherwise using this Software, you agree to be bound by the terms of this MSR-LA. If you do not agree, do not install, copy, or use the Software. The Software is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws and is licensed, not sold.
SCOPE OF RIGHTS:
You may use, copy, reproduce, and distribute this Software for any non-commercial academic purpose, subject to the restrictions in this MSR-LA. Some purposes which can be non-commercial academic are teaching, academic research, and personal experimentation. You may also distribute this Software with books or other teaching materials, or publish the Software on websites, that are intended to teach the use of the Software for academic or other non-commercial purposes. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, you may only use the tools included in the Software to build the Singularity system, or build applications that will run on Singularity.
You may not use or distribute this Software or any derivative works in any form for commercial purposes. Examples of commercial purposes would be running business operations, licensing, leasing, or selling the Software, distributing the Software for use with commercial products, using the Software in the creation or use of commercial products or any other activity which purpose is to procure a commercial gain to you or others.
You may create derivative works of the Software source code and distribute the modified Software solely for non-commercial academic purposes, as provided herein.. If you distribute the Software or any derivative works of the Software, you will distribute them under the same terms and conditions as in this license, and you will not grant other rights to the Software or derivative works that are different from those provided by this MSR-LA. Your license rights to the Software (or any Microsoft intellectual property associated therewith) does not include any license, right, power or authority to subject the Software or derivative works thereof in whole or in part to the terms of any license that requires as a condition of use, modification and/or distribution of software subject to such license that the software or other software combined and/or distributed with such software be (A) disclosed or distributed in source code form; (B) licensed for the purpose of making derivative works; or (C) redistributable at no charge.
If you have created derivative works of the Software, and distribute such derivative works, you will cause the modified files to carry prominent notices so that recipients know that they are not receiving the original Software. Such notices must state: (i) that you have changed the Software; and (ii) the date of any changes.
In return, we simply require that you agree:
1. That you will not remove any copyright or other notices from the Software.
2. That if any of the Software is in binary format, you will not attempt to modify such portions of the Software, or to reverse engineer or decompile them, except and only to the
But, M.K. Gandhi's word's are not quite relevant to this interview or indeed their recent marketing strategies. Seems they're beguiling customers into believe that they're getting something equivalent to, if not better than existing OpenSource tools.
With services like tinypic and tinyurl and links crafted to use Google's 'inurl:' coupled with 'i'm feeling lucky', it is difficult if not impossible to predict where a link will resolve to...
On the other hand, perhaps you can decipher cryptic links by staring at your status bar, in which case, more power to you.
The judge noted a clever tactic being used by the RIAA to obtain the lists of names from the captured ip addresses. A joint submission was being made to the court to gain clearance for this discovery process. Upon gaining the real names, the RIAA went on to sue them as individuals and ignored the group-status declared to the court.
RIAA lawyers were bending the law to get names--this was seen as being done in bad faith. Hence the footnote and the news article.
You may now resume your activity of reading further into the judge's remarks.
Slashdot Mirror
At the time the Walkman was released, there were no comparable portable devices for playing spooled cassette tapes. The Walkman, therefore, classifies as an invention.
One of the major innovations to the Walkman were realised with radical changes to the tape spooling, using spring mounted mechanicals, to prevent jogger-effect.
The devices continued to see several improvements in battery performance, weight, form-factor and headphones.
Cheers.
Take ATI out of the picture with a modern Nvidia replacement and you've got a trouble free setup with self-installing binary drivers. I support 11 computers owned by 9 independent people running Ubuntu. GNU/Linux evangelism at work -- with a little nod towards Nvidia for binary driver support. And that last word is the key in the sentence.
However, with AMD at the helm and ATI chipset APIs openly documented, the scenarios of poor driver compatibility should be coming to an end.
Cheers.
Rock tears though paper!
I linked this in another post in this thread.
The Home Office made available their views on whether phorm's user-profile-based tracking is legal w.r.t. the interception of communication legislation.
" Targeted online advertising services should be provided with the explicit consent of ISPs' users or by the acceptance of the ISP terms and conditions. The providers of targeted online advertising services, and ISPs contracting those services and making them available to their users, should then - to the extent interception is at issue - be able to argue that the end user has consented to the interception (or that there are reasonable grounds for so believing)."
And:
" Targeted online advertising can be regarded as being provided in connection with the telecommunication service provided by the ISP in the same way as the provision of services that examine e-mails for the purposes of filtering or blocking spam or filtering web pages to provide a specifically tailored content service."
Finally:
" Targeted online advertising undertaken with the highest regard to the respect for the privacy of ISPs' users and the protection of their personal data, and with the ISPs' users consent, expressed appropriately, is a legitimate business activity. The purpose of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of RIPA is not to inhibit legitimate business practice particularly in the telecommunications sector. "
If the ISP has put the tracking details into the TERMS and CONDITIONS and the user has OK'd the tracking, then the tracking is legal.
Here is the original article of the Home Office on Phorm.
What i don't know at this time, is whether BT does list the tracking in the T&C....
Cheers.
The Home Office indicated their position on the usage of Phorm. Phorm's data collection was declared to be legal and lawful if the end-user gave consent for collecting the information.
Here's a reference from the guardian blogs of March the 12th.
Article says that end-users were not not made aware of the phorm tracking. This will be an interesting case.
Cheers.
http://blog.pavlov.net/2008/03/11/firefox-3-memory-usage/
http://blog.pavlov.net/2007/11/15/less-fragmentation-coming-in-firefox-3/
http://blog.pavlov.net/2007/11/14/leaks-memory-we-never-forgot-about-you/
Cheers.
I'd much rather see a page, picture or such of the new software and expect the company to leave it to the me to click though to the download. A truly valid expression of choice could be realised if the download page carried of the competitors' products and highlights the 'killer' features.
An updater service should NEVER install services which are not already on the system.
Cheers.
... soon.
Daleks and Cybermen.
Cyberman: Daleks, be warned; you have declared war upon the Cybermen.
Dalek Sec: This is not war. This is pest control!
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What i'm looking for is super consolidation of Adblock, NoScript and CSLite (cookie manager), in simple text file format or the like.
Put a known advertiser into this list and all content from the domain and subdomains is blocked at all levels of the browser. Bonus points if this list can be updated via a subscription list.
This will a major time-saver for most of us.
Cheers.
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=476560&cid=22656000
by F452 (97091) Alter Relationship on 14:11 Wednesday 05 March 2008
Cheers to F452 for this information.
http://www.opensource.org/
They may have coinded tghe term, they certainly promoted it and made it polular. They disagree.
all the best,
drew
http://zotzbro.blogspot.com/ From the same website you've linked. [http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd]
In short:
"Open source doesn't just mean access to the source code. The distribution terms of open-source software must comply with the following criteria:"
I must say, i'm crushed. I expected more from a lowid slashdotter.
Cheers.
OpenSource.org, the authority on OpenSource, disagrees.
http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd
Spew less crap over the Internet.
Cheers.
Link to the license agreement. http://www.codeplex.com/singularity/license
Website claims to be the "Open Source Project Community" but the Singularity project's license is earmarked "Custom License".
Finally, quoting the text of the license for those who don't even want to visit the website.
License: Custom License
Microsoft Research License Agreement
Non-Commercial Academic Use Only
Singularity Research Development Kit (RDK)
This Microsoft Research License Agreement, including all exhibits ("MSR-LA") is a legal agreement between you and Microsoft Corporation ("Microsoft" or "we") for the software or data identified above, which may include source code, and any associated materials, text or speech files, associated media and "online" or electronic documentation and any updates we provide in our discretion (together, the "Software").
By installing, copying, or otherwise using this Software, you agree to be bound by the terms of this MSR-LA. If you do not agree, do not install, copy, or use the Software. The Software is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws and is licensed, not sold.
SCOPE OF RIGHTS:
You may use, copy, reproduce, and distribute this Software for any non-commercial academic purpose, subject to the restrictions in this MSR-LA. Some purposes which can be non-commercial academic are teaching, academic research, and personal experimentation. You may also distribute this Software with books or other teaching materials, or publish the Software on websites, that are intended to teach the use of the Software for academic or other non-commercial purposes. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, you may only use the tools included in the Software to build the Singularity system, or build applications that will run on Singularity.
You may not use or distribute this Software or any derivative works in any form for commercial purposes. Examples of commercial purposes would be running business operations, licensing, leasing, or selling the Software, distributing the Software for use with commercial products, using the Software in the creation or use of commercial products or any other activity which purpose is to procure a commercial gain to you or others.
You may create derivative works of the Software source code and distribute the modified Software solely for non-commercial academic purposes, as provided herein.. If you distribute the Software or any derivative works of the Software, you will distribute them under the same terms and conditions as in this license, and you will not grant other rights to the Software or derivative works that are different from those provided by this MSR-LA. Your license rights to the Software (or any Microsoft intellectual property associated therewith) does not include any license, right, power or authority to subject the Software or derivative works thereof in whole or in part to the terms of any license that requires as a condition of use, modification and/or distribution of software subject to such license that the software or other software combined and/or distributed with such software be (A) disclosed or distributed in source code form; (B) licensed for the purpose of making derivative works; or (C) redistributable at no charge.
If you have created derivative works of the Software, and distribute such derivative works, you will cause the modified files to carry prominent notices so that recipients know that they are not receiving the original Software. Such notices must state: (i) that you have changed the Software; and (ii) the date of any changes.
In return, we simply require that you agree:
1. That you will not remove any copyright or other notices from the Software.
2. That if any of the Software is in binary format, you will not attempt to modify such portions of the Software, or to reverse engineer or decompile them, except and only to the
Hmf...
Amongst our weaponry... are such elements as fear, surpr...
I'll come in again.
But, M.K. Gandhi's word's are not quite relevant to this interview or indeed their recent marketing strategies. Seems they're beguiling customers into believe that they're getting something equivalent to, if not better than existing OpenSource tools.
Cheers.
Series 30 begins in Spring.
Cheers.
With services like tinypic and tinyurl and links crafted to use Google's 'inurl:' coupled with 'i'm feeling lucky', it is difficult if not impossible to predict where a link will resolve to...
On the other hand, perhaps you can decipher cryptic links by staring at your status bar, in which case, more power to you.
Cheers.
Works on all OSs (well almost) and user editable.
Here's one example. http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
Cheers.
If you're looking for a practical solution to downloading your emails to an email client, try FreePops or YahooPops. Both work fairly well.
Cheers.
The judge noted a clever tactic being used by the RIAA to obtain the lists of names from the captured ip addresses. A joint submission was being made to the court to gain clearance for this discovery process. Upon gaining the real names, the RIAA went on to sue them as individuals and ignored the group-status declared to the court.
RIAA lawyers were bending the law to get names--this was seen as being done in bad faith. Hence the footnote and the news article.
You may now resume your activity of reading further into the judge's remarks.
Cheers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOUO
OK, one more time...
test it, test it, test it
and over, and over, and over
again and again and again
and back-up and back-up and back-up...
feel the burn!
The law enforcement does not sell your photo for profit.
Perhaps read the article?
Grandparent poster didn't read the article, and neither did you.