But Johnny might not be able to speak the King's English and that might prevent him from getting the job. I know the US fought a war to get out from under the thumb of the King. I know Slashdot is a casual place filled with cool guys who have their street credibility to consider. But too much slang can get in the way of the message.
These free websites are great. I love them. But most of them don't do the actual research. Drudge just writes new headlines and links to the newspapers that did the work. Slashdot creates some original content, but it also relies heavily on others to do the work of reporting, writing and editing.
The blogosphere does many good things, but don't forget that the traditional media works very hard to create its product.
I abandoned two shopping carts yesterday. Why? Because the losers designing the websites forced me to click all the way through to the last confirmation page before telling me the shipping costs. And one of those sites was Amazon , a site that supposedly offers free shipping if you spend more than $25. But there are so many loopholes in their offer that the only way to find out the shipping cost is to click through and then abandoning the shopping cart.
I bet 80% of the abandoned carts would never appear if the sites didn't jerk you around and force you to "check out" to check out the shipping prices.
It wouldn't be anywhere as strenuous as actually swimming. And if you wear a wetsuit, you can pretty much bob along. He could spend about 7-8 hours a day floating in the water and then hop on the boat to do some work. They could even hook up a video conference link so he could talk to employees and clients.
If I had business to do with Opera, I would jump at that video conference. That would be one that I wouldn't delegate to an underling.
I like CS professors, but there's something damned precious about someone who seems to actually believe that the government should just give him/her money without asking for any deliverable. And, if the government somehow cuts off the stream of money, they have a right to bitch about it.
Women swoon when I talk to them about high-speed computing, VOIP, and the inherent tension between creator and consumer in the post-copyright world.
It's a tough gig, but I'm happy if I can fall asleep knowing that I brought a smile to just one face.
I haven't read the MS declaration in detail, but the summary makes it sound like customers are protected against IP lawsuits. Well, being sued for the RIAA for pirating an MP3 sounds like a lawsuit based upon someone's intellectual property. Can you get MS to protect you against these lawsuits by using the Windows MP3 player to play these MP3s?
A boy can hope.
Yes, I think this has some value for such a monolythic project as MySQL. Plus, it's clear that such a program would have made life a bit easier for the Linux kernel team after the appearance of SCO.
I don't know about most contributors, but I'm more interested in getting a working tool than keeping copyright of some snippet of code. So it doesn't bother me much.
Geez is the NYT dumb. Putting something in the "public domain" means you relinguish control. It's owned equally by everyone.
Choosing an "open source" license means you keep control. If you're careful about how you do it, you can even change the license terms a bit later. MySQL is constantly tweaking their terms because they're the sole copyright owner. Sure, it's available under the GPL, but they can tweak the terms for preferred customers. And they do! That's still their perogative because the code is NOT in the public domain.
I might also add that I'm finding more and more of the extreme or artistic stuff to be unsavory. It's just somehow offensive for me to see it.
Normally, I don't think that attitude entitles me to do anything except, say, growse on Slashdot. But apparently a good percentage of people agree with me. They just don't want to see extreme violence or sex on the tube. Given that a majority seems to feel that way and a majority granted the spectrum to the tv stations, I see nothing wrong with making restrictions.
PBS gets billions of dollars of broadcast spectrum for nothing. In return, I see nothing wrong with the government asking them to adhere to some common standard. If they want to display their hardcore, gruesome or sexual images, they can always produce DVDs or tapes. The porn industry has not been hampered. They weren't chilled.
Having said that, I can say that it might be nice if we had more unlicensed space without the arbitrary limits imposed upon the broadcast spectrum. But that wasn't possible when they first created television. It would be nice to overhaul the entire spectrum regulation process, but that's not the question.
They banned USB drives, but made it impossible to transfer files without them. They banned visiting external webmail because IE was filled with security glitches, but they refused to consider using anything but IE. I began to view them as kind of stupid. It was so unpleasant to work there that I went to another job. And I'm getting paid more too!
I seem to remember that the BSD folks dropped the acknowledgement clause from their license after Richard Stallman convinced them that it was too onerous. He some how felt that it made people think twice about it. I think the Berkeley folks couldn't have cared less, but they seemed to understand that the acknowledgement clause can be a pain when hundreds of people contribute code.
He pointed out that Microsoft Office now "just works. You can use it all day long and you won't see the difference." Then he added that wasn't 100% true because, "The Paperclip still doesn't work."
Seems like Wine runs Office better than Windows.
I watched a lab manager just fake data. Make it up completely. When someone reported it, they just fired the grad student. The latest news of cheating from physics must be just the tip of the iceberg.
Alas, I don't know any way to fix it. In my experience, the scientists don't even read the papers that they're supposed to be peer reviewing. It's all just a fascade.
The price differential is too huge. Most people don't use any of the features of Windows. Really, it's a great OS. I love using it. But if I was a MIS dude at a bank, I would toss it out the window (pun!) because of the cost. Most of the folks at the bank need some email and some access to accounts.
It just makes sense to create an Intranet for all of the internal form filling out work and account access and then use CGIs to do the computing. Let the servers do the work and let the client boxes format it for the screen with Mozilla.
Really. This is cool. I wish I had that many pieces. Maybe in the future when we can beam things from place to place, we'll be able to push a button and have a big enough pile of legos without paying a fortune for them.
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But Johnny might not be able to speak the King's English and that might prevent him from getting the job. I know the US fought a war to get out from under the thumb of the King. I know Slashdot is a casual place filled with cool guys who have their street credibility to consider. But too much slang can get in the way of the message.
These free websites are great. I love them. But most of them don't do the actual research. Drudge just writes new headlines and links to the newspapers that did the work. Slashdot creates some original content, but it also relies heavily on others to do the work of reporting, writing and editing.
The blogosphere does many good things, but don't forget that the traditional media works very hard to create its product.
I abandoned two shopping carts yesterday. Why? Because the losers designing the websites forced me to click all the way through to the last confirmation page before telling me the shipping costs. And one of those sites was Amazon , a site that supposedly offers free shipping if you spend more than $25. But there are so many loopholes in their offer that the only way to find out the shipping cost is to click through and then abandoning the shopping cart.
I bet 80% of the abandoned carts would never appear if the sites didn't jerk you around and force you to "check out" to check out the shipping prices.
It wouldn't be anywhere as strenuous as actually swimming. And if you wear a wetsuit, you can pretty much bob along. He could spend about 7-8 hours a day floating in the water and then hop on the boat to do some work. They could even hook up a video conference link so he could talk to employees and clients.
If I had business to do with Opera, I would jump at that video conference. That would be one that I wouldn't delegate to an underling.
RTFA: The last quote spells it right out. Deliverables are just a way that Darpa is being mean to the CS community.
I like CS professors, but there's something damned precious about someone who seems to actually believe that the government should just give him/her money without asking for any deliverable. And, if the government somehow cuts off the stream of money, they have a right to bitch about it.
The difficulty is reading it.
Women swoon when I talk to them about high-speed computing, VOIP, and the inherent tension between creator and consumer in the post-copyright world. It's a tough gig, but I'm happy if I can fall asleep knowing that I brought a smile to just one face.
I haven't read the MS declaration in detail, but the summary makes it sound like customers are protected against IP lawsuits. Well, being sued for the RIAA for pirating an MP3 sounds like a lawsuit based upon someone's intellectual property. Can you get MS to protect you against these lawsuits by using the Windows MP3 player to play these MP3s? A boy can hope.
Yes, I think this has some value for such a monolythic project as MySQL. Plus, it's clear that such a program would have made life a bit easier for the Linux kernel team after the appearance of SCO. I don't know about most contributors, but I'm more interested in getting a working tool than keeping copyright of some snippet of code. So it doesn't bother me much.
Geez is the NYT dumb. Putting something in the "public domain" means you relinguish control. It's owned equally by everyone. Choosing an "open source" license means you keep control. If you're careful about how you do it, you can even change the license terms a bit later. MySQL is constantly tweaking their terms because they're the sole copyright owner. Sure, it's available under the GPL, but they can tweak the terms for preferred customers. And they do! That's still their perogative because the code is NOT in the public domain.
I might also add that I'm finding more and more of the extreme or artistic stuff to be unsavory. It's just somehow offensive for me to see it.
Normally, I don't think that attitude entitles me to do anything except, say, growse on Slashdot. But apparently a good percentage of people agree with me. They just don't want to see extreme violence or sex on the tube. Given that a majority seems to feel that way and a majority granted the spectrum to the tv stations, I see nothing wrong with making restrictions.
PBS gets billions of dollars of broadcast spectrum for nothing. In return, I see nothing wrong with the government asking them to adhere to some common standard. If they want to display their hardcore, gruesome or sexual images, they can always produce DVDs or tapes. The porn industry has not been hampered. They weren't chilled.
Having said that, I can say that it might be nice if we had more unlicensed space without the arbitrary limits imposed upon the broadcast spectrum. But that wasn't possible when they first created television. It would be nice to overhaul the entire spectrum regulation process, but that's not the question.
They banned USB drives, but made it impossible to transfer files without them. They banned visiting external webmail because IE was filled with security glitches, but they refused to consider using anything but IE. I began to view them as kind of stupid. It was so unpleasant to work there that I went to another job. And I'm getting paid more too!
I seem to remember that the BSD folks dropped the acknowledgement clause from their license after Richard Stallman convinced them that it was too onerous. He some how felt that it made people think twice about it. I think the Berkeley folks couldn't have cared less, but they seemed to understand that the acknowledgement clause can be a pain when hundreds of people contribute code.
He pointed out that Microsoft Office now "just works. You can use it all day long and you won't see the difference." Then he added that wasn't 100% true because, "The Paperclip still doesn't work." Seems like Wine runs Office better than Windows.
I watched a lab manager just fake data. Make it up completely. When someone reported it, they just fired the grad student. The latest news of cheating from physics must be just the tip of the iceberg. Alas, I don't know any way to fix it. In my experience, the scientists don't even read the papers that they're supposed to be peer reviewing. It's all just a fascade.
The price differential is too huge. Most people don't use any of the features of Windows. Really, it's a great OS. I love using it. But if I was a MIS dude at a bank, I would toss it out the window (pun!) because of the cost. Most of the folks at the bank need some email and some access to accounts.
It just makes sense to create an Intranet for all of the internal form filling out work and account access and then use CGIs to do the computing. Let the servers do the work and let the client boxes format it for the screen with Mozilla.
Thanks for the info. I'm getting fink again as we speak!
Really. This is cool. I wish I had that many pieces. Maybe in the future when we can beam things from place to place, we'll be able to push a button and have a big enough pile of legos without paying a fortune for them.