When the two worlds align and something actually happens, whatever it is, you guys know I'll be on this site as soon as I'm allowed to be. And I'll be very very clear. There is no news. Not never, just now.
And no-one seems to get that high interest rates aren't such a bad thing.
If you're saving money - it's great!
On the other hand if you've got enough credit cards to create your own suit - which apparently is most of us these days - then you probably won't enjoy it much.
This move toward privatisation is something I'll never understand.
Australia has plenty of 3rd paty telcos at the moment. Not enough to cause the wide-scale state-to-state confusion that apparently pervades the US, but enough to provide choice if you want it.
While the idea of creating a wholesale and retail arm will hopefully provide better service for the 3rd party telcos (Telstra owns most of the broadband backbone here) it still mystifies me as to why the goverment would divest itself of an organisation that actually makes a profit, particularly since in doing so they pretty much guarantee rural services will run into problems as soon as no-one's watching.
1) Connelly hires Sakic to create a static "leading block" style functionality - which already exists in other open-source, GPL CMS's - for the Furthermore website.
2) Sakic creates a dynamic version of the same functionality - which, as I said, already exists - for Mambo, based on new, different code.
3) Connelly claims he can "just tell" that it's the same code by looking at the site without any kind of code comparison.
4) Connelly threatens end-users without a shred of proof.
Now the simple part is, that "leading block" functionality itself exists as "prior art". Anyone can create one and publish it. You just can't use exactly the same code as someone who holds copyright on a version of that functionality.
From the perspective of pure technical function, it's nearly impossible for the code to be the same from the static template on Furthermore to the dynamic function in Mambo and in fact would need to be written from scratch to function in that environment.
Connelly simply wants the codebase of Mambo for himself, so that he can create a proprietary, probably hosted, version of something like eknowhow.com.
Taking the lessons of both Ford and SCO into account at this juncture would probably serve him well.
We're all getting these spams every damn day - god knows my own spam-to-legit mail ratio is getting riddiculous, I'm probably on around 80-90% spam at this point on a business email address I've had for 4 years.
But every time I get spam I just delete the fucker - which is what most people do I assume.... I just can't imagine that these chumps would actually get any business at all, or at least not enough to justify their time in front of the computer - has anyone got any info on how much money these guys can actually make from this?
We've had dealings with these guys before.
On talking to our lawyer, apparently the BSA (at least here in Australia) can obtain the equivalent of a search-warrant.
They need to have reasonable proof to get one - hence the ex-employee-ratting-out tatic. They require an insider that has a reasonable chance of having knowledge of the target-companies systems.
Once they get the court-order, they are allowed to tell everyone at the business to shut down all computers until they are cleared with the BSA.
So while the letters are designed to scare businesses into admitting their culpability, your chances of actually being audited are pretty small.
I'd have to agree, the screen-shots I've seen seem to have been put together by a colour-blind impressionist painter - could they fit more colours on at once?
Additionally, while the screen-grabs a limitied, the 3D models looked a little lacklustre for this day and age.
I was exhibiting at the AGDC over the weekend. The nVidia stuff was incredible - the most spectacular part of their 3D demo was the trees. First time I've seen real-time rendered trees that looked real and had substance (and lack of substance where necessary!), rather than being a some strange 2D/3D hybrid.
the Lanfest was just scary. 1000 guys in sleeping bags locked in a room for 48 hours. Day 2 they were bouncing off the walls, mugging old ladies for Jolt cola and trying to make off with my 23" Cinema Display.
Either that or they were trying to make out with it. Sometimes I wasn't sure.
The hardware-whingers and lag-bitches will need antother reason why their 133t skillz aren't working today.
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I know what you mean. It's getting that way over here in Australia as well.
I prefer not to have a computer in the house most of the time these days. Unless I've got some writing or music to work on, I just leave the laptop at work and get on with the business of have a life outside of work!
Wearable computing, huh? Could be interesting, but imagine the social snafus that become possible:
You're out on a date and your Cyber-sex mistress instant message's you. How embarassing.
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Sorry, still getting used to this forum - I'll re-post what I should've replied to here initially:
My apartment is one of 6, erm, "flats"? "units"? (read - dwellings) in an extensively renovated 180 year old ex-embassy. You enter through the main huge cast-iron gates, go through a massive entrance hall and into the cobble-stone paved courtyard, which has been throughourly landscaped.
My apartment is near the back of the courtyard, and all the apartments are entered via the courtyard.
They've cunningly used the original brick work for feature-walls, it has polished hardwood floors and the bed-room is seperated from the main rooms via a wall of Japanese screens at a 45 degree angle.
There's about 40 small, individually focusable downlights on dimmer switches.
There's nothing gerenically boxy about it.;)
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You know, I don't actually *want* to live in a house. There's just the one of me, and I never want to have to deal with maintaining a backyard. You do get some pretty unique architecture in the right kind of apartments.
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My apartment is one of 6, erm, "flats"? "units"? (read - dwellings) in an extensively renovated 180 year old ex-embassy. You enter through the main huge cast-iron gates, go through a massive entrance hall and into the cobble-stone paved courtyard, which has been throughourly landscaped.
My apartment is near the back of the courtyard, and all the apartments are entered via the courtyard.
They've cunningly used the original brick work for feature-walls, it has polished hardwood floors and the bed-room is seperated from the main rooms via a wall of Japanese screens at a 45 degree angle.
There's about 40 small, individually focusable downlights on dimmer switches.
That's true as well - but then Vader doesn't exactly say much either, so perhaps the Emperor just told him to keep his mouth shut and make with the killing and the brooding?
But my point was more that for Episode II to be a good story, Anakin must be a powerful force for good, so that his eventual fall to the darkside is a tradegy, rather than an inevetibility. Unfortunately this wasn't the case, we get Anakin the whining, selfish little prat - and it's not hard to see him succumbing to evil.
Oh yeah, Thomas Covenant was without a doubt one of the most boring pieces of fantasy I've ever failed to complete.
It's hard to empathise with a whining rapist with zero motivation.
The Gap series is very well done, incredibly engaging.
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Don't we have enough sameness with those everything-looks-the-same villages, where entire suburbs are built to one of a small number of very similar plans?
I value the uniqueness of my home, I enjoy the quirky nature of it's surroundings and in knowing that my apartment is very different from those around me. These are things which can't just be achieve by lighting and furniture - it's architecture.
We're living in a pre-fab world where everything from music to cars are all starting to look and sound the same - do we want to do this to our dwellings? I value difference and individuality, thanks very much!
Stephen Donaldson once said in his "Gap" Series that there is a difference between Drama and Melodrama.
Imagine a triangle, with each of the main character classes at a point - the Villian, the Victim and the Hero.
To truly be drama, in the course of the story, at least 2, but preferably all three of the characters must change place:
The Villain becomes the Victim, the Victim becomes the Hero and the Hero becomes the Villain. That's the essence of true drama. Otherwise it's just melodrama.
Stephen Donaldson used this to good effect in the Gap Series. Like much of Piers Anthony's work, this story featured some pretty hefty brutality and abuse of women. Unlike Piers Anthony, it's not the mainstay of Donaldson's work. Anthony has managed an entire universe based around this Hero-Pirate, but essentially the characters always stay the same, and his work never makes it past low-grade melodrama. Donaldson uses almost exactly the same pretext and gives us an epic and dramatic tale.
This is also a reason why Episode II was so poor from a narrative perspective. [*spoiler alert] We all know that Anakin becomes Darth Vader, we know what happens to Obi Wan. We know from Episode IV where all these characters must be. So unlike most stories, the interest is not derived from where the characters go, but how they get there. Which is what Lucas failed to deliver. The story of Anakin is not so much a fall from grace as a slight trip - you can believe that he becomes Darth Vader, but his personal journey to the dark side isn't particularly interesting.
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And no-one seems to get that high interest rates aren't such a bad thing. If you're saving money - it's great! On the other hand if you've got enough credit cards to create your own suit - which apparently is most of us these days - then you probably won't enjoy it much.
This move toward privatisation is something I'll never understand.
Australia has plenty of 3rd paty telcos at the moment. Not enough to cause the wide-scale state-to-state confusion that apparently pervades the US, but enough to provide choice if you want it.
While the idea of creating a wholesale and retail arm will hopefully provide better service for the 3rd party telcos (Telstra owns most of the broadband backbone here) it still mystifies me as to why the goverment would divest itself of an organisation that actually makes a profit, particularly since in doing so they pretty much guarantee rural services will run into problems as soon as no-one's watching.
1) Connelly hires Sakic to create a static "leading block" style functionality - which already exists in other open-source, GPL CMS's - for the Furthermore website. 2) Sakic creates a dynamic version of the same functionality - which, as I said, already exists - for Mambo, based on new, different code. 3) Connelly claims he can "just tell" that it's the same code by looking at the site without any kind of code comparison. 4) Connelly threatens end-users without a shred of proof. Now the simple part is, that "leading block" functionality itself exists as "prior art". Anyone can create one and publish it. You just can't use exactly the same code as someone who holds copyright on a version of that functionality. From the perspective of pure technical function, it's nearly impossible for the code to be the same from the static template on Furthermore to the dynamic function in Mambo and in fact would need to be written from scratch to function in that environment. Connelly simply wants the codebase of Mambo for himself, so that he can create a proprietary, probably hosted, version of something like eknowhow.com. Taking the lessons of both Ford and SCO into account at this juncture would probably serve him well.
We're all getting these spams every damn day - god knows my own spam-to-legit mail ratio is getting riddiculous, I'm probably on around 80-90% spam at this point on a business email address I've had for 4 years. But every time I get spam I just delete the fucker - which is what most people do I assume.... I just can't imagine that these chumps would actually get any business at all, or at least not enough to justify their time in front of the computer - has anyone got any info on how much money these guys can actually make from this?
We've had dealings with these guys before. On talking to our lawyer, apparently the BSA (at least here in Australia) can obtain the equivalent of a search-warrant. They need to have reasonable proof to get one - hence the ex-employee-ratting-out tatic. They require an insider that has a reasonable chance of having knowledge of the target-companies systems. Once they get the court-order, they are allowed to tell everyone at the business to shut down all computers until they are cleared with the BSA. So while the letters are designed to scare businesses into admitting their culpability, your chances of actually being audited are pretty small.
I'd have to agree, the screen-shots I've seen seem to have been put together by a colour-blind impressionist painter - could they fit more colours on at once? Additionally, while the screen-grabs a limitied, the 3D models looked a little lacklustre for this day and age.
the Lanfest was just scary. 1000 guys in sleeping bags locked in a room for 48 hours. Day 2 they were bouncing off the walls, mugging old ladies for Jolt cola and trying to make off with my 23" Cinema Display.
Either that or they were trying to make out with it. Sometimes I wasn't sure.
The hardware-whingers and lag-bitches will need antother reason why their 133t skillz aren't working today.
I prefer not to have a computer in the house most of the time these days. Unless I've got some writing or music to work on, I just leave the laptop at work and get on with the business of have a life outside of work!
Wearable computing, huh? Could be interesting, but imagine the social snafus that become possible:
You're out on a date and your Cyber-sex mistress instant message's you. How embarassing.
My apartment is one of 6, erm, "flats"? "units"? (read - dwellings) in an extensively renovated 180 year old ex-embassy. You enter through the main huge cast-iron gates, go through a massive entrance hall and into the cobble-stone paved courtyard, which has been throughourly landscaped.
My apartment is near the back of the courtyard, and all the apartments are entered via the courtyard.
They've cunningly used the original brick work for feature-walls, it has polished hardwood floors and the bed-room is seperated from the main rooms via a wall of Japanese screens at a 45 degree angle.
There's about 40 small, individually focusable downlights on dimmer switches.
There's nothing gerenically boxy about it. ;)
You know, I don't actually *want* to live in a house. There's just the one of me, and I never want to have to deal with maintaining a backyard. You do get some pretty unique architecture in the right kind of apartments.
My apartment is one of 6, erm, "flats"? "units"? (read - dwellings) in an extensively renovated 180 year old ex-embassy. You enter through the main huge cast-iron gates, go through a massive entrance hall and into the cobble-stone paved courtyard, which has been throughourly landscaped.
My apartment is near the back of the courtyard, and all the apartments are entered via the courtyard.
They've cunningly used the original brick work for feature-walls, it has polished hardwood floors and the bed-room is seperated from the main rooms via a wall of Japanese screens at a 45 degree angle.
There's about 40 small, individually focusable downlights on dimmer switches.
There's nothing gerenically boxy about it. ;)
But my point was more that for Episode II to be a good story, Anakin must be a powerful force for good, so that his eventual fall to the darkside is a tradegy, rather than an inevetibility. Unfortunately this wasn't the case, we get Anakin the whining, selfish little prat - and it's not hard to see him succumbing to evil.
Oh yeah, Thomas Covenant was without a doubt one of the most boring pieces of fantasy I've ever failed to complete. It's hard to empathise with a whining rapist with zero motivation. The Gap series is very well done, incredibly engaging.
Don't we have enough sameness with those everything-looks-the-same villages, where entire suburbs are built to one of a small number of very similar plans?
I value the uniqueness of my home, I enjoy the quirky nature of it's surroundings and in knowing that my apartment is very different from those around me. These are things which can't just be achieve by lighting and furniture - it's architecture.
We're living in a pre-fab world where everything from music to cars are all starting to look and sound the same - do we want to do this to our dwellings? I value difference and individuality, thanks very much!
Stephen Donaldson once said in his "Gap" Series that there is a difference between Drama and Melodrama.
Imagine a triangle, with each of the main character classes at a point - the Villian, the Victim and the Hero.
To truly be drama, in the course of the story, at least 2, but preferably all three of the characters must change place:
The Villain becomes the Victim, the Victim becomes the Hero and the Hero becomes the Villain. That's the essence of true drama. Otherwise it's just melodrama.
Stephen Donaldson used this to good effect in the Gap Series. Like much of Piers Anthony's work, this story featured some pretty hefty brutality and abuse of women. Unlike Piers Anthony, it's not the mainstay of Donaldson's work. Anthony has managed an entire universe based around this Hero-Pirate, but essentially the characters always stay the same, and his work never makes it past low-grade melodrama. Donaldson uses almost exactly the same pretext and gives us an epic and dramatic tale.
This is also a reason why Episode II was so poor from a narrative perspective. [*spoiler alert] We all know that Anakin becomes Darth Vader, we know what happens to Obi Wan. We know from Episode IV where all these characters must be. So unlike most stories, the interest is not derived from where the characters go, but how they get there. Which is what Lucas failed to deliver. The story of Anakin is not so much a fall from grace as a slight trip - you can believe that he becomes Darth Vader, but his personal journey to the dark side isn't particularly interesting.