"But, with all of the terrorist threats lately, bringing passport documents into the digital world is sure to increase security"
Has the lack of digital passports ever facilitated a breach of security? You know that the 9/11 hijackers had valid US passports. If they had digital RFID passports on them instead would they somehow have thought twice about hijacking the plane?
It's dorks like you who will eventually get CCTV into people's houses with the apologist "hey if you've got nothing to hide... "
For those of us who won't RFA, the synopsis might be:
"OSS is good for the economy because it raises the opportunity cost of using free software over paid for software. Never again will you have to pay for an Outlook-type program for Windows over it's free version. As a consequence the quality of output from the software industry is raised, thus promoting competition over monopolistic practices"
If those players were made in the US or even Japan they would start at $100 a piece. If you're an unemployed electrical engineer in the US / Western Europe (and I know there's quite a few), relieve the boredom with a $35 multi-region DVD player.
Welcome to globalisation too - those Chinese manufacturers _are_ in it for the money
Following the miserable failure of WAP/bug-ridden implementation of WMLScript, lack of graphical api (Oooh lets use bitmap picture files for low bandwidth devices!) and poor user recognition, a new paradigm in WAP is coming, based on NTT Docomo's HTML subset called cHTML...
"One IBM employee in the company's internal technology department characterized the decision as routine."
One Microsoft employee in the company's unspecified division of vaguery was alleged to have characterized a response which resembled "We OWNZ you biatch!".
Actually if the grandparent post is acceptably funny (personally I think it's thinly veiled racism), then at least the parent post is historically perceptive if not quite witty.
I do think slashdot's only purpose on the Internet is to aggregate stupidity.
"The effect of this ruling is that employers in Texas can claim ownership of thoughts in their employees brains. Texas courts can and will uphold these employer claims. Texas courts can order an employee that has been fired to work for the former employer without compensation for time or expenses. What ever you have accomplished prior to going to work for your employer can become property of your your current employer."
Isn't Texas the state where you're not allowed to wear checked trousers and eating ice cream on Sunday is a capital offence? I hope so.
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Doesn't that make it the comparative of the adjective "prim", as in
is because Yahoo is the Internet to many people - in Japan!
Gosh. I feel exhilerated every time I get to add "in Japan" to my posts. But seriously, Japanese is the second most prolific language on the Internet and Yahoo is the most popular search engine for Japanese surfers.
I'm a software engineer and I have freedom
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Lots of it. Apart from when I have to go to the job centre once a fortnight on Thursday.
I'm glad I've got IBM on my side. They've certainly been doing their bit for the UK software industry.
Sony CEO : "What shall we call it?" BMG CEO : "...." Marketing Guy : "How about Sony BMG". CEOs : "Mmm, it has a good ring to it... " Marketing Guy : "I'll invoice you from my office"
Flashturbators those Macromedia people are. We'd much rather drool before SVG on our mobile phones.
Second thoughts, euuw...
Isn't it the case with Knighthoods
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that even our American friends wouldn't mind one? Not having to tick the Mrs/Mr/Dr/Ms box is nice.
But I worry about the whole honours system because it's outdated, outmoded and even unwanted in some cases.
My wish for TBL is that he refuse the award. Seriously. Why accept an award from a monarch seeking justification for her burden on taxpayers? As long as she brings in more in tourism than she spends, then no problem, but don't legitimise her privilege by accepting token medals and titles from her.
What mono needs is a good RAD tool for developing GTK# based apps. I know you can reference GTK# libraries in VS.NET but there's no support for cross platform forms design.
The syntax for building Winforms is completely different to GTK# (as one might expect) but the documentation I've found doesn't really map types and methods for developers familiar with existing RAD tools such as MonoDevelop and the excellent SharpDevelop.
I remember when anyone with a CS degree who knew what http meant could get a job as a trainee programmer. I actually remember taking a test for an anti-virus company which had the question "What does TCP/IP stand for?".
The fact is that now, those people have either become managers because TCP/IP was the only acronym they knew, or they knew all the acronyms but didn't know how to make money from them.
I make software on GPL for suppliers because software companies can't compete - the economics doesn't work. If you spend $20,000 learning how to program, a company has to pay you a minimum salary to recoup those costs. As I don't work for a software company and programming is not my job, I add value to my role without feeling the financial pressure of making shrinkwrap software for a living. Everyone benefits, apart from software companies.
You think this doesn't apply to big software companies? Look what's happening to Global Exchange Services (GE Exchange Services) in the face of peer document exchange (eg. XML over FTP) I can write an XSLT to convert their EDIFACT EDI to XML. That'll be $800. Can a multinational compete? Well giantkillers are the norm. Welcome to the new software capitalism - enjoy your stay.
See The Day After Tomorrow for an example (it should be on the pirated version too). No doubt a million tiny thought bubbles popped up from movie-goers with the question "What if it's a movie about pirates?"
A legacy application is one that works. And the same can be said of SQL. Actually XML works too.
It's important to understand what XML is replacing - binary or proprietary interfaces. This means an acceptable tradeoff between human readability (a hugely underrated requirement of a structured data format) and efficiency.
An example is EDI vs XML. EDI "efficiency" accrues only to the intermediary that invented the means to setup trading relationships across their proprietary network. XML uses the end users' bandwidth but it simultaneously eliminates the intermediary completely. This single fact saves literally millions in kilocharacter and storage charges.
SQL is what my old compsci prof would call opportunity-cost efficient. It's quick and can be implemented a number of ways - it's a data query framework, not a requirement for databases. There may be better ways to do it but you'll have a tradeoff somewhere.
And if someone offers something better, then when they've finished telling you how good the new way is, wait and listen for the inevitable sales pitch.
Every employee takes ownership of a lava lamp and a plant when they start their job.
Whilst I have to recommend lava lamp especially, it is said that the health of the plant and whether the lava has gone cloudy (if you leave it in the sunlight) affects your promotion chances.
Suse. I know the someone there, and he told me it's been a Novell Netware on IBM shop for years. I would ask him to confirm but I'm he'd only ridicule me for hanging around/. Here's a bit of mail header from him:
Received: from AELTC-MTA by aeltc_office.aeltc.com with Novell_GroupWise; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:38:01 +0000
And I have to say that I expected so much more. The snapshot is a basic introduction to algebra. Dry material, so enliven it a little. Make the book different. Make it count for chrissakes.
If I wanted another courier-font algebra book I's look in my granddad's attic (which is free too).
OK, there's a lot of misunderstanding about this. The edited register cannot be sold without the authorisation of the local council. But if you happen to be an "approved" subscriber to this information (ie. you happen to be MBNA Europe or a number of other data controllers), you will have free access to the information regardless of whether voters have opted in or out.
Yeah, it's an uncomfortable reality. Because the illusion of censure on your own information is important, but it's completely non-existent. Remember when you were a student or when you lived in your parents' house? You didn't get half as much junk mail as now, as a separate voting entity with your own entry in the electoral register. Why do you think that is?
This is the biggest lie of them all. I stand by my original comment.
MBNA Credit is a credit company. They also sell credit cards. There's a loophole as wide as goatse for them to abuse their privilige. Do you want me to send the junk mail I get from these companies since signing the electoral register? It can be arranged....
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"But, with all of the terrorist threats lately, bringing passport documents into the digital world is sure to increase security"
... "
Has the lack of digital passports ever facilitated a breach of security? You know that the 9/11 hijackers had valid US passports. If they had digital RFID passports on them instead would they somehow have thought twice about hijacking the plane?
It's dorks like you who will eventually get CCTV into people's houses with the apologist "hey if you've got nothing to hide
having a disco at the end of RoTJ unfortunately won't be erased from living memory on the new DVD ...
For those of us who won't RFA, the synopsis might be:
"OSS is good for the economy because it raises the opportunity cost of using free software over paid for software. Never again will you have to pay for an Outlook-type program for Windows over it's free version. As a consequence the quality of output from the software industry is raised, thus promoting competition over monopolistic practices"
Was I right? Should I read it now?
Audacity and a relatively simple plugin. Open source software is good like that.
100Tb is a lot of storage, but it won't be enough for a ultra hi-res 60 degree widescreen movie that's been running for just under 32 years.
Even if a third of it is with the lens cap on.
Enjoy your stay.
If those players were made in the US or even Japan they would start at $100 a piece. If you're an unemployed electrical engineer in the US / Western Europe (and I know there's quite a few), relieve the boredom with a $35 multi-region DVD player.
Welcome to globalisation too - those Chinese manufacturers _are_ in it for the money
Following the miserable failure of WAP/bug-ridden implementation of WMLScript, lack of graphical api (Oooh lets use bitmap picture files for low bandwidth devices!) and poor user recognition, a new paradigm in WAP is coming, based on NTT Docomo's HTML subset called cHTML ...
It's known as "Compact WAP".
Or "cWAP" for short.
"One IBM employee in the company's internal technology department characterized the decision as routine."
One Microsoft employee in the company's unspecified division of vaguery was alleged to have characterized a response which resembled "We OWNZ you biatch!".
No really, they did.
Actually if the grandparent post is acceptably funny (personally I think it's thinly veiled racism), then at least the parent post is historically perceptive if not quite witty.
I do think slashdot's only purpose on the Internet is to aggregate stupidity.
Here:
"The effect of this ruling is that employers in Texas can claim ownership of thoughts in their employees brains. Texas courts can and will uphold these employer claims. Texas courts can order an employee that has been fired to work for the former employer without compensation for time or expenses. What ever you have accomplished prior to going to work for your employer can become property of your your current employer."
Isn't Texas the state where you're not allowed to wear checked trousers and eating ice cream on Sunday is a capital offence? I hope so.
Doesn't that make it the comparative of the adjective "prim", as in
"You're prim and proper but I'm even primer"
is because Yahoo is the Internet to many people - in Japan!
Gosh. I feel exhilerated every time I get to add "in Japan" to my posts. But seriously, Japanese is the second most prolific language on the Internet and Yahoo is the most popular search engine for Japanese surfers.
Lots of it. Apart from when I have to go to the job centre once a fortnight on Thursday.
I'm glad I've got IBM on my side. They've certainly been doing their bit for the UK software industry.
Sony CEO : "What shall we call it?" ... "
BMG CEO : "...."
Marketing Guy : "How about Sony BMG".
CEOs : "Mmm, it has a good ring to it
Marketing Guy : "I'll invoice you from my office"
*marketing guy leaves, door shuts*
Flashturbators those Macromedia people are. We'd much rather drool before SVG on our mobile phones.
...
Second thoughts, euuw
that even our American friends wouldn't mind one? Not having to tick the Mrs/Mr/Dr/Ms box is nice.
But I worry about the whole honours system because it's outdated, outmoded and even unwanted in some cases.
My wish for TBL is that he refuse the award. Seriously. Why accept an award from a monarch seeking justification for her burden on taxpayers? As long as she brings in more in tourism than she spends, then no problem, but don't legitimise her privilege by accepting token medals and titles from her.
What mono needs is a good RAD tool for developing GTK# based apps. I know you can reference GTK# libraries in VS.NET but there's no support for cross platform forms design.
The syntax for building Winforms is completely different to GTK# (as one might expect) but the documentation I've found doesn't really map types and methods for developers familiar with existing RAD tools such as MonoDevelop and the excellent SharpDevelop.
Tool designer support for GTK# is crucial.
This is not the nineties.
I remember when anyone with a CS degree who knew what http meant could get a job as a trainee programmer. I actually remember taking a test for an anti-virus company which had the question "What does TCP/IP stand for?".
The fact is that now, those people have either become managers because TCP/IP was the only acronym they knew, or they knew all the acronyms but didn't know how to make money from them.
I make software on GPL for suppliers because software companies can't compete - the economics doesn't work. If you spend $20,000 learning how to program, a company has to pay you a minimum salary to recoup those costs. As I don't work for a software company and programming is not my job, I add value to my role without feeling the financial pressure of making shrinkwrap software for a living. Everyone benefits, apart from software companies.
You think this doesn't apply to big software companies? Look what's happening to Global Exchange Services (GE Exchange Services) in the face of peer document exchange (eg. XML over FTP) I can write an XSLT to convert their EDIFACT EDI to XML. That'll be $800. Can a multinational compete? Well giantkillers are the norm. Welcome to the new software capitalism - enjoy your stay.
saying something like:
LOVE MOVIES, HATE PIRATES
See The Day After Tomorrow for an example (it should be on the pirated version too). No doubt a million tiny thought bubbles popped up from movie-goers with the question "What if it's a movie about pirates?"
A legacy application is one that works. And the same can be said of SQL. Actually XML works too.
It's important to understand what XML is replacing - binary or proprietary interfaces. This means an acceptable tradeoff between human readability (a hugely underrated requirement of a structured data format) and efficiency.
An example is EDI vs XML. EDI "efficiency" accrues only to the intermediary that invented the means to setup trading relationships across their proprietary network. XML uses the end users' bandwidth but it simultaneously eliminates the intermediary completely. This single fact saves literally millions in kilocharacter and storage charges.
SQL is what my old compsci prof would call opportunity-cost efficient. It's quick and can be implemented a number of ways - it's a data query framework, not a requirement for databases. There may be better ways to do it but you'll have a tradeoff somewhere.
And if someone offers something better, then when they've finished telling you how good the new way is, wait and listen for the inevitable sales pitch.
Every employee takes ownership of a lava lamp and a plant when they start their job.
Whilst I have to recommend lava lamp especially, it is said that the health of the plant and whether the lava has gone cloudy (if you leave it in the sunlight) affects your promotion chances.
I'm not kidding.
Suse. I know the someone there, and he told me it's been a Novell Netware on IBM shop for years. I would ask him to confirm but I'm he'd only ridicule me for hanging around /. Here's a bit of mail header from him:
Received: from AELTC-MTA by aeltc_office.aeltc.com with Novell_GroupWise; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:38:01 +0000
And I have to say that I expected so much more. The snapshot is a basic introduction to algebra. Dry material, so enliven it a little. Make the book different. Make it count for chrissakes.
If I wanted another courier-font algebra book I's look in my granddad's attic (which is free too).
OK, there's a lot of misunderstanding about this. The edited register cannot be sold without the authorisation of the local council. But if you happen to be an "approved" subscriber to this information (ie. you happen to be MBNA Europe or a number of other data controllers), you will have free access to the information regardless of whether voters have opted in or out.
Yeah, it's an uncomfortable reality. Because the illusion of censure on your own information is important, but it's completely non-existent. Remember when you were a student or when you lived in your parents' house? You didn't get half as much junk mail as now, as a separate voting entity with your own entry in the electoral register. Why do you think that is?
Hahaha.
....
This is the biggest lie of them all. I stand by my original comment.
MBNA Credit is a credit company. They also sell credit cards. There's a loophole as wide as goatse for them to abuse their privilige. Do you want me to send the junk mail I get from these companies since signing the electoral register? It can be arranged