How can you possibly argue that having no control over how your
works are copied and distributed is a good thing?
Even if it does increase sales in the long term? Of course, if
someone wants to say that what you wrote is good, bad, sucks, causes
deep emotional distress or whatever elese legitamate or ludicrous
criticism they come up with, they should be allowed to say it. But
that is just free speech. How is that equivalent to anyone copying
your work in full without your permission? Maybe you don't want
your work to be searchable by anyone who does not having physical
access to it. It is after all YOUR work.
How is Google's argument anything but "it's good for you so we'll
do it to you whether you like it or not" type of argument? I am not a fan of perpetual copyrights and ownership of culture, but we can all agree that it is beneficial to the society to have short term copyrights, can we not? We can all agree that other people can't use what the law deems is your property without your permission just because everyone says it will be good for you, can we not?
I just read the sample chapter. It is not
dumbed down. Its concept of "spread" is closely tied to how angles are viewed by mathematicians on abstract manifolds. I.e., the only property of the angle that really matters is its cosine. Essentially the angle is "named" for its cosine. This works both in simple Euclidean space, multi-dimensional Euclidean space, AND in spaces with non-euclidean metrics. So learning trigonometry in this way will make understanding of subjects like Tensor Calculus much more natural. It's a good attempt. But, of course, it must be carefully ironed out before we start comitting generations of children to this as the world view.
Or it could be an effort to have them dump the more profitable divisions and be stuck with divisions that provide no revenue in the short run in order to kill them.
For all you know this effort is underwritten by
Redmond. After all, SUSE is the best desktop
distribution out there and NOVELL owns SUSE. Since
we (pretty much) know MS had SCO fire the first shot, why shouldn't we suspect that it gave some favorable deal to First Boston in exchange for firing the second shot at Linux -- trying to stiffle the financing of the best provider of Linux desktops?
It is about time to write to you Congress rep to
asking that Congress demand that the Justice Department investigate this abuse of the courts to stiffle competition by this convicted monopolist.
You can do something about this.
Imagine slashdot of the slave era...
Supreme court yet again ruled that slavery is perfectly legal... what a shame yada... yada... yada.
Democracy does depened on the active citizenry, you
know. What can you do? Well, according to the
NYTimes article, over a thousand such sezures are
made every year. I am sure some Slashdot reader has enough technical skills to device a public database of such locations. And then... let the civil disobedience begin. The NYTimes article mentions that they are planning to build a hotel on the site of the soon-to-be-demolished private property. If you truly value your property rights, you will never visit that hotel. Or give any business to any establishment that was built on any land seized by the government for private contruction. Or you could just assume that the history will take care of this frailing democracy and do what's easy -- bitch about it on slashdot for about 15 minutes.
Well, written... but doesn't all the evidence point to the fact that life began in Africa? Wouldn't the fact that Africans have much more diversity in the genepool than Europeans despite the enormously smaller population in Africa than in Europe suggest that a small group of Africans broke off and went north?
And then some of them kept the mutation of white skin because tanning is the only way they had to produce vitamin D and you had to be much whiter to tan?.... And more vitamin D gave them the advantage of having stronger bones?... Which might come in handy in the environment in which they lived?
Well, all mutations are accidents. And accidents happen with approximately the same rate per capita. Since the human population of the planet grows exponentially, it is entirely possible that whenever these fluke accidents happened in the past their didn't have an environment to flourish.
Since until the beginning of the petroleum economy there were very few segements of the population that had more food than the bare essential, the chances of opportunity (plenty of food) and talent (the right gene) comming together were even more rare.
Does he have an email address? We should probably
email him and inform him of the effect of his ruling.... every time that Scott sends us an email. I see a script in the works...
you have nothing to loose but your chains? where did we all hear it all before? or did we? because all we really wanted to learn was what we needed for "our career". while wide-breadth education is gone and early specilization is proclaimed to be the panacea.
in case we forgot, progress means actually moving on. stagnation means having (and enjoying) the status quo. disappearing of the jobs that have been around for 30+ years is a good thing. it forces (not suggests or cajoles or entices, but forces) people with talent to hassle and reinvent themselves.
this is how capitalism is supposed to work. people constantly trying to raise themselves out of shit is the driving force of progress. so stop bitching and get another degree. and when that one becomes useless, get another one. or becomes one of those people you know you hate -- a real estate agent or a car salesman or a nurse, etc.
Damn... You navy guys are getting pretty desperate with your recruitment pitch. Hint for the next time: slashdot may not be the place to use geek in deragotory.
I am not denying the Global Warming or anything... I just wish the story was picked up by some reliable news organizations. Anyone has a link to something other than BBC?
to be learned here. The stated goal of the project was to increase the amount of traffic that is encrypted on the internet. While this does not directly conflict with the goal of making as much software as possible "free" (as in beer), it does set a different goal.
Why the hell am I bringing this up? Well, one of the problems with FreeS/WAN was that it would not work with low-bit encryption. This was done to promote their political goal. But it also had the side effect of inhibiting adoption at the places where for whatever reason people had to interoperate with low-bit encryption applications or setups. The last time I checked (which I have to admit was over 2 years ago) the FreeS/WAN project explicitly stated that they would refuse to cooperate with anyone who tried "subvert" the project by building-in interoperation with low-bit encryption.
So what is this lesson to be learned that I am talking about? When fighting an uphill battle (which a volunteer project challenging for-profit institutions always does), it may not be wise to make it more difficult for people on the sidelines to agree with your cause.
Linux was built on much better technology than Windows (nfs vs smb, ext vs fat, separate windowing subsystem vs windowing system as part of the kernel, etc), but it didn't gain in popularity because it decided it replace all the Windows boxen. The technical decision was made to cooperate with them. The fundamental decision on priorities was to hold interoperability above politics. FreeS/Wan took the other road.
Well, since you signed off as a JD candidate, I am sure you have a lot of personal investement in the believe that the system works. But freedom is not freedom if it doesn't feels free (of course, the law must also insure that you in fact remain free while you feel free -- it shouldn't be there to produce an illusion). And any technical rules of law that make some members of society feel like their creativity and inovation is stiffled (even if the result of that inovation might be used to harm others) take a step in the direction of dictatorship and away from freedom.
The fact remains that there are parts of "free" world where programmers have more freedom. Where people can discuss ideas without worrying about governments' interpretation of what their ideas mean. In the US, this is sometimes (some would argue it is often) not the case. You can't cry "fire" in a movie theater because the cry will directly cause harm. The laws that US seems to be comfortable with prevent activities that may potentially cause harm (as in "it could be used to make illegal copies" or,
in the case of encryption, "it could be used to help terrorists"). Stopping an activity because it could potentially, or even likely, cause an undesirable effect is tantamount to choosing convenience over freedom.
Soviet Union had a Constituion that looked like a document fair to all the citizens of the country. But the Soviet Government constantly used lied (usually poorly disguised lies) to do whatever it felt was neccessary to stay in power. It still used its well-oiled propaganda machine to try to convince the dumbest 80% of the population that it was the most fair society in the wolrd.
Sure US has a freedom of speech. Unless you want to discuss something that is not politically correct, or you happen to be a computer programmer communicating in a way that you find most expressive, or you happen to be a mathematician discussing mathematics (think cryptography), or a chemist discussing high-energy reactions (think explosives).
It used to be that it was OK to tremple everyone rights legally as long as it was done to bring about safety. More and more it is done to bring about practical short-term solutions (read profit).
Not that I am a fan of Angel, but doesn't WB
usually cancel all their good shows? Anglel had
a chance of becoming popular so they figured there was a chance it was good and cancelled it.
What doesn't make sense here?
India can produce most manufacturing products itself. The ones it cannot produce it will buy from China or (in the case of cars) from Japan. What it cannot buy from almost any other country in the world is food. U.S. is the largest producer of food in the world. That is the only reason why U.S. remains stable than any other country in the world despite the largest per person debt.
We are essentially a banana republic that sells many varities of "bananas". U.S. high tech and manufacturing exports pale in comparision to the exports of food.
The 22m jobs statistic is a joke. It's just plain wrong. Federal Government pays most farmers to be paid to be idle. So now they'll work just a little bit more to satisfy the Indian demand. The only jobs that this might create in the U.S. will be in the shipping industry. But there won't be 22m of them.
If you follow the major news, you'd know that they are
very fast loosing their reputation as a source of information and are becoming regarded as a source of opinion.
Catchups are constantly designed to be undecodable by OCR. But the porn solution doesn't sound like rubbish at all. It actually sounds quite clever. Here's how it might work:
1.An automated script tries to sign up for public emails (yahoo, hotmail, etc.).
2.At some stage during sign up a page with a catchup is "presented" to the script.
3.The script gets the catchup out of the page and adds it to a pool of catchups to be associated with their perspective words.
4. At some point, shortly after, a visitor to a porn site is presented with a catchup and enters the correct word. THIS IS, BY THE WAY, A PERFECT WAY TO FOIL SPAMMERS AND TO STILL GET YOUR PORN -- since the porn site doesn't, in fact, know what the catchup is supposed to be and is only using you, enter a wrong one.
5. The word entered by the user on the porn site is used to submit a reply to the public email system.
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How can you possibly argue that having no control over how your works are copied and distributed is a good thing? Even if it does increase sales in the long term? Of course, if someone wants to say that what you wrote is good, bad, sucks, causes deep emotional distress or whatever elese legitamate or ludicrous criticism they come up with, they should be allowed to say it. But that is just free speech. How is that equivalent to anyone copying your work in full without your permission? Maybe you don't want your work to be searchable by anyone who does not having physical access to it. It is after all YOUR work.
How is Google's argument anything but "it's good for you so we'll do it to you whether you like it or not" type of argument? I am not a fan of perpetual copyrights and ownership of culture, but we can all agree that it is beneficial to the society to have short term copyrights, can we not? We can all agree that other people can't use what the law deems is your property without your permission just because everyone says it will be good for you, can we not?
I just read the sample chapter. It is not dumbed down. Its concept of "spread" is closely tied to how angles are viewed by mathematicians on abstract manifolds. I.e., the only property of the angle that really matters is its cosine. Essentially the angle is "named" for its cosine. This works both in simple Euclidean space, multi-dimensional Euclidean space, AND in spaces with non-euclidean metrics. So learning trigonometry in this way will make understanding of subjects like Tensor Calculus much more natural. It's a good attempt. But, of course, it must be carefully ironed out before we start comitting generations of children to this as the world view.
Oy, veh... I reeeally shouldn't make comments first thing in the morning. You make me wanna moderate down mine own comments.
Fair enough. I probably shouldn't leave comment for general consumption first thing in the morning. Point well taken.
Or it could be an effort to have them dump the more profitable divisions and be stuck with divisions that provide no revenue in the short run in order to kill them.
For all you know this effort is underwritten by Redmond. After all, SUSE is the best desktop distribution out there and NOVELL owns SUSE. Since we (pretty much) know MS had SCO fire the first shot, why shouldn't we suspect that it gave some favorable deal to First Boston in exchange for firing the second shot at Linux -- trying to stiffle the financing of the best provider of Linux desktops?
It is about time to write to you Congress rep to asking that Congress demand that the Justice Department investigate this abuse of the courts to stiffle competition by this convicted monopolist.
You can do something about this. Imagine slashdot of the slave era... Supreme court yet again ruled that slavery is perfectly legal... what a shame yada... yada... yada. Democracy does depened on the active citizenry, you know. What can you do? Well, according to the NYTimes article, over a thousand such sezures are made every year. I am sure some Slashdot reader has enough technical skills to device a public database of such locations. And then... let the civil disobedience begin. The NYTimes article mentions that they are planning to build a hotel on the site of the soon-to-be-demolished private property. If you truly value your property rights, you will never visit that hotel. Or give any business to any establishment that was built on any land seized by the government for private contruction. Or you could just assume that the history will take care of this frailing democracy and do what's easy -- bitch about it on slashdot for about 15 minutes.
That's approximately the size of a size 6 envelope. 3.625" by 6.5". Does that still count as a laptop?
First time those 2 go hand in hand....
Well, written... but doesn't all the evidence point to the fact that life began in Africa? Wouldn't the fact that Africans have much more diversity in the genepool than Europeans despite the enormously smaller population in Africa than in Europe suggest that a small group of Africans broke off and went north? And then some of them kept the mutation of white skin because tanning is the only way they had to produce vitamin D and you had to be much whiter to tan?.... And more vitamin D gave them the advantage of having stronger bones?... Which might come in handy in the environment in which they lived?
Well, all mutations are accidents. And accidents happen with approximately the same rate per capita. Since the human population of the planet grows exponentially, it is entirely possible that whenever these fluke accidents happened in the past their didn't have an environment to flourish.
Since until the beginning of the petroleum economy there were very few segements of the population that had more food than the bare essential, the chances of opportunity (plenty of food) and talent (the right gene) comming together were even more rare.
56 billion.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=MSFTDoes he have an email address? We should probably email him and inform him of the effect of his ruling.... every time that Scott sends us an email. I see a script in the works...
you have nothing to loose but your chains? where did we all hear it all before? or did we? because all we really wanted to learn was what we needed for "our career". while wide-breadth education is gone and early specilization is proclaimed to be the panacea.
in case we forgot, progress means actually moving on. stagnation means having (and enjoying) the status quo. disappearing of the jobs that have been around for 30+ years is a good thing. it forces (not suggests or cajoles or entices, but forces) people with talent to hassle and reinvent themselves.
this is how capitalism is supposed to work. people constantly trying to raise themselves out of shit is the driving force of progress. so stop bitching and get another degree. and when that one becomes useless, get another one. or becomes one of those people you know you hate -- a real estate agent or a car salesman or a nurse, etc.
Damn... You navy guys are getting pretty desperate with your recruitment pitch. Hint for the next time: slashdot may not be the place to use geek in deragotory.
I am not denying the Global Warming or anything... I just wish the story was picked up by some reliable news organizations. Anyone has a link to something other than BBC?
to be learned here. The stated goal of the project was to increase the amount of traffic that is encrypted on the internet. While this does not directly conflict with the goal of making as much software as possible "free" (as in beer), it does set a different goal.
Why the hell am I bringing this up? Well, one of the problems with FreeS/WAN was that it would not work with low-bit encryption. This was done to promote their political goal. But it also had the side effect of inhibiting adoption at the places where for whatever reason people had to interoperate with low-bit encryption applications or setups. The last time I checked (which I have to admit was over 2 years ago) the FreeS/WAN project explicitly stated that they would refuse to cooperate with anyone who tried "subvert" the project by building-in interoperation with low-bit encryption.
So what is this lesson to be learned that I am talking about? When fighting an uphill battle (which a volunteer project challenging for-profit institutions always does), it may not be wise to make it more difficult for people on the sidelines to agree with your cause.
Linux was built on much better technology than Windows (nfs vs smb, ext vs fat, separate windowing subsystem vs windowing system as part of the kernel, etc), but it didn't gain in popularity because it decided it replace all the Windows boxen. The technical decision was made to cooperate with them. The fundamental decision on priorities was to hold interoperability above politics. FreeS/Wan took the other road.
to the Patent Office! Because you just know they don't read slashdot.... if they did, they wouldn't approve half the patents they approve.
Well, since you signed off as a JD candidate, I am sure you have a lot of personal investement in the believe that the system works. But freedom is not freedom if it doesn't feels free (of course, the law must also insure that you in fact remain free while you feel free -- it shouldn't be there to produce an illusion). And any technical rules of law that make some members of society feel like their creativity and inovation is stiffled (even if the result of that inovation might be used to harm others) take a step in the direction of dictatorship and away from freedom.
The fact remains that there are parts of "free" world where programmers have more freedom. Where people can discuss ideas without worrying about governments' interpretation of what their ideas mean. In the US, this is sometimes (some would argue it is often) not the case. You can't cry "fire" in a movie theater because the cry will directly cause harm. The laws that US seems to be comfortable with prevent activities that may potentially cause harm (as in "it could be used to make illegal copies" or, in the case of encryption, "it could be used to help terrorists"). Stopping an activity because it could potentially, or even likely, cause an undesirable effect is tantamount to choosing convenience over freedom.Soviet Union had a Constituion that looked like a document fair to all the citizens of the country. But the Soviet Government constantly used lied (usually poorly disguised lies) to do whatever it felt was neccessary to stay in power. It still used its well-oiled propaganda machine to try to convince the dumbest 80% of the population that it was the most fair society in the wolrd.
Sure US has a freedom of speech. Unless you want to discuss something that is not politically correct, or you happen to be a computer programmer communicating in a way that you find most expressive, or you happen to be a mathematician discussing mathematics (think cryptography), or a chemist discussing high-energy reactions (think explosives).
It used to be that it was OK to tremple everyone rights legally as long as it was done to bring about safety. More and more it is done to bring about practical short-term solutions (read profit).
But at least there is no slippery slope.
Maybe she is just trying out their own tactic on them... hoping they will settle.
Not that I am a fan of Angel, but doesn't WB usually cancel all their good shows? Anglel had a chance of becoming popular so they figured there was a chance it was good and cancelled it. What doesn't make sense here?
India can produce most manufacturing products itself. The ones it cannot produce it will buy from China or (in the case of cars) from Japan. What it cannot buy from almost any other country in the world is food. U.S. is the largest producer of food in the world. That is the only reason why U.S. remains stable than any other country in the world despite the largest per person debt.
We are essentially a banana republic that sells many varities of "bananas". U.S. high tech and manufacturing exports pale in comparision to the exports of food.
The 22m jobs statistic is a joke. It's just plain wrong. Federal Government pays most farmers to be paid to be idle. So now they'll work just a little bit more to satisfy the Indian demand. The only jobs that this might create in the U.S. will be in the shipping industry. But there won't be 22m of them.
If you follow the major news, you'd know that they are very fast loosing their reputation as a source of information and are becoming regarded as a source of opinion.
British media, in general, seems to have the worst intgerity of all "free" press.
Feel free to mod me as a Troll before reading my sources.Catchups are constantly designed to be undecodable by OCR. But the porn solution doesn't sound like rubbish at all. It actually sounds quite clever. Here's how it might work: 1.An automated script tries to sign up for public emails (yahoo, hotmail, etc.). 2.At some stage during sign up a page with a catchup is "presented" to the script. 3.The script gets the catchup out of the page and adds it to a pool of catchups to be associated with their perspective words. 4. At some point, shortly after, a visitor to a porn site is presented with a catchup and enters the correct word. THIS IS, BY THE WAY, A PERFECT WAY TO FOIL SPAMMERS AND TO STILL GET YOUR PORN -- since the porn site doesn't, in fact, know what the catchup is supposed to be and is only using you, enter a wrong one. 5. The word entered by the user on the porn site is used to submit a reply to the public email system.