I think it is very stupid to include punctuation marks other than hyphens and apostrophes in trade marks. It not only looks like a childish Yahoo rip-off but is an obvious trick to make people end every single sentence including such a trade mark with an exclamation mark or otherwise risk having misleading punctuation in the middle of a sentence where it certainly does not belong. I hope they will change the name to just Joomla because I refuse to use marks of admiration in my writing when it doesn't reflect my way of thinking. Period.
I don't care if this is yhe USA censoring China or vice versa. Censorship is always wrong no matter what. Always. Our grandmothers and grandfathers have literally died for our freedom of speech and they are spinning in their graves right now.
Ask yourself this question: Who is the most important target audience for audio books? Hint: Who can't read paper books? Who in the 21st century could finally have unlimited access to the entire human knowledge but thanks to moronic ideas like this they don't?
It allows libraries to offer digital content, without screwing over the copyright holder.
Yeah, let's screw over blind people! Great idea.
It's unfortunate that a Microsoft DRM is being used (as I assume it can only be played on Microsoft systems)
But of course! Who needs BLINUX users, right? They can shell out ten grands to make Microsoft Windows accessible after all.
but it's most likely the easiest and most well known DRM to the people that put the DRM on the content (and the library staff can most likely offer trouble-shooting help with it as a result).
Video games are a playable fantasy and there are few things more alluring than living out the fantasy of being evil and doing bad or illegal actions without any real world repercussions.
XYZ Computing has an article hypothesizing that the arrival of Windows Vista may be a big opportunity for Linux to make headway on the desktop.
A decade ago it was Windows 95 that was going to be a big opportunity for Linux to make headway on the desktop, then it was Windows 98, 2000, XP, the DRM in Media Player, Internet Explorer, the license of MS SQL Server, the flaws in ASP security model, the nonsense of.NET hysteria, the C#... Meanwhile, GNU/Linux is already on my desktop and I couldn't really care less what Micro$oft does. I just use it because it is the best tool for my job. Period.
It's not truly cross-platform so it's out of question for any serious production environment. Sorry, but until Micro$oft releases the most important classes under a free license and port them to Linux I won't touch it with a ten foot stick. Java is closer but it's hardly fast enough. If Sun adds real OOP features like multiple inheritance, operator overloading, traits, mixins, and introduces optional strong or weak dynamical typing, I might consider using it. But right now I am stuck with Perl, Ruby, Lisp, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Scheme and Python, and what I am really looking forward is a study comparing their respective security and how the development of the Parrot VM will affect it. Of course since it's a blog on M$DN I am not holding my breath.
I am a manager in an IT department for a small to medium sized family owned business. The job is great, except for our workers. They simply don't know nearly as much as they should. I find myself teaching our team or explaining things far too often. Even when their business partners are acting up, they don't know what to do with it and have me fix the relationship while they sit and watch. They spends hours and hours on the most insignificant tasks as if they have nothing better to do. Is it ignorant to believe an IT worker should be a knowledgeable in business and social interaction as a whole? A person you respect and frequently learn from? It creates an extremely frustrating work environment, and I don't know how to approach the problem. It's becoming too much to simply "put up with it." What advice do those of you in the IT field have for this issue?
You can fool some of the people all the time or all of the people sometimes but never sometimes some of the people. Yes, I am talking about The People whom you are trying to restrict. I know that when Apple has DRM we can ignore it but come on, Sun isn't nearly as cool as my Mini Mac! Wake up people. There is no such thing as "open" Digital Restrictions Mandatory. No way. It's cool that Holland in Europe blocks DRM in Euro Congress but this is not enough. DRM in the US is harmful for everyone because where is Hollywood? In the US. We can't let THIS happen.
It's great news. The only problem is that today with enterprise-ready UML, Xenet al. we serious computer scientists no longer need VMware being any more open to begin with. You missed the first train so don't beat the dead horse now.
As it turns out, if you wire up the part of a mouse's brain that generates sexual gratification to a switch, and then give the mouse access to that switch, it will repeatedly push that button... until it dies. [emphasis added]
Are you suggesting that the game was pornographic and our new Darwin Award nominee died masturbating? Well, let that be a warning for all of you.
He wrote, "The scholar learns something every day, the man of tao unlearns something every day, until he gets back to non-doing."
An apotheosis of ignorance is hardly an achievement in science in general and quantum mechanics in particular. If Max Planck had followed the way proposed by Lao Tzu he would have never introduced the idea of quantised energy in the first place. He would've been be too busy with "non-doing" (i.e. doing nothing). Please don't confuse the scientific method with catchy religious phrases.
It's all in Revelation: "And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six." The mandatory chips are only a matter of time. See: [1][2] [3]
"With IT workers so commonly producing some of our best work 'after hours,' even at home or in restaurants/bars..."
I don't know what is more sad. The fact that you believe to be so special that you should be allowed to work in bars unlike all of the people working in every other industry except yours. Or that when you are in said bars you think about working instead of meeting women and having some great time with them. Or maybe talking with your "cubicle neighbor" after work being the most important form of social interaction. In any case, you definitely need to get a life. You and everyone who's just agreed with you here. Here's my advice to all of you: go out without any of your geeky, nerdy, dorky and wussy friends. Meet real people. Meet real women. And I mean attractive women (no, that girl you met on the Star Wars premiere doesn't count). Have great time with them (including sex). And at that point it should be obvious why complaining about not being able to legally talk with your fellow cubicle drones after work (by consciously misinterpreting the spirit of the NRLB rules, I might add) was utterly ridiculous and simply laughable for everyone in the Real World(TM).
Finland has the most suicides in the world (escecially among young men) and the most hackers in the world (escecially among young men). A very plausible cause of both records might be the highest ISD factor in the world (escecially among young women). Any Finns to comment on that?
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Such animated icons as Mario are forced to perform tasks beneath their golden standards so their owners may earn a few extra dollars.
In other words, since the first game with Mario nothing has changed. Film at 11.
I think it is very stupid to include punctuation marks other than hyphens and apostrophes in trade marks. It not only looks like a childish Yahoo rip-off but is an obvious trick to make people end every single sentence including such a trade mark with an exclamation mark or otherwise risk having misleading punctuation in the middle of a sentence where it certainly does not belong. I hope they will change the name to just Joomla because I refuse to use marks of admiration in my writing when it doesn't reflect my way of thinking. Period.
That controller has been intelligently designed.
No But I Sign Code.
Editors: Please correct the mistake in the headline. Thank you.
I don't care if this is yhe USA censoring China or vice versa. Censorship is always wrong no matter what. Always. Our grandmothers and grandfathers have literally died for our freedom of speech and they are spinning in their graves right now.
I think this is a perfectly valid use for DRM.
Ask yourself this question: Who is the most important target audience for audio books? Hint: Who can't read paper books? Who in the 21st century could finally have unlimited access to the entire human knowledge but thanks to moronic ideas like this they don't?
It allows libraries to offer digital content, without screwing over the copyright holder.
Yeah, let's screw over blind people! Great idea.
It's unfortunate that a Microsoft DRM is being used (as I assume it can only be played on Microsoft systems)
But of course! Who needs BLINUX users, right? They can shell out ten grands to make Microsoft Windows accessible after all.
but it's most likely the easiest and most well known DRM to the people that put the DRM on the content (and the library staff can most likely offer trouble-shooting help with it as a result).
Good luck with that.
Hopefully the ordinary blogging will follow.
Video games are a playable fantasy and there are few things more alluring than living out the fantasy of being evil and doing bad or illegal actions without any real world repercussions.
Without any real world repercussions?
I would be more comfortable calling 911 if they called it Healthline.
XYZ Computing has an article hypothesizing that the arrival of Windows Vista may be a big opportunity for Linux to make headway on the desktop.
.NET hysteria, the C#... Meanwhile, GNU/Linux is already on my desktop and I couldn't really care less what Micro$oft does. I just use it because it is the best tool for my job. Period.
A decade ago it was Windows 95 that was going to be a big opportunity for Linux to make headway on the desktop, then it was Windows 98, 2000, XP, the DRM in Media Player, Internet Explorer, the license of MS SQL Server, the flaws in ASP security model, the nonsense of
It's not truly cross-platform so it's out of question for any serious production environment. Sorry, but until Micro$oft releases the most important classes under a free license and port them to Linux I won't touch it with a ten foot stick. Java is closer but it's hardly fast enough. If Sun adds real OOP features like multiple inheritance, operator overloading, traits, mixins, and introduces optional strong or weak dynamical typing, I might consider using it. But right now I am stuck with Perl, Ruby, Lisp, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Scheme and Python, and what I am really looking forward is a study comparing their respective security and how the development of the Parrot VM will affect it. Of course since it's a blog on M$DN I am not holding my breath.
Please do my work for me.
Sincerely, Slashdot reader.
I run Linux on my toaster. ... I said that as a joke, but to be sure it hadn't been done, I googled it. I was wrong.
I thought that someone building a Linux running toaster must have no life, but to be sure, I followed your link. I was right.
Am I the only one who read it as "Small gulls on Mars were carried by water recently"? I nearly had a heart attack.
I am a manager in an IT department for a small to medium sized family owned business. The job is great, except for our workers. They simply don't know nearly as much as they should. I find myself teaching our team or explaining things far too often. Even when their business partners are acting up, they don't know what to do with it and have me fix the relationship while they sit and watch. They spends hours and hours on the most insignificant tasks as if they have nothing better to do. Is it ignorant to believe an IT worker should be a knowledgeable in business and social interaction as a whole? A person you respect and frequently learn from? It creates an extremely frustrating work environment, and I don't know how to approach the problem. It's becoming too much to simply "put up with it." What advice do those of you in the IT field have for this issue?
You can fool some of the people all the time or all of the people sometimes but never sometimes some of the people. Yes, I am talking about The People whom you are trying to restrict. I know that when Apple has DRM we can ignore it but come on, Sun isn't nearly as cool as my Mini Mac! Wake up people. There is no such thing as "open" Digital Restrictions Mandatory. No way. It's cool that Holland in Europe blocks DRM in Euro Congress but this is not enough. DRM in the US is harmful for everyone because where is Hollywood? In the US. We can't let THIS happen.
There's a picture on Wikipedia. It stops a lot of germs. Impressive.
It's great news. The only problem is that today with enterprise-ready UML, Xen et al. we serious computer scientists no longer need VMware being any more open to begin with. You missed the first train so don't beat the dead horse now.
As it turns out, if you wire up the part of a mouse's brain that generates sexual gratification to a switch, and then give the mouse access to that switch, it will repeatedly push that button ... until it dies. [emphasis added]
Are you suggesting that the game was pornographic and our new Darwin Award nominee died masturbating? Well, let that be a warning for all of you.
He wrote, "The scholar learns something every day, the man of tao unlearns something every day, until he gets back to non-doing."
An apotheosis of ignorance is hardly an achievement in science in general and quantum mechanics in particular. If Max Planck had followed the way proposed by Lao Tzu he would have never introduced the idea of quantised energy in the first place. He would've been be too busy with "non-doing" (i.e. doing nothing). Please don't confuse the scientific method with catchy religious phrases.
It's all in Revelation: "And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six." The mandatory chips are only a matter of time. See: [1] [2]
[3]
Can a Customer Loyalty Database Change a Society? Probably.
Can a Database Customer Loyalty Change a Society? Certainly.
According to Bruce Schneier, the security risks if WiFi are vastly exaggerated.
"With IT workers so commonly producing some of our best work 'after hours,' even at home or in restaurants/bars..."
I don't know what is more sad. The fact that you believe to be so special that you should be allowed to work in bars unlike all of the people working in every other industry except yours. Or that when you are in said bars you think about working instead of meeting women and having some great time with them. Or maybe talking with your "cubicle neighbor" after work being the most important form of social interaction. In any case, you definitely need to get a life. You and everyone who's just agreed with you here. Here's my advice to all of you: go out without any of your geeky, nerdy, dorky and wussy friends. Meet real people. Meet real women. And I mean attractive women (no, that girl you met on the Star Wars premiere doesn't count). Have great time with them (including sex). And at that point it should be obvious why complaining about not being able to legally talk with your fellow cubicle drones after work (by consciously misinterpreting the spirit of the NRLB rules, I might add) was utterly ridiculous and simply laughable for everyone in the Real World(TM).
Finland has the most suicides in the world (escecially among young men) and the most hackers in the world (escecially among young men). A very plausible cause of both records might be the highest ISD factor in the world (escecially among young women). Any Finns to comment on that?