I first read about this over here, and I really find the entire thing sickening. According to the linked article from The Mercury News, this was most certainly not during a school function. Just because the school let's out for something like the torch event, doesn't mean the students are still under the school's "juristiction."
American public education must be stopped. The high school I graduated from recently enforced school uniforms, suspending students who refuse to conform.[1]
For a country full of people shouting "freedom, democracy!" we sure let the next generations get systematically fucked out of their own freedoms.
[1] This same high school suspended me (one day, three days in-school suspension, after which I was banned from using school computers for the rest of the school year) for doing as a teacher had asked me, hooking up computers to the network to use a deparment purchased laser printer, after said printers were used to look at pr0n during school hours.
the biggest names in crypto turned out to celebrate at an event hosted at the Computer History Museum.
I'm disappointed that our government missed this key opportunity to ensure their surveillance will go forward willout having to deal with that silly "encryption" and such;)
Then again, maybe on that note, we can organize a "Islamic Fundamentalist Luncheon" and let some mob-folk "take care of things."
Can we mod his comments -5, No Shit; or how about -5, Too little too late?
These ivory tower execs should have realized almost 7 years ago with the advent of Napster that the CD was dying. Frankly, I don't think the iTunes Music Store should have ever happened, they should have realized the market then and adapted, now they'll have to play catch up to those innovating the non-physical media market.
What a shallow argument, what if the suits decide that really, the season premiere episode is really just promotional content for the entire season? What if they offer up that episode as a free download on the iTunes Store (as a good bit of pilots, and season premieres seem to be these days).
Shouldn't the writers get their residuals for those too?
Bottom line, if you want promotional content, hiring an advertising firm, if you're creating something regardless of length or what you decide to do with it, you should still be paying those creative folks their proper dues.
I graduated from a small town high school in south texas, and the district was pretty damn broke when I left it, but our atheletic facilities were pretty decent.
Keep in mind most southern schools have "Booster Clubs" which are responsible most of the time for raising funds for the sports specifically. The only "booster club" for academics comes straight out of the general budget for the district. Meanwhile, you've got a bunch of meat heads washing cars, taking donations, etc, in a town full of people who are more than willing to fork over money for their friday night football game.
In most districts (i have lived in), sports and education are on different budgets.
I would like to extend a thanks to Marc Fisher for being an actual reporter.
Let's start dragging these guys over hot coals, there's absolutely no practical reason unless you're trying to rig an election (in my opinion) to switch to e-voting.
Nothing beats ad hominem attacks on Slashdot based on "a friend of mine said X"
Look, say what you will, but Apple is trying new things, and they're moving very swiftly. Whether they'll be showing off some new photo software, or what, Apple has been doing a great job lately of pushing out software that works and updating it very rapidly. I hope they show off Final Cut Pro 6, a new version of Aperture, or a new piece of software, who knows, but they're pushing, and pushing hard enough that I think the rest of the industry (competition, mostly) is having trouble keeping up.
Tell your "friend" that if he's got such an issue with something Apple's released, "he" can always help make it better reporting bugs, features, etc instead of griping about it ad hominem on some public forum on the internet.
Unix is probably the greatest bit of software ever, but "Unix" doesn't exist per se, it's almost like you could say, that it's had a long branching history, oh well, I can't fault him for his choice, I probably would have said the same as well...but seriously...
This is absolutely garbage journalism, and there's a lot I take concern with, first off, with how they refer to BitTorrent like it's some sort of unified network. I'm sure I could have gotten Leopard off of Efnet at some point over the past two weeks, does that mean I got Leopard off of IRC? They're just feeding the fire as to why ISPs and *AA's take concern when it comes to BitTorrent the protocol.
Secondly, after the Bono releases a record and it shows up on P2P, does that make it worthy of a new story? Look, people, file sharing is going to happen, as soon as something is digitally encoded, it's chances of being pirated approach 100%. Leopard finding it's way onto a BitTorrent tracker isn't news worthy, it's not even unexpected!
On what operating system? With FreeBSD'sSMPng project, they've made most of the network stack (from my understanding) SMP safe, and the kernel now supports pushing multiple threads across multiple CPUs (like Solaris, Xnu, and Linux)
it's easy for threads to eat monstrous amounts of resource
Don't you mean forked processes? The advantage of threads is that they're lightweight and use shared memory (dead locks hoorah!), forked processes are heavy because they need their own memory, etc.
Two points to make here, because of the nature of open source, and technology in general you don't necessarily need to have everybody at the downtown office, or a downtown office to begin with. This has _nothing_ to do with it being open source or not. A map of large tech companies I would guess is as equally diverse.
There's a reason to go to silicon valley. The area is beautiful, and the talent pool for your $COMPANY there is tremendous, if you need 20 engineers to work on some software project, finding 20 skilled individuals in Atlanta, Georgia is going to suck. Trying to find 20 skilled people in silicon valley is a matter of going out to a busy resturant at lunch;)
MacOS is becoming less refined with every release. The UI changes every time, behavior that was sensible and elegant from the Classic days is being forgotten
You're right, so switching to a GNOME-based distro, that's fine, if that's your cup of team. What about when you want to run a Qt based application? You've got two different looking widget sets competing and distorting the entire view of things. What about openGL (if you can get it running properly)?
Simple things, like making the list view (or icon view or column view) standard in all Finder windows is all but impossible
Again, you're right, because you can't change the Finder preferences (it's only Apple+, like in any other Mac app) or change the View options (Apple+J in finder) to apply to all windows.
Mac OS X isn't perfect, i've got about 10 open bugs at bugreport.apple.com, but you've absolutely lost your mind to think that things aren't amazingly better than they used to. I remember a time when simple Finder operations would lock up my System 7 machine. Stop spreading FUD, file bug reports; as much as I love bitching on Slashdot. Apple doesn't read slashdot, and they're the ones with the power to change things.
While, as the RIAA has shown, a business of litigation can be successful, Microsoft as well as other tech based companies have shown that it's much easier to make insane amounts of profit through licensing of something versus any other method.
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I first read about this over here, and I really find the entire thing sickening. According to the linked article from The Mercury News, this was most certainly not during a school function. Just because the school let's out for something like the torch event, doesn't mean the students are still under the school's "juristiction."
American public education must be stopped. The high school I graduated from recently enforced school uniforms, suspending students who refuse to conform.[1]
For a country full of people shouting "freedom, democracy!" we sure let the next generations get systematically fucked out of their own freedoms.
[1] This same high school suspended me (one day, three days in-school suspension, after which I was banned from using school computers for the rest of the school year) for doing as a teacher had asked me, hooking up computers to the network to use a deparment purchased laser printer, after said printers were used to look at pr0n during school hours.
Only on slashdot will a comment like this ever be modded +5 Insightful.
/. comments, its really all downhill after that :)
Once you start taking dating tips from
the biggest names in crypto turned out to celebrate at an event hosted at the Computer History Museum.
;)
I'm disappointed that our government missed this key opportunity to ensure their surveillance will go forward willout having to deal with that silly "encryption" and such
Then again, maybe on that note, we can organize a "Islamic Fundamentalist Luncheon" and let some mob-folk "take care of things."
Can we mod his comments -5, No Shit; or how about -5, Too little too late?
These ivory tower execs should have realized almost 7 years ago with the advent of Napster that the CD was dying. Frankly, I don't think the iTunes Music Store should have ever happened, they should have realized the market then and adapted, now they'll have to play catch up to those innovating the non-physical media market.
What a shallow argument, what if the suits decide that really, the season premiere episode is really just promotional content for the entire season? What if they offer up that episode as a free download on the iTunes Store (as a good bit of pilots, and season premieres seem to be these days).
Shouldn't the writers get their residuals for those too?
Bottom line, if you want promotional content, hiring an advertising firm, if you're creating something regardless of length or what you decide to do with it, you should still be paying those creative folks their proper dues.
I get it, see, e-voting is worth all the trouble and hassles because it...does...what better than paper voting?
Maybe somebody can enlighten me, besides the ease of rigging an election what exactly do 'we' gain from e-voting?
I graduated from a small town high school in south texas, and the district was pretty damn broke when I left it, but our atheletic facilities were pretty decent.
Keep in mind most southern schools have "Booster Clubs" which are responsible most of the time for raising funds for the sports specifically. The only "booster club" for academics comes straight out of the general budget for the district. Meanwhile, you've got a bunch of meat heads washing cars, taking donations, etc, in a town full of people who are more than willing to fork over money for their friday night football game.
In most districts (i have lived in), sports and education are on different budgets.
I would like to extend a thanks to Marc Fisher for being an actual reporter.
Let's start dragging these guys over hot coals, there's absolutely no practical reason unless you're trying to rig an election (in my opinion) to switch to e-voting.
Arrrr, ye be modded flamebait fer speakin' of ninja's on ye olde day of ye pirate.
scrub ye the decks yo' black mask wearin' scallywag!
Next time you have a thought...let it go.
:)
Just saying..
The vulnerabilities aren't in the format per se, but more in Adobe's implementation of their Acrobat products.
Apple, along with Preview, has its own implementation of rendering and viewing PDFs
Nothing beats ad hominem attacks on Slashdot based on "a friend of mine said X"
Look, say what you will, but Apple is trying new things, and they're moving very swiftly. Whether they'll be showing off some new photo software, or what, Apple has been doing a great job lately of pushing out software that works and updating it very rapidly. I hope they show off Final Cut Pro 6, a new version of Aperture, or a new piece of software, who knows, but they're pushing, and pushing hard enough that I think the rest of the industry (competition, mostly) is having trouble keeping up.
Tell your "friend" that if he's got such an issue with something Apple's released, "he" can always help make it better reporting bugs, features, etc instead of griping about it ad hominem on some public forum on the internet.
Wow, and I thought my joke was bad, thanks for making one worse :)
so, let me get this straight...
:-P
European Space Agency gets their kicks by slamming into stuff...
American Space Agency gets their kicks by not getting off the ground...
I think the tide is starting to turn in the new space race
this is slashdot, no it doesn't
There's nothing worse than when rock geeks, and rocks in space geeks get into argument over vocabulary. ;)
The Unix Haters Handbook a great read.
Unix is probably the greatest bit of software ever, but "Unix" doesn't exist per se, it's almost like you could say, that it's had a long branching history, oh well, I can't fault him for his choice, I probably would have said the same as well...but seriously...
Excel is on the list? Not say, VisiCalc?.
This is absolutely garbage journalism, and there's a lot I take concern with, first off, with how they refer to BitTorrent like it's some sort of unified network. I'm sure I could have gotten Leopard off of Efnet at some point over the past two weeks, does that mean I got Leopard off of IRC? They're just feeding the fire as to why ISPs and *AA's take concern when it comes to BitTorrent the protocol.
Secondly, after the Bono releases a record and it shows up on P2P, does that make it worthy of a new story? Look, people, file sharing is going to happen, as soon as something is digitally encoded, it's chances of being pirated approach 100%. Leopard finding it's way onto a BitTorrent tracker isn't news worthy, it's not even unexpected!
Sheesh, I'm really sick and tired of this WWDC, Mac OS X speculation... ;)
But seriously, where in this silly blog posting does it ever talk about the Leopard spots? Is it just me, or is TFA missing here...
IANAQP (I am Not A Quantum Physicist) but that doesn't mean I'm not qualified to take up an opnion on why MECO's rule black holes drool!
;)
Having a strong opinion on something doesn't mean I have to actually know anything about it
I'm not a developer on the project or anything...but can I go ahead and submit Drupal :)
;)
It really is a great open source CMS...just not mine
On what operating system? With FreeBSD'sSMPng project, they've made most of the network stack (from my understanding) SMP safe, and the kernel now supports pushing multiple threads across multiple CPUs (like Solaris, Xnu, and Linux)
it's easy for threads to eat monstrous amounts of resource
Don't you mean forked processes? The advantage of threads is that they're lightweight and use shared memory (dead locks hoorah!), forked processes are heavy because they need their own memory, etc.
Two points to make here, because of the nature of open source, and technology in general you don't necessarily need to have everybody at the downtown office, or a downtown office to begin with. This has _nothing_ to do with it being open source or not. A map of large tech companies I would guess is as equally diverse.
;)
There's a reason to go to silicon valley. The area is beautiful, and the talent pool for your $COMPANY there is tremendous, if you need 20 engineers to work on some software project, finding 20 skilled individuals in Atlanta, Georgia is going to suck. Trying to find 20 skilled people in silicon valley is a matter of going out to a busy resturant at lunch
How in the hell was this modded up?
MacOS is becoming less refined with every release. The UI changes every time, behavior that was sensible and elegant from the Classic days is being forgotten
You're right, so switching to a GNOME-based distro, that's fine, if that's your cup of team. What about when you want to run a Qt based application? You've got two different looking widget sets competing and distorting the entire view of things. What about openGL (if you can get it running properly)?
Simple things, like making the list view (or icon view or column view) standard in all Finder windows is all but impossible
Again, you're right, because you can't change the Finder preferences (it's only Apple+, like in any other Mac app) or change the View options (Apple+J in finder) to apply to all windows.
Mac OS X isn't perfect, i've got about 10 open bugs at bugreport.apple.com, but you've absolutely lost your mind to think that things aren't amazingly better than they used to. I remember a time when simple Finder operations would lock up my System 7 machine. Stop spreading FUD, file bug reports; as much as I love bitching on Slashdot. Apple doesn't read slashdot, and they're the ones with the power to change things.
They'd be stupid not to.
While, as the RIAA has shown, a business of litigation can be successful, Microsoft as well as other tech based companies have shown that it's much easier to make insane amounts of profit through licensing of something versus any other method.