I'm sure this is a genuine detailed research, but anyone who's tried to get out of central London between 4 to 7 pm will tell you the madness that ensues as part of "traffic". god forbid if you have to drive - forget the dreaded congestion tax, the best you'd do is 5 to 8 miles an hour...
Can the OP please tell us why the Eclipse environment setup took him/her such a long time? I've used Eclipse in the past with plugings such as EMF, JUnit (which now comes built in), VSS Plugin, Java Pretty Printer, Perl SDK Plugin, etc., and I never had too much trouble or time spent in setting up the environment....
First of all, I don't understand what a "tentative" agreement to settlement means.
Second, TFA says more than 20 million CD's with MediaMax were sold. this "tentative" settlement and the $7.50 compensation, is clearly biased since how many of these buyers would go back to the store to claim their compensation?
Lastly, if >20 million CDs were sold, that's a *large* number of affected PC's. Sony might claim it has provided a "one-click" un-install software, the bug would still linger around for a lot longer
Yes, Simpsons was the cornerstore of comedy one time. Not only did it have a comic sense and timing, but also it had the gumption to take the joke on American masses, whilst selling itself to them. It had a great sense of poking fun at the racial discriminations that exist in the american society, yet had the charm brought by breaking the very same prejudices.
However, the last couple of seasons have been a mere caricature of the show, as well as the characters. Like someone else said on here, its now formulaic - no longer the greatest show in 20th century
I think you raise an interesting and subtle point. Essentially, the hardware vendors (in collusion with the software creators - the hollywood studios, for one) are trying to put the high-turnaround consumer market spin on the entertainment media as well. So just buying the VHS tapes and the player isn't enough - as the new format guaranteed ease of use and better quality. The consumers then flocked to it, with a genuine alacrity since it was almost a quantum leap in quality.
Inspired with this success, however, I believe is the attempt to pull-back the expiry date for DVD and push *ANOTHER* media (and *ANOTHER* set of players to the market). Push it along with *ANOTHER* type of TV, and you have the two markets creating penetration for each other. In fact, this market is so lucrative the corporates are fighting over WHICH format to push. Sounds like a rip-off, if I ever saw one = just look at the faster, bigger computer we get thrust at us every few months, while the price of new-improved box stays roughly the same (after the initial, rationalising drop)
In the worst case, they can be used to invade privacy by correlating one person's visits to potentially thousands of different Web sites.
OMG - that'll end civilisation as we know it! Of course this assumes that some can get their hands on ALL your cookies. Perhaps with Netscape it wasn't so hard given they were all stored in a single file - but I would think (I've never tried myself but the how of it is not obvious) you would need some sort of ActiveX control or an exploit of some kind to be able to access Cookies other than those from your web site.
I have worked with cookies extensively, but haven't come across any bug or other clever means of using cookies to track a user's movements *across* websites. The fundamental basis for a cookie is that it's attached to a domain - And the server can access the cookies file from the client for ONLY the domain it belongs to (the HTTP headers are compared to check the domain the cookie is requested for). Thus, like you said, the cookie at best, is a poor man's, simple mechanism of tracking user movements across pages - that too, mainly for improved navigation
Any clever stuff such as enhanced navigation (bringing the user back to a page where they started via a custom "back" button, etc) or managing the shopping cart (which a *LOT* of start-ups used the cookies for in the dot-com era), has long moved to session (which is lately hot-replicated to disk/DB but out of scope for this discussion)
For both the author of TFA and the senators getting their knickers in twist over this, smacks of ignorance
Whilst I agree on principle that it'd be good to see Google coming true on its statement of support (we all know it has deep enough pockets to support Wiki), however, it may not happen for:
It now has shareholders to answer, and they may not see the advantages/ROI
Wiki *may* lose its neutral stance on sensitive issues (unless you want Google's version of truth) - I know I'm going out on a limb here..
With its support (read money), Google may want the control, which defeats the F/OSS purpose
Hmm. Whilst I do agree with the "if there's a demand, there shall be a product" credo, it may not always be so. A project of this size, complexity, flexibility, and skill-demanding may not always be deemed economically feasible
I don't quite believe the F/OSS customer base doesn't have money to spend. If they did not any money to spend the project wouldn't have gone one for 6 years.
Switching to a commercial market may not be a bad thing, but who's to say it won't lose its (growing) neutrality on issues?
I agree. However, I also believe such public-interest systems *have* to be self-sufficient if they are to truly serve the purpose of providing free information to the child in Africa reeling under crushing poverty, or the future generations being able to access unbiased info.
I'm sure discussions in this domain have happened quite a few times in the past, however, but perhaps with growing penetration/contribution, it maybe be time to look for alternate sources of revenue - for example, the much-used ad-based model?
Or maybe I'm opening a whole new can of worms here...
Hmm, inflation eh? Here's another wild idea - What if during the big-bang the energy released was so much that it actually *increased* the speed of light itself, till it finally slowed down and settled..?:-)
The general perception about politicians lately is CCTV will eliminate all problems. After the London bombing on 7/7/05, the Met spent hundreds of man hours sifting through CCTV "evidence" to find more information about the hackers, while for all practical purposes is shutting the barn door after...
Even the Dutch, once known as hacker-friendly, politically progressive Europeans, are now fearful and demanding more cameras on their streets.
Whilst recording and monitoring activities in parts deemed dangerous, not easy to patrol, prone to mugging/thefts/incidents may be worthwhile, recording public spaces is similar to littering the motorway with speed cameras...
Ah, yes. They are cheaper, friendlier PR exercises to begin with.
However, in this world where corporates fall over each other to promote "do no evil" or appear "friendly" (think of the number of staff employed to provide information to random callers - from students looking to do their internships, to university professors, to competitors fishing for information, to, in extreme cases, corporate spies), they then try to promote blogging to *other* parts of the organization than PR/marketing.
The impetus here being two fold: 1) Prospective candidate will know how "good" they are to work for or will get a taste of the "work environment", and 2) they can demonstrate their competitors/stakeholders of the "open" culture they believe in and are thus less suspect of doing evil...
The last company I worked for encouraged their engineers to blog on their corporate server, because they had no other, better/easier means of spreading corporate bonhomie...
Public corporate blogging is dangerous territory, as I found out the hard way.
Whilst being encouraged to record experiences, insights and lessons learnt when working with partners and their products, in a publicly available, searchable format, I found the moment you mention corporate names and *ANY* shortcomings, suddenly this "sharing knowledge" becomes "finding scapegoat".
I guess what's required is an explicit corporate IT policy, with clear, specific guidelines on what can and cannot be blogged, if at all. This policy then needs to be shared, and "promoted" - beginning with the departments that would use it the most - IT. Unless there's a clear directive that knowledge sharing is appreciated, not much would change in the Fortune 500 world
Maybe the solution isn't RSS. The one big innovation/change in the way we use the Internet, over the last few years has been google, which identifies relevance based on ranking and cross-linking (in the belief others know this is good content).
Maybe just publishing content isn't enough. Maybe we need something that has content source indexed by subject/category *and* relevance? Where relevance grows based upon the number of readers who read it...
From the article, the "companies made hundreds of thousands of calls to cell phone customers using pre-recorded messages and auto-dialers in violation of the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act as well as state laws".
I thought that they were complaining about "pre-recorded messages" more than auto-dialers.
Also from the article:
Under Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations it is illegal for telemarketers to use automated diallers to call cell phone numbers
that's a half assed comment if I ever saw one. Having worked as a developer in India, USA and UK for the last 10 years, I can tell you some of these "overseas" or "onshore" developers/managers that I have worked with try to pass-off a random doodle as "specification", or are wary of following better sofware life-cycle management processes because "there is no time", or do not want to undertake tedious, reptitive work because "it is cheaper to get it done elsewhere", but like you, that's not the point I want to make
When you say "the government has been shipping money and expertise overseas at an unreal rate", I would like to invite you to share your sources. The only money and resources that we hear of are the troops and their rations being shipped to Iraq in the search of WMD, dethroning the "nexus of evil" in exchange of soil.
If your government is as dyed-in-wool as you make it out to be, then would you care to explain why it took them a week to respond to the biggest natural calamity...within your own country?
You quote umemployment deficits, I quote trade-quotes, the double-standards of free trade (in the name of protecting local interests), and the politics of economic sanctions
And while your lamenting and crying out loud about the loss of jobs to the "skilled" workers, do you want to ever present the facts or just jump the bandwagon because someone told you outsourcing is a bad thing?
You are happy that you can get the cheapest, use-and-throw products at your Walmart, god forbid if you have to pay two dollars extra for the bread from the local bakery, because, heck thats not your "skilled" job of course
What you need to wake up to, is the reality that markets do not have the promise of the golden pot-at-the-end-of-rainbow anymore
..for a product vying a piece of personal hdd-based players dominated by iPod, this is bad news.
Creative may try to position itself as the player with replaceable battery (hence longer life), has few more quirks (such as allowing you to move files across computers, rather than going the iTunes way), however, iPod still remains the benchmark in usability and style (the USP of iPod).
Till they manage to one-up the market leader with innovative design or something special, such glitches will always render it as also-ran
For years, OS-wars have been in the domain of/.'ers and such OS enthusiasts (I'd like to say tongue-in-cheek, enthusiasts for better, stable, readily-available software), while the corporate line taken by (not just MS), was Linux (and thereby all open source products) were not the same in performance, cost of adoption/transition or support
However, now that the momentum is decidedly shifting (however slow), or it seems the market is moving towards a combination of the two (MS on the desktops mostly, but Linux etc on Servers), we now have the biggest giant throwing open its coffers to throw up smokescreens as much as it can
This is not to say everything we have in the Linux world is superior always compared to say, Windows, however, what we do have is a community ready to learn, and change. How better is that compared to futzing around with existing features that MS tends to do across versions (and mostly gets it wrong lately)?
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I'm sure this is a genuine detailed research, but anyone who's tried to get out of central London between 4 to 7 pm will tell you the madness that ensues as part of "traffic". god forbid if you have to drive - forget the dreaded congestion tax, the best you'd do is 5 to 8 miles an hour...
Can the OP please tell us why the Eclipse environment setup took him/her such a long time? I've used Eclipse in the past with plugings such as EMF, JUnit (which now comes built in), VSS Plugin, Java Pretty Printer, Perl SDK Plugin, etc., and I never had too much trouble or time spent in setting up the environment....
First of all, I don't understand what a "tentative" agreement to settlement means.
Second, TFA says more than 20 million CD's with MediaMax were sold. this "tentative" settlement and the $7.50 compensation, is clearly biased since how many of these buyers would go back to the store to claim their compensation?
Lastly, if >20 million CDs were sold, that's a *large* number of affected PC's. Sony might claim it has provided a "one-click" un-install software, the bug would still linger around for a lot longer
Flawed justice, anyone?
Yes, Simpsons was the cornerstore of comedy one time. Not only did it have a comic sense and timing, but also it had the gumption to take the joke on American masses, whilst selling itself to them. It had a great sense of poking fun at the racial discriminations that exist in the american society, yet had the charm brought by breaking the very same prejudices.
However, the last couple of seasons have been a mere caricature of the show, as well as the characters. Like someone else said on here, its now formulaic - no longer the greatest show in 20th century
I think you raise an interesting and subtle point. Essentially, the hardware vendors (in collusion with the software creators - the hollywood studios, for one) are trying to put the high-turnaround consumer market spin on the entertainment media as well. So just buying the VHS tapes and the player isn't enough - as the new format guaranteed ease of use and better quality. The consumers then flocked to it, with a genuine alacrity since it was almost a quantum leap in quality.
Inspired with this success, however, I believe is the attempt to pull-back the expiry date for DVD and push *ANOTHER* media (and *ANOTHER* set of players to the market). Push it along with *ANOTHER* type of TV, and you have the two markets creating penetration for each other. In fact, this market is so lucrative the corporates are fighting over WHICH format to push. Sounds like a rip-off, if I ever saw one = just look at the faster, bigger computer we get thrust at us every few months, while the price of new-improved box stays roughly the same (after the initial, rationalising drop)
In the worst case, they can be used to invade privacy by correlating one person's visits to potentially thousands of different Web sites.
OMG - that'll end civilisation as we know it! Of course this assumes that some can get their hands on ALL your cookies. Perhaps with Netscape it wasn't so hard given they were all stored in a single file - but I would think (I've never tried myself but the how of it is not obvious) you would need some sort of ActiveX control or an exploit of some kind to be able to access Cookies other than those from your web site.
I have worked with cookies extensively, but haven't come across any bug or other clever means of using cookies to track a user's movements *across* websites. The fundamental basis for a cookie is that it's attached to a domain - And the server can access the cookies file from the client for ONLY the domain it belongs to (the HTTP headers are compared to check the domain the cookie is requested for). Thus, like you said, the cookie at best, is a poor man's, simple mechanism of tracking user movements across pages - that too, mainly for improved navigation
Any clever stuff such as enhanced navigation (bringing the user back to a page where they started via a custom "back" button, etc) or managing the shopping cart (which a *LOT* of start-ups used the cookies for in the dot-com era), has long moved to session (which is lately hot-replicated to disk/DB but out of scope for this discussion)
For both the author of TFA and the senators getting their knickers in twist over this, smacks of ignorance
But oh, wait! we *know* its dead, but we just don't quite know what killed it yet..
- It now has shareholders to answer, and they may not see the advantages/ROI
- Wiki *may* lose its neutral stance on sensitive issues (unless you want Google's version of truth) - I know I'm going out on a limb here..
- With its support (read money), Google may want the control, which defeats the F/OSS purpose
Just my £0.02Hmm. Whilst I do agree with the "if there's a demand, there shall be a product" credo, it may not always be so. A project of this size, complexity, flexibility, and skill-demanding may not always be deemed economically feasible
I don't quite believe the F/OSS customer base doesn't have money to spend. If they did not any money to spend the project wouldn't have gone one for 6 years.
Switching to a commercial market may not be a bad thing, but who's to say it won't lose its (growing) neutrality on issues?
I agree. However, I also believe such public-interest systems *have* to be self-sufficient if they are to truly serve the purpose of providing free information to the child in Africa reeling under crushing poverty, or the future generations being able to access unbiased info.
I'm sure discussions in this domain have happened quite a few times in the past, however, but perhaps with growing penetration/contribution, it maybe be time to look for alternate sources of revenue - for example, the much-used ad-based model?
Or maybe I'm opening a whole new can of worms here...
Hmm, inflation eh? Here's another wild idea - What if during the big-bang the energy released was so much that it actually *increased* the speed of light itself, till it finally slowed down and settled..? :-)
...the new human species, Homo floriensis, observes quite the opposite of the evolutionary path - standing at under 1meter tall
0 27_041027_homo_floresiensis.html
What's more, it is thought they spent most of their time in trees :
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/10/1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3948165.stm
The general perception about politicians lately is CCTV will eliminate all problems. After the London bombing on 7/7/05, the Met spent hundreds of man hours sifting through CCTV "evidence" to find more information about the hackers, while for all practical purposes is shutting the barn door after...
Even the Dutch, once known as hacker-friendly, politically progressive Europeans, are now fearful and demanding more cameras on their streets.
Whilst recording and monitoring activities in parts deemed dangerous, not easy to patrol, prone to mugging/thefts/incidents may be worthwhile, recording public spaces is similar to littering the motorway with speed cameras...
..but not a great year for Blockbuster video:
t ml
http://www.advfn.com/quote_Blockbuster_NYSE_BBI.h
(from a $10 high in Q1 '05 the stock's now trading under $4)
Ah, yes. They are cheaper, friendlier PR exercises to begin with.
However, in this world where corporates fall over each other to promote "do no evil" or appear "friendly" (think of the number of staff employed to provide information to random callers - from students looking to do their internships, to university professors, to competitors fishing for information, to, in extreme cases, corporate spies), they then try to promote blogging to *other* parts of the organization than PR/marketing.
The impetus here being two fold: 1) Prospective candidate will know how "good" they are to work for or will get a taste of the "work environment", and 2) they can demonstrate their competitors/stakeholders of the "open" culture they believe in and are thus less suspect of doing evil...
The last company I worked for encouraged their engineers to blog on their corporate server, because they had no other, better/easier means of spreading corporate bonhomie...
How many seconds were wasted talking and discussing that extra second? Domino effect, anyone?
Public corporate blogging is dangerous territory, as I found out the hard way.
Whilst being encouraged to record experiences, insights and lessons learnt when working with partners and their products, in a publicly available, searchable format, I found the moment you mention corporate names and *ANY* shortcomings, suddenly this "sharing knowledge" becomes "finding scapegoat".
I guess what's required is an explicit corporate IT policy, with clear, specific guidelines on what can and cannot be blogged, if at all. This policy then needs to be shared, and "promoted" - beginning with the departments that would use it the most - IT. Unless there's a clear directive that knowledge sharing is appreciated, not much would change in the Fortune 500 world
Maybe the solution isn't RSS. The one big innovation/change in the way we use the Internet, over the last few years has been google, which identifies relevance based on ranking and cross-linking (in the belief others know this is good content).
Maybe just publishing content isn't enough. Maybe we need something that has content source indexed by subject/category *and* relevance? Where relevance grows based upon the number of readers who read it...
In the past they have:
- China: Police Shut Down Gay, Lesbian Event
- Rampant Violence and Intimidation Against Petitioners - Chinese citizens who petition Chinese authorities for the redress of grievances are attacked, beaten, threatened, and intimidated
Not to mention China's stance on Hongkong's pursuit of democracy...I was hoping your response would have something meaningul, but sadly, its as bad as the original post. Go back to your moaning, and nonsense
From the article, the "companies made hundreds of thousands of calls to cell phone customers using pre-recorded messages and auto-dialers in violation of the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act as well as state laws".
I thought that they were complaining about "pre-recorded messages" more than auto-dialers.
Also from the article: Under Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations it is illegal for telemarketers to use automated diallers to call cell phone numbers
that's a half assed comment if I ever saw one. Having worked as a developer in India, USA and UK for the last 10 years, I can tell you some of these "overseas" or "onshore" developers/managers that I have worked with try to pass-off a random doodle as "specification", or are wary of following better sofware life-cycle management processes because "there is no time", or do not want to undertake tedious, reptitive work because "it is cheaper to get it done elsewhere", but like you, that's not the point I want to make
When you say "the government has been shipping money and expertise overseas at an unreal rate", I would like to invite you to share your sources. The only money and resources that we hear of are the troops and their rations being shipped to Iraq in the search of WMD, dethroning the "nexus of evil" in exchange of soil.
If your government is as dyed-in-wool as you make it out to be, then would you care to explain why it took them a week to respond to the biggest natural calamity...within your own country?
You quote umemployment deficits, I quote trade-quotes, the double-standards of free trade (in the name of protecting local interests), and the politics of economic sanctions
And while your lamenting and crying out loud about the loss of jobs to the "skilled" workers, do you want to ever present the facts or just jump the bandwagon because someone told you outsourcing is a bad thing?
You are happy that you can get the cheapest, use-and-throw products at your Walmart, god forbid if you have to pay two dollars extra for the bread from the local bakery, because, heck thats not your "skilled" job of course
What you need to wake up to, is the reality that markets do not have the promise of the golden pot-at-the-end-of-rainbow anymore
..for a product vying a piece of personal hdd-based players dominated by iPod, this is bad news.
Creative may try to position itself as the player with replaceable battery (hence longer life), has few more quirks (such as allowing you to move files across computers, rather than going the iTunes way), however, iPod still remains the benchmark in usability and style (the USP of iPod).
Till they manage to one-up the market leader with innovative design or something special, such glitches will always render it as also-ran
For years, OS-wars have been in the domain of /.'ers and such OS enthusiasts (I'd like to say tongue-in-cheek, enthusiasts for better, stable, readily-available software), while the corporate line taken by (not just MS), was Linux (and thereby all open source products) were not the same in performance, cost of adoption/transition or support
However, now that the momentum is decidedly shifting (however slow), or it seems the market is moving towards a combination of the two (MS on the desktops mostly, but Linux etc on Servers), we now have the biggest giant throwing open its coffers to throw up smokescreens as much as it can
This is not to say everything we have in the Linux world is superior always compared to say, Windows, however, what we do have is a community ready to learn, and change. How better is that compared to futzing around with existing features that MS tends to do across versions (and mostly gets it wrong lately)?
Why stop at doing this for wireless devices? Why not include such connnection-based control for any connections made from the host?
Also, the article says this proposed change will require change to existing Wi-Fi devices. IS that really going to happen in near future?