But a lot of the gripes are because the "back end" was changed to Linux. Most employees shouldn't have to download a patch for the database server--it should just work. They shouldn't care and most shouldn't need to know if the server is linux or windows and if the database is SQL server or Oracle or DB2 or PostgreSQL.
It is the sys admins who will have this headache & it would be short-sighted to run a Linux server in a shop of Win32 sys admins or vice versa. Should be relatively easy to make the few new hires to get the Linux people that are needed to pull this off.
Having seen many companies negative reactions when switching to Oracle on ANY platform, I'm not really satisified that these are Linux gripes at all. I read a lot of complaints that could have been because of Oracle--not so many that are only applicable to Linux.
TV isn't a right. TV is for entertainment and education, both of which you can get elsewhere. The government assisting people with television upgrades is such a huge waste of money. If you can't afford a television upgrade yourself, then you have a few years to start saving.
TV is an important media channel that does often have more up-to-date and more easily accessible information. Everyone should be entitled to the use. The government already regulates to some degree CSPAN, public access, PBS, and other channels. They see the value of television & if they are using tax dollars for some of these things, ALL tax payers should have a way to access it.
I think that, rather than buying poor people TVs, money should be allocated to public libraries who could add TV archive & viewing capabilities to the internet PCs they already offer to people.
Both MS and google have tryed to create tools for searching people's desktop machines. I imagine that a web browser/file manager would be the perfect tool to accomplish this. It would probably help if there was integration into the OS (like IE). Perhaps google sees this & has hired key microsoft alums to accomplish better desktop searching.
I agree with several posts--we have good web browsers to choose. But windows users don't really have a browser with a good file manager. (It is possible to run Konqueror on windows, but it is hardly native.) I wouldn't mind another browser on the market, but google doesn't need to hire MS people to write extensions to or derivations of a gecko or khtml browser & there is really very little that I can think of in the way of browser extensions that would make a build from scratch the logical path.
I'm not convinced that they're being evil (and I'm usually quite the cynic). Diversification isn't evil, especially if you diversify within your talents. Google's core talent is really in online application development (search, orkut, gmail...). A web browser is somewhat removed from this, but not completely.
The truth is that firefox doesn't have every feature and the support that some want. Having another choice isn't bad--as long as that choice isn't poorly implemented and the de facto standard. Not only would Google hopefully know this, but it would be very difficult for them to completely displace the browser that already fills that role.
Why don't you wait and see--they can't do evil until they've actually done SOMETHING.
I will be eager to see this magazine! I was very bummed about the demise of the "Amateur Scientist" column from Scientific American. You can get that wonderful column on a CD (yes, that has my ref id in it) or read recent articles online. The old articles are the best--how to construct electron/proton accelerators & the like.
It doesn't have to be--although rarely used,pedantical is a perfectly acceptable adjective meaning the same thing. I like using it--would-be pedagogues can learn that I'm not "stupid," but rather a "stupid-ass."
I know they announced the dealine in advance, but their 3 month project was horribly unrealistic for such a small bounty. The initial slashdot article had comments to this effect (out of the relatively few comments it had--this is a BAD sign: no one really cares). I can see MAYBE an undergrad who didn't have a summer job working on it, but no one else would put everything else on hold for a pathetic bounty for an already ambitious timeline.
Fair enough. I should've said that it was difficult enough to find in TFA, that I had to resort to a google search. My beef wasn't with the obscurity, but with the fact that both TFA & the OP didn't have the forethought to consider it might be a little obscure.
Slashdot submitters: try to explain acronyms you use in your submission. Same should go to people who make the original websites too. It took a lot of poking around to figure out ICFP=International Conference on Functional Programming.
Depends on which style manual you are using. I've useually used lower case kelvin (but cap-cased Celsius and Farenheit).
I've never really seen angstrom capitalized. Starting it with the "latin capital A with ring above" (Å), as you use for the abbreviation, is definitely wrong.
Excellent point. This supports the notion that some companies would be able to slash consumer rights. I don't think that is the case here: TiVo and Replay have both been burned by patent lawsuits, and the PVRs provided by the Dish Network and cable companies are apparently more used than either TiVo or Replay. So perhaps patents that are fiercely defended lead to the negative outcome--by establishing the virtual monopoly that I described in the grandparent post.
It isn't the same as TiVo. TiVo can skip forward 30 seconds. ANY ReplayTV can skip forward an arbitrary number of minutes (with no umlock code, which TiVos require for the skip feature) AND "Show|Nav" (some marketing weeny should be shot for that name). Show|Nav uses the identical algorithm as commercial skip. Press the right nav key & you will be advanced to just after the commercial break. Most TiVos can't do this. You are correct that "CommercialAdvance" is gone (which basically used Show|Nav automatically, I guess).
Oh, for fuck's sake, what is it with Americans. It's not only the Government that can erode your rights, you know...
So what rights are being eroded and how? You can still record and keep pay-per-view content using numerous methods I suggested. IF the two companies were the ONLY providers of PVRs, than you could be right--while it wouldn't be illegal to keep recorded Pay-Per-View content, consumers wouldn't be able to find a device to actually do it. But that isn't what is happening at all. I agree that it is a stupid, wrong headed decision. But it won't really have any impact over whether I'll still be able to record & keep Pay-Per-View content.
Fair Use extends beyond archival copies. The copy machines in a library are examples of tools for another kind of fair use--you don't own the books and periodicals, but are free to make copies of small sections for education, reporting news, and research.
"Fair Use" has been popularly applied to the right to record tv shows & keep them. While Title 17 Section 107 doesn't really explicitly grant these rights, the Sony Betamax case and others set a precedent.
There isn't really a black-and-white division as you want, but your current views are conservative compared to most people's ideas of Fair Use (though many slashdotters, including myself, have considerably more Liberal ideas on the subject).
Considering that it is two corporations making a decision to curtail a feature, I wouldn't exactly call it an erosion of fair use. Perhaps it is a sign that fair use has already eroded because they feel compelled to do this, but they aren't exactly making a new law here--TiVo and Replay aren't creating a "Revenge of the INDUCE Act."
Feel free to continue to practice your Fair Use Rights by using DVArchive (or whatever equivalents are out for TiVo. Or buy some OTHER company's PVR. Or find out how to hack the feature back into the units. Or build a homebrew PVR using Freevo, Myth, Sage, etc.
Consumers still have a ton of options. This is just two corporations making a dumb decision--nothing to see!
Well, your comment just proves that even college students can't read....
The ban doesn't apply to just AP's connected to the school network, it applies to APs connected to private networks, cable modems, etc.
I realize that & didn't argue that this wasn't the case. It would be mighty boring to argue only one facet of a multi-faceted issue.
The school's network uses public part 15 frequencies that they are legally obligated to share and co-use with others without the expecation of no interference. This is where the school's arguments end and the LAW rules.
The school isn't and can't pretend to stop someone from setting up an 802.11 transmitter across the street from the school & broadcast onto their property. This isn't the same as saying they can't regulate what equipment that you use on their property: of course they can. This is an extreme and bad example, but even if you have a permit to carry a firearm, you can't necessarily carry it to school with you (well, it is Texas, so maybe...).
Northwestern University disallows any students, faculty, or staff from using ANY device that will extend the network: no routers, hubs, switches are allowed: wireless or wired. You can have a single CAT-5 cable running from your access port to your choice of wired periperals. They expect you to pony up $150-230 for the installation of each access port, plus additional monthly fees for service. This is significant when ~3 grad students mush share one office with ONE port, not to mention the computer labs.
They have a right and responsibility to maintain security and quality of the network, but I don't think micro-management is the solution for this, especially in academic environments. I could see the need for some corporate or government IT shops to ban the use of any outside machines from accessing their internal network, but Universities generally allow (or require) you to bring your own system(s). If we want to build a small cluser, we are supposed to either choose to have it disconnected from the network (inconvenient), or pony up what amounts to an additional 10% of equipment costs to have more ports provided.
The win-win solution should be that the University chooses not to support people who use routers, etc. If one computer behind the access port is spreading a worm or distributing copyrighted material, the whole access port should go down.
Fortunately, this rule is violated all the time, as I'm sure the UT rule will be violated. I'm glad that some choose to break it--during the peak of worm seasons, it has been the people who have a router with a built-in firewall that weren't infested.
Traditional enclyclopedias have errors as well & users have little option to fix them--they certainly can't change them directly. They must write the publisher & hope their corrections make it into the next edition in a year.
The value of encyclopedias isn't that they are right about everything. It is that they cover so many topics in an easy-to-understand manner. If you need more in depth knowledge or need to ensure correctness, you really should be using some sources which are a little bit more primary--books or journal articles written on the specific subject you are looking into.
Everyone who rights for the wikipedia should therefore cite references where people could look for more info. Also, I don't think that one person entering 5 errors is that harmful--the quality level is still quite high. Either a lot of people would need to make small numbers of errors (which hasn't really happened--most people write on topics they know about) or one person would need to add many more errors. If this happened, it is much more likely that they would get caught--after noting an error, an editor would likely check that person's other contributions.
Joshua was released from police custody at 11:00 AM on Sunday. Lawyers from the National Lawyer Guild believe that the case is a clear violation of the first amendment and should be thrown out. Joshua's bicycle, laptop, and cell phone have all been confiscated, however, and are being held until his court hearing. The court date has been set for Friday, 9/3, after the RNC ends.
I'm sorry--I completely missed that comment & figured that since the article was dated today & the police work slowly on the weekends, nothing had changed.
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Not as good as native, but 1.4 (maybe higher too) seems to run on cygwin.
But a lot of the gripes are because the "back end" was changed to Linux. Most employees shouldn't have to download a patch for the database server--it should just work. They shouldn't care and most shouldn't need to know if the server is linux or windows and if the database is SQL server or Oracle or DB2 or PostgreSQL.
It is the sys admins who will have this headache & it would be short-sighted to run a Linux server in a shop of Win32 sys admins or vice versa. Should be relatively easy to make the few new hires to get the Linux people that are needed to pull this off.
Having seen many companies negative reactions when switching to Oracle on ANY platform, I'm not really satisified that these are Linux gripes at all. I read a lot of complaints that could have been because of Oracle--not so many that are only applicable to Linux.
Not sure what you mean by "undocumented."network: Local Flag: Enables network streaming support (media-video/mplayer)
I think that, rather than buying poor people TVs, money should be allocated to public libraries who could add TV archive & viewing capabilities to the internet PCs they already offer to people.
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Both MS and google have tryed to create tools for searching people's desktop machines. I imagine that a web browser/file manager would be the perfect tool to accomplish this. It would probably help if there was integration into the OS (like IE). Perhaps google sees this & has hired key microsoft alums to accomplish better desktop searching.
I agree with several posts--we have good web browsers to choose. But windows users don't really have a browser with a good file manager. (It is possible to run Konqueror on windows, but it is hardly native.) I wouldn't mind another browser on the market, but google doesn't need to hire MS people to write extensions to or derivations of a gecko or khtml browser & there is really very little that I can think of in the way of browser extensions that would make a build from scratch the logical path.
I'm not convinced that they're being evil (and I'm usually quite the cynic). Diversification isn't evil, especially if you diversify within your talents. Google's core talent is really in online application development (search, orkut, gmail...). A web browser is somewhat removed from this, but not completely.
The truth is that firefox doesn't have every feature and the support that some want. Having another choice isn't bad--as long as that choice isn't poorly implemented and the de facto standard. Not only would Google hopefully know this, but it would be very difficult for them to completely displace the browser that already fills that role.
Why don't you wait and see--they can't do evil until they've actually done SOMETHING.
I will be eager to see this magazine! I was very bummed about the demise of the "Amateur Scientist" column from Scientific American. You can get that wonderful column on a CD (yes, that has my ref id in it) or read recent articles online. The old articles are the best--how to construct electron/proton accelerators & the like.
It doesn't have to be--although rarely used,pedantical is a perfectly acceptable adjective meaning the same thing. I like using it--would-be pedagogues can learn that I'm not "stupid," but rather a "stupid-ass."
I know they announced the dealine in advance, but their 3 month project was horribly unrealistic for such a small bounty. The initial slashdot article had comments to this effect (out of the relatively few comments it had--this is a BAD sign: no one really cares). I can see MAYBE an undergrad who didn't have a summer job working on it, but no one else would put everything else on hold for a pathetic bounty for an already ambitious timeline.
Fair enough. I should've said that it was difficult enough to find in TFA, that I had to resort to a google search. My beef wasn't with the obscurity, but with the fact that both TFA & the OP didn't have the forethought to consider it might be a little obscure.
Slashdot submitters: try to explain acronyms you use in your submission. Same should go to people who make the original websites too. It took a lot of poking around to figure out ICFP=International Conference on Functional Programming.
Depends on which style manual you are using. I've useually used lower case kelvin (but cap-cased Celsius and Farenheit).
I've never really seen angstrom capitalized. Starting it with the "latin capital A with ring above" (Å), as you use for the abbreviation, is definitely wrong.
Excellent point. This supports the notion that some companies would be able to slash consumer rights. I don't think that is the case here: TiVo and Replay have both been burned by patent lawsuits, and the PVRs provided by the Dish Network and cable companies are apparently more used than either TiVo or Replay. So perhaps patents that are fiercely defended lead to the negative outcome--by establishing the virtual monopoly that I described in the grandparent post.
It isn't the same as TiVo. TiVo can skip forward 30 seconds. ANY ReplayTV can skip forward an arbitrary number of minutes (with no umlock code, which TiVos require for the skip feature) AND "Show|Nav" (some marketing weeny should be shot for that name). Show|Nav uses the identical algorithm as commercial skip. Press the right nav key & you will be advanced to just after the commercial break. Most TiVos can't do this. You are correct that "CommercialAdvance" is gone (which basically used Show|Nav automatically, I guess).
Fair Use extends beyond archival copies. The copy machines in a library are examples of tools for another kind of fair use--you don't own the books and periodicals, but are free to make copies of small sections for education, reporting news, and research.
"Fair Use" has been popularly applied to the right to record tv shows & keep them. While Title 17 Section 107 doesn't really explicitly grant these rights, the Sony Betamax case and others set a precedent.
There isn't really a black-and-white division as you want, but your current views are conservative compared to most people's ideas of Fair Use (though many slashdotters, including myself, have considerably more Liberal ideas on the subject).
Feel free to continue to practice your Fair Use Rights by using DVArchive (or whatever equivalents are out for TiVo. Or buy some OTHER company's PVR. Or find out how to hack the feature back into the units. Or build a homebrew PVR using Freevo, Myth, Sage, etc.
Consumers still have a ton of options. This is just two corporations making a dumb decision--nothing to see!
I realize that & didn't argue that this wasn't the case. It would be mighty boring to argue only one facet of a multi-faceted issue.The school isn't and can't pretend to stop someone from setting up an 802.11 transmitter across the street from the school & broadcast onto their property. This isn't the same as saying they can't regulate what equipment that you use on their property: of course they can. This is an extreme and bad example, but even if you have a permit to carry a firearm, you can't necessarily carry it to school with you (well, it is Texas, so maybe...).
Northwestern University disallows any students, faculty, or staff from using ANY device that will extend the network: no routers, hubs, switches are allowed: wireless or wired. You can have a single CAT-5 cable running from your access port to your choice of wired periperals. They expect you to pony up $150-230 for the installation of each access port, plus additional monthly fees for service. This is significant when ~3 grad students mush share one office with ONE port, not to mention the computer labs.
They have a right and responsibility to maintain security and quality of the network, but I don't think micro-management is the solution for this, especially in academic environments. I could see the need for some corporate or government IT shops to ban the use of any outside machines from accessing their internal network, but Universities generally allow (or require) you to bring your own system(s). If we want to build a small cluser, we are supposed to either choose to have it disconnected from the network (inconvenient), or pony up what amounts to an additional 10% of equipment costs to have more ports provided.
The win-win solution should be that the University chooses not to support people who use routers, etc. If one computer behind the access port is spreading a worm or distributing copyrighted material, the whole access port should go down.
Fortunately, this rule is violated all the time, as I'm sure the UT rule will be violated. I'm glad that some choose to break it--during the peak of worm seasons, it has been the people who have a router with a built-in firewall that weren't infested.
Traditional enclyclopedias have errors as well & users have little option to fix them--they certainly can't change them directly. They must write the publisher & hope their corrections make it into the next edition in a year.
The value of encyclopedias isn't that they are right about everything. It is that they cover so many topics in an easy-to-understand manner. If you need more in depth knowledge or need to ensure correctness, you really should be using some sources which are a little bit more primary--books or journal articles written on the specific subject you are looking into.
Everyone who rights for the wikipedia should therefore cite references where people could look for more info. Also, I don't think that one person entering 5 errors is that harmful--the quality level is still quite high. Either a lot of people would need to make small numbers of errors (which hasn't really happened--most people write on topics they know about) or one person would need to add many more errors. If this happened, it is much more likely that they would get caught--after noting an error, an editor would likely check that person's other contributions.
I'm sorry--I completely missed that comment & figured that since the article was dated today & the police work slowly on the weekends, nothing had changed.
Parent deserves to be modded up as informative.