Quicktime might be the best compromise. It's cross-platform, has reasonable file sizes, reasonable quality, etc.
Sounds like a piracy crackdown, not a ban.
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China Bans 50 Games
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· Score: 4, Informative
From the article:
"Chinesegovernment in 2005 will focus on combating illegal publications. This especially concerns pirated textbooks, electronic publications and illegal journals that will have negative influence on the youth."
It sounds to me from the article like they're cracking down on piracy and not necessarily passing judgement on the games themselves (other than the people making pirated versions of them). But then, it was written by someone that likely doesn't speak my native language natively so who knows? (Although their English is likely far superior to my total lack of knowledge of Chinese).
If IBM of all companies is developing their internal applications to require Internet-Explorer dependent technologies like ActiveX... What does this say about their commitment to Linux?
Hopefully this is just a case of a huge company's left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. But still, this is very disappointing.
We are likely moving into another time period of preferring outsourcing/buying off-the-shelf software over insourcing. Then 5 years from now, some bean counter will yell "Eureka! Why are we paying these outside companies money to develop our software? We can save MILLIONS developing it ourselves!" And then the pendulum will swing once again toward insourcing.
This has been going on for decades and will continue to go on.
Before another dozen people post about how in-memory databases have been done before, please read the article. They're specifically not talking about in-memory or on-disk databases. They're reading the data and analyzing it in real time as it flows through the network. For everyone asking how they're going to back such data up, you don't need to back up data that is useless 1 second after it has flowed through your network.
Things like this will continue to happen so long as space use and exploration in general does not capture the public's fascination.
I'm an avid supporter of all things space-related (paying member of Planetary Society, etc) but I find most articles written about the Hubble telescope and space in general pretty boring. Until someone inspires the world with a lofty goal that will push technology or knowledge forward significantly, I think you can expect this type of stagnation or actual devolution.
This is just another meaningless delay of the case. Such things are actually a victory for IBM. IBM can afford to have this drag on forever. SCO's days are numbered.
That's because whoever bought that copy of pcAnywhere got an educational institution discount on it.
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Spammers Sue Spamee
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· Score: 4, Interesting
I don't know why, but most people don't seem to know that you can purchase what's called an Umbrella Policy from your current insurance agent that will protect you against frivolous lawsuits like this. The cost? $150 to $300 per year for up to $1 million of protection.
You're just crazy to risk pissing anyone off without such a policy. Think about it. For $300 per year you can feel confident that some jerk can't shut you up just because you can't defend your right to say truthful things. Instead, let your insurance company pay to defend you in court!
Now if I get the urge to hack into the BBC network, I won't have to do as much poking and prodding to get my own network map. They've done the time-consuming work for me!
I remember when I was 13 almost 20 years ago and I was using my 300 baud Mitey-Mo modem on my Commodore 64 to call all over creation to various bulletin boards. My parents ended up with a $400 phone bill that month.
That was a lot of money and I had my modem taken away from me for a couple months. Can kids even function today if their cell phone is taken away from them today?
I just went to download this software to try it out. It took me about 10 minutes to be able to read the product ID off the side of my Dell computer (which is under my desk which is extremely dark). At least the MS jerks that came up with that product ID could've kept out zeroes (which look like O's) and eights (which look like B's).
I guess Microsoft's commitment to keeping the Internet safe from spyware stops when their profits are concerned.
I'm glad to see that you're playing with virtual money. If someone were to ask you, all that you have to do is do a stock screen for companies that lose more than a set percentage in a single day, buy them and wait for the inevitable reversal.
That is nonsense. In the investment world, that's usually referred to as attempting to "catch a falling knife". Every once in a long while, you'll catch it but most of the time you'll just end up with a bloody hand.
From what you describe, you're a chart-watching technical trader. And a very bad one at that. Maybe you've been lucky in the last few months that have seen the DOW and the S&P rise to 3.5 year highs, but don't expect your luck to continue especially if the current bull market turns.
According to a Chinese government spokesperson, "Accoona is a more efficient search engine because while Google uses automated system applications to crawl the Internet and add to their databse, we have assigned 481.2 million Chinese citizens the task of manually surfing the Internet and cataloging every site by hand. They work faster and far cheaper than Google's automated software."
I think where I and the study (and apparently you) disagree is the definition of "Success Story" being 30 or more hour working on music and 80% income from music. I know three musicians that spend at least 60 hours per week on their music and get 100% of their $0 monthly income from music. I don't consider that a success story.
My definition of a success story would be of the type you see on MTV's Cribs.
I think you can reasonably accurately predict (with some exceptions of course) where an artist falls on the "Internet Good" or "Internet Bad" debate based on how famous they are.
Those that are already famous want to wring every cent out of the fame they've worked hard to get and therefore loathe the Internet's ease of file sharing.
Those looking to become famous love the Internet's ease of file sharing because it enables more people to be more easily exposed to their music.
To those people saying that we shouldn't have fully funded NASA so that we could instead lower the national debt, I respond there are a thousand things we should take money away from before NASA.
Senator McCain clearly labeled many pork-barrel projects in several speeches. Pork Projects
Failing to fund NASA is failing to fund the future of our civilization and our economy. We exercise such short-term thinking at our own peril.
IT majors entering college now are crazy
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Offshoring IT
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· Score: 4, Informative
I've been in the IT industry for 14 years and it has been extremely lucrative for me. I do not recommend anyone to get into the IT field if they're going to be entering the job market 4 or 5 years from now though. I think that the combination of outsourcing along with the increasing ease of doing complicated tasks with computers will lead to a bleak job future for IT-specialized staff. I think that more and more administrative tasks will be pushed onto what are considered today end users today.
As for recommendations (which this book reportedly lacks)... Study business. Be the person that's sending jobs overseas or setting up your own plug and play wireless network.
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Quicktime might be the best compromise. It's cross-platform, has reasonable file sizes, reasonable quality, etc.
From the article:
"Chinesegovernment in 2005 will focus on combating illegal publications. This especially concerns pirated textbooks, electronic publications and illegal journals that will have negative influence on the youth."
It sounds to me from the article like they're cracking down on piracy and not necessarily passing judgement on the games themselves (other than the people making pirated versions of them). But then, it was written by someone that likely doesn't speak my native language natively so who knows? (Although their English is likely far superior to my total lack of knowledge of Chinese).
If IBM of all companies is developing their internal applications to require Internet-Explorer dependent technologies like ActiveX... What does this say about their commitment to Linux?
Hopefully this is just a case of a huge company's left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. But still, this is very disappointing.
What about all the fanciful things we were supposed to have "By the year 2000!"?
What a joke that turned out to be. I'm still making calls with an audio-only phone and I have yet to come across a practical hover-car.
We are likely moving into another time period of preferring outsourcing/buying off-the-shelf software over insourcing. Then 5 years from now, some bean counter will yell "Eureka! Why are we paying these outside companies money to develop our software? We can save MILLIONS developing it ourselves!" And then the pendulum will swing once again toward insourcing.
This has been going on for decades and will continue to go on.
Before another dozen people post about how in-memory databases have been done before, please read the article. They're specifically not talking about in-memory or on-disk databases. They're reading the data and analyzing it in real time as it flows through the network. For everyone asking how they're going to back such data up, you don't need to back up data that is useless 1 second after it has flowed through your network.
Things like this will continue to happen so long as space use and exploration in general does not capture the public's fascination.
I'm an avid supporter of all things space-related (paying member of Planetary Society, etc) but I find most articles written about the Hubble telescope and space in general pretty boring. Until someone inspires the world with a lofty goal that will push technology or knowledge forward significantly, I think you can expect this type of stagnation or actual devolution.
This is just another meaningless delay of the case. Such things are actually a victory for IBM. IBM can afford to have this drag on forever. SCO's days are numbered.
That's because whoever bought that copy of pcAnywhere got an educational institution discount on it.
I don't know why, but most people don't seem to know that you can purchase what's called an Umbrella Policy from your current insurance agent that will protect you against frivolous lawsuits like this. The cost? $150 to $300 per year for up to $1 million of protection.
Here's a FAQ on it:
http://www.iii.org/individuals/auto/b/umbrella/
You're just crazy to risk pissing anyone off without such a policy. Think about it. For $300 per year you can feel confident that some jerk can't shut you up just because you can't defend your right to say truthful things. Instead, let your insurance company pay to defend you in court!
When Darl originally came from Mars, he accidentally left his list of source code that violates SCO's IP there.
Now that NASA has found it, his case can finally proceed.
Until they pass a law that makes it completely legal to kill spammers, the spam problem will not go away.
Now if I get the urge to hack into the BBC network, I won't have to do as much poking and prodding to get my own network map. They've done the time-consuming work for me!
Most of the ones that are found via Google require an ActiveX control. Don't get too excited.
I remember when I was 13 almost 20 years ago and I was using my 300 baud Mitey-Mo modem on my Commodore 64 to call all over creation to various bulletin boards. My parents ended up with a $400 phone bill that month.
That was a lot of money and I had my modem taken away from me for a couple months. Can kids even function today if their cell phone is taken away from them today?
I just went to download this software to try it out. It took me about 10 minutes to be able to read the product ID off the side of my Dell computer (which is under my desk which is extremely dark). At least the MS jerks that came up with that product ID could've kept out zeroes (which look like O's) and eights (which look like B's).
I guess Microsoft's commitment to keeping the Internet safe from spyware stops when their profits are concerned.
Does this do the same thing as www.pricelessware.org???
I'm glad to see that you're playing with virtual money. If someone were to ask you, all that you have to do is do a stock screen for companies that lose more than a set percentage in a single day, buy them and wait for the inevitable reversal.
That is nonsense. In the investment world, that's usually referred to as attempting to "catch a falling knife". Every once in a long while, you'll catch it but most of the time you'll just end up with a bloody hand.
From what you describe, you're a chart-watching technical trader. And a very bad one at that. Maybe you've been lucky in the last few months that have seen the DOW and the S&P rise to 3.5 year highs, but don't expect your luck to continue especially if the current bull market turns.
When I grow up, I'm going to Bovine University!
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According to a Chinese government spokesperson, "Accoona is a more efficient search engine because while Google uses automated system applications to crawl the Internet and add to their databse, we have assigned 481.2 million Chinese citizens the task of manually surfing the Internet and cataloging every site by hand. They work faster and far cheaper than Google's automated software."
There you have it.
I think where I and the study (and apparently you) disagree is the definition of "Success Story" being 30 or more hour working on music and 80% income from music. I know three musicians that spend at least 60 hours per week on their music and get 100% of their $0 monthly income from music. I don't consider that a success story.
My definition of a success story would be of the type you see on MTV's Cribs.
I think you can reasonably accurately predict (with some exceptions of course) where an artist falls on the "Internet Good" or "Internet Bad" debate based on how famous they are.
Those that are already famous want to wring every cent out of the fame they've worked hard to get and therefore loathe the Internet's ease of file sharing.
Those looking to become famous love the Internet's ease of file sharing because it enables more people to be more easily exposed to their music.
To those people saying that we shouldn't have fully funded NASA so that we could instead lower the national debt, I respond there are a thousand things we should take money away from before NASA.
Senator McCain clearly labeled many pork-barrel projects in several speeches. Pork Projects
Failing to fund NASA is failing to fund the future of our civilization and our economy. We exercise such short-term thinking at our own peril.
I've been in the IT industry for 14 years and it has been extremely lucrative for me. I do not recommend anyone to get into the IT field if they're going to be entering the job market 4 or 5 years from now though. I think that the combination of outsourcing along with the increasing ease of doing complicated tasks with computers will lead to a bleak job future for IT-specialized staff. I think that more and more administrative tasks will be pushed onto what are considered today end users today.
As for recommendations (which this book reportedly lacks)... Study business. Be the person that's sending jobs overseas or setting up your own plug and play wireless network.