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The Canadian Culture Minister you're talking about is Hélène Chalifour Scherrer, and she has a bill to make downloading music not legal again. However, we are days away from the Canadian election, and the riding she's in (Louis-Hébert, Quebec) is a tight race according to this site. Make sure you check this site again after the election (June 28th) to see her fate. And for our Canadian slashdot readers, please get out and vote!
Suing Makers of MP3 Players
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EFF has shown how broad the Act is by writing a mock lawsuit [PDF] suing Apple (for making the iPod)
Ummm...that's not too far from reality. The RIAA tried to sue Rio for making MP3 players in the late 90's. I refer you to this wired article.
I think your argument is just a matter of opinion. One could have easily asked
Sigh, I really wish these books would get with the times and start using SQL Server 2000 (or even Oracle), and Microsoft IIS
I'm a firm believer of using the right tool for the right job. Some projects I've worked on don't really need foreign key enforcement, and subqueries, and what not provided by PostgreSQL. MySQL has worked just fine in a lot of cases. Some industrial strength applications may need a PostgreSQL. But whatever makes the most sense should be used.
Phony McRingRing: I'm here to explain why the convenience of one area code in Man's Voice: -Your Town-
has been replaced by the convenience of two area codes!... Scientists have discovered that even monkeys can memorize 10 numbers. Are you stupider than a monkey?
This AOL employee only made $0.0005652174 per e-mail address he sold. Is that anywhere near the fair market list for e-mail lists? Seems a bit low, but then again IANAS (I am not a spammer).
I visited a design studio once, and they had an interesting setup. They had this bar (as in beer style bar) where they had setup computers on the counter. The rationale was, if you got tired from sitting down all day, you could walk over to the bar, and use a computer while standing up. I thought that was a really good idea.
This reminds me of a sig I saw on/. a while ago. It went something along the lines of, "Dear God, please open source the inner workings of the brain. -A.I. Researcher."
I'm not sure how healthy the French economy is these days. France (and Germany) have been exceeding the EU's limit of deficit spending which is 3% of GDP. France is at risk of getting sanctions from the EU. In addition, it doesn't look like Europe's education system is fairing too well either, and it's generally agreed that education is required for a healthy economy. This Time article talks about overcrowded classrooms, underfunding, etc, etc.
I'm thinking the decision to move to OSS by France could be a geopolitical strategic move as well. A trade war between the US and the EU is almost certain to come, and it'd be in Europe's best interest to NOT be locked into software vendors from America. We are already seeing signs of the trade war, be it farm subsidies, technology standards (CDMA VS G3) (Galileo VS GPS), and genetically modified foods. In addition, we all know that the American-French relationship has seen better days.
Here's a game who's graphics will blow you away and settle this once and for all, Java can be used when performance is REALLY needed. BEHOLD! The ultimate 3D java MMORPG game, Runescape! Screenshots here.
DEVELOPERS Developers developers developers! I want you to go to Arizona, or New Mexico, or Oklahoma, or Delaware, or South Carolina, or North Dakota. Viva New Mexico!! YIIEEHAAA!!!!!!! -Steve Ballmer
Did anyone see that awesome interview with Scott Richter (spammer overlord) on the Daily Show? It was so hilarious. He calls himself a high volume e-mail deployers that send useful services to people.
The best is when they posted Scott's e-mail address on national TV, which is: scottrichter442@yahoo.com
This site here has the video available of that Daily Show clip. Please try not to slashdot the site, maybe someone setup a mirror or something.
It feels like Microsoft just comes up with a list of things that have been implemented, and try to patent them. It's hit and miss, but boy, if you score one of the patents, great! If not, try try again... they've got the money to blow. All you have to do is inundate the patent office, and sooner or later, you'll hit the jackpot.
Microsoft's latest patents:
Writing Code on a computer (rejected)
Coding on a computer (rejected)
Coding on an electronic medium (approved)
Uhh...the Internet? (rejected, Al Gore invented that)
The Internet (rejected)
Inter.Net (approved)
...
It's a lot like submitting a story for slashdot, but easier, and way more double posts:D j/k.
Another segment of the game market, MMORPG isn't going Linux any time soon either unfortunately. And MMORPGs definitely represent a good chunk of gamers. Those companies that develop these types of games have enough trouble fixing bugs on the fly, let alone porting their game to another platform.
Although, on a side note, Planeshift (MMORPG) looks promising for all platforms.
When filming a movie, get a buddy to sit with you with a camcorder as well. Activate the night vision on the camcorder, and scan for the evil anti-piracy guys using night vision. When you spot one of them, and they spot you, activate your camcorder's 1000 candle spotlight and aim at guy, and run for it.
Hmmm... this sounds like a really good Splinter Cell mod. Splinter Cell: Theaters VS Camcorders.
You could just encourage your users to use a browser that can block certain ads, so in this case, just block the Microsoft ad. This is great because you still get money for the ad impression, and Microsoft gets nothing for their ad. Given enough time, when Microsoft realizes that advertising with your site is useless, they'll simply stop paying for the ads and leave. So, I think this is a pragmatic way of sticking it to the man rather than applying censorship.
Good point about the NSF cheques (Canadian eh?). Say cheques starting bouncing because of this glitch, and credit cards aren't paid, electricity bills, etc... I wonder if that'll affect your credit rating. That would be an unfair side effect. I'm sure THAT will be fun to sort out as well.
Thankfully I have a bank account at another bank, so my finances aren't paralyzed by this mishap. In situations like this, having a redundant bank account at another bank has been quite handy. I guess a lot of principles of risk management of computers can be applied to things like bank accounts since bank systems are systems after all, and they WILL fail.
Although, in some cases, a redundant account is useless if something hits a bunch of banks. I'm reminded of that internet worm a while back that brought down ATM systems and bogged down the internet. I forget if that was SQL Slammer or Red Code.
I made my credit card payment via online banking on June 1st, and the transaction went through. However, on June 2nd, the system decided to pay my credit card again a second time. Now I'm down a few hundred bucks.... should be fun getting this sorted out:|
I think teaching assembly would be great. Once you understand that, you understand what all programming languages go through eventually:D j/k. Nothing is more readable than say LDD 3,X
But honestly, I think PHP is quite a nice language to learn. It's interpretted, so no need to compile, so you see your results very quickly. PHP tends to be quite good for rapid application development IMO. It also has a very large collection of functions available, so you're not left to implement tedious functions. You also get the benefit of the 90% rule, that is, the syntax is more or less 90% similar or the same to say, C or Java.
I also think your mom would enjoy whipping up simple little web sites. HTML is a nice tool to use to make simple GUIs compared to something like Java swing.
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The Canadian Culture Minister you're talking about is Hélène Chalifour Scherrer, and she has a bill to make downloading music not legal again. However, we are days away from the Canadian election, and the riding she's in (Louis-Hébert, Quebec) is a tight race according to this site. Make sure you check this site again after the election (June 28th) to see her fate. And for our Canadian slashdot readers, please get out and vote!
EFF has shown how broad the Act is by writing a mock lawsuit [PDF] suing Apple (for making the iPod)
Ummm...that's not too far from reality. The RIAA tried to sue Rio for making MP3 players in the late 90's. I refer you to this wired article.
I think your argument is just a matter of opinion. One could have easily asked
Sigh, I really wish these books would get with the times and start using SQL Server 2000 (or even Oracle), and Microsoft IIS
I'm a firm believer of using the right tool for the right job. Some projects I've worked on don't really need foreign key enforcement, and subqueries, and what not provided by PostgreSQL. MySQL has worked just fine in a lot of cases. Some industrial strength applications may need a PostgreSQL. But whatever makes the most sense should be used.
Phony McRingRing: I'm here to explain why the convenience of one area code in Man's Voice: -Your Town- has been replaced by the convenience of two area codes! ... Scientists have discovered that even monkeys can memorize 10 numbers. Are you stupider than a monkey?
Wiggum: How big of a monkey?
This AOL employee only made $0.0005652174 per e-mail address he sold. Is that anywhere near the fair market list for e-mail lists? Seems a bit low, but then again IANAS (I am not a spammer).
I visited a design studio once, and they had an interesting setup. They had this bar (as in beer style bar) where they had setup computers on the counter. The rationale was, if you got tired from sitting down all day, you could walk over to the bar, and use a computer while standing up. I thought that was a really good idea.
This reminds me of a sig I saw on /. a while ago. It went something along the lines of, "Dear God, please open source the inner workings of the brain. -A.I. Researcher."
I'm not sure how healthy the French economy is these days. France (and Germany) have been exceeding the EU's limit of deficit spending which is 3% of GDP. France is at risk of getting sanctions from the EU. In addition, it doesn't look like Europe's education system is fairing too well either, and it's generally agreed that education is required for a healthy economy. This Time article talks about overcrowded classrooms, underfunding, etc, etc.
I'm thinking the decision to move to OSS by France could be a geopolitical strategic move as well. A trade war between the US and the EU is almost certain to come, and it'd be in Europe's best interest to NOT be locked into software vendors from America. We are already seeing signs of the trade war, be it farm subsidies, technology standards (CDMA VS G3) (Galileo VS GPS), and genetically modified foods. In addition, we all know that the American-French relationship has seen better days.
Just because Chirac complimented Bush about American hamburgers (3rd paragraph) at the G8 summit doesn't mean all is well between the two.
Here's a game who's graphics will blow you away and settle this once and for all, Java can be used when performance is REALLY needed. BEHOLD! The ultimate 3D java MMORPG game, Runescape! Screenshots here.
:P
DEVELOPERS Developers developers developers! I want you to go to Arizona, or New Mexico, or Oklahoma, or Delaware, or South Carolina, or North Dakota. Viva New Mexico!! YIIEEHAAA!!!!!!! -Steve Ballmer
I think for posting slashdot comments, we should be allowed to use tags for any spammer's e-mail address.
Did anyone see that awesome interview with Scott Richter (spammer overlord) on the Daily Show? It was so hilarious. He calls himself a high volume e-mail deployers that send useful services to people.
The best is when they posted Scott's e-mail address on national TV, which is: scottrichter442@yahoo.com
This site here has the video available of that Daily Show clip. Please try not to slashdot the site, maybe someone setup a mirror or something.
Microsoft's latest patents:
It's a lot like submitting a story for slashdot, but easier, and way more double posts
Another segment of the game market, MMORPG isn't going Linux any time soon either unfortunately. And MMORPGs definitely represent a good chunk of gamers. Those companies that develop these types of games have enough trouble fixing bugs on the fly, let alone porting their game to another platform.
Although, on a side note, Planeshift (MMORPG) looks promising for all platforms.
Windows is my primary gaming platform. I have no gaming consoles, so, if you want to play games, you have to go Windows, for better or for worse.
When filming a movie, get a buddy to sit with you with a camcorder as well. Activate the night vision on the camcorder, and scan for the evil anti-piracy guys using night vision. When you spot one of them, and they spot you, activate your camcorder's 1000 candle spotlight and aim at guy, and run for it.
Hmmm... this sounds like a really good Splinter Cell mod. Splinter Cell: Theaters VS Camcorders.
Buy Anti-Microsoft/Pro-linux ads over at windowstoday.com, the most powerful and large Windows news website in the world. Fight fire with fire.
You could just encourage your users to use a browser that can block certain ads, so in this case, just block the Microsoft ad. This is great because you still get money for the ad impression, and Microsoft gets nothing for their ad. Given enough time, when Microsoft realizes that advertising with your site is useless, they'll simply stop paying for the ads and leave. So, I think this is a pragmatic way of sticking it to the man rather than applying censorship.
Good point about the NSF cheques (Canadian eh?). Say cheques starting bouncing because of this glitch, and credit cards aren't paid, electricity bills, etc... I wonder if that'll affect your credit rating. That would be an unfair side effect. I'm sure THAT will be fun to sort out as well.
Thankfully I have a bank account at another bank, so my finances aren't paralyzed by this mishap. In situations like this, having a redundant bank account at another bank has been quite handy. I guess a lot of principles of risk management of computers can be applied to things like bank accounts since bank systems are systems after all, and they WILL fail.
Although, in some cases, a redundant account is useless if something hits a bunch of banks. I'm reminded of that internet worm a while back that brought down ATM systems and bogged down the internet. I forget if that was SQL Slammer or Red Code.
I made my credit card payment via online banking on June 1st, and the transaction went through. However, on June 2nd, the system decided to pay my credit card again a second time. Now I'm down a few hundred bucks.... should be fun getting this sorted out :|
for mouse movements. Any patent on mouse movements will supercede Microsoft's double clicking, and Amazon's 1-click.
:|
Not impressed....
I think teaching assembly would be great. Once you understand that, you understand what all programming languages go through eventually :D j/k. Nothing is more readable than say LDD 3,X
But honestly, I think PHP is quite a nice language to learn. It's interpretted, so no need to compile, so you see your results very quickly. PHP tends to be quite good for rapid application development IMO. It also has a very large collection of functions available, so you're not left to implement tedious functions. You also get the benefit of the 90% rule, that is, the syntax is more or less 90% similar or the same to say, C or Java.
I also think your mom would enjoy whipping up simple little web sites. HTML is a nice tool to use to make simple GUIs compared to something like Java swing.
Ummm........this story has already been posted here on slashdot already here