there is a wide choice of languages and platforms.
languages: there's java, there's python, there's perl, and there are more. each of the first three is (IMHO) a lot better than php (as I know it, up to about v. 4) for building web applications.
servers: Apache, with either mod_perl or mod_python access to the APIs is very good. Of course, there's the plenty of java web servers and ways to run those with or without Apache.
platforms: look at the Apache foundation's site for java, perl and python modules.
development environment: I prefer Eclipse, but there are a few to choose from.
there is no, and there has never been such a thing as "intellectual property". There is a deal between the society at large, and some of its members, by virtue of which deal some are granted _temporary_ and _limited_ monopoly on some of their ideas, because the society views such monopoly as beneficial to its development. The keywords here, by which the concept should be judged are temporary, limited, and beneficial to the society.
What is happening (and has been happening for a while) is a concerted, well-funded effort on the part of a few large companies and their "IP" lawyers to subvert this deal via lobbying (bribing) politicians to pass laws that turn the deal on its head to the detriment of the society at large.
The only reason why the copyright holders are fighting for this is to perpetuate returns from old ideas. There is no other reason to perpetually extend the copyright terms.
The only reason they have been able to excel at this is that the political system is stacked against the large disorganized majority in favour of small, but well-funded groups -- and that the politicians haven't been doing their job well, following the money instead of following the public interest.
The only way to make them follow the public interest is to demand it from them at election time.
Of course, if it wasn't your house, but a hotel, both you and your guests would surely be _WAY_ safer if only hardened criminals knew about your lock problems and how to open the door.
After all, we know that about half the population of any given country is just waiting for a chance to get on a plane with a bomb, and that the turrists are spontaneous people who don't research and plan in advance.
What is funny is that while there's a law to punish the guy, apparently nothing will be done to either Northworst, or the TSA for not doing their job. America obviously takes air travel security seriously.
Oh, but they do put a gun to my head. The gun takes the subtle form of laws paid for by boogey-men lawyers. These laws limit what kind of hardware can be produced and sold. They extend the copyright monopoly terms to the point where now practically nothing reverts to the public domain. These laws also impose tougher penalties for infringement than for murder and begin to substitute the legal basis for the monopoly from something with a limited scope and a particular goal into something called "intellectual property". All these laws break the reason for granting the copyright monopoly, and this is a good enough ground for me to worry. And, by the way, not everyone goes to the movies to see special effects.
1. Make the (US) government happy by paying politicians for legalizing monopoly over culture practically forever 2. Kill creativity and competition by killing the public domain 3. Nourish crap tastes, sell crap at monopoly prices 4. Profit
this is the kind of stuff needed to counter the IFPI/RIAA and what you not BS PR spin about "stealing music". We have to keep making the point that it is the big digital wrongs management companies who are actually the biggest theives - they rob us of our culture, kill the public domain, subvert copyright laws to perpetuate monopoly, which was granted with the opposite goal in mind, and, last but not least, ruin the future by getting force-feeding junk-food quality music.:)
no doubt research making it will advance the topic of pattern recognition and machine-reading human facial expressions, but how does that qualify as an art form?
I thought art was about (human) creativity, about delivering a message via the selected method of expression; what i see in the TFA looks more like someone's first gimp exercise. Let's keep "art" out of it until the painting can understand the viewer and re-draws itself, or until the artist can decide how the painting reacts to emotions (and then watch out for those NSFW revealing paintings the slashdotter above dreams about).
sound like the perfect answer to what you need. why would you need to put something _extra_ in your body instead of using what you already have?
how about a quick blood sample and DNA analysis for example;)
amazing what people do with time and extra cash on their hands. one of the smarter sci-fi heroes put it once, "imagination my only limit, and i'll be dead in a week.
put the blame squarely on the _ROOTKIT_ opensource community, and he may just have been partly right. the folks who write rootkits are, possibly, a part of the problem. the other part should have, of course, gone to that other community - the one that makes the environment in which rootkits hide.
still i think this article is mostly a part of a general move of "anti-virus" vendors turning into general "security solution companies" as microsoft slowly cleans up its act and erodes their "market". soooo - no reason to read too much into the statement.
1. Get good textbooks. I have used the series of Kenkyusha, and found them very good for self study -- beginner thru intermediate. Here's da links (and nope, unfortunately I ain't getting commission on them):
I have tried a lot of other books (and have seen probably the bigger part of all available texts) and find these to be very good to beginners. Part of the goodness is complete lack of English and romanized characters in the books, which helps you concentrate on the Japanese (as opposed to what you think Japanese is).
2. Read and write a lot, nothing beats that. Do each exercise several times over;)
3. Try to find Japanese who'd be interested to learn English from you. You'd be surprised how helpful having someone to talk to you is. If in Japan, search for International exchange center (kokusai kouryuu kaikan/center) in your area -- and hook up with a retired Japanese volunteer for language exchange - works WAY better for picking up the language than a girlfriend.
4. Read and write a lot.
5. Try to spend some time in Japan, and if you do that, stay away from English-speaking environments. Work in a Japanese Japanese company is a huge boost. See 3 as well.
6. If available, spend 5 years before you start studying Japanese to learn Chinese well, better in a place that uses the traditional Characters.
I have noticed that handsets in different countries have markedly different output power (judging by the influence they cause to other devices). For example, I have often seen TVs, computer monitors, music players and radios go berserk in the presense of a GSM phone in Europe, more or less regardless of the brand and the age of the thingy.
At the same time, I have never ever seen interference from a Japanese handset - and I have used over 40 of those - both my own on various projects.
So, with my tinfoil hat firmly on -- because this could very well be a late April 1st story -- could you all GSM users be slowly microwaving your brains?
There goes the case for preferring Windows over other OSes because of the superior IP idemnification offered by Microsoft.
I have heard/read before that Microsoft provides "protection" for its users. I have heard/read before that this "protection" is strong. IMHO claims about "protection" are empty without including protection of the investment of your customers in your proprietary technology - and websites using ActiveX extensively are just such investment, and a huge one for some companies, e.g. a few banks I know of.
So, what's the value of IP idemnification after the first major test? Dubious, at best. What's the qualification of the claims for "superiority of Windows because of better IP idemnificaction"? FUD?
for GPS devices on the ground, I doubt they'll do much good for earthquakes that happen deep on the ocean floor; and those seem to be the ones that generate the most powerful tsunami.
Still, cheaply covering part of the risk is definitely worth it.
there'll be a rush to buy property in all places that are suitable for launch sites. that is on the equator, facing east, and with good infrastructure around;)
seems to focus on the worries of a Mexican senator about the source of funding of the project - mostly DARPA (according to the senator). The question is not what prompts this interest at this particular moment -- because I am sure funding data was available for years to the interested parties. Could the reason for this stunt be the general election in Mexico next year?
I for one have a problem logging on via the scanner after a longer bath. The damned thing won't recongize the fingerprint and won't let me logon until the skin dries and the wrinkles on the fingers go away.
It is not bad, as I give up on the computer in the evening, just don't wash your hands before a presentation:-)
my 2 yen...
excuse me, but Microsoft wasn't convicted for "monopoly". monopoly could be legal. they were convicted for defending their monopolistic position with illegal means. you can read more here:
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f4400/4469.htm
and i thought everyone knew that...
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there is a wide choice of languages and platforms.
languages: there's java, there's python, there's perl, and there are more. each of the first three is (IMHO) a lot better than php (as I know it, up to about v. 4) for building web applications.
servers: Apache, with either mod_perl or mod_python access to the APIs is very good. Of course, there's the plenty of java web servers and ways to run those with or without Apache.
platforms: look at the Apache foundation's site for java, perl and python modules.
development environment: I prefer Eclipse, but there are a few to choose from.
Good luck,
http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/7242/52/1/0/
there is no, and there has never been such a thing as "intellectual property". There is a deal between the society at large, and some of its members, by virtue of which deal some are granted _temporary_ and _limited_ monopoly on some of their ideas, because the society views such monopoly as beneficial to its development. The keywords here, by which the concept should be judged are temporary, limited, and beneficial to the society.
What is happening (and has been happening for a while) is a concerted, well-funded effort on the part of a few large companies and their "IP" lawyers to subvert this deal via lobbying (bribing) politicians to pass laws that turn the deal on its head to the detriment of the society at large.
The only reason why the copyright holders are fighting for this is to perpetuate returns from old ideas. There is no other reason to perpetually extend the copyright terms.
The only reason they have been able to excel at this is that the political system is stacked against the large disorganized majority in favour of small, but well-funded groups -- and that the politicians haven't been doing their job well, following the money instead of following the public interest.
The only way to make them follow the public interest is to demand it from them at election time.
Of course, if it wasn't your house, but a hotel, both you and your guests would surely be _WAY_ safer if only hardened criminals knew about your lock problems and how to open the door.
After all, we know that about half the population of any given country is just waiting for a chance to get on a plane with a bomb, and that the turrists are spontaneous people who don't research and plan in advance.
What is funny is that while there's a law to punish the guy, apparently nothing will be done to either Northworst, or the TSA for not doing their job. America obviously takes air travel security seriously.
Oh, but they do put a gun to my head. The gun takes the subtle form of laws paid for by boogey-men lawyers. These laws limit what kind of hardware can be produced and sold. They extend the copyright monopoly terms to the point where now practically nothing reverts to the public domain. These laws also impose tougher penalties for infringement than for murder and begin to substitute the legal basis for the monopoly from something with a limited scope and a particular goal into something called "intellectual property". All these laws break the reason for granting the copyright monopoly, and this is a good enough ground for me to worry. And, by the way, not everyone goes to the movies to see special effects.
Trademarked by the "entertainment industry"
1. Make the (US) government happy by paying politicians for
legalizing monopoly over culture practically forever
2. Kill creativity and competition by killing the public domain
3. Nourish crap tastes, sell crap at monopoly prices
4. Profit
5. Goto 1
Support EFF. They do useful things.
this is the kind of stuff needed to counter the IFPI/RIAA and what you not BS PR spin about "stealing music". We have to keep making the point that it is the big digital wrongs management companies who are actually the biggest theives - they rob us of our culture, kill the public domain, subvert copyright laws to perpetuate monopoly, which was granted with the opposite goal in mind, and, last but not least, ruin the future by getting force-feeding junk-food quality music. :)
no doubt research making it will advance the topic of pattern recognition and machine-reading human facial expressions, but how does that qualify as an art form?
I thought art was about (human) creativity, about delivering a message via the selected method of expression; what i see in the TFA looks more like someone's first gimp exercise. Let's keep "art" out of it until the painting can understand the viewer and re-draws itself, or until the artist can decide how the painting reacts to emotions (and then watch out for those NSFW revealing paintings the slashdotter above dreams about).
If that means that noone else will be able to implement automated censoring without paying a license fee -- I am all for it ;)
sound like the perfect answer to what you need.
;)
why would you need to put something _extra_ in your
body instead of using what you already have?
how about a quick blood sample and DNA analysis
for example
amazing what people do with time and extra cash on
their hands. one of the smarter sci-fi heroes put it
once, "imagination my only limit, and i'll be dead
in a week.
put the blame squarely on the _ROOTKIT_ opensource community, and he may just have been partly right. the folks who write rootkits are, possibly, a part of the problem. the other part should have, of course, gone to that other community - the one that makes the environment in which rootkits hide.
still i think this article is mostly a part of a general move of "anti-virus" vendors turning into general "security solution companies" as microsoft slowly cleans up its act and erodes their "market". soooo - no reason to read too much into the statement.
1. Get good textbooks. I have used the series of Kenkyusha, and found them very good for self study -- beginner thru intermediate. Here's da links (and nope, unfortunately I ain't getting commission on them):
. html. html. html
;)
http://webshop.kenkyusha.co.jp/book/4-327-38420-8
http://webshop.kenkyusha.co.jp/book/4-327-38424-0
http://webshop.kenkyusha.co.jp/book/4-327-38439-9
I have tried a lot of other books (and have seen probably the bigger part of all available texts) and find these to be very good to beginners. Part of the goodness is complete lack of English and romanized characters in the books, which helps you concentrate on the Japanese (as opposed to what you think Japanese is).
2. Read and write a lot, nothing beats that. Do each exercise several times over
3. Try to find Japanese who'd be interested to learn English from you. You'd be surprised how helpful having someone to talk to you is. If in Japan, search for International exchange center (kokusai kouryuu kaikan/center) in your area -- and hook up with a retired Japanese volunteer for language exchange - works WAY better for picking up the language than a girlfriend.
4. Read and write a lot.
5. Try to spend some time in Japan, and if you do that, stay away from English-speaking environments. Work in a Japanese Japanese company is a huge boost. See 3 as well.
6. If available, spend 5 years before you start studying Japanese to learn Chinese well, better in a place that uses the traditional Characters.
I have noticed that handsets in different countries have markedly different output power (judging by the influence they cause to other devices). For example, I have often seen TVs, computer monitors, music players and radios go berserk in the presense of a GSM phone in Europe, more or less regardless of the brand and the age of the thingy.
At the same time, I have never ever seen interference from a Japanese handset - and I have used over 40 of those - both my own on various projects.
So, with my tinfoil hat firmly on -- because this could very well be a late April 1st story -- could you all GSM users be slowly microwaving your brains?
There goes the case for preferring Windows over other OSes
;)
because of the superior IP idemnification offered by Microsoft.
I have heard/read before that Microsoft provides "protection"
for its users. I have heard/read before that this "protection"
is strong. IMHO claims about "protection" are empty without
including protection of the investment of your customers in
your proprietary technology - and websites using ActiveX
extensively are just such investment, and a huge one for some
companies, e.g. a few banks I know of.
So, what's the value of IP idemnification after the first major
test? Dubious, at best. What's the qualification of the claims
for "superiority of Windows because of better IP idemnificaction"?
FUD?
Ah, those pesky patents
for GPS devices on the ground, I doubt they'll do much good for earthquakes that happen deep on the ocean floor; and those seem to be the ones that generate the most powerful tsunami.
Still, cheaply covering part of the risk is definitely worth it.
there'll be a rush to buy property in all places that are suitable for launch sites. ;)
;)
that is on the equator, facing east, and with good infrastructure around
now is the time to buy
seems to focus on the worries of a Mexican senator about the source of funding of the project - mostly DARPA (according to the senator). The question is not what prompts this interest at this particular moment -- because I am sure funding data was available for years to the interested parties. Could the reason for this stunt be the general election in Mexico next year?
I for one have a problem logging on via the scanner after a longer bath. The damned thing won't recongize the fingerprint and won't let me logon until the skin dries and the wrinkles on the fingers go away.
:-)
It is not bad, as I give up on the computer in the evening, just don't wash your hands before a presentation
my 2 yen ...
excuse me, but Microsoft wasn't convicted for "monopoly". monopoly could be legal. they were convicted for defending their monopolistic position with illegal means. you can read more here:
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f4400/4469.htm
and i thought everyone knew that ...