Java may be owned by a corp, but it has a good side-effect that it doesn't takes years for a 'standard' to appear. Sun is extending and changing Java as new ideas and problems arise. This is good, as Java probably has a lot more evolving to do.
On the other hand, there are small problems with objects moving to different packages in new releases, stuff being deprecated already, etc.
I really wouldn't mind a compiled version of Java. I know it's against Sun's cross platform philosophy, but having a fast version of Java for certain uses would accelerate its acceptance in some new areas.
Since the bytecode is compatible, we only need each OS to provide a single compiler that converts the bytecode to native code. We could even have this done by the user, and not the developer!
It isn't that we don't have any ideas on how to create a new standard which would allow for permissions such as what you suggest. The problem is getting users to ditch their existing standard and use the new one.
Every software writer in the business of music has their own 'secure' audio format. But they are still not widely used. Why? Because they do not offer anything 'more' than mp3 does (they claim to sound superior, but who can tell?). Meanwhile, they break all other existing players and impose copying restrictions that even legit users might find annoying.
And like the DVD regions encoding, restrictions can still always be cracked.
Why don't we develop a version here, to reverse the global warming caused by CO2 buildup in the atmosphere? Of course, the solar panels may not be as effective here, what with our clouds and all.
I wonder what happens to the carbon tho? I'm assuming of course that they are supplying energy to separate CO2 into oxygen + carbon.
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The monitor works by providing 2 images, one for each eye. As the article mentioned, if your program supports it, each eye will get a slightly different image, which provides the 3d effect. Otherwise, each eye will get a copy of the same image. I would guess this is done by angling alternate pixels slightly towards each eye.
You can actually try this effect on your own monitors. Just open 2 copies of any picture, and put them next to each other. Now, look at the pictures thru the monitor, as if they were far away. Eventually, you will be able to merge the 2 pictures together, while everything else goes a bit blurry. When that happens, you are looking at one picture thru each eye. You should be able to get a slightly 3d effect depending on what kind of picture you chose.
You can get 3d cameras that take a picture from 2 angles, and use a special viewer that forces each eye to look at its corresponding picture to view them. The innovation with this monitor is just allowing you to view it without using any special viewers. Of course, the review said that there were some problems with dimness and vertical lines in 3d mode, but these should be easy to fix.
Do you think a company like Intel would want to tell its shareholders that it didn't get 160million in easy extra profits because it was too lazy to try to promote a new memory standard?
Do you think Mr Manager X at Intel wouldn't like to earn an extra big bonus for grabbing this opportunity which paid off so well?
The correct conclusion should be that the educated population around colleges are actively protesting legal action by the RIAA, MPAA, and all other associations with 4 letter acronyms by not buying any CDs.
Why is it that ppl are commending 3dfx for delaying their product for better quality, but when an intel release gets delayed for the same thing, we laugh? ^_^
The CrimeNet ppl had been claiming how the information they were posting on ppl was harmless because it was obtained thru public records.
Well, now we have concrete proof of the damage such a database can cause. Not only does it ruin ppls' lives by posting old crimes committed by them, but now, it even obstructs the justice system trying a person on a new crime.
So, what exactly is this site good for then? Reformed ppl are victimized, and repeat offenders are protected!
all this fuss is because you wanted to wave a red rag at the bull by *pretending* you were offering decss software. -snip- just a game to you.
OK, so the student is an evil troublemaker because he believed in a cause and wanted to alert others to the cause.
Does that mean we should all maintain the status quo to please every single entity out there that may be upset by something we do? Are they denying the right to protest a perceived injustice?
assuming that they flashed the license agreement before you when you installed it. However, from the article, the user claims not to have seen such a thing in the install, and in fact implies that it may be bundles silently with other RN programs. If this is true, then it sounds like they may not even pass etrusts' criteria for privacy...
Lots of ppl are saying slashdot should take down that post, citing copyrights, etc. The fact is, slashdot DIDN'T post the information, a user did. Slashdot does NOT filter any of their users posts, the users moderate them themselves.
If slashdot took that one post down, then they would be responsible for every other post in the system. They would have to comply with every company's wishes to take down any post, and also take down posts which may offend anybody who may wish to sue.
In which case, I'll start by saying that everyone that disagrees with me is offensive to me, please take down all their posts!
OK, does that mean I'm stealing when I look away from the TV when the ads are on? What about those ppl that have VCRs that can skip recording ads?
I read web pages with images turned off. Is this considered stealing too? But I don't get to see all the pretty stuff either. What if some ads are in JS popup windows, or in Java? Would I be forced to turn those on too?
What about stuff like junkbuster? That would have to be banned, because it's used for stealing.
I would disagree. Some content on the internet is free. Some you have to pay for. Those that you pay for you pay with your credit card before they send you a login. Others you pay for by giving them an email address they can send ads to.
Just because they would rather we watch ads and give them money, doesn't mean we must submit to them.
If you read the link provided in the post, you will see that the post is totally... wrong.
The link clarifies that the feature is still in the code of the builds, but is turned off by default. It also points out that at NO time did anyone say that the management were AOL management, and claims they had nothing to do with AOL ppl.
I don't think it was worth using a post '8970 bytes in body' to rehash half of what is mentioned in the link and add some bits to make it sound like a conspiracy. Slashdot is not supposed to be a tabloid.
With it's whole 8 staff taking notes in courts all day, even if you do get mistakes cleared up in the agencies you mentioned, what's the chance this private database would be updated? Slightly less than 0% I would say.
And given that the creators of Napster have technically broken the law, they are being generous by merely asking them to block the users which have committed theft against Metallica.
The creators of Napster have NOT broken any laws. They have written a program which allows people to share certain files in their hard disks. To say they have broken the law is like saying the inventor of the wheel broke the law because some bank robbers used a getaway car with wheels on it.
You sound like a RIAA lawyer, spouting off accusations like that. It's all very fine if they go after the users, or if they have any constructive ideas to give to the Napster people, but if they want to go after Napster creators themselves...
I think they should try to go after creators of music playing software while they're at it. They're after all providing programs for all those evil pirates to play all their evil pirated music on.
And lastly, what if everyone starts recording their own voice to an mp3, then puts Metallica related words in the ID3? What are their rights if they're in the list of users? The law prefers to err on the side of letting some guilty escape, instead of punishing the innocent. Why should it be different online?
We all just want to protect our minors right? Why waste all this time censoring, enforcing etc. Just ban minors from using the internet. Set up a system that gives prizes for ppl to dob in parents who allow their minors access to the internet. Lock up all those computers and phone lines! Now, the task of enforcement is put onto the parents. Save tax money. Protect the innocent. How perfect is this plan? ^_^
Everyone is attacking Bruce for reporting this so early. I would like to ask, if it wasn't Be, but MS, that made the mistake, would anyone be attacking Bruce? Or would we have about 50 MS flames moderated to +5 Insightful?
I have a touchpad. Its right and bottom edges are programmed to control programs' scroll bars. I think it is cool. I don't have to move my pointer to drag the scrollbar. My wrists don't hurt as much. They don't work on skinned scrollbars. I don't like that. If that isn't a problem with usability, I don't know what is. I can't use tab and space combos to move around controls, check and uncheck chkboxes, do stuff with dropdowns, etc. Sometimes some functionality like arrow keys are imitated. Sometimes they are not. They could have used real controls. They could use callbacks to change the appearance of them. If they had done that, all our fancy hardware would still work. All our shortcut keys would still work. We would all be happy.
A terrible thing had happened to you. But the police would not have gone to the reporters to tell them what they did. And if they did, they wouldn't have told it from your point of view.
You were and still are able to go to the reporters yourself about the matter tho.
I think what Goldmeer meant is that police have a job to do, and it's not to go to the reporters and report their activities to them.
I wonder if the reporters could use the freedom of information act to get details??
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Java may be owned by a corp, but it has a good side-effect that it doesn't takes years for a 'standard' to appear. Sun is extending and changing Java as new ideas and problems arise. This is good, as Java probably has a lot more evolving to do.
On the other hand, there are small problems with objects moving to different packages in new releases, stuff being deprecated already, etc.
I really wouldn't mind a compiled version of Java. I know it's against Sun's cross platform philosophy, but having a fast version of Java for certain uses would accelerate its acceptance in some new areas.
Since the bytecode is compatible, we only need each OS to provide a single compiler that converts the bytecode to native code. We could even have this done by the user, and not the developer!
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It isn't that we don't have any ideas on how to create a new standard which would allow for permissions such as what you suggest. The problem is getting users to ditch their existing standard and use the new one.
Every software writer in the business of music has their own 'secure' audio format. But they are still not widely used. Why? Because they do not offer anything 'more' than mp3 does (they claim to sound superior, but who can tell?). Meanwhile, they break all other existing players and impose copying restrictions that even legit users might find annoying.
And like the DVD regions encoding, restrictions can still always be cracked.
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Why don't we develop a version here, to reverse the global warming caused by CO2 buildup in the atmosphere? Of course, the solar panels may not be as effective here, what with our clouds and all.
I wonder what happens to the carbon tho? I'm assuming of course that they are supplying energy to separate CO2 into oxygen + carbon.
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This is an agreement between you, the slashdot reader, and me. By reading any portion the subject or content of this post, you are agreeing to accept the terms of this agreement.
By accepting this agreement, you agree to tell everybody you meet what a great guy I am, and also to force them to read this agreement. You also agree to mail this agreement to everybody who does not have access to slashdot.
In addition, the reader promises to do a chicken dance once every week at their school/college/workplace.
Thank you.
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The monitor works by providing 2 images, one for each eye. As the article mentioned, if your program supports it, each eye will get a slightly different image, which provides the 3d effect. Otherwise, each eye will get a copy of the same image. I would guess this is done by angling alternate pixels slightly towards each eye.
You can actually try this effect on your own monitors. Just open 2 copies of any picture, and put them next to each other. Now, look at the pictures thru the monitor, as if they were far away. Eventually, you will be able to merge the 2 pictures together, while everything else goes a bit blurry. When that happens, you are looking at one picture thru each eye. You should be able to get a slightly 3d effect depending on what kind of picture you chose.
You can get 3d cameras that take a picture from 2 angles, and use a special viewer that forces each eye to look at its corresponding picture to view them. The innovation with this monitor is just allowing you to view it without using any special viewers. Of course, the review said that there were some problems with dimness and vertical lines in 3d mode, but these should be easy to fix.
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how many things can you plug into it?
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Do you think a company like Intel would want to tell its shareholders that it didn't get 160million in easy extra profits because it was too lazy to try to promote a new memory standard?
Do you think Mr Manager X at Intel wouldn't like to earn an extra big bonus for grabbing this opportunity which paid off so well?
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OK, I'm going to trademark tennis balls that smell like clay and ones that smell like concrete (once I work out what concrete smells like).
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The correct conclusion should be that the educated population around colleges are actively protesting legal action by the RIAA, MPAA, and all other associations with 4 letter acronyms by not buying any CDs.
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Why is it that ppl are commending 3dfx for delaying their product for better quality, but when an intel release gets delayed for the same thing, we laugh? ^_^
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The CrimeNet ppl had been claiming how the information they were posting on ppl was harmless because it was obtained thru public records.
Well, now we have concrete proof of the damage such a database can cause. Not only does it ruin ppls' lives by posting old crimes committed by them, but now, it even obstructs the justice system trying a person on a new crime.
So, what exactly is this site good for then? Reformed ppl are victimized, and repeat offenders are protected!
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OK, so the student is an evil troublemaker because he believed in a cause and wanted to alert others to the cause.
Does that mean we should all maintain the status quo to please every single entity out there that may be upset by something we do? Are they denying the right to protest a perceived injustice?
I'll leave others to discuss the sense of that.
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assuming that they flashed the license agreement before you when you installed it. However, from the article, the user claims not to have seen such a thing in the install, and in fact implies that it may be bundles silently with other RN programs. If this is true, then it sounds like they may not even pass etrusts' criteria for privacy...
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Lots of ppl are saying slashdot should take down that post, citing copyrights, etc. The fact is, slashdot DIDN'T post the information, a user did. Slashdot does NOT filter any of their users posts, the users moderate them themselves.
If slashdot took that one post down, then they would be responsible for every other post in the system. They would have to comply with every company's wishes to take down any post, and also take down posts which may offend anybody who may wish to sue.
In which case, I'll start by saying that everyone that disagrees with me is offensive to me, please take down all their posts!
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You send them your username and password to your mail account?
That doesn't bother you?
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OK, does that mean I'm stealing when I look away from the TV when the ads are on? What about those ppl that have VCRs that can skip recording ads?
I read web pages with images turned off. Is this considered stealing too? But I don't get to see all the pretty stuff either. What if some ads are in JS popup windows, or in Java? Would I be forced to turn those on too?
What about stuff like junkbuster? That would have to be banned, because it's used for stealing.
I would disagree. Some content on the internet is free. Some you have to pay for. Those that you pay for you pay with your credit card before they send you a login. Others you pay for by giving them an email address they can send ads to.
Just because they would rather we watch ads and give them money, doesn't mean we must submit to them.
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If you read the link provided in the post, you will see that the post is totally ... wrong.
The link clarifies that the feature is still in the code of the builds, but is turned off by default. It also points out that at NO time did anyone say that the management were AOL management, and claims they had nothing to do with AOL ppl.
I don't think it was worth using a post '8970 bytes in body' to rehash half of what is mentioned in the link and add some bits to make it sound like a conspiracy. Slashdot is not supposed to be a tabloid.
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Or type his variables~
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With it's whole 8 staff taking notes in courts all day, even if you do get mistakes cleared up in the agencies you mentioned, what's the chance this private database would be updated? Slightly less than 0% I would say.
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The creators of Napster have NOT broken any laws. They have written a program which allows people to share certain files in their hard disks. To say they have broken the law is like saying the inventor of the wheel broke the law because some bank robbers used a getaway car with wheels on it.
You sound like a RIAA lawyer, spouting off accusations like that. It's all very fine if they go after the users, or if they have any constructive ideas to give to the Napster people, but if they want to go after Napster creators themselves...
I think they should try to go after creators of music playing software while they're at it. They're after all providing programs for all those evil pirates to play all their evil pirated music on.
And lastly, what if everyone starts recording their own voice to an mp3, then puts Metallica related words in the ID3? What are their rights if they're in the list of users? The law prefers to err on the side of letting some guilty escape, instead of punishing the innocent. Why should it be different online?
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We all just want to protect our minors right? Why waste all this time censoring, enforcing etc. Just ban minors from using the internet. Set up a system that gives prizes for ppl to dob in parents who allow their minors access to the internet. Lock up all those computers and phone lines! Now, the task of enforcement is put onto the parents. Save tax money. Protect the innocent. How perfect is this plan? ^_^
Everyone is attacking Bruce for reporting this so early. I would like to ask, if it wasn't Be, but MS, that made the mistake, would anyone be attacking Bruce? Or would we have about 50 MS flames moderated to +5 Insightful?
Keep it impartial!
I have a touchpad. Its right and bottom edges are programmed to control programs' scroll bars. I think it is cool. I don't have to move my pointer to drag the scrollbar. My wrists don't hurt as much. They don't work on skinned scrollbars. I don't like that. If that isn't a problem with usability, I don't know what is. I can't use tab and space combos to move around controls, check and uncheck chkboxes, do stuff with dropdowns, etc. Sometimes some functionality like arrow keys are imitated. Sometimes they are not. They could have used real controls. They could use callbacks to change the appearance of them. If they had done that, all our fancy hardware would still work. All our shortcut keys would still work. We would all be happy.
A terrible thing had happened to you. But the police would not have gone to the reporters to tell them what they did. And if they did, they wouldn't have told it from your point of view.
You were and still are able to go to the reporters yourself about the matter tho.
I think what Goldmeer meant is that police have a job to do, and it's not to go to the reporters and report their activities to them.
I wonder if the reporters could use the freedom of information act to get details??
Hey! what's with typing like that! I thought I'd stumbled on a spanish version of /. or something...