Not exactly sure the point you are attempting to make here since the project you've pointed to is just one of legion among the projects IBM has helps with in regards to open source.
Microsoft is a victim of their reputation, a reputation honestly earned by their past actions. When everyone who ever gets in bed with you turns up dead or with a story of barely escaping alive the next day, sometimes it's appropriate for others to label you a black widow and liken you to a praying mantis.
No one claims that anyone in the group you listed are contributing to open source purely because they are altruistic and without any self interest. But that's the point, everyone on your list 'plays nice' with open source because they have an interest in seeing it succeed. Microsoft, however, has never acted as if open source was anything but a despicable wretch deserving a slow painful death. Their own self interest, therefore, leads people to suspect that perhaps the apples they are offering are poisoned.
It's also important to note that in both of the cases where they've done this, the contribution wasn't a general "here's some improvements" code, it was "here is some code which would allow you to work better with our proprietary services, so more people would be willing to use those." Anyone who thinks that Microsoft would continue to maintain such interoperability code should it prove a disadvantage to MS should avoid real estate brokers with deals concerning bridges.
Your first post wasn't modded troll for no reason.
It was modded troll because it was a trollish post. Hint: A discussion isn't two people going "Yes!" "No!".
It wasn't the fact that you disliked the music, it was the fact that all you chose to share was "I dislike the music". That pisses people off. You come off like those twats who claim anything popular is crap and any one popular 'sold out'. We don't care what your opinion is, if you are going to share it with us, give us a reason to care, like the very up modded comment that came after yours where the commentor described what they liked about the album, what they didn't, and why.
Your original post, and the ones coming after it where you throw a temper tantrum, are the evidence of no social skills.
The fact that you blame the moderators for moderating you, is evidence of no social skills.
The fact that it escapes you that you are pissing people off, after having been chased out of at least three accounts, according to you, is evidence of no social skills.
The fact that your only response to my posts is the mental equivalent of going "La La La La! I can't hear you." is evidence of no social skills
Creating a new account to avoid the negative effects of your lack of social skills and failure to 'get the message' is by definition "escaping".
You bitch too much and listen too little, I'm not going continue this any longer. I'm sure in a few weeks we'll be hearing from your sixth account.
The ignorance you display is not your taste in music, it's your lack of social skills combined along with despite the fact that you keep pissing people off so much that you have to keep making a new account to escape your reputation, you still prefer to blame everyone else for your shit.
Slashdot's moderating system needs to be either scrapped entirely or massively overhauled. Almost every single negative moderation that occurs is illegitimate and based on nothing, and the moderators remain 100% anonymous and never have to explain anything. At the very least it should be possible to quickly report moderators who abuse their power, and have them banned from the site or permanently stripped of moderating powers. There's no reason whatsoever why stupid kids like the one(s) who modded me "troll" should be allowed to continue.
And now my other account's karma has dropped to bad for absolutely no reason, and I had to switch to this one. How long until I have to make a third one?
Well gee, given how ignorant you've acted just in this article, I'd say another week.
Let's see if we can figure today's word of the day, shall we?
Can you say "Metamoderate"? No? I knew you couldn't.
P.S. people don't like sockpuppets or people who create disposable accounts just to shit on other people with.
Unless Microsoft is redistributing someone's modified code, as opposed to actually creating it, then that clause is moot. Microsoft can not do anything that would prevent their ability to license and distribute code they've written themselves under the GPL.
The license (or rather than portion) applies to the downstream redistributor.
Or copied from the only shitty lyrics site I could find that didn't have malware shit going on or a lame javascript protecting the lyrics they ripped off someone else. ^_^
Attribute all errors to the editor, not the author.
The keyword being legal, Kemo Sabe. It's in the PD in Australia but considered still under copyright in the remainder of the 'copyright loving' world. If we wanted a pirated version, I'm sure there are better formatted copies out on the tubes.
And given it seems the reason the books were pulled was because the mobibook versions might have been 'unauthorized' versions mistakenly sold by someone who thought they were in the PD, the GP may be correct in the statement that they aren't avalaible legally for most of us in electronic format.
And amuzingly, I notice from reading the linked Amazon comments, it seems to be the Amazon 'distributed' version of the pocketmobi books that were yanked.
You could have been unintentionally 'right' that they aren't avalaible in the sense that the items I linked may be also 'illegal'.
As mentioned in a few comments prior to yours, it really depends on if Amazon had the right to 'grant' you anything. If somehow they illegitimately sold you the book, then it doesn't matter what the EULA says.
I always wondered if that one wasn't an urban legend too, but appearently it was mostly true:
The reuse of some object-oriented code has caused tactical headaches for Australia's armed forces. As virtual reality simulators assume larger roles in helicopter combat training, programmers have gone to great lengths to increase the realism of their scenarios, including detailed landscapes and - in the case of the Northern Territory's Operation Phoenix - herds of kangaroos (since disturbed animals might well give away a helicopter's position).
The head of the Defense Science & Technology Organization's Land Operations/Simulation division reportedly instructed developers to model the local marsupials' movements and reactions to helicopters. Being efficient programmers, they just re-appropriated some code originally used to model infantry detachment reactions under the same stimuli, changed the mapped icon from a soldier to a kangaroo, and increased the figures' speed of movement.
Eager to demonstrate their flying skills for some visiting American pilots, the hotshot Aussies "buzzed" the virtual kangaroos in low flight during a simulation. The kangaroos scattered, as predicted, and the visiting Americans nodded appreciatively... then did a double-take as the kangaroos reappeared from behind a hill and launched a barrage of Stinger missiles at the hapless helicopter. (Apparently the programmers had forgotten to remove that part of the infantry coding.)
The lesson?
Objects are defined with certain attributes, and any new object defined in terms of an old one inherits all the attributes. The embarrassed programmers had learned to be careful when reusing object-oriented code, and the Yanks left with a newfound respect for Australian wildlife. Simulator supervisors report that pilots from that point onward have strictly avoided kangaroos, just as they were meant to.
Now the real story, with the Urban Myth removed...
On Friday DSD told the story of the killer kangaroos. Now we know the truth. And it is even weirder: the kangaroos threw beach balls!
Dr Anne-Marie Grisogono, Head, Simulation Land Operations Division at the Australian DSTO has told us what actually happened and we are delighted to set the record straight.
"I related this story as part of a talk on Simulation for Defence, at the Australian Science Festival on May 6th in Canberra. The Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter mission simulators built by the Synthetic Environments Research Facility in Land Operations Division of DSTO, do indeed fly in a fairly high fidelity environment which is a 4000 sq km piece of real outback Australia around Katherine, built from elevation data, overlaid with aerial photographs and with 2.5 million realistic 3d trees placed in the terrain in those areas where the photographs indicated real trees actually exist.
"For a bit of extra fun (and not for any strategic reason like kangaroos betraying your cover!) our programmers decided to put in a bit of animated wildlife. Since ModSAF is our simulation tool, these were modelled on ModSAF's Stinger detachments so that the associated detection model could be used to determine when a helo approached, and the behaviour invoked by such contact was set to 'retreat'. Replace the visual model of the Stinger detachment in your stealth viewer with a visual model of a kangaroo (or buffalo...) and you have wildlife that moves away when approached. It is true that the first time this was tried in the lab, we discovered that we had forgotten to remove the weapons and the 'fire' behaviour.
"It is NOT true that this happened in front of a bunch of visitors (American or any other flavour). We don't normally try things for the first time in front of an audience! What I didn't relate in the talk is that since we were not at that stage interested in weapons, we had not set any weapon or projectile types, so what the kangaroos fired at us was in fact the default object f
There was a old story my AI teacher used to share back in college about a military contractor that was developing an AI based IFF (identifcation, friend or foe) system for aircraft.
They trained it using what was, at the time, a vast picture database of every aircraft known. In the lab, they were able to get it down to 99% accurate, with the error favoring 'unknown' as the third option.
So they took it out for a test run. The first night out the system tried firing on anything and everything it could lock on, including ground targets.
This was bad. Horribly bad. But they were certain that there was some sort of equipment failure going on. After all their AI was damn near perfect at ID'ing the targets in the lab, the issues must be up the line somewhere.
So they did a once over of the equipment and couldn't find a problem. Not sure what to do next the team took the system out for another dry run the next day. This time, the system refused to see any ground targets and anything it saw in the air was friendly.
Now this was getting ridiculous, the team was extremely confused. So they did what they should have done the first time around, they did a third test run looking at what the AI was actually 'thinking'.
And promptly discovered the problem. While they had a huge database of images to use, they realized that all their 'friendly' craft had pictures taken during the day, while in flight. All their 'hostile' craft however were pictures that had been taken at night during spy runs or from over head satalite shots.
The AI wasn't keying off the planes, it was keying off whether it was daytime or night time.
I don't know if the above actually ever happened, but my point is, it doesn't matter how many images you seed your database with. Unless you are there to tell it what is an artifact and what is just part of the picture, you are going to end up with horrible results and comical results.
Unfortunately, that's a subjective term based on the 'codec' used to make the jpg. Not everyone's 100 is the same nor is everyone working off the same scale (i.e. 1-10 vs 1-100). It helps if all the images were made by the same program using the same parameters, but breaks down quickly as a valid comparitor after that.
Recently I checked my porn drive and realized that I have over 50 gigibytes of jpg quality porn collected. Unfortunately, I've noticed that a good portion of these are all the same picture of Natlie Portman eating hot grits. Could you please point me to a free program that will allow me to find the highest resolution, best quality version of this picture from my collection and delete the rest?
From what I understand, 'house cats' (i.e. cats that are raised solely by humans) never mature 'mentally' and are basicly stuck as kids for their life, as such they see their humans as 'mother'. Cats that are raised by other cats and allowed to mature mentally (i.e. learn to hunt, learn how to take care of their own young, etc) don't have this disability and thus tend to see humans as 'part of the colony'.
And while I don't want to take away from your feelings towards your cat, I have a feeling that when she smelt 'new birth and blood' on your hands the reason she did the laps around the house wasn't celebration but panic. In nature a male cat showing up with blood and birth smells means there is probably a kitten out there dead. Male cats aren't just "more of a danger than a benefit", they actively look for kittens and kill them as it brings the mothers into heat quicker.
In it's head the cat was looking for where your wife 'hid' the baby so she could protect it from you.
As long as you have a point to it, nothing. But if you are doing it just 'because all the cool kids are' then eventually you are going to have to face the realization that you still need to be able to make money to pay for it.
Google, despite their rep for dipping a finger in everything, tends to have a fairly reasonable track record for having a plan to monetize their services.
Microsoft, on the other hand, seems to just shit things out and hope enough people will like it and use it.
Bing is what, their fifth go at being a search engine? Not once actually having any sense of what they wanted to be other than a "Google-killer", even before Google 'needed' killing.
Thats the problem. Microsoft is the proverbial monkey throwing feces at the wall to see what sticks. And the problem with that is if Microsoft decides something you like isn't sticking well enough, well it's off to the chopping block again and lets hope the next iteration is something you can at least stand.
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Not exactly sure the point you are attempting to make here since the project you've pointed to is just one of legion among the projects IBM has helps with in regards to open source.
Microsoft is a victim of their reputation, a reputation honestly earned by their past actions. When everyone who ever gets in bed with you turns up dead or with a story of barely escaping alive the next day, sometimes it's appropriate for others to label you a black widow and liken you to a praying mantis.
No one claims that anyone in the group you listed are contributing to open source purely because they are altruistic and without any self interest. But that's the point, everyone on your list 'plays nice' with open source because they have an interest in seeing it succeed. Microsoft, however, has never acted as if open source was anything but a despicable wretch deserving a slow painful death. Their own self interest, therefore, leads people to suspect that perhaps the apples they are offering are poisoned.
It's also important to note that in both of the cases where they've done this, the contribution wasn't a general "here's some improvements" code, it was "here is some code which would allow you to work better with our proprietary services, so more people would be willing to use those." Anyone who thinks that Microsoft would continue to maintain such interoperability code should it prove a disadvantage to MS should avoid real estate brokers with deals concerning bridges.
More specifically it was likely Pom Poko, a very non-hentai movie from Studio Ghibli, sometimes described as the Japanese Disney.
Your first post wasn't modded troll for no reason.
It was modded troll because it was a trollish post. Hint: A discussion isn't two people going "Yes!" "No!".
It wasn't the fact that you disliked the music, it was the fact that all you chose to share was "I dislike the music". That pisses people off. You come off like those twats who claim anything popular is crap and any one popular 'sold out'. We don't care what your opinion is, if you are going to share it with us, give us a reason to care, like the very up modded comment that came after yours where the commentor described what they liked about the album, what they didn't, and why.
Creating a new account to avoid the negative effects of your lack of social skills and failure to 'get the message' is by definition "escaping".
You bitch too much and listen too little, I'm not going continue this any longer. I'm sure in a few weeks we'll be hearing from your sixth account.
Dear Dr. Impossible,
The ignorance you display is not your taste in music, it's your lack of social skills combined along with despite the fact that you keep pissing people off so much that you have to keep making a new account to escape your reputation, you still prefer to blame everyone else for your shit.
Well gee, given how ignorant you've acted just in this article, I'd say another week.
Let's see if we can figure today's word of the day, shall we?
Can you say "Metamoderate"? No? I knew you couldn't.
P.S. people don't like sockpuppets or people who create disposable accounts just to shit on other people with.
I knew a man named Bob once, Microsoft Bob.
Just that knowledge would convince me that it would be worthwhile to challenge your statement.
Unless Microsoft is redistributing someone's modified code, as opposed to actually creating it, then that clause is moot. Microsoft can not do anything that would prevent their ability to license and distribute code they've written themselves under the GPL.
The license (or rather than portion) applies to the downstream redistributor.
Or simply pull a SCO and remind everyone they have patents on Hyper-V and thus anyone implementing it, even via GPL, needs to stary paying up.
Was at work, with IE 6. Even without javascript it was a pain.
Or copied from the only shitty lyrics site I could find that didn't have malware shit going on or a lame javascript protecting the lyrics they ripped off someone else. ^_^
Attribute all errors to the editor, not the author.
The keyword being legal, Kemo Sabe. It's in the PD in Australia but considered still under copyright in the remainder of the 'copyright loving' world. If we wanted a pirated version, I'm sure there are better formatted copies out on the tubes.
And given it seems the reason the books were pulled was because the mobibook versions might have been 'unauthorized' versions mistakenly sold by someone who thought they were in the PD, the GP may be correct in the statement that they aren't avalaible legally for most of us in electronic format.
And amuzingly, I notice from reading the linked Amazon comments, it seems to be the Amazon 'distributed' version of the pocketmobi books that were yanked.
You could have been unintentionally 'right' that they aren't avalaible in the sense that the items I linked may be also 'illegal'.
As mentioned in a few comments prior to yours, it really depends on if Amazon had the right to 'grant' you anything. If somehow they illegitimately sold you the book, then it doesn't matter what the EULA says.
George Orwell's works do seem to be on mobipocket, which iRex supports.
Billy Mayes didn't yell. It seemed like it because, just like Chuck Norris, when he spoke the rest of the world knew the STFU.
3.14 from Cowboy Beebop, the movie. Ed doing what Ed does best, being odd and cute.
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I always wondered if that one wasn't an urban legend too, but appearently it was mostly true:
There was a old story my AI teacher used to share back in college about a military contractor that was developing an AI based IFF (identifcation, friend or foe) system for aircraft.
They trained it using what was, at the time, a vast picture database of every aircraft known. In the lab, they were able to get it down to 99% accurate, with the error favoring 'unknown' as the third option.
So they took it out for a test run. The first night out the system tried firing on anything and everything it could lock on, including ground targets.
This was bad. Horribly bad. But they were certain that there was some sort of equipment failure going on. After all their AI was damn near perfect at ID'ing the targets in the lab, the issues must be up the line somewhere.
So they did a once over of the equipment and couldn't find a problem. Not sure what to do next the team took the system out for another dry run the next day. This time, the system refused to see any ground targets and anything it saw in the air was friendly.
Now this was getting ridiculous, the team was extremely confused. So they did what they should have done the first time around, they did a third test run looking at what the AI was actually 'thinking'.
And promptly discovered the problem. While they had a huge database of images to use, they realized that all their 'friendly' craft had pictures taken during the day, while in flight. All their 'hostile' craft however were pictures that had been taken at night during spy runs or from over head satalite shots.
The AI wasn't keying off the planes, it was keying off whether it was daytime or night time.
I don't know if the above actually ever happened, but my point is, it doesn't matter how many images you seed your database with. Unless you are there to tell it what is an artifact and what is just part of the picture, you are going to end up with horrible results and comical results.
Unfortunately, that's a subjective term based on the 'codec' used to make the jpg. Not everyone's 100 is the same nor is everyone working off the same scale (i.e. 1-10 vs 1-100). It helps if all the images were made by the same program using the same parameters, but breaks down quickly as a valid comparitor after that.
Dude! I'd pay $200 for a $100 bill made by a 4 year old that could pass muster as the legitimate thing.
From what I understand, 'house cats' (i.e. cats that are raised solely by humans) never mature 'mentally' and are basicly stuck as kids for their life, as such they see their humans as 'mother'. Cats that are raised by other cats and allowed to mature mentally (i.e. learn to hunt, learn how to take care of their own young, etc) don't have this disability and thus tend to see humans as 'part of the colony'.
And while I don't want to take away from your feelings towards your cat, I have a feeling that when she smelt 'new birth and blood' on your hands the reason she did the laps around the house wasn't celebration but panic. In nature a male cat showing up with blood and birth smells means there is probably a kitten out there dead. Male cats aren't just "more of a danger than a benefit", they actively look for kittens and kill them as it brings the mothers into heat quicker.
In it's head the cat was looking for where your wife 'hid' the baby so she could protect it from you.
As long as you have a point to it, nothing. But if you are doing it just 'because all the cool kids are' then eventually you are going to have to face the realization that you still need to be able to make money to pay for it.
Google, despite their rep for dipping a finger in everything, tends to have a fairly reasonable track record for having a plan to monetize their services.
Microsoft, on the other hand, seems to just shit things out and hope enough people will like it and use it.
Bing is what, their fifth go at being a search engine? Not once actually having any sense of what they wanted to be other than a "Google-killer", even before Google 'needed' killing.
Thats the problem. Microsoft is the proverbial monkey throwing feces at the wall to see what sticks. And the problem with that is if Microsoft decides something you like isn't sticking well enough, well it's off to the chopping block again and lets hope the next iteration is something you can at least stand.