I have a nephew around the same age (slightly over two). He loves playing with my Nintendo DS and Mario 64 on the Wii (which, of course, he doesn't quite know how to control yet, but the freedom to just run around is fun even to him).
What would be a good portable I could get him that would be more his age? I don't think he's a prodigy or anything, I just want to get him something fun.
It does mean Slashdot staff. Which, given the newness of this member ID, leads me to another question: Are you guys hiring? And if so, where do I apply?
The problem is that they've previously argued that if you use the GPL version, the requirement extends to open sourcing the entire backend code to your webapp because it all becomes a derivative work of Ext.
I do note that they seem to have since changed their page so their opinion is less evident, but there was a huge row about it previously, both on Slashdot and on their forums.
Stay well away from Ext. They have demonstrated a willingness to sue anyone who even extends their code as a web app even if they don't distribute it.
It's like they believe that if PHP was under the GPL, that anyone coding an app in PHP should have to open source it. It simply doesn't follow from the license text. But they'll certainly try to bankrupt you with legal fees in the meantime if you don't buy a commercial license, even if the GPL says you should be able to use it.
(The phone rings.) Frink: Lab. Homer's Message: Greetings, friend. Do you wish to look as happy as me?... Frink: Why it's the AT-5000 Auto-Dialer! My very first patent. Aw, would you listen to the gibberish they've got you saying, it's sad and alarming. You were designed to alert schoolchildren about snow days and such! Well, let's get you home to Frinky. Hope your wheels still work, bw-hey. (Frink dials a code into the phone, and the AT-5000 grows legs with wheels and attempts to escape.) Homer: Oh no, you don't! (Homer chases down the machine, removes its legs, and takes it back inside.)
I don't put too much stock into the thinking of people who would steal laptops like this. If the fix was something simple, like a software disable that depended on the OS, I'd say the technology was useless. But until someone comes up with this new BIOS with the appropriate section disabled, I'd say it's still a pretty decent technology.
My normal Slashdot cynicism wants to find a problem with this technology, but I can't so far, other than that a smart thief would just make sure to remove the WAN card and flash the BIOS (possibly with a new serial number or the remote disable, uh, disabled).
PETA has previously handed out graphic pamphlets to school-age children in an effort to convince them that their parents are murderers.
From the pamphlet:
"Since your daddy is teaching you the wrong lessons about right and wrong, you should teach him fishing is killing. Until your daddy learns it's not fun to kill, keep your doggies and kitties away from him. He's so hooked on killing defenseless animals, they could be next."
If we can solve the problem of giving it power (possibly with a hand crank and battery or some such thing), this should be sent to countries where drought is a problem.
I wonder why these types of companies aren't doing away with cookies altogether and getting their clients to install a completely server-side monitoring system.
Nobody would even have a cookie to delete in that case.
Yeah, I remember doing tech support for systems infected by both. What I don't get about Welchia is that the worm had the same problems as Blaster in that it would cause the RPC service to die, forcing a reboot of the machine repeatedly. You'd think they would have caught that before they sent it out...
I'm surprised, actually, that they haven't just told Google not to cache the answers but blocked normal users from accessing them via a combination of robots.txt and the user agent tag.
Very, very evil, of course, but then I try to avoid Experts Exchange whenever possible. Maybe it's just that they can't get good developers to code obfuscation methods that would screw with the community. Imagine that.
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Until you pay that amount back to your student loan.
(And by portable, I mean portable game console or something thereabouts. Obviously a laptop or anything with a keyboard is beyond him at this point.)
I have a nephew around the same age (slightly over two). He loves playing with my Nintendo DS and Mario 64 on the Wii (which, of course, he doesn't quite know how to control yet, but the freedom to just run around is fun even to him).
What would be a good portable I could get him that would be more his age? I don't think he's a prodigy or anything, I just want to get him something fun.
It does mean Slashdot staff. Which, given the newness of this member ID, leads me to another question: Are you guys hiring? And if so, where do I apply?
The problem is that they've previously argued that if you use the GPL version, the requirement extends to open sourcing the entire backend code to your webapp because it all becomes a derivative work of Ext.
I do note that they seem to have since changed their page so their opinion is less evident, but there was a huge row about it previously, both on Slashdot and on their forums.
Cable TV: Owned by a private corporation.
Mail and package delivery: A combination of government-run and private companies.
Proposed idea: Communal running of the internet connection.
Completely different ways of running the appropriate services.
You were saying?
Stay well away from Ext. They have demonstrated a willingness to sue anyone who even extends their code as a web app even if they don't distribute it.
It's like they believe that if PHP was under the GPL, that anyone coding an app in PHP should have to open source it. It simply doesn't follow from the license text. But they'll certainly try to bankrupt you with legal fees in the meantime if you don't buy a commercial license, even if the GPL says you should be able to use it.
(The phone rings.)
Frink: Lab.
Homer's Message: Greetings, friend. Do you wish to look as happy as me?...
Frink: Why it's the AT-5000 Auto-Dialer! My very first patent. Aw, would you listen to the gibberish they've got you saying, it's sad and alarming. You were designed to alert schoolchildren about snow days and such! Well, let's get you home to Frinky. Hope your wheels still work, bw-hey.
(Frink dials a code into the phone, and the AT-5000 grows legs with wheels and attempts to escape.)
Homer: Oh no, you don't!
(Homer chases down the machine, removes its legs, and takes it back inside.)
I don't think it's a huge problem.
I don't put too much stock into the thinking of people who would steal laptops like this. If the fix was something simple, like a software disable that depended on the OS, I'd say the technology was useless. But until someone comes up with this new BIOS with the appropriate section disabled, I'd say it's still a pretty decent technology.
My normal Slashdot cynicism wants to find a problem with this technology, but I can't so far, other than that a smart thief would just make sure to remove the WAN card and flash the BIOS (possibly with a new serial number or the remote disable, uh, disabled).
You win this time, Lenovo. *shakes fist*
Oops, meant to link to the PETA pamphlets in question.
PETA has previously handed out graphic pamphlets to school-age children in an effort to convince them that their parents are murderers.
From the pamphlet:
Company buys up all other patent trolls, seeks funds from major companies while saying "we don't use them against you (if you pay us), honest!"
News at 11.
...that Google hasn't implemented the Libraries of Congress metric into their auto-calculator.
C'mon Google, get on the ball(s)!
If we can solve the problem of giving it power (possibly with a hand crank and battery or some such thing), this should be sent to countries where drought is a problem.
I wonder why these types of companies aren't doing away with cookies altogether and getting their clients to install a completely server-side monitoring system.
Nobody would even have a cookie to delete in that case.
Yeah, I remember doing tech support for systems infected by both. What I don't get about Welchia is that the worm had the same problems as Blaster in that it would cause the RPC service to die, forcing a reboot of the machine repeatedly. You'd think they would have caught that before they sent it out...
How do they verify that you have that software installed? Or are you talking about on the remote system?
What rules do you want to set up? What do you want to allow and disallow of your users / employees?
Figure this out, write it down, get a lawyer to look at it, and you're done.
*notes email address*
*figured there had to be something weird here*
Don't worry, you were counted in a long time ago whether you knew it or not.
What happened to my hands?!
lolwut?
Hey, check it out. I totally just linked to a dynamic page.
Google exists because the web does link together all of the information within it; without that linking, PageRank simply wouldn't work.
I'm surprised, actually, that they haven't just told Google not to cache the answers but blocked normal users from accessing them via a combination of robots.txt and the user agent tag.
Very, very evil, of course, but then I try to avoid Experts Exchange whenever possible. Maybe it's just that they can't get good developers to code obfuscation methods that would screw with the community. Imagine that.
Dear moderator,
My comment was a joke, see?
I enjoy haikus.