I am not Chavez fanboy, nor do I approve that media law. But it amazes how the Washington Post spins this news.
The law does not bust down hard on any dissent. Neither does it will shut down stations for content contrary to the security of the nation. What the law restricts is the broadcasts of mild language, sex or violent images from 7:00 am to 11:00 on open T.V. I don't condone this law, but it's not fair to say that it will end with dissidence in Venezuela.
There's more about the Bolivarian revolution than "being more like Cuba" and what the U.S. media tells. But when this gets the way of the interest of the wealthier american corporate interests, some nasty things happen, and depending of who owns the media, you will see only one side of the story.
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If you are out of ideas for lame jokes like "in soviet russia" or "imagine a beowolf cluster", the random cliche generator will make on for you.
It has many color themes: regular, Apple, Games, Politics. It also has the IT color theme, but it's disabled by default to avoid damage to your eyes.
Oh yes, I can see. For some reason the poor people living in indian coasts had bad karma because american corporations decided to outsource their jobs to not-so-poor trained people that lived in other parts of India.
It's really worth reading. Most of it is useful, except for some NLP crap that I consider to be BS.
But just reading the FAQ or the newsgroup posts won't get you laid. You have to start putting those techniques in practice; which could be intimidating or be seen as difficult to introverted or shy people (which I think most/.ers are at some degree)
Software patents are even more important than patents in other fields, due to the ease with which software techniques can be duplicated.
I think that's exactly why software patents are dangerous. If a developer can come with a solution to a problem, it's more likely that another developer will solve a similar problem using a similar solution, without knowing about the former developer or his solution.
I for one, would agree with patents on some algorithms that took a considerable amount of research, money, time and effort to develop; but it seems like these are the less. Most patents I've seen fall between the obvious procedure to do some trivial task or some vague concept for a software application or feature.
Patents are absolutely necessary to protect small companies from having their ideas taken without any credit or compensation to the original source.
Small and innovative companies that produce useful software do not benefit from sw patents. Some of these are actually threatened from sw patents.
There are two kinds of companies that benefit from sw patents:
Big Corporations, that use these patents to attack smaller companies that come with better, innovative competing products or open source solutions.
Paper "IP companies" that do not have any product, but file patents on vague terms and wait for a real company to have a product that infringes their patent, so they can litigate for royalties.
Wired had an article about new biotech techniques, like bioinformatics and genome mapping applied to classic breeding, they named it Smart Breeding".
These techniques allow improving species with lower cost than gene modification methods. And because it avoids those methods, which are patented, they have less restrictive IP issues; and it has been developed in a collaborative environment. As a result, the Wired Article calls this "the agriculture version of open source"
In "Jurassic Park" (the book, not the movie) by Michael Crichton, InGen competitors were speculating about the business plans of InGen. They thought that InGen could be developing pet dinosaurs. These pet dinosaurs would be GM'ed to refuse all kind of food other than food supplied by InGen, giving them large profits from consumables, like printer manufacturers.
If these GM-cats see the light someday, I would expect some kind of similar business model. And the DMCA being called to protect the producer from "counterfeit supercat food"
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Linus: 2004 Business Week list of best managers.
RMS: "involuntarily self-promoted into management"(!!!)
Alan Cox: Left Linux kernel development to get a MBA
Sounds like "There is no God but Allah; Mohammed is His Prophet".
The law does not bust down hard on any dissent. Neither does it will shut down stations for content contrary to the security of the nation. What the law restricts is the broadcasts of mild language, sex or violent images from 7:00 am to 11:00 on open T.V. I don't condone this law, but it's not fair to say that it will end with dissidence in Venezuela.
There's more about the Bolivarian revolution than "being more like Cuba" and what the U.S. media tells. But when this gets the way of the interest of the wealthier american corporate interests, some nasty things happen, and depending of who owns the media, you will see only one side of the story.
To the list of sponsors of the next coup attemp?
Not only shows the lasts headlines, but it also updates in realtime so you can have fp. It shows your karma, score of your posts and replies; that's if you want to give your info, you can also browse as AC with the tin foil hat mode.
If you are out of ideas for lame jokes like "in soviet russia" or "imagine a beowolf cluster", the random cliche generator will make on for you.
It has many color themes: regular, Apple, Games, Politics. It also has the IT color theme, but it's disabled by default to avoid damage to your eyes.
And of course, advertising from ThinkGeek.
I mean, come on. That's obligatory for a toolbar from Netcraft.
Oh yes, I can see. For some reason the poor people living in indian coasts had bad karma because american corporations decided to outsource their jobs to not-so-poor trained people that lived in other parts of India.
It's really worth reading. Most of it is useful, except for some NLP crap that I consider to be BS.
But just reading the FAQ or the newsgroup posts won't get you laid. You have to start putting those techniques in practice; which could be intimidating or be seen as difficult to introverted or shy people (which I think most /.ers are at some degree)
Lame.
Nah, my PC came with this 'Internet Security' thing...
So, no more firmware hacking or mod for me.
At least for now.
or a PIC-like microcontroller made by AMD?
I read: "The state of Pennsylvania sues university for file sharing"
...for Kylix renaissance as well ?
I think that's exactly why software patents are dangerous. If a developer can come with a solution to a problem, it's more likely that another developer will solve a similar problem using a similar solution, without knowing about the former developer or his solution.
I for one, would agree with patents on some algorithms that took a considerable amount of research, money, time and effort to develop; but it seems like these are the less. Most patents I've seen fall between the obvious procedure to do some trivial task or some vague concept for a software application or feature.
Patents are absolutely necessary to protect small companies from having their ideas taken without any credit or compensation to the original source.
Small and innovative companies that produce useful software do not benefit from sw patents. Some of these are actually threatened from sw patents. There are two kinds of companies that benefit from sw patents:
Obviously not.
Christ:"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do"
It was mis-spoken. Wi-MAX is able to make 70 Mbps.
If a + b = c
then
(4a-3a)+(4b-3b) = (4c-3c)
4a + 4b -4c = 3a + 3b -3c
4(a+b-c) = 3 (a+b-c)
4 = 3
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There's a dead iPod shown here
Another iPod killer is shown here.
Maybe it hasn't been tried for Apple software, but at least one EULA was declared enforceable in an U.S. court. Sad, isn't it?
These techniques allow improving species with lower cost than gene modification methods. And because it avoids those methods, which are patented, they have less restrictive IP issues; and it has been developed in a collaborative environment. As a result, the Wired Article calls this "the agriculture version of open source"
If these GM-cats see the light someday, I would expect some kind of similar business model. And the DMCA being called to protect the producer from "counterfeit supercat food"