Your first point isn't relevant to anything at all, because taking pictures doesn't constitute infringment. Publishing those pictures constitutes infringement under French law, but the pictures weren't distributed in France, they were distributed on the Internet by an American company. Under those conditions, French law is only applicable under the terms of comity. International copyright treaties like the Berne Convention don't even give protected status to fashions, so publication of the images in this case is only infringement if you argue that the Internet as a whole is subject to the regulatory practices of every nation simeltaneously.
By enforcing a foreign intellectual property law on content hosted and distributed by an American server, the court would essentially be creating a legal precedent that would allow other countries to enforce other kinds of laws on American servers. Doing so would fundamentally alter the definitive nature of comity. Are you arguing that only intellectual property laws should be enforced this way, but not other laws regarding content regulation?
I didn't twist your point, I just addressed implications that you obviously never considered.
By your reasoning you could just as easily say an internationally accessible server with web sites about democracy should be subject to Chinese censorship laws even if the server is physically in America and operated by an American company. Do you seriously want to see the censorship laws of oppressive nations applied universally to the Internet? And do you really think that every American company should be personally responsible for filtering and censoring their own content so that it meets the legal requirements of countless nations each with a highly diverse and dynamic set of laws?
That kind of reasoning is exactly what the EFF is concerned about. If you read the article, you will see that applying foreign legislation that infringes on first amendment rights is fundamentally unconstitutional. The additional risks to civil liberties are all clearly spelled out in the EFF brief, which you might want to read before leaping to conclusions.
According to the Foundation page at the Fedora wiki, the Foundation was supposed to do more than that. The first bullet point at the Fedora Project wiki describes the Foundation as "a non-profit entity to organize and manage volunteers."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the OIN wasn't designed to organize and manage Fedora volunteers, so there isn't that much redundancy. In one of the articles about the creation of the Foundation, Red Hat general counsel Mark Webbink says that the Foundation was intended to maintain autonomous control of the distribution:
"We feel that we are now at a point where we need to give up absolute control. We built our company on the competence of the open-source community and it's time for us to continue to manifest that."
Red Hat is getting rid of the Foundation because no longer feels that it can reasonably "give up absolute control" and OIN is only partially relevant. The truth of the matter is that giving up control would be financially detrimental to the Fedora project as well as Red Hat itself, and Red Hat has realized that non-profit status would limit their potential for contribution. Despite that, Red Hat could still create a board that favors the community rather than their own interests without having to create a foundation at all. In my opinion, Red Hat has dealt with this poorly not because they gave up on the idea of a foundation, but because they revoked the autonomy of the community at the same time.
Some people came to the Fedora project after the creation of the Foundation was announced because they thought that they would have the opportunity to determine the course of development. By taking autonomy away from the community now, Red Hat has taken advantage of those people.
If you have that kind of disability, you might want to look into the Twiddler2 from HandyKey: http://www.handykey.com/site/twiddler2.html
It is a one-haned input device that can be used by either the right or left hand. Missing fingers on one hand or even a missing hand wont affect a Twiddler user.
The registry settings don't consistently work for the AlphaGrip trackball. Have you tried using the mouse accelerator AHK script? It works very well. You can find it by poking around the AG google group: http://groups.google.com/group/alphagrip/
I'm also an AlphaGrip owner, and I'm six feet five inches also with very large hands. If I keep my hands loosely wrapped around the the device (with my hands out rather than with my palms firmly against the grips) and I hold it lightly against my stomach, I don't have to tightly grip the bottom part of the device. I experimented with a couple of different hand positions, and I found that holding it like that provided the best balance of comfort and control. If you hold it that way too you probably wont get that problem.
I am curious about Sun's motivation. Cost effective Dell and IBM servers running *nix variants seem to have pulled the rug out from under Sun's market strategy. Sun's only strong product is Java, and they dont distribute it in a way that is conducive to acquiring revenue. If their strategy does center around Java, it would make sense for them to support an open desktop *nix system, because it would provide an effective way of promoting Java use. Personally, my respect for Sun was vastly diminished when Bill Joy was elbowed out. I think he was their best resource, and I think he could have provided them with a new product capable of keeping them in the market.
When I was a kid, my parents were more concerned with my awareness of the fact that internet information can be misleading and incorrect.
I briefly went through a stage where the sudden availability of contraban information was a novelty, and I eagerly accumulated a stockpile of useless drivel from the 'anarchists cookbook' and similar web publications, but when I realized that my parents really didnt care, I lost interest.
The web can be extremely useful and informative, and the nature of the content that teenagers view is very much an extension of their level of maturity. My parents didnt establish any rules, and as long as my school work got done, the internet connection was mine to do with as I pleased as long as I wasnt doing anything illegal.
What finallly caused me to forsake the infantile obsession with contraban material was the discovery of content really worth exploring. When I discovered project gutenberg, I chose to spend my time reading classics online rather than doing something silly and unproductive.
The advice I have to give is this: parents who want their children to browse the web responsibly should help their children find good web sites with meaningful content that can help them expand their interests. As soon as something interesting and productive becomes available, most people lose interest in something that is purportedly 'taboo'.
Additionally, if you stress that certain content is associated with social stigma, it is almost definitely going to arouse curiousity. Parents who want to discourage their children from viewing pornographic content should explain to their children the nature of real, meaningful, intrapersonal relationships, and let them see for themselves that pornographic content is a perversion, and an assanine waste of time.
Parents who want to provide their children with good internet resources that will help kids expand intellect and interests include:
I'm not entirely sure about Yahoo, but I know that Microsoft has published excessively complete documentation describing the MSN protocol, and based on this, there are a number of open source implementations of MSN client. Even if a messaging service cracks down on 'unauthorized' clients, the protocols are still known to the extent necessary to provide the public with a high quality open source client that encompasses all the widely used protocols: Gaim
As to acquisition of screen names, it occurs to me that a purely alphanumeric string without a consistent, identifiable structure would be rather hard to glean from web content. An email address x@x.com can be scanned with a simple regular expression, but acquiring aim screen names would be difficult unless a particular type of bulliten board always displays users screen names in the same place, in the same way, or something to that effect.
If you want my advise, learn the industry you want to work in. Programming skills are cheap, I don't care how good you are. Business knowledge is still a damn rarity. Business knowledge and the ability to implement it in systems is almost impossible to find. That means it is paid well for.
Excellent, truly insightful. Quality of software will increase when programmers are not just programmers. Availability of rapid application development tools enable individuals with less techinical expertise to produce quality applications, and open source enables non-programmers to implmenent robust and versatile systems without having to write a line of code.
An individual with training in a specific sector of industry (or business in general) who also has a background in computer science will be better equipped to design programs for that industry. In a job market where IT specialists are expected to be nothing but IT specialists, you end up with firms providing generalised IT service to different companies with different needs, and consequently, they will be less likely to provide a degree of customisation and system efficacy. The market is changing, because the IT-and-only-IT business model was proven indadequate when the.com bubble burst. Demand is for skilled workers who are also capapble of software development.
If individuals are worried about outsourcing, they should actively seek to increase the quality of their work, so as to give employers a reason to hire them. Employers will always need intelligent people who know the field, and also happen to be programmers. I dont understand the logic (or absence thereof) that compells an individual to claim that outsourcing is bad, simply because it takes jobs away from americans! I here this over and over again, and I'm still trying to figure out why they assume that americans have more intrinsic value than developers in other countries. (who also need to feed their families!) We have a GLOBAL free market economy, and if a given service can be acquried elsewhere at a lower cost, at a quality that meets expectations, then I would expect any company that I invest in to utilise said service.
Additionally, I would like to comment that tech types overestimate the value of some of their skills, and think that others cant easily acquire them, and at the same time attain a level of competance in other areas. At 18, I have a firm grasp of programming theory, I develop software in 5 programming languages, I keep up to date with industry standard technologies, I develop portable applications and have experience with many user interface tool kits, I work a part time job that teaches me about running a business, I still manage to put plenty of time into academic studies that will (hopefully) provide me with enough business saavy to endure the trials of the business world, and somewhere in there I still manage to find time to read Wittengenstien, Kant, Goete, etc. One has to be willing to adapt, and it is quite possible to do so.
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You need to read more carefully. There is a whole section about GObject introspection on the first page of the Ars tutorial. It even mentions PyBank.
Your first point isn't relevant to anything at all, because taking pictures doesn't constitute infringment. Publishing those pictures constitutes infringement under French law, but the pictures weren't distributed in France, they were distributed on the Internet by an American company. Under those conditions, French law is only applicable under the terms of comity. International copyright treaties like the Berne Convention don't even give protected status to fashions, so publication of the images in this case is only infringement if you argue that the Internet as a whole is subject to the regulatory practices of every nation simeltaneously.
By enforcing a foreign intellectual property law on content hosted and distributed by an American server, the court would essentially be creating a legal precedent that would allow other countries to enforce other kinds of laws on American servers. Doing so would fundamentally alter the definitive nature of comity. Are you arguing that only intellectual property laws should be enforced this way, but not other laws regarding content regulation?
I didn't twist your point, I just addressed implications that you obviously never considered.
By your reasoning you could just as easily say an internationally accessible server with web sites about democracy should be subject to Chinese censorship laws even if the server is physically in America and operated by an American company. Do you seriously want to see the censorship laws of oppressive nations applied universally to the Internet? And do you really think that every American company should be personally responsible for filtering and censoring their own content so that it meets the legal requirements of countless nations each with a highly diverse and dynamic set of laws?
That kind of reasoning is exactly what the EFF is concerned about. If you read the article, you will see that applying foreign legislation that infringes on first amendment rights is fundamentally unconstitutional. The additional risks to civil liberties are all clearly spelled out in the EFF brief, which you might want to read before leaping to conclusions.
According to the Foundation page at the Fedora wiki, the Foundation was supposed to do more than that. The first bullet point at the Fedora Project wiki describes the Foundation as "a non-profit entity to organize and manage volunteers." Correct me if I'm wrong, but the OIN wasn't designed to organize and manage Fedora volunteers, so there isn't that much redundancy. In one of the articles about the creation of the Foundation, Red Hat general counsel Mark Webbink says that the Foundation was intended to maintain autonomous control of the distribution: "We feel that we are now at a point where we need to give up absolute control. We built our company on the competence of the open-source community and it's time for us to continue to manifest that." Red Hat is getting rid of the Foundation because no longer feels that it can reasonably "give up absolute control" and OIN is only partially relevant. The truth of the matter is that giving up control would be financially detrimental to the Fedora project as well as Red Hat itself, and Red Hat has realized that non-profit status would limit their potential for contribution. Despite that, Red Hat could still create a board that favors the community rather than their own interests without having to create a foundation at all. In my opinion, Red Hat has dealt with this poorly not because they gave up on the idea of a foundation, but because they revoked the autonomy of the community at the same time. Some people came to the Fedora project after the creation of the Foundation was announced because they thought that they would have the opportunity to determine the course of development. By taking autonomy away from the community now, Red Hat has taken advantage of those people.
If you have that kind of disability, you might want to look into the Twiddler2 from HandyKey: http://www.handykey.com/site/twiddler2.html It is a one-haned input device that can be used by either the right or left hand. Missing fingers on one hand or even a missing hand wont affect a Twiddler user.
The registry settings don't consistently work for the AlphaGrip trackball. Have you tried using the mouse accelerator AHK script? It works very well. You can find it by poking around the AG google group: http://groups.google.com/group/alphagrip/
I'm also an AlphaGrip owner, and I'm six feet five inches also with very large hands. If I keep my hands loosely wrapped around the the device (with my hands out rather than with my palms firmly against the grips) and I hold it lightly against my stomach, I don't have to tightly grip the bottom part of the device. I experimented with a couple of different hand positions, and I found that holding it like that provided the best balance of comfort and control. If you hold it that way too you probably wont get that problem.
Discussed here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee/forums/a/t pc/f/174096756/m/861001028731/r/260005028731#26000 5028731
The article was written for Ars Technica. Arsians are readers of Ars Technica.
I am curious about Sun's motivation. Cost effective Dell and IBM servers running *nix variants seem to have pulled the rug out from under Sun's market strategy. Sun's only strong product is Java, and they dont distribute it in a way that is conducive to acquiring revenue. If their strategy does center around Java, it would make sense for them to support an open desktop *nix system, because it would provide an effective way of promoting Java use. Personally, my respect for Sun was vastly diminished when Bill Joy was elbowed out. I think he was their best resource, and I think he could have provided them with a new product capable of keeping them in the market.
When I was a kid, my parents were more concerned with my awareness of the fact that internet information can be misleading and incorrect.
g 2.com/r g.net/
I briefly went through a stage where the sudden availability of contraban information was a novelty, and I eagerly accumulated a stockpile of useless drivel from the 'anarchists cookbook' and similar web publications, but when I realized that my parents really didnt care, I lost interest.
The web can be extremely useful and informative, and the nature of the content that teenagers view is very much an extension of their level of maturity. My parents didnt establish any rules, and as long as my school work got done, the internet connection was mine to do with as I pleased as long as I wasnt doing anything illegal.
What finallly caused me to forsake the infantile obsession with contraban material was the discovery of content really worth exploring. When I discovered project gutenberg, I chose to spend my time reading classics online rather than doing something silly and unproductive.
The advice I have to give is this: parents who want their children to browse the web responsibly should help their children find good web sites with meaningful content that can help them expand their interests. As soon as something interesting and productive becomes available, most people lose interest in something that is purportedly 'taboo'.
Additionally, if you stress that certain content is associated with social stigma, it is almost definitely going to arouse curiousity. Parents who want to discourage their children from viewing pornographic content should explain to their children the nature of real, meaningful, intrapersonal relationships, and let them see for themselves that pornographic content is a perversion, and an assanine waste of time.
Parents who want to provide their children with good internet resources that will help kids expand intellect and interests include:
http://ibiblio.org/
http://lii.org/
http://h2
http://www.everypoet.com/
http://gutenbe
I'm not entirely sure about Yahoo, but I know that Microsoft has published excessively complete documentation describing the MSN protocol, and based on this, there are a number of open source implementations of MSN client. Even if a messaging service cracks down on 'unauthorized' clients, the protocols are still known to the extent necessary to provide the public with a high quality open source client that encompasses all the widely used protocols: Gaim
As to acquisition of screen names, it occurs to me that a purely alphanumeric string without a consistent, identifiable structure would be rather hard to glean from web content. An email address x@x.com can be scanned with a simple regular expression, but acquiring aim screen names would be difficult unless a particular type of bulliten board always displays users screen names in the same place, in the same way, or something to that effect.
If you want my advise, learn the industry you want to work in. Programming skills are cheap, I don't care how good you are. Business knowledge is still a damn rarity. Business knowledge and the ability to implement it in systems is almost impossible to find. That means it is paid well for.
.com bubble burst. Demand is for skilled workers who are also capapble of software development.
Excellent, truly insightful. Quality of software will increase when programmers are not just programmers. Availability of rapid application development tools enable individuals with less techinical expertise to produce quality applications, and open source enables non-programmers to implmenent robust and versatile systems without having to write a line of code.
An individual with training in a specific sector of industry (or business in general) who also has a background in computer science will be better equipped to design programs for that industry. In a job market where IT specialists are expected to be nothing but IT specialists, you end up with firms providing generalised IT service to different companies with different needs, and consequently, they will be less likely to provide a degree of customisation and system efficacy. The market is changing, because the IT-and-only-IT business model was proven indadequate when the
If individuals are worried about outsourcing, they should actively seek to increase the quality of their work, so as to give employers a reason to hire them. Employers will always need intelligent people who know the field, and also happen to be programmers. I dont understand the logic (or absence thereof) that compells an individual to claim that outsourcing is bad, simply because it takes jobs away from americans! I here this over and over again, and I'm still trying to figure out why they assume that americans have more intrinsic value than developers in other countries. (who also need to feed their families!) We have a GLOBAL free market economy, and if a given service can be acquried elsewhere at a lower cost, at a quality that meets expectations, then I would expect any company that I invest in to utilise said service.
Additionally, I would like to comment that tech types overestimate the value of some of their skills, and think that others cant easily acquire them, and at the same time attain a level of competance in other areas. At 18, I have a firm grasp of programming theory, I develop software in 5 programming languages, I keep up to date with industry standard technologies, I develop portable applications and have experience with many user interface tool kits, I work a part time job that teaches me about running a business, I still manage to put plenty of time into academic studies that will (hopefully) provide me with enough business saavy to endure the trials of the business world, and somewhere in there I still manage to find time to read Wittengenstien, Kant, Goete, etc. One has to be willing to adapt, and it is quite possible to do so.