What about just the SDK, as opposed to the Express version (which seems time-limited or something)? I personally develop with GVim for Windows, so the IDEs don't bother me.
And your reading cmomprehension is also pretty low. It is for the express version; For practical reasons, it is useless for the professional evironment.
So? I'll learn C# off the Express version, and Java off Sun's compiler. If the company wants to use Java, good for them. If the company wants me to use Visual, let them pay for the real version, and good for them too.
I'm not seeing the problem. It's intentionally an Express version so people can learn from it for free. In a corporate environment, you pay for a proper version of Visual with better features, more optimization, real support, etc.
Because you, sir, remain anonymous and aren't posting well enough to get moderator points of your own. Nobody will care about the opinions of an AC who's never gotten mod points. Log in, say some useful stuff, and perhaps you'll be given the chance not to moderate it redundant. Or to metamoderate against that guy. Or to moderate it insightful and bring it back up.
At present, when you purchase a car there is computer technology in the car that keeps track of your average speed, but that technology is accepted and is viewed as net value add.... DRM by definition cannot be a "value add", only a "value subtract".
Except for dangerous roads, you normally wouldn't need a speedometer except that the police enforces speed limits. DRM can be a "value add" if there's enforcement on video copying, e.g., the recent French proposal to legalize copying if you declare your intention of copying and pay a tax on your ISP cost. If you declare you are not copying, you probably want DRM on your CDs so that if you copy them you can demonstrate you're only making legal copies. If you buy unprotected discs, there's no way of proving how many copies you made or to whom you distributed them.
Then again, it's only a "value add" because the government itself is the large "value subtract".
Ehh, BBCode doesn't work here by the way. Is there a good reason? [b] isn't worse than - why can't Slashdot support both? It's not like the post markup language is true HTML: and aren't HTML, and if
Sorry. But I can never get "There are" to sound right in my head - and "there're" is worse. Especially if it's a compound subject: "There are an apple and an orange" just sounds weird.
There's a couple of errors in the post, but they're not important, except one whose rule many people don't know:
has born fruit with the Blender 2.40 release. Borne fruit. "Borne" is the past tense of "bear". "Born" is a defective verb that's used as the passive voice of "give birth". Unless they went into labor before releasing their product, I'm pretty sure they meant "borne".
It will be a comprehensive web portal that will include an encyclopedia. It has been loudly billed as an encyclopedia (not by us) for reasons that might be obvious. But it will be more than that.
So, what is it? The term "portal" is vague. Google.com/ig is a portal. Yahoo! is a portal. AOL's non-Internet content is a portal, in a sense. What information will it include, what will be available, and how will it be structured? Is it a group of scholarly websites?
Secondly, is it true that you, who have been associated with Nupedia/Wikipedia for almost 5 years now, have not registered a Slashdot account until this month, and have an ID of 936381? Jimbo Wales has an account ID almost one-tenth yours and has been posting since 2001, when Nupedia was working better than Wikipedia. And you haven't posted on Slashdot until a couple of weeks ago? I would not normally mention this, but Slashdot trolls are known to have registered names similar to "tech celebrities" and posted subtle forgeries.
As an exagerated example, can Bill Gates buy up 49% of Red Hat and then deliberatly fuck up the company?
Isn't that what Oracle did to PeopleSoft? It's called a hostile takeover. Most of the time the company convinces 49% of its current shareholders that it's not a Good Thing to sell to Bill Gates.
Actually, they're going straight back to the model of Nupedia. It didn't surprise me at all that Larry Sanger was involved in this. Nupedia's problem is that they couldn't convince enough experts to join. I don't think Digital Universe will fare much better. Part of the attraction of Wikipedia is that if you make a change, it occurs immediately. If we wanted our changes to take effect later, we'd all be submitting information to Encarta's editors.
Moreover, Wikipedia has a network effect slash brand recognition: I remember Fred Bauder's Internet-Encyclopedia (now called Wikinfo). It was a great idea, but people were using Wikipedia already, so meh, why bother? The original premise was to make the main article sympathetic-POV, and allow other POVs and other authorships in parallel articles. Nothing wrong with the idea, but he couldn't convince people to switch from Wikipedia.
I don't think Digital Universe will attract many seasoned Wikipedia contributors, and its design seems to make it worthless without a good public user base (since we know from Nupedia's story that experts-only contribution won't work).
Let's hope Orson Scott Card's personal views will not be reflected in the movie script!
Okay then. Anyone up for directing Gigli II: Ender's Game?
The entire book was OSC's personal view - otherwise it wouldn't've been his book. Of course Ender isn't going to say right after a battle "I couldn't have done it without the Patriot Act!", but the philosophy underlying the entire novel is quite Mormon.
It's a wish-fulfillment fantasy for young, powerless males. 1-dimensional male characters, 0-dimensional female characters & the little outsider-guy picked on by all the bullies comes through & kicks ass.
If you think the characters are flat and that anyone would wish to be Ender, you're not reading the story right. Ender's Game is a very deep book, and most people who criticize it didn't "get" it.
The point isn't that Ender has been picked on by bullies but then kills them and kills the buggers too in some cool space battle. That's just the setting. The theme of the book is how Ender was manipulated by the IF who intentionally put bullies in his path, intentionally made him almost too weak to win, intentionally ignored that he murdered a few people, and intentionally castrated his morals so that he could destroy the planet and the species of buggers - and the adult's consciences wouldn't be hurt.
The point of the book is the interaction between Ender's life and the IF. All the stuff about Battle School is just there to propel the story forward. You could write a story with the same theme - about the life being manipulated - but make the main character a young girl who rides ponies.
Ender's Game isn't an SF book. It's a treatise on ethics minus two words at the beginning: "What if..."
You didn't need a Passport. But you did have an account with Microsoft (which would've been a problem for some people, though why are people so Passport-phobic anyway?), and more relevantly, you did need a Passport linked to your Gamertag to access stuff like online statistics for Halo 2, etc.
(No, you don't need a gamertag to view online stats. But there are a few features, the Game Viewer IIRC, that require you to be signed in.)
To be monitored by the government (GPS tracks all users)
How?
The GPS device does not include a unique ID that the satellites can retrieve, and even if it did, there's no way to identify who owns it. If they wanted to track a random car, it's much easier to get a policeman to follow someone until he gets bored.
The GPS doesn't transmit anything at all. All it does is it receives the times sent by the satellites (each satellite is just an orbiting atomic clock hooked up to a big antenna), finds the difference across each pair of times from four satellites (the receiver doesn't have its own atomic clock), and does some math to determine where the receiver is.
Even if the government was somehow tracking you, what would they gain by it? GPS reception is poor sometimes (+-5 or 10 meters), there's too many people using GPS, and you normally turn off the GPS at crucial points (when you get off the highway; when you're inside a city). My receiver at least is completely powered by USB and doesn't have an internal battery. All they would gain is knowing that you're traveling on such-and-such highway - which they could more easily find out by hooking up Carnivore when you're searching for online directions.
And supposing that the US government was indeed secretly tracking GPSes, and the retail clerks at every store that sells GPS receivers were actually secret government agents who look up your social security number and flash it over RFID onto the GPS unit in the box, and that the client units contained a transmitting unit powered by a secret battery...you still wouldn't be teaching your kids to be tracked by the government. That would be a coincidence. They wouldn't be going out of their way to tell the government anything, would they?
Besides, if you have OnStar, you've got a GPS receiver and a satellite-phone/data transmitter in your trunk that's constantly sending your location to GM headquarters anyway. And if you have a recent cell phone, you're transmitting E911 GPS information anyway, and even if you have an older cell phone you're transmitting cell tower information anyway. Using a commercial GPS receiver is not going to get you tracked any more.
Oh no. That would be one of the worst possible things that could happen.
At least with IE supported and updated, the most-exploited vulnerabilities and goatse-sized security holes are patched sooner or later. If they stopped supporting IE on Windows, you'd have the equivalent a few years down the road, of Melissa destroying computers today.
In this case, the modchip actually was used for pirating games, so that's why it would be included in the charges. There are about 2 or 3 stories like this that pop up each year and the editors always seem to omit the fact that software piracy was involved.
Indeed. They have every right to charge you under the DMCA for modding with the intent of violating copyright...if you violated copyright.
Suppose there was a practical law that actually allowed medical marijuana. It's like if they pull over your car and find you stoned, you can't argue that the weed you're carrying with you was for medicinal purposes and get out of possession charges that way. If they find you sober but carrying weed in a hospital, they can't prosecute you though.
Just like that. You mod the Xbox and install OpenOffice.org on the harddrive, you're okay. You just sell it with Cromwell, they probably won't care. You sell it with 70 times 7 modded games, there's no way you can say the modchip was for legitimate purposes.
Did the Animaniacs become bad guys when AOL bought Time Warner? A corporation is not homogeneous. Blame AOL the ISP for their poor ISP standards, but that's not all they own. At the least, Time Warner controls a lot of media (probably more than Murdoch).
AOL's instant messenger can be very valuable for Google. In the US, at least, it's the de facto standard for many general public social groups because of network effects. Google Talk is not going to succeed until they join it with some major network. (iChat performed well because Apple licensed AOL's protocols and access to the server instead of saying, "oo, we have Mac.com, let's invent our own messenger!".)
The next thing they have (or had) is Netscape. There have been rumors of a Google Browser for some time now, and Google's been working pretty closely with Firefox (they even supply a custom home page for that browser only). It's very possible that Google could un-spin-off the Mozilla Foundation and take it under Google, Inc.'s ownership.
What else does AOL have? AOL/AIM/Netscape webmail (of course Gmail is better but perhaps there's some useful feature in those); Netscape's web page composer (Google owns Blogger, and might launch a web hosting service); voice and video chat; Winamp; ICQ; Mapquest; Popular Science; Engadget....
In other words, AOL is a very large conglomerate. It's okay to say that America Online is a "bad guy" if you recognize that AOL Time Warner consists of a lot more.
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What about just the SDK, as opposed to the Express version (which seems time-limited or something)? I personally develop with GVim for Windows, so the IDEs don't bother me.
And your reading cmomprehension is also pretty low. It is for the express version; For practical reasons, it is useless for the professional evironment.
So? I'll learn C# off the Express version, and Java off Sun's compiler. If the company wants to use Java, good for them. If the company wants me to use Visual, let them pay for the real version, and good for them too.
I'm not seeing the problem. It's intentionally an Express version so people can learn from it for free. In a corporate environment, you pay for a proper version of Visual with better features, more optimization, real support, etc.
I have this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side.
Have you tried running the current the correct way?
Because you, sir, remain anonymous and aren't posting well enough to get moderator points of your own. Nobody will care about the opinions of an AC who's never gotten mod points. Log in, say some useful stuff, and perhaps you'll be given the chance not to moderate it redundant. Or to metamoderate against that guy. Or to moderate it insightful and bring it back up.
At present, when you purchase a car there is computer technology in the car that keeps track of your average speed, but that technology is accepted and is viewed as net value add. ... DRM by definition cannot be a "value add", only a "value subtract".
Except for dangerous roads, you normally wouldn't need a speedometer except that the police enforces speed limits. DRM can be a "value add" if there's enforcement on video copying, e.g., the recent French proposal to legalize copying if you declare your intention of copying and pay a tax on your ISP cost. If you declare you are not copying, you probably want DRM on your CDs so that if you copy them you can demonstrate you're only making legal copies. If you buy unprotected discs, there's no way of proving how many copies you made or to whom you distributed them.
Then again, it's only a "value add" because the government itself is the large "value subtract".
Well, that's 5 times as much as Napoleon got before Waterloo....
Please tell me Steve Jobs' middle name isn't "Louis".
Sorry. But I can never get "There are" to sound right in my head - and "there're" is worse. Especially if it's a compound subject: "There are an apple and an orange" just sounds weird.
What the. Lameness filter didn't catch that?
I didn't think it was sentient enough to figure out it's on-topic.
There's a couple of errors in the post, but they're not important, except one whose rule many people don't know:
has born fruit with the Blender 2.40 release.
Borne fruit. "Borne" is the past tense of "bear". "Born" is a defective verb that's used as the passive voice of "give birth". Unless they went into labor before releasing their product, I'm pretty sure they meant "borne".
Mr. Sanger, two questions:
It will be a comprehensive web portal that will include an encyclopedia. It has been loudly billed as an encyclopedia (not by us) for reasons that might be obvious. But it will be more than that.
So, what is it? The term "portal" is vague. Google.com/ig is a portal. Yahoo! is a portal. AOL's non-Internet content is a portal, in a sense. What information will it include, what will be available, and how will it be structured? Is it a group of scholarly websites?
Secondly, is it true that you, who have been associated with Nupedia/Wikipedia for almost 5 years now, have not registered a Slashdot account until this month, and have an ID of 936381? Jimbo Wales has an account ID almost one-tenth yours and has been posting since 2001, when Nupedia was working better than Wikipedia. And you haven't posted on Slashdot until a couple of weeks ago? I would not normally mention this, but Slashdot trolls are known to have registered names similar to "tech celebrities" and posted subtle forgeries.
As an exagerated example, can Bill Gates buy up 49% of Red Hat and then deliberatly fuck up the company?
Isn't that what Oracle did to PeopleSoft? It's called a hostile takeover. Most of the time the company convinces 49% of its current shareholders that it's not a Good Thing to sell to Bill Gates.
Actually, they're going straight back to the model of Nupedia. It didn't surprise me at all that Larry Sanger was involved in this. Nupedia's problem is that they couldn't convince enough experts to join. I don't think Digital Universe will fare much better. Part of the attraction of Wikipedia is that if you make a change, it occurs immediately. If we wanted our changes to take effect later, we'd all be submitting information to Encarta's editors.
Moreover, Wikipedia has a network effect slash brand recognition: I remember Fred Bauder's Internet-Encyclopedia (now called Wikinfo). It was a great idea, but people were using Wikipedia already, so meh, why bother? The original premise was to make the main article sympathetic-POV, and allow other POVs and other authorships in parallel articles. Nothing wrong with the idea, but he couldn't convince people to switch from Wikipedia.
I don't think Digital Universe will attract many seasoned Wikipedia contributors, and its design seems to make it worthless without a good public user base (since we know from Nupedia's story that experts-only contribution won't work).
Leave Card's political and personal views the hell out of it. jeeeesh.
Heh. Jeesh.
Let's hope Orson Scott Card's personal views will not be reflected in the movie script!
Okay then. Anyone up for directing Gigli II: Ender's Game?
The entire book was OSC's personal view - otherwise it wouldn't've been his book. Of course Ender isn't going to say right after a battle "I couldn't have done it without the Patriot Act!", but the philosophy underlying the entire novel is quite Mormon.
It's a wish-fulfillment fantasy for young, powerless males. 1-dimensional male characters, 0-dimensional female characters & the little outsider-guy picked on by all the bullies comes through & kicks ass.
If you think the characters are flat and that anyone would wish to be Ender, you're not reading the story right. Ender's Game is a very deep book, and most people who criticize it didn't "get" it.
The point isn't that Ender has been picked on by bullies but then kills them and kills the buggers too in some cool space battle. That's just the setting. The theme of the book is how Ender was manipulated by the IF who intentionally put bullies in his path, intentionally made him almost too weak to win, intentionally ignored that he murdered a few people, and intentionally castrated his morals so that he could destroy the planet and the species of buggers - and the adult's consciences wouldn't be hurt.
The point of the book is the interaction between Ender's life and the IF. All the stuff about Battle School is just there to propel the story forward. You could write a story with the same theme - about the life being manipulated - but make the main character a young girl who rides ponies.
Ender's Game isn't an SF book. It's a treatise on ethics minus two words at the beginning: "What if..."
There's a quote attributed to Joseph Stalin: "One death is a tragedy. One million is a statistic."
You forgot SBC + AT&T. The 1800s called, they want their robber barons back.
Why does it require Ruby? Is there a C++ on Rails for normal people? PHP on Rails? VBS (ASP) on Rails?
You didn't need a Passport. But you did have an account with Microsoft (which would've been a problem for some people, though why are people so Passport-phobic anyway?), and more relevantly, you did need a Passport linked to your Gamertag to access stuff like online statistics for Halo 2, etc.
(No, you don't need a gamertag to view online stats. But there are a few features, the Game Viewer IIRC, that require you to be signed in.)
How?
I think ^_^;; would be your best choice, if you're willing to debase yourself to the ^_^ class of emoticons (not that the :-) class is much better...)
Oh no. That would be one of the worst possible things that could happen.
At least with IE supported and updated, the most-exploited vulnerabilities and goatse-sized security holes are patched sooner or later. If they stopped supporting IE on Windows, you'd have the equivalent a few years down the road, of Melissa destroying computers today.
In this case, the modchip actually was used for pirating games, so that's why it would be included in the charges. There are about 2 or 3 stories like this that pop up each year and the editors always seem to omit the fact that software piracy was involved.
Indeed. They have every right to charge you under the DMCA for modding with the intent of violating copyright...if you violated copyright.
Suppose there was a practical law that actually allowed medical marijuana. It's like if they pull over your car and find you stoned, you can't argue that the weed you're carrying with you was for medicinal purposes and get out of possession charges that way. If they find you sober but carrying weed in a hospital, they can't prosecute you though.
Just like that. You mod the Xbox and install OpenOffice.org on the harddrive, you're okay. You just sell it with Cromwell, they probably won't care. You sell it with 70 times 7 modded games, there's no way you can say the modchip was for legitimate purposes.
Did the Animaniacs become bad guys when AOL bought Time Warner? A corporation is not homogeneous. Blame AOL the ISP for their poor ISP standards, but that's not all they own. At the least, Time Warner controls a lot of media (probably more than Murdoch).
AOL's instant messenger can be very valuable for Google. In the US, at least, it's the de facto standard for many general public social groups because of network effects. Google Talk is not going to succeed until they join it with some major network. (iChat performed well because Apple licensed AOL's protocols and access to the server instead of saying, "oo, we have Mac.com, let's invent our own messenger!".)
The next thing they have (or had) is Netscape. There have been rumors of a Google Browser for some time now, and Google's been working pretty closely with Firefox (they even supply a custom home page for that browser only). It's very possible that Google could un-spin-off the Mozilla Foundation and take it under Google, Inc.'s ownership.
What else does AOL have? AOL/AIM/Netscape webmail (of course Gmail is better but perhaps there's some useful feature in those); Netscape's web page composer (Google owns Blogger, and might launch a web hosting service); voice and video chat; Winamp; ICQ; Mapquest; Popular Science; Engadget....
In other words, AOL is a very large conglomerate. It's okay to say that America Online is a "bad guy" if you recognize that AOL Time Warner consists of a lot more.