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on Nov 5, according to the Creative Commons site, Google started providing a search that let you find content filtered according to what rights/permissions are bound to the content.
I don't know if they are going to post it but I just submitted a bit to/. about how a a patent has been granted for an anti-gravity machine. The USPTO is infamous among/. readers for the idiotically obvious and obviously idiotic software and business process patents that it grants. Every time a new one of these howlers shows up here I complain that the USPTO is not doing its job and leaving the real work for the courts...where rich corporations will usually prevale. But they seem to hit new lows every month. Their own stated and court-tested policy is to refuse patents to any idea that violates known physical law. The examiner must be an idiot.
thanks, that is more informative [and more encouraging] than most of what is being said about this decision. Unfortunately, a lot of people outside Kansas probably won't be aware of that fact and so my comment below on the harm done the reputation of a diploma from Kansas still holds. [at least its falsifiable!]
Your comment does lead me to wonder: Why do hick school districts get their way at the state level while less primitive and bigger districts are dragged thru this wasteful embarrassment?..is it like "one county, one vote" instead of representation proportional to the school district populations? I can only imagine some very undemocratic mechanism at work if you get this outcome despite the attitudes of the more populous districts being as you describe them.
In a few years this will not be an academic question.
What will be the value or credibility that the rest of us, who have NOT decided to retreat into the 15th century, will accord a diploma issued in Kansas? Suppose you were hiring for a biotech firm or weighing a list of applicants to a university: wouldn't you feel like you had a pile of "roughly comparable candidates" and a small number of "those loosers from Kansas" for whom some sensitively posed addtional questions were needed to evaluate whether they actually worked from the same definition of commonly understood scientific approaches as the other students? The damage will be subtle but tragically real.
gold lining: my employer is a lot less likely to let me lug the codebase home now whereas before, certain that they retained all rights, the were happy to get a few more hours a day out of me.
mod this guy up!
open source has a community. it does not have a revenue stream aside from packaging and customizing. it has users but not customers. Not that some of the vanished dotcom startups [I worked for a few, note past tense of verb "to work"] had much better business plans. The people who package, test, document and train still have a hope of a viable business model but developers can't pay for their plasma tv and xbox and jetta with the pride and good feelings you get from checking in a solid piece of code to a project.
Someone please explain to this old wage slave coder how on earth development as an economic activity fits into the emperor's new business model? Free as in speech, if you haven't noticed, has a nasty way of turning into free as in beer. Toothless licenses are NOT going to get original and valuable code out of any programmer or consortia unless they can support themselves by some other means than their programming effort.
RMS solved the innovation problem but I think the bait has a compensation hook in it.
if they want to watch Sex and the City while they are on the subway, more power to 'em. Although the signal condition is erratic in my part of the world, I'd say only passengers should operate mobile devices of any kind. As a cyclist, I would like people to understand that the less distractions for drivers, the better.
time to market stretches out...the more groundbreaking your idea, the more time it takes to convince a group to fund you [a single investor going it alone in a big bet on your business idea is rare...VC's like company when they take the plunge].
I know. I was employee # 6 at a 1996 start up that met its first VC over a year earlier...and lost out in the end to Vermeer [which got bought and became Front Page" because we were on hold for a very precious year. You have any idea of the difference between getting in on a boom, say the "dot com" boom the year BEFORE its a household word and trying to get in the year AFTER every body with a server thinks he is a player?
didn't we just read that nasa is laying off 300 at JPL because priorities are shifting to manned missions? Thats a pretty shabby reward for such a fantastic engineering team.
This is a first for the whitehouse and the onion. But then we have never had an adminstration so divorced from the reality based community that it should be worried about people being confused as to whether an item about the president in the onion was fact or parody. Its the NYTimes that the WH should be worried about.
blogger instituted captcha interaction for comment submission to blogs...it was getting pretty stupid: you could put a blog for, say, your church and once there was a post up, there would fairly soon be a "comment" like "Wow, that is a really interesting post! I bet you would really like the pictures on my website"
The only thing Blogger missed was forcing commenters to respond to captchas by default.
I have only used the e-mail posting interface to my blogger blogs a few times. If you like simplicity, the blogger online editor is quick-and-dirty posting for free. But the potential for abuse when you combine the easy-setup for gaining an account and the email method for posting is obvious.
its kind of ironic that google, which has had fewer [not "no", just fewer] security gaffs than Microsoft is, in a sense, suffering security embarrassment for a rather similar reason to the origins of Microsofts security mis-steps: trying to appeal to users by providing very streamlined and simple user interfaces to functions that require privelege [account creation, publication] on most systems [think unix or Apache]...yes the additional "hassles" of authenticating and establishing the remote request is from a human and not a bot are an impediment to users. But catering to utter lazy dummies is a worse hassle as ought to be clear to everyone by now.
Funny this is now news. If you went to blogger 6 months ago and sellected a random blog and then just surfed randomly by hitting "NextBlog" button, you would have seen dozens of sights that were just huge steaming piles of links for such vital topics as online shoe purchases...abject link-stuffing pollution for google's own search engine and festering on google's own blogging service...seemed pretty dumb to me.
BTW give google credit for putting a captcha feature on post commenting because comment spam used to be just as easy to blast into blogger posts as splogging.
I first ran into some of Ted's groupies at a science fiction convention in 1983...you can't fault the man for giving up on his vision.
But the idea that any media technology would somehow elevate the quality or the level of trust or remove/refine the effects that authorship and ownership have on documents when the power of any document is measured mostly in how many can access it...this flies in the face of human nature. People will ask "whose side is this document on?" of most documents with any information more contorversial than a bus schedule. Most documents that take any money or time to put before the public will go on line in spite of the required effort because the document is to someone's advantage. We can keep redefining what "document" means by changing the technology but we can't we can't change what effects the authors of documents want to achieve.
there are a thousand good therapy ideas chasing a hundred sources of cancer research funding. You bet there is competition. I am not weird, you just do get out very often.
One quite well and a few others are just aquaintences via my synagogue. My son worked one summer in the lab of a friend who had discovered that some stem cells have both an attraction to glioblastoma and the motility/mobility to migrate into contact with the cancerous cells preferentially. Her work could lead to ways to deliver anti-cancer drugs to otherwise inoperable cancers. She has access to all the on-line medical publications you can name but little time to sift through the flood of papers for the most relevant stuff. Google is hardly her primary tool but its come in handy to fill in gaps or go in unusual directions.
"...versioning by employing a non-hierarchical non-integrated structure to the organization of information. This is achieved by expressing data modeling, storage and transfer in a particular non-hierarchical, non-integrated neutral form... XML is pretty strictly hierarchical. its schema or their equivilent DTD are essentially a set of grammar production rules, a NESTING of structures. these bozos are talking about something not just vague but quite different in their patent.
even more as a result of a law like this. It is already happening. local TV news [at least one in my area so far] have a short nightly segment scanning for news or problem/solution items like spam handling that TV audiance has a use for. Aside from the technology fostering ever richer content crossover between web and TV, there is simply too much bandwidth on the web and its too easily skimmed for TV-worthy content. I expect PAC money will be directed to game the system once this law is on the books.
did it really take the entire/. crowd 3 days just to read the price that was 2 clicks
away from the original post?...or was this a slow day for submissions?
and the direct employment has included some pretty short term stuff with failing dot coms.
I made good money... and I was gone in 6 monthes. The turbulence or if you want to talk like a Republican, the dynamism of the tech job market means you wont have a lot of job security in either mode of employment. so why am I telling you to go for the contracting if it interests you? You MUST like honing your skills and learning new systems, languages, applications etc and if you can hack the contracting, it will bulk up all but the most stellar resumes [IMHO].
This selling of blogs...I'd like to know what exactly is being sold:
1 the name and rights to exclusive use of the URL
2. current and archived content
3. a promise of some durability and enforcement that the blogger will continue to generate near daily postings of a sustained quality and on the topics that have gained the blog its traffic.
this seems like a contract to work, a lot to ask of a whole crowd of random writers and yet, without promise of continuing content, 80 or 800 blogs are worthless as a bag of poop. [or maybe not even that: I pay for fertilizer.]
4. for what period of time does the purchaser aquire any of these things?
#3 amounts to putting a fixed price on an unknown amount of my labor, an idiots career move if I ever saw one.
Thanks, you get the last word in. Hannibal himself at ArsTechnica confessed confusion prior to his posting. I fired off the first post on a vague recollection that the final state of the see-saw patent suits and appeals was a MS defeat. Though vague, it appears to have been correct. The vagueness drove me to google for the story, which did take many twists and turns, and I latched on to an episode where it had gone against the patent holders and posted the correction. Drat my haste!
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on Nov 5, according to the Creative Commons site, Google started providing a search that let you find content filtered according to what rights/permissions are bound to the content.
I don't know if they are going to post it but I just submitted a bit to /. about how a a patent has been granted for an anti-gravity machine. The USPTO is infamous among /. readers for the idiotically obvious and obviously idiotic software and business process patents that it grants. Every time a new one of these howlers shows up here I complain that the USPTO is not doing its job and leaving the real work for the courts...where rich corporations will usually prevale. But they seem to hit new lows every month. Their own stated and court-tested policy is to refuse patents to any idea that violates known physical law. The examiner must be an idiot.
here in the US. The bigger problem is whether audiances and authorities really WANT to face the problems behind the pictures CNN can show us.
thanks, that is more informative [and more encouraging] than most of what is being said about this decision. Unfortunately, a lot of people outside Kansas probably won't be aware of that fact and so my comment below on the harm done the reputation of a diploma from Kansas still holds. [at least its falsifiable!]
Your comment does lead me to wonder: Why do hick school districts get their way at the state level while less primitive and bigger districts are dragged thru this wasteful embarrassment?..is it like "one county, one vote" instead of representation proportional to the school district populations? I can only imagine some very undemocratic mechanism at work if you get this outcome despite the attitudes of the more populous districts being as you describe them.
In a few years this will not be an academic question.
What will be the value or credibility that the rest of us, who have NOT decided to retreat into the 15th century, will accord a diploma issued in Kansas? Suppose you were hiring for a biotech firm or weighing a list of applicants to a university: wouldn't you feel like you had a pile of "roughly comparable candidates" and a small number of "those loosers from Kansas" for whom some sensitively posed addtional questions were needed to evaluate whether they actually worked from the same definition of commonly understood scientific approaches as the other students? The damage will be subtle but tragically real.
gold lining: my employer is a lot less likely to let me lug the codebase home now whereas before, certain that they retained all rights, the were happy to get a few more hours a day out of me.
mod this guy up! open source has a community. it does not have a revenue stream aside from packaging and customizing. it has users but not customers. Not that some of the vanished dotcom startups [I worked for a few, note past tense of verb "to work"] had much better business plans. The people who package, test, document and train still have a hope of a viable business model but developers can't pay for their plasma tv and xbox and jetta with the pride and good feelings you get from checking in a solid piece of code to a project. Someone please explain to this old wage slave coder how on earth development as an economic activity fits into the emperor's new business model? Free as in speech, if you haven't noticed, has a nasty way of turning into free as in beer. Toothless licenses are NOT going to get original and valuable code out of any programmer or consortia unless they can support themselves by some other means than their programming effort. RMS solved the innovation problem but I think the bait has a compensation hook in it.
if they want to watch Sex and the City while they are on the subway, more power to 'em. Although the signal condition is erratic in my part of the world, I'd say only passengers should operate mobile devices of any kind. As a cyclist, I would like people to understand that the less distractions for drivers, the better.
Grove network is not in anyway an example of the business models that the article proposes. Its actually Ozzie's addition to microsoft.
ha ha ha OK mike, you send me some photos of you in drag and I will send you a really Big check.
time to market stretches out...the more groundbreaking your idea, the more time it takes to convince a group to fund you [a single investor going it alone in a big bet on your business idea is rare...VC's like company when they take the plunge].
I know. I was employee # 6 at a 1996 start up that met its first VC over a year earlier...and lost out in the end to Vermeer [which got bought and became Front Page" because we were on hold for a very precious year. You have any idea of the difference between getting in on a boom, say the "dot com" boom the year BEFORE its a household word and trying to get in the year AFTER every body with a server thinks he is a player?
didn't we just read that nasa is laying off 300 at JPL because priorities are shifting to manned missions? Thats a pretty shabby reward for such a fantastic engineering team.
This is a first for the whitehouse and the onion. But then we have never had an adminstration so divorced from the reality based community that it should be worried about people being confused as to whether an item about the president in the onion was fact or parody. Its the NYTimes that the WH should be worried about.
blogger instituted captcha interaction for comment submission to blogs...it was getting pretty stupid: you could put a blog for, say, your church and once there was a post up, there would fairly soon be a "comment" like "Wow, that is a really interesting post! I bet you would really like the pictures on my website"
The only thing Blogger missed was forcing commenters to respond to captchas by default.
I have only used the e-mail posting interface to my blogger blogs a few times. If you like simplicity, the blogger online editor is quick-and-dirty posting for free. But the potential for abuse when you combine the easy-setup for gaining an account and the email method for posting is obvious.
...abject link-stuffing pollution for google's own search engine and festering on google's own blogging service...seemed pretty dumb to me.
BTW give google credit for putting a captcha feature on post commenting because comment spam used to be just as easy to blast into blogger posts as splogging.
its kind of ironic that google, which has had fewer [not "no", just fewer] security gaffs than Microsoft is, in a sense, suffering security embarrassment for a rather similar reason to the origins of Microsofts security mis-steps: trying to appeal to users by providing very streamlined and simple user interfaces to functions that require privelege [account creation, publication] on most systems [think unix or Apache]...yes the additional "hassles" of authenticating and establishing the remote request is from a human and not a bot are an impediment to users. But catering to utter lazy dummies is a worse hassle as ought to be clear to everyone by now. Funny this is now news. If you went to blogger 6 months ago and sellected a random blog and then just surfed randomly by hitting "NextBlog" button, you would have seen dozens of sights that were just huge steaming piles of links for such vital topics as online shoe purchases
I first ran into some of Ted's groupies at a science fiction convention in 1983...you can't fault the man for giving up on his vision.
But the idea that any media technology would somehow elevate the quality or the level of trust or remove/refine the effects that authorship and ownership have on documents when the power of any document is measured mostly in how many can access it...this flies in the face of human nature. People will ask "whose side is this document on?" of most documents with any information more contorversial than a bus schedule. Most documents that take any money or time to put before the public will go on line in spite of the required effort because the document is to someone's advantage. We can keep redefining what "document" means by changing the technology but we can't we can't change what effects the authors of documents want to achieve.
there are a thousand good therapy ideas chasing a hundred sources of cancer research funding. You bet there is competition. I am not weird, you just do get out very often.
One quite well and a few others are just aquaintences via my synagogue. My son worked one summer in the lab of a friend who had discovered that some stem cells have both an attraction to glioblastoma and the motility/mobility to migrate into contact with the cancerous cells preferentially. Her work could lead to ways to deliver anti-cancer drugs to otherwise inoperable cancers. She has access to all the on-line medical publications you can name but little time to sift through the flood of papers for the most relevant stuff. Google is hardly her primary tool but its come in handy to fill in gaps or go in unusual directions.
"...versioning by employing a non-hierarchical non-integrated structure to the organization of information. This is achieved by expressing data modeling, storage and transfer in a particular non-hierarchical, non-integrated neutral form...
XML is pretty strictly hierarchical. its schema or their equivilent DTD are essentially a set of grammar production rules, a NESTING of structures. these bozos are talking about something not just vague but quite different in their patent.
I don't know many cancer researchers who don't use Google, Google news or Google Scholar to keep tabs on their competition.
even more as a result of a law like this. It is already happening. local TV news [at least one in my area so far] have a short nightly segment scanning for news or problem/solution items like spam handling that TV audiance has a use for. Aside from the technology fostering ever richer content crossover between web and TV, there is simply too much bandwidth on the web and its too easily skimmed for TV-worthy content. I expect PAC money will be directed to game the system once this law is on the books.
did it really take the entire /. crowd 3 days just to read the price that was 2 clicks
away from the original post?...or was this a slow day for submissions?
and the direct employment has included some pretty short term stuff with failing dot coms. I made good money ... and I was gone in 6 monthes. The turbulence or if you want to talk like a Republican, the dynamism of the tech job market means you wont have a lot of job security in either mode of employment.
so why am I telling you to go for the contracting if it interests you? You MUST like honing your skills and learning new systems, languages, applications etc and if you can hack the contracting, it will bulk up all but the most stellar resumes [IMHO].
This selling of blogs...I'd like to know what exactly is being sold: 1 the name and rights to exclusive use of the URL 2. current and archived content 3. a promise of some durability and enforcement that the blogger will continue to generate near daily postings of a sustained quality and on the topics that have gained the blog its traffic. this seems like a contract to work, a lot to ask of a whole crowd of random writers and yet, without promise of continuing content, 80 or 800 blogs are worthless as a bag of poop. [or maybe not even that: I pay for fertilizer.] 4. for what period of time does the purchaser aquire any of these things? #3 amounts to putting a fixed price on an unknown amount of my labor, an idiots career move if I ever saw one.
Thanks, you get the last word in. Hannibal himself at ArsTechnica confessed confusion prior to his posting. I fired off the first post on a vague recollection that the final state of the see-saw patent suits and appeals was a MS defeat. Though vague, it appears to have been correct. The vagueness drove me to google for the story, which did take many twists and turns, and I latched on to an episode where it had gone against the patent holders and posted the correction. Drat my haste!
like Hannibal, IANAPL.