The subject sums it up, but I'm getting a little pissed at technology that is developed at NASA (World Wind) is just getting co-opted by Google (Google Earth) with no respect paid to the initial innovators.
Um well, Google isn't doing anything here accept providing a platform to display data. The data is collected by USSTRATCOM and compiled into KML by Analytical Graphics. I know it is fashionable not to RTFA, but at least read the damn summary.
Yeah but you are missing ta key point. He is not working in the corporate world. He work in the government. Corporations have to be profitable. They need their IT infrastructure to work and not cost too much and be fault tolerant. Many people in the corporation understand this and are responsible for ensuring this.
In the government, the need an IT infrastructure that works. This example clearly shows that the way a corporation does things is NOT the same way government does things. It doesn't really matter how much the govts infrastructure costs, and the number of people ACTUALLY responsible for it is.... this guy. He's not playing nice? Stamp your foot and send him to bed with no dinner, but they are incapable of replacing him. That would have never happened at Cisco, Oracle, Apple, Kaiser, Bank of America, General Motors, Procter & Gamble, and so on and so forth. This guys biggest mistake was going to work for the government in the first place.
Scouting is an institution that helps boys grow up to be men. It is not an institution to help boys grow up to be women
Your ignorance is showing. Homosexuality has to do with being sexually attracted to the same sex, not with wanting to be a different sex. IMO the BSA should stay out of people sexuality; straight, gay, or otherwise.
This is true from car-car collision, but this is also a mmisleading statistic. The majority of collisions are not car-car, they are car-stationary object. And in those case an SUV is safer.
There are many screen writing work groups online. You can join and have peers evaluate at the same time reading other aspiring screen writes work. Then you enter contests. Lots of screen writing contests.
One thing I've learned is that a new writer trying to sell a spec script is pretty much like a beach bum trying to sell ice cubes to Eskimos.
The first 10 levels are still teaching you the basics of the game. As a hunter at around lvl 10 you will get a pet that you control that aids you in fighting the mobs. There is lots lots more to do but you have to progress through the levels to get there. You have a bunch of secondary skills like cooking and fishing and firstaid that you can learn . Then there are professions that you can do like leatherworking or blacksmithing to make armor and weapong that you can sell to other players either directly or through the Auction House. Yes there is a lot more to do than just kill mobs.
For me it doesn't matter if the movie is bad. I am an Indian Jones fan, and I'm going to see it. I am not so fanatic that I will call it good when it isn't, but I will still pay to see it.
I'm a Star Wars fan too, yes Fantom Menace sucked, but that really doesn't matter. It's like collecting. I see it because it is part of the set and without it the set isn't complete.
I'm a Star Trek fan too and lord knows there have been some stinkers in that franchise. But the same applies, I'm going to see every Star Trek Movie that is shown on the big screen, and I'm going to watch every episode of every series I can.
The only exception to this for me was/is Highlander. The first movie was the only movie. To tweak a phrase, "THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ONLY ONE!"
Yes I'm a computer geek, currently single, but I moved out of my parents' house at 19 (over 15 years ago) and make lots of money being a computer geek.
I'll take paper over electronics, and will continue to prefer paper until ebooks have the same basic physical properties: Flexible, thin, light-absorbing rather than light-producing, Technically it's light reflecting that let's you see the text in dead tree books, and this is also true of most ebook readers. They use e-ink which does not produce any light. E-Ink is designed specifically to give a paper like reading experience.
"Microsoft is demonstrably the best OS in the same way that McDonald's ubiquity makes it demonstrably the best restaurant." Uh Oh, If Microsoft is McDonalds, that makes Apple TGI Fridays's.
The article mentions IBM, but fails to point out why we don't all hate IBM now. Sure IBM is no industry sweetheart but I don't think they attract the ire of folks like MS does, and they've been around a lot longer.
There is no such thing as a legally assigned right to profit. Copyright is a legally assigned right to control* copying. In this case mobitv.com is not placing any controls (because they are stupid) on the copying of this information. You can't put something on an unsecured website and then tell people not to access it.
*with that control you can choose to try and profit, or you can place other restrictions such as the GPL.
I'm sorry, the principle is NOT correct. There is no moral right to intellectual (imaginary) property. Just because you think of something first does not give you the moral right to control the use of that idea. In an attempt to get people to share their ideas the Framers of the US Constitution gave a limited control to the originator of those ideas. The US Constitution says "To promote science, and the useful arts...." I could argue that "music" isn't a "useful" art. Anyway you can't steal and idea. You can't steal music. The closest thing to stealing music would be if some one claimed they authored something they didn't. When most music was only offered in a format that was intrinsically bound to a physical object, it was easier for companies to control distribution and therefor their revenue stream. Music is not a physical object though and it was only a matter of time before it was divorced from physical objects. Since the physical object is no longer necessary companies that relied on it are having trouble.
I don't have any sympathy for them because they misappropriated part of the constitution and basically reinterpreted it so they could make money. Screw them.
I spent about 6 months with a tape drive before I collected enough cans and mowed enough lawns to buy a "Blue Chip" knock off of a 1540 floppy drive. It was a little better designed with the power supply not housed in the drive enclosure, but it still over heated. I lived in Sacramento, and the summers were hot with no AC. I actually put ice packs on top of the drive to cool it down. And then sometimes I had to cross my fingers and repeat the hard drive incantation of functionality about 15 times before it would read my data properly. I though I was the shit when I eventually got a second floppy drive and could copy one floppy to another without all that swapping. And the 300 baud modem.
Compute's Gazzette magazine with their MLX program for typing in their special hex programs... those were the days.
Was this guy born yesterday? The reason RH "conviently" provides the source code on their FTP site is because they are REQUIRED to under the term of the GPL. RH didn't write all their software and still don't. They built a business from offering support for software they packaged. Is CentOS hurting RH? WTF RedHat wouldn't exist if it wasn't for projects like CentOS to begin with. I work for an Open Source company. This guy is operating under some big time misconceptions. The product is not the software, the product is Red Hat's expertise. If you don't need it, don't buy it.
On the face it is ridiculous because all content is not the same value. A channel that shows re-runs all the time like tv-land and such don't cost as much to produce. Not only that, it doesn't really matter how much a channel cost to produce, it matter what people are willing to pay. I'd pay $5 buck a month for say the Sci-fi channel or the science channel, but I'd only be willing to pay $1/month for F/X or TNT. I'm not willing to pay anything for ESPN. These are my values, and I bet they represent a minority of cable subscribers. Just because you only want to watch 1 out of 20 channels doesn't mean that that channel is only 1/20th as valuable.
I'm all for an a la carte system, but I just realize that the channels won't be all priced the same.
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I still don't get that ... I easily wrote a bad program in basic that used up all the C64's memory; the title sequence to my game "Space War".
The subject sums it up, but I'm getting a little pissed at technology that is developed at NASA (World Wind) is just getting co-opted by Google (Google Earth) with no respect paid to the initial innovators.
Um well, Google isn't doing anything here accept providing a platform to display data. The data is collected by USSTRATCOM and compiled into KML by Analytical Graphics. I know it is fashionable not to RTFA, but at least read the damn summary.
Yeah but you are missing ta key point. He is not working in the corporate world. He work in the government. Corporations have to be profitable. They need their IT infrastructure to work and not cost too much and be fault tolerant. Many people in the corporation understand this and are responsible for ensuring this.
In the government, the need an IT infrastructure that works. This example clearly shows that the way a corporation does things is NOT the same way government does things. It doesn't really matter how much the govts infrastructure costs, and the number of people ACTUALLY responsible for it is.... this guy. He's not playing nice? Stamp your foot and send him to bed with no dinner, but they are incapable of replacing him. That would have never happened at Cisco, Oracle, Apple, Kaiser, Bank of America, General Motors, Procter & Gamble, and so on and so forth. This guys biggest mistake was going to work for the government in the first place.
I keep my low ICQ number because it is even older than my slashdot ID.
Disclaimer: I'm not gay.
Scouting is an institution that helps boys grow up to be men. It is not an institution to help boys grow up to be women
Your ignorance is showing. Homosexuality has to do with being sexually attracted to the same sex, not with wanting to be a different sex. IMO the BSA should stay out of people sexuality; straight, gay, or otherwise.
This is true from car-car collision, but this is also a mmisleading statistic. The majority of collisions are not car-car, they are car-stationary object. And in those case an SUV is safer.
There are many screen writing work groups online. You can join and have peers evaluate at the same time reading other aspiring screen writes work. Then you enter contests. Lots of screen writing contests.
One thing I've learned is that a new writer trying to sell a spec script is pretty much like a beach bum trying to sell ice cubes to Eskimos.
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Yeah if they could power this I think it would actually be a wearable motorcycle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rgWl_7nH4w&feature=related
The first 10 levels are still teaching you the basics of the game. As a hunter at around lvl 10 you will get a pet that you control that aids you in fighting the mobs. There is lots lots more to do but you have to progress through the levels to get there. You have a bunch of secondary skills like cooking and fishing and firstaid that you can learn . Then there are professions that you can do like leatherworking or blacksmithing to make armor and weapong that you can sell to other players either directly or through the Auction House. Yes there is a lot more to do than just kill mobs.
For me it doesn't matter if the movie is bad. I am an Indian Jones fan, and I'm going to see it. I am not so fanatic that I will call it good when it isn't, but I will still pay to see it.
I'm a Star Wars fan too, yes Fantom Menace sucked, but that really doesn't matter. It's like collecting. I see it because it is part of the set and without it the set isn't complete.
I'm a Star Trek fan too and lord knows there have been some stinkers in that franchise. But the same applies, I'm going to see every Star Trek Movie that is shown on the big screen, and I'm going to watch every episode of every series I can.
The only exception to this for me was/is Highlander. The first movie was the only movie. To tweak a phrase, "THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ONLY ONE!"
Yes I'm a computer geek, currently single, but I moved out of my parents' house at 19 (over 15 years ago) and make lots of money being a computer geek.
and will continue to prefer paper until ebooks have the same basic
physical properties: Flexible, thin, light-absorbing rather than
light-producing, Technically it's light reflecting that let's you see the text in dead tree books, and this is also true of most ebook readers. They use e-ink which does not produce any light. E-Ink is designed specifically to give a paper like reading experience.
If Microsoft is McDonalds, that makes Apple TGI Fridays's.
The article mentions IBM, but fails to point out why we don't all hate IBM now. Sure IBM is no industry sweetheart but I don't think they attract the ire of folks like MS does, and they've been around a lot longer.
Can somebody say this in plainer language?
"Every finite strongly-connected aperiodic directed graph of uniform out-degree has a synchronizing coloring"
I'm simple
There is no such thing as a legally assigned right to profit. Copyright is a legally assigned right to control* copying. In this case mobitv.com is not placing any controls (because they are stupid) on the copying of this information. You can't put something on an unsecured website and then tell people not to access it.
*with that control you can choose to try and profit, or you can place other restrictions such as the GPL.
I'm sorry, the principle is NOT correct. There is no moral right to intellectual (imaginary) property. Just because you think of something first does not give you the moral right to control the use of that idea. In an attempt to get people to share their ideas the Framers of the US Constitution gave a limited control to the originator of those ideas. The US Constitution says "To promote science, and the useful arts...." I could argue that "music" isn't a "useful" art. Anyway you can't steal and idea. You can't steal music. The closest thing to stealing music would be if some one claimed they authored something they didn't. When most music was only offered in a format that was intrinsically bound to a physical object, it was easier for companies to control distribution and therefor their revenue stream. Music is not a physical object though and it was only a matter of time before it was divorced from physical objects. Since the physical object is no longer necessary companies that relied on it are having trouble.
I don't have any sympathy for them because they misappropriated part of the constitution and basically reinterpreted it so they could make money. Screw them.
I spent about 6 months with a tape drive before I collected enough cans and mowed enough lawns to buy a "Blue Chip" knock off of a 1540 floppy drive. It was a little better designed with the power supply not housed in the drive enclosure, but it still over heated. I lived in Sacramento, and the summers were hot with no AC. I actually put ice packs on top of the drive to cool it down. And then sometimes I had to cross my fingers and repeat the hard drive incantation of functionality about 15 times before it would read my data properly. I though I was the shit when I eventually got a second floppy drive and could copy one floppy to another without all that swapping. And the 300 baud modem.
Compute's Gazzette magazine with their MLX program for typing in their special hex programs... those were the days.
Me and most other Aarons get a larger than average percentage of pocket calls.
Was this guy born yesterday? The reason RH "conviently" provides the source code on their FTP site is because they are REQUIRED to under the term of the GPL. RH didn't write all their software and still don't. They built a business from offering support for software they packaged. Is CentOS hurting RH? WTF RedHat wouldn't exist if it wasn't for projects like CentOS to begin with. I work for an Open Source company. This guy is operating under some big time misconceptions. The product is not the software, the product is Red Hat's expertise. If you don't need it, don't buy it.
Um yeah you can watch it on your TV, either:
1) when it airs
2) from your VCR or PVR
3) if you have a decent cable package that has "On Demand"
Maybe you don't want to watch this content on your computer but many of us do. This is who they are serving.
Seriously watching TV is passive enough, soon you'll be complaining that the things you want aren't beamed directly into your head.
This is the slashdot equivalent of AOL's, "Me too!"
I used to get Compute's Gazette for the C64 and the 3-2-1 Contact Magazine from the PBS show.
On the face it is ridiculous because all content is not the same value. A channel that shows re-runs all the time like tv-land and such don't cost as much to produce. Not only that, it doesn't really matter how much a channel cost to produce, it matter what people are willing to pay. I'd pay $5 buck a month for say the Sci-fi channel or the science channel, but I'd only be willing to pay $1/month for F/X or TNT. I'm not willing to pay anything for ESPN. These are my values, and I bet they represent a minority of cable subscribers. Just because you only want to watch 1 out of 20 channels doesn't mean that that channel is only 1/20th as valuable.
I'm all for an a la carte system, but I just realize that the channels won't be all priced the same.
FOAF baby!!!