but it is not necessary to get the permission of every person in the background of a picture.
Who decides what is the 'background'. Does it depend on the clarity?
What happens when the cameras have 100x the resoltion, and any one in the background of the picture can be zoomed in on, BladeRunner style.
While the average person in China wouldn't want this, I cant imagine the Chinese government worrying about it too much.
I mean, they like to control exactly what web sites their citizens can visit, so a non standard DVD format would be perfect for controlling what the citizens see.
If they are going to regulate companies that develop VOIP applications it will be interesting to see what happens with OS projects.
At the moment its only going to be 'minor regulations', but when it takes off and the "potential tax losses" start getting serious will we see all these companies/ projects move offshore.
Certainly not much could stop it if people want to use it.
Obviously, I meant that the team talks with the customer - communication is essential, otherwise we'd end up building a new and improved 3D solitaire when they asked for a double linked list implemented in cobol.
The point I was really making was the number of stupid specs required internal to an organisation - i.e. the database team to the web developers. When the teams are split up, the managers will insist on formal specs *every* time - its a pain in the arse to get anything done.
In a small team - say 3-8 people, you can get a hell of a lot more done without formal specs. and it is usually exactly what the customer wants.
Of course, this never works in real life because managers want documents to mark the progress against their gannt charts so they always interfere with the "make sure you spec it properly", and the manager on the other team will say "dont do a damn thing until you see a signed off spec"
Shit - its no wonder commercial software costs so much.
SCO has had this coming for a long time, but its sad that the 2 thing I hate (Laywers and Patents) are going to bring them down.
This is kind of like seeing the school bully being hit by a bus - you are internally elated, but its not a pretty sight and you feel pretty sick afterwards.
Oh, well - as long SCO gets taken out, that's all that matters
today just 1 death can derail projects
This is a very good point.
There are probably hundreds of high rise construction workers killed every year that we dont hear about; but any space related failure is instantly worldwide news. The problem is that they dont weigh it up with all the successful missions.
Space exploration is dangerous - as we (worldwide) do more missions we'll get better, but until then there will probably be a high death/success ratio - just like any new frontier.
so here are 3 countries which have tradionally been 'not too friendly' with each other that can agree to standardise on a single installation of Linux...
This is cool, but the $24,000 dollar question is - will they go with KDE or Gnome as the default ??
Surely this should be a slashdot poll!
Asian distro defaults...
(o) Vi and Gnome
(o) Vi and KDE
(o) Emacs and Gnome
(o) Emacs and KDE
(o) Cowboy Neal is my interface and text editor, you insensitive clod!
I worked as an in house programmer serving 10 or so people (data manipulation, etc) and it was great.
No specs, meetings, or other bullshit - they would say 'I want something that does so and so' and after a few screen prototypes, I'd go off and build it.
*sigh* - these days it takes 2 weeks for a team of 4 to decide what database version to use.
When they first bought in the Beta it didn't look too impressive to me (not being in the US), but it works pretty well and has a hell of a lot more shops.
Despite how much I hate advertising, when I actually *want* to see adverts about a product, it is hard to find.
Absolutely - I love woodwork (but I dont get a lot time to do it at the moment)
I've always liked building things, and after the first 10 years buried in computing I had a woodwork building frenzy - the first 3 pieces of furniture were crap, but after that they became pretty good.
It's just like programming - you see something (an app or a table) and think - I could build it better than that - so you try it.
I highly recommend woodwork to any IT person who feels they are fed up, its a great complimentary hobby.
Yeh, ok - I did that for a while - but the power bills add up. I know its uncool to say this here, but money got tight so a new 'turn off PC's when not in use' policy came into effect.
I've got 3 kids and 5 PC's (most of em windows games machines) and I'd be real happy if you could just power on a PC and get the relevant data fast.
It's not like the BIOS transmits info anywhere else or logs keystrokes. It's seems to be a quick boot access method to get to your PIM data. And, quite frankly - its ABOUT BLOODY TIME.
Even with a fast 2 gig PC its hard to convince the family to use the contacts database instead of the paper version- takes too long to boot, logon, load the app. Sheesh, it seems as if this type of information access is going backwards these days. The faster the hardware gets, the more bloated the software gets.
That amount of money should at least cover the maintenance contract to get a teenager in a suit to come and clean the filter on the power supplies of at least 3 mini's.
Oh, you said HP? Sorry, I thought you meant Data General. Coz, back a few years we used to pay a *hell* of a lot of money just to get a couple of filters cleaned.
Hey - I'm kidding!!!
Seriously, this is getting closer to what I call my dream mobile device. I was hanging back until they had decent memory and connectivety - and I'd also like the other bells and whistles, but this is pretty cool.
(People always bag out the FM radio, but it is *really* nice if you have to get a bus/train to work for an hour each day)
I dont know if Hong Kong has video camera's in many public places, but if not, then a few of these robots on every street corner would make organised crime risky.
Sure, it starts off as a nice educational exercise with a few helpful robots on campuses, but give it 4 years and then there's more, and more (they are cheap to mass produce by now).
Suddenly they have a huge network of remote controlled mobile video camera's.
How do they decide which companies can do it?
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from the article:
But late amendments added to the law limited who intellectual property owners could take action against and what penalties they could apply.
This would be just great if companies like SCO get to have this power. The average politition may not realise what their new 'core business' consists of, and give them the keys to the IP city. In 16 months time will it be a common sight to see 'SCOrm Troopers' busting through windows of offices and razing them?
It's bad enough with the government departments doing this, but profit based companies? Shit, this is scary stuff
I would have loved to been able to scare off the bullys at will, and just get back to what I was doing. And you're right, it does build social, cooperation skills.
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but it is not necessary to get the permission of every person in the background of a picture.
Who decides what is the 'background'. Does it depend on the clarity?
What happens when the cameras have 100x the resoltion, and any one in the background of the picture can be zoomed in on, BladeRunner style.
While the average person in China wouldn't want this, I cant imagine the Chinese government worrying about it too much.
I mean, they like to control exactly what web sites their citizens can visit, so a non standard DVD format would be perfect for controlling what the citizens see.
When I was young and rich (no kids), I used a phone version of this, and it's really cool. Costs a fair bit more, but its damn convenient.
I imagine they could get pretty competetive pricing now.
If they are going to regulate companies that develop VOIP applications it will be interesting to see what happens with OS projects.
At the moment its only going to be 'minor regulations', but when it takes off and the "potential tax losses" start getting serious will we see all these companies/ projects move offshore.
Certainly not much could stop it if people want to use it.
I rack up about a gig worth of email each year and I just dump it to a CD for archiving.
So, what do you think of all the news reports covering CD rot?
Sold!
:)
Ok, now please hook me up to the mars rover via a cellphone. No cheating now - webcam's via NASA dont count
Obviously, I meant that the team talks with the customer - communication is essential, otherwise we'd end up building a new and improved 3D solitaire when they asked for a double linked list implemented in cobol.
The point I was really making was the number of stupid specs required internal to an organisation - i.e. the database team to the web developers. When the teams are split up, the managers will insist on formal specs *every* time - its a pain in the arse to get anything done.
In a small team - say 3-8 people, you can get a hell of a lot more done without formal specs. and it is usually exactly what the customer wants.
Of course, this never works in real life because managers want documents to mark the progress against their gannt charts so they always interfere with the "make sure you spec it properly", and the manager on the other team will say "dont do a damn thing until you see a signed off spec"
Shit - its no wonder commercial software costs so much.
SCO has had this coming for a long time, but its sad that the 2 thing I hate (Laywers and Patents) are going to bring them down.
This is kind of like seeing the school bully being hit by a bus - you are internally elated, but its not a pretty sight and you feel pretty sick afterwards.
Oh, well - as long SCO gets taken out, that's all that matters
I'm glad the project is back on track again, but the 'petty lawsuits' were apparently contractors who weren't paid.
Hardly petty in my opinion - I'd be sueing if I wasn't paid for work I'd done.
today just 1 death can derail projects
This is a very good point.
There are probably hundreds of high rise construction workers killed every year that we dont hear about; but any space related failure is instantly worldwide news. The problem is that they dont weigh it up with all the successful missions.
Space exploration is dangerous - as we (worldwide) do more missions we'll get better, but until then there will probably be a high death/success ratio - just like any new frontier.
so here are 3 countries which have tradionally been 'not too friendly' with each other that can agree to standardise on a single installation of Linux...
This is cool, but the $24,000 dollar question is - will they go with KDE or Gnome as the default ??
Surely this should be a slashdot poll!
Asian distro defaults...
(o) Vi and Gnome
(o) Vi and KDE
(o) Emacs and Gnome
(o) Emacs and KDE
(o) Cowboy Neal is my interface and text editor, you insensitive clod!
hmmm. I'm looking for a phone that does all these things.
:)
Maybe emacs is the answer to my problem
I worked as an in house programmer serving 10 or so people (data manipulation, etc) and it was great.
No specs, meetings, or other bullshit - they would say 'I want something that does so and so' and after a few screen prototypes, I'd go off and build it.
*sigh* - these days it takes 2 weeks for a team of 4 to decide what database version to use.
When they first bought in the Beta it didn't look too impressive to me (not being in the US), but it works pretty well and has a hell of a lot more shops.
Despite how much I hate advertising, when I actually *want* to see adverts about a product, it is hard to find.
Absolutely - I love woodwork (but I dont get a lot time to do it at the moment)
I've always liked building things, and after the first 10 years buried in computing I had a woodwork building frenzy - the first 3 pieces of furniture were crap, but after that they became pretty good.
It's just like programming - you see something (an app or a table) and think - I could build it better than that - so you try it.
I highly recommend woodwork to any IT person who feels they are fed up, its a great complimentary hobby.
Yeh, ok - I did that for a while - but the power bills add up. I know its uncool to say this here, but money got tight so a new 'turn off PC's when not in use' policy came into effect.
I've got 3 kids and 5 PC's (most of em windows games machines) and I'd be real happy if you could just power on a PC and get the relevant data fast.
It's not like the BIOS transmits info anywhere else or logs keystrokes. It's seems to be a quick boot access method to get to your PIM data. And, quite frankly - its ABOUT BLOODY TIME.
Even with a fast 2 gig PC its hard to convince the family to use the contacts database instead of the paper version- takes too long to boot, logon, load the app. Sheesh, it seems as if this type of information access is going backwards these days. The faster the hardware gets, the more bloated the software gets.
executives do not pull powerpoint presentations out of their asses.
you sure about that?
That amount of money should at least cover the maintenance contract to get a teenager in a suit to come and clean the filter on the power supplies of at least 3 mini's.
Oh, you said HP? Sorry, I thought you meant Data General. Coz, back a few years we used to pay a *hell* of a lot of money just to get a couple of filters cleaned.
Hey - I'm kidding!!!
Seriously, this is getting closer to what I call my dream mobile device. I was hanging back until they had decent memory and connectivety - and I'd also like the other bells and whistles, but this is pretty cool.
(People always bag out the FM radio, but it is *really* nice if you have to get a bus/train to work for an hour each day)
I dont know if Hong Kong has video camera's in many public places, but if not, then a few of these robots on every street corner would make organised crime risky.
Sure, it starts off as a nice educational exercise with a few helpful robots on campuses, but give it 4 years and then there's more, and more (they are cheap to mass produce by now).
Suddenly they have a huge network of remote controlled mobile video camera's.
from the article: But late amendments added to the law limited who intellectual property owners could take action against and what penalties they could apply.
This would be just great if companies like SCO get to have this power. The average politition may not realise what their new 'core business' consists of, and give them the keys to the IP city. In 16 months time will it be a common sight to see 'SCOrm Troopers' busting through windows of offices and razing them?
It's bad enough with the government departments doing this, but profit based companies? Shit, this is scary stuff
yes, but people aren't paying an annual subscription for Duke Nukem forever - that's the problem.
We all know that software is late, but we shouldn't have to pay for it if it doesnt arrive.
I wasn't being flipant.
I would have loved to been able to scare off the bullys at will, and just get back to what I was doing. And you're right, it does build social, cooperation skills.