According to the article, Bodleian in Oxford is one of the contributors to the Google project. I believe that Bodleian in Oxford is a European library.
Did Google ask any other European library to participate? Did the French library ask Google to be included in the project?
I have never been inside an Apple store, although I have walked past one a few times. The local computer store that I go to (Micro Center) both sells Apples and has a very large selection of technical books. I prefer a computer store that looks a bit cluttered, the Apple store looks very minimalist and color coordinated. It appears that technical books are a major part of Micro Center's business. I suspected that it may be a fabricated story, but that is Slashdot for you.
I can't either. The title is not "I CON", it is "iCon Steve Jobs : The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business"
I can see Apple not wanting to carry the book in it's store, but dropping Wiley is pretty silly. I think that Apple needs Wiley to write Apple books MUCH more than Wiley need Apple to sell Wiley books in it's store. Hell, Apple may even find out that Apple needs to sell Wiley books in it's stores.
I didn't mean to imply that Wiley would stop publishing books about Apple computers because of this. I was trying to imply that Apple needed Wiley to publish books about Apple more than Wiley needed Apple to sell Wiley books in their stores.
Technical book publishers and computer/software makers have a symbiotic relationship. More books about a particular computer/software increases sales of that computer, more sales of a particular computer sells more books about that computer. Apple needs book publishers to publish Apple computer/software reference books more than publishers need Apple to sell it's books in Apple stores.
Wiley is a top tier technical book publisher that publishes respected reference books and text books. For Apple products, Wiley publishes everything from the popular "Dummies" series to the standard "The Mac OS"X" Tiger Book" to the geeky "Bible" series. I believe that the presence of these books about how to use Apple computers/software enhances the prestige of Apple computers and increases the ability of people to use Apple computers; both of which result in increased Apple sales.
Dropping Wiley technical books from Apple stores because Wiley wrote an unauthorized biography about Jobs is one of the most arrogant things that I have ever heard.
It is very unlikely that mail sent from your AOL mailbox back to your AOL mailbox would go through a server that uses MAPS. It is much more likely that AOL uses MAPS only on the mailservers that receive mail from the Internet.
With BSD licensed code, ANYBODY can make a proprietary fork of the software. This is probably why Bill Gates loves having other people release their code under a BSD license but hates it when they release their code under the GPL license.
Where I live in the US, with the cable company I have, analog TVs will have no need for a set-top box or digital receiver even after the digital switch over. I suspect that most cable users that currently don't need a set top box, still won't need one after the over the air digital switchover. The cable company does all of the signal conversion.
Our cable company provides extended basic cable via analog RF -- no cable box required for even 20 year old cable ready sets. The cable company has a digital set top box available that adds some digital channels, but it is quite pricey. I have no need to spend another $40 bucks a month or so to see the various Discovery channels in HD. Yeah, my TV is HD compatible and does 1080i -- I don't see it being worth the extra cost per month.
Any change from the current analog/digital setup would require a rather expensive rework of their network or would likely cause a substantial loss of customers.
If the punk brings a wordstar file, to heck with him.
Why? OpenOffice should import Wordstar files just fine. If a student is using Wordstar, I would be more concerned about whether I can read the 5" floppy that the file was saved on.
I agree that editing of movies is a bad thing and I would never have used this sort of thing with my kids; who are now 14 and 16 and are allowed to watch just about any DVD that the local video store has for rent.
However:
Just as I don't think that the US government (which is now jointly controlled by the Religious Right and by Corporate America) has any business saying that I can't watch movies that the religious right considers to be dirty, I also don't believe that the US government should have a law that prohibits members of the religious right from watching sanitized movies if they want to.
I am not advocating illegal duplication of movies, I am advocating not prohibiting the use of technology to skip the parts of DVDs that contains the sort of images or language that the viewer doesn't want to see or hear.
In this case, the operators of the system have to take actions specifically aimed at causing the DVD player to skip parts of the DVD, the operators are fully aware that they are going to miss portions of the DVD.
If the user is a parent and the viewer is a child, the child should eventually figure out that the movies that they have been watching at home were being censored. If a child has been watching these censored movies and hasn't figured it out by the time that he is about 14 or so, it won't matter; the kid will end up being either a missionary or a Wal*Mart greeter for the rest of his life.
I think that your criticism would be more appropriate for movies that were edited for television or even worse, for in-flight movies.
This is simply a power play between the movie producers and the religious right. The movie producers did not want their creations messed with and the religious right wanted a technical solution that is able to remove scenes/language from DVDs that they find objectionable. The religious right won this battle. Normally the religious right is is wrong because the are forcing their values on other people. I am afraid that I agree with the religious right on this issue because they were fighting for the right to do something in the privacy of their own home that doesn't hurt somebody else.
I also wonder if^h^hwhen the movie studios are going to use technical means to thwart methods used to skip objectionable parts of a DVD.
The DMCA and encryption law wars are getting wierd. The wierdest thing is that I am on Adobe's side on this one. If Nikon is encrypting part of a user's data file, why is this any different from Microsoft encrypting parts of user's MS Office data files? This is a great way to lock users into using proprietary software to read their own data files.
If the memory is truly untested and it is being sold as being untested: fine. What I would be afraid of with these parts is that they have been tested and that they have failed some tests. The failures may not have been total, just enough to not cause them to not be sold as prime parts. Even though I would't mind saving money by buying factory "seconds" underwear, somehow I don't think it worthwhile to save money buying factory "seconds" memory.
There already are white LEDs available with more than one die (little light junctiony dealies) per package (little plastic bubble). There are multiple die white LEDs and RGB LEDs that have red, green, and blue dies in one package. A common type of LED has a green die and a red die in one package with the dies connected in opposite polarity; DC in one direction makes red light, DC in the other direction makes green light, AC makes yellow light.
We are VERY early in the development of using LEDs for illumination, wait a couple years and see what happens.
I don't believe that asliarun has ever used an employer provided and administered PC.
It would not have to be an ISP that provides this sort of service. There may actually be a demand for this sort of service, as long as the entity providing the service provides the hardware and software and the user TOTALLY gives up control of the box. This total control situation is not uncommon with an employer provided computer (there can be problems with it); for personal computers this sort of service would cause all sorts of security and liability problems.
The biggest problem that I can see is that Joe Six Pack is unlikely to want to pay what such a service would cost.
I would imagine that much of what was made public concerning Enron, Worldcom etc. were just as much of a trade secret to Enron, Worldcom etc. as whatever Apple considers to be trade secrets. The only probable difference is that it was later shown that that there was corruption within Enron, Worldcom etc. "Whistle blowing" is not a license for an individual with privileged information to disclose those secrets to the public. That said, A free press is sacred in a free society; I do not believe that a journalist should ever be compelled to compromise his source, even if the "whistle blower" or a person disclosing privileged information may be commiting an illegal act or a contract violation.
I have Cox too and my IP hasn't changed since I got it over two years ago -- even with multiple power outages that caused my modem to reconnect. Yeah, I have a UPS; some of the outages have been for several hours.
I am glad that Cox isn't pushing me to get telephone service from them because my cable goes out during the power outages. Thank the gods for IP dial backup using POTS.
I also do not notice brand names that are advertised on television ads. I also do not believe that I am absorbing any of the advertising content because I do not normally buy products that are advertised on TV. I do not eat at fast food restaurants nor do I buy new cars. I buy my groceries at stores which do not normally sell products that are advertised on TV. If I do shop at a mainstream store, I usually buy what's on sale or the store brand (and the store was selected because it was the closest store that was likely to carry whatever it was that I needed to buy). I use Consumer Reports and do my own Internet research when I buy durable goods, I do not buy them because of advertising. When I do buy things that I sought out because of advertising, the advertising was very likely to have been in a magazine.
The US mints produced dollar coins that weighed about 27 grams and were about 40 mm diameter off and on from 1794 until 1979. The Susan B. Anthony dollar "Suzie B", which is slightly larger than the US quarter, was introduced in 1979. The Sacagawea dollar "Golden Dollar", which was the same size and weight as the Susan B. Anthony, was put into circulation in 2000. The Sacagawea dollar is "golden" in color, the Susan B Anthony dollar is silver in color.
"This brings into issue all the medical, supposidly confidental, data that gets sent to India for transscribing. I hope companies from around the world take a look at the amount of personal information they are sending to around the world with out thought of who might be watching it.
Corporations as a whole do not care at all about the personal data that they send anywhere; the data is simply a commodity. To companies that are used to dealing with large amounts of commodities (including personal information), the loss or compromise of a certain percentage of the commodity is tolerated and expected. For corporations it is cheaper to pay for the loss than it is to prevent the loss.
I call sour grapes. Developers work on projects for a variety of reasons; you appear to work on projects for money, other people work on projects for other reasons. It appears that what you do not like is the competition from developers who work on projects because you believe that they did it for reasons other than money.
BTW, there are a number of open source projects that ARE being supported by corporations such as Red Hat and IBM; by writing and releasing code to the project and by donating money or other goods to the development organization. I believe that in the future that some governments will also provide meaningful support to OS projects with money and legislation.
Are you saying that Red Hat's developers don't get paid? Are you saying that Suse's developers don't get paid? Are you saying that sendmail's developers don't get paid? There are open source projects that do pay developers and nobody is being forced to work on an open source project without pay. Nobody is stopping you from writing closed source code that is so good that it doesn't require support. There is also nothing that would force anybody to pay you for writing that code. Choose the business model that you are most comfortable with.
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According to the article, Bodleian in Oxford is one of the contributors to the Google project. I believe that Bodleian in Oxford is a European library.
Did Google ask any other European library to participate? Did the French library ask Google to be included in the project?
I have never been inside an Apple store, although I have walked past one a few times. The local computer store that I go to (Micro Center) both sells Apples and has a very large selection of technical books. I prefer a computer store that looks a bit cluttered, the Apple store looks very minimalist and color coordinated. It appears that technical books are a major part of Micro Center's business. I suspected that it may be a fabricated story, but that is Slashdot for you.
I can't either. The title is not "I CON", it is "iCon Steve Jobs : The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business"
I can see Apple not wanting to carry the book in it's store, but dropping Wiley is pretty silly. I think that Apple needs Wiley to write Apple books MUCH more than Wiley need Apple to sell Wiley books in it's store. Hell, Apple may even find out that Apple needs to sell Wiley books in it's stores.
I didn't mean to imply that Wiley would stop publishing books about Apple computers because of this. I was trying to imply that Apple needed Wiley to publish books about Apple more than Wiley needed Apple to sell Wiley books in their stores.
Technical book publishers and computer/software makers have a symbiotic relationship. More books about a particular computer/software increases sales of that computer, more sales of a particular computer sells more books about that computer. Apple needs book publishers to publish Apple computer/software reference books more than publishers need Apple to sell it's books in Apple stores.
Wiley is a top tier technical book publisher that publishes respected reference books and text books. For Apple products, Wiley publishes everything from the popular "Dummies" series to the standard "The Mac OS"X" Tiger Book" to the geeky "Bible" series. I believe that the presence of these books about how to use Apple computers/software enhances the prestige of Apple computers and increases the ability of people to use Apple computers; both of which result in increased Apple sales.
Dropping Wiley technical books from Apple stores because Wiley wrote an unauthorized biography about Jobs is one of the most arrogant things that I have ever heard.
It is very unlikely that mail sent from your AOL mailbox back to your AOL mailbox would go through a server that uses MAPS. It is much more likely that AOL uses MAPS only on the mailservers that receive mail from the Internet.
With BSD licensed code, ANYBODY can make a proprietary fork of the software. This is probably why Bill Gates loves having other people release their code under a BSD license but hates it when they release their code under the GPL license.
Where I live in the US, with the cable company I have, analog TVs will have no need for a set-top box or digital receiver even after the digital switch over. I suspect that most cable users that currently don't need a set top box, still won't need one after the over the air digital switchover. The cable company does all of the signal conversion.
Our cable company provides extended basic cable via analog RF -- no cable box required for even 20 year old cable ready sets. The cable company has a digital set top box available that adds some digital channels, but it is quite pricey. I have no need to spend another $40 bucks a month or so to see the various Discovery channels in HD. Yeah, my TV is HD compatible and does 1080i -- I don't see it being worth the extra cost per month.
Any change from the current analog/digital setup would require a rather expensive rework of their network or would likely cause a substantial loss of customers.
If the punk brings a wordstar file, to heck with him.
Why? OpenOffice should import Wordstar files just fine. If a student is using Wordstar, I would be more concerned about whether I can read the 5" floppy that the file was saved on.
I agree that editing of movies is a bad thing and I would never have used this sort of thing with my kids; who are now 14 and 16 and are allowed to watch just about any DVD that the local video store has for rent.
However:
Just as I don't think that the US government (which is now jointly controlled by the Religious Right and by Corporate America) has any business saying that I can't watch movies that the religious right considers to be dirty, I also don't believe that the US government should have a law that prohibits members of the religious right from watching sanitized movies if they want to.
I am not advocating illegal duplication of movies, I am advocating not prohibiting the use of technology to skip the parts of DVDs that contains the sort of images or language that the viewer doesn't want to see or hear.
In this case, the operators of the system have to take actions specifically aimed at causing the DVD player to skip parts of the DVD, the operators are fully aware that they are going to miss portions of the DVD.
If the user is a parent and the viewer is a child, the child should eventually figure out that the movies that they have been watching at home were being censored. If a child has been watching these censored movies and hasn't figured it out by the time that he is about 14 or so, it won't matter; the kid will end up being either a missionary or a Wal*Mart greeter for the rest of his life.
I think that your criticism would be more appropriate for movies that were edited for television or even worse, for in-flight movies.
This is simply a power play between the movie producers and the religious right. The movie producers did not want their creations messed with and the religious right wanted a technical solution that is able to remove scenes/language from DVDs that they find objectionable. The religious right won this battle. Normally the religious right is is wrong because the are forcing their values on other people. I am afraid that I agree with the religious right on this issue because they were fighting for the right to do something in the privacy of their own home that doesn't hurt somebody else.
I also wonder if^h^hwhen the movie studios are going to use technical means to thwart methods used to skip objectionable parts of a DVD.
The DMCA and encryption law wars are getting wierd. The wierdest thing is that I am on Adobe's side on this one. If Nikon is encrypting part of a user's data file, why is this any different from Microsoft encrypting parts of user's MS Office data files? This is a great way to lock users into using proprietary software to read their own data files.
If the memory is truly untested and it is being sold as being untested: fine. What I would be afraid of with these parts is that they have been tested and that they have failed some tests. The failures may not have been total, just enough to not cause them to not be sold as prime parts. Even though I would't mind saving money by buying factory "seconds" underwear, somehow I don't think it worthwhile to save money buying factory "seconds" memory.
I see that somebody has found a replacement for goatse.cz. The yellow stuff looks like the stuff that they put on convenience store nachos.
Where do you put the capacitor when you hook up a bicolor LED to produce white light?
s m/L_ACCircuits/TwocolorLEDACcircuit.html
I do not know of bicolor LEDs with AC applied to them ever causing anybody's head to explode. Rapidly switching the red and green dies on and off with AC current produces yellow light. For more information see http://www.phys.ufl.edu/demo/5_ElectricityMagneti
There already are white LEDs available with more than one die (little light junctiony dealies) per package (little plastic bubble). There are multiple die white LEDs and RGB LEDs that have red, green, and blue dies in one package. A common type of LED has a green die and a red die in one package with the dies connected in opposite polarity; DC in one direction makes red light, DC in the other direction makes green light, AC makes yellow light.
We are VERY early in the development of using LEDs for illumination, wait a couple years and see what happens.
I don't believe that asliarun has ever used an employer provided and administered PC.
It would not have to be an ISP that provides this sort of service. There may actually be a demand for this sort of service, as long as the entity providing the service provides the hardware and software and the user TOTALLY gives up control of the box. This total control situation is not uncommon with an employer provided computer (there can be problems with it); for personal computers this sort of service would cause all sorts of security and liability problems.
The biggest problem that I can see is that Joe Six Pack is unlikely to want to pay what such a service would cost.
I would imagine that much of what was made public concerning Enron, Worldcom etc. were just as much of a trade secret to Enron, Worldcom etc. as whatever Apple considers to be trade secrets. The only probable difference is that it was later shown that that there was corruption within Enron, Worldcom etc. "Whistle blowing" is not a license for an individual with privileged information to disclose those secrets to the public. That said, A free press is sacred in a free society; I do not believe that a journalist should ever be compelled to compromise his source, even if the "whistle blower" or a person disclosing privileged information may be commiting an illegal act or a contract violation.
I have Cox too and my IP hasn't changed since I got it over two years ago -- even with multiple power outages that caused my modem to reconnect. Yeah, I have a UPS; some of the outages have been for several hours.
I am glad that Cox isn't pushing me to get telephone service from them because my cable goes out during the power outages. Thank the gods for IP dial backup using POTS.
I also do not notice brand names that are advertised on television ads. I also do not believe that I am absorbing any of the advertising content because I do not normally buy products that are advertised on TV. I do not eat at fast food restaurants nor do I buy new cars. I buy my groceries at stores which do not normally sell products that are advertised on TV. If I do shop at a mainstream store, I usually buy what's on sale or the store brand (and the store was selected because it was the closest store that was likely to carry whatever it was that I needed to buy). I use Consumer Reports and do my own Internet research when I buy durable goods, I do not buy them because of advertising. When I do buy things that I sought out because of advertising, the advertising was very likely to have been in a magazine.
The US mints produced dollar coins that weighed about 27 grams and were about 40 mm diameter off and on from 1794 until 1979. The Susan B. Anthony dollar "Suzie B", which is slightly larger than the US quarter, was introduced in 1979. The Sacagawea dollar "Golden Dollar", which was the same size and weight as the Susan B. Anthony, was put into circulation in 2000. The Sacagawea dollar is "golden" in color, the Susan B Anthony dollar is silver in color.
"This brings into issue all the medical, supposidly confidental, data that gets sent to India for transscribing. I hope companies from around the world take a look at the amount of personal information they are sending to around the world with out thought of who might be watching it.
Corporations as a whole do not care at all about the personal data that they send anywhere; the data is simply a commodity. To companies that are used to dealing with large amounts of commodities (including personal information), the loss or compromise of a certain percentage of the commodity is tolerated and expected. For corporations it is cheaper to pay for the loss than it is to prevent the loss.
I call sour grapes. Developers work on projects for a variety of reasons; you appear to work on projects for money, other people work on projects for other reasons. It appears that what you do not like is the competition from developers who work on projects because you believe that they did it for reasons other than money.
BTW, there are a number of open source projects that ARE being supported by corporations such as Red Hat and IBM; by writing and releasing code to the project and by donating money or other goods to the development organization. I believe that in the future that some governments will also provide meaningful support to OS projects with money and legislation.
Are you saying that Red Hat's developers don't get paid? Are you saying that Suse's developers don't get paid? Are you saying that sendmail's developers don't get paid? There are open source projects that do pay developers and nobody is being forced to work on an open source project without pay. Nobody is stopping you from writing closed source code that is so good that it doesn't require support. There is also nothing that would force anybody to pay you for writing that code. Choose the business model that you are most comfortable with.