Unrelated comment first - You're looking for comments from a major publisher where they admit to pirating the works of freelancers? That would be like getting Shawn Fanning to admit that Napster exists primarily to pirate copyrighted music. Not going to happen...
Anyway, I've done some freelance writing in the past few years, and most of the time the contract I've worked from has been a flat, per page payment. If I write 4 pages of publicity material, I get $400. Pretty simple stuff. However, one thing I've seen often is as part of the payment agreement, I've had to agree to surrender my right to future payment for republication in other media. In other words, they pay me the money as a flat, one time deal. After that, I still get credited as the author, but I don't recieve any future payment. It's not something that (at least in my experience) is snuck past the author by a sneaky publisher, it's a part of the deal, and if you don't like it, don't sell them the work.
OTOH, I do get a little annoyed whenever I see something I've written reused, and I never was told. It is an artistic creation of ine, and when it is republished, sometimes resulting in thousands of dollars for the company I feel shafted that I only got a few hundred dollars for my work. But hey, next time I write for them, I bring that up in the price negotiation and usually I get better paid the second time around.
Bottom line, pay attention to what you're signing away in the contract, just like any other legal document (be it an employment contract, and waier, etc.).
CNN is reporting at 05:58GMT the Russian Mir Space Station has splashed into the Pacific Ocean. Full details can be found here. Personally, it was a little bittersweet to witness the end of an era. After all, Mir had spent somewhere near 3.5 billion (million million for the UKians in the audience) miles and 15 years in space. It really was a remarkable piece of technology, but Russians really should be applauded for the accuracy of the descent. From what I understand they only missed the targeted area by a few hundred miles. Maybe they had representatives from the Mars Polar Lander team...:)
You mean like the Slot 1 and Slot A (Intel & AMD respectively) CPU packages? IT's been done, it's just much more costly. Although I do remember in the heyday of the Celeron 300A, quite a few overclockers would make "Celery Sandwiches" with a Celeron in the middle and a heastsink and fan mounted on both sides. It sire made for an interesting look.
Am I the only one amused that the lead researcher on the project to develop microcooling for electronics is named Xiaofeng Fan? It just happened to catch my eye.:)
That's where it gets interesting. It would then be a part of the Congressional Record and available to the public. I don't know if there is any method for striking passages before release, but there probably is.
Actually, there is a means for review. Members of Congress routinely use it to edit the record of debate (Particularly in the Congressional Quarterly). In the Dailies (which come out each day;) a Congressperson can read a transcript, and then submit revisions. This practice has been limited in recent years, but it still occurs with some frequency.
33mhz is slow? Not for a PalmOS based system... From a quick check of Palm's page most PalmOS based systems are clocked at 16-18mhz, which is more than fast enough for what they are supposed to do. There is a Visor on the market (the VIsor Platinum) that runs at 32mhz. Considering the memory, processor, and size I think they've hit their market perfectly.
33mhz may be painfully slow for a desktop, but for a palm, it's blazingly fast. Remember, people aren't running X on the Palm.
Why does it get flamed? Because it's more vaporous than the BitBoys Glaze3D (remember that?). Now hear me out a little here... Has anyone really seen a public demonstration of the Indrema? No, instead we just continue to hear more and more hype about an increasingly absent platform. The Indrema has been discussed for over a year now, but there is almost no real information on the platform. By real I mean independent, 3rd party reviews. The XBox has been seen in public, the Playstation2 is shipping, and there has been a public demonstration of the Nintendo GameCube. Until the Indrema puts up, people will keep telling it to shut up.
Read the page... You can find the details here. Or http://www.xiph.org/xiphname.html for the goat weary. Basically, the story is below:
The 'Thor-and-the-Snake' logo is drawn somewhat from Norse mythology; the real symbolism is the sine-curve shape of the snake. Thor is hefting Mjollnir about to compress the periodic signal Jörmungandr... See, it all makes sense.
As long as I've visited/. (about 2 years now, not very long), I still haven't fully groked the roles each of you play. Sorry about that. Still, I did enjoy the interview.
At the risk of bucking/. dogma, here I go. I didn't expect any Nobel Prize material from the insights in this interview, but seriously, CowboyNeil dodged the first few questions faster than an MPAA lawyer in an indictment. So of us really would like to know if the/. editors every really read the site, but instead we get a, "I don't know how the spend their time" response. Who is the next interview subject, a ball of lint?
Maybe we could interview JonKatz next. When I've emailed, he's always had something to say (doesn't he always?).
Failure to enforce a patent does not result in the loss of a patent (take a look at the well discussed Unisys GIF patent of the even more slimy Rambus patents). If a trademark isn't vigorously defended, it can become diluted and therefore lose protection. A trademark exists for a word or form (such as the shape of an iMac, IIRC), while a patent is for an idea or implementation.
About 2-3 years ago, beacuse of the controversy surrounding standardised testing, they changed the name from Scholastic Aptitude Test to Scholastic Achievement Test. Just another attempt to show how they were "keeping up with the times."
The hard drives in my system have been mounted more time in the past year that I have been in my lifetime... It's just not fair...;)
SWM (Single-processor Windows2000 Mid-tower), seeking SLF (Single-processor Linux Full-tower) for distributed processing, file serving, and cd-burning. Willing to shared dedicated T-1, and lloking for someone to run fingerd. Interested? Please ping 192.168.1.1 for more information.
I was looking for that page earlier, but I could find it... I was thinking of the earlier (IBSD) fork that happened in 1978. Thanks for the pointer, I think I've found a new poster for the office wall.
Among the sprinkling of errors that are scattered throughout the review, there is one that stands out. He makes mention of how young BSD is, specifically OpenBSD. Now I may be wrong but isn't BSD (and OpenBSD) descended from the original Unix, and is much older than Linux?
If you ever have the chance, take a look at the now famous QNX demo disk (available here). It's a full OS with a fairly capable (graphical) browser that seems to meet your requirements, and the entire thing fits on a 1.44MB floppy. If they can fit all that on a floppy, I'm impressed.
With a little more digging on their site, I found this information page which offers some more details on their browser. it's called Voyager, and it supports frames, JavaScript, and almost all common html tags, and it fits in less than 400k. Even more information on the Voyager browser can be found here.
Personally, from my experience I'd reccomend an ATI All-In-Wonder product (I have an AIW PRo, the Radeon is a dream right now). When I first started using it over a year and a half ago, the drivers were buggy, but now I've found that Gatos has done a great job putting together solid and easy to use tuner support. Check ATI for the link, or The Linux Video Project for the newest drivers. ATI actually points to xfree pages.
I can't seem to see the movies of Lego Chef. Does anyone know of a mirror of the movies? I know that iFilm has a registration requirement but I seem to be blocked from the site as a whole. Dang filtering at work...
Rather than blabber on about prior art without making any effort to show it, Alan Emtage actually is taking a stand against CMGI with this action. Congratulations for being so bold as to actually defend your work, Mr. Emtage!
We have scarcely had the chance to properly explore the Martian environment and we're already talking about wreaking havoc on an unexplored ecosystem. Before we unleash the greenhouse effect on a planet we should do a few things first.
1) Understand just what we're doing. We can't even agree if the greenhouse effect is really happening, let alone what factors are significantly contributing to it. We need to know the effects of our actions before we stumbly blindly forwardwith this plan.
2) Properly explore the planet before erasing vast parts or its geological history. I'm reminded of the Aswan High Dam in Egypt, which when built in the early 1960s led to flooding that buried countless archeological sites. The 3 Gorges Dam in China is another example. If there is any fossil evidence of life on Mars we may be losing it forever by terraforming the planet.
3) Finally, try fixing our own planet before we undertake the extremely expensive task of relocating to another planet. Now I'm an advocate of the space program, but rather than screw up another planet ecologically, we should fix our own planet first. Or have we already become that extreme of a disposible society that we can throw away an entire planet?
Yes, but is it expecting too much of the editor of Slashdot, CmdrTaco, to do some editing of the submissions so they are at least readable? Last time I check, English is the language taught in Michigan, so it's not asking too much of him to actually change "puplished" to published.
Thanks for the clarification, I hadn't realized the confusion over the naming schema of Motorola's chips (and I thought AMD was confusing with it's horses and tools).
The subject says it all. I've never recieved any spam in the year and a half I've had my account, and it uses https and java to set up a secure tunnel from end to end (none of the Yahoo pseudo-secure stuff). It's a little slower, since it is somewhat java based, but it think it would fit your needs perfectly.
It took some thinking, but I've figured out what IT is... IT is the newest piece of immensely overhype and excessively shrouded bit if techno hype to be produced since Transmeta's cryptic web page first went up!
And people are having such a hard time figuring out what IT is...
Slashdot Mirror
Unrelated comment first - You're looking for comments from a major publisher where they admit to pirating the works of freelancers? That would be like getting Shawn Fanning to admit that Napster exists primarily to pirate copyrighted music. Not going to happen...
Anyway, I've done some freelance writing in the past few years, and most of the time the contract I've worked from has been a flat, per page payment. If I write 4 pages of publicity material, I get $400. Pretty simple stuff. However, one thing I've seen often is as part of the payment agreement, I've had to agree to surrender my right to future payment for republication in other media. In other words, they pay me the money as a flat, one time deal. After that, I still get credited as the author, but I don't recieve any future payment. It's not something that (at least in my experience) is snuck past the author by a sneaky publisher, it's a part of the deal, and if you don't like it, don't sell them the work.
OTOH, I do get a little annoyed whenever I see something I've written reused, and I never was told. It is an artistic creation of ine, and when it is republished, sometimes resulting in thousands of dollars for the company I feel shafted that I only got a few hundred dollars for my work. But hey, next time I write for them, I bring that up in the price negotiation and usually I get better paid the second time around.
Bottom line, pay attention to what you're signing away in the contract, just like any other legal document (be it an employment contract, and waier, etc.).
-Jason
CNN is reporting at 05:58GMT the Russian Mir Space Station has splashed into the Pacific Ocean. Full details can be found here. Personally, it was a little bittersweet to witness the end of an era. After all, Mir had spent somewhere near 3.5 billion (million million for the UKians in the audience) miles and 15 years in space. It really was a remarkable piece of technology, but Russians really should be applauded for the accuracy of the descent. From what I understand they only missed the targeted area by a few hundred miles. Maybe they had representatives from the Mars Polar Lander team... :)
You mean like the Slot 1 and Slot A (Intel & AMD respectively) CPU packages? IT's been done, it's just much more costly. Although I do remember in the heyday of the Celeron 300A, quite a few overclockers would make "Celery Sandwiches" with a Celeron in the middle and a heastsink and fan mounted on both sides. It sire made for an interesting look.
Am I the only one amused that the lead researcher on the project to develop microcooling for electronics is named Xiaofeng Fan? It just happened to catch my eye. :)
Actually, there is a means for review. Members of Congress routinely use it to edit the record of debate (Particularly in the Congressional Quarterly). In the Dailies (which come out each day
33mhz is slow? Not for a PalmOS based system... From a quick check of Palm's page most PalmOS based systems are clocked at 16-18mhz, which is more than fast enough for what they are supposed to do. There is a Visor on the market (the VIsor Platinum) that runs at 32mhz. Considering the memory, processor, and size I think they've hit their market perfectly.
33mhz may be painfully slow for a desktop, but for a palm, it's blazingly fast. Remember, people aren't running X on the Palm.
Why does it get flamed? Because it's more vaporous than the BitBoys Glaze3D (remember that?). Now hear me out a little here... Has anyone really seen a public demonstration of the Indrema? No, instead we just continue to hear more and more hype about an increasingly absent platform. The Indrema has been discussed for over a year now, but there is almost no real information on the platform. By real I mean independent, 3rd party reviews. The XBox has been seen in public, the Playstation2 is shipping, and there has been a public demonstration of the Nintendo GameCube. Until the Indrema puts up, people will keep telling it to shut up.
Hope that helps.
As long as I've visited /. (about 2 years now, not very long), I still haven't fully groked the roles each of you play. Sorry about that. Still, I did enjoy the interview.
At the risk of bucking /. dogma, here I go. I didn't expect any Nobel Prize material from the insights in this interview, but seriously, CowboyNeil dodged the first few questions faster than an MPAA lawyer in an indictment. So of us really would like to know if the /. editors every really read the site, but instead we get a, "I don't know how the spend their time" response. Who is the next interview subject, a ball of lint?
Maybe we could interview JonKatz next. When I've emailed, he's always had something to say (doesn't he always?).
I need lunch.
Failure to enforce a patent does not result in the loss of a patent (take a look at the well discussed Unisys GIF patent of the even more slimy Rambus patents). If a trademark isn't vigorously defended, it can become diluted and therefore lose protection. A trademark exists for a word or form (such as the shape of an iMac, IIRC), while a patent is for an idea or implementation.
About 2-3 years ago, beacuse of the controversy surrounding standardised testing, they changed the name from Scholastic Aptitude Test to Scholastic Achievement Test. Just another attempt to show how they were "keeping up with the times."
The hard drives in my system have been mounted more time in the past year that I have been in my lifetime... It's just not fair... ;)
SWM (Single-processor Windows2000 Mid-tower), seeking SLF (Single-processor Linux Full-tower) for distributed processing, file serving, and cd-burning. Willing to shared dedicated T-1, and lloking for someone to run fingerd. Interested? Please ping 192.168.1.1 for more information.
I was looking for that page earlier, but I could find it... I was thinking of the earlier (IBSD) fork that happened in 1978. Thanks for the pointer, I think I've found a new poster for the office wall.
Among the sprinkling of errors that are scattered throughout the review, there is one that stands out. He makes mention of how young BSD is, specifically OpenBSD. Now I may be wrong but isn't BSD (and OpenBSD) descended from the original Unix, and is much older than Linux?
If you ever have the chance, take a look at the now famous QNX demo disk (available here). It's a full OS with a fairly capable (graphical) browser that seems to meet your requirements, and the entire thing fits on a 1.44MB floppy. If they can fit all that on a floppy, I'm impressed.
With a little more digging on their site, I found this information page which offers some more details on their browser. it's called Voyager, and it supports frames, JavaScript, and almost all common html tags, and it fits in less than 400k. Even more information on the Voyager browser can be found here.
I hope this is of some help.
-Jason
Personally, from my experience I'd reccomend an ATI All-In-Wonder product (I have an AIW PRo, the Radeon is a dream right now). When I first started using it over a year and a half ago, the drivers were buggy, but now I've found that Gatos has done a great job putting together solid and easy to use tuner support. Check ATI for the link, or The Linux Video Project for the newest drivers. ATI actually points to xfree pages.
-Jason
I can't seem to see the movies of Lego Chef. Does anyone know of a mirror of the movies? I know that iFilm has a registration requirement but I seem to be blocked from the site as a whole. Dang filtering at work...
Rather than blabber on about prior art without making any effort to show it, Alan Emtage actually is taking a stand against CMGI with this action. Congratulations for being so bold as to actually defend your work, Mr. Emtage!
We have scarcely had the chance to properly explore the Martian environment and we're already talking about wreaking havoc on an unexplored ecosystem. Before we unleash the greenhouse effect on a planet we should do a few things first.
1) Understand just what we're doing. We can't even agree if the greenhouse effect is really happening, let alone what factors are significantly contributing to it. We need to know the effects of our actions before we stumbly blindly forwardwith this plan.
2) Properly explore the planet before erasing vast parts or its geological history. I'm reminded of the Aswan High Dam in Egypt, which when built in the early 1960s led to flooding that buried countless archeological sites. The 3 Gorges Dam in China is another example. If there is any fossil evidence of life on Mars we may be losing it forever by terraforming the planet.
3) Finally, try fixing our own planet before we undertake the extremely expensive task of relocating to another planet. Now I'm an advocate of the space program, but rather than screw up another planet ecologically, we should fix our own planet first. Or have we already become that extreme of a disposible society that we can throw away an entire planet?
Yes, but is it expecting too much of the editor of Slashdot, CmdrTaco, to do some editing of the submissions so they are at least readable? Last time I check, English is the language taught in Michigan, so it's not asking too much of him to actually change "puplished" to published.
Thanks for the clarification, I hadn't realized the confusion over the naming schema of Motorola's chips (and I thought AMD was confusing with it's horses and tools).
Not G3 like the author says...
G3 -> A processor produced by Motorola and used extensively by Apple.
3G -> A third generation (hence the 3G) mobile processor designed for used in cell phones and the like.
Just a little additional accuracy.
-Jason
The subject says it all. I've never recieved any spam in the year and a half I've had my account, and it uses https and java to set up a secure tunnel from end to end (none of the Yahoo pseudo-secure stuff). It's a little slower, since it is somewhat java based, but it think it would fit your needs perfectly.
You can find it at Hushmail.com .
It took some thinking, but I've figured out what IT is... IT is the newest piece of immensely overhype and excessively shrouded bit if techno hype to be produced since Transmeta's cryptic web page first went up!
And people are having such a hard time figuring out what IT is...
:)