This all depends on C and that person's willingness to let who knows what run through his/her connection. It sounds good enough on the outside, but unless two parties know a third person or there are several people willing to supply their resources to people they don't know to transfer practically anything, then this sounds like a bit of a bust. I personally wouldn't want to be arsed to find a third party for sake of gaining anonymity in a p2p file transfer nor be constantly be asked by others to do the same for them.
Part of the attractiveness of Linux is that you are not locked in to one particular vendor's way of doing things. This is also part of the problem for new users as the number of choices, while advantageous for the novice or expert, is absolutely daunting for the beginner.
linuxquestions.org has a forums section dedicated to distribution reviews created by users. These can give you insight into what distributions might suit your preferences.
Simple. This article isn't FUD. Nothing in the article said anything negative about Microsoft and its products other than cost savings and extra stability gained on the older desktops by choosing OSS products. I personally haven't seen a single article or statement by Linux distributors or supporters that are stating "if you switch to Microsoft products from OSS, the IT world around you will collapse and you will lose money".
A more important question about these consoles is not if FFXI is going to be released on them, but on what console any FF's after XII be released on. That's going to be the deciding point for me at least. Has square-enix issued any news on this?
The problem here is that until you reach the threshold of when there are too many windows for the taskbar to hold, grouping doesn't occur. With the way I have my taskbar configured, this doesn't occur for me until I have 17+ windows open (I double size my taskbar at a 1280x1024 resolution). Until that point, my taskbar is unnecessarily congested with IE windows making it an eye sore trying to find what I'm looking for, be it an IE instance or not. Tabs completely eradicate this problem since I can manage several open web pages within one window without the additional clutter.
In brief, the Sakai project was started by a few large institutions who were tired of buying into the licensing fees of other learning management system products like WebCT and Blackboard. They decided to create their own and make it open source - both free as in beer and speech. However, the support for Sakai comes at a price, albeit a much lower price than the aforementioned commercial products were offering.
In the end, you recieve a completely open learning managment system created and maintained by developers at these institutions and supported by commercial interests.
But seriously, let's not turn this into the E! network for geeks. I really personally don't care what hardware platform Linus uses or whether he buys his underwear from thinkgeek.com just so long as he continues doing a smashing job maintaining kernel development.
Depends on the institution. My university, when it was founded, was originally a teacher's college. Ever since then it has prided itself on the quality of its education department. I dated a girl who was an education major and now currently live with my best friend who is an education major. The amount of time, work, and study they put into their courses is quite substantial - even above the work I did as an information systems major.
One could argue that the open source software community is already philanthropic enough by offering an extremely high but unknown amount (in dollars, mind you) software free to anyone who has the hardware to run it on.
I don't want to contrast this with donating money to vaccinate children, which is an extremely grateful endeavor. But to _hint_ that the Linux/OSS community isn't philanthropic because they do not donate cash is quite asinine.
Don't forget IRC's use as an extremely effective medium for gamers to communicate. IRC channels are an extremely good way for clan/guild members to a) be able to converse with members of their team in one channel and b) comingle with other team members in your channel or other channels.
Personally, I'm on irc.gamesurge.net (the old gamesnet). Warez'ing and "h4x0rz"'ing channels are very tightly restricted on this server. Even so, here are the usage statistics from this morning at 2:30 AM.
31,023 users 59 opers 51,692 channels on 19 servers
From the proposal: who fails to
exercise reasonable care in preventing use of the software to commit
an unlawful act with respect to a commercial recording or audiovisual
work, or a violation of provisions related to production,
possession, distribution, or advertisement of obscene matter
depicting a minor under 18 years of age, or tampering with,
interference with, damage to, or unauthorized access to computer data
or systems
The phrase "exercise reasonable care in preventing the use of..." really is ambigious. Does the drafter want the developer to actually code in safeguards to prevent any potential file being traded from violating those restrictions? Or is it as simple as just placing a user license agreement that the user will void if they fail to adhere to those restrictions.
AFAIK, it's virtually impossible to prevent illegal material from passing through a p2p network and would be ridiculous to place the onus of such a task on the developer. It must be made clear what is meant by "exercising reasonable care". If it's left as ambigiously stated as it is currently, then EVERY p2p creator in the past, present, and future will be guilty under this law.
No no no! The study has it all wrong! Reduced cognitive function observed in cell phone users isn't the the result of the harmful effects of cell phones. It's just a reflection of the general aptitude of people who have these bits of hard plastic glued to their ears all day.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but if Eolas wins here, doesn't this set an extremely firm precedent on acknowledging prior art over patents filed by organizations - espicially those of mega-corporate size and stature (read: Microsoft, Amazon, etc.)? Sure Eolas then has the freedom to file a suit on the makers of other browsers, which could potentially harm us as the users of these browsers. But perhaps it is fair exchange if it can mitigate the threat of large corporations patening everything under the sun that has been developed and used in some way, shape, or form before the corporation claimed ownership of it.
Or a more pragmatic reason for rejecting this type of housing - stability against adverse weather conditions. I live in the southeastern United States. Tornados are a ubiquitous threat and I can safely expect one hurricane a year on average. Sure a cardboard house as proposed is quite a novel idea, but given the record of weather in this region I'll stick with wood and brick houses regardless of price so that my life is not threatened by weather.
Yes, let's help the standard internet user. These standard internet users are our customers. The standard internet user doesn't know jack about where to place blame for spam and he/she will cry "why won't my computer just block it!".
If we (Microsoft) come to the rescue, the standard internet user wins, swears we are the good guys and will never ever consider an alternative.
No, the IPO wasn't too crazy, but the newly projected stock price is well beyond crazy. I was viewing CNBC this morning and heard that one investment firm (I forget which) upgraded google's stock to perform in the $200 dollar range. That would give google a P/E of about 100. Such a price to earnings ratio is way too much, regardless of how well the organization is performing. Such speculation is the reason we had the late 90's bubble and the '29 crash.
Ballmer's claims here seem to be an attempt to throw legitimacy at an idea tossed about by Bill Gates earlier this year. It's apparent Microsoft wants to put the majority of the cost of PC's into the software by bundling hardware with a Windows package instead of the opposite. I'm not sure what the underlying reason for this strategy is - although I can only assume it has to do with convincing the washed masses that they can't own a computer unless they buy a Windows software package package.
Even if they are an "evil company", what good would a couple hundered Slashdot readers pouring emails into their Contact Us email address have? Our pleas would fall on deaf ears since our concerns have *nothing* to do with their bottom line and these emails would just be sent to a secretarial drone.
This is the fundamental problem with Linux adoption. How can decision makers (read: CEO's, CIO's and government officials) make sound decisions on the operating system choice of their infrastructure when they don't even understand how the product was made? From the series of summaries I've read on Slashdot about Munich's switch it seems to be much more about using something that is non-Windows than it is about using something that is open source. While it might help the cause, I personally think this is the wrong reason you should switch to an open source OS. Linux should be migrated to because you believe in the way it is developed and because it is great product for investment placed into it. How can these guys be assured that Linux is the way to go if they don't even understand how it is fundamentally built?
Where is Bruce Schneier on this list? While I am admittedly pretty ignorant on who most of these figures are on this list, I don't understand the ommission of Bruce here. He is, at least in my estimation, the single most influential figure in the area of computer security and cryptography and had a hand in developing a few commonly used cryptographic algorithms in use today (blowfish for example). With the world moving more and more online and ecommerce taking center stage how is the figurehead and most quoted individual of the information security field not listed?
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This all depends on C and that person's willingness to let who knows what run through his/her connection. It sounds good enough on the outside, but unless two parties know a third person or there are several people willing to supply their resources to people they don't know to transfer practically anything, then this sounds like a bit of a bust. I personally wouldn't want to be arsed to find a third party for sake of gaining anonymity in a p2p file transfer nor be constantly be asked by others to do the same for them.
That's what I get for not using the Preview button :(
Part of the attractiveness of Linux is that you are not locked in to one particular vendor's way of doing things. This is also part of the problem for new users as the number of choices, while advantageous for the novice or expert, is absolutely daunting for the beginner. linuxquestions.org has a forums section dedicated to distribution reviews created by users. These can give you insight into what distributions might suit your preferences.
Your browser must not know how to parse tags.
Your browser must not know how to parse tags.
And the only browsers that will be standards compliant for Windows 2k will be the aforementioned Opera and Firefox.
Simple. This article isn't FUD. Nothing in the article said anything negative about Microsoft and its products other than cost savings and extra stability gained on the older desktops by choosing OSS products. I personally haven't seen a single article or statement by Linux distributors or supporters that are stating "if you switch to Microsoft products from OSS, the IT world around you will collapse and you will lose money".
A more important question about these consoles is not if FFXI is going to be released on them, but on what console any FF's after XII be released on. That's going to be the deciding point for me at least. Has square-enix issued any news on this?
The problem here is that until you reach the threshold of when there are too many windows for the taskbar to hold, grouping doesn't occur. With the way I have my taskbar configured, this doesn't occur for me until I have 17+ windows open (I double size my taskbar at a 1280x1024 resolution). Until that point, my taskbar is unnecessarily congested with IE windows making it an eye sore trying to find what I'm looking for, be it an IE instance or not. Tabs completely eradicate this problem since I can manage several open web pages within one window without the additional clutter.
http://www.sakaiproject.org/support.html
In brief, the Sakai project was started by a few large institutions who were tired of buying into the licensing fees of other learning management system products like WebCT and Blackboard. They decided to create their own and make it open source - both free as in beer and speech. However, the support for Sakai comes at a price, albeit a much lower price than the aforementioned commercial products were offering.
In the end, you recieve a completely open learning managment system created and maintained by developers at these institutions and supported by commercial interests.
But seriously, let's not turn this into the E! network for geeks. I really personally don't care what hardware platform Linus uses or whether he buys his underwear from thinkgeek.com just so long as he continues doing a smashing job maintaining kernel development.
Depends on the institution. My university, when it was founded, was originally a teacher's college. Ever since then it has prided itself on the quality of its education department. I dated a girl who was an education major and now currently live with my best friend who is an education major. The amount of time, work, and study they put into their courses is quite substantial - even above the work I did as an information systems major.
One could argue that the open source software community is already philanthropic enough by offering an extremely high but unknown amount (in dollars, mind you) software free to anyone who has the hardware to run it on.
I don't want to contrast this with donating money to vaccinate children, which is an extremely grateful endeavor. But to _hint_ that the Linux/OSS community isn't philanthropic because they do not donate cash is quite asinine.
Don't forget IRC's use as an extremely effective medium for gamers to communicate. IRC channels are an extremely good way for clan/guild members to a) be able to converse with members of their team in one channel and b) comingle with other team members in your channel or other channels.
Personally, I'm on irc.gamesurge.net (the old gamesnet). Warez'ing and "h4x0rz"'ing channels are very tightly restricted on this server. Even so, here are the usage statistics from this morning at 2:30 AM.
31,023 users
59 opers
51,692 channels
on 19 servers
who fails to exercise reasonable care in preventing use of the software to commit an unlawful act with respect to a commercial recording or audiovisual work, or a violation of provisions related to production, possession, distribution, or advertisement of obscene matter depicting a minor under 18 years of age, or tampering with, interference with, damage to, or unauthorized access to computer data or systems
The phrase "exercise reasonable care in preventing the use of ..." really is ambigious. Does the drafter want the developer to actually code in safeguards to prevent any potential file being traded from violating those restrictions? Or is it as simple as just placing a user license agreement that the user will void if they fail to adhere to those restrictions.
AFAIK, it's virtually impossible to prevent illegal material from passing through a p2p network and would be ridiculous to place the onus of such a task on the developer. It must be made clear what is meant by "exercising reasonable care". If it's left as ambigiously stated as it is currently, then EVERY p2p creator in the past, present, and future will be guilty under this law.
"to reduced cognitive function"
No no no! The study has it all wrong! Reduced cognitive function observed in cell phone users isn't the the result of the harmful effects of cell phones. It's just a reflection of the general aptitude of people who have these bits of hard plastic glued to their ears all day.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but if Eolas wins here, doesn't this set an extremely firm precedent on acknowledging prior art over patents filed by organizations - espicially those of mega-corporate size and stature (read: Microsoft, Amazon, etc.)? Sure Eolas then has the freedom to file a suit on the makers of other browsers, which could potentially harm us as the users of these browsers. But perhaps it is fair exchange if it can mitigate the threat of large corporations patening everything under the sun that has been developed and used in some way, shape, or form before the corporation claimed ownership of it.
Or a more pragmatic reason for rejecting this type of housing - stability against adverse weather conditions. I live in the southeastern United States. Tornados are a ubiquitous threat and I can safely expect one hurricane a year on average. Sure a cardboard house as proposed is quite a novel idea, but given the record of weather in this region I'll stick with wood and brick houses regardless of price so that my life is not threatened by weather.
Thought process of a Microsoft PHB:
Yes, let's help the standard internet user. These standard internet users are our customers. The standard internet user doesn't know jack about where to place blame for spam and he/she will cry "why won't my computer just block it!".
If we (Microsoft) come to the rescue, the standard internet user wins, swears we are the good guys and will never ever consider an alternative.
No, the IPO wasn't too crazy, but the newly projected stock price is well beyond crazy. I was viewing CNBC this morning and heard that one investment firm (I forget which) upgraded google's stock to perform in the $200 dollar range. That would give google a P/E of about 100. Such a price to earnings ratio is way too much, regardless of how well the organization is performing. Such speculation is the reason we had the late 90's bubble and the '29 crash.
Ballmer's claims here seem to be an attempt to throw legitimacy at an idea tossed about by Bill Gates earlier this year. It's apparent Microsoft wants to put the majority of the cost of PC's into the software by bundling hardware with a Windows package instead of the opposite. I'm not sure what the underlying reason for this strategy is - although I can only assume it has to do with convincing the washed masses that they can't own a computer unless they buy a Windows software package package.
Even if they are an "evil company", what good would a couple hundered Slashdot readers pouring emails into their Contact Us email address have? Our pleas would fall on deaf ears since our concerns have *nothing* to do with their bottom line and these emails would just be sent to a secretarial drone.
This is the fundamental problem with Linux adoption. How can decision makers (read: CEO's, CIO's and government officials) make sound decisions on the operating system choice of their infrastructure when they don't even understand how the product was made? From the series of summaries I've read on Slashdot about Munich's switch it seems to be much more about using something that is non-Windows than it is about using something that is open source. While it might help the cause, I personally think this is the wrong reason you should switch to an open source OS. Linux should be migrated to because you believe in the way it is developed and because it is great product for investment placed into it. How can these guys be assured that Linux is the way to go if they don't even understand how it is fundamentally built?
Where is Bruce Schneier on this list? While I am admittedly pretty ignorant on who most of these figures are on this list, I don't understand the ommission of Bruce here. He is, at least in my estimation, the single most influential figure in the area of computer security and cryptography and had a hand in developing a few commonly used cryptographic algorithms in use today (blowfish for example). With the world moving more and more online and ecommerce taking center stage how is the figurehead and most quoted individual of the information security field not listed?
It's obvious they planned for their inevitable slashdotting and put up a guise to decieve the rest of the world!!