How could you possibly allow just anybody to post just anything under your [CNN] label unless you have blazing billboards that say
Which part of "CNN's unverified citizen journalism site" was unclear?
Okay, so I have to see for myself...
The site currently is titled "Unedited. Unfiltered. News." but it really doesn't mention that it is "citizen journalism." It looks like a cross between Digg/Slashdot and CNN. SO I guess someone could be confused. But I bet a big "THIS IS NOT NEWS I JUST MADE IT UP OMG!!" would not have helped Apple's stock that day.
I think it is different because the borrowing/lending arrangements have real property as collateral. So the money has actual backing, unlike shorting of stocks.
While I appreciate the various efforts to define, evaluate, and compare open source licenses, I don't want someone to be declaring an absolute manifesto of what it is. I wouldn't have disagreed with your post if you said "to clarify, here is the Open Source Definition as defined by opensource.org" and "here is the mainstream recognition of what Free Software is according to the FSF." But treating these definitions as absolutes is taking it too far.
I've hosted and worked on many open source projects, and I've never had to go to some site to see if what I did fit someone else's definition of open. The last thing open source needs is a dictator.
Getting back to the topic on hand, the association of Linux with open source is over simplified, in the same way that Microsoft is using oversimplifications to define what they are doing as open source. There's plenty of open-source operating systems, and there's plenty of open-source projects on closed-source operating systems. So open source != Linux, instead Linux is a subset of open source.
Anybody ever wonder if Microsoft puts things into these tools to make them hide things that they don't want you to inspect? I liked these tools better when it was an independent group of Windows Kernel hackers, rather than an official Microsoft thing. They are still very useful tools, but I can't help but wonder what they might be hiding.
I think these tools also rely on undocumented internal stuff, so it is difficult for a 3rd-party to build clones of them. (Depending on which tool we are talking about)
I own a DS for home brew. I set it to auto-load DSOrganize when I turn it on, and I have various home brew games on it as well as my own creations.
I can't imagine that Nintendo didn't change the security, so the cat and mouse game will continue. Hopefully it won't end. Otherwise *gulp* I'll have to start developing for the iPhone.:(
I thought Slashdot had an article years ago about the possibility that our galaxy is actually inside a black hole. The cosmic microwave background radiation would then be even, produced by Hawking radiation. I forget the rest. Anybody know where that article is?
Blizzard sued Glider for copyright violation. But they are basing their damages on the added tech support costs of dealing with bots, and the projected number of people who quit the game out of bot frustration. I can actually understand Blizzard's arguments here, but how can they base the damages on something that they didn't sue them for? If the suit was copyright violation, then they can base the damages only on the # of copies that Glider supposedly made (which is zero).
I'm not actually nearly as mad that Glider lost, as much as I am mad that the court is making such a farce of this. Bllizzard sued for something that Glider didn't do, and for something that Blizzard is not damaged buy. The case never had merit, and based on the precedence that loading something into memory is not a copy, Blizzard doesn't even have a case. It should never have gone this far.
I hope Glider appeals on that grounds and the ruling is thrown out. Then Blizzard can try to sue them for what Glider actually did, not some specious charge.
Have you observed the prices of broadband dropping lately? I sure haven't, and you'd think that over time it would.
If the prices haven't been coming down, and they've been curtailing the amount of bandwidth you get... it does seem like it won't get any better than it is now.
I have. 3 years ago, I was paying $60/month for 768kbps up/down SDSL. I had THAT because Comcast limited people to 64kbit up. Then it became 256kbit, then 768kbit, then 1Mbit. Now I switched and I pay the same price for 12Mbit down, 1Mbit up. Comcast has raised their bandwidth allocation from 1Mbit to 12Mbit over the course of 10 years or so. And the price has remained the same.
So yes, monthly prices have stayed the same. But price per bit has gone down.
For mobile bandwidth, the same type of thing has happened.
I don't see why some IT departments bother to block web sites. It is a double-edged sword, and both edges cut against the company.
On one hand, if employees are visiting porn sites on company time, they should be fired. Setup a proxy, trap it, and get them out of there. Don't block them, and keep an unhappy unproductive employee around.
Second, if small things like checking the sports scores, or stocks, or news is what keeps them happy at work, then don't waste resources trying to stop them. Their boss has measures to determine if an employee is wasting time - let those measures work. If you want to keep logs of how often they do it, then fine. But don't try to block them because ultimately you can't. You can't stop them from talking about it at the water cooler or checking the scores on their cell phones, or bringing in magazines and newspapers. It isn't the IT departments job to police social behavior in the office. That's their boss's job. Often times these types of activities lead to comradery like the after-work fantasy football league. It bonds the employees and makes them more stable.
I know that my DSL provider, Cavalier Telephone has been doing this for years. I called their technical support, and of course they had no idea what I was talking about. After emailing one of their tech guys, they suggested I set my computer to use someone else's DNS. IMHO, this is a network neutrality violation and the FCC should be investigating this. I said that much in my thank-you letter for their ruling against Comcast.
It would not surprise me to find out that this is becoming the norm, rather than the exception.
I never had a DS before the lite. There are carrying cases, stylus's, screen covers, rumble packs, homebrew mod chips, memory expansions, and case mods. I've even see people hack in serial ports, GPS, and small robots. What other aftermarket accessories used to exist that no longer do?
Why is this such an issue? Overtime is something that is mentioned in your offer letter when you join with a company. There's no legislation required here. If the employer agreed to pay overtime, then they should pay it. If they said you get a salary, then you get it. If they agreed to pay you hourly, then you get paid hourly. Why is that so difficult?
I negotiated a contract with a weekly rate, paid every two weeks. This week, I am working 100+ hours. That's crazy. But I'm not complaining about overtime, because it is what I negotiated. I called the company and said "I expect a paid week in exchange for this" and they either agree, or not. If not, we part ways. We discussed it, we negotiated it. Everyone is happy. As is usually the case with business, communication is key.
I look at this and wonder why open-source has to be specifically endorsed by congress for the military to consider it. The military should consider technologies based on their merits. Does Congress need to pass a bill that endorses C++ applications, or closed-source applications? Military and government have used open source software for years with things like SE Linux. I won't complain about the text being in there, but it is indicative of the wrong mind set.
Perhaps that is the simplest solution, but it is not the correct one. The correct one is to fix the system of plurality voting which when combined with the illogical way that most states allocated electoral votes, produces a system that is just mathematically wrong.
I could think of simpler and equally foolish approaches, such as coin tosses or foot races. Both are as random as forcing non-voters to vote.
The iPhone is primarily an awesome hand-held phone, GPS, PDA, etc. Pre-loaded 1st-party apps are what make the device sing. The ability to get 3rd-party apps is a secondary benefit. Most people buying this device are using it for what it comes with. This will be the case more and more as the device becomes more mainstream.
I hope that Android phones don't focus on the development aspects first, and the 1st-party applications second. If the device has all the same nice features of an iPhone + is better to develop for, then great. But if it does not have the ease-of-use and functionality of an iPhone right off the bat, then it won't succeed.
I just watched the videos showing panning with and without the GPU, and the difference is irrelevant. Who cares if Photoshop can only pan and zoom at a few FPS? That's not important.
They make no mention of GPU accelerated filters, which seems to me like where the real benefit would be. Why would I need GPU accelerated zooming in Photoshop? I'd much rather have a GPU-accelerated Gaussian blur, since that can often take minutes to hours.
When you see performance comparisons between machines, like when Jobs was showing-off the power of the PowerPC, they didn't measure how good a pan and zoom looked. They did a filter, and watched one system take 5 minutes and another take 15 minutes. It looks to me like Adobe is just trying to get "GPU accelerated" onto their box, even if it is some minute and irrelevant detail.
I don't know much about the ISO process other than what I read here on Slashdot. But from what I gathered, big companies don't "carry a lot of clout" with ISO unless they bribe other smaller companies to join and vote with them.
It seems like a case where the most disreputable company with the most money wins. IBM's only choice then is to either play the game the way Microsoft did, or to leave.
My boss called me late one night asking me to get some work done for him. I work from home, so he knew I could get it done. I told him I was busy watching a weekly TV show with my wife.
The problem with non-lethal weapons is psychological. The bearers of these weapons are more likely to use them because they are non-lethal. So, for example, imagine I had a laser that would temporarily blind a crowd. Except people with cataracts would go blind, also 1 in every 1000 people randomly goes blind. So you see a crowd of 5000 people marching toward a national icon, and they are ignoring the orders to stop. Do you use the weapon knowing that at least 5 of those people will go blind as a result? How does that answer differ if you know the weapon will kill the 5000 people? How hard would it be to bury the news about 5 people going blind amongst a big national story like this?
In theory, crowd control weapons are nice. Soldiers temporarily blind the crowd, throw them in trucks, send them home. But the reality is that unless they are in the hands of truly sympathetic individuals, the weapons are more likely to contribute to a police-state style of response.
That really is very vague. I bet if you asked McCain "Do you support the full and free exchange of ideas through an open internet" he would say yes. Then he would explain how regulation interferes with that, and why he is against network neutrality.
I'm not saying that is what Obama is trying to do here, but it is why these revisions are disappointing.
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lol, I know! I thought of that when I did it. :)
How could you possibly allow just anybody to post just anything under your [CNN] label unless you have blazing billboards that say
Which part of "CNN's unverified citizen journalism site" was unclear?
Okay, so I have to see for myself...
The site currently is titled "Unedited. Unfiltered. News." but it really doesn't mention that it is "citizen journalism." It looks like a cross between Digg/Slashdot and CNN. SO I guess someone could be confused. But I bet a big "THIS IS NOT NEWS I JUST MADE IT UP OMG!!" would not have helped Apple's stock that day.
I think it is different because the borrowing/lending arrangements have real property as collateral. So the money has actual backing, unlike shorting of stocks.
(I am not an economist)
While I appreciate the various efforts to define, evaluate, and compare open source licenses, I don't want someone to be declaring an absolute manifesto of what it is. I wouldn't have disagreed with your post if you said "to clarify, here is the Open Source Definition as defined by opensource.org" and "here is the mainstream recognition of what Free Software is according to the FSF." But treating these definitions as absolutes is taking it too far.
I've hosted and worked on many open source projects, and I've never had to go to some site to see if what I did fit someone else's definition of open. The last thing open source needs is a dictator.
Getting back to the topic on hand, the association of Linux with open source is over simplified, in the same way that Microsoft is using oversimplifications to define what they are doing as open source. There's plenty of open-source operating systems, and there's plenty of open-source projects on closed-source operating systems. So open source != Linux, instead Linux is a subset of open source.
Anybody ever wonder if Microsoft puts things into these tools to make them hide things that they don't want you to inspect? I liked these tools better when it was an independent group of Windows Kernel hackers, rather than an official Microsoft thing. They are still very useful tools, but I can't help but wonder what they might be hiding.
I think these tools also rely on undocumented internal stuff, so it is difficult for a 3rd-party to build clones of them. (Depending on which tool we are talking about)
I own a DS for home brew. I set it to auto-load DSOrganize when I turn it on, and I have various home brew games on it as well as my own creations.
I can't imagine that Nintendo didn't change the security, so the cat and mouse game will continue. Hopefully it won't end. Otherwise *gulp* I'll have to start developing for the iPhone. :(
I thought Slashdot had an article years ago about the possibility that our galaxy is actually inside a black hole. The cosmic microwave background radiation would then be even, produced by Hawking radiation. I forget the rest. Anybody know where that article is?
Blizzard sued Glider for copyright violation. But they are basing their damages on the added tech support costs of dealing with bots, and the projected number of people who quit the game out of bot frustration. I can actually understand Blizzard's arguments here, but how can they base the damages on something that they didn't sue them for? If the suit was copyright violation, then they can base the damages only on the # of copies that Glider supposedly made (which is zero).
I'm not actually nearly as mad that Glider lost, as much as I am mad that the court is making such a farce of this. Bllizzard sued for something that Glider didn't do, and for something that Blizzard is not damaged buy. The case never had merit, and based on the precedence that loading something into memory is not a copy, Blizzard doesn't even have a case. It should never have gone this far.
I hope Glider appeals on that grounds and the ruling is thrown out. Then Blizzard can try to sue them for what Glider actually did, not some specious charge.
Have you observed the prices of broadband dropping lately? I sure haven't, and you'd think that over time it would.
If the prices haven't been coming down, and they've been curtailing the amount of bandwidth you get ... it does seem like it won't get any better than it is now.
I have. 3 years ago, I was paying $60/month for 768kbps up/down SDSL. I had THAT because Comcast limited people to 64kbit up. Then it became 256kbit, then 768kbit, then 1Mbit. Now I switched and I pay the same price for 12Mbit down, 1Mbit up. Comcast has raised their bandwidth allocation from 1Mbit to 12Mbit over the course of 10 years or so. And the price has remained the same.
So yes, monthly prices have stayed the same. But price per bit has gone down.
For mobile bandwidth, the same type of thing has happened.
I don't see why some IT departments bother to block web sites. It is a double-edged sword, and both edges cut against the company.
On one hand, if employees are visiting porn sites on company time, they should be fired. Setup a proxy, trap it, and get them out of there. Don't block them, and keep an unhappy unproductive employee around.
Second, if small things like checking the sports scores, or stocks, or news is what keeps them happy at work, then don't waste resources trying to stop them. Their boss has measures to determine if an employee is wasting time - let those measures work. If you want to keep logs of how often they do it, then fine. But don't try to block them because ultimately you can't. You can't stop them from talking about it at the water cooler or checking the scores on their cell phones, or bringing in magazines and newspapers. It isn't the IT departments job to police social behavior in the office. That's their boss's job. Often times these types of activities lead to comradery like the after-work fantasy football league. It bonds the employees and makes them more stable.
I know that my DSL provider, Cavalier Telephone has been doing this for years. I called their technical support, and of course they had no idea what I was talking about. After emailing one of their tech guys, they suggested I set my computer to use someone else's DNS. IMHO, this is a network neutrality violation and the FCC should be investigating this. I said that much in my thank-you letter for their ruling against Comcast.
It would not surprise me to find out that this is becoming the norm, rather than the exception.
I never had a DS before the lite. There are carrying cases, stylus's, screen covers, rumble packs, homebrew mod chips, memory expansions, and case mods. I've even see people hack in serial ports, GPS, and small robots. What other aftermarket accessories used to exist that no longer do?
Why is this such an issue? Overtime is something that is mentioned in your offer letter when you join with a company. There's no legislation required here. If the employer agreed to pay overtime, then they should pay it. If they said you get a salary, then you get it. If they agreed to pay you hourly, then you get paid hourly. Why is that so difficult?
I negotiated a contract with a weekly rate, paid every two weeks. This week, I am working 100+ hours. That's crazy. But I'm not complaining about overtime, because it is what I negotiated. I called the company and said "I expect a paid week in exchange for this" and they either agree, or not. If not, we part ways. We discussed it, we negotiated it. Everyone is happy. As is usually the case with business, communication is key.
I look at this and wonder why open-source has to be specifically endorsed by congress for the military to consider it. The military should consider technologies based on their merits. Does Congress need to pass a bill that endorses C++ applications, or closed-source applications? Military and government have used open source software for years with things like SE Linux. I won't complain about the text being in there, but it is indicative of the wrong mind set.
Perhaps that is the simplest solution, but it is not the correct one. The correct one is to fix the system of plurality voting which when combined with the illogical way that most states allocated electoral votes, produces a system that is just mathematically wrong.
I could think of simpler and equally foolish approaches, such as coin tosses or foot races. Both are as random as forcing non-voters to vote.
The iPhone is primarily an awesome hand-held phone, GPS, PDA, etc. Pre-loaded 1st-party apps are what make the device sing. The ability to get 3rd-party apps is a secondary benefit. Most people buying this device are using it for what it comes with. This will be the case more and more as the device becomes more mainstream.
I hope that Android phones don't focus on the development aspects first, and the 1st-party applications second. If the device has all the same nice features of an iPhone + is better to develop for, then great. But if it does not have the ease-of-use and functionality of an iPhone right off the bat, then it won't succeed.
I just watched the videos showing panning with and without the GPU, and the difference is irrelevant. Who cares if Photoshop can only pan and zoom at a few FPS? That's not important.
They make no mention of GPU accelerated filters, which seems to me like where the real benefit would be. Why would I need GPU accelerated zooming in Photoshop? I'd much rather have a GPU-accelerated Gaussian blur, since that can often take minutes to hours.
When you see performance comparisons between machines, like when Jobs was showing-off the power of the PowerPC, they didn't measure how good a pan and zoom looked. They did a filter, and watched one system take 5 minutes and another take 15 minutes. It looks to me like Adobe is just trying to get "GPU accelerated" onto their box, even if it is some minute and irrelevant detail.
(Vista now supports GPU-accelerated BSOD!)
Given the recent stock crisis, that was probably the best thing you could have done with your money anyway.
I don't know much about the ISO process other than what I read here on Slashdot. But from what I gathered, big companies don't "carry a lot of clout" with ISO unless they bribe other smaller companies to join and vote with them.
It seems like a case where the most disreputable company with the most money wins. IBM's only choice then is to either play the game the way Microsoft did, or to leave.
My boss called me late one night asking me to get some work done for him. I work from home, so he knew I could get it done. I told him I was busy watching a weekly TV show with my wife.
So he got me a Tivo. See, hard work pays off. :)
It means:
1) He is an idiot
2) He should have encrypted his email
3) But he isn't a business so it doesn't matter anyway.
Sounds like a non-issue to me.
The problem with non-lethal weapons is psychological. The bearers of these weapons are more likely to use them because they are non-lethal. So, for example, imagine I had a laser that would temporarily blind a crowd. Except people with cataracts would go blind, also 1 in every 1000 people randomly goes blind. So you see a crowd of 5000 people marching toward a national icon, and they are ignoring the orders to stop. Do you use the weapon knowing that at least 5 of those people will go blind as a result? How does that answer differ if you know the weapon will kill the 5000 people? How hard would it be to bury the news about 5 people going blind amongst a big national story like this?
In theory, crowd control weapons are nice. Soldiers temporarily blind the crowd, throw them in trucks, send them home. But the reality is that unless they are in the hands of truly sympathetic individuals, the weapons are more likely to contribute to a police-state style of response.
It's Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld coming to upgrade your servers to Vista. OMG! Run!
I'll be sure to check it out. Thanks.
That really is very vague. I bet if you asked McCain "Do you support the full and free exchange of ideas through an open internet" he would say yes. Then he would explain how regulation interferes with that, and why he is against network neutrality.
I'm not saying that is what Obama is trying to do here, but it is why these revisions are disappointing.