...Accordingly, you agree that you will not copy, reproduce, alter, modify, or create derivative works from the Service. You also agree that you will not use any robot, spider, other automated device, or manual process to monitor or copy any content from the Service... (emphasis mine)
Quite right. In fact, in a twist of irony, the prinicpal authors of RFC 2445 are F. Dawson of Lotus and D. Stenerson of Microsoft.
Sometimes, I really wish Outlook 2002 had an iCalendar exporter (it does import iCalendar files, but it'll only export CSV).
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It may be always detected by the issuing authority or its designee (in the U.S., that's the Secret Service), but it isn't ALWAYS detected by Joe Average or the everyday store clerk (though from what I've heard, store clerks are pretty darned good.)
In fact, if counterfeits WERE always detected, counterfeiting simply wouldn't matter, because currency gets its value from its [relative] scarcity, and a perfectly detectable counterfeit is perfectly distinguishable from the real thing.
There's much more than a wire between your phone and the one you're calling. Your voice gets digitized at a switch fairly near your home, after which it's split into chunks so you can send multiple "lines" down the same fiber optic cable. Along the way, these packets of data go through other switching equipment that sends your voice to wherever it's going, possibly over many different links for load balancing and redundancy in case a backhoe operator digs somewhere s/he shouldn't.
Now, it seems to me the only differences between the phone network and VOIP is a) the A/D conversion happens much closer to your phone, and b) the network is the Internet.
I don't mean to say that VOIP is reliable; I'm just pointing out that the phone company has the same points of failure as VOIP. The cable/DSL company might need access to your premises more often to swap out the modem, but reliability beyond that is up to the company.
Of course, there's probably fewer DDoS attacks on the phone company networks, but that's another story...
Even if the outlets you mention understood the political reasons not to use a particular streaming technology, what alternative would you suggest? Apple, Real, and Microsoft all have many bad spots on their records. Yet, there's really no fourth platform that would reach any sizable audience.
Besides the jailcam thing, his deputies were involved in a sex-scandal. What really did him in, though, was his support of Janet Napolitano (a democrat) for governer.
Okay, let me make sure I completely understand this. He supports prisoner cruelty and humiliation, doesn't understand what "innocent until proven guilty" means, and has a staff accused of the same corruption as him, and he's going to lose the next election because of his political party?
Perhaps Arizona has a bigger problem than Joe Arpaio.
I don't mean to troll, but I seem to recall reading something about frequency harmonics. When you're working with radio, don't you also need to consider frequencies that aren't adjacent to the one in question?
On the other hand, I think Palm's user experience knocks Pocket PC out of the water. I am very much a fan of their interface design. They built the Palm organizer from start to finish to simplify use on the go, and the fact that they broke into a market where Apple tried and utterly failed is enough to earn my respect.
May I recommend Piloting Palm, ISBN 0471089656? It's an excellent look into the planning that went into engineering the first Palm Pilot. It's written by two Palm executives, so there's probably some bias, but then again, I doubt you'd be able to find neutrality from Microsoft, either.
Remember, not everybody wants to carry a full-featured computer around in their pocket. My Tungsten C does everything I could possibly need to do away from a computer.
I'm glad Nielsen brought up this problem, which has irritated me from time to time:
people who want to enter "California" will end up with "Alabama" because the menu kind of first goes to C, but then it goes back to A.
Obviously, he doesn't use Firefox. The ability to type multiple letters to skip through a list got added to some nightly and I was simply ecstatic, because it's much more usable from a keyboarder's standpoint.
Not if they're using a stock kernel. According to Linus, user-space programs aren't ever derivative works of the kernel, so its license "just doesn't matter."
IANAL, but it seems that the question is whether or not Google has made any changes to the kernel - to speed up searches, improve reliability, etc. I could be convinced either way.
If it were the standard voice/video conferencing AIM provides now, the clients negotiate direct connects through the server, so AOL could simply keep track of when direct connects are started.
However, according to the article, this won't be the same as what they're doing now. Instead, AOL's partnering with third-party companies for [telephone] conference calls and videoconferencing services.
...currently phones work when there's a power outage because the current copper line network always has a mild voltage in it.
They work because the phone company has backup power - batteries and generators. See How Stuff Works.
However, you bring up an interesting point about fiber - unlike copper, you need to provide power for the devices on either end. From the article:
We anticipate that millions of people will use the phone in the same way...
This makes me think that the VOIP network may have copper wiring along the last mile, meaning it's very similar to how most phone companies are set up today. Nothing new to see here.
More on how the telephone network works (fascinating stuff) can be found here.
I'm not positive, but I think that's required by the HTTP spec. If the page has expired from cache, then the browser is supposed to re-fetch from the server. However, if the request was a POST rather than a GET, the browser isn't supposed to re-submit because POSTs are permitted to change the state of a server. So, Mozilla reacts by confirming that you want to re-submit the form.
Exactly. I would imagine that text messaging doesn't exactly cost a lot to transmit. Seeing that some providers charge as little as 2 cents to receive a text message, the cost to send and receive messages has to be fractions of a cent.
Free software looks good, but it doesn't get money flowing in an economy. - rsilvergun
I disagree. Free software may not put money into programmers' pockets, but it shifts a lot of money into other industries. ISPs are able to provide better service at lower costs. Consultants spend less time writing code and more time customizing it for clients. E-commerce and web media benefit can invest fewer resources into building tools and more into selling products or advertising space.
I don't recall where I read it, but somebody said elsewhere on the web that the only people who don't like the open source movement are closed-source engineers.
Copyright and the Government
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There's been a lot of questions about what the government can and cannot copyright. Here's some relevant information:
The government cannot copyright their own works, but they can hold the copyright of others. Source
Works by state (and local) governments are not necessarily in the public domain. Source
Another good resource is the Copyright FAQ here, which elaborates on both of those points.
Disclaimer: These resources are for the U.S. YMMV. IANAL.
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...Accordingly, you agree that you will not copy, reproduce, alter, modify, or create derivative works from the Service. You also agree that you will not use any robot, spider, other automated device, or manual process to monitor or copy any content from the Service... (emphasis mine)
This fascinates me. Perhaps you could provide a link?
Apple did not create iCal the standard.
Quite right. In fact, in a twist of irony, the prinicpal authors of RFC 2445 are F. Dawson of Lotus and D. Stenerson of Microsoft.
Sometimes, I really wish Outlook 2002 had an iCalendar exporter (it does import iCalendar files, but it'll only export CSV).
It may be always detected by the issuing authority or its designee (in the U.S., that's the Secret Service), but it isn't ALWAYS detected by Joe Average or the everyday store clerk (though from what I've heard, store clerks are pretty darned good.)
In fact, if counterfeits WERE always detected, counterfeiting simply wouldn't matter, because currency gets its value from its [relative] scarcity, and a perfectly detectable counterfeit is perfectly distinguishable from the real thing.
You missed Prodigy. IIRC, they used to charge postage on e-mail. Really.
Art project or pointless hack?
There's a difference?
There's much more than a wire between your phone and the one you're calling. Your voice gets digitized at a switch fairly near your home, after which it's split into chunks so you can send multiple "lines" down the same fiber optic cable. Along the way, these packets of data go through other switching equipment that sends your voice to wherever it's going, possibly over many different links for load balancing and redundancy in case a backhoe operator digs somewhere s/he shouldn't.
Now, it seems to me the only differences between the phone network and VOIP is a) the A/D conversion happens much closer to your phone, and b) the network is the Internet.
I don't mean to say that VOIP is reliable; I'm just pointing out that the phone company has the same points of failure as VOIP. The cable/DSL company might need access to your premises more often to swap out the modem, but reliability beyond that is up to the company.
Of course, there's probably fewer DDoS attacks on the phone company networks, but that's another story...
Even if the outlets you mention understood the political reasons not to use a particular streaming technology, what alternative would you suggest? Apple, Real, and Microsoft all have many bad spots on their records. Yet, there's really no fourth platform that would reach any sizable audience.
Besides the jailcam thing, his deputies were involved in a sex-scandal. What really did him in, though, was his support of Janet Napolitano (a democrat) for governer.
Okay, let me make sure I completely understand this. He supports prisoner cruelty and humiliation, doesn't understand what "innocent until proven guilty" means, and has a staff accused of the same corruption as him, and he's going to lose the next election because of his political party?
Perhaps Arizona has a bigger problem than Joe Arpaio.
I don't mean to troll, but I seem to recall reading something about frequency harmonics. When you're working with radio, don't you also need to consider frequencies that aren't adjacent to the one in question?
Again, if I sound ignorant, it's because I am :)
It sounds suspiciously like Palladium/TCPA to me.
Alice == Corporations
Bob/Eve == Consumers
Agreed. I wish him well.
it's a bit suspiciously skimpy on hard specifications
It's also suspiciously similar to an Internet Archive program that's been in operation for years.
On the other hand, I think Palm's user experience knocks Pocket PC out of the water. I am very much a fan of their interface design. They built the Palm organizer from start to finish to simplify use on the go, and the fact that they broke into a market where Apple tried and utterly failed is enough to earn my respect.
May I recommend Piloting Palm, ISBN 0471089656? It's an excellent look into the planning that went into engineering the first Palm Pilot. It's written by two Palm executives, so there's probably some bias, but then again, I doubt you'd be able to find neutrality from Microsoft, either.
Remember, not everybody wants to carry a full-featured computer around in their pocket. My Tungsten C does everything I could possibly need to do away from a computer.
I'm glad Nielsen brought up this problem, which has irritated me from time to time:
Obviously, he doesn't use Firefox. The ability to type multiple letters to skip through a list got added to some nightly and I was simply ecstatic, because it's much more usable from a keyboarder's standpoint.
Why use web based Weather feeds when you can pick the data off the satellite's directly???
Because while not everybody has the money to build or buy a radio, almost everybody has access to a web browser with no additional costs.
Not if they're using a stock kernel. According to Linus, user-space programs aren't ever derivative works of the kernel, so its license "just doesn't matter."
IANAL, but it seems that the question is whether or not Google has made any changes to the kernel - to speed up searches, improve reliability, etc. I could be convinced either way.
They're also promoting it as a feature :)
If it were the standard voice/video conferencing AIM provides now, the clients negotiate direct connects through the server, so AOL could simply keep track of when direct connects are started.
However, according to the article, this won't be the same as what they're doing now. Instead, AOL's partnering with third-party companies for [telephone] conference calls and videoconferencing services.
Not hard at all, but I'm glad they didn't. Doing so would have undermined their credibility as being impartial.
As I write this, the top link for search engine is AltaVista. Google is #7. That's honesty, and they should be proud of it.
I really hope they don't become evil after the IPO.
They work because the phone company has backup power - batteries and generators. See How Stuff Works.
However, you bring up an interesting point about fiber - unlike copper, you need to provide power for the devices on either end. From the article:
We anticipate that millions of people will use the phone in the same way...
This makes me think that the VOIP network may have copper wiring along the last mile, meaning it's very similar to how most phone companies are set up today. Nothing new to see here.
More on how the telephone network works (fascinating stuff) can be found here.
I'm not positive, but I think that's required by the HTTP spec. If the page has expired from cache, then the browser is supposed to re-fetch from the server. However, if the request was a POST rather than a GET, the browser isn't supposed to re-submit because POSTs are permitted to change the state of a server. So, Mozilla reacts by confirming that you want to re-submit the form.
Corrections welcome.
Exactly. I would imagine that text messaging doesn't exactly cost a lot to transmit. Seeing that some providers charge as little as 2 cents to receive a text message, the cost to send and receive messages has to be fractions of a cent.
Free software looks good, but it doesn't get money flowing in an economy. - rsilvergun
I disagree. Free software may not put money into programmers' pockets, but it shifts a lot of money into other industries. ISPs are able to provide better service at lower costs. Consultants spend less time writing code and more time customizing it for clients. E-commerce and web media benefit can invest fewer resources into building tools and more into selling products or advertising space.
I don't recall where I read it, but somebody said elsewhere on the web that the only people who don't like the open source movement are closed-source engineers.
There's been a lot of questions about what the government can and cannot copyright. Here's some relevant information:
Another good resource is the Copyright FAQ here, which elaborates on both of those points.
Disclaimer: These resources are for the U.S. YMMV. IANAL.