Initially, when noticing this article, I immediately thought of Skype as potentially having issues under this legislation (due to its ability to 'Skype-out' to phone lines). The article would seem to point to it not being required to comply under the 'Instant messaging' software gotcha. If Skype were required to implement 911 support, its possible they could have problems distinguising between those who use the software for internet-based voice chat and internet telephony.
I'm really glad to see this coming in the mainstream BitTorrent client. At the moment it can be hard to use the distributed tracking system because of its dependence on Azureus as a client. A lot of people have been making noise about this, and hopefully now that its in the main client, the developers of the other BitTorrent clients will make implementing support for this more of a priority.
The idea behind this seems quite good, rewarding exercise with television, but 2 hours for 15,000 steps (both daily recommended amounts, according to the article..) seems a little low. Most kids, even if they take to such a device, are going to be watching more than 2 hours TV a day.
As for the article's claim that this will be an 'eye-opener' for those with a sedimentary lifestyle, I think it would be more likely to join the realms of exercise equipment old and new that sits unused while its owners procrastinate about getting more exercise.
Will this make any real major difference to the internet? most spyware companies are smart enough to have moved out of the US by now, and will probably be in safe havens for their activities.
It would be better developing ways to stop the actual spyware, rather than try to track down the people doing it. If the people were actually making serious money, and knew the government would be after them, they would be out of the country like a flash, and continue their business.
Some software programs cause companies to be the 'next microsoft' now? Minardi had a software glitch take out both their F1 cars at last weekend's grand prix, are they the next Microsoft?
I'd be more happy to see more work being done on the prius, and alternative fuel vehicles like it.
Helping out current Java Open Source projects?
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Bringing open source Java runtimes to fruition should be an important step for open source java projects that are currently held back from entering distributions and packages because of this requirement. Also the requirement of Sun Java to use Java 5 on Linux (this situation may have changed..) would be a good thing to challenge.
Having such a fundamental and established organization like the Apache project behind the effort should really aid & help to posture this effort within the wider open-source community.
Its good to see big companies like Oracle working on alternatives to Microsoft's exchange server software, Sunbird will be the better for this collaboration
Having IBM as a good example to use when pushing for corporate adoption of Firefox is a great thing for people working in this area. Although, it must be said that IBM are less likely to have troublesome components (IE specific webpages, ActiveX components) within any intranet pages than other companies due to their own products in that area (I'm thinking Lotus..).
I think its important to note that this isnt just a good sign for Firefox, its also great news that the more standards compliant browsers (like Safari & Opera) are taking share away from older, broken ones like IE 4 and (to a lesser extent) IE 5. As more of the web transition toward browsers that allow developers to take advantage of the power of CSS, we can begin to push further toward the semantic web.
In some cases at least, it seems as if these bounties are used to deal with the relative lack-of-glamour inherent in implementing some features in pieces of OSS. For the most part, its the cool hacks and features that people need individually that grab attention and get worked on. Bounties seem to redress that balance of developer attention towards less glamourous but key pieces of functionality & improvements which aren't imminently required. (although for the most part, it seems like a different class of hackers are attracted to the bounties within projects)
Of course, putting money into OSS through these kind of means is a great use, since similar amounts spent on commercial products has a minimal/neglible effect on their development. Its also a great way for those people who cant code to contribute to the software they use, and get features they'd like to see implemented.
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Cue the flood of 'Perl is hard to maintain/read' and counterflood of 'You can write hard to maintain/read code in any language' posts.
I think it can be generally agreed that due to the TMTOWTDI philosophy behind Perl, there can be complications involved when inheriting code from others who use a different style and different approach. (Obviously due to the many ways any given task can be approached).
One (common?) approach to dealing with this seems to be to use different languages such as Python or Ruby. Arguably, however, if more coders stuck to code style guidelines and used best practices instead of quick hacks, the problem would be minimal, or at least no worse than other scripting languages.
It's good to see that they are targetting the Blackberry domination of the market, hopefully it will lead to manufacturers battling to achieve market share, which would mean better products for us, the consumer.
I think this game will be great, and the people saying it might be like doom3 are part of the problem with doom3. Doom3 wasn't bad, it was just overhyped as the game of the millenium
Hopefully this game won't be expected to entertain you, run your life, cook your meals and generally rule the universe like Doom3 was
Could this be an essential aid to Tomcat and the increasing number of projects the apache foundation are managing within the Java space, such as ANT. This can only be a good thing
They will have to bundle it with more than a few big name games to really start to create a buzz, that or offer a free game installed when you download it. competition in that market is fierce
But who's this going to effect, the kids who go to Boy Scouts are more likely to be the ones who don't pirate films
The kids who sit at home on Kazaa and doing stuff other than helpful 'community building' activites will be most of the people who pirate things. Nice targetting MPAA. doh!
Is it only me who enjoys driving, I find it more of an enjoyment thing. If i wanted to be taken everywhere, I would get the bus, or the train, or a cab. Not have the car drive me where I want to go
The Auto-Pilot Car: Built by Microsoft, For Lazy People.
It would not be in their best interests to do so, by suing a big name, SCO keep their name in the limelight, hoping they will be bought or something similar
I guess they hope it's a case of any publicity is good publicity
As the people hear more and more news about the Xbox360, PS3 and revolution, the amount earned by ALL companies will go down, it's just that microsoft are making a loss because of the expense of producing the xbox
I'm sure sony and nintendo are also experiencing lower profits in the run up to the next generation
"tells the rest of the world they need stronger intellectual property protection"
How about telling the US they need a stronger currency so the people making money legally from the DMCA can actually convert it without being left with peanuts. I love the hypocrisy of the US at the moment. God bless Canada for having the balls reject it.
Although projection would fit with the name, and be revolutionary, it would almost surely push the price of the console above the other main competitors. Unless they offered the projector as an additional piece of hardware
I can see dangers in this becoming an elitist thing though, i.e Trusted Sites only linking to other trusted sites, or creating perceptions in surfer's minds. It will be interested to see how Google develop this one, that's for sure.
I didn't really get into Resident Evil 1 and 2 the movies, so I hope silent hill will be an improvement, more focused on horror than gore.
Something that sounds a lot more promising on that page is "Hadida previously co-produced two film versions of Resident Evil and is currently working on a sequel, along with a big screen adaptation of the Onimusha franchise"
Onimusha has the potential to be an awesome film if done right. I look forward to seeing it along with Silent Hill. Hopefully, great games can become great flicks
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Initially, when noticing this article, I immediately thought of Skype as potentially having issues under this legislation (due to its ability to 'Skype-out' to phone lines). The article would seem to point to it not being required to comply under the 'Instant messaging' software gotcha. If Skype were required to implement 911 support, its possible they could have problems distinguising between those who use the software for internet-based voice chat and internet telephony.
I'm really glad to see this coming in the mainstream BitTorrent client. At the moment it can be hard to use the distributed tracking system because of its dependence on Azureus as a client. A lot of people have been making noise about this, and hopefully now that its in the main client, the developers of the other BitTorrent clients will make implementing support for this more of a priority.
The idea behind this seems quite good, rewarding exercise with television, but 2 hours for 15,000 steps (both daily recommended amounts, according to the article..) seems a little low. Most kids, even if they take to such a device, are going to be watching more than 2 hours TV a day.
As for the article's claim that this will be an 'eye-opener' for those with a sedimentary lifestyle, I think it would be more likely to join the realms of exercise equipment old and new that sits unused while its owners procrastinate about getting more exercise.
Will this make any real major difference to the internet? most spyware companies are smart enough to have moved out of the US by now, and will probably be in safe havens for their activities.
It would be better developing ways to stop the actual spyware, rather than try to track down the people doing it. If the people were actually making serious money, and knew the government would be after them, they would be out of the country like a flash, and continue their business.
Some software programs cause companies to be the 'next microsoft' now? Minardi had a software glitch take out both their F1 cars at last weekend's grand prix, are they the next Microsoft?
I'd be more happy to see more work being done on the prius, and alternative fuel vehicles like it.
Bringing open source Java runtimes to fruition should be an important step for open source java projects that are currently held back from entering distributions and packages because of this requirement. Also the requirement of Sun Java to use Java 5 on Linux (this situation may have changed..) would be a good thing to challenge.
Having such a fundamental and established organization like the Apache project behind the effort should really aid & help to posture this effort within the wider open-source community.
Its good to see big companies like Oracle working on alternatives to Microsoft's exchange server software, Sunbird will be the better for this collaboration
Having IBM as a good example to use when pushing for corporate adoption of Firefox is a great thing for people working in this area. Although, it must be said that IBM are less likely to have troublesome components (IE specific webpages, ActiveX components) within any intranet pages than other companies due to their own products in that area (I'm thinking Lotus..).
I think its important to note that this isnt just a good sign for Firefox, its also great news that the more standards compliant browsers (like Safari & Opera) are taking share away from older, broken ones like IE 4 and (to a lesser extent) IE 5. As more of the web transition toward browsers that allow developers to take advantage of the power of CSS, we can begin to push further toward the semantic web.
Seems like they took the idea from the Namco idea in London, UK. Where a few years ago they had a real mazda MX5 hooked up to a Ridge Racer game.
The concept seems fun, but it's kind of taking realism half way. Also seems like the images are down on that website already
In some cases at least, it seems as if these bounties are used to deal with the relative lack-of-glamour inherent in implementing some features in pieces of OSS. For the most part, its the cool hacks and features that people need individually that grab attention and get worked on. Bounties seem to redress that balance of developer attention towards less glamourous but key pieces of functionality & improvements which aren't imminently required. (although for the most part, it seems like a different class of hackers are attracted to the bounties within projects)
Of course, putting money into OSS through these kind of means is a great use, since similar amounts spent on commercial products has a minimal/neglible effect on their development. Its also a great way for those people who cant code to contribute to the software they use, and get features they'd like to see implemented.
Cue the flood of 'Perl is hard to maintain/read' and counterflood of 'You can write hard to maintain/read code in any language' posts.
I think it can be generally agreed that due to the TMTOWTDI philosophy behind Perl, there can be complications involved when inheriting code from others who use a different style and different approach. (Obviously due to the many ways any given task can be approached).
One (common?) approach to dealing with this seems to be to use different languages such as Python or Ruby. Arguably, however, if more coders stuck to code style guidelines and used best practices instead of quick hacks, the problem would be minimal, or at least no worse than other scripting languages.
It's good to see that they are targetting the Blackberry domination of the market, hopefully it will lead to manufacturers battling to achieve market share, which would mean better products for us, the consumer.
;)
I just wouldn't want to be beta testing that
At least its a moderately original design, they realised their original Xbox model was too bulky, and have redesigned to make it smaller.
We all have to remember, it's not how it looks, it's how it plays that counts, and I hope thats what will make people buy it.
I think this game will be great, and the people saying it might be like doom3 are part of the problem with doom3. Doom3 wasn't bad, it was just overhyped as the game of the millenium
Hopefully this game won't be expected to entertain you, run your life, cook your meals and generally rule the universe like Doom3 was
Could this be an essential aid to Tomcat and the increasing number of projects the apache foundation are managing within the Java space, such as ANT. This can only be a good thing
They will have to bundle it with more than a few big name games to really start to create a buzz, that or offer a free game installed when you download it. competition in that market is fierce
But who's this going to effect, the kids who go to Boy Scouts are more likely to be the ones who don't pirate films
The kids who sit at home on Kazaa and doing stuff other than helpful 'community building' activites will be most of the people who pirate things. Nice targetting MPAA. doh!
Is it only me who enjoys driving, I find it more of an enjoyment thing. If i wanted to be taken everywhere, I would get the bus, or the train, or a cab. Not have the car drive me where I want to go
The Auto-Pilot Car: Built by Microsoft, For Lazy People.
It would not be in their best interests to do so, by suing a big name, SCO keep their name in the limelight, hoping they will be bought or something similar
I guess they hope it's a case of any publicity is good publicity
As the people hear more and more news about the Xbox360, PS3 and revolution, the amount earned by ALL companies will go down, it's just that microsoft are making a loss because of the expense of producing the xbox
I'm sure sony and nintendo are also experiencing lower profits in the run up to the next generation
"tells the rest of the world they need stronger intellectual property protection"
How about telling the US they need a stronger currency so the people making money legally from the DMCA can actually convert it without being left with peanuts. I love the hypocrisy of the US at the moment. God bless Canada for having the balls reject it.
Although projection would fit with the name, and be revolutionary, it would almost surely push the price of the console above the other main competitors. Unless they offered the projector as an additional piece of hardware
The basic ideas and principles of TrustRank:
http://www.seobook.com/archives/000661.shtml
I can see dangers in this becoming an elitist thing though, i.e Trusted Sites only linking to other trusted sites, or creating perceptions in surfer's minds. It will be interested to see how Google develop this one, that's for sure.
I didn't really get into Resident Evil 1 and 2 the movies, so I hope silent hill will be an improvement, more focused on horror than gore.
Something that sounds a lot more promising on that page is "Hadida previously co-produced two film versions of Resident Evil and is currently working on a sequel, along with a big screen adaptation of the Onimusha franchise"
Onimusha has the potential to be an awesome film if done right. I look forward to seeing it along with Silent Hill. Hopefully, great games can become great flicks