Perhaps Microsoft could learn a thing or two from Debian/apt. Imagine a Windows OS, mirrored worldwide, with flawless dependency management and a perfect upgrade notfication capability. If I, as ISV were to build a trivial screensaver based on.Net, and I choose to release to this repository, then MS would retain responsibility of delivering and installing.Net and any other needed dependency on the end-user's system whenever the user elects to install my package. Of course a few key concepts would need fleshing out, like software licensing for example. But it would certainly be within Microsoft's capabilities to build and maintain such a system.
Interesting, but 'Sir' is not a title of nobility. Noble titles referred to in the U.S. Constitution are generally indicative of political power, conferring upon the recipient taxable material gain (or loss) and/or entitlement to diplomatic treatment.
Is your position that Apache security updates are typically verified and made available at Apache.org within hours/days (link to study please), and that competent admins continuously monitor Apache.org for updates and make/install to production servers on a monthly+ basis?
I'm confused: Are you bashing RedHat for not releasing Apache updates on a timely basis, Admins who refuse to compile from source, the authors of this study, M$, some combination of these, or all of the above?
Perhaps I want to help a friend find the best price for their trip? Technically, I won't be able to directly link them to the results I've found. Instead, I'd have to walk them through exactly what search/browse/filter criteria to use and hope that their result set is no different than mine.
Civil law (US) requires a plaintiff deliver a cease-and-desist letter to any entity against which it plans to take legal action. So let's say, hypothetically of course, you email a deep-link to assist said friend in finding a particular flight. Should this trigger any kind of alarm within Orbitz' violations-reporting software, Orbitz would be required to subpeona your friend's ISP (unlikely as a subpeona requires a court-order, which no court would grant under these circumstances) for her contact information, compose and deliver a cease-and-desist letter via certified-mail, then wait for said friend to violate the cease-and-desist request. At which point Orbitz would be required to subpeona your friend to provide any evidence related to this violation (including private email correspondence) implicating you the author of the link in question -- the actual member and violator of TOS, and repeat this process a number of times until it has sufficient evidence that you had repeatedly violated TOS, ignoring its cease-and-desist request. Then file a lawsuit. The very act of authoring a cease-and-desist letter tailored to individual offenses of this sort would be cost-prohibitive relative to any lost advertising revenue.
In summary, these TOS alone are not restrictive to private individual communication in any pragmatic sense.
This is why stenography is, has always been, and will remain key to the preservation of individual privacy -- regardless of the metaphor used to justify a large-scale packet-inspection policy.
No Top 3 Sci Fi Series list is complete without Red Dwarf. A special-effects tour-de-force, RD combines a prophetic future vision with keen insights into the unchanging nature of man's relationship with technology. The only thing holding RD back from being a true contender is its lack of a sense of humor -- it does tend to take itself too seriously.
Interesting point of view, going back at least as far as Plato. I often have this discussion with my spouse: are ideas created or are ideas discovered? To me it seems the argument can be approached using an OO metaphor: while classes of ideas are discovered, their instances are created via the factory of human imagination.:)
Good point, but that's partially why I closed with "within legal limits". Anti trust laws don't exist to serve a moral purpose. They merely exist to prevent capitalism from becoming irrelevant, unsustainable, or both.
'Evil' is a moral term. Capitalism is amoral as survival-in-the-wild is amoral. Think of it this way: Most predators in the animal kingdom (including some in the plant kingdom) are ruthless, but one would be hard pressed to label a pride of lions 'Evil' in any sort of meaningful discussion.
Microsoft's responsibility to its shareholders is to grow. Helping SCO in this light becomes nothing more than a show of competence. The only question is: have SCO been helped *enough*, within legal limits.
One trouble regarding many semantic visualization techniques involving large datasets is: the more visually appealing a graph is rendered, the less useful it often becomes. Many projects undertaken over the past 6 years (including Welkin) have focused on 2- and 3-dimensional renderings of a dataspace, using lines, proximity, node-shape, fly-over metadata display, etc. to classify and relate nodes, only to find there is no room left for persistent display of the textual metadata that ultimately drives a user toward the content he/she is looking for.
Marcos Weskamp's Newsmap (slashdot) on the other hand demonstrates an excellent balance of form and function, emphasizing textual metadata over symbolic graphic representation. How might this approach be applied specifically to RDF? One possibility: 5 axes rendered in a 2d visual space: color (category), saturation (relevance), size (interest), x/y position (age) and text (metadata). Just a thought anyway.
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Finally we can begin to rely more heavily on designing/testing for standards compliance over browser idiosyncracy-compliance, and focus more energy on content & functionality. As other browsers adapt, the Internet as a whole stands to benefit. Many thanks to all who've contributed to the Mozilla/FF effort.
C++ can be thought of as a preprocessor for C, and with few exceptions retains C as a subset. One often (usually) finds C embedded within C++ programs, so C and C++ are for all practical purposes not alternatives -- they are symbionts. Of course none of this is to suggest that expertise in one implies expertise in the other. On the contrary, it is often the lack of C++ expertise that leads to the intermingling of C and C++ logic.
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Perhaps Microsoft could learn a thing or two from Debian/apt. Imagine a Windows OS, mirrored worldwide, with flawless dependency management and a perfect upgrade notfication capability. If I, as ISV were to build a trivial screensaver based on .Net, and I choose to release to this repository, then MS would retain responsibility of delivering and installing .Net and any other needed dependency on the end-user's system whenever the user elects to install my package. Of course a few key concepts would need fleshing out, like software licensing for example. But it would certainly be within Microsoft's capabilities to build and maintain such a system.
Interesting, but 'Sir' is not a title of nobility. Noble titles referred to in the U.S. Constitution are generally indicative of political power, conferring upon the recipient taxable material gain (or loss) and/or entitlement to diplomatic treatment.
I'm confused: Are you bashing RedHat for not releasing Apache updates on a timely basis, Admins who refuse to compile from source, the authors of this study, M$, some combination of these, or all of the above?
In summary, these TOS alone are not restrictive to private individual communication in any pragmatic sense.
Yes, steganography, thanks for the clarification.
This is why stenography is, has always been, and will remain key to the preservation of individual privacy -- regardless of the metaphor used to justify a large-scale packet-inspection policy.
No Top 3 Sci Fi Series list is complete without Red Dwarf. A special-effects tour-de-force, RD combines a prophetic future vision with keen insights into the unchanging nature of man's relationship with technology. The only thing holding RD back from being a true contender is its lack of a sense of humor -- it does tend to take itself too seriously.
Interesting point of view, going back at least as far as Plato. I often have this discussion with my spouse: are ideas created or are ideas discovered? To me it seems the argument can be approached using an OO metaphor: while classes of ideas are discovered, their instances are created via the factory of human imagination. :)
Good point, but that's partially why I closed with "within legal limits". Anti trust laws don't exist to serve a moral purpose. They merely exist to prevent capitalism from becoming irrelevant, unsustainable, or both.
'Evil' is a moral term. Capitalism is amoral as survival-in-the-wild is amoral. Think of it this way: Most predators in the animal kingdom (including some in the plant kingdom) are ruthless, but one would be hard pressed to label a pride of lions 'Evil' in any sort of meaningful discussion. Microsoft's responsibility to its shareholders is to grow. Helping SCO in this light becomes nothing more than a show of competence. The only question is: have SCO been helped *enough*, within legal limits.
Simply upload your digital photos to GMail. Even if you delete your account, the images will remain available indefinitely. :)
One trouble regarding many semantic visualization techniques involving large datasets is: the more visually appealing a graph is rendered, the less useful it often becomes. Many projects undertaken over the past 6 years (including Welkin) have focused on 2- and 3-dimensional renderings of a dataspace, using lines, proximity, node-shape, fly-over metadata display, etc. to classify and relate nodes, only to find there is no room left for persistent display of the textual metadata that ultimately drives a user toward the content he/she is looking for.
Marcos Weskamp's Newsmap (slashdot) on the other hand demonstrates an excellent balance of form and function, emphasizing textual metadata over symbolic graphic representation. How might this approach be applied specifically to RDF? One possibility: 5 axes rendered in a 2d visual space: color (category), saturation (relevance), size (interest), x/y position (age) and text (metadata). Just a thought anyway.
Finally we can begin to rely more heavily on designing/testing for standards compliance over browser idiosyncracy-compliance, and focus more energy on content & functionality. As other browsers adapt, the Internet as a whole stands to benefit. Many thanks to all who've contributed to the Mozilla/FF effort.
FirstPost & RTFA are mutually-exclusive concepts on /.
C++ can be thought of as a preprocessor for C, and with few exceptions retains C as a subset. One often (usually) finds C embedded within C++ programs, so C and C++ are for all practical purposes not alternatives -- they are symbionts. Of course none of this is to suggest that expertise in one implies expertise in the other. On the contrary, it is often the lack of C++ expertise that leads to the intermingling of C and C++ logic.
/. killed the < in the for clause....
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