Seriously, hearing that the New York Times would actually allow their reporters to investigate this story makes me really sad. Is the Times turning into NBC Dateline?
If The New York Times feels that this is a worthy exercise for their investigative reporters.... what has the world come to. Rupert Murdoch owns the WSJ, and I think that everyone knows that Murdoch can't keep his fingers out of the editorial pages of any newspaper he runs. There is hope, however. There are still investigative journalists worth reading out there, here's one: Seymour Hersh
Well the Chinese government is now pro actively trying to counter the threat of climate change. Government reports are saying this is a real threat that must be countered immediately. Can the same be said for this administration? I'm not saying that America is to blame for everything, but your straw man argument claiming that because some people blame everything on America it must not be true doesn't fly either.
How does this stuff get moderated up? Ross never mentions his product in the article, clearly Archangel Michael is just continuing the slashdot tradition of blathering about something without reading the actual article.
From the perspective of someone who is not American, this is a good thing. It means that unions in rich countries are no longer able to keep the rest of the world poor. Poor people in Romania who have excellent IT skills have the freedom and opportunity to enter the capitalist system and compete on the global market.
The Americans spent 50 years trying to win the cold war so the guy in Romania would have this opportunity. Would you now turn around and say "Sorry, we're going to be implementing some socialist protectionist measures.... we didn't expect American workers to have to compete with you".
Looking at the IT landscape, it seems clear to me that the American IT industry is the most vibrant and resilient in the world. Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, HP, Wikipedia, Myspace, Youtube, etc. are organisations which saw the light of day in America. Please don't react in a spastic way when the rest of the world looks at what you're doing and tries to do something similar.
The American president keeps talking about "freedom". For me, freedom includes the freedom to compete with American workers.
Ok, maybe I will. I've just added it to my Firefox search bar and I'll use it for a few days. I'm sceptical though. I find Google to be good enough most of the time, and I'm used to the advanced syntax for it. But I'll give it a shot.
Hmm, if they bring back Jeeves, I might contemplate using them;) Seriously though, I doubt Ask.com will manage to grab much more marketshare. Wikipedia facts are nice and all, but Wikipedia results tend to come up high on Google results anyway. I think that there are simply not enough people who are willing to switch: look at the incredibly large marketshare IE6 continues to have to this day. I doubt they'll be able to withstand Google, Yahoo & MSN in the long run. I have to admit that Bloglines is nice, I use it all the time, and since it exports OPML I can always switch and take my feeds with me.
JPEG 2000 is not widely supported in present software due to the perceived danger of software patents on the mathematics of the compression method, this area of mathematics being heavily patented in general. JPEG 2000 is by itself not license-free, but the contributing companies and organizations agreed that licenses for its first part - the core coding system - can be obtained free of charge from all contributors.
So basically, it's free for the moment, but who knows if it'll stay that way.
Wikipedia is one of the very few organisations that has refused to work with the Chinese regime on censorship as "the cost of doing business". Censorship is not something on which we should be compromising. Look at the article being featured on the main page of Wikipedia today: Prostitution in the People's Republic of China. Thank the spaghetti monster that some people won't be swayed by political pressure and will simply stand up for their principles. U.S. foreign policy seems rather hypocritical to us dirty Europeans if there's such a double standard for everything related to China.
Maybe this has something to do with the fact that Wikipedia is blocked from the mainland, so most contributions come from overseas and Taiwan. I'm sure that if mainland Chinese were not blocked from editing a more balanced Chinese Wikipedia would exist, but alas.
Well, Wikipedia is licensed under the GFDL so there has never been any problem downloading the database for it. There are even many different versions for mobile platforms and XP (including search functionality). And the ipod of course.
Personally, I have been using Reader, but mainly because it allows me to easily keep track of what books I've read or am currently reading. I don't think as a database it's as exhaustive as some of the other solutions. But, as others have pointed out, there's Amazon for that.
Hey, Wikipedia's a pretty good social networking service, just add a bunch of userboxes to your userpage and look in the different categories to meet people you like! Ohh, wait, people are also using it to write an Encyclopedia? Pff, chumps:) ~~~~
Yes, moral dilemmas are never easy to decide upon. Do we help people now, but keep them dependent on us? Or do we help them help themselves, which takes more time and is a much more painful process. There is no easy answer.
Nicholas Negroponte on why he is developing the $100 laptop: "... if you take any world problem, any issue on the planet -- the big ones, peace, the environment, poverty -- the solution to that problem certainly includes education, could even be just education, and, if you have a solution that doesn't include education it's not a solution at all."
So on education he would agree with you, however, access to text-books and information is of course the number one requirement for education. Giving people water, food, medical care etc is of course also extremely important. However, I'm reminded of the proverb by Maimonides: "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
Intel is of course not happy with the $100 laptop since that runs on the AMD Geode processor. Intel is of course focusing on the "fully featured" "community sharing" idea because they want to stop the idea that having a limited CPU is sufficient for most tasks. I think that is the elephant in the room here: For most common tasks, like web browsing, document editing, and e-mail, a top of the line processor is simply not really required. Ars Technica has said it well.
From Wikipedia: "Steve Jobs had offered Mac OS X free of charge for use in the laptop, but according to Seymour Papert, a professor emeritus at MIT who is one of the initiative's founders, the designers want an operating system that can be tinkered with: "We declined because it's not open source"[4]. Therefore Linux was chosen. Microsoft's Bill Gates has attempted to convince Negroponte to use a version of Microsoft Windows on the laptop, but Negroponte turned him down. Some of Negroponte's friends told him Microsoft might then attempt to craft its own version of the laptop, but he responded such a development would be "great", as it would speed up the process of delivering cheap laptops."
Maybe Microsoft is ticked off with MIT because they were too insistent on OSS, and they view that as a threat.
Slashdot Mirror
This should come out next year in the U.S.
http://mashable.com/2010/10/22/galaxy-player-50/
Handbrake is what I use:
http://handbrake.fr/
We do love ponies on /.
Seriously, hearing that the New York Times would actually allow their reporters to investigate this story makes me really sad. Is the Times turning into NBC Dateline?
We have Pakistan (our ally) collaborating with the Taliban, there are Over 20 million displaced homeless due to floods in India, and let's not mention the hypocrisy of the government at home.
If The New York Times feels that this is a worthy exercise for their investigative reporters.... what has the world come to. Rupert Murdoch owns the WSJ, and I think that everyone knows that Murdoch can't keep his fingers out of the editorial pages of any newspaper he runs. There is hope, however. There are still investigative journalists worth reading out there, here's one: Seymour Hersh
Well the Chinese government is now pro actively trying to counter the threat of climate change. Government reports are saying this is a real threat that must be countered immediately. Can the same be said for this administration? I'm not saying that America is to blame for everything, but your straw man argument claiming that because some people blame everything on America it must not be true doesn't fly either.
How does this stuff get moderated up? Ross never mentions his product in the article, clearly Archangel Michael is just continuing the slashdot tradition of blathering about something without reading the actual article.
Well I wrote a little, see:
o n%2C_2006#Nedap_voting_machine_controversy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_general_electi
For information on the upcoming election, see:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_general_electi
I guess nobody has written about this controversy yet, I guess I'll write that into the article tonight. If anyone feels like helping out
From the perspective of someone who is not American, this is a good thing. It means that unions in rich countries are no longer able to keep the rest of the world poor. Poor people in Romania who have excellent IT skills have the freedom and opportunity to enter the capitalist system and compete on the global market.
The Americans spent 50 years trying to win the cold war so the guy in Romania would have this opportunity. Would you now turn around and say "Sorry, we're going to be implementing some socialist protectionist measures.... we didn't expect American workers to have to compete with you".
Looking at the IT landscape, it seems clear to me that the American IT industry is the most vibrant and resilient in the world. Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, HP, Wikipedia, Myspace, Youtube, etc. are organisations which saw the light of day in America. Please don't react in a spastic way when the rest of the world looks at what you're doing and tries to do something similar.
The American president keeps talking about "freedom". For me, freedom includes the freedom to compete with American workers.
Walk the walk....
Ok, maybe I will. I've just added it to my Firefox search bar and I'll use it for a few days. I'm sceptical though. I find Google to be good enough most of the time, and I'm used to the advanced syntax for it. But I'll give it a shot.
Hmm, if they bring back Jeeves, I might contemplate using them ;) Seriously though, I doubt Ask.com will manage to grab much more marketshare. Wikipedia facts are nice and all, but Wikipedia results tend to come up high on Google results anyway. I think that there are simply not enough people who are willing to switch: look at the incredibly large marketshare IE6 continues to have to this day. I doubt they'll be able to withstand Google, Yahoo & MSN in the long run. I have to admit that Bloglines is nice, I use it all the time, and since it exports OPML I can always switch and take my feeds with me.
Exactly. I always download the iPod video files from google video. These play beautifully in VLC, no need for the Google video client.
JPEG 2000:
JPEG 2000 is not widely supported in present software due to the perceived danger of software patents on the mathematics of the compression method, this area of mathematics being heavily patented in general. JPEG 2000 is by itself not license-free, but the contributing companies and organizations agreed that licenses for its first part - the core coding system - can be obtained free of charge from all contributors.
So basically, it's free for the moment, but who knows if it'll stay that way.
Wikipedia is one of the very few organisations that has refused to work with the Chinese regime on censorship as "the cost of doing business". Censorship is not something on which we should be compromising. Look at the article being featured on the main page of Wikipedia today: Prostitution in the People's Republic of China. Thank the spaghetti monster that some people won't be swayed by political pressure and will simply stand up for their principles. U.S. foreign policy seems rather hypocritical to us dirty Europeans if there's such a double standard for everything related to China.
Maybe this has something to do with the fact that Wikipedia is blocked from the mainland, so most contributions come from overseas and Taiwan. I'm sure that if mainland Chinese were not blocked from editing a more balanced Chinese Wikipedia would exist, but alas.
In case you're wondering who the guy on the left is, it's John Hodgman from the Daily Show.
Well, Wikipedia is licensed under the GFDL so there has never been any problem downloading the database for it. There are even many different versions for mobile platforms and XP (including search functionality). And the ipod of course.
Hmm that should be Reader2 of course, apparently slashdot doesn't like uppercase characters.
Personally, I have been using Reader, but mainly because it allows me to easily keep track of what books I've read or am currently reading. I don't think as a database it's as exhaustive as some of the other solutions. But, as others have pointed out, there's Amazon for that.
Hey, Wikipedia's a pretty good social networking service, just add a bunch of userboxes to your userpage and look in the different categories to meet people you like! Ohh, wait, people are also using it to write an Encyclopedia? Pff, chumps :) ~~~~
Yes, moral dilemmas are never easy to decide upon. Do we help people now, but keep them dependent on us? Or do we help them help themselves, which takes more time and is a much more painful process. There is no easy answer.
Nicholas Negroponte on why he is developing the $100 laptop: "... if you take any world problem, any issue on the planet -- the big ones, peace, the environment, poverty -- the solution to that problem certainly includes education, could even be just education, and, if you have a solution that doesn't include education it's not a solution at all."
So on education he would agree with you, however, access to text-books and information is of course the number one requirement for education. Giving people water, food, medical care etc is of course also extremely important. However, I'm reminded of the proverb by Maimonides: "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
Intel is of course not happy with the $100 laptop since that runs on the AMD Geode processor. Intel is of course focusing on the "fully featured" "community sharing" idea because they want to stop the idea that having a limited CPU is sufficient for most tasks. I think that is the elephant in the room here: For most common tasks, like web browsing, document editing, and e-mail, a top of the line processor is simply not really required. Ars Technica has said it well.
From Wikipedia: "Steve Jobs had offered Mac OS X free of charge for use in the laptop, but according to Seymour Papert, a professor emeritus at MIT who is one of the initiative's founders, the designers want an operating system that can be tinkered with: "We declined because it's not open source"[4]. Therefore Linux was chosen. Microsoft's Bill Gates has attempted to convince Negroponte to use a version of Microsoft Windows on the laptop, but Negroponte turned him down. Some of Negroponte's friends told him Microsoft might then attempt to craft its own version of the laptop, but he responded such a development would be "great", as it would speed up the process of delivering cheap laptops."
Maybe Microsoft is ticked off with MIT because they were too insistent on OSS, and they view that as a threat.