that's the genius! they can either fight the hopeless battle to make IE as stable and secure as other the browsers or they can make a MS Silverlight plugin that makes every other browser as buggy and insecure as IE
...what is double-entry accounting but keeping two separate databases of financial transactions--specifically so when the numbers don't match, you know something is up?/Yes, I know the difference that's great but his quibble is that these don't show the same totals and they say that this is perfectly fine
Au contraire, the surest way to be certain that no one will read the details of a news release is to put it on the front page of slashdot. exactly, that's why no one saw the news about how the iPod wasn't worth buying
well, my reply was just me teasing, but the thing that makes this unintuitive is that water as a solid is not more dense, so one wouldn't necessarily expect water that's been condensed to act like solid water, and as a matter of fact there had been studies that it didn't:
In its bulk liquid form, water is a disordered medium that flows very readily. When most substances are compressed into a solid, their density increases. But water is different; when it becomes ice, it becomes less dense. For this reason, many scientists reasoned that when water is compressed (as it is in a nanometer-sized channel), it should maintain its liquid properties and shouldn't exhibit properties that are akin to a solid. Several earlier studies came to that very conclusion - that water confined in a nano-space behaves just like water does in the macro world. Consequently, a number of scientists considered the case to be closed....
So why did Riedo and Landman's results differ from their peers? According to Landman, most previous studies on confined water were limited by technology at the time and could not directly measure the behavior in the last two nanometers. Instead they had to measure other properties and infer the forces acting in films of one nanometer thickness or less.
i can't imagine how many resources we waste every year researching and demonstrating things that we would have known for free had we just asked you "way back when". actually, i imagine if i just ask you how much we'd save with this method that'd be easier than trying to calculate it
The US system is really about equality, at the expense of quality; whereas asia & europe (talking in general as I'm sure there are a number of countries that don't still do it this way) tends to be quality at the expense of equality (again not talking about higher-ed) i think you might not feel exactly the same way if you looked at the abysmal state of inner-city education. U.S. schools are more about uniformity than they are about equality (target your teaching to the middle-of-the-road kids and bend everyone else to fit that mold), and even that uniformity is only in the context of a single school.
as for the original question, the Apache FAQ for their license says they think that they're compatible but FSF does not:
Is the Apache license compatible with the GPL (GNU Public License)?
It is the unofficial position of The Apache Software Foundation that the Apache license is compatible with the GPL. However, the Free Software Foundation holds a different position, although we have not been able to get them to give us categorical answers to our queries asking for details on just what aspects they consider incompatible.
Whether to mix software covered under these two different licenses must be a determination made by those attempting such a synthesis.
Once you export something, it stays exported. You don't get to count it every year just because it was made in your country. maybe we only have a William Shatner license, did anyone read the EULA?
Nope. You will never hear about these, because "150 Iraqis die in a car-bomb blast" is more sensational than "15 Iraqi children have their sight restored due to help from US military doctors". maybe it's just because people have their sight restored on a daily basis in the US but 150 people dying to a bomb blast happens about once a decade
Back when Star Wars first came out, Starlog magazine spent an entire issue devoted to Stars Wars. They mentioned somewhere that Charles Lippincott was writing a book called "The Making of Star Wars", inspired by "The Making of Star Trek" book, but it never appeared.
I'm really glad to see that some of this material is finally seeing the light of day. you're going to have to wait a little longer for some of it, this is actually going to be a book about the middle part of the making of Star Wars. he plans to make a prequel to this book telling about the first part of making Star Wars, and then he'll round out the series with a sequel some time down the road (though that might possibly be a different author or take the form of a cartoon)
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notice that even this guy isn't crazy enough to drive while talking on his cellphone
I'd consider an OS that crashes (panics, BSODs, etc) more secure than one which is afflicted by a buffer overflow in the same situation, for example. this seems like a false comparison, since if the OS were actually purposefully catching a buffer overflow it should be able to at least confine the crash to the app using that buffer and not the entire system. since neither of these scenarios should be chosen on purpose, it's like saying you'd rather be stabbed than step on a land mine
for every bacteria that helps an organism, there are probably 2 or 3 that hurt them but this analogy is particularly weak because these computer viruses are only taking their beneficial steps to a certain point...they're not stopping themselves from ruining your PC. i'm not sure why you'd want a rooted computer that steals your bandwidth, your data, and ultimately your money just because it keeps other viruses from doing the same
They will be paying the same rate. i don't believe that's true. here is a quote from the original article that made Slashdot on this subject:
The royalties in question only apply to digital transmissions of music, such as through Web sites, and are paid to the performers of songs and record labels. Webcasters also pay additional royalties to the composers and publishers of music, similar to those also paid by over-the-air broadcasters.
over-the-air radio stations only pay the composers' royalty, internet radio stations pay that and this performance royalty also.
And now in a world where it's so easy to get that specific information on hundreds of thousands people, they want to use that specific information to derive less reliable demographic statistics, in order to derive what a particular person might be interested in... i'm not sure that they want to get information on what you might want to buy based on who you are (because like you said they already know what you might want to buy based on your history), i think they want to know how to pitch their product to you in a better way.
for example, they might know that you are in the market to buy a small car based on the fact that you've visited several other sites that sell small cars or consumer review sites focusing on small cars. but if they also know that you are likely a single mother of a small kid (based on the fact that you're buying a car seat online or shopping for toys) than maybe they pitch their small car as reliable and safe. if you're a teenager (maybe you're visiting facebook, mtv.com, etc), they'll show you how sporty their car is and how popular owners might become.
If I was Jeff Bezos right now, I'd be calling my law firm and politely requesting that whoever decided to just dump their bookmarks file into the patent application be thrown out a 10th floor window.
you clearly know nothing about the way that Jeff Bezos thinks. right now he is patenting a one-click operation that kicks off a process whereby your lawyer is thrown from the 10th floor window automatically, thereby lowering the chance that the clicker will have second thoughts
When playing high def content..., it's not half bad. i'm trying to picture how they'd work this ringing endorsement into a Mac vs PC commercial with their two witty talking heads
The fact is the subscription music plan just sucks. It's like paying for radio. XM and sirus have a good idea, but very few people are willing to shell out money for music that stops playing when they stop paying.
I agree with you that people are not willing to pay, but what I am wondering is, why? i don't think you guys are fair in comparing this to radio. with radio you can't control when/if the song you like plays, how often it plays, or how long it stays in the rotation. all of those are part of the reason that people buy albums to begin with, so obviously people were willing to pay to control when music plays before there was an internet. the only question is whether having music for a limited amount of time is worth the price relative to buying the CD or track where you get it forever, and that probably has more to do with:
A. do you tend to listen to a lot of new music and then move on to the next thing?
B. do you already own most of what you listen to in formats like CDs?
C. do you listen to music from a deep catalog or do you listen to things a smaller catalog a lot?
what strikes me about those things is nearly every one of them favors younger listeners as someone that would get more use out of renting music. A) they quickly move onto the next top 40 song, so they care very little that a year from now if they quit this service they can't listen to the stuff they would buy now; B) they don't already own most of what they listen to already, they're young and just starting to build their collection; and C) they probably listen to a few songs off tons of albums and are always adding new things into their list, so buying the equivalent catalog is prohibitive compared to subscribing to a service.
since most of Slashdot's readers are older than this audience and we probably don't even regularly talk music with people in that audience, it doesn't surprise me at all that we don't understand it's attractiveness
He has lots of files on his desktop, but they are all temporary except for those two. Not a bad approach. there's a lot of companies that just don't get that either. i'm still struggling to figure out why MS and Apple think that i would ever want to use their MediaPlayer or Quicktime launch icon for anything at all. why would i want that shortcut on my desktop, in my quick launch toolbar, or pretty much anywhere? when i want to use either of those apps i open the movie that is associated with them that i want to watch. almost every file on my desktop is a temporary or often-used file, rather than an often-used app
The amount of wealth in the world is NOT like a tank of water which, when the valves are opened, empties out and distributes the water all around. It's more like a large set of fountains fed by a small set of pumps. that's an analogy that even Ted Stevens could understand
bah. i mucked up the quote by adding my own comment in the wrong spot. here's the wiki quote:
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The Coop should not require any net-new server infrastructure, and instead leverage and integrate with existing web services. It should also not be a new interface for interacting with those services (ie: uploading photos to Flickr, updating status on Facebook, etc.)
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as long as they can keep me safe from the Hamburglar who am i to argue?
that's the genius! they can either fight the hopeless battle to make IE as stable and secure as other the browsers or they can make a MS Silverlight plugin that makes every other browser as buggy and insecure as IE
i wonder if that might be an old work-around from times when not all browsers were good at displaying alternate character sets?
a wormhole that's a loop and leads back to itself reminds me more of European Vacation: "Hey look kids, there's Big Ben, and there's Parliament."
i can't imagine how many resources we waste every year researching and demonstrating things that we would have known for free had we just asked you "way back when". actually, i imagine if i just ask you how much we'd save with this method that'd be easier than trying to calculate it
I'm really glad to see that some of this material is finally seeing the light of day. you're going to have to wait a little longer for some of it, this is actually going to be a book about the middle part of the making of Star Wars. he plans to make a prequel to this book telling about the first part of making Star Wars, and then he'll round out the series with a sequel some time down the road (though that might possibly be a different author or take the form of a cartoon)
notice that even this guy isn't crazy enough to drive while talking on his cellphone
for every bacteria that helps an organism, there are probably 2 or 3 that hurt them but this analogy is particularly weak because these computer viruses are only taking their beneficial steps to a certain point...they're not stopping themselves from ruining your PC. i'm not sure why you'd want a rooted computer that steals your bandwidth, your data, and ultimately your money just because it keeps other viruses from doing the same
luckily they got him back when you could still just buy Slashdot Editors and pay once, none of this managed editing services jibberish
for example, they might know that you are in the market to buy a small car based on the fact that you've visited several other sites that sell small cars or consumer review sites focusing on small cars. but if they also know that you are likely a single mother of a small kid (based on the fact that you're buying a car seat online or shopping for toys) than maybe they pitch their small car as reliable and safe. if you're a teenager (maybe you're visiting facebook, mtv.com, etc), they'll show you how sporty their car is and how popular owners might become.
If I was Jeff Bezos right now, I'd be calling my law firm and politely requesting that whoever decided to just dump their bookmarks file into the patent application be thrown out a 10th floor window.
you clearly know nothing about the way that Jeff Bezos thinks. right now he is patenting a one-click operation that kicks off a process whereby your lawyer is thrown from the 10th floor window automatically, thereby lowering the chance that the clicker will have second thoughtsI agree with you that people are not willing to pay, but what I am wondering is, why? i don't think you guys are fair in comparing this to radio. with radio you can't control when/if the song you like plays, how often it plays, or how long it stays in the rotation. all of those are part of the reason that people buy albums to begin with, so obviously people were willing to pay to control when music plays before there was an internet. the only question is whether having music for a limited amount of time is worth the price relative to buying the CD or track where you get it forever, and that probably has more to do with:
A. do you tend to listen to a lot of new music and then move on to the next thing?
B. do you already own most of what you listen to in formats like CDs?
C. do you listen to music from a deep catalog or do you listen to things a smaller catalog a lot?
what strikes me about those things is nearly every one of them favors younger listeners as someone that would get more use out of renting music. A) they quickly move onto the next top 40 song, so they care very little that a year from now if they quit this service they can't listen to the stuff they would buy now; B) they don't already own most of what they listen to already, they're young and just starting to build their collection; and C) they probably listen to a few songs off tons of albums and are always adding new things into their list, so buying the equivalent catalog is prohibitive compared to subscribing to a service.
since most of Slashdot's readers are older than this audience and we probably don't even regularly talk music with people in that audience, it doesn't surprise me at all that we don't understand it's attractiveness
The Coop should not require any net-new server infrastructure, and instead leverage and integrate with existing web services. It should also not be a new interface for interacting with those services (ie: uploading photos to Flickr, updating status on Facebook, etc.)