Bluetooth requires you to know about a device, shake hands, meet it's parents, get to know its annoying friends etc etc.
IrDA you just stick it to it. Literally. Which device I want to talk to? *this* one.
Think vending machines... although I imagine the internet/server/machine round trip is ok for most people.
Downloading games from a game depot... the physicality of placing your device there and having the data pushed onto your device... there is something secure and tangible there.
It could all go horribly wrong though... erm.. somehow...
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The timing of the craft's ion and neutral mass spectrometer and the cosmic dust analyzer observations seems to indicate the vapor and fine material are originating from the "hot" polar cap region.
How long before this whole 'navigate a tree menu from a small device' becomes a minefield of twat-patents.
Dig out your old calculators you know the fancy graphing ones, and look at how the functions and menus are ordered there.
Kabam, bye bye patent. They should recruit me just for saying kabam in meetings.
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Copyright is great, I have it you have it, we all have it!
Hello Copyright, my name is license, in case you haven't noticed we are not the same thing, now fuck off 'bloggers' who get 'jobs' writing 'articles' with names like Dvorak - THINK before you write.
Once again, for those at the back:
Copyright != License!
Write it down.
(In case that wasn't enough I am implying that Creative commons gives licenses for people to class for their copyrights works. Creative commons has nothing to do with copyright, merely licensing. And as Dvorak spasses on about, current copyright laws do not actually address licensing, partly due to the fact that they are copyright laws. Not licenses.)
Captain parenthesis.
I will continue: thanks to a world of meaningless words (blog, podcasting) people who perpetuate this bs words are incapable of the basic rudimentary deducations in langage, such as copyright, and license.
So, in closing: Creative Commons: Public Domain
While this is 'trendy', it also completes the set, and public domain is a 'license' and furthermore, they provide (see earlier) the service I nodded to: they provide the system that someone can link what to the explaination of the license, and also a few words to help someone convey they are the author and they are signing over this work.
OK. Lets all listen to a pod-fucking-cast of the blog shall we? troll flamebait? I don't care, this is releases under a CC 2.0 share a like license.
You have one stapped inside/outside ankle, high up on ankle, only 1 inch or less of wheel is below your sole line, and for balance in motion, small rollers at front of shoe and back of shoe.
It has a built in 'balance' akin to segway, but instead of requiring batteries all it does is lift the wheel, and you are using your feet (roller lift also a bit), and you own (worse than segway apparently) bio balancing act. Want to move off? set wheels down and roll... dunno how tricky balancing would be though...
And who is paying him? I really like his idea of living in a world where I cannot give people rights to use my work freely. (and optionally stop people selling it for profit).
CC has some very good well described licenses, that are brilliant, and I hope sxc.hu uses the most open one as its default, and deviantart.com also incorporates it.
Macromedia wants to sell end user licenses to 'embedded flash' viewers, or DVD players that use some kind of flash chip to play flash games on dvd players.
Since no more mods are looking at this story to spend their m0d po1ntz (in the mid range), then the only thing I can take from my comment is this sarcastic homage to my l33t trolling skillz.
Shame it wasn't a troll, because if it was, bingo.
Sometimes, with OSS I say why it is good in spite of it being OSS.
When I recommend OpenOffice, it is BECAUSE IT IS JUST SO DAMN BETTER.
Handling styles, not having redraw problems... actualyl handling Microsoft formats (from the deep dark ages of the 90's 'til today) BETTER than Microsoft.
Also, the other suite packages are just that: sweet! Powerpoint can take a running jump, and forget about it when you talk about SVG.
Let it pre-cache for speed, and stop office pre-caching, and see who is faster.
In fact I couldn't be:
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I agree with your point - it doesnt actually matter who is on the other end, and poker robots only win because they play the odds perfectly, which will beat beginners, but a pro who also plays the odds and a lot more aggressively can learn the bots moves pretty quick and drain it out, so they no doubt have a condition to leave a table if things get rough.
Online pocker is just a card shark world of people wanting to spear as many new people as possible, grinding up their money.
I do not consider it cheating - you could have a program runnind showing you the odds and what to bet from the pot anyway, but this stops you having to be awake or at the computer.
Now, Yahoo Pool on the other hand can be manipulated by bots, and there are small cash prizes in tournaments that some people could capitalise on.
Sometimes I use italitcs, which I personally find less readable, to seperate out commented code (ha I wrote code, I meant text...lol). If there is a lot I preffer to up the weight on it just to make it easier.
Now, I would have given you credit, but anyone who nitpicks netiquette on slashdot doesn't give a good impression of himself.
This is not a flame or troll post - the following was stated, unedited by Richard Stallman in an email to me:
"The term "human rights" is a misnomer since it really concerns the rights of real persons. A normal grown human being is a person, and no other species that we have encountered seems to qualify, so we can think of them as "human rights" and usually it doesn't cause a confusion. However, a fetus is not a person and doesn't have rights.
Some day we may develop artificial intelligences that qualify as persons; they too will deserve these rights." [Emphasis mine]
Riiiiiight. Ok man, the 60's must have been awesome... rights of real persons....artificial intelligences
Soo: Woman has 4th lunchtime abortion, on the way to court to have her husband put in jail for abusing her ipod... I love that picture of the future!
Well, draw what conclusion you will, I am a bit scared that people put artificial intelligence... above an entitity that has a beating heart, and can feel pain (although this is a heated debate right now, abortion is a big money maker, and noone wants to admit that a fetus can feel pain).
Anyway, this isn't intended to be trolllish or flamebait, I guess it is offtopic, and for once I agree with what he is saying about tradmarks and:
ON TOPIC
Maybe critics of Mozilla should stop being so fussy about trademarks (gives debian a little playful nudge, then a hug).
I am sure it is more complex, but if Debian is happy to call itself GNU/Linux than it can not whimper about Mozilla's rather defensive stand on its trademarks.
I wonder if 'mozilla compatible' will go from i.e. 7's user agent?...
Well, yes, windows runs on 90% of desktops, I would say.net runs on 15% of that figure. (I should have said it was a guestimate, implying they imply that.net is running on 100% of all windows installations...
Just because I didn't see it on so many of my own machines I come into contact with, I am trying to remember if a real version (not 1.0) was in XP from the start.
Although the point is not to discredit the number of machines with a.net runtime, I mean, Microsoft can put anything into windows, which runs on 90 of the desktops. For now at least.;-)
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I call bullshit on this, I wouldn't be suprised is people are paid to write these types of comments, and try and get high moderation.
For one, windows fan boys usually write slightly less rehearsed.
Film production company? How conveniently cutting edge, yet non specific. Seriously,/. comments like these worry me about deep running conspiracies, but I am not paranoid I tell you.
Wow, look at their nice graph will you. Their first graph shows 'vunerabilities found' in Java VM's... nothing mentioned about patches... and 0 in.net...
Now look at this: In this paper we explore the more optimistic hypothesis that.NET's design is fundamentally more secure than Java's
So they have a bent from the start to discredit Java. Onto my point:
Java is 10 years old. There are groups of people looking at Java VM code and multiple versions of VM's, all of which are bunged in here. These 'vunerabilities' are not even reflections on the fundemental paradigm of the Java security model.
This article is FUD, and bad FUD to counter Goslings stand against the 'untrusted code' model of the.Net.
No, quoting JNI is not relevant in that argument because JNI still works within the seucrity model, yet it allows native code to be interfaced with, that is a seperate issue, and akin to making a network call, and running code on another server.
They then mark up 9 security vunerabilities listed with Microsoft 'but because the way they classify them they do not count for this paper' (paper is the new word, because papers sound academic, not like paid research).
There are many possible explanations for the.NET platform's apparent lack of security vulnerabilities. One possibility is that.NET is a less desirable platform for attackers to compromise than Java so it has not received the scrutiny necessary to reveal vulnerabilities. This is unlikely, however, since the.NET framework is now provided as a Windows update. Since Windows has over 90% of the desktop market with a large number of machines using.NET, the.NET platform presents an attractive target.
Well, yes, windows runs on 90% of desktops, I would say.net runs on 15% of that figure.
From the available information, the one implementation that did have many of its own unique vulnerabilities was Microsoft's Java implementation,
They even try and discredit sources that go against their ideas. 'from the available information' or is the a way of saying 'this might be worse than we imply'.
I didn't want to dig deeper, I found the single statement copied into a marketting guys website (fuck the word blog) rather twatish of the guy.
This is FUD, yet the people this is aimed at are those who will read the '.Net found to be more secure than Java!!!!111OMGLOL!!' on [insert one of the many microsoft run 'news' farms that are used to infect propoganda into the media].
pteeesh.
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Ethnicity wasn't important, but grandparent insinuated that an ethnic group had monopoly in this area, which gave me no clue which group it was, or if I was missing something, like, when you say 'some ethnic group' you always mean XYZ group.
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Bluetooth requires you to know about a device, shake hands, meet it's parents, get to know its annoying friends etc etc.
IrDA you just stick it to it. Literally. Which device I want to talk to? *this* one.
Think vending machines... although I imagine the internet/server/machine round trip is ok for most people.
Downloading games from a game depot... the physicality of placing your device there and having the data pushed onto your device... there is something secure and tangible there.
It could all go horribly wrong though... erm.. somehow...
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The timing of the craft's ion and neutral mass spectrometer and the cosmic dust analyzer observations seems to indicate the vapor and fine material are originating from the "hot" polar cap region.
We have only gone and become star trek.
"Hey boss, here is the new version"
"Hang on, didn't I tell you to remove that 4kb file reader for the last-last version?"
"Why boss? I mean then people using the old version will suddenly find it has become obsole...t...e...aaaaaaaah I see!!!"
"Good boy! Welcome to Microsoft"
Use open office, for some reason that don't care if you open old office formats, maybe because they are not trying to ass rape you.
How long before this whole 'navigate a tree menu from a small device' becomes a minefield of twat-patents.
Dig out your old calculators you know the fancy graphing ones, and look at how the functions and menus are ordered there.
Kabam, bye bye patent. They should recruit me just for saying kabam in meetings.
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**I think someone should fix this as it is evident that they are not very random, otherwise it is some fluke that they spell words now! (yes I know cowboyneal put his dictionary l33t script in, hasn't he got anything better to do?)
Copyright is great, I have it you have it, we all have it!
Hello Copyright, my name is license, in case you haven't noticed we are not the same thing, now fuck off 'bloggers' who get 'jobs' writing 'articles' with names like Dvorak - THINK before you write.
Once again, for those at the back:
Copyright != License!
Write it down.
(In case that wasn't enough I am implying that Creative commons gives licenses for people to class for their copyrights works. Creative commons has nothing to do with copyright, merely licensing. And as Dvorak spasses on about, current copyright laws do not actually address licensing, partly due to the fact that they are copyright laws. Not licenses.)
Captain parenthesis.
I will continue: thanks to a world of meaningless words (blog, podcasting) people who perpetuate this bs words are incapable of the basic rudimentary deducations in langage, such as copyright, and license.
So, in closing: Creative Commons: Public Domain
While this is 'trendy', it also completes the set, and public domain is a 'license' and furthermore, they provide (see earlier) the service I nodded to: they provide the system that someone can link what to the explaination of the license, and also a few words to help someone convey they are the author and they are signing over this work.
OK. Lets all listen to a pod-fucking-cast of the blog shall we? troll flamebait? I don't care, this is releases under a CC 2.0 share a like license.
You have one stapped inside/outside ankle, high up on ankle, only 1 inch or less of wheel is below your sole line, and for balance in motion, small rollers at front of shoe and back of shoe.
It has a built in 'balance' akin to segway, but instead of requiring batteries all it does is lift the wheel, and you are using your feet (roller lift also a bit), and you own (worse than segway apparently) bio balancing act. Want to move off? set wheels down and roll... dunno how tricky balancing would be though...
Probably impossible... might work.
And who is paying him? I really like his idea of living in a world where I cannot give people rights to use my work freely. (and optionally stop people selling it for profit).
CC has some very good well described licenses, that are brilliant, and I hope sxc.hu uses the most open one as its default, and deviantart.com also incorporates it.
C1ali5 - aggregated diamond nanorods hard!!!
:-( I wonder how they guessed my email address:
I just deleted a cialis spam from my gmail account.
bill.gates@gmail.com
damn them!
Flash consumer devices...
Macromedia wants to sell end user licenses to 'embedded flash' viewers, or DVD players that use some kind of flash chip to play flash games on dvd players.
Sneaky &*&*@&@&!!~~~~~~~~~!
Although, since I can call, or go online to auto renew my non-DRM'd content, I hope they will naturally extend it to this.
Also, I guess with certain material, libraries will have streaming servers.
Do they still have a virtual number of copies that can be loaned at any one time?
> Unlike 'Vista' (I'll always call it longhorn)
Because you're a die-hard windows fanatic, right.
Microsoft are pushing Software patents into Europe, the legal homeplace of Linux (I assume Linus keeps his legal entity there?).
The most telling point in Microsofts tactics
So blatant: look at this quite from that page, in H1 FFS:
Indemnification Becomes Open Source's Nightmare and Microsoft's Blessing
There is a linked PDF, also google brings up
Which is telling as well
Who funded SCO?
Microsoft
Who is pushing Patents in the eu?
Microsoft
Who is trying to get a litigation storm to damage and or destroy linux?
Microsoft
Who should probably get some more exposure about their bad activities?
Microsoft
But they don't, this kinda of cross-reporting (cause and effect) isn't done in mainstream media.
Everyone will say Linux is getting sued, noone seems to say Microsoft is behind this financially, and patents politically.
Since no more mods are looking at this story to spend their m0d po1ntz (in the mid range), then the only thing I can take from my comment is this sarcastic homage to my l33t trolling skillz.
Shame it wasn't a troll, because if it was, bingo.
I saw this go from +4 interesting to -1 Troll.
Stupid mods - this wasn't a troll, or flamebait, but I guess while it was at +4 it was seen by a fair few people.
Although there was no way to substantiate this, I would have preffered an 'OffTopic' than a Troll. tsk.
I think it is a simple gender test, if she is female then she will. Women.
On a ligher note:
X-Bender: Oh, so, just 'cause a robot wants to kill humans that makes him a radical?
Did anyone else notice the X-* headers that slashdot returns? Funny.
Sometimes, with OSS I say why it is good in spite of it being OSS.
When I recommend OpenOffice, it is BECAUSE IT IS JUST SO DAMN BETTER.
Handling styles, not having redraw problems... actualyl handling Microsoft formats (from the deep dark ages of the 90's 'til today) BETTER than Microsoft.
Also, the other suite packages are just that: sweet! Powerpoint can take a running jump, and forget about it when you talk about SVG.
Let it pre-cache for speed, and stop office pre-caching, and see who is faster.
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I agree with your point - it doesnt actually matter who is on the other end, and poker robots only win because they play the odds perfectly, which will beat beginners, but a pro who also plays the odds and a lot more aggressively can learn the bots moves pretty quick and drain it out, so they no doubt have a condition to leave a table if things get rough.
Online pocker is just a card shark world of people wanting to spear as many new people as possible, grinding up their money.
I do not consider it cheating - you could have a program runnind showing you the odds and what to bet from the pot anyway, but this stops you having to be awake or at the computer.
Now, Yahoo Pool on the other hand can be manipulated by bots, and there are small cash prizes in tournaments that some people could capitalise on.
turn down the volume on your TTS... tsk.
Sometimes I use italitcs, which I personally find less readable, to seperate out commented code (ha I wrote code, I meant text...lol). If there is a lot I preffer to up the weight on it just to make it easier.
Now, I would have given you credit, but anyone who nitpicks netiquette on slashdot doesn't give a good impression of himself.
This is not a flame or troll post - the following was stated, unedited by Richard Stallman in an email to me:
"The term "human rights" is a misnomer since it really concerns the rights of real persons. A normal grown human being is a person, and no other species that we have encountered seems to qualify, so we can think of them as "human rights" and usually it doesn't cause a confusion. However, a fetus is not a person and doesn't have rights.
Some day we may develop artificial intelligences that qualify as persons; they too will deserve these rights." [Emphasis mine]
Riiiiiight. Ok man, the 60's must have been awesome... rights of real persons....artificial intelligences
Soo: Woman has 4th lunchtime abortion, on the way to court to have her husband put in jail for abusing her ipod... I love that picture of the future!
Well, draw what conclusion you will, I am a bit scared that people put artificial intelligence... above an entitity that has a beating heart, and can feel pain (although this is a heated debate right now, abortion is a big money maker, and noone wants to admit that a fetus can feel pain).
Anyway, this isn't intended to be trolllish or flamebait, I guess it is offtopic, and for once I agree with what he is saying about tradmarks and:
ON TOPIC
Maybe critics of Mozilla should stop being so fussy about trademarks (gives debian a little playful nudge, then a hug).
I am sure it is more complex, but if Debian is happy to call itself GNU/Linux than it can not whimper about Mozilla's rather defensive stand on its trademarks.
I wonder if 'mozilla compatible' will go from i.e. 7's user agent?...
But I also love the fact that you can get your PIN number is space and use it at an ATM machines in space!
;-)
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The word podcast was complete redundant in that sentence. I mean, really.
If any word should be found #ditch shot execution style, it should be 'podcast'. Please, make it go away!
Back on topic: Compared to aluminum, polyethylene is 50% better at shielding solar flares and 15% better for cosmic rays.
You all know I have just ripped off my alufoil hat and placed a bin bag on my head right? wow... dizzy, feeling feint...
Source for that 15% figure, if you please.
.net runs on 15% of that figure. (I should have said it was a guestimate, implying they imply that .net is running on 100% of all windows installations...
.net runtime, I mean, Microsoft can put anything into windows, which runs on 90 of the desktops. For now at least. ;-)
Sorry you are right: (2005, Miller)
Well, yes, windows runs on 90% of desktops, I would say
Just because I didn't see it on so many of my own machines I come into contact with, I am trying to remember if a real version (not 1.0) was in XP from the start.
Although the point is not to discredit the number of machines with a
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I call bullshit on this, I wouldn't be suprised is people are paid to write these types of comments, and try and get high moderation.
/. comments like these worry me about deep running conspiracies, but I am not paranoid I tell you.
For one, windows fan boys usually write slightly less rehearsed.
Film production company? How conveniently cutting edge, yet non specific. Seriously,
*adjusts tin foil hat*
Wow, look at their nice graph will you. Their first graph shows 'vunerabilities found' in Java VM's... nothing mentioned about patches... and 0 in .net...
.NET's design is fundamentally more secure than Java's
.Net.
.NET platform's apparent lack of security vulnerabilities. .NET is a less desirable platform for attackers to compromise than Java so it has .NET .NET, the .NET platform presents an attractive target.
.net runs on 15% of that figure.
Now look at this: In this paper we explore the more optimistic hypothesis that
So they have a bent from the start to discredit Java. Onto my point:
Java is 10 years old. There are groups of people looking at Java VM code and multiple versions of VM's, all of which are bunged in here. These 'vunerabilities' are not even reflections on the fundemental paradigm of the Java security model.
This article is FUD, and bad FUD to counter Goslings stand against the 'untrusted code' model of the
No, quoting JNI is not relevant in that argument because JNI still works within the seucrity model, yet it allows native code to be interfaced with, that is a seperate issue, and akin to making a network call, and running code on another server.
They then mark up 9 security vunerabilities listed with Microsoft 'but because the way they classify them they do not count for this paper' (paper is the new word, because papers sound academic, not like paid research).
There are many possible explanations for the
One possibility is that
not received the scrutiny necessary to reveal vulnerabilities. This is unlikely, however, since the
framework is now provided as a Windows update. Since Windows has over 90% of the desktop market
with a large number of machines using
Well, yes, windows runs on 90% of desktops, I would say
From the available information, the one implementation that did have many of its own
unique vulnerabilities was Microsoft's Java implementation,
They even try and discredit sources that go against their ideas. 'from the available information' or is the a way of saying 'this might be worse than we imply'.
I didn't want to dig deeper, I found the single statement copied into a marketting guys website (fuck the word blog) rather twatish of the guy.
This is FUD, yet the people this is aimed at are those who will read the '.Net found to be more secure than Java!!!!111OMGLOL!!' on [insert one of the many microsoft run 'news' farms that are used to infect propoganda into the media].
pteeesh.
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But you brazenly resist the fact that you can upgrade your PC bit by bit.
The cost of two XBOX is relevant because my PC I bought circa XBOX 1 will play the XBOX 2 games.
I can also swap out my 'budget' FX5700 and stick a GTXZl33t6900 graphics card when the price drop to about $150 and have much better raw power.
The refined nature of the PC as a development platform means games are better, modding, more open gaming - less \per
shit gotta go, finish off the rest of the comment in your head.
Ethnicity wasn't important, but grandparent insinuated that an ethnic group had monopoly in this area, which gave me no clue which group it was, or if I was missing something, like, when you say 'some ethnic group' you always mean XYZ group.
puzzling