If Nintendo has a valid claim, then imagine how much Slashdot is screwed. Daily we offer our commentaries about products and "IP" we do or do not like. We review books and games and criticize them to death, each person being a member of the Slashdot community. (And lets be honest, posting naked user photos for karma is the next logical step for Slashdot).
If Nintendo is able to win this and violate what I think are freedom of speech and press, then we're all screwed.
The original poster did use the correct word: "fluoresce", which implies exactly what you were clarifying, that they do not produce light on their own, but rather emit light.
As far as the glofish, UV (black light) is the only light source that works AT HOME (you don't see the excitation wavelengths of UV because its not in the visible spectrum, but you see the emission spectrum which is). However, the fish might fluoresce at other peaks within the visible spectrum, perhaps with even greater emission. It would be hard to see under white light. And it wouldn't be practical to fire the peak excitation wavelength laser at the fish in a home.
Case Study: California Institute of Technology (who recently broke networking speed records)
The study says there is no wireless network (there is), school doesn't provide web pages (it does), can't register online (we do), no ethics policy (a very loose one: the honor code), school doesn't provide multimedia equipment (its available for use), doesn't stream its radio (our radio is only streamed).
What the study got right: I don't think classes are provided online, students are not required to own a computer, tuition doesn't include a computer, and I don't think courses are offered in emerging technologies (if by emerging technologies you mean MS Word). I wouldn't want to go to a school that has these features.
Personally, I think this idea of connectedness is a horrible measure of a school's IT saviness, and I'm not even talking about the erroneous study itself.
use Scheme. Almost every major university with a reputation for churning out great computer scientists uses Scheme in their first programming courses.
For purposes of instruction and introduction, Scheme is better than any language I can think of. You can write incredible programs in very short pieces of code while making the key concepts very clear.
I always failed to see the value of Pascal. It seemed like a useless intermediate between C and BASIC with no real advantage over either. I'm sure Pascal had its place and time, but it is long gone.
The Archos jukebox (recorder) was probably the worst piece of machinery I ever owned. The only thing worse was Archos' customer service.
I bought that 2 years ago. Does anyone agree or otherwise think that that the quality of the jukebox was not indicative of the quality of their other products including current ones?
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...post your Curriculum Vitae.
You are basically using your position at Wired to override the whole moderation process to publicize an article you wrote and your views. If you are going to do that, I would like to see if you are more qualified, at least on paper, than the average slashdot user. I don't think being a writer/editor for Wired automatically makes your voice about economics more important than another Slashdot user. If you were editor of the Wall St. Journal or a professor of economics, then maybe.
I will give you respect, however, for being honest about publicizing your own article and not using some pseudoname. Perhaps Slashdot should create a special category like shamelessplug.slashdot.org.
At a research university you will have many departments (Physics, Chemistry, Biology). And within those departments you will have many Professors each probably working on few topics, but mostly different from what other Professors are working on (or from a different perspective). So what one lab - The Professor, his post-docs, staff, and grad-students - works on is completely separate than what any one else in the institute works on, ignoring occassional collaborations.
Furthermore, the research university rarely gives the lab funding for the project. So each Professor is like an independent entrepeneur who needs to find agencies and organizations to fund his or her ideas.
The institution does receive a lot of glory and capitalizes on it as much as possible. However, its responsibility is to provide the framework and facilities for research. Everything else is done by the Professor and lab.
Therefore, most research is not a large scale enterprise. Exceptions are institutes like the Whitehead Institute at MIT. But still, if a Nobel Prize is given for the human genome project, Eric Lander of the Whitehead will deservedly be one of the recepients and not the whole institute because it was his leadership and key ideas which deserve recognition.
In order to use/own a gun you have to register and submit to a background check, etc. because a gun has a propensity for being used for illegal and harmful purposes.
In order to use a filesharing system which has then propensity for being used for illegal and harmful purposes you give your email address.
The bottom line, sharing your MP3's is illegal and harms someone out there (financially). This is perceived as a problem (just like murder is a problem) and the officials would like to try to stop it by keeping track of whose sharing just as they want to keep track of whose buying guns. But that doesn't stop you from getting a filesharing program from the back of a van. I'm personally glad that obtaining a gun from a store is not a matter of just paying for it, even if the murder rate is still high.
You ran out of stuff to download because you had to pay for each track, or had a limit to how much you could download.
The old version of Emusic where you paid like $15 a month for UNLIMITED downloads from their catalog, forced you to listen to new stuff. "I'm already paying for unlimited songs, might as well try listening to everything, including stuff I would never normally buy." I was introduced to so many great artists (i.e. Interpol) that way.
Not only did unlimited Emusic make the consumer happy, it really gave unknown artists a chance to be heard and even get paid for it!
I guess it was like an all-you-can-eat Lobster buffet: its such a great deal that tons of big eaters are going to come and eat the restaurant out of business.
Yeah thats right, there was a limit on 40 songs in the queue from day one.
However, after they made the annoucment, you could queue 40 songs, but after 10 downloads your client would crap out because Emusic put a 10 consecutive download cap to either deal with the DoS or to save money. And you basically had to build your queue up again, often mid-album. That memory always frusterates me because I felt it was a blatant breach of contract on their part and there was nothing I could do about it.
Emusic used to be $9.99 per month and unlimited downloads, over a year ago. It was an absolutely amazing service and had me thinking that the world of digital music could be great for all parties.
I was wrong. Last Fall Emusic was bought out by some other company who changed the policy to the $9.99 for 40 or 50 tracks and its been that way for over a year. I cancelled my subscription.
After the annoucement was made, but before they switched formats, they pulled horrible stunts like not actually allowing you to download unlimited music (per their contract) but putting some aritifical cap on your downloading. They also used to incriminate people for downloading too much even though there was a unlimited deal in the contract. I started to lose respect for them.
I don't think there has been a relaunch. I think there is an executive at Emusic trying to get more business via Slashdot.
If you are reading this Emusic executive, bring back the old unlimited format (even at a higher cost)! Honor your contracts!
How long before we start seeing late night info-mericals for the best in body toning input devices?
You have to do an ab-crunch to simulate a scroll wheel down. Squatting becomes equivalent to the return key. To move the pointer left, lunge to the left.
And think of the market: Chuck Norris teaches MS Excel. The Cindy Crawford Email Your Way to a Flatter Stomach Workout.
That reminds me of my driver's education teacher (many years ago) who shared his views with us that he doesn't drink anything unhealthy like beer or soda-pop. Of course I had to make the comment: "so that's a lemonade-belly you got there?".
$1 mil doesn't really go all that far in the research world. That could fund maybe 5 graduate students for 3 years, and would leave maybe just enough money for the purchasing. I'm not sure if in the end a chip will come of it, but its definately a worthy start.
Letter to Steve Jobs from the ghost of John Lennon
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Dear Prudence,
Baby you're a rich man. I am the walrus. I've got a feeling we can work it out, with a little help from my friends. Happiness is a warm gun. Don't let me down, I'll be back.
P.S. I love you.
I never called it a scam. My words: "genious marketing."
Secondly, just because YOU never heard about Peter Jackson saying he wanted to release the extended DVD early doesn't mean that someone else didn't hear that in an interview. I apologize that I can't fortify this with evidence. Hence I used the words "Under the impression" hoping someone would concretely verify or reject this with evidence. Sorry, but "I've never heard such a thing" is not evidence.
And finally, I realize that making an extended edition is not a matter of mass DVD copy, and never questioned that. Explain, however, how the LOTR empire was able to release extended DVD's in november the past two years WHILE finishing the theatrical versions of the other films concurrently . And also explain why now when there are no current projects (save King Kong) does it take them an extra month?
I was under the impression that Peter Jackson said that the extended edition would be released at the same time as the theatrical cut, since the trilogy was at an end.
But it seems like genious marketing strategy has struck again: let viewers by both, prolong the hype as long as possible, the EE will be a xmas hit.
Digital paper and pens will not be practical until you can write a note on your office desk and it can effortlessly and instantly appear on your home kitchen fridge.
These ideas of ubiquitous computing were postulated over 20 years ago (perhaps by Xerox?) and we are not much closer to making this a reality.
Thinking proactively is the best quality in an administrator.
Learn to think like a hacker.
Learn about things you want to have during an emergency/failure (ghost, backups, knowing the hardware).
A proactively strong and robust system is the mark of a good administrator. If your system can survive and be revived when your companies need it most, everything else you can manage at your lesiure in the off-hours.
Or perhaps, r-blo has several nicknames and only submits stories with one so his submission won't be judged on the content of his messages. Or maybe he doesn't like posting messages but has been reading slashdot for years. Or maybe he has been on Slashdot for a short time and has a propensity for submitting newsworthy stories.
Although we shouldn't rule out your point, if we start judging the value of a user on how much time he/she has spent on slashdot, then this community will be driven by the "grandfathers" (valuable members of the community) and we will never get different points of view from other less active members (valuable members of the community).
Slashdot Mirror
If Nintendo has a valid claim, then imagine how much Slashdot is screwed. Daily we offer our commentaries about products and "IP" we do or do not like. We review books and games and criticize them to death, each person being a member of the Slashdot community. (And lets be honest, posting naked user photos for karma is the next logical step for Slashdot).
If Nintendo is able to win this and violate what I think are freedom of speech and press, then we're all screwed.
The original poster did use the correct word: "fluoresce", which implies exactly what you were clarifying, that they do not produce light on their own, but rather emit light.
As far as the glofish, UV (black light) is the only light source that works AT HOME (you don't see the excitation wavelengths of UV because its not in the visible spectrum, but you see the emission spectrum which is). However, the fish might fluoresce at other peaks within the visible spectrum, perhaps with even greater emission. It would be hard to see under white light. And it wouldn't be practical to fire the peak excitation wavelength laser at the fish in a home.
Case Study: California Institute of Technology (who recently broke networking speed records)
The study says there is no wireless network (there is), school doesn't provide web pages (it does), can't register online (we do), no ethics policy (a very loose one: the honor code), school doesn't provide multimedia equipment (its available for use), doesn't stream its radio (our radio is only streamed).
What the study got right: I don't think classes are provided online, students are not required to own a computer, tuition doesn't include a computer, and I don't think courses are offered in emerging technologies (if by emerging technologies you mean MS Word). I wouldn't want to go to a school that has these features.
Personally, I think this idea of connectedness is a horrible measure of a school's IT saviness, and I'm not even talking about the erroneous study itself.
The NPD Group's MusicWatch Digital who track the contents of people's hard drives
What!?!??!
use Scheme. Almost every major university with a reputation for churning out great computer scientists uses Scheme in their first programming courses.
For purposes of instruction and introduction, Scheme is better than any language I can think of. You can write incredible programs in very short pieces of code while making the key concepts very clear.
I always failed to see the value of Pascal. It seemed like a useless intermediate between C and BASIC with no real advantage over either. I'm sure Pascal had its place and time, but it is long gone.
The Archos jukebox (recorder) was probably the worst piece of machinery I ever owned. The only thing worse was Archos' customer service.
I bought that 2 years ago. Does anyone agree or otherwise think that that the quality of the jukebox was not indicative of the quality of their other products including current ones?
...post your Curriculum Vitae.
You are basically using your position at Wired to override the whole moderation process to publicize an article you wrote and your views. If you are going to do that, I would like to see if you are more qualified, at least on paper, than the average slashdot user. I don't think being a writer/editor for Wired automatically makes your voice about economics more important than another Slashdot user. If you were editor of the Wall St. Journal or a professor of economics, then maybe.
I will give you respect, however, for being honest about publicizing your own article and not using some pseudoname. Perhaps Slashdot should create a special category like shamelessplug.slashdot.org.
Until of course we get a quantum computer which will squish your little Linux.
what little I know of research
At a research university you will have many departments (Physics, Chemistry, Biology). And within those departments you will have many Professors each probably working on few topics, but mostly different from what other Professors are working on (or from a different perspective). So what one lab - The Professor, his post-docs, staff, and grad-students - works on is completely separate than what any one else in the institute works on, ignoring occassional collaborations.
Furthermore, the research university rarely gives the lab funding for the project. So each Professor is like an independent entrepeneur who needs to find agencies and organizations to fund his or her ideas.
The institution does receive a lot of glory and capitalizes on it as much as possible. However, its responsibility is to provide the framework and facilities for research. Everything else is done by the Professor and lab.
Therefore, most research is not a large scale enterprise. Exceptions are institutes like the Whitehead Institute at MIT. But still, if a Nobel Prize is given for the human genome project, Eric Lander of the Whitehead will deservedly be one of the recepients and not the whole institute because it was his leadership and key ideas which deserve recognition.
I don't know if your logic is totally correct.
In order to use/own a gun you have to register and submit to a background check, etc. because a gun has a propensity for being used for illegal and harmful purposes.
In order to use a filesharing system which has then propensity for being used for illegal and harmful purposes you give your email address.
The bottom line, sharing your MP3's is illegal and harms someone out there (financially). This is perceived as a problem (just like murder is a problem) and the officials would like to try to stop it by keeping track of whose sharing just as they want to keep track of whose buying guns. But that doesn't stop you from getting a filesharing program from the back of a van. I'm personally glad that obtaining a gun from a store is not a matter of just paying for it, even if the murder rate is still high.
Wow, and all this time I just thought you guys were a hip-hop group.
You ran out of stuff to download because you had to pay for each track, or had a limit to how much you could download.
The old version of Emusic where you paid like $15 a month for UNLIMITED downloads from their catalog, forced you to listen to new stuff. "I'm already paying for unlimited songs, might as well try listening to everything, including stuff I would never normally buy." I was introduced to so many great artists (i.e. Interpol) that way.
Not only did unlimited Emusic make the consumer happy, it really gave unknown artists a chance to be heard and even get paid for it!
I guess it was like an all-you-can-eat Lobster buffet: its such a great deal that tons of big eaters are going to come and eat the restaurant out of business.
Yeah thats right, there was a limit on 40 songs in the queue from day one.
However, after they made the annoucment, you could queue 40 songs, but after 10 downloads your client would crap out because Emusic put a 10 consecutive download cap to either deal with the DoS or to save money. And you basically had to build your queue up again, often mid-album. That memory always frusterates me because I felt it was a blatant breach of contract on their part and there was nothing I could do about it.
I think this anonymous post was an advert.
Emusic used to be $9.99 per month and unlimited downloads, over a year ago. It was an absolutely amazing service and had me thinking that the world of digital music could be great for all parties.
I was wrong. Last Fall Emusic was bought out by some other company who changed the policy to the $9.99 for 40 or 50 tracks and its been that way for over a year. I cancelled my subscription.
After the annoucement was made, but before they switched formats, they pulled horrible stunts like not actually allowing you to download unlimited music (per their contract) but putting some aritifical cap on your downloading. They also used to incriminate people for downloading too much even though there was a unlimited deal in the contract. I started to lose respect for them.
I don't think there has been a relaunch. I think there is an executive at Emusic trying to get more business via Slashdot.
If you are reading this Emusic executive, bring back the old unlimited format (even at a higher cost)! Honor your contracts!
How long before we start seeing late night info-mericals for the best in body toning input devices?
You have to do an ab-crunch to simulate a scroll wheel down. Squatting becomes equivalent to the return key. To move the pointer left, lunge to the left.
And think of the market: Chuck Norris teaches MS Excel. The Cindy Crawford Email Your Way to a Flatter Stomach Workout.
That reminds me of my driver's education teacher (many years ago) who shared his views with us that he doesn't drink anything unhealthy like beer or soda-pop. Of course I had to make the comment: "so that's a lemonade-belly you got there?".
$1 mil doesn't really go all that far in the research world. That could fund maybe 5 graduate students for 3 years, and would leave maybe just enough money for the purchasing. I'm not sure if in the end a chip will come of it, but its definately a worthy start.
Dear Prudence, Baby you're a rich man. I am the walrus. I've got a feeling we can work it out, with a little help from my friends. Happiness is a warm gun. Don't let me down, I'll be back. P.S. I love you.
I never called it a scam. My words: "genious marketing."
Secondly, just because YOU never heard about Peter Jackson saying he wanted to release the extended DVD early doesn't mean that someone else didn't hear that in an interview. I apologize that I can't fortify this with evidence. Hence I used the words "Under the impression" hoping someone would concretely verify or reject this with evidence. Sorry, but "I've never heard such a thing" is not evidence.
And finally, I realize that making an extended edition is not a matter of mass DVD copy, and never questioned that. Explain, however, how the LOTR empire was able to release extended DVD's in november the past two years WHILE finishing the theatrical versions of the other films concurrently . And also explain why now when there are no current projects (save King Kong) does it take them an extra month?
I was under the impression that Peter Jackson said that the extended edition would be released at the same time as the theatrical cut, since the trilogy was at an end.
But it seems like genious marketing strategy has struck again: let viewers by both, prolong the hype as long as possible, the EE will be a xmas hit.
Star Wars TV was better when it was called "Homeboys in Outer Space"
Digital paper and pens will not be practical until you can write a note on your office desk and it can effortlessly and instantly appear on your home kitchen fridge.
These ideas of ubiquitous computing were postulated over 20 years ago (perhaps by Xerox?) and we are not much closer to making this a reality.
Thinking proactively is the best quality in an administrator.
Learn to think like a hacker.
Learn about things you want to have during an emergency/failure (ghost, backups, knowing the hardware).
A proactively strong and robust system is the mark of a good administrator. If your system can survive and be revived when your companies need it most, everything else you can manage at your lesiure in the off-hours.
Sourceforge bridged the gap between open source projects and the general public.
It gave coders the resources they needed to get multi-coder open-source projects to the public.
It gave the public the resources they needed to find the solutions they need and interact with the coders.
Or perhaps, r-blo has several nicknames and only submits stories with one so his submission won't be judged on the content of his messages. Or maybe he doesn't like posting messages but has been reading slashdot for years. Or maybe he has been on Slashdot for a short time and has a propensity for submitting newsworthy stories.
Although we shouldn't rule out your point, if we start judging the value of a user on how much time he/she has spent on slashdot, then this community will be driven by the "grandfathers" (valuable members of the community) and we will never get different points of view from other less active members (valuable members of the community).