If programmers are treated like suspects before they commit a crime, their motivation will die. Also, audits take time on their own - it would set the game back and/or waste money better spent on some undeveloped area of the game.
The explanation is quite straight forward. It's lawyer-speak, and you can expect to see it standardised. Not always quite this similar, but it is no coincidence (or theft of MS' threats).
Ah, they already had the high street Megastore chain. However, it was sold off to W H Smith (UK newsagent) IIRC. It may be difficult for them to set up a music shop, even an online one, which would rival the store they sold off.
Bloomberg is a news outlet. Slashdot is a tech blog. The key differentiator here is 'blog' - Slashdot centralises what are percieved to be important tech issues from many different news outlets onto one blog where people can comment on these issues.
I'd say that a lead time of a single day is fair enough to assess the significance of the story before posting on Slashdot. Now go and relax.
Heh, do you really think the police were content to leave this issue after the guy got the car back under control? It would set an outstanding precident if they did. I think that a car hammering along at 120mph wouldn't be particularly unusual on French roads mind:)
The ID release information suggests that ATI might finally get their finger out and are working towards decent Linux drivers. This would surely be a great contribution to Linux, even for non-Doomers;)
I don't have Flash. A couple of non-php static html pages generated once a day could have handled a league table, with a PHP search. Did the Conspiracy page report a coincidence of the words 'Fu*c' and 'Microsoft'?:)
Yes, he used a PERL script to generate the graph. Less than orthodox for an MS employee. His blog's 'not a.net blog' caption also hints at a certain cynicism being harboured.
I agree completely with your point about the RIAA reaching far beyond what we would consider commercial pop. However, I like a lot of 'proprietary' music which is produced by non-RIAA, independent record labels.
The idea of GPL music intrigues me, but I find it too limiting for my tastes. Isn't it a good enough tradeoff right now to support non-RIAA music?
This may be a moot point - if they don't want their service being used in this way it shouldn't be too difficult for them to prevent people from using Gmail in this way.
I agree that it is unlikely that Google will condone this project. Time will tell.
It will be interesting to see what Nintendo have up their sleeves. I'm not quite ready to attribute this action to desperation, since they are the one console manufacturer which has been quite behind on the online gaming front.
Using it every day indicates a product or service which is of genuine value, unlike many of the dot-com mirages.
Google does seem to have enough irons in the fire to ensure that it carries on developing it's usefulness. The more useful it becomes, the more people use it, the more people use it, the greater the potential to generate revenue from ads or other online revenue models (such as Google Answers).
I do not object to having adverts taking up my screen. Slashdot is a good example of inobtrusive and relevant ads being used, ads which I am actually inclined to click through once my curiosity has been roused.
I do, however, object to mid-article text links taking me to adverts. Years of internet conditioning have taught me that mid-article links should take the reader to relevent resources to the article I am reading, and I am often inclined to open up several links in other tabs while I continue to read the main article.
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If programmers are treated like suspects before they commit a crime, their motivation will die. Also, audits take time on their own - it would set the game back and/or waste money better spent on some undeveloped area of the game.
The explanation is quite straight forward. It's lawyer-speak, and you can expect to see it standardised. Not always quite this similar, but it is no coincidence (or theft of MS' threats).
Ah, they already had the high street Megastore chain. However, it was sold off to W H Smith (UK newsagent) IIRC. It may be difficult for them to set up a music shop, even an online one, which would rival the store they sold off.
And censorship. You forgot their Chinese censorship ;)
I've read many more plausable hoaxes. I'm going to defer judgement :P
Bloomberg is a news outlet. Slashdot is a tech blog. The key differentiator here is 'blog' - Slashdot centralises what are percieved to be important tech issues from many different news outlets onto one blog where people can comment on these issues.
I'd say that a lead time of a single day is fair enough to assess the significance of the story before posting on Slashdot. Now go and relax.
Even if this is the main motivator, it is still a good example of competition working.
Heh, do you really think the police were content to leave this issue after the guy got the car back under control? It would set an outstanding precident if they did. :)
I think that a car hammering along at 120mph wouldn't be particularly unusual on French roads mind
The ID release information suggests that ATI might finally get their finger out and are working towards decent Linux drivers. This would surely be a great contribution to Linux, even for non-Doomers ;)
Whoah, sure beats my iPod's 8 hour battery life!
I don't have Flash. A couple of non-php static html pages generated once a day could have handled a league table, with a PHP search. :)
Did the Conspiracy page report a coincidence of the words 'Fu*c' and 'Microsoft'?
Yes, he used a PERL script to generate the graph. Less than orthodox for an MS employee. His blog's 'not a .net blog' caption also hints at a certain cynicism being harboured.
I don't want a distinct view, I'd prefer an objective one :)
Talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy!
It wouln't be as limiting as connecting to my home server which is on a 512kb DSL connection. The upstream is castrated at about 256kb.
The idea of GPL music intrigues me, but I find it too limiting for my tastes. Isn't it a good enough tradeoff right now to support non-RIAA music?
This may be a moot point - if they don't want their service being used in this way it shouldn't be too difficult for them to prevent people from using Gmail in this way. I agree that it is unlikely that Google will condone this project. Time will tell.
This could compliment a knoppix (or any liveCD) CD perfectly.
Then again, this is Slashdot.
Ah well, time will tell.
And the artists responsible for that hall of fame should be shot for being better than me.
Makes you look at WiFi rifles in a whole new light (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/03/wi-fi_aer ial_gun/).
Google does seem to have enough irons in the fire to ensure that it carries on developing it's usefulness. The more useful it becomes, the more people use it, the more people use it, the greater the potential to generate revenue from ads or other online revenue models (such as Google Answers).
I do, however, object to mid-article text links taking me to adverts. Years of internet conditioning have taught me that mid-article links should take the reader to relevent resources to the article I am reading, and I am often inclined to open up several links in other tabs while I continue to read the main article.
I, for one, would be lost without it. However, I will be interested to see how it develops now it's under external influences.