Google isn't threatened by people creating new services out of maps. If it was up to Google, you could probably do anything you wanted.
However, Google has suppliers. They are very interested in protecting their copyrighted data. They are, as yet, willing to allow modification of the Maps service for things like the housing map, etc. I'm not even sure that their agreement permits them to complain, as it is still Google serving the images.
Creating derivative works of the actual map photos crossed a line with the suppliers.
VoIP, meanwhile, lets JetBlue run an effective call center even though all agents work from their homes.
Agents access the airlines reservation-system application and phone system via two dial-up lines to their homes. The dial-up line for the application connects workers to the LAN inside the Salt Lake City data center. PC client software is used to access the system.
To get onto the call center's phone network, agents dial into an Avaya Definity G3 PBX phone switch, running call routing software for queuing and transferring calls to the right agent. The PBX establishes a direct link to the JetBlue agent, who hooks in via software rather than a traditional call-center desk phone set. The software is an Avaya softphone client that runs on Windows PCs and connects to the main office through a modem connection. The agents use a USB headset to talk with customers.
The softphone client also is integrated with the back-end systems, letting agents access customer records or other information quickly through screen-pops.
We have a slightly-puritanical mindset that we have to work for everything. Well...we are coming upon an easy and elegant solution to our energy problems.
Well, I predict that we'll soon come up with technology that uses all of the energy that these proposed solutions find, and then we'll keep working on new energy solutions.
Someone, a long time ago, thought that the waterwheel was the solution to their energy needs. It was, but then they discovered more needs.
PHP, the language, is not my favorite thing to work in. But it's not too bad when you're working in PHP 5, which has good OOP and XML support.
But PHP is expedient. If it gets the job done quicker, with less headache, while still letting me use best practices and design patterns, I'm all for it, obnoxious function naming be damned.
Ok, so I was into rails between 0.7 and 0.9 or so. But I went back to PHP for three reasons.
1. The libraries are thoroughly tested. 2. It's easier to deploy. 3. I trust the underlying stack.
But I learned a LOT from rails, and I use rails-style controllers and models in PHP, although I handle the relations manually. I think rails is a reminder of what a good application of design patterns gives you, but it's not the be-all and end-all.
Oh, and I did my own "PHP day" mad scramble with the idea I had for Rails day...And boy does it kick ass. It has the potential to change the way web developers work. It's easily the level of impact of PHPmyAdmin. Now to package it up...
You hit it Bert. The a photon's momentum is equal to Planck's constant times the frequency. As the particle gives up momentum to the sails, the frequency becomes lower, the light becomes redder, and eventually the high energy UV light you started with becomes really low energy radio waves as the energy keeps dropping.
As the FSF article states, we need free Java, free Java standard classes, and free Flash.
Conspicuously missing is free standard classes for Flash. Flash ships with useful, though buggy as hell, classes and controls that should have free versions as well.
Is there another solution for multimedia web application deployment with the reach (97% web broswer coverage) or power of Flash?
DHTML - suffers from memory leaks - Cross-browser issues - Minimal typography options - No Visual IDE
Java applets - slow - memory consuming - Microsoft vs. Sun, imbroglia
A couple more points: - There already are free Flash compilers out there (sans IDE). - Flash can be used as a frontend to Java using an open-source project called Lazlo.
Not that its a bad thing. Remember the Google Labs Aptitude Test? Or the billboard with the digits of e on it? This is more of the same. Its a way to screen out potential employees by motivation and skill in a real world environment. Think of it as a summer-long job interview at minimum-wage or less.
It has side benefits, like helping out the OSS community (that is, if the students don't do negative work, drawing more of the mentors' time than the usefulness they contribute). But, first and foremost, its about screening potential employees.
But the point is that while you are going the speed of light, while time appears normal to you, you will have traveled an infinite distance in that first instant of time in your reference frame.
Which leads to the observation that you could never stop going the speed of light, because when you decide to hit the brakes X seconds later, you would have traveled an infinite distance. Where would you end up? (Never mind the problem of having to dissipate infinite energy)
Signal vs. Noise has a discussion about how Google Web Accelerator can break web applications that rely on making state changes (i.e. deleting todo list items) over the GET protocol.
Even though the w3c reccommends using POST for state changes, GET is used all the time for practical reasons.
And for end-users, disable GWA while using a web application, or you may find items magically deleting themselves.
Fraud is generally defined in the law as an intentional misrepresentation of material existing fact made by one person to another with knowledge of its falsity and for the purpose of inducing the other person to act, and upon which the other person relies with resulting injury or damage. reference
I would think that in order for this to be illegal, univerity oversight and any special rules notwithstanding, a phishee would simply have to show damage, if in fact any damage exists.
> "MP3 is lossy compression - my copies are not copies but derivative works"
Every copy of anything macroscopic is a degraded version. It's hard to imagine a court ruling that copyright law doesn't apply because your xerox copy of someone's book was smudged or otherwise imperfect.
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Google isn't threatened by people creating new services out of maps. If it was up to Google, you could probably do anything you wanted.
However, Google has suppliers. They are very interested in protecting their copyrighted data. They are, as yet, willing to allow modification of the Maps service for things like the housing map, etc. I'm not even sure that their agreement permits them to complain, as it is still Google serving the images.
Creating derivative works of the actual map photos crossed a line with the suppliers.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2003/0609jetblue
We have a slightly-puritanical mindset that we have to work for everything. Well...we are coming upon an easy and elegant solution to our energy problems.
Well, I predict that we'll soon come up with technology that uses all of the energy that these proposed solutions find, and then we'll keep working on new energy solutions.
Someone, a long time ago, thought that the waterwheel was the solution to their energy needs. It was, but then they discovered more needs.
PHP, the language, is not my favorite thing to work in. But it's not too bad when you're working in PHP 5, which has good OOP and XML support.
But PHP is expedient. If it gets the job done quicker, with less headache, while still letting me use best practices and design patterns, I'm all for it, obnoxious function naming be damned.
Ok, so I was into rails between 0.7 and 0.9 or so. But I went back to PHP for three reasons.
1. The libraries are thoroughly tested.
2. It's easier to deploy.
3. I trust the underlying stack.
But I learned a LOT from rails, and I use rails-style controllers and models in PHP, although I handle the relations manually. I think rails is a reminder of what a good application of design patterns gives you, but it's not the be-all and end-all.
Oh, and I did my own "PHP day" mad scramble with the idea I had for Rails day...And boy does it kick ass. It has the potential to change the way web developers work. It's easily the level of impact of PHPmyAdmin. Now to package it up...
...Gram. Kilogram
You hit it Bert. The a photon's momentum is equal to Planck's constant times the frequency. As the particle gives up momentum to the sails, the frequency becomes lower, the light becomes redder, and eventually the high energy UV light you started with becomes really low energy radio waves as the energy keeps dropping.
Referenced here: http://javascript.weblogsinc.com/entry/12340002670 34921/
As the FSF article states, we need free Java, free Java standard classes, and free Flash.
Conspicuously missing is free standard classes for Flash. Flash ships with useful, though buggy as hell, classes and controls that should have free versions as well.
We all know that Flash can be annoying. But...
Is there another solution for multimedia web application deployment with the reach (97% web broswer coverage) or power of Flash?
DHTML
- suffers from memory leaks
- Cross-browser issues
- Minimal typography options
- No Visual IDE
Java applets
- slow
- memory consuming
- Microsoft vs. Sun, imbroglia
A couple more points:
- There already are free Flash compilers out there (sans IDE).
- Flash can be used as a frontend to Java using an open-source project called Lazlo.
GPLFlash makes these products more useful.
>> then we will be able to hold off our extinction for a few more years.
We're not in danger of becoming extinct from bacteria resistance. We adapt too.
full of toilet paper, that comes out to 17 Libraries of Congress of toilet paper per day.
Not that its a bad thing. Remember the Google Labs Aptitude Test? Or the billboard with the digits of e on it? This is more of the same. Its a way to screen out potential employees by motivation and skill in a real world environment. Think of it as a summer-long job interview at minimum-wage or less.
It has side benefits, like helping out the OSS community (that is, if the students don't do negative work, drawing more of the mentors' time than the usefulness they contribute). But, first and foremost, its about screening potential employees.
Ok, you try riding your bike through a Bose-Einstein condensate.
But the point is that while you are going the speed of light, while time appears normal to you, you will have traveled an infinite distance in that first instant of time in your reference frame.
Which leads to the observation that you could never stop going the speed of light, because when you decide to hit the brakes X seconds later, you would have traveled an infinite distance. Where would you end up? (Never mind the problem of having to dissipate infinite energy)
Besides the misnomer, "G forces" are proportional to acceleration, not velocity.
If you've been around college students and younger, you'd notice that more people check the time using cell phones than watches.
Signal vs. Noise has a discussion about how Google Web Accelerator can break web applications that rely on making state changes (i.e. deleting todo list items) over the GET protocol.
Even though the w3c reccommends using POST for state changes, GET is used all the time for practical reasons.
And for end-users, disable GWA while using a web application, or you may find items magically deleting themselves.
I resent that the answer to life, the universe, and everything is a result of any action of the **AA.
Fraud is generally defined in the law as an intentional misrepresentation of material existing fact made by one person to another with knowledge of its falsity and for the purpose of inducing the other person to act, and upon which the other person relies with resulting injury or damage. reference
I would think that in order for this to be illegal, univerity oversight and any special rules notwithstanding, a phishee would simply have to show damage, if in fact any damage exists.
Someone in the high-end popcorn business had to be pushing this story.
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> that's long ago been proven scientifically
I wish that whenever people say that they'd reference the relevant journal articles.
> "MP3 is lossy compression - my copies are not copies but derivative works"
Every copy of anything macroscopic is a degraded version. It's hard to imagine a court ruling that copyright law doesn't apply because your xerox copy of someone's book was smudged or otherwise imperfect.
> (The GPL explicitly allows this strategy.)
Can someone post the relevant snippet of the GPL? My cursory scan did not find it.
destroying CalTech's web servers...