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It just goes to show what kind of jerk the guy is, when he can't say one sentence without profanity in it. The language becomes more important than his (otherwise solid) thesis. It's a distraction and a detraction from the message, and he acted childish about it.
I'm not some prude who can't listen to the Seven Words You Can't Say on TV. I've been known to lace a few extreme words into my messages where I think it could use a little punch.
Only a CEO can get away with that sort of petulant behavior, because anyone else in the organization can (and should) be called to task on it. Human Resources departments are there to help make discourse more professional by disallowing stupid childish pranks like that, and I hope his direct reports give him a just earful. It's that sort of spinelessness that gets large organizations in trouble.
This whole story should be marked(-1, Flamebait) or (-1, Troll).
The job shared by Hemos, CmdrTaco, et al., can be stated as
publishing stories on the front page that will generate lots
of page visits. To troll, in the fishing sense, is to put bait
out that will generate predictable bites on the hook. Thus,
Slashdot is a troll, but that's by design.
If you don't want to be baited, don't go somewhere that
constantly and loudly claims to have nothing to do with
professional journalism. They intend to get people to talk,
even if it's on a gut-reaction level, as that is what pays the
rent.
This is similar to a California ruling where the judge upheld a Californian resident's right to descramble satellite broadcasts, stating if they didn't want him to see their content, then get it off of his property. This doesn't mean that the judge said satellite broadcasts cannot be scrambled, just that if they aren't scrambled sufficiently, then they cannot prosecute home users that descramble the signal.
It would seem that this is thrown out the window by the DMCA, however.
Previously, if I went to the retail store and bought a piece of glass-plastic-and-burnt-aluminum, I was able to do whatever I wanted with that glass-plastic-and-burnt-aluminum, for my own noncommercial use. I wanted to read the content on it, descramble it, and view it. I was rightly allowed to, and the courts upheld that notion. Paraphrased, "if they don't want me to use the content inside, they shouldn't let me bring the media home."
(As an aside, I'd say that I would go along with the notion that I couldn't make revenue off content that I bought at retail. Retail is for private end-consumers. If I want to become a distributor, I should acquire a business agreement with the distributor(s) higher up the chain.)
But the DMCA changes this world. Congress has altered the law, and the courts are charged with interpreting the current law, not the old case law. Akin to the bedroom laws, these media laws senselessly restrict what I can do with people and objects I bring into my own home.
What the article subject says to me is "Fraunhofer is developing something new, which is bad because we've just managed to legally use the last thing they didwithout paying for it."
Link given above was broken due to the magic
of "spacedot," the combination of lazy perl code
and a narrow text-entry box that adds rand om sp
a ces to lon g wor ds, as if mySQL or Perl or
HTML really had such wordwrapping limits.
Link given (http://stream.apple.akadns.net/keynote_010901_ref . mov) was broken due to the magic of "spacedot," that lazy perl code that adds rand om sp a ces to lon g wor ds, as if mySQL or Perl or HTML really had such wordwrapping limits.
NYT's online group just laid off 17 people. I wonder if it's because they aren't getting the revenues generated by selling the marketing info from those annoying registrations?
I doubt they'll change anytime soon, though now they're the only "registration required" login that c|net, Wired and Slashdot regularly link.
The adage goes, "the net sees censorship as damage, and routes around it." Is this Microsoft's scheme to route around it? The.net project was started when the courts told Microsoft to quit messing with someone else's standards on JVMs.
Microsoft's putting C# in front of standards committees strikes me to be similar to their attempt to standardize NT. It's not Microsoft who made NT/Alpha and NT/MIPS fail, it's the Alpha and Mips people who licensed, ported, and gave up on those platforms. At least, that's how Microsoft sees it.
Similarly, if Linux makes a half-hearted implementation of.NET or C#, and it doesn't take off, it's still not Microsoft's fault: they can focus on the Wintel hegemony in comfort.
Sure, but read up on it. It's not as difficult as it would be with say, a sextant, but it's still pretty tough in many cases.
For example, in Manhattan NY NY, find the sidewalk AROUND the building that houses those coordinates. Figure out a way to get access to the rooftop garden for the prize. Oh, but the GPS unit you have has an EPE (estimated positional error) of about fifty feet. Damn, was in that mailbox on the streetcorner or not?
Or, you're in a forest, in a river valley. You've narrowed the position down to a tenth of an acre, but the tree and rock coverage gives you crappy reception. You figure it's right there, but an outcropping means you'll have to trek the long way to find a way to ford the stream.
Just because some people don't use the term 'hacker' in some circumstances, doesn't mean that everyone must follow suit, or even care.
Most of the media, even computer industry rags, still uses the term 'hacker' for both the good and bad intent. The people who moan about "GNU/"Linux, and "cracker" endlessly really need to find a new hobby.
Not a flame, just my opinion. Mark it down, call me troll, but really, I think people have more important things to think about than trying to get everyone to follow some individual's pet agenda.
Public art is different from publicly-funded art. Public art is fine. I think the monolith is actually quite cool. But I'm glad I didn't pay for it.
If you're in Seattle, your tax revenues ARE going to the art funds. Maybe you DID pay for that monolith; the artist hasn't been revealed yet.
The government has no business spending my money on art. If I want art, I'll buy it. Or if some patron wants to buy it or create it and put it on display, then I may or may not look at it -- my choice.
Certainly a valid opinion, but here's mine. Cities are communities, and taxes go to build all aspects of the community. That means zoning to keep industrial waste more-or-less out of your front yard, fixing potholes, providing parks and recreational areas, and yep, you guessed it, public art. So that's publically funded public art. And if you don't like the 'foo' at 'Baz & Main', then write a letter to your city council. Personally, if you don't like a few surprises in art, I'd rather you just find some other community where you can be a curmudgeon to your heart's content.
It's not the feet, it's the ratio between the measurements. It could be 1 : 4 : 9 cubits or zoinkles or leagues, it doesn't matter. Those measurements would show to some other race that the makers knew MATH.
Seattle has one of the most progressive government programs I've ever heard: they decree that 1% of the annual budget must be spent on public art. Statues, murals, sculptures of all sorts, everywhere you go. It's really pretty cool to have real art that's not hidden away. (Even if one or two particular pieces don't tickle your fancy.)
That's one short man in the photo if it's only six feet tall.
Didn't see whether the other axes were FOUR feet by ONE foot, but it looks plausible.
(In Clarke and Kubrick's films, as well as Clarke's books, the monoliths' measurements were in the ratio of 1 : 4 : 9, the squares of the first three positive integers, presumably as a sign that the creator was aware of the universality of mathematics as a way of communicating between evolved species.)
So, they develop schools to get kids to stop working in sweatshops, and what do they do when they get there? They work for the schools. Not learn AT the schools, but they work FOR the schools.
I think having an 8 year old typing or otherwise demonstrating knowledge is a LOT better than having them sewing Nike sneakers or digging up DeBeers diamonds, but the distinction between schooling and working is still pretty vague.
Not knowing anything about modern processor design, maybe this is naive, but...
If the processor itself is dealing with thread-local state, wouldn't you include more than one prefetch queue/pipeline, and match available pipelines to working threads just like any other register set or other thread-local stuff?
"In this thread, I am executing clock two of a floating pt divide, have this suite of values in the registers, and have prefetched sixty probable future instructions." Multiply by four for a 4xSMT processor.
It's still using a single fetch mechanism to feed stuff to the pipelines, but one stalled thread doesn't waste the whole clock cycle that could have been spent fetching for another thread's pipeline.
Like I said, I once was able to grok the actual transistor design of a 6502, but nothing more modern than that.
Of course, why buy from Sony, the near-monopoly of the movie industry? So you can screw them over by not registering or using their provided software.
The above logic, "buy Sony hardware but screw Sony by not using their provided software" made me laugh.
Hardware enjoys a hefty markup over the price that covers COGS (cost of goods and services) plus NRE (non-recurring engineering). They tack on US$35 or so, about 1%-2% of the total retail price, to include software made by other companies. They value your registration card somewhere between $0.05 and $5.00 in marketing, which is about 0.3% max of the total retail price.
Oh, Sony's quaking in their boots! Sony is in the business of making hardware and media. They outsource the software and content. If you don't use the software they provide, they frankly don't care.
The actual shot may be "painless," but watch out for claims of concussions, fractures and other injuries when the "frozen" suspect hits the ground or any other nearby object. Heaven help them if they were running at the time they got hit, too. The keyword here is 'suspect'. As in, not officially proven guilty, which in the USA is up to a judge to determine.
Arguments like "Nah, he only has a couple ounces, it must be for personal use" won't stand up in the digital age. You can't sector-by-sector replicate a gram of coke.
The DMCA may not state you can be persecu-- er, prosecuted for owning one copy of DeCSS, but they may certainly tell the judge that "He's got it, and most likely distributes it to all his friends."
I hadn't heard of DocBook, so I went fishing on docbook.org for some basic info.
The state of the documentation for this product is fairly lacking. (Hey, it's a DOCUMENT application!) There's no "getting started with DocBook" stuff. There's no official tutorial.
The closest thing to a tutorial I found is this page: DocBook intro. I'll excerpt the front page.
DocBook intro
Here is my tutorial on DocBook. I never completed it, but it is still useful, since others don't focus on a complete beginner tutorial.
Last modified: Mon Jul 27 11:19:57 1998
Frankly, this sums up my issue with many Open Source projects: making a technically superior tool is not enough to generate wide user acceptance. There has to be an easy migration path from what the user's already got.
DocBook needs at least ONE of the following to get people going:
RTF/DOC/FrameMaker/TeX to DocBook converters, supporting at least a good 75% of basic features,
A usable migration tutorial that assumes the user already makes RTF/DOC/FrameMaker/TeX documents,
A usable editor that shows the results, even if it has to be two-paned to show both source and results.
I'm not flaming Open Source in general, but this is not the first time I have heard of a tool that would fit my needs exactly, except they put very large barriers to entry in my path.
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It just goes to show what kind of jerk the guy is, when he can't say one sentence without profanity in it. The language becomes more important than his (otherwise solid) thesis. It's a distraction and a detraction from the message, and he acted childish about it.
I'm not some prude who can't listen to the Seven Words You Can't Say on TV. I've been known to lace a few extreme words into my messages where I think it could use a little punch.
Only a CEO can get away with that sort of petulant behavior, because anyone else in the organization can (and should) be called to task on it. Human Resources departments are there to help make discourse more professional by disallowing stupid childish pranks like that, and I hope his direct reports give him a just earful. It's that sort of spinelessness that gets large organizations in trouble.
Of all the corrupt $WHOREING$ things western governments are doing right now, this has got to take the cake...
Is it just me, or did anyone else read this in the parent, and think, "what kind of variable is WHOREING?"
[stock rant on the subject]
This whole story should be marked (-1, Flamebait) or (-1, Troll) .
The job shared by Hemos, CmdrTaco, et al., can be stated as publishing stories on the front page that will generate lots of page visits. To troll, in the fishing sense, is to put bait out that will generate predictable bites on the hook. Thus, Slashdot is a troll, but that's by design.
If you don't want to be baited, don't go somewhere that constantly and loudly claims to have nothing to do with professional journalism. They intend to get people to talk, even if it's on a gut-reaction level, as that is what pays the rent.
[end of stock rant on the subject]
Somewhat of a side question or solution; are your needs simple enough for the much-less-expensive Cobalt Qube?
I'm considering getting a Qube, as it would help me deal with all the www/ftp/smb stuff I use for my work-at-home days.
If anyone has a Qube, lemme know if it supports hosting CVS? How about setting up ipsec tunneling? (I have a second box doing vpn/nat already.)
This is similar to a California ruling where the judge upheld a Californian resident's right to descramble satellite broadcasts, stating if they didn't want him to see their content, then get it off of his property. This doesn't mean that the judge said satellite broadcasts cannot be scrambled, just that if they aren't scrambled sufficiently, then they cannot prosecute home users that descramble the signal.
It would seem that this is thrown out the window by the DMCA, however.
Previously, if I went to the retail store and bought a piece of glass-plastic-and-burnt-aluminum, I was able to do whatever I wanted with that glass-plastic-and-burnt-aluminum, for my own noncommercial use. I wanted to read the content on it, descramble it, and view it. I was rightly allowed to, and the courts upheld that notion. Paraphrased, "if they don't want me to use the content inside, they shouldn't let me bring the media home."
(As an aside, I'd say that I would go along with the notion that I couldn't make revenue off content that I bought at retail. Retail is for private end-consumers. If I want to become a distributor, I should acquire a business agreement with the distributor(s) higher up the chain.)
But the DMCA changes this world. Congress has altered the law, and the courts are charged with interpreting the current law, not the old case law. Akin to the bedroom laws, these media laws senselessly restrict what I can do with people and objects I bring into my own home.
What the article subject says to me is "Fraunhofer is developing something new, which is bad because we've just managed to legally use the last thing they did without paying for it ."
Last phrase mine.
Link given above was broken due to the magic of "spacedot," the combination of lazy perl code and a narrow text-entry box that adds rand om sp a ces to lon g wor ds, as if mySQL or Perl or HTML really had such wordwrapping limits.
Fixed:/ index.html
http://www.salon.com/books/wire/2001/01/09/ginger
Link given (http://stream.apple.akadns.net/keynote_010901_ref . mov) was broken due to the magic of "spacedot," that lazy perl code that adds rand om sp a ces to lon g wor ds, as if mySQL or Perl or HTML really had such wordwrapping limits.
Fixed:. mov
http://stream.apple.akadns.net/keynote_010901_ref
NYT's online group just laid off 17 people. I wonder if it's because they aren't getting the revenues generated by selling the marketing info from those annoying registrations?
I doubt they'll change anytime soon, though now they're the only "registration required" login that c|net, Wired and Slashdot regularly link.
The adage goes, "the net sees censorship as damage, and routes around it." Is this Microsoft's scheme to route around it? The .net project was started when the courts told Microsoft to quit messing with someone else's standards on JVMs.
Microsoft's putting C# in front of standards committees strikes me to be similar to their attempt to standardize NT. It's not Microsoft who made NT/Alpha and NT/MIPS fail, it's the Alpha and Mips people who licensed, ported, and gave up on those platforms. At least, that's how Microsoft sees it.
Similarly, if Linux makes a half-hearted implementation of .NET or C#, and it doesn't take off, it's still not Microsoft's fault: they can focus on the Wintel hegemony in comfort.
Unless they put some roots under the thing, it's too easy for some punk to topple. That would probably be bad if somebody was on the other side.
If they rooted it safely in the park, I'd be all for it. As it is, I'm just hoping that nobody ends up arrested or dead over this stunt.
ACK! I just spent the regular price on a Garmin GPS III+!
Digging for a receipt...
Sure, but read up on it. It's not as difficult as it would be with say, a sextant, but it's still pretty tough in many cases.
For example, in Manhattan NY NY, find the sidewalk AROUND the building that houses those coordinates. Figure out a way to get access to the rooftop garden for the prize. Oh, but the GPS unit you have has an EPE (estimated positional error) of about fifty feet. Damn, was in that mailbox on the streetcorner or not?
Or, you're in a forest, in a river valley. You've narrowed the position down to a tenth of an acre, but the tree and rock coverage gives you crappy reception. You figure it's right there, but an outcropping means you'll have to trek the long way to find a way to ford the stream.
Just because some people don't use the term 'hacker' in some circumstances, doesn't mean that everyone must follow suit, or even care.
Most of the media, even computer industry rags, still uses the term 'hacker' for both the good and bad intent. The people who moan about "GNU/"Linux, and "cracker" endlessly really need to find a new hobby.
Not a flame, just my opinion. Mark it down, call me troll, but really, I think people have more important things to think about than trying to get everyone to follow some individual's pet agenda.
Public art is different from publicly-funded art. Public art is fine. I think the monolith is actually quite cool. But I'm glad I didn't pay for it.
If you're in Seattle, your tax revenues ARE going to the art funds. Maybe you DID pay for that monolith; the artist hasn't been revealed yet.
The government has no business spending my money on art. If I want art, I'll buy it. Or if some patron wants to buy it or create it and put it on display, then I may or may not look at it -- my choice.
Certainly a valid opinion, but here's mine. Cities are communities, and taxes go to build all aspects of the community. That means zoning to keep industrial waste more-or-less out of your front yard, fixing potholes, providing parks and recreational areas, and yep, you guessed it, public art. So that's publically funded public art. And if you don't like the 'foo' at 'Baz & Main', then write a letter to your city council. Personally, if you don't like a few surprises in art, I'd rather you just find some other community where you can be a curmudgeon to your heart's content.
It's not the feet, it's the ratio between the measurements. It could be 1 : 4 : 9 cubits or zoinkles or leagues, it doesn't matter. Those measurements would show to some other race that the makers knew MATH.
Seattle has one of the most progressive government programs I've ever heard: they decree that 1% of the annual budget must be spent on public art. Statues, murals, sculptures of all sorts, everywhere you go. It's really pretty cool to have real art that's not hidden away. (Even if one or two particular pieces don't tickle your fancy.)
That's one short man in the photo if it's only six feet tall.
Didn't see whether the other axes were FOUR feet by ONE foot, but it looks plausible.
(In Clarke and Kubrick's films, as well as Clarke's books, the monoliths' measurements were in the ratio of 1 : 4 : 9, the squares of the first three positive integers, presumably as a sign that the creator was aware of the universality of mathematics as a way of communicating between evolved species.)
So, they develop schools to get kids to stop working in sweatshops, and what do they do when they get there? They work for the schools. Not learn AT the schools, but they work FOR the schools.
I think having an 8 year old typing or otherwise demonstrating knowledge is a LOT better than having them sewing Nike sneakers or digging up DeBeers diamonds, but the distinction between schooling and working is still pretty vague.
Not knowing anything about modern processor design, maybe this is naive, but...
If the processor itself is dealing with thread-local state, wouldn't you include more than one prefetch queue/pipeline, and match available pipelines to working threads just like any other register set or other thread-local stuff?
"In this thread, I am executing clock two of a floating pt divide, have this suite of values in the registers, and have prefetched sixty probable future instructions." Multiply by four for a 4xSMT processor.
It's still using a single fetch mechanism to feed stuff to the pipelines, but one stalled thread doesn't waste the whole clock cycle that could have been spent fetching for another thread's pipeline.
Like I said, I once was able to grok the actual transistor design of a 6502, but nothing more modern than that.
Of course, why buy from Sony, the near-monopoly of the movie industry? So you can screw them over by not registering or using their provided software.
The above logic, "buy Sony hardware but screw Sony by not using their provided software" made me laugh.
Hardware enjoys a hefty markup over the price that covers COGS (cost of goods and services) plus NRE (non-recurring engineering). They tack on US$35 or so, about 1%-2% of the total retail price, to include software made by other companies. They value your registration card somewhere between $0.05 and $5.00 in marketing, which is about 0.3% max of the total retail price.
Oh, Sony's quaking in their boots! Sony is in the business of making hardware and media. They outsource the software and content. If you don't use the software they provide, they frankly don't care .
The actual shot may be "painless," but watch out for claims of concussions, fractures and other injuries when the "frozen" suspect hits the ground or any other nearby object. Heaven help them if they were running at the time they got hit, too. The keyword here is 'suspect'. As in, not officially proven guilty, which in the USA is up to a judge to determine.
Gee, I haven't seen any .375 Magnums. Maybe I need to check the latest Guns&Ammo.
Last I'd heard, they settled on .357 as a bore size.
You've gotta check five times for stupid mistakes, when you call someone else on their stupid mistkaes.
Arguments like "Nah, he only has a couple ounces, it must be for personal use" won't stand up in the digital age. You can't sector-by-sector replicate a gram of coke.
The DMCA may not state you can be persecu-- er, prosecuted for owning one copy of DeCSS, but they may certainly tell the judge that "He's got it, and most likely distributes it to all his friends."
I hadn't heard of DocBook, so I went fishing on docbook.org for some basic info.
The state of the documentation for this product is fairly lacking. (Hey, it's a DOCUMENT application!) There's no "getting started with DocBook" stuff. There's no official tutorial.
The closest thing to a tutorial I found is this page: DocBook intro. I'll excerpt the front page.
Here is my tutorial on DocBook. I never completed it, but it is still useful, since others don't focus on a complete beginner tutorial.
Last modified: Mon Jul 27 11:19:57 1998
Frankly, this sums up my issue with many Open Source projects: making a technically superior tool is not enough to generate wide user acceptance. There has to be an easy migration path from what the user's already got.
DocBook needs at least ONE of the following to get people going:
RTF/DOC/FrameMaker/TeX to DocBook converters, supporting at least a good 75% of basic features,
A usable migration tutorial that assumes the user already makes RTF/DOC/FrameMaker/TeX documents,
A usable editor that shows the results, even if it has to be two-paned to show both source and results.
I'm not flaming Open Source in general, but this is not the first time I have heard of a tool that would fit my needs exactly, except they put very large barriers to entry in my path.