It seems like this could be a great opportunity, if the XUL adaptation works out, to spread the Mozilla framework! Kudos to OO's asperations, they are certainly in for an undertaking
What I am mostly curious about is what can be done with the collateral informtation, information gathered about an innocent civilian accidentally by the government while tracking a terrorist, such as instant-messages as cited by the article. Let's say someone is discussing some sort of non-terrorist criminal activity, like robbing a bank. Is the government still required to throw the data away?
What kind of cock-head moron pays all that tuition for college only to miss every single class?? You know what someone like that deserves? Nothing.
Let's get real here folks, who could possibly cry about $2.50 for the most valuable thing one human being can ever give another: knowledge. You could simply not buy 1 gram of weed and have ample money to skip your classes and still get the information from your lectures.
Well, you need to play for a bit longer to get to this point, but they actually start adding entries to the "off-limit" area, there-by forcing you and your partner to generate more specified results. This refinement process is a good idea, IMO, and will generate the best set of data with which to gauge the effectiveness of their recently aquired image analyzing software, Neven Vision.
I figured I would take this opportunity to whore out Romhacking.net, a retro game hacking/translation resource. It features community member databases, message boards, utility and document resources, user driven news and submissions. It's a pretty well place.
I don't know, it just seems to me that Blockbuster wouldn't sign on to such a deal and completely abandon their core business in this fashion. What happens when those users -do- get broadband? How many years away is that really? Is Blockbuster okay when, in a few years, Apple has seen a substantial drop in their customer base using these service centers, because of the convenience from their home, and decides they're done? Where will Blockbuster go then?
The problem I see with AJAX technologies is that almost none of them have been put to any good -use-. Everyone keeps talking about the 'potential' of such applications, the 'implications' AJAX-like setups can have for software and desktops.... But how many actually -useful- applications do I use a day? What, Gmail? Every now and then when I get directions or I'm board enough to check the satallite photos, Google Maps. And really, those things are the cream of the crop for AJAX applications. Most other sites integrate AJAX in a small way, ways that are helpful and I'm sure appreciated by their users, but nothing earth shattering and certainly nothing that ushers in the obvious defeat of the modern desktop as we know it. Most of these things are subtle improvements on an existing platform.
Frankly I would be both a bit suprised and pissed if the user interface of webpages -didn't- evolve into something much more responsive and a bit more slick. Am I the only one who sees this as a completely expected progression and not the eXTreM3 R3V0LUTION 3.0??
I understand AJAX from a technical perspective, I've made a few "AJAX" applications myself, I just don't see the results and the real world practicality to back up the absurd wave of hype. Consider me slightly amused and half-interested until I see the types of applications that fundamentally shift the ways I'm using this machine as I've been promised.
I'm new to the business world and particuarily the business/marketing aspects of software developement and website design, but do all industries act like this? Am I getting bent out of shape over nothing, or is the hyperbole really hitting the roof on this one?
I'm a bit late to the game and have no personal perspective on XUL (I'm a youngin'), so forgive me if I seem out of touch.. I'm not sure why it -hasn't- taken off.. But what I do know is that I have been experimenting with it a lot lately, and I greatly enjoy it! Currently, popular Mozilla-based applications such as Firefox and Thunderbird are on track to be integrated with XULRunner (which recently achieved version XULRunner 1.8.0.1 as a developer preview!), so hopefully this will give XUL a little kick in the pants, something I would love to see:)
From one of the XULRunner pages, "The goal of XULRunner is to provide a solution for deploying XUL applications (primarily Firefox and Thunderbird), as well as providing an embedding mechanism."
Consider this if the IE team chose a vastly different icon:
IE is the dominant browser. The people who are most likely to be using Internet Explorer are also the people who are most likely to not realize that Firefox might have originally created the icon or even care about it.
All they will see is that when their friends try to switch them to this "newcomer" browser, it uses a different icon and poor old IE user gets confused and don't feel like switching. The less barriers, the less little things that add up, the lower the learning curve for people to switch. While it might not seem like much, these things pile on top of each other for someone who only knows IE as "the internet" and was not previously aware that there is something else out there.
The idea of a distributed search engine is really nothing at all new. I had the same idea last year when building my own small test search engine (it sucked), only to find out that it alreadyexisted. All told, I still like the idea...
The sentence that really caught my eye in that entry was the following:
We're also working on some new mobile features that will make your Google account more useful and secure, such as SMS alerts and password recovery.
I was imagining Google turning your phone into a Gmail pager: Mobile alerts when you have new mail, when specific news topics have new entries, or maybe even when someone attempts to call you on Google Talk while AFK...at least, just a thought.
"It sees the move as a way of generating more money for the record industry, which would use it to discover new talent."
That's like suggesting legislation that increases Time Warner's revenue by two-fold is an investment in journalism and new talent that might someday appear on their child company CNN.
"Bands like Coldplay will make enough money for their company to help them discover around 50 or 100 bands."
another very important and valid point. although it might make me feel less like killing myself if coldplay didn't suck so much cock. honestly.
Besides, in regards to pop music, the talent isn't so much "discovered" as it is "haphazardly selected based on a modicum of talent and willingness to sell one's soul to be recast through the industry's stock-standard template and becoming part of legitimized prostitution."
indeed it is played and indeed it does suck, but i had thought it was built upon only private donations? I truly hope that I am mistaken.
and speaking of music in Naperville: rock on, Blue Oyster Cult at Ribfest.
...and this news of biometric identification in the library is nothing. What has me far more concerned is the fact that the local tanning beds have had this technology long before our libraries. Yes, you heard correct, when I go every now and again to ensure my latent onset of cancer, I have to be identified by fingerprint. And personally, I'm terrified of that information getting out; god only knows what the government could do with the knowledge that I use a level 2 bed for 15 minutes every now and again (I have sensitive skin, give me break).
When you're getting into SEO you will quickly find that, quite honestly, Google is all that matters. I don't know that people think that SEO only applies to Google, but I know many people who understand that SEO is more effective with Google.
i think the posting of such modifications is similar to the posting of Game Genie codes (which another member has also mentioned), which can alter the course of gameplay by either directly altering a game's code or it's RAM.
The Game Genie "codes" were just a means for obfuscating the true nature of it's game alterations, but in essance it was doing the exact same thing as the posted modifications.
NES WORLD, which summarized the Nintendo vs Galoob Game Genie case, offers this information which (to me at least) seems very relavant and perhaps in the least not bad news for NinjaHacker and co?
http://www.nesworld.com/law-0005.htm
"After trial, the district court found:
(1) The "Game Genie" does not create a "derivative work" within the definition in 101. "[I]nherent in the concept of a `derivative work' is the ability for that work to exist on its own, fixed and transferable from the original work, i.e., having a separate `form'. . . . The Game Genie does not meet that definition." Id. at 1291. (emphasis in original).
The court distinguished Midway Mfg. Co. v. Artic Int'l, Inc., stating that "Midway's result, if not its analysis, appears to have turned on the fact that the licensee arcade owner, not the copyright holder, was making money from the performance of the altered game, a violation of section 106(4) (copyright holder has exclusive right `to perform the copyrighted work publicly')." Id.
Under the facts of Midway, that court "was willing to `stretch' the acceptable definition of a derivative work." Id. The Galoob court, however, was not willing to "stretch" the definition of "derivative work" where the performance was non- commercial and was confined to the homes of purchasers of legitimate copies of the videogame.
(2) "[E]ven if the Game Genie did create a derivative product, the doctrine of `fair use' enables consumers to use the Game Genie for their personal enjoyment, 17 U.S.C. 107, and therefore allows Galoob to sell it." Id. at 1286. In its analysis of fair use, the court "relied extensively," id. at 1292, on Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc. -- particularly in its emphasis on the first statutory fair use factor, the purpose and character of the use. The court found that the non-commercial, nonprofit nature of the use by the alleged direct infringer, the videogame purchaser, created a presumption of fair use. Id. at 1293.
On the fourth fair use factor (effect on the work's potential market or value), the court said it had not been shown that the use supplanted demand for Nintendo's works, that any actual or reasonably likely market was injured, or that use of the Game Genie in ways that arguably infringe Nintendo's copyrights would diminish the overall demand for Nintendo games. Id. at 1294-98. Nor did the remaining fair use factors weigh in favor of Nintendo. Id. at 1293-94.
(3) "Galoob's use of copyrighted video games for purposes of testing or marketing the Game Genie does not violate any of Nintendo's rights under the Copyright Act." Id. at 1286.
(4) A permanent injunction in favor of Nintendo would not be warranted even if the court had found copyright infringement because:
"1) Any presumption of immediate and irreparable harm resulting from the alleged infringement was rebutted;
2) The presence of the Game Genie in the market benefits the public by expanding personal consumer utilization of purchased games; and
3) Assuming infringement, adequate remedies exist at law." Id. at 1298."
yes, but from what i recall Galoob was charged with allowing a user to create unauthorized derivative works, which was later to be found false, because a "derivative work" has to be able to stand and run on it's own.
are they charging Ninja and folk with something similar?
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It seems like this could be a great opportunity, if the XUL adaptation works out, to spread the Mozilla framework! Kudos to OO's asperations, they are certainly in for an undertaking
nt = ninja turtles
What I am mostly curious about is what can be done with the collateral informtation, information gathered about an innocent civilian accidentally by the government while tracking a terrorist, such as instant-messages as cited by the article. Let's say someone is discussing some sort of non-terrorist criminal activity, like robbing a bank. Is the government still required to throw the data away?
What kind of cock-head moron pays all that tuition for college only to miss every single class?? You know what someone like that deserves? Nothing. Let's get real here folks, who could possibly cry about $2.50 for the most valuable thing one human being can ever give another: knowledge. You could simply not buy 1 gram of weed and have ample money to skip your classes and still get the information from your lectures.
Well, you need to play for a bit longer to get to this point, but they actually start adding entries to the "off-limit" area, there-by forcing you and your partner to generate more specified results. This refinement process is a good idea, IMO, and will generate the best set of data with which to gauge the effectiveness of their recently aquired image analyzing software, Neven Vision.
A lot of them have been destroyed.
For further information on CSS compatability, check out the IEBlog entry, "Details on our CSS changes for IE7", as well as the Quirksmode CSS browser compatability page.
I figured I would take this opportunity to whore out Romhacking.net, a retro game hacking/translation resource. It features community member databases, message boards, utility and document resources, user driven news and submissions. It's a pretty well place.
I don't know, it just seems to me that Blockbuster wouldn't sign on to such a deal and completely abandon their core business in this fashion. What happens when those users -do- get broadband? How many years away is that really? Is Blockbuster okay when, in a few years, Apple has seen a substantial drop in their customer base using these service centers, because of the convenience from their home, and decides they're done? Where will Blockbuster go then?
The problem I see with AJAX technologies is that almost none of them have been put to any good -use-. Everyone keeps talking about the 'potential' of such applications, the 'implications' AJAX-like setups can have for software and desktops.... But how many actually -useful- applications do I use a day? What, Gmail? Every now and then when I get directions or I'm board enough to check the satallite photos, Google Maps. And really, those things are the cream of the crop for AJAX applications. Most other sites integrate AJAX in a small way, ways that are helpful and I'm sure appreciated by their users, but nothing earth shattering and certainly nothing that ushers in the obvious defeat of the modern desktop as we know it. Most of these things are subtle improvements on an existing platform.
Frankly I would be both a bit suprised and pissed if the user interface of webpages -didn't- evolve into something much more responsive and a bit more slick. Am I the only one who sees this as a completely expected progression and not the eXTreM3 R3V0LUTION 3.0??
I understand AJAX from a technical perspective, I've made a few "AJAX" applications myself, I just don't see the results and the real world practicality to back up the absurd wave of hype. Consider me slightly amused and half-interested until I see the types of applications that fundamentally shift the ways I'm using this machine as I've been promised.
I'm new to the business world and particuarily the business/marketing aspects of software developement and website design, but do all industries act like this? Am I getting bent out of shape over nothing, or is the hyperbole really hitting the roof on this one?
I'm a bit late to the game and have no personal perspective on XUL (I'm a youngin'), so forgive me if I seem out of touch.. I'm not sure why it -hasn't- taken off.. But what I do know is that I have been experimenting with it a lot lately, and I greatly enjoy it! Currently, popular Mozilla-based applications such as Firefox and Thunderbird are on track to be integrated with XULRunner (which recently achieved version XULRunner 1.8.0.1 as a developer preview!), so hopefully this will give XUL a little kick in the pants, something I would love to see :)
From one of the XULRunner pages, "The goal of XULRunner is to provide a solution for deploying XUL applications (primarily Firefox and Thunderbird), as well as providing an embedding mechanism."
Consider this if the IE team chose a vastly different icon:
IE is the dominant browser. The people who are most likely to be using Internet Explorer are also the people who are most likely to not realize that Firefox might have originally created the icon or even care about it.
All they will see is that when their friends try to switch them to this "newcomer" browser, it uses a different icon and poor old IE user gets confused and don't feel like switching. The less barriers, the less little things that add up, the lower the learning curve for people to switch. While it might not seem like much, these things pile on top of each other for someone who only knows IE as "the internet" and was not previously aware that there is something else out there.
..or postit note.
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http://gavin.panicus.org/downloads/javascript/pos
Postit Notes 2.0. I'm turning this into an AJAX ready application (mozilla only during testing)
I've found the elusive formula! VC's can send me an email to get contact information to send checks!!
1) Notes
2) Add the word "AJAX"
3) PROFIT!!!
At least being stoned all the time makes dupes more tolerable when I don't remember reading them the first time.
The idea of a distributed search engine is really nothing at all new. I had the same idea last year when building my own small test search engine (it sucked), only to find out that it already existed. All told, I still like the idea...
Right.. but you seem to be forgetting that Myspace.com is just a terrible mess.
"It sees the move as a way of generating more money for the record industry, which would use it to discover new talent."
That's like suggesting legislation that increases Time Warner's revenue by two-fold is an investment in journalism and new talent that might someday appear on their child company CNN.
"Bands like Coldplay will make enough money for their company to help them discover around 50 or 100 bands."
another very important and valid point. although it might make me feel less like killing myself if coldplay didn't suck so much cock. honestly.
Besides, in regards to pop music, the talent isn't so much "discovered" as it is "haphazardly selected based on a modicum of talent and willingness to sell one's soul to be recast through the industry's stock-standard template and becoming part of legitimized prostitution."
...Do you have Robot Insurance?
Because robots eat old people's medicine for food. And robots are strong.
indeed it is played and indeed it does suck, but i had thought it was built upon only private donations? I truly hope that I am mistaken. and speaking of music in Naperville: rock on, Blue Oyster Cult at Ribfest.
...and this news of biometric identification in the library is nothing. What has me far more concerned is the fact that the local tanning beds have had this technology long before our libraries. Yes, you heard correct, when I go every now and again to ensure my latent onset of cancer, I have to be identified by fingerprint. And personally, I'm terrified of that information getting out; god only knows what the government could do with the knowledge that I use a level 2 bed for 15 minutes every now and again (I have sensitive skin, give me break).
When you're getting into SEO you will quickly find that, quite honestly, Google is all that matters. I don't know that people think that SEO only applies to Google, but I know many people who understand that SEO is more effective with Google.
i think the posting of such modifications is similar to the posting of Game Genie codes (which another member has also mentioned), which can alter the course of gameplay by either directly altering a game's code or it's RAM.
The Game Genie "codes" were just a means for obfuscating the true nature of it's game alterations, but in essance it was doing the exact same thing as the posted modifications.
NES WORLD, which summarized the Nintendo vs Galoob Game Genie case, offers this information which (to me at least) seems very relavant and perhaps in the least not bad news for NinjaHacker and co?
http://www.nesworld.com/law-0005.htm
"After trial, the district court found:
(1) The "Game Genie" does not create a "derivative work" within the definition in 101. "[I]nherent in the concept of a `derivative work' is the ability for that work to exist on its own, fixed and transferable from the original work, i.e., having a separate `form'. . . . The Game Genie does not meet that definition." Id. at 1291. (emphasis in original).
The court distinguished Midway Mfg. Co. v. Artic Int'l, Inc., stating that "Midway's result, if not its analysis, appears to have turned on the fact that the licensee arcade owner, not the copyright holder, was making money from the performance of the altered game, a violation of section 106(4) (copyright holder has exclusive right `to perform the copyrighted work publicly')." Id.
Under the facts of Midway, that court "was willing to `stretch' the acceptable definition of a derivative work." Id. The Galoob court, however, was not willing to "stretch" the definition of "derivative work" where the performance was non- commercial and was confined to the homes of purchasers of legitimate copies of the videogame.
(2) "[E]ven if the Game Genie did create a derivative product, the doctrine of `fair use' enables consumers to use the Game Genie for their personal enjoyment, 17 U.S.C. 107, and therefore allows Galoob to sell it." Id. at 1286. In its analysis of fair use, the court "relied extensively," id. at 1292, on Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc. -- particularly in its emphasis on the first statutory fair use factor, the purpose and character of the use. The court found that the non-commercial, nonprofit nature of the use by the alleged direct infringer, the videogame purchaser, created a presumption of fair use. Id. at 1293.
On the fourth fair use factor (effect on the work's potential market or value), the court said it had not been shown that the use supplanted demand for Nintendo's works, that any actual or reasonably likely market was injured, or that use of the Game Genie in ways that arguably infringe Nintendo's copyrights would diminish the overall demand for Nintendo games. Id. at 1294-98. Nor did the remaining fair use factors weigh in favor of Nintendo. Id. at 1293-94.
(3) "Galoob's use of copyrighted video games for purposes of testing or marketing the Game Genie does not violate any of Nintendo's rights under the Copyright Act." Id. at 1286.
(4) A permanent injunction in favor of Nintendo would not be warranted even if the court had found copyright infringement because:
"1) Any presumption of immediate and irreparable harm resulting from the alleged infringement was rebutted;
2) The presence of the Game Genie in the market benefits the public by expanding personal consumer utilization of purchased games; and
3) Assuming infringement, adequate remedies exist at law." Id. at 1298."
yes, but from what i recall Galoob was charged with allowing a user to create unauthorized derivative works, which was later to be found false, because a "derivative work" has to be able to stand and run on it's own. are they charging Ninja and folk with something similar?