Actually the decision has already been made. Because the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land, their decision to not hear the case, means that the decision of the lower court holds. So the decision of the lower court is final, but only affects cases in that district, not the whole of the United States.
Actually, yes. It was a boycott planned to begin on Valentine's Day, and continue until Google gave up it's evil censoring ways. A website was even set up to help with the occasion. No Luv 4 Google (It's not my spelling, it's theirs, sorry)
They're not just focusing on Google though, since Microsoft and Yahoo both filter their searches in China also. They've got a large list of alternative search engines you can use and other ways of protesting.
I have to disagree with you. Usually when I look up a lyric to a song, I'm doing so for the purpose of finding out the name of the song, for the purposes of purchasing the song. If I can't find out the name, then the music industry just lost a sale. The other times when I look up a lyric, it's to figure out a word or phrase to a song that I don't understand. If lyric sites didn't exist, I would continue to go without knowing what the song says. I wouldn't rush out to the store to buy the lyrics/sheet music. Hell, I wouldn't even casually walk to the store. Lyrics are something that don't matter to me. It's all about the music.
Remember this next time you make a generalization: All generalizations are false.
Ms. Anderson is one of the mothers previously mentioned who is taking a stand against the RIAA. (Slashdot article, direct link) She was sued by the RIAA, and after offering up her computer to their investigators and explainging that she did not and could not have shared those file, the suit was dropped, only to picked up a short time later by another member of the RIAA.
From the article:
"I have the least expensive computer system you can buy from Dell. The type you order off television for $499.00. It was purchased in the summer of 2002 and has the smallest hard drive they make. I have no cd writer on it and the cd-rom that I do have, does not even work correctly.
"I live alone with my 8-year-old daughter (who would have been seven at the time the alleged occurrence took place). I am a single mom who is disabled and unable to work. I live on Social Security disability and struggle to support my daughter and myself. If I am put in a position where I need to defend myself regarding this situation, it would create extreme financial hardship on me. I have no money and did not do what is being said. I also must admit that all this stuff that has been occurring with this whole ordeal has triggered my medical condition to flare lately.
"I have always been against music downloading. In fact, I have been a member of BMG's music club for quite some time and I purchase my music either from there or from Target. When I first got my computer set up almost three years ago, I had a friend set it up for me since I did not know how to do it. She had put Kaaza Lite on there and told me what it was. I never used it and had no interest in doing so. I deleted it since I had no use for it. Even though I deleted it correctly, as is recommended by Microsoft, Mr. Eilers has told me it can hide out in my system and play without me knowing about it. I have done a total check of my computer and it is no where on there.
"These files you are speaking accusing me of sharing (which Mr. Eiler told me about), are not and never have been on my computer system. Several of those artists, I have never even heard of! One, I understand, is a rap song. I am 42-years-old and do not even like rap music. The login that this person who did this apparently used, which Mr. Eiler told me of, is not a login name I have ever used or heard of.
"There is no one at my household who could have done what is being said at all. Mr. Eiler had brought up the fact that maybe a babysitter could have done it and that is impossible because I seldom have a sitter since I can't afford to pay one and am usually home."
The issue I always had with programming in VB, is that it breaks the Model-View-Controller pattern. All of the components given to you to use in your VB projects are compenents of the user interface. This is just not good programming practice. The user interface should have as little to do with the main operation of the program as possible.
There are NO pointers to worry about... Java is another language with this capability, though I'll agree it's not as much of a rapid development language.
it is physically impossible to get buffer overruns As another person mentioned, you can't trust any piece of software to be 100% bug free.
If I'm not mistaken I've also heard that there are a good number of servers that use this architecture, which may be another reason, in addition to the two already mentioned. If this is the case, though, I wonder why Sparc is being dropped. It seems like a pretty widely used platform to me, but I may have a bias, since my school's CS department uses Sparcs.
As the article mentions there's been a lot of debate since the proposal was posted. I don't think that it is a completely unreasonable proposal. From what I've seen, there is too much time between releases, and this does seem as if it would speed things up a little, due to the lower amount of testing necessary.
I'm not sure how developers and users of the possible unsupported architectures would feel. I'd imagine that they would be pretty upset. There's no reason why they couldn't continue working on their respective platforms on their own, and have whatever release cycle they would like. I've seen an i586 Debian project, but I don't know how successful it is. I also know Slackware recently picked up S/390 support, and Gentoo has a wide range of architectures that it supports. Switching flavors always seems like another possible option.
I don't know if this had previously been discussed but I've been thinking that something like this would be a good idea. We constantly see the effect Slashdot has on webservers. I would imagine a PAC consisting of even a portion of slashdotters could do great things.
Especially if we worked together with other groups such as Citizen Works, the EFF, and the ACLU.
Wired magazine recently had an article on this topic. They had quite a few graphs and charts detailing the differences in services between the two, figures on the amount of R&D spent as well as number of people using each site. Yahoo was ahead by quite a bit on most counts. It was an interesting read, and while I don't normally like that magaizine (way too many ads), I'd recommend this issue.
It would not be hard. A very simple solution would be, in addition to taking checkpoints at regular intervals, take another checkpoint every time a UI interaction occurs. This would increase the amount of total checkpoints taken and therefore increase memory/disk usage, but that could be alleviated if you then remove any checkpoints within a certain amount of instructions. While probably not the most elegant, it is a solution to the problem you mentioned.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually the decision has already been made. Because the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land, their decision to not hear the case, means that the decision of the lower court holds. So the decision of the lower court is final, but only affects cases in that district, not the whole of the United States.
Is that like some sort of declaration of boycott?
Actually, yes. It was a boycott planned to begin on Valentine's Day, and continue until Google gave up it's evil censoring ways. A website was even set up to help with the occasion. No Luv 4 Google (It's not my spelling, it's theirs, sorry)
They're not just focusing on Google though, since Microsoft and Yahoo both filter their searches in China also. They've got a large list of alternative search engines you can use and other ways of protesting.
I have to disagree with you. Usually when I look up a lyric to a song, I'm doing so for the purpose of finding out the name of the song, for the purposes of purchasing the song. If I can't find out the name, then the music industry just lost a sale. The other times when I look up a lyric, it's to figure out a word or phrase to a song that I don't understand. If lyric sites didn't exist, I would continue to go without knowing what the song says. I wouldn't rush out to the store to buy the lyrics/sheet music. Hell, I wouldn't even casually walk to the store. Lyrics are something that don't matter to me. It's all about the music.
Remember this next time you make a generalization: All generalizations are false.
Ms. Anderson is one of the mothers previously mentioned who is taking a stand against the RIAA. (Slashdot article, direct link) She was sued by the RIAA, and after offering up her computer to their investigators and explainging that she did not and could not have shared those file, the suit was dropped, only to picked up a short time later by another member of the RIAA.
From the article:
"I have the least expensive computer system you can buy from Dell. The type you order off television for $499.00. It was purchased in the summer of 2002 and has the smallest hard drive they make. I have no cd writer on it and the cd-rom that I do have, does not even work correctly.
"I live alone with my 8-year-old daughter (who would have been seven at the time the alleged occurrence took place). I am a single mom who is disabled and unable to work. I live on Social Security disability and struggle to support my daughter and myself. If I am put in a position where I need to defend myself regarding this situation, it would create extreme financial hardship on me. I have no money and did not do what is being said. I also must admit that all this stuff that has been occurring with this whole ordeal has triggered my medical condition to flare lately.
"I have always been against music downloading. In fact, I have been a member of BMG's music club for quite some time and I purchase my music either from there or from Target. When I first got my computer set up almost three years ago, I had a friend set it up for me since I did not know how to do it. She had put Kaaza Lite on there and told me what it was. I never used it and had no interest in doing so. I deleted it since I had no use for it. Even though I deleted it correctly, as is recommended by Microsoft, Mr. Eilers has told me it can hide out in my system and play without me knowing about it. I have done a total check
of my computer and it is no where on there.
"These files you are speaking accusing me of sharing (which Mr. Eiler told me about), are not and never have been on my computer system. Several of those artists, I have never even heard of! One, I understand, is a rap song. I am 42-years-old and do not even like rap music. The login that this person who did this apparently used, which Mr. Eiler told me of, is not a login name I have ever used or heard of.
"There is no one at my household who could have done what is being said at all. Mr. Eiler had brought up the fact that maybe a babysitter could have done it and that is impossible because I seldom have a sitter since I can't afford to pay one and am usually home."
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F %2Fbaidu.com&langpair=zh-CN%7Cen&hl=en&safe=off&ie =UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools
68 previous Justices died while serving on the bench. Whether or not they were seated at the time is another matter.
t he_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States#Justices_in_ chronological_order
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Justices_of_
No, but with a handy firefox extension, you can find them in the click of a mouse!
...by beating him to the brink of death.
There are NO pointers to worry about...
Java is another language with this capability, though I'll agree it's not as much of a rapid development language.
it is physically impossible to get buffer overruns
As another person mentioned, you can't trust any piece of software to be 100% bug free.
I'd LIKE to look at the site, but Slashdotting is preventing me from doing so.
This is Slashdot it's not groundbreaking.
If I'm not mistaken I've also heard that there are a good number of servers that use this architecture, which may be another reason, in addition to the two already mentioned. If this is the case, though, I wonder why Sparc is being dropped. It seems like a pretty widely used platform to me, but I may have a bias, since my school's CS department uses Sparcs.
I'm not sure how developers and users of the possible unsupported architectures would feel. I'd imagine that they would be pretty upset. There's no reason why they couldn't continue working on their respective platforms on their own, and have whatever release cycle they would like. I've seen an i586 Debian project, but I don't know how successful it is. I also know Slackware recently picked up S/390 support, and Gentoo has a wide range of architectures that it supports. Switching flavors always seems like another possible option.
I don't know if this had previously been discussed but I've been thinking that something like this would be a good idea. We constantly see the effect Slashdot has on webservers. I would imagine a PAC consisting of even a portion of slashdotters could do great things. Especially if we worked together with other groups such as Citizen Works, the EFF, and the ACLU.
Wired magazine recently had an article on this topic. They had quite a few graphs and charts detailing the differences in services between the two, figures on the amount of R&D spent as well as number of people using each site. Yahoo was ahead by quite a bit on most counts. It was an interesting read, and while I don't normally like that magaizine (way too many ads), I'd recommend this issue.
It would not be hard. A very simple solution would be, in addition to taking checkpoints at regular intervals, take another checkpoint every time a UI interaction occurs. This would increase the amount of total checkpoints taken and therefore increase memory/disk usage, but that could be alleviated if you then remove any checkpoints within a certain amount of instructions. While probably not the most elegant, it is a solution to the problem you mentioned.