True, it couldn't spontaneously appear on your screen. But, to play devil's advocate, you could imagine a situation with a small child (whose parents love jimmy enough to buy him an iPod Touch) typing in a swear he overheard one evening. He might not have known the meaning before but now he does.
On the other hand, if the kid is bright enough to want to look stuff up, are we to ban young children from bookstores and libraries?
The majority of the ongoing debate over the App Store is that the reviewers seem whimsical or even downright malicious and inconsistent in their ratings, rejections, and reasons for rejection.
You can't eliminate malice, but you can seriously reduce incompetence by making it a more open process. The developers here will (likely) be familiar with practices such as code reviews and bug tracking.
In this instance, if Apple were to have provided clearer information, to replicate all of the issues they felt were present in the dictionary, this might not have been blown up into the situation we have now. While the dictionary would still have been censored in the interest of pushing it to market as soon as possible, it would have been a more precise change (as opposed to blindly self-censoring). Apple probably isn't responsible for reviewing applications in minute detail for each an every swear word--but establishing an issue tracking system opens a communication channel with established ways of resolving conflicts and receiving feedback.
Apple appears to be moving toward a more level treatment of applications, but they have a long way to go and plenty of great options. Also, is this NinjaWords app by the same people as the NinjaWords website?
This is rather difficult without the stock market or some sort of investment--or a continual upkeep. Keeping the original dollar amount isn't really the same as keeping the value. The price of decommissioning a reactor appears to be going up.
And since most of us agree on this when most of us can't even agree on which operating system is the best for general use, which programming language is best for rapid application development, or which text editor is the best, well, that kind of says something now doesn't it?
The problem is that we're trying to agree on an operating system for general use. Like all tools, each one is better suited to different uses--even if they're technically capable of other things. The same thing applies to any tool, in any capacity. Define what it is you -actually- need to accomplish, then choose your tools. Trying to choose the tool first and then bend it to your needs is wasteful.
The document in question is FM 31-20-3, Foreign Internal Defense Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Special Forces.
It is aimed at SOF personnel, not conventional operations personnel.
"Field manual (FM) 31-20-3 is the third in a series of tactics, techniques, and procedures manuals that expand on the principles developed in the Special Forces (SF) operations manual, FM 31-20. They provide information and guidance to SF commanders, staffs, and operations personnel at battalion, company, and team levels. This manual will help them prepare for or conduct foreign internal defense (FID) operations across the range of military operations described in FM 100-5."
FMI 3-07-22 is a document for a different audience.
"APPLICABILITY
The primary audience for this manual is conventional-force leaders at division-level and below. It supports Army Education System instruction on the theory and conduct of counterinsurgency operations."
I spend my lazy days playing TFC (sniping and scouting) with my handy logitech trackball. Mind you, I don't even remember what kind it is. It's some old model from 1994 and still works fine.
TV ads don't cut off the program all of a sudden and cover the entire viewing area and start playing some stupid MIDI based music or start downloading some huge wave file to play some music.
It would seem that they actually do cut off whatever program you are watching quite suddenly, covering the entire viewing area and playing some stupid music, downloaded over that lovely coaxial cable or even satellite.
I quit watching TV unless forced to a long time ago. Useless.
NASA is extremely specification oriented in its programming tasks. The SEL maintains a website with online documentation on their process.
Specifications are useful when the "theory" is down and the execution must match. Examples are anything aerospace, underwater (read: submarines), nuclear reactors. For OS development, this would stifle it by never being able to respond to a changing environment.
And then God made schoolchildren. Try to keep a network running around any sort of children. You may have the best firewall ever, but man, those teeth can chew right through CAT-5.
One wonders if it's even feasable to take this sort of technology at some point and use it within the home or for local ISPs. I'd certainly pay extra per month for gigabit wireless.
I'm not sure of the writer's bias, but it would seem that TCG is fairly "opt-in." Somewhat unlike the current/. tidal wave seems to indicate.
TFA mentions "Controllability: Each owner should have effective choice and control over the use and operation of the TCG-enabled capabilities that belong to them; their participation must be opt-in. Subsequently, any user should be able to reliably disable the TCG functionality in a way that does not violate the owner's policy."
Who and what is the owner's policy? If the owner's policy says I can't run what I want without TCG, then that statement is effectively meaningless. I can have a hunk of hardware. If the "owner's policy" is something I make up, then it seems fine.
TFA also states "The use of coercion to effectively force the use of the TPM capabilities is not an appropriate use of the TCG technology."
This is exactly counter to/.speek. So what is it? Is this marketing spin? Is it real?
Information is considered a Trade Secret if it is so valuable that a business feels they can only make money if they keep it secret. So secret in fact, that they don't want to risk patenting it.
If you release this stuff and you were under a NDA, then you released a Trade Secret. Presto, lawsuit. However, if you independantly (completely) discover and patent it, there goes their trade secret so long as you can prove you didn't have any connection to them.
Or perhaps the music industry doesn't like Apple's ITMS at all? If you force them to accept some pricing scheme which puts them out of business or makes it unprofitable to run at the least, you have forced consumers to pirate or buy real CDs. Granted, most savvy enough to use ITMS will go to pirating. Some however, will go back to more expensive CDs. More $$. Then, the record companies can roll out their own online distribution scheme with very low quality, harsher DRM (only on this one computer and on our licensed player) and charge you a flat rate of 99. Makes them look good to be providing a service that Apple failed at, non?
Now, I can finally run gigantic neural networks trained by genetic algorithms to predict the outcome of sports betting.:) I actually gave up the project (I was coding it in C using the HDF5 library for data storage, etc.) because I have no hardware capable of running it reasonably.
This brings some nice computing resources well within reach of individual hackers. I don't need a 10,000 CPU block for an hour slice, just a hundred CPUs for an hour.
I'm a military brat and even though I obviously didn't have to go do anything, the amount of travel is insane. I learned to sleep anywhere as well. I think it's just a common trait to all military/dependants.
"We must be protected from ourselves!"
Personally, I think at this point the govt. would rather find a way to restrict civil liberties through any available means. (Even/. propaganda!) No, really.. people are stupid and drive horrendously, but there's a logical solution. Effectively subways. Watch:
1: People want safer cars/travel & people want to drive for fun. Two things to consider.
2: We replace the driver with a robot.
3: Easier for a robot to cope on an... *drum roll* Automated Highway!
4: Since it's an automatic highway, we need tight controls on the cars to ensure we don't totally break traffic. No random accidents, no siree.
5: Since people like to drive and don't want to buy a special car just to be driven around, let's offer them the ability to rent a car.
6: Since we're renting might as well turn it into mass transit. After all, they don't own it, and it's cheaper for whomever runs the automated highway.
7: We are at SUBWAYS! Hooray. Now, people don't like subways. Sure we can compartmentalize people, but who wants to sit in a moving cubicle?
Me, I'd prefer to keep the horrible drivers. Just makes you enjoy what you have left of life more. =P
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I love the troll, but you're trying to start off by redefining the usual meaning of Open Source.
Open Source doesn't mean you can steal it if you have to. It means you're Free (As In Freedom) to use, modify, and share it.
True, it couldn't spontaneously appear on your screen. But, to play devil's advocate, you could imagine a situation with a small child (whose parents love jimmy enough to buy him an iPod Touch) typing in a swear he overheard one evening. He might not have known the meaning before but now he does. On the other hand, if the kid is bright enough to want to look stuff up, are we to ban young children from bookstores and libraries?
The majority of the ongoing debate over the App Store is that the reviewers seem whimsical or even downright malicious and inconsistent in their ratings, rejections, and reasons for rejection. You can't eliminate malice, but you can seriously reduce incompetence by making it a more open process. The developers here will (likely) be familiar with practices such as code reviews and bug tracking. In this instance, if Apple were to have provided clearer information, to replicate all of the issues they felt were present in the dictionary, this might not have been blown up into the situation we have now. While the dictionary would still have been censored in the interest of pushing it to market as soon as possible, it would have been a more precise change (as opposed to blindly self-censoring). Apple probably isn't responsible for reviewing applications in minute detail for each an every swear word--but establishing an issue tracking system opens a communication channel with established ways of resolving conflicts and receiving feedback. Apple appears to be moving toward a more level treatment of applications, but they have a long way to go and plenty of great options. Also, is this NinjaWords app by the same people as the NinjaWords website?
This is rather difficult without the stock market or some sort of investment--or a continual upkeep. Keeping the original dollar amount isn't really the same as keeping the value. The price of decommissioning a reactor appears to be going up.
And since most of us agree on this when most of us can't even agree on which operating system is the best for general use, which programming language is best for rapid application development, or which text editor is the best, well, that kind of says something now doesn't it?
The problem is that we're trying to agree on an operating system for general use. Like all tools, each one is better suited to different uses--even if they're technically capable of other things. The same thing applies to any tool, in any capacity. Define what it is you -actually- need to accomplish, then choose your tools. Trying to choose the tool first and then bend it to your needs is wasteful.
Allowed? They do it anyway.
Mod parent up. (+1 Insightful) Why is this modded down? Is parody and sarcasm suddenly out of style? It's still a way to make a point.
http://rapidshare.com/files/123382001/us-fm-31-20-3.pdf.html
The document in question is FM 31-20-3, Foreign Internal Defense Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Special Forces.
It is aimed at SOF personnel, not conventional operations personnel.
"Field manual (FM) 31-20-3 is the third in a series of tactics, techniques, and procedures manuals that expand on the principles developed in the Special Forces (SF) operations manual, FM 31-20. They provide information and guidance to SF commanders, staffs, and operations personnel at battalion, company, and team levels. This manual will help them prepare for or conduct foreign internal defense (FID) operations across the range of military operations described in FM 100-5."
FMI 3-07-22 is a document for a different audience.
"APPLICABILITY
The primary audience for this manual is conventional-force leaders at division-level and below. It supports Army Education System instruction on the theory and conduct of counterinsurgency operations."
Read TFA people.
/. syndrome?
I spend my lazy days playing TFC (sniping and scouting) with my handy logitech trackball. Mind you, I don't even remember what kind it is. It's some old model from 1994 and still works fine.
TV ads don't cut off the program all of a sudden and cover the entire viewing area and start playing some stupid MIDI based music or start downloading some huge wave file to play some music.
It would seem that they actually do cut off whatever program you are watching quite suddenly, covering the entire viewing area and playing some stupid music, downloaded over that lovely coaxial cable or even satellite.
I quit watching TV unless forced to a long time ago. Useless.
Could someone please explain the terms of this form to the less physics enlightened of us?
NASA is extremely specification oriented in its programming tasks. The SEL maintains a website with online documentation on their process.
Specifications are useful when the "theory" is down and the execution must match. Examples are anything aerospace, underwater (read: submarines), nuclear reactors. For OS development, this would stifle it by never being able to respond to a changing environment.
And then God made schoolchildren. Try to keep a network running around any sort of children. You may have the best firewall ever, but man, those teeth can chew right through CAT-5.
An ellpisoid is probably a better description as even the Earth isn't a sphere. However, it is a good definition...
One wonders if it's even feasable to take this sort of technology at some point and use it within the home or for local ISPs. I'd certainly pay extra per month for gigabit wireless.
I'm not sure of the writer's bias, but it would seem that TCG is fairly "opt-in." Somewhat unlike the current /. tidal wave seems to indicate.
TFA mentions "Controllability: Each owner should have effective choice and control over the use and operation of the TCG-enabled capabilities that belong to them; their participation must be opt-in. Subsequently, any user should be able to reliably disable the TCG functionality in a way that does not violate the owner's policy."
Who and what is the owner's policy? If the owner's policy says I can't run what I want without TCG, then that statement is effectively meaningless. I can have a hunk of hardware. If the "owner's policy" is something I make up, then it seems fine.
TFA also states "The use of coercion to effectively force the use of the TPM capabilities is not an appropriate use of the TCG technology."
This is exactly counter to /.speek. So what is it? Is this marketing spin? Is it real?
Information is considered a Trade Secret if it is so valuable that a business feels they can only make money if they keep it secret. So secret in fact, that they don't want to risk patenting it.
/. summary.
If you release this stuff and you were under a NDA, then you released a Trade Secret. Presto, lawsuit. However, if you independantly (completely) discover and patent it, there goes their trade secret so long as you can prove you didn't have any connection to them.
That's the quick
Or perhaps the music industry doesn't like Apple's ITMS at all? If you force them to accept some pricing scheme which puts them out of business or makes it unprofitable to run at the least, you have forced consumers to pirate or buy real CDs. Granted, most savvy enough to use ITMS will go to pirating. Some however, will go back to more expensive CDs. More $$. Then, the record companies can roll out their own online distribution scheme with very low quality, harsher DRM (only on this one computer and on our licensed player) and charge you a flat rate of 99. Makes them look good to be providing a service that Apple failed at, non?
All Your Signatures Are Belong To Us
I actually had plans of using the system for something slightly better than theory if I could make it work. $100 investment, plus bet...
Now, I can finally run gigantic neural networks trained by genetic algorithms to predict the outcome of sports betting. :) I actually gave up the project (I was coding it in C using the HDF5 library for data storage, etc.) because I have no hardware capable of running it reasonably.
This brings some nice computing resources well within reach of individual hackers. I don't need a 10,000 CPU block for an hour slice, just a hundred CPUs for an hour.
You can run Engage, the DR17 dock app, as a standalone app perfectly fine under Gnome.
I'm a military brat and even though I obviously didn't have to go do anything, the amount of travel is insane. I learned to sleep anywhere as well. I think it's just a common trait to all military/dependants.
"We must be protected from ourselves!" Personally, I think at this point the govt. would rather find a way to restrict civil liberties through any available means. (Even /. propaganda!) No, really.. people are stupid and drive horrendously, but there's a logical solution. Effectively subways. Watch:
1: People want safer cars/travel & people want to drive for fun. Two things to consider.
2: We replace the driver with a robot.
3: Easier for a robot to cope on an... *drum roll* Automated Highway!
4: Since it's an automatic highway, we need tight controls on the cars to ensure we don't totally break traffic. No random accidents, no siree.
5: Since people like to drive and don't want to buy a special car just to be driven around, let's offer them the ability to rent a car.
6: Since we're renting might as well turn it into mass transit. After all, they don't own it, and it's cheaper for whomever runs the automated highway.
7: We are at SUBWAYS! Hooray. Now, people don't like subways. Sure we can compartmentalize people, but who wants to sit in a moving cubicle?
Me, I'd prefer to keep the horrible drivers. Just makes you enjoy what you have left of life more. =P