"No-one's figured out the right formula" Jobs says.
Perhaps Apple shouldn't try to do everything themselves. The controlling attitude towards their platforms has bitten them every time. (Almost killed the Mac, it killed the Newton, etc.)
Why not open the iPod up for starters? Even with a very simple API that for example allows you to reprogram the shuffle algorithm, it would be very popular.
Let the customer decide a few things for themselves for once.
My (diesel) cars runs 43 miles to the gallon, yet the car is large and fast enough. It also has a soot filter.
Oh, a gallon of diesel costs $5.18 here in Holland (Europe)
And you SUV does what? And you think any other country in the world has so many fuel-inefficient, polluting cars? (even when counting cars per 1000 inhabitants)
But what would you put into your crontab? You don't want to run your backup-which-slows- the-system-considerably to occur in the middle of the workday, so you would probably set it to some relative time, like "sunrise - 5 hours".
And if techies couldn't cope with it, what about normal people. They would start almost instantly to use a relative time (or keep to the old time, government be damned). So it would only diminish the usefulness of "official time" and lead to more chaos.
I hereby announce that I shall not assert any of the patents that I own against the Linux kernel! Hurray!! Now if everybody does the same, we surely have contributed more to Linux than Nokia, right?
I think this is all FUD; if Nokia has patent claims against the Linux kernel, they should say so, otherwise they should shut up.
If course they won't provide a license to an open source project. Since the source would be open, anyone could then decode the information without getting a license first.
"Commercial quality" and "Open source" are two different possible aspects of a piece of software.
Don't fall into the FUD trap, there are plenty commercial quality open source applications. There are also plenty of commercially sold open source applications.
The filter should not filter the blog or Wiki, but rather the target of the link. Spammers will have to put up legible information on their own websites to make people order, so their web-pages will be pretty easily discernable using a bayesian classifier. And if their web-page never shows up in Google, it is pretty useless to spam blogs with links to those pages, so it will die out after a while.
Why doesn't Google use spamassassin or another spam filtering tool? One based on Bayesian analysis - to determine if a page is just spam, and give it a lower score.
This can be done whether it is linked in a blog or not, and will improve the overall quality of the search database.
Actually, you are making quite a few too many assumptions here. Firstly, the difference between OO programming and an OO database is of course entirely clear to me, as one is a concept and the other is a database.
But I think you meant "the difference between a relational database model and an OO database model". I am also aware of that difference.
So let me repeat my question about performance, since what I want to know if ZODB performs seriously. There are several good OO databases, and I haven't heard anyone mentioning ZODB as one of them yet.
Secondly, the difference between OO databases and RDBMS is very little in most practical situations, given that most applications fit either model, if you include an object-relational mapping tool (like Hibernate, if you are using Java) in the equation.
There are some areas where OO databases have distinct advantages (especially those area where you don't search across many objects a lot, but instead navigate them through links), but those areas are quite few - CAD tools for example.
In Constitutional terms, this is the correct ruling. Federal laws only extend to "interstate commerce," which these days is interpreted to mean "interstate anything."
Is that so strange? From the dictionary, "commerce" is:
1. social intercourse : interchange of ideas, opinions, or sentiments 2. the exchange or buying and selling of commodities on a large scale involving transportation from place to place 3. SEXUAL INTERCOURSE
The third is of course only applicable if it actually occurs on state borders.
And can you do searches on the stored objects with any kind of decent performance? What if you have a lot of objects, say 10 million?
According to the parent you replied to, you don't have to worry about data formats of the database, so I guess you can't configure it. I don't see how you could get decent performance of the database from that.
What do you mean with "at any time"? If you mean "without a cause specifically described in this contract", then you are just wrong.
The patent license clearly describes under which circumstances it is automatically (intrinsically) revoked, such as when you sue Yahoo for patent infringment relating to the implementation of the DomainKeys specification, or upon notice in other clearly described cases. See section 3.7. Apart from that, once you accept the offer of the patent license in a legally binding way, both you and Yahoo are bound by it and cannot revoke other than by section 3.7 or other ways described in the laws.
(You don't want to know the impact of international law, which makes this all much more complicated; I'm not a US citizen, so international contract law applies when I accept the license. Plus the fact that Yahoo's patents may (probably aren't) valid outside the United States - which doesn't preclude me from accepting the offer)
If you read the license thoroughly, you find that you may continue to use the old patent license when Yahoo updates it, at your choice ("If Yahoo! makes such a modification, You may continue under the terms and conditions of this Agreement or agree to the updated or modified terms and conditions.")
This very much like the clause in a well-known free software license, the GPL. ("you can redistribute [...] under the terms of the GNU GPL [...]; either version 2 [...], or (at your option) any later version.")
In theory, if Yahoo changes the license, new developers wouldn't be able to use the older license, so they could wait until the patent becomes popular and then demand payment from new licensees.
But there's hardly any danger of that becoming a problem, since: "3.4 You may choose to distribute [...] a sublicense agreement, provided that: [...] such agreement complies with the terms and conditions of this Agreement"
So as long as there is anyone who accepted the old license (I just did) who is willing to sublicense to a new developer (I will, free of any charge) under the old license, the new developer doesn't need Yahoo.
Learn to read: " Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said agents went to Pufferbelly based on a trademark infringement complaint filed in the agency's intellectual property rights center in Washington, D.C."
The agents weren't wrong. The complaint could be that the cube itself (it's looks, design) infringed on the trademark, insofar that it even looked almost like a copy of the original rubik's cube.
Just because the word "copy" is used doesn't mean that it has anything to do with trademarks.
Have you read the article on Yahoo news? I know it's not typical for Slashdot readers to do so before commenting, but I'm just asking.
The Yahoo news article is consistent. "Immigration and Customs Enforcement" only claimed that they were protecting a trademark. The manufacturer of the Magic Cube _also_ claims that the patent on the Rubik's cube has expired, which is interesting but not very relevant.
Only the Slashdot article submitter throws in the word "copyright", which is completely wrong and not relevant to the article. It's a bit sad that CowboyNeal didn't catch this before putting the article on Slashdot.
Please tell me what's on the site now?! I bet George took the opportunity to talk about foreigners on his site today and doesn't want us foreigners hearing about it.;-)
To rant is "to utter in a bombastic declamatory fashion" or "to talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner". I can't find that in PJ's article. If Michael does believe that PJ's article is like that, he should have the guts to say so, instead of implying that the story submitter called it a rant, which he didn't, as he posted here.
The only ranting I saw was in the title of the item. It would do the poster good to observe some courtesy towards other news sites.
You're right, although your sentiment about it is probably different than from most people.
Of course, RMS's is driven by his interests. However I can hardly think of another person who has single-mindedly pursued the same unchanging interest for so many years as this guy.
And it happens to be an interest that quite a few people share.
Now Novell, well, it's interest is primarily it's bottom line. If you own a lot of stock in Novell, I'm sure you wouldn't mind signing over lots of code without safeguards on how it's going to be used, since you have the same interest, but otherwise you may wonder if your interests are adequately protected by the copyright-assigment agreement.
(They may very well be - I haven't yet looked too deeply in that)
Yup. I found the same. And since our site runs on Linux on a case-sensitive file system, it doesn't work.
Maybe we need to tell verisign that "domain name" is not the same as "URL" and are defined in completely different technical specifications.
("domain name" is case-insensitive, but the path of a URL is most definitely not. And it's not even as if the majority of web servers are running on Windows, luckily, so that can't be the reason for the error)
Many ISP's don't allow you to run a mail "server". But you're talking about blocking _outbound_ STMP traffic. That has nothing to do with servers.
Outbound SMTP traffic can be generated by any mail server that only listens on internal interfaces, or directly by your favorite mail client.
What you're talking about is breaking the Internet even more than it already is now, turning it into a big client-server network where the servers are operated by the big media companies.
It is also, coincidentally, the lazy sysadmin approach.
Don't do it, don't go blocking big swipes of IP just because some of them do something wrong.
Be smarter, find a way to only block those that do something wrong!
If the article isn't a troll, then I don't understand. Your average keyboard nowadays is loaded with a gazillion of useless keys. To start, there is F1 to F12, which are only used by, say, 20% of users.
How many times in the past 5 years have you used Scroll Lock? Couldn't 'print screen' and 'break' be on one key? (Oh wait, sys req is actually used by linux kernel debuggers, I forgot)
But that's just a start. What about the "Internet keyboards" of this age. Where I live, most (or all) shops don't sell non-Internet keyboards, so you're stuck with these keys: E-mail, Shopping, Search, My Home, Media, Volume (+/-), Mute, Play, Stop, Previous, Next, Favorites, Community, My Sites, Finance, Sleep, Back, Go.
Oh, I almost forgot the Windows key and the 'right-mouse-button' key, which are completely unnecessary for Windows, and a complete waste for other OS-es.
So you're complaining about Caps Lock, a key that has been on every keyboard for ages, and that most people use, although infrequently, and more so for documents than for source code nowadays, while nowadays there are over 20 completely useless keys that are forced on you by keyboard producers like Logitech and Microsoft??
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"No-one's figured out the right formula" Jobs says.
Perhaps Apple shouldn't try to do everything themselves. The controlling attitude towards their platforms has bitten them every time. (Almost killed the Mac, it killed the Newton, etc.)
Why not open the iPod up for starters? Even with a very simple API that for example allows you to reprogram the shuffle algorithm, it would be very popular.
Let the customer decide a few things for themselves for once.
- Erwin
My (diesel) cars runs 43 miles to the gallon, yet the car is large and fast enough. It also has a soot filter.
Oh, a gallon of diesel costs $5.18 here in Holland (Europe)
And you SUV does what? And you think any other country in the world has so many fuel-inefficient, polluting cars?
(even when counting cars per 1000 inhabitants)
But what would you put into your crontab? You don't want to run your backup-which-slows- the-system-considerably to occur in the middle of the workday, so you would probably set it to some relative time, like "sunrise - 5 hours".
And if techies couldn't cope with it, what about normal people. They would start almost instantly to use a relative time (or keep to the old time, government be damned). So it would only diminish the usefulness of "official time" and lead to more chaos.
- Erwin
But what if you constantly point out the flaws in your own jokes?
;-)
- Erwin
I hereby announce that I shall not assert any of the patents that I own against the Linux kernel! Hurray!!
Now if everybody does the same, we surely have contributed more to Linux than Nokia, right?
I think this is all FUD; if Nokia has patent claims against the Linux kernel, they should say so, otherwise they should shut up.
- Erwin
Hello?
If course they won't provide a license to an open source project. Since the source would be open, anyone could then decode the information without getting a license first.
Yes, and that is a logical impossibility since there are many commercial open source applications. And something can't be better than itself.
Bzzz.. you missed something.
"Commercial quality" and "Open source" are two different possible aspects of a piece of software.
Don't fall into the FUD trap, there are plenty commercial quality open source applications. There are also plenty of commercially sold open source applications.
There's nothing wrong with that.
- Erwin
Let the bayesian classifier decide?
The filter should not filter the blog or Wiki, but rather the target of the link.
Spammers will have to put up legible information on their own websites to make people order, so their web-pages will be pretty easily discernable using a bayesian classifier. And if their web-page never shows up in Google, it is pretty useless to spam blogs with links to those pages, so it will die out after a while.
- Erwin
This can be done whether it is linked in a blog or not, and will improve the overall quality of the search database.
- Erwin
Actually, you are making quite a few too many assumptions here.
Firstly, the difference between OO programming and an OO database is of course entirely clear to me, as one is a concept and the other is a database.
But I think you meant "the difference between a relational database model and an OO database model". I am also aware of that difference.
So let me repeat my question about performance, since what I want to know if ZODB performs seriously. There are several good OO databases, and I haven't heard anyone mentioning ZODB as one of them yet.
Secondly, the difference between OO databases and RDBMS is very little in most practical situations, given that most applications fit either model, if you include an object-relational mapping tool (like Hibernate, if you are using Java) in the equation.
There are some areas where OO databases have distinct advantages (especially those area where you don't search across many objects a lot, but instead navigate them through links), but those areas are quite few - CAD tools for example.
In Constitutional terms, this is the correct ruling. Federal laws only extend to "interstate commerce," which these days is interpreted to mean "interstate anything."
Is that so strange? From the dictionary, "commerce" is:
1. social intercourse : interchange of ideas, opinions, or sentiments
2. the exchange or buying and selling of commodities on a large scale involving transportation from place to place
3. SEXUAL INTERCOURSE
The third is of course only applicable if it actually occurs on state borders.
Erwin
And can you do searches on the stored objects with any kind of decent performance? What if you have a lot of objects, say 10 million?
According to the parent you replied to, you don't have to worry about data formats of the database, so I guess you can't configure it. I don't see how you could get decent performance of the database from that.
What do you mean with "at any time"? If you mean "without a cause specifically described in this contract", then you are just wrong.
The patent license clearly describes under which circumstances it is automatically (intrinsically) revoked, such as when you sue Yahoo for patent infringment relating to the implementation of the DomainKeys specification, or upon notice in other clearly described cases. See section 3.7. Apart from that, once you accept the offer of the patent license in a legally binding way, both you and Yahoo are bound by it and cannot revoke other than by section 3.7 or other ways described in the laws.
(You don't want to know the impact of international law, which makes this all much more complicated; I'm not a US citizen, so international contract law applies when I accept the license. Plus the fact that Yahoo's patents may (probably aren't) valid outside the United States - which doesn't preclude me from accepting the offer)
If you read the license thoroughly, you find that you may continue to use the old patent license when Yahoo updates it, at your choice ("If Yahoo! makes such a modification, You may continue under the terms and conditions of this Agreement or agree to the updated or modified terms and conditions.")
This very much like the clause in a well-known free software license, the GPL. ("you can redistribute [...] under the terms of the GNU GPL [...]; either version 2 [...], or (at your option) any later version.")
In theory, if Yahoo changes the license, new developers wouldn't be able to use the older license, so they could wait until the patent becomes popular and then demand payment from new licensees.
But there's hardly any danger of that becoming a problem, since: "3.4 You may choose to distribute [...] a sublicense agreement, provided that: [...] such agreement complies with the terms and conditions of this Agreement"
So as long as there is anyone who accepted the old license (I just did) who is willing to sublicense to a new developer (I will, free of any charge) under the old license, the new developer doesn't need Yahoo.
- Erwin
Correction:
Just because the word "copy" is used doesn't mean that it has anything to do with copyrights.
Learn to read: " Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said agents went to Pufferbelly based on a trademark infringement complaint filed in the agency's intellectual property rights center in Washington, D.C."
The agents weren't wrong. The complaint could be that the cube itself (it's looks, design) infringed on the trademark, insofar that it even looked almost like a copy of the original rubik's cube.
Just because the word "copy" is used doesn't mean that it has anything to do with trademarks.
Have you read the article on Yahoo news? I know it's not typical for Slashdot readers to do so before commenting, but I'm just asking.
The Yahoo news article is consistent. "Immigration and Customs Enforcement" only claimed that they were protecting a trademark. The manufacturer of the Magic Cube _also_ claims that the patent on the Rubik's cube has expired, which is interesting but not very relevant.
Only the Slashdot article submitter throws in the word "copyright", which is completely wrong and not relevant to the article. It's a bit sad that CowboyNeal didn't catch this before putting the article on Slashdot.
- Erwin
Please tell me what's on the site now?! ;-)
I bet George took the opportunity to talk about foreigners on his site today and doesn't want us foreigners hearing about it.
- Erwin
To rant is "to utter in a bombastic declamatory fashion" or "to talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner". I can't find that in PJ's article. If Michael does believe that PJ's article is like that, he should have the guts to say so, instead of implying that the story submitter called it a rant, which he didn't, as he posted here.
The only ranting I saw was in the title of the item. It would do the poster good to observe some courtesy towards other news sites.
You're right, although your sentiment about it is probably different than from most people.
Of course, RMS's is driven by his interests. However I can hardly think of another person who has single-mindedly pursued the same unchanging interest for so many years as this guy.
And it happens to be an interest that quite a few people share.
Now Novell, well, it's interest is primarily it's bottom line. If you own a lot of stock in Novell, I'm sure you wouldn't mind signing over lots of code without safeguards on how it's going to be used, since you have the same interest, but otherwise you may wonder if your interests are adequately protected by the copyright-assigment agreement.
(They may very well be - I haven't yet looked too deeply in that)
- Erwin
Yup. I found the same. And since our site runs on Linux on a case-sensitive file system, it doesn't work.
Maybe we need to tell verisign that "domain name" is not the same as "URL" and are defined in completely different technical specifications.
("domain name" is case-insensitive, but the path of a URL is most definitely not. And it's not even as if the majority of web servers are running on Windows, luckily, so that can't be the reason for the error)
- Erwin
Many ISP's don't allow you to run a mail "server".
But you're talking about blocking _outbound_ STMP traffic. That has nothing to do with servers.
Outbound SMTP traffic can be generated by any mail server that only listens on internal interfaces, or directly by your favorite mail client.
What you're talking about is breaking the Internet even more than it already is now, turning it into a big client-server network where the servers are operated by the big media companies.
It is also, coincidentally, the lazy sysadmin approach.
Don't do it, don't go blocking big swipes of IP just because some of them do something wrong.
Be smarter, find a way to only block those that do something wrong!
- Erwin
If the article isn't a troll, then I don't understand.
Your average keyboard nowadays is loaded with a gazillion of useless keys.
To start, there is F1 to F12, which are only used by, say, 20% of users.
How many times in the past 5 years have you used Scroll Lock? Couldn't 'print screen' and 'break' be on one key? (Oh wait, sys req is actually used by linux kernel debuggers, I forgot)
But that's just a start. What about the "Internet keyboards" of this age. Where I live, most (or all) shops don't sell non-Internet keyboards, so you're stuck with these keys:
E-mail, Shopping, Search, My Home, Media, Volume (+/-), Mute, Play, Stop, Previous, Next, Favorites, Community, My Sites, Finance, Sleep, Back, Go.
Oh, I almost forgot the Windows key and the 'right-mouse-button' key, which are completely unnecessary for Windows, and a complete waste for other OS-es.
So you're complaining about Caps Lock, a key that has been on every keyboard for ages, and that most people use, although infrequently, and more so for documents than for source code nowadays, while nowadays there are over 20 completely useless keys that are forced on you by keyboard producers like Logitech and Microsoft??
Get serious.
- Erwin