You do know how to run BitTorrent, don't you? Yes, I know how to run BitTorrent, and I know what you guys were referring to, but the first I heard about it was when I read the article this morning. (Read the title!) However considering how long it would take to download GB of information and then upload it again, I'm not going to bother getting it. I've got better things to do than burn my download limit.
Most likely the show is airing there in a public or subsciber channel and you have not taken notice. Actually I have PayTV (Austar Digital), and it is not airing on any public or subscriber channels at all. That's why I made my post because I knew not everyone would know about recent developments.
'''''Battlestar Galactica''''' is an [[United States|American]] [[science fiction]] television series created by [[Ronald D. Moore]] that first aired on [[October 18]], [[2004]] in the [[United Kingdom]] on [[Sky One]], and [[January 14]], [[2005]] in the [[United States]] on the [[Sci Fi Channel (United States)|Sci Fi Channel]]. Repeats of episodes have also been shown on [[NBC]]. The introduction to the television series is a [[Battlestar Galactica (2003 miniseries)|four-hour miniseries]] that first aired on [[December 8]], [[2003]] on the [[Sci Fi Channel (United States)|Sci Fi Channel]].
You can still get the last free version of Invision Power Board off the internet if you look hard enough. I have IPB v2.0.0 PF 3 running behind an Apache server on my LAN at the moment, and I have not paid a cent.
In other news, I was not aware that I owned both Invision Power Services and the WikiMedia foundation. Thanks for clearing that up, I feel better now. If you use our products and feel like you want donate to us, you can send all donations here.
You might want to try [http://www.invisionpower.com/ an invision power board]. A [http://www.google.com/search?q=invision+power+boa rd&start=20 google search on the topic] reveals that many [[FLOSS]] projects use it to host their own community. There are of course [Category:Internet_forum_software|other alternatives] you might find interesting.
Just a semi off-topic thought, but a good place to start would be [[http://www.mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki's official homepage]...
That also means that the judge is either human or must've had a bit of common sense. In other news, this unfortunate oversight on the part of the judicial system will no doubt soon be corrected.
Just wait until slash.dotted.us is up and running... then we'll have a server powerful enough to search slashdot posts! Imagine how embar^H^H^H^H^Hgreat it'd be if just anybody could search through all the posts we ever made on slashdot, and point out how informative our posts were when we joined!
all these technologies usually get to market faster if developed by private companies But after 10 years' worth of liscensing, ultimately cost the economy more.
BTW, You forgot Poland. In South Korea, only old people sue Microsoft... except in Nebraska! IN DEMOCRATIC KOREA, government sue YOU! I for one welcome our new Microsoft sueing overlords.... in Japan!^H^H^H^H^H^HSouth Korea! In other news, it's raining chairs at Redmond.
From the article:
Despite an eroding manufacturing base and the threat of "offshoring" of some technical services, there's a rising demand for science and engineering skills. What I get from this is that if you're a member of the IEEE and/or AITP etc., (basically any industry-recognized accreditation body,) you have nothing to worry about. On the other hand, you had better start praying if you are just a tech.
I'm involved with a project that is looking to develop an online community for technology oriented business customers. Sell your idea to ebay, they might like you. (and the highest bidder wins!)
If you could develop an online community to encourage collaboration and information sharing, what features would you want included? That's easy, BitTorrent.
How would you go about including features that are widely available in other places (weblogging, message boards, wiki) and generating buy-in from customers. 1) VisithomepagesofsaidOSS 2) Getthesources 3) Right-ClickCtrl-V 4) Get headache integrating code from multiple projects^W4) Discover 'magical' missing libraries^W4) Consider rewriting everything with existing code as reference^W4) Give up^W4) ???? 5) Profit!
1) Ask an already established technical community "how to begin" 2) Stating a goal of "generating buy-in from customers" in the same sentence that admits "features that are widely available in other [free] places"3) Turning to Ask Slashdot for reliable answers. 4) Asking the same thing twice... 5) ??? 6) Profit!;-)
FTA: the Junxion has some neat features, including the ability to greet colleagues with a splash screen. ("Welcome to Dave's free Wi-Fi highway! Click Connect to continue, and don't forget to thank Dave by dropping off cash or baked goods at his cubicle.") Sound's like it'll pay itself off in no time.;-)
The argument that source code is uncopyrightable, If every bit of code was copyrightable, even a "Hello World" program would be a copyright infringement if it were copied out of a book and posted to the web. In this context, it is easy to see that not everything is eligible for copyright.
with some extensions could be applied to almost all, say, fiction stories since no one's written a truly new story in like five thousand years. That's why parodies do not infringe copyrights.
If they think everyone will get the latest-and-greatest TV just so they can watch DVDs with a good signal, they mustn't live in the real world. Furthermore, they must be blind if they think every HDCP 'compatible' TV out there is going to listen to every pin and stick 100% to the standard. I think I'll just import a hardware-based HDMI-to-YUV connector from Russia.
If a device doesn't work with my TV, I won't buy it; I have no reason to. Simple as that.
From the FAQ: Q: What about Yahoo! and Microsoft etc., they're already doing this?
A:We deplore Yahoo and Microsoft's actions as well but as the industry leader, Google's impact is enormous. Google's decision to create its product to the Chinese authorities' specifications sets a very dangerous precedent of bringing the most advanced technology to the most closed and repressive government under the guise of effecting change. More importantly, the launch of Google.cn is a reversal of Google's policy of non-cooperation with China's internet censorship program. If this isn't a sign of bias, I don't know what is. I've also noticed that when you search for Microsoft, 8 out of 11 times they are comparing Microsoft to Google, and Microsoft's equally abysmal record is always glossed over and not gone into detail like they do with Google. This smells like media manipulation to me. Yahoo and Microsoft must be both loving this.
How about you consider Team 4: Distributed around the world, they may never have actually met face to face. Some of the team members have an average command of the primary language in either written or verbal form for their trade. Communication is mostly via email for documents, because of the bandwidth requirements, and Instant Messaging for meetings, because of the quick reply times. In one timezone meetings are held late afternoon, and in the other timezone meetings are held in the morning.
I have completed four team-based courses as part of my degree, and while we used email to share documents, we used IM programs to have our meetings. In my experience email is hopeless when it comes to making decisions: one decision took days to make over email, but only five minutes - if that - over Yahoo Messenger. At the University I attend, external teams (off campus communicating online) did MUCH better than internal teams (on campus communicating face-to-face). To summarise, if you are having communication problems with your overseas counterparts, you'd be better off finding a better way to communicate.
Where you need to communicate over the time zone e.g. s/w development - in my experience it's a myth, and highly dependent on the quality of the people communicating. I haven't seen any good documented evidence of any efficiency improvements. In fact I've heard that it actually can decrease the net efficiency of your local team 40%. On the other hand, efficiency of the local team is also highly dependent on the quality of the people in the local team. If the local team finds it so difficult to work with other teams, then perhaps they don't know teamwork as well as their bosses thought they did and should be replaced.
"Result: Projects get finished in about half the time"
Yeah right. I know sarcasm when I see it, but have you heard of optimism before? Besides I believe I said "about half the time", not exactly half. Of course there will be/some/ time overhead, but not so much that it increases production time. With good teamwork, a reduction in expected completion time to 60%-55% should be expected with an extra team working on it. If not, someone is slacking and deserves to be fired. (Trying to prove to your boss that outsourcing is bad by pretending that it decreases your efficiency to write code is not the way to go about it.)
When I said that the so-called "operating system" is on the BIOS, it is basically a ROM chip. This is what you see when you don't put a disc in. 1. At turn the RESET gets pulled active low (or high, depending on the logic used). 2. Microprocessor loads IP with RESET vector 3. BIOS boots 4. CD/whatever runs
In PC architecture, an operating system goes between 3 and 4. When you put a disc in, it runs between the game/app and the hardware, and the program has to interact with the operating system instead of the hardware.
In the PSX architecture, when you put a disc in, all the bootstrap does is load the disc image, and that's it. You're on your own; you control the hardware, not through some cutdown DirectX API. This is the kind of freedom we used to have on our computers before the days of DPMI, V86 and Windows that hid the hardware from us.
In a truly embedded system, you can skip the third step: the reset vector often points to the main bit of code to run and skips any bootstrap stuff entirely. Chances are that if you've bulit an embedded system, you don't need an operating system because you designed the hardware with your application in mind.
Think about it: the PSX architecture was designed to run games, but the PC architecture was always designed to run PC applications.
A large company will outsource eventually if they want a 24-hour workday. India is a nice place for such companies because they can be coding while you are sleeping. Result: Projects get finished in about half the time.
Besides, there is also the financial benefits of cheap labour that outsourcing brings. Some might say that outsourcing isn't nice to those working at home base, but that's beside the point to a company when deadlines and audits are looming.
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You do know how to run BitTorrent, don't you?
Yes, I know how to run BitTorrent, and I know what you guys were referring to, but the first I heard about it was when I read the article this morning. (Read the title!) However considering how long it would take to download GB of information and then upload it again, I'm not going to bother getting it. I've got better things to do than burn my download limit.
Most likely the show is airing there in a public or subsciber channel and you have not taken notice.
Actually I have PayTV (Austar Digital), and it is not airing on any public or subscriber channels at all. That's why I made my post because I knew not everyone would know about recent developments.
Flaimbait, it is not airing in Australia!
It could be, however [[assume good faith]] and [[don't bite newcomers]]. ;-)
this is talking about a the recent TV series
From the wiki:
'''''Battlestar Galactica''''' is an [[United States|American]] [[science fiction]] television series created by [[Ronald D. Moore]] that first aired on [[October 18]], [[2004]] in the [[United Kingdom]] on [[Sky One]], and [[January 14]], [[2005]] in the [[United States]] on the [[Sci Fi Channel (United States)|Sci Fi Channel]]. Repeats of episodes have also been shown on [[NBC]]. The introduction to the television series is a [[Battlestar Galactica (2003 miniseries)|four-hour miniseries]] that first aired on [[December 8]], [[2003]] on the [[Sci Fi Channel (United States)|Sci Fi Channel]].
You can still get the last free version of Invision Power Board off the internet if you look hard enough. I have IPB v2.0.0 PF 3 running behind an Apache server on my LAN at the moment, and I have not paid a cent.
In other news, I was not aware that I owned both Invision Power Services and the WikiMedia foundation. Thanks for clearing that up, I feel better now. If you use our products and feel like you want donate to us, you can send all donations here.
You might want to try [http://www.invisionpower.com/ an invision power board]. A [http://www.google.com/search?q=invision+power+boa rd&start=20 google search on the topic] reveals that many [[FLOSS]] projects use it to host their own community. There are of course [Category:Internet_forum_software|other alternatives] you might find interesting.
Just a semi off-topic thought, but a good place to start would be [[http://www.mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki's official homepage]...
Color me not impressed that the second post to a Google article is a Google troll.
Some information is better than none at all. Don't we all know that??
That also means that the judge is either human or must've had a bit of common sense. In other news, this unfortunate oversight on the part of the judicial system will no doubt soon be corrected.
Wait...
...wasn't I a n00b back then??
oh snap
all these technologies usually get to market faster if developed by private companies
But after 10 years' worth of liscensing, ultimately cost the economy more.
BTW, You forgot Poland.
In South Korea, only old people sue Microsoft... except in Nebraska!
IN DEMOCRATIC KOREA, government sue YOU!
I for one welcome our new Microsoft sueing overlords.... in Japan!^H^H^H^H^H^HSouth Korea!
In other news, it's raining chairs at Redmond.
1) Sue Microsoft
2) ???
3) Profit!
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
This article is a dupe
That's strange; to me it does not look like the comments are dupes.
By now you must realize that comments are the most informative section of Slashdot, or you must be new here.
From the article:
Despite an eroding manufacturing base and the threat of "offshoring" of some technical services, there's a rising demand for science and engineering skills.
What I get from this is that if you're a member of the IEEE and/or AITP etc., (basically any industry-recognized accreditation body,) you have nothing to worry about. On the other hand, you had better start praying if you are just a tech.
I'm involved with a project that is looking to develop an online community for technology oriented business customers.
Sell your idea to ebay, they might like you. (and the highest bidder wins!)
If you could develop an online community to encourage collaboration and information sharing, what features would you want included?
That's easy, BitTorrent.
How would you go about including features that are widely available in other places (weblogging, message boards, wiki) and generating buy-in from customers.
1) Visit homepages of said OSS
2) Get the sources
3) Right-Click Ctrl-V
4) Get headache integrating code from multiple projects^W4) Discover 'magical' missing libraries^W4) Consider rewriting everything with existing code as reference^W4) Give up^W4) ????
5) Profit!
1) Ask an already established technical community "how to begin" ;-)
2) Stating a goal of "generating buy-in from customers" in the same sentence that admits "features that are widely available in other [free] places"3) Turning to Ask Slashdot for reliable answers.
4) Asking the same thing twice...
5) ???
6) Profit!
FTA: ;-)
the Junxion has some neat features, including the ability to greet colleagues with a splash screen. ("Welcome to Dave's free Wi-Fi highway! Click Connect to continue, and don't forget to thank Dave by dropping off cash or baked goods at his cubicle.")
Sound's like it'll pay itself off in no time.
The argument that source code is uncopyrightable,
If every bit of code was copyrightable, even a "Hello World" program would be a copyright infringement if it were copied out of a book and posted to the web. In this context, it is easy to see that not everything is eligible for copyright.
with some extensions could be applied to almost all, say, fiction stories since no one's written a truly new story in like five thousand years.
That's why parodies do not infringe copyrights.
If they think everyone will get the latest-and-greatest TV just so they can watch DVDs with a good signal, they mustn't live in the real world. Furthermore, they must be blind if they think every HDCP 'compatible' TV out there is going to listen to every pin and stick 100% to the standard. I think I'll just import a hardware-based HDMI-to-YUV connector from Russia.
If a device doesn't work with my TV, I won't buy it; I have no reason to. Simple as that.
student protest china
OMG, don't you know that you're not supposed to search for that!!11i9jhA4uNO CARRIER
From the FAQ:
Q: What about Yahoo! and Microsoft etc., they're already doing this?
A:We deplore Yahoo and Microsoft's actions as well but as the industry leader, Google's impact is enormous. Google's decision to create its product to the Chinese authorities' specifications sets a very dangerous precedent of bringing the most advanced technology to the most closed and repressive government under the guise of effecting change. More importantly, the launch of Google.cn is a reversal of Google's policy of non-cooperation with China's internet censorship program.
If this isn't a sign of bias, I don't know what is. I've also noticed that when you search for Microsoft, 8 out of 11 times they are comparing Microsoft to Google, and Microsoft's equally abysmal record is always glossed over and not gone into detail like they do with Google. This smells like media manipulation to me. Yahoo and Microsoft must be both loving this.
Out of those Teams, yeah Team 1 would win.
How about you consider Team 4: Distributed around the world, they may never have actually met face to face. Some of the team members have an average command of the primary language in either written or verbal form for their trade. Communication is mostly via email for documents, because of the bandwidth requirements, and Instant Messaging for meetings, because of the quick reply times. In one timezone meetings are held late afternoon, and in the other timezone meetings are held in the morning.
I have completed four team-based courses as part of my degree, and while we used email to share documents, we used IM programs to have our meetings. In my experience email is hopeless when it comes to making decisions: one decision took days to make over email, but only five minutes - if that - over Yahoo Messenger. At the University I attend, external teams (off campus communicating online) did MUCH better than internal teams (on campus communicating face-to-face). To summarise, if you are having communication problems with your overseas counterparts, you'd be better off finding a better way to communicate.
My money is on Team 4.
I'd be willing to work nights for extra pay.
But would your boss be willing to pay you 'extra' for the night shift? No, no, and no. Obviously.
Where you need to communicate over the time zone e.g. s/w development - in my experience it's a myth, and highly dependent on the quality of the people communicating. I haven't seen any good documented evidence of any efficiency improvements. In fact I've heard that it actually can decrease the net efficiency of your local team 40%.
/some/ time overhead, but not so much that it increases production time. With good teamwork, a reduction in expected completion time to 60%-55% should be expected with an extra team working on it. If not, someone is slacking and deserves to be fired. (Trying to prove to your boss that outsourcing is bad by pretending that it decreases your efficiency to write code is not the way to go about it.)
On the other hand, efficiency of the local team is also highly dependent on the quality of the people in the local team. If the local team finds it so difficult to work with other teams, then perhaps they don't know teamwork as well as their bosses thought they did and should be replaced.
"Result: Projects get finished in about half the time"
Yeah right.
I know sarcasm when I see it, but have you heard of optimism before? Besides I believe I said "about half the time", not exactly half. Of course there will be
When I said that the so-called "operating system" is on the BIOS, it is basically a ROM chip. This is what you see when you don't put a disc in.
1. At turn the RESET gets pulled active low (or high, depending on the logic used).
2. Microprocessor loads IP with RESET vector
3. BIOS boots
4. CD/whatever runs
In PC architecture, an operating system goes between 3 and 4. When you put a disc in, it runs between the game/app and the hardware, and the program has to interact with the operating system instead of the hardware.
In the PSX architecture, when you put a disc in, all the bootstrap does is load the disc image, and that's it. You're on your own; you control the hardware, not through some cutdown DirectX API. This is the kind of freedom we used to have on our computers before the days of DPMI, V86 and Windows that hid the hardware from us.
In a truly embedded system, you can skip the third step: the reset vector often points to the main bit of code to run and skips any bootstrap stuff entirely. Chances are that if you've bulit an embedded system, you don't need an operating system because you designed the hardware with your application in mind.
Think about it: the PSX architecture was designed to run games, but the PC architecture was always designed to run PC applications.
A large company will outsource eventually if they want a 24-hour workday. India is a nice place for such companies because they can be coding while you are sleeping. Result: Projects get finished in about half the time.
Besides, there is also the financial benefits of cheap labour that outsourcing brings. Some might say that outsourcing isn't nice to those working at home base, but that's beside the point to a company when deadlines and audits are looming.