It could just as easily be said that the IP issues surrounding Open Source are not well understood and prone to violation when mixed with proprietary IP. The assumption that Android was going to be an open system was clearly false, and Google's reliance on Linux has opened them up to unwanted competition.
If the U.S. doesn't want its own Piratpartiet, the government had better consider that the reason these branch offices have popped up is precisely because of heavy-handed laws that attempt to usurp the inalienable rights of users to download content for free off the internet.
Any action against Net Neutrality, for one, will be one step towards establishing a Pirate Party here at home. Any action that tries to legislate morality on the internet will be one step towards a viable Pirate Party third party. The only real chance legislators have in the U.S. of stopping the growth of the Pirate Party here is ironically to embrace the tenets of the Pirate Party and implement the freedom of information it espouses.
Princess Leia once put it very succinctly, "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
So I took a stroll through the binary and here is what it does in a nutshell.
- Catch the wake interrupt - Resent the CPU - Power on the LED - Power on the LCD - Power on the audio codec - Copy the Nintendo graphic to VRAM - Play the Clang WAV - Initialize the buttons - Copy game binary to memory - Jump to game image
We have the technology to analyze the spectrography of astral bodies. We can even detect the composition of stars many light years away from the Earth.
Why do we need to clutter up the Moon with these "crash landing" sensors? At least it would make sense to have sensor devices that could be actively mobile and roam the surface after landing.
Yes, it would be expensive, but if we're going to be doing something we should try to get the longest life out of it possible.
It's a very rare player that has rights to their own name, image, and likeness. For the most part, when you sign your contract with the NCAA and professional leagues you must turn over those rights to the league. This gives them the ability to license that data for things like games.
Whether the games are expressive works or not, the rights to those likenesses should lie with the leagues, not the players.
I'll be hiking out in the wilderness away from the lights of civilization next week and was thinking of taking shots of the night sky.
I have a film camera with bulb release and a good tripod, so taking long exposures with no camera shake won't be a problem. However, there are a couple things I am concerned about.
1) Film type. What should I go with? I was thinking of a low-grain slow film like Reala, but would a faster film be preferable? 2) Shutter length. What is the minimum shutter length to get a deep view of the sky but also avoid capturing the rotation of the earth? 3) Lens. Is there an ideal focal length? I was thinking wider is better to capture more of the sky and possibly some earth-based objects.
Take a look at the iPhone, as an example. It does so many things so well that people are wont to call it a computer rather than a phone. And for good reason, too. The phone function sucks.
Why can't I get a phone that is just a really good phone without satnav, gyroscopic direction finders, accelerometers, and a million other features that I could just as well get on my laptop?
Illegal downloads hurt all of us in bandwidth throughput, additional cost at the record store, and the total marring of the reputation of P2P technology.
Each subscreen could act as a mini-desktop so that you could "minimize" an application like a browser or video to a smaller screen and still run your main app full screen in the large LCD while keeping an eye on other apps. You'd be able to run multiple apps without losing any screen real estate. Likewise, a quick tap could bring the application to the main screen and minimize the other app to an open subscreen. This could be implemented in the OS and wouldn't need any special programming on the application side.
Isn't the very nature of something in the public domain such that it can't be "abused"?
Definition stretching of that sort always leads to the creation of laws against victimless crimes like corpse "rape". Can something really have the right to deny consent if it has no more sentience than a rock? Can source code really be abused if it has already been given away?
I like the GPL, but please don't try to justify it by using loaded terms like "abuse" and "rape".
Zis is good step for all of us, mon ami. Ze GPL needs testing so badly. Zus far it has only been tested in ze legal depart'ments of business, and not in ze legal courts.
I listened once. It was an hour of "Kim, I'm having trouble installing my Canon digicam." "Well, you need to attach the cable and then turn the camera on." "Thanks Kim! That really did the trick!"
Trying to explain anything more complex than "Have you tried rebooting it?" to the audience of AM talk radio is like declaring any year Year of Linux on the Desktop.
This story makes me reconsider my zeal to see Terri Schiavo die. If she was indeed experiencing brain activity despite her handicap, surely she would be considered more alive than a dead salmon.
Our consciousness is all just a series of nerve impulses and chemical reactions. If Terri was experiencing these reactions and impulses, I hate to say it, but we may have killed a human being and not just a vegetable.
The long tail doesn't threaten those at the top any more than it isolates those at the bottom. It only describes the shape of the market which necessarily has only a few specific market products which are used by the majority and the rest of the products with very few customers in the "long tail". It's a market definition, not a competition definition.
You can cut the tail off of a gecko at any point, but it doesn't mean that somehow the tail can exist without a fat end and a thin end. Since the tail is simply the appendage attached to the abdomen, wherever it is attached defines its fat end, and where it ends is the thin end. Even if you cut the tail off completely, all that you've done is stimulated the tail regrowth reflex.
In the context of a speech to a large group of people, I'd rather not take any questions. It bores the people who are already wanting to leave, and typically the types of questions that arise in an impromptu Q&A are more masturbatory than penetrating.
Fake Q&A session, if you can. Use planted audience members who you have worked with to prepare good questions. Then only call on those people.
Have you ever tried growing tomatoes? It's very difficult because there are lots of things that can go wrong. Bugs, bad soil, wind, even the tomatoes themselves can be too heavy and break off the vine. It's not a matter of planting the seed and then letting it grow. You've got to be involved almost every day to make sure the growth is under control, that the vine is tied where it needs to be, that the plant is properly pruned so that you don't end up with a scraggly set of leaves and scrawny tomatoes. It's a very difficult, but very rewarding activity.
So when you say: Take questions.
You are wrong.
Ask questions. If you want your audience involved, you need to solicit feedback. You can't expect them to come with any questions, so you need to frame your speech to include questions *to* your audience so that they become part of the program, not just spectators.
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It could just as easily be said that the IP issues surrounding Open Source are not well understood and prone to violation when mixed with proprietary IP. The assumption that Android was going to be an open system was clearly false, and Google's reliance on Linux has opened them up to unwanted competition.
How many liters per rod is that?
Couldn't you just pay with ten double-sided copies of 50GBP notes?
If the U.S. doesn't want its own Piratpartiet, the government had better consider that the reason these branch offices have popped up is precisely because of heavy-handed laws that attempt to usurp the inalienable rights of users to download content for free off the internet.
Any action against Net Neutrality, for one, will be one step towards establishing a Pirate Party here at home. Any action that tries to legislate morality on the internet will be one step towards a viable Pirate Party third party. The only real chance legislators have in the U.S. of stopping the growth of the Pirate Party here is ironically to embrace the tenets of the Pirate Party and implement the freedom of information it espouses.
Princess Leia once put it very succinctly, "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
Well, how do you think you would feel if you were dumped after 10 years?
So I took a stroll through the binary and here is what it does in a nutshell.
- Catch the wake interrupt
- Resent the CPU
- Power on the LED
- Power on the LCD
- Power on the audio codec
- Copy the Nintendo graphic to VRAM
- Play the Clang WAV
- Initialize the buttons
- Copy game binary to memory
- Jump to game image
http://maps.google.com/moon/#lat=-83.215692&lon=-38.320312&map=visible&apollo=&q=Cabeus
We have the technology to analyze the spectrography of astral bodies. We can even detect the composition of stars many light years away from the Earth.
Why do we need to clutter up the Moon with these "crash landing" sensors? At least it would make sense to have sensor devices that could be actively mobile and roam the surface after landing.
Yes, it would be expensive, but if we're going to be doing something we should try to get the longest life out of it possible.
It's a very rare player that has rights to their own name, image, and likeness. For the most part, when you sign your contract with the NCAA and professional leagues you must turn over those rights to the league. This gives them the ability to license that data for things like games.
Whether the games are expressive works or not, the rights to those likenesses should lie with the leagues, not the players.
I'll be hiking out in the wilderness away from the lights of civilization next week and was thinking of taking shots of the night sky.
I have a film camera with bulb release and a good tripod, so taking long exposures with no camera shake won't be a problem. However, there are a couple things I am concerned about.
1) Film type. What should I go with? I was thinking of a low-grain slow film like Reala, but would a faster film be preferable?
2) Shutter length. What is the minimum shutter length to get a deep view of the sky but also avoid capturing the rotation of the earth?
3) Lens. Is there an ideal focal length? I was thinking wider is better to capture more of the sky and possibly some earth-based objects.
Any help? Thanks!
I won't hold Slashdot up as some paragon of website design, but that reddit site really leaves a lot to be desired.
Is this really a concern? Can a site with such a terrible look and feel really have so many users? WTF is reddit anyway?
Take a look at the iPhone, as an example. It does so many things so well that people are wont to call it a computer rather than a phone. And for good reason, too. The phone function sucks.
Why can't I get a phone that is just a really good phone without satnav, gyroscopic direction finders, accelerometers, and a million other features that I could just as well get on my laptop?
Israeli quantum physicists have designed a blueprint for a 'quantum machine gun'
In other news, Palestinian quantum physicists have designed shoulder-mounted quantum launchers and quantum vests in response.
Civilians are hopeful for peace and terrified for escalation of hostilities.
It's about time someone spoke truth to power.
Illegal downloads hurt all of us in bandwidth throughput, additional cost at the record store, and the total marring of the reputation of P2P technology.
Clearly it depends on the implementation, but...
Each subscreen could act as a mini-desktop so that you could "minimize" an application like a browser or video to a smaller screen and still run your main app full screen in the large LCD while keeping an eye on other apps. You'd be able to run multiple apps without losing any screen real estate. Likewise, a quick tap could bring the application to the main screen and minimize the other app to an open subscreen. This could be implemented in the OS and wouldn't need any special programming on the application side.
Just one idea.
Can someone enlighten me?
The garbageman puts your recyclables in the same truck as the rest of the trash.
This one reeks of shades of this article.
With Win7 coming soon, it seems a little strange that Intel is messing around with Vista instead of the upcoming OS.
Isn't the very nature of something in the public domain such that it can't be "abused"?
Definition stretching of that sort always leads to the creation of laws against victimless crimes like corpse "rape". Can something really have the right to deny consent if it has no more sentience than a rock? Can source code really be abused if it has already been given away?
I like the GPL, but please don't try to justify it by using loaded terms like "abuse" and "rape".
Zis is good step for all of us, mon ami. Ze GPL needs testing so badly. Zus far it has only been tested in ze legal depart'ments of business, and not in ze legal courts.
Pardon my French, but fuckez yeah!
As in "Windows popular" or "Linux popular"?
I listened once. It was an hour of "Kim, I'm having trouble installing my Canon digicam." "Well, you need to attach the cable and then turn the camera on." "Thanks Kim! That really did the trick!"
Trying to explain anything more complex than "Have you tried rebooting it?" to the audience of AM talk radio is like declaring any year Year of Linux on the Desktop.
This story makes me reconsider my zeal to see Terri Schiavo die. If she was indeed experiencing brain activity despite her handicap, surely she would be considered more alive than a dead salmon.
Our consciousness is all just a series of nerve impulses and chemical reactions. If Terri was experiencing these reactions and impulses, I hate to say it, but we may have killed a human being and not just a vegetable.
God bless you, Terri Schiavo.
The long tail doesn't threaten those at the top any more than it isolates those at the bottom. It only describes the shape of the market which necessarily has only a few specific market products which are used by the majority and the rest of the products with very few customers in the "long tail". It's a market definition, not a competition definition.
You can cut the tail off of a gecko at any point, but it doesn't mean that somehow the tail can exist without a fat end and a thin end. Since the tail is simply the appendage attached to the abdomen, wherever it is attached defines its fat end, and where it ends is the thin end. Even if you cut the tail off completely, all that you've done is stimulated the tail regrowth reflex.
In the context of a speech to a large group of people, I'd rather not take any questions. It bores the people who are already wanting to leave, and typically the types of questions that arise in an impromptu Q&A are more masturbatory than penetrating.
Fake Q&A session, if you can. Use planted audience members who you have worked with to prepare good questions. Then only call on those people.
Have you ever tried growing tomatoes? It's very difficult because there are lots of things that can go wrong. Bugs, bad soil, wind, even the tomatoes themselves can be too heavy and break off the vine. It's not a matter of planting the seed and then letting it grow. You've got to be involved almost every day to make sure the growth is under control, that the vine is tied where it needs to be, that the plant is properly pruned so that you don't end up with a scraggly set of leaves and scrawny tomatoes. It's a very difficult, but very rewarding activity.
So when you say:
Take questions.
You are wrong.
Ask questions. If you want your audience involved, you need to solicit feedback. You can't expect them to come with any questions, so you need to frame your speech to include questions *to* your audience so that they become part of the program, not just spectators.
I can safely say there is absolutely no competition. None at all.
That's usually the case with government-sponsored monopolies.