What she is doing is blaming Steve and friends for the fact that she isn't doing anything about the RIAA cartel. Why focus on iTunes instead of something like SONY connect where the content provider and the distributor are one and the same?
Writing Semantic Markup: Transition to XML
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One of the biggest steps in realizing Web 2.0 is the transition to semantic markup, or markup that accurately describes the content its applied to. The most popular markup languages, HTML and XHTML, are used primarily for display purposes, with tags to which designers can apply styles via CSS.
It's not because somewhere in the past rss had something to do with rdf(s), w3c's first reincarnitation of a semantic web markup language, that this still is the case. The only semantics in todays rss feeds are that the entries are 'news' consisting of a title, a description and a link, everything else in there is meaningless from an explicit se;antics point of view. If the tag says dog, cat or space shuttle doesnt matter from a computer processing point of view it's all the same.
Seriously, I'm so tiered of this web 2.0 bandwagon which is most often not much more then a rehash of technology that has been out there for years but has now gotten a lot of male cow manure added to it to make it sound interesting and new.
I still fail to see how it is a copyright infringement to link to news articles? It's not like Google is hosting the article on it's own website...it's linking. It's a shame that companies are so money hungry that they want to be paid for someone directing traffic to their site. Next business will want money from taxi drivers for delivering customers.
Since it's all a bit confusing some belgian insight into the whole case: (warning: I only had two cups of coffee so far;) )
What happened is that these newspapers temporarely put their articles public and then, typically the day after, make them non-public again. Ofcourse by then google has happily passed by and put those articles in their cache thus making them publicly availalbe while they aren't anymore. Eh voila, we have a court case.
I actually have no idea on the google cache details but I'ld expect that if you use a correct expire value in your header that they get removed again from google or that google atleast checks if the content is still available before showing it to the user. Ofcourse the newspapers could've easily used a robot.txt file to prevent google from caching these articles in the first place instead of having to go to court to achieve exactly the same thing.
Maybe a little bit of background info: In belgium we have a special court of appeal with judges that actually know something about IT, this in sharp contrast ofcourse with all those babyboomer-generation judges making up the majority of the courts, that havent got the slightests clue and probably are even afraid/angry of that whole internet thing and computers in general. Since google has appealed the deciscion, we might eventually see this ruling overturned but that might take a while (the newspapars used a special procedure for 'urgent' matters which typically results in the kind of ruling we are discussing here).
FYI: IANAL, just a belgian it guy that that tries to be a bit more informed about legal aspects of it then average, if only because of a retarted judge in germany that in essence ruled that the postal system is responsible for spam and not whomever actually took the initiative the have an email/ecard sent in the first place (yes this applies to every send to a friend feature out there) *rolleyes*
I'ld like to declare humanity addicted to oxygen. Take your average human and deprive him or her from oxygen even for a little while and you'll start seeing syptoms far beyond any other type of withdrawel.
Since in psychology there's no need whatsoever do adhere to strict standards of scientific proof like you need in exact sciences, I feel confident to state that I have proven this disorder to be real beyond a doubt and I therefor demand 5$ a day for therapeutic purposes from every single human being on the planet that can't go without oxygen for a day. yes, I'm already charging myself for it.
Seriously, can't they simply call it addiction and stick to a non-retarded list of symptons. That whole getting into financial troubles due to the cost associated with being online dates back to the dial-in ages. It's bloody time people start questioning that whole psychology scene cause in the end it not much more then pharma-sponsered pseudo science at the moment.
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cause every single one I know is planning to buy a wii and wondering how anyone will be crasy enough to pay for sony's expensive reincarnation of the same old thing
Joe Barr must be the type of guy that tries pressing his break paddle for 3 days and then calls his car dealer to complain his brand new car doesnt move
The biggest joke of the whole affair is that these newspapers apparently never heared about a robots.txt file and neither did the 'expert' that adviced the court in this matter.
If I were google I'ld setup a little farm that would visit every single page on their website every millisecond, just to make sure that the moment the newspaper takes an article offline it gets removed from google cache as well.:o)
Yep, it's not mmorpgs in general it's especially the WoW kind of mmorpg cause the way the game is designed forces you to act like an addict. In the end a realm based approach such as WoW's where you can be one of the big frogs in the little pond triggers either the competitive nature or wannabeness of many people. Combine that with the fact that in order to become one of those big frogs you'll have to pick one of the two major timesinks, high-end raiding or ranking up in the pvp 'ladder' and you wind up with something very much alike to an addiction. There's one major difference though, eventually you'll reach that goal, if only because others give up and you, the big frog, is left there wondering why you did it. The answer ofcourse being that you were chasing blizzard's carrot on a stick that's only there to keep you busy untill they release the extension were you finally can have fun again doing quests once or maybe twice and then move on instead of doing the same thing over and over and over and over again in ordr to achieve those leet epics
It's the business users too that are a problem. I'm currently trying to get a project on the rails based on semantic web technology, and I'm confronted with an IT department where some are even struggling with the difference between subtyping and instantiation- let alone more advanced modelling issues... It doesnt help ofcourse that most people never even heard of conceptual modelling languages such as ORM but instead were thought to use uml and ER where it's the modellers' responsibility to make a distinction between what is conceptual, logical and physical which ofcourse most never did.
In regards to the google issue I think the idea that you should crawl everything is faulty cause you need to be able to trust the source. Most ontologies will simply be restricted to a certain domain and corresponding user group, often in a b2b context. Integrating every man and his dog, the lawnmower and the kitchen sink with some kind of top level ontology is merely a nice-to-have philosophical issue that I dont expect to be solved in the near future, if only cause we havent seen much advances since Aristole started toying around with the idea. In other words, at google they are worried about an issue that's atleast a decade away from now, probably even more.
What is needed is a country like Japan, China, or EU to move to this. Then the party is over.
Well, with the large majority of eu officials and parlementarians actually spending a lot of time in Brussels, the Belgian descision can turn out to be quite a nice marketing aid for adoptation on a european level.
Now that IBM has released a DB2 adapter for Rails, it's possible to write efficient Web applications on top of your existing DB2 database investment.
While much can be said in favor of RoR, especially the fact that the approach is the best thing since sliced bread for a certain 'niche' market, non-enterprise applications, the above quote is wrong. There is a huge difference between efficiently writing web applications, that which Ror is good at, and writing efficient web applications, that which RoR traded of in favor of efficiently writing web applications.
God doesnt want people to marry... Why else would a metal object such as a wedding ring increase the chance of internal injuries and death in case of a lightning strike?
Besides the 'optional' moral and ethical aspects, the real problem with more and more products being made in 3rd world sweatshops is that eventually Americans and Europeans will be affected too. Once there is enough unemployment due to jobs being 'outsourced' to foreign sweatshops the average westerner will have the joyfull choice between starvation or giving up on the little bit of civilisation we achieved and start working in a local sweatshop for food and healthhazards just like we did a century or two ago.
they never mention the communication and documentation overhead that is the result of no more face to face and/or informal contact Its as if the managers that make these descisions in sharp contrast with the rest of the world never achieved anything valuable by just having a little chat in the coffee-room Its all about less salary and nothing else...?.
Quite frankly, for something like Flickr, I wouldn't mind running a client app as long as there's an easy, reliable way of updating it (like what's implemented in Firefox - binary diffs). That app, however, must run on three platforms in order to work for me, because I use Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.
It's called Java Web Start and it works fine, but since it's nothing new we'll keep on looking for another solution that does exactly the same but with more hype...
companies like google, microsoft and amazon should simply setup their servers to have every goverment related ip address be blessed with an ultra low bandwith version of their service.
The monkeys in congress would quickly figure out why net neutrality is so important...
According to the article the chinese internet excutives' point of view is that censorship isn't an issue sinse chinese aren't interested in the censored content anyway. Makes you wonder why there's so much effort put into censoring it in the first place...
Actually "befehl ist befehl" was the excuse they used last time they got a dissident into jail:
"Yahoo defended itself at the time saying it had to abide by local laws, but declined to confirm or deny it furnished the government with the information." source Thats why this time they had to pull the we didn't know card:
"The firm says it simply responds to requests from the authorities for data without ever knowing what it will be used for,"
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What she is doing is blaming Steve and friends for the fact that she isn't doing anything about the RIAA cartel. Why focus on iTunes instead of something like SONY connect where the content provider and the distributor are one and the same?
Guess we'll have to start modding with +1 delicious now
Seriously, I'm so tiered of this web 2.0 bandwagon which is most often not much more then a rehash of technology that has been out there for years but has now gotten a lot of male cow manure added to it to make it sound interesting and new.
What happened is that these newspapers temporarely put their articles public and then, typically the day after, make them non-public again. Ofcourse by then google has happily passed by and put those articles in their cache thus making them publicly availalbe while they aren't anymore. Eh voila, we have a court case.
I actually have no idea on the google cache details but I'ld expect that if you use a correct expire value in your header that they get removed again from google or that google atleast checks if the content is still available before showing it to the user. Ofcourse the newspapers could've easily used a robot.txt file to prevent google from caching these articles in the first place instead of having to go to court to achieve exactly the same thing.
Maybe a little bit of background info: In belgium we have a special court of appeal with judges that actually know something about IT, this in sharp contrast ofcourse with all those babyboomer-generation judges making up the majority of the courts, that havent got the slightests clue and probably are even afraid/angry of that whole internet thing and computers in general. Since google has appealed the deciscion, we might eventually see this ruling overturned but that might take a while (the newspapars used a special procedure for 'urgent' matters which typically results in the kind of ruling we are discussing here).
FYI: IANAL, just a belgian it guy that that tries to be a bit more informed about legal aspects of it then average, if only because of a retarted judge in germany that in essence ruled that the postal system is responsible for spam and not whomever actually took the initiative the have an email/ecard sent in the first place (yes this applies to every send to a friend feature out there) *rolleyes*
I'ld like to declare humanity addicted to oxygen. Take your average human and deprive him or her from oxygen even for a little while and you'll start seeing syptoms far beyond any other type of withdrawel.
Since in psychology there's no need whatsoever do adhere to strict standards of scientific proof like you need in exact sciences, I feel confident to state that I have proven this disorder to be real beyond a doubt and I therefor demand 5$ a day for therapeutic purposes from every single human being on the planet that can't go without oxygen for a day. yes, I'm already charging myself for it.
Seriously, can't they simply call it addiction and stick to a non-retarded list of symptons. That whole getting into financial troubles due to the cost associated with being online dates back to the dial-in ages. It's bloody time people start questioning that whole psychology scene cause in the end it not much more then pharma-sponsered pseudo science at the moment.
cause every single one I know is planning to buy a wii and wondering how anyone will be crasy enough to pay for sony's expensive reincarnation of the same old thing
Joe Barr must be the type of guy that tries pressing his break paddle for 3 days and then calls his car dealer to complain his brand new car doesnt move
The biggest joke of the whole affair is that these newspapers apparently never heared about a robots.txt file and neither did the 'expert' that adviced the court in this matter. If I were google I'ld setup a little farm that would visit every single page on their website every millisecond, just to make sure that the moment the newspaper takes an article offline it gets removed from google cache as well. :o)
Always wondered why I got a free upgrade from a 60Gb limit to the 'unlimited' package from the cable company a couple of months ago :)
Yep, it's not mmorpgs in general it's especially the WoW kind of mmorpg cause the way the game is designed forces you to act like an addict. In the end a realm based approach such as WoW's where you can be one of the big frogs in the little pond triggers either the competitive nature or wannabeness of many people. Combine that with the fact that in order to become one of those big frogs you'll have to pick one of the two major timesinks, high-end raiding or ranking up in the pvp 'ladder' and you wind up with something very much alike to an addiction. There's one major difference though, eventually you'll reach that goal, if only because others give up and you, the big frog, is left there wondering why you did it. The answer ofcourse being that you were chasing blizzard's carrot on a stick that's only there to keep you busy untill they release the extension were you finally can have fun again doing quests once or maybe twice and then move on instead of doing the same thing over and over and over and over again in ordr to achieve those leet epics
It's the business users too that are a problem. I'm currently trying to get a project on the rails based on semantic web technology, and I'm confronted with an IT department where some are even struggling with the difference between subtyping and instantiation- let alone more advanced modelling issues... It doesnt help ofcourse that most people never even heard of conceptual modelling languages such as ORM but instead were thought to use uml and ER where it's the modellers' responsibility to make a distinction between what is conceptual, logical and physical which ofcourse most never did.
In regards to the google issue I think the idea that you should crawl everything is faulty cause you need to be able to trust the source. Most ontologies will simply be restricted to a certain domain and corresponding user group, often in a b2b context. Integrating every man and his dog, the lawnmower and the kitchen sink with some kind of top level ontology is merely a nice-to-have philosophical issue that I dont expect to be solved in the near future, if only cause we havent seen much advances since Aristole started toying around with the idea. In other words, at google they are worried about an issue that's atleast a decade away from now, probably even more.
Different day, same old story Makes you wonder when people will finally stop taking these kind of 'studies' serious...
God doesnt want people to marry... Why else would a metal object such as a wedding ring increase the chance of internal injuries and death in case of a lightning strike?
how these bureacrats still haven't figured out the importance of open standards for a free market. Wasn't the microsoft case clear enough?
Besides the 'optional' moral and ethical aspects, the real problem with more and more products being made in 3rd world sweatshops is that eventually Americans and Europeans will be affected too. Once there is enough unemployment due to jobs being 'outsourced' to foreign sweatshops the average westerner will have the joyfull choice between starvation or giving up on the little bit of civilisation we achieved and start working in a local sweatshop for food and healthhazards just like we did a century or two ago.
they never mention the communication and documentation overhead that is the result of no more face to face and/or informal contact Its as if the managers that make these descisions in sharp contrast with the rest of the world never achieved anything valuable by just having a little chat in the coffee-room Its all about less salary and nothing else...?.
It's called Java Web Start and it works fine, but since it's nothing new we'll keep on looking for another solution that does exactly the same but with more hype...
the RIAA oligopoly keeps on violating every anti-trust law on the planet :s
companies like google, microsoft and amazon should simply setup their servers to have every goverment related ip address be blessed with an ultra low bandwith version of their service. The monkeys in congress would quickly figure out why net neutrality is so important...
According to the article the chinese internet excutives' point of view is that censorship isn't an issue sinse chinese aren't interested in the censored content anyway. Makes you wonder why there's so much effort put into censoring it in the first place...
Actually "befehl ist befehl" was the excuse they used last time they got a dissident into jail:
"Yahoo defended itself at the time saying it had to abide by local laws, but declined to confirm or deny it furnished the government with the information." source
Thats why this time they had to pull the we didn't know card:
"The firm says it simply responds to requests from the authorities for data without ever knowing what it will be used for,"
Well I guess that raps it up for the "Wir haben es nicht gewusst" option. Wonder what their excuse will be next time they pull this stunt...