Ever seen the Quake trilogy release for Linux? It's a box about twice the sixe of the one in the story, maybe a foot long. Lots of screen shots, dark images...and one lone CD inside, mounted smack dab in the center of the box.
Unfortunately, it's just not Redmond that has no sense of environmental responsibility...
You need to get off your high horse and re-read the article. It has nothing to with encryption, and everything to do with distributed data promulgation. The pads exist only to provide chunks of data which have no inherent meaning in and of themselves. Once linked together with other pads, the pads now take on meaning. This would effectively prevent shutting down a site based solely on the pads contained at that site (although I do believe it would be trivial to prove that a particular pad at a particular site "belonged" to a particular document, in which case censorship laws will simply be changed accordingly to prohibit serving of pads which can be used in part to reproduce a censored piece of information).
e4, you have absolutely no clue. It's obvious your history of the Internet starts at about the time Gore invented it. The lockdown has begun, so instead of asking "How do I turn a buck on the web," you should ask yourself "How do I ensure free and unimpeded information exchange?".
Metallica has basically spit in the face of nearly half a million fans. Personally, I'm not a big fan, but if I was, I would be incensed that Metallica has chosen to treat their fans this way. Diplomacy is obviously not one of Metallica's strong suits. Not that it matter; their music has been going downhill for years.
mp3.com is history, given that each willful copyright infraction can cost a violator upwards of $100,000. I'd seriously consider liquidating my MPPP stock right about now.
"About Face," by Alan Cooper. Probably one of the best books ever written about proper UI design. It has everything M$ ignored when Cooper was trying to help them with their UI development. It should be required reading before anybody is permitted to develop a UI.
Europe has always been a bastion of anti-M$ sentiment, so this comes as no surprise. But the question is: When will our country come to its senses and demand the same? M$ has been thumbing its nose at standards for a very long time, and have been getting away with it. It's time we show our collective balls and come up with the same sort of legislation.
Stallman stumbles badly on the one major assumption that he builds his essay on: That the world will soon embrace e-books as a replacement for the printed page.
That's a lot of BS. There is not one shred of evidence pointing to a mass exodus from the printed word to the virtual word. The current state of display technology makes long-term reading of anything at the monitor a very trying ordeal.
The sky's not falling. Stallman is just trying to distance himself from some of those stock options by showing us he's a "regular" guy who's concerned about anything that tramples our God-given right to "copy and distribute." In this case, though, there's simply nothing to rant about.
There's nothing "ground-breaking" at all about offering computers to your employees. It's no different than giving your employee voice mail or a pager. All Ford has done is effectively extended its employees' workplace into their homes. Ford will figure out a way to make their employees productive at home as well as at work, and they will know exactly who in their organization is equipped to work out of the house. This program should be setting alarm bells off, instead of being applauded as a breakthrough employee benefit.
OK, we all know LinuxOne is a sham. Why do you guys keep wasting space on these bozos? There are so many other things in life to talk about here, and yet LinuxOne appears almost every week. If I were involved with LinuxOne, I'd personally be thanking CmdrTaco for keeping me in mind and providing the/. constituency visibility of my products.
I must have missed that last round of industry standard proposals for Linux hardware certification...when did Linuxcare suddenly become the know-all-to-end-all authority on Linux installations? I'll probably get flamed on this, seeing as how Linuxcare is a/. darling. But I think it's somewhat irresponsible to throw around statements like "Linuxcare certified" as if that means something.
Who cares? I don't shop at Wal-Mart if I can help it. If I visit Amazon.com or any other book vendor, I'll do it to buy books, not read a bunch of banal book reviews or lame author interviews. I'll do a Google search if I'm interested in real author information.
As usual, M$ has chosen to ignore the real issue: Their insistence on adding M$-dependent "extensions" to their Java implementation is the very reason why they are in their current jam with Sun. Moving development to a third-party vendor won't solve the problem. Sun will just go after the third-party vendor, as well it should. M$ attempts to trash every standard that comes along which doesn't include M$'s vision of the world according to M$. It's not very smart, business-wise, for Rational to get caught up in this.
Considering the fact that the patent is very specific about "1-click" shopping, B&N would be wise to simply change their method of shopping so it takes 2 clicks to do the same. Personally, I don't visit vendor sites based on how many clicks it takes me to order...and I doubt many others do either. I think B&N is missing the forest for the trees. It make business sense to wage battle against Amazon on the sidelines, and find a temporary workaround.
Applixware 2.3.7 was one of the buggiest pieces of software I ever came across. The filters were pretty lame, help documentation poor, and the application had a bad habit of simply going away, saving nothing to disk -- no backup, nothing. It's probably the only software I've ever used that I was really scared to fire up. Hopefully Applix has improved.
Only after a suitable "burn-in" period: Tori's music is deep enough that I find her way too distracting when I'm listening to her new stuff. Fortunately, I think I've snagged everything she's done, so she's no longer so distracting...
I believe the image you're referring to is an aerial image of San Diego's Lindbergh Field. Those images were used for calibration purposes while designing the image processing algorithms.
The imaging software is designed so that the controlling agency can upload "blackout" coordinates which would prevent imaging of a particular geographic area. It's not just a filter, but the imaging camera would actually be turned off during scans that fell within the boundaries of these "blackout" areas.
Concentrate on your education, get a solid background in software development fundamentals. You'll gravitate towards areas of interest that are appealing to you, and you'll pick up a lot of that on your own. The really intensive learning begins the day you start your new job (or your own business). Yeah, plenty of college grads know how to write software programs, but I've yet to meet a fresh one who can design and implement a software system from the ground up. This will come from experience.
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Unfortunately, it's just not Redmond that has no sense of environmental responsibility...
You need to get off your high horse and re-read the article. It has nothing to with encryption, and everything to do with distributed data promulgation. The pads exist only to provide chunks of data which have no inherent meaning in and of themselves. Once linked together with other pads, the pads now take on meaning. This would effectively prevent shutting down a site based solely on the pads contained at that site (although I do believe it would be trivial to prove that a particular pad at a particular site "belonged" to a particular document, in which case censorship laws will simply be changed accordingly to prohibit serving of pads which can be used in part to reproduce a censored piece of information).
e4, you have absolutely no clue. It's obvious your history of the Internet starts at about the time Gore invented it. The lockdown has begun, so instead of asking "How do I turn a buck on the web," you should ask yourself "How do I ensure free and unimpeded information exchange?".
Metallica has basically spit in the face of nearly half a million fans. Personally, I'm not a big fan, but if I was, I would be incensed that Metallica has chosen to treat their fans this way. Diplomacy is obviously not one of Metallica's strong suits. Not that it matter; their music has been going downhill for years.
mp3.com is history, given that each willful copyright infraction can cost a violator upwards of $100,000. I'd seriously consider liquidating my MPPP stock right about now.
"About Face," by Alan Cooper. Probably one of the best books ever written about proper UI design. It has everything M$ ignored when Cooper was trying to help them with their UI development. It should be required reading before anybody is permitted to develop a UI.
Europe has always been a bastion of anti-M$ sentiment, so this comes as no surprise. But the question is: When will our country come to its senses and demand the same? M$ has been thumbing its nose at standards for a very long time, and have been getting away with it. It's time we show our collective balls and come up with the same sort of legislation.
The preview button trashed the link. Here's the link.
Here's another link behind AOL's dogged popularity. Cheaper isn't necessarily better in the eyes of some of those 22 million AOL users.
That's a lot of BS. There is not one shred of evidence pointing to a mass exodus from the printed word to the virtual word. The current state of display technology makes long-term reading of anything at the monitor a very trying ordeal.
The sky's not falling. Stallman is just trying to distance himself from some of those stock options by showing us he's a "regular" guy who's concerned about anything that tramples our God-given right to "copy and distribute." In this case, though, there's simply nothing to rant about.
There's nothing "ground-breaking" at all about offering computers to your employees. It's no different than giving your employee voice mail or a pager. All Ford has done is effectively extended its employees' workplace into their homes. Ford will figure out a way to make their employees productive at home as well as at work, and they will know exactly who in their organization is equipped to work out of the house. This program should be setting alarm bells off, instead of being applauded as a breakthrough employee benefit.
OK, we all know LinuxOne is a sham. Why do you guys keep wasting space on these bozos? There are so many other things in life to talk about here, and yet LinuxOne appears almost every week. If I were involved with LinuxOne, I'd personally be thanking CmdrTaco for keeping me in mind and providing the /. constituency visibility of my products.
I must have missed that last round of industry standard proposals for Linux hardware certification...when did Linuxcare suddenly become the know-all-to-end-all authority on Linux installations? I'll probably get flamed on this, seeing as how Linuxcare is a /. darling. But I think it's somewhat irresponsible to throw around statements like "Linuxcare certified" as if that means something.
Who cares? I don't shop at Wal-Mart if I can help it. If I visit Amazon.com or any other book vendor, I'll do it to buy books, not read a bunch of banal book reviews or lame author interviews. I'll do a Google search if I'm interested in real author information.
As usual, M$ has chosen to ignore the real issue: Their insistence on adding M$-dependent "extensions" to their Java implementation is the very reason why they are in their current jam with Sun. Moving development to a third-party vendor won't solve the problem. Sun will just go after the third-party vendor, as well it should. M$ attempts to trash every standard that comes along which doesn't include M$'s vision of the world according to M$. It's not very smart, business-wise, for Rational to get caught up in this.
I have found BookPool to be cheaper than Amazon.com on many occasions. There are certainly alternatives out there...
Considering the fact that the patent is very specific about "1-click" shopping, B&N would be wise to simply change their method of shopping so it takes 2 clicks to do the same. Personally, I don't visit vendor sites based on how many clicks it takes me to order...and I doubt many others do either. I think B&N is missing the forest for the trees. It make business sense to wage battle against Amazon on the sidelines, and find a temporary workaround.
Looks like Nerdperfect (http://www.nerdperfect.com) beat /. to the punch on this one.
Applixware 2.3.7 was one of the buggiest pieces of software I ever came across. The filters were pretty lame, help documentation poor, and the application had a bad habit of simply going away, saving nothing to disk -- no backup, nothing. It's probably the only software I've ever used that I was really scared to fire up. Hopefully Applix has improved.
Only after a suitable "burn-in" period: Tori's music is deep enough that I find her way too distracting when I'm listening to her new stuff. Fortunately, I think I've snagged everything she's done, so she's no longer so distracting...
I believe the image you're referring to is an aerial image of San Diego's Lindbergh Field. Those images were used for calibration purposes while designing the image processing algorithms.
The imaging software is designed so that the controlling agency can upload "blackout" coordinates which would prevent imaging of a particular geographic area. It's not just a filter, but the imaging camera would actually be turned off during scans that fell within the boundaries of these "blackout" areas.
Concentrate on your education, get a solid background in software development fundamentals. You'll gravitate towards areas of interest that are appealing to you, and you'll pick up a lot of that on your own. The really intensive learning begins the day you start your new job (or your own business). Yeah, plenty of college grads know how to write software programs, but I've yet to meet a fresh one who can design and implement a software system from the ground up. This will come from experience.