Why is a CD's capacity the deciding factor for a component with such broad repercussions throughout the OS? It's 2012, folks. How many new installations are really made or broken on what works from a 700MB CD when a 4.7GB DVD is an incredibly common substitute?
I'm not ridiculing this decision, despite my surprised tone. I'm actually interested in learning more about the reasoning behind it, if anyone has some more background.
Not quite that GPL and Apple TOS are incompatible- otherwise Apple wouldn't permit other popular GPL-developed apps like the iOS WordPress client. VLC doesn't hold the copyright to contributed code, and one of the VLC contributors (who holds copyright to part of VLC) decided to make a stink about it for everyone. That person may have thought the GPL to be at odds with Apple TOS, but he's not the one calling the shots. As far as Apple was concerned, the complaint was that the developer publishing an iOS VLC port didn't have the rights to do so.
I've gotten a non-profit I volunteer for verified with PayPal. It's not "click a button on a webpage" easy, but it's "send a fax and talk with a human being at PayPal" easy. For the smalltime org I did this for, I'd be surprised if Wikileaks hadn't done this as due diligence.
Perhaps I don't understand this fully, but I don't see how this works out to be competition from a "dollars and cents" perspective. Google keeps talking about Chrome being a way to "improve the web," and I see them doing that by promoting a browser that's leaps and bounds above the status quo (being IE). Having an officially "Google" product, instead of just a Google-sponsored one like Firefox, allows them to leverage their reputation in a way that hopefully gets people using modern browsers. There are good technical reasons to use both, and aren't crowding the market.
Until Google starts tightly coupling their web services with Chrome-exclusive features (and I don't mean just bookmark sync), Firefox and Chrome will both benefit Google economically by giving them a broader base of browsers capable of running their monetized products - rich web applications.
Firefox will not be an economic competitor to Google until (1) Firefox changes its search defaults or (2) Google elects to make Chrome-exclusive products or features.
I'm in my fourth year working and studying at the Colorado State University College of Business. Student-facing systems are pretty much 100% run by students, who report to student managers, who report to the IT Director and a student committee representing students who pay the tech fees. It's worked remarkably well, and I've been in several roles throughout my tenure- Lab Technician, network engineer, sysadmin, security team lead, web developer.
In terms of the department's effectiveness, I would say that students receive a great value and enthusiastic service from their colleagues. The risk of system failure is pretty low since we have decent turnover and a hierarchy of newbie and more experienced staff. (It also helps having a good balance of student employees in the technical disciplines and the business administration major.) Everybody starts out with very little experience, and gets direct access to systems they wouldn't otherwise be trusted with. We put heavy emphasis on documentation and formal training requirements, but a lot of stuff is "throwing us in the lake and learning how to swim." I was 18 when I got the security team lead position, and later that week a horrible false positive in $vendor's antivirus definitions rendered every workstation in the college useless. The real-world experience of emergency response and dealing with managing a team and staying accountable to others taught me so much.
I value this kind of opportunity as something much more valuable than an internship, some entry-level jobs, or even my degree program. The job's flexibility with my school schedule and direct pertinence to my studies added several dollars worth of value to the decent student hourly rate.
I think Slashdot has done much better than other social news sites in this regard. At least some of the mods and meta-mods can recognize that upmodding shouldn't correlate to agreement with a statement. Try posting unpopular opinions on Digg or Reddit and you'll see how much harder it is to be heard because everyone has downvoting power.
Honestly, I'd be overjoyed to see a flurry of insightful or informative comments, even when they're not what I agree with. I want to be forced to think and be confronted by conflicting opinions - that way I can form more educated opinions of my own and be less influenced by groupthink circle jerks.
They already have that, but it's not for third-party apps. They started out just charging $1 for "gifts", then later changed it from dollar amounts to credits. Now on someone's birthday, the normal wall post screen displays other options to give "real gifts" and services.
Yes, I read Cryptonomicon cover to cover (well, save for the fact that eBooks don't *have* covers) on my iPhone's Kindle app.
My paper copy of the book is 1100 pages and I couldn't get too far in because I never lug books around with me. Having it on a device that is already in my pocket - and can be read in the dark - is a huge plus for me. I'm considering a Kindle but I'm not yet sure I'd even carry that around. My eyes don't like the regular display a ton, but it certainly was fine for a couple of hours at a time, especially when I weigh the convenience of having access to a book at all times.
Thanks to some very sane authors in my Finance department, I took a class using a free text from Freeload Press. They manage to turn revenue by putting ads in the DRM-free PDF files. Other good benefits are very quick error corrections, and students have the option to order an ad-free printed copy for a very sane price (around $30-40). My guess is that authors still get paid.
http://www.freeloadpress.com/index.html
(Normally I'm vehemently anti-advertising but as a college student, I'd *much* rather support an advertising business model than the current textbook industry. Yuck!)
Once I die, I don't want my offspring to pay the death tax, so I have contracted with a Nigerian attorney to arrange for QUICK INVESTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL FUNDS over the internet. Whomever he works with is authorized to take 30% of the money transferred, while 5% will handle various transfer costs. All the investor will have to do is provide my attorney with their account information by sending a small deposit to his international account.
Seriously. Studying abroad is all about expanding your horizons, and anywhere you go you'll be immersing yourself in stuff that you aren't getting at home. Expect to learn more outside of the classroom than in.
Take the time that you normally don't have in your CS/Engineering program to expose yourself to different courses... Language, culture, history, the arts. Would you rather tell a potential employer, "I have a CS degree and I got to go to $foriegnCountry," or would you like to say "I studied CS here, went to $foreignCountry, and learned some European economics and business Spanish while I was there?" (Employers love anything that will jump for those extra skills and knowledge - $diversity++.)
Obviously the tradeoffs of any study abroad program are money and time. You will likely have to take a bit longer to graduate, and you might have to take on a bit more debt to get there (depending on where you go... and when I decided to study abroad I got several "surprise checks" to help out from people who I would never have expected anything from). But if you think about it, what's the rush? Those jobs will still be there after graduation. The benefits of doing it will most likely exceed the time and money cost of doing it.
Unfortunately just about anyone "legally purchasing" music has signed a license agreement with the service. Since they are legally purchasing a license to use the sound recording for personal use - a rather restrictive license, at that - they really got what was coming to them.
I doubt that the courts would be an effective place to take this up. The market has already started to push producers towards offering their music through DRM-free avenues. (iTunes Plus, Amazon MP3, eMusic, Magnatune)
If enough users get screwed like this with closing DRMed stores, DRM will come crashing down.
(side note: I'm in a band that chose to only make its music available through DRM-free stores. We don't like letting retailers screw our fans. Check it out.
My band just finished self-producing an album. We decided from the start that we wanted to stay independent for as long as possible (which is a smartassed way of avoiding the fact that we aren't getting any attention from the labels).
We want to make a career out of our music, so we aren't going to post everything we do for free. I love Radiohead's "pay-what-you-want" strategy, but we really can't justify it as we have no name recognition these days.
Instead we decided to offer a free EP of a couple tracks on our website, in exchange for a signup on our mailing list. That way, people get several tracks for free, and if they like it, we will let them know once it's up on the DRM-free stores.
In retrospect, I am kind of lukewarm about the independent production process. We had to pay for our own studio time and mastering, and couldn't afford the better studios or engineers. We have to work a lot harder to promote ourselves, but MySpace in all its noncompliant evils has actually been an amazing resource to make connections with local venues and promoters. Some of my buddies got signed to a label that recorded their album, strung them along for a year without releasing it, and caused the band to ultimately break up.
The local scene is easy to break into without the help of a label, but I ultimately think that (talent aside) our only chances of making it big are to either join a label or to get really lucky with the viral marketing online through YouTube, MySpace, or Facebook.
OK, I'm no datacenter expert, but C I Host has a photo tour of their datacenter at http://www.cihost.com/about/virtual-tour/cdc03.php .
Looks pretty cheesy security-wise to me. And is it normal to have GLASS man-traps?
Slashdot Mirror
Why is a CD's capacity the deciding factor for a component with such broad repercussions throughout the OS? It's 2012, folks. How many new installations are really made or broken on what works from a 700MB CD when a 4.7GB DVD is an incredibly common substitute?
I'm not ridiculing this decision, despite my surprised tone. I'm actually interested in learning more about the reasoning behind it, if anyone has some more background.
Not quite that GPL and Apple TOS are incompatible- otherwise Apple wouldn't permit other popular GPL-developed apps like the iOS WordPress client. VLC doesn't hold the copyright to contributed code, and one of the VLC contributors (who holds copyright to part of VLC) decided to make a stink about it for everyone. That person may have thought the GPL to be at odds with Apple TOS, but he's not the one calling the shots. As far as Apple was concerned, the complaint was that the developer publishing an iOS VLC port didn't have the rights to do so.
Someone's sarcasm detector broke...
Idealist pissed that not everyone subscribes completely to each tenet of his philosophy. News at 11.
You've been talking to Michael Dell, haven't you?
Because the other 2% of the market will have no problem creating its own support for a pretty straightforward USB I/O device?
I guess this post should have been from the checking-it-thrice dept.
I've gotten a non-profit I volunteer for verified with PayPal. It's not "click a button on a webpage" easy, but it's "send a fax and talk with a human being at PayPal" easy. For the smalltime org I did this for, I'd be surprised if Wikileaks hadn't done this as due diligence.
Perhaps I don't understand this fully, but I don't see how this works out to be competition from a "dollars and cents" perspective. Google keeps talking about Chrome being a way to "improve the web," and I see them doing that by promoting a browser that's leaps and bounds above the status quo (being IE). Having an officially "Google" product, instead of just a Google-sponsored one like Firefox, allows them to leverage their reputation in a way that hopefully gets people using modern browsers. There are good technical reasons to use both, and aren't crowding the market.
Until Google starts tightly coupling their web services with Chrome-exclusive features (and I don't mean just bookmark sync), Firefox and Chrome will both benefit Google economically by giving them a broader base of browsers capable of running their monetized products - rich web applications.
Firefox will not be an economic competitor to Google until (1) Firefox changes its search defaults or (2) Google elects to make Chrome-exclusive products or features.
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords!
Red hair dye companies' stock shares plummeted yesterday due to loss of demand from the Kirsten Dunst market.
I'm in my fourth year working and studying at the Colorado State University College of Business. Student-facing systems are pretty much 100% run by students, who report to student managers, who report to the IT Director and a student committee representing students who pay the tech fees. It's worked remarkably well, and I've been in several roles throughout my tenure- Lab Technician, network engineer, sysadmin, security team lead, web developer.
In terms of the department's effectiveness, I would say that students receive a great value and enthusiastic service from their colleagues. The risk of system failure is pretty low since we have decent turnover and a hierarchy of newbie and more experienced staff. (It also helps having a good balance of student employees in the technical disciplines and the business administration major.) Everybody starts out with very little experience, and gets direct access to systems they wouldn't otherwise be trusted with. We put heavy emphasis on documentation and formal training requirements, but a lot of stuff is "throwing us in the lake and learning how to swim." I was 18 when I got the security team lead position, and later that week a horrible false positive in $vendor's antivirus definitions rendered every workstation in the college useless. The real-world experience of emergency response and dealing with managing a team and staying accountable to others taught me so much.
I value this kind of opportunity as something much more valuable than an internship, some entry-level jobs, or even my degree program. The job's flexibility with my school schedule and direct pertinence to my studies added several dollars worth of value to the decent student hourly rate.
I think Slashdot has done much better than other social news sites in this regard. At least some of the mods and meta-mods can recognize that upmodding shouldn't correlate to agreement with a statement. Try posting unpopular opinions on Digg or Reddit and you'll see how much harder it is to be heard because everyone has downvoting power. Honestly, I'd be overjoyed to see a flurry of insightful or informative comments, even when they're not what I agree with. I want to be forced to think and be confronted by conflicting opinions - that way I can form more educated opinions of my own and be less influenced by groupthink circle jerks.
They already have that, but it's not for third-party apps. They started out just charging $1 for "gifts", then later changed it from dollar amounts to credits. Now on someone's birthday, the normal wall post screen displays other options to give "real gifts" and services.
Yes, I read Cryptonomicon cover to cover (well, save for the fact that eBooks don't *have* covers) on my iPhone's Kindle app. My paper copy of the book is 1100 pages and I couldn't get too far in because I never lug books around with me. Having it on a device that is already in my pocket - and can be read in the dark - is a huge plus for me. I'm considering a Kindle but I'm not yet sure I'd even carry that around. My eyes don't like the regular display a ton, but it certainly was fine for a couple of hours at a time, especially when I weigh the convenience of having access to a book at all times.
I 3 the EFF.
Obviously your devotion is higher than mine, I just less than three them.
Thanks to some very sane authors in my Finance department, I took a class using a free text from Freeload Press. They manage to turn revenue by putting ads in the DRM-free PDF files. Other good benefits are very quick error corrections, and students have the option to order an ad-free printed copy for a very sane price (around $30-40). My guess is that authors still get paid. http://www.freeloadpress.com/index.html (Normally I'm vehemently anti-advertising but as a college student, I'd *much* rather support an advertising business model than the current textbook industry. Yuck!)
Once I die, I don't want my offspring to pay the death tax, so I have contracted with a Nigerian attorney to arrange for QUICK INVESTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL FUNDS over the internet. Whomever he works with is authorized to take 30% of the money transferred, while 5% will handle various transfer costs. All the investor will have to do is provide my attorney with their account information by sending a small deposit to his international account.
it's hard to claim they strong-arm computer manufacturers into using their products.
...Computer manufacturers using StrongARM into their products!
Seriously. Studying abroad is all about expanding your horizons, and anywhere you go you'll be immersing yourself in stuff that you aren't getting at home. Expect to learn more outside of the classroom than in. Take the time that you normally don't have in your CS/Engineering program to expose yourself to different courses... Language, culture, history, the arts. Would you rather tell a potential employer, "I have a CS degree and I got to go to $foriegnCountry," or would you like to say "I studied CS here, went to $foreignCountry, and learned some European economics and business Spanish while I was there?" (Employers love anything that will jump for those extra skills and knowledge - $diversity++.) Obviously the tradeoffs of any study abroad program are money and time. You will likely have to take a bit longer to graduate, and you might have to take on a bit more debt to get there (depending on where you go... and when I decided to study abroad I got several "surprise checks" to help out from people who I would never have expected anything from). But if you think about it, what's the rush? Those jobs will still be there after graduation. The benefits of doing it will most likely exceed the time and money cost of doing it.
Drink every time McCain says, "My friends..." WARNING: not for lightweights. Might be a good idea to have a paramedic on hand, too.
Unfortunately just about anyone "legally purchasing" music has signed a license agreement with the service. Since they are legally purchasing a license to use the sound recording for personal use - a rather restrictive license, at that - they really got what was coming to them.
I doubt that the courts would be an effective place to take this up. The market has already started to push producers towards offering their music through DRM-free avenues. (iTunes Plus, Amazon MP3, eMusic, Magnatune)
If enough users get screwed like this with closing DRMed stores, DRM will come crashing down.
(side note: I'm in a band that chose to only make its music available through DRM-free stores. We don't like letting retailers screw our fans. Check it out.
My band just finished self-producing an album. We decided from the start that we wanted to stay independent for as long as possible (which is a smartassed way of avoiding the fact that we aren't getting any attention from the labels).
We want to make a career out of our music, so we aren't going to post everything we do for free. I love Radiohead's "pay-what-you-want" strategy, but we really can't justify it as we have no name recognition these days.
Instead we decided to offer a free EP of a couple tracks on our website, in exchange for a signup on our mailing list. That way, people get several tracks for free, and if they like it, we will let them know once it's up on the DRM-free stores.
In retrospect, I am kind of lukewarm about the independent production process. We had to pay for our own studio time and mastering, and couldn't afford the better studios or engineers. We have to work a lot harder to promote ourselves, but MySpace in all its noncompliant evils has actually been an amazing resource to make connections with local venues and promoters. Some of my buddies got signed to a label that recorded their album, strung them along for a year without releasing it, and caused the band to ultimately break up.
The local scene is easy to break into without the help of a label, but I ultimately think that (talent aside) our only chances of making it big are to either join a label or to get really lucky with the viral marketing online through YouTube, MySpace, or Facebook.
Aw, what the heck.... I'll try my hand at some "viral Slashdot success", help yourself to the EP, and if you like it, sign up on our mailing list :-)
OK, I'm no datacenter expert, but C I Host has a photo tour of their datacenter at http://www.cihost.com/about/virtual-tour/cdc03.php . Looks pretty cheesy security-wise to me. And is it normal to have GLASS man-traps?