The education industry, meaning colleges and universities, need a way to "add on" additional skill emphasis to degrees without requiring whole new degrees.
They are called graduate certificates. You take a couple of graduate level courses, and you get a graduate certificate. Often, you can get a certificate while you are on the path towards a masters.
I'm a big Baen customer myself, but my strategy for dealing with non-Baen authors has been to donate funds to my local library earmarked for the ebooks I want to read. This still doesn't help with the two major publishers who do not allow libraries to buy their ebooks.
I checked out their site; not much selection and a VERY limited selection of "free" ebooks.
Baen frequently releases CDROMs with specific hardcovers that contain near-complete back catalogs of that author, which can then be redistributed freely.
Apparently, Geoff Levand was one of the people behind this release [1]. Geoff Levand is the programmer who worked for Sony supporting OtherOS and made the ill-fated and oft-quoted promise that Sony would never ever remove OtherOS from fat PS3s. [2] Looks like Geoff just kicked his former employer in the nuts. Go Geoff!
Sony probably relied entirely on client side security, assuming that the PS3 was unbreakable.
That, and thanks to their attempts to keep people on the latest "secure" firmware, PSN services that shouldn't be PSN services like Netflix and Hulu are now hosed (except for some people who apparently use the same password for all their accounts and can hit cancel at the login screen). If Netflix hadn't allowed the PSN-free disc to be disabled, we could be using it right now.
When Amazon says that Citadel has a salesrank of 2,675, that means there are 2,674 books in all categories currently selling better. Keep in mind, these are people who actually paid crazy deadtree prices. I got all of these books directly from Baen in an ebook bundle for just $15 a month... and I had them a month before they appeared in dead tree format. Granted, I would love if Baen had authors like Vernor Vinge and Iain Banks, but I find myself reading and buying a lot of Baen books simply because of the ebooks being DRM-free and the prices being so low.
Here are the books Baen published in January, 2010, with Amazon salesranks as of today. Original publish dates are shown in parenthesis.
Citadel John Ringo Hardcover (January 4, 2011) 2,675
Cobra War Book II: Cobra Guardian Timothy Zahn Hardcover (January 4, 2011) 52,576
The Agent Gambit Sharon Lee & Steve Miller Paperback (January 4, 2011) 71,960
Torch of Freedom David Weber & Eric Flint Hardcover edition (November 17, 2009) 250,082 Mass Market Paperback (December 28, 2010) 13,870
The Tuloriad John Ringo & Tom Kratman Hardcover (October 6, 2009) 339,313 Mass Market Paperback (December 28, 2010) 16,079
Man-Kzin Wars XII Larry Niven Hardcover (February 3, 2009) 851,107 Mass Market Paperback (December 28, 2010) 29,951
Dragon's Ring Dave Freer Hardcover (October 6, 2009) 414,261 Mass Market Paperback (December 28, 2010) 426,955
The FTC needs to step into this. I filed a complaint with the FTC earlier this week, it only takes a few minutes, so please do the same if you are a PS3 FAT owner unless you enjoy losing features you paid for. Judging that any post I make on the playstation blog containing the word FTC is instantly censored by string matching, I believe this is what Sony is afraid of.
From the FTC statement on unfairness, "To justify a finding of unfairness the injury must satisfy three tests." source: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/policystmt/ad-unfair.htm
1. must be substantial - otheros was #2 reason why I purchased the PS3. #1 was bluray. Launch games for the PS3 pretty much sucked. I wanted an all-in-one media box. I figured if media didn't work well in PS3 os, Linux was my backup plan.
2. not be outweighed by other benefits - Prior to firmware 3.21, I could run Linux and connect to PSN. Today I cannot connect to PSN, play Warhawk, or be assured that future BD's or games will work. No benefits were added with firmware 3.21, much less benefits that would outweigh the loss of otheros. System security as a benefit is hypothetical. Hotz created a proof of concept, not a mod chip or a virus.
3. could not be avoided - Due to Sony's use of DRM, I cannot avoid losing features... either otheros or the use of current and future software and BDs. (I am still running 3.20, by the way.)
For more recent FTC statements regarding DRM....
"Mary Engle, an FTC Acting Deputy Director,.... referenced the Sony BMG rootkit debacle, saying that "sellers who use DRM technology to enforce the terms of bargains with consumers need to be particularly careful to disclose in advance" what those bargains are.
And just stuffing the disclosure into the fine print of an End User License Agreement (EULA) isn't good enough. "If your advertising giveth and your EULA taketh away," she said, "don't be surprised if the FTC comes calling."
She stressed that it was not permissible for companies to play Lucy to consumers' Charlie Brown, holding the football and promising that this time she won't yank it away at the last minute. "
The teacher called in sick and then showed up on the Howard Stern show. She also wasn't fired. She resigned or "was forced to resign", as she claims. In other words, she didn't call their bluff. If she had, she could have spent a couple of years playing solitaire in a rubber room with a full salary until the issue was resolved one way or another. Instead, she was an idiot twice over.
Last time I tried to use Yahoo Pipes (on InstantWatcher.com), I couldn't build a pipe because Yahoo obeyed the robots.txt file. Redirecting based on referer seems like overkill when they can just change their robots.txt.
That's why I don't think this is the case. Netflix has said that they had help from Sony, so I think it is more likely a PS3 application and not a BD-Live Java application.
Joystiq: Was the PS3 application developed internally by Netflix?
Netflix: Yes, with the help of the Sony team.
Can the Netflix application be installed to the PS3 hard dive from the disc? Or must the disc be inserted every time a user wants to access Netflix?
Yes, the Netflix disc has to be inserted every time to access the Netflix service.
Why not distribute the application via PSN download or firmware update, and then embed it into the XMB?
Again, the instant streaming disc represented the fastest and easiest way to let PS3 enthusiasts get Netflix on the PS3. Late next year we expect to have an embedded solution available for PS3s via a system software update slated for release through the PlayStation Network.
There are three on this list that may or may not meet your criteria.
Funny that you mention Somalia. The rise of Somali piracy is said to be a response to the dumping of toxic waste and overfishing in Somali territorial waters by foreigners and multinationals. The problem with any anarchic community is that its property is considered forfeit by sovereign countries. The threat to these and libertarian communities (such as the seasteading movement) will come from those who refuse to recognize their sovereignty.
The state owns the airwaves, so packet radio wouldn't count by that same reasoning.
Communications companies are heavily regulated because they make use of eminent domain and state granted monopolies. Many of these monopolies are granted as the result of rent seeking and corruption. For a recent example, look at Rudy Giuliani and Fox.
What are you arguing, that the completion of a large expensive venture is only possible with the overhead of government coercion and graft?
Don't tell Burt Rutan, or the next private flight into space might suddenly stop in place and fall to the earth like Wiley Coyote belatedly realizing that he has run off the edge of a cliff.
I was referring to the GGP who had insisted that you had previously bested your future self, but while neglecting to give your previous self the proper credit.
I don't think it matters how many times or how well you express your opinion with so many people blinded by the duopoly. Amazing, that we can have tons of choices for *nix, but all politics has to be left or right.
If people are truly free, they are free create whatever kind of associations they wish, whether it is a commune or a utopian Georgist experiment like Arden, Delaware.
Someone who believes in the authority of the state doesn't want to see these kinds of experiments, like Trotsky believing socialism could only succeed if everyone was forced to be socialist.
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The education industry, meaning colleges and universities, need a way to "add on" additional skill emphasis to degrees without requiring whole new degrees.
They are called graduate certificates. You take a couple of graduate level courses, and you get a graduate certificate. Often, you can get a certificate while you are on the path towards a masters.
C scifi trailer:
http://www.quietearth.us/articles/2011/03/06/Concept-trailer-for-old-school-scifi-flick-C-no-cgi-no-green-screen
I'm a big Baen customer myself, but my strategy for dealing with non-Baen authors has been to donate funds to my local library earmarked for the ebooks I want to read. This still doesn't help with the two major publishers who do not allow libraries to buy their ebooks.
I checked out their site; not much selection and a VERY limited selection of "free" ebooks.
Baen frequently releases CDROMs with specific hardcovers that contain near-complete back catalogs of that author, which can then be redistributed freely.
Check out the Annotated Baen Free Listing or the Fifth Imperium.
I use instantwatcher, which does use the API, so I never even noticed that there was a new interface.
Or quite likely... this is someone screwing with Sony and using the handle Geoff Levand.
Apparently, Geoff Levand was one of the people behind this release [1]. Geoff Levand is the programmer who worked for Sony supporting OtherOS and made the ill-fated and oft-quoted promise that Sony would never ever remove OtherOS from fat PS3s. [2] Looks like Geoff just kicked his former employer in the nuts. Go Geoff!
[1] http://psgroove.com/content.php?1029-PS3-Dual-Boot-GameOS-Linux-CFW-Released
[2] http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/cbe-oss-dev/2010-February/007202.html
Now I'm as disenchanted with Sony as the next geek.. But plucking claims out of thin air doesn't really help..
behold, thin air
Thanks, I had only previously seen people stating that you had to hit cancel, which didn't work for me.
So, if you can just let the login timeout, why ask for a login? Other than scaring people into updating their firmware?
Nonexistent.
Sony probably relied entirely on client side security, assuming that the PS3 was unbreakable.
That, and thanks to their attempts to keep people on the latest "secure" firmware, PSN services that shouldn't be PSN services like Netflix and Hulu are now hosed (except for some people who apparently use the same password for all their accounts and can hit cancel at the login screen). If Netflix hadn't allowed the PSN-free disc to be disabled, we could be using it right now.
On the bright side, because it is a phone, there is the DMCA exemption for jail breaking it.
Tycho from Penny Arcade praising Bujold here:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/2010/11/26/additional-boys/
Great series of books. My understanding is that Memory is on the CD, but not actually linked from the TOC.
Amazon sales would say otherwise....
When Amazon says that Citadel has a salesrank of 2,675, that means there are 2,674 books in all categories currently selling better. Keep in mind, these are people who actually paid crazy deadtree prices. I got all of these books directly from Baen in an ebook bundle for just $15 a month... and I had them a month before they appeared in dead tree format. Granted, I would love if Baen had authors like Vernor Vinge and Iain Banks, but I find myself reading and buying a lot of Baen books simply because of the ebooks being DRM-free and the prices being so low.
Here are the books Baen published in January, 2010, with Amazon salesranks as of today.
Original publish dates are shown in parenthesis.
Citadel
John Ringo
Hardcover (January 4, 2011) 2,675
Cobra War Book II: Cobra Guardian
Timothy Zahn
Hardcover (January 4, 2011) 52,576
The Agent Gambit
Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
Paperback (January 4, 2011) 71,960
Torch of Freedom
David Weber & Eric Flint
Hardcover edition (November 17, 2009) 250,082
Mass Market Paperback (December 28, 2010) 13,870
The Tuloriad
John Ringo & Tom Kratman
Hardcover (October 6, 2009) 339,313
Mass Market Paperback (December 28, 2010) 16,079
Man-Kzin Wars XII
Larry Niven
Hardcover (February 3, 2009) 851,107
Mass Market Paperback (December 28, 2010) 29,951
Dragon's Ring
Dave Freer
Hardcover (October 6, 2009) 414,261
Mass Market Paperback (December 28, 2010) 426,955
The American equivalent is the FTC, Federal Trade Commission.
You can complete a complaint form at https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/
Not sure the best address to use on the form, but here is one of them:
Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc.
919 E Hillsdale Blvd 2nd Floor
Foster City Ca 94404-4247
Appropriately, the PS3 blog considers FTC to be a swear word.
Complaining to the BBB is pointless. SCEA already has an F... I don't think they can get an F-.
IANAL
The FTC needs to step into this. I filed a complaint with the FTC earlier this week, it only takes a few minutes, so please do the same if you are a PS3 FAT owner unless you enjoy losing features you paid for. Judging that any post I make on the playstation blog containing the word FTC is instantly censored by string matching, I believe this is what Sony is afraid of.
From the FTC statement on unfairness, "To justify a finding of unfairness the injury must satisfy three tests."
source: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/policystmt/ad-unfair.htm
1. must be substantial - otheros was #2 reason why I purchased the PS3. #1 was bluray. Launch games for the PS3 pretty much sucked. I wanted an all-in-one media box. I figured if media didn't work well in PS3 os, Linux was my backup plan.
2. not be outweighed by other benefits - Prior to firmware 3.21, I could run Linux and connect to PSN. Today I cannot connect to PSN, play Warhawk, or be assured that future BD's or games will work. No benefits were added with firmware 3.21, much less benefits that would outweigh the loss of otheros. System security as a benefit is hypothetical. Hotz created a proof of concept, not a mod chip or a virus.
3. could not be avoided - Due to Sony's use of DRM, I cannot avoid losing features... either otheros or the use of current and future software and BDs. (I am still running 3.20, by the way.)
For more recent FTC statements regarding DRM....
"Mary Engle, an FTC Acting Deputy Director, .... referenced the Sony BMG rootkit debacle, saying that "sellers who use DRM technology to enforce the terms of bargains with consumers need to be particularly careful to disclose in advance" what those bargains are.
And just stuffing the disclosure into the fine print of an End User License Agreement (EULA) isn't good enough. "If your advertising giveth and your EULA taketh away," she said, "don't be surprised if the FTC comes calling."
She stressed that it was not permissible for companies to play Lucy to consumers' Charlie Brown, holding the football and promising that this time she won't yank it away at the last minute. "
source: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/03/ftc-well-come-calling-about-deceptive-drm.ars
you can be fired for being seen in a bar, having a facebook page,
Citation needed.
or just wearing a bikini in public.
The teacher called in sick and then showed up on the Howard Stern show. She also wasn't fired. She resigned or "was forced to resign", as she claims. In other words, she didn't call their bluff. If she had, she could have spent a couple of years playing solitaire in a rubber room with a full salary until the issue was resolved one way or another. Instead, she was an idiot twice over.
It's easier to proxy before yahoo pipes then after yahoo pipes. Hence skipping to the end. Nevermind, too tired to think and answered my own question.
Last time I tried to use Yahoo Pipes (on InstantWatcher.com), I couldn't build a pipe because Yahoo obeyed the robots.txt file. Redirecting based on referer seems like overkill when they can just change their robots.txt.
That's why I don't think this is the case. Netflix has said that they had help from Sony, so I think it is more likely a PS3 application and not a BD-Live Java application.
According to this article, it was an analyst who believed that the implementation was BD-Live, rather than citing some inside source. I'm still hoping for some more interesting BD-Live Java homebrew....
from http://www.joystiq.com/2009/10/26/netflix-ps3-disc-must-remain-in-system-until-2010-update/
Joystiq: Was the PS3 application developed internally by Netflix?
Netflix: Yes, with the help of the Sony team.
Can the Netflix application be installed to the PS3 hard dive from the disc? Or must the disc be inserted every time a user wants to access Netflix?
Yes, the Netflix disc has to be inserted every time to access the Netflix service.
Why not distribute the application via PSN download or firmware update, and then embed it into the XMB?
Again, the instant streaming disc represented the fastest and easiest way to let PS3 enthusiasts get Netflix on the PS3. Late next year we expect to have an embedded solution available for PS3s via a system software update slated for release through the PlayStation Network.
There are three on this list that may or may not meet your criteria.
Funny that you mention Somalia. The rise of Somali piracy is said to be a response to the dumping of toxic waste and overfishing in Somali territorial waters by foreigners and multinationals. The problem with any anarchic community is that its property is considered forfeit by sovereign countries. The threat to these and libertarian communities (such as the seasteading movement) will come from those who refuse to recognize their sovereignty.
The state owns the airwaves, so packet radio wouldn't count by that same reasoning.
Communications companies are heavily regulated because they make use of eminent domain and state granted monopolies. Many of these monopolies are granted as the result of rent seeking and corruption. For a recent example, look at Rudy Giuliani and Fox.
What are you arguing, that the completion of a large expensive venture is only possible with the overhead of government coercion and graft?
Don't tell Burt Rutan, or the next private flight into space might suddenly stop in place and fall to the earth like Wiley Coyote belatedly realizing that he has run off the edge of a cliff.
I was referring to the GGP who had insisted that you had previously bested your future self, but while neglecting to give your previous self the proper credit.
I don't think it matters how many times or how well you express your opinion with so many people blinded by the duopoly. Amazing, that we can have tons of choices for *nix, but all politics has to be left or right.
That said, I think you are spot on.
A free and public international computer network could never have existed without government sponsorship. /sarcasm
Well said.
If people are truly free, they are free create whatever kind of associations they wish, whether it is a commune or a utopian Georgist experiment like Arden, Delaware.
Someone who believes in the authority of the state doesn't want to see these kinds of experiments, like Trotsky believing socialism could only succeed if everyone was forced to be socialist.