Vendor lock-out occurs when a software vendor uses proprietary formats, lack of configurability or other means to prevent a user from using the vendor's product in conjunction with products from other vendors.
The opposite of lock-out is integrable. This is not the same as integrated. Many products that suffer from lock-out are described as "integrated solutions", but often do not allow further integration. Lock-out tactics are beneficial to vendors as they coerce users into purchasing more products from that same vendor.
Users of free software, "free" in the FSF sense, are generally protected from vendor lock-out. Because any motivated programmer can modify free software, lock-out is a temporary situation, and its market benefits are unlikely to outweigh the repercussions from users who may switch distributors.
However, hardware manufacturers have used lock-out chips and other hardware and software techniques to prevent free software from running on hardware that they manufacture, to various degrees of success.
The opposite of lock-out is integrable. This is not the same as integrated. Many products that suffer from lock-out are described as "integrated solutions", but often do not allow further integration. Lock-out tactics are beneficial to vendors as they coerce users into purchasing more products from that same vendor.
Users of free software, "free" in the FSF sense, are generally protected from vendor lock-out. Because any motivated programmer can modify free software, lock-out is a temporary situation, and its market benefits are unlikely to outweigh the repercussions from users who may switch distributors.
However, hardware manufacturers have used lock-out chips and other hardware and software techniques to prevent free software from running on hardware that they manufacture, to various degrees of success.
Deocredism is the philosophical view that God is everywhere and inhabits everything. The belief system as a whole seems to imply connections between pantheism and buddhism. More detailed definitions demonstrate the idea that God is the universe. This seems to imply that nature as a whole along with the cosmos and energy are all parts of god, and that this being is supreme but does not appear to be related to the interpretations of god as found in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.
History of Deocredism
The history of Deocredism is short and implies a lack of expansion. The philosophical beliefs stem from the multiple ancient philosophies. Deocredism has been organizing since its founding in 2007 C.E. Since then it has made little way in expanding. In 2008 C.E. it appeared for the first time on a facebook group. From then on it has continued to expand on the internet but has thus far failed to gain any wide recognition.
Main Thought Process
According to Deocredic writings God is everywhere and everything. It has been explained that everything that is, was, and will be is God. This is often linked with pantheism, which expresses the idea that God is everything. The Greek presocratic philosopher Parmenides, suggested the what can not be thought of can not exist. This same principle is found in deocredic thought which implies that one can not imagine something that exists beyond the universe/god. According to this idea a person can imagine anything that can be manifested by god, but for anything that exists outside god they can not conceptualize. This principle has been expanded to encompass the idea that nothing can ever be known about what lies beyond the universe/god because one does not exist outside of universe/god, thus they can not go there at all.
History of Deocredism
The history of Deocredism is short and implies a lack of expansion. The philosophical beliefs stem from the multiple ancient philosophies. Deocredism has been organizing since its founding in 2007 C.E. Since then it has made little way in expanding. In 2008 C.E. it appeared for the first time on a facebook group. From then on it has continued to expand on the internet but has thus far failed to gain any wide recognition.
Main Thought Process
According to Deocredic writings God is everywhere and everything. It has been explained that everything that is, was, and will be is God. This is often linked with pantheism, which expresses the idea that God is everything. The Greek presocratic philosopher Parmenides, suggested the what can not be thought of can not exist. This same principle is found in deocredic thought which implies that one can not imagine something that exists beyond the universe/god. According to this idea a person can imagine anything that can be manifested by god, but for anything that exists outside god they can not conceptualize. This principle has been expanded to encompass the idea that nothing can ever be known about what lies beyond the universe/god because one does not exist outside of universe/god, thus they can not go there at all.
Journalism is considered to be the practice of gathering, disseminating, editing, photographing, or broadcasting news about current events, trends, issues or people. Public intellectuals tend to utilize media in a variety of forms, typically through print, radio and online journalism. Journalism is of particular interest to those intellectuals who want to actively communicate with wider audiences outside of the academic sphere.
History
The roots of the modern day intellectual can be traced as far back as 5th century BC. The sophists of ancient Greece were renowned for their practice of charging the very wealthy of Athens for training in the art of debate. Opponents of the sophists, namely Plato and Xenophon who were followers of the philosopher Socrates, argued that these men were merely "arrogant bluffers who failed to match the depth of a genuine philosopher like Socrates". Like modern day public intellectuals, these men didn't fit into the social and cultural structure in the way their opponents preferred. The sophists imparted their skills of verbal dexterity to all those men who could afford the going rate - what was considered by the philosophers like Plato to be the remit of those imbued with god-given talent like himself, became available to a wider audience. Protagoras, one of the most notable sophists of this period, was credited by his denouncer Aristotle for suggesting a method that implied, 'Since there are no two sides to an argument, the weaker argument can always be made to appear the stronger'. This sophistic approach to justice rings true for the modern day intellectual in that one side of an argument may appear superior because of the financial and rhetorical resources enabling the polemicist to make their argument. A contemporaneous account of such a dilemma can be seen in the evolution vs. intelligent design debate: whilst proponents of the dominant evolutionary explanation of human existence benefit from across the board support by their peers and thus find it easier to gain funding for their research, the scientists who seek to develop their understanding of intelligent design receive limited support in the form of minority groups and think-tanks such as the Discovery Institute, which has funded only 50 researchers a year since the center's relatively recent founding in 1996.
The advent of a movable type printing press in 1439 by Johannes Gutenberg, a German goldsmith and printer, was key to the evolution of journalism and the public intellectual. Before this development, the production of knowledge was dominated by the homogeneous work of religious scholars who would transcribe lectures from their elders. By reproducing dominant discourses in this way, it was impossible for alternative accounts that were not certified by the Catholic church to become mainstream. By democratizing the production of knowledge, helped largely by the developments in printing technology, scientific publications could be published alongside religious publications so that contradictory discourses could begin to run alongside each other simultaneously.
Relationship between public intellectuals and the media
Canadian politician Michael Ignatieff, highlighted the shared vulnerability of both the public intellectual and the journalist:
"Intellectual life and journalism are both besieged by the entertainment business. We're part of the celebrity culture, and some of the authority we have comes from being celebrities of a low-candle power variety" (September 23, 2005). Although critical in his discussion of the public intellectual, Ignatieff makes an important observation about the relationship between the two occupations. He highlights the need for both intellectuals and journalists to remain utterly contemporaneous - only at the present moment can the two enjoy the authority fleetingly bestowed to them.
John McGowan makes an important insight as to the nature of the public intellectual. He states: "The term 'public intellectual', suggests that intellectuals have an obligation to speak out on issues in order to encourage citizens to take responsibility". This definition of the public intellectual can show us how the relationship between intellectuals and journalism is fostered. For an intellectual such as Karl Marx whose ideas have withstood the test of time, it is clear that the way he employed his journalistic skills - he began his radical career writing for a marginal campaigning newspapers - made a positive impact on the permanence of his legacy.
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History
The roots of the modern day intellectual can be traced as far back as 5th century BC. The sophists of ancient Greece were renowned for their practice of charging the very wealthy of Athens for training in the art of debate. Opponents of the sophists, namely Plato and Xenophon who were followers of the philosopher Socrates, argued that these men were merely "arrogant bluffers who failed to match the depth of a genuine philosopher like Socrates". Like modern day public intellectuals, these men didn't fit into the social and cultural structure in the way their opponents preferred. The sophists imparted their skills of verbal dexterity to all those men who could afford the going rate - what was considered by the philosophers like Plato to be the remit of those imbued with god-given talent like himself, became available to a wider audience. Protagoras, one of the most notable sophists of this period, was credited by his denouncer Aristotle for suggesting a method that implied, 'Since there are no two sides to an argument, the weaker argument can always be made to appear the stronger'. This sophistic approach to justice rings true for the modern day intellectual in that one side of an argument may appear superior because of the financial and rhetorical resources enabling the polemicist to make their argument. A contemporaneous account of such a dilemma can be seen in the evolution vs. intelligent design debate: whilst proponents of the dominant evolutionary explanation of human existence benefit from across the board support by their peers and thus find it easier to gain funding for their research, the scientists who seek to develop their understanding of intelligent design receive limited support in the form of minority groups and think-tanks such as the Discovery Institute, which has funded only 50 researchers a year since the center's relatively recent founding in 1996.
The advent of a movable type printing press in 1439 by Johannes Gutenberg, a German goldsmith and printer, was key to the evolution of journalism and the public intellectual. Before this development, the production of knowledge was dominated by the homogeneous work of religious scholars who would transcribe lectures from their elders. By reproducing dominant discourses in this way, it was impossible for alternative accounts that were not certified by the Catholic church to become mainstream. By democratizing the production of knowledge, helped largely by the developments in printing technology, scientific publications could be published alongside religious publications so that contradictory discourses could begin to run alongside each other simultaneously.
Relationship between public intellectuals and the media
Canadian politician Michael Ignatieff, highlighted the shared vulnerability of both the public intellectual and the journalist:
"Intellectual life and journalism are both besieged by the entertainment business. We're part of the celebrity culture, and some of the authority we have comes from being celebrities of a low-candle power variety" (September 23, 2005). Although critical in his discussion of the public intellectual, Ignatieff makes an important observation about the relationship between the two occupations. He highlights the need for both intellectuals and journalists to remain utterly contemporaneous - only at the present moment can the two enjoy the authority fleetingly bestowed to them.
John McGowan makes an important insight as to the nature of the public intellectual. He states: "The term 'public intellectual', suggests that intellectuals have an obligation to speak out on issues in order to encourage citizens to take responsibility". This definition of the public intellectual can show us how the relationship between intellectuals and journalism is fostered. For an intellectual such as Karl Marx whose ideas have withstood the test of time, it is clear that the way he employed his journalistic skills - he began his radical career writing for a marginal campaigning newspapers - made a positive impact on the permanence of his legacy.
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With more than 2200 service provider customers in over 50 countries, SlipStream positions itself as the leader in acceleration, adaptive data compression, and network optimization technology.
SlipStream delivers acceleration, compression and network optimization technology for dial, fixed and wireless broadband networks. SlipStream's core technology, the SlipStream Acceleration & Optimization Engine is an internationally deployed Web, email and multimedia content acceleration solution. The patented technology uses lossy and lossless compression algorithms and is built on advances in information theory and network architecture research conducted by the Electrical and Computing Engineering Department at the University of Waterloo. The technology compresses, optimizes, and streamlines multimedia content, including HTML, XML, JavaScript, JPEG, GIF, Flash, FTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, MAPI, [], and VPN.
With more than 2200 service provider customers in over 50 countries, SlipStream positions itself as the leader in acceleration, adaptive data compression, and network optimization technology.