What if someone uses your open access point to send Spam thru your ISP and account ? The thought of having other people using my ISP account, which has my name on it, to do ilegal or inmoral (to me) stuff like spam, warez, piracy, etc is enogh to think about security. The fact that I don't wan others sucking up my bandwithd is another thing I think off. I would donate part of my bandwidth to the general community though. If it was easy and secure. Regarding others reading my packets, well I already asume that, since when there's nobody sniffing at the routers ? Long live GnuPG, SSL and SSH.
It is not an android. An android is male, it is in the meaning of the word, which is: with the shape of a male human. It would be more correct to say it is a female humanoid. Humanoid means with the shape of a human (without specifying gender). Or, the word gineoid (or whatever is the English translation of the Spanish word "gineoide") which means with the shape of a female human. This deep wisdom was taken from the book "Science Fiction" by Isaac Asimov.
I don't care about non stop servers, I want desktop and notebooks that are guaranteed to work with Linux and that don't come with a Windows tax, HP, do you hear me ?
Long ago, in the pre-internet days, me had a earthquake here in Argentina, and a city ended up isolated because a crack it the earth broke the telephone wires. A radio ham took his car, his equipment and two pieces of weed to go across cracks on the soil and started driver. He reached the isolated city (where no ham radio lived in) and he was the only means of communication and coordination for DAYs!
Why to keep morse ? Well, in a ham event that was done in a park here, everyone has to go and stablish communication to earn points. Everyone was there, contacting Argentina (where we are, Buenos Aires), Uruguay, Chile, Brazil. My morse code teacher, a little old man, installed an antenna consisting of a couple of wires tided up to two threes (something very obsolete to the kinds of antennas other people were using), so, he started stablishing communication and he got to Asia! Yes, from South America to Asia!!! Of course he gain the longest communication award and it was thanks to morse. Morse is so much easier to carry than voice that you can take it much farther and with poorer equipment (something that is common outside USA).
Remember Independence day ? the movie. The counter strike against the aliens was done over morse for a reason, even when is was a movie. Think about it.
Everybody complains about Linux and Window and all the other operaitng systems about being old an obsolete but I see only a few putting effort in building new operating systems like what Slate can become (in the long term) or what Movitz is aiming.
I think there are two different cases here, taking trade secrets from one company to another, like memorising the planes of a rocket (or just taking them) to another company, and that cam be protected by a NDA (nat that I like it, not that I'd work under one of those). But knowledge... what I know... that's mine, I mean I have a group of knowledge learnt from books and experiences, that is mine, even if I learned working for a company.
Paul Graham has a better solution, since in the mails we got links to the web sites of the spammers, just make a hit or two in than web site when you get a spam. You can even make a hit or two of every URL that you get, if the server is taken to its knees because of the hits, then it was a spam. Actually no, there are some problems, like tha automatic signature yahoo puts on every email, but the idea is interesting though.
Linux is a kernel, it makes no sense to say that Linux should provide a way to migrate configuration from Windows to Linux (Imagine yourself asking that feature to Linus Torvalds and you'll see that it makes no sence). So, comparing Linux to Windows is like comparing apples to chairs.
Now a more useful comparition is KDE+Linux or KDE+FreeBSD or Gnome+OpenBSD vs Windows or just the desktop, KDE vs Windows (after all, when you say Windows you mean the desktop part, almost nobody means the the web server or some other thing which might run on Windows).
Having agreed on that, codding something to import config from Windows to KDE or Gnome would be so hard and useless (because Windows is so different to KDE and Gnome that only little bits could be imported) that would make no sense. Even migration between Gnome and KDE is so hard it is not worth it.
The main reason why people are slower at adopting Linux+KDE/Gnome as the desktop is because installing it means either getting rid of Windows or performing some operations that could corrupt the Windows install. That is different for Firefox. ***I wonder how many people would be using Firefox if the easy way to install would mean deleting IE (even with your conf migrations) or there's a harder way in which you may not delete IE, but you have to be an expert or you would scrow it up***
My answer: Firefox would have even less users than Linux. Comparing Firefox's success to Linux+KDE/Gnome's success on the desktop is comparing apples with chairs.
The first keyboard ever was alphabetical, right after that qwerty was invented and we are using it since then. I agree with you that for people that use a computer for the first time (and they are going to use it for very short periods of time, like people that use it as an email terminal), an alphabetic keyboard might be a good thing. Why don't we see any ? For the same reason we don't see any Dvorak either although the reason for the existence of Qwerty dissapeared with the *second* typewritter and Dvorak was prooven to be better more than 70 years ago: Because human kind as a whole is very very stupid and doesn't ever consider any kind of change "The I'm good how I am know and I don't want to improve my condition although it was demostrated that I'm doing stupid things." If we had any kind of saying and mind when we were monocelular beings, back on the first days of evelution, we would still be monocelular beings.
The interesting thing to see is not when a.doc arrives from, let's say, USA, to Norwegian and they just open it with OO.o. The interesting thing is when a.sxw and the 400$-product can't handle it.
Of course, I mean the openess of Intel back in the 80s, when all hardware vendors were 100% proprietary and Intel made this cheap thingy nobody cared about called PC releasing full specifications for anybody to implement peripherals and even shipping kits so you could assembly it yourself. All those proprietary vendors didn't even laugh at Intel, they didn't even noticed. Today, Intel is the leading chip vendor (or was, till some years ago). I believe the main thing that makes corporations not release drivers is FEAR, big vendors have a lot to loose, they FEAR to loose it. Intel when it was small didn't have much to loose, so, there wasn't much FEAR in "trying to do something different and see if it works". Furthermore there's FEAR of making Bill angry and I know see that there's FEAR to stupid patents.
That would be a good reason not to release the driver itself as open source/free software, but that doesn't explain why the specifications are closed. An example, 50% of Ati's cards functionality is in the driver, 50% on the card. We want the specs to access that 50% of the card, not the source code for the 50% on the drivers.
Maybe the fact that the Force is 'now' available for anyone has to do with George Luca's personal evolution, from a young elitist to a wiser man. I agree with him, after all, the force, is available to all of us.
Doesn't this look to similar to a Paul Graham's essay, Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas: http://www.paulgraham.com/bronze.html ? Even the title is the too similar.
If what is collected from that fines is then, put as-is, or a big percentage to found Open Source initives, particulary OpenOffice, Linux itself (including drivers), KDE, Gnome, Wine and all those piece that 'make the desktop', then Microsoft would face a REAL PROBLEM. 5m$ may not be much in the corporate world, but in the open source world, it's enough to turn the world upside down.
There it goes the freedom to choose any language you want for web site developing, now part of it is fixed: Javascript or die (well, there are other set of somethingsciprts that are even worst than javascript).
Something similar happened to me, but in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I was driving my car when another car 'touched' me from behind, I moved my arms in the air being upset about it, but, it was of no further importance. I continue to drive and the guy accelerated and crossed his car over mine a bit, I stopped to avoid the crash and the guy got down on his car and tried to hit me, he hit the back of my car. I've tried to run away, about a block away, the guy totally crossed his car in front of mine and tried to take me out of my car. So, I've took my pepper spray and painted his face with it. After that I've put reverse and tried to back away, but I saw a police that was running towards us, from a police station... all this was happening just in front of a police station. So I stopped, we were safe now because police was here and they have seen (the one on guards on the door of the police station) what happened. To make long story short I've spent 9 hours of the damned station, they took my wallet, my belt, my lasses (of my boots)... I've never seen the spray again and I had to buy a new one, the other guy left in one hour or so. What happened ? it seems the other guy made 'the call to the police against me', since I said 'everything is ok, the fight is over.' and I wasn't interested in continue the fight, I was automatically guilty. I tried to do the same he did, but the police told me as I was being held that I couldn't, my layer latter told me otherwise. So, the teaching is, always call the police first, always do the first legal move, because the authorities seem to think that the first to make a legal move is the good guy. Personally, I don't trust those armed (police) people anymore, I try to be as far as possible from them. For me, they are as bad as soldiers, theft, assasins, or whatever... dangerous people with guns; they don't even have to hide.
I don't like nVidia as a company because they make almost everything proprietary, from their video cards to the motherboard chip-sets. I've spent a lot of time in an nForce2-based motherboard and I had lots of trouble with it running Linux, mainly unexpected and random freezes. Thankfully I know have a Soyo Dragon Ultra based on the Via KT600 chip-set, it's much better, I haven't had a freeze in the 18 months since I made the switch.
If they are going to punish a developer for the actions of people using whatever he developed, why don't they go punishing guns factories for all the actions of people using guns ? Sometimes I feel so lucky, so lucky that I'm not from USA and that I don't live there (and those times are more and more often as time goes by).
Maybe you should check: http://business.newsforge.com/business/04/05/04/10 58254.shtml for a guide of how to hire people. I agree with it that the best way might be watching who is doing what in free software project and hiring the people that is best doing what you want him/her to do. Maybe that person is from a place far away from you... the fact that a developer should work in your office is a myth that I hate to find everywhere.
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What if someone uses your open access point to send Spam thru your ISP and account ?
The thought of having other people using my ISP account, which has my name on it, to do ilegal or inmoral (to me) stuff like spam, warez, piracy, etc is enogh to think about security. The fact that I don't wan others sucking up my bandwithd is another thing I think off.
I would donate part of my bandwidth to the general community though. If it was easy and secure.
Regarding others reading my packets, well I already asume that, since when there's nobody sniffing at the routers ? Long live GnuPG, SSL and SSH.
It is not an android. An android is male, it is in the meaning of the word, which is: with the shape of a male human.
It would be more correct to say it is a female humanoid. Humanoid means with the shape of a human (without specifying gender).
Or, the word gineoid (or whatever is the English translation of the Spanish word "gineoide") which means with the shape of a female human.
This deep wisdom was taken from the book "Science Fiction" by Isaac Asimov.
I don't care about non stop servers, I want desktop and notebooks that are guaranteed to work with Linux and that don't come with a Windows tax, HP, do you hear me ?
Long ago, in the pre-internet days, me had a earthquake here in Argentina, and a city ended up isolated because a crack it the earth broke the telephone wires.
A radio ham took his car, his equipment and two pieces of weed to go across cracks on the soil and started driver.
He reached the isolated city (where no ham radio lived in) and he was the only means of communication and coordination for DAYs!
Why to keep morse ?
Well, in a ham event that was done in a park here, everyone has to go and stablish communication to earn points. Everyone was there, contacting Argentina (where we are, Buenos Aires), Uruguay, Chile, Brazil.
My morse code teacher, a little old man, installed an antenna consisting of a couple of wires tided up to two threes (something very obsolete to the kinds of antennas other people were using), so, he started stablishing communication and he got to Asia! Yes, from South America to Asia!!! Of course he gain the longest communication award and it was thanks to morse. Morse is so much easier to carry than voice that you can take it much farther and with poorer equipment (something that is common outside USA).
Remember Independence day ? the movie. The counter strike against the aliens was done over morse for a reason, even when is was a movie. Think about it.
Everybody complains about Linux and Window and all the other operaitng systems about being old an obsolete but I see only a few putting effort in building new operating systems like what Slate can become (in the long term) or what Movitz is aiming.
I think there are two different cases here, taking trade secrets from one company to another, like memorising the planes of a rocket (or just taking them) to another company, and that cam be protected by a NDA (nat that I like it, not that I'd work under one of those).
But knowledge... what I know... that's mine, I mean I have a group of knowledge learnt from books and experiences, that is mine, even if I learned working for a company.
Paul Graham has a better solution, since in the mails we got links to the web sites of the spammers, just make a hit or two in than web site when you get a spam. You can even make a hit or two of every URL that you get, if the server is taken to its knees because of the hits, then it was a spam.
Actually no, there are some problems, like tha automatic signature yahoo puts on every email, but the idea is interesting though.
Linux is a kernel, it makes no sense to say that Linux should provide a way to migrate configuration from Windows to Linux (Imagine yourself asking that feature to Linus Torvalds and you'll see that it makes no sence). So, comparing Linux to Windows is like comparing apples to chairs.
Now a more useful comparition is KDE+Linux or KDE+FreeBSD or Gnome+OpenBSD vs Windows or just the desktop, KDE vs Windows (after all, when you say Windows you mean the desktop part, almost nobody means the the web server or some other thing which might run on Windows).
Having agreed on that, codding something to import config from Windows to KDE or Gnome would be so hard and useless (because Windows is so different to KDE and Gnome that only little bits could be imported) that would make no sense. Even migration between Gnome and KDE is so hard it is not worth it.
The main reason why people are slower at adopting Linux+KDE/Gnome as the desktop is because installing it means either getting rid of Windows or performing some operations that could corrupt the Windows install. That is different for Firefox. ***I wonder how many people would be using Firefox if the easy way to install would mean deleting IE (even with your conf migrations) or there's a harder way in which you may not delete IE, but you have to be an expert or you would scrow it up***
My answer: Firefox would have even less users than Linux. Comparing Firefox's success to Linux+KDE/Gnome's success on the desktop is comparing apples with chairs.
The first keyboard ever was alphabetical, right after that qwerty was invented and we are using it since then.
I agree with you that for people that use a computer for the first time (and they are going to use it for very short periods of time, like people that use it as an email terminal), an alphabetic keyboard might be a good thing. Why don't we see any ? For the same reason we don't see any Dvorak either although the reason for the existence of Qwerty dissapeared with the *second* typewritter and Dvorak was prooven to be better more than 70 years ago: Because human kind as a whole is very very stupid and doesn't ever consider any kind of change "The I'm good how I am know and I don't want to improve my condition although it was demostrated that I'm doing stupid things."
If we had any kind of saying and mind when we were monocelular beings, back on the first days of evelution, we would still be monocelular beings.
The interesting thing to see is not when a .doc arrives from, let's say, USA, to Norwegian and they just open it with OO.o. The interesting thing is when a .sxw and the 400$-product can't handle it.
Of course, I mean the openess of Intel back in the 80s, when all hardware vendors were 100% proprietary and Intel made this cheap thingy nobody cared about called PC releasing full specifications for anybody to implement peripherals and even shipping kits so you could assembly it yourself.
All those proprietary vendors didn't even laugh at Intel, they didn't even noticed. Today, Intel is the leading chip vendor (or was, till some years ago).
I believe the main thing that makes corporations not release drivers is FEAR, big vendors have a lot to loose, they FEAR to loose it. Intel when it was small didn't have much to loose, so, there wasn't much FEAR in "trying to do something different and see if it works". Furthermore there's FEAR of making Bill angry and I know see that there's FEAR to stupid patents.
That would be a good reason not to release the driver itself as open source/free software, but that doesn't explain why the specifications are closed.
An example, 50% of Ati's cards functionality is in the driver, 50% on the card. We want the specs to access that 50% of the card, not the source code for the 50% on the drivers.
Maybe the fact that the Force is 'now' available for anyone has to do with George Luca's personal evolution, from a young elitist to a wiser man. I agree with him, after all, the force, is available to all of us.
Doesn't this look to similar to a Paul Graham's essay, Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas: http://www.paulgraham.com/bronze.html ?
Even the title is the too similar.
If what is collected from that fines is then, put as-is, or a big percentage to found Open Source initives, particulary OpenOffice, Linux itself (including drivers), KDE, Gnome, Wine and all those piece that 'make the desktop', then Microsoft would face a REAL PROBLEM.
5m$ may not be much in the corporate world, but in the open source world, it's enough to turn the world upside down.
There it goes the freedom to choose any language you want for web site developing, now part of it is fixed: Javascript or die (well, there are other set of somethingsciprts that are even worst than javascript).
I think that what matters is the header on top of each source file, a README or COPYING file in the package is of no importance.
Something similar happened to me, but in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I was driving my car when another car 'touched' me from behind, I moved my arms in the air being upset about it, but, it was of no further importance. I continue to drive and the guy accelerated and crossed his car over mine a bit, I stopped to avoid the crash and the guy got down on his car and tried to hit me, he hit the back of my car. I've tried to run away, about a block away, the guy totally crossed his car in front of mine and tried to take me out of my car. So, I've took my pepper spray and painted his face with it. After that I've put reverse and tried to back away, but I saw a police that was running towards us, from a police station... all this was happening just in front of a police station. So I stopped, we were safe now because police was here and they have seen (the one on guards on the door of the police station) what happened.
To make long story short I've spent 9 hours of the damned station, they took my wallet, my belt, my lasses (of my boots)... I've never seen the spray again and I had to buy a new one, the other guy left in one hour or so.
What happened ? it seems the other guy made 'the call to the police against me', since I said 'everything is ok, the fight is over.' and I wasn't interested in continue the fight, I was automatically guilty.
I tried to do the same he did, but the police told me as I was being held that I couldn't, my layer latter told me otherwise.
So, the teaching is, always call the police first, always do the first legal move, because the authorities seem to think that the first to make a legal move is the good guy.
Personally, I don't trust those armed (police) people anymore, I try to be as far as possible from them. For me, they are as bad as soldiers, theft, assasins, or whatever... dangerous people with guns; they don't even have to hide.
In Argentina it was forbidden to make digital voice/video communications (except for the big monopolist telecos) untill, at least, 2000.
In Argentina it was ilegal untill 2000.
I don't like nVidia as a company because they make almost everything proprietary, from their video cards to the motherboard chip-sets. I've spent a lot of time in an nForce2-based motherboard and I had lots of trouble with it running Linux, mainly unexpected and random freezes. Thankfully I know have a Soyo Dragon Ultra based on the Via KT600 chip-set, it's much better, I haven't had a freeze in the 18 months since I made the switch.
If they are going to punish a developer for the actions of people using whatever he developed, why don't they go punishing guns factories for all the actions of people using guns ?
Sometimes I feel so lucky, so lucky that I'm not from USA and that I don't live there (and those times are more and more often as time goes by).
Do you imagine how user interfaces can be changed when controlled with a device like that ? I'd love to work on creating such a user interface.
Maybe you should check: http://business.newsforge.com/business/04/05/04/10 58254.shtml for a guide of how to hire people.
I agree with it that the best way might be watching who is doing what in free software project and hiring the people that is best doing what you want him/her to do.
Maybe that person is from a place far away from you... the fact that a developer should work in your office is a myth that I hate to find everywhere.