You may very well be right. Note that your counter-argument is part of what I acknowledged as the only good counter-argument I've heard. The problem is that we've never really had a chance to test these things on a large scale. With the pharamceutical industry, I think we need to test the open-source way. It just seems to be a more natural way to do science. And while it may not do any better for treating obscure diseases, I think it would be at least as fruitful for common diseases like AIDS, TB, and influenza.
I think you have vastly underestimated the number of universities that already have the resources to contribute to a coordinated drug research program.
So basically, digg users spammed themselves and you call it a noble protest. Cool. If digg weren't already so trashy, this concept could be quite interesting.
I think that the typical argument is that IP restrictions (copyright and patents) prevent society from exploiting good ideas fully. A good example is the situation with AIDS drugs. If there were no copyrights or patents covering those drugs, they would be far more accessible. The only really good argument I've ever heard in favor of IP is that it can encourage more innovation by guaranteeing inventors a chance to profit from their inventions. Because of the success of open source software, we now know that copyright is not necessary for there to be profitable, innovative software companies.
There is no doubt that copyrights and patents have a negative effect on society in the short term. They produce artificial scarcity. In the long run, though, we pretty much don't know which way is better (except in the case of software).
The problem is that immunity is a good thing for the corporations, but a very negative thing for the victims of the crime, namely everybody else in the nation. The definition you provide doesn't seem to specify who's rights have to be affected negatively, so it would seem that the constitutional question is still very much open.
On the other hand, the ethical issue is clear cut: retroactively granting immunity to corporations who assisted a corrupt government in illegally spying on their citizens is a Bad Thing.
It looks to me more like TFA just wasn't an interview done for print media. It was a back and forth converstion, so the answers were short. I think the portion we get to read probably only took a few minutes, unless the reporter was awestruck or woefully unprepared. But it does portray Woz as a guy who's easy to talk to.
For the purposes of the submitter, OO.o is almost certainly superior to MS Office. Just because it is going to be used in a corporate environment doesn't mean they need all the obscure and complex features of MS Office that haven't been duplicated in OO.o. It is nonsensical to claim that OO.o is better than MS Office in every way, but you were the one to imply that that was the claim.
It doesn't seem that any of OO.o's shortcomings would affect the company in question. Re-read the summary to see what they can do with an office suite.
I don't see how this could possibly hurt him in the long run. Sure, it means he will be coasting on his savings and freelance work for a while, but he just earned back a lot of respect he had lost by being editor of such a lame magazine.
Same here. I was going to let it expire in october, but now I'm going to cancel outright. PC World has gotten too low-tech, and to supportive of MS and Vista. I really don't need a monthly dose of tips on how to make Windows less broken.
Also, I would really like to see what they were going to print about Apple. It sounds like it might have been worth a good laugh or two, even if it was all old hat.
I'm currently involved with benchmarking a county government IT department. There has been a change in the leadership, and we now have a boss who cares about using technology effectively. Here are some things we are looking at:
Do employees have access to reasonably modern technology? Answer: probably not. We're still using a 10-year old version of lotus notes, and we don't have any standard procedure for deciding who gets the new desktops.
Can the different department computer systems work together? No. Because of state law, each of Public Health, Mental Health, and Social Services has to use a specific, outdated database for record keeping. We are lobbying for permission to combine them into a single database. One of our goals it that any nurse or social worker on a home visit will have a TabletPC they can use to access all information about that household's problems.
Is the helpdesk helpful? More or less. Most problems are eventually resolved. But there have been some rather obvious gaffes. "Ivan the Terrible" became a very nice and helpful person the moment he was moved out of helpdesk duty, and is now a benefit to the dapartment. He should never have been put on helpdesk duty.
We've also been looking for ways to make better use of our programming staff for developing custom apps. Not many managers know about that resource, and fewer still know how to use them well.
I know I'll get flamed for this, but I'll post anyway. I always use LaTeX for school assignments. Since I turn in hard copies, it doesn't matter what file format I use. And I can't bring myself to care about the formatting standards for assignments, so it is very useful to be able to import the MLA or APA packages and get on with the typing. LaTeX isn't just for math papers.
Since you have obviously had a lot of trouble with word processors, it is probably worth your time to download TeXShop and try it out.
That is a good point, though I think it applies more to the G4. The G5 was probably not very expensive to develop from the POWER4 high-end cpus already being manufactured by IBM. The laptop G4s, though, were probably developed mostly with Apple money.
I really don't think recompiling a driver is going to be all that slow compared to the cost of recompiling the kernel as a whole. As for the tedious and annoying, that only applies to drivers that aren't free enough to be included in the kernel tree.
I've seen AC trolls that are actual advertisements for automated trolling services. Irony aside, it is safe to say that there are a lot of paid shills on slashdot.
You seem to think that the name of a filesystem matters. It does not. In particular, desktop users should never have to know the name of their filesystem. If "ext3cow" keeps anybody from switching to Linux, it will be because they needed to learn the name of the filesystem, not because the name is pathetic.
The first thing I thought when I saw the headline was this: Don't we already have GIT?
Take a look at this: http://kerneltrap.org/node/4982 Note particularly the bit where Linus says
In many ways you can just see git as a filesystem - it's content-addressable, and it has a notion of versioning, but I really really designed it coming at the problem from the viewpoint of a _filesystem_ person (hey, kernels is what I do), and I actually have absolutely _zero_ interest in creating a traditional SCM system.
Apple didn't switch to Intel to be "just like everybody else." They switched because Intel makes great laptop chips, and neither IBM nor Freescale can. OS X is portable. Apple can switch CPU architectures whenever the technological benefits outweigh the possible hit to their marketing strategy. If, for example, BootCamp ends up being useless in several years, Apple would have the option of switching architectures again.
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You may very well be right. Note that your counter-argument is part of what I acknowledged as the only good counter-argument I've heard. The problem is that we've never really had a chance to test these things on a large scale. With the pharamceutical industry, I think we need to test the open-source way. It just seems to be a more natural way to do science. And while it may not do any better for treating obscure diseases, I think it would be at least as fruitful for common diseases like AIDS, TB, and influenza.
I think you have vastly underestimated the number of universities that already have the resources to contribute to a coordinated drug research program.
So basically, digg users spammed themselves and you call it a noble protest. Cool. If digg weren't already so trashy, this concept could be quite interesting.
Lurkers and trolls don't get mod points.
I think that the typical argument is that IP restrictions (copyright and patents) prevent society from exploiting good ideas fully. A good example is the situation with AIDS drugs. If there were no copyrights or patents covering those drugs, they would be far more accessible. The only really good argument I've ever heard in favor of IP is that it can encourage more innovation by guaranteeing inventors a chance to profit from their inventions. Because of the success of open source software, we now know that copyright is not necessary for there to be profitable, innovative software companies.
There is no doubt that copyrights and patents have a negative effect on society in the short term. They produce artificial scarcity. In the long run, though, we pretty much don't know which way is better (except in the case of software).
The problem is that immunity is a good thing for the corporations, but a very negative thing for the victims of the crime, namely everybody else in the nation. The definition you provide doesn't seem to specify who's rights have to be affected negatively, so it would seem that the constitutional question is still very much open.
On the other hand, the ethical issue is clear cut: retroactively granting immunity to corporations who assisted a corrupt government in illegally spying on their citizens is a Bad Thing.
It looks to me more like TFA just wasn't an interview done for print media. It was a back and forth converstion, so the answers were short. I think the portion we get to read probably only took a few minutes, unless the reporter was awestruck or woefully unprepared. But it does portray Woz as a guy who's easy to talk to.
For the purposes of the submitter, OO.o is almost certainly superior to MS Office. Just because it is going to be used in a corporate environment doesn't mean they need all the obscure and complex features of MS Office that haven't been duplicated in OO.o. It is nonsensical to claim that OO.o is better than MS Office in every way, but you were the one to imply that that was the claim.
It doesn't seem that any of OO.o's shortcomings would affect the company in question. Re-read the summary to see what they can do with an office suite.
I don't see how this could possibly hurt him in the long run. Sure, it means he will be coasting on his savings and freelance work for a while, but he just earned back a lot of respect he had lost by being editor of such a lame magazine.
Same here. I was going to let it expire in october, but now I'm going to cancel outright. PC World has gotten too low-tech, and to supportive of MS and Vista. I really don't need a monthly dose of tips on how to make Windows less broken.
Also, I would really like to see what they were going to print about Apple. It sounds like it might have been worth a good laugh or two, even if it was all old hat.
I'm currently involved with benchmarking a county government IT department. There has been a change in the leadership, and we now have a boss who cares about using technology effectively. Here are some things we are looking at:
Do employees have access to reasonably modern technology? Answer: probably not. We're still using a 10-year old version of lotus notes, and we don't have any standard procedure for deciding who gets the new desktops.
Can the different department computer systems work together? No. Because of state law, each of Public Health, Mental Health, and Social Services has to use a specific, outdated database for record keeping. We are lobbying for permission to combine them into a single database. One of our goals it that any nurse or social worker on a home visit will have a TabletPC they can use to access all information about that household's problems.
Is the helpdesk helpful? More or less. Most problems are eventually resolved. But there have been some rather obvious gaffes. "Ivan the Terrible" became a very nice and helpful person the moment he was moved out of helpdesk duty, and is now a benefit to the dapartment. He should never have been put on helpdesk duty.
We've also been looking for ways to make better use of our programming staff for developing custom apps. Not many managers know about that resource, and fewer still know how to use them well.
STFW, man. Deuterium and tritium are what makes fusion worth researching.
I know I'll get flamed for this, but I'll post anyway. I always use LaTeX for school assignments. Since I turn in hard copies, it doesn't matter what file format I use. And I can't bring myself to care about the formatting standards for assignments, so it is very useful to be able to import the MLA or APA packages and get on with the typing. LaTeX isn't just for math papers.
Since you have obviously had a lot of trouble with word processors, it is probably worth your time to download TeXShop and try it out.
Why the hell did you bash the guy in reply to his apology? Were you upset that he beat you to the punch?
Wouldn't you at least want the Republicans to win in a fair fight?
That is a good point, though I think it applies more to the G4. The G5 was probably not very expensive to develop from the POWER4 high-end cpus already being manufactured by IBM. The laptop G4s, though, were probably developed mostly with Apple money.
I really don't think recompiling a driver is going to be all that slow compared to the cost of recompiling the kernel as a whole. As for the tedious and annoying, that only applies to drivers that aren't free enough to be included in the kernel tree.
I've seen AC trolls that are actual advertisements for automated trolling services. Irony aside, it is safe to say that there are a lot of paid shills on slashdot.
You seem to think that the name of a filesystem matters. It does not. In particular, desktop users should never have to know the name of their filesystem. If "ext3cow" keeps anybody from switching to Linux, it will be because they needed to learn the name of the filesystem, not because the name is pathetic.
Take a look at this: http://kerneltrap.org/node/4982 Note particularly the bit where Linus says In many ways you can just see git as a filesystem - it's content-addressable, and it has a notion of versioning, but I really really designed it coming at the problem from the viewpoint of a _filesystem_ person (hey, kernels is what I do), and I actually have absolutely _zero_ interest in creating a traditional SCM system.
Haven't you heard of Catch-22?
Apple didn't switch to Intel to be "just like everybody else." They switched because Intel makes great laptop chips, and neither IBM nor Freescale can. OS X is portable. Apple can switch CPU architectures whenever the technological benefits outweigh the possible hit to their marketing strategy. If, for example, BootCamp ends up being useless in several years, Apple would have the option of switching architectures again.
I would say so! I got it as a free download.
What you've described is actually base 1.
I think NTFS does something like that.