"The reason Site Finder became such a lightening rod is that it goes to the question: Are we going to be in a position to do innovation on this infrastructure, or are we going to be locked into obsolete thinking that the DNS was never intended to do anything other than what it was originally supposed to do?"
Just because you can open a beer with a gun, doesn't mean you should.
Were the New York cops who raped Abner Louima with their night-sticks being innovative too?
Yeah, I can see how publishing the lyrics to songs will cut into the artists profits (not to mention our beloved record companies).
With the cost of CD burners coming down we can now record our own copy of a music note for note. With the cost of high-quality printing coming down we can also reproduce the cover art of our favorite CDs. With the lyrics available online we can also sing all the words to our favorite songs, without the need of the original artist.
Hell this could destroy music as we know it, everyone will be listening to their own version of works that they recorded with their own musical backing tracks. Consumers won't even need musicians anymore, they will have become the musicians. This must be stopped.
I propose that from know on popular artists should stop producing music with words, or at least only perform their music with words encrypted at the mouth so that no one can decipher them and transcribe them. That will show 'em.
We often criticize sites like this for lacking journalistic integrity, but they often make no bones about the fact that they're simply doing the best they can.
Fabricating and embellishing is what you call 'doing the best they can'? At one point being a journalist was about reporting facts not creating fantasy.
<flame>
If that fat fuck wants to be so damn creative perhaps he should have been a screen writer. From what I've seen lately, that takes no talent either.
</flame>
Why do FSF advocates insist on clouding the difference between the right to free-use and the right to change the source?
Because that difference is what defines Free software. Free software is not labeled 'Free' as a reflection of the cost of the collection of bits. It is the ability of anyone to modify those bits and redistribute them under the provisions of the GPL to all that desire the modification.
Yes the GPL requires you to essentially give up total control of your original code, but it also ensures that no one can hijack your code and prevent you from accessing their changes (if they are publicly releasing those changes).
Of course this is not to say that the GPL is the best license to use in all cases. To have software be a profitable business model you would be foolish to release the code under the GPL, but the GPL isn't designed to protect profits. That is what Microsoft's EULA is for.
RMS has a valid point in showing concern that the Linux kernel is using non-Free RC software. While it probably would not be difficult for Linus to revert the tree back to CVS if things did not work out for BitKeeper, RMS feels the risk is not worth the expense. The interview mentioned that if BitMover were to go under the code would be released under the GPL. That is nice, but I don't think an interview on a website counts as a legal document.
The point is RMS has a strong, unwavering opinion. When he sees something that offends his opinion he reacts (usually setting off all the fire-alarms on slashdot). While not everyone agrees with his philosophy, be grateful he is around defending Free software. One day when you discover you too need Free software hopefully RMS will still be around for you to join up with. It would be a shame to have to start all of his work over again.
I hope BitMover makes a policy change stating that if the company dissolves the source code will be licensed under the GPL, and that this policy cannot be altered under any change in management. This is the only way to support the claim that the code would revert under collapse.
First, we have to recognize exactly what this bill would do. It would quite simply regulate the ability of youngsters to obtain video games that contain the kind of thing we already don't let them observe in movies or talk about in public. That is, it doesn't take away any rights.
We have a federal law saying that minors can't see certain movies? I was under the impression that movie ratings were a self-policing measure instituted by the movie industry without the guiding hand of legislation.
We have a federal law stating what minors can say in public? Sorry son, you can't say 'FUCK' until you're 18. Sounds kind of silly, doesn't it?
Imagine being turned away from a store because they know for a fact that you can't buy anything they sell. I guess there are discrimination laws that would prevent this, but it is still an interesting scenario.
What if that same 'poorer-than-average' person was used to identify every person, which is what this essentially is.
Than every time you are having your time wasted by the police after being recognized by this person with 'poorer-than-average' eyesite, just be glad that sometimes (but not most of the time) he also catches criminals.
Well, this is certainly the type of patent that I'd like to see revoked, and is an excellent case to cite when trying to show weakness in the patent system.
But you have to wonder if the shoe was on the other foot, and AOL had this patent, how hard would they be fighting to keep it?
Several third-party hacks? Looks like I should throw out my Japanese version of NT then. I mean what's the point if it needs more hacks to work with Japanese text!
Perhaps you could explain what hacks you are talking about?
Yeah, but some Microsoft applications still require rebooting, either before the install can complete or after the install is finished. I believe Office 2000 still does this.
The difference is touching, looking, or taking a picture of your wall does not give the officer the ability to detect anything except what his own senses allow him.
The thermal-imaging camera gives the officer extra sensory capabilities. This needs to be kept in check, until everyone is able to detect the heat emissions coming from their own home.
How dare the author say that the black tote bags Eazel gave out at Linux World were a bad idea!
That bag was the most thoughtful item given out at the whole show, and it definitly made carrying the tons of flyers and pamphlets a hell of a lot easier. Especially after 1 or 8 too many beers.
I was just wondering if it bothered anyone else that Toki (? -- the head female in the camp, the one in the red kimono) was voiced by Jada Pinkett?
I just thought it was a bit hard to picture a woman named Toki, with a strong, sassy, modern, in your face, black girl attitude.
Oh well, I just had to comment on that, other than that I think Princess Mononoke was an excellent film. A few too many western values snuck in, but...
My advice to you, find the school with the best curriculum, one that actually sparks your interest, and a campus that has liberal drinking rules (you'll know why after you try to wrap your mind around IEEE floating point binary numbers the first time)
Good Luck
Once upon a time, in a kingdom not far from here, a king summoned two
of his advisors for a test. He showed them both a shiny metal box with
two slots in the top, a control knob, and a lever. "What do you think
this is?"
One advisor, an engineer, answered first. "It is a toaster, "
he said. The king asked, "How would you design an embedded computer
for it?"
The engineer replied, "Using a four-bit microcontroller, I would
write a simple program that reads the darkness knob and quantizes its position
to one of 16 shades of darkness, from snow white to coal black. The program
would use that darkness level as an index to a 16-element table of initial
timer values. Then it would turn on the heating elements and start the
timer with the initial value selected from the table. At the end of the
time delay, it would turn off the heat and pop up the toast. Come back
next week, and I'll show you a working prototype."
The second advisor, a computer scientist, immediately recognized the
danger of such short-sighted thinking. He said, "Toasters don't just
turn bread into toast, they are also used to warm waffles. What you see
before you is really a breakfast food cooker. As the subjects of you kingdom
become more sophisticated, they will demand more capabilities. The will
need a breakfast cooker that can also cook sausage, fry bacon, and make
scrambled eggs. A toaster that only makes toast will soon be obsolete.
If we don't look to the future, we will have to completely redesign the
toaster in just a few years.
"With this in mind, we can formulate a more intelligent solution
to the problem. First, create a class of breakfast foods. Specialize this
class into subclasses: grains, pork, and poultry. The specialization process
should be repeated with grains divided into toast, muffins, pancakes, and
waffles; pork into sausage, links, and bacon; and poultry divided into
scrambled eggs, hard-boiled eggs, poached eggs, fried eggs, and various
omelet classes.
"The ham and cheese omelet class is worth special attention because
it must inherit characteristics from the pork, dairy, and poultry classes.
Thus, we see that the problem cannot be properly solved without multiple
inheritance. At run time, the program must create the proper object and
send a message to the object that says, 'Cook yourself.' The semantics
of this message depend, of course, on the kind of object, so they have
a different meaning to a piece of toast than to scrambled eggs.
"Reviewing the process so far, we see that the analysis phase has
revealed that the primary requirement is to cook any kind of breakfast
food. In the design phase, we have discovered some derived requirements.
Specifically, we need an object-oriented language with multiple inheritance.
Of course, users don't want the eggs to get cold while the bacon is frying,
so concurrent processing is required, too.
"We must not forget the user interface. The lever that lowers the
food lacks versatility, and the darkness knob is confusing. Users won't
buy the product unless it has a user-friendly, graphical interface. When
the breakfast cooker is plugged in, users should see a cowboy boot on the
screen. Users click on it, and the message 'Booting UNIX v. 8.3' appears
on the screen. (UNIX 8.3 should be out by the time the product gets to
the market.) Users can pull down a menu and click on the foods they want
to cook.
"Having made the wise decision of specifying the software first
in the design phase, all that remains is to pick an adequate hardware platform
for the implementation phase. An Intel 80386 with 8MB of memory, a 30MB
hard disk, and a VGA monitor should be sufficient. If you select a multitasking,
object oriented language that supports multiple inheritance and has a built-in
GUI, writing the program will be a snap. (Imagine the difficulty we would
have had if we had foolishly allowed a hardware-first design strategy to
lock us into a four-bit microcontroller!). We should have a working prototype
within the next 9 months to a year."
The king wisely had the computer scientist beheaded, and they all lived
happily ever after.
No offense to Clinton, I'm sure he is a nice kid and all, but who gives a fuck what he thinks!
I honestly can't believe that people are interested in this interview.
"These interviews have gotten pretty celebrity-oriented lately."
Of course they have! It is not so much the celebrity that attracts us to the interviews, but the fact that they obviously did something to earn that celebrity.
If I wanted to find out what a 15 year old kid thinks about anything, I'd go onto any number of chat rooms arywhere on the internet and ask them! Or maybe just post an 'Ask Slashdot' question, to hear their responses.
Slashdot has really been hanging by a thread lately with its articles, but why must you make it blatently obvious that you have no news to print at all!?
That being said, my question is: what is your stance on the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933?
Slashdot Mirror
More like Daggermouth, that evil-super villian fish that Peter goes hunting down to prove he is a true fisherman.
Quote:
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<Path Data="M 100,200 C 100,25 400,350 400,175 H 280"
Stroke="DarkGoldenRod"
StrokeThickness="3"/>
</Canvas>
"The reason Site Finder became such a lightening rod is that it goes to the question: Are we going to be in a position to do innovation on this infrastructure, or are we going to be locked into obsolete thinking that the DNS was never intended to do anything other than what it was originally supposed to do?"
Just because you can open a beer with a gun, doesn't mean you should.
Were the New York cops who raped Abner Louima with their night-sticks being innovative too?
Sorry, it's friday.
Yeah, I can see how publishing the lyrics to songs will cut into the artists profits (not to mention our beloved record companies).
With the cost of CD burners coming down we can now record our own copy of a music note for note. With the cost of high-quality printing coming down we can also reproduce the cover art of our favorite CDs. With the lyrics available online we can also sing all the words to our favorite songs, without the need of the original artist.
Hell this could destroy music as we know it, everyone will be listening to their own version of works that they recorded with their own musical backing tracks. Consumers won't even need musicians anymore, they will have become the musicians. This must be stopped.
I propose that from know on popular artists should stop producing music with words, or at least only perform their music with words encrypted at the mouth so that no one can decipher them and transcribe them. That will show 'em.
Sorry, I haven't had my coffee yet.
We often criticize sites like this for lacking journalistic integrity, but they often make no bones about the fact that they're simply doing the best they can.
Fabricating and embellishing is what you call 'doing the best they can'? At one point being a journalist was about reporting facts not creating fantasy.
<flame> If that fat fuck wants to be so damn creative perhaps he should have been a screen writer. From what I've seen lately, that takes no talent either. </flame>
They might sue if Slashdot copied their traction-control system though.
Why do FSF advocates insist on clouding the difference between the right to free-use and the right to change the source?
Because that difference is what defines Free software. Free software is not labeled 'Free' as a reflection of the cost of the collection of bits. It is the ability of anyone to modify those bits and redistribute them under the provisions of the GPL to all that desire the modification.
Yes the GPL requires you to essentially give up total control of your original code, but it also ensures that no one can hijack your code and prevent you from accessing their changes (if they are publicly releasing those changes).
Of course this is not to say that the GPL is the best license to use in all cases. To have software be a profitable business model you would be foolish to release the code under the GPL, but the GPL isn't designed to protect profits. That is what Microsoft's EULA is for.
RMS has a valid point in showing concern that the Linux kernel is using non-Free RC software. While it probably would not be difficult for Linus to revert the tree back to CVS if things did not work out for BitKeeper, RMS feels the risk is not worth the expense. The interview mentioned that if BitMover were to go under the code would be released under the GPL. That is nice, but I don't think an interview on a website counts as a legal document.
The point is RMS has a strong, unwavering opinion. When he sees something that offends his opinion he reacts (usually setting off all the fire-alarms on slashdot). While not everyone agrees with his philosophy, be grateful he is around defending Free software. One day when you discover you too need Free software hopefully RMS will still be around for you to join up with. It would be a shame to have to start all of his work over again.
I hope BitMover makes a policy change stating that if the company dissolves the source code will be licensed under the GPL, and that this policy cannot be altered under any change in management. This is the only way to support the claim that the code would revert under collapse.
First, we have to recognize exactly what this bill would do. It would quite simply regulate the ability of youngsters to obtain video games that contain the kind of thing we already don't let them observe in movies or talk about in public. That is, it doesn't take away any rights.
We have a federal law saying that minors can't see certain movies? I was under the impression that movie ratings were a self-policing measure instituted by the movie industry without the guiding hand of legislation.
We have a federal law stating what minors can say in public? Sorry son, you can't say 'FUCK' until you're 18. Sounds kind of silly, doesn't it?
I thought hookers and drugs were legal in Europe >;)
Imagine being turned away from a store because they know for a fact that you can't buy anything they sell. I guess there are discrimination laws that would prevent this, but it is still an interesting scenario.
And why does a landing-light control system need remote access at all?
Think iMac without Mac OS
What if that same 'poorer-than-average' person was used to identify every person, which is what this essentially is.
Than every time you are having your time wasted by the police after being recognized by this person with 'poorer-than-average' eyesite, just be glad that sometimes (but not most of the time) he also catches criminals.
Well, this is certainly the type of patent that I'd like to see revoked, and is an excellent case to cite when trying to show weakness in the patent system.
But you have to wonder if the shoe was on the other foot, and AOL had this patent, how hard would they be fighting to keep it?
Well, now it is Score:5, Interesting :P All these years, wasted :)
I concede
Several third-party hacks? Looks like I should throw out my Japanese version of NT then. I mean what's the point if it needs more hacks to work with Japanese text!
Perhaps you could explain what hacks you are talking about?
Yeah, but some Microsoft applications still require rebooting, either before the install can complete or after the install is finished. I believe Office 2000 still does this.
Why must I reboot to install a word processor?
The difference is touching, looking, or taking a picture of your wall does not give the officer the ability to detect anything except what his own senses allow him.
The thermal-imaging camera gives the officer extra sensory capabilities. This needs to be kept in check, until everyone is able to detect the heat emissions coming from their own home.
How dare the author say that the black tote bags Eazel gave out at Linux World were a bad idea!
That bag was the most thoughtful item given out at the whole show, and it definitly made carrying the tons of flyers and pamphlets a hell of a lot easier. Especially after 1 or 8 too many beers.
Sorry for this off topic post, but whatever.
I was just wondering if it bothered anyone else that Toki (? -- the head female in the camp, the one in the red kimono) was voiced by Jada Pinkett?
I just thought it was a bit hard to picture a woman named Toki, with a strong, sassy, modern, in your face, black girl attitude.
Oh well, I just had to comment on that, other than that I think Princess Mononoke was an excellent film. A few too many western values snuck in, but...
My advice to you, find the school with the best curriculum, one that actually sparks your interest, and a campus that has liberal drinking rules (you'll know why after you try to wrap your mind around IEEE floating point binary numbers the first time)
Good Luck
Once upon a time, in a kingdom not far from here, a king summoned two of his advisors for a test. He showed them both a shiny metal box with two slots in the top, a control knob, and a lever. "What do you think this is?"
One advisor, an engineer, answered first. "It is a toaster, " he said. The king asked, "How would you design an embedded computer for it?"
The engineer replied, "Using a four-bit microcontroller, I would write a simple program that reads the darkness knob and quantizes its position to one of 16 shades of darkness, from snow white to coal black. The program would use that darkness level as an index to a 16-element table of initial timer values. Then it would turn on the heating elements and start the timer with the initial value selected from the table. At the end of the time delay, it would turn off the heat and pop up the toast. Come back next week, and I'll show you a working prototype."
The second advisor, a computer scientist, immediately recognized the danger of such short-sighted thinking. He said, "Toasters don't just turn bread into toast, they are also used to warm waffles. What you see before you is really a breakfast food cooker. As the subjects of you kingdom become more sophisticated, they will demand more capabilities. The will need a breakfast cooker that can also cook sausage, fry bacon, and make scrambled eggs. A toaster that only makes toast will soon be obsolete. If we don't look to the future, we will have to completely redesign the toaster in just a few years.
"With this in mind, we can formulate a more intelligent solution to the problem. First, create a class of breakfast foods. Specialize this class into subclasses: grains, pork, and poultry. The specialization process should be repeated with grains divided into toast, muffins, pancakes, and waffles; pork into sausage, links, and bacon; and poultry divided into scrambled eggs, hard-boiled eggs, poached eggs, fried eggs, and various omelet classes.
"The ham and cheese omelet class is worth special attention because it must inherit characteristics from the pork, dairy, and poultry classes. Thus, we see that the problem cannot be properly solved without multiple inheritance. At run time, the program must create the proper object and send a message to the object that says, 'Cook yourself.' The semantics of this message depend, of course, on the kind of object, so they have a different meaning to a piece of toast than to scrambled eggs.
"Reviewing the process so far, we see that the analysis phase has revealed that the primary requirement is to cook any kind of breakfast food. In the design phase, we have discovered some derived requirements. Specifically, we need an object-oriented language with multiple inheritance. Of course, users don't want the eggs to get cold while the bacon is frying, so concurrent processing is required, too.
"We must not forget the user interface. The lever that lowers the food lacks versatility, and the darkness knob is confusing. Users won't buy the product unless it has a user-friendly, graphical interface. When the breakfast cooker is plugged in, users should see a cowboy boot on the screen. Users click on it, and the message 'Booting UNIX v. 8.3' appears on the screen. (UNIX 8.3 should be out by the time the product gets to the market.) Users can pull down a menu and click on the foods they want to cook.
"Having made the wise decision of specifying the software first in the design phase, all that remains is to pick an adequate hardware platform for the implementation phase. An Intel 80386 with 8MB of memory, a 30MB hard disk, and a VGA monitor should be sufficient. If you select a multitasking, object oriented language that supports multiple inheritance and has a built-in GUI, writing the program will be a snap. (Imagine the difficulty we would have had if we had foolishly allowed a hardware-first design strategy to lock us into a four-bit microcontroller!). We should have a working prototype within the next 9 months to a year."
The king wisely had the computer scientist beheaded, and they all lived happily ever after.
No offense to Clinton, I'm sure he is a nice kid and all, but who gives a fuck what he thinks!
I honestly can't believe that people are interested in this interview.
"These interviews have gotten pretty celebrity-oriented lately."
Of course they have! It is not so much the celebrity that attracts us to the interviews, but the fact that they obviously did something to earn that celebrity.
If I wanted to find out what a 15 year old kid thinks about anything, I'd go onto any number of chat rooms arywhere on the internet and ask them! Or maybe just post an 'Ask Slashdot' question, to hear their responses.
Slashdot has really been hanging by a thread lately with its articles, but why must you make it blatently obvious that you have no news to print at all!?
That being said, my question is: what is your stance on the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933?
Couldn't you just put the game under a dual license?
Use the GPL to distribute the game online or something, and use Indrema's license scheme for the console specific version.
Al Gore is apparently only 51% in love with himself
But George Bush is 79% in love with himself
I guess I'm voting for neither of them, my canidate need to be 100% in love with himself or he is not a leader of the free world.
They also dropped $150 million on non voting Apple stock a few years back if I am not mistaken....