You know my grandfather used to say you can't comment on something you know nothing about. I was just glancing at the comments to see, if anyone has actually seen this movie, and what they thought about it. I noticed people going off about propaganda before they gave it a chance. A free society comes complete with propaganda. An educated individual views all media as propaganda of one kind or another, then views it with an open mind and draws conclusions thusly.
On windows this program requires Cygwin. So yes you can run all these apps natively, as long as you first install a extraction layer. And hey I wonder if I can get Cygwin working under wine so then I can go through two extraction layers. Wait, maybe I can then install colinux in wine that pumps x output through cygwin, then I can install wine, and then get cygwin running, then I can install cygwin...
Just write a fucking app in good c/c++ and staticly link libraries not on windows. Compile it and wohoo, a binary for windows. The only thing the least bit interesting is the gtk/qt to native api layer. That should be the library they provide developers with for ease of compiling to different OS's.
I mean come on. I think my toaster violates this patent, but then that's pre-existing art, but wait isn't that copyright, or trademark, god damn it. A law that ceases to make sense if it ceases to serve society. I have worked at many companies whom all think they have a "secret" process they and only they use. However in every simalar industry I see them doing the same shit. So even when companies our filing patents for something other than suing other companies, it's still bullshit 99% of the time.
In the end who really pays for this bullshit; you and I twice. Once cause we pay every court clerk that touchs this trash, as well as every judge and/or jury on the case. Most of the time judges have to pay experts to try to explain why it even makes since that I have a patent for a big purple spider button on my laptop. The second place we pay is in every product we buy. Even if a company isn't being sued, they still retain 1 to 1000 lawyers in case any thing might cause them to be sued or they can sue some one else.
At the end of the day patients just protect companies from competing for the best product. If they do something that say reduces time of production, they patent the process, thus ensuring they can bleed more profit longer from the same product. In the end this same company could have looked at the market and entered it at a lower price, and by doing so increased market share. During that period they win because they make more money, the consumer wins because they can purchase the same prduct for less money. Their competitors must now figure out a way to make either a better product or reduce the price of the existing one, and then the consumer wins again. Currently companies see patents as a way to avoid living in the free market. Microsoft would for example prefer threating linux users instead of competing with linux with their own product. So every windows user out there should know that part of the price you pay for your product is not going back into development of a better or cheaper product. Instead your dollar is being spent on lawyers who call up your tax payed federal courts, to attempt to prevent development of a product that offers you a choice in the market place. Tell me who wins in this kind of system.
Patents are quickly turning into the largest assult on free market capitalism since Karl Marx picked up a pen. Now don't even get me started on copyright.
Anyone wondering if corperate interests drive research, I give you this. Nothing on cancer, nothing on aids, or any other serious issue. No baldness is what we really need to work on. After all what good is that viagra, if your not getting laid. This not my sci-fi vision of genetic engineering. If they're not going to help, the least they could do is give me my 2-headed bobcat with laser eyes.
You know reading through this I must admitt I'm a little ashamed of my slacker/hacker brothers. No matter how you look at it, vista sold a lot of copies. Now I know a large portion of us on this thread are off in our own OS world. OS's we chose for one of many reasons. Now if I were a Plan 9 user, linux would seem mainstream. As a linux user myself, Mac users seem more major market to me. But guess what, Vista will own 90% of the market in a couple years. Why, cause they are bitches. As are dell, gateway, hp and whichever other companies don't have the balls to do anything but swing from microsoft's nuts. When joe computer buyer (mind you not joe user) goes to buy a computer he's going do as the market tells him to. He'll get home and plug everything in himself or maybe get one of those $8/hr geek squad guys to come over. Then maybe he'll install that office package he paid another couple hundred for. Soon he'll find some porn on his ie7, and probably actually pay for it.
Now why do any of you give a shit that this guy isn't picking the same product as you? Guess what, he also doesn't watch the same tv shows, listen to the same music, read the same books if any at all, christ the fucker doesn't even speak the same language. Microsoft is part of the american consumer landscape. Guess what, slashdot is not. Even if a linux distro popped it's head out of obscurity, none of us would be using it. Now you mac guys are your own breed which predates my kind, so sorry if I have no analogy for you. I guess my point is that we are neither validated or invalidated by our slice in the market. On the same note microsoft is not now validated because everyone uses them. Mcdonalds is not lobster in Portland, Maine; Pepsi Cola is not a North Californian wine; Micosoft is not innovative software. Nothing for us to be insecure about.
In 1997 I had a 486 with a 2.5 GB hard drive, which why that might seem behind the curve, my previous machine was C64, so it was a big upgrade for me. My choices seemed to be limited to Windows 3.1, Beos, OS2, or this little project called linux (I guess freebsd too, but I actually use my computer:p ). So I got one of my fancy friends to use his isdn line to download me a Mandrake install cd.
A decade and like 30 distros later I'm still a loyal user. In the past couple years I have watched the great evils of the world morph into our new allies (ie.. IBM, Novell, Intel). But this all came with a underlying Faust kind of deal. Each kernel was tainted with philosophical contradiction. That video driver was nothing more than a cheap whore while the wife was out of town. A big ugly binary among pristine virgin innocent source included apps. All you who think linux can't play games might want to note opengl, sdl, and openal are finding there ways onto your nazi boxes more and more. And bling, ha, one word beryl, Mac aint got shit on us. We're the beast in this mother fucker. Oh and by the way with all that bling and a tweaked kernel, the newest gnome and plenty of other gentoo goodness I'm at about 196MBs of ram used. We'll see where games can be played.
By the way in case anyone from nvidia is reading this, please go fuck yourself you "nvrm: xid" bug ignoring sons of bitches!
I'm sure this is just someone trying to make a point. A quick google search revealed the headline "Russian President Putin introduces widespread state monitoring of the Internet".
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/feb2000/put-f04. shtml
We are all in the same boat, and it seems the water is rising.
Anyone can find the details here.
http://www.askcalea.net/calea/http://www.askcalea. net/calea/
Now I have read through this and there is one really disturbing term. Here is the summary statement./*
Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (CALEA)
In October 1994, Congress took action to protect public safety and national security by enacting CALEA. The law further defines the existing statutory obligation of telecommunications carriers to assist law enforcement in executing electronic surveillance pursuant to court order or other lawful authorization. CALEA is codified at 47 U.S.C. 1001-1021.
*/
The verbage "pursuant to court order or other lawful authorization" is all through the law. Now I know what a court order is, and if a federal judge determines you might just be selling Vietnamese slaves on ebay, I got no beef with them checking up on your daily myspace blogs. In other words big brother isn't so bad, if he's kicking your school bully's ass.
But what the fuck does lawful authorization mean? In my small amount of knowledge that college didn't destroy, I thought the judicial branch was the only one who could authorize court orderish kind of shit. All I can say to anyone monitoring without a court order is, if you get lawful authorization without a court, then so do the rest of us. "By any means necessary!"
NTFS is perhaps an advanced file system, if you work for microsoft. The specs have always been closed, so I have no idea what "features" you use that ext3 doesn't provide. By the way, last I checked, AT&T has done the most advanced work with Speech programs. People who counter an argument with "you sound like an idiot", are obviously not bright enough to address things in a rational manner. Windows and Microsoft do some things well, but by no means corner the market on innovation. I am all for them using their considerable resources to develop new technologies, but not if they limit the fruits of their labors to their own products. Tell you what, plugin an ext3 usb hard drive into a ntfs filesystem, and see what you get. Ext3 is one of the more widely distributed file systems in use, and you won't be able to see a damn thing on it. My computer conversely can at least read the data from it, although, due to the closed spec, will not be able to write to it. Microsoft brings market share. Market share that allows their products to communicate with each other, which in turn sells them more products. In the long run, however, they limit the products that could be used by consumers by implementing closed standards. When ext3 gets replaced, its replacement will benefit from all its development. NTFS will be pushed beyond it's usefulness just like FAT was.
I'm not claiming to be a doctorate in anything, but this is the stupidest thing I've ever seen. I've used i in equations (sqrt -1), which also exists on another number line. But it wasn't because I just made up a loose logical term. Show me what I do with this "nullity" after I've gotten it returned, and am spinning headlong into the runway. "Sure your heart stopped Stan, but at least we got an unicode character in the debug!"
Ok, I've always read Slashdot, and this one seems it's thrown out there to be tore apart. I'm the prototypical opensourced liberal slacker, but I can see some merrit here. Is this a broad generalization? Yes. At the same time I have found myself pissed off at the same sort of thing. I don't think it helps society to have some of the brightest and most logical confined to an apolitical, antisocial philosophy. I enjoy talking about the lastest microsoft scam or the funniest Wii injury as much as any of us, but I do get annoyed when I bring up whether raising the minimum wage is good or bad for society to blank stares. The thing I don't get is why Bill would want many of us paying more attention, cause I don't think there are many closetted right-wingers among us.
Slashdot Mirror
You know my grandfather used to say you can't comment on something you know nothing about. I was just glancing at the comments to see, if anyone has actually seen this movie, and what they thought about it. I noticed people going off about propaganda before they gave it a chance. A free society comes complete with propaganda. An educated individual views all media as propaganda of one kind or another, then views it with an open mind and draws conclusions thusly.
Good point! Or why not mono? Good point me! But hey if obscurity is the goal, then I say go balls out, write everything in D!!!
On windows this program requires Cygwin. So yes you can run all these apps natively, as long as you first install a extraction layer. And hey I wonder if I can get Cygwin working under wine so then I can go through two extraction layers. Wait, maybe I can then install colinux in wine that pumps x output through cygwin, then I can install wine, and then get cygwin running, then I can install cygwin...
Just write a fucking app in good c/c++ and staticly link libraries not on windows. Compile it and wohoo, a binary for windows. The only thing the least bit interesting is the gtk/qt to native api layer. That should be the library they provide developers with for ease of compiling to different OS's.
I mean come on. I think my toaster violates this patent, but then that's pre-existing art, but wait isn't that copyright, or trademark, god damn it. A law that ceases to make sense if it ceases to serve society. I have worked at many companies whom all think they have a "secret" process they and only they use. However in every simalar industry I see them doing the same shit. So even when companies our filing patents for something other than suing other companies, it's still bullshit 99% of the time.
In the end who really pays for this bullshit; you and I twice. Once cause we pay every court clerk that touchs this trash, as well as every judge and/or jury on the case. Most of the time judges have to pay experts to try to explain why it even makes since that I have a patent for a big purple spider button on my laptop. The second place we pay is in every product we buy. Even if a company isn't being sued, they still retain 1 to 1000 lawyers in case any thing might cause them to be sued or they can sue some one else.
At the end of the day patients just protect companies from competing for the best product. If they do something that say reduces time of production, they patent the process, thus ensuring they can bleed more profit longer from the same product. In the end this same company could have looked at the market and entered it at a lower price, and by doing so increased market share. During that period they win because they make more money, the consumer wins because they can purchase the same prduct for less money. Their competitors must now figure out a way to make either a better product or reduce the price of the existing one, and then the consumer wins again. Currently companies see patents as a way to avoid living in the free market. Microsoft would for example prefer threating linux users instead of competing with linux with their own product. So every windows user out there should know that part of the price you pay for your product is not going back into development of a better or cheaper product. Instead your dollar is being spent on lawyers who call up your tax payed federal courts, to attempt to prevent development of a product that offers you a choice in the market place. Tell me who wins in this kind of system.
Patents are quickly turning into the largest assult on free market capitalism since Karl Marx picked up a pen. Now don't even get me started on copyright.
Anyone wondering if corperate interests drive research, I give you this. Nothing on cancer, nothing on aids, or any other serious issue. No baldness is what we really need to work on. After all what good is that viagra, if your not getting laid. This not my sci-fi vision of genetic engineering. If they're not going to help, the least they could do is give me my 2-headed bobcat with laser eyes.
You know reading through this I must admitt I'm a little ashamed of my slacker/hacker brothers. No matter how you look at it, vista sold a lot of copies. Now I know a large portion of us on this thread are off in our own OS world. OS's we chose for one of many reasons. Now if I were a Plan 9 user, linux would seem mainstream. As a linux user myself, Mac users seem more major market to me. But guess what, Vista will own 90% of the market in a couple years. Why, cause they are bitches. As are dell, gateway, hp and whichever other companies don't have the balls to do anything but swing from microsoft's nuts. When joe computer buyer (mind you not joe user) goes to buy a computer he's going do as the market tells him to. He'll get home and plug everything in himself or maybe get one of those $8/hr geek squad guys to come over. Then maybe he'll install that office package he paid another couple hundred for. Soon he'll find some porn on his ie7, and probably actually pay for it.
Now why do any of you give a shit that this guy isn't picking the same product as you? Guess what, he also doesn't watch the same tv shows, listen to the same music, read the same books if any at all, christ the fucker doesn't even speak the same language. Microsoft is part of the american consumer landscape. Guess what, slashdot is not. Even if a linux distro popped it's head out of obscurity, none of us would be using it. Now you mac guys are your own breed which predates my kind, so sorry if I have no analogy for you. I guess my point is that we are neither validated or invalidated by our slice in the market. On the same note microsoft is not now validated because everyone uses them. Mcdonalds is not lobster in Portland, Maine; Pepsi Cola is not a North Californian wine; Micosoft is not innovative software. Nothing for us to be insecure about.
Lol, you should have got at least a 3 and a funny. Damned stingy karma giving mods.
In 1997 I had a 486 with a 2.5 GB hard drive, which why that might seem behind the curve, my previous machine was C64, so it was a big upgrade for me. My choices seemed to be limited to Windows 3.1, Beos, OS2, or this little project called linux (I guess freebsd too, but I actually use my computer :p ). So I got one of my fancy friends to use his isdn line to download me a Mandrake install cd.
A decade and like 30 distros later I'm still a loyal user. In the past couple years I have watched the great evils of the world morph into our new allies (ie.. IBM, Novell, Intel). But this all came with a underlying Faust kind of deal. Each kernel was tainted with philosophical contradiction. That video driver was nothing more than a cheap whore while the wife was out of town. A big ugly binary among pristine virgin innocent source included apps. All you who think linux can't play games might want to note opengl, sdl, and openal are finding there ways onto your nazi boxes more and more. And bling, ha, one word beryl, Mac aint got shit on us. We're the beast in this mother fucker. Oh and by the way with all that bling and a tweaked kernel, the newest gnome and plenty of other gentoo goodness I'm at about 196MBs of ram used. We'll see where games can be played.
By the way in case anyone from nvidia is reading this, please go fuck yourself you "nvrm: xid" bug ignoring sons of bitches!
I'm sure this is just someone trying to make a point. A quick google search revealed the headline "Russian President Putin introduces widespread state monitoring of the Internet".. shtml
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/feb2000/put-f04
We are all in the same boat, and it seems the water is rising.
Anyone can find the details here. http://www.askcalea.net/calea/http://www.askcalea. net/calea/
Now I have read through this and there is one really disturbing term. Here is the summary statement. /*
Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (CALEA)
In October 1994, Congress took action to protect public safety and national security by enacting CALEA. The law further defines the existing statutory obligation of telecommunications carriers to assist law enforcement in executing electronic surveillance pursuant to court order or other lawful authorization. CALEA is codified at 47 U.S.C. 1001-1021.
*/
The verbage "pursuant to court order or other lawful authorization" is all through the law. Now I know what a court order is, and if a federal judge determines you might just be selling Vietnamese slaves on ebay, I got no beef with them checking up on your daily myspace blogs. In other words big brother isn't so bad, if he's kicking your school bully's ass.
But what the fuck does lawful authorization mean? In my small amount of knowledge that college didn't destroy, I thought the judicial branch was the only one who could authorize court orderish kind of shit. All I can say to anyone monitoring without a court order is, if you get lawful authorization without a court, then so do the rest of us. "By any means necessary!"
NTFS is perhaps an advanced file system, if you work for microsoft. The specs have always been closed, so I have no idea what "features" you use that ext3 doesn't provide. By the way, last I checked, AT&T has done the most advanced work with Speech programs. People who counter an argument with "you sound like an idiot", are obviously not bright enough to address things in a rational manner. Windows and Microsoft do some things well, but by no means corner the market on innovation. I am all for them using their considerable resources to develop new technologies, but not if they limit the fruits of their labors to their own products. Tell you what, plugin an ext3 usb hard drive into a ntfs filesystem, and see what you get. Ext3 is one of the more widely distributed file systems in use, and you won't be able to see a damn thing on it. My computer conversely can at least read the data from it, although, due to the closed spec, will not be able to write to it. Microsoft brings market share. Market share that allows their products to communicate with each other, which in turn sells them more products. In the long run, however, they limit the products that could be used by consumers by implementing closed standards. When ext3 gets replaced, its replacement will benefit from all its development. NTFS will be pushed beyond it's usefulness just like FAT was.
I'm not claiming to be a doctorate in anything, but this is the stupidest thing I've ever seen. I've used i in equations (sqrt -1), which also exists on another number line. But it wasn't because I just made up a loose logical term. Show me what I do with this "nullity" after I've gotten it returned, and am spinning headlong into the runway. "Sure your heart stopped Stan, but at least we got an unicode character in the debug!"
Ok, I've always read Slashdot, and this one seems it's thrown out there to be tore apart. I'm the prototypical opensourced liberal slacker, but I can see some merrit here. Is this a broad generalization? Yes. At the same time I have found myself pissed off at the same sort of thing. I don't think it helps society to have some of the brightest and most logical confined to an apolitical, antisocial philosophy. I enjoy talking about the lastest microsoft scam or the funniest Wii injury as much as any of us, but I do get annoyed when I bring up whether raising the minimum wage is good or bad for society to blank stares. The thing I don't get is why Bill would want many of us paying more attention, cause I don't think there are many closetted right-wingers among us.