I thought the GPL says that you cannot include GPL'd code in a closed source project.
Does the original author of the GPL code have other, special rights? I'd like to know, I read the GPL once, but it's not really what I would call light reading.
I would be very apppreciative if somebody would explain this to me.
. If the TPC benchmarks really are that unrealistic, why does anyone (MS, Oracle, IBM, whoever) care about them?
For the same reason millions of people run MS Windows, knowing that it stinks, buecause it's the standard. Standards are hard to establish, and once they are, they are even harder to change.
Just because everyone uses it, and publishes it, doesn't mean it's actually any good.
I'll address the points that I feel I can address.
I'm not familiar with Caldera's programs, is xbill something that THEY write? If so, then they should be responsible.
Debian shouldn't be responsible for their *unstable* release, because they advertise it as such.
If you can't install a distro, well, that's probably not gonna cost your company a full day's work, like a hole in Outlook can.
I'm all for equal treatment. The point I had in my head, was that software companies that make crappy products that can cripple your system and/or business should accept responsibility. I would hold any *NIX to the same criteria.
OTOH GNU/OSS programs fall into a different category, since they are not written by companies. In my mind, companes have a higher responsibility to their customers, than coders working on an independent project. This is because people are actually paying for the product. Software companies are paid to produce programs, whereas people who write code to be helpful do it as an aside.
I hope I've addressed your issues, if not, I check my responses regularly
...while software companies should provide reliable goods, they shouldn't have to bear potentially enormous risks associated with the use of their products.
Translation: Sofware shouldn't have holes, but but it does, and people still buy it, so they wait until someone else finds the hole before they fix it.
I guess this also means that no one has already tried to sue a company because their crappy product killed their system, and thus cost them loads of time and money. I'd love to see somebody sue MS for allowing something like Mellisa, or I Love You to cripple their company.
IMHO people take no pride in their work. If they actually cared, and didn't have the marketing dept pushing the product out the door, then this wouldn't even be an issue. OSS all the way.
I was at the MIT talk that Rob gave, and Hemos happened to show up for. It was lots of fun, they answered questions for about an hour. I don't know the details of it, but I highly recommend Rob as a speaker. Unfortunately, he doesn't speak very often.
I tried StarOffice, and it turned my desktop into Windows. I don't get it. One of my main reasons for using Linux, aside from it being more stable, it that it is, by definition, not Windows.
StarOffice seems like a step backward, IMHO.
The Start menu on the lower left corner was just way too much for me.
It's a good idea, but it won't work. In order to use the Borda count, you have to rank EVERY CHOICE. In some states that could mean almost a dozen people. Most people are not gonna bother to do the research required to figure out which of the people they've never heard of is the worst.
With a small number of choices, or an educated and informed voting population, Borda is good, but not for a country of millions(a billion?).
IMHO it's like communism, works well on paper, and in small groups only.
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Yes, a vote for Nader means a vote for Bush.
Depends on where you live. Since we have the electoral college, the majority of your state decides. I live in a very democratic state, so you know what, I'd be throwing away my vote even if I voted for Bush.
I would be extremely surprised to see Gore lose my state. OTOH federal matching funds are based on the voting percentages of the entire country. This means that my vote for Nader, or Browne, or whoever, is very significant.
IMHO the best way to keep people from viewing inappropriate material in public isn't to filter it, but to publish it.
Ok, not publish it, but have all of the monitors facing the entrance. That way, whenever people walk in, then will see what people are doing. If people are viewing pr0n or something, it will be noticed, and noises will be made. The librarians will then investigate the source of the noise and act appropriately.
Of course people may object to some middle ground material, but then I guess it is up to the librarian to decide who to ask to leave the building.
>>you are for prostitution because, "it's my body?"
Sure, if it is done right. It is legal in NV, where you have to have a lisence, and you get taxed and stuff.
>>you're for legal drugs because, "it's my body?"
Yup. There isn't a good reason why the SHOULD be illegal, therefore, they shouldn't be.
>>speeding is okay because, "it's my body?"
Not true, speeding endangers the lives of those who may not choose to be around you. Speeding has the potential to kill innocent bystanders, whereas people who do drugs, or buy sex, know what they are getting into.
Nader is an advocate of taking power away from corporations. Taking away political, and social power. You took a sound bite(a crappy one at that) and tried to pass it off as a founding point in his campaign.
And I ate the flamebait, so I'm barely better than you. Oh well c'est la vie
If you read the fourth article in that series, Reed claims that what Gore meant to say wasn't that he "created the internet" but that he "wrote the protocols."
At that point I gave up whatever belief in Gore that I had. He sent a moron to debate a competitor in a national magazine.
Reed also urges Nader, several times, to join Gore's campaign. What nerve on his part.
Insurance companies exist for one reason, To make money. That is a truly sad fact of life. They don't reall want to help you, it's just that they have to help you if you've been feeding their bank accounts.
Not that I have an answer as to how to give everyone medical help, but this system sure as hell isn't doing it. People with pre-existing conditions can't get coverage. That means that the people who are very sick, and require very expensive medicines(cause making medicine is a business too) have to pay up the ass just to live.
I'm just waiting for this law to be proposed in the US. Though congrats to the British for having a dumb idea to hurt their people before us. Anyday it's not gonna be voluntary, and then, well, we're screwed.
Whereby, a CueCat scanner reads a barcode off of a computer screen, and then purchases said item. Credit card information is stored on the highly secure systems of Digital Convergence, and identified by the unique serial number.
To perform said operations, use of my patent pending CueBuy software is to be used. Any attempt to develop such software without my expressed written permission is hereby prohibited.
It's been done before. VR has been overhyped, and overdone. Fortunately it died.
3D on the Web? I don't want to sit around, listening to my processor hum while it renders an entire 3D world. With all of the advances made in high speed connections, they are now suggesting we slow down the page load time, at our own end.
Basically, it won't work. It sounds like a thesis paper that got out of control.
Just because people interact, doesn't make them a community. I work with the same people every day. We don't have all that much in common, and I don't condsider them my friends (Good thing I'm a temp.)
Every weekend I go over to my friend's house, and hang out with her, and her roomates. We are a small group of people, with some very obvious differences, but I think we may be a community of a half-dozen.
Some people may have a feeling of community here on/. But not all, If so, we wouldn't have 6 posts claiming to be first every time a new article shows up. BUT I believe that some here do feel a sense of community. I'm working on it, but not yet.
One last thing, regarding elitism and the "Digital Divide." Many people say RTFM, well, it's hard to read that stuff sometimes, and they don't answer questions right away, you have to figure out where the answer is. If people were really into making technology for all, they would lend real help, not just give out URLs.
And the reason that people in the projects don't run a "FREE" OS on a 486, is that there is no way to get it. Where is the only place to get Linux for free? The Internet. That means you already have a working computer with a stable connection. There will never be a truly free OS until the cd's are as available as AOL coasters.
"You do not care about the operating system. If we were to convert these over to Solaris, the end-user wouldn't care. We don't have the energy to drive two operating systems."
They don't have the energy to drive 2 quite similar operating systems, but they do have the energy to continue working on a whole new version of their OS. They have no problem supporting Linux out in the open (Star Office), but if the world ain't gonna see it, then let's toot our own horn.
Why can't the BigHonkinMem option be part of the kernel config options. Don't have it standard, like a lot of options that aren't standard, but make it a choice.
Also, I'm assuming Big Iron has something to do with clusters, or huge ass servers, but would someone mind posting an explicit definition?
Thanks.
I checked out the website, and was impressed. Then I went deeper. The fact that they base all of their rankings on people who use their plugin, automatically invalidates all of their data.
They also have a deal with Netscape and MS-IE to use some of their "Features" to gather data, but don't apply it. They also readily admit that they really only gather info from Windows users.
>In addition, we remove from the list certain >technology, graphics, and banner ad-serving >domain names, as well as sites operated by Alexa Internet.
Translation: "We give average people the results that they expect. We pretend to rank the world, but only things we want to."
I do think the idea of havng all websites made stored someplace is a good idea. It will be invaluable to anthropologists in the future.
It's not about pirating music, in this case, it's about taking a stand.
I'm overjoyed to hear that these well known universities hdave decided to not be bullied by the RIAA. If they choose to not support their students, well, so be it, virtually every college student is over 18, and therefore a legal adult. They can make their own choices.
College is about learning, not just about facts, but about life and ourselves. Yeah Napster can be used for bad things, but it can also be used for good things. I use it to find live tracks of bands that I can't hear on the radio anyway. And I don't use gnutella, cause it just doesn't work for me, I dunno, maybe gotta try harder.
They point is, that colleges shouldn't be bullied into becoming the parents of their students. They already have parents, and they are old enough to accept responsibility for their actions.
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Messed up the mod. Should've been interesting.
Does the original author of the GPL code have other, special rights? I'd like to know, I read the GPL once, but it's not really what I would call light reading.
I would be very apppreciative if somebody would explain this to me.
For the same reason millions of people run MS Windows, knowing that it stinks, buecause it's the standard. Standards are hard to establish, and once they are, they are even harder to change.
Just because everyone uses it, and publishes it, doesn't mean it's actually any good.
I'm not familiar with Caldera's programs, is xbill something that THEY write? If so, then they should be responsible.
Debian shouldn't be responsible for their *unstable* release, because they advertise it as such.
If you can't install a distro, well, that's probably not gonna cost your company a full day's work, like a hole in Outlook can.
I'm all for equal treatment. The point I had in my head, was that software companies that make crappy products that can cripple your system and/or business should accept responsibility. I would hold any *NIX to the same criteria.
OTOH GNU/OSS programs fall into a different category, since they are not written by companies. In my mind, companes have a higher responsibility to their customers, than coders working on an independent project. This is because people are actually paying for the product. Software companies are paid to produce programs, whereas people who write code to be helpful do it as an aside.
I hope I've addressed your issues, if not, I check my responses regularly
Translation: Sofware shouldn't have holes, but but it does, and people still buy it, so they wait until someone else finds the hole before they fix it.
I guess this also means that no one has already tried to sue a company because their crappy product killed their system, and thus cost them loads of time and money. I'd love to see somebody sue MS for allowing something like Mellisa, or I Love You to cripple their company.
IMHO people take no pride in their work. If they actually cared, and didn't have the marketing dept pushing the product out the door, then this wouldn't even be an issue. OSS all the way.
It'll be even sooner, now that someone hacked MS and copied their source code.
I was at the MIT talk that Rob gave, and Hemos happened to show up for. It was lots of fun, they answered questions for about an hour. I don't know the details of it, but I highly recommend Rob as a speaker. Unfortunately, he doesn't speak very often.
StarOffice seems like a step backward, IMHO.
The Start menu on the lower left corner was just way too much for me.
With a small number of choices, or an educated and informed voting population, Borda is good, but not for a country of millions(a billion?).
IMHO it's like communism, works well on paper, and in small groups only.
Depends on where you live. Since we have the electoral college, the majority of your state decides. I live in a very democratic state, so you know what, I'd be throwing away my vote even if I voted for Bush.
I would be extremely surprised to see Gore lose my state. OTOH federal matching funds are based on the voting percentages of the entire country. This means that my vote for Nader, or Browne, or whoever, is very significant.
Ok, not publish it, but have all of the monitors facing the entrance. That way, whenever people walk in, then will see what people are doing. If people are viewing pr0n or something, it will be noticed, and noises will be made. The librarians will then investigate the source of the noise and act appropriately.
Of course people may object to some middle ground material, but then I guess it is up to the librarian to decide who to ask to leave the building.
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Sure, if it is done right. It is legal in NV, where you have to have a lisence, and you get taxed and stuff.
>>you're for legal drugs because, "it's my body?"
Yup. There isn't a good reason why the SHOULD be illegal, therefore, they shouldn't be.
>>speeding is okay because, "it's my body?"
Not true, speeding endangers the lives of those who may not choose to be around you. Speeding has the potential to kill innocent bystanders, whereas people who do drugs, or buy sex, know what they are getting into.
And I ate the flamebait, so I'm barely better than you. Oh well c'est la vie
At that point I gave up whatever belief in Gore that I had. He sent a moron to debate a competitor in a national magazine.
Reed also urges Nader, several times, to join Gore's campaign. What nerve on his part.
Not that I have an answer as to how to give everyone medical help, but this system sure as hell isn't doing it. People with pre-existing conditions can't get coverage. That means that the people who are very sick, and require very expensive medicines(cause making medicine is a business too) have to pay up the ass just to live.
I'm just waiting for this law to be proposed in the US. Though congrats to the British for having a dumb idea to hurt their people before us. Anyday it's not gonna be voluntary, and then, well, we're screwed.
To perform said operations, use of my patent pending CueBuy software is to be used. Any attempt to develop such software without my expressed written permission is hereby prohibited.
3D on the Web? I don't want to sit around, listening to my processor hum while it renders an entire 3D world. With all of the advances made in high speed connections, they are now suggesting we slow down the page load time, at our own end.
Basically, it won't work. It sounds like a thesis paper that got out of control.
Speaking of Netscape 5, whatever happened to it? How come they are going from 4.7x to 6.PR3?
Now that's an interesting bet.
Does anyone know what power the company will have over their TLD?
Every weekend I go over to my friend's house, and hang out with her, and her roomates. We are a small group of people, with some very obvious differences, but I think we may be a community of a half-dozen.
Some people may have a feeling of community here on /. But not all, If so, we wouldn't have 6 posts claiming to be first every time a new article shows up.
BUT I believe that some here do feel a sense of community. I'm working on it, but not yet.
One last thing, regarding elitism and the "Digital Divide." Many people say RTFM, well, it's hard to read that stuff sometimes, and they don't answer questions right away, you have to figure out where the answer is. If people were really into making technology for all, they would lend real help, not just give out URLs.
And the reason that people in the projects don't run a "FREE" OS on a 486, is that there is no way to get it. Where is the only place to get Linux for free? The Internet. That means you already have a working computer with a stable connection. There will never be a truly free OS until the cd's are as available as AOL coasters.
Medium: LCD panel for my computer--Something nice and big.
Expensive: Enough money to my name to have an influence in the US gov't. That only takes about $100 million, right?
They don't have the energy to drive 2 quite similar operating systems, but they do have the energy to continue working on a whole new version of their OS. They have no problem supporting Linux out in the open (Star Office), but if the world ain't gonna see it, then let's toot our own horn.
Also, I'm assuming Big Iron has something to do with clusters, or huge ass servers, but would someone mind posting an explicit definition?
Thanks.
They also have a deal with Netscape and MS-IE to use some of their "Features" to gather data, but don't apply it. They also readily admit that they really only gather info from Windows users.
>In addition, we remove from the list certain
>technology, graphics, and banner ad-serving
>domain names, as well as sites operated by Alexa Internet.
Translation: "We give average people the results that they expect. We pretend to rank the world, but only things we want to."
I do think the idea of havng all websites made stored someplace is a good idea. It will be invaluable to anthropologists in the future.
I'm overjoyed to hear that these well known universities hdave decided to not be bullied by the RIAA. If they choose to not support their students, well, so be it, virtually every college student is over 18, and therefore a legal adult. They can make their own choices.
College is about learning, not just about facts, but about life and ourselves. Yeah Napster can be used for bad things, but it can also be used for good things. I use it to find live tracks of bands that I can't hear on the radio anyway. And I don't use gnutella, cause it just doesn't work for me, I dunno, maybe gotta try harder.
They point is, that colleges shouldn't be bullied into becoming the parents of their students. They already have parents, and they are old enough to accept responsibility for their actions.