Ham Radio was carried aboard Mir as part of the mission. The ISS has a 2-meter ham antenna fitted to it, and several Shuttle misssons have carried Ham Radio.
Oh good, does that mean that my laptop won't inadvertantly connect to the flight director computer on the airplane?
And how do I make sure that my permanently wireless-enabled Bluetooth laptop/pen/Palm doesn't indeed become a Pilot? When the crew tell us to switch off our cellphones, will we be able to do the same with these devices yet still use them normally during the flight?
So where does all this put KDE, now that SUN and, allegedly, HP are backing GNOME as the next desktop? Isn't KDE a dead issue? And how does GNOME/GTK fit with all the zillions of legacy Motif apps that Sun's customers are using?
Look, Zocalo, don't you start posting comments full of common sense on Slashdot, you'll get no thanks and merely attract abuse from the zealots.
Most of them seem to think that standards are optional, except when it comes to the stoopid GPL, which is, of course, rigidly policed by the freaky open source thought police (R. Stallman, Prop.).
When legal pistol (handgun) ownership was prohibited in Britain, it was not prohibited in that other part of the United Kingdom called Northern Ireland. I suppose it would have provoked just too hollow a laugh.
Predictably, the volume of gun-related crime in Britain has risen since the ban. The criminals found that (a) they were refused gun licences and (b) discovered that guns worked quite well without the benefit of a licence.
The DNA thing is because the law enforcement authorities are fundamentally lazy -- it's why they spend so much time persecuting car drivers -- it's easy, they have a big ID number on them.
This has been the norm for at least ten years on *nix software. Most high-value stuff has been licensed by a scheme like FlexLM on Solaris, HP-UX and so on. The license server is tied to a server and can dish out up to n floating licenses to whatever workstations request them. When a workstation stops using a license, it can be used by any other on the local network. You can use as many as you've paid for, but no more.
Most large commercail users of software love this scheme because they can't accidentally use more licenses than they've paid for -- saves them from suffering sleepless nights waiting for the software police to call.
However, I realise that most/.ers have real trouble with the principle of paying for software, particularly Microsoft's, so they obviously won't like this.
So how does this make me a Nazi? What happened to the First Amendment? Provided Yahoo did not have an entity on French soil, there is nothing the French government could have done about it.
This is the thin edge of an unpleasant wedge. Adolph Hitler would have approved of this action.
Armed with this, every censor-minded state and politico can now attack the freedom we have taken for granted on the Net. "See, if the French could do it, so can we". A sad, sad, eventuality.
Yahoo should have pulled out of France rather than submit to this.
Thanks to the person that moderated me up as "underrated" -- the average intellect of Slashdot readers has thus risen immeasurably. Two others thought this was a Troll (whatever the hell that is) -- two clueless people who are too stupid to realize how the system works.
Better still, if this is a hoax, it simply shows what a credulous, incestuous little cesspit of unbridled rumor and malicious gossip Slashdot is. Not worth the paper that it isn't written on.
I was pleasantly surprised to see at least two ads for DVD players from major retailers in the UK that were for Region 1 *and* 2 players, even though the players were about GBP40 (US$60) more expensive than single region players. One player was branded Pioneer.
The region thing is senseless, of course. I commute between the UK and US with a laptop with a DVD player -- and this nonsense denies me full use of the equipment.
The whole tenor of this discussion serves to amplify the notion that/. open source persons are pasty-faced guys who live in darkened rooms with a glowing screen, can't get a date, don't get out enough, and have little or no experience of the real world in which ordinary people live.
Most computer users are not programmers. They don't know programming. They don't know "build". They buy a magic CD from Microsoft or whoever, stuff it in the drive, and it works. Mostly.
If you want open source software to gain popularity among the masses, you'd better ship working binaries. With Installshield or whatever.
While you play about in your own backyard with a pile of incomprehensible source code and even less meaningful make files (quiet at the back, hackers! -- we're talking about ordinary folks here) you will not see mass take up of open source projects -- except among programmers who can't get a date and who can, therefore, while away their empty evenings finding out how to build someone else's half baked code.
Well, I seem to recall showing some guy called Ballmer a 386-based machine running several copies of DOS under the VM/386 virtual machine "hypervisor" at Comdex/Fall in Vegas in 1986. You could hot-key between DOSes all running (single) different apps.
This truly created multiple virtual machines under which you could run various OSes, although the DOS thing was a bit of a party trick. One way of getting MS to multitask in those days . . .
You'll laugh on the other side of your face . . .
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. . . if Netscape goes away.
Funny ha-ha. Sure. But where's the viable Linux and *NIX browser if there's no Netscape?
Don't get confused ny Mozilla. Mozilla is 46 guys paid by Sun/Netscape. Netscape and Mozilla are siamese twins.
What we have to have happen is for Netscape to get its act together.
We use wireless WAN access in Reading, UK. We have a 3.6Ghz point-to-point link provided by Tele2. (www.tele2.co.uk) It's a small dish pointing through a window. Only presents a problem when the window cleaner hangs down in front of it! It's about half the cost of a leased line for the same speed.
I'm highly amused by all this debate over GNOME vs. KDE. If you look at the the real corporate market, it's wall-to-wall Motif on UNIX systems. And it will remain so, there is no advantage in change, only expense.
Grow up folks, you're fighting a war that has been lost already on UNIX to Motif years ago -- and for the other 90% of the computer market, it's dominated by Windows desktops.
Most computer users (as opposed to hackers) simply don't gve a damn about all this, they've got their desktop and WANT TO BE LEFT ALONE.
It would be much more productive if the KDE crowd (with a Windows desktop clone) and the GNOME crew (which is a Stallmanesque political creation) got on with inventing something new, instead of building square wheels.
There seems to be a great deal of confusion on software patents. Software code (source and binary representations) can be copyrighted, like a work of literature. Ideas can be patented. The major problem we seem to be having as that even the Patent Offices are confused: they simply don't seem to understand their own brief. They should stick to awarding patents for NEW ideas where the inventor can demonstrate that there is no prior art. Last time I applied for a patent, I seem to remember having to demonstrate 'novelty'. Patents should have little or nothing to do with software per se.
What is encouraging is that there is recent history of "obvious" patents being successfully challenged in the UK. And let's not forget Madge Networks' successful challenge to the worthless and spurious Soderblom patent on Token Ring Networks -- a patent which, allegedly, IBM had paid $2m to use.
Microsoft are deluded if they think their customer base will wear this. My guess is that, the customer base, already disgruntled with feature-ridden upgrades, will simply not upgrade. What's to be gained? Word is already horribly over-featured to the point of unusability, so why buy into more.
As to the freeware competitors, they're just even less competitent versions of the MS stuff, so they don't look like the answer either.
There's nothing recent about copyright. Music and software have always been copyrightable. And just because something may be considered private property does not, of itself, give any right to anonymity.
The public databases are needed so that we can find who actually does "own" a domain -- it doesn't need to be my home address, any mailing address (like a PO Box) will do, just so that I can be mailed the renewal notice or any valuable offers for my prized domain name;-)
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Ham Radio was carried aboard Mir as part of the mission. The ISS has a 2-meter ham antenna fitted to it, and several Shuttle misssons have carried Ham Radio.
Oh good, does that mean that my laptop won't inadvertantly connect to the flight director computer on the airplane?
And how do I make sure that my permanently wireless-enabled Bluetooth laptop/pen/Palm doesn't indeed become a Pilot? When the crew tell us to switch off our cellphones, will we be able to do the same with these devices yet still use them normally during the flight?
Wrong. Motif pre-dates Windows 3. Both were written to comply with the same standard promulgated by IBM for user interfaces.
So where does all this put KDE, now that SUN and, allegedly, HP are backing GNOME as the next desktop? Isn't KDE a dead issue? And how does GNOME/GTK fit with all the zillions of legacy Motif apps that Sun's customers are using?
Equally, there's also a 'u' in neighbour over here ;-)
-- from CmdrTaco. Tiresome, trivial and pathetic.
You know, you really should grow up and get a proper job.
K6BP de G7UCV,
Interesting, Bruce, but why has nobody mentioned Heinrich Hertz?
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Look, Zocalo, don't you start posting comments full of common sense on Slashdot, you'll get no thanks and merely attract abuse from the zealots. Most of them seem to think that standards are optional, except when it comes to the stoopid GPL, which is, of course, rigidly policed by the freaky open source thought police (R. Stallman, Prop.).
When legal pistol (handgun) ownership was prohibited in Britain, it was not prohibited in that other part of the United Kingdom called Northern Ireland. I suppose it would have provoked just too hollow a laugh.
Predictably, the volume of gun-related crime in Britain has risen since the ban. The criminals found that (a) they were refused gun licences and (b) discovered that guns worked quite well without the benefit of a licence.
The DNA thing is because the law enforcement authorities are fundamentally lazy -- it's why they spend so much time persecuting car drivers -- it's easy, they have a big ID number on them.
Is that the best you can do? Judge the worth of software by the GPL? Is that what makes it a real product?
This has been the norm for at least ten years on *nix software. Most high-value stuff has been licensed by a scheme like FlexLM on Solaris, HP-UX and so on. The license server is tied to a server and can dish out up to n floating licenses to whatever workstations request them. When a workstation stops using a license, it can be used by any other on the local network. You can use as many as you've paid for, but no more.
/.ers have real trouble with the principle of paying for software, particularly Microsoft's, so they obviously won't like this.
Most large commercail users of software love this scheme because they can't accidentally use more licenses than they've paid for -- saves them from suffering sleepless nights waiting for the software police to call.
However, I realise that most
So how does this make me a Nazi? What happened to the First Amendment? Provided Yahoo did not have an entity on French soil, there is nothing the French government could have done about it.
This is the thin edge of an unpleasant wedge. Adolph Hitler would have approved of this action.
Armed with this, every censor-minded state and politico can now attack the freedom we have taken for granted on the Net. "See, if the French could do it, so can we". A sad, sad, eventuality.
Yahoo should have pulled out of France rather than submit to this.
Thanks to the person that moderated me up as "underrated" -- the average intellect of Slashdot readers has thus risen immeasurably. Two others thought this was a Troll (whatever the hell that is) -- two clueless people who are too stupid to realize how the system works.
Better still, if this is a hoax, it simply shows what a credulous, incestuous little cesspit of unbridled rumor and malicious gossip Slashdot is. Not worth the paper that it isn't written on.
"It's interesting to note that open source projects are way ahead of AOL in developing a full featured AIM client for GNU/Linux."
Because AOL realize it's not important to their business.
The software will survive an EMP that destroys the hardware. Horror of horrors, indestructable Windows.
I was pleasantly surprised to see at least two ads for DVD players from major retailers in the UK that were for Region 1 *and* 2 players, even though the players were about GBP40 (US$60) more expensive than single region players. One player was branded Pioneer.
The region thing is senseless, of course. I commute between the UK and US with a laptop with a DVD player -- and this nonsense denies me full use of the equipment.
The whole tenor of this discussion serves to amplify the notion that /. open source persons are pasty-faced guys who live in darkened rooms with a glowing screen, can't get a date, don't get out enough, and have little or no experience of the real world in which ordinary people live.
Most computer users are not programmers. They don't know programming. They don't know "build". They buy a magic CD from Microsoft or whoever, stuff it in the drive, and it works. Mostly.
If you want open source software to gain popularity among the masses, you'd better ship working binaries. With Installshield or whatever.
While you play about in your own backyard with a pile of incomprehensible source code and even less meaningful make files (quiet at the back, hackers! -- we're talking about ordinary folks here) you will not see mass take up of open source projects -- except among programmers who can't get a date and who can, therefore, while away their empty evenings finding out how to build someone else's half baked code.
Well, I seem to recall showing some guy called Ballmer a 386-based machine running several copies of DOS under the VM/386 virtual machine "hypervisor" at Comdex/Fall in Vegas in 1986. You could hot-key between DOSes all running (single) different apps.
This truly created multiple virtual machines under which you could run various OSes, although the DOS thing was a bit of a party trick. One way of getting MS to multitask in those days . . .
. . . if Netscape goes away.
Funny ha-ha. Sure. But where's the viable Linux and *NIX browser if there's no Netscape?
Don't get confused ny Mozilla. Mozilla is 46 guys paid by Sun/Netscape. Netscape and Mozilla are siamese twins.
What we have to have happen is for Netscape to get its act together.
We use wireless WAN access in Reading, UK. We have a 3.6Ghz point-to-point link provided by Tele2. (www.tele2.co.uk) It's a small dish pointing through a window. Only presents a problem when the window cleaner hangs down in front of it! It's about half the cost of a leased line for the same speed.
If you get this post, it worked again.
I'm highly amused by all this debate over GNOME vs. KDE. If you look at the the real corporate market, it's wall-to-wall Motif on UNIX systems. And it will remain so, there is no advantage in change, only expense.
Grow up folks, you're fighting a war that has been lost already on UNIX to Motif years ago -- and for the other 90% of the computer market, it's dominated by Windows desktops.
Most computer users (as opposed to hackers) simply don't gve a damn about all this, they've got their desktop and WANT TO BE LEFT ALONE.
It would be much more productive if the KDE crowd (with a Windows desktop clone) and the GNOME crew (which is a Stallmanesque political creation) got on with inventing something new, instead of building square wheels.
There seems to be a great deal of confusion on software patents. Software code (source and binary representations) can be copyrighted, like a work of literature. Ideas can be patented. The major problem we seem to be having as that even the Patent Offices are confused: they simply don't seem to understand their own brief. They should stick to awarding patents for NEW ideas where the inventor can demonstrate that there is no prior art. Last time I applied for a patent, I seem to remember having to demonstrate 'novelty'. Patents should have little or nothing to do with software per se.
What is encouraging is that there is recent history of "obvious" patents being successfully challenged in the UK. And let's not forget Madge Networks' successful challenge to the worthless and spurious Soderblom patent on Token Ring Networks -- a patent which, allegedly, IBM had paid $2m to use.
Microsoft are deluded if they think their customer base will wear this. My guess is that, the customer base, already disgruntled with feature-ridden upgrades, will simply not upgrade. What's to be gained? Word is already horribly over-featured to the point of unusability, so why buy into more.
As to the freeware competitors, they're just even less competitent versions of the MS stuff, so they don't look like the answer either.
There's nothing recent about copyright. Music and software have always been copyrightable. And just because something may be considered private property does not, of itself, give any right to anonymity.
;-)
The public databases are needed so that we can find who actually does "own" a domain -- it doesn't need to be my home address, any mailing address (like a PO Box) will do, just so that I can be mailed the renewal notice or any valuable offers for my prized domain name