Communism's sharing at gunpoint was only supposed to be a temporary measure. Once everyone started sharing what they had for the good of the state, people would see how much better the state is a a whole, and do it voluntarily.
Writing the software may not be about contributing to the community, however, releasing it under the GPL usually is.
The webhosting company I worked for used Zebra/BGPD for routing through our T-1's, and since we were multi-homed, the preference wasn't always equal across the links (for example, if one provider purchased bandwidth from the other, the top tier provider always had higher bgp preference). So, while BGP route selection is in theory a good thing (pick the shortest route, which is in theory fastest), in practice, it saturated one of our T-1's and left the other 4 unused. So we wrote a piece of software to do automatic weight balancing between the links.
We didn't release it, though. We saw a need for a piece of software, so we wrote it.
It's the licencing it under the GPL that makes it alturistic. It's saying, "Here, I wrote this, and you may benefit from it".
Open source is the ultimate communist and ultimate capitalist tool.
On the one hand, successful open source development relies on the nature of man to contribute to a work without expecting a return - doing it just for the good of the community.
On the other hand, the GPL/LGPL/etc make it plain that, while you can sell open source software, you must also make available the source code, and anyone who purchases it now has the same rights as you do, and can give it away.
Communism: The community helping the community, for the sake of the community. Capitalism: The perpetual search for the cheapest solution.
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I would sign up, but I heard there's no respawn points. I mean, fuck that - what if I get lag?
There's something else if AMD decides not to go the DRM route:
I'm more worried that Intel will start pushing subtle marketing claiming that AMD systems are the systems of the hackers, and the crackers, and the software pirates. "Your kids are more likely to commit computer crimes if they're not running intel hardware". "This guy looks clean, but he's got an AMD-based computer - we better check him out just in case he's up to something..."
Maybe I need to remove tin foil, but... maybe not, too.
The position of management in my store is that we don't want to do anything at all that might piss off microsoft and jeprodize our status as a microsoft certified channel partner, or whatever the buzzword for "affiliate" is this week.
The smart money is on those firms that learn to float. IBM, CA, Novell, Apple. Maybe Sun and SAP. Apparently not Siebel, definitely not Microsoft.
Microsoft, on the other hand, has the resources to divert the sea for a while, and convince people that it's fine to hang out with them on the sea floor. They can build barriers, etc., while they're not drowning.
Plus, after years of hotair, RedHat just became credible Windows alternative for internal applications. cheep.
I completely disagree. Take another look at redhat's cost - it's not cheap at all. Enterprise workstation costs $180, with no tech support. Red Hat Enterprise Server costs, at a *minimum*, $350, and that's without the update subscription, tech support, access to a 1-800 number, physical media, email support, and for a specific number of uses.
My take on this: If we're going to replace windows in the corporate environment, trying to copy and emulate windows, and charging as much as windows charges, is not the way to go about doing it. I mean, hell, in this scenario, we have:
1.) Redhat. Slightly cheaper than windows, but as yet unproven for things like active directory integration. Unsure whether you'll still be able to get updates in 5 years (thanks redhat 9.0). And, hell, they didn't even write 95% of the OS.
2.) Slightly more expensive. Active directory is pretty stable in 2003, and easy to configure. Based on the fact that you can still get updates for windows 95 on windowsupdates.microsoft.com, you assume that updates will be available for quite some time.
I mean, come on. I would *never* run a windows server for things like webserving, email, and most other internet-accessable applications, but for in-house policy management and integration with windows desktops - come on, I'd freaking use windows.
Don't be so blinded that you can't see the forest for the trees.
It's been speculated for years that the best way to create a worm that does maximum damage in minimum time would be to first find a vulnerability, then search the internet for a long list of vulnerable computers. Program this list into the worm, and then set it free. Every time it infects a new computer, it spreads to additional computers, but all of the 2nd generation computers have only half the origional list, and so on, until for example the 5th generation has 1/16th of the origional list. Maximum infection in minimum time - then after it blasts through the list, it starts random ip searching.
xenos more accurately means "foreign" than "strange". It would be a word used by an Athenian to describe a Spartan, for example. Hence xenophobe. It also means "guest". Generally "someone or something who does not belong where they currently are", but without an always negative connotation.
As long as we're handing out Kevin Rose links, someone should mention the broken, where he has an interview with Free-Kevin, and where he drinks 40's and sets a laptop on fire. You know, in order to protect your data.
You've probably seen, heard or even used the term "spamming" to refer to the act of sending unsolicited commercial email (UCE), or "spam" to refer to the UCE itself. Following is our position on the relationship between UCE and our trademark SPAM.
Use of the term "spam" was adopted as a result of the Monty Python skit in which our SPAM meat product was featured. In this skit, a group of Vikings sang a chorus of "spam, spam, spam . . . " in an increasing crescendo, drowning out other conversation. Hence, the analogy applied because UCE was drowning out normal discourse on the Internet.
We do not object to use of this slang term to describe UCE, although we do object to the use of the word "spam" as a trademark and to the use of our product image in association with that term. Also, if the term is to be used, it should be used in all lower-case letters to distinguish it from our trademark SPAM, which should be used with all uppercase letters.
This slang term, which generically describes UCE, does not affect the strength of our trademark SPAM. In a Federal District Court case involving the famous trademark STAR WARS owned by Lucasfilm Ltd., the Court ruled that the slang term used to refer to the Strategic Defense Initiative did not weaken the trademark and the Court refused to stop its use as a slang term. Other examples of famous trademarks having a different slang meaning include MICKEY MOUSE, to describe something as unsophisticated and CADILLAC, used to denote something as being high quality. It is only when someone attempts to trademark the word "spam" that we object to such use, in order to protect our rights in our famous trademark SPAM. We coined this term in 1937 and it has become a famous trademark. Thus, we don't appreciate it when someone else tries to make money on the goodwill that we created in our trademark or product image, or takes away from the unique and distinctive nature of our famous trademark SPAM. Let's face it. Today's teens and young adults are more computer savvy than ever, and the next generations will be even more so. Children will be exposed to the slang term "spam" to describe UCE well before being exposed to our famous product SPAM. Ultimately, we are trying to avoid the day when the consuming public asks, "Why would Hormel Foods name its product after junk e-mail?"
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We oppose the act of "spamming" or sending UCE. We have never engaged in this practice, although we have been victimized by it. If you have been one of those who has received UCE with a return address using our website address of SPAM.com, it wasn't us. It's easy and commonplace for somebody sending UCE to simply adopt a fake header ID, which disguises the true source of the UCE and makes it appear that it is coming from someone else. If you have or do receive UCE with this header ID, please understand that it didn't come from us.
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Also, from their Legal and Copyright page:
4. Enforceability. If any of the above terms are unlawful, unenforceable, or void, such term(s) will be deemed severable and will not affect the validity or enforceability of the remaining terms.
5. Trademark Information. The following trademarks used or which are planned to be used in this site, whether registered or unregistered, are owned by Hormel Foods: SPAM; HORMEL; SPAMBURGER; SPAMTA
Here's the problem with that (and this is from real-world expierence).
Go to 2003SBE server. Add user in "Active Directory Users and Groups".
Go to computer. Join computer to domain. Tell user to log in with their username and password, making sure that the login screen says "Log on to: SomeDomain".
Then:
User calls. They can't install office. Log onto server via terminal services, push MSI office install to user's desktop, tell them to restart. OK.
Then:
User calls. They can't install weatherbug. Explain to user that weather bug is possibly spyware and not necesary, but since the User is the owner of his or her particular Gastro-enterology office (or whatever), what they say goes. Go out to User's site, install weatherbug along with MS Anti-Spyware.
Then:
User calls. Their application (which is in reality nothing more than a fancy telnet client they paid $400/seat for which attaches to a SCO box that was unearthed at an excavation of Bunker Hill) won't run without administrative privs. Log in as local administrator, add their domain user account to the local administrators group. Sigh.
Then:
User calls. Thinks his machine is infected with a virus, and wonders where the popups came from.
The problem then is this: There are so, so, so many random little proprietary applications which need root privs to be able to run. These same permissions which can be granted to run these programs are what the spyware needs to install.
MS can probably change everything so that most programs will run as non-Administrator, and set up users to not be Administrators by default... but there are still going to be a slew of applications that require it. And telling random-guy that he needs to find a new piece of software to replace the one that he paid $8,000 for 2 years ago in order to make his computer secure is not going to go over well.
That's exactly my point! I haven't called Dell support, but most of my clients have! And they get so fed up with "Fred Nashapenamansuhama" and his advice that they call me and pay me.
The company I work for charges $85/hr for basic single computer work (spyware cleaning, end users), $115/hr for basic networking (home networking, business networking without a windows domain, wireless networking), and $135/hr for advanced stuff (veritas backupexec, windows domain controller, exchange, sql server, T1 / cisco router).
And people and companies call us all the time - we're so busy we just hired 2 more techs.
Most of our work is for local companies - realtors, contractors, heating and air repair guys, medical offices, car dealerships - all things that can't be outsourced. And since they'll always be here, so will we.
Your own graph proves this: Clinton inherited a high unemployment rate from Reagan and his Supply Side Economics. The rate trended down the entire Clinton presidency.
Yeah, this is why I'm doing Desktop support and Network Administration.
You may laugh and say I'm the bottom of the barrel in the IT world, but - regardless of how many programming jobs are being outsourced, there are not less end user computers being purchased, and they will always need someone to clean spyware. And there are always more small businesses who need a simple file server or an exchange calendar, and they'll need someone to consult, sell, implement, and support that.
And that has to all be hands on. You want job security? Lower your standards and do a job where it is impossible for someone from india to do it.
Yeah, no joke. No one wants to drop $30,000 on an education only to have their job outsourced to some guy who won't see $30,000 in his lifetime.
~Will
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I wouldn't worry about it.
Unless you got it when it was at the $28.00 / share range, you'd have had a hard time finding a company willing to short it to you.
I shorted it when it was at $5.13 on my stock simulation (simulator.investopedia.com) and made $3,630 virtual dollars on 3000 shares at current market value of $3.92. But, from what I understand, you wouldn't have been able to find anyone willing to short 3000 shares of SCOX in the past 2-3 years or so.
It might be able to do what the dreamcast + memory card-with-lcd-screen were supposed to do. The first application that comes to mind is the ability to do things like select which play you want to run in a football game without the defense having a clue what you pick.
Or a driving game with the speedometer and tach and fuel in the handheld screen.
The Anandtech review shows a slide where it gives some uses for dual screens - for example, a racing game in complete panorama (32:9 aspect ratio), or a game wherein the main screen is the game, and a secondary screen shows a menu or statistics or something.
Another thing that the anandtech review shows is that the damn thing can decode 12 fullsize HD streams, simultaneously, or decode and display 1,000 movies at one time.
Not to mention, since IBM is de-emphasizing their hardware department, Sun is about the only place you can go if you need to spend $600,000 on a server anymore, without buying a cluster. Keep in mind, they're the first company on the top 100 list to be represented by a *single* system.
Any number of fly-by-nights will sell you racks of 1-U clustered systems or blade servers. Sun is where you go if you want 115 processors and 132TB of ram in one system. I don't think microsoft wants to get into the market of supplying and supporting that.
Hold on, let me go ahead and show you why firefox is better.
Step 1.) Open firefox. Step 2.) Press Control-T.
Here's another test Step 3.) Go to www.cnn.com Step 4.) Open internet explorer. Step 5.) Go to www.cnn.com Step 6.) Count the popup windows.
Seriously, man. Have convictions. I do desktop support and network administration for a living, and I can tell you, with almost absolute certainty, users that use Internet Explorer will get spyware. Users that use Internet Explorer will get popups.
Firefox has a vulnerability. So what? The honeymoon is over, as you say. Now it's time to play the lesser of two evils. Now it's time for clothespin voting. Pick which one you think is best for you and your end users. If neither are perfect, pick the one that stinks less. And Lord Knows what's in opera. If you're concerned that firefox's holes weren't showing up before because few people used it, MAN, opera is not for you. I'd take the monster I know (open source) over the monster I didn't (opera).
Be pragmatic. Firefox doesn't have Active-X install popups constantly bugging users to install MyWebSearchToolbarAndAgreeToOurTermsAndConditions. Firefox instead has a way to only accept cookies for the origionating website. Internet explorer still has 80 holes for 6.x according to Secuna, 19 of which are unpatched, while firefox just released a patch in a couple of days.
Don't jump overboard just because no browser is perfect. Some are closer than others.
Slashdot Mirror
Incorrect.
Communism's sharing at gunpoint was only supposed to be a temporary measure. Once everyone started sharing what they had for the good of the state, people would see how much better the state is a a whole, and do it voluntarily.
Theory, not practice.
~will
Well, in some ways I agree with you, but...
Writing the software may not be about contributing to the community, however, releasing it under the GPL usually is.
The webhosting company I worked for used Zebra/BGPD for routing through our T-1's, and since we were multi-homed, the preference wasn't always equal across the links (for example, if one provider purchased bandwidth from the other, the top tier provider always had higher bgp preference). So, while BGP route selection is in theory a good thing (pick the shortest route, which is in theory fastest), in practice, it saturated one of our T-1's and left the other 4 unused.
So we wrote a piece of software to do automatic weight balancing between the links.
We didn't release it, though. We saw a need for a piece of software, so we wrote it.
It's the licencing it under the GPL that makes it alturistic. It's saying, "Here, I wrote this, and you may benefit from it".
~Will
Open source is the ultimate communist and ultimate capitalist tool.
On the one hand, successful open source development relies on the nature of man to contribute to a work without expecting a return - doing it just for the good of the community.
On the other hand, the GPL/LGPL/etc make it plain that, while you can sell open source software, you must also make available the source code, and anyone who purchases it now has the same rights as you do, and can give it away.
Communism: The community helping the community, for the sake of the community. Capitalism: The perpetual search for the cheapest solution.
I would sign up, but I heard there's no respawn points. I mean, fuck that - what if I get lag?
~Will
There's something else if AMD decides not to go the DRM route:
I'm more worried that Intel will start pushing subtle marketing claiming that AMD systems are the systems of the hackers, and the crackers, and the software pirates. "Your kids are more likely to commit computer crimes if they're not running intel hardware". "This guy looks clean, but he's got an AMD-based computer - we better check him out just in case he's up to something..."
Maybe I need to remove tin foil, but... maybe not, too.
~Will
The position of management in my store is that we don't want to do anything at all that might piss off microsoft and jeprodize our status as a microsoft certified channel partner, or whatever the buzzword for "affiliate" is this week.
The smart money is on those firms that learn to float. IBM, CA, Novell, Apple. Maybe Sun and SAP. Apparently not Siebel, definitely not Microsoft.
Microsoft, on the other hand, has the resources to divert the sea for a while, and convince people that it's fine to hang out with them on the sea floor. They can build barriers, etc., while they're not drowning.
For a while, at least.
Plus, after years of hotair, RedHat just became credible Windows alternative for internal applications. cheep.
I completely disagree. Take another look at redhat's cost - it's not cheap at all. Enterprise workstation costs $180, with no tech support. Red Hat Enterprise Server costs, at a *minimum*, $350, and that's without the update subscription, tech support, access to a 1-800 number, physical media, email support, and for a specific number of uses.
My take on this: If we're going to replace windows in the corporate environment, trying to copy and emulate windows, and charging as much as windows charges, is not the way to go about doing it. I mean, hell, in this scenario, we have:
1.) Redhat. Slightly cheaper than windows, but as yet unproven for things like active directory integration. Unsure whether you'll still be able to get updates in 5 years (thanks redhat 9.0). And, hell, they didn't even write 95% of the OS.
2.) Slightly more expensive. Active directory is pretty stable in 2003, and easy to configure. Based on the fact that you can still get updates for windows 95 on windowsupdates.microsoft.com, you assume that updates will be available for quite some time.
I mean, come on. I would *never* run a windows server for things like webserving, email, and most other internet-accessable applications, but for in-house policy management and integration with windows desktops - come on, I'd freaking use windows.
Don't be so blinded that you can't see the forest for the trees.
~Will
It's been speculated for years that the best way to create a worm that does maximum damage in minimum time would be to first find a vulnerability, then search the internet for a long list of vulnerable computers. Program this list into the worm, and then set it free. Every time it infects a new computer, it spreads to additional computers, but all of the 2nd generation computers have only half the origional list, and so on, until for example the 5th generation has 1/16th of the origional list. Maximum infection in minimum time - then after it blasts through the list, it starts random ip searching.
Ouch.
~Will
puts on classics hat
xenos more accurately means "foreign" than "strange". It would be a word used by an Athenian to describe a Spartan, for example. Hence xenophobe. It also means "guest". Generally "someone or something who does not belong where they currently are", but without an always negative connotation.
As long as we're handing out Kevin Rose links, someone should mention the broken, where he has an interview with Free-Kevin, and where he drinks 40's and sets a laptop on fire. You know, in order to protect your data.
~Will
Only because the majority of American's don't know what the word "buoyant" means.
Do what now?
for real. Try some "treet" sometime.
Sidenote: In waterworld, the substance that they threw out to the crowd was in fact "Smeet", a combination of treet and spam.
from: http://spam.com/ci/ci_in.htm
Also, from their Legal and Copyright page:
Here's the problem with that (and this is from real-world expierence).
Go to 2003SBE server. Add user in "Active Directory Users and Groups".
Go to computer. Join computer to domain. Tell user to log in with their username and password, making sure that the login screen says "Log on to: SomeDomain".
Then:
User calls. They can't install office. Log onto server via terminal services, push MSI office install to user's desktop, tell them to restart. OK.
Then:
User calls. They can't install weatherbug. Explain to user that weather bug is possibly spyware and not necesary, but since the User is the owner of his or her particular Gastro-enterology office (or whatever), what they say goes. Go out to User's site, install weatherbug along with MS Anti-Spyware.
Then:
User calls. Their application (which is in reality nothing more than a fancy telnet client they paid $400/seat for which attaches to a SCO box that was unearthed at an excavation of Bunker Hill) won't run without administrative privs.
Log in as local administrator, add their domain user account to the local administrators group. Sigh.
Then:
User calls. Thinks his machine is infected with a virus, and wonders where the popups came from.
The problem then is this: There are so, so, so many random little proprietary applications which need root privs to be able to run. These same permissions which can be granted to run these programs are what the spyware needs to install.
MS can probably change everything so that most programs will run as non-Administrator, and set up users to not be Administrators by default... but there are still going to be a slew of applications that require it. And telling random-guy that he needs to find a new piece of software to replace the one that he paid $8,000 for 2 years ago in order to make his computer secure is not going to go over well.
~wx
That's exactly my point! I haven't called Dell support, but most of my clients have! And they get so fed up with "Fred Nashapenamansuhama" and his advice that they call me and pay me.
The company I work for charges $85/hr for basic single computer work (spyware cleaning, end users), $115/hr for basic networking (home networking, business networking without a windows domain, wireless networking), and $135/hr for advanced stuff (veritas backupexec, windows domain controller, exchange, sql server, T1 / cisco router).
And people and companies call us all the time - we're so busy we just hired 2 more techs.
Most of our work is for local companies - realtors, contractors, heating and air repair guys, medical offices, car dealerships - all things that can't be outsourced. And since they'll always be here, so will we.
~Will
You're completely stupid.
Your own graph proves this: Clinton inherited a high unemployment rate from Reagan and his Supply Side Economics. The rate trended down the entire Clinton presidency.
Yeah, this is why I'm doing Desktop support and Network Administration.
You may laugh and say I'm the bottom of the barrel in the IT world, but - regardless of how many programming jobs are being outsourced, there are not less end user computers being purchased, and they will always need someone to clean spyware. And there are always more small businesses who need a simple file server or an exchange calendar, and they'll need someone to consult, sell, implement, and support that.
And that has to all be hands on. You want job security? Lower your standards and do a job where it is impossible for someone from india to do it.
~Will
Yeah, no joke. No one wants to drop $30,000 on an education only to have their job outsourced to some guy who won't see $30,000 in his lifetime.
~Will
I wouldn't worry about it.
Unless you got it when it was at the $28.00 / share range, you'd have had a hard time finding a company willing to short it to you.
I shorted it when it was at $5.13 on my stock simulation (simulator.investopedia.com) and made $3,630 virtual dollars on 3000 shares at current market value of $3.92. But, from what I understand, you wouldn't have been able to find anyone willing to short 3000 shares of SCOX in the past 2-3 years or so.
~Wx
It is well that war is so terrible -- lest we should grow too fond of it.
-Robert E. Lee, overlooking the battle of Fredericksburg, December 1862.
It might be able to do what the dreamcast + memory card-with-lcd-screen were supposed to do. The first application that comes to mind is the ability to do things like select which play you want to run in a football game without the defense having a clue what you pick.
Or a driving game with the speedometer and tach and fuel in the handheld screen.
Oh, wow.
The Anandtech review shows a slide where it gives some uses for dual screens - for example, a racing game in complete panorama (32:9 aspect ratio), or a game wherein the main screen is the game, and a secondary screen shows a menu or statistics or something.
Another thing that the anandtech review shows is that the damn thing can decode 12 fullsize HD streams, simultaneously, or decode and display 1,000 movies at one time.
I'm very impressed.
~Will
Not to mention, since IBM is de-emphasizing their hardware department, Sun is about the only place you can go if you need to spend $600,000 on a server anymore, without buying a cluster. Keep in mind, they're the first company on the top 100 list to be represented by a *single* system.
Any number of fly-by-nights will sell you racks of 1-U clustered systems or blade servers. Sun is where you go if you want 115 processors and 132TB of ram in one system. I don't think microsoft wants to get into the market of supplying and supporting that.
~Will
Hold on, let me go ahead and show you why firefox is better.
. Firefox instead has a way to only accept cookies for the origionating website. Internet explorer still has 80 holes for 6.x according to Secuna, 19 of which are unpatched, while firefox just released a patch in a couple of days.
Step 1.) Open firefox.
Step 2.) Press Control-T.
Here's another test
Step 3.) Go to www.cnn.com
Step 4.) Open internet explorer.
Step 5.) Go to www.cnn.com
Step 6.) Count the popup windows.
Seriously, man. Have convictions. I do desktop support and network administration for a living, and I can tell you, with almost absolute certainty, users that use Internet Explorer will get spyware. Users that use Internet Explorer will get popups.
Firefox has a vulnerability. So what? The honeymoon is over, as you say. Now it's time to play the lesser of two evils. Now it's time for clothespin voting. Pick which one you think is best for you and your end users. If neither are perfect, pick the one that stinks less. And Lord Knows what's in opera. If you're concerned that firefox's holes weren't showing up before because few people used it, MAN, opera is not for you. I'd take the monster I know (open source) over the monster I didn't (opera).
Be pragmatic. Firefox doesn't have Active-X install popups constantly bugging users to install MyWebSearchToolbarAndAgreeToOurTermsAndConditions
Don't jump overboard just because no browser is perfect. Some are closer than others.
~Will