Quote you wrote a paper, and you got an A? Would it bother you if somebody could just take that paper and get an A too? Would that bug you?
Let's try:
You wrote a kernel, and it was good. Would it bother you if somebody could just take that kernel and make somnething good too?
Answer: no, because I published it using the GPL, and used copyright law to ensure that others could do good things with copies of it, and still more could do good things with copies of that!
Wrong ethic here lady.
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Block microsoft.com at the firewall?
That's quite a good idea, given that Microsoft have (inadvertently?) designed SOAP and XML-RPC to work on standard protocols (http/https) that normally will traverse even the strictest firewall. Of course, if you do that, you will have to revert to manually sorting out the "Product Activation" feature.
Hmm, license terms that forbid GPL'd implementations. A crusade against open source. A government that can be bought, and $36 billion in the bank. At what point does open source software become against the law in the US?
When did the government of the US stop being for the people? It's not as if MS provides that many jobs or even pays much tax!
Various developments are in the pipeline which will enable PVR/MPEG/DVD/DVB boxes to be made at a cost point where cable and sat providers can afford to subsidise them to a zero cost.
This is true but... Looked at the bank balances of these companies recently? Most of them have horrendous debt already. Very few are looking at profit anytime soon. This close to the dot.bomb fiasco it is rather hard to get more investment.
The future is retail again. Good. We have more chance of getting products with consumer features rather than just features designed to suck cash from your wallet to the cable/sat operators.
I have been buying (yes *buying*) eBooks from Fictionwise
These nice people supply a range of ebooks in Palm DOC format, PDF, Rocket, eBookMan and Microsoft Reader. Not encrypted. You can download any or all of these formats for books you have bought.
I only buy eMagazines of short shelf life from eBook suppliers (like palm) that sell me encrypted books
I have over 150 ebooks on my HandEra 330 compact flash card which I read during the odd minutes in queues, in taxis, wherever. The higher res screen makes them much easier on the eyes.
Come on guys. Taking wireless beyond talking and stopping the intenet being an internetwork of wired networks is real innovation. It's happening on lots of fronts and being really innovative. Think GPRS, 3G, 4G, i-Mode, Bluetooth, 802.11b, HomeRF, HyperLan/2, 802.11a etc..
Liberating mankind from needing a physical place of work has got to count as innovation.
Remember, if you want to prove prior art, log it legally. Posting to the web is not enough. How do you prove that your was up and running using apache and perl in 1996?
I'm British, living in France. I don't disagree with what you say, or claim that these two countries do anything any better. (With the exception that the tax on hard disks was cancelled before implementation here in France when the government realised what that would do to the French IT industry.) BUT, I also don't see anyone giving a damn about what the British or French governments think about Napster, MP3.com et al.
Also, the European Community looks at the US govt for guidance (they both look at each other). This means that when a Freedom slips in one, it is easier for it to go in the other. After the US and Europe have allowed something to slip, the rest of the world can even be forced to follow through trade agreements. I'm certainly not saying that we Europeans can just sit here and watch, we have our own part to play, but certainly DMCA, UCITA and the adversarial court system are trampling over consumer rights in the US and making it harder over here too.
Did the MPAA even think twice before trying to have Jon Johanssen arrested in Norway?
Please don't think I'm criticising the American People, it's just that it's sometimes easier to get a clear picture from outside.
OK American citizens, it is time for your to stand up and be counted.
Do you want government for the people, by the people or government for the corporations, by the corporations ?
I spend enough time in the US to know that it is getting worse, not better. Do something. Those of us outside can only watch in amazement as you let your government do this to you.
I set up a project at Complify to try to bring all these pieces together. It's very new so don't criticise but contribute. Discussions will be at Sourceforge
It's an open source project so it can be whatever we want it to be.
Games, PVR, Firewall, IP Masquearading, Squid Proxy, Email etc etc... All of these things already exist. Let's just do it.
Send in your suggestions and let's make it happen!
While agreeing with the above post. I would just like to add that for the most part, human beings seem to be intelligent whilst humanity, en masse, does not.
How many of us really think it's a good idea to trash the planet and leave the mess for our grandchildren (teenagers - don't answer)?
While I strongly support space exploration and can't wait for us to establish colonies on other worlds. I would like that we can choose to do this, not that we have to do this, because we destroyed earth beyond repair.
This is why you shouldn't even trust your own computers, with only you logged in!
Interesting things to do with a windows computer: run it behind a strong firewall and see just how many products you can download try to talk back to their "homes".
When I ran a development department I actually did a financial plan with a mathematical model about productivity and morale improvement if we hired a gorgeous assistant for the department. It showed we would easily make back the salary and more!!!
I agree. That's why I walk around carrying a Linux-only libretto computer. Everyone says "Does linux have a graphical user interface?" or "how do you get any work done?"
If I could only find the time to make "Catz" work under Wine my wife would switch too and make the house MS-Free.:-)
OK everyone. Microsoft isn't going to get split up in a few weeks like everyone here seems to want. We have three possible scenarios:
1) MS is split. MS/OS runs like crazy to fix the stupid bugs and cuts much better deals with the PC makers. MS/Apps promises to release Office for Linux and Mac & Anything else, making corporate purchasers happy and destroying the chances of OSS office suites.
2) MS is stuck in court for years, distracting senior management and stopping.NET from being more than wishful thinking. All the productive people are seriously demotivated and start buying posters at ThinkGeek. Probably nothing serious will happen at the end but if they're tied up for long enough it won't matter. GNU/Linux, KDE & Gnome will take over the desktop by being nice to people and not trying to sue them.
3) The case is thrown out of the appeals court, the government doesn't appeal and corporations end up ruling the world. The internet becomes a kind of dumbed-down AOL with the wild old TCP/IP being removed as too open to abuse by terrorists, hackers and other undesirables.
My money is on scenario 2, option 3 is too dangerous even for the US government (I hope).
Either way, lets keep on building OSS solutions and promoting the fact that companies don't have to spent large sums of money and sign dodgy EULAs to get the solutions they need.
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I listened to your advice, checked the EPSON website and bought a 1650 Scanner. It works with Linux. I am happy. Go Epson :-)
Umm. www.videolan.org?
Quote you wrote a paper, and you got an A? Would it bother you if somebody could just take that paper and get an A too? Would that bug you?
Let's try:
You wrote a kernel, and it was good. Would it bother you if somebody could just take that kernel and make somnething good too?
Answer: no, because I published it using the GPL, and used copyright law to ensure that others could do good things with copies of it, and still more could do good things with copies of that!
Wrong ethic here lady.
Block microsoft.com at the firewall?
That's quite a good idea, given that Microsoft have (inadvertently?) designed SOAP and XML-RPC to work on standard protocols (http/https) that normally will traverse even the strictest firewall. Of course, if you do that, you will have to revert to manually sorting out the "Product Activation" feature.
Try http://www.expansys.com ,who seem to have them in stock in the UK and will ship everywhere.
Hmm, license terms that forbid GPL'd implementations. A crusade against open source. A government that can be bought, and $36 billion in the bank. At what point does open source software become against the law in the US?
When did the government of the US stop being for the people? It's not as if MS provides that many jobs or even pays much tax!
If you really have to use KDE and want some serious speed increases, then compile both KDE and Qt from source with the switch --no-g++-exceptions.
:-)
Which is what I did on my Libretto 100CT, and is pretty usable
I realize that 64 bit computing is the rage now, but why not start with the hybrid? At least it would be compatible with today's progs.
./configure
That's where linux has the advantage. Todays progs can jump straight to 64bit by the standard
make
make install
So maybe it isn't point and click, but it is 64bit clean and ready to run.
Various developments are in the pipeline which will enable PVR/MPEG/DVD/DVB boxes to be made at a cost point where cable and sat providers can afford to subsidise them to a zero cost.
This is true but... Looked at the bank balances of these companies recently? Most of them have horrendous debt already. Very few are looking at profit anytime soon. This close to the dot.bomb fiasco it is rather hard to get more investment.
The future is retail again. Good. We have more chance of getting products with consumer features rather than just features designed to suck cash from your wallet to the cable/sat operators.
Take a look at the shipping announcement from November 21st last year.
Imagine a Beowolf cluster of Mac Clusters...
(Sorry, couldn't resist)
This can get more recursive:
Imagine a Beowolf cluster of linux systems, each emulated under soft-pc on the mac cluster...
Blink£%^£$%^"$%£$%&*()..
3. SMTP headers containing references to domain names used only by the LAN
Set up sendmail to strip internal headers.
I have been buying (yes *buying*) eBooks from Fictionwise
These nice people supply a range of ebooks in Palm DOC format, PDF, Rocket, eBookMan and Microsoft Reader. Not encrypted. You can download any or all of these formats for books you have bought.
I only buy eMagazines of short shelf life from eBook suppliers (like palm) that sell me encrypted books
I have over 150 ebooks on my HandEra 330 compact flash card which I read during the odd minutes in queues, in taxis, wherever. The higher res screen makes them much easier on the eyes.
Come on guys. Taking wireless beyond talking and stopping the intenet being an internetwork of wired networks is real innovation. It's happening on lots of fronts and being really innovative. Think GPRS, 3G, 4G, i-Mode, Bluetooth, 802.11b, HomeRF, HyperLan/2, 802.11a etc..
Liberating mankind from needing a physical place of work has got to count as innovation.
Maybe this is what inspired the scene in Armageddon where the flaming chunk of meteorite took out the inflatable dinosaur?
that your #web app that has been patented by RANDOMBIGCORP INC# Plain text posts still strip anything that looks like it may be HTML... :-(
Go B&N.
Remember, if you want to prove prior art, log it legally. Posting to the web is not enough. How do you prove that your was up and running using apache and perl in 1996?
I'm British, living in France. I don't disagree with what you say, or claim that these two countries do anything any better. (With the exception that the tax on hard disks was cancelled before implementation here in France when the government realised what that would do to the French IT industry.) BUT, I also don't see anyone giving a damn about what the British or French governments think about Napster, MP3.com et al.
Also, the European Community looks at the US govt for guidance (they both look at each other). This means that when a Freedom slips in one, it is easier for it to go in the other. After the US and Europe have allowed something to slip, the rest of the world can even be forced to follow through trade agreements. I'm certainly not saying that we Europeans can just sit here and watch, we have our own part to play, but certainly DMCA, UCITA and the adversarial court system are trampling over consumer rights in the US and making it harder over here too.
Did the MPAA even think twice before trying to have Jon Johanssen arrested in Norway?
Please don't think I'm criticising the American People, it's just that it's sometimes easier to get a clear picture from outside.
Good luck in your fight.
OK American citizens, it is time for your to stand up and be counted.
Do you want government for the people, by the people or government for the corporations, by the corporations ?
I spend enough time in the US to know that it is getting worse, not better. Do something. Those of us outside can only watch in amazement as you let your government do this to you.
Freedom is lost by inches
I set up a project at Complify to try to bring all these pieces together. It's very new so don't criticise but contribute. Discussions will be at Sourceforge
It's an open source project so it can be whatever we want it to be.
Games, PVR, Firewall, IP Masquearading, Squid Proxy, Email etc etc... All of these things already exist. Let's just do it.
Send in your suggestions and let's make it happen!
While agreeing with the above post. I would just like to add that for the most part, human beings seem to be intelligent whilst humanity, en masse, does not.
How many of us really think it's a good idea to trash the planet and leave the mess for our grandchildren (teenagers - don't answer)?
While I strongly support space exploration and can't wait for us to establish colonies on other worlds. I would like that we can choose to do this, not that we have to do this, because we destroyed earth beyond repair.
This is why you shouldn't even trust your own computers, with only you logged in!
Interesting things to do with a windows computer: run it behind a strong firewall and see just how many products you can download try to talk back to their "homes".
When I ran a development department I actually did a financial plan with a mathematical model about productivity and morale improvement if we hired a gorgeous assistant for the department. It showed we would easily make back the salary and more!!!
Didn't help. The CEO just would not go for it.
:-(((
I agree. That's why I walk around carrying a Linux-only libretto computer. Everyone says "Does linux have a graphical user interface?" or "how do you get any work done?"
:-)
If I could only find the time to make "Catz" work under Wine my wife would switch too and make the house MS-Free.
OK everyone. Microsoft isn't going to get split up in a few weeks like everyone here seems to want. We have three possible scenarios:
.NET from being more than wishful thinking. All the productive people are seriously demotivated and start buying posters at ThinkGeek. Probably nothing serious will happen at the end but if they're tied up for long enough it won't matter. GNU/Linux, KDE & Gnome will take over the desktop by being nice to people and not trying to sue them.
1) MS is split. MS/OS runs like crazy to fix the stupid bugs and cuts much better deals with the PC makers. MS/Apps promises to release Office for Linux and Mac & Anything else, making corporate purchasers happy and destroying the chances of OSS office suites.
2) MS is stuck in court for years, distracting senior management and stopping
3) The case is thrown out of the appeals court, the government doesn't appeal and corporations end up ruling the world. The internet becomes a kind of dumbed-down AOL with the wild old TCP/IP being removed as too open to abuse by terrorists, hackers and other undesirables.
My money is on scenario 2, option 3 is too dangerous even for the US government (I hope). Either way, lets keep on building OSS solutions and promoting the fact that companies don't have to spent large sums of money and sign dodgy EULAs to get the solutions they need.