(In my case, the old tangerine iBook with Fedora 11 was plenty instructive. Did run nice until yet another used 30G drive died. The box won't recognize over 120G of hard drive, for either Mac OS or Linux, which, for a new 160G HD, left me with openBSD booting on a lower partition, but using the last 35G as its workspace. Didn't like that solution much, either.)
So, you're telling me that there will be no documents I need to read on the website ".."?
In my case, both my keyboard and my eyeballs have no problem with the characters (unlike the slashdot software).
It is true that I could probably dig out as many as I could find of the relevant (English language) pages on the Japanese government's tax office websites and send them to my sister, were I to ask her to help me with my taxes, but even that is not always an available option.
To say nothing of the potential need to verify a uri or url written native.
We at least need to be able to map the TLDs to something more or less commonly legible.
It may be that I am not directly affected in some cases, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to hit a wall sometime trying to figure out whether the uri in some cryptographic siggy is valid or not.
I suppose I should go read the friendly A and see if ICANN has already specified all the native TLDs allowed as equivalents for country codes, and probably for.com,.org,.net,.mil,.edu,.etc., and mapped them to the equivalents.
And sterilizing the documents tells everyone that the company wants everyone to believe that the document's history is irrelevant.
The document's history is the closest thing electronic data has to things like ink and paper chemical analysis. (Not to say that it even comes close to that, not to say that said electronic history can't be manipulated.)
Anyone who posts here should have access to enough evidence to already know that the law is even further behind than that.
Electronic "evidence" is extremely easy to kludge together. Should not be allowed in courts.
You can examine paper to find out what it's made of, and where it might have been made. Likewise ink. You can analyze handwriting in probabilistic terms. Etc.
Noise is noise when you're trying to communicate a message reliably, but when you're needing to analyze the source of the data and such, noise is data.
But when noise is deliberately turned into data and stored, once again, it's easy to manipulate.
More than anything, it tells me that the whole basis of the economy is upside down.
In other words, we've all become mercenaries.
Well, it does feel upside down to me. And standing on my head to look at it some more doesn't seem to straighten the moral issues out, either. It's kind of like the way economists torture the word "service" when they use it to describe the "service economy".
(I'm thinking, say, of the perfection of circles, and how that lead logic through some bad assumptions about which way is down to certain odd conclusions about the location of the earth relative earth thing.)
The design is so bad that Apple used it? Sorry, why would Apple use the ARM architecture if it was so bad?
Okay, let's see what the options were --
PPC?
Theoretically, yeah, but Apple was busy amputating that foot so they could quit shooting themselves in it.
Geode?
Get real. Besides, what x86 is going to better than ARM?
intel x86?
A road map does not a processor make, which Apple has now painfully discovered, and a chipset can only partially make up for a processor's failings.
68K/ColdFire? mcore?
Well, there we are trying to figure out how to bribe, erm, encourage Motorola/Freescale to keep good engineers and to acquire the good engineers they need to support the good engineers they have. Design potential needs follow-through.
I'm not sure whether I like the ARM or the 68K better. Both have warts, but you can't get real silicon without a few warts. Besides, a lack of warts is a lack of features.
Moore's FORTH processor?
Hmmmmmm. Now you're talking. But there are still certain warts, and the marketing and production issues.
I own and use one. I hate e-mail on that beast. And the UI? How can people still screw a UI up so badly after all these years?
(Yeah, I know, a clean UI gives them no place to slip in the constriction point that allows them to charge for basic functionality as if it were extra.)
I really wish someone would sue Novell over the Microsoft agreement.
There is no way that agreement is not an indirect method to breach the GPL2.
Indirect methods of avoiding obligations are still methods of avoiding obligations. In this case, collusion to break a contract can be cause for criminal action.
I'm hoping to have some time to read the links joren posted, so I can analyze the situation properly.
It looks like there is specific legal language forbidding setting up a manufacturing process to illegally replicate copyrighted works, and this law would explicitly extend that to the internet and to digital copying without specific media.
Many people assume that it is obvious that file sharing programs must be nothing more than an effective manufacturing process for materials that (under current law) are now automatically under copyright. And since file sharing programs don't provide a way to ask permission to copy, it would all seem to be quit illicit.
I have read enough of it to see that appropriate exceptions for backup and certain other legitimate purposes are in place. So I'm pretty sure that certain people who want to profit on even advertising themselves will find that the law doesn't have nearly the effect that they hope.
I suppose I was a little oblique there, but read it again.
But about dreams, you don't have to assume dreams are supernatural to discover you can learn things from them. Check the wikipedia entry on dreams.
Shoot. What am I doing, responding to an AC? The guy that posted that misinformed attempt to defend himself from understanding himself isn't going to read this anyway.
You were logged in after all. (Stateful browser, refreshing doesn't necessarily tell you when you are actually logged in. Right-click and post in a new window if you aren't sure. Stupid new UI.)
And, yep. The recruiter might easily have been taking $75/h for you. How many secretaries did the placement firm have? What kind of car did the recruiter drive? Etc.
If the recruiting firm handles your insurance and cuts your paycheck, and that kind of thing, they'll be taking in a bit more, of course. Support costs, as they say.
Were you able to intuit how many people they had placed out at any particular time? How many "real" workers were supporting how many recruiters, secretaries, accountants, etc.?
I wouldn't fret about it. When the companied hired you directly and were paying you 110/h, they were still likely to be paying at least 30/h in support costs for you, quite possibly as much as 200/h, depending on the tools they were providing you, etc.
It's a familiar attitude, and the reason I don't work in the computer industry here in Japan any more.
Waterfall? eXtreme Agile? UML?
You can't run a project period, if you don't have some kind of idea what your human resources really are.
I know what the theory is, you don't really know anyway. Geeks tend to be too negative about some of the things they've experienced. Teamwork attitude is more important than experience. Positive Mental Attitude Conquers All.
Money exceeds all reasons, especially sleep, and you really didn't want to see your family anyway, way deep down inside.
I just got tired of the games, and tired of the death marches.
Lying about experience is a really good way to help start death marches, not coincidentally.
Why did I leave? Why don't I go back?
I was back on the job market after one particularly gruesome death march experience, and an outsourcing company arranged for what looked like my dream job. I really wanted that job, but I had bad vibes about it. My wife also had bad dreams. When I told this outsourcing company about the bad dreams, they thought higher pay would make it up for me or something. That was where the illusion tore, and I took a good look at all the lies and the real reasons for all the death marches I've been on, and I realized that I've just been too willing to try to go along with the hype.
I'll still go along with the idea that there is a difference between being honest and being negative, but I'd rather try to support my family on a single man's wages, teaching English, than get back into the industry with a dressed up resume again.
Lately, I've been thinking about undressing my resume. Paring it down, admitting that all the peripheral experience was peripheral, and focusing on what I can really do. It should be a lot harder for the headhunters to dress up a focused resume, and I'll have fewer meaningless interviewers from people who are interested in the side stuff.
Since the teaching job puts food on the table (except for the summer), I can afford to look for work I can really do, instead of wildly grabbing at stuff I might be able to do, if given the chance.
Read the outline and looked at the other five PDFs. It appears that, in addition to the outline (1251916_1_3), we have a statement of goals (1251916_2_3), a summary of changes (1251916_3_3), a statement of reasoning (1251916_4_3), a side-by-side comparison (1251916_5_3) (in vertical text, hey), and a copy of the affect elements of the current law (1251916_6_1) (not real sure about the last one).
I've read the outline. The rest of this is going to take a little time to digest (80 pages).
The outline, at any rate, doesn't indicate anything that would directly make downloading file sharing software illegal.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, zombies represent, to me, my fear of Microsoft software, and of losing my mind, which may be the same thing.
He has the machine.
He (thinks he) has the time.
It could be instructive.
(In my case, the old tangerine iBook with Fedora 11 was plenty instructive. Did run nice until yet another used 30G drive died. The box won't recognize over 120G of hard drive, for either Mac OS or Linux, which, for a new 160G HD, left me with openBSD booting on a lower partition, but using the last 35G as its workspace. Didn't like that solution much, either.)
Well, for the problems with strange variations of .com, .org, .etc., don't forget that they are opening up the whole TLD space.
So, you're planning to learn Chinese as your second or third language?
So you can get to all the important (by majority reasoning) websites?
Yeah, I know I'm being obtuse. There's a reason. Majority has nothing to do with the argument, on either side.
So, you're telling me that there will be no documents I need to read on the website ".."?
In my case, both my keyboard and my eyeballs have no problem with the characters (unlike the slashdot software).
It is true that I could probably dig out as many as I could find of the relevant (English language) pages on the Japanese government's tax office websites and send them to my sister, were I to ask her to help me with my taxes, but even that is not always an available option.
To say nothing of the potential need to verify a uri or url written native.
We at least need to be able to map the TLDs to something more or less commonly legible.
It may be that I am not directly affected in some cases, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to hit a wall sometime trying to figure out whether the uri in some cryptographic siggy is valid or not.
I suppose I should go read the friendly A and see if ICANN has already specified all the native TLDs allowed as equivalents for country codes, and probably for .com, .org, .net, .mil, .edu, .etc., and mapped them to the equivalents.
Somehow, I doubt it.
And sterilizing the documents tells everyone that the company wants everyone to believe that the document's history is irrelevant.
The document's history is the closest thing electronic data has to things like ink and paper chemical analysis. (Not to say that it even comes close to that, not to say that said electronic history can't be manipulated.)
Anyone who posts here should have access to enough evidence to already know that the law is even further behind than that.
Electronic "evidence" is extremely easy to kludge together. Should not be allowed in courts.
You can examine paper to find out what it's made of, and where it might have been made. Likewise ink. You can analyze handwriting in probabilistic terms. Etc.
Noise is noise when you're trying to communicate a message reliably, but when you're needing to analyze the source of the data and such, noise is data.
But when noise is deliberately turned into data and stored, once again, it's easy to manipulate.
More than anything, it tells me that the whole basis of the economy is upside down.
In other words, we've all become mercenaries.
Well, it does feel upside down to me. And standing on my head to look at it some more doesn't seem to straighten the moral issues out, either. It's kind of like the way economists torture the word "service" when they use it to describe the "service economy".
Yes!
Since when has scientific dogma ever been wrong!?
(I'm thinking, say, of the perfection of circles, and how that lead logic through some bad assumptions about which way is down to certain odd conclusions about the location of the earth relative earth thing .)
The one I'n still looking for (lost my copy) is the darkness emitting arsenic diode.
Gartner is always reliable about the future?
(mumble mumble reliable mumble mumble present mumble mumble)
The design is so bad that Apple used it? Sorry, why would Apple use the ARM architecture if it was so bad?
Okay, let's see what the options were --
PPC?
Theoretically, yeah, but Apple was busy amputating that foot so they could quit shooting themselves in it.
Geode?
Get real. Besides, what x86 is going to better than ARM?
intel x86?
A road map does not a processor make, which Apple has now painfully discovered, and a chipset can only partially make up for a processor's failings.
68K/ColdFire? mcore?
Well, there we are trying to figure out how to bribe, erm, encourage Motorola/Freescale to keep good engineers and to acquire the good engineers they need to support the good engineers they have. Design potential needs follow-through.
I'm not sure whether I like the ARM or the 68K better. Both have warts, but you can't get real silicon without a few warts. Besides, a lack of warts is a lack of features.
Moore's FORTH processor?
Hmmmmmm. Now you're talking. But there are still certain warts, and the marketing and production issues.
I beg to disagree.
I own and use one. I hate e-mail on that beast. And the UI? How can people still screw a UI up so badly after all these years?
(Yeah, I know, a clean UI gives them no place to slip in the constriction point that allows them to charge for basic functionality as if it were extra.)
I really wish someone would sue Novell over the Microsoft agreement.
There is no way that agreement is not an indirect method to breach the GPL2.
Indirect methods of avoiding obligations are still methods of avoiding obligations. In this case, collusion to break a contract can be cause for criminal action.
Sure, you could do that.
But you have to hope no one with standing to sue does so, or, that failing, that your excuses for dragging your feet somehow stand up in court.
Is that the name of some kind of portable library?
GP was being sarcastic?
And maybe a little (more than a little?) critical of AJAX, et. al.?
Maybe?
I'm hoping to have some time to read the links joren posted, so I can analyze the situation properly.
It looks like there is specific legal language forbidding setting up a manufacturing process to illegally replicate copyrighted works, and this law would explicitly extend that to the internet and to digital copying without specific media.
Many people assume that it is obvious that file sharing programs must be nothing more than an effective manufacturing process for materials that (under current law) are now automatically under copyright. And since file sharing programs don't provide a way to ask permission to copy, it would all seem to be quit illicit.
I have read enough of it to see that appropriate exceptions for backup and certain other legitimate purposes are in place. So I'm pretty sure that certain people who want to profit on even advertising themselves will find that the law doesn't have nearly the effect that they hope.
I suppose I was a little oblique there, but read it again.
But about dreams, you don't have to assume dreams are supernatural to discover you can learn things from them. Check the wikipedia entry on dreams.
Shoot. What am I doing, responding to an AC? The guy that posted that misinformed attempt to defend himself from understanding himself isn't going to read this anyway.
Log in and you notice that the relative rating drops a point. Once you're logged in, you can click on the points and see the breakdown.
Really not as bad as it looks.
About the dreams and vibes, though, I suppose I could have been less subtle.
The vibes and the dreams got me to ask a few questions I had been letting slide.
It was the answers to the questions that put the brakes on. It was the second look where I realized I was getting myself into a bad situation.
Is that plain enough?
You were logged in after all. (Stateful browser, refreshing doesn't necessarily tell you when you are actually logged in. Right-click and post in a new window if you aren't sure. Stupid new UI.)
And, yep. The recruiter might easily have been taking $75/h for you. How many secretaries did the placement firm have? What kind of car did the recruiter drive? Etc.
If the recruiting firm handles your insurance and cuts your paycheck, and that kind of thing, they'll be taking in a bit more, of course. Support costs, as they say.
Were you able to intuit how many people they had placed out at any particular time? How many "real" workers were supporting how many recruiters, secretaries, accountants, etc.?
I wouldn't fret about it. When the companied hired you directly and were paying you 110/h, they were still likely to be paying at least 30/h in support costs for you, quite possibly as much as 200/h, depending on the tools they were providing you, etc.
It's a familiar attitude, and the reason I don't work in the computer industry here in Japan any more.
Waterfall? eXtreme Agile? UML?
You can't run a project period, if you don't have some kind of idea what your human resources really are.
I know what the theory is, you don't really know anyway. Geeks tend to be too negative about some of the things they've experienced. Teamwork attitude is more important than experience. Positive Mental Attitude Conquers All.
Money exceeds all reasons, especially sleep, and you really didn't want to see your family anyway, way deep down inside.
I just got tired of the games, and tired of the death marches.
Lying about experience is a really good way to help start death marches, not coincidentally.
Why did I leave? Why don't I go back?
I was back on the job market after one particularly gruesome death march experience, and an outsourcing company arranged for what looked like my dream job. I really wanted that job, but I had bad vibes about it. My wife also had bad dreams. When I told this outsourcing company about the bad dreams, they thought higher pay would make it up for me or something. That was where the illusion tore, and I took a good look at all the lies and the real reasons for all the death marches I've been on, and I realized that I've just been too willing to try to go along with the hype.
I'll still go along with the idea that there is a difference between being honest and being negative, but I'd rather try to support my family on a single man's wages, teaching English, than get back into the industry with a dressed up resume again.
Lately, I've been thinking about undressing my resume. Paring it down, admitting that all the peripheral experience was peripheral, and focusing on what I can really do. It should be a lot harder for the headhunters to dress up a focused resume, and I'll have fewer meaningless interviewers from people who are interested in the side stuff.
Since the teaching job puts food on the table (except for the summer), I can afford to look for work I can really do, instead of wildly grabbing at stuff I might be able to do, if given the chance.
Read the outline and looked at the other five PDFs. It appears that, in addition to the outline (1251916_1_3), we have a statement of goals (1251916_2_3), a summary of changes (1251916_3_3), a statement of reasoning (1251916_4_3), a side-by-side comparison (1251916_5_3) (in vertical text, hey), and a copy of the affect elements of the current law (1251916_6_1) (not real sure about the last one).
I've read the outline. The rest of this is going to take a little time to digest (80 pages).
The outline, at any rate, doesn't indicate anything that would directly make downloading file sharing software illegal.