I'm quite capable of writing my own HTML, but sometimes it's easier to use, say, an image map maker, or an html generator like netscape's... it may save time (though rarely does)
but I use it because layout it easier that way.. instead of saying, make it this many pixels right, I just click the box and drag it.. dont have to write, check, edit, check, etc until it's just right. that doesn't mean I'm any less adept at programming.
It's avaliable here: here and the website is here. Funny how Freshmeat's description of it is "Advanced, incredibly configurable and secure FTP daemon" This will probably be counted against them, despite it not really being their fault.
The problem with Amazon is, as far as I can tell, not the legal one. It's that if Amazon wins, they've got a monopoly on a very important thing, and we all know how much we love monopolies.
It's very relevant to the consumer, whether they have choice our not.. choice == competition, and competition encourages lower prices and better products.
the problem is when they're enforced where they shouldn't be... what amazon did was less protecting their rights, and more trying to look like Microsoft and beating up their competitors.
If Google didn't patent this, whose to say Altavista wouldn't patent it tomorrow and sue them? Hopefully, if someone wants to make a search engine similiar to Google's, they'll be nice enough to keep from ripping them to pieces...
I don't really know, I don't know the Google folks too well. But a lot of/. folk seem to put a lot of faith in them, I think they'd do the right thing if it came up.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't this happen with Ultima Online 8? I believe I heard that they had open-sourced it to try and get improvements made to it, and people used the source to find all the secrets and such.... like letting players on a MUD see the code to all the monsters.
Anyway, does anyone have any suggestions other than the depressing don't-open-source-stuff-no-more one?
Nothing in science can be proven definately true. That's one of the first things science students have to understand. There can always be one experiment that can prove you wrong... that's the whole basis for the idea of experiments being designed to prove yourself wrong, rather than right. Tomorrow someone might discover something that shows that Einstein was wrong, just as Aristotle has been proven wrong on so many accounts, despite what everyone thought was right.
Look at how he showed us the fundamental problems with proprietary software through his programs and... what? Windows was actually seriously supposed to be an OS? Whoa... that changes my whole perspective. I thought it was a joke...
I once played a chess game that, when you lost, the computer laughed at you... And if you won, the board suddenly turned around, so you lost... and the computer laughed... At least, I'm -pretty- sure this happened.
The more I think about it, the less it seems it really happened.
The "E" in E-mail has nothing to do with marketing... it was called that back when people were like "what's that box? a computer? what are you, a weirdo?"
"Not being a Hotmail or regular Windows user for that matter, I cannot verify this - but I've gotten several e-mails from people this morning wondering about it." Hey, how'd they e-mail you if they can't access Hotmail?
Without all these bastard corporations trying to use the internet to make money and then, to their surprise, realizing their website isn't exactly the same as a billboard on their roof, we wouldn't have all these idiotic legal battles. Companies JUST DONT GET IT. They don't understand how the Internet works, why it's popular, why it's so beautiful and so popular. To them, then internet (although, really, all they pay attention to is the web...) if just a piece of real estate to build a little shop on.
Making spam illegal isn't going to do much, if anything.. murder is illegal, and I'm sure that doesn't stop anyone... I don't kill not because of the laws against it, but because it's against my ethics and morals... We're never going to eradicate spam... though, I do wish for the day when we don't have to use john-AT-NOSPAM-email-DOT-com for our addresses 'round/.
Hey: didn't any of you take the pledge to stop talking about Y2K? I could go on for days listing things that could potentially be affected by Y2K, this article's a waste of space really...
The point is, people who think they're doing someone a favour might only allow generally happy-with-everything people. And do you think the government would let someone be born if they were prone to rebel against they're environment?
People keep mentioning Gattaca (I really doubt that's the right spelling...) Other examples of possible results of this sort of thing are Jurassic Park, The Chrysalids (sorta), and Brave New World. Especially Brave New World. Go buy it. Now.
Apparently everyone seems to think that this is a wonderful idea... what's wrong with you? If only the happy, mindless, conformist zombie people are produced, then no one is produced who isn't happy just playing along. We'd have no one who wants to change the government, no one who would fight against problems in society. And, no one to write kick-ass operating systems because they're sick of Microsoft. Linus wasn't much of a conformist, apparently. Would we not have been allowed him because he doesn't play happily with the big corporations and what they tell him to do?
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I'm quite capable of writing my own HTML, but sometimes it's easier to use, say, an image map maker, or an html generator like netscape's... it may save time (though rarely does)
but I use it because layout it easier that way.. instead of saying, make it this many pixels right, I just click the box and drag it.. dont have to write, check, edit, check, etc until it's just right. that doesn't mean I'm any less adept at programming.
It's avaliable here: here and the website is here.
Funny how Freshmeat's description of it is
"Advanced, incredibly configurable and secure FTP daemon"
This will probably be counted against them, despite it not really being their fault.
Is this something new, or did they just not bother to fix it?
Is this sort of exploit a wide-spread problem, or did they just goof up?
The problem with Amazon is, as far as I can tell, not the legal one. It's that if Amazon wins, they've got a monopoly on a very important thing, and we all know how much we love monopolies.
It's very relevant to the consumer, whether they have choice our not.. choice == competition, and competition encourages lower prices and better products.
the problem is when they're enforced where they shouldn't be... what amazon did was less protecting their rights, and more trying to look like Microsoft and beating up their competitors.
/. folk seem to put a lot of faith in them, I think they'd do the right thing if it came up.
If Google didn't patent this, whose to say Altavista wouldn't patent it tomorrow and sue them? Hopefully, if someone wants to make a search engine similiar to Google's, they'll be nice enough to keep from ripping them to pieces...
I don't really know, I don't know the Google folks too well. But a lot of
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't this happen with Ultima Online 8? I believe I heard that they had open-sourced it to try and get improvements made to it, and people used the source to find all the secrets and such.... like letting players on a MUD see the code to all the monsters.
Anyway, does anyone have any suggestions other than the depressing don't-open-source-stuff-no-more one?
"The important thing is not to stop questioning." -Albert Einstein
Really. He said it.
It has actually been proven beyond a doubt
Nothing in science can be proven definately true. That's one of the first things science students have to understand. There can always be one experiment that can prove you wrong...
that's the whole basis for the idea of experiments being designed to prove yourself wrong, rather than right.
Tomorrow someone might discover something that shows that Einstein was wrong, just as Aristotle has been proven wrong on so many accounts, despite what everyone thought was right.
apparently Dr. Naked-chicks-free-sex-britney spears-hard-core-titties is much more influential, he gets a -lot- of hits!
Look at how he showed us the fundamental problems with proprietary software through his programs and... what? Windows was actually seriously supposed to be an OS? Whoa... that changes my whole perspective. I thought it was a joke...
I once played a chess game that, when you lost, the computer laughed at you...
And if you won, the board suddenly turned around, so you lost... and the computer laughed...
At least, I'm -pretty- sure this happened.
The more I think about it, the less it seems it really happened.
The "E" in E-mail has nothing to do with marketing... it was called that back when people were like "what's that box? a computer? what are you, a weirdo?"
"Not being a Hotmail or regular Windows user for that matter, I cannot verify this - but I've gotten several e-mails from people this morning wondering about it." Hey, how'd they e-mail you if they can't access Hotmail?
IC? What's IC? Internet Communications? Internal Clock? Investigating Communist?
You did absolutely nothing but waste space by rephrasing what was said at the top..
Without all these bastard corporations trying to use the internet to make money and then, to their surprise, realizing their website isn't exactly the same as a billboard on their roof, we wouldn't have all these idiotic legal battles. Companies JUST DONT GET IT. They don't understand how the Internet works, why it's popular, why it's so beautiful and so popular. To them, then internet (although, really, all they pay attention to is the web...) if just a piece of real estate to build a little shop on.
Making spam illegal isn't going to do much, if anything.. murder is illegal, and I'm sure that doesn't stop anyone... I don't kill not because of the laws against it, but because it's against my ethics and morals... We're never going to eradicate spam... though, I do wish for the day when we don't have to use john-AT-NOSPAM-email-DOT-com for our addresses 'round /.
Hey: didn't any of you take the pledge to stop talking about Y2K? I could go on for days listing things that could potentially be affected by Y2K, this article's a waste of space really...
The point is, people who think they're doing someone a favour might only allow generally happy-with-everything people. And do you think the government would let someone be born if they were prone to rebel against they're environment?
People keep mentioning Gattaca (I really doubt that's the right spelling...) Other examples of possible results of this sort of thing are Jurassic Park, The Chrysalids (sorta), and Brave New World. Especially Brave New World. Go buy it. Now.
Apparently everyone seems to think that this is a wonderful idea... what's wrong with you? If only the happy, mindless, conformist zombie people are produced, then no one is produced who isn't happy just playing along. We'd have no one who wants to change the government, no one who would fight against problems in society. And, no one to write kick-ass operating systems because they're sick of Microsoft. Linus wasn't much of a conformist, apparently. Would we not have been allowed him because he doesn't play happily with the big corporations and what they tell him to do?
They're not avaliable 'til friday, or so
I hear 'round the IRC campfire.