Quite wrong (rather completly actually). BSD license is NOT a safe haven for businesses to *share* commodity code. It does a company a disservice to add value that can be repackaged/modified/hidden by their competitor. BSD's failure is UNIX's failure. GPL licenese allows a company to add value knowing that a 3rd party cannot *ever* remove that value via repackage/modify/hide. IMHO GPL is always the better license.
Any company that plans to make money entirly upon software sales is doomed to failure. 60-80% of software cost is maintenence. So the value position in software is to sell SUPPORT contracts. You can give/sell the software *at cost* and still make more on support -- even if the software is so perfect as to never need any support at all.
2. A claim made, whether true or false; a right alleged or assumed; a holding out the appearance of possessing a certain character; as, pretensions to scholarship.
I understand that you mean to insult, however I perfer to justify your reply by noting that I did not in fact give a detailed list of reasons why the subjective 'good software developer' and the equally subjective 'like MS goods' cannot be combined. For any sufficently demanding version of 'like' and 'good' it is clear from the history of quality, usability, completeness and adaptability of MS goods that a 'good' software developer[1] could not 'like MS goods' in the professional sense of taking pride in them.
Knowing that MS goods have only ever been held to the standard of 'good enough' [for the moment] and 'sufficent' I don't know how any other conclusions could possibly be reached, unless one were not aware of the state of the art, or believed that the MS goods are the state of the art -- which I could imagine if said developer had never been expose to anything else -- which of course would violate the basic tenent.
[1] I expect a good software developer to at least be aware of the state-of-the-art in the *field* and be able to critique the MS goods accordingly, against that measure.
... when you seem to like MS goods you CAN'T BE a good software developer..
You are correct. A good software developer also understands why this is true.
I am. **right now** using linux. I have 4 machines at my desk:
- dedicated SMP linux box. Main machine (personal and business).
- multi-boot SMP machine (Linux/eComStation/Win2K) for building/testing software
- multi-boot machine (Win2k, OS/2) for testing ready to deploy software, and reading company e-mail (windows based client software).
- dedicated OS/2 machine. Ready access to an OS/2 test platform.
Two of these machines I brought to work - to do my job and the other two are provided by the company I work for... The ones with linux run debian unstable, I always build my own kernel. I use Enlightenment/GNOME and surf with Mozilla.
Linux amorphis.* 2.4.16 #1 SMP Mon Nov 26 17:36:27 CST 2001 i686 unknown
Yeah, when you spend 250,000 for a TB of disk your backup problems magically disappear!
Seriously I complied a list of reasons to backup a RAID storage solution:
-- Accidental deletes and over-writes.
-- Total catastrophic recovery. (Fire/Flood/War, etc).
So it *may* not be the solution for critical data that needs to be shadowed off-site, nor the only location for difficult to reproduce data.
I'm not exactly sure *why* moxi won't broadcast DVD's but I suspect it's because moxi isn't trying to defeat Macrovision(sp) encryption and mangles the signal (it's okay over COAX though). Besides, I don't want my neighbor watching my pr0n that's just too weird.
All version of windows, now and forever, contain at *least* one root level exploint which is supported by the API and fundamentally required for basic system operation. Window Sub-classing.
And my point is that you can't support an organization (reference to RIAA material) and quietly ignore the organizations stance on the issue.
The RIAA does not support the owning of MP3 format music, no matter the means of aquisition. (Even my legally owned CD's ripped to my drive with the CD's sitting next to my machine --- and I don't share my disk at all) is not kosher according to RIAA.
RIAA does definatly *not* support my downloading MP3's of songs which I own legitimatly on cassette tape (Which are two of the actions reference as supported by the OP personally). Which more generally is free unilaterial transference to any other media is not a RIAA supported action.
I would suggest that no indie artist who understands the industry would support the RIAA's business model.
See:
Courtney Love does the math.
Whenever I see a musician thinking that they will get rich selling CD's I feel bad for them. They may get rich but it won't be from selling CD's, It will be from concerts, writting, and producing. In other words, a lot of hard work. Hard work can be a great thing, if that's what you like to do (it's more like getting paid to play). If you want to produce a few hits sit on your ass and watch the $$$ roll it, forget about it.
The bottom line is your/mp3 directory provides absolutely no direct compensation to the artist for the procurement of that music
And
As an independent artist I simply didn't use napster, because I didn't see a way for the artist to be compensated. Only mp3s I have are for albums which I've purchased a license to via tape, CD, etc. or I created the content;-).
Is conjecture that the fore mentioned/mp3 directory:
Is not ripped from CDs
Purchase on any media allows free unilaterial transference to any other media.
One is conjecture, and the other is 'forbidden' by the organization (RIAA) whos propaganda you are shoving.
Just because members of RIAA don't know how to run their businesses (ie are too profitable to bother fixing their production/distribution models) is no justification (excuse) for them denying my fair use rights under the first sale doctrine.
Fortunatly for me, my music preferences are only satisified by small independant labels, and bands that only press/sell 2-10 thousand CDs.
BTW: My/mp3 directory is all ripped from CD's I own... and I don't feel bad about that one bit.
And death/black metal is bigoted in what way? There isn't anything about the style that demands bigotry or hate...though the genre is often offensive and/or harsh. It also is free to question the basic tenets of good and evil, right and wrong, god, and godless.
My point was that to be worth paying for the offered product ought to be at least reasonably differenciated from the commonly available corporate format radio. What I personally listen to is melodic to harsh doom/death/black metal the most. I also like other types of music but that's my staple.
I mentioned the Shaaban incident because I think it's rather funny (and hypicritical) of the people involved. Is Shaaban wrong for singing 'I don't like Isreal' is Madkour Thabet (a censor) wrong for having him change to lyric to 'I Hate Isreal'? Was Shaaban wrong to swipe the idea for the song from Awad Badaw and/or Ismail Khalil? The people who listened (and made it a hit) are they wrong? Was the American Jewish Committee wrong for having McDonalds halt Shaaban's advert for McFalafel? Is McDonalds wrong for stiffing Shaaban on his contract?
The AJC could not stop radio stations from playing the 'hit', but they could impact an ad. McDonalds shouldn't have used Shabban to promote the McFalafel, but he's a poor illiterate who happend to be in a excelent position to be used. Shabban was wrong to change the lyric to 'hate' and the censor was wrong to ask. That's my opinion anyway.
---
"Originally it was 'I don't like Israel', but I made a recommendation that they choose another word equal to the state of people's feelings," said Madkour Thabet, whose office has the power to ban tapes deemed politically or morally offensive.
The first two offer custom builds with the Tyan S2460 (cheaper) board. I don't know if a2z will offer non-MP chips with the S2460, I don't know why not... I bought my dual celeron (Abit) from there a while ago -- before the copper mine.
Yeah, and following the rules *how* many devices can you have on the SCSI chain? 4? Unless it's LVD, in which case you can have more devices on a chain, but you can't mix LVD with 'normal' SCSI. Wide SCSI is you choice of 15 fabulous ID's, yeah!
SCSI makes sense if you don't have the extra CPU cycles to waste on I/O, but if you have extra CPU, in the case of a non-server class machine, I don't see why spending on the SCSI system ($$$) is worth it. Especially for disk. On the other hand I do have SCSI peripherals (Scanner, CD-burner).
For an X server (I've not tried the cygwin XFree port, the OS/2 one isn't seamless...) but on OS/2 I prefer HOBlink. They make an Windows version as well, and judging by the OS/2 one I suspect the windows one is also very nice.
Drug companies make back the R&D on a drug in 3 - 6 months (more often the 3). *All* the rest of the expenses are in marketing... it's all profit.
The excessive profits of the pharmaceutical industry are protected on one side by the cost of bringing a drug to market (FDA) which reduces competition. On the other side drugs are also patented, which reduces competition.
On the other hand naturally occuring compounds that already exist in nature which may/may not have medicinal value: Asprin, opium, penicillin, caffeine, etc. Would not be produced in todays market, they would never be able to make claims of medicinal value because nobody would fund the FDA trials!
On the other hand the pharmaceutical industry will happily create copy-cat versions of those same drugs which *are* patentable, but often (not aware of any which don't) have mild-to-severe side affects which were not present in the naturally occuring compounds.
*I* think that the government should prop up the University system and Non-profit organizations and allow them to bring non patententable drugs to through FDA trials. This can be done with either grants, or via a not-a-patent-patent that expires when the drug has made it's ROI. I believe that grants would be the preferrable method (more oversight of grant money, as well as grant money only given for research that shows a reasonable liklyhood of being successful. This would improve the state of competition within the industry, as well as our health!.
Now, off-topic, that's not to say that I don't think traffic laws need dramatic overhauls... turning police in[to] tax collectors is insanely stupid city policy.
The "Missle Defense" system is designed to halt the Chinese threat, whom are sorely pissed about Taiwan, and there 100 mile territorial waters, etc.
The secondary purpose is to halt any Soviet threat (In about 10 years we will have enough "Missle Defense" to halt 90-100 missles, which is what the Soviets would have left if:
The current stockpile decays as expected.
The US initiates a 'first strike' which knocks out ~90% of the remaining 500 serviceable ICBMs.
The only thing this "Missle Defense" is not expected to defend against is "rogue" nations with stolen/purchsed/made nuclear/chemical/biological weapons.
I (as an employeer) am not interested in what my employees do/keep etc with their (company supplied or not) computer/laptop/palm/other. I may, however, have to monitor the network to ensure that there isn't a sniffer, trojan, virus, etc. on the network. I may see/discover/read something that is 'private'. So what to do?
I support those who said that encryption is the answer (It's also a great flag that says 'I don't wany everybody to read this', and pretty much the only reasonably safe one. It could be ROT-13 for all *I* care, but I would rather users used PGP or GPG!
The code isn't maintainable, tho brilliant.
Bullshit, the code is shit. Person is demonstrably NOT a brilliant coder. An overly complicated system is the opposite of 'brilliant'.
Slashdot Mirror
Quite wrong (rather completly actually). BSD license is NOT a safe haven for businesses to *share* commodity code. It does a company a disservice to add value that can be repackaged/modified/hidden by their competitor. BSD's failure is UNIX's failure. GPL licenese allows a company to add value knowing that a 3rd party cannot *ever* remove that value via repackage/modify/hide.
IMHO GPL is always the better license.
Any company that plans to make money entirly upon software sales is doomed to failure. 60-80% of software cost is maintenence. So the value position in software is to sell SUPPORT contracts. You can give/sell the software *at cost* and still make more on support -- even if the software is so perfect as to never need any support at all.
http://machaut.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/WEBSTER.page.s h?PAGE=1134
Pretension
2. A claim made, whether true or false; a right alleged or assumed; a holding out the appearance of possessing a certain character; as, pretensions to scholarship.
I understand that you mean to insult, however I perfer to justify your reply by noting that I did not in fact give a detailed list of reasons why the subjective 'good software developer' and the equally subjective 'like MS goods' cannot be combined. For any sufficently demanding version of 'like' and 'good' it is clear from the history of quality, usability, completeness and adaptability of MS goods that a 'good' software developer[1] could not 'like MS goods' in the professional sense of taking pride in them.
Knowing that MS goods have only ever been held to the standard of 'good enough' [for the moment] and 'sufficent' I don't know how any other conclusions could possibly be reached, unless one were not aware of the state of the art, or believed that the MS goods are the state of the art -- which I could imagine if said developer had never been expose to anything else -- which of course would violate the basic tenent.
[1] I expect a good software developer to at least be aware of the state-of-the-art in the *field* and be able to critique the MS goods accordingly, against that measure.
You are correct.
A good software developer also understands why this is true.
I am. **right now** using linux. I have 4 machines at my desk:
- dedicated SMP linux box. Main machine (personal and business).
- multi-boot SMP machine (Linux/eComStation/Win2K) for building/testing software
- multi-boot machine (Win2k, OS/2) for testing ready to deploy software, and reading company e-mail (windows based client software).
- dedicated OS/2 machine. Ready access to an OS/2 test platform.
Two of these machines I brought to work - to do my job and the other two are provided by the company I work for... The ones with linux run debian unstable, I always build my own kernel. I use Enlightenment/GNOME and surf with Mozilla.
Linux amorphis.* 2.4.16 #1 SMP Mon Nov 26 17:36:27 CST 2001 i686 unknown
1) I tried but my phone kept crashing on your number!
Yeah, when you spend 250,000 for a TB of disk your backup problems magically disappear!
Seriously I complied a list of reasons to backup a RAID storage solution:
-- Accidental deletes and over-writes.
-- Total catastrophic recovery. (Fire/Flood/War, etc).
So it *may* not be the solution for critical data that needs to be shadowed off-site, nor the only location for difficult to reproduce data.
http://crackmonkey.org/pipermail/crackmonkey/2002q 1/025926.html
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HTH
Hmm... I think that you have describe the posting requirements in more detail that is allowed for alt.hackers. YOU killed kenney ... heh.
I'm not exactly sure *why* moxi won't broadcast DVD's but I suspect it's because moxi isn't trying to defeat Macrovision(sp) encryption and mangles the signal (it's okay over COAX though). Besides, I don't want my neighbor watching my pr0n that's just too weird.
All version of windows, now and forever, contain at *least* one root level exploint which is supported by the API and fundamentally required for basic system operation. Window Sub-classing.
Why windows will never-ever be close to secure.
And my point is that you can't support an organization (reference to RIAA material) and quietly ignore the organizations stance on the issue.
The RIAA does not support the owning of MP3 format music, no matter the means of aquisition. (Even my legally owned CD's ripped to my drive with the CD's sitting next to my machine --- and I don't share my disk at all) is not kosher according to RIAA.
RIAA does definatly *not* support my downloading MP3's of songs which I own legitimatly on cassette tape (Which are two of the actions reference as supported by the OP personally). Which more generally is free unilaterial transference to any other media is not a RIAA supported action.
I would suggest that no indie artist who understands the industry would support the RIAA's business model. See: Courtney Love does the math.
Whenever I see a musician thinking that they will get rich selling CD's I feel bad for them. They may get rich but it won't be from selling CD's, It will be from concerts, writting, and producing. In other words, a lot of hard work. Hard work can be a great thing, if that's what you like to do (it's more like getting paid to play). If you want to produce a few hits sit on your ass and watch the $$$ roll it, forget about it.
And
Is conjecture that the fore mentioned /mp3 directory:
- Is not ripped from CDs
- Purchase on any media allows free unilaterial transference to any other media.
One is conjecture, and the other is 'forbidden' by the organization (RIAA) whos propaganda you are shoving.Just because members of RIAA don't know how to run their businesses (ie are too profitable to bother fixing their production/distribution models) is no justification (excuse) for them denying my fair use rights under the first sale doctrine.
Fortunatly for me, my music preferences are only satisified by small independant labels, and bands that only press/sell 2-10 thousand CDs.
BTW: My /mp3 directory is all ripped from CD's I own ... and I don't feel bad about that one bit.
Ban hotmail, yeah that's it!
... MS did it ...
MS did it
Absurd? Yes. So is the current state of affairs.
And death/black metal is bigoted in what way? There isn't anything about the style that demands bigotry or hate...though the genre is often offensive and/or harsh. It also is free to question the basic tenets of good and evil, right and wrong, god, and godless.
h /0 ,5127,13121,00.html
My point was that to be worth paying for the offered product ought to be at least reasonably differenciated from the commonly available corporate format radio. What I personally listen to is melodic to harsh doom/death/black metal the most. I also like other types of music but that's my staple.
I mentioned the Shaaban incident because I think it's rather funny (and hypicritical) of the people involved. Is Shaaban wrong for singing 'I don't like Isreal' is Madkour Thabet (a censor) wrong for having him change to lyric to 'I Hate Isreal'? Was Shaaban wrong to swipe the idea for the song from Awad Badaw and/or Ismail Khalil? The people who listened (and made it a hit) are they wrong? Was the American Jewish Committee wrong for having McDonalds halt Shaaban's advert for McFalafel? Is McDonalds wrong for stiffing Shaaban on his contract?
The AJC could not stop radio stations from playing the 'hit', but they could impact an ad. McDonalds shouldn't have used Shabban to promote the McFalafel, but he's a poor illiterate who happend to be in a excelent position to be used. Shabban was wrong to change the lyric to 'hate' and the censor was wrong to ask. That's my opinion anyway.
---
"Originally it was 'I don't like Israel', but I made a recommendation that they choose another word equal to the state of people's feelings," said Madkour Thabet, whose office has the power to ban tapes deemed politically or morally offensive.
http://www.arabia.com/egypt/life/article/englis
and droll.
No black metal, no death metal, No $.
Will the World Music stations play the hit folk tune 'I Hate Isreal'?
No McFalafel for you!. http://www.cairotimes.com/news/shaaban.html
The first two offer custom builds with the Tyan S2460 (cheaper) board. I don't know if a2z will offer non-MP chips with the S2460, I don't know why not ... I bought my dual celeron (Abit) from there a while ago -- before the copper mine.
:-(.
http://www.spartantech.com/
http://www.monarchcomputer.com/
http://www.a2zcomp.com/
I am currently getting a dual AMD 1.4 system from spartantech.com though the S2460 is on back-order
Monarch and Spartan are similar in over-all cost, I thing Spartan has a larger variety of components though.
Yeah, and following the rules *how* many devices can you have on the SCSI chain? 4? Unless it's LVD, in which case you can have more devices on a chain, but you can't mix LVD with 'normal' SCSI. Wide SCSI is you choice of 15 fabulous ID's, yeah!
SCSI makes sense if you don't have the extra CPU cycles to waste on I/O, but if you have extra CPU, in the case of a non-server class machine, I don't see why spending on the SCSI system ($$$) is worth it. Especially for disk. On the other hand I do have SCSI peripherals (Scanner, CD-burner).
So all those pr0n sites are really just 4 companies? Weird.
For an X server (I've not tried the cygwin XFree port, the OS/2 one isn't seamless ...) but on OS/2 I prefer HOBlink. They make an Windows version as well, and judging by the OS/2 one I suspect the windows one is also very nice.
http://www.hobsoft.com/products/x11/x11.html
http://www.hoblink.de
Drug companies make back the R&D on a drug in 3 - 6 months (more often the 3). *All* the rest of the expenses are in marketing ... it's all profit.
The excessive profits of the pharmaceutical industry are protected on one side by the cost of bringing a drug to market (FDA) which reduces competition. On the other side drugs are also patented, which reduces competition.
On the other hand naturally occuring compounds that already exist in nature which may/may not have medicinal value: Asprin, opium, penicillin, caffeine, etc. Would not be produced in todays market, they would never be able to make claims of medicinal value because nobody would fund the FDA trials!
On the other hand the pharmaceutical industry will happily create copy-cat versions of those same drugs which *are* patentable, but often (not aware of any which don't) have mild-to-severe side affects which were not present in the naturally occuring compounds.
*I* think that the government should prop up the University system and Non-profit organizations and allow them to bring non patententable drugs to through FDA trials. This can be done with either grants, or via a not-a-patent-patent that expires when the drug has made it's ROI. I believe that grants would be the preferrable method (more oversight of grant money, as well as grant money only given for research that shows a reasonable liklyhood of being successful. This would improve the state of competition within the industry, as well as our health!.
They are revenue generators.
that Humanity is uniquely unqualified to rule itself.
Well, duh.
The "Missle Defense" system is designed to halt the Chinese threat, whom are sorely pissed about Taiwan, and there 100 mile territorial waters, etc.
The secondary purpose is to halt any Soviet threat (In about 10 years we will have enough "Missle Defense" to halt 90-100 missles, which is what the Soviets would have left if:
The current stockpile decays as expected.
The US initiates a 'first strike' which knocks out ~90% of the remaining 500 serviceable ICBMs.
The only thing this "Missle Defense" is not expected to defend against is "rogue" nations with stolen/purchsed/made nuclear/chemical/biological weapons.
I (as an employeer) am not interested in what my employees do/keep etc with their (company supplied or not) computer/laptop/palm/other. I may, however, have to monitor the network to ensure that there isn't a sniffer, trojan, virus, etc. on the network. I may see/discover/read something that is 'private'. So what to do?
I support those who said that encryption is the answer (It's also a great flag that says 'I don't wany everybody to read this', and pretty much the only reasonably safe one. It could be ROT-13 for all *I* care, but I would rather users used PGP or GPG!
The code isn't maintainable, tho brilliant.
Bullshit, the code is shit. Person is demonstrably NOT a brilliant coder. An overly complicated system is the opposite of 'brilliant'.