I have an image on my site, and someone does a direct link to it, to display it on their site...and therefore drains my bandwidth....and deprives me of any ad revenue or anything else as a result....
I hate to break it to you, but the only places making money on the Web are porn sites. Advertising banners are about as useful as window screens on a submarine.
An article from yesterday's Washington Post headlined "World War II-era scientist Niels Bohr said he was shocked to learn from colleague Werner Heisenberg that Germany was "vigorously in a race to be the first with atomic weapons," according to a decades-old letter released Wednesday."
Does Fry's or Radio Shack visit my house on occasion to make sure that I can prove to them that every little piece of electronics in my house hasn't been stollen?
Listen, buddy. As Richard Stallman points out, software is an entire different entity. It's very easily copied. It's easy to take those copies and transfer them. Therefore, the amount of damage that can be done by pirating software is massive and much larger than other more tangible products.
And please don't give me the "well software should be free" argument. There are some custom applications that would never have been started (or completed) in the open source / free software world that are necessary for many folks. Using that as an excuse for pirating software is like saying an attractive woman deserves to get raped.
...making the point that companies who don't want to deal with the BSA [suing them for pirating software] can always use Open Source software
Well, sure, you can use open source or free software whenever you'd like.
You could also simply pay for the proprietary software that you need to use rather than stealing it. If I had my own company, I would make certain that we ran things properly, which would involve, among other things, not pirating software.
This has probably already been said, but I didn't bother to read all 200 comments.
With a conservative administration like the one that is currently ruining, er, rather, running our country, a huge behemoth company isn't exactly the biggest enemy. Republicans and their constituents are traditionally pro-big business and consequently pro-war (war stimulates the economy which in turn helps business and perhaps allows for higher salaries so Republicans can do their tax cuttin since they're against any and all social programs).
Now that the pigs are flying nicely and Hell has reached about -5 degrees Celsius, perhaps Microsoft will overwrite their IIS source code directory with Apache source files, and do the same with their 'Win95_98_ME' and 'Win_NT_2K_XP', only this time replacing it with the Linux source.
(Sorry, not as funny as it could've been. I'm still waking up:-)
PostgreSQL v7.2 Final Release
Feb 6, 2002, 22:06 UTC
After almost a full year of development since PostgreSQL v7.1 was released, the PostgreSQL Global Development Group is proud to announce the availability of our latest development milestone... PostgreSQL v7.2, another step forward for the project.
A full list of changes to v7.2 can be found in the HISTORY file, included with the release, as well as under all ftp mirrors as:
/pub/README.v7_2
Highlights of this release are as follows:
VACUUM
Vacuuming no longer locks tables, thus allowing normal user access during the vacuum. A new "VACUUM FULL" command does old-style vacuum by locking the table and shrinking the on-disk copy of the table.
Transactions
There is no longer a problem with installations that exceed four billion transactions.
OID's
OID's are now optional. Users can now create tables without OID's for cases where OID usage is excessive.
Optimizer
The system now computes histogram column statistics during "ANALYZE", allowing much better optimizer choices.
Security
A new MD5 encryption option allows more secure storage and transfer of passwords. A new Unix-domain socket authentication option is available on Linux and BSD systems.
Statistics
Administrators can use the new table access statistics module to get fine-grained information about table and index usage.
Internationalization
Program and library messages can now be displayed in several languages.
.. with many many more bug fixes, enhancements and performance related changes...
Source for this release is available on all mirrors under:
/pub/source/v7.2
As always, any bugs with this release should be reported to pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org... and, as with all point releases, this release requires a complete dump and reload from previous releases, due to internal structure changes...
Marc G. Fournier
Co-ordinator
PostgreSQL Global Development Group
Deciding to click on over to your site to watch you sit around the house is one thing. But being forced to be in YOUR place in front of all of the cams is where there's a problem.
I must say that you're making yourself look like a fool, which probably isn't fair since I'm sure you're a bright guy.
First off, who are you to say what's worthy of being called a "job" and what's not? If I'm born with natural musical talent and can sing anyone else off the stage, does that mean it's not fair because I'm not doing a real job since I didn't create my own brain?
You also say Mythic should get a cut of all sales. That's like saying Fender or Gibson should get a cut of all musicians' record sales because they made the guitars.
Finally, I highly doubt that becoming a game developer is as easy as saying "I want to make money using games". You know that too, since you are one.
I find this disturbing: people will pay more money for a fake character than they will spend on themselves.
Think about it. I can imagine an unemployed guy sitting home bidding hundreds of dollars for some imaginary characters, while in the same breath complaining to his friends that he doesn't have the dough to buy a suit to go interview for a job.
So damn privacy conscious? Since when is privacy so underrated?
As I type, the federal government is probably passing yet another post-9/11 "anti-terrorist" law which will most likely serve to take away the average citizens' privacy while doing nothing to make the country a safer place.
So, yes, privacy is important to many people. And these days, once you step over a certain "line" of privacy infringement, you can't go back.
It's entirely fine with me if you feel that you need to broadcast video and sound of yourself as you walk around your house, but please understand that others may not share your viewpoint.
Why can't we get a friggin' fly-by of this last unphotographed planet in our Solar System? I don't think that's too much to ask. Christ, even just three or four would do it for me:-)
If you see my post above, you'll see I was called a TROLL for letting them know of the same problem. I'd recommend against posting these types of comments in the future, as apparently correcting someone is grounds for negative moderation.
I'm currently in a 'computers & society' course this semester and we regularly debate important timely events.
Last week we debated free software, and I was amazed at how people in my class thought that "code written by 14 year olds in their garage couldn't match up with code written by professionals at Microsoft".
I quickly informed them as to the truth -- most open source zealots are damn good coders, and yes, many of them even have jobs and a house/apartment! Now, thanks to this article, I have proof.
Slashdot Mirror
I have an image on my site, and someone does a direct link to it, to display it on their site...and therefore drains my bandwidth....and deprives me of any ad revenue or anything else as a result....
I hate to break it to you, but the only places making money on the Web are porn sites. Advertising banners are about as useful as window screens on a submarine.
An article from yesterday's Washington Post headlined "World War II-era scientist Niels Bohr said he was shocked to learn from colleague Werner Heisenberg that Germany was "vigorously in a race to be the first with atomic weapons," according to a decades-old letter released Wednesday."
Does Fry's or Radio Shack visit my house on occasion to make sure that I can prove to them that every little piece of electronics in my house hasn't been stollen?
Listen, buddy. As Richard Stallman points out, software is an entire different entity. It's very easily copied. It's easy to take those copies and transfer them. Therefore, the amount of damage that can be done by pirating software is massive and much larger than other more tangible products.
And please don't give me the "well software should be free" argument. There are some custom applications that would never have been started (or completed) in the open source / free software world that are necessary for many folks. Using that as an excuse for pirating software is like saying an attractive woman deserves to get raped.
...making the point that companies who don't want to deal with the BSA [suing them for pirating software] can always use Open Source software
Well, sure, you can use open source or free software whenever you'd like.
You could also simply pay for the proprietary software that you need to use rather than stealing it. If I had my own company, I would make certain that we ran things properly, which would involve, among other things, not pirating software.
Ironic. Read my weblog entry for today -- it's about hardware support for pointer safety.
This has probably already been said, but I didn't bother to read all 200 comments.
With a conservative administration like the one that is currently ruining, er, rather, running our country, a huge behemoth company isn't exactly the biggest enemy. Republicans and their constituents are traditionally pro-big business and consequently pro-war (war stimulates the economy which in turn helps business and perhaps allows for higher salaries so Republicans can do their tax cuttin since they're against any and all social programs).
Well, shit, this is surprising!
:-)
Now that the pigs are flying nicely and Hell has reached about -5 degrees Celsius, perhaps Microsoft will overwrite their IIS source code directory with Apache source files, and do the same with their 'Win95_98_ME' and 'Win_NT_2K_XP', only this time replacing it with the Linux source.
(Sorry, not as funny as it could've been. I'm still waking up
PostgreSQL v7.2 Final Release :06 UTC
... PostgreSQL v7.2, another step forward for the project.
/pub/README.v7_2
...
/pub/source/v7.2
... and, as with all point releases, this release requires a complete dump and reload from previous releases, due to internal structure changes ...
Feb 6, 2002, 22
After almost a full year of development since PostgreSQL v7.1 was released, the PostgreSQL Global Development Group is proud to announce the availability of our latest development milestone
A full list of changes to v7.2 can be found in the HISTORY file, included with the release, as well as under all ftp mirrors as:
Highlights of this release are as follows:
VACUUM
Vacuuming no longer locks tables, thus allowing normal user access during the vacuum. A new "VACUUM FULL" command does old-style vacuum by locking the table and shrinking the on-disk copy of the table.
Transactions
There is no longer a problem with installations that exceed four billion transactions.
OID's
OID's are now optional. Users can now create tables without OID's for cases where OID usage is excessive.
Optimizer
The system now computes histogram column statistics during "ANALYZE", allowing much better optimizer choices.
Security
A new MD5 encryption option allows more secure storage and transfer of passwords. A new Unix-domain socket authentication option is available on Linux and BSD systems.
Statistics
Administrators can use the new table access statistics module to get fine-grained information about table and index usage.
Internationalization
Program and library messages can now be displayed in several languages.
.. with many many more bug fixes, enhancements and performance related changes
Source for this release is available on all mirrors under:
As always, any bugs with this release should be reported to pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Marc G. Fournier
Co-ordinator
PostgreSQL Global Development Group
I'm takin' one for the team!
[ FIRST POST ]
Deciding to click on over to your site to watch you sit around the house is one thing. But being forced to be in YOUR place in front of all of the cams is where there's a problem.
But I have to get a job so I can buy a car so I can get to my job!
;-)
I must say that you're making yourself look like a fool, which probably isn't fair since I'm sure you're a bright guy.
First off, who are you to say what's worthy of being called a "job" and what's not? If I'm born with natural musical talent and can sing anyone else off the stage, does that mean it's not fair because I'm not doing a real job since I didn't create my own brain?
You also say Mythic should get a cut of all sales. That's like saying Fender or Gibson should get a cut of all musicians' record sales because they made the guitars.
Finally, I highly doubt that becoming a game developer is as easy as saying "I want to make money using games". You know that too, since you are one.
I find this disturbing: people will pay more money for a fake character than they will spend on themselves.
Think about it. I can imagine an unemployed guy sitting home bidding hundreds of dollars for some imaginary characters, while in the same breath complaining to his friends that he doesn't have the dough to buy a suit to go interview for a job.
Ever hear of voice recognition? (pun intended)
So damn privacy conscious? Since when is privacy so underrated?
As I type, the federal government is probably passing yet another post-9/11 "anti-terrorist" law which will most likely serve to take away the average citizens' privacy while doing nothing to make the country a safer place.
So, yes, privacy is important to many people. And these days, once you step over a certain "line" of privacy infringement, you can't go back.
It's entirely fine with me if you feel that you need to broadcast video and sound of yourself as you walk around your house, but please understand that others may not share your viewpoint.
NACI: Gov't of South Africa Pushs Open Source
;-)
Let's hope they get a copy of the GNU2CanSpell spellchecker. It's obvious that the Slashdot editors didn't
*sorry Rob, we're still buddies*
In related news, Ford Motor Company has posthumously awarded Henry Ford for Outstanding Model-T Development.
Not true. There's an eight percent increase next year!
Private universities don't get any public money, my friend. That's why my current education will cost around $70,000 next year for two semesters.
Don't confuse the "Big Ol' U.s" with the Ivies, etc.
Pics (of Pluto, that is)?
:-)
Why can't we get a friggin' fly-by of this last unphotographed planet in our Solar System? I don't think that's too much to ask. Christ, even just three or four would do it for me
In his FAQ he states it works on any system that's POSIX compliant.
/me high-fives Tom
If you see my post above, you'll see I was called a TROLL for letting them know of the same problem. I'd recommend against posting these types of comments in the future, as apparently correcting someone is grounds for negative moderation.
This is a very timely study.
I'm currently in a 'computers & society' course this semester and we regularly debate important timely events.
Last week we debated free software, and I was amazed at how people in my class thought that "code written by 14 year olds in their garage couldn't match up with code written by professionals at Microsoft".
I quickly informed them as to the truth -- most open source zealots are damn good coders, and yes, many of them even have jobs and a house/apartment! Now, thanks to this article, I have proof.
Check your links, Timmy.
.ORG ;-)
As of 4:20PM EST, your PDF link and OSDN link are invalid.
It's not that hard (I have my own Slash-like site and my links aren't broken)
No offense, Mr. Monkey
You could always just do what Van Halen says and JUMP!