What about sending porno spam? Is this considered free speach? What about when this porn ends up in a minors mailbox and the parents of that child do not want him / her to be seeing that? What about the people that are offended by porn? What about my right to not recieve unsolicited email? My email address is not so that others can send me email at will, but so that those that I know can send me email. I am tired of recieving porn from some woman I don't know or want to know.
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Linux was under the BSD license and they could just use Linux code at will with no repercussions. There is probably lots of Linux code that they would love to have in M$ Windows if they could just use it. I think they are more bothered by the GPL and LGPL then just linux itself. They are certainly not bothered by BSD...
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Not the same thing. As many others have said Linux uses version numbers. If you really wanted you could have multiple versions of the same libraries on your system. For instenace, gtk+ 1.0.x and gtk 1.2.x, or libc5 and libc6, and even more revisions of libc6, like glibc2.0, 2.1 and 2.2 all on the same system. Get the point?
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If you are running linux what about ipchains / iptables to do your filtering, and setting up a proxy as well? What is it exactly that they provide that I 'need'? Or that you think I need? If they are worth anything, M$ will eat them up anyway.. maybe that is what is about to happen...
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When I was going to school we were taught basic. It is a hig enough level language but you can learn alot from it. Pascal was also good in that reguard. You can learn what funcitons are, variables, types, bits and bytes, etc. You learn structured programming as well as event driven programming. Personally I'd think that learning OOP right of the bat may be a little difficult to understand at first.
As far what is better Java, C or C++, it really depends on your application. I would not right an OS in Java, but C or C++ would be better as both could give you far greater speed improvements. JSP is a good way to go for writing web applications, and if it ever gets standardized (hint hint sun Microsystems) then it could be even better.
Certain applications Java is not well suited for, but others it is great. Anywhere where speed is a real issue, C is better.
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I'm not talking about the google app. I am talking about googles spider. You need to put certain meta tags in your pages so that search engines do not cache them. Use google and do a search and you will see a link to googles cached pages. To stop them from doing that to your site you need to put meta tags on you pages. This ISSS the same thing.
If I create a a web page it IS MY content, even if I put it on a server and do not copyright it is is MY content. Who is Microsoft add their own links into it or google to cache the page?
I wonder how many pages Microsoft will not show or will break by doing that.....
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Google does this with its search engine. As do other search engines. There should be no reason I need to have robots.txt files there should be no reason I need to add more and more meta tags to the.
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and don't forget dosemu, and wine, while you are at it as both of thouse are using some sort of 'binary transualtion' as well.
I think bochs is great as it allow intel binaries to run on all sort of other platforms. You just need a super fast PC to get some performance out of it..
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Usually case law outweighs some lawyers interpretation of the law. Since there is already a case that discusses that port scanning is NOT against the law, then it woudl be a matter of him obverturning this decision and proving it wrong. It also depends on which court these decisions were made (I am referring to US couts). Supreme Court decisions can be overturned, but they need another case to..
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There are lots of IDE's that support Java. Java is object oriented, but a little more complex than Visual Basic. I have used both and found Symantic visual cafe to be a good ide. Although you need a VERY powerful machine to run this (over 500Mhz with 256 Megs of RAM) to be really effective and not have to wait.
Where I am working we have VB as well and I have found it to be a rather nice and easy language, it lacks lots. VB was taken from Basic, which was actually a programming language that was to be used as a learning language, like Pascal. B = Beginner (Beginner Allpurpose Symbolic Insctruction Code). It was never really intended to do anything effective, but M$ has abused that and made it more of a M$ proprietary standard.
My suggestion is that if you really want to porogram effectively you'll actually learn to program in another language. I think that C++ is good for GUI's or C. The problem I have had with Python is that I have had is that sometimes it works sometimes it does not. Perl / Tk and Tcl can get to be to slow when you have lots of widgets on a window. IF yu have a simple GUI then you are fine, but when you start to put many widgets on a window then you have slowness problems and performance problems. These can be worse than Java performance.
The truth is that I am actually somewhat against IDE's as they usually create BAD bloated and unreadable code.
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They were talking about setting up an email mailing list, where they could talk about problems. They said that they could not do a library, because they user C or C++ and different technologies. They did mention that they would run into the same problems, and that they would discuss them on the list.
So there would be 3 different efforts still, but they would share knowledge with each other.
So what will they do when MS.net is up and open and people are using that?
Just imagine MS having access to your internal internet....
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THere is more of a demand for color displays than b&w. They probably don't see a very lucritive market for b&w displays. If you have a choice between color crt and b&w lcd many will choose the color. It makes their pictures and games look better.
The prices on color displays are coming down. In another 2 years they will probably be less than 500 for a 17 inch and it will be of very good quality.
Personally I think this will be the next technology push. Flat panal display devices. SImilar to lap tops, but more along the lines of the sony pc that is super thin. basically like the mac cube adn its display. Only instead of it being 3k it will be 800 for the whole deal. Wait and in a year or two you will see these come down.
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slightly off topic here...AT&T cable put advertising in their digital cable setup. This was 6 months after I got their service. This makes it slower to flip through the online tv channel guide. I don't think that if I am paying for cable service that I should have to see advertisements in the process and that it should be this slow. It is not just a little slow it is sometimes unresponsive. And I am PAYING for this.
SO how does this releate to TIVO? Simple once you buy the TIVO, the VCR, the video disk, the cassette tape, the cdrom, or whatever you are basically agreeing by your usage of the item to biug business telling you what to do with it. This happens in the record industry (napster, you can't trade what you own), AT&T Cable, I can't filter out the ads in the tv guide, TIVO you are stuck with their upgrade. This is the same as if your ISP changed its policy on how it billsyou. Your only repercussion would be to stop using the device.
This is the new age of big business doing what it wants and screw the consumer.. didn't you know that? Microsoft is growing and growing, AOL is too, AT&T.. PG&E in CA is getting what they want.. and do you know who has to pay the most? The residential customers... who pays the least... other companies (Oh and if you don't know what I am talking about think energy crisys in ca)..
Yeah this may be slighly off topic, but tivo is just another company that thinks it can screw the user just like any other big company....
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hmm I think I suggested doing something like that.
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The other day. I wonder if this uses a regular phone line or if you need a dsl line....
Question.. and think about this.. if ordinary modems work over ordinary phones lines why don't high speen modems also work over ordinary phone lines with no new switches??
If you had any signal classes remeber that you have a carrier frequency and an actual signal.. What is the carrier frequency of a modem / phone line and why cannot a modem be made faster? DSL and phones use the same lines so where is the slowdown coming from?
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Well lets see.. they released Ultimate TV a while ago... go here http://www.ultimatetv.com/trailer.html
They win the browser war as AOL slows down its goals of being a browser builder.. needless to say that mozilla should be called slowzilla instead (troll comment but am I lieing here??)
They are taking on Real with Windows media player...
They are basically branchine into every tech area that there is and some that aren't there just yet. Needless to say that the new US goverment has a hands off policy when it comes to big business so they wont do anything to stop M$ and they will discourage anyone else from doing so.
If this keeps up those same people that are letting M$ do what they want are going to be the ones that are hurt the most...
Just watch M$ take on AOL time warner in the soon future.. I can see M$ getting into broadband DSL/CABLE networking somehow..
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Which is why DSL wont work. Someone needs to take the technology of a regular mode and make it faster. 56k to 128 then to 256k. Then maybe high speed will take off. But until normal computer modems can do the speed of dsl we wont see it grow like people want it to.
MS.net will fail if they tell home users you have to access all your office apps over the web. 56k MS office cause you can't get dsl.....yuch..
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.. with both the article and the initial poster. I ordered DSL and was told that it was available in my area and that my number could support it, but then I was told that the phone company did not have enough switches to turn on the connection or whatever. Boy am I confused about that one. The company is offering a adsl modem where you just put filters on your phones and connect your nic to this modem and viola you are ready to connect. So I am not sure what the issue is. Don't the filters and modems do all the work? What does the phone company need to do here? If the phone company needs to modify its network significantly then DSL could take a long time to grow to where it is useful to home users.
Sure most of us have dsl at work, but some jobs monitor the networks closely, besides some stuff you want to just look at or download from home.
Personally until you can buy DSL equipment in a store like you can buy a regular modem and install it like you would a regualr modem and can connect to ANY ISP, dsl will be for a small select group to have. (FYI: DSL is not available everywhere. In Case You Didn't Know).
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Stocks are supposed to be long term investments. Even though there are day traders and people who trade regularly from a company perspective they are long term.
Example: If mandrake were to stay private, people who work for them would probably get stock options. Each year based on how well they are doing they would go up in value. In the end you may double what you paid for them, but it may take twenty years.
The only real way to make money off of stocks is to watch for those low buys and high sells. Personally I think that the stock market is overrated.
The reason all the dot coms failed was because people were jealous and wanted them gone! Be careful what you wish for you may get it...
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If you look at open source projects, do they ever really meet a deadline? Mostly they just move along until they think that it is good for release. Usually this waiting pays off in the end too. Look at kde 2.0 it was worth the wait, and they quickly cleaned it up and put out 2.1, which has Konqueror, and is actually pretty sweet.
The Linux kernel is another example. They wanted a 1 year deadline and it turned into about two.
Now there is really nothing wrong with this in my opinion as it is better to release software that is good and works right than to just release software.
I know that there are many software companies that believe in 6 month release of their software and rolling it out not fully tested. The clients test it and then report the bugs and then we fix them. It sort of works and prevents scope creep.
I think that mozilla has suffered from scope creap. Rather than taking Netscape 4 and improving lets say the rendering system and the networking they redid it from scratch. They could have started on one or two systems and then release a 5.0 browser. Then made bug fixes, then started on other systems. I thought the initial goal was to make a small light browser. At 12 Megs or so of a download it is relly not much smaller (if any) than netscape 4.x.
WIth AOL not shipping AOL 6.0 with mozilla / netscape, who is their target audience at this point? I run linux and use konq or netscape 4.x. Untill I get my 850Mhz or better with loads of RAM (512Mor more) I think I'll steer clear of mozilla.
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Okay I found out more info on it so go here -> http://a-movie-to-see.com/ultimate.php3
This is microsofts Ultimate TV. I wish there was a way to edit an initial post and add information to it in slashdot for things you think of after you hit the submit button...
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Microsoft has a product that is called Ultima or ultimate. It is a device like Tivo that allows you to record one show while watching another. I doubt they have a patent for it. I also think that tivo was out first, but not sure. So the question is will Tivo go after Microsoft for patent infringement? Or will Microsoft be able to come up with prior art to cancel Tivos patent?
Will rocky and bullwinkle get out of this mess that boris and.. (rotflol)...
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Well truthefully the hurd is still going, although it is moving slowly, it is functional. Atheos is in the same boat.
If this person can create a new OS kernel that is faster than BSD, Solaris, Linux, Windows, etc, and can replace lets say the Linux kernel.. then he has a big chance at success. The fact is that if you can create a new kernel like what the hurd is doing and to have it work as a drop in replacement into lets say the Linux kernel then he can have success. Ideally if he had a micro kernel that could actually run some of linux drivers with little modification he could go somewhere.
I doubt it, I think Linux is having enough trouble surviving and I think that the effort of the hurd, atheos, beos, and him could be better spent in improving an existing system, like Linux, (one of the BSD's), or any other Open Source OS.
just my opinion though.
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if linux on the desktop is dead (see previos article) where does that leave the toolkits that run on the desktop...
You know it has been my experience that motif has a small niche market that is probably smaller than the linux desktop. Qt and Gtk+ are both easier to program in even if they are not as complete. But then again motif is how old and has had how long to get where it is? Gtk+ is still imature (as I type this in Netscape 4 on UNIX which was done in motif).
Personally I'd like to know of what NEW applications are developed in Motif tool kit?
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As far what is better Java, C or C++, it really depends on your application. I would not right an OS in Java, but C or C++ would be better as both could give you far greater speed improvements. JSP is a good way to go for writing web applications, and if it ever gets standardized (hint hint sun Microsystems) then it could be even better. Certain applications Java is not well suited for, but others it is great. Anywhere where speed is a real issue, C is better.
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If I create a a web page it IS MY content, even if I put it on a server and do not copyright it is is MY content. Who is Microsoft add their own links into it or google to cache the page?
I wonder how many pages Microsoft will not show or will break by doing that.....
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Google does this with its search engine. As do other search engines. There should be no reason I need to have robots.txt files there should be no reason I need to add more and more meta tags to the .
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I think bochs is great as it allow intel binaries to run on all sort of other platforms. You just need a super fast PC to get some performance out of it..
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This is true, so they can start with Java. It is also OOP, and it is actually better than VB as it runs just about anywhere.
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Where I am working we have VB as well and I have found it to be a rather nice and easy language, it lacks lots. VB was taken from Basic, which was actually a programming language that was to be used as a learning language, like Pascal. B = Beginner (Beginner Allpurpose Symbolic Insctruction Code). It was never really intended to do anything effective, but M$ has abused that and made it more of a M$ proprietary standard.
My suggestion is that if you really want to porogram effectively you'll actually learn to program in another language. I think that C++ is good for GUI's or C. The problem I have had with Python is that I have had is that sometimes it works sometimes it does not. Perl / Tk and Tcl can get to be to slow when you have lots of widgets on a window. IF yu have a simple GUI then you are fine, but when you start to put many widgets on a window then you have slowness problems and performance problems. These can be worse than Java performance.
The truth is that I am actually somewhat against IDE's as they usually create BAD bloated and unreadable code.
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So there would be 3 different efforts still, but they would share knowledge with each other.
So what will they do when MS.net is up and open and people are using that?
Just imagine MS having access to your internal internet....
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The prices on color displays are coming down. In another 2 years they will probably be less than 500 for a 17 inch and it will be of very good quality.
Personally I think this will be the next technology push. Flat panal display devices. SImilar to lap tops, but more along the lines of the sony pc that is super thin. basically like the mac cube adn its display. Only instead of it being 3k it will be 800 for the whole deal. Wait and in a year or two you will see these come down.
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SO how does this releate to TIVO? Simple once you buy the TIVO, the VCR, the video disk, the cassette tape, the cdrom, or whatever you are basically agreeing by your usage of the item to biug business telling you what to do with it. This happens in the record industry (napster, you can't trade what you own), AT&T Cable, I can't filter out the ads in the tv guide, TIVO you are stuck with their upgrade. This is the same as if your ISP changed its policy on how it billsyou. Your only repercussion would be to stop using the device.
This is the new age of big business doing what it wants and screw the consumer.. didn't you know that? Microsoft is growing and growing, AOL is too, AT&T.. PG&E in CA is getting what they want.. and do you know who has to pay the most? The residential customers... who pays the least... other companies (Oh and if you don't know what I am talking about think energy crisys in ca)..
Yeah this may be slighly off topic, but tivo is just another company that thinks it can screw the user just like any other big company....
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Question.. and think about this.. if ordinary modems work over ordinary phones lines why don't high speen modems also work over ordinary phone lines with no new switches??
If you had any signal classes remeber that you have a carrier frequency and an actual signal .. What is the carrier frequency of a modem / phone line and why cannot a modem be made faster? DSL and phones use the same lines so where is the slowdown coming from?
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They win the browser war as AOL slows down its goals of being a browser builder.. needless to say that mozilla should be called slowzilla instead (troll comment but am I lieing here??)
They are taking on Real with Windows media player...
They are basically branchine into every tech area that there is and some that aren't there just yet. Needless to say that the new US goverment has a hands off policy when it comes to big business so they wont do anything to stop M$ and they will discourage anyone else from doing so.
If this keeps up those same people that are letting M$ do what they want are going to be the ones that are hurt the most...
Just watch M$ take on AOL time warner in the soon future.. I can see M$ getting into broadband DSL/CABLE networking somehow..
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You should see the patents on sex toys...
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MS.net will fail if they tell home users you have to access all your office apps over the web. 56k MS office cause you can't get dsl.....yuch..
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Sure most of us have dsl at work, but some jobs monitor the networks closely, besides some stuff you want to just look at or download from home.
Personally until you can buy DSL equipment in a store like you can buy a regular modem and install it like you would a regualr modem and can connect to ANY ISP, dsl will be for a small select group to have. (FYI: DSL is not available everywhere. In Case You Didn't Know).
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Example: If mandrake were to stay private, people who work for them would probably get stock options. Each year based on how well they are doing they would go up in value. In the end you may double what you paid for them, but it may take twenty years.
The only real way to make money off of stocks is to watch for those low buys and high sells. Personally I think that the stock market is overrated.
The reason all the dot coms failed was because people were jealous and wanted them gone! Be careful what you wish for you may get it...
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The Linux kernel is another example. They wanted a 1 year deadline and it turned into about two.
Now there is really nothing wrong with this in my opinion as it is better to release software that is good and works right than to just release software.
I know that there are many software companies that believe in 6 month release of their software and rolling it out not fully tested. The clients test it and then report the bugs and then we fix them. It sort of works and prevents scope creep.
I think that mozilla has suffered from scope creap. Rather than taking Netscape 4 and improving lets say the rendering system and the networking they redid it from scratch. They could have started on one or two systems and then release a 5.0 browser. Then made bug fixes, then started on other systems. I thought the initial goal was to make a small light browser. At 12 Megs or so of a download it is relly not much smaller (if any) than netscape 4.x.
WIth AOL not shipping AOL 6.0 with mozilla / netscape, who is their target audience at this point? I run linux and use konq or netscape 4.x. Untill I get my 850Mhz or better with loads of RAM (512Mor more) I think I'll steer clear of mozilla.
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This is microsofts Ultimate TV. I wish there was a way to edit an initial post and add information to it in slashdot for things you think of after you hit the submit button...
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Will rocky and bullwinkle get out of this mess that boris and .. (rotflol)...
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If this person can create a new OS kernel that is faster than BSD, Solaris, Linux, Windows, etc, and can replace lets say the Linux kernel .. then he has a big chance at success. The fact is that if you can create a new kernel like what the hurd is doing and to have it work as a drop in replacement into lets say the Linux kernel then he can have success. Ideally if he had a micro kernel that could actually run some of linux drivers with little modification he could go somewhere.
I doubt it, I think Linux is having enough trouble surviving and I think that the effort of the hurd, atheos, beos, and him could be better spent in improving an existing system, like Linux, (one of the BSD's), or any other Open Source OS.
just my opinion though.
good luck guy..............
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You know it has been my experience that motif has a small niche market that is probably smaller than the linux desktop. Qt and Gtk+ are both easier to program in even if they are not as complete. But then again motif is how old and has had how long to get where it is? Gtk+ is still imature (as I type this in Netscape 4 on UNIX which was done in motif).
Personally I'd like to know of what NEW applications are developed in Motif tool kit?
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