Actually, it is a good reason, when I can develop for Linux but I can't develop for Win32.
But MAME is just one example. The range of Linux applications unavailable on the XBox is vast. I bought 4 XBoxes so far, 2 for routers, one for a sniffer/recorder, and a last one just in case I ever make a PBX for my home. I think I might go get a couple more before MS does something draconian with the encryption system, just in case. At.2k/pop, they are practically disposable.
And *that* is the point: It's subsidized hardware. You've been paying taxes to Microsoft for 10 years now. I think it's about time you got some good old-fashioned welfare for all those $$. Suck it up:)
I suggest that other software professionals do as I am doing and vote with their feet. Simply leave those countries which enact similar legislation. I'm going to China, where I will telecommute to my U.S. job, pay no taxes, and hire experienced software engineers for pennies on the dollar to comparably skilled westerners, as well as getting (speculatively) a lot of hot asian action.
To those of you remaining behind: Farewell suckers!
Indeed, it is difficult to imagine how anarchy could do worse than the current nation-state system, in which, according to UN figures, the last century saw 170 million people killed by their "own" governments. Of course this does not even begin to touch upon the hundreds of millions killed in intra- and inter-state conflicts.
> As technically-minded people, we should never back > an inferior technology purely for political > reasons.
Like avoiding genocide? Would you build a website in COBOL.NET if it would avert a century like the last one in which 170 million human beings were killed by their own government? I'm reducing your statement to absurdity in hopes that you will realize that a balance of technical and political considerations is required.
> I am sick and tired of parents not taking good > responsibility for their kids. You know what? Some > movies are not meant for kids to watch. PERIOD.
I want my daughter to be able to enjoy the inspirational beauty of Braveheart, but I don't want her to watch brutal, graphic murder. I think it is quite enough to be aware of it's existence, without dwelling on the gruesome details.
If you wish to prevent me from showing her a suitable edit, I think your views are unworthy of my respect. If the director wishes to prevent me, I might consider the matter momentarily, but the decision is still *mine* because they chose to sell their work. If you pass a law against fair use, fair use will persist, regardless, and the law will fall further into a spiral of public disdain, to the detriment of society.
Oh really? Has anyone *ever* used DeCSS to produce a digital copy of comparable quality to the original which was subsequently distributed in violation of copyright law applicable in Norway under the Berne Convention?
> Until all information currently stored in printed > form is digitized, catalogued, and > cross-referenced, arguing that digital libraries > are more efficient makes no sense.
You are mistaken. All that is required for digital libraries to be more efficient is that more relevant information should be available online than is available in paper. That is already true. But even that is over-kill, as a necessary condition, because the paper information is not nearly so searchable, so that the usefulness of each relevant bit is less.
Statements A and B are unjustified. I disagree. You haven't defined the concept of a "large" app sufficiently to permit any claims to be made about their properties to be made. Why shouldn't I use MySQL for an application which doesn't care about query performance?
> Statement C: The speedy execution benefit seen > in MySQL is only really seen if you have lots of > data or lots of queries.
So far, C is okay.
> If you have lots of data or lots of queries, > you're not implementing a small app.
Unjustified. I disagree. I can implement a tiny app, just a few lines of code, with an inconsequential role in my life, that runs through terabytes of data. The data is big, the app is small.
It's unsurprising that you arrive at erroneous conclusions when you pay so little attention to the quality of your premises. I won't begin to address the formal fallacies as that would be redundant.
No, it doesn't, because a relation is a table is a relation, and MySQL stores data in tables, so it is relational. The "database" part of RDBMS is already covered by the previous poster, so that leaves the "management system" part. It is a system. It does manage databasess in relational form. I'd have to conclude that it is an RDBMS.
No, if you have SQL, it probably was written for MySQL, so it probably runs on MySQL. There are orders of magnitude more MySQL installations than any other SQL RDB, and a lot more code being written on MySQL than any other SQL RDB.
What makes you think "most people are in favor" of internal passports?
I don't know anyone who wants to live in a gulag where you must show your documents to travel. As common carriers the airlines should be required to allow anyone to travel at will without yeilding any of their fundamental human rights or dignity.
You are responsible for your systems. If you get hacked it is because you failed to manage them competently, for example, by installing Windows XP, or neglecting to lock down ports. To attempt to place blame on someone else is a quixotically unsustainable practice.
The Internet is a vast array of hostile entities of varying levels of sophistication. Get used to it, because that is not going to change, only intensify. You cannot in general determine who is attacking you, because there are millions of dumb proxies out there which can be used to route attacks. The numbers of such entities will only increase over time.
Moreover, this is a Good Thing. It's how people living under crushing governmental repression can share ideas, and plans for throwing off their oppressors.
The tibetans don't even want to leave China. Ask the Dalai Lama if you don't believe me. The real issue is that vajrayana buddhism is being suppressed, a hereditary caste system is being imposed, and there is no freedom of dissent under the current Han regime. Fix those problems, and Tibet can be a happy province of greater China. Until then, expect resistance and "terrorism".
But it's really an unfair comparison, since South Dakota is not a border state.
You appear not to have read the Affero GPL. See http://distributed.foundries.sourceforge.net/artic le.pl?sid=02/05/21/2245226 for more info. For the lazy executive types, a capsule summary: ASPs don't distribute code. Thus, they can keep their enhancements to GPL'ed code closed. The Affero GPL adds a clause to the current GPL stating that if the software is meant to be hosted on the network, and if the software includes some mechanism for downloading the source code, you may not remove that mechanism, and you must provide an additional mechanism for downloading the modifications over the Web.
China is the principal threat to US hegemony in several ways. By 2010 pentagon force projections estimate that they will have more nuclear warheads targetted in the US than will Russia. The US is legally bound to the defense of Taiwan against attack. Because they abort their female fetuses in large numbers (and female infanticide is endemic) they have a large surplus male population at cannon-fodder age. Their economy is growing at 9% annually while the US economy is shrinking. They have the benefit of the balance of trade, which gives them increasing cash reserves, and a consequent ability to manipulate capital markets.
Calling the CCP "Communist" is like calling scientology a religion -- it's a gross abuse of the denotative meaning of the term. The CCP is a collection of warlord factions not unlike the KMT in 1910, or any of a hundred other examples from Chinese history.
The CCP may well be the most powerful organized entity on the face of the earth today, and it is utterly ruthless. It has imposed an hereditary caste system on the Chinese people, utterly crushes any sort of labor organization, in fact maintains a gulag system of millions of literal slave laborers, forces hundreds of thousands of abortions on unwilling women every year, and has a history of wild oscillations in policy that result in mass starvation, brutalization, and dehumanization.
Really, it's not very unlike the U.S. government, except that it's violence is directed inward, against the peasants and workers and intelligentsia, instead of outward, against swarthy people who have oil. Both systems represent an intense concentration of power under the domination of one autocratic ruler. Both systems use political parties to exclude meaningful dissent. Both systems manipulate law to funnel funds into the hands of crony feudal barons. Both systems exercise strangling control over the mass media to preclude meaningful democracy.
But the Chinese nukes are pointed at *me*, while the U.S. nukes are pointed *away*, so I prefer to see the U.S. hang on to its global empire for a few more decades, please.
Oh, and we are selling them shit. Such as VSAT technology (Hughes/Loral) and missile technology (McDonnel and TRW), thanks to the millions funnelled by the "People's Liberation Army" into the Clinton/Gore campaigns.
The chinese people are wonderful, and the chinese culture is amazingly deep and beautiful, as is the language. But the chinese state is perhaps the single greatest source of human evil on the face of this planet, and as such it should be given all the respect one gives a rabid predator. That dragon is not a mascot or a pet. It breathes fire, and it is waking up from a long sleep.
Why don't they fund the original authors and contributors to provide the desired enhancements instead of locking them out? Sure. Screw the innovators and featherbed your pals. This is just corrupt, and there's no way any of my companies will be contributing to that fund. Cronyism pretending to be public service. Pffft.
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> Any tampering you do with the system can be
> prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Sure, and that extent is nada, zero, zilch.
No offense, no prosecution. Try your FUD
elsewhere, silly boy.
Actually, it is a good reason, when I can develop
.2k/pop, they are practically
for Linux but I can't develop for Win32.
But MAME is just one example. The range of Linux
applications unavailable on the XBox is vast.
I bought 4 XBoxes so far, 2 for routers, one
for a sniffer/recorder, and a last one just in case
I ever make a PBX for my home. I think I might
go get a couple more before MS does something
draconian with the encryption system, just in
case. At
disposable.
And *that* is the point: It's subsidized hardware.
You've been paying taxes to Microsoft for
10 years now. I think it's about time you
got some good old-fashioned welfare for all
those $$. Suck it up:)
I suggest that other software professionals do
as I am doing and vote with their feet. Simply
leave those countries which enact similar
legislation. I'm going to China, where I will
telecommute to my U.S. job, pay no taxes, and
hire experienced software engineers for pennies
on the dollar to comparably skilled westerners,
as well as getting (speculatively) a lot of hot
asian action.
To those of you remaining behind: Farewell
suckers!
Indeed, it is difficult to imagine how anarchy
could do worse than the current nation-state system,
in which, according to UN figures, the last century
saw 170 million people killed by their "own"
governments. Of course this does not even begin
to touch upon the hundreds of millions killed in
intra- and inter-state conflicts.
> As technically-minded people, we should never back
> an inferior technology purely for political
> reasons.
Like avoiding genocide? Would you build a
website in COBOL.NET if it would avert a century
like the last one in which 170 million human beings
were killed by their own government? I'm reducing
your statement to absurdity in hopes that you will
realize that a balance of technical and political
considerations is required.
> I am sick and tired of parents not taking good
> responsibility for their kids. You know what? Some
> movies are not meant for kids to watch. PERIOD.
I want my daughter to be able to enjoy the
inspirational beauty of Braveheart, but I don't
want her to watch brutal, graphic murder. I think
it is quite enough to be aware of it's existence,
without dwelling on the gruesome details.
If you wish to prevent me from showing her a
suitable edit, I think your views are unworthy
of my respect. If the director wishes to prevent
me, I might consider the matter momentarily,
but the decision is still *mine* because they
chose to sell their work. If you pass a law
against fair use, fair use will persist,
regardless, and the law will fall further
into a spiral of public disdain, to the
detriment of society.
> This does not mean that I would show porn to my
> children, or extremely sexual movies...
Well why not? You make an argument and then
as much as say that you don't believe the
argument that you just made.
> It is a piracy tool.
Oh really? Has anyone *ever* used DeCSS to produce
a digital copy of comparable quality to the original
which was subsequently distributed in violation of
copyright law applicable in Norway under the Berne
Convention?
I sincerely doubt it.
> Until all information currently stored in printed
> form is digitized, catalogued, and
> cross-referenced, arguing that digital libraries
> are more efficient makes no sense.
You are mistaken. All that is required for digital
libraries to be more efficient is that more
relevant information should be available online
than is available in paper. That is already true.
But even that is over-kill, as a necessary
condition, because the paper information is not
nearly so searchable, so that the usefulness of
each relevant bit is less.
Statements A and B are unjustified. I disagree.
You haven't defined the concept of a "large" app
sufficiently to permit any claims to be made about
their properties to be made. Why shouldn't I use
MySQL for an application which doesn't care about
query performance?
> Statement C: The speedy execution benefit seen
> in MySQL is only really seen if you have lots of > data or lots of queries.
So far, C is okay.
> If you have lots of data or lots of queries,
> you're not implementing a small app.
Unjustified. I disagree. I can implement a tiny
app, just a few lines of code, with an
inconsequential role in my life, that runs
through terabytes of data. The data is big,
the app is small.
It's unsurprising that you arrive at
erroneous conclusions when you pay so little
attention to the quality of your premises.
I won't begin to address the formal fallacies
as that would be redundant.
: why not take advantage of it?
Because it sucks. Much as Windows 98se is a
great advance over DOS, yet it sucks much more
than DOS does.
Oracle is huge. Vast. Ponderous and complex.
That's just a bad design.
MySQL is the opposite. Fits on a floppy.
Installs in seconds. Runs well on a PIC chip.
No, I think he meant that he's been smoking meth.
No, it doesn't, because a relation is a table is a
relation, and MySQL stores data in tables, so it is
relational. The "database" part of RDBMS is already
covered by the previous poster, so that leaves the
"management system" part. It is a system. It does
manage databasess in relational form. I'd have to
conclude that it is an RDBMS.
No, if you have SQL, it probably was written for
MySQL, so it probably runs on MySQL. There are
orders of magnitude more MySQL installations than
any other SQL RDB, and a lot more code being
written on MySQL than any other SQL RDB.
Hubs are almost impossible to buy now. Go to
Walmart, if you don't believe me. Switches,
switches.... no hubs.
What makes you think "most people are in favor" of
internal passports?
I don't know anyone who wants to live in a gulag
where you must show your documents to travel.
As common carriers the airlines should be required
to allow anyone to travel at will without yeilding
any of their fundamental human rights or dignity.
You are responsible for your systems. If you
get hacked it is because you failed to manage
them competently, for example, by installing
Windows XP, or neglecting to lock down ports.
To attempt to place blame on someone else is a
quixotically unsustainable practice.
The Internet is a vast array of hostile entities
of varying levels of sophistication. Get used to
it, because that is not going to change, only
intensify. You cannot in general determine who is
attacking you, because there are millions of
dumb proxies out there which can be used to
route attacks. The numbers of such entities
will only increase over time.
Moreover, this is a Good Thing. It's how
people living under crushing governmental
repression can share ideas, and plans for
throwing off their oppressors.
The tibetans don't even want to leave China.
Ask the Dalai Lama if you don't believe me.
The real issue is that vajrayana buddhism is being
suppressed, a hereditary caste system is being
imposed, and there is no freedom of dissent under
the current Han regime. Fix those problems, and
Tibet can be a happy province of greater China.
Until then, expect resistance and "terrorism".
But it's really an unfair comparison, since South
Dakota is not a border state.
You appear not to have read the Affero GPL. See http://distributed.foundries.sourceforge.net/artic le.pl?sid=02/05/21/2245226
for more info. For the lazy executive types,
a capsule summary: ASPs don't distribute code.
Thus, they can keep their enhancements to GPL'ed
code closed. The Affero GPL adds a clause to the
current GPL stating that if the software is meant
to be hosted on the network, and if the software
includes some mechanism for downloading the source
code, you may not remove that mechanism, and you
must provide an additional mechanism for
downloading the modifications over the Web.
JBoss is the most relevant competitor.
Amazing that these lists omitted what to my mind is
the single greatest force in musical innovation
since Bela Bartok:
Mouse On Mars
China is the principal threat to US hegemony in
several ways. By 2010 pentagon force projections
estimate that they will have more nuclear warheads
targetted in the US than will Russia. The US is
legally bound to the defense of Taiwan against
attack. Because they abort their female fetuses
in large numbers (and female infanticide is endemic)
they have a large surplus male population at
cannon-fodder age. Their economy is growing at 9%
annually while the US economy is shrinking. They
have the benefit of the balance of trade, which
gives them increasing cash reserves, and a consequent
ability to manipulate capital markets.
Calling the CCP "Communist" is like calling
scientology a religion -- it's a gross abuse of
the denotative meaning of the term. The CCP
is a collection of warlord factions not unlike
the KMT in 1910, or any of a hundred other
examples from Chinese history.
The CCP may well be the most powerful organized
entity on the face of the earth today, and it
is utterly ruthless. It has imposed an hereditary
caste system on the Chinese people, utterly
crushes any sort of labor organization, in fact
maintains a gulag system of millions of literal
slave laborers, forces hundreds of thousands of
abortions on unwilling women every year, and has
a history of wild oscillations in policy that
result in mass starvation, brutalization, and
dehumanization.
Really, it's not very unlike the U.S. government,
except that it's violence is directed inward,
against the peasants and workers and intelligentsia,
instead of outward, against swarthy people who
have oil. Both systems represent an intense
concentration of power under the domination of
one autocratic ruler. Both systems use political
parties to exclude meaningful dissent. Both
systems manipulate law to funnel funds into the
hands of crony feudal barons. Both systems
exercise strangling control over the mass media
to preclude meaningful democracy.
But the Chinese nukes are pointed at *me*, while
the U.S. nukes are pointed *away*, so I prefer
to see the U.S. hang on to its global empire
for a few more decades, please.
Oh, and we are selling them shit. Such as VSAT
technology (Hughes/Loral) and missile technology
(McDonnel and TRW), thanks to the millions funnelled
by the "People's Liberation Army" into the
Clinton/Gore campaigns.
The chinese people are wonderful, and the
chinese culture is amazingly deep and beautiful,
as is the language. But the chinese state is
perhaps the single greatest source of human
evil on the face of this planet, and as such
it should be given all the respect one gives
a rabid predator. That dragon is not a mascot
or a pet. It breathes fire, and it is waking
up from a long sleep.
You can do this with any X desktop, using x0rfbserver.
So it's a tax cheat? A way to avoid paying
payroll taxes to your employees by funnelling the
funds through a non-profit?
Why don't they fund the original authors and
contributors to provide the desired enhancements
instead of locking them out? Sure. Screw the
innovators and featherbed your pals. This is just
corrupt, and there's no way any of my companies will
be contributing to that fund. Cronyism pretending
to be public service. Pffft.