Oh sure, is every single bit of whatever patent you worked SOOO hard for really your own creation? I'm sure that pythagorous and einstein and newton were quite happy to share their knowledge so people like you can use it as a subset of your so called "creations" and not share. Thats really pathetic.
I mean, patents make me sick. They inflate the price of everything while at the same time deny you many opportunities. Take the drug companies for example - one won't let the other use their patent - which means that certain cures and medicines are never found!!! Is this *really* benifitial for humanity?
Sure, your feeding your family while denying those less fortunate to yourself access to these drugs. Third world countries are at the mercy of commercial drug companies because they won't share the information on how to manufacture.
The misuse of intellectual property and patents in the computer industry sickens me.
We have Apple and Microsoft patenting GUI's. We have intel patenting CPU's. We have Frauenhoff with their MP3's, and we have these guys patenting compression. It's more that these companies choose to exploit their patents by having an unfair advantage on competitors, while having full reign on the consumers that use their technology.
Well, all I can say is that I am thankful of open standards, because it gives me the choice to bypass the restraints that these patents cause. But then its never impossible to escape the intellectual property, as companies try to fork open standards into their own propietry model (does html and Java ring a bell?)
Patents and intellectual property are backward. They don't help discovery - they merely hold the other guy back. Information is such a powerful thing, and to put locks on information that is benefitial to humanity is really quite selfish and evil.
I'm glad that all the important scientific discoveries were made before we had patents and intellectual property. Imagine going to your calculus exam and getting charged to use binomial approximation to solve a problem. Imagine your faculty not being able to teach you Newton's laws because they couldn't afford the royalties.
This is why things like free software and open source will go down in history on a good note, whearas Microsoft will go down in history on a bad note. Would Newton be as respected had he tried to charge people for his science? I think not.
Upgrading your kernel is an addiction
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"When I saw this submission, the first thing I thought was "And me with my 38 day uptime". That confirms it. I gotta go out;)" Sure, 2.2.12 might be out, but do you *really* need to upgrade to it? This revision might not even fix/update anything that you use. Recompiling your kernel just because a new version came out is like warez'n'hackz kiddies making sure they always have the latest 0-day. I mean, I see alot of people who just recompile simply so they get a new spiffy version number. Well, if you ask me, it's a sad addiction to recompile if the changelog doesn't effect you. It's sad to see/. promoting such behaviour with comments as quoted above.
Cool! When can I see some KDE running on the Dreamcast? That would be impressive...
something to consider
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I think the whole idea of a wearable computer is silly. If we put the funding into improving wireless telecommunications, we could all just run an X session from our servers at home.. no matter where we are.
Well, this news come to me just as I purchase my first SGI box. Well, its an old Indy and I am MIGHTILY impressed with the sophistication of IRIX 6.2. It's a shame SGI isn't making it.
I heard from an employee of SGI that sun is outselling SGI on a system which sun licensed from SGI. That is.. the same system branded by SGI is selling less volume!!
I feel sorry for the employees at SGI. But I'de like to say that I think they make very fine products, and regardless of what happens I will be a supporting fan of SGI.
Hmm... the control of information is a key factor in the definition of a Totalitarian State.
It seems that US citizens just can't seem to escape from their Gov't wanting to keep control of their information.
In a modern sense by definition, the US is part Totalitarian State. Scary huh? Do you American's remember fighting a few wars against the "evil communists" - who were also examples of Totalitarian States. I'm confused... you've fought so hard for the "freedom" of other countries - yet you haven't concerned yourselves with the freedom of your own people!!
I don't live in the US, but the thought of such intrusive Gov't powers frightens me. I'm actually quite glad that I'm not an American citizen and subject to such blatent invasions of privacy by my own Gov't.
I wish all of you US citizens good luck with opposing further constraints of your freedom by your Gov't.
The fact that AOL and MSNBC will be launching TV channels goes to show that these guys are ready to put "innovation" aside for a quick buck.
Television is a 50 year old technology. There's really not much more you can do with it nowadays than 20 years ago!
It's quite sickening to see all their consumer's money go towards an attempt to cash in on the TV broadcast industry. If I was an AOL user I would be wondering why they didn't put my fees into better network access and services.
Yes, I know - it's business. But its not CONSUMER ORIENTATED business. AOL and MSNBC doesn't care at all about their users - rather it seems they are more interested in manipulating them with glitsy banner ads and spam.
I'll pay my slightly higher fees for my local ISP. At least I'll be happy knowing that my money is going to help feed a family and upgrade my connection - I'de rather that than support a wannabee media Monopoly.
Although I don't agree with the conclusions of the report, I do feel that such a study is a Good Thing (tm).
When we had the Television explosion in the 50's, nobody knew quite what to expect. Suddenly people had a new medium through which to communicate and share ideas (although it was non-interactive.) But at the same time, TV was causing "harm" to the structure of our daily lives. What scared observers of this phenomenon so much was that TV was so captivating to its viewers, and this raised many concerns as to the general use of TV. People were warned not to much too much TV, and those who did were considered "addicts".
However, nowadays, TV is a normal part of our lives, as each successive generation has adopted a greater usage of the medium. No longer is there the public concern about the usage of TV, the only concern is that of content.
The growth of the Net is exactly the same as the growth of TV 40 years ago. Just like TV was, the net is a new kind of medium, with incredible growth and many community concerns.
But instead of focussing on the EFFECTS of using the Net, let's rather focus on the CONTENT. Those who were concerned about TV and its social effects where concerned about the wrong thing. They should have been concerned about the CONTENT rather than the social effects of their children looking at the tube for hours each day.
It's quite obvious that nothing is going to stop the net boom now. But instead of worrying about people using it, lets concern ourselves with useful things such as the Commercialisation of the information. Television could have been far more useful had it not been taken over by Commercial powers. As an information tool, TV is pretty much mostly useless nowadays - its just advertising and entertainment.
If we are not careful, the net will end up in the same state as TV. Have you noticed the growth of banner ads and commercial sites? Have you noticed the increase of SPAM in your email?
I think that its a good thing that these reports bring up issues about net usage. Mainly because it allows for discussion of the CONTENT of the net. I'm not talking about Porn and Bomb-HOWTO's. Im talking about the monopoly of information on the net by commercial interests. IMHO the ownership of information by such groups is a Bad Thing(tm).
Let's just accept that the net is going to keep booming, and learn to accept that we will spend more and more time on it as the net spreads. Even if the report is correct, it would be far better that those who are "addicted" have access to free information rather than just an endless linkage of banner ads.
All you people using BladeEnc, I really hate to break it you but you are losing sooo much quality because of all the shortcuts that bladeenc takes.
I've checked out LAME, and although its not as fast as bladenc - it sounds alot better. Its a nice middle between the quality of l3enc and the speed of bladeenc. Its for this reason that I switched over to LAME.
Also, there are alot of nice console frontends that use LAME. So really, you're only being a zealous fan of bladeenc if you choose to keep using it.
A while back, I heard about an open source project which aimed to design a microprocessor. I think it had some imput by Carmack of ID Software. Anyone know what happened to it? I'm assuming it was freezed because it lacked the funding and support. Maybe AMD could really kick intel by opening up their processor specs in some sort of open source license. Yes, I know, it would be quite a silly economic idea for AMD - but maybe a smaller manufacturer could give it a go?
"his drive to break monopoly software pricing is reflected in his other tastes. For example,... he prefers Hollywood entertainment to highbrow European art films."
Hollywood would have to be THE Monopoly of the film industry!! Hollywood is driven by capitalism and a love of money, rather than any love of story telling or making films. In comparison European films run on budgets far lower, because they realise that millions of dollars of special FX + Overpaid American actors don't necessarily make a good film.
Cough. I think we can see a little bias in this author here.
Think of all the RS6000 servers out there that are sitting idle and out of date. By supporting Linux, these old machines can be given a new lease as a stable mail/news/ftp/nfs/samba/web server.
Think of how handy all those 486's have become with the use of Linux and FreeBSD. The same theory applies to the RS6000. However because these are enterprise server orientated systems, it will give Linux the opportunity to "sneak" into the enterprise market.
It's a good tactic for World Domination! Even if it was not even considered :
From one of their recent press-release Q&A's: http://www.el2000.ru/press/press_faq-2502.html
Q: Have you already worked with OSs supporting multiprocessing? A: We have compiled Kernel OS Linux 2.0.34 using Elbrus compiler and executed on the machine simulator.
And yes, I know, Elebrus runs x86 so we could figure that out ourselves, but it's nice to hear it from them!
Just think... when this technology becomes common place, people will start using "skins" as such online with the chat protocols of the future!
Everyone will be able to interact with each other as "beautiful" people. I wonder what that will do for societies perception of beauty, because such an image will no longer be out of reach from anybody.
Perhaps we might see inner beauty become the commodity of the new age?
Currently I'm installing Linux on a new Compaq server with a brand new RAID controller.. I couldn't find it in the Linux hardware DB. So I'm pleased that this merger has come about, im sure that many sysadmins will now find it easier to convice their managers to use Linux now they can combat the "no hardware support" argument.
Let's hope these guys use their combined weight to influence hardware vendors to support their products under Linux!
I think that this is one of the most important things that Linux needs! I hope it becomes a formidable force to be feared by vendors!:)
I would expect some pretty heavy competition against such a scheme by the likes of Sony, MS, etc.. Expect lots of FUD to get thrown around if this method becomes popular.
This proposal is a really neat idea though. The PEOPLE need to hear about this kinda stuff - tell your friends, family etc...!
They are also an ISP and they charge AU$5/hr (US$3) !!!
All their products have crappy win3.1 interfaces, and sure they might have been good a while back, but these guys don't have what it takes to make this OS work...
The OSS community should have more of these kinds of awards, aiming for public recognition of various folks helping OSS in both technical and non-technical areas.
Certainly this would help to futher motivate advocates and developers alike.
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When did you first start coding? And what was your first computer?
Oh sure, is every single bit of whatever patent you worked SOOO hard for really your own creation?
I'm sure that pythagorous and einstein and newton were quite happy to share their knowledge so people like you can use it as a subset of your so called "creations" and not share. Thats really pathetic.
I mean, patents make me sick. They inflate the price of everything while at the same time deny you many opportunities. Take the drug companies for example - one won't let the other use their patent - which means that certain cures and medicines are never found!!! Is this *really* benifitial for humanity?
Sure, your feeding your family while denying those less fortunate to yourself access to these drugs. Third world countries are at the mercy of commercial drug companies because they won't share the information on how to manufacture.
No man is an island.
The misuse of intellectual property and patents in the computer industry sickens me.
We have Apple and Microsoft patenting GUI's. We have intel patenting CPU's. We have Frauenhoff with their MP3's, and we have these guys patenting compression. It's more that these companies choose to exploit their patents by having an unfair advantage on competitors, while having full reign on the consumers that use their technology.
Well, all I can say is that I am thankful of open standards, because it gives me the choice to bypass the restraints that these patents cause. But then its never impossible to escape the intellectual property, as companies try to fork open standards into their own propietry model (does html and Java ring a bell?)
Patents and intellectual property are backward. They don't help discovery - they merely hold the other guy back. Information is such a powerful thing, and to put locks on information that is benefitial to humanity is really quite selfish and evil.
I'm glad that all the important scientific discoveries were made before we had patents and intellectual property. Imagine going to your calculus exam and getting charged to use binomial approximation to solve a problem. Imagine your faculty not being able to teach you Newton's laws because they couldn't afford the royalties.
This is why things like free software and open source will go down in history on a good note, whearas Microsoft will go down in history on a bad note. Would Newton be as respected had he tried to charge people for his science? I think not.
"When I saw this submission, the first thing I thought was "And me with my 38 day uptime". That confirms it. I gotta go out ;)" Sure, 2.2.12 might be out, but do you *really* need to upgrade to it? This revision might not even fix/update anything that you use. Recompiling your kernel just because a new version came out is like warez'n'hackz kiddies making sure they always have the latest 0-day. I mean, I see alot of people who just recompile simply so they get a new spiffy version number. Well, if you ask me, it's a sad addiction to recompile if the changelog doesn't effect you. It's sad to see /. promoting such behaviour with comments as quoted above.
Cool! When can I see some KDE running on the Dreamcast? That would be impressive...
I think the whole idea of a wearable computer is silly. If we put the funding into improving wireless telecommunications, we could all just run an X session from our servers at home.. no matter where we are.
Well, this news come to me just as I purchase my first SGI box. Well, its an old Indy and I am MIGHTILY impressed with the sophistication of IRIX 6.2. It's a shame SGI isn't making it.
I heard from an employee of SGI that sun is outselling SGI on a system which sun licensed from SGI. That is.. the same system branded by SGI is selling less volume!!
I feel sorry for the employees at SGI. But I'de like to say that I think they make very fine products, and regardless of what happens I will be a supporting fan of SGI.
Hmm... the control of information is a key factor in the definition of a Totalitarian State.
... you've fought so hard for the "freedom" of other countries - yet you haven't concerned yourselves with the freedom of your own people!!
It seems that US citizens just can't seem to escape from their Gov't wanting to keep control of their information.
In a modern sense by definition, the US is part Totalitarian State. Scary huh? Do you American's remember fighting a few wars against the "evil communists" - who were also examples of Totalitarian States. I'm confused
I don't live in the US, but the thought of such intrusive Gov't powers frightens me. I'm actually quite glad that I'm not an American citizen and subject to such blatent invasions of privacy by my own Gov't.
I wish all of you US citizens good luck with opposing further constraints of your freedom by your Gov't.
The fact that AOL and MSNBC will be launching TV channels goes to show that these guys are ready to put "innovation" aside for a quick buck.
Television is a 50 year old technology. There's really not much more you can do with it nowadays than 20 years ago!
It's quite sickening to see all their consumer's money go towards an attempt to cash in on the TV broadcast industry. If I was an AOL user I would be wondering why they didn't put my fees into better network access and services.
Yes, I know - it's business. But its not CONSUMER ORIENTATED business. AOL and MSNBC doesn't care at all about their users - rather it seems they are more interested in manipulating them with glitsy banner ads and spam.
I'll pay my slightly higher fees for my local ISP. At least I'll be happy knowing that my money is going to help feed a family and upgrade my connection - I'de rather that than support a wannabee media Monopoly.
Although I don't agree with the conclusions of the report, I do feel that such a study is a Good Thing (tm).
:)
When we had the Television explosion in the 50's, nobody knew quite what to expect. Suddenly people had a new medium through which to communicate and share ideas (although it was non-interactive.) But at the same time, TV was causing "harm" to the structure of our daily lives. What scared observers of this phenomenon so much was that TV was so captivating to its viewers, and this raised many concerns as to the general use of TV. People were warned not to much too much TV, and those who did were considered "addicts".
However, nowadays, TV is a normal part of our lives, as each successive generation has adopted a greater usage of the medium. No longer is there the public concern about the usage of TV, the only concern is that of content.
The growth of the Net is exactly the same as the growth of TV 40 years ago. Just like TV was, the net is a new kind of medium, with incredible growth and many community concerns.
But instead of focussing on the EFFECTS of using the Net, let's rather focus on the CONTENT. Those who were concerned about TV and its social effects where concerned about the wrong thing. They should have been concerned about the CONTENT rather than the social effects of their children looking at the tube for hours each day.
It's quite obvious that nothing is going to stop the net boom now. But instead of worrying about people using it, lets concern ourselves with useful things such as the Commercialisation of the information. Television could have been far more useful had it not been taken over by Commercial powers. As an information tool, TV is pretty much mostly useless nowadays - its just advertising and entertainment.
If we are not careful, the net will end up in the same state as TV. Have you noticed the growth of banner ads and commercial sites? Have you noticed the increase of SPAM in your email?
I think that its a good thing that these reports bring up issues about net usage. Mainly because it allows for discussion of the CONTENT of the net. I'm not talking about Porn and Bomb-HOWTO's. Im talking about the monopoly of information on the net by commercial interests. IMHO the ownership of information by such groups is a Bad Thing(tm).
Let's just accept that the net is going to keep booming, and learn to accept that we will spend more and more time on it as the net spreads. Even if the report is correct, it would be far better that those who are "addicted" have access to free information rather than just an endless linkage of banner ads.
Just my 2c. rant
All you people using BladeEnc, I really hate to break it you but you are losing sooo much quality because of all the shortcuts that bladeenc takes.
I've checked out LAME, and although its not as fast as bladenc - it sounds alot better. Its a nice middle between the quality of l3enc and the speed of bladeenc. Its for this reason that I switched over to LAME.
Also, there are alot of nice console frontends that use LAME. So really, you're only being a zealous fan of bladeenc if you choose to keep using it.
Just my 2c.
A while back, I heard about an open source project which aimed to design a microprocessor. I think it had some imput by Carmack of ID Software. Anyone know what happened to it? I'm assuming it was freezed because it lacked the funding and support. Maybe AMD could really kick intel by opening up their processor specs in some sort of open source license. Yes, I know, it would be quite a silly economic idea for AMD - but maybe a smaller manufacturer could give it a go?
Hmm... fill your clear case with an inert solution, and put some of those sony robotic goldfish in there...
now THERE'S geek factor!!!
"his drive to break monopoly software pricing is reflected in his other tastes. For example, ... he prefers Hollywood entertainment to highbrow European art films."
Hollywood would have to be THE Monopoly of the film industry!! Hollywood is driven by capitalism and a love of money, rather than any love of story telling or making films. In comparison European films run on budgets far lower, because they realise that millions of dollars of special FX + Overpaid American actors don't necessarily make a good film.
Cough. I think we can see a little bias in this author here.
Hrmm.. is there any software out there that can be installed as a proxy which filters banner ads?
I think this is where we are headed...
Think of all the RS6000 servers out there that are sitting idle and out of date. By supporting Linux, these old machines can be given a new lease as a stable mail/news/ftp/nfs/samba/web server.
Think of how handy all those 486's have become with the use of Linux and FreeBSD. The same theory applies to the RS6000. However because these are enterprise server orientated systems, it will give Linux the opportunity to "sneak" into the enterprise market.
It's a good tactic for World Domination! Even if it was not even considered :
I hope that this information is released under the same tight restrictions as what is released under a whois lookup.
I can't help but feel that I am going to get spammed by some luser who misuses this information.
All I can hope is that the US Gov't enforces the license of the information as much as they seem to be supporting the release of it.
I'm just wondering what the people at Norton and VET do when they come across a new virus.
My guess would be that they reverse-engineer the virus to some sort of pseudo code to determine just exactly how it is working.
So really, OS virii would be easier to protect against given that the Anti-Virus engineers already have the source to them!
From one of their recent press-release Q&A's:
http://www.el2000.ru/press/press_faq-2502.html
Q: Have you already worked with OSs supporting multiprocessing?
A: We have compiled Kernel OS Linux 2.0.34 using Elbrus compiler and executed on the machine simulator.
And yes, I know, Elebrus runs x86 so we could figure that out ourselves, but it's nice to hear it from them!
Just think... when this technology becomes common place, people will start using "skins" as such online with the chat protocols of the future!
Everyone will be able to interact with each other as "beautiful" people. I wonder what that will do for societies perception of beauty, because such an image will no longer be out of reach from anybody.
Perhaps we might see inner beauty become the commodity of the new age?
This is a good thing (tm)!
:)
Currently I'm installing Linux on a new Compaq server with a brand new RAID controller.. I couldn't find it in the Linux hardware DB. So I'm pleased that this merger has come about, im sure that many sysadmins will now find it easier to convice their managers to use Linux now they can combat the "no hardware support" argument.
Let's hope these guys use their combined weight to influence hardware vendors to support their products under Linux!
I think that this is one of the most important things that Linux needs! I hope it becomes a formidable force to be feared by vendors!
Linux + AOLServer == something to be PHEARED!!!
I would expect some pretty heavy competition against such a scheme by the likes of Sony, MS, etc.. Expect lots of FUD to get thrown around if this method becomes popular.
This proposal is a really neat idea though. The PEOPLE need to hear about this kinda stuff - tell your friends, family etc...!
my 2c.
.. and MAN do they have no clue!
They are also an ISP and they charge AU$5/hr (US$3) !!!
All their products have crappy win3.1 interfaces, and sure they might have been good a while back, but these guys don't have what it takes to make this OS work...
my 2c.
The OSS community should have more of these kinds of awards, aiming for public recognition of various folks helping OSS in both technical and non-technical areas.
Certainly this would help to futher motivate advocates and developers alike.