We always knew that RMS is a zealot. I ran into him quite a bit in the 1980s. I could tell that then. While one may have thought it was a bit much then, now is it that radical? Companies are putting rootkits into computers in the name of DRM, sponsoring bills that allow copyright holders to hack into your system and destroy YOUR system with immunity -- if they think that you may have violated their copyright.
Is GPL 3 that unreasonable given the behavior of the RIAA and MPAA of recent?
With the right software, the IPhone and others will be fighting to keep up with it. If it does this with a free software package -- I mean no monthly charge, it could kill. Ie. use the GPS for turn by turn integrating with mapquest or to identify the location (ie. the kid phone). But have a feature so if you lose the phone, find it via a web site.
You could have a big brother application. Or an advertising driven phone that tracks you to display ads for stores that you walk by.
It refers to the lawsuit that was filed on May 19th.
lso, anti-virus software on Windows is so invasive that running two different scanners at the same time is just plain crazy. I imagine root kits and virus scanners do a lot of the same things. They all make a total mess of your OS. And not being a monopoly, I can't see how Kaspersky has an obligation to play nice with others.
I agree, mostly. To have multiple anti-virus or spyware packages running resident is nuts. Running Norton is nuts too. But running multiple scanners (different times) is not nuts.
Anti-virus software has to have information regarding virii and a package may pick up on it. There are some virii and trojans that use a modified version of Kaspersky to prevent competitors from infecting the same machine.
The 80 column standard came from punch cards. This then brought it to terminals.
I think that Woz did a cute thing with the 2k video memory design so that the entire 64k address space was refreshed with the video display was refreshed, eliminating the additional work needed for seperate refresh cycles of the system ram.
While a chapter president of the DPMA, at least once a month there was an argument "are we a mainframe group or PC group?" My response is it does not matter, the same principal applies. The only difference is if a mainframe goes down, people are fired.
What is a mainframe now? Multiple hard drives running live backups? PCs do that. ECC memory, PCs do that too. 24/7 operation? Non-windows based systems do that.
Suprised that it does not work on X64? Or suprised that the kool-aid drinking employees would delete anything that didn't say that the iPhone was not almost God like?
Dell's attorney (Tracy Holland) was told that he would be contacted by the attorney representing Consumerist. This indicates that Consumerist is represented by counsel. In most states, the bar rules prohibit an attorney from directly communicating with represented opposing parties.
I believe that the same studies also indicated that talking to the person in the car is as dangerous as talking on the cell phone.
I remember in a couple of states that the police, for a while, outlawed the use of CB radios under the guise of it being dangerous because you took 1 hand off of the steering wheel.
The study needs to determine if the the person has the ability to talk and drive at the same time. There are some people I have seen driving who lack the brain power to breath and drive at the same time.
She does seem to understand how it works. It was a thorough and well reasoned decision. I still have problems with it on the issue of server load and privacy, but she seemed to addressed the privacy issue.
I am a bit suprised that she did not order Plaintiff pay the costs for this data collection which is permitted when discovery product has a cost associated with it.
Remember judges and lawyers don't always understand technology.
I had Defendants in one case demand that I hand over the spam. The discovery act requires me to produce it in the form nomally kept in -- OS/2 files, with my notes in the extended attributes. He then later asked that they be printed in the form it is normally viewed. Of course, I responded that I'd be happy to do it, but he have to pay for that discovery.
It is called fat. You have quite a bit of overhead when it comes to handling the tables for the object abstractions. Don't get me wrong, I like some of those features, but it comes at a price. And of course, forget templates.
I had a phone interview with a company that built underwater seismic monitors. They would run on battery and every so often be pulled up from the bottom of the sea, data downloaded, and a new battery installed.
This would spin-up a hard drive when ram disk ran out of space. Lets see you do this in C++ or Java.
I am bettting that if you were able to program on the palm, you were better than the average Window programmer since you were required to be efficient and understand the platform.
These "Windows programmers" don't understand what it is like to write efficient progams.
It makes no sense to me. It seems as though they promote the use of CO2 extraction as an aleternative to saving energy because they can avoid global warming.
While this may be true, but it still drains the limited energy supply of the planet.
This seems useful for closed environments (space stations, moonbase alpha, sea lab, etc), but is it more efficient than current methods? It does not compare to current technology, as this may be only valid for larger scale conversion.
Bring it on! Bullies tend to back down when confronted. Take a look at happens when David Linhardt realizes that Mark Ferguson was going to fight back. http://www.spamsuite.com/node/82
They forgot Earth: Final Conflict. The 3d movement interface in flying the shuttles were interesting. Of course if it was not a woman pilot, would the movements be the same?
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We always knew that RMS is a zealot. I ran into him quite a bit in the 1980s. I could tell that then. While one may have thought it was a bit much then, now is it that radical? Companies are putting rootkits into computers in the name of DRM, sponsoring bills that allow copyright holders to hack into your system and destroy YOUR system with immunity -- if they think that you may have violated their copyright.
Is GPL 3 that unreasonable given the behavior of the RIAA and MPAA of recent?
What it needs is a killer application or two.
With the right software, the IPhone and others will be fighting to keep up with it. If it does this with a free software package -- I mean no monthly charge, it could kill. Ie. use the GPS for turn by turn integrating with mapquest or to identify the location (ie. the kid phone). But have a feature so if you lose the phone, find it via a web site.
You could have a big brother application. Or an advertising driven phone that tracks you to display ads for stores that you walk by.
I agree, mostly. To have multiple anti-virus or spyware packages running resident is nuts. Running Norton is nuts too.
But running multiple scanners (different times) is not nuts.
Anti-virus software has to have information regarding virii and a package may pick up on it. There are some virii and trojans that use a modified version of Kaspersky to prevent competitors from infecting the same machine.
No, it is not reporting home. It is making a list that the USER AUTHORIZED to make.
Now, if this list is sent to MPAA central now that is not an authorized action.
I would contend if the action is not authorized, then it would be a violation of California Penal Code 502.
The 80 column standard came from punch cards. This then brought it to terminals.
I think that Woz did a cute thing with the 2k video memory design so that the entire 64k address space was refreshed with the video display was refreshed, eliminating the additional work needed for seperate refresh cycles of the system ram.
I suspect part of the performance difference is because of poor programming by Microsoft programmers.
Is the transaction speed difference due to the speed of the hardware or the tight programming of the OS and the application on the mainframe?
While a chapter president of the DPMA, at least once a month there was an argument "are we a mainframe group or PC group?" My response is it does not matter, the same principal applies. The only difference is if a mainframe goes down, people are fired.
What is a mainframe now? Multiple hard drives running live backups? PCs do that. ECC memory, PCs do that too. 24/7 operation? Non-windows based systems do that.
So how is a mainframe different from a PC?
Suprised that it does not work on X64? Or suprised that the kool-aid drinking employees would delete anything that didn't say that the iPhone was not almost God like?
How about a nice game of chess?
No. I want to play thermal nuclear war!
Dell's attorney (Tracy Holland) was told that he would be contacted by the attorney representing Consumerist. This indicates that Consumerist is represented by counsel. In most states, the bar rules prohibit an attorney from directly communicating with represented opposing parties.
I believe that the same studies also indicated that talking to the person in the car is as dangerous as talking on the cell phone.
I remember in a couple of states that the police, for a while, outlawed the use of CB radios under the guise of it being dangerous because you took 1 hand off of the steering wheel.
The study needs to determine if the the person has the ability to talk and drive at the same time. There are some people I have seen driving who lack the brain power to breath and drive at the same time.
She does seem to understand how it works. It was a thorough and well reasoned decision. I still have problems with it on the issue of server load and privacy, but she seemed to addressed the privacy issue.
I am a bit suprised that she did not order Plaintiff pay the costs for this data collection which is permitted when discovery product has a cost associated with it.
Remember judges and lawyers don't always understand technology.
I had Defendants in one case demand that I hand over the spam. The discovery act requires me to produce it in the form nomally kept in -- OS/2 files, with my notes in the extended attributes. He then later asked that they be printed in the form it is normally viewed. Of course, I responded that I'd be happy to do it, but he have to pay for that discovery.
It is called fat. You have quite a bit of overhead when it comes to handling the tables for the object abstractions. Don't get me wrong, I like some of those features, but it comes at a price. And of course, forget templates.
I had a phone interview with a company that built underwater seismic monitors. They would run on battery and every so often be pulled up from the bottom of the sea, data downloaded, and a new battery installed.
This would spin-up a hard drive when ram disk ran out of space. Lets see you do this in C++ or Java.
This is a job for REAL PROGRAMMERS".
REAL PROGRAMMERS ONLY NEED 64K.
I am bettting that if you were able to program on the palm, you were better than the average Window programmer since you were required to be efficient and understand the platform.
These "Windows programmers" don't understand what it is like to write efficient progams.
Maybe Will Robinson will find Scotty.
Isn't that what he said about many idea before he stole them?
Is that patent for gotos in code? What about when someone says, "Goto Hell?"
Quantus is a safe airline.
"Quantas never crashed.
- Quantas? - Never crashed." Raymond Babbitt.
It makes no sense to me. It seems as though they promote the use of CO2 extraction as an aleternative to saving energy because they can avoid global warming.
While this may be true, but it still drains the limited energy supply of the planet.
This seems useful for closed environments (space stations, moonbase alpha, sea lab, etc), but is it more efficient than current methods? It does not compare to current technology, as this may be only valid for larger scale conversion.
Bring it on!
Bullies tend to back down when confronted. Take a look at happens when David Linhardt realizes that Mark Ferguson was going to fight back. http://www.spamsuite.com/node/82
Though he did not get jail time, he still was convicted. http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/6805/articles/morris-w orm.html
Isn't Windows Approved a warning message?
They forgot Earth: Final Conflict. The 3d movement interface in flying the shuttles were interesting. Of course if it was not a woman pilot, would the movements be the same?