The Linux Client doesn't seem to include either the banners or (quite obviously) the nasty windows spyware. I think overall, LimeWire's done some pretty impressive work. It's a pretty nice client, and a vast improvement over some of the early Gnutella clients. Granted - the content has gone to hell - but lets face it - it's a distributed network and we, as users provide the content.
Get it? If you're sharing garbage - it's your fault that gnutella has gone to hell.
I would think that to a great extent Attorney/Client privilege is one of the last true guarantors of a fair trial. If the prosecuting entity is aware of any and all possible defenses likely to be put forth by a defendant (regardless of actual guilt) they are likely to be able to counter in an effective manner. This will simply add to the public supposition that any one "guilty" enough to be indicted is guilty in fact.
True, the events of September 11 were tragic in scope beyond any most of us have seen before - but this is hardly a reason to let our basic human and legal rights slip so quickly. Only weeks ago I was decrying the "slippery slope" argument as reactionary - I'm sadly becoming somewhat of a believer.
Join the ACLU, write your congressman, speak out - before you're sitting in a glass walled booth with last years law school class listening in on your every word.
(Redundant) Do something else. Take a degree in something completely unrelated. I suggest literature. This will allow you several more years of school - during which you will spend most of your time arguing over the merits of a 15th century poet, or a 19th century novelist with people that you pretend to relate well to. In reality - they're your enemy, the competition, the other 10,000 people who'll be competing - post graduation - for the five jobs that exist in the field. But you will have a secret advantage - after you're refused admission to grad school, your dissertation proposal is rejected, or you get the 200th little yellow rejection slip from the publisher - you can venture back to cubicle land, sit back down before your sickly glowing crt and begin the arduous task of debugging tens of thousands of lines of code designed to ensure that the insurance industry accurately measures the risks involved in fly fishing.
Or, like a lot of displaced lit majors - you'll end up working in a coffee house, spending your tips on DSL and ram. When you get tired of that, do something else.
Remember - most people in this day and age will have something like five distinct careers (actually - I'm making that number up - but I know it's a lot) So get started early. Change you major early and often.
At JavaOne this past June - Sun had banks of Solaris systems running Gnome for checking email, harasing your firnds, making fun of Sun . ..etc.
I can't imagine them having hauled out hundreds of Sol8 systems running CDE desktops for Java Devlopers to use to chek their email. What's the point of this little tirade? Um, usuability. Yeah, that's it. Somewhere, someone will claim that they prefer the CDE (note: That's a C - not a K). They're either alums of the project, or they still have the punch cards they compiled their senior theseis with tucked under their desk.
Most sites track browsers that access their sites so that they can tailor their content/features to take advnatage of diferent browsers. It's better than the old "This site best viewd with something other than lynx"
I sugest this:
Change your user agent strings so that all your browsers report "F*#$k Micro$oft"
Granted - you wont get the pop-under adds that have been tailored to your particular socio-economic cross section - but it would be nice to see that pop up in a web trends report.
I Think there is definitely room for the quirky but brilliant - though this article doesn't so much describe eccentricity as much as it makes fun of "that guy we all know" who's forsaken society in general for several thousand lines of well formed C.
I work in a small shop. Our engineering teams are made up of exactly the kind of quirk we need. Creative, dedicated, wickedly smart, and often weird guys who simply know what they're doing. Granted, our team leans more toward the orange hair and piercings; or birks, John Lennon glasses, and tie dye than the "traditional guru" thing. We're too young and have too many Macs.
But places where there is not room for the individuality that actually drives innovations - well . . .
Sure - it'll sound like crap - but how can they really make them unripable? Like most IP schemes, this won't stop actual piracy - just casual copying. While I'm certain that this casual copying is the vast majority of the violation - isn't a lot of it covered under fair use? I mean if I rip all my old cd's onto my nomad - Then stow them all in the basement - isn't that still legal?
I would be pretty pissed if I then had to use a restricted format to play them back. I generally don't use windows. Rebooting my system to play back a single song is not an acceptable solution. If you had to unplug your CD player and make a handful of software changes in order to play a single track wouldn't you complain?
I think we should all insist that they prominently print notice of the IP scheme on the cover (Warning: Contains IP Scheme that may be offensive to anyone with half a brain) Then simply refuse to buy anything that has that scheme. There may be more Brittany fans out there than there are geeks - but we've got more money.
So, where the backdoors to be built in, who's to judge who is qualified to have access to those backdoors? Is any government allowed to use them?
Also, where there to be a back door, the entity with acess would still have to chose to use it in order to identify those communications which contained the pertinate information. wouldn't that simply mean that they would read everything? That doesn't sound particularly appealing.
Anyway, if there is a back door in any particular scheme - wouldn't you just utilize a scheme that didn't include such a back door?
Sure, C & C++ are more desirable than java for core apps. But really - what's the development time for a server side app written in C? Java allows you to develop quick, flexible and portable servlets and server side apps disgustingly quickly.
Granted - since nearly anyone who's reading anything here is a serious user, we run anything we can get our hands on hard../er's demand sick wicked reliability, and don't have too much of a problem waiting years for a stable product.
This simply isn't true for the vast majority of apps developed every year. Shops working for enterprises such as financial institutions, insurers (argh.) and most businesses turn out thousands of apps each year. Their requirements are often best met by something like java.
Just look at how much in the *nix/*BSD world is written in portable scripting langs like perl, Python, and PHP. Same thing, only a little more portable, and with a lot bigger backer.
My $0.02.
The military does not pay well, unless you're used to 200 a month. And to top it off, you might get killed. If you're in the states, try the Coast Guard - they're part of the D.O.T. not the D.O.D.
So, this might require a prett deep hack - but there are cams availibe for PDA's. Throw one together with cam, a wireless modem (PCS phone or PQA PDA maybe . ..) throw a generator on the bike week and you've got a pretty small package. The uploads might have to go through some sort of server side conversion for display - but the remote could be pretty small.
Ok. Every time anyone comes out and says anything about why would people want to have linux on the handheld, people come out of the woodwork screaming "no one cares al long as it has a calendar" etc . . .
The fact is, everyone cares about apearances. Handspring has done so well in part because of their funky colors (look at Palm scrambling to catch up). People throw new skins on I.E. (Internet Exploiter) and you can't even pretend you don't spend a least an hour a week tweaking the frames/ background/ pixmaps/ window manager on your choice of X11 desktop.
This is all about customization. Using an OSS solution for a handheld means that the vendor has better options for branding and customization, a platform where development follows already known standards, and a comunity constantly developing widgets that aren't going to cost their end users a dime.
And yes, inspite of the new Prism in my bag right now - I'll pick up a Jornada running linux first chance I get. Just don't tell my girlfriend.
Great, The world goes down with a horendous crash and all we have left are Norad's basment warming antiques.
Grab those old texts - you've got to re-learn ADA.
This is another example of a corporate solution designed to stave off undesirable market activity that ends up hurting the consumer.
Sure, to some extent the corporation has every right to set different prices in different locales. However, what right do they have to prevent an individual from moving those objects which they have legally purchased from one locale to another?
In the increasingly global economy of today - it's hardly rare for those in certain industries to frequently relocate. How much fun would it be to have that nice new walkman you picked up while working in Singapore turn into a pumpkin upon your return to the United States.
This sort of regulation belongs to those legitimately elected/appointed officials of governments -Not profit hungry corporate entities.
I'm curious, was the logo emblazoned on the players themselves, or just their clothing - I mean there has to be a next step, a one up for one sponsor over another.
The current state of the corporatocracy and the structure of american greed means that academic institutions (such as the one I currently work for) have to beg moneies not from the traditional sources (well established alumni or parents) but from the ever greedy, anything but humble corporations who see acadme as just another billboard. Send 'em to hell. Use open source, refuse to wear branded items, and whine like hell when they try to open a Pepsico Memorial Pizza Hut Center for applied sciences anywhere in the country.
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The Linux Client doesn't seem to include either the banners or (quite obviously) the nasty windows spyware. I think overall, LimeWire's done some pretty impressive work. It's a pretty nice client, and a vast improvement over some of the early Gnutella clients. Granted - the content has gone to hell - but lets face it - it's a distributed network and we, as users provide the content.
Get it? If you're sharing garbage - it's your fault that gnutella has gone to hell.
There's gonna be a firewall huh? How much you wanna bet they'de want it to run windows. :)
I would think that to a great extent Attorney/Client privilege is one of the last true guarantors of a fair trial. If the prosecuting entity is aware of any and all possible defenses likely to be put forth by a defendant (regardless of actual guilt) they are likely to be able to counter in an effective manner. This will simply add to the public supposition that any one "guilty" enough to be indicted is guilty in fact.
True, the events of September 11 were tragic in scope beyond any most of us have seen before - but this is hardly a reason to let our basic human and legal rights slip so quickly. Only weeks ago I was decrying the "slippery slope" argument as reactionary - I'm sadly becoming somewhat of a believer.
Join the ACLU, write your congressman, speak out - before you're sitting in a glass walled booth with last years law school class listening in on your every word.
(Redundant) Do something else. Take a degree in something completely unrelated. I suggest literature. This will allow you several more years of school - during which you will spend most of your time arguing over the merits of a 15th century poet, or a 19th century novelist with people that you pretend to relate well to. In reality - they're your enemy, the competition, the other 10,000 people who'll be competing - post graduation - for the five jobs that exist in the field. But you will have a secret advantage - after you're refused admission to grad school, your dissertation proposal is rejected, or you get the 200th little yellow rejection slip from the publisher - you can venture back to cubicle land, sit back down before your sickly glowing crt and begin the arduous task of debugging tens of thousands of lines of code designed to ensure that the insurance industry accurately measures the risks involved in fly fishing.
Or, like a lot of displaced lit majors - you'll end up working in a coffee house, spending your tips on DSL and ram. When you get tired of that, do something else.
Remember - most people in this day and age will have something like five distinct careers (actually - I'm making that number up - but I know it's a lot) So get started early. Change you major early and often.
At JavaOne this past June - Sun had banks of Solaris systems running Gnome for checking email, harasing your firnds, making fun of Sun . . .etc.
I can't imagine them having hauled out hundreds of Sol8 systems running CDE desktops for Java Devlopers to use to chek their email. What's the point of this little tirade? Um, usuability. Yeah, that's it. Somewhere, someone will claim that they prefer the CDE (note: That's a C - not a K). They're either alums of the project, or they still have the punch cards they compiled their senior theseis with tucked under their desk.
Most sites track browsers that access their sites so that they can tailor their content/features to take advnatage of diferent browsers. It's better than the old "This site best viewd with something other than lynx"
I sugest this:
Change your user agent strings so that all your browsers report "F*#$k Micro$oft"
Granted - you wont get the pop-under adds that have been tailored to your particular socio-economic cross section - but it would be nice to see that pop up in a web trends report.
I Think there is definitely room for the quirky but brilliant - though this article doesn't so much describe eccentricity as much as it makes fun of "that guy we all know" who's forsaken society in general for several thousand lines of well formed C.
I work in a small shop. Our engineering teams are made up of exactly the kind of quirk we need. Creative, dedicated, wickedly smart, and often weird guys who simply know what they're doing. Granted, our team leans more toward the orange hair and piercings; or birks, John Lennon glasses, and tie dye than the "traditional guru" thing. We're too young and have too many Macs.
But places where there is not room for the individuality that actually drives innovations - well . . .
Hear Hear.
It's your responsibility as a US citizen to watch out for your own rights.
Join the ACLU.
Write your congressperson.
Whine and complain, as long as you're right.
Can't you still use analog rips?
Sure - it'll sound like crap - but how can they really make them unripable? Like most IP schemes, this won't stop actual piracy - just casual copying. While I'm certain that this casual copying is the vast majority of the violation - isn't a lot of it covered under fair use? I mean if I rip all my old cd's onto my nomad - Then stow them all in the basement - isn't that still legal?
I would be pretty pissed if I then had to use a restricted format to play them back. I generally don't use windows. Rebooting my system to play back a single song is not an acceptable solution. If you had to unplug your CD player and make a handful of software changes in order to play a single track wouldn't you complain?
I think we should all insist that they prominently print notice of the IP scheme on the cover (Warning: Contains IP Scheme that may be offensive to anyone with half a brain) Then simply refuse to buy anything that has that scheme. There may be more Brittany fans out there than there are geeks - but we've got more money.
So, where the backdoors to be built in, who's to judge who is qualified to have access to those backdoors? Is any government allowed to use them?
Also, where there to be a back door, the entity with acess would still have to chose to use it in order to identify those communications which contained the pertinate information. wouldn't that simply mean that they would read everything? That doesn't sound particularly appealing.
Anyway, if there is a back door in any particular scheme - wouldn't you just utilize a scheme that didn't include such a back door?
Sure, C & C++ are more desirable than java for core apps. But really - what's the development time for a server side app written in C? Java allows you to develop quick, flexible and portable servlets and server side apps disgustingly quickly. Granted - since nearly anyone who's reading anything here is a serious user, we run anything we can get our hands on hard. ./er's demand sick wicked reliability, and don't have too much of a problem waiting years for a stable product.
This simply isn't true for the vast majority of apps developed every year. Shops working for enterprises such as financial institutions, insurers (argh.) and most businesses turn out thousands of apps each year. Their requirements are often best met by something like java.
Just look at how much in the *nix/*BSD world is written in portable scripting langs like perl, Python, and PHP. Same thing, only a little more portable, and with a lot bigger backer.
My $0.02.
The military does not pay well, unless you're used to 200 a month. And to top it off, you might get killed. If you're in the states, try the Coast Guard - they're part of the D.O.T. not the D.O.D.
So, this might require a prett deep hack - but there are cams availibe for PDA's. Throw one together with cam, a wireless modem (PCS phone or PQA PDA maybe . . .) throw a generator on the bike week and you've got a pretty small package. The uploads might have to go through some sort of server side conversion for display - but the remote could be pretty small.
Ok. Every time anyone comes out and says anything about why would people want to have linux on the handheld, people come out of the woodwork screaming "no one cares al long as it has a calendar" etc . . .
The fact is, everyone cares about apearances. Handspring has done so well in part because of their funky colors (look at Palm scrambling to catch up). People throw new skins on I.E. (Internet Exploiter) and you can't even pretend you don't spend a least an hour a week tweaking the frames/ background/ pixmaps/ window manager on your choice of X11 desktop.
This is all about customization. Using an OSS solution for a handheld means that the vendor has better options for branding and customization, a platform where development follows already known standards, and a comunity constantly developing widgets that aren't going to cost their end users a dime.
And yes, inspite of the new Prism in my bag right now - I'll pick up a Jornada running linux first chance I get. Just don't tell my girlfriend.
Great, The world goes down with a horendous crash and all we have left are Norad's basment warming antiques. Grab those old texts - you've got to re-learn ADA.
This is another example of a corporate solution designed to stave off undesirable market activity that ends up hurting the consumer. Sure, to some extent the corporation has every right to set different prices in different locales. However, what right do they have to prevent an individual from moving those objects which they have legally purchased from one locale to another? In the increasingly global economy of today - it's hardly rare for those in certain industries to frequently relocate. How much fun would it be to have that nice new walkman you picked up while working in Singapore turn into a pumpkin upon your return to the United States. This sort of regulation belongs to those legitimately elected/appointed officials of governments -Not profit hungry corporate entities.
I'm curious, was the logo emblazoned on the players themselves, or just their clothing - I mean there has to be a next step, a one up for one sponsor over another. The current state of the corporatocracy and the structure of american greed means that academic institutions (such as the one I currently work for) have to beg moneies not from the traditional sources (well established alumni or parents) but from the ever greedy, anything but humble corporations who see acadme as just another billboard. Send 'em to hell. Use open source, refuse to wear branded items, and whine like hell when they try to open a Pepsico Memorial Pizza Hut Center for applied sciences anywhere in the country.