In further news today, Aureal was bought by Creative Labs, so the old a3d tech (great 3d sound in windows, but linux drivers that were about as good as two tons of cow manure) is owned by them. Judging by creatives past record of innovation on the sound front (they sold the same card with no features added for three years straight) I wouldnt hold my breath on them innovating any until another upstart Aureal type company pops up. Even then you have only have the time between the sound card shipping till creative sicks their lawyers on them.
Honestly the best place to make one would be in a college town. Find a couple of people in your major to rent a house with, line your 10/100baseT cable around and set up a firewall proxy for your dsl/cable modem. Most college students live communally to save costs anyway, so all you have to do is throw in the lan. Dont expect it to become a toga party haven though;)
An important thing to remember is that these people often come from poor, impoverished countries that could use their skills to make some improvement in their societies. Problem is for various reasons, once they come to the US, they dont want to go back. I live in a college town and see many students who come to the US on a student visa, and then have to be dragged kicking and screaming back to their country once they graduate. I notice it especially with female students, who once they experience a society in which women hold a much higher stature than in their home country, dont ever want to go back. So whats to do? Go with whats best for the person, and let them stay, or go with whats best for their country, and send them back and hope they can help their country out of economic woes, and enact some social change? Its not an easy decision, and one I wouldn't want to make.
After reading the article, I definately think its a bit sensationalistic. The stupidity of the general populace is rather great, but even Joe Blow on the street would start thinking of revolution under those circumstances. Anyway, I guess it was more to give the reader a good shock about the copyright stuff anyway than any legitimate vision of the future. Kinda reminds me of "A Modest Proposal" in a way.
about the only recently sold palm that it wont work with is the palm 3e which doesnt have the ability to upgrade its os. I believe it uses normal rom instead of eeproms but i'm not exactly sure.
First,let me say that I am a student at OSU. Until recently, the campus has been pretty cool about mp3's, letting napster run rampant ( we havent had the problems of it sucking all the bandwidth). Now we find that they are gonna go after an mp3 pirate. OK fine, they are legally obligated to do so after they are informed that such a thing is taking place. My problem is the fact that cracking runs rampant on campus and there is little if any enoforcement on that. I have forwarded attack logs on several occasions (none of the attacks have been successful so far), and have heard nothing from them. Aren't they legally obligated to do something about that? Its attempted breaking and entering, which is a crime I'd consider more serious than copyright infringement. In my opinion, they need to stop wasting their time with this RIAA bs, and actually do something of service to the students, like maybe help stop the cracking on campus. Once they do that, then if they feel the need to be the RIAA's lapdog, thats their business. Do what the students and state government pay you to do, provide a safe and reasonably secure network. Then worry about the rest.
I have noticed a trend among many of my linux using friends and myself. Alot start with Redhat or mandrake, and then once they are comfortable with the whole linux experience they switch, Usually to debian or slackware or a BSD unix. I myself started with RedHat 4.2 and went till 5.2, and then switched to debian. My theory is that Redhat's easy install is a great selling point to the newbie, but then other considerations take precedent after the shock of learning a new OS has worn off. Maybe this study is just showing a maturing linux distro market. Of course with no slack or debian numbers, its kinda hard to prove my point.
I use GAIM 0.9.20 and have not been kicked off, in fact I restarted it just to make sure. The official AOL client however give me an "unknown error" when I login. It'd be just like AOL to break their own client while trying to kick out all the non-official ones.
Well, when you pay for a doctor, lawyer, or computer professional, you aren't paying for the information they have accumulated per se. You are paying for the time that they spent accumulating the knowledge, and the experience to make judgements based on that information. I could read medical text for years, but with out any practice or study under someone with experience, I wouldn't be a good doctor. Same with a lawyer or a computer professional. Its the judgement gained from researching freely available information and the experience of practicing the field for years. That being said, information will be free whether it wants to or not, because the people want it to. Doctors, lawyers, and IT professionals will still be paid, because they add something to information, experienced judgement.
Last I checked, anything that depended on qt was in non-free. There's quite a bit in non-free, like non open SSH, and portsentry, and tripwire. And the debian social contract states that non-free software can be included, it just cant be something that the system cant be dependant upon its install. That being said, debian should have had kde a long time ago, and just put it in non-free. But adding kde.tdyc.com to my sources.list wasnt that big of a deal anyways.
Ok, I know that there is not much of a chance that IT will blow up in our faces anytime soon (if ever) but college does give you something job experience doesn't. A degree can get you a job in alot of different fields, no where close to your specialization. So if the IT world goes to pot, you can at least have some edge in finding jobs else where. That being said, I dont see any bottoming out in the field for a very long time.
Well nano tech would seem to provide something similar to the idea of digital food. Still I cant help but think of the possibility of someone copyrighting an apple.
Being fabless certainly didn't hurt Nvidia or 3dfx (back when 3dfx still just made chips). I know that they are in the video market, but those companies made good and highly competitive products. If the final chip is as half as good as transmeta is leading on (at this point believing their hype is an exercise in futility) they have a shot. But going this way is risky as hell. If they are the best, then there will be plenty of money to buy fabrication and all will be well. If not, they are going to be gone so quick that it will make your head spin. That being said, yes right now its alot of "Linus works there, it must be good" hype going on. Call me when they have a product.
Ironically, Napster and DeCSS are both excellent examples of the futility of the tired old men stopping something they cant. Sure there is a very good chance that Napster will die soon, however for gnutella to be stopped, the internet would have to be completely shut down. Suing AOL isn't going to shut it down at all, as they have no control over it. Same with FreeNet. DeCSS may be illegal, but it sure hasn't stopped it from being available on the net. These cases are great examples of how the decentralized nature of the internet makes it impossible to impose an outside order. The genie is out of the bottle, and there isn't anything any government can do to put it back.
Xfree86 4.0.1 deb packages are here . They arent apt-getable yet, and are not even beta by debian standards. But I have had good luck with them (except the font server, which seems to crash on init every time) on a geforce card with the binary nvidia drivers.
I just think this is another step in the whole move to wireless in just about everything. I know more people who have forsaken the land line for just a cel phone. And I know alot who have gotten rid of cable for dishes as well. The cost of wiring everyone to all the networks is quite high. Using radio is prolly alot cheaper than throwing fiber all over the place. The one thing that would be nice though is a way to do the internet satellite link with out the dish. Then it would be a real killer app for whoever made a handheld computer that uses it. I guess we just have to wait for the 150k cel service.
Standard IANAL: Wrong, NDA's would generally be considered under a civil trial, not a criminal trial, and as such follow a different level that
must be proved for innocence or guilt. Its simply
the preponderance of evidence, as opposed to
beyond a reasonable doubt. Basically, in a civil trial, it only has to be reasonable to assume that you did it judging by the evidence, as opposed to criminal where it must be proven that you did it.
All I could think of when I read this story is the episode of The Tick where Chairface Chippendale tries to write his name on the moon with a gigantic laser. I have the sudden urge to see "Ned" in huge letters across the night sky.
This seems to be a knee jerk reaction to the Gnome
Foundation. If it is a bridge application, its a bad idea for MS in the operating systems area. Linux people are running from M$ ( data seems to say that they are running from other Unix's more though). But porting office only weaken's the M$ windows hold. The only way it makes any sense is if M$ is split in two, it gives the apps company even more of a market share, but it screws the OS portion. I wont run it either way. Give me a true XML standards based office program instead. And wasn't the horrors of VB scripting on Linux already explored in User Friendly last week?
Ok, there are gonna be alot of people bitching about how slow debian is on releases. Well, if you are gonna run a server, running the latest and greatest is a bad idea. With the long testing periods, when a release makes stable, you know damn well its stable. As for those who want to be on the bleeding edge, there is the unstable directory. I run stable on anything like a server, but on my personal machine, where I like to play with the latest Helixcode gnome, the unstable is great. Debian's release system give you the information so that you can make a somewhat informed decision on stability vs. being current, and I appreciate that.
I bought CivCTP when it came out, and had little if any problems with it. Same with HMM 3. I will buy Alpha Centauri as well. Still its a bitch to setup 3d for games like quake 3 and UT. UT especially is border line impossible if you dont have a 3dfx card. I finally did set it up properly to play, but I spent quite a while on the net trying to find all the drivers, additions to configuration files, things like that. The other thing is that it is so easy to keep a windows partition for games. I dont see a diablo 2 linux version, so as long as I have a partition for that, its just easier to have quake 3 and UT in windows.
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I signed up for one of the free cds, any idea when they will start shipping? I'm looking forward for another OS to play with.
In further news today, Aureal was bought by Creative Labs, so the old a3d tech (great 3d sound in windows, but linux drivers that were about as good as two tons of cow manure) is owned by them. Judging by creatives past record of innovation on the sound front (they sold the same card with no features added for three years straight) I wouldnt hold my breath on them innovating any until another upstart Aureal type company pops up. Even then you have only have the time between the sound card shipping till creative sicks their lawyers on them.
Honestly the best place to make one would be in a college town. Find a couple of people in your major to rent a house with, line your 10/100baseT cable around and set up a firewall proxy for your dsl/cable modem. Most college students live communally to save costs anyway, so all you have to do is throw in the lan. Dont expect it to become a toga party haven though ;)
An important thing to remember is that these people often come from poor, impoverished countries that could use their skills to make some improvement in their societies. Problem is for various reasons, once they come to the US, they dont want to go back. I live in a college town and see many students who come to the US on a student visa, and then have to be dragged kicking and screaming back to their country once they graduate. I notice it especially with female students, who once they experience a society in which women hold a much higher stature than in their home country, dont ever want to go back. So whats to do? Go with whats best for the person, and let them stay, or go with whats best for their country, and send them back and hope they can help their country out of economic woes, and enact some social change? Its not an easy decision, and one I wouldn't want to make.
After reading the article, I definately think its a bit sensationalistic. The stupidity of the general populace is rather great, but even Joe Blow on the street would start thinking of revolution under those circumstances. Anyway, I guess it was more to give the reader a good shock about the copyright stuff anyway than any legitimate vision of the future. Kinda reminds me of "A Modest Proposal" in a way.
about the only recently sold palm that it wont work with is the palm 3e which doesnt have the ability to upgrade its os. I believe it uses normal rom instead of eeproms but i'm not exactly sure.
First,let me say that I am a student at OSU. Until recently, the campus has been pretty cool about mp3's, letting napster run rampant ( we havent had the problems of it sucking all the bandwidth). Now we find that they are gonna go after an mp3 pirate. OK fine, they are legally obligated to do so after they are informed that such a thing is taking place. My problem is the fact that cracking runs rampant on campus and there is little if any enoforcement on that. I have forwarded attack logs on several occasions (none of the attacks have been successful so far), and have heard nothing from them. Aren't they legally obligated to do something about that? Its attempted breaking and entering, which is a crime I'd consider more serious than copyright infringement. In my opinion, they need to stop wasting their time with this RIAA bs, and actually do something of service to the students, like maybe help stop the cracking on campus. Once they do that, then if they feel the need to be the RIAA's lapdog, thats their business. Do what the students and state government pay you to do, provide a safe and reasonably secure network. Then worry about the rest.
Welcome to the US, a corporate republic. Where profits come before rights.
I have noticed a trend among many of my linux using friends and myself. Alot start with Redhat or mandrake, and then once they are comfortable with the whole linux experience they switch, Usually to debian or slackware or a BSD unix. I myself started with RedHat 4.2 and went till 5.2, and then switched to debian. My theory is that Redhat's easy install is a great selling point to the newbie, but then other considerations take precedent after the shock of learning a new OS has worn off. Maybe this study is just showing a maturing linux distro market. Of course with no slack or debian numbers, its kinda hard to prove my point.
I use GAIM 0.9.20 and have not been kicked off, in fact I restarted it just to make sure. The official AOL client however give me an "unknown error" when I login. It'd be just like AOL to break their own client while trying to kick out all the non-official ones.
And dont forget to wipe thine ass like an ninny with what is written as well.
Well, when you pay for a doctor, lawyer, or computer professional, you aren't paying for the information they have accumulated per se. You are paying for the time that they spent accumulating the knowledge, and the experience to make judgements based on that information. I could read medical text for years, but with out any practice or study under someone with experience, I wouldn't be a good doctor. Same with a lawyer or a computer professional. Its the judgement gained from researching freely available information and the experience of practicing the field for years. That being said, information will be free whether it wants to or not, because the people want it to. Doctors, lawyers, and IT professionals will still be paid, because they add something to information, experienced judgement.
Last I checked, anything that depended on qt was in non-free. There's quite a bit in non-free, like non open SSH, and portsentry, and tripwire. And the debian social contract states that non-free software can be included, it just cant be something that the system cant be dependant upon its install. That being said, debian should have had kde a long time ago, and just put it in non-free. But adding kde.tdyc.com to my sources.list wasnt that big of a deal anyways.
Ok, I know that there is not much of a chance that IT will blow up in our faces anytime soon (if ever) but college does give you something job experience doesn't. A degree can get you a job in alot of different fields, no where close to your specialization. So if the IT world goes to pot, you can at least have some edge in finding jobs else where. That being said, I dont see any bottoming out in the field for a very long time.
Well nano tech would seem to provide something similar to the idea of digital food. Still I cant help but think of the possibility of someone copyrighting an apple.
Being fabless certainly didn't hurt Nvidia or 3dfx (back when 3dfx still just made chips). I know that they are in the video market, but those companies made good and highly competitive products. If the final chip is as half as good as transmeta is leading on (at this point believing their hype is an exercise in futility) they have a shot. But going this way is risky as hell. If they are the best, then there will be plenty of money to buy fabrication and all will be well. If not, they are going to be gone so quick that it will make your head spin. That being said, yes right now its alot of "Linus works there, it must be good" hype going on. Call me when they have a product.
Ironically, Napster and DeCSS are both excellent examples of the futility of the tired old men stopping something they cant. Sure there is a very good chance that Napster will die soon, however for gnutella to be stopped, the internet would have to be completely shut down. Suing AOL isn't going to shut it down at all, as they have no control over it. Same with FreeNet. DeCSS may be illegal, but it sure hasn't stopped it from being available on the net. These cases are great examples of how the decentralized nature of the internet makes it impossible to impose an outside order. The genie is out of the bottle, and there isn't anything any government can do to put it back.
Xfree86 4.0.1 deb packages are here . They arent apt-getable yet, and are not even beta by debian standards. But I have had good luck with them (except the font server, which seems to crash on init every time) on a geforce card with the binary nvidia drivers.
I just think this is another step in the whole move to wireless in just about everything. I know more people who have forsaken the land line for just a cel phone. And I know alot who have gotten rid of cable for dishes as well. The cost of wiring everyone to all the networks is quite high. Using radio is prolly alot cheaper than throwing fiber all over the place. The one thing that would be nice though is a way to do the internet satellite link with out the dish. Then it would be a real killer app for whoever made a handheld computer that uses it. I guess we just have to wait for the 150k cel service.
Standard IANAL: Wrong, NDA's would generally be considered under a civil trial, not a criminal trial, and as such follow a different level that must be proved for innocence or guilt. Its simply the preponderance of evidence, as opposed to beyond a reasonable doubt. Basically, in a civil trial, it only has to be reasonable to assume that you did it judging by the evidence, as opposed to criminal where it must be proven that you did it.
Honestly, is there anything left of SCO worth Caldera shelling out the money it paid?
All I could think of when I read this story is the episode of The Tick where Chairface Chippendale tries to write his name on the moon with a gigantic laser. I have the sudden urge to see "Ned" in huge letters across the night sky.
This seems to be a knee jerk reaction to the Gnome Foundation. If it is a bridge application, its a bad idea for MS in the operating systems area. Linux people are running from M$ ( data seems to say that they are running from other Unix's more though). But porting office only weaken's the M$ windows hold. The only way it makes any sense is if M$ is split in two, it gives the apps company even more of a market share, but it screws the OS portion. I wont run it either way. Give me a true XML standards based office program instead. And wasn't the horrors of VB scripting on Linux already explored in User Friendly last week?
Ok, there are gonna be alot of people bitching about how slow debian is on releases. Well, if you are gonna run a server, running the latest and greatest is a bad idea. With the long testing periods, when a release makes stable, you know damn well its stable. As for those who want to be on the bleeding edge, there is the unstable directory. I run stable on anything like a server, but on my personal machine, where I like to play with the latest Helixcode gnome, the unstable is great. Debian's release system give you the information so that you can make a somewhat informed decision on stability vs. being current, and I appreciate that.
I bought CivCTP when it came out, and had little if any problems with it. Same with HMM 3. I will buy Alpha Centauri as well. Still its a bitch to setup 3d for games like quake 3 and UT. UT especially is border line impossible if you dont have a 3dfx card. I finally did set it up properly to play, but I spent quite a while on the net trying to find all the drivers, additions to configuration files, things like that. The other thing is that it is so easy to keep a windows partition for games. I dont see a diablo 2 linux version, so as long as I have a partition for that, its just easier to have quake 3 and UT in windows.