I really hope you can see that Land is such a bad example. I can not own exclusive access to a heavily used river or stream, without denying that access to others. There is only so much to go around. In fact overpopulation is a huge problem on Earth right now.
With intellectual property- there is no analogy. You can make as many copies of my "river" and do whatever you want with them- and it will never affect me in any way.
As for the forcing thing? Give me a break. It doesnt force you to do anything- except not impose restrictions on what others can do. As for what you can do yourself- Free licenses say nothing about that.
There is a large body of free IP that you can use- and nobody will say you cannot- Even if you never contribute anything at all back- Even if you write disparaging articles/comments about it, Even if you encourage others to avoid it, but Not if you want to disallow other's to use it as well as you have. It costs no-one nothing that you have your copy. You should cost no-one that you do.
So just take advantage of the parts you like- then live and let live. Noone will force you to give anything back. Just remember that you dont own any of it- other people "own" it (in the sense of artifical laws), and you will do fine.
The amount a contractor can pay its employee's is determined by the government payscale, so if the government gets a higher opinion of tech workers, then trust me, the companies will pay more.
They really dont care how much they have to pay their employees, just so long as the government covers it plus profit margin.
I work at a gov't contractor, and in fact they just lost me to a commercial company. Reason: I have essentially hit the ceiling of what the government says you can pay a programmer with no college degree. They would loved to have kept me here, and told me as much- they just didnt have any room left to give me a raise.
Its so hard to get decent programmers these days, that companies are really willing to pay whatever it takes to retain them. Take advantage of it while it lasts. Ive managed to quadruple my salary over 1 year.
Its about the fact that you can never deprive a musician of his music- but you can enrich other's with it.
There is a way for creators of knowledge/art to profit from it without artificially restricting it.
Proprietary licenses are about control, restricting who can do what; much like Authoritarian governments such as communism or fascism.
Free software licenses emphasize allowing people to share. The GPL is the most free- because it restricts you from losing your freedom. This is akin to free governments like Democracies.
You are narrow minded.
IP != phsical property. Its obvious that the only way to make it seem like it is is with artificial constraints. Artificial scarcity is stupid. Its like burning crops so that the farmers will benefit more. Or restricting the production of a simple object to a single factory- so that the owner of it can get wealthy while the inventor starves, and the musician get nothing. Thats what patents and copyrights are about. Face it.
I can't see Apple replacing Microsoft. Even if it did we would merely have traded a big closed monopoly for a big more-closed monopoly.
Macophiles rarely seem to recall the real reason why the Apple computers, which were far superior, fell to the Dos/Intel machines: The fact was that the Win/Dos/Intel machines were alot more open, while the Apples were pretty much black-box.
The reason Wintel now feels a threat from Linux is that Linux is to Windows as Windows was to Apple (In terms of openness and accessibility).
Unless apple decides to really open their box and allow anyone to make hardware/software compatible with their's, they have no chance of taking over the market whatsoever.
Toppling the WinTel hegemony is tough- akin to overthrowing the telephone company, or competing with the interstate highway system. The only way another O/S could do that is to really be shockingly better for the tasks a desktop user want to do. Ironic that success in the business arena depends upon how well a platform supports games.
2.Solaris momentum "speed bump" in 2000, with increased discount levels until
next-generation UltraSPARC III systems appear (especially to replace the UE10000); later
challenges to Sun's SPARC momentum as IA-64 "McKinley" generation ramps up
7.The performance advantages of RISC over Intel-based servers will decline by about 20
percent to 30 percent each year, leading to two viable long-term RISC technologies - Sun's
SPARC and IBM's Power - with the addition of Compaq Alpha in a "dark horse" role
Gartner really seems bullish on IA-64. I have heard so many negative things about the platform, I really doubt its going to be the big RISC-killer its cracked up to be.
The CISC architecture is really getting long in tooth, and the only thing keeping it afloat is economies of scale required for supporting the current consumer OS.
However if a portable O/S becomes the consumer desktop standard, well then I would say that finally the CISC would be allowed to die gracefully. Anyone with an ounce of technical sense knows that RISC is the way to go.
Didnt you get the part about the article having to
do with Japan? Obviously its some kind a japanese food. (Cant you add 2 and 2 here?)
Did you even bother to peek at any of the 20 posts explaining what exactly it is?
Perhaps the article should read:
" Great onigiri there too... (thats a japanses food for all you dimwits who cant guess that)"
I'm all for alternative fuel vehicles, but man, did any of you look at those french cars? I dont think they get it: No alternative car is going to sell if you can tell the difference with a glance. (Especially if they look so dweebish)
And by the way I hope there is a shield between the driver and the compressed air tank, just in case of accident. Of course that wont console the driver of the other car all to much...
Why would anyone need virus protection software?
Does anyone else besides me get sick of the idea that computers are innately susceptible to virii?
The whole concept is so absurd, and yet so ingrained into our subconscious.
Sorry, they arent nintendo characters. I remember their original comic books. They were hardcore, and actually interesting at some level. You wouldnt recognize them most likely.
Too bad they were blandified, i used to like them.
Sims? I just dont get it
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Sims, or DollHouse as I call it, is one game that I just dont get. It seems you are supposed to control ordinary people, tell them when to cook or eat, tell them when to take a leak, etc ad nauseam.
I like mostly all video games ( Strategy, Action, Roleplaying, even a good sim like Sim city ) but this one baffles me. Its got to be the most boring idea I've ever heard of. Can someone who likes it explain to me what its attraction is? I just dont get it.
That is a buck stupid opinion. Is it okay for you not to take common sense precautions in a world where everyone is 'good'? If that were the case, then we would be staging ourselves for calamity. The first bad person would destroy the world. The first bacteria would consume the biosphere.
People who refuse to take simple precautions deserve what they get. People who find holes are doing us a great favor. Doubly so if they report them and get them fixed, like this person did, instead of exploiting them. It is sad that sometimes releasing an exploit is the only way to motivate lazy executives.
A world where people fix problems instead of whining about the people exposing them is a much stronger and safer place. Those people are not scum, they are saviours of the whiners (like you?).
no doubt that stallman was a true visionary, without whom none of this would have been possible. However this is a list of most important people of the 90's. RMS did his most groundbreaking work earlier than that.
i have telocity DSL, took 3 months for them to finally ship their modem to me, but it was fast after that. I have a single STATIC ip address which is lovely, which i run into an old P90 running Redhat 6.2, that i manually cleaned up so that all you can see externally is SSH and HTTP. It Masq's my home network of about 7 nodes. The modem stays up pretty well, usually dropping when i vacuum however. Whatever the advertized speed i can get up to 60kb/s downstream, and much less upstream, which limits the throughput of my webserver consierably. $50/month
i guess i'll be the one to clue you in: linux kernels are already broken into SMP and non-SMP versions. The single -processor kernels dont need to have any of the overhead
if you were you would know that there is no one way to solve a given problem, and there is no one style to format the code, and there is a ton of room for personal expression on one's code. if you dont have a personal coding style, then you cannot code at all. it is an art.
witness that the productivity of a hacker is inversely proportional to the amount of management.
are you some kind of flaming wierdo who plays an album from begging to end? You have such primitive musical tastes and are very accepting of prepackaged predigested content.
its better to take individual songs you like, and make your own playlist. personally i mix songs from all different genre's into a single playlist. it balances the spheres.
They're not connected to any network are they? Or maybe- probably- you discounting scheduled reboots (once a week?). And no- uptimes of a cluster as a whole do not count. When a UNIX Admin says uptime, its means something completely alien to NT Admins. And it doesnt take a zealot to relize this: Miscroft products are amazingly shoddy. If you use them you are stupid.
DSA/El Gamal is much more convoluted than RSA. RSA is simplicity and elegance in an algorithm. I trust RSA more because it is better understood, and since it is simpler, there are fewer attack vectors for a cryptanalyst.
Actually, on any window~1 PC, whenever you install anything it DOES have root access to your whole system. The only way to solve the problem of not being able to trust nasty app developers is clear-coded open source for everything you install with lots of documentation, and open api's, etc... Microsoft, RealNetworks, Blizzard, the people who made that santa-bowling game for pc's, PGP, and virtually all virii: they all belong in the same category. You should NEVER use any proprietary code if you have concerns about privacy or security, or even anonimity.
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With intellectual property- there is no analogy. You can make as many copies of my "river" and do whatever you want with them- and it will never affect me in any way.
As for the forcing thing? Give me a break. It doesnt force you to do anything- except not impose restrictions on what others can do. As for what you can do yourself- Free licenses say nothing about that.
There is a large body of free IP that you can use- and nobody will say you cannot- Even if you never contribute anything at all back- Even if you write disparaging articles/comments about it, Even if you encourage others to avoid it, but Not if you want to disallow other's to use it as well as you have. It costs no-one nothing that you have your copy. You should cost no-one that you do.
So just take advantage of the parts you like- then live and let live. Noone will force you to give anything back. Just remember that you dont own any of it- other people "own" it (in the sense of artifical laws), and you will do fine.
They really dont care how much they have to pay their employees, just so long as the government covers it plus profit margin.
I work at a gov't contractor, and in fact they just lost me to a commercial company. Reason: I have essentially hit the ceiling of what the government says you can pay a programmer with no college degree. They would loved to have kept me here, and told me as much- they just didnt have any room left to give me a raise.
Its so hard to get decent programmers these days, that companies are really willing to pay whatever it takes to retain them. Take advantage of it while it lasts. Ive managed to quadruple my salary over 1 year.
There is a way for creators of knowledge/art to profit from it without artificially restricting it.
Proprietary licenses are about control, restricting who can do what; much like Authoritarian governments such as communism or fascism.
Free software licenses emphasize allowing people to share. The GPL is the most free- because it restricts you from losing your freedom. This is akin to free governments like Democracies.
You are narrow minded.
IP != phsical property. Its obvious that the only way to make it seem like it is is with artificial constraints. Artificial scarcity is stupid. Its like burning crops so that the farmers will benefit more. Or restricting the production of a simple object to a single factory- so that the owner of it can get wealthy while the inventor starves, and the musician get nothing. Thats what patents and copyrights are about. Face it.
Macophiles rarely seem to recall the real reason why the Apple computers, which were far superior, fell to the Dos/Intel machines: The fact was that the Win/Dos/Intel machines were alot more open, while the Apples were pretty much black-box.
The reason Wintel now feels a threat from Linux is that Linux is to Windows as Windows was to Apple (In terms of openness and accessibility).
Unless apple decides to really open their box and allow anyone to make hardware/software compatible with their's, they have no chance of taking over the market whatsoever.
Toppling the WinTel hegemony is tough- akin to overthrowing the telephone company, or competing with the interstate highway system. The only way another O/S could do that is to really be shockingly better for the tasks a desktop user want to do. Ironic that success in the business arena depends upon how well a platform supports games.
Gartner really seems bullish on IA-64. I have heard so many negative things about the platform, I really doubt its going to be the big RISC-killer its cracked up to be.
The CISC architecture is really getting long in tooth, and the only thing keeping it afloat is economies of scale required for supporting the current consumer OS.
However if a portable O/S becomes the consumer desktop standard, well then I would say that finally the CISC would be allowed to die gracefully. Anyone with an ounce of technical sense knows that RISC is the way to go.
Perhaps the article should read: " Great onigiri there too... (thats a japanses food for all you dimwits who cant guess that)"
As a result of being on the Internet, my heart has turned dark.
And by the way I hope there is a shield between the driver and the compressed air tank, just in case of accident. Of course that wont console the driver of the other car all to much...
Why would anyone need virus protection software? Does anyone else besides me get sick of the idea that computers are innately susceptible to virii? The whole concept is so absurd, and yet so ingrained into our subconscious.
i agree- youve got to be asking for it to run putty under wine. thats really obnoxious.
50% of the time! Wow, they've already exceeded its performance under windows!
Too bad they were blandified, i used to like them.
I like mostly all video games ( Strategy, Action, Roleplaying, even a good sim like Sim city ) but this one baffles me. Its got to be the most boring idea I've ever heard of. Can someone who likes it explain to me what its attraction is? I just dont get it.
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People who refuse to take simple precautions deserve what they get. People who find holes are doing us a great favor. Doubly so if they report them and get them fixed, like this person did, instead of exploiting them. It is sad that sometimes releasing an exploit is the only way to motivate lazy executives.
A world where people fix problems instead of whining about the people exposing them is a much stronger and safer place. Those people are not scum, they are saviours of the whiners (like you?).
no doubt that stallman was a true visionary, without whom none of this would have been possible. However this is a list of most important people of the 90's. RMS did his most groundbreaking work earlier than that.
i have telocity DSL, took 3 months for them to finally ship their modem to me, but it was fast after that. I have a single STATIC ip address which is lovely, which i run into an old P90 running Redhat 6.2, that i manually cleaned up so that all you can see externally is SSH and HTTP. It Masq's my home network of about 7 nodes. The modem stays up pretty well, usually dropping when i vacuum however. Whatever the advertized speed i can get up to 60kb/s downstream, and much less upstream, which limits the throughput of my webserver consierably. $50/month
sorry, that joke pretty much targets windows, pretty much all the time.
i guess i'll be the one to clue you in: linux kernels are already broken into SMP and non-SMP versions. The single -processor kernels dont need to have any of the overhead
You are obviously not a programmer.
if you were you would know that there is no
one way to solve a given problem, and there
is no one style to format the code, and there
is a ton of room for personal expression on one's
code. if you dont have a personal coding style,
then you cannot code at all. it is an art.
witness that the productivity of a hacker is
inversely proportional to the amount of management.
are you some kind of flaming wierdo who plays an album from begging to end?
You have such primitive musical tastes and are very accepting of prepackaged predigested content.
its better to take individual songs you like, and make your own playlist. personally i mix songs from all different genre's into a single playlist.
it balances the spheres.
Acceleration would not be increasing. It would be constant. Velocity would be increasing. You would not notice it.
They're not connected to any network are they?
Or maybe- probably- you discounting scheduled
reboots (once a week?). And no- uptimes of a cluster as a whole do not count. When a UNIX Admin says uptime, its means something completely alien to NT Admins. And it doesnt take a zealot to relize this: Miscroft products are amazingly shoddy. If you use them you are stupid.
Have you ever heard the truism
"The simplest answer is the best"
DSA/El Gamal is much more convoluted than RSA. RSA is simplicity and elegance in an algorithm. I trust RSA more because it is better understood, and since it is simpler, there are fewer attack vectors for a cryptanalyst.
Actually, on any window~1 PC, whenever you install anything it DOES have root access to your whole system. The only way to solve the problem of not being able to trust nasty app developers is clear-coded open source for everything you install with lots of documentation, and open api's, etc... Microsoft, RealNetworks, Blizzard, the people who made that santa-bowling game for pc's, PGP, and virtually all virii: they all belong in the same category. You should NEVER use any proprietary code if you have concerns about privacy or security, or even anonimity.