Okay, this whole time I have been supporting free trade and whatnot; supporting Napster in a fundamental way.. and they pull this?!? What company in their right mind would sue someone for free advertizing? This is completely against any kind of business sense.
Before their lawyers popped their heads out, they seemed like a perfectly nice company. Now they are on my "Laugh On Sight" list. Go Metallica.
Where I work, I develop some of the internal applications, all of them web based. I do this by choice so the BeOS people and the Linux people, and even the windows people can use them from anywhere on any OS. Great, fine, good.
But Gah! I have to boot into windows 98 to play EverQuest... (and don't try to tell me not to play EverQuest, it is an addiction and I'm not giving it up). There are some great advances here, but a lot of reluctance from some of the companies. I am tempted to buy copies of QuakeIII Linux, just to promote Linux ports (even though I already gave up my Quake addiction).
What it comes down to is we are all dreaming of the day when we have no use for Windows. When we have a dual boot machine and we delete the wondows partition to fit StarCraft 2 on our hard drives. When we spend a weekend getting all of our code to compile on Kylix.
So, what is missing? I guess we need every company everywhere in the world to jump at once.
Okay, let's flip past the "First Post"ers and that weird insane article by the guy with no shift keys.
What I want to know is what company would do that? Isn't the whole MP3 community and all of the companies involved trying to dig as many claws into as many people as possible, just to cling on for dear life? Isn't a civil war between MP3 technology developers going to make the whole thing look sillier?
The only companies that I know of that would do this would be NullSoft, Sony or Xing... Anyone have some better insight?
CollabNet's Source Exchange seems to be a collaborative place for developers but does not directly support small-time OSS projects. I quote from their website, "...a place where highly skilled Open Source developers supply their expertise to committed buyers with well-defined, financially-backed Open Source projects."
Asynchrony is centered around mini-developer communities and commercial projects. The catch: They own all the created source code.
Source Forge provides a pure OSS development environment but they seem a little Linux-centric (which is not the limit of OSS). They provide great tools and a great environment. They also have the Compile Farm bit that is very unique.
BeOpen doesn't host projects at all (from what I can tell). They are a portal to other projects, resources, forums and developer communities.
One you didn't list is OpenAvenue. OpenAvenue hosts projects for free, seems to have all the needed tools for source management, bug tracking and so on. All the tools are browser based which is pretty cool.
What I am gathering is that they are unable to send information because they have already charged the gas chamber with the signal they are going to send, and it would jumble or ignore any other signal. Hypothetically, we could do this:
We'll make this hypothesis a method of sending bytes, and it will be crude, with no compression, overlapping or non-binary format to make it more efficient. Crude and theoretical, here goes.
We have 301 sets of 8 tubes. Each tube is already charged. Each rank of 301 emitters points at a seperate reciever. Now, we fire the beam/chamber emitters in sequence, in bytes. After each "byte" fires, it has one cycle to recharge any fired "bits" (since they are 300 times the speed of light, and they charge *at* the speed of light, 300 other sets of emitters would have to fire before it is recharged). Then we would be able to send data at 300 times the speed of light as fast as we are able to push it.
Now realistically, we are limited by how fast the computer can push the bytes onto the sequencer. We are also limited by how far we can run a trunk of 2400 tubes of cessium gas.
Lars mentions that the difference between bootlegging tapes and trading MP3s is the scale and the quality.
MP3s are not perfect quality "masters" as he calls them. They may sound that way on your little clock-radio, but on an 800 watt system, there are giant holes punched in your frequency range. I would go as far as to equate an MP3 from a CD to a tape from a vynal. In fact, one of our club promotion schemes is to give away mixed CDs of some of the music we play. Since we support the bands we play and don't feel right about giving away perfect masters, we encode and decode our songs at 128, non-VBRE to lower the quality of the recording (like a tape would be) making the copy imperfect and unuseable by other DJs.
As far as volume? He said that the 1.4 million in 48 hours is a lot, because in his time he copied a tape from his friend. How many friends copied tapes from their friends? Obviously not as many due to the cost and hassle of copying a tape, but I am sure this is not as big a deal as he thinks. Let us point out that it is twice as much hassle to get that MP3 on a CD and into your car than it was to make a tape 10 years ago.
Lars has obviously grown by educating himself as this issue progresses, and I detect a hint of regret at attacking too early. This will be unfortunate as he will not be allowed to go back on too much of what the origional plan was. I hope he can tolerate swallowing a little pride and maybe ask us how to solve the problem, rather than taking an outside approach to attack us. The truth is that technology is too fast for him or anyone else. All they are doing is buying time to impliment something else in a "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" style. We will see.
Um.. is it illegal to record a song off of the radio? If not, can't we just emulate that? If the recording industry was smart (they probably *are*, but the executives are also trying to ride out the last two years to retirement) they would consider this: Maka a client themselves that gives access to every song on every album, but also inserts advertizements here and there. They could charge a service fee for it. Say... $10 a month, and people will still be buying CDs to put in their cars and such. The client could also delete the files when they are done being played. Granted it doesn't sound as attractive as Napster, but if they can tweak it a little more to add more value there than Napster, they wouldn't have to use the "rule by fear" method.
I think that I read somewhere that it is easier to beat your enemy at his own game than it is to destroy him.
As a DJ, I have a certain interest in having the original copy of an album. The colors on the label and the original, un-[encoded/decoded] feed make a big difference in a booth on a 5,000 watt system. If we win and the industry changes in the MP3 direction, I sure hope the CD market doesn't collapse (this is all hypothetical, as it *probably* wouldn't). If I was forced to burn my own albums at 3 per week and the record labels were sending my URLs instead of CDs, I think I'd quit.
I fully support MP3.com, who has been honorable and actually provides original CDs. They have been sadly grouped with Napster mainly due to the fact that they both provide MP3s. Supporting Napster to me is like supporting Cable Descramblers. It's kind of neat, but I feel kind of funny (that funny feeling means it's WORKING!).
On another note, as we have seen before, Metallica is a puppet, strings attached, and I think we are pestering the wrong target. Why don't we try to pull the weed up from the roots? Let's ask these questions to the recording industry!
Besides the program's innate ability to recreate star constallations, I do have to say this is interesting. The whole concept may even lend proof to evolution in a very simplistic way. If we gave a brain to a peice of silly putty and let it run around, would it eventually be a lizard or a snake? If we put it in water, would it become a fish? It is even becoming appearent that thoughts and decisions could effect evolution, wouldn't you say? If we program the peice of silly putty in water that the faster it swam, the better, and it randomly changed parts of it's body, when it becomes faster, it locks a change until another change makes it faster... well, you could actually write a program to simulate evolution. Hmm.. just a muse I guess, but doesn't it make animals look simple? -Effendi
I read negaPLuCK's fear and know exactly what he is talking about. You remember a long time ago when VCRs came out and VHS tapes started containing previews a few months later. Nowdays we are being shocked out of our seats with Intel and Mentos commercials on rented videos.
It gets worse. Have you ever seen the end of a car race when the winning driver gets out of his car? He gets to wear like 3 baseball caps and drinks from a sports drink bottle, label to the camera, his car gets littered from end to end with sponsership signs and such. There is more activity and noise and prompted sponser plugs than actual words from the driver.
Professional snow skiing. Ever see the athletes at the end take his skis off, turn to the camera and show off the bottom of the skis?
Ever accidentally give away an e-mail adress and then have to abandon it due to recieving more spam than you can unsubscribe to?
This is definately something to consider as Open Source software is obviously underfunded for the most part. A discrete text blurb like this one is definately not bad, but as I said before, it gets worse.
Metallica: Most popular metal band of the 90s, publicly pioneered the movement for metal from glam to down-to-earth grunge.
Their art is their life and though money comes first, I'm sure they aren't stupid. They know as well as anyone that doing this would lower their popularity and sales. The gain in such a venture is not the issue. Is it a coincidence that they are a leading icon in the adolescent music industry? No.
I believe they are being leaned on by their record label who wishes to keep their hands clean. Can a record label do this? I believe so. From wha we have seen so far, they operate pretty much like a mafia.
Dr. Dre is currently on Interscope, Metallica on Elektra and I could find no relation, however no band that has kept up it's popularity for so long would not willingly sacrifice that popularity for a few bucks.
I'm glad we've got this pinned down now! We can finally put all of those psychotic palm-packing geeks behind bars. I remember in middle school, as soon as the 8-bit Nintendo came out, everyone started beating each other up at school. We were all scared to death of the really good Metroid players! It was a good thing we had the drug dealing gangs there to keep up a sense of sanity and control. If they hadn't had their guns there to maintain their turf, it could have been an all-out riot! Okay, enough with the sarchasm. We need to keep in mind that people are inhenently violent, and if there is no artificial outlet for this violence, it will be manifested somewhere else. -Effendi
Remember that when you make a worm hole, you need to fold the negative matter into the positive matter, not knead! Kneading it will make your wormhole flatten when it cools, and it will be a bit too dense.
I wrote a letter to them, very well knowing that I was mailing to/dev/null, but it was fun anyway.
To solve our problem in an active fashion however, could we somehow get a list of schools that adopt the program? Arguing to the schoold (who pay for it with taxes) should be much more effective than fighting a company that has everything to lose by listening to us. -Effendi
Historically, a significant part of the remuneration to MS staff has been in stock options. In the past, this was a great deal. But if the share price starts to fall, they will find it very hard to hire and retain the best people.
But that's okay because those are the same stocks they used to steal their top developers from their competitors. If they can't keep their employees, well, I remember some old saying:
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
So I see a lot of you talking about how much you loved it... and we could go on and on, and I could talk about my rockum-sockum robots.
This sounds really great though! with network gaming quickly becoming the only "real" games to play these dayes. Let's consider home games kind of like B movies, and net games like box office thrillers. Games like EverQuest and the upcoming Diablo, not to mention Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament are the cutting edge. A game like Trade Wars was already on that track.
If someone is willing to *buy* Trade Wars, I would like to imagine that something is going to happen with it, especially if it is going to be ported to Delphi (I imagine then it was written in Pascal before Object Pascal (Delphi) was around). This said, I am looking forward to John Pritchett turning this epic classic into a nice mold breaker for space games. Maybe if he is able to paralell it with Verant/Lucas's upcoming Star Wars net game...
I'm not sure if this is off topic or not, but I have been noticing a trend lately. Laws are written by lawyers; lawyers are hired by rich people (or groups of people) like lawyers, doctors, politicians and software corporations. Nearly every law I have seen roll out is a convoluted document written to increase the potential amount of money these rich people have. It is laughable that we can fight back by writing our own to give us back rights, and historically protests are only effective in the thousands (or if you set yourself on fire). "Boss, can I have a few days off to picket in front of the white house?" No kid, I need your productivity report... gotta have it." So I guess we just sit here getting tricked by a few clever laws every time we vote until we have no choice but to fight the "Orwellean War" (and probably lose). So here is my proposal: We make a "Vote No on Everything" campaign and delay that day for as long as possible. -Effendi
This is true. Canadians were bashed, but not directly, only because the theme of the film was to blame something besides ourselves. I thought the film was hallariously similar to the media reaction to the Columbine shooting. Whe THAT sucker went off, all the parents of America wanted to blame video games, music, black trenchcoats, the internet... everything but bad parenting. I think that was what they wanted to depict is how rediculuos a conclusion they could come to. It wouldn't have been a very interesting movie though if they had decided to sing, "Blame Candy Bars". Fo course Canada shouldn't take offense to the target that was chosen, we were laughing with you, not at you. -Effendi
I think I have to agree with this... What would it be? They admit to using off the shelf parts, which will almost certainly include an existing processor. The reall issue then is the OS... writing a new OS might be a great idea considering the market focus on alternative OSs, or perhaps the market is already flooded and overflowing. Would it make more sense for them to write the OS and port it to every platform and then sell pre-loaded Amiga boxes, the only difference being that it has an Amiga sticker covering up the apple sticker or whatever? Probably, considering he worked for a pre-built system distributer. We will see, but you can bet the graphics won't be the revolutionary dazzle above the competition like it used to be, and they'll probably have hard drives this time.;) -Effendi
I was just yankin your chain (anthough I think it sounded realistic). Expended version:
Adam Mark's Passive Architecture Kernal v 1.3 Static Liquid Crystal Operating System
I made up the name Adam Mark too.
The point was: Why debate the issue? Venturing to say whether or when it will die or not is the very discussion that will determine whether or when it will die.
How about discussing something useful like what features need to be added or improved in UNIX to extend it's already increadible lifespan. The history of UNIX will never be enough to hold it in the air, only the usefullness of it today in comparison to other products. If there are currently no products available to fully replace UNIX, then we have just nullified the reason and effect of the entire conversation.
UNIX servers will become a minortiy in twelve and a half years when Adam Mark's PassArch Kernal 1.3 Server SLC OS becomes the mainstay for everything from Strato-cruisers to watches... including global network servers.
I agree, this is almost as bad as someone, say, buying up a million dictionary-based domain names and waiting for some big company to buy one when they need it.
-Effendi
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And how exactly would the profiles match? I might program mine to look for "women". I'd hit every one of these things I passed. I always thought A much better tool would be a LED display implanted in your forehead that gave a symbolized, color coded readout of your status, tention and preference. I suppose the guys could get the cheaper model that just reads out green lights all the time. -Effendi
I am a solid proponent of the GPL, Open Source Software and everything to do with the bazaar development community. I have to wonder though, is this getting kind of religious? I am happy to see a common public license to state that the documentation is free and nobody can make money on it; nice tool. My subconscious (which just recently smuggled a message to my conscious) tells me that the actual motivation for this may have been to discredit RedHatting of free software (Support Sellers Open Source business model). What will be the next license on the list? The GPL FSL (Free Support License)? I jest, but pose the idea as a hypothesis...(Support Sellers Open Source business model). What will be the next liscense on the list? The GPL FSL (Free Support Liscense)? I jest, but pose the idea as a hypothesus...
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Okay, this whole time I have been supporting free trade and whatnot; supporting Napster in a fundamental way.. and they pull this?!? What company in their right mind would sue someone for free advertizing? This is completely against any kind of business sense.
Before their lawyers popped their heads out, they seemed like a perfectly nice company. Now they are on my "Laugh On Sight" list. Go Metallica.
-Effendi
Where I work, I develop some of the internal applications, all of them web based. I do this by choice so the BeOS people and the Linux people, and even the windows people can use them from anywhere on any OS. Great, fine, good.
But Gah! I have to boot into windows 98 to play EverQuest... (and don't try to tell me not to play EverQuest, it is an addiction and I'm not giving it up). There are some great advances here, but a lot of reluctance from some of the companies. I am tempted to buy copies of QuakeIII Linux, just to promote Linux ports (even though I already gave up my Quake addiction).
What it comes down to is we are all dreaming of the day when we have no use for Windows. When we have a dual boot machine and we delete the wondows partition to fit StarCraft 2 on our hard drives. When we spend a weekend getting all of our code to compile on Kylix.
So, what is missing? I guess we need every company everywhere in the world to jump at once.
-Effendi
Okay, let's flip past the "First Post"ers and that weird insane article by the guy with no shift keys.
What I want to know is what company would do that? Isn't the whole MP3 community and all of the companies involved trying to dig as many claws into as many people as possible, just to cling on for dear life? Isn't a civil war between MP3 technology developers going to make the whole thing look sillier?
The only companies that I know of that would do this would be NullSoft, Sony or Xing... Anyone have some better insight?
-Effendi
I have done some research on this a bit myself.
CollabNet's Source Exchange seems to be a collaborative place for developers but does not directly support small-time OSS projects. I quote from their website, "...a place where highly skilled Open Source developers supply their expertise to committed buyers with well-defined, financially-backed Open Source projects."
Asynchrony is centered around mini-developer communities and commercial projects. The catch: They own all the created source code.
Source Forge provides a pure OSS development environment but they seem a little Linux-centric (which is not the limit of OSS). They provide great tools and a great environment. They also have the Compile Farm bit that is very unique.
BeOpen doesn't host projects at all (from what I can tell). They are a portal to other projects, resources, forums and developer communities.
One you didn't list is OpenAvenue. OpenAvenue hosts projects for free, seems to have all the needed tools for source management, bug tracking and so on. All the tools are browser based which is pretty cool.
Hope that helps!
-Effendi
What I am gathering is that they are unable to send information because they have already charged the gas chamber with the signal they are going to send, and it would jumble or ignore any other signal. Hypothetically, we could do this:
We'll make this hypothesis a method of sending bytes, and it will be crude, with no compression, overlapping or non-binary format to make it more efficient. Crude and theoretical, here goes.
We have 301 sets of 8 tubes. Each tube is already charged. Each rank of 301 emitters points at a seperate reciever. Now, we fire the beam/chamber emitters in sequence, in bytes. After each "byte" fires, it has one cycle to recharge any fired "bits" (since they are 300 times the speed of light, and they charge *at* the speed of light, 300 other sets of emitters would have to fire before it is recharged). Then we would be able to send data at 300 times the speed of light as fast as we are able to push it.
Now realistically, we are limited by how fast the computer can push the bytes onto the sequencer. We are also limited by how far we can run a trunk of 2400 tubes of cessium gas.
Okay, enough musing, I'm going back to work.
-Effendi
Lars mentions that the difference between bootlegging tapes and trading MP3s is the scale and the quality.
MP3s are not perfect quality "masters" as he calls them. They may sound that way on your little clock-radio, but on an 800 watt system, there are giant holes punched in your frequency range. I would go as far as to equate an MP3 from a CD to a tape from a vynal. In fact, one of our club promotion schemes is to give away mixed CDs of some of the music we play. Since we support the bands we play and don't feel right about giving away perfect masters, we encode and decode our songs at 128, non-VBRE to lower the quality of the recording (like a tape would be) making the copy imperfect and unuseable by other DJs.
As far as volume? He said that the 1.4 million in 48 hours is a lot, because in his time he copied a tape from his friend. How many friends copied tapes from their friends? Obviously not as many due to the cost and hassle of copying a tape, but I am sure this is not as big a deal as he thinks. Let us point out that it is twice as much hassle to get that MP3 on a CD and into your car than it was to make a tape 10 years ago.
Lars has obviously grown by educating himself as this issue progresses, and I detect a hint of regret at attacking too early. This will be unfortunate as he will not be allowed to go back on too much of what the origional plan was. I hope he can tolerate swallowing a little pride and maybe ask us how to solve the problem, rather than taking an outside approach to attack us. The truth is that technology is too fast for him or anyone else. All they are doing is buying time to impliment something else in a "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" style. We will see.
-Effendi
Um.. is it illegal to record a song off of the radio? If not, can't we just emulate that? If the recording industry was smart (they probably *are*, but the executives are also trying to ride out the last two years to retirement) they would consider this: Maka a client themselves that gives access to every song on every album, but also inserts advertizements here and there. They could charge a service fee for it. Say... $10 a month, and people will still be buying CDs to put in their cars and such. The client could also delete the files when they are done being played. Granted it doesn't sound as attractive as Napster, but if they can tweak it a little more to add more value there than Napster, they wouldn't have to use the "rule by fear" method.
I think that I read somewhere that it is easier to beat your enemy at his own game than it is to destroy him.
-Effendi
As a DJ, I have a certain interest in having the original copy of an album. The colors on the label and the original, un-[encoded/decoded] feed make a big difference in a booth on a 5,000 watt system. If we win and the industry changes in the MP3 direction, I sure hope the CD market doesn't collapse (this is all hypothetical, as it *probably* wouldn't). If I was forced to burn my own albums at 3 per week and the record labels were sending my URLs instead of CDs, I think I'd quit.
I fully support MP3.com, who has been honorable and actually provides original CDs. They have been sadly grouped with Napster mainly due to the fact that they both provide MP3s. Supporting Napster to me is like supporting Cable Descramblers. It's kind of neat, but I feel kind of funny (that funny feeling means it's WORKING!).
On another note, as we have seen before, Metallica is a puppet, strings attached, and I think we are pestering the wrong target. Why don't we try to pull the weed up from the roots? Let's ask these questions to the recording industry!
Hmmm... too much caffeine?
-Effendi
Besides the program's innate ability to recreate star constallations, I do have to say this is interesting. The whole concept may even lend proof to evolution in a very simplistic way. If we gave a brain to a peice of silly putty and let it run around, would it eventually be a lizard or a snake? If we put it in water, would it become a fish? It is even becoming appearent that thoughts and decisions could effect evolution, wouldn't you say? If we program the peice of silly putty in water that the faster it swam, the better, and it randomly changed parts of it's body, when it becomes faster, it locks a change until another change makes it faster... well, you could actually write a program to simulate evolution. Hmm.. just a muse I guess, but doesn't it make animals look simple?
-Effendi
I read negaPLuCK's fear and know exactly what he is talking about. You remember a long time ago when VCRs came out and VHS tapes started containing previews a few months later. Nowdays we are being shocked out of our seats with Intel and Mentos commercials on rented videos.
It gets worse. Have you ever seen the end of a car race when the winning driver gets out of his car? He gets to wear like 3 baseball caps and drinks from a sports drink bottle, label to the camera, his car gets littered from end to end with sponsership signs and such. There is more activity and noise and prompted sponser plugs than actual words from the driver.
Professional snow skiing. Ever see the athletes at the end take his skis off, turn to the camera and show off the bottom of the skis?
Ever accidentally give away an e-mail adress and then have to abandon it due to recieving more spam than you can unsubscribe to?
This is definately something to consider as Open Source software is obviously underfunded for the most part. A discrete text blurb like this one is definately not bad, but as I said before, it gets worse.
-Effendi
Metallica: Most popular metal band of the 90s, publicly pioneered the movement for metal from glam to down-to-earth grunge.
Their art is their life and though money comes first, I'm sure they aren't stupid. They know as well as anyone that doing this would lower their popularity and sales. The gain in such a venture is not the issue. Is it a coincidence that they are a leading icon in the adolescent music industry? No.
I believe they are being leaned on by their record label who wishes to keep their hands clean. Can a record label do this? I believe so. From wha we have seen so far, they operate pretty much like a mafia.
Dr. Dre is currently on Interscope, Metallica on Elektra and I could find no relation, however no band that has kept up it's popularity for so long would not willingly sacrifice that popularity for a few bucks.
-Effendi
I'm glad we've got this pinned down now! We can finally put all of those psychotic palm-packing geeks behind bars. I remember in middle school, as soon as the 8-bit Nintendo came out, everyone started beating each other up at school. We were all scared to death of the really good Metroid players! It was a good thing we had the drug dealing gangs there to keep up a sense of sanity and control. If they hadn't had their guns there to maintain their turf, it could have been an all-out riot! Okay, enough with the sarchasm. We need to keep in mind that people are inhenently violent, and if there is no artificial outlet for this violence, it will be manifested somewhere else. -Effendi
Remember that when you make a worm hole, you need to fold the negative matter into the positive matter, not knead! Kneading it will make your wormhole flatten when it cools, and it will be a bit too dense.
-Effendi
I wrote a letter to them, very well knowing that I was mailing to /dev/null, but it was fun anyway.
To solve our problem in an active fashion however, could we somehow get a list of schools that adopt the program? Arguing to the schoold (who pay for it with taxes) should be much more effective than fighting a company that has everything to lose by listening to us. -Effendi
Historically, a significant part of the remuneration to MS staff has been in stock options. In the past, this was a great deal. But if the share price starts to fall, they will find it very hard to hire and retain the best people.
But that's okay because those are the same stocks they used to steal their top developers from their competitors. If they can't keep their employees, well, I remember some old saying:
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
-Effendi
So I see a lot of you talking about how much you loved it... and we could go on and on, and I could talk about my rockum-sockum robots.
This sounds really great though! with network gaming quickly becoming the only "real" games to play these dayes. Let's consider home games kind of like B movies, and net games like box office thrillers. Games like EverQuest and the upcoming Diablo, not to mention Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament are the cutting edge. A game like Trade Wars was already on that track.
If someone is willing to *buy* Trade Wars, I would like to imagine that something is going to happen with it, especially if it is going to be ported to Delphi (I imagine then it was written in Pascal before Object Pascal (Delphi) was around). This said, I am looking forward to John Pritchett turning this epic classic into a nice mold breaker for space games. Maybe if he is able to paralell it with Verant/Lucas's upcoming Star Wars net game...
-Effendi
I'm not sure if this is off topic or not, but I have been noticing a trend lately. Laws are written by lawyers; lawyers are hired by rich people (or groups of people) like lawyers, doctors, politicians and software corporations. Nearly every law I have seen roll out is a convoluted document written to increase the potential amount of money these rich people have. It is laughable that we can fight back by writing our own to give us back rights, and historically protests are only effective in the thousands (or if you set yourself on fire). "Boss, can I have a few days off to picket in front of the white house?" No kid, I need your productivity report... gotta have it." So I guess we just sit here getting tricked by a few clever laws every time we vote until we have no choice but to fight the "Orwellean War" (and probably lose). So here is my proposal: We make a "Vote No on Everything" campaign and delay that day for as long as possible. -Effendi
Hope that wasn't a leak.
This is true. Canadians were bashed, but not directly, only because the theme of the film was to blame something besides ourselves. I thought the film was hallariously similar to the media reaction to the Columbine shooting. Whe THAT sucker went off, all the parents of America wanted to blame video games, music, black trenchcoats, the internet... everything but bad parenting. I think that was what they wanted to depict is how rediculuos a conclusion they could come to. It wouldn't have been a very interesting movie though if they had decided to sing, "Blame Candy Bars". Fo course Canada shouldn't take offense to the target that was chosen, we were laughing with you, not at you. -Effendi
I think I have to agree with this... What would it be? They admit to using off the shelf parts, which will almost certainly include an existing processor. The reall issue then is the OS... writing a new OS might be a great idea considering the market focus on alternative OSs, or perhaps the market is already flooded and overflowing. Would it make more sense for them to write the OS and port it to every platform and then sell pre-loaded Amiga boxes, the only difference being that it has an Amiga sticker covering up the apple sticker or whatever? Probably, considering he worked for a pre-built system distributer. We will see, but you can bet the graphics won't be the revolutionary dazzle above the competition like it used to be, and they'll probably have hard drives this time. ;) -Effendi
I was just yankin your chain (anthough I think it sounded realistic). Expended version:
Adam Mark's Passive Architecture Kernal v 1.3 Static Liquid Crystal Operating System
I made up the name Adam Mark too.
The point was: Why debate the issue? Venturing to say whether or when it will die or not is the very discussion that will determine whether or when it will die.
How about discussing something useful like what features need to be added or improved in UNIX to extend it's already increadible lifespan. The history of UNIX will never be enough to hold it in the air, only the usefullness of it today in comparison to other products. If there are currently no products available to fully replace UNIX, then we have just nullified the reason and effect of the entire conversation.
-Effendi
UNIX servers will become a minortiy in twelve and a half years when Adam Mark's PassArch Kernal 1.3 Server SLC OS becomes the mainstay for everything from Strato-cruisers to watches... including global network servers.
This is an educated guess.
-Effendi
I agree, this is almost as bad as someone, say, buying up a million dictionary-based domain names and waiting for some big company to buy one when they need it.
-Effendi
And how exactly would the profiles match? I might program mine to look for "women". I'd hit every one of these things I passed. I always thought A much better tool would be a LED display implanted in your forehead that gave a symbolized, color coded readout of your status, tention and preference. I suppose the guys could get the cheaper model that just reads out green lights all the time. -Effendi
I am a solid proponent of the GPL, Open Source Software and everything to do with the bazaar development community. I have to wonder though, is this getting kind of religious? I am happy to see a common public license to state that the documentation is free and nobody can make money on it; nice tool. My subconscious (which just recently smuggled a message to my conscious) tells me that the actual motivation for this may have been to discredit RedHatting of free software (Support Sellers Open Source business model). What will be the next license on the list? The GPL FSL (Free Support License)? I jest, but pose the idea as a hypothesis...(Support Sellers Open Source business model). What will be the next liscense on the list? The GPL FSL (Free Support Liscense)? I jest, but pose the idea as a hypothesus...
-Effendi