I'm not saying that everything has to be GPL. Right now all of these open releases, regardless of the license, have a community feel to them. Programmers helping programmers you could say. The problem with all of the different licenses shows up at the same time all of the lawyers do. The way Microsoft released their Kerberos extensions should have taught us that the big guys will are still looking for ways to open their code but still leave some strings attached.
Opening up the code for anything (even if MS did it) is a good deal, I'm just wondering about everyone wanting to write their own license. Until I followed this link I wasn't even aware that there was an IBM Open Source License. Why is it that the BSD license or the GPL wouldn't work? Even under those they could have kept the some parts of the code closed....or am I wrong somewhere?
Why bother with the votes in the first place, or even selling votes? Why not just let the primaries run their course and elect their candidates, start them all off with an empty bank account, then give them until November to try to amass as much cash as possible? The IRS already has the means to track all sorts of transactions, we could use laws similar to the campaign funding laws that are in place now to 'prevent' corporations from buying the office. The guy with the highest balance wins!
At least this would be much more up front and honest than the current system.
Just a disclaimer: I used to work for The Man. Not just some big corporation, or the Federal Government, but The Man. (The one that Homey the Clown met) I know his ways.
There isn't going to be any major media coverage of the reasons behind the protests. One reason is probably because many of the people there don't really have a good grasp on why they are protesting, they're just there to have a good time. The bigger reason is because that type of coverage doesn't draw any viewers. We aren't talking about you and a couple of your friends who are well informed, we're talking about Joe Six Pack. Most viewers don't want to have to think about any issues while they watch TV, they just want to be entertained. This is why Jerry Springer is a millionaire while most political talk shows languish in obscurity.
The sad reality is that many people have no desire to become educated voters, it is too difficult for them. If you desire something other than mainstream coverage you will have to go find it. The major news outlets are giant corporations, you can bet your ass that no one brings up the quality of the news at a shareholder or board meeting.
Yes yes, Word has these 'features'. You see, we know that you really meant to keep that deleted text, or that you are trying to write a letter and need help, or that you need a new version of Media Player. Just let us take care of you, don't worry about how we're doing it.
Thanks, MS Marketing Team
As has already been mentioned in this thread, writing an entirely new OS would be a fairly large scale project. I think this is the reason you see Linux being squeezed into everything is because it is a good OS relative to everything else (end user or no). People want to see it run everything they use. It also aids interoberability and application development, the two things that are probably the biggest obstacles for a new system. Linux has a huge following and there is still no strong competitor to MS Office. In particular, there is no strong competitor that will work seamlessly with Office files.
I would agree that rather than trying to make a handheld run X effort would be better directed toward app development, but that is why it is called the open source community, not open source inc..
Maybe take a look at Plan9 from Bell. BeOS is also good but you don't hear much about it here because it is closed. At some point an OS will emerge that has *really* innovative features rather than repackaging old concepts. I doubt it will be instantaneous process, likely a series of improvements along the lines of BeOS or Plan9. (or like X a few years ago)
This is quite true if you have been using Windows your entire life. There are no GUIs that are exact clones of Windows.
Although, maybe 'ergonomics' is a better word. I think user friendliness would almost have to encompass stability (as it results in, at the very least, wasted time to reboot). Windows (and Office) is a lot of things, stable isn't one of them.
Of the little I've used MySQL it seems to be fine as long as things stay pretty flat. I wonder why it was included in a benckmark like this though (other than to make PostgreSQL look good). Much like Access or FoxPro, it isn't optimized to do what they asked it to do, shouldn't be a big deal when it doesn't keep up.
It is indeed benchmarketing.
The names of the two 'industry leaders' couldn't be released due to restrictive licenses, which to me means one of them is Oracle. (Not that that would be tough to figure, even without prior experience with them).
This reads more like an ad than a benchmark. Then again, it wouldn't be tough to beat MySQL. Maybe the two 'leading closed source' databases were MS Access and FoxPro.....
I've personally used cable modems in about 12 separate locations, and shared bandwidth or not, they ALL provided better throughput than similarly priced DSL options >br>
I was initially sold on DSL's superior technology and its seemingly better architecture. I dropped my connection after about six months because of poor reliability, got cable, and have been fairly happy since. I think the newness of both of these connections is what makes the difference right now. Cable can offer good speed (if you uncap your bandwidth) because there aren't as many people on the loop as there will probably be in 2 years. DSL seems to be suffering from poor implementation / support relative to cable. Of course, my personal experience doesn't speak for the rest of the nation but that is the general consensus around here.
I'm not positive because the story only makes references to blocking the word 'breast' but most filters are concerned with blocking more than just porn. Since a junior high is across the street the guy's bosses are probably just as worried about bomb making instructions or bore sighting a rifle or something like that.
Besides, I don't think this guy is really anti-censorship. He has no problem blocking porn sites, he just wants people to be able to do breast cancer research. Its like a politician talking about the most humane way to kill someone.
Compare the corporatization of the academic side of universities to their athletic programs and there are a lot of possible parallels. The shoe companies run college sports now, from the camps to the coaches, and the drive to put together a successful team overrules everything else. In the past the pressure for wins came mostly from boosters and alumi who's donations paled in comparison to the contracts most big time coaches have for their players wearing a company's shoe. The result is more corruption and rule violations. More breaks given to kids who put up big stats. The games aren't played for the sake of the players, they are played so the shoe companies can get an audience for their commercials.
If research is conducted in the same way, just because the results will be marketable, a lot of 'pure' science gets tossed aside. Who the hell is going to care whether or not you can teach a chimp sign language if you can't sell them at a profit?
Of course, this is already the case in a lot of places, so I'm not exactly sure how timely this article is.
Nearly every tech company, software or hardware, provides separate 'support packages' for their corporate customers who buy several hundred computers and their home customers who buy one. Does anyone know which companies have different employees who are dedicated each type? Calls from a reasonably knowledgeable IT person would likely require a different starting point than those from grandma.
I have never used anyone's tech support for my home system so I don't have any experience there but the few corporate calls I've had to make began with questions like "do you know how to get to a command prompt?" I would imagine staffing the corporate support group with full blown geeks would be cost prohibitive but I'd expect there is some money to be made somehow, given the ridiculous fees most comnpanies now pay for nearly worthless support.
To the jerk who asked about "where are the pro-poverty organizations", try those against Choice...they're the ones who won't fully fund Head Start, or public childcare, or more money to schools, or health for folks who can't afford health care
How will abortions lift people out of poverty? If they could, how would those in poverty afford them in the first place? I think the current state of welfare in the US speaks for itself, it has created a segment of the population that expects to receive assistance from the government as opposed to being a productive member of society. Reducing the number of children they have isn't going to change that mindset, only reinforce it.
HeadStart and more money for schools fall under the same category. The answer to every social problem isn't to throw more money at it. We have failed, repeatedly, with that tactic. It is time to look a little deeper than the first quick fix that pops into mind. It is highly likely that our public school system is poorly designed in the first place, on a fundamental level. Much like the much maligned Bob Knight's coaching tactics it has not changed to keep up with the social changes that have happened around it.
Public health/child care? Yeah, that is exactly who I want watching my children and removing my spleen, the goverment, the one you don't appear to trust too much. Imagine how corrupt 'the system' would be if it could had instant legislative control over those two industries.
Corporate welfare,
Where would we get the money to fund the panacea you describe if there were no corporate welfare? Like it or not, corporations create jobs, jobs that pay individuals money earned by the corporation. The US government can't do that, it is funded by tax dollars that it extracts from...corporations and those who work for them. Our economy doesn't generate money because we want it to or because the poor people really need it, it comes from people who produce something that someone else wants.
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AFS is rough to configure, on purpose I think.
Of course I meant IBM Public License. My bad.
Opening up the code for anything (even if MS did it) is a good deal, I'm just wondering about everyone wanting to write their own license. Until I followed this link I wasn't even aware that there was an IBM Open Source License. Why is it that the BSD license or the GPL wouldn't work? Even under those they could have kept the some parts of the code closed....or am I wrong somewhere?
At least this would be much more up front and honest than the current system.
Obviously (I hope) I'm being absurd.
There isn't going to be any major media coverage of the reasons behind the protests. One reason is probably because many of the people there don't really have a good grasp on why they are protesting, they're just there to have a good time. The bigger reason is because that type of coverage doesn't draw any viewers. We aren't talking about you and a couple of your friends who are well informed, we're talking about Joe Six Pack. Most viewers don't want to have to think about any issues while they watch TV, they just want to be entertained. This is why Jerry Springer is a millionaire while most political talk shows languish in obscurity.
The sad reality is that many people have no desire to become educated voters, it is too difficult for them. If you desire something other than mainstream coverage you will have to go find it. The major news outlets are giant corporations, you can bet your ass that no one brings up the quality of the news at a shareholder or board meeting.
Yes yes, Word has these 'features'. You see, we know that you really meant to keep that deleted text, or that you are trying to write a letter and need help, or that you need a new version of Media Player. Just let us take care of you, don't worry about how we're doing it.
Thanks,
MS Marketing Team
As has already been mentioned in this thread, writing an entirely new OS would be a fairly large scale project. I think this is the reason you see Linux being squeezed into everything is because it is a good OS relative to everything else (end user or no). People want to see it run everything they use. It also aids interoberability and application development, the two things that are probably the biggest obstacles for a new system. Linux has a huge following and there is still no strong competitor to MS Office. In particular, there is no strong competitor that will work seamlessly with Office files.
I would agree that rather than trying to make a handheld run X effort would be better directed toward app development, but that is why it is called the open source community, not open source inc..
Maybe take a look at Plan9 from Bell. BeOS is also good but you don't hear much about it here because it is closed. At some point an OS will emerge that has *really* innovative features rather than repackaging old concepts. I doubt it will be instantaneous process, likely a series of improvements along the lines of BeOS or Plan9. (or like X a few years ago)
This is quite true if you have been using Windows your entire life. There are no GUIs that are exact clones of Windows.
Although, maybe 'ergonomics' is a better word. I think user friendliness would almost have to encompass stability (as it results in, at the very least, wasted time to reboot). Windows (and Office) is a lot of things, stable isn't one of them.
Of the little I've used MySQL it seems to be fine as long as things stay pretty flat. I wonder why it was included in a benckmark like this though (other than to make PostgreSQL look good). Much like Access or FoxPro, it isn't optimized to do what they asked it to do, shouldn't be a big deal when it doesn't keep up.
It is indeed benchmarketing.
The names of the two 'industry leaders' couldn't be released due to restrictive licenses, which to me means one of them is Oracle. (Not that that would be tough to figure, even without prior experience with them).
This reads more like an ad than a benchmark. Then again, it wouldn't be tough to beat MySQL. Maybe the two 'leading closed source' databases were MS Access and FoxPro.....
Damn script kiddi3z. Now they have found a hole in MS Library 2000.
Thus far it has been the hipocracy that has been getting torn up.
100 Mb/s? That is way too fast. The packets would vaporize at that speed.
Slow and steady wins the race.
I've personally used cable modems in about 12 separate locations, and shared bandwidth or not, they ALL provided better throughput than similarly priced DSL options
>br> I was initially sold on DSL's superior technology and its seemingly better architecture. I dropped my connection after about six months because of poor reliability, got cable, and have been fairly happy since. I think the newness of both of these connections is what makes the difference right now. Cable can offer good speed (if you uncap your bandwidth) because there aren't as many people on the loop as there will probably be in 2 years. DSL seems to be suffering from poor implementation / support relative to cable. Of course, my personal experience doesn't speak for the rest of the nation but that is the general consensus around here.
Unless they are PPTP, then they are typically cracked.
You sir, have cool sig.
I'm not positive because the story only makes references to blocking the word 'breast' but most filters are concerned with blocking more than just porn. Since a junior high is across the street the guy's bosses are probably just as worried about bomb making instructions or bore sighting a rifle or something like that.
Besides, I don't think this guy is really anti-censorship. He has no problem blocking porn sites, he just wants people to be able to do breast cancer research. Its like a politician talking about the most humane way to kill someone.
Compare the corporatization of the academic side of universities to their athletic programs and there are a lot of possible parallels. The shoe companies run college sports now, from the camps to the coaches, and the drive to put together a successful team overrules everything else. In the past the pressure for wins came mostly from boosters and alumi who's donations paled in comparison to the contracts most big time coaches have for their players wearing a company's shoe. The result is more corruption and rule violations. More breaks given to kids who put up big stats. The games aren't played for the sake of the players, they are played so the shoe companies can get an audience for their commercials.
If research is conducted in the same way, just because the results will be marketable, a lot of 'pure' science gets tossed aside. Who the hell is going to care whether or not you can teach a chimp sign language if you can't sell them at a profit?
Of course, this is already the case in a lot of places, so I'm not exactly sure how timely this article is.
Nearly every tech company, software or hardware, provides separate 'support packages' for their corporate customers who buy several hundred computers and their home customers who buy one. Does anyone know which companies have different employees who are dedicated each type? Calls from a reasonably knowledgeable IT person would likely require a different starting point than those from grandma.
I have never used anyone's tech support for my home system so I don't have any experience there but the few corporate calls I've had to make began with questions like "do you know how to get to a command prompt?"
I would imagine staffing the corporate support group with full blown geeks would be cost prohibitive but I'd expect there is some money to be made somehow, given the ridiculous fees most comnpanies now pay for nearly worthless support.
To the jerk who asked about "where are the pro-poverty organizations", try those against Choice...they're the ones who won't fully fund Head Start, or public childcare, or more money to schools, or health for folks who can't afford health care
How will abortions lift people out of poverty? If they could, how would those in poverty afford them in the first place? I think the current state of welfare in the US speaks for itself, it has created a segment of the population that expects to receive assistance from the government as opposed to being a productive member of society. Reducing the number of children they have isn't going to change that mindset, only reinforce it.
HeadStart and more money for schools fall under the same category. The answer to every social problem isn't to throw more money at it. We have failed, repeatedly, with that tactic. It is time to look a little deeper than the first quick fix that pops into mind. It is highly likely that our public school system is poorly designed in the first place, on a fundamental level. Much like the much maligned Bob Knight's coaching tactics it has not changed to keep up with the social changes that have happened around it.
Public health/child care? Yeah, that is exactly who I want watching my children and removing my spleen, the goverment, the one you don't appear to trust too much. Imagine how corrupt 'the system' would be if it could had instant legislative control over those two industries.
Corporate welfare,
Where would we get the money to fund the panacea you describe if there were no corporate welfare? Like it or not, corporations create jobs, jobs that pay individuals money earned by the corporation. The US government can't do that, it is funded by tax dollars that it extracts from...corporations and those who work for them. Our economy doesn't generate money because we want it to or because the poor people really need it, it comes from people who produce something that someone else wants.
Score one for an AC
The 'drug checkpoint' thing happened here in Indianapolis but was quickly struck down as unconstitutional.
For sure - that city councilman in Seattle was dressed like a street thug, no doubt. That'll teach him to wear a business suit.
Dammit, I am a street thug and I don't get racially profiled. Where is mine?
Too bad Che isn't around too, he'd probably have some cool stuff to say too.