Dude, just don't. I understand you want to speak and see your son, but the reason 4yo don't have phones is because they are not ready for their use. Let the kid play with playmobil and later lego. Let him be a child and when he's ready for a mobile, he'll tell you by putting it on his christmas-list.
I wish you wisdom with your decission and hopefully you'll find a beter way to keep in touch with your kid.
Thank you for your lengthy response to what I said. I have to agree with you. I used the words true/free based upon my own bias and I shouldn't do that. Good point, I will take that into account for the future. Especially since it's such a 'holy' (as in vi vs emacs) subject.
About the ps: I personally don't see it as stealing what Apple did. I consider the BSD license as sort of saying: Here, you can have this. It's a gift. Do what you want with it. And albeit not being too keen on Apple for other reasons, they had every right to use the codebase under the BSD. So no stealing as far as I am concerned.
It's funny you mention RMS. I have great respect for him and consider him to be one of the pioneers of the tech-world. When he speaks, I listen. I don't always agree with him 100%, but most of the time I think he's right. To be honest, when I started reading your post for a moment there I thought I got AC'd by him.
Again, thank you for this very interesting response. I wasn't expecting such a post from an AC.
You are cherry picking. Theo released that mail to the open on day 1. The guy who made the accusations got a bit scared after a reporter did a factcheck and asked him to remove it until he could answer. The reporter did, but we are still waiting for that answer. promised to respond to a question from a reporter never did. The backdoor would have been installed in 2001 and in SSH only. While it could be true... now, 12 years later that backdoor still isn't found. And it had been checked by everyone that matters and has the skills to do so.
I don't agree, v2000 had longer tapes, much longer since those tapes where double sided. They had an A and B-side. I had tapes up to 8 eight hours in the end, better image too. You could actually put the video on pause on a frame and it looked good. With vhs for example, it would shutter and colors would blend. Back in those days when I went into the video rental (I am dutch, so v2000 was here very much available since philips is a dutch firm) I really could see that most of the store was filled with blockbusters on v2000. Betamax wasn't populair, VHS not really too. But in 2 years, all that space for v2000 and all those blockbusters went to vhs. But that first year... vhs had a special section. Filled with porn.
As much as I love freebsd I have stopped using it after their servers got 'served' with the use of 'legitimate' ssh keys. http://www.paritynews.com/2012/11/19/487/two-freebsd-project-servers-hacked/
Given that Freebsd never released a good audit report after that hack I can only be worried more.
Add to that, we now that we know the NSA had access to the certs from diginotar and might had done or paid for the diginotar hack I think one might as well use windows. I hate to say it, but the complete codebase from freebsd needs to be checked. Again and again. Preferable with the help from openbsd.
You are all forgetting the third, best system, video 2000 from Phillips. It was double sided and had great picture. It was the winner on all points. There was just one thing that made VHS the winner... video 2000 didn;t allowed porn in the early days... vhs did. That is why vhs won.
Which I and probably about every other BSD-style coder respects. However, this debate is really old. I think there is something to be said for both license-models and it is good they both exist. I however do feel that true free code, is well... really free. Also to be used without giving the source. It's a choice I made and I can perfectly understand why people don't want to have Big Ol' Apple stealing their stuff and making heaps of money from it. But, I can also understand why people want to really give the code away. It's all about perspective and there is no right or wrong here. It all depends on the personal views of the coder/owner of the code and what that person/org wants to let others do with their code.
BSD has the advantage that it can become closed source. That makes it easier to generate profit, but also (especially in the commercial world) there are other good reasons why people want to protect their product.
GPL has the advantage that every time someone uses your code, that code will become available also.
Just don't ever think that because your code is GPL'd, no one will dare to use it in close source. As much as I would love such a world, that would be very naive.
Hi Aaron,
First: thanks for doing this. As a musician I can greatly appreciate the effort put into this. It's important those great works are freely available.
However, when I look at the 70K I wonder how you do it. Basing my knowledge of the money part of getting a good orchestra to record your music on Frank Zappa's book it would have at least set you back 300K ten years ago. For 1 song. That is without any rehearsals that will easily quadrupple the bill for the orchestra. How do you manage to record this music so cheap? And, how do you insure that the quality is top-notch. After all, when all goes to plan your versions will become the 'standard'.
"I manage the network for a defense contractor that needs a cloud-based storage service"
No you don't. At least I sure as hell hope you don't. Cloud + defense don't mix but since you are managing such a network, why am I telling you this? Why don't you contact 'defense' for options...
They are pretty smart and independent as you already know from owning one, but poodles and border collies top the smartest dog list. My Jack Russell likes to use his intelligence for things he gets an instant reward from. He does like to 'work' for me though. I also learned him to close doors, get stuff, some things by name other things by pointing. Most of these tricks took me between 10 minutens and 1 hour to learn. Incredible fast learners once they know they will get a reward. The clicker-training helps tremendously to speed up the learning process. The one thing I can't learn him is to control his hunting drift. If it's small and cute, it's dead. I let him walk without a leach wherever it's safe to do so. He is gone when he sees another dog. He just has to go greet and play. Which can be dangerous because not all dogs accept that. Ah well, I love that dog with all my heart.
That might be true, but my jack russell also likes to watch the tele. He can also easily recognize dogs and cats on the television even with the sound off. You should see him watching youtube. He just loves kitten-video's! And that's no lie.
I did a lot of that in my time. Although I can see why one would automate some parts (like getting a sample to analyze the facial from), but I really don't see any fun in letting the software do everything.
To be honest, as one of the very few licensed gun owners here in the Netherlands.... we sometimes (rare though) have gun shots.But we don't have shootings like you guys. Only once in history a couple of years ago a schizophrenic but licensed gun-owner had a shooting in a mall here. But that is unique.
Well in this case the material used wasn't miniaturized, it used a good lens/camera. The effectiveness and quality of a lens stands in direct relation with it's size. So they have to use bigger objects. This one was an easy one, but I'm sure they can just park a car with the same setup in it. Or a trailer. Or a birdsnest, if the setup can (and it can easily) be miniaturized a bit more. So I'm sure this is just one method of hiding the cam. They have more. Despite the jokes, these guys aren't idiots.
Just an investigation by the AIVD or MIVD. The part of town where it was found is being said to be used for recruitment by terrorists. Only thing I can hope for it wasn't a high target, because if it was, he/she/they now know they were under investigation. For the rest, just a big box with a cam and a modem to send shit back. Nothing special, but a really nice camera though!
Or are the young ones just getting extra protection because they are more valuable for the colony at that point? When they get older they might become less valuable for the tasks that involve nursing and get demoted to cleaning. Even later, they get to go outside! How nice! From the safety from the center of the colony to the front in afghanistan doesn't sound like a promotion to me. I am not saying they are wrong, I am saying this is so interesting that it deserves a really good extended study to find the real reason for this behavior.
First off, I love the game tomb and I love the guy for putting it up and making it work.
However he is making it harder than it should be to take over. He said he is going to upload the database dump but hasn't done so yet. To make matters worse, he won't give the current source of the site. It would be so easy for me to host this site as is. No problem. But I don't have time to write a complete new site.
In his defense though, he is willing to transfer the domain itself. I just wished he would let me or somebody else host the site until someone comes along that does have the time to write a new site for the data. At least we would be able to check the site. Something I do often, even yesterday I found myself looking there for gems I might have missed.
This is no way meant to attack the guy, not at all, but it would make things a lot easier.
It will depend on the price. If I can get a new battery like I would get a new gas-container for my cooking needs, no problemo. Just as long as it's at a reasonable price.
If you say the two biggest home computers without naming the MSX you really have no clue what you are talking about. Either you haven't actually been part of the 80's or you well, you weren't exactly informed... For both there is no excuse since all this stuff can be googled now. There are 2 big home computers MSX and Commodore. Commodore had nicer sound out of the box. MSX had nicer, well, everything and with a fm-pac or/and scc, even better sound.
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Dude, just don't. I understand you want to speak and see your son, but the reason 4yo don't have phones is because they are not ready for their use. Let the kid play with playmobil and later lego. Let him be a child and when he's ready for a mobile, he'll tell you by putting it on his christmas-list. I wish you wisdom with your decission and hopefully you'll find a beter way to keep in touch with your kid.
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Thank you for your lengthy response to what I said. I have to agree with you. I used the words true/free based upon my own bias and I shouldn't do that. Good point, I will take that into account for the future. Especially since it's such a 'holy' (as in vi vs emacs) subject. About the ps: I personally don't see it as stealing what Apple did. I consider the BSD license as sort of saying: Here, you can have this. It's a gift. Do what you want with it. And albeit not being too keen on Apple for other reasons, they had every right to use the codebase under the BSD. So no stealing as far as I am concerned. It's funny you mention RMS. I have great respect for him and consider him to be one of the pioneers of the tech-world. When he speaks, I listen. I don't always agree with him 100%, but most of the time I think he's right. To be honest, when I started reading your post for a moment there I thought I got AC'd by him. Again, thank you for this very interesting response. I wasn't expecting such a post from an AC.
You are cherry picking. Theo released that mail to the open on day 1. The guy who made the accusations got a bit scared after a reporter did a factcheck and asked him to remove it until he could answer. The reporter did, but we are still waiting for that answer. promised to respond to a question from a reporter never did. The backdoor would have been installed in 2001 and in SSH only. While it could be true... now, 12 years later that backdoor still isn't found. And it had been checked by everyone that matters and has the skills to do so.
Oh, I have to correct myself. It was allowed to produce porn on it, but the porn industry had adopted the in the US more populair VHS-format.
I don't agree, v2000 had longer tapes, much longer since those tapes where double sided. They had an A and B-side. I had tapes up to 8 eight hours in the end, better image too. You could actually put the video on pause on a frame and it looked good. With vhs for example, it would shutter and colors would blend. Back in those days when I went into the video rental (I am dutch, so v2000 was here very much available since philips is a dutch firm) I really could see that most of the store was filled with blockbusters on v2000. Betamax wasn't populair, VHS not really too. But in 2 years, all that space for v2000 and all those blockbusters went to vhs. But that first year... vhs had a special section. Filled with porn.
Hehe, you didn't try to install 9 with full disk encryption did you? ;) Just saying.
As much as I love freebsd I have stopped using it after their servers got 'served' with the use of 'legitimate' ssh keys. http://www.paritynews.com/2012/11/19/487/two-freebsd-project-servers-hacked/ Given that Freebsd never released a good audit report after that hack I can only be worried more. Add to that, we now that we know the NSA had access to the certs from diginotar and might had done or paid for the diginotar hack I think one might as well use windows. I hate to say it, but the complete codebase from freebsd needs to be checked. Again and again. Preferable with the help from openbsd.
You are all forgetting the third, best system, video 2000 from Phillips. It was double sided and had great picture. It was the winner on all points. There was just one thing that made VHS the winner... video 2000 didn;t allowed porn in the early days... vhs did. That is why vhs won.
Which I and probably about every other BSD-style coder respects. However, this debate is really old. I think there is something to be said for both license-models and it is good they both exist. I however do feel that true free code, is well... really free. Also to be used without giving the source. It's a choice I made and I can perfectly understand why people don't want to have Big Ol' Apple stealing their stuff and making heaps of money from it. But, I can also understand why people want to really give the code away. It's all about perspective and there is no right or wrong here. It all depends on the personal views of the coder/owner of the code and what that person/org wants to let others do with their code. BSD has the advantage that it can become closed source. That makes it easier to generate profit, but also (especially in the commercial world) there are other good reasons why people want to protect their product. GPL has the advantage that every time someone uses your code, that code will become available also. Just don't ever think that because your code is GPL'd, no one will dare to use it in close source. As much as I would love such a world, that would be very naive.
Hi Aaron, First: thanks for doing this. As a musician I can greatly appreciate the effort put into this. It's important those great works are freely available. However, when I look at the 70K I wonder how you do it. Basing my knowledge of the money part of getting a good orchestra to record your music on Frank Zappa's book it would have at least set you back 300K ten years ago. For 1 song. That is without any rehearsals that will easily quadrupple the bill for the orchestra. How do you manage to record this music so cheap? And, how do you insure that the quality is top-notch. After all, when all goes to plan your versions will become the 'standard'.
"I manage the network for a defense contractor that needs a cloud-based storage service" No you don't. At least I sure as hell hope you don't. Cloud + defense don't mix but since you are managing such a network, why am I telling you this? Why don't you contact 'defense' for options...
They are pretty smart and independent as you already know from owning one, but poodles and border collies top the smartest dog list. My Jack Russell likes to use his intelligence for things he gets an instant reward from. He does like to 'work' for me though. I also learned him to close doors, get stuff, some things by name other things by pointing. Most of these tricks took me between 10 minutens and 1 hour to learn. Incredible fast learners once they know they will get a reward. The clicker-training helps tremendously to speed up the learning process. The one thing I can't learn him is to control his hunting drift. If it's small and cute, it's dead. I let him walk without a leach wherever it's safe to do so. He is gone when he sees another dog. He just has to go greet and play. Which can be dangerous because not all dogs accept that. Ah well, I love that dog with all my heart.
That might be true, but my jack russell also likes to watch the tele. He can also easily recognize dogs and cats on the television even with the sound off. You should see him watching youtube. He just loves kitten-video's! And that's no lie.
I did a lot of that in my time. Although I can see why one would automate some parts (like getting a sample to analyze the facial from), but I really don't see any fun in letting the software do everything.
Didn't Steve call that yacht the i-Sore?
The biggest problem is coding for it. The api is a mess. The wayland team is essential consisting of former x11 programmers.
To be honest, as one of the very few licensed gun owners here in the Netherlands.... we sometimes (rare though) have gun shots.But we don't have shootings like you guys. Only once in history a couple of years ago a schizophrenic but licensed gun-owner had a shooting in a mall here. But that is unique.
Well in this case the material used wasn't miniaturized, it used a good lens/camera. The effectiveness and quality of a lens stands in direct relation with it's size. So they have to use bigger objects. This one was an easy one, but I'm sure they can just park a car with the same setup in it. Or a trailer. Or a birdsnest, if the setup can (and it can easily) be miniaturized a bit more. So I'm sure this is just one method of hiding the cam. They have more. Despite the jokes, these guys aren't idiots.
Just an investigation by the AIVD or MIVD. The part of town where it was found is being said to be used for recruitment by terrorists. Only thing I can hope for it wasn't a high target, because if it was, he/she/they now know they were under investigation. For the rest, just a big box with a cam and a modem to send shit back. Nothing special, but a really nice camera though!
Or are the young ones just getting extra protection because they are more valuable for the colony at that point? When they get older they might become less valuable for the tasks that involve nursing and get demoted to cleaning. Even later, they get to go outside! How nice! From the safety from the center of the colony to the front in afghanistan doesn't sound like a promotion to me. I am not saying they are wrong, I am saying this is so interesting that it deserves a really good extended study to find the real reason for this behavior.
First off, I love the game tomb and I love the guy for putting it up and making it work. However he is making it harder than it should be to take over. He said he is going to upload the database dump but hasn't done so yet. To make matters worse, he won't give the current source of the site. It would be so easy for me to host this site as is. No problem. But I don't have time to write a complete new site. In his defense though, he is willing to transfer the domain itself. I just wished he would let me or somebody else host the site until someone comes along that does have the time to write a new site for the data. At least we would be able to check the site. Something I do often, even yesterday I found myself looking there for gems I might have missed. This is no way meant to attack the guy, not at all, but it would make things a lot easier.
It will depend on the price. If I can get a new battery like I would get a new gas-container for my cooking needs, no problemo. Just as long as it's at a reasonable price.
Lol, if only I had modpoints :)
If you say the two biggest home computers without naming the MSX you really have no clue what you are talking about. Either you haven't actually been part of the 80's or you well, you weren't exactly informed... For both there is no excuse since all this stuff can be googled now. There are 2 big home computers MSX and Commodore. Commodore had nicer sound out of the box. MSX had nicer, well, everything and with a fm-pac or/and scc, even better sound.