What you talk about isn't civic duty, that's called suppression of freedom. The two are vastly different.
It may also surprise you to learn that there are many ethical people employed in many major international corporations. We never hear about them because blood-letting is where the most exciting journalism comes from.
When a customer's competitors have a "killer-app" feature implemented in their product that the customer doesn't have, and would require customization of the software that you wrote for that feature to be implemented, they'll be looking for some support, and the author is always the best place to look.
Customers may be cheap, but most OSS customers are likely to be businesses, and businesses rarely like being behind.
The author doesn't have to offer his software under a closed license to a customer, just a different license that works for the customer. It would be up to the author and the customer as to whether or not the customer has access to the source code.
Authors are allowed to put any licensing they want on their software. I'm sure there are many commercial applications that allow their customers access to the source code, but no one else. I don't know of any off hand, but it wouldn't surprise me.
The issue for me is that I was a staunch believer in free trade - I supported Reagan in a liberal high school, and I believed that at some point the promises of a better society would happen. They simply have not. None of the promises of globalization and rampant capitalism have yet to materialize despite having 20 years to run this experiment.
Have you ever wondered why? There's no accountability for wrong-doing in free trade, no responsiblity, and no motivation for ethicality.
Free trade, as with all political theories, is good in theory, but never in practice. Political theories all have this problem of thinking that humans are flawless. I have no idea where that train thought within politics came from.
It used to be that everyone could afford college...[and] a new car
Becareful with what you say. That's not true, and never has been. Perhaps you never knew a family that couldn't, but there certainly always have been, obviously in very impoverished nations, and even in the US.
This article ought to make you happy since now those nations can internalize their software industry without the US, and so their economies and the economy of the US won't intermingle so much. The economies will become more independent.
Perhaps it's time more places internalize more industries so that economies can work more independently, rather than rely on each other. The more they rely on each other, the more that failure can affect each of them. Not only that, but then workers don't have to worry about competition from abroad.
Of course, that doesn't help impoverished nations without any infrastructure. They'll still be poor, starving, and without medical care. All political theories are particularly bad at solving that problem.
There needs to be some political theories that take into account both impoverished nations and flawed humans. Of course, I'm sure that it, too, will fail in practice.
The demand for simple, easy to use user interfaces will be met bet commercial entities. There's no reason why the rest of us should care. Volunteer efforts should continue to do what they want to do, but they shouldn't have to worry about end users unless they want to. That's something that marketing people in commercial entities do.
1) Does anyone that buys a Tivo or a Sharp Zaurus, which use Linux underneath, have to install the software? No, of course not. These are specific use devices, not desktop or laptop computers.
2) Again, these devices have rather specific uses, and so the company will write the required applications for them. This is a non-issue.
Telemarketers have asked the federal courts to block the new rules, saying they violate their free speech rights.
Interesting, but I don't believe that the US Constitution gives people the right to force their speech upon unwilling listeners, which would include telemarketers and spammers.
Why did you use ReiserFS? I don't know too many people that would consider it to be production-level stable. I, personally, would still not recommend it to anyone that needs stability. Ext2 (as well as its journaling variant, Ext3) has been stable for a while. It might not be as fast, but its stability can be more than assured.
The best implementation of Virtual Desktops on Windows that I've seen is with NVidia's drivers. The UI isn't all that great, but they work almost exactly how I want them to work. It doesn't have everything that an X window manager could have, such as edge flipping, but the basics of Virtual Desktops are there and they work.
Of course, the biggest downside to NVidia's Virtual Desktops is that you need an NVidia card!
I thought there was something fishy about all of this. I just figured it out, and my suspicions were correct all along, the Iraqi Information Minister went to work for SCO!!! It all makes sense now. Without this case, he would have been bored out of his mind!
Sure, it's horrible that people die, but they were(sic) were technicans, not astronauts
I think the point that you're missing is that people died. It doesn't matter that they were merely technicians. The original post seemed a tad insensitive to this fact. They could have been janitors that were cleaning up around the place at night, and they still would have deserved a little more respect.
These things are essentially big bombs. No matter how many tests people do, there is always the slight possibility that something like this can happen. Hopefully they'll be able to find the cause and work on that for their next launch.
Competition is a good motivator, and hopefully this will motivate other countries to go up into space.
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We'll, depending on what they meant, they may be getting what they want.
What you talk about isn't civic duty, that's called suppression of freedom. The two are vastly different.
It may also surprise you to learn that there are many ethical people employed in many major international corporations. We never hear about them because blood-letting is where the most exciting journalism comes from.
When a customer's competitors have a "killer-app" feature implemented in their product that the customer doesn't have, and would require customization of the software that you wrote for that feature to be implemented, they'll be looking for some support, and the author is always the best place to look.
Customers may be cheap, but most OSS customers are likely to be businesses, and businesses rarely like being behind.
The author doesn't have to offer his software under a closed license to a customer, just a different license that works for the customer. It would be up to the author and the customer as to whether or not the customer has access to the source code.
Authors are allowed to put any licensing they want on their software. I'm sure there are many commercial applications that allow their customers access to the source code, but no one else. I don't know of any off hand, but it wouldn't surprise me.
I completely misread the title as "Self-Panicking Car Available In Japan." I was thinking some Japanese inventor went insane for a second.
No, I think it has something to do with miniature trains or nanotech delivery or something like that.
Have you ever wondered why? There's no accountability for wrong-doing in free trade, no responsiblity, and no motivation for ethicality.
Free trade, as with all political theories, is good in theory, but never in practice. Political theories all have this problem of thinking that humans are flawless. I have no idea where that train thought within politics came from.
Becareful with what you say. That's not true, and never has been. Perhaps you never knew a family that couldn't, but there certainly always have been, obviously in very impoverished nations, and even in the US.
This article ought to make you happy since now those nations can internalize their software industry without the US, and so their economies and the economy of the US won't intermingle so much. The economies will become more independent.
Perhaps it's time more places internalize more industries so that economies can work more independently, rather than rely on each other. The more they rely on each other, the more that failure can affect each of them. Not only that, but then workers don't have to worry about competition from abroad.
Of course, that doesn't help impoverished nations without any infrastructure. They'll still be poor, starving, and without medical care. All political theories are particularly bad at solving that problem.
There needs to be some political theories that take into account both impoverished nations and flawed humans. Of course, I'm sure that it, too, will fail in practice.
...is about a million people saying "Oh, the irony!"
Notice: '4 Funny' not '4 Insightful'
Yeah, there really needs to be "-1 Has no sense of humour."
(and no one better say anything about the spelling.)
The demand for simple, easy to use user interfaces will be met bet commercial entities. There's no reason why the rest of us should care. Volunteer efforts should continue to do what they want to do, but they shouldn't have to worry about end users unless they want to. That's something that marketing people in commercial entities do.
Everything needs a little bit of Agent X, just so we could PowerPuff everything! Muahahahahaha!
These are not barriers because:
1) Does anyone that buys a Tivo or a Sharp Zaurus, which use Linux underneath, have to install the software? No, of course not. These are specific use devices, not desktop or laptop computers.
2) Again, these devices have rather specific uses, and so the company will write the required applications for them. This is a non-issue.
Interesting, but I don't believe that the US Constitution gives people the right to force their speech upon unwilling listeners, which would include telemarketers and spammers.
Yeah, no kidding.
Just because we Perl scripts often look like trash doesn't mean that we should be associated with it.
RTWFT (Read the whole F* thread)
We were talking about stability and the 2.4.x kernel series, not 2.5 and 2.6.
Oh, gosh, you're so right they're the most unbelievablest, fun-est, golly-gee-whizziest computers ever! God bless every G5!
I apologize for mixing mythologies and the bad timing of this bad rhyming.
Why did you use ReiserFS? I don't know too many people that would consider it to be production-level stable. I, personally, would still not recommend it to anyone that needs stability. Ext2 (as well as its journaling variant, Ext3) has been stable for a while. It might not be as fast, but its stability can be more than assured.
I, myself, have not tested out the test release, but a lot of people that claim to have done so are saying that it's pretty stable already.
It's not a very good implementation, though.
The best implementation of Virtual Desktops on Windows that I've seen is with NVidia's drivers. The UI isn't all that great, but they work almost exactly how I want them to work. It doesn't have everything that an X window manager could have, such as edge flipping, but the basics of Virtual Desktops are there and they work.
Of course, the biggest downside to NVidia's Virtual Desktops is that you need an NVidia card!
I thought there was something fishy about all of this. I just figured it out, and my suspicions were correct all along, the Iraqi Information Minister went to work for SCO!!! It all makes sense now. Without this case, he would have been bored out of his mind!
I think the point that you're missing is that people died . It doesn't matter that they were merely technicians. The original post seemed a tad insensitive to this fact. They could have been janitors that were cleaning up around the place at night, and they still would have deserved a little more respect.
My sympathies to the families.
These things are essentially big bombs. No matter how many tests people do, there is always the slight possibility that something like this can happen. Hopefully they'll be able to find the cause and work on that for their next launch.
Competition is a good motivator, and hopefully this will motivate other countries to go up into space.
It's not nice to kick someone when they're down.
Super Grandma to the rescue!!!
Is it a bird, a plane? No! It's a geriatric superhero with a Lifeline+ button, just in case.
"I'll show you who shall fall and can't get up!"