If I remember, there's a federal law that stipulates you are allowed one [1] backup of any piece of software you own on the basis that it be used to restore/replace the original in the event of its destruction or loss, etceteras.
Yeah, and there's the university regulation that if your roommate commits suicide you get an automatic 4.0. And I hear that the cancer boy with all the business cards likes Nieman Marcus Cookies...
Actually, if you are allowed to makes copies of your software its ususally because the license you agreed to allows it.
If the plural of index is indeces, shouldn't the plural of Kleenex be Kleneces? If the plural of mouse is mice, what's the plural of house? If a train station is where the train stops, what happens at a workstation? If corn oil comes from corn and coconut oil comes from coconuts, how do they make baby oil?
Um... Some guys at the University of Virginia did that a LONG time ago too... They put on up on the Rotunda (you can see it in the background. Of course, you can also see a statue of Jefferson in the foreground... Interesting since that statue is located nowhere near where it had to have been i that picture was "taken" rather than peiced together...
Regulation absolutely does do something for the conscious consumer! Regulation can level the playing field, allowing competition, especially from smaller companies
It usually doesn't "level" the playing field, it just makes it unfair to the winner. Barring anti-trust/anti-competitive action (because that's a whole nother can of worms) small companies should fend for their own damn selves. Companies succede by offering better products for better prices. They shouldn't succede because they were helped by a "leveling" of the playing field. Better products for better prices.
Those other cases of certification issues... Usually done by a professional board rather than by regulation. The certification is simply mandated. These are issues of safety. Issues of comsumer convience are far removed.
Networks are private property that users pay to use. These networks should interoperate, perhaps adhering to governing RFCs, but they shouldn't be mandated. I want open standards, not dictated ones. If they want the service they should pay for it. If they want the networks to talk to one another they should demand it. That's why the old AOL/Compuserve/Prodigy/BBS droped of the earth, people wanted the internet. They'd be dumbasses to go back and they know it.
Do you believe that M$ wants the same things that you do?
Nope, that's why I don't use their products.
The reasons we have regulations is to stop things from growing in the wrong direction.
Theoretically that's what the market is supposed to do. In the case of microsoft if the market had paid attention they wouldn't have gotten away with all they did. In practical matters more regulation is still a bad thing because it makes private companies more difficult to run and doesn't do anything for the conscious consumer.
One of the kinds of regulation that Lessig is in favor of is that of requiring large communication network owners, like Time
Warner/AOL, to allow smaller service providers to have access to their network in order to (re)sell services.
I'm simply making my arguement that regulation is bad and we shouldn't do it. Following that tot he logical conclusion: don't allow them to block access by not buying their services. Besides, does this regulation allow you to block spammers? What about other noxious crap that might come out of peering indiscriminately? AOL's "network" (which really isn't there's but that another story) isn't public property (unlike airwaves). They should be able to do whatever they want whenever they want as long as it doesn't directly infringe on the rights of other parties.
You seem to like making statements. But I don't see a lot of back up. If you want people to listen to what you have to say, you have to give them Reasons.
Fine:
Regulation is restrictive. Regulations in the most general sense mean you cannot do a certain thing under certian circumstances, no? Traditionally regulations seek to ban certain actions from taking place and to bypass them takes additonal steps than it did before regulation.
Regulation retards growth. Growth is a relationship between size and time. If additonal steps are created between start and end you must, logically, be slowing growth. In the case of new markets (eg HDTV) regulation seeks to speed growth in new areas. I wonder, if those markets were so fruitful and wonderful why didn't greedy companies seek to exploit it before the government. I'd wager it has something to do with the regulations previously placed on that fruitful emerging market.
Procedures really don't enter into the arguement. Procedures don't carry the weight of law (which is the body of regulatory crap I'm talking about). Procedures are guidelines and not thou-shalt or thou-shalt-not dictates.
So yes, regulation is bad. Not that nothing good has never come of it but that good could have been had more cheaply and faster if regulations weren't in the way.
Hopefuly I'm not the only one who has more than a minor revulsion to his writing. Granted, ESR isn't the most sane man alive but Lessig can't seem to read....
To summarize: M$ isn't evil because they violated (equally stupid) anit-trust laws but because they lie to their comsumers and sell inferior products. If they can't sell their inferior products they attempt to force them down the throats of comsumers via any channel they can.
Regulation is bad any way you slice it. Laws, excepting those barring physical and finacial abuse, are usually unneeded and restrictive. The internet did not grow up in a culture of regulation as Lessig suggests. Sharing common lines with the phone system does not mean ay of the communication was regulated (or at leats not regulated in any enforcible way). Regulation on the internet would be restrictive. It would retard the growth of the already ill new ecomony and the new way of life.
The only reaosn regulation has ever been needed is because people are stupid. If people actually paid attention to who and what they were voting for our government would be much better. If they paid attention to what they bought rather than which product will make them sexier we'd have better products. Government has only been the framework for trade/commerce because people were too lazy to do it themselves.
Second, my car is a lame-o Geo Prism - only a moron would try to "turbo-charge" it.
I take offense! I drive a "lame-o Geo Prism" (which is mostly a Corrola is disguise) and I think it would be outrageously funny to "turbo-charge" it.:)
We didn't need them before to be happy and successful, and we sure as hell don't need them now. Companies like Red Hat, VA, and LinuxCare have only made the game more interesting...
I think that this is a total overstatement. I don't work for any of these companies so I don't know exactly what goes on inside them but RedHat and VA Linux have netted a distinct positive for the communitty. Red Hat has always released its code until the GPL and is committed to doing so in the future. VA Linux owns Andover now so essentially they provide the money to make Slashdot go. They also do much the same for sourceforge and linux.com. Making money does not make them evil. If they didn't make money (or at least attempt to) they wouldn't be fulfilling their basic stated purpose as businesses.
Essentially go blow it out your ass. We don't need them, but don't negate what we have gained from them.
"advantage" goes. No insinuation that Linux can't do SMP, just a belief that it's temporarily behind W2K for >3-way SMP and a statement about that changing soon.No need to get defensive.
Dude, what article did you read?:
>> However, the next public edition of the operating system, Linux 2.4, due out this summer, will offer SMP support.
What does that mean to you? Crappy INACCURATE writing...
At least in Virginia, and probably other places, SPAM has been criminalized. Why? The reason ISPs have problem with SPAM is its costs them money for the storage and reception.
Causing finacial damange is something that can be sued to recover. AOL has done it, so has PSINet.
Besides, the implications are a bit uncomfortable with possible free speech restrictions by making it a criminal matter instead of civil.
Besides, I live in the weird triangle in Northern Virginia that AOL, MCIWorldCom, and PSINet describe with their headquarters and talk with Bill Schrader on a regular basis (CEO PSINet). He doesn't like SPAM criminalization any more than I do.
I suspect the Europans (subtle difference from Europeans) will just throw it back. They'll get all pissy like in Planet of the Apes... Why don't we crash it into that Ape Planet?
Wait.. That was earth. What did you do to earth, you bastards!
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I don't like this. While it may well be true I'd like to explore:
GPL places the following restrictions: If you distribute you must distribute all you recieved and any changes you might have made in addition to any other rights you recieved. While this does make commercial software more complex it does not exclude it:
So called software companies are often service companies in disguise (Sun, IBM) or maybe hardware manufacturers. Service always makes more money than just selling things because you can keep charging. Developers must always work for someone (customer or employer). Software prices (ie employee salaries) are more often dictated by employees than by their buyers (highly skilled profession). Programmers do not make money by selling things but by showing up to work. Since it is about 4:00 in the morning here I'll wrap it up: Software needs to be writen in our economy. It can be open source or not. GPLed code destroys a already stupid market of shrink-wrapped software that should behave like the food market rather than its current impression of precious medal market. Most anyone can grow carrots but they can't make silver. Let everyone grow and sell their damn carrots and stop pretending that programming is alchemy
Build a better carrot. Tell others how to do it. Make them tell others. That's the way programmers can enforce the concept of standing on the shoulders of giants, rather than their cow-workers feet.
I used an older Ultra 5 for two years - it was fast, the sound was very respectable and the video was great (though 8 bit because of its age).
I think that's your problem. Ever try one with 24 bit video? I used a Sparc 5 all summer (that's right, not even an ultra, a 486 or so era machine) and it worked just great on 8 bit video. I stuck a 24 card in and it became unusable. I also used a ultra 10 (also with 8 bit) and thought it sucked almost as bad. For the price they just aren't a good buy.
See that key on the left and right side of the keyboard? Probably labeled: Shift, possibly with an up arrow, or some variant? Know what it does? Capitalizes words. If its so much trouble, why even bother with spaces?:)
As for the rest of it: Blow me. Even if Rob had done nothing at all and received all the credit do you think it would be the first time it's happened? You want to pick on someone? Find a better target. My point being: judge not lest ye be judged. That's how it looks from here.
No, I'm really not smart enough to be authoritative on this, but I'll give it a shot:
Black holes aren't really "black." Stuff come out of them. That how they first discovered them a few years ago, by the radiation spewing out of one. If I remember correctly:
In empty space particles and anti-particles can be created and distroyed from essentially nothing (meaning no net change). If this happens right outside the event horizon one particle escapes while the other does not. It rushes off. While interesting, that doesn't seem to be getting me anywhere.
How about Hawking radiation? Black holes should have a non-zero temperature. Faster than light travel being possible allows radiation to escape, which is what has evidently been observed (no, I don't have a link handy). Black holes evaporate, supposedly. I suggest someone with more knowledge correct me before I inflict myself further on the general/. populace.
Let's see, "American Online and Microsoft -- the world's two largest Internet service providers"
Funny, I thought you had to have a network to call yourself an ISP. AOL and MS are not ISPs, they are content providors.
In any event, hasn't this happened before? OS/2, and lotsa others? Why won't a similar thing happen to ICQ in the future (AOL bought ICQ a while back, no?).
Wah. *I* have a/. account and therefore my tastes in music matter...
How about some real critism? Like I probably know more about the enter string family than DMB's viola player or better sax solos come out of my ass than out of their sax player. I'm a UVA student where they basically got started a few years ago and I like them as much as anybody but artistic an sophisticated they are not. Artistically they aren't perfect but I bet they put a lot more into what they do than most anything J Random Hacker is going to do when they decide to crack on a band on/.
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If I remember, there's a federal law that stipulates you are allowed one [1] backup of any piece of software you own on the basis that it be used to restore/replace the original in the event of its destruction or loss, etceteras.
Yeah, and there's the university regulation that if your roommate commits suicide you get an automatic 4.0. And I hear that the cancer boy with all the business cards likes Nieman Marcus Cookies...
Actually, if you are allowed to makes copies of your software its ususally because the license you agreed to allows it.
If the plural of index is indeces, shouldn't the plural of Kleenex be Kleneces? If the plural of mouse is mice, what's the plural of house? If a train station is where the train stops, what happens at a workstation? If corn oil comes from corn and coconut oil comes from coconuts, how do they make baby oil?
Thanks, Gallagher...
I have a friend that spent the better part of last summer doing just this... Scary stuff...
Um... Some guys at the University of Virginia did that a LONG time ago too... They put on up on the Rotunda (you can see it in the background. Of course, you can also see a statue of Jefferson in the foreground... Interesting since that statue is located nowhere near where it had to have been i that picture was "taken" rather than peiced together...
I'd love to put these in a beowulf cluster... :)
IN all seriousness, isn't AMD having horrible supply problems already?
It usually doesn't "level" the playing field, it just makes it unfair to the winner. Barring anti-trust/anti-competitive action (because that's a whole nother can of worms) small companies should fend for their own damn selves. Companies succede by offering better products for better prices. They shouldn't succede because they were helped by a "leveling" of the playing field. Better products for better prices.
Those other cases of certification issues... Usually done by a professional board rather than by regulation. The certification is simply mandated. These are issues of safety. Issues of comsumer convience are far removed.
Networks are private property that users pay to use. These networks should interoperate, perhaps adhering to governing RFCs, but they shouldn't be mandated. I want open standards, not dictated ones. If they want the service they should pay for it. If they want the networks to talk to one another they should demand it. That's why the old AOL/Compuserve/Prodigy/BBS droped of the earth, people wanted the internet. They'd be dumbasses to go back and they know it.
Nope, that's why I don't use their products.
The reasons we have regulations is to stop things from growing in the wrong direction.
Theoretically that's what the market is supposed to do. In the case of microsoft if the market had paid attention they wouldn't have gotten away with all they did. In practical matters more regulation is still a bad thing because it makes private companies more difficult to run and doesn't do anything for the conscious consumer.
I'm simply making my arguement that regulation is bad and we shouldn't do it. Following that tot he logical conclusion: don't allow them to block access by not buying their services. Besides, does this regulation allow you to block spammers? What about other noxious crap that might come out of peering indiscriminately? AOL's "network" (which really isn't there's but that another story) isn't public property (unlike airwaves). They should be able to do whatever they want whenever they want as long as it doesn't directly infringe on the rights of other parties.
Fine:
Regulation is restrictive. Regulations in the most general sense mean you cannot do a certain thing under certian circumstances, no? Traditionally regulations seek to ban certain actions from taking place and to bypass them takes additonal steps than it did before regulation. Regulation retards growth. Growth is a relationship between size and time. If additonal steps are created between start and end you must, logically, be slowing growth. In the case of new markets (eg HDTV) regulation seeks to speed growth in new areas. I wonder, if those markets were so fruitful and wonderful why didn't greedy companies seek to exploit it before the government. I'd wager it has something to do with the regulations previously placed on that fruitful emerging market.
Procedures really don't enter into the arguement. Procedures don't carry the weight of law (which is the body of regulatory crap I'm talking about). Procedures are guidelines and not thou-shalt or thou-shalt-not dictates.
So yes, regulation is bad. Not that nothing good has never come of it but that good could have been had more cheaply and faster if regulations weren't in the way.
Hopefuly I'm not the only one who has more than a minor revulsion to his writing. Granted, ESR isn't the most sane man alive but Lessig can't seem to read....
To summarize: M$ isn't evil because they violated (equally stupid) anit-trust laws but because they lie to their comsumers and sell inferior products. If they can't sell their inferior products they attempt to force them down the throats of comsumers via any channel they can.
Regulation is bad any way you slice it. Laws, excepting those barring physical and finacial abuse, are usually unneeded and restrictive. The internet did not grow up in a culture of regulation as Lessig suggests. Sharing common lines with the phone system does not mean ay of the communication was regulated (or at leats not regulated in any enforcible way). Regulation on the internet would be restrictive. It would retard the growth of the already ill new ecomony and the new way of life.
The only reaosn regulation has ever been needed is because people are stupid. If people actually paid attention to who and what they were voting for our government would be much better. If they paid attention to what they bought rather than which product will make them sexier we'd have better products. Government has only been the framework for trade/commerce because people were too lazy to do it themselves.
I take offense! I drive a "lame-o Geo Prism" (which is mostly a Corrola is disguise) and I think it would be outrageously funny to "turbo-charge" it. :)
I think that this is a total overstatement. I don't work for any of these companies so I don't know exactly what goes on inside them but RedHat and VA Linux have netted a distinct positive for the communitty. Red Hat has always released its code until the GPL and is committed to doing so in the future. VA Linux owns Andover now so essentially they provide the money to make Slashdot go. They also do much the same for sourceforge and linux.com. Making money does not make them evil. If they didn't make money (or at least attempt to) they wouldn't be fulfilling their basic stated purpose as businesses.
Essentially go blow it out your ass. We don't need them, but don't negate what we have gained from them.
Dude, what article did you read?:
>> However, the next public edition of the operating system, Linux 2.4, due out this summer, will offer SMP support.
What does that mean to you? Crappy INACCURATE writing...
At least in Virginia, and probably other places, SPAM has been criminalized. Why? The reason ISPs have problem with SPAM is its costs them money for the storage and reception.
Causing finacial damange is something that can be sued to recover. AOL has done it, so has PSINet.
Besides, the implications are a bit uncomfortable with possible free speech restrictions by making it a criminal matter instead of civil.
Besides, I live in the weird triangle in Northern Virginia that AOL, MCIWorldCom, and PSINet describe with their headquarters and talk with Bill Schrader on a regular basis (CEO PSINet). He doesn't like SPAM criminalization any more than I do.
I suspect the Europans (subtle difference from Europeans) will just throw it back. They'll get all pissy like in Planet of the Apes... Why don't we crash it into that Ape Planet?
Wait.. That was earth. What did you do to earth, you bastards!
I don't like this. While it may well be true I'd like to explore:
GPL places the following restrictions: If you distribute you must distribute all you recieved and any changes you might have made in addition to any other rights you recieved. While this does make commercial software more complex it does not exclude it:
So called software companies are often service companies in disguise (Sun, IBM) or maybe hardware manufacturers. Service always makes more money than just selling things because you can keep charging. Developers must always work for someone (customer or employer). Software prices (ie employee salaries) are more often dictated by employees than by their buyers (highly skilled profession). Programmers do not make money by selling things but by showing up to work. Since it is about 4:00 in the morning here I'll wrap it up: Software needs to be writen in our economy. It can be open source or not. GPLed code destroys a already stupid market of shrink-wrapped software that should behave like the food market rather than its current impression of precious medal market. Most anyone can grow carrots but they can't make silver. Let everyone grow and sell their damn carrots and stop pretending that programming is alchemy
Build a better carrot. Tell others how to do it. Make them tell others. That's the way programmers can enforce the concept of standing on the shoulders of giants, rather than their cow-workers feet.
I used an older Ultra 5 for two years - it was fast, the sound was very respectable and the video was great (though 8 bit because of its age).
I think that's your problem. Ever try one with 24 bit video? I used a Sparc 5 all summer (that's right, not even an ultra, a 486 or so era machine) and it worked just great on 8 bit video. I stuck a 24 card in and it became unusable. I also used a ultra 10 (also with 8 bit) and thought it sucked almost as bad. For the price they just aren't a good buy.
See that key on the left and right side of the keyboard? Probably labeled: Shift, possibly with an up arrow, or some variant? Know what it does? Capitalizes words. If its so much trouble, why even bother with spaces?
As for the rest of it: Blow me. Even if Rob had done nothing at all and received all the credit do you think it would be the first time it's happened? You want to pick on someone? Find a better target. My point being: judge not lest ye be judged. That's how it looks from here.
No, I'm really not smart enough to be authoritative on this, but I'll give it a shot:
/. populace.
Black holes aren't really "black." Stuff come out of them. That how they first discovered them a few years ago, by the radiation spewing out of one. If I remember correctly:
In empty space particles and anti-particles can be created and distroyed from essentially nothing (meaning no net change). If this happens right outside the event horizon one particle escapes while the other does not. It rushes off. While interesting, that doesn't seem to be getting me anywhere.
How about Hawking radiation? Black holes should have a non-zero temperature. Faster than light travel being possible allows radiation to escape, which is what has evidently been observed (no, I don't have a link handy). Black holes evaporate, supposedly. I suggest someone with more knowledge correct me before I inflict myself further on the general
Let's see, "American Online and Microsoft -- the world's two largest Internet service providers"
Funny, I thought you had to have a network to call yourself an ISP. AOL and MS are not ISPs, they are content providors.
In any event, hasn't this happened before? OS/2, and lotsa others? Why won't a similar thing happen to ICQ in the future (AOL bought ICQ a while back, no?).
Wah. *I* have a /. account and therefore my tastes in music matter...
/.
:)
How about some real critism? Like I probably know more about the enter string family than DMB's viola player or better sax solos come out of my ass than out of their sax player. I'm a UVA student where they basically got started a few years ago and I like them as much as anybody but artistic an sophisticated they are not. Artistically they aren't perfect but I bet they put a lot more into what they do than most anything J Random Hacker is going to do when they decide to crack on a band on
So there