It's fast, and it seems stable. I honestly don't know why people use MS windows when there is such a good (better) alternative.
I especially like the spelling checker, which if I was using my home system right now could check the spelllling of this entry. Also on kmail (which MS doesn't have without MSoffice).
My favourite apps are konqueror,kdevelop (and all the tools that it uses), kmail, and knewsticker.
*In your profession, you probably can find a need that because you've worked in the trenches you can fill better then any programmer could. Programming is not something you can learn overnight, but is more like a talent, like playing the piano. Figure out the niche that you can fill, and make a program to handle it. Make it open source (GPL) and start using it. Talk it up among your doctor friends and see if they are interested. Others may join in, and start asking for changes that you haven't anticipated. At this point you can start charging for enhancements. Since you are the expert in this program you are the one contacted. Get some rightups in medical journels and you are on your programming way.
Nope I don't agree. I find the kde environment easier to use the windows. Trying to hook up to other computers on the network with windows is a big pain, whereas with linux, once the agent is in place I go in without problems.
I've dragged and dropped from one computer on one continent to another computer on another contient in kde. Haven't been able to in xp.
I've got spamassasin working in linux, couldn't figure it out for outlook express.
Luckily Open office works the same in both environments.
Software Development is possibly easier under XP just because of the tools available (ie not the OS). But the difference isn't that much, and there are areas that Linux excells at there too.
Ready of desktop? If win31 was, then of course linux is. If win95 was, then of course Linux is. If win98,2000,xp is then of course Linux is. Linux has more then the same functionality, Linux is more stable, Linux has source code. Why on earth would anyone choose Windows instead of Linux?
My boss sells a database to insurance agents. This database has all the rates for Canada and the US for (almost) every company. There is no sales to the consumer. We use the internet in three ways. 1. We use it to distribute our product. (updates twice monthly or as often as needed.) 2. We use it to show off our product by allowing the anyone in the world to find the best rates for their age/health/sex status(see my sig). 3. And after people have found rates, we will direct them to our customers. (The user calls the agent if they are interested).
Agents and brokers love this system, because they get called by people wanting to buy insurance. Ask any agent if they like doing "cold calls". It isn't fun.
So we use the internet as a form of advertising to our customers, as well as a distrubution channel.
I've been having problems with Google myself.
My site, www.stockchase.com is impossible to find, on google. It has to do with tracking Canadian Stock Experts and what they say about their top picks. But try searching under anything except "stockchase" and you won't find it.
I've tried using "Canadian stock expert top picks" and any other combination of words from the main page, and it won't find it. I've searched 20 or 30 pages of results, and it finds stuff totally unrelated to it. I just don't understand.
BTW if you are into stocks, it is a great resource. (Also it's not a business, it's a hobby so we aren't trying to sell you anything).
It appears that copyright is only for the rich, as they are the only ones able to defend it. We need a way to 1st enforce our rights, and 2nd provide an easy way for users of copyright code to comply. Stick and carrot below.
For example if a corp has save a bunch of money by using GPL, but don't want to release source code, being threatened by 100 angry protesters doesn't do much. Their day in court won't come since as a software developer you aren't necessarly rich enough (or have the time enough) to spend in court.
But if a central body, (GPL Enforcement agency) is assigned the legal right to sue on the behalf of GPL providers, then it's one big hammer, that looks like a class action every time it hits.
So the company want's to comply but doesn't want to spend a huge amount of money doing it. They don't want to set up a web site etc etc etc. So the GPL Enforcement agency says, we will provide a web site on your behalf.
It becomes a central repository for code,(esp specific to device drivers), and as it becomes used more, the gpl becomes more accepted business pratice. It provides an easy system for companies to comply, without a big budget drain (just ftp and you're done) It just becomes a cost of doing business.
I think a lot of the times, a company isn't necessarly hiding the code (after all most of it is available anyways), they just never budgeted for the release.
Faramir, loved his brother, and knew that his brother's death was somehow related to the ring. I think that might have influenced his decission to refues it.
As the size of the copy medium shrinks, it becomes smaller then the neurons that we use to hold it. Shouldn't there be some sort of limit as to the size of something that is copyable? After all we are copying the music to our neurons aren't we:)
That's ok, gforge looks like it has some potention, (I like the gant charts). But it only has 2 projects. If it starts getting busy I wonder how it will do.
If you take this logic to its end, then nobody should be able to patent anything run on a computer; they're just using the programmable digital calculation machine to do things. No computer patents are valid!
Hello anonymous coward. I see you answering everyone.:)
>>You can make a tape off a radio, is that moral and/or legal?
>Depends on why you're doing it. If you're doing it for your own personal enjoyment, then yeah, it's both moral and legal.
It's one action. It cannot be both moral and legal, and inmoral and illegal.
>>You can make a cd off a radio, is that moral and/or legal?
>Ditto. Ditto.
>>If you own cd2 is it moral and/or legal?
>Yes, both.
I agree.
>>If you do not own cd2 is it moral and/or legal?
>No, neither.
Why is that? (You are mistaken).
>>If you have a song in your head, is that a recording?
>>No, obviously not.
Actually it is. Your memory is the medium. It just isn't viewed as one by the copyright laws.
>>At what point is a recording different then the original?
>When it is not the original. (Are you deliberately being obtuse, or what? These aren't complex questions you're asking. They're grade-school-level stuff.)
Yes I'm being deliberately obtuse, and your answer shows why. Every recording is different then the original. It's on different atoms. At somepoint, you must decide that the recording is a new piece of work, or is the same piece of work. As it cannot be the same, (different atoms) then it must be new.
>>When you copy onto another medium?
>Yes. So we agree. A copy onto another medium isn't a copy of the original.
>>What if the medium is into memory
>RAM is not a medium.
Are you sure about that? (You are wrong).
>>What if the medium is a memory stick, that get's transferred to another computer.
>Not okay. Using a program on two computers is (almost always) in violation of the license.
You see how this get's tricky. In one question you say that RAM isn't a medium, but in the next you say it is. When you play a game, the game get's loaded into memory (1st copy), get's swapped out to the disk (2nd copy) get's moved through the cpu (3rd copy) and get's represented on the screen(4th copy). You can honestly say that a 4 copies are the same game, yet you can also honestly say they are totally different.
>>What about networking.
>>Not okay. Using a program on two computers is (almost always) in violation of the license.
Even when only one copy is used? Is it a copyright violation (copying into the 2'nd computer's memory) or a license violation. I'm talking about copyright which isn't the same thing.
>>My point in all these questions is that copyright seems to be fairly straightforward until you get to intellectual property, which has no equivilent in nature.
Intellectual property does have "an equivalent in nature." Go take an anthropology class. Primitive peoples had rules about the use of songs and stories. Among the Haida, it was a civil violation (to use an analogy) to sing a song owned by another family, punishable by confiscation of property. Among the Australian aborigines, it was a crime, punishable by a variety of means up to and including death.
Interesting. But what I was refering to was physical laws. Like the law of gravity.
>Besides, all of the questions you asked are entirely straightforward, despite your laughable attempts to obfuscate them by focusing on the details rather than the truths.
I'm glad I made you laugh. My questions were honest questions, that have bothered me for sometime, my conclusions (that copyright is a stupid idea) are different then yours. I deal with the details of everyday life. If you don't look at the details then you miss the truths.
>>By afixing copyright to IP you are trying to change the way things work, similar to inacting a law stating that the value of pi is 3.
>Copyright, like all IP law, is merely a civil acknowledgment of the value of c
You would think that with shriek, LOTR and all the other movies made using Linux they would support it. You can buy a linux version, but the personal edition version is only XP or OS-x
OK, I've always been confused about the idea of sharing sound.
You can make a tape off a radio, is that moral and/or legal?
You can make a cd off a radio, is that moral and/or legal?
you can make a cd1 off a cd2. If you own cd2 is it moral and/or legal? If you do not own cd2 is it moral and/or legal?
What does it mean to make a recording? If you have a song in your head, is that a recording? (Only you can hear it, but it's obviously someone else's work). At what point is a recording different then the original? If all the bits were inversed it would be 100% different, yet sound 100% the same. Is it a recording?
What does it mean to make a copy of a program?
When you copy onto another medium?
What if the medium is into memory, in order to play it through your CPU. That obviously must be ok since that is how it must be used. What if the medium is a memory stick, that get's transferred to another computer. The same program is played on 2 computers, but has not been copied except through memory. What about networking. The same game is again on two computers, but has only been copied into memory.
My point in all these questions is that copyright seems to be fairly straightforward until you get to intellectual property, which has no equivilent in nature. By afixing copyright to IP you are trying to change the way things work, similar to inacting a law stating that the value of pi is 3.
In my view copyright on IP is very limiting, like legistating thought. It's true that many industries depend on this legislated thought process, but that in itself does not justify it. How have people been effected because of copyright on IP. How has the world changed because of copyright of IP? Think of how Napster was able to energize the music industry. People were buying CD's more then ever. Music that never got played were rediscovered. Do I support the music industry which puts in the money to make the CD's? No, I know that most of the money is put into the videos, I know that the artist who's work I am buying receives very little of my payment. Do I support the idea that if music were freely available, we would have more live bands, more variety of music and a stronger music industry. Yes!
The company I work for support DOS still. The windows is more powerful, since you've got the memory to play with, (and it's getting the attention). But we still support DOS.
It bothers me that the mixer doesn't have separate slides for each app volume. (I know the slides aren't kernel, but the tech behind them is). Since sound comes from many sources, it would be nice to be able to set the volume levels of each source. For example, I've got festival and xmms, (which for those who don't know, it's a speech synth, and music). festival is quiet, and xmms is loud. There is currently no way to make festival loud and xmms quiet.
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Well said. I'm no MS supporter myself, but as I was reading the artical it struct me as loop sided. Nice of you to clearify my thinking :)
I've used fish. (as in fish:smb.com)
If you've got ssh setup it can even be automagically and transparently secure.
It's fun dragging pictures from two different servers across the country.
AND IT ROCKS!!!
It's fast, and it seems stable. I honestly don't know why people use MS windows when there is such a good (better) alternative.
I especially like the spelling checker, which if I was using my home system right now could check the spelllling of this entry. Also on kmail (which MS doesn't have without MSoffice).
My favourite apps are konqueror,kdevelop (and all the tools that it uses), kmail, and knewsticker.
If you were a company that was using this software, who would you contact to do a particular enhancement you would like to see in the software?
Obviously the person who wrote it. Since that person has the most intimite knowledge of the software.
1. Learn to program
2. ?? (*see below)
3. Profit!
*In your profession, you probably can find a need that because you've worked in the trenches you can fill better then any programmer could. Programming is not something you can learn overnight, but is more like a talent, like playing the piano. Figure out the niche that you can fill, and make a program to handle it. Make it open source (GPL) and start using it. Talk it up among your doctor friends and see if they are interested. Others may join in, and start asking for changes that you haven't anticipated. At this point you can start charging for enhancements. Since you are the expert in this program you are the one contacted. Get some rightups in medical journels and you are on your programming way.
I've dragged and dropped from one computer on one continent to another computer on another contient in kde. Haven't been able to in xp.
I've got spamassasin working in linux, couldn't figure it out for outlook express.
Luckily Open office works the same in both environments.
Software Development is possibly easier under XP just because of the tools available (ie not the OS). But the difference isn't that much, and there are areas that Linux excells at there too.
Ready of desktop? If win31 was, then of course linux is. If win95 was, then of course Linux is. If win98,2000,xp is then of course Linux is. Linux has more then the same functionality, Linux is more stable, Linux has source code. Why on earth would anyone choose Windows instead of Linux?
Would this be a considered a high traffic blog?
My boss sells a database to insurance agents. This database has all the rates for Canada and the US for (almost) every company. There is no sales to the consumer.
We use the internet in three ways.
1. We use it to distribute our product. (updates twice monthly or as often as needed.)
2. We use it to show off our product by allowing the anyone in the world to find the best rates for their age/health/sex status(see my sig).
3. And after people have found rates, we will direct them to our customers. (The user calls the agent if they are interested).
Agents and brokers love this system, because they get called by people wanting to buy insurance. Ask any agent if they like doing "cold calls". It isn't fun.
So we use the internet as a form of advertising to our customers, as well as a distrubution channel.
I noticed it in Oct/Nov of 2003. Google's results just aren't as good as they used to be.
I've tried using "Canadian stock expert top picks" and any other combination of words from the main page, and it won't find it. I've searched 20 or 30 pages of results, and it finds stuff totally unrelated to it. I just don't understand.
BTW if you are into stocks, it is a great resource. (Also it's not a business, it's a hobby so we aren't trying to sell you anything).
Gate needs info filled in, in order to download it. So it looks like they didn't want to step on toes.
That was the total comment, but you can read this little inane comment as well!
It appears that copyright is only for the rich, as they are the only ones able to defend it. We need a way to 1st enforce our rights, and 2nd provide an easy way for users of copyright code to comply. Stick and carrot below.
For example if a corp has save a bunch of money by using GPL, but don't want to release source code, being threatened by 100 angry protesters doesn't do much. Their day in court won't come since as a software developer you aren't necessarly rich enough (or have the time enough) to spend in court.
But if a central body, (GPL Enforcement agency) is assigned the legal right to sue on the behalf of GPL providers, then it's one big hammer, that looks like a class action every time it hits.
So the company want's to comply but doesn't want to spend a huge amount of money doing it. They don't want to set up a web site etc etc etc. So the GPL Enforcement agency says, we will provide a web site on your behalf.
It becomes a central repository for code,(esp specific to device drivers), and as it becomes used more, the gpl becomes more accepted business pratice. It provides an easy system for companies to comply, without a big budget drain (just ftp and you're done) It just becomes a cost of doing business.
I think a lot of the times, a company isn't necessarly hiding the code (after all most of it is available anyways), they just never budgeted for the release.
Hey Bruce what do you think?
The more this story is talked about, the more people will understand the unfairness of the concept of taxing item A for item B's use.
The link to ctv's story is here
Write an email and let them know how you feel about it.
I did it just out of curiousity. There's a lot of shit still in there!
Faramir, loved his brother, and knew that his brother's death was somehow related to the ring. I think that might have influenced his decission to refues it.
As the size of the copy medium shrinks, it becomes smaller then the neurons that we use to hold it. Shouldn't there be some sort of limit as to the size of something that is copyable? After all we are copying the music to our neurons aren't we :)
That's ok, gforge looks like it has some potention, (I like the gant charts). But it only has 2 projects. If it starts getting busy I wonder how it will do.
Hmmm, that looks right!
I looked into this one a few weeks ago. They have set up a corp to sell them. You're looking at major dollars to buy one. (Around $50,000!).
Hello anonymous coward. I see you answering everyone. :)
>>You can make a tape off a radio, is that moral and/or legal?
>Depends on why you're doing it. If you're doing it for your own personal enjoyment, then yeah, it's both moral and legal.
It's one action. It cannot be both moral and legal, and inmoral and illegal.
>>You can make a cd off a radio, is that moral and/or legal?
>Ditto.
Ditto.
>>If you own cd2 is it moral and/or legal?
>Yes, both.
I agree.
>>If you do not own cd2 is it moral and/or legal?
>No, neither.
Why is that? (You are mistaken).
>>If you have a song in your head, is that a recording?
>>No, obviously not.
Actually it is. Your memory is the medium. It just isn't viewed as one by the copyright laws.
>>At what point is a recording different then the original?
>When it is not the original. (Are you deliberately being obtuse, or what? These aren't complex questions you're asking. They're grade-school-level stuff.)
Yes I'm being deliberately obtuse, and your answer shows why. Every recording is different then the original. It's on different atoms. At somepoint, you must decide that the recording is a new piece of work, or is the same piece of work. As it cannot be the same, (different atoms) then it must be new.
>>When you copy onto another medium?
>Yes.
So we agree. A copy onto another medium isn't a copy of the original.
>>What if the medium is into memory
>RAM is not a medium.
Are you sure about that? (You are wrong).
>>What if the medium is a memory stick, that get's transferred to another computer.
>Not okay. Using a program on two computers is (almost always) in violation of the license.
You see how this get's tricky. In one question you say that RAM isn't a medium, but in the next you say it is.
When you play a game, the game get's loaded into memory (1st copy), get's swapped out to the disk (2nd copy) get's moved through the cpu (3rd copy) and get's represented on the screen(4th copy).
You can honestly say that a 4 copies are the same game, yet you can also honestly say they are totally different.
>>What about networking.
>>Not okay. Using a program on two computers is (almost always) in violation of the license.
Even when only one copy is used? Is it a copyright violation (copying into the 2'nd computer's memory) or a license violation. I'm talking about copyright which isn't the same thing.
>>My point in all these questions is that copyright seems to be fairly straightforward until you get to intellectual property, which has no equivilent in nature.
Intellectual property does have "an equivalent in nature." Go take an anthropology class. Primitive peoples had rules about the use of songs and stories. Among the Haida, it was a civil violation (to use an analogy) to sing a song owned by another family, punishable by confiscation of property. Among the Australian aborigines, it was a crime, punishable by a variety of means up to and including death.
Interesting. But what I was refering to was physical laws. Like the law of gravity.
>Besides, all of the questions you asked are entirely straightforward, despite your laughable attempts to obfuscate them by focusing on the details rather than the truths.
I'm glad I made you laugh. My questions were honest questions, that have bothered me for sometime, my conclusions (that copyright is a stupid idea) are different then yours. I deal with the details of everyday life. If you don't look at the details then you miss the truths.
>>By afixing copyright to IP you are trying to change the way things work, similar to inacting a law stating that the value of pi is 3.
>Copyright, like all IP law, is merely a civil acknowledgment of the value of c
Maybe if a few of us suggested this as a feature request
click here if you support linux!
You can make a tape off a radio, is that moral and/or legal?
You can make a cd off a radio, is that moral and/or legal?
you can make a cd1 off a cd2. If you own cd2 is it moral and/or legal? If you do not own cd2 is it moral and/or legal?
What does it mean to make a recording? If you have a song in your head, is that a recording? (Only you can hear it, but it's obviously someone else's work). At what point is a recording different then the original? If all the bits were inversed it would be 100% different, yet sound 100% the same. Is it a recording?
What does it mean to make a copy of a program?
When you copy onto another medium?
What if the medium is into memory, in order to play it through your CPU. That obviously must be ok since that is how it must be used.
What if the medium is a memory stick, that get's transferred to another computer. The same program is played on 2 computers, but has not been copied except through memory. What about networking. The same game is again on two computers, but has only been copied into memory.
My point in all these questions is that copyright seems to be fairly straightforward until you get to intellectual property, which has no equivilent in nature. By afixing copyright to IP you are trying to change the way things work, similar to inacting a law stating that the value of pi is 3.
In my view copyright on IP is very limiting, like legistating thought. It's true that many industries depend on this legislated thought process, but that in itself does not justify it. How have people been effected because of copyright on IP. How has the world changed because of copyright of IP? Think of how Napster was able to energize the music industry. People were buying CD's more then ever. Music that never got played were rediscovered. Do I support the music industry which puts in the money to make the CD's? No, I know that most of the money is put into the videos, I know that the artist who's work I am buying receives very little of my payment. Do I support the idea that if music were freely available, we would have more live bands, more variety of music and a stronger music industry. Yes!
The company I work for support DOS still. The windows is more powerful, since you've got the memory to play with, (and it's getting the attention). But we still support DOS.
It bothers me that the mixer doesn't have separate slides for each app volume. (I know the slides aren't kernel, but the tech behind them is). Since sound comes from many sources, it would be nice to be able to set the volume levels of each source. For example, I've got festival and xmms, (which for those who don't know, it's a speech synth, and music). festival is quiet, and xmms is loud. There is currently no way to make festival loud and xmms quiet.