And I know I shouldn't feed one. But just in case you're serious, everyone of the points you list, are things that I hope won't change because Linux already has them.
Right now, as it stands, linux barrels forward with a world wide array of projects, with each project getting it's own evangalist to promote it, (it has a rhyme and reason, just not yours). It has legions of well paid and highly talented programmers and developers in the mix, as well as legions of hobbists as well. The cream rises to the top. We will see linux break new ground, as we have for the last decade.
Imagine this. The board has only a processor, memory and a firewire interface, and a small rom to get things started.
This board, can fit inside a drive bay, and be used as a second processor on your network. Compiling with +j2 makes sense. As a matter of fact, any processes that doesn't do a lot of I/O but is cpu intensive can be off loaded onto this secondary processor.
The city I grew up in was one of the first to have flouride. In other words, every day for the last 43 years, I've drank water with floride in it. I also brush my teeth, using toothpaste with flouride in it. But I've had a total of 3 cavities over the years.
My wife grew up in a city without flouride, and she has at least 13 cavities.
Which is worse, mercury in your mouth (the stuff they use for filling cavities) or flouride in your water.
I've had friends who took flouride drops when they were younger, and that was too much (Their teeth turned white, otherwise no ill effects). But generally speaking (they were extreme cases) flouride in the water is safe.
In a nutshell, Private Copying allows anyone to make a copy of a song purely for their own use. As you probably know, when you share files and someone downloads from you, what actually happens is that their computer makes a request and your computer actually sends the file to them. Thus, you're copying for someone else's use and infringing. It doesn't matter if you didn't realize that's what happens, either... intent is not required for infringement.
How is this any different then physically copying. I go to a friend and as to borrow a CD to copy. The friend get's it and gives it to me. In the case of the computer, the computer get's a copy from the disk and gives me the copy. But is the copy an exact copy of what was on disk? No! The copy is broken up into chunks that are sent over the net.
copyright allows a different representation of a work. The copy being recieved is different then the original work. The computer recieving this takes this different work and put's it together in a differnet way which exactly matches the original work that was on the original computers disk.
My question is, If someone makes a derived work from a work that is significantly different, and in no way could be confused with the original work, and then someone else takes this derived work and combines it with other derived works to recreate the original, where does the copyright law fit in?
If the law is by intent, then machines do not have intent, only users, so the argument that one machine asks for the file and the other gives it is bogus. It is the users who are doing the asking and giving, the machines are just the tools that they are using.
Second, you cannot serve beverages over a certain temperature due to this. Unless the customer explicitely asks for it. McDonalds served her a beverage over that temperature, as was evident by the burns sustained from the coffee spilling.
Would that be 100 degrees celecius at sea level. This is not only a good idea, it's the law!:)
Re:BLUE SCREEN of DEATH on BOOT!
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No, I think you misunderstood me.
When you shut down with this new system, it will probably have something like, save the processors registers at a dedicated area of memory. This can happen automatically when power is detected to be too low, or could just be happening periodically as the system passes through the task switcher.
If your computer is locked up. Let's suppose it's at address 100 at an instruction to jump to address 100 and interrupts are turned off. When the system is powered back up, will the processor be restored to exactly the same state it was left in...
BLUE SCREEN of DEATH on BOOT!
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This memory get's rid of the need to save your settings to the hard disk as you power down. But when your computer dies, you don't want the "bad" settings saved to the hard disk.
It will be interesting to see the new breeds of virus that this brings out.
What you are seeing is the normal life cycle of a monopoly. When the public gets mad the price goes down, for a while. Then the price goes back up. Usually even higher.
Consider the price of gas. Remember when you thought to yourself that if it went over a buck a gallon you'd stop driving and take a bus? People get upset, the price goes down, and then starts creeping up again.
If you have a capital market, ie not a monopoly, then the price stays down. There are what 7 major lables, and they cooperate on the price. It's a monopoly.
You can claim your tiny victories, but as soon as you buy one CD you've given the victory away. I buy maybe one cd a year (if that). (I don't fileshare either). Basically the whole system has turned me off, I now just play my own music, or listen to the radio.
So the highest bidder get's to spam?
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P2P Spam?
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OK, so some company decides to buy. Wouldn't they now be liable for unauthorized use of the computers. Why would a company take the risk? I think this is a red herring, and that it's just another way for worm/virus writers to justify themselves to the world (and themselves).
Because the SCO license authorizes run-time use only, customers also comply with the General Public License, under which Linux is distributed. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19990421/SCOLO GO )
This makes no sense to me at all. The whole idea behind the GNU license is freedom. SCO is claiming that because they are distributing a runtime only license with the kernel they aren't in conflict with the gnu license? I don't think so.
1. I can make things work in it. (sane with my old scanner just doesn't work with mandrake, but Gentoo works just fine. I only had to follow directions).
2. Portage, makes installing software a snap.
3. I can play with the optimizations. It feels faster to me.
4. I'm usually using the latest software (2.6-testing2 kernel to write this).
Well after reading the artical totally, it wasn't that telling after all. I guess they were using that as an example.
So it looks like,
1. They only prosecute a small number of people but do the people that will make the biggest media impact.
2. They are not as effective as civil litigation. (Since the civil litigation seems to have had more impact).
3. They have a harder yardstick to use then civil ligigation does.
4. They will prosceute any and all, the amount of money doesn't matter. But because they are trying for maximum media effect, they probably do corperations rather then "mom and pops", (although they aren't exclusive).
5. They don't view themselves as technically illiterate, but they aren't making the laws either, and simply try to be a resource for those that do.
6. Fair use doesn't enter often into their cases. If there is a (valid) fair use arguement the case is dropped in favor of? (This is in my mind a shame, since if fair use was brought up more often it would be in the minds of the public more often.)
7. Canadians and other foreign countries are not exempt from the US laws. (What's the point of having other countries then?)
But at the same time, there are also many others who are victimized, such as small mom and pop operations, and young developers trying to break into a crowded and competitive market. I imagine many Slashdot regulars fall into these categories.
The question was about open source developers who are competing against multi-national corperations, not young developers trying to break in.
I haven't finished reading but this immediatly caught my eye.
No way. Just hold on a sec, I'm looking for an extra quarter for the vending machine. I'm just getting my breakfast...
Vision Systems using computers? Ya right. (Hmm I've got that bill for using the 407 on my counter, completely computerized, how did it know it was me???)
I think he's off by a few years. Most of the things he's talking about are already around in one form or another.
By Oppenheim (The RIAA guy). Most of the noninfringing justifications for these networks that I have heard of are totally unrealistic and virtually nonexistent. For example, in Kazaa, they claimed that the system was used to trade jokes. Think about that. How would that work? Would people search for the punch line? Or, I have heard that it is used for posting real estate sales listings. Again, think about it. Would people search for "Main Street in Kansas?" Or, I have heard that the Bible gets distributed on these networks. Apart from the fact that we can all get that from the motel we most recently visited, there are plenty of legitimate sites that distribute the Bible online.
Does anyone else think it's strange that Oppenheim steals bibles?
Slashdot Mirror
was stable enough for me. I've been running the 2.6 series for months now, and have had no major problems.
:)
Stability freeze? Why bother,
The more, the merrier I say.
Come on in the water's fine!
Get over here you big lug!
You got me at hello.
Don't worry :)
Even if you tried, you couldn't venture out into the sun. It's too far up in the sky.
What vision! Like the thousands of other posters, I've got to say thanks.
And I know I shouldn't feed one. But just in case you're serious, everyone of the points you list, are things that I hope won't change because Linux already has them.
Right now, as it stands, linux barrels forward with a world wide array of projects, with each project getting it's own evangalist to promote it, (it has a rhyme and reason, just not yours). It has legions of well paid and highly talented programmers and developers in the mix, as well as legions of hobbists as well. The cream rises to the top. We will see linux break new ground, as we have for the last decade.
Imagine this. The board has only a processor, memory and a firewire interface, and a small rom to get things started.
This board, can fit inside a drive bay, and be used as a second processor on your network. Compiling with +j2 makes sense. As a matter of fact, any processes that doesn't do a lot of I/O but is cpu intensive can be off loaded onto this secondary processor.
Cheap smp!?
The city I grew up in was one of the first to have flouride. In other words, every day for the last 43 years, I've drank water with floride in it. I also brush my teeth, using toothpaste with flouride in it. But I've had a total of 3 cavities over the years.
My wife grew up in a city without flouride, and she has at least 13 cavities.
Which is worse, mercury in your mouth (the stuff they use for filling cavities) or flouride in your water.
I've had friends who took flouride drops when they were younger, and that was too much (Their teeth turned white, otherwise no ill effects). But generally speaking (they were extreme cases) flouride in the water is safe.
So stop your worrying.
That's my opinion and I'm stickin to it!
In a nutshell, Private Copying allows anyone to make a copy of a song purely for their own use. As you probably know, when you share files and someone downloads from you, what actually happens is that their computer makes a request and your computer actually sends the file to them. Thus, you're copying for someone else's use and infringing. It doesn't matter if you didn't realize that's what happens, either... intent is not required for infringement.
How is this any different then physically copying. I go to a friend and as to borrow a CD to copy. The friend get's it and gives it to me.
In the case of the computer, the computer get's a copy from the disk and gives me the copy. But is the copy an exact copy of what was on disk? No! The copy is broken up into chunks that are sent over the net.
copyright allows a different representation of a work. The copy being recieved is different then the original work. The computer recieving this takes this different work and put's it together in a differnet way which exactly matches the original work that was on the original computers disk.
My question is, If someone makes a derived work from a work that is significantly different, and in no way could be confused with the original work, and then someone else takes this derived work and combines it with other derived works to recreate the original, where does the copyright law fit in?
If the law is by intent, then machines do not have intent, only users, so the argument that one machine asks for the file and the other gives it is bogus. It is the users who are doing the asking and giving, the machines are just the tools that they are using.
Second, you cannot serve beverages over a certain temperature due to this. Unless the customer explicitely asks for it. McDonalds served her a beverage over that temperature, as was evident by the burns sustained from the coffee spilling.
:)
Would that be 100 degrees celecius at sea level. This is not only a good idea, it's the law!
No, I think you misunderstood me.
When you shut down with this new system, it will probably have something like, save the processors registers at a dedicated area of memory. This can happen automatically when power is detected to be too low, or could just be happening periodically as the system passes through the task switcher.
If your computer is locked up. Let's suppose it's at address 100 at an instruction to jump to address 100 and interrupts are turned off. When the system is powered back up, will the processor be restored to exactly the same state it was left in...
This memory get's rid of the need to save your settings to the hard disk as you power down. But when your computer dies, you don't want the "bad" settings saved to the hard disk.
It will be interesting to see the new breeds of virus that this brings out.
What you are seeing is the normal life cycle of a monopoly. When the public gets mad the price goes down, for a while. Then the price goes back up. Usually even higher.
Consider the price of gas. Remember when you thought to yourself that if it went over a buck a gallon you'd stop driving and take a bus? People get upset, the price goes down, and then starts creeping up again.
If you have a capital market, ie not a monopoly, then the price stays down. There are what 7 major lables, and they cooperate on the price. It's a monopoly.
You can claim your tiny victories, but as soon as you buy one CD you've given the victory away. I buy maybe one cd a year (if that). (I don't fileshare either). Basically the whole system has turned me off, I now just play my own music, or listen to the radio.
OK, so some company decides to buy. Wouldn't they now be liable for unauthorized use of the computers. Why would a company take the risk? I think this is a red herring, and that it's just another way for worm/virus writers to justify themselves to the world (and themselves).
What's this button for?....
Because the SCO license authorizes run-time use only, customers also comply with the General Public License, under which Linux is distributed.O GO )
(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19990421/SCOL
This makes no sense to me at all. The whole idea behind the GNU license is freedom. SCO is claiming that because they are distributing a runtime only license with the kernel they aren't in conflict with the gnu license? I don't think so.
1. I can make things work in it. (sane with my old scanner just doesn't work with mandrake, but Gentoo works just fine. I only had to follow directions).
2. Portage, makes installing software a snap.
3. I can play with the optimizations. It feels faster to me.
4. I'm usually using the latest software (2.6-testing2 kernel to write this).
Well after reading the artical totally, it wasn't that telling after all. I guess they were using that as an example.
So it looks like,
1. They only prosecute a small number of people but do the people that will make the biggest media impact.
2. They are not as effective as civil litigation. (Since the civil litigation seems to have had more impact).
3. They have a harder yardstick to use then civil ligigation does.
4. They will prosceute any and all, the amount of money doesn't matter. But because they are trying for maximum media effect, they probably do corperations rather then "mom and pops", (although they aren't exclusive).
5. They don't view themselves as technically illiterate, but they aren't making the laws either, and simply try to be a resource for those that do.
6. Fair use doesn't enter often into their cases. If there is a (valid) fair use arguement the case is dropped in favor of? (This is in my mind a shame, since if fair use was brought up more often it would be in the minds of the public more often.)
7. Canadians and other foreign countries are not exempt from the US laws. (What's the point of having other countries then?)
But at the same time, there are also many others who are victimized, such as small mom and pop operations, and young developers trying to break into a crowded and competitive market. I imagine many Slashdot regulars fall into these categories.
The question was about open source developers who are competing against multi-national corperations, not young developers trying to break in.
I haven't finished reading but this immediatly caught my eye.
No way. Just hold on a sec, I'm looking for an extra quarter for the vending machine. I'm just getting my breakfast...
Vision Systems using computers? Ya right. (Hmm I've got that bill for using the 407 on my counter, completely computerized, how did it know it was me???)
I think he's off by a few years. Most of the things he's talking about are already around in one form or another.
No they're going to LUDICRIOUS SPEED!
(but sir!)
What's the matter Colonel Sanders....? Chicken!
By Oppenheim (The RIAA guy).
Most of the noninfringing justifications for these networks that I have heard of are totally unrealistic and virtually nonexistent. For example, in Kazaa, they claimed that the system was used to trade jokes. Think about that. How would that work? Would people search for the punch line? Or, I have heard that it is used for posting real estate sales listings. Again, think about it. Would people search for "Main Street in Kansas?" Or, I have heard that the Bible gets distributed on these networks. Apart from the fact that we can all get that from the motel we most recently visited, there are plenty of legitimate sites that distribute the Bible online.
Does anyone else think it's strange that Oppenheim steals bibles?
Then we could have real scroll bars!
Interesting approach. Why don't you email him directly.
Much cow dung!