make an illegal activity much easier than it is without Napster. The current sharing model that Napster uses *is* illegal. That having been said it was also illegal for Rosa Parks to sit in the front of the bus and it also was illegal for those guys in Boston awhile ago to dump all that tea in the harbor. Very rarely is social change brought about by keeping the law. Now would most of the people using Napster think that they are helping to change society? Hell now most of them have never thought about it that much. But they are. Information may not want to be free but it sure does tend towards that state. As much as the RIAA, MPAA, and of course the government will try to maintain the current system they will fail and the people and the artists will have much greater control over their own lives and work. As a result of the current mess that is Napster we will get micropayments and all that and it will be good. IMNSHO
with a bit more background in these things post a bit of example text for a comment. They way I write email is unlikely to make much of a impression on the FTC and because UCITA is just plain evil I'd like to send something that looks like what they pay attention to. Help? Please?
Write something about BattleTech that would be cool. How all the big mechs are built by big companies so they are evil but can be used by good so it is blurred. Or something about Superheros unlimited and how they have strange people in them who don't like things and stuff. Or something about Rifts and how science caused us to destroy the world but is going to save it and how magic is cool and stuff. Hey look everybody I just wrote a Jon Katz article. It was confusing poorly written and makes no sense.:)
The big deal is that you can now in the US use apps based off of it legally. This *is* a big deal for those of us trying to do security work in the states. It means I can now give my clients the really neat toys.
is going to do some very cool things. The simple fact is in the market that Transmeta is trying to get into people are *really* excited over a processer with less than a 386 in it (think palm). I was telling my boss today about some of the things this chip would allow. He was ready to order. It is not supposed to compete with the P-4 or whatever. It is competing with the Palm and it can win this. Why? Because it is the only solution really portable, long battery life, and can give me a real OS. This is important stuff.
want to control everything. God forbid anyone should be able to look at anything at all except that the big companies should have control over it. This is so stupid. I'm thinking we need widespread civil disobedience to show them that this kind of sh!t will not be put up with. Soon all of the records of everything will be in the hands of big companies and government and they will control the past and he who controls the past... well you know the rest of it.
"These licenses only dictate what you can do to the code. Big deal. I've never even LOOKED at the KDE code... I have more important things to do than GUI programming."
The license dictates who controls the software and who controls your machine and/or your business. This is the reason free (as in speech) software is important. Under the GPL you have control of the product if you want to send it to someone you can if you want to modify it or if you want a bug fix you can do it and or get someone to do it for you. You are not given these rights under any other license or at least not in the absolute that you are with the GPL. It is a simple matter of whe is running your life your computer and your business. You or someone else with the GPL you have the freedom to do what you want as long as it does not take the freedom away from anyone else.
OK I'll bite RMS like Gnome better considers it a project that he works on. There are many many apps released under the GPL clearly one person can not like them all and should not have to take a silly position of being "fair" RMS likes Gnome better I do too. Will the GNU project support things it thinks of as being it's projects yes yes they will. Now that the legal status of KDE is clear now the comparison between Gnome and KDE will be better. I think this can only be a good thing.
if you are going to use any OSS/Free software and you really care at all about the issues then you will tend to want to make your HTML open also. Maybe he should ask for a credit on the linux.com page. Now I was a bit confused about who stole the design from whom but whoever created it should get credit on the other page and if the guy with the hobbes page gets it on linux.com I could see that being worth more than any amount of complaining about them using the layout.
Why don't we set up a legal defense fund for this. Donate as much or as little as you want. IANAL but someone is going to have to put a end to this madness. Many of us in this business are making very good livings because this kind of stuff was legal for so long. I think it is time for us as both people and companies to pick a case and fight it hard.
This assumes that just because for the past 100 years or so things have been moving forward that they always have and always will yes one generation is a bit fast but then again it is fiction. Also in your example this is a rebel force that has been at war for several years and is getting almost everything second hand in any case. Now in EP1 you have two rather well funded governments going at it (and they have not seen much action on either side) of course things are going to look better. Also suspend disbelief for a moment on the rate of decline. I could come up with several scenarios that would account for it in 30 to 40 years extreme depression, ongoing war for most of that time, and new research being shut down put them all together and it would do it. Now go back about 150 years in our own history. Think about what things were like now go back 200 years from now and think about what things where like. Now think about oh say London 200 years ago now think about say Vietnam 150 years ago. Which is going to seem more advanced? This rapid and almost worldwide movement forward that we have at the moment is *very* unusual in history.
The idea of lostech is very common in SF Battletech and several other stories use it. The explanation given sometime in the early 90s was that the empire poured everything into repression and control and as a result things went backwards. Think Dark Ages if you need a Earth example many things were more advanced before that period. As a result of economics and politics a lot of things where lost.
Rambus is just evil plain old evil but then again we have been over all of that here. Let's hope the judge makes the right ruling and words it broadly enough to make the patent office pull it's head out.
is trying to tie 3dfx up with a bad lawsuit. The sad thing is they are already doing as well or better and a good healthy fight on a level playing field would help us all. This legal nonesense is just going to slow down both companies release cycle. On a darker note when Nvidia and SGI sued each other they ended up working together as a result. I would hate to see these two merge just because I like low prices for kick ass graphics.
Its called a cluster and IMO it is the reason the Linux is getting used more and more often for this kind of stuff. Simply put the brainshare is so high on this right now that Linux is going to be used. The scripts that come with the O'Reilly cluster book are really good at just what you are talking about.
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Last time I tried cypherpunks no longer worked although parteners.yada.yada still works.
Pirhana was only installed if you choose clustering. If you choose clustering you should have known what you were doing. This would not apply to people installing stuff for the first time ever. Oh wait in the Micro$haft world yes it would. My bad.
Ok so they open source it. (I don't know anything else about it but from what I've heard sounds pretty cool) And then because "with enough eyeballs all bugs are shallow" we as a community fix this and other bugs and have a good system.
The answer is lots of people care. This is *very* cool. Why you ask. Simply put while there might not be alot of new installs of Netware it is still alive and well in many spots and this will give those of us who are going to be forced to work with it for the next few years a chance to apply all of the good things about OSS/Free software in a way that our suits feel they can sign off on. Can't speak for everybody but we are very pumped by this. Also this will include a OSS/Free NDS workalike. At that point it will be almost trivial to port NDS to any platform you want. This along with what Novell has already put out will lead to some sweet sweet NDS loving on *nix, bsd, what ever you got. And that is a good thing. Yes Netware is kind of flaky but NDS rocks. And opensourcing it could lead to a OS with all the advantages of both worlds. Also just keep in mind that not that long ago the future was Windows:)
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off of the home page broken supposed to be funny. This could have been cool too bad that it is not done very well.
we would have nothing. Almost all of the really cool stuff that we have started as pure research. Research like art is good for its own sake.
make an illegal activity much easier than it is without Napster. The current sharing model that Napster uses *is* illegal. That having been said it was also illegal for Rosa Parks to sit in the front of the bus and it also was illegal for those guys in Boston awhile ago to dump all that tea in the harbor. Very rarely is social change brought about by keeping the law. Now would most of the people using Napster think that they are helping to change society? Hell now most of them have never thought about it that much. But they are. Information may not want to be free but it sure does tend towards that state. As much as the RIAA, MPAA, and of course the government will try to maintain the current system they will fail and the people and the artists will have much greater control over their own lives and work. As a result of the current mess that is Napster we will get micropayments and all that and it will be good. IMNSHO
take web color choice advice from the people who built this. Right...
with a bit more background in these things post a bit of example text for a comment. They way I write email is unlikely to make much of a impression on the FTC and because UCITA is just plain evil I'd like to send something that looks like what they pay attention to. Help? Please?
You should sumbit this as a story
Write something about BattleTech that would be cool. How all the big mechs are built by big companies so they are evil but can be used by good so it is blurred. Or something about Superheros unlimited and how they have strange people in them who don't like things and stuff. Or something about Rifts and how science caused us to destroy the world but is going to save it and how magic is cool and stuff. Hey look everybody I just wrote a Jon Katz article. It was confusing poorly written and makes no sense. :)
The big deal is that you can now in the US use apps based off of it legally. This *is* a big deal for those of us trying to do security work in the states. It means I can now give my clients the really neat toys.
is going to do some very cool things. The simple fact is in the market that Transmeta is trying to get into people are *really* excited over a processer with less than a 386 in it (think palm). I was telling my boss today about some of the things this chip would allow. He was ready to order. It is not supposed to compete with the P-4 or whatever. It is competing with the Palm and it can win this. Why? Because it is the only solution really portable, long battery life, and can give me a real OS. This is important stuff.
want to control everything. God forbid anyone should be able to look at anything at all except that the big companies should have control over it. This is so stupid. I'm thinking we need widespread civil disobedience to show them that this kind of sh!t will not be put up with. Soon all of the records of everything will be in the hands of big companies and government and they will control the past and he who controls the past... well you know the rest of it.
So do most guys...
"These licenses only dictate what you can do to the code. Big deal. I've never even LOOKED at the KDE code... I have more important things to do than GUI programming." The license dictates who controls the software and who controls your machine and/or your business. This is the reason free (as in speech) software is important. Under the GPL you have control of the product if you want to send it to someone you can if you want to modify it or if you want a bug fix you can do it and or get someone to do it for you. You are not given these rights under any other license or at least not in the absolute that you are with the GPL. It is a simple matter of whe is running your life your computer and your business. You or someone else with the GPL you have the freedom to do what you want as long as it does not take the freedom away from anyone else.
OK I'll bite RMS like Gnome better considers it a project that he works on. There are many many apps released under the GPL clearly one person can not like them all and should not have to take a silly position of being "fair" RMS likes Gnome better I do too. Will the GNU project support things it thinks of as being it's projects yes yes they will. Now that the legal status of KDE is clear now the comparison between Gnome and KDE will be better. I think this can only be a good thing.
if you are going to use any OSS/Free software and you really care at all about the issues then you will tend to want to make your HTML open also. Maybe he should ask for a credit on the linux.com page. Now I was a bit confused about who stole the design from whom but whoever created it should get credit on the other page and if the guy with the hobbes page gets it on linux.com I could see that being worth more than any amount of complaining about them using the layout.
Why don't we set up a legal defense fund for this. Donate as much or as little as you want. IANAL but someone is going to have to put a end to this madness. Many of us in this business are making very good livings because this kind of stuff was legal for so long. I think it is time for us as both people and companies to pick a case and fight it hard.
This assumes that just because for the past 100 years or so things have been moving forward that they always have and always will yes one generation is a bit fast but then again it is fiction. Also in your example this is a rebel force that has been at war for several years and is getting almost everything second hand in any case. Now in EP1 you have two rather well funded governments going at it (and they have not seen much action on either side) of course things are going to look better. Also suspend disbelief for a moment on the rate of decline. I could come up with several scenarios that would account for it in 30 to 40 years extreme depression, ongoing war for most of that time, and new research being shut down put them all together and it would do it. Now go back about 150 years in our own history. Think about what things were like now go back 200 years from now and think about what things where like. Now think about oh say London 200 years ago now think about say Vietnam 150 years ago. Which is going to seem more advanced? This rapid and almost worldwide movement forward that we have at the moment is *very* unusual in history.
The idea of lostech is very common in SF Battletech and several other stories use it. The explanation given sometime in the early 90s was that the empire poured everything into repression and control and as a result things went backwards. Think Dark Ages if you need a Earth example many things were more advanced before that period. As a result of economics and politics a lot of things where lost.
Rambus is just evil plain old evil but then again we have been over all of that here. Let's hope the judge makes the right ruling and words it broadly enough to make the patent office pull it's head out.
is trying to tie 3dfx up with a bad lawsuit. The sad thing is they are already doing as well or better and a good healthy fight on a level playing field would help us all. This legal nonesense is just going to slow down both companies release cycle. On a darker note when Nvidia and SGI sued each other they ended up working together as a result. I would hate to see these two merge just because I like low prices for kick ass graphics.
Because this is free as in speech?
Its called a cluster and IMO it is the reason the Linux is getting used more and more often for this kind of stuff. Simply put the brainshare is so high on this right now that Linux is going to be used. The scripts that come with the O'Reilly cluster book are really good at just what you are talking about.
Last time I tried cypherpunks no longer worked although parteners.yada.yada still works.
Pirhana was only installed if you choose clustering. If you choose clustering you should have known what you were doing. This would not apply to people installing stuff for the first time ever. Oh wait in the Micro$haft world yes it would. My bad.
Ok so they open source it. (I don't know anything else about it but from what I've heard sounds pretty cool) And then because "with enough eyeballs all bugs are shallow" we as a community fix this and other bugs and have a good system.
The answer is lots of people care. This is *very* cool. Why you ask. Simply put while there might not be alot of new installs of Netware it is still alive and well in many spots and this will give those of us who are going to be forced to work with it for the next few years a chance to apply all of the good things about OSS/Free software in a way that our suits feel they can sign off on. Can't speak for everybody but we are very pumped by this. Also this will include a OSS/Free NDS workalike. At that point it will be almost trivial to port NDS to any platform you want. This along with what Novell has already put out will lead to some sweet sweet NDS loving on *nix, bsd, what ever you got. And that is a good thing. Yes Netware is kind of flaky but NDS rocks. And opensourcing it could lead to a OS with all the advantages of both worlds. Also just keep in mind that not that long ago the future was Windows :)