I partly agree with this. The.com,.int,.net and.org domains should be left as they are, though should only be given to companies that are ready to place non-geocentric information on the site. A company like coca-cola has international presence, and is justified to a.com domain name, on the condition that they use it for international content. A company such as Canadian-Tire on the other hand would have to use the.ca, or.com.ca domain, since they don't do business outside of the country.
The.gov and and.mil domains should be done away with and their current content placed in the.gov.us and and.gov.mil domains, since their content is totally US centric.
The.int domain should be left as the is used for international treaty organizations such as NATO and the united nations.
Admitedly it will take more than a simple/. posting to change this. I also feel that there is a huge need for internet task forces of various countries to get together to bring some sort of sanity to the current mess.
I suppose this means that SDL would need to add support for pluggable joystick modules. At leat that way it would be a doorway for the games developers to add force feedback to SDL based games.
Sure there is an argument that people have the right to get paid for the work they do. On the other hand if I am contributing to some tool that is then included in the distribution, then where is my part of the cookie? What they should be doing instead is making all of the code that they haven't created 100%, available for free, and then what is their own property they should be allowed to charge for. So, the directory structure could be seen as follows:
/pub/isoimages - pay for
/pub/theircode - pay for
/pub/containsgplcode - free
With this approach any GPLed code is still available without a cost. If they don't use this approach then they are in danger of having to pay for QT and other software which has a 'commercial' clause in them.
Hmm, I wonder whether it would be worth creating a bug database for the ISS space station? It would be interesting to see which space station ends up 'living longer' and having the least, official, problems.
Looking at it design it reminds me very much of the design of Apple's TiBook (I don't have an issue with that). Now that we gone through the boring phase (Palm's Pilots), the candy colored phase and
now the brushed metal look, what is the next fashionable look likely to be?
I like it, but already being an owner of Palm, I won't go out and buy one of these, unless the company is willing to expense it;-)
I would be curious as to what architectiure they will base the chip on. I would hope that they would base it on their PowerPC processors, simply because it would mean other markets could take advantage of the improvements used for the consoles - examples would include their RS/6000 line of machines. But at the same time given that both Sony and Toshiba also develop their own chips, we might be seeing another processor architecture pop up - though Sony must avoid making the same mistake that it did with the PS2, that is it must be simple to develop for.
is why one would want to run Netscape Communicator on anything. It's unusably unstable on all platforms...I can't imagine how bad it is under
emulation..
Well, at least you can say its feature consistant across all platforms;-)
Partly because there is software available in binary form that has not been ported to BSD. Though admitadly there is probably more value on the x86 platform, than on the PPC platform, where even a fair bin of binary only x86/Linux software has not been recompiled for this platform, or any other for that matter.
Though the simple answer is because this way you only need one OS.
Not having tried the other distros I can't really give you an informed opinion as to which one I prefer. Though the ones I have heard of include:
Debian
LinuxPPC
SuSE
Yellow Dog
ROCK Linux
The first four are referenced at PenguinPPC.org, the last one is at RockLinux.org. If you have the bandwidth and the time, I reckon it is probably worth trying them all and forming your own opinion.
One thing that I always felt could be done, is for the store to sign off the final stage of the transaction to the credit card company. What would happen is the store would send an order number to the credit company and then you authorize the transaction on the credit card company's website, who would then send an authorization number back to the merchant.
Another idea, would be to have a hardware device that reads your card (prevents your kids from one-clicking) and then handles the encryption algorithm in hardware. The idea here being that there is no trace of your credit-card info on your computer. Maybe we should call it 1-swipe shopping. Oh, this thing would connect via the USB port.
This is clearly a marketing stunt. Microsoft supplies the API and OS for the games on their consoles, and thus could easily create an API to provide this functionality. Nothing is stopping any other manufacturer or even MS from adding V-Chip like features without adding the chip itself. By going with the V-Chip approach Microsoft gets more noise made about the X-Box, appeases the government (don't bother explaining to them technology), and actually appeases parents on the issue of buying a console - by creating the impression that the facility is there people are likely to buy the console for this reason. In fact I would be curious to know how many of the people who bought TVs because of the V-Chip ( there are some ) actually take advantage of it.
If the core Linux kernel development team had their hands on one of these machines, it might allow them to do any other modifications to the core Linux to make it ready for when other procesors come in the 64-bit varities.
Maybe Apple does have the DVD software ready, but the MPAA has now decided that there is even better way to fustrate people - don't license to anybody Unix based.
Maybe the military should sponsor some space projects. They probably still get more money than they have projects to spend it on - but I doubt they are going to let on.
In a previous thread on patents I suggested the idea of PatentSlash, a site that would allow people to read the patent and then mention any prior art that existed - rightly so someone pointed out the issue of secrecy until publication and the shear quantity of applications would make this difficult.
Thinking about the issue lately, the revised approach would have the patent office doing their usual work and then any patent which is considered okay by the patent office would then make its way to PatentSlash for a second stage public review - this should cut down on the number of patents being listed on the site and would ensure only those that the Patent Office feels okay to approve become public knowledge.
Sounds good - maybe a book on encryption techniques both successful and unsuccessful and why the bad one fail, and maybe even a chapter on the implications to the Joe Public of encryption. Of course as suggested CSS and DeCCS should be one of the case studies on the book. The advantage of a book, is that even if it can't be published in the US, at least it could be published in Europe, or anywhere else that feels that people have rights - heck it would be ironic if we saw this being published in China.
Far too often issues like these are recognised by IT people as being wrong and taking away our rights, at the same time people like my parents a) don't know this is happening and b) don't always understand the issues. In many cases I think we need to be able to do something to increase the general public's awareness and understanding of these issues.
If there is anyone writing for WB independent new media, then I think it is about time the general public got the facts - how about an article that would make this clear. Maybe Newsweek, the Economist, or the daily papers would be a good place.
Maybe,/opt is not could for everyone, but what I was really getting at is that all the version I have seen, including the one done by HelixCode installs Gnome in/usr, rather than/usr/gnome or something. Having everything Gnome related installed in the same folder makes it much easier to administer, rather than having installed with the other CLI stuff.
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I partly agree with this. The .com, .int, .net and .org domains should be left as they are, though should only be given to companies that are ready to place non-geocentric information on the site. A company like coca-cola has international presence, and is justified to a .com domain name, on the condition that they use it for international content. A company such as Canadian-Tire on the other hand would have to use the .ca, or .com.ca domain, since they don't do business outside of the country.
.gov and and .mil domains should be done away with and their current content placed in the .gov.us and and .gov.mil domains, since their content is totally US centric.
.int domain should be left as the is used for international treaty organizations such as NATO and the united nations.
/. posting to change this. I also feel that there is a huge need for internet task forces of various countries to get together to bring some sort of sanity to the current mess.
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Admitedly it will take more than a simple
I suppose this means that SDL would need to add support for pluggable joystick modules. At leat that way it would be a doorway for the games developers to add force feedback to SDL based games.
- /pub/isoimages - pay for
- /pub/theircode - pay for
- /pub/containsgplcode - free
With this approach any GPLed code is still available without a cost. If they don't use this approach then they are in danger of having to pay for QT and other software which has a 'commercial' clause in them.It looks like the Russians beat NASA in testing for effects of alcohol on astronauts in space. Will we be finding any brandy on the ISS?
Hmm, I wonder whether it would be worth creating a bug database for the ISS space station? It would be interesting to see which space station ends up 'living longer' and having the least, official, problems.
If sony does decide to kill it, maybe we should petition the software developers who made games of the console.
BTW VGS can tell the difference between ligit and copied game CDs, I tried the demo the other day - I thought it was just a bluff.
True, but then again the money is made with the games, not the consoles.
http://www.parentssource.com/article.3.00.html
I like it, but already being an owner of Palm, I won't go out and buy one of these, unless the company is willing to expense it ;-)
I would be curious as to what architectiure they will base the chip on. I would hope that they would base it on their PowerPC processors, simply because it would mean other markets could take advantage of the improvements used for the consoles - examples would include their RS/6000 line of machines. But at the same time given that both Sony and Toshiba also develop their own chips, we might be seeing another processor architecture pop up - though Sony must avoid making the same mistake that it did with the PS2, that is it must be simple to develop for.
is why one would want to run Netscape Communicator on anything. It's unusably unstable on all platforms...I can't imagine how bad it is under emulation.. Well, at least you can say its feature consistant across all platforms ;-)
Though the simple answer is because this way you only need one OS.
- Debian
- LinuxPPC
- SuSE
- Yellow Dog
- ROCK Linux
The first four are referenced at PenguinPPC.org, the last one is at RockLinux.org. If you have the bandwidth and the time, I reckon it is probably worth trying them all and forming your own opinion.Another idea, would be to have a hardware device that reads your card (prevents your kids from one-clicking) and then handles the encryption algorithm in hardware. The idea here being that there is no trace of your credit-card info on your computer. Maybe we should call it 1-swipe shopping. Oh, this thing would connect via the USB port.
This is clearly a marketing stunt. Microsoft supplies the API and OS for the games on their consoles, and thus could easily create an API to provide this functionality. Nothing is stopping any other manufacturer or even MS from adding V-Chip like features without adding the chip itself. By going with the V-Chip approach Microsoft gets more noise made about the X-Box, appeases the government (don't bother explaining to them technology), and actually appeases parents on the issue of buying a console - by creating the impression that the facility is there people are likely to buy the console for this reason. In fact I would be curious to know how many of the people who bought TVs because of the V-Chip ( there are some ) actually take advantage of it.
If the core Linux kernel development team had their hands on one of these machines, it might allow them to do any other modifications to the core Linux to make it ready for when other procesors come in the 64-bit varities.
Maybe Apple does have the DVD software ready, but the MPAA has now decided that there is even better way to fustrate people - don't license to anybody Unix based.
Hmm, maybe it would be called Wildfire. Those guys in marketing would that.
Maybe the military should sponsor some space projects. They probably still get more money than they have projects to spend it on - but I doubt they are going to let on.
Thinking about the issue lately, the revised approach would have the patent office doing their usual work and then any patent which is considered okay by the patent office would then make its way to PatentSlash for a second stage public review - this should cut down on the number of patents being listed on the site and would ensure only those that the Patent Office feels okay to approve become public knowledge.
The USA needs an admendment that extends the issues of free speech to prevent corporations from silencing free speech.
Sounds good - maybe a book on encryption techniques both successful and unsuccessful and why the bad one fail, and maybe even a chapter on the implications to the Joe Public of encryption. Of course as suggested CSS and DeCCS should be one of the case studies on the book. The advantage of a book, is that even if it can't be published in the US, at least it could be published in Europe, or anywhere else that feels that people have rights - heck it would be ironic if we saw this being published in China.
If there is anyone writing for WB independent new media, then I think it is about time the general public got the facts - how about an article that would make this clear. Maybe Newsweek, the Economist, or the daily papers would be a good place.
Maybe, /opt is not could for everyone, but what I was really getting at is that all the version I have seen, including the one done by HelixCode installs Gnome in /usr, rather than /usr/gnome or something. Having everything Gnome related installed in the same folder makes it much easier to administer, rather than having installed with the other CLI stuff.