... like most distr., we can only have access to kernel.org source code, but we can't reach the code they had changed...
Dunno about that point, I've got a copy of SuSE loaded on my system, and they have their own package that consists of all the mods they do to the kernel, mostly cool stuff like backporting 2.3's USB support, and putting in the Reiser filesystem support. All of their modifications are available in the source tree, so you can tweak their hacks to your hearts content. I'll have to check RH 6.2, Slack, and Mandrake (hey, I'm a distro whore, what can I say?)
Besides, from the other comments posted, it seems they're charging mostly for the right to blame someone else, aka tech support.
You seem to be under the delusional capitalist idea of "private property". The idea that the means of production can be legitimately "owned" by corporations in the same sense as people own their personal possessions.
Think about your toothbrush and a factory: are they the same sort of thing? Are the effects on society of putting each of them under absolute control of some individuals the same? Of course not. Putting your toothbrush under your absolute control has no ill effect on society; however, putting the means of production under the control of a few divides society into a minority of powerful owners and a minority of alienated workers.
All right, I'm ready to rumble about the ills of socialism. Your entire point seems to be that you're tired about who owns the means of production. I've got news for you, buddy, under socialism, communism, stateism, anarchism, whateverism, you still have the same thing. There is still the elite managers who decide what gets produced, with even less responsiveness on what gets produced. I don't like whatever food a particular resturaunt serves, I vote with my wallet and don't go there, I go to the place across the street that serves better food. If enough people don't like a place, then that place will either change itself to make it more likable, or it will go out of business, it's that simple. There is very little in a true capitalistic state stopping you from going out and competing against anyone to get business.
Same argument works for satellites. Do you really want communication, the activity that makes us human, controlled by a small group of people whose interests are contrary to yours?
See above, if I don't like their programming, I don't subscribe to their service, and/or, I pony up the few million dollars and launch my own competing service.
I will agree that capitalism has it's problems, but it has fewer problems than socialism and stateism when changing the human condition to reach the unnatainable state of happiness for everybody.
Yes, Bill Gates does have the right to do that. He'd be incredibly stupid to do it, because he'd be opening himself to being sued by everybody who owns stock in Microsoft for breach of contract, etc, as he simply runs the company, he is not sole owner, the shareholders are the ones who own the company.
Now, supposing he does decide to board up M$ and move along his merry way. There will be a huge void in the support market, and anyone worthy of being called an entrepeneur would enter that market in a second.
Capitalism solves these problems all the time. Don't think that the world would end if microsoft would go away.
Unfortunately, this would not work. Most modern albums that people buy consist of the one song they overplay on the radio, and the rest of the album is utter crap. So this will only lead to corps. making even more contrived bands (the current boy bands actually had training to "create" their personalities.)
From the looks of it, and how the keyboard seems to be designed, the two gaps are probably a split space bar. Now, for the rest of the keys, that is an interesting question, though, from the overall marketing of the keyboard, those are probably left to be placed elsewhere on the touch screen; this isn't a replacement for the keyboard hooked up to your desktop, just your palmtop.
And hard. There are times when it is NOT appropriate to be connected to your friends and whatnot. Not only are they doing it while driving, which is IMAO moronic, but they're doing it at funerals, which is disrespectful to everyone. Someone needs to tell these people to throw their phones into the sea and talk to people face to face, because they crossed the line.
For the bored, a quick summary of Jonkatz's article: There's a helluva lot of info out there, people are going to use different tools to filter this info out; people don't like it.
My thoughts: So what else is new? Wasn't the same thing said about books when the printing press came out, or when the first person started writing on paper instead of clay tablets. FUD over a new way of sorting out and creating information from data is something everyone does.
*Gasp* A musician who has been around for longer than a decade embracing digital music. We must stop him at all costs. It's obvious that the music on his site contains subliminal messages that encourage everyone to praise whatever pagan god he likes.
Oh, wait, the pagan gods throw better parties than the "established" gods. Long live Pete Townshend!
This whole Bull$hit over who controls domain names is getting out of hand. There are companies out there, Proctor and Gamble being the worst offender, that register hundreds, even thousands of domain names such that they can make money selling their product. Then, they do the same thing over every imaginable domain. Now, it's not to late to fix it, but we've got to act soon in order to keep things from getting even more crazy.
The way I see it, the following needs to be done:
Have as many tech people join the ICANN @ Large program. The only way to change things is to vote, and to vote your conscience.
Have profiles of people running for the board. What are their stands on domainjacking, multiple registrations, etc? What is their internet experience? These are rather important questions.
Change the domain name system. Either go to the older UK style of TLD, SLD, Subdomain, add more domains, make it so the person who registers domain.com not able to register domain.net, or make one entity, corporate or individual only able to have a certain amount of domains per TLD.
Fortunately, the DNS system is not irreperable yet, but if we don't act soon, twenty yearrs from now we could be sitting around asking "Remember the Internet?" while munching on our soylent green.
What is the reason behind the general situation where films aren't available in all countries at the same time.
I've heard from a smaller studio that it wasn't practical to advertise heavily in other countries until they had an idea of how the film had fared in the US, and whilst that might be true for cinema I see no reason for enforcing it on videos and dvds.
Yep, that's the exact reason, keep the studios from having to do a worldwide marketing blitz on every movie that they show. Although, one could counter that they could get around that by waiting until after the movie is done running worldwide before releasing the film to the home market, but we're talking about the same industry that released a movie to the home market while it was still in the US theaters (Batman).
Of course this still doesn't explain why one needs region coding on movies such as Plan Nine From Outer Space that have been out forever, and I don't think would be theatrically viable anymore, except for those rare theaters that specialize in those niche markets.
Now as far as gasoline, maybe we can do an exchange, a Range Rover for a few tankers of gasoline perchance?
A couple other stories to add to your list of Packard Hell notorieties, courtesy of friends/relatives:
All in one board that was a video card, modem and super I/O board
RAM soldered into the simm slots. You could only upgrade to 16MB more RAM, and this was on a 486.
Monitors with lousy glare problems
Now, if NEC were to make Packard Bell systems that had some standardized parts and were inexpensive, they'd have something. Although, I think that computer companies need to start playing with the case shapes, get something other than a cube. A triangular case would kick ass. Either that, or I'm still of the Cray line's toroidal design.
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If anything, it would be a 12 year old 133t type, simply because of how the world seems to work. Everything gets working well just long enough for some people to be bored, and then we get something that puts everything on end, just like one would expect from a 12 year old's attention span
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First off, religion/spirituality/faith are things I'm working through myself, figuring out the right questions and the right answers. Secondly, I do believe that there is the possibility that our "God" is really some 12 year old 31337 H4>0R playing Sim Universe on their alien equivalent of a VIC-20. All that said, this book does seem to have some interesting possibilities in the debate of God v. Evolution, as far as them pesky aliens go. Unfortunately, until we have conclusive evidence one way or the other, all this is conjecture, supposition, and some irrationality.
Well, considering that he looks kinda like a giant newt/lizard, and knowing my pets, I vote for him to be eaten by a member of some planet's giant cat population, then hacked up like a hairball.
With all of the problems our ground-based telescopes being blinded by lights of urban sprawl, why are you continuing to build terrestrial-based telescopes? It seems more and more obvious, at least to me, that we should be working towards putting the next generation of megatelescopes in space, so that we could use them basically 24 hours per day, and not have to worry about that metropolis growing every day.
This is standard practice in the private investigation industry. You want some dirt on something, you go through their trash, get the records which can't be used in court, but can get the wheels rolling. I know Microsoft is probably going through the trash of their competitors as we speak, as any good large corporation should
Not a bad though actually. A Dozen and a quartet of people with either a fatal or perfect (we'll have to see if he comes back in one or many pieces to determine that) mixture of brains, balls, and insanity. The world would be a lot more of an interesting place if we had more people like this around. We'd probably already have a colony on the moon and the first manned rocket to mars would be on its final approach. I think too many people have forgotten how to dream, which is worse than 1,000 space disasters. This guy should be applauded.
Wading through te legalese in question, and getting my weekly quotient of legalese in the process, I can see that Free Software has little to worry about. From my reading of it, all the implied warranty requires is that if the program doesn't do everything it's warranted to do, you're entitled to your money back. So a warranty that says that all a program will do is take up disk space will not be in breach of contract if it segfaults on load. So, for Free software, as it never came with a warranty to begin with, life goes on, liscense changes will be at most very minor.
Also, is there any site out there that specializes in de-lawyerizing legislation texts? I know it's important for the court system to have airtight laws, but legalize is considered, IMHO, to be harmful to ones health.
Like everyone else, I'm reeling from the sticker shock. From the posts I've seen on the capabilities of the ARM processor, a PIII CPU/mobo at the same price would blow the ARM out of the water. Now, if it had another advantage, like ran on a couple of AAAs, or would crack 56bit DES encryption like it was nothing, then you would have something here. As it stands, the economic benefits of the PIII outweigh any engineering benefits of the ARM processor
Process vs. practice -- why is it that when we try encapsulate something in documentation, it always falls short? We've all had someone hand us a manual outlining some practice that ends up propping up an uneven table. It's also common wisdom that the best way to learn how to code is to actually start writing some code. Do you think this is unique to the computer profession?
Anyone who has taken any kind of creative writing class knows that the only way you get better at writing is to write. The only way you get better at running is to run, the only way you get good at X is to do X, it's a universal truth. Yeah, you can read all the books you want on something, but you are just a layman until you get out and write that first line of code, or that first line of verse, or run that first race.
Yeah it would, it just wouldn't be a Personal Computer, it would be a Parallel Computer. Although I think I could find a use for all those extra clocks. Dedicated Q3 server, perhaps?
I doubt that this thing will be anywhere near a serious contender for replacing my hard drive for a few years, simply due to the fact that holograms require a nearly perfectly stable plane, but I find that this thing looks ipressive for use as a backup medium. You can store an incredible amout of information on a relatively nonvolitile small item, and retrieval times are very fast. Apply some massive redundancy in the encoding process so that you don't waste too many blanks, and you have the perfect medium for doing those daily backups. Plus, a cube a few CM in dimensions looks so much more Sci-Fiish than a spinning disk for storing information
A zip code was developed by an Iomega employee who went back in time and created the numbering scheme in order to confuse people and create mindless zombies by making them remember something else when they want to mail a letter across town; thus, they will corner the market on patented neural backup disks. There is currently legislation pending in the Iowa court system to collect back royalties on all uses of this proprietary company technology. However, most Civil Libertarians point to the Canadian system of letters and numbers as being prior art as a system of confusing mailers.
Seriously, though ZIP stands for Zoning Improvement Plan, kind of a misleading term for US Snail.
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Dunno about that point, I've got a copy of SuSE loaded on my system, and they have their own package that consists of all the mods they do to the kernel, mostly cool stuff like backporting 2.3's USB support, and putting in the Reiser filesystem support. All of their modifications are available in the source tree, so you can tweak their hacks to your hearts content. I'll have to check RH 6.2, Slack, and Mandrake (hey, I'm a distro whore, what can I say?)
Besides, from the other comments posted, it seems they're charging mostly for the right to blame someone else, aka tech support.
All right, I'm ready to rumble about the ills of socialism. Your entire point seems to be that you're tired about who owns the means of production. I've got news for you, buddy, under socialism, communism, stateism, anarchism, whateverism, you still have the same thing. There is still the elite managers who decide what gets produced, with even less responsiveness on what gets produced. I don't like whatever food a particular resturaunt serves, I vote with my wallet and don't go there, I go to the place across the street that serves better food. If enough people don't like a place, then that place will either change itself to make it more likable, or it will go out of business, it's that simple. There is very little in a true capitalistic state stopping you from going out and competing against anyone to get business.
See above, if I don't like their programming, I don't subscribe to their service, and/or, I pony up the few million dollars and launch my own competing service.
I will agree that capitalism has it's problems, but it has fewer problems than socialism and stateism when changing the human condition to reach the unnatainable state of happiness for everybody.
Now, supposing he does decide to board up M$ and move along his merry way. There will be a huge void in the support market, and anyone worthy of being called an entrepeneur would enter that market in a second.
Capitalism solves these problems all the time. Don't think that the world would end if microsoft would go away.
Unfortunately, this would not work. Most modern albums that people buy consist of the one song they overplay on the radio, and the rest of the album is utter crap. So this will only lead to corps. making even more contrived bands (the current boy bands actually had training to "create" their personalities.)
From the looks of it, and how the keyboard seems to be designed, the two gaps are probably a split space bar. Now, for the rest of the keys, that is an interesting question, though, from the overall marketing of the keyboard, those are probably left to be placed elsewhere on the touch screen; this isn't a replacement for the keyboard hooked up to your desktop, just your palmtop.
And hard. There are times when it is NOT appropriate to be connected to your friends and whatnot. Not only are they doing it while driving, which is IMAO moronic, but they're doing it at funerals, which is disrespectful to everyone. Someone needs to tell these people to throw their phones into the sea and talk to people face to face, because they crossed the line.
Considering some of the current things that modern "art" tries to perpetrate, I think that's already being done.
My thoughts: So what else is new? Wasn't the same thing said about books when the printing press came out, or when the first person started writing on paper instead of clay tablets. FUD over a new way of sorting out and creating information from data is something everyone does.
Nope, they obviously blow down...:-)
Oh, wait, the pagan gods throw better parties than the "established" gods. Long live Pete Townshend!
The way I see it, the following needs to be done:
- Have as many tech people join the ICANN @ Large program. The only way to change things is to vote, and to vote your conscience.
- Have profiles of people running for the board. What are their stands on domainjacking, multiple registrations, etc? What is their internet experience? These are rather important questions.
- Change the domain name system. Either go to the older UK style of TLD, SLD, Subdomain, add more domains, make it so the person who registers domain.com not able to register domain.net, or make one entity, corporate or individual only able to have a certain amount of domains per TLD.
Fortunately, the DNS system is not irreperable yet, but if we don't act soon, twenty yearrs from now we could be sitting around asking "Remember the Internet?" while munching on our soylent green.Yep, that's the exact reason, keep the studios from having to do a worldwide marketing blitz on every movie that they show. Although, one could counter that they could get around that by waiting until after the movie is done running worldwide before releasing the film to the home market, but we're talking about the same industry that released a movie to the home market while it was still in the US theaters (Batman).
Of course this still doesn't explain why one needs region coding on movies such as Plan Nine From Outer Space that have been out forever, and I don't think would be theatrically viable anymore, except for those rare theaters that specialize in those niche markets.
Now as far as gasoline, maybe we can do an exchange, a Range Rover for a few tankers of gasoline perchance?
Now, if NEC were to make Packard Bell systems that had some standardized parts and were inexpensive, they'd have something. Although, I think that computer companies need to start playing with the case shapes, get something other than a cube. A triangular case would kick ass. Either that, or I'm still of the Cray line's toroidal design.
If anything, it would be a 12 year old 133t type, simply because of how the world seems to work. Everything gets working well just long enough for some people to be bored, and then we get something that puts everything on end, just like one would expect from a 12 year old's attention span
First off, religion/spirituality/faith are things I'm working through myself, figuring out the right questions and the right answers. Secondly, I do believe that there is the possibility that our "God" is really some 12 year old 31337 H4>0R playing Sim Universe on their alien equivalent of a VIC-20. All that said, this book does seem to have some interesting possibilities in the debate of God v. Evolution, as far as them pesky aliens go. Unfortunately, until we have conclusive evidence one way or the other, all this is conjecture, supposition, and some irrationality.
Well, considering that he looks kinda like a giant newt/lizard, and knowing my pets, I vote for him to be eaten by a member of some planet's giant cat population, then hacked up like a hairball.
With all of the problems our ground-based telescopes being blinded by lights of urban sprawl, why are you continuing to build terrestrial-based telescopes? It seems more and more obvious, at least to me, that we should be working towards putting the next generation of megatelescopes in space, so that we could use them basically 24 hours per day, and not have to worry about that metropolis growing every day.
This is standard practice in the private investigation industry. You want some dirt on something, you go through their trash, get the records which can't be used in court, but can get the wheels rolling. I know Microsoft is probably going through the trash of their competitors as we speak, as any good large corporation should
Not a bad though actually. A Dozen and a quartet of people with either a fatal or perfect (we'll have to see if he comes back in one or many pieces to determine that) mixture of brains, balls, and insanity. The world would be a lot more of an interesting place if we had more people like this around. We'd probably already have a colony on the moon and the first manned rocket to mars would be on its final approach. I think too many people have forgotten how to dream, which is worse than 1,000 space disasters. This guy should be applauded.
Also, is there any site out there that specializes in de-lawyerizing legislation texts? I know it's important for the court system to have airtight laws, but legalize is considered, IMHO, to be harmful to ones health.
Like everyone else, I'm reeling from the sticker shock. From the posts I've seen on the capabilities of the ARM processor, a PIII CPU/mobo at the same price would blow the ARM out of the water. Now, if it had another advantage, like ran on a couple of AAAs, or would crack 56bit DES encryption like it was nothing, then you would have something here. As it stands, the economic benefits of the PIII outweigh any engineering benefits of the ARM processor
Anyone who has taken any kind of creative writing class knows that the only way you get better at writing is to write. The only way you get better at running is to run, the only way you get good at X is to do X, it's a universal truth. Yeah, you can read all the books you want on something, but you are just a layman until you get out and write that first line of code, or that first line of verse, or run that first race.
Yeah it would, it just wouldn't be a Personal Computer, it would be a Parallel Computer. Although I think I could find a use for all those extra clocks. Dedicated Q3 server, perhaps?
I doubt that this thing will be anywhere near a serious contender for replacing my hard drive for a few years, simply due to the fact that holograms require a nearly perfectly stable plane, but I find that this thing looks ipressive for use as a backup medium. You can store an incredible amout of information on a relatively nonvolitile small item, and retrieval times are very fast. Apply some massive redundancy in the encoding process so that you don't waste too many blanks, and you have the perfect medium for doing those daily backups. Plus, a cube a few CM in dimensions looks so much more Sci-Fiish than a spinning disk for storing information
Seriously, though ZIP stands for Zoning Improvement Plan, kind of a misleading term for US Snail.