Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
This is going to be the most painless Boycott in history. I mean, it's not like I'm going to ever buy a Metallica CD anyway when I can just download it from Napster.
Quake 2 probably used some of the source for Quake1. Maybe it only used 1 line. So now it's a derivative work, and I can demand source.
Quake 3 probably used some of the source from Quake 2. Again, maybe it only used 1 line. That would make it a derivative work.
I demand source for Quake 3!
Re:Well haven't you heard of the FDIC?
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How much money do you think the FDIC has?
Sure they could shore up a failed bank here and there, but they don't have nearly enough money render even token assistane in the advent of system collapse.
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With a 21 Meg source code footprint I serriously doubt that Mozilla will compete on the embeded market any time soon.
I don't see this as too much of a problem. Most of the traffic on the web is unencrypted.
Eventually some enterprising young scalawag will put go and put one of these new-fangled devices on a PCI card and solve all of our problems. Until then, the people that want to secure their data will just have to go back to good old-fashioned physical security.
Who get's hurt when the GPL gets violated? and why is this a sin worthy of damnation.
Programmers who contribute to a GPL'd project receive their reward in the form of Kudos from the Great Peanut Gallery that is the internet. No injury is inflicted by a GPL voilation. The programmers that produced the code are paid exactly what they would have been had the GPL NOT been voilated.
Voilating the GPL is just like prostitution or smoking pot. It's a victemless crime.
Not lets look at the other end of the spectrum. "Who gets hurt when I voilate a commercial license?"
The answer to this question is a bit more tangible. First the producer and the distributer loose revenue. This loss of revenue leads to smaller profits. Smaller profits in turn lead to a lower stock value. Many religious institutions own stocks as investments. Lower stock values mean these institutions loose money.
In summary: When you voilate the GPL nothing happens. When you voilate a commmercial software license, you are stealing from GOD.
err... This got kind of silly, but there is a point in here somewhere.
It really isn't practical to save them all. There are so many species in danger of extinction that it would be impossible. I'm not saying that we shouldn't try, but rather that we should start with the ones that taste best.
You accuse Amazon of becoming a 'tacky online K-Mart'. The point of being a consumer is finding the best price for the goods you want to consume. If that means shopping at K-Mart instead of Eddie Bauer, then shop at K-Mart.
From a programmers perspective I will agree that an expanded Amazon is a bit confusing. I would never extend my bookstore object with a buyToy() method. It isn't object oriented. But Amazon exists in the business world, where being a bookstore does not preclued you from selling other things too. If Amazon is able to expand their market and include toys and electronics, more power too them.
> They would have been smarter to put that much > effort into a vesion of KDE or GNOME for QNX. > Either of them could be made to look a helluva > lot like that desktop. And since QNX is still > proprietary, it wouldn't really hurt them to > have a GPLed desktop on top of it.
Could it be that they want a Desktop that works?
While their version numbers might have climed past 1.0 neither Gnome nor KDE are ready for comercial release. To say that they are rough around the edges is putting it mildly.
If they are serious about competing in the OS market. They need to have a GUI that is slick. (KDE does not look slick. Gnome looks slick but can't be considered slick because of its performance and unreliability.) The success of their OS is going to be based on first impressions. A User that walks away with a bad taste in his mouth because the GUI locked up are not goig to give them a second look. Certainly not with all of the alternative OSs that are now available (os/2, BeOS, Free BSD, NT, etc...).
I really can't fault him for not making backups. Backups were made on a regular basis, by the Sysadmins at Harvard. If he made any mistake it was that he trusted Harvard
It may be that I missed the true point of this article. I though it was saying that IT departments aren't able to do their jobs properly because they are having to spend too much time dicking around with handhelds. Or was it the other way around...
Why put it onto a tape at all? It's only a matter of time before someone puts a network interface on one of these things. After that it will be a simple matter to burn the MPEG onto a CD/CDRW/CDRAM/DVD/ZIP/ORB/JAZZ/HOLOCUBE/HYPERMEM/W HATEVER and pass it off to a bud. You could even edit out the comercials.
Heck! this might even be possible through the firewire port on the thing.
Word on the street is that unless Andon gets their shit together they are DONE.
Back when they were independant, they ran some great cons. Problem is, they just weren't ready to grow as fast as WOTC need them to.
They were just a small company, run by a tight group of friends. I don't think any of them knew how much work it would be once they became successful. When success did find them, they just weren't ready for the amount of organization they needed.
When GenCon98 rolled around the combination of poor organization and a new (poorly designed) convention center combined to form a gigantic mass of suckitude.
The failure of GenCon98 really broke their backs. From what I hear, they havn't been the same since, and it has shown in the cons they have run.
Thats GEN (Geneva) CON (Convention). It is the annual conference where world governments and humanitarian organizations discuss and ammend the Geneva Convention accords. The accords deal with international law and "honorable" conduct during times of war.
GenCon is usually held in Bern, so sneaking out for a day to attend a hack-fest wouldn't be completely out of the question (but would probably be in poor taste).
It is true that computers are not as simple to use a televisions. But they should be. Most people just use their systems for web surfing, email, word processing, and the like. These people should not have to dig through arcane config files in order to use their systems. Remember, to anyone but the hobbyist time spent setting up a system is wasted time.
The average user cannot and will not dig through arcane config files. If we want Linux to be successful we must make certain that they never have to. They have better things to do. They have productive things to do.
Here's an experiment. Pull up the man page for strtok(). Now try to figure out what it does. I submit, if you don't already know approximatly how it functions, then your screwed. The man page is, at best, cyptic. Strtok() is but one of many cryptic man pages. How can any novice user be anything but frustrated when faced by instructions such as these?
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Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
Dude, you just described maintaining ANY software. None of those problems are unique to java.
This is going to be the most painless Boycott in history. I mean, it's not like I'm going to ever buy a Metallica CD anyway when I can just download it from Napster.
Down with Music! Power to the people!
Quake 1 was GPL'd
Quake 2 probably used some of the source for Quake1. Maybe it only used 1 line. So now it's a derivative work, and I can demand source.
Quake 3 probably used some of the source from Quake 2. Again, maybe it only used 1 line. That would make it a derivative work.
I demand source for Quake 3!
How much money do you think the FDIC has?
Sure they could shore up a failed bank here and there, but they don't have nearly enough money render even token assistane in the advent of system collapse.
With a 21 Meg source code footprint I serriously doubt that Mozilla will compete on the embeded market any time soon.
Run Lola Run is a great movie. The only drawback is that you have to be able to read or speak German to enjoy it.
I don't see this as too much of a problem. Most of the traffic on the web is unencrypted.
Eventually some enterprising young scalawag will put go and put one of these new-fangled devices on a PCI card and solve all of our problems. Until then, the people that want to secure their data will just have to go back to good old-fashioned physical security.
I'm just curious...
Who get's hurt when the GPL gets violated? and why is this a sin worthy of damnation.
Programmers who contribute to a GPL'd project receive their reward in the form of Kudos from the Great Peanut Gallery that is the internet. No injury is inflicted by a GPL voilation. The programmers that produced the code are paid exactly what they would have been had the GPL NOT been voilated.
Voilating the GPL is just like prostitution or smoking pot. It's a victemless crime.
Not lets look at the other end of the spectrum. "Who gets hurt when I voilate a commercial license?"
The answer to this question is a bit more tangible. First the producer and the distributer loose revenue. This loss of revenue leads to smaller profits. Smaller profits in turn lead to a lower stock value. Many religious institutions own stocks as investments. Lower stock values mean these institutions loose money.
In summary:
When you voilate the GPL nothing happens.
When you voilate a commmercial software license, you are stealing from GOD.
err... This got kind of silly, but there is a point in here somewhere.
Absolutely.
In it's basest form a non-compete agreement is a form of indentured servitude. If not illegal, it is certainly immoral.
How bout this...
Why does this site encourage posting in plaintext?
Why dont we all start posting encrypted feedback?
Here are my further thoughts...
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ps. seriously though, why isn't slashdot a secure web server?
Now if they developed a smarter trac ball, then I'd be impressed.
It really isn't practical to save them all. There are so many species in danger of extinction that it would be impossible. I'm not saying that we shouldn't try, but rather that we should start with the ones that taste best.
Dude, NO amount of math will make social secrity work.
What is the point of all this vitriolic rambling?
You accuse Amazon of becoming a 'tacky online K-Mart'. The point of being a consumer is finding the best price for the goods you want to consume. If that means shopping at K-Mart instead of Eddie Bauer, then shop at K-Mart.
From a programmers perspective I will agree that an expanded Amazon is a bit confusing. I would never extend my bookstore object with a buyToy() method. It isn't object oriented. But Amazon exists in the business world, where being a bookstore does not preclued you from selling other things too. If Amazon is able to expand their market and include toys and electronics, more power too them.
> They would have been smarter to put that much
> effort into a vesion of KDE or GNOME for QNX.
> Either of them could be made to look a helluva
> lot like that desktop. And since QNX is still
> proprietary, it wouldn't really hurt them to
> have a GPLed desktop on top of it.
Could it be that they want a Desktop that works?
While their version numbers might have climed past 1.0 neither Gnome nor KDE are ready for comercial release. To say that they are rough around the edges is putting it mildly.
If they are serious about competing in the OS market. They need to have a GUI that is slick. (KDE does not look slick. Gnome looks slick but can't be considered slick because of its performance and unreliability.) The success of their OS is going to be based on first impressions. A User that walks away with a bad taste in his mouth because the GUI locked up are not goig to give them a second look. Certainly not with all of the alternative OSs that are now available (os/2, BeOS, Free BSD, NT, etc...).
I really can't fault him for not making backups. Backups were made on a regular basis, by the Sysadmins at Harvard. If he made any mistake it was that he trusted Harvard
I don't think that the cows will find the fingers very useful without the cow thumbs.
It may be that I missed the true point of this article. I though it was saying that IT departments aren't able to do their jobs properly because they are having to spend too much time dicking around with handhelds. Or was it the other way around...
Why put it onto a tape at all? It's only a matter of time before someone puts a network interface on one of these things. After that it will be a simple matter to burn the MPEG onto a CD/CDRW/CDRAM/DVD/ZIP/ORB/JAZZ/HOLOCUBE/HYPERMEM/W HATEVER and pass it off to a bud. You could even edit out the comercials.
Heck! this might even be possible through the firewire port on the thing.
2037-2039!!! Isn't that about when the clocks run out?
Word on the street is that unless Andon gets their shit together they are DONE.
Back when they were independant, they ran some great cons. Problem is, they just weren't ready to grow as fast as WOTC need them to.
They were just a small company, run by a tight group of friends. I don't think any of them knew how much work it would be once they became successful. When success did find them, they just weren't ready for the amount of organization they needed.
When GenCon98 rolled around the combination of poor organization and a new (poorly designed) convention center combined to form a gigantic mass of suckitude.
The failure of GenCon98 really broke their backs. From what I hear, they havn't been the same since, and it has shown in the cons they have run.
Doesn't this sound like just the kind of thing that will be villified by the media?
Thats GEN (Geneva) CON (Convention). It is the annual conference where world governments and humanitarian organizations discuss and ammend the Geneva Convention accords. The accords deal with international law and "honorable" conduct during times of war.
GenCon is usually held in Bern, so sneaking out for a day to attend a hack-fest wouldn't be completely out of the question (but would probably be in poor taste).
It is true that computers are not as simple to use a televisions. But they should be. Most people just use their systems for web surfing, email, word processing, and the like. These people should not have to dig through arcane config files in order to use their systems. Remember, to anyone but the hobbyist time spent setting up a system is wasted time.
The average user cannot and will not dig through arcane config files. If we want Linux to be successful we must make certain that they never have to. They have better things to do. They have productive things to do.
Here's an experiment. Pull up the man page for strtok(). Now try to figure out what it does. I submit, if you don't already know approximatly how it functions, then your screwed. The man page is, at best, cyptic. Strtok() is but one of many cryptic man pages. How can any novice user be anything but frustrated when faced by instructions such as these?
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