There is the possibility that Microsoft could face a situation where it could not embrace and extend and where it can not control that market, cannot monopolize it. Thus the efforts to outlaw open source:
There are two basic ways to get ahead in this world.
One is to build things up. The other is to tear things down.
The problem comes when you view the freedom and success of others as an attack on your success. While any exercise of power will use both, when someone goes psycho or nuerotic on the second, then you have a real problem.
It comes down to Microsoft being afraid of the freedom of others, or specifically certain people in MS are afraid of the freedom of others. Marketroids, etc. I'm willing to cut the coders some slack.
Since the company is the vision and living embodiment of the vision of Bill Gates, not him.
This sort of reminds me of the arguments seen against almost any new technology.
Usually there is cost vs perceived benefit. Why would anyone want a computer, for example? and indeed, only people with a high end need for the advantadges would be early adopters.
All you need is to go to someplace like vintagecomputerads.com to apreciate the costs of the machines vs the benefits. For many folks, the costs in money and learning curve were not sensible.
Now the arguments of the media lasting long are valid, and I cannot imagine that these things are going to be cheap yet.
The side effect of all of this is the walking into the loss of material over time as things get lost and purged. No more going through old drawers and finding childhood pictures long forgotten. A floppy disk found in a desert cave would be unreadle, unlike the Dead Sea Scrolls.
It looks like this will continue to be a non issue in the USA, despite worries to the contrary.
The more recent Anti Terrorist bill is more of a hassle, especially since members of congree didn't even get a chance to read it before passing it Many of the problems in the European measure are is a secondary or side agreement which is not binding on everyone - Citing from the article:
The United States, which is a signatory to the convention, resisted European moves to include the issue of racist Web sites in the main agreement, because doing so would conflict with the free-speech protections in the First Amendment.
To keep the disagreement from holding up ratification of the cybercrime convention, the council decided to cover the issue in a side agreement, which the United States and others could choose not to sign [...]
While the side agreement obliges only the nations that sign it to ban racist Web content and online hate speech, [...] the council hopes that all signatories of the main convention, including the United States, will respect the protocol, and will agree to remove such material if it originates within their borders and is aimed at an audience in another country.
[...]
France is thought to be one of the countries that pressed hardest for action by the council on racist content and hate speech. But one executive of an Internet company said the protocol would have little effect.
"It is very unlikely the United States would cooperate in the way the Council of Europe would want it to by removing Web content classified as racist by another country's courts," the executive said. "The Justice Department fought hard to have the racist bits pulled from the cybercrime convention itself. I can't imagine they will let freedom of speech be curtailed via the backdoor in this way."
For artists, what is nice is that no monies get syphoned off into the clutches of the middile men with their processing fess, etc.
a famous example behind how music companies work is the example of Prince, the artist formerly known as Prince, etc. The story behind all that was that the name Prince was owned lock stock and barrel by (I think) WB , or had it by exclusive license, or something, and the artist could not use it in any way without money going to the record label, until the deal ran out.
He went with the abstract symbol, so that he could retain control on his work instead of being a slave for art.
So the RIAA only gives up what they have to, in order to keep control elsewhere.
I can't believe that they could have scored at F on any security test. Am I naive?
F is for Fedral
It is also for fixed ideas, fubar, etc. very simply, if you think you have the answers, you will not look in the right places.
which is why you get situations like that.
Fotunately, or maybe not so fortunately, a lot of terrorist are not so interested in computer stuff as tools for their actions. they are more into things that go boom.
With no background in financial services but with a deep understanding of the nature of the Internet, [...]
I don't know about this.
Maybe that is where they started, but they obvious developed a sophisticated understanding of how finance works, just for things like their internal fraud detection software, for example.
I would want voice input so I do not need a stylus, plus a geiger counter and a bio war detector, along with the Dick Tracy wrist radio. I can accept a high speed wireless data connect instead, of course.
As long as this does not turn into another legal dispute where some lawyers try to profiteer by holding the internet hostage, sounding like another Pinky and the Brain scheme to take over the world.
But in truth, this is merely fighting over who gets to put what on their gravestones.
artists as philosophers
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God's Debris
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· Score: 3, Insightful
Of course, anyone who is working hard as an artist, even as a comic strip artist, doing commentary on life, is going to develop a philosophy, a world view.
now this may not be a sophisticated as a physicist, or your college certified philosopher, but it can be useful. Not everything will be spot on, that depending entirely on the insights of the author.
Of course, people following this all along would know this stuff, but I can see lots of people checking it for the first time, etc getting surpised.
So, as noted:
- In this build only, Palm-OS sychronization is temporarily disabled. It will return in the next release.
- Under certain rare circumstances, IMAP connections over SSL can hang Evolution. We expect to have this issue resolved shortly.
As many as half a million cuneiform tablets, hand size up to book-page size, are now available around the world. Surely many more are waiting to be found. Those samples are of every quality: once prized accounts and receipts, schoolboys' lessons, litigation profound or droll, literary essays, erotica, mathematics--and entire ancient epics, centuries older than Father Abraham's. A mostly unread treasury, comprising the equivalent of tens of thousands of large printed volumes.
Looks like there could be a lot of fun and good stuff there.
From what I can surmise, the speech dealt both with her love of money and her desire to roll around naked in a pile of money."
[insert satire]
Actually, it has to do with her desire to do nasty things with money.
[end]
Also at the very end she uses all of the open source buzzwords to make it sound like she is on the side of open source, etc. The BS detector blew a fuse on that one.
The conductivity of water is based purely on the impurites in it. If you had truely pure distilled water, it would not conduct.
I used to work on a transmitter that had water cooled voltage regulator tubes. They regulated many tens of thousands of volts with big wattage. You measured the purity of the water by the measuring the electric conductivity in fractions of micro-mhos
While I appreciate the sentiment in your comments, I feel some are an overreaction, verging on a penalty. Forcing MS to disclose its APIs, formats and protocols in advance of their publication is not going to happen; from a purely economic point of view it will be laughed at by the judge, let alone the implications on MS's rights to trade.
Since Microsoft was found guilty via the findings of fact, why should their not be a penalty?
Or do you believe that companies that do things wrongs should not ever be punished? or we should make an exception for MS?
The dead bodies of companies and the wreckage of personal lives are out there for all to see. and we should ignore this?
feh
Competition is judged to exist not by the mere fact of the existance of the product, but the percentage of the market. The fact the Lotus and Corel do exist does not mean they are effective competition.
If you want to find out about the extremes this can go to, check out the histories of company towns, etc.
Agreed, some folks like having comfortable lives, with someone else doing their thinking for them. But ultimately this is not the best for the society. The profits obtained from this are in many cases only short term, and then you get blind sided when you need a lot more people with initiative, and all you got is a bunch of drones.
What HP hasn't told us is they have been seriously whipped by DRM (Digital Rights Management). An internal FAQ has revealed that users will be unable to use CD-RWs to burn off their own CDs. You will need to buy "Digital Audio Discs" and royalties from these discs are distributed to artists via the RIAA. And you can't transfer your songs to your PC either.
the thing to do here is to go into stores and badmouth it to the sales reps, tell them that they'll get a bunch of returns and it is a bogus system because the customers can not use the device the way they think they could.
Now sales geek do _not_ like dealing with customer returns from angry customers, and likes to know about insider secrets so that customers will think he has a clue.
So talk up the bad points - special HP only CD Media, etc.
"yeh, you can't use the regular blanks, you got to use their special cd blanks. and it can only be played on their machine, no place else. It is as bad as the ink cartridges. A real dog man."
make this stuff go the way of the DIVX format. (remember that?)
If you haven't written to the partition where the loss occured, you should be able to get it back with Tech Tool Pro or Norton Utilities.
Which is what any data recovery pro could have told you.
But many modern systems are sold with only one partition. and there is the added question of virtual memory systems such as used in Mac and windows. The Mac OSX setup, based on BSD, should not have this as a big issue, if they use the typical swap partition.
(and some people wonder why you would not put it all into one large partition!)
there is definitely a market for a non MS suite in the hundred dollar range.
I can remember Claris works, and a number of other similar and excellent products. Not every one wants to spend multiple hundreds of dollars just to write a basic letter.
Heck I would be very happy with a Lite version of windows and office, half the features for half the price. I kan do witout a spel cheker. or all of the fancier features no one uses. Give me the 20% or 30% that 80% of the people use 90% of the time.
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IANAL, etc. and maybe I need more coffee, but there is nothing in here that says that you cannot use your own stuff. It just says that they can use your stuff and you will not hunt them down and sue them about it after the fact.
It doesn't give them exclusive rights to anything at all. Now wasn't that what the original hassle was about, them trying to grab exclusive rights?
Of course this is not exactly like the GPL either, because it is just a license to them, not the whole planet.
It has been said that Democracy is what happens when people participate. If no one participates, then what you get is a democracy of whoever happens to show up.
You can have a democracy of special interests, a democracy of thieves, a democracy of madmen, or whatever.
If you think your viewpoint is relevent and important, then you should do something.
In the People are Lazy theory, People tend to do only those things that are utterly important to them. This allows more ambitious folks a free hand.
Slashdot Mirror
Don't forget there are other sites where you can post info and News, especially with news coming out so slowly.
Thank you team -- that's one less tattoo Mandy and crew will need to get.
What kind of weird marketing practice is this? Have they take to branding and torturing the sales staff to help inspire them?
Tattoos?
- The Coming "Open Monopoly" by timothy with 171 comments on 09:24 AM -- Sunday October 28 2001
- Software "Open Monopoly" by Hemos with 284 comments on 01:49 PM -- Wednesday October 24 2001
There is the possibility that Microsoft could face a situation where it could not embrace and extend and where it can not control that market, cannot monopolize it. Thus the efforts to outlaw open source:-
MS Wants To Outlaw Open Source: "Threatens" the "American Way" by Hemos with 1169 comments on 02:53 PM -- Thursday February 15 2001
There are two basic ways to get ahead in this world.One is to build things up. The other is to tear things down.
The problem comes when you view the freedom and success of others as an attack on your success. While any exercise of power will use both, when someone goes psycho or nuerotic on the second, then you have a real problem.
It comes down to Microsoft being afraid of the freedom of others, or specifically certain people in MS are afraid of the freedom of others. Marketroids, etc. I'm willing to cut the coders some slack.
Since the company is the vision and living embodiment of the vision of Bill Gates, not him.
Usually there is cost vs perceived benefit. Why would anyone want a computer, for example? and indeed, only people with a high end need for the advantadges would be early adopters.
All you need is to go to someplace like vintagecomputerads.com to apreciate the costs of the machines vs the benefits. For many folks, the costs in money and learning curve were not sensible.
Now the arguments of the media lasting long are valid, and I cannot imagine that these things are going to be cheap yet.
The side effect of all of this is the walking into the loss of material over time as things get lost and purged. No more going through old drawers and finding childhood pictures long forgotten. A floppy disk found in a desert cave would be unreadle, unlike the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The more recent Anti Terrorist bill is more of a hassle, especially since members of congree didn't even get a chance to read it before passing it Many of the problems in the European measure are is a secondary or side agreement which is not binding on everyone - Citing from the article:
a famous example behind how music companies work is the example of Prince, the artist formerly known as Prince, etc. The story behind all that was that the name Prince was owned lock stock and barrel by (I think) WB , or had it by exclusive license, or something, and the artist could not use it in any way without money going to the record label, until the deal ran out.
He went with the abstract symbol, so that he could retain control on his work instead of being a slave for art.
So the RIAA only gives up what they have to, in order to keep control elsewhere.
F is for Fedral
It is also for fixed ideas, fubar, etc. very simply, if you think you have the answers, you will not look in the right places.
which is why you get situations like that.
Fotunately, or maybe not so fortunately, a lot of terrorist are not so interested in computer stuff as tools for their actions. they are more into things that go boom.
I don't know about this.
Maybe that is where they started, but they obvious developed a sophisticated understanding of how finance works, just for things like their internal fraud detection software, for example.
I can think of others later.
If everyone makes a big stink, then they back down. If no one opposes them, then they win.
I cannot imagine it standing up well in court, unless it is one of those secret FISA courts.
Now is the time to keep vigilent and make a stink.
But in truth, this is merely fighting over who gets to put what on their gravestones.
now this may not be a sophisticated as a physicist, or your college certified philosopher, but it can be useful. Not everything will be spot on, that depending entirely on the insights of the author.
I for one, do not know what he would make of the guy who has offered a million dollar reward for evidence conclusively proving there is no afterlife.
But that is part of the fun of talking about things like this.
So, as noted:
- In this build only, Palm-OS sychronization is temporarily disabled. It will return in the next release.
- Under certain rare circumstances, IMAP connections over SSL can hang Evolution. We expect to have this issue resolved shortly.
Just in case these things are important to you.
"We find you offensive, and demand you pay us to relieve some of the stench of your offensive nature"
In other times, disputes like this have led to wars.
[smile]
Scientific American has this article on Information Technology, 2500 B.C. on what life was like for the information worker of that day.
As many as half a million cuneiform tablets, hand size up to book-page size, are now available around the world. Surely many more are waiting to be found. Those samples are of every quality: once prized accounts and receipts, schoolboys' lessons, litigation profound or droll, literary essays, erotica, mathematics--and entire ancient epics, centuries older than Father Abraham's. A mostly unread treasury, comprising the equivalent of tens of thousands of large printed volumes.
Looks like there could be a lot of fun and good stuff there.
[insert satire]
Actually, it has to do with her desire to do nasty things with money.
[end]
Also at the very end she uses all of the open source buzzwords to make it sound like she is on the side of open source, etc. The BS detector blew a fuse on that one.
Minor nit pick
The conductivity of water is based purely on the impurites in it. If you had truely pure distilled water, it would not conduct.
I used to work on a transmitter that had water cooled voltage regulator tubes. They regulated many tens of thousands of volts with big wattage. You measured the purity of the water by the measuring the electric conductivity in fractions of micro-mhos
But I can imagine that this would be the logical conclusion of this development trend.
With the engineering and all, it might be just easier to dump everything into a vat of freon in a deep freeze some place.
or just make a refrigerated rack system.
Since Microsoft was found guilty via the findings of fact, why should their not be a penalty?
Or do you believe that companies that do things wrongs should not ever be punished? or we should make an exception for MS?
The dead bodies of companies and the wreckage of personal lives are out there for all to see. and we should ignore this?
feh
Competition is judged to exist not by the mere fact of the existance of the product, but the percentage of the market. The fact the Lotus and Corel do exist does not mean they are effective competition.
If you want to find out about the extremes this can go to, check out the histories of company towns, etc.
Agreed, some folks like having comfortable lives, with someone else doing their thinking for them. But ultimately this is not the best for the society. The profits obtained from this are in many cases only short term, and then you get blind sided when you need a lot more people with initiative, and all you got is a bunch of drones.
What many people think it means is often something like a parallel file system. which is not the same.
If I recall right, backups can be a pain, but that would vary and depend on the software
the thing to do here is to go into stores and badmouth it to the sales reps, tell them that they'll get a bunch of returns and it is a bogus system because the customers can not use the device the way they think they could.
Now sales geek do _not_ like dealing with customer returns from angry customers, and likes to know about insider secrets so that customers will think he has a clue.
So talk up the bad points - special HP only CD Media, etc.
"yeh, you can't use the regular blanks, you got to use their special cd blanks. and it can only be played on their machine, no place else. It is as bad as the ink cartridges. A real dog man."
make this stuff go the way of the DIVX format. (remember that?)
Which is what any data recovery pro could have told you.
But many modern systems are sold with only one partition. and there is the added question of virtual memory systems such as used in Mac and windows. The Mac OSX setup, based on BSD, should not have this as a big issue, if they use the typical swap partition.
(and some people wonder why you would not put it all into one large partition!)
there is definitely a market for a non MS suite in the hundred dollar range.
I can remember Claris works, and a number of other similar and excellent products. Not every one wants to spend multiple hundreds of dollars just to write a basic letter.
Heck I would be very happy with a Lite version of windows and office, half the features for half the price. I kan do witout a spel cheker. or all of the fancier features no one uses. Give me the 20% or 30% that 80% of the people use 90% of the time.
It doesn't give them exclusive rights to anything at all. Now wasn't that what the original hassle was about, them trying to grab exclusive rights?
Of course this is not exactly like the GPL either, because it is just a license to them, not the whole planet.
Now that would be a good idea, to GPL the site.
You can have a democracy of special interests, a democracy of thieves, a democracy of madmen, or whatever.
If you think your viewpoint is relevent and important, then you should do something.
In the People are Lazy theory, People tend to do only those things that are utterly important to them. This allows more ambitious folks a free hand.
This might not been in your best interest.