The only problem is the fork developers will have to worry about how their own government reacts to the US policy that any nation that doesn't support the US anti-terrorism is acting in support of terrorism.
If a company's reputation for technical competence is so valuable, maybe they ought to exercise that technical competence to make their web site more difficult to deface. Personally, I think the law already puts way way too much value on things like corporate image, and not nearly enough on human beings. Corporations should not be more important than people.
Hmm, having the richest businessmen in the colonies devise the new government may not have been the wisest way to prevent mercantilism. The primary motivator for the Revolution was taxes, some of which were imposed for the benefits of business (e.g. the tea tax which benefited the East India Trading Company).
Yep, the US gov thought bombing the Japanese was justified, otherwise if they had waited a month or two later for them to surrender (as intelligence indicated they were likely to do), the US would've had to share occupation of Japan with the Soviets just like in Germany.
Constantinople was sacked by Catholic Crusaders who had originally planned to fight the infidels in the Holy Lands, but couldn't afford the fare so decided WTF, these guys are handy and rich. Just goes to show that the main point of the Crusades wasn't really advancing Christianity (certainly not anything Christ would've been proud of). The Crusades were just the old fashioned plundering of the current center of civilization/learning/wealth, which happened to be the Muslems at that point.
I find that the big trend these days is to move towards online-only gaming. Look at Final Fantasy XI. Look at Ultima. Look at the new 'Warcraft'.
Except it isn't Warcraft, it's an RPG. Warcraft I-III are RTS. Not that I wouldn't mind MM strategy games, but RPGs seem to be the popular form for MM games. And most of these are fantasy - why couldn't Blizzard have been just a *tiny* bit more original and based it on Starcraft?
Having actually been involved with the startup scene over the past few years, I saw very few instances of engineers getting big wads of cash from VC's, much less blowing them. I did see plenty of carpetbagger MBAs/slick talking types get lots of cash and blow it on coke, first class plane tix, etc. Many of these hired engineers to build systems with lots of blinking lights to impress the VC's, but I never saw a single case of an engineer being put in charge of the checkbook. Of course there must have been some who did, but characterizing the VC/.com craze as geeks getting and blowing lots of VC money is either ignorant or revisionist. Check out the upcoming boo.com movie!!
My guess is the Net as we know it will end up near the bottom of the staggered release cycle for new products. Just as movies generally go from 1) first run theatres 2) dollar houses 3) pay per view 4) DVD 5) VHS 6) Cable 7) broadcast, and books go from hardcover to paperback, songs as well as movies will end up on the Net after the other, more easily limitable distribution methods are milked. Broadcast radio traditionally hasn't fallen into this because it's used as a promotional tool to sell packages, and streaming music *should* also be used the same way. But it will eventually find its position somewhere.
Sure, especially if you contribute money specifically for the purpose of building a space sciences center, endowing seats in the relevant academic departments, scholarships, etc.
Leftist: Force the world into slavery. Liberal: Vote the world into slavery. Libertarian: Let us alone!
Libertarian: sell the world into slavery
Windows ported to Unix?
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Also, in this subthread, folks correctly mention that IE exists for SunOS 5.x and HP-UX. I believe that both ports are straight (and half-assed) ports from win32 using MainWin.
Drifting further off-topic: I've always wondered why a bigger deal wasn't made of this during the MS antitrust trial. The Mac & Unix ports of IE would seem to indicate that IE isn't as inseparable from Windows as MS claims. Would it be so easy to port the file system, memory management, and other OS components to the Mac?
This is the main reason I hesitate to get into OS X. Having a real GUI *and* a real command line in the same system sounds very very cool (Cygwin just isn't as good as the real thing), but I want intel level pricing. As long as Apple sticks with its niche strategy they're just not competitive.
Saved a couple of processes too. *Why* do so many people insist on adding spurious "cat" processes to the beginning of pipelines? It's always at the beginning, too, nobody adds them at the end.
Unfortunately, as the value of that software is brought lower, those services will be needed more and more to deal with what will eventually be an acceptance of faulty software. Don't believe it it can happen? There's a whole majority of software users out there, one of which might be your grandmother or cousin, who believe that its OK for the program to crash if you can just restart it or reboot and carry on.
Duh, yeah boss! So we gotta get 'em to stop using dat buggy open source source stuff like Windows and start usin'... uh, waitaminnit, what wuz you tryin' to say again?
I'll do a . Chan's movies tend to have really lame stories, dialog, and characters - the women helplessly shriek "save me Jackie", etc. - hopefully the actress in this one has a better character.
But, Chan's fight scenes are always spectacular, enormously creative. He always finds an interesting set and makes great use of props. The thing I like most about him is that he is likeable, and doesn't take himself 1% as seriously as assholes like Steven Segal. Can you imagine that uptight egomaniac showing outtakes of himself screwing up stunts, much less laughing about it? Jackie has soul, I'll go see this flick even if the writing is lame.
As Stokes points out, the hard part of setting up this kind of structure is that it must be naturally sustainable if it's going to last.
Content owners openly admit that this is a direct attempt to artificially reproduce the constraints on copying naturally inherent in analog media, thus doing away with the advantages of digital media for everyone but the content owners themselves.
That's the key - the basis of the "digital revolution" is that it's just too damned easy to copy and share IP. What is needed is a system that (a) takes advantage of the easily replicable nature of IP, and (b) allows the creators (not necessarily the distributors!) to reliably get decent revenue from their work.
Without that second part, the big companies will win, because if they can preserve a system which makes it possible to rake in big bucks by making distribution hard for Joe Blow, then most writers, musicians, etc. will go through them. Sure a limited number of people will produce stuff for the free (as in speech) market, but those will be the idealists, dissidents, the fringe. Probably the more interesting art will be there, but the majority of "culture" will follow the money.
Unfortunately, as long as the big guys have the most reliable way to cash in on IP, they will have the money they need to reinforce their position with marketing, lawyers, legislation, enforcement, and technology.
If a way can be found that Joe Blow can make money from music, writing, video, or whatever by taking it directly to the Net, the big corporations will lose. Napster was a nice dry run, it proved the power of the grass roots Net, but it didn't make anybody any money, so it wasn't sustainable.
On a side note, it really seems that these issues have the potential to bring together a strange group of bedfellows - Libertarians, anti-globalists, open source believers, and artists of all kinds. Of course it won't appeal to pseudo-Libertarians who worship the accumulation of money as proof of virtue, but true Libertarians who dislike the use of wealth to pervert the free market may have more in common with protesting commies than they'd like to think!
What would industry lose in providing these goods? Probably very little, since the people cannot afford such things anyway.
I think solutions should be found to make sure AIDs drugs can be made availble, affordably, to those who need them in Africa. The tricky bit, especially when you're talking about structural solutions, is that selling the same item very cheaply to the developing world while selling them in at a higher price - presumably required to give the makers the profit to compensate for developing the drug in the first place - at a higher cost isn't naturally sustainable. The black markets will divert the cheap drugs in the poor countries to sell in the rich countries.
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The only problem is the fork developers will have to worry about how their own government reacts to the US policy that any nation that doesn't support the US anti-terrorism is acting in support of terrorism.
Green hat hackers
Wonder if we'll end up killing more than 6,000 innocent people. I wonder if anyone will notice or care if we do.
You seem to be implying that renting is more expensive than borrowing + real estate taxes + house insurance + maintainence, which is hard to believe.
So you believe that all rental property owners take a loss?
If a company's reputation for technical competence is so valuable, maybe they ought to exercise that technical competence to make their web site more difficult to deface. Personally, I think the law already puts way way too much value on things like corporate image, and not nearly enough on human beings. Corporations should not be more important than people.
Hmm, having the richest businessmen in the colonies devise the new government may not have been the wisest way to prevent mercantilism. The primary motivator for the Revolution was taxes, some of which were imposed for the benefits of business (e.g. the tea tax which benefited the East India Trading Company).
The commercial version integrates pretty well with Eudora and Outlook. But ya gotta pay for it.
Yep, the US gov thought bombing the Japanese was justified, otherwise if they had waited a month or two later for them to surrender (as intelligence indicated they were likely to do), the US would've had to share occupation of Japan with the Soviets just like in Germany.
Constantinople was sacked by Catholic Crusaders who had originally planned to fight the infidels in the Holy Lands, but couldn't afford the fare so decided WTF, these guys are handy and rich. Just goes to show that the main point of the Crusades wasn't really advancing Christianity (certainly not anything Christ would've been proud of). The Crusades were just the old fashioned plundering of the current center of civilization/learning/wealth, which happened to be the Muslems at that point.
I find that the big trend these days is to move towards online-only gaming. Look at Final Fantasy XI. Look at Ultima. Look at the new 'Warcraft'.
Except it isn't Warcraft, it's an RPG. Warcraft I-III are RTS. Not that I wouldn't mind MM strategy games, but RPGs seem to be the popular form for MM games. And most of these are fantasy - why couldn't Blizzard have been just a *tiny* bit more original and based it on Starcraft?
Having actually been involved with the startup scene over the past few years, I saw very few instances of engineers getting big wads of cash from VC's, much less blowing them. I did see plenty of carpetbagger MBAs/slick talking types get lots of cash and blow it on coke, first class plane tix, etc. Many of these hired engineers to build systems with lots of blinking lights to impress the VC's, but I never saw a single case of an engineer being put in charge of the checkbook. Of course there must have been some who did, but characterizing the VC/.com craze as geeks getting and blowing lots of VC money is either ignorant or revisionist. Check out the upcoming boo.com movie!!
My guess is the Net as we know it will end up near the bottom of the staggered release cycle for new products. Just as movies generally go from 1) first run theatres 2) dollar houses 3) pay per view 4) DVD 5) VHS 6) Cable 7) broadcast, and books go from hardcover to paperback, songs as well as movies will end up on the Net after the other, more easily limitable distribution methods are milked. Broadcast radio traditionally hasn't fallen into this because it's used as a promotional tool to sell packages, and streaming music *should* also be used the same way. But it will eventually find its position somewhere.
Sure, especially if you contribute money specifically for the purpose of building a space sciences center, endowing seats in the relevant academic departments, scholarships, etc.
Elvis did it.
No, you're right, if something you do fails you shouldn't try to understand why. That's why I never use a debugger.
Leftist: Force the world into slavery. Liberal: Vote the world into slavery. Libertarian: Let us alone!
Libertarian: sell the world into slavery
Also, in this subthread, folks correctly mention that IE exists for SunOS 5.x and HP-UX. I believe that both ports are straight (and half-assed) ports from win32 using MainWin.
Drifting further off-topic: I've always wondered why a bigger deal wasn't made of this during the MS antitrust trial. The Mac & Unix ports of IE would seem to indicate that IE isn't as inseparable from Windows as MS claims. Would it be so easy to port the file system, memory management, and other OS components to the Mac?
This is the main reason I hesitate to get into OS X. Having a real GUI *and* a real command line in the same system sounds very very cool (Cygwin just isn't as good as the real thing), but I want intel level pricing. As long as Apple sticks with its niche strategy they're just not competitive.
Depends on how much money they got out of you ...
then to me it's time to cash out my options and jump ship.
maybe not.
cat access_log | grep default.ida | tr -d '[' | tr -d ']' | awk '{print $1 " " $4 " " $5}'
Hmm, tr barfs for me because [ and ] are special (maybe a Solaris peculiarity?). So I used:
grep default.ida access_log | tr -d '\[\]' | awk '{print $1 " " $4 " " $5}'
Saved a couple of processes too. *Why* do so many people insist on adding spurious "cat" processes to the beginning of pipelines? It's always at the beginning, too, nobody adds them at the end.
Unfortunately, as the value of that software is brought lower, those services will be needed more and more to deal with what will eventually be an acceptance of faulty software. Don't believe it it can happen? There's a whole majority of software users out there, one of which might be your grandmother or cousin, who believe that its OK for the program to crash if you can just restart it or reboot and carry on.
... uh, waitaminnit, what wuz you tryin' to say again?
Duh, yeah boss! So we gotta get 'em to stop using dat buggy open source source stuff like Windows and start usin'
I'll do a . Chan's movies tend to have really lame stories, dialog, and characters - the women helplessly shriek "save me Jackie", etc. - hopefully the actress in this one has a better character.
But, Chan's fight scenes are always spectacular, enormously creative. He always finds an interesting set and makes great use of props. The thing I like most about him is that he is likeable, and doesn't take himself 1% as seriously as assholes like Steven Segal. Can you imagine that uptight egomaniac showing outtakes of himself screwing up stunts, much less laughing about it? Jackie has soul, I'll go see this flick even if the writing is lame.
As Stokes points out, the hard part of setting up this kind of structure is that it must be naturally sustainable if it's going to last.
Content owners openly admit that this is a direct attempt to artificially reproduce the constraints on copying naturally inherent in analog media, thus doing away with the advantages of digital media for everyone but the content owners themselves.
That's the key - the basis of the "digital revolution" is that it's just too damned easy to copy and share IP. What is needed is a system that (a) takes advantage of the easily replicable nature of IP, and (b) allows the creators (not necessarily the distributors!) to reliably get decent revenue from their work.
Without that second part, the big companies will win, because if they can preserve a system which makes it possible to rake in big bucks by making distribution hard for Joe Blow, then most writers, musicians, etc. will go through them. Sure a limited number of people will produce stuff for the free (as in speech) market, but those will be the idealists, dissidents, the fringe. Probably the more interesting art will be there, but the majority of "culture" will follow the money.
Unfortunately, as long as the big guys have the most reliable way to cash in on IP, they will have the money they need to reinforce their position with marketing, lawyers, legislation, enforcement, and technology.
If a way can be found that Joe Blow can make money from music, writing, video, or whatever by taking it directly to the Net, the big corporations will lose. Napster was a nice dry run, it proved the power of the grass roots Net, but it didn't make anybody any money, so it wasn't sustainable.
On a side note, it really seems that these issues have the potential to bring together a strange group of bedfellows - Libertarians, anti-globalists, open source believers, and artists of all kinds. Of course it won't appeal to pseudo-Libertarians who worship the accumulation of money as proof of virtue, but true Libertarians who dislike the use of wealth to pervert the free market may have more in common with protesting commies than they'd like to think!
What would industry lose in providing these goods? Probably very little, since the people cannot afford such things anyway.
I think solutions should be found to make sure AIDs drugs can be made availble, affordably, to those who need them in Africa. The tricky bit, especially when you're talking about structural solutions, is that selling the same item very cheaply to the developing world while selling them in at a higher price - presumably required to give the makers the profit to compensate for developing the drug in the first place - at a higher cost isn't naturally sustainable. The black markets will divert the cheap drugs in the poor countries to sell in the rich countries.