Can Lineo's version of linux still be considered general purpose? Seems pretty geared towards specific functionality to me. I havne't read the patent, so maybe this is answered already.
Has anyone else been sharing their files in the.ogg format or is it just me? It just seems like very few people are bothering to either convert or re-encode their files into.ogg since MP3 works and lets face it, do most people really care if it's proprietary?
You're missing a very important point. The first amendment does not guarantee you the ability to saying anything with impunity. You can't, under any circumstance, just talk about killing the president. This is the top one that comes to mind, but I know there are others. I don't believe in the DMCA anymore than you do, but it is the law. The first amendment is not a means of circumventing even the stupidest laws. Work with your congress-persons...
As part of the NTF, the Petawatt will be open to the wider user community. Bauer and his colleagues plan to use it for fusion energy, plasma, atomic physics, environmental, and materials science studies, as well as in research for stockpile stewardship--DOE's experimental and computational program for safeguarding US nuclear capability.
Just once, I'd like for someone to have a sense of humor and say, "our plan is use this L-A-S-E-R to destroy cities unless you pay us one hundred billion dollars..."
Sunspire is ok (and, I believe, happy) with everything so long as the project doesn't go into direct competition with Tux Racer 1.0.
Okay, let's analyze this. You're forking an freely available open source game whose plot is basically a penguin sliding down a ski slope. How can this possibly not compete with a commercial game with the same exact concept and practically identical code plus a few new pixmaps as additional characters? Can someone explain this to me, I've obviously missed something.
This may sound like a troll, but whatever happend to government by the people?
I don't remember voting for the DMCA. Hell, I don't even remember voting against it. My own recourse is to not vote for my state senators that voted the damn thing into law...
Why is it that Code Red gets the trumpets and klaxons, while Sircam continues to spread private documents(!) with considerably less attention?
Because Code Red dealt with the White House, which is a national symbol and easily recognized by all the world. Never mind the fact that the white house web site was never in any danger of being taken off-line. Joe & Billy Bob don't know no stinking eye-pee addressess are. High profile attacks get the news...not that secret memo detailing a new flavor of Tang....
I am reserving one ASAP. No dorm's complete without one:)
What the hell ever happened to being a poor college student? When I was in college we invited the girls over from next door and played flashlight tag on the wall and we were happy!
At the risk of sounding like a troll (although perhaps a funny one), anyone else interested in recordings of Hannibal or Julius Caesar saying "All your base are belong to us..." or the captain of Trojan army saying "Somebody set us up the bomb!" as soliders pour out of the horse?
This just in...the global water level has risen across the world. Apparently someone outfitted the artic station research facililty with computers running the AMD Athlon (TM) processor in a massive cost cutting effort.
I'm sure you were half kidding, but you're about a year too late. We've only seen the beginning of virus (virii?) now that everything is going to be interconnected in some way.
The adult industry doesn't seem to have much of a problem making money on the internet. I saw an interview on Howard Stern with Jenna Jamison. For those of you who don't know, she is more or less the ranking porn star of today in terms of money and popularity.
Anyway, her net worth is estimated between five and ten million. The majority of that is revenue from her web site, not her film career. In fact, she has made so much money from her web site (basically charging people to look at her pictures -- she's in the studio every week), that she has basically retired from the film industry.
My problem with the book is that it only covers RedHat 6.0
The book is over a year old, please check the publication data before complaining that the book is out of date. Better yet, complain to chromatic to put a disclamier up saying that the book is old.
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BusinessMan: Yes, I'd like a C++ Carmel Cake, please
Programmer: Would you like a programming bond with that???
I don't know about you, but I'd pay $20 for a programmer car wash. Just think, you can now listen to Eric Raymond talk about open source philosphy while he scrapes bug goo from your grill with a toothbrush.
Seriously though, I've heard an awful lot of rhetoric about making money with open source. This may seem like a blantantly obvious question, but is anyone asking for money? I mean, Ximian doesn't have a PalPal link up, nor does RedHat, etc. They seem to want people to contribute with source code, not cash. I didn't read the article, so maybe I'm missing the point here.
Why do people do this? One thousand two hundred US dollars for something so insubstantial. Up to $20 is understandable, from a certain viewpoint.
Why? It's obvious. Some people have far too much money. A distant friend of mine was an early employee at small ISP named in Northern Virginia called AOL. Let's just say that when they IPO'd, she could burn her net worth for heating purposes and still never have to work again. She was one of those people who payed 5 or 10K on eBay for some Ultima-on-line stuff. Why? Because the money to her was nothing, just like spending $.50 on a coke.
In other words, the national debt is over 3 times the yearly budget of the federal budget. Maybe you should check your facts before posting lies.
Interesting response.
Two quick points.
Is the USA the fed or the fed + 50 states?
What does the spending for FY2001 look like if you add fed + 50 states? Wouldn't that be a more accurate estimation of USA spending? I'm not trying to take sides, but perhaps the orignal poster is thinking in terms of the actual United States, not the United States government only?
On the grounds of sounding redundant, I'll second that. It's fast and the few queries I did make were close enough that I'll keep watching this.
On a slightly related note, Google's director of operations and head sys-admin gave a great technical presenation of why google runs so damn fast last week at the Bay LISA meeting. Two of the more interesting things were that Google's colors on their search page were chosen for rendering efficiency and the fact that they have a team of people who actually count the bytes on their pages to make sure that you are getting all the necessary info with the least possible bytes. Considering it was a free talk, it was very interesting for us linux enthusiasts.
Hopefully this newcomer will go to the same lengths to make their search engine competitive...
Did not break US law because it did not happen in the US and the US has no jurisdiction over what a Russian citizen does in Russia. And considering that what he did in Russia is not even illegal there, there really truly is something wrong with this scenario.
I agree that doing something in another country isn't applicable to the US. However, when he described actions in his speech WHILE in the US (Las Vegas specifically), could that be construed as breaking US law? I haven't read all the details, but I'm trying to get a handle on where the Justice department is standing...
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Can Lineo's version of linux still be considered general purpose? Seems pretty geared towards specific functionality to me. I havne't read the patent, so maybe this is answered already.
Has anyone else been sharing their files in the .ogg format or is it just me? It just seems like very few people are bothering to either convert or re-encode their files into .ogg since MP3 works and lets face it, do most people really care if it's proprietary?
So, what types of software do you use at home?
You're missing a very important point. The first amendment does not guarantee you the ability to saying anything with impunity. You can't, under any circumstance, just talk about killing the president. This is the top one that comes to mind, but I know there are others. I don't believe in the DMCA anymore than you do, but it is the law. The first amendment is not a means of circumventing even the stupidest laws. Work with your congress-persons...
Just once, I'd like for someone to have a sense of humor and say, "our plan is use this L-A-S-E-R to destroy cities unless you pay us one hundred billion dollars..."
Anyone else see potential for Laboratory Wars?
Okay, let's analyze this. You're forking an freely available open source game whose plot is basically a penguin sliding down a ski slope. How can this possibly not compete with a commercial game with the same exact concept and practically identical code plus a few new pixmaps as additional characters? Can someone explain this to me, I've obviously missed something.
cough..troll..cough
I don't remember voting for the DMCA. Hell, I don't even remember voting against it. My own recourse is to not vote for my state senators that voted the damn thing into law...
Because Code Red dealt with the White House, which is a national symbol and easily recognized by all the world. Never mind the fact that the white house web site was never in any danger of being taken off-line. Joe & Billy Bob don't know no stinking eye-pee addressess are. High profile attacks get the news...not that secret memo detailing a new flavor of Tang....
What the hell ever happened to being a poor college student? When I was in college we invited the girls over from next door and played flashlight tag on the wall and we were happy!
At the risk of sounding like a troll (although perhaps a funny one), anyone else interested in recordings of Hannibal or Julius Caesar saying "All your base are belong to us..." or the captain of Trojan army saying "Somebody set us up the bomb!" as soliders pour out of the horse?
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That's the most useful thing I've seen on here in a while....
This just in...the global water level has risen across the world. Apparently someone outfitted the artic station research facililty with computers running the AMD Athlon (TM) processor in a massive cost cutting effort.
TCP/IP Illustrated, Stevens.
Pretty much anything by him is worth having available as a reference.
Strausstroup's C++ ARM is pretty much mandatory as well.
Also, the MIT press book on algorithms is pretty much the definitive algorithm book for ComSci majors.
I'm sure you were half kidding, but you're about a year too late. We've only seen the beginning of virus (virii?) now that everything is going to be interconnected in some way.
Why O why couldn't they have developed this when I was into Leisure Suit Larry.....
Anyway, her net worth is estimated between five and ten million. The majority of that is revenue from her web site, not her film career. In fact, she has made so much money from her web site (basically charging people to look at her pictures -- she's in the studio every week), that she has basically retired from the film industry.
My problem with the book is that it only covers RedHat 6.0 The book is over a year old, please check the publication data before complaining that the book is out of date. Better yet, complain to chromatic to put a disclamier up saying that the book is old.
BusinessMan: Yes, I'd like a C++ Carmel Cake, please
Programmer: Would you like a programming bond with that???
I don't know about you, but I'd pay $20 for a programmer car wash. Just think, you can now listen to Eric Raymond talk about open source philosphy while he scrapes bug goo from your grill with a toothbrush.
Seriously though, I've heard an awful lot of rhetoric about making money with open source. This may seem like a blantantly obvious question, but is anyone asking for money? I mean, Ximian doesn't have a PalPal link up, nor does RedHat, etc. They seem to want people to contribute with source code, not cash. I didn't read the article, so maybe I'm missing the point here.
Why? It's obvious. Some people have far too much money. A distant friend of mine was an early employee at small ISP named in Northern Virginia called AOL. Let's just say that when they IPO'd, she could burn her net worth for heating purposes and still never have to work again. She was one of those people who payed 5 or 10K on eBay for some Ultima-on-line stuff. Why? Because the money to her was nothing, just like spending $.50 on a coke.
No..what I'm suggesting is that the budget for the USA is the sum of the budget for the 50 US states plus the budget for the federal governemnt.
What part of that doesn't make sense?
Two quick points.
Is the USA the fed or the fed + 50 states?
What does the spending for FY2001 look like if you add fed + 50 states? Wouldn't that be a more accurate estimation of USA spending? I'm not trying to take sides, but perhaps the orignal poster is thinking in terms of the actual United States, not the United States government only?
On a slightly related note, Google's director of operations and head sys-admin gave a great technical presenation of why google runs so damn fast last week at the Bay LISA meeting. Two of the more interesting things were that Google's colors on their search page were chosen for rendering efficiency and the fact that they have a team of people who actually count the bytes on their pages to make sure that you are getting all the necessary info with the least possible bytes. Considering it was a free talk, it was very interesting for us linux enthusiasts.
Hopefully this newcomer will go to the same lengths to make their search engine competitive...
I agree that doing something in another country isn't applicable to the US. However, when he described actions in his speech WHILE in the US (Las Vegas specifically), could that be construed as breaking US law? I haven't read all the details, but I'm trying to get a handle on where the Justice department is standing...