given the software industry is so full of bull shit in so many ways, including but not limited to software patents dillusions...
This is like expecting roman numeral accountants to be held liable for not being able to do algerbra.
Software is all about mindset, the mindset of the programmer(s) imposed upon the users of the software.
Faulty logic of a creature of emotion and deception is quite common.
I think these are good reasons why software should not be held liable, nor should it be closed source of patentable. But rather open to modifications and imporvements.... but mostly in the development process.
For common software creation to be as easy and common to create as using a calculator to do common math... well then where would the liability fall?
Do you sue TI because you punched in the wrong numbers?
I don't even have to read the article to see the summary stating its for vaccines. However, there is your response, though unlike the many here jumping to conclusions in ignorance of the goal of vaccines, you response also contains error, perhaps more serious.
First off, if your first sentence was true, then why the hell did the US have and probably still does (regardless of the claims of having distroyed them) stock piles of anthrax not only in the US but abroad, if it wasn't intended for use in the field? Not to mention who manufactured it...
The reason we know Iraq once had Anthrax, was because we sold it to them, or was that just the now forgotten Afganistan (for use against the russian invasion attempts).
Now since the US News Media was threatened with Anthrax by the US governmnt, to get them to report in support of Bushs war drumming on Iraq (which not only had no connection to 9/11 but didn't have any weapons of mass destruction - only a jackass leader regrime and lots of oil and sanctions placed against).... Perhaps the US News Media should have their own Supply of the Vaccine..
The Truth of 9/11 even Ted Turner saw, and when he spoke out he was then threated with Anthrax, upon which he publicly appologized... so to remove that threat by the US governemnt. What he had said was that 9/11 was an act of desparation, and being the new media person he is, the question coms up... what was he refering to?
Searching produced "The Trillion dollar bet"...Go ahead, enter it in google and read the trancript. 9/11 wasn't the first time the WTC was attacked, but by reading the transcript you will also know what fueled the dot com boom (easy come, easy go) and bust (What exactly was being sold in the dot come boom? nothing, so of course it wouldn't last). The transcript will also tell you who the losers of the bet were/are.... WorldCOM, Enron, etc...
That much money simple doesn't appear from nowhere or vanish into nowhere!!!!
Although I do not agree with the extreamist group(s) that preformed the 9/11 attack, I can understand how absolutely easy it was to take up the facts and use it to promote and grow their group(s), even to motivate suicidal acts.
Don't recall if its mentioned in the transcript, but online available CIA files indicate that Indonesia is 88% muslin... and I'm sure that help the extreamist group(s) grow, as that religion can fairly easy be distorted to support suicidal acts in battle.
It should also be understood that all three of the main religions speak against "usary - loans and interest rate" and when the world bank stepped in and offered to help, they also wanted to charge interest. Interest on what? Recovering from a major huge theift? Like a screw job on top of a screw job... absolutely NOT acceptable!
The moral of reality here is really very very simple:
You fuck others over, the amount of what you fuck'ed them over is in direct proportion of the level of retaliation you then, unavoidably, become concerned about.... even paranoid about. For even if those you screwed don't retaliate, the likelyhood someone else will take it up as an excuse for them to do wrong...increases.
Wrongful world economic manipulation (China didn't play stock markets then and as such was the only relative country not effected by this gamble/ignorance). WTC was certainly relative to the source of damage being done in the "bet" but why was the Pentagon hit and White Horse... uh House, a target? Politically controlled military defending the wrong and US Intelligence Hiding the truth from the Public, or at least not telling the public... as teh information is all available (minus at least one ABC news story on the financial damage the US was doing in indonesia - removed from internet access)...
So do we really need anthrax vacines?
Or do we really just need to stop fucking others over?!!!
The more Microsoft make itself sound like Linux but better...
No matter how you look at it, how you read about it, how you think about it, there is one things for absolute certain.
The core of the mindset at Microsoft is simply this "make people need you" And the only way to do that is to NOT provide the people with the tools to do it themselves.
Though it has become common practice in the computer industry so as to insure or at least carrot an upgrade, the more you reinvent the less you genuinely innovate.
Microsoft is not an innovator at all, they are first and formaost a marketing company following in second place is their legal team used to help guide and defend their efforts at controlling the software industry, even going as far as sacrificial acts the, like playing chess, bring them greater returns than not sacrificing their own pawns. If fines for being caught doing illegal dealings, is considered by them as part of the cost of doing business, then what business are they really in?
Genuine innovation is not even in third place at Microsoft, as that place is held by their property suppression and buy out department. They don't Innovate, they simply buy what innovative property they can from others and then claim they developed it.
This article, how can it be anything more than marketing hype, as some readers have noted the unrealistic claims of writing from scratch. So.... given its comming from such a company with a growing criminal record.... And can you imagine Bill Gates still saying he's the little guy? Well he has recently told that lie... again.
The really sad part is that the majority of computer users today are not intune enough with the facts of development to enab;e them to see past this otherwise obvious marketing hype..... of we are juist like linux... but better.... Bull Shit.
It doesn't matter so much how you create and test code, but rather what you code into your programs.
Are you coding in overall scope user stupidity, inherent manifested user frustration or some other debilitating mentality towards the end users?
A user can do no more with a program than the inherent mindset of the programmer(s) creating the program has provided.
Sell a man a fish and you feed yourself for a day, but if you teach him to fish.... what are you going to eat?
Thats one mindset... many of us know another one. Unfortunately the general programming industry doesn't seem to know it.
Software will genuinely be free when, and only when, it is easy enough and common enough to create it as you need it.... like math.... and using a calculator...
When that happens, proprietary software will be a rare thing. But from a POV of such an environment.... how does it make this article on MS dev practices look?
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... except for stuff that has copy protection on it...
why? because anything anybody wants to preserve they will either copy it over to newer larger space media or the archiologist will build the device to read the old media.
if there is any concern its with teh ability of the media to hold data... but we were all told how much better cds are to tape and floppy at holding information....
so its on the media industry to be sued when the truth is exposed....????
cd's are to last at least 100 year???
of course there is always writing it out and storing it in some cave at the dead sea site...
Market wise MS is doing what more than simply repackaging and changing handicaps on the same product to create different in apparance and functionality scope.... packages..
Sorta like how linux comes in many varieties, from Basic Linux, damn small Linux, to small device linux to single user linux to standard multi user distros.
Linus himself worked a chip maker and developed Modori (sp?) embedded linux...
Oh wait, thats more than three.... amazing what happens with freedom...
...What I can't seem to not think about when I read articles on security is the fact that systems with a small following have a tremendious level of security in only the fact that its typically to small a target to hit.
Though a Diebold voting machine provides extra incentive to hack....
No what if each system was unique enough that nobody had the full map of which systems are alike enough to really know or target effectively?
Like how system are different enough that they are immune to the viruses and such targeted for other systems.
Though this might seem impractical from the stand of what has been generally practiced in the software industry, that is perhaps only due to proprietary system.
The key difference is the use of OSS in the practice of machine specific compiliation, where the user can alter their machines fingerprint or DNA with some sort of unique code or seed value. A value that is applied in teh compiliation process.
And what of script kiddies and the likes?
you can't hurt a system that is Read Only, such as on a CD.
And data, user data, how to protect it from illegal access or wrongful manipulation?
Simply don't have any possible connection between the online system and the information. Where transfer storage is getting to be the size smaller than a key. Where only such information/data you want to connect to the internet can only be done with some level of intent or direct human physical transfer of it.
Of course the solution directions greatly nullify proprietary software, because such is typically not unique enough...
The act of programming is inherently of incorporating the mindset of the programmers and then subjecting the users to it by forcing the users to have to think in the terms the programmer layed down in the users operation of the program.
Microsoft intentionally applies this fact and is why most users don't have a clue about the shell (and those who have used microsofts shell find it discouraging).
There are other places where the programming is not very intelligent but subject the users to its dumbness... Earthlink Webmail has been such a place, where not so long ago you had to individually select which mail you wanted to delete. But where 80% or better is spam and in the amount of at least 100 a day.
After communicating to them like a child, they finally put in a "select all" allowing you to then deselect the few you wanted to keep (the effects of that must have been enormus on the reduction of spam in general held on Earthlinks servers -- maybe thats where they got the additional 90 megs of email stirage space they now give me without my asking)
But the point is, when you have an industry that can only see as far forward as.... well, how to make the user upgrade... then you have to leave stuff out and promise some of it next release as you figure out what then to take away...
Does this make users dumb?
Probably doesn't help the intelligence level of the users to improve, but intentionally "makes users need... MS"...
Users aren't stupid, the software industry is and what choice does the users have but to be subjected to such bullshit?
Things don't have to be this way, but are currently, just as the Catholic Church promoted the Roman Numeral system of math, even when they were presented with a simpler and more powerful system of the Hindu-Arabic Decimal system.
From a company that has used Licensing and discount agreements to suppress competition....Hmmm.. from a company that are leaders in marketing hype... hmmm... from a company that has had numerious anti-trust cases against them....and being found guilty..
Yeah, I'd imagine anything that effectively counters that bully methodology would have to be preceived as something bad to the bully. bit flipping the connotation of viral would be what? Unstoppable counter measures...
Viral to what? Seems enough of the right parties are taking it up that the term viral is in fact just a connotation from teh POV of the bully. Who, BTW has even tried to come off as the little guy, like uh excuse me.... little as being the richest man in the world at one point?????
NO! I'm perfectly aware of the connoitation "viral" being attached to GPL by MS, and not OSS in general....
So how does it feel to get back at you some of the BS you have put out?
Trust me! MS called OSS viral..... When it suites them...
Seeing those not liking put on them. what they put on others. Now thats Funny!
Microsoft calls OSS viral. They then pursue obtaining anti-virus software...
Now this.... Does this mean Microsofts anti-virus software ain't worth a crap, or does it mean the problem is in a faulty (lacking integrity) mindset at MS? Or both?
Laws will be passed regarding water and distilling of it. You will also have to get a federal ID implant that approves you for the purchase and use of water.... if it can blow up, it can be used as a terrorist weapon of mass destruction....
As extreamist as this might sound, one thing is absolutely certain, it's still gonna cost you the same increasing amount for transportation.
Its a sure thing any savings that you could see will be taken from you in one way or another.
I wonder if anyone has come up with an einstien law like that covers financial/energy exchange. E = MC2...
what this really is, is just another attempt to defend caveman mentality. There are those who have found an easy living off the unspecting population. The selling and reselling as new, the same ol, same ol...
Software is provably not patentable. The problem here is that neither side, proprietary or OSS wants to recognize this as doing so requires software to be recognized by the population as as common and easy to use as the use of math, the hindu arabic numeral system.... instead of teh roman numeral system with its "elite experts".
Programming is a reflection of the programmers mindset and by keeping programming to complicated for the typical user, even if only sounding that way, then it really needs to be understood how limiting this practice really is.
Computers could not have been invented with the roman numeral system.
You want innovation, then you have no choice but to open it up to the every day user.
Unfortunately, most programmers today have been taught the roman numeral way of doing programming, and as such there is an ihnerent resistance to a better way or approaching programming, a way that is more in accord with the nature of programming.
Business in the programming industry as been filled with consumer deception in many different ways. All to often I have participate in some programming conference or read some technical article about an easier way of doing something but always with the added "don't worry, we'll either make it not available to the typical user or complexicate it to confuse them" (if you can't dazzel them with brillance, baffle then with bullshit)...
The old sales pitch is to get you saying "yes" right off the bat, as this article did by pointing out some of whats wrong with proprietary software, then carefully leading you down the wrong road from there.
Software is not such a thing to be master over all industry, as it has become. But rather its supposed to be an assist to better industry.
You mean If I buy this software I'll make my company more productive and use less paper?
years later.... why are all the company records in a proprietary format that we no longer want to pay rent for the access tools to it.....
Why can we not integrate software packages as WE SEE FIT?
Who's mindset is running this Company? MicroSoft?
Innovation does not come from MS, they take it from others and claim it originated from them, they even used to charge your for reporting bugs in their software.
The innovation process is not one of c9onsumer entrapment abuse. Where the users knwo what they need and due the crap constraining software and over complexity of development have what choice but to give it to those who will then seel it back to them?
NO! proprietary software has to go and the development process can and has to get alot easier.... like how the decimal system allowed the common man to do math beyond the roman numeral experts.
When everyone that needs to, can develope the software they need for their main work duties, then it will be like math today, do it as you need it. And you'll even be getting paid for it.
Programming is the act of automating complexity for the purpose of allowing thge user of the complexity to use and reuse it via a simplified interface. This is a recursive act, as most nobody programs today in machine language but rather uses already created automations of complexity.
And this can and will go all the way out to the users ability to do for themselves...
Professionalism as the article mentions is really the professionalism of a con game.
during the 200/2001 holiday season I was goin thru europe, back from Paris to Utrech but at one stop the train was delayed.
after about 10 minutes they announced that a bomb had been reported to be on the tracks ahead. That they were waiting for it to be checked out and cleared.
A few minutes later we left, but instead of going first thru Utrech we looped aound Amsterdam and back down.
And before we pulled into Amsterdam they announced that a bomb was found and defused.
The event was never reported to the news media, but the lady I was with, having herself grownup in the Netherlands, explained to me what she believed to be the bombers motive.
It seems the Dutch Governmet made some sort of land promise to some group of people in another country in exchange for their help during World War II. The Dutch Government reniged on the deal.
She also explained to me that the law against such a wrong is as such:
To place a bomb and not report it, if people are injured or die and you get caught, its the death sentence, no if ands or buts about it.
But if you report it in a timely manner and people still get injured or killed the worse you can get is life.
This I understand is something of public knowledge.
The points are:
You do others wrong, then don't NOT expect Revenge. So don't do others wrong!
And law should support efforts to make a statement, when it is regarding a wrong. But two wrongs don't make it right.
BTW, effort was made to report the Olympic park in atlanta 1996, but that effort fell thru due to technical difficulties in communication. Specificall the forgetting to give the Park an Actual Address that the new Police dispatch software required before sending the dispatch.
It fell back on the old walkie talkies radios with the limited number of authories who had them and could receive the dispatch.
Eric Rudolph said he was sorry for that bombing, but not the abortion clinic bombings.... And his logic was what "kill those who kill?" Maybe he should have applied that to himself...away from others.
No civil or human rights should ever be suppressed.
There is a city in Georgia USA that to live there you must own a gun. Openly displaying them is not a problem wit the law, as its a bit encouraged.
That city, though small, as a low crime rate, perhaps the lowest in the country.
Given teh amount of money budgeted for the militaries of the world, it would only take 1/3 of that to genuinely and in proper means, honestly address the real problems in the world (this has been researched).
Remove the reasons for revenge and you shall have peace without a sacrificing of human and civil rights..
....from the public is the real reason why 9/11 happened.
What is amazing is that there is plenty enough information publicly available that anyone with half a brain that comes across this information and most important, the ability to think for themselves.... Well it'll be obvious and undeniable.
And yes, the government has spent more to cover it up than what it'd cost to simply present the already public information in relative context via the major media.
For example, how much did it cost the Government to create the anthrax letter threat against the News Media while probably paying someone a good deal to do it in such a manner to assure disconnection from the government.... and of course it was determined to have come from a US based US military base....as there had to be just the right amount of connection to properly threaten the media..
So in regard to a trillion dollars... that's clearly enough money for anyone to notice that money like that doesn't just appear from nowhere and then vanish back into nowhere...
The players... Minimum investment... 1 billion... enron, worldcome, etc... were the obvious losers. The winners... easy come easy go.... the dot com boom and bust was on the winners side.... needing a place to invest the winfall....
World Trade Center (not the first attempt to bring it down!!!)... the Pentagon and.... The white Horse... uh house...
Politically controlled military to back a wrongful world stock market manipulation.
Don't believe me?
Do a google Search on "Trillion dollar bet" and read the transcript.
Screw others and you will fear and suffer revenge...and in the process perhaps get overly aggressive in your paranoia....just where are the WMD iraq was supposed to have? What about the weapons of mass destruction of wrongful world economic manipulation?
China wasn't effected because they don't play the stock market....
Ben Franklin "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
And FDR used it in his "four freedoms" speech..
Of course it cost more to keep up with your lies, because telling the truth is just plain without the need for spending extra energy in keeping the lies in order..
from $2.49 to $3.19 per gallon in less then 20 hours is what I personally saw happen here in Atlanta, and reports of even 50% increase in same time period, in the atlanta area.
This is not a refinery knock out issue. For part of the reason for reserves is to have a buffer in the event of even worse happening. A buffer that is to be replaced as soon as reasonably possible.
The oil industry runs off of speculation. The US frees up a country rich in oil and our oil prices go up..... What? What are they speculating?
A storm hits the US and some refineries go down, but there are plenty more refineries in the US.
Remember the oil shortage in the US in the 70's, where tankers were stuck in teh Gulf of Mexico with no place to dump their load because all other storage was topped out....
Bush probably only visited New Orleans to see how bad the refineries were and upon realizing its people that run them.... uh decided to get relief efforts going...
Hmmm, someone said we are buying oil from those who want to harm us with terrorism. That they are getting the money they need for such harming, from us.....
So really, all things considered.... oil prices going up can be for political and commercial gain, not public well being.
Currently I will be getting at retirement less then 75% of social security benefits due me (this directly from the social security office), and Bush wanted me and those in my income class to give up some of this to the low class... in essence removing the middle class by converting them to low class.. (those there are those you can take out of the getto, there are also those you cannot take the getto out of --- habitual drain on anything they can get their hands on..)
That Social Security additional screw job was shot down.... So Bush and company found another way and Kantrina.... a timely happenstance useful for an excuse.
But thats not enough....or is it? As all product prices have to account for distribution transportation costs..
I've heard China is being used for an excuse too. Imagine that, a country as big as China apparently has no natural oil resources of its own... So as its growing it taking the increase in world oil production...
I understand In Iraq, a gallon of gas is 5 cents....
With a profit ratio that can be had from that with neighboring countries (no boat needed) any terrorist should be able to fund their needs... and with a vehicle small then the Bush claimed mobile WMD production trailers found in iraq (funny how I remember getting spam on this very vehicle -- someone wanting to sell mobil production trailers (chemical products) made and sold in the US....)
This is not about oil shortage or even refinery problems.
Its about political and semi-commercial manipulation of economies.
So does this mean that the patent office is paying nintendo or are they violating this patent on a regular basis? Like every time they grant a patent on some software.
All the jokes about things like patenting the patent system and such...
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given the software industry is so full of bull shit in so many ways, including but not limited to software patents dillusions...
This is like expecting roman numeral accountants to be held liable for not being able to do algerbra.
Software is all about mindset, the mindset of the programmer(s) imposed upon the users of the software.
Faulty logic of a creature of emotion and deception is quite common.
I think these are good reasons why software should not be held liable, nor should it be closed source of patentable. But rather open to modifications and imporvements.... but mostly in the development process.
For common software creation to be as easy and common to create as using a calculator to do common math... well then where would the liability fall?
Do you sue TI because you punched in the wrong numbers?
they are focusing in on encrypted stuff... as encryption must mean terrorist... to those who have done so many others wrong...and expect revenge...
I don't even have to read the article to see the summary stating its for vaccines. However, there is your response, though unlike the many here jumping to conclusions in ignorance of the goal of vaccines, you response also contains error, perhaps more serious.
...Go ahead, enter it in google and read the trancript. 9/11 wasn't the first time the WTC was attacked, but by reading the transcript you will also know what fueled the dot com boom (easy come, easy go) and bust (What exactly was being sold in the dot come boom? nothing, so of course it wouldn't last). The transcript will also tell you who the losers of the bet were/are.... WorldCOM, Enron, etc...
First off, if your first sentence was true, then why the hell did the US have and probably still does (regardless of the claims of having distroyed them) stock piles of anthrax not only in the US but abroad, if it wasn't intended for use in the field? Not to mention who manufactured it...
The reason we know Iraq once had Anthrax, was because we sold it to them, or was that just the now forgotten Afganistan (for use against the russian invasion attempts).
Now since the US News Media was threatened with Anthrax by the US governmnt, to get them to report in support of Bushs war drumming on Iraq (which not only had no connection to 9/11 but didn't have any weapons of mass destruction - only a jackass leader regrime and lots of oil and sanctions placed against).... Perhaps the US News Media should have their own Supply of the Vaccine..
The Truth of 9/11 even Ted Turner saw, and when he spoke out he was then threated with Anthrax, upon which he publicly appologized... so to remove that threat by the US governemnt. What he had said was that 9/11 was an act of desparation, and being the new media person he is, the question coms up... what was he refering to?
Searching produced "The Trillion dollar bet"
That much money simple doesn't appear from nowhere or vanish into nowhere!!!!
Although I do not agree with the extreamist group(s) that preformed the 9/11 attack, I can understand how absolutely easy it was to take up the facts and use it to promote and grow their group(s), even to motivate suicidal acts.
Don't recall if its mentioned in the transcript, but online available CIA files indicate that Indonesia is 88% muslin... and I'm sure that help the extreamist group(s) grow, as that religion can fairly easy be distorted to support suicidal acts in battle.
It should also be understood that all three of the main religions speak against "usary - loans and interest rate" and when the world bank stepped in and offered to help, they also wanted to charge interest. Interest on what? Recovering from a major huge theift? Like a screw job on top of a screw job... absolutely NOT acceptable!
The moral of reality here is really very very simple:
You fuck others over, the amount of what you fuck'ed them over is in direct proportion of the level of retaliation you then, unavoidably, become concerned about.... even paranoid about. For even if those you screwed don't retaliate, the likelyhood someone else will take it up as an excuse for them to do wrong...increases.
Wrongful world economic manipulation (China didn't play stock markets then and as such was the only relative country not effected by this gamble/ignorance). WTC was certainly relative to the source of damage being done in the "bet" but why was the Pentagon hit and White Horse... uh House, a target? Politically controlled military defending the wrong and US Intelligence Hiding the truth from the Public, or at least not telling the public... as teh information is all available (minus at least one ABC news story on the financial damage the US was doing in indonesia - removed from internet access)...
So do we really need anthrax vacines?
Or do we really just need to stop fucking others over?!!!
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The more Microsoft make itself sound like Linux but better...
.... Bull Shit.
No matter how you look at it, how you read about it, how you think about it, there is one things for absolute certain.
The core of the mindset at Microsoft is simply this "make people need you"
And the only way to do that is to NOT provide the people with the tools to do it themselves.
Though it has become common practice in the computer industry so as to insure or at least carrot an upgrade, the more you reinvent the less you genuinely innovate.
Microsoft is not an innovator at all, they are first and formaost a marketing company following in second place is their legal team used to help guide and defend their efforts at controlling the software industry, even going as far as sacrificial acts the, like playing chess, bring them greater returns than not sacrificing their own pawns. If fines for being caught doing illegal dealings, is considered by them as part of the cost of doing business, then what business are they really in?
Genuine innovation is not even in third place at Microsoft, as that place is held by their property suppression and buy out department. They don't Innovate, they simply buy what innovative property they can from others and then claim they developed it.
This article, how can it be anything more than marketing hype, as some readers have noted the unrealistic claims of writing from scratch. So.... given its comming from such a company with a growing criminal record.... And can you imagine Bill Gates still saying he's the little guy? Well he has recently told that lie... again.
The really sad part is that the majority of computer users today are not intune enough with the facts of development to enab;e them to see past this otherwise obvious marketing hype..... of we are juist like linux... but better
It doesn't matter so much how you create and test code, but rather what you code into your programs.
Are you coding in overall scope user stupidity, inherent manifested user frustration or some other debilitating mentality towards the end users?
A user can do no more with a program than the inherent mindset of the programmer(s) creating the program has provided.
Sell a man a fish and you feed yourself for a day, but if you teach him to fish.... what are you going to eat?
Thats one mindset... many of us know another one. Unfortunately the general programming industry doesn't seem to know it.
Software will genuinely be free when, and only when, it is easy enough and common enough to create it as you need it.... like math.... and using a calculator...
When that happens, proprietary software will be a rare thing. But from a POV of such an environment.... how does it make this article on MS dev practices look?
... except for stuff that has copy protection on it...
why? because anything anybody wants to preserve they will either copy it over to newer larger space media or the archiologist will build the device to read the old media.
if there is any concern its with teh ability of the media to hold data... but we were all told how much better cds are to tape and floppy at holding information....
so its on the media industry to be sued when the truth is exposed....????
cd's are to last at least 100 year???
of course there is always writing it out and storing it in some cave at the dead sea site...
make people pay for it but then don't allow them access to it.
If you can see it, so can a camera.
If you can hear it, so can a mic.
I grew up with what is now considered low res. But even today the low res input devices are likely better than that...
So where can I pick up my 30 million USD?
technically its all the same product.
Market wise MS is doing what more than simply repackaging and changing handicaps on the same product to create different in apparance and functionality scope.... packages..
Sorta like how linux comes in many varieties, from Basic Linux, damn small Linux, to small device linux to single user linux to standard multi user distros.
Linus himself worked a chip maker and developed Modori (sp?) embedded linux...
Oh wait, thats more than three.... amazing what happens with freedom...
...What I can't seem to not think about when I read articles on security is the fact that systems with a small following have a tremendious level of security in only the fact that its typically to small a target to hit.
....
Though a Diebold voting machine provides extra incentive to hack
No what if each system was unique enough that nobody had the full map of which systems are alike enough to really know or target effectively?
Like how system are different enough that they are immune to the viruses and such targeted for other systems.
Though this might seem impractical from the stand of what has been generally practiced in the software industry, that is perhaps only due to proprietary system.
The key difference is the use of OSS in the practice of machine specific compiliation, where the user can alter their machines fingerprint or DNA with some sort of unique code or seed value.
A value that is applied in teh compiliation process.
And what of script kiddies and the likes?
you can't hurt a system that is Read Only, such as on a CD.
And data, user data, how to protect it from illegal access or wrongful manipulation?
Simply don't have any possible connection between the online system and the information. Where transfer storage is getting to be the size smaller than a key. Where only such information/data you want to connect to the internet can only be done with some level of intent or direct human physical transfer of it.
Of course the solution directions greatly nullify proprietary software, because such is typically not unique enough...
...are themselves corrupt.
There is no other reason to put in use or allow the use of such a system that can and has been used to misrepresent the public vote.
Whats really happening is:
.... well, how to make the user upgrade... then you have to leave stuff out and promise some of it next release as you figure out what then to take away...
... MS"...
The act of programming is inherently of incorporating the mindset of the programmers and then subjecting the users to it by forcing the users to have to think in the terms the programmer layed down in the users operation of the program.
Microsoft intentionally applies this fact and is why most users don't have a clue about the shell (and those who have used microsofts shell find it discouraging).
There are other places where the programming is not very intelligent but subject the users to its dumbness... Earthlink Webmail has been such a place, where not so long ago you had to individually select which mail you wanted to delete. But where 80% or better is spam and in the amount of at least 100 a day.
After communicating to them like a child, they finally put in a "select all" allowing you to then deselect the few you wanted to keep (the effects of that must have been enormus on the reduction of spam in general held on Earthlinks servers -- maybe thats where they got the additional 90 megs of email stirage space they now give me without my asking)
But the point is, when you have an industry that can only see as far forward as
Does this make users dumb?
Probably doesn't help the intelligence level of the users to improve, but intentionally "makes users need
Users aren't stupid, the software industry is and what choice does the users have but to be subjected to such bullshit?
Things don't have to be this way, but are currently, just as the Catholic Church promoted the Roman Numeral system of math, even when they were presented with a simpler and more powerful system of the Hindu-Arabic Decimal system.
From a company that has used Licensing and discount agreements to suppress competition....Hmmm.. from a company that are leaders in marketing hype... hmmm... from a company that has had numerious anti-trust cases against them....and being found guilty..
Yeah, I'd imagine anything that effectively counters that bully methodology would have to be preceived as something bad to the bully. bit flipping the connotation of viral would be what? Unstoppable counter measures...
Viral to what? Seems enough of the right parties are taking it up that the term viral is in fact just a connotation from teh POV of the bully. Who, BTW has even tried to come off as the little guy, like uh excuse me.... little as being the richest man in the world at one point?????
NO! I'm perfectly aware of the connoitation "viral" being attached to GPL by MS, and not OSS in general....
So how does it feel to get back at you some of the BS you have put out?
Trust me! MS called OSS viral..... When it suites them...
Seeing those not liking put on them. what they put on others. Now thats Funny!
Microsoft calls OSS viral. They then pursue obtaining anti-virus software...
Now this.... Does this mean Microsofts anti-virus software ain't worth a crap, or does it mean the problem is in a faulty (lacking integrity) mindset at MS? Or both?
Laws will be passed regarding water and distilling of it. You will also have to get a federal ID implant that approves you for the purchase and use of water .... if it can blow up, it can be used as a terrorist weapon of mass destruction....
As extreamist as this might sound, one thing is absolutely certain, it's still gonna cost you the same increasing amount for transportation.
Its a sure thing any savings that you could see will be taken from you in one way or another.
I wonder if anyone has come up with an einstien law like that covers financial/energy exchange. E = MC2...
what this really is, is just another attempt to defend caveman mentality. There are those who have found an easy living off the unspecting population. The selling and reselling as new, the same ol, same ol...
Software is provably not patentable. The problem here is that neither side, proprietary or OSS wants to recognize this as doing so requires software to be recognized by the population as as common and easy to use as the use of math, the hindu arabic numeral system.... instead of teh roman numeral system with its "elite experts".
Programming is a reflection of the programmers mindset and by keeping programming to complicated for the typical user, even if only sounding that way, then it really needs to be understood how limiting this practice really is.
Computers could not have been invented with the roman numeral system.
You want innovation, then you have no choice but to open it up to the every day user.
Unfortunately, most programmers today have been taught the roman numeral way of doing programming, and as such there is an ihnerent resistance to a better way or approaching programming, a way that is more in accord with the nature of programming.
Business in the programming industry as been filled with consumer deception in many different ways. All to often I have participate in some programming conference or read some technical article about an easier way of doing something but always with the added "don't worry, we'll either make it not available to the typical user or complexicate it to confuse them" (if you can't dazzel them with brillance, baffle then with bullshit)...
The old sales pitch is to get you saying "yes" right off the bat, as this article did by pointing out some of whats wrong with proprietary software, then carefully leading you down the wrong road from there.
Software is not such a thing to be master over all industry, as it has become. But rather its supposed to be an assist to better industry.
You mean If I buy this software I'll make my company more productive and use less paper?
years later.... why are all the company records in a proprietary format that we no longer want to pay rent for the access tools to it.....
Why can we not integrate software packages as WE SEE FIT?
Who's mindset is running this Company? MicroSoft?
Innovation does not come from MS, they take it from others and claim it originated from them, they even used to charge your for reporting bugs in their software.
The innovation process is not one of c9onsumer entrapment abuse. Where the users knwo what they need and due the crap constraining software and over complexity of development have what choice but to give it to those who will then seel it back to them?
NO! proprietary software has to go and the development process can and has to get alot easier.... like how the decimal system allowed the common man to do math beyond the roman numeral experts.
When everyone that needs to, can develope the software they need for their main work duties, then it will be like math today, do it as you need it. And you'll even be getting paid for it.
Programming is the act of automating complexity for the purpose of allowing thge user of the complexity to use and reuse it via a simplified interface. This is a recursive act, as most nobody programs today in machine language but rather uses already created automations of complexity.
And this can and will go all the way out to the users ability to do for themselves...
Professionalism as the article mentions is really the professionalism of a con game.
More Bikini's
Only fucking idiots can't figure out what better, productive improvements to spend tax payer dollars on.
Making the world a place nobody wants to blow up is a better goal than tempting self destruction.
The worlds population, what percentage of it is in a position to blow it up?
Hmmm, we know who the idiots are, but what to do about it.........
during the 200/2001 holiday season I was goin thru europe, back from Paris to Utrech but at one stop the train was delayed.
after about 10 minutes they announced that a bomb had been reported to be on the tracks ahead. That they were waiting for it to be checked out and cleared.
A few minutes later we left, but instead of going first thru Utrech we looped aound Amsterdam and back down.
And before we pulled into Amsterdam they announced that a bomb was found and defused.
The event was never reported to the news media, but the lady I was with, having herself grownup in the Netherlands, explained to me what she believed to be the bombers motive.
It seems the Dutch Governmet made some sort of land promise to some group of people in another country in exchange for their help during World War II. The Dutch Government reniged on the deal.
She also explained to me that the law against such a wrong is as such:
To place a bomb and not report it, if people are injured or die and you get caught, its the death sentence, no if ands or buts about it.
But if you report it in a timely manner and people still get injured or killed the worse you can get is life.
This I understand is something of public knowledge.
The points are:
You do others wrong, then don't NOT expect Revenge. So don't do others wrong!
And law should support efforts to make a statement, when it is regarding a wrong. But two wrongs don't make it right.
BTW, effort was made to report the Olympic park in atlanta 1996, but that effort fell thru due to technical difficulties in communication. Specificall the forgetting to give the Park an Actual Address that the new Police dispatch software required before sending the dispatch.
It fell back on the old walkie talkies radios with the limited number of authories who had them and could receive the dispatch.
Eric Rudolph said he was sorry for that bombing, but not the abortion clinic bombings.... And his logic was what "kill those who kill?" Maybe he should have applied that to himself...away from others.
No civil or human rights should ever be suppressed.
There is a city in Georgia USA that to live there you must own a gun. Openly displaying them is not a problem wit the law, as its a bit encouraged.
That city, though small, as a low crime rate, perhaps the lowest in the country.
Given teh amount of money budgeted for the militaries of the world, it would only take 1/3 of that to genuinely and in proper means, honestly address the real problems in the world (this has been researched).
Remove the reasons for revenge and you shall have peace without a sacrificing of human and civil rights..
... makes any software patent granting and use obsolute acts of fraud.
This isn't a statement of opinion, but proveable fact.
And it says a lot about those involved...
... than proprietary.... is what this is saying.
Figuring this is simple since Linux began development about 10 years behind MS OS...
With this math, in 20 years there won't be much closed source...
stating facts and using ones common since brain is considered flame bait..... to who?
Obviously not to anyone applying the same....
following the money works far better than your tinfoil hat dillusion.
....from the public is the real reason why 9/11 happened.
... the Pentagon and .... The white Horse... uh house...
....just where are the WMD iraq was supposed to have? What about the weapons of mass destruction of wrongful world economic manipulation?
What is amazing is that there is plenty enough information publicly available that anyone with half a brain that comes across this information and most important, the ability to think for themselves.... Well it'll be obvious and undeniable.
And yes, the government has spent more to cover it up than what it'd cost to simply present the already public information in relative context via the major media.
For example, how much did it cost the Government to create the anthrax letter threat against the News Media while probably paying someone a good deal to do it in such a manner to assure disconnection from the government.... and of course it was determined to have come from a US based US military base....as there had to be just the right amount of connection to properly threaten the media..
So in regard to a trillion dollars... that's clearly enough money for anyone to notice that money like that doesn't just appear from nowhere and then vanish back into nowhere...
The players... Minimum investment... 1 billion... enron, worldcome, etc... were the obvious losers. The winners... easy come easy go.... the dot com boom and bust was on the winners side.... needing a place to invest the winfall....
World Trade Center (not the first attempt to bring it down!!!)
Politically controlled military to back a wrongful world stock market manipulation.
Don't believe me?
Do a google Search on "Trillion dollar bet" and read the transcript.
Screw others and you will fear and suffer revenge...and in the process perhaps get overly aggressive in your paranoia
China wasn't effected because they don't play the stock market....
There is more!!!
What the World Wants is not obscene war spendings...but real solutions to real world problems And we do have the knowledge, manpower and natural resources to do it.
So why is it not happening?
Ben Franklin "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
And FDR used it in his "four freedoms" speech..
Of course it cost more to keep up with your lies, because telling the truth is just plain without the need for spending extra energy in keeping the lies in order..
to do such wrong.
Don't sell at special prices under such conditions that you know will be broken.
Doing so only means you are looking for trouble.
And if they are really uptight about their patented cartridges then I'm sure they can make them non-refillable.
It's certainly not about recycling...
from $2.49 to $3.19 per gallon in less then 20 hours is what I personally saw happen here in Atlanta, and reports of even 50% increase in same time period, in the atlanta area.
This is not a refinery knock out issue. For part of the reason for reserves is to have a buffer in the event of even worse happening. A buffer that is to be replaced as soon as reasonably possible.
The oil industry runs off of speculation. The US frees up a country rich in oil and our oil prices go up..... What? What are they speculating?
A storm hits the US and some refineries go down, but there are plenty more refineries in the US.
Remember the oil shortage in the US in the 70's, where tankers were stuck in teh Gulf of Mexico with no place to dump their load because all other storage was topped out....
Bush probably only visited New Orleans to see how bad the refineries were and upon realizing its people that run them.... uh decided to get relief efforts going...
Hmmm, someone said we are buying oil from those who want to harm us with terrorism. That they are getting the money they need for such harming, from us.....
So really, all things considered.... oil prices going up can be for political and commercial gain, not public well being.
Currently I will be getting at retirement less then 75% of social security benefits due me (this directly from the social security office), and Bush wanted me and those in my income class to give up some of this to the low class... in essence removing the middle class by converting them to low class.. (those there are those you can take out of the getto, there are also those you cannot take the getto out of --- habitual drain on anything they can get their hands on..)
That Social Security additional screw job was shot down.... So Bush and company found another way and Kantrina.... a timely happenstance useful for an excuse.
But thats not enough....or is it? As all product prices have to account for distribution transportation costs..
I've heard China is being used for an excuse too.
Imagine that, a country as big as China apparently has no natural oil resources of its own... So as its growing it taking the increase in world oil production...
I understand In Iraq, a gallon of gas is 5 cents....
With a profit ratio that can be had from that with neighboring countries (no boat needed) any terrorist should be able to fund their needs... and with a vehicle small then the Bush claimed mobile WMD production trailers found in iraq (funny how I remember getting spam on this very vehicle -- someone wanting to sell mobil production trailers (chemical products) made and sold in the US....)
This is not about oil shortage or even refinery problems.
Its about political and semi-commercial manipulation of economies.
So does this mean that the patent office is paying nintendo or are they violating this patent on a regular basis? Like every time they grant a patent on some software.
All the jokes about things like patenting the patent system and such...
You mean someone finally did it!!!