I, for one, do not buy into this Lou Dobbs racist/nationalist claptrap that says that we can't trust foreigners.
The issue is not that "furriners" are inherently any more or less trustworthy than your fellow countrymen.
The issue is that when you DO come across a person who abuses trust, it's a LOT easier to get recompense when that person is subject to the same laws and regulations that you are.
If someone in New York steals $2000 from my bank account, the cops go arrest him and get my money back. If someone in New Delhi steals it, the local cops have to coordinate with foreign law enforcement, negotiate an extradition, so on, so forth. Unless you have six or seven figure sums being stolen, it's not going to be worth everyone's time to bring someone from another country to justice.
If you mean consumers when you say market, I agree with you.
The media industry shouldn't be telling me how I may listen to music. And it's for damn certain that the government shouldn't be telling the media industry how to tell me how I may listen to music.
Since almost all video cards come with one DVI port these days, at least, why not ship something that would be better, cheaper, and likely, more profitable?
Most if not all NEW video cards come with at least one DVI output these days, yes, but that still represents a minority of the video cards that are in use.
Retailers don't want to deal with the hassle of customers who try to buy, and then subsequently have to return, a cheapo digital-only LCD display as an upgrade for their four-year-old PC with a VGA port on the back of it. The decision not to offer such products right now is likely more market-driven than technology-driven.
Wait a couple years, when DVI-digital is not only state of the art but also ubiquitous, and I'd expect more digital-only LCD displays to show up on the market.
Because then you'd have kids going to school in the dark. As soon as one is hit by a car that's the end of that.
Maybe we should stop expecting children to show up at school at 7:30AM, then. Sleep deficit in high school students is heavily documented. Let them sleep in an extra hour, then it will be light enough that they don't get hit by the packs of roving cars that people think seem to be out and about during the pre-daybreak hours.
Which is why Red Hat crashed and burned all those years ago.
Yes, but Red Hat repositioned itself to be primarily an enterprise solution provider, meaning that their product is now the Red Hat Linux software (open source) and support services (not open source).
A good example there might be the airline industry?
Would it? There still seems to be a media frenzy every time an airliner crashes.
There have been 113 shuttle missions over the past 25 years -- a larger airport might see that many flights in a single day. If two airplanes fell from the sky at every airport, each and every day, due to equipment failure, everyone would see that something was terribly wrong.
Granted, space travel requires a more robust degree of engineering than atmospheric flight, but it doesn't mean we should be any more willing to accept catastrophic failures.
I think Schwartz misunderstands. IP isn't used to pull you up. It is used to push others down. Although I can see how he could confuse one with the other.
Given that IP is used to push others down, and the GPL relies on the idea of intellectual property to be effective, shouldn't the conclusion be that the GPL is used to push others down?
Most people don't even know what a mother board is let alone what it does.
And most people don't need to know that.
Most people don't even know what a carburetor is or what it does, or that very few cars on the road even have one anymore. Yet lots and lots of people know how to operate a car.
It would be great if everyone was curious enough to want to look under the hood, of their cars, their computers, and their software, but if people NEEDED to, that stuff wouldn't need to be hidden under a hood.
Wouldn't an automatic update system serve to make the software more secure?
Not if virus writers managed to use the automatic update system as a vector for malicious code, which I suspect could have a pretty high likelihood of happening.
Does anyone have a clue as to the (very approximate) size of the/. crowd? If we're talking 100k+, then would you pay $40/year for the next 10 years to keep Voyager alive?
I'm sure many of us would, myself included, but I'm also sure not ALL of us would.
Slashdotters would make a very poor political action committee, since we don't have anything in common except for perhaps a basic geekiness. Some of us like MySQL, vi, and Linux; others like PostgreSQL, EMACS, and Windows. Yet others don't like any of those things but are fans of science fiction. And of course, CowboyNeal.
Think about Flash applications. One Flash movie load of 200K can replace a dozen or more page views at 100K each. So 200K vs. 1200K. Which is less?
It's probably a tie, or pretty close to it.
On those dozen HTML pages, many elements such as graphics, stylesheets, and client-side scripting are going to be common across all of the pages. After they've been fetched once, they're going to be in the client's browser cache and won't have to be sent across the wire again.
Thus, the first page access will result in 100K going across the network. The second page may only be 30K of new traffic. Depending on how many pages the user needs to visit, HTML could be more or less pageweight.
Given the declining popularity of slow dialup connections, and all the other benefits of using HTML, I would say that if a site could be done equally well in either Flash or HTML except for pageweight, it should absolutely be done in HTML. Which isn't to say that there aren't instances where Flash is the better (or only) solution...
When you decided on PeopleSoft 10 years ago this looked strategically sound.
Judging from the swear words I've been hearing coming out of people who have had to work using PeopleSoft for the past 10 years, I don't know if I can agree with that.
The benefit of open source is that if the original corporation writing the code stops supporting it there may be a community behind the software that will continue to support it as you transition.
And the benefit of closed-source is that you can negotiate a contract with the company selling you a license to the code where if the company fails to support their product, they owe you $lots with which to fund your transition to another solution.
Of course, neither of these scenarios applies to all circumstances in their fields.
Yes you could modify the source, but this will cost more money than it is worth in R&D.
Who says it's going to cost YOU money? If an open source organization takes a software product in a direction you don't like, there's always the opportunity for another OSS org to come along, fork the product, and do all the development and R&D for you. Of course, considering all the money YOUR company saves on licensing fees by adopting OSS, it would be polite to at least contribute some of your own work back to the for project, but you're not even obligated to.
Or, if it's solid enough, you could always stick with an earlier version of the product instead of acquiescing to somebody else's upgrade path. How many companies are using Apache? And how many of those are using Apache 2?
ive got to give them props on the pictures, they look like they came straight out of apple's design department
I agree, these look a lot more like actual Apple products than the last batch of design ideas commissioned by Business2.0 did.
The only fatal flaw I see is that I think a real Apple universal remote would incorporate the iPod's click-scroll-wheel interface rather than discrete rectangular play/stop/fast-forward/rewind/pause buttons.
Nonetheless, I think this hoax is TOTALLY EFFIN SWEET and I hope the real Apple product devlopment teams see some things they like in these designs.
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The other thing they were working on that is referred to is their yearly get-drunk-and-get-laid-party
Any college student that only gets drunk and laid one time per year clearly has more than enough free time to plan and execute pranks like these.
Nit #2. The Constitution does not define the rights we have.
It defines SOME of the rights we have, but not ALL of them.
If an act is not mentioned in the Constitution, it generally means that state law determines whether you have a right to it or not.
If neither federal or state law mentions an act, it is generally accepted you have a right to it.
(Not a lawyer, just a guy who has read the Constitution)
I, for one, do not buy into this Lou Dobbs racist/nationalist claptrap that says that we can't trust foreigners.
The issue is not that "furriners" are inherently any more or less trustworthy than your fellow countrymen.
The issue is that when you DO come across a person who abuses trust, it's a LOT easier to get recompense when that person is subject to the same laws and regulations that you are.
If someone in New York steals $2000 from my bank account, the cops go arrest him and get my money back. If someone in New Delhi steals it, the local cops have to coordinate with foreign law enforcement, negotiate an extradition, so on, so forth. Unless you have six or seven figure sums being stolen, it's not going to be worth everyone's time to bring someone from another country to justice.
My employer caught me reading this article on company time, and fired me! Thanks for nothing, you insensitive clods!
The market should be making these decisions.
If you mean consumers when you say market, I agree with you.
The media industry shouldn't be telling me how I may listen to music. And it's for damn certain that the government shouldn't be telling the media industry how to tell me how I may listen to music.
Who should decide how I may listen to music? ME.
Here's an article which could serve as a good starting point for researching studies on the high school sleep deficit problem:
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http://www.theithacajournal.com/news/stories/20
Since almost all video cards come with one DVI port these days, at least, why not ship something that would be better, cheaper, and likely, more profitable?
Most if not all NEW video cards come with at least one DVI output these days, yes, but that still represents a minority of the video cards that are in use.
Retailers don't want to deal with the hassle of customers who try to buy, and then subsequently have to return, a cheapo digital-only LCD display as an upgrade for their four-year-old PC with a VGA port on the back of it. The decision not to offer such products right now is likely more market-driven than technology-driven.
Wait a couple years, when DVI-digital is not only state of the art but also ubiquitous, and I'd expect more digital-only LCD displays to show up on the market.
Because then you'd have kids going to school in the dark. As soon as one is hit by a car that's the end of that.
Maybe we should stop expecting children to show up at school at 7:30AM, then. Sleep deficit in high school students is heavily documented. Let them sleep in an extra hour, then it will be light enough that they don't get hit by the packs of roving cars that people think seem to be out and about during the pre-daybreak hours.
Which is why Red Hat crashed and burned all those years ago.
Yes, but Red Hat repositioned itself to be primarily an enterprise solution provider, meaning that their product is now the Red Hat Linux software (open source) and support services (not open source).
A good example there might be the airline industry?
Would it? There still seems to be a media frenzy every time an airliner crashes.
There have been 113 shuttle missions over the past 25 years -- a larger airport might see that many flights in a single day. If two airplanes fell from the sky at every airport, each and every day, due to equipment failure, everyone would see that something was terribly wrong.
Granted, space travel requires a more robust degree of engineering than atmospheric flight, but it doesn't mean we should be any more willing to accept catastrophic failures.
I think Schwartz misunderstands. IP isn't used to pull you up. It is used to push others down. Although I can see how he could confuse one with the other.
Given that IP is used to push others down, and the GPL relies on the idea of intellectual property to be effective, shouldn't the conclusion be that the GPL is used to push others down?
Most people don't even know what a mother board is let alone what it does.
And most people don't need to know that.
Most people don't even know what a carburetor is or what it does, or that very few cars on the road even have one anymore. Yet lots and lots of people know how to operate a car.
It would be great if everyone was curious enough to want to look under the hood, of their cars, their computers, and their software, but if people NEEDED to, that stuff wouldn't need to be hidden under a hood.
Wouldn't an automatic update system serve to make the software more secure?
Not if virus writers managed to use the automatic update system as a vector for malicious code, which I suspect could have a pretty high likelihood of happening.
"I took nature's most perfect killing machine, and needlessly turned it into a robot." -- Dr. Quinn
Grizzlebee's Onion Burst, with Honey-Maple-Ranch dipping sauce! COWABUNGA!
Does anyone have a clue as to the (very approximate) size of the /. crowd? If we're talking 100k+, then would you pay $40/year for the next 10 years to keep Voyager alive?
I'm sure many of us would, myself included, but I'm also sure not ALL of us would.
Slashdotters would make a very poor political action committee, since we don't have anything in common except for perhaps a basic geekiness. Some of us like MySQL, vi, and Linux; others like PostgreSQL, EMACS, and Windows. Yet others don't like any of those things but are fans of science fiction. And of course, CowboyNeal.
So if I want to get medical work done by BosleyMedical, I have a right to use their website.
And here it is: http://www.bosley.com/
Who told you that http://www.bosleymedical.com/ was their website? Nobody? You assumed? You know what happens when you assume, don't you?
If someone tries to use fraud or deciet in tricking me, by directing me somewhere I did not want to go, then they are violating my rights.
What? You asked for the website http://www.bosleymedical.com/, you got the website http://www.bosleymedical.com/. There was no deceit here. You told the browser where you wanted to go, and the browser took you there.
Think about Flash applications. One Flash movie load of 200K can replace a dozen or more page views at 100K each. So 200K vs. 1200K. Which is less?
It's probably a tie, or pretty close to it.
On those dozen HTML pages, many elements such as graphics, stylesheets, and client-side scripting are going to be common across all of the pages. After they've been fetched once, they're going to be in the client's browser cache and won't have to be sent across the wire again.
Thus, the first page access will result in 100K going across the network. The second page may only be 30K of new traffic. Depending on how many pages the user needs to visit, HTML could be more or less pageweight.
Given the declining popularity of slow dialup connections, and all the other benefits of using HTML, I would say that if a site could be done equally well in either Flash or HTML except for pageweight, it should absolutely be done in HTML. Which isn't to say that there aren't instances where Flash is the better (or only) solution...
When you decided on PeopleSoft 10 years ago this looked strategically sound.
Judging from the swear words I've been hearing coming out of people who have had to work using PeopleSoft for the past 10 years, I don't know if I can agree with that.
The benefit of open source is that if the original corporation writing the code stops supporting it there may be a community behind the software that will continue to support it as you transition.
And the benefit of closed-source is that you can negotiate a contract with the company selling you a license to the code where if the company fails to support their product, they owe you $lots with which to fund your transition to another solution.
Of course, neither of these scenarios applies to all circumstances in their fields.
Yes you could modify the source, but this will cost more money than it is worth in R&D.
Who says it's going to cost YOU money? If an open source organization takes a software product in a direction you don't like, there's always the opportunity for another OSS org to come along, fork the product, and do all the development and R&D for you. Of course, considering all the money YOUR company saves on licensing fees by adopting OSS, it would be polite to at least contribute some of your own work back to the for project, but you're not even obligated to.
Or, if it's solid enough, you could always stick with an earlier version of the product instead of acquiescing to somebody else's upgrade path. How many companies are using Apache? And how many of those are using Apache 2?
Available by the end of the year, huh? That's shaping up to be a second-place finish for them. Still respectable, though.
Toshiba announced in December that products using this technology will go into production over the next six months.
Besides that, Apple would never release a product with that many jacks in the back.
True. Apple would design a new proprietary Everything Port, and then sell you various breakout adaptor cables for it at $29.99 each.
ive got to give them props on the pictures, they look like they came straight out of apple's design department
I agree, these look a lot more like actual Apple products than the last batch of design ideas commissioned by Business2.0 did.
The only fatal flaw I see is that I think a real Apple universal remote would incorporate the iPod's click-scroll-wheel interface rather than discrete rectangular play/stop/fast-forward/rewind/pause buttons.
Nonetheless, I think this hoax is TOTALLY EFFIN SWEET and I hope the real Apple product devlopment teams see some things they like in these designs.
Or the "Digiatl" port on the back, unless Apple always mis-spells things on their products too.
Prototypes of their last attempt at a set-top box, the Apple Pippin aka Bandai @World, had a "RETRUN" key above right-shift. Kibo even made fun of it.
Beyond that, every "Macintosh" ever released has a misspelling on it. The (fruit) apple variety is spelled "McIntosh".
And everything ever written onto an Apple Newton ended up misspelled...
"Others are now following OS X's taillights, and 'Tiger+Tiger' will make it even harder for them to ever catch up."
Yes, all those other companies selling operating systems for Apple computers have no chance to survive make their time NOW!