Oh, yeah. Mea culpa. Well, damn it, some of us still believe in freedom. In that case, all he's done is betray his users. (Sadly, only some of them -- many are okay with evil.)
Sounds like this deal is in all ways wrong. It's like Stallman writing a program with great market potential and deciding that he's going to sell it to Microsoft.
Let's see if Shawn's soul gets into that big open-source community in the sky *now*.
I for one am going to switch immediately to OpenNap and Scour. Not that I have a problem with paying $5 a month for music, but it's the principle of the thing.
As far as selfishness goes, the aim of democracy is to make as few people unhappy as possible. People are happy if their selfish needs are fulfilled. Thus, it's appropriate to vote based on what you want. If most people agree with you, than the solution that makes the most of you happy will probably be adopted.
As far as being influenced by others, that's part of society and it's going to exist no matter what, unless we have a government that is ignorant of the demands of the people. (That's Arrow's Theorem: the government that minimizes conflict is a dictatorship.)
That's what democracy is, folks. People have a right to believe what they want to, regardless of where they hear it. Sure, it would be nice if people were as educated as Slashdot readers (although perhaps a little less belligerent), but a population doesn't have that luxury. So don't be elitist about voting, you're not the only person in this country.
I'd say that he probably does know how the economy works; it's just poor wording. After all, he doesn't say that they got rich by rigging the system, it's that they got that rich, indicating that if they didn't rig the system, they'd be less rich, which is true. Besides, with capitalism it's easy to say that become rich is abusing the system somehow.:-)
Hey! Reading Slashdot, half-empty, Kuro5shin, etc. has a very positive social effect... I get to talk to fu_man, Misfit, nebby...:-)
Hey, what's all those green and brown things outside my window. They kinda remind me of binary trees...
Actually, the Playstation 2 looks really promising to me.
Apparently the problem with Betamax was poor marketing, but Sony, despite other problems it might have, has the potential to market the PS2 as a video game console, a DVD player, and a computer without too much difficulty.
Actually, IIRC, which I may not, Java is implemented at a fairly low level in Mac OS X.
What this would really mean is that open source OSes like Linux could implement Java at a really low level and not have to cut any deals or make any sacrifices to accomodate the VM.
That would be cool. Real cool. Too many people complain about how Java is slow, but that doesn't seem to apply to programs running under Linux. Low-level Java support would allow a whole lot of neat programs.
...on what you mean by "cross-platform". AFAIK, emulation only carries a minor performance hit when you're emulating older, less advanced systems on modern computers. Running Playstation emulation is possible, but it's somewhat resource-consuming. I know from experience that doing things like emulating an Intel processor on a PowerPC carries a sharp performance hit.
So, wouldn't you only be able to develop games cross-platform through emulation if you developed the games for an older system that you could readily emulate?
I think standard APIs like OpenGL offer more rational cross-platform development options. And then, of course, there's always Java. Once you can actually run Java apps (like in Linux) and use the appropriate semi-native APIs (like QuickTime and OpenGL), it's not all that slow, really.
Yeah, there have been pleas to vote all over the place, particularly among young people.
With all the controversy over Napster and such, I was not at all suprised that candidates focused on technology and the 'Net as much as they did. I was, however, completely disappoined in the both of them.
I for one am voting, but it would be so much better if you could someone vote online. Getting absentee ballots is a real pain
I'm sure someone's mentioned this before, but we really should just put ads into Napster and pay artists royalties from that. I think that Napster has at least the advertising potential of radio. I mean, five million users.
Sure, some of us would get around the ads, but most people wouldn't. They wouldn't really get in the way or anything.
It's an idea that needs work, sure, but I think it would be good. I certainly have no problems giving the artists the money they've earned, it's when the RIAA gets involved that I complain.
Someone should patent unnecessary lawsuits. That way, every time one of these companies comes up with a frivolous lawsuit like this, they could be countersued by a third party. The punitive damages could make a great source of income.
Of course, the other alternative would be to get rid of patents like this in the first place, but that would require change, and change is bad, right?
Ah, just overclock a bunch of cheap chips and supercool them with Flourinert or a similar substance. I'd like to see one of those. (How about a liquid nitrogen cooled 32-node Beowulf cluster of overclocked PIIIs?)
By the RIAA's calculations, that's enough to make an on-campus MP3 server that can hold almost 82,000 songs. Then, they could sue for over 2 billion dollars (at 25 grand per "copyright infringement"). Cool!
I have to say that there are web pages out there more useful than any book on Linux.
However, it looks like this one solves one critical problem -- you must have a working computer before you access information on the Internet. That's one I haven't worked around yet.
With a name like Linux Problem Solver, though, I expected it to be about C or something.
I've tried out the Eudora beta, and I have to say that the flame-finder isn't all that great. It's actually a pretty fun challenge to make up the meanest possible message without getting a single chili-pepper (their marker for flame strength).
The thing only finds certain words, so it's really not too useful for telling you that you're sending a potentially mean message -- that should be obvious to you.
No, the good part about it is that it also scans every message that comes in and marks the ones that it thinks are flames. If you get some three-chili-pepper e-mails after posting a potentially controversial Slashdot comment, you can just delete them without reading them and getting the urge to set off some pipe bombs or something.
Yeah, yeah, it's not real useful technology. But it's good for a few minutes of entertainment, and to warn you ahead of time when a message might hurt your precious feelings.
But seriously, if these guys are going to ignore technology and try to fight progress, they're going to end up losing, no matter what the courts say. A ruling in their favor will only strengthen my resolve.
Will tomorrow's entertainment industry be wrestling and soccer using robots? Just think, instead of them making all the money, people using Linux and reading Slashdot could cash in developing robot code! I'd program my robot to clean my freakin' bathroom.
For open projects, such as Mozilla, early is, of course, necessary, so that people can work on the source. But if you're going to be doing all the development yourself, I'd hold off on releasing any source until the product release, or at least until the beta stage.
Well, Macs typically have fewer security holes than Windows. There have been a number of Mac viruses out, really -- but these days people are targeting the sucker programs that will let them run scripts without the user knowing and then cause all sorts of fun bad things to happen.
Although it certainly would be possible to run said AppleScript, it would be pretty obvious that this was going on, if you were paying attention, and a number of more devastating actions are non-scriptable (although you could use the script to decode and run a second attachment).
Really, it does all come down to social engineering -- as does pretty much every other scam on the books. It just so happens that most of these suckers also use Windows and Outlook -- because they come with the computer that everyone else uses.
I suppose. Fortunately, our network here at Clemson is relatively secure and almost completely Eudora-based. We also try to have relatively decent user awareness, and the computing department may even go as far as to identify and filter out e-mails that are known to contain viruses (before the user can receive them). With all of the worms recently, I can't recall a single problem on campus. (In fact, I don't think I ever received one copy of the Melissa, Happy99, or I Love You worms.)
Oh, sure, it seems all-powerful, but doesn't it still suffer from the same problems that plauge other worms? Namely, you have to a) be running an insecure system or b) be a sucker.
I'd like to think that most people don't use the dummy settings of Outlook (or even use it at all), and that they scan files they download for viruses, and that they don't blindly accept (or auto-accept) DCC sends.
Of course, I also think the succeptible masses don't really use IRC anyway. Now, if the virus could infiltrate various Instant Messenger networks...
I guess it would be nice to think that worm viruses shouldn't work, but as we all know, this is not the case. So, I'll just sit here with my Mac, running Eudora, and wait for this new worm to come out, as it inevitably will, and not affect me.
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Oh, yeah. Mea culpa. Well, damn it, some of us still believe in freedom. In that case, all he's done is betray his users. (Sadly, only some of them -- many are okay with evil.)
Sounds like this deal is in all ways wrong. It's like Stallman writing a program with great market potential and deciding that he's going to sell it to Microsoft.
Let's see if Shawn's soul gets into that big open-source community in the sky *now*.
I for one am going to switch immediately to OpenNap and Scour. Not that I have a problem with paying $5 a month for music, but it's the principle of the thing.
As far as selfishness goes, the aim of democracy is to make as few people unhappy as possible. People are happy if their selfish needs are fulfilled. Thus, it's appropriate to vote based on what you want. If most people agree with you, than the solution that makes the most of you happy will probably be adopted. As far as being influenced by others, that's part of society and it's going to exist no matter what, unless we have a government that is ignorant of the demands of the people. (That's Arrow's Theorem: the government that minimizes conflict is a dictatorship.) That's what democracy is, folks. People have a right to believe what they want to, regardless of where they hear it. Sure, it would be nice if people were as educated as Slashdot readers (although perhaps a little less belligerent), but a population doesn't have that luxury. So don't be elitist about voting, you're not the only person in this country.
I'd say that he probably does know how the economy works; it's just poor wording. After all, he doesn't say that they got rich by rigging the system, it's that they got that rich, indicating that if they didn't rig the system, they'd be less rich, which is true. Besides, with capitalism it's easy to say that become rich is abusing the system somehow. :-)
Hey! Reading Slashdot, half-empty, Kuro5shin, etc. has a very positive social effect... I get to talk to fu_man, Misfit, nebby... :-)
Hey, what's all those green and brown things outside my window. They kinda remind me of binary trees...
Actually, the Playstation 2 looks really promising to me.
Apparently the problem with Betamax was poor marketing, but Sony, despite other problems it might have, has the potential to market the PS2 as a video game console, a DVD player, and a computer without too much difficulty.
Now if only it ran Linux...
Actually, IIRC, which I may not, Java is implemented at a fairly low level in Mac OS X. What this would really mean is that open source OSes like Linux could implement Java at a really low level and not have to cut any deals or make any sacrifices to accomodate the VM. That would be cool. Real cool. Too many people complain about how Java is slow, but that doesn't seem to apply to programs running under Linux. Low-level Java support would allow a whole lot of neat programs.
...on what you mean by "cross-platform". AFAIK, emulation only carries a minor performance hit when you're emulating older, less advanced systems on modern computers. Running Playstation emulation is possible, but it's somewhat resource-consuming. I know from experience that doing things like emulating an Intel processor on a PowerPC carries a sharp performance hit.
So, wouldn't you only be able to develop games cross-platform through emulation if you developed the games for an older system that you could readily emulate?
I think standard APIs like OpenGL offer more rational cross-platform development options. And then, of course, there's always Java. Once you can actually run Java apps (like in Linux) and use the appropriate semi-native APIs (like QuickTime and OpenGL), it's not all that slow, really.
Well, that's my two cents.
Yeah, there have been pleas to vote all over the place, particularly among young people.
With all the controversy over Napster and such, I was not at all suprised that candidates focused on technology and the 'Net as much as they did. I was, however, completely disappoined in the both of them.
I for one am voting, but it would be so much better if you could someone vote online. Getting absentee ballots is a real pain
I'm sure someone's mentioned this before, but we really should just put ads into Napster and pay artists royalties from that. I think that Napster has at least the advertising potential of radio. I mean, five million users.
Sure, some of us would get around the ads, but most people wouldn't. They wouldn't really get in the way or anything.
It's an idea that needs work, sure, but I think it would be good. I certainly have no problems giving the artists the money they've earned, it's when the RIAA gets involved that I complain.
Someone should patent unnecessary lawsuits. That way, every time one of these companies comes up with a frivolous lawsuit like this, they could be countersued by a third party. The punitive damages could make a great source of income.
Of course, the other alternative would be to get rid of patents like this in the first place, but that would require change, and change is bad, right?
...when I hear Microsoft say they're going to "make things clearer for the consumers." Good thing they got rid of that "feature", though.
Just the words send shivers of delight down my spine... "open source crypto".
But really, it's great to have Mozilla developments like this. Go Netscape!
Ah, just overclock a bunch of cheap chips and supercool them with Flourinert or a similar substance. I'd like to see one of those. (How about a liquid nitrogen cooled 32-node Beowulf cluster of overclocked PIIIs?)
By the RIAA's calculations, that's enough to make an on-campus MP3 server that can hold almost 82,000 songs. Then, they could sue for over 2 billion dollars (at 25 grand per "copyright infringement"). Cool!
only legal.
This is a bad, bad precedent to set...
Hacking the HDTV -- how to remove copy-protection.
I can see it all now...
I have to say that there are web pages out there more useful than any book on Linux.
However, it looks like this one solves one critical problem -- you must have a working computer before you access information on the Internet. That's one I haven't worked around yet.
With a name like Linux Problem Solver, though, I expected it to be about C or something.
C -- the god of programming languages.
I've tried out the Eudora beta, and I have to say that the flame-finder isn't all that great. It's actually a pretty fun challenge to make up the meanest possible message without getting a single chili-pepper (their marker for flame strength).
The thing only finds certain words, so it's really not too useful for telling you that you're sending a potentially mean message -- that should be obvious to you.
No, the good part about it is that it also scans every message that comes in and marks the ones that it thinks are flames. If you get some three-chili-pepper e-mails after posting a potentially controversial Slashdot comment, you can just delete them without reading them and getting the urge to set off some pipe bombs or something.
Yeah, yeah, it's not real useful technology. But it's good for a few minutes of entertainment, and to warn you ahead of time when a message might hurt your precious feelings.
Bite my Napster!
But seriously, if these guys are going to ignore technology and try to fight progress, they're going to end up losing, no matter what the courts say. A ruling in their favor will only strengthen my resolve.
Will tomorrow's entertainment industry be wrestling and soccer using robots? Just think, instead of them making all the money, people using Linux and reading Slashdot could cash in developing robot code! I'd program my robot to clean my freakin' bathroom.
For open projects, such as Mozilla, early is, of course, necessary, so that people can work on the source. But if you're going to be doing all the development yourself, I'd hold off on releasing any source until the product release, or at least until the beta stage.
Well, Macs typically have fewer security holes than Windows. There have been a number of Mac viruses out, really -- but these days people are targeting the sucker programs that will let them run scripts without the user knowing and then cause all sorts of fun bad things to happen.
Although it certainly would be possible to run said AppleScript, it would be pretty obvious that this was going on, if you were paying attention, and a number of more devastating actions are non-scriptable (although you could use the script to decode and run a second attachment).
Really, it does all come down to social engineering -- as does pretty much every other scam on the books. It just so happens that most of these suckers also use Windows and Outlook -- because they come with the computer that everyone else uses.
I suppose. Fortunately, our network here at Clemson is relatively secure and almost completely Eudora-based. We also try to have relatively decent user awareness, and the computing department may even go as far as to identify and filter out e-mails that are known to contain viruses (before the user can receive them). With all of the worms recently, I can't recall a single problem on campus. (In fact, I don't think I ever received one copy of the Melissa, Happy99, or I Love You worms.)
Oh, sure, it seems all-powerful, but doesn't it still suffer from the same problems that plauge other worms? Namely, you have to a) be running an insecure system or b) be a sucker.
I'd like to think that most people don't use the dummy settings of Outlook (or even use it at all), and that they scan files they download for viruses, and that they don't blindly accept (or auto-accept) DCC sends.
Of course, I also think the succeptible masses don't really use IRC anyway. Now, if the virus could infiltrate various Instant Messenger networks...
I guess it would be nice to think that worm viruses shouldn't work, but as we all know, this is not the case. So, I'll just sit here with my Mac, running Eudora, and wait for this new worm to come out, as it inevitably will, and not affect me.