I did try Java. I think the main reason I didn't stick with it in retrospect is the feeling that you have to run a beast of a VM to do "Hello World!". Now I program in C++/Qt.
If all of your programming has the complexity of "Hello World", then you made the right decision to steer well clear of Java. But some of us are writing real world programs, where the "overhead" and startup time of the JVM is insignificant.
the ssh root attempt is because some tool came out recently that just scans netblocks for anyone running ssh and try's logging in as two different users
The attempts I've logged have been 4 users. root, admin, user and guest.
Because anti-social behaviour needs to be nipped in the bud. The script kiddie needs to know that fucking with other peoples systems has repercussions, and having his ISP threatening to cut him off is a good way to teach him that.
Its hundreds of thousands, which is about what EV.net is reported to have paid (probably in services or something else rather than cash, but it looks good on SCO's balance sheet).
The same seems to be true across Asia. In Japan too, there are more female IT specialists, though they tend to be at the bottom end of the corporate ladder so it certainly isn't due to any "progressive" employment practices.
I believe that you should only be able to defend patents and your inventions if you actually produce a product based upon them.
Such a solution hurts the little guy, who does not have the resources to produce a product from his invention. The little-guy inventor needs to be able to go out and look for companies to license his ideas to turn them into reality, with a law as you suggest, as soon as the company started making product based on his invention, they could turn around and refuse to pay him.
A common thing in these frivilous patent lawsuits seems to be that the companies involved are not the inventors themselves, but have bought the rights to patents. A better idea IMHO would be to make patents non-transferable.
according to macromedia's stats flash player 6 is currently installed on 95% of this world's webbrowsers.
I don't know what Macromedia stats you are looking at, but they are usually very careful not to mention versions when they tout their made up statistics, because they know full well that most people do not download upgrades to Flash, they just use the version that came with their machine, or that got downloaded the first time they came across a Flash animation 4 or 5 years ago.
That 95% of users can use the latest and greatest features of Flash is a big lie invented by Macromedia's marketing department. I know of a number of companies that started building serious apps in Flash, then switched to a Java applet once they saw what versions were actually deployed on desktops. It is a lot easier to write rich applications in Java 1.1 than Flash 5, which is the versions you need to target if you want to get anywhere near 95% of users.
you can easily make your application determine what flash player version is running on the system
Sure, but by the time your application is running, it is too late. You need the newer plugin to be downloaded before your application starts. Most users will just not use your site rather than download a new plugin, restart their browser and come back.
vast majority of today's web browsers that have the Macromedia Flash Player 6 installed.
The problem with Macromedia's claims about how widely deployed Flash is, is that the vast majority don't have Flash 6 deployed. The vast majority have Flash 5. And when users with Flash 5 go to a site that requires 6 or 7, do they get prompted to download a newer version? No, they just see a partially working Flash animation, or a blank screen.
Yes, but they all run on the same architecture - i386. With Linux, you've got the confusion of ia64, ppc, sparc, mips and a whole lot more architectures to deal with. Research conducted by the Alex de Tocqueville institute shows that the highly qualified MCSE system architects of this world do not want to deal with this choice of architectures, and would rather have their decisions handed to them on a plate.
They don't store anything on the card (the door readers are read-only). Its all in a centralized database, so taking the card away and cutting it up does nothing to protect your privacy.
The intent is not obvious. As you yourself said, this same copyright assignment has been used for years by Ximian, and it is word for word (apart from the name of the organizations) from the FSF copyright assignment. So any suggestion that Novell have an intent to exploit this clause is baseless. That said, I think they need to either tighten up the wording or remove that clause completely to gain some trust from potential contributors.
At any time you can ask for the copyright ownership back.
No, you can't. In fact the Evolution copyright assignment is an exact copy (with only the names of the organizations changed) of the GNU copyright assignment. The difference is that the FSF is a non-profit organization set up for the express purpose of protecting the freedom of software, while Novell is a company set up for the purpose of returning a profit to its shareholders, so people are more likely to see something sinister in the more loosely worded clauses of the assignment.
The intention of the clause in question in the original FSF assignment is to allow MySQL style dual licensing on a case by case basis, should it be advantageous to the aims of the FSF. This is clarified somewhere in the FSF docs, though the clause as worded does require you to put a lot of trust in the FSF not to stray from their current philosophy. In the case of Novell, the clause could conceivably be used to close the source at some date in future, with an enhanced commercial version being offered, similar to what happens with OpenOffice and Mozilla (both of which have licenses which allow third parties to commercially exploit enhanced versions, so it is something the developers know to expect).
But Penguin's use of katie.com is directly causing her harm, because she effectively can't use it for its intended purpose because of all the traffic it is getting.
To be fair, the traffic is Slashdot's fault, not Penguins. I'm sure the referrer logs are showing more hits from http://slashdot.org than book://penguin/KatieT/katie.com anyway, I mean when was the last time you clicked on a link in a book you were reading?
I know from when I used to work for the R&D arm of a large multinational, that patents donated into the public domain can definitely be written off against tax in the US, so I wouldn't be surprised if copyrights could too, and if donating them to a non-profit that kept them for the public good was treated the same as public domain for tax purposes. I don't see any other reason for IBM to put a value on Cloudscape right before they give it away.
South Korea looks significantly less densely populated than the New England states and California coastline on that map. In fact it looks about the same on average as the entire Eastern half of the US. So what were the US executives and policy makers' excuses again?
If you were in the market for a new stereo, would want something that was soldered together in some guy's garage? That's a craftsman/hacker. While it's true he may have alot of raw talent, his stereo is not going to be better than one designed and built by engineers at Bose.
If you are talking about sound quality, I doubt a craftsman working in his garage could come up with something worse than Bose. If you're talking aesthetics, it depends how skilled the craftsman is.
Insisting that one and only one language is the true language is just silly.
And the sign of someone who is definitely not a great hacker. Great hackers can sit down and program in any language. Arrogant arseholes refuse to work on projects because of the language or OS being used.
Credit card companies will do the same for "card not present" transactions. The problem with Paypal is that they do not make it clear that they will do it, in fact they do the opposite, they promote Paypal as a safe alternative to other forms of payment. If you have a contract with a credit card provider for handling credit card transactions directly, the consequences of accepting transactions without the card being physically present are more clearly laid out.
A lot of the Sony products aimed at the Japanese market is still manufactured in Japan. Most of their export stuff is made in China, Malaysia and other countries in the same factories as the cheap junk brands. The drop in quality of the major Japanese manufacturers seemed to coincide with them moving manufacturing offshore to cheaper countries in the mid-1990s. I buy Samsung these days, because their quality has improved over the same timeframe, and they haven't shipped most of their manufacturing offshore yet, though I'm sure its not far off with the joint ventures they've been doing with Toshiba and Sony lately.
They don't have to (under the law at least). But they will find it hard to get their recordings distributed and promoted if they don't due to the fact that the record industry doesn't approve of fair use.
Actually, Emacs was sorely missing automation of this functionality. So I added it passed on psychoanalyse-pinhead. Feel free to run it on stack traces, debugger output or get it to do code reviews for you. Enjoy.
a lot of times 90% of those sources are just pulling the same exact AP or Reuters release verbatim.
All the more reason to have Xinhua and Al Jazeera in there, since those guys usually do offer a different slant on the news than the AP and Reuters feeds that everyone else is printing. CNN and BBC also have big enough news teams to cover most things themselves so they're worth looking at too.
The myth isn't that you are 'allowed to go under the hood', the myth is that its actually something that a serious number of people do.
Then this article is extremely badly written. I could have sworn that the "myth" in question was
2. "Open Source software allows you to get under the hood and fix problems"
If you're going to write an article entitled "Open Source Myths", then you'd think that stating clearly what these myths were was a fairly important part of the exercise.
Slashdot Mirror
If all of your programming has the complexity of "Hello World", then you made the right decision to steer well clear of Java. But some of us are writing real world programs, where the "overhead" and startup time of the JVM is insignificant.
The attempts I've logged have been 4 users. root, admin, user and guest.
Because anti-social behaviour needs to be nipped in the bud. The script kiddie needs to know that fucking with other peoples systems has repercussions, and having his ISP threatening to cut him off is a good way to teach him that.
Faulty memory.
So still just one customer.
The same seems to be true across Asia. In Japan too, there are more female IT specialists, though they tend to be at the bottom end of the corporate ladder so it certainly isn't due to any "progressive" employment practices.
Such a solution hurts the little guy, who does not have the resources to produce a product from his invention. The little-guy inventor needs to be able to go out and look for companies to license his ideas to turn them into reality, with a law as you suggest, as soon as the company started making product based on his invention, they could turn around and refuse to pay him.
A common thing in these frivilous patent lawsuits seems to be that the companies involved are not the inventors themselves, but have bought the rights to patents. A better idea IMHO would be to make patents non-transferable.
I don't know what Macromedia stats you are looking at, but they are usually very careful not to mention versions when they tout their made up statistics, because they know full well that most people do not download upgrades to Flash, they just use the version that came with their machine, or that got downloaded the first time they came across a Flash animation 4 or 5 years ago.
That 95% of users can use the latest and greatest features of Flash is a big lie invented by Macromedia's marketing department. I know of a number of companies that started building serious apps in Flash, then switched to a Java applet once they saw what versions were actually deployed on desktops. It is a lot easier to write rich applications in Java 1.1 than Flash 5, which is the versions you need to target if you want to get anywhere near 95% of users.
you can easily make your application determine what flash player version is running on the system
Sure, but by the time your application is running, it is too late. You need the newer plugin to be downloaded before your application starts. Most users will just not use your site rather than download a new plugin, restart their browser and come back.
The problem with Macromedia's claims about how widely deployed Flash is, is that the vast majority don't have Flash 6 deployed. The vast majority have Flash 5. And when users with Flash 5 go to a site that requires 6 or 7, do they get prompted to download a newer version? No, they just see a partially working Flash animation, or a blank screen.
Yes, but they all run on the same architecture - i386. With Linux, you've got the confusion of ia64, ppc, sparc, mips and a whole lot more architectures to deal with. Research conducted by the Alex de Tocqueville institute shows that the highly qualified MCSE system architects of this world do not want to deal with this choice of architectures, and would rather have their decisions handed to them on a plate.
They don't store anything on the card (the door readers are read-only). Its all in a centralized database, so taking the card away and cutting it up does nothing to protect your privacy.
The intent is not obvious. As you yourself said, this same copyright assignment has been used for years by Ximian, and it is word for word (apart from the name of the organizations) from the FSF copyright assignment. So any suggestion that Novell have an intent to exploit this clause is baseless. That said, I think they need to either tighten up the wording or remove that clause completely to gain some trust from potential contributors.
No, you can't. In fact the Evolution copyright assignment is an exact copy (with only the names of the organizations changed) of the GNU copyright assignment. The difference is that the FSF is a non-profit organization set up for the express purpose of protecting the freedom of software, while Novell is a company set up for the purpose of returning a profit to its shareholders, so people are more likely to see something sinister in the more loosely worded clauses of the assignment. The intention of the clause in question in the original FSF assignment is to allow MySQL style dual licensing on a case by case basis, should it be advantageous to the aims of the FSF. This is clarified somewhere in the FSF docs, though the clause as worded does require you to put a lot of trust in the FSF not to stray from their current philosophy. In the case of Novell, the clause could conceivably be used to close the source at some date in future, with an enhanced commercial version being offered, similar to what happens with OpenOffice and Mozilla (both of which have licenses which allow third parties to commercially exploit enhanced versions, so it is something the developers know to expect).
To be fair, the traffic is Slashdot's fault, not Penguins. I'm sure the referrer logs are showing more hits from http://slashdot.org than book://penguin/KatieT/katie.com anyway, I mean when was the last time you clicked on a link in a book you were reading?
I know from when I used to work for the R&D arm of a large multinational, that patents donated into the public domain can definitely be written off against tax in the US, so I wouldn't be surprised if copyrights could too, and if donating them to a non-profit that kept them for the public good was treated the same as public domain for tax purposes. I don't see any other reason for IBM to put a value on Cloudscape right before they give it away.
South Korea looks significantly less densely populated than the New England states and California coastline on that map. In fact it looks about the same on average as the entire Eastern half of the US. So what were the US executives and policy makers' excuses again?
If you are talking about sound quality, I doubt a craftsman working in his garage could come up with something worse than Bose. If you're talking aesthetics, it depends how skilled the craftsman is.
And the sign of someone who is definitely not a great hacker. Great hackers can sit down and program in any language. Arrogant arseholes refuse to work on projects because of the language or OS being used.
Credit card companies will do the same for "card not present" transactions. The problem with Paypal is that they do not make it clear that they will do it, in fact they do the opposite, they promote Paypal as a safe alternative to other forms of payment. If you have a contract with a credit card provider for handling credit card transactions directly, the consequences of accepting transactions without the card being physically present are more clearly laid out.
A lot of the Sony products aimed at the Japanese market is still manufactured in Japan. Most of their export stuff is made in China, Malaysia and other countries in the same factories as the cheap junk brands. The drop in quality of the major Japanese manufacturers seemed to coincide with them moving manufacturing offshore to cheaper countries in the mid-1990s. I buy Samsung these days, because their quality has improved over the same timeframe, and they haven't shipped most of their manufacturing offshore yet, though I'm sure its not far off with the joint ventures they've been doing with Toshiba and Sony lately.
They don't have to (under the law at least). But they will find it hard to get their recordings distributed and promoted if they don't due to the fact that the record industry doesn't approve of fair use.
All the more reason to have Xinhua and Al Jazeera in there, since those guys usually do offer a different slant on the news than the AP and Reuters feeds that everyone else is printing. CNN and BBC also have big enough news teams to cover most things themselves so they're worth looking at too.
The top two in the most popular list right now are dupes.
Then this article is extremely badly written. I could have sworn that the "myth" in question was
If you're going to write an article entitled "Open Source Myths", then you'd think that stating clearly what these myths were was a fairly important part of the exercise.