Software can be distributed w/o charge but does not have to be 100% free. Why he insists that this is the case is only understandable by him and people that are just as warped as he can be.
This whole incident is why software should be 100% free. Had BitKeeper truly been opensource Tridge (or anyone, for that matter) could have simply forked it and kernel development would have continued on. All this whole incident proved is that when your development is determined by the whims of a single entity you run a very significant chance of getting burned.
Re:Browser Comparison
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Opera 8 Released
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· Score: 2, Interesting
If you're looking for a fully integrated browser then you're looking for the suite. Firefox doesn't include those features because that's the reason it exists in the first place: to provide a stand-alone browser without the fluff with a standard, simple interface.
While I agree with the point I think that power users should be allowed to call up the ISP (maybe even at initial sign-up) and be allowed to request that the ports remain unblocked. Otherwise, the internet *will* become just the web and AIM for everyone if they like it or not.
Seriously. One of the reasons that mailing lists and news letters were so widespread is that everyone had a mail reader. We're looking at the same problems right now with revising SMTP and rolling over to IPv6: it's simply impossible to move over such a large number of people to a new technology when there's already one in place that works (even if it doesn't work all that well).
Sure, you're going to have a few early adopters, but beyond that it's probably going to stay pretty much the same.
That should AOL continue to block deep-linking (which they have the right to do so assuming that there is no contradictory clause in a user's contract) they should at least redirect users to a page explaining what is actually going on rather than leaving them to complain to LJ support.
As was noted earlier, the set of messages given to the filters for learning was terribly small. Furthermore, SpamAssassin wasn't tested in a way useful to most as the tests in this article didn't take into account SA's Bayesian filter nor it's network-based tests (Razor, etc).
Carmack has traditionally taken the stance of environment and fast-paced action over character development and gameplay. This is nothing new.
id has long followed the idea that a game should be build around the technology and not the other way around which is simply not the way to create a game, it's the way you create a technology demo or benchmarking software. At one point in time games had plots, scripts, characters, and progression laid out before the engine was written (or incorporated in the case of licensed code). At that point in time it was simply unrealistic to try and write a game completely for the "wow" factor because graphics technology was simply to primitive to impress anyone enough in that regard to buy the game.
There are clauses in some EULAs that note these features. Shareware/crippleware uses "call home" functionality with a good rate of success since the software is not modified by pirates/crackers who simply supply a serial or keygen and a link to download the crippled version.
Re:One of the things I find annoying...
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Masters of Doom
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Actually, the Catacomb games were the first FPS games created (they were created at SoftDisk). So he should have called everything "Catacomb3D-like." However, there's a good reason why he didn't: Doom was a far, far cry from the early FPS games, it was the greatest advancement in technology in one release in years, if not ever. Carmack is the ultimate commercial demo-scener (though he was never involved). He makes computers do things that they shouldn't logically be able to do.
When Doom came out there was such a slew of new things that no one had seen before that it became the benchmark for all future FPS games (until Half-Life, of course). Thus, "Doom-like."
Let us further assume the "offensive" code is not provided as source code, only in binary (machine) format. Is the source code or the executable the copyrighted item.
IIRC machine code that was compiled from copyrighted source is treated like a translated version of a book would be (as a "derivative work").
You're drastically off when you define abandonware. Abandonware games are games that are no longer actively sold or supported by their publisher (this is usually around 5 years). Abandonware is not restricted to games in the public domain (abandoned != public domain by any means).
Oldwarez games are those that are over a year old.
The biggest problem with most abandonware games lies not with the original developers, but with the EPA (formerly the IDSA), who go after abandonware sites simply because they have the power to, not because abandonware is causing any sort of real financial damage. The other major problem is with games that aren't owned by anyone (that is, games whose copyright was held by a company that has since folded, an author that has since died, etc). U.S. copyright law is terrible in this respect as said software doesn't enter the public domain until 75 years after the death of the author or 50 years after it was published if it was published by a corporation (iirc, those numbers may be a bit off, though the point still stands).
That's true in New York including if the person is trespassing (I realize that you were implying thus, but I figured I'd just state it explicitly). You can also be prosecuted for what's called an "attractive nuisance" (which a backyard rollercoaster would probably qualify for).
And who gave the US Government the right to tell the Baby-Bells how to operate their service (beyond the extent of FCC and FTC regulation). Telemarketers aren't taking advantage of a public commodity (like public airwaves), they're using a private service that they (and the people they're calling) paid for and have the ability to cancel at any time.
The Government has the right to regulate phone prices and serivce to an extent because of anti-trust laws, but wasn't the need of that regulation the point of breaking up AT&T in the first place? Furthermore, does that extent of regulation include telling the Bells who's allowed to use their service and, more importantly, how? Sounds awfully close to discrimination to me.
To bad Evolution probably wont support it
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Kroupware Komplete
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· Score: 5, Informative
According to the FAQ (and from ximian.com) it appears as if Evolution doesn't support Kroupware and wont be supporting it anytime soon (see this post to the evolution mailing list). This is a real shame considering that outside of the KDE camp most people aren't using K-Mail in favor of Gnome clients like Evolution and Balsa.
"Governments" in this context means the United States. Lets face it, the Russian space program is in financial ruin (along with the rest of the country) and the rest of the space programs in the world are far behind that (even if not in technology, then certainly in experience) of the US.
That said, because of recent events (the Columbia disaster) NASA is under even more fire. The public is crying for increased safty from an agency with a continually reduced budget (state of the economy, republican president, whatever you want to blame it on) and NASA simply cannot afford to continue manned space flight - the recoil from another accident would be disasterous. It has been said elsewhere (and it's quite true) that private enterprise is the only avenue through which manned space exploration can be continued reasonably because PR damage control has less far-reaching implications with respect to a private organization and said organization does not have to explain it's spending to tax payers.
A "design mistake" would be something error-prone and impossible to fix, like Python using indentation as part of the syntax.
That is not a "design mistake." Python was not originally meant to be a production language, it was meant as a teaching tool and as a teaching tool it used the whitespace block delimiters/quantifiers as a way to force programming newbies to learn to write readable code.
I own several.nu domains myself, and they don't come cheap (to just change your dns server listings - or any other setting - costs $10 [which can be avoided by waiting until it comes time to renew the domain]). I'm just glad to hear that all that money is going to a good cause, unlike many other tlds such as.ws,.tv, etc. which are marketed as entirely american and without any significant benifit to the countries for which they were originally created.
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Software can be distributed w/o charge but does not have to be 100% free. Why he insists that this is the case is only understandable by him and people that are just as warped as he can be.
This whole incident is why software should be 100% free. Had BitKeeper truly been opensource Tridge (or anyone, for that matter) could have simply forked it and kernel development would have continued on. All this whole incident proved is that when your development is determined by the whims of a single entity you run a very significant chance of getting burned.
You just described the Mozilla Suite.
If you're looking for a fully integrated browser then you're looking for the suite. Firefox doesn't include those features because that's the reason it exists in the first place: to provide a stand-alone browser without the fluff with a standard, simple interface.
The whois history reveals a bit more about the domain (which was picked up by google just very recently).
One of his suggestions to secure your enterprise... turn off port 80
That's nothing. To be *really* secure I just don't even turn my computer on!
We all know how Gates "embraced" XML for Office 11...
While I agree with the point I think that power users should be allowed to call up the ISP (maybe even at initial sign-up) and be allowed to request that the ports remain unblocked. Otherwise, the internet *will* become just the web and AIM for everyone if they like it or not.
Seriously. One of the reasons that mailing lists and news letters were so widespread is that everyone had a mail reader. We're looking at the same problems right now with revising SMTP and rolling over to IPv6: it's simply impossible to move over such a large number of people to a new technology when there's already one in place that works (even if it doesn't work all that well). Sure, you're going to have a few early adopters, but beyond that it's probably going to stay pretty much the same.
The Mono FAQ has a section devoted to it.
That should AOL continue to block deep-linking (which they have the right to do so assuming that there is no contradictory clause in a user's contract) they should at least redirect users to a page explaining what is actually going on rather than leaving them to complain to LJ support.
As was noted earlier, the set of messages given to the filters for learning was terribly small. Furthermore, SpamAssassin wasn't tested in a way useful to most as the tests in this article didn't take into account SA's Bayesian filter nor it's network-based tests (Razor, etc).
Carmack has traditionally taken the stance of environment and fast-paced action over character development and gameplay. This is nothing new.
id has long followed the idea that a game should be build around the technology and not the other way around which is simply not the way to create a game, it's the way you create a technology demo or benchmarking software. At one point in time games had plots, scripts, characters, and progression laid out before the engine was written (or incorporated in the case of licensed code). At that point in time it was simply unrealistic to try and write a game completely for the "wow" factor because graphics technology was simply to primitive to impress anyone enough in that regard to buy the game.
The access control list feature is something that has been in Windows and Solaris for some time.
FreeBSD has had ACLs (in the 5.x branch) for some time as well.
There are clauses in some EULAs that note these features. Shareware/crippleware uses "call home" functionality with a good rate of success since the software is not modified by pirates/crackers who simply supply a serial or keygen and a link to download the crippled version.
Actually, the Catacomb games were the first FPS games created (they were created at SoftDisk). So he should have called everything "Catacomb3D-like." However, there's a good reason why he didn't: Doom was a far, far cry from the early FPS games, it was the greatest advancement in technology in one release in years, if not ever. Carmack is the ultimate commercial demo-scener (though he was never involved). He makes computers do things that they shouldn't logically be able to do.
When Doom came out there was such a slew of new things that no one had seen before that it became the benchmark for all future FPS games (until Half-Life, of course). Thus, "Doom-like."
Let us further assume the "offensive" code is not provided as source code, only in binary (machine) format. Is the source code or the executable the copyrighted item.
IIRC machine code that was compiled from copyrighted source is treated like a translated version of a book would be (as a "derivative work").
Coke retroactively blames the touch-tone phone for poor sales of the New Coke.
A little patent-portfolio company did in one suit what the Fed couldn't in 5 years.
You're drastically off when you define abandonware. Abandonware games are games that are no longer actively sold or supported by their publisher (this is usually around 5 years). Abandonware is not restricted to games in the public domain (abandoned != public domain by any means). Oldwarez games are those that are over a year old. The biggest problem with most abandonware games lies not with the original developers, but with the EPA (formerly the IDSA), who go after abandonware sites simply because they have the power to, not because abandonware is causing any sort of real financial damage. The other major problem is with games that aren't owned by anyone (that is, games whose copyright was held by a company that has since folded, an author that has since died, etc). U.S. copyright law is terrible in this respect as said software doesn't enter the public domain until 75 years after the death of the author or 50 years after it was published if it was published by a corporation (iirc, those numbers may be a bit off, though the point still stands).
That's true in New York including if the person is trespassing (I realize that you were implying thus, but I figured I'd just state it explicitly). You can also be prosecuted for what's called an "attractive nuisance" (which a backyard rollercoaster would probably qualify for).
And who gave the US Government the right to tell the Baby-Bells how to operate their service (beyond the extent of FCC and FTC regulation). Telemarketers aren't taking advantage of a public commodity (like public airwaves), they're using a private service that they (and the people they're calling) paid for and have the ability to cancel at any time. The Government has the right to regulate phone prices and serivce to an extent because of anti-trust laws, but wasn't the need of that regulation the point of breaking up AT&T in the first place? Furthermore, does that extent of regulation include telling the Bells who's allowed to use their service and, more importantly, how? Sounds awfully close to discrimination to me.
According to the FAQ (and from ximian.com) it appears as if Evolution doesn't support Kroupware and wont be supporting it anytime soon (see this post to the evolution mailing list). This is a real shame considering that outside of the KDE camp most people aren't using K-Mail in favor of Gnome clients like Evolution and Balsa.
Ever heard of GTK? That said, Qt does have it's uses, but GTK shouldn't be ignored, either.
"Governments" in this context means the United States. Lets face it, the Russian space program is in financial ruin (along with the rest of the country) and the rest of the space programs in the world are far behind that (even if not in technology, then certainly in experience) of the US.
That said, because of recent events (the Columbia disaster) NASA is under even more fire. The public is crying for increased safty from an agency with a continually reduced budget (state of the economy, republican president, whatever you want to blame it on) and NASA simply cannot afford to continue manned space flight - the recoil from another accident would be disasterous. It has been said elsewhere (and it's quite true) that private enterprise is the only avenue through which manned space exploration can be continued reasonably because PR damage control has less far-reaching implications with respect to a private organization and said organization does not have to explain it's spending to tax payers.
A "design mistake" would be something error-prone and impossible to fix, like Python using indentation as part of the syntax.
That is not a "design mistake." Python was not originally meant to be a production language, it was meant as a teaching tool and as a teaching tool it used the whitespace block delimiters/quantifiers as a way to force programming newbies to learn to write readable code.
I own several .nu domains myself, and they don't come cheap (to just change your dns server listings - or any other setting - costs $10 [which can be avoided by waiting until it comes time to renew the domain]). I'm just glad to hear that all that money is going to a good cause, unlike many other tlds such as .ws, .tv, etc. which are marketed as entirely american and without any significant benifit to the countries for which they were originally created.