The fact that we funded the development of the technology through taxpayer money doesn't change that.
As far as myself, many other voters, and companies who contribute to out elected officials campaigns, are concerned, it does--right or wrong.
The Internet as it exists today has evolved far beyond the intentions of its inventers; to say that the US government "owns" it has extremely disturbing possibilities.
As opposed to BT who tried to patent hyperlinking?
As opposed to China with its censorship laws?
I'm quite an advocate of I18N, but we aren't obligated to give away anything just because somebody or everybody else is using it. The other countries have control over their DNS servers. There is an alternative DNS infrastructure in place already. If they don't like the way we're running things let them do the innovation.
Trade is just that Trade. NAFTA and CAFTA are like me becomming partners with Donald Trump. It's not not fair or apporpriate. I also believe that drug companies should not be allowed to sell drugs abroad for less than they sell them here.
So if something is developed in the US using US resources, and becomes an indispensable international asset because of its quality and/or usefulness, then the US government should retain control over said asset?
Sure. We paied for it. We control it.
since Hitler is largely to thank for creating the concept of the "volkswagen", literally "the people's car
H. Ford is still responsible for affordable, mass produced cars. He also has the concept that the workers should be able to afford the products they build.
Who's to say that a similar creation couldn't have come from Japan? Or Germany? Or China, even? The concept of a network of networks (aka the Internet) isn't exclusively an American concept. And why shouldn't the whole world benefit from something developed on US soil?
They certainly could have, and if they had they would be in charge. But they didn't.
Maybe we should deny the world antibiotics, as well.
Penicillin was discovered by the British. The US also sells antibiotics and other medicine outside the country for less than they sell it here. This forces the people living here to sibsidize other countries' drug habit.
Perhaps we should have kept the transistor, diode, and integrated circuit to ourselves? Oh wait, we didn't.
Since the Chinese have all this extra brain power, perhaps they should out invent us, and write a better OS and networking protocols. I mean they have 100 Million people online.
As such, the United States is committed to taking no action that would have the potential to adversely impact the effective and efficient operation of the DNS and will therefore maintain its historic role in authorizing changes or modifications to the authoritative root zone file.
The magic phrases are "taking no action" and "maintain historic role". Meaning exactly what I said earlier: they like the way things are now.
With the restrictions that GPL-3 is going to impose there will be less money spend on RMS's free software. Companies use GLP software because they know thei're "Trade Secrets" will remain intact. Does RMS and the FSF really think that corporations like Google and Yahoo are going to give up their code base?
The FSF is just getting greedy because they see Free Software being used as services, and not distributed, so they want their "cut".
GPL 3 needs to die before its born and kills the Free Software movement.
All the new batman needs is are repulsors, unibean, and boot jet, and we have gone from Batman to Iron-man
waterproof Check
bulletproof Check
knife-proof Check
temperature-regulating Check
impact-resistant, graphite-composite cowl Check Sorta Chell head had his helment
spiked ninja-style gauntlets Check So they not spiked, shellhead still has his primary weapon, his repulsors, in his gaultlets
against everything from swords to machine guns Check We're starting light, but I'm not sure the original grey suit bounced missils either
a specially designed nylon-derivative fabric that stiffens when hit with an electric charge Check Shell head's armor is flexible when its not activated, just a short step from the shellhead's armor
allowing Batman to use it as a glider. CheckOkay Iron-man flies.
As for me, screw the superhero business, I'll take the alter ego and move to Southbeach.
So what if Diane Morello knows nothing about programming.
The HMFIC of your company, unless its a very small company, doesn't ask the programmers how to run his company, he asks people like Diane Morello. Why is that?
Diane Morello doesn't get her news or research data from/. or a similar source. Can she predict the future? hell no. Lets look at Open Source Operating Systems: Linux, and BSD. BSD based on the Berkeley code had 3 major flavours, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD.
FreeBSD-runs on standard PC hardware, vaillla UNIX.
OpenBSD-similar to FreeBSD but allegidly subject to rigorous code reviews and security audits.
NetBSD-runs on a bunch of toy hardware. About as relevant to modern business as Morris Code
Linux-Is is Linux or GNU/Linux? It supposidly works like UNIX. And what's with all those "distributions"? Who is this Linus guy anyway.
Gartner probably doesn't understand Linux, neither does your average CEO. Gartner does understand "UNIX" and "security audit" It makes little sense to them why the "technology people" like Linux and not OpenBSD.
As for not knowing about programming or problems encountered in programming. Would you trust a taxi driver or auto mechanic to be CEO of GM? They spend all day either driving or working on cars?
Getting a job with a Masters is tougher than with a BS.
In order to get a job with a Masters you have to have something to contribute to the organization. So the question is what do you do? AI, graphics, Modeling and Simulation. If you don't know what you want to do, and have a Masters, you should probably look for a govt. or govt. contractor position where they value paper more than ability.
But its not just a person observer its any observer.
What the other post fails to mention is observers allways intract with what they observe, ala the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. If an event hasn't been observerd it can't be known whether or not the event has actually happened. Just like Schrodinger's cat. This "new" theory should be intuitively obviously to any senior level physics student.
If I had realized this was a new concept I would have written it up. I was applying it to my Champions campaign more than 10 years ago: Time travel is possible, it's just not possible to change known events.
I agree networking is so much better under XP. I love having to manually reconfigure my network connection when I move between networks not using dhcp.
Honestly, I'm not sure you understand the importance in an OS of interfacing with the hardware. This isn't a job you want to pawn off on the compiler with a bunch of canned, one-size-fits-all libraries. Not unless you want a crappy, slow, awkward OS.
Like the Amiga OS? IIRC it was written using SAS C++.;-)
Take the time and do it right the first time. Get somebody who knows what they're doing to check it. Get somebody else who knows what they're doing to check them.
Crap like code errors is completely unacceptable. If you're writing books because you claim to be an expert on the subject, prove it and do it right.
Companies should be raising standards on publications, rather than eliminating them like New Riders. But even Addison Wesley puts out garbage.
Linus, and Bob are perfectly free to take the Linux Kernel, bundle it with GNU utilies and call it Linux, RedHat, or Penguin.
Stallman to is free to take the Linux Kernel, bundle it with his GNU utilities and call it GNU/Linux.
Stallman is all about freedom, just so its freedom as he defines it.
I am free to spend my money as I please, and so are other people. Free, (RMS), software is good. Free, (Beer), software is good. Freedom to choose what kind of software I want to write or use is even more Freedom.
Part of the price of freedom is understanding that people will make choices that don't make you happy.
Where I'm working nobody. 2 Gig is standard. Also 2 Gig is not enough for much of what we do. We need more but the current architectures don't support it, and the software hasn't been ported to 64bit.
Excuse me, Space Opera is Science Fiction. In fact E.E. Doc. Smith is considered one of the greatest SciFi writers of all time. He pretty much invented SO.
Also, Fantasy is a subcategory SF. People who don't consider it as such are just snobs. Ray Bradbury for instance.
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Sun, (Java..) and OpenSource Communities learning to cooperate?
Tomcat is the standard for JSP development, and the reference implementation.
JBOSS is J2EE certified.
JSTL implementation was released by the apache group, not Sun
Sun used Struts-EL for JSP 2.0
Xerces was a joint Sun/IBM effort
There's Hibernate which is pretty much going to be EJB 3.0.
X-Doclet has been acepted as the new Metadata format.
Sun is doing a shitload with opensource, they just aren't promoting it.
As far as myself, many other voters, and companies who contribute to out elected officials campaigns, are concerned, it does--right or wrong.
As opposed to BT who tried to patent hyperlinking?
As opposed to China with its censorship laws?
I'm quite an advocate of I18N, but we aren't obligated to give away anything just because somebody or everybody else is using it. The other countries have control over their DNS servers. There is an alternative DNS infrastructure in place already. If they don't like the way we're running things let them do the innovation.
Trade is just that Trade. NAFTA and CAFTA are like me becomming partners with Donald Trump. It's not not fair or apporpriate. I also believe that drug companies should not be allowed to sell drugs abroad for less than they sell them here.
I don't wish to subsidize the rest of the world.
Sure. We paied for it. We control it.
H. Ford is still responsible for affordable, mass produced cars. He also has the concept that the workers should be able to afford the products they build.
They certainly could have, and if they had they would be in charge. But they didn't.
Penicillin was discovered by the British. The US also sells antibiotics and other medicine outside the country for less than they sell it here. This forces the people living here to sibsidize other countries' drug habit.
Perhaps we should have kept the transistor, diode, and integrated circuit to ourselves? Oh wait, we didn't.
Since the Chinese have all this extra brain power, perhaps they should out invent us, and write a better OS and networking protocols. I mean they have 100 Million people online.
Patriotic dick waving?
What part of the US Govt. "Likes the say things are running right now and don't want to dorq crap up", do you not understand?
As somebody else posted:
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/USDNSI suggest you read the first paragraph
The magic phrases are "taking no action" and "maintain historic role". Meaning exactly what I said earlier: they like the way things are now.
GPL 3 will probably be the death of the GPL.
With the restrictions that GPL-3 is going to impose there will be less money spend on RMS's free software. Companies use GLP software because they know thei're "Trade Secrets" will remain intact. Does RMS and the FSF really think that corporations like Google and Yahoo are going to give up their code base?
The FSF is just getting greedy because they see Free Software being used as services, and not distributed, so they want their "cut".
GPL 3 needs to die before its born and kills the Free Software movement.
Or maybe the FSF is on the Micro$oft payroll now.
Naruto sucked in Japanese, what do you expect from the translation?
DB, is something else that sucked in Japanese.
You're bitching about Americanized anime, that sucked in the original language.
If you want to gripe about comercialized stuff sucking, why don't you pick on something that aimed at an audience over 12.
All the new batman needs is are repulsors, unibean, and boot jet, and we have gone from Batman to Iron-man
As for me, screw the superhero business, I'll take the alter ego and move to Southbeach.
So what if Diane Morello knows nothing about programming.
The HMFIC of your company, unless its a very small company, doesn't ask the programmers how to run his company, he asks people like Diane Morello. Why is that?
Diane Morello doesn't get her news or research data from /. or a similar source. Can she predict the future? hell no. Lets look at Open Source Operating Systems: Linux, and BSD. BSD based on the Berkeley code had 3 major flavours, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD.
Gartner probably doesn't understand Linux, neither does your average CEO. Gartner does understand "UNIX" and "security audit" It makes little sense to them why the "technology people" like Linux and not OpenBSD.
As for not knowing about programming or problems encountered in programming. Would you trust a taxi driver or auto mechanic to be CEO of GM? They spend all day either driving or working on cars?
Reminds me of the mentality of Farenhieght 451.
Write what you want, read what you want.
Getting a job with a Masters is tougher than with a BS.
In order to get a job with a Masters you have to have something to contribute to the organization. So the question is what do you do? AI, graphics, Modeling and Simulation. If you don't know what you want to do, and have a Masters, you should probably look for a govt. or govt. contractor position where they value paper more than ability.
If you don't know what you want to do why the hell did you get a master's degree to begin with?
But its not just a person observer its any observer.
What the other post fails to mention is observers allways intract with what they observe, ala the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. If an event hasn't been observerd it can't be known whether or not the event has actually happened. Just like Schrodinger's cat. This "new" theory should be intuitively obviously to any senior level physics student.
If I had realized this was a new concept I would have written it up. I was applying it to my Champions campaign more than 10 years ago: Time travel is possible, it's just not possible to change known events.
I agree networking is so much better under XP. I love having to manually reconfigure my network connection when I move between networks not using dhcp.
Perhaps a few /.ers should go out and buy a subscription to the Economist.
As for me, my money is where my mouth is and I have my dead tree subscription
Like the Amiga OS? IIRC it was written using SAS C++. ;-)
Take the time and do it right the first time. Get somebody who knows what they're doing to check it. Get somebody else who knows what they're doing to check them.
Crap like code errors is completely unacceptable. If you're writing books because you claim to be an expert on the subject, prove it and do it right.
Companies should be raising standards on publications, rather than eliminating them like New Riders. But even Addison Wesley puts out garbage.
Take a real physics course.
Linus, and Bob are perfectly free to take the Linux Kernel, bundle it with GNU utilies and call it Linux, RedHat, or Penguin.
Stallman to is free to take the Linux Kernel, bundle it with his GNU utilities and call it GNU/Linux.
Stallman is all about freedom, just so its freedom as he defines it.
I am free to spend my money as I please, and so are other people. Free, (RMS), software is good. Free, (Beer), software is good. Freedom to choose what kind of software I want to write or use is even more Freedom.
Part of the price of freedom is understanding that people will make choices that don't make you happy.
Of the languages I listed, I perfer Java?
Students go to school to learn, not pray. If they are done with their schoolwork, they can pray all they want to.
If they want things otherwise, they can attend a school where they're doing it on somebody else's dollar.
What I want to see are a few good Buddhist students chanting while the christians are praying or trying to take test.
Where I'm working nobody. 2 Gig is standard. Also 2 Gig is not enough for much of what we do. We need more but the current architectures don't support it, and the software hasn't been ported to 64bit.
Excuse me, Space Opera is Science Fiction. In fact E.E. Doc. Smith is considered one of the greatest SciFi writers of all time. He pretty much invented SO.
Also, Fantasy is a subcategory SF. People who don't consider it as such are just snobs. Ray Bradbury for instance.
Even better
Martin Fowler of Refactoring does Java.
Erich Gamma of Design Patterns is a major player on the Eclipse project.
Besides why should people consider a language cool at all? Shouldn't it be, "What I can do with a language" is considered cool?