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I just want to say that when the US declared independence and the British attacked - they encountered something never before seen in the history of human kind - armed citizens.
Don't discount the "general browser" market. Opera may face a lot of competition there but it is an absolutely enormous space. Even if Opera only ever achieves a few percent of web browsing computers that is still an _enormous_ number of people contributing to their bottom line through either paying for it or through the adverts.
IE/Mozilla may well dominate browser stats, but the percentage numbers don't reflect just how big the market is. I know if I had a revenue generating product that 1% of web users were using I'd be a happy chappy!
Is that people can have a variety of motivations and still contribute positively on something common.
Novell, IBM et al are part of the community. Like all communities the aims and motivations of individual members do not line up 100%. We should celebrate, support and encourage our commonality, not make a big deal out of or fear our potential differences.
Why isn't protection for open source software and limitation of intelectual property law a political issue?
It's too bloody confusing. Half of Slashdot seemingly doesn't understand the difference between copyright and patents. The vast majority of the general public wouldn't relate to it at all. (Though this is one area where projects such as Creative Commons may help in the long term.)
What can we do to force politicians to bring these issues to the forefront?
Your best bet would be to find a section of the bible pointing out that software patents are bad.
The only real reason to want the code is to find exploitable holes in the software. If you're paying 24k so you can do that you presumably want to use those exploits for a purpose. Releasing the sourcecode and risking exploits becoming public (and then patched) devalues your investment.
I think that a lot of people download movies/songs over peer to peer simply because "they can".
The desire to actually watch a particular movie or obtain a particular song may not be all that great . But you've got a lot of bandwidth and you can pull the movie for free so why not?
Once some sort of real cost is added to that people will start thinking twice. They lived without downloadable movies before and don't really need the MPAA following through on their threat so they will just stop.
Of course, that doesn't mean those people will necessarily be handing over more money to members of the MPAA.
I certainly don't recall anywhere near the amount of derision coming from the rest of the world during Clinton's stint as president. Even during the sex scandal the rest of the world was at most a mildly amused spectator.
George Bush as president is such a mind bogglingly funny idea it almost defies parody.
While it may be easier to "tear down than build up" it seems it only takes money and connections to build a cretin into a president.
You are right in a way though, while the US talks to the world as if it is God's gift to the planet the rest of the world will certainly enjoy poking fun at it. Disdain and disrespect for those who hold themselves as better than you is not just natural, it's probably healthy too.
That doesn't just go for the US. In most western democracies I've been to there has been a healthy lack of respect for those in power. It's part of keeping the bastards honest. Sadly it seems, at least from afar, that too many Americans take criticism of their president as an affront to the country itself rather than an indication he might not be doing a good enough job for your country.
At the end of the day though those that are pointing out that your emporer has no clothes are right, he's a moron plain and simple.
Lighten up dude, it's a lighthearted story and if it doesn't appeal to you then just skip it.
If the worst thing that happens to you today is your ill-humoured post being "modbombed into oblivion" (snigger) then you've had a pretty good day by most standards.
Policies aside, at least with Kerry the rest of the world won't be snickering so much.
I mean, ~290 million people to choose from* and George Bush was viewed as the USA's best choice for President? That really is funny on a very fundamental level.
* Yes, I'm aware that the entirety of the US population isn't eligable to be president, but anyway....
So this leaves lots unsaid. Basically, if correspondents say they don't have press freedom, they don't. Doesn't seem like a very scientific study to me.
Indeed, they should of used a cyclotron or at least a bunsen burner.
Then pconnect is certainly the way to go as it significantly cuts down the overhead of each page because you don't need to establish a connection to the database on every page call.
All you need to do is limit the number of clients Apache will serve to the same number (or a little fewer) of db connections the DB is limited to, thus getting the maximum usage the db configuration will allow and a slightly nicer error response.
If you have multiple databases on the DB server then persistant connects are probably not the way to go though, because a lot of them may be laying idle and wasted at any one point.
It's a simple acknowledgement that one size does not fit all.
In fact, by assembling a variety of licence options under one roof and explaining the options in a consistant and coherant way (and with comics), they go a long way to helping people really understand the issues.
You mean "a" Creative Commons licence. There are a variety of them, and what you are permitted to do varies between them.
For example some of the tracks on the disc are only samplable (?) for noncommercial purposes which is probably a restriction that doesn't fit with some peoples ideas of "freedom".
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Australia's next.
I think you meant:
"It was an idiot's joke"
Don't discount the "general browser" market. Opera may face a lot of competition there but it is an absolutely enormous space. Even if Opera only ever achieves a few percent of web browsing computers that is still an _enormous_ number of people contributing to their bottom line through either paying for it or through the adverts.
IE/Mozilla may well dominate browser stats, but the percentage numbers don't reflect just how big the market is. I know if I had a revenue generating product that 1% of web users were using I'd be a happy chappy!
Is that you George?
Is that people can have a variety of motivations and still contribute positively on something common.
Novell, IBM et al are part of the community. Like all communities the aims and motivations of individual members do not line up 100%. We should celebrate, support and encourage our commonality, not make a big deal out of or fear our potential differences.
How would you notice?
(this is meant as a lighthearted jest).
I simply don't see why it should be hard.
It's the 21st century and we can't even add up correctly and verifiably?
As your page points out though, an out of date image search can have very dire consequences....
Once Google realised that 99% of searches on Google image search were for "Alyssa Milano nude" they just stopped bothering to maintain it...
Isn't going to start handing it out for free.
The only real reason to want the code is to find exploitable holes in the software. If you're paying 24k so you can do that you presumably want to use those exploits for a purpose. Releasing the sourcecode and risking exploits becoming public (and then patched) devalues your investment.
The MPAA should stop suing people and instead concentrate on hooking people up with boyfriends and girlfriends.
Couples got to the movies more often than individuals.
In part that is so they can stop having to talk to each other for a while without risking offence.
I think that a lot of people download movies/songs over peer to peer simply because "they can".
The desire to actually watch a particular movie or obtain a particular song may not be all that great . But you've got a lot of bandwidth and you can pull the movie for free so why not?
Once some sort of real cost is added to that people will start thinking twice. They lived without downloadable movies before and don't really need the MPAA following through on their threat so they will just stop.
Of course, that doesn't mean those people will necessarily be handing over more money to members of the MPAA.
I certainly don't recall anywhere near the amount of derision coming from the rest of the world during Clinton's stint as president. Even during the sex scandal the rest of the world was at most a mildly amused spectator.
George Bush as president is such a mind bogglingly funny idea it almost defies parody.
While it may be easier to "tear down than build up" it seems it only takes money and connections to build a cretin into a president.
You are right in a way though, while the US talks to the world as if it is God's gift to the planet the rest of the world will certainly enjoy poking fun at it. Disdain and disrespect for those who hold themselves as better than you is not just natural, it's probably healthy too.
That doesn't just go for the US. In most western democracies I've been to there has been a healthy lack of respect for those in power. It's part of keeping the bastards honest. Sadly it seems, at least from afar, that too many Americans take criticism of their president as an affront to the country itself rather than an indication he might not be doing a good enough job for your country.
At the end of the day though those that are pointing out that your emporer has no clothes are right, he's a moron plain and simple.
Scratch out the "C" and replace it with a "K"
Lighten up dude, it's a lighthearted story and if it doesn't appeal to you then just skip it.
If the worst thing that happens to you today is your ill-humoured post being "modbombed into oblivion" (snigger) then you've had a pretty good day by most standards.
Policies aside, at least with Kerry the rest of the world won't be snickering so much.
I mean, ~290 million people to choose from* and George Bush was viewed as the USA's best choice for President? That really is funny on a very fundamental level.
* Yes, I'm aware that the entirety of the US population isn't eligable to be president, but anyway....
I'm glad you pointed all that out. There was me thinking there was a serious cause and effect going on here
Then pconnect is certainly the way to go as it significantly cuts down the overhead of each page because you don't need to establish a connection to the database on every page call.
All you need to do is limit the number of clients Apache will serve to the same number (or a little fewer) of db connections the DB is limited to, thus getting the maximum usage the db configuration will allow and a slightly nicer error response.
If you have multiple databases on the DB server then persistant connects are probably not the way to go though, because a lot of them may be laying idle and wasted at any one point.
This is Slashdot.
It's a simple acknowledgement that one size does not fit all.
In fact, by assembling a variety of licence options under one roof and explaining the options in a consistant and coherant way (and with comics), they go a long way to helping people really understand the issues.
You mean "a" Creative Commons licence. There are a variety of them, and what you are permitted to do varies between them.
For example some of the tracks on the disc are only samplable (?) for noncommercial purposes which is probably a restriction that doesn't fit with some peoples ideas of "freedom".