I know some of the technology/car comparisons are a bit silly and overblown, but DO imagine a car that suddenly won't work, and the fix isn't due for 3 months.
I don't need to imagine anything... I own a 2000 Ford Explorer.
If the source code is placed under a less restrictive license such as the BSD license where the code can be integrated into proprietary products such as Microsoft Windows, then the customer will be forced to pay the vendor of the proprietary software for something they have in fact already paid for when they paid their tax to the government.
How many times do we have to go over this? Your taxes paid for the original software to be written, not whatever Microsoft writes. If you want their program over the free version that is still available from the government, then obviously Microsoft has ADDED VALUE to the software... and thus you should pay for it.
I.R. works great, uses less power and will be far cheaper to impliment. Plus works when the lights are off. What about those poor blind people when the bulbs are burned out, or during a power outage?
Oh I dunno, I don't think the blind people will mind too much if the lights are out.
You can raise a kid with one parent but it shouldnt be done
You can drive a car with your feet but it shouldnt be done You can fertalize you lawn with used motor oil but it shouldnt be done
And now you can build a DSL modem out of a soundcard but it shouldnt be done
Are there any uses for DAE, besides ripping music? It's seems to me that's pretty much it's sole purpose... used to be, in the days of 8x (and lesser) cd-rom drives, a lot of drives didn't even support DAE and they worked fine for everything but ripping.
What good would a CD-ROM be if you couldn't pull data off a CD?
Repeat after me: Audio CD's are just 1's and 0's.
Don't worry about the hardware manufacturers of CD-ROM's, worry about a new format to replace CD-ROM's that carries copy protection bullshit in with it.
Besides, and two-bit company can create a CD-ROM... that's low tech. If you want to worry about hardware, start worrying about when the big television makers, HD receiver makers, DVD makers, PVR makers, etc. start getting together and closing off any access to digital audio/video being transferred between their devices. It's already happening.
Is this me or seems like Slashdot seems to be completely dominated by leftists and liberals. When was a last time you saw any story presented from conservative point of view?
I haven't noticed one over the other, although I think a lot of people on here like to call themselves libertarians even though they act like liberals. In other words, the kind of libertarians that don't want the government controlling the internet, but don't mind new laws controlling spam, Microsoft's monopoly, etc.
These are not the sort of things that are only visible in 20/20 hindsight. This is all well known in the space community, and NASA leadership has shown an extraordinary skill for disregarding the obviously correct path at times.
So you're trying to imply that a government run program is being mismanaged and not doing it's job correctly?
Words and images etc. already in common use - in any language - are not copyrightable and that's that. You can't claim copyright retroactively.
ObNitPick... you mean they aren't "trademark-able." You automatically own the copyright for any original "work" you create. But a trademark must be applied for specifically...
Children are growing up right around us without a clear sense of history because of all the 'tales for children' that exist to make learning easier. We don't pass along cultural identity to our descendants by showing them finger-paintings of the Mona Lisa (well, not usually). Why should we be bothered that the Maori would like to prevent that from happening to them?
We also don't try to sue artists that fingerpaint the Mona Lisa, do we?
No doubt about it, it was a continuation of the war that's been going on since Gates realized that Linux posed a threat to the status quo. If all software is free, there's no longer a way for that big money-maker in Redmond to make any more money.
You had me at hello... but you lost me at your goodbye:
Between now and Microsoft's true 64-bit offering, Microsoft are vulnerable to a market coup. Pull that coup off, and it won't be Microsoft with a 98% presence on the desktop. This is a potentially critical moment. Strategy and timing will be everything.
What makes you think the Average User is going to be attracted to an expensive piece of hardware running Linux?
In other words, how on earth could THIS spell the end of Microsoft's 98% presence on the desktop?
Oh I get it... they might have only 97% thanks to this... there ya go.
Also... cigarette companies? Can they be charged with murder, since they're aware as a company that they are more or less responsible for thousands of deaths each year? Makes me wonder if Florida is a death penalty state...
Since when did the cigarette companies start forcing people to smoke?
No, at most the cig companies are liable for endangering folks back in the "good old days" when they ran ads saying, basically, "smoking's good for you!"
As a libertarian, I believe people/companies should have the right to sell whatever they want, as long as they are truthful about the product, which cigarette companies are now made to be, with the surgeon general's warning stamped on everything. I mean, why should it be illegal to sell something people want to buy?
In the immortal words of George Carlin, "Selling's legal. Fucking's legal. Why isn't selling fucking legal?"
Slashdot Mirror
from the slashdot-vows-to-take-up-slack dept.
Does this mean Slashdot will be hiring some actual writers? People that can generate some real content?
Plastic will remain open, serving up some user generated content, which is apparently the cheapest way to operate on the net."
Oh, nevermind then.
I know some of the technology/car comparisons are a bit silly and overblown, but DO imagine a car that suddenly won't work, and the fix isn't due for 3 months.
... I own a 2000 Ford Explorer.
I don't need to imagine anything
If the source code is placed under a less restrictive license such as the BSD license where the code can be integrated into proprietary products such as Microsoft Windows, then the customer will be forced to pay the vendor of the proprietary software for something they have in fact already paid for when they paid their tax to the government.
... and thus you should pay for it.
How many times do we have to go over this? Your taxes paid for the original software to be written, not whatever Microsoft writes. If you want their program over the free version that is still available from the government, then obviously Microsoft has ADDED VALUE to the software
Mozilla is currently some 22,000 lines of code bigger than the most recent kernel release.
Holy hell that's a large project.
Are you referring to the Linux Kernel or Mozilla?
In other news, the Linux Kernel is being renamed to "the Linux Corncob."
Naturally you'd have to do something about homonyms (I'll sounds just like aisle, anyway). Probably best to just work around them.
:-)
Ill is not a homonym for I'll. You're talking about how things sound, and the discussion centers on how English LOOKS.
No more slavery, no more sucking up to those who exploit us. Real freedom.
Demand Liberty! Nothing less!
Hey, William Wallace, why don't you just set the remote down, and back slowly away from your TV set...
I.R. works great, uses less power and will be far cheaper to impliment. Plus works when the lights are off. What about those poor blind people when the bulbs are burned out, or during a power outage?
Oh I dunno, I don't think the blind people will mind too much if the lights are out.
You can raise a kid with one parent but it shouldnt be done
You can drive a car with your feet but it shouldnt be done
You can fertalize you lawn with used motor oil but it shouldnt be done
And now you can build a DSL modem out of a soundcard but it shouldnt be done
How DO you reach the pedals with your hands?
Actually, I think the slashdot post was a lot funnier... he managed to convert english to german by the last year...
same thing goes for dealing with contractions, a la dont, wont, ill, and so on.
I'm sorry, are you ill?
There, was that so hard?
Are there any uses for DAE, besides ripping music? It's seems to me that's pretty much it's sole purpose... used to be, in the days of 8x (and lesser) cd-rom drives, a lot of drives didn't even support DAE and they worked fine for everything but ripping.
What good would a CD-ROM be if you couldn't pull data off a CD?
Repeat after me: Audio CD's are just 1's and 0's.
Don't worry about the hardware manufacturers of CD-ROM's, worry about a new format to replace CD-ROM's that carries copy protection bullshit in with it.
Besides, and two-bit company can create a CD-ROM... that's low tech. If you want to worry about hardware, start worrying about when the big television makers, HD receiver makers, DVD makers, PVR makers, etc. start getting together and closing off any access to digital audio/video being transferred between their devices. It's already happening.
Whining about old news has been around since Ecclesiastes, and whining in general is even older...
Yeah, it started on a Wednesday, to be exact.
Is this me or seems like Slashdot seems to be completely dominated by leftists and liberals. When was a last time you saw any story presented from conservative point of view?
I haven't noticed one over the other, although I think a lot of people on here like to call themselves libertarians even though they act like liberals. In other words, the kind of libertarians that don't want the government controlling the internet, but don't mind new laws controlling spam, Microsoft's monopoly, etc.
These are not the sort of things that are only visible in 20/20 hindsight. This is all well known in the space community, and NASA leadership has shown an extraordinary skill for disregarding the obviously correct path at times.
So you're trying to imply that a government run program is being mismanaged and not doing it's job correctly?
I don't believe it!
Words and images etc. already in common use - in any language - are not copyrightable and that's that. You can't claim copyright retroactively.
ObNitPick... you mean they aren't "trademark-able." You automatically own the copyright for any original "work" you create. But a trademark must be applied for specifically...
Children are growing up right around us without a clear sense of history because of all the 'tales for children' that exist to make learning easier. We don't pass along cultural identity to our descendants by showing them finger-paintings of the Mona Lisa (well, not usually). Why should we be bothered that the Maori would like to prevent that from happening to them?
We also don't try to sue artists that fingerpaint the Mona Lisa, do we?
No doubt about it, it was a continuation of the war that's been going on since Gates realized that Linux posed a threat to the status quo. If all software is free, there's no longer a way for that big money-maker in Redmond to make any more money.
Do I even need to add a comment here?
The cool part is that it's mobile, so I can use it on the train or put my Novatel Merlin PCMCIA card in my iPaq and take it to the baseball game.
The un-cool part is that it's not a standard.
3G=Big deal. Untold billions spent already for spectrum and NO infrastructure yet.
You meant to say, in America, right?
I get my high-speed access of 128kbps with speed bumps coming and 3G proponents get to twiddle their thumbs!
Unless they live in Japan, in which case they get to test the vaporware 3G standard on the non-existent 3G infrastructure.
Pretty soon, they'll be non-surfing around at 2.4mbps on VAPOR-AIR. (You heard it here first, folks.)
Damn where are my mod points when I need them! This is the most lucid comment on gTLD's that I've read yet!
How about writing up an IETF draft for a competing standard that real humans will use. No ".com" ".org" ".net", etc.... just nicknames.
The only problem is if companies with patents on this crap get in the way, like RealNames?
You had me at hello... but you lost me at your goodbye:
Between now and Microsoft's true 64-bit offering, Microsoft are vulnerable to a market coup. Pull that coup off, and it won't be Microsoft with a 98% presence on the desktop. This is a potentially critical moment. Strategy and timing will be everything.
What makes you think the Average User is going to be attracted to an expensive piece of hardware running Linux?
In other words, how on earth could THIS spell the end of Microsoft's 98% presence on the desktop?
Oh I get it... they might have only 97% thanks to this... there ya go.
(spam spam spam.... ) {hundreds of lines of it!)
Thus rendering the 300-baud modems that were en vogue at the time completely useless!
"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."
- S. Freud
"And sometimes a cigar is a big, brown dick! With an asshole sucking on the wet end of it!"
- G. Carlin
Electric engine - provides the power to move the car. Also acts as a generator when braking/coasting, thus providing extra power!
Technically it's an engine, but usually they refer to it as a motor.
A motor is "a rotating machine that transforms electrical energy into mechanical energy."
An engine is "a machine for converting any of various forms of energy into mechanical force and motion."
When you see anything technical related to the hybrid cars, they always say it has one [gas] engine and one [electric] motor.
FWIW...
Also... cigarette companies? Can they be charged with murder, since they're aware as a company that they are more or less responsible for thousands of deaths each year? Makes me wonder if Florida is a death penalty state...
Since when did the cigarette companies start forcing people to smoke?
No, at most the cig companies are liable for endangering folks back in the "good old days" when they ran ads saying, basically, "smoking's good for you!"
As a libertarian, I believe people/companies should have the right to sell whatever they want, as long as they are truthful about the product, which cigarette companies are now made to be, with the surgeon general's warning stamped on everything. I mean, why should it be illegal to sell something people want to buy?
In the immortal words of George Carlin, "Selling's legal. Fucking's legal. Why isn't selling fucking legal?"
But that's a whole 'nother story...