The lost is real if all the copies of a piece of work disappear. The lost is imaginary/trivial if more copies exists somewhere else.
For some files in Megaupload there are no known copies.
"... the equation for me was surprisingly tilted in favor of Android thanks to the simplicity of developing for it. Having gone through the process, I have a clearer understanding of Google’s strategy: I think they hope to win because their platform is so much more developer friendly"
On the open-source front, the only option I know is ownCloud. It provides the software to build your 'Cloud' storage, but you must provide your own hardware.
On the other side, you can try Wuala. It is not Open Source, but it encrypts all your files before uploading them. There are clients for almost every platform.
"Why does every single computer need to be geek friendly?"
Because a potential geek can be born in any family, and unless you are planning to offshore all your engineer task to China, you will need these people. I have a M.Sc. in Computer Science thanks of the interest in programming I grew by tinkering with a C64 when I was a child.
I have about 5000 songs and I use Amarok without problems in my 5 years old machine (AthlonXP+IDE HD). I can also rate the current playing song with just 1 click or even with a global hotkey by using some DCOP magic
First off, I'd suggest printing out a copy of the GNU coding standards, and not read it. Burn them, it's a great symbolic gesture.
GPLv2 and GPLv3 have the same spirit
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If you disagree with GPLv3, you also should disagree with GPLv2. The spirit is the same "dont let anyone take a free-software piece of code, modified it and ban you from modify his modification".
But GPLv2 had a bug. TIVO has found a way to do that. You can modify the code, but the hardware will reject your modification. Your right to "hack" with the source code has been abolished.
I dont see any reason why you should like GPLv2 and not GPLv3.
If you think there is nothing wrong with people taking your code and not letting you play with his code, you should have gone with a BSD-style license. Otherwise GPLv3 is an improvement of GPLv2.
I know that some people think that GPLv3 is bad (most notably Linux Torvalds) but after reading their objections I really dont understand their logic. It seems to me more of an ego fight against RMS than sensible disagreement.
You can use the standard ODBC Text driver to access a text file as a database table. You can use it with any program or language that supports ODBC databases
Some facts about Cuba Healthcare
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Cuba health indicators
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the chance of a Cuban child dying at five years of age or younger is 7 per 1000 live births in Cuba, while it's 8 per 1000 in the US. WHO reports that Cuban males have a life expectancy at birth of 75 years and females 79 years. In comparison, the US life expectancy at birth is 75 and 80 years for males and females, respectively. Cuba's infant mortality rate is better than the US with 5 deaths per thousand in Cuba versus 7 per thousand in the US. Cuba has nearly twice as many physicians as the U.S. -- 5.91 doctors per thousand people compared to 2.56 doctors per thousand, according to WHO.
diluting the value of money and making all of us poorer (only the government has this privilege)
or, most probably, cheating someone who will be caught with that fake money
When someone copies software without authorization from the copyright holders, he is not making all other users of software poorer or cheating anyone. In fact he is increasing the wealth of society because some people who cannot afford that piece of software, now can.
In other words, like many religious folk, the Linux-loving crunchies in the open-source movement are a) convinced of their own righteousness, and b) sure the whole world, including judges, will agree.
They should wake up. SCO may not be very good at making a profit by selling software. But it is very good at getting what it wants from other companies. And it has a tight circle of friends.
Take the TiVo, what GPLv3 wanted to do was force TiVo to release their DRM so the community has access to their product.
Wrong. What they want is to be able to use their hardware. If Tivo uses other-people software it seems fair for others to use their hardware.
What actually happends is TiVo finds a backdoor to the license and uses it, or drops using open source and any stop to any shared contributions from TiVo and a move to a different platform.
Fine with me. Can you tell me which are the contributions that Tivo have shared with the free-software world? I'm not aware of any relevant one. What I see is that Tivo used years of other peoples work for free and gave nothing in return. Free software inside a machine you cannot touch or modify is not free anymore.
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The lost is real if all the copies of a piece of work disappear. The lost is imaginary/trivial if more copies exists somewhere else. For some files in Megaupload there are no known copies.
Carl Sagan has something to say also on this subject http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wJYpRJQVbo
Say goodbye to turntable strobe lights
On the open-source front, the only option I know is ownCloud. It provides the software to build your 'Cloud' storage, but you must provide your own hardware.
On the other side, you can try Wuala. It is not Open Source, but it encrypts all your files before uploading them. There are clients for almost every platform.
Another sane advice from the guy who claimed that writing a new web-browser was the worst decision the Mozilla Foundation could make.
Oldboy corridor scene
Let me introduce you to The Bidet
Because a potential geek can be born in any family, and unless you are planning to offshore all your engineer task to China, you will need these people. I have a M.Sc. in Computer Science thanks of the interest in programming I grew by tinkering with a C64 when I was a child.
They didn't say the added .5M lines of code. They say they change-set is .5M lines of code. It could have been 0.5M lines modified or even deleted ;-)
Mozilla.org decided to use both. That means that you can not create any image derived from the Firefox logo. So for example all these iconsets and wallpapers are illegal
Linus, and Debian have trademarks on their names and logos, but the artwork is free-software so, derived works are allowed.
It is not. The Firefox logo is not free. Thus, any software that includes that logo is non-free also, and Debian developers know it very well
I have about 5000 songs and I use Amarok without problems in my 5 years old machine (AthlonXP+IDE HD). I can also rate the current playing song with just 1 click or even with a global hotkey by using some DCOP magic
I am not sure if Android supports MIDP Java applications, but I can run a GPL Java SSH client on my low budget phone without problems
Picture makes sense to me. It was a success thanks to KDE
Wait a minute!! Isn't this site a Fatboy Slim fan forum ?
Whoever thought a JVM was a good idea for an embedded consumer device
Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Alcatel and many more mobile phone manufacturers
First off, I'd suggest printing out a copy of the GNU coding standards, and not read it. Burn them, it's a great symbolic gesture.
If you disagree with GPLv3, you also should disagree with GPLv2. The spirit is the same "dont let anyone take a free-software piece of code, modified it and ban you from modify his modification".
But GPLv2 had a bug. TIVO has found a way to do that. You can modify the code, but the hardware will reject your modification. Your right to "hack" with the source code has been abolished.
I dont see any reason why you should like GPLv2 and not GPLv3.
If you think there is nothing wrong with people taking your code and not letting you play with his code, you should have gone with a BSD-style license. Otherwise GPLv3 is an improvement of GPLv2.
I know that some people think that GPLv3 is bad (most notably Linux Torvalds) but after reading their objections I really dont understand their logic. It seems to me more of an ego fight against RMS than sensible disagreement.
See "Managing data text files like database tables", and also "How To Use RDO and ODBC Text Driver to Open a Delimited Text"
When someone copies software without authorization from the copyright holders, he is not making all other users of software poorer or cheating anyone. In fact he is increasing the wealth of society because some people who cannot afford that piece of software, now can.
Nicholas Carr is dead
-- The IT department
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In other words, like many religious folk, the Linux-loving crunchies in the open-source movement are a) convinced of their own righteousness, and b) sure the whole world, including judges, will agree.
They should wake up. SCO may not be very good at making a profit by selling software. But it is very good at getting what it wants from other companies. And it has a tight circle of friends.
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