There are good apps written for windows. Cloning these things and moving them to unixisms would be a really good thing.
Yeh, and then wait for the lawyers to drop in.
It reminds me of counter-strike. I really have a thing against the half-life engine, as it is truly a piece of shit. If I were allowed to port CS to the quake3 engine I think it would make a large difference to the game. But no, the models etc. are copyrighted.
Imagine trying to port an MS program to Linux without getting sued.
I think the first thing every/.er thinks of when they read this is, "please don't let this happen to Google."
Yes, i think it would be even worse if this happened to google because they own the patent their search technique, which would mean any upcoming engine may be forced to use inferior technology.
Don't you just love patents.
And if it didn't mark them you could bet it would be the demise of google.
AltaVista are just so dumb, they had so many users. They assumed people wouldn't notice or care if they had unmarked ads. It's funny to see them pay for that kind of deception of it's users.
It's like when installing gear at a client's site and I would say to the boss "We have a problem with that network card", he would always crap on about it not being a "problem" but a "challenge".
I work daily in a MS environment, and to motivate myself I think thoughts like "W2k is quite stable anyway" or "It is quite simple install a Bla Bla in Windows". The result is that I am always suprised how bad Windows actually is.
Since W2k i have found Windows to be not all that bad anymore. Even the horrible API designs seem to be slowly getting tolerable. Well, I could actually name many shit APIs now that I think about it (TAPI springs quickly to mind), but my point is, my real beef is with the patenting and copyrighting pranks used to break every last shred of operability under the sun. The usability issues can more easily be solved by open source.
But wouldn't this mean you could put a custom proxy in front of the SQL boxen and get all client to connect through that? It would only have a single link to the database then.
I'm just asking btw, not trying to be a smart ass.
I agree, the guy with the most money wins. It's just that patents seem to slowly trickle up to the big companys through aquisition and make them hyper powerful instead of powerful.
If there were no software patents large corporations would use that to their advantage as well. The biggest guy out there would simply systimatically wedge all his oponents out of existence by selling there product at a lower price. Even if the product is just a concept. Even if they take a loss in the process if they have more capital they will survive. Just like a poker player who raises his opponents until they can no longer afford to play.
No, raising against the little guy is what happens with patents. Without patents existing, what use would the company get out of selling the product near a loss anyway? There wouldn't be anywhere near as much 'company lock-in' going on you'd think.
OMFG I am sick to death of seeing this statement. Take your hand off your cock and think for a second, then you might realise the possibilities of realistic environment compared to a real environment.
There have been a few alternate keyboard layouts designed (I think there was an article here about one by IBM not too long ago) that put commonly-used characters in the middle, so keys are easy to find without memorizing a layout, and finger travel time is reduced.
You'd probably be thinking of the one handed Dvorak layouts for 101 key keyboards. They come in a left handed or right handed configuration, I think most versions of Windows support it.
It is of course interesting here, that apart from preaching how the metric system uses prefixes and so forth, how the "centilitre" is noticably absent. Even more so the nightmare of deci- vs deka, hecto, or Myria-. Oh well. There goes consistancy.
The prefixes aren't really an issue when you think about it. Most people would agree to use only scientific notation instead of prefixes if this mattered enough.
I agree though that more standardization needs to be done with units. The 1K = 1024 bytes things is pretty gay. Or maybe I haven't really thought enough about why 2^10 is the base unit for measuring integer amounts of things in IT storage.
The RIAA and pals still have a lot of options to try though, as expensive and intrusive as they might be.
Forcing all net users to use an approved black box sitting on the houses outgoing data line seems like it would never be possible, but with the push of MS, the RIAA and other parts of the government some would say it's inevitable.
I realise there are many ways around that sort of thing like wireless P2P networks etc., but policing the airwaves could put a stop to that.
For example, if you were in Afghanistan now, which has of course banned the internet, would you feel safe that you could use satellite or radio as a medium for the net without being caught?
Why did they think they could get away with it anyway after Napster? I can only guess it's because they're distributing the code but not the server.
But that's not really the case as I understand it because Kazaa, for example, connects to kazaa.com to get a list of supernodes when you start the program, so it's just like Napster connecting to it's own servers to get a list.
I found the last article you linked to had many if interesting facts. I found it a bit too pro-Laden though:
People like Bin Laden say that the U.S. government is supporting a corrupt dictatorship. Is there a lie in this? The
U.S. government is in fact supporting an anti-democratic government that denies representation to most of its citizens. The terrorists say the lack of representation is the reason they feel motivated to violence.
I think most people would find it hard to believe the violence is really about that. It nearly angers me to see an attempt at rationalizing terrorism in this way.
I think they would implement it as: any country outside the US may use any type of crypto they desire, but any external data connections to the US are screened for outlawed crypto.
Internal users of outlawed cryptography wouldn't be as much of a target you'd have to think. If that's true they could concentrate the sniffing resources at the borders and settle for random spot checks for internal communication.
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It reminds me of counter-strike. I really have a thing against the half-life engine, as it is truly a piece of shit. If I were allowed to port CS to the quake3 engine I think it would make a large difference to the game. But no, the models etc. are copyrighted.
Imagine trying to port an MS program to Linux without getting sued.
Quick, mod parent up.
And if it didn't mark them you could bet it would be the demise of google.
AltaVista are just so dumb, they had so many users. They assumed people wouldn't notice or care if they had unmarked ads. It's funny to see them pay for that kind of deception of it's users.
I don't believe it. Any online references?
Exactly why they went with green I'd imagine.
It's like when installing gear at a client's site and I would say to the boss "We have a problem with that network card", he would always crap on about it not being a "problem" but a "challenge".
I believe 'Close' would be the correct text.
It's more effective if you have a large audience like Disney though...How about we talk to AOL about a merger with OSS?
I sense a small trace of anger in your voice, are things ok at home?
But wouldn't this mean you could put a custom proxy in front of the SQL boxen and get all client to connect through that? It would only have a single link to the database then.
I'm just asking btw, not trying to be a smart ass.
I agree, the guy with the most money wins. It's just that patents seem to slowly trickle up to the big companys through aquisition and make them hyper powerful instead of powerful.
OMFG I am sick to death of seeing this statement. Take your hand off your cock and think for a second, then you might realise the possibilities of realistic environment compared to a real environment.
Not offtopic but it is redundant.
I agree though that more standardization needs to be done with units. The 1K = 1024 bytes things is pretty gay. Or maybe I haven't really thought enough about why 2^10 is the base unit for measuring integer amounts of things in IT storage.
Oh well, too lazy to google for it atm...
The RIAA and pals still have a lot of options to try though, as expensive and intrusive as they might be.
Forcing all net users to use an approved black box sitting on the houses outgoing data line seems like it would never be possible, but with the push of MS, the RIAA and other parts of the government some would say it's inevitable.
I realise there are many ways around that sort of thing like wireless P2P networks etc., but policing the airwaves could put a stop to that.
For example, if you were in Afghanistan now, which has of course banned the internet, would you feel safe that you could use satellite or radio as a medium for the net without being caught?
Why did they think they could get away with it anyway after Napster? I can only guess it's because they're distributing the code but not the server.
But that's not really the case as I understand it because Kazaa, for example, connects to kazaa.com to get a list of supernodes when you start the program, so it's just like Napster connecting to it's own servers to get a list.
...from the looks of it, the Microsoft "shared source" program seems to offer all of the same freedoms as the GPL.
LOL.
I think most people would find it hard to believe the violence is really about that. It nearly angers me to see an attempt at rationalizing terrorism in this way.
I think they would implement it as: any country outside the US may use any type of crypto they desire, but any external data connections to the US are screened for outlawed crypto.
Internal users of outlawed cryptography wouldn't be as much of a target you'd have to think. If that's true they could concentrate the sniffing resources at the borders and settle for random spot checks for internal communication.