I think that the significant point (for me at least) was that the Internet was already there, nothing he could have done could have possibly influenced its creation. AND (as I recall) the context of his speech, he was trying to pass himself off as a techonologically savvy person, which his ignorance to his possible influence on the internet's creation clearly demonstrates he is not.
He wasn't even computer literate enough to know the depth of his ignorance. Maybe he should've gotten better handlers.
Perl 6 on the other hand, changes this formula around; favoring a more general solution that potentially reduces performance (due to abstractions)
While this was part of the preface and not part of the actual question, I'm curious (as a non-Perl person) whether Perl 6 actually will suffer performance losses as a result of supporting greater abstraction, or is it likely to be just as fast for those not using those higher-level facilities.
I don't think it's necessary for exchange to support it, with Evolution supporting exchange's calendar protocol. If there were an open protocol, and if Evolution also supported it, then it's just a matter of introducing Evolution to the end user first, and then replace the exchange server with one that supports the open protocol. Embrace, extend, replace...
The problem with this is that it's more than just the software involved, it's the entire infrastructure that's got to be revamped. I'm involved in exchanging data with the New Orleans, and we had to jump through (small) hoops to send them uncompressed 3490 tapes because their tape drives were too old to handle compressed tapes, and they were unable to handle encrypted email attachments or even uploading 3.5 inch floppy disks to their mainframe.
You can't just give them the software, they also need the systems set up and configured to work together, and that's not a easy or cheap proposal - and M$ is willing to do it for "free" right now in order to get their hooks in. How many of you out there are willing to come down here and spend the next 2 years working on upgrading this city from Windows 3.1 and Novell to *nix for free?
On the bright side, our city has a long history of chewing up and spitting out companies who try to do business down here. The corruption in M$ is nothing compared to the corruption in NO.
I can accept that the content creator is and should be allowed to place any sort of technological restrictions onto his creation, however I do not believe it is moral to prevent me from circumventing said restrictions to access content I have purchaced for whatever use I may have for that material. Even to access it in order to make coppies for sale (HOWEVER, the act of selling those coppies is already illegal and I concede that it should be.)
If the DVD is not offered in a region version you are capable of viewing, even if you purchased another region, you aren't entitled to "translate" the work. Ok, that's pure bullshit. Not only am I free to translate the work, but others are allowed to provide dictionaries to assist me in my translation effort. The laws prohibiting DeCSS could be likened to some rediculous law that would prohibit a Spanish to English dictionary in order to protect a piece of copyright protected Spanish literature from being read by someone who only speaks English, but is smart enough to translate it for his own use.
What I want to know is where are Sharpie executives going to start facing charges for selling a CD copy-protection circumvention device?
It's not just that they've renamed small to medium, but at many coffee shops for example they don't even use descriptive English words to describe the volume of their drinks. Instead we get short, tall (I don't care about the height of the cup), grande, super-grande, etc... names that don't mean squat to me reguarding the amount of coffee I'm buying.
Maybe they could just put the diameter of the pizza or the number of ounces up there and skip the meaningless (ever-changing) names.
Also, easier than Windows to install, my ass. Wake up and smell the coffee.
Oh come on now, when was the last time you looked at a Linux install? I've had PC's blue screen just trying to install MS Windows, while on Linux not only does the install go much easier (and faster), but if the machine (and not the hard drive) dies I can drop the hard drive into another intel-based machine and it will run. I've heard that MS Windows can do that too if you know how to edit the proper registry entries. Then again, perhaps MS doesn't want people able to do that as that might "promote piracy" since a new PC should require a new OS license.
I think it all comes down to user control, and which OS allows the user to control their machine, and which one allows the OS manufacturer to control the user's machine.
I don't see that as being any different than rolling out 1000 MS desktops. Our IT department has mandated that every desktop be one of about 4 acceptable models (all from Compaq) specifically to avoid having to support many different types of hardware.
( and if it takes more than 2 reboots to correct a problem, they just re-image the machine)
But that argument could also be applied to junk snail mail (even more so since manual labor in involved in opening the mail.)
Oh, and we do pay for receiving snail mail. I am charged a monthly garbage collection fee in my water bill that would be lower if there were less garbage to pick up.
I found his statement that his software could "penetrate virtually any system designed to stop ads from reaching the intended mailbox" humorous since it's been over half a year since I've been using spamassassin and I've yet to get a single piece of spam.
Nah it's more like you hire Mailboxes etc to package your coffee grinder to grandma and they accidentally drop a grenade detonator mechanism in the package before shiping it off. Yea, you could've looked over their shoulders while they were packing but wouldn't the packers be liable for adding it than you?
Oh, and I thought nimda attacked IIS also, so developers running that (and since I run apache while I'm developing, I'd immaging that'd be fairly common for a.NET developer) or am I mistaken?
But with a Tivo you can pause the commercials while you go to the bathroom, and thereby fulfill your commercial-watching obligation ala the Turner watching contract (that I suppose appears on your television for the first 1/1000 of a second when you turn it on:
"...by watching the programming on this television you [the viewer of said programming] agree and are bound to watch all commercials [paid advertising used to support the creative GEINUSES who bring you this high-quality content] and occasionally buy products from our sponsers [the people who buy our commercials]...."
First, why limit the study to the top 100 of the mature projects, since all the data is available, why not include as many projects as possible unless you've found a specific subset of the data that gives you the conclusion you want?
Second, does the study take into account that projects may move from one principle developer to another to another over their lifetime? There may be only one or two at a given time, but there may have been a dozen since its first inception. Perhaps the study took that into account...
Third, "...assistant professor of E-Commerce/Marketing..." I suppose this is the "new education" to go with the "new economy"...
What if Visa issues each merchant some sort of certificate, like a PGP public key? That merchant could then encrypt the incoming CC with that key and store the result on their server and send the result into VISA for payment. No one else would be able to use that result because it would be unique to the specific merchant, and even though the merchant would have to store the public key on their server, only VISA would have the private key necessary to get the CC#.
I agree that that's a small price to pay for security. However, how many end users see this as being more secure vs just assuming that those companies who keep their data provide adequite protection for it? And those companies, while possibly being less secure are a bit more convenient.
Besides, that doesn't solve the problem of implementing a convenient repeat billing feature. Why not keep the CC info on a seperate machine with only one service running - one waiting to accept a bill-me transaction so that if the entire network were comprimised and someone figured out your system and was able to talk to your billing server, the most they could do would be to cause you to erroniously bill your customers - certainly a bad thing, but at least that could be reversed when caught. And if you kept the listener process simple (i.e. listen for the transaction, write the transaction to a transaction file, doitagain) with a seperate process to periodically pick up and process the transactions, you could limit the possability of your exposed service being compromised.
crap music we're supposed to play = listeners in the demographic that advertisers want = money
The problem is that the listeners are not the consumers in an advertiser-based business model... they are the product and radio stations want to deliver a high-spending product to their consumers (i.e. the advertisers)
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I think that the significant point (for me at least) was that the Internet was already there, nothing he could have done could have possibly influenced its creation. AND (as I recall) the context of his speech, he was trying to pass himself off as a techonologically savvy person, which his ignorance to his possible influence on the internet's creation clearly demonstrates he is not.
He wasn't even computer literate enough to know the depth of his ignorance. Maybe he should've gotten better handlers.
They're probably worried that anyone from Xbox Linux is already tainted with the GPL and could "infect" Xbox.
While this was part of the preface and not part of the actual question, I'm curious (as a non-Perl person) whether Perl 6 actually will suffer performance losses as a result of supporting greater abstraction, or is it likely to be just as fast for those not using those higher-level facilities.
I don't think it's necessary for exchange to support it, with Evolution supporting exchange's calendar protocol. If there were an open protocol, and if Evolution also supported it, then it's just a matter of introducing Evolution to the end user first, and then replace the exchange server with one that supports the open protocol. Embrace, extend, replace...
The problem with this is that it's more than just the software involved, it's the entire infrastructure that's got to be revamped. I'm involved in exchanging data with the New Orleans, and we had to jump through (small) hoops to send them uncompressed 3490 tapes because their tape drives were too old to handle compressed tapes, and they were unable to handle encrypted email attachments or even uploading 3.5 inch floppy disks to their mainframe.
You can't just give them the software, they also need the systems set up and configured to work together, and that's not a easy or cheap proposal - and M$ is willing to do it for "free" right now in order to get their hooks in. How many of you out there are willing to come down here and spend the next 2 years working on upgrading this city from Windows 3.1 and Novell to *nix for free?
On the bright side, our city has a long history of chewing up and spitting out companies who try to do business down here. The corruption in M$ is nothing compared to the corruption in NO.
I can accept that the content creator is and should be allowed to place any sort of technological restrictions onto his creation, however I do not believe it is moral to prevent me from circumventing said restrictions to access content I have purchaced for whatever use I may have for that material. Even to access it in order to make coppies for sale (HOWEVER, the act of selling those coppies is already illegal and I concede that it should be.)
If the DVD is not offered in a region version you are capable of viewing, even if you purchased another region, you aren't entitled to "translate" the work.
Ok, that's pure bullshit. Not only am I free to translate the work, but others are allowed to provide dictionaries to assist me in my translation effort. The laws prohibiting DeCSS could be likened to some rediculous law that would prohibit a Spanish to English dictionary in order to protect a piece of copyright protected Spanish literature from being read by someone who only speaks English, but is smart enough to translate it for his own use.
What I want to know is where are Sharpie executives going to start facing charges for selling a CD copy-protection circumvention device?
It's not just that they've renamed small to medium, but at many coffee shops for example they don't even use descriptive English words to describe the volume of their drinks. Instead we get short, tall (I don't care about the height of the cup), grande, super-grande, etc... names that don't mean squat to me reguarding the amount of coffee I'm buying.
Maybe they could just put the diameter of the pizza or the number of ounces up there and skip the meaningless (ever-changing) names.
Yea, I'd like a 40 of Espresso.....
Also, easier than Windows to install, my ass. Wake up and smell the coffee.
Oh come on now, when was the last time you looked at a Linux install? I've had PC's blue screen just trying to install MS Windows, while on Linux not only does the install go much easier (and faster), but if the machine (and not the hard drive) dies I can drop the hard drive into another intel-based machine and it will run. I've heard that MS Windows can do that too if you know how to edit the proper registry entries. Then again, perhaps MS doesn't want people able to do that as that might "promote piracy" since a new PC should require a new OS license.
I think it all comes down to user control, and which OS allows the user to control their machine, and which one allows the OS manufacturer to control the user's machine.
Well, according to this they do offer transactions.
That's just what THEY want you to think.
Actually I've seen 1GB CF cards on the market - pleanty of room for a divx movie.
Course they're running about $600-$700 from what I remember.
I don't see that as being any different than rolling out 1000 MS desktops. Our IT department has mandated that every desktop be one of about 4 acceptable models (all from Compaq) specifically to avoid having to support many different types of hardware.
( and if it takes more than 2 reboots to correct a problem, they just re-image the machine)
Terra Term's SSH extensions only support protocol 1, while putty supports 1 and 2.
But that argument could also be applied to junk snail mail (even more so since manual labor in involved in opening the mail.)
Oh, and we do pay for receiving snail mail. I am charged a monthly garbage collection fee in my water bill that would be lower if there were less garbage to pick up.
I found his statement that his software could "penetrate virtually any system designed to stop ads from reaching the intended mailbox" humorous since it's been over half a year since I've been using spamassassin and I've yet to get a single piece of spam.
Perhaps we could all request written permission from NPR to link to their linking policy page from this discussion.
Nah it's more like you hire Mailboxes etc to package your coffee grinder to grandma and they accidentally drop a grenade detonator mechanism in the package before shiping it off. Yea, you could've looked over their shoulders while they were packing but wouldn't the packers be liable for adding it than you?
.NET developer) or am I mistaken?
Oh, and I thought nimda attacked IIS also, so developers running that (and since I run apache while I'm developing, I'd immaging that'd be fairly common for a
But that also increases the workload of applying and keeping track of the same patch for each different OS.
Ok, I should have been more clear on the first point, what I should have said was why not use all the mature projects.
First, why limit the study to the top 100 of the mature projects, since all the data is available, why not include as many projects as possible unless you've found a specific subset of the data that gives you the conclusion you want?
...
Second, does the study take into account that projects may move from one principle developer to another to another over their lifetime? There may be only one or two at a given time, but there may have been a dozen since its first inception. Perhaps the study took that into account...
Third, "...assistant professor of E-Commerce/Marketing..." I suppose this is the "new education" to go with the "new economy"
What if Visa issues each merchant some sort of certificate, like a PGP public key? That merchant could then encrypt the incoming CC with that key and store the result on their server and send the result into VISA for payment. No one else would be able to use that result because it would be unique to the specific merchant, and even though the merchant would have to store the public key on their server, only VISA would have the private key necessary to get the CC#.
I agree that that's a small price to pay for security. However, how many end users see this as being more secure vs just assuming that those companies who keep their data provide adequite protection for it? And those companies, while possibly being less secure are a bit more convenient.
Besides, that doesn't solve the problem of implementing a convenient repeat billing feature. Why not keep the CC info on a seperate machine with only one service running - one waiting to accept a bill-me transaction so that if the entire network were comprimised and someone figured out your system and was able to talk to your billing server, the most they could do would be to cause you to erroniously bill your customers - certainly a bad thing, but at least that could be reversed when caught. And if you kept the listener process simple (i.e. listen for the transaction, write the transaction to a transaction file, doitagain) with a seperate process to periodically pick up and process the transactions, you could limit the possability of your exposed service being compromised.
Actually,
good music = listeners != money
and
crap music we're supposed to play = listeners in the demographic that advertisers want = money
The problem is that the listeners are not the consumers in an advertiser-based business model... they are the product and radio stations want to deliver a high-spending product to their consumers (i.e. the advertisers)
It could be that the patent fees they are avoiding by doing this are not for the DVD players, but rather for the discs themselves.
That he WAS willing to respond on LinuxWorld without demanding that it be renamed to GNULinuxWorld?