So if someone witnesses a terrible act and gets proof and pictures they can be silenced by this nameless pressure on thier ISP.
The vested interests don't even need to defend their assertions to the copyright holder of the image. All they need to do is force the ISP to assert these content rights.
Rather than forcing a dictator into the open to confront a news blog. That dictator might simply convince\bribe\threaten the ISP to pull the plug - just because. No information for the press. No Bigwig denies and has to go to court for injunction. Just the almighty dollar making it hard for Joe Blow ISP to stay in business unless he toes the line.
I bet ISPs would hate that sort of pressure.
There is a reason they call it 'Hosting' not broadcasting. ISP's should be responsible for their network not its content. They are Service providers not Content providers.
One of the biggest lies of this century has to be:
Your call is important to us.....
If that really were so companies wouldn't have fired 2/3rds of their staff and got a flippin' computer.
Keep track of the ones that screen your call into areas away from their profit centers. If you get no luck with their customer service dont be afraid to call their sales desk etc... You're still talking to people responsible to the company word of honour and if you bug them enough they may actually help.
If your call is really important to them they will appreciate the extra efforts you go through to bring it to their attention.
Jets chewing up fish beds Pollution in whole new areas, right in the water table. Yahoos leaving the road at strange places to enter water. Soil erosion and commuter traffic on the river.
Be very careful when representing Corporate contributions to OSS. Its often nebulous because we dont talk about it but Corporations pay salaries to a lot of people, many of whom write Open Source software. Officially or unofficially people are informed by their work experience and become more directed programers with clearer ideas of business goals.
Of course it is ideal and honourable if businesses officially return their innovations to the community. (In the vast majority of cases I think this is in their best interest too) But do not forget that train, educate, sensitise and feed many open source contributors.
There is also a generational thing. Once they begin using OSS they will see that cooperation with the culture at large is the most efficient way of getting talent and solutions _they_ want.
You have spent so much time, Star Trek, Tek War, etc... inside of constructed views of the future, has that informed you personally on how you have met your own future as you have grown older?
What do you think of the influence of youth on experiamentation and change? Does the future always belong to our children to be explained to their parents?
Star Trek is a very progressive universe in terms of racial harmony and everyone seems to magically have enough of everything. What do you think of darker more violent future views? More realistic? Less Mythic?
Star trek software and computers seemed to be drawn from pure science without a profit motive or corporate presence, what are your thoughts on Software Patents and intellectual property?
ps.
Thanks for taking the time to answer the questions
I Actually think it is harder to have a local 'community' on the web. There is far more pressure for your members to go elsewhere and nothing really keeping them on one site.
Way back when, before the web, when I dialed into a local BBS I think there was a greater sense of community. Everyone was a local call away. They couldn't just click to the next link at their first urge to do so. The heroic characters who ran BBS's usually created something in their likeness. Although it was often only text, the alias BBSs I remember were more private, more close, and more homegrown. I had much less to choose from so a guy who seemed to know about 'X' was more rare.
Its something of an obstacle to local web sites that the Web does not promote middle men. Most people take their interests to the web and try to find the best place from the whole world where they have expression. Fly tying, writing, computers etc its not likely that the best site is your local city.
Regions should make online databases available, that they keep up, modify, and that basically reflect their area. That would make them _the place_ for local data, bylaws, garbage days etc.... then spin that user traffic into a community.
Thats actually the way it works in real life isn't it. Towns weren't created because they promoted a sense of spirit, or to justify the existance of some organization they formed from a real need.
Yes, of course I love my dad\mom I bought them the finest robot money can buy! No, I'm too busy working!
I can just see this being a placebo to keep people form spending their own time with the elderly.
On another note. Can you imagine how many , beloved bots, will inherit $$$ from their kindly masters. "He (it) was the only one who was always there for me... To my faithful RBX13....
This is another prohibition era staring us in the face
This is bad law because it doesnt understand software, hardware, how they relate, or offer any enforcable plan.
This would be like passing a law that required microphones reject offensive language automatically. Much like prohibition this seeks to make the legal system sort out a social delemma. It will be ineffective, expensive, and trample on all sorts of legitimate rights.
With a little luck I can get loaded and fulfil my commands ANYWHERE! My Girlfriend doesn't like all this objectification, she wants a functional relationship, but I tell her everyone is doing it now.
She's really just insecure because she knows my last girlfriend was into BSD. I've tried to give her some pointers on her bad memory and tell her thats just not the garbage she should be collecting.
This should give microsoft some peace of mind. A good office package that now has a price tag to keep the market status quo. The sad part is the duplication of effor to keep the GPL and Sun versions up now.
This sounds suspiciously like a method to fund civilian tracking. Placing a reason why "you cant drive where we dont know where you are -- for the petrol tax of course.."
Can you imagine being arrested just because they can't track your car?
Besides if it is taxing all the roads why wont taking all the gas work? Encourage alternatives to peak period driving dont make the wealthy the only ones who can try to get home by 5pm.
Driving is evil but it is an equalizing vice. Make it exclusive and you seperate the dissadvantaged from what the dissadvanted always want -- their vices:).
I'm not saying I agree with it, frankly I don't have enough mainframe exp. to be informed, but as a supported argument it's compelling.
Its hard to refute that the solution is a young one. I would love to see a technical support of the VMos that orchestrates all the virtual machines.
$400k and expensive repairs for a mainframe verses around $20k for 20 linked 1u rack mounted computers is pretty compelling too.
Size of installation doesn't seem much of an issue with stuffed racks of 1u boxes. I'd love to see a measurement\visualization.
The author of the report, footnoted all his points and gave much better technical support than 90% of the posts here.
Honestly, the reply posts overall, with some exceptions, don't speak well of our little forum: too many people posting flames, ignorant posts from people who probably have no mainframe experience, and a definite "my OS is bigger than your OS" mentality. -- This makes me sad. We are better than this, and more useful when we want to be.
It makes a lot of sense and seems really responsible for these online games to be abandonned rather than axed. Bungie deserves really high markes for setting the example here.
While you can't force a company to work for nothing they shouldnt impede people who want to continue a product beyond its profitable life time.
Even though the computer market is competative, the speed of innovation and the ability of your competitors must make old abandonned code of little threat and great public relations. I'm more likely to buy from a company that has a longer life cycle for their games. In reality, if I own a modern computer, I'm more than likely going to be tempted into modern games -- but I will buy from a production house that remembers its costomers first.
First, what is the age group of your children? A six year old has half the life experience of a 12 year old:) Gender, puberty etc... should be understood if you care about your audience. (They dont have to be targetted but you should try to understand).
Secondly try and be _very_ clear of your goals. Are You?
1 Trying to help 3000 children with some technical skills to fit into this technical world? (Realise that whatever the money being spent, however generous, it is not the primary investment here -- ie serve thier lives)
2 Trying to market the technical talents of "X"? This is still a generous notion so long as it positively affects the children?
3 Show that children can participate, even in our technical world, and inspire\use them as an example -- be very careful here.
Lastly, especially because they are children see it through their eyes. If I can help send me an email at bosahv@netscape.net
This is your christmas tree -- This is your christmas tree on Linux!
Bo
Odin hung on the world tree for 7 days, what of this poor pentium? I wonder what wisdom it will gain?
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What is grown in the earth, watered by rain and nurtured by our sun is given by the earth. I'll pay the person who collects it but I'm sad to see other people get involved.
While I can see your point about uneducated judges I think it pales before the _bad networking_ and inept administration in this case.
"the dept of interior" is a nice distanced name for the problem. I think you have to remember your civics here.
A class action representing thousands of people over 100 years is in question. A Government Department is giving an American Court the run around and has demonstrated disregard for its own responsibilities and for the monies of the people bringing suit. A judge demands that these people's financial data be isolated from the web.
1) If this was your money, and it was being abused you'd sure as hell want it out the hands of whoever was abusing it.
2) If they are so disorganized that they cannot explain or do not know what systems are in question they deserve every thing they get. They have to demonstrate security and I think the judge knows that this is the only trustable way they can do it.
3) There is a punitive element to all this. Obviously the judge feels the court is not being listened to. Something terrible considering that this is a government body.
This is not just a curiosity driving the shut off it is the betrayal of a fundamental trust.
There is a door through which people are stealing money and if they cant be trusted to gaurd it the court will make them shut it and will reserve for itself the key.
Sounds like a great judgement. Encourages Network types to clearly map their overall network 'cause it must respond to the real world. Worth remembering.
Techies treat going offline as if it was summary execution. If the story had been how the department was taking itself offline to install the latest and greatest we'd be cheering.
Most of the posts are at least as much about the posters as your project, interesting though. My only advice is stay away from anything 'new' where your credibility is on the line.
Mostly it depends on your confidence in completion and deadline -- what you can do quickly you can redo, and modify. I didnt see you respond to the contraints put on you by your customer, unless that is flexible the java question is moot.
It does seem much more straightforward to design for the new platform not the old. Be careful that you dont fall into having to validate cross platform confidence you dont possess.
Work from your strengths : dont promise the moon if the sky will do. It would look really bad to be justifying the legacy bugs from the old system on the new hardware.
You make a HUGE assumption that the original poster is going to follow or lend great weight to any of the advice or responses without personal judgement.
You also show very little faith in who a question like this might reach.
Given that the even the most seasoned developer guru will only really have his\her own career to draw on it seems quite a reasonable question.
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So if someone witnesses a terrible act and gets proof and pictures they can be silenced by this nameless pressure on thier ISP.
The vested interests don't even need to defend their assertions to the copyright holder of the image. All they need to do is force the ISP to assert these content rights.
Rather than forcing a dictator into the open to confront a news blog. That dictator might simply convince\bribe\threaten the ISP to pull the plug - just because. No information for the press. No Bigwig denies and has to go to court for injunction. Just the almighty dollar making it hard for Joe Blow ISP to stay in business unless he toes the line.
I bet ISPs would hate that sort of pressure.
There is a reason they call it 'Hosting' not broadcasting. ISP's should be responsible for their network not its content. They are Service providers not Content providers.
bv
Is it only "innovation" that repeats really old design decisions that we can look forward to?
Surely if this were truly new there would be a million patents to stop it by now, at least in the US.
One of the biggest lies of this century has to be:
Your call is important to us.....
If that really were so companies wouldn't have fired 2/3rds of their staff and got a flippin' computer.
Keep track of the ones that screen your call into areas away from their profit centers. If you get no luck with their customer service dont be afraid to call their sales desk etc... You're still talking to people responsible to the company word of honour and if you bug them enough they may actually help.
If your call is really important to them they will appreciate the extra efforts you go through to bring it to their attention.
good luck
Just what we need:
Jets chewing up fish beds
Pollution in whole new areas, right in the water table.
Yahoos leaving the road at strange places to enter water.
Soil erosion and commuter traffic on the river.
yipee
Be very careful when representing Corporate contributions to OSS. Its often nebulous because we dont talk about it but Corporations pay salaries to a lot of people, many of whom write Open Source software. Officially or unofficially people are informed by their work experience and become more directed programers with clearer ideas of business goals.
Of course it is ideal and honourable if businesses officially return their innovations to the community. (In the vast majority of cases I think this is in their best interest too) But do not forget that train, educate, sensitise and feed many open source contributors.
There is also a generational thing. Once they begin using OSS they will see that cooperation with the culture at large is the most efficient way of getting talent and solutions _they_ want.
bo
Does anyone have any advice for using Eclipse to program Python???????
Bo
I wonder if user experience is damaged by too many features (to sell more software) and rewriting software methods (to evade copyright descriptions).
If people were just allowed to make helpful software if they wanted to, as they wanted to would this change/improve?
I think its probably the biggest challenge for programming. Is there a best approach from the end users perspective?
Bo
You have spent so much time, Star Trek, Tek War, etc... inside of constructed views of the future, has that informed you personally on how you have met your own future as you have grown older?
What do you think of the influence of youth on experiamentation and change? Does the future always belong to our children to be explained to their parents?
Star Trek is a very progressive universe in terms of racial harmony and everyone seems to magically have enough of everything. What do you think of darker more violent future views? More realistic? Less Mythic?
Star trek software and computers seemed to be drawn from pure science without a profit motive or corporate presence, what are your thoughts on Software Patents and intellectual property?
ps.
Thanks for taking the time to answer the questions
I Actually think it is harder to have a local 'community' on the web. There is far more pressure for your members to go elsewhere and nothing really keeping them on one site.
Way back when, before the web, when I dialed into a local BBS I think there was a greater sense of community. Everyone was a local call away. They couldn't just click to the next link at their first urge to do so. The heroic characters who ran BBS's usually created something in their likeness. Although it was often only text, the alias BBSs I remember were more private, more close, and more homegrown. I had much less to choose from so a guy who seemed to know about 'X' was more rare.
Its something of an obstacle to local web sites that the Web does not promote middle men. Most people take their interests to the web and try to find the best place from the whole world where they have expression. Fly tying, writing, computers etc its not likely that the best site is your local city.
Regions should make online databases available, that they keep up, modify, and that basically reflect their area. That would make them _the place_ for local data, bylaws, garbage days etc.... then spin that user traffic into a community.
Thats actually the way it works in real life isn't it. Towns weren't created because they promoted a sense of spirit, or to justify the existance of some organization they formed from a real need.
Bo
Yes, of course I love my dad\mom I bought them the finest robot money can buy! No, I'm too busy working!
I can just see this being a placebo to keep people form spending their own time with the elderly.
On another note. Can you imagine how many , beloved bots, will inherit $$$ from their kindly masters. "He (it) was the only one who was always there for me... To my faithful RBX13....
This is another prohibition era staring us in the face
This is bad law because it doesnt understand software, hardware, how they relate, or offer any enforcable plan.
This would be like passing a law that required microphones reject offensive language automatically. Much like prohibition this seeks to make the legal system sort out a social delemma. It will be ineffective, expensive, and trample on all sorts of legitimate rights.
bo
With a little luck I can get loaded and fulfil my commands ANYWHERE! My Girlfriend doesn't like all this objectification, she wants a functional relationship, but I tell her everyone is doing it now.
She's really just insecure because she knows my last girlfriend was into BSD. I've tried to give her some pointers on her bad memory and tell her thats just not the garbage she should be collecting.
This should give microsoft some peace of mind. A good office package that now has a price tag to keep the market status quo. The sad part is the duplication of effor to keep the GPL and Sun versions up now.
bo
This sounds suspiciously like a method to fund civilian tracking. Placing a reason why "you cant drive where we dont know where you are -- for the petrol tax of course.."
:).
Can you imagine being arrested just because they can't track your car?
Besides if it is taxing all the roads why wont taking all the gas work? Encourage alternatives to peak period driving dont make the wealthy the only ones who can try to get home by 5pm.
Driving is evil but it is an equalizing vice. Make it exclusive and you seperate the dissadvantaged from what the dissadvanted always want -- their vices
bo
I'm not saying I agree with it, frankly I don't have enough mainframe exp. to be informed, but as a supported argument it's compelling.
Its hard to refute that the solution is a young one. I would love to see a technical support of the VMos that orchestrates all the virtual machines.
$400k and expensive repairs for a mainframe verses around $20k for 20 linked 1u rack mounted computers is pretty compelling too.
Size of installation doesn't seem much of an issue with stuffed racks of 1u boxes. I'd love to see a measurement\visualization.
The author of the report, footnoted all his points and gave much better technical support than 90% of the posts here.
Honestly, the reply posts overall, with some exceptions, don't speak well of our little forum: too many people posting flames, ignorant posts from people who probably have no mainframe experience, and a definite "my OS is bigger than your OS" mentality. -- This makes me sad. We are better than this, and more useful when we want to be.
Bo
Especially after import duties\hassel etc... these are hardly _cheap_ in Canada or the US.
I can see that an external power supply might run cooler outside the case.
//c....
I dont remember fans on external power supplies for things like the old Apple
Is there anyone wise in the benefits and costs of external power supplies and whether you can use them for your own projects.
Bo
It makes a lot of sense and seems really responsible for these online games to be abandonned rather than axed. Bungie deserves really high markes for setting the example here.
While you can't force a company to work for nothing they shouldnt impede people who want to continue a product beyond its profitable life time.
Even though the computer market is competative, the speed of innovation and the ability of your competitors must make old abandonned code of little threat and great public relations. I'm more likely to buy from a company that has a longer life cycle for their games. In reality, if I own a modern computer, I'm more than likely going to be tempted into modern games -- but I will buy from a production house that remembers its costomers first.
bo
First, what is the age group of your children? A six year old has half the life experience of a 12 year old :) Gender, puberty etc... should be understood if you care about your audience. (They dont have to be targetted but you should try to understand).
Secondly try and be _very_ clear of your goals. Are You?
1 Trying to help 3000 children with some technical skills to fit into this technical world? (Realise that whatever the money being spent, however generous, it is not the primary investment here -- ie serve thier lives)
2 Trying to market the technical talents of "X"? This is still a generous notion so long as it positively affects the children?
3 Show that children can participate, even in our technical world, and inspire\use them as an example -- be very careful here.
Lastly, especially because they are children see it through their eyes. If I can help send me an email at bosahv@netscape.net
I have desktop machines at work that are less useful than my palm. A better link between PDA and Desktop could make an average PDA great.
:).
PDA friendly desktop apps, with a linux standard could be a really good thing
bo
This is your christmas tree -- This is your christmas tree on Linux!
Bo
Odin hung on the world tree for 7 days, what of this poor pentium? I wonder what wisdom it will gain?
What is grown in the earth, watered by rain and nurtured by our sun is given by the earth. I'll pay the person who collects it but I'm sad to see other people get involved.
This is wealth that bankrupts us all.
Bo
While I can see your point about uneducated judges I think it pales before the _bad networking_ and inept administration in this case.
"the dept of interior" is a nice distanced name for the problem. I think you have to remember your civics here.
A class action representing thousands of people over 100 years is in question. A Government Department is giving an American Court the run around and has demonstrated disregard for its own responsibilities and for the monies of the people bringing suit. A judge demands that these people's financial data be isolated from the web.
1) If this was your money, and it was being abused you'd sure as hell want it out the hands of whoever was abusing it.
2) If they are so disorganized that they cannot explain or do not know what systems are in question they deserve every thing they get. They have to demonstrate security and I think the judge knows that this is the only trustable way they can do it.
3) There is a punitive element to all this. Obviously the judge feels the court is not being listened to. Something terrible considering that this is a government body.
This is not just a curiosity driving the shut off it is the betrayal of a fundamental trust.
There is a door through which people are stealing money and if they cant be trusted to gaurd it the court will make them shut it and will reserve for itself the key.
Sounds like a great judgement. Encourages Network types to clearly map their overall network 'cause it must respond to the real world. Worth remembering.
Techies treat going offline as if it was summary execution. If the story had been how the department was taking itself offline to install the latest and greatest we'd be cheering.
Most of the posts are at least as much about the posters as your project, interesting though. My only advice is stay away from anything 'new' where your credibility is on the line.
Mostly it depends on your confidence in completion and deadline -- what you can do quickly you can redo, and modify. I didnt see you respond to the contraints put on you by your customer, unless that is flexible the java question is moot.
It does seem much more straightforward to design for the new platform not the old. Be careful that you dont fall into having to validate cross platform confidence you dont possess.
Work from your strengths : dont promise the moon if the sky will do. It would look really bad to be justifying the legacy bugs from the old system on the new hardware.
You make a HUGE assumption that the original poster is going to follow or lend great weight to any of the advice or responses without personal judgement.
You also show very little faith in who a question like this might reach.
Given that the even the most seasoned developer guru will only really have his\her own career to draw on it seems quite a reasonable question.
Are you sure you're not sniping unfaily?
bo