i dont think linux will DIE..it has its place. But it wont become mainstream, particularly in business. For example, check out this part of the gnu license:
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
Uhm, what business really wants to use software that has no accountability in case something doesnt work?
From what i've seen of things like hard-drive copy protection, the dmca, lower-power radio being made illegal, copyright protected cable... You the individual no longer have any right to disseminate any kind of information. With broadband increasing in availabilty, software such as COG being made available that allows the average user to run powerful webserving software off their own computer.. i think it wont be long before we see the government requiring a license to run your own webserver. And with us programmers being the ones who are coming up with all the hacks around the copyprotection schemes, i can see it being illegal to program without a license. Think it's far fetched? So is the idea of a corporation having the ability to take away your rights...and we all see how that's turned out.
ive known a few people who coded things for the NSA and they're normal people. Not devious sneaky people who wear black all the time and want to circumvent your rights. This sounds like someone's interesting pet project...
heh, i take it you were never a member of dial-up BBSes. They flourished until the internet came into the mainstream. I think they'll flourish again, as soon as more tools are available for building them..which i'm working on;)
Lately i've seen alot of talk about the rise of true communities on the the internet. And I think it's going to happen by being ran by individuals as broadband access increases. And I mean BBS-like communities, full of tighly knit groups of users with a name behind the personae.
I love BBSes. I used to run one on an old 386 of mine for several years. The internet has never come up with something quite like it yet... so I'm building my own, and sharing it with everyone. I'm trying to get it out to people more (college consumes alot of time:( ) and always looking for help.. but anyways. I've released the first version of it, and the example community being ran off it can be seen at The Machine
This article hits quite close to home.:) I've written a bit of software called COG.. an example (and download) can be had at The Machine..check it out, tell me what you think:)
so was volkswagen (used slave labor, the design for the beetle as a "people's car" was commissioned by hitler), porsche and most other german companies..
or i'm fairly sure it does anyway. I'm not a german lawyer, but BMG is a german company, and germany has many many anti-nazi laws in all shape and form (they even removed an arrangement of trees that resembled a swastika from the air in a forest a few weeks ago).. to stay on the german govt's good side this is something they can request napster to do. Though I believe they'd be hard pressed to enforce something like this through technical means...
they would have to be within 25 light years..since we have been broadcasting for 50 years, it would take 25 to get to them, and 25 to get a reply back. Of course this is assuming they even use radio technology.. I would imagine that as a civilization progresses, the hindrance of light speed communications would become an issue.
the power of the corporate dollar strikes back at our rights once again. It's the people's radio spectrum... yet we the people have no right to use it.
thats why i like java and jsps. a well defined standard, plus tons of utility built-in to the thing. It's alot of typing, but it makes you work out the details and is an invaluable learning experience (unlike ASP which does about everything for you)
well theres ways around that.. sessionID's can be assigned in URL's which keep track without using cookies. It was a route i once pursued in one of my projects... i created a sessionID for each user and associated an IP address with it. And then I discovered that AOL serves webconnections through a damn proxy, giving many different users the same apparent IP address to the webserver. Then I went back to cookies.
So, you're right. thats a downside, but is it that hard to accept cookies? they're really not that bad..you can always use a proxy which lets you choose which cookies to filter also.
I would imagine you're not really all that anonymous..an IP would still be associated with that coward (of course, i cant say for sure..but as a legal safegard for/., that would be a good idea). And a court order to give the IP of that poster would render the point moot.
My problem with AC is you see the various trolls and fools who get on and post stupid crap..i'm sure that would happen anyways if you werent anonymous, but i think it would be alot less common. I rather like kuro5hin's way, where you have to login to post. It may not give everyone their say, but in reality, you have to show yourself if you stand in the middle of the street giving a speech too.
i havent watched anything on it in years (as i was a youngin when we got it, the main things on tapes were cartoons)..the last thing i did was hook it up to a vhs vcr and put a copy of wargames that i had on beta (one of the very last thing i recorded on it) and put it on the vhs. A prized movie indeed:)
as server backend's, JSPs and servlets (servlets especially) and in extremeley wide use. They're fairly transparent so you couldnt tell you were using them, but in servers...java is overtaking *everything* (even PHP and perl, which im sure people on here are going to flame and dispute)..
java is for web page developement and serveS NO PURPOSE in solving computer problems that are operating system independent because some computers might not have a java enhanced web browser to view what they will be working on
This is completely, utterly, without a doubt the most ignorant statement about java I have ever heard. Java APPLETS (which you are thinking of) is a tiny subset of what java can do. Lest you forget java APPLICATIONS, java SERVLETS, JINI and lord knows what other little systems are embedding a JVM into them.
Beta did take off. every television station in the nation (if not the world) uses beta for everything. It made sony an enormous hunk of cash, even if the consumer market dwindled. Beta has been used for going on 20+ years now (granted, most inventions in the article were older...)
i think it has to do with the fact that people dont like paying by use. they like to pay for unlimited use and be done with it (look at how aol's popularity soared after they started charging a flat rate)
I see alot of people saying beta should be on this list.. well, beta is still in extensive use. Very much so, by the professional video recording industry (all your local tv stations use beta for recording their stuff), professional television is all recorded on beta, sony still makes high-end equipment for beta (very, very expensive stuff) and it's in wide use. Just not in *home* use.
betamax is still used in the professional industry (read: everybody that films stuff..tv especially)..thus it's not really obsolete because it's still in use, though VHS was pushed through the market better. It's sort of like the amiga..the amiga is/was used for professional tv graphics. Bad marketing decisions led to it not being adopted by the mass market.. I still own a betamax player, great quality from it, though the rewind on it no longer works:(
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Uhm, what business really wants to use software that has no accountability in case something doesnt work?
Things change. In your own words, "get over it".
My first thought was "basic? in html?"..i havent had my morning coffee yet..
Definately, just from all the posts here, there is definate discontent. It's just unorganized.
From what i've seen of things like hard-drive copy protection, the dmca, lower-power radio being made illegal, copyright protected cable... You the individual no longer have any right to disseminate any kind of information. With broadband increasing in availabilty, software such as COG being made available that allows the average user to run powerful webserving software off their own computer.. i think it wont be long before we see the government requiring a license to run your own webserver. And with us programmers being the ones who are coming up with all the hacks around the copyprotection schemes, i can see it being illegal to program without a license. Think it's far fetched? So is the idea of a corporation having the ability to take away your rights...and we all see how that's turned out.
ive known a few people who coded things for the NSA and they're normal people. Not devious sneaky people who wear black all the time and want to circumvent your rights. This sounds like someone's interesting pet project...
heh, i take it you were never a member of dial-up BBSes. They flourished until the internet came into the mainstream. I think they'll flourish again, as soon as more tools are available for building them..which i'm working on ;)
I love BBSes. I used to run one on an old 386 of mine for several years. The internet has never come up with something quite like it yet... so I'm building my own, and sharing it with everyone. I'm trying to get it out to people more (college consumes alot of time :( ) and always looking for help.. but anyways. I've released the first version of it, and the example community being ran off it can be seen at The Machine
This article hits quite close to home. :) I've written a bit of software called COG.. an example (and download) can be had at The Machine..check it out, tell me what you think :)
Indeed, their pursuit of nazi material is almost..well..nazi-like. Ironic.
wasnt hitler that powerless soldier boy in the army who got thrown in prison and decided to write a book about his struggle? Psh. What a nobody.
so was volkswagen (used slave labor, the design for the beetle as a "people's car" was commissioned by hitler), porsche and most other german companies..
or i'm fairly sure it does anyway. I'm not a german lawyer, but BMG is a german company, and germany has many many anti-nazi laws in all shape and form (they even removed an arrangement of trees that resembled a swastika from the air in a forest a few weeks ago).. to stay on the german govt's good side this is something they can request napster to do. Though I believe they'd be hard pressed to enforce something like this through technical means...
they would have to be within 25 light years..since we have been broadcasting for 50 years, it would take 25 to get to them, and 25 to get a reply back. Of course this is assuming they even use radio technology.. I would imagine that as a civilization progresses, the hindrance of light speed communications would become an issue.
the power of the corporate dollar strikes back at our rights once again. It's the people's radio spectrum... yet we the people have no right to use it.
thats why i like java and jsps. a well defined standard, plus tons of utility built-in to the thing. It's alot of typing, but it makes you work out the details and is an invaluable learning experience (unlike ASP which does about everything for you)
So, you're right. thats a downside, but is it that hard to accept cookies? they're really not that bad..you can always use a proxy which lets you choose which cookies to filter also.
My problem with AC is you see the various trolls and fools who get on and post stupid crap..i'm sure that would happen anyways if you werent anonymous, but i think it would be alot less common. I rather like kuro5hin's way, where you have to login to post. It may not give everyone their say, but in reality, you have to show yourself if you stand in the middle of the street giving a speech too.
i havent watched anything on it in years (as i was a youngin when we got it, the main things on tapes were cartoons)..the last thing i did was hook it up to a vhs vcr and put a copy of wargames that i had on beta (one of the very last thing i recorded on it) and put it on the vhs. A prized movie indeed :)
as server backend's, JSPs and servlets (servlets especially) and in extremeley wide use. They're fairly transparent so you couldnt tell you were using them, but in servers...java is overtaking *everything* (even PHP and perl, which im sure people on here are going to flame and dispute)..
This is completely, utterly, without a doubt the most ignorant statement about java I have ever heard. Java APPLETS (which you are thinking of) is a tiny subset of what java can do. Lest you forget java APPLICATIONS, java SERVLETS, JINI and lord knows what other little systems are embedding a JVM into them.
Beta did take off. every television station in the nation (if not the world) uses beta for everything. It made sony an enormous hunk of cash, even if the consumer market dwindled. Beta has been used for going on 20+ years now (granted, most inventions in the article were older...)
i think it has to do with the fact that people dont like paying by use. they like to pay for unlimited use and be done with it (look at how aol's popularity soared after they started charging a flat rate)
I see alot of people saying beta should be on this list.. well, beta is still in extensive use. Very much so, by the professional video recording industry (all your local tv stations use beta for recording their stuff), professional television is all recorded on beta, sony still makes high-end equipment for beta (very, very expensive stuff) and it's in wide use. Just not in *home* use.
betamax is still used in the professional industry (read: everybody that films stuff..tv especially)..thus it's not really obsolete because it's still in use, though VHS was pushed through the market better. It's sort of like the amiga..the amiga is/was used for professional tv graphics. Bad marketing decisions led to it not being adopted by the mass market.. I still own a betamax player, great quality from it, though the rewind on it no longer works :(