Are some Creative Commons licenses worth using, even if others aren't?
Absolutely! The organization as a whole is trying to better society. I read many of Lawrence Lessig's articles and agree with just about everything he says. His goal is to provide options. A full range of options. Pick the ones that suit your needs and ignore the rest.
After all, isn't that what we do with our Linux systems? We pick the distro and packages we want and ignore the rest. If you don't like OpenOffice it doesn't mean you shouldn't use Linux! Just don't use the parts you don't like!
Or we could let the planet do what it's always done: rise and drop in temperature and water levels. Whatever you may think humans have done to the planet, it's gone through much bigger changes before we were ever here. How about we let nature take its course and we worry about changing ourselves instead of the planet?
So is this enough for an impeachment hearing? People go to jail for murder with less evidence that we have about Bush, Clinton, and Bush, Sr. Do we have enough for Congress to begin a real case? Or is this just dreaming because not enough people in Congress have the balls to go through with it?
You are completely missing the point of the parent. It's not about who's right or wrong. Or about what actions are taken. Or about how extreme any views are. The point is simply that the intentions of RMS and Linus are different and sometimes clash. You read way too much into the post.
Regarding your request to cite RMS' desire for IP reform, you stated it yourself: "RMS would be more comfortable with a copyright regime from long ago instead of the one we have now".
By "we" is he referring to kernel developers? Because we all know RMS is a crusader trying to press his beliefs onto others. I think the creators of the GPL are trying to be much more influencial than Linus ever was. Linus mostly wants a great OS and community of developers. RMS wants complete reform (or removal) of IP laws. Different goals will get different reactions, and here's where they start to clash.
Many of us who pay attention already have a somewhat negative view of NASA. Monolithic, slow, expensive, etc. I think this investigation will change public perception. Now the general public may view NASA as bloated and poorly run. It'll be interesting to see the repurcussions.
BTW, "President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency"... that makes me giggle. They have it backwards. They should council the president.
I've worked on large systems, including a multi-terabyte "data warehouse". No matter how big every system can get nightly incremental backups to save space. There is no way EVER you should be overwriting any previous backup. If you have that much data, and it's that valuable, you pay for whatever it takes to make every backup written once-only. Buy a set of drives or one drive with a large multi-disk feeder and pop in 100 7 Gb DVDs every night. Or better yet only do an incremental every night and a full weekly.
What's more expensive... write-once backups or the loss of all of your data? Pick one and good luck.
The best backups are those written to only once. Burn to a write-once only CD or DVD. Don't back up to an external hard disk. As soon as you plug it in anything can happen, either from Windows itself or from malicious software (redundant, I guess).
In the old days we backed up to tape and flipped a switch so the tape couldn't be overwritten. Today it's burn-once disks. Don't trust anything but physical protections from disk writes.
"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Contrary to what you've just seen, war is neither glamorous nor fun. There are no winners, only losers. There are no good wars, with the following exceptions: The American Revolution, World War II, and the Star Wars Trilogy. If you'd like to learn more about war, there's lots of books in your local library, many of them with cool, gory pictures." -- Bart Simpson
I do web development and frankly I don't care about IE 7. Hardly anyone will be using it for a long time after its release. I develop to web standards and test in each current popular browser. When it hits maybe 10% market share I'll care if my sites are compatible. And even if they're not I won't be doing much if anything to conform to any of IE's new broken standards.
I realize that millions of people use this software, but is every beta release with no innovative features deserve news coverage? Are people really anxiously anticipating every beta version? News coverage of when the final release is due is meaningful to users and web developers. But I'd hardly call IE 7 Beta 2 news for nerds or stuff that matters.
What'll make this "sell" isn't technology but brand. Name recognition counts for everything in big business. Just their name alone can sell a decent product. We know they'll have to make a decent, relatively simple, interface. But other than that their brand name is enough to make this a huge success.
One of the biggest problems with.NET and UI is that Windows Forms is already being deprecated. It was only out for about 2 years when they said they were going to drop it. Of course if you only need to write one small app it's no big deal. But I hate writing things with a library I know will be dropped soon.
No, it's not 'nuff said. Why is Delphi better? Based on my last experience with it I wouldn't agree. And I get the feeling Borland is dropping it. If you're trying to convince someone to choose one platform over another you need to give some reasons.
Non-free (beer and speech): - VB - if you have a copy already it's the easiest choice for quick development; very small learning curve; few libraries required -.NET (C# or whatever) - free if you don't want MS development tools; very expensive tools to build one small app; much bigger learning curve; 20 MB runtime required - RealBasic - I hear great things but know nothing about it
Free: - Python - use built-in UI libraries or better wxWidgets library; my preference for client/server development; moderate learning curve; python and libraries must be installed - Java - UI has a moderate to high learning curve; runtime requires installation or you may have browser applet as an option; free tools
I'm sure there are others. These are the ones I'm most familiar with.
From my anti-Microsoft site: "There are about 60,000 viruses known for Windows, 40 or so for the Macintosh, about 5 for commercial Unix versions, and perhaps 40 for Linux. Most of the Windows viruses are not important, but many hundreds have caused widespread damage. Two or three of the Macintosh viruses were widespread enough to be of importance. None of the Unix or Linux viruses became widespread - most were confined to the laboratory. (Granneman, Scott. "Linux vs. Windows Viruses." The Register 6 Oct 2003)
It's not that they have too much time on their hands. They consider this a big enough priority to spend time on it instead of other tasks. A politician's first priority is usually their public image. Legislative tasks come second. That's the real problem.
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And how many more were not authorized?
Are some Creative Commons licenses worth using, even if others aren't?
Absolutely! The organization as a whole is trying to better society. I read many of Lawrence Lessig's articles and agree with just about everything he says. His goal is to provide options. A full range of options. Pick the ones that suit your needs and ignore the rest.
After all, isn't that what we do with our Linux systems? We pick the distro and packages we want and ignore the rest. If you don't like OpenOffice it doesn't mean you shouldn't use Linux! Just don't use the parts you don't like!
Yes.
Or we spend the of thousands of years it'll take before it becomes uninhabitable to learn how to live for generations in space.
And somehow f**king with it more is going to help? Very logical.
Or we could let the planet do what it's always done: rise and drop in temperature and water levels. Whatever you may think humans have done to the planet, it's gone through much bigger changes before we were ever here. How about we let nature take its course and we worry about changing ourselves instead of the planet?
So is this enough for an impeachment hearing? People go to jail for murder with less evidence that we have about Bush, Clinton, and Bush, Sr. Do we have enough for Congress to begin a real case? Or is this just dreaming because not enough people in Congress have the balls to go through with it?
NIST has published the biometric data specs on the new Federal ID cards
/end_sarcasm
So much for security by obscurity! C'mon people, haven't we learned anything from Microsoft's security model???
You are completely missing the point of the parent. It's not about who's right or wrong. Or about what actions are taken. Or about how extreme any views are. The point is simply that the intentions of RMS and Linus are different and sometimes clash. You read way too much into the post.
Regarding your request to cite RMS' desire for IP reform, you stated it yourself: "RMS would be more comfortable with a copyright regime from long ago instead of the one we have now".
By "we" is he referring to kernel developers? Because we all know RMS is a crusader trying to press his beliefs onto others. I think the creators of the GPL are trying to be much more influencial than Linus ever was. Linus mostly wants a great OS and community of developers. RMS wants complete reform (or removal) of IP laws. Different goals will get different reactions, and here's where they start to clash.
Many of us who pay attention already have a somewhat negative view of NASA. Monolithic, slow, expensive, etc. I think this investigation will change public perception. Now the general public may view NASA as bloated and poorly run. It'll be interesting to see the repurcussions.
BTW, "President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency"... that makes me giggle. They have it backwards. They should council the president.
And when it's time to restore something do you not plug it in? What's the point of writing to a disk you can never safely read from?
Your response is something one of my old PHBs would have said.
I've worked on large systems, including a multi-terabyte "data warehouse". No matter how big every system can get nightly incremental backups to save space. There is no way EVER you should be overwriting any previous backup. If you have that much data, and it's that valuable, you pay for whatever it takes to make every backup written once-only. Buy a set of drives or one drive with a large multi-disk feeder and pop in 100 7 Gb DVDs every night. Or better yet only do an incremental every night and a full weekly.
What's more expensive... write-once backups or the loss of all of your data? Pick one and good luck.
The best backups are those written to only once. Burn to a write-once only CD or DVD. Don't back up to an external hard disk. As soon as you plug it in anything can happen, either from Windows itself or from malicious software (redundant, I guess).
In the old days we backed up to tape and flipped a switch so the tape couldn't be overwritten. Today it's burn-once disks. Don't trust anything but physical protections from disk writes.
"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Contrary to what you've just seen, war is neither glamorous nor fun. There are no winners, only losers. There are no good wars, with the following exceptions: The American Revolution, World War II, and the Star Wars Trilogy. If you'd like to learn more about war, there's lots of books in your local library, many of them with cool, gory pictures." -- Bart Simpson
I do web development and frankly I don't care about IE 7. Hardly anyone will be using it for a long time after its release. I develop to web standards and test in each current popular browser. When it hits maybe 10% market share I'll care if my sites are compatible. And even if they're not I won't be doing much if anything to conform to any of IE's new broken standards.
I realize that millions of people use this software, but is every beta release with no innovative features deserve news coverage? Are people really anxiously anticipating every beta version? News coverage of when the final release is due is meaningful to users and web developers. But I'd hardly call IE 7 Beta 2 news for nerds or stuff that matters.
I can't have that at work because I don't need others commenting on my blue bawls.
My steps for success:
1) Coffee
2) Code (while sipping coffee)
3) Coffee
4) Coffee (thinking about code)
5) Code
6) ???
7) Profit!!
No wonder I'm not yet independantly wealthy...
What'll make this "sell" isn't technology but brand. Name recognition counts for everything in big business. Just their name alone can sell a decent product. We know they'll have to make a decent, relatively simple, interface. But other than that their brand name is enough to make this a huge success.
One of the biggest problems with .NET and UI is that Windows Forms is already being deprecated. It was only out for about 2 years when they said they were going to drop it. Of course if you only need to write one small app it's no big deal. But I hate writing things with a library I know will be dropped soon.
No, it's not 'nuff said. Why is Delphi better? Based on my last experience with it I wouldn't agree. And I get the feeling Borland is dropping it. If you're trying to convince someone to choose one platform over another you need to give some reasons.
wxWidgets totally rocks. I recommend trying it with Python. Together they make a fantastic client-side development platform.
It depends partly on your finances...
.NET (C# or whatever) - free if you don't want MS development tools; very expensive tools to build one small app; much bigger learning curve; 20 MB runtime required
Non-free (beer and speech):
- VB - if you have a copy already it's the easiest choice for quick development; very small learning curve; few libraries required
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- RealBasic - I hear great things but know nothing about it
Free:
- Python - use built-in UI libraries or better wxWidgets library; my preference for client/server development; moderate learning curve; python and libraries must be installed
- Java - UI has a moderate to high learning curve; runtime requires installation or you may have browser applet as an option; free tools
I'm sure there are others. These are the ones I'm most familiar with.
From my anti-Microsoft site: "There are about 60,000 viruses known for Windows, 40 or so for the Macintosh, about 5 for commercial Unix versions, and perhaps 40 for Linux. Most of the Windows viruses are not important, but many hundreds have caused widespread damage. Two or three of the Macintosh viruses were widespread enough to be of importance. None of the Unix or Linux viruses became widespread - most were confined to the laboratory. (Granneman, Scott. "Linux vs. Windows Viruses." The Register 6 Oct 2003)
It's not that they have too much time on their hands. They consider this a big enough priority to spend time on it instead of other tasks. A politician's first priority is usually their public image. Legislative tasks come second. That's the real problem.