This is just another reason to move to Jabber (or some other alternative). If there isn't already a voice/video conferencing extension i don't know about, I'm sure there will be in short time.
Many of the bussiness-level services AOL is trying to offer could even be implemented with Jabber on a per-server basis, allowing everything to be free still, but businesses could pay for extra services or more reliability (dedicated lines and servers and such) or what-not.
I was going to post almost the exact same thing. Although, I wasn't thinking of putting them on the card or in a Java-like bytecode, but thats a good idea. Just compile the bytecode to native instructions and store on the disk so you don't need to compile it over and over again.
My thoughts were more along the line of a single driver for all OSes through a standardized Driver Hardware Access Layer. I mean, all drivers just write/read to a cards memory, do some interupts, etc. The interfacing between the software and the hardware is defined at the low-level, so give it a common API that can be supported on all platforms.
I could see IBM and Sun teaming up to this and getting some other manufactures on board. Nvidia and ATI might jump on board quick, since they already support linux drivers and then sound card developers would follow cause when they see Nvidia and ATI doing something, and they know those two companies lead the gaming hardware market that is so important to their sound cards, they'll think 'maybe we should do this, too'
Basically, with a common API, companies wouldn't need to develop a Linux driver, just one driver and it would work for everything supporting this Common Driver Hardware Access Layer.
I'm not a huge fan of the FSF, the GPL, or Stallman, but I am a fan of accessing the source code to a program you pay for. And, its really the only logical solution to a number of problems. I must be informed what is in my food, how well my car fares in a crash test, etc. Why shouldn't I know what my software does?
exactly what i was going to say. the last line of the story is completely immature. why do people have such a problem with people enforcing the law? It just baffles me. And yet these same people who are so upset over this, on this same day are upset over the story about people stealing GPLed code?
I agree. There is a large community of remixers out there doing cool stuff with audio tracks and videos, but they can't legally release them. Well, there is nothing against releasing instructions for making them from the originals...
It depresses me sometimes to be reminded at how very slowly things like this catch on. We are stuck in obsolete, bad decisions from the past (like ASCII). The problem is simple: it is easy to do the wrong thing. Why would someone add unicode support when they don't even have to put any thought to just using the ASCII their C-strings compile to?
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what we need is better adoption of public/private key data signing. don't accept any email that isn't signed and verify signatures from certificate services, one of which should be a free public service. they dont even need to be full certs as they are today, just a listing of public keys and "this is not a spammer" so that the services wouldnt even have to store any personal information about you.
everyone should maintain their list of trusted keys and messages signed with those keys should be accepted without question.
another option would be some sort of p2p "is this key a spammer" check. the client will send out a request for opinions if others will simply reply "spammer" or "not spammer". of course, this could apply to other catagorizations of users, whatever they may be.
over time, the spam problem will go away, somehow...
Haven't other projects done something like this? I remember seeing some open OS where people could place 'bounties' on bug reports and whoever fixed it got the money.
most users just like that Windows Mobile has all thier MSN contacts, since MSN IM is installed already when they got that new PC, and works so much like the familiar enviroment. What is most important to OEMs? It isnt low-cost or openness, its sales.
i did the same thing tinkering in cisco class one day and was nearly suspended. i would have been, too, but i had special priviledges due to my intelligence and the fact that i scared the faculty. dont want anyone unloading some lead salads in the place, do they? pansy ass worry-worts.
Personally, it seems to me that VoIP is pretty cut and dry in this matter: it is a "telecommunications carrier". It is simply a new medium for the same thing we did on copper lines.
The most difficult (and dangerous) aspect is things like IM services with voice capacity. Actually, anyone two people with microphones and email could evade the police and FBI pretty easily by recording small sound files and emailing them (possibly even encrypting them to be sure). In such a case as this, where communications begin to forgo the use of any third-party to facilitate the information between two people, we will see a lot of hot debate.
When communications as distributed and "P2P" as this become more common place, many questions will be raised. But, we must look at how things would have to be implemented, before we can judge the rules that must be applied to them. Can we mandate that wiretaps must be available even for peer-to-peer exchange of communications? Would we then need to make requests directly to those being tapped, or those they are in contact with, stating they must, for a specified time, transmit all communications to the authoritive agencies for monitoring? Surely, no one would comply! Then, should the ISPs and backbone servers scan all packets for personal communications to or from individuals on a national "Tapped List"? But, what of all the data they would have to peak into to find these few, when most they have no right to touch, except to pass along?
perhaps mr. gates is doing what any other company would do, making comparisons between things that arent exactly on par with one another. for example, he may be saying MS averages 24 hours to fix bugs (bugs in this sense may mean, the computer crashed kind of bugs), while Linux developers take weeks to get rid of some 'bugs', but remember that Linux folk call just about anything a bug, including feature requests. do you think mr. gates counts feature requests and plans and such as bugs? i doubt it.
gates wasnt even seeming to say anything negative about the cloning and seeping of IP into cloned products. as he said, it is inevitable. sounds to me like he's on our side with this one, but you are all flaming trolls so you cant see through his name, or his company's name.
i like the code bounty approach, but it hasnt been used much, yet. it seems promising. basically, tack on a bounty anyone can add funds to for each bug report and whoever makes a working patch to solve it, gets the bounty. i guess.
just so you know, ritalin, concerta, etc. for the most part all meds they keep pushing on us who have ADD or ADHD, the key component is methylphenadate, gee, wanna know what else is comprised of that little chemical? crack cocaine and speed. before you let a doctor have you popping pills every morning, do your homework and find out whats in your drugs.
But, honestly, the FCC does need a large overhaul. They think too much like they are regulating (or rather not) bussiness, as opposed to the regulating the control of information.
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This is just another reason to move to Jabber (or some other alternative). If there isn't already a voice/video conferencing extension i don't know about, I'm sure there will be in short time.
Many of the bussiness-level services AOL is trying to offer could even be implemented with Jabber on a per-server basis, allowing everything to be free still, but businesses could pay for extra services or more reliability (dedicated lines and servers and such) or what-not.
I was going to post almost the exact same thing. Although, I wasn't thinking of putting them on the card or in a Java-like bytecode, but thats a good idea. Just compile the bytecode to native instructions and store on the disk so you don't need to compile it over and over again.
My thoughts were more along the line of a single driver for all OSes through a standardized Driver Hardware Access Layer. I mean, all drivers just write/read to a cards memory, do some interupts, etc. The interfacing between the software and the hardware is defined at the low-level, so give it a common API that can be supported on all platforms.
I could see IBM and Sun teaming up to this and getting some other manufactures on board. Nvidia and ATI might jump on board quick, since they already support linux drivers and then sound card developers would follow cause when they see Nvidia and ATI doing something, and they know those two companies lead the gaming hardware market that is so important to their sound cards, they'll think 'maybe we should do this, too'
Basically, with a common API, companies wouldn't need to develop a Linux driver, just one driver and it would work for everything supporting this Common Driver Hardware Access Layer.
1) as long as my history is not given to a third-party in connection with any identifying marks, fine.
2) if you dont like it, dont use it!
I'm not a huge fan of the FSF, the GPL, or Stallman, but I am a fan of accessing the source code to a program you pay for. And, its really the only logical solution to a number of problems. I must be informed what is in my food, how well my car fares in a crash test, etc. Why shouldn't I know what my software does?
exactly what i was going to say. the last line of the story is completely immature. why do people have such a problem with people enforcing the law? It just baffles me. And yet these same people who are so upset over this, on this same day are upset over the story about people stealing GPLed code?
I agree. There is a large community of remixers out there doing cool stuff with audio tracks and videos, but they can't legally release them. Well, there is nothing against releasing instructions for making them from the originals...
handle it from the client side. set up a simple ftp server and find a media player that can read ftp servers.
It depresses me sometimes to be reminded at how very slowly things like this catch on. We are stuck in obsolete, bad decisions from the past (like ASCII). The problem is simple: it is easy to do the wrong thing. Why would someone add unicode support when they don't even have to put any thought to just using the ASCII their C-strings compile to?
what we need is better adoption of public/private key data signing. don't accept any email that isn't signed and verify signatures from certificate services, one of which should be a free public service. they dont even need to be full certs as they are today, just a listing of public keys and "this is not a spammer" so that the services wouldnt even have to store any personal information about you.
everyone should maintain their list of trusted keys and messages signed with those keys should be accepted without question.
another option would be some sort of p2p "is this key a spammer" check. the client will send out a request for opinions if others will simply reply "spammer" or "not spammer". of course, this could apply to other catagorizations of users, whatever they may be.
over time, the spam problem will go away, somehow...
long lost relatives would find it hard to get that "hey, its been sooo long" message to you with just an email, as is likelier than you might think.
and its people like you that get the rest of us in a load of problems.
Haven't other projects done something like this? I remember seeing some open OS where people could place 'bounties' on bug reports and whoever fixed it got the money.
most users just like that Windows Mobile has all thier MSN contacts, since MSN IM is installed already when they got that new PC, and works so much like the familiar enviroment. What is most important to OEMs? It isnt low-cost or openness, its sales.
This is like patenting instructions on translating English to German.
i got me a Sun GDM class too. came with the sparcstation from NASA.
i did the same thing tinkering in cisco class one day and was nearly suspended. i would have been, too, but i had special priviledges due to my intelligence and the fact that i scared the faculty. dont want anyone unloading some lead salads in the place, do they? pansy ass worry-worts.
Personally, it seems to me that VoIP is pretty cut and dry in this matter: it is a "telecommunications carrier". It is simply a new medium for the same thing we did on copper lines.
The most difficult (and dangerous) aspect is things like IM services with voice capacity. Actually, anyone two people with microphones and email could evade the police and FBI pretty easily by recording small sound files and emailing them (possibly even encrypting them to be sure). In such a case as this, where communications begin to forgo the use of any third-party to facilitate the information between two people, we will see a lot of hot debate.
When communications as distributed and "P2P" as this become more common place, many questions will be raised. But, we must look at how things would have to be implemented, before we can judge the rules that must be applied to them. Can we mandate that wiretaps must be available even for peer-to-peer exchange of communications? Would we then need to make requests directly to those being tapped, or those they are in contact with, stating they must, for a specified time, transmit all communications to the authoritive agencies for monitoring? Surely, no one would comply! Then, should the ISPs and backbone servers scan all packets for personal communications to or from individuals on a national "Tapped List"? But, what of all the data they would have to peak into to find these few, when most they have no right to touch, except to pass along?
We sail to rough waters. I pray for us all.
perhaps mr. gates is doing what any other company would do, making comparisons between things that arent exactly on par with one another. for example, he may be saying MS averages 24 hours to fix bugs (bugs in this sense may mean, the computer crashed kind of bugs), while Linux developers take weeks to get rid of some 'bugs', but remember that Linux folk call just about anything a bug, including feature requests. do you think mr. gates counts feature requests and plans and such as bugs? i doubt it.
gates wasnt even seeming to say anything negative about the cloning and seeping of IP into cloned products. as he said, it is inevitable. sounds to me like he's on our side with this one, but you are all flaming trolls so you cant see through his name, or his company's name.
i was diagnosed (sp?) with a form of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. I obsessively have a compulsion to make plans to do a lot.
i like the code bounty approach, but it hasnt been used much, yet. it seems promising. basically, tack on a bounty anyone can add funds to for each bug report and whoever makes a working patch to solve it, gets the bounty. i guess.
just so you know, ritalin, concerta, etc. for the most part all meds they keep pushing on us who have ADD or ADHD, the key component is methylphenadate, gee, wanna know what else is comprised of that little chemical? crack cocaine and speed. before you let a doctor have you popping pills every morning, do your homework and find out whats in your drugs.
I agree and I have long believed that since would be a great idea. We need some space to spread our wings.
maybe, eventually, the entire spectrum will be a commons. colors are free!
We would be marked terrorists.
But, honestly, the FCC does need a large overhaul. They think too much like they are regulating (or rather not) bussiness, as opposed to the regulating the control of information.
they are in an identity crisis.
Aside from my signiture, I have never in my life known of a single use for writing cursive.