You DEFINITELY read that wrong. The poster didn't say that it was a "no brainer" where VoIP would end up, he said VoIP is where things will end up, and that was a "no brainer" (although I don't think his "end" is necessarily "The End").
Which companies ultimately control VoIP is still up in the air. Internally, most telco's send voice communications digitally. They do this for several reasons, mainly because it is clearer and cheaper to do it this way. Cell phones are also already digital. VoIP is just a logical extention to all of these services from a technical level. But there are two sides to technical adoption. The technology must work, and there must be a way to PROFIT from it for business to begin offering it. (Again, I don't think I'm saying anything you don't already know as demonstrated by your post).
And yes, you are correct, "...where VoIP is headed is not a no brainer." But the fact that things are headed toward VoIP, and that it is VERY LIKELY to be where things end up (until something even better and cheaper comes along) is also a no brainer.
Mango ice cream (you need an ice cream maker for this)
300,000 milligrams pureed flesh of honey mango 90,000 milligrams sugar 3 cc's lemon juice 50 cc's cream, whipped until almost stiff 200 cc's whole milk (lowfat is OK) 1 egg yolk
Mix all ingredients except cream together. Fold in cream, blend well. Chill mixture according to ice cream maker's instructions. This will take around 40 minutes.
There is a difference in weight vs volume everwhere, but Tbsp, Tsp, and cl, dl, etc. all measure volume. Volume is related to weight (actually mass) by density.
A liter (litre) is (10 cm)^3. A gram is the weight of water filling 1cm^3. A Kg is the weight of 1 liter of water.
I love the metric system. It all just makes sense, but I've just never seen a recipe book from anywhere but the US and didn't expect to see Tbsp in there.
As I understand it- and I'd LOVE to be courteously corrected, the law only applies to products moved across state lines (or into the country) so a product manufactured, marketed and sold in the same US state, is actually still a possibility.
I doubt it (IANAL). Since the case that broke the interstate commerce clause involved a farmer growing grain on his farm which happened to extend across state lines. The farmer was feeding said grain to his animals in part of his farm that was in the other state. It was argued that since he was growing the corn instead of purchasing corn, he was affecting commerce. Since corn could potentially be brought in from another state and sold to said farmer, he was affecting sales in the interstate grain trade. Thus, his actions were subject to Federal jurisdiction. From that point on, anything which "exerts a substantial economic effect on interstate commerce" has fallen under the aegis of the Commerce Clause. I think the same would apply if I built PVR's and sold them. TiVo's sales would be affected, (people who bought my system wouldn't likely buy the TiVo system), and I would thus be required to abide by the Federal Laws.
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I could, for example, create two documents with the same hash, have you sign one, and then claim you signed the other one. Since the hashes are the same your digital signature will be valid for both.
Yes, but the second would be gibberish. For a password, this wouldn't matter. But for a document, being able to be "read" is VERY important. Who cares if a document comes out being signed by them that looks like someone pounded on a keyboard with their fists to produce it?
Or maybe it was Linux.... I could swear the reason I dismissed it was over that... maybe I'm just crazy.
This is from MySQL 3.23.58 on Linux
mysql> select firstName from person where firstName = "Forrest"; +-----------+ | firstName | +-----------+ | Forrest | +-----------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> select firstName from person where firstName = "forrest"; +-----------+ | firstName | +-----------+ | Forrest | +-----------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
So, yes it is case INsensitive. (But I can't really do anything to prove your sanity):)
I never said that usenet people couldn't be pricks too. I would agree with that as well. But this is the same in any usenet group, not just the Linux groups. IRC and USENET share something in common. They are both filled with people who are so poor at social interaction that they have to hide behind a computer with anonymity. There is no wonder that you get this type of behavior. But it has nothing to do with Linux. That was my only point.
I don't have ANY problem with Linux users (except maybe for those gentoo folks, just kidding). I don't have a problem with Windows users, Mac users, BeOS users, *BSD users, or any other OS users. All of these groups are a subset of the people on the planet. A certain amount of people in the world are a-holes. When you pick from a population with a certain character set, you are likely to get members in your group with that character set. NO MATTER WHAT THE GROUP IS. I don't like a-holes. If I find an a-hole, I leave him or her alone. But this isn't a Linux user quality.
Yes, it works fine under Linux. You just have to link the plugins in the mozilla plugins directory to the plugins in the firefox plugins directory. The Flash installer isn't aware of firefox, so it doesn't install the plugins in the right place. This is an issue with Flash, not Linux, or Firefox. If you install Firefox on Windows, I would guess the same thing would happen. This may fix things in FreeBSD as well.
If this was supposed to be a joke, sorry for not getting it.
I think part of the problem is WHERE you are looking for answers. I have been using Unix since the late 80's and I have been tinkering with Linux since the early 90's. I have been using nothing but Linux since about 98 (except for the occasional Solaris or Irix box I administer). I am a lead systems administrator at NASA, and have been working there since 1996. I am 34 years old and have spent most of my life (since I was 10) fiddle-farting with computers for fun and profit. Lets just say, I know and love what I'm doing. But I hardly ever use IRC because of the attitude that you describe. I would like to point out that it isn't Linux users who are elitist pricks. It is IRC users who are elitist pricks. They get on an IRC channel where everyone knows each other, and get off by bad mouthing everyone else. (If you need a question answered, a better place is linuxquestions.org.) I don't think the people on IRC get what it means to be a part of the "Linux Community".
I look at it like this. I have written very little of the code that I use on a daily basis. I have paid VERY little money for it (I have made financial contributions to some projects). The thing I can do to "pay" for the software I use is to help other people when they have a problem. However, whenever I have tried to go on IRC to help people, I am treated with the same attitude that you describe. "Nice" people don't hang out there because all they get is a bad attitude that they don't need or deserve. Therefore, you aren't likely to find "nice" people to help you on IRC.
It is a shame that these people tarnish the name of Linux for anyone, especially since most of them are of the oppinion that it is a superior OS.
Isn't the idea of freedom that you can do whatever you want?
No. The idea of freedom is that you can do whatever you want as long as it doesn't take away someone else's freedom or rights (i.e. the ability for them to be able to do whatever they want). This is the reason things like murder are illegal in most societies. In a "perfectly free" society, murder would not be illegal. However, this society would soon wither as people start killing each other. Granted, the last to die will be the strongest, most manipulative, group of people. But, in order for the society to survive, they will need a steady supply of "willing" people to conquer or exploit. This will ultimately lead to a society where the vast majorty of people have few rights, and a small group of people have total freedom. If the "masses" ever get wise and unite their power, the society will fall apart. This is basically the way every society has evolved since the beginning of man. It is the direction that the United States is taking (and most other countries as well), and sadly, I think this is the same type of thing that will happen to most projects under the BSD license. Once they become popular, a corporation will grab up the code, do what they want with it, and put the "competition" that created the code in the first place at a disadvantage.
Most open source software (or free software if you like) is created to scratch an itch. Someone needs something done, so they build a tool to do that something. The payment for building the tool in the open source community is the pride of seeing others use the tool you created along with the prestige of building a good tool. If someone takes your code and puts it in a closed source tool, they are in effect taking your pride and prestige from you.
Now, the GPL isn't about maximizing freedom, it is about building a better, stronger community. A community that will be able to survive greed, as those that want to be part of the community are forced to not be greedy by forcing all of their secrets out to the open. It is based on the theory that a community that shares all their ideas (rather than competing with each other by keeping secrets in an attempt to get individual gain) in the long run will be much better off.
It is also noteworty to point out, it is the code that is "free" not the developer or the user. The code is only "free" if it is allowed to go anywhere and be read by anyone. The code wants to be read. It likes to be read. If nobody or nothing ever reads the code it is as if the code doesn't exist, and will die. If the code goes into a closed source product, it is being enslaved. It is being prevented from doing the thing that it wants to do the most. To be viewed by people and compilers (or intrepreters) everywhere. Don't allow your code to be enslaved. Assure its freedom by protecting it with the GPL.
Of course, it is the copyright holders' discretion to relicense subsequent versions.
No, it is whoever is reading the license (the user) who is given the option. The paragraph could be rewritten, and keep the same meaning, as follows:
This program is free software; anyone can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at their option) any later version.
When I give a piece of code to the open source community, I want it to stay there (I'm sure most people who use the GPL feel this way or they would choose a different license). I don't like the BSD license, because it doesn't support the things I want. I actually want to prevent people or companies from taking my code and not giving inhancements back to the community. This is the "price" I charge for using my code. If they don't like this, then they can write the code themselves, or "buy" if from someone else. In my oppinion, you are either a part of the open source community, and are therefore willing to play by our rules, or you aren't. I would like the GPL to be even more restrictive in this matter. I would be more than happy to see a clause that says something to the effect of, "If you or a company you have intrumental control over files a patent infringement suit against this or any other software licensed under an Open Source license, then you are forbidden from using this software in any way."
Now, if version 10 of the GPL retracts the provision of not giving enhancements back to the community, I wouldn't want my software licensed under that version, but according to the paragraph it already is. Thus, we must trust the Free Software Foundation to uphold their ideals. As long as they do that, we will be fine (IMHO).
You forgot hands. We really need to outlaw hands. It would be a lot harder to murder anyone if we simply cut everybody's hands off. Of course we would have a much harder time typing, but to save lives it is probably worth it. </sarcasm>
I don't know, I've already cleaned viri off of two family members' computers in the past month. One would only keep rebooting, and the other was so slow, it was unusable. All after being online without contacting me first. It's hard to say no, I won't fix your computer to family members. So, it will affect computer literate people. The real rub, I don't even dual boot Windows to play games anymore but I still can't get away from it.
What I'd really like to see is a box I can plug into my lan so I can use my cellphone in my house. My house was built in 1924, and has solid brick walls. I can't get a signal at all inside unless I put my phone on a window sill. If I could get a box so my phone would work in my house, I would cancel my land-line phone. Does anyone know of such a product?
And what is the price of an olive compaired to the cost of an airline flight? About 20 years ago, an accountant realized that if the airlines put one olive in the martini's they served their first class passengers instead of two, they would save about a million dollars a year. This is the same type of thing. I also said that it COULD be the reason, not that it WAS the reason.
Bezos (of Amazon.com) said in an interview several years ago that a million dollar company needs to focus on increasing market share. A billion dollar company needs to focus on cutting costs. Google can't get much more market share, but they can cut costs.
Well, there might be a more practical reason than they simply don't care about standard HTML. It appears the main problem is they don't tell the doctype. That would take them an extra 118 bytes PER REQUEST to include the type. That means, according to the 1000 requests per second mentioned in the article, they are saving 115Kbps in transfer rates by not including the doctype. It doesn't seem like much, but it is the same thing that got airlines to stop serving food. And this is just the Doctype. I'm sure they cut bites out wherever they can.
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Yes, and encrypting it is as easy as shuffling the deck.
You DEFINITELY read that wrong. The poster didn't say that it was a "no brainer" where VoIP would end up, he said VoIP is where things will end up, and that was a "no brainer" (although I don't think his "end" is necessarily "The End").
Which companies ultimately control VoIP is still up in the air. Internally, most telco's send voice communications digitally. They do this for several reasons, mainly because it is clearer and cheaper to do it this way. Cell phones are also already digital. VoIP is just a logical extention to all of these services from a technical level. But there are two sides to technical adoption. The technology must work, and there must be a way to PROFIT from it for business to begin offering it. (Again, I don't think I'm saying anything you don't already know as demonstrated by your post).
And yes, you are correct, "...where VoIP is headed is not a no brainer." But the fact that things are headed toward VoIP, and that it is VERY LIKELY to be where things end up (until something even better and cheaper comes along) is also a no brainer.
Or for you doctors/nurses:
Mango ice cream (you need an ice cream maker for this)
300,000 milligrams pureed flesh of honey mango
90,000 milligrams sugar
3 cc's lemon juice
50 cc's cream, whipped until almost stiff
200 cc's whole milk (lowfat is OK)
1 egg yolk
Mix all ingredients except cream together. Fold in cream, blend well. Chill mixture according to ice cream maker's instructions. This will take around 40 minutes.
Thanks to Alton Brown, I make the best chicken soup anyone who has tried it has had.
There is a difference in weight vs volume everwhere, but Tbsp, Tsp, and cl, dl, etc. all measure volume. Volume is related to weight (actually mass) by density.
A liter (litre) is (10 cm)^3.
A gram is the weight of water filling 1cm^3.
A Kg is the weight of 1 liter of water.
I love the metric system. It all just makes sense, but I've just never seen a recipe book from anywhere but the US and didn't expect to see Tbsp in there.
As I understand it- and I'd LOVE to be courteously corrected, the law only applies to products moved across state lines (or into the country) so a product manufactured, marketed and sold in the same US state, is actually still a possibility.
I doubt it (IANAL). Since the case that broke the interstate commerce clause involved a farmer growing grain on his farm which happened to extend across state lines. The farmer was feeding said grain to his animals in part of his farm that was in the other state. It was argued that since he was growing the corn instead of purchasing corn, he was affecting commerce. Since corn could potentially be brought in from another state and sold to said farmer, he was affecting sales in the interstate grain trade. Thus, his actions were subject to Federal jurisdiction. From that point on, anything which "exerts a substantial economic effect on interstate commerce" has fallen under the aegis of the Commerce Clause. I think the same would apply if I built PVR's and sold them. TiVo's sales would be affected, (people who bought my system wouldn't likely buy the TiVo system), and I would thus be required to abide by the Federal Laws.
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I could, for example, create two documents with the same hash, have you sign one, and then claim you signed the other one. Since the hashes are the same your digital signature will be valid for both.
Yes, but the second would be gibberish. For a password, this wouldn't matter. But for a document, being able to be "read" is VERY important. Who cares if a document comes out being signed by them that looks like someone pounded on a keyboard with their fists to produce it?
This is from MySQL 3.23.58 on LinuxSo, yes it is case INsensitive. (But I can't really do anything to prove your sanity)
I never said that usenet people couldn't be pricks too. I would agree with that as well. But this is the same in any usenet group, not just the Linux groups. IRC and USENET share something in common. They are both filled with people who are so poor at social interaction that they have to hide behind a computer with anonymity. There is no wonder that you get this type of behavior. But it has nothing to do with Linux. That was my only point.
I don't have ANY problem with Linux users (except maybe for those gentoo folks, just kidding). I don't have a problem with Windows users, Mac users, BeOS users, *BSD users, or any other OS users. All of these groups are a subset of the people on the planet. A certain amount of people in the world are a-holes. When you pick from a population with a certain character set, you are likely to get members in your group with that character set. NO MATTER WHAT THE GROUP IS. I don't like a-holes. If I find an a-hole, I leave him or her alone. But this isn't a Linux user quality.
Yes, it works fine under Linux. You just have to link the plugins in the mozilla plugins directory to the plugins in the firefox plugins directory. The Flash installer isn't aware of firefox, so it doesn't install the plugins in the right place. This is an issue with Flash, not Linux, or Firefox. If you install Firefox on Windows, I would guess the same thing would happen. This may fix things in FreeBSD as well.
If this was supposed to be a joke, sorry for not getting it.
I think part of the problem is WHERE you are looking for answers. I have been using Unix since the late 80's and I have been tinkering with Linux since the early 90's. I have been using nothing but Linux since about 98 (except for the occasional Solaris or Irix box I administer). I am a lead systems administrator at NASA, and have been working there since 1996. I am 34 years old and have spent most of my life (since I was 10) fiddle-farting with computers for fun and profit. Lets just say, I know and love what I'm doing. But I hardly ever use IRC because of the attitude that you describe. I would like to point out that it isn't Linux users who are elitist pricks. It is IRC users who are elitist pricks. They get on an IRC channel where everyone knows each other, and get off by bad mouthing everyone else. (If you need a question answered, a better place is linuxquestions.org.) I don't think the people on IRC get what it means to be a part of the "Linux Community".
I look at it like this. I have written very little of the code that I use on a daily basis. I have paid VERY little money for it (I have made financial contributions to some projects). The thing I can do to "pay" for the software I use is to help other people when they have a problem. However, whenever I have tried to go on IRC to help people, I am treated with the same attitude that you describe. "Nice" people don't hang out there because all they get is a bad attitude that they don't need or deserve. Therefore, you aren't likely to find "nice" people to help you on IRC.
It is a shame that these people tarnish the name of Linux for anyone, especially since most of them are of the oppinion that it is a superior OS.
Isn't the idea of freedom that you can do whatever you want?
No. The idea of freedom is that you can do whatever you want as long as it doesn't take away someone else's freedom or rights (i.e. the ability for them to be able to do whatever they want). This is the reason things like murder are illegal in most societies. In a "perfectly free" society, murder would not be illegal. However, this society would soon wither as people start killing each other. Granted, the last to die will be the strongest, most manipulative, group of people. But, in order for the society to survive, they will need a steady supply of "willing" people to conquer or exploit. This will ultimately lead to a society where the vast majorty of people have few rights, and a small group of people have total freedom. If the "masses" ever get wise and unite their power, the society will fall apart. This is basically the way every society has evolved since the beginning of man. It is the direction that the United States is taking (and most other countries as well), and sadly, I think this is the same type of thing that will happen to most projects under the BSD license. Once they become popular, a corporation will grab up the code, do what they want with it, and put the "competition" that created the code in the first place at a disadvantage.
Most open source software (or free software if you like) is created to scratch an itch. Someone needs something done, so they build a tool to do that something. The payment for building the tool in the open source community is the pride of seeing others use the tool you created along with the prestige of building a good tool. If someone takes your code and puts it in a closed source tool, they are in effect taking your pride and prestige from you.
Now, the GPL isn't about maximizing freedom, it is about building a better, stronger community. A community that will be able to survive greed, as those that want to be part of the community are forced to not be greedy by forcing all of their secrets out to the open. It is based on the theory that a community that shares all their ideas (rather than competing with each other by keeping secrets in an attempt to get individual gain) in the long run will be much better off.
It is also noteworty to point out, it is the code that is "free" not the developer or the user. The code is only "free" if it is allowed to go anywhere and be read by anyone. The code wants to be read. It likes to be read. If nobody or nothing ever reads the code it is as if the code doesn't exist, and will die. If the code goes into a closed source product, it is being enslaved. It is being prevented from doing the thing that it wants to do the most. To be viewed by people and compilers (or intrepreters) everywhere. Don't allow your code to be enslaved. Assure its freedom by protecting it with the GPL.
No, it is whoever is reading the license (the user) who is given the option. The paragraph could be rewritten, and keep the same meaning, as follows:
When I give a piece of code to the open source community, I want it to stay there (I'm sure most people who use the GPL feel this way or they would choose a different license). I don't like the BSD license, because it doesn't support the things I want. I actually want to prevent people or companies from taking my code and not giving inhancements back to the community. This is the "price" I charge for using my code. If they don't like this, then they can write the code themselves, or "buy" if from someone else. In my oppinion, you are either a part of the open source community, and are therefore willing to play by our rules, or you aren't. I would like the GPL to be even more restrictive in this matter. I would be more than happy to see a clause that says something to the effect of, "If you or a company you have intrumental control over files a patent infringement suit against this or any other software licensed under an Open Source license, then you are forbidden from using this software in any way."
Now, if version 10 of the GPL retracts the provision of not giving enhancements back to the community, I wouldn't want my software licensed under that version, but according to the paragraph it already is. Thus, we must trust the Free Software Foundation to uphold their ideals. As long as they do that, we will be fine (IMHO).
Actually late fees are 1/2 the 22 billion. Sales and Rentals split 11.
I'm pretty sure his nuts would be considered separate property (at least in my state) as he had them before the marriage.
No, they switched to Open Orifice a long time ago. :)
You forgot hands. We really need to outlaw hands. It would be a lot harder to murder anyone if we simply cut everybody's hands off. Of course we would have a much harder time typing, but to save lives it is probably worth it.
</sarcasm>
(Oh, and I'm agreeing with you if it isn't clear)
I love watching the progress bar. It reminds me of Star Wars, "Almost there, Almost there...."
A couple is typically regarded as two:
1) Get a firewall
2) Block all inbound and outbound traffic.
I wouldn't recommend skipping the rest if you wan't to be totally secure. I am fully aware of the wake on lan issues.
Oh, and it was supposed to be funny.
I don't know, I've already cleaned viri off of two family members' computers in the past month. One would only keep rebooting, and the other was so slow, it was unusable. All after being online without contacting me first. It's hard to say no, I won't fix your computer to family members. So, it will affect computer literate people. The real rub, I don't even dual boot Windows to play games anymore but I still can't get away from it.
I think you can probably even skip the first couple steps.
What I'd really like to see is a box I can plug into my lan so I can use my cellphone in my house. My house was built in 1924, and has solid brick walls. I can't get a signal at all inside unless I put my phone on a window sill. If I could get a box so my phone would work in my house, I would cancel my land-line phone. Does anyone know of such a product?
Oh, the KB/s is bytes, not Bits. That is actually 920Kbps. or about 1Mbps.
And what is the price of an olive compaired to the cost of an airline flight? About 20 years ago, an accountant realized that if the airlines put one olive in the martini's they served their first class passengers instead of two, they would save about a million dollars a year. This is the same type of thing. I also said that it COULD be the reason, not that it WAS the reason.
Bezos (of Amazon.com) said in an interview several years ago that a million dollar company needs to focus on increasing market share. A billion dollar company needs to focus on cutting costs. Google can't get much more market share, but they can cut costs.
Well, there might be a more practical reason than they simply don't care about standard HTML. It appears the main problem is they don't tell the doctype. That would take them an extra 118 bytes PER REQUEST to include the type. That means, according to the 1000 requests per second mentioned in the article, they are saving 115Kbps in transfer rates by not including the doctype. It doesn't seem like much, but it is the same thing that got airlines to stop serving food. And this is just the Doctype. I'm sure they cut bites out wherever they can.