I don't use PowerPoint so I wonder. Is there a command to "strip the hidden data"? Do you have to go into a binary editor and see the data? Seems to me that this shows the dangers of a proprietary file format. Will the US Government now have to comb through nasty binary formats to check what data is retained and what data isn't? It would be nice if these file formats where open and documented wouldn't? Sure would make doing security checks on the files a lot simpler. Just some food for thought.
Interesting argument. But there is a line between right and wrong. I often find that China crosses that line. I have less problem with Yahoo than I do Google. Google has this ideal of not being evil yet they do business in China. Maybe we all should look at some of our own choices. Every IPod pumps more money into China as do most trips to Harbor Freight , Walmart, and many other stores.
I was born in FL so the heat in Dallas isn't that bad. I found the people to very pleasnat and my wife has family there. You see people have different requirements. The other thing is I love to fly VFR San Fransisco has a LOT of restricted air space.
Keep your racism to yourself. I have not problems with immegration. The Mexicans I have meet that have come to this country are all hard work people that I welcome.
Except that the US isn't suffering from over population. That is what drives me nuts. There are places in Australia where rabbits are destroying the habitat because of massive over population. Killing off a few in Texas just isn't going to help. Killing hundreds or thousands in Texas isn't going to help. The Population of the US is pretty much flat and soon to be slightly declining once the Baby boomer's start to die off. In Europe and Japan you are seeing the same thing or a strong decline. That will do nothing to really help since the over population problem is other locations. I am all for people having only enough children that they can raise. I am all for adoption as well if you want a very large family. But this "I only had a replacement" thing is just posturing.
We don't have a totally free market which is a good thing. We have laws that take penalize business for the benefit of society as a whole. Things like labor laws, pollution controls, and even insurance requirements. We also have anti-trust laws. This is a law that helps subsidize innovation. Not perfect but better than nothing.
Funny but the FSF allows this locking of hardware for "professional and industrial" devices but not for consumer devices. I can think of hundreds of ways I can Violate the spirit of the GPL. You going to block all of them. Suppose I create my own preprocessor that creates then generates c? I can then give you the source without the processor. What good will it do you? Or I could run my code through a program that mangles the code so that it is just about useless to a human. There are more ways to break the spirit of the GPL than the FSF can block. What language does the code have to be in? What language do the comments have to be in? Yes I think this targeting is a very bad idea. While I wouldn't use those methods I am sure other will. BTW you can not out-law preprocessors because they are very common even QT uses one. Mangled code? You going to mandate programing style in the GPL next?
In Florida Avon Park Bombing Range is also full of wildlife as is the Savannah River site in South Carolina. Bombing and radiation is better for wildlife than sub divisions.
Well let's see. Company A has to get said widget to market, advertise, ramp up production, and get it to stores. Company B may already have production facilities and a big name so Company A could have a very short time to make any money.
There is an old saying in business, pioneers get killed settlers get rich.
Even with patents it is very hard to make a new invention pay off. Yes I am not fond of how some patents are written or used but patents are not a bad thing just like copyrights are not a bad thing. You and I want people that innovate to get rich so there is a reward for innovation.
That is just dumb. Yes R&D costs a lot It can take a long time to find an inexpensive to manufacture solution to a problem. That R&D needs to be paid for and that what patents do.
Of course that is just it. These are NOT software patents. Even RMS doesn't have a problem with hardware patents. To me Broadcomm seems more the villain here. Qualcomm did most eh work in CDMA and now the rest of the world is trying to catch up. Yea this is a mess but I wish people wouldn't lump all patents together.
"Back then, when RMS talked about patents, many people dismissed it as "political posing", "fanaticism", "I like Linux but this is to much politics, RMS is an extremist", well, you get the idea. Some years latter and here we are, knee-deep in patent threats. To reinforce that the GPLv3 has extra provisions against this forms of sidestepping the license" Hey I never said that Everything that RMS does is bad. Hey even Microsoft has some good products. Flight Simulator for example. I wasn't taking you disagreeing as criticizing. Consider my rants more venting to a friend than really yelling. Polite disagreements are good disagreements. One detail that bugs me is that the new license ONLY effects consumer devices. To me that seems very odd and slightly annoying. The reasoning just doesn't sit well with me. I would rather let professionals have access than consumers since I feel they would have the greater benefit. I trust a professional with deciding if they need to lock or unlock their device. What my real rant is I guess are two groups. Those that I feel are being less then constructive. And the big one the ungrateful parasites. I feel every programmer should get paid for their work. For my FOSS work I am happy with nothing more than silence and consider good bug reports, suggestions for new features, and or a thank you as a bonus. If you want the right to complain then you better be forking over some cash IMHO. So that being said. Thanks RMS for GCC.
"The note about there being no high score list on any of them I think was rather intriguing. it kind of falls in line with the whole communism ideal." It probably was more that memory was expensive. To have a high score list you needed ram plus more ROM space for the game code. Both where probably at a premium. Or it could be that they didn't use a CPU at all so a high score list would have been less than useful. Or it they didn't see any point since the games would lose the list when they where powered down at night. I doubt it had anything to do with communist ideals.
You see that is just it I did like GPLv2 enough that I did contribute code to a GNU project. What bugs me is how this is targeted towards a company that did follow the letter of the GPLv2, is struggling, and has been in my opinion good for Linux. To me this says hey you can follow the rules to the letter but if RMS decides that he doesn't like you he will target you. I find this super counter productive. He are other counter productive things I see. Hating NVidia for supporting Linux but not the way you want them to. I feel it is more productive to state that you will buy ATI cards if they open source their drivers. Which frankly I will do. I would buy Intel but I have a nice AMD motherboard in my current system and Intel doesn't make stand alone cards. Frankly I am happy that NVidia does provide driver for Linux at all. I would rather have FOSS drivers but half a loaf is better than none. Why can't people be more positive and yes even grateful. Then you saw my rant about the ungrateful users. Again counter productive bad manners. Now fighting software patents that is what I would really like to see the FSF doing and not targeting Tivo. BTW I don't work for Tivo or own one. If nothing else this is my shout that the FSF isn't doing it's job and is being harmful to FOSS in general as well as the users of FOSS.
I feel that GPLv3 is mean spirited. The very statement that it is supposed to stop Tivoization bugs me since I feel Tivo has actually done a lot of good for Linux in the past. Frankly the politics of the FSF, FOSS, copyleft, and GPL to me feels like it is moving in to the real of a religion. I use Linux a lot and love it. I will publicly state that I think every author of FOSS and public domain software is owed a big thanks. Here are the things that I am seeing that I don't like in the FOSS community.
1. Closed source software is evil. There isn't one model that will fit for every program. FOSS has yet to produce a good 3D cad program equal to SolidWorks, PRO/E, or Autocad as examples. I doubt that will ever happen because the economics don't support it. I want FOSS to have a chance to compete in any segment so I oppose things like DRM and the DMCA but not the idea of copyrighted material. 2. Ungrateful end user FOSS zealots. I see this all the time on Slashdot. Somebody creates a FOSS program and some idiot hates it because it doesn't have this feature or that feature or doesn't use the license that they think is free enough. Of course these people have never written a line of code in their life or donated a penny to any project but they will complain until the cows come home.
That is one reason I am thinking about adopting this project. I am sure the old maintainer got sick of it or got too busy with life. It is useful to people I know. And it is a way I can give back.
My selection of the BSD is for a few reasons. It already has all the BSD comments and a form of protest to the zealots. I am not in love with the BSD license but yes GPLv3 and the rants of RMS tick me off so BSD it is. As so many people have said it is my code and I will choose the question is does GPLV3 alienate developers. So in my case the answer is yes. Makes me sorry that I contributed code to a GNU project in the past.
It does me. I am actually considering taking over a FOSS project that lost it's maintainer. I was thinking about moving it to GPL but now it will stay BSD.
Seattle is also has earthquakes and even volcanoes. But you can get out of the Seattle cityscape very quickly. There is really some very pretty areas around Seattle. I don't know how fast you can get out of San Fransisco to the country but I know that there are also some very pretty areas around there I just have never been to SF so I don't know the details.
In the dark shouldn't be an issue since it has a back light. A keyboard might be nice. I really want an SSH client for my next cell phone but I that giving up the small size and ruggedness of my A900. Heck it even has a metal case so I can just stick in im ny jeans coin pocket and not worry about it.
Bluetooth headset works great for that. Just tap the button on your headset and it pick up the phone. Not only that but my voice dialing works great for the few times I have to make a call when at the wheel.
I don't see Verizon getting it. I hate Verizon and will not use them because they ruin perfectly good phones by locking out features and putting their own crappy interface on them. I don't think Verizon would live with not controling the UI on the IPhone and Apple will never give up control over the UI of the IPhone.
Funny but I would rather live in Dallas than New York. Some answers to your question are. 1. Cost of living. Yea Seattle is expensive but I think San Francisco is worse. 2. Quality of living. As big cities go Seattle is much nicer to live in than New York from my point of view. I have spent time in both and I like Seattle a lot more. 3. Family, friends, and opportunities. If you have lived in a place for years you have roots, you may have kids in school that you don't want to uproot. 4. Moving Tax. If you bought a home in the Redmond area a years ago it may have gone up enough in value that you could afford a home in New York or San Francisco but at least where I live you are taxed on the value you paid for your home and it can only rise a small amount a year. So you could be stuck paying a lot more in taxes if you move. or 5. Bubble homes. If you just bought your home at the top of the housing bubble you may take a bath if you sell it right now. That is very market dependent and my not be a problem in Redmond. Let's face it if you worked for Nintendo marketing you also have some real opportunities in the Redmond area. You would be a hot commodity. BTW I would pick Dallas because I don't want to live in an apartment and I know of lot's of very pretty areas around Dallas that I could buy a nice home and commute to work. Oh and I have worked in Detroit. What I can say about Detroit is simply this. The nicest people in the ugliest city I have ever worked in. I can not say much about San Fransisco. Never been there but it looks like it might be a little closer to Seattle than New York in feel. Seattle is nothing like New York. I liked New York but I wouldn't want to live there.
That depends on how you define science and engineering. Testing the ION drive wasn't an experiment. There was no theory to prove. They knew that an ION drive could work. What they where testing was if the DS-1 ion drive was built correctly. So yes they are different categories. And if there is one thing scientists love to do categorize things.
While the big button idea is funny I don't think that the real acceptance test will be peoples Mothers or Grandmothers. I see the target for the IPhone to be the Treo and Blackberry crowd. I really want to see one and the SDK. I hate AT&T and I am still trying to figure out why Apple went with them. The only thing I can figure out is that Apple made a deal about using AT&Ts pipes if net neutrality goes south. I am going ready for a new phone in November and the IPhone is tempting if I can do development on it. It could be a great market to get into.
"while driving and in numerous situations where I don't want to LOOK at the phone" Please get a bluetooth headset and a phone with good voice dialing if and only if you must talk on the phone while driving.
Heck if the IPhone stops people from using their cell while driving it may save thousands of lives!
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I don't use PowerPoint so I wonder. Is there a command to "strip the hidden data"?
Do you have to go into a binary editor and see the data?
Seems to me that this shows the dangers of a proprietary file format.
Will the US Government now have to comb through nasty binary formats to check what data is retained and what data isn't?
It would be nice if these file formats where open and documented wouldn't? Sure would make doing security checks on the files a lot simpler.
Just some food for thought.
Interesting argument. But there is a line between right and wrong. I often find that China crosses that line. I have less problem with Yahoo than I do Google. Google has this ideal of not being evil yet they do business in China. Maybe we all should look at some of our own choices. Every IPod pumps more money into China as do most trips to Harbor Freight , Walmart, and many other stores.
I was born in FL so the heat in Dallas isn't that bad. I found the people to very pleasnat and my wife has family there. You see people have different requirements. The other thing is I love to fly VFR San Fransisco has a LOT of restricted air space.
Keep your racism to yourself. I have not problems with immegration. The Mexicans I have meet that have come to this country are all hard work people that I welcome.
Except that the US isn't suffering from over population. That is what drives me nuts. There are places in Australia where rabbits are destroying the habitat because of massive over population. Killing off a few in Texas just isn't going to help. Killing hundreds or thousands in Texas isn't going to help. The Population of the US is pretty much flat and soon to be slightly declining once the Baby boomer's start to die off. In Europe and Japan you are seeing the same thing or a strong decline. That will do nothing to really help since the over population problem is other locations.
I am all for people having only enough children that they can raise. I am all for adoption as well if you want a very large family. But this "I only had a replacement" thing is just posturing.
We don't have a totally free market which is a good thing.
We have laws that take penalize business for the benefit of society as a whole. Things like labor laws, pollution controls, and even insurance requirements.
We also have anti-trust laws.
This is a law that helps subsidize innovation. Not perfect but better than nothing.
Funny but the FSF allows this locking of hardware for "professional and industrial" devices but not for consumer devices.
I can think of hundreds of ways I can Violate the spirit of the GPL. You going to block all of them. Suppose I create my own preprocessor that creates then generates c? I can then give you the source without the processor. What good will it do you?
Or I could run my code through a program that mangles the code so that it is just about useless to a human. There are more ways to break the spirit of the GPL than the FSF can block.
What language does the code have to be in? What language do the comments have to be in?
Yes I think this targeting is a very bad idea. While I wouldn't use those methods I am sure other will.
BTW you can not out-law preprocessors because they are very common even QT uses one. Mangled code? You going to mandate programing style in the GPL next?
In Florida Avon Park Bombing Range is also full of wildlife as is the Savannah River site in South Carolina.
Bombing and radiation is better for wildlife than sub divisions.
Well let's see.
Company A has to get said widget to market, advertise, ramp up production, and get it to stores.
Company B may already have production facilities and a big name so Company A could have a very short time to make any money.
There is an old saying in business, pioneers get killed settlers get rich.
Even with patents it is very hard to make a new invention pay off. Yes I am not fond of how some patents are written or used but patents are not a bad thing just like copyrights are not a bad thing.
You and I want people that innovate to get rich so there is a reward for innovation.
That is just dumb.
Yes R&D costs a lot It can take a long time to find an inexpensive to manufacture solution to a problem. That R&D needs to be paid for and that what patents do.
Of course that is just it. These are NOT software patents. Even RMS doesn't have a problem with hardware patents. To me Broadcomm seems more the villain here. Qualcomm did most eh work in CDMA and now the rest of the world is trying to catch up. Yea this is a mess but I wish people wouldn't lump all patents together.
"Back then, when RMS talked about patents, many people dismissed it as "political posing", "fanaticism", "I like Linux but this is to much politics, RMS is an extremist", well, you get the idea. Some years latter and here we are, knee-deep in patent threats. To reinforce that the GPLv3 has extra provisions against this forms of sidestepping the license"
Hey I never said that Everything that RMS does is bad. Hey even Microsoft has some good products. Flight Simulator for example.
I wasn't taking you disagreeing as criticizing. Consider my rants more venting to a friend than really yelling. Polite disagreements are good disagreements. One detail that bugs me is that the new license ONLY effects consumer devices. To me that seems very odd and slightly annoying. The reasoning just doesn't sit well with me. I would rather let professionals have access than consumers since I feel they would have the greater benefit. I trust a professional with deciding if they need to lock or unlock their device.
What my real rant is I guess are two groups.
Those that I feel are being less then constructive.
And the big one the ungrateful parasites. I feel every programmer should get paid for their work. For my FOSS work I am happy with nothing more than silence and consider good bug reports, suggestions for new features, and or a thank you as a bonus. If you want the right to complain then you better be forking over some cash IMHO.
So that being said. Thanks RMS for GCC.
"The note about there being no high score list on any of them I think was rather intriguing. it kind of falls in line with the whole communism ideal."
It probably was more that memory was expensive. To have a high score list you needed ram plus more ROM space for the game code. Both where probably at a premium.
Or it could be that they didn't use a CPU at all so a high score list would have been less than useful.
Or it they didn't see any point since the games would lose the list when they where powered down at night.
I doubt it had anything to do with communist ideals.
You see that is just it I did like GPLv2 enough that I did contribute code to a GNU project.
What bugs me is how this is targeted towards a company that did follow the letter of the GPLv2, is struggling, and has been in my opinion good for Linux. To me this says hey you can follow the rules to the letter but if RMS decides that he doesn't like you he will target you. I find this super counter productive.
He are other counter productive things I see.
Hating NVidia for supporting Linux but not the way you want them to. I feel it is more productive to state that you will buy ATI cards if they open source their drivers. Which frankly I will do. I would buy Intel but I have a nice AMD motherboard in my current system and Intel doesn't make stand alone cards. Frankly I am happy that NVidia does provide driver for Linux at all. I would rather have FOSS drivers but half a loaf is better than none. Why can't people be more positive and yes even grateful.
Then you saw my rant about the ungrateful users. Again counter productive bad manners.
Now fighting software patents that is what I would really like to see the FSF doing and not targeting Tivo. BTW I don't work for Tivo or own one.
If nothing else this is my shout that the FSF isn't doing it's job and is being harmful to FOSS in general as well as the users of FOSS.
I feel that GPLv3 is mean spirited. The very statement that it is supposed to stop Tivoization bugs me since I feel Tivo has actually done a lot of good for Linux in the past. Frankly the politics of the FSF, FOSS, copyleft, and GPL to me feels like it is moving in to the real of a religion. I use Linux a lot and love it. I will publicly state that I think every author of FOSS and public domain software is owed a big thanks. Here are the things that I am seeing that I don't like in the FOSS community.
1. Closed source software is evil. There isn't one model that will fit for every program. FOSS has yet to produce a good 3D cad program equal to SolidWorks, PRO/E, or Autocad as examples. I doubt that will ever happen because the economics don't support it. I want FOSS to have a chance to compete in any segment so I oppose things like DRM and the DMCA but not the idea of copyrighted material.
2. Ungrateful end user FOSS zealots. I see this all the time on Slashdot. Somebody creates a FOSS program and some idiot hates it because it doesn't have this feature or that feature or doesn't use the license that they think is free enough. Of course these people have never written a line of code in their life or donated a penny to any project but they will complain until the cows come home.
That is one reason I am thinking about adopting this project. I am sure the old maintainer got sick of it or got too busy with life. It is useful to people I know. And it is a way I can give back.
My selection of the BSD is for a few reasons. It already has all the BSD comments and a form of protest to the zealots. I am not in love with the BSD license but yes GPLv3 and the rants of RMS tick me off so BSD it is. As so many people have said it is my code and I will choose the question is does GPLV3 alienate developers. So in my case the answer is yes. Makes me sorry that I contributed code to a GNU project in the past.
The version of the BSD license would work with GPL and I will have to rewrite a lot of the code.
It does me. I am actually considering taking over a FOSS project that lost it's maintainer. I was thinking about moving it to GPL but now it will stay BSD.
Seattle is also has earthquakes and even volcanoes.
But you can get out of the Seattle cityscape very quickly. There is really some very pretty areas around Seattle. I don't know how fast you can get out of San Fransisco to the country but I know that there are also some very pretty areas around there I just have never been to SF so I don't know the details.
In the dark shouldn't be an issue since it has a back light. A keyboard might be nice. I really want an SSH client for my next cell phone but I that giving up the small size and ruggedness of my A900. Heck it even has a metal case so I can just stick in im ny jeans coin pocket and not worry about it.
Bluetooth headset works great for that. Just tap the button on your headset and it pick up the phone. Not only that but my voice dialing works great for the few times I have to make a call when at the wheel.
I don't see Verizon getting it.
I hate Verizon and will not use them because they ruin perfectly good phones by locking out features and putting their own crappy interface on them.
I don't think Verizon would live with not controling the UI on the IPhone and Apple will never give up control over the UI of the IPhone.
Funny but I would rather live in Dallas than New York.
Some answers to your question are.
1. Cost of living. Yea Seattle is expensive but I think San Francisco is worse.
2. Quality of living. As big cities go Seattle is much nicer to live in than New York from my point of view. I have spent time in both and I like Seattle a lot more.
3. Family, friends, and opportunities. If you have lived in a place for years you have roots, you may have kids in school that you don't want to uproot.
4. Moving Tax. If you bought a home in the Redmond area a years ago it may have gone up enough in value that you could afford a home in New York or San Francisco but at least where I live you are taxed on the value you paid for your home and it can only rise a small amount a year. So you could be stuck paying a lot more in taxes if you move.
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5. Bubble homes. If you just bought your home at the top of the housing bubble you may take a bath if you sell it right now. That is very market dependent and my not be a problem in Redmond.
Let's face it if you worked for Nintendo marketing you also have some real opportunities in the Redmond area. You would be a hot commodity.
BTW I would pick Dallas because I don't want to live in an apartment and I know of lot's of very pretty areas around Dallas that I could buy a nice home and commute to work. Oh and I have worked in Detroit. What I can say about Detroit is simply this. The nicest people in the ugliest city I have ever worked in.
I can not say much about San Fransisco. Never been there but it looks like it might be a little closer to Seattle than New York in feel.
Seattle is nothing like New York. I liked New York but I wouldn't want to live there.
That depends on how you define science and engineering.
Testing the ION drive wasn't an experiment. There was no theory to prove. They knew that an ION drive could work. What they where testing was if the DS-1 ion drive was built correctly. So yes they are different categories. And if there is one thing scientists love to do categorize things.
While the big button idea is funny I don't think that the real acceptance test will be peoples Mothers or Grandmothers.
I see the target for the IPhone to be the Treo and Blackberry crowd. I really want to see one and the SDK. I hate AT&T and I am still trying to figure out why Apple went with them. The only thing I can figure out is that Apple made a deal about using AT&Ts pipes if net neutrality goes south.
I am going ready for a new phone in November and the IPhone is tempting if I can do development on it. It could be a great market to get into.
"while driving and in numerous situations where I don't want to LOOK at the phone"
Please get a bluetooth headset and a phone with good voice dialing if and only if you must talk on the phone while driving.
Heck if the IPhone stops people from using their cell while driving it may save thousands of lives!