It seems most people accept movie ratings (especially the NC-17 rating systems) as acceptable because they merely protect children from swears and nudity and not political speech or ideas. I mean if we tried to prohibit even children from hearing the republican platform because it referenced abortion the civil rights activists would be up in arms.
Now finally with South Park the danger is clear. South Park is animated characters saying swear words *out of context* it would certainly be rated only R it is so offensive only because of the ideas it presents.
If south park didn't offend tradiational religious views or racial issues there would have been no question it would recieve an R. This means it was threatened with an NC-17 rating BECAUSE OF THE IDEAS IT PRESENTED.
I knew the NSA reserved the right to classify thw work of its employees but this is particularly scary. The fact that it is being classfied implies the work either A) contained a method for breaking a used cryptosystem or B) contained information that could lead to the development of a secure crypto system
either option implies that they have methods of breaking most crypto software out their b/c otherwise they wouldn't care.
That is both very nifty from a mathematical point of view and interesting from a political point of view
Jon never explains why 'walls' are always bad. Certainly some of them are unquestionably bad, like the CDA and the new anti-vibrator law in alabama. However, many 'walls' are necessery. The United States experimented without copyright laws in the early stages of our country and we became a haven for piraters even as China is now. Made for cheap books but also severly restricted the production of original material.
Human nature dictates people will not produce things for nothing. The internet will not change this. The absolute far-fetched best we can hope for is that people will start producing for recognition rather than monetary compensation.
BTW: What economic structure pays for the web backbones? Is it entierly funded by the ISP's that MCI/sprint etc.. sell bandwidth to?
This is the greatest danger Linux faces! Not Microsoft's halloween plans or being forced out of the market but being subverted.
No, windows programmers aren't at fault. Linux is powerful and flexible partially BECAUSE it is difficult to use.
Consider mathematics or any other technical discipline. They all have their own internal definitions and methods not to confuse the populance as some people seem to suggest but because the slight difficulty in using these methods is more than made up for in future ease of use.
What happens in the future when we need to upgrade glibc again? Will the windows users recompile all there software against the new library? Will redhat ship the new library if it causes some incompatibility problems?
I for oneam in favor of usability ONLY if it is aditional/optional. Keep text config files but if you must add a configurator
Wouldn't it be alot faster if the big kernel releases were released via mail to a large number of mirrors first...or posted to newsgroups (although that might be kinda slow).
The danger of linux becoming big isn't really about redhat being an actual monoply. The other commentators are right the GPL protects us from that.
The danger is that as more and more software, sometimes even free software is written as part of commerical development teams the social esteem and social pressures that cause people to write free software start to disappear. If the code is getting written by well paid profesionals it isn't worth it to you to devout your time to make their job easier.
Moreover commercial companies MUST perver tlinux to a much more user friendly form to gain market share. This isn't a problem now gnome and other addons to make some things easier do no harm. But the vast majority of people are scared by that which they do not understand, and the unix propmt is surely one of those things. We may see the power and flexibilty we value in the linux system being subverted as the paid programers will only write code to expand the market.
If necessery someone must split the tree and keep powerful 'hackish' operating system alive even if 90% of people are using open source SimpleLinux
So this guy has the balls to start out his commentary with almost all game programs have X bad qualities. I don't know Carmack so I will assume he has them as well. It was a very poorly covered ad hominem(sp?) attack. And then he implies he would have been more insulting but he needs to appease Carmack. Now I don't know anyone involved but that doesn't seem like a reasonable way to begin discourse.
Second of all by the time I was halfway through the page I was ready to get sick over the "its just another point of view." WTF? From the Im hungry I want another piece of toast point of view my toaster is a better computer. The original claim was not about comnparing platforms per se but only about faults in apple's low level internals which are not made up for by the ease of one button mouses.
Which is another anoying statement. How dumb do you have to be not to get the right and left concept down (opps double clicking with that button didn't work...which one do I press now??)
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What the hell does PGP4Pine do? Without this product you can STILL set up incoming and outgoing filters that seem to do everything pgp4pine does.
I am convinced there must be some added functionality but I am unaware of it and would love to find out what it is.
It seems most people accept movie ratings (especially the NC-17 rating systems) as acceptable because they merely protect children from swears and nudity and not political speech or ideas. I mean if we tried to prohibit even children from hearing the republican platform because it referenced abortion the civil rights activists would be up in arms.
Now finally with South Park the danger is clear. South Park is animated characters saying swear words *out of context* it would certainly be rated only R it is so offensive only because of the ideas it presents.
If south park didn't offend tradiational religious views or racial issues there would have been no question it would recieve an R. This means it was threatened with an NC-17 rating BECAUSE OF THE IDEAS IT PRESENTED.
I knew the NSA reserved the right to classify thw work of its employees but this is particularly scary. The fact that it is being classfied implies the work either A) contained a method for breaking a used cryptosystem or B) contained information that could lead to the development of a secure crypto system
either option implies that they have methods of breaking most crypto software out their b/c otherwise they wouldn't care.
That is both very nifty from a mathematical point of view and interesting from a political point of view
This is just rob's evil attempt to manipulate Palm Pad devices so he can pick em up real cheap.
Good idea maybe Ill grab one too.
Jon never explains why 'walls' are always bad. Certainly some of them are unquestionably bad, like the CDA and the new anti-vibrator law in alabama. However, many 'walls' are necessery. The United States experimented without copyright laws in the early stages of our country and we became a haven for piraters even as China is now. Made for cheap books but also severly restricted the production of original material.
Human nature dictates people will not produce things for nothing. The internet will not change this. The absolute far-fetched best we can hope for is that people will start producing for recognition rather than monetary compensation.
BTW: What economic structure pays for the web backbones? Is it entierly funded by the ISP's that MCI/sprint etc.. sell bandwidth to?
This is the greatest danger Linux faces! Not Microsoft's halloween plans or being forced out of the market but being subverted.
No, windows programmers aren't at fault. Linux is powerful and flexible partially BECAUSE it is difficult to use.
Consider mathematics or any other technical discipline. They all have their own internal definitions and methods not to confuse the populance as some people seem to suggest but because the slight difficulty in using these methods is more than made up for in future ease of use.
What happens in the future when we need to upgrade glibc again? Will the windows users recompile all there software against the new library? Will redhat ship the new library if it causes some incompatibility problems?
I for oneam in favor of usability ONLY if it is aditional/optional. Keep text config files but if you must add a configurator
Wouldn't it be alot faster if the big kernel releases were released via mail to a large number of mirrors first...or posted to newsgroups (although that might be kinda slow).
:-)
or put it up on slashdot
The danger of linux becoming big isn't really about redhat being an actual monoply. The other commentators are right the GPL protects us from that.
The danger is that as more and more software, sometimes even free software is written as part of commerical development teams the social esteem and social pressures that cause people to write free software start to disappear. If the code is getting written by well paid profesionals it isn't worth it to you to devout your time to make their job easier.
Moreover commercial companies MUST perver tlinux to a much more user friendly form to gain market share. This isn't a problem now gnome and other addons to make some things easier do no harm. But the vast majority of people are scared by that which they do not understand, and the unix propmt is surely one of those things. We may see the power and flexibilty we value in the linux system being subverted as the paid programers will only write code to expand the market.
If necessery someone must split the tree and keep powerful 'hackish' operating system alive even if 90% of people are using open source SimpleLinux
So this guy has the balls to start out his commentary with almost all game programs have X bad qualities. I don't know Carmack so I will assume he has them as well. It was a very poorly covered ad hominem(sp?) attack. And then he implies he would have been more insulting but he needs to appease Carmack. Now I don't know anyone involved but that doesn't seem like a reasonable way to begin discourse.
Second of all by the time I was halfway through the page I was ready to get sick over the "its just another point of view." WTF? From the Im hungry I want another piece of toast point of view my toaster is a better computer. The original claim was not about comnparing platforms per se but only about faults in apple's low level internals which are not made up for by the ease of one button mouses.
Which is another anoying statement. How dumb do you have to be not to get the right and left concept down (opps double clicking with that button didn't work...which one do I press now??)