Not only do they redistribute information on other peoples work, but who are they to "authorize" a system to distribute publically available information? Do they feel they have somehow gained the title of supreme dictator for life of CD archiving? They have not control over this...
Here's an idea from fractal geometry...using the Mandelbrot set, you should be able to compress a string of numbers of arbitrary size into just 3 numbers. The M set has infinite detail which means that within it, we should be able to find any string of numbers. Lets say random data equates to the string: 76213, you could just go through the M set Zn = (Zn-1)^2 + C until the Z's are the sequence of numbers you're compressing. By storing the value of Z where the sequence begins, the value of C (doesnt really matter) and the nuumber of iterations, you could express the string as Z,C,i. This could take a long time for longer sequences, but in theory they should occur sometime. This could take a really really...long time.
Ok, I have no idea if the above idea would even work but it seemed to make sense.
Isn't the point of Intellectual Property to give the owner the power to do what they want with their product? Aren't Open Source programmers entitled to the same rights as MSFT or recording artists? The way I see it, they are just giving away their own property. Since when was it inhibiting Innovation by giving something away? Though, we have already seen MSFT's version of innovation. As long as they make money on it, it's innovative. Other people who make money off it and people who don't aren't capable of innovation? By their reasoning they shouldn't have control of their own source, otherwise someday they mave end up open sourcing some of it...oh, wait, no. Look who we're talking about..
most of the booths this year sucked. I'm not sure if it was just because it was the first day and not everyone was completely set up, but quite a few booths were nothing more than a few people sitting around. *cough*slashdot*cough*
Is there even a point to these people wasting space at the event? Should there be minimum requirements for a booth? Maybe it should at least have a presentation per day (and, no, PS2 doesn't count). I think some of the best were Covalents mostly Apache talk by Ryan Bloom and the linux.com-live kernel compile walkthrough. I'm not saying the rest sucked, I just didn't get a chance to see most. The debian booth was dissapointing, as was slashdot.
It also seemed most vendors were only interested in talking to you if you look like a potential customer. I can understand they do need to sell things and those are the most likely buyers, but when someone comes with questions, you don't just hand them the literature and send them off. The Intel, Covalent, Chiliware(oh yes) and Virtual Tek, LynxOS and SoftImage people were the most helpful people I talked to.
I don't mean to bash anyone (except slashdot), this was just my experience and I was pretty dissapointed.
I don't know if this has been mention yet, but I know why they are blocking connections from some ISPs. I am a Comcast@home customer and I get my forwarded to my pop account with them. I wasn't recieving a lot of mail I was expecting to recieve from people sending directly to my account and I called @home to find out why. They said its their policy to block a domain from sending mail to all of @home if an @home customer calls and complains about them. Then @home tried to contact the "offending domain" and if they don't respond or don't comply, @home will block them until they do.
It's funny how one person can ruin something for eveyone else so easily.
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Not only do they redistribute information on other peoples work, but who are they to "authorize" a system to distribute publically available information? Do they feel they have somehow gained the title of supreme dictator for life of CD archiving? They have not control over this...
Here's an idea from fractal geometry...using the Mandelbrot set, you should be able to compress a string of numbers of arbitrary size into just 3 numbers. The M set has infinite detail which means that within it, we should be able to find any string of numbers. Lets say random data equates to the string: 76213, you could just go through the M set Zn = (Zn-1)^2 + C until the Z's are the sequence of numbers you're compressing. By storing the value of Z where the sequence begins, the value of C (doesnt really matter) and the nuumber of iterations, you could express the string as Z,C,i. This could take a long time for longer sequences, but in theory they should occur sometime. This could take a really really...long time.
Ok, I have no idea if the above idea would even work but it seemed to make sense.
Within the last week or so, they've started the same type of surveillance in the city of Wilmington. They want to make the city seem safe again.
Isn't the point of Intellectual Property to give the owner the power to do what they want with their product? Aren't Open Source programmers entitled to the same rights as MSFT or recording artists? The way I see it, they are just giving away their own property. Since when was it inhibiting Innovation by giving something away? Though, we have already seen MSFT's version of innovation. As long as they make money on it, it's innovative. Other people who make money off it and people who don't aren't capable of innovation? By their reasoning they shouldn't have control of their own source, otherwise someday they mave end up open sourcing some of it...oh, wait, no. Look who we're talking about..
most of the booths this year sucked. I'm not sure if it was just because it was the first day and not everyone was completely set up, but quite a few booths were nothing more than a few people sitting around. *cough*slashdot*cough*
Is there even a point to these people wasting space at the event? Should there be minimum requirements for a booth? Maybe it should at least have a presentation per day (and, no, PS2 doesn't count). I think some of the best were Covalents mostly Apache talk by Ryan Bloom and the linux.com-live kernel compile walkthrough. I'm not saying the rest sucked, I just didn't get a chance to see most. The debian booth was dissapointing, as was slashdot.
It also seemed most vendors were only interested in talking to you if you look like a potential customer. I can understand they do need to sell things and those are the most likely buyers, but when someone comes with questions, you don't just hand them the literature and send them off. The Intel, Covalent, Chiliware(oh yes) and Virtual Tek, LynxOS and SoftImage people were the most helpful people I talked to.
I don't mean to bash anyone (except slashdot), this was just my experience and I was pretty dissapointed.
bnoji bnoji@penguinpowered.com
I don't know if this has been mention yet, but I know why they are blocking connections from some ISPs. I am a Comcast@home customer and I get my forwarded to my pop account with them. I wasn't recieving a lot of mail I was expecting to recieve from people sending directly to my account and I called @home to find out why. They said its their policy to block a domain from sending mail to all of @home if an @home customer calls and complains about them. Then @home tried to contact the "offending domain" and if they don't respond or don't comply, @home will block them until they do.
It's funny how one person can ruin something for eveyone else so easily.