The Mall makes 4 to 10 percent off of everything the store sells, so the stores are essentially cheating the Mall-owners by directing buyers to their internet site.
This is not a freedom of speech thing, it is all about honoring the intent of a contract.
The stores should respect the current business model of the Mall and perhaps suggest a change in the revenue model which is more 'internet compatible'.
The fact that the stores are considering legal action is 100% proof idiotic !
IMHO: Shopping Malls are all crap, and they should all be bulldozed.
If FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD etc... has such a great mindshare, why not download the reference implementation and port it!
I find it hard to believe that BSD people would adopt java in a big way, I mean you are all obsessed with having the source anyway, so why should binary cross-plattform compatability matter?
Anyway Java 1.1 works very nicely for server-side deployment, so what is the big argument for Java 2 on BSD?
You use the.rhost and.shost files in the home directory of the target machine... long time since i set it up, but it is described in the man pages.
Another option is to use ssh-agent, which means that you only need to enter the password once, and can log into all sites you have access to without entering a password.
I would dissagree with you, in fact proprietory or non-proprietory software has little to do political or economic ideology. Collaboration on building fundamental infrastructure is the norm, and not the exception in the entire world, one obvious example would be building highways.
Even in the Free software movement, services such as making a system work in a real-life situation (consulting) is still something you have to pay for.
Free software is anti-monopoly, and pro-competition - it has nothing to do with communism.
Some executives[?] at Andover[?] must have figured out how to make slashdot[?] be more like an eMac[?]. Colorfull[?] and more userfriendly[?] Watch out for those lawsuits[?] though:)
If open source worked like this, it would be dead.
Re:Performance grading $200 PC for software select
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Try running IE5 and NS4 on a 8MB Pentium machine, and you might get my original point. My argument for labeling is that neither NS4 or IE5 is appropriate for underpowered cheap computers. It has been the industry trend, that the latest and greatest feature bloats get the good hype, and a lot of good and fast software is forgotten. It is perfectly possible to create a fast, reliable browser supporting HTML 4.0 and CSS2 in a much smaller footprint than the two big browsers. What we need is some incentive in the software industry to promote good software design. I think it would be great if there was some mechanism in the software marketplace which drew focus from the feature list to more important things like quality, support, speed and size.
Performance grading $200 PC for software selection
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$200 Linux PCs
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· Score: 2
Although really cheap PCs are viable, there is one problem: What kind of software will run well on it? It is pretty obvious that bloated software like Win 2000 + Office 2000 + IE 5.0 won't run very well on these systems... but a lot of excellent software will!
Maybe there should be a cheap PC labeling system to help people decide what software to get for their new $200 PC.
There has been some initiatives for defining performance requirements like MPC2 and MPC3, but both of these labels required a CD-ROM to be in place.
BTW: The iMac is ugly, these PC's are even uglier. How about something which looks more boring. Technology shouldn't bee seen, it should just work for you.
The corp. behind slashdot probably gets a few cents for the traffice hi sends to Wired. An associate program of sorts. It is only a matter of time before GoTo.com is the preffered search engine on slashdot.org:-(
Tons of companies including Commodore Amiga has gone down that road and failed.
The cool thing about Amiga was that most people had the exact same box (Amiga 500). You could spend a full week fine-tuning 200 lines of assembly to push it to its limits, and it would be worthwhile because you could impress all your friends with it. (same thing is true of sucesses like C64, Nintendo, SEGA and Playstation)
When the boxes are not the same (like the PC) software runs badly on most machines.
Intelectual property rights is totally bullshit! We all depend on knowledge invented centuries ago. IPR is preventing the continued natural evolution of mankind.
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The Mall makes 4 to 10 percent off of everything the store sells, so the stores are essentially cheating the Mall-owners by directing buyers to their internet site.
This is not a freedom of speech thing, it is all about honoring the intent of a contract.
The stores should respect the current business model of the Mall and perhaps suggest a change in the revenue model which is more 'internet compatible'.
The fact that the stores are considering legal action is 100% proof idiotic !
IMHO: Shopping Malls are all crap, and they should all be bulldozed.
If FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD etc... has such a great mindshare, why not download the reference implementation and port it!
I find it hard to believe that BSD people would adopt java in a big way, I mean you are all obsessed with having the source anyway, so why should binary cross-plattform compatability matter?
Anyway Java 1.1 works very nicely for server-side deployment, so what is the big argument for Java 2 on BSD?
You use the .rhost and .shost files in the home directory of the target machine... long time since i set it up, but it is described in the man pages.
Another option is to use ssh-agent, which means that you only need to enter the password once, and can log into all sites you have access to without entering a password.
You can run the game using
p acewar/
appletviewer http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/groups/el/projects/s
I would dissagree with you, in fact proprietory or non-proprietory software has little to do political or economic ideology. Collaboration on building fundamental infrastructure is the norm, and not the exception in the entire world, one obvious example would be building highways.
Even in the Free software movement, services such as making a system work in a real-life situation (consulting) is still something you have to pay for.
Free software is anti-monopoly, and pro-competition - it has nothing to do with communism.
There !
Some executives[?] at Andover[?] must have figured out how to make slashdot[?] be more like an eMac[?]. Colorfull[?] and more userfriendly[?] Watch out for those lawsuits[?] though :)
Here are a few:
194.237.107.11 (no,se,dk,es)
193.128.61.168 (uk)
195.154.216.201 (fr)
212.172.60.10 (de)
210.150.23.240 (jp)
How do I use IP chains, is this a program I can install on my Linux box?
I agree, I've searched for the article elsewhere
and couldn't find it.
The NY Times login sucks!
If open source worked like this, it would be dead.
Try running IE5 and NS4 on a 8MB Pentium machine, and you might get my original point. My argument for labeling is that neither NS4 or IE5 is appropriate for underpowered cheap computers. It has been the industry trend, that the latest and greatest feature bloats get the good hype, and a lot of good and fast software is forgotten. It is perfectly possible to create a fast, reliable browser supporting HTML 4.0 and CSS2 in a much smaller footprint than the two big browsers. What we need is some incentive in the software industry to promote good software design. I think it would be great if there was some mechanism in the software marketplace which drew focus from the feature list to more important things like quality, support, speed and size.
Although really cheap PCs are viable, there is ... but
one problem: What kind of software will run well
on it? It is pretty obvious that
bloated software like Win 2000 + Office 2000 + IE
5.0 won't run very well on these systems
a lot of excellent software will!
Maybe there should be a cheap PC labeling system
to help people decide what software to get for
their new $200 PC.
There has been some initiatives for defining
performance requirements like MPC2 and MPC3, but
both of these labels required a CD-ROM to be in
place.
BTW:
The iMac is ugly, these PC's are even uglier.
How about something which looks more boring.
Technology shouldn't bee seen, it should just
work for you.
The corp. behind slashdot probably gets a few cents for the traffice hi sends to Wired. An :-(
associate program of sorts. It is only a matter
of time before GoTo.com is the preffered search
engine on slashdot.org
The US switched to the Metric system in the year 1866
Here are links to the appropriate legal documents:
Metric Act of 1866 page 1
Metric Act of 1866 page 2
You can get a chronology of the metric system here:
Timeline
AMIGA Inc. == CLUEBIES !
Tons of companies including Commodore Amiga has gone down that road and failed.
The cool thing about Amiga was that most people had the exact same box (Amiga 500). You could spend a full week fine-tuning 200 lines of assembly to push it to its limits, and it would be worthwhile because you could impress all your friends with it. (same thing is true of sucesses like C64, Nintendo, SEGA and Playstation)
When the boxes are not the same (like the PC) software runs badly on most machines.
If harddrives are not sealed, how come I hear that vacum noise when I open it up, and it abselutely refuses to work again?
Intelectual property rights is totally bullshit! We all depend on knowledge invented centuries ago. IPR is preventing the continued natural evolution of mankind.