Except that you can now view that page as it no longer has it: meaning either it is, in fact, not valid AMP, or that this tag is not needed and exists only to defeat those who don't/won't their JS.
I suspect the latter: if you go to a page marked up with the latter and use web dev tools to set the opacity to 1 everything works fine.
In other words, a hundred ill-informed opinions are still worse than one well-informed one.
This may be true in some situations but it is not necessarily true that the opinion of one expert is always better than the weigt of an opinion. I worked for a bookmaker's for a while and it is certainly true you will do better betting on the favourite than you will following the scheme of a pundit. New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki has written a book on this subject:
With all due respect I think some people have a tendency to assume that since Sco's claim is likely to be false that is the end of the issue - its not.
As a thought experiment assume that suddenly Sco do come up with some code. So we can just rip it out and replace it and everythings back to normal right? Of course not. Imagine I break into your house and steal your stereo. Six months down the line you come round my house and find it, so I give you it back and go and buy a new one. Would that make everything alright - of course not.
The one argument of Sco's that I do not see being fully addressed concerns the lack of oversight. Sco argue that open source development is fundamentally flawed because of a lack of it, or a least a formal structure to deal with it - and this may well be the point Cringely is pushing at. It would only take I line of code for there to be a argument to answer to, and even if there isn't that argument might still have validity.
So to continue the experiment, what if they do come up with goods? what if they don't but companies start to feel the chill? The stage is set for somebody to come along and say Linux is a great thing, but its a little too anarchic, what it needs is a formal structure. (Guess what? someone might just have said it). At this point the stage is set for large vested interests to come in and say we've got the money, we've got the people, the most efficient thing to do is set up a top down structure(that just happens to have us in control).
At this point the free and open nature of the process is under threat - it isn't *just* about the code - it never is - in this field or any other. In the worse case scenario Linux could effectively become just another coporate product - but one backed up by unpaid labour - and how long would it last. The GPL does provide a good gurantee - you can always fork (as long as the GPL holds) - but this could just translate to death by a thousand cuts.
Don't think that popular open movements can't be taken over by self-interest masquerading as efficiency - outside computing it has happened time, and time again.People need to start thinking seriously about these issues. We need to consider how we can create structures that can answer these issues without compromising the open nature of the free software process. Don't think of this as a dumb prediction, think of it as a wake up call
There is nothing to stop any country in Europe enacting a law about software patents.
I'm no expert on the EU but I would be very surprised if the EU wasn't trying to move towards harmonization on patent laws as it is in many other areas. So while existing may not be affected the ability to patent software in the future will be - hence its importance.
Paul M
"There are no innocent bystanders.
What where they doing there in the first place"
I rather think we do. THe world is littered with examples of worker and democratically controlled enterprises. They ar ewidely recognised to have a higher success rate than normal businessess because of the involvement they promote. Co-operative's have a history that stretches back more than 150 years, there are 749,000 of them worldwide and they represent nearly 725 million members (and now thier own TLD)
And where did it suggest that every part of the developemnt process was going to be put to the vote?
Paul M
"There are no innocent bystanders.
What where they doing there in the first place"
I've just read through the proposal for the.coop tld (for co-ops, ICANN can't spell appaerently) and they are proposing to use a proportion of the income to provide internet access for co-ops in the developing world.
They also talk quite a lot about using open-source in the technical section. Paul M
"There are no innocent bystanders.
What where they doing there in the first place"
Coffee is boiling water to which flavoring has been added.
Hmm remind me never to go round your house for coffee.
On a more serious note, McDonald's are being taken to court again on this issue, here in the UK, in a case initiated, IIRC, by public health officials on the grounds that thier insistence on these temperatures is recklessly endangering children.
Paul M
"There are no innocent bystanders.
What where they doing there in the first place"
It's like buying a britney spears album. Under standard copyright law, I would buy it for $18 (rhetorically). But if the packaging said Hey, you can't make a copy of this CD for any purpose whatsoever, you can't make an MP3 of it, you can't dispose of the jewel case or the packaging, and you sure as hell can't play any part of it in a public setting where more than 2 people are present." You simply won't buy it.
Actually you do buy it; cd's routinely come with small print prohibiting rebroadcasting and public performance. (And does so notoriously unjustly: in the UK if you want to play music in a bar or cafe you are required to buy a license - the money from which goes to big record labels according to someones of idea of what music is being played nationally - thus ensuring your money ends up with Britney Spears regardless of the fact that you have a music policy stating "only records on obscure labels that never release more than 50 copies". Public Libraries in the UK have to take part in a similar scheme just for lending books.)
And packaging? -books (at least in the UK - the Americans one I have to hand (O'RA) contain only a no warranties disclaimer) routine having the following clause inserted:
This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade, or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publishers prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than which it was published and without a similar condtion including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
..and you thought the GPL was restrictive....
Paul M
"There are no innocent bystanders What where they doing there in the first place"
I did a dyslexia* training course a while ago and learnt a similar scheme that uses visual equivalents where you equate the shape of something with the number and create a picture out of it. So to memorize my new phone number I imagine a picture of a cherry in a swans mouth, swimming out of a tunnel. On top of the tunnel are two snowmen holding hands.The one on the right is hoding up a flag = 620887.
After a while the process becomes unconcious and it has had pretty amazing results. Four years ago it took me eighteen mounths to memorize (my own) six digit phone number. When I got a pager recently I had memorized the eleven digit number without any conscious effort, within days.
* It was based on the theory that dyslexia is due to a deficent phonic memory. Paul M
"There are no innocent bystanders What where they doing there in the first place"
Surely squatting can only come about if someone else has a legitimate and sole claim to a name. For this to be squatting we would have to accept that someone else has that claim and only they have that claim. Are people saying here that a racist hate site would have a legitimate claim and an anti-racist one wouldn't? I sincerely hope not.
Launguage is a not a fixed or neutral thing; meanning is disputed and constantly changing. Look how Gay has moved from being an insult to a source of pride. Consider how the examples cited in the article (http://www.faggot.org" and http://www.dyke.com) are carrying over the struggles over langauge fought by the gay community into the on-line world.
As the original article stated, the NAACP and the Anti-Defamation league readily admit that this won't stop hate speach on the net, they are refusing, however, to take it lying down. Paul M
"There are no innocent bystanders What where they doing there in the first place"
Guess I hit lucky this morning. We had a 98.8% eclipse and perfect weather, blue skies and just a hint of cloud, here in Brighton. Got to sat on the beach and watch the sea-gulls go ape-shit. Freakiest thing was how cold it got all of a sudden - I was shivering for about half an hour afterwards. Paul M
"There are no innocent bystanders What where they doing there in the first place"
If North America actually went back to the earth, close to 250 million people would die of starvation before youcould say agribusiness. When they bring organic fruit to market, you pay extra for small apples with open sores -- the Open Sores Movement.
Interestingly enough, there is a country that has recently converted its agriculture to organic methods.(in order not to use proprietry technologies i.e fertilizer) The result has been that production has gone up (30% of food for cities is now produced in the cities themselves)- largely thanks to the its approach of getting people involved in production of thier own food. (The country is Cuba BTW)
Paul M
"There are no innocent bystanders What where they doing there in the first place"
So if RMS is like Bakunin, who does that make Linus?
Kropotkin, Natch! If you are keeping to a strictly chronological analysis RMS would be Proudhon, though idieologically he would be closer to Kropotkin (Which maybe would make Linus Durutti or something.)
Paul M
"There are no innocent bystanders What where they doing there in the first place"
I got taught how to do spinning in a dance class once. My old dance teacher used to live in this weird comune full of dancers in Boulder in the 70's and they used to spin round for hours apparently.(Somehow I don't think this it that much of a record, if it is a record at all.
The trick is to keep your eyes focussed on the horizon and come to a (very) slow halt rather than a sudden stop - that way you never get dizzy and can keep it up for as long as you want. You have to imagine a string comming out of the top of your head to keep yourself upright and kinda shuffle round on your feet.
The best part of it, though, is that you completely zone out and lose all track of time. The first time I did it I thought I'd been spinnig for about 5 minutes when actually it was more like 50.
I stil do it sometimes, Its a great buzz and you end up in a completely different place. Just do it somewhere soft (like on your lawn) in case you fall over.
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Except that you can now view that page as it no longer has it: meaning either it is, in fact, not valid AMP, or that this tag is not needed and exists only to defeat those who don't/won't their JS.
I suspect the latter: if you go to a page marked up with the latter and use web dev tools to set the opacity to 1 everything works fine.
In other words, a hundred ill-informed opinions are still worse than one well-informed one.
This may be true in some situations but it is not necessarily true that the opinion of one expert is always better than the weigt of an opinion. I worked for a bookmaker's for a while and it is certainly true you will do better betting on the favourite than you will following the scheme of a pundit. New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki has written a book on this subject:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/038With all due respect I think some people have a tendency to assume that since Sco's claim is likely to be false that is the end of the issue - its not.
As a thought experiment assume that suddenly Sco do come up with some code. So we can just rip it out and replace it and everythings back to normal right? Of course not. Imagine I break into your house and steal your stereo. Six months down the line you come round my house and find it, so I give you it back and go and buy a new one. Would that make everything alright - of course not.
The one argument of Sco's that I do not see being fully addressed concerns the lack of oversight. Sco argue that open source development is fundamentally flawed because of a lack of it, or a least a formal structure to deal with it - and this may well be the point Cringely is pushing at. It would only take I line of code for there to be a argument to answer to, and even if there isn't that argument might still have validity.
So to continue the experiment, what if they do come up with goods? what if they don't but companies start to feel the chill? The stage is set for somebody to come along and say Linux is a great thing, but its a little too anarchic, what it needs is a formal structure. (Guess what? someone might just have said it). At this point the stage is set for large vested interests to come in and say we've got the money, we've got the people, the most efficient thing to do is set up a top down structure(that just happens to have us in control).
At this point the free and open nature of the process is under threat - it isn't *just* about the code - it never is - in this field or any other. In the worse case scenario Linux could effectively become just another coporate product - but one backed up by unpaid labour - and how long would it last. The GPL does provide a good gurantee - you can always fork (as long as the GPL holds) - but this could just translate to death by a thousand cuts.
Don't think that popular open movements can't be taken over by self-interest masquerading as efficiency - outside computing it has happened time, and time again.People need to start thinking seriously about these issues. We need to consider how we can create structures that can answer these issues without compromising the open nature of the free software process. Don't think of this as a dumb prediction, think of it as a wake up call
So the article says that 76% of the web surfers studied also use some other Internet applications
At last! Someone who can read AND draw a reasoned conclusion. Iwas beginning to despair.
Congratulations, Sir! Unfortunately you appear to be the only one. Why do I get a feeling like I am staring at the last dodo?
have a look at http://www.redbricks.org.uk for an example of a low income community providing connectivity for itself
I'm no expert on the EU but I would be very surprised if the EU wasn't trying to move towards harmonization on patent laws as it is in many other areas. So while existing may not be affected the ability to patent software in the future will be - hence its importance.
Paul M
"There are no innocent bystanders. What where they doing there in the first place"
I rather think we do. THe world is littered with examples of worker and democratically controlled enterprises. They ar ewidely recognised to have a higher success rate than normal businessess because of the involvement they promote. Co-operative's have a history that stretches back more than 150 years, there are 749,000 of them worldwide and they represent nearly 725 million members (and now thier own TLD)
And where did it suggest that every part of the developemnt process was going to be put to the vote?
Paul M
"There are no innocent bystanders. What where they doing there in the first place"
They also talk quite a lot about using open-source in the technical section.
Paul M
"There are no innocent bystanders. What where they doing there in the first place"
Paul M
"There are no innocent bystanders. What where they doing there in the first place"
Paul M
"There are no innocent bystanders. What where they doing there in the first place"
Hmm remind me never to go round your house for coffee.
On a more serious note, McDonald's are being taken to court again on this issue, here in the UK, in a case initiated, IIRC, by public health officials on the grounds that thier insistence on these temperatures is recklessly endangering children.
Paul M
"There are no innocent bystanders. What where they doing there in the first place"
Actually you do buy it; cd's routinely come with small print prohibiting rebroadcasting and public performance. (And does so notoriously unjustly: in the UK if you want to play music in a bar or cafe you are required to buy a license - the money from which goes to big record labels according to someones of idea of what music is being played nationally - thus ensuring your money ends up with Britney Spears regardless of the fact that you have a music policy stating "only records on obscure labels that never release more than 50 copies". Public Libraries in the UK have to take part in a similar scheme just for lending books.)
And packaging? -books (at least in the UK - the Americans one I have to hand (O'RA) contain only a no warranties disclaimer) routine having the following clause inserted:
Paul M
"There are no innocent bystanders
What where they doing there in the first place"
when you come home and find her taping all your albums.
Paul M
"There are no innocent bystanders
What where they doing there in the first place"
After a while the process becomes unconcious and it has had pretty amazing results. Four years ago it took me eighteen mounths to memorize (my own) six digit phone number. When I got a pager recently I had memorized the eleven digit number without any conscious effort, within days.
* It was based on the theory that dyslexia is due to a deficent phonic memory.
Paul M
"There are no innocent bystanders
What where they doing there in the first place"
Launguage is a not a fixed or neutral thing; meanning is disputed and constantly changing. Look how Gay has moved from being an insult to a source of pride. Consider how the examples cited in the article (http://www.faggot.org" and http://www.dyke.com) are carrying over the struggles over langauge fought by the gay community into the on-line world.
As the original article stated, the NAACP and the Anti-Defamation league readily admit that this won't stop hate speach on the net, they are refusing, however, to take it lying down.
Paul M
"There are no innocent bystanders
What where they doing there in the first place"
Paul M
"There are no innocent bystanders
What where they doing there in the first place"
Interestingly enough, there is a country that has recently converted its agriculture to organic methods.(in order not to use proprietry technologies i.e fertilizer) The result has been that production has gone up (30% of food for cities is now produced in the cities themselves)- largely thanks to the its approach of getting people involved in production of thier own food. (The country is Cuba BTW)
Paul M
"There are no innocent bystanders
What where they doing there in the first place"
Kropotkin, Natch!
If you are keeping to a strictly chronological analysis RMS would be Proudhon, though idieologically he would be closer to Kropotkin (Which maybe would make Linus Durutti or something.)
Paul M
"There are no innocent bystanders
What where they doing there in the first place"
'scuse my ignorance , but how come you can by thorium in a hardware store - nuclear grade toilet cleaner?
I got taught how to do spinning in a dance class once. My old dance teacher used to live in this weird comune full of dancers in Boulder in the 70's and they used to spin round for hours apparently.(Somehow I don't think this it that much of a record, if it is a record at all.
The trick is to keep your eyes focussed on the horizon and come to a (very) slow halt rather than a sudden stop - that way you never get dizzy and can keep it up for as long as you want. You have to imagine a string comming out of the top of your head to keep yourself upright and kinda shuffle round on your feet.
The best part of it, though, is that you completely zone out and lose all track of time. The first time I did it I thought I'd been spinnig for about 5 minutes when actually it was more like 50.
I stil do it sometimes, Its a great buzz and you end up in a completely different place. Just do it somewhere soft (like on your lawn) in case you fall over.