As already mentioned, US citizens should fax your senators (both of them, since you vote for both of them), call their offices (both in Washington and the local ones), and then, if you still have energy, you can also sign an on-line petition here: http://www.petitiononline.com/SSSCA/petition.html
It's not innovative - I was spammed by the Republican National Committee in 2000 to vote for Bush... Given that I am not a US citizen, there is no way that they could have found my e-mail address in any legitimate way...
The GPL is a distribution license; it gives the licensee rights that they would normally not have, namely to distribute the code. By violating the GPL, NuSphere lost these rights, and until the copyright owner decides to give it to them again, they cannot distribute the code. This is the main argument, and it's validity may be decided by the court case.
I use NPSIS for webhosting and e-mail, and I have been very happy with them for the past 2.5 years. The customer service is great, and they continuously improve their setup. Their prices start at less than $8/month - you should check them out.
What about those of us who do use it, and find it usable for some tasks but completely broken from a basic User Interaction perspective?
Those of you should write up a (preferably well-researched) paper/rant which explains what the broken pieces are, and even (*gasp*) suggests possible solutions... You may even get modded up;-)
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You see, that is the standard that Microsoft has released to the EMCA as a standard, soon to be certified by ISO. It is completely open, non-patented, etc.
Unless ECMA and ISO only publish standards that are patent-free (and I don't think that is the case), then it is only your wishful thinking that makes.NET "non-patented". I wonder of someone would have the time to search for recent MS patents and try to relate them to the published ECMA standard...
I just signed - from the time I entered the site until I confirmed my signature roughly 100 more people managed to sign the petition (nice Slahdot effect in action:-). Your estimate of a couple of hundred people is already off by an order of magnitude.
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After a difference of opinions on the commercial future of Mosix, I have started a new clustering company - Qlusters, Inc. - and Prof. Barak has decided not to participate for the moment in this venture (although he did seriously consider joining) and held long running negotiations with investors. It appears that Mosix is not any longer supported openly as a GPL project. Because there is a significant user base out there (about 1000 installations world-wide), I have decided to continue the development and support of the Mosix project under a new name, openMosix under the full GPL2 license. Whatever code in openMosix comes from the old Mosix project is Copyright 2002 by Amnon Bark. All the new code is copyright 2002 by Moshe Bar.
Anyways, just wanted to note that while he was nominated, he was not actually placed on the Supreme Court, as "Robert Bork, former Supreme Court appointee" suggests.
Well, isn't the difference between a "former Supreme Court appointee" and "former Supreme Court Judge" exactly what you are trying to clarify? Reagan appointed him, but Congress didn't confirm him...
Consider this - a submission of the FoaF kind, no real evidence, but very much bound to bring an uproar among the/. regulars... The result - a pretty good list of things that can and cannot be done to accomplish the alledged NAT detection.
In other words, we are doing Comcast's R&D for them...
Really? You use the PDP-11 Unices? Or are you implying that SCO Unix is actually such a step back from the original System V, that it is just about where the 16-bit PDP sources are?
"Summarising the existing technical literature, corporate and scientific documents: there are four major areas that may bear oil and natural gas that could yield significant commercial amounts."
http://www.netnomad.com/fineman.html
"Although most oil experts outside Somalia laugh at the suggestion that the nation ever could rank among the world's major oil producers -- and most maintain that the international aid mission is intended simply to feed Somalia's starving masses -- no one doubts that there is oil in Somalia. The only question: How much?"
This is just a recent news item which says that a French oil company has signed a concession to look for oil, and a general comment that it seems quite a dumb move, given the lack of stability in Somalia.
http://www.cdi.org/adm/713/transcript.html
This is some show produced in 1993, where a certain Mr. Evans says: "Indeed, when I got back from my own trip to Somalia, I called the American Petroleum Institute and, sure enough, there had been very recent surveys, as recent as 1990, and there have been substantial finds of natural gas in the offshore fields. Clearly, when you have these kinds of findings of natural gas, there is a high probability that oil also is to be found in Somalia."
This is the country's economic information, as produced by the National US-Arab Chamber of Commerce: "It is suspected that there are great amounts of oil to be found in northern Somalia, though they are unexplored and unexploited." Incidentally the BBC story says thet the French oil company, Elf, is trying to look for oil all over the place, not necessarily only on the north.
http://www.nusacc.org/cntryprofiles/ctrprf2001/s o. pdf
This is the abstract of a (supposedly) scientific paper, presented at the "Rock the Foundation Convention" of the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists:
"Somalia possesses all the requirements for a petroliferous province. Hydrocarbon has been generated in Jurassic, Cretaceous and Tertiary rocks. In eastern Africa, rich gas and oil-prone source rocks occur in the neighbouring countries very close to Somalia. Commercial hydrocarbons have been discovered in Yemen with similar geological formation. These units also occur in Somalia."
Unfortunately, we don't have the whole paper to see what the conclusions are about the oil potential of Somalia.
So we've got "may", "could", "high probability", "suspected", "It's just like Yemen!", etc. Quite inconclusive, if you ask me... Definitely not enough for an "oil conspiracy" as presented earlier. There are actually much better opinions expressed in the 1993 show at http://www.cdi.org/adm/713/transcript.html, with much more plausible explanations on why the US went to Somalia, and what political moves may have led to the "Black Hawk Down" incident.
It is generally believed that there are significant mineral resources, but these have not yet been commercially exploited. Such deposits include uranium, copper, gypsum, iron, marble, manganese, tin and, perhaps, oil.
So you say what? I always thought It is generally believed != may be
Well, if you have to resort to selective reading, then I think I am winning this argument. From here:
perhaps adv. Maybe; possibly.
Therefore, It is generally believed... perhaps == maybe.
Bush and Co. were there for corporate interests. That's a fact - live with it, what ever the sugar is coating it for general american electorate.
I am not disputing that - my argument is that there are no rich oil reserves in Somalia. Whoever (Chomsky or Chin) said that, is a liar. There might have been other corporate or strategic interests (note the uranium mentioned above), but there are no credible sources given here. The only ones I can find support my argument. If you can find others, please post, otherwise it may be a good idea to improve you reading comprehension.
Several US oil companies, including Conoco, Amoco, Chevron and Phillips were positioned to exploit Somalia's rich oil reserves.
Tell us more about Somalia's rich oil reserves... I bet you can't, because most rich oil reserves are well known and under tight control (American, British, European, Russian, Arab). This is just one of the many parts of this empty verbal ejaculation.
For some reason making things up and bending the truth is awful when done by the government, military, or other authority, but it is OK when done to criticize any of the above. IMO, this is even more despicable when done by Chomsky and other self-proclaimed truth-seekers, because people tend to lump issues together, and many real issues are soon perceived to have the same lack of credibility as the demagogue rantings presented above.
The whole article is nothing more than a (-1 Troll) and in fact reminds me of the infamous "Linux/*BSD is dying" troll.
Very interesting reading, unfortunately my German is too rusty to transalate some of the better discussions in reasonalble time... One thing I must say though - the level of Linux advocacy is much higher than I have seen on English speaking forums... It is mostly the MS-apologists who quickly run out of arguments and start mindless bickering...
is ANYTHING actually "unbelievably and unusably slow" on a 1.4GHz/DDR Athlon, 512M RAM??? It could be, if you don't have your hard disk optimized. Once I hdparm'ed my hard disk, everything is now flying both under GNOME and KDE...
C is a procedural language, not a functional language. Examples of the latter include LISP, Scheme, and ML.
As to whether an object-oriented approach is suitable for engineering applications, I think it depends on the applications and problems. How important is abstraction and re-use? If you deal with matrices, would you benefit from a matrix object which implements all the properties a matrix has? With differential equations, are there objects suitable for implementation?
As with all general questions I am afraid the answer is "It depends."
Given the rise of the P2P networks, it seems that the drop is easier attributed to the rise of Free/Open Source software. The 1/6 increase of non-copyright infringing software could represent Apache/Linux/BSD/PHP, etc., being used in companies thoughout the world...
Unfortunately the Borg has deemed the technological development of this University as worthy for assimilation, so according to this article MS and Compaq are donating computers running MS Windows...
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His point is that all these things were actually invented by Tesla, while Edison is the reason you didn't know that.
Also, Yahoo provides a link on the preferences page with an explanation: http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/privacy/privacy-23.h tml
(or click here for the lazier among us)
As already mentioned, US citizens should fax your senators (both of them, since you vote for both of them), call their offices (both in Washington and the local ones), and then, if you still have energy, you can also sign an on-line petition here: http://www.petitiononline.com/SSSCA/petition.html
Is the lawsuit vs. MSFT still on? The PR is still on the front page, but can the suit be continued after Be is dissolved?
It's not innovative - I was spammed by the Republican National Committee in 2000 to vote for Bush... Given that I am not a US citizen, there is no way that they could have found my e-mail address in any legitimate way...
The GPL is a distribution license; it gives the licensee rights that they would normally not have, namely to distribute the code. By violating the GPL, NuSphere lost these rights, and until the copyright owner decides to give it to them again, they cannot distribute the code. This is the main argument, and it's validity may be decided by the court case.
I use NPSIS for webhosting and e-mail, and I have been very happy with them for the past 2.5 years. The customer service is great, and they continuously improve their setup. Their prices start at less than $8/month - you should check them out.
What about those of us who do use it, and find it usable for some tasks but completely broken from a basic User Interaction perspective?
;-)
Those of you should write up a (preferably well-researched) paper/rant which explains what the broken pieces are, and even (*gasp*) suggests possible solutions... You may even get modded up
You see, that is the standard that Microsoft has released to the EMCA as a standard, soon to be certified by ISO. It is completely open, non-patented, etc.
.NET "non-patented". I wonder of someone would have the time to search for recent MS patents and try to relate them to the published ECMA standard...
Unless ECMA and ISO only publish standards that are patent-free (and I don't think that is the case), then it is only your wishful thinking that makes
The scariest thing is, the WWF petition has much less spelling errors than the Futurama petition...
I just signed - from the time I entered the site until I confirmed my signature roughly 100 more people managed to sign the petition (nice Slahdot effect in action :-). Your estimate of a couple of hundred people is already off by an order of magnitude.
Follow the link: About openMosix
After a difference of opinions on the commercial future of Mosix, I have started a new clustering company - Qlusters, Inc. - and Prof. Barak has decided not to participate for the moment in this venture (although he did seriously consider joining) and held long running negotiations with investors. It appears that Mosix is not any longer supported openly as a GPL project. Because there is a significant user base out there (about 1000 installations world-wide), I have decided to continue the development and support of the Mosix project under a new name, openMosix under the full GPL2 license. Whatever code in openMosix comes from the old Mosix project is Copyright 2002 by Amnon Bark. All the new code is copyright 2002 by Moshe Bar.
Ximian Evolution is an Outlook replacement. To use it with Exchange 2000, you may need the Exchange connector.
Anyways, just wanted to note that while he was nominated, he was not actually placed on the Supreme Court, as "Robert Bork, former Supreme Court appointee" suggests.
Well, isn't the difference between a "former Supreme Court appointee" and "former Supreme Court Judge" exactly what you are trying to clarify? Reagan appointed him, but Congress didn't confirm him...
Consider this - a submission of the FoaF kind, no real evidence, but very much bound to bring an uproar among the /. regulars... The result - a pretty good list of things that can and cannot be done to accomplish the alledged NAT detection.
In other words, we are doing Comcast's R&D for them...
Really? You use the PDP-11 Unices? Or are you implying that SCO Unix is actually such a step back from the original System V, that it is just about where the 16-bit PDP sources are?
Finally, some real references. Let's see:
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s o. pdf
http://www.hiiraan.com/May/oil_in_somalia.htm
"Summarising the existing technical literature, corporate and scientific documents: there are four major areas that may bear oil and natural gas that could yield significant commercial amounts."
http://www.netnomad.com/fineman.html
"Although most oil experts outside Somalia laugh at the suggestion that the nation ever could rank among the world's major oil producers -- and most maintain that the international aid mission is intended simply to feed Somalia's starving masses -- no one doubts that there is oil in Somalia. The only question: How much?"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/n
This is just a recent news item which says that a French oil company has signed a concession to look for oil, and a general comment that it seems quite a dumb move, given the lack of stability in Somalia.
http://www.cdi.org/adm/713/transcript.html
This is some show produced in 1993, where a certain Mr. Evans says: "Indeed, when I got back from my own trip to Somalia, I called the American Petroleum Institute and, sure enough, there had been very recent surveys, as recent as 1990, and there have been substantial finds of natural gas in the offshore fields. Clearly, when you have these kinds of findings of natural gas, there is a high probability that oil also is to be found in Somalia."
http://www.cspgconvention.org/2001abstracts/10-
This is the country's economic information, as produced by the National US-Arab Chamber of Commerce: "It is suspected that there are great amounts of oil to be found in northern Somalia, though they are unexplored and unexploited." Incidentally the BBC story says thet the French oil company, Elf, is trying to look for oil all over the place, not necessarily only on the north.
http://www.nusacc.org/cntryprofiles/ctrprf2001/
This is the abstract of a (supposedly) scientific paper, presented at the "Rock the Foundation Convention" of the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists:
"Somalia possesses all the requirements for a petroliferous province. Hydrocarbon has been generated in Jurassic, Cretaceous and Tertiary rocks. In eastern Africa, rich gas and oil-prone source rocks occur in the neighbouring countries very close to Somalia. Commercial hydrocarbons have been discovered in Yemen with similar geological formation. These units also occur in Somalia."
Unfortunately, we don't have the whole paper to see what the conclusions are about the oil potential of Somalia.
So we've got "may", "could", "high probability", "suspected", "It's just like Yemen!", etc. Quite inconclusive, if you ask me... Definitely not enough for an "oil conspiracy" as presented earlier. There are actually much better opinions expressed in the 1993 show at http://www.cdi.org/adm/713/transcript.html, with much more plausible explanations on why the US went to Somalia, and what political moves may have led to the "Black Hawk Down" incident.
So you say what? I always thought It is generally believed != may be
Well, if you have to resort to selective reading, then I think I am winning this argument. From here:
perhaps adv. Maybe; possibly.
Therefore, It is generally believed
Bush and Co. were there for corporate interests. That's a fact - live with it, what ever the sugar is coating it for general american electorate.
I am not disputing that - my argument is that there are no rich oil reserves in Somalia. Whoever (Chomsky or Chin) said that, is a liar. There might have been other corporate or strategic interests (note the uranium mentioned above), but there are no credible sources given here. The only ones I can find support my argument. If you can find others, please post, otherwise it may be a good idea to improve you reading comprehension.
The rich oil reserves are just off the "horn" of Somalia, and were discovered only a few years before the collapse of the Barre regime.
Really? Any sources for that? Here is one that says there may be some oil somewhere...
More BS...
Several US oil companies, including Conoco, Amoco, Chevron and Phillips were positioned to exploit Somalia's rich oil reserves.
Tell us more about Somalia's rich oil reserves... I bet you can't, because most rich oil reserves are well known and under tight control (American, British, European, Russian, Arab). This is just one of the many parts of this empty verbal ejaculation.
For some reason making things up and bending the truth is awful when done by the government, military, or other authority, but it is OK when done to criticize any of the above. IMO, this is even more despicable when done by Chomsky and other self-proclaimed truth-seekers, because people tend to lump issues together, and many real issues are soon perceived to have the same lack of credibility as the demagogue rantings presented above.
The whole article is nothing more than a (-1 Troll) and in fact reminds me of the infamous "Linux/*BSD is dying" troll.
Very interesting reading, unfortunately my German is too rusty to transalate some of the better discussions in reasonalble time... One thing I must say though - the level of Linux advocacy is much higher than I have seen on English speaking forums... It is mostly the MS-apologists who quickly run out of arguments and start mindless bickering...
is ANYTHING actually "unbelievably and unusably slow" on a 1.4GHz/DDR Athlon, 512M RAM???
It could be, if you don't have your hard disk optimized. Once I hdparm'ed my hard disk, everything is now flying both under GNOME and KDE...
C is a procedural language, not a functional language. Examples of the latter include LISP, Scheme, and ML.
As to whether an object-oriented approach is suitable for engineering applications, I think it depends on the applications and problems. How important is abstraction and re-use? If you deal with matrices, would you benefit from a matrix object which implements all the properties a matrix has? With differential equations, are there objects suitable for implementation?
As with all general questions I am afraid the answer is "It depends."
Given the rise of the P2P networks, it seems that the drop is easier attributed to the rise of Free/Open Source software. The 1/6 increase of non-copyright infringing software could represent Apache/Linux/BSD/PHP, etc., being used in companies thoughout the world...
Unfortunately the Borg has deemed the technological development of this University as worthy for assimilation, so according to this article MS and Compaq are donating computers running MS Windows...