What, EXACTLY, are benefits the "rich" are getting that poor people aren't? And while you're at it, define "rich".
Okay, how about 87B of our tax dollars for awarding contracts without bidding to companies the administration has ties to, while most states are cutting back on educational programs for kids not rich enough to attend private schools.
This guy is a democrats dream come true
You mean the guy that suggests the way to prevent forest fires is by selling all the timber to his buddies in the timber industry? The guy that invaded two countries while cutting health care benefits for war veterans? The guy that 71% of Europeans think is the biggest threat to world peace and stability?
Bush Jr. has done more for this country than Clinton ever did
I'll admit he's done more to this country. In fact, I'd say he's done more harm to this country than even Nixon did. At least Nixon could handle international issues with diplomacy.
The real tragedy is that billg would do this after being on every spam list in the universe, thanks to me for always using billg@microsoft.com for every request for email.
Well, I can't speak for him, but I've spent some years developing commercial software for various platforms. Try using TransparentBlt in the win32/16 api and expect consistent behavior in win platforms. You end up writing code specific to win95/win98/winSE/winNT/winXP.
Known for its poor software? By whom, the Slashdot community, which is hardly representative of this thing called the real world? Just because some Slashdot geeks don't like Microsoft doesn't mean their software is poor, sorry. In fact, a lot of their software is quite useful -- just because people think everything should be free doesn't make the software bad.
You've got to be kidding. Name one product that isn't a ripoff of Apple or a product developed by another company and purchased by Microsoft that doesn't suck.
I think part of what makes many of us go into an engineering career is the curiosity that requires that we have to have a look under the hood. I never was a very good Lisp programmer until I wrote my own interpreter in C. That gave me the knowledge to write more efficient Lisp code.
Every Java programmer should at least look at the source for the Java base classes, and ultimately should understand the VM. C++ programmers should at least read "Inside The C++ Object Model." C/C++ programmers should peek at the assembly their compiler creates. Python or Perl programmers that have a good understanding of the internals of their interpreters are going to write better code.
All these abstractions are there so you don't have to sweat details all the time. But this shouldn't be misconstrued as "never."
There is a corallary between Communism and Stallmanesque Free Software: both take away a private right and...
Huh? Whose right is being taken away? The legal IP owner who decides to license his software under the GPL? The person that wants to use the software without abiding by the IP owner's license?
My downloading of MP3's has NEVER cost the recording industry a single penny. I only download two things; music that is no longer in print, and new stuff to see if I like it.
For the stuff out of print, I can't buy it, so no loss to the industry.
For the new stuff, if I like it I buy the CD, if I don't I delete it and would have never gambled the price of a CD anyway.
And I'm especially pissed about the stuff out of print. They are screwing both the artist and listener by having a business structure that can't be profitable with small run/demand items. Rhino did a lot to rescue some catalogues, but there are many others languishing out there that a smaller and smarter business could profit from.
The music industry wasn't destroyed by the MP3, it was destroyed by the bean counter and the corporation. They will die, and I hope it will happen soon, because then new business will spring up in it's place, dedicated to the music, and serving both artist and listener.
I worked for Michelin for seventeen years, so I might be a resource on this. Michelin management is basically a bunch of Nazi's disguised as french. And that is just the little Napoleon's running around (You know who you are Camille), American management is worse than the french, basically bloodsucking leaches that will steal any idea for their own personal gain (Hi Jim!). These aren't pointy heads, but pointy horned bosses. I use to say buy Michelin for the quality, but if you buy Michelin, you are supporting human rights abuses.
One practical problem is that instead of having multiple hardware for different uses (AM/FM, cell phone, GSP, police, weather, garage door opener, keyless entry, etc.) you could have a single device that could theoretically handle them all. And as new bands or methods were developed it could be updated by software to handle those also.
One device to rule them all.
And if you get into applications requiring multiple channel decoding, e.q. a cable set top box that could serve multiple TV channels, it might be cheaper than duplicating tuner hardware.
For Mac OS X have a look at F-Script. You can inspect a running program and call any method in that program and any method on any object in the Objective-C runtime. This should allow you to generate events or enter text in text fields, etc.
Of course this will only work for programs developed using Cocoa. Can't help you with Carbon apps. You might be able to write something using the Apple Event manager.
Last time I had to do this for Linux (and Gtk+) I had to roll my own.
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As I understand it, an artist will be able to tailor the license. Perhaps an artist could make the art free for noncommercial use. If a big buyer comes along they have to pay for alternate licensing terms. Now while the RIAA might feel a need for total domination^H^H^H exclusive license, a car company wanting your music for an ad would probably like the wide distribution created by CC.
Think of the Trolltech business model. QT is GPL'd for noncommercial use, but if you want a different license you have to pay. Remember, a license is not a copyright. You can dual license your own IP.
Even C# with.net is better - it allow people to use whatever language they want on the same CLI..
As long as the language they choose is statically typed. I haven't seen too many dynamically typed languages sucessfully ported to DuhtNet.
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We're close to having technology so good that it will require no talent whatsoever in order for people to make music. Just go out in the street and find attractive people to dance around and pose as singers.
Productive reads and writes Word, Excel. The PowerPoint translator won't be in the coming release, but you'll see that in a later release.
As well as better WMF support.
2 [Latin, crab, cancer] a : a malignant tumor of potentially unlimited growth that expands locally by invasion and systemically by metastasis b : an abnormal bodily state marked by such tumors
3 : something evil or malignant that spreads destructively.
In the nineties when irrational business types were replacing stable and powerful UNIX workstations with unreliable and sickly PCs running windows, I came to the conclusion that windows was indeed a cancer. Then a healer (rms) came along and wrote out a prescription (the GPL).
Well, there's the rub. If you as a free software developer decide to use their db, you have to agree not to use (or allow your users to use) another db. If you haven't signed the agreement they will block your program from accessing.
Of course, you can always download some other program that is licensed, find out the name and version it sends to grace-less-note, and mimic that in your program. After all, there's not too much in their so-called IP that is all that sophisticated.
A much better choice would be to support something like cd24db which has a better identifier algorithm and defines more formal fields for the info so it isn't a jumbled mess like grace-less-note.
I'm not a big user of Napster except for the one area where RIAA can't claim damages; out of print recordings. There are tons of recordings that the record companies no longer print because the demand is deemed unprofitable. These recordings will disappear if opt-in filtering is allowed.
Perhaps this is a new business opportunity similar to how Rhino started, go around buying rights to out of print recordings that the record companies feel they've squeezed all the blood out of, and then start a download/subscription service for these recordings, with compensation to the artist. Perhaps we could eventually build a system where the bloodsucking middle men could be completely eliminated, and artists could receive more than the dollar per CD they receive now.
I would gladly pay a monthly or annual fee to get my hands on all the out of print stuff.
I'm still looking for the complete works of "Brain Ticket."
Microsoft has a long standing history of using proprietary lock-in as its main means of remaining competitive in the marketplace, rather than relying on technical merits or superior service. Even now as Microsoft claims to be embracing open standards we see moves such as pollution of standards (kerberos) to lock in clients to a single-vendor server solution, and Hailstorm/Passport which would require every user of.NET services to store their purchasing history on Microsoft servers.
This business model is equivalent to auto makers building cars that only ran on gasoline purchased from them.
Can you give us any proof that Microsoft is moving away from this antiquated model, and address how a customer could choose a different vendor in the two cases mentioned.
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Worst I've ever seen was something like:
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Linux Kernel Engineer
Please submit resume in MS Word format.
What, EXACTLY, are benefits the "rich" are getting that poor people aren't? And while you're at it, define "rich".
Okay, how about 87B of our tax dollars for awarding contracts without bidding to companies the administration has ties to, while most states are cutting back on educational programs for kids not rich enough to attend private schools.
This guy is a democrats dream come true
You mean the guy that suggests the way to prevent forest fires is by selling all the timber to his buddies in the timber industry? The guy that invaded two countries while cutting health care benefits for war veterans? The guy that 71% of Europeans think is the biggest threat to world peace and stability?
Full list of accomplishments here.
Bush Jr. has done more for this country than Clinton ever did
I'll admit he's done more to this country. In fact, I'd say he's done more harm to this country than even Nixon did. At least Nixon could handle international issues with diplomacy.
The alarm bell came on for me when he mentioned "indemnity." This seems to be used quite often by SCO, pseudo-independant analysts, and Microsoft.
The real tragedy is that billg would do this after being on every spam list in the universe, thanks to me for always using billg@microsoft.com for every request for email.
Well, I can't speak for him, but I've spent some years developing commercial software for various platforms. Try using TransparentBlt in the win32/16 api and expect consistent behavior in win platforms. You end up writing code specific to win95/win98/winSE/winNT/winXP.
And unix is fragmented. LOL.
You've got to be kidding. Name one product that isn't a ripoff of Apple or a product developed by another company and purchased by Microsoft that doesn't suck.
Every Java programmer should at least look at the source for the Java base classes, and ultimately should understand the VM. C++ programmers should at least read "Inside The C++ Object Model." C/C++ programmers should peek at the assembly their compiler creates. Python or Perl programmers that have a good understanding of the internals of their interpreters are going to write better code.
All these abstractions are there so you don't have to sweat details all the time. But this shouldn't be misconstrued as "never."
There is a corallary between Communism and Stallmanesque Free Software: both take away a private right and...
Huh? Whose right is being taken away? The legal IP owner who decides to license his software under the GPL? The person that wants to use the software without abiding by the IP owner's license?
Exactly what private right is being taken away?
For the stuff out of print, I can't buy it, so no loss to the industry.
For the new stuff, if I like it I buy the CD, if I don't I delete it and would have never gambled the price of a CD anyway.
And I'm especially pissed about the stuff out of print. They are screwing both the artist and listener by having a business structure that can't be profitable with small run/demand items. Rhino did a lot to rescue some catalogues, but there are many others languishing out there that a smaller and smarter business could profit from.
The music industry wasn't destroyed by the MP3, it was destroyed by the bean counter and the corporation. They will die, and I hope it will happen soon, because then new business will spring up in it's place, dedicated to the music, and serving both artist and listener.
# ssh headless-machine
# apt-get dist-upgrade
Oh wait, first you have to install Debian.
I worked for Michelin for seventeen years, so I might be a resource on this. Michelin management is basically a bunch of Nazi's disguised as french. And that is just the little Napoleon's running around (You know who you are Camille), American management is worse than the french, basically bloodsucking leaches that will steal any idea for their own personal gain (Hi Jim!). These aren't pointy heads, but pointy horned bosses. I use to say buy Michelin for the quality, but if you buy Michelin, you are supporting human rights abuses.
I wish I hadn't used up all my mod points yesterday. This post completely sums up the article. Someone mod this up.
Let's see, consumers were overcharged $480M and the fine was $67M?
Well now we know what step two is:
Step one, rip off consumers.
Step two, settle out of court.
Step three, $413M profit!
One practical problem is that instead of having multiple hardware for different uses (AM/FM, cell phone, GSP, police, weather, garage door opener, keyless entry, etc.) you could have a single device that could theoretically handle them all. And as new bands or methods were developed it could be updated by software to handle those also.
One device to rule them all.
And if you get into applications requiring multiple channel decoding, e.q. a cable set top box that could serve multiple TV channels, it might be cheaper than duplicating tuner hardware.
Not a book, but a good intro at Developerworks: PowerPC assembly
For Mac OS X have a look at F-Script. You can inspect a running program and call any method in that program and any method on any object in the Objective-C runtime. This should allow you to generate events or enter text in text fields, etc.
Of course this will only work for programs developed using Cocoa. Can't help you with Carbon apps. You might be able to write something using the Apple Event manager.
Last time I had to do this for Linux (and Gtk+) I had to roll my own.
As I understand it, an artist will be able to tailor the license. Perhaps an artist could make the art free for noncommercial use. If a big buyer comes along they have to pay for alternate licensing terms. Now while the RIAA might feel a need for total domination^H^H^H exclusive license, a car company wanting your music for an ad would probably like the wide distribution created by CC.
Think of the Trolltech business model. QT is GPL'd for noncommercial use, but if you want a different license you have to pay. Remember, a license is not a copyright. You can dual license your own IP.
As long as the language they choose is statically typed. I haven't seen too many dynamically typed languages sucessfully ported to DuhtNet.
Wait, this has already happened.
Productive reads and writes Word, Excel. The PowerPoint translator won't be in the coming release, but you'll see that in a later release.
As well as better WMF support.
I've never felt better.
Well, there's the rub. If you as a free software developer decide to use their db, you have to agree not to use (or allow your users to use) another db. If you haven't signed the agreement they will block your program from accessing. Of course, you can always download some other program that is licensed, find out the name and version it sends to grace-less-note, and mimic that in your program. After all, there's not too much in their so-called IP that is all that sophisticated. A much better choice would be to support something like cd24db which has a better identifier algorithm and defines more formal fields for the info so it isn't a jumbled mess like grace-less-note.
Here's the most constructive way to deal with it.
I'm not a big user of Napster except for the one area where RIAA can't claim damages; out of print recordings. There are tons of recordings that the record companies no longer print because the demand is deemed unprofitable. These recordings will disappear if opt-in filtering is allowed.
Perhaps this is a new business opportunity similar to how Rhino started, go around buying rights to out of print recordings that the record companies feel they've squeezed all the blood out of, and then start a download/subscription service for these recordings, with compensation to the artist. Perhaps we could eventually build a system where the bloodsucking middle men could be completely eliminated, and artists could receive more than the dollar per CD they receive now.
I would gladly pay a monthly or annual fee to get my hands on all the out of print stuff.
I'm still looking for the complete works of "Brain Ticket."
Microsoft has a long standing history of using proprietary lock-in as its main means of remaining competitive in the marketplace, rather than relying on technical merits or superior service. Even now as Microsoft claims to be embracing open standards we see moves such as pollution of standards (kerberos) to lock in clients to a single-vendor server solution, and Hailstorm/Passport which would require every user of .NET services to store their purchasing history on Microsoft servers.
This business model is equivalent to auto makers building cars that only ran on gasoline purchased from them.
Can you give us any proof that Microsoft is moving away from this antiquated model, and address how a customer could choose a different vendor in the two cases mentioned.