Ah, but to follow that logic, and yes, to repeat a bit what others have said, the phone companies and carriers are treating Android as if it were Apple or Microsoft software and not changing their behavior accordingly.
(From what I've seen of these real-life analogues, if the main PR for a bazaar behaves exactly like it's a cathedral it will either (a) become a quirky open-air cathedral/bazaar with a limited but devoted following or (b) people will stop showing up. I saw (a) succeed once in Baltimore, so I know it's possible, but it's still pretty rare.)
There are a few hopeful signs on the horizon though. IPv6 should make routing a lot easier and give us a lot more operational "breathing room" which we can use for redundancy and robustness.
After pouring over things like this and this, and keeping in mind the recommendations in other RFC's and discussions, I can't find anything that supports this. We certainly get breathing room as far as more address space, but how does this lead anything but requirements for more routing complexity to keep tabs on it all?
IPv6 is totally non-locative? Does that conflict with the goals stated in the RFC's that are worried about "transparency"?
Either way, I don't see any guarantee one way or another on 'locative' vs. 'transparency' with IPv6. There's been only a few addressing formats specified. We may not have seen the one that gets widely adopted yet.
The author was on the radio program Public Interest March 5th.
Kojo Nnamdi, an excellent interviewer, hosted an hour with Dr. Himanen, who is in his 20's and is a professor at Berkley and Helsinki, and with a former senior presidential speach writer who also has a new book out. Here is the RA stream. --
There is a BASIC interpreter/compiler that's GPL'd, but it certainly isn't OO programming.There are other languages to program in for Linux that you might find easier than C++ or BASIC. YMMV, but C and Scheme come to mind. (Admittedly, I'm instictually biased towards teaching people other languages and idioms so they can learn to program better, and experiencially biased against C++.) --
Commissioning artists nowadays can work. For an example that used the web to attract potential patrons, see the latest CD from the singer/songwriter Momus. Personally, I don't like his music, but I am hardly an arbiter of good taste.
For a real media report on this, try this from npr.org's all things considered archive. ----
The Yahoo article doesn't make this clear, but Dan Rather is upset because there's a bit of a journalistic-integrity-type issue (spelling?) at hand with this digital editing. This issue was also touched on by a few people in the previous/. article. Basically CBS displayed an image, promoting it as live and implying it as being unedited, but altered the image without telling anyone that it was altered.Many people are forgetting (and most people don't even realize) how easy it is to skew or alter an image or it's perception without using CGI effects; and let's not mention editing techniques. Television is a difficult medium for fair, evenhanded journalism. It's nice to see people on the inside complaining, but it's going to be a hard struggle that gets worse before it gets better.On another note, the surest way to fix things is with an eduacted audience. And be just as wary of counter-news and underground- and alternative-reporitng as you would normal reporting.
USA Today has an article about this that I would like to hear someone else's input on.
When I read the article, it immediately irritated me, though I had to take a minute to figure out why: the description of the groups activities implies that there is no technical grounding for their methods - there sadly is no mention that part of the group's raison d'etre is to convince people that using 'security through obscurity is wrong' and 'with enough eyes all bugs are shallow' as standard policy is good for the consumer. It's good for people to know the news, but often we miss out on why these articles are important to know.
An aside: does anyone know who first referred to USA Today as "the television of newspapers"? Thanks
As obvious as it might sound, some lawmakers are better than others. Law-making is difficult in a modern society - even with politicking and dealing aside, there are many unknowns to deal with and unsimple pros and cons to weigh.
The U.S. congress, to date anyway, has persued an admirable course of action on e-commerce taxes. They have admitted that they do not know what to do. Since the economy is well enough that the state and federal governments aren't desperate for the tax income, congress has ruled a moritorium on e-commerce taxes (constitutional, but arguably so for intra-state sales). They then set up a balanced commission to explore tax proposals, and the commission is doing a thoroughly competent job (you can see for yourself on C-SPAN). I, for one, would much rather have a well thought-out law a year an a half from now, then complain about speed and have a hasty, bad law. Nothing's perfect, though.
Let them do basic research, and the products will follow.
True.IBM also has the distribution and manufacturing channels in place. Having dealt with a lot of retailers, I know that (from a reseller's perspective) a supplier with those two solid is worth it's weight in customers.
MOSIX was designed to distribute multiple processes throughout several machines. It really isn't useful in a network server environment, but it's very useful for computation-intensive work (especially work that doesn't need to hit the disk that much). Actually, besides some difficult security concerns, MOSIX may even make network server software less efficient.
For TurboLinux, from what very little I know about it, the opposite is true (it's designed only for internet server things).
The stuff TurboLinux is doing doesn't seem earth-shattering to me, either. Usefull maybe, but many others have or are doing similar things that might be better.
Now what would be great is to have for Linux what what VMS had (to be more specific, it was OpenVMS, I think), it would have some exciting consequences.
Apropos to this, HR1225 was up for discussion in the U.S. House today. If it's not a law now, it will be very soon. This is a law with bi-partisan support that establishes trade-marked names and phrases in domain names as falling under similar, if not the same, rules as trade marks in any other published form. Personally, what I fear the most about this bill, after having heard a few congressmen talk today, was the perspective these representatives are taking. Their concept of names and other trade-marked items as possitions that others are not allowed to have, though highly entrenched in the current system, seems so much more of a broken view to me than the notion that trade marks are more of a formation of identity, so that unathorized use of trademarks is a forging of identity and misleading of consumers rather than appropriation of property.I'm curious to hear if the practical effects of current laws could be the same under this newer view point, as it would certainly seem to make future changes easier.
The comments about testing and certification caught my attention.
While hardly an expert about the benchmarks and certifications listed (though I have dealt a bit wit tpmC before), I know the steps needed to aquire these certified statments almost invariably cost what, from an average citizen's perspective, is a large sum of money.
Demeaning not-for-profit groups for failure to spend time on a million dollars worth of certification strikes me as a very a low blow.
(btw, while the acl statement was inaccurate, many times I yearn for Linux to have more elegant access schemes)
There are linux clusters that, if not technically a Beowulf, are at least very close to being a Beowulf and employ a shared-disk scheme. Sadly, these schemes are just as impractical for many large data applications as the shared-nothing approaches.
There's going to be some interesting developments in this area for Linux soon, even if it means I'm going to have to start them myself.
Well, maybe the apple employees fighting each other, but even that was weak.
But there was no positive idealism. That's alot of what drives, if not BillG and Jobs, then the employees and the hackers. And the head muckamucks who are successfull play off this.
I saw no fire burning in Wiley/Jobs's eyes when he was preaching to the masses.
The only time the term 'Insanely Great' was used, it was a throw-away line.
I think it's a bit to hasty to worry about Google 'selling out', seeing as how they haven't done it yet.
p.s.: the department of this article misses the alliterative affect of the original 'fifty-thousand french franks in my fridge' -- SG:Who is your arch enemy? Bobcat: John Tesh. SG:The compser?
So, you're saying that if I run a WWW browser with the graphics display disabled [and other ramifications]
IANAL, but 2 things strike me about this argument:
you're not mangling the html by not loading the images the code refers to
some of what you do privately (e.g. have the browser render the document in a certain way, fast foward through the video while watching a movie with friends who you aren't charging to watch) may fall under 'fair use' anyway. It's when you do it for profit or to the public that things get funny
Anyway, I'll believe all the ad replacement stuff when I see it.
Untill then, H-Monk
-- SG:Who is your arch enemy? Bobcat: John Tesh. SG:The compser?
I Think That You Need To STOP Bad Mouthing Miguel...There Is Absolutly NOTHING Wrong With Him. He's A Really Nice Guy, So Why Don't You Just Leave Him Alone?!
And to top it off you will not give us your name...you need help!
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Ah, but to follow that logic, and yes, to repeat a bit what others have said, the phone companies and carriers are treating Android as if it were Apple or Microsoft software and not changing their behavior accordingly.
(From what I've seen of these real-life analogues, if the main PR for a bazaar behaves exactly like it's a cathedral it will either (a) become a quirky open-air cathedral/bazaar with a limited but devoted following or (b) people will stop showing up. I saw (a) succeed once in Baltimore, so I know it's possible, but it's still pretty rare.)
WikiWikiWeb has a lot of pages about Extreme Programming. Like how to get there, why you shouldn't go, and how not to get stuck along the way.
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There are a few hopeful signs on the horizon though. IPv6 should make routing a lot easier and give us a lot more operational "breathing room" which we can use for redundancy and robustness.
After pouring over things like this and this, and keeping in mind the recommendations in other RFC's and discussions, I can't find anything that supports this. We certainly get breathing room as far as more address space, but how does this lead anything but requirements for more routing complexity to keep tabs on it all?
--
IPv6 is totally non-locative? Does that conflict with the goals stated in the RFC's that are worried about "transparency"?
Either way, I don't see any guarantee one way or another on 'locative' vs. 'transparency' with IPv6. There's been only a few addressing formats specified. We may not have seen the one that gets widely adopted yet.
--
The author was on the radio program Public Interest March 5th.
Kojo Nnamdi, an excellent interviewer, hosted an hour with Dr. Himanen, who is in his 20's and is a professor at Berkley and Helsinki, and with a former senior presidential speach writer who also has a new book out. Here is the RA stream.
--
There is a BASIC interpreter/compiler that's GPL'd, but it certainly isn't OO programming.There are other languages to program in for Linux that you might find easier than C++ or BASIC. YMMV, but C and Scheme come to mind. (Admittedly, I'm instictually biased towards teaching people other languages and idioms so they can learn to program better, and experiencially biased against C++.)
--
For a real media report on this, try this from npr.org's all things considered archive.Commissioning artists nowadays can work. For an
example that used the web to attract potential patrons, see the latest
CD from the singer/songwriter Momus. Personally, I don't like his music, but I am hardly an arbiter of good taste.
----
The Yahoo article doesn't make this clear, but Dan Rather is upset because there's a bit of a journalistic-integrity-type issue (spelling?) at hand with this digital editing. This issue was also touched on by a few people in the previous /. article. Basically CBS displayed an image, promoting it as live and implying it as being unedited, but altered the image without telling anyone that it was altered.Many people are forgetting (and most people don't even realize) how easy it is to skew or alter an image or it's perception without using CGI effects; and let's not mention editing techniques. Television is a difficult medium for fair, evenhanded journalism. It's nice to see people on the inside complaining, but it's going to be a hard struggle that gets worse before it gets better.On another note, the surest way to fix things is with an eduacted audience. And be just as wary of counter-news and underground- and alternative-reporitng as you would normal reporting.
----
USA Today has an article about this that I would like to hear someone else's input on.
When I read the article, it immediately irritated me, though I had to take a minute to figure out why: the description of the groups activities implies that there is no technical grounding for their methods - there sadly is no mention that part of the group's raison d'etre is to convince people that using 'security through obscurity is wrong' and 'with enough eyes all bugs are shallow' as standard policy is good for the consumer.
It's good for people to know the news, but often we miss out on why these articles are important to know.
An aside: does anyone know who first referred to USA Today as "the television of newspapers"?
Thanks
----
As obvious as it might sound, some lawmakers are better than others.
Law-making is difficult in a modern society - even with politicking and dealing aside, there are many unknowns to deal with and unsimple pros and cons to weigh.
The U.S. congress, to date anyway, has persued an admirable course of action on e-commerce taxes. They have admitted that they do not know what to do. Since the economy is well enough that the state and federal governments aren't desperate for the tax income, congress has ruled a moritorium on e-commerce taxes (constitutional, but arguably so for intra-state sales). They then set up a balanced commission to explore tax proposals, and the commission is doing a thoroughly competent job (you can see for yourself on C-SPAN).
I, for one, would much rather have a well thought-out law a year an a half from now, then complain about speed and have a hasty, bad law.
Nothing's perfect, though.
----
Let them do basic research, and the products will follow.
True.IBM also has the distribution and manufacturing channels in place.
Having dealt with a lot of retailers, I know that (from a reseller's perspective) a supplier with those two solid is worth it's weight in customers.
Who was it that said (something like):
To the feeling man life is a tragedy. To the thinking man, life is a comedy.?
It really isn't useful in a network server environment, but it's very useful for computation-intensive work (especially work that doesn't need to hit the disk that much). Actually, besides some difficult security concerns, MOSIX may even make network server software less efficient.
For TurboLinux, from what very little I know about it, the opposite is true (it's designed only for internet server things).
The stuff TurboLinux is doing doesn't seem earth-shattering to me, either. Usefull maybe, but many others have or are doing similar things that might be better.
Now what would be great is to have for Linux what what VMS had (to be more specific, it was OpenVMS, I think), it would have some exciting consequences.
Apropos to this, HR1225 was up for discussion in the U.S. House today. If it's not a law now, it will be very soon. This is a law with bi-partisan support that establishes trade-marked names and phrases in domain names as falling under similar, if not the same, rules as trade marks in any other published form.
Personally, what I fear the most about this bill, after having heard a few congressmen talk today, was the perspective these representatives are taking. Their concept of names and other trade-marked items as possitions that others are not allowed to have, though highly entrenched in the current system, seems so much more of a broken view to me than the notion that trade marks are more of a formation of identity, so that unathorized use of trademarks is a forging of identity and misleading of consumers rather than appropriation of property.I'm curious to hear if the practical effects of current laws could be the same under this newer view point, as it would certainly seem to make future changes easier.
-hm
Eddieware is somewhat nifty.
At least worth a look, anyway.
While hardly an expert about the benchmarks and certifications listed
(though I have dealt a bit wit tpmC before), I know
the steps needed to aquire these certified statments almost invariably cost what,
from an average citizen's perspective, is a large sum of money.
Demeaning not-for-profit groups for failure to spend time on a million dollars worth of certification strikes me as a very a low blow.
(btw, while the acl statement was inaccurate, many times I yearn for Linux to have more elegant access schemes)
There's going to be some interesting developments in this area for Linux soon, even if it means I'm going to have to start them myself.
2.3 is alive and kicking.
For a few weeks now I've had "It's the code, stupid." in big black marker on white paper right next to my computer. It's worked wonders.
There was no talk about the passion.
Well, maybe the apple employees fighting each other, but even that was weak.
But there was no positive idealism. That's alot of what drives, if not BillG and Jobs, then the employees and the hackers. And the head muckamucks who are successfull play off this.
I saw no fire burning in Wiley/Jobs's eyes when he was preaching to the masses.
The only time the term 'Insanely Great' was used, it was a throw-away line.
This would be very, very fun to play with.
Sadly, the script kiddies would think so, too.
--
SG:Who is your arch enemy?
Bobcat: John Tesh.
SG:The compser?
p.s.: the department of this article misses the alliterative affect of the original 'fifty-thousand french franks in my fridge'
--
SG:Who is your arch enemy?
Bobcat: John Tesh.
SG:The compser?
IANAL, but 2 things strike me about this argument:
you're not mangling the html by not loading the images the code refers to
some of what you do privately (e.g. have the browser render the document in a certain way, fast foward through the video while watching a movie with friends who you aren't charging to watch) may fall under 'fair use' anyway. It's when you do it for profit or to the public that things get funny
Anyway, I'll believe all the ad replacement stuff when I see it.
Untill then,
H-Monk
--
SG:Who is your arch enemy?
Bobcat: John Tesh.
SG:The compser?
I Think That You Need To STOP Bad Mouthing Miguel...There Is Absolutly NOTHING Wrong With Him. He's A Really Nice Guy, So Why Don't You Just Leave Him Alone?!
And to top it off you will not give us your name...you need help!
You use windows dont you?
--
Or he could just [...] donate it to the FSF to promote more free software projects.
Knowing RMS's past actions, this seems fairly likely indeed.
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