Larry McVoy is upset because the leader of the largest open source software development project in the world stopped using his crappy software. Feeling less than useless, he's got an axe to grind. As a result, his comments should be taken with a grain of salt. Lets face it, the guy has lost touch with reality. Publishing his mindless dribble is flamebait. We could all rewrite his crappy software in less time it takes to figure out how to use it.
There needs to be a web based public voting system for each patent put out there, where members of the public can voice their opinion in a very public way about particular patents. Right now there is no such venue for anyone to voice concern, prior art, etc... I think if patents became voted down by large members of the public, it would pretty much force the USPTO to rethink and even revoke the majority of software patents granted today. Otherwise, the USPTO is nothing but a money making scam by government and its merit should be taken with a grain of salt until the day when a frivilous patent holder files suit against me in court, at which time the patent will be struck down.
What would be nice is a USB powered device that takes a drop of fluid as input and then feeds data back to software that takes the data from the USB and performs analsys on it.
The potential for a device like this is huge. Entire industries could be built around a device like that. Software that in realtime could determine the chemistry of a small sample of blood or other liquid would be an enormous benefit to society.
Who cares about tracking the movement of a storm. What we should be concentrating on is technology to remove a storm from existance as soon as it begins to form.
All this technology for storm tracking is useless when the real problem is the fact that each storm, when it touches land, causes damage into the tens of billions of dollars, not to mention the large death toll each storm brings with it when it touches land. We should care more about making technology to fight storms, reduce their impact on civilization.
I think that if they wanted to teach anything to young children, using a mascot such as a weasel or a rat is not going to help reduce software piracy. If it teach anything, it teaches children that those who tell on people for copyright infringement are nothing but a bunch of rats and weasels. I agree with that analogy, but its misguided for the BSA to represent that analogy.
When I searchedd for "linux", I got no results found for "linux", then a couple minutes later, it returned some results, then when I clicked to goto the next page, it crapped out with this cryptic error message:
Search Error
MSN Search is temporarily unable to process your request.
When I searchedd for "linux", I got no results found for "linux", then a couple minutes later, it returned some results, then when I clicked to goto the next page, it crapped out with this cryptic error message:
Search Error
MSN Search is temporarily unable to process your request.
This whole project seems to be aimed at a noble goal, cross-platform compatibility, but with weak implemention. It is still interpreted. It still requires you to clunk around this huge interpreter and all associated libraries. Its still slow. They need to concentrate on targeting native machine code compilation and execution. I like the fact that java (because of GCJ) can finally be natively compiled, which will definately increase its adoption among serious developers.
The biggest spammer on yahoo is yahoo themselves. Yahoo allows spammers, just do a search through profiles.yahoo.com... they must allow it, because they definately dont do anything about the major offenders.
The official yahoo client for linux is seriously lacking and this is the main reason why open source yahoo clones for linux will continue to thrive regardless of how often they change their protocol.
After they install the motion sensor network they will install high power kW lasers on each lightpost so they can blind/disable anyone at will. This will enable the government ultimate control over its citzens thereby furthering the goals of the New World Order of domination & control. The motion sensor network will be replaced by a behavior sensor network which will track citizens perceived behavior at all times. Any citizen whose movement is irregular or percieved to be illegal in any way will be physically disabled by the high power lasers embedded in each device. Oh, what a wonderful future we have in store for us.
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FTP imposes a lower threshold connection limit than HTTP. FTP requires lots of chatter on the wire to be able to just receive a file. So, to say that one is not superior to the other is just wrong. HTTP is better suited for the transfer of files *inherently* because of its low overhead.
I tested it out the other day when it came out, and the first thing I noticed through the installation was that it required you to either have a local/etc/passwd or/etc/group file *already* created, or you had to specify an NIS server to use. I just aborted the installation because I didnt have time to craft a passwd and group file by hand or copy one off some other machine and have it possibly be rejected by the installation script. I also noticed that specifying an empty file or one that did not exist the installation would complain and not go any further.
I dont know about anyone else, but I'll stick with Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com) for now or until they get their act together and write a cleaner install script.
The various problems with FreeBSD can be summarized by attempting to retrieve the release notes. The release notes are stored on an FTP server (instead of a web server), and when you retreive them, you get the "too many connections" error message from the FTP server which prevents you from retrieving the file. This is pathetic. These types of design decisions are the reason no one uses freebsd and no one takes freebsd seriously.
They are backing down from the legal court battle because they will be paying off the bureaucrats (read: lobbying) to create new laws in norway to address this type of activity (i.e. DMCA).
Although the tool has a good design, the fact that there are no pre-defined routers makes the tool almost useless to most potential file swappers. It would be nice if there was a couple IP addresses pre-configured, or at least some mention of where to look for a start up group, i.e. an irc channel. The author basically expects many people to come together and share their own files with each other. Although this might have good intentions, the other sharing networks which all contain pre-configured routers and are ready to go "out of the box" are going to be used, not this tool.
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Larry McVoy is upset because the leader of the largest open source software development project in the world stopped using his crappy software. Feeling less than useless, he's got an axe to grind. As a result, his comments should be taken with a grain of salt. Lets face it, the guy has lost touch with reality. Publishing his mindless dribble is flamebait. We could all rewrite his crappy software in less time it takes to figure out how to use it.
Its pretty ignorant for someone to write a piece about the "history of mozilla firefox" without discussing Netscape, Mosaic, etc...
There needs to be a web based public voting system for each patent put out there, where members of the public can voice their opinion in a very public way about particular patents. Right now there is no such venue for anyone to voice concern, prior art, etc... I think if patents became voted down by large members of the public, it would pretty much force the USPTO to rethink and even revoke the majority of software patents granted today. Otherwise, the USPTO is nothing but a money making scam by government and its merit should be taken with a grain of salt until the day when a frivilous patent holder files suit against me in court, at which time the patent will be struck down.
What would be nice is a USB powered device that takes a drop of fluid as input and then feeds data back to software that takes the data from the USB and performs analsys on it.
The potential for a device like this is huge. Entire industries could be built around a device like that. Software that in realtime could determine the chemistry of a small sample of blood or other liquid would be an enormous benefit to society.
All this technology for storm tracking is useless when the real problem is the fact that each storm, when it touches land, causes damage into the tens of billions of dollars, not to mention the large death toll each storm brings with it when it touches land. We should care more about making technology to fight storms, reduce their impact on civilization.
I think that if they wanted to teach anything to young children, using a mascot such as a weasel or a rat is not going to help reduce software piracy. If it teach anything, it teaches children that those who tell on people for copyright infringement are nothing but a bunch of rats and weasels. I agree with that analogy, but its misguided for the BSA to represent that analogy.
Wake up dood, most large financial trading firms have been making money on their AI systems for some time now.
When I searchedd for "linux", I got no results found for "linux", then a couple minutes later, it returned some results, then when I clicked to goto the next page, it crapped out with this cryptic error message:
Search Error
MSN Search is temporarily unable to process your request.
Please try again in a few minutes.
EID: f:2114719238 - 1041:1041:10004:1059
HC: 71d61b16
When I searchedd for "linux", I got no results found for "linux", then a couple minutes later, it returned some results, then when I clicked to goto the next page, it crapped out with this cryptic error message:
Search Error
MSN Search is temporarily unable to process your request.
Please try again in a few minutes.
EID: f:2114719238 - 1041:1041:10004:1059
HC: 71d61b16
This whole project seems to be aimed at a noble goal, cross-platform compatibility, but with weak implemention. It is still interpreted. It still requires you to clunk around this huge interpreter and all associated libraries. Its still slow. They need to concentrate on targeting native machine code compilation and execution. I like the fact that java (because of GCJ) can finally be natively compiled, which will definately increase its adoption among serious developers.
The biggest spammer on yahoo is yahoo themselves. Yahoo allows spammers, just do a search through profiles.yahoo.com... they must allow it, because they definately dont do anything about the major offenders.
The official yahoo client for linux is seriously lacking and this is the main reason why open source yahoo clones for linux will continue to thrive regardless of how often they change their protocol.
Are they using a Pringles can as the antenna?
Microsoft selling Anti-Virus software is like al-Qaida selling life insurance.
I see issue as fabricated by someone trying to get a 10 minute moment in the spotlight and not a real issue at all.
Their site claims they are booting off a USB flash dongle key. This sounds neat. I wonder what the boot time is.
These guys need a faster web site.
Theo is too BSD to give away ISO's.
How long before Festival TTS will support this useful feature?
After they install the motion sensor network they will install high power kW lasers on each lightpost so they can blind/disable anyone at will. This will enable the government ultimate control over its citzens thereby furthering the goals of the New World Order of domination & control. The motion sensor network will be replaced by a behavior sensor network which will track citizens perceived behavior at all times. Any citizen whose movement is irregular or percieved to be illegal in any way will be physically disabled by the high power lasers embedded in each device. Oh, what a wonderful future we have in store for us.
FTP imposes a lower threshold connection limit than HTTP. FTP requires lots of chatter on the wire to be able to just receive a file. So, to say that one is not superior to the other is just wrong. HTTP is better suited for the transfer of files *inherently* because of its low overhead.
I tested it out the other day when it came out, and the first thing I noticed through the installation was that it required you to either have a local /etc/passwd or /etc/group file *already* created, or you had to specify an NIS server to use. I just aborted the installation because I didnt have time to craft a passwd and group file by hand or copy one off some other machine and have it possibly be rejected by the installation script. I also noticed that specifying an empty file or one that did not exist the installation would complain and not go any further.
I dont know about anyone else, but I'll stick with Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com) for now or until they get their act together and write a cleaner install script.
The various problems with FreeBSD can be summarized by attempting to retrieve the release notes. The release notes are stored on an FTP server (instead of a web server), and when you retreive them, you get the "too many connections" error message from the FTP server which prevents you from retrieving the file. This is pathetic. These types of design decisions are the reason no one uses freebsd and no one takes freebsd seriously.
They are backing down from the legal court battle because they will be paying off the bureaucrats (read: lobbying) to create new laws in norway to address this type of activity (i.e. DMCA).
Although the tool has a good design, the fact that there are no pre-defined routers makes the tool almost useless to most potential file swappers. It would be nice if there was a couple IP addresses pre-configured, or at least some mention of where to look for a start up group, i.e. an irc channel. The author basically expects many people to come together and share their own files with each other. Although this might have good intentions, the other sharing networks which all contain pre-configured routers and are ready to go "out of the box" are going to be used, not this tool.