Why, when the media conglomerates who lobbied for this bill use the newspapers (they own), TV new and documentaries (they own) and radio shows (they own) to explain to people why the DMCA is such a bad idea, and what the negative ramifications of it are.
I'm sure the congressmen (they own) will also take a responsible line, and won't conflate these kinds of issues with actual breaches of copyright, terrorism, or other acts most people consider unacceptable.
Hardly that recent - it has been produced in chronological order for over 20 years, since it was that long ago since I first read them.
The only problem with reading it in the chronological order of the stories is the way the quality of the writing and stories goes up and down throughout. Lion is poorly written compared to the later works; Last Battle is just plain unpleasant, with Lewis' mysogyny running rampant.
Horse and His Boy and Prince Caspian remain my favourites.
Because Lewis' hatred of women will give the next generation appropriate ideas about how to relate.
Lewis was in many reagrds a fine writer, but he was also a deeply fucked up guy with serious problems vis-a-vis women. He was a strong opponent of tertiary education for women (unlike his friend Tolkien), amongst other things.
It's a step HP were always going to take - that's they key point. HP's original plans for HP 3.0 called for the VLIW architecture that Itanic is based on. HP - and it's customers - will be no worse off it Itanium is not a popular desktop chip than they would have been if HP had sinply designed HP-PA 3.0 and made customers recompile or use emulation.
Actually, a trawl through comp.arch suggests that various luminaries are reasonably comfortable with Opteron - it's less an "x86 with bits bolted on" and more a "what would I do if I wanted a nice 64 bit CISC chip that happened to be compatible with ia32 instructions"; a number of older, cruftier bits of the ia32 have been deprecated.
HP don't actually have much of a problem, because Itanium is basically HPPA 3.0 with a bunch of x86 emulation stuff tacked on. HP have, in effect, gotten Intel to underwrite the development of their next-gen RISC architecture and hype it as the next big thing.
In a scenario where Itanic is a failure (ie ends up in a niche as a midrange only CPU), HP-UX and VMS are in much the same position they were before - running on an expensive niche CPU.
AIX still has POWER 4/5, so IBM don't care.
The people who are screwed are the people porting their OS to what could become an HP-only chip.
Here's a suggestion: write software that doesn't need a sysadmin. Oh, that's right. Fuckwad develeopers with 4 year degrees can't even write software that compiles cleanly.
Personally, I'd like to elimiate bad choices like the choice to rape, murder, etc. I believe the elimination of bad choices is reasonably uncontroversial in many areas. It is of course, controversial in others (cf US seperation of religions from the State).
I've just spent the last month with a stream of non-Sun vendors telling me they're dropping Tomcat support because Sun has told them a free-beer version of iPlanet's servlet engine will be the reference engine, and Tomcat will be dropped.
The vendors could all be lying or misinformed (or Sun could be bullshitting them), but it seems kind of unlikely.
That would be why my post starts with the proviso "if this is Microsoft". But don't let a little thing like reading comprehension get in the way of an opportunity to post.
If it is Microsoft picking up Apache to some degree:
The best case scenario: Microsoft offer Apache integration options, open sourcing the relevant code (ASP/.NET hookups, management console integration).
The most likely scenario: Microsoft release binary compatability modules which work with the open source Apache.
The worst scenario: Microsoft release a binary-only Apache with sundry improvements they refuse to release back to the main source trees, attempting to undercut Apache on Windows.
The core Apache foundation project is Apache, which works with well, most everything. mod_dtcl, mod_perl, mod_ruby and plenty of others. Contrary to what Java weenies would like people to think, the world is not, in fact, a choice between Unix+Java and Windows+.NET.
And given the way Sun keep jerking the free software world around (Oh, look, work on Tomcat and we'll make it the reference JSP engine! Oh, now we've changed our minds!), why would Apache care about keeping Sun happy more than they care about making Apache as compatible with as many platforms and technologies as possible?
Many of the good people have been working to make Apache a first-class citizen on Windows through the 1.3.x code, and achieved that in 2.0.x. I imagine those people would be very happy to see Microsoft recognise the quality of their work. And I doubt they give a shit about Sun or Java.
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C# and other key parts of.NET have been submitted to standards bodies, so yes, there is an open forum for people to have input. More, in fact, than their is for Java, which Sun have refused to submit to standards bodies.
The stock market does not have anything to do with a company's fundamentals, and it's doubtfull it ever did. It's all about investor confidence. A wise investor will check the fundamentals and place money accordingly (cf Warren Buffet), but it's quite possible to make a lot of money from buying into junk companies as they get popular.
Umm.. we should because, simply put, people who are employed spend money. People who are unemployed DONT spend money. Thats basic economics
So? By that rationale, the US government should be handing over money to HP and any other company that has fired staff. Businesses fail all the time. The only difference is that Worldcom's failing in part because of massive fraud. Most economists take a dim view of governments presenting an incentive for dishonest behaviour, which is what you're suggesting.
How could Open Source help? Well, it may be that over there you're required to hand over this information to your spooks courtesy of the Police State Act. However, I'd like to make sure that products I'm using for non-US clients aren't busy (possibly illegally) disclosing information to the FBI.
Given that Symantec have agreed to work with state intelligence agencies over Magic Lantern, I would expect we can no longer trust that we will see announcements the powers that be don't want us to.
A point around change of failed totalitarian governments: Italians are mocked for "changing sides" during World War II, when they deposed Mussolini[1]. There's obviously some interesting cultural conditioning. The people of Italy realised Facism was taking them to Hell in a handbasket, booted their Facist government out, and we mock them for not following the German example of fighting to the bitter end?
Think how much better a place the world would have been if a popular uprising had strung Hilter up in 1943.
[1] After which the Nazis occupied the country to prop up resistence to an Allied invasion which many Italians were by then happy to see. And to ship out the Jews[2].
[2] Facist Italy had one of the lowest rates of extermination in Europe, a matter the Nazis changed when they seized control.
MIT is the home of Nicholas Negroponte and the Media Lab. Shallow genuflecting before technology and sponsors (from the corporate and government...) is part of the culture.
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Why, when the media conglomerates who lobbied for this bill use the newspapers (they own), TV new and documentaries (they own) and radio shows (they own) to explain to people why the DMCA is such a bad idea, and what the negative ramifications of it are.
I'm sure the congressmen (they own) will also take a responsible line, and won't conflate these kinds of issues with actual breaches of copyright, terrorism, or other acts most people consider unacceptable.
When Alan Cox originally discussed the notion that companies would (mis)use the DMCA in the security field, he was widely attacked for being silly.
Anyone still feel like laughing?
What bummed me out with that was that the second season was the one broadcast spottily on TV, so I've never seen it properly.
There's an English TV series of The Tripods, and according to this the first season is available on DVD (althought the second never will be).
You're right, though, that Christopher is great. Loved him when I was a kid.
Hardly that recent - it has been produced in chronological order for over 20 years, since it was that long ago since I first read them.
The only problem with reading it in the chronological order of the stories is the way the quality of the writing and stories goes up and down throughout. Lion is poorly written compared to the later works; Last Battle is just plain unpleasant, with Lewis' mysogyny running rampant.
Horse and His Boy and Prince Caspian remain my favourites.
Because Lewis' hatred of women will give the next generation appropriate ideas about how to relate.
Lewis was in many reagrds a fine writer, but he was also a deeply fucked up guy with serious problems vis-a-vis women. He was a strong opponent of tertiary education for women (unlike his friend Tolkien), amongst other things.
It's a step HP were always going to take - that's they key point. HP's original plans for HP 3.0 called for the VLIW architecture that Itanic is based on. HP - and it's customers - will be no worse off it Itanium is not a popular desktop chip than they would have been if HP had sinply designed HP-PA 3.0 and made customers recompile or use emulation.
Actually, a trawl through comp.arch suggests that various luminaries are reasonably comfortable with Opteron - it's less an "x86 with bits bolted on" and more a "what would I do if I wanted a nice 64 bit CISC chip that happened to be compatible with ia32 instructions"; a number of older, cruftier bits of the ia32 have been deprecated.
HP don't actually have much of a problem, because Itanium is basically HPPA 3.0 with a bunch of x86 emulation stuff tacked on. HP have, in effect, gotten Intel to underwrite the development of their next-gen RISC architecture and hype it as the next big thing.
In a scenario where Itanic is a failure (ie ends up in a niche as a midrange only CPU), HP-UX and VMS are in much the same position they were before - running on an expensive niche CPU.
AIX still has POWER 4/5, so IBM don't care.
The people who are screwed are the people porting their OS to what could become an HP-only chip.
Here's a suggestion: write software that doesn't need a sysadmin. Oh, that's right. Fuckwad develeopers with 4 year degrees can't even write software that compiles cleanly.
Personally, I'd like to elimiate bad choices like the choice to rape, murder, etc. I believe the elimination of bad choices is reasonably uncontroversial in many areas. It is of course, controversial in others (cf US seperation of religions from the State).
I've just spent the last month with a stream of non-Sun vendors telling me they're dropping Tomcat support because Sun has told them a free-beer version of iPlanet's servlet engine will be the reference engine, and Tomcat will be dropped.
The vendors could all be lying or misinformed (or Sun could be bullshitting them), but it seems kind of unlikely.
That would be why my post starts with the proviso "if this is Microsoft". But don't let a little thing like reading comprehension get in the way of an opportunity to post.
If it is Microsoft picking up Apache to some degree:
The best case scenario: Microsoft offer Apache integration options, open sourcing the relevant code (ASP/.NET hookups, management console integration).
The most likely scenario: Microsoft release binary compatability modules which work with the open source Apache.
The worst scenario: Microsoft release a binary-only Apache with sundry improvements they refuse to release back to the main source trees, attempting to undercut Apache on Windows.
The core Apache foundation project is Apache, which works with well, most everything. mod_dtcl, mod_perl, mod_ruby and plenty of others. Contrary to what Java weenies would like people to think, the world is not, in fact, a choice between Unix+Java and Windows+.NET.
And given the way Sun keep jerking the free software world around (Oh, look, work on Tomcat and we'll make it the reference JSP engine! Oh, now we've changed our minds!), why would Apache care about keeping Sun happy more than they care about making Apache as compatible with as many platforms and technologies as possible?
Many of the good people have been working to make Apache a first-class citizen on Windows through the 1.3.x code, and achieved that in 2.0.x. I imagine those people would be very happy to see Microsoft recognise the quality of their work. And I doubt they give a shit about Sun or Java.
C# and other key parts of .NET have been submitted to standards bodies, so yes, there is an open forum for people to have input. More, in fact, than their is for Java, which Sun have refused to submit to standards bodies.
The stock market does not have anything to do with a company's fundamentals, and it's doubtfull it ever did. It's all about investor confidence. A wise investor will check the fundamentals and place money accordingly (cf Warren Buffet), but it's quite possible to make a lot of money from buying into junk companies as they get popular.
Which affects most people more, right now?
Their core business (Internet connectivity and telecommunications) may be sound; it may be sundry other ventures that have dragged them down.
How could Open Source help? Well, it may be that over there you're required to hand over this information to your spooks courtesy of the Police State Act. However, I'd like to make sure that products I'm using for non-US clients aren't busy (possibly illegally) disclosing information to the FBI.
Given that Symantec have agreed to work with state intelligence agencies over Magic Lantern, I would expect we can no longer trust that we will see announcements the powers that be don't want us to.
A copy of the essay is readily available online here; it appears to be legitimately online.
A point around change of failed totalitarian governments: Italians are mocked for "changing sides" during World War II, when they deposed Mussolini[1]. There's obviously some interesting cultural conditioning. The people of Italy realised Facism was taking them to Hell in a handbasket, booted their Facist government out, and we mock them for not following the German example of fighting to the bitter end?
Think how much better a place the world would have been if a popular uprising had strung Hilter up in 1943.
[1] After which the Nazis occupied the country to prop up resistence to an Allied invasion which many Italians were by then happy to see. And to ship out the Jews[2].
[2] Facist Italy had one of the lowest rates of extermination in Europe, a matter the Nazis changed when they seized control.
MIT is the home of Nicholas Negroponte and the Media Lab. Shallow genuflecting before technology and sponsors (from the corporate and government...) is part of the culture.