If the drivers are truely the only issue and not the hardware, wouldn't this be a great opportunity for the XF86 guys and whoever writes the particular tdfx modules to optimize Linux first.
"No Mr. Vallenti sir you don't understand we have to use Linux. It's the only game out there for our CG budget. Windows can't do RAM write back with decent FPSes, and commodity GPU's are 20 times cheaper..."
Wouldn't that suck for them... at least it would be amusing.
Transparancy should be a stated goal of government, but the path there is vast and rocky. Migration is costly and time consuming.
I hope they are doing the NRA thing. Move to one extreme side and then shift to the middle to show that you are "being reasonable."
Transparency, cost cutting, sharing, fighting waste, and increasing reuse are worthy goals, but there must be a process for exception (not exemption except in National Security Matters) to ease the pain of transition.
Does anyone know what exactly is the deal here? Have domain-name disputes finally opened the door for a single, universal, all-encompasing product namespace?
Yes, it makes MS's smart tag server DBA's life much easier. He is currently disgruntled over MS stock option losses and thinking of leaving.
If technology politics is of concern to you (and it should be) and you don't feel up to the job of kicking political butt yourself...
Make yourself useful to someone who can kick butt and take names.
If this happened across the board we would be very orginized and dangerous. There are a few out there, and they are looking for your help. If you really look and find nobody to follow then you should lead. Don't just assume there is sombody better for the job, if you can't think of their name and can't drop them an email, it's you.
Sorry buddy, I didn't mean to make more work for you.
Distribution control is the most objectionable component of Hollywood. While CG might be an enabler for Internet distribution minded independant filmmaker, the Internet is what allows him to sell his new film for cheap without being buddy buddy with Hollywood premadonna undesireables.
Soon, the MPAA/RIAA will completely take themselves out of the game. All there work will be practically inaccessable to any consumer with individual prefrances (beyond broadcast.) Those consumers will always check the Internet sources first. Perhaps NY will be the new center of filmmaking, starting with a NY city/state wide subsidised broadband initiative.
Lobby against broadband all you want, your time will come.
My "bitch" is that it's not too understandable to the "average" user. I don't care if there's a single sentence or 120 pages -- it's *way* over my head.
This is definatly a legitimate concern, and a great reason to stick to the kernels in your Linux distrabuton. You(or somebody) is paying for them to make this easy for you. I afraid of the docs getting dumbed down to much though, it will slow down the kernel writer/maintainers/bugfixers even more.
Linux kernel watching can be a spectators sport but not a occasional one. Mundane experimental kernel arguments become key conflicts in the stable series later. Linux Weekly News has a great kernel page with intermediate explanations every week. Good thing they get to live a few more weeks to live.
"It's entertaining, but a little worrying to see how military lawyers interpret things like the Geneva Convention"
So they are Military and they are lawyers. Hmmm interesting. Since you kill all the lawyers when you have a revolution, should they kill themselves?
This inferred laser may be able blind people for a kilometer radius, but it can deafen people at least a 3 kilometers away when it turns up the volume on everybodies tv set.
I bet if you tuned it right you could change everybodies channel to pay-per-view WWF, sign them up, and give them really big cable bills.
Looks like the USA gets to be the fascists this time. I wonder what will make us consider ourselves elite? Brain power, money, patents? It can't be skin color, religion or sexual preferance, but there are still plenty of choices. Fun fun.
Oooo who gets to be Einstein? The outspoken political genius who narrowly escapes the evil empire he openly critisies only to later coordinate with the most briliant men of the alliance to create the tool of the empires undoing? Since oceans present little barrier I wonder who we will invade first?
So many questions, so little time to polish my jackboots. It would be to bad if poverty was enough to make people realize that greed over patriotism and justice always leads to no soup for anyone. I think fighting the whole world at once could be fun. We might kick some good ass before the remaining world unites.
I ride and I can't wait until most cars (starting with elderly sales targets I hope) have HUD object enhancement systems. There have been a fair number of studies on Motorcycle accidents after the fact. The number one risk is oncoming trafic making left turns in front of Motorcylces. In case you are curious, number two is tussles with exit ramps.
This primarily has to to do with poor vision on the car drivers part. With an HUD people could see the oncomming red dot and hear a chime rather than losing the one oncomming headlight in the heat distortion and running bikers down.
Divided,ramped highways are your friend.
Volvo's tend keep the hell away from bikes (are their drivers afraid?) but a SUV just tried to run me down two days ago.
I would never buy a car running Windows anything for any component. If a car manufacturer doesn't see fit to write there own damn toolkit, they don't understand mission critical code by induction and the like, they are lazy and risking my life, or they are buzzword fixated.
What??? Surely this is wonrg... if I record a song and webcast it for free, I don't have to pay anyone anything. Same with any other music not on a label. Correct?
We need to do the same thing with pop culture and music that we have done with software. Geeks who are also musicans, pick up your instruments and write once again. Then post you music up to the Open Music Registry.
If you have a friend in a great band who is strugling, explain what is going on and encourage them to licence there music for free.
It's damn time we created copyleft pop music infrastructure. Lets give those webcasters somthing original to broadcast, and then listen.
This was all part of Linuses nepherious plot when he said(roughly), "All I want is for people shopping for a computer to have to make a choice. To actually think about what operating system they want."
"Try answering it with an analogy. "How can Main Street have more than one house on it?""
To that they might respond, "But all of Microsoft is listed at One Microsoft Way. Isn't it just one big building? I don't understand this more than one building thing."
"Remember: reach counts for quite a lot in martial arts. More over, all things being equal, big people have an advantage over small ones - they're stronger and have a longer reach."
If you have seen the recent Tyson vs Louis fight you know what he was talking about. Tyson couldn't even reach the guy without exposing himself. Louis won by knock out.
In case you didn't notice, there is an opportunity to comment.
Here is what I wrote...
Dear Sirs or Madams
The effectiveness of DRM will be proportional to the damage it does to both the Personal computer market and to effectiveness of enforcing United States intellectual property law overseas. The global market will not accommodate the legal enforcement of digital rights management and will benefit financially from the restricted position of American business, while American business suffers. The personal computer market is as successful and lucrative as it is as a direct result of the flexibility personal computers allow, if that flexibility is reduced it's value to the information market and it's positive influence on the economy are reduced as well.
Discouraging American citizens from infringing on copyright would be just as effective and far less financially damaging to our economy if it was done through compulsory licensing. This would more closely match an ideal free market. In addition, shorting copyright stay would force the industry to become more competitive with their time limit and subsequently more appealing to customers with their products. A copyright reform solution would also match more closely with a strict interpretation of the constitution, which explicitly states copyright is to be for "limited times", "To promote the progress of science and useful arts".
As a strictly technical matter, DRM is only effective if the free use and processing of information on computers is diminished to nearly nothing. As an economic matter, we should not cripple the massive industry of flexible electronics in the United States for the smaller copyright industry.
Thank You for your time.
Matthew Newhall
A.S. Computer Science
President of LILUG
Long Island Linux Users Group
http://lilug.org/
president@lilug.org
I'm not sure what inspired these thoughts and this rant but I think it was Alan. Great interview BTW, thank you.
I have been searching within for a reaonable system by which to determine the ethics of allowing a given tool. Recently I have come to believe that the gun lobby's (NRA) fight is my fight. A gun is just a tool and actions, not tools, should be legislated and punished. Often with varying degrees of success I have seen people argue that guns are far to devistating and they and other tools like them should be regulated and banned.
I think the fact that guns are the prime focus of the "should tools be regulated" debate is catastrophic to our cause. A gun is a special case. It can end any chance of correcting a wrong doing. Murder has special consequenses beyond any other crime. Other crimes can (often) be corrected, and their damages reversed, but once a humans heart beats for the last time reporations can not be made. Guns are designed to kill things, movie decoding software isn't.
Any tools distribution or use should not be regulated, unless fatal harm can come directly from it's use. Ownership or posession of potentially fatal tools can only be regulated in publicly shared places.
Perhaps an amendment is in order, to stop hysteria and lying stupidity every time a signifigant new technology comes around the bend.
As far as I can see, this fits well with misused tools(hit and run homicide), and intended killing machines,(glock 9). Anything that happens on private property is still protected by laws governing actions. It also shows foolish laws that regulate tools in a way that benifits the establishment and defeats/punishes creativity for what they are. The DMCA will fall.
Linux adoption really comes down to the cost of hiring a capable staff.
Large companies are an excelent target for Linux.
Small to medium (50-500)sized companies are a good target as well. The right people for the job are going to be more expensive than you are used to though. Time to read mythical man month.
When it comes to small companies smaller than 50 my advice is when you are big enough to justify a full time IT person, then it is time to consider it. The market isn't big enough (yet) to ask your neighboor for help with Linux, so you really can't attempt a switch with a part time computer guy.
Unless that part timer happens to know Linux and Windows well.... In which case you should give him a raise because he isn't long for such a small operation. He will be offered a job he can't refuse RSN.
"Parking brakes are also for emergency use. What is the driver of this new fangled car going to do with the elecrtical system shorts out completly and there is no power. Not only does he have a fire under the hood, but there is no way to stop the car. Or what happens when the brake line break? Mechanical systems are subject to breakage you know."
A few things about the goodness of mechanical emergency brakes...
They lock up only the rear wheels, this is actually better than all four. You can still steer with your front wheels rolling, but not without any wheels rolling.
Mechanical Brakes are SIMPLE. This matters when your car is inspected, and the LCD(Lowest Common D...) mechanic is quickly sweeping over a clueless drivers car. He might yank on the phsical cable and see that it it loose. But you can bet he won't spot the short in the wiring harness. By the way, auto wiring harnesses are now more expensive than most drivetrains in most cars.
If you battery fails and the car stalls will the E-brake still work?
Sounds to me like this beamer might be headed for trouble. Simple systems fail simply and predictably, complex systems might die giving the driver no clue on how to proceed.
I am not a mechanic, but I have worked as one in the past. I have disasembled cars put them back together and they worked. (mostly):)
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"The guy in the car actually does age negligibly less than someone standing around."
These experiments were obviously not performed anywhere near the Long Island Expressway during the rush hour starting Memorial day weekend.
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Yea, if you really consider not being able to afford the Britney Spears Live video being hurt.
If the drivers are truely the only issue and not the hardware, wouldn't this be a great opportunity for the XF86 guys and whoever writes the particular tdfx modules to optimize Linux first.
"No Mr. Vallenti sir you don't understand we have to use Linux. It's the only game out there for our CG budget. Windows can't do RAM write back with decent FPSes, and commodity GPU's are 20 times cheaper..."
Wouldn't that suck for them... at least it would be amusing.
Transparancy should be a stated goal of government, but the path there is vast and rocky. Migration is costly and time consuming.
I hope they are doing the NRA thing. Move to one extreme side and then shift to the middle to show that you are "being reasonable."
Transparency, cost cutting, sharing, fighting waste, and increasing reuse are worthy goals, but there must be a process for exception (not exemption except in National Security Matters) to ease the pain of transition.
Yes, it makes MS's smart tag server DBA's life much easier. He is currently disgruntled over MS stock option losses and thinking of leaving.
Life is better with no more of those pesky "in context, trademark violating, superimposed link" lawsuits from those "other" companies.
Make yourself useful to someone who can kick butt and take names.
If this happened across the board we would be very orginized and dangerous. There are a few out there, and they are looking for your help. If you really look and find nobody to follow then you should lead. Don't just assume there is sombody better for the job, if you can't think of their name and can't drop them an email, it's you.
Sorry buddy, I didn't mean to make more work for you.
Soon, the MPAA/RIAA will completely take themselves out of the game. All there work will be practically inaccessable to any consumer with individual prefrances (beyond broadcast.) Those consumers will always check the Internet sources first. Perhaps NY will be the new center of filmmaking, starting with a NY city/state wide subsidised broadband initiative.
Lobby against broadband all you want, your time will come.
Hell, maybe crossover office should automaticly set up a local null route to intuit.com or wherever the evil .dll contacts on install.
You are running an IP Masq between your fake-windows box and the real world, right? Who knows what services those windows programs are running.
This is definatly a legitimate concern, and a great reason to stick to the kernels in your Linux distrabuton. You(or somebody) is paying for them to make this easy for you. I afraid of the docs getting dumbed down to much though, it will slow down the kernel writer/maintainers/bugfixers even more.
Linux kernel watching can be a spectators sport but not a occasional one. Mundane experimental kernel arguments become key conflicts in the stable series later. Linux Weekly News has a great kernel page with intermediate explanations every week. Good thing they get to live a few more weeks to live.
So the DOSers are actually supporting the new law by protesting their lack of spontainious blocking and evidence gathering rights.
If they only knew... the DOSers would try harder.
Look at me, I'm the sheriff, oooo ,oooo this is fun.
So they are Military and they are lawyers. Hmmm interesting. Since you kill all the lawyers when you have a revolution, should they kill themselves?
This inferred laser may be able blind people for a kilometer radius, but it can deafen people at least a 3 kilometers away when it turns up the volume on everybodies tv set.
I bet if you tuned it right you could change everybodies channel to pay-per-view WWF, sign them up, and give them really big cable bills.
I love modern warfare.
Oooo who gets to be Einstein? The outspoken political genius who narrowly escapes the evil empire he openly critisies only to later coordinate with the most briliant men of the alliance to create the tool of the empires undoing? Since oceans present little barrier I wonder who we will invade first?
So many questions, so little time to polish my jackboots. It would be to bad if poverty was enough to make people realize that greed over patriotism and justice always leads to no soup for anyone. I think fighting the whole world at once could be fun. We might kick some good ass before the remaining world unites.
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Matthew Newhall
President of LILUG.
Long Island Linux Users Group.
This primarily has to to do with poor vision on the car drivers part. With an HUD people could see the oncomming red dot and hear a chime rather than losing the one oncomming headlight in the heat distortion and running bikers down.
Divided,ramped highways are your friend.
Volvo's tend keep the hell away from bikes (are their drivers afraid?) but a SUV just tried to run me down two days ago.
Here are some typical conclusions from motorcycle studies.
I would never buy a car running Windows anything for any component. If a car manufacturer doesn't see fit to write there own damn toolkit, they don't understand mission critical code by induction and the like, they are lazy and risking my life, or they are buzzword fixated.
We need to do the same thing with pop culture and music that we have done with software. Geeks who are also musicans, pick up your instruments and write once again. Then post you music up to the Open Music Registry.
If you have a friend in a great band who is strugling, explain what is going on and encourage them to licence there music for free.
It's damn time we created copyleft pop music infrastructure. Lets give those webcasters somthing original to broadcast, and then listen.
This was all part of Linuses nepherious plot when he said(roughly), "All I want is for people shopping for a computer to have to make a choice. To actually think about what operating system they want."
To that they might respond, "But all of Microsoft is listed at One Microsoft Way. Isn't it just one big building? I don't understand this more than one building thing."
I'm such a whore.
If you have seen the recent Tyson vs Louis fight you know what he was talking about. Tyson couldn't even reach the guy without exposing himself. Louis won by knock out.
Here is what I wrote...
Dear Sirs or Madams
The effectiveness of DRM will be proportional to the damage it does to both the Personal computer market and to effectiveness of enforcing United States intellectual property law overseas. The global market will not accommodate the legal enforcement of digital rights management and will benefit financially from the restricted position of American business, while American business suffers. The personal computer market is as successful and lucrative as it is as a direct result of the flexibility personal computers allow, if that flexibility is reduced it's value to the information market and it's positive influence on the economy are reduced as well.
Discouraging American citizens from infringing on copyright would be just as effective and far less financially damaging to our economy if it was done through compulsory licensing. This would more closely match an ideal free market. In addition, shorting copyright stay would force the industry to become more competitive with their time limit and subsequently more appealing to customers with their products. A copyright reform solution would also match more closely with a strict interpretation of the constitution, which explicitly states copyright is to be for "limited times", "To promote the progress of science and useful arts".
As a strictly technical matter, DRM is only effective if the free use and processing of information on computers is diminished to nearly nothing. As an economic matter, we should not cripple the massive industry of flexible electronics in the United States for the smaller copyright industry.
Thank You for your time.
Matthew Newhall
A.S. Computer Science
President of LILUG
Long Island Linux Users Group
http://lilug.org/
president@lilug.org
It might be a good time to read at -1.
I have been searching within for a reaonable system by which to determine the ethics of allowing a given tool. Recently I have come to believe that the gun lobby's (NRA) fight is my fight. A gun is just a tool and actions, not tools, should be legislated and punished. Often with varying degrees of success I have seen people argue that guns are far to devistating and they and other tools like them should be regulated and banned.
I think the fact that guns are the prime focus of the "should tools be regulated" debate is catastrophic to our cause. A gun is a special case. It can end any chance of correcting a wrong doing. Murder has special consequenses beyond any other crime. Other crimes can (often) be corrected, and their damages reversed, but once a humans heart beats for the last time reporations can not be made. Guns are designed to kill things, movie decoding software isn't.
Any tools distribution or use should not be regulated, unless fatal harm can come directly from it's use. Ownership or posession of potentially fatal tools can only be regulated in publicly shared places.
Perhaps an amendment is in order, to stop hysteria and lying stupidity every time a signifigant new technology comes around the bend.
As far as I can see, this fits well with misused tools(hit and run homicide), and intended killing machines,(glock 9). Anything that happens on private property is still protected by laws governing actions. It also shows foolish laws that regulate tools in a way that benifits the establishment and defeats/punishes creativity for what they are. The DMCA will fall.
Large companies are an excelent target for Linux.
Small to medium (50-500)sized companies are a good target as well. The right people for the job are going to be more expensive than you are used to though. Time to read mythical man month.
When it comes to small companies smaller than 50 my advice is when you are big enough to justify a full time IT person, then it is time to consider it. The market isn't big enough (yet) to ask your neighboor for help with Linux, so you really can't attempt a switch with a part time computer guy.
Unless that part timer happens to know Linux and Windows well.... In which case you should give him a raise because he isn't long for such a small operation. He will be offered a job he can't refuse RSN.
"Parking brakes are also for emergency use. What is the driver of this new fangled car going to do with the elecrtical system shorts out completly and there is no power. Not only does he have a fire under the hood, but there is no way to stop the car. Or what happens when the brake line break? Mechanical systems are subject to breakage you know."
A few things about the goodness of mechanical emergency brakes...
They lock up only the rear wheels, this is actually better than all four. You can still steer with your front wheels rolling, but not without any wheels rolling.
Mechanical Brakes are SIMPLE. This matters when your car is inspected, and the LCD(Lowest Common D...) mechanic is quickly sweeping over a clueless drivers car. He might yank on the phsical cable and see that it it loose. But you can bet he won't spot the short in the wiring harness. By the way, auto wiring harnesses are now more expensive than most drivetrains in most cars.
If you battery fails and the car stalls will the E-brake still work?
Sounds to me like this beamer might be headed for trouble. Simple systems fail simply and predictably, complex systems might die giving the driver no clue on how to proceed.
I am not a mechanic, but I have worked as one in the past. I have disasembled cars put them back together and they worked. (mostly) :)
"The guy in the car actually does age negligibly less than someone standing around."
These experiments were obviously not performed anywhere near the Long Island Expressway during the rush hour starting Memorial day weekend.
Exactly. An oath is meaningless without a strong orginization behind it. This would likly mean a union similar to the teachers union.
Does this mean that a union is a good thing? Well, I think we need to answer that before we can even consider an oath.