If they get the density near what they're trumpeting, I don't think there'll be all that much trouble with bit rot. I bet they could make a RAID-on-a-chip that would still have more space than you need just yet. Imagine memory RAID. That would be so cool....
Unless I'm forgetting something, the message could just be signed once. PGP encrypted shows more potential, as well as the benefit of being able to have the messages be private. There's also the HashCash system, which challenges people emailing you with a one-way hash computation that they have to perform. This takes a bit of computer time, and as computers get faster you can just make mailers hash more.
Reaching for my tinfoil hat, I would speculate that if MS wanted to only support this hardware, they might do something truly evil like requiring that the hardware be near top of the line. That way the MS-approved hardware vendors would be happy, since they wouldn't have to sell "budget" computers, MS would be happy since they have yet more power, and the dirty end of the stick would go to... us. The users would be screwed.
Microsoft won't even let DOS 2 into the public domain.
Is it just me, or does it seem like a bunch of companies dislike the thought of letting anything into the public domain? DOS 2 couldn't possibly hurt MS if it went public domain, yet they don't do the sensible thing and just let it go. Why?
I get that from Tetris Attack. You start out sucking but knowing how to play (easy to learn) and you end up doing superhuman feats. I still play it emulated. The music is good too.
I don't know about JFS, but I do know that there is a difference between ext2 and ext3: one is journaling, the other isn't. They can be mounted as each other, but I don't think they change the FS to be incompatible in nasty ways. They have to be compatible with each other, and that serves as a bit of a check on change.
To further elaborate on your point, I would like to point out that the anti-RMS "GNU/*" people are annoying. You know the people. They have an involuntary reflex: Whenever they hear or see "RMS" or "Stallman" they immediately start saying that RMS wants to rename everything to put a GNU/ at the front or start GNU/talking GNU/like GNU/this. These people are annoying losers.
Look, if you want to subtly needle RMS in a way that he may actually enjoy, do what the KDE folks did: do something clever. Use "KDE/GNU/Linux", or some wilder thing like "Elisp/Emacs/Konsole/Konqueror/KDE/GNU/Linux/Atoms/Universe/?". Cheers.
What's with the GNU/GNU/* stuff? Wouldn't that imply that GNU was running on GNU? Now, if you had GNU/linux running as a user-mode linux setup on GNU/linux, then you would have this mouthful: GNU/User-mode Linux/GNU/Linux. You could, with sufficient computing power and memory, stretch this out indefinitely. GNU/User-mode Linux/GNU/User-mode Linux/GNU/User-mode Linux/GNU/User-mode Linux/GNU/User-mode Linux/.../GNU/Linux!
Kudos to RMS in general, but this is one issue on which he should be politley ignored. GNU will always be known to people who poke around in the systems enough to understand what it does and did.
A similar site is ArXiv, which does mostly physics stuff AFAIK. You can do things like searching more easily on the web, as well as the openness benefits.
The problem with unintended sequels is that typically they have the same characters but all the inspiration of the first movie is used up. They're just trying to squeeze some more money from a movie that did well. Dinosaur had the thing about finding a new home and running from something that would eventually wipe out the protagonsists' descendents. What would a sequel be like? Just a rehash, probably. Sigh.
There is a natice SVG for Mozilla project, and it has some degree of SVG support, but they don't seem to have support for Phoenix (Firebird, whatever). Since the Mozilla development roadmap says that Phoenix should become the big mozilla browser, you would think that they would be trying to get it to work with phoenix.
BTW, has anybody managed to get plugin SVG to work with Phoenix?
terrorists = world.sensor.find_by_attr("terrorist") terrorists = filter(terrorists, lambda t: t.country == 'USA' for terrorist in terrorists:
CNN.call("%s might be a terrorists! Panic, and watch your most trusted news source!"%terrorist.name
I don't have any examples of this, but it also seems like the sort of thing that SVG was designed for from the start. You could use XSLT or something to make SVG. Too bad it doesn't have better browser support....
On telemarketers, I believe that who you're really angry at is the company that employs telemarketers. Therefore, it is good to use as much of the telemarketers time as possible without buying everything. If a telemarketer can call 6 people every minute and one person in six kept the telemarketer talking fruitlessly for a minute, then (I could be wrong about the math, and the figures are made up) profits from telemarketing go in half. Patriotic duty---but don't rip out the poor telemarketer; save your ire for those who deserve it, like certain english teachers.
As for the TV tossing in a previous post, if you must get TV then use some method of getting rid of the ads. TiVo, recording and fast-forwarding, something. But don't let the bastards get you.
Well, not all the religious people---but quite a few of them. There are some people who have certain religious beliefs but don't seem to really believe them. I don't know; I gave up trying to understand that years ago.
In order to get a better appreciation of just how much good the general open source attitude is doing, you need only look at something as a contrast. I'll take as an example a field that is quite old and set in its ways: architecture. Have you ever tried to find good learning material about architecture online? If you have, you've probably seen how hard it is. There is an abundance of sites that want to sell you something, but they don't do anything for the good of the community (with some good exceptions). The national electric code for the US can be downloaded as a big PDF file---but they charge you over 90 dollars for it! This is something that all houses with electrical systems in the US have to comply with, but they charge you large amounts of money just to find out what it is! It wouldn't cost them much to just let people download it; they were already using a lot of bandwidth with an image heavy web site. By contrast, if you want to see any of the major internet and web standards, just go to the W3C and IETF web pages and look at them.
See how much better the general culture of open source makes things? Even little things help, and it is a breath of fresh air if you've been looking for things in fields where thay want to gouge you for every penny.
That's why I prefer a more toned down version, which I will correctly attribute to myself: "I may disagree with what you say, but I still think you should have the right to say it."
Unless you're posting flyers saying "All your base are belong to us. You have no chance to survive make your time" around town, in which case you should be tossed in jail on suspicion of terrorism. (this actually happened);-)
I'm just curious, but what would be the point of reverse-engineering GPL binaries? The GPL, as you pointed out, says that you have to make the source code available to people you have distribute the binary to. And anyway, if you really wanted to reverse-engineer a GPLed binary, you could just compile from source and reverse-engineer what comes out of your compiler.
I fully agree with you and your post's parent. Perhaps some other creative punishments:
Working on COBOL code.
Listening to a high school english teacher go on and on about something that should be said in under a minute.
Doing the above at the same time.
Long division. Lots of long division.
Being lectured by people who say things like, "you broke the law, so you ought to go to jail".
My personal favorite: converting HTML to good XHTML 1.0 and CSS, with time added/subtracted for the quality of the work. This isn't particularly painful, but it sure needs to be done.
Speaking of the people making spam filters, there is sometimes talk about a conflict of interest since the companies that sell spam filters don't have much incentive to make spam (and hence the need for their filters) go away. Here is where the hole in the argument comes: spam filters are sometimes made by people who don't stand to make money from them, like POPfile (it works excellently for me). And that, my fellow slashdotters, is why you should use open source spam filters.
Last year, though, I did a few quick calculations and found out that I was spending about $600 a year on electricity for all those old power hogs. So much for "free computers", eh?
That's why we need to switch to cheap relatively non-polluting nuclear power.
If you manages to register com.biz, you could (I think) run all sorts of littler things like, say, microsoft.com.biz, and be quickly sued into the ground. The domain harvesting bastards know whose toes are not good to step on.
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If they get the density near what they're trumpeting, I don't think there'll be all that much trouble with bit rot. I bet they could make a RAID-on-a-chip that would still have more space than you need just yet. Imagine memory RAID. That would be so cool....
Personally, I like the PGP encryption idea.
How about "make" or "make install"? Or, for that matter, "python setup.py install"?
Hell, you could even have an installer which uses "tar -zxf" without the v.
TWAJ,S.
Reaching for my tinfoil hat, I would speculate that if MS wanted to only support this hardware, they might do something truly evil like requiring that the hardware be near top of the line. That way the MS-approved hardware vendors would be happy, since they wouldn't have to sell "budget" computers, MS would be happy since they have yet more power, and the dirty end of the stick would go to... us. The users would be screwed.
Is it just me, or does it seem like a bunch of companies dislike the thought of letting anything into the public domain? DOS 2 couldn't possibly hurt MS if it went public domain, yet they don't do the sensible thing and just let it go. Why?
Kudos to O'reilly for overcoming this.
I get that from Tetris Attack. You start out sucking but knowing how to play (easy to learn) and you end up doing superhuman feats. I still play it emulated. The music is good too.
I don't know about JFS, but I do know that there is a difference between ext2 and ext3: one is journaling, the other isn't. They can be mounted as each other, but I don't think they change the FS to be incompatible in nasty ways. They have to be compatible with each other, and that serves as a bit of a check on change.
Look, if you want to subtly needle RMS in a way that he may actually enjoy, do what the KDE folks did: do something clever. Use "KDE/GNU/Linux", or some wilder thing like "Elisp/Emacs/Konsole/Konqueror/KDE/GNU/Linux/Atoms /Universe/?". Cheers.
Kudos to RMS in general, but this is one issue on which he should be politley ignored. GNU will always be known to people who poke around in the systems enough to understand what it does and did.
A similar site is ArXiv, which does mostly physics stuff AFAIK. You can do things like searching more easily on the web, as well as the openness benefits.
The problem with unintended sequels is that typically they have the same characters but all the inspiration of the first movie is used up. They're just trying to squeeze some more money from a movie that did well. Dinosaur had the thing about finding a new home and running from something that would eventually wipe out the protagonsists' descendents. What would a sequel be like? Just a rehash, probably. Sigh.
BTW, has anybody managed to get plugin SVG to work with Phoenix?
Ah, yes. Just think of the applications!
s = filter(terrorists, lambda t: t.country == 'USA'
terrorists = world.sensor.find_by_attr("terrorist")
terrorist
for terrorist in terrorists:
CNN.call("%s might be a terrorists! Panic, and watch your most trusted news source!"%terrorist.name
I don't have any examples of this, but it also seems like the sort of thing that SVG was designed for from the start. You could use XSLT or something to make SVG. Too bad it doesn't have better browser support....
As for the TV tossing in a previous post, if you must get TV then use some method of getting rid of the ads. TiVo, recording and fast-forwarding, something. But don't let the bastards get you.
J. R. R. Tolkien
J. J. of the Two Wise Heads
Don't trust them!
Well, not all the religious people---but quite a few of them. There are some people who have certain religious beliefs but don't seem to really believe them. I don't know; I gave up trying to understand that years ago.
See how much better the general culture of open source makes things? Even little things help, and it is a breath of fresh air if you've been looking for things in fields where thay want to gouge you for every penny.
Unless you're posting flyers saying "All your base are belong to us. You have no chance to survive make your time" around town, in which case you should be tossed in jail on suspicion of terrorism. (this actually happened) ;-)
I'm just curious, but what would be the point of reverse-engineering GPL binaries? The GPL, as you pointed out, says that you have to make the source code available to people you have distribute the binary to. And anyway, if you really wanted to reverse-engineer a GPLed binary, you could just compile from source and reverse-engineer what comes out of your compiler.
Anybody else got some?
Speaking of the people making spam filters, there is sometimes talk about a conflict of interest since the companies that sell spam filters don't have much incentive to make spam (and hence the need for their filters) go away. Here is where the hole in the argument comes: spam filters are sometimes made by people who don't stand to make money from them, like POPfile (it works excellently for me). And that, my fellow slashdotters, is why you should use open source spam filters.
That's why we need to switch to cheap relatively non-polluting nuclear power.
Is something wrong?
If you manages to register com.biz, you could (I think) run all sorts of littler things like, say, microsoft.com.biz, and be quickly sued into the ground. The domain harvesting bastards know whose toes are not good to step on.