The greatest problem are submarine patents which do not even exist as widespread software products, so how could marking help? The other problem are patents that lock proprietary file formats and communication protocols; marking these software products doesn't help to make software interoperable, the opposite is true.
From a user point of view, BitTorrent is just another file transfer protocol like http or ftp. It uses transparent p2p to save the bandwith of the original server, though. There is nothing special in BitTorrent that makes distributing illegal copies of movies its primary purpose. For me, its primary use is distributing (perfectly legal) ISOs of Linux distros.
it's true, this has not been a great hack
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But I think they do not want to prove how clever they are at hacking, that's not their style; instead they want to demonstrate the possible dangers of data-mining. They show that by collecting big heaps of more-or-less freely available data, then running some analysis on them, they (as everybody else) are able to gather data they probably should not be able to gather.
The funny thing is that Arnold left Austria long before the socialists (which are comparable to the British labour party, not the kind of "socialists" that ruled the USSR) won the elections.
We geeks are in a rather uncommon lucky situation. We have the chance to find a job that doesn't suck. And in many cases the tasks you consider funny are the tasks you do best, thus improving your chances for fame and big cash. While I do not understand your rejection of C# / VS - IMO the best development environment MS ever made - I completely understand that you quit a job that in you opinion sucks.
FUD means "Fear, Uncertainity, Doubt". It's definitely used incorrectly in this context. On the other side, the article could be FUD about MS's openness if their file formats were open and this article creates fear, uncertainity, doubt about that.
A bit slow at startup, but fast enough then. Can't remember last time it failed to open a MSOffice file, something I do regulary. More than enough features for me. I wish it could import WordPerfect files, Abiword can. Thank you Sun for making it OpenSource, thank you OOo team for improving it to the current level.
The main reason why people work for OSS projects is that they (or the one that pays them) needs the resulting software. Looking at "world class games", most of them mean lots and lots of work for a result that lasts for 20 hours; after that, you are through. Why would anybody want to work for free on such a project? Most successfull OSS games are eighter simple, a challenge to make or funny to play for months or years, which means multiplayer in most cases. While CS is probably not genuine open source, it's a good example of a game the could be made by the community.
I don't like your idea. Competition is good. If all investors concentrated on one company, on one project, this company/project might become lazy, or too ambitious. "We have all the money, we have all the time" - people with this in mind are likely not never finish their project, never put anything useable to production, but work forever to include more imporvements. The imminent danger of the current system - someone else might is likely working on the same and might be faster and/or better - and the limited resources are the motivation that scientists, engineers etc. finally deliver anything at all.
In many of our projects, we put all logic into stored procedures (packages) in an Oracle DB. Although the vendor-lock-in is definitely not desirable, the advantages are strong: writing business logic in PL/SQL requires less code and is more readable than any mixture of SQL and Java or other languages. We never ever have to worry whether or not a number(14) fits into an integer variable. Using stored functions in SQL statements is much more natural if the rest of the logic is also in stored procedures. Some of our programmers need only PL/SQL-skills, only a few are required for the surrounding framework.
If you are afraid that SCO might win the case (ok, a very stupid assumption, but let's say you are), why not buy a few SCO stocks? They currently sell somewhere around USD 5, but if SCO wins, they would at least be rise to USD 200; using this money, you can easily buy a SCO IP license for your servers. If SCO loses its cases, which is the most likely outcome, you will probably lose the money invested - but that's not a difference to any other insurance.
They just call themselfes CSU in Bavaria or CDU (D=democratic) in the rest of Germany. They are not, by any means, more christians than, say, the Austrian "Volkspartei" ("Peoples party").
Fortunately, Hitler and his bureaucrats did not believe in anything but brute force, guns and tanks and planes. German physicists (e.g. Otto Hahn) even had the general idea about the nuclear bomb - but Hitler didn't believe it would work.
When you start Slax with the default options, root will have a default password (toor) and sshd is launched. Guess what it means to the security of your computer if your network adapter is auto-configured with DHCP...
And there is another fine live distro: dyne:bolic, see http://www.dynebolic.org (currently down). This one is multimedia-oriented, uses Windowmaker (it's not yet another Knoppix clone)
But the information "You can use this without problems. It works. Try it. It runs your classic games." is valueable enough. I think I would not have tried this without this article. So I did, and yes, it works, and even my good old home-brew pacman works perfectly. Good old time.
People with a auto insurance sometimes drive less cautious (i.e. faster), because they know the insurance will pay in case of an accident. This may, depending on the person, increase the risk of an accident.
I hope the changes made by the parliament are strong enough to prevent stupid trivial patents like "One-Click-Shopping", "Online Auction" or "Progress-Bar". On the other hand, I'm not sure about MP3. If it takes a lot of effort to find the right methods and parameters for a sound compression that doesn't sound too bad, isn't it an "invention" that deserves patent protection?
Let the Distros create the de-facto standards.
On about all major distros, KDE programs run in Gnome and vice-versa. With BlueCurve, Galaxy and Keramic/Geramic, they also look identically. So why worry? Users who don't want to choose will use the default desktop of their distro.
Many of us do not like MS, not only because they are rich and their software is not exactly excellent, but also because they artificially link products together like "you need IE to use VS, you need Windows to use Word". Such a restriction like "you need a free os to use this software" means you imitate their nasty tactics. Thats not what free software was made for.
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The greatest problem are submarine patents which do not even exist as widespread software products, so how could marking help?
The other problem are patents that lock proprietary file formats and communication protocols; marking these software products doesn't help to make software interoperable, the opposite is true.
From a user point of view, BitTorrent is just another file transfer protocol like http or ftp.
It uses transparent p2p to save the bandwith of the original server, though. There is nothing special in BitTorrent that makes distributing illegal copies of movies its primary purpose. For me, its primary use is distributing (perfectly legal) ISOs of Linux distros.
But I think they do not want to prove how clever they are at hacking, that's not their style; instead they want to demonstrate the possible dangers of data-mining. They show that by collecting big heaps of more-or-less freely available data, then running some analysis on them, they (as everybody else) are able to gather data they probably should not be able to gather.
Austria: English is spoken, but not understood. *g*
The funny thing is that Arnold left Austria long before the socialists (which are comparable to the British labour party, not the kind of "socialists" that ruled the USSR) won the elections.
We geeks are in a rather uncommon lucky situation. We have the chance to find a job that doesn't suck. And in many cases the tasks you consider funny are the tasks you do best, thus improving your chances for fame and big cash. While I do not understand your rejection of C# / VS - IMO the best development environment MS ever made - I completely understand that you quit a job that in you opinion sucks.
In my configuration (FF/Linux) you see imediately that something is odd. paypal.com is even hard to read.
FUD means "Fear, Uncertainity, Doubt". It's definitely used incorrectly in this context.
On the other side, the article could be FUD about MS's openness if their file formats were open and this article creates fear, uncertainity, doubt about that.
A bit slow at startup, but fast enough then. Can't remember last time it failed to open a MSOffice file, something I do regulary. More than enough features for me. I wish it could import WordPerfect files, Abiword can. Thank you Sun for making it OpenSource, thank you OOo team for improving it to the current level.
The main reason why people work for OSS projects is that they (or the one that pays them) needs the resulting software. Looking at "world class games", most of them mean lots and lots of work for a result that lasts for 20 hours; after that, you are through. Why would anybody want to work for free on such a project? Most successfull OSS games are eighter simple, a challenge to make or funny to play for months or years, which means multiplayer in most cases. While CS is probably not genuine open source, it's a good example of a game the could be made by the community.
I don't like your idea. Competition is good. If all investors concentrated on one company, on one project, this company/project might become lazy, or too ambitious. "We have all the money, we have all the time" - people with this in mind are likely not never finish their project, never put anything useable to production, but work forever to include more imporvements. The imminent danger of the current system - someone else might is likely working on the same and might be faster and/or better - and the limited resources are the motivation that scientists, engineers etc. finally deliver anything at all.
In many of our projects, we put all logic into stored procedures (packages) in an Oracle DB.
Although the vendor-lock-in is definitely not desirable, the advantages are strong: writing business logic in PL/SQL requires less code and is more readable than any mixture of SQL and Java or other languages. We never ever have to worry whether or not a number(14) fits into an integer variable. Using stored functions in SQL statements is much more natural if the rest of the logic is also in stored procedures.
Some of our programmers need only PL/SQL-skills, only a few are required for the surrounding framework.
If you are afraid that SCO might win the case (ok, a very stupid assumption, but let's say you are), why not buy a few SCO stocks? They currently sell somewhere around USD 5, but if SCO wins, they would at least be rise to USD 200; using this money, you can easily buy a SCO IP license for your servers. If SCO loses its cases, which is the most likely outcome, you will probably lose the money invested - but that's not a difference to any other insurance.
Currently, the SPD (together with the Greens) rules Germany.
They just call themselfes CSU in Bavaria or CDU (D=democratic) in the rest of Germany. They are not, by any means, more christians than, say, the Austrian "Volkspartei" ("Peoples party").
Fortunately, Hitler and his bureaucrats did not believe in anything but brute force, guns and tanks and planes. German physicists (e.g. Otto Hahn) even had the general idea about the nuclear bomb - but Hitler didn't believe it would work.
look here (it's about Knoppix, though)p pix-usb/
http://rz-obrian.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/kno
When you start Slax with the default options, root will have a default password (toor) and sshd is launched. Guess what it means to the security of your computer if your network adapter is auto-configured with DHCP...
And there is another fine live distro: dyne:bolic, see http://www.dynebolic.org (currently down). This one is multimedia-oriented, uses Windowmaker (it's not yet another Knoppix clone)
But the information "You can use this without problems. It works. Try it. It runs your classic games." is valueable enough. I think I would not have tried this without this article. So I did, and yes, it works, and even my good old home-brew pacman works perfectly. Good old time.
People with a auto insurance sometimes drive less cautious (i.e. faster), because they know the insurance will pay in case of an accident. This may, depending on the person, increase the risk of an accident.
I hope the changes made by the parliament are strong enough to prevent stupid trivial patents like "One-Click-Shopping", "Online Auction" or "Progress-Bar". On the other hand, I'm not sure about MP3. If it takes a lot of effort to find the right methods and parameters for a sound compression that doesn't sound too bad, isn't it an "invention" that deserves patent protection?
Let the Distros create the de-facto standards. On about all major distros, KDE programs run in Gnome and vice-versa. With BlueCurve, Galaxy and Keramic/Geramic, they also look identically. So why worry? Users who don't want to choose will use the default desktop of their distro.
Many of us do not like MS, not only because they are rich and their software is not exactly excellent, but also because they artificially link products together like "you need IE to use VS, you need Windows to use Word". Such a restriction like "you need a free os to use this software" means you imitate their nasty tactics. Thats not what free software was made for.