The critical mass arguement is a strawman arguement. Educating users is a real solution. 50% isn't a passing grade, though, especially when your conclusion drops you down to 1 out of 3:-)
In most cases, for most people in a work enviornment, the "software that needs to be installed" is installed for you. You want to install software? Tough...not going to happen. You want other choices? Request it, and if approved, it will be installed for you. You don't, and won't, have the access level authority to install software, period.
Our library moved to firefox with similar positive results. In regard to a mail server, our university uses squirrelmail, which is
a standards-based webmail package written in PHP4. It includes built-in pure PHP support for the IMAP and SMTP protocols, and all pages render in pure HTML 4.0 (with no JavaScript required) for maximum compatibility across browsers. It has very few requirements and is very easy to configure and install. SquirrelMail has all the functionality you would want from an email client, including strong MIME support, address books, and folder manipulation.
I am so sick of hearing that "once [fill in the blank] reaches critical mass, it will have the same problems." That sidesteps the issue of design, as though all designs are created equal. This viewpoint only works if you view your computer as a magic (black) box with no discernable internal structure or parts.
Methinks it says much more about the people who utter the phrase than it does about the systems they suggest are inherently equal.
The "mistake making" feedback loop is still in place. Its the user. Creativity is enhanced by new techniques, not diminished. Photography hasn't obsoleted painting or sketching, but it has made imaging popular for the masses. For good or bad, anyone can have candids of their children and pets now. Soon, anyone will be able to generate semi-pro appearing political cartoons. Its a brave new world;-)
Actually not FOS at all. We covered this in my Information Assurance and Computer Security class before the midterm. You boot Linux from removable media and change the Administrator password. Now you have it all.
Austrumi is a Linux bootable ISO image for recovering NT passwords and other cool tools and methods, sized for Business Card size CD media (50Mb). It allows you to change any password, including that of the Administrator, on a partition occupied by Windows NT, Windows 2000 or Windows XP. Simply boot the CD and when you get to the initial boot prompt, type:
boot: nt_pass
This will launch a console utility that will detect Windows partitions on the hard disk and provide you with a menu to modify any user or Administrator passwords on the Windows system. It will even give access to the Windows registry for recovery purposes. Quite a handy utility to keep in your wallet (AUSTRUMI is small enough to fit on a business card-size CD) if you are unfortunate enough to having to deal with Windows machines in your line of work.
Read more at http://sourceforge.net/projects/austrumi
BLS reported a decline of 131,000 employed computer software engineers in the second quarter vs. the first quarter (725,000 vs. 856,000). Employed computer scientists and systems analysts have fallen 51,000 (621,000 vs. 672,000) during the same period, while computer hardware engineers dropped 3,000 (83,000 vs. 86,000). Computer programmers experienced a fall of 16,000 (575,000 vs. 591,000).
To suggest that not believing in souls makes the entire question moot is extremely insulting to both the moral and ethical questions involved as well as the people who don't believe in souls.
The whole point is exactly just that, to define at what point "that mass of cells" is to be considered "'human'". To suggest that its "becomes 'human'" rather than "is to be considered" would imply that there is an objective criteria. There is not. We must define the words that we use, and I at least prefer to use reality as a guiding basis in those definitions.
Wouldn't harvesting stem cells from aborted fetuses (fetie?) for the purpose of selling the stem cells allow abortion clinics to avoid federal funding? Maybe even make abortion for the poor a self-supporting and profitable industry?
Hmmm...I thought that historically sanctions (the effective strong arm of diplomacy) were in general considered quite effective. They were certainly effective when just the threat of sanctions were used against the Bush steel policies.
In terms os Jordan Hubbard, he did indeed join Apple after Darwin had been released, in fact
How Did It All Start?
By Snuffub
everyone knows that youre a leading figure in the BSD community so it's no wonder that apple hired you to head up the darwin project, but how did the relationship start off? Did they contact you early on when they first decided to use BSD? or was it an out of the blue phone call? Either way what were your major reservations when you were first offered the job, given that at the time apple had no track record in terms of their comitment to the open source community?
JH: I was actually the first to contact Apple, though I found them very receptive to the idea of my working there when I did. I'd been frustrated by Unix's historical lack of success on the desktop for a long time, and took it rather personally since I used desktop machines a lot in my daily life and Windows was not my idea of an ideal desktop OS. After seeing FreeBSD grow and prosper for almost 10 years, I also felt that BSD had done an amazingly good job of breaking into the server market and I was very ready to see it take on some new challenges. When I saw the first developer preview of Mac OS X, I knew Apple had something special on its hands and I started itching to get more involved. When 10.1 came out, I called and asked for an interview.:-)
I think what TriBUG meant was that as one of the founders of the FreeBSD project he was part of FreeBSD's effort to move Rhapsody to Darwin. Then after he joined apple he headed the Darwin project.
The point I was trying to make was *not* that Darwin is FreeBSD, but rather Darwin has more in common with *BSD (there are more ties between Darwin and FreeBSD), than just that
"It's "BSD-based" in the sense that its
long-ago ancestor was the original BSD, not, as a lot of people seem to think, that it's somehow FreeBSD or something like that."
Checkout Rhapsody's and Darwin's locations on the BSD tree.
The last Berkley release 4.4BSD-Lite2 (1995) to Rphapsody (1997).
Then NetBSD (12 May 1999) and FreeBSD 3.2 (17 May 1999) into Darwin.
Then Darwin to MacOSX 10.0, to MacOSX 10.1. Then, FreeBSD 4.4 (20Sep01) into MacOSX 10.2 (23Aug02).
FreeBSD 5.1 (9 Jun03) into MacOSX 10.3 (24Oct03).
If one tried to claim that the copyrights on a work were their own and fradulantly attempted to steal the copyright, that would be "stealing", yes. The copyright is a property. A company who tried to claim that all my work (before I began work for them) now belonged to them retroactively would be trying to steal my copyrights. But when copyrighted material is distributed without permission, that is not trying to deprive the copyright holder of their right to distribute. It is rather distributing in violation of the copyright. This can be a crime:
(a) Criminal Infringement.--Any person who infringes a copyright willfully either-
(1) for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain, or
(2) by the reproduction or distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of 1 or more copies or phonorecords of 1 or more copyrighted works, which have a total retail value of more than $1,000,
So having something you don't have the legal right to have could be the result of stealing, yes, when we are talking about depriving someone else of property, but it doesn't have to be. It could be a copyright violation.
http://www.recordcollectorsguild.org/fair_use.html
"There is no "bright line" test that can tell if a particular use would be considered "fair," but the Copyright Act lists particular activities generally considered fair (this list is not to be construed as exclusive or limiting in any way). Some examples of uses listed in the statute that would generally be considered a fair use to copy copyrighted material include: Criticism, comment, parody, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, research, or personal use such as time or format shifting."
So as well as a "backup" copy, you should be able to format shift it (cassette for the car, 8-track for the truck, MP3, etc...)
Actually my school is replacing grad students with a required one unit class for seniors. A lot of people are complaining, but making a student pay for a one unit class is cheaper than paying a grad assistant minimum wage to teach labs.
Well yeah it does. Words are powerful. The way words are manipulated is worth noting. Trying to make "IP" into property per say is worth resisting. Its only a waste of time to the oblivious.
Well you have a decent position if you'd change two things.
I. As has been noted: You are not depriving someone of their right to distribute, but rather are distributing without the right.
II. More importantly, you are *not* depriving someone of their rights when you invoke fair use. Either it is fair use, or it isn't. If it is, then you have a legal right to use the material. Make sure you document your source, and give credit, but as long as you do so, you are *not* depriving anyone of their rights.
The Darwin team is indebted to a diverse collection of open source projects, including the following:
- Mach, which was originally developed by Project Mach at Carnegie-Mellon University, and later enhanced by the Open Software Foundation (now The Open Group).:
- 4.4BSD-Lite2, originated in UC Berkeley's Computer Systems Research Group and developed by a large number of contributors::
* FreeBSD, the primary reference platform for Darwin's BSD kernel development.:
* NetBSD, the upstream source for a significant portion of Darwin's user-space commands and tools.
* OpenBSD, with its focus on robustness and security and its integrated cryptography, provides OpenSSH for secure remote access.
- Apache HTTPD, the world's most popular web server, is included as part of the Darwin distribution, making Apple the largest distributor of Apache.
In 1997, Apple Computers, which had an interest in BSD and Unix after having bought NeXT in December 1996, produced a 4.4BSD-Lite2 derivation named Rhapsody in 1997. This eventually evolved, with help from the FreeBSD and NetBSD projects, into Darwin, a system with a MACH microkernel wrapped with a 4.4BSD-Lite2 kernel API. FreeBSD project cofounder and longtime core team member Jordan Hubbard headed this project. Darwin forms the heart of the Mac OS X line of operating systems.
In my Software Engineering class it was specified during lecture and showed up twice (in different ways) on the midterm that testing requires considerably more man-hours than coding. Its always supposed to take longer, to be "more work than writing the method itself". It needs to be done. We need to do it. "Just do it." And do it well.
Well yeah. If you pulled up an SNES emulator on your xbox with Linux, they you would indeed have gotten your "Xbox to play SNES Games". The "when all I am really doing..." is really just explaining HOW. Its still cool.
Flamebait? It was both *funny* and true. See definition: spy satellite, and a list of launches, and a list of types
Try googling for "KeyHole satellight".
Consider the job oppurtunities! Develop time-frequency transforms for radar imaging and signal analysis. Become ever more efficient at extracting dispersive scattering features, while detecting and extracting weak signals in noise. Detect and track moving targets in the synthetic aperture radar, then analyze vibration and rotation induced micro-Doppler.
Haven't you heard that security is a "booming" field? (Note for the further clearless: that was intended as a pun.)
Does Microsoft already have license to these patents?
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, October 03 2004 @ 11:38 AM EDT
In 1996, Microsoft made an equity investment of 10% ($90 million) in Wang
Labs to settle a lawsuit in which Wang claimed Microsoft's OLE technology
infringed their patents. As part of settlement, Wang imaging software was
included in Windows NT.
Are these the same patents?
Slashdot Mirror
The critical mass arguement is a strawman arguement. Educating users is a real solution. 50% isn't a passing grade, though, especially when your conclusion drops you down to 1 out of 3 :-)
"And yes, I run and love linux, but I can't imagine installing it on 2000+ machines."
wuss
In most cases, for most people in a work enviornment, the "software that needs to be installed" is installed for you. You want to install software? Tough...not going to happen. You want other choices? Request it, and if approved, it will be installed for you. You don't, and won't, have the access level authority to install software, period.
I am so sick of hearing that "once [fill in the blank] reaches critical mass, it will have the same problems." That sidesteps the issue of design, as though all designs are created equal. This viewpoint only works if you view your computer as a magic (black) box with no discernable internal structure or parts.
Methinks it says much more about the people who utter the phrase than it does about the systems they suggest are inherently equal.
A real way to extend a language? So you want us to use lisp?
Mine wasn't. It was an HP Pavilon. Not ATX.
The "mistake making" feedback loop is still in place. Its the user. Creativity is enhanced by new techniques, not diminished. Photography hasn't obsoleted painting or sketching, but it has made imaging popular for the masses. For good or bad, anyone can have candids of their children and pets now. Soon, anyone will be able to generate semi-pro appearing political cartoons. Its a brave new world ;-)
To suggest that not believing in souls makes the entire question moot is extremely insulting to both the moral and ethical questions involved as well as the people who don't believe in souls.
The whole point is exactly just that, to define at what point "that mass of cells" is to be considered "'human'". To suggest that its "becomes 'human'" rather than "is to be considered" would imply that there is an objective criteria. There is not. We must define the words that we use, and I at least prefer to use reality as a guiding basis in those definitions.
Wouldn't harvesting stem cells from aborted fetuses (fetie?) for the purpose of selling the stem cells allow abortion clinics to avoid federal funding? Maybe even make abortion for the poor a self-supporting and profitable industry?
Hmmm...so then you are saying that while alive, it is parasitic?
Hmmm...I thought that historically sanctions (the effective strong arm of diplomacy) were in general considered quite effective. They were certainly effective when just the threat of sanctions were used against the Bush steel policies.
In terms os Jordan Hubbard, he did indeed join Apple after Darwin had been released, in fact
I think what TriBUG meant was that as one of the founders of the FreeBSD project he was part of FreeBSD's effort to move Rhapsody to Darwin. Then after he joined apple he headed the Darwin project.
The point I was trying to make was *not* that Darwin is FreeBSD, but rather Darwin has more in common with *BSD (there are more ties between Darwin and FreeBSD), than just that
But when copyrighted material is distributed without permission, that is not trying to deprive the copyright holder of their right to distribute. It is rather distributing in violation of the copyright. This can be a crime:
So having something you don't have the legal right to have could be the result of stealing, yes, when we are talking about depriving someone else of property, but it doesn't have to be. It could be a copyright violation.
http://www.recordcollectorsguild.org/fair_use.html
"There is no "bright line" test that can tell if a particular use would be considered "fair," but the Copyright Act lists particular activities generally considered fair (this list is not to be construed as exclusive or limiting in any way). Some examples of uses listed in the statute that would generally be considered a fair use to copy copyrighted material include: Criticism, comment, parody, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, research, or personal use such as time or format shifting."
So as well as a "backup" copy, you should be able to format shift it (cassette for the car, 8-track for the truck, MP3, etc...)
Actually my school is replacing grad students with a required one unit class for seniors. A lot of people are complaining, but making a student pay for a one unit class is cheaper than paying a grad assistant minimum wage to teach labs.
Well yeah it does. Words are powerful. The way words are manipulated is worth noting. Trying to make "IP" into property per say is worth resisting. Its only a waste of time to the oblivious.
Well you have a decent position if you'd change two things.
I. As has been noted: You are not depriving someone of their right to distribute, but rather are distributing without the right.
II. More importantly, you are *not* depriving someone of their rights when you invoke fair use. Either it is fair use, or it isn't. If it is, then you have a legal right to use the material. Make sure you document your source, and give credit, but as long as you do so, you are *not* depriving anyone of their rights.
Getting from 4.4BSD-Lite2 to Darwin seems to have had contributions from both FreeBSD and NetBSD.
In my Software Engineering class it was specified during lecture and showed up twice (in different ways) on the midterm that testing requires considerably more man-hours than coding. Its always supposed to take longer, to be "more work than writing the method itself". It needs to be done. We need to do it. "Just do it." And do it well.
Well yeah. If you pulled up an SNES emulator on your xbox with Linux, they you would indeed have gotten your "Xbox to play SNES Games". The "when all I am really doing..." is really just explaining HOW. Its still cool.
Flamebait? It was both *funny* and true. See definition: spy satellite, and a list of launches, and a list of types
Try googling for "KeyHole satellight".
Consider the job oppurtunities! Develop time-frequency transforms for radar imaging and signal analysis. Become ever more efficient at extracting dispersive scattering features, while detecting and extracting weak signals in noise. Detect and track moving targets in the synthetic aperture radar, then analyze vibration and rotation induced micro-Doppler.
Haven't you heard that security is a "booming" field?
(Note for the further clearless: that was intended as a pun.)