... putting it freakin' everywhere, so that by the time cpu's are being printed on paper... linux is already running on it.
you might note, that is happening. openzaurus, familiar, uclinux, rock, &etc.
diy-distro build systems are the next linux wave of attack. when you can target linux and its masses of software to 128 different processors, each with its own set of libs/build options/apps/gui-styles, and a plethora of libs/api's to choose from in your embeeded system, with a simple "make TARGET=nsa2"... well...
build systems are the next onslaught. hardly anyone else can keep up with that organizational front, really, if you look at it...
Do you think that everybody whose income depends on their ability to sell their own copyrighted work should just have to find another job?
Well, why not? This is not a troll, but have you ever considered what the US would be like if all the 'virtual-worth' people actually were forced to get real jobs? This may actually happen, and if it does, it may as well be because it was decided -early- in the game, and not after a major economic catastrophe (such as has been predicted for the US in 2010/2020...)
Fact is, America's economy is in a shambles. One of the reasons for that is so many lazy people whose actual production doesn't result in anything tangible, which can be used consistently in the effort of feeding a nation.
Not saying you're lazy, but maybe just step out of it for a moment.
Why *shouldn't* there suddenly be a re-assessment of the arbitrary values being placed on things? A bit of information 'being worth $1,000,000' as a line-item in some mega-corps accounting, certainly inflates things just a little more than is healthy for an economy.
The over-inflated value of copyrights, suddenly devalued, could mean a level playing field, and new periods of growth in the creative fields. Why shouldn't a nation be able to do that, overtly, as a means of treating inflation?
Please don't treat this as a troll. I'm not trying to argue for anything... just considering a 'what if copyrights were suddenly worthless?' viewpoint... wouldn't this be a good thing to do, every hundred years or so?
"But we remain concerned about the potential dangers posed to the public by peer-to-peer file-sharing technology."
Here he is clearly talking about the economic dangers. If p2p kills the media business, the idea is that this will be the end of 'open media'... as if...
Big Media is scared, nothing could be plainer. The time to unleash massive new p2p technologies is -now- and deliver the final death blow to the hollywood distribution mechanism, immediately.
New media companies are going to be the ones with the most torrents... not the most lawyers.
even in the windows world, i'm still seeing *FAAAR* more c/c++ work than anything else around.
of course, i work in embedded, so i'm not necessarily in a position to judge windows. in my world, C still rules the roost, and probably will for a loooong time.
... or if you wanna be real edgy, fully stocked sl5500 with a foldaway keyboard... i have mine configured with 512megs storage, 64megs RAM, and wireless lan... as well as a few CF cards around for movies and games, gbcart style...
freakin' -love- having a complete linux build, plus compiler environment and source for everything, in my pocket.
linux r0x the palm-top.
(as for cory: i'm on my 4th full passport, australian, ya wanker!)
linux telephony has been a great consulting market since 1995 at least! i have set up similar systems for many customers using early versions of Asterisk and similar IVR apps running on linux set up with good telephony-card support. it allows complete, policy-based, scripted automation of all of the main company life-blood (calls), and linuxIVR was my most successful bread-maker, when i was in the consulting business. being able to completely sync the reality of such things as call time tracking -directly- with the internal business apps; even -having- all call details being logged and trackable from a database, for so cheap, made linux the sweetest setup.
its really cool to see how far its all come (yeah, XML-RPC!!) and yet its so much one of those 'hidden success of linux' stories.
its like, the operating system that was so good at doing what it does, everyone forgets its even there, or what it is. "never mind the 'war for desktop', who is taking care of the telephones, and the billing, where is the 'policy' computer, etc?" heh heh... some linux box in the closet, "up 826 days, 4 users, load averages: 0.09 0.22 0.45"
At any rate, this software hardly deserves a "1.0" release or attention on slashdot. It could likely be a scam, though I have no evidence to beleive that it is anything more than a really dubious, hacky, misguided implementation of someone else's good idea.
Wait a minute. Someone puts together a viable, commercial business model for delivering bandwidth using open source software, and your reaction is to crap on it?
I don't get it. This is a great idea. It means that bandwidth can go anywhere its needed, and the folk who contribute to setting it up and getting WLAN working in whatever part of the world they want, can participate in the action of selling that bandwidth.
What's wrong with that?
Although I have not actually looked at the application myself, I suspect that there are likely untold license violations...
WTF? This is such an assinine statement, I can't even handle it. Who are you working for, a competitor of LinSpot?
If you haven't looked at the apps, you're in no position, no, you are not qualified to raise the issue of whether there have been "license violations".
Honestly, you are an instant-negative robot. People, please think a little about your negativity before you let it take control of your mind and you end up crapping on something which... maybe... actually... is a freakin' good idea, implemented by a company who... if it works well... deserves from profiting in the process of helping people set up public, open networks that can be easily used to access the Internet.
Especially if they're using Open Source software to do so. What if they are legit, and it does work, and people do get their share of the pie? What then?
That would be a huge win for Open Source Software, wouldn't it...
the zaurus is the under-the-radar linux product of the last 2 years. it freakin' rocks in so many ways, i can't even handle it.
a complete unix workstation, in your pocket. whatever you can do in linux, you can now do on the sl5500/c860's. its a 64-meg ram workstation with storage (get a nuvo 4gig CF disk, for example), and you've got yourself a computer you won't feel the need to 'upgrade' for at least a few more years. rip dvd's to your CF disk, watch them in landscape mode, set up a private subnet, web server and bittorrent feed over WLAN at your next 2600 meeting, whatever you like.
pocketized, portable, a complete linux.
what is it now, 8 different distro's for the zaurus, including pocketworkstation and gentoo, and its still going strong? oh, and hey, don't forget the openembedded distro-builder kit for pda's...
Put them in a situation with 'ordinary' people, out there in the world, and make no mention of the 'gifted' moniker ever again.
This is the biggest crock of shit modern education has given us from the 21st Century, incidentally. Every single human being alive today is 'gifted', with life.
Calling some kid 'gifted' on the basis of some wonderful -observed- factor of their personality, and giving other kids hard-core drugs on the basis of other -observations-... this, and the people who allow this to happen, ladies and gentlemen, this is why the world is in trouble.
This very phenomenon of diversion, separation, and segragation, on the basis of some 'experiment' controlled through another human beings observation, in a desire to make a 'better human being'.
We may as well just start making Aryans again.
5,000,000,000 (+ 0's) people in this world. Every single one of them is 'gifted'. Most of them are thirsty.
All you're doing, by creating 'gifted children' is making a very, very small subset of another very small subset, of a small group of people, run from the infinite reality that every single human being has to face, which is the fact of the existence of every other human being on the planet at this point in time, here and now... and the differences between us all. It is a vast, gaping chasm, the infinite edge of the existence of us all, that we are but individuals in a seething, writhing, out of control mass of humanity.
Put someone above that for a second, and of course they will come to ignore their responsibilities to wipe their ass and not pick their noses in public. It will have driven them, slightly, mad.
We are all equally gifted. It is the only way to live.
All I'm saying, is that 9/11 wasn't 'hardship'. Americans live a very pampered life, compared to some. GWBush shouldn't be getting away with such blatant use of 9/11 to get what he, and his New Holy Order, want to do with US military resources, in the name of 'damage to the US, and hardship on Americans'.
I do think you're overly optimistic about the availability of Gamecubes. Many years ago I was helping out with a development project to send solar cookers to places like rural Namibia.
Well, thats an interesting project. Solar cookers rock.
But the point is, wherever Nintendo is available, you've got yourself a linux box with Postgres capabilities in the works. Look at it that way. That's a nice thing. Happy, positive thing! In India, small villages -would- use this to make sure they're getting their water from the UN pump. It would be good to have saline meters hooked up to the gameports too, and well... now that there's a working, open, for-the-people-by-the-people operating system that can run on it, wherever in the world, no matter how 'common' or weird it may be, you've got a machine you can write C code on.
C'mon, thats gotta be cool for something. No? Not even a teensy-weensy bit?
As for your travel history, filling four passports travelling to Thailand to visit ladyboys is not something most people would brag about.
Heh heh. Okay, you got me there. But it was nice to catch up with your Mom every now and then.
I've seen some pretty massive cities on this planet, in some vast open empty spaces... Seems to me that mankind is a social creature on the order of fish, or sheep. It most definitely propagates itself in flocks which stick together. It even seems that its reproductive stage is dependent on flocking behaviour...;)
Granted though, that a lot of people want to be left alone. We'd be surprised just how lonely most of the population actually is, I think, if we were able to ask them...
Whats the matter, he use a word you didn't understand? Whats insightful about completely invalidating a subject or report on the basis of whether or not its "post-modern"?
This actually is an interesting observation to make, because it demonstrates different levels of human attention and perception as it relates to a functional substance (music) with which we all have a willing relationship. Its not just some 'post-modern crap' (unless that means what you think it means...) that someone pulled out of their ass just to 'sound special', as you seem to be implying.
Maybe such reports will make a difference in other parts of the human sphere. I can see this report being used to support workers rights cases which allow/deny headphone use in more specialized workplaces, or which open the door for more flexibility in places where drudgery and repetition have traditionally not been responded to with much 'personal control' for the worker. (Yes Virginia, some people do work for a living...)
My point is, why does this instant "de-valuation" of a report that has clear technical merit and applicability, provide insight? I fail to see it... mabye I'm ignorant?
{There really needs to be an Ignorant mod. item... honestly. I'd use it, and would be happy to see it used...}
There are wars, peace, prosperity, population, mad nature, weather, songs and humanity, and its all on my iPod. It is its own entire little universe, and whenver I press Play I get to experience it all, on my own, by myself, in a way which nobody else can. (Like real life...)
I can change it every few months, as well. iPod_010104.dmg is a 5gig file among many others...
Without personal music, I most definitely would've gone crazy by now.;)
So before these people have jobs and can afford such amenities as a sanitation system, we should tell them they can't have jobs?
Just like a robot to think that their way is the only way, and there's no other possible way than their way, because its the only way thats right. Let me make sure I get this right: Globalization is the only way to provide 3rd world countries with jobs and fresh water, right?
Maybe, just maybe, those people would be quite happy living their lives the way they want to, without having a 'system' forced down their throats just so that MegaCorp, Inc. can feel good paying for its roads and water-diversion projects with money they've raped from other cultures and societies 'grateful' to have had their water stolen from them...
Simputers failed. $300 is too much money to spend. Routers? Show me a router I can buy, in quantity, at $30 a piece (like I can with Nintendo Gamecubes). What part of "GameCubes are available in markets everywhere in the world" do you not understand?
As for my travel history, I'm on my 4th almost-full passport, actually, and have lived in more places on this planet than most Americans know how to find on a map.
{Your Mom smells funny and your Dad has a boyfriend he doesn't tell anyone about...}
Slashdot Mirror
... putting it freakin' everywhere, so that by the time cpu's are being printed on paper ... linux is already running on it.
... well ...
...
you might note, that is happening. openzaurus, familiar, uclinux, rock, &etc.
diy-distro build systems are the next linux wave of attack. when you can target linux and its masses of software to 128 different processors, each with its own set of libs/build options/apps/gui-styles, and a plethora of libs/api's to choose from in your embeeded system, with a simple "make TARGET=nsa2"
build systems are the next onslaught. hardly anyone else can keep up with that organizational front, really, if you look at it
Do you think that everybody whose income depends on their ability to sell their own copyrighted work should just have to find another job?
... just considering a 'what if copyrights were suddenly worthless?' viewpoint ... wouldn't this be a good thing to do, every hundred years or so?
Well, why not? This is not a troll, but have you ever considered what the US would be like if all the 'virtual-worth' people actually were forced to get real jobs? This may actually happen, and if it does, it may as well be because it was decided -early- in the game, and not after a major economic catastrophe (such as has been predicted for the US in 2010/2020...)
Fact is, America's economy is in a shambles. One of the reasons for that is so many lazy people whose actual production doesn't result in anything tangible, which can be used consistently in the effort of feeding a nation.
Not saying you're lazy, but maybe just step out of it for a moment.
Why *shouldn't* there suddenly be a re-assessment of the arbitrary values being placed on things? A bit of information 'being worth $1,000,000' as a line-item in some mega-corps accounting, certainly inflates things just a little more than is healthy for an economy.
The over-inflated value of copyrights, suddenly devalued, could mean a level playing field, and new periods of growth in the creative fields. Why shouldn't a nation be able to do that, overtly, as a means of treating inflation?
Please don't treat this as a troll. I'm not trying to argue for anything
"But we remain concerned about the potential dangers posed to the public by peer-to-peer file-sharing technology."
... as if ...
... not the most lawyers.
Here he is clearly talking about the economic dangers. If p2p kills the media business, the idea is that this will be the end of 'open media'
Big Media is scared, nothing could be plainer. The time to unleash massive new p2p technologies is -now- and deliver the final death blow to the hollywood distribution mechanism, immediately.
New media companies are going to be the ones with the most torrents
even in the windows world, i'm still seeing *FAAAR* more c/c++ work than anything else around.
of course, i work in embedded, so i'm not necessarily in a position to judge windows. in my world, C still rules the roost, and probably will for a loooong time.
you've always been able to buy missile silo's on the internet.
for-ever. since day one.
... or if you wanna be real edgy, fully stocked sl5500 with a foldaway keyboard ... i have mine configured with 512megs storage, 64megs RAM, and wireless lan... as well as a few CF cards around for movies and games, gbcart style ...
freakin' -love- having a complete linux build, plus compiler environment and source for everything, in my pocket.
linux r0x the palm-top.
(as for cory: i'm on my 4th full passport, australian, ya wanker!)
linux telephony has been a great consulting market since 1995 at least! i have set up similar systems for many customers using early versions of Asterisk and similar IVR apps running on linux set up with good telephony-card support. it allows complete, policy-based, scripted automation of all of the main company life-blood (calls), and linuxIVR was my most successful bread-maker, when i was in the consulting business. being able to completely sync the reality of such things as call time tracking -directly- with the internal business apps; even -having- all call details being logged and trackable from a database, for so cheap, made linux the sweetest setup.
... some linux box in the closet, "up 826 days, 4 users, load averages: 0.09 0.22 0.45"
its really cool to see how far its all come (yeah, XML-RPC!!) and yet its so much one of those 'hidden success of linux' stories.
its like, the operating system that was so good at doing what it does, everyone forgets its even there, or what it is. "never mind the 'war for desktop', who is taking care of the telephones, and the billing, where is the 'policy' computer, etc?" heh heh
... someone puts out a ps2/eye-toy trojan that takes audio/video data and broadcasts it?
i'm not so sure i like the idea of tv sets having cameras, finally, even if its for 'entertainment'.
At any rate, this software hardly deserves a "1.0" release or attention on slashdot. It could likely be a scam, though I have no evidence to beleive that it is anything more than a really dubious, hacky, misguided implementation of someone else's good idea.
...
... maybe ... actually ... is a freakin' good idea, implemented by a company who ... if it works well ... deserves from profiting in the process of helping people set up public, open networks that can be easily used to access the Internet.
...
Wait a minute. Someone puts together a viable, commercial business model for delivering bandwidth using open source software, and your reaction is to crap on it?
I don't get it. This is a great idea. It means that bandwidth can go anywhere its needed, and the folk who contribute to setting it up and getting WLAN working in whatever part of the world they want, can participate in the action of selling that bandwidth.
What's wrong with that?
Although I have not actually looked at the application myself, I suspect that there are likely untold license violations
WTF? This is such an assinine statement, I can't even handle it. Who are you working for, a competitor of LinSpot?
If you haven't looked at the apps, you're in no position, no, you are not qualified to raise the issue of whether there have been "license violations".
Honestly, you are an instant-negative robot. People, please think a little about your negativity before you let it take control of your mind and you end up crapping on something which
Especially if they're using Open Source software to do so. What if they are legit, and it does work, and people do get their share of the pie? What then?
That would be a huge win for Open Source Software, wouldn't it
Won't be long until iPod is emulating whatever the hell it can, too ...
the zaurus is the under-the-radar linux product of the last 2 years. it freakin' rocks in so many ways, i can't even handle it.
...
a complete unix workstation, in your pocket. whatever you can do in linux, you can now do on the sl5500/c860's. its a 64-meg ram workstation with storage (get a nuvo 4gig CF disk, for example), and you've got yourself a computer you won't feel the need to 'upgrade' for at least a few more years. rip dvd's to your CF disk, watch them in landscape mode, set up a private subnet, web server and bittorrent feed over WLAN at your next 2600 meeting, whatever you like.
pocketized, portable, a complete linux.
what is it now, 8 different distro's for the zaurus, including pocketworkstation and gentoo, and its still going strong? oh, and hey, don't forget the openembedded distro-builder kit for pda's
zaurus freakin' rocks. cult linux item.
oh man, on a sunday morning too ...
(cup of tea on a sunday morning, i mean)
so. why aren't you single?
... brain damage you!
(sorry, sorry, couldn't help it...)
Put them in a situation with 'ordinary' people, out there in the world, and make no mention of the 'gifted' moniker ever again.
This is the biggest crock of shit modern education has given us from the 21st Century, incidentally. Every single human being alive today is 'gifted', with life.
Calling some kid 'gifted' on the basis of some wonderful -observed- factor of their personality, and giving other kids hard-core drugs on the basis of other -observations-
This very phenomenon of diversion, separation, and segragation, on the basis of some 'experiment' controlled through another human beings observation, in a desire to make a 'better human being'.
We may as well just start making Aryans again.
5,000,000,000 (+ 0's) people in this world. Every single one of them is 'gifted'. Most of them are thirsty.
All you're doing, by creating 'gifted children' is making a very, very small subset of another very small subset, of a small group of people, run from the infinite reality that every single human being has to face, which is the fact of the existence of every other human being on the planet at this point in time, here and now
Put someone above that for a second, and of course they will come to ignore their responsibilities to wipe their ass and not pick their noses in public. It will have driven them, slightly, mad.
We are all equally gifted. It is the only way to live.
All I'm saying, is that 9/11 wasn't 'hardship'. Americans live a very pampered life, compared to some. GWBush shouldn't be getting away with such blatant use of 9/11 to get what he, and his New Holy Order, want to do with US military resources, in the name of 'damage to the US, and hardship on Americans'.
It is a ploy unworthy of respect.
Very interesting. So how did Bush steal the election then?
I do think you're overly optimistic about the availability of Gamecubes. Many years ago I was helping out with a development project to send solar cookers to places like rural Namibia.
... now that there's a working, open, for-the-people-by-the-people operating system that can run on it, wherever in the world, no matter how 'common' or weird it may be, you've got a machine you can write C code on.
Well, thats an interesting project. Solar cookers rock.
But the point is, wherever Nintendo is available, you've got yourself a linux box with Postgres capabilities in the works. Look at it that way. That's a nice thing. Happy, positive thing! In India, small villages -would- use this to make sure they're getting their water from the UN pump. It would be good to have saline meters hooked up to the gameports too, and well
C'mon, thats gotta be cool for something. No? Not even a teensy-weensy bit?
As for your travel history, filling four passports travelling to Thailand to visit ladyboys is not something most people would brag about.
Heh heh. Okay, you got me there. But it was nice to catch up with your Mom every now and then.
no, your tardis is for playing music, and if you haven't heard any its because its broken.
...
give it to me and i'll give you my ipod
i'm good at fixing tardises.
I dunno about that.
... Seems to me that mankind is a social creature on the order of fish, or sheep. It most definitely propagates itself in flocks which stick together. It even seems that its reproductive stage is dependent on flocking behaviour ... ;)
...
I've seen some pretty massive cities on this planet, in some vast open empty spaces
Granted though, that a lot of people want to be left alone. We'd be surprised just how lonely most of the population actually is, I think, if we were able to ask them
I go everywhere with my iPod, and I've always got tunes on.
Does that mean I'm a criminal? Whats wrong with constantly wearing headphones?
Whats the matter, he use a word you didn't understand? Whats insightful about completely invalidating a subject or report on the basis of whether or not its "post-modern"?
This actually is an interesting observation to make, because it demonstrates different levels of human attention and perception as it relates to a functional substance (music) with which we all have a willing relationship. Its not just some 'post-modern crap' (unless that means what you think it means...) that someone pulled out of their ass just to 'sound special', as you seem to be implying.
Maybe such reports will make a difference in other parts of the human sphere. I can see this report being used to support workers rights cases which allow/deny headphone use in more specialized workplaces, or which open the door for more flexibility in places where drudgery and repetition have traditionally not been responded to with much 'personal control' for the worker. (Yes Virginia, some people do work for a living...)
My point is, why does this instant "de-valuation" of a report that has clear technical merit and applicability, provide insight? I fail to see it
{There really needs to be an Ignorant mod. item
There are wars, peace, prosperity, population, mad nature, weather, songs and humanity, and its all on my iPod. It is its own entire little universe, and whenver I press Play I get to experience it all, on my own, by myself, in a way which nobody else can. (Like real life...)
I can change it every few months, as well. iPod_010104.dmg is a 5gig file among many others
Without personal music, I most definitely would've gone crazy by now.
So before these people have jobs and can afford such amenities as a sanitation system, we should tell them they can't have jobs?
...
Just like a robot to think that their way is the only way, and there's no other possible way than their way, because its the only way thats right. Let me make sure I get this right: Globalization is the only way to provide 3rd world countries with jobs and fresh water, right?
Maybe, just maybe, those people would be quite happy living their lives the way they want to, without having a 'system' forced down their throats just so that MegaCorp, Inc. can feel good paying for its roads and water-diversion projects with money they've raped from other cultures and societies 'grateful' to have had their water stolen from them
Imperialist Pig-dog Anonymous Coward!
Simputers failed. $300 is too much money to spend. Routers? Show me a router I can buy, in quantity, at $30 a piece (like I can with Nintendo Gamecubes). What part of "GameCubes are available in markets everywhere in the world" do you not understand?
As for my travel history, I'm on my 4th almost-full passport, actually, and have lived in more places on this planet than most Americans know how to find on a map.
{Your Mom smells funny and your Dad has a boyfriend he doesn't tell anyone about
You mention the electoral college, then say he stole the election?
The Electoral College doesn't work the way you think it does.
Yours is a republic, not a democracy.
Republics are not safe from arrest of power.