I am unsure how I feel about this. While I believe that IP and copyright are getting way out of hand I ask myself how would I react to a company flying my countries flag, family crest, company logo. How would you feel if Walmart changed its logo to the American flag? Would you want them to be seen as directly representing the US.
I don't know..I can see both sides. Not sure I agree with either.
I wont claim to have read the entire article because the damn thing is large. But I believe that he has writen the article in a way that will inspire the open source comunity, if that inspiration is anger then so be it. But read between the lines and dont take things out of context.
He states at the begining of the article that he sees the internet as a genie that has been set free and that with said genie free all things are posible. When he tells us how he could put this genie back into the bottle he is pointing out the places where we have to be carefull and make "work arounds".
Like the article says information and knowledge are powerfull things that alot of ppl in the media and government dont want us to have. How do you control a population of individuals that can find "unbiased" information.
Read the article. Im finishing it now. Read between the lines and think about how usefull an article like this could have been 3 years ago before all the shit hit the fan. Think of ways to work around these obstacles.
I grew up in a very small town in northern Maine where 90% of the jobs were in the lumber industry. Logging paper and milling. 100 years ago the state was something like 80% forest now due to replanting and such the state is over 90%, I believe it is like 94-95% right now but I have been wrong at least twice today already:).
The loggers really dont mind people sitting in the trees or just hanging out. It just means that they cant cut that tree right now. There are plenty more. There is no real benifit in taking these people away if they are not hurting anyone.
I say that in a very serious way. The people who we call "tree huggers" can get really scarry and do things that cause peoples lives. There have been a number pf people in Maine arrested for causing harm. Picture a logger cutting a tree with a chainsaw and all the sudden his saw bucks out of the tree and takes him in the head because a protester drove a 10 inch spike into the tree, not to mention that spiking trees isnt good for them either. Logging is a very dangerous buisness and sometimes the activists get mean.
As long as you do not harm other people or other peoples property I believe you have the right to be heard and if in the process you change some peoples thinking than good. And I know that the loggers will thank you for not messing with them and they might just like the company.
Sorry for the bad spelling.
Earth First!! We'll Timber the rest of the planets later!
I try to donate my time to different orgs around my comunity but I've been finding time really scarce lately. If there were a system like the one you described, if there isnt one already, I think I would be more inclined to do that then just some stupid widget that I have dreamed up over the last few days.
I tend to work on things for other people much more attentively then stuff I do just for the hell of it.
Im sure there will be some sort of nipple on the damn thing so that you can refil it like a butane lighter. Think about how fast this would be in comparison.
Of course you would have to either carry a bottle of the fuel or stop by a 7-11 to get the refill.
my fave quote from the article. "One gene seems to shield smokers from lung cancer. 'That's my favorite,' says the doctor, a smoker. 'I wonder what Philip Morris would pay for that.'" Ah yes.. now I can blisfully tell myself that yes I must have this gene and therfore my smoking is A.O.K
Wow.. For a comment that I thought would go unread alot of people have expressed some strong feelings.
Let me explain then.. I realize that my posting this comment didnt help out any refugees but im sure that my yearly, tax deductable ( so why doesnt everyone do it ) contributions to different agencies does. And as someone pointed out Guinea isnt as repressed as I let on. The thing that does concern me is the fact that most people, me included, know nothing about what these people are going through but as soon as LinuxJournal covers some tech people care. No that doesnt quite fit what I want to say either. I guess it is just a sense of frustration. I do realize the benifits of this on a medical and humanatarian level and think it is awsome.
Like I said everyones posts on this lame ass thread I started I would have moded up yesterday when I still had the points.
Thanks all for a great enlightening discussion. (and please dont mind the spelling mistakes..im awful)
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I think that this is fantastic and has lots and lots of world applications. But why do I get the sense that what these people really need isnt wireless email to their laptops. How many africans benifit from this? Do they now when hungry email their american counterpart and ask him to describe the BigMac?
"The International Rescue Committee (IRC) has one of their largest operations in Guinea, providing services and support to a population of up to 200,000 refugees quartered in many camps established throughout the country." I applaud their efforts with refugees and truely do think Guinea is an island of peace in a otherwise bleak sea. But seriously do these 200,000 refugees need google?
Well enough with this rant.. I do believe that this is a great tech and email is something that I use everyday. Now when on vay-k I will rest assured that i will have email in Guinea!! Go ahead and mod me down i know its kinda offtopic but I just needed to say it.
Wow.. So much cooler than my old BigTrax that I used to spend oodles of time coding up to run around my house and drop legos and such.
Now what I need is one of these and one of those new vacume bots that will clean my house for me. Man just think of the day when we can sit around like the jetsons and have little bots do everything for us.. MMMMMM.. My mouth salivates at the thought of my lazyness.
I bet this company was started years ago by the military in secret and now after all this time, when the dust has settled and the heat has let up, is going back to the studio to fake another landing.:)
This time I bet ILM will put some really cool animals and critters on the moon. Maybe even some faces in the rocks and a giant underground mine with a real live arnold.
I have worked for both and there are pros and cons to each.
As one poster said if you work for the.gov then you really dont have to worry about job loss, well you do but not as much. The one complaint that alot of my co-workers had was that they wernt given the chance to try new things and branch out. In some cases if you are in the bleading edge dept. then you can but usually no, they still use ada for christ sake! One good thing was that the specs were fantastic for the projects I was involved with and the pace was easy. We really didnt slack but the deadlines wernt the slap in the face that the private sector gives you.
With the public sector I have the freadom to try out new tech and see if it fits in with our buisness model. The specs I have recieved in most all of my exp were terible, changing all the time and in alot of cases just plain unreasonable. Time to deliver is a joke as well. I say a month and my sales people say 2 weeks. Well what can you do.
With the.gov the deadlines are years in advance and everywhere else it is a race to market.
I liked both and wouldnt mind working in either sector. But if you work for the private sector remember that some companies have a notion that all former.gov workers are lazy. well in my exp.
Hey dont flame me for my spelling!! I know I suck already so you will just be waisting your time.
Superman II: Superman stops a nuke by throwing it into space. then what happens you ask? Three more friggin flying people come down to earth and try to distroy it along with superman in a quest for world domination.
Superman IV: The quest for peace Superman takes a bunch of nukes and throws them into the sun, BUT since there is some genitic tissue in the damn things it makes.. yup you guessed it.. another friggin flying dude bent on world domination. AND superman goes all evil!! Well I have another theory that "Little" Superman took over for a while so he could tag some fine ass!
So let me stress here.. WE SHOULD NOT DETONATE NUKES IN SPACE!! unless we want to see more of the same.
Like im gonna junk the spud gun and the 4 wheeler to cool down the dern CPU thingybob.
Right now i got the 4 wheeler turnin bout 50 fans to beat the friggin heat and the spud gun is launchin empty beer cans a good 150 feet onto the neighbors lawn. Besides what do I need to cool er off for. Unless the Porn is steaming up the computer as much as it does me : )
With Food Network recieving such a large viewing audience I have noticed a trend of other shows adding cooking segments. There have always been cooking shows, at least in my brief timespan. But I wonder what your thoughts are on how the Food Network has changed the attitudes and eating habits of Americans. Are we eating better? Are peoples who would normaly go to McD's now going out and spending more money on speciality dining spots?
Wow.. Yet another way for us to get RSI. I cant wait.. Think about it. Sitting around the campfire with your friends tipping back some brew.. And then you friend passes you..no not a joint.. but the hand cranker. The hours just fly by.
Its too bad that Uncle Willie wont have some huge part as like the traveler or some such shit.
How about some serious shit goes down and Uncle Willie comes out all Q to save the day.. Oh yeah and has lots of hot chicks. All nude.. But taistfully done of course.
I agree with going with pricewatch. I have done a lot of buisness originating with that site.
1) try to go with the "Retail" packages. these usually have the return policies and such. 2) try to use companies that have 800 or 888 numbers. Dont know if it is true or not but i feel that these companies have been around longer and will be more acountable.. could be a crock of shit. 3) if you dont buy retail make sure you get the extras. some times cables are extra and the heatsink and fan dont come with the processor.
This tech is being developed and has a mandatory deployment for the new E911 system. I know of a number of companies who can already do this sort of thing with cell phones using triangulation and signal strength and delay measurements.
Some manufactures are going to start putting gps into cell phones. No you wont have a free gps because the data prolly wont be displayable without the phone being in a test mode or if it does it will just give you a lat/lon.
When you think of all this stuff along with the article earlier today UK Government Expands spying powers. I guess we will all be watched and "tagged" without having implants:)
I think one good point brought up in the article, which in fact has been beaten to death here on/., is that the broadband tech needs to be in place. With only 20% of the US pop having the capability. From prev articles talking about G3 and broadband I think it is very possible but not sure how far down the line it will be.
I do think the majority of what was stated in the aticle is old news. But without the resources to spread throughout the US and eventually the World I think a 5 year time period is justified.
Laugh..every reply is a good one. And one that I know already. I said it was sumthing stupid that I do not that I didnt know it was stupid:)
actually I dont create the NULLSTR = ""; very often. Here at work one of the "managers" thought it read better so we use it. Code review goes easier when you dont have to fight the same pitched battle every time.
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Getting hammered blastin AC/DC and catching SHARKS!!
They will eat your face!
In fact I may leave work right now.
I am unsure how I feel about this. While I believe that IP and copyright are getting way out of hand I ask myself how would I react to a company flying my countries flag, family crest, company logo. How would you feel if Walmart changed its logo to the American flag? Would you want them to be seen as directly representing the US.
I don't know..I can see both sides. Not sure I agree with either.
I wont claim to have read the entire article because the damn thing is large. But I believe that he has writen the article in a way that will inspire the open source comunity, if that inspiration is anger then so be it. But read between the lines and dont take things out of context.
He states at the begining of the article that he sees the internet as a genie that has been set free and that with said genie free all things are posible. When he tells us how he could put this genie back into the bottle he is pointing out the places where we have to be carefull and make "work arounds".
Like the article says information and knowledge are powerfull things that alot of ppl in the media and government dont want us to have. How do you control a population of individuals that can find "unbiased" information.
Read the article. Im finishing it now. Read between the lines and think about how usefull an article like this could have been 3 years ago before all the shit hit the fan. Think of ways to work around these obstacles.
Sorry for the spelling. I suck.
I grew up in a very small town in northern Maine where 90% of the jobs were in the lumber industry. Logging paper and milling. 100 years ago the state was something like 80% forest now due to replanting and such the state is over 90%, I believe it is like 94-95% right now but I have been wrong at least twice today already :).
The loggers really dont mind people sitting in the trees or just hanging out. It just means that they cant cut that tree right now. There are plenty more. There is no real benifit in taking these people away if they are not hurting anyone.
I say that in a very serious way. The people who we call "tree huggers" can get really scarry and do things that cause peoples lives. There have been a number pf people in Maine arrested for causing harm. Picture a logger cutting a tree with a chainsaw and all the sudden his saw bucks out of the tree and takes him in the head because a protester drove a 10 inch spike into the tree, not to mention that spiking trees isnt good for them either. Logging is a very dangerous buisness and sometimes the activists get mean.
As long as you do not harm other people or other peoples property I believe you have the right to be heard and if in the process you change some peoples thinking than good. And I know that the loggers will thank you for not messing with them and they might just like the company.
Sorry for the bad spelling.
Earth First!! We'll Timber the rest of the planets later!
I try to donate my time to different orgs around my comunity but I've been finding time really scarce lately. If there were a system like the one you described, if there isnt one already, I think I would be more inclined to do that then just some stupid widget that I have dreamed up over the last few days.
I tend to work on things for other people much more attentively then stuff I do just for the hell of it.
Im sure there will be some sort of nipple on the damn thing so that you can refil it like a butane lighter. Think about how fast this would be in comparison.
:) i suck hard!
Of course you would have to either carry a bottle of the fuel or stop by a 7-11 to get the refill.
Please ignore the spelling
my fave quote from the article.
"One gene seems to shield smokers from lung cancer. 'That's my favorite,' says the doctor, a smoker. 'I wonder what Philip Morris would pay for that.'"
Ah yes.. now I can blisfully tell myself that yes I must have this gene and therfore my smoking is A.O.K
Huzzah!
Wow.. For a comment that I thought would go unread alot of people have expressed some strong feelings.
Let me explain then.. I realize that my posting this comment didnt help out any refugees but im sure that my yearly, tax deductable ( so why doesnt everyone do it ) contributions to different agencies does. And as someone pointed out Guinea isnt as repressed as I let on. The thing that does concern me is the fact that most people, me included, know nothing about what these people are going through but as soon as LinuxJournal covers some tech people care. No that doesnt quite fit what I want to say either. I guess it is just a sense of frustration. I do realize the benifits of this on a medical and humanatarian level and think it is awsome.
Like I said everyones posts on this lame ass thread I started I would have moded up yesterday when I still had the points.
Thanks all for a great enlightening discussion.
(and please dont mind the spelling mistakes..im awful)
as of right now:
Moderation Totals: Offtopic=1, Flamebait=1, Insightful=3, Interesting=2, Overrated=3, Underrated=2, Total=12
I think that this is fantastic and has lots and lots of world applications. But why do I get the sense that what these people really need isnt wireless email to their laptops. How many africans benifit from this? Do they now when hungry email their american counterpart and ask him to describe the BigMac?
"The International Rescue Committee (IRC) has one of their largest operations in Guinea, providing services and support to a population of up to 200,000 refugees quartered in many camps established throughout the country." I applaud their efforts with refugees and truely do think Guinea is an island of peace in a otherwise bleak sea. But seriously do these 200,000 refugees need google?
Well enough with this rant.. I do believe that this is a great tech and email is something that I use everyday. Now when on vay-k I will rest assured that i will have email in Guinea!!
Go ahead and mod me down i know its kinda offtopic but I just needed to say it.
I hope these people don't have virgin ears cuz the responses are likely to include..yes..profanity.
Either that or the script kiddies will l33t the hell out of there responses and they wont count for shit.
From the add:
"Use your Zen to transfer files from your home computer to work or school by using the Zen as a portable hard drive."
And the price is the same as the IPod after "rebate" read 8 months to get your money.
Wow..
So much cooler than my old BigTrax that I used to spend oodles of time coding up to run around my house and drop legos and such.
Now what I need is one of these and one of those new vacume bots that will clean my house for me. Man just think of the day when we can sit around like the jetsons and have little bots do everything for us.. MMMMMM.. My mouth salivates at the thought of my lazyness.
I bet this company was started years ago by the military in secret and now after all this time, when the dust has settled and the heat has let up, is going back to the studio to fake another landing. :)
This time I bet ILM will put some really cool animals and critters on the moon. Maybe even some faces in the rocks and a giant underground mine with a real live arnold.
WOW.
I have worked for both and there are pros and cons to each.
.gov then you really dont have to worry about job loss, well you do but not as much. The one complaint that alot of my co-workers had was that they wernt given the chance to try new things and branch out. In some cases if you are in the bleading edge dept. then you can but usually no, they still use ada for christ sake! One good thing was that the specs were fantastic for the projects I was involved with and the pace was easy. We really didnt slack but the deadlines wernt the slap in the face that the private sector gives you.
.gov the deadlines are years in advance and everywhere else it is a race to market.
.gov workers are lazy. well in my exp.
As one poster said if you work for the
With the public sector I have the freadom to try out new tech and see if it fits in with our buisness model. The specs I have recieved in most all of my exp were terible, changing all the time and in alot of cases just plain unreasonable. Time to deliver is a joke as well. I say a month and my sales people say 2 weeks. Well what can you do.
With the
I liked both and wouldnt mind working in either sector. But if you work for the private sector remember that some companies have a notion that all former
Hey dont flame me for my spelling!! I know I suck already so you will just be waisting your time.
Ok..
.. yup you guessed it.. another friggin flying dude bent on world domination. AND superman goes all evil!! Well I have another theory that "Little" Superman took over for a while so he could tag some fine ass!
Lets look at the simple facts.
Superman II:
Superman stops a nuke by throwing it into space. then what happens you ask? Three more friggin flying people come down to earth and try to distroy it along with superman in a quest for world domination.
Superman IV: The quest for peace
Superman takes a bunch of nukes and throws them into the sun, BUT since there is some genitic tissue in the damn things it makes
So let me stress here.. WE SHOULD NOT DETONATE NUKES IN SPACE!! unless we want to see more of the same.
Like im gonna junk the spud gun and the 4 wheeler to cool down the dern CPU thingybob.
Right now i got the 4 wheeler turnin bout 50 fans to beat the friggin heat and the spud gun is launchin empty beer cans a good 150 feet onto the neighbors lawn. Besides what do I need to cool er off for. Unless the Porn is steaming up the computer as much as it does me : )
With Food Network recieving such a large viewing audience I have noticed a trend of other shows adding cooking segments. There have always been cooking shows, at least in my brief timespan. But I wonder what your thoughts are on how the Food Network has changed the attitudes and eating habits of Americans. Are we eating better? Are peoples who would normaly go to McD's now going out and spending more money on speciality dining spots?
Wow..
Yet another way for us to get RSI. I cant wait.. Think about it. Sitting around the campfire with your friends tipping back some brew.. And then you friend passes you..no not a joint.. but the hand cranker. The hours just fly by.
Its too bad that Uncle Willie wont have some huge part as like the traveler or some such shit.
How about some serious shit goes down and Uncle Willie comes out all Q to save the day.. Oh yeah and has lots of hot chicks. All nude.. But taistfully done of course.
I agree with going with pricewatch. I have done a lot of buisness originating with that site.
1) try to go with the "Retail" packages. these usually have the return policies and such.
2) try to use companies that have 800 or 888 numbers. Dont know if it is true or not but i feel that these companies have been around longer and will be more acountable.. could be a crock of shit.
3) if you dont buy retail make sure you get the extras. some times cables are extra and the heatsink and fan dont come with the processor.
DJ
This tech is being developed and has a mandatory deployment for the new E911 system. I know of a number of companies who can already do this sort of thing with cell phones using triangulation and signal strength and delay measurements.
:)
Some manufactures are going to start putting gps into cell phones. No you wont have a free gps because the data prolly wont be displayable without the phone being in a test mode or if it does it will just give you a lat/lon.
When you think of all this stuff along with the article earlier today UK Government Expands spying powers. I guess we will all be watched and "tagged" without having implants
I think one good point brought up in the article, which in fact has been beaten to death here on /., is that the broadband tech needs to be in place. With only 20% of the US pop having the capability. From prev articles talking about G3 and broadband I think it is very possible but not sure how far down the line it will be.
I do think the majority of what was stated in the aticle is old news. But without the resources to spread throughout the US and eventually the World I think a 5 year time period is justified.
funny thing is I have seen this too. And they used the defines inside an enum.
Laugh..every reply is a good one. And one that I know already. I said it was sumthing stupid that I do not that I didnt know it was stupid :)
actually I dont create the NULLSTR = ""; very often. Here at work one of the "managers" thought it read better so we use it. Code review goes easier when you dont have to fight the same pitched battle every time.
The thing that always bites me in the ass is the string class.
string foo = NULL;
This always gets me, segfault.
I do a..
string foo = "";
where I define ""; as NULLSTR in some header.
I dont know if this is a real problem or no its just that i have the habbit of initializing stuff to NULL.
My bad style.