Just because one entity supports open source doesn't change the nature of open source. Don't like where money is taking something? Fork. You'd be no worse off than before, and some OSS developers are getting the legal and monetary support to keep projects "American."
I just hope that narrow-minded politicians or lobbyists don't use a large deployment in a communist country as propaganda against open source.
"Mr. President! We cannot allow an open-source gap!"
Uhh... I don't think you get the point of the joke. We do want this. The "missle gap" or the "mineshaft gap" was our concern that Russia had more missles/mineshafts that we did and we couldn't maintain the balance of power. Politicians being concerned about a "open source gap" and then closing it would be good.
Unless you don't want federal money and legal support for open source...
That our laws are not just for punishment. They are also to deter. Think about it this way; lets say I have a 50% chance of getting caught if I mug somebody (hey, there are cameras everywhere and the victim can make a positive ID).
If the penalty is (I'm making stuff up here) $10,000, then I'd only want to rob somebody if I can make off with $5,000. Thus, I'd only be on the lookout for blind billionares.
But, spamming is much harder to catch. You don't have to be anywhere special to spam (you don't have to reveal your identity unless you're an idiot). So let's say there's a 1% chance of getting caught. Thus, if the fine is $10,000, then I'll only spam if I can get 100 back. Not so hard.
So, we can either increase the probability of getting caught (pretty hard) or increase the fine (just pass a law - very easy). So if we make the fine $500,000, then I'll spam only if I can get $5,000 out of it.
Thus, you deter spammers to the same extent as you deter muggers. It just sounds strange when it's applied to an idividual.
Within the list of servers carried in the worm are multiple NNTP servers. Analysis is currently ongoing to determine exactly how these are used (email address harvesting and/or replication)
This comparison fell under the category of "cultural costs." The author was not comparing workers with different skill sets. It was a comparison of two workers with different cultural standards.
Indian culture is a little less fluid... okay, much less fluid... than ours. In America people are comfortable questioning authority, but centuries of a strong caste system tend to discourage that.
> Hell, Star Trek is internally inconsistent as > well -- how do you fire a phaser out of your > ship's warp field, across normal space, and > into another ship's warp field when both ships > are travelling at some multiple of the speed of > light?
Actually, they never - AFAIK - use phasers when going at Warp Speeds; they can only use projectiles (a photon torpedo, for example). This was actually talked about when O'Brian was trying to beam something between two ships going at warp speed.
But it shows dandruff... they should have a Star Trek (a la TNG) style white patch up at top (where you're less likely to spill) and black at the bottom.
This might be a sarcastic comment, but it's actually pretty much true. WMA embraced and extended mpeg4 for WM9; it scales very well, and the high end stuff looks really good.
Wavelet encoding (what Real uses) usually doesn't hold up so well at the high end.
Does anyone else think that showing the commercials at movie theaters won't make the problem any better?
The people there are already paying for (at least some) of the movies they watch), and you're just going to tell the clueless people that they don't have to. Having the ad pop-up on Kazaa, that would be worthwhile.
It makes sense to establish a network of users. Once you're the only game in town, you can set the rules. Until then, you need to get people using your network and make sure it doesn't work with anybody else. This worked for AOL, IE, and many others.
This is the TPS... if you're going to visit more than a couple of houses, you're going to need some serious computational power to get the optimal path.
my masterpiece, The League of Extraordinary Rodents. It was going to star Stuart Little, Algernon, Batman, and Mickey Mouse as the greatest mammalian crime-fighting team the animal kingdom had ever seen, and we'd follow them on thrilling adventures as they fought such evildoers as the, uh, the Federation of Felines and, um, Sergeant GlueTrap and, uhhhh...Well, to be honest I never really fleshed out the details. But trust me: It would have been awesome.
Is it just me, or is it hard to take this guy seriously when it sounds like he's been less against the extending of copyrights and more for expanding his own consciousness...
Yeah, dude, imagine the League of Extra-orangey Gentlemen... but with um... rodents! And Sergeant GlueTrap... whoa man... I've got the munchies... do we have any glue around here?
There seems to be quite a bit of bashing here because it's "just a PC." I think there is quite a bit of opportunity here, though, if they play their cards well.
Problem: You can't rent PC games
They're too easy to copy
Makers don't want to risk crippled versions with "copy protection" because the platform is inherently open
Most people buy a small number of PC games, but those who do try out many games usually do so through the cumbersome process piracy (and then why buy?)
Solution: Secure the system
Yahoo has tried to do this, but you need to make a completely new version of the game. This console version (in theory) can let you play any game made for the PC immediately. But because it's "secure," makers won't mind their old games being rented on the platform, but why buy a crippled PC?
It would be nice to have something like it for the PC.
lack of support for support for EndNote (a reference managing program).
EndNote is quite over-rated. IMHO, it would be nice if OpenOffice supported (perhaps it does, and I'm just unaware, but I don't think so) BibTex databases. For technical fields, there is a wealth of precompiled citations. While the same databases usually exist for EndNote too, EndNote suffers from not being extendable. Want to add a custom field? Go ahead --- but don't expect anyone elso to be able to read it.
If you're trying to do something by yourself, EndNote is fine, but it really isn't extensible.
But Bush did cheat. Bush's brother controlled the the infrastructre that had to collect and count the votes. Jeb scratches Dubya's back... and federal money flows to Florida. Anybody remember Kathleen Harris? Who appointed Souter and Thomas?
How can this guy get modded up for being insightful when he doesn't know the name of a major player in the film?
The Merovingian dynasty was the first kingdom of France to emerge from the ruins of the Roman empire, led by Clovis I. Unlike most ruling families in Europe, though, it's not named after it's founding member. Or I guess you could say it is, since "Merovec" is considered to be a half sea-monster. This gives the cruel character a little more depth...
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Just because one entity supports open source doesn't change the nature of open source. Don't like where money is taking something? Fork. You'd be no worse off than before, and some OSS developers are getting the legal and monetary support to keep projects "American."
I just hope that narrow-minded politicians or lobbyists don't use a large deployment in a communist country as propaganda against open source.
... I don't think you get the point of the joke. We do want this. The "missle gap" or the "mineshaft gap" was our concern that Russia had more missles/mineshafts that we did and we couldn't maintain the balance of power. Politicians being concerned about a "open source gap" and then closing it would be good.
...
"Mr. President! We cannot allow an open-source gap!"
Uhh
Unless you don't want federal money and legal support for open source
Wow. "Research" and a geocities link in the together ... that's gotta be credible.
This last post is Offtopic.
Let's see what you do to that!
"Hell Froze Over"
That's the best laugh I've seen in a long time
That our laws are not just for punishment. They are also to deter. Think about it this way; lets say I have a 50% chance of getting caught if I mug somebody (hey, there are cameras everywhere and the victim can make a positive ID).
If the penalty is (I'm making stuff up here) $10,000, then I'd only want to rob somebody if I can make off with $5,000. Thus, I'd only be on the lookout for blind billionares.
But, spamming is much harder to catch. You don't have to be anywhere special to spam (you don't have to reveal your identity unless you're an idiot). So let's say there's a 1% chance of getting caught. Thus, if the fine is $10,000, then I'll only spam if I can get 100 back. Not so hard.
So, we can either increase the probability of getting caught (pretty hard) or increase the fine (just pass a law - very easy). So if we make the fine $500,000, then I'll spam only if I can get $5,000 out of it.
Thus, you deter spammers to the same extent as you deter muggers. It just sounds strange when it's applied to an idividual.
Somebody used "begs the question" correctly! Way to go, Slashdot!
From the network associates site:
Propagation via Newsgroups
Within the list of servers carried in the worm are multiple NNTP servers. Analysis is currently ongoing to determine exactly how these are used (email address harvesting and/or replication)
This comparison fell under the category of "cultural costs." The author was not comparing workers with different skill sets. It was a comparison of two workers with different cultural standards.
... okay, much less fluid ... than ours. In America people are comfortable questioning authority, but centuries of a strong caste system tend to discourage that.
Indian culture is a little less fluid
1) The US defeated Japan and Germany chiefly by starving them of oil.
...
... when the Red Army already in Germany.
And those Russian tanks cruising into Berlin had nothing to do with it
There was plenty of oil in Romania until about 1945
And no, I'm not a 24-year-old script kiddie (I'm 41).
And we know there is a surging market for 41-year-old script geezers.
Actually, his last words were:
"Out, out, last words are for people who have nothing to say."
Or I guess it would be:
"Raus, raus! Letzte woerter sind fure Leute, die nichts zu sagen haben."
> Hell, Star Trek is internally inconsistent as
> well -- how do you fire a phaser out of your
> ship's warp field, across normal space, and
> into another ship's warp field when both ships
> are travelling at some multiple of the speed of
> light?
Actually, they never - AFAIK - use phasers when going at Warp Speeds; they can only use projectiles (a photon torpedo, for example). This was actually talked about when O'Brian was trying to beam something between two ships going at warp speed.
But it shows dandruff ... they should have a Star Trek (a la TNG) style white patch up at top (where you're less likely to spill) and black at the bottom.
This might be a sarcastic comment, but it's actually pretty much true. WMA embraced and extended mpeg4 for WM9; it scales very well, and the high end stuff looks really good.
Wavelet encoding (what Real uses) usually doesn't hold up so well at the high end.
because that sucker is now history!
Does anyone else think that showing the commercials at movie theaters won't make the problem any better?
The people there are already paying for (at least some) of the movies they watch), and you're just going to tell the clueless people that they don't have to. Having the ad pop-up on Kazaa, that would be worthwhile.
It makes sense to establish a network of users. Once you're the only game in town, you can set the rules. Until then, you need to get people using your network and make sure it doesn't work with anybody else. This worked for AOL, IE, and many others.
See Network Externality.
This is the TPS
From the article:
...
... but with um ... rodents! And Sergeant GlueTrap ... whoa man ... I've got the munchies ... do we have any glue around here?
my masterpiece, The League of Extraordinary Rodents. It was going to star Stuart Little, Algernon, Batman, and Mickey Mouse as the greatest mammalian crime-fighting team the animal kingdom had ever seen, and we'd follow them on thrilling adventures as they fought such evildoers as the, uh, the Federation of Felines and, um, Sergeant GlueTrap and, uhhhh...Well, to be honest I never really fleshed out the details. But trust me: It would have been awesome.
Is it just me, or is it hard to take this guy seriously when it sounds like he's been less against the extending of copyrights and more for expanding his own consciousness
Yeah, dude, imagine the League of Extra-orangey Gentlemen
Problem: You can't rent PC games
Solution: Secure the system
Yahoo has tried to do this, but you need to make a completely new version of the game. This console version (in theory) can let you play any game made for the PC immediately. But because it's "secure," makers won't mind their old games being rented on the platform, but why buy a crippled PC? It would be nice to have something like it for the PC.
lack of support for support for EndNote (a reference managing program).
EndNote is quite over-rated. IMHO, it would be nice if OpenOffice supported (perhaps it does, and I'm just unaware, but I don't think so) BibTex databases. For technical fields, there is a wealth of precompiled citations. While the same databases usually exist for EndNote too, EndNote suffers from not being extendable. Want to add a custom field? Go ahead --- but don't expect anyone elso to be able to read it.
If you're trying to do something by yourself, EndNote is fine, but it really isn't extensible.
But Bush did cheat. Bush's brother controlled the the infrastructre that had to collect and count the votes. Jeb scratches Dubya's back
Damn. I sound like Mulder now
How can this guy get modded up for being insightful when he doesn't know the name of a major player in the film?
The Merovingian dynasty was the first kingdom of France to emerge from the ruins of the Roman empire, led by Clovis I. Unlike most ruling families in Europe, though, it's not named after it's founding member. Or I guess you could say it is, since "Merovec" is considered to be a half sea-monster. This gives the cruel character a little more depth
The Space station does have a Soyuz capsule for emergency escape; this could have been used to get three people back to Earth.
It's also possible that the Russians could send up another craft pretty quicky; disposable craft take less preparation to get into orbit.