The point of a patent is to publicly publish your "secret" in escrow with the government, in exchange for some temporary monopoly.
If you don't like that trade off, and think you can get more value by hiding your "secret" yourself, you can of course try to keep your "secret" secret yourself. Why should there be any laws protecting trade secrets? If it was leaked, OOPS YOU FUCKED UP.
One excuse for not ever getting involved in Mozilla/FireFox or OpenOffice is the ornate build system, tools, and dependencies just required to get off the ground as a developer. It seems inordinately more than your run of the mill open source app.
Not to sound like a rewrite-it-in-my-favorite-language drone, but I think if it was written in something like Mono, it would be much easier to engage third party developers. Are there any Mono-based browsers out there that happen to use the Gecko engine by the way?
Everything new seems to mandate some related addiction. I'm sure when automobiles were invented there was "automobile addiction". And "telephone addiction". And "gramaphone addiction". And then "TV addiction".
Once it's part of of the culture it become ridiculous to characterise it as a disease, which by definition is an abberration. Another generation from now the notion of "internet addiction" or indeed "being 'ON' the internet" is going to sound quaint and stupid.
Take the funding for the University Library to purchase all the subscriptions, and put it towards paying for (that university's) researchers to publish. Hopefully it might discourage junk papers.
4) Mono. A development platform that gets a large developer base into the same boat, using the same tools and libraries, and same.. "culture", and perhaps even woo some of the massively large traditional app development community that has been heretofore developing windows-only. A single point to concentrate innovation.
If open source empowers me because I have the source, I think it also makes sense that I am more empowered when I don't have to learn 100 different languages that generally accomplish the same thing, just to understand and configure the software I use. And please, don't ever demand that a user use m4 as a config file format.:(
Even so it doesn't makes sense, due to the laws of conservation of energy. We can NEVER create energy, so even if we do "nothing" we will still WASTE energy. The idea is not to stop using all energy (duh) but to simply waste as little as possible.
Perhaps the grandparent was referring to finite fossile fuels, but he didn't say so. Even if we were entirely solar/thermal/wind, we'd STILL want to conserve, because the more energy you use the more energy you waste which leads to environmental problems at some point.
Hehe, I remember that we used to use a trick to "prune" DOS directories into seperated "islands" that would be invisible unless you know the exact path to type out (basically you remove the parent directory from the child without reassigning a new parent.. I recall Norton Utilities may have been involved).
Anyway, that provided some fun as we could hide our k-rad early 90s warezed computer games in these secret directories, away from the computer lab admins control.:)
"I'd like to know what the statistics are on "lifelong committed" monogamous relationships in Hetero couples versus Gay couples."
And I wouldn't like to know. I don't give a fuck which one is "more moral" than the other. Government doesn't have a place saying who can have relationships with whom, and handing out "licenses" to do so no less! Do we have free speech "licenses"? Do we have to go to "free speech counseling" when we aren't good enough "free speech"ers? Nobody needs a "license" from the government to have any sort of relation with someone else.
This comes down to a matter of preference, and also what type of skills your own organization has.
Personally I would stay far away from PHP. I prefer jsp/servlets, however Struts has gained a reputation as an albatross. Is there anybody proposing using Spring, or some other lightweight framework?
I don't know how to feel. I can just imagine a mighty column of American military vehicles rolling like a sandstorm through some third world country to liberate its people. And to think it will be fueled not by petroleum, but by McDonald's waste. ph34r!
Slashdot Mirror
What are you looking at? The fonts look fine in the screenshots.
"I'm used to it, and it makes sense in a way."
No, it doesn't make sense.
I am not clueless or Myths and misconceptions about the design of GoboLinux
KowboyNeal?
I must be dumb, but explain to me how a matrix of LEDs approximates a projected map? Do you put the map on top of the leds?
According to latest RIAA calculations, a single file on a p2p network has the value of: hojillion blazillion kadillion dollars
Actually, in a post-scarcity economy, if we attribute value by how-much-it-has-been-duplicated, the vast majority of files are probably worthless.
"...and look, this is Slashdot..."
I AM SAYING, LADY - STEP INSIDE MY VOLKSWAGON!
[Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.]
The point of a patent is to publicly publish your "secret" in escrow with the government, in exchange for some temporary monopoly.
If you don't like that trade off, and think you can get more value by hiding your "secret" yourself, you can of course try to keep your "secret" secret yourself. Why should there be any laws protecting trade secrets? If it was leaked, OOPS YOU FUCKED UP.
Um, i'm pretty sure he meant the pronoun they in:
"people don't realize that they, too, are part of the "investor class.""
refers to the people, not to Ebers, Lay, etc.
People don't realize that they [themselves], too, are part of the "investor class."
One excuse for not ever getting involved in Mozilla/FireFox or OpenOffice is the ornate build system, tools, and dependencies just required to get off the ground as a developer. It seems inordinately more than your run of the mill open source app.
Not to sound like a rewrite-it-in-my-favorite-language drone, but I think if it was written in something like Mono, it would be much easier to engage third party developers. Are there any Mono-based browsers out there that happen to use the Gecko engine by the way?
Everything new seems to mandate some related addiction. I'm sure when automobiles were invented there was "automobile addiction". And "telephone addiction". And "gramaphone addiction". And then "TV addiction".
Once it's part of of the culture it become ridiculous to characterise it as a disease, which by definition is an abberration. Another generation from now the notion of "internet addiction" or indeed "being 'ON' the internet" is going to sound quaint and stupid.
A lot of that CPU time is hash/crc checking. It really can't be avoided.
"Unfortunately BitTornado runs in Python, which can get almost as slow as client-side Java"
Huh? Have you USED Azureus? You can't even tell it's a Java app. It uses the native SWT toolkit, not Swing. It's a beautiful and snappy app.
Take the funding for the University Library to purchase all the subscriptions, and put it towards paying for (that university's) researchers to publish. Hopefully it might discourage junk papers.
4) Mono. A development platform that gets a large developer base into the same boat, using the same tools and libraries, and same.. "culture", and perhaps even woo some of the massively large traditional app development community that has been heretofore developing windows-only. A single point to concentrate innovation.
:(
If open source empowers me because I have the source, I think it also makes sense that I am more empowered when I don't have to learn 100 different languages that generally accomplish the same thing, just to understand and configure the software I use. And please, don't ever demand that a user use m4 as a config file format.
Java, Flash, ActiveX... ?
Even so it doesn't makes sense, due to the laws of conservation of energy. We can NEVER create energy, so even if we do "nothing" we will still WASTE energy. The idea is not to stop using all energy (duh) but to simply waste as little as possible.
Perhaps the grandparent was referring to finite fossile fuels, but he didn't say so. Even if we were entirely solar/thermal/wind, we'd STILL want to conserve, because the more energy you use the more energy you waste which leads to environmental problems at some point.
Hehe, I remember that we used to use a trick to "prune" DOS directories into seperated "islands" that would be invisible unless you know the exact path to type out (basically you remove the parent directory from the child without reassigning a new parent.. I recall Norton Utilities may have been involved).
:)
Anyway, that provided some fun as we could hide our k-rad early 90s warezed computer games in these secret directories, away from the computer lab admins control.
I've performed this in public numerous times! Are they going to come after me for royalties!?
"I'd like to know what the statistics are on "lifelong committed" monogamous relationships in Hetero couples versus Gay couples."
And I wouldn't like to know. I don't give a fuck which one is "more moral" than the other. Government doesn't have a place saying who can have relationships with whom, and handing out "licenses" to do so no less! Do we have free speech "licenses"? Do we have to go to "free speech counseling" when we aren't good enough "free speech"ers? Nobody needs a "license" from the government to have any sort of relation with someone else.
This comes down to a matter of preference, and also what type of skills your own organization has.
Personally I would stay far away from PHP. I prefer jsp/servlets, however Struts has gained a reputation as an albatross. Is there anybody proposing using Spring, or some other lightweight framework?
I don't know how to feel. I can just imagine a mighty column of American military vehicles rolling like a sandstorm through some third world country to liberate its people. And to think it will be fueled not by petroleum, but by McDonald's waste. ph34r!
:)
The recursion just blew the stack of my mind
"Imagine living on a planet where you get tax breaks for driving big inefficient vehicles that produce greenhouse gases."
Um, we ALREADY DO.
SUV, truck owners get a big tax break
CONs of the SUV Tax Break
And he who controls the spice...controls the forms...
Watchoo side-talkin' 'bout Willis!?