I think the problem most people who disliked The Matrix Reloaded had was that they didn't understand it.
In the Matrix, Neo dodges several bullets in a superhuman fashion, but gets nicked by the last. When the agent puts his gun to Neo's forehead, for a second you believed he might actually kill Neo.
In the Matrix Reloaded, Neo blocks the edge of a sword with his bare hands and gets a paper cut. At no point did I think that Neo was in any danger, but the fight still goes on for another ten minutes. In another scene, Morpheus falls off the truck, but manages to grab the side and pull himself up despite the agent. Over and over.
In every agent-human fight in the Matrix, the human narrowly dodges death. In no agent-human fight in the Matrix Reloaded did the audience feel there was any danger to the human. That's why I disliked the Matrix Reloaded.
For once they were being expected to think.
Not really. The philosophy was basic. This was no where near Pi, for example.
Assuming that the overarching goal of computer (and software) design is to emulate the human brain -- or even the brain of a flatworm
It's one goal, but if the human brain could accurately, reliably and quickly make ballistics tables, or spell check, or run nuclear simulations, we would never have made computers. There are a lot of things that a computer is very good at that humans suck at, and breaking that to make computers better at doing stuff that humans can do already is no win. Even if computers never think like humans, they will still be useful tools.
What if I wnated to install perl 5.8 on/opt/perl/perl5.8 while my production 5.6 in running on/opt/perl/perl5.6?
Then you don't want to use RPMs. But you're an exception; 99% just want to install the packages and expect it to work. Only a few hackers are going to do stuff like that.
Never mind the fact that when this type of things happens in other countries it hardly makes the headlines...
Every so often I'll pick up the paper and read about 23 Israeli civilians killed on a bus, or a PLO compound destroyed. Five thousand civilians killed would not make the headlines only in the middle of a genocide. And frankly, Israel, for one, has attacked several countries for supporting terrorism. Why should we wait for Al-Quiad to smuggle a nuke in, before we stop them? Afganistan openly supported Al-Quiad and thus became responsible for their actions, which then amounted to an act of war. It's not Afganistan was a democratic regime, or respectful of human rights.
Iraq is a whole different matter, and one that many Americans don't support.
However, it seems the Linux kernel as well violates an OSS license, which is IMHO as bad as violating a GPL license or any license.
First place, the newest versions of the kernel don't include this code. Problem solved. And there's a difference between willfully violating the spirit of a license and accidently violating the minor details. People don't usually chase after the people who didn't fill out changelogs or who tossed the source after a year, both of which can violate the GPL.
And? If you want a copy of a movie to keep, is convienence really the reason you'd rather spend a day downloading a several hundred megabyte rip that's nowhere near DVD quality and quite possible has subtitles for some random language permenantly on then driving to the store?
In any case, not that it's entirely legal or ethical, you can easily produce a DVD rip from a rented DVD to your specifications, with more choice of movies, higher quality, and your choice of DVD extras. The only way it's convienence driving you to download the movie is if your ass really is the size and shape of your computer chair.
While I take these into consideration, I prefer to form my own opinions based on first hand experience.
Then ante up your money. There's no such thing as a preview for a movie--a movie, like a book, usually has to be taken as a whole to be judged, and for most of them, that one experience is enough. Are you interested enough in a movie that's got bad reviews to pay for it? That's your choice.
Goes with the old saying "if your friends were jumping off a bridge, would you do it too?"
It's closer to "if your friends jumped off a bridge and said it really sucked, would you jump off the bridge anyway?"
Seriously, I've been taken in by too many 'previews' of movies, thought 'this looks good', gone to see it, then wished I had not.
Ever heard of www.imdb.com? You're connected to the WWW, where every one who cares to speak on a movie can find a soapbox to speak on. Read a few of the reviews first.
It is simply more convienient to spend a day downloading a movie than it is to go buy a DVD for $20 at a store.
There are places that rent movies, you know. I'm sure it would be more convienient for your workplace to have you work for free, but I'm sure you prefer some equitable compromise.
Hence, you're not proving your ownership, but you have to prove that you were entitled to make a copy (install it).
If you own a copy of a software program in the US, the copyright law gives you the right to make the copies nessecary to running the program. No license needed.
Of course this is probably ridiculous, but a screen shot of some comments from the late 70's only shows that those particular comments were not stolen.
It shows that SCO is claiming a lot of code that isn't theirs. The one piece of code they chose to show, and it's not real.
Mr. McBride is creating so much work because for each claim of copyright, the onus is going to be on the linux community
In a court of law, the onus is going to be on Redhat or IBM (though I doubt that any judge is going to be amused about a long series of clearly fraudulent claims.) In the court of public opinion, they've cried wolf. It won't take many more cases like this before even the most deluded people realize SCO is full of it. Unless SCO can come up with serious evidence soon, no one is going to have to debunk them, because no one is going to believe them.
Because in Vegas, there's someone there to check the numbers, to make sure that every payout is what it should be. It's trivial for an online casino to shave the numbers on a slot machine, or just not payout on any wins over a hundred thousand, or over a million.
The big difference between material goods and stuff like software is that it takes a non-negligible effort to copy the first, and if you do copy it, no one is stopping you from selling it.
Does RMS even understand physics? It takes "work" to change random states of bits into useful tools and information. Work doesn't come free.
And how much work have you done to change random states of bits into useful tools and information? He wrote GCC and Emacs and GDB as well as several other programs. Actually, he does know that it takes work and how much work it takes.
The betterment of one's self should always be our higher goal.
That's individualism at its most extreme. Most religions and most philosophies would claim that you have an obligation to the society, to the community.
That is because the people who published the PDF were idiots.
Acrobat has a number of commenting tools. What the Washington Post staff did in that case was use the Highlight tool, set the color to black, and use it to draw over the names.
And that makes you an idiot? Not tech savey, maybe, but that's the exact thing you'd do in releasing hardcopy, and unless you think in terms of the internals of a computer, there's no reason you'd think twice about doing that.
I invite you to live the life of one of our ancestors. Forget medicine; if you break your leg, tough it out. Forget eating anything you or your family didn't catch or grow. It's not a pretty life. Yes, we try and eliminate discomfort, because that is the ultimately human thing to do.
But that same genetic research, without a doubt, will ensure that humans will be genetically engineered into another species vastly more advanced than us, thereby meaning our own de-facto extinction.
All people die, but we have family and friends to carry on after us. If the human species eventually ends, leaving a greater one to follow, is that much difference? Need we prolong the life of humanity by killing our children?
But 'appliance' PCs, like the WebTV, exist; they just haven't been a huge hit. I like the PC that isn't limited to a small box of things; and I think most people, even those off Slashdot, like the fact that they can grab a box at the store and start doing garden design or family trees or making the next Citizen Kane or do their taxes.
3D always seems so cool, but then why has 3D been such a dud in the movie industry? People seem entirely happy watching movies in 2D.
I have stacks of things on my desktop, and I can't imagine fully 3d stacks being much better; IRL, efficent organizational systems tend to be 2D--the spines of books on a bookshelf, a file cabinet. The 3D nature is more folding to fill space then use of organization.
the "no backups" just goes to show that poor sysadmin skills is not limited to proprietary platforms.
It goes to show that listening to Anonymous Cowards isn't very wise; if you read the article, they have backups, but any backups of the system after it was hacked are nigh worthless.
The article title "Microsoft Code at Fault for Half of all Windows Crashes" should have been "Thrid Party Code at Fault for Half of all Windows Crashes"...or is it that only anti-MS articles get posted?
They are the same thing. Should Slashdot just be the mouthpiece of company press releases, or should they feel free to put their own spin on things and talk about issues that interest their audience in ways that appeal to their audience?
maybe im missing something here...but don't most people backup their stuff?
A backup of a trojan is still a trojan. If they uploaded a new version after the server was owned, and then made a backup, it's useless, since you don't know if the backup was trojaned or not.
Why does the FSF not use a OpenPGP signature on the files and md5sum lists in their archives?
Hindsight's twenty-twenty; that is what they're going to do in the future. Perhaps they didn't feel the need to change longstanding practices that predate OpenPGP before now?
Except that a programer from SCO is maintaning the SCO port. There is no way that you can stop him and still have GCC under GPL.
True. But NeXT and then Apple, much bigger companies, were always using GCC versions that ranged from old to ancient until Apple became a full participant in the GCC development process. Developing outside the tree is very hard for a fast-changing system that tends to break internal interfaces every release, like GCC does. Not cooperating with SCO does handicap their work.
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I think the problem most people who disliked The Matrix Reloaded had was that they didn't understand it.
In the Matrix, Neo dodges several bullets in a superhuman fashion, but gets nicked by the last. When the agent puts his gun to Neo's forehead, for a second you believed he might actually kill Neo.
In the Matrix Reloaded, Neo blocks the edge of a sword with his bare hands and gets a paper cut. At no point did I think that Neo was in any danger, but the fight still goes on for another ten minutes. In another scene, Morpheus falls off the truck, but manages to grab the side and pull himself up despite the agent. Over and over.
In every agent-human fight in the Matrix, the human narrowly dodges death. In no agent-human fight in the Matrix Reloaded did the audience feel there was any danger to the human. That's why I disliked the Matrix Reloaded.
For once they were being expected to think.
Not really. The philosophy was basic. This was no where near Pi, for example.
Assuming that the overarching goal of computer (and software) design is to emulate the human brain -- or even the brain of a flatworm
It's one goal, but if the human brain could accurately, reliably and quickly make ballistics tables, or spell check, or run nuclear simulations, we would never have made computers. There are a lot of things that a computer is very good at that humans suck at, and breaking that to make computers better at doing stuff that humans can do already is no win. Even if computers never think like humans, they will still be useful tools.
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What if I wnated to install perl 5.8 on
Then you don't want to use RPMs. But you're an exception; 99% just want to install the packages and expect it to work. Only a few hackers are going to do stuff like that.
and yes, I live in Brasil.. BRASIL ... not Brazil... BRASIL...
With all due respect, English speakers get to name things in English. It may be Brasil in Spanish and Portugese, but in English it's Brazil.
Never mind the fact that when this type of things happens in other countries it hardly makes the headlines...
Every so often I'll pick up the paper and read about 23 Israeli civilians killed on a bus, or a PLO compound destroyed. Five thousand civilians killed would not make the headlines only in the middle of a genocide. And frankly, Israel, for one, has attacked several countries for supporting terrorism. Why should we wait for Al-Quiad to smuggle a nuke in, before we stop them? Afganistan openly supported Al-Quiad and thus became responsible for their actions, which then amounted to an act of war. It's not Afganistan was a democratic regime, or respectful of human rights.
Iraq is a whole different matter, and one that many Americans don't support.
However, it seems the Linux kernel as well violates an OSS license, which is IMHO as bad as violating a GPL license or any license.
First place, the newest versions of the kernel don't include this code. Problem solved. And there's a difference between willfully violating the spirit of a license and accidently violating the minor details. People don't usually chase after the people who didn't fill out changelogs or who tossed the source after a year, both of which can violate the GPL.
If I buy the movie at a store and it sucks I'm out $20.
So you're too cheap to buy the movie. That's entirely different from convinience
renting != buying
And? If you want a copy of a movie to keep, is convienence really the reason you'd rather spend a day downloading a several hundred megabyte rip that's nowhere near DVD quality and quite possible has subtitles for some random language permenantly on then driving to the store?
In any case, not that it's entirely legal or ethical, you can easily produce a DVD rip from a rented DVD to your specifications, with more choice of movies, higher quality, and your choice of DVD extras. The only way it's convienence driving you to download the movie is if your ass really is the size and shape of your computer chair.
While I take these into consideration, I prefer to form my own opinions based on first hand experience.
Then ante up your money. There's no such thing as a preview for a movie--a movie, like a book, usually has to be taken as a whole to be judged, and for most of them, that one experience is enough. Are you interested enough in a movie that's got bad reviews to pay for it? That's your choice.
Goes with the old saying "if your friends were jumping off a bridge, would you do it too?"
It's closer to "if your friends jumped off a bridge and said it really sucked, would you jump off the bridge anyway?"
Seriously, I've been taken in by too many 'previews' of movies, thought 'this looks good', gone to see it, then wished I had not.
Ever heard of www.imdb.com? You're connected to the WWW, where every one who cares to speak on a movie can find a soapbox to speak on. Read a few of the reviews first.
It is simply more convienient to spend a day downloading a movie than it is to go buy a DVD for $20 at a store.
There are places that rent movies, you know. I'm sure it would be more convienient for your workplace to have you work for free, but I'm sure you prefer some equitable compromise.
Hence, you're not proving your ownership, but you have to prove that you were entitled to make a copy (install it).
If you own a copy of a software program in the US, the copyright law gives you the right to make the copies nessecary to running the program. No license needed.
Of course this is probably ridiculous, but a screen shot of some comments from the late 70's only shows that those particular comments were not stolen.
It shows that SCO is claiming a lot of code that isn't theirs. The one piece of code they chose to show, and it's not real.
Mr. McBride is creating so much work because for each claim of copyright, the onus is going to be on the linux community
In a court of law, the onus is going to be on Redhat or IBM (though I doubt that any judge is going to be amused about a long series of clearly fraudulent claims.) In the court of public opinion, they've cried wolf. It won't take many more cases like this before even the most deluded people realize SCO is full of it. Unless SCO can come up with serious evidence soon, no one is going to have to debunk them, because no one is going to believe them.
First, that argument at least doesn't apply to sports betting, as the casino doesn't have anything they can fudge.
What about the other part - you put $1000 down on Seashell at a hundred to one, and the casino decides not to pay up?
the online versions could be regulated to
Anyone who is so nice as to move themselves into US jurisdiction, and after the US government hired people to do it.
why is online gambling illegal?
Because in Vegas, there's someone there to check the numbers, to make sure that every payout is what it should be. It's trivial for an online casino to shave the numbers on a slot machine, or just not payout on any wins over a hundred thousand, or over a million.
What about non-free material goods?
The big difference between material goods and stuff like software is that it takes a non-negligible effort to copy the first, and if you do copy it, no one is stopping you from selling it.
Does RMS even understand physics? It takes "work" to change random states of bits into useful tools and information. Work doesn't come free.
And how much work have you done to change random states of bits into useful tools and information? He wrote GCC and Emacs and GDB as well as several other programs. Actually, he does know that it takes work and how much work it takes.
The betterment of one's self should always be our higher goal.
That's individualism at its most extreme. Most religions and most philosophies would claim that you have an obligation to the society, to the community.
That is because the people who published the PDF were idiots.
Acrobat has a number of commenting tools. What the Washington Post staff did in that case was use the Highlight tool, set the color to black, and use it to draw over the names.
And that makes you an idiot? Not tech savey, maybe, but that's the exact thing you'd do in releasing hardcopy, and unless you think in terms of the internals of a computer, there's no reason you'd think twice about doing that.
You wish to eliminate all human discomforts?
I invite you to live the life of one of our ancestors. Forget medicine; if you break your leg, tough it out. Forget eating anything you or your family didn't catch or grow. It's not a pretty life. Yes, we try and eliminate discomfort, because that is the ultimately human thing to do.
But that same genetic research, without a doubt, will ensure that humans will be genetically engineered into another species vastly more advanced than us, thereby meaning our own de-facto extinction.
All people die, but we have family and friends to carry on after us. If the human species eventually ends, leaving a greater one to follow, is that much difference? Need we prolong the life of humanity by killing our children?
The PC should be an appliance by now
But 'appliance' PCs, like the WebTV, exist; they just haven't been a huge hit. I like the PC that isn't limited to a small box of things; and I think most people, even those off Slashdot, like the fact that they can grab a box at the store and start doing garden design or family trees or making the next Citizen Kane or do their taxes.
I wished that we had truly-emmersive 3D desktops.
3D always seems so cool, but then why has 3D been such a dud in the movie industry? People seem entirely happy watching movies in 2D.
I have stacks of things on my desktop, and I can't imagine fully 3d stacks being much better; IRL, efficent organizational systems tend to be 2D--the spines of books on a bookshelf, a file cabinet. The 3D nature is more folding to fill space then use of organization.
the "no backups" just goes to show that poor sysadmin skills is not limited to proprietary platforms.
It goes to show that listening to Anonymous Cowards isn't very wise; if you read the article, they have backups, but any backups of the system after it was hacked are nigh worthless.
The article title "Microsoft Code at Fault for Half of all Windows Crashes" should have been "Thrid Party Code at Fault for Half of all Windows Crashes"...or is it that only anti-MS articles get posted?
They are the same thing. Should Slashdot just be the mouthpiece of company press releases, or should they feel free to put their own spin on things and talk about issues that interest their audience in ways that appeal to their audience?
maybe im missing something here...but don't most people backup their stuff?
A backup of a trojan is still a trojan. If they uploaded a new version after the server was owned, and then made a backup, it's useless, since you don't know if the backup was trojaned or not.
Why does the FSF not use a OpenPGP signature on the files and md5sum lists in their archives?
Hindsight's twenty-twenty; that is what they're going to do in the future. Perhaps they didn't feel the need to change longstanding practices that predate OpenPGP before now?
Except that a programer from SCO is maintaning the SCO port. There is no way that you can stop him and still have GCC under GPL.
True. But NeXT and then Apple, much bigger companies, were always using GCC versions that ranged from old to ancient until Apple became a full participant in the GCC development process. Developing outside the tree is very hard for a fast-changing system that tends to break internal interfaces every release, like GCC does. Not cooperating with SCO does handicap their work.