why expect them to change when the underlying medium is IP?
Okay, charge for the medium in general then (IP, cable, DSL, etc...), not particular applications running on top of it (irc, email, voip). Applications are far too fluid, innovative, and morphable/hidable (especialy for geeks like us) for the government to define exactly what should be charged for and what shouldn't. (though you could say that about radio waves too, *grumble*). I don't want an intrusive infrastructure hard-wired into my computer or on the ISP's side that analyzes every packet and charges differently for each one.
Doesn't matter if the common chinese person doesn't understand it... it's negligent on the part of programmers/managers/CEOs/whoever to use the source code, and to directly or indiretly agree to the licensing terms on it, without first consulting a lawyer to make sure that the licensing terms don't, oh, say that the company now owes 95% of its profits to me. At which point the lawyer would notice and understand the GPL provisions.
So, either a) they live in a country that absolutely doesn't respect the rule of law, or at least western laws, and so most countries should refuse to do trade with them, so they don't really matter. Or, more likely since this is showing up on our radar, they live in a country that respects US/european law enough to trade with us, but not enough to worry these companies too much. Ergo, they wilfully violated the contract. Not unlike what a lot of slashdoters do everyday when downloading RIAA MP3s or when clicking "I agree" and procede to reverse engineer or whatnot....
Look, don't disable javascript. The W3 org has standardized javascript-browser functionality enough that web designers can create some truly useful things with javascript without [much] browser-specific wrangling. Granted, there may be a lot of useless/annoying stuff too, but Javascript is flexible enough that you should be able to block out most of those with javascript itself (eg. see proxomitron hacks, or "disable-popups" features within various javascript engines). As a web developer myself, I feel that javascript's time has come (one third of mozilla is written in Javascript), but users like you who view the world in only black and white are going to slow down its adoption and dampen the usefulness of javascript webpages. Certainly 1/3rd of Mozilla isn't gimmicky cruft...
Actually... Mozilla's gestures *are* implemented in javascript. Download the Optimoz MozGest.xpi file (or find it on your hard drive), open the.xpi file in winzip, and there's all the.js implementation for it.
If it's clear that the spammer is doing something illegal (selling something that's illegal, hosting the website on a hacked cable modem computer, etc...), would it be legal for you to give them a fake/bad credit card number?
Unlimite calling may be the most obvious advantage, but there are several major advantages to VoIP through places like Vonage, Packet8, VoicePulse, etc:
A lot of current features (caller ID, caller ID block, calling other lines if you don't pick up your VoIP phone) that seem like they don't cost the phone company anything, actually are free
There are extra features you can't get anywhere else (or can't unless you're a big company with a digital call center)
number portability even if you move out of the area code or even the country (since your same phone number can be accessed anywhere there's internet access)
email notification of voice mail, with the option of including a sound file of the message
911 works with Vonage. Because you can choose a number in any of their area codes they support (potentially a thousand miles from where you really live), they ask for your real physical location on setup so they know where to route your 911 calls to. You can still, for instance, take your VoIP box with you on vacation and use it if a hotel has broadband access, but your 911 calls will still get routed back home unless you tell them you've moved your main location somewhere else.
Packet8 doesn't support 911, and a couple others i looked at don't either. But given that Packet8 is sooo much cheaper, I'm going with it if I ever switch over.
I work at a place that makes friggin' blasted camera functions on phones. And guess what the company's policy is? The burly men will throw my Canon DSLR in the incinerator, but camera phones are just fine to bring in.
Do you have a 56k modem? The added latency may not be noticable on slower connections, I don't know. Like I said, on a cable modem, it's pretty obvious IMHO.
Proxomitron is slow. Ever try turning it off for a little bit, and find yourself surprised at how much less delay there is between when you click on a link and the page comes up? Sloooow. Popup blockers that work on the parse tree directly or within the javascript engine are inherently faster and more precise.
Their lawyers are completely inept. 1) They're assuming the GPL will be invalidated, and recommending that their clients act on that assumption before it's proven in court, putting their clients in the way of certain lawsuits if they can't invalidate it. 2) As others have better said, even if the GPL was invalidated, that doesn't give SCO the right to distribute linux at all, so the lawyer who recommended that one is a bonehead too.
As long as SCO sticks with their current lawyers, we'll almost certainly win, even if does take a long long while.
Varadarajan said he plans to upgrade the entire cluster to Panther, the latest version of the Mac OS X operating system, in a couple of weeks.
Anybody know the IP of this thing? He won't be able to patch for a couple weeks, and wanted to play doom on it (hey, even thugh it's over the net, you can use the excess CPU to compress the video stream quite a bit?)
I personally don't want a clone of its UI. Looks like the only thing they did was cover up a third of the screen with an analog clock. I'm not sure that going from a 50x20 digital clock to a 400x400 one could be called innovation.
Or... it could be interpretted as "we won't have an advance in the OS or browser market for three years, so we're going to keep consumers as disctracted as possible during that time so better products like Mozilla and Linux don't errode our marketshare."
Proxomitron definitely has a noticeable increase in latency, it's not sub-millisecond.
I'm not sure if Mozilla has compiling/caching/whatever strategies to speed it up, but it's considered to be near the speed of MSIE which is mostly C. Most of the javascript is just controlling the C code, there isn't much rapid looping in javascript or whatnot.
Perfection... except that most proxies add extra latency which Proxomitron certainly does. And except that it uses regular expressions working on flat text, instead of working on the parse tree directly as something like DOM within a browser can do, so it will make mistakes and there are some things it can't do.
Mozilla is a lot better solution. 1/3rd of Mozilla is written in Javascript (so it's extremely flexible), and supports DOM manipulations and such, and the javascript can happen while the document is rendering so you don't get extra latency.
Mozilla still aint perfection (that'd require assembly or hardware-accelerated filters), but it's closer than Proxomitron.
I think everyone had irrational exuberance back then, including companies who were putting their money where their mouth was. At least Minksy is still forging ahead.
(I don't really know too much about AI so forgive me if I'm giving him a little higher status than he deserves... though he's critiquing modern-day approaches to AI, so he's either with the pack or a step ahead of them. My experience is mostly limited to two friends who wanted to go into AI in graduate school, and finally decided that AI won't be here for a long long time. And Minksy is still working...)
Sorry, building an intelligent, sentient machine requires alot more than pure computational capacity.
If you believe, like most scientists, that we humans evolved from random mutations and natural selection, then no, it really doesn't.
Actually, even if evolving wouldn't require quantum-level stuff, evolving a human-level intelligence would take MUCH more computation power than that required to simulate a single human brain. It would take enough computation to simulate all life from the big bang until modern-day humans evolved. eg. 20 years computation for each cro-magnon who ever lived, 20 years computation for every Australopithecus africanus who ever lived, all the way back to single-celled organizisms. Likely trillions of times the computation for a single individual.
In fact, (and I can't find the reference, sorry), Marvin Minsky has said he believes that evolved-AI is very unlikely to provide an answer to AI problems before human figure them out.
They've pumped up the stock on (likely) knowlingly false statements, and damaged RedHat and IBM some. IANAL, but it seems like by this point there'd be enough proof for SCO to lose quite a bit of money in damages based on these claims. SCO has pretty much chosen their irreversable course of action unless they can simultaneously make their investors happy, call off their lawsuits, and convince IBM, RedHat, and their VARs that they'll play nice for the forseeable future. It'll take a hell of a lot more than money to do that.
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You'd be able to see enough detail to give him a colonoscopy just from the image.
Okay, charge for the medium in general then (IP, cable, DSL, etc...), not particular applications running on top of it (irc, email, voip). Applications are far too fluid, innovative, and morphable/hidable (especialy for geeks like us) for the government to define exactly what should be charged for and what shouldn't. (though you could say that about radio waves too, *grumble*). I don't want an intrusive infrastructure hard-wired into my computer or on the ISP's side that analyzes every packet and charges differently for each one.
So, either a) they live in a country that absolutely doesn't respect the rule of law, or at least western laws, and so most countries should refuse to do trade with them, so they don't really matter. Or, more likely since this is showing up on our radar, they live in a country that respects US/european law enough to trade with us, but not enough to worry these companies too much. Ergo, they wilfully violated the contract. Not unlike what a lot of slashdoters do everyday when downloading RIAA MP3s or when clicking "I agree" and procede to reverse engineer or whatnot....
Look, don't disable javascript. The W3 org has standardized javascript-browser functionality enough that web designers can create some truly useful things with javascript without [much] browser-specific wrangling. Granted, there may be a lot of useless/annoying stuff too, but Javascript is flexible enough that you should be able to block out most of those with javascript itself (eg. see proxomitron hacks, or "disable-popups" features within various javascript engines). As a web developer myself, I feel that javascript's time has come (one third of mozilla is written in Javascript), but users like you who view the world in only black and white are going to slow down its adoption and dampen the usefulness of javascript webpages. Certainly 1/3rd of Mozilla isn't gimmicky cruft...
Actually... Mozilla's gestures *are* implemented in javascript. Download the Optimoz MozGest .xpi file (or find it on your hard drive), open the .xpi file in winzip, and there's all the .js implementation for it.
If it's clear that the spammer is doing something illegal (selling something that's illegal, hosting the website on a hacked cable modem computer, etc...), would it be legal for you to give them a fake/bad credit card number?
Packet8 doesn't support 911, and a couple others i looked at don't either. But given that Packet8 is sooo much cheaper, I'm going with it if I ever switch over.
I might consider switching to Windows if they have vi-mode for notepad and the command-line. :)
I mean, WTF? Don't you guys have a separation between the ideas of copyright and patent over there? Doesn't this seem to be confusing them just a tad?
I work at a place that makes friggin' blasted camera functions on phones. And guess what the company's policy is? The burly men will throw my Canon DSLR in the incinerator, but camera phones are just fine to bring in.
Do you have a 56k modem? The added latency may not be noticable on slower connections, I don't know. Like I said, on a cable modem, it's pretty obvious IMHO.
Proxomitron is slow. Ever try turning it off for a little bit, and find yourself surprised at how much less delay there is between when you click on a link and the page comes up? Sloooow. Popup blockers that work on the parse tree directly or within the javascript engine are inherently faster and more precise.
So it's actually impossible to currently do RF communication on terahertz bands?
Two! (two)
Three! (three)
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That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life. That's the kinda thing an idiot would have on his luggage.
As long as SCO sticks with their current lawyers, we'll almost certainly win, even if does take a long long while.
- Varadarajan said he plans to upgrade the entire cluster to Panther, the latest version of the Mac OS X operating system, in a couple of weeks.
Anybody know the IP of this thing? He won't be able to patch for a couple weeks, and wanted to play doom on it (hey, even thugh it's over the net, you can use the excess CPU to compress the video stream quite a bit?)I personally don't want a clone of its UI. Looks like the only thing they did was cover up a third of the screen with an analog clock. I'm not sure that going from a 50x20 digital clock to a 400x400 one could be called innovation.
And both times, IBM has an active role in leading the charge.
Or... it could be interpretted as "we won't have an advance in the OS or browser market for three years, so we're going to keep consumers as disctracted as possible during that time so better products like Mozilla and Linux don't errode our marketshare."
I'm not sure if Mozilla has compiling/caching/whatever strategies to speed it up, but it's considered to be near the speed of MSIE which is mostly C. Most of the javascript is just controlling the C code, there isn't much rapid looping in javascript or whatnot.
Mozilla is a lot better solution. 1/3rd of Mozilla is written in Javascript (so it's extremely flexible), and supports DOM manipulations and such, and the javascript can happen while the document is rendering so you don't get extra latency.
Mozilla still aint perfection (that'd require assembly or hardware-accelerated filters), but it's closer than Proxomitron.
(I don't really know too much about AI so forgive me if I'm giving him a little higher status than he deserves... though he's critiquing modern-day approaches to AI, so he's either with the pack or a step ahead of them. My experience is mostly limited to two friends who wanted to go into AI in graduate school, and finally decided that AI won't be here for a long long time. And Minksy is still working...)
- Sorry, building an intelligent, sentient machine requires alot more than pure computational capacity.
Actually, even if evolving wouldn't require quantum-level stuff, evolving a human-level intelligence would take MUCH more computation power than that required to simulate a single human brain. It would take enough computation to simulate all life from the big bang until modern-day humans evolved. eg. 20 years computation for each cro-magnon who ever lived, 20 years computation for every Australopithecus africanus who ever lived, all the way back to single-celled organizisms. Likely trillions of times the computation for a single individual.If you believe, like most scientists, that we humans evolved from random mutations and natural selection, then no, it really doesn't.
In fact, (and I can't find the reference, sorry), Marvin Minsky has said he believes that evolved-AI is very unlikely to provide an answer to AI problems before human figure them out.
They've pumped up the stock on (likely) knowlingly false statements, and damaged RedHat and IBM some. IANAL, but it seems like by this point there'd be enough proof for SCO to lose quite a bit of money in damages based on these claims. SCO has pretty much chosen their irreversable course of action unless they can simultaneously make their investors happy, call off their lawsuits, and convince IBM, RedHat, and their VARs that they'll play nice for the forseeable future. It'll take a hell of a lot more than money to do that.