Is it just me or is relying on hardware to protect your application heaps seem to be a bad idea. Not just because its non-portable (not that this matters for windows) but it basically offloads the work on HW that may or may not be up to the task.
We know that unix, its variants and progeny, have memory protection. How many of these rely on the hardware to protect them? Certainly 'legacy' *nixes didnt run on HW that had these features.
I guess what im saying is i dont like it as a long term strategy.
There is a list out there of overused scifi cliches. And with many of them its how you use it. Now saying that ideas are taken from trek, well i dont think any of the ideas in trek are original ones anyway, but that may be up for debate. However in many cases it not so much the plot, but the implementation.
TNG did its groundhog day episode, and so did stargate, and the stargate one is funnier and still easily my favorite episode.
Given the nature of the USTPO, where any obvious or ancient idea (like swinging on a swing sideways) gets a patent, how can you possibly rewrite something that you can guarantee wont infringe on some over broad chicken scratch filed in the 70's when they had wire wrapped electronics and nixie tubes in cash registers.
By the time you are done whats to stop someone from patenting the code you are working on. Even if its invalid, you get tied up in court either way.
IIRC UPN moved enterprise to friday (from its original wednesday) up against the much stronger (in that slot) stargate. This means that Sci fi fans are competing on which show they will watch, as opposed to being able to easily watch *both* which would ensure better rating for the now much less crappy Enterprise.
SO it seems that while we are (barely) protected from illegal search and seazure, we are not protected from planting, and using that planted item later as a pretext to search and seizure.
Ya know the big issue here is this, (and it goes to parts of Patriot act) it seems like law enforcement seems to be constantly wanting to be able to do things without oversight, claiming that 'well look they are bad guys', if they were in fact really bad guys, then what would be the problem of asking a judge to agree with them?
This guy is the ideological opposite of 'The defenders of IP' (RIAA,MPAA,BSA, Bill Gates)
You are forgetting the main thing the GPL, like any other license is the choice of the developer. By whining that all software isnt 'free', you are in essence advocating the removal of the choice of the developer.
I also really wish people would stop using 'free' in this manner. In the realm of dealing with a product most people equate 'free' to mean 'without monetary cost'. In the realm of a SW license, as compared to other licenses, its not so much 'free' as less restricted. Technically speaking (ifi understand this point of the GPL correctly) its not 'free' as you cannot do anything you want with it, mainly being take the code and use it in a program without disclosure (and so on). So in some sense the only 'free' stuff is that which is in the public domain.
"There are more things in heaven and earth Heratio, than dreamt of in your philosophy"
I said Apple wouldn't introduce a G6 in 2004 (right) and wouldn't sell as many G5s as it would like, either (right again).
Well im sure apple would have *like* to sell 50 G5 macs to every man, woman, child, and house pet on planet earth... Its easy to be right when you leave yourself an ocean to drown in there Bobbo.
I think whats worse than this is all the naysayers who keep sayign "nothing to worry about" "put on your tin foil hat" and so on. I have to wonder if these guys havent been paying attention, or have been paid off to spew 'anti-worry'.
All i can say is how often *HASNT* technonolgy been used to the detriment of the public and to the benefit of govt and corporations.
'Apple has turned an open and interactive standard into an artifice that prevents consumers from using the portable hard drive digital music player of their choice'.
iTunes is a closed source app with some APIs. So it is clearly not 'open'. Who the hell knows what an 'interactive' standard means. And who the hell decided that iTunes is a standard? A standard what? mp3 player?
The only standard that one can argue it is, is that its the standard way to easily load your ipod. Which is also an apple device. Im not sure how using the apple loader program to load an apple device makes you have 'lock in' Use the damned app that came with your 'player of choice'. Its not apple's job to do the heavy lifting for another vendor..
IIRC this is the second JOS post on/. in as many months. I certainly realize that we get a number of articles containing the same cast of characters, however i dont recall seeing them close enough to trigger my short term FPP memory.
Well i dont think we have much to worry about here. As most/. readers wouldnt be able to get past teh 1st level of physical security around any safe. Namely the door at the top of the stairs to their parent's basement;)
Alas that is part of the absurd irony of Douglas adams. What it more unexpected than a cutsey family assistant who cant stand to be that way, or any way at all for that matter.
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Is it just me or is relying on hardware to protect your application heaps seem to be a bad idea. Not just because its non-portable (not that this matters for windows) but it basically offloads the work on HW that may or may not be up to the task.
We know that unix, its variants and progeny, have memory protection. How many of these rely on the hardware to protect them? Certainly 'legacy' *nixes didnt run on HW that had these features.
I guess what im saying is i dont like it as a long term strategy.
I demand a mouse that has a button for each finger on my hand and will move the pointer when i move my arm!
mmmm Nintendo powerglove... mmmmmmmmmmmmm
How long before one sues the other for stealing their 'patented' business plan?
There is a list out there of overused scifi cliches. And with many of them its how you use it. Now saying that ideas are taken from trek, well i dont think any of the ideas in trek are original ones anyway, but that may be up for debate. However in many cases it not so much the plot, but the implementation.
TNG did its groundhog day episode, and so did stargate, and the stargate one is funnier and still easily my favorite episode.
Given the nature of the USTPO, where any obvious or ancient idea (like swinging on a swing sideways) gets a patent, how can you possibly rewrite something that you can guarantee wont infringe on some over broad chicken scratch filed in the 70's when they had wire wrapped electronics and nixie tubes in cash registers.
By the time you are done whats to stop someone from patenting the code you are working on. Even if its invalid, you get tied up in court either way.
The problem is the system, and the system alone.
IIRC UPN moved enterprise to friday (from its original wednesday) up against the much stronger (in that slot) stargate. This means that Sci fi fans are competing on which show they will watch, as opposed to being able to easily watch *both* which would ensure better rating for the now much less crappy Enterprise.
The point was that YOU built it and it's something to showoff to your friends.
/. ppl dont have friends:)
You know that
if the bibles in Cobb county have stickers advising people to consider other belief systems?
actually sexual reproduction is also evoultion. Sadly however this excludes most the the readers of /.
i love the smell of geritol in the morning
SO it seems that while we are (barely) protected from illegal search and seazure, we are not protected from planting, and using that planted item later as a pretext to search and seizure.
Ya know the big issue here is this, (and it goes to parts of Patriot act) it seems like law enforcement seems to be constantly wanting to be able to do things without oversight, claiming that 'well look they are bad guys', if they were in fact really bad guys, then what would be the problem of asking a judge to agree with them?
Man I almost gagged when I read this post.
This guy is the ideological opposite of 'The defenders of IP' (RIAA,MPAA,BSA, Bill Gates)
You are forgetting the main thing the GPL, like any other license is the choice of the developer. By whining that all software isnt 'free', you are in essence advocating the removal of the choice of the developer.
I also really wish people would stop using 'free' in this manner. In the realm of dealing with a product most people equate 'free' to mean 'without monetary cost'. In the realm of a SW license, as compared to other licenses, its not so much 'free' as less restricted. Technically speaking (ifi understand this point of the GPL correctly) its not 'free' as you cannot do anything you want with it, mainly being take the code and use it in a program without disclosure (and so on). So in some sense the only 'free' stuff is that which is in the public domain.
"There are more things in heaven and earth Heratio, than dreamt of in your philosophy"
so when Bill G was up hawking the MS 'plays for sure' market-speak, little did he suspect it was really infected for sure!
man RXC never ceases to amaze me with asshettery
I said Apple wouldn't introduce a G6 in 2004 (right) and wouldn't sell as many G5s as it would like, either (right again).
Well im sure apple would have *like* to sell 50 G5 macs to every man, woman, child, and house pet on planet earth... Its easy to be right when you leave yourself an ocean to drown in there Bobbo.
What however does make him an idiot is co-operation with his accuser without a written deal.
Now he can get railroaded (im not making a statement on his actions) with no binding promise to take his co=operation into account.
I think whats worse than this is all the naysayers who keep sayign "nothing to worry about" "put on your tin foil hat" and so on. I have to wonder if these guys havent been paying attention, or have been paid off to spew 'anti-worry'.
All i can say is how often *HASNT* technonolgy been used to the detriment of the public and to the benefit of govt and corporations.
Under the regime of the new red scare by the leader Bill Gates.. hes now a communist.
I apologize for blatant whoring.
'Apple has turned an open and interactive standard into an artifice that prevents consumers from using the portable hard drive digital music player of their choice'.
iTunes is a closed source app with some APIs. So it is clearly not 'open'. Who the hell knows what an 'interactive' standard means. And who the hell decided that iTunes is a standard? A standard what? mp3 player?
The only standard that one can argue it is, is that its the standard way to easily load your ipod. Which is also an apple device. Im not sure how using the apple loader program to load an apple device makes you have 'lock in' Use the damned app that came with your 'player of choice'. Its not apple's job to do the heavy lifting for another vendor..
seriously.. WTF?
IIRC this is the second JOS post on /. in as many months. I certainly realize that we get a number of articles containing the same cast of characters, however i dont recall seeing them close enough to trigger my short term FPP memory.
I guess im just worried about a joel otaku.
Well i dont think we have much to worry about here. As most
I think it's ironic that MS originally put these capabilities in so the media companies could provide "richer" and more "interactive" content.
If by richer they meant 'make the corporations richer', and by interactive meaning 'you will interact with a lawyer'.
More likely, this Yeahanomorinono Media Venture Concern (is that REALLY a US company?!)
I'd be more worried about Osaka orangeade concern
I don't agree with that.
:)
You are choosing a non-objective reality, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Or you can use postgres and distribute it however you like.
Alas that is part of the absurd irony of Douglas adams. What it more unexpected than a cutsey family assistant who cant stand to be that way, or any way at all for that matter.