But what you're doing with Java and XML is in itself innovative I'm sure. I'm not saying you can't make money without royalty patents, but I'm also saying getting rid of royalty patents would remove a different avenue of profit.
IMO, the driving force behind innovation in the technology sector has been money, or the promise that you can make money for inventing something and then selling it.
Yes open source developers have made tremendous innovations that proprietary has not, but most of these developers have either been paid by a company (ex: a Linux distro), or were doing this development while working for another company (hobby developer). If people start to remove money from the equation, what's left?
I cannot beleive the entire technology sector will continute to invent and grow as fast as it has without the promise of profit.
The measure of the success of an idea has to be purely finnacial. If an idea is great, but it can't get sold, then it's no good. Intellectually you may be able to judge things differently, but at the end of the day it should be just down to how much money you make.
A "patent tax" would be immoral. It would pennalize anyone who was creative and tried to make money off their creativity. And it would help those who cannot create. If this were carried out long term, there would be no inventors
left.
Apple has already begun to embrace AAC encoding. It is the default audio encoding for MPEG4 files, which Apple's QuickTime supports nativley. It's compression is as good as Ogg/Vorbis and WMA, and it is seen (perhaps by apple) as another MP3 competitor. As far as I know it is an open standard.
Contributions to the OpenGL standard must be more innovatative than, and in double or triple the volume of the proprietary work done on D3D/DX, or else OpenGL will die. How's that for stiffling innovations?
If the Open source/Open standard model is truly able to compete and best a proprietary one, then OpenGL has nothing to worry about. They will innovate their way out!
But that won't happen. Microsoft has money, and time. Things that OSS and open standards don't have. OpenGL will die, or become essentially a dead API who only survives by buying hooks into the DX API, and not because Microsoft crushed them, because they will have bought them out.
Sys Admins are just being dumb. They had a patch for this bug 6 months ago. Microsoft has a little known component to Windows 2000 server called SUS, or Software Update Services. It essentially lets you control which packages and updates the clients in an Active Directory domanin are updated with. But you can have two W2k servers running this in tandem, so you can distribute all the packages from Microsoft to a test group, and then have the second server pass out an approved list to clients. Sys Admins who claim that they don't know which things to patch or what will break aren't doing their jobs.
The point is, if some bozo come up to Palpatine and says, "Hey! where'd you get that fancy army?" He doesn't have to answer him, THE CLONE ARMY WITH GUNS GETS TO.
All of the tools are pretty much just like you'd find them on any *nix box. There may be some differences that you'll have to get used to, but nothing huge.
Macs have historically lasted longer without need of repairs than PC's, and I speak from personal experience. In terms of say day to day stuff, when they start to act funny, it's just like any other *nix box.
Back to programming, there are lots of options right out of the box. You can go strait into hardcore coding with emacs and gcc, or you can use Apple's IDE, Project Builder. Both are great for C/C++.
As for mySQL, and php. I have not looked into it myself, but both should work fine. I do know that both Perl and Java work great.
Mac OS X, even 10.1 is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Jaguar just makes all these features quicker and or easier.
OS X 10.0 supported this. Except it is off by default. I beleive it has to be turned on in NetInfo manager, although there may be an option in the Networking pane.
This is simply not true. OS X recognizes passwords greater than 8 characters. I myself have a 9 character password. The confusion I think arose because the in the Password tab of the user window it only displays up to 8 *'s for a mask.
I think Apple announced Linux/Irix support to at least 2003 because they're not sure if they should support it afterwards.
Ever since Mac OS X came out, everyone (including Apple) has been watching very carefully to see how much synergy there is between the Mac and Linux communities. I think the water is still very murky, and it's not clear yet if Linux is a threat to Apple's Corporate interests.
So they're going to wait it out and see what happens.
That recording companies can't seem to make any kind of decent anti-piracy, but If they were to hire any one of the geeks who can so easily circumvent their efforts, they could actually make something useful.
The difference between Apple and MS is one of vertical vs. horizontal integration. Apple controls the whole (most) of the production process that produces the end-user experience. MS buys out and undermines competition to make their product the only one availible.
If MS were ever to implement a OSS solution, it would bend and twist the ideas behind Open Source into something much different.
Remember the differences between corporate reasoning and hacker reasoning. We do it because we want to make our and others computing experienc e better. Corporations base everything on profitiability.
I think is shows that computers could be used as a tool. Except that only the students thinking clearly enough outside the box will be able to utilize their power to geta good grade. For example, you compare a poster to a PowerPoint presentation both about the same subject. Whichever actually presents the information better would get a better grade. That makes kid think about the content rather than the computer. It would give an outlet to those students who spent the time to learn how to present the content effectivley in the computer medium.
Computers should be used simply as a medium, another outlet for communications, not as an overall teching stradegy.
I think you should be reviewing movies, and not mr Katz. I laughed for almost 5 minutes thinking about that kid in the wheelchair. No offense intended towards disabled children, but it's so funny....
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This will allow more people to inovate not stifel inovation.
But what reason does someone have to innovate, if they can't make any money off it? What do you get in return for your work at inventing something?
But what you're doing with Java and XML is in itself innovative I'm sure. I'm not saying you can't make money without royalty patents, but I'm also saying getting rid of royalty patents would remove a different avenue of profit.
IMO, the driving force behind innovation in the technology sector has been money, or the promise that you can make money for inventing something and then selling it. Yes open source developers have made tremendous innovations that proprietary has not, but most of these developers have either been paid by a company (ex: a Linux distro), or were doing this development while working for another company (hobby developer). If people start to remove money from the equation, what's left? I cannot beleive the entire technology sector will continute to invent and grow as fast as it has without the promise of profit.
Clintonian Democracy
The average man shouldn't just vote, he should buy off his local representatives.
The measure of the success of an idea has to be purely finnacial. If an idea is great, but it can't get sold, then it's no good. Intellectually you may be able to judge things differently, but at the end of the day it should be just down to how much money you make.
A "patent tax" would be immoral. It would pennalize anyone who was creative and tried to make money off their creativity. And it would help those who cannot create. If this were carried out long term, there would be no inventors left.
Maybe they should just mark all the calls made by terrorists with the EvilBit.
No more AC's.
Robot-Massage Pr0n.
Apple has already begun to embrace AAC encoding. It is the default audio encoding for MPEG4 files, which Apple's QuickTime supports nativley. It's compression is as good as Ogg/Vorbis and WMA, and it is seen (perhaps by apple) as another MP3 competitor. As far as I know it is an open standard.
Contributions to the OpenGL standard must be more innovatative than, and in double or triple the volume of the proprietary work done on D3D/DX, or else OpenGL will die. How's that for stiffling innovations?
If the Open source/Open standard model is truly able to compete and best a proprietary one, then OpenGL has nothing to worry about. They will innovate their way out!
But that won't happen. Microsoft has money, and time. Things that OSS and open standards don't have. OpenGL will die, or become essentially a dead API who only survives by buying hooks into the DX API, and not because Microsoft crushed them, because they will have bought them out.
Sys Admins are just being dumb. They had a patch for this bug 6 months ago. Microsoft has a little known component to Windows 2000 server called SUS, or Software Update Services. It essentially lets you control which packages and updates the clients in an Active Directory domanin are updated with. But you can have two W2k servers running this in tandem, so you can distribute all the packages from Microsoft to a test group, and then have the second server pass out an approved list to clients. Sys Admins who claim that they don't know which things to patch or what will break aren't doing their jobs.
a new, and exciting age of pr0n!
USB USB USB
Transfering 6gb at 12 Mb/s is NOT fun at all. Firewire is the way to go.
The point is, if some bozo come up to Palpatine and says, "Hey! where'd you get that fancy army?" He doesn't have to answer him, THE CLONE ARMY WITH GUNS GETS TO.
There are mac version of both the Geforce4 Ti (4200 and 4600)line and the the Radeon 9000 (9000 and 9700).
All of the tools are pretty much just like you'd find them on any *nix box. There may be some differences that you'll have to get used to, but nothing huge. Macs have historically lasted longer without need of repairs than PC's, and I speak from personal experience. In terms of say day to day stuff, when they start to act funny, it's just like any other *nix box. Back to programming, there are lots of options right out of the box. You can go strait into hardcore coding with emacs and gcc, or you can use Apple's IDE, Project Builder. Both are great for C/C++. As for mySQL, and php. I have not looked into it myself, but both should work fine. I do know that both Perl and Java work great. Mac OS X, even 10.1 is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Jaguar just makes all these features quicker and or easier.
OS X 10.0 supported this. Except it is off by default. I beleive it has to be turned on in NetInfo manager, although there may be an option in the Networking pane.
$1681.10 USD. Not bad at all
This is simply not true. OS X recognizes passwords greater than 8 characters. I myself have a 9 character password. The confusion I think arose because the in the Password tab of the user window it only displays up to 8 *'s for a mask.
doesn't that mean he has a Passport account too?
I think Apple announced Linux/Irix support to at least 2003 because they're not sure if they should support it afterwards.
Ever since Mac OS X came out, everyone (including Apple) has been watching very carefully to see how much synergy there is between the Mac and Linux communities. I think the water is still very murky, and it's not clear yet if Linux is a threat to Apple's Corporate interests.
So they're going to wait it out and see what happens.
That recording companies can't seem to make any kind of decent anti-piracy, but If they were to hire any one of the geeks who can so easily circumvent their efforts, they could actually make something useful.
The difference between Apple and MS is one of vertical vs. horizontal integration. Apple controls the whole (most) of the production process that produces the end-user experience. MS buys out and undermines competition to make their product the only one availible.
If MS were ever to implement a OSS solution, it would bend and twist the ideas behind Open Source into something much different.
Remember the differences between corporate reasoning and hacker reasoning. We do it because we want to make our and others computing experienc e better. Corporations base everything on profitiability.
I think is shows that computers could be used as a tool. Except that only the students thinking clearly enough outside the box will be able to utilize their power to geta good grade. For example, you compare a poster to a PowerPoint presentation both about the same subject. Whichever actually presents the information better would get a better grade. That makes kid think about the content rather than the computer. It would give an outlet to those students who spent the time to learn how to present the content effectivley in the computer medium.
Computers should be used simply as a medium, another outlet for communications, not as an overall teching stradegy.
My 2 cents
I think you should be reviewing movies, and not mr Katz. I laughed for almost 5 minutes thinking about that kid in the wheelchair. No offense intended towards disabled children, but it's so funny....