NO. People and especially companies always need some extra stuff that can only be bought with cash. What stuff is paid evolves, but it can either of this (uncomplete list):
- Some phone to call for "help" - Some company to "blame" - Some extra feature that makes sense if big enviroments (like Ximian Connector)
It makes sense. These companies are happier paying a fair price. And it adds to their sense of security and superiority over the free versions.
Eventually the complexity will get so bad that the only way to manage it will be with artificial intelligence, 'adaptive solutions' with genetic programming, etc. Human programmers will one day wake up to find themselves an anachronism... much like basket weavers.
No, they will be programming and selling Windows AI 72.9 and AILinux 39 for our average kitchen and cars.:)
This has to be said. You are not making money from Open Source because they don't have a large user base.
Explain me how could Microsoft could help you earn a salary if they had a 5% desktop share? What would you program? What would you sale?
And the problem with Microsoft is that if the software you are making becomes widepread or a priority, they will hapilly put WHATEVER resources are needed to "embrace and extend" you.
So, IMHO you are wrong. What you say is like if Microsoft goes open source (HA!) you'd inmediately have no way to profit from that plataform. WRONG. You'll have more. All the money that now goes flows to Microsoft would flow to companies and programers.
I'm not really knowledgeable in this field, but doesn't a one time carry a disavantage.
I am just going on intuition but how can the receiver of the message know whether the source of the original message is trully caming from the expect source, and not a hijacked source.
Unless the receiver know what he'll be expecting as a message, i cannot forsee how he can be sure to be getting it from the right source.
Also, if he has to maint an interactive conversation, and can't know for sure what the source is, he could either:
1 - run out of pads (can't get the message) 2 - answering more than once with a pad (compromise the messages)
Even if parties have and infinite secuence of random pads, they can never know whcih ones the other party has already "wasted" in hijaked messages.
So to truly be called perfect encryption, there must be a way for perfect autentication of message sources, and this can be a problem. Of course they can agree on further rules for origin validation, but this imposes other vulnerabilities.
This is just a guess so don't slap my face please. Just point me in the right direction for further reading and I'll be glad to learn the answers.
We use something similar to your setup, with Trend Interscan Viruswall Linux Edition. The only problem we found was that there's no support for senmail 8.12, or slackware or SSL support.
Anyway, we figured out a setup that actually works with sendmail 8.12, SSL, etc (i don't recomend the product, there's NO support) and block about 10 viruses a day. It filters http, https, smtps, spop and sftp.:)
Unreal (the game) took like 5 years to develop, and they thought it would take them 2 (or something like that). Of course, no company will let you spend 5 years making a game, unless you own it and raise the funds yourself.
Productivity and dates are ok, but more importantly, what you'll need is inspiration, motivation, talent and a clear goal.
The problem is when people think of software (or even digital stuff) as something specific. It's the most generic tool humans have devised after spoken language (english, etc).
So how can you measure productivity when you don' t have a specific goal set. It could be anything, from solving cancer, to expesing art, to making a game (funny games, like leasure suit larry, or RPGs, etc) to guiding a nuke misile.
The article is, in this sense, just plain ridiculous. I'd say anyway, that "productive" in the american sense is what earns you more than cost. And you can't know that in advance. In fact, you could very much destroy productivity when you start using fixed rules to judge productivity instead of using plain COMMON SENSE...
People that earn $2000 a month, if they have any kind of clue, are spending about $800 of that money on real estate, which represents a certain amount of 'savings.'
Yes, they are paying it to the guys that had a 70% savings ratio. A sales tax cuts their $1200 like butter, which is worst imho.
But I don't care. People that run the stuff try do their best and that's fine (I guess).
It is the income tax that allows the government to bribe the majority with money coerced from the minority.
No, it's the sales tax that rapes the masses spending-power so that the goverment can "secure" some companies revenues even when they do not innovate and battle against competition.
People that earn $2000 a month spend something like 95%. People that earn 100.000 a month spend about 30%, the remainder is savings.
This is ok, if you want the USA to be, for example, like Brazil.
Your post is enlightened...i couldn't agree more. Sales tax is ok in India, so Indians can buy less and export more. That's becausea sales tax is great only when you want to cut consumer spendings.
Sales taxes are great for corrupt and ignorant goverments in development countries. They are easy to collect and hard to avoid. I KNOW what i mean never mind:)
Great, i'd couldn't but wait to see the USA software industry killed asap. It's very important for software developement to have huge highways, water pipes and such.
- A high sales tax can kill your economy - A high income tax can only slow it down
My short version II:
- A high sales tax kills all high-volume low-margin bussiness - A high income tax can only cut profits
My short version III: - Look at Argentina's economy, which is collapsed due to 21% VAT + 3% gross sales tax (income tax doesn't matter when you don't have profits).
No, what's pathetic is when someone attempts to make an analogy between cutthroat business practices and terrorism.
IMHO, your post is FUD. Granted there's nothing worst than terrorism, but asserting everything else is just "totaly and completely secondary to the american system" is bullshit.
Microsoft's monopoly is something that should be in the #3 or #4 priority list. Because it affects the very basic foundation upon which our economy is built: FREE COMPETITIVE MARKETS.
They have abused the system. We are all Microsoft slaves in the software market. Our companies are slaves. But nobody cares, not even the goverment. Nobody cares about our privacy rights either.
The revenue generated for the government from MS far exceeds that coming from VA Linux/Software, corporate tax or no.
This is a partial look at the economy. Some firms took the more competitive VALinux offering, with no MS tax. They saved costs and thus where more profitable. Then THOSE companies contributed more income tax.
So what you are seeing when you see the huge MS sales figures, you really are seeing how the pie is distributed, not WHO is contributing value to it.
Basically, if i had any wide monopoly rooted on a basic need of a society (say i control food production) i could charge it tenfold. My sales figures and revenues would be amazing. And I could argue, like Microsoft, that the cheapo food beign sold is destroying taxes.
This is NOT true. Because at the end of the year you'd see PROGRESS. Because people can buy MORE than just food. They can buy books, get an education, watch holywood movies, demand Pr0n and spend more resources on research and why not, DEFENSE.
This is capitalism. Monopoly is NOT good in the long run. In some point of history, it can be good (temporary, for example, while playing catch up with other contries), but in the long run it blocks progress and hurts everyone else.
Bottom line:
It's not a good thing in itself that you should spend $600 on MS office instead of spending it, say, education or reseach in the medical field, or cars. The thing get's worst when $600 can be charged because of a monopoly.
But the US economists know all this better than me, and they figured it in the 19th century...so it's no news.
Well, i'm waiting for the dhcp enabled final release of astaro. Another problem with astaro is that it requires more CPU power than other firewalls. You can do with a 133 pentium for low badnwidth (512kb/s) anyway, just the web interface is slow.
But the requirement states the minimun cpu is a 300 mhz celeron and 64 mb ram. The old 486 with 16 mb won't work. A 32 mb 90 mhz pentium 1 will be painfully slow.
I'd say astaro is great for > pentium 200 mhz with > 64mb ram.
Yeah, but i better like the BMW liquid nitrogen alternative. It runs like a gasoline car, high acceleration, cute combustion-like noise. It's great:)...
But IMHO, a compressed air car is better. I like beign able to refuel the car at home, or better even, recharge it with some solar panels in my high mountain house (AD 2047?).
Also, it's cheaper to transport electricity than to transport nitrogen. The air car makes NO NOISE also (less than an electric car).
NiMH is too generic. There are cheapo NiMH batteries nobody wants, and not-so-cheapo NiMH batteries everyone wants (at least the ones that care about the mAh load).
I recently bought some 2000 mAh batteries and my camera takes about 400 shots before going dead. With 900 mAh alcalines it's about 40 shots and with cheapo NiMH ones it's about 50.
What do those packs read, regarding mAh? If they are 1600/1800 mAh, they are hell of cheap good ones. Else......
"The same research that is shrinking cell phones has a higher purpose: an exhaust-free electric car."
Gone offtopic, but i think the air-powered car is a better solution than a battery powered car. The air-powered cars in production in Spain are a nice example: you charge the car with a home-compressor, and it gives you 200 miles autonomy (present model).
The exhaust is obviously pure AIR. I'd enjoy the day people put their faces near an exhaust tube to refresh themselves:)
I'm no expert and electricity has always been something misteroius for me but...
I think the problem of power cells (the ones that already exist and existed for a long time (non-commercial)) is that they hold a big charge (mAh) but it's difficult to reach a given voltage.
Hence, to duplicate an AA battery you will need a LOT of full cells chained together, and thus the device will be really big (impractical).
Also, if the fuel cells are not really a BIG improvemt over batteries, they are niche. Because refilling a Metal hidride cell is free. If you Palm can live a month and recharge for free, why would you need a fuel cell?
So fuel cells will be a niche before becoming widly adopted. Yet, another technologies (atomic batteries, etc) may obsolete them before they see the light.
Also, it doesn't have DHCP ("because a firewall is not supposed to do that, and is a security vulnerability.......") so if you use a cablemmodem or anything that gets the IP from a DHCP server, you are out of luck. There are some ways to add DHCP, but from external parties. But the web interface is not very aware of the fact the IP will change (rule making nightmare).
1 - They are not supposed to be turned on/off much. 2 - You can have a backup floppy, or more. 3 - Of course this are not for large networks, they are for the slow pentium you have in the attic. 4 - Some of these are "load-from-the-net", so they are a way to boot the firewall.
So this anti-floppy knowledge is ok, as long as they can visualize what they are beign used mostly for.
The reason for that attitude is having 100% control, not 100% security. You cannot assume someone is security illiterate and conclude just wanting to be able to change anything is a security vulnerability.
One day, they may find this FW has a vulnerability, and ALL of this firewall will have that one. Because they are all the same.
Bottom line: i think you are plain wrong, tohugh I will agree that anyone security illiterate is better of leaving things as they are.
Seems like a very important bit. The XFree license would allow this. But GPL does not (I somehow limits the expansion of GPL, but on the bright side, it more protective).
Anyway, I'm now wondering the problem is the definition of "Derivative Work". To what extent is something a derivate? Because Morpheus is clearly something bigger than Gnucleus, but Gnucleus beign at the P2P core...
When you have a binary driver for Linux and you download it, you are happy you can now use the modem/3d_card/etc. But if, for example, Nvidia posted a Kernel source that they know works with the driver, along with a binary only driver, would that be ok?
What if they wanted to offer it in an embedded system they would like to sell (say a new console)?
I'm no expert, but am very curious. Anybody here knows? It would be nice to have a way of limiting Morpheus abusing the GPL but endorsing companies to take advantage of it also (so that it can catch up).
For preventing abuse i mean, for the sake of the argument, they become so popular that mostly everyone uses Morpheus and Gnutella dies and we have another propietary network & monopoly preventing Open Source from doing compatible stuff. Thus Open Source served the porpuse GLD wanted to defeat...
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NO. People and especially companies always need some extra stuff that can only be bought with cash. What stuff is paid evolves, but it can either of this (uncomplete list):
- Some phone to call for "help"
- Some company to "blame"
- Some extra feature that makes sense if big enviroments (like Ximian Connector)
It makes sense. These companies are happier paying a fair price. And it adds to their sense of security and superiority over the free versions.
If you don't understand what i mean, well...
Eventually the complexity will get so bad that the only way to manage it will be with artificial intelligence, 'adaptive solutions' with genetic programming, etc. Human programmers will one day wake up to find themselves an anachronism... much like basket weavers.
:)
No, they will be programming and selling Windows AI 72.9 and AILinux 39 for our average kitchen and cars.
This has to be said. You are not making money from Open Source because they don't have a large user base.
Explain me how could Microsoft could help you earn a salary if they had a 5% desktop share? What would you program? What would you sale?
And the problem with Microsoft is that if the software you are making becomes widepread or a priority, they will hapilly put WHATEVER resources are needed to "embrace and extend" you.
So, IMHO you are wrong. What you say is like if Microsoft goes open source (HA!) you'd inmediately have no way to profit from that plataform. WRONG. You'll have more. All the money that now goes flows to Microsoft would flow to companies and programers.
In my country, instead of FUDing water they sell it (mineral water) and guess what? It's more expensive than Coke and sells a lot :)
Ha?
I'm not really knowledgeable in this field, but doesn't a one time carry a disavantage.
I am just going on intuition but how can the receiver of the message know whether the source of the original message is trully caming from the expect source, and not a hijacked source.
Unless the receiver know what he'll be expecting as a message, i cannot forsee how he can be sure to be getting it from the right source.
Also, if he has to maint an interactive conversation, and can't know for sure what the source is, he could either:
1 - run out of pads (can't get the message)
2 - answering more than once with a pad (compromise the messages)
Even if parties have and infinite secuence of random pads, they can never know whcih ones the other party has already "wasted" in hijaked messages.
So to truly be called perfect encryption, there must be a way for perfect autentication of message sources, and this can be a problem. Of course they can agree on further rules for origin validation, but this imposes other vulnerabilities.
This is just a guess so don't slap my face please. Just point me in the right direction for further reading and I'll be glad to learn the answers.
Thanks!
We use something similar to your setup, with Trend Interscan Viruswall Linux Edition. The only problem we found was that there's no support for senmail 8.12, or slackware or SSL support.
:)
Anyway, we figured out a setup that actually works with sendmail 8.12, SSL, etc (i don't recomend the product, there's NO support) and block about 10 viruses a day. It filters http, https, smtps, spop and sftp.
Federico
Unreal (the game) took like 5 years to develop, and they thought it would take them 2 (or something like that). Of course, no company will let you spend 5 years making a game, unless you own it and raise the funds yourself.
Productivity and dates are ok, but more importantly, what you'll need is inspiration, motivation, talent and a clear goal.
The problem is when people think of software (or even digital stuff) as something specific. It's the most generic tool humans have devised after spoken language (english, etc).
So how can you measure productivity when you don' t have a specific goal set. It could be anything, from solving cancer, to expesing art, to making a game (funny games, like leasure suit larry, or RPGs, etc) to guiding a nuke misile.
The article is, in this sense, just plain ridiculous. I'd say anyway, that "productive" in the american sense is what earns you more than cost. And you can't know that in advance. In fact, you could very much destroy productivity when you start using fixed rules to judge productivity instead of using plain COMMON SENSE...
Anyway, that's the way I see it!
People that earn $2000 a month, if they have any kind of clue, are spending about $800 of that money on real estate, which represents a certain amount of 'savings.'
Yes, they are paying it to the guys that had a 70% savings ratio. A sales tax cuts their $1200 like butter, which is worst imho.
But I don't care. People that run the stuff try do their best and that's fine (I guess).
It is the income tax that allows the government to bribe the majority with money coerced from the minority.
No, it's the sales tax that rapes the masses spending-power so that the goverment can "secure" some companies revenues even when they do not innovate and battle against competition.
People that earn $2000 a month spend something like 95%. People that earn 100.000 a month spend about 30%, the remainder is savings.
This is ok, if you want the USA to be, for example, like Brazil.
Your post is enlightened...i couldn't agree more. Sales tax is ok in India, so Indians can buy less and export more. That's becausea sales tax is great only when you want to cut consumer spendings.
:)
Sales taxes are great for corrupt and ignorant goverments in development countries. They are easy to collect and hard to avoid. I KNOW what i mean never mind
Great, i'd couldn't but wait to see the USA software industry killed asap. It's very important for software developement to have huge highways, water pipes and such.
Great...
My short version I:
- A high sales tax can kill your economy
- A high income tax can only slow it down
My short version II:
- A high sales tax kills all high-volume low-margin bussiness
- A high income tax can only cut profits
My short version III:
- Look at Argentina's economy, which is collapsed due to 21% VAT + 3% gross sales tax (income tax doesn't matter when you don't have profits).
No, what's pathetic is when someone attempts to make an analogy between cutthroat business practices and terrorism.
IMHO, your post is FUD. Granted there's nothing worst than terrorism, but asserting everything else is just "totaly and completely secondary to the american system" is bullshit.
Microsoft's monopoly is something that should be in the #3 or #4 priority list. Because it affects the very basic foundation upon which our economy is built: FREE COMPETITIVE MARKETS.
They have abused the system. We are all Microsoft slaves in the software market. Our companies are slaves. But nobody cares, not even the goverment. Nobody cares about our privacy rights either.
Hope i'm wrong. Future will tell...
The revenue generated for the government from MS far exceeds that coming from VA Linux/Software, corporate tax or no.
This is a partial look at the economy. Some firms took the more competitive VALinux offering, with no MS tax. They saved costs and thus where more profitable. Then THOSE companies contributed more income tax.
So what you are seeing when you see the huge MS sales figures, you really are seeing how the pie is distributed, not WHO is contributing value to it.
Basically, if i had any wide monopoly rooted on a basic need of a society (say i control food production) i could charge it tenfold. My sales figures and revenues would be amazing. And I could argue, like Microsoft, that the cheapo food beign sold is destroying taxes.
This is NOT true. Because at the end of the year you'd see PROGRESS. Because people can buy MORE than just food. They can buy books, get an education, watch holywood movies, demand Pr0n and spend more resources on research and why not, DEFENSE.
This is capitalism. Monopoly is NOT good in the long run. In some point of history, it can be good (temporary, for example, while playing catch up with other contries), but in the long run it blocks progress and hurts everyone else.
Bottom line:
It's not a good thing in itself that you should spend $600 on MS office instead of spending it, say, education or reseach in the medical field, or cars. The thing get's worst when $600 can be charged because of a monopoly.
But the US economists know all this better than me, and they figured it in the 19th century...so it's no news.
Well, i'm waiting for the dhcp enabled final release of astaro. Another problem with astaro is that it requires more CPU power than other firewalls. You can do with a 133 pentium for low badnwidth (512kb/s) anyway, just the web interface is slow.
But the requirement states the minimun cpu is a 300 mhz celeron and 64 mb ram. The old 486 with 16 mb won't work. A 32 mb 90 mhz pentium 1 will be painfully slow.
I'd say astaro is great for > pentium 200 mhz with > 64mb ram.
Yeah, but i better like the BMW liquid nitrogen alternative. It runs like a gasoline car, high acceleration, cute combustion-like noise. It's great :)...
But IMHO, a compressed air car is better. I like beign able to refuel the car at home, or better even, recharge it with some solar panels in my high mountain house (AD 2047?).
Also, it's cheaper to transport electricity than to transport nitrogen. The air car makes NO NOISE also (less than an electric car).
It's very strange...
NiMH is too generic. There are cheapo NiMH batteries nobody wants, and not-so-cheapo NiMH batteries everyone wants (at least the ones that care about the mAh load).
I recently bought some 2000 mAh batteries and my camera takes about 400 shots before going dead. With 900 mAh alcalines it's about 40 shots and with cheapo NiMH ones it's about 50.
What do those packs read, regarding mAh? If they are 1600/1800 mAh, they are hell of cheap good ones. Else......
"The same research that is shrinking cell phones has a higher purpose: an exhaust-free electric car."
:)
Gone offtopic, but i think the air-powered car is a better solution than a battery powered car. The air-powered cars in production in Spain are a nice example: you charge the car with a home-compressor, and it gives you 200 miles autonomy (present model).
The exhaust is obviously pure AIR. I'd enjoy the day people put their faces near an exhaust tube to refresh themselves
I'm no expert and electricity has always been something misteroius for me but...
I think the problem of power cells (the ones that already exist and existed for a long time (non-commercial)) is that they hold a big charge (mAh) but it's difficult to reach a given voltage.
Hence, to duplicate an AA battery you will need a LOT of full cells chained together, and thus the device will be really big (impractical).
Also, if the fuel cells are not really a BIG improvemt over batteries, they are niche. Because refilling a Metal hidride cell is free. If you Palm can live a month and recharge for free, why would you need a fuel cell?
So fuel cells will be a niche before becoming widly adopted. Yet, another technologies (atomic batteries, etc) may obsolete them before they see the light.
It's not in the freeloader version.
Also, it doesn't have DHCP ("because a firewall is not supposed to do that, and is a security vulnerability.......") so if you use a cablemmodem or anything that gets the IP from a DHCP server, you are out of luck. There are some ways to add DHCP, but from external parties. But the web interface is not very aware of the fact the IP will change (rule making nightmare).
1 - They are not supposed to be turned on/off much.
2 - You can have a backup floppy, or more.
3 - Of course this are not for large networks, they are for the slow pentium you have in the attic.
4 - Some of these are "load-from-the-net", so they are a way to boot the firewall.
So this anti-floppy knowledge is ok, as long as they can visualize what they are beign used mostly for.
The reason for that attitude is having 100% control, not 100% security. You cannot assume someone is security illiterate and conclude just wanting to be able to change anything is a security vulnerability.
One day, they may find this FW has a vulnerability, and ALL of this firewall will have that one. Because they are all the same.
Bottom line: i think you are plain wrong, tohugh I will agree that anyone security illiterate is better of leaving things as they are.
Seems like a very important bit. The XFree license would allow this. But GPL does not (I somehow limits the expansion of GPL, but on the bright side, it more protective).
Anyway, I'm now wondering the problem is the definition of "Derivative Work". To what extent is something a derivate? Because Morpheus is clearly something bigger than Gnucleus, but Gnucleus beign at the P2P core...
When you have a binary driver for Linux and you download it, you are happy you can now use the modem/3d_card/etc. But if, for example, Nvidia posted a Kernel source that they know works with the driver, along with a binary only driver, would that be ok?
What if they wanted to offer it in an embedded system they would like to sell (say a new console)?
I'm no expert, but am very curious. Anybody here knows? It would be nice to have a way of limiting Morpheus abusing the GPL but endorsing companies to take advantage of it also (so that it can catch up).
For preventing abuse i mean, for the sake of the argument, they become so popular that mostly everyone uses Morpheus and Gnutella dies and we have another propietary network & monopoly preventing Open Source from doing compatible stuff. Thus Open Source served the porpuse GLD wanted to defeat...
Wasn't it readership? Last time I checked worked that way!