I agree that Sony will lose some market segment over this, but how big is that segment compared to the one that doesn't care, because its mostly ignorant? Still, laws sometimes slow things down, or speed things up, and always create unintended consequences, so usually less law is better. Besides, nothing is perfect, ever. Laws and markets are arbitrary social mechanisms, and thus both have similar problems. We need both, we use both, so the human species needs to improve the implementation of both together.
Besides, no law will prevent me from rearranging the digital bits on any physical media I pay for.
The CIA has a habit of assasinating really smart Koreans that study nuclear physics, and make it look like automobile accidents. You know that it doesn't matter if he was or wasn't doing nuke work. If someone at the CIA thought he was, then other people like George Bush, Sr. were ready to have him "eliminated."
"In South Korea, the physicist is popularly perceived as a theoretician who writes the laws of the universe in mathematical language rather than as an experimentalist who discovers or measures. In fact, since 1948 South Korea's governments have supported physics as an eminently practical route to the development of a nuclear arsenal, improvement of nuclear power plants, and the growth of South Korea's semiconductor industry. This article attempts to answer how and why this strange conflict between the image and role of physics emerged and continued in South Korea during the last half of the 20th century."
Dong-Won Kim, 2002
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BSD zealots are moderating this thread, and nothing is funny about it. They are more serious about being open than anyone else. Nothing is or ever will be more open than BSD; it seriously is the only completely open UNIX anywhere. (Because Linux and GNU are NOT really UNIX; seriously, they are just less open clones of UNIX specs). So let's all take this very seriously, and not joke about it, OK? I'm feeling some "serious" flames already.
The merchants in camel trains would each pool a little bit of money to cover the loss of any one trader's camel and goods. If no one lost any goods, the money was returned to each merchant. Today's insurance companies don't return your money if no one ever files a claim. What's up with that?
I loved DR-DOS 5 too, just before Novel owned it for awhile and released a version. Digital Research was located in Monterey, California. Visting there about 1992, I called 411 directory assistance, and ask for Digital Research. Back in that day, directory assistance was handled locally, and the operator told me she remembered getting a lot of calls for Digital Research, but it was no longer listed, and she wasn't sure why. Needless to say, they must have closed their offices in Monterey without a lot of local fanfare. (and moved all the jobs to Utah?)
The idea of an electronically connected web of hyper-linked documents for academic review was dicussed by Kevin Drexler in the Engines of Creation (a really good book about NanoTech published almost 20 years ago.) I'm not suggesting that it was his idea, in fact I suggest we accept the concept of "independent origination", i.e. that multiple people can have the same idea independent of each other. In order to promote "independent origination" among all the people, let's listen before we judge, and postpone judgement until required by other forces.
In early 1970's, I recall this computer, the HP 2000, with real-time BASIC, paper tapes, and teletype terminals with modem connections. (My first computer program was on this machine, 1972!) It had great interactive games, all text of course, and some based on real physcial science. I recall one our Physics teacher wrote, trying to land Apollo Lunar module on the surface of the Moon, without running out of fuel, or crashing into the surface too fast. It wasn't easy, and I remember kids screaming with joy when they actully made it safe, which wasn't very often. This was real science teaching at its best.
OK, I can't decide which I want, the slick GUI in MSN Virtual Earth or the color satellite photos in Google Maps, while MSN still only has B&W in places. I've spent some time comparing the map data in MSN and Google, and I think there are places where each is better than the other, but no clear winner in all cases. At least I like that Google Maps is asking its API users to submit error reports. But I also like the 'scratch pad' feature in MSN compared to the ballons in Google maps. Oh well, freedom of choice is better than no choice at all, right?
Is it cheating to just read the JavaScript at http://www.borrett.id.au/computing/petals-j.htm where you can play the game? I'm not saying its right, becuase I didn't know what the answer should be, so beware.
Migrate running images? What about running Exchange server on a virtual Windows server using VMWare GSX/ESX? (I realize now, that these products run on the bare metal, there is no OS underneath them.) I need to find out who else is already doing this.
We only want Windows Servers running inside virtural machines running on a Linux OS that owns the real hardware. Products like VMWare. We can host complete Internet web apps for clients that insist that their web site has to run on Windows. Is this viable?
Nixon engaged Red China so USA could pull out of Vietnam with "honor." The Viet Cong were effectively restrained by mainland China who didn't favor a Soviet supported government so nearby. Does anyone else recall that Vietnam had battles with China after the USA pull-out? So, yes, both my family and I thank Nixon everday that a generation of American youth didn't have to keep fighting that war forever. Nixon kept his promise: We got out, and it was "honorable" in the sense that Viet Cong were effectively contained.
According to the Unix Haters Handbook, the Lisp Machines were much better than the early Sun workstations that replaced them (except for cost, which is why people bought the first Suns instead of LispM.) Didn't they used to cost more than $50,000 each? I've been wating 20 years to get my own Lisp Machine, now I can run one on a cheap PC. Emacs is like eating crumbs from the table, its time to cook some real meals!
Most US corporations have executive portfolios with M$ stock, and therefore resist anything that threatens their personal wealth. Unless Linux is less than 1/10 the TCO of Windows, it will take a generation before Windows is gone. Gone it will be, but how soon? I expect to be fighting for open source until the day I die. Governments flip/flop just like all politicians.
OK, it is just marketing, but IMHO it's wrong. Don't I just need to know the Linux kernel version that the binaries were built with, so I know if I have up-to-date libraries?
OK, so we don't expect most people to worry about libraries, etc. Still, I think we need one single "metric" that gives all Linux users a clue about what they should know, and that IMHO is the kernel version.
Money isn't the only currency in the world. Sometimes you invest your time with a group of people, and yes you benefit from sharing your time with others sharing their time with you, and you get a better software product. And, you can determine its better, because you can see the source and test it yourself. On the other hand, if you want to buy closed-source software, how will you know you're getting your money's worth? Is it always true that you get what you pay for? You might not get anything at all, even when you pay for it.
In other words, I agree that quality has a price, no matter if its money and/or time. I feel more confident that quality of open-source is better way to spend my time, and I can denote my money to charity.
A resonable curious teen-ager can learn to read circuit diagams in less than a week. They are meant to be simple. In fact, my father explained how tubes worked before I was 10, and he added why some English speaking people called them 'valves.' A technical and social lesson in under 5 minutes. There is value in this communication. He didn't charge me money for that information, but there was economic benefit to society because he shared this information. This is the secret success of open-source, open for all to understand, increasing the social wealth by replicating open information among those who take the time to know it.
That was the Vietnam war. By not using the capital 'V', you belittle the service of your father in that war, may he rest in peace. Shameful disrepect, but I forgive you anyway. I'm sure it was just a typo, right?
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Besides, no law will prevent me from rearranging the digital bits on any physical media I pay for.
The CIA has a habit of assasinating really smart Koreans that study nuclear physics, and make it look like automobile accidents. You know that it doesn't matter if he was or wasn't doing nuke work. If someone at the CIA thought he was, then other people like George Bush, Sr. were ready to have him "eliminated."
"In South Korea, the physicist is popularly perceived as a theoretician who writes the laws of the universe in mathematical language rather than as an experimentalist who discovers or measures. In fact, since 1948 South Korea's governments have supported physics as an eminently practical route to the development of a nuclear arsenal, improvement of nuclear power plants, and the growth of South Korea's semiconductor industry. This article attempts to answer how and why this strange conflict between the image and role of physics emerged and continued in South Korea during the last half of the 20th century."
Dong-Won Kim, 2002
BSD zealots are moderating this thread, and nothing is funny about it. They are more serious about being open than anyone else. Nothing is or ever will be more open than BSD; it seriously is the only completely open UNIX anywhere. (Because Linux and GNU are NOT really UNIX; seriously, they are just less open clones of UNIX specs). So let's all take this very seriously, and not joke about it, OK? I'm feeling some "serious" flames already.
The merchants in camel trains would each pool a little bit of money to cover the loss of any one trader's camel and goods. If no one lost any goods, the money was returned to each merchant. Today's insurance companies don't return your money if no one ever files a claim. What's up with that?
I loved DR-DOS 5 too, just before Novel owned it for awhile and released a version. Digital Research was located in Monterey, California. Visting there about 1992, I called 411 directory assistance, and ask for Digital Research. Back in that day, directory assistance was handled locally, and the operator told me she remembered getting a lot of calls for Digital Research, but it was no longer listed, and she wasn't sure why. Needless to say, they must have closed their offices in Monterey without a lot of local fanfare. (and moved all the jobs to Utah?)
Perhaps those who could mod this up have taken the advice to wait before passing any judgement.
The idea of an electronically connected web of hyper-linked documents for academic review was dicussed by Kevin Drexler in the Engines of Creation (a really good book about NanoTech published almost 20 years ago.) I'm not suggesting that it was his idea, in fact I suggest we accept the concept of "independent origination", i.e. that multiple people can have the same idea independent of each other. In order to promote "independent origination" among all the people, let's listen before we judge, and postpone judgement until required by other forces.
In early 1970's, I recall this computer, the HP 2000, with real-time BASIC, paper tapes, and teletype terminals with modem connections. (My first computer program was on this machine, 1972!) It had great interactive games, all text of course, and some based on real physcial science. I recall one our Physics teacher wrote, trying to land Apollo Lunar module on the surface of the Moon, without running out of fuel, or crashing into the surface too fast. It wasn't easy, and I remember kids screaming with joy when they actully made it safe, which wasn't very often. This was real science teaching at its best.
I feel a productivity surge bubbling up inside me.
OK, I can't decide which I want, the slick GUI in MSN Virtual Earth or the color satellite photos in Google Maps, while MSN still only has B&W in places. I've spent some time comparing the map data in MSN and Google, and I think there are places where each is better than the other, but no clear winner in all cases. At least I like that Google Maps is asking its API users to submit error reports. But I also like the 'scratch pad' feature in MSN compared to the ballons in Google maps. Oh well, freedom of choice is better than no choice at all, right?
Is it cheating to just read the JavaScript at http://www.borrett.id.au/computing/petals-j.htm where you can play the game? I'm not saying its right, becuase I didn't know what the answer should be, so beware.
Since when did any new bridge like this in America include more than one rail line, if any?
Migrate running images? What about running Exchange server on a virtual Windows server using VMWare GSX/ESX? (I realize now, that these products run on the bare metal, there is no OS underneath them.) I need to find out who else is already doing this.
We only want Windows Servers running inside virtural machines running on a Linux OS that owns the real hardware. Products like VMWare. We can host complete Internet web apps for clients that insist that their web site has to run on Windows. Is this viable?
Virgin Mary? eBay got it...miracle Madonna and Baby Jesus painting Go ahead, mod me -1 for crash commercialism with an eBay affliate account.
Are we sure these aren't kittens of something even bigger?
Nixon engaged Red China so USA could pull out of Vietnam with "honor." The Viet Cong were effectively restrained by mainland China who didn't favor a Soviet supported government so nearby. Does anyone else recall that Vietnam had battles with China after the USA pull-out? So, yes, both my family and I thank Nixon everday that a generation of American youth didn't have to keep fighting that war forever. Nixon kept his promise: We got out, and it was "honorable" in the sense that Viet Cong were effectively contained.
According to the Unix Haters Handbook, the Lisp Machines were much better than the early Sun workstations that replaced them (except for cost, which is why people bought the first Suns instead of LispM.) Didn't they used to cost more than $50,000 each? I've been wating 20 years to get my own Lisp Machine, now I can run one on a cheap PC. Emacs is like eating crumbs from the table, its time to cook some real meals!
Most US corporations have executive portfolios with M$ stock, and therefore resist anything that threatens their personal wealth. Unless Linux is less than 1/10 the TCO of Windows, it will take a generation before Windows is gone. Gone it will be, but how soon? I expect to be fighting for open source until the day I die. Governments flip/flop just like all politicians.
I half believe you, but we need proff. Can you image that thumbnail with your camera, please?
Just curious, has /. UID 1,000,000 been issued yet? Can we get it on eBay?
OK, it is just marketing, but IMHO it's wrong. Don't I just need to know the Linux kernel version that the binaries were built with, so I know if I have up-to-date libraries? OK, so we don't expect most people to worry about libraries, etc. Still, I think we need one single "metric" that gives all Linux users a clue about what they should know, and that IMHO is the kernel version.
Money isn't the only currency in the world. Sometimes you invest your time with a group of people, and yes you benefit from sharing your time with others sharing their time with you, and you get a better software product. And, you can determine its better, because you can see the source and test it yourself. On the other hand, if you want to buy closed-source software, how will you know you're getting your money's worth? Is it always true that you get what you pay for? You might not get anything at all, even when you pay for it. In other words, I agree that quality has a price, no matter if its money and/or time. I feel more confident that quality of open-source is better way to spend my time, and I can denote my money to charity.
A resonable curious teen-ager can learn to read circuit diagams in less than a week. They are meant to be simple. In fact, my father explained how tubes worked before I was 10, and he added why some English speaking people called them 'valves.' A technical and social lesson in under 5 minutes. There is value in this communication. He didn't charge me money for that information, but there was economic benefit to society because he shared this information. This is the secret success of open-source, open for all to understand, increasing the social wealth by replicating open information among those who take the time to know it.
That was the Vietnam war. By not using the capital 'V', you belittle the service of your father in that war, may he rest in peace. Shameful disrepect, but I forgive you anyway. I'm sure it was just a typo, right?