Every industry have interests in valuing byproducts.
In software industry, bugs are a byproduct and, there are ways to sell them as features.
There are compagnies to sell trashcans so trashes dont invade your house. You can produce gaz out of shit.
There are compagnies to sell enough memory, hand hard disk space so you have place to put leaks and fragmentations. You can even buy virus and spam cleaners.
Economically: Wastes have values and you can make money out of it by recycling. No matter if these are hardware or software wastes.
1) Setup server farm 2) Accept prime candidate for minimal fee covering costs + profit 3) If prime is OK, get the prize and give back part of it. 4) Profit
Pack everything in one chip : - All of C64 - USB IO
Add one or two USB ports (In and Out) Tape lines wired to USB audio chip Video out to USB video Keyboard to USB HID
And voila a small pocket C64 you plug on any USB port or use standalone with USB keybord. You need to access tape. Plug your computer and play/record to/from the USB audio device. Display on TV or on PC/Mac as any webcam...
The rejected ones could still be used as scarecrow in my back yard.
Failed CDR and AOL CD are already good scarecrow. Birds don't like them.
Sure, I don't like the junk DRM that is coming with blue ray DVD as well. Perhaps the remaning sucessfully built 80% could be used as future customers scarecrow. Nothing here to buy, Everything on that Blue Ray DVD belong to us. Go away communist opensource, GNU, EFF customer bastard !;)
I wonder what these courts would do if Microsoft was to actually produce a version of Windows that contained absolutely no 'bundled' software that had a competitor in the market. Imagine a version of Windows with no notepad, wordpad, IE, Windows Explorer, Windows Media Player, screensaver, network browser, task manager, disk defragmenter, TCP stack, Instant Messenger, backup tool, cd player, email client, remote desktop, scripting tool, command prompt or shell.
This is not a problem of Microsoft bundling tools that anyone would consider basic fonctions a computer should have out of store.
This is a problem of: - Many of Microsoft bundled tools can not be replaced/removed. or - Microsoft bundled tools are unable to properly operate with other alternate vendors tools by design.
As Mozilla is able to do client side XSLT transformations, and as Odt is an xml format. You should be able to display OpenDocument in mozilla natively, providing a prepoer XSLT file. What did you like more ?
who uses Braille or Speach would much appreciate if, navigation, sponsors and other indexes, except the last comment summary, went to the bottom of the html document.
This would avoid having to skip all the same j^H^Hk common indexes sequentially to reach actual news and comments.
You realy should have a look a FreeNX http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/> FreeNX Server is the Free and GPL'd NX server implementation by Fabian Franz, based on NoMachine.com's NX technology. NoMachine have thankfully licensed the core of NX under the GPL (they provide a close-source commercial NX server product on top of that code, as well as professional support).
The NX protocol let you use remote X display while connected by low bandwidth lines. It require much less bandwith than raw X or X over compressed ssh.
then perhaps the open source community can at the very least ensure that the dominant delivery system is an open standard
Sure, there is some little hope free software may not be left behind of anything DRM controled if an open standard get massively adopted.
The real question here is: What are the chances an open standard get significantly adopted?
DRM is coming (Or is already here), one way or another, and is better to work on creating something done right, or to object to it on moral grounds?
Who believe the media industry choices and practices includes moral? Whose moral? Their own moral if any.
With the actual business practices based upon mass market, short terms, high profit. The media industry will choos their DRM standards upon they operate on the most dominant systems at the lowests costs with the maximum profit.
We should not expect the media industry doing moral choices, like using open standard DRM unless it is the more valuable choice for them.
With dialup ppp over an 28800 modem to my ISP, the ping lattency stays at 190ms.
Now my old white Sportster 28800 now serve for my emergency connexion in case DSL goes down.
As 190ms was not an issue for Q3 gaming or web browsing in 1996, I wouldn't say so today.
Web pages tend to incorporate much more linked object thant it used to lately in 1996. And the number of HTTP requests needed to load a page is a pain to load whith a high lattency link. Much more a problem than limited bandwith after all.
FPS gaming on 190ms dialup is no more an option when you compeet with onserver, lan or low lattency cable/dsl remote players.
Open source or Closed source have nothing to do with operating software and engaging responsability on installation and services.
Imagine you run a wood factory and need accouning software and stock application.
Your domain is wood, not IT. So you Hire someone or you buy service to an IT company to provide you with proper software that feets your computing needs.
Wether the provided software is open source or closed source is not your business. You just like it to do the intended work. If something's wrong you tunr back to the entity who can fix it: the IT company that sold you the installed and operationnal system and support service.
Open source risk is a non question for the final user.
Open source is all about source and none about providing installed binaries for an operationnal application.
Geobacter does not use oxigen, but metal as it's source for power
Now, our cars will not only rust in winter because of salted snow, but they may rot eaten by Geobacter.;)
More seriously: Could this bacteria be genetically engineered to eat common metals like steel, or more uncommon ones targeted at destroying military or sabotage foundrys?
The most interresting part here is, this robot fingers can rotate and stay in precise contrôl very fast.
As mentioned, there is no arm and the area for interception is very tight. Building an arm mounted interceptor may raise serious problems with inertia though.
Commercials saying this product was elected "best of the year ##### *1" And at the very bottom and in very tiny typeface : (*1) Elected by a consumer sample of 108 in a meeting organized by Dummy Marketing Corp Ltd
There are many exploits in low permitting many non-sens and intended beleafs. Just use proper wording.
If you want to publish positiv review only : "Here are the nice review from our happy customers" That is ok for the law and may sufficiently hide the fact you throw away negativ reviews.
Bundling Firefox mostly mean providing outdated unsecure versions of Firefox wchich would void most of saving costs on support or security issues.
As it is usualy done at ISPs (for example):
- Managment says : Ok, lets provide Firefox on our setup CD. - Let choose current stable version - Spend some time vaidating the product - Eventually go into a customization process (profile presets for homepage, bookmarks, logo, (skins?). - Package it - Revalidate if it is still ok - Burn prepress master CDR - Wait till the old stock of setup CD will go down or we realy need an updated version of our own setup program. - Sent the CDR to Pressed CD factory
Let's say 4 to 6 weeks gone on all the process.
Customers gain at leat a 6 weeks old version on CD when it's just out in stores.
Let's estimate the CD stock lifetime is 3 months and more. If we need no change in our own setup tools there is no motivation in going into the validation process for a new version of the bundled Firefox. So, until that, the same master CD may be used for new setup CD stock.
Customers tend to get very outdated versions of Firefox. (3 to 12 months old)
At the current state with Firefox there is no clean/easy way it can update automatically online while keeping customizations you made, unless you invest on enginering service and custom repository and update service.
The idea sound good at first but when you look at what's involved. It is not so.
Slashdot Mirror
Ask the multicast router about who get the feed. Already done by IPTV providers.
Will people who played pac man, enjoy dark places with blinking colors while hearing buzz music and eating pills. Oh wait...
Every industry have interests in valuing byproducts.
In software industry, bugs are a byproduct and, there are ways to sell them as features.
There are compagnies to sell trashcans so trashes dont invade your house. You can produce gaz out of shit.
There are compagnies to sell enough memory, hand hard disk space so you have place to put leaks and fragmentations. You can even buy virus and spam cleaners.
Economically: Wastes have values and you can make money out of it by recycling. No matter if these are hardware or software wastes.
Frofit out of it now:
1) Setup server farm
2) Accept prime candidate for minimal fee covering costs + profit
3) If prime is OK, get the prize and give back part of it.
4) Profit
Pack everything in one chip :
...
- All of C64
- USB IO
Add one or two USB ports (In and Out)
Tape lines wired to USB audio chip
Video out to USB video
Keyboard to USB HID
And voila a small pocket C64 you plug on any USB port or use standalone with USB keybord.
You need to access tape. Plug your computer and play/record to/from the USB audio device.
Display on TV or on PC/Mac as any webcam
Even pack all of this inside a cell phone.
Mass white dwarves and maybe imps, but the story don't tell.
That's Santa Claus riding near Hubble.
mmm. labels with dates changing...
The rejected ones could still be used as scarecrow in my back yard.
;)
Failed CDR and AOL CD are already good scarecrow. Birds don't like them.
Sure, I don't like the junk DRM that is coming with blue ray DVD as well. Perhaps the remaning sucessfully built 80% could be used as future customers scarecrow. Nothing here to buy, Everything on that Blue Ray DVD belong to us. Go away communist opensource, GNU, EFF customer bastard !
As the get 'smarter', someday, computer virus and worms may become life forms. It's no magic these have been called lifre formes already.
Tis is an unreported, unknown new life form Sir. We should not destroy or interfere with itx existance due to The Prime Directive.
I wonder what these courts would do if Microsoft was to actually produce a version of Windows that contained absolutely no 'bundled' software that had a competitor in the market. Imagine a version of Windows with no notepad, wordpad, IE, Windows Explorer, Windows Media Player, screensaver, network browser, task manager, disk defragmenter, TCP stack, Instant Messenger, backup tool, cd player, email client, remote desktop, scripting tool, command prompt or shell.
This is not a problem of Microsoft bundling tools that anyone would consider basic fonctions a computer should have out of store.
This is a problem of:
- Many of Microsoft bundled tools can not be replaced/removed.
or
- Microsoft bundled tools are unable to properly operate with other alternate vendors tools by design.
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As Mozilla is able to do client side XSLT transformations, and as Odt is an xml format. You should be able to display OpenDocument in mozilla natively, providing a prepoer XSLT file. What did you like more ?
But blind / partially sighted
who uses Braille or Speach would much appreciate if, navigation, sponsors and other indexes, except the last comment summary, went to the bottom of the html document.
This would avoid having to skip all the same j^H^Hk common indexes sequentially to reach actual news and comments.
Yes, the css look nice with telnet as well.
/base.css HTTP/1.1
me@thing:~$dig www.slashcode.com +short
66.35.250.197
me@thing:~$ telnet 66.35.250.197 80
Trying 66.35.250.197...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out
me@thing:~$ telnet 66.35.250.197 80
Trying 66.35.250.197...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
me@thing:~$ telnet 66.35.250.197 80
Trying 66.35.250.197...
Connected to 66.35.250.197.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET
Host: www.slashcode.com
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 16:53:22 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.31 (Unix) mod_perl/1.29
X-Powered-By: Slash 2.005000
X-Bender: The laws of science be a harsh mistress.
Last-Modified: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 20:15:57 GMT
ETag: "8cc-2438-4318b2fd"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 9272
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/css
body, div, form, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, #links ul li, #links ul, #topnav, img
{
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
You realy should have a look a FreeNX http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/>
FreeNX Server is the Free and GPL'd NX server implementation by Fabian Franz, based on NoMachine.com's NX technology. NoMachine have thankfully licensed the core of NX under the GPL (they provide a close-source commercial NX server product on top of that code, as well as professional support).
The NX protocol let you use remote X display while connected by low bandwidth lines. It require much less bandwith than raw X or X over compressed ssh.
Everyone head to the east with their car and go as fast as possible.
:)
And everyone around the world, press the breaks all at once, while riding to the east.
That may be enough to accelerate the Earth's rotation
This is a real problem for visualy impaired and not only blinds.
Distored fonts, noisy lines, random dots and low contrast used in such pictures, makes it at least very hard or impossible to read.
Accessibility recommandations and W3C standards would require such important content, to be backuped with alternate formats like an audio record.
I believe these rules should apply not only to government sites.
But, I know no site, providing alternativ audio captcha for now. My husband and I, require a tier person to read most captchas actualy.
then perhaps the open source community can at the very least ensure that the dominant delivery system is an open standard
Sure, there is some little hope free software may not be left behind of anything DRM controled if an open standard get massively adopted.
The real question here is: What are the chances an open standard get significantly adopted?
DRM is coming (Or is already here), one way or another, and is better to work on creating something done right, or to object to it on moral grounds?
Who believe the media industry choices and practices includes moral? Whose moral? Their own moral if any.
With the actual business practices based upon mass market, short terms, high profit. The media industry will choos their DRM standards upon they operate on the most dominant systems at the lowests costs with the maximum profit.
We should not expect the media industry doing moral choices, like using open standard DRM unless it is the more valuable choice for them.
Great, How am I supposed to use a flash application with a braille terminal connected to a brltty device on Linux ?
With dialup ppp over an 28800 modem to my ISP, the ping lattency stays at 190ms.
Now my old white Sportster 28800 now serve for my emergency connexion in case DSL goes down.
As 190ms was not an issue for Q3 gaming or web browsing in 1996, I wouldn't say so today.
Web pages tend to incorporate much more linked object thant it used to lately in 1996. And the number of HTTP requests needed to load a page is a pain to load whith a high lattency link. Much more a problem than limited bandwith after all.
FPS gaming on 190ms dialup is no more an option when you compeet with onserver, lan or low lattency cable/dsl remote players.
Open source or Closed source have nothing to do with operating software and engaging responsability on installation and services.
Imagine you run a wood factory and need accouning software and stock application.
Your domain is wood, not IT. So you Hire someone or you buy service to an IT company to provide you with proper software that feets your computing needs.
Wether the provided software is open source or closed source is not your business. You just like it to do the intended work. If something's wrong you tunr back to the entity who can fix it: the IT company that sold you the installed and operationnal system and support service.
Open source risk is a non question for the final user.
Open source is all about source and none about providing installed binaries for an operationnal application.
Anyone else think of roten metals ?
;)
Geobacter does not use oxigen, but metal as it's source for power
Now, our cars will not only rust in winter because of salted snow, but they may rot eaten by Geobacter.
More seriously:
Could this bacteria be genetically engineered to eat common metals like steel, or more uncommon ones targeted at destroying military or sabotage foundrys?
Is another bio weapon on the way?
The most interresting part here is, this robot fingers can rotate and stay in precise contrôl very fast.
As mentioned, there is no arm and the area for interception is very tight. Building an arm mounted interceptor may raise serious problems with inertia though.
Time to think of a robotized pickpocket.
Not much different than :
Commercials saying this product was elected "best of the year ##### *1"
And at the very bottom and in very tiny typeface :
(*1) Elected by a consumer sample of 108 in a meeting organized by Dummy Marketing Corp Ltd
There are many exploits in low permitting many non-sens and intended beleafs. Just use proper wording.
If you want to publish positiv review only :
"Here are the nice review from our happy customers"
That is ok for the law and may sufficiently hide the fact you throw away negativ reviews.
Bundling Firefox mostly mean providing outdated unsecure versions of Firefox wchich would void most of saving costs on support or security issues.
As it is usualy done at ISPs (for example):
- Managment says : Ok, lets provide Firefox on our setup CD.
- Let choose current stable version
- Spend some time vaidating the product
- Eventually go into a customization process (profile presets for homepage, bookmarks, logo, (skins?).
- Package it
- Revalidate if it is still ok
- Burn prepress master CDR
- Wait till the old stock of setup CD will go down or we realy need an updated version of our own setup program.
- Sent the CDR to Pressed CD factory
Let's say 4 to 6 weeks gone on all the process.
Customers gain at leat a 6 weeks old version on CD when it's just out in stores.
Let's estimate the CD stock lifetime is 3 months and more. If we need no change in our own setup tools there is no motivation in going into the validation process for a new version of the bundled Firefox. So, until that, the same master CD may be used for new setup CD stock.
Customers tend to get very outdated versions of Firefox. (3 to 12 months old)
At the current state with Firefox there is no clean/easy way it can update automatically online while keeping customizations you made, unless you invest on enginering service and custom repository and update service.
The idea sound good at first but when you look at what's involved. It is not so.