You're presuming to use logic (or something similar) to understand a non-logical phenomenon. Don't work. Human emotion is a manifestly NONlinear function and additionally changes from one state to another with about the same level of predictabliity as the position and momentum of a particular subatomic particle. Fuggabouddit.
That's rediculous. You might not want to belive it, but Human Nature is extreemly predictable. It follows probability theory, not logic (not a -> b, but P(a = x|b) = normal_distribution(x,y)). That sort of thing. I'm not saying that we know the exact stastical probability for everything, But we can usualy say pretty well what a given person will do in a given situation.
What other patents were invalidated in order to protect MS? Or, how about, what valid patents were invalidated to protect MS. The Eolas patent was bullshit to begin with, and if they had held on to their victory they would have OwnZ0r3d the web. Even if Eolas didn't go after Moz and other browsers, most people would still use IE, making data-using plugins useless on the web, and under the w3c's RAND patent rules (reasonable and non-discriminatinitory) they would have to have been taken out of their recommendations.
It always amazes me to see these MySQL errors (and, btw ever notice how it's always MySQL, and no other databases?). On links to what are basically straight up static content.
I mean, judging by the content of the site, it could have been done with straight-up HTML, but for some reason they just decided to throw everything into a database, and not do any caching.
Even with autopr0n, i set things up so that the database only needs to be queried when things are changed, not every time they're accessed. That would just be retarded.
Seriously. I remember reading those "tech support humor sites" where they would go off on idiots while at the same time illustrating a huge amount of technical illiteracy themselves. One of the worst was a guy who chastised a woman for calling her PC's case (I.e. the big metal box part) the "engine.", while he called it the "CPU". Neither one of them knew the correct term, but the woman was at least thinking about it and coming up with terms on her own. The tech support guy was an idiot.
Yeah, there can be stupid users out there. There can also be idiotic sys-admins. At my high school, I once lost half a semester's work on a video project due to their (moronic) synching software crashing halfway through. (When you logged on, you're files would be copied over. With my hundreds of megs of video files this could take five minutes. If the upload failed, and you logged off, you would have a blank folder copied over to the system.
I went to the sys-admin's office and told him that my files were gone. He disappeared into his office for a few minutes, and came back out and said "yup, they're gone." I'm like "do you do backups?" and he's like "backups?"
bleh. if they had any brains, they'd be designing these systems, not servicing them.
Charging for your work and restricting access to your code are two entirely different things. I don't know about you, but as a software developer I am worth much more to my boss than simply my code.
If your boss needs to keep you around in order to use the software, it's obviously not that good. Good software should, for the most part, be able run given easy to understand instructions, and be easy to maintain by any competent programmer. I'm not against giving away source code by any means, but when people do give away code, it's a gift, not an obligation.
RIAA: "We're doing this to protect the artists" (even though we took their copyrights away).
EV1: "we're doing this to protect our customers." even though the customers face no legal threat.
Actualy, it's the same argument that was used by CT and Hemos about http://alterslash.org/ which reposts the top comments from slashdot. They claimed in an online chat a year or so ago that they *had* to protect comment posters copyright, or something, which was completely false. They were rightfully slammed in the comments, and I guess they never ended up doing anything, since the site is still there.
They have (basically) accepted a license for Linux other than the GPL. This opens them up to lawsuits from Linux kernel developers.
The GPL is not the same kind of License as, for example, a windows License. The biggest difference is that it's only a redistribution license, rather then a Use license.
In other words, Kernel developers could not sue EV1 unless they redistribute Linux without source. (Which the SCO license requires, btw). Anyone can still use it for any purpose, however, without agreeing to the GPL. This right is explicitly granted to everyone by the GPL itself.
OTOH, you could make an argument that renting a server with Linux installed is equivalent to receiving a copy of Linux from them. When SCO loses their suit with IBM (assuming they don't immediately go bankrupt), this could put them in a bad place.
Because the GPL requires redistribution with source, and SCO's contract forbids it, kernel developers could sue them for one, and SCO could sue them for another. This could put them out of the Linux business. In fact, it might be a good idea for a Linux Kernel developer to sue them now if they are not willing to give out source to people who rent servers from them.
The GPL only applies to redistribution, not use. You can use GPL software without accepting the agreement, by law (probably) and by the text of the GPL itself.
If they sold word perfict for $30, people would think it was only worth $30. What they need to do is have a high base price and then sell lots of bulk licenses (like to schools, offices, OEMs, etc).
The vast majority of people probably use the word processor that came with their computer.
When they outsource your job and you're left wondering how you will feed your family, you won't be so quick to defend outsourcing, schmuck!
Dude. It's not my fault you're a loser.
What OSS has google released? They are doing exactly what this guy was complaining about, taking OSS software and using it to make money without giving anything back.
This has all gone to only make it possible for companies to draw margins even more razor thin than before, inviting catastrophe when they find that their entire software support/writing staff had to flee some tribal violence or a natural calamity that could have been avoided by a decent national infrastructure.
Wtf are you talking about? Tribal violence, in Ireland? In china? Even in large cities in India that's unlikely. You think everything outside of the US is the 3rd world or something? A huge number of software projects fail due to incompetence anyway. If there is a natural disaster (btw, what do you think is going to happen to the US software industry when the "big one" hits in California?), software is fluid, and the project can be restarted anywhere.
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I'm sorry, could you please finish that last sentance? I'm feeling unfufilled.
You're presuming to use logic (or something similar) to understand a non-logical phenomenon. Don't work. Human emotion is a manifestly NONlinear function and additionally changes from one state to another with about the same level of predictabliity as the position and momentum of a particular subatomic particle. Fuggabouddit.
That's rediculous. You might not want to belive it, but Human Nature is extreemly predictable. It follows probability theory, not logic (not a -> b, but P(a = x|b) = normal_distribution(x,y)). That sort of thing. I'm not saying that we know the exact stastical probability for everything, But we can usualy say pretty well what a given person will do in a given situation.
What other patents were invalidated in order to protect MS? Or, how about, what valid patents were invalidated to protect MS. The Eolas patent was bullshit to begin with, and if they had held on to their victory they would have OwnZ0r3d the web. Even if Eolas didn't go after Moz and other browsers, most people would still use IE, making data-using plugins useless on the web, and under the w3c's RAND patent rules (reasonable and non-discriminatinitory) they would have to have been taken out of their recommendations.
If George W. Bush is against 'same sex marriage' he should watch a video and learn a new technique like the rest of us.
What on earth does that mean?
It always amazes me to see these MySQL errors (and, btw ever notice how it's always MySQL, and no other databases?). On links to what are basically straight up static content.
I mean, judging by the content of the site, it could have been done with straight-up HTML, but for some reason they just decided to throw everything into a database, and not do any caching.
Even with autopr0n, i set things up so that the database only needs to be queried when things are changed, not every time they're accessed. That would just be retarded.
Ukranaian women are fucking hot That is all. Thank you.
God that's helarious.
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wow, these guys sure are some ub3r 31337 sys4dm1n5.
Seriously. I remember reading those "tech support humor sites" where they would go off on idiots while at the same time illustrating a huge amount of technical illiteracy themselves. One of the worst was a guy who chastised a woman for calling her PC's case (I.e. the big metal box part) the "engine.", while he called it the "CPU". Neither one of them knew the correct term, but the woman was at least thinking about it and coming up with terms on her own. The tech support guy was an idiot.
Yeah, there can be stupid users out there. There can also be idiotic sys-admins. At my high school, I once lost half a semester's work on a video project due to their (moronic) synching software crashing halfway through. (When you logged on, you're files would be copied over. With my hundreds of megs of video files this could take five minutes. If the upload failed, and you logged off, you would have a blank folder copied over to the system.
I went to the sys-admin's office and told him that my files were gone. He disappeared into his office for a few minutes, and came back out and said "yup, they're gone." I'm like "do you do backups?" and he's like "backups?"
bleh. if they had any brains, they'd be designing these systems, not servicing them.
Wait...did'nt this happen before? :)
Just four or five times in this thread already.
Charging for your work and restricting access to your code are two entirely different things. I don't know about you, but as a software developer I am worth much more to my boss than simply my code.
If your boss needs to keep you around in order to use the software, it's obviously not that good. Good software should, for the most part, be able run given easy to understand instructions, and be easy to maintain by any competent programmer. I'm not against giving away source code by any means, but when people do give away code, it's a gift, not an obligation.
Code can be a very concise way to express an algorithm.
Damnit, you're right! Now what the hell am I going to do with all this Turing machine tape!?
Did you just say that Cisco has a project called "Spanish Inquisition"?
Who would've expected that?
This MUST either result in such intractable security issues that it will be worthless . . .
Yup, just like java applets and flash.
What portion of detecting whether code sent to you over the network is doing something 'strange', do you find simple?
The part where you limit access to any APIs that could be dangerious, and run it in a sandbox so that it can't get creative on it's own.
RIAA: "We're doing this to protect the artists" (even though we took their copyrights away).
EV1: "we're doing this to protect our customers." even though the customers face no legal threat.
Actualy, it's the same argument that was used by CT and Hemos about http://alterslash.org/ which reposts the top comments from slashdot. They claimed in an online chat a year or so ago that they *had* to protect comment posters copyright, or something, which was completely false. They were rightfully slammed in the comments, and I guess they never ended up doing anything, since the site is still there.
They have (basically) accepted a license for Linux other than the GPL. This opens them up to lawsuits from Linux kernel developers.
The GPL is not the same kind of License as, for example, a windows License. The biggest difference is that it's only a redistribution license, rather then a Use license.
In other words, Kernel developers could not sue EV1 unless they redistribute Linux without source. (Which the SCO license requires, btw). Anyone can still use it for any purpose, however, without agreeing to the GPL. This right is explicitly granted to everyone by the GPL itself.
OTOH, you could make an argument that renting a server with Linux installed is equivalent to receiving a copy of Linux from them. When SCO loses their suit with IBM (assuming they don't immediately go bankrupt), this could put them in a bad place.
Because the GPL requires redistribution with source, and SCO's contract forbids it, kernel developers could sue them for one, and SCO could sue them for another. This could put them out of the Linux business. In fact, it might be a good idea for a Linux Kernel developer to sue them now if they are not willing to give out source to people who rent servers from them.
Only after SCO wins their lawsuit against IBM, and has the weight of the US government behind it will not listening to them be Civil disobedience.
Not paying protection money to the mob isn't Civil Disobedience either.
The GPL only applies to redistribution, not use. You can use GPL software without accepting the agreement, by law (probably) and by the text of the GPL itself.
What's wrong with porn hosting!?
Ho-dean actualy ran FreeBSD. At least according to slashdot
If they sold word perfict for $30, people would think it was only worth $30. What they need to do is have a high base price and then sell lots of bulk licenses (like to schools, offices, OEMs, etc).
The vast majority of people probably use the word processor that came with their computer.
When they outsource your job and you're left wondering how you will feed your family, you won't be so quick to defend outsourcing, schmuck! Dude. It's not my fault you're a loser.
What OSS has google released? They are doing exactly what this guy was complaining about, taking OSS software and using it to make money without giving anything back.
This has all gone to only make it possible for companies to draw margins even more razor thin than before, inviting catastrophe when they find that their entire software support/writing staff had to flee some tribal violence or a natural calamity that could have been avoided by a decent national infrastructure.
Wtf are you talking about? Tribal violence, in Ireland? In china? Even in large cities in India that's unlikely. You think everything outside of the US is the 3rd world or something? A huge number of software projects fail due to incompetence anyway. If there is a natural disaster (btw, what do you think is going to happen to the US software industry when the "big one" hits in California?), software is fluid, and the project can be restarted anywhere.