I'm not sure he can. The microsoft.com domain is blocked from within Sun, so that their researchers can troll and flame MS without knowingly being wrong.
Interesting. That's a good application of the Theory to this situation.
I belive, however, there's a big difference between death by old age or cancer versus some large-scale epidemic. I think it's humanity's duty to help in situations like this. We should always take notice when something like this affects the population and threatens cultures.
This is neither here nor there (as in, it doesn't address my original comment or your reply), but it warrants saying.
'Just consider Aids, and then look at chimpanzees,' says Jones. 'You find they all carry a version of HIV but are unaffected by it.
'But a few thousand years ago, when the first chimps became infected, things would have been very different. Millions of chimps probably died as the virus spread through them, and only a small number, which possessed genes that conferred immunity, survived to become the ancestors of all chimps today.
'Something very similar could soon happen to humans. In a thousand years, Africa will be populated only by the descendants of those few individuals who are currently immune to the Aids virus. They will carry the virus but will be unaffected by it. So yes, there will be change there all right - but only where the forces of evolution are not being suppressed.'
Does he suppose this, or is there evidence to support to his statement "In a thousand years, Africa will be populated only by the descendants of those few individuals who are currently immune to the Aids virus". If it's true, isn't this kinda a big f*ing deal? It means of Africa's (2 billion?) population will die.
They have something like this. It's called public domain and all copyrighted works end up free (well, really, with no owner to restrict their use) after a certain amout of time. Unfortunately, in the case of software owned by a corporation, it takes 95 - 120 years! I think it'd be cool if some software, say anything that retails for
That should help out some less prosperous countries. But that's a pretty liberal position. I say screw em. Make em pay!
Well said, although I'd spin it a different way. Thomas Friedman wrote a good book called The Lexus and the Olive Tree. One of his themes is that until a government/society/country sets up laws that enforce copyright, there's a hard limit to how well they can do economically. Furthermore, until they can reduce/eliminate corruption and have a judical system that enforces these laws, they're stuck and other countries won't want to business with them. And who would? You could get screwed by crooked locals and have no legal recourse.
A lot of us in premier countries don't appreciate the legal systems and governments we have. These institutions create an environment which allows for our prosperity.
Adobe pulling out of Asia is a good example of the problems with poor copyright protection. Who knows what affect this will have on countries' publishing and media industries?
That argument never holds up. When does your orginzation have all devleopers coding the same solution, simultaneously? Not everyone working on part of the problem. But everyone solving the same, complete problem in parallel. Never.
So, we've now proven that in the real world, you can't very well "cheat" off a coworker becuase they're doing something different. You could reuse code, but that doesn't count either. You can ask for their input, but you can't pass their work off as yours. Try that and see how long you last (probably about as long as those cheater students).
How about this one: build a clock that can be taken to sea. What good is that? We already have accurate clock on the shore. Oh, right, you can figure out your latitude. And, in the process, invent roller bearings and bimetallic strips, two extremely useful technologies, ones we weren't even trying to create. That turned out well for us, huh?
The moon distance measurement is obviously good. It seeks to do something no one else has ever achived. Even if the results aren't interesting, the new techniques used are. Anyone that doesn't see its intrinsic value is shortsighted.
You can use the XXXXXX for Windowsif you comply with their terms of use of the logo. Microsoft have a whole thing called the Windows Logo Program. If you comply, you get to put the cool Windows logo on your software box and use "for Windows" and stuff like that. All without the risk of getting sued.
If you don't comply, but use Windows or something like it in the name of your software, then you end up where Lindows did.
Better said, the costs of making the hydrogen are greater than what you can get retailing the hydrogen. So, if you can make the hydrogen for much more cheaper than now, you can sell it and make it cheaper than coal so people will use it.
Make it too good and cheap, you screw up every economy on the planet. But that's another post.
This one comes in under the 10 year timeline and you can start today. The City should secure massive volume discounts for 802.11b hardware, both APs and NICs. The City then hands out the APs for free and offers the NICs at market rate. It helps pay for the subsidizes on the APs with the profit it makes on the NICs.
End users are still responsible for getting something to plug their APs into, but it defers most of the cost of the MAN to the people who want to participate. Plus, it's a technology that's here today and works.
Yes, there are concerns about theft and network security, but if you're smart enough to consider these, then you're probably smart enough to offer a solution. I can think of a few.
(h) An employer who is the registered owner of more than one e-mail address may notify the [spammer]... of the desire to cease e-mailing on behalf of all of the employees who may use employer-provided and employer-controlled e-mail addresses.
This is amazing! No more spam to my personal domain. No more spam at work. In fact, just start a free email system, run it as a non-profit, have everyone that signs up be a volunteer (volunteers are afforded the same considerations as employees), and you could have a spam-free deal for all!
What are the odds of getting someone big to do this, like Hotmail or AOL? Then we'll really see how against spam the big companies are.
I'd also like to see a legal procecution kit for this. Not all of us have the money to pay an attorney to procecute someone under this statute. If someone, like the EFF, could put together a list of filings or whatnot, individuals could do all the court paperwork themselves. I'd imagine in many cases you'd get summary judgements (where the judge finds for you becuase the other side didn't show up to court).
That's total horseshit. I doubt you even work in the industry. If one person, ever, anywhere got wiff of what you insinuate companies do, that company would have a PR nightmare of epic proportions.
Read context. Think. Moderate. Repeat.
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Where is the room exactly? I have a number of servers in the same room as my furnace and heat has never been a problem. The room is in the basement and has no windows.
I think this is they key. If you put your stuff in a naturally cool room with normal ventilation, you'll be fine.
The dude that posted the comment about cost of electricity for your servers made a good point. I estimate that my router and mp3 server cost me at least $20/month. I'm working on setting up power management for them, since they're not needed from like 2am - 8p.
I've just read from other posters that there is no discernable difference between business and residential accounts. Sure, it's legal to set any price for any service (in accordance with any prevailing tariffs or whatever). But, I don't think it's legal to sell the exact same thing at two different prices and force people to switch to the more expensive offering. If you do indeed get something unique out of the business account, like a fixed ip, then it's okay.
Likewise, if there's no technical limitation or increased impact by you running a vpn as compared to any other allowed service, then I don't think they can force you to switch to business. Well, they can force you, but I think the FTC or some state authority might have something to say about it.
Hey, tshak, loan me 30k. I'm going to use it to buy a 20k car that I can put up as collateral. Yeah, if I don't pay you back, you're out 10k, but I'm pretty trustworthy. But, if I do pay you back, you stand to make oodles on interest.
Time passes. I make payments as agreed.
Oh, shit, I lost my job. I can't pay you back. I'm bankrupt. Too bad. Well, at least you can get back some of your money by selling that 20k car.
Hey, someone offered to buy that car for 10k. Why don't I just take that deal? What? You don't like that I'm selling the car below market? Too bad. It's my business decision to make. Oh, and in the meantime, I'm still driving this car around and it's costing money to operate.
You win a court order, preventing me from selling. You win a court order preventing me from using the car.
Big difference that your scenario. This News.com article explains it pretty well, too.
Excite@Home actually didn't make the decision to turn off the modems. The bondholders that financed Excite@Home did. AT&T's offer was so low, they stood to loose tons of money if the deal went through. So, they filed a law suit and had a judge COMPEL Excite@Home to turn off the service. Their reason for this was that keeping the modems on was costing 6 million per week, thus causing the company to lose even more money.
It still remains to be seen if the bondholders will come out ahead. They claim that the assets of Excite@Home alone are worth much more than AT&T's buyout offer of $307 million. I guess they're waiting for a better offer.
But, to be sure, pissing off 850,000 people is sure going to lower the value of Excite@Home.
Not all customers have been moved. I'm in Berkeley, CA on AT&T@Home and I'm totally down. Can't ping from inside or outside the network. It was working when I went to bed at 5:30a but stopped working by noon when I woke up. (Civ 3 sleep pattern.)
I called their 800 number. Their recording said I'd be back up in 7 days. In the meantime, I'll receive 2 days of credit for every day I'm down.
I don't know why people are going on and on about fuel cells. They're great for space vehicles, where weight is the #1 concern. But for aircraft, why not use nuclear power. Nice and clean. No emissions. And it's a technology that's been used for 50 years.
Here's a great picture of a prototype. Note the concept plane at the bottom. The flight deck "could be detached in cases of emergency." What more safety could anyone ask for?
My $10k motorcycle has full insurance because it's borrowed against; my crap 87 Chevy has comprehensive and liabilty because it's a good idea; my apartment has renters.
If this thing costs $30 million to fix, don'tcha think someone should have it insured against everything? Poor planning.
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I'm not sure he can. The microsoft.com domain is blocked from within Sun, so that their researchers can troll and flame MS without knowingly being wrong.
At this point, I don't doubt he'll say anything, wether he believes it or not, to make Red Hat's position look stronger.
So much for a once great guy with a great OS.
If Microsoft halts all new feature development for a month to fix bugs!
http://www.ntsecurity.net/Articles/Index.cfm?Artic leID=23971
Posted by the same author of the misleading bug brief, Paul Thurrott.
Did you decide this just to generate a deluge of flames?
I belive, however, there's a big difference between death by old age or cancer versus some large-scale epidemic. I think it's humanity's duty to help in situations like this. We should always take notice when something like this affects the population and threatens cultures.
This is neither here nor there (as in, it doesn't address my original comment or your reply), but it warrants saying.
I took a look around. Here's some evidence for the statement google turned up: an (extremist?) article from Earth Policy Institute.
They have something like this. It's called public domain and all copyrighted works end up free (well, really, with no owner to restrict their use) after a certain amout of time. Unfortunately, in the case of software owned by a corporation, it takes 95 - 120 years! I think it'd be cool if some software, say anything that retails for That should help out some less prosperous countries. But that's a pretty liberal position. I say screw em. Make em pay!
A lot of us in premier countries don't appreciate the legal systems and governments we have. These institutions create an environment which allows for our prosperity.
Adobe pulling out of Asia is a good example of the problems with poor copyright protection. Who knows what affect this will have on countries' publishing and media industries?
So, we've now proven that in the real world, you can't very well "cheat" off a coworker becuase they're doing something different. You could reuse code, but that doesn't count either. You can ask for their input, but you can't pass their work off as yours. Try that and see how long you last (probably about as long as those cheater students).
The moon distance measurement is obviously good. It seeks to do something no one else has ever achived. Even if the results aren't interesting, the new techniques used are. Anyone that doesn't see its intrinsic value is shortsighted.
If you don't comply, but use Windows or something like it in the name of your software, then you end up where Lindows did.
They'll use a Sales Contract. They're binding, ya know.
Make it too good and cheap, you screw up every economy on the planet. But that's another post.
End users are still responsible for getting something to plug their APs into, but it defers most of the cost of the MAN to the people who want to participate. Plus, it's a technology that's here today and works.
Yes, there are concerns about theft and network security, but if you're smart enough to consider these, then you're probably smart enough to offer a solution. I can think of a few.
*trenton
What are the odds of getting someone big to do this, like Hotmail or AOL? Then we'll really see how against spam the big companies are.
I think I'll mail EFF now.
Can this be enoded in UTF8? Please say it can or I'm really screwed.
Read context. Think. Moderate. Repeat.
I think this is they key. If you put your stuff in a naturally cool room with normal ventilation, you'll be fine.
The dude that posted the comment about cost of electricity for your servers made a good point. I estimate that my router and mp3 server cost me at least $20/month. I'm working on setting up power management for them, since they're not needed from like 2am - 8p.
Likewise, if there's no technical limitation or increased impact by you running a vpn as compared to any other allowed service, then I don't think they can force you to switch to business. Well, they can force you, but I think the FTC or some state authority might have something to say about it.
- Hey, tshak, loan me 30k. I'm going to use it to buy a 20k car that I can put up as collateral. Yeah, if I don't pay you back, you're out 10k, but I'm pretty trustworthy. But, if I do pay you back, you stand to make oodles on interest.
- Time passes. I make payments as agreed.
- Oh, shit, I lost my job. I can't pay you back. I'm bankrupt. Too bad. Well, at least you can get back some of your money by selling that 20k car.
- Hey, someone offered to buy that car for 10k. Why don't I just take that deal? What? You don't like that I'm selling the car below market? Too bad. It's my business decision to make. Oh, and in the meantime, I'm still driving this car around and it's costing money to operate.
- You win a court order, preventing me from selling. You win a court order preventing me from using the car.
Big difference that your scenario. This News.com article explains it pretty well, too.It still remains to be seen if the bondholders will come out ahead. They claim that the assets of Excite@Home alone are worth much more than AT&T's buyout offer of $307 million. I guess they're waiting for a better offer.
But, to be sure, pissing off 850,000 people is sure going to lower the value of Excite@Home.
I called their 800 number. Their recording said I'd be back up in 7 days. In the meantime, I'll receive 2 days of credit for every day I'm down.
Here's a great picture of a prototype. Note the concept plane at the bottom. The flight deck "could be detached in cases of emergency." What more safety could anyone ask for?
If this thing costs $30 million to fix, don'tcha think someone should have it insured against everything? Poor planning.
*trenton