Exactly.
The API is almost identical to Amazon S3. It's just simple REST. What did theodp expect? A simple desktop GUI? That's what this API is designed for developers to create.
This is a non-story.
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And who knows - there's some slight chance they WILL figure out how to download the person from a frozen-head-saved-game into a new model body (or fix the cracks in the brain, implant it in a cloned corpus, and restart it) - and somebody will think it's worthwhile to try it with me. Then it's time travel to the far future.
Yeah, but seriously. Under what sort of conditions would someone in the future decide to revive some reasonably rich dude from the past (hey, if you can afford cryostorage in this day and age, you're richer than 95% of the world).
I seriously doubt someone will someday say, "Hey, we don't have enough old rich dudes. Let's go resurrect some." Nope. Instead, you are going to be turned into an experiment. If you ever resurrect, it's not gonna be pretty.
I would hope that all desktop OS's are used by enthusiasts.... If people are running an OS for some other reason, then we have problems...
Expecting everyone to be an enthusiast is incredibly myopic. Most people don't care about their OS. Most don't care about their computer. They care about their paycheck, their family, and sometimes the work they have to do which often involves a computer.
Are you an enthusiasts about the car brand you drive? The type of pen you use to write with? The chair design you sit on? Some people are. But to expect everyone to be is just ridiculous.
Exactly. Hiding your real name because you think it gives you some sort of legal anonymity or indemnity is incorrect. In fact, you'll likely be better off to use your real name.
If you're concerned about patents with the open source work you do, then you should use a license with explicit patent clauses (such as the Apache license). Even better, your open source project should be associated with a non-profit open source / free software foundation like the FSF or ASF.
As far as the other concerns for use of your real name, I purposefully use my real name for all the open source work I do and it's benefited me significantly.
Interesting. I purposefully use my real name on all the open source work I do and this has helped me for employment / consulting work tremendously. I'm very google-able and I've never had an issue.
Apache strips attribution from source files to avoid anyone feeling they own a particular bit of code instead of the community in general. Authorship is maintained through the issue tracker and the subversion commit records.
Moreover, no contributions to Apache are anonymous. All contributions through the issue tracker require the submitter to provide a license for use of the work in Apache. All committers who provide significant works are required to sign a contributor license agreement.
Apache is one of the most thorough open source projects when it comes to ensuring we have clear rights for the works we distribute.
Sorry, but I wouldn't want to work at place with an HR department like that. Would immediately disqualify them from my search. Seriously, they don't know how to use a PDF? And you're applying for technical position? Do yourself a favor and forego the pain.
I'm living in Hong Kong at the moment and if you've got decent skills it's not hard to find work in Greater China including the mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan or even Singapore.
The MPL and the GPL are very different. The MPL is closer to the LGPL and the EPL than it is to the GPL
One of the easiest ways to think of it was give by Dave Johnson back in 2006. You can place most open source licenses into one of three categories:
Gimme Credit: this includes the Apache, BSD and MIT licenses. Basically, you can do anything you want with the code, but you must give the original authors credit in some way.
Gimme Fixes: is used by the EPL, MPL, and LGPL. Basically, the original code will always be open source and any direct changes of the original code (patches, bug fixes, enhancements) must also be released as open source. However, you can combine this software with closed code to create a proprietary work. This license tends to be used by frameworks and libraries. Sometimes the original author gets special rights (like the NPL).
Gimme everything!: the GPL stands alone in it's requirement that the code itself and all derivative works be free software.
So there is no version of Flash that is open source then?
Actually, a month or two ago, Adobe started the Open Screen project. While this isn't an open source flash per-se, it does open up the chance for people to start working on a better port of Flash to Linux. So for anyone complaining about Linux on Flash: patches welcome.
Not the ASF. The money Microsoft gives Apache gets them no special access to the code, no voting rights, nothing. Nothing other than a logo and press release.
And your argument about Microsoft extending Apache is baseless and you know it. You've even admitted as much in the article:
Microsoft can use Apache project code in their own proprietary software without being a member of the project, and without paying anything, because the Apache license is a gift with no strings attached.
Apparently your definition of an "anti-linux" play is using any license other than the GPL. Because there's nothing special about this Microsoft strategy of yours that has anything to do with the Apache sponsorship. They could follow that strategy without handing out cash. So apparently all of the BSD, MIT and Apache licensed projects have fallen into Microsoft's deft plan.
But what really upsets me, Bruce, are your subtle allegations that the ASF is somehow selling out the rest of the open source community. You've clearly not been involved in the process, have confusions about what ASF sponsorship means, and hell, have confusion about what the Apache Software Foundation is these days. If you knew any of the people involved, you wouldn't be so quick to jump to conclusions. So enough with the conspiracy theories already.
Solved almost all spam problems I ever had. I think a large trick to the blog spam problem for most smaller blogs is to just use a rather unique question that cannot be answered by a computer. When you notice you've got some spam, just change the question. If the questions are unique for each website and change at random intervals and have no clear pattern or question type, then it's almost impossible to create a bot to handle them.
What really upsets me about the blogspam is the amount of bandwidth wasted serving these bots.
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Exactly. The API is almost identical to Amazon S3. It's just simple REST. What did theodp expect? A simple desktop GUI? That's what this API is designed for developers to create. This is a non-story.
Yeah, but seriously. Under what sort of conditions would someone in the future decide to revive some reasonably rich dude from the past (hey, if you can afford cryostorage in this day and age, you're richer than 95% of the world).
I seriously doubt someone will someday say, "Hey, we don't have enough old rich dudes. Let's go resurrect some." Nope. Instead, you are going to be turned into an experiment. If you ever resurrect, it's not gonna be pretty.
This is doing to end well...
Expecting everyone to be an enthusiast is incredibly myopic. Most people don't care about their OS. Most don't care about their computer. They care about their paycheck, their family, and sometimes the work they have to do which often involves a computer.
Are you an enthusiasts about the car brand you drive? The type of pen you use to write with? The chair design you sit on? Some people are. But to expect everyone to be is just ridiculous.
Yeah, I don't get this. The Google blog article uses rel. Where did rev come from?
Don't forget D20 variants that bring back the spirit of earlier editions such as Castles & Crusades
The conspiracy theory is that WotC wants to pull all the old editions so that 4th edition is the only version available.
This definitely reminded me of Girl Talk. Love that music: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_Talk_(musician)
Another +1 for eeebuntu here. Has worked great.
Glad someone mentioned the Happy Hacking keyboard, which I happen to be using right now.
I've also heard good things about the Kinesis ergonomic keyboards.
Exactly. Hiding your real name because you think it gives you some sort of legal anonymity or indemnity is incorrect. In fact, you'll likely be better off to use your real name.
If you're concerned about patents with the open source work you do, then you should use a license with explicit patent clauses (such as the Apache license). Even better, your open source project should be associated with a non-profit open source / free software foundation like the FSF or ASF.
As far as the other concerns for use of your real name, I purposefully use my real name for all the open source work I do and it's benefited me significantly.
Interesting. I purposefully use my real name on all the open source work I do and this has helped me for employment / consulting work tremendously. I'm very google-able and I've never had an issue.
Apache strips attribution from source files to avoid anyone feeling they own a particular bit of code instead of the community in general. Authorship is maintained through the issue tracker and the subversion commit records.
Moreover, no contributions to Apache are anonymous. All contributions through the issue tracker require the submitter to provide a license for use of the work in Apache. All committers who provide significant works are required to sign a contributor license agreement.
Apache is one of the most thorough open source projects when it comes to ensuring we have clear rights for the works we distribute.
Sorry, but I wouldn't want to work at place with an HR department like that. Would immediately disqualify them from my search. Seriously, they don't know how to use a PDF? And you're applying for technical position? Do yourself a favor and forego the pain.
I'm living in Hong Kong at the moment and if you've got decent skills it's not hard to find work in Greater China including the mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan or even Singapore.
The MPL and the GPL are very different. The MPL is closer to the LGPL and the EPL than it is to the GPL
One of the easiest ways to think of it was give by Dave Johnson back in 2006. You can place most open source licenses into one of three categories:
Hope that helps.
So there is no version of Flash that is open source then?
Actually, a month or two ago, Adobe started the Open Screen project. While this isn't an open source flash per-se, it does open up the chance for people to start working on a better port of Flash to Linux. So for anyone complaining about Linux on Flash: patches welcome.
Who's helping them, Bruce? Who?
Not the ASF. The money Microsoft gives Apache gets them no special access to the code, no voting rights, nothing. Nothing other than a logo and press release.
And your argument about Microsoft extending Apache is baseless and you know it. You've even admitted as much in the article:
Apparently your definition of an "anti-linux" play is using any license other than the GPL. Because there's nothing special about this Microsoft strategy of yours that has anything to do with the Apache sponsorship. They could follow that strategy without handing out cash. So apparently all of the BSD, MIT and Apache licensed projects have fallen into Microsoft's deft plan.
But what really upsets me, Bruce, are your subtle allegations that the ASF is somehow selling out the rest of the open source community. You've clearly not been involved in the process, have confusions about what ASF sponsorship means, and hell, have confusion about what the Apache Software Foundation is these days. If you knew any of the people involved, you wouldn't be so quick to jump to conclusions. So enough with the conspiracy theories already.
It's called lurking.
I used to use simple geometry problems, like:
What shape has three sides?
Solved almost all spam problems I ever had. I think a large trick to the blog spam problem for most smaller blogs is to just use a rather unique question that cannot be answered by a computer. When you notice you've got some spam, just change the question. If the questions are unique for each website and change at random intervals and have no clear pattern or question type, then it's almost impossible to create a bot to handle them.
What really upsets me about the blogspam is the amount of bandwidth wasted serving these bots.
Have fun. Lived in or near Pittsburgh most of my life. CMU is great. Man, what I wouldn't give for a good Primanti's sandwich.
Check out Guangzhou, China. I've been there several times and never seen a clear day there. Though I hear Xian is worse.
Agreed. Seems like they took 10 random cities.
What PDF software do you use on the PSP?
Exactly. More details here:
Again, to emphasize, these instructions went out to internal Chinese sites. Though I imagine they'll begin blocking access to other sites soon too.