I have to agree. This reminds me of when adcritic.com went out of business. I used to love the site, and I went to it all the time. Then one day *poof* I went and it was out of commision. What troubled me is that they never put out a plea for help! I for one would have payed money for the service, but I was never asked to. I know in this situation, they already had a subscription service, but did they ever bother to put out a red flag? Did they put up a donation link and say "We are running out of money, if we don't get more subscriptions and donations, we are going to have to sell out" ? Did they get thier loyal fans to go tell all of thier chat room buddies to check it out, and give a donation or buy a subscription? It just seems like a waste to me to have a "community" based site, and then not take advantage of it when it's really needed.
I can see you you can crack down on cheating, most people don't like it, and would support that kind of action, but Trolls? How could you ever crack down on that without censureing(sp?)? I personaly like the/. method of moderation, because all the posts still show up, but we can choose how much crap we want to see. But how can you implement that in a real-time senerio? I don't see how without using server-side filters which people will object to, or client-side filters which has already been done before.
I think a great game would be Army Men RTS, it's like starcraft, but you play little plastic army men. It is the COOLEST thing! Sure there is violence, but no blood, just blobs of plastic! Check it out here.
Is there anyone here that belives that sourceforge IS the OSS community? I just don't see how anyone can claim to have an accurate study when using only one source! The most widespread and well know OSS projects are not hosted on sourceforge at all! Don't get me wrong, I love SF personally, but since anyone can post somthing on there and call it a project, it's not a good representation of the whole community. I can't tell you how many projects I have seen that sound cool, so I go to them and they say somthing like "This is a dynamic webpage for C programmers, we are currently looking for a Dynamic web designer and a C programmer".
I wish that article had given more detail. It seems to me that things like motion and time would not be able to accuratly be coverted into a digital representation and still be accurate enough to represent the entire universe. Wouldn't you have to calculate it with a vector based system? If he wasn't using a vector system then that number 10^90 or whatever it was would probably be significantly smaller.
So if we are currently a part of a giant algorithym, if we ever actually create a computer capable of simulating the whole thing, would the first person to do it be able to patent it? Also, in order to figure out what happened at creation you would have to reverse engenier the whole thing. Wouldn't that be a DCMA violation?
the free and more user-friendly Windows clients, perhaps PuTTY or TTSSH,
I have to second that opinion of PuTTY. Every time I am forced to use a windoze boxen to log into my server, I always use putty. It is very small (less than floppy size), is a standalone executable so it doesn't touch your registry, and it handles YAST just fine. You can get it from versiontracker. I highly recoment it.
I just don't see how this could stand up in court. I know several people who don't have traditional CD players, and only use their CD roms to play them. Does anyone know if Sony is putting warnings on these disks? Don't put this in a CD-ROM or your toast? If not then I think they should be liable for any damage caused. I wish I had the money to pursue it, or I would take this to cour my self.
I have had a beef with how radio works ever since clear channel bought the local channel where I live. The numbers were Z103, and the morning show was "the freak show". Very local, very funny. Now they forced them to rename it "the morning Z". Or I like to call it the morning snooze. They used to have an hour long show on Sunday nights where they would play only local music, the garage band that I was in actually got some air time that way, and helped us sell some CD's, but that is all gone now. If you call in to make a request, it had better be on thier pre-approved list, or forget about it. It makes me want to start up my own non-prophit puplic domain station. I would have to have a technology based show. Whouldn't that be cool? Somthing on the lines of geeks in space, but more regular!
But the last rumor I had heard was that jar jar wasn't even supposed to be in episode 2. Remember all the controversy, "jar jar is a racial slang" stuff? I was surprized to see him in episode 2 because of all the public outcry from the first one. At least they gave him a small roll, and had him do an epicly stoopid thing. Maybe we will get to see his excecution in episode VI.
according to experts who have just shattered a long standing myth.
This is total biased crap. I don't mean to troll, but think about the statement. Who where the experts? A company who sells virus software, who wants to break into the mac market. What was their evidence? "Because we said so".
Unless I get cold hard facts, I refuse to beleive that apple has code that is so flawed it would be a threat to national security. The same things about MacOS that makes it more stable are the things that make it more secure, namely properly written code, and quality assurance testing before release. None of this security by obscurity that you see way too often.
I hope there is a lot more cracking down on this method of marketing. I've always wondered why it works for them in the first place? Seriously, why do they think that if they keep sending me five copys of the same email EVERYDAY, eventually I will answer? Or why would I answer if they use a completly misleading subject line so that it gets through my filters? They say that they are complying with whatever laws apply by giving you an email address to be removed, but it you mail that, it's either not a valid email, or they just sell your email to others, and you get tons more emails. Obviously some people must answer these emails, but I don't understand how it would ever be worth the cost of thier investment.
I think there are very good reasons that Linux is a good replacement here. Have you never seen setups like the ones that they are talking about? There are many many stores that I go to that have nothing but a dumb terminal at the checkout line. Mostly it's been auto parts stores, car dealers, librarys, and even some department stores and gas stations, but usualy not grocery stores. You may have seen it but never noticed. They have a full sized monitor, and the screen is nothing but plain text. If you look at the back of the monitor and the keyboard plugs strait into it, and the cable runs off somewere else then that is gotta a Unix terminal. They are running an older proprietary version of Unix on a server somewhere that has a database of all their inventory, and the terminal software they run was probably custom made by some company that went out of business years ago. We are not talking about the typical cash register with nothing but a number pad and a drawer, we are talking about dumb Unix terminals that connect to server somewhere. In this situation Linux is a perfect solution because most likely they will not have to upgrade any of thier hardware, and the software can be easily ported over to linux and save them alot of money.
I remember that whole buzz about price fixing a while back. It seems to me like there are all kinds of governmet agencys with no purpose except to protect the entertainment industry from the consumer (ala pirating etc) but they are slow to protect the consumer from the entertainment industry (ie CD technology has increased but price hasn't dropped since... well practicly since they hit the market). I don't know if this guys new marketing attempt will work or not, but I like the idea, and I have to agree with what the author said. If I can buy a brand new CD for $4, I'm not going to bother scouring over every P2P network on the internet untill I find all the mp3's from the alubum I want. That usually takes WAY too much time, and is much poorer quality. Piracy in software and music alike would not be so much of a problem if things were priced reasonably.
The selling point they are trying to use is simple American economics. I should say to begin with that I don't agree with MSFT's argument, but I do understand it. They are looking at open source as "free beer" and saying that is against the american way, and undermines the free market economy that we have so carefully built up. This was indicated by the article when they say MSFT is "in a long-running company assault on the open-source movement, which company officials have called "a cancer" and un-American". Of course that is not thier only argument, but in this case it seems to be the only one that actually is strait forward. The rest are the typical FUD, like the statement "some free-licensing regimes are antithetical to the government's stated policy that moneymaking applications should develop from government-funded research". Sure. I can't argue with that, that SOME free-licensing "regimes" are, but so are SOME proprietary software empires. Let's just pray that the people making the final decidions in the DOD are smart enough to listen to MSFT's admition that they are a threat to national security.
The company also complained that the Pentagon is funding research on making free software more secure, which in effect subsidizes Microsoft's open-source competitors, Stenbit said.
Did I hear that right? The US government is actually contributing to the open source development? Is this news to anyone else, or am I just the last to know? I find that very exiting if it's true! That means that we will have some sympathetic ears on the inside to fight MSFT FUD. I guess it will just come down to who makes the final decidion. Honestly, how could any military computer security person actually think that using MSFT stuff is benificial to national security? Of course they know better, but unfortunatly, just like in business, it's probably the higher-ups who will make the final decision.
Right, and thats when they TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!! MUHAHAHA!!!!
Sorry man, but I have to take a more positive "it could happen" approach. How 'bout this:
As soon as their network goes live the Xbox is hacked and is running apache on their OWN datacenters faster and more efficient then IIS. The MSFT lawers realizes the court battle is hopeless and quit and the court smacks down big daddy M$. It is ruled that proprietary protocols are a threat to national security and MSFT is outlawed from public sector use in the US. The PR is so bad for MSFT that there is a social stigma for even using it. The Tonight Show and others are constantly tossing out MSFT jokes (more then they do now) and Apple suddenly gains a significant market share. MSFT decides to totaly drop Apple. No more mac IE or mac Office. That is the final straw for the courts, and MSFT is de-regulated. They are split into a million pieces and FORCED to honor government regulated price caps, and to open up all their API's, document formats, and network protocols. Many of these become international standards, and Linux and Mac are now AMAZINGLY compatable. Meanwhile the Apple XServe has been gaining in popularity. Sun and Apple own the server market and practically drive intel out of business. Apple now totaly owns the market, and for fear of being a monopoly they decide to licence aqua for x86 and give intel and MSFT a subsity to keep them in business. *NIX is hands down the most common operating system in the world and the open source software community receives government funding in the interest of national security.
The future is what you make of it. I'm not going to give up yet!
Attempts by services to control and sanitise the experience too much are doomed to failure, because the potential customers won't come to the old 'parallel, controlled and secure Internet' gag
I just don't get it, why does MSFT just HAVE to try and control everything they get thier hands on! Sure, I think that joining a voice over IP system with a console game is a great idea, so is console gaming with multiplayer internet, but unique id's? Disneyland? I read that - anti piracy and censureship. Two things that not only will give them a significant benifit, but the public will hate. They always package it up nice, to try and get you to think it's desireable, but the thing they are missing is the fact that they don't totally own this market, and unlike with windows, the average home user is not someone who knows nothing about the product or how to use it. The end users are mostly teenagers and young adults who have been at this gaming thing a while, and have other choices than the MSFT console. I think they will find that in a competitive market people don't have to, and won't, stand for 'big brother' controling thier game experiance.
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great, now all the big distros are going to scramble to put out another release to include this. *sigh*
oh for a stable desktop!
I have to agree. This reminds me of when adcritic.com went out of business. I used to love the site, and I went to it all the time. Then one day *poof* I went and it was out of commision. What troubled me is that they never put out a plea for help! I for one would have payed money for the service, but I was never asked to. I know in this situation, they already had a subscription service, but did they ever bother to put out a red flag? Did they put up a donation link and say "We are running out of money, if we don't get more subscriptions and donations, we are going to have to sell out" ? Did they get thier loyal fans to go tell all of thier chat room buddies to check it out, and give a donation or buy a subscription? It just seems like a waste to me to have a "community" based site, and then not take advantage of it when it's really needed.
I can see you you can crack down on cheating, most people don't like it, and would support that kind of action, but Trolls? How could you ever crack down on that without censureing(sp?)? I personaly like the /. method of moderation, because all the posts still show up, but we can choose how much crap we want to see. But how can you implement that in a real-time senerio? I don't see how without using server-side filters which people will object to, or client-side filters which has already been done before.
the question is, are you getting payed twice what you are worth?
It would need a whole new alignment system. You would hear things like "I'm more 'Insightfull' than 'Flamebait'".
And how bout races?
I think a great game would be Army Men RTS, it's like starcraft, but you play little plastic army men. It is the COOLEST thing! Sure there is violence, but no blood, just blobs of plastic! Check it out here.
Is there anyone here that belives that sourceforge IS the OSS community? I just don't see how anyone can claim to have an accurate study when using only one source! The most widespread and well know OSS projects are not hosted on sourceforge at all! Don't get me wrong, I love SF personally, but since anyone can post somthing on there and call it a project, it's not a good representation of the whole community. I can't tell you how many projects I have seen that sound cool, so I go to them and they say somthing like "This is a dynamic webpage for C programmers, we are currently looking for a Dynamic web designer and a C programmer".
I stay away from amazon. Ever hear of www.epic.org? They are a privacy watchdog, and I have stayed away from amazon ever since they said
Recently Amazon announced that it could no longer guarantee that it would not disclose customer information to third parties.
You can read the whole press release here
I wish that article had given more detail. It seems to me that things like motion and time would not be able to accuratly be coverted into a digital representation and still be accurate enough to represent the entire universe. Wouldn't you have to calculate it with a vector based system? If he wasn't using a vector system then that number 10^90 or whatever it was would probably be significantly smaller.
So if we are currently a part of a giant algorithym, if we ever actually create a computer capable of simulating the whole thing, would the first person to do it be able to patent it? Also, in order to figure out what happened at creation you would have to reverse engenier the whole thing. Wouldn't that be a DCMA violation?
Don't tell me nobody didn't see this coming
I ain't never gonna not tell you somthin' that won't never happen, noways.
Putty feels nice, but putty is ssh v1 only
Either you are using an old version, or you havent figured out how to use a "menu system". Let me refer you to the developers FAQ page:
A.1.1 Does PuTTY support SSH v2?
I hope that clears that up
the free and more user-friendly Windows clients, perhaps PuTTY or TTSSH,
I have to second that opinion of PuTTY. Every time I am forced to use a windoze boxen to log into my server, I always use putty. It is very small (less than floppy size), is a standalone executable so it doesn't touch your registry, and it handles YAST just fine. You can get it from versiontracker. I highly recoment it.
I just don't see how this could stand up in court. I know several people who don't have traditional CD players, and only use their CD roms to play them. Does anyone know if Sony is putting warnings on these disks? Don't put this in a CD-ROM or your toast? If not then I think they should be liable for any damage caused. I wish I had the money to pursue it, or I would take this to cour my self.
I have had a beef with how radio works ever since clear channel bought the local channel where I live. The numbers were Z103, and the morning show was "the freak show". Very local, very funny. Now they forced them to rename it "the morning Z". Or I like to call it the morning snooze. They used to have an hour long show on Sunday nights where they would play only local music, the garage band that I was in actually got some air time that way, and helped us sell some CD's, but that is all gone now. If you call in to make a request, it had better be on thier pre-approved list, or forget about it. It makes me want to start up my own non-prophit puplic domain station. I would have to have a technology based show. Whouldn't that be cool? Somthing on the lines of geeks in space, but more regular!
But the last rumor I had heard was that jar jar wasn't even supposed to be in episode 2. Remember all the controversy, "jar jar is a racial slang" stuff? I was surprized to see him in episode 2 because of all the public outcry from the first one. At least they gave him a small roll, and had him do an epicly stoopid thing. Maybe we will get to see his excecution in episode VI.
according to experts who have just shattered a long standing myth.
This is total biased crap. I don't mean to troll, but think about the statement. Who where the experts? A company who sells virus software, who wants to break into the mac market. What was their evidence? "Because we said so".
Unless I get cold hard facts, I refuse to beleive that apple has code that is so flawed it would be a threat to national security. The same things about MacOS that makes it more stable are the things that make it more secure, namely properly written code, and quality assurance testing before release. None of this security by obscurity that you see way too often.
I hope there is a lot more cracking down on this method of marketing. I've always wondered why it works for them in the first place? Seriously, why do they think that if they keep sending me five copys of the same email EVERYDAY, eventually I will answer? Or why would I answer if they use a completly misleading subject line so that it gets through my filters? They say that they are complying with whatever laws apply by giving you an email address to be removed, but it you mail that, it's either not a valid email, or they just sell your email to others, and you get tons more emails. Obviously some people must answer these emails, but I don't understand how it would ever be worth the cost of thier investment.
I was wondering that myself. They said
But for the choices to appear, software developers must write programs "so that they can register here,"
My question is will they actually tell us how to properly use the API and will it have anti-OSS like you said.
I think there are very good reasons that Linux is a good replacement here. Have you never seen setups like the ones that they are talking about? There are many many stores that I go to that have nothing but a dumb terminal at the checkout line. Mostly it's been auto parts stores, car dealers, librarys, and even some department stores and gas stations, but usualy not grocery stores. You may have seen it but never noticed. They have a full sized monitor, and the screen is nothing but plain text. If you look at the back of the monitor and the keyboard plugs strait into it, and the cable runs off somewere else then that is gotta a Unix terminal. They are running an older proprietary version of Unix on a server somewhere that has a database of all their inventory, and the terminal software they run was probably custom made by some company that went out of business years ago. We are not talking about the typical cash register with nothing but a number pad and a drawer, we are talking about dumb Unix terminals that connect to server somewhere. In this situation Linux is a perfect solution because most likely they will not have to upgrade any of thier hardware, and the software can be easily ported over to linux and save them alot of money.
I remember that whole buzz about price fixing a while back. It seems to me like there are all kinds of governmet agencys with no purpose except to protect the entertainment industry from the consumer (ala pirating etc) but they are slow to protect the consumer from the entertainment industry (ie CD technology has increased but price hasn't dropped since... well practicly since they hit the market). I don't know if this guys new marketing attempt will work or not, but I like the idea, and I have to agree with what the author said. If I can buy a brand new CD for $4, I'm not going to bother scouring over every P2P network on the internet untill I find all the mp3's from the alubum I want. That usually takes WAY too much time, and is much poorer quality. Piracy in software and music alike would not be so much of a problem if things were priced reasonably.
The selling point they are trying to use is simple American economics. I should say to begin with that I don't agree with MSFT's argument, but I do understand it. They are looking at open source as "free beer" and saying that is against the american way, and undermines the free market economy that we have so carefully built up. This was indicated by the article when they say MSFT is "in a long-running company assault on the open-source movement, which company officials have called "a cancer" and un-American". Of course that is not thier only argument, but in this case it seems to be the only one that actually is strait forward. The rest are the typical FUD, like the statement "some free-licensing regimes are antithetical to the government's stated policy that moneymaking applications should develop from government-funded research". Sure. I can't argue with that, that SOME free-licensing "regimes" are, but so are SOME proprietary software empires. Let's just pray that the people making the final decidions in the DOD are smart enough to listen to MSFT's admition that they are a threat to national security.
The company also complained that the Pentagon is funding research on making free software more secure, which in effect subsidizes Microsoft's open-source competitors, Stenbit said.
Did I hear that right? The US government is actually contributing to the open source development? Is this news to anyone else, or am I just the last to know? I find that very exiting if it's true! That means that we will have some sympathetic ears on the inside to fight MSFT FUD. I guess it will just come down to who makes the final decidion. Honestly, how could any military computer security person actually think that using MSFT stuff is benificial to national security? Of course they know better, but unfortunatly, just like in business, it's probably the higher-ups who will make the final decision.
Right, and thats when they TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!! MUHAHAHA!!!!
Sorry man, but I have to take a more positive "it could happen" approach. How 'bout this:
As soon as their network goes live the Xbox is hacked and is running apache on their OWN datacenters faster and more efficient then IIS. The MSFT lawers realizes the court battle is hopeless and quit and the court smacks down big daddy M$. It is ruled that proprietary protocols are a threat to national security and MSFT is outlawed from public sector use in the US. The PR is so bad for MSFT that there is a social stigma for even using it. The Tonight Show and others are constantly tossing out MSFT jokes (more then they do now) and Apple suddenly gains a significant market share. MSFT decides to totaly drop Apple. No more mac IE or mac Office. That is the final straw for the courts, and MSFT is de-regulated. They are split into a million pieces and FORCED to honor government regulated price caps, and to open up all their API's, document formats, and network protocols. Many of these become international standards, and Linux and Mac are now AMAZINGLY compatable. Meanwhile the Apple XServe has been gaining in popularity. Sun and Apple own the server market and practically drive intel out of business. Apple now totaly owns the market, and for fear of being a monopoly they decide to licence aqua for x86 and give intel and MSFT a subsity to keep them in business. *NIX is hands down the most common operating system in the world and the open source software community receives government funding in the interest of national security.
The future is what you make of it. I'm not going to give up yet!
Two things that not only will give them a significant benifit, but the public will hate.
Please don't mod me down, this is a correction. That should have read "Two things that not only WILL NOT give them..."
Attempts by services to control and sanitise the experience too much are doomed to failure, because the potential customers won't come to the old 'parallel, controlled and secure Internet' gag
I just don't get it, why does MSFT just HAVE to try and control everything they get thier hands on! Sure, I think that joining a voice over IP system with a console game is a great idea, so is console gaming with multiplayer internet, but unique id's? Disneyland? I read that - anti piracy and censureship. Two things that not only will give them a significant benifit, but the public will hate. They always package it up nice, to try and get you to think it's desireable, but the thing they are missing is the fact that they don't totally own this market, and unlike with windows, the average home user is not someone who knows nothing about the product or how to use it. The end users are mostly teenagers and young adults who have been at this gaming thing a while, and have other choices than the MSFT console. I think they will find that in a competitive market people don't have to, and won't, stand for 'big brother' controling thier game experiance.