Kazaa exists solely to "shield" people sharing files...except of course that Sherman networks holds EVERYONE'S names that use the system and charges a toll. Bittorrent is P2P in it's truest form. The thing with bittorrent is that it's simply a P2P program...you have to accept responsiblity for what you share because it's just as public as something like FTP.
So Kazza [and the clones] are all about being marginally legal by hiding in a "private companies" VPN & TOS...bittorrent is a way to make a better FTP type protocol--along with the responsibilites that come with it.
I like that option! sounds cool for upgrading linux distros! It is a bit redundant to use Rsync and bittorrent...because Rsync already uses chucks, so I guess bittorrent gains you shared resources though.
The only problem with OO.org is being in a mixed environmen with MSOffice. There are very few features that OO.org doesn't have matches for...and some features are more accessable in my opinion than the MSOffice versions. The problem is in the conversion..or worse having some people on oo.org or some on MSO. That's the mix for trouble. The solution is to make OO.org the business standard...and keep the MSO around for interfacing to other businesses.
When somebody builds a filter so MSOffice can properly read/write OO.org files they'll be blood in the water...because the mixed environment would then work nicely!!
Actually, Domino alreay runs on linux. You just have to use the web front-end. In an office environment that's not so bad to have all the data on the server anyway...desktop data is a nusiance to manage.
Honestly, it'd be better to see the current crop of OSS tools develop better. All the pieces are there for something MUCH better than Domino/Notes or Exchange/Outlook they just need "glued" together...best part is that it'd be standard's compliant with multiple vendors too!!!
Actually Stargate is very good, but suffers from lack of "major network" affiliation popularity. That said, it would have been canceled 2 seasons in due to loosing a few ratings points. They've got an 8th season planned and a spin off!!!
With all the LOTR hype I'd like to see a Magic:TG franchise...There's enough backstory written in the last 10 years to cull 2-3 decent movies from...of course you could say the same about D&D...except they seem to find the crappiest screenwriters and pick the worst stories from the great material available. Of course if somebody could get Lucas to let go of the reins we could have real SW stories...like the stuff by Zahn or Dark Horse!!!
The next real Hope I see for SF would be Machima...but it's still in it's infancy. It would make it possible for "hobbiest" loyal to the material to pick up some of the great stories to "non-PC" for mainstream media to handle without breaking the bank on motion picture fees....If only iTunes [and the store] supported Quicktime video...you'd have a really cheap outlet. Maybe Jobs could kick something off with that hobby project company he CEOs...pixel-something...They're looking for a new distributor you know!
It was just fine like that for 20 years!!!! If it was an error too bad George. Worse than that it's a needless change to something already good. We liked Star Wars just the way it was. Sure it's not cutting edge anymore....but it STILL sets the bar for special effects. The "primitive" technology is part of the charm...It'd be like Wizard of Oz with the B&W part removed "because audiances don't have B&W anymore"
More than that, it's a work of art...a part of culture. And there's been a disturbing trend lately by certian directors [cough, George and steven, cough] to reedit their movies to make them more "politically correct" Stuff like the "shoots first" or "guns to flashlights" edits really, really are insulting to the viewers...espically those of us who watched it as children the first time around! There was a certian shock value to those scenes...down right scary...make you question the world... But it seems that George and Steven don't quite think that it's OK to shake up little kids worlds anymore...espically THEIR KIDS worlds!!! They're all guilty of it, Gates, Jobs, Lucas, Speiberg...of trying to sheild their own children from/rewrite history of their own Up and comming to "greatness"...That's a crime against history...straight out of 1984!!!
Actually huge parts of the "original" version were wiped out in storage....part of the need for the digital effects was that certian scenes were damaged beyond repair and had to be "recreated"..so it was cheaper to do it ditigally. Then Lucas got carried away monkeying with script.
ON a side rant, this was actually part of Lessing's case to the SCOTUS that much of today's media is not really "published" and collectors aren't allowed to archive stuff like this for posterity... hence our culture is at the mercy of corporations' bottom lines...if it's to expensive to protect these famous works...oh well. But of course WE can't copy them either to keep them alive!!! [of course Disney used the same issue with Snow White to get the BoZo act passed]
I got to see it at a DRIVE IN!!! it wasn't that cool though [the drive in part] I was only 5...just barely old enough to remember it...I think I actually fell a sleep for part...hey! it was WAY after bedtime!!
But of course MS technology will "respect" the digigal restrictions that businesses [& MS] place on the files...so the MS engine will respect the admins settings for distribution of files from an office...I'll bet there's an admin option to forbid ANY internet access for private company docs! [arguably a good thing for those pesky emails...right bill] Of course if you use frontpage and don't pay up that license...Oops! there goes the web page! because MSN won't "search" it anymore and IE will "respect" MS restrictions by not searching...scary...
This is not good...the only way the net has survived so far is that very key, very identifiable PRIVATE companies have been involved. They might as well sell it to the highest bidder right now and save the trouble of the IPO. Perhaps they could get IBM to pick them up, or maybe Google!...as a best case...
Their board will get slammed by the "big kids" trying to get a piece...the directors will get sick of it quickly and quit within a year...Either way the "standards compliance" will be the first thing to go when the corps take over...and that is Opera's only "killer" feature...If the directors want their money, sell it to somebody like google, or OSDN or IBM...somebody that's big enough and "in tune" enough to appreciate it....unlike the whole AOL/Netscape thing.
no, you're not on the payroll! Until you sign the contract YOU own them nothing...and they DESERVE nothing!!!! Employment is a contract...not a right. Customers of said company don't usually get 50% more work/product/serviced for free...why should the company? You wouldn't expect to hire a lawyer and have him do your gardening? Employers wouldn't expect you to come in and ask for random amounts of money...i.e. comparable to OT?
More govt agencies need to see employment as a contract...the whole "at will" thing is a sham...just like an employer has no obligation to keep you if you're not on time for work...you have no obligation to continue working when employers make uni-lateral changes to employment contracts. That's where the "middle class work ethic" gets the country into the economic mess to begin with
girls are taught by society to act that way...mostly by their moms! After all, most girls are ready enough at like 14 to want babies...so they spend the next 4-8 years being brainwashed that it's "bad" to want that... you gotta step back sometime and watch the extremes college-age girls go thru to not get attached...or knocked up. then they turn 23, get out of school and wonder where all the "decent" guys went to... [hint: they were NEVER at the bar!] Of course there are just as many girls "under the radar" in college as boys. I met a lot of 20-21 year olds that never had serious boyfriends...but girls like that have the "privilage" of being fresh meat for the sharks...rather than waiting around for us geeks.
I'd check THAT out BEFORE getting into bed with her in the first place!!!! Duhh!! That type of stuff falls under basic compatiblity.
But seriously, if it was in the past [i.e. before you], and not still happening, let it go... Of course if she likes girls too, then there shouldn't be a problem...just make sure she'll share!!!
And MS solving the "spam" problem would only lead to MORE antitrust violations!!! I personally wouldn't trust MS with that scheme either because it isn't OS independant or standard...hence it's just another ploy to get lockin.
If that's the case then why did the MS lawyers argue for the oversight in the first place? I mean they argue for not being broken up, so when some oversight is ordered in place of break up they then get the board to condemn that as judical "overreach"....very funny. I wonder how the judge will take to the ABA telling her how to do her job on MS behalf? I guess her only action now is to close down MS!!!
But motorola doesn't typically use intel processors...or sell PCs. Most of Motorola's work is quite independant from what intel does...and it's a problem with intel processors, not processors in general...yet Also, motorola's design is headquartered in japan...so they'd have to fight them in japaneese court to get any usefulness out of judgements against them.
but they cleaned up the submarine and lacheys patents about 99-2000. That was when the US patentents went from 3 years to file/17 years to 20 years total with 1 to file...the pentium & pentium 2 & 3 were all in sample production by the filing date...Even the athlon was sampleing to internal customers at that point...
considering most people that live the "Grand Theft" lifestyle probably never even SAW a PS2!...they are way too poor and screwed up. GTA:VC is mostly a hollywood-syle diversion for spoiled little middle class kids...who wouldn't have the guts to walk down the streets depicted in the game anyway!!!
No, counterfeiting especially hurts small businesses!!! When somebody uses a copied 20 in a vending machine, the bank makes the machine's owner eat that $20. I agree that it's really not as lucrative as it once was due to the immense amount of effort needed, but with all of today's automated bill acceptors, once a flaw is found it gets very expensive to deal with people essentially stealing.
I think what HP is doing is smart! It sounds like the printers have created a way to tag money so digital devices can recoginze it which is a good thing. HPs offset idea is great, after all, money is held to extremely tight tolerances of the print matching. If simply introducing a little error prevents the bill machines from accepting copied bills then more power to them.
On a side note, the printer/scanner folk really do have to step up to some responsibility for the situation. After all, it wasn't 5 years ago most manufactures and engineers would publicly brag about how good their copiers were by deliberately using money as the "gold standard", and proceding to demonstrate their prowness by fooling the automatic devices. What started as a cute parolor trick for the printer/copier/scanner guys has turned into a nightmare when your average retail stock can duplicate the feat. For them not to take action on this matter is irresponsible...The only people they are effecting are the "idle hands" like Suzy Secretary that try to scam the pop machine...and end up with 10-20 in club fed...the real criminals will continue to do it anyway.
Not really, while some apps use the.mdb file type what's really happening is that MS has just bundled the Access "program" executable with your program when you compiled it and created the package. If you can see the access file type under the create new menu, you've got a "headless" version of access installed..complete with Office extensions and exes!
Certian apps can "connect" to an access file type independantly...just like reading a file. What MySOL should do is create a Mini-MySQL file type and give it access-like properties...while still keeping it a seperate program...rather than embedded. Their GPL-only stratagy is shooting them in the foot here frankly. Or rather, they're not getting good info & samples out there about how to get MySQL to be more Access-like.
or perhaps...somebody else needs to go after access...Unfortunately there's not a large market. If your using Linux, you can get pre-installed MySQL in most distros now...you just have to use it! so there's no need for Access on linux. If you have an app to run on windows, you can just set up full MySQL [again for free] and it will work like on linux. The only real problem is in creating apps for OTHER people..particularly on Linux for windows users. Even then, MySQL is fairly small and the installer quite good...if there was just a more "legal" way to bundle it with your program and not violate GPL..while setting it up automatically from inside your app..or a properly GPL'd helper app.
The bigger draw for Access is that MS allows program makers to redistribute the access core program for their front-end to use. the advantage is that "headless" Access can be included with whatever app you're setting up for your users. It still requires having the same resources available that you'd need to run the full program...and the MS office version compatibility problems!
the problem with MySQL is that you HAVE to get the USER to install the full verson of MySQL on their station if you want to use it...you can't use embedded without paying seperately for it. It's not any better or worse than MS, but the loophole in using MySQL is to create your program completely independant outside MySQL [that's how PHP handles things] and simply let the User get and agree to the license seperately. unfortunately that's really disruptive to IT oranizations to install 2 seperate programs...as well as training users in somewhat advanced [starting services rather than clicking icons] computer operations! Compariblity to Access is an issue MySQL needs to address publicly...requiring people to GPL everything just to have an app USE MySQL is not a valid answer...they need some "guidelines" similar to the "arrangement" with the PHP guys because it's the same issue. Or, adjust their program to be more "invisible" to regular users...although on windows the installer is pretty good...but programs have to be able to start and stop MySQL services independantly...without violating GPL.
Well that's part of the issue. much of the BeOS tech would work very nice on higher end palms, but that requires a major overhaul to the software that would leave lower spec units in the dust. Palm bought the IP and hired many of the engineers. The BeOS tech would reduce the need for companies like Sony to hack the PalmOS like they have been by creating a more full featured base...also if they followed the modular model of Be it had a much more "graceful" model of providing clean seperation of OS components...It was Very Un-Microsoft. If a company wanted to extend just one aspect, it's much easier with the BeOS structure.
Remember, they bought the tech...I doubt any actual BeOS code would be in Palm6...but I'd bet it "looks" like BeOS under the hood!
TNR would be an MS sponsored derivitive work....with its own copyright in the 80's!!!
The real problem I see is that the memo does not specify "Times family 14" font, the original base, but rather "Times New Roman 14" which is specifically the MS word version. Other OSes would have slightly different names and characters to be different enough to skirt copyright. What I see as the problem is a MS crackdown on all the other "times" fonts out there making it impossible to use any non-ms approved clones for federal work.
This is the problem with the current software situation in govt right now. Many of the important things are very small, specific details of implementation. Something like this automatically forces everybody's hand to use the MS programs. Sure it was well meaning to use the default setting of the most common word processor, but using beaurocratic fiat to "prefer" one companies product over another is a dangerous misuse of govt power. Who's to say this "change" wasn't part of the DOD's sweathart deal to by all those PCs last year? You gotta wonder that they used Linux to get a better deal...but then sold the farm to MS anyway...the situation hints at some serious impropriety.
Intel and AMD seem to have done quite nicely with that model for years now!!! For that matter so has MS.[well not the Linux part]
One of the CPU CEOs stated "only real men have fabs" and that's a fact. Software is cheap and easy to distribute...banking on any money beyond servicing somebody's immediate need is simply silly any more...the days of MS-type riches are over. But producing electronic hardware takes hard work, engineering talent and lots of money. Even if intel published all the blueprints for the latest P4 plus the specs for fabrication, it would take billions of dollars to attempt to duplicate it...Plus, you have to pay for workers, material, and utilities to crank out real things. They can never be free!
Linux simply adds icing to the cake. let's face it we only NEED new hardware every 5-10 years for most things [TV, PHONE, printer, monitor, radio, CD...] Business are starting to see the benifit of Linux in decoupling software features from expensive hardware upgrades...
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So Kazza [and the clones] are all about being marginally legal by hiding in a "private companies" VPN & TOS...bittorrent is a way to make a better FTP type protocol--along with the responsibilites that come with it.
I like that option! sounds cool for upgrading linux distros! It is a bit redundant to use Rsync and bittorrent...because Rsync already uses chucks, so I guess bittorrent gains you shared resources though.
When somebody builds a filter so MSOffice can properly read/write OO.org files they'll be blood in the water...because the mixed environment would then work nicely!!
Honestly, it'd be better to see the current crop of OSS tools develop better. All the pieces are there for something MUCH better than Domino/Notes or Exchange/Outlook they just need "glued" together...best part is that it'd be standard's compliant with multiple vendors too!!!
Actually Stargate is very good, but suffers from lack of "major network" affiliation popularity. That said, it would have been canceled 2 seasons in due to loosing a few ratings points. They've got an 8th season planned and a spin off!!!
With all the LOTR hype I'd like to see a Magic:TG franchise...There's enough backstory written in the last 10 years to cull 2-3 decent movies from...of course you could say the same about D&D...except they seem to find the crappiest screenwriters and pick the worst stories from the great material available. Of course if somebody could get Lucas to let go of the reins we could have real SW stories...like the stuff by Zahn or Dark Horse!!!
The next real Hope I see for SF would be Machima...but it's still in it's infancy. It would make it possible for "hobbiest" loyal to the material to pick up some of the great stories to "non-PC" for mainstream media to handle without breaking the bank on motion picture fees. ...If only iTunes [and the store] supported Quicktime video...you'd have a really cheap outlet. Maybe Jobs could kick something off with that hobby project company he CEOs...pixel-something...They're looking for a new distributor you know!
More than that, it's a work of art...a part of culture. And there's been a disturbing trend lately by certian directors [cough, George and steven, cough] to reedit their movies to make them more "politically correct" Stuff like the "shoots first" or "guns to flashlights" edits really, really are insulting to the viewers...espically those of us who watched it as children the first time around! There was a certian shock value to those scenes...down right scary...make you question the world... But it seems that George and Steven don't quite think that it's OK to shake up little kids worlds anymore...espically THEIR KIDS worlds!!! They're all guilty of it, Gates, Jobs, Lucas, Speiberg...of trying to sheild their own children from/rewrite history of their own Up and comming to "greatness"...That's a crime against history...straight out of 1984!!!
ON a side rant, this was actually part of Lessing's case to the SCOTUS that much of today's media is not really "published" and collectors aren't allowed to archive stuff like this for posterity... hence our culture is at the mercy of corporations' bottom lines...if it's to expensive to protect these famous works...oh well. But of course WE can't copy them either to keep them alive!!! [of course Disney used the same issue with Snow White to get the BoZo act passed]
I got to see it at a DRIVE IN!!! it wasn't that cool though [the drive in part] I was only 5...just barely old enough to remember it...I think I actually fell a sleep for part ...hey! it was WAY after bedtime!!
But of course MS technology will "respect" the digigal restrictions that businesses [& MS] place on the files...so the MS engine will respect the admins settings for distribution of files from an office...I'll bet there's an admin option to forbid ANY internet access for private company docs! [arguably a good thing for those pesky emails...right bill] Of course if you use frontpage and don't pay up that license...Oops! there goes the web page! because MSN won't "search" it anymore and IE will "respect" MS restrictions by not searching...scary...
Their board will get slammed by the "big kids" trying to get a piece...the directors will get sick of it quickly and quit within a year...Either way the "standards compliance" will be the first thing to go when the corps take over...and that is Opera's only "killer" feature...If the directors want their money, sell it to somebody like google, or OSDN or IBM...somebody that's big enough and "in tune" enough to appreciate it....unlike the whole AOL/Netscape thing.
More govt agencies need to see employment as a contract...the whole "at will" thing is a sham...just like an employer has no obligation to keep you if you're not on time for work...you have no obligation to continue working when employers make uni-lateral changes to employment contracts. That's where the "middle class work ethic" gets the country into the economic mess to begin with
girls are taught by society to act that way...mostly by their moms! After all, most girls are ready enough at like 14 to want babies...so they spend the next 4-8 years being brainwashed that it's "bad" to want that... you gotta step back sometime and watch the extremes college-age girls go thru to not get attached...or knocked up. then they turn 23, get out of school and wonder where all the "decent" guys went to... [hint: they were NEVER at the bar!] Of course there are just as many girls "under the radar" in college as boys. I met a lot of 20-21 year olds that never had serious boyfriends...but girls like that have the "privilage" of being fresh meat for the sharks...rather than waiting around for us geeks.
really usefull...uses alot...nuff said
But seriously, if it was in the past [i.e. before you], and not still happening, let it go... Of course if she likes girls too, then there shouldn't be a problem...just make sure she'll share!!!
And MS solving the "spam" problem would only lead to MORE antitrust violations!!! I personally wouldn't trust MS with that scheme either because it isn't OS independant or standard...hence it's just another ploy to get lockin.
If that's the case then why did the MS lawyers argue for the oversight in the first place? I mean they argue for not being broken up, so when some oversight is ordered in place of break up they then get the board to condemn that as judical "overreach"....very funny. I wonder how the judge will take to the ABA telling her how to do her job on MS behalf? I guess her only action now is to close down MS!!!
But motorola doesn't typically use intel processors...or sell PCs. Most of Motorola's work is quite independant from what intel does...and it's a problem with intel processors, not processors in general ...yet Also, motorola's design is headquartered in japan...so they'd have to fight them in japaneese court to get any usefulness out of judgements against them.
but they cleaned up the submarine and lacheys patents about 99-2000. That was when the US patentents went from 3 years to file/17 years to 20 years total with 1 to file...the pentium & pentium 2 & 3 were all in sample production by the filing date...Even the athlon was sampleing to internal customers at that point...
considering most people that live the "Grand Theft" lifestyle probably never even SAW a PS2! ...they are way too poor and screwed up. GTA:VC is mostly a hollywood-syle diversion for spoiled little middle class kids...who wouldn't have the guts to walk down the streets depicted in the game anyway!!!
I think what HP is doing is smart! It sounds like the printers have created a way to tag money so digital devices can recoginze it which is a good thing. HPs offset idea is great, after all, money is held to extremely tight tolerances of the print matching. If simply introducing a little error prevents the bill machines from accepting copied bills then more power to them.
On a side note, the printer/scanner folk really do have to step up to some responsibility for the situation. After all, it wasn't 5 years ago most manufactures and engineers would publicly brag about how good their copiers were by deliberately using money as the "gold standard", and proceding to demonstrate their prowness by fooling the automatic devices. What started as a cute parolor trick for the printer/copier/scanner guys has turned into a nightmare when your average retail stock can duplicate the feat. For them not to take action on this matter is irresponsible...The only people they are effecting are the "idle hands" like Suzy Secretary that try to scam the pop machine...and end up with 10-20 in club fed...the real criminals will continue to do it anyway.
Certian apps can "connect" to an access file type independantly...just like reading a file. What MySOL should do is create a Mini-MySQL file type and give it access-like properties...while still keeping it a seperate program...rather than embedded. Their GPL-only stratagy is shooting them in the foot here frankly. Or rather, they're not getting good info & samples out there about how to get MySQL to be more Access-like.
or perhaps...somebody else needs to go after access...Unfortunately there's not a large market. If your using Linux, you can get pre-installed MySQL in most distros now...you just have to use it! so there's no need for Access on linux. If you have an app to run on windows, you can just set up full MySQL [again for free] and it will work like on linux. The only real problem is in creating apps for OTHER people..particularly on Linux for windows users. Even then, MySQL is fairly small and the installer quite good...if there was just a more "legal" way to bundle it with your program and not violate GPL..while setting it up automatically from inside your app..or a properly GPL'd helper app.
the problem with MySQL is that you HAVE to get the USER to install the full verson of MySQL on their station if you want to use it...you can't use embedded without paying seperately for it. It's not any better or worse than MS, but the loophole in using MySQL is to create your program completely independant outside MySQL [that's how PHP handles things] and simply let the User get and agree to the license seperately. unfortunately that's really disruptive to IT oranizations to install 2 seperate programs...as well as training users in somewhat advanced [starting services rather than clicking icons] computer operations! Compariblity to Access is an issue MySQL needs to address publicly...requiring people to GPL everything just to have an app USE MySQL is not a valid answer...they need some "guidelines" similar to the "arrangement" with the PHP guys because it's the same issue. Or, adjust their program to be more "invisible" to regular users...although on windows the installer is pretty good...but programs have to be able to start and stop MySQL services independantly...without violating GPL.
Remember, they bought the tech...I doubt any actual BeOS code would be in Palm6...but I'd bet it "looks" like BeOS under the hood!
The real problem I see is that the memo does not specify "Times family 14" font, the original base, but rather "Times New Roman 14" which is specifically the MS word version. Other OSes would have slightly different names and characters to be different enough to skirt copyright. What I see as the problem is a MS crackdown on all the other "times" fonts out there making it impossible to use any non-ms approved clones for federal work.
This is the problem with the current software situation in govt right now. Many of the important things are very small, specific details of implementation. Something like this automatically forces everybody's hand to use the MS programs. Sure it was well meaning to use the default setting of the most common word processor, but using beaurocratic fiat to "prefer" one companies product over another is a dangerous misuse of govt power. Who's to say this "change" wasn't part of the DOD's sweathart deal to by all those PCs last year? You gotta wonder that they used Linux to get a better deal...but then sold the farm to MS anyway...the situation hints at some serious impropriety.
One of the CPU CEOs stated "only real men have fabs" and that's a fact. Software is cheap and easy to distribute...banking on any money beyond servicing somebody's immediate need is simply silly any more...the days of MS-type riches are over. But producing electronic hardware takes hard work, engineering talent and lots of money. Even if intel published all the blueprints for the latest P4 plus the specs for fabrication, it would take billions of dollars to attempt to duplicate it...Plus, you have to pay for workers, material, and utilities to crank out real things. They can never be free!
Linux simply adds icing to the cake. let's face it we only NEED new hardware every 5-10 years for most things [TV, PHONE, printer, monitor, radio, CD...] Business are starting to see the benifit of Linux in decoupling software features from expensive hardware upgrades...