I simply educated them on proper use. My dad (58) uses the internet a lot and he was actually interested in more and better use. He knows enough to survive, so to speak. He also learns by surfing himself.
No you are not Bill Joy, and if you where you would not have been that excited. Bill Joy wrote a lengthy article once where he announced his concert about these developments. The article was also added in a book called 'Taking the Blue Pill' a philosophy about the movie 'The Matrix' containing several articles.
What about the people who legally counterfeit money? Advertisers sometimes use a bank note (with the 'specimen' text covering the image) they can no longer perform they jobs...
I can imagine that there are plenty violations of the GPL. Some people have no decent upbringing. Some are known but most violations are unseen to the OSS programmer. Even when detencted like in this case: who will test the GPL in court? No the OSS programmer, it's not his thing. He can make mean software, but he is not a laywer. Does he have money to fight in court? I do not think he will. He will talk to the media and they will listen. But until someone actually fights for OSS in the courts more and more violations of the GPL will occur in the future.
...that Microsoft is behind this? This is the second open source Linux distribution that has been attacked. It could also be some students that are paid by Microsoft to show how bad the security is on Linux. I have my doubts.
At my work we don't have a CD player and a audio set. We all have computers, CD-ROM players and a set of speakers. I can not listen at my work to some CD's I have bought. I am not doing anything illegal and I can not listen to my own bought CD's.
I hope that a similar case will hit the courts as well. I don't want to rip my CD's and make MP3's, I just want to listen to the music. Why do I have to be punished for something I did not do?
Getting my money back is no option, I can play my CD's back home on my normal audio set, but I don't like it when I am programming that I can not listen to my good-mood-programming-music.
If they really feel the urge to attack the GPL itself then they must think that this is the only battle left. They might know it's a darn narrow longshot but they picked this fight...
I think this really says that they have no foot on the ground...
A wireless game can cost $40,000 and take a few months to develop, while full-fledged PC and console games can cost $5 million to $10 million and take years to deliver.
That is why a game for your PC cost about 50 dollars while the mobile game cost 5 to 10 dollars.
Not only will there be countermeasures from the 'underworld' but this technology to destroy a computer will probably also fall into the hands of these hackers. That means that only a few of us will lose there computer. After that all computers of the attacking party will probably be destroyed...
I started out in GWBASIC and I always used the GOSUB command instead of the GOTO. GOTO was optional and avoidable. I don' t know if older versions/types of BASIC didn' t have GOSUB but after that they all did.
My nicknames include: Massive Attack, Moby, U2, Texas, Macy Gray, Oribal, Aphex Twin, and lots more.
I will send you a complete list to avoid these kind of anoiances.
I am a big fan of Dealta Force Land Warrior. In this game a lot of people play one of the female characters. The game has several characters to choose from devided equally in males and females. The males and females differ in sound when commenting or dying. Some people choose a female character in the game because the female audio comments are much more cooler than the male ones. Some simply choose a charachter type they like (and their abailities!). I personlly play a female because I like playing the Close Combat character; a female...
You probably never did use a good OSS with a large userbase. I did and they do give a lot of information and help. The response of the developers is sometimes even better than large corporations, depending on the OSS project ofcourse.
... still every guy I know that runs his own webserver (Apache that is) runs it on FreeBSD or BSD kind of OS (OpenBSD, NetBSD, ect.). That there is no large enterprise running it is because they are mostly run by pencil geeks (aka managers) that only use large corporations (like IBM, MS, Oracle, ect.) simply because it has a name, support (who says OSS doesn' t have support???), buzzwords, ect.
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I simply educated them on proper use. My dad (58) uses the internet a lot and he was actually interested in more and better use. He knows enough to survive, so to speak. He also learns by surfing himself.
No you are not Bill Joy, and if you where you would not have been that excited. Bill Joy wrote a lengthy article once where he announced his concert about these developments. The article was also added in a book called 'Taking the Blue Pill' a philosophy about the movie 'The Matrix' containing several articles.
It's not just the processing power...
What about the people who legally counterfeit money? Advertisers sometimes use a bank note (with the 'specimen' text covering the image) they can no longer perform they jobs...
Depends on your target customers. If you work in the graphics industry (let say advertizing) the majority (let say 95%) will run Mac OS.
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I'll be first in line to get the new cybernetic interface installed into my skull.
Warp Records allready was my favorite record label. This is a good signal towards other record labels.
I can imagine that there are plenty violations of the GPL. Some people have no decent upbringing. Some are known but most violations are unseen to the OSS programmer. Even when detencted like in this case: who will test the GPL in court? No the OSS programmer, it's not his thing. He can make mean software, but he is not a laywer. Does he have money to fight in court? I do not think he will. He will talk to the media and they will listen. But until someone actually fights for OSS in the courts more and more violations of the GPL will occur in the future.
Just like the example in the text: it like a anti virus software supplier that spreads virusses.
...that Microsoft is behind this? This is the second open source Linux distribution that has been attacked. It could also be some students that are paid by Microsoft to show how bad the security is on Linux. I have my doubts.
Customers may not install a anti-spy program but the EULA and the notice tell nothing about installing a very thight firewall :)
This will probably be used by the record companies to let us pay more for Audio CD's. Good excuse to raise the prices more and more...
You love playing the Sims don't you? Now that's a game with choices! :)
At my work we don't have a CD player and a audio set. We all have computers, CD-ROM players and a set of speakers. I can not listen at my work to some CD's I have bought. I am not doing anything illegal and I can not listen to my own bought CD's.
I hope that a similar case will hit the courts as well. I don't want to rip my CD's and make MP3's, I just want to listen to the music. Why do I have to be punished for something I did not do? Getting my money back is no option, I can play my CD's back home on my normal audio set, but I don't like it when I am programming that I can not listen to my good-mood-programming-music.
If they really feel the urge to attack the GPL itself then they must think that this is the only battle left. They might know it's a darn narrow longshot but they picked this fight... I think this really says that they have no foot on the ground...
A wireless game can cost $40,000 and take a few months to develop, while full-fledged PC and console games can cost $5 million to $10 million and take years to deliver.
That is why a game for your PC cost about 50 dollars while the mobile game cost 5 to 10 dollars.
Not only will there be countermeasures from the 'underworld' but this technology to destroy a computer will probably also fall into the hands of these hackers. That means that only a few of us will lose there computer. After that all computers of the attacking party will probably be destroyed...
This will not work if they send the email with the return address of the one that is targetted for the spam...
I started out in GWBASIC and I always used the GOSUB command instead of the GOTO. GOTO was optional and avoidable. I don' t know if older versions/types of BASIC didn' t have GOSUB but after that they all did.
My nicknames include: Massive Attack, Moby, U2, Texas, Macy Gray, Oribal, Aphex Twin, and lots more. I will send you a complete list to avoid these kind of anoiances.
why my computer lights up when it is running, doesn't it?
I am a big fan of Dealta Force Land Warrior. In this game a lot of people play one of the female characters. The game has several characters to choose from devided equally in males and females. The males and females differ in sound when commenting or dying. Some people choose a female character in the game because the female audio comments are much more cooler than the male ones. Some simply choose a charachter type they like (and their abailities!). I personlly play a female because I like playing the Close Combat character; a female...
You probably never did use a good OSS with a large userbase. I did and they do give a lot of information and help. The response of the developers is sometimes even better than large corporations, depending on the OSS project ofcourse.
... still every guy I know that runs his own webserver (Apache that is) runs it on FreeBSD or BSD kind of OS (OpenBSD, NetBSD, ect.). That there is no large enterprise running it is because they are mostly run by pencil geeks (aka managers) that only use large corporations (like IBM, MS, Oracle, ect.) simply because it has a name, support (who says OSS doesn' t have support???), buzzwords, ect.
... finally a valid excuse to buy more ram :)
I will help them by giving them a free domain: www.i-have-no.iq I wonder if someone whould want it...