There is some interest at the university department where I work in using one of these as an inexpensive, low power data logger for one of our projects. It would be in a remote setting and would depend on solar panels and batteries to operate. The low power consumption and rugged design would make it a good choice for this environment. The only problem is mass storage. I wonder if the device will work with 8GB flash memory cards. That would put it in the acceptable range for this application.
The "IP" laws like copyright and patent were invented for one reason: "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;"
There are not there to encourage profit per se. They exist to encourage invention. The problem today is that, for copyright, the work essentially never reaches the public domain. Congress continues to extend the duration of copyright (under intense lobbying by "IP" firms) so that it extends, in practice, forever.
So, you are incorrect. The intent of the law was to encourage works to enter the public domain. That the current practice prevents this very thing from happening is an artifact of corporate greed, not noble intentions by the writers of the constitution.
So, all the volunteers at habitat for humanity are slaves? And those people that volunteer to clean up the beaches on the coast, they are slaves too? Wow! I didn't know that slavery was prevalent in the US in this day and age. Thanks for clearing that up for me.
I think you might want to crawl out of Ayn Rand territory and join us in the real world where people do things for any number of reasons, not all of them being money.
You can, sort of. Some games can run under wine, or Cedega (a commercial version of wine). I use Cedega to run some older games that I've always liked (Civ IV, Star Trek Armada 2, Earth 2150). There are some native commercial games for Linux (like Quake and the Unreal Tournament series) and there are some very good free games for Linux. The situation is not quite as dire as the critics would have you believe, but not as great as some Linux proponents would like you to think.
Have you actually used a Linux distribution in the last 5 years? In modern distributions, the kernel detects hardware and loads drivers during the boot up process. That means that you can take a hard drive out of one machine and put it in a non-identical machine and it will boot and use all the hardware (as long as that hardware is supported by Linux). I think that maybe I've been trolled.
As for what I would improve about Linux, there isn't anything that I think can be directly improved by the developers. I would like to see more commercial software support, but that's really an increased adoption issue.
Not to mention the several aliases that he set up under windows to help himself out. He could have done the same thing under Linux and cut down his typing even more.
I remember those early John Carroll trolls. I also seem to remember them being successfully rebutted by John Le'Brecage. Funny that he (Le'Brecage)wasn't offered a chance to become ZDNet blogger.
Hear, hear! I'm just as anti-corporate as the next slashdotter, but I think that in this case J&J is right. They did offer third party mediation that was rejected out of hand by the Red Cross. They had no choice but to file suit. I think they might lose, but not on the merits of the case.
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Do you have a link to the Linux version? How about the Mac version?
Why not use a document exchange format that is natively supported on many platforms and which has a free viewer for Windows?
If you had read the article (and ignore the typo where they put IE instead of FF), they say:
"Although clear market share gains for FF were reported in every single European territory, countries where [FF] still has not reached 20% market share include Britain, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Ukraine, Norway and Denmark."
I play Civ 4 under Cedega. It runs just fine considering I do have a recently upgraded Mobo, processor, RAM and video card. The video card is a GeForce 7600GT (hardly state of the art), and the processor is an Athlon 64 X2 5600+ which is pretty fast. The game does crash on occasion, but I've heard that it crashes on Windows as well.
I have a few older games that I play under Cedega. When it works, it usually works pretty well.
An interesting thing about the WGA EULA is that it terminates a service the user is already receiving (updates) on noncompliance. One would think that removing a feature touted by the manufacturer by imposing onerous new terms would be actionable. But, IANAL and what's fair and what's the law aren't always the same.
Doesn't much matter to me since I use Linux at home and at work with (properly licenced) Windows relegated to a virtualbox VM on my work machine.
The GPL and Microsoft's EULA are NOT equivalent. The GPL regulates copying the software(well established copyright law), not use. As far as I know, the use licenses (like Microsoft's EULA and others) do not have the same standing under the law. The GPL ONLY covers copying and is actually very permissive when compared to most commercial copyright licenses.
As far as respecting the EULA, I wonder if it's even a valid contract. As I understand it, most contracts require both parties agree to the terms BEFORE the transaction (purchasing the software) takes place.
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There is some interest at the university department where I work in using one of these as an inexpensive, low power data logger for one of our projects. It would be in a remote setting and would depend on solar panels and batteries to operate. The low power consumption and rugged design would make it a good choice for this environment. The only problem is mass storage. I wonder if the device will work with 8GB flash memory cards. That would put it in the acceptable range for this application.
yes. See, my argument is every bit as good as yours!
The Office! Possibly the funniest half-hour on US television.
Is the platform to run it on free?
So the solution to the problem is to pay for more software from Microsoft? Yeah, I can't see any reason why anyone would be upset about that.
The "IP" laws like copyright and patent were invented for one reason: "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;"
There are not there to encourage profit per se. They exist to encourage invention. The problem today is that, for copyright, the work essentially never reaches the public domain. Congress continues to extend the duration of copyright (under intense lobbying by "IP" firms) so that it extends, in practice, forever.
So, you are incorrect. The intent of the law was to encourage works to enter the public domain. That the current practice prevents this very thing from happening is an artifact of corporate greed, not noble intentions by the writers of the constitution.
So, all the volunteers at habitat for humanity are slaves? And those people that volunteer to clean up the beaches on the coast, they are slaves too? Wow! I didn't know that slavery was prevalent in the US in this day and age. Thanks for clearing that up for me.
I think you might want to crawl out of Ayn Rand territory and join us in the real world where people do things for any number of reasons, not all of them being money.
You can, sort of. Some games can run under wine, or Cedega (a commercial version of wine). I use Cedega to run some older games that I've always liked (Civ IV, Star Trek Armada 2, Earth 2150). There are some native commercial games for Linux (like Quake and the Unreal Tournament series) and there are some very good free games for Linux. The situation is not quite as dire as the critics would have you believe, but not as great as some Linux proponents would like you to think.
These pages show some of what's available:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Games
http://www.happypenguin.org/
And, if a PE boot disk is illegal, this works quite well:
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
Oops! That was a PS2 cluster. Selfpwnd!
Professor Adams covers that on the Microwulf web site:
P R/
http://www.calvin.edu/~adams/research/microwulf/P
I'm posting from a machine running a downloaded copy of Linux. Shhh, don't tell anyone!
Have you actually used a Linux distribution in the last 5 years? In modern distributions, the kernel detects hardware and loads drivers during the boot up process. That means that you can take a hard drive out of one machine and put it in a non-identical machine and it will boot and use all the hardware (as long as that hardware is supported by Linux). I think that maybe I've been trolled.
As for what I would improve about Linux, there isn't anything that I think can be directly improved by the developers. I would like to see more commercial software support, but that's really an increased adoption issue.
Not to mention the several aliases that he set up under windows to help himself out. He could have done the same thing under Linux and cut down his typing even more.
I remember those early John Carroll trolls. I also seem to remember them being successfully rebutted by John Le'Brecage. Funny that he (Le'Brecage)wasn't offered a chance to become ZDNet blogger.
Or, you could use a linux live CD like this one:
http://www.inside-security.de/insert_en.html
I'm sure there are plenty others, this is just the first one I ran across.
Hear, hear! I'm just as anti-corporate as the next slashdotter, but I think that in this case J&J is right. They did offer third party mediation that was rejected out of hand by the Red Cross. They had no choice but to file suit. I think they might lose, but not on the merits of the case.
Do you have a link to the Linux version? How about the Mac version?
Why not use a document exchange format that is natively supported on many platforms and which has a free viewer for Windows?
I like the NX based systems for remote desktop on Linux (I use freenx). Plus, the client runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
If you had read the article (and ignore the typo where they put IE instead of FF), they say:
"Although clear market share gains for FF were reported in every single European territory, countries where [FF] still has not reached 20% market share include Britain, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Ukraine, Norway and Denmark."
So, your results DO match up with theirs.
I have no mod points so I have to say +5 funny! I ACTUALLY laughed out loud after reading this.
I play Civ 4 under Cedega. It runs just fine considering I do have a recently upgraded Mobo, processor, RAM and video card. The video card is a GeForce 7600GT (hardly state of the art), and the processor is an Athlon 64 X2 5600+ which is pretty fast. The game does crash on occasion, but I've heard that it crashes on Windows as well.
I have a few older games that I play under Cedega. When it works, it usually works pretty well.
An interesting thing about the WGA EULA is that it terminates a service the user is already receiving (updates) on noncompliance. One would think that removing a feature touted by the manufacturer by imposing onerous new terms would be actionable. But, IANAL and what's fair and what's the law aren't always the same.
Doesn't much matter to me since I use Linux at home and at work with (properly licenced) Windows relegated to a virtualbox VM on my work machine.
The GPL and Microsoft's EULA are NOT equivalent. The GPL regulates copying the software(well established copyright law), not use. As far as I know, the use licenses (like Microsoft's EULA and others) do not have the same standing under the law. The GPL ONLY covers copying and is actually very permissive when compared to most commercial copyright licenses.
As far as respecting the EULA, I wonder if it's even a valid contract. As I understand it, most contracts require both parties agree to the terms BEFORE the transaction (purchasing the software) takes place.
Just because your network is set up a particular way doesn't mean that every network is. Where I work, each PC receives a routable IP address.