No it's not. It's OUR web. He 'got there first' with what became popular, in a period when the world was hungry for a world-wide networking protocol. That's vastly different from the life-long work of Grace Hopper, Alan Turing, or Dijkstra.
'Got there first' gets you the kind of credit that Bill Gates gets for selling a DOS to IBM.
You're placing 'Computer Science' on the same level as Physics and Chemistry?
I'd place it more in the middle. The 'science' portion of it (algorhythms) is a branch of math, i.e. like topology.
The 'applied' part of it, what most people study in school is more like engineering (for people who go to college) or Metal Shop (the people who get 'certification')
The Staff can't bash Microsoft too hard anymore. It's likely this site will be owned by Apple Computer in the not-too-distant future, and Microsoft provides certain critical applications that help Apple stay viable....
When places overstuff their napkin dispenser, I am just forced to reach in around the side and rip a whole bunch of them out.
Usually more than I would have taken otherwise. If you can document the point about the businesses doing it to save money, I'll start feeling better about trashing the napkin dispenser. Probably I'll do it more often. (I'd like one napkin from each dispenser, thankyou, it's just a thing I have....)
I categorically refuse to register shareware that has fingerprinted keys like that. If it requires me to email back a bit of binary info about my equipment for them to generate the key, I look elsewhere.
I favor shareware that generates it's key from my name or email address. And there's a lot of it out there. Good stuff, like TextPad and Cool Edit.
The open source model has the users making the changes.
No amount of hand waving and Raymondisms is going to change the fact that if and when Linux scales up to become 'mainstream' fewer and fewer of the userbase will be qualified to make the necesssary changes.
But the ability to make the changes that you want, even if you have to hire someone to do it, will alleviate the feelings helplessness and of lack of control.
Having to hire some dude in a ThinkGeek t-shirt is going to alleviate the feeling of helpless and of lack of control?
Eventually, the common consumer will realize that they don't need to pay for this week's version of Office or Windows. Once this occurs, Microsoft will be in a very "interesting" situation.
Eventually, the common consumer will realize that they'd damn well better pay for a commercial copy of Red Hat Linux and the support contract, because the only alternative is spending most of their day poreing over Usenet groups and security websites finding out what to apt-get and patch to keep malcontents out of their network-connected boxes.
all european countries have just stated they are bound to exactly the same international laws
For 'international laws' substitute: laws based on western values of 'the individual over the society, freedom over security' etc.
I am not going to defend things like the autonomy of the local people in Guam to decide what is right and what is wrong (I just pulled that country name out of the hat to may an illustration). However, I am certain that the people in Guam might want to defend their autonomy.
They can't if the only means they have is to send delegates to sit in a nameless bureaucracy in Europe somewhere.
Why should there be one set of laws for the whole world? What happened to self government?
Maybe I've missed the boat on Java (chime right in and say so, we know you can) but I've seen Java as in part one of the most significant book-selling computer technologies that has ever existed. Almost from the beginning, what Java 'meant' was that there were going to be tons of books, many of them horrible fluffy hype, about Java. I know it's gotten better as Java has slowly become usable for more than dancing screen doodles.
So here we have an article: '10 Reasons We Need Java 3.' Written "by one of the most active Java book writers ever." Clearly he needs Java 3, because without cycles of obsolesence, how's he going to make his boat payment(s)?
I have a variety of shareware for some of my machines. Some of it is 'unlocked' by keys provided by the vendor. None of it, that I am aware of, has 'expiration' built into the keys.
When I register the shareware, I take care to keep ahold of the key, and burn it all onto a CD that has all my 'Registered shareware' on it.
Maybe you're using some other kinds of shareware than I am, but from my point of view, you're spreading FUD, because I've never had the problem you describe.
These aren't really games, but some of the coolest data for rendering 3-D virtual reality is available at this site. No batteries required, and they won't want you to turn them off during takeoff and landing either.
Does anybody have the code from the MOD chips in downloadable form, so we can evaluate it for ourselves? Usually it's just some PIC embedded controller or an FPGA. There should be a site where the code can be downloaded for free and people with the tools can make their own Mod chips.
Or are the Mod chips protected by 'security through obscurity' and hardware locks? If so, isn't that kind of ironic?
Essentially, Palmer's point (you can call it a 'quibble' if you want, that sort of language reflects on you more than anyone else) is that there are fundamental flaws in Bollier's argument. Why dig in and muck around with all the arguements Bollier conjures up when he doesn't start out with the proper definitions? Read Palmer, instead of just 'looking at' it.
Bollier's work is the usual fare: peppered with colorful folkloric filler and colorized historical references, about the same as the average Eric Raymond screed (okay, I can use derisive terms too). It hearkens back to the 'good old days,' as always sugared up with the kind of historically revisionist nostalgia so popular with Ren-Fest denizens and neo-pagans.
It's the kind of stuff that sells well with the disinfranchised 'masses' and the elites which like to herd them around.
If you work at a place so poorly managed that they allow people to have 'cheap' (but horrendously expensive to keep running) InkJet printers, instead of far lower cost networked Laser Printers, you'll do better to quit and find a more successful company to work at. You'll more than make up the cost of a few inkjet cartridges in profit sharing and raises.
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So, basically, you just sit down by some musical equipment and 'Jam' and sometimes what gets recorded on the MIDI sequencer is worth playing back.
That's the slackjawed 'improvisation' method of composing music. You shouldn't characterize all music composition as being 'done' that way.
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Much of the great music that's been written was conjured up in the head of the composer without any musical instrument at all involved.
Writing down notes on staff paper is quite similar in some regards to writing computer software. You have to visualize what it's going to be like when it's 'run.' And in some cases (i.e. Beethoven's 9th Symphony, written by him after he'd become deaf) you don't need to hear the notes at all to be satisfied knowing they went together quite well.
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Geez. He comes up with a list of purposed for earning money, none of which have to do with earning the money just to line his pockets with it, and you revert to flaming.
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No it's not. It's OUR web. He 'got there first' with what became popular, in a period when the world was hungry for a world-wide networking protocol. That's vastly different from the life-long work of Grace Hopper, Alan Turing, or Dijkstra.
'Got there first' gets you the kind of credit that Bill Gates gets for selling a DOS to IBM.
You're placing 'Computer Science' on the same level as Physics and Chemistry?
I'd place it more in the middle. The 'science' portion of it (algorhythms) is a branch of math, i.e. like topology.
The 'applied' part of it, what most people study in school is more like engineering (for people who go to college) or Metal Shop (the people who get 'certification')
The Staff can't bash Microsoft too hard anymore. It's likely this site will be owned by Apple Computer in the not-too-distant future, and Microsoft provides certain critical applications that help Apple stay viable....
Tim Berners-Lee made it onto a list with Grace Hopper and Alan Turing?
I don't mean to sound flameish, but that seems like an injustice.
Walters Beer, which is brewed in Wisconsin, used to sell their beer in two sizes of returnable bottles. They might still to this day.
They sold it in 7 ounce 'pony' bottles, and in quart bottles.
The quart bottles were labelled 'Family Size.'
When places overstuff their napkin dispenser, I am just forced to reach in around the side and rip a whole bunch of them out.
Usually more than I would have taken otherwise. If you can document the point about the businesses doing it to save money, I'll start feeling better about trashing the napkin dispenser. Probably I'll do it more often. (I'd like one napkin from each dispenser, thankyou, it's just a thing I have....)
I categorically refuse to register shareware that has fingerprinted keys like that. If it requires me to email back a bit of binary info about my equipment for them to generate the key, I look elsewhere.
I favor shareware that generates it's key from my name or email address. And there's a lot of it out there. Good stuff, like TextPad and Cool Edit.
The open source model has the users making the changes.
No amount of hand waving and Raymondisms is going to change the fact that if and when Linux scales up to become 'mainstream' fewer and fewer of the userbase will be qualified to make the necesssary changes.
But the ability to make the changes that you want, even if you have to hire someone to do it, will alleviate the feelings helplessness and of lack of control.
Having to hire some dude in a ThinkGeek t-shirt is going to alleviate the feeling of helpless and of lack of control?
Eventually, the common consumer will realize that they don't need to pay for this week's version of Office or Windows. Once this occurs, Microsoft will be in a very "interesting" situation.
Eventually, the common consumer will realize that they'd damn well better pay for a commercial copy of Red Hat Linux and the support contract, because the only alternative is spending most of their day poreing over Usenet groups and security websites finding out what to apt-get and patch to keep malcontents out of their network-connected boxes.
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
all european countries have just stated they are bound to exactly the same international laws
For 'international laws' substitute: laws based on western values of 'the individual over the society, freedom over security' etc.
I am not going to defend things like the autonomy of the local people in Guam to decide what is right and what is wrong (I just pulled that country name out of the hat to may an illustration). However, I am certain that the people in Guam might want to defend their autonomy.
They can't if the only means they have is to send delegates to sit in a nameless bureaucracy in Europe somewhere.
Why should there be one set of laws for the whole world? What happened to self government?
Okay. So 70 neo-colonial regimes have ratified it already.
That doesn't change the point being made at all.
Maybe I've missed the boat on Java (chime right in and say so, we know you can) but I've seen Java as in part one of the most significant book-selling computer technologies that has ever existed. Almost from the beginning, what Java 'meant' was that there were going to be tons of books, many of them horrible fluffy hype, about Java. I know it's gotten better as Java has slowly become usable for more than dancing screen doodles.
So here we have an article: '10 Reasons We Need Java 3.' Written "by one of the most active Java book writers ever." Clearly he needs Java 3, because without cycles of obsolesence, how's he going to make his boat payment(s)?
I have a variety of shareware for some of my machines. Some of it is 'unlocked' by keys provided by the vendor. None of it, that I am aware of, has 'expiration' built into the keys.
When I register the shareware, I take care to keep ahold of the key, and burn it all onto a CD that has all my 'Registered shareware' on it.
Maybe you're using some other kinds of shareware than I am, but from my point of view, you're spreading FUD, because I've never had the problem you describe.
These aren't really games, but some of the coolest data for rendering 3-D virtual reality is available at this site. No batteries required, and they won't want you to turn them off during takeoff and landing either.
Does anybody have the code from the MOD chips in downloadable form, so we can evaluate it for ourselves? Usually it's just some PIC embedded controller or an FPGA. There should be a site where the code can be downloaded for free and people with the tools can make their own Mod chips.
Or are the Mod chips protected by 'security through obscurity' and hardware locks? If so, isn't that kind of ironic?
Well, entire branches of the Linux kernal, and various other software projects, like Apache, are changed as a result of security exploits.
Nothing new there, except this is a case of code embedded in hardware.
The only question is, whose turn is it to buy the CD this time, and which ftp site should we put it on?
Digging into all the shiney things, colorful examples, and folklore is more than anybody should have to do to expose Bollier for what he is.
Why should one have to muck around in the garbage first, to have to point out what it is?
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Oh, and: "As in many conservative think-tank rebuttals"
Pot Kettle Black, dude.
Essentially, Palmer's point (you can call it a 'quibble' if you want, that sort of language reflects on you more than anyone else) is that there are fundamental flaws in Bollier's argument. Why dig in and muck around with all the arguements Bollier conjures up when he doesn't start out with the proper definitions? Read Palmer, instead of just 'looking at' it.
Bollier's work is the usual fare: peppered with colorful folkloric filler and colorized historical references, about the same as the average Eric Raymond screed (okay, I can use derisive terms too). It hearkens back to the 'good old days,' as always sugared up with the kind of historically revisionist nostalgia so popular with Ren-Fest denizens and neo-pagans.
It's the kind of stuff that sells well with the disinfranchised 'masses' and the elites which like to herd them around.
Play that hurdy-gurdy music, maaaan!
I wouldn't call the parent comment a 'troll.' It provides a useful link to a well thought out rebuttal to the original article. I am appreciate it.
If you work at a place so poorly managed that they allow people to have 'cheap' (but horrendously expensive to keep running) InkJet printers, instead of far lower cost networked Laser Printers, you'll do better to quit and find a more successful company to work at. You'll more than make up the cost of a few inkjet cartridges in profit sharing and raises.
So, basically, you just sit down by some musical equipment and 'Jam' and sometimes what gets recorded on the MIDI sequencer is worth playing back.
That's the slackjawed 'improvisation' method of composing music. You shouldn't characterize all music composition as being 'done' that way.
Much of the great music that's been written was conjured up in the head of the composer without any musical instrument at all involved.
Writing down notes on staff paper is quite similar in some regards to writing computer software. You have to visualize what it's going to be like when it's 'run.' And in some cases (i.e. Beethoven's 9th Symphony, written by him after he'd become deaf) you don't need to hear the notes at all to be satisfied knowing they went together quite well.
Geez. He comes up with a list of purposed for earning money, none of which have to do with earning the money just to line his pockets with it, and you revert to flaming.
There were tons of cartridges for the C64. They usually had a 2764 EPROM in them.