If this doesn't include windows O/S source code, or some other major piece of software's source, it's kinda moot to even anticipate that M$ will be moving ANYTHING of real value to open source. For example, who's to say that the source here looks anything like what M$'s other projects' source looks like? They probably hired some OSS people to do it in the first place (anticipating an OSS release one day), so that nothing internal would get out. On that note, what would you expect to see if you could see Win2k3 source? As I recall, win2k was something like 35 million lines of code -- good luck compiling that! It probably looks like any project that size designed to cope with so much -- tons and tons of patches, kludges, and other WTF's. The biggest testament to how hard it is to write/maintain something like that is that no one else has made a win32 o/s clone that sells, to my knowledge.
So in the near future, will we see SCO/RIAA file 1.3 billion lawsuits , 1 for each person in China, Japan and Korea? That would be a fabulous waste of money. They can just issue 1.3 billion trial delays, and SCO can take a rest for 30 thousand years!
I can't imagine this would be a surprise to anyone, considering that nearly every russian programmer I've met was awesome... of course, perhaps it's because they were "awesome" that they are in the USA now!
Tiny speech changes make big difference
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The Power of Persuasion
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· Score: 2, Interesting
As pointed out on the Howard Stern show this morning, tiny changes in speech can make a big difference in the perception of the audience, like between "friends" and "friend" (group vs. individual). On that note, friend, I'd like to ask you to visit my artist interview. See? It works!
I don't understand why it's ok to post the vulnerabilities of say, bluetooth, but someone can't post "hacks" or they can get in major trouble, i.e. the France story. Why are some exploits OK and others not OK? Where is the line? Is it just like censorship, where on a case-by-case basis the rules are changed? That's dumb. In other news, check out my artist interview at Fulcrum gallery.
This is a genius price, and wal-mart's massive distribution capabilities could easily push the desktop market dramatically in the direction of linux. How large is wal-mart? Let me give an example. There's the story of the local piemaker who won a contract with wal-mart to sell his pies. Wal-mart ordered 10,000 TRUCKLOADS of pies! If they can do that kinda volume on the linux machines, Microsoft's in for a ride. Fortune 500: Microsoft = #46, Walmart = #1. Walmart wins! In other news, see my artist interview at fulcrum gallery.
Anyone remember vector monitors? Those things would be great to resurrect, supposing that SVG really kicks in on the desktop, and also supposing that we get some svg version of asteroids shipping with those new o/s installs... nice!
I am surprised that more large companies haven't tried to make game development tools. There are a few things that nearly every game has, and that are really hard to do efficiently and quickly (the main game loop, for example). I honestly hope that Microsoft does make this and it does work, because that usually means some OSS people will make a knockoff that I can get for free and use, which will be awesome.
Problem that doesn't exist big time...
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Passport to Nowhere
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It is widely pulicized now how to manage passwords for a website -- it's as simple as using other Microsoft tools, and so in a way, passport puts itself out of business by competing poorly with other Microsoft products. Why would anyone not just use an NT auth login, ASP, or one of the myriad of other ways to do a sign-on. The only place I see passports now is places where Microsoft already had a majorly vested business interest. Passport should go right up there with Microsoft BOB , IMHO.
I find it even more disturbing that only 8% of the people responsible for education are happy with their jobs. Maybe if they were happier, more people would be learning in school & wouldn't be such morons to us I.T. people at work. OR, perhaps the stigma behind being able to learn & answer questions as "stupid" should finally die, so that people can actually learn at school and not feel "dorky" because they are learning, thus again allowing them to gain some sense & not be morons later in life. I explained one of my work-related problems to a 6th grader who is nearly failing out, and even he was able to see how easy the probs would be to fix for those in charge. Something is wrong if the failing gradeschooler has more common sense than a college grad PHB.
If network solutions dies, where do those ownerships go? That's a critical question, and one that this article is really asking. Suppose Microsoft steps in and buys the outstanding interest in Network Solutions... the results could be really disastrous. On the other hand, the government could step in and regulate ownership of domain names, and then it would be like getting a business license or something like that. One last thing - it's spelled PHENOMENON.
This also has a lot to do with controlling the political content of the airwaves -- see http://www.howardstern.com if you don't understand that statement.
As so many of our forefathers said, the meaning of the first amendment is that people can and should say things that can make all our blood BOIL, and there's jack shit anyone should be able to do about it. I can turn on National Geographic and see 90 black women's breasts. Who cares? Furthermore, the FCC loves to damage the 5th amendment by not offering due process to anyone on what exactly "indecent" is. I think this is completely horrible, and I will summarily vote for everyone ELSE than the people that are currently in office to send a message that says, FUCK censorship. This is America, not the old, dictator-run Iraq.
Let me help those of you who may not know... it costs a lot of money to write and get a good recording of a song. If I were to only charge 25 cents for a recording that cost me $500 of my time, it would take me 2000 copies, versus perhaps 500 copies, to get at least to a gross return on my investment. What makes this website cool is that the artist doesn't have to sell as many tracks as they otherwise would, because the artist is getting a bigger payout than pretty much anyone offers. Considering that this is the case, is it worth your 99 cents to get the track? Yes, because that 99 cents goes a lot farther towards helping that artist than it would for say, Britney Spears, who probably gets a tiny fraction of that sale and could really care less. Oh yeah -- she doesn't write her music anyways, so it's kinda moot to discuss her, but you get the point.
Originally, radio broadcasters were not supposed to play records, because record companies thought that if people could hear the songs over the air for free, they wouldn't buy records. It's a stupid argument, and it's the same thing with file sharing. RIAA is upset because they can't drive up sales just by marketing, etc... the music actually has to be good now.
Every time I see an Amiga article, I can't help but remember what has to have been the coolest game I ever played: Robocop on the Amiga 500. You could be the big other robot from the movie, and the graphics & playability were just amazing.
10 million addresses for 1500 bucks... why not just sell harvesting tools and avoid prosecution? I can't imagine a world where I'd see a CD with 10 million e-mails on it and think, "wow, what a great buy!" and not think "wow, 10 million illegal violations of privacy!" They should make unauthorized email address distribution fineable at $1000 per offense.
In the future, these sites will be a great tool. Imagine in 100-200 years, there will be a map of the English language that is traceable to a degree not currently possible, and we'll all understand language patterns better. I have heard that something like 10% of Shakespeare is completely lost in translation due to changes in the language, so one can only imagine what a resource like this will be able to provide for future generations -- hopefully, there won't be as much cultural reinvention (i.e. the printing press: China -> Europe)
A lot of places actually won't turn a profit within a year, that's not that unusual. Especially mining operations are so costly that they often operate for 10 years before turning a profit (discovery channel). However, robots that can play music are still cool. The big labels are dying to get fully robotic bands to back up their "entertainers" like Spears, who doesn't play a note on any instrument. It would be way cheaper than paying a touring band, and still fake out people into thinking that they couldn't just as easily be spinning a record/CD backstage.
We all know that this is because G.W. got bit by the fast & furious bug, and wants to street race the presidential lincoln on the weekends, but the chip in it is proprietary.
I would totally die if I saw Bush cruising with the presidential motorcade, with lights on the wheels and super-loud bass, and flames on all the cars. Maybe even a big "G-Dub" airbrushed on the hood. Nice!
How long has Shakespeare been around? 400 years or so? How about sugar? Well over 1000 years, right? My dad was in the room when the "first" computer program (calculating PI to 1000 places on the ENIAC) was run, and he's still using computers today. Any commoditization of computer software in the last, say 10 years, is surely coming on too fast to be compared with "historical context" that spans tens or hundreds of generations of humans. I would say that MAYBE 50-100 years from now, people could look back at today and make a statement like that, assuming that OSS doesn't go away in 10-15-20-30-40 years. There is just too much change right now to say anything concrete about where software is "going" (although I concede it's interesting to think about).
Darl should just wrap himself SCO's bulletproof evidence that they own Linux. That will shield him from any attack! Darl: "Oh yeah, buy an SCO license, and help me pay for my bodyguard, who keeps me from being shot by people who disagree with the license you're buying. " What an advertisement for yourself, Darl. Darl's check in names at hotels:
"Line X. Sucks" "Bill G. Ismydaddy" "Alota V. Lawshutz"
Isn't the real issue here that it's such a pain to get a PC without Windows on it? Let's face it, just getting Windows without the other M$ products is still not a good choice. If you could go to Micro Center and buy a machine whose configuration matched the M$ PC, but ran Linux or something else (same goes for Mac hardware), that would be having options. This is like getting Caesar's palace to have different kinds of slot machines... they're still the house, and in the end, the house *always* wins.
The only hits this guy's getting now are if he runs a webcam in jail! 300 grand for a website... did he neglect to mention hosting the site on a SunFire 5k with 25 CPU's in it or something?
Why would SCO not take on a more easily defeatable company, i.e. a software company? Autozone has thousands if not millions of loyal blue-collar customers that could care less what o/s Autozone is running. If SCO wanted to make a point by suing someone, it should be RedHat or some such company that is distributing the systems. You can't blame Autozone for buying a product, but you can blame the company that sold it to them.
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If this doesn't include windows O/S source code, or some other major piece of software's source, it's kinda moot to even anticipate that M$ will be moving ANYTHING of real value to open source. For example, who's to say that the source here looks anything like what M$'s other projects' source looks like? They probably hired some OSS people to do it in the first place (anticipating an OSS release one day), so that nothing internal would get out.
On that note, what would you expect to see if you could see Win2k3 source? As I recall, win2k was something like 35 million lines of code -- good luck compiling that! It probably looks like any project that size designed to cope with so much -- tons and tons of patches, kludges, and other WTF's. The biggest testament to how hard it is to write/maintain something like that is that no one else has made a win32 o/s clone that sells, to my knowledge.
So in the near future, will we see SCO/RIAA file 1.3 billion lawsuits , 1 for each person in China, Japan and Korea? That would be a fabulous waste of money. They can just issue 1.3 billion trial delays, and SCO can take a rest for 30 thousand years!
I can't imagine this would be a surprise to anyone, considering that nearly every russian programmer I've met was awesome... of course, perhaps it's because they were "awesome" that they are in the USA now!
As pointed out on the Howard Stern show this morning, tiny changes in speech can make a big difference in the perception of the audience, like between "friends" and "friend" (group vs. individual).
On that note, friend, I'd like to ask you to visit my artist interview. See? It works!
I don't understand why it's ok to post the vulnerabilities of say, bluetooth, but someone can't post "hacks" or they can get in major trouble, i.e. the France story. Why are some exploits OK and others not OK? Where is the line? Is it just like censorship, where on a case-by-case basis the rules are changed? That's dumb.
In other news, check out my artist interview at Fulcrum gallery.
This is a genius price, and wal-mart's massive distribution capabilities could easily push the desktop market dramatically in the direction of linux. How large is wal-mart? Let me give an example. There's the story of the local piemaker who won a contract with wal-mart to sell his pies. Wal-mart ordered 10,000 TRUCKLOADS of pies! If they can do that kinda volume on the linux machines, Microsoft's in for a ride. Fortune 500: Microsoft = #46, Walmart = #1. Walmart wins!
In other news, see my artist interview at fulcrum gallery.
Anyone remember vector monitors? Those things would be great to resurrect, supposing that SVG really kicks in on the desktop, and also supposing that we get some svg version of asteroids shipping with those new o/s installs... nice!
I am surprised that more large companies haven't tried to make game development tools. There are a few things that nearly every game has, and that are really hard to do efficiently and quickly (the main game loop, for example). I honestly hope that Microsoft does make this and it does work, because that usually means some OSS people will make a knockoff that I can get for free and use, which will be awesome.
It is widely pulicized now how to manage passwords for a website -- it's as simple as using other Microsoft tools, and so in a way, passport puts itself out of business by competing poorly with other Microsoft products. Why would anyone not just use an NT auth login, ASP, or one of the myriad of other ways to do a sign-on. The only place I see passports now is places where Microsoft already had a majorly vested business interest. Passport should go right up there with Microsoft BOB , IMHO.
I find it even more disturbing that only 8% of the people responsible for education are happy with their jobs. Maybe if they were happier, more people would be learning in school & wouldn't be such morons to us I.T. people at work. OR, perhaps the stigma behind being able to learn & answer questions as "stupid" should finally die, so that people can actually learn at school and not feel "dorky" because they are learning, thus again allowing them to gain some sense & not be morons later in life. I explained one of my work-related problems to a 6th grader who is nearly failing out, and even he was able to see how easy the probs would be to fix for those in charge. Something is wrong if the failing gradeschooler has more common sense than a college grad PHB.
If network solutions dies, where do those ownerships go? That's a critical question, and one that this article is really asking. Suppose Microsoft steps in and buys the outstanding interest in Network Solutions... the results could be really disastrous. On the other hand, the government could step in and regulate ownership of domain names, and then it would be like getting a business license or something like that. One last thing - it's spelled PHENOMENON.
This also has a lot to do with controlling the political content of the airwaves -- see http://www.howardstern.com if you don't understand that statement.
As so many of our forefathers said, the meaning of the first amendment is that people can and should say things that can make all our blood BOIL, and there's jack shit anyone should be able to do about it. I can turn on National Geographic and see 90 black women's breasts. Who cares? Furthermore, the FCC loves to damage the 5th amendment by not offering due process to anyone on what exactly "indecent" is. I think this is completely horrible, and I will summarily vote for everyone ELSE than the people that are currently in office to send a message that says, FUCK censorship. This is America, not the old, dictator-run Iraq.
Let me help those of you who may not know... it costs a lot of money to write and get a good recording of a song. If I were to only charge 25 cents for a recording that cost me $500 of my time, it would take me 2000 copies, versus perhaps 500 copies, to get at least to a gross return on my investment. What makes this website cool is that the artist doesn't have to sell as many tracks as they otherwise would, because the artist is getting a bigger payout than pretty much anyone offers. Considering that this is the case, is it worth your 99 cents to get the track? Yes, because that 99 cents goes a lot farther towards helping that artist than it would for say, Britney Spears, who probably gets a tiny fraction of that sale and could really care less. Oh yeah -- she doesn't write her music anyways, so it's kinda moot to discuss her, but you get the point.
Originally, radio broadcasters were not supposed to play records, because record companies thought that if people could hear the songs over the air for free, they wouldn't buy records. It's a stupid argument, and it's the same thing with file sharing. RIAA is upset because they can't drive up sales just by marketing, etc... the music actually has to be good now.
Every time I see an Amiga article, I can't help but remember what has to have been the coolest game I ever played: Robocop on the Amiga 500. You could be the big other robot from the movie, and the graphics & playability were just amazing.
10 million addresses for 1500 bucks... why not just sell harvesting tools and avoid prosecution? I can't imagine a world where I'd see a CD with 10 million e-mails on it and think, "wow, what a great buy!" and not think "wow, 10 million illegal violations of privacy!" They should make unauthorized email address distribution fineable at $1000 per offense.
In the future, these sites will be a great tool. Imagine in 100-200 years, there will be a map of the English language that is traceable to a degree not currently possible, and we'll all understand language patterns better. I have heard that something like 10% of Shakespeare is completely lost in translation due to changes in the language, so one can only imagine what a resource like this will be able to provide for future generations -- hopefully, there won't be as much cultural reinvention (i.e. the printing press: China -> Europe)
A lot of places actually won't turn a profit within a year, that's not that unusual. Especially mining operations are so costly that they often operate for 10 years before turning a profit (discovery channel). However, robots that can play music are still cool. The big labels are dying to get fully robotic bands to back up their "entertainers" like Spears, who doesn't play a note on any instrument. It would be way cheaper than paying a touring band, and still fake out people into thinking that they couldn't just as easily be spinning a record/CD backstage.
We all know that this is because G.W. got bit by the fast & furious bug, and wants to street race the presidential lincoln on the weekends, but the chip in it is proprietary.
I would totally die if I saw Bush cruising with the presidential motorcade, with lights on the wheels and super-loud bass, and flames on all the cars. Maybe even a big "G-Dub" airbrushed on the hood. Nice!
How long has Shakespeare been around? 400 years or so? How about sugar? Well over 1000 years, right? My dad was in the room when the "first" computer program (calculating PI to 1000 places on the ENIAC) was run, and he's still using computers today. Any commoditization of computer software in the last, say 10 years, is surely coming on too fast to be compared with "historical context" that spans tens or hundreds of generations of humans. I would say that MAYBE 50-100 years from now, people could look back at today and make a statement like that, assuming that OSS doesn't go away in 10-15-20-30-40 years. There is just too much change right now to say anything concrete about where software is "going" (although I concede it's interesting to think about).
Darl should just wrap himself SCO's bulletproof evidence that they own Linux. That will shield him from any attack!
Darl: "Oh yeah, buy an SCO license, and help me pay for my bodyguard, who keeps me from being shot by people who disagree with the license you're buying. "
What an advertisement for yourself, Darl.
Darl's check in names at hotels:
"Line X. Sucks"
"Bill G. Ismydaddy"
"Alota V. Lawshutz"
Isn't the real issue here that it's such a pain to get a PC without Windows on it? Let's face it, just getting Windows without the other M$ products is still not a good choice. If you could go to Micro Center and buy a machine whose configuration matched the M$ PC, but ran Linux or something else (same goes for Mac hardware), that would be having options. This is like getting Caesar's palace to have different kinds of slot machines ... they're still the house, and in the end, the house *always* wins.
The only hits this guy's getting now are if he runs a webcam in jail! 300 grand for a website... did he neglect to mention hosting the site on a SunFire 5k with 25 CPU's in it or something?
Why would SCO not take on a more easily defeatable company, i.e. a software company? Autozone has thousands if not millions of loyal blue-collar customers that could care less what o/s Autozone is running. If SCO wanted to make a point by suing someone, it should be RedHat or some such company that is distributing the systems. You can't blame Autozone for buying a product, but you can blame the company that sold it to them.