It appears that open source is good for business, so we'll see a lot more of it in future. Even if the source is for a visual basic app talking to SQL server, you can still fix bugs in it when the vendor is no longer around. I don't think GPL is good for business in consumer apps, where users can not afford support or even want someone to poke around their computers. But I do believe more fair licensing is good for business there, and we'll see companies advertising that as an advantage of their product.
The scientist is still annoyed, because the compound is already patented, and thus will not be profitable as a cancer drug. Therefore, they will work on making another, possibly more toxic or less effective, formula rather than pushing for a human trial.
Plain DVDs won, with many good reasons. There are not enough movies to justify player prices. For the ones that are out, HD is just not that compelling of a feature to attract attention - remember SACD and DVD audio? There are no portable players at all, either with hard drive transfer or with an actual HD-DVD/Blu ray drive. H264 or DivX allow storing a high definition movie on a plain dual layer DVD, so its not clear whats the whole deal about new hardware is about.
So if "someone else" is held accountable for the actions of a 17 year old, that "someone else" gets to dictate the rules.
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These kids got caught breaking the law. They knew it was against the law. They should face the consequences.
So do or don't you consider teens to be responsible for themselves? If they are not, surely they should get grounded rather than go to jail for such a non-violent transgression.
Just how many grandparents are raising their grandchildren, because the moms and dads are not remotely mature or old enough to raise their own kids?
I don't know of a single law that compels grandparents to do so, or treats teenage parents any differently from any other parents.
I get my stuff from a computer company that gives me option of in person, US based support. I don't give my personal information to their entire supply chain, so I will let Steve worry about his company getting screwed by foreign laws. Could this be one of the reasons Apple is now worth more than Dell? Nah, you don't say!
Forget about accent, how do I know the person I am calling is going to follow the same laws as me? I am pretty sure credit card fraud is illegal and is heavily prosecuted in US. I am not sure if enforcement is on par in, say, Nigeria. Why should I give my personal info to someone with unknown legal responsibilities and cultural standards? If I bought a Dell in US, I should have an option to speak to a US customer support representitive. End of story.
Although I happen to prefer XCode, I find Visual Studio to be very mature, polished and often exceeding the former in features and stability. What other development environment has working code sense, UI designers and simultaneous cross-language debugging for 4 languages - C++, C#, J# and VB.Net. Who else integrates support for devices with many different CPUs in the same IDE used for desktop development? How about debugging code running in web and database servers? Visually editing COM interfaces? Its only a pity that the platform for which you are developing is not on the par for quality with IDE. MFC and even Windows.Forms and.Net can not even keep up with 10+ year old NextStep.
I don't know if you would call 40 bit encryption a lockdown, especially since it doesn't protect your conversation from the phone company, even if you are calling the other person with a GSM phone. Furthermore, they weaken or turn off encryption in most countries. Sounds like a typical effect of a DRM scheme on users all right.
To be successful in anything, one needs to know when what you believe in is going to be practical or not. Different permissions on music bought from the same store are going to be confusing for both consumers and music labels. A user will not be happy if he brings a CD full of AACs to his friends place and only 1/3rd of them play. Let him burn a plain CD instead and be able to play everything. Big labels will complain that Apple is promoting other people's songs as superior to theirs and withdraw, or demand that Apple also allows them to set custom, more or less restrictive permissions, or variable prices.
In the same way, Apple ties OSX to their hardware, because otherwise it would be either widely pirated or need Windows-style activation. But they are willing to sell upgrades and even expensive pro software without copy protection. All in all, they are making an effort to minimize DRM and its side effects for legitimate users.
Office and Visual Studio are actually allright. The very problem is that MS dominates the market and doesn't have to compete in technology, customer service or public image. It would be great if Apple also gets some decent competition in music arena.
Why would DVD Jon or anyone want to develop a crack that only benefits a minority of users and applies to audio format that is non-standard even after decryption. iTunes is the most popular download service and Apple has geek appeal. Its no surprise that there are more cracks.
Make developers members of both developer and user groups and have them chgrp files when done then. Or do a loopback, read only mount of development directory to some location to which users have permissions. If you run out of options, ask yourself if massive concurrent access to the files that requires such permissions is really safe in terms of users overwriting each other changes or completely corrupting your documents or images.
Are you prepared to load versions of shared libraries that you haven't tested with and be responsible for any crashes? If so, just write an installer and copy stuff to/Library or $HOME/Library. A lot of Windows apps copy mfc, msvcrt and gdi into their bin directory, for the same reason. Linux needs an ld.so patch to allow something like that as well.
Only a German would say something like that about a country where every fucking citizen has to be registered with a local police or otherwise ends up being a fucking criminal.
Which is dramatically different from having to register with DMV, IRS, your place of work, your apartment complex, credit report agency... how? Let's face it, in any country you have an option of being homeless or living as a recluse in a wood cabin. But if you want to actually participate in the society, your privacy goes poof.
You would surely appreciate the ability to quickly remove your personal amateur porn from YouTube if Viacom posted it without your permission. And if you mistook someone else's vagina for your wife's, well a) Viacom can just send mail to YouTube and restore it and b) you in a hell of a lot trouble at home.
When it becomes a subject of a european antitrust lawsuit? I don't see how though, given that Apple doesn't have a dominant position in computer software or hardware comparable to its dominance in MP3 and online music markets. The main thing Steve Jobs is saying is that he can not both open FairPlay to anyone who asks and fulfill his contracts with music companies. Therefore, if European governments want change, they should pressure music companies to change the terms of these contracts.
It's not that 20 year old technologies always stop to be useful, its just that you can not expect to charge premiums for it. Your $40 Sun box was probably around $15K when first released and now you have a somewhat faster Dell for 1/4th of the price. To survive as a big iron vendor other than just another PC maker, Sun needs to come up with something that a Dell can not do. I don't see any robots around, with Sun SPOT or otherwise, so I assume its an area that can use improvement.
As for X, it totally sucks for remote access to modern applications which do quite a bit more drawing than xeyes. I have a hard time using emacs from our datacenter in Texas and most people run VNC, which is better but still sucks. Maybe its time for a technology with is less than 23 years old.
After all, this would only get sex offenders lynched by neighbors in Second Life. This law will not stop anyone from registering a fake name. But if someone is found acting suspiciously online, and that someone turns out to be an anonymous sex offender, he can be prosecuted without having to prove every conversation that took place. Chances are, he was about to look for more victims, since he obviously no longer minds breaking the law.
The real problems to be concerned about are:
People being branded as sex offenders too easily, say for mooning in a public place
This registration being extended to pot smokers, traffic violators and yes regular law abiding citizens
And most of all, the actual Megan law. If someone served their time, they should get a crack at being normal citizens with friends and no threat of violence.
X windows is 23 years old. UNIX, with trusty system calls like open() is around 38. Without radical innovation, its no wonder that customers are moving to low cost alternatives that coincidentally do open() or X-Windows just fine. If Sun wants its market back, they should have photorealistic 3D graphics, real time, robotics control, neural network security system, files presented as memory mapped data structures of type-specific format... There are opportunities, market and technologies that are still left for $1M price tag of high end Sun servers or Cray supercomputers. Its just that these companies have been overrun by management that has too much money and too little brains to care.
And documentation can be searched quite nicely on Google. What's the running time of this algorithm? What are the limits on the inputs? How to change traversal of the data structure to different order? Without a clear answer, maintaining the code may well be more difficult than writing it from scratch.
I am not publishing your political speech on my homepage, and I don't see why Google should have to either. Don't me or Google have free speech rights as well?
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It appears that open source is good for business, so we'll see a lot more of it in future. Even if the source is for a visual basic app talking to SQL server, you can still fix bugs in it when the vendor is no longer around. I don't think GPL is good for business in consumer apps, where users can not afford support or even want someone to poke around their computers. But I do believe more fair licensing is good for business there, and we'll see companies advertising that as an advantage of their product.
The scientist is still annoyed, because the compound is already patented, and thus will not be profitable as a cancer drug. Therefore, they will work on making another, possibly more toxic or less effective, formula rather than pushing for a human trial.
And I assure you that a girl would like a dozen of long stem roses way more than a message on the side of a spacecraft
Usually it's users who have to bend over for cell companies.
Plain DVDs won, with many good reasons. There are not enough movies to justify player prices. For the ones that are out, HD is just not that compelling of a feature to attract attention - remember SACD and DVD audio? There are no portable players at all, either with hard drive transfer or with an actual HD-DVD/Blu ray drive. H264 or DivX allow storing a high definition movie on a plain dual layer DVD, so its not clear whats the whole deal about new hardware is about.
So if "someone else" is held accountable for the actions of a 17 year old, that "someone else" gets to dictate the rules.
and
These kids got caught breaking the law. They knew it was against the law. They should face the consequences.
So do or don't you consider teens to be responsible for themselves? If they are not, surely they should get grounded rather than go to jail for such a non-violent transgression.
Just how many grandparents are raising their grandchildren, because the moms and dads are not remotely mature or old enough to raise their own kids?
I don't know of a single law that compels grandparents to do so, or treats teenage parents any differently from any other parents.
I get my stuff from a computer company that gives me option of in person, US based support. I don't give my personal information to their entire supply chain, so I will let Steve worry about his company getting screwed by foreign laws. Could this be one of the reasons Apple is now worth more than Dell? Nah, you don't say!
Forget about accent, how do I know the person I am calling is going to follow the same laws as me? I am pretty sure credit card fraud is illegal and is heavily prosecuted in US. I am not sure if enforcement is on par in, say, Nigeria. Why should I give my personal info to someone with unknown legal responsibilities and cultural standards? If I bought a Dell in US, I should have an option to speak to a US customer support representitive. End of story.
Although I happen to prefer XCode, I find Visual Studio to be very mature, polished and often exceeding the former in features and stability. What other development environment has working code sense, UI designers and simultaneous cross-language debugging for 4 languages - C++, C#, J# and VB.Net. Who else integrates support for devices with many different CPUs in the same IDE used for desktop development? How about debugging code running in web and database servers? Visually editing COM interfaces? Its only a pity that the platform for which you are developing is not on the par for quality with IDE. MFC and even Windows.Forms and .Net can not even keep up with 10+ year old NextStep.
I don't know if you would call 40 bit encryption a lockdown, especially since it doesn't protect your conversation from the phone company, even if you are calling the other person with a GSM phone. Furthermore, they weaken or turn off encryption in most countries. Sounds like a typical effect of a DRM scheme on users all right.
To be successful in anything, one needs to know when what you believe in is going to be practical or not. Different permissions on music bought from the same store are going to be confusing for both consumers and music labels. A user will not be happy if he brings a CD full of AACs to his friends place and only 1/3rd of them play. Let him burn a plain CD instead and be able to play everything. Big labels will complain that Apple is promoting other people's songs as superior to theirs and withdraw, or demand that Apple also allows them to set custom, more or less restrictive permissions, or variable prices.
In the same way, Apple ties OSX to their hardware, because otherwise it would be either widely pirated or need Windows-style activation. But they are willing to sell upgrades and even expensive pro software without copy protection. All in all, they are making an effort to minimize DRM and its side effects for legitimate users.
Office and Visual Studio are actually allright. The very problem is that MS dominates the market and doesn't have to compete in technology, customer service or public image. It would be great if Apple also gets some decent competition in music arena.
Why would DVD Jon or anyone want to develop a crack that only benefits a minority of users and applies to audio format that is non-standard even after decryption. iTunes is the most popular download service and Apple has geek appeal. Its no surprise that there are more cracks.
So basically, you want Interface Builder for permissions. Nice try, but such things are more suitable for developers than small kids.
Make developers members of both developer and user groups and have them chgrp files when done then. Or do a loopback, read only mount of development directory to some location to which users have permissions. If you run out of options, ask yourself if massive concurrent access to the files that requires such permissions is really safe in terms of users overwriting each other changes or completely corrupting your documents or images.
Are you prepared to load versions of shared libraries that you haven't tested with and be responsible for any crashes? If so, just write an installer and copy stuff to /Library or $HOME/Library. A lot of Windows apps copy mfc, msvcrt and gdi into their bin directory, for the same reason. Linux needs an ld.so patch to allow something like that as well.
Only a German would say something like that about a country where every fucking citizen has to be registered with a local police or otherwise ends up being a fucking criminal.
Which is dramatically different from having to register with DMV, IRS, your place of work, your apartment complex, credit report agency... how? Let's face it, in any country you have an option of being homeless or living as a recluse in a wood cabin. But if you want to actually participate in the society, your privacy goes poof.
You would surely appreciate the ability to quickly remove your personal amateur porn from YouTube if Viacom posted it without your permission. And if you mistook someone else's vagina for your wife's, well a) Viacom can just send mail to YouTube and restore it and b) you in a hell of a lot trouble at home.
When it becomes a subject of a european antitrust lawsuit? I don't see how though, given that Apple doesn't have a dominant position in computer software or hardware comparable to its dominance in MP3 and online music markets. The main thing Steve Jobs is saying is that he can not both open FairPlay to anyone who asks and fulfill his contracts with music companies. Therefore, if European governments want change, they should pressure music companies to change the terms of these contracts.
It's not that 20 year old technologies always stop to be useful, its just that you can not expect to charge premiums for it. Your $40 Sun box was probably around $15K when first released and now you have a somewhat faster Dell for 1/4th of the price. To survive as a big iron vendor other than just another PC maker, Sun needs to come up with something that a Dell can not do. I don't see any robots around, with Sun SPOT or otherwise, so I assume its an area that can use improvement.
As for X, it totally sucks for remote access to modern applications which do quite a bit more drawing than xeyes. I have a hard time using emacs from our datacenter in Texas and most people run VNC, which is better but still sucks. Maybe its time for a technology with is less than 23 years old.
The real problems to be concerned about are:
X windows is 23 years old. UNIX, with trusty system calls like open() is around 38. Without radical innovation, its no wonder that customers are moving to low cost alternatives that coincidentally do open() or X-Windows just fine. If Sun wants its market back, they should have photorealistic 3D graphics, real time, robotics control, neural network security system, files presented as memory mapped data structures of type-specific format... There are opportunities, market and technologies that are still left for $1M price tag of high end Sun servers or Cray supercomputers. Its just that these companies have been overrun by management that has too much money and too little brains to care.
And documentation can be searched quite nicely on Google. What's the running time of this algorithm? What are the limits on the inputs? How to change traversal of the data structure to different order? Without a clear answer, maintaining the code may well be more difficult than writing it from scratch.
I am not publishing your political speech on my homepage, and I don't see why Google should have to either. Don't me or Google have free speech rights as well?