"While Apple will always protect its innovations, it is not our desire to send students to jail,"
I thought it was a civil case, or is Steve Jobs made a royalty here so that offending him carries jail sentences? Besides how exactly do you "settle" a criminal case?
Just like we have a right to visit web pages unsuitable for young children, which also wouldn't exist if nobody visited them. So those of us who can't stand spam would also have to use software like cybernanny to filter the Internet, rather than banning advertisements that apparently find many willing targets.
Windows has been multi-user for years, and application developers still haven't caught up.
Actually it's not, unless you count malware as an extra "user", and neither is OSX. Unlike UNIX, they don't allow multiple concurrent users connecting via network or terminals and using the system's standard UI. As such, local file security is less important, because the machine will likely be only used by people with physical access. VMWare and other solutions that actually allow concurrent access have decent security (not sure about terminal server).
On the other hand, Win and OSX should have serious sandboxes for browsers and email to avoid becoming multi-user systems!
but what kind of a hissy-fit would people be throwing if IMAX decided to show, for example, "Amazing Grace" (http://www.monergismbooks.com/amazing2112.html) or some other "fundie" film?
I think it would sound a lot like a yawn. Non-indoctrinated people have traditionally been indifferent to other's beliefs, thinking it's none of their business. I am sure a lot of agnostics/atheists even enjoyed "Passion of the Christ" as good (or so I heard) historical fiction, like Troy.
Perhaps it was our mistake, considering how fundamentalists now want to force their beliefs on us, including apparently which movies we get to see. Time to show up at your neighborhood church and have a nice hissy-fit against what they ask members to do?
Science doesn't always have the answer. It might not be clear why we're against abortion.
On the contrary, it would make a fascinating scientific study. I mean how can someone stop a woman from aborting a fetus with a genetic defect and then let the child die drowning in her own saliva because they also banned stem cell research? Such a profound personality disorder got to show on MRI.
Anarchy doesn't mean people are forbidden to band together for mutual benefit and protection. Rather, each individual can choose which group to join, or to live in a cabin in the forest and not join any group at all. More likely, you would choose a group that protects members against rape and murder but doesn't have civil courts.
You are right that it will not work in the purest form, in that someone will build a nuke and subjugate everyone else. There has to be global enforcement against armies, powerful weapons and for environmental protection. But otherwise I am ready for Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong.
You just need to know how to talk. Explain that you bought a song on iTunes and adapted it to play on your Rio Karma while jogging, get plainstiff to confirm that under penalty of perjury, and the case will not even go to the jury. I mean, there must be something in California constitution to prevent such idiocy. It proved quite a useful document recently, maybe I should go read it:-)
"Next, I asked several my associates who use Linux to try it out on their machines, and we didn't have to go far to find more Linux distributions that succumbed to the same painfully effective fork bomb attack. Both Gentoo and Red Hat followed in the footsteps of Mandrake, and each died quicker than you can say "unreasonable default settings." "
"I'll admit that I held my breath for a few seconds as I keyed the script into my NetBSD laptop, and then ran it. I was pleasantly surprised when the attack had no effect, confirming that I wasn't losing my mind after all -- limits had been put in place to prevent a normal user from crippling the entire system. Exactly as one would expect. I then proceeded to fork bomb every Unix machine I could get my hands on. My FreeBSD server at home shrugged it off (even after inviting other connected users to try), as did my OpenBSD gateway. This, too, is exactly what I expected to happen."
I wonder what inspired his setup at home? Is there a hidden cult of *BSD fans with demon tattoos that set their home page to berkeleyrumors.com or something?
This kind of rights only exist in their imagination. Sun owns 1. valid patents on their code, 2. copyright on their code, 3. copyright on code I write while on their payroll.
Even if I sign a contract, they can not enforce it in respect to me writing totally new code on my own time, even if I learned some skills from them. There are all kind of laws on the books to prevent that, like anti-slavery amendments, the fact that a contract should have considerations for both parties, and specific prohibition in California (where they are based) against restricting a person's future employment.
I am sure they are a few of Sun's former Java developers working on.Net and there is nothing to be done about that, unless they actually copy and paste the code from their stashed away copies. Also if you follow SCO vs IBM, the former has to come up with increasingly more ridiculous accusation precisely because they can not get any rights to IBM's own code, despite any contracts with AT&T.
You can also legally study GPLed code to get ideas and skills for your commercial or BSD-licensed project - and almost everyone does. Take this, RMS!
You can port Java to any OS you want, you just can't fork the language or VM specification. Your port has to pass Java compatibility tests before you release it to the public. Have a look at blackdown.org for some 3rd party ports. Maybe you are the one for OpenBSD port?
And you are kidding that.Net has better cross-platform compatibility than Java. I am running NetBeans on my Mac without any trouble. Please present a Visual Studio 2005 (which is rewritten in.Net) screenshot running on Mono. Besides Windows.Forms is designed around existing Windows APIs, not how people would like to write UI applications. Swing on the other hand could be rescued with good visual design tools. I am tempted to write a translator for InterfaceBuilder projects.
The community would benifit from having a Open Source java implimentation
Well, there are already at least a couple - Kaffe and GCJ, why not just contribute? Sun already did the hard part - theoretical research, design, marketing - for free. Actual coding of well-researched projects is not that difficult. You can even study Sun's source code to learn general concepts for your own project as opposed to just "lifting" it.
See, there is no shortage of C/C++ compilers and nobody is grumbling about AT&T not releasing their stuff under GPL.
...because it would allow distributions to distribute java runtime enviroments...
SUSE and gentoo already do, I would guess someone (Debian?) made their own decision not to ship Java rather than being disallowed by Sun.
Like you could begin writing Java-based GUI applications and then distibute them yourself without requiring your audiance to agree to restrictive licenses and download and install Java on their own.
Probably a bit to late for all that, unfortunately. Sun had it's chance and now Linux has managed code in the form of Mono (open source.NET implimentation) and C#. So sun has much more stiffer compitition then it would of had in the OSS world if they released a java runtime enviroment without restrictive licenses a few years ago.
Do you mean Microsoft released their own.Net implementation under GPL?? I would say Java platform is far more open than MS stuff. Gnome developers just have some unexplainable love for Windows.Forms as opposed to Swing.
All right, so you are against dyslexics, foreigners and heavy SMS/IM users. Not that there is anything wrong with it, but why the big deal? Coherency comes from content, not spelling and the sentence you gave is not enough to measure it:-)
Which drives do you have in mind? The ones of roughly iPod size are not much cheaper and probably are still not as well designed for carrying in the pocket, occasional drops on the floor and so on. Add in better job satisfaction for less than one day worth of salary, and it's a no-brainer.
but the bottom line is that in a captitalist society, the method bringing in the most revenue is usually the preferred means of access to a partcular good or service.
I would say that's only true in "corpitalist society", where large companies maintain their revenue through monopoly or people's mindless tendency to follow the crowd. Where real cut-throat capitalism is at work, the primary concern would be to offer the lowest price and especially low cost of entry. This played out nicely when AOL was threatened by $19.95/month ISPs and was forced to dramatically lower their costs.
1. Sell convenient legal downloads of movies that can be burned onto a DVD 2. Take down high traffic 1337 vidz sites, but otherwise don't worry much about bittorrent.
People will only respect intellectual property if it's offered for licensing on reasonable terms. These days, driving to store to just get some data is not reasonable. Amazon should ask US government for compulsory license to offer ISOs for immediate downloads to customers who bought movies or software.
Where can I get Internet access for $1 per day? I would certainly be a heavy user during ski season. No cable modem in hotels, you know. I also don't have cable, but would pay for PPV if I didn't have to subscribe to cable first and they had stuff I liked to watch.
I'd wager than the subscription revenue would far outstrip the pay-per-song side.
Improving their revenue is not exactly what I hope for when choosing a payment model.
Your ISP would likely say a few choice words to the sender and tell them to come back when they have a legal approval. A big ISP likely gets hundreds of complaints per months, 90% of them bogus - people offended by personal websites, corporate mailings reported as spam, various misdeeds from faked email or IP addresses, zombie nets with local "members". If they were to act on each of them, they would soon have no customers.
Remember, the world would be a wonderful place if french cooked, germans made cars, british were policemen and italians were lovers. And a wretched place if germans cooked, french made cars, italians were policemen and british were lovers. So you better look up IPI.
Uh.. DVD rentals are far more popular than DVD sales. iTunes music store rules over subscription-based Napster. In fact, most things in life are "pay as you go". Cellphone companies and AOL just have unreasonable rates. $1/day for internet access would work better for many casual users than $10/month.
Whatever else XML is, it's not a good representation of data for queries and transformation. Different pieces of data don't have a fixed parent-child or one-to-many relationship in real life tasks and so shouldn't be stored as a tree.
Store your data in a well-researched normalized, relational form and format your query results as XML if you like. How is the progress on binary XML to avoid killing your network and CPU on your thin client?
Unless the girls are required to attend the demo, they won't go near it with football being displayed.
Do you think that's maybe too inflexible on part of these girls? I am not exactly crazy about yoga, sentimental movies or Lara Croft (prefer Heather from Silent Hill 3!), but I tried these things at least once. And my girlfriend played Hexen II and sword-fighting arcades and enjoyed them, even though she might not do that every day.
Another tip for getting the girls' attention is to do this activity as a team with a female software engineer (or any other computer geek chick you can round up).
Again, why is that so important? I learned cooking exclusively from women, but I never had any concerns that I shouldn't cook, or can not cook well. Maybe it's better to learn to be able to relate to people of opposite gender and appreciate/share their activities. After all, that's more important for life's happiness than programming skills.
Your insides must be running Windows. Have a care not have your security breached through any holes.
Seriously, there are better ways to launch a program than navigating huge hierarchical menus, praying your mouse doesn't wobble and lose couple of levels. Windows 95, NextStep and MacOSX each introduced serious improvements in usability of computers, but why stop innovation there and just rip off old ideas?
I wrote a little program for Mac that I think is easier to use than either Start menu or Dock. Not a rocket science or even a new idea, but I am not the one with billions for research. I am sure modern processing power, new technologies and research can yield interfaces that don't look anything like Xerox PARC and are dramatically more productive. Keyboards with dynamically changing LED key labels? Fuzzy logic to recognize faster, inexact user commands? Some hybrid of UI and command line to let user see information from many programs in a small space? I don't know, but Sun and Microsoft should find out.
Do you honestly believe any meaningful percentage of people buy Porsche for driving the posted speed limit, making safe lane changes and slowing down on turns? I guess you also buy Playboy for articles. The thing is, both articles and decent cars for driving legal speed are available for cheaper, so I don't know why people would bother.
Demoing Madden 2004 might work for the boys, but will probably be a bore to the girls.
Not really. Girls will enjoy a sports game or FPS as long as screens are not two yucky and somone teaches them how to play. What's not going to happen is them spending long hours alone to learn the controls or to beat some 1331 d00d on server stats page. They have better things to do with their free time, like grooming or talking on the phone with girlfriends./me affraid of being beaten by political correctness sticks
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"While Apple will always protect its innovations, it is not our desire to send students to jail,"
I thought it was a civil case, or is Steve Jobs made a royalty here so that offending him carries jail sentences? Besides how exactly do you "settle" a criminal case?
Just like we have a right to visit web pages unsuitable for young children, which also wouldn't exist if nobody visited them. So those of us who can't stand spam would also have to use software like cybernanny to filter the Internet, rather than banning advertisements that apparently find many willing targets.
Windows has been multi-user for years, and application developers still haven't caught up.
Actually it's not, unless you count malware as an extra "user", and neither is OSX. Unlike UNIX, they don't allow multiple concurrent users connecting via network or terminals and using the system's standard UI. As such, local file security is less important, because the machine will likely be only used by people with physical access. VMWare and other solutions that actually allow concurrent access have decent security (not sure about terminal server).
On the other hand, Win and OSX should have serious sandboxes for browsers and email to avoid becoming multi-user systems!
but what kind of a hissy-fit would people be throwing if IMAX decided to show, for example, "Amazing Grace" (http://www.monergismbooks.com/amazing2112.html) or some other "fundie" film?
I think it would sound a lot like a yawn. Non-indoctrinated people have traditionally been indifferent to other's beliefs, thinking it's none of their business. I am sure a lot of agnostics/atheists even enjoyed "Passion of the Christ" as good (or so I heard) historical fiction, like Troy.
Perhaps it was our mistake, considering how fundamentalists now want to force their beliefs on us, including apparently which movies we get to see. Time to show up at your neighborhood church and have a nice hissy-fit against what they ask members to do?
Science doesn't always have the answer. It might not be clear why we're against abortion.
On the contrary, it would make a fascinating scientific study. I mean how can someone stop a woman from aborting a fetus with a genetic defect and then let the child die drowning in her own saliva because they also banned stem cell research? Such a profound personality disorder got to show on MRI.
Anarchy doesn't mean people are forbidden to band together for mutual benefit and protection. Rather, each individual can choose which group to join, or to live in a cabin in the forest and not join any group at all. More likely, you would choose a group that protects members against rape and murder but doesn't have civil courts.
You are right that it will not work in the purest form, in that someone will build a nuke and subjugate everyone else. There has to be global enforcement against armies, powerful weapons and for environmental protection. But otherwise I am ready for Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong.
This should make it harder for Apple to argue that you are bound by the click-wrap contract.
There is no such thing as a click-wrap contract, only the signed, notarized variety that doesn't institute slavery or any other illegal conditions.
You just need to know how to talk. Explain that you bought a song on iTunes and adapted it to play on your Rio Karma while jogging, get plainstiff to confirm that under penalty of perjury, and the case will not even go to the jury. I mean, there must be something in California constitution to prevent such idiocy. It proved quite a useful document recently, maybe I should go read it :-)
"Next, I asked several my associates who use Linux to try it out on their machines, and we didn't have to go far to find more Linux distributions that succumbed to the same painfully effective fork bomb attack. Both Gentoo and Red Hat followed in the footsteps of Mandrake, and each died quicker than you can say "unreasonable default settings." "
"I'll admit that I held my breath for a few seconds as I keyed the script into my NetBSD laptop, and then ran it. I was pleasantly surprised when the attack had no effect, confirming that I wasn't losing my mind after all -- limits had been put in place to prevent a normal user from crippling the entire system. Exactly as one would expect. I then proceeded to fork bomb every Unix machine I could get my hands on. My FreeBSD server at home shrugged it off (even after inviting other connected users to try), as did my OpenBSD gateway. This, too, is exactly what I expected to happen."
I wonder what inspired his setup at home? Is there a hidden cult of *BSD fans with demon tattoos that set their home page to berkeleyrumors.com or something?
This kind of rights only exist in their imagination. Sun owns 1. valid patents on their code, 2. copyright on their code, 3. copyright on code I write while on their payroll.
.Net and there is nothing to be done about that, unless they actually copy and paste the code from their stashed away copies. Also if you follow SCO vs IBM, the former has to come up with increasingly more ridiculous accusation precisely because they can not get any rights to IBM's own code, despite any contracts with AT&T.
Even if I sign a contract, they can not enforce it in respect to me writing totally new code on my own time, even if I learned some skills from them. There are all kind of laws on the books to prevent that, like anti-slavery amendments, the fact that a contract should have considerations for both parties, and specific prohibition in California (where they are based) against restricting a person's future employment.
I am sure they are a few of Sun's former Java developers working on
You can also legally study GPLed code to get ideas and skills for your commercial or BSD-licensed project - and almost everyone does. Take this, RMS!
You can port Java to any OS you want, you just can't fork the language or VM specification. Your port has to pass Java compatibility tests before you release it to the public. Have a look at blackdown.org for some 3rd party ports. Maybe you are the one for OpenBSD port?
.Net has better cross-platform compatibility than Java. I am running NetBeans on my Mac without any trouble. Please present a Visual Studio 2005 (which is rewritten in .Net) screenshot running on Mono. Besides Windows.Forms is designed around existing Windows APIs, not how people would like to write UI applications. Swing on the other hand could be rescued with good visual design tools. I am tempted to write a translator for InterfaceBuilder projects.
And you are kidding that
Well, there are already at least a couple - Kaffe and GCJ, why not just contribute? Sun already did the hard part - theoretical research, design, marketing - for free. Actual coding of well-researched projects is not that difficult. You can even study Sun's source code to learn general concepts for your own project as opposed to just "lifting" it.
See, there is no shortage of C/C++ compilers and nobody is grumbling about AT&T not releasing their stuff under GPL.
SUSE and gentoo already do, I would guess someone (Debian?) made their own decision not to ship Java rather than being disallowed by Sun.
Like you could begin writing Java-based GUI applications and then distibute them yourself without requiring your audiance to agree to restrictive licenses and download and install Java on their own.
Enjoy a license-free download! And the winner is:
Probably a bit to late for all that, unfortunately. Sun had it's chance and now Linux has managed code in the form of Mono (open source
Do you mean Microsoft released their own
All right, so you are against dyslexics, foreigners and heavy SMS/IM users. Not that there is anything wrong with it, but why the big deal? Coherency comes from content, not spelling and the sentence you gave is not enough to measure it :-)
Which drives do you have in mind? The ones of roughly iPod size are not much cheaper and probably are still not as well designed for carrying in the pocket, occasional drops on the floor and so on. Add in better job satisfaction for less than one day worth of salary, and it's a no-brainer.
but the bottom line is that in a captitalist society, the method bringing in the most revenue is usually the preferred means of access to a partcular good or service.
I would say that's only true in "corpitalist society", where large companies maintain their revenue through monopoly or people's mindless tendency to follow the crowd. Where real cut-throat capitalism is at work, the primary concern would be to offer the lowest price and especially low cost of entry. This played out nicely when AOL was threatened by $19.95/month ISPs and was forced to dramatically lower their costs.
1. Sell convenient legal downloads of movies that can be burned onto a DVD
2. Take down high traffic 1337 vidz sites, but otherwise don't worry much about bittorrent.
People will only respect intellectual property if it's offered for licensing on reasonable terms. These days, driving to store to just get some data is not reasonable. Amazon should ask US government for compulsory license to offer ISOs for immediate downloads to customers who bought movies or software.
Where can I get Internet access for $1 per day? I would certainly be a heavy user during ski season. No cable modem in hotels, you know. I also don't have cable, but would pay for PPV if I didn't have to subscribe to cable first and they had stuff I liked to watch.
I'd wager than the subscription revenue would far outstrip the pay-per-song side.
Improving their revenue is not exactly what I hope for when choosing a payment model.
Your ISP would likely say a few choice words to the sender and tell them to come back when they have a legal approval. A big ISP likely gets hundreds of complaints per months, 90% of them bogus - people offended by personal websites, corporate mailings reported as spam, various misdeeds from faked email or IP addresses, zombie nets with local "members". If they were to act on each of them, they would soon have no customers.
Is there much of a British Pornographic Industry?
No
Remember, the world would be a wonderful place if french cooked, germans made cars, british were policemen and italians were lovers. And a wretched place if germans cooked, french made cars, italians were policemen and british were lovers. So you better look up IPI.
Uh.. DVD rentals are far more popular than DVD sales. iTunes music store rules over subscription-based Napster. In fact, most things in life are "pay as you go". Cellphone companies and AOL just have unreasonable rates. $1/day for internet access would work better for many casual users than $10/month.
Whatever else XML is, it's not a good representation of data for queries and transformation. Different pieces of data don't have a fixed parent-child or one-to-many relationship in real life tasks and so shouldn't be stored as a tree.
Store your data in a well-researched normalized, relational form and format your query results as XML if you like. How is the progress on binary XML to avoid killing your network and CPU on your thin client?
Unless the girls are required to attend the demo, they won't go near it with football being displayed.
Do you think that's maybe too inflexible on part of these girls? I am not exactly crazy about yoga, sentimental movies or Lara Croft (prefer Heather from Silent Hill 3!), but I tried these things at least once. And my girlfriend played Hexen II and sword-fighting arcades and enjoyed them, even though she might not do that every day.
Another tip for getting the girls' attention is to do this activity as a team with a female software engineer (or any other computer geek chick you can round up).
Again, why is that so important? I learned cooking exclusively from women, but I never had any concerns that I shouldn't cook, or can not cook well. Maybe it's better to learn to be able to relate to people of opposite gender and appreciate/share their activities. After all, that's more important for life's happiness than programming skills.
Your insides must be running Windows. Have a care not have your security breached through any holes.
Seriously, there are better ways to launch a program than navigating huge hierarchical menus, praying your mouse doesn't wobble and lose couple of levels. Windows 95, NextStep and MacOSX each introduced serious improvements in usability of computers, but why stop innovation there and just rip off old ideas?
I wrote a little program for Mac that I think is easier to use than either Start menu or Dock. Not a rocket science or even a new idea, but I am not the one with billions for research. I am sure modern processing power, new technologies and research can yield interfaces that don't look anything like Xerox PARC and are dramatically more productive. Keyboards with dynamically changing LED key labels? Fuzzy logic to recognize faster, inexact user commands? Some hybrid of UI and command line to let user see information from many programs in a small space? I don't know, but Sun and Microsoft should find out.
Because they are sued by RIAA, not recording industry of some other country?
Do you honestly believe any meaningful percentage of people buy Porsche for driving the posted speed limit, making safe lane changes and slowing down on turns? I guess you also buy Playboy for articles. The thing is, both articles and decent cars for driving legal speed are available for cheaper, so I don't know why people would bother.
Demoing Madden 2004 might work for the boys, but will probably be a bore to the girls.
/me affraid of being beaten by political correctness sticks
Not really. Girls will enjoy a sports game or FPS as long as screens are not two yucky and somone teaches them how to play. What's not going to happen is them spending long hours alone to learn the controls or to beat some 1331 d00d on server stats page. They have better things to do with their free time, like grooming or talking on the phone with girlfriends.