Why give an application accessing potentially hostile content unlimited access to your system. I am surprised you Linux users don't already run Mozilla chrooted or VMed. I might try that for Safari once I figure out all the dependencies.
Oh man, imagine the security checks janitors would have to pass to work in these companies. Or how many geeks will have NDAs on their mind upon seeing attractive industrial spies.
Also, how am I supposed to do my own research if I have to pay $$$ to learn about current state of art?
Lets just raise the standards so that patents only cover highly non-obvious inventions. No 1-click, no iPod scroll wheel.
In the end, thats all that really mattered about the space 'race'.
You don't leave any possibility for space explaration deemed essential for humanity by leaders of all countries - USSR, US, China - no matter what is their opinion on other issues, do you? One day, humnity will make a second home on another star system, planet, sattelite or a space station. Or perhaps, will fail to do so and resolve to live out the remaining billions of years on Earth as pleasently as possible. Capitalism vs Communism or political boundries will be just matters of brief and boring study in elementary school in a hundred years. Just wait (if you manage) and see.
Let us hope for 0.1% then. What, Columbus was guaranteed to survive when he set his sail? Going to moon is definitely possible. Potential tourists don't have to cover all the costs, just enough so that my ex-country is tempted to regain some of its prestige. An orbit around the moon? $10M. Meeting Vulcans who are waiting for the first public-accessible space flight between major bodies of mass? Priceless! For everything else, there is a random chance of getting rich through birth or luck, or being selected for your abilities.
If Linux fully follows the Open Group standards, a lot of source code would run without change across compatible systems. Say you wrote a specialized, expensive CAD application for AIX. Now you might ask customers to cough up the hardware, since it will be only 30% of the cost anyway. On the other hand, if you can release it for Linux without any further effort, why wouldn't you?
Forget about market surveys. Whoever signed off on this product didn't leave his office and just talk to normal people in years. Otherwise he would quickly learn what they think about a portable player without mp3 support and desktop jukebox without CD burning.
If Sony believes portable players hurt music business, well they can stay out of the field and miss out on the profit. If they really want a shot at locking people into ATRAC3, they should come up with a 4GB player for $100 and hope nobody manages to make a competing product with mp3 support. But what is the motivation to release a product that can not be sold? It looks like a company throwing a fit rather than trying to make money.
Yes, but what to prevent you from creating a child floating window inside an existing page and making it look like a top level dialog box used by the OS, with any title bar you please?
Users will not know the difference unless they try to drag it outside the parent. If you are browsing over dialup and a dialog box pops up saying the connection is broken and you need to enter your username/password, would you really think much of it?
Hell, with Flash you can probably emulate *the whole* windows UI in a fullscreen browser.
The heart can not stop, and lungs might work for a long time under these conditions, even if you are brain dead. I can see a big problem with these people just failling into a coma, that doctors can not guarantee is permanent.
make a serious effort to be compatible/interoperable with windows, while not being "suck for suck" compatible. On the server side, you can share files and printers, and with some tweaks XServe can actually be a Windows domain server. On the client side, Microsoft office and many other commercial apps run better then their Windows counterparts.
Yes you will spend some money, but far less than what ulcer medication and counceling sessions you will need after dealing with various unwanted lifeforms that invade your windows boxes.
Within hours, Douglas called his ex-wife and told her he was not sure how the collision occurred because he was "spacing out on a movie they were watching," according to prosecutors.
Pleeese, if you kill someone in whatever circumstanses, you are dumb as a fish until you see your councel, courtesy of a messed up guy killed in a knife fight later in his life. If you can not manage that, you should definitely remove yourself from the gene pool by getting a divorce, among a few other simple methods.
Even a very good driver can have an accident with fatality because of normal lapses of human attention, motor control or health. Should we lock up or even financially ruin people for plain bad luck?
The real issue here is if the driver made a reasonable effort to drive safely. Have a DVD player on is certainly suspicious. He should still have a chance to prove he was looking at the road from the facts of the accident itself.
I don't know, maybe hundred thousand people need the same itch scratched, only they don't know that until they try the scratcher in a shopping mall. Copyright allows each of them to pay $19.99, rather than one to pay 2 million because he/she can copy this particular scratcher at no cost. Think of it, you probably pay a carpenter way more than you pay a software company, and a table doesn't require an effort of hundreds of people to make.
Another way to think of it, an alternative to copyright is copy protection. Do you really want to plug in a USB dongle every time you want to run a word processor? If you think you can always download a hack, what if the dongle has a hardware implementation of an algorithm which is slow in software, and the program is coded to take advantage of it?
which is, sadly, not returned. Richard Stallman wants all software to be free, and doesn't respect closed-source software companies. If you want to make money by selling binaries, better find someone else to respect. Like Linus maybe, he doesn't seam so political.
I grew up in the 1980's assuming that I would one day be able to write some really cool software, then *SELL IT*, and make some real money for my trouble. But if I were to do that today, then in all likelihood someone would write an Open Source version of the thing, which sort of takes the wind out of any commercial startup.
Newsflash: You can not make money by writting software that people don't mind developing themselves for fun, or to satisfy their own needs. Write something that needs an effort of a big team, or rigourous quality assurance, and you might still catch your dream.
But it's also true that in many respects, Windows kicks Linux's ass in terms of usability and GUI refinements.
*shudder* Windows UI is vulgar and slow. I think it's the reason many people shy away from computers, or doing anything non-trivial with them. The author must surely mean MacOSX?
People put their work under the GPL not out of alturism, but in the expectation that they will get source code in return.
Personally, I release stuff under GPL because I already wrote it, don't plan to sell it and want it to be of maximum use to other people. So far, nobody sent me any code.
The TCP/IP protocol is completely open, and anyone can write any sort of implementation they want to.
Let's say, there is Novell's implementation of IPX and GPL implementation of TCP/IP. I am in charge of Windows development and want to have a working network stack ASAP. If I want to use IPX, I can pay Novell $N for source license and use the code without any restrictions that I worry about. If I go with GPL, I have to release my source code and find a new business model, since I will no longer be able to sell binary copies of my stuff without a serious support contract.
Only takes a second to decide, and if it happened like that, today Linux would only talk to most of Internet through Samba-like hacks of closed source protocols, RMS wouldn't use Internet, and slashdot would be exhaulting the virtues of TCP/IP.
Standards should be free and have public domain reference implementations, period. Keep both Microsoft and RMS out of it!
Ok. I want a playlist of random 20 songs I played less than 20 times that updates yourself as I listen to it, or as I get new songs. You have 15 minutes to come up with a solution, because clearly I don't want to spend the whole morning writting shell/Perl/python and so on scripts after I decided what I want to listen to when jogging before work. 3.. 2.. 1.. Beeeep!
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among a few other possibilities. People shouldn't get so excited or blame Coca-Cola when something unintentionally happens to look like something else. I got my bagpack inspected at the airport lots of times, even before 9/11. Sometimes the screeners ask me to turn on my laptop or my cellphone to make sure they function as described. In any reasonable world, the airport will keep the coke can until the winner comes back. Big deal!
But please, don't accuse me of terrorism if I am just happy to see someone!
$40B is a budget for sending people to Mars, not writting a new version of Solitare. Companies should return the money not immediatelly needed to make more money to investors. Otherwise stock market is just a big casino.
I used WMP, MusicMatch and many other things before and iTunes has the cleanest interface I encountered among either free or commercial jukeboxes. What exactly are you using to organize a few thousand songs?
What kind of UI do you imagine on that remote? It has no idea about your songs/playlists. And even if it had (say firewire sync), wouldn't you rather go to bedroom than search for what you want with iPod-like interface?
You would need a settop box connected to your TV and audio system and a wireless keyboard to have a usable remote interface to iTunes. Or, on a more practical note, an iBook.
You mean they wouldn't sue you if you just killed their little girl with a regular, unmodded car?
More likely, government will have a beef with you for flunking smog test, noise standards or some safety parameter. Bill Gates had to go through a lot of trouble to import his dream car once.
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Why give an application accessing potentially hostile content unlimited access to your system. I am surprised you Linux users don't already run Mozilla chrooted or VMed. I might try that for Safari once I figure out all the dependencies.
Oh man, imagine the security checks janitors would have to pass to work in these companies. Or how many geeks will have NDAs on their mind upon seeing attractive industrial spies.
Also, how am I supposed to do my own research if I have to pay $$$ to learn about current state of art?
Lets just raise the standards so that patents only cover highly non-obvious inventions. No 1-click, no iPod scroll wheel.
In the end, thats all that really mattered about the space 'race'.
You don't leave any possibility for space explaration deemed essential for humanity by leaders of all countries - USSR, US, China - no matter what is their opinion on other issues, do you? One day, humnity will make a second home on another star system, planet, sattelite or a space station. Or perhaps, will fail to do so and resolve to live out the remaining billions of years on Earth as pleasently as possible. Capitalism vs Communism or political boundries will be just matters of brief and boring study in elementary school in a hundred years. Just wait (if you manage) and see.
This whole scenario is unlikely to happen anyhow
Let us hope for 0.1% then. What, Columbus was guaranteed to survive when he set his sail? Going to moon is definitely possible. Potential tourists don't have to cover all the costs, just enough so that my ex-country is tempted to regain some of its prestige. An orbit around the moon? $10M. Meeting Vulcans who are waiting for the first public-accessible space flight between major bodies of mass? Priceless! For everything else, there is a random chance of getting rich through birth or luck, or being selected for your abilities.
If Linux fully follows the Open Group standards, a lot of source code would run without change across compatible systems. Say you wrote a specialized, expensive CAD application for AIX. Now you might ask customers to cough up the hardware, since it will be only 30% of the cost anyway. On the other hand, if you can release it for Linux without any further effort, why wouldn't you?
Forget about market surveys. Whoever signed off on this product didn't leave his office and just talk to normal people in years. Otherwise he would quickly learn what they think about a portable player without mp3 support and desktop jukebox without CD burning.
If Sony believes portable players hurt music business, well they can stay out of the field and miss out on the profit. If they really want a shot at locking people into ATRAC3, they should come up with a 4GB player for $100 and hope nobody manages to make a competing product with mp3 support. But what is the motivation to release a product that can not be sold? It looks like a company throwing a fit rather than trying to make money.
Yes, but what to prevent you from creating a child floating window inside an existing page and making it look like a top level dialog box used by the OS, with any title bar you please?
Users will not know the difference unless they try to drag it outside the parent. If you are browsing over dialup and a dialog box pops up saying the connection is broken and you need to enter your username/password, would you really think much of it?
Hell, with Flash you can probably emulate *the whole* windows UI in a fullscreen browser.
The heart can not stop, and lungs might work for a long time under these conditions, even if you are brain dead. I can see a big problem with these people just failling into a coma, that doctors can not guarantee is permanent.
You will not catch AIDS by drinking water, but prions might do the trick, given how they survive cooking and even burning.
make a serious effort to be compatible/interoperable with windows, while not being "suck for suck" compatible. On the server side, you can share files and printers, and with some tweaks XServe can actually be a Windows domain server. On the client side, Microsoft office and many other commercial apps run better then their Windows counterparts.
Yes you will spend some money, but far less than what ulcer medication and counceling sessions you will need after dealing with various unwanted lifeforms that invade your windows boxes.
Who said I encrypt first?
I bet it will be released with Darwin. Why reinvent the wheel?
That disables ActiveX and scripting in IE. If you are dumb enough to install it, you need to be stopped for your own good.
Is the Darwin's law:
Within hours, Douglas called his ex-wife and told her he was not sure how the collision occurred because he was "spacing out on a movie they were watching," according to prosecutors.
Pleeese, if you kill someone in whatever circumstanses, you are dumb as a fish until you see your councel, courtesy of a messed up guy killed in a knife fight later in his life. If you can not manage that, you should definitely remove yourself from the gene pool by getting a divorce, among a few other simple methods.
Even a very good driver can have an accident with fatality because of normal lapses of human attention, motor control or health. Should we lock up or even financially ruin people for plain bad luck?
The real issue here is if the driver made a reasonable effort to drive safely. Have a DVD player on is certainly suspicious. He should still have a chance to prove he was looking at the road from the facts of the accident itself.
Here I am, right in the pooper,
Birthing another slashdot trooper...
I don't know, maybe hundred thousand people need the same itch scratched, only they don't know that until they try the scratcher in a shopping mall. Copyright allows each of them to pay $19.99, rather than one to pay 2 million because he/she can copy this particular scratcher at no cost. Think of it, you probably pay a carpenter way more than you pay a software company, and a table doesn't require an effort of hundreds of people to make.
Another way to think of it, an alternative to copyright is copy protection. Do you really want to plug in a USB dongle every time you want to run a word processor? If you think you can always download a hack, what if the dongle has a hardware implementation of an algorithm which is slow in software, and the program is coded to take advantage of it?
The author must be a happy man,
RMS et al, for whom I have nothing but respect
which is, sadly, not returned. Richard Stallman wants all software to be free, and doesn't respect closed-source software companies. If you want to make money by selling binaries, better find someone else to respect. Like Linus maybe, he doesn't seam so political.
I grew up in the 1980's assuming that I would one day be able to write some really cool software, then *SELL IT*, and make some real money for my trouble. But if I were to do that today, then in all likelihood someone would write an Open Source version of the thing, which sort of takes the wind out of any commercial startup.
Newsflash: You can not make money by writting software that people don't mind developing themselves for fun, or to satisfy their own needs. Write something that needs an effort of a big team, or rigourous quality assurance, and you might still catch your dream.
But it's also true that in many respects, Windows kicks Linux's ass in terms of usability and GUI refinements.
*shudder* Windows UI is vulgar and slow. I think it's the reason many people shy away from computers, or doing anything non-trivial with them. The author must surely mean MacOSX?
People put their work under the GPL not out of alturism, but in the expectation that they will get source code in return.
Personally, I release stuff under GPL because I already wrote it, don't plan to sell it and want it to be of maximum use to other people. So far, nobody sent me any code.
The TCP/IP protocol is completely open, and anyone can write any sort of implementation they want to.
Let's say, there is Novell's implementation of IPX and GPL implementation of TCP/IP. I am in charge of Windows development and want to have a working network stack ASAP. If I want to use IPX, I can pay Novell $N for source license and use the code without any restrictions that I worry about. If I go with GPL, I have to release my source code and find a new business model, since I will no longer be able to sell binary copies of my stuff without a serious support contract.
Only takes a second to decide, and if it happened like that, today Linux would only talk to most of Internet through Samba-like hacks of closed source protocols, RMS wouldn't use Internet, and slashdot would be exhaulting the virtues of TCP/IP.
Standards should be free and have public domain reference implementations, period. Keep both Microsoft and RMS out of it!
Ok. I want a playlist of random 20 songs I played less than 20 times that updates yourself as I listen to it, or as I get new songs. You have 15 minutes to come up with a solution, because clearly I don't want to spend the whole morning writting shell/Perl/python and so on scripts after I decided what I want to listen to when jogging before work. 3.. 2.. 1.. Beeeep!
among a few other possibilities. People shouldn't get so excited or blame Coca-Cola when something unintentionally happens to look like something else. I got my bagpack inspected at the airport lots of times, even before 9/11. Sometimes the screeners ask me to turn on my laptop or my cellphone to make sure they function as described. In any reasonable world, the airport will keep the coke can until the winner comes back. Big deal!
But please, don't accuse me of terrorism if I am just happy to see someone!
$40B is a budget for sending people to Mars, not writting a new version of Solitare. Companies should return the money not immediatelly needed to make more money to investors. Otherwise stock market is just a big casino.
I used WMP, MusicMatch and many other things before and iTunes has the cleanest interface I encountered among either free or commercial jukeboxes. What exactly are you using to organize a few thousand songs?
What kind of UI do you imagine on that remote? It has no idea about your songs/playlists. And even if it had (say firewire sync), wouldn't you rather go to bedroom than search for what you want with iPod-like interface?
You would need a settop box connected to your TV and audio system and a wireless keyboard to have a usable remote interface to iTunes. Or, on a more practical note, an iBook.
You mean they wouldn't sue you if you just killed their little girl with a regular, unmodded car?
More likely, government will have a beef with you for flunking smog test, noise standards or some safety parameter. Bill Gates had to go through a lot of trouble to import his dream car once.