Thanks for the link. Maybe you should read it. His summary seems quite balanced compared to your assertions:
11. A COURSE OF ACTION
What should be done? I will conclude with a suggested agenda for everyone, whether a commercial software developer or merely a computer user.
1. Recognize the major contributions of the free software community, from Linux and GCC to TEX, LATEX and Ghostscript.
2. Accept that both commercial and free software have a role to play, and that neither will ever go away.
3. Be respectful of the authors of good free software.
4. Try to convince them to apply the reciprocal goodwill (in some of the cases cited this may be hard, but one should try).
5. Refuse and refute the moral defamation of commercial software developers. If you are a software developer, be proud of your profession.
6. Call the extremists' bluff by questioning their moral premises. Re-establish ethical priorities.
7. Refuse the distortion of moral values and the use of free software as a pulpit from which to spread ideologies of violence.
8. Demand (in the spirit of faithful advertising) that the economic origin of "free" software be clearly stated, and that the products be classified as one of "donated", "taxpayer-funded" and the other categories described in this article.
9. For Microsoft, whose unique position in the community creates unique responsibilities: promote a more open attitude towards the rest of the world; open up; be less mean. You can afford to be.
10. For everyone: focus on quality. Work with every competent person--free or commercial software developers--to address the increasingly critical, and increasingly ethical, issue of software quality.
11. Strive to combine the best of what the two communities have to offer.
Dungeons & Dragons Online is slated to start this Friday for pre-release purchasers. I found myself missing the NPC-PC collision detection physics in DDO (among other things) after my beta ran out and I returned to my regularly scheduled MMORPG.
I'm sure the Republican party appreciates your loyalty. It amazes me that you seem to realize that your party of choice has evolved very different priorities than it used to have (or that you have now), and yet you still apparently vote for them.
The stupidity of helping to sign all of us up for "Pat Robertson" conservatism, even against your own stated beliefs, has earned you this status.
This message comes without contempt, the desire to have a conservative bash-fest, or the desire to accumulate more karma.
"While technical issues were a problem for the first few months of retail service, prompt patching and additional world servers have left the game in excellent shape."
I would submit that the game is -not- in excellent shape. Your own server status messages tell some of the tale: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/board.aspx?fn=wo w-realm-status...but not all of it. Like massive db lag that can cause 20-30 second delays or longer every time you send mail, use the auction house, or even loot a quest item from a mob.
Granted, things have improved since launch, but there seems to always be a long way to go.
What kind of priority does correcting this have, compared to other activities that will tend to make things worse, such as new content and boxed expansions?
Or, put another way, how many PSI of pressure is Vivendi's vice exerting on your jewels for the release of the next box set? Or are they happy with your success thus far, and leaving you alone to make things right?
If Vivendi isn't making the call, who at Blizzard is making the choice to focus more on content than stability?
Also: Has Blizzard been approched to drop Bittorrent technology as their patch delivery mechanism because it's "primarily used for illegal purposes" or is a "disruptive technology"?
Facinating. Let me pose a couple of questions for you:
What is your proposed solution?
Should all jobs, regardless of qualification or responsibility, pay the same minimum wage? How else can we stop "bad (insert job title here)" from looking for an easy buck?
Should "bad (insert job title here)" never be trained, since they'll probably still be relatively bad?
Should we not hire new (insert job title here), since some of them will be bad?
And finally, are you posting from afar? Here in the US, there is a general awareness that teachers are grossly underpaid given their responsibilities. The only motiviation I can think of for a person to post such things is if said person is benefitting from the slow slide of the US into the dark ages.
As a member Slashdot, I would like to apologize for this horrible tragedy of justice that you have brought to us.
Normally, I'd dismiss such rantings as typical of a dogmatic and egotistical person who is unwilling to tolerate opinions different from their own. Your post, though it may be full of the language of such idealogues, has truly shocked me to The Light.
I will now dedicate my life to the pursuit of forever changing Slashdot for the better, based upon the simple tenets that you have most graciously provided:
* All moderation will now be performed by "fani", member number 176635. He is the keeper of the knowledge of what is funny and good for society.
* All stories will be submitted by "fani", member number 176635. He is the keeper of the knowledge of what is fresh and OSNews-like.
* No moderation will be performed upon messages submitted by "fani", member number 176635. We are simply not worthy of questioning his advise.
You are my hero. Where you lead, I will follow. Thank you for saving my life.
Now if you can just figure out a quick download that will erase the legal liabilities that this law created for ISPs and website operators, you'd be on to something...
"Ever try integrating Novell authentication with IIS? Every try running a scheduled task as a Novell user?"
NDS is LDAP compliant -- I've tied stuff into it before. What are you doing? Trying to perform Windows authentication against Novell? Better stick to AC posts.
Make it an inexpensive service provided by the local sanitation company. I know mine has a once-a-year event when you can drop off your nasty household chemical waste for free -- that would work for this, too.
Why should the government take money for this? Are they even doing anything in return to effectively collect and dispose of the stuff? My guess is that the money goes into a general fund and is completely unaccounted for.
FTA: "That molecule is so tiny it can only be measured on the scale of nanometres."
A quick google tells me that 50nm transistors are in mass production (Pentium), and that 30nm have been made since Y2K with several processes. Infineon announced an 18nm carbon nanotube transistor in 11/2004.
Just how earth-shattering is this? (IANAP / IANAEE)
Since I keep getting voted for unfair by meta-mods on modding this a troll, I figure I'll just respond, for what it's worth.
Coward said: "Your changing those conditions to meet your own wants (by stripping DRM) is theft."
I mod this troll due to the fact that removing DRM is not theft. You may be breaking the "specific terms and conditions". It is probably illegal to some degree. However theft is "the act of taking something from someone unlawfully". This is not the case here. Breach of contract? Copyright violation? IANAL, but it sure isn't "theft".
I've been Googling for acknowledgement of Linux kernel patent violations. Other than statements by SCO, I haven't found any.
Does anyone know what Jeremy Mark Malcolm was talking about when he wrote: "There is no question that some of the open source software that is out there -- such as the Linux kernel itself -- has got patent violations in there. That is acknowledged."?
He is described as "an information technology lawyer specialising in Internet-related law...". Could this just be twisty English, saying that: Some open source software is acknowledged as having patent violations and that The linux kernel is an example of open source?
So, for a PC-compatible CPU, it looks like the VIA Eden series is still on top?
VIA Eden ESP 4000 (4.0 x 100MHz)@1.05V: 1.7W typical, 3.0W max VIA Eden ESP 10000 (5.0 x 200MHz)@1.05V: 6.1W typical, 7.0W max
Unlike a previous poster, I've been running a VIA EPIA M 10000, 1.0GHz (Nehemiah) on a workstation, and a VIA EPIA V, Eden 533MHz on a server with no issues.
As a person who helps administrate the functional ISP for several K12 schools, I think I have a pretty good idea of what most high school students would most appreciate:
1) How to bypass the district Internet content filter. This may include compiling a list of porn sites that haven't been blocked yet, and how to find and use public proxies.
2) How to maliciously modify network-connected resources. This may include modifying the settings on network printers to stop connectivity, and how to crash Windows workstations remotely to peeve fellow students and/or teachers.
3) How to use techology to help you cheat on schoolwork. This may include homework and report-sharing forums, accessing the desktop from a kiosk-mode browser-based testing system to look up answers on the Internet, and using text-messaging enabled devices for outside communication during tests.
The Federal Reserve's greatest nightmare is that OPEC will switch its international transactions from a dollar standard to a euro standard. Iraq actually made this switch in Nov. 2000 (when the euro was worth around 82 cents), and has actually made off like a bandit considering the dollar's steady depreciation against the euro. (Note: the dollar declined 17% against the euro in 2002.)
"The real reason the Bush administration wants a puppet government in Iraq -- or more importantly, the reason why the corporate-military-industrial network conglomerate wants a puppet government in Iraq -- is so that it will revert back to a dollar standard and stay that way." (While also hoping to veto any wider OPEC momentum towards the euro, especially from Iran -- the 2nd largest OPEC producer who is actively discussing a switch to euros for its oil exports). ...
Otherwise, the effect of an OPEC switch to the euro would be that oil-consuming nations would have to flush dollars out of their (central bank) reserve funds and replace these with euros. The dollar would crash anywhere from 20-40% in value and the consequences would be those one could expect from any currency collapse and massive inflation (think Argentina currency crisis, for example). You'd have foreign funds stream out of the U.S. stock markets and dollar denominated assets, there'd surely be a run on the banks much like the 1930s, the current account deficit would become unserviceable, the budget deficit would go into default, and so on. Your basic 3rd world economic crisis scenario.
I thought that this issue was directly related to activities such as machine scanning of emails for viruses and malware. Gmail added the twist of machine scanning for the display of relevant ads.
I suppose that the tricky part is making the above activities legal, while humans reading another's email becomes illegal.
Is this the best we could do? There are at least two instances of the number '1' being used instead of the letter 'i'.
My favorite would have to be at the end of the article, where we find out that the author was predestined to engineering, due to the number in his name...
Slashdot Mirror
Thanks for the link. Maybe you should read it. His summary seems quite balanced compared to your assertions:
11. A COURSE OF ACTION
What should be done? I will conclude with a suggested agenda for everyone, whether a commercial software developer or merely a computer user.
1. Recognize the major contributions of the free software community, from Linux and GCC to TEX, LATEX and Ghostscript.
2. Accept that both commercial and free software have a role to play, and that neither will ever go away.
3. Be respectful of the authors of good free software.
4. Try to convince them to apply the reciprocal goodwill (in some of the cases cited this may be hard, but one should try).
5. Refuse and refute the moral defamation of commercial software developers. If you are a software developer, be proud of your profession.
6. Call the extremists' bluff by questioning their moral premises. Re-establish ethical priorities.
7. Refuse the distortion of moral values and the use of free software as a pulpit from which to spread ideologies of violence.
8. Demand (in the spirit of faithful advertising) that the economic origin of "free" software be clearly stated, and that the products be classified as one of "donated", "taxpayer-funded" and the other categories described in this article.
9. For Microsoft, whose unique position in the community creates unique responsibilities: promote a more open attitude towards the rest of the world; open up; be less mean. You can afford to be.
10. For everyone: focus on quality. Work with every competent person--free or commercial software developers--to address the increasingly critical, and increasingly ethical, issue of software quality.
11. Strive to combine the best of what the two communities have to offer.
Mod parent up please, since I was beaten to the punch.
Oh five-digit member number, I salute thee.
Dungeons & Dragons Online is slated to start this Friday for pre-release purchasers. I found myself missing the NPC-PC collision detection physics in DDO (among other things) after my beta ran out and I returned to my regularly scheduled MMORPG.
...when you sell your soul to conglomerates such as Vivendi.
It's time to face the fact: Blizzard has been assimilated.
"...just add me to your foes list now..."
Done.
I'm sure the Republican party appreciates your loyalty. It amazes me that you seem to realize that your party of choice has evolved very different priorities than it used to have (or that you have now), and yet you still apparently vote for them.
The stupidity of helping to sign all of us up for "Pat Robertson" conservatism, even against your own stated beliefs, has earned you this status.
This message comes without contempt, the desire to have a conservative bash-fest, or the desire to accumulate more karma.
"While technical issues were a problem for the first few months of retail service, prompt patching and additional world servers have left the game in excellent shape."
o w-realm-status ...but not all of it. Like massive db lag that can cause 20-30 second delays or longer every time you send mail, use the auction house, or even loot a quest item from a mob.
I would submit that the game is -not- in excellent shape. Your own server status messages tell some of the tale:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/board.aspx?fn=w
Granted, things have improved since launch, but there seems to always be a long way to go.
What kind of priority does correcting this have, compared to other activities that will tend to make things worse, such as new content and boxed expansions?
Or, put another way, how many PSI of pressure is Vivendi's vice exerting on your jewels for the release of the next box set? Or are they happy with your success thus far, and leaving you alone to make things right?
If Vivendi isn't making the call, who at Blizzard is making the choice to focus more on content than stability?
Also: Has Blizzard been approched to drop Bittorrent technology as their patch delivery mechanism because it's "primarily used for illegal purposes" or is a "disruptive technology"?
Facinating. Let me pose a couple of questions for you:
What is your proposed solution?
Should all jobs, regardless of qualification or responsibility, pay the same minimum wage? How else can we stop "bad (insert job title here)" from looking for an easy buck?
Should "bad (insert job title here)" never be trained, since they'll probably still be relatively bad?
Should we not hire new (insert job title here), since some of them will be bad?
And finally, are you posting from afar? Here in the US, there is a general awareness that teachers are grossly underpaid given their responsibilities. The only motiviation I can think of for a person to post such things is if said person is benefitting from the slow slide of the US into the dark ages.
As a member Slashdot, I would like to apologize for this horrible tragedy of justice that you have brought to us.
Normally, I'd dismiss such rantings as typical of a dogmatic and egotistical person who is unwilling to tolerate opinions different from their own. Your post, though it may be full of the language of such idealogues, has truly shocked me to The Light.
I will now dedicate my life to the pursuit of forever changing Slashdot for the better, based upon the simple tenets that you have most graciously provided:
* All moderation will now be performed by "fani", member number 176635. He is the keeper of the knowledge of what is funny and good for society.
* All stories will be submitted by "fani", member number 176635. He is the keeper of the knowledge of what is fresh and OSNews-like.
* No moderation will be performed upon messages submitted by "fani", member number 176635. We are simply not worthy of questioning his advise.
You are my hero. Where you lead, I will follow. Thank you for saving my life.
Great!
Now if you can just figure out a quick download that will erase the legal liabilities that this law created for ISPs and website operators, you'd be on to something...
...redferret.net. Buh bye.
"Ever try integrating Novell authentication with IIS? Every try running a scheduled task as a Novell user?"
NDS is LDAP compliant -- I've tied stuff into it before. What are you doing? Trying to perform Windows authentication against Novell? Better stick to AC posts.
Make it an inexpensive service provided by the local sanitation company. I know mine has a once-a-year event when you can drop off your nasty household chemical waste for free -- that would work for this, too.
Why should the government take money for this? Are they even doing anything in return to effectively collect and dispose of the stuff? My guess is that the money goes into a general fund and is completely unaccounted for.
You're my hero. Thank you.
FTA: "That molecule is so tiny it can only be measured on the scale of nanometres."
A quick google tells me that 50nm transistors are in mass production (Pentium), and that 30nm have been made since Y2K with several processes. Infineon announced an 18nm carbon nanotube transistor in 11/2004.
Just how earth-shattering is this? (IANAP / IANAEE)
Since I keep getting voted for unfair by meta-mods on modding this a troll, I figure I'll just respond, for what it's worth.
Coward said: "Your changing those conditions to meet your own wants (by stripping DRM) is theft."
I mod this troll due to the fact that removing DRM is not theft. You may be breaking the "specific terms and conditions". It is probably illegal to some degree. However theft is "the act of taking something from someone unlawfully". This is not the case here. Breach of contract? Copyright violation? IANAL, but it sure isn't "theft".
So there. Troll.
I don't like having to use backports.org because we can't get the feature set we need.
I've been Googling for acknowledgement of Linux kernel patent violations. Other than statements by SCO, I haven't found any.
Does anyone know what Jeremy Mark Malcolm was talking about when he wrote: "There is no question that some of the open source software that is out there -- such as the Linux kernel itself -- has got patent violations in there. That is acknowledged."?
He is described as "an information technology lawyer specialising in Internet-related law...". Could this just be twisty English, saying that: Some open source software is acknowledged as having patent violations and that The linux kernel is an example of open source ?
So, for a PC-compatible CPU, it looks like the VIA Eden series is still on top?
VIA Eden ESP 4000 (4.0 x 100MHz)@1.05V: 1.7W typical, 3.0W max
VIA Eden ESP 10000 (5.0 x 200MHz)@1.05V: 6.1W typical, 7.0W max
Unlike a previous poster, I've been running a VIA EPIA M 10000, 1.0GHz (Nehemiah) on a workstation, and a VIA EPIA V, Eden 533MHz on a server with no issues.
Electronic Mail: Novell Groupwise -- Approved 09/11/2000
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP): Novell eDirectory -- Approved 09/20/2002
Metadirectory: Novell DirXML -- Approved 04/07/2003
It ain't all bad...
As a person who helps administrate the functional ISP for several K12 schools, I think I have a pretty good idea of what most high school students would most appreciate:
1) How to bypass the district Internet content filter. This may include compiling a list of porn sites that haven't been blocked yet, and how to find and use public proxies.
2) How to maliciously modify network-connected resources. This may include modifying the settings on network printers to stop connectivity, and how to crash Windows workstations remotely to peeve fellow students and/or teachers.
3) How to use techology to help you cheat on schoolwork. This may include homework and report-sharing forums, accessing the desktop from a kiosk-mode browser-based testing system to look up answers on the Internet, and using text-messaging enabled devices for outside communication during tests.
LoL!
So -- When the red light comes on in your vehicle, that's just an advertisement for having your engine serviced?
This does help me understand the consumerism mentality, though -- thank you.
The article seems to focus on what current, popular languages are -not- doing. What are some examples of languages that use this research?
Here's one possible source for the reference:
This is a small snippet from something I ran across here: http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/RRiraqWar.html
I thought that this issue was directly related to activities such as machine scanning of emails for viruses and malware. Gmail added the twist of machine scanning for the display of relevant ads.
I suppose that the tricky part is making the above activities legal, while humans reading another's email becomes illegal.
Is this the best we could do? There are at least two instances of the number '1' being used instead of the letter 'i'.
My favorite would have to be at the end of the article, where we find out that the author was predestined to engineering, due to the number in his name...
"THE AUTHOR
Russell 0. Hamm"