I would have to agree here. Most of today's movies are sequels (T3, 2fast2furious, etc) or rehashes of OLD movies with a modern twist. Millions of dollars in budgets for crappy films is a waste and cost the end user (movie-goer). I personally have no desire to pay upwards of $7.50 per person, once, to see a movie today, that will suck on DVD or VHS for $2 that I can watch in the privacy of my own home, without overpriced snacks, etc. Some of the same principles behind music pirating apply here. We want quality if we're expected to pay large prices with limited use, or we'll take crap for free and do with it as we please to enhance our experiance with the product.
I'm hoping that somewhere down the line, as technology along these same lines becomes more widespread, some standardization and collaboration between cellular carriers will occur... Obviously, end result becoming a direct connect network from any provider, to people who have other providers.
If only a couple more carriers start their own versions, it may not be long before we see 2-way as widespread as cell phones. Cool huh?
IANAL... however I believe that the US Copyright Laws are there to protect the owner of the copyright, whilst giving us (the average citizen) the right to make a backup copy, for our own protection. This statement that the GPL is therefore invalid, makes no sense. The GPL extends on that right by granting the end user with (duh) extended privleges over the rights to copy, and similarly distribute said software. In a world of further constriction over the citizens rights in favor of copyright holders, if we (IBM, Open source lovers everywhere, and and people concerned for their rights) allow SCO's lawyers to turn the purpose of this law towards a restriction instead of a right then we need to be prepared for the cascading consequences. FIGHT for your RIGHTS!!!!
Dear SCO,
You hacked our FTP site. We're suing you for the damages, and demanding that you return our original files and the MD5 Sums. Unfortunately due to this being our IP and trade secrets, we can't tell you which files and MD5 Sums we want. So instead, we're going to start charging your stockholders a license fee to use your stock. Love,
Free Software Loving People Everywhere
I've not heard good, or bad from this about people's luck with this. Being that we're all M$ here, there's no chance we'll ever get Linux... so Linux didn't lose and SCO didn't win... So how about you guys? What's happening in your companies about all the SCO business... Is your commpany throwing in the towel and signing up for the SCO licenses? dumping Linux systems? or fighting the good fight and adding/expanding their Linux systems and dumping SCO systems?
I personally have no experiance, or legal expertise. However, I'd say, to figure out your borders of open/closed source... If your code will run without the business software you're writing, then it's officially open source framework. It's it's "extra" and related to that business software, then that code is closed source. Just an idea. Good luck!
I'm not sure if SCO used that exact wording... However... if they did, and claimed that the AIX license is "perpetual and irrevocable"... since they claim to have revoked it... where does that leave them legally and isn't that kind of a win for IBM?
Just thought I'd say something, if you have answers, I'd be interested in hearing them.
from the whip-lash-from-slashdot dept.
vaderhelmet writes "According to this server error on BadTux by the webserver, the constant loading of pages has a price. You get a 425 error- or more correctly, you cannot connect to the host. But, if you're a hard core geek you just might get your site more notice as it gets mirrored out onto sympathetic hosts. Also slashdotted in other locations."
"Too Many Users"
I thought they were all about monopolizing and gaining more users. Just goes to show you, just when you expect the worst from someone, they make a complete turnaround... I mean, A)an innovation, B)in security and C)they're even denying users.
Apparently hell is freezing over.
Having submitted the story, and being a Catholic... I think I'm qualified to say that I think this is all very cool. Sure, I believe that God created everything. That's not to say that I don't believe in evolution, in fact I think it's one of the most exciting fields of study. Genesis in the Bible claims that the world was created in 7 days. Then again, there's another book (and I don't remember which one) which says that there are only 144,000 spaces in heaven (a belief Jehovah's Witnesses stick too)
Most Catholics (including the Pope himself) don't read the Bible as the definitive guide to everything. It was written by simple-minded fools long ago, and they were expressing things in the way they understood them. With our advanced understanding of how things are now, it's easy to dismiss things like this as myths and such unless we take a look deeper into what it's all about, and understand that just because Catholics(and Christians of all kinds) rely on the Bible as a guiding work, as it details the history of our God . But not everyone thinks it's the final say, and not everyone memorizes it.
payphones and run it all yourself. Sure, for a several of them, you're gonna rack up a decent bill, but for where you work, it should be no sweat, and after the phone bill, it's all profit. Plus, you're doing the right thing.
ooooooooo looky! Some of them even come with a port for you to plug in your laptop. and some come with credit card readers to pay for calls. Options, options, options!!!!
Also try here, here, here and there's always some good old Googling!!!
Good luck on your journey to payphone bliss.
put a bunch of holidays in a hat (twice, once for primary, and once for secondary)
give each holiday a value (prim, secd)
Christmas - 5,3
New Years - 5,3
4th July -5,3
Easter - 3,2
Thanksgiving - 3,2
Labor Day - 2,1
Memorial Day - 2,1
Presidents Day - 2,1
everyone draws one holiday
Everyone must end up with at least 6 pts of holiday
er something... This wouldn't solve the whole thing, but it would fix the holiday problems...
For them, they'd ideally be able to have the car transmit it's speed at any given time, or automatically alert when it's speeding. (Assuming say, the mapping software was crossed with something that would know how fast the speed limit is, where the car is) That way, they can still sit in the police station eating donuts, and catch all the speeders and more. Hell, they could even just sit there and have an automated process send you a ticket in the mail! Lousy wireless cops!
Here is a quote from an related article...
" They struck up a deal to sell the fish, breeding them at the company's "genetic fish stock bank" in a Taipei suburb. They sterilize the fish, so they won't contaminate wild populations if they are somehow set free. Prof. Tsai says he has been able to sterilize about 90% of the fish, which he says is safe enough. "
Video on demand... does that mean when I want to watch a movie I simply turn it on... or You request a movie and MS streams it to my brand new MS-certified video-on-demand box which cost me $500 that I hook up to a TV and a broadband internet connection?
Either way, I'd say there is prior art... and if they win... I wonder who gets to provide that broadband connection? and for how much? thoughts anyone?
Finally we are starting to see the bigger picture... The truth always comes out in things like this, and the righteous always come out on top. Yay for free software!
When I came into high school in my freshman year, our school had just started a Tech Club... the kid who had got it all together was a dork-faced senior with a pocket protector and a Commodore 64. Yes, apparently it made he feel 1337 to tell everyone about how great it was as we built a website for the school on 500MhZ, Win98 computers... point is... once he graduated... I ended up taking over. We stopped being lame... we networked our computers, installed Quake on them, and started several sevice projects.
My advice is if you have a computer lab, find out who's in charge there... they'd be your best bet for a moderator, and if they aren't interested, you'll at least need there approval to use the lab for club activities.
For actvities, we've done things like, build computers from a bunch of parts laying around, then played around with all the diff OSes we could get our hands on... We've volunteered at local elementarys by teaching little kids the basics of computers: how to customize and navigate the OS, opened up a computer and showed them what the parts are, how they work, what they do... and taught them how to surf the web... We enrolled in a cell-phone and printer cartridge recycling service which gives you money/prizes for collecting so many cartidges
One of our biggest feats is that we brought in chicks... YES! I SAID CHICKS!!! At least where I come from, there are few women interested in using computers. It's mostly because they don't know how to. So we marketed the club as a "learning" club. The geeks like myself and the original members teach the new people the ropes about computers. They in turn have brought their friends into the club... We have about 25 members out of 600 people in our school. About 8 are women... and next year's enrollment proves to be even better!
So remember, it won't be big right away. But if you establish a good club, eventually it will catch on.
Lastly: -Be creative with your ideas. -Be persistantin getting the club together. -Get friends/parents/teachers involved.
You'll have a great club in no time. (BTW, I'm a senior now... today was our last meeting of Tech Club for the year... they voted for new officers and I sadly had to hand over the keys to the kingdom... but knowing that I helped get the club started, and hopefully it will be around for some time to come)
So far most wireless services have proven insecure... I understand that you have to be in line-of-sight... But if someone is looking to find your data, what's to stop them?
I can't remember most of the specifics. But we learned in Human Phys that a child's mind restructures itself to become ready for adult life. For the average human that restructuring starts at the age of 3. It can last into adolescence or later depending on how fast the person matures. I'm not certain if that has any effect on the whole thing... but it would correlate.
Could you imagine Mircrosoft buying out this technology and forcing the entire world to run Windows in their mind?!?!?! Didn't he say something along the lines of "Resistance is futile" at his last press conference?
What happens when one person gets a BSoD? Will we all GPF in domino-like doom? Will we not be able to eat our pudding with our meat because the pudding doesn't have an MS-signed driver? All these questions and more will be answered on the next episode of... The Raging Psychotic Microsoft-Type Doom Show!
Slashdot Mirror
I would have to agree here. Most of today's movies are sequels (T3, 2fast2furious, etc) or rehashes of OLD movies with a modern twist. Millions of dollars in budgets for crappy films is a waste and cost the end user (movie-goer). I personally have no desire to pay upwards of $7.50 per person, once, to see a movie today, that will suck on DVD or VHS for $2 that I can watch in the privacy of my own home, without overpriced snacks, etc. Some of the same principles behind music pirating apply here. We want quality if we're expected to pay large prices with limited use, or we'll take crap for free and do with it as we please to enhance our experiance with the product.
I'm hoping that somewhere down the line, as technology along these same lines becomes more widespread, some standardization and collaboration between cellular carriers will occur... Obviously, end result becoming a direct connect network from any provider, to people who have other providers.
If only a couple more carriers start their own versions, it may not be long before we see 2-way as widespread as cell phones. Cool huh?
IANAL... however I believe that the US Copyright Laws are there to protect the owner of the copyright, whilst giving us (the average citizen) the right to make a backup copy, for our own protection. This statement that the GPL is therefore invalid, makes no sense. The GPL extends on that right by granting the end user with (duh) extended privleges over the rights to copy, and similarly distribute said software. In a world of further constriction over the citizens rights in favor of copyright holders, if we (IBM, Open source lovers everywhere, and and people concerned for their rights) allow SCO's lawyers to turn the purpose of this law towards a restriction instead of a right then we need to be prepared for the cascading consequences. FIGHT for your RIGHTS!!!!
Dear SCO,
You hacked our FTP site. We're suing you for the damages, and demanding that you return our original files and the MD5 Sums. Unfortunately due to this being our IP and trade secrets, we can't tell you which files and MD5 Sums we want. So instead, we're going to start charging your stockholders a license fee to use your stock.
Love,
Free Software Loving People Everywhere
I've not heard good, or bad from this about people's luck with this. Being that we're all M$ here, there's no chance we'll ever get Linux... so Linux didn't lose and SCO didn't win... So how about you guys? What's happening in your companies about all the SCO business... Is your commpany throwing in the towel and signing up for the SCO licenses? dumping Linux systems? or fighting the good fight and adding/expanding their Linux systems and dumping SCO systems?
Various Licenses [both free and non-free]
Google Directory [Software >> Licensing]
I personally have no experiance, or legal expertise. However, I'd say, to figure out your borders of open/closed source... If your code will run without the business software you're writing, then it's officially open source framework. It's it's "extra" and related to that business software, then that code is closed source. Just an idea. Good luck!
I'm not sure if SCO used that exact wording... However... if they did, and claimed that the AIX license is "perpetual and irrevocable"... since they claim to have revoked it... where does that leave them legally and isn't that kind of a win for IBM? Just thought I'd say something, if you have answers, I'd be interested in hearing them.
from the whip-lash-from-slashdot dept.
vaderhelmet writes "According to this server error on BadTux by the webserver, the constant loading of pages has a price. You get a 425 error- or more correctly, you cannot connect to the host. But, if you're a hard core geek you just might get your site more notice as it gets mirrored out onto sympathetic hosts. Also slashdotted in other locations."
"Too Many Users"
I thought they were all about monopolizing and gaining more users. Just goes to show you, just when you expect the worst from someone, they make a complete turnaround... I mean, A)an innovation, B)in security and C)they're even denying users.
Apparently hell is freezing over.
Having submitted the story, and being a Catholic... I think I'm qualified to say that I think this is all very cool. Sure, I believe that God created everything. That's not to say that I don't believe in evolution, in fact I think it's one of the most exciting fields of study. Genesis in the Bible claims that the world was created in 7 days. Then again, there's another book (and I don't remember which one) which says that there are only 144,000 spaces in heaven (a belief Jehovah's Witnesses stick too)
Most Catholics (including the Pope himself) don't read the Bible as the definitive guide to everything. It was written by simple-minded fools long ago, and they were expressing things in the way they understood them. With our advanced understanding of how things are now, it's easy to dismiss things like this as myths and such unless we take a look deeper into what it's all about, and understand that just because Catholics(and Christians of all kinds) rely on the Bible as a guiding work, as it details the history of our God . But not everyone thinks it's the final say, and not everyone memorizes it.
payphones and run it all yourself. Sure, for a several of them, you're gonna rack up a decent bill, but for where you work, it should be no sweat, and after the phone bill, it's all profit. Plus, you're doing the right thing.
ooooooooo looky! Some of them even come with a port for you to plug in your laptop. and some come with credit card readers to pay for calls. Options, options, options!!!!
Also try here, here, here and there's always some good old Googling!!! Good luck on your journey to payphone bliss.
put a bunch of holidays in a hat (twice, once for primary, and once for secondary) give each holiday a value (prim, secd) Christmas - 5,3 New Years - 5,3 4th July -5,3 Easter - 3,2 Thanksgiving - 3,2 Labor Day - 2,1 Memorial Day - 2,1 Presidents Day - 2,1 everyone draws one holiday Everyone must end up with at least 6 pts of holiday er something... This wouldn't solve the whole thing, but it would fix the holiday problems...
Here's another from CNN.com.
For them, they'd ideally be able to have the car transmit it's speed at any given time, or automatically alert when it's speeding. (Assuming say, the mapping software was crossed with something that would know how fast the speed limit is, where the car is) That way, they can still sit in the police station eating donuts, and catch all the speeders and more. Hell, they could even just sit there and have an automated process send you a ticket in the mail! Lousy wireless cops!
But I never realized that they had Macs too!
sorry... i felt it necessary
Here is a quote from an related article... " They struck up a deal to sell the fish, breeding them at the company's "genetic fish stock bank" in a Taipei suburb. They sterilize the fish, so they won't contaminate wild populations if they are somehow set free. Prof. Tsai says he has been able to sterilize about 90% of the fish, which he says is safe enough. "
Video on demand... does that mean when I want to watch a movie I simply turn it on... or You request a movie and MS streams it to my brand new MS-certified video-on-demand box which cost me $500 that I hook up to a TV and a broadband internet connection?
Either way, I'd say there is prior art... and if they win... I wonder who gets to provide that broadband connection? and for how much?
thoughts anyone?
Finally we are starting to see the bigger picture... The truth always comes out in things like this, and the righteous always come out on top. Yay for free software!
http://www.fundingfactory.com/ that's the recycle place... you should check it out!
When I came into high school in my freshman year, our school had just started a Tech Club... the kid who had got it all together was a dork-faced senior with a pocket protector and a Commodore 64. Yes, apparently it made he feel 1337 to tell everyone about how great it was as we built a website for the school on 500MhZ, Win98 computers... point is... once he graduated... I ended up taking over. We stopped being lame... we networked our computers, installed Quake on them, and started several sevice projects.
My advice is if you have a computer lab, find out who's in charge there... they'd be your best bet for a moderator, and if they aren't interested, you'll at least need there approval to use the lab for club activities.
For actvities, we've done things like, build computers from a bunch of parts laying around, then played around with all the diff OSes we could get our hands on...
We've volunteered at local elementarys by teaching little kids the basics of computers: how to customize and navigate the OS, opened up a computer and showed them what the parts are, how they work, what they do... and taught them how to surf the web...
We enrolled in a cell-phone and printer cartridge recycling service which gives you money/prizes for collecting so many cartidges
One of our biggest feats is that we brought in chicks... YES! I SAID CHICKS!!! At least where I come from, there are few women interested in using computers. It's mostly because they don't know how to. So we marketed the club as a "learning" club. The geeks like myself and the original members teach the new people the ropes about computers. They in turn have brought their friends into the club... We have about 25 members out of 600 people in our school. About 8 are women... and next year's enrollment proves to be even better!
So remember, it won't be big right away. But if you establish a good club, eventually it will catch on.
Lastly:
-Be creative with your ideas.
-Be persistantin getting the club together.
-Get friends/parents/teachers involved.
You'll have a great club in no time.
(BTW, I'm a senior now... today was our last meeting of Tech Club for the year... they voted for new officers and I sadly had to hand over the keys to the kingdom... but knowing that I helped get the club started, and hopefully it will be around for some time to come)
I hope that helps! Good Luck!
So far most wireless services have proven insecure... I understand that you have to be in line-of-sight... But if someone is looking to find your data, what's to stop them?
I can't remember most of the specifics. But we learned in Human Phys that a child's mind restructures itself to become ready for adult life. For the average human that restructuring starts at the age of 3. It can last into adolescence or later depending on how fast the person matures. I'm not certain if that has any effect on the whole thing... but it would correlate.
Yes, yes I do.
Could you imagine Mircrosoft buying out this technology and forcing the entire world to run Windows in their mind?!?!?! Didn't he say something along the lines of "Resistance is futile" at his last press conference? What happens when one person gets a BSoD? Will we all GPF in domino-like doom? Will we not be able to eat our pudding with our meat because the pudding doesn't have an MS-signed driver? All these questions and more will be answered on the next episode of... The Raging Psychotic Microsoft-Type Doom Show !
The password is moron.