When did MS force anyone to use JVM? If Sun didn't like it, why didn't they provide their own alternative virtual machine for Windows. Blaming your failure on MS's actions is getting old. First we complain that Windows sucks, yet we expect them to write a perfect Java VM. It's not their responsibility to insure you succeed, monopoly or not.
Wow. People in technology are working 8 hour days? I thought everyone put in extra time every week.
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Nice rational arguement, vkg. First of all, it was the supreme court, not Jeb Bush, that helped avoid a recount. The recount method proposed by Gore was unfair anyway (let's only recount votes in counties where I'll have a net gain.). Anyway, back to the point, I don't see any changes Bush is making the erode the 1st amendment. All I've seen is some updating of some wire tapping laws, and some questions about the status of al Queda prisoners. No one is trying to limit the press, or quashing protest, etc.
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Nice response Tosta Dojen. Glad to see there are still people around who are capable of rational thought.
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Patents and copyrights are designed to protect freedom, not limit it. Stealing someone's intellectual property is no better than stealing someones car, for instance. IP is something that a person creates through work and has value. Similarly, copyrighted material is created through work and has value. Just because it doesn't cost the owner any money for you to copy their work, doesn't mean you have the right to steal it, thereby profiting from another person's efforts without compensation. Of course, if you prefer anarchy, all laws can be abolished so you have the freedom to steal material goods as well. I prefer a society which protects individual rights, however, including the right to keep one's IP and copyrighted material safe from thieves.
If Apple writes a piece of code and provides a binary, no one has the right to reverse engineer it to use it for something other than intended. If, for example, Nvidia reverse-engineered ATIs drivers, and modified them to use in Nvidia cards, ATI would have the right to complain. if Apple intends iDVD to be used only with their drives, it shouldn't be modified for other drives without their consent. On a side note, this isn't surprising since Apple has a long history of doing whtever is necessary to protect their hardware monopoly since Steve Jobs came back.
At risk of being modded down further, my score on the previous post shows yet more evidence of how badly the moderation system on slashdot works. The people who started the site reward people for opinions like there's. They in turn become moderators who also reward similar opinion and penalize dissenting opinions. So, instead of objective moderation based on the merit of the comment, the mod value really indicates how close your comment is to being/. politically correct.
Since when is it illegal to keep a database of peoples names as opposed to a video record of what they look like. You're putting unreasonable restrictions on the police force by not allowing them to collect data that is public in nature. Is that clear enough for you?
By your arguement, you couldn't connect your computer to the internet at all. Any program could inadvertantly look at data and send it anywhere. Unless you have hard evidence that MS is sending your data to Redmond, I don't think you have any real compliance issue. Doesn't anyone have anything more interesting to post than MS paranoia comments? Just take your meds, people, and get on with life.
Regulation is not the answer. Look at the CA power crisis. It occurred because government regulation caused there to be no real profit in CA energy. Therefore, there was no incentive to build new power plants, even though the increase in demand was obvious. Now, only after threat of blackouts and therefore loss of re-election by govt. officials, is anyone doing anything about the power crisis in CA.
If you allow broadband to be regulated, you will have a similar situation. The network will become so overused due to lack of incentive for upgrades, that the effective bandwidth users will get will decrease instead of increasing over time. We'll start seeing commercials to conserve bandwidth by not using your computer during peak hours.
The solution is to allow competing companies to lay their own redundant phone lines and cable. This will allow real competition. Deregulation of long distance has been successfull when more than one company has its own network. We just need to fix the "last mile" problem in the same manner.
Everyone knew the mp3 format was patented. That's the risk you take if you use someone elses patented technology. They have the right to change their policy regarding the patent at will. Why shouldn't they? It's their IP. Netscape used a similar tactic to make their browser popular. They gave it away for free, and then started charging a licensing fee when it became popular. M$ came along and killed that policy. OGG will probably do the same to mp3
Your seem to be arguing that police officers should not be able to keep any sort of records of investigation. Next will you take away their pens and notebooks so they can't write down license plate numbers or descriptions of things they see?
A security camera records the same type of information as described in the databases in the article. The information simply hasn't been processed yet. Therefore, you're also advocating no security camera in public places, such as street corners, parks, etc. This isn't quite the same as a bank security camera, but that the next step in the chain of things you'd want eliminated.
Anyway, I understand there's controversy regarding whether camera in public places should be allowed. You appear to be against this. I personally don't see a privacy issue if the camera is in a public place. No where in the law are you guaranteed the right to pricvacy from prying eyes while in a public, that I am aware of. Anyone has the right, including private investigators, police officers, and private citizens, to keep records of who's hanging out on their street corners. So if I kept a database of who was hanging out outside my house, would you say I was violating their privacy rights?
If you total up all the PowerPCs in IBM and other servers, Im sure it's far less than the number in Macs. As far as embedded aplications I have no idea what it would be used in. I have nothing against the PowerPC incidently. It's a well designed chip. Unfortunately, x86 had already become too prevalent in the market, and compatibility is everything in that market.
Reconfigurability is nice for DSP type applications. However, FPGAs are not practical for use as general purpose microprocessors. The clock rates would be so much slower that any specialized instructions would have a difficult time compensating for the lower clock rate. Also, I doubt the OS would be very secure if a program could alter the way the CPU functioned.
I've designed ASIC chips. You DO need million dollar tools. All you can prove in an FPGA is that it is functional. To actually design a large scale microprocessor using a reasonable number of man-hours, you need sophisticated CAD tools to do simulation, place and route, parasitic extraction, timing verification, etc. Plus there are analog issues like designing the clock PLL and the clock tree, IO pads, etc. Any synchronous system designed in an FPGA will be at least an order of magnitude slower than a custom asic. No way it'd be competitive for any software
As far as I can tell, no one in this so called database has been even accused of anything. Sounds like they're simply collecting information for some sort of a police investigation. So police aren't allowed to investigate anymore? These people were loitering in a PUBLIC place. A security camera could collect the same info. You want to make that illegal too?
So you're saying we should get rid of all surveilance equipment in banks, stores, etc. Over 99% of the people captured on this equipment are certainly not uspects of any sort. By your line of reasoning, this is just as bad as a policeman recording images of people loitering on a street corner. No one's saying they're guilty of anything. But it makes an investgation easier when you have actual leads to follow when crimes are being committed, which is presumable what is causing the police to investgate the area.
You believe everything you read in print? It sounds like from the few actual facts in the article that the police were maintaining surveilance for drug dealers in a crime ridden neighborhood. They were taking pictures of people loitering around and keeping track of them. That doesn't mean the poeple have done anything wrong, any more than when an ATM machine records you while you withdraw money. If there is racial profiling involved, that would be a problem, but it may just have been a predominantly black neighborhood to begin with. Sounds like the reporter is trying to stir up racial prejudice where it probably doesn't exist. My point is that people should write more objective articles with actual facts if they want to consider themselves respectable journalists.
You believe everything you read? How do you know what's really happening? I read the article. It's definitely biased. Sounded like what was really going on was that police were looking for drug dealers in a crime ridden neighborhood, and taking pictures of loiterers. Last I heard, that wasn't a crime to take pictures of people in a public place.
I'd advise not calling people retards offhand. You may find that you yourself are the real retard.
Yeah, and while we're at it, lets have the state decide what jobs we'll do and what clothes we'll wear and what thoughts we'll think. At least with capitalism, people get to vote with their dollars.
MacOS 9, although having a nice interface, was seriously lacking in features that all modern OSs should have. For instance, no real memory management (you had to specify how much memory a program could use), No memory protection (programs could write anywhere in the memory space), no pre-emptive multitasking (OS relied on programs to be kind with resources, etc. On MacOS X, all these problems have been solved, producing a much superior OS.
So now it's not politically correct for the police to keep databases on possible criminal activity they're investigating? That's ridiculous.
It's not like they're arresting these people. They're just keeping an eye on suspected drug dealers. How the hell are police supposed to do they're job if they're not allowed to keep investigative records. It's not like the records are public.
Apple hardware is proprietary, in the sense that only Apple can produce a Macintosh. They choose which hardware is allowed in the machine, and do not support any other hardware. In fact, they killed a number of clone companies awhile ago after Steve Jobs concluded that Apple would make more money as a monopoly.
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When did MS force anyone to use JVM? If Sun didn't like it, why didn't they provide their own alternative virtual machine for Windows. Blaming your failure on MS's actions is getting old. First we complain that Windows sucks, yet we expect them to write a perfect Java VM. It's not their responsibility to insure you succeed, monopoly or not.
Wow. People in technology are working 8 hour days? I thought everyone put in extra time every week.
Nice rational arguement, vkg. First of all, it was the supreme court, not Jeb Bush, that helped avoid a recount. The recount method proposed by Gore was unfair anyway (let's only recount votes in counties where I'll have a net gain.). Anyway, back to the point, I don't see any changes Bush is making the erode the 1st amendment. All I've seen is some updating of some wire tapping laws, and some questions about the status of al Queda prisoners. No one is trying to limit the press, or quashing protest, etc.
Nice response Tosta Dojen. Glad to see there are still people around who are capable of rational thought.
Patents and copyrights are designed to protect freedom, not limit it. Stealing someone's intellectual property is no better than stealing someones car, for instance. IP is something that a person creates through work and has value. Similarly, copyrighted material is created through work and has value. Just because it doesn't cost the owner any money for you to copy their work, doesn't mean you have the right to steal it, thereby profiting from another person's efforts without compensation. Of course, if you prefer anarchy, all laws can be abolished so you have the freedom to steal material goods as well. I prefer a society which protects individual rights, however, including the right to keep one's IP and copyrighted material safe from thieves.
If Apple writes a piece of code and provides a binary, no one has the right to reverse engineer it to use it for something other than intended. If, for example, Nvidia reverse-engineered ATIs drivers, and modified them to use in Nvidia cards, ATI would have the right to complain. if Apple intends iDVD to be used only with their drives, it shouldn't be modified for other drives without their consent. On a side note, this isn't surprising since Apple has a long history of doing whtever is necessary to protect their hardware monopoly since Steve Jobs came back.
At risk of being modded down further, my score on the previous post shows yet more evidence of how badly the moderation system on slashdot works. The people who started the site reward people for opinions like there's. They in turn become moderators who also reward similar opinion and penalize dissenting opinions. So, instead of objective moderation based on the merit of the comment, the mod value really indicates how close your comment is to being /. politically correct.
Since when is it illegal to keep a database of peoples names as opposed to a video record of what they look like. You're putting unreasonable restrictions on the police force by not allowing them to collect data that is public in nature. Is that clear enough for you?
By your arguement, you couldn't connect your computer to the internet at all. Any program could inadvertantly look at data and send it anywhere. Unless you have hard evidence that MS is sending your data to Redmond, I don't think you have any real compliance issue. Doesn't anyone have anything more interesting to post than MS paranoia comments? Just take your meds, people, and get on with life.
Regulation is not the answer. Look at the CA power crisis. It occurred because government regulation caused there to be no real profit in CA energy. Therefore, there was no incentive to build new power plants, even though the increase in demand was obvious. Now, only after threat of blackouts and therefore loss of re-election by govt. officials, is anyone doing anything about the power crisis in CA. If you allow broadband to be regulated, you will have a similar situation. The network will become so overused due to lack of incentive for upgrades, that the effective bandwidth users will get will decrease instead of increasing over time. We'll start seeing commercials to conserve bandwidth by not using your computer during peak hours. The solution is to allow competing companies to lay their own redundant phone lines and cable. This will allow real competition. Deregulation of long distance has been successfull when more than one company has its own network. We just need to fix the "last mile" problem in the same manner.
Everyone knew the mp3 format was patented. That's the risk you take if you use someone elses patented technology. They have the right to change their policy regarding the patent at will. Why shouldn't they? It's their IP. Netscape used a similar tactic to make their browser popular. They gave it away for free, and then started charging a licensing fee when it became popular. M$ came along and killed that policy. OGG will probably do the same to mp3
M$ will probably still support mp3 in their player, so be prepared to pay an extra $0.75 for Windows.
Your seem to be arguing that police officers should not be able to keep any sort of records of investigation. Next will you take away their pens and notebooks so they can't write down license plate numbers or descriptions of things they see? A security camera records the same type of information as described in the databases in the article. The information simply hasn't been processed yet. Therefore, you're also advocating no security camera in public places, such as street corners, parks, etc. This isn't quite the same as a bank security camera, but that the next step in the chain of things you'd want eliminated. Anyway, I understand there's controversy regarding whether camera in public places should be allowed. You appear to be against this. I personally don't see a privacy issue if the camera is in a public place. No where in the law are you guaranteed the right to pricvacy from prying eyes while in a public, that I am aware of. Anyone has the right, including private investigators, police officers, and private citizens, to keep records of who's hanging out on their street corners. So if I kept a database of who was hanging out outside my house, would you say I was violating their privacy rights?
Oh no, the Linux community is turning on itself! This must be a Microsoft plot to divide and conquer the Linux community!
If you total up all the PowerPCs in IBM and other servers, Im sure it's far less than the number in Macs. As far as embedded aplications I have no idea what it would be used in. I have nothing against the PowerPC incidently. It's a well designed chip. Unfortunately, x86 had already become too prevalent in the market, and compatibility is everything in that market.
Reconfigurability is nice for DSP type applications. However, FPGAs are not practical for use as general purpose microprocessors. The clock rates would be so much slower that any specialized instructions would have a difficult time compensating for the lower clock rate. Also, I doubt the OS would be very secure if a program could alter the way the CPU functioned.
I've designed ASIC chips. You DO need million dollar tools. All you can prove in an FPGA is that it is functional. To actually design a large scale microprocessor using a reasonable number of man-hours, you need sophisticated CAD tools to do simulation, place and route, parasitic extraction, timing verification, etc. Plus there are analog issues like designing the clock PLL and the clock tree, IO pads, etc. Any synchronous system designed in an FPGA will be at least an order of magnitude slower than a custom asic. No way it'd be competitive for any software
As far as I can tell, no one in this so called database has been even accused of anything. Sounds like they're simply collecting information for some sort of a police investigation. So police aren't allowed to investigate anymore? These people were loitering in a PUBLIC place. A security camera could collect the same info. You want to make that illegal too?
So you're saying we should get rid of all surveilance equipment in banks, stores, etc. Over 99% of the people captured on this equipment are certainly not uspects of any sort. By your line of reasoning, this is just as bad as a policeman recording images of people loitering on a street corner. No one's saying they're guilty of anything. But it makes an investgation easier when you have actual leads to follow when crimes are being committed, which is presumable what is causing the police to investgate the area.
You believe everything you read in print? It sounds like from the few actual facts in the article that the police were maintaining surveilance for drug dealers in a crime ridden neighborhood. They were taking pictures of people loitering around and keeping track of them. That doesn't mean the poeple have done anything wrong, any more than when an ATM machine records you while you withdraw money. If there is racial profiling involved, that would be a problem, but it may just have been a predominantly black neighborhood to begin with. Sounds like the reporter is trying to stir up racial prejudice where it probably doesn't exist. My point is that people should write more objective articles with actual facts if they want to consider themselves respectable journalists.
You believe everything you read? How do you know what's really happening? I read the article. It's definitely biased. Sounded like what was really going on was that police were looking for drug dealers in a crime ridden neighborhood, and taking pictures of loiterers. Last I heard, that wasn't a crime to take pictures of people in a public place. I'd advise not calling people retards offhand. You may find that you yourself are the real retard.
Yeah, and while we're at it, lets have the state decide what jobs we'll do and what clothes we'll wear and what thoughts we'll think. At least with capitalism, people get to vote with their dollars.
MacOS 9, although having a nice interface, was seriously lacking in features that all modern OSs should have. For instance, no real memory management (you had to specify how much memory a program could use), No memory protection (programs could write anywhere in the memory space), no pre-emptive multitasking (OS relied on programs to be kind with resources, etc. On MacOS X, all these problems have been solved, producing a much superior OS.
So now it's not politically correct for the police to keep databases on possible criminal activity they're investigating? That's ridiculous. It's not like they're arresting these people. They're just keeping an eye on suspected drug dealers. How the hell are police supposed to do they're job if they're not allowed to keep investigative records. It's not like the records are public.
Apple hardware is proprietary, in the sense that only Apple can produce a Macintosh. They choose which hardware is allowed in the machine, and do not support any other hardware. In fact, they killed a number of clone companies awhile ago after Steve Jobs concluded that Apple would make more money as a monopoly.