"multifunction, credit card-sized computer that allows users to securely store a multitude of account numbers, PIN codes, access information and other data from multiple credit cards, check cards, identification cards and similar personal documents"
Well, maybe we should pay a fee for buying a notebook (the paper one!). After all, aren't paper and pen a computer too?:)
While I disagree with BSD license, where one can get what wants without give anything back, I agree that *BSD (specialy, in my opinion, OpenBSD and FreeBSD) is a hell of a good product.
I think the problem is pure marketing and atitude. GNU/Linux was able to get a little media attention some time ago, maybe because the kernel was created by a single man from an exotic and cold place, I don't know and that started the snowball. The more people talk about it the more other people talk and so on.
About the atitude part, maybe I'm wrong but most of BSDers I found are proud about been "counter-culture". One actualy told me that linux was "sold out" to the Big Corps.
Maybe that's the problem.
I once worked for a company where we had daily yoga sessions every morning. I noticed I had my balance and concentration enhanced after some time but in time the classes became boring (mostly because the teacher was not good at motivate us, I believe) and most of the employees fled out. Soon the number of people attending the classes became too low to justify keeping the teacher so the program was canceled.
Sometimes people think of developing countries as behind the developed ones in everything and it's just not true.
For instance: here, in Brazil, we have the best technology in oil (petroleum) exploration in deep sea waters.
Our program for use cane sugar alcohol as fuel instead of gas in very efective technologicaly. There was a *lot* of pressure to shutdown this project by oil companies and actualy was almost supressed the last 10 years but there's projects to bring it back.
I have an old friend (and linux fan, like lot's of people there) working there at the development and, despite it's just talk among the employees he told me:
1) MS is very, very aware of free software in general and gnu/linux specialy as a treat, probably the biggest they ever faced.
2) Despite the aparences (see Balmer's shows), they are very smart people and they have labs running all there is under the sun and even real internal applications running on several different platforms for evaluation on real life situaions. The upper managemment knows everything about it.
3) This is pure speculation. He thinks they will continue the FUD trying to slow down teh free software movement and at the same time, trying to bring in the best ideias to compete technologicaly.
So, in my mind, this interview is just what was told here already: pure PR.
...than stop buying records! Ok, it's quite a hard thing to do, I'm a music lover myself but while we're only complaining, they're still stuffing their pockets. We need to atack where really hurts. Sure, they will blame the P2P programs but hey, they are already doing it anyway...
My question is: how all this can be proved?
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Let's imagine SCO goes ahead and get this whole thing to the court. How can they prove their allegations? Code is only text. It can be created, copied and modified without any efort. Who can tell if they don't "created" the infringiments copying from linux code into the SCO code replacing their own code by equivalent linux code?
Type memos or use spreadsheets to calculate interest rates just for fun?:)
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Because it's safer? And a free country? Friendly people?
Yes, we had very tought times as everybody else but we're going up while some "bigs" are all the way down, with people are loosing their rights in favor of "safety".
Sorry fellows, I don't want this to become a troll, but that's the way I feel.
We don't have it here. And we're a quite big...
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This place is Brazil. We don't have tornados, hurricanes, earthquakes, blizards are *very* rare, floodings happens sometimes in some places but are quite rare too and not too severe and mostly due to abnormal wheater fenomena as the "El Niño".
I'm not 100% sure but I believe our surrounding countries have the same lack of wheather disasters.
This makes me ask myself sometimes why people lives in such places, have to been aware of tornados, for instance. Don't get me wrong, I understand what is been attached to where you were born but it's a life threat of huge proportions we're talking about.
Linux just planly works!
And not just Linux: *bsd, nixes in general. You can rely on them.
Is this is not something to count on a business, I don't know what it is.
Here in Brazil we've been using them for more them 10 years AFAIR and in 100% of our territory (which it's quite big and *very* hard to reach in some places).
The secret is there is no secrets.
1) Despite the source for the application is not open to everyone, any political party (we have dozens of them) can have their own experts auditing the code.
2) Some machines print the vote so the citizen can have a copy.
3) A random % of the all machines are audited by an independent group.
This way we can have precise and fast results. Actualy I can monitor the results on-line on my linux PC, thanks to a java application one can download for free.
I believe it works. We just elected a left-wing president, personal friend of Fidel Castro;)
I really feel sorry for you guys. On the seventies, early eighties, we (I'm Brazilian) lived had a military government, really a dictatorship with fragrant violations of civil rights on daily basis. Thank God, we're free and live a full democracy. Lots to do on the social side yet, but I believe we can make it. You take care or you'll go the same path we took.
Adilson.
I just sent an email with a business proposal about ltsp servers and communications over a lan and one of the itens was...yep, gnomeeting.
Now I know what cold sweat is:)
Adilson.
Here in Brazil we hava a specific (and quite big) group of laws regarding work relations. By those laws, the employer only can do researches directly related to the normal hiring process such as check on your diplomas, etc. From your former employers all they can ask is if you really worked for them the way you told you did. Nothing eles is allowed as talking to an ex-colegue or such.
Many companies some times break those rules but they can be sued for it and the penalties are quite hard.
As the UFO sightings, many of the crop circles can be explained beeing a clever hoax but there's some that can't be explained by just bending the crops with something mechanical as a wood board or a piece of rope.
Take a look at a serious study on the subject and it will give you one thing or two to think about it.
Hi!
You *really* need a serious anime revamp. There's a lot of series and movies with nothing to remember speed racer (btw, I like it). Just to name a few: evangelion, ghost in the shell, metropolis (ok, the characters are "retro"), bouble gun crisis, spirited away, princess mononoke, perfect blue, and the list goes on...
[]s
Adilson.
Here in Brazil, there are several brazilian and multi-national banks going to linux all they way.
The Banestado (a state bank) changed all the ATMs from DOS to Linux.
HSBC is using it on several layers of the organization.
There's more comming but AFIAK it's not public information yet.
Besides, I'm quite convinced there's a few others who already switched but don't tell anyone as a way to keep their internal process secret or just because they think some clients might feel unconfortable to have their accounts managed by a "hacker's OS". Well, whatever;)
Adilson.
Dear Mr. Shatner
As Kirk, you used gadgets and technologies as communicators, tricorders, teletransport, warp drive, etc. We're far(?) from teleportation and faster-than-light travel but today we *do* have stuff like the communicators and tricorders.
At that time, do you feel you will really see something of that technology on real life?
We do have in Brazil a police force specialized on internet crimes but sisnce the majority of the attack victims are off-shore, it's kind difficult to track down the crackers.
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I paid the SCO Linux License
I'm a SCOX-Sucker! THAT whould do a *hell* of a T-ShirtHey I was kidding! You know what it is don't you? BTW, what about hand writting signature as an authentication system? :)
"multifunction, credit card-sized computer that allows users to securely store a multitude of account numbers, PIN codes, access information and other data from multiple credit cards, check cards, identification cards and similar personal documents" Well, maybe we should pay a fee for buying a notebook (the paper one!). After all, aren't paper and pen a computer too? :)
While I disagree with BSD license, where one can get what wants without give anything back, I agree that *BSD (specialy, in my opinion, OpenBSD and FreeBSD) is a hell of a good product. I think the problem is pure marketing and atitude. GNU/Linux was able to get a little media attention some time ago, maybe because the kernel was created by a single man from an exotic and cold place, I don't know and that started the snowball. The more people talk about it the more other people talk and so on. About the atitude part, maybe I'm wrong but most of BSDers I found are proud about been "counter-culture". One actualy told me that linux was "sold out" to the Big Corps. Maybe that's the problem.
I once worked for a company where we had daily yoga sessions every morning. I noticed I had my balance and concentration enhanced after some time but in time the classes became boring (mostly because the teacher was not good at motivate us, I believe) and most of the employees fled out. Soon the number of people attending the classes became too low to justify keeping the teacher so the program was canceled.
Sometimes people think of developing countries as behind the developed ones in everything and it's just not true. For instance: here, in Brazil, we have the best technology in oil (petroleum) exploration in deep sea waters. Our program for use cane sugar alcohol as fuel instead of gas in very efective technologicaly. There was a *lot* of pressure to shutdown this project by oil companies and actualy was almost supressed the last 10 years but there's projects to bring it back.
Maybe it's not difficult: Linus' wife, Tove, *is* a martial arts expert (Finland's karate champion, IIRC).
I have an old friend (and linux fan, like lot's of people there) working there at the development and, despite it's just talk among the employees he told me: 1) MS is very, very aware of free software in general and gnu/linux specialy as a treat, probably the biggest they ever faced. 2) Despite the aparences (see Balmer's shows), they are very smart people and they have labs running all there is under the sun and even real internal applications running on several different platforms for evaluation on real life situaions. The upper managemment knows everything about it. 3) This is pure speculation. He thinks they will continue the FUD trying to slow down teh free software movement and at the same time, trying to bring in the best ideias to compete technologicaly. So, in my mind, this interview is just what was told here already: pure PR.
...than stop buying records! Ok, it's quite a hard thing to do, I'm a music lover myself but while we're only complaining, they're still stuffing their pockets. We need to atack where really hurts. Sure, they will blame the P2P programs but hey, they are already doing it anyway...
Let's imagine SCO goes ahead and get this whole thing to the court. How can they prove their allegations? Code is only text. It can be created, copied and modified without any efort. Who can tell if they don't "created" the infringiments copying from linux code into the SCO code replacing their own code by equivalent linux code?
Type memos or use spreadsheets to calculate interest rates just for fun? :)
Because it's safer? And a free country? Friendly people? Yes, we had very tought times as everybody else but we're going up while some "bigs" are all the way down, with people are loosing their rights in favor of "safety". Sorry fellows, I don't want this to become a troll, but that's the way I feel.
This place is Brazil. We don't have tornados, hurricanes, earthquakes, blizards are *very* rare, floodings happens sometimes in some places but are quite rare too and not too severe and mostly due to abnormal wheater fenomena as the "El Niño". I'm not 100% sure but I believe our surrounding countries have the same lack of wheather disasters. This makes me ask myself sometimes why people lives in such places, have to been aware of tornados, for instance. Don't get me wrong, I understand what is been attached to where you were born but it's a life threat of huge proportions we're talking about.
Dogs can sniff skin cancer as melanomas.
Linux just planly works! And not just Linux: *bsd, nixes in general. You can rely on them. Is this is not something to count on a business, I don't know what it is.
Here in Brazil we've been using them for more them 10 years AFAIR and in 100% of our territory (which it's quite big and *very* hard to reach in some places). The secret is there is no secrets. 1) Despite the source for the application is not open to everyone, any political party (we have dozens of them) can have their own experts auditing the code. 2) Some machines print the vote so the citizen can have a copy. 3) A random % of the all machines are audited by an independent group. This way we can have precise and fast results. Actualy I can monitor the results on-line on my linux PC, thanks to a java application one can download for free. I believe it works. We just elected a left-wing president, personal friend of Fidel Castro ;)
I really feel sorry for you guys. On the seventies, early eighties, we (I'm Brazilian) lived had a military government, really a dictatorship with fragrant violations of civil rights on daily basis. Thank God, we're free and live a full democracy. Lots to do on the social side yet, but I believe we can make it. You take care or you'll go the same path we took. Adilson.
I just sent an email with a business proposal about ltsp servers and communications over a lan and one of the itens was...yep, gnomeeting. Now I know what cold sweat is :)
Adilson.
Here in Brazil we hava a specific (and quite big) group of laws regarding work relations. By those laws, the employer only can do researches directly related to the normal hiring process such as check on your diplomas, etc. From your former employers all they can ask is if you really worked for them the way you told you did. Nothing eles is allowed as talking to an ex-colegue or such. Many companies some times break those rules but they can be sued for it and the penalties are quite hard.
As the UFO sightings, many of the crop circles can be explained beeing a clever hoax but there's some that can't be explained by just bending the crops with something mechanical as a wood board or a piece of rope. Take a look at a serious study on the subject and it will give you one thing or two to think about it.
Hi! You *really* need a serious anime revamp. There's a lot of series and movies with nothing to remember speed racer (btw, I like it). Just to name a few: evangelion, ghost in the shell, metropolis (ok, the characters are "retro"), bouble gun crisis, spirited away, princess mononoke, perfect blue, and the list goes on... []s Adilson.
Gandalf lives. :)
Here in Brazil, there are several brazilian and multi-national banks going to linux all they way. The Banestado (a state bank) changed all the ATMs from DOS to Linux. HSBC is using it on several layers of the organization. There's more comming but AFIAK it's not public information yet. Besides, I'm quite convinced there's a few others who already switched but don't tell anyone as a way to keep their internal process secret or just because they think some clients might feel unconfortable to have their accounts managed by a "hacker's OS". Well, whatever ;)
Adilson.
Dear Mr. Shatner As Kirk, you used gadgets and technologies as communicators, tricorders, teletransport, warp drive, etc. We're far(?) from teleportation and faster-than-light travel but today we *do* have stuff like the communicators and tricorders. At that time, do you feel you will really see something of that technology on real life?
We do have in Brazil a police force specialized on internet crimes but sisnce the majority of the attack victims are off-shore, it's kind difficult to track down the crackers.