Re:Tinker away with aftermarket parts if you dare
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This is a fair comment. I have also worked as a tech in several automotive dealerships, and people who tinker with their own vehicles often have no clue as to what they are really doing. They don't need aftermarket parts to screw things up either. It's interesting to note that the ones who do have a clue are the only ones that ever buy a factory standard workshop manual.
We often marked things like simple adjustment screws with a clear nail varnish to differentiate between the problem vehicles and the problem owners. If the varnish is broken and your car is 'still playing up, since you lot obviously didn't fix anything' we will be charging you for our time.
Even if there was only one person working on the codebase, it is open source. No one person/corporation/entity can effectively 'kill the code'. The code is free to live.
If your reaction is what we have reaped from that which we sowed, I sure hope we let you burn (instead of helping) should it ever happen again. Of course, we wouldn't do actually do that (refuse to help). Its not the Australian way.
To judge an entire country by the actions of its politicians is ridiculous.
No actually, its not rediculous. Might I remind you that America is a democracy. The entire world has every right to judge your entire country by the actions of those whom the American people voted into power.
Anonymous Coward indeed. That speaks volumes in and of itself.
Do you realize that your answer to the parent post does little more than strengthen the first point that the parent post made?
As to the remainder of your post, Linux and other open sourced software is steadily gaining momentum in many establishments in many countries outside of America. There is no need for a 'charge' as you put it. The current 'steady progression' will prevail quite nicely.
Slightly OT, but I sometimes wonder if Americans (USA) realize just how many people outside of their country look to America (USA) with a growing distaste. Oops, mod -1 unamerikan.
On christmas day, the game gets xmas music and an xmas theme...there are other easter eggs too.
This reminds me of Quake Team Fortress. On a certain day of the year, all the non-player entities, like grenades, ammo packs, sentries, etc, become gift-wrapped birthday present boxes. I think it was the mods 'birthday'.
So when and where exactly would they install the software for this.
Would they leave it up to the technicians (ha! salespeople) at each retail outlet? Or would they include it as part of the disk image installed at the factory where the software runs automatically on bootup?
My guess would be the second option.
This would however mean that *every* Gateway computer sold includes the required software, and the end users who buy from Gateway may well end up as part of a distributed computing project without their explicit permission. All it needs is some obscure legal mumbo in fine print and users have no recourse should they find out.
Given that this is the IEEE, it was somewhat disappointing to read the following.
Fortunately, most graphics processing had by then moved onto dedicated graphics cards, and CPU resources and memory--already increasing dramatically, thanks to Moore's law--were being freed up for computationally intensive and hitherto impractical tasks, such as better AI.
They make Moore's Law sound as if it is something more than just an observation.
Its not. Unless of course one considers the application to be innovative, rather than the underlying principles.
Rather than using a refigerator (which uses a pump) for an example, consider early automotive cooling systems. They didn't use water pumps to move the coolant around. They used simple convection to set up a flow from the engine to the radiator (pre-determined location to transfer heat to) and back again.
Surely thats prior art. Old idea, new application. How does one patent that?
Why do the Australians call Castlemaine "XXXX"?
Because they can't spell "beer".
Actually mate, nobody here drinks that shit. We export the lot. We name it "XXXX" because we don't know how to spell "cats piss" in any foreign languages.
They do not recommend that "the DOD drop plans for further adoption of Open Source software". They are saying that all software, regardless of the developement model, should have equal consideration if it meets the criteria for a specific purpose.
"Public entities should procure the software that best meets their needs and should avoid any categorical preferences for open source software, commercial software, free software, or other software development models."
The article itself is also misleading.
"Proprietary software companies such as Microsoft have labeled open-source software as a serious threat and have begun to oppose its use by governments."
Whilst we know this to be true re: Microsoft, the Initiative for Software Choice (whom the article discusses) expresses no such opposition.
I'm not a lawyer, but I'm no idiot either. Reading from the patent...
"This invention relates generally to manipulating data in a computer network, and specifically to retrieving, presenting and manipulating embedded program objects in distributed hypermedia systems."
You can find it at...
http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=P TO 1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm& r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='5838906'.WKU.&OS=PN/5838906&RS=PN/5838906
It's just more for less. A step in the right direction, but still somewhat disappointing.
What do I mean?
It's simple. $0.99 for each song. That's in American dollars so for me that comes to around $2.00 each. Add it up and I'm paying the same as I would if I purchased a new release at the local retailer. This is based on the fact that if I look through my CD collection, they average around $25 - $30 each (new release), with an average of 10-15 songs.
If it's an old release, I'm paying more.
At the same time, the pressing and distribution costs for the distributor have substantially decreased. So it adds up to more profits for their bottom line.
Will that in turn mean more money for the artist? Somehow, I doubt it.
Not having to pay for the album fillers is about the ONLY benefit here I can see. Thing is, for most of the music that I buy, I really don't find to many of them.
But today, it's Islam that's poisoning people's minds.
Islam is not poisoning peoples minds. People with poisoned minds use Islam as a vehicle to to propogate and justify their insanity. Thing is, if I look back in history, I could say that about many religions.
People have the right to practice their religion of choice without being intimidated by those who do not share the same faith, let alone persecuted for it. In my country, religous freedom is considered a basic right.
But instead of ignoring the source of a problem, a very real problem which is killing people every day, why not meet it head-on?
Good idea. While we're at it, lets tackle some other problems in the same manner.
How about all Catholics? Considering the number of documented cases of Catholic priests interfering with young children, this sounds reasonable to me. And since a lot of that has a direct relation to sodomy, why don't we just go after all the gay people out there as well, just to be on the safe side?
Oh, hang on. I just noticed your/. user info. My apologies for that. That last bit was definitely uncalled for.
Me shakes my head and cries. Why can't we all just get along? Live and let live. There is no other way.
Go ahead and mod me down. I will not post this anonymously. What I'd like to know is, who the fsck modded the parent as insightful? Fscking flamebait more like it.
How is the band being shrunk? How can it be shrunk to a single point yet still be wrapped around the apple? Why can't science types properly describe something in english? Science is about descriptions!
Consider the earth as the apple.
If we all stood on the equator holding hands to form a human chain (the rubber band), and we all walked (or swam) at 90 degrees to the equator (same direction, north or south), we will all end up at either the north or south poles.
The north or south poles represent the single point.
I am not advocating indiscriminate downloading without the artist's permission. Copyright protection is vital. But I do object to the industry spin that it is doing all this to protect artists. It is not protecting us; it is protecting itself.
I see a very common theme appearing these days.
Neither the artists nor the consumers want the RIAA and record companies to have the absurd power that they currently have (which they seek to strengthen and extend).
A/. poster said it best (can't remember who). It's not about destroying on-line distribution. It's about destroying the early competition so that the industry can move in afterwards and take it all for themselves.
Ok, now I'm confused.
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And remember kids: the more monitors you have, the larger your penis is!
Hi all. I'm an Australian. I know many people here who have purchased a Microsoft X-Box. Most of them did so as a result of the not-so-recent price drop.
I would just like to point out that Microsoft will not remove the X-Box (and games) from the Australian market. This is nothing but the usual FUD that many have come to expect (actually, it's synonymous with) from Ballmer, Gates, and Co.
The reason is simple. To do so would be a massive public relations nightmare for Microsoft in Australia. Sure, we are but a country of 20 million people. A drop in the proverbial population bucket, if you will. But the point still stands.
If Microsoft pulls the X-Box out of Australia, they can kiss-ass-goodbye to ever competing (on an even par) with the likes of Sony in the Australian market, ever again. There would also be a carry-on effect for their other products.
This is nothing but fear-mongering on the part of Microsoft.
It would be interesting to see buyer reactions to Ballmers comments, especially in the leadup to the Christmas buying period, if the mainstream press in Australia was to make his comments public knowledge to all.
All the dubious trading between students at my Uni is done via burners and CDR. No P2P in sight.
Of course, since certain organizations accept a cut from each blank sale, very few students appear to see anything wrong with it.
Which doesn't actually make it right. But then again, if we weren't using the blank media for such purposes, then those same organizations would be stealing from us, would they not?
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This is a fair comment. I have also worked as a tech in several automotive dealerships, and people who tinker with their own vehicles often have no clue as to what they are really doing. They don't need aftermarket parts to screw things up either. It's interesting to note that the ones who do have a clue are the only ones that ever buy a factory standard workshop manual.
We often marked things like simple adjustment screws with a clear nail varnish to differentiate between the problem vehicles and the problem owners. If the varnish is broken and your car is 'still playing up, since you lot obviously didn't fix anything' we will be charging you for our time.
...there is a sizeable team working on Chimera...
Even if there was only one person working on the codebase, it is open source. No one person/corporation/entity can effectively 'kill the code'. The code is free to live.
Thank you for your incredibly sensitive and insightful post.
Might I remind you that when parts of America recently went up in flames, Australian and New Zealand firefighters travelled half way across the globe to help.
If your reaction is what we have reaped from that which we sowed, I sure hope we let you burn (instead of helping) should it ever happen again. Of course, we wouldn't do actually do that (refuse to help). Its not the Australian way.
What have the Aboriginals (first Australians) done to deserve crap like this?
The same as the American Indians. Absolutely nothing.
To judge an entire country by the actions of its politicians is ridiculous.
No actually, its not rediculous. Might I remind you that America is a democracy. The entire world has every right to judge your entire country by the actions of those whom the American people voted into power.
Anonymous Coward indeed. That speaks volumes in and of itself.
No, they probably see thousands of UOs a day, and many of them are probably drifting, but what about flying ones?
To be flying, does it not need to be within an atmosphere? These ones don't appear to me to be flying.
Do you realize that your answer to the parent post does little more than strengthen the first point that the parent post made?
As to the remainder of your post, Linux and other open sourced software is steadily gaining momentum in many establishments in many countries outside of America. There is no need for a 'charge' as you put it. The current 'steady progression' will prevail quite nicely.
Slightly OT, but I sometimes wonder if Americans (USA) realize just how many people outside of their country look to America (USA) with a growing distaste. Oops, mod -1 unamerikan.
On christmas day, the game gets xmas music and an xmas theme...there are other easter eggs too.
This reminds me of Quake Team Fortress. On a certain day of the year, all the non-player entities, like grenades, ammo packs, sentries, etc, become gift-wrapped birthday present boxes. I think it was the mods 'birthday'.
So when and where exactly would they install the software for this.
Would they leave it up to the technicians (ha! salespeople) at each retail outlet? Or would they include it as part of the disk image installed at the factory where the software runs automatically on bootup?
My guess would be the second option.
This would however mean that *every* Gateway computer sold includes the required software, and the end users who buy from Gateway may well end up as part of a distributed computing project without their explicit permission. All it needs is some obscure legal mumbo in fine print and users have no recourse should they find out.
Given that this is the IEEE, it was somewhat disappointing to read the following.
Fortunately, most graphics processing had by then moved onto dedicated graphics cards, and CPU resources and memory--already increasing dramatically, thanks to Moore's law--were being freed up for computationally intensive and hitherto impractical tasks, such as better AI.
They make Moore's Law sound as if it is something more than just an observation.
How is this innovative?
Its not. Unless of course one considers the application to be innovative, rather than the underlying principles.
Rather than using a refigerator (which uses a pump) for an example, consider early automotive cooling systems. They didn't use water pumps to move the coolant around. They used simple convection to set up a flow from the engine to the radiator (pre-determined location to transfer heat to) and back again.
Surely thats prior art. Old idea, new application. How does one patent that?
Why do the Australians call Castlemaine "XXXX"? Because they can't spell "beer".
Actually mate, nobody here drinks that shit. We export the lot. We name it "XXXX" because we don't know how to spell "cats piss" in any foreign languages.
"you might as well have hammered your keyboard randomly for 10 minutes."
/. for long to realize that many people who post here do this anyway :)
One doesn't need to read
The lead-in is misleading.
They do not recommend that "the DOD drop plans for further adoption of Open Source software". They are saying that all software, regardless of the developement model, should have equal consideration if it meets the criteria for a specific purpose.
"Public entities should procure the software that best meets their needs and should avoid any categorical preferences for open source software, commercial software, free software, or other software development models."
The article itself is also misleading.
"Proprietary software companies such as Microsoft have labeled open-source software as a serious threat and have begun to oppose its use by governments."
Whilst we know this to be true re: Microsoft, the Initiative for Software Choice (whom the article discusses) expresses no such opposition.
"I'm sorry, but access to your life record has been suspended. Your yearly subscription to Micro$oft has not been paid. Have a nice day"
But, but, you can't lock me out of my life!!!
"I'm sorry Dave, I 'can' do that"
Europe Goes To Venus; Mars Comes to US; I bet Australia lands up with Pluto
Actually, down here on the 'arse end of the world' we're aiming for Uranus.
Relax, have a laugh. I'm Australian and proud of it.
I'm not a lawyer, but I'm no idiot either. Reading from the patent...
P TO 1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm& r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='5838906'.WKU.&OS=PN/5838906&RS=PN /5838906
"This invention relates generally to manipulating data in a computer network, and specifically to retrieving, presenting and manipulating embedded program objects in distributed hypermedia systems."
You can find it at...
http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=
A Navy ship could use the laser, with its beam traveling at the speed of light, to fend off even the fastest missiles.
Pity about those torpedoes though huh! Launched by enemy submarine/ship/plane/whatever.
A laser will be useless under water.
It's just more for less. A step in the right direction, but still somewhat disappointing.
What do I mean?
It's simple. $0.99 for each song. That's in American dollars so for me that comes to around $2.00 each. Add it up and I'm paying the same as I would if I purchased a new release at the local retailer. This is based on the fact that if I look through my CD collection, they average around $25 - $30 each (new release), with an average of 10-15 songs.
If it's an old release, I'm paying more.
At the same time, the pressing and distribution costs for the distributor have substantially decreased. So it adds up to more profits for their bottom line.
Will that in turn mean more money for the artist? Somehow, I doubt it.
Not having to pay for the album fillers is about the ONLY benefit here I can see. Thing is, for most of the music that I buy, I really don't find to many of them.
Am I being pessimistic?
But today, it's Islam that's poisoning people's minds.
/. user info. My apologies for that. That last bit was definitely uncalled for.
Islam is not poisoning peoples minds. People with poisoned minds use Islam as a vehicle to to propogate and justify their insanity. Thing is, if I look back in history, I could say that about many religions.
People have the right to practice their religion of choice without being intimidated by those who do not share the same faith, let alone persecuted for it. In my country, religous freedom is considered a basic right.
But instead of ignoring the source of a problem, a very real problem which is killing people every day, why not meet it head-on?
Good idea. While we're at it, lets tackle some other problems in the same manner.
How about all Catholics? Considering the number of documented cases of Catholic priests interfering with young children, this sounds reasonable to me. And since a lot of that has a direct relation to sodomy, why don't we just go after all the gay people out there as well, just to be on the safe side?
Oh, hang on. I just noticed your
Me shakes my head and cries. Why can't we all just get along? Live and let live. There is no other way.
Go ahead and mod me down. I will not post this anonymously. What I'd like to know is, who the fsck modded the parent as insightful? Fscking flamebait more like it.
How is the band being shrunk? How can it be shrunk to a single point yet still be wrapped around the apple? Why can't science types properly describe something in english? Science is about descriptions!
Consider the earth as the apple.
If we all stood on the equator holding hands to form a human chain (the rubber band), and we all walked (or swam) at 90 degrees to the equator (same direction, north or south), we will all end up at either the north or south poles.
The north or south poles represent the single point.
I am not advocating indiscriminate downloading without the artist's permission. Copyright protection is vital. But I do object to the industry spin that it is doing all this to protect artists. It is not protecting us; it is protecting itself.
/. poster said it best (can't remember who). It's not about destroying on-line distribution. It's about destroying the early competition so that the industry can move in afterwards and take it all for themselves.
I see a very common theme appearing these days.
Neither the artists nor the consumers want the RIAA and record companies to have the absurd power that they currently have (which they seek to strengthen and extend).
A
And remember kids: the more monitors you have, the larger your penis is!
[Looks up to see a single 15 inch]
[Looks down to see another 15 inches]
Yup. Now I'm confused.
Hi all. I'm an Australian. I know many people here who have purchased a Microsoft X-Box. Most of them did so as a result of the not-so-recent price drop.
I would just like to point out that Microsoft will not remove the X-Box (and games) from the Australian market. This is nothing but the usual FUD that many have come to expect (actually, it's synonymous with) from Ballmer, Gates, and Co.
The reason is simple. To do so would be a massive public relations nightmare for Microsoft in Australia. Sure, we are but a country of 20 million people. A drop in the proverbial population bucket, if you will. But the point still stands.
If Microsoft pulls the X-Box out of Australia, they can kiss-ass-goodbye to ever competing (on an even par) with the likes of Sony in the Australian market, ever again. There would also be a carry-on effect for their other products.
This is nothing but fear-mongering on the part of Microsoft.
It would be interesting to see buyer reactions to Ballmers comments, especially in the leadup to the Christmas buying period, if the mainstream press in Australia was to make his comments public knowledge to all.
All the dubious trading between students at my Uni is done via burners and CDR. No P2P in sight.
Of course, since certain organizations accept a cut from each blank sale, very few students appear to see anything wrong with it.
Which doesn't actually make it right. But then again, if we weren't using the blank media for such purposes, then those same organizations would be stealing from us, would they not?