So what they're saying is that an advance in technology that no one anticipated as selling to the extent that it has. relying on technology that was yet to be invented got funded by the government. and they are using this technology on the grounds that everyone has it. even though the majority of the components are manufactured in other countries.
Don't you think some other country would have squealed yet? Were they paying the Russian government throughout the 80's not to tell people that they'd implanted spying devices in everyone's computers? I think we should be told.
Apart from that. If this is true. do they fancy funding my interdimensional periscope. which will allow them to look up from the floor of any office building in the world? I'll let them fund me for the minor ammount of $500 million but theres a chance this groundbreaking technology may not work......
One of the main Ideas I though behind the Linux community was that we widened the ownership of the OS out to a larger group of people. If we want to build the best OS possible then we really have to offer a simplified install for those who are at the border of choosing to follow our path. We have said in the past that the closed source model is in effect an evolutionary dead end in the software design process. But by limiting ourselves to a small group we are causing ourselves the same problems in the future.
To quote Robert Heinlein Specialisation's for Insects
Why encrypt a display unless you work on nukes?Well just about any industry has competition. Apart from that, digital TV allows them to cram more channels into less bandwidth, with the effect that the regulators can sell more bandwidth to mobile phone companies.
Thank god for the sale of goods act and the high court in the UK. A couple of years ago the high court came to the conclusion that this sort of act would be illegal as it goes against the already established principles of fair trade. So if something like this act was bought up here the software companies would be most wary of taking it to court.
In my opinion the best approach to fighting this type of act in the US would be to let them enact the powers contained in the act. the moment they take the first individuals software off their computer. or wreck the first persons business. then they have instantly provided the open source movement with a billion dollars of free tv advertising. all we have to do is let the news media in on the event and whatever large software company tries it gets ripped apart. you shut down a business and straight away youre facing a pile of angry voters who'll yell for repeal and the destruction of the copyright system for software. Whatever happens we win
It's not that I'm particularly worried about the current government in the UK. But say some group of nutters got voted in. what then? In this country, much as in the US we have a history of governments not wanting to be seen as being 'soft on crime' so once a law gets on the books it becomes very difficult to get it removed. I'm not saying that the current government are a dictatorship, it just seems somewhat stupid to lay in the tools for creating a damn good dictatorship ready for the first one that comes along. If they manage to bring this law in I'll tell you for nothing, they are not having my keys for anything. not now, not ever. If they wish to send me to prison, so be it. Sooner or later the law courts will say they've infringed upon my human rights, and i'll be out again.
It all depends on wether you see the future of linux as beeing a wide user base or on smug superiority At some point the system has to cross over and becom mainstream. and that means selling it to people who dont spend all their time hacking directory structures and kernel files. we can all sit around and say how much better our system is than theirs. but unless it's sold pre-installed so the man in the street can play with it and sees that it works before he inevitably makes it fall over he'll always take the easy option of installing microsoft's product. We can shout about how good our product is as much as we like but without someone selling pre-installs we'll never get the home market.
if we look at it the single bigest influence on the last century has got to have been printing. with the introduction of mass education at the turn of the last century books went from being minor things to being the major information transfer tool of the century. They influenced the take up of science and politics. and we can even see that the second world war might not have happened without the printed word. In relation to that the computer is only a minor detail. its mass use has only really taken part over the last 10 to 20% of the century.
Well you install it on records virtually no one is going to play and hear so they don't complain.
Then you release it on someone more popular's records.
Then when people complain you say that as you have released records before on this standard. then your ncrypted records are in fact the standard format and the CD players that everyone has are in fact the non compliant devices even though it is your CD's that are non compliant.
then not only do you have encrypted music, but you own the encryption system and no Independant artists can distribute music without going through the record companies.
In the Closed source model the figures work out like this
At time of coding one error per ten lines of code after the coders initial debug this decreases by a factor of ten. After initial QA work this goes down by a further factor of ten. With beta testing this goes down by a further factor of Ten.
so all in all there should be roughly one error per ten thousand lines of code in production code.
Beyond this level it is not considered cost efective to make any further checks. It is also considered that any extra rounds through the checking process both makes the software increasingly out of date, and pushes up its market price. the calculations lead to the idea of Win 98 having 6000 errors. this is only a rough estimate, no one knows how many there actually are. (if microsoft new what they were they would have taken them out.)
With Open source having a much improved fault finding and repair model (cost of bugfixes isn't a consideration) it seems to me that it might be possible that the perfect piece of software could be written. but for now it should probably be considered as just having another factor of ten in bug reduction.
Actually I remember feeling like this myself in this sort of situation. The rootes of my feeling like this were several years spent at boarding school. each week I had to provide a letter to prove to the staff that I was keeping in touch with my family. The result of this however Is that I have an Intense dislike for people reading my Mail. (this is the reason that Jack straw will be getting my encryption keys sometime a few millenia after hell freezes over.
with Women however I have learned over several painfull experiences not to put myself in a position where the situation above is happening. people can take the fact that you don't like people looking through your mail as evidence that you have something to hide. this can cause extreme stress in a relationship.
All I can say Is learn from this and dont let yourself be in this position again.
Well you can imagine that if you start looking for evidence, you're bound to come up with something soundsrather like if she did manage to look then there was something to find.
My personal feeling is that the best approach would be going through restraint of trade, as they are forcing us to use whatever software they want for us to use their product. and maybee going to the WTO next time they have a meeting saying that this is restraining our ability to trade internationally.
on top of this the have a thing called positive vetting where they send people round to interview friends family and associates to make sure that you weren't lying, someone I know who had this happen because a member of his family was getting one of these jobs said that it was one of the most intimidating experiences that he'd ever had in his entire life.
The Ideas in the film aren't new to philosophy. surely we would be better off asking if the film makers paid anything to the estates of Descartes, Heidegger,&c. or does this fall under artisitic licence?
Iremeber going to see it and thinking wow they've made a film of my mental breakdown, it's taken 5 years but they included the cat, and made it less paranoid.
in The UK the Law lords decided a few years ago that many of the terms in software licences were in fact Illegal. before this the software coumpanies basically took the attitude that If you opened the box it was your own problem.
But the law lords decided that the sale of software came under the sale of goods act and so the software companies should no longer be able to get away with selling you things that are unfit for their proposed use, or charging you to fix problems that they know about when they ship.
Well having wadede through the horrible Pseudocode, I came to the conclusion that this article is not about geeks. I've been in and around many created subcultures and haven't noticed that much difference in the ammount of women attracted to the male members of them. The big difference is that most other subcultures, men join them because they want to get laid. because of the way that people percieve users, I don't think I ve ever run into a teenager that's said 'I got into computers to attract women'
having looked at it theres a degree of 'arent we normal and aren't they loosers.' I'm sure that this is the result of journalists not getting enough women.
so which martian's decided on this? if you can't land a spaceship on it properly you might as well give it a flag, the more I see of the space industry, the more I see those telephone sanitisers from hithchikers rearing their heads
If it works the same way it does here then the government is busy shutting down the analogue services because it frees up more channels for mobile 'phones. Transmission licences for those are worth an excessive ammount of money.
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but all the women I've ever met with a taste for American cars, share it with a taste for Country and Western
Seen three different film versions of triffids. of which the most laughable is the 50's one where they're killed by seawater.
So what they're saying is that an advance in technology that no one anticipated as selling to the extent that it has. relying on technology that was yet to be invented got funded by the government. and they are using this technology on the grounds that everyone has it. even though the majority of the components are manufactured in other countries.
Don't you think some other country would have squealed yet? Were they paying the Russian government throughout the 80's not to tell people that they'd implanted spying devices in everyone's computers? I think we should be told.
Apart from that. If this is true. do they fancy funding my interdimensional periscope. which will allow them to look up from the floor of any office building in the world? I'll let them fund me for the minor ammount of $500 million but theres a chance this groundbreaking technology may not work......
One of the main Ideas I though behind the Linux community was that we widened the ownership of the OS out to a larger group of people. If we want to build the best OS possible then we really have to offer a simplified install for those who are at the border of choosing to follow our path.
We have said in the past that the closed source model is in effect an evolutionary dead end in the software design process. But by limiting ourselves to a small group we are causing ourselves the same problems in the future.
To quote Robert Heinlein
Specialisation's for Insects
Why encrypt a display unless you work on nukes?Well just about any industry has competition.
Apart from that, digital TV allows them to cram more channels into less bandwidth, with the effect that the regulators can sell more bandwidth to mobile phone companies.
Thank god for the sale of goods act and the high court in the UK.
A couple of years ago the high court came to the conclusion that this sort of act would be illegal as it goes against the already established principles of fair trade. So if something like this act was bought up here the software companies would be most wary of taking it to court.
In my opinion the best approach to fighting this type of act in the US would be to let them enact the powers contained in the act. the moment they take the first individuals software off their computer. or wreck the first persons business. then they have instantly provided the open source movement with a billion dollars of free tv advertising. all we have to do is let the news media in on the event and whatever large software company tries it gets ripped apart. you shut down a business and straight away youre facing a pile of angry voters who'll yell for repeal and the destruction of the copyright system for software.
Whatever happens we win
Yeah but can you play them on dvd players, rather than on computers?
Hey it's not that we hold a grudge, But they did shoot our king in the eye.
It's not that I'm particularly worried about the current government in the UK.
But say some group of nutters got voted in. what then?
In this country, much as in the US we have a history of governments not wanting to be seen as being 'soft on crime' so once a law gets on the books it becomes very difficult to get it removed.
I'm not saying that the current government are a dictatorship, it just seems somewhat stupid to lay in the tools for creating a damn good dictatorship ready for the first one that comes along.
If they manage to bring this law in I'll tell you for nothing, they are not having my keys for anything. not now, not ever. If they wish to send me to prison, so be it. Sooner or later the law courts will say they've infringed upon my human rights, and i'll be out again.
It all depends on wether you see the future of linux as beeing a wide user base or on smug superiority
At some point the system has to cross over and becom mainstream. and that means selling it to people who dont spend all their time hacking directory structures and kernel files.
we can all sit around and say how much better our system is than theirs. but unless it's sold pre-installed so the man in the street can play with it and sees that it works before he inevitably makes it fall over he'll always take the easy option of installing microsoft's product.
We can shout about how good our product is as much as we like but without someone selling pre-installs we'll never get the home market.
if we look at it the single bigest influence on the last century has got to have been printing.
with the introduction of mass education at the turn of the last century books went from being minor things to being the major information transfer tool of the century.
They influenced the take up of science and politics. and we can even see that the second world war might not have happened without the printed word. In relation to that the computer is only a minor detail. its mass use has only really taken part over the last 10 to 20% of the century.
Well you install it on records virtually no one is going to play and hear so they don't complain.
Then you release it on someone more popular's records.
Then when people complain you say that as you have released records before on this standard. then your ncrypted records are in fact the standard format and the CD players that everyone has are in fact the non compliant devices even though it is your CD's that are non compliant.
then not only do you have encrypted music, but you own the encryption system and no Independant artists can distribute music without going through the record companies.
In the Closed source model the figures work out like this
At time of coding one error per ten lines of code
after the coders initial debug this decreases by a factor of ten.
After initial QA work this goes down by a further factor of ten.
With beta testing this goes down by a further factor of Ten.
so all in all there should be roughly one error per ten thousand lines of code in production code.
Beyond this level it is not considered cost efective to make any further checks. It is also considered that any extra rounds through the checking process both makes the software increasingly out of date, and pushes up its market price. the calculations lead to the idea of Win 98 having 6000 errors. this is only a rough estimate, no one knows how many there actually are. (if microsoft new what they were they would have taken them out.)
With Open source having a much improved fault finding and repair model (cost of bugfixes isn't a consideration) it seems to me that it might be possible that the perfect piece of software could be written. but for now it should probably be considered as just having another factor of ten in bug reduction.
move the submit and preview buttons apart!!
Actually I remember feeling like this myself in this sort of situation. The rootes of my feeling like this were several years spent at boarding school. each week I had to provide a letter to prove to the staff that I was keeping in touch with my family. The result of this however Is that I have an Intense dislike for people reading my Mail. (this is the reason that Jack straw will be getting my encryption keys sometime a few millenia after hell freezes over.
with Women however I have learned over several painfull experiences not to put myself in a position where the situation above is happening. people can take the fact that you don't like people looking through your mail as evidence that you have something to hide. this can cause extreme stress in a relationship.
All I can say Is learn from this and dont let yourself be in this position again.
Well you can imagine that if you start looking for evidence, you're bound to come up with something
soundsrather like if she did manage to look then there was something to find.
try here he'll probably have a go
http://www.mtcp.co.uk/
if you look at his past record on messing with these people it seems just the sort of thing he'd enjoy
My personal feeling is that the best approach would be going through restraint of trade, as they are forcing us to use whatever software they want for us to use their product. and maybee going to the WTO next time they have a meeting saying that this is restraining our ability to trade internationally.
on top of this the have a thing called positive vetting where they send people round to interview friends family and associates to make sure that you weren't lying, someone I know who had this happen because a member of his family was getting one of these jobs said that it was one of the most intimidating experiences that he'd ever had in his entire life.
The Ideas in the film aren't new to philosophy. surely we would be better off asking if the film makers paid anything to the estates of Descartes, Heidegger,&c. or does this fall under artisitic licence?
Iremeber going to see it and thinking wow they've made a film of my mental breakdown, it's taken 5 years but they included the cat, and made it less paranoid.
in The UK the Law lords decided a few years ago that many of the terms in software licences were in fact Illegal. before this the software coumpanies basically took the attitude that If you opened the box it was your own problem.
But the law lords decided that the sale of software came under the sale of goods act and so the software companies should no longer be able to get away with selling you things that are unfit for their proposed use, or charging you to fix problems that they know about when they ship.
Well having wadede through the horrible Pseudocode, I came to the conclusion that this article is not about geeks. I've been in and around many created subcultures and haven't noticed that much difference in the ammount of women attracted to the male members of them. The big difference is that most other subcultures, men join them because they want to get laid.
because of the way that people percieve users, I don't think I ve ever run into a teenager that's said 'I got into computers to attract women'
having looked at it theres a degree of 'arent we normal and aren't they loosers.' I'm sure that this is the result of journalists not getting enough women.
how they going to do this? paint all the cars blue and use them as blue screens? that will make it an interesting event for trackside spectators
so which martian's decided on this? if you can't land a spaceship on it properly you might as well give it a flag, the more I see of the space industry, the more I see those telephone sanitisers from hithchikers rearing their heads
If it works the same way it does here then the government is busy shutting down the analogue services because it frees up more channels for mobile 'phones. Transmission licences for those are worth an excessive ammount of money.