Preach on brother. Most of these people arguing for the act of piracy never simplify the problem and view it for what it is: illegally obtaining copy righted material for free.
I want to support Ximian, but I have no need to buy their products directly. However, does Ximian receive money from the packaging of Evolution with Redhat? I paid $40 for my shiny new RH8, I wonder if any of that money made it's way into the pockets of other FOSS companies?
Call me old fashoined, but I really like the way that it works now. I like browsing the web, page by page, without having my surfing and the surfing of others being influenced by the content's popularity. I enjoy having many different outlets for the searching of information that retrieve information and "rank" it by a variety of ways (and many search engines using different means in which to "rank" it).
Don't get me wrong though, this is a very creative and useful thing. For example, this would be extremely useful for searching through technical support knowledge bases or for a large company's document archive system. I would just rather they leave my web surfing alone.;)
You have to start questioning the point of having this commitee. Furthermore,you have to doubt it's validity outright. I think that there is much to learn from this though. This gives us an insight into what is happening in those exchanges between politician and MPAA/RIAA lawyers/spokes people. They will win legistlation with money, we must win it back in the hearts of the people (and it will take a lot of people).
How pointy hairs over at that cable company had their pockets lined, I wonder? Well, it is their business, and if it is in their business's best interests to prevent their customers from using P2P internet technologies, then that's how it has to be. It would be moronic to say that the vast majority of P2P users are not using it to trade copyrighted material - it's becoming a social norm. I suppose it was only a matter of time before something like this happened.
I just hope that my ISP doesn't implement similar "defensive" measures - you never know, it might effect my SETI contributions somehow, or even the legitimate file swapping I do with people all over the planet.
I wonder what an acceptable solution for the masses would be for the protection of copyright material? It's obvious that the way that media is exchanged and used has changed with the information age, and this change has brought on a new market climate that the movie and music industries must learn to conduct trade in. The people seemingly won't tolerate DRM and similar "treacherous computing;)" models, we immediately defeat any encryption schemes that they come up with, and we bicker and complain about every action that the media giants take in defending their goods.
So what are they supposed to do? Start using "pay for play" market strategies more? Blow hundreds of millions of dollars coming up with yet another encryption scheme that two guys at MIT will crack the next Sunday? Or, will they dump their millions into the pockets of unscrupulous politicians and companies like Microsoft, and eradicate the act of personal computing as we know it? My opinion: First, they must lower prices. There is no reason that 90% of the artists out there should be earning more then average Joe. And second, they must implement more intensive pay for play schemes and stop relying on the sale of mass amounts of over priced garbage.With lower prices on complete albums, and the ability for people to pay only for the songs that they like, I think that you could see the music industry sustain the success that they have had in the past (not like they are hurting now, mind you). One would hope at leastthat with the increase in sales, they might stop shelling out billions in their campaign against our freedom.
that this would generally be a good idea, except for the fact that there are already thriving weblog communities that: A. Are nice to look at (or in the least, have an efficient design and layout), B. Have a working search engine in operation, C. Are not built on dog slow, closed projects.
Well, KDE 3 with a variety of kernels runs great on my P3 600mhz, 256mB of RAM, and crap video card. This is even when I am performing tests and running Apache (with a ton of mods) and mySQL.
I have tried Windows XP on this get up. It wasn't pretty. I think that KDE 3.x.x running over Linux kernel 2.4.18 is the fastest GUI that I have come across.
This reminds me of how scientific super computers/clusters are leased out to various researchers for computing time. It works very well for that target audience, or so I am told. With a well formulated design and clever marketing IBM could find another audience for such "metered computing". I can't think of any other industry outside of the scientific community that would be looking for such a solution though. In the long run, wouldn't it be cheaper just to hire a consulting firm to build you a cluster?
Now all of those crap boxes that "walked home with me" from last tech job will be put to use. This is remarkable to me, I had no idea that such a project was in the works. A question though, do you think that this little freebie from Mandrake and the French Government will affect the profits of a company like Linux NetworX or the use of Beowulf?
Maybe it's just me, but I have noticed that an extraordinary chunk of MMORPG gamers seem to prefer ICQ over other IMs. Especially in UO. Or maybe I'm just crazy.
AOL/Time Warner is bringing together the two massive IM communities to disuade them from straying onto other integrated IM solutions, like Trillian (which has probably been mentioned about 50 times in this discussion by now). This maximizes their advertisement potential. Users will predictably be weined off of ICQ towards AIM, which will eliminate the need to develop two seperate IM clients that effectively accomplish the same goal.
Have you ever used MAC OS X server edition? It doesn't sound as though you have. MAC OS X server is basically MAC OS X desktop with additional features and utilities only useful to a unit running as a server (as well as kernel enhancements, of course). The GUI and all of it's components are still intact, of course. Ease of use, even to the administrator, is MAC's pitch. An administrator of MAC OS X server would find himself using that interface quite a bit, if not all of time (again, that is MAc's pitch, duh). Did you actually believe that the MAC OS X server lacks these core technologies, or that the quality of it's interface should be ignored in an overall comparison?
Now the obvious: Apple blended the components of MAC OS X together beatifully. It wasn;t mentioned what came from where, or what OS could this or that first. You need to learn yourself how to reade gooder.
I love hearing about the implementation of an open source technology by a major web prescence, especially a technology that is as useful as PHP. But this has more implications, such as the inevitable increased awareness of mySQL (should this move peak the interest of other companies, which will cause them to look into this while PHP thing, and no doubt come across mySQL). PHP is linked strongly to mySQL: you can't pick up a PHP book without half of it being dedicated to the open source database.
These results, should they turn out to be reliable (which I believe that they are), speak volumes about the quality of MAC OS X. It is just slightly less efficient then Linux, yet still retaining a very high "ease of use factor". Not to mention it's amazing progess with the various components of it's GUI (Quartz - which creates two dimensional images, ATS, terrific OpenGL, the ability to save anything as a PDF, Aqua....) and easy to implement Cocoa and Carbon APIs.
The specifics of this event should be made known to the general public and not just the converted (though many here are still locked into the grueling and expensive life of a Windows user). Furthermore, the particulars should be delivered soberly and plainly, without all of the excess technoid dribble and anti-Microsoft blabber, so that business people (our bosses and the people that pay them) can truey understand just how far Microsoft is willing to go to enforce it's strangle hold. This is up front, in-your-face aggression that could easily have been ignored by Microsoft.
This is potent ammunition for the fight for FOSS and Linux in general.
All this bickering over the particulars of what was released and how useful it is (on the very day of the code's release, no less)....
We should stop and think about the fact that a major competitor in the multimedia playback and streaming market has embarked on it's promised initiative of open source development. This is significant. The opening of the code will allow highly adept open source hackers to "learn a few new tricks". If this "ploy", as some call it, is successful, then we can expect an increased amount of participation with the FOSS crowd from RealMedia. Such a thing could persuaude other companies to join the fun....
Why not assemble the unit from compatible parts from older PowerPCs with choice upgrade parts that are "Apple Certified" from online resellers of Apple hardware?
Are the record companies actually starting to wake up? Have they realized that it is easier to adapt then it is to lobby for laws that strip the public of their basic liberties and transform modern computing into a one big right-restricted mess owned and operated by Microsoft?
I doubt it. Likely, there are a clever people at Listen.com that marketed this out of Warner Bros and friends, but will have no effect on the RIAA and MPAA's attempts to take over the world Pinky!
It is ridiculous that law can be bent and twisted in in such a way as to allow such vile ventures. I could have sworn that there were specific stipulations concerning patents that prohibited such treacherous tactics. It is obvious, should the information concerning the granting of the patent is correct, that this is the under-handed work of slime balls that did not actually create any specific technology themselves but rather found a loop hole in the system that grants them control over broad and sweeping technologies (the internet in general, web browsing technologies and all of the things that go along with it, the various technologies that allow such transactions to occur from server to client - such as web servers and things like PHP and mySQL - hell, I could go on all day).
I don't see how this can be allowed to happen. I am dumbfounded.
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Preach on brother. Most of these people arguing for the act of piracy never simplify the problem and view it for what it is: illegally obtaining copy righted material for free.
Haha get it?! Because people are always like "imagine a Beowulf cluster..." so I said imagine a CLIC cluster! Haha! Genius!
I want to support Ximian, but I have no need to buy their products directly. However, does Ximian receive money from the packaging of Evolution with Redhat? I paid $40 for my shiny new RH8, I wonder if any of that money made it's way into the pockets of other FOSS companies?
Don't get me wrong though, this is a very creative and useful thing. For example, this would be extremely useful for searching through technical support knowledge bases or for a large company's document archive system. I would just rather they leave my web surfing alone. ;)
You have to start questioning the point of having this commitee. Furthermore,you have to doubt it's validity outright. I think that there is much to learn from this though. This gives us an insight into what is happening in those exchanges between politician and MPAA/RIAA lawyers/spokes people. They will win legistlation with money, we must win it back in the hearts of the people (and it will take a lot of people).
Now imagine a CLIC cluster of these....
I just hope that my ISP doesn't implement similar "defensive" measures - you never know, it might effect my SETI contributions somehow, or even the legitimate file swapping I do with people all over the planet.
So what are they supposed to do? Start using "pay for play" market strategies more? Blow hundreds of millions of dollars coming up with yet another encryption scheme that two guys at MIT will crack the next Sunday? Or, will they dump their millions into the pockets of unscrupulous politicians and companies like Microsoft, and eradicate the act of personal computing as we know it? My opinion: First, they must lower prices. There is no reason that 90% of the artists out there should be earning more then average Joe. And second, they must implement more intensive pay for play schemes and stop relying on the sale of mass amounts of over priced garbage.With lower prices on complete albums, and the ability for people to pay only for the songs that they like, I think that you could see the music industry sustain the success that they have had in the past (not like they are hurting now, mind you). One would hope at leastthat with the increase in sales, they might stop shelling out billions in their campaign against our freedom.
Slow news day, huh /. ?
Holy ass-raped Bill Gates by Stallman Batman! Did them cats just shoot down a shell with a laser beam?
Well, KDE 3 with a variety of kernels runs great on my P3 600mhz, 256mB of RAM, and crap video card. This is even when I am performing tests and running Apache (with a ton of mods) and mySQL. I have tried Windows XP on this get up. It wasn't pretty. I think that KDE 3.x.x running over Linux kernel 2.4.18 is the fastest GUI that I have come across.
This reminds me of how scientific super computers/clusters are leased out to various researchers for computing time. It works very well for that target audience, or so I am told. With a well formulated design and clever marketing IBM could find another audience for such "metered computing". I can't think of any other industry outside of the scientific community that would be looking for such a solution though. In the long run, wouldn't it be cheaper just to hire a consulting firm to build you a cluster?
All major distributions provide such a service, and have, for years.
Agreed, especially concerning security, and we don't need some paid-for piece of paper to say so.
Now all of those crap boxes that "walked home with me" from last tech job will be put to use. This is remarkable to me, I had no idea that such a project was in the works. A question though, do you think that this little freebie from Mandrake and the French Government will affect the profits of a company like Linux NetworX or the use of Beowulf?
Maybe it's just me, but I have noticed that an extraordinary chunk of MMORPG gamers seem to prefer ICQ over other IMs. Especially in UO. Or maybe I'm just crazy.
AOL/Time Warner is bringing together the two massive IM communities to disuade them from straying onto other integrated IM solutions, like Trillian (which has probably been mentioned about 50 times in this discussion by now). This maximizes their advertisement potential. Users will predictably be weined off of ICQ towards AIM, which will eliminate the need to develop two seperate IM clients that effectively accomplish the same goal.
Now the obvious: Apple blended the components of MAC OS X together beatifully. It wasn;t mentioned what came from where, or what OS could this or that first. You need to learn yourself how to reade gooder.
Happy days.
These results, should they turn out to be reliable (which I believe that they are), speak volumes about the quality of MAC OS X. It is just slightly less efficient then Linux, yet still retaining a very high "ease of use factor". Not to mention it's amazing progess with the various components of it's GUI (Quartz - which creates two dimensional images, ATS, terrific OpenGL, the ability to save anything as a PDF, Aqua....) and easy to implement Cocoa and Carbon APIs.
This is potent ammunition for the fight for FOSS and Linux in general.
We should stop and think about the fact that a major competitor in the multimedia playback and streaming market has embarked on it's promised initiative of open source development. This is significant. The opening of the code will allow highly adept open source hackers to "learn a few new tricks". If this "ploy", as some call it, is successful, then we can expect an increased amount of participation with the FOSS crowd from RealMedia. Such a thing could persuaude other companies to join the fun....
Here are a few resellers of Apple hardware:
Milagro and ETI Express
I doubt it. Likely, there are a clever people at Listen.com that marketed this out of Warner Bros and friends, but will have no effect on the RIAA and MPAA's attempts to take over the world Pinky!
I don't see how this can be allowed to happen. I am dumbfounded.