I completly understand how an OSS project can require funds for further development, what I worry is how these funds are donated, is it all contributed in cash?
Problem with that is some people can easily take advantage of a situation like that, I think funding should instead come in required equipement and/or other expenses, but not cash, because there are many contributors (coders) to projects like this, and no one should be taking coin from it.
Can someone shed some light? maybe I am off base...
You're missing the point, it's not about law, in your opinion, home businesses should be immune from customers, meaning anyone can start a home business selling products, but does not hafto respond to any phone calls or complaints because the business happens to be at home, if you read the parent of this whole topic (mine), you will see I said it's this guy's fault that he holds his business at his home, and he needs to be ready to take that kind of abuse there, because the business is there. The personal threats are illegal, but this is a small number of extremists, we have those in all cases, but in no way should the victim of these be immune to all customer opinions just because he might get a radical phone call threatening to kill him. Home or not, it's a business, that sends a product to people that don't want it, and his business information SHOULD be posted all over so anyone displeased with the service can legally take action against the business, that's all this is about, not the tiny % of radicals that in mind should also be prosecuted. I'm talking about the millions that just want the emails to stop. ANY business should be forced to publish contact information, even if the business is at home, there can be alternatives for home addresses if the owner responds to his other contact methods, but NEVER should a business be immune for anyone using their product, by force of by choice.
This is very false, because people ASK for abortions, if people don't agree they should be able to ask, that's a whole different moral issue, the problem here is no one ASKS for bulk email, hence if the mob says no, the democracy should reflect the mob, cuz you can replace mob with citizens.
New generation hackers, break into the robot while someone is away and have him unlock all the doors and the safes in the house:P
Call me a skeptic, but I don't like robots doing too many tasks, let's not forget human's make robots, and some humans are crooked, so who knows when you will end up with an influence robot?
A company that offends people, wether illegal or legal, should not have the right to be anonymous, anyone receiving his service has to right to complain about it at any time and in any manner.
I don't agree with the threatening phone calls, but if you do something that's bad enough that it will entice someone to commit an illegal act as such in retalition, maybe you should rethink you're service and try to do something that could benifit the community.
IF you don't want to, it's your choice, but the fact remains, people will keep threatening you on the phone because they are very displeased with the service they have tried to stop for a long time.
This is the risk you run by running a business out of your home, privacy for him and his family are due, but not for his business that offends many people.
If he runs a questionable business from his home, he can't expect to have any kind of protection.
The spam business sure dosen't deserve any. He should of known better.
My point revolved around the fact that the main goal of google is not news, and I think it's been understood, on the oether hand, the main goal of yahoo is those specific items, that's why they have tons of pictures about it to entice you to follow that path instead of searching for what u need.
I think yahoo's main goal is money, while google's main goal is efficiency, and google most likely has the upperhand in both sections:P
Problem here is, yahoo and google are apples and oranges.
Yahoo is a marketing website which "happens" to have a search engine. They offer news, weather, articles on anything and everything, and banner ads.
Google is on the other side of the fence, it's only a powerful serach engine, "THE" search engine, and that's what people use it for, you'd don't google for the latest news or weather, even for ads, you google for results.
I don't think yahoo can compete in the search domain, so I don't think they should be fighting for the engine side of it, cuz theirs sucks in comparison, really badly. They should work on marketing to the people that could actually care about yahoo's setup.
Googlers won't budge until you give them something faster and better. (or you brainwash them the ms way)
There are millions upon millions of applications for other operating systems, mainly windows. A broad search on download.com will prove my theory.
The slight difference is that Linux distros happen to want to include all of the few hundred applications that are available for Linux all in one, who cares?
The REAL issue here is for the big corporations to adopt and make software for linux, it has nothing to do with the enthousiast who writes a small text editor, that guy should get his facts straight.
Clearly you have not taken statistics courses, it is impossible for 50% of the population to be above average, because they will be the average at whatever point they are in time, so technically you cant have 50% of people above average, as the average will be higher and those people will become the new average.
Might be a bit complicated, god knows I tried to make it simple for you.
Thanks for that useless rant, let me clarify, video cards and drivers are now very high quality because windows has been mainstream for a long time, simple enough for you?
Linux is new to mainstream, if it even is mainstream at all, so it will take time for it to develop, it has nothing to do with how good support is for a 1st generation video card, I don't know where you pulled that from.
NVIDIA has already been supporting linux lately, maybe poorly to some, but they are among very few who give a shit about it, so let them keep fine tuning, eventually it will be something rather beautiful.
Think of how long it took to perfect windows display drivers, they had what 15 years?:P
Linux is "new" to most people, it'll come in time and this is proof.
Let me put it this way, and I'm sure most programmers feel like this, as it only makes sense.
I am the standard.
When I am confronted with a task, I don't go see ISO to see what they say everyone should use, of course not, I analyze my situation and choose the proper format/language everything should be created in, as there are ups and downs to most any language. That standard should be everyone's judgement call, as that's how most professionals work, and nothing is gonna change by this.
If a language suits someones needs, it will be used regardless of any standards approved by ISO.
I'm no scientist, but I am aware that liquid oxygen or LOX as it's reffered tho happens to be compressed oxygen (approx. 4000 times the amount that in the air), and this will dramatically increase the speed that a shuttle will be incinerated during a disaster, as the LOX will feed the explosions.
With advancements comes risk in my opinion.
Anybody who knows more then me, would be able to soothe my thoughts and tell me someone on such a shuttle would have a chance of survival is this were to leak?
Reading most of the posts, people are being skeptical of the hurdles needed to be attained for this weapon to actually "work".
But the thing you don'r seem to understand, the military has alot of money, and if they are paying large amounts of it to a contractor so he can do research on viable compact energy sources, it can't be all bad.
Even if we don't see neat weapons, there might actually be some good that can come out this, as this is important research for the next generations fuels/energy that will replace our current systems.
In that sense...If they figure out how to power a lightsaber, imagine how large your laptop battery life will be with that kind of technology.
Just a thought, I am always up for any kind of research funding, no matter how bad the goal is, there are always great things that come out of it, that turn out much bigger than the original intended plan.
I don't think that it's possible for the American Government to stop every terrorist attack directed at American targets. If a terrorsts wants to strike, he is able to, regardless of what is done to prevent him from it.
USA = New Roman Empire
If they can control all the terrorist breading grounds, where all the money can be made (oil) they will clearly be able to prevent terrorists:)
Although a razor balde is not expensive, you need alot of money for travelling and education to create an orchestrated attack like the one on septembre 11th.
Although I know this is truly unjust, and I dont agree with the morals behind the war. (I want Saddam out of there), but I fear that afterwards the country won't be left to the iraqis who love their country and want to rebuild in peace, already talks of contracts for rebuilding, as if the millions of iraqis dont have any education, surely there are plenty of construction workers, and or managers who can work up plans and start rebuilding the country themselves, in which way they can be proud of it.
If the US dictates how they rebuild, and who actually gets funded for it, it will just create an entire country of potential terrorists who will never get over the fact that their daughters/sons/mothers/fathers/brothers died to a cruise missile, in the sake of freedom, yet they are still not free, and they are still extremely poor as no one will allow them the true capitalistic ways.
If Americans really want this war to mean anything (it will happen anyway, it already is) they need to lobby congress to prevent ANY deals made by american corporations, unless it's out of the goodness of their heart and not for millions of dollars. Like I said, there are plenty of labourers as well as intelligent people in Iraq, and they should be the ones coordinating and fixing the situation, with help of course, but FREE help, the kind that actually shows you care and you didn't bomb the shit out of the country to further you're own financial agenda.
I'm from the country everyone always said depends on the USA. Looks like we are proving them wrong.
Canadian economy is booming, and it's not stopping anytime soon, regardless of the state the us is in.
Basically, almost everyone with a technological background will agree that this law is flawed. Is this soemthing without precendence? That Congress acted on pure ignorance, of course not.
My question to you Mr. Felten, do you think this law will inspire a new breed of creativity among hardware developers?
Maybe the same way copyright inspired copyleft, the DMCA is a form for companies to protect their products, and stop other people from profiting on those products (god forbid!), but since this really throws onto the pile, and adds hardware materials in to the copyright bin, maybe it will inspire some hardware enthousiasts to create copylefted hardware? blueprints and materials created by the people who love to tamper, and who would put a type of GPL on the specific materials as to prevent anyone from trying to hide the actual source if you will, of the product in question.
I personally think this would go a long way, engineers could actually start making money, by receiving support from people who enjoy their products, and suggest ways to improve such things. (Currently hard working engineers make billions for their respective companies and bring him mearly pennies to feed their families.)
I might be way off base, as the production line has it's fee's, but even tho it would be copylefted, dosen't mean it couldn't be sold, just means that anyone could improve it, or modify it.
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I completly understand how an OSS project can require funds for further development, what I worry is how these funds are donated, is it all contributed in cash?
Problem with that is some people can easily take advantage of a situation like that, I think funding should instead come in required equipement and/or other expenses, but not cash, because there are many contributors (coders) to projects like this, and no one should be taking coin from it.
Can someone shed some light? maybe I am off base...
You're missing the point, it's not about law, in your opinion, home businesses should be immune from customers, meaning anyone can start a home business selling products, but does not hafto respond to any phone calls or complaints because the business happens to be at home, if you read the parent of this whole topic (mine), you will see I said it's this guy's fault that he holds his business at his home, and he needs to be ready to take that kind of abuse there, because the business is there. The personal threats are illegal, but this is a small number of extremists, we have those in all cases, but in no way should the victim of these be immune to all customer opinions just because he might get a radical phone call threatening to kill him. Home or not, it's a business, that sends a product to people that don't want it, and his business information SHOULD be posted all over so anyone displeased with the service can legally take action against the business, that's all this is about, not the tiny % of radicals that in mind should also be prosecuted. I'm talking about the millions that just want the emails to stop. ANY business should be forced to publish contact information, even if the business is at home, there can be alternatives for home addresses if the owner responds to his other contact methods, but NEVER should a business be immune for anyone using their product, by force of by choice.
This is very false, because people ASK for abortions, if people don't agree they should be able to ask, that's a whole different moral issue, the problem here is no one ASKS for bulk email, hence if the mob says no, the democracy should reflect the mob, cuz you can replace mob with citizens.
New generation hackers, break into the robot while someone is away and have him unlock all the doors and the safes in the house
Call me a skeptic, but I don't like robots doing too many tasks, let's not forget human's make robots, and some humans are crooked, so who knows when you will end up with an influence robot?
A company that offends people, wether illegal or legal, should not have the right to be anonymous, anyone receiving his service has to right to complain about it at any time and in any manner.
I don't agree with the threatening phone calls, but if you do something that's bad enough that it will entice someone to commit an illegal act as such in retalition, maybe you should rethink you're service and try to do something that could benifit the community.
IF you don't want to, it's your choice, but the fact remains, people will keep threatening you on the phone because they are very displeased with the service they have tried to stop for a long time.
This is the risk you run by running a business out of your home, privacy for him and his family are due, but not for his business that offends many people.
If he runs a questionable business from his home, he can't expect to have any kind of protection. The spam business sure dosen't deserve any. He should of known better.
My peave with pdf's is the size, slashdotted in 15secs instead of 45secs.
Dramatic in the slashdot community.
My point revolved around the fact that the main goal of google is not news, and I think it's been understood, on the oether hand, the main goal of yahoo is those specific items, that's why they have tons of pictures about it to entice you to follow that path instead of searching for what u need.
I think yahoo's main goal is money, while google's main goal is efficiency, and google most likely has the upperhand in both sections
Problem here is, yahoo and google are apples and oranges.
Yahoo is a marketing website which "happens" to have a search engine. They offer news, weather, articles on anything and everything, and banner ads.
Google is on the other side of the fence, it's only a powerful serach engine, "THE" search engine, and that's what people use it for, you'd don't google for the latest news or weather, even for ads, you google for results.
I don't think yahoo can compete in the search domain, so I don't think they should be fighting for the engine side of it, cuz theirs sucks in comparison, really badly. They should work on marketing to the people that could actually care about yahoo's setup.
Googlers won't budge until you give them something faster and better. (or you brainwash them the ms way)
Here's an article on CNN, talks about the countries that are not supporting human rights, the editor forget USA in the title.
Welcome to the beginning of the end, this is where it all starts.
Guilty until proven innocent will reign the USA.
Sad thing is, no one is seeing it
Time to kick ass and chew bubble gum!
Where do these people get their information?
There are millions upon millions of applications for other operating systems, mainly windows. A broad search on download.com will prove my theory.
The slight difference is that Linux distros happen to want to include all of the few hundred applications that are available for Linux all in one, who cares?
The REAL issue here is for the big corporations to adopt and make software for linux, it has nothing to do with the enthousiast who writes a small text editor, that guy should get his facts straight.
Clearly you have not taken statistics courses, it is impossible for 50% of the population to be above average, because they will be the average at whatever point they are in time, so technically you cant have 50% of people above average, as the average will be higher and those people will become the new average.
Might be a bit complicated, god knows I tried to make it simple for you.
Great, but I still wonder how long it will last until they get nailed for making a better product than the original
DRM in the GBA games will surely be here soon to force only a real GBA handheld can play the games.
Don't get me wrong, I think it's great, but big corporations don't like competition and tend to crush them everytime the oppurtunity comes along.
Thanks for that useless rant, let me clarify, video cards and drivers are now very high quality because windows has been mainstream for a long time, simple enough for you?
Linux is new to mainstream, if it even is mainstream at all, so it will take time for it to develop, it has nothing to do with how good support is for a 1st generation video card, I don't know where you pulled that from.
NVIDIA has already been supporting linux lately, maybe poorly to some, but they are among very few who give a shit about it, so let them keep fine tuning, eventually it will be something rather beautiful.
Think of how long it took to perfect windows display drivers, they had what 15 years?
Linux is "new" to most people, it'll come in time and this is proof.
Sure this sounds all peachy on the outside, but is this quality really due to the film and not the projector?
Great if we start getting digital films, but unless they make 30 foot plasma screens, I really don't expect to see much of a difference.
A headset passed out at the door that will keep your eyes open during the commercials at the beginning of the movie, DRM enforcement of course
Maybe a tiny integrated chip into each popcorn to make sure you don't share the license agreement.
Let me put it this way, and I'm sure most programmers feel like this, as it only makes sense.
I am the standard.
When I am confronted with a task, I don't go see ISO to see what they say everyone should use, of course not, I analyze my situation and choose the proper format/language everything should be created in, as there are ups and downs to most any language. That standard should be everyone's judgement call, as that's how most professionals work, and nothing is gonna change by this.
If a language suits someones needs, it will be used regardless of any standards approved by ISO.
I'm no scientist, but I am aware that liquid oxygen or LOX as it's reffered tho happens to be compressed oxygen (approx. 4000 times the amount that in the air), and this will dramatically increase the speed that a shuttle will be incinerated during a disaster, as the LOX will feed the explosions.
With advancements comes risk in my opinion.
Anybody who knows more then me, would be able to soothe my thoughts and tell me someone on such a shuttle would have a chance of survival is this were to leak?
Reading most of the posts, people are being skeptical of the hurdles needed to be attained for this weapon to actually "work".
But the thing you don'r seem to understand, the military has alot of money, and if they are paying large amounts of it to a contractor so he can do research on viable compact energy sources, it can't be all bad.
Even if we don't see neat weapons, there might actually be some good that can come out this, as this is important research for the next generations fuels/energy that will replace our current systems.
In that sense...If they figure out how to power a lightsaber, imagine how large your laptop battery life will be with that kind of technology.
Just a thought, I am always up for any kind of research funding, no matter how bad the goal is, there are always great things that come out of it, that turn out much bigger than the original intended plan.
I don't think that it's possible for the American Government to stop every terrorist attack directed at American targets. If a terrorsts wants to strike, he is able to, regardless of what is done to prevent him from it.
USA = New Roman Empire
If they can control all the terrorist breading grounds, where all the money can be made (oil) they will clearly be able to prevent terrorists
Although a razor balde is not expensive, you need alot of money for travelling and education to create an orchestrated attack like the one on septembre 11th.
Although I know this is truly unjust, and I dont agree with the morals behind the war. (I want Saddam out of there), but I fear that afterwards the country won't be left to the iraqis who love their country and want to rebuild in peace, already talks of contracts for rebuilding, as if the millions of iraqis dont have any education, surely there are plenty of construction workers, and or managers who can work up plans and start rebuilding the country themselves, in which way they can be proud of it.
If the US dictates how they rebuild, and who actually gets funded for it, it will just create an entire country of potential terrorists who will never get over the fact that their daughters/sons/mothers/fathers/brothers died to a cruise missile, in the sake of freedom, yet they are still not free, and they are still extremely poor as no one will allow them the true capitalistic ways.
If Americans really want this war to mean anything (it will happen anyway, it already is) they need to lobby congress to prevent ANY deals made by american corporations, unless it's out of the goodness of their heart and not for millions of dollars. Like I said, there are plenty of labourers as well as intelligent people in Iraq, and they should be the ones coordinating and fixing the situation, with help of course, but FREE help, the kind that actually shows you care and you didn't bomb the shit out of the country to further you're own financial agenda.
I'm from the country everyone always said depends on the USA. Looks like we are proving them wrong. Canadian economy is booming, and it's not stopping anytime soon, regardless of the state the us is in.
Proud to be truly FREE, proud to be Canadian.
Amen! I'm not a religious person, but I use this word to show the intensity.
Basically, almost everyone with a technological background will agree that this law is flawed. Is this soemthing without precendence? That Congress acted on pure ignorance, of course not.
My question to you Mr. Felten, do you think this law will inspire a new breed of creativity among hardware developers?
Maybe the same way copyright inspired copyleft, the DMCA is a form for companies to protect their products, and stop other people from profiting on those products (god forbid!), but since this really throws onto the pile, and adds hardware materials in to the copyright bin, maybe it will inspire some hardware enthousiasts to create copylefted hardware? blueprints and materials created by the people who love to tamper, and who would put a type of GPL on the specific materials as to prevent anyone from trying to hide the actual source if you will, of the product in question.
I personally think this would go a long way, engineers could actually start making money, by receiving support from people who enjoy their products, and suggest ways to improve such things. (Currently hard working engineers make billions for their respective companies and bring him mearly pennies to feed their families.)
I might be way off base, as the production line has it's fee's, but even tho it would be copylefted, dosen't mean it couldn't be sold, just means that anyone could improve it, or modify it.
Thanks for your time. Remi