Even if this was imposed, which would occur around the time that hell freezes over, how could it be enforced? I am on cable, all my mail goes through my own SMTP server. What will I have to do, meter all the emails through there and charge myself?
I have no problem with their raising funds for this worthy cause, but I fail to see how a recommendation from an organization such as the UN, which obviously, despite the considerable collective brainpower, has no idea what this involves, could ever be taken seriously.
The whole OSS movement won't change for one trojan horse. In fact, it wouldn't change for 100. Anyway, there's nothing to say that its not beneficial. I'm sure the code would be educational.
You may not find them helpful, but if you understand the X10 protocol, you can easily write your own programs to, say, turn the lights on/off at certain times. Alternatively, you can get your wife to do that too.
I wouldn't have a problem with it, except for the fact that every time I see these stories I get my hopes up, and realise they're useless in Australia. Not to mention the fact that we pay about 50x what they advertise for US X10 gear. No thanks.
I have seen a lot of confusing posts, so this is what I understand from the article, feel free to correct me. The article seems to say that basically, the machine will ship with and run AIX, but CAN run Linux. This means that they are not dropping support for their OS, but rather diversifying the range of OSes that may be used on their systems. It is obvious that the demand for linux is much greater than that for AIX, so IBM are adding value to the machine by adding that support. It does not mean that IBM are going to be particularly active in Linux development, and I wonder just how much work they have/had to do for Linux to work anyway. I don't think its a really really noble thing for them to have done, how many other platforms only give you one choice of OS? They're only doing the smart thing.
Don't you think you are being a bit melodramatic? It's open source. Anyone can develop for Linux. Obviously you are not interested in making a contribution to the Linux community, so I guess those 'dumb teenagers' are the ones doing all the work while you sit back and criticize.
Unfortunately, their nameservers seem not to allow zone transfers. I'm no expert, but I'd say this is a fair indication you cant get much more than single records out of them.
Is it going to be expensive? What sort of support is there going to be for these machines? What can Amiga come out with that is not already available?
Personally, I buy on value for money. I dont give a toss if it is 'stylish' or 'revolutionary'.. sounds like its gonna cost lots of money, going to raise compatibility issues.. certainly lost my interest already.
Or make a new version like 'Dos 99', incompatible with any other versions, forcing users to buy all their new software and making it impossible for previous DOS owners to reuse their OS.
Isn't this the beauty of OSS, rather than a downfall? What is wrong with the ability to customize to suit taste? It just creates a broader range. I wouldn't worry about fragmentation, because nearly all distributions are based on the model of one of the major few. If a distribution can't keep up, it dies. It's that simple.
The point of Open Source is not necessarily an attack on Microsoft. I hear all the time about Microsoft's FUD attacks on Open Source. This is proven by.. a memo or two by a Microsoft Employee? What about the 4,000,000 messages I see on slashdot attacking MS in a thread that doesn't even mention them. Linux may be no closer to hitting everyone's desktops than NT source being released, but who gives a toss? The whole existance of corporations like MS is their reliance on people buying their product. That's why they market so strong. No sales, means no profit. It's all on their share prices, keeping their shareholders happy at the expense of customers, and that's why it is important to them that everyone owns a copy of their software. Open Source, however, gives you the opportunity to choose for yourself. Noone is going to go broke if everyone doesn't run Linux, and it may not be everyone's cup of tea. I run it, I like it, thats all that matters.
Microsoft won't be interested. They have their own format that works with their media player. If you look at the media player page, it mentions that diamond is doing a deal with MS to sell portable players similar to their MP3 versions to play this format. It also mentions that there is an option with their format to apply a copy-protection to the media files. If they dont have the technology yet, they will just replicate it with their own proprietry format. Then they'll have the market. This is obvious competition to both formats.
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Are we just 1% of the population? Only people I know that don't take advantage of the fact that they can get free, CD-Quality music, are those that just dont know about it, don't have access to it, or have the money to throw around to pay for it. If we are such a small minority, why are these distributors and artists so threatened by us?
Umm actually, I have no idea where you pulled that from. The FBI and NSA wouldn't waste their resources on monitoring a medium they have no control over. No, they will not prosecute you for anything you do on IRC. They don't even monitor. The IRC network admins definately would not give them authorization to.
If my rio can play these files, fine.. If not, well screw that. I can continue to encode in mp3. There'll always be a converter, even if I have to go from a new format, to wav, to mp3. I am sure I'm not the only person on earth who is happy with the format, and who has the technology to use it, so why not?
Part of it is bullshit. The exploit did exist, it did have a windows equivalent, its useless now. I'm sure that once upon a time, a portion of the security was left up to the client software. Nowadays, however, this is not only unlikely, but unconcievable.
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Even if this was imposed, which would occur around the time that hell freezes over, how could it be enforced?
I am on cable, all my mail goes through my own SMTP server. What will I have to do, meter all the emails through there and charge myself?
I have no problem with their raising funds for this worthy cause, but I fail to see how a recommendation from an organization such as the UN, which obviously, despite the considerable collective brainpower, has no idea what this involves, could ever be taken seriously.
The whole OSS movement won't change for one trojan horse. In fact, it wouldn't change for 100.
Anyway, there's nothing to say that its not beneficial. I'm sure the code would be educational.
That's cool. I was just waiting for someone to come up with something like this! I'll stop playing with your lamp now :)
Sounds very interesting.. where will we hear about it when/if you do it?
You may not find them helpful, but if you understand the X10 protocol, you can easily write your own programs to, say, turn the lights on/off at certain times. Alternatively, you can get your wife to do that too.
I wouldn't have a problem with it, except for the fact that every time I see these stories I get my hopes up, and realise they're useless in Australia. Not to mention the fact that we pay about 50x what they advertise for US X10 gear. No thanks.
I have seen a lot of confusing posts, so this is what I understand from the article, feel free to correct me.
The article seems to say that basically, the machine will ship with and run AIX, but CAN run Linux. This means that they are not dropping support for their OS, but rather diversifying the range of OSes that may be used on their systems. It is obvious that the demand for linux is much greater than that for AIX, so IBM are adding value to the machine by adding that support. It does not mean that IBM are going to be particularly active in Linux development, and I wonder just how much work they have/had to do for Linux to work anyway. I don't think its a really really noble thing for them to have done, how many other platforms only give you one choice of OS? They're only doing the smart thing.
Don't you think you are being a bit melodramatic?
It's open source. Anyone can develop for Linux. Obviously you are not interested in making a contribution to the Linux community, so I guess those 'dumb teenagers' are the ones doing all the work while you sit back and criticize.
bah, is that all? my 386 DX/40 can do that and make toast.
Probabely be easier to go back to the source and work on getting linux's SMP support working better, and on more CPUs
Unfortunately, their nameservers seem not to allow zone transfers.
I'm no expert, but I'd say this is a fair indication you cant get much more than single records out of them.
I believe he meant Network Solutions, rather than Network Associates, who are indeed what became of McAfee
If the russians still had some of their vodka supplies they could at least die smiling.
Is it going to be expensive?
What sort of support is there going to be for these machines?
What can Amiga come out with that is not already available?
Personally, I buy on value for money. I dont give a toss if it is 'stylish' or 'revolutionary'.. sounds like its gonna cost lots of money, going to raise compatibility issues.. certainly lost my interest already.
Or make a new version like 'Dos 99', incompatible with any other versions, forcing users to buy all their new software and making it impossible for previous DOS owners to reuse their OS.
Isn't this the beauty of OSS, rather than a downfall?
What is wrong with the ability to customize to suit taste? It just creates a broader range. I wouldn't worry about fragmentation, because nearly all distributions are based on the model of one of the major few. If a distribution can't keep up, it dies. It's that simple.
So are we all going to have to run out and grab patents for our code before someone else does?
The point of Open Source is not necessarily an attack on Microsoft.
I hear all the time about Microsoft's FUD attacks on Open Source. This is proven by.. a memo or two by a Microsoft Employee? What about the 4,000,000 messages I see on slashdot attacking MS in a thread that doesn't even mention them.
Linux may be no closer to hitting everyone's desktops than NT source being released, but who gives a toss? The whole existance of corporations like MS is their reliance on people buying their product. That's why they market so strong. No sales, means no profit. It's all on their share prices, keeping their shareholders happy at the expense of customers, and that's why it is important to them that everyone owns a copy of their software.
Open Source, however, gives you the opportunity to choose for yourself. Noone is going to go broke if everyone doesn't run Linux, and it may not be everyone's cup of tea. I run it, I like it, thats all that matters.
Microsoft won't be interested. They have their own format that works with their media player. If you look at the media player page, it mentions that diamond is doing a deal with MS to sell portable players similar to their MP3 versions to play this format. It also mentions that there is an option with their format to apply a copy-protection to the media files. If they dont have the technology yet, they will just replicate it with their own proprietry format. Then they'll have the market.
This is obvious competition to both formats.
Are we just 1% of the population?
Only people I know that don't take advantage of the fact that they can get free, CD-Quality music, are those that just dont know about it, don't have access to it, or have the money to throw around to pay for it. If we are such a small minority, why are these distributors and artists so threatened by us?
oh, and those mp3 players kick ass..
I'm not pretending I know what I'm talking about, but I thought MPEG layer 4 (MP4) was some sort of mix of video and audio?
Umm actually, I have no idea where you pulled that from. The FBI and NSA wouldn't waste their resources on monitoring a medium they have no control over.
No, they will not prosecute you for anything you do on IRC. They don't even monitor. The IRC network admins definately would not give them authorization to.
If my rio can play these files, fine.. If not, well screw that. I can continue to encode in mp3. There'll always be a converter, even if I have to go from a new format, to wav, to mp3. I am sure I'm not the only person on earth who is happy with the format, and who has the technology to use it, so why not?
Part of it is bullshit.
The exploit did exist, it did have a windows equivalent, its useless now.
I'm sure that once upon a time, a portion of the security was left up to the client software. Nowadays, however, this is not only unlikely, but unconcievable.
Or the same as TNT Australia - Via Foxtel?