After an upgrade, I lost networking for no reason. Took several reboots of both the laptop and the wireless router to get it back.
There is always a reason.
You talk about an upgrade. What were you upgrading?
Hardware? Software? Third-party driver?
If the re-booting solves the problem it strikes me that the OS is doing it's job on start-up. Unloading the trash. Resolving conflicts. Working towards a clean launch.
Second, the Civil War was about both slavery and states' rights. In fact, the most unfortunate thing about it was that abolition was allowed to become an excuse to trample over the Tenth Amendment
How surprising is that that a civil war should fundamentally redefine the relationship between the states and the federal government?
I have trouble believing that the XO-2 will be ready in 18 months - or that the generic x86 netbook of 2010-2011 won't be a viable competitor.
The problem with the XO wasn't hardware.
It was sales.
It wasn't a product the education minister was convinced he needed or wanted to buy.
The Windows option was an important - perhaps essential concession, a reminder that need to be talking to these people before you make the big decisions.
I'm pretty sure the scope of the OLPC is not for commercial use. Why would anyone care if it runs Windows? It's a computer. It's better than nothing.
The third world education minister doesn't have much time to prepare his kids for the job market. If the job market is a Windows market, he has to take that into account - and in choosing Windows he gains access to everything worthwhile in proprietary software - and pretty much the whole of FOSS.
If this change means Uncle Bill can no longer hijack the OLPC project, I'm more than good with the concept.
The XO was a product of the western media lab -
custom hardware, FOSS and a western - constructivist - philosophy of education bundled into an all or nothing package for the third world education minister.
His alternative was the Classmate - a straight-line path to the higher grades, the trade school or college, the job market -
for the students who had a real shot at making it that far.
We have talked about W7 performance on netbooks which will only allow to run 3 apps.
We were talking about a third-world starter edition for absolute beginners that can run on hardware far less robust than the ATOM netbook you can buy at any stateside WalMart.
I'll begin simply by suggesting that companies strong in IP are looking pretty good now.
GM is the penny stock.
Not Microsoft. Not Pfizer.
They are calling on Congress to grant patents only where an invention has social value, where the patent would not stifle innovation, and where the absence of a patent would damage cost-effectiveness."
Now this scares me.
Because it means that "social value" would be defined by the legislator, the bureaucrat, and the courts.
--- and how this new measure of socially redeeming value - could be limited to the denial of a patent or copyright escapes me entirely.
The politician, after all, likes to be pro-active.
I am not sure what it takes to "stifle innovation." I don't even have a clear notion of what innovation really means.
A patent only implies only distinction - a measure of originality in concept and execution.
The examiner does not have a crystal ball.
He does not ask and can not know whether you have accomplished anything significant and lasting.
The geek who would give the politician - the bureaucrat - that crystal ball and demand that he play oracle does enormous harm, I think.
"Cost-Effectiveness" is a lovely phrase.
Damnation in two words.
Big Pharm gets the Malaria patent because Big Pharm can quickly and safely ramp up to full production.
The little guy will botch it.
Cost-Effectiveness is about economies of scale. Technical competence. Managerial competence. Financial resources.
Cost-Effectiveness is also about papering over the politically unpalatable choices you know you have to make.
I'll admit to having become very cynical about this sort of thing.
But it still surprises me sometimes how High Church the geek really is.
Would someone kindly explain why it's "apt-get" instead of "app-get"? what's with the 't'?
Users fear the command line because they are afraid of making some devastating mistake, a fatal typographical error. The language, grammar and vocabulary are entirely alien. You cut and paste with fingers crossed. The dialog box will - ideally - expose only sensible choices and a graceful exit.
The the hell is wrong with people?!? Not everyone in the 80's with PCs were early-adopter whiz-kids. You remember the 80s, right? If Granny could figure out Word Perfect 20 years ago while being a secretary at the local elementary school she sure as hell can deal with popping open an xterm and typing a few "apt-get" commands today.
Yeah, I remember the eighties.
Your older sister got the district job after graduating from a business school like Bryant & Stratton.
An "apt-get" one-liner or two typed into a command prompt is no more effort than going to a web site, finding the downloads page, clicking a button, and then running the installer with all its options to choose from and EULA to read. In fact, the typical command line package manager is LESS work for the end user.
Installing the program you want is easy.
Finding the program you want is hard. Feeling confident in the choices you have made is more difficult still.
The Windows site will have screen shots, editorial reviews, user reviews, videos, tutorials...
It can be miles wide and deep.
But still colorful and easy to navigate, the polar opposite of SourceForge.
The user install is more than a technical problem for the geek. It is as an ideological problem.
Windows is the OS of the middle class.
Users rate zero on the score of political correctness. They don't come to your site to be lectured.
Free-as-in beer is an adolescent obsession.
Tech of astonishing sophistication is woven into their lives - but shaped to fit their needs and values - not the other way around.
Apt-Get removes a technical barrier to the adoption of Linux.
It doesn't cut to the heart of things:
To hell with the lowest common denominator. Let them sink or swim on their own. They truly don't deserve the fruits of open source developers' labors unless they're willing to roll up their sleeves once in a while.
Its well known that the media industry consumes lots of heroin and cocaine, which provides a huge income to particularly unpleasant terrorists. Fortunately p2p provides you with a non-terrorist funding option
It is also non-funding for the productions the p2p audience wants to see.
Film piracy can be even more profitable than drug trafficking or other enterprises commonly linked to organized crime. In one example cited in the report, a pirated DVD made in Malaysia for 70 cents was marked up more than 1,000 percent and sold on the street in London for about $9. The profit margin was more than three times higher than the markup for Iranian heroin and higher than the profit for Columbian cocaine.
Worldwide, the criminal penalties for counterfeiting are relatively light and prosecution is sparse, researchers say. In France, for example, selling counterfeit products is punishable by a two-year prison term and a $190,000 fine, while selling drugs is punishable by a 10-year prison term and a $9.5 million fine. Meanwhile, just 134 people were sentenced in U.S. federal courts for intellectual property crimes during 2002, contrasted to more than 1.5 million arrests for drug offenses nationally in 2003.Organized Crime Is Increasingly Active in Film Piracy [News Release]
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An unfortunately worded form letter is routinely sent out by a secretary who had no reason to know - and no right to know - that the kid was dying.
There is always a reason.
You talk about an upgrade. What were you upgrading?
Hardware? Software? Third-party driver?
If the re-booting solves the problem it strikes me that the OS is doing it's job on start-up. Unloading the trash. Resolving conflicts. Working towards a clean launch.
But at least you can do that, even if it's not the most desirable option.
You can do it if you have the time and resources needed for the job.
In that respect, "software freedom" is rather like "freedom of the press," something to be celebrated on the Fourth of July.
It's practical significance is for those in the trade - and even there it can be more symbolic than real.
How surprising is that that a civil war should fundamentally redefine the relationship between the states and the federal government?
It would be paradise for the BBS Geek with with his VGA monitor and 14K modem.
www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
This gets old.
It is worth nothing more than a gratuitous +5 mod-up on Slashdot and a 0.83% share of the client desktop for Linux.
Time to dig deeper I think.
Cornflicker was dealt with in the January release of the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool
Deployment of the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool in an enterprise environment
Unless the civil action involves the state or federal governments.
I have trouble believing that the XO-2 will be ready in 18 months - or that the generic x86 netbook of 2010-2011 won't be a viable competitor.
The problem with the XO wasn't hardware.
It was sales.
It wasn't a product the education minister was convinced he needed or wanted to buy.
The Windows option was an important - perhaps essential concession, a reminder that need to be talking to these people before you make the big decisions.
and when this scheme fizzles out what then?
how many legitimate clicks does Google register each hour, each day? are you really going to rise above the noise level?
success btw implies that google could be brought down by anyone, at any time, for any reason.
how they must be laughing in redmond right now!
The third world education minister doesn't have much time to prepare his kids for the job market.
If the job market is a Windows market, he has to take that into account -
and in choosing Windows he gains access to everything worthwhile in proprietary software - and pretty much the whole of FOSS.
I can't imagine this story being news to Hertz or Marconi.
No it doesn't.
Property rights are shaped by Criminal Law. Administrative Law. The Law of Contracts. The Law of Torts.
There are many, many, things you can own but can't use or modify without restriction.
If you crack open a sealed appliance your warranty goes poof. If you fry the neighbor's kid when he touches the stainless steel case, you go poof.
You have a house to rent.
What you don't have is a Certificate of Occupancy. Because you were too cheap to hire a plumber to fix the drains.
Your car has a valid registration. It has been inspected. You have a driver's license. You have insurance. Your loan payments are up-to-date.
Unless all of these things are true than your car is going nowhere but to the impound lot or the repro man.
I still think it cleaner, safer and more responsible to leave bio-fuels to the pro - the experienced commercial operator.
The restaurant is a fire waiting to happen.
They survive on very thin margins. They hire kids for jobs like this. They don't pay them much. They don't train them well.
The XO was a product of the western media lab -
custom hardware, FOSS and a western - constructivist - philosophy of education bundled into an all or nothing package for the third world education minister.
His alternative was the Classmate - a straight-line path to the higher grades, the trade school or college, the job market -
for the students who had a real shot at making it that far.
The geek sees everything as code.
The gamer doesn't see the game engine. He sees the game world. The stage, the setting. The character he plays.
Creative teams have to be as strong as your engineers --- even stronger, perhaps, because their contributions can't easily be recycled.
I'd say that depends on how many versions of the Reader are being patched.
The Centennial Exposition was our coming-out party.
It's heart and soul the grand Corliss steam engine which powered the exhibits - a breath-taking 45 feet high and with a flywheel 30 feet in diameter.
Eliza Gray was an electrical engineer of national reputation, an inventor with a huge and lucrative patent portfolio.
Doesn't it seem at least passing strange that he should appear as a mere spectator at so extraordinary an event?
Eakins is there with "The Gross Clinic."
Remington his typewriter. Edison his phonograph...
But in Philadelphia Eliza Gray is caught - quite literally - standing in the audience when Bell takes the stage.
Bell's demo microphones are electromagnetic. Bell's production microphones are electromagnetic.
Bell is stringing a ten mile test line in August. The first Bell exchange opens in New Haven in 1878.
Gray understands promotion. He understands the ground game. He has Western Union at his back.
If he has a telephone -
What the hell is he doing those two years?
We were talking about a third-world starter edition for absolute beginners that can run on hardware far less robust than the ATOM netbook you can buy at any stateside WalMart.
I'll take it that you haven't received so much as dime from the estates of your parents or grandparents - and would have refused it, if offered.
The creative artist's body of work is often his only significant asset.
So tell me why rights in his intangible property should be extinguished on his death when rights in his real property are not?
RCA demonstrated all-electronic TV at the NY World's Fair in 1939. RCA began work on all electronic color system about a year or so later.
It didn't have a product until 1954.
It would be ten years before color became mainstream and profitable.
Ten years in which RCA was the only significant manufacturer of color sets and NBC the only network with a regular schedule of color broadcasts.
I'll begin simply by suggesting that companies strong in IP are looking pretty good now.
GM is the penny stock.
Not Microsoft. Not Pfizer.
They are calling on Congress to grant patents only where an invention has social value, where the patent would not stifle innovation, and where the absence of a patent would damage cost-effectiveness."
Now this scares me.
Because it means that "social value" would be defined by the legislator, the bureaucrat, and the courts.
--- and how this new measure of socially redeeming value - could be limited to the denial of a patent or copyright escapes me entirely.
The politician, after all, likes to be pro-active.
I am not sure what it takes to "stifle innovation." I don't even have a clear notion of what innovation really means.
A patent only implies only distinction - a measure of originality in concept and execution.
The examiner does not have a crystal ball.
He does not ask and can not know whether you have accomplished anything significant and lasting.
The geek who would give the politician - the bureaucrat - that crystal ball and demand that he play oracle does enormous harm, I think.
"Cost-Effectiveness" is a lovely phrase.
Damnation in two words.
Big Pharm gets the Malaria patent because Big Pharm can quickly and safely ramp up to full production.
The little guy will botch it.
Cost-Effectiveness is about economies of scale. Technical competence. Managerial competence. Financial resources.
Cost-Effectiveness is also about papering over the politically unpalatable choices you know you have to make.
I'll admit to having become very cynical about this sort of thing.
But it still surprises me sometimes how High Church the geek really is.
Users fear the command line because they are afraid of making some devastating mistake, a fatal typographical error. The language, grammar and vocabulary are entirely alien. You cut and paste with fingers crossed. The dialog box will - ideally - expose only sensible choices and a graceful exit.
If Granny could figure out Word Perfect 20 years ago while being a secretary at the local elementary school she sure as hell can deal with popping open an xterm and typing a few "apt-get" commands today.
Yeah, I remember the eighties.
Your older sister got the district job after graduating from a business school like Bryant & Stratton.
An "apt-get" one-liner or two typed into a command prompt is no more effort than going to a web site, finding the downloads page, clicking a button, and then running the installer with all its options to choose from and EULA to read. In fact, the typical command line package manager is LESS work for the end user.
Installing the program you want is easy.
Finding the program you want is hard. Feeling confident in the choices you have made is more difficult still.
The Windows site will have screen shots, editorial reviews, user reviews, videos, tutorials...
It can be miles wide and deep.
But still colorful and easy to navigate, the polar opposite of SourceForge.
The user install is more than a technical problem for the geek. It is as an ideological problem.
Windows is the OS of the middle class.
Users rate zero on the score of political correctness. They don't come to your site to be lectured.
Free-as-in beer is an adolescent obsession.
Tech of astonishing sophistication is woven into their lives - but shaped to fit their needs and values - not the other way around.
Apt-Get removes a technical barrier to the adoption of Linux.
It doesn't cut to the heart of things:
To hell with the lowest common denominator. Let them sink or swim on their own. They truly don't deserve the fruits of open source developers' labors unless they're willing to roll up their sleeves once in a while.
The odds are quite good that you won't have to bootleg anything. Home Use Program
Fortunately p2p provides you with a non-terrorist funding option
It is also non-funding for the productions the p2p audience wants to see.
Film piracy can be even more profitable than drug trafficking or other enterprises commonly linked to organized crime. In one example cited in the report, a pirated DVD made in Malaysia for 70 cents was marked up more than 1,000 percent and sold on the street in London for about $9. The profit margin was more than three times higher than the markup for Iranian heroin and higher than the profit for Columbian cocaine.
Worldwide, the criminal penalties for counterfeiting are relatively light and prosecution is sparse, researchers say. In France, for example, selling counterfeit products is punishable by a two-year prison term and a $190,000 fine, while selling drugs is punishable by a 10-year prison term and a $9.5 million fine. Meanwhile, just 134 people were sentenced in U.S. federal courts for intellectual property crimes during 2002, contrasted to more than 1.5 million arrests for drug offenses nationally in 2003. Organized Crime Is Increasingly Active in Film Piracy [News Release]
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