Next up: getting results sent automatically to your 2.5G/3G mobile phone (with images!)
Is this so urgent AND important results can't wait?
I mean, yes nice to have that pic right away, but are you gonna rush to work because some nice results came in? or do you decide it can wait till tomorrow and regular hour days?
Jeez, i don't mind technology, but this myth of 'everything right now, even if it's ultimately not that urgent and/or important' pisses me off...
From what i understood about the GPL (someone will correct me if i'm wrong), you can't even use a GPL library in a proprietary software if you distribute the software (keeping it inhouse is another matter).
What you mention is more the LGPL, or 'Light' (or 'Library', i never know) GPL, which allows you to link proprietary a software to for instance a LGPL library.
Thus, glibc is released under LGPL to allow proprietary software to be distributed under Linux and still use glibc
Have a look at that:
http://www.shavlik.com/
It works only for Windows, though.
But reports patches, missing or not, for Windows, Office, and some other products. Probably some option to export current state, or make a report.
Lets you push patches too, forcing installation.
Now one could argue that you have a right to be able to copy a piece of intellectual property as backup for personal use, but this is debatable and is not the point you raise.
Actually, under french law, that right is recognized, so it isn't subject to argumentation.
Thanks to our software, when you stop the simulation and ask the computer and the operator, "What do you think is going on right now?" about 90% of the time you get the same answer from both.
I don't know for you, but i think 90% is way too low for anything good to happen....
Imagine spam filters having only 90% success, thus missing 10% of spam... no fun, he?
The systems we're building now require rigorous collection of data from a person to create a model
Another way to say they can't yet analyse what a user is doing, s/he must be doing it in precise ways...
So the user will have to adapt for the software to learn:-)
I mean, students could agree to use MS products in exchange of money...
Err, wait...
You mean they pay to use the products ? Or they copy & use them for free ?
Darn, where are we going today....
Free MS bashing, but well, sometimes you just need to have a good laugh ^_-
That's cool, it'll be a new way for a company to justify high losses: 'no sir, our product isn't crap, we are selling many many; we just are unlucky with Peppercoin, only getting useless tokens...'
There obviously is the 2001 book, with the famous black monolith ^_-
As for tweaked genomes chimps, you can find some in the series, err, hum... french title is 'Base Venus', but i don't know the original one (Venus Connection, perhaps ?)
...they don't make their progs Open Source !
Now that's prolly asking too much, considering how much money they prolly invested in those apps....
Now what would be interesting would be to know why they chose Linux:
* price
* open sourceness
* existing tools on it
* stability
* no precise reason except it's cool
* other reason
(almost forgot that option:)
* CowboyNeal computes all effects on paper
the electricity needed to make the wires & such ?
'cause if you need more for that manufacture process than you can produce with the microbes, it won't work great....
also don't forget the energy required to get the microbes in the first place....
The secret to strong security: less reliance on secrets.
Now that sounds really like an argument for Open Source, even if he points out that
A secret that cannot be readily changed should be regarded as a vulnerability
.
On the whole, though, apart those 2 arguments, the article seems quite hollow imo, just your usual arguments on both sides... (NOT trying to start a flame war here, just expressing my opinion, to which of course you can disagree ^_-)
none of them are taken off or landed by computer.
Actually that's incorrect. When the visibility is really too low, the plane can make a computer-only landing (happened to me a fey weeks ago, pilot said 'ok check your electronic gear, we're doing a computer-only landing', and indeed i saw the landing like 10secs before touching the ground...
Is that rule a problem for you ? I mean, does it cause you unneeded stress ? Are you concerned about spending 80% of your time doing those 20% ? If not, maybe you can just stick to your current habit ^_^
That said, I don't have maaaany years in software development, but i think even when you are not coding like a crazy your mind is idling working stuff out, getting ready for that biiiiiig flash-bulb that's gonna make the next big advancement. So it isn't exactly lost time, right ?
Apart that, I'll just point out the regular stuff others here will prolly detail a lot more:
* know as much as possible the final result you want, and deduce how to make it from that
* if working with others (your post doesn't mention in either way), try to brainstorm together, and dispatch work to each depending on skills / interest / CPU/brain occupation, and so on
* if not actively coding, maybe browse idly the code from time to time. I have sometimes be surprised, doing just that, to realize how dumb something in the code was, or a bug no one has noticed before. Again, brain working in background manner ^_-
Why not just get and update antivirus?
Well, what happens if you get hit by a just-released virus ? The AV definitions are obviously not uptodate yet, so your system gets trashed....
Also not realistic for most users who either don't use any anti-virus software, or don't upgrade'em.
IANAL (not even US citizen, for that matter), but don't patents need to be applied / enforced right away ? I mean, it's probably been years since those (thought-to-be) patent-violating codes are being used, so doesn't SCO lose its rights to the patent for not having sued earlier ?
Pretty interesting article.
Even if the poster is obviously against MS & Palladium, (s)he does point out one of the most critical things : MS has to sign everything secured.
Now the question is: imagine (or dream;-) MS publicily saying that they will make some association / trustee company, including people from FreeSoftware community, competitors, and so on, which would review software & sign it. Would that be acceptable ?
Though of course having a program / driver signed would prolly require money, and thus disrupt many FreeSoftware projects....
Also interesting the bit on the boss / email, good point to. Needs to be thought really clearly before implementing.
Now of course the big question is whether all those Palladium / security thingy are really required for personal computers. Of course it'd be cool to have the guarantee that the OS doesn't get destroyed by a virus thanks to the built-in safeguards, on the other hand MS's system seems to take away too much from users....
From what i read in the article, the game sure sounds a LOT like MOO2 (haven't played the 1)...
Wonder if there are significant improvements (apart real-time combat), except graphics & animation, of course !
Seems that at least the whole concept is exaclty the same...
So, too, is the distribution of computer "viruses" and "worms" that travel the globe via
images, documents and plain-text e-mail messages.
(bold by me)
Now unless i'm totally wrong, worms CAN'T travel IN IMAGES. They can be seen as pics by some window managers hiding the.vbs or.{random} extension, but surely jpeg / gif / tiff / bmp are just plain data not executed, wrong ??
a kind of 'service' company, instead ?
As pointed out, shareware on a free os doesn't sound that great. On the other hand, wouldn't people be ready to pay a small fee for having their database / browser / random application correctly installed & configured ?
Using SSH/Telnet, you can easily hop over that person's box, and do stuff directly. Of course that requires some trust between you & the user, since you'd prolly be able to trash the whole system ^_^
Another suggestion which comes to mind: develop software on-demand, and release the source as Open Source. Like, someone says 'ok, i need a small app that does this thingy, can't find it. i pay you some price, you make it, and release sources under an Open Source license.'
This has the advantage to ensure you do software which'll actually be used (even if by only one user !), and people will less likely be afraid of the 'company goes boum, source lost, money lost' scenario, since sources will be available...
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I mean, yes nice to have that pic right away, but are you gonna rush to work because some nice results came in? or do you decide it can wait till tomorrow and regular hour days?
Jeez, i don't mind technology, but this myth of 'everything right now, even if it's ultimately not that urgent and/or important' pisses me off...
Yes, it's offtopic.
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From what i understood about the GPL (someone will correct me if i'm wrong), you can't even use a GPL library in a proprietary software if you distribute the software (keeping it inhouse is another matter).
What you mention is more the LGPL, or 'Light' (or 'Library', i never know) GPL, which allows you to link proprietary a software to for instance a LGPL library.
Thus, glibc is released under LGPL to allow proprietary software to be distributed under Linux and still use glibc
...nothing that wasn't discussed at length here :)
Have a look at that: http://www.shavlik.com/
It works only for Windows, though. But reports patches, missing or not, for Windows, Office, and some other products. Probably some option to export current state, or make a report.
Lets you push patches too, forcing installation.
CNRS actually means 'Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique' (National, not Nationale)
I mean, students could agree to use MS products in exchange of money...
Err, wait...
You mean they pay to use the products ? Or they copy & use them for free ?
Darn, where are we going today....
Free MS bashing, but well, sometimes you just need to have a good laugh ^_-
That's cool, it'll be a new way for a company to justify high losses: 'no sir, our product isn't crap, we are selling many many; we just are unlucky with Peppercoin, only getting useless tokens...'
... the asteroid is a cylinder ? are we gonna blast it too ?
*has read too much A.C.Clarke and / or Greg Bear*
There obviously is the 2001 book, with the famous black monolith ^_-
As for tweaked genomes chimps, you can find some in the series, err, hum... french title is 'Base Venus', but i don't know the original one (Venus Connection, perhaps ?)
...they don't make their progs Open Source !
Now that's prolly asking too much, considering how much money they prolly invested in those apps....
Now what would be interesting would be to know why they chose Linux:
* price
* open sourceness
* existing tools on it
* stability
* no precise reason except it's cool
* other reason
(almost forgot that option:)
* CowboyNeal computes all effects on paper
the electricity needed to make the wires & such ?
'cause if you need more for that manufacture process than you can produce with the microbes, it won't work great....
also don't forget the energy required to get the microbes in the first place....
On the whole, though, apart those 2 arguments, the article seems quite hollow imo, just your usual arguments on both sides... (NOT trying to start a flame war here, just expressing my opinion, to which of course you can disagree ^_-)
none of them are taken off or landed by computer.
Actually that's incorrect. When the visibility is really too low, the plane can make a computer-only landing (happened to me a fey weeks ago, pilot said 'ok check your electronic gear, we're doing a computer-only landing', and indeed i saw the landing like 10secs before touching the ground...
if idling, use your time to comment the code a lot, it may help in the future, and forces you to think about your program design / flow
Is that rule a problem for you ? I mean, does it cause you unneeded stress ? Are you concerned about spending 80% of your time doing those 20% ? If not, maybe you can just stick to your current habit ^_^
That said, I don't have maaaany years in software development, but i think even when you are not coding like a crazy your mind is idling working stuff out, getting ready for that biiiiiig flash-bulb that's gonna make the next big advancement. So it isn't exactly lost time, right ?
Apart that, I'll just point out the regular stuff others here will prolly detail a lot more:
* know as much as possible the final result you want, and deduce how to make it from that
* if working with others (your post doesn't mention in either way), try to brainstorm together, and dispatch work to each depending on skills / interest / CPU/brain occupation, and so on
* if not actively coding, maybe browse idly the code from time to time. I have sometimes be surprised, doing just that, to realize how dumb something in the code was, or a bug no one has noticed before. Again, brain working in background manner ^_-
...a /. effect, too ?
Since from the article it seems too many people were trying to access the same pages at the same time....
Why not just get and update antivirus?
Well, what happens if you get hit by a just-released virus ? The AV definitions are obviously not uptodate yet, so your system gets trashed....
Also not realistic for most users who either don't use any anti-virus software, or don't upgrade'em.
IANAL (not even US citizen, for that matter), but don't patents need to be applied / enforced right away ? I mean, it's probably been years since those (thought-to-be) patent-violating codes are being used, so doesn't SCO lose its rights to the patent for not having sued earlier ?
Pretty interesting article. ;-) MS publicily saying that they will make some association / trustee company, including people from FreeSoftware community, competitors, and so on, which would review software & sign it. Would that be acceptable ?
Even if the poster is obviously against MS & Palladium, (s)he does point out one of the most critical things : MS has to sign everything secured.
Now the question is: imagine (or dream
Though of course having a program / driver signed would prolly require money, and thus disrupt many FreeSoftware projects....
Also interesting the bit on the boss / email, good point to. Needs to be thought really clearly before implementing.
Now of course the big question is whether all those Palladium / security thingy are really required for personal computers. Of course it'd be cool to have the guarantee that the OS doesn't get destroyed by a virus thanks to the built-in safeguards, on the other hand MS's system seems to take away too much from users....
From what i read in the article, the game sure sounds a LOT like MOO2 (haven't played the 1)...
Wonder if there are significant improvements (apart real-time combat), except graphics & animation, of course !
Seems that at least the whole concept is exaclty the same...
Now unless i'm totally wrong, worms CAN'T travel IN IMAGES. They can be seen as pics by some window managers hiding the
a kind of 'service' company, instead ?
As pointed out, shareware on a free os doesn't sound that great. On the other hand, wouldn't people be ready to pay a small fee for having their database / browser / random application correctly installed & configured ?
Using SSH/Telnet, you can easily hop over that person's box, and do stuff directly. Of course that requires some trust between you & the user, since you'd prolly be able to trash the whole system ^_^
Another suggestion which comes to mind: develop software on-demand, and release the source as Open Source. Like, someone says 'ok, i need a small app that does this thingy, can't find it. i pay you some price, you make it, and release sources under an Open Source license.'
This has the advantage to ensure you do software which'll actually be used (even if by only one user !), and people will less likely be afraid of the 'company goes boum, source lost, money lost' scenario, since sources will be available...
Just me 2 cents of euro...