As a Linux zealot and full time Linux systems admin/user of free software solutions in the business world, I think it's embarrassing to see such a rabid attack article on Slashdot.
At least when RMS goes off he's more accurate in his facts and consistent with his beliefs, I mean, you don't have to like what he says but the guy does stand for something.
But this, this is drek. First you're pumping up MS technologies to be more than they really are(MS has STIFF competition in the markets you've listed and will likely fail in many of them).
And I can see no point in your attempt to vilify MS other than to hear yourself rant.
First you create the enemy.
Then you fight the enemy.
Then you are the enemy.
I've been with Slashdot a long time(user #6288) and have slowly seen this site turn from being News for Nerds into some sort of political rag.
This article was done in extremely poor taste.
And I wish I could say it's the exception, but most any other Slashdot article dealing with corporations, the music industry, telecoms, Microsoft, copyrights, patents, domain registrars, are equally bad and leave me feeling like I'm reading some 3rd world country's anti-whatever propeganda.
First you create the enemy.
Then you fight the enemy.
Then you are the enemy.
The potential impact here is scary. Roxio's Duea is quoted: 'Our goal is to enable consumers to legally download and record music to CD in a consumer-friendly manner while fairly compensating copyright owners and creators...'
Allowing consumers to buy music online and burn it directly instead of going to a music store for the same CD is "scary"?
'We want to continue to work with leaders in the music industry, like EMI, to not only provide for the protection of their digital content, but also to enable record companies and artists to get paid for burning.' Yikes!
Having artists get paid for their music deserves a "Yikes"?
Don't like the fact that EZCD Creator is working with "the Man"? Feel free to use one of the gazillion other cd burning softare programs out there.
But don't get all bent out of shape because some people are looking at new methods to make money off of old business models.
The survey isn't talking about Napster, it's talking about downloading sample tracks off of cd's, ala mp3.com.
And yes, I've bought CDs because I've listened to a track or two on it, but I've never bought a CD because I heard a track on Napster.
If I'm using Napster why would I buy a CD when it's so much easier and cheaper just to download it? In the time it'd take me to drive out to the music store and buy the CD I've "sampled" off of Napster, I can just download the entire thing in about half the time.
In fact I don't even use CDs anymore. If I ever do buy a CD the first thing I do is rip it into mp3's and toss the CD into storage.
Mp3's are easier to transport(I can ftp them over to work), easier to play(everything is on one harddrive, never need to switch disks) and sound the same to me.
I don't use mp3's to rip people off, it's just a more conveniant format for me. And it just happens to be more conventiant to use the internet to get those mp3's than it is to use some 1950's system of record store distribution.
And until the records labels "get" that, they can sue anyone they want but they'll still won't get my business.
You're not going to get anywhere re-inventing the mouse and the keyboard, I don't care how much of a "better" design it is. People are comfortable with those two current devices and they're not going to make a switch to something weird looking.
If you really want to innovate do something new that people can latch onto. The gesture based input from Black and White is a good example.
The information gathered is completely seperate from your identity and Tivo has always been up front about this.
In fact during beta I had to sign a release to allow Tivo to connect certain uploaded information to my account so they could debug a potential problem.
These guys are pro-privacy, they're not about to become Big Brother anytime soon.
30k lines of code, dev time about a month. Been working with php for about 3 years now, enjoy.
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Could that be because PHP is really just a 'toy' language.
With php I've developed two full-bore web application that were each 20-30k lines of code with about another 10-20k lines of support code. Php scaled extremely well for those apps and I've since passed the first 30k project off to another coder(who learned the language in a couple weeks). My apps are also the fastest things on the market, linux + php + mysql + apache just screams.
But then I also use perl, about 5k-10k worth of system level support code. I use perl's reg expressions to crunch data into my databases, to automate maintenance and push/pull information and files across multiple servers.
You can either sit around bemoaning how your language is the "best" language and code just in that, or you can use multiple languages, code to their strengths and go home from work early each day.
Don't sweat not knowing the options, I've been using Debian for 3 years and didn't know about apt-get remove until I read some of the threads in here.
Debian is really only using one package "program", dpkg. Apt and dselect are just wrappers for dpkg that fetch/manage packages.
Dselect is the older manager, apt is the new kid on the block.
Man, now this brings back some memories. Hoppermud, Ancient Anguish, Age of Insanity, Midevia... used to have a Battletech nut friend pretty much live at my old apartment to play the Battletech Muses and Mushes.
The sad thing is that those old muds were much less of a timewaster than the new graphical ones like Everquest.
This guy has 3000 domains registered under his own name or various aliases. He basically registers domains that sounds like other domains to divert traffic.
Yes, it's no longer a first come first game. You actually have to intend to use the domains for a legitimate purpose and not just squat on them like some sort of lottery ticket.
This is WIPO vs the little guy. It's WIPO vs the asshole.
One thing to remember, the computer revolution is in it's bearest infancy.
The interfaces we use to write programs, type applications, even play games are laughably primitive.
100 years from now computers will be as common as electricity is today and no single element of any society will be seperated from them.
Who does and doesn't use computers today is a moot point.
It's a free society, there's the computer, work away. Sorry if the presentation/interface/cost isn't to your gender/attitude/income-level at the moment, we're slowly working on making it better.
In the mean time, sit back and enjoy the ride. It's gonna be a heck of a trip, kids.
I've worked in a lot of environments, some of which quota'd female hirings in tech depts. and I've yet to see the "female geek".
Most women in the field don't know a ftp client from a telnet client. It's not that they're any less "smart" than the men, or don't have the problem solving skills. It's just they don't have the "I lack social life, so computers define my existance" intensity some males in the field have.
As long as men code the games, apps, PCs, it's all going to be male oriented.
How the frag do you pronounce L0pht? And what the hell does it mean? Somebody write me a perl warez filter for pete's sake. All this kewl l33t drek is driving me insane.
Who owns the source to Mozilla? If AOL decides to pull Netscape and go IE(hypothetical), can they pull the support from under the Mozilla project?
If so, then Mozilla is useless no matter what happens. Somewhere, someone down the line will decide that the project doesn't coincide anymore with their corporate beliefs.
If they can't do anything about the source, if the community now really owns Mozilla then who cares about Netscape? Sooner or later someone with more ego than life will sit down and crank out the code. Get enough open source monkeys typing on a project and it gets done, period.
The late 80's pre-mass-internet early 90's saw a lot of interesting fiction being written on the Cyberpunk culture. Mid-90's saw that movement transition somewhat into more of a Gothic Punk culture, less machine more soul.
Where do you see the mirrorshades literary movement heading in the year 2000?
If you're getting crashes when logging into site using http authentication or when you close one of your open browser windows, try migrating from the glibc version of netscape over to the libc version.
I only hope they post a browser-only version of this thing, so 90% of us can simply ignore all these wasted man years of add-ons and get what we really want:
A simple, stable, fast, compliant web browser.
Or have I just been missing the cries for more bloatware in the Linux community?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but then wouldn't the above prohibit the selling of php scripts to a general market?
Say for instance, you create The World's Best Shopping Cart software. Wouldn't you then be forced to distribute the source code as well as a binary format?
Also, many contracters do not as a habit "sell" the source code to their work when they do contract work for employers. Won't this QPL force them to hand over their code?
We have the GPL which has worked fine for over a decade. There's zero reason that I can see to use this QPL.
Amazingly IBM can manage to pull off what many other companies claim is impossible; create a product for Linux and not just one distribution.
Fired VAJ up on Debian potato and it works like a charm. Wrote up a quick little applet and wired the events together without any problems.
I even like the install, no rpm putting things who knows where, just a simple tarball. My only complaint with it is that it's very sluggish. But then I think I remember the same from the windows version too.
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As a Linux zealot and full time Linux systems admin/user of free software solutions in the business world, I think it's embarrassing to see such a rabid attack article on Slashdot.
At least when RMS goes off he's more accurate in his facts and consistent with his beliefs, I mean, you don't have to like what he says but the guy does stand for something.
But this, this is drek. First you're pumping up MS technologies to be more than they really are(MS has STIFF competition in the markets you've listed and will likely fail in many of them).
And I can see no point in your attempt to vilify MS other than to hear yourself rant.
First you create the enemy.
Then you fight the enemy.
Then you are the enemy.
I've been with Slashdot a long time(user #6288) and have slowly seen this site turn from being News for Nerds into some sort of political rag.
This article was done in extremely poor taste.
And I wish I could say it's the exception, but most any other Slashdot article dealing with corporations, the music industry, telecoms, Microsoft, copyrights, patents, domain registrars, are equally bad and leave me feeling like I'm reading some 3rd world country's anti-whatever propeganda.
First you create the enemy.
Then you fight the enemy.
Then you are the enemy.
Have I Just Grown Up? ...Or has Slashdot regressed?
You know, I was wondering the exact same thing.
Slashdot has gone from being News for Nerds and devolved into some sort of anti-corp opinion tabloid.
Do you even read what you're writing?
The potential impact here is scary. Roxio's Duea is quoted: 'Our goal is to enable consumers to legally download and record music to CD in a consumer-friendly manner while fairly compensating copyright owners and creators...'
Allowing consumers to buy music online and burn it directly instead of going to a music store for the same CD is "scary"?
'We want to continue to work with leaders in the music industry, like EMI, to not only provide for the protection of their digital content, but also to enable record companies and artists to get paid for burning.' Yikes!
Having artists get paid for their music deserves a "Yikes"?
Don't like the fact that EZCD Creator is working with "the Man"? Feel free to use one of the gazillion other cd burning softare programs out there.
But don't get all bent out of shape because some people are looking at new methods to make money off of old business models.
Don't like it? Don't take part in it.
Pretty easy workaround, huh?
The survey isn't talking about Napster, it's talking about downloading sample tracks off of cd's, ala mp3.com.
And yes, I've bought CDs because I've listened to a track or two on it, but I've never bought a CD because I heard a track on Napster.
If I'm using Napster why would I buy a CD when it's so much easier and cheaper just to download it? In the time it'd take me to drive out to the music store and buy the CD I've "sampled" off of Napster, I can just download the entire thing in about half the time.
In fact I don't even use CDs anymore. If I ever do buy a CD the first thing I do is rip it into mp3's and toss the CD into storage.
Mp3's are easier to transport(I can ftp them over to work), easier to play(everything is on one harddrive, never need to switch disks) and sound the same to me.
I don't use mp3's to rip people off, it's just a more conveniant format for me. And it just happens to be more conventiant to use the internet to get those mp3's than it is to use some 1950's system of record store distribution.
And until the records labels "get" that, they can sue anyone they want but they'll still won't get my business.
You're not going to get anywhere re-inventing the mouse and the keyboard, I don't care how much of a "better" design it is. People are comfortable with those two current devices and they're not going to make a switch to something weird looking. If you really want to innovate do something new that people can latch onto. The gesture based input from Black and White is a good example.
The information gathered is completely seperate from your identity and Tivo has always been up front about this.
In fact during beta I had to sign a release to allow Tivo to connect certain uploaded information to my account so they could debug a potential problem.
These guys are pro-privacy, they're not about to become Big Brother anytime soon.
http://quotes.thebisgroup.com/
30k lines of code, dev time about a month. Been working with php for about 3 years now, enjoy.
Could that be because PHP is really just a 'toy' language.
With php I've developed two full-bore web application that were each 20-30k lines of code with about another 10-20k lines of support code. Php scaled extremely well for those apps and I've since passed the first 30k project off to another coder(who learned the language in a couple weeks). My apps are also the fastest things on the market, linux + php + mysql + apache just screams.
But then I also use perl, about 5k-10k worth of system level support code. I use perl's reg expressions to crunch data into my databases, to automate maintenance and push/pull information and files across multiple servers.
You can either sit around bemoaning how your language is the "best" language and code just in that, or you can use multiple languages, code to their strengths and go home from work early each day.
Don't sweat not knowing the options, I've been using Debian for 3 years and didn't know about apt-get remove until I read some of the threads in here. Debian is really only using one package "program", dpkg. Apt and dselect are just wrappers for dpkg that fetch/manage packages. Dselect is the older manager, apt is the new kid on the block.
Man, now this brings back some memories. Hoppermud, Ancient Anguish, Age of Insanity, Midevia... used to have a Battletech nut friend pretty much live at my old apartment to play the Battletech Muses and Mushes. The sad thing is that those old muds were much less of a timewaster than the new graphical ones like Everquest.
I have a Voodoo3 2000 AGP in my card at home.
Works great under XF 3.3.6 and only ran me about 60 bucks when I bought it.
This guy has 3000 domains registered under his own name or various aliases. He basically registers domains that sounds like other domains to divert traffic. Yes, it's no longer a first come first game. You actually have to intend to use the domains for a legitimate purpose and not just squat on them like some sort of lottery ticket. This is WIPO vs the little guy. It's WIPO vs the asshole.
One thing to remember, the computer revolution is in it's bearest infancy.
The interfaces we use to write programs, type applications, even play games are laughably primitive.
100 years from now computers will be as common as electricity is today and no single element of any society will be seperated from them.
Who does and doesn't use computers today is a moot point.
It's a free society, there's the computer, work away. Sorry if the presentation/interface/cost isn't to your gender/attitude/income-level at the moment, we're slowly working on making it better.
In the mean time, sit back and enjoy the ride. It's gonna be a heck of a trip, kids.
I think you've nailed it on the head.
I've worked in a lot of environments, some of which quota'd female hirings in tech depts. and I've yet to see the "female geek".
Most women in the field don't know a ftp client from a telnet client. It's not that they're any less "smart" than the men, or don't have the problem solving skills. It's just they don't have the "I lack social life, so computers define my existance" intensity some males in the field have.
As long as men code the games, apps, PCs, it's all going to be male oriented.
If your computer techs are used to working with SGI, Red Hat might not be your best Linux migration.
Red Hat generally uses GUI tools to alter scripts that might be easier for your staff to hand edit.
Get with them and talk over the different distributions, or maybe even look at FreeBSD or OpenBSD.
Find the software that will be easiest for your shop to migrate to.
How the frag do you pronounce L0pht? And what the hell does it mean? Somebody write me a perl warez filter for pete's sake. All this kewl l33t drek is driving me insane.
SMP has been quirky both in the .11 and .12 kernels, anyone know if it's stable in this release?
Who owns the source to Mozilla? If AOL decides to pull Netscape and go IE(hypothetical), can they pull the support from under the Mozilla project?
If so, then Mozilla is useless no matter what happens. Somewhere, someone down the line will decide that the project doesn't coincide anymore with their corporate beliefs.
If they can't do anything about the source, if the community now really owns Mozilla then who cares about Netscape? Sooner or later someone with more ego than life will sit down and crank out the code. Get enough open source monkeys typing on a project and it gets done, period.
The late 80's pre-mass-internet early 90's saw a lot of interesting fiction being written on the Cyberpunk culture. Mid-90's saw that movement transition somewhat into more of a Gothic Punk culture, less machine more soul.
Where do you see the mirrorshades literary movement heading in the year 2000?
If one of these starts up, count this Glockster in.
I'd host it myself, but I have a month or so before my ADSL line gets installed.
If you're getting crashes when logging into site using http authentication or when you close one of your open browser windows, try migrating from the glibc version of netscape over to the libc version.
That should fix those particular problems.
I only hope they post a browser-only version of this thing, so 90% of us can simply ignore all these wasted man years of add-ons and get what we really want:
A simple, stable, fast, compliant web browser.
Or have I just been missing the cries for more bloatware in the Linux community?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but then wouldn't the above prohibit the selling of php scripts to a general market?
Say for instance, you create The World's Best Shopping Cart software. Wouldn't you then be forced to distribute the source code as well as a binary format?
Also, many contracters do not as a habit "sell" the source code to their work when they do contract work for employers. Won't this QPL force them to hand over their code?
We have the GPL which has worked fine for over a decade. There's zero reason that I can see to use this QPL.
Amazingly IBM can manage to pull off what many other companies claim is impossible; create a product for Linux and not just one distribution.
Fired VAJ up on Debian potato and it works like a charm. Wrote up a quick little applet and wired the events together without any problems.
I even like the install, no rpm putting things who knows where, just a simple tarball. My only complaint with it is that it's very sluggish. But then I think I remember the same from the windows version too.