Nope, that's libertarianism. Capitalism is the economic system centered around a market unfettered by government interference, with buyers and sellers acting as profit maximisers whilst goods are exchanged between parties based on perfect information. Filling microniches is the essence of capitalism.
Not much about individual rights there. Mostly just the right to buy and sell, and they have that in China.
Indeed. Viewing software as a product rather than a service makes the economics of both open source and free software make no sense. If you view it as a service, then things make more sense.
Also, I'm not surprised that an open source person said that they are the same. I dare you to find a free software person who thinks they are the same. Free software is about idealism, where things like attitudes and freedom matter. Open source is more about bug free software and success in the marketplace. The second is improtant, but the first is crucial in the long term.
Agreed about TAOCP. It's a tough read. I don't find Cormen (The Big White (now greenish) Book of Algorithms)that easy to read. Oddly enough, Garey and Johnson (A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness) is totally readable.
Different strokes for different folks.
Another book to check out is the Feynamn Lectures on Computation. Full of neat ideas explained in his inimitable style.
A new edition of the dragon book is coming out in about a year. It's starting to show its age, my compilers prof says that there aren't any good, current books, and that if you want a good compilers book you should wait until the next edition of the dragon book.
Check out the average salaries in Mississippi and the deep south. Or some inner-city. Connecticut is, on average, much more wealthy than most of the country.
I find it ironic that you're more willing to accuse 51% of the american population of being in denial rather than accepting youself that 51% of the american population may be right.
True. Which is why I find myself wondering if there is something I don't know. I've been reading the American Conservative, New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, and the Christian Science Monitor for a bout a year now.
Nothing I read in ANY of those magazines convinced me that a single thing that Bush has done in office is something I agree with. Let me say that agin. I have tried hard and cannot think of a single thing that he has done that I agree with. I agree with many of the things he's said, but the "Clean Air Act" wasn't, and neither was the "Healthy Forests Initiative". The USAPATRIOT Act is a shame, and Iraq is based on a lie. I support balanced budgets, and he claims to, but HE DESTROYED OUR SURPLUS. I'm not going to see a dime of my social security.
And now he gets reelected?!? This man who has said that as an atheist I can't be a "real American"?!? What am I missing?
I've read the bible - it says nothing about abortion, and very little about homosexuality. It says a lot about peace, love, understanding, loving your neighbor, turning the other cheek, and helping the poor. So why are Christians voting for this man? What am I missing?
Why are most military men voting for a guy who cut combat pay and veteran's benefits? What do they see driving them to vote for him?
The Platform for Privacy Preferences is basically exactly what he is talking about - a browser based lawyer that makes sure that any site you accept cookies from has a privacy policy that is acceptable to you.
Really, it ha sbeen the rule ever since the Nixon-Kennedy debates. All the radio listeners thought Nixon did better, but all the TV viewers thought Kennedy did better - largely because of appearances and style.
It would be a bad thing because it is completely against the license that all the code was developed and distributed under. Linus has been quotd as saying that making Linux GPL was the smartest thing he did, because without that it wouldn't have been popular at all.
But for your larger point, it won't happen because MS can't comply with the terms of distribution for Linux. It's nice that your life would be made simpler - things are often simple when there is no consumer choice - but until Windows is made free software, it just can't happen.
If you just want convenience, and don't care about freedom, then buy a Mac.
That makes it sound good, I agree. But in actuality, it completely sucked. There may be worse films that are indie, or that I didn't see, or that are so-bad-its-good-but-we-call-them-bad, but Batman & Robin is the worst movie I ever saw in a movie theater.
It was horrible. Stupid acting, stupid writing, bad direction, too many characters, no motivation for anything, too pretentious, and stupid everything else. I saw it in high school when my sense of taste was not very refined, or even good, but even then I would have paid them double my ticket price to get those hours of my life back and the movie scrubbed from my mind.
This movie is so bad that id goes all the way past "so bad it's good" right back into "so bad it's unwatchable".
Technically when you get a software patent or algorithm patent you are patenting "a machine that implements this algorithm", so there is a physical something that is being patented. Really, that is BS and they simply found a way to patent math. Blame AT&T - the first algorithm patented was Huffman coding at Bell Labs.
Well, where do you live? You clearly want a number to trash, but I gave you the algorithm to figure it out yourself. Find out the poverty line in your state, assume that the job offers health care (not likely), and then divide the poverty line by 2000 to find the hourly wage.
Alternatively, your can look into health insurance (single person purchasing catastrophy-only insurance alone is ~$250/month in my experience, but you can probably go up or down from that) and then multiply it's monthly cost by 12 and add it to the "required wage" bucket.
Nationally, it looks like if you are living for only yourself and must buy your own health care then the living wage is around $6.40/hour, which seems low, largely because I live in an area where the cost of living is higher than average. Note that the number I just gave you is post-tax. I beleive that taxes require that it actually be around $8.50/hour to really be a living wage, but that's a shot in the dark.
A living wage is a wage such that a person working 40 hours a week for 50 weeks a year is above the poverty line for their area after taking into account health insurance. Now we can quibble about the poverty line, and whether you should use the poverty line for a family or for an individual. But the poverty line is at least a number that we have been researching for a few decades now. - http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/04poverty.shtml
Nope. They purged people who had the same name as a felon and (IIRC) lived in the same zip code.
So if Bob Smith comitted a felony and lved near me, then I (Bob Smith the other) would not be allowed to vote. This method means that as the number of felons in a Zip Code goes up, so does the number of false disenfrancisements. Do you think this meant that more rich people or more poor people were incorrectly denied their right to vote? Do you think this meant that more black people or more white people were denied the right to vote?
This message affects NOTHING. It just goes into/var/log/messages. It is not a popup. It is not a dialog. It is one line of text in a file and/or on the screen.
It is really only for the kernel developers. No programs look for this message or its absence. But should the kernel dump, the presence of that message will alert developers that there is code that they cannot fix in the kernel. This allows linux kernel developers to not waste their time. This company is purposely hiding the fact that it is using non-free code in an effort to not have the users be aware that their kernel has non-free software in it.
The only thing that happens is a message gets logged saying "this kernel is using closed drivers". Also, there are several GPL_ONLY functions that you have to report your license as GPL to access - they promise that they aren't using any of those.
Other than that, nothing at all.
The logic used in the email response was that the message was getting logged too many times, because their module has multiple closed submodules, and it was confusing people.
When teaching people, I have found that most people want to give a computer instructions like "do this, then do this" which, while possible in listp, is generally a little less clear than more explicitly declarative style languages.
Basically, S-Expressions seem a little weird for everyone. But M-Expressions are what I wish McCarthy had finished.
You are conflating hardware and software and opensource and free software. In an age of zero-cost copying, it is indeed *unethical* to deny your users freedom. It is not, however, *illegal*. So go ahead and keep doing it. But don't pretend that all is hunky dory.
Furthermore, "open source" means "gosh, software seems to end up better when we release the code for people to tinker with", while "free software" means "it is unethical to ditribute and use software that takes away freedoms from the user". RMS is talking about the second, which is a philosophical point, and you are claiming that somehow open source being imperfect means that the free software philosophy is wrong.
So charge for it. But if you are selling software without the accompanying source code, you are denying your users various freedoms that RMS feels that all people should have. Thus, it would be unethical.
So sell your code along with your software.
Wait a minute - claiming something is unamerican, claiming RMS is tainting the free software movement by saying software should be free, and a facile comparison between some random services, software and real goods. I just fed a troll.
Chord and Tapestry (and every other DHT scheme that I have seen) all have problems dealing with host churn. They don't seem really suitable for filesharing systems - instead they are more for large dynamic clusters in a large controlled corporate or academic environment.
BitTorrent is actually pretty on-par with the current research stuff for swarming file distribution. Everything else seems like incremental improvements - many of which break things like Bittorrents "share and share alike" policy by decentralizing even further.
Application level multicast feels, at a gut level, dead in the water. It's been a relatively solved problem for years, and hardly anyone uses it. Seems like a solution in search of a problem in a lot of ways.
Yes - look at health care. He's trying to demolish state funded medicare by turning it into a direct payout to private companies. And Homeland Security is basically straight down the Social Conservative/Neoconservative party line. As much as you may not like them, they are mainstays of these two political ideals that fly under that banner of conservative, that many liberals (like myself) are decrying as vile and bad.
I can't think of a single "conservative" president that has done what you are calling conservative. Reagan certainly wasn't a fiscal conservative (record spending and deficits), and his expansion of the war on drugs went way too far in stepping on personal freedoms. You might want to call yourself a Libertarian - that sounds closer to your beliefs. And if you are, then you have a choice in general - vote your pocketbook or your personal freedoms - and a choice in specific - vote against Bush because he's both against personal freedom AND fiscal responsibility or vote for Bush because he claims to be for fiscal responsibility.
I have trouble claiming that *anything* has moved left in our current political climate. With Fox news ascendant and Ken Lay not in jail and the Iraq war getting uglier and uglier and "starve the beast" in place, it's looking like a neocon world out there. http://pnac.info/
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Nope, that's libertarianism. Capitalism is the economic system centered around a market unfettered by government interference, with buyers and sellers acting as profit maximisers whilst goods are exchanged between parties based on perfect information. Filling microniches is the essence of capitalism.
Not much about individual rights there. Mostly just the right to buy and sell, and they have that in China.
This is why Slashdot is fun to read. When you can have the original developer smack down some whiny troll, you know something fun is going on.
Indeed. Viewing software as a product rather than a service makes the economics of both open source and free software make no sense. If you view it as a service, then things make more sense.
Also, I'm not surprised that an open source person said that they are the same. I dare you to find a free software person who thinks they are the same. Free software is about idealism, where things like attitudes and freedom matter. Open source is more about bug free software and success in the marketplace. The second is improtant, but the first is crucial in the long term.
Agreed about TAOCP. It's a tough read. I don't find Cormen (The Big White (now greenish) Book of Algorithms)that easy to read. Oddly enough, Garey and Johnson (A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness) is totally readable.
Different strokes for different folks.
Another book to check out is the Feynamn Lectures on Computation. Full of neat ideas explained in his inimitable style.
A new edition of the dragon book is coming out in about a year. It's starting to show its age, my compilers prof says that there aren't any good, current books, and that if you want a good compilers book you should wait until the next edition of the dragon book.
TAOCP is still great, however.
Check out the average salaries in Mississippi and the deep south. Or some inner-city. Connecticut is, on average, much more wealthy than most of the country.
I find it ironic that you're more willing to accuse 51% of the american population of being in denial rather than accepting youself that 51% of the american population may be right.
True. Which is why I find myself wondering if there is something I don't know. I've been reading the American Conservative, New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, and the Christian Science Monitor for a bout a year now.
Nothing I read in ANY of those magazines convinced me that a single thing that Bush has done in office is something I agree with. Let me say that agin. I have tried hard and cannot think of a single thing that he has done that I agree with. I agree with many of the things he's said, but the "Clean Air Act" wasn't, and neither was the "Healthy Forests Initiative". The USAPATRIOT Act is a shame, and Iraq is based on a lie. I support balanced budgets, and he claims to, but HE DESTROYED OUR SURPLUS. I'm not going to see a dime of my social security.
And now he gets reelected?!? This man who has said that as an atheist I can't be a "real American"?!? What am I missing?
I've read the bible - it says nothing about abortion, and very little about homosexuality. It says a lot about peace, love, understanding, loving your neighbor, turning the other cheek, and helping the poor. So why are Christians voting for this man? What am I missing?
Why are most military men voting for a guy who cut combat pay and veteran's benefits? What do they see driving them to vote for him?
The Platform for Privacy Preferences is basically exactly what he is talking about - a browser based lawyer that makes sure that any site you accept cookies from has a privacy policy that is acceptable to you.
http://www.w3.org/P3P/
Really, it ha sbeen the rule ever since the Nixon-Kennedy debates. All the radio listeners thought Nixon did better, but all the TV viewers thought Kennedy did better - largely because of appearances and style.
Excellent. That's too high by a factor of 1,000, which means that our attorney general is confused about the difference between peta- and tera-
It would be a bad thing because it is completely against the license that all the code was developed and distributed under. Linus has been quotd as saying that making Linux GPL was the smartest thing he did, because without that it wouldn't have been popular at all.
But for your larger point, it won't happen because MS can't comply with the terms of distribution for Linux. It's nice that your life would be made simpler - things are often simple when there is no consumer choice - but until Windows is made free software, it just can't happen.
If you just want convenience, and don't care about freedom, then buy a Mac.
That makes it sound good, I agree. But in actuality, it completely sucked. There may be worse films that are indie, or that I didn't see, or that are so-bad-its-good-but-we-call-them-bad, but Batman & Robin is the worst movie I ever saw in a movie theater.
It was horrible. Stupid acting, stupid writing, bad direction, too many characters, no motivation for anything, too pretentious, and stupid everything else. I saw it in high school when my sense of taste was not very refined, or even good, but even then I would have paid them double my ticket price to get those hours of my life back and the movie scrubbed from my mind.
This movie is so bad that id goes all the way past "so bad it's good" right back into "so bad it's unwatchable".
Technically when you get a software patent or algorithm patent you are patenting "a machine that implements this algorithm", so there is a physical something that is being patented. Really, that is BS and they simply found a way to patent math. Blame AT&T - the first algorithm patented was Huffman coding at Bell Labs.
Contact juggle! It's totally fun, and happens to be the only kind of juggling that successfully attracts members of the opposite sex.
Well, where do you live? You clearly want a number to trash, but I gave you the algorithm to figure it out yourself. Find out the poverty line in your state, assume that the job offers health care (not likely), and then divide the poverty line by 2000 to find the hourly wage.
Alternatively, your can look into health insurance (single person purchasing catastrophy-only insurance alone is ~$250/month in my experience, but you can probably go up or down from that) and then multiply it's monthly cost by 12 and add it to the "required wage" bucket.
Nationally, it looks like if you are living for only yourself and must buy your own health care then the living wage is around $6.40/hour, which seems low, largely because I live in an area where the cost of living is higher than average. Note that the number I just gave you is post-tax. I beleive that taxes require that it actually be around $8.50/hour to really be a living wage, but that's a shot in the dark.
A living wage is a wage such that a person working 40 hours a week for 50 weeks a year is above the poverty line for their area after taking into account health insurance. Now we can quibble about the poverty line, and whether you should use the poverty line for a family or for an individual. But the poverty line is at least a number that we have been researching for a few decades now. - http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/04poverty.shtml
Nope. They purged people who had the same name as a felon and (IIRC) lived in the same zip code.
So if Bob Smith comitted a felony and lved near me, then I (Bob Smith the other) would not be allowed to vote. This method means that as the number of felons in a Zip Code goes up, so does the number of false disenfrancisements. Do you think this meant that more rich people or more poor people were incorrectly denied their right to vote? Do you think this meant that more black people or more white people were denied the right to vote?
Correct. No monopoly == competion == meaningful alternatives if people don't like the bundling
This message affects NOTHING. It just goes into /var/log/messages. It is not a popup. It is not a dialog. It is one line of text in a file and/or on the screen.
It is really only for the kernel developers. No programs look for this message or its absence. But should the kernel dump, the presence of that message will alert developers that there is code that they cannot fix in the kernel. This allows linux kernel developers to not waste their time. This company is purposely hiding the fact that it is using non-free code in an effort to not have the users be aware that their kernel has non-free software in it.
That's both dishonest and pointlessly rude.
The only thing that happens is a message gets logged saying "this kernel is using closed drivers". Also, there are several GPL_ONLY functions that you have to report your license as GPL to access - they promise that they aren't using any of those.
Other than that, nothing at all.
The logic used in the email response was that the message was getting logged too many times, because their module has multiple closed submodules, and it was confusing people.
When teaching people, I have found that most people want to give a computer instructions like "do this, then do this" which, while possible in listp, is generally a little less clear than more explicitly declarative style languages.
Basically, S-Expressions seem a little weird for everyone. But M-Expressions are what I wish McCarthy had finished.
You are conflating hardware and software and opensource and free software. In an age of zero-cost copying, it is indeed *unethical* to deny your users freedom. It is not, however, *illegal*. So go ahead and keep doing it. But don't pretend that all is hunky dory.
Furthermore, "open source" means "gosh, software seems to end up better when we release the code for people to tinker with", while "free software" means "it is unethical to ditribute and use software that takes away freedoms from the user". RMS is talking about the second, which is a philosophical point, and you are claiming that somehow open source being imperfect means that the free software philosophy is wrong.
Oh wait - I'm arguing on the internet.
So charge for it. But if you are selling software without the accompanying source code, you are denying your users various freedoms that RMS feels that all people should have. Thus, it would be unethical.
So sell your code along with your software.
Wait a minute - claiming something is unamerican, claiming RMS is tainting the free software movement by saying software should be free, and a facile comparison between some random services, software and real goods. I just fed a troll.
Chord and Tapestry (and every other DHT scheme that I have seen) all have problems dealing with host churn. They don't seem really suitable for filesharing systems - instead they are more for large dynamic clusters in a large controlled corporate or academic environment.
BitTorrent is actually pretty on-par with the current research stuff for swarming file distribution. Everything else seems like incremental improvements - many of which break things like Bittorrents "share and share alike" policy by decentralizing even further.
Application level multicast feels, at a gut level, dead in the water. It's been a relatively solved problem for years, and hardly anyone uses it. Seems like a solution in search of a problem in a lot of ways.
Yes - look at health care. He's trying to demolish state funded medicare by turning it into a direct payout to private companies. And Homeland Security is basically straight down the Social Conservative/Neoconservative party line. As much as you may not like them, they are mainstays of these two political ideals that fly under that banner of conservative, that many liberals (like myself) are decrying as vile and bad.
I can't think of a single "conservative" president that has done what you are calling conservative. Reagan certainly wasn't a fiscal conservative (record spending and deficits), and his expansion of the war on drugs went way too far in stepping on personal freedoms. You might want to call yourself a Libertarian - that sounds closer to your beliefs. And if you are, then you have a choice in general - vote your pocketbook or your personal freedoms - and a choice in specific - vote against Bush because he's both against personal freedom AND fiscal responsibility or vote for Bush because he claims to be for fiscal responsibility.
I have trouble claiming that *anything* has moved left in our current political climate. With Fox news ascendant and Ken Lay not in jail and the Iraq war getting uglier and uglier and "starve the beast" in place, it's looking like a neocon world out there. http://pnac.info/