P2P doesn't wipe out your collection when you stop participating. iTunes is much closer in that respect. Once you pay the $0.99/song fee you just got something at least vaguely resembling a property right.
SCO's case basically rested on the assertion that there is only way to write an enterprise-worthy operating system, the "SCO way." Is it any surprise that a copyright lawsuit based on looking for code on this assertion was going to go down in flames? What's next, there's only one way to build a house or bridge?
If the content about Google is inaccurate than Google is free to post a correction, are they not? Is that not one of the big ooh, ahh features of Wikipedia? Second, consider the fact that it costs money for Google to file a lawsuit and what would be the point in agreeing to host content, hosting it, then deciding that you didn't like it and suing the creator over it? Chances are, Google would be laughed out of court.
About Longhorn. It was supposed to be the Great Leap Forward for Microsoft and yet most of the cool features have either been pulled for future releases or being backported to XP. This will probably be the first version of Windows where there is very little incentive to upgrade from the previous version for most of Microsoft's users.
The absolute worst thing that could happen to Microsoft would be for Windows to lag in sales. So much of their company rides on the success of Windows and Office that if one of those gets badly damaged it would have very damaging results for the entire company.
The competition from Adobe and Macromedia is already tremendously robust on a level that in a 1:1 competition between say GIMP and Photoshop that the OSS apps can scarcely approach the level of functionality that their commercial competitors can. We are talking about very well-financed, extremely aggressive competitors here, not lumbering monoliths that can only succeed half the time by pulling on past successes.
It's worth doing, but no one should get their hopes up that Adobe or Macromedia will be phased by this. They are simply too good at what they do to be caught up in the same software vietnam that Microsoft has found itself in with Linux, Apache, OpenOffice and Mozilla.
As a voting libertarian, I whole-heartedly encourage companies to actively develop whatever technical solution that best fits their needs. This is one example of how open source software really fits in with the libertarian world view. It's not the "free software versus only commercial software," but a mix and match that lets both coexist. If someone wants to develop their own software, then let them and don't even begrudge them the right to give it away.
This is what really pisses me off about the copyright expansionists. They don't want people to be able to easily develop software for free. Copyright expansionism, as pushed by groups like the "Progress and Freedom Foundation" is not about freedom, it's about protecting business against hobbyists and other "asymmetric competition." I bet it makes such groups' heads spin to think that one of the biggest corporations on Wall Street is now about to dive head first into open source development and that the result of this development could send shockwaves through a segment of the commercial software industry.
The freedom to write open source software is the same freedom to write closed source software. If you erode the foundation for the former, then you have no right to demand respect for the latter. That is why when the big copyright cartels lobby Congress, I see nothing wrong in doing things like buying academic licenses for software and taking them out into the real world. The copyright holder makes no profit on the academic license, only the seller does.
I have never met anyone below the age of 30 that knows anything about computers at all that just assumes that AOL is as good as it gets. In fact, I don't even know anyone in the under 25 age group that would even find any appeal to an AOL browser. Firefox is already exploding in marketshare among the under 25 population if my college is any indication. Besides, AIM is already free and so you don't need to buy AOL's service to do all of the things that AOL is "good for."
AOL really is only good for people who can't be bothered to learn anything about the Internet and soccer moms who want "parental controls."
640x480 resolution and what could be an akward user interface. Not only that, but you have to use VNC in order to really do anything at all. Yeah, it's a cool device, but it never had any real world potential. Can you honestly see this taking over in corporate America with the non-geeks? I can't.
The new Vonage WiFi phone is the closest thing to something like this that will actually have potential. Around here, there are a lot of WiFi points that are free. I can go to almost any of the locally owned coffee shops and get free WiFi access. Now that has some potential, emphasis on some.
Spamming is now illegal in the U.S. and they are a company that just got into major accounting trouble when they were WorldCom. The last thing that MCI needs is to have more clients abandon them and more government scrutiny because they support spammers.
What is with all of this complaining about Firefox not rendering slashdot? I read slashdot at school with Firefox (which is installed on all lab machines) and it renders just like it does in IE. I read slashdot with Camino which is little more than a COCOA port of Gecko, and it renders just fine. What is the deal here?
Seriously, why do we need something like a blogger's "bill of rights?" If you do something on your employer's time that isn't related to your job, then you should consider yourself lucky that either your employer doesn't know or care. You could lose your job for blogging at work, unless maybe your blog is promoting the company's products and services and some manager thinks that is just good free advertisement.
The woman who proposed that blogger's bill of rights got fired because she posted on her blog pictures that could be offensive to some of her employer's customers and let people know where she worked. That's just about one of the things that you DONT DO online. You just don't post comments that can be connected with your employer unless your employer has given you the green light to do so.
Is something analogous to Web Forms. It'd be a great way to encourage people to work towards XHTML compliance if they could write some really slick UI with PHP and "PHP Web Forms" that could be manipulated directly from PHP rather than processed as a regular HTML form.
Then again, I suppose working namespace support is probably a more pressing concern at this point.
I have been using it for about two weeks now and it really is off to a great start. It still needs some improvements, but my experience with Ubuntu is that it is not as solid under pressure as Vida/Gentoo.
Whenever the NYTimes writes a piece bitching about how the Internet is such a horrible place, remember that they have been struggling like a lot of newspapers to grapple with their online competition. They don't want the Internet to look good, their business gets worse as the Internet looks better.
I'm not saying that they may not have some points, but always be skeptical about "old media" coming out with the latest horror story about the Internet. We've known about this problem for years now, but they keep beating this horse over and over. Ever notice how rarely they mention the sting operations that go down very successfully against online kiddie porn sites? Stings that get people in like 10 countries at once?
Well who'd want to hear the cops might actually be winning on something here? Certainly not the NYTimes and other publications because that might mean the Internet is still the "wild west" but the west ain't so wild anymore.
The national debt The interest we will have to pay on the national debt Inflation
So basically you can think of an average 0.5% growth as your petty little cost of living increase. Enjoy the Bush tax cut while you can because as he spends like a crackwhore with a stolen credit card, each person's "share" of the national debt will blossum. that means a bigger budget every year and eventually taxes will have to go up big time to keep the leviathan from choking on its own excess.
How about this. Why don't a bunch of IT companies set up shop in Costa Rica and pay their employees to move there? The advantages are enormous. Cheap cost of business, you're close to America, exotic location for the young employees (and exotic women for the young geek men;) ) and if everyone goes expatriate, the tax benefits are totally worth it.
You sure hit the nail on the head son. I am glad that you recognize that I am without bias, opinion or a tendency to propagandize for my side. My reporting is beyond reproach and I cannot even fathom how someone could insinuate that things might be to the contrary...
*crickets chirping* That's the sound millions of teenage girls not using up bandwidth and disk space talking about boys, jcrew and high school/college drama.
How often do people get modded up on slashdot for posting entries that are nothing more than public docs on a project, links to an obscure mirror of the article or the like? They're not insightful or anything, just basically a rehash of information. The mirrors for example could easily be put into the article post under an update heading.
You're a woman in a relatively male-dominated field. If you play well with the guys, then you're a "rare commodity" because you're a woman in the sciences and you've got a personality that works with the guys. The other women, who can't keep up with you, see you as dangerous competition which you probably are and should be proud of.
We are comparing genders here and I am not saying that a woman has to act like a testosterone-laden butch dyke male-hater to be successful. What I am saying is that she must be as good as a man and be interchangable with the men. There are only two possibilities in most environments that I have worked in: the women compete at the skill level of the men and with the same gung-ho attitude toward achievement or they whine, bat their pretty little eyes and try to get a man to do it.
One of my best friends is a girl that has the "bring it on, fuckers" attitude toward sexism because she got sick of seeing that cry baby and girls like her get their way. She got tired of so many of the women she worked with on her internship using their feminine wiles to get out of work, and she knew that that would end up bighting her in the ass because men aroud her would see 80% of the women ignoring or pushing their work onto others.
My mother passionately despises that tendency in women. She went into federal law enforcement in the 70s when affirmative action had basically no real reach or hold on the old boy's networks. She wanted to be an agent respected for her work, but most of the female agents she worked with wouldn't take tough and potentially dangerous cases and would try to get "one of the boys" to do it for them. It took years for her to finally force her superiors to admit that she was the exception and could be fully trusted to not act like the rest of the female agents in the office.
The funny thing is that most of the time in college that I have been assigned to mostly female work groups, the girls wanted me or one of the other guys to lead. It's been my experience that the one thing that most women truly despise is taking orders from other typical women when they could take them from a man. One of my friends explained as she doesn't have to deal with the same level of pure shit from the men.
No doubt too, most women who have some competitiveness in them would rather deal with a little bit of the shit from the guys (a little potential sexual harassment) than the pure loathing and backstabbing they can get from other women. The cruelest competition I have ever seen has been between women, not men.
Girls are so pampered today by our public education system that most of them are terribly thin-skinned. One of the girls in my CS program used to go into a crying temper tantrum everytime someone more than very, very gently criticized something she said or did. Most of the guys I see are supportive of the girls.
Here's a novel idea though. If you want a man to respect you as a colleague, ladies, then do a man's work and do it LIKE a man. That means you meet or exceed the level of work that a man would in your position. No excuses ladies, just fucking take it like a man.
The girls that I know who make it do that. They don't make excuses, they just compete. They don't whine about sexism, in fact the most successful of them as a "bring it on, fuckers" attitude toward sexism.
GNOME team seems more aggressive than the KDE team
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The GNOME-Mozilla-Mono "alliance" makes sense when you look at Avalon. It's a good move that is sure to give Linux and other OSS users an option that doesn't involve going to Microsoft. Soooo where is the KDE team in all of this?
Maybe it's just me, but it seems like the KDE guys have really missed the boat here. It seems like they are so caught up building a traditional desktop that they haven't realized that their competition is much more aggressive now.
Not trying to be a troll, just noticing that GNOME and Xfce seem to be getting better and better whereas KDE just seems to be becoming more like Windows in the worst ways.
You have to ask yourself why a large corporation would spend $5,000 for a device that could index probably only a fraction at best of its documents. Google should consider instead offering a Mac version of the software that can run on the Mac Mini and index 100-200K documents for $500/license.
Slashdot Mirror
P2P doesn't wipe out your collection when you stop participating. iTunes is much closer in that respect. Once you pay the $0.99/song fee you just got something at least vaguely resembling a property right.
SCO's case basically rested on the assertion that there is only way to write an enterprise-worthy operating system, the "SCO way." Is it any surprise that a copyright lawsuit based on looking for code on this assertion was going to go down in flames? What's next, there's only one way to build a house or bridge?
If the content about Google is inaccurate than Google is free to post a correction, are they not? Is that not one of the big ooh, ahh features of Wikipedia? Second, consider the fact that it costs money for Google to file a lawsuit and what would be the point in agreeing to host content, hosting it, then deciding that you didn't like it and suing the creator over it? Chances are, Google would be laughed out of court.
About Longhorn. It was supposed to be the Great Leap Forward for Microsoft and yet most of the cool features have either been pulled for future releases or being backported to XP. This will probably be the first version of Windows where there is very little incentive to upgrade from the previous version for most of Microsoft's users.
The absolute worst thing that could happen to Microsoft would be for Windows to lag in sales. So much of their company rides on the success of Windows and Office that if one of those gets badly damaged it would have very damaging results for the entire company.
The competition from Adobe and Macromedia is already tremendously robust on a level that in a 1:1 competition between say GIMP and Photoshop that the OSS apps can scarcely approach the level of functionality that their commercial competitors can. We are talking about very well-financed, extremely aggressive competitors here, not lumbering monoliths that can only succeed half the time by pulling on past successes.
It's worth doing, but no one should get their hopes up that Adobe or Macromedia will be phased by this. They are simply too good at what they do to be caught up in the same software vietnam that Microsoft has found itself in with Linux, Apache, OpenOffice and Mozilla.
As a voting libertarian, I whole-heartedly encourage companies to actively develop whatever technical solution that best fits their needs. This is one example of how open source software really fits in with the libertarian world view. It's not the "free software versus only commercial software," but a mix and match that lets both coexist. If someone wants to develop their own software, then let them and don't even begrudge them the right to give it away.
This is what really pisses me off about the copyright expansionists. They don't want people to be able to easily develop software for free. Copyright expansionism, as pushed by groups like the "Progress and Freedom Foundation" is not about freedom, it's about protecting business against hobbyists and other "asymmetric competition." I bet it makes such groups' heads spin to think that one of the biggest corporations on Wall Street is now about to dive head first into open source development and that the result of this development could send shockwaves through a segment of the commercial software industry.
The freedom to write open source software is the same freedom to write closed source software. If you erode the foundation for the former, then you have no right to demand respect for the latter. That is why when the big copyright cartels lobby Congress, I see nothing wrong in doing things like buying academic licenses for software and taking them out into the real world. The copyright holder makes no profit on the academic license, only the seller does.
I have never met anyone below the age of 30 that knows anything about computers at all that just assumes that AOL is as good as it gets. In fact, I don't even know anyone in the under 25 age group that would even find any appeal to an AOL browser. Firefox is already exploding in marketshare among the under 25 population if my college is any indication. Besides, AIM is already free and so you don't need to buy AOL's service to do all of the things that AOL is "good for."
AOL really is only good for people who can't be bothered to learn anything about the Internet and soccer moms who want "parental controls."
640x480 resolution and what could be an akward user interface. Not only that, but you have to use VNC in order to really do anything at all. Yeah, it's a cool device, but it never had any real world potential. Can you honestly see this taking over in corporate America with the non-geeks? I can't.
The new Vonage WiFi phone is the closest thing to something like this that will actually have potential. Around here, there are a lot of WiFi points that are free. I can go to almost any of the locally owned coffee shops and get free WiFi access. Now that has some potential, emphasis on some.
Spamming is now illegal in the U.S. and they are a company that just got into major accounting trouble when they were WorldCom. The last thing that MCI needs is to have more clients abandon them and more government scrutiny because they support spammers.
Sorry, couldn't help it...
What is with all of this complaining about Firefox not rendering slashdot? I read slashdot at school with Firefox (which is installed on all lab machines) and it renders just like it does in IE. I read slashdot with Camino which is little more than a COCOA port of Gecko, and it renders just fine. What is the deal here?
Then doesn't it belong to the employer?
Seriously, why do we need something like a blogger's "bill of rights?" If you do something on your employer's time that isn't related to your job, then you should consider yourself lucky that either your employer doesn't know or care. You could lose your job for blogging at work, unless maybe your blog is promoting the company's products and services and some manager thinks that is just good free advertisement.
The woman who proposed that blogger's bill of rights got fired because she posted on her blog pictures that could be offensive to some of her employer's customers and let people know where she worked. That's just about one of the things that you DONT DO online. You just don't post comments that can be connected with your employer unless your employer has given you the green light to do so.
Is something analogous to Web Forms. It'd be a great way to encourage people to work towards XHTML compliance if they could write some really slick UI with PHP and "PHP Web Forms" that could be manipulated directly from PHP rather than processed as a regular HTML form.
Then again, I suppose working namespace support is probably a more pressing concern at this point.
I have been using it for about two weeks now and it really is off to a great start. It still needs some improvements, but my experience with Ubuntu is that it is not as solid under pressure as Vida/Gentoo.
Whenever the NYTimes writes a piece bitching about how the Internet is such a horrible place, remember that they have been struggling like a lot of newspapers to grapple with their online competition. They don't want the Internet to look good, their business gets worse as the Internet looks better.
I'm not saying that they may not have some points, but always be skeptical about "old media" coming out with the latest horror story about the Internet. We've known about this problem for years now, but they keep beating this horse over and over. Ever notice how rarely they mention the sting operations that go down very successfully against online kiddie porn sites? Stings that get people in like 10 countries at once?
Well who'd want to hear the cops might actually be winning on something here? Certainly not the NYTimes and other publications because that might mean the Internet is still the "wild west" but the west ain't so wild anymore.
Ask away!! See, that wasn't so hard...
The national debt
;) ) and if everyone goes expatriate, the tax benefits are totally worth it.
The interest we will have to pay on the national debt
Inflation
So basically you can think of an average 0.5% growth as your petty little cost of living increase. Enjoy the Bush tax cut while you can because as he spends like a crackwhore with a stolen credit card, each person's "share" of the national debt will blossum. that means a bigger budget every year and eventually taxes will have to go up big time to keep the leviathan from choking on its own excess.
How about this. Why don't a bunch of IT companies set up shop in Costa Rica and pay their employees to move there? The advantages are enormous. Cheap cost of business, you're close to America, exotic location for the young employees (and exotic women for the young geek men
You sure hit the nail on the head son. I am glad that you recognize that I am without bias, opinion or a tendency to propagandize for my side. My reporting is beyond reproach and I cannot even fathom how someone could insinuate that things might be to the contrary...
*crickets chirping* That's the sound millions of teenage girls not using up bandwidth and disk space talking about boys, jcrew and high school/college drama.
How often do people get modded up on slashdot for posting entries that are nothing more than public docs on a project, links to an obscure mirror of the article or the like? They're not insightful or anything, just basically a rehash of information. The mirrors for example could easily be put into the article post under an update heading.
You're a woman in a relatively male-dominated field. If you play well with the guys, then you're a "rare commodity" because you're a woman in the sciences and you've got a personality that works with the guys. The other women, who can't keep up with you, see you as dangerous competition which you probably are and should be proud of.
We are comparing genders here and I am not saying that a woman has to act like a testosterone-laden butch dyke male-hater to be successful. What I am saying is that she must be as good as a man and be interchangable with the men. There are only two possibilities in most environments that I have worked in: the women compete at the skill level of the men and with the same gung-ho attitude toward achievement or they whine, bat their pretty little eyes and try to get a man to do it.
One of my best friends is a girl that has the "bring it on, fuckers" attitude toward sexism because she got sick of seeing that cry baby and girls like her get their way. She got tired of so many of the women she worked with on her internship using their feminine wiles to get out of work, and she knew that that would end up bighting her in the ass because men aroud her would see 80% of the women ignoring or pushing their work onto others.
My mother passionately despises that tendency in women. She went into federal law enforcement in the 70s when affirmative action had basically no real reach or hold on the old boy's networks. She wanted to be an agent respected for her work, but most of the female agents she worked with wouldn't take tough and potentially dangerous cases and would try to get "one of the boys" to do it for them. It took years for her to finally force her superiors to admit that she was the exception and could be fully trusted to not act like the rest of the female agents in the office.
The funny thing is that most of the time in college that I have been assigned to mostly female work groups, the girls wanted me or one of the other guys to lead. It's been my experience that the one thing that most women truly despise is taking orders from other typical women when they could take them from a man. One of my friends explained as she doesn't have to deal with the same level of pure shit from the men.
No doubt too, most women who have some competitiveness in them would rather deal with a little bit of the shit from the guys (a little potential sexual harassment) than the pure loathing and backstabbing they can get from other women. The cruelest competition I have ever seen has been between women, not men.
Girls are so pampered today by our public education system that most of them are terribly thin-skinned. One of the girls in my CS program used to go into a crying temper tantrum everytime someone more than very, very gently criticized something she said or did. Most of the guys I see are supportive of the girls.
Here's a novel idea though. If you want a man to respect you as a colleague, ladies, then do a man's work and do it LIKE a man. That means you meet or exceed the level of work that a man would in your position. No excuses ladies, just fucking take it like a man.
The girls that I know who make it do that. They don't make excuses, they just compete. They don't whine about sexism, in fact the most successful of them as a "bring it on, fuckers" attitude toward sexism.
The GNOME-Mozilla-Mono "alliance" makes sense when you look at Avalon. It's a good move that is sure to give Linux and other OSS users an option that doesn't involve going to Microsoft. Soooo where is the KDE team in all of this?
Maybe it's just me, but it seems like the KDE guys have really missed the boat here. It seems like they are so caught up building a traditional desktop that they haven't realized that their competition is much more aggressive now.
Not trying to be a troll, just noticing that GNOME and Xfce seem to be getting better and better whereas KDE just seems to be becoming more like Windows in the worst ways.
You have to ask yourself why a large corporation would spend $5,000 for a device that could index probably only a fraction at best of its documents. Google should consider instead offering a Mac version of the software that can run on the Mac Mini and index 100-200K documents for $500/license.