You are wrong. The RIAA is not the creator NOR the markerters. They are the people backing up both the creators and marketers. They make sure everyone is getting a "fair deal" (yeah right). They were formed to "business and legal climate that supports and promotes our members' creative and financial vitality." (RIAA About Page) The people we need to fight against are the ones they are backing. Stop supporting these labels, and they will stop fighting us, and start finding a solution to this problem.
One of my favorite bands cd comes out the 16th, but I don't plan on buying it. I plan on either downloading it or copying it from a friend. Sending a letter to the band, with the amount of the CD, and telling them why. I love the music, love the band, hate the record label. If we make enough noise, the bands will hear us. We won't be able to fight the labels or the RIAA directly, and expect to win. Remember the bands are on our side, not theirs.
That is not always true. Think of the independant artist that WANT to get their music out there, so they give it out for free. Yes, most of the shared music is illegal, but what happends to the ones that are not? The music I make is copyright, but what I do with my productions are my business not theirs.
Law suits like this one are deminishing the market for the independant artists. The web and p2p software make it possible for these guys to get their names out. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a law suit against the RIAA for spreading fear among the polutation to download from p2p so that independant artists can't make it.
They also have been working on a procedual language for PostgreSQL for server side triggers, and functions. Information can be found here, plPHP.
PostgreSQL has made some pretty nice advancements post version 7+, performance and feature wise. I worked on a intranet where the company spent lots of money trying to get an Oracle solution to work, but found it was way to slow. The suggestion of PostgreSQL, and MS SQL came up. We tested PostgreSQL, and it was acutually faster, and easier to maintain then our Oracle database. The best part was, it was free!
That number is probly much much lower. The only way that they could have come up with this kind of money is from their stock, or they playing more games to get their stock back up.
Why does there have to be an practical application for something to be important? This is the Slashdot community, which is News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.
I don't know about you, but I get tired of hearing the plain old news. Most of it is kinda depressing, and hearing stories like this makes you realize how many interesting people there are out there. Sorry, but if I could moderate, your post would be troll. And as for the "nerd mountain", I think you are in the wrong place then.
I'm sorry, but IBM (the company that has made billions in revenue off GNU/Linux) should be floating the bill.
Yeah, they shouldn't have to pay it, but remember they are also threatened by SCO, we all are. IBM might not have trouble staying afloat if SCO wins, but what about the other smaller companies like Redhat?
I think they are playing things smart, by not only protecting their company but saving them money too!
I didn't presume anything, I read the GPL license.
Specificly:
You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying the Program or works based on it.
Once a developer decides to use/copy/update any code under the GPL, he/she is accpecting the GPL license period. There is only one person telling how to license your copyrighted code, and that is the orginal developer of the software.
So if you don't like your code to be licensed under the GPL, go make your own.
If a company doesn't like the GPL, what's wrong with approaching the authors and saying 'Look, we can't live with this, can we negotiate some other license?'.
That is exactly what we shouldn't do. If they don't like the GPL then they shouldn't be using software developed the GPL. Once you start letting one or two get through, they will all want to.
We just have to live by the GPL, and all that it stands for. And if they don't like it, too bad.
You have the wrong idea here. There is a point in which you must realize what information you can release without comprimising the security of your system. While I can give you the plans to my vault, I will not give you the combination, nor the first or second numbers in it.
For the star wars geeks out there, if you were a Jedi, you don't go around telling everyone you're a Jedi, nor do you flash your light saber in public places. They do realize when to show their light saber, and when they can tell people they are a Jedi. Nor do they not tell anyone who they are, or never show their lightsaber.
You might want to check out Secrets and Lies which will give you a better understanding of security philosphy.
Every hacker on the planet has full access to the code - which means that they can review it and find vulnerabilities in it. Not many people have access to Windows or IIS code.
To quote Bruce Schneier: "If I had a letter, sealed it in a locked vault and hid the vault somewhere in New York. Then told you to read the letter, thats not secruity, thats obsecurity. If I made a letter, sealed it in a vault, gave you the blueprints of the vault, the combinations of 1000 other vaults, access to the best lock smiths in the world, then told you to read the letter, and you still can't, thats security." Open source does have an upper hand on holes and bugs, but the code isn't where we should be looking.
The majority of the secruity holes are from the people setting up the web servers. The holes are usually abused by "wanna-be" hackers, or script-kiddies. The problem is that people are not educated enough to run some of these programs. Being able to understand Apache, and how to make it operate correctly is not everyone's top priority. As long as it works, people don't care how it works (as goes for many other things in this world).
Next thing you know, Microsoft will also have to ship with Winamp, and Musicmatch.
The society is becoming something the lazy men try to live off of, the philosphy that "can't someone else do it?". Sun has had its chance to become big with Java, and now are pointing fingers because it isn't their fault (sarcasim).
Microsoft won't be able to compete, but what they can do is possibly buy them out.
Obligitory Simpson's quote:
Bill Gates: Your Internet ad was brought to my attention, but I can't figure out what, if
anything, Compuglobalhypermeganet does, so rather than risk competing with
you, I've decided simply to buy you out.
Homer: I reluctantly accept your proposal!
Bill Gates: Well everyone always does. Buy 'em out, boys!
[Gates' lackeys trash the room.]
Homer: Hey, what the hell's going on!
Bill Gates: Oh, I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks! [insane laughter]
Although this is a nice breakthrough, it still doesn't fix the last mile problem. Other countries, smaller countries have a big advantage in implementing high bandwidth networks. Others like the United States and Canada are still having trouble getting to the last mile.
Rather than keep seeing high bandwidth broadband in (rather) short distances, why not develop a network with decent speeds 500kb/s+ that can go long distances. Wireless helps, but is not quiet there. There have been discussions about internet over power lines, but no standards have been made.
In all honesty I believe the Slashdot whining is because a lot of posters are poor college students or jobless teenagers.
Yeah, but if you are smart about it, you can keep yourself up to speed pretty easily. This is what I have been doing for the past 4 years, and I have been able to stay up with technology.
Evil Secrets Revealed!!
First, I bought my computer, custom built, with pretty good parts. After 3-4 months or so, I would tell my friends, family, and other people that I am selling my computer for X about of dollars, about how much I paid for it.
Once I found a buyer (usually pretty easy), I would then have some good money to then buy another computer, one that is up to date. Most are built for general use, not directed toward gaming or a server.
Then repeat the cycle as needed. There was times that I wasn't able to sell it for what I bought it for, but it did give me a good start, and I wouldn't have to chip in too much more to make it more powerfull.
I found that the best people to sell them to are 1) grads going into college, 2) students in college not looking to spend too much.
It has worked really good for me so far. I am currently running a AMD XP 2500+ (Barton), 512mb ram, 52x burner, 120gb WD SE, 17" LCD, GeForce4 Ti 4800.
Oh, and one more tip: make it look cool, it pulls in real suckers.
Anarchy Online is a game much like Everquest. But it has kinda of a twist to it. The players make up the story line. There is a war going on, between 2 divisions, the Omni, and the Clan. The players have been given the foundation of the starting storyline, but the players (with the help of some special events) keep the story going by fighting the opposing side. It is based on a more technologicly advanced culture. Good place to read into the game's story line, look here.
This would give them a case against IBM, but that still doesn't cover the fact that SCO had an agreement with Lindows to use code. I don't think they have commented on the Lindows issue.
Anyways, I think we have been over this 100 times now.:p
There should be no visiable differance. Take a look at their next screen shot where they compare the two images, and you can see that there is texture filtering being used. It helps to read the article.
Slashdot Mirror
You are wrong. The RIAA is not the creator NOR the markerters. They are the people backing up both the creators and marketers. They make sure everyone is getting a "fair deal" (yeah right). They were formed to "business and legal climate that supports and promotes our members' creative and financial vitality." (RIAA About Page) The people we need to fight against are the ones they are backing. Stop supporting these labels, and they will stop fighting us, and start finding a solution to this problem.
One of my favorite bands cd comes out the 16th, but I don't plan on buying it. I plan on either downloading it or copying it from a friend. Sending a letter to the band, with the amount of the CD, and telling them why. I love the music, love the band, hate the record label. If we make enough noise, the bands will hear us. We won't be able to fight the labels or the RIAA directly, and expect to win. Remember the bands are on our side, not theirs.
Breaking the law?
That is not always true. Think of the independant artist that WANT to get their music out there, so they give it out for free. Yes, most of the shared music is illegal, but what happends to the ones that are not? The music I make is copyright, but what I do with my productions are my business not theirs.
Law suits like this one are deminishing the market for the independant artists. The web and p2p software make it possible for these guys to get their names out. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a law suit against the RIAA for spreading fear among the polutation to download from p2p so that independant artists can't make it.
They also have been working on a procedual language for PostgreSQL for server side triggers, and functions. Information can be found here, plPHP.
PostgreSQL has made some pretty nice advancements post version 7+, performance and feature wise. I worked on a intranet where the company spent lots of money trying to get an Oracle solution to work, but found it was way to slow. The suggestion of PostgreSQL, and MS SQL came up. We tested PostgreSQL, and it was acutually faster, and easier to maintain then our Oracle database. The best part was, it was free!
Sloppy math but...
$8,250,000 / $700 = 12,000 licenses bought?!
That number is probly much much lower. The only way that they could have come up with this kind of money is from their stock, or they playing more games to get their stock back up.
Why does there have to be an practical application for something to be important? This is the Slashdot community, which is News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.
I don't know about you, but I get tired of hearing the plain old news. Most of it is kinda depressing, and hearing stories like this makes you realize how many interesting people there are out there. Sorry, but if I could moderate, your post would be troll. And as for the "nerd mountain", I think you are in the wrong place then.
I'm sorry, but IBM (the company that has made billions in revenue off GNU/Linux) should be floating the bill.
Yeah, they shouldn't have to pay it, but remember they are also threatened by SCO, we all are. IBM might not have trouble staying afloat if SCO wins, but what about the other smaller companies like Redhat?
I think they are playing things smart, by not only protecting their company but saving them money too!
I didn't presume anything, I read the GPL license.
Specificly:
You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying the Program or works based on it.
Once a developer decides to use/copy/update any code under the GPL, he/she is accpecting the GPL license period. There is only one person telling how to license your copyrighted code, and that is the orginal developer of the software.
So if you don't like your code to be licensed under the GPL, go make your own.
If a company doesn't like the GPL, what's wrong with approaching the authors and saying 'Look, we can't live with this, can we negotiate some other license?'.
That is exactly what we shouldn't do. If they don't like the GPL then they shouldn't be using software developed the GPL. Once you start letting one or two get through, they will all want to.
We just have to live by the GPL, and all that it stands for. And if they don't like it, too bad.
Would an intelligent consumer buy white flour from a cocaine dealer? I think not.
No wonder my mom's bread was so addictive!
Get the google cache of the article here:
Google cache
Why do we keep posting articles that we know are only to impose FUD on the Linux/Open source community?
You have the wrong idea here. There is a point in which you must realize what information you can release without comprimising the security of your system. While I can give you the plans to my vault, I will not give you the combination, nor the first or second numbers in it.
For the star wars geeks out there, if you were a Jedi, you don't go around telling everyone you're a Jedi, nor do you flash your light saber in public places. They do realize when to show their light saber, and when they can tell people they are a Jedi. Nor do they not tell anyone who they are, or never show their lightsaber.
You might want to check out Secrets and Lies which will give you a better understanding of security philosphy.
The majority of the secruity holes are from the people setting up the web servers. The holes are usually abused by "wanna-be" hackers, or script-kiddies. The problem is that people are not educated enough to run some of these programs. Being able to understand Apache, and how to make it operate correctly is not everyone's top priority. As long as it works, people don't care how it works (as goes for many other things in this world).
How about lets do something so that planes don't get hijacked in the first place?
I totally agree with you.
Next thing you know, Microsoft will also have to ship with Winamp, and Musicmatch.
The society is becoming something the lazy men try to live off of, the philosphy that "can't someone else do it?". Sun has had its chance to become big with Java, and now are pointing fingers because it isn't their fault (sarcasim).
Cool, but I want it for Mozilla! Not Windows. Check out the Google toolbar for Mozilla
That's why Google made the Google Toolbar. I use this thing so much, I don't know what I would do without it.
Microsoft won't be able to compete, but what they can do is possibly buy them out.
Obligitory Simpson's quote:
Bill Gates: Your Internet ad was brought to my attention, but I can't figure out what, if anything, Compuglobalhypermeganet does, so rather than risk competing with you, I've decided simply to buy you out.
Homer: I reluctantly accept your proposal!
Bill Gates: Well everyone always does. Buy 'em out, boys!
[Gates' lackeys trash the room.]
Homer: Hey, what the hell's going on!
Bill Gates: Oh, I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks! [insane laughter]
Did you just say "cute"? mod him down!!
Although this is a nice breakthrough, it still doesn't fix the last mile problem. Other countries, smaller countries have a big advantage in implementing high bandwidth networks. Others like the United States and Canada are still having trouble getting to the last mile.
Rather than keep seeing high bandwidth broadband in (rather) short distances, why not develop a network with decent speeds 500kb/s+ that can go long distances. Wireless helps, but is not quiet there. There have been discussions about internet over power lines, but no standards have been made.
Evil Secrets Revealed!!
First, I bought my computer, custom built, with pretty good parts. After 3-4 months or so, I would tell my friends, family, and other people that I am selling my computer for X about of dollars, about how much I paid for it.
Once I found a buyer (usually pretty easy), I would then have some good money to then buy another computer, one that is up to date. Most are built for general use, not directed toward gaming or a server.
Then repeat the cycle as needed. There was times that I wasn't able to sell it for what I bought it for, but it did give me a good start, and I wouldn't have to chip in too much more to make it more powerfull.
I found that the best people to sell them to are 1) grads going into college, 2) students in college not looking to spend too much.
It has worked really good for me so far. I am currently running a AMD XP 2500+ (Barton), 512mb ram, 52x burner, 120gb WD SE, 17" LCD, GeForce4 Ti 4800.
Oh, and one more tip: make it look cool, it pulls in real suckers.
Anarchy Online is a game much like Everquest. But it has kinda of a twist to it. The players make up the story line. There is a war going on, between 2 divisions, the Omni, and the Clan. The players have been given the foundation of the starting storyline, but the players (with the help of some special events) keep the story going by fighting the opposing side. It is based on a more technologicly advanced culture. Good place to read into the game's story line, look here.
ppffft, I made my kids not start out on this crap. They started out learning how to program in assembly.
This would give them a case against IBM, but that still doesn't cover the fact that SCO had an agreement with Lindows to use code. I don't think they have commented on the Lindows issue.
:p
Anyways, I think we have been over this 100 times now.
There should be no visiable differance. Take a look at their next screen shot where they compare the two images, and you can see that there is texture filtering being used. It helps to read the article.