Think about it! The Human Genome decomposed and reconstructed in a special way - mutations. Opportunistic diseases are sure to mutate as well and may attack the mutants. The mutants may lack the intrinsic abilities to adapt if mistakes are made in the recombination.
We live in a sybiotic relationship with our beneficial microflora and microfauna; do we want to run the risk of upsetting that balance? Do we want to run the risk of causing a killer bacterium or virus to spread?
Here is the most dangerous part! Do we want there to exist the possibility that the genetic manipulators (biological programmers) may put code into the DNA to cause a breakdown if certain conditions are not satisfied (the lysine contingency from Jurassic Park)?
We could all be turned into slaves. Get ready for THX-1138.
I have an interesting piece of trivia: According to my Biblical studies, I think that we were created perfect in DNA structure with no aging or long-term effects of disease. But, God reprogrammed us to age and suffer sickness. We still thrived and became very powerful because our lifetimes were very long. God then reprogrammed us again to have an average livespan, in general conditions, of about 65 years and scrambled our language to confuse us. These info are from the book of Genesis. Therfore, programming DNA, are we not playing God?
I'm not saying we shouldn't study the genome; I'm saying that we should be most careful of allowing corporations the power to tamper with our genetic structure.
As such, Mozilla is Alpha Level software right now. I think that Mozilla should STAY at the Alpha level as long as possible because that is where the software develops rapidly like a baby in the womb. After the features freeze, so to speak, then the final testing phase (Beta) should begin. Iron out all the little bugs and make it stable as can be. Then release it to a grateful world.
The worst thing that could be done is to release a premature and buggy product - that would kill it surer than if Microsoft bought AOL.
what is this proven theorem going to allow us to do?
I'd like to hear some examples of how this new technology is going to enable us. Will it allow visualization of data? Will it allow additional methods to be applied to the solution of formerly unsolvable problems?
I'd also like to say that I disagree with a previous poster's assertion that Mathematics and advanced number theory isn't science. A mathemetician see's patterns, theorizes, proves; how is that different from working with physical phenomena? Mathematics MODELS the physical - I believe that there isn't ANYTHING that exists that cannot eventually be modeled using mathematics. There is NO SCIENCE without numbers; ask Lord Kelvin.
The Greeks were right... working with numbers is the closest thing to being a magician; there is magic in it undeniably!
isn't what it's cracked up to be. I should know... I used to be in tech support. Let me explain! I was one of those FEW people who actually tried to help. I had customers BEGGING me not to tell them to reboot or reinstall! I got my butt chewed more than once just for fixing someone's problem!
I got a little story for ya. One of the other guys, a young kid, started racking up massively good call stats; we figured out why. When he'd get a call, he'd ask if the problem was hardware or software; if the user replied, "Software", he'd say, "We don't do software support" and drop the call; if the user said, "Hardware", he'd hit the drop button immediately. He got promoted.
While this story may not be indicative of ALL tech support agencies, it is certainly representative of the underlying business plan of most. Get the customer OFF THE PHONE and TAKE THE NEXT CALL.
Take a look at a baby during the early stages of development and you will think yourself looking at an alien. Deformity is a likely candidate for this skull - if the skull is even real.
You can speculate all day but the forensic evidence is what will decide it. The features are human enough for me to lean toward deformed human.
Also, I'm going WAY out on a limb but hey... why not?
I read a story not too long ago from the BBC newssite about how early bacteria were found to have existed even as far back as the molten stage of earth's history. Could life have formed so fast that it existed so early OR did it get seeded here from somewhere else? These bacteria live in the cooling lava fields close to the vent and at the mid-atlantic rift deep below the sea in environments close to what you'd expect in hell. You know how hardy bacteria can be when they're in a less than savory environment - right? They form cysts and get real hardy! Scientists have found bacteria deep in the earth's crust and so high in the atmosphere that it could nearly be called space... is there some kind of bacterial life that can exist in the void of space? I wouldn't be surprised.
These are all interesting questions - questions that lead to other questions... If all life on earth is related... is it to much to suppose that life, if it exists elsewhere, is not modeled on the same DNA type structure with the same types of proteins etc... etc... etc...
Also, is it too much to assume that if there are technological civilizations elsewhere that they may have the tech to do gene splicing or genetic design. Maybe they helped to modify our own genetic structure the way we breed animals? Maybe they are members of a race of humans that had a civilization prior to some distant ice-age and fled the earth...
>Microsoft Corp. lobbyists and allies are aggressively pressing Congress to >reduce next year's proposed funding for the Justice Department's antitrust >division, the giant software company's accuser in a storied court battle.
>Microsoft representatives have urged House and Senate members to cut >President Clinton's proposed funding for the division by about $9 million >this year.
Doesn't Microsoft about that in a day or something? $9 Million is about 10% of DOJ Budget!
>And nonprofit organizations that receive financial support from >the company have also urged key congressional appropriators to limit >spending for the division when they begin their final negotiations on the >Justice Department budget, possibly as early as Monday.
>The nonprofit groups made their request in a letter last month after an >all-expenses-paid trip to Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Wash., >where they were entertained and briefed on an array of issues facing the >company.
YEAH! What's up with the DOJ attacking these non-profit's source of revenue?
>But company officials said they want to send a strong message to the >antitrust division.
Hello... DOJ? Bill is not happy with you.
>But Sen. Slade Gorton (R-Wash.), whose campaign has received about >$51,000 from Microsoft or its employees since 1997, has been an >outspoken supporter of a cut in the antitrust budget.
Surprise... surprise!
>Such an action would "express total dissatisfaction with the way Justice is >handling the case against Microsoft," said a spokeswoman for Gorton. >She added that Gorton, a senior member of the Senate Appropriations >Committee, is "pretty confident he will be able to get [the Senate] number >lowered closer to the House number."
How dare the DOJ mishandle the case with expert testimony, revealing interviews, competant courtroom demonstrations, professionalism, and supported facts?
Microsoft with it's BILLIONS is NOT SUPPOSED TO LOSE! What a terrible precedent it would be if that were true.
Bill will make you an offer you can't refuse. Not.
Yeah, I like the way that Windows automatically tries to load the program when sometimes it's already loaded. I also like the way the autorun sometimes loads multiple times and effectively locks the machine after a few minutes. Furthermore, I like how the CDRom sometimes just keeps reading and reading and reading and wont stop! These are problems with the autoloader that are part of Windows proper.
You can think about it this way... the install functions that actually do the install are not really part of Windows proper - but are usually components of a third party program called Install Shield. By the way, there is a version of Install Shield that will run on any operating system that will work with jars and has Java installed; it looks and works great in Linux!
You said it! One of the reasons that a friend of mine was reluctant to utilize Linux was because it didn't (or so he asserted) have much vendor support; now that appears to be changing for the better. I would become a 3Com customer but for one thing... I'm already a 3Com customer! I will remain a 3Com customer because of their foresight in supporting a wonderful OS like Linux.
When you think Hercules; you think Monochrome Graphics Card. They were practically synonymous in most people's minds!
There was hardly any advertisement, media coverage or any attempt to change perception! They quietly made the best graphic cards there were and just as quietly them a secret.
Companies really need to take a lesson from Microsoft. It doesn't matter how good your product is; if you market it effectively, it'll sell. Heck, they sell cow-droppings and call it fertilizer for crissake!
You say: >How many mobos would Asus need to sell to make a >new design profitable?
Asus has already SUNK the money to design the board; it would be unprofitable NOT to sell it. There is obviously some reason WHY they aren't selling the board and Intel is the prime suspect.
And furthermore, you say: >...and can AMD guarantee a large enough >production run?
We'll see. Banks have a tendancy to invest in businesses with products that are in high demand. Athlon appears to me to be such a product.
Now, I will add something: The Athlon, with the EV6 bus design, is just starting out at the beginning of it's capable operating range; the Pentium is topping out. The only thing keeping the Athlon out of the 200Mhz bus speed and above is the lack of affordable memory that will operate at such high speeds. Athlon is going to drive faster memory architecture development. Athlon is going to be the processor of choice for the forseable future (1.5 - 2years) until the Merced or McKinley chips debut. Athlon is likely to take over the multiprocessor marketshare of Intel due to it's better multiprocessor capabilities (point to point topology). These are all very good reasons, for the one company that has the most to lose, to play dirty.
Your average policeman doesn't track down actual criminals. He/she may be on the lookout for a specific car/person or may be in a chase/manhunt situation but not investigative work. Police Officers write tickets, arbitrate disputes, serve papers, protect crime scenes, cordone off criminal situations, write reports, arrest suspects and eat doughnuts.
Having a group watch the police is a good idea; it keeps the police honest. I am, however, against this group getting in the way of the police. Such would be a violation of law: Obstruction of Justice and/or Aiding and Abetting. What if the group were to get inside a criminal situation? Then they become a liability. They could cause an officer or another citizen to get hurt.
As long as the group doesn't physically alter the officer's situation or expose someone to danger then I have no problem with it. It's just another form of the press.
As for the "through the wall" radar, I feel it could be misused. I don't think that the police would really be the ones to abuse it but I'll bet the Federal Authorities would make extensive use of such a device. Invasion of privacy comes up against National Security once again. I say, let the courts decide. In the meantime, it opens up a market for anti-radar devices.:)
I would like to see Linux be implemented and supported on all architectures so that companies like SGI could say, "Linux is Great! And, it's even better on SGI hardware."
Each manufacturer would contract or contribute to the common codebase so as to make sure that their hardware is well represented - then they make their profit by offering high-availability, scalability, reliability in terms of hardware.
SGI could then say that their hardware provides specific benefits that are undeniable - integration with SGI hardware and extended XFS functions, super optimised OpenGL graphics, super high graphic bandwidth etc...
Everybody wins because applications could be sold that run on any hardware due to Linux's common codebase. SGI applications could be produced that run on IBM RS/6000's or PA/RISC or SparC - it wont matter what architecture you have.
I believe that there is room at the high-end; especially in clustering technologies as well as massively SMP systems. SGI should take their Cray and MIPS technologies and do some of these things. Reduce the cost per node but sell a whole lot more of them!
Well, I don't know about you but...
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I compile, download files, play mp3's with gqmpeg, and either irc, telnet, or play games all at the same time!
Not to mention various other jobs that are scheduled automatically.
I don't want my download slowing down; I don't want my mp3's skipping, I don't want my irc/telnet lagging and I don't want to wait forever for my compiles to finish.
In short, I want ALL MY CPU POWER available for running applications and if I can offload a task to hardware then I'll do it.
However, I've not had such great experiences with Window's version of PnP.
When I take a harddrive out of one machine and put it in another OR switch the motherboard, I usually get duplicated everything and it doesn't tell you which duplicate to remove... you have to reinstall Windows.:(
I can switch motherboards on Linux or move harddrives around with no problem whatsoever!
I wan't Linux's support to be MUCH BETTER than Native Windows PnP!
I understand what you're saying and I agree with it in principle; I just don't know how it's going to pan out in practice.
The sticking point is that the server being used to serve the content is in the cost center of the objecting party. The objecting party may have rights based on the fact that their machinery is being depreciated and are suffering the costs involved in bandwidth and administration.
My proposal, which may need to be amended, is to find a way to avoid such litigation and to award the participants. Your idea of a password protected site would work for the purpose of security but... the whole reason for the litigation is that the serving company wants add revenue - it needs to be publicly available. Can't they come to some mutually beneficial agreement without litigation???
I do agree, however, that it would be a seriously detrimental thing if the internet were to become bogged down in a complicated rights and priveleges quagmire. I'm certainly open to suggestions!
>But it's all a moot point anyway, because he's >advertising their damned movies. They should be >paying him. And if they're that concerned about >it, check the HTTP_REFERER!
Companies are evidently afraid that somebody else is making a profit from adds while using the company's server to offer content.
My idea is that the linker would have his adds to make money, he'd use a frame or something to display a frame-ready page from the company being linked to. The framed page would have it's own adds on it that generated revenue for the company. The company could check the referrer tags and such to award the linking entity for linking.
If such nettiquete could be adhered to, then such things as lawsuits (with the associated common law precendents) and loss of internet autonomy could be avoided.
AOL/Netscape/Sun alliance fighting Microsoft is a good thing - it's competition. I don't see Microsoft withering any time soon; as a matter of fact, I see the ANS getting attacked by Microsoft who has drawn first blood.
AOL is fighting back! Good for them - THIS IS WAR.
The only real problem I see for ANS is that they have distanced themselves from Linux. If the ANS tries to fight both Microsoft AND Linux on two fronts then they will surely lose.
Sites typically WANT the hits so, why not post a LINKING page that is akin to the COPYING document used for the GPL?
The LINKING page could give explicit license to link to the page as long as certain criteria are met - any violation of the criteria voids the license immediately and may cause litigation.
The first site linking to the second site could get monetary compensation for LINKING under license in order to provide incentive to link; the threat of being sued would be the disincentive to link improperly.
One of the criteria might be that contact with and permission from the administrator of the site being linked to is imperative.
If you want the experience that comes with age, you will pay for it. If you hire programmers fresh out of class then that is exactly what you will get.
I'm not saying that green programmers are not capable, no; what I'm saying is, those programmers will make mistakes that could be extremely costly in a fast moving technological world. They will learn from thier mistakes - it's called experience - it's something that the 35 year old programmer has got in abundance.
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Think about it! The Human Genome decomposed and reconstructed in a special way - mutations. Opportunistic diseases are sure to mutate as well and may attack the mutants. The mutants may lack the intrinsic abilities to adapt if mistakes are made in the recombination.
We live in a sybiotic relationship with our beneficial microflora and microfauna; do we want to run the risk of upsetting that balance? Do we want to run the risk of causing a killer bacterium or virus to spread?
Here is the most dangerous part!
Do we want there to exist the possibility that the genetic manipulators (biological programmers) may put code into the DNA to cause a breakdown if certain conditions are not satisfied (the lysine contingency from Jurassic Park)?
We could all be turned into slaves. Get ready for THX-1138 .
I have an interesting piece of trivia:
According to my Biblical studies, I think that we were created perfect in DNA structure with no aging or long-term effects of disease. But, God reprogrammed us to age and suffer sickness. We still thrived and became very powerful because our lifetimes were very long. God then reprogrammed us again to have an average livespan, in general conditions, of about 65 years and scrambled our language to confuse us. These info are from the book of Genesis. Therfore, programming DNA, are we not playing God?
I'm not saying we shouldn't study the genome; I'm saying that we should be most careful of allowing corporations the power to tamper with our genetic structure.
As such, Mozilla is Alpha Level software right now. I think that Mozilla should STAY at the Alpha level as long as possible because that is where the software develops rapidly like a baby in the womb. After the features freeze, so to speak, then the final testing phase (Beta) should begin. Iron out all the little bugs and make it stable as can be. Then release it to a grateful world.
The worst thing that could be done is to release a premature and buggy product - that would kill it surer than if Microsoft bought AOL.
what is this proven theorem going to allow us to do?
I'd like to hear some examples of how this new technology is going to enable us. Will it allow visualization of data? Will it allow additional methods to be applied to the solution of formerly unsolvable problems?
I'd also like to say that I disagree with a previous poster's assertion that Mathematics and advanced number theory isn't science. A mathemetician see's patterns, theorizes, proves; how is that different from working with physical phenomena? Mathematics MODELS the physical - I believe that there isn't ANYTHING that exists that cannot eventually be modeled using mathematics. There is NO SCIENCE without numbers; ask Lord Kelvin.
The Greeks were right... working with numbers is the closest thing to being a magician; there is magic in it undeniably!
isn't what it's cracked up to be. I should know... I used to be in tech support. Let me explain! I was one of those FEW people who actually tried to help. I had customers BEGGING me not to tell them to reboot or reinstall! I got my butt chewed more than once just for fixing someone's problem!
I got a little story for ya. One of the other guys, a young kid, started racking up massively good call stats; we figured out why. When he'd get a call, he'd ask if the problem was hardware or software; if the user replied, "Software", he'd say, "We don't do software support" and drop the call; if the user said, "Hardware", he'd hit the drop button immediately. He got promoted.
While this story may not be indicative of ALL tech support agencies, it is certainly representative of the underlying business plan of most. Get the customer OFF THE PHONE and TAKE THE NEXT CALL.
That's tech support for ya!
Take a look at a baby during the early stages of development and you will think yourself looking at an alien. Deformity is a likely candidate for this skull - if the skull is even real.
You can speculate all day but the forensic evidence is what will decide it. The features are human enough for me to lean toward deformed human.
I try to keep an open mind though...
Also, I'm going WAY out on a limb but hey... why not?
I read a story not too long ago from the BBC newssite about how early bacteria were found to have existed even as far back as the molten stage of earth's history. Could life have formed so fast that it existed so early OR did it get seeded here from somewhere else? These bacteria live in the cooling lava fields close to the vent and at the mid-atlantic rift deep below the sea in environments close to what you'd expect in hell. You know how hardy bacteria can be when they're in a less than savory environment - right? They form cysts and get real hardy! Scientists have found bacteria deep in the earth's crust and so high in the atmosphere that it could nearly be called space... is there some kind of bacterial life that can exist in the void of space? I wouldn't be surprised.
These are all interesting questions - questions that lead to other questions... If all life on earth is related... is it to much to suppose that life, if it exists elsewhere, is not modeled on the same DNA type structure with the same types of proteins etc... etc... etc...
Also, is it too much to assume that if there are technological civilizations elsewhere that they may have the tech to do gene splicing or genetic design. Maybe they helped to modify our own genetic structure the way we breed animals? Maybe they are members of a race of humans that had a civilization prior to some distant ice-age and fled the earth...
Who knows? But it sure gets you to thinkin'
>Microsoft Corp. lobbyists and allies are aggressively pressing Congress to
>reduce next year's proposed funding for the Justice Department's antitrust
>division, the giant software company's accuser in a storied court battle.
>Microsoft representatives have urged House and Senate members to cut
>President Clinton's proposed funding for the division by about $9 million
>this year.
Doesn't Microsoft about that in a day or something? $9 Million is about
10% of DOJ Budget!
>And nonprofit organizations that receive financial support from
>the company have also urged key congressional appropriators to limit
>spending for the division when they begin their final negotiations on the
>Justice Department budget, possibly as early as Monday.
>The nonprofit groups made their request in a letter last month after an
>all-expenses-paid trip to Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Wash.,
>where they were entertained and briefed on an array of issues facing the
>company.
YEAH! What's up with the DOJ attacking these non-profit's source of revenue?
>But company officials said they want to send a strong message to the
>antitrust division.
Hello... DOJ? Bill is not happy with you.
>But Sen. Slade Gorton (R-Wash.), whose campaign has received about
>$51,000 from Microsoft or its employees since 1997, has been an
>outspoken supporter of a cut in the antitrust budget.
Surprise... surprise!
>Such an action would "express total dissatisfaction with the way Justice is
>handling the case against Microsoft," said a spokeswoman for Gorton.
>She added that Gorton, a senior member of the Senate Appropriations
>Committee, is "pretty confident he will be able to get [the Senate] number
>lowered closer to the House number."
How dare the DOJ mishandle the case with expert testimony, revealing interviews,
competant courtroom demonstrations, professionalism, and supported facts?
Microsoft with it's BILLIONS is NOT SUPPOSED TO LOSE! What a terrible
precedent it would be if that were true.
Bill will make you an offer you can't refuse. Not.
Yeah, I like the way that Windows automatically tries to load the program when sometimes it's already loaded. I also like the way the autorun sometimes loads multiple times and effectively locks the machine after a few minutes. Furthermore, I like how the CDRom sometimes just keeps reading and reading and reading and wont stop! These are problems with the autoloader that are part of Windows proper.
You can think about it this way... the install functions that actually do the install are not really part of Windows proper - but are usually components of a third party program called Install Shield. By the way, there is a version of Install Shield that will run on any operating system that will work with jars and has Java installed; it looks and works great in Linux!
NEXT QUESTION?
You said it! One of the reasons that a friend of mine was reluctant to utilize Linux was because it didn't (or so he asserted) have much vendor support; now that appears to be changing for the better. I would become a 3Com customer but for one thing... I'm already a 3Com customer! I will remain a 3Com customer because of their foresight in supporting a wonderful OS like Linux.
When you think Hercules; you think Monochrome Graphics Card. They were practically synonymous in most people's minds!
There was hardly any advertisement, media coverage or any attempt to change perception! They quietly made the best graphic cards there were and just as quietly them a secret.
Companies really need to take a lesson from Microsoft. It doesn't matter how good your product is; if you market it effectively, it'll sell. Heck, they sell cow-droppings and call it fertilizer for crissake!
You say:
>How many mobos would Asus need to sell to make a
>new design profitable?
Asus has already SUNK the money to design the board; it would be unprofitable NOT to sell it. There is obviously some reason WHY they aren't selling the board and Intel is the prime suspect.
And furthermore, you say:
>...and can AMD guarantee a large enough
>production run?
We'll see. Banks have a tendancy to invest in businesses with products that are in high demand. Athlon appears to me to be such a product.
Now, I will add something:
The Athlon, with the EV6 bus design, is just starting out at the beginning of it's capable operating range; the Pentium is topping out. The only thing keeping the Athlon out of the 200Mhz bus speed and above is the lack of affordable memory that will operate at such high speeds. Athlon is going to drive faster memory architecture development. Athlon is going to be the processor of choice for the forseable future (1.5 - 2years) until the Merced or McKinley chips debut. Athlon is likely to take over the multiprocessor marketshare of Intel due to it's better multiprocessor capabilities (point to point topology). These are all very good reasons, for the one company that has the most to lose, to play dirty.
In the future, don't hobble the racehorse!
Your average policeman doesn't track down actual criminals. He/she may be on the lookout for a specific car/person or may be in a chase/manhunt situation but not investigative work. Police Officers write tickets, arbitrate disputes, serve papers, protect crime scenes, cordone off criminal situations, write reports, arrest suspects and eat doughnuts.
:)
Having a group watch the police is a good idea; it keeps the police honest. I am, however, against this group getting in the way of the police. Such would be a violation of law: Obstruction of Justice and/or Aiding and Abetting. What if the group were to get inside a criminal situation? Then they become a liability. They could cause an officer or another citizen to get hurt.
As long as the group doesn't physically alter the officer's situation or expose someone to danger then I have no problem with it. It's just another form of the press.
As for the "through the wall" radar, I feel it could be misused. I don't think that the police would really be the ones to abuse it but I'll bet the Federal Authorities would make extensive use of such a device. Invasion of privacy comes up against National Security once again. I say, let the courts decide. In the meantime, it opens up a market for anti-radar devices.
I would like to see Linux be implemented and supported on all architectures so that companies like SGI could say, "Linux is Great! And, it's even better on SGI hardware."
Each manufacturer would contract or contribute to the common codebase so as to make sure that their hardware is well represented - then they make their profit by offering high-availability, scalability, reliability in terms of hardware.
SGI could then say that their hardware provides specific benefits that are undeniable - integration with SGI hardware and extended XFS functions, super optimised OpenGL graphics, super high graphic bandwidth etc...
Everybody wins because applications could be sold that run on any hardware due to Linux's common codebase. SGI applications could be produced that run on IBM RS/6000's or PA/RISC or SparC - it wont matter what architecture you have.
I believe that there is room at the high-end; especially in clustering technologies as well as massively SMP systems. SGI should take their Cray and MIPS technologies and do some of these things. Reduce the cost per node but sell a whole lot more of them!
I compile, download files, play mp3's with gqmpeg, and either irc, telnet, or play games all at the same time!
:|
Not to mention various other jobs that are scheduled automatically.
I don't want my download slowing down; I don't want my mp3's skipping, I don't want my irc/telnet lagging and I don't want to wait forever for my compiles to finish.
In short, I want ALL MY CPU POWER available for running applications and if I can offload a task to hardware then I'll do it.
Linmodems are not for me.
Is that an african or a european swallow?
Look! It's the old man from scene 37!
What's the capitol of Assyria?
It's only a flesh wound! Oh! I see! Runnin' away ayy? Come back and fight like a man! I'll bite ya legs off!
And now for something completely different...hehe.
The Geek Race! Oh what a skit.
:)
How about this one? I'd lauke to repowt a bur-gul-laa-rey.
Or this one? Mr. Johnson has learned the first rule of not being seen. However, he has chosen a very obvious piece of covah! Kablooey!
Monty Python humor is truly an art form.
He'll be up in a minute!
:)
I'll bet he's laughing his wings off too.
However, I've not had such great experiences with Window's version of PnP.
:(
When I take a harddrive out of one machine and put it in another OR switch the motherboard, I usually get duplicated everything and it doesn't tell you which duplicate to remove... you have to reinstall Windows.
I can switch motherboards on Linux or move harddrives around with no problem whatsoever!
I wan't Linux's support to be MUCH BETTER than Native Windows PnP!
Yeah, after hitting the post button, I remembered it was a machinegun.
They just couldn't get the order right!
I understand what you're saying and I agree with it in principle; I just don't know how it's going to pan out in practice.
The sticking point is that the server being used to serve the content is in the cost center of the objecting party. The objecting party may have rights based on the fact that their machinery is being depreciated and are suffering the costs involved in bandwidth and administration.
My proposal, which may need to be amended, is to find a way to avoid such litigation and to award the participants. Your idea of a password protected site would work for the purpose of security but... the whole reason for the litigation is that the serving company wants add revenue - it needs to be publicly available. Can't they come to some mutually beneficial agreement without litigation???
I do agree, however, that it would be a seriously detrimental thing if the internet were to become bogged down in a complicated rights and priveleges quagmire. I'm certainly open to suggestions!
>But it's all a moot point anyway, because he's
>advertising their damned movies. They should be
>paying him. And if they're that concerned about
>it, check the HTTP_REFERER!
Companies are evidently afraid that somebody else is making a profit from adds while using the company's server to offer content.
My idea is that the linker would have his adds to make money, he'd use a frame or something to display a frame-ready page from the company being linked to. The framed page would have it's own adds on it that generated revenue for the company. The company could check the referrer tags and such to award the linking entity for linking.
If such nettiquete could be adhered to, then such things as lawsuits (with the associated common law precendents) and loss of internet autonomy could be avoided.
Everybody wins!
AOL/Netscape/Sun alliance fighting Microsoft is a good thing - it's competition. I don't see Microsoft withering any time soon; as a matter of fact, I see the ANS getting attacked by Microsoft who has drawn first blood.
AOL is fighting back! Good for them - THIS IS WAR.
The only real problem I see for ANS is that they have distanced themselves from Linux. If the ANS tries to fight both Microsoft AND Linux on two fronts then they will surely lose.
Linux could tip the scales one way or the other.
Sites typically WANT the hits so, why not post a LINKING page that is akin to the COPYING document used for the GPL?
The LINKING page could give explicit license to link to the page as long as certain criteria are met - any violation of the criteria voids the license immediately and may cause litigation.
The first site linking to the second site could get monetary compensation for LINKING under license in order to provide incentive to link; the threat of being sued would be the disincentive to link improperly.
One of the criteria might be that contact with and permission from the administrator of the site being linked to is imperative.
If you want the experience that comes with age, you will pay for it. If you hire programmers fresh out of class then that is exactly what you will get.
I'm not saying that green programmers are not capable, no; what I'm saying is, those programmers will make mistakes that could be extremely costly in a fast moving technological world. They will learn from thier mistakes - it's called experience - it's something that the 35 year old programmer has got in abundance.
As I said, you don't get what you don't pay for.
Michael Douglas... shotgun... fastfood restaurant...
:)
Don't let this happen to you!