I don't feel like like getting my email data-mined.
Thats basically what Google wants to do with your email, if you havn't figured it out already.
And I'm not going to join the horde in Google adulation- Google seem to be quite happy to mine your data six ways from anywhere. I definatly don't want all of my email and searching centralized like that to a company that whilst is a techical genius, seems to have some moral issues regarding personal data and the use thereof.
I'm not going to have a gmail account until that policy gets changed. Go privacy group in UK !!!
Faceitiously, it looks like the US had the right idea when they started calling everything french "freedom". They were just trying to get a point across...
Hm. Well mister, I'd say you should stay in the US for awhile and see how things go. Quite possibly you could work on becoming a US citizen. I think we are a little more advanced(not nessisarily lots) than France wrt these issues.
I read that document actually.
In short, it shows the disadvantages of OO: which there are- and then it shows the advantages of MS.O.
It only goes head to head with OO on one point, the point of integration with the Outlook suite.
Unfortunately, MS makes the assumption that we want more than a write-clone and a basic spreadsheet.MS believes in the extreme abundance of features.
I don't care for gazillions of features, myself.
I want essentially Write from Win 3.1. Anything more tends to be utterly unused.
Spreadsheets need to have math functions, coloring, some decent copy functions, and a decent grapher.(Excel ain't a great grapher)
Anyway, it is mostly FUD.
Now, I like Linux: don't get me wrong.
But that article was bull. ...It was quite one-sided, for one thing.
I've run windows, red hat 8, debian testing, and now mandrake 10 at various times with the gui.
XP is not significantly slower.
Despite what "kludge"-type hacks are in the source code- and there might be many- I'm certain there are- Windows and Linux run at comparable speeds.
The author did not go into any advantages the Windows way offerec in any detail, whereas he was careful to point out disadvantages, and the advantages in Linux.
Next time I see an article, I'd like to see a less-biased article!
Quite frankly I think its cool. Latin is something only lawyers need to know: Esparanto is a joke- I've never even seen a Esperanto publication- online or offline. Elvish is a basically working language, with writing system. Should someone actually know it, they will be quite well prepared to learn another langauge. Learning a new langauge involves decoupling ones awareness from their mother tongue(s), and forcing you to be able to "preverbalize" thoughts so as to use the feature of the other language. Trust me- it bites me in my german class about once every few weeks. XD
Suddenly I am less happy.
#1. M$ is part and parcel of it.
#2. I don't like DRM
Glancing at a document on the site, it would appear that it is a lawyer tool.
Observe from their document:
The primary goal for developing CEL is
to meet requirements for building operational systems for content reference as given in [15], and
to provide an extensible architectural framework for specifying contracts in other potential applications (outside of those for content reference)
The primary function of a contract in CEL is to serve the following purposes:
Evidence: communicate information conveyed within a contract that can be easily and unambiguously understood.
Execution: facilitate permissive, obligatory or prohibitory performance within a contract in appropriate context, integrated with the contracting parties' business processes. This includes determination of whether or not one is allowed to exercise some right, or is required to fulfill some obligation or obey some prohibition.
Evaluation: check permissive, obligatory or prohibitory performance by contracting parties.
This appears to be another tool to control what I do.
So I dislike it.
Interesting.
There are only 3 or so countries there that form a appreciable online presence. France, Canada, and Japan. Of those, Japan has the most right to speak on the internet: they do the most out of all three.
In raw numbers, the US, Japan, Britain, Germany and perhaps Canada are the people who should run the Internet. Sorry, but thats how democracy works.
Definatly Africa and the South Pacific Islands are not large presences online.
Why should Iran dictate internet protocol?
Their track record for technology alone is excrable, not to mention their extremly democratic society. *hem hem*
Anyway, the pols will always win any fight that they are allowed to get a foothold into.
Thats the nature of beauracrats; they want power.
So the best thing is not to let it get into political hands(slimy things that they are).
I think I like the idea that the book proposes.:-/
Paper trails are essential in regard to accounting.
If you handle any money, track it, copy the records, etc. Money gets people uptight.:->
So I think I'll read it next time I see it.
~V'lion
In the framework of our(USA) current laws, certain filesharing is illegal. Other filesharing, like a fast C++ implementation of Simpson's Rule from calculus that I might have written, is very legal.
So, given that there is NO arbirtrary free filesharing that is legal, certain restrictions must be applied to limit filesharing to a point where it becomes non-existant or legal.
These can take different forms: throttling bandwidth, making broadband connections expensive, keeping a eagle on users, locking down the systems to prevent any software installation, etc.
On a moral basis... Copyrights were implemented to help inventors make a profit from their inventions(I might be mistaken there), and to encourage people to invent.
What is, is an abuse of copyright laws by corporations who aim to make as much money as possible; without regard for ethics of sellers. Now, people have a chance to get free music, so they get it- illegal or not.
Random thought: Humans are absolutly worthless... You can`t really sell them, you can`t really buy them.
Here's my thoughts to what SHOULD be: Commodities that are sold should not be traded for free. The sellers should put reasonable prices on things that are monetarily valuable- like food, a CD, etc; and buyers should pay reasonable prices for them, without stealing. P2P filesharing along the style of Napster would take place for things that aren`t worth selling or are offered for free.
Utopia, anyone? *grin*
Quite frankly and in the present... I don`t mind people dling a few illgal files every now and then. Its when things like movies, games or whole CDs get tossed around routinly that I dislike it.
Its in terms of magnitude to me- Some illegal things are bigger than other illegal things. In this situation, $$ is a determiner of magnitude of illegality(unfortantly). Let's not get into the morality of buying and selling here, please.
A large group of people don`t try before they buy, they just try, and don`t bother buying.
In terms of market economics, that says: A block of people will copy the commodity and use it, and not pay us for the time+effort we spend making it. That reduces our profit. It is the same as stealing, but instead of there only being an upcopyable object being passed around, its a copyable object that propagates.:-)
sorry about the long post, but I wabted to make some points precisly.
Slashdot Mirror
This isn't a news bit for computer people.
This isn't something that genuinely matters to the general public.
Yes, 1)The original poster is a creep, and 2)there should be less cameras. We all agree, so what's the point of putting it on slashdot?
I don't feel like like getting my email data-mined.
Thats basically what Google wants to do with your email, if you havn't figured it out already.
And I'm not going to join the horde in Google adulation- Google seem to be quite happy to mine your data six ways from anywhere. I definatly don't want all of my email and searching centralized like that to a company that whilst is a techical genius, seems to have some moral issues regarding personal data and the use thereof.
I'm not going to have a gmail account until that policy gets changed. Go privacy group in UK !!!
Faceitiously, it looks like the US had the right idea when they started calling everything french "freedom". They were just trying to get a point across...
Hm.
Well mister, I'd say you should stay in the US for awhile and see how things go. Quite possibly you could work on becoming a US citizen. I think we are a little more advanced(not nessisarily lots) than France wrt these issues.
We'll have nuclear fusion, tomorrow, or maybe Tuesday, but definately be next year, or maybe the year after!
You better believe it ! (Notepad ~ Pico/Nano) > vi/vim ($ALL_EDITOR) > vi/vim *wink and grin*
I read that document actually. In short, it shows the disadvantages of OO: which there are- and then it shows the advantages of MS.O. It only goes head to head with OO on one point, the point of integration with the Outlook suite. Unfortunately, MS makes the assumption that we want more than a write-clone and a basic spreadsheet.MS believes in the extreme abundance of features. I don't care for gazillions of features, myself. I want essentially Write from Win 3.1. Anything more tends to be utterly unused. Spreadsheets need to have math functions, coloring, some decent copy functions, and a decent grapher.(Excel ain't a great grapher) Anyway, it is mostly FUD.
I read the article all the way through.
Now, I like Linux: don't get me wrong. But that article was bull.
...It was quite one-sided, for one thing.
I've run windows, red hat 8, debian testing, and now mandrake 10 at various times with the gui. XP is not significantly slower. Despite what "kludge"-type hacks are in the source code- and there might be many- I'm certain there are- Windows and Linux run at comparable speeds.
The author did not go into any advantages the Windows way offerec in any detail, whereas he was careful to point out disadvantages, and the advantages in Linux.
Next time I see an article, I'd like to see a less-biased article!
the french are always so...french about things...its funny. -end gratuitos slam at stereotypical frenchpeople- ;)
I see Longhorn ain't going to play nice with even XP-class machines. Oh well, not like I wanted my rights digitally managed anyway.
Quite frankly I think its cool.
Latin is something only lawyers need to know: Esparanto is a joke- I've never even seen a Esperanto publication- online or offline.
Elvish is a basically working language, with writing system.
Should someone actually know it, they will be quite well prepared to learn another langauge.
Learning a new langauge involves decoupling ones awareness from their mother tongue(s), and forcing you to be able to "preverbalize" thoughts so as to use the feature of the other language. Trust me- it bites me in my german class about once every few weeks. XD
Suddenly I am less happy. #1. M$ is part and parcel of it. #2. I don't like DRM Glancing at a document on the site, it would appear that it is a lawyer tool. Observe from their document: The primary goal for developing CEL is to meet requirements for building operational systems for content reference as given in [15], and to provide an extensible architectural framework for specifying contracts in other potential applications (outside of those for content reference) The primary function of a contract in CEL is to serve the following purposes: Evidence: communicate information conveyed within a contract that can be easily and unambiguously understood. Execution: facilitate permissive, obligatory or prohibitory performance within a contract in appropriate context, integrated with the contracting parties' business processes. This includes determination of whether or not one is allowed to exercise some right, or is required to fulfill some obligation or obey some prohibition. Evaluation: check permissive, obligatory or prohibitory performance by contracting parties. This appears to be another tool to control what I do. So I dislike it.
Interesting. There are only 3 or so countries there that form a appreciable online presence. France, Canada, and Japan. Of those, Japan has the most right to speak on the internet: they do the most out of all three. In raw numbers, the US, Japan, Britain, Germany and perhaps Canada are the people who should run the Internet. Sorry, but thats how democracy works. Definatly Africa and the South Pacific Islands are not large presences online. Why should Iran dictate internet protocol? Their track record for technology alone is excrable, not to mention their extremly democratic society. *hem hem* Anyway, the pols will always win any fight that they are allowed to get a foothold into. Thats the nature of beauracrats; they want power. So the best thing is not to let it get into political hands(slimy things that they are).
heh yea, Rahl definatly got old.
But naturally, when a car crashes, a wheel will roll from the crash.
See Soul Music for reference...
*wink*
I thought the first few Harrington books were alright- the first 3 or 4. Then it got really weak...
I think I like the idea that the book proposes. :-/
Paper trails are essential in regard to accounting.
If you handle any money, track it, copy the records, etc. Money gets people uptight. :->
So I think I'll read it next time I see it.
~V'lion
In the framework of our(USA) current laws, certain filesharing is illegal.
:-)
Other filesharing, like a fast C++ implementation of Simpson's Rule from calculus that I might have written, is very legal.
So, given that there is NO arbirtrary free filesharing that is legal, certain restrictions must be applied to limit filesharing to a point where it becomes non-existant or legal.
These can take different forms: throttling bandwidth, making broadband connections expensive, keeping a eagle on users, locking down the systems to prevent any software installation, etc.
On a moral basis...
Copyrights were implemented to help inventors make a profit from their inventions(I might be mistaken there), and to encourage people to invent.
What is, is an abuse of copyright laws by corporations who aim to make as much money as possible; without regard for ethics of sellers.
Now, people have a chance to get free music, so they get it- illegal or not.
Random thought:
Humans are absolutly worthless...
You can`t really sell them, you can`t really buy them.
Here's my thoughts to what SHOULD be:
Commodities that are sold should not be traded for free.
The sellers should put reasonable prices on things that are monetarily valuable- like food, a CD, etc; and buyers should pay reasonable prices for them, without stealing. P2P filesharing along the style of Napster would take place for things that aren`t worth selling or are offered for free.
Utopia, anyone? *grin*
Quite frankly and in the present...
I don`t mind people dling a few illgal files every now and then.
Its when things like movies, games or whole CDs get tossed around routinly that I dislike it.
Its in terms of magnitude to me-
Some illegal things are bigger than other illegal things.
In this situation, $$ is a determiner of magnitude of illegality(unfortantly).
Let's not get into the morality of buying and selling here, please.
A large group of people don`t try before they buy, they just try, and don`t bother buying.
In terms of market economics, that says:
A block of people will copy the commodity and use it, and not pay us for the time+effort we spend making it. That reduces our profit.
It is the same as stealing, but instead of there only being an upcopyable object being passed around, its a copyable object that propagates.
sorry about the long post, but I wabted to make some points precisly.