Not sour grapes. Choice and innovation. It doesn't matter if Linux remains the number one forever, at least they wrote something of which the Linux developers and the rest of the world can learn from.
Good one. I hadn't thought of that. Of course you can tailor Linux but it would be far quicker to tailor HURD. Just write what you want and plug it in. You could probably even make the Mach kernel smaller if necessary. It wouldn't surprise me if there isn't already a mobile Mach out there.
Mind you, ideally should we be using UNIX for most portable devices?
Lots of things work that we don't use any more. Travelling by horse works. Hand printing books works.
It's not whether it works, it's whether the users of it (or in this case, the developers) have their lives made easier. After ten years or less, development on the Linux kernel will have stopped as there will be too many faciltiies to try and put in.
It's actually been legal since July this year. However, you wouldn't know it. We still send all of our contracts out from here FedEx around the world even though all of our authors have e-mail. And most companies won't allow digital signing of things (except of course for credit card transactions). However, the Royal Mail is supposedly going to be sending out digital signatures to everyone (or nearly everyone) so that we can use that to prove it is us and obviously the Royal Mail will vouch for its authenticity.
So far, there haven't been any high profile court battles over this - or none that I have heard of anyway.
I went to a talk at the O'Reilly OS Convention on this. VA Linux are trying to develop a Multicasting File Distribution protocol but it hadn't been completed at the time. The problem is that TCP demands a packet is sent back whenever you correctly receive a packet. MBONE and multicasting packets don't demand this as with multimedia it doesn't matter if the odd packet goes awry.
With file distribution, it will only work over LANs or with a limited agreed subset of MBONE servers as if one packet doesn't get to one of its destination it has to be multicast to everyone else again.
Win 2K is much better, yes. It can crash, but so can Linux if you use the Lucent Winmodem driver. I agree, that it is still pants.
However, things Win2K has that Linux really should have include having to press control alt delete to log on (it stops people putting fake logon screens) and the hibernate function. I use hibernate as it allows me to get back into my machine at the point I left off, quickly. Okay, I can't leave Outlook 2000 running, unless I want some really weird bugs to occur, but it still boots up fast. If only I were a proficient enough coder, I'd add the features. I presume the control-alt-delete login function can be added without too much effort.
No, Piranha is only installed under specific circumstances too. You need to install the clustering technology (and I think you have to buy the more expensive distribution to do so)
That 486 is more than capable of being a firewall. Obviously if it was trying to cope with numerous users it wouldn't work, but it'll be fine for just 1-5 users. You could even stick squid on it and so have a proxy server and it'll cope. You'll have to do some jiggery pokery if you want to be able to ssh to your machine from outside though, but hey, that's what life's all about!
I'm sorry, when was it generally decided that capitalism is the best model for the development of society? It is the best model to promote self-interest in individuals and so perhaps the best model to get activity out of a society's individuals, but that doesn't mean that it is the best way to develop society further.
Capitalism is ultimately self-defeating, it relies on at least a limited exploitation and is linked strongly to interest rates and other such invented concepts. Money is worthless, yet we fasten monetary value to objects and services that are all important and the value fluctuates madly.
Yes communism isn't the best form, but there are more kinds of political thought that capitalism and communism. A system which takes account of the society better, rather than the hard working achieving individuals would be better.
The US government can't shut down the Internet. It can shut it off for everyone in the US (if it doesn't violate your constitution) but the Internet hasn't been a US thing for a while now. That was the whole point behind it, no single point of failure, and that includes countries now.
This proprietary library license thing might be the failure of this package. They should LGPL all of their libraries and just close source the IDE and everything else. Then we can make open source applications on it.
The above is a good comment. If you visit the GNU website then there is a page off there somewhere listing all (or many) of the other open source licenses. Find one that roughly fits the above model and change it to suit your needs.
The real reason it is expensive is because housing is HUGELY expensive in London because there isn't enough room for the amount of people trying to live there.
However, to be different, Hull in the North of England is unique in Britain in having its own telecommunications provider which give cheap and fast 'net access years before the rest of the country. It used to be (and still is) a shipping city so I have know idea what IT work is available up there, but I know there is a fair bit. Plus, you're near roads, airports, etc.
Firstly, the publishing industry is a bit like the music industry - the printing house tends to own much of the intellectual property so you will have to ensure before getting your book published that the contract enables you to distribute it via electronic means (or the publishers will do it for you)
Secondly, you might not want to print anything until it has been edited and proof-read. This isn't just a professional plug from an editor, but every piece of work needs editing and proof reading. There is no way the author can perfect a piece of work no matter how often he or she looks at it.
In essence, there should be no problem, but as I said, make sure that the publishers don't own complete distribution rights to the book before you try and distribute electronically.
And you have to pay per installation of Solaris, and per support query. You can't have a team of qualified Solaris people ready to nail down any bizarre bug in the OS. You can with Linux. Also, it is cheaper to replace PCs than it is to replace SPARC servers. The electricity cost will be high but SPARC servers aren't exactly environmentally conscious either what with them having multiple PSUs/processors etc. As was the initial investment but the rest of the costs are negligible and it works. The Solaris server we had at uni. was constantly needing reboots and various tools had to be removed as they just didn't work properly.
Although I don't agree with everything you said and the tone with which you said it, I agree with the principle.
Pirating is illegal and if a shop sold pirating tools (even if on behalf of someone else innocently) it would be prosecuted. If you want to distribute pirated stuff, you either have to do it free of charge over newsgroups, or find your self a server in a country where it doesn't apply - like Turkey. The Internet servers are still governed by the laws of the country they reside in.
Shut up. If you are going to speak bollocks, only speak it in your pants. There is nothing in the open source principle that says communism. Just as there is nothing in the US principle of free speech that implies you're borderline communists either. AND people have been making money out of Linux, certainly more money than Amazon makes.
Yes he lost the plot a bit but not completely. We are not saying that everything should be open and free. Just things that don't really exist in the physical world - like ideas (and the source code to software).
Patents try and copyright ideas but there are strict guidelines. Words can be copyrighted. Music can be copyrighted. However, an idea shared (e.g. the idea that there are parallel universes) is and should be uncopyrightable. This is how we learn through the exchange of ideas - almost every idea/piece of information we have stems from someone else's idea.
The fact is that the copyright laws that were invented to protect authors (and publishers) when the printing press was created was and could be extended to other physical distributions of media. However, as we found in the software world where licenses were needed, copyright couldn't apply to non-physical media. Yes there are clauses added now so that you can't type up a book and put it on your computer to distribute (partially because it can be printed off and so break the original copyright ruling) but the law is and has been vague for some time about who owns electronic media. To finish off, remember that when you buy a piece of software, you don't actually buy anything. You pay for the right to use the software on the author's terms. Ownership is never transferred to you. Ideas, when shared around, do the opposite. Everyone who comes into contact with it owns it and can do with it what they like - except that when it is passed on, more and more people will own it.
In the UK the law is pretty much the same. The idea is that they ban just about all forms of reproduction (unless they permit you to do it) so that it make it easier to prosecute you should they feel like it.
However, obviously they don't generally enforce the rule as 80% of their customers will be in prison. The same rule applies to recording things off the radio or TV - but it is tolerated/allowed as it is impossible to enforce.
I'm afraid the Net is semi-censorable. The Internet as a global phenomenon isn't, but each server in each country is censorable by that country. Each country could also attempt to refuse to allow certain packets from certain sites to pass through the routers in that country just to be really Nazi-esque.
Thankfully, it is hell to do and most governments aren't really bothering as most politicians seem not to come from the IT world. A concerted effort on the part of various countries could restrict the Net - it is just whether we can all be that cooperative.
If I have to work to live I really wouldn't care what I look like as long as pain is absent from my life Hmmm. I'm afraid that isn't true. Even during the hardest hardships, people still find time for escapism. For instance, when times are hardest, people spend more money on drugs/alcohol. We need either self esteem or some other kind of escape to fill any time we have.
You stated something in your article: -Was Picasso more intelligent than Einstein that almost hits the nail. Creativity is born from adversity. A genetically perfect individual has less adversity (of a physical kind) than another. If we spent too much effort making our kids perfect, we would breed out an essential part of humankind. A child that is never ill and has no problems with learning, is going to be less creative than the one who has to cope.
I would like to find more about it but you have given the wrong address. I have been wondering for ages why this idea hadn't been pursued. I just assumed the microwaves would cook everything in it's way...
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Not sour grapes. Choice and innovation. It doesn't matter if Linux remains the number one forever, at least they wrote something of which the Linux developers and the rest of the world can learn from.
Mind you, ideally should we be using UNIX for most portable devices?
It's not whether it works, it's whether the users of it (or in this case, the developers) have their lives made easier. After ten years or less, development on the Linux kernel will have stopped as there will be too many faciltiies to try and put in.
So far, there haven't been any high profile court battles over this - or none that I have heard of anyway.
With file distribution, it will only work over LANs or with a limited agreed subset of MBONE servers as if one packet doesn't get to one of its destination it has to be multicast to everyone else again.
However, things Win2K has that Linux really should have include having to press control alt delete to log on (it stops people putting fake logon screens) and the hibernate function. I use hibernate as it allows me to get back into my machine at the point I left off, quickly. Okay, I can't leave Outlook 2000 running, unless I want some really weird bugs to occur, but it still boots up fast. If only I were a proficient enough coder, I'd add the features. I presume the control-alt-delete login function can be added without too much effort.
No, Piranha is only installed under specific circumstances too. You need to install the clustering technology (and I think you have to buy the more expensive distribution to do so)
That 486 is more than capable of being a firewall. Obviously if it was trying to cope with numerous users it wouldn't work, but it'll be fine for just 1-5 users. You could even stick squid on it and so have a proxy server and it'll cope. You'll have to do some jiggery pokery if you want to be able to ssh to your machine from outside though, but hey, that's what life's all about!
Capitalism is ultimately self-defeating, it relies on at least a limited exploitation and is linked strongly to interest rates and other such invented concepts. Money is worthless, yet we fasten monetary value to objects and services that are all important and the value fluctuates madly.
Yes communism isn't the best form, but there are more kinds of political thought that capitalism and communism. A system which takes account of the society better, rather than the hard working achieving individuals would be better.
The US government can't shut down the Internet. It can shut it off for everyone in the US (if it doesn't violate your constitution) but the Internet hasn't been a US thing for a while now. That was the whole point behind it, no single point of failure, and that includes countries now.
This proprietary library license thing might be the failure of this package. They should LGPL all of their libraries and just close source the IDE and everything else. Then we can make open source applications on it.
The above is a good comment. If you visit the GNU website then there is a page off there somewhere listing all (or many) of the other open source licenses. Find one that roughly fits the above model and change it to suit your needs.
However, to be different, Hull in the North of England is unique in Britain in having its own telecommunications provider which give cheap and fast 'net access years before the rest of the country. It used to be (and still is) a shipping city so I have know idea what IT work is available up there, but I know there is a fair bit. Plus, you're near roads, airports, etc.
I'll still plug my laptop into the stereo for now, if it's all the same with you.
Secondly, you might not want to print anything until it has been edited and proof-read. This isn't just a professional plug from an editor, but every piece of work needs editing and proof reading. There is no way the author can perfect a piece of work no matter how often he or she looks at it.
In essence, there should be no problem, but as I said, make sure that the publishers don't own complete distribution rights to the book before you try and distribute electronically.
And you have to pay per installation of Solaris, and per support query. You can't have a team of qualified Solaris people ready to nail down any bizarre bug in the OS. You can with Linux. Also, it is cheaper to replace PCs than it is to replace SPARC servers. The electricity cost will be high but SPARC servers aren't exactly environmentally conscious either what with them having multiple PSUs/processors etc. As was the initial investment but the rest of the costs are negligible and it works. The Solaris server we had at uni. was constantly needing reboots and various tools had to be removed as they just didn't work properly.
Pirating is illegal and if a shop sold pirating tools (even if on behalf of someone else innocently) it would be prosecuted. If you want to distribute pirated stuff, you either have to do it free of charge over newsgroups, or find your self a server in a country where it doesn't apply - like Turkey. The Internet servers are still governed by the laws of the country they reside in.
Shut up. If you are going to speak bollocks, only speak it in your pants. There is nothing in the open source principle that says communism. Just as there is nothing in the US principle of free speech that implies you're borderline communists either.
AND people have been making money out of Linux, certainly more money than Amazon makes.
Patents try and copyright ideas but there are strict guidelines. Words can be copyrighted. Music can be copyrighted. However, an idea shared (e.g. the idea that there are parallel universes) is and should be uncopyrightable. This is how we learn through the exchange of ideas - almost every idea/piece of information we have stems from someone else's idea.
The fact is that the copyright laws that were invented to protect authors (and publishers) when the printing press was created was and could be extended to other physical distributions of media. However, as we found in the software world where licenses were needed, copyright couldn't apply to non-physical media. Yes there are clauses added now so that you can't type up a book and put it on your computer to distribute (partially because it can be printed off and so break the original copyright ruling) but the law is and has been vague for some time about who owns electronic media.
To finish off, remember that when you buy a piece of software, you don't actually buy anything. You pay for the right to use the software on the author's terms. Ownership is never transferred to you. Ideas, when shared around, do the opposite. Everyone who comes into contact with it owns it and can do with it what they like - except that when it is passed on, more and more people will own it.
However, obviously they don't generally enforce the rule as 80% of their customers will be in prison. The same rule applies to recording things off the radio or TV - but it is tolerated/allowed as it is impossible to enforce.
I'm afraid the Net is semi-censorable. The Internet as a global phenomenon isn't, but each server in each country is censorable by that country. Each country could also attempt to refuse to allow certain packets from certain sites to pass through the routers in that country just to be really Nazi-esque.
Thankfully, it is hell to do and most governments aren't really bothering as most politicians seem not to come from the IT world. A concerted effort on the part of various countries could restrict the Net - it is just whether we can all be that cooperative.
If I have to work to live I really wouldn't care what I look like as long as pain is absent from my life Hmmm. I'm afraid that isn't true. Even during the hardest hardships, people still find time for escapism. For instance, when times are hardest, people spend more money on drugs/alcohol. We need either self esteem or some other kind of escape to fill any time we have.
You stated something in your article: -Was Picasso more intelligent than Einstein that almost hits the nail. Creativity is born from adversity. A genetically perfect individual has less adversity (of a physical kind) than another. If we spent too much effort making our kids perfect, we would breed out an essential part of humankind. A child that is never ill and has no problems with learning, is going to be less creative than the one who has to cope.
I would like to find more about it but you have given the wrong address. I have been wondering for ages why this idea hadn't been pursued. I just assumed the microwaves would cook everything in it's way...