Obviously hardly use computers but do drive cars... Clearly a case of that members only act if they feel it themselfs. This also says we only have to wait till "shit hits the fan" mode comes into vision, then members of congress will act on these monstrous tech laws.
Science tells us about what we can observe and test; religion illuminates things that are by nature untestable, like morality, ethics, compassion, and love for our fellow man.
All these things you say are measurable and testable one way or the other...
People just must stop thinking that there is ONE truth, this is the problem with people.
Truth is always relative depending the situation.
Hoi, I am dutch...
Get 2 ADSL accounts at xs4all or similar and use 2 linux based routers to balance traffic between the 2 lines, it will feel very fast for all that way.
Use 3 if you still experience some slowness...
This way it is 10 houses that share the account cost of 1 line but get's room for 3 lines...
Optical lines are only at the outskirts of our main cities so that is not a viable (financial) solution coming years...
I hope this helps...
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Perl was invented to scratch a itch on the commandline, PHP is purely invented for apache and this shows...
The problem is not PHP being "slow", the problem is wrongly usage of the database, mostly mysql.
Some well known PHP programs use more than 30 queries each go, you can understand that of course a high volume site is out of the question...
Further there is also the question with both Perl and PHP, that is a smooth configured Apache that can fork and prefork a number instances from itself to serve connections.
Mainly PHP is a C like interperter on steroids...
The language is very problem solving by nature and very efficient in that it takes a handfull of statements to solve a complicated matter...
I think Perl developers see the same with Perl, my impression is that the same solutions take less code in PHP compared to Perl, but the is my private impression... The largest power of PHP is intuitivity, most constructs you think off work in one or 2 go's while in other Languages often you are buried to death with error messges...
And not to forget, instant gratification, you can do more than 1000 runs in a hour when developing...
This goes for any law...
Law's are for the larger part social contracts for the time period it was written in.
When the spirit of the law is forgotten the chance is large it will be abused or misused by some party.
And this is what we constantly see, we are seeing now the outcome of too many laws that were never taken out of service after it's usage date.
It is getting time that people are going to think of solutions for this as there is a eruption of laws and rules spawn out since the beginning of the last century.
There will be more and more troubles with wrongly used old laws laying around.
And we are only making up more and more rules.
In the end a civil war is inevitable at least to give people a chance to start over, war can be like a forrest fire, lousy for the ones involved but a big room of fresh air after one.
We will see what time brings...
Oh yes, about the dutch judge, he ruled according dutch law that provides a levy to the record and film industry from the sales of empty carriers, which gives dutch citisens the right to DOWNLOAD or record any mp3.
The record and film industry has to make a choice, it's either the levy and a constant revenue stream OR forbid the download and loose the levy and constant revenue.
I know they want both, but life does not work that way, at least not if you want to survive in this world.
This implies that with a licence from the professor i am allowed to twart their(users of this tech) future p2p networks too.
Because at some point in time everybody uses p2p networks.
Every postpone worked out to be worse than expected in terms of human rights...
I lost any trust in MS long ago, whenever you hear the name Microsoft some shit hits the fan...
You better do this with Linux apps, we will thank you for it instead of sue your ass. Leave the incompetent crap for incompetents, might be what you have learned from this.
You are right, the real problem is that most people arent given the time to explore their choices. Mostly time is not given, read taken away by employers, peer groups and spouses.
Also most people are too conformistic to even decide their own choice and let other people decide that for them, life on the path with least resistance.
Promoting OO to my clients to become... As i have small clients, they are not dependent on macro's. Only big companies or very specialized companies get dependend on macro's or better said, the bugs and propriarity rules in the macro system. All others can change without problem...
MS is becomming predictable in spreading FUD where it hurts them in the market... A bit like the bully that get's kicked in the head by the new kid that is not impressed with the bully.
That !Windows media player == !DRM?
Microsift tied all it's DRM to WMP, that is why it will never comply with the EC on this.
This i expect to be a extremely interesting battle, that is if Bolkestein won't be resend to Europe as commisioner by my country.
He is a clasic "give all our rights away to the large companies" case.
I like your post and agree to a large part but 1...
", and nobody has ever won the copy protection battle."
There are a lot of small time winners of these battles, called your local pirate, although not so much anymore now than used to a few years ago... Nowadays more people have means to get that themselfs.
I would even predict that they will win the war as only 1 of the 2 parties involved is standing with it's back against the wall, namely the inflicters of these wars, the people that believe in copyright protection.
People tend to make large mistakes when constantly under pressure, this subject is not different.
The program itself... I remember from my C=64 days some very clever ways of protection of binary runcode involving morphing, decrypting and even help of devices, mainly the 1541 diskdrive with it's own 65xx and I/O chips on board.
For the windows platform the only thing you need is a good debugger ala WIN-ICE and startup the program, the art is to find out where to put the breakpoints and when/where to change data segments. Mainly you let the program itself solve your problem.
And this is the weakest link...
Best copy protection is not to distribute your code, better one even is not writing your code.
The problem started when text based email was upped to be able to have HTML inside. It is the HTML that makes email a marketing tool, without it there is hardly any money to make from sending emails around.
Knowing the corporates it will never happen, they rather close down free email altogether and put on a fee based equivalent. So they will do all they can to ruiening the current system, and what's better than combining marketing and destroying email at the same go...
Simple, get rid of HTML in email, then all marketing/price balance will be ruiened... It will take a few months but if HTML is stopped for email a lot of marketeers loose their jobs...
Slashdot Mirror
Obviously hardly use computers but do drive cars...
Clearly a case of that members only act if they feel it themselfs.
This also says we only have to wait till "shit hits the fan" mode comes into vision, then members of congress will act on these monstrous tech laws.
All these things you say are measurable and testable one way or the other...
People just must stop thinking that there is ONE truth, this is the problem with people.
Truth is always relative depending the situation.
Maybe sites like Slashdot need a open source mergant to handle donations for all sort of open source projects...
Install Linux?
Hoi, I am dutch... Get 2 ADSL accounts at xs4all or similar and use 2 linux based routers to balance traffic between the 2 lines, it will feel very fast for all that way. Use 3 if you still experience some slowness... This way it is 10 houses that share the account cost of 1 line but get's room for 3 lines... Optical lines are only at the outskirts of our main cities so that is not a viable (financial) solution coming years... I hope this helps...
Perl was invented to scratch a itch on the commandline, PHP is purely invented for apache and this shows... The problem is not PHP being "slow", the problem is wrongly usage of the database, mostly mysql. Some well known PHP programs use more than 30 queries each go, you can understand that of course a high volume site is out of the question... Further there is also the question with both Perl and PHP, that is a smooth configured Apache that can fork and prefork a number instances from itself to serve connections. Mainly PHP is a C like interperter on steroids... The language is very problem solving by nature and very efficient in that it takes a handfull of statements to solve a complicated matter... I think Perl developers see the same with Perl, my impression is that the same solutions take less code in PHP compared to Perl, but the is my private impression... The largest power of PHP is intuitivity, most constructs you think off work in one or 2 go's while in other Languages often you are buried to death with error messges... And not to forget, instant gratification, you can do more than 1000 runs in a hour when developing...
This goes for any law... Law's are for the larger part social contracts for the time period it was written in. When the spirit of the law is forgotten the chance is large it will be abused or misused by some party. And this is what we constantly see, we are seeing now the outcome of too many laws that were never taken out of service after it's usage date. It is getting time that people are going to think of solutions for this as there is a eruption of laws and rules spawn out since the beginning of the last century. There will be more and more troubles with wrongly used old laws laying around. And we are only making up more and more rules. In the end a civil war is inevitable at least to give people a chance to start over, war can be like a forrest fire, lousy for the ones involved but a big room of fresh air after one. We will see what time brings... Oh yes, about the dutch judge, he ruled according dutch law that provides a levy to the record and film industry from the sales of empty carriers, which gives dutch citisens the right to DOWNLOAD or record any mp3. The record and film industry has to make a choice, it's either the levy and a constant revenue stream OR forbid the download and loose the levy and constant revenue. I know they want both, but life does not work that way, at least not if you want to survive in this world.
Nice to let your customers bleed for your criminal conduct... More reason to leave them and use a real OS.
This implies that with a licence from the professor i am allowed to twart their(users of this tech) future p2p networks too. Because at some point in time everybody uses p2p networks.
I have only one, cease to exist, this will joy a lot of people...
Every postpone worked out to be worse than expected in terms of human rights... I lost any trust in MS long ago, whenever you hear the name Microsoft some shit hits the fan...
Tell your friends that they are weak and pathetic...
You better do this with Linux apps, we will thank you for it instead of sue your ass.
Leave the incompetent crap for incompetents, might be what you have learned from this.
You are right, the real problem is that most people arent given the time to explore their choices.
Mostly time is not given, read taken away by employers, peer groups and spouses.
Also most people are too conformistic to even decide their own choice and let other people decide that for them, life on the path with least resistance.
Promoting OO to my clients to become...
As i have small clients, they are not dependent on macro's.
Only big companies or very specialized companies get dependend on macro's or better said, the bugs and propriarity rules in the macro system.
All others can change without problem...
MS is becomming predictable in spreading FUD where it hurts them in the market...
A bit like the bully that get's kicked in the head by the new kid that is not impressed with the bully.
That !Windows media player == !DRM? Microsift tied all it's DRM to WMP, that is why it will never comply with the EC on this. This i expect to be a extremely interesting battle, that is if Bolkestein won't be resend to Europe as commisioner by my country. He is a clasic "give all our rights away to the large companies" case.
Yes, but photoshop didn't give us GTK and Gnome. :P
You need a solid underground when programming...
MS and solid? hmm...
Nothing is wrong until some management idiot starts to stand behind you with a stopwatch...
This might be a caracture, but this happens more than you think...
No technique mostly is not stressfull, people are though.
een volk dat voor tirannen zwicht
zal meer dan lijf en goed verliezen
dan dooft het licht....
H.M. van Randwijk
When the people give in to tirans
they will loose more than body and spirit
then the light will extinguish...
my translation to english.
I like your post and agree to a large part but 1...
", and nobody has ever won the copy protection battle."
There are a lot of small time winners of these battles, called your local pirate, although not so much anymore now than used to a few years ago...
Nowadays more people have means to get that themselfs.
I would even predict that they will win the war as only 1 of the 2 parties involved is standing with it's back against the wall, namely the inflicters of these wars, the people that believe in copyright protection.
People tend to make large mistakes when constantly under pressure, this subject is not different.
The program itself...
I remember from my C=64 days some very clever ways of protection of binary runcode involving morphing, decrypting and even help of devices, mainly the 1541 diskdrive with it's own 65xx and I/O chips on board.
For the windows platform the only thing you need is a good debugger ala WIN-ICE and startup the program, the art is to find out where to put the breakpoints and when/where to change data segments.
Mainly you let the program itself solve your problem.
And this is the weakest link...
Best copy protection is not to distribute your code, better one even is not writing your code.
Does this meen we all are going to walk with hats that has a mirror on top?
The problem started when text based email was upped to be able to have HTML inside.
It is the HTML that makes email a marketing tool, without it there is hardly any money to make from sending emails around.
Knowing the corporates it will never happen, they rather close down free email altogether and put on a fee based equivalent.
So they will do all they can to ruiening the current system, and what's better than combining marketing and destroying email at the same go...
Simple, get rid of HTML in email, then all marketing/price balance will be ruiened...
It will take a few months but if HTML is stopped for email a lot of marketeers loose their jobs...