Working for one of those industrial behemoths that does a lot of government contracting, I don't think they would be taking flywheel business away from the people that are already doing it. First of all, industrial behemoths like to partner up with someone who knows what they are doing, and perhaps more importantly, they don't own all the patents.
The guys who were convicted were anarchists, and the whole thing is sketchy to this day. Every once in a while someone will complain about it.
I don't remember the guys (alleged kidnappers) names exactly... saco and panzetti? paco and sanzetti? Something like that. I think they were executed or something.
J. Edgar (or whoever answered the letter) kept einstein from being harassed by some local sheriff. Being thought of as a communist was pretty bad news.
The hardest part about making linux virii is making the infection available in the first place.
The only effective ways I'm aware of involve tainting the source of a major distribution, or the patch to a program.
Since these are very closely monitored, a virus writer would actually have to crack a server, and place a virus/trojan in the code (which did happen to win.tue.nl a year or so back).
Because of this, really strict control by distributors would fix virii problems (excluding worms). And you know what? Having 7 distributions really helps. Having a virus in your distribution code could quite possibly be fatal for your business.
You'd have some failures too if you were being mandated to take the lowest bid on equipment that is being sent off to alien environments.
Whoa, there! Since I work for the company who's fault it would be if it wasn't nasa's, I've kind of been paying attention. I've been led to believe that both of the problem's were actually nasa's fault, not the contractors.
Poor communications both times, I think. Not that the nasa guys don't rock (smarter than me, at least), just don't run around blaming my employer for bad things it didn't do. There are enough bad things it has actually done.;)
And about the lowest bid thing -- I'm not sure what the actual rules are, but I think to some extent you take the best bid -- i.e. cost is a factor, but not the only one. Contractors don't just submit a cost to the gov., they submit a amazingly large document (a proposal) about how they plan to do everything.
While I can give you no great arguments that you're wrong, (other than the fact that there are already --I think -- 500 mhz crusoe chips -- you think it'll take more than five years to hit one ghz?) when has industry-wide development on component of a computer ever slowed down because they had produced the hardware ubercomponent? Who really needs a 1 ghz chip? I would guess that less than a quarter of the computer market needs really fast chips (as opposed to really fast hard drives, or whatever)? Everyone knows the answer : chips are pretty, and so they'll keep making faster ones.
I think the problem with your argument is that you're trying to figure out why one ghz processors would be needed in handhelds. I say that they'll happen regardless of whether or not they're needed. One ghz chips are sexy.
Plus, who knows what cockamaimy scheme somebody'll dream up next year that'll start chewing up mad mobile cpu time? Just because you can't envision it (and neither can I, because if either of us could we could potentially grow rather wealthy -- please let me know if you think of anything) doesn't mean it won't happen.
Besides, the ambitiosity of software is usually directly related to what kind of hardware is out there. People just keep making bigger and bigger software.
On the surface maybe - just like any country supposedly do. In reality, all, and by this I mean ALL really large foreign contracts involve some palm greasing at one point. There is no such thing as a multibillion $ weapon sale without some bribering.
Well, I don't have any evidence to the contrary, but neither do you don't have evidence to prove what you say. And, as I have mentioned before, my company would probably go bankrupt if we got caught doing something questionable. I don't think it would happen.
Well, if you say something bad about a foreign country just to make yours look better, when in fact it is as bad (if not worse), then I belive this is not fair.
Well, I was merely replying to the assertion that airbus was more professional than boeing. In reality, I don't give a rat's a** about boeing. However, whenever someone says airbus is more professional than (fill-in-the-blank), all I can think is "bribery."
And, of course, the whole airbus thing was extremely humorous only because the french made a stink about it, when if they (airbus) hadn't messed up they might have won the contract anyway.
The one-gig milestone may be more symbolic than functional. Despite the ongoing race between AMD and Intel, many analysts say the future of home computing is in limited-function Internet appliances and handheld computers that simply do not require the processing might of these new 1-GHz processors.
Ha!
Reasons for laughing:
In a little while, the internet appliances and handhelds *will* have 1 ghz chips (I don't know exactly when, but it won't be long.)
PC's will go the way of dinosaurs like the mainframe and the minicomputer. Oh, but wait, they haven't gone away, have they?
Unfortunately, not all cases can be tried or investigated. We would have to spend several times as much on law enforcement as we do now.
The FBI, for example, doesn't necessarily investigate every case brought to it's attention. It mostly does the ones that will have the most affect or get the most publicity (don't think they shy away from many kidnapping cases). Sort of law enforcement triage. They have too many cases and too much paperwork to really investigate a majority of them properly.
And, selective enforcement is what brought down al capone (tax evasion).
everybody knows that all big market (planes / weapons / big construction projects) requires bribes.
Well, that's very interesting. I never knew that. Which is kind of funny, because I work for one of those big plane and weapon making companies.
In reality, the U.S. *severely* regulates its contractors (in both their work with the government AND their other work with govs. of other countries). If you disagree with this, you obviously have never worked for one.
Furthermore, the Airbus incident leads me to believe that other countries perhaps do not keep as short a leash on their companies.
My company got caught doing something questionable a couple of years back and was made to pay an immense fine. Furthermore, all the employees (there are six digits worth) were made to undergo special training over the course of three or six years as part of the agreement with the government. If we mess up again we could be barred from doing government contracts, which would be bad seeing as how that's probably 75% of our revenue.
Finally, it's kind of stupid to say that I shouldn't say anything bad about a foreign company because of imperfections in a domestic company.
Anyway, I've been led to believe that trademarks are only meant to apply to certain fields. That's why there can be linux handsoap. If there was some way to trademark images you could trademark the image jvision.gif and sue them back.
I think. The truth of the matter is you might have to go to court. I'd encourage you to stick it to the man, but that just might not be an viable option. You would probably have to at least a$k a real lawyer if there's any basis. Ugh.
The police have to have powers that can be abused. Or else they would be ineffective.
The point is finding a fine line between what is and what isn't. At the moment, law enforcement needs actual warrants approved by actual judges to go to an ISP. I think that's pretty darn reasonable.
Actually, I just checked the GPL to make sure. Derivative works *are* required to be GPL licensed.
However, there are no provisions (that I could find) as to the original author getting to see the source again. It is just that future distributions must be licensed under the GPL, which may or may not result in the original author getting to see the code.
I read some other posts, and was reminded that the NPL and MPL kind of give first priority to the copyright holder. Somebody mentioned the SCSL, although I don't know much about that.
Also, they're probably more suit friendly than the GPL.
I think the artistic license has some provisions for "keeping control" of your project. However, the artistic license has some holes in it that were explained to me once but I now forget them. I won't start a license flame war, but I will suggest the GPL.
The fact of the matter is, however, that if you are the primary contributor to the project, and/or are in the position of the "maintainer," you should have no problems with the project pretty much following your intended direction. If there is enough dissension among your contributors, there is always the possibility a fork will form, but nothing anybody can do can remove anything from your project.
As for making sure that modifications are propagated back to you: This isn't possible under the GPL (which is what you want to use), and isn't really enforceable even if a license did provide for it. However, if you are the maintainer/principal contributor, people will be pretty likely to try to get their code included in the release, and if you use the GPL they will have to use it, and so, for example, they couldn't (legally) distribute their own binary without source.
One more thing : you would have to be responsible (unless you copyright the code to the FSF) for prosecuting anybody who violated the license. I don't think it happens often, but it is something to keep in mind.
I've just spent about three months doing java servlet work.
I've been using JBuilder, which works great for debugging, but it's on win95 (ugh). Someone else said that the linux port is horribly slow, unfortunately.
I'm just going to give you a little advice, vaguely related to what you asked.
tail -f the logs. In your jserv/logs directory there are three relevant logs -- mod_jserv.log, error.log, and jserv.log. I think there may even be hooks in the language to write to the logs from your program, or make your own logs. Logs are very nice.
(offtopic, but not really) I've found the best place to find answers about problems is probably the sun java developers forums. The apache project has some pretty cool stuff too.
I'd kind of hope that the wonders of MP3 technology wouldn't be limited to portable units.
Does anybody know anything about mp3 players for your car (I've already seen the cassette adaptor, I'm talking about the real deal)?
I've even heard someone say something about putting a pc in their car to play mp3's (on a/. thread). Does anybody have any clairvoyance into this matter?
Well, but then you might keep kids from reading something they *should* be allowed to read. And, like I mentioned, filtering doesn't solve the problem of objectionable material.
The crux of the matter is realizing that filters aren't a perfect solution. There is no perfect solution. Even if there was, kids have had no problems looking at bad magazines in the past. No filter will protect kids from that.
I would rather have a library policy and maybe a system of monitoring concerning objectionable material. (I have no problems asking public library patrons not to view objectionable material, I just feel a filter would score only a pyrrhic victory.) A system like this (which was and is in place in the Holland public library, and seems to have worked just fine) is cheaper, more functional, self-policing, and more flexible. Also, it doesn't suppress free speech based on the whims of some company.
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Working for one of those industrial behemoths that does a lot of government contracting, I don't think they would be taking flywheel business away from the people that are already doing it. First of all, industrial behemoths like to partner up with someone who knows what they are doing, and perhaps more importantly, they don't own all the patents.
I'm pretty sure it was sacco and vanzetti. Ha!
Even if there wasn't, half the point of being a geek is making up your own words.
Consider : "wordicize" both an idea and an embodiment of that idea. (hee hee)
The guys who were convicted were anarchists, and the whole thing is sketchy to this day. Every once in a while someone will complain about it.
I don't remember the guys (alleged kidnappers) names exactly ... saco and panzetti? paco and sanzetti? Something like that. I think they were executed or something.
J. Edgar (or whoever answered the letter) kept einstein from being harassed by some local sheriff. Being thought of as a communist was pretty bad news.
The only effective ways I'm aware of involve tainting the source of a major distribution, or the patch to a program.
Since these are very closely monitored, a virus writer would actually have to crack a server, and place a virus/trojan in the code (which did happen to win.tue.nl a year or so back).
Because of this, really strict control by distributors would fix virii problems (excluding worms). And you know what? Having 7 distributions really helps. Having a virus in your distribution code could quite possibly be fatal for your business.
Whoa, there! Since I work for the company who's fault it would be if it wasn't nasa's, I've kind of been paying attention. I've been led to believe that both of the problem's were actually nasa's fault, not the contractors.
Poor communications both times, I think. Not that the nasa guys don't rock (smarter than me, at least), just don't run around blaming my employer for bad things it didn't do. There are enough bad things it has actually done. ;)
And about the lowest bid thing -- I'm not sure what the actual rules are, but I think to some extent you take the best bid -- i.e. cost is a factor, but not the only one. Contractors don't just submit a cost to the gov., they submit a amazingly large document (a proposal) about how they plan to do everything.
I think the problem with your argument is that you're trying to figure out why one ghz processors would be needed in handhelds. I say that they'll happen regardless of whether or not they're needed. One ghz chips are sexy.
Plus, who knows what cockamaimy scheme somebody'll dream up next year that'll start chewing up mad mobile cpu time? Just because you can't envision it (and neither can I, because if either of us could we could potentially grow rather wealthy -- please let me know if you think of anything) doesn't mean it won't happen.
Besides, the ambitiosity of software is usually directly related to what kind of hardware is out there. People just keep making bigger and bigger software.
Well, I don't have any evidence to the contrary, but neither do you don't have evidence to prove what you say. And, as I have mentioned before, my company would probably go bankrupt if we got caught doing something questionable. I don't think it would happen.
Well, if you say something bad about a foreign country just to make yours look better, when in fact it is as bad (if not worse), then I belive this is not fair.
Well, I was merely replying to the assertion that airbus was more professional than boeing. In reality, I don't give a rat's a** about boeing. However, whenever someone says airbus is more professional than (fill-in-the-blank), all I can think is "bribery."
And, of course, the whole airbus thing was extremely humorous only because the french made a stink about it, when if they (airbus) hadn't messed up they might have won the contract anyway.
(Je suis un poisson fou!)
Ha!
Reasons for laughing:
Unfortunately, not all cases can be tried or investigated. We would have to spend several times as much on law enforcement as we do now.
The FBI, for example, doesn't necessarily investigate every case brought to it's attention. It mostly does the ones that will have the most affect or get the most publicity (don't think they shy away from many kidnapping cases). Sort of law enforcement triage. They have too many cases and too much paperwork to really investigate a majority of them properly.
And, selective enforcement is what brought down al capone (tax evasion).
Well, that's very interesting. I never knew that. Which is kind of funny, because I work for one of those big plane and weapon making companies.
In reality, the U.S. *severely* regulates its contractors (in both their work with the government AND their other work with govs. of other countries). If you disagree with this, you obviously have never worked for one.
Furthermore, the Airbus incident leads me to believe that other countries perhaps do not keep as short a leash on their companies.
My company got caught doing something questionable a couple of years back and was made to pay an immense fine. Furthermore, all the employees (there are six digits worth) were made to undergo special training over the course of three or six years as part of the agreement with the government. If we mess up again we could be barred from doing government contracts, which would be bad seeing as how that's probably 75% of our revenue.
Finally, it's kind of stupid to say that I shouldn't say anything bad about a foreign company because of imperfections in a domestic company.
"Yeah, and we would have got away with it too -- if it wasn't for the NSA and their stupid dog!"
It's actually kind of funny.
Anyway, I've been led to believe that trademarks are only meant to apply to certain fields. That's why there can be linux handsoap. If there was some way to trademark images you could trademark the image jvision.gif and sue them back.
I think. The truth of the matter is you might have to go to court. I'd encourage you to stick it to the man, but that just might not be an viable option. You would probably have to at least a$k a real lawyer if there's any basis. Ugh.
The point is finding a fine line between what is and what isn't. At the moment, law enforcement needs actual warrants approved by actual judges to go to an ISP. I think that's pretty darn reasonable.
However, there are no provisions (that I could find) as to the original author getting to see the source again. It is just that future distributions must be licensed under the GPL, which may or may not result in the original author getting to see the code.
Please let me know if I missed something :)
I read some other posts, and was reminded that the NPL and MPL kind of give first priority to the copyright holder. Somebody mentioned the SCSL, although I don't know much about that.
Also, they're probably more suit friendly than the GPL.
Sorry for the innaccuracy.
I have no idea where you could find an online copy of that article (although I'm sure it exists)... I wish I had my copy here. doh.
The fact of the matter is, however, that if you are the primary contributor to the project, and/or are in the position of the "maintainer," you should have no problems with the project pretty much following your intended direction. If there is enough dissension among your contributors, there is always the possibility a fork will form, but nothing anybody can do can remove anything from your project.
As for making sure that modifications are propagated back to you: This isn't possible under the GPL (which is what you want to use), and isn't really enforceable even if a license did provide for it. However, if you are the maintainer/principal contributor, people will be pretty likely to try to get their code included in the release, and if you use the GPL they will have to use it, and so, for example, they couldn't (legally) distribute their own binary without source.
One more thing : you would have to be responsible (unless you copyright the code to the FSF) for prosecuting anybody who violated the license. I don't think it happens often, but it is something to keep in mind.
Many thanks.
I've been using JBuilder, which works great for debugging, but it's on win95 (ugh). Someone else said that the linux port is horribly slow, unfortunately.
I'm just going to give you a little advice, vaguely related to what you asked.
tail -f the logs. In your jserv/logs directory there are three relevant logs -- mod_jserv.log, error.log, and jserv.log. I think there may even be hooks in the language to write to the logs from your program, or make your own logs. Logs are very nice.
(offtopic, but not really) I've found the best place to find answers about problems is probably the sun java developers forums. The apache project has some pretty cool stuff too.
Let's see if they can learn from the DVD people's mistakes.
Does anybody know anything about mp3 players for your car (I've already seen the cassette adaptor, I'm talking about the real deal)?
I've even heard someone say something about putting a pc in their car to play mp3's (on a /. thread). Does anybody have any clairvoyance into this matter?
The crux of the matter is realizing that filters aren't a perfect solution. There is no perfect solution. Even if there was, kids have had no problems looking at bad magazines in the past. No filter will protect kids from that.
I would rather have a library policy and maybe a system of monitoring concerning objectionable material. (I have no problems asking public library patrons not to view objectionable material, I just feel a filter would score only a pyrrhic victory.) A system like this (which was and is in place in the Holland public library, and seems to have worked just fine) is cheaper, more functional, self-policing, and more flexible. Also, it doesn't suppress free speech based on the whims of some company.
Filtering has bad side effects, as many people will attest.
Filters do not always block out bad sites. And sometimes they filter out sites that should not be blocked.
A monitored system with rules on proper usage and appropriate enforcement is the clearly better solution.