But the UK tv licence company might demand that the macs tuner be locked somehow, which means apple software engineers would have to implement that. If UK stays cool, other countries like Italy make you pay taxes for mere possession of a tv so they would have to supply either a locked or stripped iMac version for that market.
Also, digital video streaming of tv programs is already (legally) appearing in such places as residential intranets.
Think back to any science fiction movie from that era -- virtually none of them have stood the test of time, because they're simply unbelievable.
Strictly speaking I can agree, but some way older SF is quite believable and introduces to some serious issues: think "The day the earth stood still", and "Forbidden Planet" (All time personal favourite for humble me).
I completely agree. Its at first place in my personal preference.
It is one of the most accurate SF movies ever made (the only out of place thing being the clicking teletype-style "brain" of Robbie the robot). It also has a terrific plot, and what about being the first mainstream movie featuring an all-electronic soundtrack, in 1956?
On the other hand, I wonder why the Blade Runner authors thought that genetically engineered beings would need body parts like eyes to be manufactured separately, or why the 2001 authors thought that the human like behaviour of HAL, which was part of the interface to human, could take over the entire system...
That would send a message to those who havent yet realized what does spam means for the average internet user.
But many people are not going to switch for a different political candidate for this only reason. I urge these people to voice their concern about being spammed by the person whom you choose to vote: if i were Austraian Id send this guy a polite but firm email expressing my disappointment... with a misleading subject, of course;)
I like hostAP, but its not the easiest or best solution in all circumstsances.
In fact, for small LAN requirements, I just use a 802.11b ad hoc configuration: I just need to give the win/linux clients a static IP/mask/DNS and let my laptop be the NAT router/firewall with a DSL connection to the net. All you need is the wireless tools packages that you have already installed to try out wifi.
Shell is an established oil company, you are assuming it could become a key player in the business of fusion reactor but that's not certain at all, especially if fusion is left to private funded research.
You are right, I misunderstood. Too much FUD spread about the GPL prompted me to reply that way, I think:)
Then, it doesn't make sense that the AC parent post cites GNU, anyway. The topic is about code for which one surrenders copyright that might end up 0wn3d by a corporation: one must be quite a paranoid to be concerned about such possibility when submitting stuff to GNU...
If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.
one line to give the program's name and an idea of what it does. Copyright (C) yyyy name of author
...(license follows)...
That doesn't seem like surrendering your copyright to GNU...
If you were referring to the restrictions placed on the distribution of code you add to a GPL project, if you don't like them start your own project and license it the way you like, period.
Religion fuels current social problems no more than IT fuels the spread of worms and viruses. People interpreting scriptures and dictating what other people must believe cause social problems. People disobeying scriptures cause social problems too (they will also burn in hell, later;) )
Back to the topic, we haven't the power to discuss what God's vision is because we cannot define what God is. So if some scientific breakthrough contradicts what is FELT to be God's vision I'd prefer we don't have an useless "Galileo vs the Inquisition" argument all over again. IMHO every accurate scientific discovery and every doubt and objection on the interpretation of the Scripture is good for a broader understanding of what we are and what God may want from us - if it's there.
What are you talking about? linux is a clear winner there, for me.
installation from source: 90% success and a stable system.
windows installer: 100% failure for I have a PowerPC:P
If you are talking about the average installer for a static office app, windows is a tad easier, but try an audio card with dsp like the pulsar with its own controlling platform and then a sequencer over it, then see how easy it is to install and run. And it's Windows fault as the same hardware on a mac OS works a lot better (and installation is a bit easier too)
Let's assume that this solution is ethically acceptable, that the pharmaceutical companies can be trusted on messing with childrens' brains, and that the vaccine works flawlessly for opium and derivates, marijuana, tobacco, alcohol.
Do you expect that organized crime will give up on drug dealing? Nope, they will push other drugs that will need a new vaccine to be developed, if possible. I don't think a neural system can withstand so many vaccines without side effects.
Do you expect that youngsters will give up on trying to feel high? Nope, they will find other ways: if it's not illegal substances it will be with illegal activities like gambling, shooting people, running with a car at 100mph. Some people simply want to escape from the cage modern society is putting around them and don't realize that illegal activities are part of the same cage.
I agree on the AC post about bitstream vera fonts. They look very good on the notoriously unforgiving notebook screens. I prefer them over the standard ms fonts i had to install to check compatibility of web page layouts. Try them for yourself.
In the end, Siva's moderation is demonstrated as he concludes that there are seldom easy answers in a world where control of information and culture is sometimes necessary.
Ok, I know that to elaborate on this one should read the fine book, anyway: the problem is not whether information and culture should be controlled, but the fact that in modern world such control Cannot Be Achieved without artificial barriers imposed to the people. Most people resent that and they are right.
In other words, one thing is the government censoring the press and the tv, but censoring internet access and fruition is different. It's more personal, like revoking freedom of speech.
When all of the space for the spectrum gets filled, who do you think the people will be pissed at for not managing that? The government. They are just trying to help manage it before it gets out of hand.
I don't understand. The tax would have a regulating effect only if wifi access available in public places were taxed, but what about your own apartment using a low power access point? With all the available wifi channels there's no big risk of saturation when everybody keeps the power low enough (risking to be fined if they don't, as it happens with loud noise).
Has never occurred to anyone that MS could want Mono to succeed in making the whole.NET infrastructure available for Linux? Think about it, they may:
1) let Mono become a.NET replacement and lots of Mono/.NET apps be written
2) Use patents, Passport, or the trusted computing stuff, or whatever other legal excuse to make Mono on linux unattractive for business users (this is the ??? part)
3) Mono users have the official.NET framework as the only way to keep using their already deployed Mono apps. Mono becomes the trojan horse for migration back to a Microsoft OS. In other words: Profit!!!
Seriously, now that i think about it, a once-in-every-500000-years event is occurring exactly when humans start the mass production of electricity and magnetic fields. It's roughly a 200/500000 probability and we got it. Quite a coincidence huh?
I don't see why apple couldn't make a new improved version right now, and smash the PDA market. Or are they planning on this?
I don't think they should make the NewNewton:)
I mean, they have the iPod, sooner or later they will need to add video playback capability to it (because the competition will). They might as well add handwriting recognition and a desktop environment (Opie?) and call it the NewPod:)
That might be an option for issues clearly understandable by everyone. The DMCA has not yet made enough damage to the economy and freedom of the average person to be perceived by most people as an intolerable abuse. So a protest would generate some more trouble and costs for the bureaucracy, paid by ourselves, without catastrophic effects.
If the definition of theft is so uncertain, calling the act of unauthorized copying "theft" does not mean much, does it?
Let's forget about The Law for a minute.
Stealing roughly means: "getting something you don't own from somebody who does". The only thing i can take from the copyright owner is the money he would have made from the sale of his work.
Copying != theft.
Case 1. I want to buy a cd, I find it for next to free on kazaa and get it from there. I committed theft because i deprived the rightful owner of the revenues his work would have generated if sold regularly to me.
Case 2. I burn a copy of a cd to a friend who doesn't know the song it contains. I don't commit theft, my friend might when he decides that the cd is worth having AND he's not getting a legitimate copy. In all other cases I'm promoting the artist for free. Of course if record companies squeal so much and compare me to somebody stealing from some other people's refrigerator (!) I just say the hell with you all and i don't buy new records anymore.
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But the UK tv licence company might demand that the macs tuner be locked somehow, which means apple software engineers would have to implement that. If UK stays cool, other countries like Italy make you pay taxes for mere possession of a tv so they would have to supply either a locked or stripped iMac version for that market.
Also, digital video streaming of tv programs is already (legally) appearing in such places as residential intranets.
Think back to any science fiction movie from that era -- virtually none of them have stood the test of time, because they're simply unbelievable.
Strictly speaking I can agree, but some way older SF is quite believable and introduces to some serious issues: think "The day the earth stood still", and "Forbidden Planet" (All time personal favourite for humble me).
I completely agree. Its at first place in my personal preference. It is one of the most accurate SF movies ever made (the only out of place thing being the clicking teletype-style "brain" of Robbie the robot). It also has a terrific plot, and what about being the first mainstream movie featuring an all-electronic soundtrack, in 1956? On the other hand, I wonder why the Blade Runner authors thought that genetically engineered beings would need body parts like eyes to be manufactured separately, or why the 2001 authors thought that the human like behaviour of HAL, which was part of the interface to human, could take over the entire system...
That would send a message to those who havent yet realized what does spam means for the average internet user.
;)
But many people are not going to switch for a different political candidate for this only reason. I urge these people to voice their concern about being spammed by the person whom you choose to vote: if i were Austraian Id send this guy a polite but firm email expressing my disappointment... with a misleading subject, of course
I like hostAP, but its not the easiest or best solution in all circumstsances.
In fact, for small LAN requirements, I just use a 802.11b ad hoc configuration: I just need to give the win/linux clients a static IP/mask/DNS and let my laptop be the NAT router/firewall with a DSL connection to the net. All you need is the wireless tools packages that you have already installed to try out wifi.
Shell is an established oil company, you are assuming it could become a key player in the business of fusion reactor but that's not certain at all, especially if fusion is left to private funded research.
I must point out that the spelling is quite incorrect.
Not Berlesconi: BERLUSCONI!
Not Viva: ABBASSO!
You are right, I misunderstood. Too much FUD spread about the GPL prompted me to reply that way, I think :)
Then, it doesn't make sense that the AC parent post cites GNU, anyway. The topic is about code for which one surrenders copyright that might end up 0wn3d by a corporation: one must be quite a paranoid to be concerned about such possibility when submitting stuff to GNU...
From GNU page about the GPL
That doesn't seem like surrendering your copyright to GNU...
If you were referring to the restrictions placed on the distribution of code you add to a GPL project, if you don't like them start your own project and license it the way you like, period.
Religion fuels current social problems no more than IT fuels the spread of worms and viruses. People interpreting scriptures and dictating what other people must believe cause social problems. People disobeying scriptures cause social problems too (they will also burn in hell, later ;) )
Back to the topic, we haven't the power to discuss what God's vision is because we cannot define what God is. So if some scientific breakthrough contradicts what is FELT to be God's vision I'd prefer we don't have an useless "Galileo vs the Inquisition" argument all over again. IMHO every accurate scientific discovery and every doubt and objection on the interpretation of the Scripture is good for a broader understanding of what we are and what God may want from us - if it's there.
What are you talking about? linux is a clear winner there, for me. installation from source: 90% success and a stable system. windows installer: 100% failure for I have a PowerPC :P
If you are talking about the average installer for a static office app, windows is a tad easier, but try an audio card with dsp like the pulsar with its own controlling platform and then a sequencer over it, then see how easy it is to install and run. And it's Windows fault as the same hardware on a mac OS works a lot better (and installation is a bit easier too)
There was a great name for a soundcard model: "the Mockingboard" (the first soundcard I ever heard about, for apple II)
Let's assume that this solution is ethically acceptable, that the pharmaceutical companies can be trusted on messing with childrens' brains, and that the vaccine works flawlessly for opium and derivates, marijuana, tobacco, alcohol.
Do you expect that organized crime will give up on drug dealing? Nope, they will push other drugs that will need a new vaccine to be developed, if possible. I don't think a neural system can withstand so many vaccines without side effects.
Do you expect that youngsters will give up on trying to feel high? Nope, they will find other ways: if it's not illegal substances it will be with illegal activities like gambling, shooting people, running with a car at 100mph. Some people simply want to escape from the cage modern society is putting around them and don't realize that illegal activities are part of the same cage.
So it won't work, period.
I agree on the AC post about bitstream vera fonts. They look very good on the notoriously unforgiving notebook screens. I prefer them over the standard ms fonts i had to install to check compatibility of web page layouts. Try them for yourself.
... look at this other italian site. They build 3D models strate after strate.
www.diegm.uniud.it/ingind15ud/laboratori/fpa.html
Of course you may prefer a translation
In the end, Siva's moderation is demonstrated as he concludes that there are seldom easy answers in a world where control of information and culture is sometimes necessary.
Ok, I know that to elaborate on this one should read the fine book, anyway: the problem is not whether information and culture should be controlled, but the fact that in modern world such control Cannot Be Achieved without artificial barriers imposed to the people. Most people resent that and they are right.
In other words, one thing is the government censoring the press and the tv, but censoring internet access and fruition is different. It's more personal, like revoking freedom of speech.
When all of the space for the spectrum gets filled, who do you think the people will be pissed at for not managing that? The government. They are just trying to help manage it before it gets out of hand.
I don't understand. The tax would have a regulating effect only if wifi access available in public places were taxed, but what about your own apartment using a low power access point? With all the available wifi channels there's no big risk of saturation when everybody keeps the power low enough (risking to be fined if they don't, as it happens with loud noise).
Has never occurred to anyone that MS could want Mono to succeed in making the whole
1) let Mono become a
2) Use patents, Passport, or the trusted computing stuff, or whatever other legal excuse to make Mono on linux unattractive for business users (this is the ??? part)
3) Mono users have the official
There is also Rocklinux.
Seriously, now that i think about it, a once-in-every-500000-years event is occurring exactly when humans start the mass production of electricity and magnetic fields. It's roughly a 200/500000 probability and we got it. Quite a coincidence huh?
I don't see why apple couldn't make a new improved version right now, and smash the PDA market. Or are they planning on this?
:) :)
I don't think they should make the NewNewton
I mean, they have the iPod, sooner or later they will need to add video playback capability to it (because the competition will). They might as well add handwriting recognition and a desktop environment (Opie?) and call it the NewPod
Have you ever considered p2p-based alternatives to deliver Wikipedia articles, to reduce the load on the web servers?
That might be an option for issues clearly understandable by everyone. The DMCA has not yet made enough damage to the economy and freedom of the average person to be perceived by most people as an intolerable abuse. So a protest would generate some more trouble and costs for the bureaucracy, paid by ourselves, without catastrophic effects.
I suggest to wait.
If the definition of theft is so uncertain, calling the act of unauthorized copying "theft" does not mean much, does it?
Let's forget about The Law for a minute.
Stealing roughly means: "getting something you don't own from somebody who does". The only thing i can take from the copyright owner is the money he would have made from the sale of his work.
Copying != theft.
Case 1. I want to buy a cd, I find it for next to free on kazaa and get it from there. I committed theft because i deprived the rightful owner of the revenues his work would have generated if sold regularly to me.
Case 2. I burn a copy of a cd to a friend who doesn't know the song it contains. I don't commit theft, my friend might when he decides that the cd is worth having AND he's not getting a legitimate copy. In all other cases I'm promoting the artist for free.
Of course if record companies squeal so much and compare me to somebody stealing from some other people's refrigerator (!) I just say the hell with you all and i don't buy new records anymore.
Don't you people read books?
Only if the title contains the magic words: "technical reference".