If your changes are small, you are making money off the guy who wrote the original BSD licensed code, thus gaining an advantage on him. He loses money. Yours is a counterexample actually:D
Escalation is a possibility, the real matter is the amount of control. Intercepting people gives you control, while destroying stuff gives you control only if you are into the reconstruction.
What those consumer don't get is that really powerful people learned never to risk. So it's likely that when a confrontation occurs, powerful people have deals with both sides. In the context of the article, controlling just two countries would enable an organization to spy on everyone. Country A spies on B, B, on A, both on the rest.
Of course this poll smells of propaganda, i doubt the interviewer reminded people that governments historically are more concerned with internal dissent than external probs.
They got into the stock exchange. That means a lot of minor investors who would be quite content to own a not evil corporation, and a few big ones that dictate the policy and could not care less if it's google inc. or saddam hussein inc.
Anyway the problem is not (lack of) network neutrality. That's a symptom. The problem is network topology. Internet has become centralized. It cannot be a bastion of freedom that way and IMHO it developed so fast because it wasn't meant to be.
The way out would be mesh network overlays , or p2p, coupled with independent wifi ac points, and/or sneakernet.
And governments are not going to allow that for fear of terrorism and child porn of course.
Patents != copyright, let's stick to patents. The software industry in US grew without patents. Ripping off ideas is possible with or without patents. The difference with patents is that who has the largest portfolio wins. It's the same when you steal somebody idea or when you say sorry you can't develop that idea because it violates our own patents, so either work with us or go home.
> There are Bad People, so let's not build anything Nice which they could subvert to evil purpose.
Nope, read again: either it's fine to build plants and let people not be treated like terrorists until proven innocent, or avoid unearthing poisonous stuff and devote lots of energy keeping it safe. Or is it fine for you a double standard in national security?
A slashdot thread prover Shuttleworth's point... in slashdot. But for FOSS authors? The software/systems landscape is Huge and they make their own models to navigate inside it. So what shuttleworth calls tribalism, might be assumptions. You make assumptions to save yourself time. If you got burned by an early mysql db corruption you'd switch to postgres and stay there long after mysql transactions got better implementations. Tribalism for shuttleworth, business as usual for me.
why the citizen must be subjected to teraherz imaging, loss of privacy, a bureaucracy that in the name of national security can stop whatever investigation, the expenses for armies going around the world to fight terrorism, while the industrial complex can build plants that pose an incredibly high national security risk with government subsidies right at home.
I have nothing against nuclear if the cost per kWh includes all the expenses for insuring, securing the venture from all likely dangers and dealing with nuclear waste while it is still radioactive/toxic. It currently doesn't. Solar has ALWAYS been better than nuclear because you don't have to guard used panels for thousands (millions? billions?) of years. Nuclear just put us into more debt.
I'm tired of simply listening to stories about modders getting in trouble with justice. People buy closed stuff and then spend money or time to crack it, and maybe brick it. Ummm. What about leaving that shiny things on the shelf and use your time for something more constructive?
> While true, I also think that it shouldn't go in a different direction just to be "different" from Windows.
Well windows is a moving target as they think it's better to reinvent the wheel by making changes to UI to increase the psychological cost of switching to other platforms. Since windows is different from windows, I hope gnome doesn't share that kind of philosophy. If something needs to change let it change, otherwise keep things familiar- familiarity makes users gain time.
Yes everybody is dying to reencode all their stuff, losing quality, under a codec which is more CPU intensive, and having MPEG LA dictating the terms for simply viewing them, or ANY reencoding of them.
Disrupting a channel of communication by closing it down? LOLWUT? There is no way that closing down yields an advantage- The effort to find their next blog is higher than anything else (interference, spying, collecting data).
If you want to stop terrorism you must DEMAND that NOBODY has political gain from a terrorist act. Those who plan, help, and carry out the act must be punished, fullstop. Once terrorism generates special legislation, political consequences, it becomes a weapon. For the terrorists to achieve their goal, for the people fighting them to use terrorism as an excuse for their own agenda (they may have all the good intentions, but if it's called democracy, you have to do what The People wants you to, not think you know better... and God help us if some of them has bad intentions).
BTW Believe him or not, I don't care, but the guy who said that the tree shall be recognized by its fruit was smart.
> My laptop which is primarily used for those things, has Windows 7 on it for this reason. If I need to do anything more on it, I just open a remote shell to my main system and use Screens and that's good enough for me.
Nothing short of remote X through ssh and support out of the box for the growing range of printers around the office for me, so sidux kde light USB for the few boxes that do not dual boot is the rule here. I mean you have to print those email sometimes, or use an office suite, some dtp, keep everything up to date, exchange docs... on windows that means P A I N.
But, two photos is evidence for variation, only, not warming or cooling. Those are trends and need way more data. Yes I know there is LOTS more data. But the problem with global warming is twofold. First, there are vested interests both in denial and in assertion of global warming. This is not science, this is a war of interests. Second: CO2 can be absorbed easily and is not toxic. What about persistent, toxic, mass produced, untaxed and uncapped pollutants? While our generation looks at 1C difference in south patagonia since the 1866, next ones will increasingly have trouble eating fish, breathing, reproducing.
Indeed they are not patent trolls. Yet a probably clean room implementation of a FS with advanced but not revolutionary features get slammed. (visicalc can be said revolutionary, surely not "lets make an arbitrarily mapped and resizable RAID" or "lets the FS recover to any point in time")
Ergo the patent system is broken even when trolls do not exploit it.
Of course it is broken for the citizen. For people that want to make a market out of IP for their own pleasure, it is working perfectly.
Financing private sector: the long term value seems less important than short term bonuses to high management.
Need examples?:D
You want long term value? finance the installation of solar panels at home. Same or more temp jobs for construction, no 85 jobs, but no bill for the families. In spain they would likely provide cheap electricity to the neighborhood.
In fact, no matter the average slashdotter bias, Microsoft has all the resources to make fully compliant products. Problem is, that is not a goal for them. Market domination is. That's why I prefer to base my stuff on free software, and that's why I prefer FF and Opera over chrome safari and IE. Putting Opera in the same league of Firefox, because Opera has not enough power to unilaterally extend standards, so compliance is a primary goal for them. Chrome in the same league of safari and IE because Chrome is part of a broader strategy like the other browsers are for apple and MS. I'm not calling any of them evil or good, I simply look for the best tool for the job and do it on the long term.
LOL nice try. But seriously, the XML-based successor to TeX which would support features such as arbitrarily scaled irrational units, 3D printing, animation, and stereographic sound is gonna be called knuth/TeX.
PI is not 3, it is not 3.14, it is not 3.1415..... (for a finite number of digits) either.
But somehow the Bible giving an integer approximation vs. an arbitrary fractional approximation is funny. Among the wealth of issues that can be discussed about the bible with the modern sensibility this seems the less problematic one to me.
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If your changes are small, you are making money off the guy who wrote the original BSD licensed code, thus gaining an advantage on him. He loses money. Yours is a counterexample actually :D
Escalation is a possibility, the real matter is the amount of control. Intercepting people gives you control, while destroying stuff gives you control only if you are into the reconstruction.
What those consumer don't get is that really powerful people learned never to risk. So it's likely that when a confrontation occurs, powerful people have deals with both sides. In the context of the article, controlling just two countries would enable an organization to spy on everyone. Country A spies on B, B, on A, both on the rest.
Of course this poll smells of propaganda, i doubt the interviewer reminded people that governments historically are more concerned with internal dissent than external probs.
They got into the stock exchange. That means a lot of minor investors who would be quite content to own a not evil corporation, and a few big ones that dictate the policy and could not care less if it's google inc. or saddam hussein inc.
Anyway the problem is not (lack of) network neutrality. That's a symptom. The problem is network topology. Internet has become centralized. It cannot be a bastion of freedom that way and IMHO it developed so fast because it wasn't meant to be.
The way out would be mesh network overlays , or p2p, coupled with independent wifi ac points, and/or sneakernet.
And governments are not going to allow that for fear of terrorism and child porn of course.
Patents != copyright, let's stick to patents.
The software industry in US grew without patents.
Ripping off ideas is possible with or without patents. The difference with patents is that who has the largest portfolio wins. It's the same when you steal somebody idea or when you say sorry you can't develop that idea because it violates our own patents, so either work with us or go home.
Upholding intellectual property right doesn't seem fair unless your paying italian and greeks for the alphabet, arabs and indians for numbers.
> There are Bad People, so let's not build anything Nice which they could subvert to evil purpose.
Nope, read again: either it's fine to build plants and let people not be treated like terrorists until proven innocent, or avoid unearthing poisonous stuff and devote lots of energy keeping it safe. Or is it fine for you a double standard in national security?
Fact is, the world managed to progress when there were candles at night. You wanna see how nice it will be with dosimeters all the time?
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Pick two.
A slashdot thread prover Shuttleworth's point... in slashdot.
But for FOSS authors? The software/systems landscape is Huge and they make their own models to navigate inside it. So what shuttleworth calls tribalism, might be assumptions. You make assumptions to save yourself time. If you got burned by an early mysql db corruption you'd switch to postgres and stay there long after mysql transactions got better implementations. Tribalism for shuttleworth, business as usual for me.
why the citizen must be subjected to teraherz imaging, loss of privacy, a bureaucracy that in the name of national security can stop whatever investigation, the expenses for armies going around the world to fight terrorism, while the industrial complex can build plants that pose an incredibly high national security risk with government subsidies right at home.
I have nothing against nuclear if the cost per kWh includes all the expenses for insuring, securing the venture from all likely dangers and dealing with nuclear waste while it is still radioactive/toxic. It currently doesn't. Solar has ALWAYS been better than nuclear because you don't have to guard used panels for thousands (millions? billions?) of years. Nuclear just put us into more debt.
> Because Open Source software never breaks.
Citation needed.
I'm tired of simply listening to stories about modders getting in trouble with justice. People buy closed stuff and then spend money or time to crack it, and maybe brick it. Ummm. What about leaving that shiny things on the shelf and use your time for something more constructive?
> While true, I also think that it shouldn't go in a different direction just to be "different" from Windows.
Well windows is a moving target as they think it's better to reinvent the wheel by making changes to UI to increase the psychological cost of switching to other platforms. Since windows is different from windows, I hope gnome doesn't share that kind of philosophy. If something needs to change let it change, otherwise keep things familiar- familiarity makes users gain time.
Yes everybody is dying to reencode all their stuff, losing quality, under a codec which is more CPU intensive, and having MPEG LA dictating the terms for simply viewing them, or ANY reencoding of them.
The right suggestion then ends with "bay".
Look for used software on ebay.
(got ya huh?)
Disrupting a channel of communication by closing it down? LOLWUT? There is no way that closing down yields an advantage- The effort to find their next blog is higher than anything else (interference, spying, collecting data).
If you want to stop terrorism you must DEMAND that NOBODY has political gain from a terrorist act. Those who plan, help, and carry out the act must be punished, fullstop.
Once terrorism generates special legislation, political consequences, it becomes a weapon. For the terrorists to achieve their goal, for the people fighting them to use terrorism as an excuse for their own agenda (they may have all the good intentions, but if it's called democracy, you have to do what The People wants you to, not think you know better... and God help us if some of them has bad intentions).
BTW Believe him or not, I don't care, but the guy who said that the tree shall be recognized by its fruit was smart.
> My laptop which is primarily used for those things, has Windows 7 on it for this reason. If I need to do anything more on it, I just open a remote shell to my main system and use Screens and that's good enough for me.
Nothing short of remote X through ssh and support out of the box for the growing range of printers around the office for me, so sidux kde light USB for the few boxes that do not dual boot is the rule here. I mean you have to print those email sometimes, or use an office suite, some dtp, keep everything up to date, exchange docs... on windows that means P A I N.
But, two photos is evidence for variation, only, not warming or cooling. Those are trends and need way more data. Yes I know there is LOTS more data. But the problem with global warming is twofold.
First, there are vested interests both in denial and in assertion of global warming. This is not science, this is a war of interests.
Second: CO2 can be absorbed easily and is not toxic. What about persistent, toxic, mass produced, untaxed and uncapped pollutants? While our generation looks at 1C difference in south patagonia since the 1866, next ones will increasingly have trouble eating fish, breathing, reproducing.
> How would you like it if you couldn't say "Windows" or "MS", you always had to say "Microsoft Windows®" and "Microsoft®"
GNU/Linux joke in 3..2..1...
Indeed they are not patent trolls. Yet a probably clean room implementation of a FS with advanced but not revolutionary features get slammed. (visicalc can be said revolutionary, surely not "lets make an arbitrarily mapped and resizable RAID" or "lets the FS recover to any point in time")
Ergo the patent system is broken even when trolls do not exploit it.
Of course it is broken for the citizen. For people that want to make a market out of IP for their own pleasure, it is working perfectly.
> However, we're seeing absolutely no innovation coming out of the Java community
Funny, I have orientdb open in the other tab.
Financing private sector: the long term value seems less important than short term bonuses to high management.
Need examples? :D
You want long term value? finance the installation of solar panels at home. Same or more temp jobs for construction, no 85 jobs, but no bill for the families. In spain they would likely provide cheap electricity to the neighborhood.
In fact, no matter the average slashdotter bias, Microsoft has all the resources to make fully compliant products. Problem is, that is not a goal for them. Market domination is. That's why I prefer to base my stuff on free software, and that's why I prefer FF and Opera over chrome safari and IE. Putting Opera in the same league of Firefox, because Opera has not enough power to unilaterally extend standards, so compliance is a primary goal for them. Chrome in the same league of safari and IE because Chrome is part of a broader strategy like the other browsers are for apple and MS. I'm not calling any of them evil or good, I simply look for the best tool for the job and do it on the long term.
LOL nice try.
But seriously, the XML-based successor to TeX which would support features such as arbitrarily scaled irrational units, 3D printing, animation, and stereographic sound is gonna be called knuth/TeX.
PI is not 3, it is not 3.14, it is not 3.1415..... (for a finite number of digits) either.
But somehow the Bible giving an integer approximation vs. an arbitrary fractional approximation is funny. Among the wealth of issues that can be discussed about the bible with the modern sensibility this seems the less problematic one to me.