It is the neighbors problem if s/he decided to pirate the signal, not yours. If you put up a tramsmitter to view a video in another part of your house, it is not your problem if someone steals it.
Who is breaking the law here, the person lawfully using the content, in the privacy of his home, or the neighbor listening in on it?
At what point does MS start to just buy off the critical developers of various Open Source projects? I think this is a tactic that cannot be overlooked. With a few well placed "hires" they can put a short term dent in some critical projects to slow the progression of the development down. This is not to say that the development will stop, but it could lose some of its critical mass.
I hate to say it, but if someone were waving large wads of cash under my nose, I would be tempted (not that I have contributed anything worth while in terms of source code) I have two college educations to pay for in about 12 years.
There was a VAXstation 3000 running Ultix at my school where I did my undergrad work. Nobody would use it. It was a sweet piece of hardware at the time (Even though it ran Ultrix...) I started to code C programs on it (The school used pascal as the main teaching language) It was neat, and kinda fun.
Later in life, after two jobs, and one layoff, I was standing next to the network guy when they got their new SCO box in for the programmers (a smokin' 486!). He asked If I knew anything about Unix and I said "Yeah, sure". I was hooked into taking care of the server, and got to enjoy it.
After the next layoff, I got a job as an actual administrator on HP-UX machines, and some programming on the side. I did that for a few years... until the next layoff.
At about the same time I took up Linux for a graduate class I was taking. Yaggdrasil, kernel version 0.99.x. (I still have the orginal distribution CD and book)
I have just about always worked on Unix is some form or another. I love it. I can't believe I get paid to use it on a daily basis!
This is a free market economy, we do not need anymore regulations.
You should stay up to date with your skills if you want to keep earning your living, even if the economy turns down. Your skill set, and work ethic, go a long way to making you valuable to your employer, and more secure in your job. No one should have to take care of you, but you.
If a company is given to letting people go everytime there is a slow down in the economy, you should be aware of that when you do your due dilligence(sp?) before taking the job...
A truely free market economy will (to some degree) treat its people like a resource, and stop using them when they are no longer needed (or percieved to be needed, by short sightedness).
But there is a backlash against the company that does this to reflexivly. After a while the work force knows that when you hire on with XYZ Corp. you will probably get a pink slip when the economy turns down, or they are not doing well. Do you think that that company will be getting 100% out of its workforce?
The work force has some responsibility in this too.
It would be great if the infrastructure was put in place, and anybody could use it. It would be what the people deserve, a non-profit group running a utility where free enterprise can flourish.
You just have to let the local gov't manage the infrastructure, or some third party group with no stake in selling services.
I'm all for trying it. Otherwise they will just waste our taxes on some other stupid things. If it works it will raise my property values!
I was somewhat surprised that I could not get to the main news sites during the aftermath (with the exception of www.WashingtonPost.com). You would think that CNN would have figured out that they will get hit first and furious during a crisis.
I'll bet that there will be quite a bit of retooling various web sites to handle this type of load soon. LEts just hope that this type of load is not seen for a long time.
Not that I get to do it much. But there is a thrill in hunting down a bug and submitting a bug report, knowing that you are contributing to the greater good of mankind.
It seems to me that people are getting paid to work for this guy. The others are VOLUNTEERS! They volunteer their time (_thier time_). Nobody if forcing them to work. The volunteers are working on the project because they enjoy doing it, they feel a sense of working on something larger then they can do on their own, and they want an alternative to MS.
Sounds like a pretty good deal to me. Just because someone (some company) is making money on the deal does not mean that it is a bad thing.
~Sean
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Where can I get $50-100 mother boards for these chips? Until I can they are not going to enjoy the market dominance of Intel.
Intel will just continue the legacy until you can get commodity MoBos from other vendors for different chips. I would be all over a Power4 system _IF_ I could get it as cheaply as an Intel/AMD based system.
You are correct, _WE_, the slashdot crowd do have many choices. The point is that people like my parents, and my wife do not. Once they have a system with the new MS OS dujure(sp?) on it they do not even realize that they do not have a choice anymore.... Provide a spade that will allow all peoples to do thier 'digging' with, then we will truly have a fair and open market place.
I don't know which is worse, the being able to feel their grip getting tighter, or the feeling of not being able to do much about it. I'm tired of evangelizing...
A proper remedy to the to the case: The Gov't can only use GPLed software, or software supplied with the source... But I guess that would take an act of congress. An act of God would be far more forthcoming then that, since it takes un-godly amounts of money (hmmm, just like MS has) to get legislation like that passed.
Conspicuously missing from that list is the language once championed as the cross-platform solution: Java.
I would imagine that ActiveState is trying to stay in MSs' good graces. And MS has a really big hard-on for Sun. Active State does not wish to get in the way of the cross hairs.
Good post too, I agree with just about everything in it.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, technicaly IE is free for download, would that count? So is Media player, and a host of other integrated software products from MS.
So how would they be covered? Would this only apply to free (as in beer) software that includes the source?
~Sean
It is the neighbors problem if s/he decided to pirate the signal, not yours. If you put up a tramsmitter to view a video in another part of your house, it is not your problem if someone steals it.
Who is breaking the law here, the person lawfully using the content, in the privacy of his home, or the neighbor listening in on it?
~Sean
At what point does MS start to just buy off the critical developers of various Open Source projects? I think this is a tactic that cannot be overlooked. With a few well placed "hires" they can put a short term dent in some critical projects to slow the progression of the development down. This is not to say that the development will stop, but it could lose some of its critical mass.
I hate to say it, but if someone were waving large wads of cash under my nose, I would be tempted (not that I have contributed anything worth while in terms of source code) I have two college educations to pay for in about 12 years.
Food for thought.
~Sean
yeah, can anyone say cold fusion...
There was a VAXstation 3000 running Ultix at my school where I did my undergrad work. Nobody would use it. It was a sweet piece of hardware at the time (Even though it ran Ultrix...) I started to code C programs on it (The school used pascal as the main teaching language) It was neat, and kinda fun.
Later in life, after two jobs, and one layoff, I was standing next to the network guy when they got their new SCO box in for the programmers (a smokin' 486!). He asked If I knew anything about Unix and I said "Yeah, sure". I was hooked into taking care of the server, and got to enjoy it.
After the next layoff, I got a job as an actual administrator on HP-UX machines, and some programming on the side. I did that for a few years... until the next layoff.
At about the same time I took up Linux for a graduate class I was taking. Yaggdrasil, kernel version 0.99.x. (I still have the orginal distribution CD and book)
I have just about always worked on Unix is some form or another. I love it. I can't believe I get paid to use it on a daily basis!
It has been an interesting ride.
~Sean
not to mention the uncut version of Water World...
~Sean
It might be fast, but imagine the heat sink on that puppy. It could heat my pool... in the middle of winter.
~Sean
I get all my news from www.nakednews.com
The best coverage I've, er, seen out there!
~Sean
"Captain, the enemy vessel is firing again! Shields buckling!"
Shouldn't that be 'wvessle'?
~Sean
This is a free market economy, we do not need anymore regulations.
You should stay up to date with your skills if you want to keep earning your living, even if the economy turns down. Your skill set, and work ethic, go a long way to making you valuable to your employer, and more secure in your job. No one should have to take care of you, but you.
If a company is given to letting people go everytime there is a slow down in the economy, you should be aware of that when you do your due dilligence(sp?) before taking the job...
A truely free market economy will (to some degree) treat its people like a resource, and stop using them when they are no longer needed (or percieved to be needed, by short sightedness).
But there is a backlash against the company that does this to reflexivly. After a while the work force knows that when you hire on with XYZ Corp. you will probably get a pink slip when the economy turns down, or they are not doing well. Do you think that that company will be getting 100% out of its workforce?
The work force has some responsibility in this too.
Just some random thoughts.
~Sean
Borg
Show me where is says it shouldn't.
It would be great if the infrastructure was put in place, and anybody could use it. It would be what the people deserve, a non-profit group running a utility where free enterprise can flourish.
You just have to let the local gov't manage the infrastructure, or some third party group with no stake in selling services.
I'm all for trying it. Otherwise they will just waste our taxes on some other stupid things. If it works it will raise my property values!
~Sean
How do you sue for malpractice? In France or the US of A?
~Sean
I was somewhat surprised that I could not get to the main news sites during the aftermath (with the exception of www.WashingtonPost.com). You would think that CNN would have figured out that they will get hit first and furious during a crisis.
I'll bet that there will be quite a bit of retooling various web sites to handle this type of load soon. LEts just hope that this type of load is not seen for a long time.
~Sean
Plain and simple.
Not that I get to do it much. But there is a thrill in hunting down a bug and submitting a bug report, knowing that you are contributing to the greater good of mankind.
~Sean
It seems to me that people are getting paid to work for this guy. The others are VOLUNTEERS! They volunteer their time (_thier time_). Nobody if forcing them to work. The volunteers are working on the project because they enjoy doing it, they feel a sense of working on something larger then they can do on their own, and they want an alternative to MS.
Sounds like a pretty good deal to me. Just because someone (some company) is making money on the deal does not mean that it is a bad thing.
~Sean
Where can I get $50-100 mother boards for these chips? Until I can they are not going to enjoy the market dominance of Intel.
Intel will just continue the legacy until you can get commodity MoBos from other vendors for different chips. I would be all over a Power4 system _IF_ I could get it as cheaply as an Intel/AMD based system.
~Sean
You are correct, _WE_, the slashdot crowd do have many choices. The point is that people like my parents, and my wife do not. Once they have a system with the new MS OS dujure(sp?) on it they do not even realize that they do not have a choice anymore.... Provide a spade that will allow all peoples to do thier 'digging' with, then we will truly have a fair and open market place.
I don't know which is worse, the being able to feel their grip getting tighter, or the feeling of not being able to do much about it. I'm tired of evangelizing...
~Sean
hmmm, where is the the moderation option when I need it...
How about a simple Router/VPN server. No disk I/O required.
~Sean
A proper remedy to the to the case: The Gov't can only use GPLed software, or software supplied with the source... But I guess that would take an act of congress. An act of God would be far more forthcoming then that, since it takes un-godly amounts of money (hmmm, just like MS has) to get legislation like that passed.
I can keep dreaming....
Conspicuously missing from that list is the language once championed as the cross-platform solution: Java.
I would imagine that ActiveState is trying to stay in MSs' good graces. And MS has a really big hard-on for Sun. Active State does not wish to get in the way of the cross hairs.
Good post too, I agree with just about everything in it.
~Sean
You are confusing parent with politician.
~Sean
Yeah, cause I need my command line to look all spiffy in 3D!
~Sean
I guess that depends on the snake...
~Sean