I'm an OSS zealot, and I'm not trying to make money off it. I make money off my leet skillz developing software, and use OSS as a tool for that. I've contributed to several projects, as many others have, and it works just fine for me.
I suspect many of those trying to commercialize it aren't grass roots OSS people. I suspect they are business folks who see free software as something for nothing - something that's ripe for exploitation.
It goes both ways. I just received a document from a Korean gentleman, in HWP format. How fun was that to make work! Found a free webbrowser plugin(!) to view it with an HTML wrapper page to set the mimetype correctly. Give me PDF or RTF anyday...
A complete architecture change wouldn't surprise me at all. I expect the OS and apps to become more immersive, and computing to be way more distributed. I think the line between real and digital will blur even more, and there will be large changes to support that. It's going to be fun.
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Sorry dude, while you appear to be making some effort to do the right thing (confirmation email and so on) you're mixing th good with the bad. If I downloaded a commonly used mainstream app - which your must be if you have that many folks who "opt-in" - I probably want updates. But I don't want to be hasseled by salesmen and spammed by people you've sold marketing rights to. Make your choice - Are you a software company or a "direct marketing" company?
Sorry, but I'm calling bullshit here too. Most people aren't savvy enough to un-select the usuually pre-selected checkboxes, and the fact that you're monitoring views through images suggests it's not all above board anyway (from an end user perspective). You can run a newsletter with text, but if it needs html and has images which track views then it's spam in my book.
Anything government regulated is limited by borders and politics. Unless this sort of regulation is implemented by a non-governmental world body then it's useless and will only serve to segregate the internet.
Like missionary? http://www.realdoll.com/image/mai/mai08.jpg
Jeez, didn't you learn anything from AI? People will accept them just fine, as long as they're not too freaky to interact with. Just give 'em a while to get used to them. People said the same thing aout ATMs remember.
Yeh, I've seen that site before. Pretty cool. Perhaps some budding animators can try this with a sequence? Maybe alternate stereo frames at 50fps or something? I guess the right rate would have to be determined.
I think you read too much into my mention of communism, but oh well...
I'm sure things are much better in the United States of America, but the Government of my Western capitalist country (NZ) takes over half of my earnings through taxation of varies sorts. Employee PAYE takes about 33%, then pretty much everything I buy has 12.5% GST on it. Lots of products like petrol and alcohol have additional taxes built into their base price too. Governments still take your money, they're just a bit smarter about how they do it - try not paying the IRS, you'll have your possesions taken, be bankrupted, or be thrown in pound-me-in-the-ass prison faster than you can imagine.
Free markets are only as free as the Governments that control them let them be. The US free market is a classic example - it's actually remarkably un-free if you're trying to sell into the country, while pressuring foreign states to allow ready US access to their markets. Don't be naive - free markets aren't that cut-and-dried.
And of course, totalitarianism generally doesn't work either, at least not above a certain size. Cuba gets along not too bad for example, but that's really an exception. Mugabes little game is a nice example of one man's ability to screw a country, and at the other extreme of the scale China has some particularly bad scenes going on there (a lot of good too of course). China is at least trying to fix things, but seems held back by it's need to save face and generally try to deny it's bad side. I'd say they need many years to get there...
Either extreme doesn't work - free-ish markets with moderate controls seems to be the currently successful approach.
Heh, I love the way it's called a "regime" when it's Bad and a government or similar when it's Good. Looks like some of the Iraq propaganda stuck...
That aside, yes, there is a moral dilemma in that. If the Chinese government was subversivly trying to manipulate the toughts and actions of the Dutch, in an effort to make them see that communismn is the right way to live and to inspire them to overthrow their leaders, would that be ok? No, it wouldn't. But if communism was the "right" way to live, maybe you'd be all for that course of action? I sure wouldn't because it's messing with another soverign nation's domestic business.
You point about it being totalitarian is fair, hated by it's own people may be too extreme, but that's where the conflict arises from: Free thinking Iranians is good - Foreign power fucking with Iran's internal situation is bad.
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That depends which side of the camera you're on.
So were talking about OpenMosix style clustering rather than Beowulf...
Who is "we"?
I'm an OSS zealot, and I'm not trying to make money off it. I make money off my leet skillz developing software, and use OSS as a tool for that. I've contributed to several projects, as many others have, and it works just fine for me.
I suspect many of those trying to commercialize it aren't grass roots OSS people. I suspect they are business folks who see free software as something for nothing - something that's ripe for exploitation.
It goes both ways. I just received a document from a Korean gentleman, in HWP format. How fun was that to make work! Found a free webbrowser plugin(!) to view it with an HTML wrapper page to set the mimetype correctly. Give me PDF or RTF anyday...
There's no reason they couldn't. I'd expect to see some enterprising folks building battery-sized fuel cells to retro-fit older laptops.
As a side note, hopefully this technology will filter down to PDAs too.
Amazon got another yet another patent.f d_top
http://news.com.com/2100-1019_3-5070569.html?tag=
All your webforms are belong to Amazon.
I spied that a while ago. You might be right.
Yeh that annoys me. Just drop frames or something - I don't need to be "told off" by my software.
A complete architecture change wouldn't surprise me at all. I expect the OS and apps to become more immersive, and computing to be way more distributed. I think the line between real and digital will blur even more, and there will be large changes to support that. It's going to be fun.
In 10 years, it'll be the default, like Windows is today still.
If Linux is the New Windows, it makes me wonder what will be the New Linux... maybe some project that is barely out of gestation today?
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Product updates - Bug fixes
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Sorry dude, while you appear to be making some effort to do the right thing (confirmation email and so on) you're mixing th good with the bad. If I downloaded a commonly used mainstream app - which your must be if you have that many folks who "opt-in" - I probably want updates. But I don't want to be hasseled by salesmen and spammed by people you've sold marketing rights to. Make your choice - Are you a software company or a "direct marketing" company?
Sorry, but I'm calling bullshit here too. Most people aren't savvy enough to un-select the usuually pre-selected checkboxes, and the fact that you're monitoring views through images suggests it's not all above board anyway (from an end user perspective). You can run a newsletter with text, but if it needs html and has images which track views then it's spam in my book.
Anything government regulated is limited by borders and politics. Unless this sort of regulation is implemented by a non-governmental world body then it's useless and will only serve to segregate the internet.
There was one that might have been useable, but the hanger it was stored in collapsed on it.
Harder?
Like missionary? http://www.realdoll.com/image/mai/mai08.jpg
Jeez, didn't you learn anything from AI? People will accept them just fine, as long as they're not too freaky to interact with. Just give 'em a while to get used to them. People said the same thing aout ATMs remember.
Crikey!
don't take them lightly.
Don't take them at all has always been my motto.
What's MPICH?
Go read up about how MSN actually works.
especially when the IT department want to do as little limiting of freedom as possible
Riiiight.
Yeh, I've seen that site before. Pretty cool. Perhaps some budding animators can try this with a sequence? Maybe alternate stereo frames at 50fps or something? I guess the right rate would have to be determined.
Perhaps Pianola (computer) vs the music encoded on script it plays from (software)?
I think you read too much into my mention of communism, but oh well...
I'm sure things are much better in the United States of America, but the Government of my Western capitalist country (NZ) takes over half of my earnings through taxation of varies sorts. Employee PAYE takes about 33%, then pretty much everything I buy has 12.5% GST on it. Lots of products like petrol and alcohol have additional taxes built into their base price too. Governments still take your money, they're just a bit smarter about how they do it - try not paying the IRS, you'll have your possesions taken, be bankrupted, or be thrown in pound-me-in-the-ass prison faster than you can imagine.
Free markets are only as free as the Governments that control them let them be. The US free market is a classic example - it's actually remarkably un-free if you're trying to sell into the country, while pressuring foreign states to allow ready US access to their markets. Don't be naive - free markets aren't that cut-and-dried.
And of course, totalitarianism generally doesn't work either, at least not above a certain size. Cuba gets along not too bad for example, but that's really an exception. Mugabes little game is a nice example of one man's ability to screw a country, and at the other extreme of the scale China has some particularly bad scenes going on there (a lot of good too of course). China is at least trying to fix things, but seems held back by it's need to save face and generally try to deny it's bad side. I'd say they need many years to get there...
Either extreme doesn't work - free-ish markets with moderate controls seems to be the currently successful approach.
Heh, I love the way it's called a "regime" when it's Bad and a government or similar when it's Good. Looks like some of the Iraq propaganda stuck...
That aside, yes, there is a moral dilemma in that. If the Chinese government was subversivly trying to manipulate the toughts and actions of the Dutch, in an effort to make them see that communismn is the right way to live and to inspire them to overthrow their leaders, would that be ok? No, it wouldn't. But if communism was the "right" way to live, maybe you'd be all for that course of action? I sure wouldn't because it's messing with another soverign nation's domestic business.
You point about it being totalitarian is fair, hated by it's own people may be too extreme, but that's where the conflict arises from: Free thinking Iranians is good - Foreign power fucking with Iran's internal situation is bad.
Yay for giving Iranians open internet access. Boo for the USA undermining Yet Another Government's authority.