Wow, I was right with you until you got to the NRA bit. Yes, software patents should be abolished, but not at gunpoint.
Makes me think though, software patents seem like something the NRA might be against in principle, maybe they could use some of that huge lobbying group and political influance for something more productive than rifles.
I don't know, that quote made perfect sense to me.
Let's say IBM's distro and Red Hat are entirely GPL'd. Red Hat has some great idea that Microsoft wants. If Red Hat were pure closed source, Microsoft could say "Hey, I wanna licence that idea from you. Let me use that, and you can use SMB something something". As it is, if Microsoft wants to take something from Red Hat they would have to GPL the rest of the project, or hopefully have the Red Hat module work at arms length from the rest of their product. Once Microsoft has GPL'd their code, IBM linux can jump up and grab that code the same as Red Hat can. I assume that's what he means by not just being able to licence one of them.
Also, I don't see where Billy's saying Linux is a Unix clone. The word Unix isn't even in that quote.
Right, it is a rather odd statistic. The other thing you can't tell is how often people use their computers. If I only bring my XP box up once a week, and it crashes 7 times that day, I'd still only have a 1 crash per week average.
The 5% number seems like a hell of a lot of crashes.
My OSX box crashes more often than once every 6-7 months, finder dies a horrible death whenever I forget to unmount a SMB share...but i suppose that's my fault...sort of...
IE on my XP box tends to crash, and I send those results to microsoft. When I was actually using my XP box consistantly IE would die at least once a day. Never sent in reports for products not from microsoft, none of their damn business.
Got sick of the crashing pretty quick though, now I only use that XP box for games, got a 12" powerbook for anything serious.
Had the powerbook for 4-5 months now and there's only 1 way I've found to crash it, connect to a windows box that goes offline...finder dies a horrible death...good thing they re-wrote finder in 10.3
Still, that one error aside, OSX is quite stable, and now I'm very careful to unmount those SMB drives as soon as I am done. On my XP box I have absolutly no idea what causes the problems (but I switched to firebird).
You get hit with a setup fee for your phone line, but no extra fee for the internet. Assuming you're going to be getting a phone line anyway, you're paying $20/month for broadband.
The logic, if there is any, would be that if no one downloaded media files. ->No one would be using their broadband at capacity 24 hours a day. ->They could service more people on their existing system. ->They could make more money/offer the service more cheaply.
If they really could offer broadband at half price I'm sure that would encourage adoption.
Of course it's total BS, because if they don't want people using their bandwidth they shouldn't sell it to them. Either that or they should make the move of charging per megabyte after reaching a monthly traffic limit.
I use Sympatico shared between 3 people on a router and I have never reached my monthly limit (because I don't download music/movies/games).
$50!!! That's insane. In Canada I pay about $20/month (first 4 months, then I move because I'm at University and keep starting my 4 months again). Even the full price is like $30 something. Canadian!!!
If you can write code that evalutate poetry you're a lot closer to AI than we are now. Also, there'd be nothing to evolve, just look at the source for the evaluator and enter in the perfect poem.
Genetic algorithms have their place in some areas, usually where there are a lot of variables to work with and a search heuristic would take too long, and if you can find a suitable way to crossover and mutate your results, but they aren't an answer for quick AI.
I have a WinXP desktop i use mostly for games sitting beside a 12" powerbook laptop I use mostly for work. I'm constantly amazed that in the last 6 months there's been maybe 1 or 2 security patches for OSX, while my Windows box gets what seems like at least 1 per week. Makes me worry about even turning on my WinXP box...I wish you could play games on Linux:)
if most people in the economy were on welfare they would be no economy
Sounds good to me. Ideally I think we would want the standard of living to keep going up to the point where the production of goods is so efficient everyone in the world can be guranteed food, housing, medicine, education and maybe a little disposable income. Think of the possibilities in a world where the species can survive based upon work that people do simply because they want to.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has now issued more than 911 subpoenas to Internet service providers across the United States.
Interesting, I wonder if there was an intentional use of the number 911 by the RIAA in how many subpoenas they issued, or if that has become a round number now and the person writing the story rounded down.
But your question is moot, because you've made up those numbers. If those numbers can be proven then you try to save the most lives possible. If not you do what seems morally reasonable and most likely to have the best outcome, which I believe is my last position.
If, as you state earler those numbers cannot be proven, you don't have to explain anything to anyone. No one knows.
"The Impending IP Crisis" is a good title for Slashdot. In my RSS feed I can't tell if it's going to be something about Intellectual Property (copyrights, patents, etc) or IP addresses...
When I got a mac I thought to myself "Well self, you write all your documents in TeX anyway (yes, i'm a geek) so you won't be using Microsoft products that often, and there is always OpenOffice".
That worked out fine until people started sending me.doc files and I realized how slow and ugly open office is when you have to launch it in X11 (I REALLY hope panther and it's "X11 integration" will change that). Also, Open office didn't really do well when people had pictures or spreadsheets in the middle of the doc.
Now, i'm just a poor student, and i'm not about to go spend $500 for compatibility with those silly people I work with...so...well...let's just say it isn't too hard to find OfficeX on peer to peer...cough...
Actually, I don't feel too bad about it. I only use OfficeX to open up the files people send me so I can read the stupid thing, I never use it to make something myself. If Panther has good.doc support i'll delete it right away (cheaper to upgrade to Panther than to buy OfficeX), and maybe pick up keynote while i'm at it....and there's always OpenOffice.org if i'm desperate.
I live in Canada myself, and I belive what we have done is that posession of child pornography is allowed only for people identified as falling into the category you mention (will abuse without, won't abuse with). This was quite controversial and got a fair amount of media attention at the time, but I don't remember the end result.
I would say that creation of child pornography is to murder as posession of child porongraphy is to inciting murder, and both should remain illegal. The only exception being as a treatment option for individuals passing through the justice system.
I see from the Table of Contents that the book is really just about using the IDE, and I was hoping they would have more in there about using eclipse to build a SWT/Jface App.
I've used eclipse to build just such an app and I found the IDE wasn't difficult to learn, but the API for SWTwas horribly documented. Not even close to the standard you get when you look at the documentation for Swing or AWT. If you can figure out how to make a menu bar with just the API above I'm impressed.
The only way I managed to get things working at all was to look at some code snippets I managed to dig up elsewhere on the site.
Are people who create child porn usually pedophiles?
Or is it just about profit?
While I agree that banning free email accounts is over the top, the act of creating child pornography and the posession of child pornography are both illegal.
If it really is about profit then people who have payed for child porn are creating a market for the abusers, encouraging their behaviour with monetary rewards.
The analogy with other ilicit behaviour is somewhat faulty because producing alcohol, tobacco or narcotics does not take away the basic rights of an individual (the child).
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Wow, I was right with you until you got to the NRA bit. Yes, software patents should be abolished, but not at gunpoint.
Makes me think though, software patents seem like something the NRA might be against in principle, maybe they could use some of that huge lobbying group and political influance for something more productive than rifles.
I don't know, that quote made perfect sense to me.
Let's say IBM's distro and Red Hat are entirely GPL'd. Red Hat has some great idea that Microsoft wants. If Red Hat were pure closed source, Microsoft could say "Hey, I wanna licence that idea from you. Let me use that, and you can use SMB something something". As it is, if Microsoft wants to take something from Red Hat they would have to GPL the rest of the project, or hopefully have the Red Hat module work at arms length from the rest of their product. Once Microsoft has GPL'd their code, IBM linux can jump up and grab that code the same as Red Hat can. I assume that's what he means by not just being able to licence one of them.
Also, I don't see where Billy's saying Linux is a Unix clone. The word Unix isn't even in that quote.
Pixar movies are for children. I can't think of any movies meant for children that had me debating the meaning of symbols or events.
Meh, PGP would be prior art on claims that broad (see the posts above).
Right, it is a rather odd statistic. The other thing you can't tell is how often people use their computers. If I only bring my XP box up once a week, and it crashes 7 times that day, I'd still only have a 1 crash per week average.
The 5% number seems like a hell of a lot of crashes.
My OSX box crashes more often than once every 6-7 months, finder dies a horrible death whenever I forget to unmount a SMB share...but i suppose that's my fault...sort of...
I had exactly the same problem, frustrated me no end. Now I work mostly on a 12" Powerbook and switched to Mozilla Firebird on my XP box.
IE on my XP box tends to crash, and I send those results to microsoft. When I was actually using my XP box consistantly IE would die at least once a day. Never sent in reports for products not from microsoft, none of their damn business.
Got sick of the crashing pretty quick though, now I only use that XP box for games, got a 12" powerbook for anything serious.
Had the powerbook for 4-5 months now and there's only 1 way I've found to crash it, connect to a windows box that goes offline...finder dies a horrible death...good thing they re-wrote finder in 10.3
Still, that one error aside, OSX is quite stable, and now I'm very careful to unmount those SMB drives as soon as I am done. On my XP box I have absolutly no idea what causes the problems (but I switched to firebird).
You get hit with a setup fee for your phone line, but no extra fee for the internet. Assuming you're going to be getting a phone line anyway, you're paying $20/month for broadband.
The logic, if there is any, would be that if no one downloaded media files.
->No one would be using their broadband at capacity 24 hours a day.
->They could service more people on their existing system.
->They could make more money/offer the service more cheaply.
If they really could offer broadband at half price I'm sure that would encourage adoption.
Of course it's total BS, because if they don't want people using their bandwidth they shouldn't sell it to them. Either that or they should make the move of charging per megabyte after reaching a monthly traffic limit.
I use Sympatico shared between 3 people on a router and I have never reached my monthly limit (because I don't download music/movies/games).
$50!!! That's insane. In Canada I pay about $20/month (first 4 months, then I move because I'm at University and keep starting my 4 months again). Even the full price is like $30 something. Canadian!!!
You, sir, are the victim of a monopoly.
Prettier than a poem? Prettier? Are you a woman? If so I can't believe finding someone on slashdot would be a problem.
If you can write code that evalutate poetry you're a lot closer to AI than we are now. Also, there'd be nothing to evolve, just look at the source for the evaluator and enter in the perfect poem.
Genetic algorithms have their place in some areas, usually where there are a lot of variables to work with and a search heuristic would take too long, and if you can find a suitable way to crossover and mutate your results, but they aren't an answer for quick AI.
I have a WinXP desktop i use mostly for games sitting beside a 12" powerbook laptop I use mostly for work. I'm constantly amazed that in the last 6 months there's been maybe 1 or 2 security patches for OSX, while my Windows box gets what seems like at least 1 per week. Makes me worry about even turning on my WinXP box...I wish you could play games on Linux :)
But your question is moot, because you've made up those numbers. If those numbers can be proven then you try to save the most lives possible. If not you do what seems morally reasonable and most likely to have the best outcome, which I believe is my last position.
If, as you state earler those numbers cannot be proven, you don't have to explain anything to anyone. No one knows.
"The Impending IP Crisis" is a good title for Slashdot. In my RSS feed I can't tell if it's going to be something about Intellectual Property (copyrights, patents, etc) or IP addresses...
Quite frankly, I was disappointed.
But if the code was directly copied than the SCO employee had no right to submit the code into the kernal.
I can't just steal someone's code, publish it under the GPL, then do whatever I want with it because "Oh, look, it's been published under the GPL".
When I got a mac I thought to myself "Well self, you write all your documents in TeX anyway (yes, i'm a geek) so you won't be using Microsoft products that often, and there is always OpenOffice".
.doc files and I realized how slow and ugly open office is when you have to launch it in X11 (I REALLY hope panther and it's "X11 integration" will change that). Also, Open office didn't really do well when people had pictures or spreadsheets in the middle of the doc.
.doc support i'll delete it right away (cheaper to upgrade to Panther than to buy OfficeX), and maybe pick up keynote while i'm at it....and there's always OpenOffice.org if i'm desperate.
That worked out fine until people started sending me
Now, i'm just a poor student, and i'm not about to go spend $500 for compatibility with those silly people I work with...so...well...let's just say it isn't too hard to find OfficeX on peer to peer...cough...
Actually, I don't feel too bad about it. I only use OfficeX to open up the files people send me so I can read the stupid thing, I never use it to make something myself. If Panther has good
I live in Canada myself, and I belive what we have done is that posession of child pornography is allowed only for people identified as falling into the category you mention (will abuse without, won't abuse with). This was quite controversial and got a fair amount of media attention at the time, but I don't remember the end result.
I would say that creation of child pornography is to murder as posession of child porongraphy is to inciting murder, and both should remain illegal. The only exception being as a treatment option for individuals passing through the justice system.
I see from the Table of Contents that the book is really just about using the IDE, and I was hoping they would have more in there about using eclipse to build a SWT/Jface App.
I've used eclipse to build just such an app and I found the IDE wasn't difficult to learn, but the API for SWTwas horribly documented. Not even close to the standard you get when you look at the documentation for Swing or AWT. If you can figure out how to make a menu bar with just the API above I'm impressed.
The only way I managed to get things working at all was to look at some code snippets I managed to dig up elsewhere on the site.
If it really is about profit then people who have payed for child porn are creating a market for the abusers, encouraging their behaviour with monetary rewards.
The analogy with other ilicit behaviour is somewhat faulty because producing alcohol, tobacco or narcotics does not take away the basic rights of an individual (the child).
Hmmm...
"When Good Spammers Go Bad" + "The only good spammer is a dead spammer."
="When Dead Spammers Go Bad"
= Rotting Spammers
....ew...