The article is well written but I am not sure they have checked their facts... here is a direct quote from the article....
"It even runs some supercomputers."
Now... just head over to the TOP500 page (http://i.top500.org/stats) and sort by OS..... I wouldn't call > 80 % just 'some supercomputers'
???
+1
the GPL does not prohibit the selling of the software... hence you guys are on the right side... moreover, your team's collaboration with the original developers shows your commitment to the FOSS community and that it actually means something to you guys... I say go for it.
RMS is correct - and that is why smaller self supported "clouds" will be better than the monolithic Google or Amazon clouds... and you can ensure they are as "open" as you need them to be.
You don't have to like him - but them man is right.
From the article:
"... Any activity that leverages software for business advantage is likely to restrict the software's freedom..."
So this is a piece written by a lawyer and this statement is an comp sci/business topic. Here is a good example to refute this statement:
GOOGLE - do they not leverage a lot of open source software and last time I checked they seem to be just a little profitable???
from the quote:
"Brady believes that in the next five years people will be required to identify themselves in some way at many sites"
So if this is the case - can anyone say - ALT ROOT DNS and other such private networks - there are a group of people that will resist this stuff to the end
I have worked with a lot talented people in my day but the IT sector is a very unforgiving place without a four year degree and once you have that you still find that you need a more advanced degree. For example I work with a guy right now that have far more experience and talent on our network but I was offered a promotion over him simply because he didn't meet the stringent rules of the organization when it comes to degree requirements for certain positions. I know it sucks but the fact is that in the tech industry the practical programming/infrastrucure stuff that organizations are looking for are just not the point and aim of a four year institution's class schedule. This is an important reason too, I mean if there is some guy out there that really wants to do some serious number crunching on super-computers in his graduate years he most certainly doesn't care about a bunch of classes that teach him how to make a web-page pretty and easy to get/send to a backend DB. It just seems to me to be a really double-edged sword.
akuma624
Man their systems are (kind of) locked down with the lower-privileged Win accounts. This article really doesn't make a lot sense because I seem to notice quite quickly when I'm working on a WIN box under an other than admin account - how about you??
Completely true... at times I think these companies truly don't understand the skills that only experience can teach. Raw knowledge is great but without any experience it is basically all theory.
This is something I have been wanting to write about for some time - in short the premise for my question/argument is: since the general public (to include the professional community of disciplines outside of IT support/development) has been exposed to so much "fuzzy" logic when dealing with computers, has this in fact relegated the computing professional community to explain itself over and over again for mistakes in software or related hardware? In other words although the general public very much believe in scientific research and forensic/medical "science" they are more likely to question computer related scientific findings as mentioned in this article? I mean really where are all these people going to place the frustration of having to close all those pop-ups?
- Any help?
Gates:... I worry more about whether our general dream will be fulfilled.
SPIEGEL: What is that dream?
Gates: That we can globally communicate with one another without mistrust and can do it more creatively. To do this, for example, it is important that your identity is safe on the Internet. In the end it involves a promise, the promise of the digital age....
SPIEGEL: What is your most important goal for the coming years?
Gates: We must ensure that the trust placed in us is kept. That way we can push for more brilliant developments, such as speech or handwriting recognition, and make more breakthroughs.
SPIEGEL: You are the richest man in the world. Do you still have things you'd like, but are not yet fulfilled?
Gates: I go to work every day as before, also because the dream of what the PC should be able to do as a tool has not yet been realized. About 30 years ago I founded Microsoft together with Paul Allen because the capabilities and possibilities of computers back then frustrated us. Since then, I have worked on making my dream that computers can understand us better and work more simply a reality.
This is a very interesting comment by Mr. Gates for many different reasons. Especially when one considers the recent lawsuits against Internet users for sharing MP3 files. As I remember it really wasn't that long ago that people were doing much similar acts with cassette tapes - albeit on a much smaller and slower scale. What is also interesting about the comment is the genuine concern Mr. Gates appears to have about this promise. For those of use willing to do a little reading (and tinkering) one can surf the web and post (communicate) without divulging your identity - ala GNUPG, Proxy gateways etc...
One of the only things that you can trust is that M$ is a company and its main mission is to make money. Rightly so it is willing to sacrifice your privacy for its long-term financial gain. If people are truly worried about privacy and using computers to their fullest capabilities they should look toward the GNU Linux / FreeBSD realm of computing software.
What is funny about reading the article linked to by/. and the comments here is that it just made me remember what George Mason is asking of their grad students. They set up these grad students with an email account but they give them instructions to use it at home by only using a version of Netscape - precisely between versions 4 and 7 to exclude http://registrar.gmu.edu/ check it out.
"They also are working on developing new electrodes that emit drugs that tone down the inflammation that comes from introducing a foreign object into the brain."
This statement is medically interesting in the sense that the human immunoresponse to objects it doesn't recognize - e.g. antibody / antigen reaction. Not to mention that introducing even the slightest foreign object in the subarachnoid space (the space between the skull and the brain itself) is of fatal importance.
At one point we have to wonder and assume that technology will eventually make all of this possible but will we maintain our "humanity" or will we undergo some change ala Caption Picard and the Borg - ?
This essay captures the current momentum of the numerous laws passed in the name of "intellectual property". From the essay: "They may laugh at the CEO when he talks in generic corporate newspeech, but they also laugh at someone who tells them a certain problem can't be solved. Suppress one, and you suppress the other." What is most important here is the word SUPPRESS.
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gotta love this stuff ....
The article is well written but I am not sure they have checked their facts ... here is a direct quote from the article ....
"It even runs some supercomputers."
Now ... just head over to the TOP500 page (http://i.top500.org/stats) and sort by OS ..... I wouldn't call > 80 % just 'some supercomputers'
???
+1 the GPL does not prohibit the selling of the software ... hence you guys are on the right side ... moreover, your team's collaboration with the original developers shows your commitment to the FOSS community and that it actually means something to you guys ... I say go for it.
horse shit
RMS is correct - and that is why smaller self supported "clouds" will be better than the monolithic Google or Amazon clouds ... and you can ensure they are as "open" as you need them to be.
You don't have to like him - but them man is right.
Ars rocks ... a great read for those that wish to be in the KNOW.
more of the same
From the article: "... Any activity that leverages software for business advantage is likely to restrict the software's freedom ..."
So this is a piece written by a lawyer and this statement is an comp sci/business topic. Here is a good example to refute this statement:
GOOGLE - do they not leverage a lot of open source software and last time I checked they seem to be just a little profitable???
from the quote: "Brady believes that in the next five years people will be required to identify themselves in some way at many sites"
So if this is the case - can anyone say - ALT ROOT DNS and other such private networks - there are a group of people that will resist this stuff to the end
Exactly - TBL invented the "interlinking" of web pages the http protocol not TCP/IP which. The web is only a portion of the larger Internet
wow, i didn't know how influential this person was - i remember seeing that film and just being awestruck by it
those things look like golf carts
i totally agree
I have worked with a lot talented people in my day but the IT sector is a very unforgiving place without a four year degree and once you have that you still find that you need a more advanced degree. For example I work with a guy right now that have far more experience and talent on our network but I was offered a promotion over him simply because he didn't meet the stringent rules of the organization when it comes to degree requirements for certain positions. I know it sucks but the fact is that in the tech industry the practical programming/infrastrucure stuff that organizations are looking for are just not the point and aim of a four year institution's class schedule. This is an important reason too, I mean if there is some guy out there that really wants to do some serious number crunching on super-computers in his graduate years he most certainly doesn't care about a bunch of classes that teach him how to make a web-page pretty and easy to get/send to a backend DB. It just seems to me to be a really double-edged sword. akuma624
Man their systems are (kind of) locked down with the lower-privileged Win accounts. This article really doesn't make a lot sense because I seem to notice quite quickly when I'm working on a WIN box under an other than admin account - how about you??
Completely true ... at times I think these companies truly don't understand the skills that only experience can teach. Raw knowledge is great but without any experience it is basically all theory.
This is something I have been wanting to write about for some time - in short the premise for my question/argument is: since the general public (to include the professional community of disciplines outside of IT support/development) has been exposed to so much "fuzzy" logic when dealing with computers, has this in fact relegated the computing professional community to explain itself over and over again for mistakes in software or related hardware? In other words although the general public very much believe in scientific research and forensic/medical "science" they are more likely to question computer related scientific findings as mentioned in this article? I mean really where are all these people going to place the frustration of having to close all those pop-ups? - Any help?
Some interesting tidbits ...
... I worry more about whether our general dream will be fulfilled.
...
...
Gates:
SPIEGEL: What is that dream?
Gates: That we can globally communicate with one another without mistrust and can do it more creatively. To do this, for example, it is important that your identity is safe on the Internet. In the end it involves a promise, the promise of the digital age.
SPIEGEL: What is your most important goal for the coming years?
Gates: We must ensure that the trust placed in us is kept. That way we can push for more brilliant developments, such as speech or handwriting recognition, and make more breakthroughs.
SPIEGEL: You are the richest man in the world. Do you still have things you'd like, but are not yet fulfilled?
Gates: I go to work every day as before, also because the dream of what the PC should be able to do as a tool has not yet been realized. About 30 years ago I founded Microsoft together with Paul Allen because the capabilities and possibilities of computers back then frustrated us. Since then, I have worked on making my dream that computers can understand us better and work more simply a reality.
This is a very interesting comment by Mr. Gates for many different reasons. Especially when one considers the recent lawsuits against Internet users for sharing MP3 files. As I remember it really wasn't that long ago that people were doing much similar acts with cassette tapes - albeit on a much smaller and slower scale. What is also interesting about the comment is the genuine concern Mr. Gates appears to have about this promise. For those of use willing to do a little reading (and tinkering) one can surf the web and post (communicate) without divulging your identity - ala GNUPG, Proxy gateways etc
One of the only things that you can trust is that M$ is a company and its main mission is to make money. Rightly so it is willing to sacrifice your privacy for its long-term financial gain. If people are truly worried about privacy and using computers to their fullest capabilities they should look toward the GNU Linux / FreeBSD realm of computing software.
They didn't mention the great and useful plugins.
What is funny about reading the article linked to by /. and the comments here is that it just made me remember what George Mason is asking of their grad students. They set up these grad students with an email account but they give them instructions to use it at home by only using a version of Netscape - precisely between versions 4 and 7 to exclude http://registrar.gmu.edu/ check it out.
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=131796 &cid=11004920 test
Read my http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=131796 &cid=11004920 post
"They also are working on developing new electrodes that emit drugs that tone down the inflammation that comes from introducing a foreign object into the brain." This statement is medically interesting in the sense that the human immunoresponse to objects it doesn't recognize - e.g. antibody / antigen reaction. Not to mention that introducing even the slightest foreign object in the subarachnoid space (the space between the skull and the brain itself) is of fatal importance. At one point we have to wonder and assume that technology will eventually make all of this possible but will we maintain our "humanity" or will we undergo some change ala Caption Picard and the Borg - ?
... this is just another case of the little guy getting screwed ...
This essay captures the current momentum of the numerous laws passed in the name of "intellectual property". From the essay: "They may laugh at the CEO when he talks in generic corporate newspeech, but they also laugh at someone who tells them a certain problem can't be solved. Suppress one, and you suppress the other." What is most important here is the word SUPPRESS.