How about not using 'free' when you mean 'open' as well.
Both usages of the word are intentional and meant to confuse, and it works well as 99.999999999999999% of the people in the world think that 'free' means no cost, and when you see them ranting about how some software package should be OSS because its free and better they mean... no cost, not free as in open because they need to fix a bug, unless by bug you mean the lack of money or willingness to pay for software.
The use of the word 'free' incorrectly in relation to OSS is an intentional misstatement your boy Stallman and his ilk pushed to confuse their agenda with all the little kiddies who just don't want to pay for anything.
No, because the GPLv3 applies to... THE COMMUNITY EDITION, which has been well established to be open source.
It doesn't apply to the Professional/Enterprise edition, which is not under GPL.
So no, just because you paid for the pro/ent edition doesn't suddenly make its license the same as the community edition. Thats just a retarded statement.
Thats what you want it to mean, and in your head, that may even really be the diffenition, but its one that isn't shared by the majority of the people in the world.
Open Source does not have to mean everyone gets the source.
It does not mean you can distribute source given to you.
Open source means that the author will let you view the source.
Period.
Anything else you add on after that for your own warped agenda doesnt' apply to the rest of us.
The authur may charge to see the source, they may not let you modify it, or they may place other REQUIREMENTS on you just like GPL.
When are you zealots going to realize that your narrow, single minded view of OSS doesn't actually apply to the rest of us who have been dealing with OSS since before your little movement got started.
Why would they have to use special hardware/firmware for 'doing the dirty work' in a commercial environment?
You realize that I don't need a new driver to talk to a new modem or a CNC machine over a serial port just because they are different forms of hardware right?
The software that talks to them is different, thats it. I talk to my modem with a terminal program like Minicom so I can send AT commands and data to the modem. I talk to my CNC machine with EMC2 which sends GCode commands to the CNC machine.
They both use the same drivers and hardware on the PC, just different protocols on top.
What you're saying is roughly the same as saying you'd need a new driver every time someone invented a new internet protocol (like bittorrent). Which is simply not what happens, instead what happens is the software just knows how to talk using the bittorrent protocol, and it uses the existing 'drivers' in the OS to talk to the network.
9 times out of 10, given the option, you make the changes in software, not hardware. Hardware is expensive to replace AFTER its developed, software replacement costs far less than hardware replacement.
Do you know modern x86s CPUs have a special, uber privilege mode that even the OS can't get at? Its reserved so that the bios can emulate hardware on the motherboard that doesn't exist by trapping what the OS tries to do to the hardware and redirecting it through internal SOFTWARE that pretends to be the hardware. Your mobo got onboard, driverless raid support? $10 says its doing it in that CPU mode and has no actual 'raid' hardware anywhere near it.
How powered lasers that are on the forefront of technology, sure.
My $10 pointer has been running off a power supply shining across my yard for months.
Laser tech thats new and hasn't been ironed out, sure.
Lasers built that have tiny power requirements and are operating at power outputs that we've been producing for 30 years... well those are a little more reliable... aren't they?
Sometimes, perspective is helpful when making statements.
You can not possibly notice 5ms of lag on your phone.
You may notice 250-500ms of lag that regularly happens, hell I doubt you'll notice below 250ms without paying attention specifically for it. But considering the screen doesn't refresh that fast you can not possibly be noticing the lag.
Keep in mind, at 60fps, a frame lasts for 16 2/3rdms. A single frame lasts for over 3 times longer than you're claiming at 60hz. Most people can't notice 30hz frame swaps, meaning that 33ms turns into a blur to most people. And you claim to notice 2 to 5.
You're complaining about noticing lag that is lost in the delay of a single screen refresh...
In short, you don't have any idea what 5ms of lag feels like, and never will. I doubt Bruce Lee would either. You simply aren't capable of perceiving what you are claiming.
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Yet millions of people use trackpads that function exactly like this EVERY SINGLE DAY and have no problem doing it.
Thats why you don't hover, you raise and lower your finger when you need to tap/click, the rest of the time it rests on the surface.
Have you not used a track pad for more than 20 minutes or maybe its just Apple's track pad handling that seems to work for me, I know I hate the way a PC 'feels' now. Stupid side scroll strips, no multi-touch for right tap or scrolling with 2 fingers.
I think maybe you've just been using really shitty PC track pads, my fingers don't ever hover.
Yes, some people do, but they do so because they are not rolling in cash, not because they want to save the environment.
Why? Well A) no one cares THAT much about the environment and B) The difference in milage is so small that it seems silly not to get the bigger engine.
No one buys a 4 cylinder car because when presented with the options the know they'll notice shitty performance and they'll never notice the extra gasoline burn or pollution.
They only people who buy 4 cylinders are doing it because they can't afford the upfront purchase price of something larger. Also, its hard to buy a v4 since everyone uses straight 4s, but nice try on the car analogy.
Yea, when you come bundled by default on 95% of the PCs in the world, the fact that its a plugin means its just like any other plugin you'd try to get installed later.
Flash comes with Windows, all users think is that its being upgraded which is perceptually different to an end user than installing a new plugin, regardless of the fact that the one included with the OS is more or less useless nearly 10 years down the road.
I love how people talk about black holes like they know how they work.
It always amazes me that both laymen and scientists as well talk about such things as if we KNOW whats going on.
We don't. We have theories. I assure you, without a bit of doubt, that should we ever get close enough to a black whole to actually uncover its secrets we will be utterly if not completely wrong about our understanding of them.
We don't know how they work, stop pretending we do, all we have is some observations made based on assumptions that other theories are correct, ignoring the fact that these underlying theories and the theories about black holes themselves don't even all actually add up without us throwing in random tweaks for reasons we don't have the slightest understanding of.
We don't know shit about black holes, even if we have seen a couple drive in movies that talked about them in the cosmos.
From your perspective, sure. However whats the difference between a private item and a public item?
Many of the things you consider private, you also share with other people, likely because they agree to use that information in a way you agree with. Is that not the exact same as what intellectual property issues come down to... the owner of the information will let you use it, but only if you use it the way they accept.
Funny how its only YOUR information you care about that you want laws for YOUR protection, but if its someone elses information the only reason you want it protected is because its the same class as the information of yours you want protected.
You say the confusion was on the original post, I say you are the one whos confused and you don't even realize it.
They may have done it 'before ZFS', but neither of them were original. If they were the first it might matter, but you're not talking about anything new really from them. They were just applying old ideas to new hardware under the hood.
MS doesn't get a patent for using mouse clicks on the next intel processor because they filed first before Apple any more than NetApp gets something special because they applied 1970s processes to 1990s SCSI drives or SATA/SAS drives now.
Awe... your little feelings got hurt... seriously?
It takes two or more people to form a relationship, that means that you are just as much responsible for the adversarial nature of the relationship as anyone else.
You felt bad because you got subjected to the same rules as everyone else but you don't feel those rules should apply to you because you aren't like everyone else.
You weren't presumed guilty, thats a retarded statement. You were however watched because in general your class of society (students) can not be trusted to not cheat. Thats just reality, like it or not.
Getting offended over something that clearly doesn't apply to you and isn't actually directed at you specifically is REALLY silly and probably an indication that you aren't ready to join the real world work force anyway. Consider it part of the exam... that you would fail.
Everyone you listed was upset that they caught someone cheating, not at the cheating.
Academia regularly cheats just like anything else, just because they get all pissy and pretend its a horrible thing doesn't mean they are any different than politicians, just better at it, since they've obviously fooled you.
ROT13 is an acceptable form of encryption even when everyone knows what it is, assuming that the third party that isn't supposed to see it can't see it before its useless.
No encryption is perfect. All are 'breakable' in the loosest sense of the word. The question is can you decrypt the data before it is of no value to decrypt it.
Considering 99.9999999999999999999999999% of the traffic sent using the Skype protocol has no value to anyone other than the parties involved anyway than the strength of the encryption doesn't probably have to be that high in order to make it high enough to be safe from a practical perspective.
Its probably easier to just bug your house than to deal with the encryption. Mission accomplished.
If it turns out that a moderately fast computer or small cluster can break and decrypt in real time from the output of tcpdump, that would be bad. If I can throw a bunch of EC2 hosts at someones conversation and decrypt it for a reasonable price... now we have a serious problem.
Actually, I think I just came up with a business plan...
Similarly, we define the proton's radius in terms of its charge distribution. See how easy that is? It only takes a simple definition to make a word like 'size' meaningful.
I'm sorry, I think the problem here is that you and I also have different definitions of meaningful.
If you want features, you won't pay for it and you'll be disappointed when you see it.
Its strength is actually, imo, its lack of features.
It does have a pretty interface that works reasonable well for standard email client, web host/photo album, but its not particularly impressive. Its simple and elegant.
The MobileMe photo browser that gets created or whatever when you upload an album from iPhoto to MobileMe is surprisingly pretty for something so plain.
I only have an account for the Find My iPhone feature, I wouldn't buy one without that feature. I'm a douche who leaves his phone in random places and its been really useful for tracking it down. It has paid for itself, but I doubt most people would need the same feature, my wife for instance has never seen it and I think its probably only been accessed for her when I set it up.
I would not pay for the service without Find My iPhone
Because I have the MobileMe account I also do the following:
Secondary, over the air backup of the various things the iPhone syncs with mobileme. I have this all backed up elsewhere, but since I have it I turned it on here too. More backups are not a bad thing.
A backup copy of my ITMS music that I can easily keep synced across machines using iDisk, its just easier than bothering with an rsync or something since I already have this.
I used to use it for push email since Google's exchange support didn't support push, now that it does however I no longer check my email at all at the me.com address.
Its a bridge to chat with some people on AIM without creating another AIM account since I never seem to remember my old ones. I don't even do that anymore.
Other than Find My iPhone I could do everything else free in another way, probably a technically better way, but since I have an account, using it for some things is just easier than setting something up somewhere else, free or otherwise.
Its up for renewal in a month and I'm not sure I'll renew it, depends on if I bother to upgrade to an iPhone 4 or not, probably won't do either.
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How about not using 'free' when you mean 'open' as well.
Both usages of the word are intentional and meant to confuse, and it works well as 99.999999999999999% of the people in the world think that 'free' means no cost, and when you see them ranting about how some software package should be OSS because its free and better they mean ... no cost, not free as in open because they need to fix a bug, unless by bug you mean the lack of money or willingness to pay for software.
The use of the word 'free' incorrectly in relation to OSS is an intentional misstatement your boy Stallman and his ilk pushed to confuse their agenda with all the little kiddies who just don't want to pay for anything.
No, because the GPLv3 applies to ... THE COMMUNITY EDITION, which has been well established to be open source.
It doesn't apply to the Professional/Enterprise edition, which is not under GPL.
So no, just because you paid for the pro/ent edition doesn't suddenly make its license the same as the community edition. Thats just a retarded statement.
No, thats not what open source means.
Thats what you want it to mean, and in your head, that may even really be the diffenition, but its one that isn't shared by the majority of the people in the world.
Open Source does not have to mean everyone gets the source.
It does not mean you can distribute source given to you.
Open source means that the author will let you view the source.
Period.
Anything else you add on after that for your own warped agenda doesnt' apply to the rest of us.
The authur may charge to see the source, they may not let you modify it, or they may place other REQUIREMENTS on you just like GPL.
When are you zealots going to realize that your narrow, single minded view of OSS doesn't actually apply to the rest of us who have been dealing with OSS since before your little movement got started.
Why would they have to use special hardware/firmware for 'doing the dirty work' in a commercial environment?
You realize that I don't need a new driver to talk to a new modem or a CNC machine over a serial port just because they are different forms of hardware right?
The software that talks to them is different, thats it. I talk to my modem with a terminal program like Minicom so I can send AT commands and data to the modem. I talk to my CNC machine with EMC2 which sends GCode commands to the CNC machine.
They both use the same drivers and hardware on the PC, just different protocols on top.
What you're saying is roughly the same as saying you'd need a new driver every time someone invented a new internet protocol (like bittorrent). Which is simply not what happens, instead what happens is the software just knows how to talk using the bittorrent protocol, and it uses the existing 'drivers' in the OS to talk to the network.
9 times out of 10, given the option, you make the changes in software, not hardware. Hardware is expensive to replace AFTER its developed, software replacement costs far less than hardware replacement.
Do you know modern x86s CPUs have a special, uber privilege mode that even the OS can't get at? Its reserved so that the bios can emulate hardware on the motherboard that doesn't exist by trapping what the OS tries to do to the hardware and redirecting it through internal SOFTWARE that pretends to be the hardware. Your mobo got onboard, driverless raid support? $10 says its doing it in that CPU mode and has no actual 'raid' hardware anywhere near it.
How powered lasers that are on the forefront of technology, sure.
My $10 pointer has been running off a power supply shining across my yard for months.
Laser tech thats new and hasn't been ironed out, sure.
Lasers built that have tiny power requirements and are operating at power outputs that we've been producing for 30 years ... well those are a little more reliable ... aren't they?
Sometimes, perspective is helpful when making statements.
No you don't. 5ms is 1 / 200th of a second.
You can not possibly notice 5ms of lag on your phone.
You may notice 250-500ms of lag that regularly happens, hell I doubt you'll notice below 250ms without paying attention specifically for it. But considering the screen doesn't refresh that fast you can not possibly be noticing the lag.
Keep in mind, at 60fps, a frame lasts for 16 2/3rdms. A single frame lasts for over 3 times longer than you're claiming at 60hz. Most people can't notice 30hz frame swaps, meaning that 33ms turns into a blur to most people. And you claim to notice 2 to 5.
You're complaining about noticing lag that is lost in the delay of a single screen refresh ...
In short, you don't have any idea what 5ms of lag feels like, and never will. I doubt Bruce Lee would either. You simply aren't capable of perceiving what you are claiming.
Yet millions of people use trackpads that function exactly like this EVERY SINGLE DAY and have no problem doing it.
Thats why you don't hover, you raise and lower your finger when you need to tap/click, the rest of the time it rests on the surface.
Have you not used a track pad for more than 20 minutes or maybe its just Apple's track pad handling that seems to work for me, I know I hate the way a PC 'feels' now. Stupid side scroll strips, no multi-touch for right tap or scrolling with 2 fingers.
I think maybe you've just been using really shitty PC track pads, my fingers don't ever hover.
Nobody with a choice from a financial side.
Yes, some people do, but they do so because they are not rolling in cash, not because they want to save the environment.
Why? Well A) no one cares THAT much about the environment and B) The difference in milage is so small that it seems silly not to get the bigger engine.
No one buys a 4 cylinder car because when presented with the options the know they'll notice shitty performance and they'll never notice the extra gasoline burn or pollution.
They only people who buy 4 cylinders are doing it because they can't afford the upfront purchase price of something larger.
Also, its hard to buy a v4 since everyone uses straight 4s, but nice try on the car analogy.
Remember back when you had to find a land line to call for help?
Now we're up in arms because a wireless device is not 100% reliable and it became very clear in an emergency situation.
Does the public really expect their cell phones to flawlessly or have I been using smartphones so long that I just accept wireless devices suck still?
Yea, when you come bundled by default on 95% of the PCs in the world, the fact that its a plugin means its just like any other plugin you'd try to get installed later.
Flash comes with Windows, all users think is that its being upgraded which is perceptually different to an end user than installing a new plugin, regardless of the fact that the one included with the OS is more or less useless nearly 10 years down the road.
Only if we happen to be in the path of the jet, its not a sphere you know. I'm not upping my life insurance policy.
I love how people talk about black holes like they know how they work.
It always amazes me that both laymen and scientists as well talk about such things as if we KNOW whats going on.
We don't. We have theories. I assure you, without a bit of doubt, that should we ever get close enough to a black whole to actually uncover its secrets we will be utterly if not completely wrong about our understanding of them.
We don't know how they work, stop pretending we do, all we have is some observations made based on assumptions that other theories are correct, ignoring the fact that these underlying theories and the theories about black holes themselves don't even all actually add up without us throwing in random tweaks for reasons we don't have the slightest understanding of.
We don't know shit about black holes, even if we have seen a couple drive in movies that talked about them in the cosmos.
From your perspective, sure. However whats the difference between a private item and a public item?
Many of the things you consider private, you also share with other people, likely because they agree to use that information in a way you agree with. Is that not the exact same as what intellectual property issues come down to ... the owner of the information will let you use it, but only if you use it the way they accept.
Funny how its only YOUR information you care about that you want laws for YOUR protection, but if its someone elses information the only reason you want it protected is because its the same class as the information of yours you want protected.
You say the confusion was on the original post, I say you are the one whos confused and you don't even realize it.
You do realize thats pretty much an admission that you've never actually used any of their hardware ... right?
I feel I should also point out:
Its also a very obvious pairing to anyone with even a quarter of a clue in the industry, not patent worthy in the least.
They may have done it 'before ZFS', but neither of them were original. If they were the first it might matter, but you're not talking about anything new really from them. They were just applying old ideas to new hardware under the hood.
MS doesn't get a patent for using mouse clicks on the next intel processor because they filed first before Apple any more than NetApp gets something special because they applied 1970s processes to 1990s SCSI drives or SATA/SAS drives now.
Awe ... your little feelings got hurt ... seriously?
It takes two or more people to form a relationship, that means that you are just as much responsible for the adversarial nature of the relationship as anyone else.
You felt bad because you got subjected to the same rules as everyone else but you don't feel those rules should apply to you because you aren't like everyone else.
You weren't presumed guilty, thats a retarded statement. You were however watched because in general your class of society (students) can not be trusted to not cheat. Thats just reality, like it or not.
You are paranoid, seek help.
Getting offended over something that clearly doesn't apply to you and isn't actually directed at you specifically is REALLY silly and probably an indication that you aren't ready to join the real world work force anyway. Consider it part of the exam ... that you would fail.
Everyone you listed was upset that they caught someone cheating, not at the cheating.
Academia regularly cheats just like anything else, just because they get all pissy and pretend its a horrible thing doesn't mean they are any different than politicians, just better at it, since they've obviously fooled you.
Its not augmented reality, its just reality to the birds.
Sounds like they've done pretty good for themselves. Their cover obviously has you fooled.
ROT13 is an acceptable form of encryption even when everyone knows what it is, assuming that the third party that isn't supposed to see it can't see it before its useless.
No encryption is perfect. All are 'breakable' in the loosest sense of the word. The question is can you decrypt the data before it is of no value to decrypt it.
Considering 99.9999999999999999999999999% of the traffic sent using the Skype protocol has no value to anyone other than the parties involved anyway than the strength of the encryption doesn't probably have to be that high in order to make it high enough to be safe from a practical perspective.
Its probably easier to just bug your house than to deal with the encryption. Mission accomplished.
If it turns out that a moderately fast computer or small cluster can break and decrypt in real time from the output of tcpdump, that would be bad. If I can throw a bunch of EC2 hosts at someones conversation and decrypt it for a reasonable price ... now we have a serious problem.
Actually, I think I just came up with a business plan ...
I'm sorry, I think the problem here is that you and I also have different definitions of meaningful.
If you want features, you won't pay for it and you'll be disappointed when you see it.
Its strength is actually, imo, its lack of features.
It does have a pretty interface that works reasonable well for standard email client, web host/photo album, but its not particularly impressive. Its simple and elegant.
The MobileMe photo browser that gets created or whatever when you upload an album from iPhoto to MobileMe is surprisingly pretty for something so plain.
I only have an account for the Find My iPhone feature, I wouldn't buy one without that feature. I'm a douche who leaves his phone in random places and its been really useful for tracking it down. It has paid for itself, but I doubt most people would need the same feature, my wife for instance has never seen it and I think its probably only been accessed for her when I set it up.
I would not pay for the service without Find My iPhone
Because I have the MobileMe account I also do the following:
Secondary, over the air backup of the various things the iPhone syncs with mobileme. I have this all backed up elsewhere, but since I have it I turned it on here too. More backups are not a bad thing.
A backup copy of my ITMS music that I can easily keep synced across machines using iDisk, its just easier than bothering with an rsync or something since I already have this.
I used to use it for push email since Google's exchange support didn't support push, now that it does however I no longer check my email at all at the me.com address.
Its a bridge to chat with some people on AIM without creating another AIM account since I never seem to remember my old ones. I don't even do that anymore.
Other than Find My iPhone I could do everything else free in another way, probably a technically better way, but since I have an account, using it for some things is just easier than setting something up somewhere else, free or otherwise.
Its up for renewal in a month and I'm not sure I'll renew it, depends on if I bother to upgrade to an iPhone 4 or not, probably won't do either.