he's not an idiot. I worked there for four months. They are crooks and scam artists, but not idiots. They set up a fake company to pose as an independet Intel reseller , so they could get Intel gear at wholesale. I certainly wouldn't put it past them, to be involved in other shady deals.
>Windows in Dutch has no other meaning >as it does in English; it is not a >common word.
You are a retard for saying this. English is the only Western language adding new words for new technology other than French. In Dutch the word for a GUI presentation system is "window ". We aren't talking about the windows on your house!
This is the problem with the GPL and other forms of intellectual property abuse. They are all defended using extraordinary examples of a huge corporation implementing mindless mass copying and making millions off the life work of a starving Cambodian scholar who donates blood twice a week. But when you look at 99.999% of the real cases it is sensless quibbling that wastes the resources of our courts.
Do us all a favor and use the MIT license or something similar. The GPL has nothing to do with freedom. Roderick Long speaks the truth when he explains that selling someone else's work without their permission is NOT a violation of their rights. Instead he describes it as "tacky".
The problem where people in a certain sector only get interactive feedback from others in the same sector applies well to TV news anchors and newspaper writers. There is an inside look at Dan Rathers in a book by a Bernard Goldberg, "Bias". He notes how Rathers is surrounded by people who think exactly the same way he does. This leads Rather to thinking his views are centered within the mass population.
>$500,000 (ten times what a sacrificing
>$50K engineer might make), you can save
> 2290 well paying (50K) jobs
how is reducing a CEO's pay related to needing more workers. You need more workers when you find/create/enter new markets.
My best guess is that you will VPN from your desktop to the edge router. This virtual connection will be signed so the router knows it can trust what your PC is reporting. The router won't establish the virtual connection unless you meet certain requirements in the info your PC sends during the handshake. After the connection is established, data will flow freely. This is my best (educated) guess.
again a government breaks its citizens' legs and is nice enough to hand them a crutch. Here intellectual property laws lead to the Microsoft monopoly, then the German gov't hands it's citizens a crutch by creating it's own monoploy. A market with intellectual property laws is NOT a free market. Government ownership of Suse is a step in the wrong direction (although I do see why it is viewed as a tempting band-aid).
How about compiling Python to a native executable? Is that possible? Are free tools available for creating Windows, Linux and Mac binaries? Is there a GUI widget libarary like Swing or SWT?
I have used PHP for MySQL-driven websites, and it has been nothing short of wonderful.
I am currently writing a stand-alone GUI app. I chose J2SE/Eclipse/JFace/SWT over VC++/MFC. I chose Java because of the fact that I can use gcj to compile a native executable for various platforms with an unmodified code base.
I don't know of any way to compile PHP code to a native executable.
Making my voice heard on/. IS productive. Their are too few people who are getting this message. The reason being that there is no power-grab associated with it. I certainly agree with you that under the current laws, a GPL author can enforce the license. I am asking you to take a step back, and ask if the GPL is about freedom or confinement. A world where every idea is protected by GPL is just as confining as a world where every idea is protected by DMCA. GPL is like Sauron in the Lord of the Rings; they both try to use power to do good, but the problem is that power itself is evil.
I have a feeling that what you consider "abuse" has been molded over your lifetime by a power-thirsty government. Who is to say that a structured, peaceful society cannot exist with the absence of the concepts of "intellectual property" and "fair, social behavior"? This has never been tested, and it is certainly not anarchy. There are plenty of legitimate government functions.
In a perfect world both GPL and DMCA would be ridiculed as nonsense. I'm less worried about choosing a license for my own software. I'm more worried about having my most basic rights stomped on by this lunacy!
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he's not an idiot. I worked there for four months. They are crooks and scam artists, but not idiots. They set up a fake company to pose as an independet Intel reseller , so they could get Intel gear at wholesale. I certainly wouldn't put it past them, to be involved in other shady deals.
keep in mind, he was probably 12 years old.
what will be the first 5.x production release? When will it be out?
Get rid of the moronic, freedom-strangling GPL. The new X license is more sane than GPL.
>Windows in Dutch has no other meaning
>as it does in English; it is not a
>common word.
You are a retard for saying this. English is the only Western language adding new words for new technology other than French. In Dutch the word for a GUI presentation system is "window ". We aren't talking about the windows on your house!
I think X Window System sounds too much like Windows. Hell, all it is is WINDOWS surrounded by a few additional characters.
Then they will be sued b/c it sounds too much like MS-DOS.
This is the problem with the GPL and other forms of intellectual property abuse. They are all defended using extraordinary examples of a huge corporation implementing mindless mass copying and making millions off the life work of a starving Cambodian scholar who donates blood twice a week. But when you look at 99.999% of the real cases it is sensless quibbling that wastes the resources of our courts.
Do us all a favor and use the MIT license or something similar. The GPL has nothing to do with freedom. Roderick Long speaks the truth when he explains that selling someone else's work without their permission is NOT a violation of their rights. Instead he describes it as "tacky".
> make the MPlayer team angry
so much for openess.
If I got busted by a guy in a RIAA jacket, I'd be looking around for Ashton Kucher.
The problem where people in a certain sector only get interactive feedback from others in the same sector applies well to TV news anchors and newspaper writers. There is an inside look at Dan Rathers in a book by a Bernard Goldberg, "Bias". He notes how Rathers is surrounded by people who think exactly the same way he does. This leads Rather to thinking his views are centered within the mass population.
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> $500,000 (ten times what a sacrificing
> $50K engineer might make), you can save
> 2290 well paying (50K) jobs
how is reducing a CEO's pay related to needing more workers. You need more workers when you find/create/enter new markets.
>$500,000 (ten times what a sacrificing >$50K engineer might make), you can save > 2290 well paying (50K) jobs how is reducing a CEO's pay related to needing more workers. You need more workers when you find/create/enter new markets.
How much longer will 5.x wear the "New Technology Release" label?
You are definitely more sane than 99.999% of the population.
please don't use the term slave . :-)
My best guess is that you will VPN from your desktop to the edge router. This virtual connection will be signed so the router knows it can trust what your PC is reporting. The router won't establish the virtual connection unless you meet certain requirements in the info your PC sends during the handshake. After the connection is established, data will flow freely. This is my best (educated) guess.
again a government breaks its citizens' legs and is nice enough to hand them a crutch. Here intellectual property laws lead to the Microsoft monopoly, then the German gov't hands it's citizens a crutch by creating it's own monoploy. A market with intellectual property laws is NOT a free market. Government ownership of Suse is a step in the wrong direction (although I do see why it is viewed as a tempting band-aid).
jython is compatible with SWT... http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/Jyth on-users/1800265
How about compiling Python to a native executable? Is that possible? Are free tools available for creating Windows, Linux and Mac binaries? Is there a GUI widget libarary like Swing or SWT?
I have used PHP for MySQL-driven websites, and it has been nothing short of wonderful. I am currently writing a stand-alone GUI app. I chose J2SE/Eclipse/JFace/SWT over VC++/MFC. I chose Java because of the fact that I can use gcj to compile a native executable for various platforms with an unmodified code base. I don't know of any way to compile PHP code to a native executable.
Making my voice heard on /. IS productive. Their are too few people who are getting this message. The reason being that there is no power-grab associated with it. I certainly agree with you that under the current laws, a GPL author can enforce the license. I am asking you to take a step back, and ask if the GPL is about freedom or confinement. A world where every idea is protected by GPL is just as confining as a world where every idea is protected by DMCA. GPL is like Sauron in the Lord of the Rings; they both try to use power to do good, but the problem is that power itself is evil.
I have a feeling that what you consider "abuse" has been molded over your lifetime by a power-thirsty government. Who is to say that a structured, peaceful society cannot exist with the absence of the concepts of "intellectual property" and "fair, social behavior"? This has never been tested, and it is certainly not anarchy. There are plenty of legitimate government functions.
In a perfect world both GPL and DMCA would be ridiculed as nonsense. I'm less worried about choosing a license for my own software. I'm more worried about having my most basic rights stomped on by this lunacy!