Although not quite the same thing, a project does exist with a similar goal. It's called 'P2P Bridge'. Check out the project page: http://p2pbridge.sourceforge.net/
Well, from the article: ...and will be available in the summer of 2004 for $699 from the Apple Store and Apple Authorized Resellers throughout the U.S.
...is not going to promote widespread corporate adoption - rather, it will push them towards proprietary solutions.
Quite frankly, so what!? If I release software I have written under the GPL, then I expect the terms of that licence to be met. If some corporation wants to take something I, or others, have put their blood sweat and tears into without giving anything back, then tough. If they don't like being required to give back, then they can find some other solution to their problem. If they can't find another solution, then they must play by the rules. They have NO legal or moral right to use someone elses property in a way other than that person allows.
I would like to see the widespread acceptance of Linux, but I am not willing to see that happen at the expense of what Linux and the GPL stand for. If people go soft on enforcing the GPL now, then its perceived validity will be eroded in the future, and we'll have more problems than we started with. If this slows down widespread acceptance, then so be it. If widespread acceptance never materialises because corporations don't like the philosophy of the GPL, then so be it.
There is no reason to be scared of the GPL. If a company tries to abuse it, then they should expect to come under fire. If a company plays fair and release what they should, they can still keep closed whatever else they desire. They simply don't have the right to use people's work in a way that is illegal.
Am I the only one getting the feeling that this is all just going to escalate untill some sort of social revolution will be necessary?
You certainly are not. I've never posted this before for a number of reasons, but what the heck here goes. I'll probably be modded into oblivion for it, and I wouldn't blame people for it. I would have done the same thing not long ago.
I think in times to come there will be modern day revolutions of sorts in Western Nations. The more and more the average person has their rights and freedoms taken away from them, the more likely it is to happen. Throughout history revolutions have occured when those in power have overly abused their position. Such a time is apon us again, it is bound to happen.
However, I don't see such a revolution being targeted primarily at the governments of the time, but more at big business. Still, it is likely that in such an event governments will fall. The reality is that big business is where the real power is. Big business heavily influences government policy. Big business lobbies aggressively for laws and regulations that put the ball more firmly in their grip, giving them the ability to crush the little guy on a whim. The time will come when people will no longer accept this.
Millions and millions of dollars is required these days to run a successful election campaign in many Western Nations. A lot of this money comes from big businesses. Do you think these power players are going to want something in return when their favoured politician takes power? You-bet-ya! And do you think it happens? Of course it does!
Big businesses are constantly moving to ensure that more and more of life is directly under their control. Whether it be patent laws, copyright laws, or frivolous lawsuits, big business are exploiting the system for their own personal agenda. Whenever they do this, people suffer as a result.
So back to the revolution. One day people are going to say enough is enough. People will take the law into their own hands. They will attack these companies and attack those who run them. The people will take them down. I don't see it being in the form of simple boycotts, although this is how I'd like to see it transpire. No, it is going to be violent. People are going to kill the CEOs of these companies and those who represent them. Then, when others step up to take their places, they too will be killed. Who then would dare fill the void, if they know it would result in their certain death. It would not be worth it. The companies will be physically overrun, and whatever remains of them will be destroyed.
Governments will then have a choice, if they are still left with one. They can either quickly start ruling for the people, or they will be destroyed and replaced by the people.
*** PLEASE NOTE. I IN NO WAY SUPPORT THIS KIND OF ACTION. IT WOULD MAKE ME SICK TO THE CORE TO SEE IT HAPPEN. HOWEVER IT IS THE WAY I SEE THINGS HAPPENING. ***
If you mean by 'programs can be made "for" wine' that they can modify their behaviour when running on Wine, then this is certainly true. One very easy way for a program to detect that it is running on Wine is to search for Wine specific registry entries.
Doing this would enable a program to disable features that might not be implemented in Wine yet, or handle other special cases gracefully. This is strongly discouraged however for three main reasons.
1. If a program is found to work differently on Windows than on Wine, then people may suspect this to be a Wine bug. A lot of time may be wasted hunting down this 'bug' if it was not known that the program was intentionally behaving differently.
2. It is prefered people fix bugs in Wine, rather than simply detecting a Wine environment and using this to work around bugs.
3. Wine is still alpha software and hence it is not set in concrete what registry entries, files, etc Wine will install. Hence it is conceivable that a program that detects Wine and uses this to function correctly may get broken in the future.
Interesting, yes, but certainly in no way shape or form a new or original idea. A quick google search shows this to be the case. Also a friend of mine has just come up with exactly the same idea for his final year engineering project...
Yea right. Anyone who says you can't lie in a job interview has obviously never interviewed for a job (and been hired). How do you answer the "What is your greatest weakness" question? With 100% honesty? That's what would guarantee you not getting hired.
Tell the truth, but don't go into gory details. You know the question is coming so plan ahead. Keep your explanation for why you think it is your weakness short, sharp and shiny. Then proceed to explain why you beleive it won't hinder you in the job you are applying for. You may like to explain that you wouldn't be applying for the job in the first place if you believed you weren't suitable for the job because of this weakness. Where possible, do your best to demonstrate during the interview your ability to overcome this weakness. You may be able to do this by being careful about how you conduct yourself and how you respond to questions.
I believe it is important to be honest about the weakness question. If you pick something that isn't really a weakness so as to try and look like a saint, the interviewer is going to see straight through you. If you are honest, but can demonstrate it won't be a problem, the interviewer is more likely to be impressed.
This worked for me in my last job interview. I even admitted that my weakness was something that was quite important to the job. But I was able to demonstrate during the interview that it was nothing for them to be worried about.
Best of luck with your future job interviews.
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Well I took exception to the nature of the original poster's comment, that is all, but I'll reply to your post also.
The only thing I want to comment on it this: The people are not worthless. But their bodies are. You aren't (normally) attached to the bodies of your friends and families, you're attached to their minds and souls.
Yes and no. Certainly the minds and souls are what matter the most to the majority of people, but the body means a lot to them as well. Especially when they have passed away and the person's mind and soul is no longer here.
This is why there is often the opportunity to view the body when someone dies. This is why some armies adopt a nobody gets left behind policy. This is why a family I know paid many, many thousands of dollars to have a family member's body returned home when he died on an overseas holiday.
The fact is a loved one's body can mean a lot to people. Ecologically speaking it may be garbage, but I believe this is an oversimplification. Also garbage has the connotation of worthlessness, trash, rubbish and grot. I feel it undermines the value of what was a human life. This was my main issue with the grandparent's post.
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Well I'm going to bite.
It would appear that you have never had a friend die. Or if you have, you didn't have too much respect or emotional attachment to that person.
To refer to buried human remains simply as 'garbage' is an unbelievably shallow comment. Yes when it comes down to the bare basics, buried people are dead. They aren't going to earn another pay cheque. They won't be at their desk helping the economy steam on. But that does not mean they are worthless or worthy of being equated to 'garbage'.
Cemeteries are a place for people to return to after losing a loved one. They are a place that helps people overcome grief and loss, by allowing them to return to the resting place of a loved one and pay their final respects. The vary fact that you can be present at the place a friends body is buried can mean a great deal emotionally.
Cemeteries are a way of honouring the dead. Some of us believe that human life is valuable and should be respected, even after death. For some people, cemeteries are the best way for them to do that.
Also cemeteries can serve as a reminder of the past. In a cemetery where one of my friends is buried there are many white crosses marking the graves of soldiers whos bodies were brought home. There is a message there that should never be forgotten.
Back then, you had people who experianced government infringing on them. They knew what it was like to have the State dictate the course of their life, their religion, their associations.
It seems more and more that in the present day we are heading back into the world you just described.
As you said: Today you see those freedoms being limited slowly, one peice at a time.
Perhaps we are going to see things turn full circle before they start to get better...
Perhaps it is time for an amendment, but given the way things seem to be headed at the moment, do you think any amendment would be made in the right direction?
Personally I'm trying to work out how exactly this trade deal is going to help us at all.
It's not going to help us at all. However we have an election coming up this year and Jonny has been trying to get this free trade deal sealed for quite a while now. You can bet that if he does get it, no matter how bad it actually is, he'll make sure we all know about it come the election. We'll be told that thanks to his government, relations with the US are now better than ever, and look, a free trade deal to prove it!
It may help ol' Jonny, but probably not many others in the land down under.
I can safely say there is no red Phosphorus in any of my computer hardware. I have experienced exceptional reliability in all computer components and rate the chance of me experiencing any sudden failure as extrem-!@#
Thanks heaps for the detailed reply. I've just been reading through whatever docs I can find and going through some of the usage examples. I must say I'm very impressed! I've heard of the project before, but never thought it was worth looking at. Silly me...
Only problem I've been having so far is that running qemu usually kills my mouse when I exit it. Not sure why, but I haven't looked for solutions yet either.;)
Well your post has certainly grabbed my interest. Do you have a link explaining how to get windows 98 setup with qemu? I have never looked into qemu before so I'm certainly in no way familiar with it.
The reference docs on the site you linked to says: "The downside is that currently the emulation is not as accurate as bochs (for example, you cannot currently run Windows inside QEMU)." I'm guessing this is a little outdated.
After searching through some mailing lists it appears that Windows 98 can be run, but there may still be some problems with it.
I'll start reading through the docs to find out how to use qemu properly, but if you have any links to windows 98 with qemu howtos or the like, I'd be interested in seeing them.
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Although not quite the same thing, a project does exist with a similar goal. It's called 'P2P Bridge'. Check out the project page:
http://p2pbridge.sourceforge.net/
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Well, from the article:
...and will be available in the summer of 2004 for $699 from the Apple Store and Apple Authorized Resellers throughout the U.S.
So apparently it does!
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Maybe zap them with laser beams!
:-/
Then we'll probably have lots of little pieces of orbiting space junk!
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...is not going to promote widespread corporate adoption - rather, it will push them towards proprietary solutions.
Quite frankly, so what!? If I release software I have written under the GPL, then I expect the terms of that licence to be met. If some corporation wants to take something I, or others, have put their blood sweat and tears into without giving anything back, then tough. If they don't like being required to give back, then they can find some other solution to their problem. If they can't find another solution, then they must play by the rules. They have NO legal or moral right to use someone elses property in a way other than that person allows.
I would like to see the widespread acceptance of Linux, but I am not willing to see that happen at the expense of what Linux and the GPL stand for. If people go soft on enforcing the GPL now, then its perceived validity will be eroded in the future, and we'll have more problems than we started with. If this slows down widespread acceptance, then so be it. If widespread acceptance never materialises because corporations don't like the philosophy of the GPL, then so be it.
There is no reason to be scared of the GPL. If a company tries to abuse it, then they should expect to come under fire. If a company plays fair and release what they should, they can still keep closed whatever else they desire. They simply don't have the right to use people's work in a way that is illegal.
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Am I the only one getting the feeling that this is all just going to escalate untill some sort of social revolution will be necessary?
You certainly are not. I've never posted this before for a number of reasons, but what the heck here goes. I'll probably be modded into oblivion for it, and I wouldn't blame people for it. I would have done the same thing not long ago.
I think in times to come there will be modern day revolutions of sorts in Western Nations. The more and more the average person has their rights and freedoms taken away from them, the more likely it is to happen. Throughout history revolutions have occured when those in power have overly abused their position. Such a time is apon us again, it is bound to happen.
However, I don't see such a revolution being targeted primarily at the governments of the time, but more at big business. Still, it is likely that in such an event governments will fall. The reality is that big business is where the real power is. Big business heavily influences government policy. Big business lobbies aggressively for laws and regulations that put the ball more firmly in their grip, giving them the ability to crush the little guy on a whim. The time will come when people will no longer accept this.
Millions and millions of dollars is required these days to run a successful election campaign in many Western Nations. A lot of this money comes from big businesses. Do you think these power players are going to want something in return when their favoured politician takes power? You-bet-ya! And do you think it happens? Of course it does!
Big businesses are constantly moving to ensure that more and more of life is directly under their control. Whether it be patent laws, copyright laws, or frivolous lawsuits, big business are exploiting the system for their own personal agenda. Whenever they do this, people suffer as a result.
So back to the revolution. One day people are going to say enough is enough. People will take the law into their own hands. They will attack these companies and attack those who run them. The people will take them down. I don't see it being in the form of simple boycotts, although this is how I'd like to see it transpire. No, it is going to be violent. People are going to kill the CEOs of these companies and those who represent them. Then, when others step up to take their places, they too will be killed. Who then would dare fill the void, if they know it would result in their certain death. It would not be worth it. The companies will be physically overrun, and whatever remains of them will be destroyed.
Governments will then have a choice, if they are still left with one. They can either quickly start ruling for the people, or they will be destroyed and replaced by the people.
*** PLEASE NOTE. I IN NO WAY SUPPORT THIS KIND OF ACTION. IT WOULD MAKE ME SICK TO THE CORE TO SEE IT HAPPEN. HOWEVER IT IS THE WAY I SEE THINGS HAPPENING. ***
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If you mean by 'programs can be made "for" wine' that they can modify their behaviour when running on Wine, then this is certainly true. One very easy way for a program to detect that it is running on Wine is to search for Wine specific registry entries.
Doing this would enable a program to disable features that might not be implemented in Wine yet, or handle other special cases gracefully. This is strongly discouraged however for three main reasons.
1. If a program is found to work differently on Windows than on Wine, then people may suspect this to be a Wine bug. A lot of time may be wasted hunting down this 'bug' if it was not known that the program was intentionally behaving differently.
2. It is prefered people fix bugs in Wine, rather than simply detecting a Wine environment and using this to work around bugs.
3. Wine is still alpha software and hence it is not set in concrete what registry entries, files, etc Wine will install. Hence it is conceivable that a program that detects Wine and uses this to function correctly may get broken in the future.
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Reminds me of the "identify a song recorded off the radio" feature of the Neuros mp3 player...
Does anyone know if that feature actually ever worked, and worked reliably? I remember thinking it sounded a little ambitious at the time.
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Interesting, yes, but certainly in no way shape or form a new or original idea. A quick google search shows this to be the case. Also a friend of mine has just come up with exactly the same idea for his final year engineering project...
Cool stuff, but news? meh...
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Yea right. Anyone who says you can't lie in a job interview has obviously never interviewed for a job (and been hired). How do you answer the "What is your greatest weakness" question? With 100% honesty? That's what would guarantee you not getting hired.
Tell the truth, but don't go into gory details. You know the question is coming so plan ahead. Keep your explanation for why you think it is your weakness short, sharp and shiny. Then proceed to explain why you beleive it won't hinder you in the job you are applying for. You may like to explain that you wouldn't be applying for the job in the first place if you believed you weren't suitable for the job because of this weakness. Where possible, do your best to demonstrate during the interview your ability to overcome this weakness. You may be able to do this by being careful about how you conduct yourself and how you respond to questions.
I believe it is important to be honest about the weakness question. If you pick something that isn't really a weakness so as to try and look like a saint, the interviewer is going to see straight through you. If you are honest, but can demonstrate it won't be a problem, the interviewer is more likely to be impressed.
This worked for me in my last job interview. I even admitted that my weakness was something that was quite important to the job. But I was able to demonstrate during the interview that it was nothing for them to be worried about.
Best of luck with your future job interviews.
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Well I took exception to the nature of the original poster's comment, that is all, but I'll reply to your post also.
The only thing I want to comment on it this:
The people are not worthless. But their bodies are. You aren't (normally) attached to the bodies of your friends and families, you're attached to their minds and souls.
Yes and no. Certainly the minds and souls are what matter the most to the majority of people, but the body means a lot to them as well. Especially when they have passed away and the person's mind and soul is no longer here.
This is why there is often the opportunity to view the body when someone dies. This is why some armies adopt a nobody gets left behind policy. This is why a family I know paid many, many thousands of dollars to have a family member's body returned home when he died on an overseas holiday.
The fact is a loved one's body can mean a lot to people. Ecologically speaking it may be garbage, but I believe this is an oversimplification. Also garbage has the connotation of worthlessness, trash, rubbish and grot. I feel it undermines the value of what was a human life. This was my main issue with the grandparent's post.
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Well I'm going to bite.
It would appear that you have never had a friend die. Or if you have, you didn't have too much respect or emotional attachment to that person.
To refer to buried human remains simply as 'garbage' is an unbelievably shallow comment. Yes when it comes down to the bare basics, buried people are dead. They aren't going to earn another pay cheque. They won't be at their desk helping the economy steam on. But that does not mean they are worthless or worthy of being equated to 'garbage'.
Cemeteries are a place for people to return to after losing a loved one. They are a place that helps people overcome grief and loss, by allowing them to return to the resting place of a loved one and pay their final respects. The vary fact that you can be present at the place a friends body is buried can mean a great deal emotionally.
Cemeteries are a way of honouring the dead. Some of us believe that human life is valuable and should be respected, even after death. For some people, cemeteries are the best way for them to do that.
Also cemeteries can serve as a reminder of the past. In a cemetery where one of my friends is buried there are many white crosses marking the graves of soldiers whos bodies were brought home. There is a message there that should never be forgotten.
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Or a smaller font. A much smaller font...
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Sorry, I couldn't resist!!
;)
That been said, I totally agree with everything you have written. It's getting all a bit out of hand I think.
Oh, and by the way, I'm in the military too...
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Back then, you had people who experianced government infringing on them. They knew what it was like to have the State dictate the course of their life, their religion, their associations.
It seems more and more that in the present day we are heading back into the world you just described.
As you said:
Today you see those freedoms being limited slowly, one peice at a time.
Perhaps we are going to see things turn full circle before they start to get better...
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Perhaps it is time for an amendment, but given the way things seem to be headed at the moment, do you think any amendment would be made in the right direction?
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If that's the sort of stuff you're after, you'd be better off using some of that $5,999 to get yourself the real thing!
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Atleast I think this is what you were referring to... :-/
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Personally I'm trying to work out how exactly this trade deal is going to help us at all.
It's not going to help us at all. However we have an election coming up this year and Jonny has been trying to get this free trade deal sealed for quite a while now. You can bet that if he does get it, no matter how bad it actually is, he'll make sure we all know about it come the election. We'll be told that thanks to his government, relations with the US are now better than ever, and look, a free trade deal to prove it!
It may help ol' Jonny, but probably not many others in the land down under.
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Any chance of a link to your website? (Perhaps when this artical is off the front page of slashdot....) ;)
I quite like sampling music that people have written themselves and made freely downloadable to others.
Thanks.
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I can safely say there is no red Phosphorus in any of my computer hardware. I have experienced exceptional reliability in all computer components and rate the chance of me experiencing any sudden failure as extrem-!@#
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Thanks heaps for the detailed reply. I've just been reading through whatever docs I can find and going through some of the usage examples. I must say I'm very impressed! I've heard of the project before, but never thought it was worth looking at. Silly me...
;)
Only problem I've been having so far is that running qemu usually kills my mouse when I exit it. Not sure why, but I haven't looked for solutions yet either.
Thanks again for your help.
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Well your post has certainly grabbed my interest. Do you have a link explaining how to get windows 98 setup with qemu? I have never looked into qemu before so I'm certainly in no way familiar with it.
The reference docs on the site you linked to says: "The downside is that currently the emulation is not as accurate as bochs (for example, you cannot currently run Windows inside QEMU)." I'm guessing this is a little outdated.
After searching through some mailing lists it appears that Windows 98 can be run, but there may still be some problems with it.
I'll start reading through the docs to find out how to use qemu properly, but if you have any links to windows 98 with qemu howtos or the like, I'd be interested in seeing them.
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You wouldn't be thanking him if he stopped you staring at a blue screen like this!!
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About time someone made a keyboard fit to your needs.
Or alternatively made a tool fit to your keyboard.
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"When will e-Bay get a spell checker?"
His answer? "You go to a store called a bookstore, and you buy something called a dictionary."
So that's where I've been going wrong!! I always thought it was spelt 'dickshonery'!
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