It would work, but remember the statistic that says something like "10% of the population controls 90% of the wealth" (real stats may vary, but it's something like that). That 90% of the wealth is tied up in personal accounts making more money for it's master. A litre of that might be diffused into the atmosphere and trickle down to the local economies. The only work trickle down economics did in the 80s was shift the load to the 90s and beyond. Middle/Upper middle class spent while corporate leaders reaped the benefits. Their pockets are lined with gold and silver still.
I agree that it *could* work, but the wealth of the top 10% is stagnant and won't trickle anywhere.
The money I earn spreads through the economy. Fathers work at better jobs because of my spending and can keep their children in school instead of having them go out to work early.
does any one else feel that it's a problem that a large portion of the worlds wealth is tied up in the personal accounts of people who could never possibly spend all their money or give it away? A huge amount of wealth is being accumulated and then not doing anything, it is stagnant and not being fed back into the local economies.
yeah yeah, taxes might help redistribute some of that wealth, but you hear what I consider "horror" stories that Joe CEO didn't have to pay any taxes last year, or only had to pay some obscenely small percentage of taxes on his X millions of income. what does Bill G pay in taxes each year, anyone have a clue? Probably nothing compared to his total wealth.
Is.NET even relevant? I will be honest and say I've never touched it or researched it's uses. Is it not just another attempt to grab marketshare back from Java on the Windows platform after J++ or whatever MS's last failed attempt was? I know people use it, and I've actually heard opensource developers say some of it's features are neat, but it seems like it will only fill a small niche. Too much hubbub over a niche market. Then to put Mono in the mix, it feels like a big time sink to try to implement an Opensource/Free version. However if they are doing it to force MS to stick to it's "Standard" in order to make developers lives easier, then I applaud Mono. Mono developers have to feel a bit aprehensive working on something that MS can pull away from at the drop of a hat.
But that seems to set a very bad precident for things you might happen to see or hear and make information more dangerous than it should be. Information should be used to advance society, it shouldn't be a liability to know something.
No. If the Wine folks look at the actual Windows source code, they aren't reverse engineering any more, they're copying, which is illegal
I'm tired of this b.s. Since when has looking at something been equated to copying it? Copying is copying. Looking is looking. However, obtaining the code is probably a copyright violation. After all, this post is not a copy of your post. It was inspired by it, I looked at your post, I legally cited your post, but I did not give you the rights to my post by doing so, nor can you force me to remove my post.
The correct analogy is sampling large portions of a beatles song or performing your own rendition of it. If you try to record a beatles song and sell it, you had better pay the proper song royalties or you will get sued.
Yet if I learn to play guitar by among other things, listening to all of the Beatles songs and playing along, do the Beatles own the rights to any future song I write? Goddamn hell freakin no! How is that any different from learning things from viewing MS, or any other persons code?
I've learned to code by doing all sorts of things over the years. Among them, learning from coworkers code. Applying that knowledge at my current job doesn't make the propoerty of my current employer a derivitive work of my employer from 5 years ago, even though I had access to the source code of that previous job.
[sarcasm]Yes, and I will not let my 12th grade math influence my understanding of cryptography either...[/sarcasm] You had it right in your subject, but wrong in your body. Don't use the code. But if you learn something from it, some technique to modify bits a little different, why not let that influence you? It's all math eventually anyway.
If this stuff was "trade secret" it's not anymore, and there's nothing they can do about it.
Atleast they didn't say "they immediately start downloading that piece to other users." That's the level of intelligence I would have expected from NYT online.
From the article, the changing rooms are made of clear glass that goes opaque when you and your RFID tag enter. "Once inside, the customer can switch the doors back to transparent at the touch of a switch, exposing themselves to onlookers waiting outside the room."
Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
I think so Brain, but why would gerbils need RFID tags?
Of course they started at "1". "0" is part of their "Intellectual Property" in the disputed source code, and revealing "0" would break the liscensing agreements they have between themselves and their clients. They could not, without breaking contract, reveal "0".
a man and a women have intercourse. data is transfered from the man to the woman. womans host process upon recieving data begins the process of creating life. details left out for as excercise for the student
20 years is a really long time in this context. Anyway, i'm a little hesitant to welcome IBM into our homes as much as some are doing so. Who know what they will do in a few years with respect to linux.
Thats a rediculous analogy... might as well save the carbon monoxide, or whatever toxic gasses were given off at launch time, as well. Those were the first gasses given off to propell the human race into space the first time we traveled to a different celestial body. There's no use for them, they are broken down from their original form and no one can reconstruct them, but there they are.
What would be better than to keep those results of the chemical process of burning rocket fuel would be to maintain a historical record of what that rocket fuel was and how it was made.
The same for the launch tower. Maintain a historical record of it's blueprints and other specifications. The original is not needed anymore.
Slashdot Mirror
fixing SMTP is the best way.
what's broke?
So, they are complaining, in part, that IBM tricked them: "They made secret plans, and didn't tell us!"
stupid, fat, trixie hobb^H^H^H^Hengineersesss!
So they can sleep at night.
So you say they lie in their sleep?
It would work, but remember the statistic that says something like "10% of the population controls 90% of the wealth" (real stats may vary, but it's something like that). That 90% of the wealth is tied up in personal accounts making more money for it's master. A litre of that might be diffused into the atmosphere and trickle down to the local economies. The only work trickle down economics did in the 80s was shift the load to the 90s and beyond. Middle/Upper middle class spent while corporate leaders reaped the benefits. Their pockets are lined with gold and silver still.
I agree that it *could* work, but the wealth of the top 10% is stagnant and won't trickle anywhere.
The money I earn spreads through the economy. Fathers work at better jobs because of my spending and can keep their children in school instead of having them go out to work early.
does any one else feel that it's a problem that a large portion of the worlds wealth is tied up in the personal accounts of people who could never possibly spend all their money or give it away? A huge amount of wealth is being accumulated and then not doing anything, it is stagnant and not being fed back into the local economies.
yeah yeah, taxes might help redistribute some of that wealth, but you hear what I consider "horror" stories that Joe CEO didn't have to pay any taxes last year, or only had to pay some obscenely small percentage of taxes on his X millions of income. what does Bill G pay in taxes each year, anyone have a clue? Probably nothing compared to his total wealth.
Is .NET even relevant? I will be honest and say I've never touched it or researched it's uses. Is it not just another attempt to grab marketshare back from Java on the Windows platform after J++ or whatever MS's last failed attempt was? I know people use it, and I've actually heard opensource developers say some of it's features are neat, but it seems like it will only fill a small niche. Too much hubbub over a niche market. Then to put Mono in the mix, it feels like a big time sink to try to implement an Opensource/Free version. However if they are doing it to force MS to stick to it's "Standard" in order to make developers lives easier, then I applaud Mono. Mono developers have to feel a bit aprehensive working on something that MS can pull away from at the drop of a hat.
$0.02
and would the world really be worse off if that happened?
But that seems to set a very bad precident for things you might happen to see or hear and make information more dangerous than it should be. Information should be used to advance society, it shouldn't be a liability to know something.
No. If the Wine folks look at the actual Windows source code, they aren't reverse engineering any more, they're copying, which is illegal
I'm tired of this b.s. Since when has looking at something been equated to copying it? Copying is copying. Looking is looking. However, obtaining the code is probably a copyright violation. After all, this post is not a copy of your post. It was inspired by it, I looked at your post, I legally cited your post, but I did not give you the rights to my post by doing so, nor can you force me to remove my post.
The correct analogy is sampling large portions of a beatles song or performing your own rendition of it. If you try to record a beatles song and sell it, you had better pay the proper song royalties or you will get sued.
Yet if I learn to play guitar by among other things, listening to all of the Beatles songs and playing along, do the Beatles own the rights to any future song I write? Goddamn hell freakin no! How is that any different from learning things from viewing MS, or any other persons code?
I've learned to code by doing all sorts of things over the years. Among them, learning from coworkers code. Applying that knowledge at my current job doesn't make the propoerty of my current employer a derivitive work of my employer from 5 years ago, even though I had access to the source code of that previous job.
[sarcasm]Yes, and I will not let my 12th grade math influence my understanding of cryptography either...[/sarcasm] You had it right in your subject, but wrong in your body. Don't use the code. But if you learn something from it, some technique to modify bits a little different, why not let that influence you? It's all math eventually anyway.
If this stuff was "trade secret" it's not anymore, and there's nothing they can do about it.
however, the decision to make his article freely available was market-driven
Atleast they didn't say "they immediately start downloading that piece to other users." That's the level of intelligence I would have expected from NYT online.
From the article, the changing rooms are made of clear glass that goes opaque when you and your RFID tag enter. "Once inside, the customer can switch the doors back to transparent at the touch of a switch, exposing themselves to onlookers waiting outside the room."
Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
I think so Brain, but why would gerbils need RFID tags?
Of course they started at "1". "0" is part of their "Intellectual Property" in the disputed source code, and revealing "0" would break the liscensing agreements they have between themselves and their clients. They could not, without breaking contract, reveal "0".
Method in which DNA data is accessed by means of a read head
glancing at that the first time I thought it said "red head."
prior art...
a man and a women have intercourse. data is transfered from the man to the woman. womans host process upon recieving data begins the process of creating life. details left out for as excercise for the student
yada yada.
VHS players, Laserdisc players, Betamax players, MiniDisc players...
no joke, but my shlong too. It has DNA data that gets accessed upon insertion.
Joe user wants to continue not thinking and have stuff given to him
He'll have stuff given to him allright.
With IE you can stop thinking and be given viruses. With Mozilla you can stop thinking and nothing harmfull happens.
explain his bad teeth that does, yes?
yep, you guessed it...
I, for one, welcome our new Russian Roverlords.
The GPL is the reason why you Lunix kiddies don't have Photoshop, MS Office, and games
Yes, the "viral" GPL sure has made Neverwinter Nights become liscensed under the GPL now, hasn't it.
troll.
20 years is a really long time in this context. Anyway, i'm a little hesitant to welcome IBM into our homes as much as some are doing so. Who know what they will do in a few years with respect to linux.
amazing. a clear voice of reason among a few uncreative +5 funny's. You've said everything I wanted to and more.
Thats a rediculous analogy... might as well save the carbon monoxide, or whatever toxic gasses were given off at launch time, as well. Those were the first gasses given off to propell the human race into space the first time we traveled to a different celestial body. There's no use for them, they are broken down from their original form and no one can reconstruct them, but there they are.
What would be better than to keep those results of the chemical process of burning rocket fuel would be to maintain a historical record of what that rocket fuel was and how it was made.
The same for the launch tower. Maintain a historical record of it's blueprints and other specifications. The original is not needed anymore.