Well, it's a frequently-followed path, and a wise one IMHO, to distribute the products under the same license as the OS they're written for.
MySQL, for example, is open-sourced under *nix, but is shareware under Windows.
While I agree that a lot of companies are certainly jumping on the "open-source bandwagon" and are only doing it for publicity and stock spikes, I don't think that this is one of them.
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That's not what praying is.
Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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P.S. Why I'm unable to use tag here?
I always wondered about this myself. I usually ended up using <TT> instead. Of course, that still required me to use breaks.
Well, our uptime is measured in days and is rarely more than a day or two. We often crash. We have a lot of unexplainable bugs and "features". I've been thinking about this for quite a while.
Perhaps that is why people accept Windows crashing. They don't understand that computers are supposed to stay up for a long time. I've heard this several times, "Windows crashed again, but I think that's because I was trying to do several things at once and it couldn't keep track."
I know there have been a few posts about using a distributed network for something like this. I doubt that the U.S. government would hand out nuclear warfare computations to the public, but similarly huge computational efforts can probably done this way.
A few questions to the slashdotters:
How the power of this computer compares to that of Distributed.net or similar projects?
How feasible is the distribution of such a computation? Are all the calculations similar, or would a lot of different computational code have to be written?
Are there any such systems already in place? Currently, I'm only aware of one "useful" system, and that's ProcessTree (damn, I lost my referral number). SETI@Home is arguably useful, depending on whether you believe there is extraterrestrial life that uses the same radio waves we're scanning and is sending signals we could interpret.
Jokes aside, am I the only one dying to finally be able to have a chip implanted that I can easily interface with by merely thinking? It seems that all the current offerings are incredibly inefficient, including my Palm (which is the closest I've found to an implant.) The signal has to be first converted from electrical to mechanical (thought to keystroke) and then back.
Give us implants! I'll be the first one in line! That is, as long as there are no banner ads.
I'd be very surprised to see Microsoft write anything multiplatform, but your statements aren't correct. Just because it's part of Visual Studio doesn't mean it's not multiplatform.
For example, CodeWarrior is only for MacOS and Windows (the Linux port wasn't finished, IIRC). However, it can be used to write Java, which is multiplatform. Visual Studio is not multi-platform, but it can be used to write HTML, which can be multiplatform.
I'm a regular reader of Slashdot, and not a regular one of Kuro5hin, but wouldn't Slashdot still be considered Closed Media, because the articles are still posted by a select few? Sure, we can comment on them, and once in a while the Slashdot editors will even listen, but the main page is still largely dependent on that closed few.
OTOH, Kuro5hin is pretty much 100% user-maintained. The site's owner only has to write and tweak the scripts, and the rest is handled by the users. This is what I consider Open Media to be. What differentiates Slashdot from ZDNet anyway? The average IQ of the readers, and the way the scripts are designed. (Slash is designed to be more-or-less comfortable to use, while ZDNet was designed to generate banner views.)
From further analysis, I was able to deduce that to generate an article, you have to call the object with similar parameters. The values that have a 1 next to them will be shown in a positive light, and you get the rest. However, I wasn't able to find the actual code for the object. It seems that Rob has tried to remove all traces of it from Slash, and only a few snippets remained.
(I don't really hate Jon Katz. In fact, I enjoy a lot of his articles. Oh yeah, and I'm not very good with Perl, so the code above may not be syntactically correct.)
Yeah, what would a government know about protecting its citizens from illegal monopolies, right? They keep forgetting that the government was created to protect the corporations!
The confidence displayed by Microsoft officials concerning the trial and accusations are really beginning to scare me. The way they act is as if the whole trial is just a big misunderstanding. I'm beginning to wonder if they're expecting Bush to somehow pressure the courts or the DOJ into either dropping the trial or doing something else that would favor Microsoft. Does anyone know if something like this is possible? From what I know, Bush is totally pro-Microsoft regarding the trial...
It's a really bad idea to have huge 404 pages. You could've had the same result (or better) if you just had a nice blank page with that message. It's even worse to redirect the 404 to another page, because I often try to find what I was looking for by going up the tree, and editing the URL becomes painful when I have to retype or repaste it every time because the site redirected me.
Now that I got that off my chest, here are a few more amusing, yet not annoying, 404 pages:
Word 2000 also comes with options for saving in older formats. When forced to use Word documents (you'd be surprised how many people spit your HTML file back at you and demand a.doc, even if no editing is necessary) I always save them in the 6.0 format.
Perhaps it's a sex fetish of mine? Maybe my friend made a bet with me that I would write a program that would create pad* files of random data? The possibilities are endless...:)
Ooops, jumped ahead. I read the entire linked text, but not the Slashdot post, since I thought that it was just bits of the interesting text. The linked page mentions Freenet, but not Gnutella.:(
Actually, I'd be willing to bet that Adobe benefits from Photoshop piracy, as long as it is only happening at home, and not on the corporate level. Allow me to explain my train of thought.
I am a slightly smarter-than-average kid, 12-16 years old. My parents just bought me a computer.
I go on the 'Net, and I find this cool program called Photoshop that I can draw stuff with. (I can just picture myself shelling out hundreds of dollars for this. Right.)
Over a few years, I get pretty good with Photoshop.
I try to get a low-paying graphics design job over the summer. Someone hires me.
Guess which program I'm going to ask the employer to provide me with? And guess how many employers will risk having their pants removed by the Adobe legal team over a few hundred bucks?
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MySQL, for example, is open-sourced under *nix, but is shareware under Windows.
While I agree that a lot of companies are certainly jumping on the "open-source bandwagon" and are only doing it for publicity and stock spikes, I don't think that this is one of them.
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Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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I always wondered about this myself. I usually ended up using <TT> instead. Of course, that still required me to use breaks.
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Perhaps that is why people accept Windows crashing. They don't understand that computers are supposed to stay up for a long time. I've heard this several times, "Windows crashed again, but I think that's because I was trying to do several things at once and it couldn't keep track."
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A few questions to the slashdotters:
How the power of this computer compares to that of Distributed.net or similar projects?
How feasible is the distribution of such a computation? Are all the calculations similar, or would a lot of different computational code have to be written?
Are there any such systems already in place? Currently, I'm only aware of one "useful" system, and that's ProcessTree (damn, I lost my referral number). SETI@Home is arguably useful, depending on whether you believe there is extraterrestrial life that uses the same radio waves we're scanning and is sending signals we could interpret.
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For example, CodeWarrior is only for MacOS and Windows (the Linux port wasn't finished, IIRC). However, it can be used to write Java, which is multiplatform. Visual Studio is not multi-platform, but it can be used to write HTML, which can be multiplatform.
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OTOH, Kuro5hin is pretty much 100% user-maintained. The site's owner only has to write and tweak the scripts, and the rest is handled by the users. This is what I consider Open Media to be. What differentiates Slashdot from ZDNet anyway? The average IQ of the readers, and the way the scripts are designed. (Slash is designed to be more-or-less comfortable to use, while ZDNet was designed to generate banner views.)
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From further analysis, I was able to deduce that to generate an article, you have to call the object with similar parameters. The values that have a 1 next to them will be shown in a positive light, and you get the rest. However, I wasn't able to find the actual code for the object. It seems that Rob has tried to remove all traces of it from Slash, and only a few snippets remained.
(I don't really hate Jon Katz. In fact, I enjoy a lot of his articles. Oh yeah, and I'm not very good with Perl, so the code above may not be syntactically correct.)
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Now that I got that off my chest, here are a few more amusing, yet not annoying, 404 pages:
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