Before we fix short urls, why not fix email address dependency by using private/public key encryption to direct emails instead.. This way the email travels with your identity, not reliant on ip address..
To solve short URL's use a similar method..
So effectively something like a P2P search for identities, use multiple public key connections for source verification, like how certificate systems are used, to avoid man in the middle interception..
What pirating is really for the media companies is a justification for DRM, which impinges more on consumer rights than on piraters. But when the government upholds the fines for piracy, it takes a different role. But its up to us consumers to to determine which products we purchase to keep the closed source software industry from misusing it's power against fair use. Should they ever forget who their master really is, we have open source to leverage our position. It is also in the best interest of piraters to support open source because in the long run it will be the best choice: no guilt, no greed, and less risk (from malware). See P2P is the perfect place to inject malware, bot-nets, viruses. Use a condom, get linux.
Package Manager in the Linux sense is not an Installation Manager which is what Windows uses..
Check out the package manager in Ubuntu.. What it does:
1. search for all available software, supported by canonical. 2. download the software and all depdencies. 3. verify downloaded software completeness to an MD5 or other method before install, also match crytographic signatures. (where does Windows software come from, the author? Your guess is as good as mine. But in Ubuntu's package manager there can be no doubt where). 4. deinstall the software and either keep or remove the dependencies. 5. upgrade software and dependencies. 6. filter software by licensing method. 7. install all software matching a wildcard, like "gstreamer*"
And if you want to install the way windows does, from a file, look around for ".deb" files, they are all over the web.
Also when you write tutorials for windows, how do you describe to users where to get the files? In Ubuntu it is "apt-get install PACKAGE", in windows, it is goto "trustworthy/untrustworthy website", download this file (not always easy to determine where), and decompress with RAR or zip, does Windows come with rar, oh yes need to get winrar.. Decompress, double-click on executable file.. Ooops no no no virus-scanner this isn't a virus..
Windows is so much easier (*not*).
Linux recognizes common hardware INSTANTLY. And usually you don't need to install drivers.. If you do, you are probably running hardware that will not be supported in a couple of years. So yes, most Windows hardware is "experiments". Linux just adopts that which is more reliable and nerd adopted which is usually the best in the long run.
Windows recognizes almost nothing but simple hardware, but it wastes about 3 minutes with its bureaucratic protocols. Like say a usb mouse --- Oh it's a Human Interface Device --- It's a Logitech Mouse --- oh now you can use it. Is this optimal?
OR You need an installation disk to install the driver, but is it the driver in the Windows 98 sub folder or the one in the NT sub folder? Install both, why not? Ooops, driver conflict.. Well disable one, try it out, if it doesn't work,do the other.. Great it works, except for the temporary stall that occurs every 5 minutes, but that is ignorable.
Do you have a wifi card? Multiple, like me? Do you swap your USB wifi's out and have to re=establish connection with the router? In Ubuntu I have one interface for all my wifi cards.. In Windows, I have multiple device drivers, one for each card, and I have a choice, either use the driver's interface for selection a server to connect to or use Windows.. Which in the long run only adds confusion.. Beyond that, I have two drivers running in memory, each possibly polling the system for the existence of its hardware.. Hardly optimal.. In Ubuntu, I can connect any device in and out, over and over, and the OS doesn't complain. Wifi out, okay disconnected, wifi in, connecting, connected, wifi out, disconnected.. If you did this on windows, you'd have to designate which server to connect to and might have to pull some tricks like configure the driver to use the Windows wifi manager.. But such changes don't usually get saved, so you must do them over and over and over again, everytime you diconnect and reconnect the device.. Not only that, but the process is different for every f*cking proprietary driver that every device you have uses.. Isn't software patents and private industry grand? They give us all these unique technologies that the average would not give a f*ck about, unless they couldn't get something done, in which case it is a bitch to deal with.
Not unlike hardware support on Linux, but nobody ever considers the alternative to Linux hardware support.
This guy is obviously a Capitalist whackoff.. Vendor.. The kind who read slashdot in the interest of persuading others to adopt in golden-hammer-ware. Probably a paid Microsoft evangelist..
BTW, most of the world uses Apache and PHP.. Even my site:
I've written PHP software for more sites and it takes me no time to get my software up and running on a LAMP environment.
Windows file security is too granular, and it was developed 30 years after Unix, which uses a 9 bit file protection method, where users are partitioned into three groups.. And it works, and works very well.. It doesn't have the ambiguity of the Windows file protection that only makes using Windows a bitch.
Also to connect to MySQL is much easier than Oracle. Oracle has so many server-side lock-in features that a database shouldn't have.. Like triggers, WTF, they are designed with "hacked databases" in interest.. Why not build the logic into the client-side db software and maintain database consistency there? BTW, how much does a Oracle server license cost? And does it justify the cost? F*CK NO!! A dual Pentium Pro 200Mhz license in 2000 would have cost about $40K.. In this recession Oracle is history unless they are going to wise up.
Everytime I'm asked to use a Windows/IIS environment to get PHP software up and working, which is a majority of the free web software on the Internet, I've noticed some things:
1. ISP's that uses this setup are idiots when it comes to security, as there is often no folder above document root to store files that you don't want people having web access to.
2. If you put in a ".dot" file, which windows doesn't support, it will disappear from the server.. Also ".htaccess" files can't be used.
3. No SSH access standard with windows/IIS, so if I wanted to write scripts on the server or run a crontab to do web chores, like run a php script that replaces youtube trashed videos with rough equivalents, which I did this morning from chann3lz.
4. IIS/Windows web servers cost more, demand more hand holding, vendor-lockin.. I have a 30 dollar a month virtual server with godaddy and I can have as many domains as I like, I can install whatever software I want.. Beit ruby, python, php, java, or even some microsoft brainfart like IIS (in a virtualbox).
Yes with Microsoft software you can get tighter coupling and integration, but what does that mean in the long-run? Abandonware!
If you really need commercial software, go for it.. It's a free market.. But it's your dime, not mine.
BTW, to put any of my software on another LAMP server all it takes is for me to change the login, pass in a config for the database, and the document path.. And execute some SQL in phpmyadmin.. BTW, find me the IIS equivalent of phpmyadmin.
How can a normal user, which is what people assume to be the ones that get windows, determine that GIMP is not as good as Photoshop?
Furthermore, who is going to buy 3DsMax over blender? I'd bet that 80% of 3DsMax users pirate their copies. So what is it that closed source developers really fighting here?
I think as a developer I would much rather be paid to make software I use, than to be paid to develop software I won't use at home. I think this is true of commercial developers. But you can best believe if open source is going to be developed, it will be by those who love to develope it and have specific needs.
Another thing to consider is that commercial software is developed to be sold, whether you need a new version or not. Whereas open source is developed to be used, and is placed in the public domain in the interest of encouraging adoption. Whereas commercial software developers can only claim of the use of their software..
No software is going to satisfy your needs 100% completely, you determine how to use software to meet your needs.
For the average user, Linux has everything you need.. Web browser, email client, aim client, skype, movie playback, mp3 playback, and such.. It's only when you get someone who wants to hook up some special hardware that they go ballistic.. If the vendors of hardware offered drivers or specs in open source, you'd bet linux would support it, possibly natively in the kernel or a kernel module. But if a vendor doesn't offer drivers in open source, what does that say about the hardware? Look at all the hardware designed for Windows 98 like the Intel/Mattel microscope cameras, or webcams.. You can't use it on XP.. It's throwaway hardware.. Are we a consumer throwaway culture, or do we make the best use of our money?
Thank god for the recession, at least it will point out to us what is really important. Quality.
You will fail to use Linux optimally on laptops for these reasons:
1. hardware is too new, and uses all proprietary hardware that is designed to be "made for vista". Vista was designed with DRM in mind, the hardware is going to be bent in favor of closed source.
2. hardware sold with linux is designed to be "cheap" or "low power", which is not really the best market for linux, although it can do that. Linux users are no dummies, and the dummies are the ones returning the laptops (or netbooks).
3. Linux is best at driver minimization and unification. If you can get linux to run on hardware, that means the hardware is popular, is going to be well supported, and is non-proprietary meaning you should be able to find people that are familiar with it enough to fix it. Linux should be the watermark by which to determine if hardware is reliable. If it is "wintel" designed, it is going to make use of memory-sharing hardware that sucks down the CPU to add more features.
4. Linux is best on used/older laptops, people who pay for new hardware are the fools who pay for the bugs, every linux nerd knows this.. The market analysis data is flawed considering how it determines market adoption, by new laptop sales.
I think I should get some prizes too.. I doubt F4tality or whatever his name would not have the balls to get games running on WINE, nor to play them to the end.
Let's see you install COD4 on WINE F4t4lity or whatever your name is..
WTF is the Unix File command? You associate a mime type with a image.. This has been around for ages.. Doesn't Cygnus make open source unix like interfaces?
Cygwin is a unix environment running on Windows.. You'd think a linux friendly company wouldn't use software patents, but I guess they are cruising fro the bruising.. Especially considering Microsoft has quite a few software patents and may find someone to take them to court for.. It's probably not worth it.
Comcast forces me to purchase into basic cable service and pay 20 dollars extra per month for it, even though I don't need it.. Then they limit my uproute connection for fear that somehow I might steal video content from them and sell it to people on the net.. I have a solution, sell me an Internet connection without the cable service, and permit me a greater uproute transmission rate, because I don't really care about TV.. It's nothing but mind control.
I like the painted lake and golf course near Google headquarters.. I haven't visited in a while, but after seeing features like that, I realized that some parts of google earth are painted.. My hometown, Los Alamos, NM had no detail for a while in the residential and governmental sections.. It does now..
It's a license not a contract.. If you distribute your software with GPLV3, it might cause some trouble for Linux.. But I had heard that GPLV3 is going to be about protecting GNU licensed software in other countries.. There is a whole FLOSS podcast on this. I don't even buy magazines, well I did buy a copy of WIRED without my involvement (trying to quite Consumer Reports they sold me 6 months for 6 dollars of Wired and PC Magazine and sent it to my old apartment under and assumption), well I don't buy magazines anymore unless its a good deal, and I certainly wouldn't read Forbes.. That's like Business 2.0, Business Success Porn. Magazines are porn of some sort or another.
There is a FLOSS podcast with Richard Stallman's lawyer that describes what V3 is
about. Forbes magazine is into money not Open Source, they are afraid of the
aspects of Open Source that try to eliminate the patenting of software.. They are
making a big deal about V3 because they probably think it has to do with software
patents (as if investors are going to lose a foothold in the open source world)
and V3, as his lawyer says in the FLOSS podcast is about securign Copy Left in
nations outside of America.. It has nothing to do with Linux and such.. The only reason
that they are arguing Stallman with Linux in the same phrase is Richard Stallman
makes a big stink when Linus Torvalds wants to make a big deal of the project HE STARTED
and used GNU Software TO FILL IT OUT!! But Stallman being the loudmouth he is, just wants Linus
to give GNU some credit, append GNU to the front of the name.. I'm sorry is Open Source Software
about politics or an exchange of free development for karma, or something like that..
Or is it about scratching itches.. In forbes case, its about scratching seeing eye bitches.
The question is this a open source free community or a closed source community supported by a bunch of venture capitalists. I was at "Garage.com" in 2000, it's been 5 years, but the claim was communities are dead and VC's only invest in hard technologies.
That out of the way, to make a comunity work I think you would need software that is extensible (not very much PHP based sites are very well extensible, most don't even use an object oriented structure). I personally think the only reason programmers tend to shun OOP, is they are most often terrible designers and are not very good at hacking OO designs. I also think that Object Oriented and extensible Open Source is like silver bullets, crosses, and garlic to the vampire of capitalistic commercial vendor lockin. So there is a lot of hoopla about the problems with OO, when its really a lot better way of designing and coding than using a functional language. You just design programs crappy first so you know what you want then you fix them the second time around in a OO framework. PHP is a good scripting language to use because you can do both methods and its well supported.
So first I would pick a PHP based service.. Second I would obtain a copy of "Enterprise Architect", not for the UML tools, but you can parse in PHP scripts and obtain the Object Orientedness of the solution by using EA's backwards engineer feature.. I use this on new technologies I employ to determine if the coders of the solution are intent on making a good design.. If you see a lot of classes that are inter-related, you know its a good coder. If you see a lot of classes with tons of methods, you know the coder is C programmer who doesn't know crap about OO design.. If you see no classes at all, you know the coder of the solution is either a wizard or a newby (and are probably interested in some form of vendor-lockin).
Then check to see if the solution is extensible, look through its features, see if it has AJAX support, see if it uses XML, see what standards it supports, do a search on google for it, does it come to the top on your searches? Top most results on google are there due to popularity and how many unique sites link to that page and how many unique links point to their sites.
Of the features you would want on the service, I would suggest a few, such as Instant Messenger, AJAX based utilities that periodically check the server for people online, to help people message each other. Also the service should be MySQL based, it should be easily configurable for the user, but high level sysadmin access should be available only by CHMODing files on the site, otherwise someone can come in through a security hole and change the site design.. Also sites that are non-OO tend to be very easy to hack, especially if they PHP's globvars turned on. I'm currently developing an online education and instruction system in PHP that is plenty Object Oriented, it does quite a lot for one guy just working on it, like I have capability to track users, I ask objects in the structure questions and they handle complexities that would be tough to handle in a functional language design.
Anyhow.. I hope this gets you on the way..
If you are interested in the instruction system, contact the one in charge at "ferguson lynch" I work for them.
It's what I use, it's what my 75 year old father uses..
We both use Trio MP3 players from Tiger Direct, he is not computer literate, but he can use that player better (I think) than he could use a 300 dollar iPod.
I think the solution here is for Apple to pay more attention to the alternatives and how the alternatives can be more of an advantage than the package they offer..
I would never use Ear buds for these reasons:
1. No adequate bass (some elderly can't even hear high frequencies, and a good percentage of the population is elderly, no?) 2. too close to ear drum (point in case) - closer the headphone, more hearing damage 3. uncomfortable 4. clumsy design (easily fall out). 5. too cheap to manufacturer (apple's reason to sell them), I'm sure they cost about 50 cents to make. Is this the quality you purchased?
The reason I use clip-on's:
1. adequate bass 2. outside ear (not too close) 3. comfortable (work like ear muffs on a cold day). 4. clips can only fit on ears in one way, left clip only works on left ear, you can't screw up the orientation. 5. still fairly cheap to manufacturer, but not cheap (quality-wise).
Problems with mp3 players in general: lack of a compressor filter to equalize the amplitude for each audio file. This is needed more for podcasts, iTunes could pre-compress the sound before storing on the iPod's, or they could offer a filter that works on the audio as it comes out of the iPod.
I personally think more of the people buying iPod's buy them for A. popularity (keeping up with the joneses) B. inspired by Mac's (I'm an ex-amiga owner, I know how this works, I don't buy anything anymore based on vain perception, I only buy stuff for the quality, I still have yet to understand the iPod business model).
Networks debate blogs because it polarizes people, I think if you frequent more blogs how can that be different from the freedom of speech peopl hav been searching for? It keeps people connected.. Those who can't blog or whose jobs depend on holding some great position, in a seat of Public Relations, of course, undoubtedly would debate bloggers, but its an unstoppable force.. Down with the dictators!! And news nazis..
One thing is the enforcement of protection, but on another side the equipment to create digital programs is cheaper because for analog video you need stuff like Sony Betacam decks and stuff like that.. NTSC signal is pretty costly.. Also I assume more information can be described on a HDTV, for example, tornado watches.. Another thing is public TV is dying away..
There are plenty of books in libraries.. What I'm suggesting more is a financial boycott, that is, if you can try not to dole out any money for movies, TV, DVD's, etc.. Just so that the MPAA will realize who their real clients are.
java is suitable for enterprise applications, but its too bloated to be useful for anything quickly deployable that is table. Java is highly unstable across platforms.. Sun should open source just by virtue of how unstable java is, it could use some optimization and simplification..
Personally I would be interested in reduced instruction set and resource constrained versions of the java VM.. I have a plan for a concept called a media object, which replace files with objects that contain methods with the code (open sourced by design) for the purposes of convering media formats to the simplest yet flexible implementation..
I think the future of file formats are object formats.. MOV, WMV, RA, MPG, etc ==> Movie Object, which contains the methods to interpret the encapsulated movie data.. The methods implemented in open source (by definition, mechanism, otherwise it will not work). Use CRC and Public Key Encryption to protect the integrity of the object methods from manipulation. Applications that load the media objects would run the media objects atop a VM.. This VM could be the open sourced Java VM.. If so, it would do away with vendor-lockin and leveraging practices that are enabled with static file formats.. Object formats are harder to leverage, especially if the method sets are open sourced by definition. Also it keeps the files from be obsoleted, as the libraries that extract the data are with the data (the definition of a Object).
The purpose of this organization would be to encourage the convergence on a simple set of object media container formats, that are flexible enough to change without causing applications to become incompatible (by supporting the basic interface at the very least).
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Before we fix short urls, why not fix email address dependency by using private/public key encryption to direct emails instead.. This way the email travels with your identity, not reliant on ip address..
To solve short URL's use a similar method..
So effectively something like a P2P search for identities, use multiple public key connections for source verification, like how certificate systems are used, to avoid man in the middle interception..
You don't like amazon, stop buying their stuff..
That's the answer..
What pirating is really for the media companies is a justification for DRM, which impinges more on consumer rights than on piraters. But when the government upholds the fines for piracy, it takes a different role. But its up to us consumers to to determine which products we purchase to keep the closed source software industry from misusing it's power against fair use. Should they ever forget who their master really is, we have open source to leverage our position. It is also in the best interest of piraters to support open source because in the long run it will be the best choice: no guilt, no greed, and less risk (from malware). See P2P is the perfect place to inject malware, bot-nets, viruses. Use a condom, get linux.
Package Manager in the Linux sense is not an Installation Manager which is what Windows uses..
Check out the package manager in Ubuntu.. What it does:
1. search for all available software, supported by canonical.
2. download the software and all depdencies.
3. verify downloaded software completeness to an MD5 or other method before install, also match crytographic signatures. (where does Windows software come from, the author? Your guess is as good as mine. But in Ubuntu's package manager there can be no doubt where).
4. deinstall the software and either keep or remove the dependencies.
5. upgrade software and dependencies.
6. filter software by licensing method.
7. install all software matching a wildcard, like "gstreamer*"
And if you want to install the way windows does, from a file, look around for ".deb" files, they are all over the web.
Also when you write tutorials for windows, how do you describe to users where to get the files? In Ubuntu it is "apt-get install PACKAGE", in windows, it is goto "trustworthy/untrustworthy website", download this file (not always easy to determine where), and decompress with RAR or zip, does Windows come with rar, oh yes need to get winrar.. Decompress, double-click on executable file.. Ooops no no no virus-scanner this isn't a virus..
Windows is so much easier (*not*).
Linux recognizes common hardware INSTANTLY. And usually you don't need to install drivers.. If you do, you are probably running hardware that will not be supported in a couple of years. So yes, most Windows hardware is "experiments". Linux just adopts that which is more reliable and nerd adopted which is usually the best in the long run.
Windows recognizes almost nothing but simple hardware, but it wastes about 3 minutes with its bureaucratic protocols. Like say a usb mouse --- Oh it's a Human Interface Device --- It's a Logitech Mouse --- oh now you can use it. Is this optimal?
OR You need an installation disk to install the driver, but is it the driver in the Windows 98 sub folder or the one in the NT sub folder? Install both, why not? Ooops, driver conflict.. Well disable one, try it out, if it doesn't work,do the other.. Great it works, except for the temporary stall that occurs every 5 minutes, but that is ignorable.
Do you have a wifi card? Multiple, like me? Do you swap your USB wifi's out and have to re=establish connection with the router? In Ubuntu I have one interface for all my wifi cards.. In Windows, I have multiple device drivers, one for each card, and I have a choice, either use the driver's interface for selection a server to connect to or use Windows.. Which in the long run only adds confusion.. Beyond that, I have two drivers running in memory, each possibly polling the system for the existence of its hardware.. Hardly optimal.. In Ubuntu, I can connect any device in and out, over and over, and the OS doesn't complain. Wifi out, okay disconnected, wifi in, connecting, connected, wifi out, disconnected.. If you did this on windows, you'd have to designate which server to connect to and might have to pull some tricks like configure the driver to use the Windows wifi manager.. But such changes don't usually get saved, so you must do them over and over and over again, everytime you diconnect and reconnect the device.. Not only that, but the process is different for every f*cking proprietary driver that every device you have uses.. Isn't software patents and private industry grand? They give us all these unique technologies that the average would not give a f*ck about, unless they couldn't get something done, in which case it is a bitch to deal with.
Not unlike hardware support on Linux, but nobody ever considers the alternative to Linux hardware support.
This guy is obviously a Capitalist whackoff.. Vendor.. The kind who read slashdot in the interest of persuading others to adopt in golden-hammer-ware. Probably a paid Microsoft evangelist..
BTW, most of the world uses Apache and PHP.. Even my site:
http://www.chann3lz.com/
I've written PHP software for more sites and it takes me no time to get my software up and running on a LAMP environment.
Windows file security is too granular, and it was developed 30 years after Unix, which uses a 9 bit file protection method, where users are partitioned into three groups.. And it works, and works very well.. It doesn't have the ambiguity of the Windows file protection that only makes using Windows a bitch.
Also to connect to MySQL is much easier than Oracle. Oracle has so many server-side lock-in features that a database shouldn't have.. Like triggers, WTF, they are designed with "hacked databases" in interest.. Why not build the logic into the client-side db software and maintain database consistency there? BTW, how much does a Oracle server license cost? And does it justify the cost? F*CK NO!! A dual Pentium Pro 200Mhz license in 2000 would have cost about $40K.. In this recession Oracle is history unless they are going to wise up.
Everytime I'm asked to use a Windows/IIS environment to get PHP software up and working, which is a majority of the free web software on the Internet, I've noticed some things:
1. ISP's that uses this setup are idiots when it comes to security, as there is often no folder above document root to store files that you don't want people having web access to.
2. If you put in a ".dot" file, which windows doesn't support, it will disappear from the server.. Also ".htaccess" files can't be used.
3. No SSH access standard with windows/IIS, so if I wanted to write scripts on the server or run a crontab to do web chores, like run a php script that replaces youtube trashed videos with rough equivalents, which I did this morning from chann3lz.
4. IIS/Windows web servers cost more, demand more hand holding, vendor-lockin.. I have a 30 dollar a month virtual server with godaddy and I can have as many domains as I like, I can install whatever software I want.. Beit ruby, python, php, java, or even some microsoft brainfart like IIS (in a virtualbox).
Yes with Microsoft software you can get tighter coupling and integration, but what does that mean in the long-run? Abandonware!
If you really need commercial software, go for it.. It's a free market.. But it's your dime, not mine.
BTW, to put any of my software on another LAMP server all it takes is for me to change the login, pass in a config for the database, and the document path.. And execute some SQL in phpmyadmin.. BTW, find me the IIS equivalent of phpmyadmin.
How can a normal user, which is what people assume to be the ones that get windows, determine that GIMP is not as good as Photoshop?
Furthermore, who is going to buy 3DsMax over blender? I'd bet that 80% of 3DsMax users pirate their copies. So what is it that closed source developers really fighting here?
I think as a developer I would much rather be paid to make software I use, than to be paid to develop software I won't use at home. I think this is true of commercial developers. But you can best believe if open source is going to be developed, it will be by those who love to develope it and have specific needs.
Another thing to consider is that commercial software is developed to be sold, whether you need a new version or not. Whereas open source is developed to be used, and is placed in the public domain in the interest of encouraging adoption. Whereas commercial software developers can only claim of the use of their software..
No software is going to satisfy your needs 100% completely, you determine how to use software to meet your needs.
For the average user, Linux has everything you need.. Web browser, email client, aim client, skype, movie playback, mp3 playback, and such.. It's only when you get someone who wants to hook up some special hardware that they go ballistic.. If the vendors of hardware offered drivers or specs in open source, you'd bet linux would support it, possibly natively in the kernel or a kernel module. But if a vendor doesn't offer drivers in open source, what does that say about the hardware? Look at all the hardware designed for Windows 98 like the Intel/Mattel microscope cameras, or webcams.. You can't use it on XP.. It's throwaway hardware.. Are we a consumer throwaway culture, or do we make the best use of our money?
Thank god for the recession, at least it will point out to us what is really important. Quality.
You will fail to use Linux optimally on laptops for these reasons:
1. hardware is too new, and uses all proprietary hardware that is designed to be "made for vista". Vista was designed with DRM in mind, the hardware is going to be bent in favor of closed source.
2. hardware sold with linux is designed to be "cheap" or "low power", which is not really the best market for linux, although it can do that. Linux users are no dummies, and the dummies are the ones returning the laptops (or netbooks).
3. Linux is best at driver minimization and unification. If you can get linux to run on hardware, that means the hardware is popular, is going to be well supported, and is non-proprietary meaning you should be able to find people that are familiar with it enough to fix it. Linux should be the watermark by which to determine if hardware is reliable. If it is "wintel" designed, it is going to make use of memory-sharing hardware that sucks down the CPU to add more features.
4. Linux is best on used/older laptops, people who pay for new hardware are the fools who pay for the bugs, every linux nerd knows this.. The market analysis data is flawed considering how it determines market adoption, by new laptop sales.
Let me see, have you completed and/or installed as many games as I have on WINE?
http://www.youtube.com/user/rofthorax
I think I should get some prizes too.. I doubt F4tality or whatever his name would not have the balls to get games running on WINE, nor to play them to the end.
Let's see you install COD4 on WINE F4t4lity or whatever your name is..
WTF is the Unix File command? You associate a mime type with a image.. This has been around for ages..
Doesn't Cygnus make open source unix like interfaces?
Cygwin is a unix environment running on Windows.. You'd think a linux friendly company wouldn't use software patents, but I guess they are cruising fro the bruising.. Especially considering Microsoft has quite a few software patents and may find someone to take them to court for.. It's probably not worth it.
Did I say that?
Comcast forces me to purchase into basic cable service and pay 20 dollars extra per month for it, even though I don't need it.. Then they limit my uproute connection for fear that somehow I might steal video content from them and sell it to people on the net.. I have a solution, sell me an Internet connection without the cable service, and permit me a greater uproute transmission rate, because I don't really care about TV.. It's nothing but mind control.
Well they can shut up the media, but they can't shut up bloggers/podcasters..
Do that and they will be breaking the law by invading people's privacy.. They probably just overlooked something.. I smell executive firings..
I like the painted lake and golf course near Google headquarters.. I haven't visited in a while, but after seeing features like that, I realized that some parts of google earth are painted.. My hometown, Los Alamos, NM had no detail for a while in the residential and governmental sections.. It does now..
It's a license not a contract.. If you distribute your software with GPLV3,
it might cause some trouble for Linux.. But I had heard that GPLV3 is going to
be about protecting GNU licensed software in other countries.. There is a
whole FLOSS podcast on this. I don't even buy magazines, well I did buy a copy
of WIRED without my involvement (trying to quite Consumer Reports they sold me
6 months for 6 dollars of Wired and PC Magazine and sent it to my old apartment
under and assumption), well I don't buy magazines anymore unless its a good deal,
and I certainly wouldn't read Forbes.. That's like Business 2.0, Business Success
Porn. Magazines are porn of some sort or another.
Equally shallow: TV is too boring, so what.
The question is this a open source free community or a closed
source community supported by a bunch of venture capitalists.
I was at "Garage.com" in 2000, it's been 5 years, but the claim was
communities are dead and VC's only invest in hard technologies.
That out of the way, to make a comunity work I think you would need
software that is extensible (not very much PHP based sites are very well extensible,
most don't even use an object oriented structure). I personally think the only reason
programmers tend to shun OOP, is they are most often terrible designers and
are not very good at hacking OO designs. I also think that Object Oriented and
extensible Open Source is like silver bullets, crosses, and garlic to the vampire of capitalistic commercial vendor lockin. So there is a lot of hoopla about the problems
with OO, when its really a lot better way of designing and coding than using a functional
language. You just design programs crappy first so you know what you want then you fix
them the second time around in a OO framework. PHP is a good scripting language to use because you can do both methods and its well supported.
So first I would pick a PHP based service.. Second I would obtain a copy
of "Enterprise Architect", not for the UML tools, but you can parse in PHP
scripts and obtain the Object Orientedness of the solution by using EA's
backwards engineer feature.. I use this on new technologies I employ to determine
if the coders of the solution are intent on making a good design.. If you see
a lot of classes that are inter-related, you know its a good coder. If you see a
lot of classes with tons of methods, you know the coder is C programmer who
doesn't know crap about OO design.. If you see no classes at all, you know the coder
of the solution is either a wizard or a newby (and are probably interested in
some form of vendor-lockin).
Then check to see if the solution is extensible, look through its features,
see if it has AJAX support, see if it uses XML, see what standards it
supports, do a search on google for it, does it come to the top on your searches?
Top most results on google are there due to popularity and how many unique
sites link to that page and how many unique links point to their sites.
Of the features you would want on the service, I would suggest a few,
such as Instant Messenger, AJAX based utilities that periodically check the
server for people online, to help people message each other. Also the service
should be MySQL based, it should be easily configurable for the user, but
high level sysadmin access should be available only by CHMODing files on the site,
otherwise someone can come in through a security hole and change the site design..
Also sites that are non-OO tend to be very easy to hack, especially if they
PHP's globvars turned on. I'm currently developing an online education and
instruction system in PHP that is plenty Object Oriented, it does quite a lot for one guy just working on it, like I have capability to track users, I ask objects in the structure questions and they handle complexities that would be tough to handle in a functional language
design.
Anyhow.. I hope this gets you on the way..
If you are interested in the instruction system, contact the one in charge
at "ferguson lynch" I work for them.
It's what I use, it's what my 75 year old father uses..
We both use Trio MP3 players from Tiger Direct,
he is not computer literate, but he can use that player
better (I think) than he could use a 300 dollar iPod.
I think the solution here is for Apple to pay more attention
to the alternatives and how the alternatives can be more of an advantage
than the package they offer..
I would never use Ear buds for these reasons:
1. No adequate bass (some elderly can't even hear high frequencies, and a good percentage of the population is elderly, no?)
2. too close to ear drum (point in case) - closer the headphone, more hearing damage
3. uncomfortable
4. clumsy design (easily fall out).
5. too cheap to manufacturer (apple's reason to sell them), I'm sure they cost about 50 cents to make. Is this the quality you purchased?
The reason I use clip-on's:
1. adequate bass
2. outside ear (not too close)
3. comfortable (work like ear muffs on a cold day).
4. clips can only fit on ears in one way, left clip only works on left ear, you can't screw up the orientation.
5. still fairly cheap to manufacturer, but not cheap (quality-wise).
Problems with mp3 players in general: lack of a compressor filter to equalize the amplitude for each audio file. This is needed more for podcasts, iTunes could pre-compress the sound before storing on the iPod's, or they could offer a filter that works on the audio as it comes out of the iPod.
I personally think more of the people buying iPod's buy them for
A. popularity (keeping up with the joneses)
B. inspired by Mac's (I'm an ex-amiga owner, I know how this works, I
don't buy anything anymore based on vain perception, I only buy stuff for
the quality, I still have yet to understand the iPod business model).
Networks debate blogs because it polarizes people,
I think if you frequent more blogs how can that be different from the freedom of speech peopl hav been searching for? It keeps people connected.. Those who can't blog or whose jobs depend on holding some great position, in a seat of Public Relations,
of course, undoubtedly would debate bloggers, but its an unstoppable force.. Down with the dictators!!
And news nazis..
One thing is the enforcement of protection,
but on another side the equipment to create digital programs is cheaper because for analog video you need stuff like Sony Betacam decks and stuff like that.. NTSC signal is pretty costly.. Also I assume more information can be described on a HDTV, for example, tornado watches.. Another thing is public TV is dying away..
That's not their money, it's ours, jerks!
There are plenty of books in libraries..
What I'm suggesting more is a financial boycott, that is, if you can try not to dole out any money for movies, TV, DVD's, etc.. Just so that the MPAA will realize who their real clients are.
java is suitable for enterprise applications, but
its too bloated to be useful for anything quickly deployable that is table. Java is highly unstable
across platforms.. Sun should open source just by virtue of how unstable java is, it could use some
optimization and simplification..
Personally I would be interested in reduced instruction set and resource constrained versions
of the java VM.. I have a plan for a concept called
a media object, which replace files with objects that contain methods with the code (open sourced by design) for the purposes of convering media formats to the simplest yet flexible implementation..
I think the future of file formats are object formats.. MOV, WMV, RA, MPG, etc ==> Movie Object,
which contains the methods to interpret the encapsulated movie data.. The methods implemented in open source (by definition, mechanism, otherwise it will not work). Use CRC and Public Key Encryption to protect the integrity of the object methods from manipulation. Applications that load the media objects would run the media objects atop a VM.. This VM could be the open sourced Java VM.. If so, it would do away with vendor-lockin and leveraging practices that are enabled with static file formats.. Object formats are harder to leverage, especially if the method sets are open sourced by definition. Also it keeps the files from be obsoleted, as the libraries that extract the data are with the data (the definition of a Object).
The purpose of this organization would be to encourage the convergence on a simple set of object
media container formats, that are flexible enough to
change without causing applications to become incompatible (by supporting the basic interface
at the very least).
I think the solution should be instant death penalty for hackers.. Hey it shouldn't be tough to get compromised attacks down to almost nothing..
I vote Catherine Bell to play Wonder Woman!!