Gads, there's a lot to say about this topic. It gets at the core of why open-source can jump ahead of closed source projects. It's evolution following the theory of punctuated equilibrium.
I was going to say the same thing about punctuated equilibrium because of the way a developer may be fired up about his own idea but not get enough support from other project members, so his only choice is to fork and "do it all himself". It's a powerful motivation at least up to the point where everyone else sees that he was right or he sees that he was wrong.
surprisingly, some remaining users of the Channel 0 and Channel 1 TV allocations.
Any aussies here know what would be using channels 0 and 1? Did Australia follow the US when it reallocated the frequencies back in the sixties? I can't even remember what channel 1 got reused for here in the states. I think it was business band radio like for taxicabs and such.
My first reaction was to agree with you. But then I started thinking about the similarities between biotech and software. How many viruses and worms are there for open source os's compared to the number of viruses/worms for the closed source system called ms windows? Almost none. Coincidence?
OTOH, the consequences of a msblaster worm-like infection propagating through the human race could be earthshaking. Imagine when every person must earn enough to pay the anti-bio-virus companies for updated protection or risk dying. Hmmmm... Now excuse me while I head over to ScotTrade to buy a few biotech stocks.
Takes up less space, built with fewer parts, therefore less complex, weighs less, therefore uses less energy, uber cool styling. The point is to make a buck and style sells. After all what purpose was there for those mylar tassles that kids used to have sticking out the end of their bike's handlebars and yet somebody sold a lot of those.
More than that, it could be the first franchise ever that didn't, at the end of the day, let audiences down
I don't know what dipfan was talking about; LotR was written as a trilogy so there are no "sequel" plots trying, dubiously, to explain the original movies premise such as with Highlander and Planet of the Apes. LotR is one cohesive, masterful, epic.
The federal bill does not ban unsolicited commercial e-mail. Instead, it requires that marketers include a physical address and valid opt-out mechanism in messages along with notice that the messages are ads, plus an honest subject line.
So spammers now must rent a mailbox to stay legal but there is no law that says they must collect their mail. Valid opt out mechanism means nothing because they could take you off the viagra mailing list as you requested but still send you spam for every other client that comes to them. Many spams say they are ads in the body of the message but we need a way to drop the connection before it gets to that point. And "honesty" is only a relative term amongst lawyers.
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates called the bill "a milestone in the battle against spam."
Now I *know* it's a bad law.
As usual, this law just seems to raise the bar for the little guy. So in the future we will still get spammed but instead of getting it from some dick in a Florida trailercourt, we will get it from MSN and AOL who have layers of lawyers and billions of dollars.
Microsoft embraced (but extended) TCP/IP as the core communication protocol in Windows, while Netware had an ugly IP duct-tape fix up until version 5.
Microsoft's implementation of NetBios over TCP/IP is also an ugly duct taped fix up though not as ugly as NWIP was. The difference is that Novell fixed their mess years ago and now use native IP while Microsoft still piggybacks an extended NetBIOS on top of another protocol.
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I was going to say the same thing about punctuated equilibrium because of the way a developer may be fired up about his own idea but not get enough support from other project members, so his only choice is to fork and "do it all himself". It's a powerful motivation at least up to the point where everyone else sees that he was right or he sees that he was wrong.
Okay this time it does look like they did their homework.
Any aussies here know what would be using channels 0 and 1? Did Australia follow the US when it reallocated the frequencies back in the sixties? I can't even remember what channel 1 got reused for here in the states. I think it was business band radio like for taxicabs and such.
My first reaction was to agree with you. But then I started thinking about the similarities between biotech and software. How many viruses and worms are there for open source os's compared to the number of viruses/worms for the closed source system called ms windows? Almost none. Coincidence?
OTOH, the consequences of a msblaster worm-like infection propagating through the human race could be earthshaking. Imagine when every person must earn enough to pay the anti-bio-virus companies for updated protection or risk dying. Hmmmm... Now excuse me while I head over to ScotTrade to buy a few biotech stocks.
Takes up less space, built with fewer parts, therefore less complex, weighs less, therefore uses less energy, uber cool styling. The point is to make a buck and style sells. After all what purpose was there for those mylar tassles that kids used to have sticking out the end of their bike's handlebars and yet somebody sold a lot of those.
I don't know what dipfan was talking about; LotR was written as a trilogy so there are no "sequel" plots trying, dubiously, to explain the original movies premise such as with Highlander and Planet of the Apes. LotR is one cohesive, masterful, epic.
So spammers now must rent a mailbox to stay legal but there is no law that says they must collect their mail. Valid opt out mechanism means nothing because they could take you off the viagra mailing list as you requested but still send you spam for every other client that comes to them. Many spams say they are ads in the body of the message but we need a way to drop the connection before it gets to that point. And "honesty" is only a relative term amongst lawyers.
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates called the bill "a milestone in the battle against spam."
Now I *know* it's a bad law.
As usual, this law just seems to raise the bar for the little guy. So in the future we will still get spammed but instead of getting it from some dick in a Florida trailercourt, we will get it from MSN and AOL who have layers of lawyers and billions of dollars.
Microsoft's implementation of NetBios over TCP/IP is also an ugly duct taped fix up though not as ugly as NWIP was. The difference is that Novell fixed their mess years ago and now use native IP while Microsoft still piggybacks an extended NetBIOS on top of another protocol.