The (allegedly) proposed terms would require companies that use GPL software to write web applications to either pay up or give away the core of their services for free. For example, this means Google would have to give away their search engine code free.
This unfairly penalizes web services. The non-virtual equivalent would be to require Merrill Lynch to give its internal application software out free simply because it runs on Linux, or to require Oracle to open source its database software because it decided to ship a Linux version. That is plainly dumb.
A sufficiently clear dividing line separates the infrastructure/platform from the application running on it. Typically, the application merely uses the operating system or application platform without actually modifying the code running on it -- at most, shared library binaries are called. Just because an application is a web application should not require that it is open source.
While actually using the open source code in the application should trigger the 'code release' clause, merely putting it on the web should not. To require that is to make true all of Microsoft's 'viral GPL' crap.
Some people need to understand that you can't force people to support open source by beating them over the head -- you have to make clear the benefits of participating in the community. The 'regime' (allegedly) proposed by the article makes no sense and would serve to alienate pretty much everyone except the most irrationally fanatic and tactically blind people.
The free food was sort of shitty, for a $20M gift. It was just random cheese and vegetables, and some cookies. MS does better when they come to campus to recruit... and the CS department does better in general (free beer on the last couple Fridays!!!)
The strong anti-M$ sentiment on campus should make for plenty of jokes and pranks after this thing gets built. I'm looking forward to seeing the graffiti =)
I disagree -- I RTFA too and couldn't find a whole lot in the article that supported people taking on fax.com. The theme of the article is that the fine for junk faxes is just another "archaic" FCC regulation, and that lawyers are taking advantage of it to profit.
What they fail to mention is that lawyers wouldn't be taking advantage of it if companies like fax.com didn't send junk faxes in the first place.
Section 13a of the Music Store agreement forbids sale:
"You agree not to modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute, or create derivative works based on the Service, in any manner, and you shall not exploit the Service in any unauthorized way whatsoever, including but not limited to, by trespass or burdening network capacity"
"When one or more 802.11b users connect, the wireless network begins to decrease its maximum data rate to accommodate them. When many 802.11b users are active on the wireless network, the overall network data rate begins to approximate 802.11b rates."
See the "Airport Extreme Technology Overview" at the bottom of this page.
No, it's naive for MS (and you) to think the country could afford the software -- after all things like feeding your kids and education are a little more important than a shiny new wordprocessor with an oh-so-happy clippy piece of doodoo, wouldn't you say?
24% urban unemployment; 14% in rural areas. $1755 per capita income; however 96% of the population earn $85.
That means each copy of office would only take as long for a Nambian to pay for as a Westerner would pay for house.
They could pay for it sooner, but CDs aren't quite as sustaning as food.
No one is saying that only free software is good -- but dammit think!
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I attend Carnegie Mellon. Grace is often in the atrium entrance of one of the computer science buildings here. She tells jokes and asks questions. It's quite entertaining, and disturbing.
Robots wander the halls around often. I'm oddly used to it.
This seems actually to be a very good prisoner's dilemma-style situation. And in this case, they both chose to screw each other. If you are familiar with prisoner's dilemma, you know that this is the worst possible option.
I think this is very bizarre... especially since it's really Dell that has the advantage since they possess the customer relationships (the most valuable asset). It seems that it would have been better for HP to hold off a bit and use the time to transition Dell's customers away from HP.
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if it includes a quote from HP: "Linux is becoming more and more mainstream everyday?"
I thought this was self-evident, but Apple wants to make sure that you ONLY use their own flatscreen LCD on the new iMac.
No. This is a VGA connector, NOT a DVI connector. Apple ONLY sells a dongle that plugs into STANDARD displays. There is NO iMac Dongle that allows the iMac to plug into Apple displays.
Looking at it another way, Apple does not sell a display that is capable of being plugged into an iMac, so they are not doing this for any reason except to save space on the iMac.
Those connectors, incidentally, are relatively expensive as connectors go. I'm working with a portable computer now that has a number of compact, rare connectors on it. I doubt Apple makes much on their dongles...
because I was a VP of Engineering at 19, with 6 employees under me who were a minimum of 10 years older. None of them ever had a problem with me. And not to brag, but we really kicked butt and made some excellent software... and everyone worked super hard, so I know that we all respected each other.
I doubt it's just age discrimination - you might be annoying in some way you're not aware of. So do the right thing and start asking people how you can be better at your job (especially ask your immediate boss!), take their advice seriously, implement it wholeheartedly, and see what happens.
If despite your best efforts nothing improves, find another job. Find colleagues who will write good recommendations for you. Document your work experience and be very specific about what you have done. Then go find another job, as if you are experienced and good you will have little trouble...
I don't usually reply but this one is a bit uninformed...
For years (high school & afterwards) I did tons of patient, "see the screen" help of people much older than me for the most common applications (MS-Office, Novell PerfectOffice, Lotus, etc.)
People often complemented me on my patience and ability to "seen the screen" even if I was on the phone or the other side of an email message... I spent hours showing people who never had used a computer in their life how to figure out email clients, word processors, etc.
This wasn't just in academic situations either. I was a VP of a consulting company with 6 full-time employees on my development staff. In the midst of doing everything else I was required to do, I often had to walk clients through using Netscape or explain to them how to fix their computers when "the Internet was broken," as one client used to say. I did this with the utmost respect and patience because these people were the ones writing the checks that kept my company in business and my employees and their families fed and happy. I was happy to get the phone calls and happy to help them with their problems.
I also know that I'm not alone in this; many of my friends helped out and when I got to college I found other people who had also helped people in this same way.
The common thread amongst all of us: realizing that computers are actually poorly designed and hard to use, knowing that the reason for having computers in the first place is to make people's lives easier, and understanding that you must respect the people who you help.
My point: don't make assumptions based on age, because you never know when you're going to meet someone who's the exception to the rule.
In fact, while I'm thinking about it, I had a couple clients whose executive staff or employees would complement me and the people in my company for being so patient and helpful because their older and "more experienced" IT staff were rude and impatient. I'm not talking about small companies either, but to protect the not-so-innocent, I won't list our clients here.
Apple was at Carnegie Mellon this week to recruit. They extensively demoed OS X, particularly the developer environment. I watched an engineer build a web browser in 15 lines of code.
The new toolkit is amazing-it has solid, fast code for tons of stuff, from linked lists and hashes to parsing HTML. Objective C is amazing. It comes with an amazing front end onto gcc/gdb, a terminal that allows drag and drop, and you can even boot into a console if you login as >console
My point? It's not just BSD+ a GUI; it actually is something revolutionary. And it also runs with very few problems, even in beta, classic software well. Apple Engineering has developed rigorous standards for their code-their goal is that everything execute as efficiently as possible.
So before you start complaining about it, check it out. I think it's will be the most stable, full-featured, easy-to-program OS ever.
1) Neither Apple WebObjects nor ASP solve the workflow-related problems that Jason describes 2) Putting up as Open Source the engine that is responsible for serving up millions of pages per day is always news. Saying that Go.Com paid to have this put up is ridiculous. 3) Asserting that this is useless is even more ridiculous. This has obviously filled a huge need for Go/partners, and can fill this need for others. For people for whom this does not, they can adapt the code to their needs. This is what Open Source is about.
Anyone who works with a professional graphic design staff will quickly realize that JSP/ASP/WebObjects have the most convoluted workflows and will either write a tool of their own, or find a tool like this and modify it to meet their needs.
If I were to ever show JSP code to my graphic design team, expecting them to use it, they'd quickly throw me out the window. [literally.:)]
I do agree that there should be some sort of standard template/macro language. Unfortunately, due to the wide variability in workflows amongst web groups, the limited publication of existing ones, and the diversity of platforms that people use, creation of one is very difficult. That is why it hasn't happened yet.
Someone ought to take the best features from the existing systems and make a set of uniform standards at each step in the process. That has not been done yet, as far as I know. Doing this would enable people to quickly adapt their systems to the standards, plug generic standards-based extensions into their systems, and unify the number of standards that exist.
I have to say, however, that I am always amazed that it's _huge news_ when someone posts yet another lame windowmanager because it's written by one of the "good guys" yet when a large corporation posts code, even under an 'official Open Source license,' not only is it ignored, but people actually complain about it and start whipping out conspiracy theories.
Grow up, kiddies. Open Source will never work with that attitude.
Assuming that SSL was in use, and the site he was at implemented some kind of expiration on the session ID stored in the cookie, the only way this hack could have occurred is if someone had actually cracked his computer to obtain his cookies file.
Now, WHY, pray tell, would someone who broke into the CEO of Novell's computer take JUST a credit card number? I'm sure there were FAR more interesting things lying around than a cookie file. Especially if it was a Windows PC - then there's all sorts of neat things like (crackable) password lists, etc., which could probably get you into some pretty interesting places at Novell. But no, none of this was stolen.
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Ahh... then why would Google or Amazon be at risk? This article is pretty bad then.
The (allegedly) proposed terms would require companies that use GPL software to write web applications to either pay up or give away the core of their services for free. For example, this means Google would have to give away their search engine code free.
This unfairly penalizes web services. The non-virtual equivalent would be to require Merrill Lynch to give its internal application software out free simply because it runs on Linux, or to require Oracle to open source its database software because it decided to ship a Linux version. That is plainly dumb.
A sufficiently clear dividing line separates the infrastructure/platform from the application running on it. Typically, the application merely uses the operating system or application platform without actually modifying the code running on it -- at most, shared library binaries are called. Just because an application is a web application should not require that it is open source.
While actually using the open source code in the application should trigger the 'code release' clause, merely putting it on the web should not. To require that is to make true all of Microsoft's 'viral GPL' crap.
Some people need to understand that you can't force people to support open source by beating them over the head -- you have to make clear the benefits of participating in the community. The 'regime' (allegedly) proposed by the article makes no sense and would serve to alienate pretty much everyone except the most irrationally fanatic and tactically blind people.
The free food was sort of shitty, for a $20M gift. It was just random cheese and vegetables, and some cookies. MS does better when they come to campus to recruit... and the CS department does better in general (free beer on the last couple Fridays!!!)
The strong anti-M$ sentiment on campus should make for plenty of jokes and pranks after this thing gets built. I'm looking forward to seeing the graffiti =)
Not exactly a check -- just free software. Check out the press release.
I disagree -- I RTFA too and couldn't find a whole lot in the article that supported people taking on fax.com. The theme of the article is that the fine for junk faxes is just another "archaic" FCC regulation, and that lawyers are taking advantage of it to profit.
What they fail to mention is that lawyers wouldn't be taking advantage of it if companies like fax.com didn't send junk faxes in the first place.
Section 13a of the Music Store agreement forbids sale: "You agree not to modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute, or create derivative works based on the Service, in any manner, and you shall not exploit the Service in any unauthorized way whatsoever, including but not limited to, by trespass or burdening network capacity"
"When one or more 802.11b users connect, the wireless network begins to decrease its maximum data rate to accommodate them. When many 802.11b users are active on the wireless network, the overall network data rate begins to approximate 802.11b rates."
See the "Airport Extreme Technology Overview" at the bottom of this page.
'hoover' is used as a verb in UK. Example: "Kenneth Lay really hoovered his employees' money"
1. Make corrupt, DRM-infested CDs.
2. Resell electronic versions online using DRM-infested digital audio files.
3. Piss off customers.
4. ???
5. Profit!
Per capita income of 96% of Nambia: $85.
No, it's naive for MS (and you) to think the country could afford the software -- after all things like feeding your kids and education are a little more important than a shiny new wordprocessor with an oh-so-happy clippy piece of doodoo, wouldn't you say?
24% urban unemployment; 14% in rural areas.
$1755 per capita income; however 96% of the population earn $85.
That means each copy of office would only take as long for a Nambian to pay for as a Westerner would pay for house.
They could pay for it sooner, but CDs aren't quite as sustaning as food.
See more stats here
No one is saying that only free software is good -- but dammit think!
I attend Carnegie Mellon. Grace is often in the atrium entrance of one of the computer science buildings here. She tells jokes and asks questions. It's quite entertaining, and disturbing.
Robots wander the halls around often. I'm oddly used to it.
This seems actually to be a very good prisoner's dilemma-style situation. And in this case, they both chose to screw each other. If you are familiar with prisoner's dilemma, you know that this is the worst possible option.
I think this is very bizarre... especially since it's really Dell that has the advantage since they possess the customer relationships (the most valuable asset). It seems that it would have been better for HP to hold off a bit and use the time to transition Dell's customers away from HP.
if it includes a quote from HP: "Linux is becoming more and more mainstream everyday?"
This site contains technical info on the hole. It's a buffer overflow.
I thought this was self-evident, but Apple wants to make sure that you ONLY use their own flatscreen LCD on the new iMac.
No. This is a VGA connector, NOT a DVI connector. Apple ONLY sells a dongle that plugs into STANDARD displays. There is NO iMac Dongle that allows the iMac to plug into Apple displays.
Looking at it another way, Apple does not sell a display that is capable of being plugged into an iMac, so they are not doing this for any reason except to save space on the iMac.
Those connectors, incidentally, are relatively expensive as connectors go. I'm working with a portable computer now that has a number of compact, rare connectors on it. I doubt Apple makes much on their dongles...
because I was a VP of Engineering at 19, with 6 employees under me who were a minimum of 10 years older. None of them ever had a problem with me. And not to brag, but we really kicked butt and made some excellent software... and everyone worked super hard, so I know that we all respected each other.
I doubt it's just age discrimination - you might be annoying in some way you're not aware of. So do the right thing and start asking people how you can be better at your job (especially ask your immediate boss!), take their advice seriously, implement it wholeheartedly, and see what happens.
If despite your best efforts nothing improves, find another job. Find colleagues who will write good recommendations for you. Document your work experience and be very specific about what you have done. Then go find another job, as if you are experienced and good you will have little trouble...
I don't usually reply but this one is a bit uninformed...
For years (high school & afterwards) I did tons of patient, "see the screen" help of people much older than me for the most common applications (MS-Office, Novell PerfectOffice, Lotus, etc.)
People often complemented me on my patience and ability to "seen the screen" even if I was on the phone or the other side of an email message... I spent hours showing people who never had used a computer in their life how to figure out email clients, word processors, etc.
This wasn't just in academic situations either. I was a VP of a consulting company with 6 full-time employees on my development staff. In the midst of doing everything else I was required to do, I often had to walk clients through using Netscape or explain to them how to fix their computers when "the Internet was broken," as one client used to say. I did this with the utmost respect and patience because these people were the ones writing the checks that kept my company in business and my employees and their families fed and happy. I was happy to get the phone calls and happy to help them with their problems.
I also know that I'm not alone in this; many of my friends helped out and when I got to college I found other people who had also helped people in this same way.
The common thread amongst all of us: realizing that computers are actually poorly designed and hard to use, knowing that the reason for having computers in the first place is to make people's lives easier, and understanding that you must respect the people who you help.
My point: don't make assumptions based on age, because you never know when you're going to meet someone who's the exception to the rule.
In fact, while I'm thinking about it, I had a couple clients whose executive staff or employees would complement me and the people in my company for being so patient and helpful because their older and "more experienced" IT staff were rude and impatient. I'm not talking about small companies either, but to protect the not-so-innocent, I won't list our clients here.
Apple was at Carnegie Mellon this week to recruit. They extensively demoed OS X, particularly the developer environment. I watched an engineer build a web browser in 15 lines of code.
The new toolkit is amazing-it has solid, fast code for tons of stuff, from linked lists and hashes to parsing HTML. Objective C is amazing. It comes with an amazing front end onto gcc/gdb, a terminal that allows drag and drop, and you can even boot into a console if you login as >console
My point? It's not just BSD+ a GUI; it actually is something revolutionary. And it also runs with very few problems, even in beta, classic software well. Apple Engineering has developed rigorous standards for their code-their goal is that everything execute as efficiently as possible.
So before you start complaining about it, check it out. I think it's will be the most stable, full-featured, easy-to-program OS ever.
1) Neither Apple WebObjects nor ASP solve the workflow-related problems that Jason describes
:)]
2) Putting up as Open Source the engine that is responsible for serving up millions of pages per day is always news. Saying that Go.Com paid to have this put up is ridiculous.
3) Asserting that this is useless is even more ridiculous. This has obviously filled a huge need for Go/partners, and can fill this need for others. For people for whom this does not, they can adapt the code to their needs. This is what Open Source is about.
Anyone who works with a professional graphic design staff will quickly realize that JSP/ASP/WebObjects have the most convoluted workflows and will either write a tool of their own, or find a tool like this and modify it to meet their needs.
If I were to ever show JSP code to my graphic design team, expecting them to use it, they'd quickly throw me out the window. [literally.
I do agree that there should be some sort of standard template/macro language. Unfortunately, due to the wide variability in workflows amongst web groups, the limited publication of existing ones, and the diversity of platforms that people use, creation of one is very difficult. That is why it hasn't happened yet.
Someone ought to take the best features from the existing systems and make a set of uniform standards at each step in the process. That has not been done yet, as far as I know. Doing this would enable people to quickly adapt their systems to the standards, plug generic standards-based extensions into their systems, and unify the number of standards that exist.
I have to say, however, that I am always amazed that it's _huge news_ when someone posts yet another lame windowmanager because it's written by one of the "good guys" yet when a large corporation posts code, even under an 'official Open Source license,' not only is it ignored, but people actually complain about it and start whipping out conspiracy theories.
Grow up, kiddies. Open Source will never work with that attitude.
Assuming that SSL was in use, and the site he was at implemented some kind of expiration on the session ID stored in the cookie, the only way this hack could have occurred is if someone had actually cracked his computer to obtain his cookies file.
Now, WHY, pray tell, would someone who broke into the CEO of Novell's computer take JUST a credit card number? I'm sure there were FAR more interesting things lying around than a cookie file. Especially if it was a Windows PC - then there's all sorts of neat things like (crackable) password lists, etc., which could probably get you into some pretty interesting places at Novell. But no, none of this was stolen.
Hence, my bullshit meter has gone off the chart.