Your ideas are shaped not just by your capabilities, but the ideas and interactions you came up with when you were growing up.
I believe that there is a significant percentage of population (probably around 10%) that could be just as bright as the top people in sciences, but they just took a different path. They didn't get the encouragements, or maybe they just didn't meet a friend in the 5th grade that had the same interest as them.
There is more to whom we become than some political structure. The ultimate you is shaped MUCH closer to your personal life than even the city hall.
It is theft. Plain and simple. The law just hasn't caught up with it. For other examples,
1. Bob makes software A. Releases under GPL. Company B takes the source code, changes the copyright and does some minor changes and releases it as closed source version. Company B is stealing from Bob. They have NO right to take Bob's *property* and do as they please.
2. Fran makes a flash game C. Releases it as a play-for-free that receives revenue from advertising. License is for usage on site only. Alice takes the game and removes ads. Alice stole Fran's *property*.
3. Company A makes a car. Frankie steals the car and ponds it off. Frankie stole Company A's *property*.
Why do I keep writing *property* there? Because in all cases the act of *creating* the *property* involved the original creator to *invest* time AND monetary resources into creating that property.
The R&D cost on a car usually is spread on a multi-year basis. Parts are patented to prevent copying of the final product (like Chinese manufactures do in MANY cases). On *top* of that, the cost to manufacture each item is added and product *copies* are sold.
The cost of the car is not the cost of the copper, iron, nickel and plastic in it.
For software, the R&D cost is principally the *MAIN* cost of the software. Therefore stealing software is equivalent to stealing the money from R&D directly.
How does it affect GPL authors where they will not recoup the R&D cost, in most cases? The thief essentially gets a private do-whatever-they-want copy of the program without spending the R&D to create it themselves. Maybe the GPL author would relicense the software to the said company at a nominal price that would allow the original author to recoup the said costs.
Regardless, we are moving into a world where *physical* theft will be meaningless. Where you can essentially print your stuff and only pay a license per copy to print something. For example, if you want vehicle B, you'll just purchase a blueprint copy and the local large-object-printer-ship will just print it for you, with any custom modifications if required.
If any of you play the game EVE Online, manufacturing process there may be closer to what is available on this planet within the next century. A world where physical device is cheap compared to the intellectual property behind it.
Hence in the near future, copyright theft laws will strengthen. And that is just a natural way of doing business and protecting our work.
In the software world, this is the reality today. The laws are just outdated, like they were regarding the material world in the Wild West.
This is *meaningless* because when everyone plugs in their car into any plug, the power will go out.
The entire infrastructure needs to be updated for this, and most probably including superconducting paths. The consumer consumption from plugin-only cars would be go up 5x, at least.
So, where are the 1000s and 1000s of nuclear power stations being built? They are not so the entire plugin electric car for the masses is meaningless in near future.
I know for a fact (from my experience) that Vista is faster to boot than XP. Both, 32-bit and 64-bit mode. Maybe it is the software you put on top of Vista that is causing your slowdown??
Clean install is extremely fast to boot.
Of course, I prefer Debian anyway that takes longest to boot by a factor of 3 (takes 10-15 seconds just to bring up the ethernet bridge interface:), but then I have lots of crap installed there. And I only boot *once* a day, max.
Actually I've chosen XFS over RaiserFS way before this case. It was his "craziness" and incisiveness on spamming users with copyright info every bloody time they use any tool drove me away from the entire FS. And on top of that, calling the FS after yourself, raised some flags for me regarding the ego and "need for attention" and overall metal health of the original author.
Of course, I'm not implying that there is any comparison between the individuals, they just both seem "overbearing".
"Warning: do not use Debian binaries/sources as they include many Debian specific bugs and still do not run correctly on Linux-2.6" in bold red letters on the front page is a little confrontational.
But then I guess there are "crazies" in the proprietary world as well:)
Exactly. Small planes are unregulated and hence much, much more unsafe. The crash record for small planes is staggeringly higher than the commercial industry.
This makes general aviation, with 16 deaths per 1 million hours, roughly 20 times as dangerous per hour than driving..... Big airliners have a fatal crash rate of 0.34 per million flight hours, approximately 50 times safer than general aviation. Try to avoid that final commuter hop, though. Those smaller turboprops crash 10 times as frequently per hour of operation, making them only 5 times as safe as general aviation.
So, commercial flights are safer than driving. Private planes are definitely NOT - but many times depends on pilot.
Finally, private cesna flying is slower than driving because you can't fly in many conditions.
What was in your cornflakes this morning!? At least be consistent in your statement.
end for "big birds" and large long flights. Fuel is an issue... I predict that the small aircraft industry and charter flights is gonna boom.... Big birds can't get any lighter without using toilet paper in place of aluminum and fuel costs are already killing the industry... People will chose comfort and peace of mind over cost
After a big WTF, here's your argument.
1. Big planes will not fly because of fuel costs. But small planes have no problem with fuel?? Sorry - big planes are MANY TIMES more efficient than small planes!
2. Then you write some crap that people will chose comfort and peace of mind over cost. What?? The large commercial planes do provide *EXACTLY* that in the first class cabin. Plus regulation makes them hell of a lot safer than a small plane.
And finally, #1 and #2 don't make *ANY SENSE* together. NONE. Either people care about cost (aka, fuel) or they don't and spend 10x to fly privately.
I predict people will drive long distances now in silly little cars or motorcycles
Yes, as opposed to the current APVs they are driving, aka. suburban or hummers. And no, those giant lumps of metal don't look silly at all.
Oh well, maybe the moderators had same cornflakes you had in the morning.
He's not giving it away. The Gates foundation spent more last year on AIDS research and research on communicable diseases like malaria than all the world's governments puts together.
But I guess that makes him "evil". What next? War is peace? At least part of the population believes that, I'm sure.
Recently the Roman Catholic Church put out new sins for the modern age. One of them was that it is a sin to knowingly inflict suffering on a population. Yet, through its own actions of being against family planning (of any kind, not necessarily abortions) and against contraception, they are knowingly committing that new sin that they themselves invented.
Africa is one of the continents where the catholic church has a *major* influence over that population, yet the actions of the priests on the ground and the policy of the church resulted in highest AIDS/HIV rate of infection in relative and absolute numbers anywhere in the world. They still preach abstinence. They still preach that condoms do NOT work. They still preach that only God can prevent infection.
It is not up to the foundation to make environmental laws. It is up the jurisdiction where the factory resides. They are the ones allowing the factory to poison their own population.
I agree completely. Gates, whether some like it or not, launched the entire "cheap" software for the masses. You could get UNIX for many years before and after MSDOS launched, but it still cost you hand and foot. Licenses were $1000+ per CPU and only run on $10,000+ machines, while MSDOS was affordable..
BSD or Linux would never have made it into people's homes the way MS did. MS had the marketing money that FOSS does not have.
It it wasn't for MS, I don't think IBM or Sun would target the little man. Their target were businesses and businesses only and the pace of development would have been lethargic.
Gates BASIC and DOS (and IBM clones - unlike Apple lockups from day-1) made Microsoft what it is today and that made the PC affordable and available to each and everyone of us.
Ask to lower your connection speed. 20,000 feet is only about 6km. You can get 1.5Mbps connection that will work up to 11km or 36,300 feet for metric impaired.
I'm only 4 km from a box but on a 3Mbps link, I was getting drops once every few hours. Techs came out, nothing wrong. I asked them to lower the speed to 1.5Mbps, and viola. Last connection was up for 135 days until someone on the telco side decided to upgrade/unplug/reboot/replug/whatever their equipment.
1.5Mbps is slow in today's world, but at least I get almost perfect reliability.
"Tanker supply will be shrinking Oil tanker stocks give me exactly that combination. Thanks to some regulations that take effect on April 5, 2005, about 12% of global tankers will be removed from the shipping supply."
Regulations are environmental. You can't have tankers dumping oil everywhere. Plus the requirement for the double hauled tankers and ban on single hauled ones.
Cost to ship is up 4x because of oil prices (you need that to *move* the ship), increasing supply demand, lack of tankers, higher costs of making new tankers, etc...
Everything is up 300-400%, but "official" inflation is still low. Who is kidding whom.
And I couldn't help it,
"The Wall Street consensus is that supply will increase enough to cut prices to $25 per 42-gallon barrel or less from the current $36 level"
No, not really. Cost to mine copper *today* is MUCH greater than 5 years ago or 3 years ago or even last year. Oil price dictates input costs. 500% increase in oil price probably means that the $0.40/lb floor 5 years ago is now closer to $2.00/lb.
Secondly, the MAJOR exporter of copper is Chile. Chile is in big trouble because of natural gas shortages from Argentina. This means Chile electrical power production, which is used to run the mines, is in serious problems.
$0.05/kWh => $0.25+/kWh may cause some problems.
Finally, copper stocks are not exactly going back up to levels 5 years ago.
If China and India want to build up their infrastructure, copper supply will not keep up with demand.
And finally, vast majority of copper comes from Chilean mines that were discovered 100+ years ago. There is no new sites that have same merits as those ancient ones.
Let's just say that software developers are at least one abstraction layer lower than the sys admins. But aside from that, everything is just a giant API stack. The entire freaking universe:)
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Your ideas are shaped not just by your capabilities, but the ideas and interactions you came up with when you were growing up.
I believe that there is a significant percentage of population (probably around 10%) that could be just as bright as the top people in sciences, but they just took a different path. They didn't get the encouragements, or maybe they just didn't meet a friend in the 5th grade that had the same interest as them.
There is more to whom we become than some political structure. The ultimate you is shaped MUCH closer to your personal life than even the city hall.
Ok, so you get about ISDN speed for $250? That would work for VOIP connections, albeit there is latency.
It is theft. Plain and simple. The law just hasn't caught up with it. For other examples,
1. Bob makes software A. Releases under GPL. Company B takes the source code, changes the copyright and does some minor changes and releases it as closed source version. Company B is stealing from Bob. They have NO right to take Bob's *property* and do as they please.
2. Fran makes a flash game C. Releases it as a play-for-free that receives revenue from advertising. License is for usage on site only. Alice takes the game and removes ads. Alice stole Fran's *property*.
3. Company A makes a car. Frankie steals the car and ponds it off. Frankie stole Company A's *property*.
Why do I keep writing *property* there? Because in all cases the act of *creating* the *property* involved the original creator to *invest* time AND monetary resources into creating that property.
The R&D cost on a car usually is spread on a multi-year basis. Parts are patented to prevent copying of the final product (like Chinese manufactures do in MANY cases). On *top* of that, the cost to manufacture each item is added and product *copies* are sold.
The cost of the car is not the cost of the copper, iron, nickel and plastic in it.
For software, the R&D cost is principally the *MAIN* cost of the software. Therefore stealing software is equivalent to stealing the money from R&D directly.
How does it affect GPL authors where they will not recoup the R&D cost, in most cases? The thief essentially gets a private do-whatever-they-want copy of the program without spending the R&D to create it themselves. Maybe the GPL author would relicense the software to the said company at a nominal price that would allow the original author to recoup the said costs.
Regardless, we are moving into a world where *physical* theft will be meaningless. Where you can essentially print your stuff and only pay a license per copy to print something. For example, if you want vehicle B, you'll just purchase a blueprint copy and the local large-object-printer-ship will just print it for you, with any custom modifications if required.
If any of you play the game EVE Online, manufacturing process there may be closer to what is available on this planet within the next century. A world where physical device is cheap compared to the intellectual property behind it.
Hence in the near future, copyright theft laws will strengthen. And that is just a natural way of doing business and protecting our work.
In the software world, this is the reality today. The laws are just outdated, like they were regarding the material world in the Wild West.
blasphemy!
HERETIC!!!
This is *meaningless* because when everyone plugs in their car into any plug, the power will go out.
The entire infrastructure needs to be updated for this, and most probably including superconducting paths. The consumer consumption from plugin-only cars would be go up 5x, at least.
So, where are the 1000s and 1000s of nuclear power stations being built? They are not so the entire plugin electric car for the masses is meaningless in near future.
I know for a fact (from my experience) that Vista is faster to boot than XP. Both, 32-bit and 64-bit mode. Maybe it is the software you put on top of Vista that is causing your slowdown??
Clean install is extremely fast to boot.
Of course, I prefer Debian anyway that takes longest to boot by a factor of 3 (takes 10-15 seconds just to bring up the ethernet bridge interface :), but then I have lots of crap installed there. And I only boot *once* a day, max.
On modern machines, compiling a machine specific kernel takes only a minute or two :)
Microsoft's name services? Not sure..
Anyway, authoritative name server that works well is called NSD.
http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/nsd/
Actually I've chosen XFS over RaiserFS way before this case. It was his "craziness" and incisiveness on spamming users with copyright info every bloody time they use any tool drove me away from the entire FS. And on top of that, calling the FS after yourself, raised some flags for me regarding the ego and "need for attention" and overall metal health of the original author.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/04/msg01295.html
Calling removal of excessive copyright statements plagiarism is a little crazy to me.
There is a similar "aura" around the author of cdrecrord
http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/cdrecord.html
Of course, I'm not implying that there is any comparison between the individuals, they just both seem "overbearing".
"Warning: do not use Debian binaries/sources as they include many Debian specific bugs and still do not run correctly on Linux-2.6" in bold red letters on the front page is a little confrontational.
But then I guess there are "crazies" in the proprietary world as well :)
Exactly. Small planes are unregulated and hence much, much more unsafe. The crash record for small planes is staggeringly higher than the commercial industry.
Commercial plane crash stats:
http://www.planecrashinfo.com/cause.htm
http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/safety
So, commercial flights are safer than driving. Private planes are definitely NOT - but many times depends on pilot.
Finally, private cesna flying is slower than driving because you can't fly in many conditions.
What was in your cornflakes this morning!? At least be consistent in your statement.
After a big WTF, here's your argument.
1. Big planes will not fly because of fuel costs. But small planes have no problem with fuel?? Sorry - big planes are MANY TIMES more efficient than small planes!
2. Then you write some crap that people will chose comfort and peace of mind over cost. What?? The large commercial planes do provide *EXACTLY* that in the first class cabin. Plus regulation makes them hell of a lot safer than a small plane.
And finally, #1 and #2 don't make *ANY SENSE* together. NONE. Either people care about cost (aka, fuel) or they don't and spend 10x to fly privately.
Yes, as opposed to the current APVs they are driving, aka. suburban or hummers. And no, those giant lumps of metal don't look silly at all.
Oh well, maybe the moderators had same cornflakes you had in the morning.
He's not giving it away. The Gates foundation spent more last year on AIDS research and research on communicable diseases like malaria than all the world's governments puts together.
But I guess that makes him "evil". What next? War is peace? At least part of the population believes that, I'm sure.
Recently the Roman Catholic Church put out new sins for the modern age. One of them was that it is a sin to knowingly inflict suffering on a population. Yet, through its own actions of being against family planning (of any kind, not necessarily abortions) and against contraception, they are knowingly committing that new sin that they themselves invented.
Africa is one of the continents where the catholic church has a *major* influence over that population, yet the actions of the priests on the ground and the policy of the church resulted in highest AIDS/HIV rate of infection in relative and absolute numbers anywhere in the world. They still preach abstinence. They still preach that condoms do NOT work. They still preach that only God can prevent infection.
Shame. Damn shame.
Exactly. when I read this I immediately thought that someone slipped something funny into RMS' cornflakes that morning.
It is not up to the foundation to make environmental laws. It is up the jurisdiction where the factory resides. They are the ones allowing the factory to poison their own population.
I agree completely. Gates, whether some like it or not, launched the entire "cheap" software for the masses. You could get UNIX for many years before and after MSDOS launched, but it still cost you hand and foot. Licenses were $1000+ per CPU and only run on $10,000+ machines, while MSDOS was affordable..
BSD or Linux would never have made it into people's homes the way MS did. MS had the marketing money that FOSS does not have.
It it wasn't for MS, I don't think IBM or Sun would target the little man. Their target were businesses and businesses only and the pace of development would have been lethargic.
Gates BASIC and DOS (and IBM clones - unlike Apple lockups from day-1) made Microsoft what it is today and that made the PC affordable and available to each and everyone of us.
Ask to lower your connection speed. 20,000 feet is only about 6km. You can get 1.5Mbps connection that will work up to 11km or 36,300 feet for metric impaired.
I'm only 4 km from a box but on a 3Mbps link, I was getting drops once every few hours. Techs came out, nothing wrong. I asked them to lower the speed to 1.5Mbps, and viola. Last connection was up for 135 days until someone on the telco side decided to upgrade/unplug/reboot/replug/whatever their equipment.
1.5Mbps is slow in today's world, but at least I get almost perfect reliability.
It doesn't upload, it *downloads*.
You upload to a server and download to a client. If the server *tricks* the client to download, so be it, but it is still called downloading.
Uploading means initiating a connection to a listening socket and sending data there.
Downloading means initiating connection to a listening socket and fetching some data.
You cannot "fine" anyone for anything. Amazon does not create the law which can punish users.
What Amazon can do is have a "service reactivation fee" that is required to be paid to reinstate suspended accounts.
But, but, but, high population growth means
1. economic growth figures for politicians
2. people to offer donations and praise some deity for the priests and other "holy" men.
See!! The most influential segment of the population doesn't give shit about the future, they just want the population to go up.
Reference for tankers? And is that to have the ship moving or have it docked?
Looking for tankers, I've found an old article,
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/P74138.asp
"Tanker supply will be shrinking
Oil tanker stocks give me exactly that combination. Thanks to some regulations that take effect on April 5, 2005, about 12% of global tankers will be removed from the shipping supply."
Regulations are environmental. You can't have tankers dumping oil everywhere. Plus the requirement for the double hauled tankers and ban on single hauled ones.
Cost to ship is up 4x because of oil prices (you need that to *move* the ship), increasing supply demand, lack of tankers, higher costs of making new tankers, etc...
Everything is up 300-400%, but "official" inflation is still low. Who is kidding whom.
And I couldn't help it,
"The Wall Street consensus is that supply will increase enough to cut prices to $25 per 42-gallon barrel or less from the current $36 level"
They were bloody wrong!
No, not really. Cost to mine copper *today* is MUCH greater than 5 years ago or 3 years ago or even last year. Oil price dictates input costs. 500% increase in oil price probably means that the $0.40/lb floor 5 years ago is now closer to $2.00/lb.
Secondly, the MAJOR exporter of copper is Chile. Chile is in big trouble because of natural gas shortages from Argentina. This means Chile electrical power production, which is used to run the mines, is in serious problems.
$0.05/kWh => $0.25+/kWh may cause some problems.
Finally, copper stocks are not exactly going back up to levels 5 years ago.
http://www.kitcometals.com/charts/copper_historical_large.html#lmestocks_5years
If China and India want to build up their infrastructure, copper supply will not keep up with demand.
And finally, vast majority of copper comes from Chilean mines that were discovered 100+ years ago. There is no new sites that have same merits as those ancient ones.
Let's just say that software developers are at least one abstraction layer lower than the sys admins. But aside from that, everything is just a giant API stack. The entire freaking universe :)
Because McAfee wants people to buy their anti-SPAM stuff? And that runs on Windows?
Using a Linux machine would be pointless - it would most likely not "slow down".
Norway? No, in Norway it would be made from freshly "acquired" whale bones.