can't we all live happily together and stop sue-ing each other... this is sad.
I love how this is modded Funny. I find it rather poigniant and sad. I'm so TIRED of reading about these goddamned lawsuits over frivilous and unnecessary and indefensible patents. Wanna talk about stifiling innovation? Patents, currently, are MUCH, MUCH worse than any copyright issues we bitch about here on/.
It is to be shared - every EU country will now share their spectrum with one large bidder that lives and exists outside of their country. Jobs will be lost, control will be lost... although it seems to me that identity is all but lost anymore with the EU.
Why do we even call the EU countries by their original names anymore? Seems to me, they've lost most of their identity already.
This "suggestion" to share spectrum is really - well, it seems to me - a grab at more power at the EU level. Very similar to fed vs. state in the US right now.
I know this is probably naive, but couldn't the strategy just be to keep innovating? Instead of assuming they are "targeting" MS, couldn't it just be that they saw a product, and saw a better way to develop that product?
Google isn't always AFTER MS. Heck, where they started, MS had barely even hinted at being. Most of their products are not direct competitors, but an alternative (and a nice one at that). Different philosophies on software - not direct competition.
Now, the problem here is not that VMWare is a commercial story, but that this story looks too much like an advertisement. If you think it's ok for Slashdot to make money directly on the content it chooses to post, oh well... I guess you're used to watching Fox News?
I don't think I would be against it if the title of the story said "Advertisement: VMWare Rolls Out Their Largest Product Release". At least it would be out in the open, and I could forgive/. for trying to keep their heads above water.
At the same time, I agree with the GP post - open source is not and has never been the be-all end-all, and minus some phanatics on/., most people here agree that there are closed-source, proprietary, for-profit software packages that rock, and we should evaluate each software package on its merits, and not on its openness.
Take AppZapper for instance. Or TextMate. Both brilliant programs, that I have paid money for, that I believe has no OSS comparison.
Here in Brazil both private and government companies are already having extended working periods. It is almost common sense that the days Brazil will play will have half periods of work.
STOOPID USA! Soccer/Futbal is so frikin' underappreciated that I won't get any time off from work - hell, I don't get time off for the Superbowl!
Brazil, here I come! (You guys still like Americans, right? Can't be too cautious these days...)
No thanks. That way is even more precarious than being a technologist.
That depends. At my last job, managers were respected, and any developer over 30 was seen as past his/her prime and was the first to go. Maybe it's different now, but that wasn't too long ago. Development is seen by many as a young-man's sport (sorry ladies, you do good too) but once you're past a certain age, it is expected that you've moved beyond that point and are looking to management.
Well, at least that's how it is here on the east coast in the NY/NJ/PA area. I could see it being a different mentality out west.
and make sure the retained data can ONLY be subpoenaed in the course of a child pron/abuse investigation.
How well have well-defined laws worked against the Bush administration? I mean, there is an entire COURT set up to deal with wiretapping, and it was flaunted.
What about the guys that sell Debian or BSD CD's for those unfortunate souls who don't have broadband or three days to tie up their phone line for the download? would they be liable for other people's code?
As far as I am aware - they are selling the media, not the software.
MySQL, on the other hand, is selling a commercial license to the software, so yes, they would be liable.
Gonzales has already said that the lack of data retention has already hurt child pornography investigations, practically blaming the ISPs for hindering an investigation - and who want's to look like they're aiding the criminal?
This half porn/half terrorism is rediculous. Next they'll be saying hate speech, or arson investigations, or whatever - must... retain... records...
Can = will with the government, which is why record retention is so damned scary. Just like with the Wired article about the surveilance (sp?) conference recently - if they CAN spy on you, they WILL, which has been proven time and again in the very, very recent past.
Child porn my ass. Control the populace - call it what it is.
I agree - Pandora's library doesn't seem to be as big as last.fm's, but the ease of use is second to none. I've found myself several times being captivated by music I never knew existed.
Speaking of features, apparently StarBasic has the ability to download content from the internet, and - get this - StarOffice has the ability to DISPLAY IMAGES.
Seriously, I know there are bad people in the world. I really have to ask, though, how many child predators and pornographers are there? It seems everything is about stopping child pornography and people who prey on children. Just how prevalent is this?
and thats the attitude that leads us to having a future windows version that wants a 3D card for basic desktop operations, and eat 15GiB of storage space...
Hey, if you're still running a 386, you should still run Windows 3.1 or DOS. Nothing wrong with progress.
Moving to OS X and staying an idiot user fixes nothing, it delays the inevitable for a bit.
Um... HELLO... Security through obscurity has been proven to be flawless time and time and time again! If people would just stop LEAKING these security flaws (like, maybe we could get the federal government to prosecute anyone leaking this sort of information...) then we wouldn't HAVE these problems.
You're right. It's not safe. You can get hurt. But taking all the risk out of life is even more dangerous.
Yes, but the day of risk taking is over. I did a lot of stupid things too, but the difference between you and me and the kid that didn't survive the accident is that that kid's parents have now lobbied Congress or local authorities to outlaw the very thing that killed their kids.
Until we begin to accept again that there is indeed a level of acceptable losses, we'll forever be stuck in this overly-sterilized world.
That's the very point of this article. Lessons are learned through taking risks, and without the ability to take risks and learn said lessons, people grow up more ignorant and in the end, more of a risk to themselves.
You'll never truly know how long it takes to decelerate from 60mph until the first time you slam on your brakes, no matter how many times you've read it in a book. You'll never know how hot the stove actually is until the first time you burn yourself as a child, no matter how many times your parents have told you to not touch.
I think the goal is that future pyrotechnicians won't just start lighting off fireworks and saying, "eh, it's someone else's job to worry about fire safety, not mine".
This argument has always bothered me. Making an example of someone is still destroying the life of the person you are using as an example, and that person is as much worthy of human rights as everyone else.
Putting this guy in jail to make a point is ignoring the fact that he too is human. A mistake was made, and the results exacerbated because of a building being dangerously below code, which is why we have codes. I'm not saying the guy shouldn't serve some pennance, but he'll torture himself with the deaths of 100 people on his head for the rest of his life. Jail is not pennance, it's locking someone up.
A person who really believed in justice would have made the guy do something in regards to pyrotechnic saftey, fire inspection, something - some community service that will make sure that this doesn't happen again. I doubt him being in jail will really work as a deterrent.
It certainly doesn't stop people from murdering, stealing, raping, molesting, selling drugs... etc... etc...
And what do I find? There's nothing on TV to watch. I literally spent the afternoon/evening looking for something, anything to record. I still can't find anything worth the harddrive space.
While a lot of TV is trash, try concentrating your search on The History Channel and The Discovery Channel. The plethora of educational content is amazing. Try checking out this coming Monday at... 9ish? History Channel is running a special about George Washington's military life called Washington the Warrior.
I get that some people don't like TV, but this is education about your country's founding, it's wars and triumphs, etc.
To me, this is great TV no matter who you are. But that's just MHO.;)
This is an interesting balance. I am as anti-**AA as they come, but in the end, the people that make/produce the content DO need a revenue stream.
This is, of course, the industry shooting itself in the foot. This sort of on-demand access has been the handwriting-on-the-wall for years now. Instead of redeveloping their marketing and ad revenue schemes to prepare for the inevitable, they've tried to ignore its coming and - now that it's here - sue it back out of existance.
This is of course the classic case. Why adopt when you can injunct? Unfortunately, we're stuck relying on people like Steve Jobs to drag industry kicking and screaming into the future. I guess Cablevision is doing some of the dragging now...
I understand why the government seperates a corporation from individuals
Well, only in crime. In rights, it assumes a corporation has the same constitutional rights as a person. When it comes to crime, however, they get a pass.
While true, the conviction of el Enron honchos gives me a bit more hope. So it appears that execs can be held accountable for financial misappropriation... what about sending them to jail for hacking the same way the Justice Department likes to sentence other hackers??
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can't we all live happily together and stop sue-ing each other... this is sad.
I love how this is modded Funny. I find it rather poigniant and sad. I'm so TIRED of reading about these goddamned lawsuits over frivilous and unnecessary and indefensible patents. Wanna talk about stifiling innovation? Patents, currently, are MUCH, MUCH worse than any copyright issues we bitch about here on /.
It should be shared.
It is to be shared - every EU country will now share their spectrum with one large bidder that lives and exists outside of their country. Jobs will be lost, control will be lost... although it seems to me that identity is all but lost anymore with the EU.
Why do we even call the EU countries by their original names anymore? Seems to me, they've lost most of their identity already.
This "suggestion" to share spectrum is really - well, it seems to me - a grab at more power at the EU level. Very similar to fed vs. state in the US right now.
I know this is probably naive, but couldn't the strategy just be to keep innovating? Instead of assuming they are "targeting" MS, couldn't it just be that they saw a product, and saw a better way to develop that product?
Google isn't always AFTER MS. Heck, where they started, MS had barely even hinted at being. Most of their products are not direct competitors, but an alternative (and a nice one at that). Different philosophies on software - not direct competition.
Or am I just being idealistic?
Now, the problem here is not that VMWare is a commercial story, but that this story looks too much like an advertisement. If you think it's ok for Slashdot to make money directly on the content it chooses to post, oh well... I guess you're used to watching Fox News?
I don't think I would be against it if the title of the story said "Advertisement: VMWare Rolls Out Their Largest Product Release". At least it would be out in the open, and I could forgive /. for trying to keep their heads above water.
At the same time, I agree with the GP post - open source is not and has never been the be-all end-all, and minus some phanatics on /., most people here agree that there are closed-source, proprietary, for-profit software packages that rock, and we should evaluate each software package on its merits, and not on its openness.
Take AppZapper for instance. Or TextMate. Both brilliant programs, that I have paid money for, that I believe has no OSS comparison.
Here in Brazil both private and government companies are already having extended working periods. It is almost common sense that the days Brazil will play will have half periods of work.
STOOPID USA! Soccer/Futbal is so frikin' underappreciated that I won't get any time off from work - hell, I don't get time off for the Superbowl!
Brazil, here I come! (You guys still like Americans, right? Can't be too cautious these days...)
Well, fortunately, being unpopular is not grounds for impeachment.
Well, not impeachment, maybe, but certainly a recall election. See: California.
That depends. At my last job, managers were respected, and any developer over 30 was seen as past his/her prime and was the first to go. Maybe it's different now, but that wasn't too long ago. Development is seen by many as a young-man's sport (sorry ladies, you do good too) but once you're past a certain age, it is expected that you've moved beyond that point and are looking to management.
Well, at least that's how it is here on the east coast in the NY/NJ/PA area. I could see it being a different mentality out west.
How well have well-defined laws worked against the Bush administration? I mean, there is an entire COURT set up to deal with wiretapping, and it was flaunted.
Law ain't shit anymore apparently.
As far as I am aware - they are selling the media, not the software.
MySQL, on the other hand, is selling a commercial license to the software, so yes, they would be liable.
Mod this puppy WAY up.
Gonzales has already said that the lack of data retention has already hurt child pornography investigations, practically blaming the ISPs for hindering an investigation - and who want's to look like they're aiding the criminal?This half porn/half terrorism is rediculous. Next they'll be saying hate speech, or arson investigations, or whatever - must... retain... records...
Can = will with the government, which is why record retention is so damned scary. Just like with the Wired article about the surveilance (sp?) conference recently - if they CAN spy on you, they WILL, which has been proven time and again in the very, very recent past.
Child porn my ass. Control the populace - call it what it is.
I agree - Pandora's library doesn't seem to be as big as last.fm's, but the ease of use is second to none. I've found myself several times being captivated by music I never knew existed.
Speaking of features, apparently StarBasic has the ability to download content from the internet, and - get this - StarOffice has the ability to DISPLAY IMAGES.
I knew it was insecure.
According to NBC's "To Catch a Predator", about 10 per square foot.
Although I agree with you. Stop trying to raise my kid for me.
Except that, as a caveot, the current administration would be free from having to comply with that law.
Hey, if you're still running a 386, you should still run Windows 3.1 or DOS. Nothing wrong with progress.
Microsoft has real competition, forcing them to develop better, more competitive software. Downside?
Um... HELLO... Security through obscurity has been proven to be flawless time and time and time again! If people would just stop LEAKING these security flaws (like, maybe we could get the federal government to prosecute anyone leaking this sort of information...) then we wouldn't HAVE these problems.
DUH...
Yes, but the day of risk taking is over. I did a lot of stupid things too, but the difference between you and me and the kid that didn't survive the accident is that that kid's parents have now lobbied Congress or local authorities to outlaw the very thing that killed their kids.
Until we begin to accept again that there is indeed a level of acceptable losses, we'll forever be stuck in this overly-sterilized world.
That's the very point of this article. Lessons are learned through taking risks, and without the ability to take risks and learn said lessons, people grow up more ignorant and in the end, more of a risk to themselves.
You'll never truly know how long it takes to decelerate from 60mph until the first time you slam on your brakes, no matter how many times you've read it in a book. You'll never know how hot the stove actually is until the first time you burn yourself as a child, no matter how many times your parents have told you to not touch.
Oh well...
This argument has always bothered me. Making an example of someone is still destroying the life of the person you are using as an example, and that person is as much worthy of human rights as everyone else.
Putting this guy in jail to make a point is ignoring the fact that he too is human. A mistake was made, and the results exacerbated because of a building being dangerously below code, which is why we have codes. I'm not saying the guy shouldn't serve some pennance, but he'll torture himself with the deaths of 100 people on his head for the rest of his life. Jail is not pennance, it's locking someone up.
A person who really believed in justice would have made the guy do something in regards to pyrotechnic saftey, fire inspection, something - some community service that will make sure that this doesn't happen again. I doubt him being in jail will really work as a deterrent.
It certainly doesn't stop people from murdering, stealing, raping, molesting, selling drugs... etc... etc...
Oh, yeah... because none of THEM have a slant...
While a lot of TV is trash, try concentrating your search on The History Channel and The Discovery Channel. The plethora of educational content is amazing. Try checking out this coming Monday at... 9ish? History Channel is running a special about George Washington's military life called Washington the Warrior.
I get that some people don't like TV, but this is education about your country's founding, it's wars and triumphs, etc.
To me, this is great TV no matter who you are. But that's just MHO. ;)
This is an interesting balance. I am as anti-**AA as they come, but in the end, the people that make/produce the content DO need a revenue stream.
This is, of course, the industry shooting itself in the foot. This sort of on-demand access has been the handwriting-on-the-wall for years now. Instead of redeveloping their marketing and ad revenue schemes to prepare for the inevitable, they've tried to ignore its coming and - now that it's here - sue it back out of existance.
This is of course the classic case. Why adopt when you can injunct? Unfortunately, we're stuck relying on people like Steve Jobs to drag industry kicking and screaming into the future. I guess Cablevision is doing some of the dragging now...
Now?
What about VCRs, DVD players, HDMI/HDCP, MP3 players, DVR boxes, tape decks, CD/DVD burners, etc., etc., etc.
They've been trying to (and in many cases successfully) mandate designs on hardware to their benefit for more years than I've been alive.
Well, only in crime. In rights, it assumes a corporation has the same constitutional rights as a person. When it comes to crime, however, they get a pass.
While true, the conviction of el Enron honchos gives me a bit more hope. So it appears that execs can be held accountable for financial misappropriation... what about sending them to jail for hacking the same way the Justice Department likes to sentence other hackers??