Not that Mr. T. and I aren't tight, and not that I don't believe in OSS or anything, but one of the great things about the GPL is that everyone is quite free to say "hey! FUCK Linus! We want a binary kernel driver API!" And so it would be, if enough people decided it would be a good idea to fork the kernel for this purpose.
He'll do great until he hits 11 or 12, i.e. puberty. Then he will suddenly be overcome by impulses he's going to be extremely frustrated by - who out there is going to actually be his equal?
I'm a HUGE Idlewild fan - I paid upwards of 26 American dollars for an Idlewild t-shirt to have it shipped here from the UK. Your bit of news is extremely saddening to me.
Naturally, it's their label and not their fault, but still...
I have one of these, and I ADORE it. I got mine for $1100 refurbished (couldn't tell it was used at all). 1.5GHz Pentium M, 512MB of RAM, 1400x1050(!) 12" LCD, discrete graphics controller (GeForce FX Go 5200), wifi and optional Bluetooth. Plus it's lighter than the HP model and the stylus is terrific - has an eraser and a button on it to do left-clicking. I also think the hinge is sturdier than both the HP and IBM models.
The only thing that is lacking on it is the bundled software. Yes, you have OneNote, but I need something that combines OneNote's organization and keyboard-pen input with the selection flexibility of Journal (ability to lasso stuff and move it around). You can SORT of do that with OneNote, but not really - it decides for itself what should be grouped together, and God help you if you want to change it.
Is there actually some kind of retarded rivalry between "engineers" and "scientists" in industry? As if the two disciplines don't criss-cross and overlap each other in 80 million different ways?
This seems like a gigantic waste of time and potential collaboration.
Don't you think it's kind of missing the point to proselytize via fear of going to hell?
Put more precisely, if you're a Christian because you're afraid of going to hell, you're completely missing the point.
People should become Christians if they want to follow Jesus and His teachings because they believe it's a better way. Christianity should be about love, not fear.
I download television and still pay to go to the movies (and pay for merchandise) because it's a different experience. In fact, I don't even bother to download movies because they are mostly a one-time viewing thing for me (with some rare exceptions). I download music and still pay for merchandise (not CDs, because I refuse to fund the RIAA) because I love the bands.
I am certain there must be some way to ensure that large-scale art can be funded and produced without suing 12 year olds who host mp3s on their machines. Can we agree on that, at least?
is how this guy seems to honestly believe that artists (in general) will stop creating art (in general) without digital rights management being viable (or legally backable) on it.
You could abolish copyright and people would still create beautiful, entertaining things - because that is what artists DO - it's part of who they are, and in many cases it's as natural as breathing.
There are always ways to make money off your artistic abilities (merchandising leaps directly to mind). Selling the actual art itself is just becoming obsolete, that's all.
... and this is very important - you have automatic copyright to anything it is declared you have created.
"For example, if you write a poem or a story, and your roommate steals it in the middle of the night, and submits it to a publisher, or takes it to his attourney, he can claim copyright on your work (mostly because there would be no way for you to prove that it was entirely your time and effort that was used to create that work). To establish that it was yours, you would have to provide a legally defined proof (Notary, attourney, respected individual, etc) that you created or held ownership of the work before your roommate stole it."
(Also, I should note I am a Ph.D. student in CS at University of Notre Dame, and as such anything you say can and will be quoted in my Operating Systems class;)
I don't really care to, feel free to claim victory if you want.
What bothered me originally is that your first post in this thread seemed to infer that the "American way" is bad because it encourages capitalist activity with regard to software development.
1) I don't think it DIScourages Free/OSS development. 2) I don't think commercial, closed software development is bad in and of itself,
though I suspect we agree on the question of which is better for a voting system.
You are conflating "strike it rich" with "be successful," which is the REAL end of the American dream (though American consumer culture has kind of squashed that fact flat a bit).
In fact, the real idea of the American dream is that anybody, if they work hard enough, can achieve their goals. This is an important distinction to make.
If the goal is accurate, secure, reliable voting software, well... I think reasonable people can disagree as to which method (free, gov't-developed, OSS or corporate) is better - though I certainly have my own opinion on the matter.
What kind of research/career work are you doing right now that's related to security of something like voting machines, and what kind of concerns do you have that you'd like to see addressed by an open-source voting system (besides the obvious one of transparency)?
can't we just drop our own manned space vehicle plans and collaborate with Europe and the Russians on this thing? It's an elegant, simple design, gets the job done and is eminently reusable (what's with the "10-reuse capsule" thing?). It's even kinda pretty.
I'm sure the answer has something to do with feeding business to Boeing, Grumman, Lockheed, etc., but there's no reason those companies couldn't contribute to the development of a United Nations Space Administration (!) group-effort manned spacecraft.
And before you complain "look what happened with the ISS!", that was a MUCH larger-scope project with interests pulling on it from every direction. We basically all want the same thing here: a cheap, simple way of putting people into LEO, high earth orbit, LaGranges, and interplanetary space, depending on the booster technology.
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Not that Mr. T. and I aren't tight, and not that I don't believe in OSS or anything, but one of the great things about the GPL is that everyone is quite free to say "hey! FUCK Linus! We want a binary kernel driver API!" And so it would be, if enough people decided it would be a good idea to fork the kernel for this purpose.
How about New York City?
He'll do great until he hits 11 or 12, i.e. puberty. Then he will suddenly be overcome by impulses he's going to be extremely frustrated by - who out there is going to actually be his equal?
Will self-destruct during adolescence.
I'm a HUGE Idlewild fan - I paid upwards of 26 American dollars for an Idlewild t-shirt to have it shipped here from the UK. Your bit of news is extremely saddening to me.
Naturally, it's their label and not their fault, but still...
http://reviews.cnet.com/Toshiba_Portege_M205_S809/ 4505-3126_7-30612819-2.html?tag=nav
I have one of these, and I ADORE it. I got mine for $1100 refurbished (couldn't tell it was used at all). 1.5GHz Pentium M, 512MB of RAM, 1400x1050(!) 12" LCD, discrete graphics controller (GeForce FX Go 5200), wifi and optional Bluetooth. Plus it's lighter than the HP model and the stylus is terrific - has an eraser and a button on it to do left-clicking. I also think the hinge is sturdier than both the HP and IBM models.
The only thing that is lacking on it is the bundled software. Yes, you have OneNote, but I need something that combines OneNote's organization and keyboard-pen input with the selection flexibility of Journal (ability to lasso stuff and move it around). You can SORT of do that with OneNote, but not really - it decides for itself what should be grouped together, and God help you if you want to change it.
We "fear" manners, respect and courtesy? I.E. they make us shake in our cowboy boots?
I thought Prometheus was essentially a nuclear rocket?
Guess I'm thinking of something else.
Could you use some extremely high-power energy source to get high amounts of thrust with an ion engine? Say, a nuclear reactor?
Is there actually some kind of retarded rivalry between "engineers" and "scientists" in industry? As if the two disciplines don't criss-cross and overlap each other in 80 million different ways?
This seems like a gigantic waste of time and potential collaboration.
Don't you think it's kind of missing the point to proselytize via fear of going to hell?
Put more precisely, if you're a Christian because you're afraid of going to hell, you're completely missing the point.
People should become Christians if they want to follow Jesus and His teachings because they believe it's a better way. Christianity should be about love, not fear.
I download television and still pay to go to the movies (and pay for merchandise) because it's a different experience. In fact, I don't even bother to download movies because they are mostly a one-time viewing thing for me (with some rare exceptions). I download music and still pay for merchandise (not CDs, because I refuse to fund the RIAA) because I love the bands.
I am certain there must be some way to ensure that large-scale art can be funded and produced without suing 12 year olds who host mp3s on their machines. Can we agree on that, at least?
is how this guy seems to honestly believe that artists (in general) will stop creating art (in general) without digital rights management being viable (or legally backable) on it.
You could abolish copyright and people would still create beautiful, entertaining things - because that is what artists DO - it's part of who they are, and in many cases it's as natural as breathing.
There are always ways to make money off your artistic abilities (merchandising leaps directly to mind). Selling the actual art itself is just becoming obsolete, that's all.
Namely, he still has to pull the antenna wire out of his laptop somehow, and insert it into the can.
I don't understand how the OP thinks he's going to pull this off without some serious hardware hacking.
Its installer.
That thing is AWESOME.
... and this is very important - you have automatic copyright to anything it is declared you have created.
"For example, if you write a poem or a story, and your roommate steals it in the middle of the night, and submits it to a publisher, or takes it to his attourney, he can claim copyright on your work (mostly because there would be no way for you to prove that it was entirely your time and effort that was used to create that work). To establish that it was yours, you would have to provide a legally defined proof (Notary, attourney, respected individual, etc) that you created or held ownership of the work before your roommate stole it."
Which is, I point out, what you just said here.
Looking forward to it.
;)
(Also, I should note I am a Ph.D. student in CS at University of Notre Dame, and as such anything you say can and will be quoted in my Operating Systems class
I don't really care to, feel free to claim victory if you want.
What bothered me originally is that your first post in this thread seemed to infer that the "American way" is bad because it encourages capitalist activity with regard to software development.
1) I don't think it DIScourages Free/OSS development.
2) I don't think commercial, closed software development is bad in and of itself,
though I suspect we agree on the question of which is better for a voting system.
In the Real World(TM) it seems that no one really is looking to play movies on their tiny handheld screens[snip]
I do this all the time - and it's on my Windows Smartphone 2003 device (an Audiovox SMT5600).
that much difference between "success" and "prosperity?" How do you define prosperity? Wikipedia says it's synonymous with successfulness.
It isn't just about money. I suspect the Puritans who developed the aforementioned work ethic would tell you the same.
your newsletter.
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Hitler! Hitler! Hitler!
Why am I doing this again?
Oh hell, who cares? This is fun!
Hitler!
You are conflating "strike it rich" with "be successful," which is the REAL end of the American dream (though American consumer culture has kind of squashed that fact flat a bit).
In fact, the real idea of the American dream is that anybody, if they work hard enough, can achieve their goals. This is an important distinction to make.
If the goal is accurate, secure, reliable voting software, well... I think reasonable people can disagree as to which method (free, gov't-developed, OSS or corporate) is better - though I certainly have my own opinion on the matter.
If they're really where we were in 1966, we should be jumping on the opportunity (unless that's not really what you meant).
What kind of research/career work are you doing right now that's related to security of something like voting machines, and what kind of concerns do you have that you'd like to see addressed by an open-source voting system (besides the obvious one of transparency)?
the active pressure-sensitive touchscreen on the Latitude X1, and I'll agree with you :)
can't we just drop our own manned space vehicle plans and collaborate with Europe and the Russians on this thing? It's an elegant, simple design, gets the job done and is eminently reusable (what's with the "10-reuse capsule" thing?). It's even kinda pretty.
I'm sure the answer has something to do with feeding business to Boeing, Grumman, Lockheed, etc., but there's no reason those companies couldn't contribute to the development of a United Nations Space Administration (!) group-effort manned spacecraft.
And before you complain "look what happened with the ISS!", that was a MUCH larger-scope project with interests pulling on it from every direction. We basically all want the same thing here: a cheap, simple way of putting people into LEO, high earth orbit, LaGranges, and interplanetary space, depending on the booster technology.
I hate waste.