The switch from coal to oil was huge. I think you are underestimating the effects of switching from coal to oil on the global scale. You think anybdoy would give a shit about iraq if we were not using oil?
I have often wondered why something like the following is not implemented.
Take something like bittorrent except modify it slightly. The program takes a large binary and smashes it into a thousand little pieces. It also creates a master file like a torrent which names each individual file and it's checksum as well as other metadata.
You then share the descriptor file and the rest of the files over traditional P2P protocols. One out of a hundred times (randomly) as soon as a binary is transfered to another client it gets deleted from your system.
On the receiving end, once you gather all the pieces you put them together and move it out of your shared directory.
What's the point? Simple you are almost never sharing the actual movie or the music. You are sharing the descriptor and some bits and pieces of a movie or a song. If you are not sharing a complete product can you be sued? I don't know but I think it would be a harder case to make in court.
I don't know if this circumvents any laws or not. In theory it's just another way to serve files. Maybe it's like sampling, if the sample is small enough not to be recognized it's presumed fair use right?
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It looks like we have come full circle. Nowadays it's fashionable to create value objects which are pretty much like the hashes and recordsets of the old days. Make value objects with public attributes, make action objects that take the value objects and maipulate them.
Arlen Specter is widely dispised by the current crop of republicans in the senate. It was he who said that Bush should not nominate a judge that would oppose abortion. The rest of the republicans dogpiled on him fast and he backtracked fast.
It's a sad day when some like Arlen Specter is considered a moderate.
YOu can't change the ONE law without violence. That's the problem. Bush is likely to appoint anywhere from one to four extreme right wing judges to the SCOUS.
I would be interested to know how you think that law could be changed. The only way I can think of is to literally kill the judges once a different president gets elected. Short of that nothing can be done.
Although the problems you listed are important the environment is the biggest problem the entire world is facing right now. I don't need to go over all the alarming news about melting in the polar regions and the disappearance of the glaciers do I?
Needless to say Kerry would have been much better then Bush when it comes to the environment.
We have police and jails in order to get criminals off the street and to discourage further crime. The idea is to convince your potential criminal that they are likely get caught and suffer great harm if they carry their intentions out and rob that 7/11.
In the case of Corporate crim and especially in the case MS it does not work this way. MS gets caught, found guilty but then is rewarded for their crimes by keeping the profits of their crime.
As long as the law isn't willing to punish the guilty then we should expect to see more crimes by the corporate class.
Theoretically SCO owes 75% (I think) of the license fee to Novell. Wouldn't it be funny if Novell demanded that cash now? SCO does not have much cash left. Last I checked it was less then 50 mil and of that over 30 is slated to go to the lawyers.
You don't have to redefine evil. Jesus did it for you already.
Love of money is the root of all evil.
There, nice and easy to understand and 100% correct.
It is harder for a rich man to get into heaven then for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. Rich people become rich because they love money. If they have richness thrust upon them (inheritance, IPO etc) they stay rich because they fall in love with money and want to keep it for themselves.
What voice? In the last election there were only 10 representitives which faced close elections. Only five states that were in play in the presidential election. For an overwhelming majority of the population their vote does not even count.
It's even worse. It punishes the doers. The people who get the patent often don't produce anything. They wait for other people to get off their ass and do the hard work of creating and marketing products and then sue them.
We have set up a system that punishes the risk takers and achievers and rewards the lawyers, the greedy, the immoral, and the bastards.
If he was making hundreds of thousands of dollars per month it was all worth it. He probably made at least a few million dollars and he will probably be paroled in a couple of years. A few years in jail in exchange for a few million? I'd take that.
I am no expert but my understanding is that all it would take would be write what amounts to plug-ins. Hans did the hard work of putting the filesystem together now it's up to us to do the rest.
That's right. Nobody is suggesting that criminal charges be levied or that people go to jail. In fact unlike the RIAA nobody is asking for money either. They are simple asking that you either stop or contribute your code like you were supposed to.
As far as I can tell Oracle was the first company to offer a file system on top a database. Be was working something like it too. MS as usual staterted their vaporware campaign years before they had any clue how to go about it.
Apple implemented by not using a relational database which was pretty smart.
Oh and lest I forget. As usual the open source beats everybody to punch with reiser.
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The switch from coal to oil was huge. I think you are underestimating the effects of switching from coal to oil on the global scale. You think anybdoy would give a shit about iraq if we were not using oil?
If that's the case then we are all in deeper shit then we know.
I have often wondered why something like the following is not implemented.
Take something like bittorrent except modify it slightly. The program takes a large binary and smashes it into a thousand little pieces. It also creates a master file like a torrent which names each individual file and it's checksum as well as other metadata.
You then share the descriptor file and the rest of the files over traditional P2P protocols. One out of a hundred times (randomly) as soon as a binary is transfered to another client it gets deleted from your system.
On the receiving end, once you gather all the pieces you put them together and move it out of your shared directory.
What's the point? Simple you are almost never sharing the actual movie or the music. You are sharing the descriptor and some bits and pieces of a movie or a song. If you are not sharing a complete product can you be sued? I don't know but I think it would be a harder case to make in court.
I don't know if this circumvents any laws or not. In theory it's just another way to serve files. Maybe it's like sampling, if the sample is small enough not to be recognized it's presumed fair use right?
It looks like we have come full circle. Nowadays it's fashionable to create value objects which are pretty much like the hashes and recordsets of the old days. Make value objects with public attributes, make action objects that take the value objects and maipulate them.
As I said just like the old days.
Arlen Specter is widely dispised by the current crop of republicans in the senate. It was he who said that Bush should not nominate a judge that would oppose abortion. The rest of the republicans dogpiled on him fast and he backtracked fast.
It's a sad day when some like Arlen Specter is considered a moderate.
YOu can't change the ONE law without violence. That's the problem. Bush is likely to appoint anywhere from one to four extreme right wing judges to the SCOUS.
I would be interested to know how you think that law could be changed. The only way I can think of is to literally kill the judges once a different president gets elected. Short of that nothing can be done.
Although the problems you listed are important the environment is the biggest problem the entire world is facing right now. I don't need to go over all the alarming news about melting in the polar regions and the disappearance of the glaciers do I?
Needless to say Kerry would have been much better then Bush when it comes to the environment.
I figure "send money" is the all purpose help. I don't know anybody (other then Bill Gates) where send money won't work.
It amazes me how dumb people's bosses are. This guy's boss is comparing the price of Red hat with support to windows without support.
Makes you wonder how he runs a business.
Holy.
I prefer "Jesus H Christ and his black brother Harry" myself.
Love of money is the root of all evil.
Jesus H Christ.
We have police and jails in order to get criminals off the street and to discourage further crime. The idea is to convince your potential criminal that they are likely get caught and suffer great harm if they carry their intentions out and rob that 7/11.
In the case of Corporate crim and especially in the case MS it does not work this way. MS gets caught, found guilty but then is rewarded for their crimes by keeping the profits of their crime.
As long as the law isn't willing to punish the guilty then we should expect to see more crimes by the corporate class.
Why? Because it's much better that SCO get that money then the shareholders.
Theoretically SCO owes 75% (I think) of the license fee to Novell. Wouldn't it be funny if Novell demanded that cash now? SCO does not have much cash left. Last I checked it was less then 50 mil and of that over 30 is slated to go to the lawyers.
You don't have to redefine evil. Jesus did it for you already.
Love of money is the root of all evil.
There, nice and easy to understand and 100% correct.
It is harder for a rich man to get into heaven then for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. Rich people become rich because they love money. If they have richness thrust upon them (inheritance, IPO etc) they stay rich because they fall in love with money and want to keep it for themselves.
There is no "enlightened self interest". There is only self interest.
What voice? In the last election there were only 10 representitives which faced close elections. Only five states that were in play in the presidential election. For an overwhelming majority of the population their vote does not even count.
It's even worse. It punishes the doers. The people who get the patent often don't produce anything. They wait for other people to get off their ass and do the hard work of creating and marketing products and then sue them.
We have set up a system that punishes the risk takers and achievers and rewards the lawyers, the greedy, the immoral, and the bastards.
Nice.
" For licenses where fork, modify, and release without contributing back isn't allowed, option 2 simply isn't allowed."
My point is that companies do it anyway and just ignore the license.
If he was making hundreds of thousands of dollars per month it was all worth it. He probably made at least a few million dollars and he will probably be paroled in a couple of years. A few years in jail in exchange for a few million? I'd take that.
Spotlight is probably four to six months away. I am sure soembody will have a plug in by then.
I am no expert but my understanding is that all it would take would be write what amounts to plug-ins. Hans did the hard work of putting the filesystem together now it's up to us to do the rest.
That's right. Nobody is suggesting that criminal charges be levied or that people go to jail. In fact unlike the RIAA nobody is asking for money either. They are simple asking that you either stop or contribute your code like you were supposed to.
You left out one.
Use it, modify it, sell it, just ignore the license.
As far as I can tell Oracle was the first company to offer a file system on top a database. Be was working something like it too. MS as usual staterted their vaporware campaign years before they had any clue how to go about it.
Apple implemented by not using a relational database which was pretty smart.
Oh and lest I forget. As usual the open source beats everybody to punch with reiser.