I get tired of these GPL licensing thing... I mean, why does people make all this noise for the license? it is just a license, anyone can make one, you can distribute your software with your own wrote license or get the GPLv9 license, modify it to your joy and license your software with it,
You touch a quite interesting and important point. Although I studied in a catholic school for 9 years basic and secondary school I was raised atheist. Both of my parents are scientists (Biologists both of them, my father a PhD, my mother got a Master) and I am something like that (actually trying to get a PhD).
The interesting fact is why did they chose a catholic school when they were atheist themselves?, the answer is because it was the *best* stchool in the city we lived (Campeche, Mexico). Now, this school was driven by Marist Brothers and, although I do not believe anything about God and religion things, these Marists put a very good emphasis in making students "virtuous citizens", I think Religion in school would be OK if it were based taught trying to increase the values of students, you know, the standard rules applied to religion (do not kill, do not steal, etc etc) still apply in our society, and they will do a great good teaching that to people.
The bad thing is, no public school should teach any religion, or, maybe they should have that a "religion" course (theology?), where they showed the different religions (or just the major religions) available and their basics, there they could include I.D. (by the way, as an A.I. researcher I find the name quite missleading) and that would go par with biology and evolution.
And exactly what is stopping businesses from supporting, testing, doing QA, and releasing the source of the driver to merge it in the main linux tree?
That one is easy, it is just because Linux is still not profitable, having something like (at most) 4% of market share [this is half from my ass as I could not find a non biased source], manufacturers will not spend all that money or time on that kind of support (QA, testing, support, etc) to make happy a bit of lusers.
It is better to concentrate on the 90% of users, with the minimum effort, than puting a lot of more effort for the other 10%. Simple economics and mathematics.
I do not know where are you from, but my best guess is that you are from USA where there is a little consience in the environmental effects caused when producing energy (like CO2 emissions).
If you read the article you may note this table:
Estimated annual CO2 emissions from devices left on standby: Stereos - 1,600,000 tonnes Videos - 960,000 tonnes TVs - 480,000 tonnes Consoles - 390,000 tonnes DVD players - 100,000 tonnes Set-top boxes - 60,000 tonnes (Source: Energy Saving Trust)
So, as you see, what is wrong is leaving your stereo or other electronic devices on "standby" just because you like to see the clock.
As for why it is not, mainly because some governments do not care. I am not really sure about UK, although I guess[hope] that the outrageous high taxes asked are used in some way to fight against pollution. And from the article it seems politicians are concerned (at least because that will give them votes). But of course, in the USA your[again, sorry if you parent are not from USA] government does not care too much about environment so I doubt your energy bills (electricity, oil or whatever else) includes taxes used to sustain your environment. And, from my perspective PCs have also a great impact. I remebmer reading about a study about people leaving their monitors on all the time; that is also a real waste of energy, or to leave your PC "suspended" instead of hibernating.
I have read a lot of times in Slashdot that people say "Linux PC's do not need to be turned off", but I disagree, because there is no way I will leave my computer turned on 24/7. That is why I need a fast "turn on" button for those devices. This may sound like a bit off topic rant but, I have never been able to configure properly (of course I do not care reading howtos and modifying.conf files) any Linux distro (I have used Mandriva 2006 ppack or Fedora Core 4) to enable hibernation mode, I do not know how difficult is it to have just a "Hibernate" button like MS Windows, so for me it means each time I finish working I turn off my computer (in fact, I just press the power button, while MSWindows goes to hibernation mode, any Linux distro will kill all the daemons and halt/power off).
After paying $40 to play Medal of Honor I feel like all the other sequels are nothing more than upgrades... so, why pay $40 to play the same (core engine) game with slightly better graphics and 2 or 3 different missions? I think the second hand price is the fair price for that.
I have been doing the same with the football soccer games since Fifa 96... Imagine buying each one of those games at retail price
$40 FIFA Soccer '96 $40 FIFA '97 $40 FIFA '98: Road To World Cup $40 FIFA '99 $40 FIFA 2000 $40 FIFA 2001 $40 FIFA 2002 $40 FIFA 2003 $40 FIFA Football 2004 $40 FIFA Football 2005 $40 FIFA 06 ----- $440
That's quite a lot of money... and the same can be said for Silent Hill series or Resident Evil.
I will take the freedom to go on about how they have bought quite a lot of software and managed to make them suck big.
From all of them, the ones I *used* to use (before Symantec put their claws on them) were: - Powerquest Partition Magic - Norton Utilities (was pretty good before Symantec days) - Norton Antivirus (agree... they where OK in the DOS days... well it was that or McAfee.. queeww)
Now, I have replaced those programs with Paragon Partition Manager, SysInternal misc utils, AVG Free antivirus.
As for Symantec products, Thanks but no thanks. As someone else said, they live up only on their name...
What about this. (this idea just ocurred to me, it may be totally stupid, but...)
You may write a book, a darn good book. OK?
You publish it on your page, in PDF format with mega-ultra-super-l33t DRMcryption. If someone wants to have it then it will cost $xx.yy (you put your price).
Then, you tell the people this: "My time an effort to write this book was ZZ hours + NN HeadBangs. So after I recover $KKKK.KK I will make the book available without all the hazzles(DRM). " you could even make it free, as you have earned what you thought was right.
That way, people that really want to read your book, will buy it. And, after you have earned what you wanted for that book you would not care for what people do with it.
Well, as I said, it seems feasible... maybe if you change PDF for MP3 (or a DRMd WMV) a musician could do that, sell its music via iTunes, and make a public statement, "after selling NN number of [virtual] CD's the improved version will be offered to people that buy the song" and then, you just put a.FLAC, OGG and MP3 torrent in your site (of course after you have earned what you wanted.
That seems quite interesting. My PhD supervisor made an intesresting comment about google the other day. He said that people at google must have very interesting information concerning the trends of "common knowledge", this is, before September, 11, 2001 a query on google of "september wtc" would yield totally different results, which surely will show the most "common" of things that people was searching for.
Likewise, if you searched "Katrina" in google before August, 2005, you maybe ended in the page of someone named like that.
These are basic examples of informaiton that can be obtained with the "time" factor of the google logs. Remember that time gives another dimension to your data, which lets you extract more information from it. Something among tht lines of image-pattern recognition, it is easier to match patterns from a moving image than from a static image.
I'm much more concerned about the fact that taco can't differentiate "to" and "too".
You know, that is something cool of knowing more than one languange, on these cases if in doubt, I always know that "to" is for "hacia" and "too" is for "también" [spanish]. I think that would help a lot of people with other kind of words too;).
The moderation system serves many purposes, but perhaps the most important is to provide a user, 24 hours later viewing at Score 2 or 3 an accurate pulse on the topic at hand. If the comment is not about the new motherboard chipset, that comment at least should not be modded 'insightful', and in many cases, ought to be modded offtopic of flamebait.
The way slashdot works do not help for this, after 24 hours a story is not on the frontpage. Front page sotries are tend to live like 4 hours. People with mod points (the majority) will mod up and down only the front page stories.
In the last months I have seen stories in the front page that should not be there. Front page stories should be *really interesing* stuff, or stuff that may matter most people. I find that the Games section is more or less well managed by Zonk, I mean, I go quite often to games.slashdot and see some good stories about games.
About the comments, there are comments that are indeed off topic but nonetheless they are interesting. I have found really interesting sites/software digging on slashdot comments. And sometimes people do some offtopic plug to ask about something slightly releated to the topic but, nevertheless the information is interesting (For example a thread on IBS that I plugged on a stomach ulcer story.
I completely agree with you, but again let me extend a bit.
The "people behind Bush" you are talking about are no other than big companies and huge enterprises. I mean, oil, weapons, water and food enterprises. It is the capitalism and the hunger for domination that is going to drive this world to the end.
It may seem unrelated, but multinational enterprises have each one its stake on the government, I remember a flash program in which you could see the different relationships between the most important owners and CEO's of the different companies. They are all related, and they also relate with people in the government (specially the ones related with Oil).
'Digital Restrictions Management' whenever you have to explain what 'DRM' is. It's a far truer portrayal of what's going on.
No, it Digital Rights Managements is ok, why the heck would I want an ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY to manage my rights?, you see, that is why it is flawed by default, corporations think they can "manage" our rights and they are (by now) doing it without anyone complaining.
Anyway, for a better meaning of the acronym read my sign.
Re:That's all well and good. . .
on
Web 3.0
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· Score: 3, Insightful
Yes, I agree more or less with you. I HATE "WebForms" and all that things that try to resemble Windows like interfaces using a browser, I hate also "server based" processing, Damn, we have processors that run at 3 Ghz!!! give them some use. And third, I hate having to put my data on others places. What is all that nonsense??
Yeah, Slashback:Home Storage, Web Sites Judging and Home Storage Web Judging.
Slashback tonight brings some corrections, clarifications, and updates to previous Slashdot stories, including Home Network Data Storage Device, Users Judge sites in the blink of an eye, Storage networks for home devices and Web Users Judge Sites Instantly.
Web Users Judge Sites in an Instant Blink! Posted by Zonk on Monday January 16, @12:57AM from the judging-quick-by-its-learners dept.
Ant writes "This Nature.com news article reports on a study by Canadian researcher Gitte Lindgaard of Carleton University that potential readers can make snap decisions in just 50 milliseconds: 'Like the look of our website? Whatever the answer, the chances are you made your mind up within the first twentieth of a second. From the article: "We all know that first impressions count, but this study shows that the brain can make flash judgments almost as fast as the eye can take in the information." A study by researchers in Canada has shown that the snap decisions Internet users make about the quality of a web page have a lasting impact on their opinions...'" who has published the research in the journal Behaviour and Information Technology. Instead they found that impressions were made in the first 50 milliseconds of viewing."
Man, I was trying to find a +5 Informative or Interesting comment, but darn... I could only find +5 Funny, ya know, those does not give karma...
the only one I found was:
"as a funny offtopic info. apparently playboy mirrors files for eclipse, apache, freebsd, and some other stuff! coolness. I fuond this out in some other article clicking around. look"
The funny thing is that the poster specified his comment was "Funny" and "Offtopic"... and it got modified as +5 Informative haha
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I get tired of these GPL licensing thing... I mean, why does people make all this noise for the license? it is just a license, anyone can make one, you can distribute your software with your own wrote license or get the GPLv9 license, modify it to your joy and license your software with it,
You touch a quite interesting and important point. Although I studied in a catholic school for 9 years basic and secondary school I was raised atheist. Both of my parents are scientists (Biologists both of them, my father a PhD, my mother got a Master) and I am something like that (actually trying to get a PhD).
The interesting fact is why did they chose a catholic school when they were atheist themselves?, the answer is because it was the *best* stchool in the city we lived (Campeche, Mexico). Now, this school was driven by Marist Brothers and, although I do not believe anything about God and religion things, these Marists put a very good emphasis in making students "virtuous citizens", I think Religion in school would be OK if it were based taught trying to increase the values of students, you know, the standard rules applied to religion (do not kill, do not steal, etc etc) still apply in our society, and they will do a great good teaching that to people.
The bad thing is, no public school should teach any religion, or, maybe they should have that a "religion" course (theology?), where they showed the different religions (or just the major religions) available and their basics, there they could include I.D. (by the way, as an A.I. researcher I find the name quite missleading) and that would go par with biology and evolution.
And exactly what is stopping businesses from supporting, testing, doing QA, and releasing the source of the driver to merge it in the main linux tree?
That one is easy, it is just because Linux is still not profitable, having something like (at most) 4% of market share [this is half from my ass as I could not find a non biased source], manufacturers will not spend all that money or time on that kind of support (QA, testing, support, etc) to make happy a bit of lusers.
It is better to concentrate on the 90% of users, with the minimum effort, than puting a lot of more effort for the other 10%. Simple economics and mathematics.
It is called environmental impact.
.conf files) any Linux distro (I have used Mandriva 2006 ppack or Fedora Core 4) to enable hibernation mode, I do not know how difficult is it to have just a "Hibernate" button like MS Windows, so for me it means each time I finish working I turn off my computer (in fact, I just press the power button, while MSWindows goes to hibernation mode, any Linux distro will kill all the daemons and halt/power off).
I do not know where are you from, but my best guess is that you are from USA where there is a little consience in the environmental effects caused when producing energy (like CO2 emissions).
If you read the article you may note this table:
Estimated annual CO2 emissions from devices left on standby:
Stereos - 1,600,000 tonnes
Videos - 960,000 tonnes
TVs - 480,000 tonnes
Consoles - 390,000 tonnes
DVD players - 100,000 tonnes
Set-top boxes - 60,000 tonnes
(Source: Energy Saving Trust)
So, as you see, what is wrong is leaving your stereo or other electronic devices on "standby" just because you like to see the clock.
As for why it is not, mainly because some governments do not care. I am not really sure about UK, although I guess[hope] that the outrageous high taxes asked are used in some way to fight against pollution. And from the article it seems politicians are concerned (at least because that will give them votes). But of course, in the USA your[again, sorry if you parent are not from USA] government does not care too much about environment so I doubt your energy bills (electricity, oil or whatever else) includes taxes used to sustain your environment.
And, from my perspective PCs have also a great impact. I remebmer reading about a study about people leaving their monitors on all the time; that is also a real waste of energy, or to leave your PC "suspended" instead of hibernating.
I have read a lot of times in Slashdot that people say "Linux PC's do not need to be turned off", but I disagree, because there is no way I will leave my computer turned on 24/7. That is why I need a fast "turn on" button for those devices. This may sound like a bit off topic rant but, I have never been able to configure properly (of course I do not care reading howtos and modifying
Hehe, I agree with you.
... Imagine buying each one of those games at retail price
After paying $40 to play Medal of Honor I feel like all the other sequels are nothing more than upgrades... so, why pay $40 to play the same (core engine) game with slightly better graphics and 2 or 3 different missions? I think the second hand price is the fair price for that.
I have been doing the same with the football soccer games since Fifa 96
$40 FIFA Soccer '96
$40 FIFA '97
$40 FIFA '98: Road To World Cup
$40 FIFA '99
$40 FIFA 2000
$40 FIFA 2001
$40 FIFA 2002
$40 FIFA 2003
$40 FIFA Football 2004
$40 FIFA Football 2005
$40 FIFA 06
-----
$440
That's quite a lot of money... and the same can be said for Silent Hill series or Resident Evil.
I will take the freedom to go on about how they have bought quite a lot of software and managed to make them suck big.
.. queeww)
From all of them, the ones I *used* to use (before Symantec put their claws on them) were:
- Powerquest Partition Magic
- Norton Utilities (was pretty good before Symantec days)
- Norton Antivirus (agree... they where OK in the DOS days... well it was that or McAfee
Now, I have replaced those programs with Paragon Partition Manager, SysInternal misc utils, AVG Free antivirus.
As for Symantec products, Thanks but no thanks. As someone else said, they live up only on their name...
Why can't I never get into that alexa page??? I only get a connection timed out error :-/
What about this. (this idea just ocurred to me, it may be totally stupid, but...)
.FLAC, OGG and MP3 torrent in your site (of course after you have earned what you wanted.
You may write a book, a darn good book. OK?
You publish it on your page, in PDF format with mega-ultra-super-l33t DRMcryption. If someone wants to have it then it will cost $xx.yy (you put your price).
Then, you tell the people this: "My time an effort to write this book was ZZ hours + NN HeadBangs. So after I recover $KKKK.KK I will make the book available without all the hazzles(DRM). " you could even make it free, as you have earned what you thought was right.
That way, people that really want to read your book, will buy it. And, after you have earned what you wanted for that book you would not care for what people do with it.
Well, as I said, it seems feasible... maybe if you change PDF for MP3 (or a DRMd WMV) a musician could do that, sell its music via iTunes, and make a public statement, "after selling NN number of [virtual] CD's the improved version will be offered to people that buy the song" and then, you just put a
Sounds fair to me.
That seems quite interesting. My PhD supervisor made an intesresting comment about google the other day. He said that people at google must have very interesting information concerning the trends of "common knowledge", this is, before September, 11, 2001 a query on google of "september wtc" would yield totally different results, which surely will show the most "common" of things that people was searching for.
Likewise, if you searched "Katrina" in google before August, 2005, you maybe ended in the page of someone named like that.
These are basic examples of informaiton that can be obtained with the "time" factor of the google logs. Remember that time gives another dimension to your data, which lets you extract more information from it. Something among tht lines of image-pattern recognition, it is easier to match patterns from a moving image than from a static image.
Do not worry, I am sure a Trainer will be released by one of those l33t groups :) and we will be able to get 99999999 copper
I'm much more concerned about the fact that taco can't differentiate "to" and "too".
;).
You know, that is something cool of knowing more than one languange, on these cases if in doubt, I always know that "to" is for "hacia" and "too" is for "también" [spanish]. I think that would help a lot of people with other kind of words too
The moderation system serves many purposes, but perhaps the most important is to provide a user, 24 hours later viewing at Score 2 or 3 an accurate pulse on the topic at hand. If the comment is not about the new motherboard chipset, that comment at least should not be modded 'insightful', and in many cases, ought to be modded offtopic of flamebait.
The way slashdot works do not help for this, after 24 hours a story is not on the frontpage. Front page sotries are tend to live like 4 hours. People with mod points (the majority) will mod up and down only the front page stories.
In the last months I have seen stories in the front page that should not be there. Front page stories should be *really interesing* stuff, or stuff that may matter most people. I find that the Games section is more or less well managed by Zonk, I mean, I go quite often to games.slashdot and see some good stories about games.
About the comments, there are comments that are indeed off topic but nonetheless they are interesting. I have found really interesting sites/software digging on slashdot comments. And sometimes people do some offtopic plug to ask about something slightly releated to the topic but, nevertheless the information is interesting (For example a thread on IBS that I plugged on a stomach ulcer story.
Oh man, my kingdom for a mod point... I would mod you 5+ Insighful... unfortunately, I am sure your comment won't do it to 3
I completely agree with you, but again let me extend a bit.
The "people behind Bush" you are talking about are no other than big companies and huge enterprises. I mean, oil, weapons, water and food enterprises. It is the capitalism and the hunger for domination that is going to drive this world to the end.
It may seem unrelated, but multinational enterprises have each one its stake on the government, I remember a flash program in which you could see the different relationships between the most important owners and CEO's of the different companies. They are all related, and they also relate with people in the government (specially the ones related with Oil).
Wooooaaaaa, slashdot has invented Recursive Sindication!!!!!
... *head explodes*
duplicated story error overflow... warning warning, system will be halted in 5 4 3 3 3 3 3
'Digital Restrictions Management' whenever you have to explain what 'DRM' is. It's a far truer portrayal of what's going on.
No, it Digital Rights Managements is ok, why the heck would I want an ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY to manage my rights?, you see, that is why it is flawed by default, corporations think they can "manage" our rights and they are (by now) doing it without anyone complaining.
Anyway, for a better meaning of the acronym read my sign.
Yes, I agree more or less with you.
I HATE "WebForms" and all that things that try to resemble Windows like interfaces using a browser, I hate also "server based" processing, Damn, we have processors that run at 3 Ghz!!! give them some use. And third, I hate having to put my data on others places. What is all that nonsense??
Who is this Jeffrey Zeldman?
And, as Rasmus Ledorf said, ". Lots of people have been using similar things long before it became "AJAX"."
Well, although I do not work on a buisness environment, I can tell you that, the Weekly meetings with my "boss" give me shudders.
You may find an explaniation here
Can it translate:
"FUCK YOU"
Into a finger sign?
ha...ha
Man
you do not have that * thing, so I dont believe that you can see the Misterious Future.
Haha
Coming up a review of the past hours' news.
Yeah,
Slashback:Home Storage, Web Sites Judging and Home Storage Web Judging.
Slashback tonight brings some corrections, clarifications, and updates to previous Slashdot stories, including Home Network Data Storage Device, Users Judge sites in the blink of an eye, Storage networks for home devices and Web Users Judge Sites Instantly.
Web Users Judge Sites in an Instant Blink!
Posted by Zonk on Monday January 16, @12:57AM
from the judging-quick-by-its-learners dept.
Ant writes "This Nature.com news article reports on a study by Canadian researcher Gitte Lindgaard of Carleton University that potential readers can make snap decisions in just 50 milliseconds: 'Like the look of our website? Whatever the answer, the chances are you made your mind up within the first twentieth of a second. From the article: "We all know that first impressions count, but this study shows that the brain can make flash judgments almost as fast as the eye can take in the information." A study by researchers in Canada has shown that the snap decisions Internet users make about the quality of a web page have a lasting impact on their opinions...'" who has published the research in the journal Behaviour and Information Technology. Instead they found that impressions were made in the first 50 milliseconds of viewing."
whatever... this was supposed to be funny
Man, I was trying to find a +5 Informative or Interesting comment, but darn... I could only find +5 Funny, ya know, those does not give karma...
the only one I found was:
"as a funny offtopic info. apparently playboy mirrors files for eclipse, apache, freebsd, and some other stuff! coolness. I fuond this out in some other article clicking around. look"
The funny thing is that the poster specified his comment was "Funny" and "Offtopic"... and it got modified as +5 Informative haha
Yeah, it is called Plagiarism, and it happens a lot during slashdot dupes.
Shame on the plagiarist