What image verification are you talking about?? is it on slashdot?? I ask you because I read before someone complaning about some kind of verification on slashdot when posting but, I do not find it, I just reply to and post as usual.
As I am from a Latin American country, you wont believe how much I enjoy reading and listening those Americans crying about the value of their dollar and how things are getting more and more expensive for them.
Now they are starting to look what they have been provoking in all these years to us the poor Latin underdeveloped countries.
I just can say I am really not sorry for them, I hope you can learn from this and your dollar go down until it is worth a tiny cent of Pound!
but the truth is that you should know better than just looking at clock speeds to measure the performance of a machine.
So what is wrong with a Mac running at 1GHz or a PC running at 3 GH??? if your PC has shitty components (motherboard, graphics card, memory, HARD DISK, etc) it will be shitty compared to a Mac with great hardware...
I think th Megaherz wars are long since over, since AMD started branding their processors with numbers-like GHZ (like the 2500+ or 2400, etc) or with actual "names" like XP, etc.
Like someone said in another thread, there is not really much difference between a 2GHz and 2.3 Ghz processor...
I am a programmer although actually I have stoped programming for quite some time (because I am making my PhD now) but, I think there is a really easy way of using GPL'd code in a closed source project, how?
APIs.
Ok, imagine I want to use some GPL'd source code program with some other propietary code I have written, well, what I will do is create a "distribution" CD with my program, in which I will put the GPL'd code, and I will add some API's which will be de MODIFICATION to the GPL'd program, of course those APIs would be open, and I will also add my Closed Source (i.e. commercial) software, which, uses the API I created to call the other program.
If the FSF, GPL's guys get really pissing then instead of an API I would use a TCP socket communication protocol, or whatever is needed, of course I WILL have to donate/open the code for the communication mechanism, but, I will be able to have my closed source program intact because they are 2 different programs.
I do not know why any company has thought about it...
Just a comment about SciFi, I remember reading a book of Isaac Asimov where he explained the difference (at least in his point of view) about Science Fiction and the SciFi movie genre.
Science fiction used to be more rigid in the science terms and depending on the author, the technologies in the movies where based in actual "feasible" situations (that is, they had some scientific background).
When Hollywood adopted the genre and adapted it to the screen, they started filtering all those elements of "explaniation" (because it is not possible to tell a 300 page story in 2 hours of film) and some others totally ingored the Science element of the SciFi.
Its is not only that it contains such severe security issues but that they are KNOWN as have been fixed!
This is what the software industry and versioning is becoming, just ship crappy software first and then provide patches, god, as someone said in other post imagine of other that was an accepted behaviour for other professions???
Patient: Doctor, my appeniccitis operation was not ok, I think my bowel is going out in this hole... can you please add a patch to fix my body? Doctor: Oh, sorry I am affraid I can't didnt you read the EULA?? the operation came "AS IS" without any implied warranty
Well yes, actually I think what I meant was not CS != Programmer
but CS > Programmer
The sad thing is I think in US almost most of the CS programmes are focused in just programming... and as someone else said, CS are becoming just raw workers (code manufacturers?)
Remember when you started to pay cable TV to get rid of the commercials?? remember how did you feel when your cable company started to put commercials in their channels? Remember when then it started to provide a Pay Per View option to see movies and shows without commercials??.
Google will continue to get marketshare and people credibility, after that, it will be easier to make whichever move he wants. Note to/. Google fanboys mods: I am not telling it is good nor bad, it is economies, and that's all
PSAP: Public Safety Answering Point LERG: Local Exchange Routing Guide CLEC: Competitive local exchange carrier RBOC: Regional Bell operating companies LATA: Local access and transport area DSL: Digital Subscriber Line IP : Internet Protocol NOC: Network Operations Center.
If you want programmers get Computer Software Engineers,
Computer Science grads is people that will develop the compilers/programs/technologies etc where you will program.
Computer Software Engineer is the one that sees all the Rel. DB, OOP, Software life cycles, Programming Languages, etc etc etc.
And, in the other side, the bad thing about US education is that it is REALLY narrow scoped.
You see... I made a Computer Development System Enginer, (a University BS equivalent degree in Mexico) and after that I am now in UK making a PhD in AI.
If I had studied something similar in US (an engineering programme) there is NO WAY I could apply to this CS heavy program in the UK.
But, in Mexico (and UK and other countries I guess) the Bachellors degree is not as short sighted and closed as in the US, so we are more "flexible".
So sad, that it may be close to the reality of providing Computer Programmer Technicians instead of Graduates.
I hope you understand the difference because in Mexico, we have 4 leveles:
1. Technician. Which you can acquire entering a technichal High School. 2. Licenciature (or however you can translate Licenciatura). Which is similar to the Bachellors Degree in the US, it is what you study in the University. 3. Master. The 2 year plus thesis specialization you make after being graduate 4. Doctor. The grade you acquire after you make your PhD research plus thesis.
So, as you can see, people Universities from the US are giving degrees with knowledge between 1 and 2.
man, In Mexico you can hire an excellent programmer for $2,000 or $3,000 a month... and that is considered really well paid! do you see the difference? do you see how overpayed are people from United States?
Or easier... I may not even need to "decrypt" the information on the card, it is enough to "sniff" the conversation between the card and the till and then when someone asks my card I will send the information I sniffed from yours.
Imagine if I told GP "Give me $50, and I will sing you a song", and then I started singing "Fuck u, Fuck u, FUck u, Fuck u".... what is the difference if BEFORE he payed he told me to sing? well, at the end both of u won't have lost anything, AND if he liked my song he would have to pay me, and if he did not like it he wont... mmm wait, that does not make sense in reallity.
you know what is better... I've been modded reduntant, offtopic, etc. Not that I care too much but anyway, thanks for the translation, I just wanted to test what would happen =oP
You see, that is the exact reason why it is really god that Microsoft does not have a monopoly in a market, if you see, Microsoft NEEDED to create a REALLY better product in order to compete, and of course the other 2 companies will have to do it.
I really would like that [SomeDistro]Linux/Apple/Windows could be in the same situation in the PC Operating System market, that is, if Microsoft didnt have the monopoly power they have now... that way they would really NEED to improve their product.
Can you Imagine a Microsoft monopoly in Game Consoles? every new year they will sell you a brand new *next generation* console with improvements similar to the Win98-WinME differences...
I can just say... almost there, almost there... [I hope]
"software piracy will continue to expand as the Internet grows"
Sure, but, what about the IPv6? I guess when Internet 2 becomes broadly used (for whatever purposes you want) it will be really easy to download/distribute illegal software...
Software piracy came to stay, as long as software continues to be Information it WILL be copied and as long as people do not create different ways to use software there will be people get a free copy to use it.
That is why companies are trying to get into web services, or as Google, Opera and other companies are looking for/different/ ways of getting revenues.
On the other side, if companies do not want their software to be pirated, they should opt to give it away... maybe there is still another way they can get money. *That* will make the next millionaire.
Este es uno más de las migraciones que se darán por parte de los países Latinoamericános tercermundistas (no deseo ser despectivo, ya que yo soy de México).
Esta migración de Windows hacia Linux en estos países (por parte del GOBIERNO) se dará por varias razones, primero, porque los países desearán gastar/menos/ en software, o símplemente obtener _más valor por su dinero_ (por mi parte creo que de eso se trata Linux, ya que aunque el TCO sea igual o superior, a largo plazo Linux ofrece mejor valos que cualquier plataforma propietaria).
Por otro lado, los gobiernos también desearán desligarse de Windows dado que es una atadura hacia el gobierno Estadounidense (you do not have that word do you?), aunque directamente Microsoft no está ligado al gobierno, indiréctamente el poseer licencias de software de dicha compañía promuebe la dependencia económica del país hacia Estados Unidos.
Por último, los gobiernos comenzarán a utilizar el Software Libre dentro de sus sistemas por la naturaleza del mismo, esto es, el capital invertido en el Software Libre es un capital que va (o puede ir) diréctamente hacia las personas que desarrollan el software e igualmente las tecnologías generadas quedan directamente a disposición de TODOS los ciudadanos. Así, un gobierno puede aportar fondos para el desarrollo de algún producto que consideren necesario (simpelemente a manera de/bounty/) y ver obtener los programas necesarios.
Esta última es más una razón que yo he pensado. Como ciudadano yo preferiría que mis impuestos se utilizaran para subsidiar el Software Libre en lugar de para subsidiar a una empresa Estadounidense. Y es preciso señalar que entre los ciudadanos Latinoamericanos hay un resentimiento hacia el gobierno Norteamericano en cuestión económica (bueno... y en otras cuestiones que no vienen al tema).
Por mi parte, me parece excelente que Cuba haya optador por Linux, aunque como han escrito otras personas, en Cuba no era posible "Comprar" Windows, pero estoy seguro que el uso de Linux en Cuba generará una fuerte ayuda al desarrollo del mismo software, dado que Cuba tiene personas y mentes muy, muy capaces.
Además, debo expresar que me gustaría mucho que mi país (México) siguiera la misma ruta, aunque desafortunádamente Miguel de Icaza no supo plantear la situación (E-Mexico) argumentando en pro de los Costos como la ventaja de Linux sobre el software propietario.
Eso es todo, espero que no les moleste mi comentario en Español, pero, lo consideré pertienente.
So, what if I create a movie, and make a Computer program which plays it? (like a self contained EXE or BIN??) is it patentable? =o).
Man this way it would be possible to patent every movie!!! imagine DRMed movies embeded in executable files. The file contains the player as well as the movie data and to see it you have to write your password. That way, they would be pattentable no??
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What image verification are you talking about?? is it on slashdot?? I ask you because I read before someone complaning about some kind of verification on slashdot when posting but, I do not find it, I just reply to and post as usual.
As I am from a Latin American country, you wont
believe how much I enjoy reading and listening those Americans crying about the value of their dollar and how things are getting more and more expensive for them.
Now they are starting to look what they have been provoking in all these years to us the poor Latin underdeveloped countries.
I just can say I am really not sorry for them, I hope you can learn from this and your dollar go down until it is worth a tiny cent of Pound!
Huevos
but the truth is that you should know better than just looking at clock speeds to measure the performance of a machine.
So what is wrong with a Mac running at 1GHz or a PC running at 3 GH??? if your PC has shitty components (motherboard, graphics card, memory, HARD DISK, etc) it will be shitty compared to a Mac with great hardware...
I think th Megaherz wars are long since over, since AMD started branding their processors with numbers-like GHZ (like the 2500+ or 2400, etc) or with actual "names" like XP, etc.
Like someone said in another thread, there is not really much difference between a 2GHz and 2.3 Ghz processor...
Just to let you know, this is a repetitive Troll I have seen it in several other /. discussions so, do not botter in replying.
/. links for the other messages in different news?
/. awful and unuseful search engine.
If someone else knows, can he/she post the
I am sure I've seen it before but I can not find it with
I am a programmer although actually I have stoped programming for quite some time (because I am making my PhD now) but, I think there is a really easy way of using GPL'd code in a closed source project, how?
APIs.
Ok, imagine I want to use some GPL'd source code program with some other propietary code I have written, well, what I will do is create a "distribution" CD with my program, in which I will put the GPL'd code, and I will add some API's which will be de MODIFICATION to the GPL'd program, of course those APIs would be open, and I will also add my Closed Source (i.e. commercial) software, which, uses the API I created to call the other program.
If the FSF, GPL's guys get really pissing then instead of an API I would use a TCP socket communication protocol, or whatever is needed, of course I WILL have to donate/open the code for the communication mechanism, but, I will be able to have my closed source program intact because they are 2 different programs.
I do not know why any company has thought about it...
Just a comment about SciFi, I remember reading a book of Isaac Asimov where he explained the difference (at least in his point of view) about Science Fiction and the SciFi movie genre.
Science fiction used to be more rigid in the science terms and depending on the author, the technologies in the movies where based in actual "feasible" situations (that is, they had some scientific background).
When Hollywood adopted the genre and adapted it to the screen, they started filtering all those elements of "explaniation" (because it is not possible to tell a 300 page story in 2 hours of film) and some others totally ingored the Science element of the SciFi.
Well, I think I got an answer for the 1st one:
A) In the column with 4 buildings (top to bottom): 1 2 3 4
B Column with 3 buildings: 1 3 2 4 (number 2 corresponds to A column)
C Column with 2 buildings(bottom to top) : 1 4 3 2
(3 corresponds to B Column)
Mmm... the other numbers you can put whatever you want.
Its is not only that it contains such severe security issues but that they are KNOWN as have been fixed!
This is what the software industry and versioning is becoming, just ship crappy software first and then provide patches, god, as someone said in other post imagine of other that was an accepted behaviour for other professions???
Patient: Doctor, my appeniccitis operation was not ok, I think my bowel is going out in this hole... can you please add a patch to fix my body?
Doctor: Oh, sorry I am affraid I can't didnt you read the EULA?? the operation came "AS IS" without any implied warranty
Well yes, actually I think what I meant was not
CS != Programmer
but
CS > Programmer
The sad thing is I think in US almost most of the CS programmes are focused in just programming... and as someone else said, CS are becoming just raw workers (code manufacturers?)
everyone wins.
.
/. Google fanboys mods: I am not telling it is good nor bad, it is economies, and that's all
Remember when you started to pay cable TV to get rid of the commercials?? remember how did you feel when your cable company started to put commercials in their channels? Remember when then it started to provide a Pay Per View option to see movies and shows without commercials??
Google will continue to get marketshare and people credibility, after that, it will be easier to make whichever move he wants. Note to
PSAP: Public Safety Answering Point
LERG: Local Exchange Routing Guide
CLEC: Competitive local exchange carrier
RBOC: Regional Bell operating companies
LATA: Local access and transport area
DSL: Digital Subscriber Line
IP : Internet Protocol
NOC: Network Operations Center.
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CS != Programmer
If you want programmers get Computer Software Engineers,
Computer Science grads is people that will develop the compilers/programs/technologies etc where you will program.
Computer Software Engineer is the one that sees all the Rel. DB, OOP, Software life cycles, Programming Languages, etc etc etc.
And, in the other side, the bad thing about US education is that it is REALLY narrow scoped.
You see... I made a Computer Development System Enginer, (a University BS equivalent degree in Mexico) and after that I am now in UK making a PhD in AI.
If I had studied something similar in US (an engineering programme) there is NO WAY I could apply to this CS heavy program in the UK.
But, in Mexico (and UK and other countries I guess) the Bachellors degree is not as short sighted and closed as in the US, so we are more "flexible".
So sad, that it may be close to the reality of providing Computer Programmer Technicians instead of Graduates.
I hope you understand the difference because in Mexico, we have 4 leveles:
1. Technician. Which you can acquire entering a technichal High School.
2. Licenciature (or however you can translate Licenciatura). Which is similar to the Bachellors Degree in the US, it is what you study in the University.
3. Master. The 2 year plus thesis specialization you make after being graduate
4. Doctor. The grade you acquire after you make your PhD research plus thesis.
So, as you can see, people Universities from the US are giving degrees with knowledge between 1 and 2.
Of course it is a good job... no matter if you win or lose the case you always earn $$$$$$$.
Pretty clever uh?
man, In Mexico you can hire an excellent programmer for $2,000 or $3,000 a month... and that is considered really well paid! do you see the difference? do you see how overpayed are people from United States?
I pwn u!
Biologists?
SPEAK SLASHDOTTERS!!!
How many of you work at GOOGLE!
Or easier... I may not even need to "decrypt" the information on the card, it is enough to "sniff" the conversation between the card and the till and then when someone asks my card I will send the information I sniffed from yours.
It could be as simple as that...
Totally correct,
Imagine if I told GP "Give me $50, and I will sing you a song", and then I started singing "Fuck u, Fuck u, FUck u, Fuck u".... what is the difference if BEFORE he payed he told me to sing? well, at the end both of u won't have lost anything, AND if he liked my song he would have to pay me, and if he did not like it he wont...
mmm wait, that does not make sense in reallity.
you know what is better... I've been modded reduntant, offtopic, etc. Not that I care too much but anyway, thanks for the translation, I just wanted to test what would happen =oP
You see, that is the exact reason why it is really god that Microsoft does not have a monopoly in a market, if you see, Microsoft NEEDED to create a REALLY better product in order to compete, and of course the other 2 companies will have to do it.
I really would like that [SomeDistro]Linux/Apple/Windows could be in the same situation in the PC Operating System market, that is, if Microsoft didnt have the monopoly power they have now... that way they would really NEED to improve their product.
Can you Imagine a Microsoft monopoly in Game Consoles? every new year they will sell you a brand new *next generation* console with improvements similar to the Win98-WinME differences...
I can just say... almost there, almost there... [I hope]
"software piracy will continue to expand as the Internet grows"
/different/ ways of getting revenues.
Sure, but, what about the IPv6? I guess when Internet 2 becomes broadly used (for whatever purposes you want) it will be really easy to download/distribute illegal software...
Software piracy came to stay, as long as software continues to be Information it WILL be copied and as long as people do not create different ways to use software there will be people get a free copy to use it.
That is why companies are trying to get into web services, or as Google, Opera and other companies are looking for
On the other side, if companies do not want their software to be pirated, they should opt to give it away... maybe there is still another way they can get money. *That* will make the next millionaire.
Este es uno más de las migraciones que se darán por parte de los países Latinoamericános tercermundistas (no deseo ser despectivo, ya que yo soy de México).
/menos/ en software, o símplemente obtener _más valor por su dinero_ (por mi parte creo que de eso se trata Linux, ya que aunque el TCO sea igual o superior, a largo plazo Linux ofrece mejor valos que cualquier plataforma propietaria).
/bounty/) y ver obtener los programas necesarios.
Esta migración de Windows hacia Linux en estos países (por parte del GOBIERNO) se dará por varias razones, primero, porque los países desearán gastar
Por otro lado, los gobiernos también desearán desligarse de Windows dado que es una atadura hacia el gobierno Estadounidense (you do not have that word do you?), aunque directamente Microsoft no está ligado al gobierno, indiréctamente el poseer licencias de software de dicha compañía promuebe la dependencia económica del país hacia Estados Unidos.
Por último, los gobiernos comenzarán a utilizar el Software Libre dentro de sus sistemas por la naturaleza del mismo, esto es, el capital invertido en el Software Libre es un capital que va (o puede ir) diréctamente hacia las personas que desarrollan el software e igualmente las tecnologías generadas quedan directamente a disposición de TODOS los ciudadanos. Así, un gobierno puede aportar fondos para el desarrollo de algún producto que consideren necesario (simpelemente a manera de
Esta última es más una razón que yo he pensado. Como ciudadano yo preferiría que mis impuestos se utilizaran para subsidiar el Software Libre en lugar de para subsidiar a una empresa Estadounidense. Y es preciso señalar que entre los ciudadanos Latinoamericanos hay un resentimiento hacia el gobierno Norteamericano en cuestión económica (bueno... y en otras cuestiones que no vienen al tema).
Por mi parte, me parece excelente que Cuba haya optador por Linux, aunque como han escrito otras personas, en Cuba no era posible "Comprar" Windows, pero estoy seguro que el uso de Linux en Cuba generará una fuerte ayuda al desarrollo del mismo software, dado que Cuba tiene personas y mentes muy, muy capaces.
Además, debo expresar que me gustaría mucho que mi país (México) siguiera la misma ruta, aunque desafortunádamente Miguel de Icaza no supo plantear la situación (E-Mexico) argumentando en pro de los Costos como la ventaja de Linux sobre el software propietario.
Eso es todo, espero que no les moleste mi comentario en Español, pero, lo consideré pertienente.
So, what if I create a movie, and make a Computer program which plays it? (like a self contained EXE or BIN??) is it patentable? =o).
Man this way it would be possible to patent every movie!!! imagine DRMed movies embeded in executable files. The file contains the player as well as the movie data and to see it you have to write your password. That way, they would be pattentable no??