I think open source is a good thing, but you should have as much right to choose what to do with your own work as you do to follow any religion you want (even Scientology or the FSF).
Ha! you might not think this SCOX company stock is worthy, but coincidentally just today I got an email in my inbox from a friend with an attached image explaining me why this SCOX company has a lot of future, and how this opportunity of buying the stock so cheap is good.
And besides, I do not care about spending some thousands, as I got this friend in Nigeria who is making the paperwork to give me millions of dollars after I gave him some of my bank details.
That would in fact be illegal and unethical, Unethical? maybe, illegal? I am not sure about MySQL, as the sole owner and proprietor of the copyrighted code, MySQL AB can provide the MySQL technologies in any license they want. I guess it is like the OpenOffice.org foundation, every piece of code you give to them, you *must* waive your rights to make them the proprietors of such code.
But in fact, all they have done is start following the strict letter of the GPL, which is basically "you have to make source available when distributing binaries". .
Maybe RedHat, but again, MySQL does not need to follow the letter of the GPL, at least for MySQL database, as they are the ones who hold the copyright... YOU must comply with the GPL if you want to modify and distribute their software.
Yeah, I always giggle when I read such kind of post in slashdot referring to the differences in pays of US compared to any other country... the article is actually quite good (yes, I read it/all/, until the paragraph when he says that he is looking for young successor before he gets too old to have good judgement), and the man and factory policies also seem quite nice.
My girlfriend works as a manufacturing Warehouse Manager for an international company in Mexico, she has a Master in Manufacturing and her pay is something like US $1,000 a month. She tells me about the conditions in the factory and the amounts workers get pay. To be payed US $300 a month for 6 day-8 hours/day work would seem ortrageous here in the UK, but for the living expenses in Mexico it is quite good. It might be wise to see comparisons such as the Big Mac Index if you want to know how good or bad you would live with certain salary.
But, as someone else stated once, Slashdot is the place where I come for tech related news, if I wanted politics news I would go to BBC/politics, if I wanted entertainment news I would go to eonline or yahoo enterntainment...
And as the sibling poster said, I am not in the USA, and I might not give a shit of what happens there (I do, because I understand the implications of the USA actions)...
Whether you care about politics or not, it is "stuff that matters." The thing is that, it is stuff that does not matter *to me*...
Of course, as another poster said once, this is mr. Malda site, and he can post whatever he wants... but of course we can also rant as much as we like =o)
Yeah, I've got to agree with you. I think that is one of the worst advices I have read on slashdot... A hard disk died on me a month after the S.M.A.R.T. thing started to annoy... it was on a laptop. Fortunately, I bought a bigger driver and passed all the information before the defective drive went dead.
While I agree that the S.M.A.R.T. heuristics might be a bit sensitive but if you consider what is at stake (yeah... your valuable pr0n collection), then I guess its better safe than sorry.
And, comparing it to the ink cartdriges? I am sure *your life* (or work...) does not depend on printing or not that pr0n picture...
I think the main problem is not having *someone* to blame, but it has to be a wealthy corporation (i.e. a corporation which can be sued and sucked money from).
The main difference is that if you employ Open Source solutions it might almost always be the case that the program consists on hiring some Unix/Linux developers and admins who are supposed to know what they are doing. If something fails, the most you can do is screw these poor guys; OTOH if you hire a Microsoft(TM) Solution(R) IBM(R) or even SUN(R) or RedHat(R) then you certainly can *try* to get some money from these guys when something fails...
I am not saying that such a thing is fine... I guess it is the way companies work after all...
Now that opposition is starting to form, and now that judges are starting to reject even the ex parte motions, awareness may be growing among members of the judiciary.
Dear Mr. Beckerman, on this I have always had a question. Have you received communications (either email or any other form) from other lawyers (from either USA or foreign countries) concerning the RIAA lawsuits? specifically expressing their interest on being informed about the "other side of the coin". I just wonder how strong is the awareness among the bar respecting the RIAA practices and what is the general consensus among barristers.
I know this questions surely are not easy to answer, and some are even ethically impossible, but a simple yes or no (to the communications) will suffice for me.
Although I am not from the USA I follow quite close the RIAA abuse cases and as I have a very good friend who is a Lawyer himself (although, being a lawyer from Mexico, I know legislation is not completely the same... although international copyright law is) has been giving me his insightful comments.
I want to use this message to thank you for your effort. On this corporation-power hungry capitalism, it is nice to see that there are still some lawyers which conserve the real value of their profession and who value their oath (do you guys have to make an oath to defend the law, etc etc, etc.. after graduating?, in Mexico, lawyers must).
Oh, and sorry for posting this as a simple slashdot comment, maybe a personal message would be more appropriate but hey, information wants to be free and all that:).
Your hypothetical software developer is like the urbanite lost in the desert. If he knew how to take advantage of the situation, then he COULD do something about it. All those people who download and actually use the software - not the 99% who download it, play with it and then delete, but the people for whom it is actually useful - those people are potential customers for version 2.0.
Pretty much A solution to software piracy is software as a service. As a software developer I hate PHP, WebForms, AJAX, etc etc and think that lots of programs are better off the Web (as standalone applications), however I started to deploy all my software as web portals and charge subscription fees for it.
If you look at it, maybe it is one of the reasons why Microsoft and other big companies are planning to do that, no conspiracy or whatever.
Me, I'd rather not *be* a monster, even if pretending to be one every now and then is relaxing.
Then you should stop playing any videogame... stop playing that pill-eating ghost-eating monster game! or what about GTA uh? or any of the 2000000000 games about killing uh? or what about Zelda! not only you are an animal but an animal that kills other creatures!
So, again, violence is good, but if you put some kind of "sex" then it is bad bad!!
But still having a black background with bright letters is a rest for the eyes. I read a lot of PDFs in the computer and the average PC usage is 10 hours a day. After I switched to a dark background-light foreground screen my eyes have really appreciated that.
Just try it by yourself, open in a tab the black google page advertised here and in another the normal google page, and cycle through them to see how the black background feels easier for the eyes...
Equally perplexing is the accounting of iframes. Let's look at someone like . Now it's hard to say, but I don't think I've ever visited their website. Have you? But according to Alexa, they have nearly a 1% share of the internet. I'd tend not to believe it... but they have iframes on zillions of web pages and counting those sure would account for this huge rankin
I think the editor left out some kind of link... that or slashcode ate their URL.
And yeah I also think Alexa is broken... although for me it is completely meaningless. I believe a better ranking would be possible if Google, Yahoo and the likes published statistics of "most clicked page" or the like... at least the statistics would be OS independent.
Are they saying that I can't resell a wrench (or shoe) that I just bought? It's MINE! .
You can! But only if you sell it at a higher or equal price! Nice way to kill second hand market uh? count down until MAFIAA industry uses this kind of tactics for their benefits???...
Meanwhile somewhere in a basement all the BSD developers are rolling on the floor laughing at these bunch of guys discussing for the licensing issues...
Everyone exept Theo, as he is trying to start a discussion within the BSD guys.
and how, please tell, do these "CUSTOMERS" help the project? they don't contribute money (it's free), and they don't contribute source-code (they're not programmers), so besides the ego-stroking that follows having a larger market-share than $PROPIETARY_COMPANY_X, why would a non-commercial open-source project try to please *them* instead of, y'know, people who do give something back to it?
Then these Open Source programmers should keep their code and programs to themselves and not let others use it... What these customers are providing is exactly that, FEEDBACK. Of course usually the Open Source programmers seem to be allergic to such a thing. I agree with parent poster, just take a look at VirtualDub vs Jashaska, the last one is a fucking joke.
Of course I understand that it is impossible to crate a program with the complexity and maturity of Photoshop, this program is backed up by Adobe, a company that can pay thousands in HCI research, patents and who can have a complete army of people/LISTENING/ to their customers needs. While in the GIMP you might only have a bunch of people that give their spare time to code whatever they think is the next cool thing for the GIMP.
But who is/really/ to blame?, it is not the GIMP programmers, but the GIMP [/Linux/OpenOffice, etc] fanboys who are trying to convince other people that GIMP can be used to replace Photoshop... while that is false.
'Some gamers speculate that moving the console between vertical and horizontal positions while a disc is spinning inside could cause the scratching.
USA, the land of the obvious... is it *really* necessary to add a warning label of "DO NOT SHAKE THE CONSOLE WHILE PLAYING"??? I wonder what happens if you move your DVD player while it is playing a movie? or what about that Blender! whoooo! lets grab and shake the fucking thing while making a tasty tomato salsa!!
Now, aside of that, I am completely on the side of the guy, if the disks gets scratched after 5 hours of normal useage, then I hope they sue the hell out of Microsoft (or Sony or any other company). Sure, they are all exigent against personal backups, but then they should be held accountable for these kinds of actions. And, the fact that Microsoft has a replacement program for/their/ games does not matter as it is independent of the/other/ games or DVDs (does the X360 plays film DVDs?)...
I switched from Mandrake to Ubuntu last year, so I can tell you what the difference is: Ubuntu works
So Mandr[ake/iva] has still the same problems than before? I used to be a Mandrake fan from the 5.0 times. Unfortunately is became so unstable at each next iteration that I had to look for some other distro. I went through Red Hat, Fedora Core and Suse but now I have settled with Ubuntu as well. As you have stated it/just works/ and is easy to maintain plus the majority of solutions to hardware or software problems can be looked at ubuntu forums, hence the community side of it is really nice.
Of course I agree that all of these features could not been achieved if it was not because of the "millionare" backup Ubuntu has... but then again I have to wonder how a one-man team can achieve something that some (Novell, RedHat, Linspire, etc etc) with much more resources cannot. My answer? WILL.
I think HP is eating their lunch (HP is heavily discounting their new Santa Rosa dvx5 series),
I'll take this chance to comment about the HP laptop power Jack problem(which seems is quite common), I've just recently experienced it in my Pavillion ZV5000, unfortunately this has lead me to look after buying another notebook. The question is could anyone recommend me a notebook that does not suck. I do NOT need anything powerful as I only intend to use it for standard office tasks (plus a bit of Eclipse Java programming which can be fixed with 2 GB of RAM). But I would like a not-very big screen (15 in would be nice) as I ended hating my 3KG laptop I've got now. I have been watching the Lenovos and Dells but I would like to know if someone has any recommendation.
Oh! and bonus points if it is Linux friendly... I really would like to have XP+Ubuntu on this machine (without having to buy an external CardBus wireless adaptor).
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I think open source is a good thing, but you should have as much right to choose what to do with your own work as you do to follow any religion you want (even Scientology or the FSF).
But Scientology is not a religion...
Ha! you might not think this SCOX company stock is worthy, but coincidentally just today I got an email in my inbox from a friend with an attached image explaining me why this SCOX company has a lot of future, and how this opportunity of buying the stock so cheap is good.
And besides, I do not care about spending some thousands, as I got this friend in Nigeria who is making the paperwork to give me millions of dollars after I gave him some of my bank details.
That would in fact be illegal and unethical,
Unethical? maybe, illegal? I am not sure about MySQL, as the sole owner and proprietor of the copyrighted code, MySQL AB can provide the MySQL technologies in any license they want. I guess it is like the OpenOffice.org foundation, every piece of code you give to them, you *must* waive your rights to make them the proprietors of such code.
But in fact, all they have done is start following the strict letter of the GPL, which is basically "you have to make source available when distributing binaries". .
Maybe RedHat, but again, MySQL does not need to follow the letter of the GPL, at least for MySQL database, as they are the ones who hold the copyright... YOU must comply with the GPL if you want to modify and distribute their software.
Do you see how it works?
Yeah, I always giggle when I read such kind of post in slashdot referring to the differences in pays of US compared to any other country... the article is actually quite good (yes, I read it /all/, until the paragraph when he says that he is looking for young successor before he gets too old to have good judgement), and the man and factory policies also seem quite nice.
My girlfriend works as a manufacturing Warehouse Manager for an international company in Mexico, she has a Master in Manufacturing and her pay is something like US $1,000 a month. She tells me about the conditions in the factory and the amounts workers get pay. To be payed US $300 a month for 6 day-8 hours/day work would seem ortrageous here in the UK, but for the living expenses in Mexico it is quite good. It might be wise to see comparisons such as the Big Mac Index if you want to know how good or bad you would live with certain salary.
The only reason this was a valid tactic for SCO was because the company was on the way out anyway - there was nothing to loose.
But I guess Novell could also loose the hounds and then the community will lose a lot of their value... I guess we will all get loose...
But, as someone else stated once, Slashdot is the place where I come for tech related news, if I wanted politics news I would go to BBC/politics, if I wanted entertainment news I would go to eonline or yahoo enterntainment...
And as the sibling poster said, I am not in the USA, and I might not give a shit of what happens there (I do, because I understand the implications of the USA actions)...
Whether you care about politics or not, it is "stuff that matters."
The thing is that, it is stuff that does not matter *to me*...
Of course, as another poster said once, this is mr. Malda site, and he can post whatever he wants... but of course we can also rant as much as we like =o)
Yeah, I've got to agree with you. I think that is one of the worst advices I have read on slashdot... A hard disk died on me a month after the S.M.A.R.T. thing started to annoy... it was on a laptop. Fortunately, I bought a bigger driver and passed all the information before the defective drive went dead.
While I agree that the S.M.A.R.T. heuristics might be a bit sensitive but if you consider what is at stake (yeah... your valuable pr0n collection), then I guess its better safe than sorry.
And, comparing it to the ink cartdriges? I am sure *your life* (or work...) does not depend on printing or not that pr0n picture...
I think the main problem is not having *someone* to blame, but it has to be a wealthy corporation (i.e. a corporation which can be sued and sucked money from).
The main difference is that if you employ Open Source solutions it might almost always be the case that the program consists on hiring some Unix/Linux developers and admins who are supposed to know what they are doing. If something fails, the most you can do is screw these poor guys; OTOH if you hire a Microsoft(TM) Solution(R) IBM(R) or even SUN(R) or RedHat(R) then you certainly can *try* to get some money from these guys when something fails...
I am not saying that such a thing is fine... I guess it is the way companies work after all...
So they want their cross? fine, just use any of the available alternative symbols!
I would love to see how the fanatic catholic population of the USA react after getting help from the Red Crescent .
In all seriously... it does shows you to what extent corporations have no "soul" or common sense... shees guys it is the red cross.
Now that opposition is starting to form, and now that judges are starting to reject even the ex parte motions, awareness may be growing among members of the judiciary.
:).
Dear Mr. Beckerman, on this I have always had a question. Have you received communications (either email or any other form) from other lawyers (from either USA or foreign countries) concerning the RIAA lawsuits? specifically expressing their interest on being informed about the "other side of the coin". I just wonder how strong is the awareness among the bar respecting the RIAA practices and what is the general consensus among barristers.
I know this questions surely are not easy to answer, and some are even ethically impossible, but a simple yes or no (to the communications) will suffice for me.
Although I am not from the USA I follow quite close the RIAA abuse cases and as I have a very good friend who is a Lawyer himself (although, being a lawyer from Mexico, I know legislation is not completely the same... although international copyright law is) has been giving me his insightful comments.
I want to use this message to thank you for your effort. On this corporation-power hungry capitalism, it is nice to see that there are still some lawyers which conserve the real value of their profession and who value their oath (do you guys have to make an oath to defend the law, etc etc, etc.. after graduating?, in Mexico, lawyers must).
Oh, and sorry for posting this as a simple slashdot comment, maybe a personal message would be more appropriate but hey, information wants to be free and all that
Your hypothetical software developer is like the urbanite lost in the desert. If he knew how to take advantage of the situation, then he COULD do something about it. All those people who download and actually use the software - not the 99% who download it, play with it and then delete, but the people for whom it is actually useful - those people are potential customers for version 2.0.
Pretty much A solution to software piracy is software as a service. As a software developer I hate PHP, WebForms, AJAX, etc etc and think that lots of programs are better off the Web (as standalone applications), however I started to deploy all my software as web portals and charge subscription fees for it.
If you look at it, maybe it is one of the reasons why Microsoft and other big companies are planning to do that, no conspiracy or whatever.
Hey guy, give me back my innocence!...
And my job
Ubunutu is easy to install on a Mac.
So what?, they are taling about Ubuntu.
Me, I'd rather not *be* a monster, even if pretending to be one every now and then is relaxing.
Then you should stop playing any videogame... stop playing that pill-eating ghost-eating monster game! or what about GTA uh? or any of the 2000000000 games about killing uh? or what about Zelda! not only you are an animal but an animal that kills other creatures!
So, again, violence is good, but if you put some kind of "sex" then it is bad bad!!
typical American
But still having a black background with bright letters is a rest for the eyes. I read a lot of PDFs in the computer and the average PC usage is 10 hours a day. After I switched to a dark background-light foreground screen my eyes have really appreciated that.
Just try it by yourself, open in a tab the black google page advertised here and in another the normal google page, and cycle through them to see how the black background feels easier for the eyes...
Breasts!
Which in the case of the OLPC it seems the problem *has* been solved!
"Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important."
from wikiquotes...
Equally perplexing is the accounting of iframes. Let's look at someone like . Now it's hard to say, but I don't think I've ever visited their website. Have you? But according to Alexa, they have nearly a 1% share of the internet. I'd tend not to believe it... but they have iframes on zillions of web pages and counting those sure would account for this huge rankin
I think the editor left out some kind of link... that or slashcode ate their URL.
And yeah I also think Alexa is broken... although for me it is completely meaningless. I believe a better ranking would be possible if Google, Yahoo and the likes published statistics of "most clicked page" or the like... at least the statistics would be OS independent.
Are they saying that I can't resell a wrench (or shoe) that I just bought? It's MINE! .
...
You can! But only if you sell it at a higher or equal price! Nice way to kill second hand market uh? count down until MAFIAA industry uses this kind of tactics for their benefits???
Yes, I am that paranoid...
Meanwhile somewhere in a basement all the BSD developers are rolling on the floor laughing at these bunch of guys discussing for the licensing issues...
Everyone exept Theo, as he is trying to start a discussion within the BSD guys.
Sorry, could someone explain me where does this meme comes from? I think I lost that /. episode...
and how, please tell, do these "CUSTOMERS" help the project? they don't contribute money (it's free), and they don't contribute source-code (they're not programmers), so besides the ego-stroking that follows having a larger market-share than $PROPIETARY_COMPANY_X, why would a non-commercial open-source project try to please *them* instead of, y'know, people who do give something back to it?
/LISTENING/ to their customers needs. While in the GIMP you might only have a bunch of people that give their spare time to code whatever they think is the next cool thing for the GIMP.
/really/ to blame?, it is not the GIMP programmers, but the GIMP [/Linux/OpenOffice, etc] fanboys who are trying to convince other people that GIMP can be used to replace Photoshop... while that is false.
Then these Open Source programmers should keep their code and programs to themselves and not let others use it... What these customers are providing is exactly that, FEEDBACK. Of course usually the Open Source programmers seem to be allergic to such a thing. I agree with parent poster, just take a look at VirtualDub vs Jashaska, the last one is a fucking joke.
Of course I understand that it is impossible to crate a program with the complexity and maturity of Photoshop, this program is backed up by Adobe, a company that can pay thousands in HCI research, patents and who can have a complete army of people
But who is
'Some gamers speculate that moving the console between vertical and horizontal positions while a disc is spinning inside could cause the scratching.
/their/ games does not matter as it is independent of the /other/ games or DVDs (does the X360 plays film DVDs?)...
USA, the land of the obvious... is it *really* necessary to add a warning label of "DO NOT SHAKE THE CONSOLE WHILE PLAYING"??? I wonder what happens if you move your DVD player while it is playing a movie? or what about that Blender! whoooo! lets grab and shake the fucking thing while making a tasty tomato salsa!!
Now, aside of that, I am completely on the side of the guy, if the disks gets scratched after 5 hours of normal useage, then I hope they sue the hell out of Microsoft (or Sony or any other company). Sure, they are all exigent against personal backups, but then they should be held accountable for these kinds of actions. And, the fact that Microsoft has a replacement program for
I switched from Mandrake to Ubuntu last year, so I can tell you what the difference is: Ubuntu works
/just works/ and is easy to maintain plus the majority of solutions to hardware or software problems can be looked at ubuntu forums, hence the community side of it is really nice.
So Mandr[ake/iva] has still the same problems than before? I used to be a Mandrake fan from the 5.0 times. Unfortunately is became so unstable at each next iteration that I had to look for some other distro. I went through Red Hat, Fedora Core and Suse but now I have settled with Ubuntu as well. As you have stated it
Of course I agree that all of these features could not been achieved if it was not because of the "millionare" backup Ubuntu has... but then again I have to wonder how a one-man team can achieve something that some (Novell, RedHat, Linspire, etc etc) with much more resources cannot. My answer? WILL.
I think HP is eating their lunch (HP is heavily discounting their new Santa Rosa dvx5 series),
I'll take this chance to comment about the HP laptop power Jack problem(which seems is quite common), I've just recently experienced it in my Pavillion ZV5000, unfortunately this has lead me to look after buying another notebook. The question is could anyone recommend me a notebook that does not suck. I do NOT need anything powerful as I only intend to use it for standard office tasks (plus a bit of Eclipse Java programming which can be fixed with 2 GB of RAM). But I would like a not-very big screen (15 in would be nice) as I ended hating my 3KG laptop I've got now. I have been watching the Lenovos and Dells but I would like to know if someone has any recommendation.
Oh! and bonus points if it is Linux friendly... I really would like to have XP+Ubuntu on this machine (without having to buy an external CardBus wireless adaptor).