Well you could also put it this way: Corporations(Don Kings) are competing with each other while some people(gamblers) are placing bets on who is going to win. The ones with nothing to bet(Mike Tysons of the world) go in the ring. My point? Get on the blue bus.
Actually the profiting is just starting. Imagine--you have a starving workforce all over the world each begging the Corporations to come so they dont starve to death. Besides the dirt-cheap labor, now you don't have to worry about petty Environmental Regulations eating up your profits. As for profiting off of poverty...what a remarkable oxymoron! I can imagine people in Africa dying(literally) to get those new Nikes!
I don't think he was saying that the paintings were made back then. Only that humans have had an innate curiosity about life from the early beginnings. See: "The Cro-Magnons form the earliest known European examples of Homo sapiens, the species to which modern humans belong. The term falls outside the usual naming conventions for early man and is used in a general sense to describe the oldest modern people in Europe. The oldest H. sapiens (i.e. anatomically modern humans) first emerged in Africa around 100,000 years ago."
How ironic, you just illustrated what he was saying about "a greater attack against intellectualism." Please keep trying to make him look stupid, you just end up looking like one of these.
Seems that dts passthrough needs libdts, but after looking around seems they changed their name to libca and it says there they are getting sued by DTS Inc. Anybody know of any way to get dts passthrough working in mythtv?
"What I think Mr. Stallman needs to do if he doesn't want to be shrugged off by most of us that make our living from our ideas is to create a structure by which we can make our ideas available for free but still get money in return. I use the GPL for my work. For doing so he should provide direction for my work, find a market for my work, sell my work, and give me a fair share of the profits from my work."
I'm not RMS, but perhaps I can share some useful ideas. First of all lets discuss the 'structure' of free software. Perhaps it will be easiest to start from proprietary software since that is what most of us are familiar with. The model is: you code the software, [intermediaries] , you sell it as a product to a customer, and profit! Before the Internet, the intermediaries were the only link between you and the customer. You have to get your software on to discs, then into a package and on WalMart shelves. This model has become dated with the Internet, as the Warez distribution model has shown in practice. Here your market is the Internet and your distribution costs are $0 (well not quite but close). But you don't see major publishers distributing through p2p and passing the savings on to you. Here we come to a big problem. Proprietary software has the notion that software is a product. While people hold on to this belief, they fail to note that in a computer, there exists this magical world where nothing is tangible and can be copied, created, and destroyed at will. The closest to this in real world you may find between your ears.
With free software, the notion of product is replaced with service. You(or somebody else) offer the software for free, but if somebody wants to do something else with it--expand it, use it in novel ways, you offer them your expertise. If your expertise is to manage this software, then do that. If it is to code then code for godsake! That is where you make your money.
Now there is a problem here also. How the hell do you find who needs your expertise?? I've had luck by knowing people through old deadend jobs that heard about some media stuff I was tinkering with and they wanted something similar. You may stumble on someone through a side project or just by applying to the right job. It is a great freedom though. There are countless numbers of projects out there that somebody wants to use in a way they can't right now. You pick what you want to do and do it for godsake!
"Each StarChase unit can fire two GPS tracking devices in case the first one misses or does not stick to the vehicle. The GPS device consists of a battery and a radio transmitter embedded in an epoxy compound. The tag affixes to the suspect's vehicle and transmits its location via satellite to police headquarters where it is superimposed over a map displayed on a computer.
The GPS tag activates at impact. It transmits the car's exact position via a wireless modem. An encrypted cellular backbone delivers continuous position updates to the StarChase server that pushes location-based information to authorized users through a password-protected Web portal. The delay between the transmission and the refresh-picture rate from the Web server is about two to three seconds. The system uses data transmission encryption to ensure security."
from our ms friends: "A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the Graphics Rendering Engine because of the way that it handles Windows Metafile (WMF) images. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by constructing a specially crafted WMF image that could potentially allow remote code execution if a user visited a malicious Web site or opened a specially crafted attachment in e-mail. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system."
in other words this is not much different than downloading and opening an email attachment and poof--all your iNteRneT ArE BeLonG t0 Us. As always, the biggest security risk is the user.
the Old Software was
crumbling away, rotting from the corruption and treachery
within. Power-hungry technocrats and wealthy bureaucrats
maneuvered and bribed their way into office, while one ambitious ex-Hobbyist plotted to destroy the Hobbyists and rule the
galaxy.
Hoping to restore virtue and the remembered glory of the
Software, the High Council of Free Software dispatched the Geeks - protectorate of justice in the galaxy - on a quest to
retrieve the lost Source Code. They believed that the
small incomprehensible object (which intensified the power of the
Code) would unite the disaffected among the people and would
destroy the corruption around them.
However, within their Free Software, the evil ex-Hobbyist had
other traitorous designs. Foreseeing that the Code would
secure his position as The Hacker, he deceived one of the...uhh Wookies! and sent him to acquire the Code. . .
I predict the next stories will be:
Karma Sutra: the final countdown
New Gawker site for Silicon Valley gossip launches: Valleygag
BFGTech GeForce 7800 GS OC AGP : Looking to stick a new gadget an old AGP slot?
no..?
Slashdot Mirror
Well you could also put it this way: Corporations(Don Kings) are competing with each other while some people(gamblers) are placing bets on who is going to win. The ones with nothing to bet(Mike Tysons of the world) go in the ring. My point? Get on the blue bus.
Actually the profiting is just starting. Imagine--you have a starving workforce all over the world each begging the Corporations to come so they dont starve to death. Besides the dirt-cheap labor, now you don't have to worry about petty Environmental Regulations eating up your profits. As for profiting off of poverty...what a remarkable oxymoron! I can imagine people in Africa dying(literally) to get those new Nikes!
LOOK! An AOLER! Everybody to the SECRET MESSAGEBOARD!
Nah, most the time they dont even come to office. Especially election years. Yawn..
"In the long run, we're all dead."
-John Maynard Keynes
You mean these jeans?
Uh-huh. Go back and read it again. And keep trawling.
Another contract for ol' Dick eh?
I'm still waiting for sex-ed..
I don't think he was saying that the paintings were made back then. Only that humans have had an innate curiosity about life from the early beginnings.
See:
"The Cro-Magnons form the earliest known European examples of Homo sapiens, the species to which modern humans belong. The term falls outside the usual naming conventions for early man and is used in a general sense to describe the oldest modern people in Europe. The oldest H. sapiens (i.e. anatomically modern humans) first emerged in Africa around 100,000 years ago."
How ironic, you just illustrated what he was saying about "a greater attack against intellectualism." Please keep trying to make him look stupid, you just end up looking like one of these.
Yeah I saw them for all of 2 seconds...time it takes for 10 million people to click a link.
Seems that dts passthrough needs libdts, but after looking around seems they changed their name to libca and it says there they are getting sued by DTS Inc. Anybody know of any way to get dts passthrough working in mythtv?
What you are referring to is Social Darwinism, not Natural Selection. What you said is about as insightful as a fruitfly.
googoo gaga? gooo!
In case you think that ars is a more credible source than cnn, heres some more along with an even more credible source. Anti-FUD is in fashion I see..
If you can afford a patent...
IMO patents only make inventors lazy. Being the first on the market is HUGE and the only incentive you should need.
I'm not RMS, but perhaps I can share some useful ideas. First of all lets discuss the 'structure' of free software. Perhaps it will be easiest to start from proprietary software since that is what most of us are familiar with. The model is: you code the software, [intermediaries] , you sell it as a product to a customer, and profit! Before the Internet, the intermediaries were the only link between you and the customer. You have to get your software on to discs, then into a package and on WalMart shelves. This model has become dated with the Internet, as the Warez distribution model has shown in practice. Here your market is the Internet and your distribution costs are $0 (well not quite but close). But you don't see major publishers distributing through p2p and passing the savings on to you. Here we come to a big problem. Proprietary software has the notion that software is a product. While people hold on to this belief, they fail to note that in a computer, there exists this magical world where nothing is tangible and can be copied, created, and destroyed at will. The closest to this in real world you may find between your ears.
With free software, the notion of product is replaced with service. You(or somebody else) offer the software for free, but if somebody wants to do something else with it--expand it, use it in novel ways, you offer them your expertise. If your expertise is to manage this software, then do that. If it is to code then code for godsake! That is where you make your money.
Now there is a problem here also. How the hell do you find who needs your expertise?? I've had luck by knowing people through old deadend jobs that heard about some media stuff I was tinkering with and they wanted something similar. You may stumble on someone through a side project or just by applying to the right job. It is a great freedom though. There are countless numbers of projects out there that somebody wants to use in a way they can't right now. You pick what you want to do and do it for godsake!
A little more information:
"Each StarChase unit can fire two GPS tracking devices in case the first one misses or does not stick to the vehicle. The GPS device consists of a battery and a radio transmitter embedded in an epoxy compound. The tag affixes to the suspect's vehicle and transmits its location via satellite to police headquarters where it is superimposed over a map displayed on a computer. The GPS tag activates at impact. It transmits the car's exact position via a wireless modem. An encrypted cellular backbone delivers continuous position updates to the StarChase server that pushes location-based information to authorized users through a password-protected Web portal. The delay between the transmission and the refresh-picture rate from the Web server is about two to three seconds. The system uses data transmission encryption to ensure security."
Too bad he tried to fix it by kicking it.
from our ms friends:
"A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the Graphics Rendering Engine because of the way that it handles Windows Metafile (WMF) images. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by constructing a specially crafted WMF image that could potentially allow remote code execution if a user visited a malicious Web site or opened a specially crafted attachment in e-mail. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system."
in other words this is not much different than downloading and opening an email attachment and poof--all your iNteRneT ArE BeLonG t0 Us. As always, the biggest security risk is the user.
a zap to stimulate your love life...oh wait this is /.
In a galaxy not so far away,
the Old Software was crumbling away, rotting from the corruption and treachery within. Power-hungry technocrats and wealthy bureaucrats maneuvered and bribed their way into office, while one ambitious ex-Hobbyist plotted to destroy the Hobbyists and rule the galaxy. Hoping to restore virtue and the remembered glory of the Software, the High Council of Free Software dispatched the Geeks - protectorate of justice in the galaxy - on a quest to retrieve the lost Source Code. They believed that the small incomprehensible object (which intensified the power of the Code) would unite the disaffected among the people and would destroy the corruption around them. However, within their Free Software, the evil ex-Hobbyist had other traitorous designs. Foreseeing that the Code would secure his position as The Hacker, he deceived one of the...uhh Wookies! and sent him to acquire the Code. . .
I predict the next stories will be:
Karma Sutra: the final countdown
New Gawker site for Silicon Valley gossip launches: Valleygag
BFGTech GeForce 7800 GS OC AGP : Looking to stick a new gadget an old AGP slot?
no..?
"Hardware must be paid for, but software is something to share."