I'm just amused the first thing you think of in relation to the Pentagon and this supposed "intelligence" wiki and community is Al' Qaeda. Or is it Al' Qaeda in Iraq(tm)?;)
This sort of attitude is exactly what annoys me the most
I know that's why I use it.
The rest of your post hardly deserves a response. Its not like commercial businesses care about downstream "users", they only seem to be interested in getting more customers, which is why DRM is so important to them. They want to make each customer pay for each copy of software for each machine, real or virtual, and often for each CPU. So what about all the poor "users" and children?/whine/
Its not much of a community if everyone in the community doesn't care about everyone's concerns. That's why the GPLv3 has been put up online for several months for the community to debate its many new features. Its Free Software in action, and all you can do is complain.
So whatcha gunna do? Write your own license? Post logical constructive criticism of the GPLv3 draft? Or just sit there and complain? You can't stop it, but you're welcome to be part of it.
I just love how a simple idea can scare so many businesses that they feel the need to post articles about how aweful it would be, if such an idea got out..
The DRM thing is a perfect example. It mentions no US codes anywhere in the GPLv3. I don't know what you've been reading. But it does say one thing. If you distribute the code you have to give your customers the right to modify that code and execute it on the device it was distributed with. That's a slight difference to what you are saying and its significant.
It I distribute a Linux based X-Box, for example, I would be forced to give away the keys to allow other DRM protected kernels to run on it, or not use Linux. If Linux adopted the GPLv3.
Its a big if, but even the possibility scares idiots into broadcasting their ignorance for the world to see. I love it!
Does the GPLv2 control how you think and speak? I'm sure the GPLv3 will do the same thing. And I'll be sure to bookmark any interesting posts/articles on this topic to use as ammo in these forums later. You can count on it.
Yes, but you get these for free for OSS. What you pay for is hand holding support and on-site support and "security" support. Those things that require engineers on staff to fix.
Anyway, I as the GP pointed out this whole article is either intentionally biased or misinformed to the extent that the author's competence must be called into question.
What's the point? Why recommend education when "the right" only want salvation?
Education costs too much, its socialist even. Its much cheaper to just lower minimum wage and health care requirements so businesses can hire more employees to make up for the lost productivity and focus. We need to find ways of keeping everyone busy, not find ways to automate us all out of jobs. What would we do with a planet full of college grads and no work for them to do? We'd starve, that's what.
To me, Greenpeace seems about as trustworthy as PETA at the moment.
That's a given.
What I'm curious about is why so many people put so much trust in Apple, HP and Dell to be environmentally friendly. And why Greenpeace is focusing on laptops instead of other much more serious environmental concerns, such as transportation, power, etc.
I think its been proven notebooks do not cause global warming.
A CD's distortion is just out of audible limits. Ever heard 22kHz sound? Tons of distortion.
Perhaps the lack of that digital distortion makes a record sound more warm and full. I know most DJs wont be mixing on CDs anytime soon. Now had they made CDs that were 24bit/192kHz instead of 16/44.1, then maybe some of your points would be more valid.
I would expect CDs to remain the most popular for convenience reasons, but until they have unencrypted unDRMed HiRes audio discs out, there's nothing that can compete with the sound of vinyl. Even its distortion is irreproducible by the CD. But maybe a cheap little DSP chip and a $5 preamp algorithm could do it convincingly.. I'd love to hear that.
hard to rip vinyl at 54x, hard to rip CD at 24bit/192KHz or better resolution
It might be possible that both are valuable products that give consumers choice to enjoy music in their own way and help them experience the suttle differences of tone and emotion. Also both digital and analog audio have their pros and cons, I'm beginning to learn how to enjoy the cons, like the various types of distortion you get from recording or encoding with different codecs. It is what it is, but all of it is fun.
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i admire our troops noisey destructive heroism, personally, to each his own..
Soon your kids will be able to get in line for their trip to LEO. Before you know it we might even have Disney Moon.
But, honestly, I doubt we'll get much further than this. Economics being what they are..
I don't see any practical reason for the ISS's existence.. its expensive and dangerous and its getting us nowhere fast.
Let me know when y'all want to have an honest and open discussion about space, until then there's The Disclosure Project and missing NASA moon landing videos to keep me entertained. I mean, how the fuck can NASA misplace the moon landing tapes? NASA, y'know, those guys responsible for litereally petabytes of data. Yet our most important moment in history somehow forgotten..
And the band plays on.. does anyone else feel like we're sinking?
Only if you are a business and forced to obey the laws in your country, such as copyright. Of course, you can always choose to ignore the law and pirate for profit..
I believe this is the business model a lot of slashdotters choose:
Nope. Technology is not business, its science. In order to provide the stable solution I mentioned I would have to spend my time evaluating teh technology in a production environment. Lots of things look nice on paper in the business world, but us techs cannot rely on theory to get our jobs done.
In theory Windows XP is the most secure and stable OS ever. See the problem now? Its not as simple as CIOs fantasize it should be. We don't have the time to do both our job and theirs and expect that our job gets done right. If you want it done right, let us do our jobs. That's what we've been training for these last 10+ years.
To put it another way, I'd like to see this CIO do my job before they tell me how to do my job. If they can't maybe they should keep their trap shut and focus on their job. I rely on them to be competent and not make mistakes, to keep our company profitable. Also I might have a wealth of information they would be interested in, if they could humble themselves enough to hang out with us hippie techs.
Yes we can be rude and disrespectful. Whatever gets the job done. But you'll find it takes a lot to offend us, a lot more than it takes to offend a CIO. Call us names, make fun of our lack of social skills, do whatever you want to do around us (even in the nude if you like), just remember who keeps the servers running.
In other words there's a reason we have managers and individual contributors. Managers should be of more intelligence than their individual contributors and able to look beyond their unhappy frown to understand why the daily stress their job dumps on them might somehow make them unhappy. The alternative is the individual contributor finds a new job, possible as a manager, simply to avoid stress.
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I'm just amused the first thing you think of in relation to the Pentagon and this supposed "intelligence" wiki and community is Al' Qaeda. Or is it Al' Qaeda in Iraq(tm)? ;)
hehe
Actually, you're right. It mentions specific US codes, which would require a new license if they change the law..
so, yeah, good point!
After reading your post again, I agree, you're right. Sorry for posting flames, just venting here. :P
This sort of attitude is exactly what annoys me the most
/whine/
I know that's why I use it.
The rest of your post hardly deserves a response. Its not like commercial businesses care about downstream "users", they only seem to be interested in getting more customers, which is why DRM is so important to them. They want to make each customer pay for each copy of software for each machine, real or virtual, and often for each CPU. So what about all the poor "users" and children?
Its not much of a community if everyone in the community doesn't care about everyone's concerns. That's why the GPLv3 has been put up online for several months for the community to debate its many new features. Its Free Software in action, and all you can do is complain.
So whatcha gunna do? Write your own license? Post logical constructive criticism of the GPLv3 draft? Or just sit there and complain? You can't stop it, but you're welcome to be part of it.
Differ all you want, its just claiming that the DMCA does not apply here.
I guess it takes a lawyer or a Linux Zealot to understand a software license these days.
Possibly.
My money says GPLv3 will be here to stay as well. Better get used to it. You can't stop us. You can only complain.
I just love how a simple idea can scare so many businesses that they feel the need to post articles about how aweful it would be, if such an idea got out..
The DRM thing is a perfect example. It mentions no US codes anywhere in the GPLv3. I don't know what you've been reading. But it does say one thing. If you distribute the code you have to give your customers the right to modify that code and execute it on the device it was distributed with. That's a slight difference to what you are saying and its significant.
It I distribute a Linux based X-Box, for example, I would be forced to give away the keys to allow other DRM protected kernels to run on it, or not use Linux. If Linux adopted the GPLv3.
Its a big if, but even the possibility scares idiots into broadcasting their ignorance for the world to see. I love it!
Does the GPLv2 control how you think and speak? I'm sure the GPLv3 will do the same thing. And I'll be sure to bookmark any interesting posts/articles on this topic to use as ammo in these forums later. You can count on it.
One must also ask themselves if it is worth giving up your privacy to the spying the Microsoft will be implementing.
You can go ahead and talk to yourself all you want. I'm going to do something about this and use Linux!
Oh, so if I write a book I'm a ripoff artist because someone already thought of putting pen to paper centuries before I was born?
Care to give any dictionaries credit for your use of their words?
Its sounds, to me, like you don't want to run Windows.
We'll use a ZFS backup server that's hooked up to a few racks of fully automated dvd burners.
It's science. You can't argue with that.
You can, but without using the scientific method it might be a hard arguement to win.
Yes, but you get these for free for OSS. What you pay for is hand holding support and on-site support and "security" support. Those things that require engineers on staff to fix.
Anyway, I as the GP pointed out this whole article is either intentionally biased or misinformed to the extent that the author's competence must be called into question.
What's the point? Why recommend education when "the right" only want salvation?
Education costs too much, its socialist even. Its much cheaper to just lower minimum wage and health care requirements so businesses can hire more employees to make up for the lost productivity and focus. We need to find ways of keeping everyone busy, not find ways to automate us all out of jobs. What would we do with a planet full of college grads and no work for them to do? We'd starve, that's what.
nobody ever heard a sound sampled at 22 kHz? That's odd, I could have sworn..
To me, Greenpeace seems about as trustworthy as PETA at the moment.
That's a given.
What I'm curious about is why so many people put so much trust in Apple, HP and Dell to be environmentally friendly. And why Greenpeace is focusing on laptops instead of other much more serious environmental concerns, such as transportation, power, etc.
I think its been proven notebooks do not cause global warming.
A CD's distortion is just out of audible limits. Ever heard 22kHz sound? Tons of distortion.
Perhaps the lack of that digital distortion makes a record sound more warm and full. I know most DJs wont be mixing on CDs anytime soon. Now had they made CDs that were 24bit/192kHz instead of 16/44.1, then maybe some of your points would be more valid.
I would expect CDs to remain the most popular for convenience reasons, but until they have unencrypted unDRMed HiRes audio discs out, there's nothing that can compete with the sound of vinyl. Even its distortion is irreproducible by the CD. But maybe a cheap little DSP chip and a $5 preamp algorithm could do it convincingly.. I'd love to hear that.
hard to rip vinyl at 54x, hard to rip CD at 24bit/192KHz or better resolution
It might be possible that both are valuable products that give consumers choice to enjoy music in their own way and help them experience the suttle differences of tone and emotion. Also both digital and analog audio have their pros and cons, I'm beginning to learn how to enjoy the cons, like the various types of distortion you get from recording or encoding with different codecs. It is what it is, but all of it is fun.
i admire our troops noisey destructive heroism, personally, to each his own..
Soon your kids will be able to get in line for their trip to LEO. Before you know it we might even have Disney Moon.
But, honestly, I doubt we'll get much further than this. Economics being what they are..
I don't see any practical reason for the ISS's existence.. its expensive and dangerous and its getting us nowhere fast.
Let me know when y'all want to have an honest and open discussion about space, until then there's The Disclosure Project and missing NASA moon landing videos to keep me entertained. I mean, how the fuck can NASA misplace the moon landing tapes? NASA, y'know, those guys responsible for litereally petabytes of data. Yet our most important moment in history somehow forgotten..
And the band plays on.. does anyone else feel like we're sinking?
Only if you are a business and forced to obey the laws in your country, such as copyright. Of course, you can always choose to ignore the law and pirate for profit..
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I believe this is the business model a lot of slashdotters choose:
1. Pirate!!1!
2.
3. Profit!
I like, "Slashdot Recommended Intel Quad Core Ready Desktop Mobos from Abit."
The middle class is the only thing protecting the rich from the poor. They need it. You think they want to work?
I don't think permanent control is possible.
Nope. Technology is not business, its science. In order to provide the stable solution I mentioned I would have to spend my time evaluating teh technology in a production environment. Lots of things look nice on paper in the business world, but us techs cannot rely on theory to get our jobs done.
In theory Windows XP is the most secure and stable OS ever. See the problem now? Its not as simple as CIOs fantasize it should be. We don't have the time to do both our job and theirs and expect that our job gets done right. If you want it done right, let us do our jobs. That's what we've been training for these last 10+ years.
To put it another way, I'd like to see this CIO do my job before they tell me how to do my job. If they can't maybe they should keep their trap shut and focus on their job. I rely on them to be competent and not make mistakes, to keep our company profitable. Also I might have a wealth of information they would be interested in, if they could humble themselves enough to hang out with us hippie techs.
Yes we can be rude and disrespectful. Whatever gets the job done. But you'll find it takes a lot to offend us, a lot more than it takes to offend a CIO. Call us names, make fun of our lack of social skills, do whatever you want to do around us (even in the nude if you like), just remember who keeps the servers running.
In other words there's a reason we have managers and individual contributors. Managers should be of more intelligence than their individual contributors and able to look beyond their unhappy frown to understand why the daily stress their job dumps on them might somehow make them unhappy. The alternative is the individual contributor finds a new job, possible as a manager, simply to avoid stress.