But Schwartz said that some people he's spoken to dislike it because it precludes them from using open-source software as a foundation for proprietary projects.
In other words, they want to take the free code and not give anything back.
Why is the GPL so confusing to people?
Hardware companies should be falling over themselves to adopt free software. Software sells hardware. Sun has a reputation for making good, if overpriced, hardware. Rather than figuring out a way to make a cheap SMP SPARC running Linux and make their money selling Linux support, they've decided to bash Linux, keep their prices high, and make money selling support -- of Solaris.
This is so much like the IBM OS/2 debacle that it's hard not to see Sun becoming totally irrelevant.
There is a package management system called encap that does that automagically. There is a program called "epkg" that implements it very well.
I do
cd/usr/local/src/package-n.mm ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/encap/package-n.mm make sudo bash make install cd/usr/local/encap epkg -s . -t.. -i package-n.mm ^D
Epkg also helps maintain/usr/local, and can maintain a/usr/local for binaries it can't run. I have sites with Solaris servers and mixed Solaris/Linux clients, and use the Solaris version of epkg to help maintain both trees.
I think it's the most unixy way to do package management.
Very good. Another angle would be to allow authors to block edits of their text, but to allow others to put dissenting links in it pointing their own articles. Usually there's agreement on the general facts of some topic, but after a few decimal places the specialists have a religious feud that the casual reader doesn't know or care about.
Having two trees of articles on a subject may not the Wikipedia way, but for some hot-button issues it may be a preferred alternative to chaos.
"It is advised that you uninstall GIMP 2.0 before installing GIMP 2.2"
[whine] Why can't it just replace it? [/whine]
Because stuff changes, I know. I just wish the world were perfect. There are bound to be filename differences, but at least there aren't a bunch of stray registry entries hanging around.
That's just the kind of thing that I was talking about. By framing the discussion around election-stealing paranoia, folks in the mainstream are able to dismiss us as lunatic fringe, or as partisan fanatics.
But that was damn funny. I could practically smell the cigars!
It's a start, but it will take them a while to get it debugged.
Yahoo and other services do a good job with sporting events, taking the AP, NFL/MLB/NBA and other feeds and using Java apps to turn that into dynamic box scores.
This will be no different.
One thing is that it could prove hugely profitable for Yahoo. According to CNNMoney, they plan to make it available for free, to distinguish themselves from Google. They may offer it as a premium service aimed at portable devices, but I think their first deliverable ought to be a nice app for those local radio stations.
The biggest cost to Diebold is the bad press. Their customers are bureaucrats and politicians, who generally have their finger in the wind.
Unfortunately most of the focus appears to be to accuse Diebold of trying to steer the election toward the Republicans. While that would be a bad thing of awesome proportions, I think all the talk abou it misses the point.
The real issue is having an open, verifiable ballot box, so *no one* can abuse the ballot device to affect the results of an election.
Diebold wants a closed, "certified" ballot box. I don't think they want it that way to influence elections. I think they want it that way because they see secrecy as their best road to a profit. Never mind ensuring the correctness of their programs through open review; that would cost them a business advantage (they think).
"I don't really see the point in one CPU being a simple slave to another, how would that increase the available power; or the efficiency in the utilization of it?"
Up until this thread I don't think I'd ever even written this idea down, so don't shoot me over the details.
I'll think about it a bit and get back to you. Maybe I'll work up an emulator - software's more my game:-).
Oops, my bad on the spelling. No, I'm not a lawyer.
However, in the Grokster decision, a lot of discussion went into how to apply Sony to that case. They knew that Aimster had put forth a proportionality test, but the Grokster judges finally held that there could be no arbitrary ratio of infringing to noninfringing use.
Any use is therefore enough.
I generalize that to weapons, drugs, etc., to fit P2P networks into perspective with the culture of freedom.
I think you have an axe to grind. Perhaps you are a record industry lawyer, Mr. AC?
Banning something from private networks (even publicly own private networks) is different from banning something by law. The University has apparently decided it has better uses for its bandwidth than to let you be a file server.
The Internet as a whole is driven by demand, not by fiat.
Yeah, right. Only an insignificant fraction of torrent traffic is legit.
Yup. All it takes is any.
The legal principal is this: if the {object, device, chemical, drug} has a purpose for which it is legal, then the thing should be legal.
The exceptions to this (guns, marijuana, and other things we've allowed to be banned) prove the rule. The pressure to legalize or ban something evinces arguments about its legitimate uses, and it's these arguments that are persuasive. Saying "We'll do it anyway" is unproductive.
In this case, since downloading Free software is so much more efficient with P2P, it's inappropriate to ban it even if that software is only a small percentage of the service's traffic.
Yes, that's right. But it's clustering that scales for anything from a coke machine to a supercomputer, working under the same model at the board level as on a worldwide cluster of machines.
A few years ago I thought of a different kind of twist on computer architecture that I labelled OOH.
The basic idea is that a computer could comprise many, many tiny CPUs, each with its own tiny local memory.
A given (CPU+RAM) could be designated to operate as RAM for another CPU, so the MMU/OS could balance the number of processes needing memory with those needing processors.
A (CPU+RAM) could also be labeled as a slave to others, so a multithreaded application could have the number of processors it needed.
I haven't thought about it in a while, and it's been some time since I studied architecture, so probably these ideas are hopelessly naive.
"Each flat has a surface of 287 square meters and costs 300.000 USD"
287 square meters gives a radius of about 9.5 meters; assuming some of that space has to go to stairs and other non-living area, you still get quite a bit of room.
How far does $300,000 go for a stationary 287 sqm condo in the same area?.
It wouldn't matter - I'd still be a nerd, round apartment or not.
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In other words, they want to take the free code and not give anything back.
Why is the GPL so confusing to people?
Hardware companies should be falling over themselves to adopt free software. Software sells hardware. Sun has a reputation for making good, if overpriced, hardware. Rather than figuring out a way to make a cheap SMP SPARC running Linux and make their money selling Linux support, they've decided to bash Linux, keep their prices high, and make money selling support -- of Solaris.
This is so much like the IBM OS/2 debacle that it's hard not to see Sun becoming totally irrelevant.
Symptoms include:
- Permanently crooked neck
- Both ears flattened to skull
- The inability to keep from shouting "Can you hear me?" in public.
- Frequent facial contusions and other signs of fisticuffs
- Increased risk of winding up with your Camry under a bus
"The Germans DON'T like it ...."
Sorry.
The Germans like it ... isn't the beer any good?
There is a package management system called encap that does that automagically. There is a program called "epkg" that implements it very well.
I do
Epkg also helps maintain /usr/local, and can maintain a /usr/local for binaries it can't run. I have sites with Solaris servers and mixed Solaris/Linux clients, and use the Solaris version of epkg to help maintain both trees.
I think it's the most unixy way to do package management.
Don't forget to compile in the designated driver.
>war is information itself?
Very good. Another angle would be to allow authors to block edits of their text, but to allow others to put dissenting links in it pointing their own articles. Usually there's agreement on the general facts of some topic, but after a few decimal places the specialists have a religious feud that the casual reader doesn't know or care about.
Having two trees of articles on a subject may not the Wikipedia way, but for some hot-button issues it may be a preferred alternative to chaos.
The first generation of chips with features like those are never fast enough.
A Beowulf cluster of these would be fast enough (if you could get it work at all).
Yeah, I'm a cynical, bitter shell of the promising youth I once was.
China: 1,129
USA : 2
"Don't waste your time!" ... or your money, and I agree. But then they go on to add:
" Enjoy DVD, CD, MP3 music and FM radio right away without entering OS."
In other words, ASUS thinks entering an OS is a waste of time?
"It is advised that you uninstall GIMP 2.0 before installing GIMP 2.2"
[whine]
Why can't it just replace it?
[/whine]
Because stuff changes, I know. I just wish the world were perfect. There are bound to be filename differences, but at least there aren't a bunch of stray registry entries hanging around.
You can go back on topic now.
>we can guarantee you the Presidency
That's just the kind of thing that I was talking about. By framing the discussion around election-stealing paranoia, folks in the mainstream are able to dismiss us as lunatic fringe, or as partisan fanatics.
But that was damn funny. I could practically smell the cigars!
"as all the .torrent files that go into the system must pass a moderator..."
If that's the case, then they are acting more like Kinko's or a publisher, and are responsible for the content.
If they merely provide a glorified copying machine, then they aren't responsible for the content.
>local radio
It's a start, but it will take them a while to get it debugged.
Yahoo and other services do a good job with sporting events, taking the AP, NFL/MLB/NBA and other feeds and using Java apps to turn that into dynamic box scores.
This will be no different.
One thing is that it could prove hugely profitable for Yahoo. According to CNNMoney, they plan to make it available for free, to distinguish themselves from Google. They may offer it as a premium service aimed at portable devices, but I think their first deliverable ought to be a nice app for those local radio stations.
The biggest cost to Diebold is the bad press. Their customers are bureaucrats and politicians, who generally have their finger in the wind.
Unfortunately most of the focus appears to be to accuse Diebold of trying to steer the election toward the Republicans. While that would be a bad thing of awesome proportions, I think all the talk abou it misses the point.
The real issue is having an open, verifiable ballot box, so *no one* can abuse the ballot device to affect the results of an election.
Diebold wants a closed, "certified" ballot box. I don't think they want it that way to influence elections. I think they want it that way because they see secrecy as their best road to a profit. Never mind ensuring the correctness of their programs through open review; that would cost them a business advantage (they think).
"I don't really see the point in one CPU being a simple slave to another, how would that increase the available power; or the efficiency in the utilization of it?"
:-).
Up until this thread I don't think I'd ever even written this idea down, so don't shoot me over the details.
I'll think about it a bit and get back to you. Maybe I'll work up an emulator - software's more my game
Oops, my bad on the spelling. No, I'm not a lawyer.
However, in the Grokster decision, a lot of discussion went into how to apply Sony to that case. They knew that Aimster had put forth a proportionality test, but the Grokster judges finally held that there could be no arbitrary ratio of infringing to noninfringing use.
Any use is therefore enough.
I generalize that to weapons, drugs, etc., to fit P2P networks into perspective with the culture of freedom.
I think you have an axe to grind. Perhaps you are a record industry lawyer, Mr. AC?
Banning something from private networks (even publicly own private networks) is different from banning something by law. The University has apparently decided it has better uses for its bandwidth than to let you be a file server.
The Internet as a whole is driven by demand, not by fiat.
Yup. All it takes is any.
The legal principal is this: if the {object, device, chemical, drug} has a purpose for which it is legal, then the thing should be legal.
The exceptions to this (guns, marijuana, and other things we've allowed to be banned) prove the rule. The pressure to legalize or ban something evinces arguments about its legitimate uses, and it's these arguments that are persuasive. Saying "We'll do it anyway" is unproductive.
In this case, since downloading Free software is so much more efficient with P2P, it's inappropriate to ban it even if that software is only a small percentage of the service's traffic.
Yes, that's right. But it's clustering that scales for anything from a coke machine to a supercomputer, working under the same model at the board level as on a worldwide cluster of machines.
Or it would, if it existed.
Er, no. NUMA is about multiple processors having direct access to the same memory locations. In my scheme, each (CPU+RAM) is a black box.
Does Linus count? He's from Finland.
A few years ago I thought of a different kind of twist on computer architecture that I labelled OOH.
The basic idea is that a computer could comprise many, many tiny CPUs, each with its own tiny local memory.
A given (CPU+RAM) could be designated to operate as RAM for another CPU, so the MMU/OS could balance the number of processes needing memory with those needing processors.
A (CPU+RAM) could also be labeled as a slave to others, so a multithreaded application could have the number of processors it needed.
I haven't thought about it in a while, and it's been some time since I studied architecture, so probably these ideas are hopelessly naive.
"Each flat has a surface of 287 square meters and costs 300.000 USD"
287 square meters gives a radius of about 9.5 meters; assuming some of that space has to go to stairs and other non-living area, you still get quite a bit of room.
How far does $300,000 go for a stationary 287 sqm condo in the same area?.
It wouldn't matter - I'd still be a nerd, round apartment or not.
Stop, yer killin' me! I can't breathe!
"Spam" as in the Hormel product and "spam" as in email sent to multiple recipients who didn't ask for it.
I'll never get tired of that one. If only it could be put to music...