What does voting have to do with a decent life? Do you need majority rule to push the rest of your village or city to follow orders?
Just provide a simple, un-biased (to corporate interests) law that everybody can understand and you're all set. People lived this way for centuries. For the USA I'd say that Federal rule was the beginning of the downfall.
The good news is that we don't have to answer this question (in fact we can't).
The question is: how much is this piece of technology worth to those people? The answer is: see if they'll buy it (maybe just one per village?). If the price is too high for their taste, i.e. if the comparative advantage the $100 will buy them is less than the comparative advantages of other goods those $100 might buy (food, clothes, sewing machine, farm vehicles), then they won't buy it.
I hope Negroponte & Co will produce the machine anyway (I want one). The accumulated experience and economies of scale will provide a very decent base to really build a sub-$100 notebook in the years to come.
I don't think it's that bad. If you want to publish the changed software and have it used by the public over the web, you publish your changes.
If you simply adapt some program and use it for your private work, maybe in a shell script, you don't have to publish it.
Anyway, the point of the GPL is that if you use GPLed stuff, you are encouraged or forced to publish your changes to it. If you don't like that, don't used GPLed code. You may still use programs covered by the GPL for anything you like, as long as you don't modify them.
You can still use GPL software, but if you extend it, and then either release it or deploy it on a (public?) server, you have to publish the extensions as well.
I'm not a big GPL fan, but it has its uses and users, and it's probably good to have the choice.
You can't patent GPLed code, because it's prior art. If you have patents on something, the GPL isn't a valid license, because then the code isn't free of restrictions (as the GPL requires for publishing).
One issue is that some companies use GPLed software and modify and extend it, but don't release it (the GPL only requires you to publish your modifications if you release the software). But these companies run the modified software on their webservers, so it is in use.
Now that more and more applications run simply over the web, with no publishing involved, some people (like RMS) are interested to extend the concept of Free Software to web apps.
Obviously Mr Yarro is God, because otherwise how could he tell that porn is bad, and nobody should be able to see it?
Thing is: porn is out there, so we should live with it. Yes, don't show it to your kids if you think pictures of reproducing animals will hurt them (well, during the middle ages it was normal that kids were in the bed while mom&dad had it going...). But don't judge others.
I could understand if somewhat had a problem with using eggs by just anyone. (Not that I think use of eggs is inherently wrong or dangerous. I don't know against what the donors have to be protected, but well...)
But in this case the eggs were *voluntarily* donated. So what? Isn't THAT a reason to use them? And against what evil did the guy want to protect the donors?
The bad people usually sign up first, and pay the most.
If you guys in the USA don't like it (and I don't think you should), do something. Write to your congressmen and senators. Tell them that the DMCA does lots of harm to your country.
Yes, Human Resources is probably the dumbest thing any company can have. How are *they* to know if an applicant is worth shit, without having even the slightest idea what the *job* is about ("something with computers")?
The time the bureaucracy takes is added cost and insult to everybody involved.
Hell, no! A Ringtone is maybe only part of a song, and maybe not full MP3-quality.
A download is both, and you can use any part of the song you like as a ringtone too! (well, unless your phone's software sucks, like mine does; never again a Nokia...)
Well, unfortunately there aren't that many Vorbis fans, but at least it's a good option, and increasingly used by game publishers.
The point of Open Document isn't even to get MS to open their format (they just announced it, on/. I've heard), but to have a common compatibility ground. There's no reason at all for MS not to USE ODT as an output format for MS Office.
It seems like they want an incompatible format (which is exactly the same as we have now, only that it would be documented XML, but the current format seems well understood, too), so screw them.
Among other things he says that they are going to invest even more than before in Itanic, that there are vendors out there using it and that it's the only alternative to IBM's Power mainframes.
So now you can sue somebody for *showing* you stuff that might result in death IRL? Or for telling you a fantasy tale about how people grow wings and fly?
Mainstream movies simply make it cool to wear "Vote for Pedro" shirts because it's movie merchandise, and because it makes fun of geeks, not because hot stupid cheerleaders would suddenly be attracted to geeks.
The law is: fashion is cool, even if fashion in 2004+5 entails some geekery. Next year will be different already and people will again frown in disgust at those thick glasses.
Well, so what? That's like giving artists a really shitty deal. Just like every other shitty deal out there, in the long run that'll mean that nobody signs up for those companies any more, especially with good alternative labels out there.
First of all, I want to flame you for making propaganda for the ACM from hell. Yes, some people don't want to pay money for a paper that was probably at least partly funded by taxpayers.
CML is nice (as is SML to begin with), but I assume the reason it's faster than pthreads is that it doesn't use OS-level concurrency (just like Oz or Erlang). As a result it probably can't take advantage of multiple CPUs.
By the way, CML's memory use is probably the opposite of the mentioned C++ technique: everything dynamically allocated in a garbage-collected system.
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What does voting have to do with a decent life? Do you need majority rule to push the rest of your village or city to follow orders?
Just provide a simple, un-biased (to corporate interests) law that everybody can understand and you're all set. People lived this way for centuries. For the USA I'd say that Federal rule was the beginning of the downfall.
The good news is that we don't have to answer this question (in fact we can't).
The question is: how much is this piece of technology worth to those people? The answer is: see if they'll buy it (maybe just one per village?). If the price is too high for their taste, i.e. if the comparative advantage the $100 will buy them is less than the comparative advantages of other goods those $100 might buy (food, clothes, sewing machine, farm vehicles), then they won't buy it.
I hope Negroponte & Co will produce the machine anyway (I want one). The accumulated experience and economies of scale will provide a very decent base to really build a sub-$100 notebook in the years to come.
I don't think it's that bad. If you want to publish the changed software and have it used by the public over the web, you publish your changes.
If you simply adapt some program and use it for your private work, maybe in a shell script, you don't have to publish it.
Anyway, the point of the GPL is that if you use GPLed stuff, you are encouraged or forced to publish your changes to it. If you don't like that, don't used GPLed code. You may still use programs covered by the GPL for anything you like, as long as you don't modify them.
You can still use GPL software, but if you extend it, and then either release it or deploy it on a (public?) server, you have to publish the extensions as well.
I'm not a big GPL fan, but it has its uses and users, and it's probably good to have the choice.
In what way and why?
You can't patent GPLed code, because it's prior art.
If you have patents on something, the GPL isn't a valid license, because then the code isn't free of restrictions (as the GPL requires for publishing).
One issue is that some companies use GPLed software and modify and extend it, but don't release it (the GPL only requires you to publish your modifications if you release the software). But these companies run the modified software on their webservers, so it is in use.
Now that more and more applications run simply over the web, with no publishing involved, some people (like RMS) are interested to extend the concept of Free Software to web apps.
Why patch something, when not patching something gives you free publicity?
It's much more important that MS has made security priority number 1 years ago, so we can all feel safe!
I think that depends on if it's cheaper to hack the system, or to simply pay (after all you owe the money!).
Remember, not everybody out there can just hack stuff themselves...
our new introverted overlords!
Obviously Mr Yarro is God, because otherwise how could he tell that porn is bad, and nobody should be able to see it?
Thing is: porn is out there, so we should live with it. Yes, don't show it to your kids if you think pictures of reproducing animals will hurt them (well, during the middle ages it was normal that kids were in the bed while mom&dad had it going...). But don't judge others.
It's simply pictures (and videos)!
I could understand if somewhat had a problem with using eggs by just anyone. (Not that I think use of eggs is inherently wrong or dangerous. I don't know against what the donors have to be protected, but well...)
But in this case the eggs were *voluntarily* donated. So what? Isn't THAT a reason to use them? And against what evil did the guy want to protect the donors?
The bad people usually sign up first, and pay the most.
If you guys in the USA don't like it (and I don't think you should), do something. Write to your congressmen and senators. Tell them that the DMCA does lots of harm to your country.
It might not help, but it's a beginning.
Yes, Human Resources is probably the dumbest thing any company can have. How are *they* to know if an applicant is worth shit, without having even the slightest idea what the *job* is about ("something with computers")?
The time the bureaucracy takes is added cost and insult to everybody involved.
Hell, no!
A Ringtone is maybe only part of a song, and maybe not full MP3-quality.
A download is both, and you can use any part of the song you like as a ringtone too!
(well, unless your phone's software sucks, like mine does; never again a Nokia...)
(for everybody who didn't get enough from those crappy ATRAC players and memory sticks)
Sony is dying...
Well, unfortunately there aren't that many Vorbis fans, but at least it's a good option, and increasingly used by game publishers.
/. I've heard), but to have a common compatibility ground. There's no reason at all for MS not to USE ODT as an output format for MS Office.
The point of Open Document isn't even to get MS to open their format (they just announced it, on
It seems like they want an incompatible format (which is exactly the same as we have now, only that it would be documented XML, but the current format seems well understood, too), so screw them.
There's a (German) interview with Intel's boss here, just from today:
;)
http://www.golem.de/0511/41748.html
Among other things he says that they are going to invest even more than before in Itanic, that there are vendors out there using it and that it's the only alternative to IBM's Power mainframes.
Well, I'm not buying
So now you can sue somebody for *showing* you stuff that might result in death IRL? Or for telling you a fantasy tale about how people grow wings and fly?
No, geeks haven''t become mainstream.
Mainstream movies simply make it cool to wear "Vote for Pedro" shirts because it's movie merchandise, and because it makes fun of geeks, not because hot stupid cheerleaders would suddenly be attracted to geeks.
The law is: fashion is cool, even if fashion in 2004+5 entails some geekery. Next year will be different already and people will again frown in disgust at those thick glasses.
Well, so what? That's like giving artists a really shitty deal. Just like every other shitty deal out there, in the long run that'll mean that nobody signs up for those companies any more, especially with good alternative labels out there.
Music Mafia go home!
Well, there's a huge number of Genesis games that don't suck but are (still) great fun.
;)
So that leaves some room for XBox fans
I don't own any game console because I neither have time for boring modern 3D games nor for addictive Genesis ones.
And there are annual IF competitions with lots of new games.
So it's more than just a group of hobbyists that made one new game, it's a regular community.
Hm, maybe running Niagaras instead of Xeons might save some energy, but what about manufacturing all those chips in the first place?
years after Al Gore invented the Internet, AOL invented BitTorrent?
First of all, I want to flame you for making propaganda for the ACM from hell. Yes, some people don't want to pay money for a paper that was probably at least partly funded by taxpayers.
CML is nice (as is SML to begin with), but I assume the reason it's faster than pthreads is that it doesn't use OS-level concurrency (just like Oz or Erlang). As a result it probably can't take advantage of multiple CPUs.
By the way, CML's memory use is probably the opposite of the mentioned C++ technique: everything dynamically allocated in a garbage-collected system.