For the only Apple system, which would be Mac OS X, there are tons of free apps, even on Apple's 3rd party software website (which is linked into the "Apple" menu on any Mac), and it's really easy to write your own apps with Cocoa.
No, at least Vodafone on Sony phones in Europe is unhackable. You can't flash the phone, you can't even delete the annoying sound and animation files from them.
Great if other providers/phones aren't as bad.
The full capability of pizza delivery...
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... must remain available to all, without restriction by religious, business, or political interests.
So let's talk about politics. What should it do with pizza? democratize it, or republicanize it?
That certainly makes them look nice, but the page is referring to HP servers. AFAIK most companies (IBM, Dell) sell servers that run perfect with Linux, but I'm interested in a supported (as in: this hardware is guaranteed to work with Linux) notebook.
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Dunno why this is rated redundant... insensitive clods.
Well, I just wanted to say that flaming does help - it informs people about the issues, and that something is NOT normal and ok in the state of whatever.
Ok, screaming and hissing isn't really helpful though.
Probably some HP manager saw how great people can hack stuff at a Hackathon, so they decided to Put People Together.
Seems like the 21st century's super-efficient leveraging communications technology suddenly isn't good enough for efficient, productive communication anymore...?
Hm, tell that to any company that sells software for digital groupware/communication/...
Ack, it's the people. But that also means it's their responsibility.
As long as people keep their deadlines (i.e. as long as they do their f***ing job) I'd say, do as you wish.
As you say, many people *choose* to work at work, because it works better for them; that's fine, some others don't. HP decided to simply not let people decide how they can best work. That's cause HP is such a great innovative company that's omnisavant.
That's why I got a Mac. I like Linux and BSD, but I don't care to spend hours hunting through web forums to find out what device really runs with 100% hardware supported.
Sorry, if any PC vendor wants me to buy something, they really need to say somewhere "this will run with the 2.6 kernel supporting all the hardware". And seriously, how hard would that be to do? Not exactly rocket science.
The reason I don't run a Linux machine is BECAUSE no vendor (known to me) sells hardware that will be guaranteed to run Linux with 100% hardware working.
So I got a Mac; it's Unix enough for me.
The lack of Linux adoption is really first and foremost a hardware issue, and as long as every single vendor out there totally ignores Linux compatibility (or at least doesn't advertise that anywhere, not even on some website), Linux won't be a reliable (as in realiably being able to buy a Linux machine) option for many people.
Full ack. I was thinking about buying either a used Thinkpad or a Lenovo sometime, but this news basically means that that product line isn't a long-term option.
Seems like I'll have to stay with Apple, or find another PC vendor that shows some *real* Linux commitment (yes, I don't know any, and I don't care to spend hours looking online for information about what machine *might* run with 80% hardware support under Linux, that's why I went Mac in winter 03).
We'll see. Right now the industry doesn't care to compete, and is still busy whining and lobbying government to introduce ever more violent measures (and surveillance etc.) to control its "bad bad" citizens.
Well, I do argue that the availability of a download system AS GOOD AS file sharing (minus the price, obviously; but it should be cheaper than CDs/DVDs, because it costs less to the distributor) would make a lot of sense.
Of course this doesn't justify downloading of illegal movies, but it's a big reason. The rest - people who wouldn't buy anyway - shouldn't be interesting to a company. If I sold software, I'd sure be angry about the kids who shared it, but I'd have to face the reality that these kids would never afford it anyway.
Killing TBP is useless for the one reason, that out there are loads more download sites. The way to fight piracy would be to sue the hundreds/thousands TBP *users* that live in EU or USA and that *could* be sued, not to take down a replaceable server with dubious means. It wouldn't make the RIAA any money, but it would deter some kids from pirating more.
I'm not that informed about US law (European here), but common sense doesn't show me the significant difference from a HTTP-link to illegal content, and a link to Bittorrent clients serving illegal content.
It's just linking. If anybody cares, they could simply connect to google or to TBP's tracker, get the linked data, and then sue whoveer is REALLY illegally redistributing copyrighted content. Awww, tooo hard for guv'ment slobs... No seriously, they should. I'm sure a fair share of file-sharing members actually reside in US and EU countries where the police COULD intervene.
This TBP thing is (a) fishy and (b) unnecessary/useless.
It's a good article, and even though file sharing isn't right by any means, that might help you simply live with the amount of illegal copying.
I hope you can continue to keep your company afloat; the piracy part is just out there, and I'm not sure how much of it would ever translate to real profits. (maybe wait till the file-sharers grow up;) )
I understand your pain, but that doesn't justify the actions taken against TBP. TBP was merely providing links, just like Google provides links to (legal and illegal!) sites.
What the police *could* do is simply connect to a BitTorrent, and look who's *really* providing the copyrighted data, secure evidence, and sue those people.
Lazy snobs they are, they instead illegally raided and took down a server that did nothing wrong.
Seriously, if you want to fight copyright, do it the right way, not by police state means.
Nobody is aiding copyright infringement. The Pirate Bay merely made available *links* to file-sharing nodes, just like Google or Yahoo does (yes, you can find illegal stuff there, too).
How come those sites have not yet been raided? Are they paying good taxes? Or did they just bribe or know the right people?
Well, if it's privately owned, and only operates in the city area, that's just terrific. As they seem to make a better offer at a lower price than the Big competitors, this is competition at its best.
They should look for further investors and share their knowledge, so that other cities could do the same (under their leadership, or as independent companies).
I agree that not everybody has the same dollar voting rights, but that's not that bad in practice. More dollars *overall* for a company only indicates which demand is more pressing, so it will try to satisfy the higher demand first.
Agreed, for the Megacorp your consumer dollars might not be of much value, but for a smaller consumer-only ISP they're real, valuable dollars.
The conclusion is the same: if there's need, build your own ISP, but that's because there's still much room for improvement even at current ISP service rates that the Big Ones aren't interested in.
The answer doesn't have to be democracy, it can just be competition. (But I'm happy to hear that a city runs an affordable ISP. I'd be interested to hear about the costs however, as I'd be afraid that taxpayers overall pay much for for such service, due to government inefficiency.)
Probably. AMD sells the Alchemy line of embedded MIPS processors (of which I'd like to see MUCH more, even though ARM is pretty cool, too).
I don't see how a 500MHz MIPS can be as fast as a 1.2GHz P3, however. As embedded CPUS they're not THAT heavy on parallel execution, I bet, and the P3 is already superscalar.
(or maybe they were comparing with a nonexistent 1.2GHz P4-celeron?)
Yes, and this side of the FSF is GREAT! I love the organizations that inform people about what fishy things are going on out there.
But I don't like the tendency to ask for more laws. Even if they should succeed in their side of the arms race, that'll only mean that the other side (that is stronger; i.e. big industry) is going to ask for and get even more, more fascist laws.
We should work to repeal whatever unjust laws are out there that harm us, not ask for more laws. If we fight with their weapons, we can only lose, because THEY have more power to influence, IMHO.
We have to show why their weapons are bad, immoral, and don't create a fair marketplace for companies, artists, and consumers to work and live in.
Asking for something like a prohibition of all DRM wouldn't be wise in that sense, plus it's completely unrealistic.
Well, I think it'd be easier and more achievable to try to lobby government to reduce stuff like the DMCA a bit.
It's going to be much harder (and arguably not even the right thing to do) to convince congress to completely BAN DRM. How do you ban something that's not even "bad" for consumers, as they don't have to buy the devices? I'd rather repeal the law that's (constitutionally or not) restricting fair use. I don't see how any company could argue in favor of the DMCA (did they? I'm not informed, but it seems to me that the whole thing was just a result of heavy bribing and lobbying, not of common sense, or even respecting the constitution), but I can see where and why they would cry out loud against any DRM ban (and IMHO they'd be right!).
I agree on your last paragraph, but still I don't see where we need *anti*-DRM legislation. We don't need more legislation, but less (i.e. repealing the DMCA).
Yes, my position is a bit unrealistic, and I wouldn't mind having anti-DRM law instead of the status quo. We'll see what happens.
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For the only Apple system, which would be Mac OS X, there are tons of free apps, even on Apple's 3rd party software website (which is linked into the "Apple" menu on any Mac), and it's really easy to write your own apps with Cocoa.
No, at least Vodafone on Sony phones in Europe is unhackable. You can't flash the phone, you can't even delete the annoying sound and animation files from them.
Great if other providers/phones aren't as bad.
... must remain available to all, without restriction by religious, business, or political interests.
So let's talk about politics. What should it do with pizza? democratize it, or republicanize it?
Well, five hours of fun, plus you get to resell it for maybe $10-15. That's not bad at all, but of course value is in the eye of the beholder.
That certainly makes them look nice, but the page is referring to HP servers. AFAIK most companies (IBM, Dell) sell servers that run perfect with Linux, but I'm interested in a supported (as in: this hardware is guaranteed to work with Linux) notebook.
Dunno why this is rated redundant... insensitive clods.
Well, I just wanted to say that flaming does help - it informs people about the issues, and that something is NOT normal and ok in the state of whatever.
Ok, screaming and hissing isn't really helpful though.
Probably some HP manager saw how great people can hack stuff at a Hackathon, so they decided to Put People Together.
Seems like the 21st century's super-efficient leveraging communications technology suddenly isn't good enough for efficient, productive communication anymore...?
Hm, tell that to any company that sells software for digital groupware/communication/...
Ack, it's the people. But that also means it's their responsibility.
As long as people keep their deadlines (i.e. as long as they do their f***ing job) I'd say, do as you wish.
As you say, many people *choose* to work at work, because it works better for them; that's fine, some others don't. HP decided to simply not let people decide how they can best work. That's cause HP is such a great innovative company that's omnisavant.
Linux might work, with the little word MAYBE.
That's why I got a Mac. I like Linux and BSD, but I don't care to spend hours hunting through web forums to find out what device really runs with 100% hardware supported.
Sorry, if any PC vendor wants me to buy something, they really need to say somewhere "this will run with the 2.6 kernel supporting all the hardware". And seriously, how hard would that be to do? Not exactly rocket science.
The reason I don't run a Linux machine is BECAUSE no vendor (known to me) sells hardware that will be guaranteed to run Linux with 100% hardware working.
So I got a Mac; it's Unix enough for me.
The lack of Linux adoption is really first and foremost a hardware issue, and as long as every single vendor out there totally ignores Linux compatibility (or at least doesn't advertise that anywhere, not even on some website), Linux won't be a reliable (as in realiably being able to buy a Linux machine) option for many people.
Full ack. I was thinking about buying either a used Thinkpad or a Lenovo sometime, but this news basically means that that product line isn't a long-term option.
Seems like I'll have to stay with Apple, or find another PC vendor that shows some *real* Linux commitment (yes, I don't know any, and I don't care to spend hours looking online for information about what machine *might* run with 80% hardware support under Linux, that's why I went Mac in winter 03).
We'll see. Right now the industry doesn't care to compete, and is still busy whining and lobbying government to introduce ever more violent measures (and surveillance etc.) to control its "bad bad" citizens.
Well, I do argue that the availability of a download system AS GOOD AS file sharing (minus the price, obviously; but it should be cheaper than CDs/DVDs, because it costs less to the distributor) would make a lot of sense.
Of course this doesn't justify downloading of illegal movies, but it's a big reason. The rest - people who wouldn't buy anyway - shouldn't be interesting to a company. If I sold software, I'd sure be angry about the kids who shared it, but I'd have to face the reality that these kids would never afford it anyway.
Killing TBP is useless for the one reason, that out there are loads more download sites. The way to fight piracy would be to sue the hundreds/thousands TBP *users* that live in EU or USA and that *could* be sued, not to take down a replaceable server with dubious means. It wouldn't make the RIAA any money, but it would deter some kids from pirating more.
I'm not that informed about US law (European here), but common sense doesn't show me the significant difference from a HTTP-link to illegal content, and a link to Bittorrent clients serving illegal content.
It's just linking. If anybody cares, they could simply connect to google or to TBP's tracker, get the linked data, and then sue whoveer is REALLY illegally redistributing copyrighted content. Awww, tooo hard for guv'ment slobs... No seriously, they should. I'm sure a fair share of file-sharing members actually reside in US and EU countries where the police COULD intervene.
This TBP thing is (a) fishy and (b) unnecessary/useless.
I don't want to justify anything illegal, but have you read Tim O'Reilly's http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2002/12/11/piracy .html ?
;) )
It's a good article, and even though file sharing isn't right by any means, that might help you simply live with the amount of illegal copying.
I hope you can continue to keep your company afloat; the piracy part is just out there, and I'm not sure how much of it would ever translate to real profits. (maybe wait till the file-sharers grow up
I understand your pain, but that doesn't justify the actions taken against TBP. TBP was merely providing links, just like Google provides links to (legal and illegal!) sites.
What the police *could* do is simply connect to a BitTorrent, and look who's *really* providing the copyrighted data, secure evidence, and sue those people.
Lazy snobs they are, they instead illegally raided and took down a server that did nothing wrong.
Seriously, if you want to fight copyright, do it the right way, not by police state means.
Nobody is aiding copyright infringement. The Pirate Bay merely made available *links* to file-sharing nodes, just like Google or Yahoo does (yes, you can find illegal stuff there, too).
How come those sites have not yet been raided? Are they paying good taxes? Or did they just bribe or know the right people?
Well, to avoid that I always have the key-layout-switcher in my Mac's menubar. Helps them when I can switch back to "normal" layout.
:)
But it's cool when they start typing and get all gibberish, and I say "I TOLD you I'm NOT using the normal layout."
Well, if it's privately owned, and only operates in the city area, that's just terrific. As they seem to make a better offer at a lower price than the Big competitors, this is competition at its best.
They should look for further investors and share their knowledge, so that other cities could do the same (under their leadership, or as independent companies).
I agree that not everybody has the same dollar voting rights, but that's not that bad in practice. More dollars *overall* for a company only indicates which demand is more pressing, so it will try to satisfy the higher demand first.
Agreed, for the Megacorp your consumer dollars might not be of much value, but for a smaller consumer-only ISP they're real, valuable dollars.
The conclusion is the same: if there's need, build your own ISP, but that's because there's still much room for improvement even at current ISP service rates that the Big Ones aren't interested in.
The answer doesn't have to be democracy, it can just be competition. (But I'm happy to hear that a city runs an affordable ISP. I'd be interested to hear about the costs however, as I'd be afraid that taxpayers overall pay much for for such service, due to government inefficiency.)
It used to be a republic. For quite some time I'd call it a democracy, with all the downsides.
Probably. AMD sells the Alchemy line of embedded MIPS processors (of which I'd like to see MUCH more, even though ARM is pretty cool, too).
I don't see how a 500MHz MIPS can be as fast as a 1.2GHz P3, however. As embedded CPUS they're not THAT heavy on parallel execution, I bet, and the P3 is already superscalar.
(or maybe they were comparing with a nonexistent 1.2GHz P4-celeron?)
Yes, and this side of the FSF is GREAT! I love the organizations that inform people about what fishy things are going on out there.
But I don't like the tendency to ask for more laws. Even if they should succeed in their side of the arms race, that'll only mean that the other side (that is stronger; i.e. big industry) is going to ask for and get even more, more fascist laws.
We should work to repeal whatever unjust laws are out there that harm us, not ask for more laws. If we fight with their weapons, we can only lose, because THEY have more power to influence, IMHO.
We have to show why their weapons are bad, immoral, and don't create a fair marketplace for companies, artists, and consumers to work and live in.
Asking for something like a prohibition of all DRM wouldn't be wise in that sense, plus it's completely unrealistic.
All IMHO.
Well, I think it'd be easier and more achievable to try to lobby government to reduce stuff like the DMCA a bit.
It's going to be much harder (and arguably not even the right thing to do) to convince congress to completely BAN DRM. How do you ban something that's not even "bad" for consumers, as they don't have to buy the devices? I'd rather repeal the law that's (constitutionally or not) restricting fair use. I don't see how any company could argue in favor of the DMCA (did they? I'm not informed, but it seems to me that the whole thing was just a result of heavy bribing and lobbying, not of common sense, or even respecting the constitution), but I can see where and why they would cry out loud against any DRM ban (and IMHO they'd be right!).
I agree on your last paragraph, but still I don't see where we need *anti*-DRM legislation. We don't need more legislation, but less (i.e. repealing the DMCA).
Yes, my position is a bit unrealistic, and I wouldn't mind having anti-DRM law instead of the status quo. We'll see what happens.