> I submit that if you disallow those variations of grownup-peer-pressure as an excuse, most people can't really come up with > any reason at all.
Complete and utter Bull Shit(tm). Pornogrophy is addictive. To everybody? Of course not. But I know personally of lives and marriages ruined by porn addiction.
Absurd statements such as this author's sound to me like justification of their own actions.
The real way to get net neutrality is with municipal broadband. Projects like UTOPIA give consumers multiple ISP choices, so if somebody charges or blocks something they don't like, they switch. The fiber is there. MS and google both like net neutrality, and this is probably a cheaper way to get it than lobbying for b0rk legislation.
That's like saying "does anybody actually prefer ruled paper to soy sauce?" Apt and rpm are differnt things. Apt and yum are roughly comparable, apt and apt4rpm (availalble for fedora and RH) are quite comparable, but rpm is more like dpkg, not apt.
This is the stupidest license mod I've ever heard of. I can see dove-types banning military use, but the misleading title misses the real story. This bans a LOT more than military use. From TFA:
the program and its derivative work will neither be modified or executed to harm any human being nor through inaction permit any human being to be harmed
Cute reference to the the laws of robotics, but totally inappropriate in a license. The inaction part is worse than useless. It makes the license frivolous and meaningless.
And when I was in 6th grade and read "I Robot" for the first time even then I was able to see that it was full of holes. A robot wouldn't have been able to let a human drink alcohol or smoke in its presence. And now these guys decide that's good legalese for their license.
Am I violating their license if I'm an alcoholic and use their software to download directions to make a homemade beer brewery? What if my P2P download interferes with some other GPU users VOIP 911 call? Is that harm?
What if I endanger my family, job, and marriage and spend all my time downloading pr0n and copyrighted movies on GPU? Sounds harmful to me.
> RedHat can't do a thing to stop RH-based distros like CentOS and White Box.
The cool thing is, I don't think RedHat wants to. For now, anyway.
When they do start trying to kill CentOS/WhiteBox/Scientific/etc Linux, then they are truly evil. And I don't mean stopping them if they don't strip out the trademarked stuff correctly, I mean trying to kill them altogether.
Are pretty close to what you are looking for. Somewhere in the cable or the switchbox the vga output is digitized so you can attach to the kvm switch over the network. The quality is poor, and mouse synch sucks, but that shouldn't be a problem if you just want to record the output.
The client (java) is not open source, so I don't know how you would get access to the video stream, but it's probably possible.
Well duh, of course government spending on anything to create government jobs isn't going to improve the economy. Only democrats believe that.
But since similar space programs have been done before, perhaps one should (gasp!) look at past performance and ROI before setting up straw men to knock down.
Ever wonder why the US leads the world in many areas of computers, electronics, manufacturing, matereials, etc.? The space program isn't the only reason, but it's a big one.
Ever wonder what the real ROI is, or how many technologies and materials in your own home are spin-offs from space-related research?
But I guess the Bush-hating pastime is much more fun and emotionally satisfying than actually dealing with the facts. I just wouldn't expect it from a group of nerds. Oh wait. This is slashdot. Nevermind.
You would probably have to have a foreign programmer reverse engineer and write the software. I met the founders of Folio back in 1990 and actually produced a product with the DOS version. They have long touted their patented compression and indexing technology.
So don't do it in the U.S. unless you have a large legal budget or know the status of the patents and owners.
I have a test system that's a homebrew with an ancient DEC SCSI box shared between two 1U VA Linux boxes. It was running with OpenGFS for while so both boxes simultaneously mounted the partitions. We used nice ($199 ~1 year ago) sym53c8xx SCSI cards. They even have settings in the card BIOS to change the host ID and minimize bus resets for clustering. Nice.
Now we only mount one at a time using FailSafe to detect failure and handle fail-over.
If you really want reliability, though, you have to put the external storage behind an external (redundant, of course) RAID controller(s). Or just buy a Compaq cl380. They run Linux just great and everything is all set up.
For testing the software, etc., use ieee1394 because it is MUCH less expensive than SCSI.
Oracle has a modified iee1394 kernel module that would allow multiple hosts to use FireWire-attached drives just like shared SCSI. They did it for cheaply testing their cluster file system, but, hey, if it works...
I really liked Eiffel when I was in school (way back in the '80s). But after reading this article and others, I was forced to conclude that Bertrand Meyer is a complete idiot.
I wanted to use expat in a project at work inside a closed-source commercial application. I figured a quick review by the company's attorneys of the MPL would make help assuage the nervousness about using an open source library.
But the (very expensive) attorney quickly pronounced the license unworkable and told the CEO of the company that if you use open source, you have to open all the source of your applications. Last time I checked MPL wasn't GPL, but we couldn't use expat anyway. So who is right? Can an MPL library be used in a closed source app? If so, how does a lowly engineer counter expensive, but incorrect legal advice?
If there is a flaw in Sunstein's arguments, it is that the information winnowing he decries has become more and more necessary due to the sheer volume of data beamed at individual users.
Oh, that doesn't even begin to cover the huge holes in Sunstein's arguments
Admittedly, I haven't read Mr. Sunstein's book myself, but this is the second review that I have read, and they are consistent in their statements of Mr. Sunstein's views, I will assume they are both correct
For a much more logical, intelligent (although peripheral) review of Sunstein, see this George Will column.
It amazes me how someone claiming to be a constitutional scholar interprets the simple mandate "Congress shall make now law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press... " to do exactly the opposite.
Will Catholic web sites be forced to show Satanic messages? Will Gay/lesbian web sites be forced to show Ku Klux Klan viewpoints? What sane person wants give the federal government this power?
I don't know if they are still available, and it is a "wave" keyboard, but I like mine, and it is very light (much lighter than the MS keyboards I tried). Mine at work is actually a Dell OEM kbd, but I got one for home from CompUSA.
First, I fail to see how Microsoft and Cisco employees paying taxes instead of the companies doing it themselves is a tax loophoole. The employees don't have the teams of accountants and lawyers that the corps have, so the gov't most likely comes out ahead. Anyone who believes the gov't doesn't get its share from stock options either accepts liberal lies very easily, or has never exercised a stock option.
Second, the circular argument that the government is responsible for every problem, therefore any risk is a risk to the government, therefore the government should be in charge of everything, is exactly the type of assumption that makes the federal gov't the corrupt morass that it is today. All of the things you list as costs to the gov't are (arguably) un-constitutional. Astonishingly, there are those of us who believe that the federal gov't shouldn't do things that are against the constitution. If the states want to, fine.
I agree with Mr. Nader's assertion that corporations, especially large ones, have too much influence in American politics. The framers of the constitution went to great lengths to put limits on the power of the federal government (which are now largely ignored) to avoid such conflicts.
However, Mr. Nader seems to want to fix it by worsening the root of the problem. Make the federal government bigger, more powerful, and more activist (the government knows what's bad for you - how dare you invest in the stock market!). The only way to rid the federal government of corruption is to return it to its limited role as intended by the constitution
I don't claim to be as Libertarian as ESR, but I have to agree with him here.
The question isn't one of what's best, but what is moral. I don't think the it's the role of government to encourage free software. I would be acting against my values and principles if I advocated government action.
I believe Lessig has a stronger case ONLY if you believe in the philosophy of all-encompassing, ameliorative government. I don't, and believe that moving that direction is bad for the whole country in the long term. Not because I think I'm the only person smart enough to figure out software policy.
I have a Matrox Marvel G200, and it is a GREAT 2D card for Xfree. Apparently it does pretty good 3D with other less free GUI's, also.
But the new Marvel G400 is supposed to be a great 3D card, I believe the specs are open and it should be among the first with good Linux 3D support.
While Matrox has been very supportive of XFree in releasing specs for the display adapter, apparently they haven't been quite as open with the video capture (supports hardware mjpeg, yummm). So the capture driver is still in development, but coming along.
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> I submit that if you disallow those variations of grownup-peer-pressure as an excuse, most people can't really come up with > any reason at all.
Complete and utter Bull Shit(tm). Pornogrophy is addictive. To everybody? Of course not. But I know personally of lives and marriages ruined by porn addiction.
Absurd statements such as this author's sound to me like justification of their own actions.
The real way to get net neutrality is with municipal broadband. Projects like UTOPIA give consumers multiple ISP choices, so if somebody charges or blocks something they don't like, they switch. The fiber is there. MS and google both like net neutrality, and this is probably a cheaper way to get it than lobbying for b0rk legislation.
That's like saying "does anybody actually prefer ruled paper to soy sauce?" Apt and rpm are differnt things. Apt and yum are roughly comparable, apt and apt4rpm (availalble for fedora and RH) are quite comparable, but rpm is more like dpkg, not apt.
This is the stupidest license mod I've ever heard of. I can see dove-types banning military use, but the misleading title misses the real story. This bans a LOT more than military use. From TFA:
the program and its derivative work will neither be modified or executed to harm any human being nor through inaction permit any human being to be harmed
Cute reference to the the laws of robotics, but totally inappropriate in a license. The inaction part is worse than useless. It makes the license frivolous and meaningless.
And when I was in 6th grade and read "I Robot" for the first time even then I was able to see that it was full of holes. A robot wouldn't have been able to let a human drink alcohol or smoke in its presence. And now these guys decide that's good legalese for their license.
Am I violating their license if I'm an alcoholic and use their software to download directions to make a homemade beer brewery? What if my P2P download interferes with some other GPU users VOIP 911 call? Is that harm?
What if I endanger my family, job, and marriage and spend all my time downloading pr0n and copyrighted movies on GPU? Sounds harmful to me.
Idiots.
Seriously.
You haven't really lived until you've run a multiplication (by repetitive addition) manually on a cardboard computer simulator.
If I were to get back into GUI programming, I think I would go with Mono and gtk#. And Emacs. But some people actually like monodevelop, eclipse, etc.
This one's only $200 for now (normally $250) and has been around for years:
http://savefuel.ca/
This one's more expensive than that ($1200), but still less than the one in the article:
http://www.burnh2o.com/1000.html
savefuel.ca claims to have been doing this since 1991.
> RedHat can't do a thing to stop RH-based distros like CentOS and White Box.
The cool thing is, I don't think RedHat wants to. For now, anyway.
When they do start trying to kill CentOS/WhiteBox/Scientific/etc Linux, then they are truly evil. And I don't mean stopping them if they don't strip out the trademarked stuff correctly, I mean trying to kill them altogether.
It was about 5 years ago that Linux became mainstream in the data center.
My dad and I hacked a real keyboard onto the 16k model I could afford.
The rush of writing a display list interrupt to change the color pallette in the middle of the screen refresh just can't be beat.
Well, until I started playing with Linux.
I've heard of web sites where they actually include links to the articles and you can go read them for yourself.
Are pretty close to what you are looking for. Somewhere in the cable or the switchbox the vga output is digitized so you can attach to the kvm switch over the network. The quality is poor, and mouse synch sucks, but that shouldn't be a problem if you just want to record the output.
The client (java) is not open source, so I don't know how you would get access to the video stream, but it's probably possible.
Well duh, of course government spending on anything to create government jobs isn't going to improve the economy. Only democrats believe that.
But since similar space programs have been done before, perhaps one should (gasp!) look at past performance and ROI before setting up straw men to knock down.
Ever wonder why the US leads the world in many areas of computers, electronics, manufacturing, matereials, etc.? The space program isn't the only reason, but it's a big one.
Ever wonder what the real ROI is, or how many technologies and materials in your own home are spin-offs from space-related research?
http://www.floridatoday.com/space/explore/storieshttp://www.thespaceplace.com/nasa/spinoffs.html
But I guess the Bush-hating pastime is much more fun and emotionally satisfying than actually dealing with the facts. I just wouldn't expect it from a group of nerds. Oh wait. This is slashdot. Nevermind.
You would probably have to have a foreign programmer reverse engineer and write the software. I met the founders of Folio back in 1990 and actually produced a product with the DOS version. They have long touted their patented compression and indexing technology.
So don't do it in the U.S. unless you have a large legal budget or know the status of the patents and owners.
IANAL.
You've never heard of [Open]GFS, or any clustered file system (Oracle, Veritas, etc.) have you? Trust me, that doesn't mean they don't exist.
I have a test system that's a homebrew with an ancient DEC SCSI box shared between two 1U VA Linux boxes. It was running with OpenGFS for while so both boxes simultaneously mounted the partitions. We used nice ($199 ~1 year ago) sym53c8xx SCSI cards. They even have settings in the card BIOS to change the host ID and minimize bus resets for clustering. Nice.
Now we only mount one at a time using FailSafe to detect failure and handle fail-over.
If you really want reliability, though, you have to put the external storage behind an external (redundant, of course) RAID controller(s). Or just buy a Compaq cl380. They run Linux just great and everything is all set up.
For testing the software, etc., use ieee1394 because it is MUCH less expensive than SCSI.
Oracle has a modified iee1394 kernel module that would allow multiple hosts to use FireWire-attached drives just like shared SCSI. They did it for cheaply testing their cluster file system, but, hey, if it works ...
I really liked Eiffel when I was in school (way back in the '80s). But after reading this article and others, I was forced to conclude that Bertrand Meyer is a complete idiot.
Read it.
I wanted to use expat in a project at work inside a closed-source commercial application. I figured a quick review by the company's attorneys of the MPL would make help assuage the nervousness about using an open source library.
But the (very expensive) attorney quickly pronounced the license unworkable and told the CEO of the company that if you use open source, you have to open all the source of your applications. Last time I checked MPL wasn't GPL, but we couldn't use expat anyway. So who is right? Can an MPL library be used in a closed source app? If so, how does a lowly engineer counter expensive, but incorrect legal advice?
Oh, that doesn't even begin to cover the huge holes in Sunstein's arguments
Admittedly, I haven't read Mr. Sunstein's book myself, but this is the second review that I have read, and they are consistent in their statements of Mr. Sunstein's views, I will assume they are both correct
For a much more logical, intelligent (although peripheral) review of Sunstein, see this George Will column.
It amazes me how someone claiming to be a constitutional scholar interprets the simple mandate "Congress shall make now law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press ... " to do exactly the opposite.
Will Catholic web sites be forced to show Satanic messages? Will Gay/lesbian web sites be forced to show Ku Klux Klan viewpoints? What sane person wants give the federal government this power?
I don't know if they are still available, and it is a "wave" keyboard, but I like mine, and it is very light (much lighter than the MS keyboards I tried). Mine at work is actually a Dell OEM kbd, but I got one for home from CompUSA.
First, I fail to see how Microsoft and Cisco employees paying taxes instead of the companies doing it themselves is a tax loophoole. The employees don't have the teams of accountants and lawyers that the corps have, so the gov't most likely comes out ahead. Anyone who believes the gov't doesn't get its share from stock options either accepts liberal lies very easily, or has never exercised a stock option.
Second, the circular argument that the government is responsible for every problem, therefore any risk is a risk to the government, therefore the government should be in charge of everything, is exactly the type of assumption that makes the federal gov't the corrupt morass that it is today. All of the things you list as costs to the gov't are (arguably) un-constitutional. Astonishingly, there are those of us who believe that the federal gov't shouldn't do things that are against the constitution. If the states want to, fine.
I agree with Mr. Nader's assertion that corporations, especially large ones, have too much influence in American politics. The framers of the constitution went to great lengths to put limits on the power of the federal government (which are now largely ignored) to avoid such conflicts.
However, Mr. Nader seems to want to fix it by worsening the root of the problem. Make the federal government bigger, more powerful, and more activist (the government knows what's bad for you - how dare you invest in the stock market!). The only way to rid the federal government of corruption is to return it to its limited role as intended by the constitution
.I don't claim to be as Libertarian as ESR, but I have to agree with him here.
The question isn't one of what's best, but what is moral. I don't
think the it's the role of government to encourage free software. I
would be acting against my values and principles if I advocated
government action.
I believe Lessig has a stronger case ONLY if you believe in the
philosophy of all-encompassing, ameliorative government. I don't, and
believe that moving that direction is bad for the whole country in the
long term. Not because I think I'm the only person smart enough to
figure out software policy.
I have a Matrox Marvel G200, and it is a GREAT 2D card for Xfree.
Apparently it does pretty good 3D with other less free GUI's, also.
But the new Marvel G400 is supposed to be a great 3D card, I believe
the specs are open and it should be among the first with good Linux 3D
support.
While Matrox has been very supportive of XFree in releasing specs for
the display adapter, apparently they haven't been quite as open with
the video capture (supports hardware mjpeg, yummm). So the capture
driver is still in development, but coming along.
FWIW,
Barry Roberts