Basically, they're just paying the developer to work on it full time. Whereas before the dev. had to rely on licensing CUPS to other companies and sub-contracting for work, now he is paid by apple.
As long as the project stays GPL this really isn't any different than how RedHat / IBM / Oracle etc. pay some kernel developers full time.
The only thing is Apple can also now make changes to cups that only they can use.
Did no one else look at this thing and instantly think "Tony Hawk"?
Come on - medium sensor board, that's light and wireless, detects weight and pressure both?
Slap a shock-absorber attachment on the bottom so that it doesn't snap in half when you come down on it and you have an instant virtual skateboard. Hell you could even make a velcro attachment to the WiiMote so you could strap it to your leg to mimic pushing off.
You're talking about a "public domain dedication", which itself is a license. There is not much difference at all between the public domain dedication and the BSD license other than the wording of the legalese.
Even from your link:
"Some scholars of copyright law, including Lawrence Lessig, agree that it is difficult to put works in the public domain, but not impossible. The Creative Commons website, for example, has a public domain dedication form which produces an electronic receipt which is meant to act as legal backing for the dedication. Even if it is ruled that a work cannot be released into the public domain, a thorough dedication such as this one also releases all rights, so that the author retains only a free-use license. Lessig, however, argues that another licensing option, such as the Creative Commons Attribution-Only license, is a safer choice, and that click-through agreements are insufficient to put works in the public domain."
The problem is legally there is no such thing as a "public domain" work created by an individual. If you created it, it is copyright automatically, period. No one can use it without your permission (AKA a license). The BSD license is basically a license that says "do whatever you want with this code, and I take no legal responsibility for it's use". That is pretty much as "public domain" as a license can be. And it's 3 simple letters so it's simple to apply:P
"Public domain" only really applies to works with expired copyright, or works created by public institutions like the U.S. Government.
The author wanted money just to enable the "bookmarks" feature so you could save your connection profiles and select them from a list in the statusbar. I said screw that and I just wrote my own damn program to do it. Took me all of a few hours to get it working the way I wanted. Only functional difference between the two programs is that RDC Menu is more polished (graphics, icons, language translations, etc)....
I dunno, when you look at the trivial utilities that people pay $20 or more for, it makes Microsoft products seem pretty damn cheap! That is, if you compare lines of code...
Depends on your priorities in life I guess, but IMO two hours of my time is worth much more to me than $20.
Amazes me sometimes that someone will spend hours of time to save $20, or drive halfway across town to save 10 cents a gallon on gas (a couple of bucks at most for a tank). Then the same people won't take the five minutes it takes to check your tire pressure each month, which costs them way more in the long run.
Am I the only one who cringes when someone says they have released a totally new wireless stack in a point release? Does everyone forget the VM switch fiasco already?
I really really regret the switchover to this whole new "accelerated" kernel dev. phase. Since this is just a point release, but has a totally new wireless stack, how do I know that my next OS update won't just break my whole networking setup? Argh.
It's worse for porn since it's much more addictive than violence and has zero benefits for anyone save for the wallets of people in the industry.
Er... how does this line not also fit television, movies, music, dancing, playing soccer....
The whole point of entertainment is to entertain the person doing it. It doesn't have to have "benefits for anyone". What benefit do you get from me watching a movie? None. So why do you think you should get a benefit to me jacking off to some smut? How are the two any different other than ways I choose to spend my time? It's no skin off your back.
The government does not belong in people's bedrooms. Period. If someone gets off watching a donkey piss on a chicks head while she fucks a banana, and someone else wants to make money by making a website about it - as long as the chick is doing it of her own accord, more power to them.
It's not my cup of tea but who cares? Neither is needlepoint but I don't put up a hissy fit to outlaw quilting conventions.
Legislation like this helps no one. If the people who were after the BSDM porn were "mentally unbalenced" then they're still going to find something to set them off anyway. All it is is another way to crack down on people who don't fall into society's "norms".
How is a debugger or print statements going to help you when a PRODUCTION piece of code crashes?
You can't run your code under a debugger 24/7, unless you want to incur a huge performance penalty.
Sure if the core dumps and your system is set up to take advantage of it, you can usually open it in a debugger and see the fault condition - but you normally can't reverse it backwards to the original cause, all you have is the fault state. All previous states are lost.
This is what the parent is talking about, in order to do anything you are talking about you have to run the program AGAIN in debug mode (or "debug log mode" or whatever) and hope to re-create the error condition.
This is not the case with mainframes. When they dump they dump the entire machine state, and it is often reverseable to a finite number of instructions.
There has not yet been anyone to figure out how to SIM unlock the phone. All those stores you are talking about just unlock the phone to use as a glorified PDA.
When it came to breathing life into characters such as Bumblebee, the protective Autobot, ILM needed to think backwards to fill in the blanks (and the junk in the drunk) between finished robot sketches and real-life GM cars.
The map data has nothing to do with the routes. All Navteq sells to Google and Mapquest is a massive amount of vector-data that maps streets in geo-spatial coordinates. It is up to Google and Mapquest to determine the shortest path between any two points using this data.
It is more difficult than it sounds. Discovering the shortest path in a weighted map is a simple, well known algorithm that any third year computer science major would have studied. The problem is in the weighting. Things such as speed limits, number of traffic lights, road conditions, speed limits of intersecting roads, ourly traffic patterns - all of these affect the amount of time one route takes over another.
Aside from the fact that it is impossible to be up-to-date with this data on a constant basis, some of it changes based on the time of day of your planned trip. For example your morning "shortcut" to work may not be any faster on the weekend when the main route is not as congested.
I think in general, all the mapping sites to a remarkable job given the data they have access to. It is highly unlikely ny one site is "more accurate" than the other picking routes all of the time. What is probably happening is the place where you are going has some factors that have changed recently, or have not been acounted for, in one site vs. the other. You would for certain be able to find counter-examples that make the other site look better at other places in the country.
Why can I sit here and type this on a laptop that is faster than a top-of-the-line 1U rack from 1 year ago, and yet data centers are still loaded with power-sucking 3 year old machines by the thousands?
What you need in a data center is a) Performance, and b) Reliability. Performance is already covered - every year laptop speeds match the top speeds of the previous year's desktop machines. So you're at most a year behind the times. As for reliability - anyone who works with data centers knows that reliability does not come from reliable hardwaye - it comes from redundancy. If you had a data centre built from laptops in a blade-style configuration, where any one could be swapped out at any time, you would have awesome reliability at a tiny fraction of the power useage.
Throw in some external iSCSI or ATAOE storage vaults, and you're good to go.
There is no such thing as a "default" for an IP. It is different for every network.
And how often do you log into your home router? For me it is maybe once every 3 months or less.
Once again -in order for a CSRF attack to succeed the user has to be logged into the attack vector AND has to be accessing the exploit site simultaneously. And the attacker has to already know what kind of box you have, and what address it is on. Too many variables to mount any kind os useful attack, unless you already have a target at the site.
And this is why - in order to forge the request you have to know the internal IP or host you're trying to exploit in order to construct the CSRF attack vector.
So this attack ONLY works if you already have some knowledge of the companies internal network structure.
While occasional use of video games is harmless and may even help with some disorders like autism, doctors said in extreme cases it can interfere with day-to-day necessities like working, showering or even eating.
So can watching TV.
Or jacking off
Or mowing the lawn.
This definition is so broad it's useless. Anyone can be addicted to anything. Why the need for special categories?
In your alternative reality, where software is not a useful industry in its own right, how do you deal with the generality of hardware and the economics of software development to make sure that code actually gets written to make the hardware useful?
We,ll, it is pretty simple if you just think about it for a second.
If Apple or Dell just sold white box hardware without any softwar eat all, their business would plummet. Why? Because without software , hardware is useless. Similarly, without software, hardware is useless.
The difference between the two, is hardware ins a tangible good that has actual value. Software is a virtual good that has virtual value.
Soon, the buying and selling of virtual goods is going to go the way of the do-do bird. It will do this because it has to. DRM, patents, etc. are all trying to put the genie back in the bottle, but it is way too late for that.
What is going to end up happening, is all the companies who make the hardware will simply give the software that uses that hardware away fore next to nothing or free. What *WILL* be sold, are consulting services related to that software (whereby the vendor consults to make specific improvements for a given customer), ans support agreements.
We are already starting to see this movement with companies like IBM. IBM backs Linux because they see the trend, and are already in this business. They sell the servers, and they sell their consulting skills. They do not sell the software (for the most part - of course IBM still has software divisions but they do not make up the majority of sales anymore, and they are decreasing all the time) - rather they give it away (Linux).
This reality change has been going on for awhile now, andis spurred on by a number of things - The Internet, Open Source, cheap massive storage, global interchange withc countries without IP laws - all these things push us more and more to the point where it is IMPOSSIBLE to sell intellectual property anymore.
My biggest worry is that, BEFORE the paradigm shift finally takes hold in everyone's mind, the western countries of the wold will have turned into near police-states trying to avert the future formthe inevitible. We are already seeing this too.
Let's just hope our current and future leaders can see the future coming before it goes too far.
Software engineers do not have the same problem, or the same solution, as composers and artists. Engineers are not crweative they do not create content. They create software which at it's core is simply instructions. They provide instructions to the computer on how to do things.
I do not consider this to be "art" or a creative work. It is simply a necessary component of the use of the hardware.
Which is why I am always an advocate of th elimination of the whole software business model altogether. Software as a business model was pretty much founded by Microsoft. Before Microsoft, software-only companies were not the mainstream. Almost all software was created by and for hardware companies to make their hardware work and/or to give their hardware an advantage over othe rpeople's hardware. To me this, is how things should work. Onc ethe software is no longer a salable item, protecting it form "piracy" is not an issue anymore, because the custome ris not buying the software they are buying the product. The software is simply an enabler.
Personally - I think that like it or not, this is how the market is going to end up anyway. Why? Because the computer software "industry" is not an useful industry - it is a leech on industries. It consumes vast amounts of capital, from which it produces a good which is not tangible, can be duplicated at zero cost, and once created and has no intrinsic value by itself.
And just a note - I myself am a software engineer, who works for a software company. I just can see the forest for the trees. I honestly do not expect to be doing this "for a living" in ten years. And personally I think the world will be a better place for it.
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Basically, they're just paying the developer to work on it full time. Whereas before the dev. had to rely on licensing CUPS to other companies and sub-contracting for work, now he is paid by apple.
As long as the project stays GPL this really isn't any different than how RedHat / IBM / Oracle etc. pay some kernel developers full time.
The only thing is Apple can also now make changes to cups that only they can use.
Did no one else look at this thing and instantly think "Tony Hawk"?
Come on - medium sensor board, that's light and wireless, detects weight and pressure both?
Slap a shock-absorber attachment on the bottom so that it doesn't snap in half when you come down on it and you have an instant virtual skateboard. Hell you could even make a velcro attachment to the WiiMote so you could strap it to your leg to mimic pushing off.
You're talking about a "public domain dedication", which itself is a license. There is not much difference at all between the public domain dedication and the BSD license other than the wording of the legalese.
Even from your link:
"Some scholars of copyright law, including Lawrence Lessig, agree that it is difficult to put works in the public domain, but not impossible. The Creative Commons website, for example, has a public domain dedication form which produces an electronic receipt which is meant to act as legal backing for the dedication. Even if it is ruled that a work cannot be released into the public domain, a thorough dedication such as this one also releases all rights, so that the author retains only a free-use license. Lessig, however, argues that another licensing option, such as the Creative Commons Attribution-Only license, is a safer choice, and that click-through agreements are insufficient to put works in the public domain."
The problem is legally there is no such thing as a "public domain" work created by an individual. If you created it, it is copyright automatically, period. No one can use it without your permission (AKA a license). The BSD license is basically a license that says "do whatever you want with this code, and I take no legal responsibility for it's use". That is pretty much as "public domain" as a license can be. And it's 3 simple letters so it's simple to apply :P
"Public domain" only really applies to works with expired copyright, or works created by public institutions like the U.S. Government.
The author wanted money just to enable the "bookmarks" feature so you could save your connection profiles and select them from a list in the statusbar. I said screw that and I just wrote my own damn program to do it. Took me all of a few hours to get it working the way I wanted. Only functional difference between the two programs is that RDC Menu is more polished (graphics, icons, language translations, etc)....
I dunno, when you look at the trivial utilities that people pay $20 or more for, it makes Microsoft products seem pretty damn cheap! That is, if you compare lines of code...
Depends on your priorities in life I guess, but IMO two hours of my time is worth much more to me than $20.
Amazes me sometimes that someone will spend hours of time to save $20, or drive halfway across town to save 10 cents a gallon on gas (a couple of bucks at most for a tank). Then the same people won't take the five minutes it takes to check your tire pressure each month, which costs them way more in the long run.
People are funny.
I am concerned about the lack of design foresight to design this thing *without* a built-in collapseable stylus.
Whatever happened to the releases being STABLE??
Am I the only one who cringes when someone says they have released a totally new wireless stack in a point release? Does everyone forget the VM switch fiasco already?
I really really regret the switchover to this whole new "accelerated" kernel dev. phase. Since this is just a point release, but has a totally new wireless stack, how do I know that my next OS update won't just break my whole networking setup? Argh.
But for $499 (assuming you buy online) you can get an Xbox 360 pro bundle with 4 games, PLUS the HD-DVD add on drive. Makes them quite comparable IMO.
It's worse for porn since it's much more addictive than violence and has zero benefits for anyone save for the wallets of people in the industry.
Er... how does this line not also fit television, movies, music, dancing, playing soccer....
The whole point of entertainment is to entertain the person doing it. It doesn't have to have "benefits for anyone". What benefit do you get from me watching a movie? None. So why do you think you should get a benefit to me jacking off to some smut? How are the two any different other than ways I choose to spend my time? It's no skin off your back.
The government does not belong in people's bedrooms. Period. If someone gets off watching a donkey piss on a chicks head while she fucks a banana, and someone else wants to make money by making a website about it - as long as the chick is doing it of her own accord, more power to them.
It's not my cup of tea but who cares? Neither is needlepoint but I don't put up a hissy fit to outlaw quilting conventions.
Legislation like this helps no one. If the people who were after the BSDM porn were "mentally unbalenced" then they're still going to find something to set them off anyway. All it is is another way to crack down on people who don't fall into society's "norms".
How is a debugger or print statements going to help you when a PRODUCTION piece of code crashes?
You can't run your code under a debugger 24/7, unless you want to incur a huge performance penalty.
Sure if the core dumps and your system is set up to take advantage of it, you can usually open it in a debugger and see the fault condition - but you normally can't reverse it backwards to the original cause, all you have is the fault state. All previous states are lost.
This is what the parent is talking about, in order to do anything you are talking about you have to run the program AGAIN in debug mode (or "debug log mode" or whatever) and hope to re-create the error condition.
This is not the case with mainframes. When they dump they dump the entire machine state, and it is often reverseable to a finite number of instructions.
There has not yet been anyone to figure out how to SIM unlock the phone. All those stores you are talking about just unlock the phone to use as a glorified PDA.
Azerus already does packet encryption.... has done so for years.
Actually HP is now the #1 computer maker. They surpassed Dell in 2006.
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Since I don't have (or ever see a need for) even regular voicemail on my cell phone I realy don't give a crap about visual voicemail :P
If I don't answer my phone, call my house. If I don't answer that, leave a msg. If I don't call back, I didn't want to talk to you.
If the call isn't important enough to dial again to leave a message than it wasn't important enough for me to answer the cell for anyways.
When it came to breathing life into characters such as Bumblebee, the protective Autobot, ILM needed to think backwards to fill in the blanks (and the junk in the drunk) between finished robot sketches and real-life GM cars.
Oh noble Bumblebee, how I thought I knew you!
I am much more looking forward to unlocking the iPhone so you can use it with any GSM card - including those up here in the great white north.
The map data has nothing to do with the routes. All Navteq sells to Google and Mapquest is a massive amount of vector-data that maps streets in geo-spatial coordinates. It is up to Google and Mapquest to determine the shortest path between any two points using this data.
It is more difficult than it sounds. Discovering the shortest path in a weighted map is a simple, well known algorithm that any third year computer science major would have studied. The problem is in the weighting. Things such as speed limits, number of traffic lights, road conditions, speed limits of intersecting roads, ourly traffic patterns - all of these affect the amount of time one route takes over another.
Aside from the fact that it is impossible to be up-to-date with this data on a constant basis, some of it changes based on the time of day of your planned trip. For example your morning "shortcut" to work may not be any faster on the weekend when the main route is not as congested.
I think in general, all the mapping sites to a remarkable job given the data they have access to. It is highly unlikely ny one site is "more accurate" than the other picking routes all of the time. What is probably happening is the place where you are going has some factors that have changed recently, or have not been acounted for, in one site vs. the other. You would for certain be able to find counter-examples that make the other site look better at other places in the country.
I have been wondering this for a while now.
Why can I sit here and type this on a laptop that is faster than a top-of-the-line 1U rack from 1 year ago, and yet data centers are still loaded with power-sucking 3 year old machines by the thousands?
What you need in a data center is a) Performance, and b) Reliability. Performance is already covered - every year laptop speeds match the top speeds of the previous year's desktop machines. So you're at most a year behind the times. As for reliability - anyone who works with data centers knows that reliability does not come from reliable hardwaye - it comes from redundancy. If you had a data centre built from laptops in a blade-style configuration, where any one could be swapped out at any time, you would have awesome reliability at a tiny fraction of the power useage.
Throw in some external iSCSI or ATAOE storage vaults, and you're good to go.
There is no such thing as a "default" for an IP. It is different for every network.
And how often do you log into your home router? For me it is maybe once every 3 months or less.
Once again -in order for a CSRF attack to succeed the user has to be logged into the attack vector AND has to be accessing the exploit site simultaneously. And the attacker has to already know what kind of box you have, and what address it is on. Too many variables to mount any kind os useful attack, unless you already have a target at the site.
And this is why - in order to forge the request you have to know the internal IP or host you're trying to exploit in order to construct the CSRF attack vector.
e thing?badstuff=this
So this attack ONLY works if you already have some knowledge of the companies internal network structure.
Here is an example working CSRF attack
a) I put a CSRF attack on my blog - some AJAX request or hidden image to go to http://internalcompanysite.net/somesoftware/dosom
b) I send sysadmin an email poting at my cool blog
c) Sysadmin visits my cool blog boom he is expoited!
Problem? how did I know what internalcompanysite.net was, or where somesoftware is? Answer: I don't.
CSRF can only be used if you already know the attack vectors for the company. Otherwise it is useless.
While occasional use of video games is harmless and may even help with some disorders like autism, doctors said in extreme cases it can interfere with day-to-day necessities like working, showering or even eating.
So can watching TV.
Or jacking off
Or mowing the lawn.
This definition is so broad it's useless. Anyone can be addicted to anything. Why the need for special categories?
Homer: Ohhhhh, 20 dollars! I wanted a peanut!
Homer's Brain: 20 dollars can buy many peanuts.
Homer: Explain how!
Homer's Brain: Money can be exchanged for goods and services.
Homer: Woohoo!
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s/20 dollars/1 million/pounds/g
In your alternative reality, where software is not a useful industry in its own right, how do you deal with the generality of hardware and the economics of software development to make sure that code actually gets written to make the hardware useful?
We,ll, it is pretty simple if you just think about it for a second.
If Apple or Dell just sold white box hardware without any softwar eat all, their business would plummet. Why? Because without software , hardware is useless. Similarly, without software, hardware is useless.
The difference between the two, is hardware ins a tangible good that has actual value. Software is a virtual good that has virtual value.
Soon, the buying and selling of virtual goods is going to go the way of the do-do bird. It will do this because it has to. DRM, patents, etc. are all trying to put the genie back in the bottle, but it is way too late for that.
What is going to end up happening, is all the companies who make the hardware will simply give the software that uses that hardware away fore next to nothing or free. What *WILL* be sold, are consulting services related to that software (whereby the vendor consults to make specific improvements for a given customer), ans support agreements.
We are already starting to see this movement with companies like IBM. IBM backs Linux because they see the trend, and are already in this business. They sell the servers, and they sell their consulting skills. They do not sell the software (for the most part - of course IBM still has software divisions but they do not make up the majority of sales anymore, and they are decreasing all the time) - rather they give it away (Linux).
This reality change has been going on for awhile now, andis spurred on by a number of things - The Internet, Open Source, cheap massive storage, global interchange withc countries without IP laws - all these things push us more and more to the point where it is IMPOSSIBLE to sell intellectual property anymore.
My biggest worry is that, BEFORE the paradigm shift finally takes hold in everyone's mind, the western countries of the wold will have turned into near police-states trying to avert the future formthe inevitible. We are already seeing this too.
Let's just hope our current and future leaders can see the future coming before it goes too far.
Wouldn't this thing have rusted regardless of if the bunker was water-tight, due to air moisture?
This whole thing doesn't seem like it was well thought out 50 years ago.
Software engineers do not have the same problem, or the same solution, as composers and artists. Engineers are not crweative they do not create content. They create software which at it's core is simply instructions. They provide instructions to the computer on how to do things.
I do not consider this to be "art" or a creative work. It is simply a necessary component of the use of the hardware.
Which is why I am always an advocate of th elimination of the whole software business model altogether. Software as a business model was pretty much founded by Microsoft. Before Microsoft, software-only companies were not the mainstream. Almost all software was created by and for hardware companies to make their hardware work and/or to give their hardware an advantage over othe rpeople's hardware. To me this, is how things should work. Onc ethe software is no longer a salable item, protecting it form "piracy" is not an issue anymore, because the custome ris not buying the software they are buying the product. The software is simply an enabler.
Personally - I think that like it or not, this is how the market is going to end up anyway. Why? Because the computer software "industry" is not an useful industry - it is a leech on industries. It consumes vast amounts of capital, from which it produces a good which is not tangible, can be duplicated at zero cost, and once created and has no intrinsic value by itself.
And just a note - I myself am a software engineer, who works for a software company. I just can see the forest for the trees. I honestly do not expect to be doing this "for a living" in ten years. And personally I think the world will be a better place for it.