I guess you never purchased a mainframe in the '60s. Software wasn't free it was bundled. At a cost. This was IBM's way of making a profit. It was finally ruled illegal and IBM was required to sell their hardware with out requiring the customer to purchase a certain minimum software bundle. It was a lot like buying a car. You want a fortran compiler well you also must purchase this math package and 2 years support.
These kinds of examples just piss me off. Why do you assume the Canadian coverage was any less biased? Just because it is different then what was shown in the US? Nothing in this world is black and white. It is easy to believe what you want to believe. Just look long enough or ignore enough. What did the Canadians leave on the cutting room floor. What didn't they show. What angle did they want?
Everybody is biased. Everybody no matter what they believe tries to subtley change the content to show what they want to show. Did the Canadians know for a fact that there were CIA opperatives. Or did they suspect it to be so, and then only showed evidence to prove them guilty, i.e. leaving on their cutting room floor any evidence in favor of the journalists argument. So you have no real proof , but choose to believe one version so you can paint them as CIA operatives without any real proof, because you want to believe it.
I don't know what they were trying. Maybe they were hoping to get some journalism award by sneaking into Iraq and got caught. Then made of some stupid story about being lost. People do lie that don't work for the CIA.
It's been too many years since I took Numerical Methods, but I stongly believe your last paragraph is completely wrong. This mistake I believe is due to not having to learn how to use a slide rule. Rule one, you can't get a greater accurracy out of something then what goes in. If we are rounding to three digits, then we must not look to the 5th digit for information. Only the fourth digit is considered significant in rounding.
So taking 82.451 as an example. When rounding to 3 digits we first truncate to 4 digits, giving 82.45. Next we apply our rounding rule which gives 82.4 as the correct answer.
And as a math professor of mine once said. With computers you should just remember how you rounded last time and do it different the next time. So just choose to round up the 1st time, down the 2nd, up the 3rd, down the 4th, etc.
I think we need to be even more suspicious of MS. I don't believe they want to wipe out Linux or OSS, not really. What they want is a piece of every transaction that takes place on the internet. Palidium gives them this ability. They will guarantee any transaction that goes through their secure system from fraud. They will guarantee that everybody is who they say they are for a price. They will act as a world wide clearing house for all transactions. Again for a small price. Say $0.005 per transaction. At first this earns MS almost nothing, $5000 / million transactions. Put as this grows and grows. And what is defined as a transaction grows. This then becomes a prepetual cash cow.
So what is a transaction. An online purchase of a book, tires, CPU. What about every secure email you send. Every secure email you receive. No annual fee for a secure id. We'll give you one for free. But every time you use it will cost $0.005. If I send/receive 100 emails per day it costs me $0.50. Not much for me to pay. But lots of revenue for MS multiplied by a world wide network of users.
MS can sell this as a method to reject spam email. Require only identifiable/secure email. Now it costs that spammer $5000 / million emails. Is it worth spamming and now you have a positve id of who sent the email.
I believe Bill has already written off the Desktop war. He won and is now looking for something else to dominate. Yes MS will fight on as the evil child of Bill, but he no longer cares (execpt to cash in his shares now and again). He wants a new challenge.
So whose mouth is Love snatching food from? Your post should be modded down as flambait. Yeah, lets compare him to the evil record companies. Smear him by association with someone when there is none and insinuate he wants to use a method of control he isn't actually advocating.
You people just don't get it. A company has to be profitable to stay in business. They are trying to create a model that makes money and meets the requirements of free software. They offer the software for free, but if you want certified support, they provide a binary. If you don't want support go get the source and build it yourself or find a binary someone else built.
And the idea that this restriction on the binary is a barrier to competition is just plain stupid. You have the source, build your own version and then sell support. How is this a barrier to competition?
Of course I lost the house in the divorce 2 years ago, but that's neither here nor there.
Funny thing how often I've seen this. A couple builds a home together and a few years later they're divorced. So that is the other side of building it yourself. Your marriage will either last a lifetime or you'll wind up divorced.
Seriously if my wife and I built a house one of us would be dead and the other in jail.
How do you know he had a higher quality house? Everyone keeps saying this, but nobody has proven it. Nobody ever mentions the poor sod that acted as his own contractor and got screwed over. Nobody stands up and says I fucked my self over by going it alone. This is not something you can just research. You have to have some skill. You have to know something about construction.
In house building in the US we don't train people. They learn on the job. What most of them learn is how to screw the next guy on the job. The guys laying the foundation screw up in one spot. But they say, the framers will fix it and square it up. The framers try but don't quite get it right. They say well the dry waller will square it up. And they try, but it's still a fix, on a fix, on a fix.
A good contractor knows this and watches for it. A good inspector knows this and can save your ass too. Nothing says even with a contractor you shouldn't be out there checking up on the work.
I recently download the 7.3 iso's for free. I still get free upgrade support from Redhat. I usually run the upgrade on weekends or late at nite, because I have been bumped off during the week if there are high loads on the system. But I am usually able to sustain d/l speeds of 150 KB/s. Not bad for free.
I would rather watch Spongebob then either clones or Spiderman with my sons (15 and 8). If there is a new cultural icon in my house it is Spongebob and Patrick.
A uncle of mine builds luxury yachts in San Diego. I thought he was pulling my leg when he said the hull was made from concrete. He wasn't kidding. Actually they refer to them as ferrocement hulled.
I keep seeing this argument, that Linux has outgrown Linus. But I haven't seen the evidence. The only argument I've seen is that Linus is just dropping patches on the floor and that this will discourage developers.
People seem to be implying that Linus is dropping these patches because he can't handle the load. But he has put into place a method for others to examine these patches.
And who are these discouraged developers. Could some of these be those prima donnas that can't stand to be told that they aren't. Are they easily discouraged people or in effect are they trying to cut into the front of the line. Pay your dues people and work the small things and build that level of trust.
Is Linus perfect, no. Is the current kernel development method perfect, no. Is the proposed solution perfect, no. Is it better, maybe. But don't argue that it is better. Prove it. Branch off the kernel and prove it to Linus.
If somebody doesn't like a "great idea", how do you change their mind. Linus doesn't like this idea. He has told people why he doesn't and why he believes it won't work. I haven't seen anybody take his reasons and provide any counter argument. All I've seen is, this is a good idea and Linus should adopt it.
But Linus' point was the patch penguin is just one person. How does one person work better then just one person? How does this new person do a better job then Linus, who is just one person.
Also who is gonna do this thankless job, for free, with no glory or thanks. This person is only gonna get grief, constantly facing the bitching whiners whose patches he turns down. This person who will have no say in the architecture of Linux.
Further this proposal seems to be that we think Linus needs a Lt. and we're gonna nominate some person. Linus' response was I can only trust 10-20 people to work with, I already have the group, and I believe his unstated point is, don't make me trust/work with someone.
Plus this will just add another layer to the system.
They won't. First they want the revenue stream and second they want the head count. So it isn't just the lost of my monthly payment, they sell advertisements that show up on my set top. So if I quit, they lose two revenue streams.
If the statement about Notes is true, don't you think or believe that 128bit strong encryption has been compromised by the NSA also? So you foreigners still can't get good encryption from us Americuns. Of course this would imply we can't get good encryption unless we get it from Europe ala gpg.
[By the way my eyes are open and the Muslim countries need to stop trying to destroy Isreal]
I found one particular quote insteresting here it is:
"It would be singular to admit a natural and even an hereditary right to inventors... It would be curious... if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property. If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property. Society may give an exclusive right to the profits arising from them, as an encouragement to men to pursue ideas which may produce utility, but this may or may not be done, according to the will and convenience of the society, without claim or complaint from anybody... The exclusive right to invention [is] given not of natural right, but for the benefit of society."
--Thomas Jefferson to Isaac McPherson, 1813. ME 13:333
Last time this came up (copyrights and such) I started searching the internet. I found the Thomas Jefferson archives. Started searching for his thoughts on copyrights, etc. Very interesting reading. Do the search yourself, I believe he had some interesting thoughts that are still very applicable today.
Yes. My entertainment dollars are less. So I'm less inclined to purchase a CD without knowing the content. Thanks to Gnutella, I was searching for some old Ritchie Blackmore songs. I found this group called Blackmore's Night. Yes it is Ritchie Blackmore in a new style. I really enjoy the music and I am now purchasing their CDs. I never would have heard this music without the internet. So through my desire to get a free (yes stolen under current law) copy of a song I found some new music to enjoy. A new incarnation of Ritchie and I plan to keep purchasing their CDs to reward them and hope they produce more.
I remember when going to a concert was to listen to a good band play live, not the theatrics. Britney has some nice tits, but I can go to Hooters and seem some up real close for the price of some wings. The bonus is the female attached to 'em will even talk to me.
I know MS makes stupid mistakes, but this sounds too stupid for even MS. Your saying that once I create a passport every web site that supports passport has complete access to all the info in my passport without my permission. That sounds just a little too far fetched for even MS. The liability problems alone would scare MS. Do they have some sort of disclaimer when you use Passport that they aren't responsible for releasing all of your credit info to every site on the internet.
If this is true I would be tempted to create a passport enabled site and sweep up every passport users credit info. Can't be this simple. It might be what happens because of some security glitch in the implementations. Or is that what you are assuming?
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I guess you never purchased a mainframe in the '60s. Software wasn't free it was bundled. At a cost. This was IBM's way of making a profit. It was finally ruled illegal and IBM was required to sell their hardware with out requiring the customer to purchase a certain minimum software bundle. It was a lot like buying a car. You want a fortran compiler well you also must purchase this math package and 2 years support.
Everybody is biased. Everybody no matter what they believe tries to subtley change the content to show what they want to show. Did the Canadians know for a fact that there were CIA opperatives. Or did they suspect it to be so, and then only showed evidence to prove them guilty, i.e. leaving on their cutting room floor any evidence in favor of the journalists argument. So you have no real proof , but choose to believe one version so you can paint them as CIA operatives without any real proof, because you want to believe it.
I don't know what they were trying. Maybe they were hoping to get some journalism award by sneaking into Iraq and got caught. Then made of some stupid story about being lost. People do lie that don't work for the CIA.
It's been too many years since I took Numerical Methods, but I stongly believe your last paragraph is completely wrong. This mistake I believe is due to not having to learn how to use a slide rule. Rule one, you can't get a greater accurracy out of something then what goes in. If we are rounding to three digits, then we must not look to the 5th digit for information. Only the fourth digit is considered significant in rounding. So taking 82.451 as an example. When rounding to 3 digits we first truncate to 4 digits, giving 82.45. Next we apply our rounding rule which gives 82.4 as the correct answer.
No you're wrong. You don't round numbers and then calculate the average. You round as the last operation. Under both rounding rules 7.5 rounds to 8.
And as a math professor of mine once said. With computers you should just remember how you rounded last time and do it different the next time. So just choose to round up the 1st time, down the 2nd, up the 3rd, down the 4th, etc.
So what is a transaction. An online purchase of a book, tires, CPU. What about every secure email you send. Every secure email you receive. No annual fee for a secure id. We'll give you one for free. But every time you use it will cost $0.005. If I send/receive 100 emails per day it costs me $0.50. Not much for me to pay. But lots of revenue for MS multiplied by a world wide network of users.
MS can sell this as a method to reject spam email. Require only identifiable/secure email. Now it costs that spammer $5000 / million emails. Is it worth spamming and now you have a positve id of who sent the email.
I believe Bill has already written off the Desktop war. He won and is now looking for something else to dominate. Yes MS will fight on as the evil child of Bill, but he no longer cares (execpt to cash in his shares now and again). He wants a new challenge.
I know this thread is old, but I believe the only difference between Kennedy/Johnson and Nixon was Nixon got caught.
So whose mouth is Love snatching food from? Your post should be modded down as flambait. Yeah, lets compare him to the evil record companies. Smear him by association with someone when there is none and insinuate he wants to use a method of control he isn't actually advocating.
And the idea that this restriction on the binary is a barrier to competition is just plain stupid. You have the source, build your own version and then sell support. How is this a barrier to competition?
Funny thing how often I've seen this. A couple builds a home together and a few years later they're divorced. So that is the other side of building it yourself. Your marriage will either last a lifetime or you'll wind up divorced.
Seriously if my wife and I built a house one of us would be dead and the other in jail.
In house building in the US we don't train people. They learn on the job. What most of them learn is how to screw the next guy on the job. The guys laying the foundation screw up in one spot. But they say, the framers will fix it and square it up. The framers try but don't quite get it right. They say well the dry waller will square it up. And they try, but it's still a fix, on a fix, on a fix.
A good contractor knows this and watches for it. A good inspector knows this and can save your ass too. Nothing says even with a contractor you shouldn't be out there checking up on the work.
I recently download the 7.3 iso's for free. I still get free upgrade support from Redhat. I usually run the upgrade on weekends or late at nite, because I have been bumped off during the week if there are high loads on the system. But I am usually able to sustain d/l speeds of 150 KB/s. Not bad for free.
I would rather watch Spongebob then either clones or Spiderman with my sons (15 and 8). If there is a new cultural icon in my house it is Spongebob and Patrick.
A uncle of mine builds luxury yachts in San Diego. I thought he was pulling my leg when he said the hull was made from concrete. He wasn't kidding. Actually they refer to them as ferrocement hulled.
People seem to be implying that Linus is dropping these patches because he can't handle the load. But he has put into place a method for others to examine these patches.
And who are these discouraged developers. Could some of these be those prima donnas that can't stand to be told that they aren't. Are they easily discouraged people or in effect are they trying to cut into the front of the line. Pay your dues people and work the small things and build that level of trust.
Is Linus perfect, no. Is the current kernel development method perfect, no. Is the proposed solution perfect, no. Is it better, maybe. But don't argue that it is better. Prove it. Branch off the kernel and prove it to Linus.
If somebody doesn't like a "great idea", how do you change their mind. Linus doesn't like this idea. He has told people why he doesn't and why he believes it won't work. I haven't seen anybody take his reasons and provide any counter argument. All I've seen is, this is a good idea and Linus should adopt it.
Also who is gonna do this thankless job, for free, with no glory or thanks. This person is only gonna get grief, constantly facing the bitching whiners whose patches he turns down. This person who will have no say in the architecture of Linux.
Further this proposal seems to be that we think Linus needs a Lt. and we're gonna nominate some person. Linus' response was I can only trust 10-20 people to work with, I already have the group, and I believe his unstated point is, don't make me trust/work with someone.
Plus this will just add another layer to the system.
They won't. First they want the revenue stream and second they want the head count. So it isn't just the lost of my monthly payment, they sell advertisements that show up on my set top. So if I quit, they lose two revenue streams.
[By the way my eyes are open and the Muslim countries need to stop trying to destroy Isreal]
Last time this came up (copyrights and such) I started searching the internet. I found the Thomas Jefferson archives. Started searching for his thoughts on copyrights, etc. Very interesting reading. Do the search yourself, I believe he had some interesting thoughts that are still very applicable today.
Yes. My entertainment dollars are less. So I'm less inclined to purchase a CD without knowing the content. Thanks to Gnutella, I was searching for some old Ritchie Blackmore songs. I found this group called Blackmore's Night. Yes it is Ritchie Blackmore in a new style. I really enjoy the music and I am now purchasing their CDs. I never would have heard this music without the internet. So through my desire to get a free (yes stolen under current law) copy of a song I found some new music to enjoy. A new incarnation of Ritchie and I plan to keep purchasing their CDs to reward them and hope they produce more.
I remember when going to a concert was to listen to a good band play live, not the theatrics. Britney has some nice tits, but I can go to Hooters and seem some up real close for the price of some wings. The bonus is the female attached to 'em will even talk to me.
I do too and they never bother me because I gave them my throw-away yahoo email address.
If this is true I would be tempted to create a passport enabled site and sweep up every passport users credit info. Can't be this simple. It might be what happens because of some security glitch in the implementations. Or is that what you are assuming?