Stallman isn't behind the "OSS movement", but anyway, we don't need a cult of personality at this point. We need people who are thinking for themselves to realize that freedom is important. This is slowly happening (and the pace is picking up, even) but what people are afraid of is that the laws and technology will increasingly make it difficult to show people the tangible reasons why freedom is important.
Simple: Red Hat has more of the trust of the community than Microsoft. Therefore, people are more likely to believe what Red Hat says, for the purposes of a Slashdot discussion, than they are to believe Microsoft. It's no different from believing Wikipedia when it doesn't really matter anyway. It's perfectly rational.
Because clearly people who are researching security and publishing information about vulnerabilities, rather than keeping quiet and using the information for their own purposes, are terrorists.
When your network goes havoc the 128kbit realaudio/video falls down to 96kbit first, than 64kbit etc. The trick is it also somehow "senses" the network lag has been fixed and it goes back to the normal level.
Anyone familiar with both TCP and media codecs knows that this is trivial.
Publishers set the release date. Really? And HOW do they set the release date? By asking the developer, "when will this be ready?" So the developer's failing to deliver the product on in time is not the publisher's fault.
The problem, as you say, is with inexperienced developers:
Publisher: "When will this be ready?"
Developer: "It could take anywhere between 16 and 24 months."
Publisher: "That's unacceptable, don't have such a negative attitude!"
Developer: "Well, if we're really lucky, and we cut features X, Y, and Z, we might be able to get it done in 12 months."
Publisher: "Good, you have 12 months"
11 months later...
Publisher: "Can I see a demo?"
Developer: "Huh? Okay, I guess."
Publisher: "Could I ask you to make one small change?"
Developer: "Sure, what?"
Publisher: "I want feature X"
Developer: "..."
Publisher: "Oh, and features Y and Z as well."
Developer: "Okay, but that will take us another year."
Publisher: "YOU PROMISED ME THAT YOU WOULD BE FINISHED IN 12 MONTHS!"
Developer: "..."
This is obviously the fault of the developer, who should have simply maintained, "It will take 24 months."
Publishers set the release date. Really? And HOW do they set the release date? By asking the developer, "when will this be ready?" So the developer's failing to deliver the product on in time is not the publisher's fault.
The problem, as you say, is with inexperienced developers:
Publisher: "When will this be ready?"
Developer: "It could take anywhere between 16 and 24 months."
Publisher: "That's unacceptable, don't have such a negative attitude!"
Developer: "Well, if we're really lucky, and we cut features X, Y, and Z, we might be able to get it done in 12 months."
Publisher: "Good, you have 12 months"
11 months later...
Publisher: "Can I see a demo?"
Developer: "Huh? Okay, I guess."
Publisher: "Could I ask you to make one small change?"
Developer: "Sure, what?"
Publisher: "I want feature X"
Developer: "..."
Publisher: "Oh, and features Y and Z as well."
Developer: "Okay, but that will take us another year."
Publisher: "YOU PROMISED ME THAT YOU WOULD BE FINISHED IN 12 MONTHS!"
Developer: "..."
This is obviously the fault of the developer, who should have simply maintained, "It will take 24 months."
IANAPhysicist, but to put it another way, if you take an omnidirectional antenna, and draw a sphere around it, the total energy over that sphere will be the same, regardless of the distance. However, the energy density (e.g. energy per square foot) decreases drastically as distance increases. Since the receiving antenna has a fixed size, the amount of energy captured by your antenna decreases equally drastically.
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Depends for whom it is making the money...
Huh? Exactly how am I "trying to distance" myself from RMS?
Stallman isn't behind the "OSS movement", but anyway, we don't need a cult of personality at this point. We need people who are thinking for themselves to realize that freedom is important. This is slowly happening (and the pace is picking up, even) but what people are afraid of is that the laws and technology will increasingly make it difficult to show people the tangible reasons why freedom is important.
Thank you! I'm so tired of having to hit "view source" just to get an URL for some proprietarily-encoded video.
This should hardly be surprising.
No text.
So American football is now "sexual conduct"?
Because this definition is clearly intended to also apply to men with obvious signs of testicular cancer.
In the "post-9/11 world" (whatever that means) people would probably defend the practice.
That didn't stop MS from trying.
Bollocks! It will speed up if you show any such sign of weakness!
Monsters will now be able to ambush you, literally, when you least expect it.
Because clearly people who are researching security and publishing information about vulnerabilities, rather than keeping quiet and using the information for their own purposes, are terrorists.
Sun's shareholders have finally found the courage to use the Schwartz within them.
Not as much credibility as you "loose" when you write "loose" when you mean "lose".
Anyone familiar with both TCP and media codecs knows that this is trivial.
[Crap, I knew I should have pressed "Preview"]
Publishers set the release date. Really? And HOW do they set the release date? By asking the developer, "when will this be ready?" So the developer's failing to deliver the product on in time is not the publisher's fault.
The problem, as you say, is with inexperienced developers:
11 months later...This is obviously the fault of the developer, who should have simply maintained, "It will take 24 months."
The problem, as you say, is with inexperienced developers:
11 months later...This is obviously the fault of the developer, who should have simply maintained, "It will take 24 months."
Some mods are deaf, you insensitive clod!
Parody isn't a legal exception to copyright in all jurisdictions (e.g. Canada), sadly.
How else does a man have sex? Passively?
What about pre-caching "web accelerators"?
It's quite possible that increasing government surveillance will result in an increase in neither.
In America, we call it a gajillion. You're clearly not with us, here. (Does that mean you are with the terrorists? Hmm?)
As you said, it's pure geometry.