What is their goal? To educate the company? A polite letter to the legal dept & board will accomplish that...
Have you ever tried that ?
Do you think highly paid lawyers, paid to act in a companies best financial interests sit around waiting for amateur coders to send them letters about how to do their job ?
Ive tried enforcing the GPL a couple of times, its really hard to find someone to treated things like this seriously, last time it took 10 months to get them into compliance.
Your not human if you dont get a bit mad when people exploit freedom for financial gain.
I marvel a proprietary "Advocates" who send customers to Jail or worse than bankruptcy in an effort to get more of their money.
Section 7 - Telecommunications not to be intercepted
A person shall not:
(a) intercept;
(b) authorize, suffer or permit another person to intercept; or
(c) do any act or thing that will enable him or her or another person to intercept;
a communication passing over a telecommunications system.
Its a corporation that's intercepting communications, not a person.
You think corporations dont get special treatment under the law... what are you simple or something.
"All technology is built off the shoulders of giants. Innovation is usually a process of small steps on uncharted terrain, and very seldom giant leaps over mountains."
It would nice if Apple acknowledged the shoulders it has stood on.
e.g. The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_PMP300 by Diamond multimedia was the first commercially successful portable mp3 player, release in 98. In contrast, the iPod was released three years later in 2001.
The designers of the RIO got no credit for being innovative, but they did get recognition from the RIAA, who sued them.
The ipod three years later got all sorts of awards for being an innovative _product_, however the most innovative thing about it was the fact they managed to do a deal with the RIAA and sell music online.
Another example would be Mac OSX being based on BSD.
I agree with you he was a visionary, he influenced the world in ways nobody else had (or is likely too), but while praising him for what he was. We shouldnâ(TM)t give him credit for what others did.
Time = money is only true when you paying someone. If you are paying someone $15 per hour, then yes, 8 minutes is worth $2. However, when you are sitting at home and not getting paid then 8 minutes of your time, or 8 hours, or 8 days, is worth exactly zero.
Your time is finite, its irreplaceable, you cant get it back if you waste it. Your time should be valuable to you even if you cant sell it to others.
Very naive to think you can measure its value with dollars and cents.
Its not that the major parties are antagonistic towards technology, its that they are ignorant.
ALP(?) did get legislation through forcing government departments to consider open source software, its just that it took democrats and greens to translate the concepts into something the major parties understood.
ALP is driving the NBN which is the biggest technological investment in this country in generations, they deserve some credit for that.
This probably come about because the wikileaks drama caused some ignorant politicians to think about what they stood for, one side deciding they wanted to be seen to be "doing something" about internet stuff.
Scott Ludlam for the greens is worth following, probably more clued in about tech politics than any other representative.
And when Aussies starting to buy stuff online, bypassing their overpriced supply chain, the retails say the internet needs to fixed to make prices match their overpriced ones.
Slashdot Mirror
'Perhaps "humanity" is not the end-all, be-all category you think it is.'
Umm... i didnt mention humanity.
So, i use the word Humanity to describe the all encompassing group of Homo Sapiens, what do you use it for ?
If we cant survive on earth the last place we should go is into space.
Our future is in learning to fix the problems we create.
But your right, the idea that our future lies in space is pretty common, rather unfortunate really.
"Suicide is the action of selfish people"
No, http://www.suicide.org/suicide-is-not-a-selfish-act.html
What is their goal? To educate the company? A polite letter to the legal dept & board will accomplish that...
Have you ever tried that ?
Do you think highly paid lawyers, paid to act in a companies best financial interests sit around waiting for amateur coders to send them letters about how to do their job ?
Ive tried enforcing the GPL a couple of times, its really hard to find someone to treated things like this seriously, last time it took 10 months to get them into compliance.
Your not human if you dont get a bit mad when people exploit freedom for financial gain.
I marvel a proprietary "Advocates" who send customers to Jail or worse than bankruptcy in an effort to get more of their money.
Section 7 - Telecommunications not to be intercepted
A person shall not:
(a) intercept;
(b) authorize, suffer or permit another person to intercept; or
(c) do any act or thing that will enable him or her or another person to intercept;
a communication passing over a telecommunications system.
Its a corporation that's intercepting communications, not a person.
You think corporations dont get special treatment under the law... what are you simple or something.
You also left out that the items where not even design to suit Eve gameplay.
Some of the core professions in eve are Mining, Pirating, Trading, and general PvE/PvP.
Do they sell a pair of miners overalls for a miner, a simple black eyepatch for a pirate, a rich looking suit, or even a general space helmet, no.
If they had a pet parrot to perch on your shoulder, guarantee they would sell more of them than monocles (at any price).
Fact is the clothing was designed for other titles CCP is developing, CCP is "leveraging there assets" to try and get something for nothing.
"or helped to move the industry (USB-only iMac*)."
Part of the way Apple helped move everybody to USB was by participating in the development of IEEE 1394 (codename "firewire").
After the standard was finalized apple revealed their trademark on the term and demanded a $1 royalties everytime the word was mentioned.
"All technology is built off the shoulders of giants. Innovation is usually a process of small steps on uncharted terrain, and very seldom giant leaps over mountains."
It would nice if Apple acknowledged the shoulders it has stood on.
e.g. The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_PMP300 by Diamond multimedia was the first commercially successful portable mp3 player, release in 98. In contrast, the iPod was released three years later in 2001.
The designers of the RIO got no credit for being innovative, but they did get recognition from the RIAA, who sued them.
The ipod three years later got all sorts of awards for being an innovative _product_, however the most innovative thing about it was the fact they managed to do a deal with the RIAA and sell music online.
Another example would be Mac OSX being based on BSD.
I agree with you he was a visionary, he influenced the world in ways nobody else had (or is likely too), but while praising him for what he was. We shouldnâ(TM)t give him credit for what others did.
Well, he didnt advance technology so to speak.
What he did was copy other people advances and make them appeal to superficial people.
He was very good at it though, deserves respect for that
If you dont consider the non-monetary value of time then the question is irrelevant
"In order to provide decent access to medical care you must either translate everything"
Most of their languages have been lost, most do speak English now.
The ones that dont speak English should be no worse position (communication wise) than say, a tourist that doesnt speak English.
And what, they cant be taught English because of the way they think ???
I had forgotten a lot about Australians that i wish i couldnt remember.
Do we have to merge, or could we just respect each others differences ?
Cisco violated the GPL with Linksys.
Lets see Italy ban Cisco from using the internet.
What, the law only applies to individuals violating for personal use, its ok for companies to violating copyright for financial reasons. I get it now,
MAFIAA is strong in Italy
The stock market is white collar gambling that doesnt reflect the true value of the underlying investment.
What is the property market ?
I liked his most recent book, "the design of design".
There is no point trying to program if you dont know a little bit of design, read this book and you know a bit more.
The side that is in government has no need to push the agenda directly, the government can do it better than their supporters.
Supporters of the side that isnt in power feel a need to do something themselves.
It is however the politics of the right, not the left, that ostracize. The left (perhaps naively) wants society to be one big happy family.
Im sure there are idiots on both sides who just want to cause trouble whatever the ideology, but it would be a mistake to judge the majority by that.
Its not that the major parties are antagonistic towards technology, its that they are ignorant.
ALP(?) did get legislation through forcing government departments to consider open source software, its just that it took democrats and greens to translate the concepts into something the major parties understood.
ALP is driving the NBN which is the biggest technological investment in this country in generations, they deserve some credit for that.
This probably come about because the wikileaks drama caused some ignorant politicians to think about what they stood for, one side deciding they wanted to be seen to be "doing something" about internet stuff.
Scott Ludlam for the greens is worth following, probably more clued in about tech politics than any other representative.
Leon Lederman
"Some people fill this void with an arbitrary explanation not limited to the involvement of a postulated deity."
People who dont ask questions simply say it was god, others believe it was the Higgs-boson particle (not string theory) that did it.
All people who thinks everything can or should be explained are equally retarded in my book.
"Sadly I probably have a better understanding of politics then you do. Since I do understand the fundamental differences between left and right."
Its good to get different perspectives... could you please explain your understanding of the difference between left and right.
Why would any "leaker" send information to openleaks knowing this guy just deletes stuff rather than publish.
This guy just destroyed the organization he is trying to setup.
If you understood the fundamental differences between left and right you would know why.
And when Aussies starting to buy stuff online, bypassing their overpriced supply chain, the retails say the internet needs to fixed to make prices match their overpriced ones.
We dont need a fast national broadband network if we have all those pigeons.
This is what RFC1149 was designed for.