The A's are a perfect example of why we all should stop watching baseball. First they threaten to leave Oakland, so the city dumps money into them on the condition that they sell last minute tickets at a price Oakland residents can actually afford. Then a year or so later they complain they need more money and that selling tickets people can actually buy is cutting into their profits and they also want more money to pay off more players because the MLB doesn't have salary caps on players or teams. So Fremont opens their checkbooks and buys the team, and Cisco comes along and to create a new field that will insure nobody from Oakland or Fremont will ever afford a ticket. In a couple years the A's will just pull this crap all over again.
I'm not a football fan, but the NFL has price caps on teams and players. The teams tend to care more about where they play and the fans follow with them even if the team is doing terrible. The A's don't have a lot of people forking out money because nobody can be proud of a team that keeps threating to leave in order to grab more money. In the same city of Oakland you can go see a packed Raiders game in the middle of one of the worst Raiders seasons in the teams history. If you're coming through the Oakland Airport you'll see a huge line of Raiders fans after the game flying home. Even when they don't live here anymore they still love the team and will pay plane fare and ticket fair to see a loosing team.
We should just start boycotting baseball entirely, there is nothing there to respect anymore.
First off, when your box asks for any address from your dns server, the dns server hits the public internet root name servers and gets the Start of Authority (SOA). This tells your dns server (or you if you wanna set up one locally) where to get DNS information for that domain. None of that changes with IPv6.... NOTHING. It can still make all of those requests over IPv4 and it doesnt' matter and it will never duplicate the requests.
Now that your dns server knows where to get the zone file for that address it goes and gets it from the SOA. If both IPv6 and IPv4 are supported then you'll have a main A record and main AAAA record (quad A) in that zone. Which ever one comes first should be the one that is honored, this is so that the people who own the domain can specify if they prefer you to use IPv6 or IPv4 (Note: WindowsXP has a bug in which it ALWAYS uses the IPv4 address if one exists).
So the increase in traffic is only between you and your dns server if the dns server is configured to get the entire zone file and not just query for a single entry (this is the proper way to configure a dns server that intends on supporting IPv6 because if you don't get the entire zone file then you don't know which protocol to prefer, it's also just a good idea and you should be getting the zone's TTL and honoring at well -- I'm anal about this by the way). If your dns server is configured to query for each entry then the traffic is only between that dns server and the start of authority. So this will not increase the load on the world wide traffic to root name server AT ALL.
ince all of this was licenced under the GPLv2 without the "or any later version" clause, it cannot be updated to v3
... unless the authors choose to move their license to v3 which would extend to previous versions:)
Most successful open source projects have a mix of code under different licenses and authors for this reason. My point is just that if transfered by the authors the extention would extend back over previous releases.
Let's just site down and admit it. Linus does not now, and probably never has, believed completely in the mission of the FSF or the freedoms given by the GPL.
He is a very smart guy, and knows that his argument doesn't hold water which is why he is declining to speak about it further. The truth is that Linus is buddying up with lots of companies, he's part of the corporate side of open source now not the community side. The relationship between money and open source has been great until now, when the needs of freedom are now coming in opposition to some of the buisness needs of open source money.
Linus didn't build the entire Linux kernel, a community did. If he is unwilling, or the companies supporting him are unwilling, to move the license forward in the interest and popular support of the linux community then we can branch the code now and start extending and reworking the linux kernel under the GPLv3. They know that, and they don't want to loose the communities support so they are trying to make it sound like the FSF is imposing their will on the community, rather than Linus and a hand full of companies imposing their will on the community that builds their product.
The provision in GPLv3 that Linus opposes refernces "Tivoization" in it's text, and if you look back Linus and others he's worked for and with have never viewed Tivo's products as a negative imposition on the rights of software and software developers.
If someone wrote additional code for the Tivo platform that users could install but was not distributed by Tivo then Tivo has absolutely no legal responsibility for possible violations of copyright law the application may commit.
This goes beyond even the sony betamax case. It would be like the RIAA sueing Microsoft or Apple because someone wrote a bittorrent client on for their operating system.
There is a provision in the GPL allowing the user to do a few things related to altering or changing the license.
One is to automatically increase the current license to a future version, which linux obviously has never opted for.
Another and more common practice is to allow the license for a work to increase to a later version of that license at the owners discresion. That means that if linus did decide to increase the license that it would make all previous version of the code GPLv3.
This is in contrast with changing the license completely, like if they were to say move the license to an Apache or Python license. That would make future versions bare the new license while older versions remained bound to the previous license.
The reason for these distinctions is to allow the GPL license to change over time and accomodate changes in the computing world and still protect works that were licensed under previous versions without inhibiting the right of the owner to maintain the copyright of their choice.
I don't know about ethanol, but i remeber some MIT students found a way to make bio-diesel using 100% algea. They said it would take a land mass about 100 square miles to replace all current oil production.
Ownership has much to do with the slant and general trends in any media organization. I suggest you read any of the dominant literature on media from the last 20 years, beginning with Manufacturing Consent by Chosmsky and Hermand.
On your point about the EFF being "over-rated" on slashdot i really don't see your point. The EFF has done nothing but persue civil liberties legislation and litigation since they were founded, slashdot tends to speak of them highly becuase they've protected and persued their rights and never betrayed that. Also the EFF doesn't really do "fund-raising drives", they have plenty of grants and funding coming from all over, including companies that share the same incentive we do as citizens to keep our rights protected.
But I do enjoy the ramblings of insane people who know nothing about which they speak.
I think you're correct about it being a "quick-and-dirty" approach, but I think usefullness of that breaks down once you realize that you have to maintain and continue to build the majority of web projects you create. Managability is key to being able to do that and I think PHP as a language fundamentally lacks that ability.
One of the django guys quoted a Rails line which was "php is the devil" and went on to say "and it is, because it tricks you. They make it so easy to build out 90% of your web app, but then that last 10% is SO HARD"
I personally find it much easier writing web apps in django than php. But then again I love python and I love full object orientation so I may be in the minority in thinking that it's easier.
Maybe I'm a bit bitter, and even at the risk of sounding like a troll I'm just gonna say it, isn't writing ANY decent amount of php kind of a hack.
Personally I'm a django fan, I really respect the rails kids for what they are doing too. Once you start doing web development in a real dynamic language you realize that web development in php in most cases IS a hack.
I've written lots of php over the years, and I'm so glad to know that I NEVER HAVE TO DO IT AGAIN. Unlike in other languages the "hacks" in php tend to be a necessity for doing development in the language. I've really tried to write "clean" code in php and it's just not possible for any project of a decent size.
This is apple, they have more lawers than the Bush administration.
If apple won't let a settled lawsuit over branding with apple music to get in the way of their music service why would they let such an obviously debatable patent stop something that could save them millions per year.
This patent wreaks of prior invention and other clauses that cause a patent to become invalid the moment someone has enough money to fight it. It just wouldn't hold up to apple's lawyers.
The real question is will apple do something that legitimizes a p2p protocol that the RIAA and MPAA are gearing up to fight. Apple's relationship with RIAA isn't too great right now, and they are just starting to get in on some of the movie money from the MPAA, are they really going to risk it?
Ok......... child molestation and sex with animals are examples of univerally condoned, in many cases, illegal behavior. It's not a matter of opinion but of the fundamental moral and legal protection against exploitation, either Man over Child or Man over Animal.
Sexuality when not a product of exploitation is a natural and accepted human phenomenon. Some people for a variety of reasons hold the opinion and prejudice that intergender or transgender sexuality is morally wrong even when it assumes that this sexuality is consentual and not the product of exploitation.
The same types of opinions were held during segregation against inter-racial sexuality, such an opinion is now broadly condoned and consider itself an attempt at depriving those people of fundamental human rights.
This opinion you have and share with a few about homo-sexuality and it's place anywhere that you are is obviously the same attempt at depriving those people of thier fundamental human rights and you should be ashamed to compare it with other sexual acts of exploitation.
This is even funnier now because the group that has historically been known to work against individual rights is now being hampered by their own policies.
The GLBT does not for the most part work against individual rights. Some organizations like GLAD grab media time by protesting pop star (fill in the blank)'s new album that contains homophobic lyrics. But for the most part the GLBT community and esspecially the Radical Feminist movement which predates the modern GLBT rights movement are pro-consitutional rights, they just want them universalized.
Also it's incredibly demeaning and in a broader sense racist to tie fundamental human rights like freedom of speech to property rights. Does this mean people without wealth or property shouldn't have rights? If a space is open to public people but owned by a person do they have the right to restrict those rights within their owned space?
The issue with MMORPG's is that there is NO END, ever, to the game. You can literally play forever and the more time you put in the harder it is to quit because you have to acknowledge all the time you've wasted playing it.
Blizzard has finally found a way to get people to end their addiction; homophobic account and guild deletions.:)
Now the GLBT community will can free of the burden of MMORPG addiction.
Every mac comes with a repair CD, and every new OS release dvd can be booted and the repair tools run.
The utilities on the CD include hard drive repair tools and fireware refreshes. The only people this will permanently affect are those that bought used intel macs on eBay and didn't get the restore cd with it...... which this close to the release of intel macs is about 3 people in the entire world.
There is a big difference though. The issue with dual booting is usually either:
a)Windows overwrote the MBR and doesn't know how to boot any other OS b)Linux or other bootmanager overwrote MBR and doesn't know how to boot windows (this is far less common nowadays but we all remember when it was huge problem) or c)You chose to install the linux boot manager NOT in the MBR, and the windows boot manager in the MBR takes precedent, so you reboot and go right in to windows.
With Boot Camp this is different, apple is emulating BIOS inside their own EFI boot manager, so the windows bootloader has no chance of ever affecting the OS X install. This is a bug in apples boot software that is affecting apples OS, not some other OS's software affecting another OS.
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The A's are a perfect example of why we all should stop watching baseball. First they threaten to leave Oakland, so the city dumps money into them on the condition that they sell last minute tickets at a price Oakland residents can actually afford. Then a year or so later they complain they need more money and that selling tickets people can actually buy is cutting into their profits and they also want more money to pay off more players because the MLB doesn't have salary caps on players or teams. So Fremont opens their checkbooks and buys the team, and Cisco comes along and to create a new field that will insure nobody from Oakland or Fremont will ever afford a ticket. In a couple years the A's will just pull this crap all over again.
I'm not a football fan, but the NFL has price caps on teams and players. The teams tend to care more about where they play and the fans follow with them even if the team is doing terrible. The A's don't have a lot of people forking out money because nobody can be proud of a team that keeps threating to leave in order to grab more money. In the same city of Oakland you can go see a packed Raiders game in the middle of one of the worst Raiders seasons in the teams history. If you're coming through the Oakland Airport you'll see a huge line of Raiders fans after the game flying home. Even when they don't live here anymore they still love the team and will pay plane fare and ticket fair to see a loosing team.
We should just start boycotting baseball entirely, there is nothing there to respect anymore.
You can make a request for a AAAA record over IPv4 though. So it's not a HUGE issue, just a big annoyance.
Nobody seems to understand how IPv6 DNS works.
First off, when your box asks for any address from your dns server, the dns server hits the public internet root name servers and gets the Start of Authority (SOA). This tells your dns server (or you if you wanna set up one locally) where to get DNS information for that domain. None of that changes with IPv6.... NOTHING. It can still make all of those requests over IPv4 and it doesnt' matter and it will never duplicate the requests.
Now that your dns server knows where to get the zone file for that address it goes and gets it from the SOA. If both IPv6 and IPv4 are supported then you'll have a main A record and main AAAA record (quad A) in that zone. Which ever one comes first should be the one that is honored, this is so that the people who own the domain can specify if they prefer you to use IPv6 or IPv4 (Note: WindowsXP has a bug in which it ALWAYS uses the IPv4 address if one exists).
So the increase in traffic is only between you and your dns server if the dns server is configured to get the entire zone file and not just query for a single entry (this is the proper way to configure a dns server that intends on supporting IPv6 because if you don't get the entire zone file then you don't know which protocol to prefer, it's also just a good idea and you should be getting the zone's TTL and honoring at well -- I'm anal about this by the way). If your dns server is configured to query for each entry then the traffic is only between that dns server and the start of authority. So this will not increase the load on the world wide traffic to root name server AT ALL.
Most successful open source projects have a mix of code under different licenses and authors for this reason. My point is just that if transfered by the authors the extention would extend back over previous releases.
Let's just site down and admit it. Linus does not now, and probably never has, believed completely in the mission of the FSF or the freedoms given by the GPL.
He is a very smart guy, and knows that his argument doesn't hold water which is why he is declining to speak about it further. The truth is that Linus is buddying up with lots of companies, he's part of the corporate side of open source now not the community side. The relationship between money and open source has been great until now, when the needs of freedom are now coming in opposition to some of the buisness needs of open source money.
Linus didn't build the entire Linux kernel, a community did. If he is unwilling, or the companies supporting him are unwilling, to move the license forward in the interest and popular support of the linux community then we can branch the code now and start extending and reworking the linux kernel under the GPLv3. They know that, and they don't want to loose the communities support so they are trying to make it sound like the FSF is imposing their will on the community, rather than Linus and a hand full of companies imposing their will on the community that builds their product.
The provision in GPLv3 that Linus opposes refernces "Tivoization" in it's text, and if you look back Linus and others he's worked for and with have never viewed Tivo's products as a negative imposition on the rights of software and software developers.
If someone wrote additional code for the Tivo platform that users could install but was not distributed by Tivo then Tivo has absolutely no legal responsibility for possible violations of copyright law the application may commit.
This goes beyond even the sony betamax case. It would be like the RIAA sueing Microsoft or Apple because someone wrote a bittorrent client on for their operating system.
That's not true.
There is a provision in the GPL allowing the user to do a few things related to altering or changing the license.
One is to automatically increase the current license to a future version, which linux obviously has never opted for.
Another and more common practice is to allow the license for a work to increase to a later version of that license at the owners discresion. That means that if linus did decide to increase the license that it would make all previous version of the code GPLv3.
This is in contrast with changing the license completely, like if they were to say move the license to an Apache or Python license. That would make future versions bare the new license while older versions remained bound to the previous license.
The reason for these distinctions is to allow the GPL license to change over time and accomodate changes in the computing world and still protect works that were licensed under previous versions without inhibiting the right of the owner to maintain the copyright of their choice.
I don't know about ethanol, but i remeber some MIT students found a way to make bio-diesel using 100% algea. They said it would take a land mass about 100 square miles to replace all current oil production.
Ownership has much to do with the slant and general trends in any media organization. I suggest you read any of the dominant literature on media from the last 20 years, beginning with Manufacturing Consent by Chosmsky and Hermand.
On your point about the EFF being "over-rated" on slashdot i really don't see your point. The EFF has done nothing but persue civil liberties legislation and litigation since they were founded, slashdot tends to speak of them highly becuase they've protected and persued their rights and never betrayed that. Also the EFF doesn't really do "fund-raising drives", they have plenty of grants and funding coming from all over, including companies that share the same incentive we do as citizens to keep our rights protected.
But I do enjoy the ramblings of insane people who know nothing about which they speak.
So why would we ever seriously consider an article by a new organization owned by Microsoft about the EFF anything less than horribly biased?
It's not 1.0 yet. After it goes 1.0, expect books, press and better documentation.
I think you're correct about it being a "quick-and-dirty" approach, but I think usefullness of that breaks down once you realize that you have to maintain and continue to build the majority of web projects you create. Managability is key to being able to do that and I think PHP as a language fundamentally lacks that ability.
One of the django guys quoted a Rails line which was "php is the devil" and went on to say "and it is, because it tricks you. They make it so easy to build out 90% of your web app, but then that last 10% is SO HARD"
I personally find it much easier writing web apps in django than php. But then again I love python and I love full object orientation so I may be in the minority in thinking that it's easier.
What defines a "hack" these days.
Maybe I'm a bit bitter, and even at the risk of sounding like a troll I'm just gonna say it, isn't writing ANY decent amount of php kind of a hack.
Personally I'm a django fan, I really respect the rails kids for what they are doing too. Once you start doing web development in a real dynamic language you realize that web development in php in most cases IS a hack.
I've written lots of php over the years, and I'm so glad to know that I NEVER HAVE TO DO IT AGAIN. Unlike in other languages the "hacks" in php tend to be a necessity for doing development in the language. I've really tried to write "clean" code in php and it's just not possible for any project of a decent size.
Any disagreements?
Leave it to penny arcade to nail this one.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/04/28
This is apple, they have more lawers than the Bush administration.
If apple won't let a settled lawsuit over branding with apple music to get in the way of their music service why would they let such an obviously debatable patent stop something that could save them millions per year.
This patent wreaks of prior invention and other clauses that cause a patent to become invalid the moment someone has enough money to fight it. It just wouldn't hold up to apple's lawyers.
The real question is will apple do something that legitimizes a p2p protocol that the RIAA and MPAA are gearing up to fight. Apple's relationship with RIAA isn't too great right now, and they are just starting to get in on some of the movie money from the MPAA, are they really going to risk it?
Wow, this sounds almost as bad as when I have @Home cable modem service :)
Constant disconnects, huge drops in bandwidth, clueless technical support. Except I was paying 40 bucks a month and locked into a year long contract.
whoops, s/condone/condemn/g
-Mikeal
Ok......... child molestation and sex with animals are examples of univerally condoned, in many cases, illegal behavior. It's not a matter of opinion but of the fundamental moral and legal protection against exploitation, either Man over Child or Man over Animal.
Sexuality when not a product of exploitation is a natural and accepted human phenomenon. Some people for a variety of reasons hold the opinion and prejudice that intergender or transgender sexuality is morally wrong even when it assumes that this sexuality is consentual and not the product of exploitation.
The same types of opinions were held during segregation against inter-racial sexuality, such an opinion is now broadly condoned and consider itself an attempt at depriving those people of fundamental human rights.
This opinion you have and share with a few about homo-sexuality and it's place anywhere that you are is obviously the same attempt at depriving those people of thier fundamental human rights and you should be ashamed to compare it with other sexual acts of exploitation.
The GLBT does not for the most part work against individual rights. Some organizations like GLAD grab media time by protesting pop star (fill in the blank)'s new album that contains homophobic lyrics. But for the most part the GLBT community and esspecially the Radical Feminist movement which predates the modern GLBT rights movement are pro-consitutional rights, they just want them universalized.
Also it's incredibly demeaning and in a broader sense racist to tie fundamental human rights like freedom of speech to property rights. Does this mean people without wealth or property shouldn't have rights? If a space is open to public people but owned by a person do they have the right to restrict those rights within their owned space?
The issue with MMORPG's is that there is NO END, ever, to the game. You can literally play forever and the more time you put in the harder it is to quit because you have to acknowledge all the time you've wasted playing it. Blizzard has finally found a way to get people to end their addiction; homophobic account and guild deletions. :)
Now the GLBT community will can free of the burden of MMORPG addiction.
Every mac comes with a repair CD, and every new OS release dvd can be booted and the repair tools run.
The utilities on the CD include hard drive repair tools and fireware refreshes. The only people this will permanently affect are those that bought used intel macs on eBay and didn't get the restore cd with it...... which this close to the release of intel macs is about 3 people in the entire world.
-Mikeal
There is a big difference though. The issue with dual booting is usually either:
a)Windows overwrote the MBR and doesn't know how to boot any other OS
b)Linux or other bootmanager overwrote MBR and doesn't know how to boot windows (this is far less common nowadays but we all remember when it was huge problem)
or
c)You chose to install the linux boot manager NOT in the MBR, and the windows boot manager in the MBR takes precedent, so you reboot and go right in to windows.
With Boot Camp this is different, apple is emulating BIOS inside their own EFI boot manager, so the windows bootloader has no chance of ever affecting the OS X install. This is a bug in apples boot software that is affecting apples OS, not some other OS's software affecting another OS.