Re:I believe you mean freedom # -1
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A Year of GPLv3
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There will always be hardware that will allow you to run unsigned binaries as there will always be hardware that will try to restrict access.
I just don't think the FHF will take off quite to same way as the FSF since hardware will always require money to manufacturer and software can be distributed for almost no cost.
Re:I believe you mean freedom # -1
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A Year of GPLv3
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What you're thinking about is freedom -1: The freedom to take someone else's work for free, modify it, and put onerous restrictions on everyone further along the distribution change.
They have not put any restrictions on the code or the software. Tivo puts a restriction on the hardware. The hardware is beyond the scope of a software license agreement. You can download the code off their website.
Lets say you make a product. It's typically covered under the DMCA. If you have GPLv3 code and someone breaks your encryption or whatever mechanism you have to prevent people from modifying your code then you can't sue.
I think you're missing my point. I'm not asking for guaranteed bandwidth. I'm asking for an equal share of the bandwidth that is shared, regardless of my monthly cost.
I believe there are two types of open source authors. The first one is the hobbiest. I think the author of this article belongs to this group. Sort of a socialistic approach. Do work for the benefit of the community.
The second is a more capitalistic reason behind open source. Companies are big sponsores of open source. Companies can derive revenue through selling support, selling hardware or supporting an open source piece and selling a close source piece of software. Ubuntu, mySQL and google are for profit companies that support open source and derive revenue from it. For example linux kernel modules are often open sourced, so hardware manufacturers can sell more parts. Often open source advocates overlook the benefit from for profit companies that build a business around open source and in some instances alienate them. The GPLv3 for example has a clause often refered to "anti-tivoization", yet they followed the rules of the GPLv2 and release the source code to the users.
My point is that the life of a open source contributer isn't always lonely guy in a basement somewhere turning out code hoping to get recognition. It could be a cushie desk job at google.
If Comcast advertises 6Mbps I expect 6Mbps or an equal share of the remaining available bandwidth I can receive at any moment.
They have the pipe and customers are bidding on that share of pipe. Inevitably that pipe is going to get clogged just like our California freeways during rush hour. If I'm paying $60 a month I expect my own freaking lane.
I believe communication companies need incentive to upgrade their bandwidth. If they want people to pay for more bandwidth they should have to expand their network infrastructure and not limit the amount other users can download.
Just make it equal share for everyone up to the bandwidth cap they advertise. If a user who is paying $40 a month is getting the same bandwidth as the person paying $60 a month then there is no incentive for the customer to pay the $60. If the ISP wants people to pay $60 a month then they could go ahead and upgrade their networks to support more bandwidth. Just deliver what you advertise. Is that so much to ask?
Flash has a data-retention about 20 years, after that you're risking data loss. A HDD service life is about 5 years, so if you plan to have the HDD running it wouldn't last 20 years.
Keep in mind that in 20 years storage technology won't be the same. Just keep it backed up on new hard drives, or storage every few years. Make sure you have redundant copies
Re:I'll make my own datacenter
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Pimp My Datacenter
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Someday I'll get over cringing when people butcher a quote.
I'll make my own datacenter... With hookers and blackjack. In fact, screw the datacenter.
I've received some requests to make the application open source so that people can use it on their own software projects. I think that's a great idea. Unfortunately the ad hoc code needs lots of cleaning and I will be busy with other things in the next few months. If I have time I will look into it. I don't have the authority to speak on behalf of all of us/.ers, but I will anyway. Give it to us and we'll clean it up for you. Unless you're using code you can't release I'd like to take a look at what you got.
I'm not a java fan. Never have been. That being said you need an advanced 3d rendering framework to program the next gen of mobile gaming. It's really not fair to compare the two. If the mobile game market wants to standardize around a java opengl wrapper that would work, but until then it's really not fair to compare.
In the end, the underlying necessity of this project is an impossibility-the simulation of true human behavior. If this was possible, and one could accurately know and predict online behavior, the acceleration of these calculations would border the lines of predeterminism and precognition. This type of "sci-fi success" would render the creation of the NCR unnecessary, since it would create the ability to anticipate, know, and adequately prepare for all future cyber attacks. I don't think the goal is to reproduce human behavior, but reproduce the environment and basic human input. I'd argue that the user is not the cause of most vulernerabilities. Most vulernabilities are flaws with the applications, architectures, systems and protocols themselves. The human factor for most vulnerabilities has already been compiled into applications distributed and is ready for testing. There is already AI that searches for vulnerabilities in systems. This is just looking for it on a massive scale.
This new species is among the ubiquitous, yet mysterious, ultra-small bacteria, which are so tiny that they are able to pass through microbiological filters. I'm always afraid when scientists get a hold of new species of bacteria. They always do something crazy with them like make rabbits glow. I can just see it now...
Breaking news: Scientists have genetically engineered flesh-eating bacteria that is too small for scientists to detect. Drinking from your faucet is in advised as no filter can filter them out. Symptoms include explosive diarrhea then your eyeballs will fall out.
A computer scientists spends years learning about objects, algorithms, code portability, code maintenance, code design and a whole bunch of other things that are often overlooked by a novice programmer.
By all means learn how to program, but maybe you should find some computer science friends to help you with your homework.
If Mozilla puts up a debian repository and promise to update it for each release I'll download it from their site. If not I'll wait for it to be moved into the ubuntu repository. Personally, I don't have enough time during the day to install updates manually.
Turning off GPS doesn't give us any more ability to kill people. Simple keeps the enemy from killing us.
Don't underestimate the potential impact it could have on saving lives. Sure perhaps it's selfish to want to save our own lives, but hey I'm only human. If the enemy uses GPS technology to launch an attack on us we only have ourselves to blame.
The idea is that weapons systems guided by GPS are under US control as long as they are guided by US satellites. Yes GPS can be shut off. Your car GPS won't work for a little while. Look at the bright side...you're not blown up.
Mono is more of a framework. Sure it's got an IDE associated with it, but it's primarily an open source version of.net.
You could potentially write something for Mono and port it over to.net, but to have that intermediate step would probably slow you down. If you're on windows use.net. If you're on Linux(or other unix OSes) use Mono. Simple as that.
Using bit torrent for it's actual legal intended use. I love it!!!
I'm not a lawyer though. I just hope it doesn't violate apples NDA. Please please please follow the rules. Don't want to see you in prison or slapped with a large fine.
Bit torrent has received a bad reputation because of pirates. There are legitimate uses though. I do believe that doctor who episodes aren't public domain, so shame on you for that. Might want to be careful what you admit to on/.
In the right conditions a capacitor could store a charge for a long time, but it does leak. The problem is that once it's discharged it loses it's state.
You'd want to be able to store a state and figure out what the state is without changing the state.
The satellites will work together in 'constellations' and facilitate networking in space. Skynet is just around the corner. Everyone get out your big guns.
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There will always be hardware that will allow you to run unsigned binaries as there will always be hardware that will try to restrict access.
I just don't think the FHF will take off quite to same way as the FSF since hardware will always require money to manufacturer and software can be distributed for almost no cost.
What you're thinking about is freedom -1: The freedom to take someone else's work for free, modify it, and put onerous restrictions on everyone further along the distribution change.
They have not put any restrictions on the code or the software. Tivo puts a restriction on the hardware. The hardware is beyond the scope of a software license agreement. You can download the code off their website.
Lets say you make a product. It's typically covered under the DMCA. If you have GPLv3 code and someone breaks your encryption or whatever mechanism you have to prevent people from modifying your code then you can't sue.
I think you're missing my point. I'm not asking for guaranteed bandwidth. I'm asking for an equal share of the bandwidth that is shared, regardless of my monthly cost.
I believe there are two types of open source authors. The first one is the hobbiest. I think the author of this article belongs to this group. Sort of a socialistic approach. Do work for the benefit of the community.
The second is a more capitalistic reason behind open source. Companies are big sponsores of open source. Companies can derive revenue through selling support, selling hardware or supporting an open source piece and selling a close source piece of software. Ubuntu, mySQL and google are for profit companies that support open source and derive revenue from it. For example linux kernel modules are often open sourced, so hardware manufacturers can sell more parts. Often open source advocates overlook the benefit from for profit companies that build a business around open source and in some instances alienate them. The GPLv3 for example has a clause often refered to "anti-tivoization", yet they followed the rules of the GPLv2 and release
the source code to the users.
My point is that the life of a open source contributer isn't always lonely guy in a basement somewhere turning out code hoping to get recognition. It could be a cushie desk job at google.
If Comcast advertises 6Mbps I expect 6Mbps or an equal share of the remaining available bandwidth I can receive at any moment.
They have the pipe and customers are bidding on that share of pipe. Inevitably that pipe is going to get clogged just like our California freeways during rush hour. If I'm paying $60 a month I expect my own freaking lane.
I believe communication companies need incentive to upgrade their bandwidth. If they want people to pay for more bandwidth they should have to expand their network infrastructure and not limit the amount other users can download.
Just make it equal share for everyone up to the bandwidth cap they advertise. If a user who is paying $40 a month is getting the same bandwidth as the person paying $60 a month then there is no incentive for the customer to pay the $60. If the ISP wants people to pay $60 a month then they could go ahead and upgrade their networks to support more bandwidth. Just deliver what you advertise. Is that so much to ask?
Flash has a data-retention about 20 years, after that you're risking data loss.
A HDD service life is about 5 years, so if you plan to have the HDD running it wouldn't last 20 years.
Keep in mind that in 20 years storage technology won't be the same. Just keep it backed up on new hard drives, or storage every few years. Make sure you have redundant copies
Someday I'll get over cringing when people butcher a quote.
I'll make my own datacenter... With hookers and blackjack. In fact, screw the datacenter.
I saw this a while ago, but never got bored enough to try.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp4jQNa_9sY&feature=related
Looks like they are going to put spore on there.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/06/apple-announces-first-iphone-sdk-games/
I'm not a java fan. Never have been. That being said you need an advanced 3d rendering framework to program the next gen of mobile gaming. It's really not fair to compare the two. If the mobile game market wants to standardize around a java opengl wrapper that would work, but until then it's really not fair to compare.
I can just see it now...
Breaking news:
Scientists have genetically engineered flesh-eating bacteria that is too small for scientists to detect. Drinking from your faucet is in advised as no filter can filter them out. Symptoms include explosive diarrhea then your eyeballs will fall out.
A computer scientists spends years learning about objects, algorithms, code portability, code maintenance, code design and a whole bunch of other things that are often overlooked by a novice programmer.
By all means learn how to program, but maybe you should find some computer science friends to help you with your homework.
If Mozilla puts up a debian repository and promise to update it for each release I'll download it from their site. If not I'll wait for it to be moved into the ubuntu repository. Personally, I don't have enough time during the day to install updates manually.
Disclaimer: I'm not anti-military.
Turning off GPS doesn't give us any more ability to kill people. Simple keeps the enemy from killing us.
Don't underestimate the potential impact it could have on saving lives. Sure perhaps it's selfish to want to save our own lives, but hey I'm only human. If the enemy uses GPS technology to launch an attack on us we only have ourselves to blame.
The idea is that weapons systems guided by GPS are under US control as long as they are guided by US satellites.
Yes GPS can be shut off. Your car GPS won't work for a little while. Look at the bright side...you're not blown up.
I don't know if mono runs on Windows CE or Mobil.
.net.
.net, but to have that intermediate step would probably slow you down. If you're on windows use .net. If you're on Linux(or other unix OSes) use Mono. Simple as that.
Mono is more of a framework. Sure it's got an IDE associated with it, but it's primarily an open source version of
You could potentially write something for Mono and port it over to
Using bit torrent for it's actual legal intended use. I love it!!!
/.
I'm not a lawyer though. I just hope it doesn't violate apples NDA. Please please please follow the rules. Don't want to see you in prison or slapped with a large fine.
Bit torrent has received a bad reputation because of pirates. There are legitimate uses though. I do believe that doctor who episodes aren't public domain, so shame on you for that. Might want to be careful what you admit to on
Flash must be written by the block. In binary you zero everything out in the block and write all the ones or visa versa.
It's slow. It doesn't behave like RAM. It's also got a max number of writes typically expressed in MAX-number of erase cycles.
Don't know much all the PROMS, but the ones that I'm familiar with are slow.
In the right conditions a capacitor could store a charge for a long time, but it does leak. The problem is that once it's discharged it loses it's state.
You'd want to be able to store a state and figure out what the state is without changing the state.
What if I want to keep it for longer? Just make it so it disappears when I shake it real hard.
I use nspluginwrapper, but it would be nice not to take the performance hit.