Only thing that we can conclude from these pictures is that Mars has a history. Earth climate, core activity, erosion context, wheather contexts learn us the things we know. Would it not be possible for Mars to have his own history and his own erosion rules. No life on Mars does not mean that the planet doesn't live. I agree with Apuleius --
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I don't know about other countries, but Holland has laws of which *nobody* owns the copyright. This was covered by derivative laws or court cases. Now, suppose someone or a few *had* copyright over the law, then it would be illegal to quote that law. Statements like "innocent until proven guilty" you gotta pay for lines like that! Whatever you do don't mention the law. Giving somebody copyright over the law would simply be an impractical situation. --
Features, performance... What'y want? I installed RedHat 7.1 past weekend and it ships with both Mozilla and Netscape. I've tried them both on a 56k6 modem, and I must say that Netscape had better performance to my idea. Mozilla had the nicer features. As 56k6 modeming is quite expensive, I'd prefer to use Netscape 4.? for now. I suspect Netscape, but also Internet Explorer of using certain techniques to keep a connection going. Internet Explorer has the best performance of the 56k6 modem you see. So how do I know? Well I just simply request pages from the same web-sites all the time, and I really notice performance differences. --
Can you prove this figure of 95%, I'm sceptical, I'd believe something around 60%. Do you know why? Well, it's usually big businesses - ie multinationals, fortune 100's - who own inhouse software. The small retaillist does not, he either buys software, or he develops his own software product (ISV). The retail sector is far more bigger than you might think, 95% is simply inaccurate, it might work for the 'mainstream', but the outside world is ever bigger than the rest. --
Good point here, but there's another point: *management*. To recognize whether GPL is tough for business, one needs to understand what business is. Business is not, "oh well, let's follow the hype and create some open source stuff". Management is about controlling the processes within the business. Management is also about identifying strengths, weaknesses, oppertunities and threats (SWOT). So suppose I'm a business called Borland, and I'm opensourcing the interbase product, what would be a great threat to my business then? I guess it would be a *fork*. Suppose I've identified my customers, then after a fork, about 50% of my customers could've turned their back on my product.
Now, I'm not a manager, but I think that GPL is quite tough to create a business model round. How would one overcome loss of (invoiced) customers? If I am a manager, how do I control my business processes when the outside world is an uncertain threat (ie fork)? --
I'm not too sure about AOL, as I'm not a US citizen. But I just upgraded my RedHat 6.1 installation to a 7.1 installation. I just worked with new versions Gnome (sawfish) and KDE. I was stunned, this-is-cool-breathless, and I'm usually very low on complements. What I mean to say is that AOL might worry about this.NET strategy.
The company I work for studies (among other techniques) the.NET technique. The things I hear, Microsoft is again playing on shiny/flashy tools (I heard they even washed cars at a seminar - clean-slate-policy). The.NET strategy is to persuade developers for using it in the first year (ie now) and after that, anything will be compatible with anything else.
Storing your data at a site is another.NET strategy, but this has some practical problems:
1. Non US citizens do not have easy access to broadband - you'll need this - ever seen the size of a Word document
2. The average user is not as stupid as he looks like, he knows his documents are somewhere else, if security fails, then we might see the same effect which happened to creditcard payments over the net. People walk away.
3. Other operating systems and windows managers like Gnome, KDE, Beos and Apple become userfriendly enough for them to become serious competitors
I think Microsoft is taking on the rest of the world. I heard a lot of promises, but one chooses to upgrade from an Chinese prison to a new location in Alcatrez. People (average users) are getting sick of paying all the time. I think we have another desktop ware on our way. --
I guess it is the use in USA to see this as a free speech case, but IMHO this is really about knowledge. Someone is sued because he knows. I'd like to refer to a previous comment.
Perhaps money and power have divided such that any form of freedom is now obsolete. Ofcourse, I wouldn't be able to fight big corporates either - I just don't have the financial resources, that makes the 'legal' person RIAA more equal than me, doesn't it? Unfortunately, there's no legislation on the right to know, or the right not to know.
Control? When 'crackers' hack SDMI, and SDMI knows about it, then they have the legal backup to try to shut themmothufuckers up. An SDMI hacker is not invisible for SDMI. If SDMI was cracked in the underground like DeCSS, then it would be much harder to stop the genie getting out of the bottle. The hack is a corporate risk - first try to stop 'em (the protection), then try to stop communication (publishing the hack), then sue them (still making money from the tech.)
I'm looking for another type of paint...
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Not very ontopic here I guess, but I couldn't resist. It's nice to have paint with special properties. I am still looking for a car-coating paint which absorbs infra red light. Y'know, when they try to catch cars speeding, they use a Linar gun. Linar guns use infra red light techniques for measurements, I'd like to have a coating which cloakes the car from measurement, couldn't find this on the internet though.
First we deposit all our information into the box, next the government decides that the disposal becomes a mandatory business. Lastly, the government decides that in certain cases, the police may look at another's information in certain cases - probably to fight kiddy porn, perhaps people speeding with their car
Although this solution is utter bollocks, you can point somebody to be player number three before the contest, problem is that it then gets down to a 50% or less chance of winning.
I understand what you mean, but you didn't explain it very well: At least two people have the same colour. There is about 1/4 chance that everybody has the same colour. The proposed strategy loses in the case where all people have the same colour, meaning that the winning chances for the chosen strategy is 3/4th.
I'd like to see that. Holland will undoubtly start a trade war. Shutting down Rotterdam and Amsterdam harbour for any US product affects the European continent as a whole - the US loses export access to Germany, France and central Europe. I think this ping flooding idea is just a simple case of blind megalomania. Few years ago, the Clinton administration wanted to boycot any business doing trade with Cuba, Europe threatened with a trade war and Clinton never signed.
We here in Holland have 'cyber-cops' to deal with child pornography, these guys aren't exactly eating out of their noses, I mean, we try by all means to fight kiddy porn, a ping flood is going to hurt any dutch internet user - this is not going to happen without the US becoming an enemy for one of its allies.
Is a bug a crash, or is a bug some sort of undesired action? I suppose a bug is an undesired action... So if this program prints "Hello world!" on my screen, while it is supposed to simulate a rocket engine, then we would be talking about a major bug!
this is how
MS will die - not the Fed suit, but piles of private suits
Irony. Actually my mother thinks Windows is a great product. Compare with politics, Monica Lewinski hardly hurted the democratic party, lawsuit are unlikely going to kill Microsoft. I've seen some.NET stuff and I'm sure this is going to be widely accepted. In my opinion, only Open Source can kill Microsoft. But one cannot fight the power of public opinion - and MS is a marketing company, we all know that.
the not so unimportant movie 'Takedown' about Kevin Mitnick. In contrast to all other movies mentioned by CNN, Takedown is a biographic. This movie made me buy one of those very-very-small-notebooks!
And guess what the net was built by the US. Get off your fucking high horse
Who's on the high horse then?
There are people who think that planes crashing in Chinese territory is world news
Furthermore.. I think every soverain state should have a two letter (accoring to the ISO country coding system) TLD. Current TLD owners should be able to keep their domain.
So what is good grammar? Would it be US-English? Would it be England-English? Irish-English? Caledonian-English? Celtic-English? Australian-English? Welsh-English? Sud-Africa-English? Acedamic-English? Infant-English? Haha-there-are-more-people-speaking-Chinese-Englis h?
Here in Europe, we don't want a new DMCA. Euro-patent laws have not passed, multiple proposals were sent back to the design board. So what's the clue here? With patents on hyperlinks (British Telecom), patents on multitasking (IBM), patents on one-click payments (Amazon) etc. we can get an environment full of 'trivial' patents and we don't want that. On the other hand, Euro ICT Economics has not grown as much as the tech economy of the USA due to lack of patent laws and the ability for businesses to protect their business models.
In this atmosphere, Europe have sent the legal guys back to the drawing board and now commercial corporates and the open source community must collaborate to define new and desirable patent laws. In other words, the European government is devoted to introducing patent laws which will make everybody (well, hopefully) happy.
In my opinion, I think the battle for this lies in the making of reasonable concessions - quite democratic is it not?
I-am-a-weener-alert: No milk today, Holland is infected with M&P and we're turning massively into vegetarians here. The problem now starts to become big... and people are making fun of it, ofcourse, but alas sense of humor, any supportive comments are very welcome, even on Slashdot
And again: THE US is not THE WHOLE WORLD, and by any means; THE US does not REPRESENT THE REST OF THE WORLD. So why shout? simply because US economy goes down, and Euro economy stays the same. This article is a follow the hype bullshit.
Dot-com vally gets hit, but that has not stopped the revolution - I mean, nobody has ever proofed that internet economy is necesary - it was only assumed. I do not consider the New Economy to be a necesary part of the revolution, and nowadays we get the feeling that internet economy is not feasible - and even this statement could be wrong.
Has the internet failed due to censorship? All gouvernments commit censorship on the internet today, except for certain small European countries. Still, the gouvernments are losing the battle - they should not in all cases.
In my opinion, the problem mankind is dealing with at this moment is the problem of how to classify information. Nobody can explain me what information is, where information begins and where information ends. Promises have not been realized because we simply don't know enough of the phenomena "information". So why would this be a problem? Well, people want to protect:
* their business (patents, CSS, Copyrights etc.) by legal censorship
* their children (violence, sex, etc.) by volunteerial censorship
* their systems (firewalls, anti-virus, passwords) by censorship on system-dataflow via the network
Nobody wants their freedom to be hassled by any form of censorship (censorship is the answer to protect the above points!), so we are afraid of censorship. Censorship is necesary to protect, but the problem with information is that we do not know the borders, let's protect a business model with CSS, censorize it legally, problem is that we censorize far too much. Still, we don't know the the borders of the phenomina 'information', that's the whole problem, we made cars safer, once we understood the problem.
Now this is nice to read. At this moment, I'm working on a job in Amsterdam, which introduces (or actually reintroduces) PayPal into Europe, I know a lot of inside information. In my opinion, Credit Card Payments were unsafe and are unsafe. PayPal is fairly safe and could (if they'd change their bussines model slightly) become a significant player in the internet payment market.
The fall of the new economy has now also impact on the old economy, because the old economy has invested greatly into the new economy. The consumers have lost their faith, I mean, paying via internet wasn't all that popular in Europe, and now the US consumer is losing his faith as well, so transactions via the internet are down, with all consequences this should have. Maybe in the case that PayPal would introduce their own currency - a global internet currency - maybe we would have quite a safe way to pay via the internet, and people would have faith in doing this.
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Only thing that we can conclude from these pictures is that Mars has a history. Earth climate, core activity, erosion context, wheather contexts learn us the things we know. Would it not be possible for Mars to have his own history and his own erosion rules. No life on Mars does not mean that the planet doesn't live. I agree with Apuleius
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I don't know about other countries, but Holland has laws of which *nobody* owns the copyright. This was covered by derivative laws or court cases. Now, suppose someone or a few *had* copyright over the law, then it would be illegal to quote that law. Statements like "innocent until proven guilty" you gotta pay for lines like that! Whatever you do don't mention the law. Giving somebody copyright over the law would simply be an impractical situation.
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Features, performance... What'y want? I installed RedHat 7.1 past weekend and it ships with both Mozilla and Netscape. I've tried them both on a 56k6 modem, and I must say that Netscape had better performance to my idea. Mozilla had the nicer features. As 56k6 modeming is quite expensive, I'd prefer to use Netscape 4.? for now. I suspect Netscape, but also Internet Explorer of using certain techniques to keep a connection going. Internet Explorer has the best performance of the 56k6 modem you see. So how do I know? Well I just simply request pages from the same web-sites all the time, and I really notice performance differences.
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Can you prove this figure of 95%, I'm sceptical, I'd believe something around 60%. Do you know why? Well, it's usually big businesses - ie multinationals, fortune 100's - who own inhouse software. The small retaillist does not, he either buys software, or he develops his own software product (ISV). The retail sector is far more bigger than you might think, 95% is simply inaccurate, it might work for the 'mainstream', but the outside world is ever bigger than the rest.
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Now, I'm not a manager, but I think that GPL is quite tough to create a business model round. How would one overcome loss of (invoiced) customers? If I am a manager, how do I control my business processes when the outside world is an uncertain threat (ie fork)?
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The company I work for studies (among other techniques) the .NET technique. The things I hear, Microsoft is again playing on shiny/flashy tools (I heard they even washed cars at a seminar - clean-slate-policy). The .NET strategy is to persuade developers for using it in the first year (ie now) and after that, anything will be compatible with anything else.
Storing your data at a site is another .NET strategy, but this has some practical problems:
1. Non US citizens do not have easy access to broadband - you'll need this - ever seen the size of a Word document
2. The average user is not as stupid as he looks like, he knows his documents are somewhere else, if security fails, then we might see the same effect which happened to creditcard payments over the net. People walk away.
3. Other operating systems and windows managers like Gnome, KDE, Beos and Apple become userfriendly enough for them to become serious competitors
I think Microsoft is taking on the rest of the world. I heard a lot of promises, but one chooses to upgrade from an Chinese prison to a new location in Alcatrez. People (average users) are getting sick of paying all the time. I think we have another desktop ware on our way.
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Perhaps money and power have divided such that any form of freedom is now obsolete. Ofcourse, I wouldn't be able to fight big corporates either - I just don't have the financial resources, that makes the 'legal' person RIAA more equal than me, doesn't it? Unfortunately, there's no legislation on the right to know, or the right not to know.
Control? When 'crackers' hack SDMI, and SDMI knows about it, then they have the legal backup to try to shut themmothufuckers up. An SDMI hacker is not invisible for SDMI. If SDMI was cracked in the underground like DeCSS, then it would be much harder to stop the genie getting out of the bottle. The hack is a corporate risk - first try to stop 'em (the protection), then try to stop communication (publishing the hack), then sue them (still making money from the tech.)
Not very ontopic here I guess, but I couldn't resist. It's nice to have paint with special properties. I am still looking for a car-coating paint which absorbs infra red light. Y'know, when they try to catch cars speeding, they use a Linar gun. Linar guns use infra red light techniques for measurements, I'd like to have a coating which cloakes the car from measurement, couldn't find this on the internet though.
First we deposit all our information into the box, next the government decides that the disposal becomes a mandatory business. Lastly, the government decides that in certain cases, the police may look at another's information in certain cases - probably to fight kiddy porn, perhaps people speeding with their car
Although this solution is utter bollocks, you can point somebody to be player number three before the contest, problem is that it then gets down to a 50% or less chance of winning.
I understand what you mean, but you didn't explain it very well: At least two people have the same colour. There is about 1/4 chance that everybody has the same colour. The proposed strategy loses in the case where all people have the same colour, meaning that the winning chances for the chosen strategy is 3/4th.
We here in Holland have 'cyber-cops' to deal with child pornography, these guys aren't exactly eating out of their noses, I mean, we try by all means to fight kiddy porn, a ping flood is going to hurt any dutch internet user - this is not going to happen without the US becoming an enemy for one of its allies.
Is a bug a crash, or is a bug some sort of undesired action? I suppose a bug is an undesired action... So if this program prints "Hello world!" on my screen, while it is supposed to simulate a rocket engine, then we would be talking about a major bug!
Irony. Actually my mother thinks Windows is a great product. Compare with politics, Monica Lewinski hardly hurted the democratic party, lawsuit are unlikely going to kill Microsoft. I've seen some .NET stuff and I'm sure this is going to be widely accepted. In my opinion, only Open Source can kill Microsoft. But one cannot fight the power of public opinion - and MS is a marketing company, we all know that.
Is there some sort of 3D simulation of such a system available, I'm having a hard time imagining this...
the not so unimportant movie 'Takedown' about Kevin Mitnick. In contrast to all other movies mentioned by CNN, Takedown is a biographic. This movie made me buy one of those very-very-small-notebooks!
And guess what the net was built by the US. Get off your fucking high horse
Who's on the high horse then?
There are people who think that planes crashing in Chinese territory is world news
Furthermore.. I think every soverain state should have a two letter (accoring to the ISO country coding system) TLD. Current TLD owners should be able to keep their domain.
Well, I don't worry about SGI, you see, I'm an open minded fellar.. *gi GL e*
And therefore I can sue anyone and anything using solar energy... I'll start sueing my cat.
Which spelling checker are you?
In this atmosphere, Europe have sent the legal guys back to the drawing board and now commercial corporates and the open source community must collaborate to define new and desirable patent laws. In other words, the European government is devoted to introducing patent laws which will make everybody (well, hopefully) happy.
In my opinion, I think the battle for this lies in the making of reasonable concessions - quite democratic is it not?
I-am-a-weener-alert: No milk today, Holland is infected with M&P and we're turning massively into vegetarians here. The problem now starts to become big... and people are making fun of it, ofcourse, but alas sense of humor, any supportive comments are very welcome, even on Slashdot
Dot-com vally gets hit, but that has not stopped the revolution - I mean, nobody has ever proofed that internet economy is necesary - it was only assumed. I do not consider the New Economy to be a necesary part of the revolution, and nowadays we get the feeling that internet economy is not feasible - and even this statement could be wrong.
Has the internet failed due to censorship? All gouvernments commit censorship on the internet today, except for certain small European countries. Still, the gouvernments are losing the battle - they should not in all cases.
In my opinion, the problem mankind is dealing with at this moment is the problem of how to classify information. Nobody can explain me what information is, where information begins and where information ends. Promises have not been realized because we simply don't know enough of the phenomena "information". So why would this be a problem? Well, people want to protect:
* their business (patents, CSS, Copyrights etc.) by legal censorship
* their children (violence, sex, etc.) by volunteerial censorship
* their systems (firewalls, anti-virus, passwords) by censorship on system-dataflow via the network
Nobody wants their freedom to be hassled by any form of censorship (censorship is the answer to protect the above points!), so we are afraid of censorship. Censorship is necesary to protect, but the problem with information is that we do not know the borders, let's protect a business model with CSS, censorize it legally, problem is that we censorize far too much. Still, we don't know the the borders of the phenomina 'information', that's the whole problem, we made cars safer, once we understood the problem.
The fall of the new economy has now also impact on the old economy, because the old economy has invested greatly into the new economy. The consumers have lost their faith, I mean, paying via internet wasn't all that popular in Europe, and now the US consumer is losing his faith as well, so transactions via the internet are down, with all consequences this should have. Maybe in the case that PayPal would introduce their own currency - a global internet currency - maybe we would have quite a safe way to pay via the internet, and people would have faith in doing this.