KaZaA does not condone activities and actions that breach the copyright of artists and copyright owners - as a KaZaA user you are bound by the KaZaA Terms of Use and laws governing copyright in each country
If you get a couple friends to go in on two books, you can put four pages on one side on most photocopiers. This really cuts the cost down and once you have it done once, you can use a nice photocopier that takes multiple pages in the copy tray to do it all at once. It's also a lot nicer to have four times more pages viewable at once.
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Yeah, and "seems" instead of "seams". And "more" instead of "ofre".
capitalism Pronunciation Key (kp-tl-zm) n. An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned and development is proportionate to the accumulation and reinvestment of profits gained in a free market.
free market n. An economic market in which supply and demand are not regulated or are regulated with only minor restrictions.
How is capitalism unrelated to government regulation again? Antitrust laws regulate company purchases of capital (other companies).They are not part of capitalism.
Kazaa's spyware is limited. If you don't do something stupid like install Bonzi Buddy, then it's limited to what you do in the (IE) browser embedded in the Kazaa client. So don't surf your corporate intranet with Kazaa. Do surf to sites like/. because maybe Kazaa'll start showing ThinkGeek ads.
And then the RIAA gets the WTO to put trade sanctions on the countries hosting these companies until they change their laws. Their economies shrink, people loose their jobs, some go starving, all so that we can trade files.
In that case it is clearly fair use, because a husband and wife have communal property. It is fair use to make copies of your copyrighted works you own to other media. This however is different than make a copy for a friend. The Audio Home Record Act says that's okay. It even say it's ok if it isn't a friend, as long as it is noncommercially.
I never thought people were claiming it was fair use to give their friends and family recording. I've heard fair use applied to changing formats: e.g. from CD to MP3 or DVD to MPEG. I've also heard people apply the Audio Home Recording Act which says that "No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings". Basically saying there is no copyright infringment if a consumer noncommercially makes a copy.
It's possible that there are mixed up people saying "Fair Use" when they mean "Audio Home Recording Act", but that doesn't make the actions of music file sharers illegal.
I never said that the opensource alternative were better, just that they are good enough. The world is full of good enough solutions. Faster hardware smooths over some design problems. And I was also speaking a lot to the platform for development.
You probably haven't worked at a place that has the fear of the BSA in them and is on a budget. That's okay. I've worked at places where everyone installs a full oracle database and iPlanet appserver on their system for development, and no development seats are purchased. Where I work now, our sitewide weblogic developers license is expensive (50K/year I believe, which includes all versions and other weblogic stuff like integrator). We're going to drop it in October when the lease is up. When we pitch to clients, we'll almost definitely say the deployment is on weblogic or whatever the flavor of appserver is there, and they'll purchase the liscense. But we'll develop on jBoss, or even just tomcat and the reference bean implementation.
I agree, there is quality in the competitors. But there is a lot of quality in postgresql, my current project has been using it since inception because of it's spacial indexing and the database has not failed yet (8 months), and if you need support, it is backed by a company (Postgres).
This is why I say postgresql the enterprise killer app, and not jBoss. Maybe it is because I don't have any long uptime experience with jBoss. Like my development weblogic, I bring it down all the time because my win2k box craves memory, and I haven't deployed to it on the integration machine (because we have weblogic licenses and it works so why "fix it"?). I still even mostly use weblogic for development, even though this project only uses servlets and JSPs, because everyone here is certified for weblogic and it's what we've been using.
But I don't think Postgres is better than Oracle, nor jBoss better than Weblogic. My attitude is more like "it fits the needs and it's free, why pay for it".
The problem with copyright is that it is based on copying, not distributing. Distributionright would have been better. I say allow anyone to photocopy a book they own, but don't allow them to give away the copies.
And as funny as it may seem that Britney Spears will go away, there is problem with it. Her music, and NSync, etc, are indicative of a culture at this time in history. Just as 80s retro is full of pop fluff, it has a nostaligic quality and is indicative of that time (synth and big hair).
Mostly I'm bitter about the movies. I just feel that 100-odd years from now there will be a new extention to copyright because there will be enough compelling expiring content to keep a person amused for a lifetime, and a medium like the internet that will be able to transmit is at little cost to the participants. Where's the money in that?
Um, why was this a troll? I do have a $@#$@load of VHS tapes. It is a compulsion my wife and I share. We see a movie we liked (especially if years ago) and we have to own it. Since we have the same compulsion, the purchase is rubber stamped. Now that we have a PS2 we do the same thing but with DVDs (actually, we bought The Matrix on DVD months before we could view it). I also have a fascination with commentary tracks, so a DVD is like getting two whole movies for me (thus worth the half gain in price, but not usually worth repeating a DVD we have as VHS).
Yes, I hate the MPAA for what there are doing to the media. If it weren't for $200 boxes that wipe the macrovision signal I wouldn't concede to these formats, but since there are ways (albeit probably now illegal ways) for me to exercise my fair use rights, I don't sweat it. When I can't, you will bet that I will be bitching loud along with the rest of them. I can also point to a wall of movies and say "what the hell am I supposed to do with those"?
Bakunin, Goldman, Sacco, Vanzetti You know, many of the early Anarchists, and even some young idealist types of today, were of the belief that each and every man, woman and child ought to decide which type of governance was best suited to individual taste and need, all of course through non violent peaceful means, if possible.
What these anarchists failed to understand is that every man, woman, and child do decide which type of governance they have. It's just that only through social cooperation can we actually achieve greatness. An individual could not accomplish StarCraft, and if they did, they could not enjoy it in the same way that a consumer would. So we must socialise to make our lives better. By socializing, we accept the societal norms of the societies we ally ourselves with.
There is nothing preventing any of us from getting a gun and holding up in our house until the FBI burns it down. It's just that one has to remember that authority comes from force. If the FBI or any other government agency can overpower you, then you do not have as much authority as them. I ownly own my home because if some random person kicks me out of it, I can appeal to authority to use it's force to evict the evictor. If the one with the most authority (read force) unilaterally decides to take my house, there is little I can do about it regardless of what a piece of paper thousands of miles away says.
Globalization is all of the societies deciding to cooperate in the hopes to achieve the most amount of greatness. Unfortunately it means the homogenization of system of governance among the large cluster. It also mean a bigger gap between the lifestyle of those in the cluster and those outside of the cluster. If a society falls out of line, such as allowing the free choice among it's subcribers to imbibe by any number of classified psychoactive substances, or by failing to provide unique identifiers on CDs, or by aquiring the same weapons that larger (controlling) countries own, then the society can be shunned from the whole. The gap between the quality of life and the achievable quality of life will encourage the society to homogenize and cooperate again. This will happen either by leaders changing their minds or the people changing their leaders through election or revolt. The quality of life in the society will have to become very low before revolt is an option. However, the controlling countries from the global society will be there to provide food, training, and equipment to the revolutionaries.
Note that Globalization is the result of the fall of Communism. This event depolarized the world. The psuedocapistalist system outlasted and now has a monopoly, no, a trust (def 8) on "the world system". This system, like other trusts, will abuse it's monopoly position to push down anyone entering the market: offering a new system of life. The leaders of the global system will shout "you are either with us or against us." Dissidence will be illegal in order to further increase the gap between cooperators and defectors.
The modern corporatisation of the world is scary enough to make even the most bloodthirsty early 20th century industrialist/mine owner turn white with fear.
That is because Globalization has more authority (read: force) than the robber barons ever had. It can strike down with great vengence and furious anger and those who attempt to poison and destroy it by offering alternatives.
We are truly on a vector into a dark age for individual rights. The current prevailing meme is that corporations make a society strong. Layoffs are to strengthen the corporations. High executive salaries are to ensure the corporations have the best leaders. Drugs are banned to prevent individuals from becoming slothful and unproductive. Legistlation is turned down because it might hurt the bottom line. Individual welfare is cut so that tax breaks to corporations will fit the budget. Unions like marriage are encouraged because survival as an individual will be increasingly harder and harder.
I know that eventually something will break. The pendulum will swing back. Disenfranchised individuals will no longer tolerate the restrictions put on them. The first ones will be crushed. The next ones slaughtered. Then killed. Then maimed. Then eventually, there will be enough across the world to throw off the schackles this system places on them. But we aren't talking about the few thousand deaths in the US Revolutionary War or the couple thousand of the October revolution. This will be a massive global insurrection. Hundreds of thousands of people will die.
Actually, it isn't. It's where the supply and demand isn't regulated (in this case, regulated mean by the government. The suppliers and demanders can obviously regulate how much they supply or demand). Preventing trusts is antithetical to a free market: first the government is regulating the sale of property (a company) directly, inorder to regulate how much contol a supplier has over the market.
Why are you so afraid of antitrust laws being antithetic to capitalism. Unrestricted capitalism was tried in this country and failed to provide a fair system. I'll concede antitrust doesn't strictly fit socialism (it still allows the companies to own their property, just not each other under certain circumstances). Unfortunately, there isn't much vocabulary discussing the concepts between socialism and capitalism.
However, antitrust law is the grease that helps a capitalist system continue forward, similar to how welfare and UI and socialized medicine and other noncapitalist ideas that are implemented act as grease to prevent the littler guy in the system from becoming so destitue that they revolt and having a chance at a future. Mostly this grease is lumped in with socialism, although certainly incorrect when going to the pure tenents of socialism.
However, antitrust is by no means capitalism. It's stopping an entity from aquiring capital. How is that a free market?
Regardless, people tend to go with what they know rather than learn a new language for no percievable reason (even if there are advantages that.NET provides, a Java student won't know them unless they took the time to look outside of what they know). Java is already fairly accepted for enterprise programming, and the new students are just going to reinforce that.
Right now I'm finding that because of the economy people are finally listening to me when I say that there are free (beer) equivelents to a lot of the packages we are running. Why pay 40-500K for oracle (depending on the project needs) when postgres is out there (clustering is currently the only reason we will consider Oracle)? Why pay 10K for weblogic when there is JBoss (again clustering is a reason to deploy there, but not develop)? Why pay for another Win2K license when linux will act as a server? Why pay for SourceSafe licenses when WinCVS and a CVS server will do the same job and some things better? Why use PCAnywhere when VNC will do great? Why vpn when TTSSH and sshd does encrypted port forwarding (and there are other free vpn alternatives, but I've never needed anything beyond ssh forwarding)?
Postgres is right now the enterprise open source killer app. It has more datatypes than standard oracle, and it works great. Cygwin has a port to win2k so developers can have their own instance on their desktop (nice for making db changes that may effect other's code). The only downside is the clustering is beta, so I don't trust it. Again, you can deploy to oracle if you stick to SQL92. Unit tests help.
Students bitter at microsoft will inject more people in corporate cultures who know the alternatives. Right now the bean counters are listening to the little voice who says "we don't need to pay for Oracle" when the PO is sent to them with over 100K on it.
It also helps that IBM is selling their big iron linux servers for 300K less, and is featuring linux on their great "corporate worst nightmare" line of commercials.
The standard is "beyond a reasonable doubt." That means that, even if you THINK he did it, if you can see a reasonable situation where he DIDN'T do it, he walks. (Please note that he WAS guilty of the civil suit for wrongful death.)
While I agree with this (certainly of what I know of the case I don't think I could have said guilty beyond reasonable doubt), but the OJ Simpson case highlighted the inequity of the U.S.: that you have to have a high price lawyer in order to be able to enjoy the rights that were given to you over 200 years ago. A poorer man would have most certainly been given a guilty verdict given the same circumstances.
America has slowly been turning itself into everything it is supposed to stand against. It is a democratic republic, but the same families appear everywhere. The same money appears everywhere. It is becoming more and more casted. Regular people are being pushed down more and more. Evenutally there will be no difference between the Republic that is America, and a Republic like Iraq.
I am glad that there are organizations like the ACLU to push back, but the fact remains that we are losing ground. The ACLU fights infringments of our rights, some it wins some it looses. The times it looses, the line is pushed back and the republic puts up another line of laws to fight against. There's no time to fight to get back the rights we've lost, because we have to fight to keep the ones we have.
Antitrust laws are certain socialist instead of capitalist. Capitalism believes in a free market. Antitrust law put value in society over the gouging a trust can do to it's consumers. They came about because of rampant capitalism in America which showed the actualy harms of allowing corporations to do whatever they want.
Right now the pendulum is swining back to those days.
Regardless, the people at slash actually have a GPLed product (slashcode). Seemingly you would think that they would know that you don't have to include the source or even a link to the source. Just provide it if asked.
Eventually we will move on from this format. I have about 40 movies in DVD format, and it'll probably eventually beat out my VHS collection (at ~700).
I'm hoping that once we move on to yet another larger format that there are some countries free enough that I can download a program that will allow me to move the DVDs to the new format.
I disagree with your assessment. The tech industry can eaily come up with a standard akin to DVD protection and have the decoding software chipset first as a separate daughterboards and then standard on motherboards. The DMCA will be used to stop decrypting rather than require all PCs to have DRM. They don't even have to get together. A couple big players will make competing designs. MPAA and RIAA will offer one or two formats and the DRM will converge (afterall, what good is DRM without the content).
There is no way, absolutely no way, that this will prevent people from copying movies. If people have to point a personal camcorder at a monitor, they will. Once in an unprotected form, the computer won't be able to tell if that the file was once copyrighted except possibly by watermarking. Even then it just takes one guy in china to use out of country equipment to rip it.
The only problem I see with this whole stuff is the Microsoft DRM patents.
While I agree with your opening statement about deliberate action, I do want to point out that if a baseball were to end up going through my window, someone was either negligent or deliberate. You can't just say "freak occurance": negligence allowed the freak occurance to occur.
The baseball using party has to accept responsibility, either by negligence or deliberate action.
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Yeah, but you need less UNIX gurus, so there are less avilable positions.
And a true Windows Guru is worth his/her weight in gold.
Dude, you can buy DVDs at Walmart for $10 and you don't have to pay shipping. They aren't the latest releases, but some good stuff.
Or try to install Photoshop 6 under Windows 95
That still pissed me off.
Check out Kazaa. Flash is free. From their site:
KaZaA does not condone activities and actions that breach the copyright of artists and copyright owners - as a KaZaA user you are bound by the KaZaA Terms of Use and laws governing copyright in each country
You'll have to sign up for a Kazaa ID.
If you get a couple friends to go in on two books, you can put four pages on one side on most photocopiers. This really cuts the cost down and once you have it done once, you can use a nice photocopier that takes multiple pages in the copy tray to do it all at once. It's also a lot nicer to have four times more pages viewable at once.
Yeah, and "seems" instead of "seams".
And "more" instead of "ofre".
For now. I realize that that sentance look like conspiracy lunacy, but just think about it. We have had but glimpse of what is to come.
capitalism Pronunciation Key (kp-tl-zm)
n.
An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned and development is proportionate to the accumulation and reinvestment of profits gained in a free market.
free market
n.
An economic market in which supply and demand are not regulated or are regulated with only minor restrictions.
How is capitalism unrelated to government regulation again? Antitrust laws regulate company purchases of capital (other companies).They are not part of capitalism.
Kazaa's spyware is limited. If you don't do something stupid like install Bonzi Buddy, then it's limited to what you do in the (IE) browser embedded in the Kazaa client. So don't surf your corporate intranet with Kazaa. Do surf to sites like /. because maybe Kazaa'll start showing ThinkGeek ads.
And then the RIAA gets the WTO to put trade sanctions on the countries hosting these companies until they change their laws. Their economies shrink, people loose their jobs, some go starving, all so that we can trade files.
In that case it is clearly fair use, because a husband and wife have communal property. It is fair use to make copies of your copyrighted works you own to other media. This however is different than make a copy for a friend. The Audio Home Record Act says that's okay. It even say it's ok if it isn't a friend, as long as it is noncommercially.
Actually, that wasn't a grammatical error. The syntax is fine. It just didn't mean what he thought it meant.
I never thought people were claiming it was fair use to give their friends and family recording. I've heard fair use applied to changing formats: e.g. from CD to MP3 or DVD to MPEG. I've also heard people apply the Audio Home Recording Act which says that "No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings". Basically saying there is no copyright infringment if a consumer noncommercially makes a copy.
It's possible that there are mixed up people saying "Fair Use" when they mean "Audio Home Recording Act", but that doesn't make the actions of music file sharers illegal.
I never said that the opensource alternative were better, just that they are good enough. The world is full of good enough solutions. Faster hardware smooths over some design problems. And I was also speaking a lot to the platform for development.
You probably haven't worked at a place that has the fear of the BSA in them and is on a budget. That's okay. I've worked at places where everyone installs a full oracle database and iPlanet appserver on their system for development, and no development seats are purchased. Where I work now, our sitewide weblogic developers license is expensive (50K/year I believe, which includes all versions and other weblogic stuff like integrator). We're going to drop it in October when the lease is up. When we pitch to clients, we'll almost definitely say the deployment is on weblogic or whatever the flavor of appserver is there, and they'll purchase the liscense. But we'll develop on jBoss, or even just tomcat and the reference bean implementation.
I agree, there is quality in the competitors. But there is a lot of quality in postgresql, my current project has been using it since inception because of it's spacial indexing and the database has not failed yet (8 months), and if you need support, it is backed by a company (Postgres).
This is why I say postgresql the enterprise killer app, and not jBoss. Maybe it is because I don't have any long uptime experience with jBoss. Like my development weblogic, I bring it down all the time because my win2k box craves memory, and I haven't deployed to it on the integration machine (because we have weblogic licenses and it works so why "fix it"?). I still even mostly use weblogic for development, even though this project only uses servlets and JSPs, because everyone here is certified for weblogic and it's what we've been using.
But I don't think Postgres is better than Oracle, nor jBoss better than Weblogic. My attitude is more like "it fits the needs and it's free, why pay for it".
The problem with copyright is that it is based on copying, not distributing. Distributionright would have been better. I say allow anyone to photocopy a book they own, but don't allow them to give away the copies.
And as funny as it may seem that Britney Spears will go away, there is problem with it. Her music, and NSync, etc, are indicative of a culture at this time in history. Just as 80s retro is full of pop fluff, it has a nostaligic quality and is indicative of that time (synth and big hair).
Mostly I'm bitter about the movies. I just feel that 100-odd years from now there will be a new extention to copyright because there will be enough compelling expiring content to keep a person amused for a lifetime, and a medium like the internet that will be able to transmit is at little cost to the participants. Where's the money in that?
Um, why was this a troll? I do have a $@#$@load of VHS tapes. It is a compulsion my wife and I share. We see a movie we liked (especially if years ago) and we have to own it. Since we have the same compulsion, the purchase is rubber stamped. Now that we have a PS2 we do the same thing but with DVDs (actually, we bought The Matrix on DVD months before we could view it). I also have a fascination with commentary tracks, so a DVD is like getting two whole movies for me (thus worth the half gain in price, but not usually worth repeating a DVD we have as VHS).
Yes, I hate the MPAA for what there are doing to the media. If it weren't for $200 boxes that wipe the macrovision signal I wouldn't concede to these formats, but since there are ways (albeit probably now illegal ways) for me to exercise my fair use rights, I don't sweat it. When I can't, you will bet that I will be bitching loud along with the rest of them. I can also point to a wall of movies and say "what the hell am I supposed to do with those"?
Bakunin, Goldman, Sacco, Vanzetti You know, many of the early Anarchists, and even some young idealist types of today, were of the belief that each and every man, woman and child ought to decide which type of governance was best suited to individual taste and need, all of course through non violent peaceful means, if possible.
What these anarchists failed to understand is that every man, woman, and child do decide which type of governance they have. It's just that only through social cooperation can we actually achieve greatness. An individual could not accomplish StarCraft, and if they did, they could not enjoy it in the same way that a consumer would. So we must socialise to make our lives better. By socializing, we accept the societal norms of the societies we ally ourselves with.
There is nothing preventing any of us from getting a gun and holding up in our house until the FBI burns it down. It's just that one has to remember that authority comes from force. If the FBI or any other government agency can overpower you, then you do not have as much authority as them. I ownly own my home because if some random person kicks me out of it, I can appeal to authority to use it's force to evict the evictor. If the one with the most authority (read force) unilaterally decides to take my house, there is little I can do about it regardless of what a piece of paper thousands of miles away says.
Globalization is all of the societies deciding to cooperate in the hopes to achieve the most amount of greatness. Unfortunately it means the homogenization of system of governance among the large cluster. It also mean a bigger gap between the lifestyle of those in the cluster and those outside of the cluster. If a society falls out of line, such as allowing the free choice among it's subcribers to imbibe by any number of classified psychoactive substances, or by failing to provide unique identifiers on CDs, or by aquiring the same weapons that larger (controlling) countries own, then the society can be shunned from the whole. The gap between the quality of life and the achievable quality of life will encourage the society to homogenize and cooperate again. This will happen either by leaders changing their minds or the people changing their leaders through election or revolt. The quality of life in the society will have to become very low before revolt is an option. However, the controlling countries from the global society will be there to provide food, training, and equipment to the revolutionaries.
Note that Globalization is the result of the fall of Communism. This event depolarized the world. The psuedocapistalist system outlasted and now has a monopoly, no, a trust (def 8) on "the world system". This system, like other trusts, will abuse it's monopoly position to push down anyone entering the market: offering a new system of life. The leaders of the global system will shout "you are either with us or against us." Dissidence will be illegal in order to further increase the gap between cooperators and defectors.
The modern corporatisation of the world is scary enough to make even the most bloodthirsty early 20th century industrialist/mine owner turn white with fear.
That is because Globalization has more authority (read: force) than the robber barons ever had. It can strike down with great vengence and furious anger and those who attempt to poison and destroy it by offering alternatives.
We are truly on a vector into a dark age for individual rights. The current prevailing meme is that corporations make a society strong. Layoffs are to strengthen the corporations. High executive salaries are to ensure the corporations have the best leaders. Drugs are banned to prevent individuals from becoming slothful and unproductive. Legistlation is turned down because it might hurt the bottom line. Individual welfare is cut so that tax breaks to corporations will fit the budget. Unions like marriage are encouraged because survival as an individual will be increasingly harder and harder.
I know that eventually something will break. The pendulum will swing back. Disenfranchised individuals will no longer tolerate the restrictions put on them. The first ones will be crushed. The next ones slaughtered. Then killed. Then maimed. Then eventually, there will be enough across the world to throw off the schackles this system places on them. But we aren't talking about the few thousand deaths in the US Revolutionary War or the couple thousand of the October revolution. This will be a massive global insurrection. Hundreds of thousands of people will die.
And then the cycle will rebirth.
Actually, it isn't. It's where the supply and demand isn't regulated (in this case, regulated mean by the government. The suppliers and demanders can obviously regulate how much they supply or demand). Preventing trusts is antithetical to a free market: first the government is regulating the sale of property (a company) directly, inorder to regulate how much contol a supplier has over the market.
Why are you so afraid of antitrust laws being antithetic to capitalism. Unrestricted capitalism was tried in this country and failed to provide a fair system. I'll concede antitrust doesn't strictly fit socialism (it still allows the companies to own their property, just not each other under certain circumstances). Unfortunately, there isn't much vocabulary discussing the concepts between socialism and capitalism.
However, antitrust law is the grease that helps a capitalist system continue forward, similar to how welfare and UI and socialized medicine and other noncapitalist ideas that are implemented act as grease to prevent the littler guy in the system from becoming so destitue that they revolt and having a chance at a future. Mostly this grease is lumped in with socialism, although certainly incorrect when going to the pure tenents of socialism.
However, antitrust is by no means capitalism. It's stopping an entity from aquiring capital. How is that a free market?
Regardless, people tend to go with what they know rather than learn a new language for no percievable reason (even if there are advantages that .NET provides, a Java student won't know them unless they took the time to look outside of what they know). Java is already fairly accepted for enterprise programming, and the new students are just going to reinforce that.
Right now I'm finding that because of the economy people are finally listening to me when I say that there are free (beer) equivelents to a lot of the packages we are running. Why pay 40-500K for oracle (depending on the project needs) when postgres is out there (clustering is currently the only reason we will consider Oracle)? Why pay 10K for weblogic when there is JBoss (again clustering is a reason to deploy there, but not develop)? Why pay for another Win2K license when linux will act as a server? Why pay for SourceSafe licenses when WinCVS and a CVS server will do the same job and some things better? Why use PCAnywhere when VNC will do great? Why vpn when TTSSH and sshd does encrypted port forwarding (and there are other free vpn alternatives, but I've never needed anything beyond ssh forwarding)?
Postgres is right now the enterprise open source killer app. It has more datatypes than standard oracle, and it works great. Cygwin has a port to win2k so developers can have their own instance on their desktop (nice for making db changes that may effect other's code). The only downside is the clustering is beta, so I don't trust it. Again, you can deploy to oracle if you stick to SQL92. Unit tests help.
Students bitter at microsoft will inject more people in corporate cultures who know the alternatives. Right now the bean counters are listening to the little voice who says "we don't need to pay for Oracle" when the PO is sent to them with over 100K on it.
It also helps that IBM is selling their big iron linux servers for 300K less, and is featuring linux on their great "corporate worst nightmare" line of commercials.
The standard is "beyond a reasonable doubt." That means that, even if you THINK he did it, if you can see a reasonable situation where he DIDN'T do it, he walks. (Please note that he WAS guilty of the civil suit for wrongful death.)
While I agree with this (certainly of what I know of the case I don't think I could have said guilty beyond reasonable doubt), but the OJ Simpson case highlighted the inequity of the U.S.: that you have to have a high price lawyer in order to be able to enjoy the rights that were given to you over 200 years ago. A poorer man would have most certainly been given a guilty verdict given the same circumstances.
America has slowly been turning itself into everything it is supposed to stand against. It is a democratic republic, but the same families appear everywhere. The same money appears everywhere. It is becoming more and more casted. Regular people are being pushed down more and more. Evenutally there will be no difference between the Republic that is America, and a Republic like Iraq.
I am glad that there are organizations like the ACLU to push back, but the fact remains that we are losing ground. The ACLU fights infringments of our rights, some it wins some it looses. The times it looses, the line is pushed back and the republic puts up another line of laws to fight against. There's no time to fight to get back the rights we've lost, because we have to fight to keep the ones we have.
And such is life in the here and now.
Antitrust laws are certain socialist instead of capitalist. Capitalism believes in a free market. Antitrust law put value in society over the gouging a trust can do to it's consumers. They came about because of rampant capitalism in America which showed the actualy harms of allowing corporations to do whatever they want.
Right now the pendulum is swining back to those days.
Regardless, the people at slash actually have a GPLed product (slashcode). Seemingly you would think that they would know that you don't have to include the source or even a link to the source. Just provide it if asked.
Eventually we will move on from this format. I have about 40 movies in DVD format, and it'll probably eventually beat out my VHS collection (at ~700).
I'm hoping that once we move on to yet another larger format that there are some countries free enough that I can download a program that will allow me to move the DVDs to the new format.
Oxidization also bothers me.
I disagree with your assessment. The tech industry can eaily come up with a standard akin to DVD protection and have the decoding software chipset first as a separate daughterboards and then standard on motherboards. The DMCA will be used to stop decrypting rather than require all PCs to have DRM. They don't even have to get together. A couple big players will make competing designs. MPAA and RIAA will offer one or two formats and the DRM will converge (afterall, what good is DRM without the content).
There is no way, absolutely no way, that this will prevent people from copying movies. If people have to point a personal camcorder at a monitor, they will. Once in an unprotected form, the computer won't be able to tell if that the file was once copyrighted except possibly by watermarking. Even then it just takes one guy in china to use out of country equipment to rip it.
The only problem I see with this whole stuff is the Microsoft DRM patents.
While I agree with your opening statement about deliberate action, I do want to point out that if a baseball were to end up going through my window, someone was either negligent or deliberate. You can't just say "freak occurance": negligence allowed the freak occurance to occur.
The baseball using party has to accept responsibility, either by negligence or deliberate action.