Definiately. XFree86 still has plenty of work in front of it to get linux on the desktop, although companies like Corel will help them along, I'm sure.
2. Then along with working on their solution you can also work on yours along with adding specialized functionality with the product, as long as it maintains its GPL license which it has too:)
However, if they only use the tool internally, then they do not have to give the modified source to anyone except the people who use it internally, and they can legally require that you do not give out any modifications. Then it may become even harder to work on the project because any additions, on or off the job, might fall under company IP.
The only way I can see is similar to this, find a company or companies that use your product and get support contracts with them. The important part is making sure the company understands your goals in the contract (I assume the biggies are you want to be just a one man person who adds features/does unit testing, and you don't want to be 1(800)configg for them). If they use you product internally, then they will have people to do set up. You are just doing features support.
when you do this, you may want to incorporate (it's not as hard as you think. There are big shortcuts to incorporation for individuals/small businesses) to protect yourself liability wise (that way if theres a big problem, you don't go bankrupt, the corporation does).
The problem with your response above is that the "employees" cited don't have the code, if you mean the source code. They have the binaries they became entitled to when they joined NickSoft. NickSoft still holds the source, can keep it proprietary, and new members can still pay to "join."
The employees must be able to get the code, because of the GPL. It doesn't matter who you ditribute it to, a friend, an employee, whatever, they must be able to get the source code for it. I really don't see the loophole from this summary.
OpenText used to have a blind developer (as in programmer) working for them. He may even still be there. Basically, he had a VT like terminal that would speak to him. It doesn't surprise me that there are blind websurfers, especially because of the lawsuit against AOL for ADA Non-Complience
It's odd how people forget that gopher was the web without graphics. Gopher never took off nearly to the extent that the web did, and gohperspace a pretty much ignored subset of webspace now. Yeah, it might because http understans MIME, but IMO it's because of the graphical nature of the web that it's doing so much better.
BTW, I think you meant to link here, and I agree: aweful.
That's your experience versus my experience. I've found quite bit of Director based content in my time. For example, Adam Sandler released a Director based movie called "The Peeper", which I qute enjoyed. There were quite a few amusing little Director games on mediadome when it was still around.
The whole thing is a matter of YYMV, though. My original point wasn't that these things are necessary for everyone, but the lack of plugins does make surfing under linux not as good as under Win32. In an age where more and more applications are being moved onto web servers, a factor in OS domination will be the Web browsing experience.
As an aside, this is why reviews like this one are important to linux. It tells people that linux has decent browsers. After a win32 person reads such a review, they may say to themselves "Hey, all I really do is web surf on my computer, maybe I should try out linux as my OS".
As for not being part of the standard, the HTML 4 loose DTD has object as part of the standard. Thus embedding objects is part of the standard. Shunning a site because they embed a Director movie is like shunning a site because they link to a PDF.
The thing that keeps me using IE is the fact that can go to a page that has a Flash object on it and IE will say "You don't have Flash, do you want it installed?" and it automagically does so if I say yes. And while Linux has Flash, there's no Shockwave for linux (according to macromedia). While plug-ins are the main force behind web surfin, a lack of plug-ins still makes web surfing on linux second rate.
I agree that Linux is not that easy for the end consumer, but Linux has gotten to the point that it makes more sence on the server side of things. This fact only recently struck me as I was configuring some stuff on Solaris and Linux.
Basically it come down to this: the UNIX platforms are getting the new technology sooner than Win32 on the server side. The Apache site states their Win32 offering is not as good as their UNIX offering. This is significant because Apache gets the addons way sooner than IIS. JServ, php, JSP, etc. There are just more new technologies on Linux servers than on Win32 servers. And with Samba, you don't really need WinNT Server (except maybe for Exchange, though I don't know much about what Exchange Server does beyond the email. Does it handle the appointment stuff, etc? Can all the functionality be replaced with zmail and a newserver?).
It for this reason that I think this investment is fairly sound (at least for Dell who has large server revenues, and Compaq who is trying to move [or have they succeeded yet] into the server market).
This in and of itself isn't proof that they work, but when added to the resulst of the UDPs of Erols.com, Bell Atlantic, UUnet, Compuserve, TIAC, Netcom, MCI2000.com, PSINet, Starnet Inc, HKT, BBNPlanet, and Ameritech, it's is apparent that UDPs work. However, it is important to bare in mind that UDPs are a last resort, and should only be followed by attempts at discussing the problem with the networks in question.
What about legal issues? Don't you worry about being sued? As UUnet (and others) have found, there is no legal requirement for other sites to carry or post their messages. Cancel messages are advisory in nature, and the sites which accept them have to have the ability to process them enabled in their software for them to be effective (the vast majority of sites have them enabled). UUnet threatened legal action when they were UDP'ed in August of 1997, but both the US Justice Department and the FBI (and presumably their own legal department after they consulted them) stated that there had been no laws broken and that they refused to investigate or act. Because none of their own equipment or networks were attacked, compromised, or even affected, there was no legitimate Denial Of Service (DOS) complaint that could be filed. What was happening, in effect, was an organized boycott of their messages. Nothing more, nothing less - and there is nothing illegal in all that. There would also be a horrendous negative public relations wave from actually instituting any legal action. When UUnet threatened, even more people came out in support of that UDP, contributions to legal funds were offered by a large number of people, lawyers volunteered to defend those participating in the UDP, and many ISPs promised to alias UUnet permanently (and work to get others to do the same) the moment they actually instituted legal action.
As another example, there was a rogue canceler, nicknamed "the Kikecanceller" [because his racially inspired cancel message paths all had "!kikecancel" (along with "!spiccancel," "!wopcancel," and others) in them], who was active for a short while. This rogue canceler nuked over 25,000 articles for no legitimate reason before his account got canceled. James M. Hawkins, the supervising agent at the FBI's Tulsa office, stated: "We don't have a case. I don't think we're going to be getting involved in the matter." The local United States Attorney's office was contacted about the cancellations and they replied that no law had been broken. (see the NY Times article about the "Kikecanceller". Note: this site requires you to enter a user name and password to access it, although it is free. There have been no reported instances of spam being sent to any test address that was used to enter the site, so it appears as if this data is only used by that site and not released to anyone who might utilize it for a spamlist).
My statements "Sure you might save lives in some cases but will you always know which actions you take will result in the preservation of like over the loss of it. Will be able to back down on a mission that you feel will result in needless death." touched on this topic lightly. You can help save lives by taking lives, such as in a Just War. But even if the War is just, a particular battle may have aspects of injustice. Even if you are justified in killing to save lives, not every kill necessarily saves a life.
There are other inherent problems to the concept of a Just War. "Just" is a matter of perspective and in most cases both sides feel Just. If an invader attacks us, are we Just in defending ourselves? Is our culture pure enough that it should survive along side others? How about Iraq's culture? Was Iraq Just in defending itself against the US in the Gulf War? I really wish I had more time to talk about this but I have a demo at 12.
Back to the original topic, you have to ask yourself if you want to play a role in esclating a crisis to a War. My main point is that this tpye of thing should not be taken lightly. I see a lot of posts in here saying "Wow that would be a great job. I'd have so many great toys." But you have to think of these real issues before jumping into something like this and even then you have to contiue to think every day if what you are doing is right.
I'm not entirely sure I see the parallel. Your friend is attempting to make an economic commentary on the social security system, (i am assuming) implying that the securities will not be there for him when he because of the strain the baby boomers will have on it.
The only new word/phrase I used was Xackor/xacking, which was to sidestep the hacker/cracker debate and keep people focused on the issues raised by replacing the h or cr part with the random variable x. New words and phrases are best coined out of necessecity, not random chance.
Obviously, it didn't work this time, with people getting hung up on some new terminology that is quite well defined by context. However, through repetative use, I will eventually be able to have people respond to the content of my posts.
Go and read up on your history, and come back when you've learned a thing or two about how espionage averted WW III during the Cuban missle crisis.
It is specious reasoning that without espionage the Cuban missile crisis would have escalated to WW III, since we can not know what a history without espionage would be like. In additions, it is a tautology to say that espionage is good because it bailed us out of the Cuban missle crisis because espionage put us into the Cuban missle crisis (why is it that the US can have nuclear missiles in northern Canada, but the Russians can't have them in Cuba?).
The U.S. military is a tool used to maintain the interests of the U.S. government. If you whole heartedly agree with those interests and the actions taken to preserve those interest, then you and I are on different wavelengths and might as well settle on a difference of opinion. If you do not wholy agree with the U.S. government agenda or their actions to develop the agenda, then you might see unethical nature of a position like this.
I personally have a hard time condoning any of this. First of all, I find the ethics of xackors to be questionable to start. Xacking a system isn't necessarily always wrong, but the the majority of the typical website tagging, snooping, and trashing has no ethical ground to stand on. Claims that if it was meant to be secure, then they should have secured it are as logical as claiming you should be allowed to break into a house because the door isn't made of reinforced steel.
But then the U.S. military wants to hire Xackors. This pushes the ethics from the realm of mischevous anarchy to malicious calculated coordinated intent: xacking for a major powerful government body for the purpose of maintaining its agenda. This is far more insideous than changing the front page of Microsoft to say "Bill Gates lick my balls". Actions taken on behave of any government's military have consequences that can easily end in the death of many people. Sure you might save lives in some cases but will you always know which actions you take will result in the preservation of like over the loss of it. Will be able to back down on a mission that you feel will result in needless death.
We, as individuals, have to make ethical choices for ourselves. If you are a xackor then I hope you give it up for more constructive past times, but I'll settle for you not accepting a military offer.
Re 1: I've clicked on ad banners to find the secret password to gain access to MP3 sites. However, I'm doubtful that the servers in question were making a mint.
Re 2: The average connection time will get faster. There is also home versus work connections. At various places I've worked, there are MP3 areas for people to encode/download into and everyone can listen from there during the day. With ZIP drives and CDRWs it becoms easier to bring it home.
Re 3: I really can't say anything specific because I don't know what browsers you are refering to, but it seems like the mime-type for mp3s aren't set up right. This problem can occur on the server that servers the mp3, in the config in the browser, or in an outside config file (like.mailcap)
Re 4: I can't comment to much on this from my own experience since I can't tell the difference between cassette and CD audio, but one thing to bear in mind is that MP3s are popular. It's not just some media hype. MP3s are one of the things that are drawing nontechnical people to the Web, because they understand "free music". I think the people at Time kind of missed this because they are predicting that MP3s are going to make their strike at the music artists this year, when in fact MP3s are such a hit that they are making music artists more popular.
This isn't a problem. The Palm holds the HotSync id and broadcasts it when it HotSync. This is how you can have multiple Palms sync on the same cradle, providing the craddle is the same for each kind (there is a different craddle for the last 4 kinds of Palms and Visors have a different kind as well). The only problem is that each craddle is different.
Why? Who knows. Maybe to force people to upgrade:)
If the people who lost time, etc want money, then they can file a class action lawsuit against the spammers. It will probably be easier for them because this decision holds that the spammers did do it, but you would still have to convince the judge that time/money was lost. IANALBIMTALS
Did anyone else notice that you can't read the sign in the simulator. Great. I can see people/cars/deer, but I can't read signs warning "Slow to 20, dangerous curves ahead".
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Definiately. XFree86 still has plenty of work in front of it to get linux on the desktop, although companies like Corel will help them along, I'm sure.
I wonder if VA linux will bundle it. That could be a way of trying to get an edge on RedHat.
Since OpenGL 1.2 is an open standard this shouldn't amount to fracturing of linux, which is good.
However, if they only use the tool internally, then they do not have to give the modified source to anyone except the people who use it internally, and they can legally require that you do not give out any modifications. Then it may become even harder to work on the project because any additions, on or off the job, might fall under company IP.
The only way I can see is similar to this, find a company or companies that use your product and get support contracts with them. The important part is making sure the company understands your goals in the contract (I assume the biggies are you want to be just a one man person who adds features/does unit testing, and you don't want to be 1(800)configg for them). If they use you product internally, then they will have people to do set up. You are just doing features support.
when you do this, you may want to incorporate (it's not as hard as you think. There are big shortcuts to incorporation for individuals/small businesses) to protect yourself liability wise (that way if theres a big problem, you don't go bankrupt, the corporation does).
The employees must be able to get the code, because of the GPL. It doesn't matter who you ditribute it to, a friend, an employee, whatever, they must be able to get the source code for it. I really don't see the loophole from this summary.
OpenText used to have a blind developer (as in programmer) working for them. He may even still be there. Basically, he had a VT like terminal that would speak to him. It doesn't surprise me that there are blind websurfers, especially because of the lawsuit against AOL for ADA Non-Complience
It's odd how people forget that gopher was the web without graphics. Gopher never took off nearly to the extent that the web did, and gohperspace a pretty much ignored subset of webspace now. Yeah, it might because http understans MIME, but IMO it's because of the graphical nature of the web that it's doing so much better.
BTW, I think you meant to link here, and I agree: aweful.
That's your experience versus my experience. I've found quite bit of Director based content in my time. For example, Adam Sandler released a Director based movie called "The Peeper", which I qute enjoyed. There were quite a few amusing little Director games on mediadome when it was still around.
The whole thing is a matter of YYMV, though. My original point wasn't that these things are necessary for everyone, but the lack of plugins does make surfing under linux not as good as under Win32. In an age where more and more applications are being moved onto web servers, a factor in OS domination will be the Web browsing experience.
As an aside, this is why reviews like this one are important to linux. It tells people that linux has decent browsers. After a win32 person reads such a review, they may say to themselves "Hey, all I really do is web surf on my computer, maybe I should try out linux as my OS".
As for not being part of the standard, the HTML 4 loose DTD has object as part of the standard. Thus embedding objects is part of the standard. Shunning a site because they embed a Director movie is like shunning a site because they link to a PDF.
The thing that keeps me using IE is the fact that can go to a page that has a Flash object on it and IE will say "You don't have Flash, do you want it installed?" and it automagically does so if I say yes. And while Linux has Flash, there's no Shockwave for linux (according to macromedia). While plug-ins are the main force behind web surfin, a lack of plug-ins still makes web surfing on linux second rate.
I agree that Linux is not that easy for the end consumer, but Linux has gotten to the point that it makes more sence on the server side of things. This fact only recently struck me as I was configuring some stuff on Solaris and Linux.
Basically it come down to this: the UNIX platforms are getting the new technology sooner than Win32 on the server side. The Apache site states their Win32 offering is not as good as their UNIX offering. This is significant because Apache gets the addons way sooner than IIS. JServ, php, JSP, etc. There are just more new technologies on Linux servers than on Win32 servers. And with Samba, you don't really need WinNT Server (except maybe for Exchange, though I don't know much about what Exchange Server does beyond the email. Does it handle the appointment stuff, etc? Can all the functionality be replaced with zmail and a newserver?).
It for this reason that I think this investment is fairly sound (at least for Dell who has large server revenues, and Compaq who is trying to move [or have they succeeded yet] into the server market).
Here's the Hard OCP review of the Afterburner (from the link).
I wonder when we'll start seeing box sets all on one ISO CD buyable from any music store.
I'm still waiting for the car based MP3 players to come down in price
This in and of itself isn't proof that they work, but when added to the resulst of the UDPs of Erols.com, Bell Atlantic, UUnet, Compuserve, TIAC, Netcom, MCI2000.com, PSINet, Starnet Inc, HKT, BBNPlanet, and Ameritech, it's is apparent that UDPs work. However, it is important to bare in mind that UDPs are a last resort, and should only be followed by attempts at discussing the problem with the networks in question.
From the UDP FAQ:
What about legal issues? Don't you worry about being sued? As UUnet (and others) have found, there is no legal requirement for other sites to carry or post their messages. Cancel messages are advisory in nature, and the sites which accept them have to have the ability to process them enabled in their software for them to be effective (the vast majority of sites have them enabled). UUnet threatened legal action when they were UDP'ed in August of 1997, but both the US Justice Department and the FBI (and presumably their own legal department after they consulted them) stated that there had been no laws broken and that they refused to investigate or act. Because none of their own equipment or networks were attacked, compromised, or even affected, there was no legitimate Denial Of Service (DOS) complaint that could be filed. What was happening, in effect, was an organized boycott of their messages. Nothing more, nothing less - and there is nothing illegal in all that. There would also be a horrendous negative public relations wave from actually instituting any legal action. When UUnet threatened, even more people came out in support of that UDP, contributions to legal funds were offered by a large number of people, lawyers volunteered to defend those participating in the UDP, and many ISPs promised to alias UUnet permanently (and work to get others to do the same) the moment they actually instituted legal action.
As another example, there was a rogue canceler, nicknamed "the Kikecanceller" [because his racially inspired cancel message paths all had "!kikecancel" (along with "!spiccancel," "!wopcancel," and others) in them], who was active for a short while. This rogue canceler nuked over 25,000 articles for no legitimate reason before his account got canceled. James M. Hawkins, the supervising agent at the FBI's Tulsa office, stated: "We don't have a case. I don't think we're going to be getting involved in the matter." The local United States Attorney's office was contacted about the cancellations and they replied that no law had been broken. (see the NY Times article about the "Kikecanceller". Note: this site requires you to enter a user name and password to access it, although it is free. There have been no reported instances of spam being sent to any test address that was used to enter the site, so it appears as if this data is only used by that site and not released to anyone who might utilize it for a spamlist).
Notepad doesn't have Search and Replace.
My statements "Sure you might save lives in some cases but will you always know which actions you take will result in the preservation of like over the loss of it. Will be able to back down on a mission that you feel will result in needless death." touched on this topic lightly. You can help save lives by taking lives, such as in a Just War. But even if the War is just, a particular battle may have aspects of injustice. Even if you are justified in killing to save lives, not every kill necessarily saves a life.
There are other inherent problems to the concept of a Just War. "Just" is a matter of perspective and in most cases both sides feel Just. If an invader attacks us, are we Just in defending ourselves? Is our culture pure enough that it should survive along side others? How about Iraq's culture? Was Iraq Just in defending itself against the US in the Gulf War? I really wish I had more time to talk about this but I have a demo at 12.
Back to the original topic, you have to ask yourself if you want to play a role in esclating a crisis to a War. My main point is that this tpye of thing should not be taken lightly. I see a lot of posts in here saying "Wow that would be a great job. I'd have so many great toys." But you have to think of these real issues before jumping into something like this and even then you have to contiue to think every day if what you are doing is right.
I'm not entirely sure I see the parallel. Your friend is attempting to make an economic commentary on the social security system, (i am assuming) implying that the securities will not be there for him when he because of the strain the baby boomers will have on it.
The only new word/phrase I used was Xackor/xacking, which was to sidestep the hacker/cracker debate and keep people focused on the issues raised by replacing the h or cr part with the random variable x. New words and phrases are best coined out of necessecity, not random chance.
Obviously, it didn't work this time, with people getting hung up on some new terminology that is quite well defined by context. However, through repetative use, I will eventually be able to have people respond to the content of my posts.
It is specious reasoning that without espionage the Cuban missile crisis would have escalated to WW III, since we can not know what a history without espionage would be like. In additions, it is a tautology to say that espionage is good because it bailed us out of the Cuban missle crisis because espionage put us into the Cuban missle crisis (why is it that the US can have nuclear missiles in northern Canada, but the Russians can't have them in Cuba?).
The U.S. military is a tool used to maintain the interests of the U.S. government. If you whole heartedly agree with those interests and the actions taken to preserve those interest, then you and I are on different wavelengths and might as well settle on a difference of opinion. If you do not wholy agree with the U.S. government agenda or their actions to develop the agenda, then you might see unethical nature of a position like this.
I personally have a hard time condoning any of this. First of all, I find the ethics of xackors to be questionable to start. Xacking a system isn't necessarily always wrong, but the the majority of the typical website tagging, snooping, and trashing has no ethical ground to stand on. Claims that if it was meant to be secure, then they should have secured it are as logical as claiming you should be allowed to break into a house because the door isn't made of reinforced steel.
But then the U.S. military wants to hire Xackors. This pushes the ethics from the realm of mischevous anarchy to malicious calculated coordinated intent: xacking for a major powerful government body for the purpose of maintaining its agenda. This is far more insideous than changing the front page of Microsoft to say "Bill Gates lick my balls". Actions taken on behave of any government's military have consequences that can easily end in the death of many people. Sure you might save lives in some cases but will you always know which actions you take will result in the preservation of like over the loss of it. Will be able to back down on a mission that you feel will result in needless death.
We, as individuals, have to make ethical choices for ourselves. If you are a xackor then I hope you give it up for more constructive past times, but I'll settle for you not accepting a military offer.
Re 1: I've clicked on ad banners to find the secret password to gain access to MP3 sites. However, I'm doubtful that the servers in question were making a mint.
Re 2: The average connection time will get faster. There is also home versus work connections. At various places I've worked, there are MP3 areas for people to encode/download into and everyone can listen from there during the day. With ZIP drives and CDRWs it becoms easier to bring it home.
Re 3: I really can't say anything specific because I don't know what browsers you are refering to, but it seems like the mime-type for mp3s aren't set up right. This problem can occur on the server that servers the mp3, in the config in the browser, or in an outside config file (like .mailcap)
Re 4: I can't comment to much on this from my own experience since I can't tell the difference between cassette and CD audio, but one thing to bear in mind is that MP3s are popular. It's not just some media hype. MP3s are one of the things that are drawing nontechnical people to the Web, because they understand "free music". I think the people at Time kind of missed this because they are predicting that MP3s are going to make their strike at the music artists this year, when in fact MP3s are such a hit that they are making music artists more popular.
Since most glass composites for glasses filter UVB, just where your normal 2nd set of eyes.
Every day is the start of a new millenium.
This isn't a problem. The Palm holds the HotSync id and broadcasts it when it HotSync. This is how you can have multiple Palms sync on the same cradle, providing the craddle is the same for each kind (there is a different craddle for the last 4 kinds of Palms and Visors have a different kind as well). The only problem is that each craddle is different. Why? Who knows. Maybe to force people to upgrade :)
There seem to be 14 points
If the people who lost time, etc want money, then they can file a class action lawsuit against the spammers. It will probably be easier for them because this decision holds that the spammers did do it, but you would still have to convince the judge that time/money was lost. IANALBIMTALS
Did anyone else notice that you can't read the sign in the simulator. Great. I can see people/cars/deer, but I can't read signs warning "Slow to 20, dangerous curves ahead".