If you think you can get 38 states to sign off on a DRM banning amendment then I guess all the power to you. Personally I think the GP's was a rather absurd suggestion.
DRM is primarily used to restrain trade by locking out the competition, and piracy is the excuse. Now consider that the Interstate Commerce Clause has been widely used to control the States, so commerce is something understood and respected.
France made a law at one point that the iPod/iTunes DRM could by used, but only if it was interoperable with the competition. They may not have understood DRM, but the politicians get business.
That's why you have Java Web Start.... it doesn't even take much effort to make sure it even runs on other clients than Windows desktops.
You can even use native libraries! So if you *must* have that native C dll/so, you can use JNI, sign the files, and you can still deploy with Web Start.
It'll run on all the platforms you provide libraries for. (I was amazed when I learned this recently. Why isn't this everywhere?)
... it seems silly to me to ignore the possibilities of adding an "RPU" to the mix instead of just adding more general purpose CPU power.
An FPGA with a HyperTransport connection to the CPU(s) would be ideal for testing and allowing end users to try something new. Except that AMD uses HyperTransport, not Intel, so we'll have to wait for that solution to get hyped.
Hate to be cynical about this, but where's the talk about making *laws* to change this for good? What if the next president is worse then Bush?
I don't hear anyone talking about systemic changes to prevent the next round of abuses. What we need is accounting for the past, but what we're getting is telecom immunity.
The eBay score doesn't really tell you much on their own if they have 1 negative and 2000 positives, and the negative is for a thousand dollar item, and everything else was a buck, either.
Netflix had a contest for a "recommendation algorithm", can you image EBay having a "karma algorithm" contest? EBay is paralyzed because it might jeopardize profits. Netflix doesn't have that luxury due to all the companies trying to create/control content delivery.
We need a virus that submits bogus DMCA notices. In volumes that require automated responses, Google would be forced to take action. It would ruin YouTube to honor the notices, or they would be forced to ignore the flood of (legit looking) DMCA takedown notices.
Then the unfair power of companies-with-lawyers would be exposed since RIAA DMCA notices would either get special treatment, or ignored like the virus DMCA notices. Google would have to break the DMCA to ignore the spam, since they can't tell if it's legit. Google would get the laws changed once they couldn't play copyright cop.
Project Wonderland is a 100% Java and open source toolkit for creating collaborative 3D virtual worlds. Within those worlds, users can communicate with high-fidelity, immersive audio, share live desktop applications and documents and conduct real business. Wonderland is completely extensible; developers and graphic artists can extend its functionality to create entire new worlds and new features in existing worlds.
Of course the courts agree with the RIAA. Moral judgment always comes before.. the police arrest, the DA prosecutes, the jury finds guilty... etc. The public believes that if you don't pay money you're stealing, and that companies owning and controlling culture is natural.
Bankers need to run their banks more efficiently so they get together to cooperatively develop some banking application software that makes them all work more effectively and efficiently. This is the magic of co-op software development.
But they don't. They should work together, like almost all businesses, but its rare that businesses actually do participate in a software co-op. Why should any non-computer business buy an OS or Office suite, rather then participating in a co-op? But that's not how free market capitalism has evolved: you try not to focus on things that aren't essential to your business.
Open Source is important (in part) because it actually gets businesses to participate.
What you read on Slashdot, or the stats you see on Distrowatch, are not a good measure of relative use of distros.
What's used by geeks gets into business. People on Slashdot talking about Ubuntu go to work mostly at small businesses*, so Slashdot does give an indication of what distributions are getting used.
In the enterprise, it has always been Red Hat or SUSE...
The small place I work at had Red Hat when we had a serious Linux admin, and now uses Ubuntu because that's what the windows admins are comfortable with. Not to mention it's what the (only involved) developer wants, because it's what I use at home.
If Nexenta really makes a ZFS and easy to use system I'll be interested. And I'll experiment with it at work, if people seem to think it's a good system, which I'll partly determine by things like Slashdot.
Part of the answer is the Native Image Generator (Ngen.exe). There is also a ".NET Runtime Optimization Service" which re-compiles assemblies after.NET is patched.
The Native Image Generator (Ngen.exe) is a tool that improves the performance of managed applications. Ngen.exe creates native images, which are files containing compiled processor-specific machine code, and installs them into the native image cache on the local computer. The runtime can use native images from the cache instead using the just-in-time (JIT) compiler to compile the original assembly.
Option 6: Change public opinion about DRM and stop Hollywood from colluding to restrict trade.
The only reason a "licensing" scheme like Macrovision or Blue Ray is allowed is because the general public thinks it's good. They think the content producers are fighting piracy, and that's OK. Once the public understands how DRM and fighting piracy is done to gain an unfair market advantage, then we'll see the tactics challenged.
In the study of economics and market competition, collusion takes place within an industry when rival companies cooperate for their mutual benefit. Collusion most often takes place within the market structure of oligopoly, where the decision of a few firms to collude can significantly impact the market as a whole.
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Change all the passwords on the routers/switches/wireless and DON'T TELL THEM!!! Not even if they send you to jail!
If you think you can get 38 states to sign off on a DRM banning amendment then I guess all the power to you. Personally I think the GP's was a rather absurd suggestion.
DRM is primarily used to restrain trade by locking out the competition, and piracy is the excuse. Now consider that the Interstate Commerce Clause has been widely used to control the States, so commerce is something understood and respected.
France made a law at one point that the iPod/iTunes DRM could by used, but only if it was interoperable with the competition. They may not have understood DRM, but the politicians get business.
What reasonable basis is there for believing that everyone who's highly educated is somehow trying to subvert society to some nefarious end??
You should read "Cargo Cult Science", by Richard Feynman. It's insightful, a great read, and will answer your question.
http://wwwcdf.pd.infn.it/~loreti/science.html
No Cost -> Free Software -> Open Source
The author mixes "free-to-play" with "open design". RMS was right; we should have just explained that it's Free as in Freedom, not cost.
I mean, good software engineering principles dictate that you use meaningful variable names. Why not server names as well?
Good Database design suggest that keys be unrelated to what they are identifying.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrogate_key
That's why you have Java Web Start. ... it doesn't even take much effort to make sure it even runs on other clients than Windows desktops.
You can even use native libraries! So if you *must* have that native C dll/so, you can use JNI, sign the files, and you can still deploy with Web Start. It'll run on all the platforms you provide libraries for. (I was amazed when I learned this recently. Why isn't this everywhere?)
... it seems silly to me to ignore the possibilities of adding an "RPU" to the mix instead of just adding more general purpose CPU power.
An FPGA with a HyperTransport connection to the CPU(s) would be ideal for testing and allowing end users to try something new. Except that AMD uses HyperTransport, not Intel, so we'll have to wait for that solution to get hyped.
...confessed to making up more than 10,000 employees to siphon money from the software company.
This must be what Brooks meant about the best programmers being 10 times more productive.
Hate to be cynical about this, but where's the talk about making *laws* to change this for good? What if the next president is worse then Bush?
I don't hear anyone talking about systemic changes to prevent the next round of abuses. What we need is accounting for the past, but what we're getting is telecom immunity.
(Good morning editors, each of you will be reviewing 14,850 edits in the next 8 hours)
Easy, nobody will actually use their site.
The eBay score doesn't really tell you much on their own if they have 1 negative and 2000 positives, and the negative is for a thousand dollar item, and everything else was a buck, either.
Netflix had a contest for a "recommendation algorithm", can you image EBay having a "karma algorithm" contest? EBay is paralyzed because it might jeopardize profits. Netflix doesn't have that luxury due to all the companies trying to create/control content delivery.
We need a virus that submits bogus DMCA notices. In volumes that require automated responses, Google would be forced to take action. It would ruin YouTube to honor the notices, or they would be forced to ignore the flood of (legit looking) DMCA takedown notices.
Then the unfair power of companies-with-lawyers would be exposed since RIAA DMCA notices would either get special treatment, or ignored like the virus DMCA notices. Google would have to break the DMCA to ignore the spam, since they can't tell if it's legit. Google would get the laws changed once they couldn't play copyright cop.
Me too.
Project Wonderland is a 100% Java and open source toolkit for creating collaborative 3D virtual worlds. Within those worlds, users can communicate with high-fidelity, immersive audio, share live desktop applications and documents and conduct real business. Wonderland is completely extensible; developers and graphic artists can extend its functionality to create entire new worlds and new features in existing worlds.
Also, disable some hardware. No CD burning because then the kids will steal music, or no USB because you don't want sensitive documents removed.
Of course the courts agree with the RIAA. Moral judgment always comes before.. the police arrest, the DA prosecutes, the jury finds guilty... etc. The public believes that if you don't pay money you're stealing, and that companies owning and controlling culture is natural.
In this case the symbols are all important to SQL, which really makes me think they don't know what they're doing.
My bank just "upgraded" and now has a warning that passwords cannot contain % -- ; @ etc...
Build a better lock, and they'll build a better idiot.
...and sometimes its the same person.
Bankers need to run their banks more efficiently so they get together to cooperatively develop some banking application software that makes them all work more effectively and efficiently. This is the magic of co-op software development.
But they don't. They should work together, like almost all businesses, but its rare that businesses actually do participate in a software co-op. Why should any non-computer business buy an OS or Office suite, rather then participating in a co-op? But that's not how free market capitalism has evolved: you try not to focus on things that aren't essential to your business.
Open Source is important (in part) because it actually gets businesses to participate.
RDP is *easy*, fast, integrated and reliable. It's a real downer that linux distro's are so far behind in this.
Vendetta Online is a twitchy fps/mmorpg set in space.
What you read on Slashdot, or the stats you see on Distrowatch, are not a good measure of relative use of distros.
What's used by geeks gets into business. People on Slashdot talking about Ubuntu go to work mostly at small businesses*, so Slashdot does give an indication of what distributions are getting used.
In the enterprise, it has always been Red Hat or SUSE...
The small place I work at had Red Hat when we had a serious Linux admin, and now uses Ubuntu because that's what the windows admins are comfortable with. Not to mention it's what the (only involved) developer wants, because it's what I use at home.
If Nexenta really makes a ZFS and easy to use system I'll be interested. And I'll experiment with it at work, if people seem to think it's a good system, which I'll partly determine by things like Slashdot.
*Most people in general work at small businesses.
Part of the answer is the Native Image Generator (Ngen.exe). There is also a ".NET Runtime Optimization Service" which re-compiles assemblies after .NET is patched.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6t9t5wcf(VS.80).aspx
The Native Image Generator (Ngen.exe) is a tool that improves the performance of managed applications. Ngen.exe creates native images, which are files containing compiled processor-specific machine code, and installs them into the native image cache on the local computer. The runtime can use native images from the cache instead using the just-in-time (JIT) compiler to compile the original assembly.
Mono has something similar, but it looks like its not automatic:
http://www.mono-project.com/Mono:Runtime#Ahead-of-time_compilation
Option 6: Change public opinion about DRM and stop Hollywood from colluding to restrict trade.
The only reason a "licensing" scheme like Macrovision or Blue Ray is allowed is because the general public thinks it's good. They think the content producers are fighting piracy, and that's OK. Once the public understands how DRM and fighting piracy is done to gain an unfair market advantage, then we'll see the tactics challenged.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collusion
In the study of economics and market competition, collusion takes place within an industry when rival companies cooperate for their mutual benefit. Collusion most often takes place within the market structure of oligopoly, where the decision of a few firms to collude can significantly impact the market as a whole.
(Emphasis added)
You're assuming that the context will be presented, or matter. Clearly, you've not paid attention the last few years.
Didn't you get the message of change?
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