Books from the library are read there, or borrowed to be returned later.
... Those disks are rent or lent, and are returned a week or so later.
I'm going to the library after work today, to get a CD (Pink Moon), which I'll be returning right after I rip it. Your argument is literally true, but misses the point. Library's are used to make illegal copies. The RIAA could argue for shutting them down, but our society has objectives other then making the most money.
(Besides, if we burn the libraries won't our illiteracy problems go away?)
What?? Are you really making a "f*#$ the commons" argument on slashdot?
It may be profitable to use Microsoft, easy to buy music from the RIAA, and buy "one use" seeds, but that in-no-way forgives the companies. The lawsuits, back-room deals, government bribery and market-fixing is evil, and we all end up paying for it.
Face it: he sold out. It isn't the worst thing in the world, but don't apologize for it.
The corporate world is a completely different story, though. Many large, medium, and small companies have committed vast resources to development in.Net. Companies may think it's just fine to pay big money for Vista and Office, since that's just the way I.T. is, but when a competitor has switched to FOSS and isn't paying out, they'll be forced to acknowledge that they don't have to pay, and that not everybody is doing it.
Think in terms of Apple complaining that someone copied the iPod UI. It doesn't seem fair that someone can trivially copy something that takes so much time and effort. Good design should be rewarded and encouraged. Of course I don't know how that should work exactly...
A machine that does this is called a CNC machine, and they already exist. You can buy one ready made... And then hire an expert to operate it, a designer to make the plans, etc...
CNC machines solve different problems. This will let you make and replace a wide variety of simple parts that have already been designed by someone else. Whole industries could be made around buying the electronics and designs for 'do it yourself' items.
In that world, the winner is the one who determines the standard interfaces at the back and delivers the eyeballs at the front. Google is very well placed indeed. Interesting that SQL isn't addressed by either Google or Amazon. It's hard to envision relational structures abandoned for Bigtable or SimpleDB, considering what an absolute staple a RDBM system is in IT. Even if DBI makes it easy to use, what about having developers structure data in sensible ways? I don't think we can scale our way out of people just recklessly dumping poorly structured data into an abstraction.
The age of database lockin might finally be falling behind us. We might finally be free to use whichever DB is best for the job today, not determined by which DB was best for some other job yesterday.
I find it strange that nobody on Slashdot talks about the fact that Sun and IBM both made investments in companies that keep private control of the source. MySql does it with dual licensing by not allowing people to contribute unless you assign all rights to them, a tactic Sun uses with Open Office and others. EnterpriseDB keeps control directly by making additional software thats separate from the distribution.
Both companies make great contributions (Thank you!) and will now make more contributions, but isn't there a clear danger from companies controlling the code? If it was Microsoft that made either investment wouldn't people be predicting:
Embrace by investing
Extend by making a bunch of widely used additions that are not free software
Extinguish by moving the users to a non-free version (re-written or a different product)
...they try to change the way they gained their success and horde everything for themselves.
It's annoying if you can't get Pepsi or Coke because of some exclusive agreement, but when its making CSS work with IE, thats your job, your industry and if your lucky your passion that they're breaking.
You can put in a Zipcode and get an auto generated list across sites. Note too how the filter lists change based on summary results; for example, the Amenities group is dynamically generated and changes based on the sub-group of cars you're looking at.
PLCY - Scheduling policy FIFO (F) and Round-Robin (R) are realtime scheduling policies; OTHER (O) is the normal Unix time-sharing policy. F and R processes have a realtime priority between 1 and 99. A process will run as long as there is no runnable process with higher priority. Round-Robin processes will run for the length of one time-slice, after which they are placed last in the queue of their priority. FIFO processes run until they give up their CPU time (by sleeping or blocking) or pre-empted by a process with higher priority. Only the super-user (root) may change the scheduling policy. RPRI - Realtime priority Realtime processes (FIFO and Round-Robin) have priorities between 1 and 99. A process will pre-empt any other process that has lower priority. Normal time-sharing processes (policy O) all have priority 0. Only the super-user (root) may change the realtime priority.
I like how simple and uncluttered Gnome is, but if I can learn things like that just by poking around in KDE maybe I should switch.
It's not a glitch, it's a scam. They use CSS/Javascript to hide the info from the reader, but still have it available to Google's index. They are scamming free advertising: they present advertisements but get indexed for tech answers.
Choose "Cached" and "cached text" to see the info. Also, using "View > Page Style > No Style" can help with some of these sites.
Your thinking about it wrong: there are no open protocols for transferring money, or selling/bidding. But there will be. Someone will decide that certain markup on a web page means your auctioning an item, and Google will instantly have the largest list of auction items. Just because issues like fraud and reputation are dealt with by a single entity today, doesn't mean they will be tomorrow. The opening of money transfers leaves all the VISA/Master Card profits to motivate people to use a new system. Same for reputation; the EBay fees are yours if you switch to an open system.
When I first came here, this was all statically typed. Everyone said I was daft to build a dynamic language on the JVM, but I built in all the same, just to show them.
...It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England.
Disclaimer: I live in WV and more importantly, in Kanawha County where this is happening. More, I do GIS for a living so I'm biased to the max in this...
Slashdot is amazing sometimes -- someone who lives in the area, and works in the industry commenting.
It may also give the questioner a sense of how to evaluate lawyers when looking for legal advice: do they know about the basic issues that even slashdot told me about?
Adam Smith was concerned with there not being enough "stuff" for everyone: the poor couldn't feed themselves because there was not enough food.
Distribution of wealth and production is the problem today, so if Gates really wants to help he should stop quoting Adam Smith and asking for charity from companies.
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Not a very apt comparison.
Books from the library are read there, or borrowed to be returned later.
... Those disks are rent or lent, and are returned a week or so later.
I'm going to the library after work today, to get a CD (Pink Moon), which I'll be returning right after I rip it. Your argument is literally true, but misses the point. Library's are used to make illegal copies. The RIAA could argue for shutting them down, but our society has objectives other then making the most money.
(Besides, if we burn the libraries won't our illiteracy problems go away?)
1. Grow clones in an underground bunker, with a lottery to go to an island paradise.
2. (put some action here)
3. Profit!!
http://imdb.com/title/tt0399201/
What?? Are you really making a "f*#$ the commons" argument on slashdot?
It may be profitable to use Microsoft, easy to buy music from the RIAA, and buy "one use" seeds, but that in-no-way forgives the companies. The lawsuits, back-room deals, government bribery and market-fixing is evil, and we all end up paying for it.
Face it: he sold out. It isn't the worst thing in the world, but don't apologize for it.
- * Doing great UI design is important.
- * We spend lots of time and effort on the UI. ex. http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/887-design-decisions-calendar-picker-for-backpack-reminders
- * They *exactly* copied our hard work.
Think in terms of Apple complaining that someone copied the iPod UI. It doesn't seem fair that someone can trivially copy something that takes so much time and effort. Good design should be rewarded and encouraged. Of course I don't know how that should work exactly...CNC machines solve different problems. This will let you make and replace a wide variety of simple parts that have already been designed by someone else. Whole industries could be made around buying the electronics and designs for 'do it yourself' items.
Some assembly required.
The problem is that the press is willing to reprint lies for profit.
Take a screen shot of their current desktop and set it as the wallpaper. Then delete one commonly used icon.
Both companies make great contributions (Thank you!) and will now make more contributions, but isn't there a clear danger from companies controlling the code? If it was Microsoft that made either investment wouldn't people be predicting:
n/t
If they think "site:" is scary they should try this: http://www.google.com/search?q=used%20saturn
You can put in a Zipcode and get an auto generated list across sites. Note too how the filter lists change based on summary results; for example, the Amenities group is dynamically generated and changes based on the sub-group of cars you're looking at.
"the politics are so bad because the stakes are so low"
It's not a glitch, it's a scam. They use CSS/Javascript to hide the info from the reader, but still have it available to Google's index. They are scamming free advertising: they present advertisements but get indexed for tech answers.
Choose "Cached" and "cached text" to see the info. Also, using "View > Page Style > No Style" can help with some of these sites.
Your thinking about it wrong: there are no open protocols for transferring money, or selling/bidding. But there will be. Someone will decide that certain markup on a web page means your auctioning an item, and Google will instantly have the largest list of auction items. Just because issues like fraud and reputation are dealt with by a single entity today, doesn't mean they will be tomorrow. The opening of money transfers leaves all the VISA/Master Card profits to motivate people to use a new system. Same for reputation; the EBay fees are yours if you switch to an open system.
When I first came here, this was all statically typed. Everyone said I was daft to build a dynamic language on the JVM, but I built in all the same, just to show them.
...It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England.
It may also give the questioner a sense of how to evaluate lawyers when looking for legal advice: do they know about the basic issues that even slashdot told me about?
Linux client is just delayed; they released Savage 1 on linux. That game, by the way, is free to play. http://www.s2games.com/savage/downloads.php
Adam Smith was concerned with there not being enough "stuff" for everyone: the poor couldn't feed themselves because there was not enough food.
Distribution of wealth and production is the problem today, so if Gates really wants to help he should stop quoting Adam Smith and asking for charity from companies.