That's why we told you not to use weight. We knew something like this would happen. Just wait until the mass of the earth doubles or gets cut in half. All of your stupid weight data will be off by a factor of two. Long live mass!! muwhahaha!!
People think in words so they can analyze their thoughts.
We say that people speak without thinking, when in fact they are speaking without thinking MUCH. Of course they thought; where else did what they say come from? The reason what they say is usually stupid is that they didn't analyze it enough. Most of the time, people end up analyzing it enough when it is half out of their mouth, and they realize they shouldn't have said it, but it's too late.
Think about it. . . The time it takes to form an idea in your head is much less than the time it takes to say this idea to yourself. When you say the idea to yourself, though, you are analyzing it many times in your sub-conscious. It is very important that we do this.
We don't have to have words to think; it just makes things easier on us. It gives our very powerful brain enough time to do its work. The more time our brain has, the better the quality of our thoughts.
So just listen to the things people say just after they have formed them and not analyzed them, and then decide how much faster we need to think. I think you will find that we need to think MORE and not FASTER.
I do agree with you; however, I still hold that code that has been gpl'd and distributed is not propietary. Here's why:
Someone does own the copyright to the software, but if the gpl does its job, then the software is free. My reasoning for this is that after someone is given the software the owner can't tell that person what to do with it except for the stipulations given by the gpl.
Take gnutella for example, after gnullsoft distributed it they no longer had any control over what had been distributed. That is why the project was picked up by someone else and continued. Gnullsoft can't make them stop, and that to me is why gpl'd (and distributed) software is not proprietary.
This one is obviously short-sighted. Some things he said:
behind this... is an implicit belief [that books] are not going to be replaced, and should not be replaced.
... We should be very hesitant... that you are going to get everything you want electronically. You don't want to be one of those mindless futurists, who sit in front of a lonely screen.
Well, I'm already one of those mindless futurists, but I'm loving it. I really don't think I need to elaborate any more. This ignorance speeks for itself.
A lot of people are missing this one. A proprietor is someone who owns something, and no one really owns gpl'd software (except maybe the world at large). Once software is gpl'd, the author has the same rights to it as everyone else.
Therefore Linux does not fit the definition of proprietary. Linux truly is open to the world because everyone has the same rights to it.
The gpl's job is to make sure that Linux remains unproprietary. If Linux was not gpl'd, then it would certainly be proprietary by now (behind something like MS's EULA).
If Linux is propietary, then nothing is unpropietary.
The thing that impresses me most about these students is that they made up their own ethics, which the school "officially" doesn't approve of. They didn't let anyone tell them what was right or wrong, and they're not out to harm anything. On the contrary, it seems that they take a lot of care to make sure that no damage is done.
While I would like to think that the reason so few get caught is that they are too good for the police, I don't think the hackers are facing too much pressure. Well, except for MIT making the hacking harder. But don't even pretend that better locks/security are going to deter them. That is precisely what the hackers want.
I love this, and I bet the faculty and staff at MIT do as well. This is what makes MIT, MIT.
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... it is not the present. It is not even a good idea NOW; however, eventually, RDRAM will be the deal. The only question is: How long will it take?
Most likely DDR SDRAM, will have the market for a few years (after it takes it), then RDRAM will take over. Intel is not stupid; they are looking to the future. RDRAM has much more potential than SDRAM, and Intel knows it. Is it dumb to be the first to vest in the future? Did you read the part of the article that said that RDRAM should be down to about twice the cost SDRAM by the end of this year?
BTW, RDRAM is proprietry, but AMD and VIA already have licenses to manufacture it. After a few years, everyone will be building machines with RDRAM. Intel is just the first.
Was it that easy to miss the point?
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. . . for people on both sides.
We'll probably never prove the issue either way; in fact, you can probably prove that it is impossible to do so. Sure, it might be possible to prove that many explanations could have happened. (Many possible scenarios, each with different probabilities of actually occuring; is that so foriegn an idea?) But exactly one of them actually happened, proven by the fact that our current situation exists.
I am a christian, and I do not fear the theory of evolution having validity (i.e., a possibility that it is true)
Why do scientists believe that proving the validity of the theory of evolution, proves that that is the scenario that caused our current situation? Such foolishness would not be excepted at any other time on any other topic.
Why do christians fear the theory of evolution? God does not want you to prove to yourself that he exists. He wants you to have faith.
I'd have to agree with you on this one. The PR dept. of CyberPatrol is sitting back grinning right now. Did anyone else notice how good CyberPatrol looked in the article? That was definitely set up, and there's no way those guys agreed like that without some money.
Ok, everyone knows that their business model was to make money on the service. They could not sell the appliances for $99 and stay afloat very long. So when this hack made widespread knowledge, they had to protect their business model; you can't blame them for that.
However, I don't think they should be charging people for the service when they told them they wouldn't. They should have cut their losses on the people whom they told that they did not have to get the service, and made sure that everyone else knows about the service agreement before they buy an I-opener.
That, at least in my eyes, would have been honorable.
In the interview Chris talks about the increase of non-Netscape users since Mozilla is now usable day to day for a large number of people. I think this could have a snowball effect even bigger than they might think. IMHO most people are more intimate with their web browser than any other software they use, and people like to be involved in the developement of software with which they are intimate. More people are going to be more intimate with Mozilla than perhaps any other project we've seen.
I think this project is going to pull a lot of people into its developement once people are using it a lot.
I know a guy who wasn't satisified with his ping times playing Quake over a modem. So he bought one of these and set up a lan in his house. His ping was less than 1 millisecond. . . to the machine with the modem. You wouldn't believe how much this switch helped with his pings online.
Yes, it is bad, but it's the way these things work. Most of the cost of a product is the engineering behind it, so companies cut down on it as much as possible. But they still have to have a marketing scheme. In fact that is the most important part of a company that wants to make money. The reason why Intel and MS make so much money is marketing, not superior products.
I'm really glad to see this. I'm from southwest Virginia, and our best bet at broadband might be LMDS (Virginia Tech bought the spectum licenses for this end of the state and parts of surrounding states). LMDS (Local Multipoint Distribution Service) uses the 802.11 standard and is really cool. Right now the equipment is really expensive. Of course we need a lot more range but low priced local wirless cards are a good start. Watch out. . . the hillbilies are coming online;-) (I can say that cause i is one.)
This'll never work. Sotheby's only sells wedding cake (you know, like the one that Peterman bought and Elaine ate). The cake would be stale by the time it got shipped to you, and nobody likes stale cake.
Chris is right. J-K's have been around for a long time, but that doesn't mean you stop developing them. For example, you can buy J-K ttl chips from Motorola or National Semiconductor for next to nothing, but a typical propogation delay would be around 15-20 ns and a maximun MHz rating of about 30 or so (and this is just for one flip-flop!!). I've built very simple logic devices that had several levels of logic gates and flip-flops. I'm sure that modern CPU's have many, many more. In short, the only important things about J-K flip-flops are stuff like propogation delay, power consumption, how long it can hold it's value, etc. How fast you can run the processor in the end depends a lot on the quality of materials (like J-K's and gates). The quality of materials depends on how good your semiconductor physicists were at designing them.
I'm not an AC, but I just thought I'd let you know that "its" is the possesive form of "it." "It's" is the contraction for "it is." Check your last sentence. Good thing we're here to correct you.;-)
Obviously the web site won't do much good unless you get a lot of people there. How do you plan on doing this? Ads on other internet sites (what kind of sites)? Mentioning the website on the televised commercials? Will there be any other networks that you "team" up with?
I have to admit; their IQ's gotta be right there together, but Puddy was a completely different kind of funny. He was funny because he was stupid and sluggish. The Tick on the other hand is funny because he is stupid and very much active. The Tick is always getting himself into interesting situations, where Puddy just kind of finds himself in those situations. I think it's somewhat of a missmatch.
Excuse me for a second: What drugs were you on when you made this post? And who moderated it up to four?
While you and the rest of the world who have no clue what actually happened may think Jon is a miscreant who just wanted a piece of limelight, the rest of us think what he did was highly honorable. First of all, any amount of illegal use resulting from his actions will be neglible and IMHO is completely subordinate to the greater good that it has accomplished.
Why won't his actions result in illegal use? Simple, it is cheaper and easier to buy a DVD then to pirate one by bypassing the copy protection (this may change as technology advances, but still the good outweighs the bad, especially since DVD ripps are already common and have nothing to do with what Jon did). What Jon did will only aid the process of developing software players for Linux or other OS's, which will result in more DVD sales.
So why is the MPAA so pissed? This is also simple. They got outwitted by a 16 year old. Jon made them look stupid. (How can you blame him for just telling the truth;-) Wouldn't you be pissed? . .;-) (especially if "you" were one of the biggest industries in the world). Also, the MPAA had promised the movie makers that DVD was copy safe, another reason why they are on the defensive.
In closing, sorry this sounds so inflammatory, but I think it was warranted. Many people will remember Jon for much longer than a month, and it won't be those people that thought of him in a bad light. It will be those who thought what he did was brilliant and honorable.
Monopoly?? . . . nope, we just get plain abuse on campus here at my college. If you live on, (and you do your first year) you have to get one of about 4 meal plans, and you are basically forced into a certain one because you can't even eat at the only two places worth eating unless you have this plan.
But this is the good part. They charge you about $940 for the plan, $600 of which is to cover base expenses. The other $340 goes into your account, and out of that account you buy food for half price. In other words, you can buy about $680 worth of food with your $940 meal plan.
It's not like the prices of the food make up the difference. They are at best competitive. The dining halls are really just open restaurants where faculty and off-campus students (and anyone else) can come in and buy food at cost. The thing is, they do. The food is great. It's just that if you live on campus, you have to pay about 40% more for the food.
Someone please tell me how this could benefit the students (those that live on campus, of course it's great if you live off)?
Honestly, we don't have much to complain about here, great internet access, nothing like the problems they have in this story (for some reason, I'm still not saying where this is though, I wonder why . . .;-) I just want to know why I have to pay 40% more for my food just because I live here!!
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That's why we told you not to use weight. We knew something like this would happen. Just wait until the mass of the earth doubles or gets cut in half. All of your stupid weight data will be off by a factor of two. Long live mass!! muwhahaha!!
People think in words so they can analyze their thoughts.
We say that people speak without thinking, when in fact they are speaking without thinking MUCH. Of course they thought; where else did what they say come from? The reason what they say is usually stupid is that they didn't analyze it enough. Most of the time, people end up analyzing it enough when it is half out of their mouth, and they realize they shouldn't have said it, but it's too late.
Think about it. . . The time it takes to form an idea in your head is much less than the time it takes to say this idea to yourself. When you say the idea to yourself, though, you are analyzing it many times in your sub-conscious. It is very important that we do this.
We don't have to have words to think; it just makes things easier on us. It gives our very powerful brain enough time to do its work. The more time our brain has, the better the quality of our thoughts.
So just listen to the things people say just after they have formed them and not analyzed them, and then decide how much faster we need to think. I think you will find that we need to think MORE and not FASTER.
I am not a lawyer, but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night. Too bad mp3.com's lawyers didn't stay there as well.
I would say you are exactly right. This unfortunately still doesn't give them any.
Notice that all of the rights go to the parents. Kids still get no lovin from the gov't.
I do agree with you; however, I still hold that code that has been gpl'd and distributed is not propietary. Here's why:
Someone does own the copyright to the software, but if the gpl does its job, then the software is free. My reasoning for this is that after someone is given the software the owner can't tell that person what to do with it except for the stipulations given by the gpl.
Take gnutella for example, after gnullsoft distributed it they no longer had any control over what had been distributed. That is why the project was picked up by someone else and continued. Gnullsoft can't make them stop, and that to me is why gpl'd (and distributed) software is not proprietary.
Well, I'm already one of those mindless futurists, but I'm loving it. I really don't think I need to elaborate any more. This ignorance speeks for itself.
A lot of people are missing this one. A proprietor is someone who owns something, and no one really owns gpl'd software (except maybe the world at large). Once software is gpl'd, the author has the same rights to it as everyone else.
Therefore Linux does not fit the definition of proprietary. Linux truly is open to the world because everyone has the same rights to it.
The gpl's job is to make sure that Linux remains unproprietary. If Linux was not gpl'd, then it would certainly be proprietary by now (behind something like MS's EULA).
If Linux is propietary, then nothing is unpropietary.
Someone explain how they have lasted this long.
One another note, since they have so little sex skills, they should be much smarter than us.
It's not safe to link to illegal content.
The thing that impresses me most about these students is that they made up their own ethics, which the school "officially" doesn't approve of. They didn't let anyone tell them what was right or wrong, and they're not out to harm anything. On the contrary, it seems that they take a lot of care to make sure that no damage is done.
While I would like to think that the reason so few get caught is that they are too good for the police, I don't think the hackers are facing too much pressure. Well, except for MIT making the hacking harder. But don't even pretend that better locks/security are going to deter them. That is precisely what the hackers want.
I love this, and I bet the faculty and staff at MIT do as well. This is what makes MIT, MIT.
... it is not the present. It is not even a good idea NOW; however, eventually, RDRAM will be the deal. The only question is: How long will it take?
Most likely DDR SDRAM, will have the market for a few years (after it takes it), then RDRAM will take over. Intel is not stupid; they are looking to the future. RDRAM has much more potential than SDRAM, and Intel knows it. Is it dumb to be the first to vest in the future? Did you read the part of the article that said that RDRAM should be down to about twice the cost SDRAM by the end of this year?
BTW, RDRAM is proprietry, but AMD and VIA already have licenses to manufacture it. After a few years, everyone will be building machines with RDRAM. Intel is just the first.
. . . for people on both sides.
We'll probably never prove the issue either way; in fact, you can probably prove that it is impossible to do so. Sure, it might be possible to prove that many explanations could have happened. (Many possible scenarios, each with different probabilities of actually occuring; is that so foriegn an idea?) But exactly one of them actually happened, proven by the fact that our current situation exists.
I am a christian, and I do not fear the theory of evolution having validity (i.e., a possibility that it is true)
Why do scientists believe that proving the validity of the theory of evolution, proves that that is the scenario that caused our current situation? Such foolishness would not be excepted at any other time on any other topic.
Why do christians fear the theory of evolution? God does not want you to prove to yourself that he exists. He wants you to have faith.
I'd have to agree with you on this one. The PR dept. of CyberPatrol is sitting back grinning right now. Did anyone else notice how good CyberPatrol looked in the article? That was definitely set up, and there's no way those guys agreed like that without some money.
Ok, everyone knows that their business model was to make money on the service. They could not sell the appliances for $99 and stay afloat very long. So when this hack made widespread knowledge, they had to protect their business model; you can't blame them for that.
However, I don't think they should be charging people for the service when they told them they wouldn't. They should have cut their losses on the people whom they told that they did not have to get the service, and made sure that everyone else knows about the service agreement before they buy an I-opener.
That, at least in my eyes, would have been honorable.
In the interview Chris talks about the increase of non-Netscape users since Mozilla is now usable day to day for a large number of people. I think this could have a snowball effect even bigger than they might think. IMHO most people are more intimate with their web browser than any other software they use, and people like to be involved in the developement of software with which they are intimate. More people are going to be more intimate with Mozilla than perhaps any other project we've seen.
I think this project is going to pull a lot of people into its developement once people are using it a lot.
I know a guy who wasn't satisified with his ping times playing Quake over a modem. So he bought one of these and set up a lan in his house. His ping was less than 1 millisecond. . . to the machine with the modem. You wouldn't believe how much this switch helped with his pings online.
Yes, it is bad, but it's the way these things work. Most of the cost of a product is the engineering behind it, so companies cut down on it as much as possible. But they still have to have a marketing scheme. In fact that is the most important part of a company that wants to make money. The reason why Intel and MS make so much money is marketing, not superior products.
I'm really glad to see this. I'm from southwest Virginia, and our best bet at broadband might be LMDS (Virginia Tech bought the spectum licenses for this end of the state and parts of surrounding states). LMDS (Local Multipoint Distribution Service) uses the 802.11 standard and is really cool. Right now the equipment is really expensive. Of course we need a lot more range but low priced local wirless cards are a good start. Watch out. . . the hillbilies are coming online ;-) (I can say that cause i is one.)
This'll never work. Sotheby's only sells wedding cake (you know, like the one that Peterman bought and Elaine ate). The cake would be stale by the time it got shipped to you, and nobody likes stale cake.
Chris is right. J-K's have been around for a long time, but that doesn't mean you stop developing them. For example, you can buy J-K ttl chips from Motorola or National Semiconductor for next to nothing, but a typical propogation delay would be around 15-20 ns and a maximun MHz rating of about 30 or so (and this is just for one flip-flop!!). I've built very simple logic devices that had several levels of logic gates and flip-flops. I'm sure that modern CPU's have many, many more.
In short, the only important things about J-K flip-flops are stuff like propogation delay, power consumption, how long it can hold it's value, etc. How fast you can run the processor in the end depends a lot on the quality of materials (like J-K's and gates). The quality of materials depends on how good your semiconductor physicists were at designing them.
I'm not an AC, but I just thought I'd let you know that "its" is the possesive form of "it." "It's" is the contraction for "it is." Check your last sentence. Good thing we're here to correct you. ;-)
Obviously the web site won't do much good unless you get a lot of people there. How do you plan on doing this? Ads on other internet sites (what kind of sites)? Mentioning the website on the televised commercials? Will there be any other networks that you "team" up with?
I have to admit; their IQ's gotta be right there together, but Puddy was a completely different kind of funny. He was funny because he was stupid and sluggish. The Tick on the other hand is funny because he is stupid and very much active. The Tick is always getting himself into interesting situations, where Puddy just kind of finds himself in those situations. I think it's somewhat of a missmatch.
Excuse me for a second: What drugs were you on when you made this post? And who moderated it up to four?
;-) Wouldn't you be pissed? . . ;-) (especially if "you" were one of the biggest industries in the world). Also, the MPAA had promised the movie makers that DVD was copy safe, another reason why they are on the defensive.
While you and the rest of the world who have no clue what actually happened may think Jon is a miscreant who just wanted a piece of limelight, the rest of us think what he did was highly honorable. First of all, any amount of illegal use resulting from his actions will be neglible and IMHO is completely subordinate to the greater good that it has accomplished.
Why won't his actions result in illegal use? Simple, it is cheaper and easier to buy a DVD then to pirate one by bypassing the copy protection (this may change as technology advances, but still the good outweighs the bad, especially since DVD ripps are already common and have nothing to do with what Jon did). What Jon did will only aid the process of developing software players for Linux or other OS's, which will result in more DVD sales.
So why is the MPAA so pissed? This is also simple. They got outwitted by a 16 year old. Jon made them look stupid. (How can you blame him for just telling the truth
In closing, sorry this sounds so inflammatory, but I think it was warranted. Many people will remember Jon for much longer than a month, and it won't be those people that thought of him in a bad light. It will be those who thought what he did was brilliant and honorable.
Monopoly?? . . . nope, we just get plain abuse on campus here at my college. If you live on, (and you do your first year) you have to get one of about 4 meal plans, and you are basically forced into a certain one because you can't even eat at the only two places worth eating unless you have this plan.
;-) I just want to know why I have to pay 40% more for my food just because I live here!!
But this is the good part. They charge you about $940 for the plan, $600 of which is to cover base expenses. The other $340 goes into your account, and out of that account you buy food for half price. In other words, you can buy about $680 worth of food with your $940 meal plan.
It's not like the prices of the food make up the difference. They are at best competitive. The dining halls are really just open restaurants where faculty and off-campus students (and anyone else) can come in and buy food at cost. The thing is, they do. The food is great. It's just that if you live on campus, you have to pay about 40% more for the food.
Someone please tell me how this could benefit the students (those that live on campus, of course it's great if you live off)?
Honestly, we don't have much to complain about here, great internet access, nothing like the problems they have in this story (for some reason, I'm still not saying where this is though, I wonder why . . .