You do realise that there is no encryption on regulqar ethernet don't you? So why should they include it in a wireless version? I guess the point is that encryption should be provbided by the application layer in the OSI model rather than the lower 3 layers.
Oxymoron: A rhetorical figure by which contradictory or incongruous terms are conjoined so as to give point to the statement or expression; an expression, in its superficial or literal meaning self-contradictory or absurd, but involving a point. (Now often loosely or erroneously used as if merely = a contradiction in terms, an incongruous conjunction.)
Going with the "contradiction in terms" definition, I don't really see how any of the slashthink statements that you mention preclude the notion of making a living from open source. I think most people here would make a distiction between monopolistic and anti-competitive practices and selling expertise to pay the bills. In fact I think it is reasonable to argue that OSS presents a framework in which anti-competitive practices are impossible given the low barriers to entry to the market and the high degree of transparancy. In other words if everyone can duplicate what you are doing and see what you are doing, then you have to be competitive and good else you go out of business.
By providing network administrators with a tool for sifting through network traffic for fun tidbits like email messages and other personal communications, the bar has been raised in the battle for privacy.
ever heard of a packet sniffer? Like TCPdump? which is all this is, parsed by a perl script. If you had bothered to read the site you'd see that all this does is re-serve the input of a packet sniffer and is inteded as some kind of comment on the public natuire of information etc. It has not raised any privacy bar. In fact if it makes people aware of privacy issues, it has probably helped. All the functionality provided is superseeded by other tools.
Could someone please describe what a khai looks like?
an 'X',(but with curley bits) otherwise he wouldn't have said what he did. The transliteration isn't an ordered 1-1 mapping of the first 23 characters.
I gotta say that yes, MD is pretty big in the UK, but during the summer I say quite a few of them in Germany, France (esp. Paris) and Italy. I Tthink tha main point is that MD is a lot bigger in Europe than in the US, and in Japan it's ubiquitous.
I bought a rz-900 in Singapore about a month ago and I love it. It uses a flat rechargeable battery which last fucking ages - something like 40 hours. It hasn't skipped on me yet. The only problem is that it is going to take some amount of free time to copy over the music that I want to listen to onto minidiscs. This is more than made up for by the fact that, as the name suggests, minidiscs are small and loght so you can carry around 1000 hours of music pretty easily. Try doing that with an MP3 player.
but considering that Sony's minidiscs never took off
Get your ass to Europe and Japan. Minidiscs are taking off in the UK now after about 10 years of obscurity. I just bought a portable recorder the other day.
not at all: Most of the world doesn't subscribe to a religion and most of the world isn't immoral. It is not necessary to be religious to employ a moral framework to govern your life. Again, it is the assumption that religious people are "better" people than the rest that has got us uinto a lot of trouble. Just look at the crusades. Western Europe kills hundreds of thousands and tears a swathe of rape and pillage through the middle east all in tha name of God. Frankly all you sanctimonious preaching Christians can fuck off.
It's this kind of religious rhetoric that has got the world into this mess in the first place so I would calmly suggest that you avoid quoting the bible as if it has any gravity as a reasonable source of moral reference.
the first research laboratory started by a software company
errr, IBM Hursley labs, winchester, UK. turned 50 a couple of years ago. OK, so it's not pure sopftware research, but there is a lot of software stuff going on there and has been since it started. Whatever next? "Microsoft word - the first word processor"
AIX isn't for ordinary tasks. That's the whole point. It is there to run on the baddest RS/6000 hardware they make and keep it running with 5 nines.
When Linux can do that then there is no reason to have any other UNIX in the high end since it can be optimised with less effort than supporting an entirely different codebase.
err yes, that's right. They're going to connect a multi million dollar piece of hardware running critical systems, and their entire internal network to the internet...
OK, so actually it's lame compared to Dragon, ViaVoice and NaturallySpeaking etc. But that's because they kaven't been working on SR very long, not because it's MS.
But giving someone a computer implies a little personal freedom
how? I agree with you that this might be seen as a little OTT, but at the end of the day a computer at the office is a work tool and nothing more. Giving someone a pile of envelopes and a pad of A4 doesn't grant them any "personal freedom" as you put it. The rules were written down and they were broken - end of story.
Because the corporation is owned by you and I.Firms are the people who own them and being of a moderately liberal bent I think that there should be a fairly minimal amount of governance. Consequently I think that it is a good thing that the people have most of the property and not the state.
I realise that this argument is subject to the criticism that the state is also a manifestation of the people. I would counter that companies are subject to more stringent examination than governments by dint of the market, and further, that the primary function of the firm is to generate wealth, whereas the primary function of the govenment is to redistribute wealth. I would rather that companies had more of the wealth than governments because thay might actually do something with it to improve the quality of life.
Er, the problem isn't PCI bus speed. The card is fed data, not raw images or pictures. The GPU does the work of creating the picture and pumping it to the monitor. Furthermore, data doesn't need to be constantly fed to the PCI card to keep the picture on the screen, the graphics card will do that itself, buffering info on its onboard ram.
But if you want to stream data (video) to the screen, then the data rate to the Graphics card will be significantly higher than PCI can handle, and the data rate from the disc array will require multiple fibre channel.On top of this the banwidth of the cable that actually gets the data to the screen will have to be enormous. I really don't think that it makes sense to think about using one of these with a conventional PC setup.
In what way is this offtopic? Some asshole moderator must think that the purpose of the system is to suppress any opinion that he/she disagrees with rather than to get rid of the noise. Go away children.
Great. It was clear from the context what I meant, but you are playing exactly the same game as the author of the post that I was replying to: namely arguing about terminology rather than the issue at hand. By public domain I meant "available in the ether", as is almost any piece of data now, rather than the "freeware" sense tha you are referring to. Indeed I would refer to shareware as being in the public domain.
Nice points, disappointed to see what I said moderated as a troll.
I wasn't trying to say that piracy is right or wrong by merely calling it piracy. I was trying to point out that the term piracy is in common usage to mean the unauthorised copying of someone else's data and consequently the previous point was garbage.
I agree that the dictionary.com isn't exactly the final word, but it was the first URL to come to mind.
I also agree that another term that isn't overloaded would be nice as it wouldn't cloud the debate with the kind of crap that I was responding to.
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Most modern CD-ROM drives seem to build enough angular momentum to run a refrigirator for a couple of hours anyway.
bollocks. Rotational energy, not angular momentum is the name of the game. 1/2 MJw^2 with a 40X drive getting up to about 900 rads/s, the mass of a CD at about 20 grams, and the polar second moment of area of a circle being piR^4/4 then the rotational energy is less than a Joule.
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Going with the "contradiction in terms" definition, I don't really see how any of the slashthink statements that you mention preclude the notion of making a living from open source. I think most people here would make a distiction between monopolistic and anti-competitive practices and selling expertise to pay the bills. In fact I think it is reasonable to argue that OSS presents a framework in which anti-competitive practices are impossible given the low barriers to entry to the market and the high degree of transparancy. In other words if everyone can duplicate what you are doing and see what you are doing, then you have to be competitive and good else you go out of business.
ever heard of a packet sniffer? Like TCPdump? which is all this is, parsed by a perl script. If you had bothered to read the site you'd see that all this does is re-serve the input of a packet sniffer and is inteded as some kind of comment on the public natuire of information etc. It has not raised any privacy bar. In fact if it makes people aware of privacy issues, it has probably helped. All the functionality provided is superseeded by other tools.
Could someone please describe what a khai looks like?
an 'X',(but with curley bits) otherwise he wouldn't have said what he did. The transliteration isn't an ordered 1-1 mapping of the first 23 characters.
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Get your ass to Europe and Japan. Minidiscs are taking off in the UK now after about 10 years of obscurity. I just bought a portable recorder the other day.
It's this kind of religious rhetoric that has got the world into this mess in the first place so I would calmly suggest that you avoid quoting the bible as if it has any gravity as a reasonable source of moral reference.
errr, IBM Hursley labs, winchester, UK. turned 50 a couple of years ago. OK, so it's not pure sopftware research, but there is a lot of software stuff going on there and has been since it started. Whatever next? "Microsoft word - the first word processor"
When Linux can do that then there is no reason to have any other UNIX in the high end since it can be optimised with less effort than supporting an entirely different codebase.
idiot.
how? I agree with you that this might be seen as a little OTT, but at the end of the day a computer at the office is a work tool and nothing more. Giving someone a pile of envelopes and a pad of A4 doesn't grant them any "personal freedom" as you put it. The rules were written down and they were broken - end of story.
I realise that this argument is subject to the criticism that the state is also a manifestation of the people. I would counter that companies are subject to more stringent examination than governments by dint of the market, and further, that the primary function of the firm is to generate wealth, whereas the primary function of the govenment is to redistribute wealth. I would rather that companies had more of the wealth than governments because thay might actually do something with it to improve the quality of life.
But if you want to stream data (video) to the screen, then the data rate to the Graphics card will be significantly higher than PCI can handle, and the data rate from the disc array will require multiple fibre channel.On top of this the banwidth of the cable that actually gets the data to the screen will have to be enormous. I really don't think that it makes sense to think about using one of these with a conventional PC setup.
I wasn't trying to say that piracy is right or wrong by merely calling it piracy. I was trying to point out that the term piracy is in common usage to mean the unauthorised copying of someone else's data and consequently the previous point was garbage.
I agree that the dictionary.com isn't exactly the final word, but it was the first URL to come to mind.
I also agree that another term that isn't overloaded would be nice as it wouldn't cloud the debate with the kind of crap that I was responding to.
bollocks. Rotational energy, not angular momentum is the name of the game. 1/2 MJw^2 with a 40X drive getting up to about 900 rads/s, the mass of a CD at about 20 grams, and the polar second moment of area of a circle being piR^4/4 then the rotational energy is less than a Joule.