Latin hasn't been a "home language" anywhere for hundreds of years - no one speaks it as their first language. It is used only as a formality out of tradition and the reading of old texts; English is the international business language now.
Do we really want or need government regulation of ISP capacity marketing? If that's the case I guess the free market economy doesn't work as well a some folks think. If I buy "pork", I want it to be "pork". If I buy "10mbps down / 1mbps up internet access", I want it to be "10mbps down / 1mbps up internet access".
If I can't go out on whatever protocol I want and get that speed between me, then my ISP, then the outside world (or the first step thereof)... someone's lying.
Great analysis, except for one thing. With sites like YouTube, and widespread use of Gnutella, that's not 10% but around 50%.
I'm making numbers up, but from what I've seen everyone at the local high school uses youtube, downloads songs off limewire/bearshare, and a lot of them even know about bittorent.
And actually, this will just make matters worse - uTorrent (and probably other BT clients) supports protocol encryption to avoid this, and BT users draw way more bandwidth than other P2P services.
Sure we might resent him because we want to win and he is using a stupid rule to get ahead but he is doing nothing immoral. In fact his fiduciary duty to MS shareholders means it might very well be immoral not to use patents against his competitors. Say you pay my $20,000 to kill someone. Accepting this offer makes it my duty, as well as morally right, to kill that person?
However, the windows culture encourages quite the opposite. If you can't solve a problem with a wizard, does the problem actually exist? If a server fails in a forest, and no one is around to connect to it, does it generate an error message?
With a little tweaking of this psychic software they can finally create computers that do what we mean and not what we say. With a little tweaking of this psychic software they can finally create computers that do what they mean and not what we say.
Wasn't one of the key points of the American legal system originally being able to read and know the law? As in, so you know what you can and can't do? They really do need to reform some of these laws in terms of readability.
MS Word asian girlfriend is actually nouveau riche white trash with tens of thousands of dollars worth of cosmetic surgery, but she's already done the entire city and she's got a collection of diseases that would make the CDC jealous. Brittany Spears?
I suppose a "materialize a 5'4 asian Girl Friend" command would be useful too. I think we should push for that in the next revision. TAKE THIS. AND THAT. AND ONE OF THESE.
The community COULD do their own drivers, but the specs aren't available. Everything about how to interface with the card would have to be found via reverse engineering.
I'm fairly sure the reason the specs aren't open, is because it would disclose some "secrets" about how the companies optimize their cards.
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"English motherf***er, do you speak it?"
Latin hasn't been a "home language" anywhere for hundreds of years - no one speaks it as their first language. It is used only as a formality out of tradition and the reading of old texts; English is the international business language now.
If I can't go out on whatever protocol I want and get that speed between me, then my ISP, then the outside world (or the first step thereof)... someone's lying.
Great analysis, except for one thing. With sites like YouTube, and widespread use of Gnutella, that's not 10% but around 50%.
I'm making numbers up, but from what I've seen everyone at the local high school uses youtube, downloads songs off limewire/bearshare, and a lot of them even know about bittorent.
And actually, this will just make matters worse - uTorrent (and probably other BT clients) supports protocol encryption to avoid this, and BT users draw way more bandwidth than other P2P services.
Sorry... Well, it's more uptime than a Windows system.
Shit, now the MAFIAA can sue me for remembering something, since it can be recovered two days later.
Xandros is that giant floating head thing. Do a barrel roll!
Why would they NOT be able to use Linux in their products once GPLv3 is out?
You mean a police action on P2P.
While it is true that Linux may not be perfectly secure out of the box,
1. It's better than Windows
2. Even if there ARE holes, no one's finding them.
Wasn't one of the key points of the American legal system originally being able to read and know the law? As in, so you know what you can and can't do? They really do need to reform some of these laws in terms of readability.
...using a front-end loader to put down the cat. That's better.Too late, we already evolved* gills.
*In Alamaba, intelligently redesigned
Linux is more like a DeLorean, actually.
Oh, come on. It's Slashdot. You'd still be +5.
Alright, I'll just make this cheque out to... A-n-o-n-y... oh wait.
Not anymore! (at least if you're a Republican)
That wasn't informative. Everyone on slashdot already knows that.
The community COULD do their own drivers, but the specs aren't available. Everything about how to interface with the card would have to be found via reverse engineering.
I'm fairly sure the reason the specs aren't open, is because it would disclose some "secrets" about how the companies optimize their cards.