For every pirate out there, theres someone who has gone through 3 physical copies of media and gotten sick of replacing them at $15-20 a pop (another argument against blu-ray at $80 a pop).
Now I'm going to use my legal right to creating a backup copy to make a copy and burn my own and use that copy until it bites the dust then move on.
I've started to see the light. I'm going to buy pirated copies of DVDs and stuff from now on just so I dont have to sit through all their bullshit ads and boilerplate 'FBI' warnings.
They keep trying to outdo their failures thats why...
First was Windows ME Second was Windows Vista Third will be Microsoft Stores where thousands of 'Windows 7' boxes will sit on the shelves unused and unwanted.
It is because religion was never about spirituality and making the world a better place. Religion is always about command and control structures. They command you to do certain things by saying that when you die you'll goto (Good Place) or (Bad Place) depending on what you did while you were alive. They control you by controlling the structures within the religion that issue the commands.
Thou Shalt Not Kill - Unless ordered by the Pope to go kill Muslims to secure Jerusalem for the Christians AKA. The Crusades are just one example of religion being used to command and control a populace based on religion to do things that under the ordinary structure would have had them all going to hell but the pope went and said 'God wants you to kill them!' and everyone believed they needed to go do it.
Ok, maybe rebooting is a good idea but long story short restarting individual applications/programs/daemons works better than having to do a full reboot cycle as restarting these typically takes less than a second. I know Apache restarts in under 1 second. A full reboot cycle can take upwards of 5 minutes depending on what you have running.
Maybe... or they'd have enough clout to ask a company 'We're trying to preserve your game for future generations in an archive. Can you please hand over the keys?' naturally they probably have some sort of immunity being a public institution and/or library. I think even teh US DMCA laws permit libraries to break DRM for archive purposes.
Well I'm surprised people haven't gone with the most obvious method of arguing security...
Ask them the following questions...
Have you seen the Microsoft (XP, Vista, Office, etc...) source code? Do you know anyone who has? Do you know how quickly they find bugs and/or fix them?
You can ideally attack the Microsoft patch cycle because EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. YOU. PATCH. YOU. HAVE. TO. REBOOT... With Linux the only time you need to reboot the system is if you patch the kernel itself.
With Linux the patches are made almost instantly (certainly within an hour or so of the vulnerability being discovered). This lets the system administrators decide when to patch. If they wish to patch once a month like Microsoft does then that is perfectly fine. If they want to patch every day at 4am then that is perfectly fine too. YOU make your own policy, it is not dictated to you.
Well to be honest it is a valid (if minor) point and something that we should grill all companies for not just Microsoft.
I think that we should be careful what we wish for. If EULAs are not treated as contracts then the GPL becomes far more weakened than any proprietary vendor's EULA ever would. If the EULAs are ruled not contracts then the GPL may end up in legal limbo as most people like Microsoft and other proprietary vendors would argue that the GPL is the same as an EULA and render it null and void which would almost be worse than EULA's as they stand because the GPL'ed software can provide a healthy and generally more safe alternative to proprietary EULAs.
No but if these were removed via DMCA take down notices then they are legally obligated to inform the person in question.
If they were not taken down via DMCA take down notice and were infact just someone like the RIAA asking them nicely then they're 'Do No Evil' motto is starting to fall by the wayside again.
Well if you use 2 wires instead of one then you effectively have twice the bandwidth since you have twice the physical media to exploit although that only works if the setup is properly configured to work that way. Typically when done in servers its called 'dual heading' and involves 2 network cards installed into the server so that it can process more data, provide load balancing and naturally increase fault tolerance.
I'm not an Apple fanboy but simply put... its a complete package.
Your DVD player comes with firmware that lets you use it. People wouldnt think of unbundling those two. Similar is happening here, Apple is selling a Mac, with its own OS basically. Its a complete package much like your DVD and its firmware. They typically need to be used together to make them work.
I think that it is more along the lines of shrinking that 600mb behemoth that people have to download to install down because MySQL and LDAP would more than likely be accessible via apt-get or similar.
Yeah trying to convert solely on cost alone is going to have you flooded by Microsoft employees throwing 'free' licenses at you which will result in your cost saving measures being seen as pretty shallow or maybe keep you around to keep doing this and getting them flooded with these Microsoft freebies. In the end you will need to attack in combination.
1) Education: Linux/Open Office/Firefox will force users to adapt to different desktop environments. Ideally you would like to get the professors on board so that they would use Open Office themselves rather than forcing their students to submit their stuff in Word.doc format. Otherwise all your efforts will be for naught.
2) Price: I think licenses are something like $20/user for a site license. Site licenses are generally *PER USER* not *PER MACHINE*. So the number of students matters not the number of computers you have. There probably is some NDA's in Microsoft's license agreements that does not permit people to talk about their licensing agreements with third parties. This is probably because many of their agreements include 'freebies' for people considering Open Source and they'd rather not let that information come out.
3) Open Standards: Without open standards the internet would not have happened. Open standards prevent vendor lock-in. Just imagine if Cisco had some sorta standard for transmitting data over a wire that was different from Ethernet or TCP/IP. No other networking company would be able to come in and replace them... They'd have different connectors, different voltages, different processors and different network stacks on the machines they are servicing. You'd continue with them indefinitely because the hassle of changing wouldn't be worth the cost. This is what Microsoft is trying to do with Windows, Word and their other offerings by trying to lock up your information and force people into 'Software as a Service' setups like Windows 7 is rumored is going to be.
I imagine if both cores come up with the same result that the odds are high its a correct result (not very likely both runs will come up with the very same wrong answer). If one or the other is wrong then you toss the result and re-request until you get an agreement between the two cores.
Naturally this only works if the 'error rate' isn't ridiculously high like 50% of all things passed through it. If its more like 1% of everything passed through it comes up in error and you double up all your calculations (using cores that use 1/30th the electricity) you might still come out on top in terms of energy usage (assuming you were using 2 cores to do your math in the first place).
Well the odds are you probably wouldn't even notice if a few bits here and there were wrong in your audio stream. I'm not sure what the error rate is but if its less than 17 times as much as we have now it'd be worth considering for some applications
I figure if they do use this technology they'd more than likely use the multi-core system currently in place and make one a high accuracy CPU while the other 2-4 cores high speed CPUs. Like someone said it'd be used for gaming and streaming video/audio where 'accuracy' isnt as important.
Agreed... if you dont have something tangible to produce and your entire market is based on 'Intellectual Property' well I got news for you not every country is a signatory to these copyright treaties. Even then there have been Canadians who have had their copyrights broken in England and England just gave them the finger for the most part because they didnt sign some super new upgraded treaty (WIPO) that the US wants everyone to sign now that'll force governments to adopt ridiculous DMCA like laws.
Well brand names arent entirely bad... I mean if I look for a motherboard then I'm probably looking for an ASUS board because I know they're pretty solid in terms of performance and quality of materials (IE. No cheap capacitors, my motherboard is fine after 5-6 years of use). Although I do agree that it can be bad for someone who decides to say buy Dell because they recognize Dell rather than looking at other computer manufacturers.
Most red light cameras are outsourced to private companies which get a cut of the red light violation revenue, so its pretty much matter of course to try to shorten the yellow light as much as possible.
That is why you should show up for court on these tickets. Every person that shows up to contest it will be one less ticket that the company makes off a cut of. Make the red light camera business as unprofitable as you possibly can.
Make sure to do your homework. Take the camera out to the intersection in question and video tape as many cycles as you can. Make sure if you can you can get it in sight of a speed limit sign or make note of the speed limit on the road in question. Judges tend to respond better to reasonable arguments and will likely make precedence setting rulings in your favor. Best one would be for if say an intersection the speed limit was like 70-80km/h on the road you could easily argue than 2 seconds is not a reasonable amount of time to bring your vehicle to a complete and safe stop, particularly if there are other vehicles behind you (Oh sure you can stop but odds are they wont until they rear end your car).
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Just have people dip their finger in some ink. If it's good enough for Iraq it's good enough for the USA.
For every pirate out there, theres someone who has gone through 3 physical copies of media and gotten sick of replacing them at $15-20 a pop (another argument against blu-ray at $80 a pop).
Now I'm going to use my legal right to creating a backup copy to make a copy and burn my own and use that copy until it bites the dust then move on.
I've started to see the light. I'm going to buy pirated copies of DVDs and stuff from now on just so I dont have to sit through all their bullshit ads and boilerplate 'FBI' warnings.
They keep trying to outdo their failures thats why...
First was Windows ME
Second was Windows Vista
Third will be Microsoft Stores where thousands of 'Windows 7' boxes will sit on the shelves unused and unwanted.
Did I sound convincing?
No but the public has been desensitized enough by bad acting they're used to seeing in MPAA movies that they'll believe it.
It is because religion was never about spirituality and making the world a better place. Religion is always about command and control structures. They command you to do certain things by saying that when you die you'll goto (Good Place) or (Bad Place) depending on what you did while you were alive. They control you by controlling the structures within the religion that issue the commands.
Thou Shalt Not Kill - Unless ordered by the Pope to go kill Muslims to secure Jerusalem for the Christians AKA. The Crusades are just one example of religion being used to command and control a populace based on religion to do things that under the ordinary structure would have had them all going to hell but the pope went and said 'God wants you to kill them!' and everyone believed they needed to go do it.
Oh dont worry... Wikileaks will be filtered too. For your own safety ofcourse!
How often do you patch the nfs daemon?
Ok, maybe rebooting is a good idea but long story short restarting individual applications/programs/daemons works better than having to do a full reboot cycle as restarting these typically takes less than a second. I know Apache restarts in under 1 second. A full reboot cycle can take upwards of 5 minutes depending on what you have running.
Maybe... or they'd have enough clout to ask a company 'We're trying to preserve your game for future generations in an archive. Can you please hand over the keys?' naturally they probably have some sort of immunity being a public institution and/or library. I think even teh US DMCA laws permit libraries to break DRM for archive purposes.
No that was in the Declaration of Independence although not in those exact words it has a very similar almost identical feel to it.
Well I'm surprised people haven't gone with the most obvious method of arguing security...
Ask them the following questions...
Have you seen the Microsoft (XP, Vista, Office, etc...) source code?
Do you know anyone who has?
Do you know how quickly they find bugs and/or fix them?
You can ideally attack the Microsoft patch cycle because EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. YOU. PATCH. YOU. HAVE. TO. REBOOT... With Linux the only time you need to reboot the system is if you patch the kernel itself.
With Linux the patches are made almost instantly (certainly within an hour or so of the vulnerability being discovered). This lets the system administrators decide when to patch. If they wish to patch once a month like Microsoft does then that is perfectly fine. If they want to patch every day at 4am then that is perfectly fine too. YOU make your own policy, it is not dictated to you.
Well to be honest it is a valid (if minor) point and something that we should grill all companies for not just Microsoft.
I think that we should be careful what we wish for. If EULAs are not treated as contracts then the GPL becomes far more weakened than any proprietary vendor's EULA ever would. If the EULAs are ruled not contracts then the GPL may end up in legal limbo as most people like Microsoft and other proprietary vendors would argue that the GPL is the same as an EULA and render it null and void which would almost be worse than EULA's as they stand because the GPL'ed software can provide a healthy and generally more safe alternative to proprietary EULAs.
Thats ok, I doubt anyone other than Microsoft's Lawyer has read the complete EULA either.
No but if these were removed via DMCA take down notices then they are legally obligated to inform the person in question.
If they were not taken down via DMCA take down notice and were infact just someone like the RIAA asking them nicely then they're 'Do No Evil' motto is starting to fall by the wayside again.
Well if you use 2 wires instead of one then you effectively have twice the bandwidth since you have twice the physical media to exploit although that only works if the setup is properly configured to work that way. Typically when done in servers its called 'dual heading' and involves 2 network cards installed into the server so that it can process more data, provide load balancing and naturally increase fault tolerance.
I'm not an Apple fanboy but simply put... its a complete package.
Your DVD player comes with firmware that lets you use it. People wouldnt think of unbundling those two. Similar is happening here, Apple is selling a Mac, with its own OS basically. Its a complete package much like your DVD and its firmware. They typically need to be used together to make them work.
I think that it is more along the lines of shrinking that 600mb behemoth that people have to download to install down because MySQL and LDAP would more than likely be accessible via apt-get or similar.
Yeah trying to convert solely on cost alone is going to have you flooded by Microsoft employees throwing 'free' licenses at you which will result in your cost saving measures being seen as pretty shallow or maybe keep you around to keep doing this and getting them flooded with these Microsoft freebies. In the end you will need to attack in combination.
1) Education: Linux/Open Office/Firefox will force users to adapt to different desktop environments. Ideally you would like to get the professors on board so that they would use Open Office themselves rather than forcing their students to submit their stuff in Word .doc format. Otherwise all your efforts will be for naught.
2) Price: I think licenses are something like $20/user for a site license. Site licenses are generally *PER USER* not *PER MACHINE*. So the number of students matters not the number of computers you have. There probably is some NDA's in Microsoft's license agreements that does not permit people to talk about their licensing agreements with third parties. This is probably because many of their agreements include 'freebies' for people considering Open Source and they'd rather not let that information come out.
3) Open Standards: Without open standards the internet would not have happened. Open standards prevent vendor lock-in. Just imagine if Cisco had some sorta standard for transmitting data over a wire that was different from Ethernet or TCP/IP. No other networking company would be able to come in and replace them... They'd have different connectors, different voltages, different processors and different network stacks on the machines they are servicing. You'd continue with them indefinitely because the hassle of changing wouldn't be worth the cost. This is what Microsoft is trying to do with Windows, Word and their other offerings by trying to lock up your information and force people into 'Software as a Service' setups like Windows 7 is rumored is going to be.
I imagine if both cores come up with the same result that the odds are high its a correct result (not very likely both runs will come up with the very same wrong answer). If one or the other is wrong then you toss the result and re-request until you get an agreement between the two cores.
Naturally this only works if the 'error rate' isn't ridiculously high like 50% of all things passed through it. If its more like 1% of everything passed through it comes up in error and you double up all your calculations (using cores that use 1/30th the electricity) you might still come out on top in terms of energy usage (assuming you were using 2 cores to do your math in the first place).
Well the odds are you probably wouldn't even notice if a few bits here and there were wrong in your audio stream. I'm not sure what the error rate is but if its less than 17 times as much as we have now it'd be worth considering for some applications
I figure if they do use this technology they'd more than likely use the multi-core system currently in place and make one a high accuracy CPU while the other 2-4 cores high speed CPUs. Like someone said it'd be used for gaming and streaming video/audio where 'accuracy' isnt as important.
The 'oh shi-! this is gonna fuck my career' exception of course.
Nothing would have stopped them from requesting every single one of these and releasing them all to the public. Actions speak louder than bills.
Agreed... if you dont have something tangible to produce and your entire market is based on 'Intellectual Property' well I got news for you not every country is a signatory to these copyright treaties. Even then there have been Canadians who have had their copyrights broken in England and England just gave them the finger for the most part because they didnt sign some super new upgraded treaty (WIPO) that the US wants everyone to sign now that'll force governments to adopt ridiculous DMCA like laws.
Well brand names arent entirely bad... I mean if I look for a motherboard then I'm probably looking for an ASUS board because I know they're pretty solid in terms of performance and quality of materials (IE. No cheap capacitors, my motherboard is fine after 5-6 years of use). Although I do agree that it can be bad for someone who decides to say buy Dell because they recognize Dell rather than looking at other computer manufacturers.
Most red light cameras are outsourced to private companies which get a cut of the red light violation revenue, so its pretty much matter of course to try to shorten the yellow light as much as possible.
That is why you should show up for court on these tickets. Every person that shows up to contest it will be one less ticket that the company makes off a cut of. Make the red light camera business as unprofitable as you possibly can.
Make sure to do your homework. Take the camera out to the intersection in question and video tape as many cycles as you can. Make sure if you can you can get it in sight of a speed limit sign or make note of the speed limit on the road in question. Judges tend to respond better to reasonable arguments and will likely make precedence setting rulings in your favor. Best one would be for if say an intersection the speed limit was like 70-80km/h on the road you could easily argue than 2 seconds is not a reasonable amount of time to bring your vehicle to a complete and safe stop, particularly if there are other vehicles behind you (Oh sure you can stop but odds are they wont until they rear end your car).