You're wise beyond your years (probably a lot, considering you UID;) ). While the Israel-Palestine debate doesn't really have a good guy or a victim (at least, not one that doesn't kill civilians), the Taiwan-China conflict is a little more clear-cut.
Agreed. What's so different about Second Life that means eve online can get between 200 and 300 times the people on their servers? It definitely sounds like the code to me.
Your math assumes that 50% of open source being GPL'd will carry over to the 80% of software, which it won't necessarily. Businesses who want to close their source will choose the code with less restrictive licenses, or they'll only link to LGPL code, etc.
The problem that I see is that the 80% isn't necessarily meaning that more code is going to be open source, just that more of it's going to get used. Look at the network stack for vista to see what I mean.
The only democrat who voted nay was Lieberman, who's not even a democrat any more. The problem is that the democrats don't have a 3/5 majority, even with 6 republicans voting outside their party. I think the people you need to be thanking about the republicans how stuck to their party line instead of doing what they know is right.
there was a website that was taking pictures of the california coast, including some property owned by Streisand. She got mad and sued the company because she didn't want people to look at it, the company won and by the end everyone who'd even heard of the internet had seen the picture.
Yes, I think that instead of barring it completely, we should go to the exact opposite end of the spectrum and do something equally radical and/or stupid. Thanks for such a succinct clarification of my post.
there are very few military applications to even try to scale the device down to "trade-show booth" form factor The development of this device would naturally start small and then be made larger, so this could easily have been their last small-scale prototype.
I guarantee you that permanent harm will be caused. The large-scale stimulation of those nerves hasn't been tested much, and having to bear pain like that will leave deep psychological scars that won't easily go away. It's possible that torture victims will be easily found just be showing them pictures of black boxes and watching their heart start to race. The use of this weapon in the US will be banned when it goes to the supreme court and "cruel and unusual punishment" will be shown to exactly describe this method.
Saying that non-violent ways of crowd/nation control are better than violent ways is like saying that water is non-conductive: in a perfect setting, it's true, but in the real world it rarely is.
Apple is an American-based company, Slashdot is an American-based site and, last I heard, the majority of users were in America. Being American-centric makes sense in this case. However, Slashdot also covers other countries, as recently as the last Michael Geist column.
I'm going to miss how light the sixaxis is right now. It was the first thing I noticed when I picked one up and I'm a fan. For certain games, I would even go so far as to say that I would prefer the lighter version over the rumble ability (except for those games where the rumble gives feedback that I can't get better elsewhere).
As you say, "that much" is subjective, and for a company which makes several billion through their business, that revenue is just a few percentage points.
At the close of its 2006 fiscal year, the sum of all these small debts amounted to a little over US $370 million - cash that Google is able to invest but which effectively belongs to webmasters.(Source) Using those numbers, with a 10% return, you're only getting $37 million. It's not the sort of money I'll likely ever deal with, but to a company like Google, it's hardly a large revenue stream.
"Eventually" should be "today." Open Office has a lot of good stuff, and allowing plugins is a very good move, but overall it seems to not be improving like it should be. Fork it, put it on Sourceforge, and strip it of all unnecessary functionality and implement what you strip out in plugins. New improvements that are unnecessary should be created as new plugins.
Because you have to either pay someone to actually click on a link or make a bot which perfectly spoofs a browser to do it for you. Either way you need to make sure it happens in such a way that there's no pattern to the clicking so that google doesn't catch you, including timing, ip address, etc. I would liken the click fraud to spam that gets through gmail's filter rather than unfiltered email, and for me that's about 10% (depending on the day).
To keep its lead in text ads and to avoid law suits, Google puts a lot of time and effort into catching fraud. That costs them money in development and the projects the developers could have done instead. Then there's the percentage they would have taken had that been a legitimate click which they no longer take because they have to nullify it. Then there's the lost bandwidth from having to serve out and record the click, plus the extra servers because of fraud. Let's not forget that they have to pay their lawyers to defend them from the lawsuits that would come whether google's at fault or not.
It's true that publishers lose more money from fraud than google does, but that doesn't mean it doesn't cost Google either.
Assuming that each account has $99.99, and that Google can get a 10% interest rate with that money (they may have to pay out on it, after all, so they've got to keep it close to liquid), it would require 100 million such accounts. Somehow, I'm doubting that they make that much off of it.
Yes, a lot of people think that you must have your head up your ass to make a comment like that, which is absolutely untrue. Coming the from head of a department that is dedicated to copyright holders, the DMCA is a very good law. From the perspective of certain senile, song writing Utah senators, it should be obvious that the DMCA is a step in the wrong direction, a bandaid at best and a laughing stock to those from the other side.
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I wonder if an anti-trust suit could win against google if they chose AT&T.
You're wise beyond your years (probably a lot, considering you UID ;) ). While the Israel-Palestine debate doesn't really have a good guy or a victim (at least, not one that doesn't kill civilians), the Taiwan-China conflict is a little more clear-cut.
China's seat on the Human Rights Council disagrees with you.
The game may be crooked, but it's the only game in town.
Agreed. What's so different about Second Life that means eve online can get between 200 and 300 times the people on their servers? It definitely sounds like the code to me.
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Yes, this is one step away from murdering babies, those bastards!
Your math assumes that 50% of open source being GPL'd will carry over to the 80% of software, which it won't necessarily. Businesses who want to close their source will choose the code with less restrictive licenses, or they'll only link to LGPL code, etc.
The problem that I see is that the 80% isn't necessarily meaning that more code is going to be open source, just that more of it's going to get used. Look at the network stack for vista to see what I mean.
The only democrat who voted nay was Lieberman, who's not even a democrat any more. The problem is that the democrats don't have a 3/5 majority, even with 6 republicans voting outside their party. I think the people you need to be thanking about the republicans how stuck to their party line instead of doing what they know is right.
there was a website that was taking pictures of the california coast, including some property owned by Streisand. She got mad and sued the company because she didn't want people to look at it, the company won and by the end everyone who'd even heard of the internet had seen the picture.
Yes, I think that instead of barring it completely, we should go to the exact opposite end of the spectrum and do something equally radical and/or stupid. Thanks for such a succinct clarification of my post.
I guarantee you that permanent harm will be caused. The large-scale stimulation of those nerves hasn't been tested much, and having to bear pain like that will leave deep psychological scars that won't easily go away. It's possible that torture victims will be easily found just be showing them pictures of black boxes and watching their heart start to race. The use of this weapon in the US will be banned when it goes to the supreme court and "cruel and unusual punishment" will be shown to exactly describe this method.
Saying that non-violent ways of crowd/nation control are better than violent ways is like saying that water is non-conductive: in a perfect setting, it's true, but in the real world it rarely is.
Apple is an American-based company, Slashdot is an American-based site and, last I heard, the majority of users were in America. Being American-centric makes sense in this case. However, Slashdot also covers other countries, as recently as the last Michael Geist column.
I'm going to miss how light the sixaxis is right now. It was the first thing I noticed when I picked one up and I'm a fan. For certain games, I would even go so far as to say that I would prefer the lighter version over the rumble ability (except for those games where the rumble gives feedback that I can't get better elsewhere).
"Eventually" should be "today." Open Office has a lot of good stuff, and allowing plugins is a very good move, but overall it seems to not be improving like it should be. Fork it, put it on Sourceforge, and strip it of all unnecessary functionality and implement what you strip out in plugins. New improvements that are unnecessary should be created as new plugins.
Because you have to either pay someone to actually click on a link or make a bot which perfectly spoofs a browser to do it for you. Either way you need to make sure it happens in such a way that there's no pattern to the clicking so that google doesn't catch you, including timing, ip address, etc. I would liken the click fraud to spam that gets through gmail's filter rather than unfiltered email, and for me that's about 10% (depending on the day).
No, but they could save money on the back end through servers and programmers/analysts/etc who spend time finding fraud.
To keep its lead in text ads and to avoid law suits, Google puts a lot of time and effort into catching fraud. That costs them money in development and the projects the developers could have done instead. Then there's the percentage they would have taken had that been a legitimate click which they no longer take because they have to nullify it. Then there's the lost bandwidth from having to serve out and record the click, plus the extra servers because of fraud. Let's not forget that they have to pay their lawyers to defend them from the lawsuits that would come whether google's at fault or not.
It's true that publishers lose more money from fraud than google does, but that doesn't mean it doesn't cost Google either.
Assuming that each account has $99.99, and that Google can get a 10% interest rate with that money (they may have to pay out on it, after all, so they've got to keep it close to liquid), it would require 100 million such accounts. Somehow, I'm doubting that they make that much off of it.
Perhaps a large-scale framework for turning Starcraft II into an online world with games acting much like random encounters in FF.
Yes, a lot of people think that you must have your head up your ass to make a comment like that, which is absolutely untrue. Coming the from head of a department that is dedicated to copyright holders, the DMCA is a very good law. From the perspective of certain senile, song writing Utah senators, it should be obvious that the DMCA is a step in the wrong direction, a bandaid at best and a laughing stock to those from the other side.