You see... my friend.
What you've got to do is block it at the source. I mean, really get in there. Block it at napster. Firewall it at the Internets. Lobby congress and firewall it at the ISP!
You've gotta transcend the user experience and do what ever it takes to protect those revenue streams! It's that important!
I thought that "journalizing" filesystems were almost always spinning, so bootup isn't really any harder on them than regular running.
My school district has a a few win95 boxes (and a no-kidding 286 IBM running MS-DOS 5.0) that have been running...oh, almost non-stop for...oh...10-15 years? The disks aren't doing all that much in FAT. But spin them like NTFS does and we are lucky to get 5 years out of them.
Yes...I know. They don't make them like they used to. I'll get off your lawn now.
...in Iraq. It took some getting used to, but actually worked quite well. I successfully introduced myself as a "police dog" to a group we detained.
Part of the problem that may never be solved is the lack of direct translations many languages have between each other.
Still, we never had to worry about the phraselator giving information to the insugents. And the phraselator never had to worry about lying to his family about working for us. Sooo... a win/win! 'Cept all that war, violence, and suffering.
How many trees do you have to burn to get enough energy to MAKE a wind-powered generator or a PV cell?
How many trees does it take to smelt uranium and build a nuclear power plant?
How about a hydroelectric dam? These are things we will need energy to make. Does a PV cell result in a net energy gain if you account for how much it took to make one? Starting with the mining processes....all the way up to installation on your roof.
These are serious questions, because our grandkids will likely have nothing but bushes to burn for fuel. Kinda hard to make anodes, batteries, PV farms, etc once we've SUV'ed our resources away. Sort of like how hard it is to get into a phone booth with a spear in your chest...but that's another story.
And YOU are ignoring the fact that only ONE thing decides cost or profit in a free-market economy.
Tom Cruise gets $20 million because he can. He can only get paid what willing to pay him. Movie studios can only get what the market will bear. Don't apply your morals to the ecconomics.
If someone's IP is being "stolen", then take it as a sign that PART of the market has decided not to bear it. It's just another cost of doing business.
Since we are on the topic...Why is it everyone on/. thinks that morals have no application until we start talking about evil corporations being greedy?
The answer is none!
No one is raped because of any factor OTHER than the intent of the rapist. If we start down the road of blaming other things, offenders get an easy second party to transfer some of the responsibility.
You see people try to pass blame on everything. What she/he was wearing. How he/she was raised. What the school didn't do. What the website did. Is it a post-modern thing where we don't want to just say that the offender did it, the offender is responsible?
MySpace can be blamed for a lot of things (like promoting 1990's style web layout), but offender blame is 100% owned by the offender. This is another case of nanystate think-of-the-children bullcrap.
How cool. A commission declares 24 gig bandwidth for tentacle rape cartoons! Luckily for them, they don't have to actually implement the thing!
Why they are at it, how about 92 megapixel, say 67 gig! The Utah commission has just spoken.
Did you just say that a car produces less pollution than a bicycle? The oil companies may have a job for you in the PR division.
And hey! You are right! The government should do everything for us! They should give us free health care. Free money! They should run fiber to my laptop! While they are at it, maybe they can raise our kids. How about the government should do everything! Then we can all work for the government. Everything within the state, nothing out of the state, nothing against the state, right Mussolini?
You act like funding is a god-given right to scientists.
Don't get me wrong, I would like to see our scientists get ample funding so we can become a more efficient world with flying cars, fiberporn-to-the-desktop, and monkey butlers (one at first).
Please keep in mind, that the United States of America constituted it's government as a social contract amongst men to secure life, liberty, and property. Obviously, the US Govt doesn't always stick to this and I decry those problems as well. How did our government get so big that it could imprison you indefinitely? How did it get so big that it could make all the rules (and break them)?
Every time someone says, "the government should regulate/make a law/fund everything/give me healthcare" that person advocates for a larger government. Skateboarding isn't a crime until a gov't bean counter realizes that skateboarders take a larger share of socialized healthcare resources....etc.
This is of course, all off-topic. One bureaucracy must attach open-source rules to research done on it's dime. This is great news. Public dime, public property. I love it.
But please don't think that scientists are someone "entitled" to tax-payer money. If a majority or even plurality of tax-payers would like science to get money, only THEN should it be the case. Wars too. (:
Come on...you aren't really paying 8k for a gallon of ink, you are paying for the cartridges with the electronics and nozzles every couple of ounces. Then, either you throw away the cartridge (like most Americans) or put in in a recycle bin so a company can pocket the savings of not having to manufacture another one.
Price-fixing aside, can we not include bogus dollar amount hyperbole? "Such-and-such costs America over $5 million a year!" just means that someone else earned over $5 million a year. A better headline would be "Staples getting sued for price-fixing".
We couldn't tell. There was a LOT of stuff flying around that day. But like they say, "friendly fire - isn't". We couldn't find evidence of a steel penetrator though, so we tend to guess x39mm.
When I went to Iraq, I had a laptop running ubuntu. I setup apache2, php5, and mysql5. We created our own "series of tubes" in our barracks area and I supplied our own intranet website (read: porn server). Oh, and America's Army server.
This thing ran for several months at a time without a reboot. The only reboots were due to other problems, like when a stray 7.62mm bullet knocked out our generator one time, but as for linux running...this thing ran like a champ. In 11 months of service, it never had a problem.
Of course, it wasn't under the same kind of load. But my NIC was usually maxed out for 40% of the day.
For consumer-grade hardware with free and open software, 0% downtime not energy related, I feel that Linux did a fine job. Seriously, 11 months, 3 reboots due to power. Nice.
intellectual property?
Can you really start coffee shops et al. named DON'T PANIC that serve the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster without being sued by the IP holders?
It's a little-known fact that the "wake-up" strips here in America go along perfectly with Dark Side of the Moon if you drive over them and gun it to 105, hit the brakes to about 15, gun it to 84, then.....
Setting all the things she did or didn't do aside for a second... this argument you have brought forth wouldn't play in any case.
I am a gun owner, and if I don't take precautions against my firearms being used unlawfully, I could find myself liable. If my kid or friend takes my firearm and commits a crime, no judge or jury in a civil suit wants to hear that while it is my gun, what is done with it is of no business of mine.
So lets assume someone used her computer and account to commit piracy (is this awesome, yes/no?), she wouldn't be out of trouble.
A quarter of a million dollars from a working-class person, though? Yeah, that's crap.
Some versions of the old winmodem leveraged windows code to do work that should been done by chips on regular modems. They only worked under windows and were supposed to be cheaper. And they were the suck.
You ask a bunch of geeks if they've kissed a co-worker...and no surprise, over half of them have! Of course, 57% of us are also blackbelts and monster-truck drivers in our spare time.
The girls we supposedly kissed? Yeah, they're totally hot. But they live in Idaho, so you wouldn't know them.
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You've gotta transcend the user experience and do what ever it takes to protect those revenue streams! It's that important!
May I suggest XCP?
--Sony BMG.
My school district has a a few win95 boxes (and a no-kidding 286 IBM running MS-DOS 5.0) that have been running...oh, almost non-stop for...oh...10-15 years? The disks aren't doing all that much in FAT. But spin them like NTFS does and we are lucky to get 5 years out of them.
Yes...I know. They don't make them like they used to. I'll get off your lawn now.
It's ONLY a theory!
The answer is none. None more black.
Part of the problem that may never be solved is the lack of direct translations many languages have between each other.
Still, we never had to worry about the phraselator giving information to the insugents. And the phraselator never had to worry about lying to his family about working for us. Sooo... a win/win! 'Cept all that war, violence, and suffering.
Here's another way to think of the problem:
How many trees do you have to burn to get enough energy to MAKE a wind-powered generator or a PV cell?
How many trees does it take to smelt uranium and build a nuclear power plant?
How about a hydroelectric dam? These are things we will need energy to make. Does a PV cell result in a net energy gain if you account for how much it took to make one? Starting with the mining processes....all the way up to installation on your roof.
These are serious questions, because our grandkids will likely have nothing but bushes to burn for fuel. Kinda hard to make anodes, batteries, PV farms, etc once we've SUV'ed our resources away. Sort of like how hard it is to get into a phone booth with a spear in your chest...but that's another story.
And YOU are ignoring the fact that only ONE thing decides cost or profit in a free-market economy. /. thinks that morals have no application until we start talking about evil corporations being greedy?
Tom Cruise gets $20 million because he can. He can only get paid what willing to pay him. Movie studios can only get what the market will bear. Don't apply your morals to the ecconomics.
If someone's IP is being "stolen", then take it as a sign that PART of the market has decided not to bear it. It's just another cost of doing business.
Since we are on the topic...Why is it everyone on
The answer is none!
No one is raped because of any factor OTHER than the intent of the rapist. If we start down the road of blaming other things, offenders get an easy second party to transfer some of the responsibility.
You see people try to pass blame on everything. What she/he was wearing. How he/she was raised. What the school didn't do. What the website did. Is it a post-modern thing where we don't want to just say that the offender did it, the offender is responsible?
MySpace can be blamed for a lot of things (like promoting 1990's style web layout), but offender blame is 100% owned by the offender. This is another case of nanystate think-of-the-children bullcrap.
Imagine how people will feel when they find out half of their "co-workers" are just shell scripts.
How cool. A commission declares 24 gig bandwidth for tentacle rape cartoons! Luckily for them, they don't have to actually implement the thing!
Why they are at it, how about 92 megapixel, say 67 gig! The Utah commission has just spoken.
I don't know man, That ascii bunny was pretty 1337. But every time I go to copy/paste it, I have to provide a DRM key.
Did you just say that a car produces less pollution than a bicycle? The oil companies may have a job for you in the PR division.
And hey! You are right! The government should do everything for us! They should give us free health care. Free money! They should run fiber to my laptop! While they are at it, maybe they can raise our kids. How about the government should do everything! Then we can all work for the government. Everything within the state, nothing out of the state, nothing against the state, right Mussolini?
does it run SETI@Home?
Well, that and they "go to 11".
I circle "concur", cross-out "non-concur", and initial the parents posts.
This will be a self-correcting problem as soon as you vote with your checkbook (and favorite file-sharing technique).
You act like funding is a god-given right to scientists.
Don't get me wrong, I would like to see our scientists get ample funding so we can become a more efficient world with flying cars, fiberporn-to-the-desktop, and monkey butlers (one at first).
Please keep in mind, that the United States of America constituted it's government as a social contract amongst men to secure life, liberty, and property. Obviously, the US Govt doesn't always stick to this and I decry those problems as well. How did our government get so big that it could imprison you indefinitely? How did it get so big that it could make all the rules (and break them)?
Every time someone says, "the government should regulate/make a law/fund everything/give me healthcare" that person advocates for a larger government. Skateboarding isn't a crime until a gov't bean counter realizes that skateboarders take a larger share of socialized healthcare resources....etc.
This is of course, all off-topic. One bureaucracy must attach open-source rules to research done on it's dime. This is great news. Public dime, public property. I love it.
But please don't think that scientists are someone "entitled" to tax-payer money. If a majority or even plurality of tax-payers would like science to get money, only THEN should it be the case. Wars too. (:
Come on...you aren't really paying 8k for a gallon of ink, you are paying for the cartridges with the electronics and nozzles every couple of ounces. Then, either you throw away the cartridge (like most Americans) or put in in a recycle bin so a company can pocket the savings of not having to manufacture another one. Price-fixing aside, can we not include bogus dollar amount hyperbole? "Such-and-such costs America over $5 million a year!" just means that someone else earned over $5 million a year. A better headline would be "Staples getting sued for price-fixing".
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut now and then. (:
We couldn't tell. There was a LOT of stuff flying around that day. But like they say, "friendly fire - isn't". We couldn't find evidence of a steel penetrator though, so we tend to guess x39mm.
Well Guys...
For what it's worth:
When I went to Iraq, I had a laptop running ubuntu. I setup apache2, php5, and mysql5. We created our own "series of tubes" in our barracks area and I supplied our own intranet website (read: porn server). Oh, and America's Army server.
This thing ran for several months at a time without a reboot. The only reboots were due to other problems, like when a stray 7.62mm bullet knocked out our generator one time, but as for linux running...this thing ran like a champ. In 11 months of service, it never had a problem.
Of course, it wasn't under the same kind of load. But my NIC was usually maxed out for 40% of the day.
For consumer-grade hardware with free and open software, 0% downtime not energy related, I feel that Linux did a fine job. Seriously, 11 months, 3 reboots due to power. Nice.
intellectual property? Can you really start coffee shops et al. named DON'T PANIC that serve the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster without being sued by the IP holders?
as in "Shit, that ain't nothin'"....
It's a little-known fact that the "wake-up" strips here in America go along perfectly with Dark Side of the Moon if you drive over them and gun it to 105, hit the brakes to about 15, gun it to 84, then.....
I am a gun owner, and if I don't take precautions against my firearms being used unlawfully, I could find myself liable. If my kid or friend takes my firearm and commits a crime, no judge or jury in a civil suit wants to hear that while it is my gun, what is done with it is of no business of mine.
So lets assume someone used her computer and account to commit piracy (is this awesome, yes/no?), she wouldn't be out of trouble.
A quarter of a million dollars from a working-class person, though? Yeah, that's crap.
Some versions of the old winmodem leveraged windows code to do work that should been done by chips on regular modems. They only worked under windows and were supposed to be cheaper. And they were the suck.
You ask a bunch of geeks if they've kissed a co-worker...and no surprise, over half of them have! Of course, 57% of us are also blackbelts and monster-truck drivers in our spare time. The girls we supposedly kissed? Yeah, they're totally hot. But they live in Idaho, so you wouldn't know them.