Is it wrong for Morpheus to "freeload" off of Gnutella? But they're license compliant, and they bring a whole lot of content with them. And the whole Gnutella network is - de facto - already about freeloading. But making profit off of it just fuels the MPAA/RIAA's law-buying machine...
Reading through all the posts, yours hit me. I have one question, though. If they were making a profit, why couldn't they pay their damn bills???
I know that a while back a buddy of mine was switching all his home boxes to 2.4, and when he got around to the firewall, there were some fairly important (to him) modules (?) that wouldn't work w/ 2.4. That might be rectified by now, though.
Not even. VNC doesn't scale, so forget that. And your figures are way off on the citrix servers. Only a complete id10t would try to support 500 clients on a single citrix server. You'd want 10+ servers in a farm for that many users. Another thing to consider is bandwidth. Neither VNC nor MSTermServ use bw as efficiently as citrix.
That reminds me of something I read recently. The biggest question of the paper (maybe online), was whether or not intelligence was a positive survival trait.
IIRC, their position was that it is not a positive trait, although I don't remember why nor do I agree..
I got burned by that a few years ago. I *should* have applied for unemployment. Instead I took a "temporary" job delivering pizzas. I barely made enough for rent & food, at least until my car was repo'd. I've almost gotten my credit cards & whatnot paid back, but I wouldn't have been nearly as bad off if I'd gone for unemployment instead of underemployment...
Although the site is/.ed, how about this... BBC (Big Bad Corp) sends you a cease & desist. You check, and it's hogwash. So you draw up a cease & desist that's legally correct & throw it back at them. Kind of playing their game better than they.
I'm probably talking out of my butt here, but I usually do anyway...
Most computer stores sell Dell, Compaq, Gateway, Emachine, or something similar. The big name companies supposedly get huge concessions from Intel to only sell Intel, although I think Emachines does use some AMD, if they're still around.
Although AMD has the cluefull users in the bag, Intel has the clueless. All they know is Intel Inside. And they're the ones who go to work & decide that it's Intel or nothing, and the business world is what really matters to chipmakers. I know that where I work, they'd rather overpay for a P4 crippled by SDRAM than a better performing, more inexpensive AMD solution. I've given up trying to get them to buy AMD, now I'm focusing on at least trying to get them to go DDR/RDRAM on the P4s.
A similar distinction results from looking at the class data: Warrior is listed as the second-favorite class, but ranks a distant sixth in the list of classes people would like to be, were Norath real.
This implies that people would rather be a class or race that isn't their favorite.
Well, I might like to play a warrior in a game, but you certainly aren't going to see me out IRL swinging a sword at someone trying to hack off parts of my body...
You may need to use special ink. I know one customer of ours has to use special ink to print checks so they can be scanned... The one customer we have that prints their own barcodes uses special bar code printers, so I don't know about the ink in them...
What software writers want to claim is something different. They say that when I buy software I don't necessarily have my normal rights under first sale. I might not be allowed to transfer my right to the software to somebody else, for instance. To try to enact those rules, they claim to sell you only a license to use the software, and not actually a copy of the software itself.
Or in some cases, you don't even have the right to transfer software to a machine that you own.
My company recently purchased an OEM copy of WinXP (we are qualified). As a network tech, I'm running into more & more copies of XP, so I needed to be familiar with it. I noticed that the little license sticker requires you to affix it to your PC. Now, as the best tech in the company (big fish in a small pond), I get to upgrade my hardware whenever possible. Whether it's a new video card, hd, cpu/mb, or case. But now I'm suddenly tied to my case. If we EOL it, there goes our copy of XP. With the older OSs, I've always slipped the little license sheet in the bottom of my case, and transfered it when I got a new box. No more of that, though. And *that* bothers me more than activation or any of the rest of the XP brouhaha.
Like I said, I'm not way into Vorbis (there, better?), so I got that wrong. I don't believe I've *ever* heard of Tarken, although I vaguely remember hearing about a sibling video codec.
So in all my examples, change it to "vorb". Vorb that CD. Still doesn't sound as good as ogging it, though:)
3.)Wouldn't provide students with the knowledge of computers to succeed in the real world I.E. Microsoft software is used by 99% of the business world and having everything run linux would simply not be effective in teaching students how to use 'real world' applications.
Yes & no. Most people that sit down at my Linux box have no problem using it. They've been "trained" on Windows, and they do the basic stuff. They're not gearheads, and they don't really care too much what's going on. The biggest deal is knowing what apps are comparable. The question I hear most is "I don't see Word, what can I use to type my term paper?" I point them to abi or whatever (I use vim, so I usually have to look to see what I have installed). They do their thing & are happy.
So if people have basic computing skills, they'll be able to easily translate those basic skills to other OSs. Plus, if they're used to using Linux in college, they won't be as hesitant to try it in the real world.
All this has been said before, and will be said again...
Granted, I don't use Ogg Vorbis. I think I looked into it a while back, but I spent too long ripping all my CDs to switch. That's the real issue. Even a batch mp3>ov converter wouldn't work. I don't want to recompress an already lossy compression.
As for the name, I think ogg would be better to say than mp3. Ogg= 1 syllable, mp3 = 3. Plus, instead of ripping CDs, you can ogg them. Ogg players. No, in terms of names, ogg has mp3 beat.
The problem is mp3 is "good enough", and already entrenched.
While I agree that the case shouldn't have even come this far (first come, first served back in the 90s), I also think the Judge's reasoning on the non-commercial nature of the site are to be noticed. Specifically, the platiffs tried to point out...
I had a company, Caution Wear Inc. (or something close) complain to my Domain provider that I was infringing, give us the name or we'll sue you til you're dead, dead, dead.
I responded to my provider (www.namezero.com) that I run a personal, hobbyist site, and that my domain, www.cautioninc.com, can in no way be mistaken for caution wear. I was upset, because I was quite sure I'd loose my domain. I've been putting out paper zines under caution, inc. for ~15 yrs., and am quite attached to the name. I was extremely & pleasantly surprised when Namezero backed me up, especially considering their terms of use state they won't.
Of course, months later I got a notice from Cafepress.com that they're cancelling my store. Apparently a t-shirt w/ a picture of me & my daughter & the cautioninc logo are infringing on their trademarks, too.
But Namezero, whatever else you can say about them, get good marks in my book.
Off-topic? Big guy vs. little guy??? I'm not that worried:)
Wireless... And while you're at it, why not mount an LCD *underneath* the glass? You'd have to play w/ the materials to cut glare, but it would be pretty sweet then.
Right now I perch a laptop on an old wooden school chair, but this would work much better for couch sessions. Hmm, second thought, if you mounted the LCD under the glass, you wouldn't be able to sit back & still view it.
That naturally leads me to having a swing-up design for the LCD, but by that point, I might as well get one of the new iMacs.
Dude, that's *exactly* when you need wireless access. Surely you don't mean to get up off the couch:) I drape cat5 across the living room floor, but I always end up forgetting it's there when I go to the kitchen for more gnoshies, and trip over it.
One of my first jobs was in an arcade, and we cleaned the pinball machines 3 times a week, with one of the times being a more extensive workover. And they still went down.
Yeah, that was it. It must have been on sale or something:) A product like that always makes me think of good places to put them. And good people to give them to. Then I think about all the really good reasons to have the PC a 6ft. keyboard cord away from these people...
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Is it wrong for Morpheus to "freeload" off of Gnutella? But they're license compliant, and they bring a whole lot of content with them. And the whole Gnutella network is - de facto - already about freeloading. But making profit off of it just fuels the MPAA/RIAA's law-buying machine...
Reading through all the posts, yours hit me. I have one question, though. If they were making a profit, why couldn't they pay their damn bills???
I know that a while back a buddy of mine was switching all his home boxes to 2.4, and when he got around to the firewall, there were some fairly important (to him) modules (?) that wouldn't work w/ 2.4. That might be rectified by now, though.
Not even. VNC doesn't scale, so forget that. And your figures are way off on the citrix servers. Only a complete id10t would try to support 500 clients on a single citrix server. You'd want 10+ servers in a farm for that many users. Another thing to consider is bandwidth. Neither VNC nor MSTermServ use bw as efficiently as citrix.
That reminds me of something I read recently. The biggest question of the paper (maybe online), was whether or not intelligence was a positive survival trait.
IIRC, their position was that it is not a positive trait, although I don't remember why nor do I agree..
I, for instance, tend to prefer dating women who find fat, bearded computer geeks attractive.
I like that, it's probably one of the funniest things I've heard in a long time.
I'll put my vote in for halitosis... :)
I got burned by that a few years ago. I *should* have applied for unemployment. Instead I took a "temporary" job delivering pizzas. I barely made enough for rent & food, at least until my car was repo'd. I've almost gotten my credit cards & whatnot paid back, but I wouldn't have been nearly as bad off if I'd gone for unemployment instead of underemployment...
Although the site is /.ed, how about this... BBC (Big Bad Corp) sends you a cease & desist. You check, and it's hogwash. So you draw up a cease & desist that's legally correct & throw it back at them. Kind of playing their game better than they.
I'm probably talking out of my butt here, but I usually do anyway...
Most computer stores sell Dell, Compaq, Gateway, Emachine, or something similar. The big name companies supposedly get huge concessions from Intel to only sell Intel, although I think Emachines does use some AMD, if they're still around.
Although AMD has the cluefull users in the bag, Intel has the clueless. All they know is Intel Inside. And they're the ones who go to work & decide that it's Intel or nothing, and the business world is what really matters to chipmakers. I know that where I work, they'd rather overpay for a P4 crippled by SDRAM than a better performing, more inexpensive AMD solution. I've given up trying to get them to buy AMD, now I'm focusing on at least trying to get them to go DDR/RDRAM on the P4s.
first the rep needs to prove that $199.00 per node for software fees has to provide major benifits over the Linux cluster.
Or better yet, start talking about donations, both of hardware & licenses. That ought to shut him up pretty quick...
The argument re: analog tapes is degradation of quality. You never get an exact analog copy...
Mac list restrictions can be overcome in this manner as well: you can specify a MAC by using Ifconfig under linux :)
FYI, Windows lets you specify MACs, too...
A similar distinction results from looking at the class data: Warrior is listed as the second-favorite class, but ranks a distant sixth in the list of classes people would like to be, were Norath real.
This implies that people would rather be a class or race that isn't their favorite.
Well, I might like to play a warrior in a game, but you certainly aren't going to see me out IRL swinging a sword at someone trying to hack off parts of my body...
You may need to use special ink. I know one customer of ours has to use special ink to print checks so they can be scanned... The one customer we have that prints their own barcodes uses special bar code printers, so I don't know about the ink in them...
What software writers want to claim is something different. They say that when I buy software I don't necessarily have my normal rights under first sale. I might not be allowed to transfer my right to the software to somebody else, for instance. To try to enact those rules, they claim to sell you only a license to use the software, and not actually a copy of the software itself.
Or in some cases, you don't even have the right to transfer software to a machine that you own.
My company recently purchased an OEM copy of WinXP (we are qualified). As a network tech, I'm running into more & more copies of XP, so I needed to be familiar with it. I noticed that the little license sticker requires you to affix it to your PC. Now, as the best tech in the company (big fish in a small pond), I get to upgrade my hardware whenever possible. Whether it's a new video card, hd, cpu/mb, or case. But now I'm suddenly tied to my case. If we EOL it, there goes our copy of XP. With the older OSs, I've always slipped the little license sheet in the bottom of my case, and transfered it when I got a new box. No more of that, though. And *that* bothers me more than activation or any of the rest of the XP brouhaha.
Well, maybe they should change it, then :)
:)
Like I said, I'm not way into Vorbis (there, better?), so I got that wrong. I don't believe I've *ever* heard of Tarken, although I vaguely remember hearing about a sibling video codec.
So in all my examples, change it to "vorb". Vorb that CD. Still doesn't sound as good as ogging it, though
3.)Wouldn't provide students with the knowledge of computers to succeed in the real world I.E. Microsoft software is used by 99% of the business world and having everything run linux would simply not be effective in teaching students how to use 'real world' applications.
Yes & no. Most people that sit down at my Linux box have no problem using it. They've been "trained" on Windows, and they do the basic stuff. They're not gearheads, and they don't really care too much what's going on. The biggest deal is knowing what apps are comparable. The question I hear most is "I don't see Word, what can I use to type my term paper?" I point them to abi or whatever (I use vim, so I usually have to look to see what I have installed). They do their thing & are happy.
So if people have basic computing skills, they'll be able to easily translate those basic skills to other OSs. Plus, if they're used to using Linux in college, they won't be as hesitant to try it in the real world.
All this has been said before, and will be said again...
Granted, I don't use Ogg Vorbis. I think I looked into it a while back, but I spent too long ripping all my CDs to switch. That's the real issue. Even a batch mp3>ov converter wouldn't work. I don't want to recompress an already lossy compression.
As for the name, I think ogg would be better to say than mp3. Ogg= 1 syllable, mp3 = 3. Plus, instead of ripping CDs, you can ogg them. Ogg players. No, in terms of names, ogg has mp3 beat.
The problem is mp3 is "good enough", and already entrenched.
According to the article, voice rec doesn't work when it's playing. So no stop or pause voice commands, and it won't switch songs accidentally...
I've actually seen direct die water cooling setups w/ a clear block. You could see the cpu "work". Even better, you could see the water-flow...
While I agree that the case shouldn't have even come this far (first come, first served back in the 90s), I also think the Judge's reasoning on the non-commercial nature of the site are to be noticed. Specifically, the platiffs tried to point out...
:)
I had a company, Caution Wear Inc. (or something close) complain to my Domain provider that I was infringing, give us the name or we'll sue you til you're dead, dead, dead.
I responded to my provider (www.namezero.com) that I run a personal, hobbyist site, and that my domain, www.cautioninc.com, can in no way be mistaken for caution wear. I was upset, because I was quite sure I'd loose my domain. I've been putting out paper zines under caution, inc. for ~15 yrs., and am quite attached to the name. I was extremely & pleasantly surprised when Namezero backed me up, especially considering their terms of use state they won't.
Of course, months later I got a notice from Cafepress.com that they're cancelling my store. Apparently a t-shirt w/ a picture of me & my daughter & the cautioninc logo are infringing on their trademarks, too.
But Namezero, whatever else you can say about them, get good marks in my book.
Off-topic? Big guy vs. little guy??? I'm not that worried
Wireless... And while you're at it, why not mount an LCD *underneath* the glass? You'd have to play w/ the materials to cut glare, but it would be pretty sweet then.
Right now I perch a laptop on an old wooden school chair, but this would work much better for couch sessions. Hmm, second thought, if you mounted the LCD under the glass, you wouldn't be able to sit back & still view it.
That naturally leads me to having a swing-up design for the LCD, but by that point, I might as well get one of the new iMacs.
Dude, that's *exactly* when you need wireless access. Surely you don't mean to get up off the couch:) I drape cat5 across the living room floor, but I always end up forgetting it's there when I go to the kitchen for more gnoshies, and trip over it.
One of my first jobs was in an arcade, and we cleaned the pinball machines 3 times a week, with one of the times being a more extensive workover. And they still went down.
:)
Free video games, though
Yeah, that was it. It must have been on sale or something :) A product like that always makes me think of good places to put them. And good people to give them to. Then I think about all the really good reasons to have the PC a 6ft. keyboard cord away from these people...