What you have to remember about the RIAA members is that most of them are owned by publicly held companies, which are ultimately accountable to their shareholders. Therefore, it would be literally impossible for them to quietly give up, because the Board would toss the CEO out on his ass.
So, what they're doing is exactly what they have to: show their shareholders that they are gravely concerned by privacy, and will stamp it out by any means neccessary. A bit of advice for anyone who runs a privately held company: NEVER GO PUBLIC! The money is just not worth the restrictions you will eventually be placed under.
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Unless you've got some information you're not talking about, you just pulled that number our of your ass. Admit it, you have no idea how much work they did on Linux, how many additional positions were needed to do that work, or how much work they would have had to do on Win NT 4.0 (Google's been around longer than Win2k, and maybe we ought to add in the upgrade costs to go from NT to 2000? Another, say, half mil you think? And by "work" of course, I mean writing custom programs, because obviously they wouldn't have had the ability to directly hack the OS, so a simpler change probably would be more difficult to do).
Anyway, my point is, there's an awful lot stacked against NT right from the get-go. Not to say it wouldn't have been cheaper, I have very little experience running 8000 box server farms. I imagine you have equally little. So, Windows may have been cheaper, but you have to assume that they spent more than $1-2 million customizing Linux to even bring it up to the level of NT. Possible, but I'm inclined to think not.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I admit, they look awfully cool (I was expecting a lame semi-translucent imac type thing), but $105 US for a computer case?!? I think I'll stick with what I've got...
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Since mod points are given out based on the number of comments posted, I think probably a lot of people were given mod points late yesterday (since hardly any comments seemed to be modded yesterday), and are just now using them.
Hence, not nearly enough moderation yesterday, and way too much today.
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Did I or did I not reference Doom in the post you replied to? Read carefully now...
As someone else pointed out elsewhere, Doom's net model bears not the slighted bit of resemblance either to what Worlds.com has patented or how Quake runs.
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No, you may not perform others' music without paying royalties. It's done all the time, but it is technically illegal, and the RIAA has done such unsavory things as sending threatening letters to summer camps for singing copywritten campfire songs without paying royalties (back in '96, someone posted a link around somewhere).
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I don't even remember there being a net-enabled version of Wolfenstein 3D, much less one that uses their client-server technology. See some other posts on this topic for claims (and counteragruments) about whether Quake came out early enough to be prior art (maybe), or whether Doom's model was close enough to count (definately not).
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The command recommended in the parent comment will, indeed, install the new Ximian Gnome, but it will irrevocably set your desktop picture to goat sex!
Okay, it doesn't, but it should.
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Wouldn't it be possible, then, to simply have a program with enough memory to know all possible moves and every possible game result, then allowing that program, at every turn, to simply perform whatever move has the highest number of possible wins associated with it?
No.
There are more possible chess moves than atoms in the universe, so you could not build a computer with enough storage space. Some have argued that there may be a much much smaller number of USEFUL moves, and perhaps we would be able to create a computer the plays a "perfect" game if we could somehow eliminate most of those useless moves before we started calculating (since otherwise we won't get done calculating until sometime after the Big Crunch, or the Big Freeze, whichever it is that ends up occuring).
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See the above reply for why it almost certainly didn't come out of Russia, but even if it did, that's hardly surprising.
Most Russians can actually remember what it was like living in a totalitarian society. Hell, there are people in that country old enough to remember living under Stalin. So is it any surprise that they'd be working harder on keeping information free than a country that's used to the Supreme Court interpreting "freedom of speech" as freedom to write, shout, send, email, or burn whatever you want?
The only reason we in the US need Freenet is warez (and other forms of piracy). That's pretty small in comparison to true freedom of speech.
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Unless one rewrote the kernel from scratch, without using a single line of GPL'ed code, wouldn't it be illegal to have a closed source embedded Linux? And if it is rewritten from scratch, without a single line from Linus' kernel, then it's not Linux, is it?
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Or at the very least, they should have waited until that product became a solid business before expanding. If they were making profits on firewalls, then expand into distros, but don't spread yourself too thin.
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Those were the original rules (apparently written by their lawyers, stuck in there with all the other required legal mumbo jumbo (no purchase necessary, void where prohibited, chances of winning depends on number of entries, etc)), but when people complained they changed it and apologized profusely.
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That's why these people are being sued. Stock price manipulation IS illegal. However, there are some companies that even without manipulation are likely to be doomed (all the.coms, Rambus, etc) and a great deal of money can be made if you guess right.
Of course, on the down side, the stock market tends to grow about 3% faster than the rate of inflation, so whereas buying stock you're probably going to make money, even if you just stick the money in an index fund (in fact, you'll make MORE than giving it to many money managers), when you short you're more likely to lose money. The bears are a crazy but dedicated bunch.
I believe it was ESR's book. He was referring to the "tragedy of the commons." However, in this case it really is not applicable, because while stock manipulation may cause short term economic shocks, in the long run stock prices reflect economic reality, not the other way around.
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A securities firm lends you stock, which you sell immediatly. Suppose stock XYZ is currently at $40 a share. You borrow 100 shares, sell them at $40 each, and get $40,000. Then, at some point in the future, you have to give that firm back 100 shares of XYZ
If the stock goes up to $50 a share, then when you repurchase that stock to give back to the firm, it will cost you $50,000, resulting in a net loss of $10,000.
However, if the stock goes down to $20 a share, then you will make $20,000. Even better, if the company goes bankrupt, the stock becomes worthless, and you make a full $40,000.
People who short stock are known as "bears." This is why a down market is called a "bear market." "Bulls" are those who buy stock the normal way. The statue of a bull and a bear locked in combat in front of the NYSE building, of course, symbolizes the struggle between these two factions in the investment world. The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
The Judge's name is Thomas Zilly. 2*3=6, the number of letters in his first name, and 2+3=5, the number of letters in his last name. He is obviously an agent of the Illuminati himself.
Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!
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Right, yes, previous lack of support.:) The point is, Mandrake was patching these things into the kernel before it became standard. Again, it has its goods and its bads, but having a less well tested kernel is better than none at all.
My point about a jfs is that I have lost power three times in the last two months, so having a filesystem that can more easily those sorts of beatings on a regular basis is important to me. The corruptions that RH was speaking about were occuring in high load tests, not standard everyday usage. I don't do a whole lot that stresses my system, so I am not likely to experience that.
I like Red Hat, I run it on my laptop because I feel it's a little slicker than Mandrake. On my desktop though, the extra features are worth a little bit of bloat for me. I agree with your earlier statement that Red Hat DOES work. Mandrake just seems to pack a bit more in.
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If their profit margins are halved, but twice as many people buy, you would be right. However, they probably have to pay $5-10 in packaging and printing per copy, so if you halve the sticker price, you more than halve their profits. So more than twice as many would have to buy.
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I like the campaign, I think it's cool. So how long untill we get to buy into the conspiracy with Peace Love and Linux grafiti templates of our own? Or at least shirts.
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The first Red Hat install that works on my desktop is 7.1, because of the lack of support for ATA/66. Mandrake, on the other hand, has worked since at least 7.1 out of box (no annoying patched kernel boot disks a la Debian), and I've heard reports that 7.0 worked too.
Or how 'bout ReiserFS (in since at least 7.2)? Yeah, yeah, we know, it isn't good enough for a production environment. That's why we say it's a good DESKTOP distro. I ain't exactly serving the Yahoo! homepage. The power outage frequency here in SF means that I'm better off taking a little risk with Reiser than sticking with ext2.
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So, what they're doing is exactly what they have to: show their shareholders that they are gravely concerned by privacy, and will stamp it out by any means neccessary. A bit of advice for anyone who runs a privately held company: NEVER GO PUBLIC! The money is just not worth the restrictions you will eventually be placed under.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Anyway, my point is, there's an awful lot stacked against NT right from the get-go. Not to say it wouldn't have been cheaper, I have very little experience running 8000 box server farms. I imagine you have equally little. So, Windows may have been cheaper, but you have to assume that they spent more than $1-2 million customizing Linux to even bring it up to the level of NT. Possible, but I'm inclined to think not.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
So about $1 million for 8000 copies then? The point still stands...
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I admit, they look awfully cool (I was expecting a lame semi-translucent imac type thing), but $105 US for a computer case?!? I think I'll stick with what I've got...
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Hence, not nearly enough moderation yesterday, and way too much today.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
As someone else pointed out elsewhere, Doom's net model bears not the slighted bit of resemblance either to what Worlds.com has patented or how Quake runs.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
No, you may not perform others' music without paying royalties. It's done all the time, but it is technically illegal, and the RIAA has done such unsavory things as sending threatening letters to summer camps for singing copywritten campfire songs without paying royalties (back in '96, someone posted a link around somewhere).
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I don't even remember there being a net-enabled version of Wolfenstein 3D, much less one that uses their client-server technology. See some other posts on this topic for claims (and counteragruments) about whether Quake came out early enough to be prior art (maybe), or whether Doom's model was close enough to count (definately not).
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
They were claiming that multi user fps games developed since they applied for their patent (Nov. '96, it looks like), may be covered.
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Okay, it doesn't, but it should.
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The first site I found claimed that there are 10^120 possible moves, which would be considerably more than the number of atoms in the universe.
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No.
There are more possible chess moves than atoms in the universe, so you could not build a computer with enough storage space. Some have argued that there may be a much much smaller number of USEFUL moves, and perhaps we would be able to create a computer the plays a "perfect" game if we could somehow eliminate most of those useless moves before we started calculating (since otherwise we won't get done calculating until sometime after the Big Crunch, or the Big Freeze, whichever it is that ends up occuring).
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Most Russians can actually remember what it was like living in a totalitarian society. Hell, there are people in that country old enough to remember living under Stalin. So is it any surprise that they'd be working harder on keeping information free than a country that's used to the Supreme Court interpreting "freedom of speech" as freedom to write, shout, send, email, or burn whatever you want?
The only reason we in the US need Freenet is warez (and other forms of piracy). That's pretty small in comparison to true freedom of speech.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Unless one rewrote the kernel from scratch, without using a single line of GPL'ed code, wouldn't it be illegal to have a closed source embedded Linux? And if it is rewritten from scratch, without a single line from Linus' kernel, then it's not Linux, is it?
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Or at the very least, they should have waited until that product became a solid business before expanding. If they were making profits on firewalls, then expand into distros, but don't spread yourself too thin.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
What's important is if it's light or dark, correct? So choose what color you want, and then it will go from (say) midnight blue to sky blue.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Stupid Red Hat and Mandrake, have to release new distros in the same week, grumble grumble...
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Those were the original rules (apparently written by their lawyers, stuck in there with all the other required legal mumbo jumbo (no purchase necessary, void where prohibited, chances of winning depends on number of entries, etc)), but when people complained they changed it and apologized profusely.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Of course, on the down side, the stock market tends to grow about 3% faster than the rate of inflation, so whereas buying stock you're probably going to make money, even if you just stick the money in an index fund (in fact, you'll make MORE than giving it to many money managers), when you short you're more likely to lose money. The bears are a crazy but dedicated bunch.
I believe it was ESR's book. He was referring to the "tragedy of the commons." However, in this case it really is not applicable, because while stock manipulation may cause short term economic shocks, in the long run stock prices reflect economic reality, not the other way around.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
If the stock goes up to $50 a share, then when you repurchase that stock to give back to the firm, it will cost you $50,000, resulting in a net loss of $10,000.
However, if the stock goes down to $20 a share, then you will make $20,000. Even better, if the company goes bankrupt, the stock becomes worthless, and you make a full $40,000.
People who short stock are known as "bears." This is why a down market is called a "bear market." "Bulls" are those who buy stock the normal way. The statue of a bull and a bear locked in combat in front of the NYSE building, of course, symbolizes the struggle between these two factions in the investment world.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
My point about a jfs is that I have lost power three times in the last two months, so having a filesystem that can more easily those sorts of beatings on a regular basis is important to me. The corruptions that RH was speaking about were occuring in high load tests, not standard everyday usage. I don't do a whole lot that stresses my system, so I am not likely to experience that.
I like Red Hat, I run it on my laptop because I feel it's a little slicker than Mandrake. On my desktop though, the extra features are worth a little bit of bloat for me. I agree with your earlier statement that Red Hat DOES work. Mandrake just seems to pack a bit more in.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
If their profit margins are halved, but twice as many people buy, you would be right. However, they probably have to pay $5-10 in packaging and printing per copy, so if you halve the sticker price, you more than halve their profits. So more than twice as many would have to buy.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
I like the campaign, I think it's cool. So how long untill we get to buy into the conspiracy with Peace Love and Linux grafiti templates of our own? Or at least shirts.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
Or how 'bout ReiserFS (in since at least 7.2)? Yeah, yeah, we know, it isn't good enough for a production environment. That's why we say it's a good DESKTOP distro. I ain't exactly serving the Yahoo! homepage. The power outage frequency here in SF means that I'm better off taking a little risk with Reiser than sticking with ext2.
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.