On the flip side, women *have* been prosecuted for taking nude pictures of their children and niece. Who is going to decide what is "acceptable" and "unacceptable"? Because the goal would be to remove things that get sickos off, and, well, what wouldn't?
How will you ever prove intent? The requirement that I have knowingly violated the patent will be impossible to prove. I mean, I'll just never bother checking the patent filings and then I'll never know anything. I can have four hundred stolen toasters in my posession that I bought off a homeless man; how can you prove that I *knew* they were stolen?
If the users are smart, they would get indemnity from the suppliers that the products are not plagued with patent violations.
A high lieutenant of Bin Laden was caught in Afghanistan and was "debriefed" in Gitmo. He was the same guy who lied and had everyone in a tiff about the Golden Gate Bridge a few years back. Anyway, he said that he could have crashed the hijacked 9/11 planes into the nuclear reactor at Indian Point, NY. It was just that Bush would have nuked the Middle East if that happened.
Bin Laden was convinced that Americans were cowards that would leave if there was just a conventional mass casualty attack against their homeland. Boy was he wrong. Americans may be gullible and adorably naive, but they sure don't run away from a fight, don't they?
Set your NAT correctly, then. BitTorrent is designed to speed the downloads of those who have been sharing their uploading capacity. However, those behind a NAT firewall will have difficulty uploading because, well, the inbound connection initiated by the remote system cannot find your NAT'ed system. Hence, you should forward the ports required for BitTorrent. Setting the upload limit will prevent throttling of your downloads (because we have to handshake, basically, for each packet we get). And also set your downloads to set apart the download space in one large piece to reduce the fragmentation of your hard drive. And don't download too much at once.
There are webpages out there will the names of validated content files along with their size and MD5 sums. These websites are not illegal as they contain no content. However, if you trust the website, and assuming that eXeem allows you to get the MD5 sum of the file you want to download, then you can run a decentralized server system.
The (perhaps flawed) assumption you make is that there would be less piracy if Sony didn't make an MP3 player. The truth is that piracy isn't going to go away anytime soon, and you might as well make money off of the players before you render them all obsolete by introducing DRM.
Security people shouldn't be big fans of people. If you trust the hot blonde and you let her through, perhaps she's a Muslim fundamentalist and blows up the plane. Nope. Don't trust no one.
I am not that smart, but I have never messed up a production system because I run test systems. Even if I did make a mistake, it would not be because I used an out of spec IDE cable. I keep backups of my data, too, especially if I am going to be messing with the partition information in anyway--even when using Partition Magic. The obvious stuff, you know, that everyone should do, like look both ways before crossing the street.
This guy should not be a sys-admin. First, he uses an IDE cable that is out of spec in a production server. Then he tries to install GRUB but doesn't read the paramters correctly and deletes his partition table. Knoppix is not really the story here; rather, the story is the fact that this guy does really dumb things. He did not even have the information on the system backed up.
This is more a cautionary tale more than anything else.
I doubt "Scholar" is generic. Literally, "scholar" means someone smart, etc. This is a database. The term is suggestive, which can develop secondary meaning. There is no shortage of terms, etc.
Such patent monopolies are important for society, though not in the realm of computers. Pretend company C finds that drug D cures cancer in mice. It then performs many human trials to make sure it is safe and effective in humans as well, all at great expense. It then brings the drug to market.
Without patents, company C will never disclose what is in drug D, hence stopping future research down related veins. (And thus preventing improvements down that avenue.) Furthermore, other companies will find out what drug D is made out of and then sell it generically. Company C is screwed because it had spent all the money doing the research; it can't compete on marketing, etc., against the companies that are free-loading. Future drug companies will do no research.
People say that we should make all research government-funded. Right. Government-regulation has been such a boon, right?
I'd be curious to see what this would look like if you excluded immigrants - I suspect the US would place a lot higher relative to highly homogenous societies like the ones at the top.
Actually, uh, the US score may go *down* if you knocked out the immigrants.
Sure, AMD is ahead right now. There is incompatibility between the two 64 bit architectures, and developers may choose to design for one or the other. But the Intel FAQ is right in that Intel processors support SSE3 and HyperThreading, for which AMD has no counterpart. This is in addition to Intel performance-enhancing compilers. If developers choose to develop around Intel's 64 Bit processor, then AMD may soon find itself behind again.
"Each version of the kernel requires applications to be compiled specifically for it. "
I'm sorry but that's utter bullshite[sic]. I've never had to recompile applications because I upgraded the kernel...... have you?
Yes, actually. The nVidia drivers (which broke at 2.6) need to be recompiled everytime you change teh kernel. Wireless driver support under ndiswrapper have to be recompiled each time as well. Yes, these are drivers and not applications, but then, we don't need that doesn't make it less important, does it? This is not all apps, but some important parts of the system do need to be recompiled to work with each new kernel.
The prime consideration is that this technology uses current red-laser technology rather than a new blue-laser. This makes it inherently backwards compatible with today's CD-RW and DVDs. It is also cheaper and carries 20 gig on one side, with a 30 gb model available. If we use high-bandwidth XVID/Ogg streams on this, why would we need blu-ray?
Microsoft is supporting the AMD 64 extensions. Dell probably wants to be on the MS rather than Intel side of things since there is no (real) alternative to Windows.
Anyway, this is server-side only. CEO Rollins says, "If we basically sucked up all of AMD's [manufacturing] capacity it would not be enough. They don't have enough capacity for us to use them on the desktop. For us, fundamentally, AMD is much more interesting in the server, workstation or gaming arenas."
The AMD 64 chips also seem to run cooler. This would be majorly helpful, one thinks, then the high clockspeed Intels in a server farm situation. And the 64 bit allows more RAM to be addressed. Yep. Server.
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On the flip side, women *have* been prosecuted for taking nude pictures of their children and niece. Who is going to decide what is "acceptable" and "unacceptable"? Because the goal would be to remove things that get sickos off, and, well, what wouldn't?
Look at the AdBlock elements: one of the links on the page: http://switch.atdmt.com/action/apple_g5_powerbook
Yup. Remember this thing about how there was going to be a new G5 Powerbook? Hehe.
How will you ever prove intent? The requirement that I have knowingly violated the patent will be impossible to prove. I mean, I'll just never bother checking the patent filings and then I'll never know anything. I can have four hundred stolen toasters in my posession that I bought off a homeless man; how can you prove that I *knew* they were stolen?
If the users are smart, they would get indemnity from the suppliers that the products are not plagued with patent violations.
A high lieutenant of Bin Laden was caught in Afghanistan and was "debriefed" in Gitmo. He was the same guy who lied and had everyone in a tiff about the Golden Gate Bridge a few years back. Anyway, he said that he could have crashed the hijacked 9/11 planes into the nuclear reactor at Indian Point, NY. It was just that Bush would have nuked the Middle East if that happened.
Bin Laden was convinced that Americans were cowards that would leave if there was just a conventional mass casualty attack against their homeland. Boy was he wrong. Americans may be gullible and adorably naive, but they sure don't run away from a fight, don't they?
I mean, do they tell us that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is MIT?
And someone already claimed www.gbroswer.com. I love cybersquatters, huh?
Set your NAT correctly, then. BitTorrent is designed to speed the downloads of those who have been sharing their uploading capacity. However, those behind a NAT firewall will have difficulty uploading because, well, the inbound connection initiated by the remote system cannot find your NAT'ed system. Hence, you should forward the ports required for BitTorrent. Setting the upload limit will prevent throttling of your downloads (because we have to handshake, basically, for each packet we get). And also set your downloads to set apart the download space in one large piece to reduce the fragmentation of your hard drive. And don't download too much at once.
The manufacturers of MP3 products pay money to the patent holder.
There are webpages out there will the names of validated content files along with their size and MD5 sums. These websites are not illegal as they contain no content. However, if you trust the website, and assuming that eXeem allows you to get the MD5 sum of the file you want to download, then you can run a decentralized server system.
The (perhaps flawed) assumption you make is that there would be less piracy if Sony didn't make an MP3 player. The truth is that piracy isn't going to go away anytime soon, and you might as well make money off of the players before you render them all obsolete by introducing DRM.
Security people shouldn't be big fans of people. If you trust the hot blonde and you let her through, perhaps she's a Muslim fundamentalist and blows up the plane. Nope. Don't trust no one.
The parent poster was joking. If you feed the elderly to the poor, you get rid of starvation and Social Security in one fell swoop.
See? Funny. Or not.
I am not that smart, but I have never messed up a production system because I run test systems. Even if I did make a mistake, it would not be because I used an out of spec IDE cable. I keep backups of my data, too, especially if I am going to be messing with the partition information in anyway--even when using Partition Magic. The obvious stuff, you know, that everyone should do, like look both ways before crossing the street.
This guy should not be a sys-admin. First, he uses an IDE cable that is out of spec in a production server. Then he tries to install GRUB but doesn't read the paramters correctly and deletes his partition table. Knoppix is not really the story here; rather, the story is the fact that this guy does really dumb things. He did not even have the information on the system backed up.
This is more a cautionary tale more than anything else.
Natalie Portman? Well-rounded? Are you sure we're talking about the same person?
Flame away.
As long as you let users install programs that can do meaningful things, people will have spyware. It does not matter how secure your software is.
I doubt "Scholar" is generic. Literally, "scholar" means someone smart, etc. This is a database. The term is suggestive, which can develop secondary meaning. There is no shortage of terms, etc.
No, wait. There's still TV.
You misspelled "Bittorrent".
Such patent monopolies are important for society, though not in the realm of computers. Pretend company C finds that drug D cures cancer in mice. It then performs many human trials to make sure it is safe and effective in humans as well, all at great expense. It then brings the drug to market.
Without patents, company C will never disclose what is in drug D, hence stopping future research down related veins. (And thus preventing improvements down that avenue.) Furthermore, other companies will find out what drug D is made out of and then sell it generically. Company C is screwed because it had spent all the money doing the research; it can't compete on marketing, etc., against the companies that are free-loading. Future drug companies will do no research.
People say that we should make all research government-funded. Right. Government-regulation has been such a boon, right?
Not all monopolies are bad.
Actually, uh, the US score may go *down* if you knocked out the immigrants.
Sure, AMD is ahead right now. There is incompatibility between the two 64 bit architectures, and developers may choose to design for one or the other. But the Intel FAQ is right in that Intel processors support SSE3 and HyperThreading, for which AMD has no counterpart. This is in addition to Intel performance-enhancing compilers. If developers choose to develop around Intel's 64 Bit processor, then AMD may soon find itself behind again.
Yes, actually. The nVidia drivers (which broke at 2.6) need to be recompiled everytime you change teh kernel. Wireless driver support under ndiswrapper have to be recompiled each time as well. Yes, these are drivers and not applications, but then, we don't need that doesn't make it less important, does it? This is not all apps, but some important parts of the system do need to be recompiled to work with each new kernel.
You only think that you're kidding. There is research going on here already.
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0304/baard.php
The prime consideration is that this technology uses current red-laser technology rather than a new blue-laser. This makes it inherently backwards compatible with today's CD-RW and DVDs. It is also cheaper and carries 20 gig on one side, with a 30 gb model available. If we use high-bandwidth XVID/Ogg streams on this, why would we need blu-ray?
Microsoft is supporting the AMD 64 extensions. Dell probably wants to be on the MS rather than Intel side of things since there is no (real) alternative to Windows.
Anyway, this is server-side only. CEO Rollins says, "If we basically sucked up all of AMD's [manufacturing] capacity it would not be enough. They don't have enough capacity for us to use them on the desktop. For us, fundamentally, AMD is much more interesting in the server, workstation or gaming arenas."
The AMD 64 chips also seem to run cooler. This would be majorly helpful, one thinks, then the high clockspeed Intels in a server farm situation. And the 64 bit allows more RAM to be addressed. Yep. Server.