I still think you're going to see interesting angular momentum problems. You have to be going around lots faster to go around once every 24 hours if you're 30 miles farther away from the center of the earth.
I was impressed in the article noting that the propulsion system was actually thought out and not something totally half baked.:-)
Umm, click on the 'Parent' link on my post. I'm not disagreeing with you or attributing to you stuff you didn't say. I was replying to someone who replied to you, and through the magic of Slashdot moderation and your preferences, my post came to look like it was just under yours instead of under the person who replied to you.
I find the comparisons to actually be quite similar. IMHO, RIAA members have largely stolen this music from the artists, and are now taxing everybody to listen to it and employing our justice system like an army to try to make us stop not paying their tax.
Calling me logically impaired and implying that I hadn't read the first post are ridiculous. It's obvious that I had, and IMHO, I might very well call you logically impaired for trying to tell me that duplicating my friend's car is stealing from the dealer.
I agree with you for the most part. Perhaps it is time to move on and find something better. But don't pretend like the law doesn't exist while you try to find that 'something better'.
In some cases, the people who would like to find something better are being stifled in an attempt to preserve the old way of doing things. Kinda like people with horses running around trying to get the police to clear all the cars off the street.
If you steal a car from a dealer, you are not depriving the dealer of the original product. The dealer will still be able to drive to work, because it wasn't his car. You are depriving the dealer of the money he would have made had he been able to sell the car.
Refusing taxation without representation is wrong because it denies the king the money he would've gotten had you given it to him.
That statement is just as stupidly circular as the one you just made about the car dealer.
If you had made some mention of the car designer, and how the car designer had now spent all that time designing and building this new car and didn't get a dime because everybody just replicated it, you'd have something.
But, that argument doesn't really help RIAA all that much because they're the car dealer, not the car designer.
The solution to this mess is for the car designer to refuse to design a car unless she gets money for it. If car designers all over consistently did this, some system would arise by which they would be compensated for designing cars, at least, if people wanted new car designs.
Copyright and patent law are currently the tools we use to accomplish this. They are based on tying the design cost into the cost of replication. They are predicated on the idea that replication facilities are expensive. They are becoming obsolete for larger and larger swaths of goods that are currently sold.
Attempting to keep them around seems to me to be like making sure that horse-drawn buggies still have the undisputed right-of-way on all roads and to insist that cars not go above 15 MPH. Technology has changed. The law is obsolete. It's time to move on and find something better.
You are going to play games on a server machine? Isn't that kinda dumb? Especially considering that this game wil probably use everything your computer has got to run.
Yes, I am. The services need almost no CPU, and I have plenty enough memory. I only have one machine.
I don't understand why you feel machines have to have their little categories.
It's not a particularily high volume web server, and the other services don't need lots of horsepower. They'd all probably run comfortably on a 386 with enough memory. So, playing a game on the same machine is unnoticeable to others using it. I've had people test actually.
Do you have some sort of genetic defect to prevent you from booting into Windows to play a game? Or, more likely, turning on an Xbox?
It's called running a webserver, and a few other public services. It's also called not wanting to pay for a Windows liscense. And I won't buy a box (especially a Microsoft one, just one more industry for them to destroy) just for gaming. Seems like a waste of money to me.
Hey, I'm an AMD fanboy and I caught that fundamental stupidity. DDR memory costs a fortune, and I know it doesn't have to, and that irritates me no end. I just bought a nice AMD system, and I would've gotten a DDR system if the memory weren't a little more than twice as much as non-DDR RAM.
These stupid patent things cost everybody to feed a parasite.
Until they can implement this with a solid-state wave guide and lasers, the tech pretty usless.
Until they can implement this using sheep, cows and bovine flatulence, this tech is pretty useless.
My statement and your statement are of similar importance and relevance. If you had bothered to explain something about why you feel that all of these things are necessary, perhaps your statement would be more relevant than one about cows.
The problem with Microsoft Astroturf campaigns was that they obscurred both the source of the funding, and the fact that the editorials and things were actually advertisements.
Neither of these is true in this stunt from IBM. Everybody knows IBM did this. And nobody would mistake these sidewalk drawings for anything but what they are, advertisements.
Both of the answers in this vein are stupid. Yes, you can't mathematically reconstruct a sequence of bytes from even an MD5 sum. But, you can prepare a database of known MD5 sums for all sequences of one byte long. Then, if you get an MD5 sum of a one byte sequence, you know what that bytes is by looking up that sum in your database.
You could even reasonably do this for all three byte sequences. That's only 16 million database entries. That way, you could ask for checksums of each three byte sequence in the AIM.exe file and reconstruct the AIM.exe file from them using your database. Three times faster than the one byte method.
Further than who is prepared for? Who are you to make this judgement? Who are these 'masses' you have so little respect for? Who is moral?
Your post bespeaks of a quiet and pig-headed elitism that does you ill. I suspect you are probably a troll, and a stupid one at that.
In addition to this problem with the P4 having nothing to do with the advance of tech in general, the advance of technology will never be halted as long as humans exist. If you feel that technology should or should not be used in certain ways, you'd better convince people you're right instead of hoping in vain for the advances to cease.
It's just about a particular naming scheme that we all choose to voluntarily use. I think we really ought to drop it and pick a different one that doesn't lend itself to such centralized control.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and you haven't seen absolute power until you've seen a centralized system you HAVE to use.
If you're going to transliterate names into English, you should try to do it in such a way that the obvious phonetic pronunciation is correct. I always find Chinese transliteration of words and names into English to be quite confusing.
That being said, I think making that joke is stupid and childish.
Oops, that was stupid of me. Should've fired up amaya to check myself. I knew it required a particular case. I wish there was a moderation (-1 disinformation). *sigh*
Umm, perhaps the fact that they are SELLING information about Linux to middle and upper managers? One would sort of vaguely expect that if you were going to sell something you wrote as 'valuable strategic information' you'd take the time to learn just a little about the subject before you wrote.
These places just make money off of IT managers who are frightened by the mercurial nature of technology and want the comfort of paying people as ignorant as they are for the privelege of reading something dressed up in authoritative colors. Their frank stupidity would be laughable if they weren't taken so seriously by their audience.
I can code, and think you're comment is ridiculous. This is a pretty obvious idea. If I were thinking of a way to encode foreign language names so DNS could deal with them, the solution they patented is probably the one I'd come up with too. The only work they've really done is run to the patent office and pay them a money.
Oh, come off it. This is an executable infector. It can only infect an executable you have 'write' permission too. This is not the uber 'it infects your compiler, and infects every program your compiler compiles thereafter' type virus. If you aren't clueless and don't download random executables from untrusted sources and run them as 'root', you should be fine.
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I still think you're going to see interesting angular momentum problems. You have to be going around lots faster to go around once every 24 hours if you're 30 miles farther away from the center of the earth.
I was impressed in the article noting that the propulsion system was actually thought out and not something totally half baked. :-)
Good luck to your friend. I hope he makes it. :-)
And you just now started thinking this?
*grin*
Umm, click on the 'Parent' link on my post. I'm not disagreeing with you or attributing to you stuff you didn't say. I was replying to someone who replied to you, and through the magic of Slashdot moderation and your preferences, my post came to look like it was just under yours instead of under the person who replied to you.
I find the comparisons to actually be quite similar. IMHO, RIAA members have largely stolen this music from the artists, and are now taxing everybody to listen to it and employing our justice system like an army to try to make us stop not paying their tax.
Calling me logically impaired and implying that I hadn't read the first post are ridiculous. It's obvious that I had, and IMHO, I might very well call you logically impaired for trying to tell me that duplicating my friend's car is stealing from the dealer.
In some cases, the people who would like to find something better are being stifled in an attempt to preserve the old way of doing things. Kinda like people with horses running around trying to get the police to clear all the cars off the street.
Refusing taxation without representation is wrong because it denies the king the money he would've gotten had you given it to him.
That statement is just as stupidly circular as the one you just made about the car dealer.
If you had made some mention of the car designer, and how the car designer had now spent all that time designing and building this new car and didn't get a dime because everybody just replicated it, you'd have something.
But, that argument doesn't really help RIAA all that much because they're the car dealer, not the car designer.
The solution to this mess is for the car designer to refuse to design a car unless she gets money for it. If car designers all over consistently did this, some system would arise by which they would be compensated for designing cars, at least, if people wanted new car designs.
Copyright and patent law are currently the tools we use to accomplish this. They are based on tying the design cost into the cost of replication. They are predicated on the idea that replication facilities are expensive. They are becoming obsolete for larger and larger swaths of goods that are currently sold.
Attempting to keep them around seems to me to be like making sure that horse-drawn buggies still have the undisputed right-of-way on all roads and to insist that cars not go above 15 MPH. Technology has changed. The law is obsolete. It's time to move on and find something better.
Yes, I am. The services need almost no CPU, and I have plenty enough memory. I only have one machine.
I don't understand why you feel machines have to have their little categories.
It's not a particularily high volume web server, and the other services don't need lots of horsepower. They'd all probably run comfortably on a 386 with enough memory. So, playing a game on the same machine is unnoticeable to others using it. I've had people test actually.
That post was not offtopic, and overrated is silly.
It's called running a webserver, and a few other public services. It's also called not wanting to pay for a Windows liscense. And I won't buy a box (especially a Microsoft one, just one more industry for them to destroy) just for gaming. Seems like a waste of money to me.
Wow, that's almost half the price the local shop was quoting me. I tend to buy my parts locally because it's very nice to have a store to walk into.
Hey, I'm an AMD fanboy and I caught that fundamental stupidity. DDR memory costs a fortune, and I know it doesn't have to, and that irritates me no end. I just bought a nice AMD system, and I would've gotten a DDR system if the memory weren't a little more than twice as much as non-DDR RAM.
These stupid patent things cost everybody to feed a parasite.
Until they can implement this using sheep, cows and bovine flatulence, this tech is pretty useless.
My statement and your statement are of similar importance and relevance. If you had bothered to explain something about why you feel that all of these things are necessary, perhaps your statement would be more relevant than one about cows.
The problem with Microsoft Astroturf campaigns was that they obscurred both the source of the funding, and the fact that the editorials and things were actually advertisements.
Neither of these is true in this stunt from IBM. Everybody knows IBM did this. And nobody would mistake these sidewalk drawings for anything but what they are, advertisements.
Both of the answers in this vein are stupid. Yes, you can't mathematically reconstruct a sequence of bytes from even an MD5 sum. But, you can prepare a database of known MD5 sums for all sequences of one byte long. Then, if you get an MD5 sum of a one byte sequence, you know what that bytes is by looking up that sum in your database.
You could even reasonably do this for all three byte sequences. That's only 16 million database entries. That way, you could ask for checksums of each three byte sequence in the AIM.exe file and reconstruct the AIM.exe file from them using your database. Three times faster than the one byte method.
I guess it sucks to be you.
It's obvious you've not bothered to read anything Stallman says or you wouldn't say that.
Further than who is prepared for? Who are you to make this judgement? Who are these 'masses' you have so little respect for? Who is moral?
Your post bespeaks of a quiet and pig-headed elitism that does you ill. I suspect you are probably a troll, and a stupid one at that.
In addition to this problem with the P4 having nothing to do with the advance of tech in general, the advance of technology will never be halted as long as humans exist. If you feel that technology should or should not be used in certain ways, you'd better convince people you're right instead of hoping in vain for the advances to cease.
It's just about a particular naming scheme that we all choose to voluntarily use. I think we really ought to drop it and pick a different one that doesn't lend itself to such centralized control.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and you haven't seen absolute power until you've seen a centralized system you HAVE to use.
If you're going to transliterate names into English, you should try to do it in such a way that the obvious phonetic pronunciation is correct. I always find Chinese transliteration of words and names into English to be quite confusing.
That being said, I think making that joke is stupid and childish.
Oops, that was stupid of me. Should've fired up amaya to check myself. I knew it required a particular case. I wish there was a moderation (-1 disinformation). *sigh*
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Minneapolis, MN has some good people in it too, and some of them even like the weather. :-)
Umm, perhaps the fact that they are SELLING information about Linux to middle and upper managers? One would sort of vaguely expect that if you were going to sell something you wrote as 'valuable strategic information' you'd take the time to learn just a little about the subject before you wrote.
These places just make money off of IT managers who are frightened by the mercurial nature of technology and want the comfort of paying people as ignorant as they are for the privelege of reading something dressed up in authoritative colors. Their frank stupidity would be laughable if they weren't taken so seriously by their audience.
I can code, and think you're comment is ridiculous. This is a pretty obvious idea. If I were thinking of a way to encode foreign language names so DNS could deal with them, the solution they patented is probably the one I'd come up with too. The only work they've really done is run to the patent office and pay them a money.
Oh, come off it. This is an executable infector. It can only infect an executable you have 'write' permission too. This is not the uber 'it infects your compiler, and infects every program your compiler compiles thereafter' type virus. If you aren't clueless and don't download random executables from untrusted sources and run them as 'root', you should be fine.
I'd say they were more likely to be trustworthy than some person putting up a for-charge mirror because she wanted to get a little of Libra's action.