http, irc, any of the instant messenger protocols, the list goes on...
http tries to solve one side of the problem using https, but https is mildly broken, and it only solves the problem for one side. IRC doesn't solve it at all, and most of the instant messenger protocols don't either, though some of them use SSL to sort of solve it for the server side.
I don't like SPF. It's a kludgey answer to a problem that generally affects a lot of protocols and needs a better, more general answer that isn't tied to the centralized domain name infrastructure.
This is the most insightful comment I've seen. This is all about disintermediation, it is not about whether or not actors, singers, writers, or whatever will be paid.
If we want people to make stuff, we're going to have to figure out a way to pay them. All this DRM garbage is about making sure the way we pay them still has money going through the same hands it always did.
Personally, I'd rather a completely collapsed content industry than this dangerous, freedom-sucking garbage. The content industry would rebuild itself around a model that actually worked for everybody instead of a model that largely padded the pockets and insured the profits of the current set of middlemen.
I actually rather liked the plot. But, the thing that annoyed me about the movie was that everybody's movements were ever so slightly off. They tried really hard, but they didn't get it right, and it was noticeable enough to be distracting. Actually, that kind of thing has to be nearly perfect, or else it becomes noticeable enough to be distracting. A major precentage of communication is carried in body language.
I've had problems on one computer, and no problems on another.
On this box here where I just stuffed FC2 into existing partitions (yay for LVM!), I've had no difficulties at all. I dual boot this system to Win2K on rare occasions, to play a game I can't play in Linux. I just purchased Far Cry, and it isn't well supported in WineX yet, so I dual booted yesterday, and it worked fine.
The other installation was for a friend, and I had weird BIOS deciding the drive was LBA/not LBA problems when I installed. It's installed now, but I'm a little worried because I wanted to put XP on her system as well.
Ahh... Well, I will avoid an nForce3 motherboard. But if I want to do 3D graphics, I don't have much of a choice. I could go with ATI, but they're just as bad in that department.
A wonderful philosophy. If we all had that philosophy, we'd all just take whatever peice of garbage someone chose to sell us and nothing would get any better because nobody could say how anything might be fixed or improved.
It's time to tell anybody who asks you anything about their computer that they should download Mozilla or Firefox. I do, and most people who've done it have thanked me afterwards.
I care enough to contribute $100 to an organization that does write Open Source nVidia 3D drivers. I will also dump nVidia in a heartbeat if some card comes out that has 80% of the performance and Open Source drivers.
The fact that they won't release either the source, or the specs for their nForce chipset really bothers me though. I will concede that they might be partly right about their reasons for not Open Sourcing their 3D drivers. But, I can't accept that they have any good reason at all for making it hard for Open Source nForce3 drivers to exist.
The way the spec read in the article, it said '1xAGP', not '8xAGP'. So, I assumed that something like an AGP 8X Radeon X800 wouldn't work.
Everything else you mentioned is exactly what I would do as well, and should be possible with that box. And the spec listed probably meant 1 AGP 8x slot, not 1 AGP 1x slot. So, given that, it sounds like a nice machine.
If I were going to have something like that on my desk, I'd want 2-3G of memory in it, and an extremely fast 3D video card that would require AGP 8x. That's what workstation means to me. Not some over-CPUed muscle box that can't display a thing. That's what you stick in your rack of thousands when you need a supercomputer, not what you stick on your desk.
I sort of thought that way about him after I read the initial argument, though I still had a lot of respect for his books. But, after reading his first article about the Brown book, I didn't feel that way anymore. It was clear to me that his comments in the middle were him gleefully taking advantage of the fact that he (deservedly) had a wide audience to point out that he still considers monolithic kernels a poor design choice and to give reasons why.
I detected no note of bitterness or anger over Linux's success. Though I did find some of his comments about Minix licensing to be slightly revisionist. I found people's comments here to be more amusing.
I sometimes think that people who do not have a scientist mindset mistake heated debate among scientists for petty emotional rancor. The latter does happen, but heated debate is not a definitive indicator.
From what I've seen, it's fairly common to provide access to Subversion repositories through Apache. Apache has SSL support built right in, and the only means of doing really sophisticated permissions management on your repository is with Apache.
In what way aren't they a bank other than the label you (and the courts) have chosen to apply to them?
Your analogy about stars is also incorrect because the word 'bank' is a label we apply to a human institution that performs certain functions. We didn't create the stars. They exist independently of what labels or things we decide about them.
Drug laws and copyright law both require a police state to enforce. In fact, most consensual crime laws require a police state to enforce. If no party involved wants to report the crime because they don't feel wronged, that requires the police to come around, looking for things and poking their noses into people's private business because otherwise they'll never learn the law has been broken.
Yes, but if every bank said "We don't like you, you don't believe in capitalism." and refused to give you an account, wouldn't there be something very wrong going on?
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http, irc, any of the instant messenger protocols, the list goes on...
http tries to solve one side of the problem using https, but https is mildly broken, and it only solves the problem for one side. IRC doesn't solve it at all, and most of the instant messenger protocols don't either, though some of them use SSL to sort of solve it for the server side.
I don't like SPF. It's a kludgey answer to a problem that generally affects a lot of protocols and needs a better, more general answer that isn't tied to the centralized domain name infrastructure.
This is the most insightful comment I've seen. This is all about disintermediation, it is not about whether or not actors, singers, writers, or whatever will be paid.
If we want people to make stuff, we're going to have to figure out a way to pay them. All this DRM garbage is about making sure the way we pay them still has money going through the same hands it always did.
Personally, I'd rather a completely collapsed content industry than this dangerous, freedom-sucking garbage. The content industry would rebuild itself around a model that actually worked for everybody instead of a model that largely padded the pockets and insured the profits of the current set of middlemen.
I actually rather liked the plot. But, the thing that annoyed me about the movie was that everybody's movements were ever so slightly off. They tried really hard, but they didn't get it right, and it was noticeable enough to be distracting. Actually, that kind of thing has to be nearly perfect, or else it becomes noticeable enough to be distracting. A major precentage of communication is carried in body language.
I only wish I were. :-/
*chuckle* Despite not having a gf, and not actually having one most of the time, the vast majority of my friends are female.
I've had problems on one computer, and no problems on another.
On this box here where I just stuffed FC2 into existing partitions (yay for LVM!), I've had no difficulties at all. I dual boot this system to Win2K on rare occasions, to play a game I can't play in Linux. I just purchased Far Cry, and it isn't well supported in WineX yet, so I dual booted yesterday, and it worked fine.
The other installation was for a friend, and I had weird BIOS deciding the drive was LBA/not LBA problems when I installed. It's installed now, but I'm a little worried because I wanted to put XP on her system as well.
Ahh... Well, I will avoid an nForce3 motherboard. But if I want to do 3D graphics, I don't have much of a choice. I could go with ATI, but they're just as bad in that department.
A wonderful philosophy. If we all had that philosophy, we'd all just take whatever peice of garbage someone chose to sell us and nothing would get any better because nobody could say how anything might be fixed or improved.
Apathy it's what's for dinner.
It's time to tell anybody who asks you anything about their computer that they should download Mozilla or Firefox. I do, and most people who've done it have thanked me afterwards.
You have such a wonderfully nice way of pointing out mistakes. I bet it's a real hit with the ladies.
I care enough to contribute $100 to an organization that does write Open Source nVidia 3D drivers. I will also dump nVidia in a heartbeat if some card comes out that has 80% of the performance and Open Source drivers.
The fact that they won't release either the source, or the specs for their nForce chipset really bothers me though. I will concede that they might be partly right about their reasons for not Open Sourcing their 3D drivers. But, I can't accept that they have any good reason at all for making it hard for Open Source nForce3 drivers to exist.
Those don't count. Where are the drivers I can trust?
The way the spec read in the article, it said '1xAGP', not '8xAGP'. So, I assumed that something like an AGP 8X Radeon X800 wouldn't work.
Everything else you mentioned is exactly what I would do as well, and should be possible with that box. And the spec listed probably meant 1 AGP 8x slot, not 1 AGP 1x slot. So, given that, it sounds like a nice machine.
If I were going to have something like that on my desk, I'd want 2-3G of memory in it, and an extremely fast 3D video card that would require AGP 8x. That's what workstation means to me. Not some over-CPUed muscle box that can't display a thing. That's what you stick in your rack of thousands when you need a supercomputer, not what you stick on your desk.
I sort of thought that way about him after I read the initial argument, though I still had a lot of respect for his books. But, after reading his first article about the Brown book, I didn't feel that way anymore. It was clear to me that his comments in the middle were him gleefully taking advantage of the fact that he (deservedly) had a wide audience to point out that he still considers monolithic kernels a poor design choice and to give reasons why.
I detected no note of bitterness or anger over Linux's success. Though I did find some of his comments about Minix licensing to be slightly revisionist. I found people's comments here to be more amusing.
I sometimes think that people who do not have a scientist mindset mistake heated debate among scientists for petty emotional rancor. The latter does happen, but heated debate is not a definitive indicator.
From what I've seen, it's fairly common to provide access to Subversion repositories through Apache. Apache has SSL support built right in, and the only means of doing really sophisticated permissions management on your repository is with Apache.
In what way aren't they a bank other than the label you (and the courts) have chosen to apply to them?
Your analogy about stars is also incorrect because the word 'bank' is a label we apply to a human institution that performs certain functions. We didn't create the stars. They exist independently of what labels or things we decide about them.
If it looks like a bank, and it quacks like a bank, it's a bank. I don't care what the courts say it is.
You're a troll, and an idiot. But...
Drug laws and copyright law both require a police state to enforce. In fact, most consensual crime laws require a police state to enforce. If no party involved wants to report the crime because they don't feel wronged, that requires the police to come around, looking for things and poking their noses into people's private business because otherwise they'll never learn the law has been broken.
Yes, but if every bank said "We don't like you, you don't believe in capitalism." and refused to give you an account, wouldn't there be something very wrong going on?
You obviously didn't RTFA.
I don't know. I just run it, and within about half an hour, my download is saturating my incoming bandwidth.
No, you'd also have to add an option to let people set colors in desktop themes through a GUI. :-)
The GNOME people did make an awful choice with Nautilus, and compounded it by making it hard to switch back.