Over the years, I've met many Slashdotters in person who were in a relationship with another live human being. Of course, many of those significant others were a bit odd.
Its their compiler, they are damn well allowed to do what they want - call me when AMD pour that kind of resource into having their own compiler.
Sure, they can do what they want. But it's generally a bad idea to lie about what you've done once you're caught red-handed. You go from losing a lot of respect to nearly all respect in the minds of many customers.
Punishing those who use a transfer protocol for legitimate purposes is simply unacceptable. We don't punish people for owning guns, shooting them at target ranges, or using them against another human beings in cases of legitimate self-defense. We punish those who use such tools in an illegal manner.
I don't believe for a second that they're going to do any more due diligence in verifying the validity of infringement complaints than the record labels do in filing them. Why is it okay to allow this to happen?
I guess I'm in the minority of those who use P2P protocols for legal purposes. Trying to download DVD images (Solaris, various Linux distros, etc) without BitTorrent is terribly painful, and bad for the distributor in terms of bandwidth utilization. I don't give two shits about music downloads, although I have an iTunes account for my wife.
Diners are completely private entities, owned by people who sunk money into the business? Are you suggesting it's okay to stop blacks from sitting at the counter?
Let's see, 50 of these things would cost $5K. That's 50 ARM processors (admittedly somewhat underpowered) you could apply to distributed computing tasks.
I'm a 28 year old network administrator and software developer. I've been doing this stuff professionally for ten years now, starting with telecommunications programming when I was 18. I'm posting this from an Ubuntu laptop, which has a few terminals open tailing logs on various Debian and FreeBSD servers I manage. I publish most of my software under either BSD or GPL licenses.
Now that you understand where I'm coming from, let me say that you're partially right when you assert that crippling Microsoft's software is stupid. The fact is, this whole thing is insanely stupid, and reeks of socialism. I've been through Microsoft's lengthy history of pushing shitty software on the masses using grossly unethical business methods, and I still strenuously object to this course of action.
The fact that you would even suggest forcibly placing a corporation's patents and copyrights into the public domain indicates you're either (a) incredibly young and naive, (b) stupid, or (c) an unfortunate combination of the first two options. Nobody has the right to tell anyone else what to do with the works they create; I'll be damned if anyone's going to restrict my right to license my works as I see fit. I may not like Microsoft as a general rule, but they deserve the same treatment I enjoy under the law.
I would recommend attending a reputable university to enhance your understanding of basic economics and IP law, but it seems to backfire for a lot of folks who already have warped perceptions in these areas.
For some people, that Solaris dom0 part is pretty important. I'm keenly aware that xVM is a brand, and would like Sun to get the bare-metal xVM server product released before the end of the decade.
You're describing the practice of using virtualization to host multiple dedicated-purpose "appliances." I use this approach myself; I've got a Debian VPS doing proxy work, another couple of nodes for static HTML serving, another for dynamic apps, one that just serves as an XHTML validation server, etc.
Hardware is cheap these days, and virtualization makes the clean separation of appliances on a single managed box very easy to accomplish. The benefits I get include improved security (difference services run on partitioned hosts) and ease of management (upgrading one application doesn't break others).
I'm downloading it now, will be testing it out by tomorrow. I'm looking forward to seeing how performance looks compared to VMware Server, especially on relatively low-powered virtualization hosts. I haven't been all that unhappy with VMware, but the UI in VMware Server 2 is glitchy to say the least.
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Over the years, I've met many Slashdotters in person who were in a relationship with another live human being. Of course, many of those significant others were a bit odd.
I don't normally complain about spelling mistakes, but botching "curriculum" twice in an article about open source in education is a bit much.
Its their compiler, they are damn well allowed to do what they want - call me when AMD pour that kind of resource into having their own compiler.
Sure, they can do what they want. But it's generally a bad idea to lie about what you've done once you're caught red-handed. You go from losing a lot of respect to nearly all respect in the minds of many customers.
Good link. Thanks for the info!
How about a system where, depending on which key you enter, the decrypted contents differ?
Punishing those who use a transfer protocol for legitimate purposes is simply unacceptable. We don't punish people for owning guns, shooting them at target ranges, or using them against another human beings in cases of legitimate self-defense. We punish those who use such tools in an illegal manner.
I don't believe for a second that they're going to do any more due diligence in verifying the validity of infringement complaints than the record labels do in filing them. Why is it okay to allow this to happen?
I guess I'm in the minority of those who use P2P protocols for legal purposes. Trying to download DVD images (Solaris, various Linux distros, etc) without BitTorrent is terribly painful, and bad for the distributor in terms of bandwidth utilization. I don't give two shits about music downloads, although I have an iTunes account for my wife.
Digital cameras do need an operating system, albeit a limited one.
They're on the way, probably. This is most likely a shot across the bow.
Diners are completely private entities, owned by people who sunk money into the business? Are you suggesting it's okay to stop blacks from sitting at the counter?
Let's see, 50 of these things would cost $5K. That's 50 ARM processors (admittedly somewhat underpowered) you could apply to distributed computing tasks.
As long as economic scarcity exists, it is.
I'm a 28 year old network administrator and software developer. I've been doing this stuff professionally for ten years now, starting with telecommunications programming when I was 18. I'm posting this from an Ubuntu laptop, which has a few terminals open tailing logs on various Debian and FreeBSD servers I manage. I publish most of my software under either BSD or GPL licenses.
Now that you understand where I'm coming from, let me say that you're partially right when you assert that crippling Microsoft's software is stupid. The fact is, this whole thing is insanely stupid, and reeks of socialism. I've been through Microsoft's lengthy history of pushing shitty software on the masses using grossly unethical business methods, and I still strenuously object to this course of action.
The fact that you would even suggest forcibly placing a corporation's patents and copyrights into the public domain indicates you're either (a) incredibly young and naive, (b) stupid, or (c) an unfortunate combination of the first two options. Nobody has the right to tell anyone else what to do with the works they create; I'll be damned if anyone's going to restrict my right to license my works as I see fit. I may not like Microsoft as a general rule, but they deserve the same treatment I enjoy under the law.
I would recommend attending a reputable university to enhance your understanding of basic economics and IP law, but it seems to backfire for a lot of folks who already have warped perceptions in these areas.
For some people, that Solaris dom0 part is pretty important. I'm keenly aware that xVM is a brand, and would like Sun to get the bare-metal xVM server product released before the end of the decade.
Only singular yos, and only in Baltimore.
Language has nothing to do with it, and you know it. Ever heard of the Great Firewall of China?
Stop trolling.
It's not partial-ware. It's exactly the same product that will be re-released in March; you just have to enter the free key into it.
What's that whooshing noise?
It installs to bare metal like ESXi, and you use a network client to manage it.
It was a joke.
So, I'm gonna grab the source to BASH and compile it using GCC under BASH? My brain hurts :).
C encourages stupid behavior, yet mysteriously remains the most commonly used programming language in terms of lines of code on the planet. Odd.
It runs EVERYTHING! Bwahahahaha!!!
You're describing the practice of using virtualization to host multiple dedicated-purpose "appliances." I use this approach myself; I've got a Debian VPS doing proxy work, another couple of nodes for static HTML serving, another for dynamic apps, one that just serves as an XHTML validation server, etc.
Hardware is cheap these days, and virtualization makes the clean separation of appliances on a single managed box very easy to accomplish. The benefits I get include improved security (difference services run on partitioned hosts) and ease of management (upgrading one application doesn't break others).
I'm downloading it now, will be testing it out by tomorrow. I'm looking forward to seeing how performance looks compared to VMware Server, especially on relatively low-powered virtualization hosts. I haven't been all that unhappy with VMware, but the UI in VMware Server 2 is glitchy to say the least.
Here's the link: Get it while it's hot.