I would have been impressed, had you not started with a fragment. It is the equivalent of saying "In doing this." There is no conclusion. Of course, there is the other problem of redundancy in "voracious veracity."
Grammar is a greater indication of literacy and intelligence than vocabulary. It's not what you use, it's how you use it.
The crafts aspect is what is seriously lacking in other games. It's nice that there's finally a game out there where you can "make a name for yourself." If you look at the stories in AD&D, Tolkien, Jordan, and others, you notice that very few things just spawn from thin air, those that do are usually created in super-ancient times (opposite of evolution, eh?) or created by some type of God figure.
Since there is very little mention of God-headed religion in the SW movies, I wouldn't expect much in the game to have to do with God. This leaves that problem of ancientness, which is resolved by the fact that SW *is* that ancient technology.
This leaves the good stuff to come from the characters themselves. What would be great is a set of quests that would allow a craftsman (women included) to create a super-item of some sort. What would also be cool would be to allow some in-game editing of item models, so that craftsmen can create things with their own distinctive style.
You are way too idealistic. Peace in the middle east will not happen, ever. It has never existed. As long as you've got three or more religious groups laying claim to the same land as their holy ground, you're gonna have the problem. Religion doesn't die out like people do, therefore the fighting will always continue.
If everyone were one religion, Muslim, Christian, or Jewish, then we would have peace. We'd probably even have peace if there were a mix of Christians and Jews, since one is the child of the other.
I'm not trying to be cynical, just realistic. Peace won't happen unless everyone dies or everyone converts. If everyone converts, it still wouldn't completely solve the problem. Saying that peace in the middle east is inexpensive is kinda like saying that it's easy to make ice cream in a heated kiln.
Not to mention the discrepency between the usage of the word "nanotube." A nanotube is just a very small tube, it can be made out of anything. The poster obviously has "carbon nanotube" ensconced in his head, and thus makes an ass out of himself.
I can't wait till they make a nanotube out of snake-oil, that way the NRAM claims might be justified.;-)
Dim myGUI As Apple.GUI Set myGUI = New Apple.GUI myGUI.Parent = System.Microsoft myGUI.Creator = System.Microsoft.Developers
Dim myFS As IBM.SDA.HPFSDerivative Set myFS = New HPFSDerivative Dim winOS As System.Win Set winOS = New System.Win Set winOS.FS = myFS Set winOS.GUI = myGUI
Sorry, it's VB6ish. Everything that they have has been copied, bought, or blatantly stolen (disk compression, ahem) from some other company.
And that explains why you can compile the network device drivers, the graphics drivers, an HTTP listener, and all that other good stuff into the kernel. Don't get me wrong, I agree that the desktop should be distinct from the Kernel, but I think that you may be the incompetent AC who doesn't know the meaning of "Monolithic."
I think that it would be wise to write a gui kernel module, however, in order for the Linux desktop to be viable. X is good in its own right, and will always be there for anyone to use, but the Windows desktop does not have the whole client/server protocol going on. If you want converts from Windows, you need to give them something that is snappy and quick, even if you let it sit idle for 40 minutes. A lightweight GUI that has compatible libraries for GTK, GTK+, QT, and all the others would really be a threat on the desktop.
This just announced: 3D-Realms has admitted that they completed the Duke Nukem Forever computer game about four years ago. They were correct when they said that it would be the best shooter game ever, because they were instantaneously addicted to the game. They have been playing the game non-stop for the past four years, having become so entranced that they have missed all 57 release dates.
Ladies and Gentleman, this is what the pool was in the story of Narcissus.
No. This is a commercial enterprise that promises a product in exchange for money. If the company cannot provide the product immediately, it is the equivalent of stealing.
There is no reason why they had to ignore beta testers, or run beta tests like Quake 3... Allow everyone to download and run using test servers. Once you have all of the issues ironed out, testing under times of high stress and bandwidth usage, then they should offer a product. They send a mass broadcast to everyone saying that the free beta is over, turn off the servers, re-map them, whatever, and have the shipping CD's know where to look.
There is no excuse. Sony is a massive company with oodles of money. If they cared, they'd spend a bit of money and time doing Q&A before the product ships.
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I am a salaried employee. I used to be an hourly, with a strict limitation that I couldn't go overtime. Once I went salaried, my boss said something to the effect of "Now you can work 50 hour weeks without me having to pay more."
Naturally, I disagree with this whole thing. Being salaried is a contract between you and the employer. You gaurantee that you are going to work at least 40 hours, and the employer will pay for 40 hours. No more, no less... except for bonus. I put in my 40. The company will not pay me for more than 40, so I'm not ever going to put in more than 40.
I'm not concerned about job security either. I've been with the company long enough, I've done quality work for them. There is little that stands against me, the only things being a healthy dose of/. during the day. They'd be foolish to get rid of me, just as I'd be foolish to lower my hourly rate for them. They can try, but they will not succeed.
You do what you get paid to do. If you get paid for 40, you do 40. Of course, this means that you do the 40 with quality, otherwise you lose your job. But, you'll always be safe doing a 40 quality hour week. If you do happen to work 50, deduct 10 from the next week, or put in a good 10 hours of solitaire for that week.
I told you all. SSN's are public information. There are so many places on-line, so many business employment oppurtunities, so many forms and such that just use the SSN as a method of identification. I have access to more than 26,000 SSN's. I can probably obtain even more if I wanted. They've permeated the business environment, to the point that they've lost their status as "special."
Anyway, I could call up the government and get anyone's SSN. It doesn't take much. Even the public library has your SSN.
If there were no IPR (and thus no copyright), all source code anybody publishes could be used approximately as if it was published under a BSD license today.
That is incorrect. The BSD requires a notice of original copyright ownership, which is an exercise of intellectual property.
What you actually mean would be called "Public Domain."
ADHD has become an increasingly popular diagnosis, especially since it's very difficult to prove incorrect. ADHD is a relatively rare disorder, and has grown in the field to encompass both hyperativity disorder and ADD.
I was nearly diagnosed with ADD/ADHD when I was in 8th grade. The people didn't quite realize that I was bored. I could've taught my 8th grade English class, but I'm sure that if I were taken to a psychologist that I would be diagnosed with ADHD. I was near puberty. I was mad at the world. I didn't fit in because I had a rather poor self image.
Maybe you do have ADHD. I still find that I have trouble sitting still for more than an hour. I know that this isn't on the scale of ADHD, where they can't focus for more than 3 or 4 minutes. I do have thousands of things running through my mind, but I don't let myself get too distracted.
As the guy on everything2 hypothesized, I believe that people are evolving. The ones who have genius intelligence, but can't quite handle it are the ones who end up with ADHD. The ones that can handle it end up being true genius (like Einstein style.)
I have an easy time getting bored. I have an easy time getting energetic and jumping around like a hooligan. I might have good brain power, but I can only half-way handle it. Maybe God got distracted with something while writing "ADHD" into my head, therefore only giving me a semi-dose.
Anyway, the way I handle my self-induced stress is by working out. I lift weights and do cadio. I find that if my body is tired, I have an easier time getting to sleep. I have an easier time sitting still and writing my programs.
You should change your sig. Everyone knows that Faramir is the "Steward of Gondor," and not the King. In fact, he was so distraught (and insane) at the return of the actual King (Aragorn), that he committed suicide.
Redesigning Linux for use by demanding business customers "is not technologically feasible or even possible at the enterprise level without (a) a high degree of design coordination, (b) access to expensive and sophisticated design and testing equipment; (c) access to Unix code and development methods; (d) Unix architectural experience; and (e) a very significant financial investment," the amended suit says.
Since when did SCO become the authority on software design? It seems that they're just a piggy-back company that's appropriated anything great from someone else who has done the development.
All that good software needs is time. Look at all of the other open source projects that are great, and you'd know what I'm talking about. The investment is no financial. It's an investment of man-hours. RMS created GNU, yet he didn't get paid for it. A crazy guy in CA rewrites operating systems in a couple weekends, and doesn't get paid for it. The GIMP was done for free, yet it rivals commercial packages. Hardware isn't expensive. It's not too difficult to pick up an old Sun Ultra Sparc that has more than two processors.
You also don't even have to pay for one of the best compilers out there, which is another example of man-hours being spent on a free item.
You think "Computer" too much. Everything described in the article is infrastructure related. While you can run QNX on a PC, it's probably a better idea to run Linux or *BSD on it (hardware support, lickable gui's, yada). QNX is for those machines that require an OS, but are going to be buried in concrete soon after they are assembled. You need something that is not going to die.
It seems that it's far more suitable for your internet aware toaster to run QNX instead of Linux. You've got minimal IO, no storage, etc, and you'll be less likely to get burned toast.
Stocks in STMicroelectronics soar as the decision to use the next generation of Kyro graphics cards in the XBox is made. STMicro no longer produces the card, and isn't even really a part of the industry, but investors insist on bringing back the company.
Parties on the MS side are saying "Yay! Tile graphics. Something different and literally Cool!" Well, that's what STMicro would like them to say.
I'm surprised that the machines haven't started doing fusion, or just have a bunch of breeder reactors. Nuclear energy is cheaper and more efficient than trying to harness the tiny amount of energy created by the human biological processes.
I do like the nickname in the first movie though... "Coppertop"
I'm not too sure about that one. It is my belief that it was important for the architect to convince Neo that all of his choices were predetermined. If the architect was successful (which he was), than Neo would do as the architect would say. The smooth talking was all a part of the desperation within the matrix to preserve itself.
We know that there were previous "The Ones" that occured within the Matrix. Each iteration, I believe, built upon the others. It's very much like a resonant frequency, where the amplitude grows over time (resonant cascade anyone?). As time went on, the probability of creating a "One" that would destroy the Matrix decreases, especially with the growing number of previous "Ones."
Neo is not a program, but he is the result of introducing imperfection into the Matrix. My take on the meaning of this is that the events of his life prior to him becoming cognizant of the Matrix all lent to him taking the Red Pill. This is slightly different from the determinism stated above, since the lives of each iteration of "The One" were all different. Thus, each reaction was different. And eventually, the final choice would be different.
He should try this in "Real Life". There's money, power, romance, derring-do... It's a rush.
Hah. The only problem is that real life doesn't have a "Up-Up-Down-Down-Right-Left-Right-Left-B-A-Start" combination so you never run out of lives. People have searched for it for centuries, but one fact remains true: You only have one, and once it's gone... that's it.
Trying to go out and kill the evil corporations with weapons will undoubtedly get you killed. Just like players in the game actually do get killed. In real life, however, you don't get a convenient respawn.
Eh. OOP is a child of procedural programming. There's always a starting point somewhere, and a bunch of function calls.
I'd want them to learn one of the functional languages like LISP or Scheme. This way, they could get a grasp of the math behind what they're doing, even though they don't realize it. This way, they also have a better understanding of a persistent environment with functions that determine the state of the environment. It's not very unlike this world that we live in.
You can send porn to a physical mailbox, and the person who gets the mail may be a minor, but you can't be held responsible for that minor seeing "inappropriate" material.
The difference is that snail-mail porn comes in a nice big black/brown opaque envelope. You can generally tell what it is.
With spam, the subject could be "I came to your house last night, but no one was home." That doesn't say anything about the contents of the message... it could be anything from an ad for a penis-pump to some crappy ad about MILF's liking it hot to an ad for micro-racing cars.
You can easily throw out the snail-mail porn without opening it. You can't exactly say the same about electronic spam-porn.
It seems as if PKWare and Winzip are moving into the realm that is dominated by PGP and the GNU variant. PGP compresses the data when it encrypts it, so that need was taken care of already. I wouldn't use either Winzip or PKZip to send an encrypted zip file, because PGP is more universally known, and can give you 2048 bit encryption.
AFAIK, the actual zip standard hasn't changed, which means that you'll be able to open zip files with either program (or the WinXP shell... heh). That's what I see most zip files being used for anyway... Windows based shareware / freeware. Stuff where encryption is not necessary.
The venerable tar.gz and tar.bz2 formats, thankfully, will not be dictated by stupid companies.:-)
I wonder how the mp3's were being transported to the client machines. If the machine was a redirection unit, doing the search, getting hits, and then sending it's clients on to the machine that actually housed the mp3, then you have a point.
If, however, his machine was fetching the mp3's, and then streaming the data to the client, his machine was, in fact, hosting the material. This would be very much like a web server serving up data off of a mapped/mounted network drive. At what point does that drive cease to be "part" of the server?
The first case is functionally equivalent to bitTorrent, where you have machines that take the load of serving upon themselves. The second case is equivalent to running a website with ATA-33 hard disk drives.
I wonder... If every slashdotter signed the NDA, then each and every one of us violated it, would SCO then have to sue each and every one of us? If that were so, we could grind the company into the ground through litigation, kind of like a legal version of the DDOS.
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I would have been impressed, had you not started with a fragment. It is the equivalent of saying "In doing this." There is no conclusion. Of course, there is the other problem of redundancy in "voracious veracity."
Grammar is a greater indication of literacy and intelligence than vocabulary. It's not what you use, it's how you use it.
The crafts aspect is what is seriously lacking in other games. It's nice that there's finally a game out there where you can "make a name for yourself." If you look at the stories in AD&D, Tolkien, Jordan, and others, you notice that very few things just spawn from thin air, those that do are usually created in super-ancient times (opposite of evolution, eh?) or created by some type of God figure.
Since there is very little mention of God-headed religion in the SW movies, I wouldn't expect much in the game to have to do with God. This leaves that problem of ancientness, which is resolved by the fact that SW *is* that ancient technology.
This leaves the good stuff to come from the characters themselves. What would be great is a set of quests that would allow a craftsman (women included) to create a super-item of some sort. What would also be cool would be to allow some in-game editing of item models, so that craftsmen can create things with their own distinctive style.
You are way too idealistic. Peace in the middle east will not happen, ever. It has never existed. As long as you've got three or more religious groups laying claim to the same land as their holy ground, you're gonna have the problem. Religion doesn't die out like people do, therefore the fighting will always continue.
If everyone were one religion, Muslim, Christian, or Jewish, then we would have peace. We'd probably even have peace if there were a mix of Christians and Jews, since one is the child of the other.
I'm not trying to be cynical, just realistic. Peace won't happen unless everyone dies or everyone converts. If everyone converts, it still wouldn't completely solve the problem. Saying that peace in the middle east is inexpensive is kinda like saying that it's easy to make ice cream in a heated kiln.
Not to mention the discrepency between the usage of the word "nanotube." A nanotube is just a very small tube, it can be made out of anything. The poster obviously has "carbon nanotube" ensconced in his head, and thus makes an ass out of himself.
I can't wait till they make a nanotube out of snake-oil, that way the NRAM claims might be justified. ;-)
Here's my own personal list.
I could keep going, I guess. I have much to bitch about, and yet people insist that even their shit is golden. Gag me with a spoon.
Oh, last but not least: "Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!"
Heh... In MS's way:
Sorry, it's VB6ish. Everything that they have has been copied, bought, or blatantly stolen (disk compression, ahem) from some other company.
I'll bite.
And that explains why you can compile the network device drivers, the graphics drivers, an HTTP listener, and all that other good stuff into the kernel. Don't get me wrong, I agree that the desktop should be distinct from the Kernel, but I think that you may be the incompetent AC who doesn't know the meaning of "Monolithic."
I think that it would be wise to write a gui kernel module, however, in order for the Linux desktop to be viable. X is good in its own right, and will always be there for anyone to use, but the Windows desktop does not have the whole client/server protocol going on. If you want converts from Windows, you need to give them something that is snappy and quick, even if you let it sit idle for 40 minutes. A lightweight GUI that has compatible libraries for GTK, GTK+, QT, and all the others would really be a threat on the desktop.
This just announced: 3D-Realms has admitted that they completed the Duke Nukem Forever computer game about four years ago. They were correct when they said that it would be the best shooter game ever, because they were instantaneously addicted to the game. They have been playing the game non-stop for the past four years, having become so entranced that they have missed all 57 release dates.
Ladies and Gentleman, this is what the pool was in the story of Narcissus.
No. This is a commercial enterprise that promises a product in exchange for money. If the company cannot provide the product immediately, it is the equivalent of stealing.
There is no reason why they had to ignore beta testers, or run beta tests like Quake 3... Allow everyone to download and run using test servers. Once you have all of the issues ironed out, testing under times of high stress and bandwidth usage, then they should offer a product. They send a mass broadcast to everyone saying that the free beta is over, turn off the servers, re-map them, whatever, and have the shipping CD's know where to look.
There is no excuse. Sony is a massive company with oodles of money. If they cared, they'd spend a bit of money and time doing Q&A before the product ships.
I am a salaried employee. I used to be an hourly, with a strict limitation that I couldn't go overtime. Once I went salaried, my boss said something to the effect of "Now you can work 50 hour weeks without me having to pay more."
Naturally, I disagree with this whole thing. Being salaried is a contract between you and the employer. You gaurantee that you are going to work at least 40 hours, and the employer will pay for 40 hours. No more, no less... except for bonus. I put in my 40. The company will not pay me for more than 40, so I'm not ever going to put in more than 40.
I'm not concerned about job security either. I've been with the company long enough, I've done quality work for them. There is little that stands against me, the only things being a healthy dose of /. during the day. They'd be foolish to get rid of me, just as I'd be foolish to lower my hourly rate for them. They can try, but they will not succeed.
You do what you get paid to do. If you get paid for 40, you do 40. Of course, this means that you do the 40 with quality, otherwise you lose your job. But, you'll always be safe doing a 40 quality hour week. If you do happen to work 50, deduct 10 from the next week, or put in a good 10 hours of solitaire for that week.
I told you all. SSN's are public information. There are so many places on-line, so many business employment oppurtunities, so many forms and such that just use the SSN as a method of identification. I have access to more than 26,000 SSN's. I can probably obtain even more if I wanted. They've permeated the business environment, to the point that they've lost their status as "special."
Anyway, I could call up the government and get anyone's SSN. It doesn't take much. Even the public library has your SSN.
If there were no IPR (and thus no copyright), all source code anybody publishes could be used approximately as if it was published under a BSD license today.
That is incorrect. The BSD requires a notice of original copyright ownership, which is an exercise of intellectual property.
What you actually mean would be called "Public Domain."
ADHD has become an increasingly popular diagnosis, especially since it's very difficult to prove incorrect. ADHD is a relatively rare disorder, and has grown in the field to encompass both hyperativity disorder and ADD.
I was nearly diagnosed with ADD/ADHD when I was in 8th grade. The people didn't quite realize that I was bored. I could've taught my 8th grade English class, but I'm sure that if I were taken to a psychologist that I would be diagnosed with ADHD. I was near puberty. I was mad at the world. I didn't fit in because I had a rather poor self image.
Maybe you do have ADHD. I still find that I have trouble sitting still for more than an hour. I know that this isn't on the scale of ADHD, where they can't focus for more than 3 or 4 minutes. I do have thousands of things running through my mind, but I don't let myself get too distracted.
As the guy on everything2 hypothesized, I believe that people are evolving. The ones who have genius intelligence, but can't quite handle it are the ones who end up with ADHD. The ones that can handle it end up being true genius (like Einstein style.)
I have an easy time getting bored. I have an easy time getting energetic and jumping around like a hooligan. I might have good brain power, but I can only half-way handle it. Maybe God got distracted with something while writing "ADHD" into my head, therefore only giving me a semi-dose.
Anyway, the way I handle my self-induced stress is by working out. I lift weights and do cadio. I find that if my body is tired, I have an easier time getting to sleep. I have an easier time sitting still and writing my programs.
You should change your sig. Everyone knows that Faramir is the "Steward of Gondor," and not the King. In fact, he was so distraught (and insane) at the return of the actual King (Aragorn), that he committed suicide.
Redesigning Linux for use by demanding business customers "is not technologically feasible or even possible at the enterprise level without (a) a high degree of design coordination, (b) access to expensive and sophisticated design and testing equipment; (c) access to Unix code and development methods; (d) Unix architectural experience; and (e) a very significant financial investment," the amended suit says.
Since when did SCO become the authority on software design? It seems that they're just a piggy-back company that's appropriated anything great from someone else who has done the development.
All that good software needs is time. Look at all of the other open source projects that are great, and you'd know what I'm talking about. The investment is no financial. It's an investment of man-hours. RMS created GNU, yet he didn't get paid for it. A crazy guy in CA rewrites operating systems in a couple weekends, and doesn't get paid for it. The GIMP was done for free, yet it rivals commercial packages. Hardware isn't expensive. It's not too difficult to pick up an old Sun Ultra Sparc that has more than two processors.
You also don't even have to pay for one of the best compilers out there, which is another example of man-hours being spent on a free item.
In a flash from the 80's: SCO knows diddly.
You think "Computer" too much. Everything described in the article is infrastructure related. While you can run QNX on a PC, it's probably a better idea to run Linux or *BSD on it (hardware support, lickable gui's, yada). QNX is for those machines that require an OS, but are going to be buried in concrete soon after they are assembled. You need something that is not going to die.
It seems that it's far more suitable for your internet aware toaster to run QNX instead of Linux. You've got minimal IO, no storage, etc, and you'll be less likely to get burned toast.
Stocks in STMicroelectronics soar as the decision to use the next generation of Kyro graphics cards in the XBox is made. STMicro no longer produces the card, and isn't even really a part of the industry, but investors insist on bringing back the company.
Parties on the MS side are saying "Yay! Tile graphics. Something different and literally Cool!" Well, that's what STMicro would like them to say.
I'm surprised that the machines haven't started doing fusion, or just have a bunch of breeder reactors. Nuclear energy is cheaper and more efficient than trying to harness the tiny amount of energy created by the human biological processes.
I do like the nickname in the first movie though... "Coppertop"
I'm not too sure about that one. It is my belief that it was important for the architect to convince Neo that all of his choices were predetermined. If the architect was successful (which he was), than Neo would do as the architect would say. The smooth talking was all a part of the desperation within the matrix to preserve itself.
We know that there were previous "The Ones" that occured within the Matrix. Each iteration, I believe, built upon the others. It's very much like a resonant frequency, where the amplitude grows over time (resonant cascade anyone?). As time went on, the probability of creating a "One" that would destroy the Matrix decreases, especially with the growing number of previous "Ones."
Neo is not a program, but he is the result of introducing imperfection into the Matrix. My take on the meaning of this is that the events of his life prior to him becoming cognizant of the Matrix all lent to him taking the Red Pill. This is slightly different from the determinism stated above, since the lives of each iteration of "The One" were all different. Thus, each reaction was different. And eventually, the final choice would be different.
He should try this in "Real Life". There's money, power, romance, derring-do... It's a rush.
Hah. The only problem is that real life doesn't have a "Up-Up-Down-Down-Right-Left-Right-Left-B-A-Start" combination so you never run out of lives. People have searched for it for centuries, but one fact remains true: You only have one, and once it's gone... that's it.
Trying to go out and kill the evil corporations with weapons will undoubtedly get you killed. Just like players in the game actually do get killed. In real life, however, you don't get a convenient respawn.
Eh. OOP is a child of procedural programming. There's always a starting point somewhere, and a bunch of function calls.
I'd want them to learn one of the functional languages like LISP or Scheme. This way, they could get a grasp of the math behind what they're doing, even though they don't realize it. This way, they also have a better understanding of a persistent environment with functions that determine the state of the environment. It's not very unlike this world that we live in.
You can send porn to a physical mailbox, and the person who gets the mail may be a minor, but you can't be held responsible for that minor seeing "inappropriate" material.
The difference is that snail-mail porn comes in a nice big black/brown opaque envelope. You can generally tell what it is.
With spam, the subject could be "I came to your house last night, but no one was home." That doesn't say anything about the contents of the message... it could be anything from an ad for a penis-pump to some crappy ad about MILF's liking it hot to an ad for micro-racing cars.
You can easily throw out the snail-mail porn without opening it. You can't exactly say the same about electronic spam-porn.
It seems as if PKWare and Winzip are moving into the realm that is dominated by PGP and the GNU variant. PGP compresses the data when it encrypts it, so that need was taken care of already. I wouldn't use either Winzip or PKZip to send an encrypted zip file, because PGP is more universally known, and can give you 2048 bit encryption.
AFAIK, the actual zip standard hasn't changed, which means that you'll be able to open zip files with either program (or the WinXP shell... heh). That's what I see most zip files being used for anyway... Windows based shareware / freeware. Stuff where encryption is not necessary.
The venerable tar.gz and tar.bz2 formats, thankfully, will not be dictated by stupid companies. :-)
I wonder how the mp3's were being transported to the client machines. If the machine was a redirection unit, doing the search, getting hits, and then sending it's clients on to the machine that actually housed the mp3, then you have a point.
If, however, his machine was fetching the mp3's, and then streaming the data to the client, his machine was, in fact, hosting the material. This would be very much like a web server serving up data off of a mapped/mounted network drive. At what point does that drive cease to be "part" of the server?
The first case is functionally equivalent to bitTorrent, where you have machines that take the load of serving upon themselves. The second case is equivalent to running a website with ATA-33 hard disk drives.
I wonder... If every slashdotter signed the NDA, then each and every one of us violated it, would SCO then have to sue each and every one of us? If that were so, we could grind the company into the ground through litigation, kind of like a legal version of the DDOS.