But they're staying in Office XP, yet not in IE6? I thought Office XP used the IE component for rendering HTML?
What would probably make the most sense in that case is to just incorporate SmartTags into 6.0 but not have the checkbox to turn it on available in the preferences.
What I really wonder is if this means that bootlegs will now be resurrected on the napster system, since they are generally not copyrighted by the Record company, but by the artist. Many artists allow bootlegs to be freely distributed. Personally, that's the only reason I used napster in the first place, was for the bootlegs which I couldn't buy in the stores anyway.
OK, my short position is in. Slashdot is worth about $2 Million, the whole company, $10-20 Million, being generous. Certainly not the $178 Million it's currently valued at. Hopefully you'll get lucky, and Yahoo will buy you out for $50 Million. Sourceforge would certainly be a good fit.
That's my point. The poster may live in Canada, but others do not. I just wanted him to keep his Canadian ignorance to himself. I'll repeat it again. *this* is not Canada. I don't know where you came up with American, because I didn't even mention the US in my post you're replying to. In the first one, which I did mention the US, I did so because that is the system which I know, and a large number of people on slashdot are governed by. Had I not mentioned that my viewpoint was US-specific *that* would have been ignorance.
That's what's driving me crazy. I hate to lie. I also hate to give my personal information to someone that doesn't need it. What choice do they leave? I have to either comprimise my ethics or compromise my personal information.
Sounds like you're driving yourself crazy... Lying and giving away personal information is what mainstream society is all about. If you don't feel like dealing with that, become a monk. They don't use MSDN, by the way.
If you'd like a copy of the source, I suggest you simply email the author and demand it. They have no right to withhold the source since they've used GPL'd code.
Umm, what makes you think that someone making illegal software for stealing is going to obey the GPL? I mean, if they don't respect the copyright of DirectTV, why would they respect the copyright of the maker of ucsim?
Well, I am not a lawyer, and this is certainly not legal advice, but I thought the supreme court of the US ruled that any satellite transmission beamed onto your property was yours to do with as you please. Now this was before DMCA, so maybe things have changed, or maybe I'm just misinformed, but in any case it's not like you're going to get caught, anyway.
Ok two points. First of all, you can certainly leave out T1s and T3, because they don't need to access information at the full speed. Further, even the 56Kbps modems will not get full 56K, probably closer to 30Kbps. But lets assume all your numbers are right.
How big do you think the feed is coming into the router? I've seen the backends for pretty well hit sites, serving high bandwidth graphics, and I haven't seen more than a dual 100Mbit feed. Even if they have a gig feed, it is highly doubtful they have more than that going into a single router. No, I'd bet VA Linux simultaneous connections are on the order of hundreds, not thousands, and certainly not 10,000 which would be necessary to break that theoretical gig barrier. Plus, on top of everything else, you could go up to 19K simultaneous connections and only degrade your DSL users down to 56K. And you don't even really need to consider anything other than your biggest site (I'll assume that's slashdot), since the other sites can be located on completely separate physical networks if they need to be. It's not like they share any data in a common database (and even if they do, there are ways to do that through separate routers anyway).
I guess I'm making more than 2 points. Here's the kicker. All the hits are going through a load balancer anyway, and I believe that is just an Intel box. So that suffers from the same theoretical limits (and even if it's one of the rare and super-expensive hardware load balancers it still usually only supports a gig feed.
No, you use a real cisco router because it's easier and less headache. And both of these factors eventually mean cheaper in the long run. At least, that's the argument. Personally, I'm willing to help people set it up either way.
I agree, companies do have a right to contact me. But they should be required to pay "postage" for that right. I think spammers should pay a penny per k to both me and my ISP. A 5k spam would cost a dime.
If you want entities to pay you to email you, set up an email account which forces this. If you want to make exceptions for certain "from addresses", you can do that too. Seriously, how difficult is that? If you want your email address to be private, stop giving it away to the public, and stop accepting email from random sources. It's really that simple.
So what you saw with TCP/IP or Sendmail or the browser could never happen." Or the development of a full Free operating system either, I guess.
Even the kernel of linux is not GPL. Linus has made an exception for the linking of dynamic libraries and non-GPL drivers. Linux is not an example of a pure GPLed program.
You won't see this implemented, because the speed limit is nothing more than a tool of prejudice to be used by police officers. Take a look at who is getting the tickets. I can tell you right now it's not a true cross-section of speeders. Now take a look at who actually winds up paying the tickets. Not even a cross-section of those who get tickets, let alone those who speed. I am all for 100% enforcement of laws. That we would have any law which we do not want to enforce 100% speaks to the problem with the law itself, and nothing else.
NYC's perfectly timed traffic lights make up for all the horrible traffic situations. I made it from 14th street to 125th without hitting a single red light, last weekend.
Neutrinos, they are small.
They have no charge, they have no mass.
They do not interact at all.
The Earth is just a silly ball
to them through which they simply pass
Like photons through a sheet of glass
Or dustmaids down a drafty hall.
They snub the most exquisite gas,
Insult the stallion in his stall,
Cold-shoulder steel and sounding brass
And pass, like tall and painless guillotines,
through you and me into the grass.
At night they enter Nepal
And pierce the lover and his lass
from underneath the bed.
You call it wonderful? I call it crass.
Neutrinos, they are small.
They have no charge, they have no mass.
They do not interact at all.
The Earth is just a silly ball
to them through which they simply pass
Like photons through a sheet of glass
Or dustmaids down a drafty hall.
They snub the most exquisite gas,
Insult the stallion in his stall,
Cold-shoulder steel and sounding brass
And pass, like tall and painless guillotines,
through you and me into the grass.
At night they enter Nepal
And pierce the lover and his lass
from underneath the bed.
You call it wonderful? I call it crass.
- John Updike
"On June 5, 1998, the Super-Kamiokande collaboration announced discovery of evidence for neutrino mass at the Neutrino '98 conference, held in Takayama, Japan."
First of all, you have to realize that gold has very little useful value. Sure, it is used in industry, and in jewelry, but most of it is merely stored for currency purposes.
So why is the global economy so reliant on gold? It's very simple, because it can't be counterfeited. Au is an element. Short of a nuclear reaction you just aren't going to produce it from something that doesn't already contain gold. There therefore need no government regulations on it whatsoever.
You could just as easily have a monetary system based on points stored in a computer system. As long as the total number of points in the system was fixed, you'd have the same stability as gold (more since gold is being found every day). The reason you don't do that is because of fraud and regulations.
Now consider goldmoney.com. Even if they really do back your "points" with real live gold, how are they protecting against robbery? If someone steals the gold, goldmoney.com is going to go out of business, and guess what, you're broke. Goldmoney.com is also only as secure as the country in which it is located. Someone takes over that country, they can then confiscate all your gold. Even without a coup the gold could still be confiscated by the government.
Really the only thing you're getting here is the promise of privacy. If that's what you need, and you can't find it anywhere else (you certainly don't get it with credit card payments), fine. But for stability, I'd say the Swiss government is much more stable than the corporation running goldmoney.com. You even get the privacy there, just not the privacy for the transactions themselves. Maybe Switzerland should look into forming it's own e-transaction system.
No more banner ads for me !! (including slashdot)
So, how do you think Slashdot, as a free site even for cowards as anonymous as you, earns the money to keep itself running?
By selling VA Linux hardware. Banner ads are so 2001.
And a Tivo is a useless piece of junk compared to a VCR, for archiving. Six of one, half-a-dozen of the other.
Until they add a tape drive. 20 gig tapes cost about $30. Sure, it's not random access, but if you're able to plan ahead a little you could preload the show. You could probably even preload it on the fly.
Not only is this good for archival, but also for transportation. I could record something at home, but view it at my friends house. Of course, to be truly universal you'd want to make sure it was an open standard, similar to the way VHS works. Yeah, it's probably a pipe dream in today's monopolistic patent crazy world.
That's my biggest problem with Tivo. Sure, you can hack it to add extra devices, but it would be a lot nicer if the company supported it.
If you don't want anyone altering your content, stop using HTML. Make each of your pages into a GIF. Then change each page into an IMG link which points to the GIF.
HTML was designed for this. To try to restrict it across the board is rediculous. Consider a browser which automatically translates Italian into English. Would you have a problem with a browser which changed your content in that way? I dont think you can allow a judge to judge such things based on merit. That's too much power in the court system.
Personally, the only case I think you can have against Microsoft is abuse of their browser monopoly. But if the default is to have the feature turned off, I don't think you have a case. If the default is on, I think you could argue either way.
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But they're staying in Office XP, yet not in IE6? I thought Office XP used the IE component for rendering HTML?
What would probably make the most sense in that case is to just incorporate SmartTags into 6.0 but not have the checkbox to turn it on available in the preferences.
What I really wonder is if this means that bootlegs will now be resurrected on the napster system, since they are generally not copyrighted by the Record company, but by the artist. Many artists allow bootlegs to be freely distributed. Personally, that's the only reason I used napster in the first place, was for the bootlegs which I couldn't buy in the stores anyway.
Why is Gnutella doomed? Feel free to post AC if you are afraid of getting voted down offtopic.
OK, my short position is in. Slashdot is worth about $2 Million, the whole company, $10-20 Million, being generous. Certainly not the $178 Million it's currently valued at. Hopefully you'll get lucky, and Yahoo will buy you out for $50 Million. Sourceforge would certainly be a good fit.
That's my point. The poster may live in Canada, but others do not. I just wanted him to keep his Canadian ignorance to himself. I'll repeat it again. *this* is not Canada. I don't know where you came up with American, because I didn't even mention the US in my post you're replying to. In the first one, which I did mention the US, I did so because that is the system which I know, and a large number of people on slashdot are governed by. Had I not mentioned that my viewpoint was US-specific *that* would have been ignorance.
That's what's driving me crazy. I hate to lie. I also hate to give my personal information to someone that doesn't need it. What choice do they leave? I have to either comprimise my ethics or compromise my personal information.
Sounds like you're driving yourself crazy... Lying and giving away personal information is what mainstream society is all about. If you don't feel like dealing with that, become a monk. They don't use MSDN, by the way.
Umm, no, *this* isn't Canada... the guy making the software lives there.
If you'd like a copy of the source, I suggest you simply email the author and demand it. They have no right to withhold the source since they've used GPL'd code.
Umm, what makes you think that someone making illegal software for stealing is going to obey the GPL? I mean, if they don't respect the copyright of DirectTV, why would they respect the copyright of the maker of ucsim?
This is, like unlawful isn't it?
Well, I am not a lawyer, and this is certainly not legal advice, but I thought the supreme court of the US ruled that any satellite transmission beamed onto your property was yours to do with as you please. Now this was before DMCA, so maybe things have changed, or maybe I'm just misinformed, but in any case it's not like you're going to get caught, anyway.
Ok two points. First of all, you can certainly leave out T1s and T3, because they don't need to access information at the full speed. Further, even the 56Kbps modems will not get full 56K, probably closer to 30Kbps. But lets assume all your numbers are right.
How big do you think the feed is coming into the router? I've seen the backends for pretty well hit sites, serving high bandwidth graphics, and I haven't seen more than a dual 100Mbit feed. Even if they have a gig feed, it is highly doubtful they have more than that going into a single router. No, I'd bet VA Linux simultaneous connections are on the order of hundreds, not thousands, and certainly not 10,000 which would be necessary to break that theoretical gig barrier. Plus, on top of everything else, you could go up to 19K simultaneous connections and only degrade your DSL users down to 56K. And you don't even really need to consider anything other than your biggest site (I'll assume that's slashdot), since the other sites can be located on completely separate physical networks if they need to be. It's not like they share any data in a common database (and even if they do, there are ways to do that through separate routers anyway).
I guess I'm making more than 2 points. Here's the kicker. All the hits are going through a load balancer anyway, and I believe that is just an Intel box. So that suffers from the same theoretical limits (and even if it's one of the rare and super-expensive hardware load balancers it still usually only supports a gig feed.
No, you use a real cisco router because it's easier and less headache. And both of these factors eventually mean cheaper in the long run. At least, that's the argument. Personally, I'm willing to help people set it up either way.
That would be some amazing oversubscription of the 1.064Gbit/sec backplane of your average (32-bit, 33MHz) PCI bus.
1.064Gbit/sec would be enough to handle 19,000 56Kbit modems accessing slashdot simultaneously.
Maybe not, but at least you can afford TWO of them.
I agree, companies do have a right to contact me. But they should be required to pay "postage" for that right. I think spammers should pay a penny per k to both me and my ISP. A 5k spam would cost a dime.
If you want entities to pay you to email you, set up an email account which forces this. If you want to make exceptions for certain "from addresses", you can do that too. Seriously, how difficult is that? If you want your email address to be private, stop giving it away to the public, and stop accepting email from random sources. It's really that simple.
So what you saw with TCP/IP or Sendmail or the browser could never happen." Or the development of a full Free operating system either, I guess.
Even the kernel of linux is not GPL. Linus has made an exception for the linking of dynamic libraries and non-GPL drivers. Linux is not an example of a pure GPLed program.
You won't see this implemented, because the speed limit is nothing more than a tool of prejudice to be used by police officers. Take a look at who is getting the tickets. I can tell you right now it's not a true cross-section of speeders. Now take a look at who actually winds up paying the tickets. Not even a cross-section of those who get tickets, let alone those who speed. I am all for 100% enforcement of laws. That we would have any law which we do not want to enforce 100% speaks to the problem with the law itself, and nothing else.
NYC's perfectly timed traffic lights make up for all the horrible traffic situations. I made it from 14th street to 125th without hitting a single red light, last weekend.
Neutrinos, they are small.
They have no charge, they have no mass.
They do not interact at all.
The Earth is just a silly ball
to them through which they simply pass
Like photons through a sheet of glass
Or dustmaids down a drafty hall.
They snub the most exquisite gas,
Insult the stallion in his stall,
Cold-shoulder steel and sounding brass
And pass, like tall and painless guillotines,
through you and me into the grass.
At night they enter Nepal
And pierce the lover and his lass
from underneath the bed.
You call it wonderful? I call it crass.
- John Updike
Neutrinos, they are small. They have no charge, they have no mass. They do not interact at all. The Earth is just a silly ball to them through which they simply pass Like photons through a sheet of glass Or dustmaids down a drafty hall. They snub the most exquisite gas, Insult the stallion in his stall, Cold-shoulder steel and sounding brass And pass, like tall and painless guillotines, through you and me into the grass. At night they enter Nepal And pierce the lover and his lass from underneath the bed. You call it wonderful? I call it crass. - John Updike
"On June 5, 1998, the Super-Kamiokande collaboration announced discovery of evidence for neutrino mass at the Neutrino '98 conference, held in Takayama, Japan."
First of all, you have to realize that gold has very little useful value. Sure, it is used in industry, and in jewelry, but most of it is merely stored for currency purposes.
So why is the global economy so reliant on gold? It's very simple, because it can't be counterfeited. Au is an element. Short of a nuclear reaction you just aren't going to produce it from something that doesn't already contain gold. There therefore need no government regulations on it whatsoever.
You could just as easily have a monetary system based on points stored in a computer system. As long as the total number of points in the system was fixed, you'd have the same stability as gold (more since gold is being found every day). The reason you don't do that is because of fraud and regulations.
Now consider goldmoney.com. Even if they really do back your "points" with real live gold, how are they protecting against robbery? If someone steals the gold, goldmoney.com is going to go out of business, and guess what, you're broke. Goldmoney.com is also only as secure as the country in which it is located. Someone takes over that country, they can then confiscate all your gold. Even without a coup the gold could still be confiscated by the government.
Really the only thing you're getting here is the promise of privacy. If that's what you need, and you can't find it anywhere else (you certainly don't get it with credit card payments), fine. But for stability, I'd say the Swiss government is much more stable than the corporation running goldmoney.com. You even get the privacy there, just not the privacy for the transactions themselves. Maybe Switzerland should look into forming it's own e-transaction system.
Guess BSD should have kept the advertising clause in.
I didn't realize using legal threats was trust. To call the law a technology of trust is grossly stretching the meaning of the term.
No more banner ads for me !! (including slashdot)
So, how do you think Slashdot, as a free site even for cowards as anonymous as you, earns the money to keep itself running?
By selling VA Linux hardware. Banner ads are so 2001.
And a Tivo is a useless piece of junk compared to a VCR, for archiving. Six of one, half-a-dozen of the other.
Until they add a tape drive. 20 gig tapes cost about $30. Sure, it's not random access, but if you're able to plan ahead a little you could preload the show. You could probably even preload it on the fly.
Not only is this good for archival, but also for transportation. I could record something at home, but view it at my friends house. Of course, to be truly universal you'd want to make sure it was an open standard, similar to the way VHS works. Yeah, it's probably a pipe dream in today's monopolistic patent crazy world.
That's my biggest problem with Tivo. Sure, you can hack it to add extra devices, but it would be a lot nicer if the company supported it.
If you don't want anyone altering your content, stop using HTML. Make each of your pages into a GIF. Then change each page into an IMG link which points to the GIF.
HTML was designed for this. To try to restrict it across the board is rediculous. Consider a browser which automatically translates Italian into English. Would you have a problem with a browser which changed your content in that way? I dont think you can allow a judge to judge such things based on merit. That's too much power in the court system.
Personally, the only case I think you can have against Microsoft is abuse of their browser monopoly. But if the default is to have the feature turned off, I don't think you have a case. If the default is on, I think you could argue either way.