I still find it funny that you are grouping every aspect of Hollywood into an evil organization.
That's my point, which you are missing horribly. An effects company is not Hollywood. They are not the MPAA. They are not evil. Hell, they do effects for games, tv commercials, tv shows and yes, movies too.
It's called corporate deversity. Most companies that only make revenue from one single point don't really make it all that big. Just open your eyes and realize that not everybody who makes movies is evil.
No, I don't. My employer is neutral on open source. It doesn't condemn its use. It doesn't lie to judges and congressmen about the subject. It doesn't lobby for draconian laws to be passed against it. Simply using non-open source software does not constitute opposition to the open source movement: making use of the law to suppress open source projects that are no threat to your business certainly does.
If your company has one license of windows, they gave money to Microsoft. Microsoft lies, cheats, etc and guess what? You work for a company that works for microsoft (based off your original logic). Oops, you are evil.
If your company has one license of Adobe's products, then you have helped Adobe in it's little fiasco with Dmitry and you should be ashamed of yourself for working for a company that would help prosecute an innocent man.
This is information, technology, it's all connected. Grouping one piece that does a dozen and a half things into the "Evil Corporate Bin" because they happen to like doing special effects and companies pay them to do it is just stupid.
And since your company makes automotive parts, shall I blame you for the Firestone/Explorer incident? Even though you (and chances are your company, although I dont know) had nothing to do with it?
No. They are producing work for us to buy, but we're not allowed to view it when and where and on what we want.
Beautiful. You said it great. It's their product. I'm not sure why people think it is their God-given right to demand others to change or enhance their product for their needs.
Granted, it would be smart. Their tactics are at best wrong and unethical. But you don't have a right to watch your DVD under Linux. It's not in the constitution. It's not a felony in 49 states to not have Linux support for DVDs.
Do I want to watch DVDs under Linux? You betcha.
Do I support the lawsuits and the persecution of Dmitry? Hell no.
Do I think it's their right to license their software and enforce their trademarks/copyrights? Yep.
Do I think they are doing it right? Nope.
And, to finish this up, if you are working for the studios yes you are a part of the process. But that's like saying that the interior decorator contracted out to design a DeBeers is guilty of the murder of people in pursuit of diamonds. It's just absurd.... purely absurd.
First off, I have to say that I find it amazingly wonderful how you are grouping all these companies together into a wonderful conglomerate of evilness.
Now, the entire reason why I'm responding is because I have friends who work for a effects company (They did stuff for AI, Shrek, Antz, etc). Now, they are a good company. Fun atmosphere, and guess what? A lot of the employees IRC on OpenProjects.Net.
Now.. yes, they may get money from a source that is in opposition to the open source movement but guess what? If you work for a company so do you. If your company has one windows license, then you too are an evil entity in an evil empire trying to conquer the open source movement and spread ill-written consumer-attacking licenses throughout the world! Stop now before it's too late!
Oh wait, that's absurd. So is your argument. They aren't in an employer/employee relationship. They are in a contract. Worlds different. If a visual effect company wants to use Linux+SGI+IBM but their client goes "No, we want you to redo your setup in Windows" you think they'll do it? Hell no. It must be hard thinking everyone is against you, huh?
face mapping (using digital camers to scan a
PC user's head into a 3D image so that software can add a full range of emotions for
gamers)
So, when this technology comes into practice, and the next school shooting after is Jon going to protect Microsoft? The media will attack Microsoft for making this technology, which obviously led these poor (psycho) victims of society on a rampage will Jon step up with a Voices from the Hellmouth MCXX or will he attack Microsoft too.
And, on another side note:
Microsoft has battled back to the top of the Internet heap
I'm sorry, but I think I missed when they werent on top. When did it change that they weren't the dominant market player?
Here's to summarize this entire article into one sentence:
Microsoft is the largest company in the USA, which spends a lot of money on new products and innovations.
*sigh*
If only I had code to write,
I wouldnt sit here and put up a fight
against Jon Kats and his short-sight
Maybe I need to write a resume tonight.
Umm... Ford can and does sell you are car/truck with the limitations on mileage and useage... it's called a lease,
exactly the same thing you have with your broadband connection. you are leasing...
Uhm, no. Ford doesnt sell you a car with limitations. You can lease a car with limitations (or you can even lease one without but you pay more).
As for the bandwidth purchasing, you dont ever BUY a T1 either. You lease the line from the telco, then hook it up and RENT bandwidth out. And, no matter what, unless you own a branch (Hi alter-net/UUnet) you are going to be under contractual obligation to pay for whatever bandwidth you use.
I would have to rate going to space as being one of the most difficult things to do in human existence. You obviously have no understanding how NASA actually operates, as most their funding comes from private industry. For example, go find that really comfortable swedish pillow that costs about $90USD. That was a joint venture with NASA to provide that material.
bah, I just realized I made a mistake with that. I do realize rand() wouldn't be called inside of quotes.. just pretend the quotes arent there and the \n is after each item or something.:)
In all fairness, you are using the same logic that anti-tobacco company lobyists are using (Although I'm not sure of your political motivation;)).
300,000 people die each year from tobacco. I've heard numerous reports of people being added in that statistic for things like smoking while driving and getting in a car accident and other vaguely connected statistics.
As for your statistics, I think you are just way off based. Tunguska wasn't even really thought of as a meteor strike, and the closest town (Irkutsk) only showed a spike on a siesmograph.. I think the only large group of living organisms killed by that meteor was reindeer.
95% of statistics can be skewed to support an argument.
I'm sorry but when I read your post the first word I looked at was 'cow' then 'orker' and (without looking at the rest of the sentence) got a wonderful kick out of what a cow orker could be.
Just think about it. One who orks cows.
I find it hilarious, and I dont even know what orking is. Ok, time to stop avoiding work....
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I dont think that content distribution at high speeds is valid in regards to isolating P2P uses.
What is a better choice for the EFF to use is distributed load balancing for large files for file transfer. It has nothing to do with high speed distribution, that can be accomplished by getting a T3 or OC line. However, distributed large file transferring is similar in nature to a distributed CPU utilization system from my perspective.
I think the EFF is looking for uses where P2P is more or less the only solution (or only feasible solution) for a particular problem. I see this definitely fitting that niche. Load balanced, and redundant if I read the site correctly this is definitely valid. Lets hope the EFF picks it up too.
First of all after a few years of studying Gracie Juie Jitsu I don't ever get the shit
beat out of me.
Yes, I usually do fear those who can't even spell the martial art correctly. It's Jiu Jitsu, and I've studdied it too. Along with Tae Kwon Do, and Aikido. Shove it up your ass Mr. Wannabe-Martial-Artist. More talk from you, dont you ever get tired of spewing shit you dont have any clue about?
Let me tell you this one more time: Oregonians do not hate you if you are (gay|environmentalist|vegetarian|wiccan)
There is a small facet of the west that still does actively participate in hateful activities but you know what? Everywhere has such groups.
Oregonians are some of the friendliest bunch of people. You toured Oregon, big fucking deal. You dont know shit about Oregon or any of these so called demon filled conservative states.
You are no better than those people you claim fill the west. You hate these people for what? Because they dont agree with your viewpoint? Name one person, and link to a news article (Even my small home town has their news paper online) that you know who was killed in Oregon over their beliefs. Let me save you some help, you can't.
As for your "Hillbilly Choke hold" it's more evidence you really have no clue as to what the hell you are talking about. Let me give you a little bit of help (more help.. you still need so much) - after 7 seconds of a proper choke hold (2nd year Jiu Jitsu in case you really want to go learn it) your opponent will "black out" - still be conscious but eye sight goes away, sense of balance goes off. After 10 seconds they typically are unconscious. No new blood to the brain usually causes a lot of trauma after the next 20 seconds or so. The "proper" chokehold pushes on the two arteries running up the side of the next with the crux of the elbow blocking the passage. Of course, you already knew that with your "Juie Jitsu".. rofl.
Go back to school, and learn how to be a convincing liar. Cause right now you are failing miserably.
Considering Oregon hosts a natural wonder of the world, along with the largest waterfall in the United States I'd say there is a lot to see there.
BTW, no one wants to beat you up because your liberal. They want to beat you up because you are a liar.
I dont want to hurt you because you are daring to speak. I want to hurt you because you are shit talking where I came from.
How would you feel about me if I told you your mother was a crack-smoking whore? Probably not too great. You are talking about my friends, and a good portion fo my family. You are talking shit.
Of course I'm not going to like your dumb ass. It's not that hard to figure out. We dont dislike you because of your view points or because you are speaking about them. We dislike you because you constantly say that us oregonian conservative westerners aren't really able to understand because we're a bunch of hill billy cross burning mother fuckers.
If you knew anything of Ashland you would know it's not liberal because of it's college. Considering SOSC is a fairly conservative school (With one of the best forensic departments in the US) it has little impact onto the life style of Ashland.
I'll give you a little example of how a bumper sticker could get you hurt up in Oregon. Say you have a "Fire the Loggers, we dont need em" bumper sticker on your tree.. and a bunch of guys walk by who are or are friends with loggers and they see you getting into or out of your car. Obviously they are going to start yelling shit at you. You have the right to express your point of view in the manner you see fit - they will call you an idiot.
This is where your dumbass can't just go, "Hey, they have their point of view just like I have" - nope, you have to go off about how they're hostility is because they are conservative inbreds who just want to shoot signs. Yeah, I can see why your buddies get their asses kicked.
You are just missing the point to the fact that Oregonians are much quickly to kick some ass of some out-of-towner who automatically decides to smart off and talk shit.
I'm not sure why you think I said what I said because of your viewpoints. You have a right to think what you want to think. I have a right to want to bitch slap the living shit out you because you are a loud, annoying, clueless, fuck.
You are the reason why people think that way about Oregonians. If you actually experienced this yourself instead of listening to urban legends and then redistributing them you'd have a totally different viewpoint.
Some facts for you: Klamath Falls had the highest violent crime rate per capita in Oregon (Not sure of now, but as of 1996). We were 7th, on the list. All of which were "Liberal" states. So, you dont know what the hell you are talking about.
Next time you talk shit about an entire region, why dont you go get some facts to back up your claims. As for your buddies who had their car vandalized or their lives taken - why dont you supply links to news stories, or maybe some more detailed information. Oh wait, I can tell you why. Because it was a figment of your imagination.
Each host polls each other host. (I just finished writing wide area system monitoring software.. so I'm versed in how the tradition works).
I'm saying, make it so that each host monitors each other hosts, and the client polls each host sequentially and correlates the data into a summary which gets passed recursively down the pipe from the other hosts (Woo.. this is getting hard to explain without drawing a bunch of pictures).
So, if at any point a host drops out of the loop the P2P network of hosts formulates an alert and sends it out (SNMP trap, or something).
Slashdot needs a whiteboard..
oh wait.. I really dont want to see what the troll kiddies would draw..
I just had this idea over dinner, and this seems a good as place as any as it fits right in. I was thinking (I'm not extremely versed in the actual going-ons behind P2P technology, just the general concept) about a P2P network monitor system.
The idea is a P2P client that monitors a host, and it has a list of other hosts to gather information on. It transmits the data over a P2P network gathering data on all machines (latency times, services up, etc) and then each machine can report a failure on a node to email or pager.
This seems to be a sound idea and a good idea for a network monitor tool. And, as it is stated here if this were the case it seems a plugin to an existing P2P architecture system is all thats necessary, thus making a beneficial legal P2P network.
That is actually it's purpose, I'm glad you brought it up.
Why have software w/ a large overhead when you need all the CPU power you can get? Makes sense to me, but I'm retentive when it comes to efficiency most of the time.
FLTK is a really great toolkit, I like it because of it's really great OpenGL bindings. I was even able to get it to bind to a Performer widget with relative ease (Now that was cool).
Must be nice to be omnipotent...
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Without intellectual property protection, neither innovation nor a healthy commercial software industry is sustainable
I didn't know he could see alternate time lines, I'm really glad he can otherwise we'd make a huge mistake if we abolished IP protection.
Intellectual Property I believe is more of a hindrance upon innovation. Why is it I cannot improve upon a technology in existence for my own benefit? I have a philosophy that there are two types of success in business.
Beat everyone to the punch, and maintain leadership that way.
Take an existing technology, and make it better and evolve.
I see the same problem with IP that I see with harboring people who violate natural selection. The Darwin Awards should be applicable to companies too if you ask me. Through the latest economic shift (I refuse to call it a crash) a lot of companies had good products but didnt know how to make money off of them. Look at Eazel for a great example.
Bill Spitzak, from Digital Domain (Got their fame from blowing us away with the digital effects in titanic) wrote the FLTK GUI toolkit for pretty much this purpose.
Unfortunately DD decided to go closed source and no more of their tools were open sourced but the original idea behind FLTK was to provide a GUI toolkit to be used in movie-effect software. Now, it's come a long ways and is a much more generalized toolkit but it was the general idea behind it.
This is a bit off topic, but it's related because it was a Linux GPL'd toolkit that started for doing mainstream 3d effects on unix platforms (Cheap linux boxes, if I recall titanics render farms correctly). Blatant plug for a cool project...
Klamath Falls is anything but conservative. I know that town all together way too well.
If you piss people off, and they have a gun they will shoot at you anywhere. Not just the west. It's in the east, center, top, bottom, and inside out.
You are blowing it way out of proportion anyway. The only type of person that would shoot you for a bumper sticker is a psychopath which happens everywhere.
I have had friends get shot, mugged, etc. Not once has it ever been because of a bumper sticker or their viewpoints. The reason why people get pissed is because most "liberals" aren't content with just being liberal. A lot that I know deem it their quest to impose their beliefs onto other people. My guess is that is you. (Read back what you have been writing) - And, if you came around spouting that you are gonna get shot because your viewpoints and we're all just a bunch of backwards conservative salmon killing beasts I'd shoot your ass too. Damn, just reading your slashdot posts I want to load my rifle up and give a good "Yeehaw" -- not because your viewpoints, because of your blatant I'm Right and if you dont see that you are just stupid attitude.
Besides, out of all the people that are murdered in Oregon it's just a fraction of what happens in New York City.
On a side note...
Medford is also fairly liberal, as is Ashland (Ashland is probably more liberal than Eugene). My guess is you can't even tell me what the name of the mall is in Medford. You talk a lot of shit, but you dont know your head from your ass to back it up.
Eazel's problem was that they were underfunded. It's too soon to tell if their business model would have worked.
Eazel got started in 1999 at some point, iirc. So, that is almost 3 years. If your business model hasnt proven itself in any capacity after 3 years it is doubtful it will do it at 5, 10, or whenever.
Eazels problem was not that it was underfunded. It was overfunded if you ask me. They didn't do the "Lets do the most we can do for the cheapest ammount". They hired in suits way to early which took away from development costs. There were a lot of mistakes that I think Eazel did through their lifespan.
But, I'm sorry, a service-driven for-pay network managing your packages through a Mac-ish (Sorry Andy, you shouldn't have left Apple) file manager is not a good business plan. It's not going to make money. It's a great idea, but why would a company pay a service fee when they already have to hire a sysadmin who has the knowledge to spend the extra 2.5 minutes to download the package or tarball and run the necessary commands against it.
I think that Eazel was a great idea for a software project, maybe even a subdivision of a "real" company (One that has been in existence and makes money) but as a company the concept was flawed.
And.. I doubt most their investors did understand the companies business model. It's effective marketing to them, why else do you think JustBalls.com exists? (not perverse, I promise)
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That's my point, which you are missing horribly. An effects company is not Hollywood. They are not the MPAA. They are not evil. Hell, they do effects for games, tv commercials, tv shows and yes, movies too.
It's called corporate deversity. Most companies that only make revenue from one single point don't really make it all that big. Just open your eyes and realize that not everybody who makes movies is evil.
- No, I don't. My employer is neutral on open source. It doesn't condemn its use. It doesn't lie to judges and congressmen about the subject. It doesn't lobby for draconian laws to be passed against it. Simply using non-open source software does not constitute opposition to the open source movement: making use of the law to suppress open source projects that are no threat to your business certainly does.
If your company has one license of windows, they gave money to Microsoft. Microsoft lies, cheats, etc and guess what? You work for a company that works for microsoft (based off your original logic). Oops, you are evil.If your company has one license of Adobe's products, then you have helped Adobe in it's little fiasco with Dmitry and you should be ashamed of yourself for working for a company that would help prosecute an innocent man.
This is information, technology, it's all connected. Grouping one piece that does a dozen and a half things into the "Evil Corporate Bin" because they happen to like doing special effects and companies pay them to do it is just stupid.
And since your company makes automotive parts, shall I blame you for the Firestone/Explorer incident? Even though you (and chances are your company, although I dont know) had nothing to do with it?
Gimme a break..
Beautiful. You said it great. It's their product. I'm not sure why people think it is their God-given right to demand others to change or enhance their product for their needs.
Granted, it would be smart. Their tactics are at best wrong and unethical. But you don't have a right to watch your DVD under Linux. It's not in the constitution. It's not a felony in 49 states to not have Linux support for DVDs.
Do I want to watch DVDs under Linux? You betcha.
Do I support the lawsuits and the persecution of Dmitry? Hell no.
Do I think it's their right to license their software and enforce their trademarks/copyrights? Yep.
Do I think they are doing it right? Nope.
And, to finish this up, if you are working for the studios yes you are a part of the process. But that's like saying that the interior decorator contracted out to design a DeBeers is guilty of the murder of people in pursuit of diamonds. It's just absurd.... purely absurd.
Now, the entire reason why I'm responding is because I have friends who work for a effects company (They did stuff for AI, Shrek, Antz, etc). Now, they are a good company. Fun atmosphere, and guess what? A lot of the employees IRC on OpenProjects.Net. Now.. yes, they may get money from a source that is in opposition to the open source movement but guess what? If you work for a company so do you. If your company has one windows license, then you too are an evil entity in an evil empire trying to conquer the open source movement and spread ill-written consumer-attacking licenses throughout the world! Stop now before it's too late!
Oh wait, that's absurd. So is your argument. They aren't in an employer/employee relationship. They are in a contract. Worlds different. If a visual effect company wants to use Linux+SGI+IBM but their client goes "No, we want you to redo your setup in Windows" you think they'll do it? Hell no. It must be hard thinking everyone is against you, huh?
- face mapping (using digital camers to scan a
PC user's head into a 3D image so that software can add a full range of emotions for
gamers)
So, when this technology comes into practice, and the next school shooting after is Jon going to protect Microsoft? The media will attack Microsoft for making this technology, which obviously led these poor (psycho) victims of society on a rampage will Jon step up with a Voices from the Hellmouth MCXX or will he attack Microsoft too.And, on another side note:
- Microsoft has battled back to the top of the Internet heap
I'm sorry, but I think I missed when they werent on top. When did it change that they weren't the dominant market player?Here's to summarize this entire article into one sentence:
Microsoft is the largest company in the USA, which spends a lot of money on new products and innovations.
*sigh*
If only I had code to write,
I wouldnt sit here and put up a fight
against Jon Kats and his short-sight
Maybe I need to write a resume tonight.
Yes.. that is how bored I am.
Uhm, no. Ford doesnt sell you a car with limitations. You can lease a car with limitations (or you can even lease one without but you pay more).
As for the bandwidth purchasing, you dont ever BUY a T1 either. You lease the line from the telco, then hook it up and RENT bandwidth out. And, no matter what, unless you own a branch (Hi alter-net/UUnet) you are going to be under contractual obligation to pay for whatever bandwidth you use.
- Most of what NASA has done since Apollo has been crap.
Uhm, Yeah.. whatever you say.I would have to rate going to space as being one of the most difficult things to do in human existence. You obviously have no understanding how NASA actually operates, as most their funding comes from private industry. For example, go find that really comfortable swedish pillow that costs about $90USD. That was a joint venture with NASA to provide that material.
bah, I just realized I made a mistake with that. I do realize rand() wouldn't be called inside of quotes.. just pretend the quotes arent there and the \n is after each item or something. :)
#!/usr/bin/perl
my @Words = ("bomb", "attack", "assassinate", "coup", "terrorist");
while ( 1 )
{
print "$Words[rand($$^time)%$#Words+1]\n";
sleep(60);
}
300,000 people die each year from tobacco. I've heard numerous reports of people being added in that statistic for things like smoking while driving and getting in a car accident and other vaguely connected statistics.
As for your statistics, I think you are just way off based. Tunguska wasn't even really thought of as a meteor strike, and the closest town (Irkutsk) only showed a spike on a siesmograph.. I think the only large group of living organisms killed by that meteor was reindeer.
95% of statistics can be skewed to support an argument.
Just think about it. One who orks cows.
I find it hilarious, and I dont even know what orking is. Ok, time to stop avoiding work....
What is a better choice for the EFF to use is distributed load balancing for large files for file transfer. It has nothing to do with high speed distribution, that can be accomplished by getting a T3 or OC line. However, distributed large file transferring is similar in nature to a distributed CPU utilization system from my perspective.
I think the EFF is looking for uses where P2P is more or less the only solution (or only feasible solution) for a particular problem. I see this definitely fitting that niche. Load balanced, and redundant if I read the site correctly this is definitely valid. Lets hope the EFF picks it up too.
- First of all after a few years of studying Gracie Juie Jitsu I don't ever get the shit
beat out of me.
Yes, I usually do fear those who can't even spell the martial art correctly. It's Jiu Jitsu, and I've studdied it too. Along with Tae Kwon Do, and Aikido. Shove it up your ass Mr. Wannabe-Martial-Artist. More talk from you, dont you ever get tired of spewing shit you dont have any clue about?Let me tell you this one more time: Oregonians do not hate you if you are (gay|environmentalist|vegetarian|wiccan)
There is a small facet of the west that still does actively participate in hateful activities but you know what? Everywhere has such groups.
Oregonians are some of the friendliest bunch of people. You toured Oregon, big fucking deal. You dont know shit about Oregon or any of these so called demon filled conservative states.
You are no better than those people you claim fill the west. You hate these people for what? Because they dont agree with your viewpoint? Name one person, and link to a news article (Even my small home town has their news paper online) that you know who was killed in Oregon over their beliefs. Let me save you some help, you can't.
As for your "Hillbilly Choke hold" it's more evidence you really have no clue as to what the hell you are talking about. Let me give you a little bit of help (more help.. you still need so much) - after 7 seconds of a proper choke hold (2nd year Jiu Jitsu in case you really want to go learn it) your opponent will "black out" - still be conscious but eye sight goes away, sense of balance goes off. After 10 seconds they typically are unconscious. No new blood to the brain usually causes a lot of trauma after the next 20 seconds or so. The "proper" chokehold pushes on the two arteries running up the side of the next with the crux of the elbow blocking the passage. Of course, you already knew that with your "Juie Jitsu".. rofl.
Go back to school, and learn how to be a convincing liar. Cause right now you are failing miserably.
Considering Oregon hosts a natural wonder of the world, along with the largest waterfall in the United States I'd say there is a lot to see there. BTW, no one wants to beat you up because your liberal. They want to beat you up because you are a liar.
Thanks for making my point that you are just a clueless punk assuming everyone is out to get you cause you are "different".
Paranoia is a sign of mental illness, go get checked if you seriously think everyone is out to get you and you can't express your views.
I dont want to hurt you because you are daring to speak. I want to hurt you because you are shit talking where I came from.
How would you feel about me if I told you your mother was a crack-smoking whore? Probably not too great. You are talking about my friends, and a good portion fo my family. You are talking shit.
Of course I'm not going to like your dumb ass. It's not that hard to figure out. We dont dislike you because of your view points or because you are speaking about them. We dislike you because you constantly say that us oregonian conservative westerners aren't really able to understand because we're a bunch of hill billy cross burning mother fuckers.
If you knew anything of Ashland you would know it's not liberal because of it's college. Considering SOSC is a fairly conservative school (With one of the best forensic departments in the US) it has little impact onto the life style of Ashland.
I'll give you a little example of how a bumper sticker could get you hurt up in Oregon. Say you have a "Fire the Loggers, we dont need em" bumper sticker on your tree.. and a bunch of guys walk by who are or are friends with loggers and they see you getting into or out of your car. Obviously they are going to start yelling shit at you. You have the right to express your point of view in the manner you see fit - they will call you an idiot.
This is where your dumbass can't just go, "Hey, they have their point of view just like I have" - nope, you have to go off about how they're hostility is because they are conservative inbreds who just want to shoot signs. Yeah, I can see why your buddies get their asses kicked.
You are just missing the point to the fact that Oregonians are much quickly to kick some ass of some out-of-towner who automatically decides to smart off and talk shit.
I'm not sure why you think I said what I said because of your viewpoints. You have a right to think what you want to think. I have a right to want to bitch slap the living shit out you because you are a loud, annoying, clueless, fuck.
You are the reason why people think that way about Oregonians. If you actually experienced this yourself instead of listening to urban legends and then redistributing them you'd have a totally different viewpoint.
Some facts for you: Klamath Falls had the highest violent crime rate per capita in Oregon (Not sure of now, but as of 1996). We were 7th, on the list. All of which were "Liberal" states. So, you dont know what the hell you are talking about.
Next time you talk shit about an entire region, why dont you go get some facts to back up your claims. As for your buddies who had their car vandalized or their lives taken - why dont you supply links to news stories, or maybe some more detailed information. Oh wait, I can tell you why. Because it was a figment of your imagination.
I like the new acronym, IANALBI(U?)LWO :)
I'm saying, make it so that each host monitors each other hosts, and the client polls each host sequentially and correlates the data into a summary which gets passed recursively down the pipe from the other hosts (Woo.. this is getting hard to explain without drawing a bunch of pictures).
So, if at any point a host drops out of the loop the P2P network of hosts formulates an alert and sends it out (SNMP trap, or something).
Slashdot needs a whiteboard..
oh wait.. I really dont want to see what the troll kiddies would draw..
OJ wasn't guilty, but he was liable.
The idea is a P2P client that monitors a host, and it has a list of other hosts to gather information on. It transmits the data over a P2P network gathering data on all machines (latency times, services up, etc) and then each machine can report a failure on a node to email or pager.
This seems to be a sound idea and a good idea for a network monitor tool. And, as it is stated here if this were the case it seems a plugin to an existing P2P architecture system is all thats necessary, thus making a beneficial legal P2P network.
Or.. Im just clueless which is entirely possible.
Why have software w/ a large overhead when you need all the CPU power you can get? Makes sense to me, but I'm retentive when it comes to efficiency most of the time.
FLTK is a really great toolkit, I like it because of it's really great OpenGL bindings. I was even able to get it to bind to a Performer widget with relative ease (Now that was cool).
- Without intellectual property protection, neither innovation nor a healthy commercial software industry is sustainable
I didn't know he could see alternate time lines, I'm really glad he can otherwise we'd make a huge mistake if we abolished IP protection.Intellectual Property I believe is more of a hindrance upon innovation. Why is it I cannot improve upon a technology in existence for my own benefit? I have a philosophy that there are two types of success in business.
Beat everyone to the punch, and maintain leadership that way.
Take an existing technology, and make it better and evolve.
I see the same problem with IP that I see with harboring people who violate natural selection. The Darwin Awards should be applicable to companies too if you ask me. Through the latest economic shift (I refuse to call it a crash) a lot of companies had good products but didnt know how to make money off of them. Look at Eazel for a great example.
Innovation comes from individuals, not from laws.
Unfortunately DD decided to go closed source and no more of their tools were open sourced but the original idea behind FLTK was to provide a GUI toolkit to be used in movie-effect software. Now, it's come a long ways and is a much more generalized toolkit but it was the general idea behind it.
This is a bit off topic, but it's related because it was a Linux GPL'd toolkit that started for doing mainstream 3d effects on unix platforms (Cheap linux boxes, if I recall titanics render farms correctly). Blatant plug for a cool project...
If you piss people off, and they have a gun they will shoot at you anywhere. Not just the west. It's in the east, center, top, bottom, and inside out.
You are blowing it way out of proportion anyway. The only type of person that would shoot you for a bumper sticker is a psychopath which happens everywhere.
I have had friends get shot, mugged, etc. Not once has it ever been because of a bumper sticker or their viewpoints. The reason why people get pissed is because most "liberals" aren't content with just being liberal. A lot that I know deem it their quest to impose their beliefs onto other people. My guess is that is you. (Read back what you have been writing) - And, if you came around spouting that you are gonna get shot because your viewpoints and we're all just a bunch of backwards conservative salmon killing beasts I'd shoot your ass too. Damn, just reading your slashdot posts I want to load my rifle up and give a good "Yeehaw" -- not because your viewpoints, because of your blatant I'm Right and if you dont see that you are just stupid attitude.
Besides, out of all the people that are murdered in Oregon it's just a fraction of what happens in New York City.
On a side note...
Medford is also fairly liberal, as is Ashland (Ashland is probably more liberal than Eugene). My guess is you can't even tell me what the name of the mall is in Medford. You talk a lot of shit, but you dont know your head from your ass to back it up.
Eazel got started in 1999 at some point, iirc. So, that is almost 3 years. If your business model hasnt proven itself in any capacity after 3 years it is doubtful it will do it at 5, 10, or whenever.
Eazels problem was not that it was underfunded. It was overfunded if you ask me. They didn't do the "Lets do the most we can do for the cheapest ammount". They hired in suits way to early which took away from development costs. There were a lot of mistakes that I think Eazel did through their lifespan.
But, I'm sorry, a service-driven for-pay network managing your packages through a Mac-ish (Sorry Andy, you shouldn't have left Apple) file manager is not a good business plan. It's not going to make money. It's a great idea, but why would a company pay a service fee when they already have to hire a sysadmin who has the knowledge to spend the extra 2.5 minutes to download the package or tarball and run the necessary commands against it.
I think that Eazel was a great idea for a software project, maybe even a subdivision of a "real" company (One that has been in existence and makes money) but as a company the concept was flawed.
And.. I doubt most their investors did understand the companies business model. It's effective marketing to them, why else do you think JustBalls.com exists? (not perverse, I promise)