And then imagine Microsoft implementing them and allowing a website to change your settings through Internet Explorer. You close your browser and you notice with dismay that all your icons are spinning, bouncing, and dancing. Doh...
At that growth rate, a 64-bit address space would easily last through our lifetimes.
Actually, I'd bet that the growth rate increases (exponentially), just like the growth rate of everything else in the entire computing industry. All in all, however, I agree with your final points.
It's version 0.1.0 . You have to start somewhere. Would you have preferred that they just announce that they are going to do it and wait to tell anyone where they're at until their product has advanced beyond Windows NT? That's not really the Open Source approach, is it?
Boy, how fast would everyone drop MS once and for all if this worm had been written to corrupt filesystems and/or destroy data? As it is, everyone will just try to patch their systems and whine a little bit, but at the end of the day they will still write out a check to Microsoft. Eventually, along will come a worm that will cripple Microsoft's ability to sell products any longer: when it becomes clear that using MS software is practically a guarantee that your data is vulnerable and could even be destroyed, Windows is finished; Microsoft is finished.
The only thing funnier than a moron is one that thinks he has some shred of intelligence, you know who you are.
The only thing funnier than a moron is one that thinks he has some shred of intelligence; you know who you are. That was an example of improper punctuation. You should practice a little more.
Park said that he will seek to commercialize the next generation of his protocol that he has been fine-tuning over the past year.
Why? Didn't he look at HTTP at all? The reason it was so successful and widespread was because Tim Berners-Lee did not commericalize it. If Park makes this protocol commercial, it will either not be adopted at all, or it will be bought and proprietized by Microsoft. Neither of those are particularly desirable. If he keeps it open and free, it could eventually garner as much popularity as HTTP. Tis too bad he cares only for getting a check.
I'll be accused of being a liberal, tree-hugging, deficit-loving bitch, but it needs to be said.
Actually, it is conservatives that seem to love deficits: after all, the Democratic platform is based on paying off the national debt, whereas the Republican is based on lowering taxes but not spending. Actually, in the midst of the trillions of dollars of tax cuts, spending has actually gone up. Good idea.
According to his book, he talked to the engineers who designed the shuttle and the NASA management, separately, in his investigation. The management basically said that the odds of failure were some ridiculously high number, like 1 in 100000 or something. He found this dubious. The engineers told him that no part of the shuttle could be guaranteed to be successful more than 1 in 300 times. With the thousand parts of the shuttle, he ultimately guessed that the shuttle would fail about 1 in 100 time, but there was no way to absolutely sure, on account of all the different points of failure.
But you can look at GPL products without agreeing to the terms and conditions. You can't look at the US3 specs. Think about it.
You don't agree to the GPL by reading it, you agree to it by using the source. You can't see OR use the US3 docs without agreeing to terms.
The two situations are not the same.
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That's right folks, the next billion dollar industry is... wait for it... getting nickels for every time someone mentions the next billion dollar industry!
People who really want to make it in the industry are trying to thin out their competition. Hopefully it works: the world needs fewer low quality coders who are only in it for the money.
1) Your software is being used to distribute music without the permission of the copyright owner (doesn't matter if 1% or 99% of it is legal, at least not to the RIAA).
Last time I checked, it was the judge and the rest of the court system who decided how much the percentage of legality matters, not either of the litigants. If it were really up to the defendant, people who considered murder to be "legal," as you say, would be able to get off. The defendants and prosecutors do not decide the law, nor do they intrepret it. Those jobs are assigned to the legislature and the courts. This is, after all, America.
I hate them for their spyware too, but I love them for their network. I hope they win, and win big, because that will keep the FastTrack network online. If you don't like the spyware (which I don't), then use Kazaa Lite (which I use). It does everything Kazaa can do, minus the intrusion.
Say what you will, the FastTrack network is the only one that is worthwhile to use at this point. I have never found (and successfully downloaded at a reasonable speed) a file on another network as well as Kazaa's. (If any of you has anything to say about this, such as another P2P network that is better than FastTrack, I would love to hear about it. Seriously.)
IRC is the only thing that compares to it in availability of files, but, to be honest, it isn't quite as easy to find/get a file, or as quick to download.
Because they want to be able to tell people (business people) that moving from Windows to Linux will not isolate them from the Windows world. If Mono is compatible with.NET, businesses would consider moving over to Mono because of its advantages, but also because it would not preclude them from doing the business they had been doing and will be doing with other companies using Windows.NET.
Once enough companies have realized that Mono is the way to go, the Mono group can begin implementing features that are only available in Mono, and the businesses stuck in.NET will be left out to dry: and have to migrate to Mono. For something like that to work, Mono will need a critical mass of support. They can't get that critical mass by going head to head with Microsoft from the beginning.
The problem is that they will think about all the individually crafted letters and realize how great it is that the politicians can't get a letter from a perspective other than their own. Crapflooding is good for keeping silent or unnoticed an opinion. Crap.
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And then imagine Microsoft implementing them and allowing a website to change your settings through Internet Explorer. You close your browser and you notice with dismay that all your icons are spinning, bouncing, and dancing. Doh...
Or called in 130 nm, as seems to be the wave of the future with the terminology (90 nm, 65 nm).
At that growth rate, a 64-bit address space would easily last through our lifetimes.
Actually, I'd bet that the growth rate increases (exponentially), just like the growth rate of everything else in the entire computing industry. All in all, however, I agree with your final points.
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It's version 0.1.0 . You have to start somewhere. Would you have preferred that they just announce that they are going to do it and wait to tell anyone where they're at until their product has advanced beyond Windows NT? That's not really the Open Source approach, is it?
Boy, how fast would everyone drop MS once and for all if this worm had been written to corrupt filesystems and/or destroy data? As it is, everyone will just try to patch their systems and whine a little bit, but at the end of the day they will still write out a check to Microsoft. Eventually, along will come a worm that will cripple Microsoft's ability to sell products any longer: when it becomes clear that using MS software is practically a guarantee that your data is vulnerable and could even be destroyed, Windows is finished; Microsoft is finished.
The only thing funnier than a moron is one that thinks he has some shred of intelligence, you know who you are.
The only thing funnier than a moron is one that thinks he has some shred of intelligence; you know who you are. That was an example of improper punctuation. You should practice a little more.
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Park said that he will seek to commercialize the next generation of his protocol that he has been fine-tuning over the past year.
Why? Didn't he look at HTTP at all? The reason it was so successful and widespread was because Tim Berners-Lee did not commericalize it. If Park makes this protocol commercial, it will either not be adopted at all, or it will be bought and proprietized by Microsoft. Neither of those are particularly desirable. If he keeps it open and free, it could eventually garner as much popularity as HTTP. Tis too bad he cares only for getting a check.
I'll be accused of being a liberal, tree-hugging, deficit-loving bitch, but it needs to be said.
Actually, it is conservatives that seem to love deficits: after all, the Democratic platform is based on paying off the national debt, whereas the Republican is based on lowering taxes but not spending. Actually, in the midst of the trillions of dollars of tax cuts, spending has actually gone up. Good idea.
Why would they just release a hard drive based on Firewire 400 when the 800 just came out? Wouldn't it be better to embrace the new tech?
On the other hand, they probably don't want to force people to buy Apple's high end stuff to use their drive: they aren't Apple, after all.
According to his book, he talked to the engineers who designed the shuttle and the NASA management, separately, in his investigation. The management basically said that the odds of failure were some ridiculously high number, like 1 in 100000 or something. He found this dubious. The engineers told him that no part of the shuttle could be guaranteed to be successful more than 1 in 300 times. With the thousand parts of the shuttle, he ultimately guessed that the shuttle would fail about 1 in 100 time, but there was no way to absolutely sure, on account of all the different points of failure.
Tell that to Bush and the Pentagon. Didn't anyone notice last year when they started producing them?
I'm saving a penny a week. I think I'll make it.
And there is no setting to turn it on...
Yeah, but the only browser to use it is Omniweb: not even Safari uses the builtin spellchecker. :(
But you can look at GPL products without agreeing to the terms and conditions. You can't look at the US3 specs. Think about it.
You don't agree to the GPL by reading it, you agree to it by using the source. You can't see OR use the US3 docs without agreeing to terms.
The two situations are not the same.
That's right folks, the next billion dollar industry is... wait for it... getting nickels for every time someone mentions the next billion dollar industry!
People who really want to make it in the industry are trying to thin out their competition. Hopefully it works: the world needs fewer low quality coders who are only in it for the money.
1) Your software is being used to distribute music without the permission of the copyright owner (doesn't matter if 1% or 99% of it is legal, at least not to the RIAA).
Last time I checked, it was the judge and the rest of the court system who decided how much the percentage of legality matters, not either of the litigants. If it were really up to the defendant, people who considered murder to be "legal," as you say, would be able to get off. The defendants and prosecutors do not decide the law, nor do they intrepret it. Those jobs are assigned to the legislature and the courts. This is, after all, America.
I hate them for their spyware too, but I love them for their network. I hope they win, and win big, because that will keep the FastTrack network online. If you don't like the spyware (which I don't), then use Kazaa Lite (which I use). It does everything Kazaa can do, minus the intrusion.
Say what you will, the FastTrack network is the only one that is worthwhile to use at this point. I have never found (and successfully downloaded at a reasonable speed) a file on another network as well as Kazaa's. (If any of you has anything to say about this, such as another P2P network that is better than FastTrack, I would love to hear about it. Seriously.)
IRC is the only thing that compares to it in availability of files, but, to be honest, it isn't quite as easy to find/get a file, or as quick to download.
We all saw what happened to Java when Microsoft released their version.
--The US government told them to include Sun's version in their OS. Wouldn't the same thing be desirable for Mono (from an OSS standpoint)?
Because they want to be able to tell people (business people) that moving from Windows to Linux will not isolate them from the Windows world. If Mono is compatible with .NET, businesses would consider moving over to Mono because of its advantages, but also because it would not preclude them from doing the business they had been doing and will be doing with other companies using Windows .NET.
.NET will be left out to dry: and have to migrate to Mono. For something like that to work, Mono will need a critical mass of support. They can't get that critical mass by going head to head with Microsoft from the beginning.
Once enough companies have realized that Mono is the way to go, the Mono group can begin implementing features that are only available in Mono, and the businesses stuck in
Well, you could have logged in and changed the root password...
The problem is that they will think about all the individually crafted letters and realize how great it is that the politicians can't get a letter from a perspective other than their own. Crapflooding is good for keeping silent or unnoticed an opinion. Crap.