Actually, I was pointing out the fact that your post makes no sense, and the fact that you are unable to recognize that even still. You basically said "Yes, there are things that are better, but if you take them away, look at how great this is!" That doesn't seem to be what you wanted to say, but that is exactly parallel to saying what I said in my post about Microsoft and its competitors. Granted, many may or may not agree that Windows is better, but it is the concept that counts.
And you said nothing about what happened to all those cleaner architectures that you speak of so vaguely, so I see no reason why I should be required to tell you anything about what you care about not nearly enough to speak on. x86 may suck, and there may be better architectures, but your post skirts the subject, and I was merely pointing out a fault in your argument that you missed. There is no need to get embarassed about your mistake, most of us make them, and what is important is that we learn from them. Learn.
Yes the Power4 is faster, but take that off of the list and you'll see AMD and Intel all over the performance charts.
I don't want to be an ass, but you can say something like that for a lot of things. Sure, Microsoft has a lot of marketshare, but if you take them off the list, it sure makes Linux and BSD seem a lot better...
Isn't this just one more reason, out of dozens, not to use spyware at all? They already treat your machine like it's not yours, now they treat it like it's theirs. Not even a powerhouse like Microsoft could do something like this and maintain any marketshare, and these idiots have nothing to begin with. How did they think this would help them distribute the program?
I don't think he meant that we only need to cover 1% of the moon's surface, just that 1% of his extravagant number would be enough to power the Earth. The author probably envisioned the entire moon covered in solar panels, transmitting back to Earth as much as or more than is needed at any given moment. But you're right, as far as the moon's environment goes, I hope this doesn't happen. It would be much better for us to just launch an orb with solar panels on it into orbit around the sun in roughly the same orbit as the Earth, preferably at the same speed, and collect our energy from that, or perhaps an array of them. It wouldn't destroy the moon's environment, and it is expandable if we somehow manage to use all that power.
You know, he didn't say that since it has a TV out it will be a good game console. He said that since it has a TV out it will be able to position itself as a lowend PC in the livingroom. Thus the rest of his sentence.
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And you'd also have to worry about a couple of MiG's flying up and war-driving next to your plane, stealing all your business information as you transmit it from the plane and sending it all back to- oh wait, never mind.
Because 512K of it costs as much as 128M of SDRAM. Not to mention the fact that SRAM, while much faster and much more expensive, is also much less dense, to the point that a reasonable amount of it, like 64M, is about the size of a shoebox.
Maybe they're using ogg to save memory space. Disk space isn't really that important, but memory space is crucial. They may be relying on the ability to use another couple of percent of the CPU in order to save a couple of percent of the RAM. That's what I'd do if I knew enough about the rest of game-making to do something like this.
Why? In most cases, simply because they don't really know anything about the writer and aren't willing to spend $7 to $28 just to experiment. So, they keep buying those authors they are familiar with.
But wait- that means that authors would have to start... writing better... what about... how come....? Pffft, all this "library" does is promote healthy competition and publicize good works by unknown authors, which effectively ruins the monopoly held by the big names in the business. So actually, this library with its free postings does lower sales... of works that aren't as good.
In results released by Project Secretary Manoj Srivastava today, Bdale Garbee was elected Project Leader ahead of Raphael Hertzog and Branden Robinson. Congratulations Bdale!
Manoj Srivastava? Bdale Garbee? Raphael Hertzog? Those are some kind of names! Maybe when they went to the court to have their names changed from John Doe, the judge did not have the foresight to just give them each the one name they actually spelled out correctly: Max Power.
Note to self: go to court today to have name changed. Any of the following will be acceptable: Hercules Rockefeller, Rembrandt Q. Einstein... and so on.
AIX is Unix
BSDI is Unix
HP-UX is Unix
Solaris is Unix
Sun-OS is unix
Digital Unix...is Unix
FreeBSD is Unix
NetBSD is Unix
OpenBSD is Unix
A/UX is unix
Xenix is unix
Unixware is unix
SCO Unix is Unix
NextStep is unix
Unicos is unix
Irix is unix
Ultrix is unix
Linux is Unix.
It's only the truth for someone who did not succeed in his local public school and thinks the best way to fix it is by killing people. Truly said like someone who is uneducated, sir, congratulations on your narrowminded ignorance and cowardice. Would we all know your nick if you had your gun?
What we need to do is pass a law that permits only one law to be introduced per bill.
Senator 1: I propose a law that states that only one law may be introduced in each bill. This would cut down on pork barrel legislation and ridiculous associations between laws. Senator 2: I propose an amendment to said law, that each Senator in this committee is entitled to a $30 million Christmas bonus this year. For business purposes, of course. Senator 1: Agreed!
What if a kid in seventh grade was trying to do some research for school, say on World War I. He would go to google.kids, because that's the only site from which he is allowed to search, and he would type "world war i" in the box. What would come up? Only sites on the.kids domain? What if there are no companies actively supporting a.kids version of their site that contains WWI material? Is this kid then not allowed to complete his research project?
What you propose is a step in the wrong direction. And please don't assume that people think in "such convuluted ways" just because they've been elected.
(b) provide for an adult-only domain such as.prn where all non-child-safe sites (pr0n, hate speech, etc.) would be relegated--the sites would have to give up their.com/.org/.net domains they own today.
This might work if the owners/operators of these sites were given, for free, the site on.prn corresponding to theior site on.com/.net/.org, and charged rates no higher than those they had previously been paying. Perhaps lower payments for the sites whose names had to be switched than for new sites who register under.prn. In this case, however, they might need 3.prn-style extensions to get around the overlaps between.com/.net/.org.
I personally wouldn't mind, it would be a much easier way to avoid that kind of thing.
Unfortunately for microsoft, that makes their whole excuse for eradicating the GPL collapse. Oops.
So their plan doesn't work for the sole purpose that they are actually fighting on your terms, and you don't like it? They don't like your viral license, and you assume that their license is viral (that isn't to say said assumption wasn't well derived), so therefore their viral license is bad, in comparison to your viral license? Aren't they both bad?
"everybody can use our patents royalty-free as long as it's not part of (L)GPL'ed software."
Perhaps that's because once the code from their program has been put into one GPL app, people will begin to get that same code from that GPL app rather than from Microsoft. If someone takes the code from MS and puts it into the GPL, MS no longer has any control over it, and they want a little control over what they invented. It seems reasonable.
What do you mean this is unenforceable? The Open Source developers who might read the code and be influenced by it would go on to develop an application that is Open Source, hence Open Source developer, and if Microsoft finds, in the source code of that person's program, code that resembles their own, they can go to court or do whatever the license entitles them to do. Sure it's stupid, but it's also genius, in an evil sort of way.
Sanders is speaking from the perspective of a hardware maker, not software. As a hardware manufacturer, AMD can see that MS promotes diversity by not locking out vendors and making the platform Intel-proprietary. That was his point. From the perspective of a software designer, that kind of diversity is nearly useless, because most developers don't deal directly with the hardware, but with other software.
And about your final point, if the market share really was split up between all the major/minor players, would anyone ever pump millions into development for anything for only 25% market share? Either people would have to find a compatibility layer, or people would stop making better programs. There's a reason that local utilities (power/water) have an enforced monopoly, and that's because it is usually good for the consumer. That might not apply exactly here, but it is close to the same concept.
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Actually, I was pointing out the fact that your post makes no sense, and the fact that you are unable to recognize that even still. You basically said "Yes, there are things that are better, but if you take them away, look at how great this is!" That doesn't seem to be what you wanted to say, but that is exactly parallel to saying what I said in my post about Microsoft and its competitors. Granted, many may or may not agree that Windows is better, but it is the concept that counts.
And you said nothing about what happened to all those cleaner architectures that you speak of so vaguely, so I see no reason why I should be required to tell you anything about what you care about not nearly enough to speak on. x86 may suck, and there may be better architectures, but your post skirts the subject, and I was merely pointing out a fault in your argument that you missed. There is no need to get embarassed about your mistake, most of us make them, and what is important is that we learn from them. Learn.
Yes the Power4 is faster, but take that off of the list and you'll see AMD and Intel all over the performance charts.
I don't want to be an ass, but you can say something like that for a lot of things. Sure, Microsoft has a lot of marketshare, but if you take them off the list, it sure makes Linux and BSD seem a lot better...
Do you see what I mean?
Note that there are 43 of them. That's 43 stupid people who need our sympathy and our help.
Isn't this just one more reason, out of dozens, not to use spyware at all? They already treat your machine like it's not yours, now they treat it like it's theirs. Not even a powerhouse like Microsoft could do something like this and maintain any marketshare, and these idiots have nothing to begin with. How did they think this would help them distribute the program?
I don't think he meant that we only need to cover 1% of the moon's surface, just that 1% of his extravagant number would be enough to power the Earth. The author probably envisioned the entire moon covered in solar panels, transmitting back to Earth as much as or more than is needed at any given moment. But you're right, as far as the moon's environment goes, I hope this doesn't happen. It would be much better for us to just launch an orb with solar panels on it into orbit around the sun in roughly the same orbit as the Earth, preferably at the same speed, and collect our energy from that, or perhaps an array of them. It wouldn't destroy the moon's environment, and it is expandable if we somehow manage to use all that power.
Gotcha. Actually, I managed to figure it out shortly after I posted- at first I thought sysctl was a file, something like a conf file. Thank you.
You know, he didn't say that since it has a TV out it will be a good game console. He said that since it has a TV out it will be able to position itself as a lowend PC in the livingroom. Thus the rest of his sentence.
So you're saying that you consider each Australian to be worth 50x what each American is worth?
Please explain more about this.
And you'd also have to worry about a couple of MiG's flying up and war-driving next to your plane, stealing all your business information as you transmit it from the plane and sending it all back to- oh wait, never mind.
Yeah, but we don't all live in Microsoft's house... ;)
Because 512K of it costs as much as 128M of SDRAM. Not to mention the fact that SRAM, while much faster and much more expensive, is also much less dense, to the point that a reasonable amount of it, like 64M, is about the size of a shoebox.
Maybe they're using ogg to save memory space. Disk space isn't really that important, but memory space is crucial. They may be relying on the ability to use another couple of percent of the CPU in order to save a couple of percent of the RAM. That's what I'd do if I knew enough about the rest of game-making to do something like this.
Why? In most cases, simply because they don't really know anything about the writer and aren't willing to spend $7 to $28 just to experiment. So, they keep buying those authors they are familiar with.
But wait- that means that authors would have to start... writing better... what about... how come....? Pffft, all this "library" does is promote healthy competition and publicize good works by unknown authors, which effectively ruins the monopoly held by the big names in the business. So actually, this library with its free postings does lower sales... of works that aren't as good.
In results released by Project Secretary Manoj Srivastava today, Bdale Garbee was elected Project Leader ahead of Raphael Hertzog and Branden Robinson. Congratulations Bdale!
Manoj Srivastava? Bdale Garbee? Raphael Hertzog? Those are some kind of names! Maybe when they went to the court to have their names changed from John Doe, the judge did not have the foresight to just give them each the one name they actually spelled out correctly: Max Power.
Note to self: go to court today to have name changed. Any of the following will be acceptable: Hercules Rockefeller, Rembrandt Q. Einstein... and so on.
No, not yet, we'll have to wait for the next version...
AIX is Unix
BSDI is Unix
HP-UX is Unix
Solaris is Unix
Sun-OS is unix
Digital Unix...is Unix
FreeBSD is Unix
NetBSD is Unix
OpenBSD is Unix
A/UX is unix
Xenix is unix
Unixware is unix
SCO Unix is Unix
NextStep is unix
Unicos is unix
Irix is unix
Ultrix is unix
Linux is Unix.
But just remember: GNU is Not Unix
It's only the truth for someone who did not succeed in his local public school and thinks the best way to fix it is by killing people. Truly said like someone who is uneducated, sir, congratulations on your narrowminded ignorance and cowardice. Would we all know your nick if you had your gun?
What we need to do is pass a law that permits only one law to be introduced per bill.
Senator 1: I propose a law that states that only one law may be introduced in each bill. This would cut down on pork barrel legislation and ridiculous associations between laws.
Senator 2: I propose an amendment to said law, that each Senator in this committee is entitled to a $30 million Christmas bonus this year. For business purposes, of course.
Senator 1: Agreed!
What if a kid in seventh grade was trying to do some research for school, say on World War I. He would go to google.kids, because that's the only site from which he is allowed to search, and he would type "world war i" in the box. What would come up? Only sites on the .kids domain? What if there are no companies actively supporting a .kids version of their site that contains WWI material? Is this kid then not allowed to complete his research project?
What you propose is a step in the wrong direction. And please don't assume that people think in "such convuluted ways" just because they've been elected.
(b) provide for an adult-only domain such as .prn where all non-child-safe sites (pr0n, hate speech, etc.) would be relegated--the sites would have to give up their .com/.org/.net domains they own today.
.prn corresponding to theior site on .com/.net/.org, and charged rates no higher than those they had previously been paying. Perhaps lower payments for the sites whose names had to be switched than for new sites who register under .prn. In this case, however, they might need 3 .prn-style extensions to get around the overlaps between .com/.net/.org.
This might work if the owners/operators of these sites were given, for free, the site on
I personally wouldn't mind, it would be a much easier way to avoid that kind of thing.
Unfortunately for microsoft, that makes their whole excuse for eradicating the GPL collapse. Oops.
So their plan doesn't work for the sole purpose that they are actually fighting on your terms, and you don't like it? They don't like your viral license, and you assume that their license is viral (that isn't to say said assumption wasn't well derived), so therefore their viral license is bad, in comparison to your viral license? Aren't they both bad?
"everybody can use our patents royalty-free as long as it's not part of (L)GPL'ed software."
Perhaps that's because once the code from their program has been put into one GPL app, people will begin to get that same code from that GPL app rather than from Microsoft. If someone takes the code from MS and puts it into the GPL, MS no longer has any control over it, and they want a little control over what they invented. It seems reasonable.
What do you mean this is unenforceable? The Open Source developers who might read the code and be influenced by it would go on to develop an application that is Open Source, hence Open Source developer, and if Microsoft finds, in the source code of that person's program, code that resembles their own, they can go to court or do whatever the license entitles them to do. Sure it's stupid, but it's also genius, in an evil sort of way.
Sanders is speaking from the perspective of a hardware maker, not software. As a hardware manufacturer, AMD can see that MS promotes diversity by not locking out vendors and making the platform Intel-proprietary. That was his point. From the perspective of a software designer, that kind of diversity is nearly useless, because most developers don't deal directly with the hardware, but with other software.
And about your final point, if the market share really was split up between all the major/minor players, would anyone ever pump millions into development for anything for only 25% market share? Either people would have to find a compatibility layer, or people would stop making better programs. There's a reason that local utilities (power/water) have an enforced monopoly, and that's because it is usually good for the consumer. That might not apply exactly here, but it is close to the same concept.