The purpose of a school is NOT to teach students how things work right now, but how they will work in the future. How do you know that OSS won't become more accepted, if not the norm, in tomorrow's industry? Your Linux conspiracy theories are just as bad as anti-MS ones.
Indeed, you're right. It amazes me that other free MMOs (like Runescape, but a) they have "member" subscription and b) their operating costs are a lot lower) and things like YouTube keep open with no visible source of income.
Maybe Ubisoft has another reason altogether. What if they plan to use the servers for another MMO?
... and laugh and laugh...
Oh, we're Mac users - we don't need stuff like virus and malware checkers!
Now, let the explanations begin about how this is a wonderful intuitive "feature" and not a flaw.
Whoever actually believes that is retarded. I have two software firewalls, a hardware firewall(router), anti-virus, anti-malware, and anti-spyware on my Mac, same as on my old PC. I didn't get infected on PC, and I'm sure as hell not going to get my Mac botnetted.
My Gaming PC, recently retired to running media center...athlon2800 overclocked, NVIDIA6800, NF7-Sv2 MOBO, 80GB hard drive, 2GB ram....have had it for well more than two years and would play any game on the market. You can put that system together for under $200 now adays easy.
Dammit, Moore and his law! All of our thousand-dollar gaming rigs are crap in a year and a half!!!
Yeah, your analogy? Not so much. OSX apps are just a) a startup script that is auto-run on launch, b)the.NIB/.XIB interface files, c) some images, etc. that the application needs to display, and d) the executable itself.
If you spend any time at all looking through the guts of an OSX system, you'll notice that all the shared dependencies reside within the/Library or/(user)/Library folders.
The reason that a lot of OSX apps are large (not many are huge) is because the developers choose to make one big app with EVERY FRIGGIN LOCALIZATION PACK EVER contained within, instead of compiling a few different localized versions.
I don't see why they couldn't just start using gray water for their cooling systems. After all, nobody is going to be drinking it; it's just going to be pumped through some copper tubes and maybe across a processor. That would a) reduce the use of human-drinkable water being used for cooling and b) very likely lower the cost of coolant water for these datacenters.
How are we supposed to pay? Here is an example. Remember when a US senator got the bright idea of changing daylight savings time? Users of Windows 2000 had to pay Microsoft thousands of dollars for the fix.
You pay by the fix.
This senator, he wouldn't be Benjamin Franklin, would he?
Seriously you buy a volume license and then buy the extended hotfix agreement through your volume license account. You also have to pay for the individual fixes on top of that. MS don't seem to show prices on thier website but I doubt it is cheap.
Or, you can wander around just about any computer lab in the country and write down some XP licenses. I don't know about anybody else, but I could easily get 30-40 licenses every day, and nobody would really be the wiser.
It's not surprising that these crime maps would show this result - the places that police officers are most likely to be, are the places where the most crime is "found".
Are you implying police officers commit the most crimes?
That's not what he's saying. He's saying that, in places without cops, no crime gets reported. No cops = no arrests, ergo no crime information about the area.
Humanity will grow up and idiots like this guy will stop taunting people who can make their life a living hell...
Why are you blaming the victim? By your logic, the Blacks should've stopped trying to escape from slavery. Women should've just gotten over the whole suffrage and rape-within-marriage ordeal.
Playing devil's advocate, the blogger could have done something bad we don't know about. It's probably best to hear both sides of the story on this one.
If the police had/have a legitimate reason for what they did, NOW is the time for them to be johnny-on-the-spot with it. The outrage is already public. Even if they have some kind of retarded reason for it, that's going to sound better than some kind of stunned/malicious silence that usually follows these types of things.
This is America though, The government (Police in this case) are supposed to be afraid of the the people; not the other way around. The Police should not be poking the bear that is the general public. Obviously the police must have done something to this guy to make him feel the need to start and anti department blog.
The police can do pretty well anything they want anymore, because they get warrants for it from judges that they likely have connections with. Or bribery.
This guy is correct though about the cable modem. In what way could the modem possibly be evidence? Its not any more then a photo copy of his cable bill would be if they needed to show he had internet access, in fact the later would be better proof.
I have a feeling this was done in some kind of retarded attempt to stop him from ever being on the internet again. Take his modem, that'll show him.
I haven't seen the new Wolverine movie, but I have seen a few pre-release torrents. Usually, they're copies of the DVD that get sent to the ratings board (complete with "You are liable for this DVD" messages at the bottom of the screen) or stuff like Oscar nominations DVDs.
Well, yes... since that data center is, in fact, connected to all other data centers, then logically speaking, all other data centers are also to blame. In order to fully investigate properly, surely the FBI must seize the servers from all other data centers as well!
Well then, arrest all the datacenter owners, because they received and distributed stolen property. Also prosecute anyone who has ever publicly admitted to filesharing for the same reasons (Lars, I'm looking at you.) Since the Internet is required for all of this transfer of stolen property to be going on, arrest Tim Berners-Lee for inventing the internet. Since computers are required for the invention of the internet, specifically Tim's NeXT computer, arrest Steve Jobs, the founder of NeXT. His ownership of the company would not be possible if he hadn't been forced out of Apple, so arrest the entire then-board of directors. After you go through all of it, frickin' Charles Babbage is to blame for all of it.
A search and seizure warrant for all servers in the datacenter, no matter what company owns them? Either they exceeded the scope of the warrant, or it's a horribly over-broad warrant. Either way, that's not "reasonable" search. It's still a violation of due process - what due process is supposed to mean, that they can't just take people's stuff on a whim.
Right, and I have a feeling that's what will be argued. If the judge couldn't think this far enough into the future, then he should face some consequences. Indeed, quoting others in this thread, it will be months or years until the other companies get their equipment back, if at all.
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The purpose of a school is NOT to teach students how things work right now, but how they will work in the future. How do you know that OSS won't become more accepted, if not the norm, in tomorrow's industry? Your Linux conspiracy theories are just as bad as anti-MS ones.
FOAD AC.
Indeed, you're right. It amazes me that other free MMOs (like Runescape, but a) they have "member" subscription and b) their operating costs are a lot lower) and things like YouTube keep open with no visible source of income.
Maybe Ubisoft has another reason altogether. What if they plan to use the servers for another MMO?
Duh? Did anybody besides those who voted for this think differently?
... and laugh and laugh... Oh, we're Mac users - we don't need stuff like virus and malware checkers! Now, let the explanations begin about how this is a wonderful intuitive "feature" and not a flaw.
Whoever actually believes that is retarded. I have two software firewalls, a hardware firewall(router), anti-virus, anti-malware, and anti-spyware on my Mac, same as on my old PC. I didn't get infected on PC, and I'm sure as hell not going to get my Mac botnetted.
I like your point but this one is wrong:
least 670 if not more on your PC.
My Gaming PC, recently retired to running media center...athlon2800 overclocked, NVIDIA6800, NF7-Sv2 MOBO, 80GB hard drive, 2GB ram....have had it for well more than two years and would play any game on the market. You can put that system together for under $200 now adays easy.
Dammit, Moore and his law! All of our thousand-dollar gaming rigs are crap in a year and a half!!!
I don't know about Windows, but there is a version of it for Mac OS X.
Or, you can pick
e) raise the prices and throttle back EVERYBODY
which is what Insight has done. Their "10.0" plan, which is supposed to be 10 megs/second, has only ever netted me 900kb/s on a good day.
Ah well, it's that or Comcast.
Free Software != !cash software. They may have to pay like $10,000 for the source code for some big program, or to develop said program and OSS it.
^^^Because I know I'm going to get called out, the dependencies live in /Library or /Users/(user)Library, not /(user)/Library.^^^
Yeah, your analogy? Not so much. OSX apps are just .NIB/.XIB interface files,
/Library or /(user)/Library folders.
a) a startup script that is auto-run on launch,
b)the
c) some images, etc. that the application needs to display, and
d) the executable itself.
If you spend any time at all looking through the guts of an OSX system, you'll notice that all the shared dependencies reside within the
The reason that a lot of OSX apps are large (not many are huge) is because the developers choose to make one big app with EVERY FRIGGIN LOCALIZATION PACK EVER contained within, instead of compiling a few different localized versions.
His name is Robert Paulson.
I am Spartacus
Or is this Sparta?
THIS
IS
SPARTACUS!!!
I don't see why they couldn't just start using gray water for their cooling systems. After all, nobody is going to be drinking it; it's just going to be pumped through some copper tubes and maybe across a processor. That would a) reduce the use of human-drinkable water being used for cooling and b) very likely lower the cost of coolant water for these datacenters.
How are we supposed to pay? Here is an example. Remember when a US senator got the bright idea of changing daylight savings time? Users of Windows 2000 had to pay Microsoft thousands of dollars for the fix. You pay by the fix.
This senator, he wouldn't be Benjamin Franklin, would he?
Seriously you buy a volume license and then buy the extended hotfix agreement through your volume license account. You also have to pay for the individual fixes on top of that. MS don't seem to show prices on thier website but I doubt it is cheap.
Or, you can wander around just about any computer lab in the country and write down some XP licenses. I don't know about anybody else, but I could easily get 30-40 licenses every day, and nobody would really be the wiser.
</sarcasm>
It's not surprising that these crime maps would show this result - the places that police officers are most likely to be, are the places where the most crime is "found".
Are you implying police officers commit the most crimes?
No joke, there are places where this is believable.
That's not what he's saying. He's saying that, in places without cops, no crime gets reported. No cops = no arrests, ergo no crime information about the area.
And I posted anonymously so you couldn't tell who I am! Ta-ta!
-jcr
That's some mighty fine detective work there, Lou.
But then how will we fight off the aliens?
Humanity will grow up and idiots like this guy will stop taunting people who can make their life a living hell...
Why are you blaming the victim? By your logic, the Blacks should've stopped trying to escape from slavery. Women should've just gotten over the whole suffrage and rape-within-marriage ordeal.
Your logic is bad, and you should feel bad.
Playing devil's advocate, the blogger could have done something bad we don't know about. It's probably best to hear both sides of the story on this one.
If the police had/have a legitimate reason for what they did, NOW is the time for them to be johnny-on-the-spot with it. The outrage is already public. Even if they have some kind of retarded reason for it, that's going to sound better than some kind of stunned/malicious silence that usually follows these types of things.
IDNRTFA
This is America though, The government (Police in this case) are supposed to be afraid of the the people; not the other way around. The Police should not be poking the bear that is the general public. Obviously the police must have done something to this guy to make him feel the need to start and anti department blog.
The police can do pretty well anything they want anymore, because they get warrants for it from judges that they likely have connections with. Or bribery.
This guy is correct though about the cable modem. In what way could the modem possibly be evidence? Its not any more then a photo copy of his cable bill would be if they needed to show he had internet access, in fact the later would be better proof.
I have a feeling this was done in some kind of retarded attempt to stop him from ever being on the internet again. Take his modem, that'll show him.
I haven't seen the new Wolverine movie, but I have seen a few pre-release torrents. Usually, they're copies of the DVD that get sent to the ratings board (complete with "You are liable for this DVD" messages at the bottom of the screen) or stuff like Oscar nominations DVDs.
Don't let one bad trip spoil the loot for you.
1) You had a warrant for an entire IP block/server farm???
2) When the one side says, "hey they took all our (and your) shit", that's pretty definitive.
3) Who cares why, the basically said "this ENTIRE community is arrested because someone in it did something bad", that's pretty fucked up.
Obligatory snark, the word is "here".
Remember kids, one bad apple ends up getting the entire community's asses thrown in jail.
/sarcasm >
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Well, yes... since that data center is, in fact, connected to all other data centers, then logically speaking, all other data centers are also to blame. In order to fully investigate properly, surely the FBI must seize the servers from all other data centers as well!
Well then, arrest all the datacenter owners, because they received and distributed stolen property. Also prosecute anyone who has ever publicly admitted to filesharing for the same reasons (Lars, I'm looking at you.) Since the Internet is required for all of this transfer of stolen property to be going on, arrest Tim Berners-Lee for inventing the internet. Since computers are required for the invention of the internet, specifically Tim's NeXT computer, arrest Steve Jobs, the founder of NeXT. His ownership of the company would not be possible if he hadn't been forced out of Apple, so arrest the entire then-board of directors. After you go through all of it, frickin' Charles Babbage is to blame for all of it.
These criminals must be stopped!!!
A search and seizure warrant for all servers in the datacenter, no matter what company owns them? Either they exceeded the scope of the warrant, or it's a horribly over-broad warrant. Either way, that's not "reasonable" search. It's still a violation of due process - what due process is supposed to mean, that they can't just take people's stuff on a whim.
Right, and I have a feeling that's what will be argued. If the judge couldn't think this far enough into the future, then he should face some consequences. Indeed, quoting others in this thread, it will be months or years until the other companies get their equipment back, if at all.
IANAL, IDNRTW (I Did Not Read The Warrant)