I don't know the details but I understand the problem is that VSS uses a more chatty protocol.
Speaking of chatty protocols, has anyone noticed the response string that a remote CVS server gives after authenticating a client? If your login is accepted, it sends back "i love you", if it's rejected, you get back "i hate you". I wonder what the story behind that is?
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Windows has a monopoly on the desktop OS, or at least so everyone claims. Anyways, they have a very large majority of the desktop OS market. Thus, copyright violations performable using Windows computers are vastly more damaging to the RIAA's interests than are copyright violations performable only on other desktop OS's.
...hence, the RIAA should sue Microsoft, because Microsoft is facilitating the theft of artists' intellectual property. (Of course Microsoft will argue that they aren't responsible, because no stolen IP is present on Microsoft servers, but the RIAA doesn't concern itself with petty distinctions like that, right?) Jeremy
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I don't know why people think this is so impractical. You just have to look at the names of the songs. Sure, people can just rename them. But it's a war of attrition that Napster will win. Eventually, the songs are renamed so much that nobody can find them anyway.
At which point Napster becomes mostly useless to the majority of its users, and they all switch to some other program like Gnutella. A fairly pyrrhic victory for Napster, and a net loss for the RIAA, because now they have nobody to push around...
What good will any of this do?... Basically, this whole investigation was a big, pointless sideshow orchestrated by some publicity-hound people in the DoJ and companies that wanted to get Microsoft
In my opinion, it's already done quite a bit of good. Because of all the negative publicity, Microsoft has been revealed to the average American as the abusive monopolists they are, and they've had to be fairly restrained in their business dealings for a while now.
No longer are all the OEMs completely in thrall of Microsoft... they can now at least consider alternatives.
My point is that this is a business model that requires that there be "suckers", because no-one with a clue would be willing to pay for the service, since they could just wait for some other sucker to come along, and then freeload.
Not true--many perfectly cluefull businesses will find it to their advantage to pay and get the new features now, rather than waiting for someone else to do it, and watching their marketshare get taken by someone else.
If it became okay to steal superstars' music, people wouldn't think twice about ripping off the little guys. And when you're a working musician, (that is, living off your craft), losing album sales is a big deal.
Look at it this way: Up until the Internet, distribution inefficiencies made buying music similar to paying the cover fee to go into a club. If you didn't pay, you didn't get to hear the music, and that's why they could get $15 out of you.
Now the Internet comes along like a hurricane, and all of a sudden the nightclub walls have been knocked down. So now all the bands have to give concerts outdoors, and people can hear them whether they buy a ticket or not. Street musicians exist in the real world as well, and if they're good they can still make money by soliciting donations.
Admittedly, they don't make as much money as behind-closed-doors musicians do, but that's the way the cookie crumbles... the walls are gone, and telling people to pretend they're still up isn't going to work forever.
(note: above analogy probably stolen from here, please don't sue)
I'd say that Napster has every right to not want it's logos used unauthorized. Having "Napster Ware" would be a very, very good way to generate revenue for a company that gives stuff away for free.
And that's the fun of it, innit? Here's Napster saying "please don't give away copies of our intellectual property, because if it's freely available we won't have any way of generating revenue"--and in the background you can hear Lars laughing his head off...
Because.. what do you do, in the odd chance, that you run out of memory? It's bound to happen. Even if you have 2 gigs of ram.. you may run out of memory (hell on my 512 meg machine I frequently have more than 512 megs of processes running). If you turn off a swap file then you're basically fucked...
Yes, but having a swap file doesn't solve your out-of-memory problem, as you will encounter the exact same situation a bit later, when you run out of swap space. It does delay the onset of the problem for a while--on the other hand, during the time your machine is out of RAM and swapping, your machine's performance will be so poor that it might be better to have it just Panic immediately and be done with the crisis.
(by Panic I don't mean crash--rather, the system could initiate some kind of emergency procedure for freeing up RAM... maybe by finding the largest non-critical process and killing it. Which processes are considered "non-critical" is left as an exercise for the Sysadmin)
I mean, everyone (me included) really hates getting that IE think for free! Thank God the Government got involved!
Unfortunately, IE isn't free. Unless you own a Mac (and 95% of us don't), you can't run IE unless you own Windows. The fact that you can download it separately doesn't change anything.
And that's not even counting the intangible costs associated with the scuttling of Netscape and the rest of the web-browser industry.
I'm not clear on this one. The spinning wheel is held by magnets in a vacuum, so that there's no friction. If there's no friction, where does the heat come from?
but those results have not been revealed because of "commercial reasons." (Don't these people ever learn? You're not going to make a cent unless your process stands up to scientific review!)
Perhaps they've learned it all too well, and that's why they are witholding their "results"?
A laptop with a charged-up flywheel in it might exhibit some interesting gyroscopic effects... you could pick it up, but wouldn't be able to turn it upside down?
One other thing... I'll be really impressed if they manage to make the same spinning disk do double-duty as both hard drive platter and flywheel.
If you want a true 3D display, IMHO the most straightforward way to go about it is to start with a lightweight, transparent, double-sided LCD panel, and add an electric motor that causes the panel to rotate about its center about 60 times per second. Presto, a cylindrical volumetric display!
In reality, it is the foolishness of "science" that believes it has answers to the questions that have plagued man for centuries. "Science" offers no proof what-so-ever, and in fact any real scientist will admit this. That's why they are called "theories" and never "absolutes". It is only the ignorant who claim science holds answers, which is why many true scientists are Believers.
Fair enough. But religion is even more guilty on this count: it offers no proofs either, only assertions, and demands that you take its assertions on Faith.
So while science attempts to describe the world based on the observable evidence, religion gives you a self-contradicting book of translated ancient writings and tells you to take it as Gospel (literally!), "because we said so."
A human can respond with little when asked, "Tell me about yourself with a particular emphasis on how your intelligence works." whereas a teaching robot (Chapter 14) could tell you about itself in great detail including giving full details on the algorithms it uses in doing AI.
The robot could show you a listing of its source code, log files detailing its recent mind-states, and that sort of thing, but does this really imply self-awareness? It's analagous to a human being 'describing' his intelligence by sawing open his head and letting you examine his brain cells. Sure, you can use what he/it shows you to figure out how he/it works, but in either case the entity that understands the thought process is you, not the subject.
Human beings, by and large, are savage and brutal and cruel. It's what we are. It's a fact that we should accept the way we accept that we will all die -- not with joy, but with a calm acceptance that we cannot purge this from ourselves; we have to live with it
I disagree. I think what you mean to say is that some human beings are brutal, and that all human beings could become brutal under the right circumstances. But I daresay 99.99% of the population is at least not actively violent at any given time... it's just the other.01% that given everyone a bad name.
So you're not saying that Hitler needed a hug, he needed some Thorazine?
You're missing the point. It's irrelevant what Hitler needed. There will always be charismatic nutcases. The critical factor was the miserable state of the German people, who were all too happy to accept Hitler as their way back out of "hell". Without them, Hitler would have been just another firebrand shouting on the streetcorner.
Here's the bottom line: It's your computer, it's your web browser, and they're your eyeballs. Just as the Web site developer can choose what files to allow you access to, you can choose which of those files to download or not. Anyone who tells you different is trying to sell you something.
The annoying bit is now the FBI is going to make it their #1 priority to track down the author of this script and charge him with "millions of dollars in damages".
That's all well and good, but I wish they'd keep in mind that he wouldn't have been able to do any of this mischief without the months of labour on the part of Microsoft engineering that laid the groundwork for this sort of thing. OLE, VB, Outlook, etc all working together to help viruses propogate.
It's as if Microsoft has been stacking tubes of dynamite in the town hall for months, and one day some fruitcake comes in with a lit match. Sure, the fruitcake is guilty, but there's some serious negligence here as well...
If you get a message that says "If you get an email that says 'I love you', DON'T OPEN IT!", don't open it!
My smart-ass response to this warning: I did receive such an email, and I did open it, but because I'm running an OS that was designed by engineers instead of salesmen, there was no harmful effect.
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Speaking of chatty protocols, has anyone noticed the response string that a remote CVS server gives after authenticating a client? If your login is accepted, it sends back "i love you", if it's rejected, you get back "i hate you". I wonder what the story behind that is?
At which point Napster becomes mostly useless to the majority of its users, and they all switch to some other program like Gnutella. A fairly pyrrhic victory for Napster, and a net loss for the RIAA, because now they have nobody to push around...
What good will any of this do? ... Basically, this whole investigation was a big, pointless sideshow orchestrated by some publicity-hound people in the DoJ and companies that wanted to get Microsoft
In my opinion, it's already done quite a bit of good. Because of all the negative publicity, Microsoft has been revealed to the average American as the abusive monopolists they are, and they've had to be fairly restrained in their business dealings for a while now.
No longer are all the OEMs completely in thrall of Microsoft... they can now at least consider alternatives.
Not true--many perfectly cluefull businesses will find it to their advantage to pay and get the new features now, rather than waiting for someone else to do it, and watching their marketshare get taken by someone else.
So much for cut and paste. (Or any more sophisticated inter-app communication.)
Don't worry, that's nothing that can't be implemented with a few hours of hacking...
Look at it this way: Up until the Internet, distribution inefficiencies made buying music similar to paying the cover fee to go into a club. If you didn't pay, you didn't get to hear the music, and that's why they could get $15 out of you.
Now the Internet comes along like a hurricane, and all of a sudden the nightclub walls have been knocked down. So now all the bands have to give concerts outdoors, and people can hear them whether they buy a ticket or not. Street musicians exist in the real world as well, and if they're good they can still make money by soliciting donations.
Admittedly, they don't make as much money as behind-closed-doors musicians do, but that's the way the cookie crumbles... the walls are gone, and telling people to pretend they're still up isn't going to work forever.
(note: above analogy probably stolen from here, please don't sue)
And that's the fun of it, innit? Here's Napster saying "please don't give away copies of our intellectual property, because if it's freely available we won't have any way of generating revenue"--and in the background you can hear Lars laughing his head off...
Hmm, maybe the built-in automated viruspropogation---err, scripting features could be scaled back a bit...
Yes, but having a swap file doesn't solve your out-of-memory problem, as you will encounter the exact same situation a bit later, when you run out of swap space. It does delay the onset of the problem for a while--on the other hand, during the time your machine is out of RAM and swapping, your machine's performance will be so poor that it might be better to have it just Panic immediately and be done with the crisis.
(by Panic I don't mean crash--rather, the system could initiate some kind of emergency procedure for freeing up RAM... maybe by finding the largest non-critical process and killing it. Which processes are considered "non-critical" is left as an exercise for the Sysadmin)
Unfortunately, IE isn't free. Unless you own a Mac (and 95% of us don't), you can't run IE unless you own Windows. The fact that you can download it separately doesn't change anything.
And that's not even counting the intangible costs associated with the scuttling of Netscape and the rest of the web-browser industry.
I'm not clear on this one. The spinning wheel is held by magnets in a vacuum, so that there's no friction. If there's no friction, where does the heat come from?
You should be okay as long as you keep the bus speed below 88 Mhz.
Has DEVO been notified of this?
Perhaps they've learned it all too well, and that's why they are witholding their "results"?
One other thing... I'll be really impressed if they manage to make the same spinning disk do double-duty as both hard drive platter and flywheel.
Might be kind of dangerous, though...
that have plagued man for centuries. "Science" offers no proof what-so-ever, and in fact
any real scientist will admit this. That's why they are called "theories" and never
"absolutes". It is only the ignorant who claim science holds answers, which is why many
true scientists are Believers.
Fair enough. But religion is even more guilty on this count: it offers no proofs either, only assertions, and demands that you take its assertions on Faith.
So while science attempts to describe the world based on the observable evidence, religion gives you a self-contradicting book of translated ancient writings and tells you to take it as Gospel (literally!), "because we said so."
Pick your poison, I guess.
The robot could show you a listing of its source code, log files detailing its recent mind-states, and that sort of thing, but does this really imply self-awareness? It's analagous to a human being 'describing' his intelligence by sawing open his head and letting you examine his brain cells. Sure, you can use what he/it shows you to figure out how he/it works, but in either case the entity that understands the thought process is you, not the subject.
that we should accept the way we accept that we will all die -- not with joy, but with a
calm acceptance that we cannot purge this from ourselves; we have to live with it
I disagree. I think what you mean to say is that some human beings are brutal, and that all human beings could become brutal under the right circumstances. But I daresay 99.99% of the population is at least not actively violent at any given time... it's just the other
(sorry if I'm stating the obvious here)
You're missing the point. It's irrelevant what Hitler needed. There will always be charismatic nutcases. The critical factor was the miserable state of the German people, who were all too happy to accept Hitler as their way back out of "hell". Without them, Hitler would have been just another firebrand shouting on the streetcorner.
Jeremy
That's all well and good, but I wish they'd keep in mind that he wouldn't have been able to do any of this mischief without the months of labour on the part of Microsoft engineering that laid the groundwork for this sort of thing. OLE, VB, Outlook, etc all working together to help viruses propogate.
It's as if Microsoft has been stacking tubes of dynamite in the town hall for months, and one day some fruitcake comes in with a lit match. Sure, the fruitcake is guilty, but there's some serious negligence here as well...
Jeremy, your friendly Slashdot anti-M$ zealot
My smart-ass response to this warning: I did receive such an email, and I did open it, but because I'm running an OS that was designed by engineers instead of salesmen, there was no harmful effect.
-Jeremy
Does anyone know (or can anyone speculate) whether or not this thing will run BeOS without too much pain?