Evade the rebel army that lurks all over your country (see Sudan)
That is a (potential) cause of poverty, not a consequence.
That being "poor" here in America is arguably better than being "poor" somewhere else in the world.
"I'm very sorry that you have cancer, and that there's nothing we can do. But stop whining, it could be worse - you have 6 months to live, that guy over there only has 3! Pull yourself together - don't you realise how well off you are compared to him?!"
People die from poverty in first world countries every year. Less of them, it's true, but certainly here in the UK old people die of hypothermia due to lack of ability to pay to keep their houses warm; I'd imagine that a number of people, young and old, die in the US due to lack of ability to pay for medical treatment (and to a lesser extent, here in the UK too).
Just because it could be worse, doesn't mean it isn't bad.
My 6800GT idled at about 77C, and regularly hit 120C at load (at which point the thermal protection would cut in and slow the core down to reduce the temperature). I don't recall ever seeing any artifacts, but I may just have been lucky/unobservant.
In contrast, my 7800GTX idles at 56C, which is much healthier...
85C at idle? What on earth did you do to the poor thing? My X2 4400+ idles at about 35C with the stock heat sink and fan. I understand that you "undercooled" it, but seriously...
these things are designed to make their own mesh network
Mesh with what? You're going to be relying on other people having these things switched on in range, and at least one of them having a "traditional" network connection.
What happens when the only one close enough to you to mesh with is switched off? They're hand-cranked, remember; are you going to keep cranking after you've finished using it, just to maintain the mesh?
It's a great idea in theory, and I hope it works as the potential implications are huge, but I'm not confident. As much as I hate to admit it, I think he's right, at least about the networking.
However, when you read an article and most/all of the +5 comments are saying the same thing, I think you can be forgiven for considering that to be the consensus opinion of slashdot (especially if it mirrors comments made by the posting editor).
OEM copies are not boxed, and come with absolutely no support from Microsoft; they're also supposedly tied to the machine that they came with, although I've had no problems with that. Full Retail are boxed, come with some period of free support from Microsoft (90 days?) and are not tied to the machine.
Be fair. You said "Doubtlessly, MS already uses obfuscation extensively in every one of its published.NET assemblies." (Emphasis mine)
ichin4 merely pointed out that that's not the case, as "every... published.NET assemblies" includes the core framework assemblies. That says nothing about assemblies that make up for-profit products, of course, but does disprove your original assertion.
The stations don't get anything like as much from subscriptions as they do from ads, if they get anything. Your subscription goes to your cable provider.
With an online game, what you pay goes to the game developer, as does the advertising revenue. Now it may be that the ad revenue helps to keep subscription costs down, but in that case, they'd better be lower (or the package better) than competing services.
Well, here in the UK I can get ADSL for £17/month (roughly $25/month). I consider it reasonably fast; 2Mbps down/256Kbps up. It doesn't compare to the multi-homed symmetric 100Mbps at work, but it suffices.
I don't have to mess with my PC by my standards, but then my standards may well be skewed, as I'm not only a programmer, but have in the past:
installed slackware from floppies (Christ, so many floppies) upgraded gcc and libstdc++ upgraded my kernel (woo) hand-hacked modelines in XF86Config (stupid installer/config tool not recognising my monitor) etc
I don't get viruses; I take sensible precautions and back them up with AV software (which just serves to confirm that I don't get viruses).
Spam, well, yeah, that one I fail big time - some low-life scum decided to use my domain in faked From: headers, so now I get shitloads of crap (literally hundreds per day, bounces, spams, auotresponders and viruses). Before that, I got maybe a dozen a week, all to generic accounts (info@, sales@, etc) and one account I unwisely had in my profile on k5 in plain text.
Anyway, point is I don't want any of those things, and the Internet most certainly is worth it to me.
OEM licensing runs ~$10 for a copy of XP, or 2% of the total cost of the machine, effectively free.
As another poster points out, the cost of a Dell with XP is identical to the cost of a Dell with XP replaced by Linux. It's free in that most people can't buy a PC without it.
By the time you add a good office suite and the requisite spyware/adware/virus protection, plus whatever other tools you need on a daily basis to XP, how free is it?
So, let's see, we'll be needing:
OpenOffice Grisoft AVG Microsoft Windows Defender, or Lavasoft Adaware, or Spybot Search and destrory Firefox Thunderbird Eclipse
All free, a lot of them also open source. Cost of using XP is still 0 to me.
citizens don't have guaranteed rights that Americans supposedly have (like rights to a fair trial and freedom of speech.)
Both of those things, and a whole host of others, are guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights, to which France is a signatory (along with every other Eu member state).
I can't wait for the "you guys don't even have a constitution!" meme to die out; we do (in the UK at least), and we have other protections on top, too.
What it does is make it easier for those that would trade the songs illegally.
How so? The tools and methods to strip off the DRM exist now, merely making their use legal hardly makes it any easier.
To stretch an analogy, are you suggesting that cars should be fitted with automatic speed limiters, to make speeding impossible? Or that we should all (somehow) be rendered physically incapable of killing, in order to make murder impossible?
You really don't want to experience "pwn3d" in real life. Treat you IT folks like humans and not servants. Treat them like servants, and you're in for a nasty suprise... and more thank likely so is your credit rating, your bank account, and more.
Demanding things from people and treating them like servants is rude; your suggested likely response is illegal. Are you really saying most IT people are criminals? I'd take a pretty large exception to that, personally...
The last time I tried to use a USB thumb drive under Linux (about a year ago), it required root access and a set of homebrew scripts whipped up by our sys admin/systems programmer. Woe betide you if the script failed when you tried to use it - the only fix was to reboot the machine. Something was clearly grabbing a resource and preventing the kernel from unloading the appropriate module(s).
Not saying that Windows is perfect (it isn't) or that Linux sucks (although aspects of it do, as do aspects of every OS I've used), just offering up a counter anecdote.
The Windows paradigm puts a bunch of keys in the regsitry for configuring the app, seemingly half of which are inaccessible to configure from within the app, and 90% of which aren't removed when the app is uninstalled.
And that's the fault of Windows how?
Seriously, there are enough valid things to complain about in Windows without lumping "stupid third party programmers" in there too.
The fact that the British press is now getting into the act of praising 1000 year old inventions and ignoring the last thousand years of stagnation is telling.
Yeah - it tells us just how bad the anti-Muslim feeling is in this country at the moment, I think.
OTOH, I don't know what chance a handful of civilians with handguns have against a military with long-range missiles, tear gas, sonic weapons, etc.
If you're talking about an old-fashioned battle, where two (or more) armies face each other across a field and have at it until one remains, then my money's on the army.
If you're talking about guerrila warfare, where the enemy is nebulous, hard to find, scattered in pockets amidst innocent civillians and wears no uniform or other identifying badge, then it's a damn sight less certain. For a start, you can't use any of those long-range missiles unless you're prepared to kill tens or even hundreds of non-combatants per legitimate target.
As you say, I have merely bought the right to listen to the music, not the music itself. That raises two points:
1) Unless otherwise clearly informed of the fact at the time of purchase, I have bought the licence in perpetutiy, not for a limited time - I do not expect to lose access simply because the company goes belly-up and the DRM prevents me from accessing it.
2) If I have bought the right to listen to the music, then I should be allowed to replace it if lost, stolen, destroyed or otherwise unusable to me for a nominal replacement fee. I should not be forced to buy a new CD at full retail simply because my daughter broke the old one.
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Evade the rebel army that lurks all over your country (see Sudan)
That is a (potential) cause of poverty, not a consequence.
That being "poor" here in America is arguably better than being "poor" somewhere else in the world.
"I'm very sorry that you have cancer, and that there's nothing we can do. But stop whining, it could be worse - you have 6 months to live, that guy over there only has 3! Pull yourself together - don't you realise how well off you are compared to him?!"
People die from poverty in first world countries every year. Less of them, it's true, but certainly here in the UK old people die of hypothermia due to lack of ability to pay to keep their houses warm; I'd imagine that a number of people, young and old, die in the US due to lack of ability to pay for medical treatment (and to a lesser extent, here in the UK too).
Just because it could be worse, doesn't mean it isn't bad.
My 6800GT idled at about 77C, and regularly hit 120C at load (at which point the thermal protection would cut in and slow the core down to reduce the temperature). I don't recall ever seeing any artifacts, but I may just have been lucky/unobservant.
In contrast, my 7800GTX idles at 56C, which is much healthier...
85C at idle? What on earth did you do to the poor thing? My X2 4400+ idles at about 35C with the stock heat sink and fan. I understand that you "undercooled" it, but seriously...
these things are designed to make their own mesh network
Mesh with what? You're going to be relying on other people having these things switched on in range, and at least one of them having a "traditional" network connection.
What happens when the only one close enough to you to mesh with is switched off? They're hand-cranked, remember; are you going to keep cranking after you've finished using it, just to maintain the mesh?
It's a great idea in theory, and I hope it works as the potential implications are huge, but I'm not confident. As much as I hate to admit it, I think he's right, at least about the networking.
Yes, it is and yes, they do.
However, when you read an article and most/all of the +5 comments are saying the same thing, I think you can be forgiven for considering that to be the consensus opinion of slashdot (especially if it mirrors comments made by the posting editor).
OEM copies are not boxed, and come with absolutely no support from Microsoft; they're also supposedly tied to the machine that they came with, although I've had no problems with that. Full Retail are boxed, come with some period of free support from Microsoft (90 days?) and are not tied to the machine.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
Yesterday, we had the claim but no proof, so of course it was examined from all possible angles.
Today, we have the proof, so congratulations are due (and as can be seen, forthcoming).
So, what, MS is telling people to write their OSes in .NET? Or could you just not resist yet another cheap, meaningless shot?
Be fair. You said "Doubtlessly, MS already uses obfuscation extensively in every one of its published .NET assemblies. " (Emphasis mine)
.NET assemblies" includes the core framework assemblies. That says nothing about assemblies that make up for-profit products, of course, but does disprove your original assertion.
ichin4 merely pointed out that that's not the case, as "every... published
Anyway, please change your sig. It's bad to spread misinformation.
If you feel like that, how can you stand to read slashdot?
Did you actually read what you wrote before you hit submit?
With the possible exception of DAT, CD is the original digital audio format!
The stations don't get anything like as much from subscriptions as they do from ads, if they get anything. Your subscription goes to your cable provider.
With an online game, what you pay goes to the game developer, as does the advertising revenue. Now it may be that the ad revenue helps to keep subscription costs down, but in that case, they'd better be lower (or the package better) than competing services.
Funny? I'm seriously considering making availability of high-speed (>8Mbps) broadband one of the requirements when I finally decide to move...
Hhhmmmm.
Well, here in the UK I can get ADSL for £17/month (roughly $25/month). I consider it reasonably fast; 2Mbps down/256Kbps up. It doesn't compare to the multi-homed symmetric 100Mbps at work, but it suffices.
I don't have to mess with my PC by my standards, but then my standards may well be skewed, as I'm not only a programmer, but have in the past:
installed slackware from floppies (Christ, so many floppies)
upgraded gcc and libstdc++
upgraded my kernel (woo)
hand-hacked modelines in XF86Config (stupid installer/config tool not recognising my monitor)
etc
I don't get viruses; I take sensible precautions and back them up with AV software (which just serves to confirm that I don't get viruses).
Spam, well, yeah, that one I fail big time - some low-life scum decided to use my domain in faked From: headers, so now I get shitloads of crap (literally hundreds per day, bounces, spams, auotresponders and viruses). Before that, I got maybe a dozen a week, all to generic accounts (info@, sales@, etc) and one account I unwisely had in my profile on k5 in plain text.
Anyway, point is I don't want any of those things, and the Internet most certainly is worth it to me.
OEM licensing runs ~$10 for a copy of XP, or 2% of the total cost of the machine, effectively free.
As another poster points out, the cost of a Dell with XP is identical to the cost of a Dell with XP replaced by Linux. It's free in that most people can't buy a PC without it.
By the time you add a good office suite and the requisite spyware/adware/virus protection, plus whatever other tools you need on a daily basis to XP, how free is it?
So, let's see, we'll be needing:
OpenOffice
Grisoft AVG
Microsoft Windows Defender, or Lavasoft Adaware, or Spybot Search and destrory
Firefox
Thunderbird
Eclipse
All free, a lot of them also open source. Cost of using XP is still 0 to me.
citizens don't have guaranteed rights that Americans supposedly have (like rights to a fair trial and freedom of speech.)
Both of those things, and a whole host of others, are guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights, to which France is a signatory (along with every other Eu member state).
I can't wait for the "you guys don't even have a constitution!" meme to die out; we do (in the UK at least), and we have other protections on top, too.
What it does is make it easier for those that would trade the songs illegally.
How so? The tools and methods to strip off the DRM exist now, merely making their use legal hardly makes it any easier.
To stretch an analogy, are you suggesting that cars should be fitted with automatic speed limiters, to make speeding impossible? Or that we should all (somehow) be rendered physically incapable of killing, in order to make murder impossible?
You really don't want to experience "pwn3d" in real life. Treat you IT folks like humans and not servants. Treat them like servants, and you're in for a nasty suprise... and more thank likely so is your credit rating, your bank account, and more.
Demanding things from people and treating them like servants is rude; your suggested likely response is illegal. Are you really saying most IT people are criminals? I'd take a pretty large exception to that, personally...
The last time I tried to use a USB thumb drive under Linux (about a year ago), it required root access and a set of homebrew scripts whipped up by our sys admin/systems programmer. Woe betide you if the script failed when you tried to use it - the only fix was to reboot the machine. Something was clearly grabbing a resource and preventing the kernel from unloading the appropriate module(s).
Not saying that Windows is perfect (it isn't) or that Linux sucks (although aspects of it do, as do aspects of every OS I've used), just offering up a counter anecdote.
The Windows paradigm puts a bunch of keys in the regsitry for configuring the app, seemingly half of which are inaccessible to configure from within the app, and 90% of which aren't removed when the app is uninstalled.
And that's the fault of Windows how?
Seriously, there are enough valid things to complain about in Windows without lumping "stupid third party programmers" in there too.
The fact that the British press is now getting into the act of praising 1000 year old inventions and ignoring the last thousand years of stagnation is telling.
Yeah - it tells us just how bad the anti-Muslim feeling is in this country at the moment, I think.
OTOH, I don't know what chance a handful of civilians with handguns have against a military with long-range missiles, tear gas, sonic weapons, etc.
If you're talking about an old-fashioned battle, where two (or more) armies face each other across a field and have at it until one remains, then my money's on the army.
If you're talking about guerrila warfare, where the enemy is nebulous, hard to find, scattered in pockets amidst innocent civillians and wears no uniform or other identifying badge, then it's a damn sight less certain. For a start, you can't use any of those long-range missiles unless you're prepared to kill tens or even hundreds of non-combatants per legitimate target.
It doesn't matter how many times our president says it, you are not at war.
As you say, I have merely bought the right to listen to the music, not the music itself. That raises two points:
1) Unless otherwise clearly informed of the fact at the time of purchase, I have bought the licence in perpetutiy, not for a limited time - I do not expect to lose access simply because the company goes belly-up and the DRM prevents me from accessing it.
2) If I have bought the right to listen to the music, then I should be allowed to replace it if lost, stolen, destroyed or otherwise unusable to me for a nominal replacement fee. I should not be forced to buy a new CD at full retail simply because my daughter broke the old one.