There are 6 billion people on the planet so 5000 odd Americans not reaching the expected life expectancies is really a non-event.
The 4 most important things on this planet are:-
Air
Water
Topsoil
Biodiversity
Really humity doesn't rate - we are dependent on all of them, they are not dependent on us.
In actually fact we have become a cancer to our host -in a biological very short time we've gone from being in Balance with the enviroment, say up to half a million years ago, to the point where we are breeding out of control & poisoning our host with our bi-products - we are no longer a balance part of our hosts eco-system, just like cancers are to the body - its gotten to the point there's an extra billion of us every decade (the last billion took 12 years, the next billion will take 8 years).
The fact is that we are causing extinctions a 1000 times faster than these species could evolve naturally to adapt to us (evolution is a very slow process)
You know there's only less than 20 Sumatran Tigers left, which means if I had the choice of saving one Sumatran Tiger & saving all the Americans on the planet, I pick the Tiger without hesitation, because 250M/6B is 1/24, so really then 1 Sumatran Tiger is worth more than 250m Americans (1/20 is bigger than 1/24)
I wonder if the rapid domination of the planet by humans started with a mutation, just like the way cancers start? & you know how cancers end? With the destruction of their own host, unless they are halted in time.
As part of the enforcement/settlement a trust, funded by MS, should be created that's overseen by an independent board.
MS must then release all its OS source to this board. Then the board should finance Win32 API (including Active X & Direct X) ports to the other X86 OSes, such as BeOS, Linux, Sco/Caldera Unix, BSD, OS/2, Solaris, QNX, etc. So those OSes could be compatible with W32 apps without emulation (a la WINE 'n Odin)
Also MS must not be allowed to release any of its application software (Office, Works, Encarta, 'Empires', etc) untill they bring out native BeOS, OS/2, Mac & Linux ports of those apps (the Linux port must be designed for transparent recompiling to other nixes, such as Caldera Unix, Solaris 'n QNX). They must be tested by the previously mentioned trustee before release.
To avoid claims that this would make thing too complicated for stockists & retailers, make MS retail all ports of each application together in the same box - like BeOS 'retail' has both the X86 & PPC ports bundled together, or like the way Claris works had both the Mac Classic & W16 ports bundled together (with 'Mac & Windows compatible' printed on the box) or like the way the new Gobe office suite has both the BeOS, W32 & Linux ports bundled together complete with a cross port license. MS could then have 'compatible with Windows, Macintosh, OS/2, BeOS & Linux' stickers on their boxed applications, so its spelled out to the customers that they can be used with all 4 of those OSes.
I bet within a year MS would have developed a development API for itself for developing applications that transparently port them across to X86 W32, X86 OS/2, X86 BeOS, X86 Linux & the PPC Mac.
God can you imagine how Gates 'n co would react if the court came out with a judgement like this.....LOL
The only differance between the Nvidia NForce Xbox chipset & the new Nvidia K7 PC mainboard chipset is that Xbox version is designed for the GTL+ bus, while the K7 PC version is designed for the EV6 bus, other than that they are exactly the same.
Consequently once one has worked out how to master/hack the Xbox BIOS & the propietry MS Xbox file system (to load a PC OS compatible FS), there's no reason why one couldn't load any X86 PC OS on it (the chipset drivers for both versions of the NForce are, or should be the same).
Now if your talking about playing XBox games on a PC, why would you want to? MS is selling them so cheap that they are losing $100 a pop on them, so the big saving would be in utilising the Xbox as a PC, rather than the other way arround.
Maybe you could load Linux on & turn the Xbox into a xbox.
He was in Russia when he was alleged to have broken the law.
The only problem is the US (plus France, Belgium, Israel & a number of other countries) hve a bad habit of enforcing their laws extraterritorily
IE, outside of their juristiction, like putting out warrents for Columbian & Burmese drug smugglers who have never been within US juristiction (IE the US, or within the US 12 mile line or on a US registed plane or ship in international waters) & thus have never been legally obliged to comply with US laws.
Its a similar case with that Russian coder, even though he was arrested while visiting the US, he was charged for actions taken while he was in Russia, so it was impossible for him to break US laws.
Traditionally there's only 2 charges that can be enforced extra-territorily, but only on ones own citizens - Piracy on the high seas & treason.
Not that it'l make any differances, prosecutors & judges never skip a chance of setting precedents that increase their juristiction.
Mind you it shows how hypocritical the US & Israel are for complaining about Sharon (an Israeli) being indicted in a Belgium court for war crimes that occured in Lebanon.
Because it was Israel & the US that set precedents that led to that Belgium law - look at Israel prosecuting a German for what happened in Germany.
its being diskless but doing the processing locally that's different.
With those NCs the processing was all done of the server - which meant they were as slow as shit with 200 clients all running programs simultaniously (even just 7 NC clients will slow a Dual P3 500 app server to a crawl)
Anyway if GIFT works the same way as fast track; then, I assume, if enough people download/install/run GIFT then all those GIFT running systems will creat their own fastrack like P2P network.
Really as long as the GIFT people can get a good user base then they don't need to log into the fastrack network anyway.
So what's the problem? We should all start using Gift, does gift have to log into to Fastrack to work? can GIFTers form their own network?
Shuting down the company made no difference on the functionality of the app.
You can still search/upload/download fine.
That's the great thing about P2P,
If it wasn't for fastrack altering their software to make one logon, to block out the open source reversed engineered Fastrack client, GIFT (which btw also does transparent 'supernode' serving on clients with good bandwidth & storage, just like the legit Fastrack apps themselves), then those fastrack apps would be immune from being made dysfunctional by having their corporate creators shutdown
but its P2P, so shuting it down won't shut it down
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Kazaa to be shut down?
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its not server dependent.
Apparent those fastrak apps (Kazar, Grokster, Morpheus) transparently setup 'supernodes' on the client computers that have large bandwith & storage (like on-campus student networks). So the Apps should still work even if all the companies associated with Fast-track shutdown.
Look at Xolox, a Napster like Gnutella client. You open the app & it tells you that Xolox has for legal reasons shutdown, but you can still search/download/upload just as well as ever.
I assume the same thing will happen with those Fastrack apps.
So it seems all that will happen if 'fastrack' is shutdown is that new revisions of Morpheus, Kazar & Grokster won't be avaliable.
yeh, apparently these apps arn't server dependent
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Kazaa to be shut down?
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Fast-track (Kazar, Morpheus, Grokster) apparently use some sort of P2P 'supernode' setup, where clients on computers with large bandwidth (like on-campus student networks) act as 'supernode', ie they act as servers, transparently to the user/s.
Also Xolox uses the Gnutella network, so each client behaves like a transparent server.
Because of that, you log on right now & even though Xolox says that they have shutdown because of the legal situation, the app still searches/downloads/uploads files perfectly well via the Gnutella network.
So as far as my take on this is concerned, all these law suites can do is stop new revisions of these apps - they can't stop people using these apps even if the licensies/distributers of those apps shutdown.
All they have to do is sell it with the contentious fanctions disabled by default.
Then make it easy for the end purchaser or retailer to enable those contentious functions by having say a mini screw switch on the PCB acessed by a tiny round hole in the back one could sloyt a csrew driver down.
Just like DVD players in Oz are virtually all sold with multi-region re-enabled, even though officially they are all only region 4 capable.
When it comes to boxed version, you sell all the platform ports in the same box.
Remember BeOS 4.5, if you purchased that you got both the X86 & PPC versions in the box.
Same again flr Claris Works, if you purchased that you got both the Win16 & Mac Classic versions in the same box.
Gobe's now doing it to, they are porting their BeOS office suite to Windows & Linux. If you buy the boxed version you will get all 3 versions in the box.
That's what Id should have done.
Stores hat having to stock multiple versions of the same application. By using cross-platform bundles stores don't have that problem
Really in the grand scheme of things, 6000 Americans not meeting their expected life expectancies is no big deal.
More than 6000 Iraqi infants die a month because of the embargo on potassium based vaccines (potassium has other uses)
Also you know there are less than 20 Sumatran Tigers left. AFAIC a that makes each Sumatran Tiger more valuable than every American one the planet (250million over 6 billon = 1/24). . Consequently (if I was put in such a position) I would kill 6000 Americans without hesitation, if it would save the life of a Sumatran tiger.
Sacarificing 1/24 of a cancerous species to save 1/20 of a rare species, its really common sense. BTW a cancerous species is one that's shown not to be in tune with its enviroment by multiplying out of control to the point it destroying the balanced eco-system of its host.
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Actually Camels are the only introduced species in Oz that arn't bad for the enviroment.
There are 6 billion people on the planet so 5000 odd Americans not reaching the expected life expectancies is really a non-event.
The 4 most important things on this planet are:-
Air
Water
Topsoil
Biodiversity
Really humity doesn't rate - we are dependent on all of them, they are not dependent on us.
In actually fact we have become a cancer to our host -in a biological very short time we've gone from being in Balance with the enviroment, say up to half a million years ago, to the point where we are breeding out of control & poisoning our host with our bi-products - we are no longer a balance part of our hosts eco-system, just like cancers are to the body - its gotten to the point there's an extra billion of us every decade (the last billion took 12 years, the next billion will take 8 years).
The fact is that we are causing extinctions a 1000 times faster than these species could evolve naturally to adapt to us (evolution is a very slow process)
You know there's only less than 20 Sumatran Tigers left, which means if I had the choice of saving one Sumatran Tiger & saving all the Americans on the planet, I pick the Tiger without hesitation, because 250M/6B is 1/24, so really then 1 Sumatran Tiger is worth more than 250m Americans (1/20 is bigger than 1/24)
I wonder if the rapid domination of the planet by humans started with a mutation, just like the way cancers start? & you know how cancers end? With the destruction of their own host, unless they are halted in time.
Its just going to be like Dubbo's open plan zoo but on a larger scale.
This is the same thing in a larger scale.
It leaves IE for dead in many ways.
& now that MS has dumped Netscape plugins its even more compatible. Plus it has its own mail, news 'n ICQ clients built inside it.
& it gives you the choice of SDI & MDI GUIs
only in a couple of small areas does IE do better.
But a Active X Netscape plugin is being developed as we speak, so soon Opera will be Active X plugin compatible via its netscape plugin vacility.
I admit that Opera 4 was as iffy as hell, but Opera has to be the most improved browser in the last year or so.
Here's the Opera homepage.
This is a great Opera resources FAQs & tips site.
Opera is very configurable, here's how I have it configured
Here's what it looks like without the add
As part of the enforcement/settlement a trust, funded by MS, should be created that's overseen by an independent board.
MS must then release all its OS source to this board. Then the board should finance Win32 API (including Active X & Direct X) ports to the other X86 OSes, such as BeOS, Linux, Sco/Caldera Unix, BSD, OS/2, Solaris, QNX, etc. So those OSes could be compatible with W32 apps without emulation (a la WINE 'n Odin)
Also MS must not be allowed to release any of its application software (Office, Works, Encarta, 'Empires', etc) untill they bring out native BeOS, OS/2, Mac & Linux ports of those apps (the Linux port must be designed for transparent recompiling to other nixes, such as Caldera Unix, Solaris 'n QNX). They must be tested by the previously mentioned trustee before release.
To avoid claims that this would make thing too complicated for stockists & retailers, make MS retail all ports of each application together in the same box - like BeOS 'retail' has both the X86 & PPC ports bundled together, or like the way Claris works had both the Mac Classic & W16 ports bundled together (with 'Mac & Windows compatible' printed on the box) or like the way the new Gobe office suite has both the BeOS, W32 & Linux ports bundled together complete with a cross port license. MS could then have 'compatible with Windows, Macintosh, OS/2, BeOS & Linux' stickers on their boxed applications, so its spelled out to the customers that they can be used with all 4 of those OSes.
I bet within a year MS would have developed a development API for itself for developing applications that transparently port them across to X86 W32, X86 OS/2, X86 BeOS, X86 Linux & the PPC Mac.
God can you imagine how Gates 'n co would react if the court came out with a judgement like this.....LOL
Afterall it costs much more to midify a chipset than just not enabling them in the BIOS.
The only differance between the Nvidia NForce Xbox chipset & the new Nvidia K7 PC mainboard chipset is that Xbox version is designed for the GTL+ bus, while the K7 PC version is designed for the EV6 bus, other than that they are exactly the same.
Consequently once one has worked out how to master/hack the Xbox BIOS & the propietry MS Xbox file system (to load a PC OS compatible FS), there's no reason why one couldn't load any X86 PC OS on it (the chipset drivers for both versions of the NForce are, or should be the same).
Now if your talking about playing XBox games on a PC, why would you want to? MS is selling them so cheap that they are losing $100 a pop on them, so the big saving would be in utilising the Xbox as a PC, rather than the other way arround.
Maybe you could load Linux on & turn the Xbox into a xbox.
He was in Russia when he was alleged to have broken the law.
The only problem is the US (plus France, Belgium, Israel & a number of other countries) hve a bad habit of enforcing their laws extraterritorily
IE, outside of their juristiction, like putting out warrents for Columbian & Burmese drug smugglers who have never been within US juristiction (IE the US, or within the US 12 mile line or on a US registed plane or ship in international waters) & thus have never been legally obliged to comply with US laws.
Its a similar case with that Russian coder, even though he was arrested while visiting the US, he was charged for actions taken while he was in Russia, so it was impossible for him to break US laws.
Traditionally there's only 2 charges that can be enforced extra-territorily, but only on ones own citizens - Piracy on the high seas & treason.
Not that it'l make any differances, prosecutors & judges never skip a chance of setting precedents that increase their juristiction.
Mind you it shows how hypocritical the US & Israel are for complaining about Sharon (an Israeli) being indicted in a Belgium court for war crimes that occured in Lebanon.
Because it was Israel & the US that set precedents that led to that Belgium law - look at Israel prosecuting a German for what happened in Germany.
economies of scale & all that.
Only one state in Oz has electricity supply problems & that one's privatised
its being diskless but doing the processing locally that's different.
With those NCs the processing was all done of the server - which meant they were as slow as shit with 200 clients all running programs simultaniously (even just 7 NC clients will slow a Dual P3 500 app server to a crawl)
Next time you want to get your money out do you want the ATM or your bank teller's PC to pull a BSOD.
Banks utilile OS2 by the millions & I think always will.
I doubt bank telling Software will progress much beyond what it alread.
After 90% of software/hardwar upgrades are just for wanking off.
Look at 486 Win 3.11 Netware networks, they are as good for browsing the web & writing letters as anything that's come out since.
I know because just of late I've been coming across heaps of Win3.11.Netware networks & they all seem to be running as well as they ever have been.
Consequently I bet in 10 years time the banks will still be using OS2 (oh & QNX - there's the odd QNX ATM too)
Check this out.
Like WINE, Odin in a Win32 API, so OS2 can be natively Win32 compatible.
Odin has the potential to work much better than WINE, because OS2 & Windows share a bit of the same gene pool.
The OS2 version of Opera is a semi-ported Windows app that utilises Odin libraries, as a shortcut to save on the work involved in a full port.
That's my take.
I assume its similar to the way some Windows games that have been ported to Linux utilise WINE libraries.
It sounds like they were their own worst enamies.
Anyway if GIFT works the same way as fast track; then, I assume, if enough people download/install/run GIFT then all those GIFT running systems will creat their own fastrack like P2P network.
Really as long as the GIFT people can get a good user base then they don't need to log into the fastrack network anyway.
So what's the problem? We should all start using Gift, does gift have to log into to Fastrack to work? can GIFTers form their own network?
Shuting down the company made no difference on the functionality of the app.
You can still search/upload/download fine.
That's the great thing about P2P,
If it wasn't for fastrack altering their software to make one logon, to block out the open source reversed engineered Fastrack client, GIFT (which btw also does transparent 'supernode' serving on clients with good bandwidth & storage, just like the legit Fastrack apps themselves), then those fastrack apps would be immune from being made dysfunctional by having their corporate creators shutdown
its not server dependent.
Apparent those fastrak apps (Kazar, Grokster, Morpheus) transparently setup 'supernodes' on the client computers that have large bandwith & storage (like on-campus student networks). So the Apps should still work even if all the companies associated with Fast-track shutdown.
Look at Xolox, a Napster like Gnutella client. You open the app & it tells you that Xolox has for legal reasons shutdown, but you can still search/download/upload just as well as ever.
I assume the same thing will happen with those Fastrack apps.
So it seems all that will happen if 'fastrack' is shutdown is that new revisions of Morpheus, Kazar & Grokster won't be avaliable.
Fast-track (Kazar, Morpheus, Grokster) apparently use some sort of P2P 'supernode' setup, where clients on computers with large bandwidth (like on-campus student networks) act as 'supernode', ie they act as servers, transparently to the user/s.
Also Xolox uses the Gnutella network, so each client behaves like a transparent server.
Because of that, you log on right now & even though Xolox says that they have shutdown because of the legal situation, the app still searches/downloads/uploads files perfectly well via the Gnutella network.
So as far as my take on this is concerned, all these law suites can do is stop new revisions of these apps - they can't stop people using these apps even if the licensies/distributers of those apps shutdown.
All they have to do is sell it with the contentious fanctions disabled by default.
Then make it easy for the end purchaser or retailer to enable those contentious functions by having say a mini screw switch on the PCB acessed by a tiny round hole in the back one could sloyt a csrew driver down.
Just like DVD players in Oz are virtually all sold with multi-region re-enabled, even though officially they are all only region 4 capable.
When it comes to boxed version, you sell all the platform ports in the same box.
Remember BeOS 4.5, if you purchased that you got both the X86 & PPC versions in the box.
Same again flr Claris Works, if you purchased that you got both the Win16 & Mac Classic versions in the same box.
Gobe's now doing it to, they are porting their BeOS office suite to Windows & Linux. If you buy the boxed version you will get all 3 versions in the box.
That's what Id should have done.
Stores hat having to stock multiple versions of the same application. By using cross-platform bundles stores don't have that problem
It was a incomplete comparison
It really should have been a VIA KT266 vs VIA KT266A vs NVidia NForce vs AMD 760 vs SIS 735 vs SIS 745 vs ALI MAGiK 1 / M1647 (both revisions)
comparison.
That is, if one doesn't yet exist.
Then a propritry software developer could license 'pantone colours' & write a 'pantone colour' support plugin for GIMP.
That gives GIMP potential support of 'pantone colours' without compromising their GPL (or whatever 'free license' they use).
Stop taking things so personally.
Really in the grand scheme of things, 6000 Americans not meeting their expected life expectancies is no big deal.
More than 6000 Iraqi infants die a month because of the embargo on potassium based vaccines (potassium has other uses)
Also you know there are less than 20 Sumatran Tigers left. AFAIC a that makes each Sumatran Tiger more valuable than every American one the planet (250million over 6 billon = 1/24). . Consequently (if I was put in such a position) I would kill 6000 Americans without hesitation, if it would save the life of a Sumatran tiger.
Sacarificing 1/24 of a cancerous species to save 1/20 of a rare species, its really common sense. BTW a cancerous species is one that's shown not to be in tune with its enviroment by multiplying out of control to the point it destroying the balanced eco-system of its host.
You load that up on the average bloke's computer & they'd be complain about their buggy Windows desktop till the cows come home.
fair dinkum
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