A start menu? Silly windows user! Real nerds assemble their oxen from different ox DNA distributions, wait a few years for them to compile three times (because that's the gcc way!), and then they finally get a prompt.
We aren't being forced to "overpay" for anything. The price of everything here is higher so that (almost) everyone here can enjoy a decent standard of living and avoid a caste system where servants can never afford to escape servitude because they aren't paid enough. Everything costs less in third world countries for a reason. They don't care if the power goes out for an hour or two a week. They don't care about hot running water. They don't really care if the telephone goes out on a regular basis. There's a ton of reasons that everything costs more here. If you'd be willing to work in sweatshop conditions just so you can pay less for everything (but remember, you won't have any money to spend), by all means, move to India. Until then, shut up and enjoy your high standard of living. Don't have a job? Don't have any prospects for a job in the near future? Why don't you just take all the free time you have to learn something new that isn't being outsourced to India? It's not fair that they took jobs away, but it's still up to you to improve your station in life. That having been said, I highly recommend anything involving imaging. It's a growing industry and the money's still decent.
That having been said, corporate executives currently have the mindset of "profit at any cost." They just can't see past the dollar signs in their eyes.
Having worked on GIS imagery before (from the Australian government), I'm assuming it's in MrSid format. The 100:1 kind of compression ratios are completely legit, it's really incredible. I believe it uses fractal compression of some sort. It's produced by LizardTech.
JPEG and JPEG2000 are great for compressing images where you care more about how it looks than preserving the actual data since they use psychovisual enhancements. MrSid does a much better job at preserving the integrity of the data at much much higher compression rates.
I had always heard that walmart maintained one of, if not the biggest database in the world. Kmart appears on one or two of the top ten lists here, but not walmart. Anybody know what gives?
I'd truly expect the truly largest databases to be maintained by financial institutions (banks, credit card companies, the stock market, etc) based on the sheer volume of transactions. Either them or the NSA or the FBI.
People don't have the right to rob a bank for a living because that would deprive other people of their rights to make a living. Where did you suddenly decide you have the right to copy something? It's just as imaginary as having the right to prevent someone from copying something.
When it comes to copyright, people do use a similar logic all the time -- let me copy something that I had no part in creating, without compensating those who created it, thus depriving them of the right to a decent living. People who do nothing but copy are but leeches upon society. If you're actively contributing to society, feel free to copy stuff every now and then. But you, my friend, sound like a communist (everything free for everyone) who doesn't even want everyone to get compensated for their contributions.
Not quite. Copyrights for "works for hire" that are owned by corporations are the root of the problem. Actually, no, it's simpler than that. The abuse of the concept of copyright by the industry. The concept of copyright itself is not the problem.
Here, picture this. You just spent the last three years of your life writing your magnum opus. It ends up being universally acclaimed as the greatest novel to hit the world in the last fifty years. You find a publisher who agrees to distribute it for you (and splits the profits so that both publisher and author can make an honest living). Two weeks after it hits the shelves at the local bookstore, another publisher starts selling copies of your epic manuscript for a tenth the price, without giving you a single red cent. How would you feel? You rightfully feel like you deserve to be paid for all of that work, and now someone else has come along and started making copies commercially without paying you. If it were possible to just start publishing someone else's stories or music without paying them (while undercutting the original distributor's prices), nobody would want to create anything worth distributing, and they wouldn't be able to find anyone who'd distribute it. You claim it's an "alleged right to restrict what other people duplicate." You forgot to add "commercially or for profit" to the end of that statement. If I want to make a copy for safekeeping, I may do so as I have already financially compensated the author and distributor. This is why we have copyright. It's an important legal protection for authors, distributors, and a nation's culture.
Although it might not inspire great works of art and culture in and of itself, it provides economic and legal protection for those who wish to further our society's culture. In return for this temporary protection, mislabeled as a "right", it is understood that after a set amount of time, the work will go into the public domain, so that it may become part of the culture that defines an era. This allows authors to be financially rewarded for their contributions to a society's culture while protecting the distributors who make the dissemination of the work possible, and it ensures that the works eventually do go into the public domain.
The problem is that the corporations don't give a rat's ass about contributing to the public domain. All they care about is money. They keep extending the length of the copyrights, which prevents the works from entering the public domain. They buy those copyright extensions by donating to politicians' campaigns, influencing their votes. The corporations have figured out how to beat the system and not have to hold up their end of the deal. Until the Supreme Court decides that enough is enough, and retroactively extending copyrights ad infinitum is a de facto infinite amount of time (instead of a de jure finite amount of time), nothing can be done to alleviate the situation. That is the root of the problem.
Naggy girlfriends aren't too great for backing up your pr0n though. They tend to umount when you try to store it the first time, and randomly umount every so often after that for no apparent reason.
Ummm... quit being a troll. StarOffice will export a.DOC file. There's no need to buy a Word license and import everything you have. They accept WordPerfect format as well, and I'm pretty sure that when you buy WordPerfect, you aren't giving money to Microsoft.
General "Buck" Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
Ambassador de Sadesky: I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor.
Why would they use GCC as a base? It's not intended to compile over a wide range of platforms, just the pSeries processors (which includes the G5), so it's not like they need to be able to port it to x86. When you code a compiler for one fixed architecture you can (and almost always do) end up with HUGE speed increases, since you get to exploit all the fun capabilities of a chip without having to worry about compatibilty.
Put simply, IBM wasn't that interested in improving the cross-platform GCC this time. They were interested in improving a number of their OWN compilers (not just C/C++, Fortran too!) for their OWN architecture.
Does anyone know of any newsgroup reader software out there that will filter spam? And does a good job at it? Or is there some sort of plug-in or patch for Agent that allows for intelligent filtering? The vast majority of messages with content tend to look one way, while the vast majority of spam tends to look completely different with a bunch of random characters and such.
And a comment on the sample images. They're not that great. They suffer from some pretty bad chromatic aberration and loss of focus near the edges. What's the point in having 11.1MP if the lenses can't perform as well?
CMOS is still an inferior imaging technology. CCDs are used in most of the more expensive cameras, including teh EOS-1D (but the 1DS does use CMOS). CMOS cameras still suffer from most of the same image artifacts that CCDs suffer from (except for trailing), as they also use color filter arrays. Foveon is the only technology out there that has all three colors for every pixel.
Or maybe SCO hasn't tried reporting any individuals to law enforcement for infringement. SCO's just running their mouth off to IBM and the press, but so far no subpoenas have been issued for the developers who allegedly slipped in their code. As of yet, SCO vs IBM is a civil case anyway.
I'm still scratching my head as to how this troll got modded insightful. Looking at his/her (okay, this is slashdot... his) comment history, I realize I'm replying to a known troll.
"Win95-->Win98-->WinME--->WinXP is a case in point. Nothing for a user in XP, that he can't do with Win95."
Sure, WinXP replaced WinME and Win9x, but it's based on Win2K and NT. That brings some stability at least. Plus it has much much much better hardware support than 95 (though 98 might still have the most driver support, not sure) and a better TCP stack, built-in firewall and internet sharing, much better networking, NTFS, a decent web browser (anyone remember the original version of MSIE that was bundled with 95? hah!), remote desktop, collapsing systray, etc.
Sure, you can buy extra software to do most of that stuff on a Win95 box, but not all of it. I love a good MS bashing as much as the next guy, but to say that WinXP isn't much of an improvement over Win95 is just being ignorant, especially when you're comparing it to the progress of apache. Apache is a webserver software package - it has one well-defined goal, which makes it easier to program for. You really can't compare the two.
There are independent film makers out there that make pretty damn good two-hour movies for well under a million. How about you hire someone young, hungry, and promising who doesn't cost you an arm and a leg to produce your movie rather than hiring Steven Spielberg to do it? Sure sure, you gotta spend money to make it and the video is an advertisement for the artist but either cut the cost or stop crying about how expensive it is.
Take a look at independent films. Now take a look at music videos being played on MTV. If you don't understand that some art house music video would completely flop on MTV, you're an idiot. There have been a few exceptions to that rule, but they've been few and far between. At best, it'd probably be a return to the quality of the music videos of the 80s, and you don't want to look "out of date" when you're advertising.
The band gets 2 million (20% of $11 million in sales) and then gets charged:
$2,000,000 - royalties
- $ 500,000 - 50% of 1 million for videos
- $ 200,000 - for the tour, which is really an investment for
the artist since tours MAKE money for artists
- $ 300,000 - for radio promotion, again an investment
that drives up their record sales
------------
$1,000,000 - leaving them basically with their original
advance of $1,000,000
And they have to pay that advance back, so $1,000,000-$1,000,000 = $0.
I would say that the entire article is suspect, since it's clear that Ms. Love can't even do simple arithmetic.
If I were trolling, I would have posted anonymously. I'm being serious. Would a late night porn session have the same inhibitory effects on your biochemistry as a late night gaming session would?
I wonder if looking at porn would have the same effect as playing a computer game. They're both excitatory activities on a bright computer monitor. Mods: don't mod me down, I'm being serious, not funny.
If all copies of AIX actually do end up being destroyed, I hope the executives at SCO have a hard time accessing their bank accounts, since so many financial mainframes run on it. And then say "oops." But seriously, SCO is asking for something that, if granted, would completely destroy the US economy. The ownership and validity of all sorts of IP would go up in the air, and the computers keeping records of everything would vanish overnight. Can we jsut start calling them Al SCOda?
As we all know, Apple currently has the largest online music store and they will be releasing a version of iTunes for Windows in the near future. We also know that Microsoft will be coming out with their own music store in the near future. It's not enough for Apple to get there first on Windows, or have the better store, or the better selection, or better rights management. Sheeple care fuckall about rights management (though this could make for a lovely wakeup call if handled improperly). Apple needs to get far ahead of Microsoft and stay there. In order to do this, yes, they need the better store, the wider selection, more freedom with the songs. But they need to make sure that Microsoft won't be selling songs for $0.49/each with a $5/mo fee or something. RealNetworks's new store will flop not because of the lack of rights, but because the price isn't low enough to counteract the lack of rights. So Apple needs Microsoft to screw up, or at least not abuse their monopoly power.
The other thing Apple needs to do, and this is crucial, is to make iTunes on Windows NOT SUCK. Who here has QuickTime on Windows? Who hates it? Who would like it a heck of a lot better if it weren't so slow and buggy? Yep. Most of us. If iTunes for Windows isn't substantially better than QuickTime, and for that matter even Windows Media Player, Apple doesn't stand a chance in the long run.
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A start menu? Silly windows user! Real nerds assemble their oxen from different ox DNA distributions, wait a few years for them to compile three times (because that's the gcc way!), and then they finally get a prompt.
We aren't being forced to "overpay" for anything. The price of everything here is higher so that (almost) everyone here can enjoy a decent standard of living and avoid a caste system where servants can never afford to escape servitude because they aren't paid enough. Everything costs less in third world countries for a reason. They don't care if the power goes out for an hour or two a week. They don't care about hot running water. They don't really care if the telephone goes out on a regular basis. There's a ton of reasons that everything costs more here. If you'd be willing to work in sweatshop conditions just so you can pay less for everything (but remember, you won't have any money to spend), by all means, move to India. Until then, shut up and enjoy your high standard of living. Don't have a job? Don't have any prospects for a job in the near future? Why don't you just take all the free time you have to learn something new that isn't being outsourced to India? It's not fair that they took jobs away, but it's still up to you to improve your station in life. That having been said, I highly recommend anything involving imaging. It's a growing industry and the money's still decent.
That having been said, corporate executives currently have the mindset of "profit at any cost." They just can't see past the dollar signs in their eyes.
Having worked on GIS imagery before (from the Australian government), I'm assuming it's in MrSid format. The 100:1 kind of compression ratios are completely legit, it's really incredible. I believe it uses fractal compression of some sort. It's produced by LizardTech.
JPEG and JPEG2000 are great for compressing images where you care more about how it looks than preserving the actual data since they use psychovisual enhancements. MrSid does a much better job at preserving the integrity of the data at much much higher compression rates.
I had always heard that walmart maintained one of, if not the biggest database in the world. Kmart appears on one or two of the top ten lists here, but not walmart. Anybody know what gives?
I'd truly expect the truly largest databases to be maintained by financial institutions (banks, credit card companies, the stock market, etc) based on the sheer volume of transactions. Either them or the NSA or the FBI.
This is a home grown RDBMS!
What else do you expect from the company that kinda sorta wrote Unix?
People don't have the right to rob a bank for a living because that would deprive other people of their rights to make a living. Where did you suddenly decide you have the right to copy something? It's just as imaginary as having the right to prevent someone from copying something.
When it comes to copyright, people do use a similar logic all the time -- let me copy something that I had no part in creating, without compensating those who created it, thus depriving them of the right to a decent living. People who do nothing but copy are but leeches upon society. If you're actively contributing to society, feel free to copy stuff every now and then. But you, my friend, sound like a communist (everything free for everyone) who doesn't even want everyone to get compensated for their contributions.
Not quite. Copyrights for "works for hire" that are owned by corporations are the root of the problem. Actually, no, it's simpler than that. The abuse of the concept of copyright by the industry. The concept of copyright itself is not the problem.
Here, picture this. You just spent the last three years of your life writing your magnum opus. It ends up being universally acclaimed as the greatest novel to hit the world in the last fifty years. You find a publisher who agrees to distribute it for you (and splits the profits so that both publisher and author can make an honest living). Two weeks after it hits the shelves at the local bookstore, another publisher starts selling copies of your epic manuscript for a tenth the price, without giving you a single red cent. How would you feel? You rightfully feel like you deserve to be paid for all of that work, and now someone else has come along and started making copies commercially without paying you. If it were possible to just start publishing someone else's stories or music without paying them (while undercutting the original distributor's prices), nobody would want to create anything worth distributing, and they wouldn't be able to find anyone who'd distribute it. You claim it's an "alleged right to restrict what other people duplicate." You forgot to add "commercially or for profit" to the end of that statement. If I want to make a copy for safekeeping, I may do so as I have already financially compensated the author and distributor. This is why we have copyright. It's an important legal protection for authors, distributors, and a nation's culture.
Although it might not inspire great works of art and culture in and of itself, it provides economic and legal protection for those who wish to further our society's culture. In return for this temporary protection, mislabeled as a "right", it is understood that after a set amount of time, the work will go into the public domain, so that it may become part of the culture that defines an era. This allows authors to be financially rewarded for their contributions to a society's culture while protecting the distributors who make the dissemination of the work possible, and it ensures that the works eventually do go into the public domain.
The problem is that the corporations don't give a rat's ass about contributing to the public domain. All they care about is money. They keep extending the length of the copyrights, which prevents the works from entering the public domain. They buy those copyright extensions by donating to politicians' campaigns, influencing their votes. The corporations have figured out how to beat the system and not have to hold up their end of the deal. Until the Supreme Court decides that enough is enough, and retroactively extending copyrights ad infinitum is a de facto infinite amount of time (instead of a de jure finite amount of time), nothing can be done to alleviate the situation. That is the root of the problem.
Naggy girlfriends aren't too great for backing up your pr0n though. They tend to umount when you try to store it the first time, and randomly umount every so often after that for no apparent reason.
Ummm... quit being a troll. StarOffice will export a .DOC file. There's no need to buy a Word license and import everything you have. They accept WordPerfect format as well, and I'm pretty sure that when you buy WordPerfect, you aren't giving money to Microsoft.
Nothing to see here, move along.
General "Buck" Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
Ambassador de Sadesky: I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor.
Why would they use GCC as a base? It's not intended to compile over a wide range of platforms, just the pSeries processors (which includes the G5), so it's not like they need to be able to port it to x86. When you code a compiler for one fixed architecture you can (and almost always do) end up with HUGE speed increases, since you get to exploit all the fun capabilities of a chip without having to worry about compatibilty.
Put simply, IBM wasn't that interested in improving the cross-platform GCC this time. They were interested in improving a number of their OWN compilers (not just C/C++, Fortran too!) for their OWN architecture.
Does anyone know of any newsgroup reader software out there that will filter spam? And does a good job at it? Or is there some sort of plug-in or patch for Agent that allows for intelligent filtering? The vast majority of messages with content tend to look one way, while the vast majority of spam tends to look completely different with a bunch of random characters and such.
And a comment on the sample images. They're not that great. They suffer from some pretty bad chromatic aberration and loss of focus near the edges. What's the point in having 11.1MP if the lenses can't perform as well?
CMOS is still an inferior imaging technology. CCDs are used in most of the more expensive cameras, including teh EOS-1D (but the 1DS does use CMOS). CMOS cameras still suffer from most of the same image artifacts that CCDs suffer from (except for trailing), as they also use color filter arrays. Foveon is the only technology out there that has all three colors for every pixel.
Or maybe SCO hasn't tried reporting any individuals to law enforcement for infringement. SCO's just running their mouth off to IBM and the press, but so far no subpoenas have been issued for the developers who allegedly slipped in their code. As of yet, SCO vs IBM is a civil case anyway.
If you are spending $3000+ then it better damn well come with a good three button mouse. The you-can-afford-another-mouse argument is baseless.
Netcraft says Netcraft is using FreeBSD
;)
No wonder Netcraft is dying...
I had a chat like that once, only it went something more like this:
Me: "Hey Cindy, nice box!"
Cindy: *smack*
mm, the smell of burning karma
I'm still scratching my head as to how this troll got modded insightful. Looking at his/her (okay, this is slashdot... his) comment history, I realize I'm replying to a known troll.
"Win95-->Win98-->WinME--->WinXP is a case in point.
Nothing for a user in XP, that he can't do with Win95."
Sure, WinXP replaced WinME and Win9x, but it's based on Win2K and NT. That brings some stability at least. Plus it has much much much better hardware support than 95 (though 98 might still have the most driver support, not sure) and a better TCP stack, built-in firewall and internet sharing, much better networking, NTFS, a decent web browser (anyone remember the original version of MSIE that was bundled with 95? hah!), remote desktop, collapsing systray, etc.
Sure, you can buy extra software to do most of that stuff on a Win95 box, but not all of it. I love a good MS bashing as much as the next guy, but to say that WinXP isn't much of an improvement over Win95 is just being ignorant, especially when you're comparing it to the progress of apache. Apache is a webserver software package - it has one well-defined goal, which makes it easier to program for. You really can't compare the two.
There are independent film makers out there that make pretty damn good two-hour movies for well under a million. How about you hire someone young, hungry, and promising who doesn't cost you an arm and a leg to produce your movie rather than hiring Steven Spielberg to do it? Sure sure, you gotta spend money to make it and the video is an advertisement for the artist but either cut the cost or stop crying about how expensive it is.
Take a look at independent films. Now take a look at music videos being played on MTV. If you don't understand that some art house music video would completely flop on MTV, you're an idiot. There have been a few exceptions to that rule, but they've been few and far between. At best, it'd probably be a return to the quality of the music videos of the 80s, and you don't want to look "out of date" when you're advertising.
The band gets 2 million (20% of $11 million in sales) and then gets charged:
$2,000,000 - royalties
- $ 500,000 - 50% of 1 million for videos
- $ 200,000 - for the tour, which is really an investment for
the artist since tours MAKE money for artists
- $ 300,000 - for radio promotion, again an investment
that drives up their record sales
------------
$1,000,000 - leaving them basically with their original
advance of $1,000,000
And they have to pay that advance back, so $1,000,000-$1,000,000 = $0.
I would say that the entire article is suspect, since it's clear that Ms. Love can't even do simple arithmetic.
Who can't do simple arithmetic?
Does that mean Lego also gets control of the scanner even though he owns it?
If I were trolling, I would have posted anonymously. I'm being serious. Would a late night porn session have the same inhibitory effects on your biochemistry as a late night gaming session would?
I wonder if looking at porn would have the same effect as playing a computer game. They're both excitatory activities on a bright computer monitor. Mods: don't mod me down, I'm being serious, not funny.
If all copies of AIX actually do end up being destroyed, I hope the executives at SCO have a hard time accessing their bank accounts, since so many financial mainframes run on it. And then say "oops." But seriously, SCO is asking for something that, if granted, would completely destroy the US economy. The ownership and validity of all sorts of IP would go up in the air, and the computers keeping records of everything would vanish overnight. Can we jsut start calling them Al SCOda?
As we all know, Apple currently has the largest online music store and they will be releasing a version of iTunes for Windows in the near future. We also know that Microsoft will be coming out with their own music store in the near future. It's not enough for Apple to get there first on Windows, or have the better store, or the better selection, or better rights management. Sheeple care fuckall about rights management (though this could make for a lovely wakeup call if handled improperly). Apple needs to get far ahead of Microsoft and stay there. In order to do this, yes, they need the better store, the wider selection, more freedom with the songs. But they need to make sure that Microsoft won't be selling songs for $0.49/each with a $5/mo fee or something. RealNetworks's new store will flop not because of the lack of rights, but because the price isn't low enough to counteract the lack of rights. So Apple needs Microsoft to screw up, or at least not abuse their monopoly power.
The other thing Apple needs to do, and this is crucial, is to make iTunes on Windows NOT SUCK. Who here has QuickTime on Windows? Who hates it? Who would like it a heck of a lot better if it weren't so slow and buggy? Yep. Most of us. If iTunes for Windows isn't substantially better than QuickTime, and for that matter even Windows Media Player, Apple doesn't stand a chance in the long run.