It is "half price" to anyone and everyone with a credit card. It was part of their announcement. While that may not remain true in the long run, I doubt they will change it until they have achieved whatever goal they are trying to accomplish with this.
Your stunned that you were modded off topic for bringing up 9/11 rantings in a discussion about an interview with lawyers defending against RIAA suits? You sir, are a moron.
believe that you can look at nature with the eyes of someone who asks the question, "if this were created what kind of pattern could we expect?" the other question, equally valid, is "If this evolved from a set of elements, what kind of pattern could we expect?". You can work from either premise. Both require faith because as far as I know neither belief can be proved.
Even though you rely on faith to maintain your belief, one is and has been proven and the other can be neither. Science does not work the way you think it does if you sincerely believe that. The question isn't "are religion and science compatible" but rather, "Can your religion adapt to science reality".
The only way you can mesh the two is by dropping insistence that god explains any of it, even if you think he exists. Otherwise you are really just a cargo cult.
Someone failed their science class. It is Law that says something is "wrong" until proven otherwise. Science in many ways says almost the exact opposite. In science any Theory (and there is a difference between conjecture and Theory) is correct until proven false.
Outside of a few diciplines, science generally doesn't go around proving stuff, quite the opposite, science falsifies stuff.
huh? Science works via the scientific method which looks like this:
Hypothesis: Describe a testable idea that is capable of being false Test: Gather data related to hypothesis Does data corroborate hypothesis? yes) Publish results for peer review no) go back to hypothesis
At no time was there "assume hypothesis is true" in any of that. In fact, by default, without replicable results and peer reviewed publishing your hypothesis is irrelavent. See Ponds and Fleischmann for how missing parts are treated by the larger body of science.
Using scientific methodology there are no divine entities or other "supernatural" stuff. Belief and science is inherently incompatible, the only way that scientists can stay religious is that they accept that their belief is incompatible with their science and move on.
Thank you for proving every single assertion that creationist are ignorant of what science is.
Yeah... and I've never had to do that with windows on lets say, 3.1, 95, 98, nt 4, 2000 _and_ XP... In fact, I have never had a version of windows that wasn't borked on some hardware by their installer (unless you count service packs, but I won't). I would imagine you would have to go Mac to avoid that experience, since they so tightly control the platform. From a developer perspective, win32 is a kludgy nightmare. I have no idea why any developer would enjoy it. Gnome seems at least sane... and has more languages supporting it than you can shake a stick at. The user experience on any PC just plain sucks. I have yet to find a gui that didn't feel like it was made to torture me.
Hate to reply to myself, but the original parent is right. They are under no obligation to let your custom linux kernel to boot on your hardware (that you have an honest to god reciept for the hunk of silicon and plastic sitting below your TV). I largely don't see why this is an issue. They still need to give you the code... including drivers they had to come up with. That get's back to the main kernel and you can use it on a box that isn't locked down. DRM has already failed. Users will only get fscked by it a few times before they avoid the whole scene. The second time loses iTunes music, they will stop buying music from apple and move on to open or illigitimate media.
Even if they lease the hardware to you, they still are distributing licensed software for your use. They can't change the GPL with another licenses agreement. Anyone implementing this scheme is getting away with it do to lack of attention from users. So that ISP who has a DSL modem running linux who isn't offering you the source code is breaking contract law with their vendors, namely the copyright holders.
It doesn't matter what manufactures want. They aren't obligated to support linux. They aren't forced to use linux in their closed embedded systems. But if they do use it, since it means less cost, easier maintenance and higher quality, they are agreeing to the contract under which that code may be distributed. In the case of Windows CE, there is a definite cost and an onerous contract you need to agree to. Linux to has a cost too. You need to offer the source to anyone you give the software to. Leased, bought or free, you still need to offer them that.
change that percent to eighty or even fifty, You still have a lot better options than a prank. The last thing anyone in that position is likely to do is announce his presence. The percentages are significant enough to make silence golden.
Here is the best prize: The hacker has access to some percent of 99 percent of the machines connected to the internet. A rootkit install with a keylogger and file scanner can get you the keys to lots of insignificant machines. Some of them are going to have bank, social security and investment information. A hacker with any sense of greed is going to sell or already have sold this hack. It only requires the window of time from hacked to fixed to grab it all. Hacking windowsupdate would be the biggest heist in history.
Unfortunately the world hegemony were THEM all along. OUR space ship engines WE built THEM is, in reality, a sun bomb that causes the sun to expand prematurely, in fact it is going to happen in 15 days from the initial test firing we did yesterday.
It isn't even monolithic. It is a network DOS. Everything runs in kernel space (though they do have a way to run _some_ apps in a user space). I have seen the port of gnu true take down a server.
Maybe you should try being less sensitive and more informed. If you think a doctor can explain to you how your body works, or fails to work, with no loss of nuance from that he would have when talking to another doctor, you are delusional.
A conversation is way up the protocol stack. In fact, If you were to look at the OSI model diagram on a blackboard, conversation would be located on the moon. TCP is more like vocalization/hearing. Just because you can make noise and be heard does not mean that your are doing anything meaningful. TCP/IP is more like that. It doesn't even try to understand content. It just acknowledges having received the content.
Now, this is a very abstract and high level subject. If you have people making deprecating statements questioning your terms and comprehension of the subject, it is because those people care about the quality of it's discussion. Remember, a doctor won't help you understand the holistic quality of the information he is providing. Neither will we.
Which is utter bunk. NTP came in after the fact, well after precedent and patented obviousness. These people had no product other than litigation. Their business plan was to sue successful companies.
Now let's assume that you are the little guy. You come up with something utterly missing in the market. Let's call it middle management crack. So you patent it, build a company on it and become the "next big thing".
During that time, a different company, comes in who doesn't actually make anything new or produce any products. What they do is buy "analysts" to come up with how your design is "not patented". Next they produce legalease to sue you for your unique business model. At no point have they ever had _one_ customer and now they sue you.
This is what happened in this case. In an ideal world, people can not use the justice system to extort money from you.
Just to note, you cannot purchase any x86 kit with virtualisation at this point. It will be at least the end of the year before this is available to consumers.
If you consider a system with a constant draw of 300 watts for 24 hours and 30 days (since your bill is most likely covers only 30) you get 216 kilowatthours a bill. At 7.1 cents (Department of Energies average cost per kwh) you get $15.33. That is a huge system with a high load and constant usage, so these numbers are very pessimistic. When considering average usage of a system that is less efficient but also less expensive, I can't see where you are saving any money in a in home scenario.
Another way of thinking about it is driving along a highway, watching a mountain, forest, clouds, or some other large object at a distance. Nearby objects appear to move faster relative to your car, while the farther away objects appear to move slower.
Time dilation and the parralax effect are unrelated phenomena. Parralax deals with angular shift, two demensional projection and is unrelated to Relativity. Time dilation isn't a perceptual change, it is a real, physical affect. The one in space will have only spent 1 month in space, along with his ship and cargo. Time for the ship and its contents will indeed be going slower as viewed by us on earth. The one on earth will have physically spent a year doing simulator training. The space cowboy will look down at earth and we will be moving at some multiple of his own speed.
And therein lies the disparity between what users want and what techies *think* users want.
No one thinks users want to have to hunt for wifi support. No one thinks that users want to configure devices. The issues have _nothing_ to do with what linux developers think users want and has everything to do with developer time and vendor support.
Sure , the Ostriches will mod me down because I've dared slander the holy name of Linux, but tthis is the way it is in the *real* world guys.
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I am torn... normally I trust anyone with a lower slashdot ID than myself. But I can't trust both of you.
It is "half price" to anyone and everyone with a credit card. It was part of their announcement. While that may not remain true in the long run, I doubt they will change it until they have achieved whatever goal they are trying to accomplish with this.
Einstein was a really common man.
There was norton desktop for windows back in 91 which had virtual desktops... not microsoft, mind you, but it worked very well for me.
Your stunned that you were modded off topic for bringing up 9/11 rantings in a discussion about an interview with lawyers defending against RIAA suits? You sir, are a moron.
The only way you can mesh the two is by dropping insistence that god explains any of it, even if you think he exists. Otherwise you are really just a cargo cult.
huh? Science works via the scientific method which looks like this:
Hypothesis: Describe a testable idea that is capable of being false
Test: Gather data related to hypothesis
Does data corroborate hypothesis?
yes) Publish results for peer review
no) go back to hypothesis
At no time was there "assume hypothesis is true" in any of that. In fact, by default, without replicable results and peer reviewed publishing your hypothesis is irrelavent. See Ponds and Fleischmann for how missing parts are treated by the larger body of science.
Thank you for proving every single assertion that creationist are ignorant of what science is.
Yeah... and I've never had to do that with windows on lets say, 3.1, 95, 98, nt 4, 2000 _and_ XP... In fact, I have never had a version of windows that wasn't borked on some hardware by their installer (unless you count service packs, but I won't). I would imagine you would have to go Mac to avoid that experience, since they so tightly control the platform. From a developer perspective, win32 is a kludgy nightmare. I have no idea why any developer would enjoy it. Gnome seems at least sane... and has more languages supporting it than you can shake a stick at. The user experience on any PC just plain sucks. I have yet to find a gui that didn't feel like it was made to torture me.
Hate to reply to myself, but the original parent is right. They are under no obligation to let your custom linux kernel to boot on your hardware (that you have an honest to god reciept for the hunk of silicon and plastic sitting below your TV). I largely don't see why this is an issue. They still need to give you the code... including drivers they had to come up with. That get's back to the main kernel and you can use it on a box that isn't locked down. DRM has already failed. Users will only get fscked by it a few times before they avoid the whole scene. The second time loses iTunes music, they will stop buying music from apple and move on to open or illigitimate media.
Even if they lease the hardware to you, they still are distributing licensed software for your use. They can't change the GPL with another licenses agreement. Anyone implementing this scheme is getting away with it do to lack of attention from users. So that ISP who has a DSL modem running linux who isn't offering you the source code is breaking contract law with their vendors, namely the copyright holders.
It doesn't matter what manufactures want. They aren't obligated to support linux. They aren't forced to use linux in their closed embedded systems. But if they do use it, since it means less cost, easier maintenance and higher quality, they are agreeing to the contract under which that code may be distributed. In the case of Windows CE, there is a definite cost and an onerous contract you need to agree to. Linux to has a cost too. You need to offer the source to anyone you give the software to. Leased, bought or free, you still need to offer them that.
change that percent to eighty or even fifty, You still have a lot better options than a prank. The last thing anyone in that position is likely to do is announce his presence. The percentages are significant enough to make silence golden.
Here is the best prize: The hacker has access to some percent of 99 percent of the machines connected to the internet. A rootkit install with a keylogger and file scanner can get you the keys to lots of insignificant machines. Some of them are going to have bank, social security and investment information. A hacker with any sense of greed is going to sell or already have sold this hack. It only requires the window of time from hacked to fixed to grab it all. Hacking windowsupdate would be the biggest heist in history.
Unfortunately the world hegemony were THEM all along. OUR space ship engines WE built THEM is, in reality, a sun bomb that causes the sun to expand prematurely, in fact it is going to happen in 15 days from the initial test firing we did yesterday.
Message passing without a context switch is what is known as a function call. Linux handles message passing the same way.
It isn't even monolithic. It is a network DOS. Everything runs in kernel space (though they do have a way to run _some_ apps in a user space). I have seen the port of gnu true take down a server.
Maybe you should try being less sensitive and more informed. If you think a doctor can explain to you how your body works, or fails to work, with no loss of nuance from that he would have when talking to another doctor, you are delusional.
A conversation is way up the protocol stack. In fact, If you were to look at the OSI model diagram on a blackboard, conversation would be located on the moon. TCP is more like vocalization/hearing. Just because you can make noise and be heard does not mean that your are doing anything meaningful. TCP/IP is more like that. It doesn't even try to understand content. It just acknowledges having received the content.
Now, this is a very abstract and high level subject. If you have people making deprecating statements questioning your terms and comprehension of the subject, it is because those people care about the quality of it's discussion. Remember, a doctor won't help you understand the holistic quality of the information he is providing. Neither will we.
Here is the whole article for those who don't have a sciam subscription. Thanks for the pointer to the sciam link,though!
Which is utter bunk. NTP came in after the fact, well after precedent and patented obviousness. These people had no product other than litigation. Their business plan was to sue successful companies.
Now let's assume that you are the little guy. You come up with something utterly missing in the market. Let's call it middle management crack. So you patent it, build a company on it and become the "next big thing".
During that time, a different company, comes in who doesn't actually make anything new or produce any products. What they do is buy "analysts" to come up with how your design is "not patented". Next they produce legalease to sue you for your unique business model. At no point have they ever had _one_ customer and now they sue you.
This is what happened in this case. In an ideal world, people can not use the justice system to extort money from you.
Just to note, you cannot purchase any x86 kit with virtualisation at this point. It will be at least the end of the year before this is available to consumers.
And the jibberish just keeps on coming.
The only downside is that your old motherboard is incapable of doing the powernow throttling for the turion chips, according to TFA.
If you consider a system with a constant draw of 300 watts for 24 hours and 30 days (since your bill is most likely covers only 30) you get 216 kilowatthours a bill. At 7.1 cents (Department of Energies average cost per kwh) you get $15.33. That is a huge system with a high load and constant usage, so these numbers are very pessimistic. When considering average usage of a system that is less efficient but also less expensive, I can't see where you are saving any money in a in home scenario.
No one thinks users want to have to hunt for wifi support. No one thinks that users want to configure devices. The issues have _nothing_ to do with what linux developers think users want and has everything to do with developer time and vendor support.
I am sure _that_ would be the reason.