Perhaps Google could develop a not evil telecoms company. (Or, as they did with the spectrum auction, play the evils off against each other and not actually spend ridiculous sums of their own money.)
Google make one that's not evil? Judging from their other ventures, they'd make it free, but use it as a data mining and advertising platform (I know this has been tried before and failed) and you'd sign away all rights on your online activities to Google. They only keep that motto to distract people from the evil they want to do.
But nonetheless, suppose I develop a semiconductor technology. You would call this "_merlin's first-generation semiconductor technology". If I then went on to develop another, better, semiconductor technology, you would call it "_merlin's second-generation semiconductor technology". There is no way that I could produce something you would call my third-generation semiconductor technology without producing a second generation first. Now my second generation of chips could be as good as, or even better than, someone else's third generation of chips, but that's irrelevant - it's still the second generation of my chips.
In the same way, you would never call my direct offspring my grandchildren.
Trust me - I don't want to visit the US. But working for a multi-national company, I may have to for business. The war on tourism (that has accompanied the war on terrorism) makes it a very unpleasant and scary experience.
Plain and simple: ideology. American capitalism is as much an ideology as Chinese Maoism (or radical Islam). To keep an ideology alive, you need people to believe in it. To make people believe in it, you need to demonise the other side. That's how all ideologies work: capitalism, Stalinism, Maoism, Marxism, Nazism, etc. It's no use trying to pretend otherwise.
I'd pass an audit - I'm not actually using any more instances of Purify than I'm allowed. I'm just not going to put up with the stupid license management scheme IBM forces on you.
Having administered ESX, I can say the license management is useful for one thing: it helps you ensure you aren't exceeding what you're licensed for. For example, if you aren't licensed for multi-processor boxes, it will complain until you get a valid license. If nothing else, it gives you some confidence that you will pass an audit.
License management is also useful for things like MATLAB and OPNET that are licensed per concurrent user: you can install on as many machines as you like, but they need to be able to talk to your license server (not that this is _your_ license server on your network - it isn't "calling home") to ensure that the number of concurrent users is below the maximum allowed. That way, if say, everyone needs to be able to run OPNET occasionally, but not very often, everyone can install it, but you only need to pay for a few licenses. You know you aren't exceeding your licenses because it won't let you launch more instances than you're allowed simultaneously. If your users regularly complain that they can't fire up OPNET due to lack of licenses, you pay for a few more seats.
On the other hand, I can't stand software that calls home to ensure that it's "genuine" a la Windows Vista, or those stupid CD copy protection schemes. That's bullshit. Things like that make more work for a sysadmin, not less. I only like license management when it helps me, the admin; I don't care what it does or doesn't do for the software vendor. I'm a selfish pig, I know.
Another thing I can't stand is things like Rational Purify where they attempt to count your "activations" at their end: when you install Purify, it increases the installed count in IBM's system, and decreases it when you uninstall. If the IBM server thinks you're using all your licenses, you can't install. Too bad people always forget to uninstall Purify before wiping their computers for a clean OS install (or scrapping the computers)! And don't get me started on how bad it is to deal with IBM's phone support. This is one copy protection scheme that I do bypass: I install Purify in a VMware virtual machine, snapshot it, uninstall Purify, and roll the virtual machine back to the snapshot. That way, Purify will work in the virtual machine, but IBM's servers will think I haven't used any of my licenses. Also, I can make copies of the virtual machine for multiple people to use. It's easier for me to track the licences than put up with a crap license management scheme.
That's not how it works in federal elections (I believe Tasmanian elections do work like that, though). In federal, and in most states, it works like this: the 1 votes are counted, and the candidate with the least 1s is removed; votes are moved up to fill the gap; this is repeated until only one candidate remains. As an example, I live in the seat of Melbourne; suppose I voted 1 for Liberal, 2 for ALP and 3 for Green; Liberal got the least 1s, so this is removed from everyone's votes, and my vote effectively becomes 1 for ALP and 2 for Green; now Green has the least 1s, so it's removed and my vote is effectively 1 ALP; only one candidate remains - ALP has won the seat. Of course, in real life, there are more than three candidates, so there are more iterations, but that's how the algorithm works. The parent post was correct.
Well, I'd be all for a segregated internet if it could keep all the American spam comments advertising drugs, loans, insurance and porn off my blog. Remember the USA is still the biggest spam producer. It would be nice if you could only spam yourselves.
No it isn't. A tonne is 1,000kg everywhere. A ton is 2,240lb in the UK and 2,000lb in the US. I can't believe you'd post something as uninformed as that while logged in.
The SPARTAN 3 is a hobbyist FPGA. Cheap, and a lot of gates, but slow. A Virtex 4 would've been nicer:)
Kind of appropriate considering it's basically a graphics card designed by hobbyists, don't you think? I don't think a Virtex is the best choice, either: it uses a lot of power and has an onboard PowerPC core that wouldn't really be that useful. Any graphics card implemented on FPGAs will use a lot of power for relatively poor performance. To compete, you'll need enough orders to get your design fab'ed by TSMC or someone.
They aren't banning class 1 laser pointers (won't cause eye damage) or class 2 laser pointers (your natural blink reflex should be sufficient to protect you from eye damage). They're only banning high powered class 3 and 4 laser pointers (may cause eye damage and need to use eye protection). Most laser pointers are class 2. To be honest, I think this is a good thing. The less idiots with potentially dangerous lasers, the better. A class 2 laser is good enough for most people, and if you really need a bigger one (i.e. not just to compensate for your small breasts/penis), you can get a permit.
Different context for the word stack: in this case it's a stack of components, like video and audio codecs sitting on top of some stream format sitting on a container file format. You know - like when they talk about a protocol stack (HTTP on top of TCP on top of IP on top of Ethernet, etc.).
Corporations have EVERY right to watch what you do at work.
No they don't. In fact, in most of the world, they aren't allowed to spy on you without your consent. The USA just has a pathetic lack of privacy laws. Judging from your post and others like it, they've also brainwashed the population into accepting it. I don't want my freedom eroded any more than it already has been.
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...the chip in my dog.
Must be a pretty small dog or pretty large pants...
It's entirely possible he meant to say the chip in his dong...
If you lock the stuff in a box, people could just steal the box and cut it open at their leisure. I think your real problem is that you don't trust your workmates. If your workmates are, in fact, untrustworthy you probably need a new job. Another strong possibility is that you're unduly suspicious of the people around you.
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Hey! I have a pair of 4408A studio monitor speakers attached to my living room stereo, you insensitive clod! ;)
Google make one that's not evil? Judging from their other ventures, they'd make it free, but use it as a data mining and advertising platform (I know this has been tried before and failed) and you'd sign away all rights on your online activities to Google. They only keep that motto to distract people from the evil they want to do.
But nonetheless, suppose I develop a semiconductor technology. You would call this "_merlin's first-generation semiconductor technology". If I then went on to develop another, better, semiconductor technology, you would call it "_merlin's second-generation semiconductor technology". There is no way that I could produce something you would call my third-generation semiconductor technology without producing a second generation first. Now my second generation of chips could be as good as, or even better than, someone else's third generation of chips, but that's irrelevant - it's still the second generation of my chips.
In the same way, you would never call my direct offspring my grandchildren.
Why have children? Why not skip a generation and just have grandchildren?
It doesn't work like that. The next technology you develop will be the next generation of your chips, just like your kids will be the next generation.
Trust me - I don't want to visit the US. But working for a multi-national company, I may have to for business. The war on tourism (that has accompanied the war on terrorism) makes it a very unpleasant and scary experience.
Publishing the protocol is pointless. You'll still have to take their word on what they do with the data after they receive it.
They were all safely inside spacecraft that provided an atmosphere and radiation shielding. The waterbears actually survived in space.
Because the ISP's backhaul is a limited resource. Selling it as being unlimited doesn't change the facts.
That's American beer you fool.
Total nerds? Freaks? Transvestites? Gender benders? Have to say it's fun, though.
Plain and simple: ideology. American capitalism is as much an ideology as Chinese Maoism (or radical Islam). To keep an ideology alive, you need people to believe in it. To make people believe in it, you need to demonise the other side. That's how all ideologies work: capitalism, Stalinism, Maoism, Marxism, Nazism, etc. It's no use trying to pretend otherwise.
I'd pass an audit - I'm not actually using any more instances of Purify than I'm allowed. I'm just not going to put up with the stupid license management scheme IBM forces on you.
Having administered ESX, I can say the license management is useful for one thing: it helps you ensure you aren't exceeding what you're licensed for. For example, if you aren't licensed for multi-processor boxes, it will complain until you get a valid license. If nothing else, it gives you some confidence that you will pass an audit.
License management is also useful for things like MATLAB and OPNET that are licensed per concurrent user: you can install on as many machines as you like, but they need to be able to talk to your license server (not that this is _your_ license server on your network - it isn't "calling home") to ensure that the number of concurrent users is below the maximum allowed. That way, if say, everyone needs to be able to run OPNET occasionally, but not very often, everyone can install it, but you only need to pay for a few licenses. You know you aren't exceeding your licenses because it won't let you launch more instances than you're allowed simultaneously. If your users regularly complain that they can't fire up OPNET due to lack of licenses, you pay for a few more seats.
On the other hand, I can't stand software that calls home to ensure that it's "genuine" a la Windows Vista, or those stupid CD copy protection schemes. That's bullshit. Things like that make more work for a sysadmin, not less. I only like license management when it helps me, the admin; I don't care what it does or doesn't do for the software vendor. I'm a selfish pig, I know.
Another thing I can't stand is things like Rational Purify where they attempt to count your "activations" at their end: when you install Purify, it increases the installed count in IBM's system, and decreases it when you uninstall. If the IBM server thinks you're using all your licenses, you can't install. Too bad people always forget to uninstall Purify before wiping their computers for a clean OS install (or scrapping the computers)! And don't get me started on how bad it is to deal with IBM's phone support. This is one copy protection scheme that I do bypass: I install Purify in a VMware virtual machine, snapshot it, uninstall Purify, and roll the virtual machine back to the snapshot. That way, Purify will work in the virtual machine, but IBM's servers will think I haven't used any of my licenses. Also, I can make copies of the virtual machine for multiple people to use. It's easier for me to track the licences than put up with a crap license management scheme.
Considering what a speakeasy is (was), I'd hope SpeakEasy was a bit more lax in policing names.
That's not how it works in federal elections (I believe Tasmanian elections do work like that, though). In federal, and in most states, it works like this: the 1 votes are counted, and the candidate with the least 1s is removed; votes are moved up to fill the gap; this is repeated until only one candidate remains. As an example, I live in the seat of Melbourne; suppose I voted 1 for Liberal, 2 for ALP and 3 for Green; Liberal got the least 1s, so this is removed from everyone's votes, and my vote effectively becomes 1 for ALP and 2 for Green; now Green has the least 1s, so it's removed and my vote is effectively 1 ALP; only one candidate remains - ALP has won the seat. Of course, in real life, there are more than three candidates, so there are more iterations, but that's how the algorithm works. The parent post was correct.
Well, I'd be all for a segregated internet if it could keep all the American spam comments advertising drugs, loans, insurance and porn off my blog. Remember the USA is still the biggest spam producer. It would be nice if you could only spam yourselves.
No it isn't. A tonne is 1,000kg everywhere. A ton is 2,240lb in the UK and 2,000lb in the US. I can't believe you'd post something as uninformed as that while logged in.
Kind of appropriate considering it's basically a graphics card designed by hobbyists, don't you think? I don't think a Virtex is the best choice, either: it uses a lot of power and has an onboard PowerPC core that wouldn't really be that useful. Any graphics card implemented on FPGAs will use a lot of power for relatively poor performance. To compete, you'll need enough orders to get your design fab'ed by TSMC or someone.
They aren't banning class 1 laser pointers (won't cause eye damage) or class 2 laser pointers (your natural blink reflex should be sufficient to protect you from eye damage). They're only banning high powered class 3 and 4 laser pointers (may cause eye damage and need to use eye protection). Most laser pointers are class 2. To be honest, I think this is a good thing. The less idiots with potentially dangerous lasers, the better. A class 2 laser is good enough for most people, and if you really need a bigger one (i.e. not just to compensate for your small breasts/penis), you can get a permit.
Different context for the word stack: in this case it's a stack of components, like video and audio codecs sitting on top of some stream format sitting on a container file format. You know - like when they talk about a protocol stack (HTTP on top of TCP on top of IP on top of Ethernet, etc.).
No they don't. In fact, in most of the world, they aren't allowed to spy on you without your consent. The USA just has a pathetic lack of privacy laws. Judging from your post and others like it, they've also brainwashed the population into accepting it. I don't want my freedom eroded any more than it already has been.
It's entirely possible he meant to say the chip in his dong...
You can't wait to pay for an XP license that you won't use, when you can buy an eeePC with Linux pre-installed? Talk about Microsoft lover!
If you lock the stuff in a box, people could just steal the box and cut it open at their leisure. I think your real problem is that you don't trust your workmates. If your workmates are, in fact, untrustworthy you probably need a new job. Another strong possibility is that you're unduly suspicious of the people around you.
Yes, I did, in fact, mean 2Mb/s. I'm an idiot. Well, either that or I can't get my finger off the shift key fast enough.