because it is not general purpose such that I can download and experiment on any OS I want, but I am restricted to "specially modified" version of them.
I really don't care about Windows, I want to run Darwin x86 or FreeBSD, and not just "specially modified" versions, but ANY version I so choose.
Xen cannot handle this, and that, in my view and experience, makes it relatively worthless when compared to something like VMWare. Attempting to sell the lack of a hardware virtualization layer as an "advantage" is a little odd, in my opinion, since the speed increase is not so great as to outweigh the disadvantages outlined above.
Going to a good school will help you build the skills you need to build a good reputation. By building a good reputation, you get to know more people who can help you get better jobs.
Going to a mediocre school won't help you with this and will generally just give you A's if you even try half-heartedly. While you might not ace every course at a good school, you'll learn more than you ever would at some school who doesn't specifically care about the degree you're trying to get.
It doesn't matter if it's a state school. Honestly, however, the fact that I got a degree from a well known school in the area has only opened a few doors.
If you're talking about job prospects, it's less about where you went or what you know than it is about WHO you know. If you're talking about Academia (i.e. you want to be a professor) it's more about where you went and how well you did.
"Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race." ~ Giambattista Vico
Common sense.
(a) A supposed sense which was held to be the common bond
of all the others. [Obs.] --Trench.
(b) Sound judgment. See under Sense.
From webster. I'm sorry, but I don't subscribe to Vico's interpretation. The above is the definition from www.dict.org.
It's clear from my perspective that it is you who requires an exlanation of both critical reasoning skills and basic economic theory.
I don't think so.
Quite simply, by several thousand people copying/pirating the software without paying for it, the company cannot make enough market penetration to cover costs even when demand is high since much of the demand is met by illigitimate, illegal means.
In order to pay the programmers which developed the software, and pay their own bills and also, yes, make a profit, which was, after all, the fucking point of writing the software in the first place. They must mark it up. This of course prompts idiots like yourself to crack and copy it. So it's a vicious cycle.
If the price was actually affordable, there would be little if any copyright infringement. This would be even more true if copyright was limited to fourteen years as the founding fathers had intended.
I look upon it as a choice. You seem to think it's up to the company to break the cycle by lowering the price as if this would magically mean that people like you would start to pay (HAH!!). The risk, of course, is that they will go out of business because of their (obviously) misplaced trust in people such as yourself to make that happen. The other option is, of course, for people to stop pirating the software and allow the company to actually make a profit.
I mean, let's face it. You copy the game, because you like it. I don't think you can deny this as, I, personally, wouldn't be willing to commit an illegal act for something that I didn't like.
If you want them to stay in business. Pay for the software.
I agree with your stance on Copyright, btw. Copyright laws are out of control. But you need to find a constructive way to fight them aside from pirating software which only prompts harsher action from the government and big companies.
Bullshit. This is the excuse of every idiot pirate from the dawn of time.
You want to play, you've got to pay if that's what the license says. You think it's overpriced, don't buy it. It is infact overpriced BECAUSE of piracy.
I find your choice of handle particularly appropriate in this instance.:)
There is an old saying: "He who pays the piper calls the tune." It means that if you create something you are at liberty to license it as you see fit. The creators of Linux chose the GPL as the license. SuSE, in turn, offers a free version of SuSE 9.0, which is their right, also under the GPL.
So you see Steam made HL2 and they said you had to PAY for the right to use it, that's their right, they created it. And you went around that. That's your problem. And you deserved the spanking you and 19,999 other people just got for being assholes.
No straw man about it. You don't own the software. You own a license to USE the software, there is a radical difference.
Look at any EULA from Microsoft or most other companies it clearly states that ownership/title of the software remains with the company and isn't transferred to you.
I'll never understand the mentality of some people. There is an old saying "he who pays the piper calls the the tune". This means that Steam made the HL2 game and they get to dictate it's licensing. You don't like it? Stop buying proprietary software and start using open source or free software as, yet again, those who made it, licensed it as they saw fit: freely.
You people who think that just because you *can* download it means that it's "okay" need to get yourselves spanked ever now and then.
Is your ass sore now? Good. Think twice before screwing someone like this in the future.
You guys give the rest of us a really bad name.
GJC
It's called a "branch"!!! So much FUD for nothing
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Linux Kernel to Fork?
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· Score: 3, Interesting
Apparently the author is entirely unfamiliar with the concept of creating a branch to isolate disruptive changes to a system.
Odd numbered kernels do not get released, only even numbered ones. The scheme in Linux development is odd = unstable, even = stable.
I won't be suprised to see something from OSDL calling this article a piece of crap by tomorrow.
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because it is not general purpose such that I can download and experiment on any OS I want, but I am restricted to "specially modified" version of them.
I really don't care about Windows, I want to run Darwin x86 or FreeBSD, and not just "specially modified" versions, but ANY version I so choose.
Xen cannot handle this, and that, in my view and experience, makes it relatively worthless when compared to something like VMWare. Attempting to sell the lack of a hardware virtualization layer as an "advantage" is a little odd, in my opinion, since the speed increase is not so great as to outweigh the disadvantages outlined above.
GJC
And A school usually gets a good reputation, and becomes well known by having good professors in a given field.
His Dad was still correct. The school I went to was well known for CS, but wasn't very expensive. So your argument doesn't really hold up.
GJC
Going to a good school will help you build the skills you need to build a good reputation. By building a good reputation, you get to know more people who can help you get better jobs.
Going to a mediocre school won't help you with this and will generally just give you A's if you even try half-heartedly. While you might not ace every course at a good school, you'll learn more than you ever would at some school who doesn't specifically care about the degree you're trying to get.
In short, your Dad is right.
Later, GJC
UMCP=University Of Maryland, College Park.
It doesn't matter if it's a state school. Honestly, however, the fact that I got a degree from a well known school in the area has only opened a few doors.
If you're talking about job prospects, it's less about where you went or what you know than it is about WHO you know. If you're talking about Academia (i.e. you want to be a professor) it's more about where you went and how well you did.
Just my experience.
GJC
They said the stem cells came from umbilical cord blood.
GJC
It only strengthens the perception that we're all as bad as realloc().
I condemn this act. It's wrong under any circumstance.
GJC
I still disagree on philosophical grounds, but I can respect your position.
:)
BTW, Apologies for the previous "moron" comment. You seem like a reasonable person.
GJC
"Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race." ~ Giambattista Vico
Common sense.
(a) A supposed sense which was held to be the common bond
of all the others. [Obs.] --Trench.
(b) Sound judgment. See under Sense.
From webster. I'm sorry, but I don't subscribe to Vico's interpretation. The above is the definition from www.dict.org.
It's clear from my perspective that it is you who requires an exlanation of both critical reasoning skills and basic economic theory.
I don't think so.
Quite simply, by several thousand people copying/pirating the software without paying for it, the company cannot make enough market penetration to cover costs even when demand is high since much of the demand is met by illigitimate, illegal means.
In order to pay the programmers which developed the software, and pay their own bills and also, yes, make a profit, which was, after all, the fucking point of writing the software in the first place. They must mark it up. This of course prompts idiots like yourself to crack and copy it. So it's a vicious cycle.
If the price was actually affordable, there would be little if any copyright infringement. This would be even more true if copyright was limited to fourteen years as the founding fathers had intended.
I look upon it as a choice. You seem to think it's up to the company to break the cycle by lowering the price as if this would magically mean that people like you would start to pay (HAH!!). The risk, of course, is that they will go out of business because of their (obviously) misplaced trust in people such as yourself to make that happen. The other option is, of course, for people to stop pirating the software and allow the company to actually make a profit.
I mean, let's face it. You copy the game, because you like it. I don't think you can deny this as, I, personally, wouldn't be willing to commit an illegal act for something that I didn't like.
If you want them to stay in business. Pay for the software.
I agree with your stance on Copyright, btw. Copyright laws are out of control. But you need to find a constructive way to fight them aside from pirating software which only prompts harsher action from the government and big companies.
GJC
People like you are the root cause, moron.
GJC
They have to overprice it with all of the theives around if they even want to attempt to get something for their efforts.
It's common-sense, not a justification.
I don't blame the consumer, I blame pirates who rip the company off and ultimately hurt the honest consumer by necessitating the increase in price.
Do you understand yet, or do we need to have another go where I explain the basics of economics to you?
GJC
Bullshit. This is the excuse of every idiot pirate from the dawn of time.
You want to play, you've got to pay if that's what the license says. You think it's overpriced, don't buy it. It is infact overpriced BECAUSE of piracy.
GJC
You mean by NOT buying it after you didn't buy it in the first place? I'm sure they'll notice the difference.
NOT!
GJC
I find your choice of handle particularly appropriate in this instance. :)
There is an old saying: "He who pays the piper calls the tune." It means that if you create something you are at liberty to license it as you see fit. The creators of Linux chose the GPL as the license. SuSE, in turn, offers a free version of SuSE 9.0, which is their right, also under the GPL.
So you see Steam made HL2 and they said you had to PAY for the right to use it, that's their right, they created it. And you went around that. That's your problem. And you deserved the spanking you and 19,999 other people just got for being assholes.
GJC
No straw man about it. You don't own the software. You own a license to USE the software, there is a radical difference.
Look at any EULA from Microsoft or most other companies it clearly states that ownership/title of the software remains with the company and isn't transferred to you.
That's why it's called *LICENSING*.
GJC
Ha!! Ha!!
I'll never understand the mentality of some people. There is an old saying "he who pays the piper calls the the tune". This means that Steam made the HL2 game and they get to dictate it's licensing. You don't like it? Stop buying proprietary software and start using open source or free software as, yet again, those who made it, licensed it as they saw fit: freely.
You people who think that just because you *can* download it means that it's "okay" need to get yourselves spanked ever now and then.
Is your ass sore now? Good. Think twice before screwing someone like this in the future.
You guys give the rest of us a really bad name.
GJC
Apparently the author is entirely unfamiliar with the concept of creating a branch to isolate disruptive changes to a system.
Odd numbered kernels do not get released, only even numbered ones. The scheme in Linux development is odd = unstable, even = stable.
I won't be suprised to see something from OSDL calling this article a piece of crap by tomorrow.
GJC
things to contest a patent application.
GJC
That's okay. Linus isn't at transmeta anymore. :)
No one has done a study on this... wait.. no one CAN do a study. How convenient for MS.
GJC
in a manner of speaking. ;)
GJC
Some of the commercial off the shelf products I've used on certain contracts have been from one man shops.
Not dead by a long shot.
GJC
This is without a doubt the most screwed up thing I've ever heard of.
GJC
I can't let this topic go without a mention...
http://www.gnustep.org
Please take a look!
Thanks, GJC
One ultra conservative fundamentalist asshole out of the way!
GJC
I'm convinced of it now. I'm glad I didn't vote for the fucker.
GJC