Sweet, I get to fabricate a hypothetical conspiracy theory!
Governments kill the first few people that have one because they're not clued in to the "it's already out there" concept.
People who build replicators start replicating weapons to defend themselves when their government comes knocking
Government doesn't figure out the "it's already out there" concept until after a few bloody shootouts with prowd owners of replicated arsenals become highly publicized.
Governments try to openly ban replicator technology to prevent a loss of power
Black market opens up for replicator technology. Terrorist types create weapons. People start to realize that society has to change because of replicator technology
Global revolution breaks out between citizens and the established government. Nearly everything is obliterated
Grim outlook, huh? Many, many people would have to die for capitalism to end. The existance of a device that threatens the viability of capitalism will cause a very bloody war.
Time between first successful test of a replicator and entry of a bullet in the back of the creator's head? I estimate 5 minutes. No capitalist government in the world can allow such a device to exist. If information gets out on how to create such a device a war that will end our present civilization will break out. Replicators are a fantasy, and will remain a fantasy. No advance in technology will prevent you from dying before you get to try one.
Normaly I don't reply to people who obviously can't read, but it rubs me the wrong way that you're saying I am lacking understanding because of your lack of comprehention. I mean platform in the same way that the first post meant. How did you think I meant it, especially considering I was giving an example of an operating system that ran on 11 different hardware platforms?
Furthermore, I was not saying that commercial vendors should use the debian packaging system, I was saying that the problem had already been solved in linux in contrast to what the first poster described.
I am also curious why you think that C compilers cannot "go" on small mobile devices. What language do you think the java VMs are written in? (At least some of them anyway)
I am not saying that.Net is not a good place to find novel technology, I'm just saying that the cross platform abilities of it are far from novel. They are borrowed concepts.
"Windows is moving to something called Dotnet precisely because of cross-platform installation issues."
Windows, at present, only supports a single platform. Because of this they have no cross platform instalation issues. You must be thinking of some other operating system.
"not have dependency, signing and other aspects been solved in the Linux world as they have in Dotnet."
Actually, dependancy and signing issues have been solved flawlessly in debian which now runs on 11 architectures with two different kernel platforms. The instalation system supports effortless instalation from source; all that's needed is a little time while the compilation occurs. They have solved the problem for over 3500 applications ranging in complexity from "hello world" type apps to advanced clustering systems and complete office suites. There is no need to reinvent the wheel. Also, while you may not be able to compile a large application on your palmtop, nor may you be able to download components of it, or wish to run a power hungry virtual machine. In either case you will be tied to a more powerful system for instalation.
I do not deny that there may be some novel technology in.NET, but you are looking in the wrong place for it.
Normal users jump through all kinds of installer hoops. There is no reason an installer cannot build the software as it installs. There is also no reason that the CD can't contain encrypted source that only the installer can read so that it would be distributed in "binary" form. The cross platform nature is not an "architecture" issue for linux, but a lack of imagination on your, and Miguel's part.
With all the crap that windows users deal with when they install software (multiple reboots, the disk spending more time loading splash screens than copying software, registry corruption, icons all over the place) why do you think they won't wait through a compile?
What makes it different besides the BIOS? Assume I go out and by and Asus A7N with an athlon processor and some DDR, what makes the hardware in the Xbox significantly different. Don't give me that UMA shit either, because it's just marketing hype and software a sophomore CS student could have written.
I remember that one of the departments at my college bought some rather pricy windows software to implement quotas. We quickly figured out that if you printed a postscript document generated by a2ps it only counted as one page. Apparently the software must have assumed that people would only be printing poorly generated postscript documents. I don't believe they ever figured out where all the paper was going.
I'm also well aware of the chicken and egg problem.
The real problem is that even when there is a linux port available, people buy the windows version anyway. Example: Quake 3. Does it really matter that much what operating system you're running your games under? You're machine's not going to be doing anything but playing the game when you're using it for that, so who cares if you have to reboot into windows?
No Newsserver. The usenet is a valuble resource, every ISP worth it's salt has usenet access. Comcast customrs (the ones that got switched over) do not.
Actually this is exactly the kind of thing that needs to go away. If ISP's got rid of all the "value added" services and just provided an TCP/IP pipe, their costs would be low, and you wouldn't be locked in to their potentially crappy services. Of course they'd have to lower their prices to compensate...
You can get 2GB/month access to very fast news servers for $7 a month. The service is way better then any ISP's news server too. Doesn't it bother you that you're paying for all those extra services that you might not be using and you could easily provide yourself? I'm talking about things like e-mail and web hosting and news service, and DNS...
While you license the software, you still own the physical manifestation of it. I.E the media and box and such. This would likely be enough to qualify you for protection under this law.
I tend to have Konq and mozilla open at the same time. Though I tend to perfer konq most of the time because mozilla leaves horizontal artifacts when you scroll and it crashes more... I don't have time to be religous about my browser.
I went there with konqueror. The page was visible for a breif moment, then it looked like it decided that my browser wasn't supported and forwarded me to a blank page. I
Let them shoot themselves in the foot. I didn't even know that the olympics were coming because I don't visit or view "major" media sites or channels.
Actually I believe right now the fastest available CPU is the 1.2Ghz EV7. That is if you're talking about speed of computation. If your talking about clock speed (Which is still measuring the speed of something, though not necissaritly performance) the fastest chips run much faster then 1Ghz. It seems to me like the article is talking about clock speed.
He includede $30 for telephone. That better damn well include the extra services. Basic telephone service where I am (Verizon, MA) is only $18 a month.
Right, and furthermore it's not RPM that's playing catch up to DEB it's the quality of the available packages, and the standardization of versioning. Too many people make RPMs and assume that beacuse it's an RPM it'll work with any version of any RPM based distribution. This causes huge problems when figuring out dependancies.
The key is to get your packages from one source, where all the binaries are built relative to the other packages in the repository so that the dependancy names and versions are uniform throughout your system. This is what debian does better then everyone else. It has nothing to do with the DEB format, and it has nothing to do with apt either.
That's bullshit. What if USD only did local consulting and was not invloved in interstate commerce. Their trademark would not be valid for registration in the USPTO because they have no juristiction, but their trademark would still override the registered mark in the region it was used in by USD beacuse they were around first. Similarly, if some guy named MCDonald named a single resturaunt after himself before the chain "Mcdonalds" existed he would not be forced to change the name of the existing resturaunt after "mcdonalds" registered their trademark. The rules of domain dispute resolution involving trademarks are to simplistic to deal with the complexities of trademark law in the real world. This is the fault of the people who made the arbitration rules, not of the USPTO ar any similar organization. If USD brings this to state court in his local district he should win.
I did compare it to "real" headphone amps. Thing is, you can't get a better headphone amp for near that price. Good "real" headphone amps cost at least $200. For an amp comprable to the one in the Stereo link (I know, I've listened to lots) you're looking at at least $300, and it won't sound that much better. The last thing I want is my amp running off my noisy ATX power supply and tied to ground with all those high freq components. You need external power to decouple yourself from that crap. (The APC UPS that my workstation and the stereo-link are plugged into generates a nice clean sine wave in it's AC out. When the machine is under heavy disk load, you should see the +5v from the ATX supply on the scope. It's all over the place.)
Take a look at Headroom Corp. for some of the best headphone amp prices on the web, and you'll see what I mean. $100 stereo-link, or $200 + whatever another USB sound card costs for practically the same quality.
Yeah, but the best part about the stereo-link is the external power supply, and the excelent (for the price) headphone amplifier. The amp is worth the cost of the whole unit. (If you have good enough headphones to appreciate it.)
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Governments kill the first few people that have one because they're not clued in to the "it's already out there" concept.
People who build replicators start replicating weapons to defend themselves when their government comes knocking
Government doesn't figure out the "it's already out there" concept until after a few bloody shootouts with prowd owners of replicated arsenals become highly publicized.
Governments try to openly ban replicator technology to prevent a loss of power
Black market opens up for replicator technology. Terrorist types create weapons. People start to realize that society has to change because of replicator technology
Global revolution breaks out between citizens and the established government. Nearly everything is obliterated
Grim outlook, huh? Many, many people would have to die for capitalism to end. The existance of a device that threatens the viability of capitalism will cause a very bloody war.
Time between first successful test of a replicator and entry of a bullet in the back of the creator's head? I estimate 5 minutes. No capitalist government in the world can allow such a device to exist. If information gets out on how to create such a device a war that will end our present civilization will break out. Replicators are a fantasy, and will remain a fantasy. No advance in technology will prevent you from dying before you get to try one.
Normaly I don't reply to people who obviously can't read, but it rubs me the wrong way that you're saying I am lacking understanding because of your lack of comprehention. I mean platform in the same way that the first post meant. How did you think I meant it, especially considering I was giving an example of an operating system that ran on 11 different hardware platforms?
.Net is not a good place to find novel technology, I'm just saying that the cross platform abilities of it are far from novel. They are borrowed concepts.
Furthermore, I was not saying that commercial vendors should use the debian packaging system, I was saying that the problem had already been solved in linux in contrast to what the first poster described.
I am also curious why you think that C compilers cannot "go" on small mobile devices. What language do you think the java VMs are written in? (At least some of them anyway)
I am not saying that
"Windows is moving to something called Dotnet precisely because of cross-platform installation issues."
.NET, but you are looking in the wrong place for it.
Windows, at present, only supports a single platform. Because of this they have no cross platform instalation issues. You must be thinking of some other operating system.
"not have dependency, signing and other aspects been solved in the Linux world as they have in Dotnet."
Actually, dependancy and signing issues have been solved flawlessly in debian which now runs on 11 architectures with two different kernel platforms. The instalation system supports effortless instalation from source; all that's needed is a little time while the compilation occurs. They have solved the problem for over 3500 applications ranging in complexity from "hello world" type apps to advanced clustering systems and complete office suites. There is no need to reinvent the wheel. Also, while you may not be able to compile a large application on your palmtop, nor may you be able to download components of it, or wish to run a power hungry virtual machine. In either case you will be tied to a more powerful system for instalation.
I do not deny that there may be some novel technology in
Normal users jump through all kinds of installer hoops. There is no reason an installer cannot build the software as it installs. There is also no reason that the CD can't contain encrypted source that only the installer can read so that it would be distributed in "binary" form. The cross platform nature is not an "architecture" issue for linux, but a lack of imagination on your, and Miguel's part.
With all the crap that windows users deal with when they install software (multiple reboots, the disk spending more time loading splash screens than copying software, registry corruption, icons all over the place) why do you think they won't wait through a compile?
What makes it different besides the BIOS? Assume I go out and by and Asus A7N with an athlon processor and some DDR, what makes the hardware in the Xbox significantly different. Don't give me that UMA shit either, because it's just marketing hype and software a sophomore CS student could have written.
Yeah but how many Xbox exclusive games are in development. If I can run it on my PC I don't need an Xbox.
Yeah, but $2,500 is less the the boards mentioned in this story.
Motorola makes a bunch of boards including the Sandpoint and the MVP (Which is a dual board). Galileo/Marvell makes boards, Tundra sells boards...
They're all ATX form factor and supported by linux too.
I remember that one of the departments at my college bought some rather pricy windows software to implement quotas. We quickly figured out that if you printed a postscript document generated by a2ps it only counted as one page. Apparently the software must have assumed that people would only be printing poorly generated postscript documents. I don't believe they ever figured out where all the paper was going.
I'm also well aware of the chicken and egg problem.
The real problem is that even when there is a linux port available, people buy the windows version anyway. Example: Quake 3. Does it really matter that much what operating system you're running your games under? You're machine's not going to be doing anything but playing the game when you're using it for that, so who cares if you have to reboot into windows?
No Newsserver. The usenet is a valuble resource, every ISP worth it's salt has usenet access. Comcast customrs (the ones that got switched over) do not.
Actually this is exactly the kind of thing that needs to go away. If ISP's got rid of all the "value added" services and just provided an TCP/IP pipe, their costs would be low, and you wouldn't be locked in to their potentially crappy services. Of course they'd have to lower their prices to compensate...
You can get 2GB/month access to very fast news servers for $7 a month. The service is way better then any ISP's news server too. Doesn't it bother you that you're paying for all those extra services that you might not be using and you could easily provide yourself? I'm talking about things like e-mail and web hosting and news service, and DNS...
While you license the software, you still own the physical manifestation of it. I.E the media and box and such. This would likely be enough to qualify you for protection under this law.
I tend to have Konq and mozilla open at the same time. Though I tend to perfer konq most of the time because mozilla leaves horizontal artifacts when you scroll and it crashes more... I don't have time to be religous about my browser.
Right, and I completely forgot that they switched to a 2 year schedule... That and it's just not something I give much thought to.
Bitching? Who's bitching? I just made an observation...
I went there with konqueror. The page was visible for a breif moment, then it looked like it decided that my browser wasn't supported and forwarded me to a blank page. I
Let them shoot themselves in the foot. I didn't even know that the olympics were coming because I don't visit or view "major" media sites or channels.
Linux forked years ago. People need to get over it.
Think RTLinux, linuxppc (though it's merging back now), the -ac tree...
See subject. The local computer store near me has a 4 port firewire PCI card for $9
Actually I believe right now the fastest available CPU is the 1.2Ghz EV7. That is if you're talking about speed of computation. If your talking about clock speed (Which is still measuring the speed of something, though not necissaritly performance) the fastest chips run much faster then 1Ghz. It seems to me like the article is talking about clock speed.
He includede $30 for telephone. That better damn well include the extra services. Basic telephone service where I am (Verizon, MA) is only $18 a month.
Right, and furthermore it's not RPM that's playing catch up to DEB it's the quality of the available packages, and the standardization of versioning. Too many people make RPMs and assume that beacuse it's an RPM it'll work with any version of any RPM based distribution. This causes huge problems when figuring out dependancies.
The key is to get your packages from one source, where all the binaries are built relative to the other packages in the repository so that the dependancy names and versions are uniform throughout your system. This is what debian does better then everyone else. It has nothing to do with the DEB format, and it has nothing to do with apt either.
That's bullshit. What if USD only did local consulting and was not invloved in interstate commerce. Their trademark would not be valid for registration in the USPTO because they have no juristiction, but their trademark would still override the registered mark in the region it was used in by USD beacuse they were around first. Similarly, if some guy named MCDonald named a single resturaunt after himself before the chain "Mcdonalds" existed he would not be forced to change the name of the existing resturaunt after "mcdonalds" registered their trademark. The rules of domain dispute resolution involving trademarks are to simplistic to deal with the complexities of trademark law in the real world. This is the fault of the people who made the arbitration rules, not of the USPTO ar any similar organization. If USD brings this to state court in his local district he should win.
I did compare it to "real" headphone amps. Thing is, you can't get a better headphone amp for near that price. Good "real" headphone amps cost at least $200. For an amp comprable to the one in the Stereo link (I know, I've listened to lots) you're looking at at least $300, and it won't sound that much better. The last thing I want is my amp running off my noisy ATX power supply and tied to ground with all those high freq components. You need external power to decouple yourself from that crap. (The APC UPS that my workstation and the stereo-link are plugged into generates a nice clean sine wave in it's AC out. When the machine is under heavy disk load, you should see the +5v from the ATX supply on the scope. It's all over the place.)
Take a look at Headroom Corp. for some of the best headphone amp prices on the web, and you'll see what I mean. $100 stereo-link, or $200 + whatever another USB sound card costs for practically the same quality.
Yeah, but the best part about the stereo-link is the external power supply, and the excelent (for the price) headphone amplifier. The amp is worth the cost of the whole unit. (If you have good enough headphones to appreciate it.)