What he did was wrong, but not for the reasons you think.
Superfast trading puts all other traders at a disadvantage and essentially lets day traders manipulate the market. The SEC doesn't see fit to step in and stop the madness. They're a leech on the market and the frequency and volume of their trades hampers the ability for real investors(meaning people) to determine the volatility and legitimate trade volume of a stock.
Some day the SEC will pull their head out of their ass and put a mandatory ownership period on all stock purchases of 48 hours or something. Addicted day traders might stop gambling away their retirement and it might put an end to these fast traders.
What some people call a "bullshit excuse" I consider a legitimate argument. TPB didn't directly host any copyrighted materials.
I would rather see the content owners suing P2P users directly than trying to shut down those who merely host a glorified index of P2P users. At least then the public has the option of using copyright violation as a pseudo-civil disobedience to put pressure on the content producers to make more meaningful products worthy of purchase.
I fully support any foreign governments that choose to ignore the draconian DMCA. The law is nothing more than a legislative grant to content owners to use criminal laws to preserve their own profit.
The law is widely misused and doesn't do anything to protect citizens fair use rights. It's just a bad law that won't go away.
Not sure if you've noticed, but the retail price on computer components is far higher than the cost of buying a box and upgrading it.
I guess if you're a serious computing enthusiast, the pride and enjoyment might surpass the increased cost. I'm a bit more pragmatic and will always choose to just purchase and upgrade if/when necessary.
I appreciate Carmack's pragmatic reasoning instead of legal bullshit or calling us all pirates.
I have Windows and Linux available at home, so I don't really care. Yeah, it would be nice to not have to dual boot, but I see that as a necessary evil for the time being anyway, regardless of what games become available on Linux.
Exactly. Players with multiple characters race to the max level as quickly as possible and ignore the most fun aspects of the game.
I myself was victim to this with several characters during Burning Crusade and by the time my 3rd character reached level 70, the game was losing it's allure.
Since I have not played in over one year, I'm so far behind now that I have little desire to purchase any forthcoming expansions. Diablo 3 sounds very exciting and I will be sure to purchase that.
I read there is going to be a new Palm(not a Pre) coming to AT&T later this year or next year. I'm hoping it will be much like the Pre, but more refined and it wont spy on me.
CANBUS is short for Controller Area Network. It allows different automotive sensors to communicate with subsystem modules such as anti-lock braking, powertrain control modules, and engine control units. This is a good case for where a company that uses Linux, but whose product is NOT information technology specific might want to be involved in the development of Linux.
Real-time linux has had a big push from integrated systems development, where it's either "on-time" or it fails. Automotive is just another sector that can benefit from this. Any company that wants the most out of Linux is well served by having one or two full time developers whose sole purpose is to contribute to Linux and other open-source projects they rely on to be sure they continue to meet their requirements.
Already, too many companies use Linux for the core products of their business but contribute nothing back and will constantly be chasing their tail to keep their own modifications synchronized with new kernel releases. VW did the right thing and all you can think of to do is troll.
It's not in the public domain. For any patch of sufficient size, the copyrights still remain with each individual developer(I'm ignoring derivative works, as that's beyond the scope of a slashdot comment).
So let's say IBM contributes a new driver. IBM keeps the copyright to the code, but gives license to use to all Linux users via the GPL. The key here is that because IBM still has that copyright, they are free to release that same driver as a closed source product as well, whereas Sun or Oracle couldn't take IBM's driver and sell a closed source version of it.
Microsoft has relased a few open source applications but I'm 99% sure they were PR stunts and they have zero interest in being active contributors to Linux success. I wouldn't expect to see Apple anywhere on the list either considering OSX is primarily BSD based.
Weight itself isn't the issue, it's energy density and max instantaneous energy output.
Even if you could make a 1,000,000 amp-hour battery, it's useless if it's internal serial resistance is too high to provide the amperage needed. Conversely, a low ESR capacitor can deliver quite a punch, but not for long enough to drive a jet across the country.
A gazillion dollars a year are spent on developing new battery technologies. One day they might rival the density of gasoline but I'm not holding my breath any time soon.
Qwest tried to convince me that I couldn't keep DSL unless I kept my phone service with them.
I promptly dropped Qwest for both DSL AND phone service. Now I get DSL through another provider and have no home phone service. I did get Qwest's "loyalty expert" or whoever it was when I was dropping my service to admit I could keep just DSL, but I told her to F herself.
You don't need voice service on your landline for DSL. If Qwest told you this(they tried to tell me this), they lied.
Newer GE Security alarms support cellular networks, although this does increase your monthly monitoring bill by $30 or more.
Got me there, hard line voice quality is very good. As for reliability, I've never had a long term outage on any cell carrier or a land line so I can't differentiate the two.
Agreed. I worked in a group email response department and spent the majority of my day writing emails. Writing emails all day greatly improved my ability to bang out very long, concise and grammatically correct emails over and over.
My handwriting has withered into a scratch that even I myself cannot read on some days. I recently returned to college and found myself desiring better note taking skills, but my penmanship is just too poor that I have resorted to taping lectures.
Don't be intentionally dense and dramatic. Every corporation desires perfect discrimination, where each customer is given the opportunity to pay the largest sum they think it is worth. I don't blame companies for seeking discrimination because that's what they do-make money. Microsoft hasn't suffered any downward pressure in pricing from the free market on it's OS products in 15 years due to their illegal monopoly.
No, I don't want to "interfere" with the consensual purchase of any MS product. What I would like to see is that any person, anywhere can buy any MS product they want without licensing restrictions forbidding it. So if a Mandarin speaking customer in the US wants to buy the Chinese version from a Chinese vendor for a fraction of what everyone else pays, the EULA can't deny you a license to use based on your location.
It's a global marketplace, but Microsoft, and more so the MPAA, view each country as a little isolated retail island. MS uses EULA terms to enforce this, and the MPAA has DMCA-backed region coding.
I'm not saying the UK version is too expensive, or that they should raise the price.
I'm saying it should be illegal for Microsoft to make any EULA limitation or try to exclude sale of EU versions to US customers.
All these years I have hated IE and now there might be a chance I can pay less for Windows AND not have IE installed by default(woohoo). I haven't read the EULA yet, but I would bet a fair amount of money that the EULA for the EU version will exclude licensing outside of Europe.
Actually the US doesn't grow much cane sugar compared to any of our other crops, much of our soil and climate isn't right for it. We can however grow corn in great volumes. I live in Minnesota, where every plot is covered in corn so what I advocate really is bad for my own state. I dont care though.
Tariffs are in place on imported cane sugar to make corn and corn products cheaper relatively to cane sugar, and to make our own cane sugar more competitive with that grown in places where it is very cheap. And yes, the government directly subsidizes corn production as well, even further imbalancing the market and having great negative impact on our health as well. Research isn't conclusive yet, but anecdotal evidence seems to point to fructose/glucose(HFCS and LFCS) mixes as a contributor to obesity and a trigger for diabetes.
Artificially enforcing price discrimination should be illegal. Countries have used tariffs for many years to try to balance the value of a cheaper import good with that which is produced locally to make their own products more competitive.
One example of the end result is a huge glut of corn syrup usage in american foods, whereas if there were no tariffs on cane sugar importation, sugar would once again be the primary sweetener used in food industry instead of corn syrup. This is market inefficiency at its finest.
Perfect discrimination is the antithesis of a free market, where the populace collectively determines the value of a product based on what the populace is willing to pay. Imagine instead if Microsoft really had to compete for it's operating system market share-a huge chunk of their marketing budget, which is formidable, would be reallocated to development. The end result would be a better OS.
A sure indicator of the absence of free market ideals in Microsoft is their absurd profit and the proportions of money they spend on lobbying, marketing and PR versus what they spend on development. In a free market, companies compete on value, price, quality, etc. MS' only real competition is legislators and government actions.
The application of patents to software isn't enshrined in legislation, but instead was created by a series of court decisions and USPTO decisions.
Hence, the court has just as much power to strike down the beast as they did in creating it. Legislation would remove all ambiguity, where the supreme court is more likely to give as narrow an opinion as they can.
My previous experience in this matter was with a smallish multinational corporation with 20 or so offices around the world. It seemed to work fine for them.
Allowing business units to have their own assets isn't really a problem, but allowing that ownership to dictate IT processes isn't a great idea. Support should be standardized wherever possible to provide uniform service.
Place I worked at previously had an even much simpler method: the hostname is the cubicle number followed by the image build number.
It made a lot of physical services such as repairs and upgrades much faster and really, there is just too much information about a user and machine to even consider using the hostname to store it all.
My biggest gripe with software patents is the asinine frequency with which they are granted, despite the abundance of significant prior art and the lack of desire for patent examiners to reject applications based on said prior art.
I hate to break it to all the budding young developers-but their projects, however ingenious, are typically based upon tried and true computer science fundamentals and hard work, nothing else. There seem to be relatively few fundamental advances in computer science. Good examples of what I would consider patent-worthy inventions: Java virtual machine,.NET(yep, I said it), MS Office "ribbon" UI(even though I fucking hate it).
I also believe software patents should be limited to a term of 3 years, and some could make me a convincing argument even that is too long. Right now, software patents are nothing but a hindrance to the market and a leach to the hard work of others. How many companies have been pushed away from OSS because of litigious bastards?
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What he did was wrong, but not for the reasons you think.
Superfast trading puts all other traders at a disadvantage and essentially lets day traders manipulate the market. The SEC doesn't see fit to step in and stop the madness. They're a leech on the market and the frequency and volume of their trades hampers the ability for real investors(meaning people) to determine the volatility and legitimate trade volume of a stock.
Some day the SEC will pull their head out of their ass and put a mandatory ownership period on all stock purchases of 48 hours or something. Addicted day traders might stop gambling away their retirement and it might put an end to these fast traders.
What some people call a "bullshit excuse" I consider a legitimate argument. TPB didn't directly host any copyrighted materials.
I would rather see the content owners suing P2P users directly than trying to shut down those who merely host a glorified index of P2P users. At least then the public has the option of using copyright violation as a pseudo-civil disobedience to put pressure on the content producers to make more meaningful products worthy of purchase.
I fully support any foreign governments that choose to ignore the draconian DMCA. The law is nothing more than a legislative grant to content owners to use criminal laws to preserve their own profit.
The law is widely misused and doesn't do anything to protect citizens fair use rights. It's just a bad law that won't go away.
Not sure if you've noticed, but the retail price on computer components is far higher than the cost of buying a box and upgrading it.
I guess if you're a serious computing enthusiast, the pride and enjoyment might surpass the increased cost. I'm a bit more pragmatic and will always choose to just purchase and upgrade if/when necessary.
I appreciate Carmack's pragmatic reasoning instead of legal bullshit or calling us all pirates.
I have Windows and Linux available at home, so I don't really care. Yeah, it would be nice to not have to dual boot, but I see that as a necessary evil for the time being anyway, regardless of what games become available on Linux.
Exactly. Players with multiple characters race to the max level as quickly as possible and ignore the most fun aspects of the game.
I myself was victim to this with several characters during Burning Crusade and by the time my 3rd character reached level 70, the game was losing it's allure.
Since I have not played in over one year, I'm so far behind now that I have little desire to purchase any forthcoming expansions. Diablo 3 sounds very exciting and I will be sure to purchase that.
I read there is going to be a new Palm(not a Pre) coming to AT&T later this year or next year. I'm hoping it will be much like the Pre, but more refined and it wont spy on me.
Think I'm asking for too much?
It's obviously relevant.
CANBUS is short for Controller Area Network. It allows different automotive sensors to communicate with subsystem modules such as anti-lock braking, powertrain control modules, and engine control units. This is a good case for where a company that uses Linux, but whose product is NOT information technology specific might want to be involved in the development of Linux.
Real-time linux has had a big push from integrated systems development, where it's either "on-time" or it fails. Automotive is just another sector that can benefit from this. Any company that wants the most out of Linux is well served by having one or two full time developers whose sole purpose is to contribute to Linux and other open-source projects they rely on to be sure they continue to meet their requirements.
Already, too many companies use Linux for the core products of their business but contribute nothing back and will constantly be chasing their tail to keep their own modifications synchronized with new kernel releases. VW did the right thing and all you can think of to do is troll.
This thread is a clusterfuck. Posting to undo my +1 mod to Silentknyght. Eldavajohn is an idiot.
Too bad Taco wont just delete this whole thread.
It's not in the public domain. For any patch of sufficient size, the copyrights still remain with each individual developer(I'm ignoring derivative works, as that's beyond the scope of a slashdot comment).
So let's say IBM contributes a new driver. IBM keeps the copyright to the code, but gives license to use to all Linux users via the GPL. The key here is that because IBM still has that copyright, they are free to release that same driver as a closed source product as well, whereas Sun or Oracle couldn't take IBM's driver and sell a closed source version of it.
Microsoft has relased a few open source applications but I'm 99% sure they were PR stunts and they have zero interest in being active contributors to Linux success. I wouldn't expect to see Apple anywhere on the list either considering OSX is primarily BSD based.
Do you pay attention at all?
The contribution from VW was regarding CAN bus support. Do you even know what CAN bus is?
Weight itself isn't the issue, it's energy density and max instantaneous energy output.
Even if you could make a 1,000,000 amp-hour battery, it's useless if it's internal serial resistance is too high to provide the amperage needed. Conversely, a low ESR capacitor can deliver quite a punch, but not for long enough to drive a jet across the country.
A gazillion dollars a year are spent on developing new battery technologies. One day they might rival the density of gasoline but I'm not holding my breath any time soon.
Jesus must be in a bad mood. According to insurance companies, tornadoes are acts of god.
Today a tornado struck a church in Minneapolis.
The irony is delicious.
Qwest tried to convince me that I couldn't keep DSL unless I kept my phone service with them.
I promptly dropped Qwest for both DSL AND phone service. Now I get DSL through another provider and have no home phone service. I did get Qwest's "loyalty expert" or whoever it was when I was dropping my service to admit I could keep just DSL, but I told her to F herself.
You don't need voice service on your landline for DSL. If Qwest told you this(they tried to tell me this), they lied.
Newer GE Security alarms support cellular networks, although this does increase your monthly monitoring bill by $30 or more.
Got me there, hard line voice quality is very good. As for reliability, I've never had a long term outage on any cell carrier or a land line so I can't differentiate the two.
Agreed. I worked in a group email response department and spent the majority of my day writing emails. Writing emails all day greatly improved my ability to bang out very long, concise and grammatically correct emails over and over.
My handwriting has withered into a scratch that even I myself cannot read on some days. I recently returned to college and found myself desiring better note taking skills, but my penmanship is just too poor that I have resorted to taping lectures.
Don't be intentionally dense and dramatic. Every corporation desires perfect discrimination, where each customer is given the opportunity to pay the largest sum they think it is worth. I don't blame companies for seeking discrimination because that's what they do-make money. Microsoft hasn't suffered any downward pressure in pricing from the free market on it's OS products in 15 years due to their illegal monopoly.
No, I don't want to "interfere" with the consensual purchase of any MS product. What I would like to see is that any person, anywhere can buy any MS product they want without licensing restrictions forbidding it. So if a Mandarin speaking customer in the US wants to buy the Chinese version from a Chinese vendor for a fraction of what everyone else pays, the EULA can't deny you a license to use based on your location.
It's a global marketplace, but Microsoft, and more so the MPAA, view each country as a little isolated retail island. MS uses EULA terms to enforce this, and the MPAA has DMCA-backed region coding.
I'm not saying the UK version is too expensive, or that they should raise the price.
I'm saying it should be illegal for Microsoft to make any EULA limitation or try to exclude sale of EU versions to US customers.
All these years I have hated IE and now there might be a chance I can pay less for Windows AND not have IE installed by default(woohoo). I haven't read the EULA yet, but I would bet a fair amount of money that the EULA for the EU version will exclude licensing outside of Europe.
Actually the US doesn't grow much cane sugar compared to any of our other crops, much of our soil and climate isn't right for it. We can however grow corn in great volumes. I live in Minnesota, where every plot is covered in corn so what I advocate really is bad for my own state. I dont care though.
Tariffs are in place on imported cane sugar to make corn and corn products cheaper relatively to cane sugar, and to make our own cane sugar more competitive with that grown in places where it is very cheap. And yes, the government directly subsidizes corn production as well, even further imbalancing the market and having great negative impact on our health as well. Research isn't conclusive yet, but anecdotal evidence seems to point to fructose/glucose(HFCS and LFCS) mixes as a contributor to obesity and a trigger for diabetes.
Artificially enforcing price discrimination should be illegal. Countries have used tariffs for many years to try to balance the value of a cheaper import good with that which is produced locally to make their own products more competitive.
One example of the end result is a huge glut of corn syrup usage in american foods, whereas if there were no tariffs on cane sugar importation, sugar would once again be the primary sweetener used in food industry instead of corn syrup. This is market inefficiency at its finest.
Perfect discrimination is the antithesis of a free market, where the populace collectively determines the value of a product based on what the populace is willing to pay. Imagine instead if Microsoft really had to compete for it's operating system market share-a huge chunk of their marketing budget, which is formidable, would be reallocated to development. The end result would be a better OS.
A sure indicator of the absence of free market ideals in Microsoft is their absurd profit and the proportions of money they spend on lobbying, marketing and PR versus what they spend on development. In a free market, companies compete on value, price, quality, etc. MS' only real competition is legislators and government actions.
The application of patents to software isn't enshrined in legislation, but instead was created by a series of court decisions and USPTO decisions.
Hence, the court has just as much power to strike down the beast as they did in creating it. Legislation would remove all ambiguity, where the supreme court is more likely to give as narrow an opinion as they can.
My previous experience in this matter was with a smallish multinational corporation with 20 or so offices around the world. It seemed to work fine for them.
Allowing business units to have their own assets isn't really a problem, but allowing that ownership to dictate IT processes isn't a great idea. Support should be standardized wherever possible to provide uniform service.
Place I worked at previously had an even much simpler method: the hostname is the cubicle number followed by the image build number.
It made a lot of physical services such as repairs and upgrades much faster and really, there is just too much information about a user and machine to even consider using the hostname to store it all.
My biggest gripe with software patents is the asinine frequency with which they are granted, despite the abundance of significant prior art and the lack of desire for patent examiners to reject applications based on said prior art.
I hate to break it to all the budding young developers-but their projects, however ingenious, are typically based upon tried and true computer science fundamentals and hard work, nothing else. There seem to be relatively few fundamental advances in computer science. Good examples of what I would consider patent-worthy inventions: Java virtual machine, .NET(yep, I said it), MS Office "ribbon" UI(even though I fucking hate it).
I also believe software patents should be limited to a term of 3 years, and some could make me a convincing argument even that is too long. Right now, software patents are nothing but a hindrance to the market and a leach to the hard work of others. How many companies have been pushed away from OSS because of litigious bastards?
I like just about everything gratis, but I will say this: A good book is worth every penny.
I have a lot of really tremendous books that you could only pry from my cold dead hands.