Actually the transmeta chips aren't actually x86 chips at all. In theory, the transmeta chips could be made to utilize the same byte code instructions as G4 chips. For that matter, they could be made to use Jave virtual machine byte code. They're really quite dynamic chips.
Re:Liar liar pants on fire...
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Yes, expect to be jerked around because it seems to be the norm these days. Accept it? Hell no! Personally, I hold the opinion that these big corporations that demonstrate they have the capacity to provide good customer service to sign up customers, but consistently demonstrate poor customer service (on the level of harassment) should be fined heavily. That money should go directly into general government funding and thus help lift tax burden.
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And so it is said, and let it be so. I hate corporations that think they can write law into their account agreements and software license agreements. How the fuck can something in an agreement survive after the agreement is terminated? That's a logical impossibility. What it means to me is that there's no way to terminate the agreement completely. That's a dangerous precedent. I can see it now:
Section 3 You agree to remove any software that requires a Linux based operating system from all computers in your household. MS retains the right to perform on-site audits without any notice whatsoever.
Section 4 In accepting this agreement, you agree that your soul, if it does exist, belongs to Bill Gates.
Section 5 Without prior notice MS may terminate this agreement. You may terminate this agreement as well with written notice notarized, signed in blood, and hand delivered to customer service in Virginia.
Sections 3 and 4 of this Agreement shall survive termination of this Agreement.
If society adopts this, I think it will actually do a lot of good. Perhaps people will see the analogy of music and software and we may see licensing of music under some sort of Public license or otherwise creative licensing. There are so many possibilities, but the most positive idea I can think of would be a license similar to that which Vim has. The author of this software supports a noble concept known as charityware:
http://www.vim.org/new.licensedraft.txt
It would be cool to see a "Charity Music License". I know this concept could be completely abused i.e. charityware that promotes Scientology or the like, but it would surely also support some good causes as well.
I wish NASA would just put up a list of things they need. I suppose that's their next step. If they'd just ask I'd be happy to send them a motherboard that is sitting wasted under my desk in the box that my new motherboard came in. It has an AMD-K6/300 microprocessor on it. I'm sure they can use it more than I can.
Go ahead an mod me down because this is basically an emotional outburst, but I really think it is completely sad that society lacks the collective intelligence to see how important organizations such as NASA really are. The possibility of impact by an asteroid or other large space object alone justifies financing NASA adequately.
Microsoft wants to talk to the school districts individually because they want to implement the classic "divide and conquer" tactic. Unfortunately, MS is fighting a lost cause. Schools do not need to pay for Microsoft licensing. But the school districts haven't figured it out yet. Schools that learn to use open source software will have the money to spend elsewhere (such as on good textbooks) and they should, in theory, be much more likely to prosper. The result of using free (as in beer) software would be an effective increase in their federal funding.
In my opinion, the migration to open source and free (as in beer) is an inevitability. The only way this might change is if Microsoft decides to provide all its software for free (as in beer) to schools in an attempt to win once and for all. The only problem is that OSS just keeps getting better and easier. At some point, Linux may win just because it's the turtle in the race against the hare.
Has Microsoft actually engaged in any audits with companies, schools, etc.? Or is it a lot of hot air that they're spewing to get the gullable or fearful to fork over cash without a fight?
Laws that are made that cannot possibly be enforced are merely tools put in place by powerful people to screw anyone who pisses them off. In other words, they're designed to be selectively enforced to take care of people who dissent. Eventually it will be impossible to live without breaking some law. At that point, consider yourself enslaved.
Do you hear it? It's the sound of ten thousand rednecks in the southern US returning their PC's to wal-mart because they accidently bought a piece of crap they thought would be useful for getting pr0n off the internet. Instead, they got a system that wouldn't even boot. Friggin Wal-mart didn't even have enough clue to test their operating systems with the various "alternative" operating systems. Not that it would matter in the case of the rednecks, but they even lost their potential "niche" market of poor geeks.
No, but I'm pretty disappointed that AMD seems to be so willing to get in bed with Microsoft. Can you say "making a deal with the devil"? And I was extremely bothered that they had "XP" chips that seemed meant to match the Windows XP operating system. That's a scary precedent naming chips after a shoddy OS.
Actually, you're just plain wrong about your "crux" point. If a computer comes with an operating system without the accompanying license, a school is more than entitled to promptly format the hard drive, put an alternative "legally licensed" operating system on it, and accept the PC. They would be legally required to do this if they want the computer to be useful for computing, otherwise they could just format the hard drive, open it up, and put it on display. But the assertion that a preinstalled OS does has to accompany a machine for its lifetime is completely false. That's a complete lie that Microsoft would love to make people believe. It's obvious you've bought that lie hook, line, and sinker. That is simply sad.
How the hell did your post get modded up? I guess there's no accurate accounting for lack of critical thought.
People haven't learned science because "science is hard" and they don't want to put forth the energy to learn it. Personally, I love science. Unfortunately I didn't have very many good science teachers in high school. Only in college did I find more interesting and competent science instructors. But even then I found quite a few instructors betraying their students by failing to teach good science like EVOLUTION properly (of course I lived in Tennessee at the time). Only because I had done my homework at "www.talkorigins.org" did I know that the instructor wasn't really doing her job.
My slashdot journal entry is completely relevant.
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If my journal entry is not relevant, please mod me down. But whatever you do, don't mod me up as I will consider it Karma forced upon me against my will. In some other universe, that may even be considered Karma rape by some deranged ethicician:). Sharing is only good when it's consentual.
Why else do you think religion has done so well? If you don't believe ______, you're going to burn in hell baby!;)
Re:How to make this work.
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You know, you've really come up with a fantastic way to undermine the freedom of the internet. Just kidding, your idea will never work. Consider these scenerios:
1. This organization actually does award bounties. But unless those bounties get financed they will run out of money and probably not make a dent in the volume of piracy going on.
2. They get subsidized by the software industry (or other sources) and perhaps make a dent in the volume of piracy going on. Unfortunately, the software companies are likely to be forced to raise prices on their software (There's a lot of piracy going on out there!). That, of course, is likely to drive people towards free (in every sense of the word) software solutions. I can think of many consequences to this particular scenerio and none seem to bode well for the software industry.
There are probably many other possible scenerios, but I'll bet they lead to this question: From where, exactly, will the money to pay the bounties come? And the next obvious question is this: Assuming the witch hunt does get financed, how will those responsible for financing it survive the PR crucifixion?
And what I want to know is this: What are the long term effects of eating it? I'm serious. If it lasts that long, one must wonder what kind of preservatives are in it?
Compaq and HP....sheesh. only in an insane world. *closes eyes* *plugs ears* "No it didn't happen. I refuse to believe it!" nananannannnannananna na anna nanana
HP and Compaq merge? What's the point? It would be the blind leading the blind. If my hp deskjet600c printer was any more of a piece of whale dung, it would be laying in the bottom of a dumpster. My dot matrix printer I had in the early 80's had ten times the quality (even though it was slower).
As for Compaq, I'm never surprised what I pull out of a Compaq computer. Once I pulled out a footlong hard drive. Ugh. I think that machine was even still using Vesa Local Bus! It had a friggin AMD K6-233 in it (which was a complete contradiction to everything else in there). The memory was proprietary. Other than the the AMD processor, everything looked completely out of date. The hardware I saw was reminiscent of that which I used for my old 486dx4-100 machine. Talk about Frankenhardware!
That's already the case. Artists just haven't figured it out yet. And the recording industry is shitting their pants because they know it's the truth. That's why they're doing everything they can to push all this moronic legislation.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, they'll land there alright...and promptly remove our flag.
Actually the transmeta chips aren't actually x86 chips at all. In theory, the transmeta chips could be made to utilize the same byte code instructions as G4 chips. For that matter, they could be made to use Jave virtual machine byte code. They're really quite dynamic chips.
Yes, expect to be jerked around because it seems to be the norm these days. Accept it? Hell no! Personally, I hold the opinion that these big corporations that demonstrate they have the capacity to provide good customer service to sign up customers, but consistently demonstrate poor customer service (on the level of harassment) should be fined heavily. That money should go directly into general government funding and thus help lift tax burden.
And so it is said, and let it be so. I hate corporations that think they can write law into their account agreements and software license agreements. How the fuck can something in an agreement survive after the agreement is terminated? That's a logical impossibility. What it means to me is that there's no way to terminate the agreement completely. That's a dangerous precedent. I can see it now:
Section 3
You agree to remove any software that requires a Linux based operating system from all computers in your household. MS retains the right to perform on-site audits without any notice whatsoever.
Section 4
In accepting this agreement, you agree that your soul, if it does exist, belongs to Bill Gates.
Section 5
Without prior notice MS may terminate this agreement. You may terminate this agreement as well with written notice notarized, signed in blood, and hand delivered to customer service in Virginia.
Sections 3 and 4 of this Agreement shall survive termination of this Agreement.
If society adopts this, I think it will actually do a lot of good. Perhaps people will see the analogy of music and software and we may see licensing of music under some sort of Public license or otherwise creative licensing. There are so many possibilities, but the most positive idea I can think of would be a license similar to that which Vim has. The author of this software supports a noble concept known as charityware:
http://www.vim.org/new.licensedraft.txt
It would be cool to see a "Charity Music License". I know this concept could be completely abused i.e. charityware that promotes Scientology or the like, but it would surely also support some good causes as well.
But is it possible to have two keyboards attached via USB and play multi-player games against the girlfriend?
I wish NASA would just put up a list of things they need. I suppose that's their next step. If they'd just ask I'd be happy to send them a motherboard that is sitting wasted under my desk in the box that my new motherboard came in. It has an AMD-K6/300 microprocessor on it. I'm sure they can use it more than I can.
Go ahead an mod me down because this is basically an emotional outburst, but I really think it is completely sad that society lacks the collective intelligence to see how important organizations such as NASA really are. The possibility of impact by an asteroid or other large space object alone justifies financing NASA adequately.
Microsoft wants to talk to the school districts individually because they want to implement the classic "divide and conquer" tactic. Unfortunately, MS is fighting a lost cause. Schools do not need to pay for Microsoft licensing. But the school districts haven't figured it out yet. Schools that learn to use open source software will have the money to spend elsewhere (such as on good textbooks) and they should, in theory, be much more likely to prosper. The result of using free (as in beer) software would be an effective increase in their federal funding.
In my opinion, the migration to open source and free (as in beer) is an inevitability. The only way this might change is if Microsoft decides to provide all its software for free (as in beer) to schools in an attempt to win once and for all. The only problem is that OSS just keeps getting better and easier. At some point, Linux may win just because it's the turtle in the race against the hare.
Straw man. I never said all rednecks were stupid.
Fact: Most Wal-Marts are in the South, but even if they were not it would be irrelevant to my comment.
Fact: Even if a redneck is highly intelligent, he'd be justified taking the computer back because the modem was made for windows.
So after your fight with the scarecrow, lose the chip.
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Sure Mod me down, but keep in mind that it's probably reflects badly on your critical thinking skills.
Has Microsoft actually engaged in any audits with companies, schools, etc.? Or is it a lot of hot air that they're spewing to get the gullable or fearful to fork over cash without a fight?
Laws that are made that cannot possibly be enforced are merely tools put in place by powerful people to screw anyone who pisses them off. In other words, they're designed to be selectively enforced to take care of people who dissent. Eventually it will be impossible to live without breaking some law. At that point, consider yourself enslaved.
Do you hear it? It's the sound of ten thousand rednecks in the southern US returning their PC's to wal-mart because they accidently bought a piece of crap they thought would be useful for getting pr0n off the internet. Instead, they got a system that wouldn't even boot. Friggin Wal-mart didn't even have enough clue to test their operating systems with the various "alternative" operating systems. Not that it would matter in the case of the rednecks, but they even lost their potential "niche" market of poor geeks.
No, but I'm pretty disappointed that AMD seems to be so willing to get in bed with Microsoft. Can you say "making a deal with the devil"? And I was extremely bothered that they had "XP" chips that seemed meant to match the Windows XP operating system. That's a scary precedent naming chips after a shoddy OS.
Be accurate: It sells hope.
Actually, you're just plain wrong about your "crux" point. If a computer comes with an operating system without the accompanying license, a school is more than entitled to promptly format the hard drive, put an alternative "legally licensed" operating system on it, and accept the PC. They would be legally required to do this if they want the computer to be useful for computing, otherwise they could just format the hard drive, open it up, and put it on display. But the assertion that a preinstalled OS does has to accompany a machine for its lifetime is completely false. That's a complete lie that Microsoft would love to make people believe. It's obvious you've bought that lie hook, line, and sinker. That is simply sad.
How the hell did your post get modded up? I guess there's no accurate accounting for lack of critical thought.
People haven't learned science because "science is hard" and they don't want to put forth the energy to learn it. Personally, I love science. Unfortunately I didn't have very many good science teachers in high school. Only in college did I find more interesting and competent science instructors. But even then I found quite a few instructors betraying their students by failing to teach good science like EVOLUTION properly (of course I lived in Tennessee at the time). Only because I had done my homework at "www.talkorigins.org" did I know that the instructor wasn't really doing her job.
If my journal entry is not relevant, please mod me down. But whatever you do, don't mod me up as I will consider it Karma forced upon me against my will. In some other universe, that may even be considered Karma rape by some deranged ethicician :). Sharing is only good when it's consentual.
Why else do you think religion has done so well? If you don't believe ______, you're going to burn in hell baby! ;)
You know, you've really come up with a fantastic way to undermine the freedom of the internet. Just kidding, your idea will never work. Consider these scenerios:
1. This organization actually does award bounties. But unless those bounties get financed they will run out of money and probably not make a dent in the volume of piracy going on.
2. They get subsidized by the software industry (or other sources) and perhaps make a dent in the volume of piracy going on. Unfortunately, the software companies are likely to be forced to raise prices on their software (There's a lot of piracy going on out there!). That, of course, is likely to drive people towards free (in every sense of the word) software solutions. I can think of many consequences to this particular scenerio and none seem to bode well for the software industry.
There are probably many other possible scenerios, but I'll bet they lead to this question: From where, exactly, will the money to pay the bounties come? And the next obvious question is this: Assuming the witch hunt does get financed, how will those responsible for financing it survive the PR crucifixion?
>What we need is an open language that matches up to java and c#. Something free of patents and IP.
Jython ?
And what I want to know is this: What are the long term effects of eating it? I'm serious. If it lasts that long, one must wonder what kind of preservatives are in it?
Compaq and HP....sheesh. only in an insane world. *closes eyes* *plugs ears* "No it didn't happen. I refuse to believe it!" nananannannnannananna na anna nanana
HP and Compaq merge? What's the point? It would be the blind leading the blind. If my hp deskjet600c printer was any more of a piece of whale dung, it would be laying in the bottom of a dumpster. My dot matrix printer I had in the early 80's had ten times the quality (even though it was slower).
As for Compaq, I'm never surprised what I pull out of a Compaq computer. Once I pulled out a footlong hard drive. Ugh. I think that machine was even still using Vesa Local Bus! It had a friggin AMD K6-233 in it (which was a complete contradiction to everything else in there). The memory was proprietary. Other than the the AMD processor, everything looked completely out of date. The hardware I saw was reminiscent of that which I used for my old 486dx4-100 machine. Talk about Frankenhardware!
That's already the case. Artists just haven't figured it out yet. And the recording industry is shitting their pants because they know it's the truth. That's why they're doing everything they can to push all this moronic legislation.