The concept of money is about trust, that's what we are saying here.
Yes, of COURSE they are in this to make money... who thought they weren't? They make money off service fees, off volume of business. The reserves they hold, which would be audited by a reputable financial firm. I've had a look at e-gold's.. looks good to me, have you?
If it's publicly used (new.net is) then it's subject to trademark law.
New.net is a stupid idea anyway. It circumvents the whole way DNS works, and the only time I almost installed it was when some gay app tried to install it without telling me.
The university requires you (the copyright holder) to grant them (the university) a nonexclusive royalty free right to use the work however they want. Period.
It does not grant them 'ownership' of the data, it does not take your copyright away, it simply says they can do what they feel like with it once you give it to them, and you can't expect any compensation for it.
You are perfectly free to also release the code under the GPL (and the BSD license, and a proprietary one, and any other license you feel like, because the code is YOURS)
Very little, very little indeed.
Not much of unix is in there. It's quite a bit different from a kernel point of view.. and as for the GUI.. it's 100% not-X.
The same reason your 10 shares of IBM have value.
They don't add up to squat, but they have value, because there is a market for them.
Same reason money has value; because people accept it.
Yes, Diamonds are actually not rare at all; DeBeers keeps them artificially rare. As far as you or I are concerned; they ARE rare, but factually, DeBeers has an unimaginable number of diamonds locked up in vaults all over the place.
While I don't have a degree in economics.. the history books clearly show... gold has retained it's basic value for thousands of years.
Untracable? Who cares. Cash is not traceable EITHER.
Over the long term, gold retains value (I make this statement by looking at history, not by predicting the future).
An couple ounces of gold, in Roman times, would buy a nice outfit for a roman statesman. A couple ounces of gold today will buy you a nice suit.
An ounce of gold will buy you dinner at a fine paris restaurant. An ounce of gold a hundred years ago would do the same.
The odds of a mine 'flooding the market' with more gold are very low. Gold production has remained relatively constant for recorded history; that's one reason it IS trusted so much; there is no percieved risk of someone distorting the market in the way you describe.
'Printing money' is up to mining corporations? The amount of gold held by a company like this is a small fraction of the global gold supply. There is a global, steady market for gold... it's more liquid than stock.
The whole idea is, they are acting as a bank, in the more traditional sense. You give them money, they buy gold, and hold that gold for you. It's yours. They don't spend it, lend it, or anything else, but they do charge you a small service fee.
They will transfer gold between accounts, etc. The gold is a security to represent your money.
They could just as well skip the gold part, and hold the money for you, but I have a feeling that would requrie a Banking license, which they probably don't have.
So instead, they buy gold.
It's been long-standing knowledge that Hotmail runs on FreeBSD. That's what it was built on, and moving it to NT would be (is) a nightmare.
And try to find a TCP/IP stack that *doesn't* have code derived from the BSD stack. Yes, I know it's out there... but BSD stacks are by far the most common. This is not news.
Wow... so, a month from graduation, they have no jobs, and you determine this is bad? What did they think.. they'd all be snapped up instantly?
Did you do no job research before you did Comp. Sci? There is nothing in your local town.. was there during the big boom?
Do you think that Yahoo, Microsft, etc are going to answer calls from the tens of thousands of applicants they get each week?
Do you have relevant job experience, or are you green? Are you trying to be a programmer, or an administrator, or what?
experience counts. This is not a negative against anyone...but no matter how 'good' you are at youre generalist job, many companies are not about to hand you a high level admin position with no experience, period.
I said much the same thing as you 8 years ago or so.. 'aww but look at my mad unix skills! I know tcp/ip inside out! I want the lead job'.. well, tough.. the guy who's 10 years older with a few more years experience actually doing the job gets that spot, and that's how it is. Why?
Sysadmin is more than the hardware, and the technology.. it's keeping it all together, management skills, doing the job. It's just *assumed* that you know the technical details.
This is not new to any profession either.. what do people think, you leave University and go straight to the top? Not likely.
Now, I'm not saying I didn't bitch and complain too.. but now, after a few years of working perhaps not the greatest jobs, I managed to get to the point where I actually can apply for high level positions and get interviews. I can attack the Sr. Admin position for some company with serious intent.
It is a mistake to assume all the 'dotcom poor' are techies. Many many dotcoms hired *lots* of people, at rather higher than average salaries, for technical support, phone handling, etc. Businesses are far more than just their programmers you know...
I mean, what do you expect? You have silicon valley, a huge influx of people move in to work because of the boom, and then things return to normal.. what do you expect is going to happen?
People with solid skills will find work. People without them will be in the same position they were in before this all happened in the first place.
It's up to developers, period.
Look at Nettrek.
For the unnitiated, a modified nettrek client is called a 'borg'. Main borg features are: automatic trajectory calculation&firing, automatic missile detonation if we can't escape it, etc. Due to the simple vector math in Nettrek, it's easy for a client to be modified to give you a huge advantage in lining up your shots/picking the absolute best time to do certain things.
How do the developers get around this? Simple. Signed code. Their software is set to return certain checksums to the server; the server can identify individual clients and allow/disallow them (so if someone writes a cool new client in Java, they can have it accepted at servers, it's up to the server operator)
SOme servers permit *any* client to connect, in which case the game changes to a contest of who has the best borg...
For single player, I don't call it cheating. You aren't 'cheating' anyone.. you purchased a game, you know how it works, and you found a way to do something else with it that pleases you. You aren't defrauding anyone.
Cheating on multiplayer... there are, and probably always will be, two equal and opposite viewpoints here. Those that say the game should be used as intended for multiplayer, and those who feel that client-server design is such that, if you can warp your client to display information your computer already knows about in a different way, then you should do so.
Examples: Mile high flags in Tribes, see-thru walls in Quake.... The now-defunct 'gambling' cheat in diablo 2..
IF the question is 'which network stack is fastest' there are ways to sort that out. 'which is better under high load'.
There are so many questions that can be asked...
And any of the systems tested are capable of blindingly fast network operations if the programmer takes into account the best way to do things on that particular machine.
Compiling the same code on 4 machines and testing the output is more of a compiler/libarary benchmark than a system benchmark.
So, based on using 1 of the dozen or so filesystems linux supports, you determine it's
crap?
Try reiserfs....
I bet that 18 gigs takes *forever* to fsck if you reboot...
15000 volts of electricity?
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I love how the media says that, as if it's some kind of quantity.
Say 10 billion watts of power.. or compare it to how long it could light up a city.. but don't just say '15,000 volts of electricity'. People have that in their TV set.
"Simon Hughes, program manager for worldwide pricing and licensing at Microsoft, said that under the subscription plan, Microsoft software won't use embedded self-help features, such as the ability to turn itself off or lose functionality at the end of a three-year licensing period. The company's goal will be to "work with customers to make them compliant" with the terms of the license. "
Right. That is, until this becomes widespread law, and they say 'but of course we use it, it's totally legal, look at the law'.
Cost is negligible; wireless requires less infrastrucutre and tearing up of the plane, plus network sockets can get zapped.
Wireless means no wires hanging out. It means they can hand you can grab a card from them when you get on the plane and turn it in when you get off....
Modern man paving the earth and killing animals can still lead to natural selection. Those animals that can exist in the new envornment survive, others don't. That's what natural selection is all about.
Of course, I'm not saying let's pave the earth.. only that natural selection happens whether we interfere or not.
Well...
I've heard super expensive stereo systems (as in audiophile gear, not feature-laden gear).. I've heard symphony on them. Very impressive indeed.
I've also seen live symphony. Still no comparison. Yes, the sound may be excellent, and technically accurate, but it's still not the same.
As I posted in another post...
Studio engineers do not use such high end equipment to mix things. What's the point in trying to reproduce a sound that the mixing engineer never even heard?
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The concept of money is about trust, that's what we are saying here.
Yes, of COURSE they are in this to make money... who thought they weren't? They make money off service fees, off volume of business. The reserves they hold, which would be audited by a reputable financial firm. I've had a look at e-gold's.. looks good to me, have you?
Though that is how most banks operate. Believe it or not, there are still banks that maintain a 100% cash reserve.
Banks by definition are places to hold your money; everything else varies.
If it's publicly used (new.net is) then it's subject to trademark law.
New.net is a stupid idea anyway. It circumvents the whole way DNS works, and the only time I almost installed it was when some gay app tried to install it without telling me.
You said it right in the posting.
The university requires you (the copyright holder) to grant them (the university) a nonexclusive royalty free right to use the work however they want. Period.
It does not grant them 'ownership' of the data, it does not take your copyright away, it simply says they can do what they feel like with it once you give it to them, and you can't expect any compensation for it.
You are perfectly free to also release the code under the GPL (and the BSD license, and a proprietary one, and any other license you feel like, because the code is YOURS)
Very little, very little indeed.
Not much of unix is in there. It's quite a bit different from a kernel point of view.. and as for the GUI.. it's 100% not-X.
IT's not just a bunch of scripted commands.
The same reason your 10 shares of IBM have value.
They don't add up to squat, but they have value, because there is a market for them.
Same reason money has value; because people accept it.
Yes, Diamonds are actually not rare at all; DeBeers keeps them artificially rare. As far as you or I are concerned; they ARE rare, but factually, DeBeers has an unimaginable number of diamonds locked up in vaults all over the place.
This is not the case for gold.
$100 bills are about the same then.
Gold's value is basedon market perception, and for thousands of years, there has been a merket for gold.
If we encountered economic collapse, and the dollar was worthless, people WOULD accept gold.
While I don't have a degree in economics.. the history books clearly show... gold has retained it's basic value for thousands of years.
Untracable? Who cares. Cash is not traceable EITHER.
Over the long term, gold retains value (I make this statement by looking at history, not by predicting the future).
An couple ounces of gold, in Roman times, would buy a nice outfit for a roman statesman. A couple ounces of gold today will buy you a nice suit.
An ounce of gold will buy you dinner at a fine paris restaurant. An ounce of gold a hundred years ago would do the same.
The odds of a mine 'flooding the market' with more gold are very low. Gold production has remained relatively constant for recorded history; that's one reason it IS trusted so much; there is no percieved risk of someone distorting the market in the way you describe.
'Printing money' is up to mining corporations? The amount of gold held by a company like this is a small fraction of the global gold supply. There is a global, steady market for gold... it's more liquid than stock.
this is all about trust.
The whole idea is, they are acting as a bank, in the more traditional sense. You give them money, they buy gold, and hold that gold for you. It's yours. They don't spend it, lend it, or anything else, but they do charge you a small service fee.
They will transfer gold between accounts, etc. The gold is a security to represent your money.
They could just as well skip the gold part, and hold the money for you, but I have a feeling that would requrie a Banking license, which they probably don't have.
So instead, they buy gold.
It's been long-standing knowledge that Hotmail runs on FreeBSD. That's what it was built on, and moving it to NT would be (is) a nightmare.
And try to find a TCP/IP stack that *doesn't* have code derived from the BSD stack. Yes, I know it's out there... but BSD stacks are by far the most common. This is not news.
Wow... so, a month from graduation, they have no jobs, and you determine this is bad? What did they think.. they'd all be snapped up instantly?
Did you do no job research before you did Comp. Sci? There is nothing in your local town.. was there during the big boom?
Do you think that Yahoo, Microsft, etc are going to answer calls from the tens of thousands of applicants they get each week?
Do you have relevant job experience, or are you green? Are you trying to be a programmer, or an administrator, or what?
experience counts. This is not a negative against anyone...but no matter how 'good' you are at youre generalist job, many companies are not about to hand you a high level admin position with no experience, period.
I said much the same thing as you 8 years ago or so.. 'aww but look at my mad unix skills! I know tcp/ip inside out! I want the lead job'.. well, tough.. the guy who's 10 years older with a few more years experience actually doing the job gets that spot, and that's how it is. Why?
Sysadmin is more than the hardware, and the technology.. it's keeping it all together, management skills, doing the job. It's just *assumed* that you know the technical details.
This is not new to any profession either.. what do people think, you leave University and go straight to the top? Not likely.
Now, I'm not saying I didn't bitch and complain too.. but now, after a few years of working perhaps not the greatest jobs, I managed to get to the point where I actually can apply for high level positions and get interviews. I can attack the Sr. Admin position for some company with serious intent.
It is a mistake to assume all the 'dotcom poor' are techies. Many many dotcoms hired *lots* of people, at rather higher than average salaries, for technical support, phone handling, etc. Businesses are far more than just their programmers you know...
I mean, what do you expect? You have silicon valley, a huge influx of people move in to work because of the boom, and then things return to normal.. what do you expect is going to happen?
People with solid skills will find work. People without them will be in the same position they were in before this all happened in the first place.
It's up to developers, period.
Look at Nettrek.
For the unnitiated, a modified nettrek client is called a 'borg'. Main borg features are: automatic trajectory calculation&firing, automatic missile detonation if we can't escape it, etc. Due to the simple vector math in Nettrek, it's easy for a client to be modified to give you a huge advantage in lining up your shots/picking the absolute best time to do certain things.
How do the developers get around this? Simple. Signed code. Their software is set to return certain checksums to the server; the server can identify individual clients and allow/disallow them (so if someone writes a cool new client in Java, they can have it accepted at servers, it's up to the server operator)
SOme servers permit *any* client to connect, in which case the game changes to a contest of who has the best borg...
The point is, what about plain old code signing?
For single player, I don't call it cheating. You aren't 'cheating' anyone.. you purchased a game, you know how it works, and you found a way to do something else with it that pleases you. You aren't defrauding anyone.
Cheating on multiplayer... there are, and probably always will be, two equal and opposite viewpoints here. Those that say the game should be used as intended for multiplayer, and those who feel that client-server design is such that, if you can warp your client to display information your computer already knows about in a different way, then you should do so.
Examples: Mile high flags in Tribes, see-thru walls in Quake.... The now-defunct 'gambling' cheat in diablo 2..
And that'll never change.
crappy benchmark, to say the least.
IF the question is 'which network stack is fastest' there are ways to sort that out. 'which is better under high load'.
There are so many questions that can be asked...
And any of the systems tested are capable of blindingly fast network operations if the programmer takes into account the best way to do things on that particular machine.
Compiling the same code on 4 machines and testing the output is more of a compiler/libarary benchmark than a system benchmark.
So, based on using 1 of the dozen or so filesystems linux supports, you determine it's
crap?
Try reiserfs....
I bet that 18 gigs takes *forever* to fsck if you reboot...
I love how the media says that, as if it's some kind of quantity.
Say 10 billion watts of power.. or compare it to how long it could light up a city.. but don't just say '15,000 volts of electricity'. People have that in their TV set.
"Simon Hughes, program manager for worldwide pricing and licensing at Microsoft, said that under the subscription plan, Microsoft software won't use embedded self-help features, such as the ability to turn itself off or lose functionality at the end of a three-year licensing period. The company's goal will be to "work with customers to make them compliant" with the terms of the license. "
Right. That is, until this becomes widespread law, and they say 'but of course we use it, it's totally legal, look at the law'.
Yup. Wrong of me to assume. My bad.
Cost is negligible; wireless requires less infrastrucutre and tearing up of the plane, plus network sockets can get zapped.
Wireless means no wires hanging out. It means they can hand you can grab a card from them when you get on the plane and turn it in when you get off....
GPS does not use atmospheric pressure to determine altitude, it uses GPS, so pressure has 0 bearing on what the altitude is.
Modern man paving the earth and killing animals can still lead to natural selection. Those animals that can exist in the new envornment survive, others don't. That's what natural selection is all about.
Of course, I'm not saying let's pave the earth.. only that natural selection happens whether we interfere or not.
Is that, in order to learn CS, you should learn
a) Modula-2
c) Smalltalk
d) Scheme (or lisp)
Then graduate to applied languages.
C, C++, Java, etc...
Well...
I've heard super expensive stereo systems (as in audiophile gear, not feature-laden gear).. I've heard symphony on them. Very impressive indeed.
I've also seen live symphony. Still no comparison. Yes, the sound may be excellent, and technically accurate, but it's still not the same.
As I posted in another post...
Studio engineers do not use such high end equipment to mix things. What's the point in trying to reproduce a sound that the mixing engineer never even heard?