From the limited sample I have met personally, yes.
Anecdote is not the singular form of data.
If you found a passionate Apple user, you know what they own. If you find someone with a Mac and a PC who doesn't care about one over the other, you'd NEVER KNOW they were a Mac owner, as they never spoke up.
However you only tend to see blind loyalty and striking out at any disent on the doomed platforms.
No, blind loyalty and striking out at dissent is par for the course of any platform. There are still Windows users who believe Microsoft can do no wrong, I find them in my industry. "Oh, sure, they make a few mistakes, but they are the best out there" they'll say, while recommending end-to-end Microsoft solutions.
You also see blind loyalty in other industries, especially the car industry. I know a lot of smug VW owners, for example.
And apparently you won't find many who have owned a Mac for more than a couple of years who haven't join the Cult of Mac.
Maybe. More likely, anyone who's owned a Mac was fairly satisfied with the experience and is ready to point that out to others. Graduating to the Cult of Mac is more reserved for the people who hang out on Apple rumor websites and trade pre-release copies of the next OSX release.
And be honest for a minute. The day before Steve handed out the x86 Kool-Aid you would probably have been among the most rabid defenders of the inherent superiority of PPC. And when he announces OS XI you will be stunned and dismayed for a day or two and then be out on the online fora hailing it as the smartest thing since the last thing Steve did.
Dude, do you want to have a conversation here do you want to keep wanking and painting Mac users with a broad brush? The man says 'I bought a PPC machine for OSX', which you somehow warped into 'Steve Jobs is an infallible God.'
Is every Mac user an automatic member of the Church of Jobs?
You just admitted to using Linux. Should I piegonhole you and start making assumptions about your position with regards to code licensing?
You make a reasonable list of arguments in favor of Apple piggybacking on x86/Windows. Tone down the idiotic rhetoric and you might start a reasonable dialog, instead of drawing responses like mine.
(posted using my never-used account just so that this gets seen)
A content creator deserves to be compensated for their creation. Illegal copying is denying the content creator's chance to be compensated. If a content creator wants to give out their content without compensation, that is their decision (see: public domain, open source, etc), but that decision cannot be made for them.
If you never wanted to/could afford to buy the content anyway, you have no inherit right to it in the first place.
Really, I don't like draconian IP enforcement, I don't like the DMCA, I don't like DRM, etc. However, I work for a software company. Copyright pays the bills. This business, and thousands like it (including publishers, tv / movie studios, etc) wouldn't bother opening up every morning if copyright law wasn't there to protect the fruits of our labor.
I hardly see the difference this makes, I don't post on here with my account, for my own reasons. I've had max karma ever since the karma kap came into effect.
Signing your name isn't half as important as being right. I post AC all the time on here & I'm regularly modded up. I don't have to justify my existance to another 'coward' but I will, because I believe in anonymous posting.
I disagree. How many weblogs are out there? How many places are there to get your fill of content for only the annoyance of ads? Dozens. I mean, you can go to the portals, you can go to/., you can go to the source (AP wire, CNN, etc).
Now, turn that around. There must be something special about the sites that you frequent. That is what you're more or less paying for. The content isn't really in question. Information is abundant. You should be paying for what you feel is exceptional. Hence, comparing it to a tip system.
..isn't that people don't want to pay for content. I think it's that said contents value is different in everyone's eyes.
Suppose for a minute that you spent your life on one website, and it was your main source of daily happenings. Then a $30/yr price would seem fairly sweet. Suppose tho, that you only visit a website maybe twice a week. Or twice a month. The price suddenly becomes larger in your eyes.
I would have no problem throwing tips in a jar for sites like/., Sluggy Freelance, K5 or any of the other links on my toolbar. However, I don't want that price to be dictated to me. Consider a restaraunt.. I always feel like the proprieters don't trust me whatsoever when they put the tip on the bill for me.
Sure, just like you have a right to own a gun, leave it sitting on the border of your property, then shruging your shoulders when someone commits a crime with it.
Of course, on the other hand, you aren't responsible if your car is broken into and it is involved in an accident/crime, it's NOT your problem.
So, really, it's just a matter of precedence. It's up to a judge in a case that's never been to court yet whether your misued resources are your problem. I hope the concept of negligence works its way in, because a neglegent sysadmin can be responsible, indirectly, for measurable damage/loss.
And what's more.. If Linux has been running in the 'real world' on Itaniums for 6 months before quantity shipments, it means we'll have ironed out a lot of the bugs that come from point-oh releases:)
OTOH, don't expect to see a Service Pack for any initial Itanium issues in the MS release till some time in 2002.
Well, as much as this whole 'fiasco' reminds me of 'fiascos' past that really weren't, I have to put in my 2 cents. I have seen the future of PC's and I'm, honestly, wondering what-the-fuck.
Has anyone heard about the heatsinks on these things? New power supply? Reminds me of a Voodoo5. In case you've never seen one, a Voodoo5 is a full length AGP card that needs to be plugged into a hard drive power source. These things are meant to be the best of the best, and instead they just run pretty fast and run hot as hell. AMD isn't a whole lot better.. The shop I work in recommends that all Athlons (.9GHz+) be equipped with a 300W power supply.
What's going on here? Whatever happened to smaller and cooler? I thought some of the best 'geek' wants were just those.. Webpads, wireless, laptops, etc. These things are none of those, and also not cheap. People like the idea of cheap, small, portable and cool. (Starts thinking about Snow Crash and Diamond Age.. Mmmm...)
Instead we're basically buying these things and letting Intel know that we don't actually mind if our desktop systems are getting bigger again and starting to look like older style computers. Yeah, the downward trend of software doesn't help too, I know, but what's wrong with making what we have more.... accesible.
Well yeah, what do you think allowed the DDOS attacks to happen?
I find it funny that an OOTB install of Linux is far more remotely-useful then the equivelant NT install. Hell, Terminal Server is expensive and actually not that popular for l33t kiddies. Funny, that's one of Linux's big advantages, the lower inital cost of deployment (RH boxed has enough utilities to equal up to over $20k of NT licenses).
There are thousands of boxes to own out there to have, I've just never found enough incentive to want all em. Unless I wanted a bitchin d.net rank..:)
I'm printing and framing this. Convergence, with your permission as well, I'd like to republish this post of yours every time someone starts chirping about 'Communism' and what not.
Your argument would hold water if it wasn't for the fact that current crypto wasn't basically the same as plaintext when quantum algos are used..
It's a bit of an arms race you could say. Once the technology can reach everyone, everyone demands better. Soon it'll reach the point where no matter how strong you make your RSA/DES keys, they may as well be ROT13. After that, well, its no longer privacy unless you break out the quantum.
Of course, this is G.W. "There Ought To Be Limits" Bush we're talking about here. He's got no problem with privacy as long as it's Big Business keeping trade secrets from Evil Badguys or whatever..
But turn around and put up a parody page to his campaign website and you'll see him up in arms about how political webpages ought to be regulated. Right, that sounds like the freedom of speech we've all come to know and love.
I'd (probably) have to log on to my companies network by a fixed time, so thats not a problem.
This is why we have Perl, Cron and bad IRC/ICQ/whatever-messaging-system-you-use-to-talk- to-work AI's that keep people distracted with randoms like "Hold on, the cat just puked" and "BRB, my breakfast burrito is done."
Although I agree wholeheartedly with this idea. I'd love to have some form of high-speed, high-reliability random access rewritable media for the road.
Especially seeing as these things are being used more and more often in Digital Cameras and PDAs. But for the purpose of transporting documents, I think it's a little overkill and pricey to boot.
Take the old "Faster, Cheaper, Better" and replace it with "Capacity, Reliability, Price." You still only get to choose 2. Lets look at the options:
Floppy: Low capacity, mediocre reliability, amazing price. Probably why they're still around. If you want to move small documents, pictures, binaries, etc. then floppies are a good choice. The down side of course being the point of this article.. The reliability thing.
Sandisks: Variable capacity, high reliability, high price. The drives are small and based on USB, so theres no real worry about where you can and can't be able to read your paper. However, the USB drives are cheap, but the smallest Sandisk is 8 megs for $40 (MSRP). That's $5/meg, which by any standard is horrendous. Of course, it does suit the portability and reliability.. But students probably won't want to spend $40(disk)+$30(drive) just so they can get term papers back and forth.
Network: Virtually unlimited capacity, variable capacity, variable price. I like the idea of everyone having a little network share that they can always access. It's not too hard to implement, even across platforms. Of course, what do you do when the network is down or you want to take it home to a computer that isn't wired? This makes the option largely moot.. Physical media are a guaranteed thing.
Unfortunately, you won't find many more options past these ones. The 'big floppy' drives (LS-120, Zip) are out of the question (drives cost a pretty penny and are hardly a standard).
Your best bet? Beat some sense into the students. Floppies are your friend but they aren't flawless. Make backups, have spare disks on hand, etc etc. You'll convince a lot more people to do it that way then to spend enough money for a couple hundred floppies.
Better question: What's wrong with having something to hide? People have many reasons to keep secrets. What if I happen to disagree with the government? What if I belong to a minority social group and wish to feel safe?
Yhe right to privacy was one that was missed because it was something that was taken for granted. Noone envisioned what has become of the world. If the founding fathers of the United States honestly knew that something like this could exist, how much do you want to bet that a fundamental right to privacy would have made it to the Consititution? If they got to read a copy of '1984' (or should that be '2000') would they be whistling the same tune?
After all, isn't there some bit about people being able to feel safe in their homes from unwarranted search and confiscation? Sure, this is NZ we're talking about, but this is something that ought to be a basic human right.. The right to privacy.
So why don't we call the same 'Foul' against MS every time they release a product? I mean, if they can make up some BS about us stealing their code, why can't we do the same to them? After all, ours is there for anyone to look at.
Once you turn it around it becomes obvious that MS has very little solid ground to stand on with this issue. Not only are they saying 'Oh, actually, noone got anything, we were wrong,' but they have the balls to still levy litigation at any little OSS project they desire.
Of course.. And while we're at it, why don't we make a DNA database of every man, woman and child just to make forensics all the easier. And we should give up our firearms, our books, all our freedom.
After all, heaven knows we need to do this so that Big Brother can keep us safe from ourselves.
It wasn't meant to be a troll, I apologize. I honestly wondered how much of an effect this had. You talk about actions repeating, and I thought of stuff like that too. But what's the 'memory' on the chip? How far back does it remember to optomize?
I know that programs do the same things over and over and over, but what I wanted to ask was if this actually made a large impact in relation to the Crusoe itself.
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From the limited sample I have met personally, yes.
Anecdote is not the singular form of data.
If you found a passionate Apple user, you know what they own. If you find someone with a Mac and a PC who doesn't care about one over the other, you'd NEVER KNOW they were a Mac owner, as they never spoke up.
However you only tend to see blind loyalty and striking out at any disent on the doomed platforms.
No, blind loyalty and striking out at dissent is par for the course of any platform. There are still Windows users who believe Microsoft can do no wrong, I find them in my industry. "Oh, sure, they make a few mistakes, but they are the best out there" they'll say, while recommending end-to-end Microsoft solutions.
You also see blind loyalty in other industries, especially the car industry. I know a lot of smug VW owners, for example.
And apparently you won't find many who have owned a Mac for more than a couple of years who haven't join the Cult of Mac.
Maybe. More likely, anyone who's owned a Mac was fairly satisfied with the experience and is ready to point that out to others. Graduating to the Cult of Mac is more reserved for the people who hang out on Apple rumor websites and trade pre-release copies of the next OSX release.
And be honest for a minute. The day before Steve handed out the x86 Kool-Aid you would probably have been among the most rabid defenders of the inherent superiority of PPC. And when he announces OS XI you will be stunned and dismayed for a day or two and then be out on the online fora hailing it as the smartest thing since the last thing Steve did.
Dude, do you want to have a conversation here do you want to keep wanking and painting Mac users with a broad brush? The man says 'I bought a PPC machine for OSX', which you somehow warped into 'Steve Jobs is an infallible God.'
Is every Mac user an automatic member of the Church of Jobs?
You just admitted to using Linux. Should I piegonhole you and start making assumptions about your position with regards to code licensing?
You make a reasonable list of arguments in favor of Apple piggybacking on x86/Windows. Tone down the idiotic rhetoric and you might start a reasonable dialog, instead of drawing responses like mine.
(posted using my never-used account just so that this gets seen)
A content creator deserves to be compensated for their creation. Illegal copying is denying the content creator's chance to be compensated. If a content creator wants to give out their content without compensation, that is their decision (see: public domain, open source, etc), but that decision cannot be made for them.
If you never wanted to/could afford to buy the content anyway, you have no inherit right to it in the first place.
Really, I don't like draconian IP enforcement, I don't like the DMCA, I don't like DRM, etc. However, I work for a software company. Copyright pays the bills. This business, and thousands like it (including publishers, tv / movie studios, etc) wouldn't bother opening up every morning if copyright law wasn't there to protect the fruits of our labor.
Happy now?
I hardly see the difference this makes, I don't post on here with my account, for my own reasons. I've had max karma ever since the karma kap came into effect.
Signing your name isn't half as important as being right. I post AC all the time on here & I'm regularly modded up. I don't have to justify my existance to another 'coward' but I will, because I believe in anonymous posting.
Yours truly,
chickenshit
Becuase, now you're paying the Windows Tax AND the Censorware Tax on top of that. Just what we all needed, huh?
I disagree. How many weblogs are out there? How many places are there to get your fill of content for only the annoyance of ads? Dozens. I mean, you can go to the portals, you can go to /., you can go to the source (AP wire, CNN, etc).
Now, turn that around. There must be something special about the sites that you frequent. That is what you're more or less paying for. The content isn't really in question. Information is abundant. You should be paying for what you feel is exceptional. Hence, comparing it to a tip system.
..isn't that people don't want to pay for content. I think it's that said contents value is different in everyone's eyes.
/., Sluggy Freelance, K5 or any of the other links on my toolbar. However, I don't want that price to be dictated to me. Consider a restaraunt.. I always feel like the proprieters don't trust me whatsoever when they put the tip on the bill for me.
Suppose for a minute that you spent your life on one website, and it was your main source of daily happenings. Then a $30/yr price would seem fairly sweet. Suppose tho, that you only visit a website maybe twice a week. Or twice a month. The price suddenly becomes larger in your eyes.
I would have no problem throwing tips in a jar for sites like
Anyway, that's my CDN$0.02
Sure, just like you have a right to own a gun, leave it sitting on the border of your property, then shruging your shoulders when someone commits a crime with it.
Of course, on the other hand, you aren't responsible if your car is broken into and it is involved in an accident/crime, it's NOT your problem.
So, really, it's just a matter of precedence. It's up to a judge in a case that's never been to court yet whether your misued resources are your problem. I hope the concept of negligence works its way in, because a neglegent sysadmin can be responsible, indirectly, for measurable damage/loss.
And what's more.. If Linux has been running in the 'real world' on Itaniums for 6 months before quantity shipments, it means we'll have ironed out a lot of the bugs that come from point-oh releases :)
OTOH, don't expect to see a Service Pack for any initial Itanium issues in the MS release till some time in 2002.
If the 4 color vision is a good mutation, it will hopefully propogate into the general population eventually (well, half of it anyway :)
:)
Oh yeah, really great.. Especially all those colorblind male children that come of it..
increase its clock speed dramatically(4-5 times)
Well, as much as this whole 'fiasco' reminds me of 'fiascos' past that really weren't, I have to put in my 2 cents. I have seen the future of PC's and I'm, honestly, wondering what-the-fuck.
Has anyone heard about the heatsinks on these things? New power supply? Reminds me of a Voodoo5. In case you've never seen one, a Voodoo5 is a full length AGP card that needs to be plugged into a hard drive power source. These things are meant to be the best of the best, and instead they just run pretty fast and run hot as hell. AMD isn't a whole lot better.. The shop I work in recommends that all Athlons (.9GHz+) be equipped with a 300W power supply.
What's going on here? Whatever happened to smaller and cooler? I thought some of the best 'geek' wants were just those.. Webpads, wireless, laptops, etc. These things are none of those, and also not cheap. People like the idea of cheap, small, portable and cool. (Starts thinking about Snow Crash and Diamond Age.. Mmmm...) Instead we're basically buying these things and letting Intel know that we don't actually mind if our desktop systems are getting bigger again and starting to look like older style computers. Yeah, the downward trend of software doesn't help too, I know, but what's wrong with making what we have more.... accesible.
I'd describe it as more of a movie that's been edited for TV: Running time trimmed.
:)
That is to say the development was trimmed, as is the uptime of the damn program!
After all, a Director's Cut isn't always a bad thing. Netscape 6.0 will always be a bad thing
I prefer the Jar Jar death scene :)
Whoops, typo.. $200K is what i meant to say.
Well yeah, what do you think allowed the DDOS attacks to happen?
:)
I find it funny that an OOTB install of Linux is far more remotely-useful then the equivelant NT install. Hell, Terminal Server is expensive and actually not that popular for l33t kiddies. Funny, that's one of Linux's big advantages, the lower inital cost of deployment (RH boxed has enough utilities to equal up to over $20k of NT licenses).
There are thousands of boxes to own out there to have, I've just never found enough incentive to want all em. Unless I wanted a bitchin d.net rank..
I'm printing and framing this. Convergence, with your permission as well, I'd like to republish this post of yours every time someone starts chirping about 'Communism' and what not.
What say you?
Your argument would hold water if it wasn't for the fact that current crypto wasn't basically the same as plaintext when quantum algos are used..
It's a bit of an arms race you could say. Once the technology can reach everyone, everyone demands better. Soon it'll reach the point where no matter how strong you make your RSA/DES keys, they may as well be ROT13. After that, well, its no longer privacy unless you break out the quantum.
Of course, this is G.W. "There Ought To Be Limits" Bush we're talking about here. He's got no problem with privacy as long as it's Big Business keeping trade secrets from Evil Badguys or whatever..
But turn around and put up a parody page to his campaign website and you'll see him up in arms about how political webpages ought to be regulated. Right, that sounds like the freedom of speech we've all come to know and love.
This is why we have Perl, Cron and bad IRC/ICQ/whatever-messaging-system-you-use-to-talk
7 cents/M is a lot better then then the $2.34.
Although I agree wholeheartedly with this idea. I'd love to have some form of high-speed, high-reliability random access rewritable media for the road.
Especially seeing as these things are being used more and more often in Digital Cameras and PDAs. But for the purpose of transporting documents, I think it's a little overkill and pricey to boot.
Take the old "Faster, Cheaper, Better" and replace it with "Capacity, Reliability, Price." You still only get to choose 2. Lets look at the options:
Floppy: Low capacity, mediocre reliability, amazing price. Probably why they're still around. If you want to move small documents, pictures, binaries, etc. then floppies are a good choice. The down side of course being the point of this article.. The reliability thing.
Sandisks: Variable capacity, high reliability, high price. The drives are small and based on USB, so theres no real worry about where you can and can't be able to read your paper. However, the USB drives are cheap, but the smallest Sandisk is 8 megs for $40 (MSRP). That's $5/meg, which by any standard is horrendous. Of course, it does suit the portability and reliability.. But students probably won't want to spend $40(disk)+$30(drive) just so they can get term papers back and forth.
Network: Virtually unlimited capacity, variable capacity, variable price. I like the idea of everyone having a little network share that they can always access. It's not too hard to implement, even across platforms. Of course, what do you do when the network is down or you want to take it home to a computer that isn't wired? This makes the option largely moot.. Physical media are a guaranteed thing.
Unfortunately, you won't find many more options past these ones. The 'big floppy' drives (LS-120, Zip) are out of the question (drives cost a pretty penny and are hardly a standard).
Your best bet? Beat some sense into the students. Floppies are your friend but they aren't flawless. Make backups, have spare disks on hand, etc etc. You'll convince a lot more people to do it that way then to spend enough money for a couple hundred floppies.
Better question: What's wrong with having something to hide? People have many reasons to keep secrets. What if I happen to disagree with the government? What if I belong to a minority social group and wish to feel safe?
Yhe right to privacy was one that was missed because it was something that was taken for granted. Noone envisioned what has become of the world. If the founding fathers of the United States honestly knew that something like this could exist, how much do you want to bet that a fundamental right to privacy would have made it to the Consititution? If they got to read a copy of '1984' (or should that be '2000') would they be whistling the same tune?
After all, isn't there some bit about people being able to feel safe in their homes from unwarranted search and confiscation? Sure, this is NZ we're talking about, but this is something that ought to be a basic human right.. The right to privacy.
So why don't we call the same 'Foul' against MS every time they release a product? I mean, if they can make up some BS about us stealing their code, why can't we do the same to them? After all, ours is there for anyone to look at.
Once you turn it around it becomes obvious that MS has very little solid ground to stand on with this issue. Not only are they saying 'Oh, actually, noone got anything, we were wrong,' but they have the balls to still levy litigation at any little OSS project they desire.
Of course.. And while we're at it, why don't we make a DNA database of every man, woman and child just to make forensics all the easier. And we should give up our firearms, our books, all our freedom.
After all, heaven knows we need to do this so that Big Brother can keep us safe from ourselves.
It wasn't meant to be a troll, I apologize. I honestly wondered how much of an effect this had. You talk about actions repeating, and I thought of stuff like that too. But what's the 'memory' on the chip? How far back does it remember to optomize?
I know that programs do the same things over and over and over, but what I wanted to ask was if this actually made a large impact in relation to the Crusoe itself.