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Here's a little bit of wisdom from Mr. Alan Greenspan.
The world of antitrust is reminiscent of Alice's Wonderland: everything seemingly is, yet apparently isn't, simultaneously. It is a world in which competition is lauded as the basic axiom and guiding principle, yet "too much" competition is condemned as "cutthroat." It is a world in which actions designed to limit competition are branded as criminal when taken by businessmen, yet praised as "enlightened" when initiated by the government. It is a world in which the law is so vague that businessmen have no way of knowing whether specific actions will be declared illegal until they hear the judge's verdict -- after the fact. In view of the confusion, contradictions, and legalistic hairsplitting which characterize the realm of antitrust, I submit that the entire antitrust system must be opened for review.
I have yet to understand why anyone thinks anti-trust legislation as moral, practical, or effective in reaching it's desired goals.
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Read Alan Greenspan's essay "Anti-trust". You'll be enlightened.
Who cares? It's entertainment. This isn't bread, or houses, this is movies and magazines. Noone can reasonably claim a right to Sports Illustrated, and can choose not to buy Internet from AOL, or Time magazine from Time Warner.
All this talk of monopolies and anti-trust brings me to another somewhat offtopic matter. Back in the day, IBM got slammed by anti-trust for giving away an operating system when they got server hardware. Now IBM announces that it will port linux to their server platform and have a free operating system for all their server hardware, and/. sits up and cheers?
You see I live in a small rural town in Saskatchewan that goes by the name of North Battleford. Our town has few men of my calibre, and even fewer willing to stand up to me in an M&M duel. I have been proforming rigorous testing religiously every weekday at 3:00pm at which time I go through exactly two 400g bags of M&M's to find the strongest of each bag. I save these chosen ones in a specially crafted Barrel of Monkey's container until I have ammased several hundred Chosen one's. After, several years I think I have found the strongest M&M ever produced by man or beast. It is twice the size of a normal M&M however X-ray, sonar, and density analysis show that is little, if any chocalate contained within it's candy coated walls. But I find now that I have competition. Let me tell you this, straight up. I like your style, champ, and I am willing to take you under my wing, train you and release you, and a team of elite Special Op M&M's, to the world to achieve World Domination. I have long thought those linux hackers are on the total wrong path; World Domination can only be achieved through specially chosen M&M's.
Do you think a source for very cheap electric power, like nuclear fusion or John Galt's generator a la Atlas Shrugged, will be seen in our lifetime, and if so, what major changes in society do you forsee.
As for "News for Nerds", wouldn't all news then be for nerds as any news will affect a nerd, somewhere. Even "Snowball hits nerd in face" should be on/., then. As for stuff that matters, Yeltsin resigning is hardly news worthy of worldy notice. I contend that/. should cover the carnage in Chechnya, and every other genocide being performed in the world today. They have more impact on people then a simple changing of the guard.
Great! If they go to Windows only format, that leaves open a great niche for an alternative OS minded company to get a strong foot hold. And seeing how open systems generally tend to be better, faster, cheaper, and last longer, in most cases, it seems as though Yahoo! may be helping to feed their destroyers.
My cousin was really wowed when Win95 came out, and quickly got addicted to Minesweeper. Then he went to North Korea and tried to stick a flag on a mine. It was difficuly IDing him even with the dental records. It was quite sad, but that's what he gets for buying Windows.
The open source DOES have defenses against determined and moneyed enemy. Open source is designed to combat just that. I contend that moneyed enemies have no defense against what open source is intended to be: another choice in computing. I agree that MS should not have tampered with java, but only because it was against their licencing agreement. However, noone, thankfully, has to apply for a licence to use http, so everyone is free to try to coopt it. Netscape has tried to coopt it; AOL has tried to coopt it; hell, even some governments have tried to put their mitts on it. But, with the exception of the government, noone is forcing you to use their application of the technology. I, too, have found sites that only work with MS technology, but I have also found that those sites tend not be worth my time to visit, so I choose to bypass them. I find it saddening that so many intellegent readers of slashdot do not realize that they have the power of choice and are not at the mercy of anyone else in the free market of the internet. Look at all the MS led technological initiatives that failed miserably because they were crap. The ones that succeeded seemed to fill a niche that no other company could and won because of it. In the free market, I have no sympathy for the sore losers.
Obviously you can't factor primes. Prime factoring is the process of finding all the prime factors of a number. Example: 2x2x3=12. Those are the prime factors. I think that is the basic trouble in cracking strong encryption, the type the NSA thinks is worse to export then generally crappy OS's. I'll check my notes first.
Hmmm, Prime factoring on a linear timescale. Doubtful. I'm pretty certain any number of people have tried your method, and since just about every encryption protocol based upon this method is still standing, I would assume noone has done it. And if they did, I'm sure the NSA would quickly have their hands all over and would quit trying to prevent encryption from spreading.
There are obvious problems in using opensource software for medical purposes. The first is that someone has to pay the enormous cost of getting any technology to pass numerous tests to be certified okay for keeping humans alive. This is an expesive process to make the FDA and any other government body resposible for health products, and I doubt that the people who pay for this process are going to be willing to risk the return on this investment by giving away the software. Perhaps, the source could be open and able to be improved by people who have bought the software from the owners. Secondly, there needs to be somebody to be liable for any damages/lawsuits that might spring up. I doubt that any medical assoc. will be willing to take the liability onto themselves. Just a few problems.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't Marx have dismissed intellectual acts such as writing an operating system as "bourgeois"? For that matter, I bet he would see computers as a whole as unnecessary
Agreed, at least to some level. However, I see linux as a triumph of capitalism. In a communist system, the coders who developed linux would not have owned the code they wrote, and could not determine the restrictions, or lack of, on its use. The programmers on open source tools, etc. are still free to profit from their property to whatever degree they are able to, but seem to enjoy the "profit" of knowing they developed something good.
I wonder what the US will do to Linux when it is endorsed by the same country that endorsed the mass starvation of millions of people to forge their "community ethos". Perhaps, they'll start rounding up coders in order to force them onto colectivized programming farms.
What? How can microsoft "have a oligopoly"? An industry operates in a state of oligopoly -- run by a few. Also, the statistic used in this case of 90% market penetration was for single-user, desktop pcs, on Intel architecture. The only other operating system that I can think that fits that criteria was OS/2, and to think they hold 10% is rather remarkable. Besides, single-user Operating systems will be largely irrelevent as more and more computing is done in a networked environment.
You still haven't answered how it served me as a consumer to have to buy a copy of Windows that I will never use? Quit whining! Jesus. You can buy computers without Windows, as you have admitted. It is not the MS's responsibility to make sure that hardware retailers give you options. It is not the hardware responsibility to make sure you are completly satisfied with their products. If you don't like that they sell Windows with complete systems, you don't have to enter into that contract. If they are selling "Desktop PC with Windows" and you fork over the money, that's what you will get. Other companies are not a slave to your happiness. Grow up.
Both the KKK and the (modern) Black Rights movements are forms of tribalism. They do share the idea that identity is determined by race, and not the content of one's ideas.
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Here's a little bit of wisdom from Mr. Alan Greenspan.
The world of antitrust is reminiscent of Alice's Wonderland: everything seemingly is, yet apparently isn't, simultaneously. It is a world in which competition is lauded as the basic axiom and guiding principle, yet "too much" competition is condemned as "cutthroat." It is a world in which actions designed to limit competition are branded as criminal when taken by businessmen, yet praised as "enlightened" when initiated by the government. It is a world in which the law is so vague that businessmen have no way of knowing whether specific actions will be declared illegal until they hear the judge's verdict -- after the fact. In view of the confusion, contradictions, and legalistic hairsplitting which characterize the realm of antitrust, I submit that the entire antitrust system must be opened for review.
I have yet to understand why anyone thinks anti-trust legislation as moral, practical, or effective in reaching it's desired goals.
Read Alan Greenspan's essay "Anti-trust". You'll be enlightened.
Who cares? It's entertainment. This isn't bread, or houses, this is movies and magazines. Noone can reasonably claim a right to Sports Illustrated, and can choose not to buy Internet from AOL, or Time magazine from Time Warner.
/. sits up and cheers?
All this talk of monopolies and anti-trust brings me to another somewhat offtopic matter. Back in the day, IBM got slammed by anti-trust for giving away an operating system when they got server hardware. Now IBM announces that it will port linux to their server platform and have a free operating system for all their server hardware, and
It seems I have met a challenger.
You see I live in a small rural town in Saskatchewan that goes by the name of North Battleford. Our town has few men of my calibre, and even fewer willing to stand up to me in an M&M duel.
I have been proforming rigorous testing religiously every weekday at 3:00pm at which time I go through exactly two 400g bags of M&M's to find the strongest of each bag. I save these chosen ones in a specially crafted Barrel of Monkey's container until I have ammased several hundred Chosen one's. After, several years I think I have found the strongest M&M ever produced by man or beast. It is twice the size of a normal M&M however X-ray, sonar, and density analysis show that is little, if any chocalate contained within it's candy coated walls.
But I find now that I have competition. Let me tell you this, straight up. I like your style, champ, and I am willing to take you under my wing, train you and release you, and a team of elite Special Op M&M's, to the world to achieve World Domination. I have long thought those linux hackers are on the total wrong path; World Domination can only be achieved through specially chosen M&M's.
Well, are you up for it?
Do you think a source for very cheap electric power, like nuclear fusion or John Galt's generator a la Atlas Shrugged, will be seen in our lifetime, and if so, what major changes in society do you forsee.
I am no american, mon chere.
/., then. As for stuff that matters, Yeltsin resigning is hardly news worthy of worldy notice. I contend that /. should cover the carnage in Chechnya, and every other genocide being performed in the world today. They have more impact on people then a simple changing of the guard.
As for "News for Nerds", wouldn't all news then be for nerds as any news will affect a nerd, somewhere. Even "Snowball hits nerd in face" should be on
How is this either "News for Nerds", or "Stuff that matters". What's next? "Canadian MP wins by-election?".
Great! If they go to Windows only format, that leaves open a great niche for an alternative OS minded company to get a strong foot hold. And seeing how open systems generally tend to be better, faster, cheaper, and last longer, in most cases, it seems as though Yahoo! may be helping to feed their destroyers.
That's kinda like the time I was "accidently" shipped that kilo of coke from South America.
How is this any different then advertising your telephone number, or giving out business cards, or advertising other store locations?
Answer: It's not. This is silly.
My cousin was really wowed when Win95 came out, and quickly got addicted to Minesweeper. Then he went to North Korea and tried to stick a flag on a mine. It was difficuly IDing him even with the dental records. It was quite sad, but that's what he gets for buying Windows.
The open source DOES have defenses against determined and moneyed enemy. Open source is designed to combat just that. I contend that moneyed enemies have no defense against what open source is intended to be: another choice in computing.
I agree that MS should not have tampered with java, but only because it was against their licencing agreement. However, noone, thankfully, has to apply for a licence to use http, so everyone is free to try to coopt it. Netscape has tried to coopt it; AOL has tried to coopt it; hell, even some governments have tried to put their mitts on it. But, with the exception of the government, noone is forcing you to use their application of the technology. I, too, have found sites that only work with MS technology, but I have also found that those sites tend not be worth my time to visit, so I choose to bypass them. I find it saddening that so many intellegent readers of slashdot do not realize that they have the power of choice and are not at the mercy of anyone else in the free market of the internet. Look at all the MS led technological initiatives that failed miserably because they were crap. The ones that succeeded seemed to fill a niche that no other company could and won because of it. In the free market, I have no sympathy for the sore losers.
Agreed.
Succinctly, Slashdot is "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters" and this story is neither.
Obviously you can't factor primes. Prime factoring is the process of finding all the prime factors of a number. Example: 2x2x3=12. Those are the prime factors. I think that is the basic trouble in cracking strong encryption, the type the NSA thinks is worse to export then generally crappy OS's. I'll check my notes first.
Hmmm,
Prime factoring on a linear timescale. Doubtful. I'm pretty certain any number of people have tried your method, and since just about every encryption protocol based upon this method is still standing, I would assume noone has done it. And if they did, I'm sure the NSA would quickly have their hands all over and would quit trying to prevent encryption from spreading.
There are obvious problems in using opensource software for medical purposes. The first is that someone has to pay the enormous cost of getting any technology to pass numerous tests to be certified okay for keeping humans alive. This is an expesive process to make the FDA and any other government body resposible for health products, and I doubt that the people who pay for this process are going to be willing to risk the return on this investment by giving away the software. Perhaps, the source could be open and able to be improved by people who have bought the software from the owners.
Secondly, there needs to be somebody to be liable for any damages/lawsuits that might spring up. I doubt that any medical assoc. will be willing to take the liability onto themselves.
Just a few problems.
Wrong.
If you want to know why Communism's pratical implementation always leads to poverty stricken totalitarian police states, read Ayn Rand.
If there is one thing that Linux is most certainly about it is Fallafelism.
is to see some schlutz like one of those ladies from "The View" have to try to say Linux. Then we'll have achieved World Domination
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't Marx have dismissed intellectual acts such as writing an operating system as "bourgeois"? For that matter, I bet he would see computers as a whole as unnecessary
Agreed, at least to some level.
However, I see linux as a triumph of capitalism. In a communist system, the coders who developed linux would not have owned the code they wrote, and could not determine the restrictions, or lack of, on its use. The programmers on open source tools, etc. are still free to profit from their property to whatever degree they are able to, but seem to enjoy the "profit" of knowing they developed something good.
I wonder what the US will do to Linux when it is endorsed by the same country that endorsed the mass starvation of millions of people to forge their "community ethos". Perhaps, they'll start rounding up coders in order to force them onto colectivized programming farms.
What?
How can microsoft "have a oligopoly"? An industry operates in a state of oligopoly -- run by a few.
Also, the statistic used in this case of 90% market penetration was for single-user, desktop pcs, on Intel architecture. The only other operating system that I can think that fits that criteria was OS/2, and to think they hold 10% is rather remarkable.
Besides, single-user Operating systems will be largely irrelevent as more and more computing is done in a networked environment.
You still haven't answered how it served me as a consumer to have to buy a copy of Windows that I will never use?
Quit whining! Jesus.
You can buy computers without Windows, as you have admitted. It is not the MS's responsibility to make sure that hardware retailers give you options. It is not the hardware responsibility to make sure you are completly satisfied with their products. If you don't like that they sell Windows with complete systems, you don't have to enter into that contract. If they are selling "Desktop PC with Windows" and you fork over the money, that's what you will get. Other companies are not a slave to your happiness.
Grow up.
Both the KKK and the (modern) Black Rights movements are forms of tribalism. They do share the idea that identity is determined by race, and not the content of one's ideas.