Basically, you're missing the point in the story. I don't think you can say overall that linux support is better than Micro$oft's, but almost certanly microsoft's isn't the best in the industry as the grads come to claim.
The DMCA like all laws has to be enforced. It's enforced by other companies bringing charges or suits against the other company. If they don't want to do this (public relations fiasco) then they aren't really doing anything wrong.
See there's a major flaw to this idea. The people have to get up and do something about it instead of just sitting here on/. and bitching about what's wrong.
People are too lazy these days and don't want to get involved. Not to mention that the average joe has no clue what his real rights are, all he knows is that Mp3s are illegal and the rest of us just want to have everything for nothing while the poor artists are starving in the streets because they got 150million instead of 152 million. They know whay is given to them by the same media who wants to protect it's own monetary interests. Not to mention, that there are actually people out there who believe in this technology because of the american dream. It's the same proncipal about everyone wanting to protect the rich now because someday that could be them. i'm not saying the dream is bad, but you get the point. (I'm stil hoping that I'll be rich someday too.)
This brings me back to the point that the computer geek niche is a small piece of the overall pie. I'm a computer geek god damnit and I don't want my rights taken away because we represent a small part of the market share. We need to get the average joe interested in this, more than that we need to get him angry about it, enough to do something about it. we need to swell the ranks of our niche market until we are the majority and a force to be rekoned with. Until then, we are doomed.
I do warez, but most of the software I have that are illegal licenses, are of products I'd never ever buy for myself. Take for example 3DSMax. It's fun to play around with and I may eventually come into a need for skills I learn playing with it, but I'd never go out and buy it. Has Autodesk lost anything from me using this software? No. The same principal goes out to Lightwave($2500!) and several other applications. Then there are programs I'd love to pay for that I use daily. Most of these are shareware and I will buy a legitamite license of once i obtain another job (just a poor college student anyway). I can realy feel for these developers and may one day be in their shoes. All the warez I have comes not from my wanting to screw the corperation (except M$FT of course) but from my inability to pay for the software. If I am not able at all to pay for it, the company has not lost anything. Unless I go and use their software for commercial purposes. But then that's another story...
If you paid attention to the only real source of information for the public, the media and hollywood, you'd know from the movie "Final Destination" that when it's your time to die, death comes after you with a passion. We also know that this is a metaphoric bus that represents death, being a symbol of the horrible public transportation this 'bus' comes in to be the ultimate evil dooer. Duh.
::Don't mind my insanity, chemistry and calculus finals today 15mins apart will suck the brains out of anyone.::
We could build a huge atom smasher using all of germany's wealth with enough power to open up a wormhole into the forth spacial dimention and shove all the under 18 year old germans into it. It would seem to be easier than flattening the earth and more benificial to science at the same time.
If you read fine print (got my iPod poster outa the latest macworld) the measurement is taken with 4min songs at 10kbps. That's about avarage for the masses.
On my poster, it is stated in one of the feature blurbs and not at the bottom in the fine print what the actual capacity is. They aren't out there to fool the consumer, if they were they'd have a lot of pissed off geeks comming after them. Ever wonder why the mac following is so great? It's because mac people know what they are talking about when it comes to computers (or have someone around them that does.) It's the same way with the linux community. Apple realizes this.
Also, if everybody uses the K=1000 unit, wouldn't that be the standard? Stop whining about it.
The funny thing is that you think you will be able to play wolf well on your iBook. Apple realy needs to up the iBooks video, it's way to underpowered.
Pepsi University? Sounds awfully alot like Penn State. PepSi University, Blue and White colors, no coke on campus at all (of course why would I want anything other than my trusty Mountain Dew?).
Could you please explain to me what "serious" listening is? Sounds like an awful ammount of work to go through in order to gain a little entertainment.
Music to me will always be background to life. It's not as much the tunes, more what you are doing while they are playing. That's why there are mosh pits at concerts and why so many people fall asleep in a classical concert.
BTW, I can easily tell the difference between my 192kbps mp3s and my 128kbps mp3s. Most of the people I know can even on crappy speakers (like mine!).
It'd be nice if the slashdot crowd would take a statistics class to learn that your individual opinion doesn't automatically scale up to be what "most" people believe.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin
All this crap being done under the name of "homeland security", just wait till it doesn't go away after the war is over. If they ever declare the war over.
As well as I like to see benchmarks, apache benchmarks none the less (seems kinda like the infamous Photoshop benchmarks for the average user), I'd like to see a comparison between *BSD and Linux on a desktop workstation. I've been happy using slackware for a while and would like to know the difference on a usability standpoint.
There are questions that are never answered for the average (above average for using some other platform than windows) user because of all the flame wars. How is compatability with software made for linux? Gaming support? Driver support? How do installs go? How much of a difference is there for setting up/configuring devices and other system preferences? These are things that I am interested as a perspective user and I am not that interested for this case about the differences between the BSD license and other free licenses which are important for some people. Is there a reason for me as a home non server user to switch to *BSD?
If I were AMD I'd do the exact same thing, the one thing micro$oft has is money to spend on marketing. With the might of redmond behind XP, the unknowing masses will soon associate anything XP with the latest and greatest computers. So by association, the XP processor is the latest and greatest chip (which it is). Just too bad they think Windows XP is the greatest as a side affect.
Easy? The amd engineers made it much harder this time. This is 100x harder to do than just connect them with a standard graphite pencil, like the T-Birds. AMD does not want you overclocking their chips, why do you think they cut the L1 bridges in the first place
Higher clock speeds of the same archetecture will always be faster. If a hack on a lower speed processor will speed it up, then that same hack on the higher clocked chip will make it that much faster.
Dodge doesn't release the software to reprogram it's cars to go faster. It isn't a good idea. This would be issued by the same company that released the chip.
NVidia seems to be able to market the higher performance of it's later drivers, and that's just like this. Market the speed of the chip that it is at now, not mentioning that it could go faster, then release a patch for people who already have one making it better for them.
There is also a point where no ammount of software engineering can make it go any faster, therefore they can only have a higher clock to speed it up.
There is also the issue of having a compleatly new archetecture underneith without worrying about the instruction set used. Couldn't this be used by the operating system to be able to run any software written for any archetecture (disregarding OS specific calls)? No more worrying about backwards compatability of the hardware of the processor, the emulation layer takes care of that.
The really sad part is that they stressed the "low power" part of their design. The really cool part was the code morphing. The crusoe was a full 128bit (256? can't remember, although they had it planned) processor that had an emulation layer rinning on it to translate x86 commands into it's own instruction set. This is really cool. Transmetta could change the whole chip design drastically and still maintain compatability with this layer. also you could speed up your computer with a simple bios update when they had finished more research for algorythms and tweaked the code some more.
I was wondering if any other company had interests in code morphing technology of this type.
Slashdot Mirror
you could play the game of not having modules for your par port at all since nothing uses it anymore. (Yay usb printers!)
Basically, you're missing the point in the story. I don't think you can say overall that linux support is better than Micro$oft's, but almost certanly microsoft's isn't the best in the industry as the grads come to claim.
The DMCA like all laws has to be enforced. It's enforced by other companies bringing charges or suits against the other company. If they don't want to do this (public relations fiasco) then they aren't really doing anything wrong.
I like the saying "If it works, fix it til it doesn't" a lot better. More fun in the end.
With the story /.ed, there aren't as many posts to the story, could it be that people actually want to read the story before posting? No couldn't be...
::Drowns in his own irony::
See there's a major flaw to this idea. The people have to get up and do something about it instead of just sitting here on /. and bitching about what's wrong.
People are too lazy these days and don't want to get involved. Not to mention that the average joe has no clue what his real rights are, all he knows is that Mp3s are illegal and the rest of us just want to have everything for nothing while the poor artists are starving in the streets because they got 150million instead of 152 million. They know whay is given to them by the same media who wants to protect it's own monetary interests. Not to mention, that there are actually people out there who believe in this technology because of the american dream. It's the same proncipal about everyone wanting to protect the rich now because someday that could be them. i'm not saying the dream is bad, but you get the point. (I'm stil hoping that I'll be rich someday too.)
This brings me back to the point that the computer geek niche is a small piece of the overall pie. I'm a computer geek god damnit and I don't want my rights taken away because we represent a small part of the market share. We need to get the average joe interested in this, more than that we need to get him angry about it, enough to do something about it. we need to swell the ranks of our niche market until we are the majority and a force to be rekoned with. Until then, we are doomed.
I do warez, but most of the software I have that are illegal licenses, are of products I'd never ever buy for myself. Take for example 3DSMax. It's fun to play around with and I may eventually come into a need for skills I learn playing with it, but I'd never go out and buy it. Has Autodesk lost anything from me using this software? No. The same principal goes out to Lightwave($2500!) and several other applications. Then there are programs I'd love to pay for that I use daily. Most of these are shareware and I will buy a legitamite license of once i obtain another job (just a poor college student anyway). I can realy feel for these developers and may one day be in their shoes. All the warez I have comes not from my wanting to screw the corperation (except M$FT of course) but from my inability to pay for the software. If I am not able at all to pay for it, the company has not lost anything. Unless I go and use their software for commercial purposes. But then that's another story...
Damnit, and I just used my last mod point.
If you paid attention to the only real source of information for the public, the media and hollywood, you'd know from the movie "Final Destination" that when it's your time to die, death comes after you with a passion. We also know that this is a metaphoric bus that represents death, being a symbol of the horrible public transportation this 'bus' comes in to be the ultimate evil dooer. Duh.
::Don't mind my insanity, chemistry and calculus finals today 15mins apart will suck the brains out of anyone.::
We could build a huge atom smasher using all of germany's wealth with enough power to open up a wormhole into the forth spacial dimention and shove all the under 18 year old germans into it. It would seem to be easier than flattening the earth and more benificial to science at the same time.
If you read fine print (got my iPod poster outa the latest macworld) the measurement is taken with 4min songs at 10kbps. That's about avarage for the masses.
On my poster, it is stated in one of the feature blurbs and not at the bottom in the fine print what the actual capacity is. They aren't out there to fool the consumer, if they were they'd have a lot of pissed off geeks comming after them. Ever wonder why the mac following is so great? It's because mac people know what they are talking about when it comes to computers (or have someone around them that does.) It's the same way with the linux community. Apple realizes this.
Also, if everybody uses the K=1000 unit, wouldn't that be the standard? Stop whining about it.
More importantly, where can I get them?
The funny thing is that you think you will be able to play wolf well on your iBook. Apple realy needs to up the iBooks video, it's way to underpowered.
Pepsi University? Sounds awfully alot like Penn State. PepSi University, Blue and White colors, no coke on campus at all (of course why would I want anything other than my trusty Mountain Dew?).
Mmmm, Ramen. Gets me through college...
Could you please explain to me what "serious" listening is? Sounds like an awful ammount of work to go through in order to gain a little entertainment.
Music to me will always be background to life. It's not as much the tunes, more what you are doing while they are playing. That's why there are mosh pits at concerts and why so many people fall asleep in a classical concert.
BTW, I can easily tell the difference between my 192kbps mp3s and my 128kbps mp3s. Most of the people I know can even on crappy speakers (like mine!).
It'd be nice if the slashdot crowd would take a statistics class to learn that your individual opinion doesn't automatically scale up to be what "most" people believe.
And, for you geekchicks out there, they now make a male realdoll!
Why would they want that when they can have me instead? E-mail me and save $6000, that's already a point in my favor!
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin
All this crap being done under the name of "homeland security", just wait till it doesn't go away after the war is over. If they ever declare the war over.
somebody missed the sarcasm train...
As well as I like to see benchmarks, apache benchmarks none the less (seems kinda like the infamous Photoshop benchmarks for the average user), I'd like to see a comparison between *BSD and Linux on a desktop workstation. I've been happy using slackware for a while and would like to know the difference on a usability standpoint.
There are questions that are never answered for the average (above average for using some other platform than windows) user because of all the flame wars. How is compatability with software made for linux? Gaming support? Driver support? How do installs go? How much of a difference is there for setting up/configuring devices and other system preferences? These are things that I am interested as a perspective user and I am not that interested for this case about the differences between the BSD license and other free licenses which are important for some people. Is there a reason for me as a home non server user to switch to *BSD?
If I were AMD I'd do the exact same thing, the one thing micro$oft has is money to spend on marketing. With the might of redmond behind XP, the unknowing masses will soon associate anything XP with the latest and greatest computers. So by association, the XP processor is the latest and greatest chip (which it is). Just too bad they think Windows XP is the greatest as a side affect.
Easy? The amd engineers made it much harder this time. This is 100x harder to do than just connect them with a standard graphite pencil, like the T-Birds. AMD does not want you overclocking their chips, why do you think they cut the L1 bridges in the first place
Just click on the link above as much as you can. Slashdot them all to hell. here's a copy
Higher clock speeds of the same archetecture will always be faster. If a hack on a lower speed processor will speed it up, then that same hack on the higher clocked chip will make it that much faster.
Dodge doesn't release the software to reprogram it's cars to go faster. It isn't a good idea. This would be issued by the same company that released the chip.
NVidia seems to be able to market the higher performance of it's later drivers, and that's just like this. Market the speed of the chip that it is at now, not mentioning that it could go faster, then release a patch for people who already have one making it better for them.
There is also a point where no ammount of software engineering can make it go any faster, therefore they can only have a higher clock to speed it up.
There is also the issue of having a compleatly new archetecture underneith without worrying about the instruction set used. Couldn't this be used by the operating system to be able to run any software written for any archetecture (disregarding OS specific calls)? No more worrying about backwards compatability of the hardware of the processor, the emulation layer takes care of that.
The really sad part is that they stressed the "low power" part of their design. The really cool part was the code morphing. The crusoe was a full 128bit (256? can't remember, although they had it planned) processor that had an emulation layer rinning on it to translate x86 commands into it's own instruction set. This is really cool. Transmetta could change the whole chip design drastically and still maintain compatability with this layer. also you could speed up your computer with a simple bios update when they had finished more research for algorythms and tweaked the code some more.
I was wondering if any other company had interests in code morphing technology of this type.