It's called opportunity cost. Every piece of code that's given away is money that's not being brought in to that business or gov't organization, in that case.
The whole world already gets a shitload of cash from the US. I pay taxes to the US, not to any other country. The US should be the ONLY government benefitting from software that I paid for. If I hear that the US Gov't is not giving away software (in addition to everything else, including money, military support, intelligence support, etc.), I'll be pissed as hell. I'm sure that the American people wouldn't stand for it, either.
Really. So once all computer components are manufactured with this technology, the choice becomes: don't buy it. Don't hook up to the internet. Don't watch movies. Don't read electronic texts.
I fail to see how that is much of a choice.
Of course it's a choice! I know lots of people who don't use credit cards because of paranoia (similar to what you're talking about). It's choice. You have no inherent right to be able to swap whatever you want over the Internet. Hell, you have no inherent right to even be able to use the Internet. You seem to think that for some reason, you're entitled to be able to do whatever you want online. Sorry, but that ain't true.
Unrestricted corporate monopolies are about to take absolute control over a new medium of communication. Your freedom of speech across the internet will be at their pleasure.
What the fuck are you talking about? This is about preventing copying movies illegally. How is that my freedon of speech across the net at their pleasure? This makes no sense, whatsoever. How is using Kazaa "free speech"? And, usage of private networks/forums has nothing to do with free speech. If you want to not allow people to say "Jesus Christ" in your house, you have every right to.
And where exactly did I say "boycott"? I said if you don't like it, don't buy it. It's that simple. Organized boycotts never work. Happens all the time.
You're taking a copy protection scheme and calling it a violation of freedom of speech which is complete and total FUD.
Well, if you don't like a business, there's one way to "fight" it... with your wallet. You don't "torch" a company because you don't like 'em. That's called anarchy. How exactly does this take away "liberty"? I'm a bit confused about this... Is there a Microsoft thug at your door forcing you to buy their product? Until there is, none of your "freedoms" are being restricted in any way. All that's happening is that there's a successful business who's product you don't like. Big deal.
Don't like it, don't buy it. It's called freedom. Restricting what a company/individual can/cannot sell is NOT freedom.
The free market works fine. Just because the popular products are not the ones *you* choose doesn't mean that the market is working any less. People choose MS, that's their business. The free market wouldn't be working if somebody held a gone to your head and forced you to buy something you didn't want to. You don't have to use Palladium if you don't want to. But just because you don't like it doesn't give you (or anyone else) the right to tell other people what they can and what they can't buy.
I sincerely hope that you are joking, or playing devil's advocate. The "market economy" is a fiction, created by government contrivance. Do you really believe that it is some sort of objective truth? or that it is the ultimate expression of human desire for advancement?
"Markets" form with or without goverments. People naturally trade goods and service ebtween each other. Try an Econ 101 class.
The market economy has done such an excellent job in protecting the environment
That's what lawsuits are for. The areas that are badly polluted in this country are polluted because they're public areas, and the gov't never sues private, polluting entities as they should.
and promoting individual liberty. Ironically enough, the "free market" has given us the most blatent interferences in market freedom that we have seen.
Individual liberty? Like what? National tracking system? That's the US govt. Wiretapping and email cracking? That's the US govt. How exactly has your "individual liberty" been harmed by a private entity? I'm really curious.
Linux isn't any kind of sentient entity. It can't "take over" anything. An appropriate title would be "Chrysler uses Linux for crash tesdt simulations".
I disagree. Regulations don't work. Anything that impedes free enterprise and private ownership is ultimately harmful. Toxis waste dumped in a water supply? That's what the legal system is for. The company that does this should be sued out the ass for cleanup and for punitive damanges. That doesn't happen under the current system. Strike breaking? Absolutely. That's a *good* thing. If one group of employees isn't happy, but another group is willing to work under the existing conditions at the existing rate, absolutely they should work. We've had so much half-assed regulations for so long, it's hard to imagine a country without them. California power? It failed because regulation wouldn't let companies charge what they needed to to make a profit. Same thing's happening with the water supply. Regulations are rpeventing a fair market rate. Same thing with gasoline...
It sounds like it's close to the society created in Atlas Shrugged, and for the same reasons. If it's anything like that, I'm there. I just hope that they pick a good state, like Maine. I can't wait to read more once the site isn't Slashdotted any more.
For those of you who haven't read Atlas Shrugged, the basic premise is that the government sucks, and there are a group of people who are good at what they do and they move to a hidden place where they can live happily. It boils down to capitalism isn't being allowed to flourish under the federal government (like what we have now). Large, successful companies are branded as "monopolies" and are punished. People who invent things have those things taken away from them "for the greated good". It's all about being able to do what you love, what you're good at, and being properly rewarded for it. Of course, the society that they create is fantastic, and the US begins to fall apart as the government becomes more and more socialist.
Quite honestly, I'm surprised that this hasn't happened before. Of course in the book, the leaders of the successful, profitable, and useful companies are charismatic, idealistic people. Most of the current large companies are fairly generic.
If this is what the organizers are going for, then this will *not* be popular with most Slashdotters. Freedom, at least according to Ayn Rand, is all about the freedom to do what you want to do, and to be rewarded for it. It's actually the exact opposite of the Open Source, Free Software movement.
Rendering software is great and all, but it should be used only when needed. I personally can't stand to watch a movie that's 85% computer generated. It's flat. It's boring. It sucks, quite honestly. CGI is just a way for greedy movie studios to cut corners, and lazy directors to do things easier. The drawback: the look absolutely sucks.
Just because a hip, young, modern guy like you won't be caught dead in one doesn't mean the rest of us don't recognise the value of such an institution.
As a formerly single, hip, young modern guy, I also discovered that libraries are *great* places to pick up women. Smart, cool women. Guys may him may not think they're cool, but hey, that's great. More for the guys who have enough of a brain to actually go to libraries.
Librarians may be depicted in a less than flattering way in the media, but how many people actually visit libraries outside of schooling these days?
I do. No kids at all. I go there because I get the books I want to read for fun for free, and I go for research (usually business related).
Screw digital. Electronic books have been tried and have been abject failures because nobody wants to read a book, or any significant amount of text on a computer screen. It's that simple. The day that libraries stop having actual *books* is the day our civilization starts it's decline.
Ever thought that the simple reason that more Koreans have broadband is a cultural difference? I'm in the US and the only reason that I don't have broadband is because I don't care.
Oh right... I don't know what I'm talking about. All I gotta say is that my server handles that same load fine, all driven from a database, and you're the one writing the article about "how to build a high performance webserver" on a webserver that's dead. No need for a dick-measuring contest here.
Well, by using the same brilliant skills of analysis you do, this article is running on Apache, and the webserver is dead. That must mean that Apache is the Taco Bell of the webserver world, right?
Kid, go back to playing with your Nintendo. You're in over your head here.
Ha! 1500 clients swamps the box? Sounds like a shitty webserver to me. My simple little P 1.2 Ghz running W2K gets to about 10% CPU usage with that load. Here's a clue kid: it ain't the hardware, it's the software. And I'm not talking about W2K vs. Linux or Apache vs. IIS. There's some seriously shitty code running that webserver.
Our databases are tuned. Some apps would just need to transfer too much data per request for a SQL call to be feasible.
I had this problem for a while... Sloppy coding on my part was querying 65K+ records per page. Server would start to crawl with a few hundred simultaneous users. Since I fixed it, 1000+ simultaneous users is no problem at all.
You're absolutely right. Wish I had some mod points left...
Hardware only comes into play in a web app when you're doing very heavy database work. Serving flat pages takes virtually no computing effort. It's all bandwidth. Hell, even scripting languages like ASP, CF, and PHP are light enough that just about any machine will work great. The database though... that's another story.
Good databases are designed for performance. If databases are your bottleneck, then you don't know what you're doign with the database. Too many people throw up a database, and use it like it's some kind of flat file. There's a lot that can be done with databases that the average hack has no idea about.
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It's called opportunity cost. Every piece of code that's given away is money that's not being brought in to that business or gov't organization, in that case.
The whole world already gets a shitload of cash from the US. I pay taxes to the US, not to any other country. The US should be the ONLY government benefitting from software that I paid for. If I hear that the US Gov't is not giving away software (in addition to everything else, including money, military support, intelligence support, etc.), I'll be pissed as hell. I'm sure that the American people wouldn't stand for it, either.
Really. So once all computer components are manufactured with this technology, the choice becomes: don't buy it. Don't hook up to the internet. Don't watch movies. Don't read electronic texts.
I fail to see how that is much of a choice.
Of course it's a choice! I know lots of people who don't use credit cards because of paranoia (similar to what you're talking about). It's choice. You have no inherent right to be able to swap whatever you want over the Internet. Hell, you have no inherent right to even be able to use the Internet. You seem to think that for some reason, you're entitled to be able to do whatever you want online. Sorry, but that ain't true.
Unrestricted corporate monopolies are about to take absolute control over a new medium of communication. Your freedom of speech across the internet will be at their pleasure.
What the fuck are you talking about? This is about preventing copying movies illegally. How is that my freedon of speech across the net at their pleasure? This makes no sense, whatsoever. How is using Kazaa "free speech"? And, usage of private networks/forums has nothing to do with free speech. If you want to not allow people to say "Jesus Christ" in your house, you have every right to.
And where exactly did I say "boycott"? I said if you don't like it, don't buy it. It's that simple. Organized boycotts never work. Happens all the time.
You're taking a copy protection scheme and calling it a violation of freedom of speech which is complete and total FUD.
Well, if you don't like a business, there's one way to "fight" it... with your wallet. You don't "torch" a company because you don't like 'em. That's called anarchy. How exactly does this take away "liberty"? I'm a bit confused about this... Is there a Microsoft thug at your door forcing you to buy their product? Until there is, none of your "freedoms" are being restricted in any way. All that's happening is that there's a successful business who's product you don't like. Big deal.
Don't like it, don't buy it. It's called freedom. Restricting what a company/individual can/cannot sell is NOT freedom.
The free market works fine. Just because the popular products are not the ones *you* choose doesn't mean that the market is working any less. People choose MS, that's their business. The free market wouldn't be working if somebody held a gone to your head and forced you to buy something you didn't want to. You don't have to use Palladium if you don't want to. But just because you don't like it doesn't give you (or anyone else) the right to tell other people what they can and what they can't buy.
I sincerely hope that you are joking, or playing devil's advocate. The "market economy" is a fiction, created by government contrivance. Do you really believe that it is some sort of objective truth? or that it is the ultimate expression of human desire for advancement?
"Markets" form with or without goverments. People naturally trade goods and service ebtween each other. Try an Econ 101 class.
The market economy has done such an excellent job in protecting the environment
That's what lawsuits are for. The areas that are badly polluted in this country are polluted because they're public areas, and the gov't never sues private, polluting entities as they should.
and promoting individual liberty. Ironically enough, the "free market" has given us the most blatent interferences in market freedom that we have seen.
Individual liberty? Like what? National tracking system? That's the US govt. Wiretapping and email cracking? That's the US govt. How exactly has your "individual liberty" been harmed by a private entity? I'm really curious.
Linux isn't any kind of sentient entity. It can't "take over" anything. An appropriate title would be "Chrysler uses Linux for crash tesdt simulations".
They already do this. They're called "libraries".
I disagree. Regulations don't work. Anything that impedes free enterprise and private ownership is ultimately harmful. Toxis waste dumped in a water supply? That's what the legal system is for. The company that does this should be sued out the ass for cleanup and for punitive damanges. That doesn't happen under the current system. Strike breaking? Absolutely. That's a *good* thing. If one group of employees isn't happy, but another group is willing to work under the existing conditions at the existing rate, absolutely they should work. We've had so much half-assed regulations for so long, it's hard to imagine a country without them. California power? It failed because regulation wouldn't let companies charge what they needed to to make a profit. Same thing's happening with the water supply. Regulations are rpeventing a fair market rate. Same thing with gasoline...
It sounds like it's close to the society created in Atlas Shrugged, and for the same reasons. If it's anything like that, I'm there. I just hope that they pick a good state, like Maine. I can't wait to read more once the site isn't Slashdotted any more.
For those of you who haven't read Atlas Shrugged, the basic premise is that the government sucks, and there are a group of people who are good at what they do and they move to a hidden place where they can live happily. It boils down to capitalism isn't being allowed to flourish under the federal government (like what we have now). Large, successful companies are branded as "monopolies" and are punished. People who invent things have those things taken away from them "for the greated good". It's all about being able to do what you love, what you're good at, and being properly rewarded for it. Of course, the society that they create is fantastic, and the US begins to fall apart as the government becomes more and more socialist.
Quite honestly, I'm surprised that this hasn't happened before. Of course in the book, the leaders of the successful, profitable, and useful companies are charismatic, idealistic people. Most of the current large companies are fairly generic.
If this is what the organizers are going for, then this will *not* be popular with most Slashdotters. Freedom, at least according to Ayn Rand, is all about the freedom to do what you want to do, and to be rewarded for it. It's actually the exact opposite of the Open Source, Free Software movement.
Personally, I like "Scam King"
Rendering software is great and all, but it should be used only when needed. I personally can't stand to watch a movie that's 85% computer generated. It's flat. It's boring. It sucks, quite honestly. CGI is just a way for greedy movie studios to cut corners, and lazy directors to do things easier. The drawback: the look absolutely sucks.
Just because a hip, young, modern guy like you won't be caught dead in one doesn't mean the rest of us don't recognise the value of such an institution.
As a formerly single, hip, young modern guy, I also discovered that libraries are *great* places to pick up women. Smart, cool women. Guys may him may not think they're cool, but hey, that's great. More for the guys who have enough of a brain to actually go to libraries.
Librarians may be depicted in a less than flattering way in the media, but how many people actually visit libraries outside of schooling these days?
I do. No kids at all. I go there because I get the books I want to read for fun for free, and I go for research (usually business related).
Screw digital. Electronic books have been tried and have been abject failures because nobody wants to read a book, or any significant amount of text on a computer screen. It's that simple. The day that libraries stop having actual *books* is the day our civilization starts it's decline.
Well, HTTP isn't stateful, so technically it's pretty tough to get "true" concurrent users, but I was talking about a span of about 30 seconds.
Ever thought that the simple reason that more Koreans have broadband is a cultural difference? I'm in the US and the only reason that I don't have broadband is because I don't care.
Oh right... I don't know what I'm talking about. All I gotta say is that my server handles that same load fine, all driven from a database, and you're the one writing the article about "how to build a high performance webserver" on a webserver that's dead. No need for a dick-measuring contest here.
Their "high performance server" seems to be fixed now... I'm getting a 500 error almost instantly! Good work, guys!
Well, by using the same brilliant skills of analysis you do, this article is running on Apache, and the webserver is dead. That must mean that Apache is the Taco Bell of the webserver world, right?
Kid, go back to playing with your Nintendo. You're in over your head here.
Ha! 1500 clients swamps the box? Sounds like a shitty webserver to me. My simple little P 1.2 Ghz running W2K gets to about 10% CPU usage with that load. Here's a clue kid: it ain't the hardware, it's the software. And I'm not talking about W2K vs. Linux or Apache vs. IIS. There's some seriously shitty code running that webserver.
Our databases are tuned. Some apps would just need to transfer too much data per request for a SQL call to be feasible.
I had this problem for a while... Sloppy coding on my part was querying 65K+ records per page. Server would start to crawl with a few hundred simultaneous users. Since I fixed it, 1000+ simultaneous users is no problem at all.
"Microsoft Windows 2000 Pro"
I got a good laugh out of this... W2K Pro is the desktop version, not the server version. Wow. Great article. Really well informed author.
You're absolutely right. Wish I had some mod points left...
Hardware only comes into play in a web app when you're doing very heavy database work. Serving flat pages takes virtually no computing effort. It's all bandwidth. Hell, even scripting languages like ASP, CF, and PHP are light enough that just about any machine will work great. The database though... that's another story.
Good databases are designed for performance. If databases are your bottleneck, then you don't know what you're doign with the database. Too many people throw up a database, and use it like it's some kind of flat file. There's a lot that can be done with databases that the average hack has no idea about.