''This is a sociological problem and we have got to work it out,'' adds Galuten. ''I find it incredibly ironic that some people will spend an extra $1,000 on their hard drives just so they can store more music, but they won't pay for the music.''
That's because hard drive business has a better relationship with its customers. I don't recall Western Digital or Maxtor suing a customer because he tinkered with his drive. You could say that IBM screwed its customers with the DeskStar saga, but you can't blame Big Blue for N'Sync, 98 Degrees, etc. People are willing to spend a pretty penny for storage; they aren't willing to drop $18 for two singles and filler.
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Why would you build a emergency cutoff system for an AI (in case it perhaps goes crazy) BEHIND defense systems controlled by the AI??
For the same reason that you would leave in the basement the red key that opens the red door on the top floor. No reason, that is; it's a videogame task/puzzle. The movie does a good job of showing how things like this would play out in "real life" thus demonstrating the silliness of such tasks. I found this kind of thing to be one of the more interesting aspects of an unspectacular yet entertaining movie.
Rumor has it that if you click on "About Windows" in the Longhorn Help menus and type a few secret keystrokes, you get to play the closed beta of Duke Nukem Forever. Now this is just a rumor, so don't get too excited.
Perhaps M$ is keeping track of how many machines your firm's corp. edition has been installed on. This way the BSA would know who to target during the next Amnesty^H^H^H^H^H^H^HExtortion period.
Thank you. Mainframes are built to handle transactions, and they serve as backbones for entities such as Sabre and banks. They are not the tool to use to brag about framerates and pr0n downloads. Please think before doing a quick Google search for MIPS statistics and posting things like:
The average 16 processor mainframe is a 120 MIPS machine, whereas the average 1.5 GHz desktop system is a 3000 MIPS machine.
to/. without understanding the relationship of said statistics to the value derived from the system architecture under question. Graduating from high school would help too.
Perhaps he has a neural interface to his computers, like so many of us have been waiting for for so long. That would exacerbate his EMF exposure though...
Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet ran about 4 hours, but the theatre where i viewed it had an intermission (with music) at the "halfway" point. I don't know if the intermission was standard nationwide.
The list is missing something: attempts by various *AA orginazitions to add various DRM technologies to all things digital, including computers. A bill like the SSSCA is assinine, but of course the DMCA was too, and look what happened...
Call me an alarmist, but the day will come when you and I will need the approval of some government/corporate (as if there will be any difference) organization to release code that has anything to do with "rights management." Of course, everything digital will be a matter of rights management. I am hopeful that Felten and 2600 will win on appeal, but have limited faith in judges and attorneys who seem to know nothing about computer technology. I, for one, plan to store all the "illicit" software I can find on non-volatile media, dreading the day when information is free--pending approval of the powers that be, that is.
Imagine for a second, that some "Information Approval Board" was running into town, making sure that everyone had the right level of license and security authorization to read a book, or look at an image. Horrifying. Imagine also that the war on "free information" starts with software. Now everyone is "renting" the books and pictures they own.
Frightened? Here's more. The only thing separating imagination from the current reality is a handful of judges.
Well, I guess one never misses something until it's gone...
I've had enough of this incremental approach to securing our country. Let's ban mischievous, deviant, dangerous, and all other kinds of "bad" thoughts. All in the name of homeland security, of course...
If it's illegal to think about terrorism, there won't be any terrorists, right?
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That's because hard drive business has a better relationship with its customers. I don't recall Western Digital or Maxtor suing a customer because he tinkered with his drive. You could say that IBM screwed its customers with the DeskStar saga, but you can't blame Big Blue for N'Sync, 98 Degrees, etc. People are willing to spend a pretty penny for storage; they aren't willing to drop $18 for two singles and filler.
It's only a matter of time :)
where are the movie postings when you need them?
For the same reason that you would leave in the basement the red key that opens the red door on the top floor. No reason, that is; it's a videogame task/puzzle. The movie does a good job of showing how things like this would play out in "real life" thus demonstrating the silliness of such tasks. I found this kind of thing to be one of the more interesting aspects of an unspectacular yet entertaining movie.
The editors were watching tentacle pr0n while posting this. Don't pretend like you don't know what that is. :)
Rumor has it that if you click on "About Windows" in the Longhorn Help menus and type a few secret keystrokes, you get to play the closed beta of Duke Nukem Forever. Now this is just a rumor, so don't get too excited.
Lighten up, Jon
Perhaps M$ is keeping track of how many machines your firm's corp. edition has been installed on. This way the BSA would know who to target during the next Amnesty^H^H^H^H^H^H^HExtortion period.
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are you john romero's bitch?
Perhaps he has a neural interface to his computers, like so many of us have been waiting for for so long. That would exacerbate his EMF exposure though...
But /. told me *BSD was dying!
Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet ran about 4 hours, but the theatre where i viewed it had an intermission (with music) at the "halfway" point. I don't know if the intermission was standard nationwide.
The list is missing something: attempts by various *AA orginazitions to add various DRM technologies to all things digital, including computers. A bill like the SSSCA is assinine, but of course the DMCA was too, and look what happened...
The slack' forums are a better technical resource than Microsoft's website and all those MCSE books.
Remember that all of Enron's execs are friends and associates of GW. I hear that company liked to innovate too.
"This page cannot be displayed." BSD must be dead.
anyone who knows enough to append options to rm knows not to type the 9 keystrokes of death.
Call me an alarmist, but the day will come when you and I will need the approval of some government/corporate (as if there will be any difference) organization to release code that has anything to do with "rights management." Of course, everything digital will be a matter of rights management. I am hopeful that Felten and 2600 will win on appeal, but have limited faith in judges and attorneys who seem to know nothing about computer technology. I, for one, plan to store all the "illicit" software I can find on non-volatile media, dreading the day when information is free--pending approval of the powers that be, that is.
Imagine for a second, that some "Information Approval Board" was running into town, making sure that everyone had the right level of license and security authorization to read a book, or look at an image. Horrifying. Imagine also that the war on "free information" starts with software. Now everyone is "renting" the books and pictures they own.
Frightened? Here's more. The only thing separating imagination from the current reality is a handful of judges.
Well, I guess one never misses something until it's gone...
Looks like the appeals court suppoenaed /. before making its judgement.
Just show them a replay of Sunday's Britney Spears concert from Vegas. Checkmate.
drinks with the coders and sys admins. no users allowed.
I've had enough of this incremental approach to securing our country. Let's ban mischievous, deviant, dangerous, and all other kinds of "bad" thoughts. All in the name of homeland security, of course...
If it's illegal to think about terrorism, there won't be any terrorists, right?
now, before we start, everyone remember that *BSD IS NOT DYING!
carry on.