Microsoft announces development of AMD's x86-64 Hammer solutions. Mainstream Linux distro's follow suit. Software companies are looking at Microsoft and saying, "We're going to follow Microsoft, they have the money."
Which explains perfectly why Linux runs on the following architectures yet Windows does not, and I can say with a large degree of certainty, never will:
Alpha ARM IA64 M68K MIPS MIPS-64 PA-RISC PowerPC IBM S/390 SH (a.k.a Hitachi H8) SPARC SPARC64
You're kinda-sorta describing how Neverwinter Nights does portals. From their faq:
6.06 Can I link my world to someone else's?
Yes. Servers can be linked through 'Portals'. Portals are created when one server operator requests a link and another server operator accepts. This will form a two-way transfer between the two servers, allowing players to travel between the two worlds simply by stepping through the Portal. Once a Portal is created, it remains until removed by one of the server operators. If the server on the other end is currently not operational, the Portal will appear closed. Players can view a wide variety of information about the server on the other end by inspecting the Portal. If the character does not meet the requirements of the new server, the player is not teleported and re-appears beside the original server's Portal. Servers can support multiple Portals.
6.07 What are some ways I can make use of Portals?
The implications of this Portal system are somewhat mind-boggling. By distributing the different areas and population load over a number of home computers with decent Internet connections, for instance, your game world can know no boundaries. On a smaller scale, two rival player guilds could agree to portal their guildworlds together to settle a dispute in battle. Freewheeling MUDs and MUSHes could also emerge where people cobble their different creations together into a larger, cosmopolitan world of adventure. Neverwinter Nights is all about getting people together and Portals allow that to happen on a grander, even more exciting scale.
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Kinda over the top there at the end, but close to what you were proposing it seems.
"Stardock has found that the best way to keep customers and decrease piracy is to reward people for supporting you rather than punish people by having to go through copy protection.
Each GalCiv user has their own unique serial number that is verified on our server as being a valid serial number. When a user enters this serial number into our server, they get a Stardock.net account which lets them instantly gain access to all sorts of extra goodies including the BonusPak."
The language they use, throughout the sites actually, displays a distinct lack of intent to use serials in such a way as to prosecute people who don't have one. "If you have one, great, thanks and here's some extra stuff" is the clear and ringing message I get from the sites. Maybe they will become evil in the future. They have the benefit of the doubt however, due to a lack of past bad behavior. MS does not have this advantage, and further, clearly has the intent of using their serial scheme to shut down and/or go after people without (a real) one.
"And? Microsoft will deny patches if no serial is provided, and StarDock will NOT provide additional goodies if a serial is NOT provided."
There is a huge difference between a patch to fix the base product and additional graphics, sounds, etc. MS putting free stuff up for XP isn't the same, since if you haven't a serial for XP, you're still screwed at a more fundamental level. Not so with GalCiv.
1) GalCiv does not cease to operate if no serial is provided.
2) StarDock will not sick the law on you if no serial is provided.
3) StarDock will not deny patches if no serial is provided.
4) StarDock will provide additional goodies if a serial is provided.
Looks like the method and intent of StarDock in no way resembles what MS is doing, barring the fact that they both use serial numbers with otherwise unprotected software.
"Microsoft was (and still is) severely bashed on/."
There are lots of things more valuable, per unit weight, than gold. So far, barring platinum perhaps, none of them are as pratically useful to the individual as a store of value however.
"Governments signing up to the security program will be able to build systems that offer the high levels of security required for national security, Microsoft has said. However, government users will not be allowed to make modifications to the code or compile the source code into Windows programs themselves, according to Microsoft."
A little reading would go a long way in your search for truth.
From the linked article:
Using the NanoSIMS probe, the Washington University investigators then measured the relative amounts of two isotopes of oxygen in more than a thousand grains from nine IDPs. The data told them which grains had come from stars.
From a link in the article:
The NanoSIMS is a first-of-its-kind ion microprobe in the Laboratory for Space Sciences in Arts & Sciences and is housed on the fourth floor of Compton Hall. The $2 million instrument is the first in the world built to analyze the isotopic and elemental composition of extremely small samples, such as interplanetary dust particles, at a sub-micrometer scale, allowing a first-time look at those particles' subcomponents.
Results: Of all the subgrains defined in 25 images from 9 cluster IDPs, roughly 1031 were measured with sufficient precision to distinguish solar material from circumstellar dust as shown in Figure 1. Only grains > 200 nm were measured with this level of precision. Six of these grains have O isotopic compositions which fall well outside the range of solar system materials, marking them as stellar condensates.
Seems to me like these cats know what they are doing.
Normally I consider it bad form to reply to ones own comment or to question moderation, yet this time I am genuinely, burningly curious as to why this post was modded down rather than replied to. It is the straight dope right from one of the horses mouths. Is the moderator simply unwilling to face the truth? Do they think that, well, "that was then and this is now"? What?
When Cheney is asked why we went into Iraq, the FIRST THING he says is, "If we had taken a pass on Saddam's occupation of Kuwait, by today he would have the eastern province of Saudi Arabia and would sit astride about 50 percent of the world's oil reserves."
Exactly what part of that isn't clear about oil being our primary concern? Which is precisely the part I was replying to in the (off-topic but still highly rated, and highly, patently, clearly documented to be wrong on that point) parent comment? Is the US really that overrun with people who can't think for themselves and can only regurgitate what CNN or Rush tells them?
Policy Review: It is now two years after the spectacular victory of the United States and its allies in Desert Storm. What objectives were achieved during this war?
Cheney: The best way to evaluate Desert Storm is to consider what the world would be like today if we hadn't fought and won this war. If we had taken a pass on Saddam's occupation of Kuwait, by today he would have the eastern province of Saudi Arabia and would sit astride about 50 percent of the world's oil reserves, which he could control directly when you add up Kuwaiti, Saudi, and Iraqi oil reserves. He'd be able to dominate the rest of the reserves in the Persian Gulf. And he'd have nuclear weapons. We had to stop this from happening. And we did.
-- Notice how the nukes are clearly a secondary consideration. --
P.R.: You got out of Iraq without going all the way to Baghdad. Are you worried that Saddam Hussein is still in power today?
Cheney: I'd rather he were not in power, but I don't see him at this point as a threat to any of his neighbors. In that part of the world, I'm more concerned about Iran. Saddam is unable to sell oil; without selling oil, he can't generate the revenue he needs to rebuild that military machine we destroyed. The Iranians aren't faced with that situation; they have access to the world's markets, they are selling oil, and they are using some of that revenue to regenerate their forces and expand their capabilities. For example, they're buying diesel-powered submarines and MiG-29s from the Russians.
Not trying to inflame anyone, but I recall some experiments done on mice/rats that would produce homosexual behavior, every time, in developed animals if the hormonal balance was tilted in some way during the fetal stage. Anyone know more about this? Seemed like it was a rather solid study at the time.
It's less than half the size of the.net 'runtime'. And what if I decide I don't want.net on my machine anymore? The others you mention are all add-ons that don't try to become a permanent part of your OS. On my box at work I installed VisStudio.NET to check it out some time ago. It tells me I have to run the setup.exe and then throws a fatal error when clicking 'Remove' under Add/Remove Software. Something tells me that even running setup.exe once I track down the CD, won't _completely_ remove it.
"The only difference is this is Microsoft, so you're quick to bash them because you're an ignorant asshole."
I have MANY MANY reasons to bash MS, and none of them stem from ignorance, asshole. FOAD.
No. She can still go fuck whoever she wants and I could not stop her. Monopolies are about control.
b) What if the South had won the Civil War? We'd have an oligopoly of 50, instead of a monopoly of one.
Not that simple. The post-CW federal government was _nowhere close_ in size or scope to the one that has been created over the last hundred years, primarily by states (and the people in them) relinquishing more and more in favor of the federal money teat. I recently even had to remind someone on here that the federal government does not, and cannot, grant our basic freedoms to us. They were ready to give that up too, or already had in their heads anyway.
c) The government has a monopoly on money, you can't create your own, and yet you continue to spend it, without cause or care.
Yes I do care. It's the teeming, debt-laden masses who don't, as they've been duped into thinking that way by the federal government. Which is precisely why the founders were vehemently opposed to any sort of fiat system whatsoever. The US is just now entering the period of come-uppance for the last century worth of unfettered fiscal brigandry and charlatanism. History furnishes not one single example of a fiat system remaining uncorrupted by those entrusted with stewarding it.
According to the donation page at Cambodia Schools project, $7M dollars would fund no less than 442 schools, including construction, for two years. Build 'only' 221 and they could be funded for 158 years at current rates. These are the kinds of projects that our nations 'small change' should be involved in, as they create a huge positive change in the long run (goodwill for potential future trade, etc), not creating yet more appetite for death.
"Why do we save our complaints for when the legal owners do something against the spirit of the system, rather than when someone else does something against the law?"
Simple. In all cases of them being deceptive, it's just that, pure deception. With the assumption of guilt on the part of everyone who might download. Not all cases of downloads are illegal however.
"We are finally at the point where most people buying cars grew up playing video games... Why not use the same interface for driving around in real life?"
Because it sucks and is the number one reason why people who want total control when playing racing or flight sims get hooked up with pedals/sticks/etc. Also, there are no G's pulling on you when you're playing a video game. Doesn't matter if it's 'by wire' or physical connect, wheels can change directions very quickly and with great force, and the steering wheel must remain in sync with them at _some_ ratio, or the steering mechanism would be unreliable at best and useless at worst. Imagine trying to make an emergency maneuver at speed with steering and throttle/brakes, all on the same controller. It wouldn't be pretty. While I won't argue that the current standard control layout in cars is somehow ideal or perfect, it definitely seems to fall in the 'aint broke dont fix' group.
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"MS was integral in designing hammer with AMD."
Bullshit. Cite one, single news item or press release that states this please.
Microsoft announces development of AMD's x86-64 Hammer solutions. Mainstream Linux distro's follow suit. Software companies are looking at Microsoft and saying, "We're going to follow Microsoft, they have the money."
PowerPC
Which explains perfectly why Linux runs on the following architectures yet Windows does not, and I can say with a large degree of certainty, never will:
Alpha
ARM
IA64
M68K
MIPS
MIPS-64
PA-RISC
IBM S/390
SH (a.k.a Hitachi H8)
SPARC
SPARC64
Or her parents for naming her Mitchell to begin with...
Bet the guy who first discovered how to make it would never have dreamed of fiber-optics.
You're kinda-sorta describing how Neverwinter Nights does portals. From their faq:
6.06 Can I link my world to someone else's?
Yes. Servers can be linked through 'Portals'. Portals are created when one server operator requests a link and another server operator accepts. This will form a two-way transfer between the two servers, allowing players to travel between the two worlds simply by stepping through the Portal. Once a Portal is created, it remains until removed by one of the server operators. If the server on the other end is currently not operational, the Portal will appear closed. Players can view a wide variety of information about the server on the other end by inspecting the Portal. If the character does not meet the requirements of the new server, the player is not teleported and re-appears beside the original server's Portal. Servers can support multiple Portals.
6.07 What are some ways I can make use of Portals?
The implications of this Portal system are somewhat mind-boggling. By distributing the different areas and population load over a number of home computers with decent Internet connections, for instance, your game world can know no boundaries. On a smaller scale, two rival player guilds could agree to portal their guildworlds together to settle a dispute in battle. Freewheeling MUDs and MUSHes could also emerge where people cobble their different creations together into a larger, cosmopolitan world of adventure. Neverwinter Nights is all about getting people together and Portals allow that to happen on a grander, even more exciting scale.
---
Kinda over the top there at the end, but close to what you were proposing it seems.
"How do you know?"
From a linked article:
"Stardock has found that the best way to keep customers and decrease piracy is to reward people for supporting you rather than punish people by having to go through copy protection.
Each GalCiv user has their own unique serial number that is verified on our server as being a valid serial number. When a user enters this serial number into our server, they get a Stardock.net account which lets them instantly gain access to all sorts of extra goodies including the BonusPak."
The language they use, throughout the sites actually, displays a distinct lack of intent to use serials in such a way as to prosecute people who don't have one. "If you have one, great, thanks and here's some extra stuff" is the clear and ringing message I get from the sites. Maybe they will become evil in the future. They have the benefit of the doubt however, due to a lack of past bad behavior. MS does not have this advantage, and further, clearly has the intent of using their serial scheme to shut down and/or go after people without (a real) one.
"And? Microsoft will deny patches if no serial is provided, and StarDock will NOT provide additional goodies if a serial is NOT provided."
There is a huge difference between a patch to fix the base product and additional graphics, sounds, etc. MS putting free stuff up for XP isn't the same, since if you haven't a serial for XP, you're still screwed at a more fundamental level. Not so with GalCiv.
1) GalCiv does not cease to operate if no serial is provided.
2) StarDock will not sick the law on you if no serial is provided.
3) StarDock will not deny patches if no serial is provided.
4) StarDock will provide additional goodies if a serial is provided.
Looks like the method and intent of StarDock in no way resembles what MS is doing, barring the fact that they both use serial numbers with otherwise unprotected software.
"Microsoft was (and still is) severely bashed on
Fucking wah. They deserve it in spades.
I thought the machines name was W.O.P.R. and Joshua was Prof Falken's son, whose name was the password Lightman 'cracked' to get in as Falken...
"It gave you glocoma"
Any links for that? Otherwise I call BS, as not only does Google return absolutely zilch for 'virtuaboy glaucoma' but it just sounds like bunk.
There are lots of things more valuable, per unit weight, than gold. So far, barring platinum perhaps, none of them are as pratically useful to the individual as a store of value however.
From an Infoworld article on the subject:
"Governments signing up to the security program will be able to build systems that offer the high levels of security required for national security, Microsoft has said. However, government users will not be allowed to make modifications to the code or compile the source code into Windows programs themselves, according to Microsoft."
Yeah, real 'open'.
A little reading would go a long way in your search for truth.
From the linked article:
Using the NanoSIMS probe, the Washington University investigators then measured the relative amounts of two isotopes of oxygen in more than a thousand grains from nine IDPs. The data told them which grains had come from stars.
From a link in the article:
The NanoSIMS is a first-of-its-kind ion microprobe in the Laboratory for Space Sciences in Arts & Sciences and is housed on the fourth floor of Compton Hall. The $2 million instrument is the first in the world built to analyze the isotopic and elemental composition of extremely small samples, such as interplanetary dust particles, at a sub-micrometer scale, allowing a first-time look at those particles' subcomponents.
And from a link on the NanoSIMS homepage:
Results: Of all the subgrains defined in 25 images from 9 cluster IDPs, roughly 1031 were measured with sufficient precision to distinguish solar material from circumstellar dust as shown in Figure 1. Only grains > 200 nm were measured with this level of precision. Six of these grains have O isotopic compositions which fall well outside the range of solar system materials, marking them as stellar condensates.
Seems to me like these cats know what they are doing.
Normally I consider it bad form to reply to ones own comment or to question moderation, yet this time I am genuinely, burningly curious as to why this post was modded down rather than replied to. It is the straight dope right from one of the horses mouths. Is the moderator simply unwilling to face the truth? Do they think that, well, "that was then and this is now"? What?
When Cheney is asked why we went into Iraq, the FIRST THING he says is, "If we had taken a pass on Saddam's occupation of Kuwait, by today he would have the eastern province of Saudi Arabia and would sit astride about 50 percent of the world's oil reserves."
Exactly what part of that isn't clear about oil being our primary concern? Which is precisely the part I was replying to in the (off-topic but still highly rated, and highly, patently, clearly documented to be wrong on that point) parent comment? Is the US really that overrun with people who can't think for themselves and can only regurgitate what CNN or Rush tells them?
Here: http://www.policyreview.org/summer93/cheney.html
Excerpting:
Policy Review: It is now two years after the spectacular victory of the United States and its allies in Desert Storm. What objectives were achieved during this war?
Cheney: The best way to evaluate Desert Storm is to consider what the world would be like today if we hadn't fought and won this war. If we had taken a pass on Saddam's occupation of Kuwait, by today he would have the eastern province of Saudi Arabia and would sit astride about 50 percent of the world's oil reserves, which he could control directly when you add up Kuwaiti, Saudi, and Iraqi oil reserves. He'd be able to dominate the rest of the reserves in the Persian Gulf. And he'd have nuclear weapons. We had to stop this from happening. And we did.
--
Notice how the nukes are clearly a secondary consideration.
--
P.R.: You got out of Iraq without going all the way to Baghdad. Are you worried that Saddam Hussein is still in power today?
Cheney: I'd rather he were not in power, but I don't see him at this point as a threat to any of his neighbors. In that part of the world, I'm more concerned about Iran. Saddam is unable to sell oil; without selling oil, he can't generate the revenue he needs to rebuild that military machine we destroyed. The Iranians aren't faced with that situation; they have access to the world's markets, they are selling oil, and they are using some of that revenue to regenerate their forces and expand their capabilities. For example, they're buying diesel-powered submarines and MiG-29s from the Russians.
--
Nah, can't be about the oil.
Actually, they had footage of female mice running around trying to hump other female mice. Pretty convincing really.
Not trying to inflame anyone, but I recall some experiments done on mice/rats that would produce homosexual behavior, every time, in developed animals if the hormonal balance was tilted in some way during the fetal stage. Anyone know more about this? Seemed like it was a rather solid study at the time.
I think they were referring to the ability to 'burn' an image physically onto the top face of the CD itself.
You have chosen to download Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition 1.4.1_01
.
.net 'runtime'. And what if I decide I don't want .net on my machine anymore? The others you mention are all add-ons that don't try to become a permanent part of your OS. On my box at work I installed VisStudio.NET to check it out some time ago. It tells me I have to run the setup.exe and then throws a fatal error when clicking 'Remove' under Add/Remove Software. Something tells me that even running setup.exe once I track down the CD, won't _completely_ remove it.
* Download j2re-1_4_1_01-windows-i586.exe
Filesize = 8,015,928 bytes.
It's less than half the size of the
"The only difference is this is Microsoft, so you're quick to bash them because you're an ignorant asshole."
I have MANY MANY reasons to bash MS, and none of them stem from ignorance, asshole. FOAD.
a) Do you have a monopoly on your wife?
No. She can still go fuck whoever she wants and I could not stop her. Monopolies are about control.
b) What if the South had won the Civil War? We'd have an oligopoly of 50, instead of a monopoly of one.
Not that simple. The post-CW federal government was _nowhere close_ in size or scope to the one that has been created over the last hundred years, primarily by states (and the people in them) relinquishing more and more in favor of the federal money teat. I recently even had to remind someone on here that the federal government does not, and cannot, grant our basic freedoms to us. They were ready to give that up too, or already had in their heads anyway.
c) The government has a monopoly on money, you can't create your own, and yet you continue to spend it, without cause or care.
Yes I do care. It's the teeming, debt-laden masses who don't, as they've been duped into thinking that way by the federal government. Which is precisely why the founders were vehemently opposed to any sort of fiat system whatsoever. The US is just now entering the period of come-uppance for the last century worth of unfettered fiscal brigandry and charlatanism. History furnishes not one single example of a fiat system remaining uncorrupted by those entrusted with stewarding it.
How exactly are monopolies in any way good again?
According to the donation page at Cambodia Schools project, $7M dollars would fund no less than 442 schools, including construction, for two years. Build 'only' 221 and they could be funded for 158 years at current rates. These are the kinds of projects that our nations 'small change' should be involved in, as they create a huge positive change in the long run (goodwill for potential future trade, etc), not creating yet more appetite for death.
I'm not claiming it is illegal. Simply trying to get at 'two wrongs don't make a right'. Or is it only wrong if it's illegal?
You and the AC seem to make the same point: Rip it yourself.
My argument is that there are legitimate uses for P2P. But it looks like most people are more inclined to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
"What, you are not able to pirate a copy of some new album? Poor baby. Pay for it."
Suppose for a moment that I already have. What is the justification now?
"Why do we save our complaints for when the legal owners do something against the spirit of the system, rather than when someone else does something against the law?"
Simple. In all cases of them being deceptive, it's just that, pure deception. With the assumption of guilt on the part of everyone who might download. Not all cases of downloads are illegal however.
"We are finally at the point where most people buying cars grew up playing video games... Why not use the same interface for driving around in real life?"
Because it sucks and is the number one reason why people who want total control when playing racing or flight sims get hooked up with pedals/sticks/etc. Also, there are no G's pulling on you when you're playing a video game. Doesn't matter if it's 'by wire' or physical connect, wheels can change directions very quickly and with great force, and the steering wheel must remain in sync with them at _some_ ratio, or the steering mechanism would be unreliable at best and useless at worst. Imagine trying to make an emergency maneuver at speed with steering and throttle/brakes, all on the same controller. It wouldn't be pretty. While I won't argue that the current standard control layout in cars is somehow ideal or perfect, it definitely seems to fall in the 'aint broke dont fix' group.