Well, while it is true that alien organisms that mutate the human race do come from asteroids, especially when a space probe returns, first we need to have male astronauts rendevous with it, a blackout to occur, and the astronauts wives to become pregnant very soon thereafter.
Boil it all down, strip out the fancy words, and it basically says Napster has a right to exist, the RIAA are nazi goons who overstepped their legal authority, and all they can ask Napster to do is a timely removal of copyrighted material upon request and identification.
The only problem is if Napster fails to remove links to files from users who violated their clearly stated terms. Then an injunction can apply. Otherwise, it basically says you're innocent until proven guilty.
I said:
Here's the real stats:
1. Cruise missiles with 30 percent hit ratios -- this is true You said:
The point is that they were reported to the US public at over 90%; and that the Tomahawk development team had been given that as a goal. 30%, the publicity figure that the Pentagon pulled back to, was in fact the overall hit percent for Tomahawk targets -- meaning it doesn't reflect that it may have taken multiple Tomahawks to hit the target.
Again, I said the goal was 90 percent, 80 percent is under ideal conditions, 30 percent is battlefield - we both agree, although I said cruise missiles not Tomahawks - I worked in LRCSW at Boeing for a while, so I know the difference. Not all cruise missiles are tomahawks.
Untrue. It was local Somalians... and we actually had a 20:1 kill ratio...
There were a great number of Afganistanis there... and 20:1, if true, is pretty sucky against Somalis, compared to 200:1 in Iraq, no? Not that I'd believe Pentagon figures any more than I believe General Westmoreland's body counts...
Nope, just rumors. And 20:1 is still damned good, it's only that Yanks think noone should die. When you actually serve in a military and see a few dead bodies, we'll talk - until then, I still say this was a combat victory and a media loss - accentuated by a lack of proper support to achieve unrealistic goals.
only one manned plane was shot down.
See above. You were reading the US media, as it did its very poor job of serving the US people. The F-16 downs just didn't make the big papers.
No. You said US planes, not NATO planes, but you give NATO planes shot down. I say again, most downed planes were pilotless, very few had pilots but were drones and scouts that got hit. And the US downed plane count was in the single digits, no matter how you slice it.
Face it, the US doesn't care how many NATO planes were shot down - we only cared how many US planes were shot down. And from a media standpoint, that's all that counts.
I think it's important to put Bin-Laden's quote in context:
----> The US conducts Operation Desert Storm. The US media reports it is an enormous success -- highlighting the role of Patriot missles and other high-tech systems -- when in fact, MIT researchers later show that none of the Patriots hit their intended targets, cruise missle performance was dismal (30% ish), etc.
----> In 1992, a bunch of Bin-Laden trained hicks kick the US's butt in Somalia. Boy, we don't hear much about US military effectiveness in the media.
----> In Spring 2000, 129 US warplanes are downed in the Yugoslav/Kosovo conflict. The NY Times reports only one of these.
There are lies, darned lies, and statistics.
Here's the real stats:
1. Cruise missiles with 30 percent hit ratios - this is true - dumb bombs with JATO pods ($500 for warhead and $2000 for pod) have a 99 percent hit ratio, whereas cruise missiles have a 30 percent ratio (it can go up to 80 percent in ideal conditions).
2. "In 1992, a bunch of Bin-Laden trained hicks kick the US's butt in Somalia." Untrue. It was local Somalians and we actually had a 20:1 kill ratio in that particular battle, which most countries would regard as fantastic. But... Yanks don't like to see their casualties dragged through the streets... basically, we had the strength but not the stomach... war means death, on both sides. Get over it.
3. "In Spring 2000, 129 US warplanes are downed in the Yugoslav/Kosovo conflict. The NY Times reports only one of these." Wrong. Most of these are unpiloted or remote pilot drones, only one manned plane was shot down. There's a big difference between a $500 remote drone used for artillery spotting and remote scouting being shot down and a stealth fighter biting it.
Next thing you know you'll say that Bush won the US election, even though ballot analysis shows this was not the case, as all of Europe knows but our media won't cover.
Or... maybe all the techies are just being a teensy bit paranoid about downsizing nowadays, since so many firms have unsustainable business models and the VC equity holders and IPO institutional holders are pulling the plug.
I'd be more concerned with news like Attachmate downsizing due to the low volume of Win2K Data Server sales, especially with Active Directory almost nonexistent than I would be about S.u.S.e. problems.
At least you've got the source code... imagine if it were a closed source OS/Apps company... what would you do?
What would happen if the NSA and the CIA and the FBI and all the Military intelligence communities get public key escrow and the right to snoop thru our email and web pages?
Answer - it would not affect them at all. The bad guys already have PGP and they can't crack it. The bad guys already have image encryption and they can't crack it.
All this will let them do is run roughshod over the constitution and pry even more into our private lives.
And, remember, Bush Sr. was Director of the CIA - don't for a second think that this is not a pretext to take even more of our civil liberties away.
I posted this a while ago, and it's all but over by now. Check the date on the article.
Great googly moogly, does Slashdot ever need a story moderation system.
Yeah, a lot of us really wonder why we need three posts about the same story, just because the submit chain is overloaded.
Luckily for me, I'm maxed out on karma, so I can afford to burn the karma to say this, but it's just getting worse and noone seems to be in control anymore.
That aside, for the Starcraft web site confiscations - what ever happened to Freedom of Speech and the Right To Make Posts About Weapons of Mass Destruction that are guaranteed in the Constitution?
They suggest moving a large asteroid past Earth and using its gravity to pull us out to a slightly different orbit. Their concern was how to keep the Earth cool as the Sun ages and warms up in a billion years.
I thought the earth was flat... after all, I have it on good authority from our current President, George W Bush, that global warming doesn't exist and we can build a really large umbrella to cover the US from those nasty missile thingies the Communists want to attack us with...
That said, just as with web gnats/bugs, invisible GIFs, and suchlike, there are many ways to avoid this:
1. Use PINE. Who needs graphics anyway?
2. Turn off all Java, Javascript, etc and view all emails as Text. Then use the Copy and Paste functions to forward only the From:, Subject:, and Date: fields in the email along with the body of the text.
3. If you want to forward pictures or attachments, save them to a file, and convert any DOC or other embedded files to a non-embedded format such as ASCII Text. Then create an email and attach those new files instead.
4. Hunt down and launch boycotts and similar actions against the creators of these things. Show no mercy.
5. Send a copy of all such spam to all your legislators - municipal, county, state, federal, president/etc. Send it with the attachments and javascript. Include your name and adress in the forward so the spam software on their end will not put it in the spam box, and ask them what they will do about it. And send a copy to uce@ftc.gov for fun.
It might not be a big deal now, but how about in 6 months or so when the real cost of electricity is passed on to the consumers? If you started paying 10x more for your electricity than you're paying now, will power savings be an issue?
Unlike California, where there's a 10 percent rate cap on power prices, both Oregon and Washington states have no such limits and we're looking at 50 to 150 percent price hikes over the next six months, some of which will be permanent.
So, especially in other portions of the Pacific Northwest, this is very much an issue.
The low power, many microprocessor solution has been propounded many times, and it has routinely failed in the marketplace. Why?
People don't care about low power on servers. Even if the power costs and cooling costs are trippled, only a handful are in a position where optimizing for power, not speed is important.
Theoretical peak, N cheap processors is much more powerful than one expensive processor
Then why are sales of low-power servers skyrocketing, especially in San Francisco, which someone from Berkeley should know about. Hint: read the local business pages sometime. I do up here in Seattle, and it's reported here.
There are high-demand servers, mid-demand servers, and back-up servers. For high-demand, constant traffic servers your arguments make a lot of sense. For mid-demand or failsafe rollover servers, the heat cost and power cost are a higher fraction of the operating expense of the server, which is likely a cheaper box with dual drives but chock full o RAM.
Servers don't come in one size or one shape. Some people serve up lots of static pages, some people have worldwide operations. Others have frequent low-traffic periods and may have a primary hit box with some image servers that can afford to have a little lag time and would get a high return on code-replication as it serves the same file over and over and over and over and over.
Just because you don't like Dietzel doesn't make you right. Think before you post, do some research, a few base google queries, check the local trade mags, before leaping to assumptions.
That's a good question. One of the side effects of California's recent electricity problems has been a spike in demand for low-power devices, specifically Transmeta-based servers, but the whole device side is another animal.
My impression is that Intel is having problems recognizing how to deal with the appliance picture and small devices, and that Transmeta has maybe an 18 month lead on them. But they're not the only players in this sphere, so this is going to depend on the following things:
1. How fast Transmeta can ship production quantity chips for this market.
2. How well device manufacturers integrate these in a useable way.
3. How interested the consumer market is in these devices.
4. What pricing strategy Transmeta has for this.
5. How far competitors are willing to go with fake media releases, arm twisting, collusion, and rumors to sink Transmeta.
6. Where G Bush and Bill G and their posses have invested their money in this area - if the regulators and the tech money interests are all after Transmeta, the best solution may not necessarily win, unless it can get its own crew behind it.
I got all excited when I saw a "submitting" related link. I was expecting leather-clad, whip-holding women, but all I got was something about linux. Dunno 'bout you, but the image of a leather-clad penguin isn't all that appealing to me.
Depends. What kind of whip is the penguin holding? Riding crop? Cat o' nine tails? Buggy whip?
Also, is the penguin mounted on Bill Gates, and is Bill au naturel with the exception of a saddle, and iron bit in his mouth?
If Wine DirectX did something useful with some argument values that did not do the right thing on Windows, it is likely that game writers might even #ifdef LINUX these calls in and improve the game on Linux, and also be a big embarrassment to MicroSoft, who would eventually be forced to copy the Wine-invented interface.
A very intriguing idea. If it is a fix to something that leaks like a sieve or that drops mouse turds or something, that sounds like a very good concept. But I'd be very careful with it, as some code may rely on aberrant behaviour.
More games can be played under Linux. That's good.
Aside. You know what's funny... is now Linux is doing the same that M$ does... embracing.:-) (The difference of course, is not extendeding in propriertary ways, like Microsoft.)
Except, whereas MSFT uses Embrace and Extend(TM), we use Embrace and Assimilate(GPL)...
We have to decide which battle to fight. It's no good having the perfect platform with perfect apps if no one uses it. The masses won't use it until a critical mass of applications is available, and those apps won't be available until the masses can shell out the $$. The thing that Wine does is gets more people running Linux by providing those Windows apps that don't exist as Linux apps yet.
Exactly. We have to stop focussing on the current battle (Windows versus Linux) and focus on the war (Microsoft versus Open Source). Look, when the press reports on gaming sales, they're going to say:
Windows 75 percent
Mac 5 percent
Linux 10 percent
Other 10 percent
And that Linux portion may be half Wine and half native Linux.
I know we would all prefer native code, but we have to get mindshare first. Or else noone will develop for Linux, or consider doing so.
Because, face it, we all want to play The Sims - and I'd rather buy the Linux-compatible version than the Windows version, if you get my drift.
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It isn't about the money. It's about the Quality.
and at Linux, Quality is Job One.
We let you check under the hood - good software at a better price.
Why settle for an OS that only gives you half of what you need?
1. China sends over Red Army in civvies on local boats, with hidden explosives and other weaponry. Result: Taiwan is now a Chinese province.
2. US invests in ABM - after 20 years of investment, still has only 90 percent kill ratio against a missile not using countermeasures. Against countermeasure missiles, best result is 30 percent. San Francisco glows in the dark...
3. US continues to rely on Internet and GPS and satellite networks. China or Japan or Germany or France gets mad at us, uses "space junk" satellites to take out our network and cyber army to hack our networks with DOS sleeper attacks. US falls apart, whole world glows in dark.
4. Space aliens show up, turn off all networks. Bush used as chew toy by alien subcommander. Waste for military expenditures drops dramatically, economy grows at rapid pace and all world problems solved. Well, except for the AIDS virus, which kills off the space aliens, but now we have cheap colonies in the galaxy.
While this may all be old news, we need to understand that the International Astronomy Society gets to decide these things, and that is not a scientific process, but a political process disguised as science.
Just as Pluto is a Dog disguised as a Trademark. And Dog spelled backwards is...
The problem is fairly simple, actually. Citizens of the EU, and to a lesser extent Canadians, have more legal rights to privacy, with the minor exceptions of the UK and Turkey, than do citizens of the USA.
But most major websites in the USA practice better privacy due to consumer pressure and our continual willingness to sue over anything, whereas EU corporations have fewer problem customers to deal with.
This will change over the next three years, as Bush loosens privacy regulations and enforcements, while the EU cracks down on such abuses.
So, to sum up: you get more perceived privacy today in the USA, but over the next few years you'll get more real privacy in the EU.
Canadians, of course, will get the best of both worlds. Luckily for me I'm a dual citizen of both Canada and the USA, so I can sue like an American badger to enforce my Canadian rights on American sites.
Well, I guess I'll have to sue despair.com then, cause I used that emoticon back in 1979 in a copyrighted work that was transmitted over the Internet, when I was a student at SFU in Burnaby, B.C.
Luckily for me I registered it with both the Library of Congress and the Canadian version thereof (even have the reg papers in a box in the attic).
Interesting aside - maybe I should read through my published articles and journals and see if I have any more prior art I can use to deny MSFT and other baddies their key patents, since I have prior claim due to usage?
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Well, while it is true that alien organisms that mutate the human race do come from asteroids, especially when a space probe returns, first we need to have male astronauts rendevous with it, a blackout to occur, and the astronauts wives to become pregnant very soon thereafter.
Hmmm, maybe that's why it's called Eros!?!
Is that one of those wierd thingies that are kind of like a NIC? I heard that they make strange noises, but are really slow.
...
Friends don't let friends operate at speeds less than 256K
Boil it all down, strip out the fancy words, and it basically says Napster has a right to exist, the RIAA are nazi goons who overstepped their legal authority, and all they can ask Napster to do is a timely removal of copyrighted material upon request and identification.
The only problem is if Napster fails to remove links to files from users who violated their clearly stated terms. Then an injunction can apply. Otherwise, it basically says you're innocent until proven guilty.
I said:
Here's the real stats:
1. Cruise missiles with 30 percent hit ratios -- this is true
You said:
The point is that they were reported to the US public at over 90%; and that the Tomahawk development team had been given that as a goal. 30%, the publicity figure that the Pentagon pulled back to, was in fact the overall hit percent for Tomahawk targets -- meaning it doesn't reflect that it may have taken multiple Tomahawks to hit the target.
Again, I said the goal was 90 percent, 80 percent is under ideal conditions, 30 percent is battlefield - we both agree, although I said cruise missiles not Tomahawks - I worked in LRCSW at Boeing for a while, so I know the difference. Not all cruise missiles are tomahawks.
Untrue. It was local Somalians... and we actually had a 20:1 kill ratio...
There were a great number of Afganistanis there... and 20:1, if true, is pretty sucky against Somalis, compared to 200:1 in Iraq, no? Not that I'd believe Pentagon figures any more than I believe General Westmoreland's body counts...
Nope, just rumors. And 20:1 is still damned good, it's only that Yanks think noone should die. When you actually serve in a military and see a few dead bodies, we'll talk - until then, I still say this was a combat victory and a media loss - accentuated by a lack of proper support to achieve unrealistic goals.
only one manned plane was shot down.
See above. You were reading the US media, as it did its very poor job of serving the US people. The F-16 downs just didn't make the big papers.
No. You said US planes, not NATO planes, but you give NATO planes shot down. I say again, most downed planes were pilotless, very few had pilots but were drones and scouts that got hit. And the US downed plane count was in the single digits, no matter how you slice it.
Face it, the US doesn't care how many NATO planes were shot down - we only cared how many US planes were shot down. And from a media standpoint, that's all that counts.
I think it's important to put Bin-Laden's quote in context:
... Yanks don't like to see their casualties dragged through the streets ... basically, we had the strength but not the stomach ... war means death, on both sides. Get over it.
----> The US conducts Operation Desert Storm. The US media reports it is an enormous success -- highlighting the role of Patriot missles and other high-tech systems -- when in fact, MIT researchers later show that none of the Patriots hit their intended targets, cruise missle performance was dismal (30% ish), etc.
----> In 1992, a bunch of Bin-Laden trained hicks kick the US's butt in Somalia. Boy, we don't hear much about US military effectiveness in the media.
----> In Spring 2000, 129 US warplanes are downed in the Yugoslav/Kosovo conflict. The NY Times reports only one of these.
There are lies, darned lies, and statistics.
Here's the real stats:
1. Cruise missiles with 30 percent hit ratios - this is true - dumb bombs with JATO pods ($500 for warhead and $2000 for pod) have a 99 percent hit ratio, whereas cruise missiles have a 30 percent ratio (it can go up to 80 percent in ideal conditions).
2. "In 1992, a bunch of Bin-Laden trained hicks kick the US's butt in Somalia." Untrue. It was local Somalians and we actually had a 20:1 kill ratio in that particular battle, which most countries would regard as fantastic. But
3. "In Spring 2000, 129 US warplanes are downed in the Yugoslav/Kosovo conflict. The NY Times reports only one of these." Wrong. Most of these are unpiloted or remote pilot drones, only one manned plane was shot down. There's a big difference between a $500 remote drone used for artillery spotting and remote scouting being shot down and a stealth fighter biting it.
Next thing you know you'll say that Bush won the US election, even though ballot analysis shows this was not the case, as all of Europe knows but our media won't cover.
Coincidence? I don't think so.
... maybe all the techies are just being a teensy bit paranoid about downsizing nowadays, since so many firms have unsustainable business models and the VC equity holders and IPO institutional holders are pulling the plug.
... imagine if it were a closed source OS/Apps company ... what would you do?
Or
I'd be more concerned with news like Attachmate downsizing due to the low volume of Win2K Data Server sales, especially with Active Directory almost nonexistent than I would be about S.u.S.e. problems.
At least you've got the source code
What would happen if the NSA and the CIA and the FBI and all the Military intelligence communities get public key escrow and the right to snoop thru our email and web pages?
Answer - it would not affect them at all. The bad guys already have PGP and they can't crack it. The bad guys already have image encryption and they can't crack it.
All this will let them do is run roughshod over the constitution and pry even more into our private lives.
And, remember, Bush Sr. was Director of the CIA - don't for a second think that this is not a pretext to take even more of our civil liberties away.
I posted this a while ago, and it's all but over by now. Check the date on the article.
Great googly moogly, does Slashdot ever need a story moderation system.
Yeah, a lot of us really wonder why we need three posts about the same story, just because the submit chain is overloaded.
Luckily for me, I'm maxed out on karma, so I can afford to burn the karma to say this, but it's just getting worse and noone seems to be in control anymore.
That aside, for the Starcraft web site confiscations - what ever happened to Freedom of Speech and the Right To Make Posts About Weapons of Mass Destruction that are guaranteed in the Constitution?
They'll take my free speech rights when they pry them from my cold dead clone's body ...
Information must be Free - Knowledge comes at a price, that of eternal vigilance, plus a quarter for a phone call.
The local Sounder train system uses WinNT boxen - one of the fellows at work hacked it while waiting for a train to show up - pretty easy, Scott said.
...
But, if it's a slot machine, shouldn't it have Red Screens of Death, to go with the three cherries in a row motif?
I can see it now - "How to Hack Slot Machines for Fun and Profit"
They suggest moving a large asteroid past Earth and using its gravity to pull us out to a slightly different orbit. Their concern was how to keep the Earth cool as the Sun ages and warms up in a billion years.
... after all, I have it on good authority from our current President, George W Bush, that global warming doesn't exist and we can build a really large umbrella to cover the US from those nasty missile thingies the Communists want to attack us with ...
I thought the earth was flat
As you no doubt know, the no registration version of the article is here.
That said, just as with web gnats/bugs, invisible GIFs, and suchlike, there are many ways to avoid this:
1. Use PINE. Who needs graphics anyway?
2. Turn off all Java, Javascript, etc and view all emails as Text. Then use the Copy and Paste functions to forward only the From:, Subject:, and Date: fields in the email along with the body of the text.
3. If you want to forward pictures or attachments, save them to a file, and convert any DOC or other embedded files to a non-embedded format such as ASCII Text. Then create an email and attach those new files instead.
4. Hunt down and launch boycotts and similar actions against the creators of these things. Show no mercy.
5. Send a copy of all such spam to all your legislators - municipal, county, state, federal, president/etc. Send it with the attachments and javascript. Include your name and adress in the forward so the spam software on their end will not put it in the spam box, and ask them what they will do about it. And send a copy to uce@ftc.gov for fun.
100cpu x 1w/cpu = 100w for the Crusoe's
Ouch.
Of course 100 cpu's need more ram etc. and all that jazz I suppose, but then what do I know, I work with handhelds/embedded systems not huge servers.
Can you imagine a Beowulf Cluster of those?
sorry, but it might have some practical applications.
It might not be a big deal now, but how about in 6 months or so when the real cost of electricity is passed on to the consumers? If you started paying 10x more for your electricity than you're paying now, will power savings be an issue?
Unlike California, where there's a 10 percent rate cap on power prices, both Oregon and Washington states have no such limits and we're looking at 50 to 150 percent price hikes over the next six months, some of which will be permanent.
So, especially in other portions of the Pacific Northwest, this is very much an issue.
The low power, many microprocessor solution has been propounded many times, and it has routinely failed in the marketplace. Why?
People don't care about low power on servers. Even if the power costs and cooling costs are trippled, only a handful are in a position where optimizing for power, not speed is important.
Theoretical peak, N cheap processors is much more powerful than one expensive processor
Then why are sales of low-power servers skyrocketing, especially in San Francisco, which someone from Berkeley should know about. Hint: read the local business pages sometime. I do up here in Seattle, and it's reported here.
There are high-demand servers, mid-demand servers, and back-up servers. For high-demand, constant traffic servers your arguments make a lot of sense. For mid-demand or failsafe rollover servers, the heat cost and power cost are a higher fraction of the operating expense of the server, which is likely a cheaper box with dual drives but chock full o RAM.
Servers don't come in one size or one shape. Some people serve up lots of static pages, some people have worldwide operations. Others have frequent low-traffic periods and may have a primary hit box with some image servers that can afford to have a little lag time and would get a high return on code-replication as it serves the same file over and over and over and over and over.
Just because you don't like Dietzel doesn't make you right. Think before you post, do some research, a few base google queries, check the local trade mags, before leaping to assumptions.
That's a good question. One of the side effects of California's recent electricity problems has been a spike in demand for low-power devices, specifically Transmeta-based servers, but the whole device side is another animal.
My impression is that Intel is having problems recognizing how to deal with the appliance picture and small devices, and that Transmeta has maybe an 18 month lead on them. But they're not the only players in this sphere, so this is going to depend on the following things:
1. How fast Transmeta can ship production quantity chips for this market.
2. How well device manufacturers integrate these in a useable way.
3. How interested the consumer market is in these devices.
4. What pricing strategy Transmeta has for this.
5. How far competitors are willing to go with fake media releases, arm twisting, collusion, and rumors to sink Transmeta.
6. Where G Bush and Bill G and their posses have invested their money in this area - if the regulators and the tech money interests are all after Transmeta, the best solution may not necessarily win, unless it can get its own crew behind it.
I got all excited when I saw a "submitting" related link. I was expecting leather-clad, whip-holding women, but all I got was something about linux. Dunno 'bout you, but the image of a leather-clad penguin isn't all that appealing to me.
Depends. What kind of whip is the penguin holding? Riding crop? Cat o' nine tails? Buggy whip?
Also, is the penguin mounted on Bill Gates, and is Bill au naturel with the exception of a saddle, and iron bit in his mouth?
If Wine DirectX did something useful with some argument values that did not do the right thing on Windows, it is likely that game writers might even #ifdef LINUX these calls in and improve the game on Linux, and also be a big embarrassment to MicroSoft, who would eventually be forced to copy the Wine-invented interface.
A very intriguing idea. If it is a fix to something that leaks like a sieve or that drops mouse turds or something, that sounds like a very good concept. But I'd be very careful with it, as some code may rely on aberrant behaviour.
The Good:
... is now Linux is doing the same that M$ does ... embracing. :-) (The difference of course, is not extendeding in propriertary ways, like Microsoft.)
...
More games can be played under Linux. That's good.
Aside. You know what's funny
Except, whereas MSFT uses Embrace and Extend(TM), we use Embrace and Assimilate(GPL)
We have to decide which battle to fight. It's no good having the perfect platform with perfect apps if no one uses it. The masses won't use it until a critical mass of applications is available, and those apps won't be available until the masses can shell out the $$. The thing that Wine does is gets more people running Linux by providing those Windows apps that don't exist as Linux apps yet.
Exactly. We have to stop focussing on the current battle (Windows versus Linux) and focus on the war (Microsoft versus Open Source). Look, when the press reports on gaming sales, they're going to say:
Windows 75 percent
Mac 5 percent
Linux 10 percent
Other 10 percent
And that Linux portion may be half Wine and half native Linux.
I know we would all prefer native code, but we have to get mindshare first. Or else noone will develop for Linux, or consider doing so.
Because, face it, we all want to play The Sims - and I'd rather buy the Linux-compatible version than the Windows version, if you get my drift.
It isn't about the money. It's about the Quality.
and at Linux, Quality is Job One.
We let you check under the hood - good software at a better price.
Why settle for an OS that only gives you half of what you need?
A few likely scenarios are as follows:
...
1. China sends over Red Army in civvies on local boats, with hidden explosives and other weaponry. Result: Taiwan is now a Chinese province.
2. US invests in ABM - after 20 years of investment, still has only 90 percent kill ratio against a missile not using countermeasures. Against countermeasure missiles, best result is 30 percent. San Francisco glows in the dark
3. US continues to rely on Internet and GPS and satellite networks. China or Japan or Germany or France gets mad at us, uses "space junk" satellites to take out our network and cyber army to hack our networks with DOS sleeper attacks. US falls apart, whole world glows in dark.
4. Space aliens show up, turn off all networks. Bush used as chew toy by alien subcommander. Waste for military expenditures drops dramatically, economy grows at rapid pace and all world problems solved. Well, except for the AIDS virus, which kills off the space aliens, but now we have cheap colonies in the galaxy.
of the Disney company. It's also a God.
...
While this may all be old news, we need to understand that the International Astronomy Society gets to decide these things, and that is not a scientific process, but a political process disguised as science.
Just as Pluto is a Dog disguised as a Trademark. And Dog spelled backwards is
The problem is fairly simple, actually. Citizens of the EU, and to a lesser extent Canadians, have more legal rights to privacy, with the minor exceptions of the UK and Turkey, than do citizens of the USA.
But most major websites in the USA practice better privacy due to consumer pressure and our continual willingness to sue over anything, whereas EU corporations have fewer problem customers to deal with.
This will change over the next three years, as Bush loosens privacy regulations and enforcements, while the EU cracks down on such abuses.
So, to sum up: you get more perceived privacy today in the USA, but over the next few years you'll get more real privacy in the EU.
Canadians, of course, will get the best of both worlds. Luckily for me I'm a dual citizen of both Canada and the USA, so I can sue like an American badger to enforce my Canadian rights on American sites.
Well, I guess I'll have to sue despair.com then, cause I used that emoticon back in 1979 in a copyrighted work that was transmitted over the Internet, when I was a student at SFU in Burnaby, B.C.
Luckily for me I registered it with both the Library of Congress and the Canadian version thereof (even have the reg papers in a box in the attic).
Interesting aside - maybe I should read through my published articles and journals and see if I have any more prior art I can use to deny MSFT and other baddies their key patents, since I have prior claim due to usage?