Exactly! Not to mention that only enterprise users have the ram and CPU capacity to handle ZSF. There's also the fact it's not stable or supported outside of Solaris and the only graphical tools are in an old version of macos.
On the plus side, with FreeBSD you have the ability to download the entire source tree and look at it, or compile the whole thing with a few commands (make buildworld or sth, i don't remember). Also, Linux is dying and BSD will be the next big thing.
>That could work, if they wanted to quadruple the number of servers.
I'm not sure what you're basing that on. I know that opensim runs on.Net, rumor has it that it runs better. I'm not sure what language the secondlife servers are written in, but I strongly suspect they're written in.Net too (otherwise, why would OpenSim have chosen that language to write it in?).
Why? so they can use the patents that they'd buy to force the open source projects to shut down, and then migrate the servers and clients away from Linux and onto Windows.
They've been rumored to be active in one of the open-source secondlife clones for a while now, so it's not a matter of wanting the access. Secondlife has been thoroughly, totally mismanaged for years so it's not the expertise (besides, didn't they just lay off most of their employees?).
There's only one, single thing that they would gain from this purchase; and it's so obvious that I'm literally shocked no one has mentioned it yet.
They want the patent portfolio, so that they can shut down any competing open source clones and prevent anyone else from operating in that space.
When they say a site's down it's down, bit more reliable than some forum post.
Or not. I got that result too, but then I clicked on the link (and I haven't visited TPB so it wasn't in my DNS or browser cache) and it popped right up.
Using OpenDNS (208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220 ) for my DNS, btw.
You forgot the inevitable loss of anonymity that governments and corporations are pushing for. Within five years you will have to do everything online with your real name, no aliases, no anonymity, no privacy.
Yes, you're right; there's a lot less reason to bother about the internet (or computers) any more -it's time to find other hobbies.
If managers could pay people in their 50's what they people in their 20's, it wouldn't be an issue. As always, the bottom line is the only thing that really matters.
>Or, to put it in terms of a pop culture reference, "I don't need no instructions to know how to ROCK!"
Sure, protools has made it so that anyone can push a button and recieve a polished cd....but for all of the Brittanies and Lohans why is it we don't have music that can measure up to Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd any more?
Couldn't be a connection could there? Nawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
Have fun at DA with the rest of the folks who don't need a degree to know how to draw...
If that old canard is so true, than I have to wonder why it is that their are so many security-related issues with F/OSS browsers that go unchecked for so long? While IE was justifibly a laughing stock nowadays webkit and firefox are barely much better -despite the 'many eyes' theory.
Could it be that the job is simply to complex for most non-professionals and that the open source model has reached the end of it's useful life?
By allowing anyone too download a professional level editing program free of charge it's no longer necessary too have a formal education in order too enter the graphics design field. While this sounds great in theory it's pretty apparent that those who have taken the time and disipline to actually become proficient in there profession. However, there being crowded out by comparably unskilled students who are willing to work for a latte and their name in print.
If this continues, you will not see a single person their who has a degree above a high school diploma.
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Everyone whose viewed those pictures and videos is now on a watch list.
Along with those who didn't.
Exactly! Not to mention that only enterprise users have the ram and CPU capacity to handle ZSF. There's also the fact it's not stable or supported outside of Solaris and the only graphical tools are in an old version of macos.
On the plus side, with FreeBSD you have the ability to download the entire source tree and look at it, or compile the whole thing with a few commands (make buildworld or sth, i don't remember). Also, Linux is dying and BSD will be the next big thing.
more bookfacey...
You must wear the Mark of the Beast in order to buy or sell.
Indeed it was, indeed it was...
>but probably not to the death.
what about...to the pain?
wait a minute! when did Windows 2008 R2 become free to use and download?
But 'cyber crime' pays off in the form of increased profits, boosted ratings, legislation...
Boogiemen are big business, as /. knows too well...
Seriously -in the US we have two parties. The far right party, and the psychopathic kill-and-censor-everyone-in-the-name-of-patriotism party.
In practical terms, we have no left. This article is BS.
>IMHOffice
'in my home office'? By jove! I think you've got something there -FUND IT!
>>LOffice
>How about LOLffice?
I maed you a documents ...but I ated it. ;_;
I'm not sure what you're basing that on. I know that opensim runs on .Net, rumor has it that it runs better. I'm not sure what language the secondlife servers are written in, but I strongly suspect they're written in .Net too (otherwise, why would OpenSim have chosen that language to write it in?).
Why? so they can use the patents that they'd buy to force the open source projects to shut down, and then migrate the servers and clients away from Linux and onto Windows.
Five years ago, maybe. Now? Not so much.
two words:
Patent
Portfolio
They've been rumored to be active in one of the open-source secondlife clones for a while now, so it's not a matter of wanting the access. Secondlife has been thoroughly, totally mismanaged for years so it's not the expertise (besides, didn't they just lay off most of their employees?).
There's only one, single thing that they would gain from this purchase; and it's so obvious that I'm literally shocked no one has mentioned it yet.
They want the patent portfolio, so that they can shut down any competing open source clones and prevent anyone else from operating in that space.
mind blown, bricks shat.
myitlab.com won't let you log in with anything but IE.
Maybe because yahoo groups being a gigantic cluster-fuck is hardly news to anyone whose ever used them?
Seriously, what are you talking about?
Or not. I got that result too, but then I clicked on the link (and I haven't visited TPB so it wasn't in my DNS or browser cache) and it popped right up.
Using OpenDNS (208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220 ) for my DNS, btw.
You forgot the inevitable loss of anonymity that governments and corporations are pushing for. Within five years you will have to do everything online with your real name, no aliases, no anonymity, no privacy.
Yes, you're right; there's a lot less reason to bother about the internet (or computers) any more -it's time to find other hobbies.
If managers could pay people in their 50's what they people in their 20's, it wouldn't be an issue. As always, the bottom line is the only thing that really matters.
>Or, to put it in terms of a pop culture reference, "I don't need no instructions to know how to ROCK!"
Sure, protools has made it so that anyone can push a button and recieve a polished cd ....but for all of the Brittanies and Lohans why is it we don't have music that can measure up to Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd any more?
Couldn't be a connection could there? Nawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
Have fun at DA with the rest of the folks who don't need a degree to know how to draw...
If that old canard is so true, than I have to wonder why it is that their are so many security-related issues with F/OSS browsers that go unchecked for so long? While IE was justifibly a laughing stock nowadays webkit and firefox are barely much better -despite the 'many eyes' theory.
Could it be that the job is simply to complex for most non-professionals and that the open source model has reached the end of it's useful life?
By allowing anyone too download a professional level editing program free of charge it's no longer necessary too have a formal education in order too enter the graphics design field. While this sounds great in theory it's pretty apparent that those who have taken the time and disipline to actually become proficient in there profession. However, there being crowded out by comparably unskilled students who are willing to work for a latte and their name in print.
If this continues, you will not see a single person their who has a degree above a high school diploma.
Tell that to the people who died on 9/11, the kids who died in columbine and/or Dunblane and the victims of the sarin attack in Tokyo.
Moron.