I worked at an ISP this summer and talked a lot with a guy who used to work at the local cable ISP. He said that through experimentation, the cable company found that an upstream cap of 64kbps/128kbps limits the user to a downstream of 512kbps/1Mbps, because the user's system cannot send ACKs fast enough to keep the stream coming any faster. So even if you don't have an explicit downstream cap, an upstream cap approximately caps downstream at eight times that.
Then make that question, "Where is a song that comes on a disc I buy?" If I put it on my hard disk as a WAV, if I encode it to MP3, if I write it to a CD-R, it's the same song. The question then becomes, since it *doesn't* cost the original producers anything for me to make copies, then why shouldn't I be able to? Especially if the original recording was made 100 years ago? (And before you flame me, remember that modern corporate propaganda aside, "IP" "rights" are neither in the US--they exist only as an incentive to add to the public domain.)
grip for *ix does that already, as well as being an all-around great ripper/encoder. The only problem is that sometimes you don't want the ripping to stop (such as when you need to get a disc ripped and burned quickly), and then you have to override. All in all, though, it's a pretty useful feature.
Besides, where is the internet? It must have a physical location if the gov't owns it.
Where is The Matrix? Where is Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone? Something doesn't have to exist in a specific location--heck it doesn't really even have to exist for someone to own it. Yeah, I have problems with that, but nobody asked me.
is to learn what you're doing. Especially good is learning Solaris administration on a Sun box; if you can make Solaris sing, you can do pretty much everything required of you as an admin. I'm still not 18, but my experience with administering my personal Linux server (BIND, sendmail, etc.) was enough to get me a part-time job as a Solaris admin--on the spot and with no prior experience. Thirty-three may be a tad old, but it's hardly a disqualification for someone who can learn quickly.
It's also a matter of TI's aggressive academic marketing. TI did and does give away massive amounts of hardware to schools, and they have promotions that probably make the purchase cost of all the hardware obtained at or below production cost. They pushed their CBL hard, and now it's the de facto standard for entry-level automated data collection. Once the students learned to use the school-provided (or sometimes purchased-under-duress) TI systems, why bother to switch? So what if RPN is better? It requires a bit of time and effort to get used to, and people as a whole are too lazy to go to the trouble to change.
Not true. A long time ago, in what I personally consider to be one of the turning points in U.S. society, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations have all the rights of "natural persons". This, coupled with the change of corporate status from a reward granted to groups providing some sort of public service to something that simply costs $300 for an application, has opened wide the door for all sorts of abuses.
"but there are more Windows boxes then Unix boxes... "
Heh... I loved that IDC survey that said that Microsoft servers make up 41% of the market while Unix is only at about 20% or so... Perhaps they didn't take into account that Microsoft ships more servers because Unix servers can do more and last longer. Still, though, I don't see *why* people insist on using IIS for simple Web serving when Apache running on that P-133 in the dumpster would be just fine and way more secure.
People are wowed by gigahertz and press releases. More so by ghz. Intel's leading there, though we all know it means crap.
Amen, brother...
However, with the Itanium, it's a new model, 64-bit processor. That breaks compatibility with everything else, so everything need to bre recompiled.
No, Itanium isn't backward-compatible, but that doesn't mean that it couldn't be. Any of Sun's 64-bit UltraSPARCs can run any program compiled for a 32-bit SPARC machine just fine. And if you're looking for a 64-bit machine--or any server, for that matter--why not just get a Sun? These days, they cost about the same as comparably-performing Intels; the UltraSPARC is a better-designed, more scalable, and more reliable processor (no bugs at all... contrast Intel's microcode workarounds); and Solaris even runs GNOME <g>.
Oh, and by the way... AFAIK, the Itanium will run well with at the most 32 processors (at least that's what XP Datacenter or whatever it's called is supposed to support). An E10k setup can run one image on 1024 processors...
I'm sure that most open-source/Free software developers would find the greatest compliment in knowing that people out there use and even rely on their software--but I would think that a donation for what you think the software's worth to the sponsoring organization wouldn't be out of order.
My copy of Heroes of Might and Magic III is due to ship tomorrow. I must admit, I'd vastly prefer a *real* RPG (such as, say, $_=~/(M.*I)/), but the game itself is nonetheless nice to look at and disturbingly addicting. And at only $30, it's at a price even a high-school student can afford.
"natural right"? What's a "natural right"? How is a right, any right, "natural"?
Go away until you learn some basic philosophy, troll. I would suggest Locke as a good starting place for answering this question.
And, by the way, the whole point of the second amendment was that citizens would be able to protect themselves from a corrupt government--much like happened during the American Revolution. Calling for open and accountable government is admirable--but power corrupts. Period.
Online chat, antisocializing? There are at least two major benefits to chatting/instant messaging: some people, for some reason, will open up online when they wouldn't in person, possibly since the computer seems more impersonal and less dangerous to talk to than a person; and no-extra-cost communication with distant friends. My best friend lives about 300mi away, but we can talk for no cost but our Net connections whenever and for however long we like.
Putting excellent inexpensive tools into the hands of an amateur doesn't make that person a pro, any more than tinkering with gcc makes me a programmer. Except for that rare natural genius, being a good sound engeneer takes years of effort and training.
Precisely the best way to become a programmer is to tinker with gcc, Java, perl, ruby, python, etc. It may come naturally or it may not, but given the right toys and enough time, talent will manifest itself. Same with sound engineering--I don't have much money, but I have both interest and talent and am eagerly awaiting some of the Free sound-editing software packages.
So, we'd say, GPL the software and sell the data; if the R&D costs weren't put into software, the GPL/proprietary issue doesn't really apply. There (is|was) at least one project to produce a GPL'd massively-multiplayer online game; the company would then sell the graphic sets and server access.
No, one of the "freedoms" is to sell it for whatever you want (the key, though, is that if you charge an insane amount, people will get it from friends, download it, etc.). But if you write the software, the GPL doesn't apply to you--the copyright holder can do whatever he wants to with the code.
GPL and proprietary software business models operate under different mindsets. Proprietary-software developers say, "I'll spend lots of money to write this software and then make more money by selling it." The GPL counterpoint is that if the software is going to be written, the R&D costs are going to have to be paid sometime, somehow. As long as that R&D is a given, why not invite the help of potentially thousands of developers worldwide? Then recoup your investment through services--install for, train, and administer your software for your clients
It's certainly possible that they can be efficient, but they're likely to be less efficient than capitalist counterparts since governments don't have to operate under real-world cost constraints. Business want to make a profit: profit = revenue - costs. Governments want to break even: 0 = revenue - costs + whoops-we-need-to-raise-taxes-because-we're-over-b udget-revenue.
Suggestion: each project maintainer should provide a designated "donation box" e-mail address where satisfied users could PayPal two or three bucks whenever they decide that they really like the software they're using. Mandrake does this (I don't use Mandrake, though), and while they've recently gotten flamed for it, it brings up a good point: Eventually, all projects have to be funded somehow. The programmers are giving us software voluntarily; why not give a little back?
And what security flaws can you cite in Linux? Not Apache, not pine. Actual security flaws in Linux itself, please.
Kernels in and of themselves, as they have no way of communicating with the outside world, are completely secure--they don't become insecure until you at least add drivers.
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Well... grip's auto-rip and auto-eject options let you rip an entire CD collection without ever touching anything but your CD-ROM's eject button.
As long as Windows can be brought down by a process started by a User, Linux will have a technical advantage.
Except that Windows requires a reboot for everything, including changing the IP address (as of the last Windows I used before I dumped it entirely).
I worked at an ISP this summer and talked a lot with a guy who used to work at the local cable ISP. He said that through experimentation, the cable company found that an upstream cap of 64kbps/128kbps limits the user to a downstream of 512kbps/1Mbps, because the user's system cannot send ACKs fast enough to keep the stream coming any faster. So even if you don't have an explicit downstream cap, an upstream cap approximately caps downstream at eight times that.
Then make that question, "Where is a song that comes on a disc I buy?" If I put it on my hard disk as a WAV, if I encode it to MP3, if I write it to a CD-R, it's the same song. The question then becomes, since it *doesn't* cost the original producers anything for me to make copies, then why shouldn't I be able to? Especially if the original recording was made 100 years ago? (And before you flame me, remember that modern corporate propaganda aside, "IP" "rights" are neither in the US--they exist only as an incentive to add to the public domain.)
grip for *ix does that already, as well as being an all-around great ripper/encoder. The only problem is that sometimes you don't want the ripping to stop (such as when you need to get a disc ripped and burned quickly), and then you have to override. All in all, though, it's a pretty useful feature.
Besides, where is the internet? It must have a physical location if the gov't owns it.
Where is The Matrix? Where is Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone? Something doesn't have to exist in a specific location--heck it doesn't really even have to exist for someone to own it. Yeah, I have problems with that, but nobody asked me.
is to learn what you're doing. Especially good is learning Solaris administration on a Sun box; if you can make Solaris sing, you can do pretty much everything required of you as an admin. I'm still not 18, but my experience with administering my personal Linux server (BIND, sendmail, etc.) was enough to get me a part-time job as a Solaris admin--on the spot and with no prior experience. Thirty-three may be a tad old, but it's hardly a disqualification for someone who can learn quickly.
It's also a matter of TI's aggressive academic marketing. TI did and does give away massive amounts of hardware to schools, and they have promotions that probably make the purchase cost of all the hardware obtained at or below production cost. They pushed their CBL hard, and now it's the de facto standard for entry-level automated data collection. Once the students learned to use the school-provided (or sometimes purchased-under-duress) TI systems, why bother to switch? So what if RPN is better? It requires a bit of time and effort to get used to, and people as a whole are too lazy to go to the trouble to change.
Not true. A long time ago, in what I personally consider to be one of the turning points in U.S. society, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations have all the rights of "natural persons". This, coupled with the change of corporate status from a reward granted to groups providing some sort of public service to something that simply costs $300 for an application, has opened wide the door for all sorts of abuses.
"but there are more Windows boxes then Unix boxes... "
Heh... I loved that IDC survey that said that Microsoft servers make up 41% of the market while Unix is only at about 20% or so... Perhaps they didn't take into account that Microsoft ships more servers because Unix servers can do more and last longer. Still, though, I don't see *why* people insist on using IIS for simple Web serving when Apache running on that P-133 in the dumpster would be just fine and way more secure.
People are wowed by gigahertz and press releases. More so by ghz. Intel's leading there, though we all know it means crap.
Amen, brother...
However, with the Itanium, it's a new model, 64-bit processor. That breaks compatibility with everything else, so everything need to bre recompiled.
No, Itanium isn't backward-compatible, but that doesn't mean that it couldn't be. Any of Sun's 64-bit UltraSPARCs can run any program compiled for a 32-bit SPARC machine just fine. And if you're looking for a 64-bit machine--or any server, for that matter--why not just get a Sun? These days, they cost about the same as comparably-performing Intels; the UltraSPARC is a better-designed, more scalable, and more reliable processor (no bugs at all... contrast Intel's microcode workarounds); and Solaris even runs GNOME <g>.
Oh, and by the way... AFAIK, the Itanium will run well with at the most 32 processors (at least that's what XP Datacenter or whatever it's called is supposed to support). An E10k setup can run one image on 1024 processors...
I'm sure that most open-source/Free software developers would find the greatest compliment in knowing that people out there use and even rely on their software--but I would think that a donation for what you think the software's worth to the sponsoring organization wouldn't be out of order.
My copy of Heroes of Might and Magic III is due to ship tomorrow. I must admit, I'd vastly prefer a *real* RPG (such as, say, $_=~/(M.*I)/), but the game itself is nonetheless nice to look at and disturbingly addicting. And at only $30, it's at a price even a high-school student can afford.
"natural right"? What's a "natural right"? How is a right, any right, "natural"?
Go away until you learn some basic philosophy, troll. I would suggest Locke as a good starting place for answering this question.
And, by the way, the whole point of the second amendment was that citizens would be able to protect themselves from a corrupt government--much like happened during the American Revolution. Calling for open and accountable government is admirable--but power corrupts. Period.
The device could be hidden inside the keyboard, which would require the agent to physically disassemble the keyboard to install the device.
So use a Sun. Unpleasant and obvious things happen if a keyboard's pulled and reconnected...
Online chat, antisocializing? There are at least two major benefits to chatting/instant messaging: some people, for some reason, will open up online when they wouldn't in person, possibly since the computer seems more impersonal and less dangerous to talk to than a person; and no-extra-cost communication with distant friends. My best friend lives about 300mi away, but we can talk for no cost but our Net connections whenever and for however long we like.
Putting excellent inexpensive tools into the hands of an amateur doesn't make that person a pro, any more than tinkering with gcc makes me a programmer. Except for that rare natural genius, being a good sound engeneer takes years of effort and training.
Precisely the best way to become a programmer is to tinker with gcc, Java, perl, ruby, python, etc. It may come naturally or it may not, but given the right toys and enough time, talent will manifest itself. Same with sound engineering--I don't have much money, but I have both interest and talent and am eagerly awaiting some of the Free sound-editing software packages.
So, we'd say, GPL the software and sell the data; if the R&D costs weren't put into software, the GPL/proprietary issue doesn't really apply. There (is|was) at least one project to produce a GPL'd massively-multiplayer online game; the company would then sell the graphic sets and server access.
No, one of the "freedoms" is to sell it for whatever you want (the key, though, is that if you charge an insane amount, people will get it from friends, download it, etc.). But if you write the software, the GPL doesn't apply to you--the copyright holder can do whatever he wants to with the code.
it takes away the right to keep the changes to yourself
Troll. Read the GPL, or at least a summary.
GPL and proprietary software business models operate under different mindsets. Proprietary-software developers say, "I'll spend lots of money to write this software and then make more money by selling it." The GPL counterpoint is that if the software is going to be written, the R&D costs are going to have to be paid sometime, somehow. As long as that R&D is a given, why not invite the help of potentially thousands of developers worldwide? Then recoup your investment through services--install for, train, and administer your software for your clients
It's certainly possible that they can be efficient, but they're likely to be less efficient than capitalist counterparts since governments don't have to operate under real-world cost constraints. Business want to make a profit: profit = revenue - costs. Governments want to break even: 0 = revenue - costs + whoops-we-need-to-raise-taxes-because-we're-over-b udget-revenue.
Suggestion: each project maintainer should provide a designated "donation box" e-mail address where satisfied users could PayPal two or three bucks whenever they decide that they really like the software they're using. Mandrake does this (I don't use Mandrake, though), and while they've recently gotten flamed for it, it brings up a good point: Eventually, all projects have to be funded somehow. The programmers are giving us software voluntarily; why not give a little back?
And what security flaws can you cite in Linux? Not Apache, not pine. Actual security flaws in Linux itself, please.
Kernels in and of themselves, as they have no way of communicating with the outside world, are completely secure--they don't become insecure until you at least add drivers.