People buy CDs to get the best 44.1Kbs uncompressed audio usually available for purchase. Yet the DRM'd versions are highly compressed audio files (hence things like the illegally included LAME decoder in the XCP package) where true quality is sacraficed in order to achieve compression levels allowing it to be sandwiched onto a standard CD.
I have no first hand knowledge of this, but I don't believe this is true.
If the "CD"s were not 16bit/44.1 kHz sample rate (not Kbs) PCM data on the disks that had a table of contents and tracked normally, then they would not play on regular CD players or basically any other type of machine other than a Windows box, because the rootkit was a Windows specific "feature" that was unaffected on other systems.
Sony/BMG sued 3M Corporation today for their new technology called "tape" to circumvent their copy protection and encryption schemes. They will be tried under the DMCA, news at at 11!
They could also sue Stanley, because a hammer can do the same thing.
But that was 10 months ago. Now it is back to the same feeling of molasses at times with the inexplicable behaviour. So obviously I have installed something that has slowed things down. But what? There is no way to tell what it is. So it looks like I am headed for the yearly rebuild again.
I'm sure your sick of hearing this, but too bad.
My PowerBook gets faster and more responsive over time without hardware upgrades.
I have heard even better results on older hardware, where performance is more noticeable.
Oh, and my Linux and Solaris systems don't slow down either. In fact, all systems run a little better after some uptime so that they page out dead code and cache the binaries and files that I use.
All of that I guess is offtopic. I haven't read much of this tread yet, but I guess there isn't much to be done to maintain XP's performance. I could be wrong.
I don't know about you, but I like having things to do besides go to chain restaurants, mega multiplexes and Wal-Mart.
Funny, that is what I think of in metro areas. Plus all the people going to these places.
Having a huge house full of electronic crap doesn't interest me, either.
OK. I like electronic crap, but I like other stuff too.
I want to live somewhere where I can see artwork, theater, museums, etc., where I'm surrounded by a variety of interesting people my age to talk to.
The second part is key here. I'm centrally located in my area and its convenient for work and for friends to come over. Its almost a proven fact though that getting married and having kids almost makes your social time go to zero. I'm not in that boat, but many people are, and I would prefer for kids to live in a more down to earth environment than an urbaplex.
The artwork, theater, museum stuff is also valid. Out of curiosity, how much time do you spend doing such things. Some people are really into it, drop by the art museum on the way home or whatever. Personally, I'm into rock-n-roll music and seeing live shows. This guy is talking about living in Athens, GA. I've been there. Its a very nice place. It has an excellent music scene. Widespread Panic is from there. REM. And other bands, I can't think of besides a smaller one that I see regularly Dubconscious. Also, it is not uncommon for me to drive over a 100 miles to see a show, so living in "BFE" is not that much different than what I have now.
I'm not questioning your preferences, they are yours. I'm questioning the preferences of many of the posters before you and I'm sure many, many other people.
While kernel patches did not require an immediate reboot during installation, the majority of them need a system restart to immunize the system against a specific vulnerability.
-Page 25, under "Patching and Milestone Upgrades"
What is the rationale behind this? Were the Linux administrators required to restart at this point? This is an incredibly contrived situation; one can simply stop and re-start the process in question after the upgrade has completed.
I'm a little confused here. For the most part, kernel patches are the only kind of patch that needs a full reboot. Solaris makes you reboot, probably just for consistency or "just in case".
But yes, restarting thing like daemons, init, or whatever is usually good enough.
Even a kernel update does not require a reboot so long as its a module, and that module can be removed without wrecking the system.
Personally, I enjoy living in a $120000 3500 sq ft home on 1.2 acres of land so I actually live a 20 minute commute from Athens in the other (non-Atlanta) direction. I also get spend my summer weekends on beautiful Lake Hartwell instead of the massively overcrowded Lake Lanier since Hartwell is now only a 20 minute drive (24 miles to the boat ramp I use).
Sounds good to me. I've got an over $200k 1800 sq house on a postage stamp of land.
More relaxed pace of life, less pollution, etc. Yeah, I took a lower salary to do it, but I've found you can live pretty cheaply out here... you can live like a king for a grand a month. (nice apartment/rent house, utilities, fast internet, the rest of my bills, and food) Plus it's kinda nice to see something besides concrete during the drive to work.
This is about the 20th time or so on this thread that I have seen things like lower pollution, less noise, less people, cheaper cost of living, slower pace, etc.
Maybe, just maybe the rat race of our culture is catching up to us, and our culture needs to change?
All of the benefits of living outside of a metro region, appear to be basic desirable things. What in the world is making us put up with a substandard living?
A modern Formula One car is capable of developing 3.5 g lateral cornering force (three and a half times its own weight) thanks to aerodynamic downforce. That means that, theoretically, at high speeds they could drive upside down.
A Formula 1 car uses aerodynamics to generate, at full speed, a downforce of 2-and-a-half times its own weight, so that it'll stick to the road really well. At 160 km per hour, they're generating their own weight in downforce - so they could theoretically drive upside down on the roof of a tunnel.
OK, 2.5 downward gs is enough.
I need a more fun job. By those specs, these things are basically a better handling fighter jet that can't go quite as fast, but pretty damn fast.
IANAL but it seems to me that criminal rather than Civil penalties is the way to go here.
I'm not either, and wondered the same thing.
I then realized that a corporation can't do prison time which is what we primarily do to settle criminal matters. Maybe individuals in the corporation, but not the whole thing.
Hurt them in the pocket book, that is all they can do.
- Instant and good results - cached links - no obnoxious ads - newsgroups - froogle (needs work, and needs to be excluded from main page, but probably won't happen) - images - calculator, map, etc functions - ability to search a particular site as if they had a working search engine - "special" searches for things like Linux, BSD, Windows, OS X that are auto filtered by that category - email searching in gmail (I have not done this, but hear its worthwhile, maybe not) - desktop searches - google earth - the way that searches are returned so that ellipses are used to include more of your keywords bolded - builtin definitions - "did you mean _____?" with the correct spelling over 99% of the time - the "did you mean?" stuff is not hard coded, it is "learned" to include acronyms which are useful for a search appliance at an organization that uses some of their own terminology
I could go on, but those come to mind. Some of the features have or are offered by others, but many are either google inspired or google improved.
Additionally, software such as NIS exists to fill the role of a single-sign-on, although I've only had painful experiences with it, personally (using Solaris in a completely crazy setup).
I love it how a random link that mentions UNIX/Linux doing something that Windows does AND an admitted headache associated with it gets modded up.
I don't know much about Windows, but I'm sure its adequate for being a middle man between a RAID array and a client to copy files around, and adequate for checking passwords. Thats what we do, and AFAIK it works. If a Windows server can't even do that, then I'll gladly take back the props I gave it earlier.
Another thing I didn't give Windows props for was Exchange for its calendar functions. Again, I have never used it, but I've heard its one of those things that does not have much competition on other platforms. No, I don't care about the 15 half finished sourceforge projects that are going to be linked below. I'm talking about something that basically works and has a large market share and I've heard multiple people say that is one of Windows' features that cannot easily be replaced.
The RIAA would love to change formats every 3 years and have people re-purchase their whole collection of cassettes/CDs/DVDs/holo-cubes.
Although the RIAA has nothing to do with formats since the RIAA equalization curve for LPs, lets just take this as a given anyway.
Is there any evidence that the record labels are interested in alternate recordings besides CDs? The only real viable option to obtain an MP3 is through iTunes or possibly things like Wal-mart or whatever Yahoo! has to offer, but iTunes seems to almost be a monopoly in the market by customer preference. Can I go to a music store and buy anything with a significant offering besides a CD? I haven't seen it. Sure there are some SACDs, some DTS disks, some DVD-audio, some DVD-video, but there has not been a market change since 1982 with the advent of the CD.
DATs were a niche market. MP3s are treated that way despite the incredibly high demand (dumbasses). Higher quality and harder to rip and encode, and possibly less desirable due to the loss in quality formats basically do not exist. Even when there are plenty of existing audio systems that are capable of playing other formats (DTS, Dolby Digital, MP3, 24 bit/96 kHz PCM, SACD, DVD-Audio, etc) the media is not there.
There are certain albums that I will buy in almost any format. I've owned Dark Side of the Moon on LP, regular CD, "Audiophile" CD, and a remastered CD. I would like to buy it for SACD or another surround format, but I currently don't have anything more than 2 channel audio at the time.
A better version of Metallica's Black Album, bring it on!
The lack of interest in product diversity kills me about these guys. Maybe the only people they listen to are their lawyers that have a selfish interest in promoting the business model of stagnation and lawsuits. I have never heard of such a large and persistent industry that collectively ignores the market for this long. Phone people can go wireless and data, but the record companies can't do anything different over a 20 year period.
Am I the one who is stupid or crazy here? I dunno.
I find that there are too many variables plus unknowns to preemptively measure a TCO before a system has been installed and maintained and migrated to the next system. The maintenance is sometimes addressed, the end of life is rarely if ever addressed.
My personal bias is that Windows systems are good for being domain controllers and file servers for Windows clients, and the UNIX/Linux is better for your typical "headless" dull day to day server stuff like web servers, email, database servers, HPC machines, etc.
So my questions are: Are these studies worth anything more than pseudo-science advertisements, and if so why? And why is the end of life so rarely discussed?
Plenty of desktop machines use PowerPC, and when you go out of the desktop sphere, you'll be seeing a lot of ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, 68K, Sparc, and the _original_ x86, which is presumably not what he was referring to. Not to mention that, probably, x86-64 will soon take over in the desktop sphere and reduce IA32 to a secondary role, and let's not consider at all that even x86 bytecode on Windows means something utterly different from x86 bytecode on Linux.
Its also worth noting that Linux runs on PowerPC, ARM, MIPS, 68k, SPARC, x86, x86-64, ia64, and other architectures as well.
Honestly, I'm not sure what kind of generally used CPU is not supported by Linux now.
The article you pointed at was all about porting applications between platforms. The project refered to in the original artical was about running an existing Linux binary inside a zone on top of Solaris, with no recompilation.
OK, maybe I prematurely linked. I've heard of this before for at least a few years, maybe more than 5.
Here is lxrun from Sun that does direct running of linux binaries:
Actually, I'm only surprised it took the RIAA so long to stand in line with Sony on this publicly.
They only did it _after_ Sony "voluntarily" pulled the tainted product from the shelves after a worldwide public outcry and lawsuits.
RIAA is basically a (poorly implemented) publicity front end for the major record labels. I see their timing as appropriate, but still ineffective to us that are still pissed off.
So is this something new or something that now works now that the Linux ABI has stabilized? Or is this easier now that Sun is shipping x86 systems or what?
Inquiring geeks want to know the point of running Linux apps on their Sun boxes.
google may be the second coming of Christ, who knows, but let's try to keep their achievements realistic.
Their achievements are all they are cracked up to be. They started with basically nothing, used Linux, redefined searching as we know it, AND were able to be advertiser supported with very unobtrusive ads. I'm not talking about their popup ads don't popup other ads, I'm not talking about not so annoying animated gifs. I'm not talking about not so annoying flash ads. They use all text based ads that are effective and not thrown in our face like billboards, or product placement ads in movies, just simple text ads that are often less than 10 words.
Oh, and to my knowledge, google does no direct advertising themselves. A real product doesn't need to.
I think we all owe them a good thank you, and I wish other companies would learn from their success.
Your kid is a moron. Please sue either (a) his genetic contributors or (b) the people who raised him poorly enough that he thought that reenacting a jumping scene from a computer game wouldn't result in his death. Anyway, I hope his last sight was looking up at the branches of Teldrassil. I hear it's magnificent this time of year.
The thing is that the parents are obviously stupid as well. These kinds of lawsuits have been going on for years, and they simply don't work. If the company is doing something inherently wrong, then a criminal proceeding would come against them by the government. If the company is doing something inherently dangerous or bad for the population in general, more than one fucking kid (that's yours) would be affected by said danger.
Look at DeBeers. In a relatively short time frame, they were able to convince people to spend "up to 2 months salary" for rocks from the ground that they don't want.
Here a completely artificial need and a tight control of the supply was created from scratch, and now most every man is brainwashed into buying a diamond for his woman.
Now we have an industry that already has an inherent demand, yet they are doing stupid stuff like suing their customers, wrecking their computers, still wearing neon and having winged hair from the early '80s, and what is their problem now?
Never before have I heard of such a collectively stupid and greedy people before.
Fine, there is a first for everything. Its clear that the slashdot editors either don't know their own site, they don't know how to use google, don't have a working search function for their website, or just don't care, or just like negative attention. I don't know. This is easy to avoid, and it keeps happening. Beyond my knowledge, they prefer it that way. So HA! They got what they wanted.
Anyway, regarding this triplicate story, why is using cell phones that are only a subset of the real traffic any better than using an old fashion direct measurement system like those rubber weight activated car counters, or video cameras, or hiring some guy to sit there and count the cars?
I see no added benefit of using cell phones being that it is by definition a poor metric of traffic. So, what are they really monitoring or measuring here?
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People buy CDs to get the best 44.1Kbs uncompressed audio usually available for purchase. Yet the DRM'd versions are highly compressed audio files (hence things like the illegally included LAME decoder in the XCP package) where true quality is sacraficed in order to achieve compression levels allowing it to be sandwiched onto a standard CD.
I have no first hand knowledge of this, but I don't believe this is true.
If the "CD"s were not 16bit/44.1 kHz sample rate (not Kbs) PCM data on the disks that had a table of contents and tracked normally, then they would not play on regular CD players or basically any other type of machine other than a Windows box, because the rootkit was a Windows specific "feature" that was unaffected on other systems.
I believe this is absolutely false.
Sony/BMG sued 3M Corporation today for their new technology called "tape" to circumvent their copy protection and encryption schemes. They will be tried under the DMCA, news at at 11!
They could also sue Stanley, because a hammer can do the same thing.
Apparently some people are willing to pay over a thousand bucks for one.
Dude, I've seen eBay listings at over $2k, and I've heard earlier in this thread that one has sold for $5k.
My original thesis was this: People's intelligence halves in front of a computer.
My new one: People's intelligence quarters in front of a game console.
I'm at a loss here. Are these the only ones being manufactured? Or is having a new toy now just that important?
But that was 10 months ago. Now it is back to the same feeling of molasses at times with the inexplicable behaviour. So obviously I have installed something that has slowed things down. But what? There is no way to tell what it is. So it looks like I am headed for the yearly rebuild again.
I'm sure your sick of hearing this, but too bad.
My PowerBook gets faster and more responsive over time without hardware upgrades.
I have heard even better results on older hardware, where performance is more noticeable.
Oh, and my Linux and Solaris systems don't slow down either. In fact, all systems run a little better after some uptime so that they page out dead code and cache the binaries and files that I use.
All of that I guess is offtopic. I haven't read much of this tread yet, but I guess there isn't much to be done to maintain XP's performance. I could be wrong.
I don't know about you, but I like having things to do besides go to chain restaurants, mega multiplexes and Wal-Mart.
Funny, that is what I think of in metro areas. Plus all the people going to these places.
Having a huge house full of electronic crap doesn't interest me, either.
OK. I like electronic crap, but I like other stuff too.
I want to live somewhere where I can see artwork, theater, museums, etc., where I'm surrounded by a variety of interesting people my age to talk to.
The second part is key here. I'm centrally located in my area and its convenient for work and for friends to come over. Its almost a proven fact though that getting married and having kids almost makes your social time go to zero. I'm not in that boat, but many people are, and I would prefer for kids to live in a more down to earth environment than an urbaplex.
The artwork, theater, museum stuff is also valid. Out of curiosity, how much time do you spend doing such things. Some people are really into it, drop by the art museum on the way home or whatever. Personally, I'm into rock-n-roll music and seeing live shows. This guy is talking about living in Athens, GA. I've been there. Its a very nice place. It has an excellent music scene. Widespread Panic is from there. REM. And other bands, I can't think of besides a smaller one that I see regularly Dubconscious. Also, it is not uncommon for me to drive over a 100 miles to see a show, so living in "BFE" is not that much different than what I have now.
I'm not questioning your preferences, they are yours. I'm questioning the preferences of many of the posters before you and I'm sure many, many other people.
While kernel patches did not require an immediate reboot during installation, the majority of them need a system restart to immunize the system against a specific vulnerability.
-Page 25, under "Patching and Milestone Upgrades"
What is the rationale behind this? Were the Linux administrators required to restart at this point? This is an incredibly contrived situation; one can simply stop and re-start the process in question after the upgrade has completed.
I'm a little confused here. For the most part, kernel patches are the only kind of patch that needs a full reboot. Solaris makes you reboot, probably just for consistency or "just in case".
But yes, restarting thing like daemons, init, or whatever is usually good enough.
Even a kernel update does not require a reboot so long as its a module, and that module can be removed without wrecking the system.
Personally, I enjoy living in a $120000 3500 sq ft home on 1.2 acres of land so I actually live a 20 minute commute from Athens in the other (non-Atlanta) direction. I also get spend my summer weekends on beautiful Lake Hartwell instead of the massively overcrowded Lake Lanier since Hartwell is now only a 20 minute drive (24 miles to the boat ramp I use).
Sounds good to me. I've got an over $200k 1800 sq house on a postage stamp of land.
Need a UNIX guru?
I'm very serious.
More relaxed pace of life, less pollution, etc. Yeah, I took a lower salary to do it, but I've found you can live pretty cheaply out here... you can live like a king for a grand a month. (nice apartment/rent house, utilities, fast internet, the rest of my bills, and food) Plus it's kinda nice to see something besides concrete during the drive to work.
This is about the 20th time or so on this thread that I have seen things like lower pollution, less noise, less people, cheaper cost of living, slower pace, etc.
Maybe, just maybe the rat race of our culture is catching up to us, and our culture needs to change?
All of the benefits of living outside of a metro region, appear to be basic desirable things. What in the world is making us put up with a substandard living?
Doesn't seem to make sense to me.
Similar to a stunt in a famous James Bond film, can a person really be shot out of a submarine torpedo tube?
Depends on if survival is also a requirement.
If survival doesn't count, I'd bet your life on it!
I heard that an F1 racing car has enough downdraft to drive upside down at speed. True or false?
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AFAIK, that is completely true. Or at least I saw it on some HD show and they said so. It seems completely possible. I just found here http://www.formula1.com/insight/technicalinfo/11/
A modern Formula One car is capable of developing 3.5 g lateral cornering force (three and a half times its own weight) thanks to aerodynamic downforce. That means that, theoretically, at high speeds they could drive upside down.
That is pretty intense, but I don't see how 3.5 g of lateral force translates necessarily to downward force. Lets click on the second google hit. http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/moments/s282081.
A Formula 1 car uses aerodynamics to generate, at full speed, a downforce of 2-and-a-half times its own weight, so that it'll stick to the road really well. At 160 km per hour, they're generating their own weight in downforce - so they could theoretically drive upside down on the roof of a tunnel.
OK, 2.5 downward gs is enough.
I need a more fun job. By those specs, these things are basically a better handling fighter jet that can't go quite as fast, but pretty damn fast.
IANAL but it seems to me that criminal rather than Civil penalties is the way to go here.
I'm not either, and wondered the same thing.
I then realized that a corporation can't do prison time which is what we primarily do to settle criminal matters. Maybe individuals in the corporation, but not the whole thing.
Hurt them in the pocket book, that is all they can do.
How?
- Instant and good results
- cached links
- no obnoxious ads
- newsgroups
- froogle (needs work, and needs to be excluded from main page, but probably won't happen)
- images
- calculator, map, etc functions
- ability to search a particular site as if they had a working search engine
- "special" searches for things like Linux, BSD, Windows, OS X that are auto filtered by that category
- email searching in gmail (I have not done this, but hear its worthwhile, maybe not)
- desktop searches
- google earth
- the way that searches are returned so that ellipses are used to include more of your keywords bolded
- builtin definitions
- "did you mean _____?" with the correct spelling over 99% of the time
- the "did you mean?" stuff is not hard coded, it is "learned" to include acronyms which are useful for a search appliance at an organization that uses some of their own terminology
I could go on, but those come to mind. Some of the features have or are offered by others, but many are either google inspired or google improved.
Linux:
Samba
Additionally, software such as NIS exists to fill the role of a single-sign-on, although I've only had painful experiences with it, personally (using Solaris in a completely crazy setup).
I love it how a random link that mentions UNIX/Linux doing something that Windows does AND an admitted headache associated with it gets modded up.
I don't know much about Windows, but I'm sure its adequate for being a middle man between a RAID array and a client to copy files around, and adequate for checking passwords. Thats what we do, and AFAIK it works. If a Windows server can't even do that, then I'll gladly take back the props I gave it earlier.
Another thing I didn't give Windows props for was Exchange for its calendar functions. Again, I have never used it, but I've heard its one of those things that does not have much competition on other platforms. No, I don't care about the 15 half finished sourceforge projects that are going to be linked below. I'm talking about something that basically works and has a large market share and I've heard multiple people say that is one of Windows' features that cannot easily be replaced.
The RIAA would love to change formats every 3 years and have people re-purchase their whole collection of cassettes/CDs/DVDs/holo-cubes.
Although the RIAA has nothing to do with formats since the RIAA equalization curve for LPs, lets just take this as a given anyway.
Is there any evidence that the record labels are interested in alternate recordings besides CDs? The only real viable option to obtain an MP3 is through iTunes or possibly things like Wal-mart or whatever Yahoo! has to offer, but iTunes seems to almost be a monopoly in the market by customer preference. Can I go to a music store and buy anything with a significant offering besides a CD? I haven't seen it. Sure there are some SACDs, some DTS disks, some DVD-audio, some DVD-video, but there has not been a market change since 1982 with the advent of the CD.
DATs were a niche market. MP3s are treated that way despite the incredibly high demand (dumbasses). Higher quality and harder to rip and encode, and possibly less desirable due to the loss in quality formats basically do not exist. Even when there are plenty of existing audio systems that are capable of playing other formats (DTS, Dolby Digital, MP3, 24 bit/96 kHz PCM, SACD, DVD-Audio, etc) the media is not there.
There are certain albums that I will buy in almost any format. I've owned Dark Side of the Moon on LP, regular CD, "Audiophile" CD, and a remastered CD. I would like to buy it for SACD or another surround format, but I currently don't have anything more than 2 channel audio at the time.
A better version of Metallica's Black Album, bring it on!
The lack of interest in product diversity kills me about these guys. Maybe the only people they listen to are their lawyers that have a selfish interest in promoting the business model of stagnation and lawsuits. I have never heard of such a large and persistent industry that collectively ignores the market for this long. Phone people can go wireless and data, but the record companies can't do anything different over a 20 year period.
Am I the one who is stupid or crazy here? I dunno.
I find that there are too many variables plus unknowns to preemptively measure a TCO before a system has been installed and maintained and migrated to the next system. The maintenance is sometimes addressed, the end of life is rarely if ever addressed.
My personal bias is that Windows systems are good for being domain controllers and file servers for Windows clients, and the UNIX/Linux is better for your typical "headless" dull day to day server stuff like web servers, email, database servers, HPC machines, etc.
So my questions are: Are these studies worth anything more than pseudo-science advertisements, and if so why? And why is the end of life so rarely discussed?
Plenty of desktop machines use PowerPC, and when you go out of the desktop sphere, you'll be seeing a lot of ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, 68K, Sparc, and the _original_ x86, which is presumably not what he was referring to. Not to mention that, probably, x86-64 will soon take over in the desktop sphere and reduce IA32 to a secondary role, and let's not consider at all that even x86 bytecode on Windows means something utterly different from x86 bytecode on Linux.
Its also worth noting that Linux runs on PowerPC, ARM, MIPS, 68k, SPARC, x86, x86-64, ia64, and other architectures as well.
Honestly, I'm not sure what kind of generally used CPU is not supported by Linux now.
The article you pointed at was all about
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porting applications between platforms. The project refered to in the
original artical was about running an existing Linux binary inside
a zone on top of Solaris, with no recompilation.
OK, maybe I prematurely linked. I've heard of this before for at least a few years, maybe more than 5.
Here is lxrun from Sun that does direct running of linux binaries:
http://www.sun.com/software/linux/compatibility/l
Here is another offering, maybe the original, don't know:
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~steven/lxrun/
And for source level compatibility here is:
http://www.sun.com/software/linux/compatibility/t
The lxrun looks to have started in 1997.
Eh, the customers are people like Sony, and which ever other recording labels are left.
The RIAA does not sell CDs, they don't have a "product", and you and I are definitely not their customers.
They are akin to the "Got Milk!" campaign people. People like the "Got Milk!" people much better for some reason.
Actually, I'm only surprised it took the RIAA so long to stand in line with Sony on this publicly.
They only did it _after_ Sony "voluntarily" pulled the tainted product from the shelves after a worldwide public outcry and lawsuits.
RIAA is basically a (poorly implemented) publicity front end for the major record labels. I see their timing as appropriate, but still ineffective to us that are still pissed off.
I've heard about Solaris to Linux ABI for years. I dug this up from 2 years ago: http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/support _for_x86.html.
So is this something new or something that now works now that the Linux ABI has stabilized? Or is this easier now that Sun is shipping x86 systems or what?
Inquiring geeks want to know the point of running Linux apps on their Sun boxes.
google may be the second coming of Christ, who knows, but let's try to keep their achievements realistic.
Their achievements are all they are cracked up to be. They started with basically nothing, used Linux, redefined searching as we know it, AND were able to be advertiser supported with very unobtrusive ads. I'm not talking about their popup ads don't popup other ads, I'm not talking about not so annoying animated gifs. I'm not talking about not so annoying flash ads. They use all text based ads that are effective and not thrown in our face like billboards, or product placement ads in movies, just simple text ads that are often less than 10 words.
Oh, and to my knowledge, google does no direct advertising themselves. A real product doesn't need to.
I think we all owe them a good thank you, and I wish other companies would learn from their success.
Why didn't you etch his Noodliness, the Flying Spaghetti Monster?
Probably because he has yet to of been anointed by His noodly appendage. Or even worse, he just doesn't believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
There is still hope. He may realize the importance on his death bed.
Your kid is a moron. Please sue either (a) his genetic contributors or (b) the people who raised him poorly enough that he thought that reenacting a jumping scene from a computer game wouldn't result in his death. Anyway, I hope his last sight was looking up at the branches of Teldrassil. I hear it's magnificent this time of year.
The thing is that the parents are obviously stupid as well. These kinds of lawsuits have been going on for years, and they simply don't work. If the company is doing something inherently wrong, then a criminal proceeding would come against them by the government. If the company is doing something inherently dangerous or bad for the population in general, more than one fucking kid (that's yours) would be affected by said danger.
Thats pretty good, but I thought of the inverse.
Look at DeBeers. In a relatively short time frame, they were able to convince people to spend "up to 2 months salary" for rocks from the ground that they don't want.
Here a completely artificial need and a tight control of the supply was created from scratch, and now most every man is brainwashed into buying a diamond for his woman.
Now we have an industry that already has an inherent demand, yet they are doing stupid stuff like suing their customers, wrecking their computers, still wearing neon and having winged hair from the early '80s, and what is their problem now?
Never before have I heard of such a collectively stupid and greedy people before.
TRIPLICATE!!!
Fine, there is a first for everything. Its clear that the slashdot editors either don't know their own site, they don't know how to use google, don't have a working search function for their website, or just don't care, or just like negative attention. I don't know. This is easy to avoid, and it keeps happening. Beyond my knowledge, they prefer it that way. So HA! They got what they wanted.
Anyway, regarding this triplicate story, why is using cell phones that are only a subset of the real traffic any better than using an old fashion direct measurement system like those rubber weight activated car counters, or video cameras, or hiring some guy to sit there and count the cars?
I see no added benefit of using cell phones being that it is by definition a poor metric of traffic. So, what are they really monitoring or measuring here?