Of course, to brain dead computer users, they seem pretty similar. Both let you get files off the net, both of them are commonly used to get around copyright (although, gnutella also lets you get porn)
So while technologically they are very different, the government doesn't care about the technology. They care about the social effects of the software. From a user perspective, the only difference is that Gnutella is slower. From a social perspective, the difference is that Gnutella doesn't have a central point of control. But other then that...
We don't know how bad things are in north korea, but here are some pictures of hungry children. -- CNN
Anyway, its cool to see a *caugh* fellow Gnutella developer speak before the senate (well, ok, I hang out in #gnutella-dev once in a while, but I plan on doing something, really)
I hope all this turns out well, obviously. I doubt it will, though. Even if it turns out that napster is legal, Riaa will just buy itself some new legislation. Its going to be a long time before those in charge give up power.
We don't know how bad things are in north korea, but here are some pictures of hungry children. -- CNN
Didn't I see somewhere on Slashdot (as if that made it true) a post by someone saying that, according to common sense, moderating someone up for posting something completly unsubstanciated was, well, pointless. What tack are the Metamoderators acutaly taking?
We don't know how bad things are in north korea, but here are some pictures of hungry children. -- CNN
Actually, the whole point of a patent is to give you a limited-time, legally valid monopoly. So, they are being monopolistic, but that's what they're supposed to do.
However, these other companies have invested years in development, and ramping up, of SDRAM. Pulling out now would cause a huge problem. I don't know if it would be possible to develop a new tech that could compete with RD-RAM, but I'm guessing that it couldn't be done for years. (and would require a redesign of all motherboards, etc).
The point of the patent system is to promote science, and innovation. Driving up the price of RAM so that you're crappier ram is cheaper probably does not help to promote science and innovation (In general, it might be detrimental to it, seeing how computers are used in all major science and engendering projects around the world, and cheaper RAM would help that out).
Additionally, revoking patents occasionally, when they cause problems, is probably not going to stop people from developing new RAM.
They do use our alphabet, in a system called 'pin-yin' romanization. Pin-Yin is taught in schools in China right along with Han-Zi. Your 'translation' might make sense for a few phrases, trying to communicate anything substantial in Chinese with roman characters requires you use the correct spelling, or at least something close to it.
I realize that flaming people about something you know nothing of is common practice on the Internet, but that doesn't make you any less of a moron.
We don't know how bad things are in north korea, but here are some pictures of hungry children. -- CNN
I don't agree with that statement. You are free to add modifications or not to. Linus does not stipulate that you, as a user of Linux and a good device driver programmer, are required to add a new driver for that spiffy new printer that Mr. Foo just bought, since he needs it but can't write one.
Right, open-source/free software is more like "From each according to his desire, to each according to his desire." Unlike things like weat and bread and iron, Software is limitless. Everyone can have everything.
We don't know how bad things are in north korea, but here are some pictures of hungry children. -- CNN
Our bird managed to figure out how to break out of the cage. For years he never tried, then when the other one died, it started trying to lift the cage door with its beak.
He managed to get out in another manner eventualy. I guess he got pretty bored without a friend.
Anyway, why exactly are you posting on slashdot when there are starving women and children being raped? I hardly think that we should suspend all scientific inquiry until all human problems are solved, obviously, that would be moronic (and counterproductive).
Someone wants to find out if a bird is smart, and someone else wants to pay for it. This has nothing to do with you, so quit bitching.
--BEGIN UNNECESSARY SARCASM-- If humans are so smart, why are there millions of them in cages in America?, and millions more starving, being raped and murdered by other humans? Why are they trapped on this planet? Answer that?! --END SARCASM--
Parrot brains are made out of the same stuff as human brains, bird intelligence, to me, would be more likely then not, at least to me.
What if you want a 'u' in your document? Anyway, word is not a fucking text editor, its a 'document' editor. The requirements are very diffrent, as are the target users.
WINE may never be able to run programs quite as fast as Windows, but supposing that the Linux equivalents of the DLL's used by Windows apps are faster, it actually is theoretically possible that it could run programs FASTER. The steps are translation, not emulation.
Well, calling DLL functions isn't very slow, but on the other hand, if you havn't got more then 256 megs of ram, just about everything is slow in windows:P
Some windows app on a 32meg linux box is going to be a lot faster then some windows app on a 32meg win98 box.
In Windows: Alt-f to each line with 55420 and visually grep where the area code is, then paste 952 over it and move on to the next one, and the next, and the next...
Of course, it depends on witch software you're using, but in word we have the nice little "replace" tab.
Now, not everyone is going to want to learn all these archaic commands. What if you're little command line thing fucks up the file? Would you be able to undo with a ctrl-z like you could in word?
Anyway, still, word is not designed for editing text files in the same way Unix commands do. Word is for "documents", that is, writing nicely formatted English (or other language) text for other humans. Not huge lists of phone numbers. Any self-respecting Office user would use Excel (or Access) for a list like that.
We don't know how bad things are in north korea, but here are some pictures of hungry children. -- CNN
Actually, it's [Ctrl+f]-[alt+p]foo[tab]bar[enter] but anyway, I almost any good software can do search+replace pretty quickly. Text manipulation in word, while OK, is not its forte. Easy spelling+grammar check, plus nice formatting things. As well as interoperability with all the other word users out there.
I'm surprised no ones mentioned WordPerfict, witch is supposed to be available for Linux and windows. A friend of mine uses it, and swares its better then Word.
I wasn't aware that the FBI had any mandate, or even legal authority to tap ISP lines. Has this changed? Or did Verio just bend over for them? Why does the FBI have any say in what Verio can do, anyway? Couldn't they just annul their agreement with the FBI and then go on their merry way?
But anyway, I personally don't really see a problem with the FBI wanting to snoop, its not like hackers, or even just the ISP itself can't listen in. Just use Encryption for everything you do. That would be a much better solution, in many respects. With encryption, the only one you have to trust is the guy who wrote the software, as opposed to some big, faceless ISP who had been making secret wiretapping agreements with the FBI.
Some portion (I've heard different amounts) of the increase comes from regulation changes that require reformulation of gasoline. While I don't expect that accounts for all of it, it's always quite amazing how the government-good types always forget this.
There are several problems, it wasn't the new regulations themselves, but the need to destroy all the gas that wasn't up to spec. There were also problems with the pipes that lead into the central US. (as well as SUV driving fucks, and OPEC cutting supply) Basicaly, it was a convergence of many factors. Blaming the new Regs themselves would be moronic.
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Of course, to brain dead computer users, they seem pretty similar. Both let you get files off the net, both of them are commonly used to get around copyright (although, gnutella also lets you get porn)
So while technologically they are very different, the government doesn't care about the technology. They care about the social effects of the software. From a user perspective, the only difference is that Gnutella is slower. From a social perspective, the difference is that Gnutella doesn't have a central point of control. But other then that...
We don't know how bad things are in north korea, but here are some pictures of hungry children. -- CNN
God, I hate real video.
Anyway, its cool to see a *caugh* fellow Gnutella developer speak before the senate (well, ok, I hang out in #gnutella-dev once in a while, but I plan on doing something, really)
I hope all this turns out well, obviously. I doubt it will, though. Even if it turns out that napster is legal, Riaa will just buy itself some new legislation. Its going to be a long time before those in charge give up power.
We don't know how bad things are in north korea, but here are some pictures of hungry children. -- CNN
Didn't I see somewhere on Slashdot (as if that made it true) a post by someone saying that, according to common sense, moderating someone up for posting something completly unsubstanciated was, well, pointless. What tack are the Metamoderators acutaly taking?
We don't know how bad things are in north korea, but here are some pictures of hungry children. -- CNN
I don't even believe that people shoudl be allowed to have copyrights, but when they do, they sure as hell shouldn't enforce them unfairly!
Copyrights? what copyrights?
We don't know how bad things are in north korea, but here are some pictures of hungry children. -- CNN
, but that isn't using monopolistic powers badly
Actually, the whole point of a patent is to give you a limited-time, legally valid monopoly. So, they are being monopolistic, but that's what they're supposed to do.
However, these other companies have invested years in development, and ramping up, of SDRAM. Pulling out now would cause a huge problem. I don't know if it would be possible to develop a new tech that could compete with RD-RAM, but I'm guessing that it couldn't be done for years. (and would require a redesign of all motherboards, etc).
The point of the patent system is to promote science, and innovation. Driving up the price of RAM so that you're crappier ram is cheaper probably does not help to promote science and innovation (In general, it might be detrimental to it, seeing how computers are used in all major science and engendering projects around the world, and cheaper RAM would help that out).
Additionally, revoking patents occasionally, when they cause problems, is probably not going to stop people from developing new RAM.
That would probably be a good idea for them. One company controling the worlds RAM supply couldn't really be a good thing, could it?
We don't know how bad things are in north korea, but here are some pictures of hungry children. -- CNN
really
They do use our alphabet, in a system called 'pin-yin' romanization. Pin-Yin is taught in schools in China right along with Han-Zi. Your 'translation' might make sense for a few phrases, trying to communicate anything substantial in Chinese with roman characters requires you use the correct spelling, or at least something close to it.
I realize that flaming people about something you know nothing of is common practice on the Internet, but that doesn't make you any less of a moron.
We don't know how bad things are in north korea, but here are some pictures of hungry children. -- CNN
This is a troll, and not even a good one at that.
We don't know how bad things are in north korea, but here are some pictures of hungry children. -- CNN
I don't agree with that statement. You are free to add modifications or not to. Linus does not stipulate that you, as a user of Linux and a good device driver programmer, are required to add a new driver for that spiffy new printer that Mr. Foo just bought, since he needs it but can't write one.
Right, open-source/free software is more like "From each according to his desire, to each according to his desire." Unlike things like weat and bread and iron, Software is limitless. Everyone can have everything.
We don't know how bad things are in north korea, but here are some pictures of hungry children. -- CNN
Sai Chien,
I belive its 'zai jian'. I could be on crack, though.
We live in a contry that tried to make flag-burning illegal. Fortunetly, it was overturned by the Supreme cort, an unelected body...
zhong guo ren duo xie huan linux! Linux tai hao
Our bird managed to figure out how to break out of the cage. For years he never tried, then when the other one died, it started trying to lift the cage door with its beak.
He managed to get out in another manner eventualy. I guess he got pretty bored without a friend.
Anyway, why exactly are you posting on slashdot when there are starving women and children being raped? I hardly think that we should suspend all scientific inquiry until all human problems are solved, obviously, that would be moronic (and counterproductive).
Someone wants to find out if a bird is smart, and someone else wants to pay for it. This has nothing to do with you, so quit bitching.
--BEGIN UNNECESSARY SARCASM--
If humans are so smart, why are there millions of them in cages in America?, and millions more starving, being raped and murdered by other humans? Why are they trapped on this planet? Answer that?!
--END SARCASM--
Parrot brains are made out of the same stuff as human brains, bird intelligence, to me, would be more likely then not, at least to me.
What if you want a 'u' in your document? Anyway, word is not a fucking text editor, its a 'document' editor. The requirements are very diffrent, as are the target users.
WINE may never be able to run programs quite as fast as Windows, but supposing that the Linux equivalents of the DLL's used by Windows apps are faster, it actually is theoretically possible that it could run programs FASTER. The steps are translation, not emulation.
:P
Well, calling DLL functions isn't very slow, but on the other hand, if you havn't got more then 256 megs of ram, just about everything is slow in windows
Some windows app on a 32meg linux box is going to be a lot faster then some windows app on a 32meg win98 box.
In Windows: Alt-f to each line with 55420 and visually grep where the area code is, then paste 952 over it and move on to the next one, and the next, and the next...
Of course, it depends on witch software you're using, but in word we have the nice little "replace" tab.
Now, not everyone is going to want to learn all these archaic commands. What if you're little command line thing fucks up the file? Would you be able to undo with a ctrl-z like you could in word?
Anyway, still, word is not designed for editing text files in the same way Unix commands do. Word is for "documents", that is, writing nicely formatted English (or other language) text for other humans. Not huge lists of phone numbers. Any self-respecting Office user would use Excel (or Access) for a list like that.
We don't know how bad things are in north korea, but here are some pictures of hungry children. -- CNN
Actually, it's [Ctrl+f]-[alt+p]foo[tab]bar[enter] but anyway, I almost any good software can do search+replace pretty quickly. Text manipulation in word, while OK, is not its forte. Easy spelling+grammar check, plus nice formatting things. As well as interoperability with all the other word users out there.
I'm surprised no ones mentioned WordPerfict, witch is supposed to be available for Linux and windows. A friend of mine uses it, and swares its better then Word.
most people who actualy use windows know that you don't need to do this.
I'm sick of having to run Diablo2 on my crappy old laptop w/o 3D Acceleration since it's my only windows box).
:)
I thought you were like, a millionare or something. Why don't you just buy a better laptop
Btw, what are some good laptops w 3d?
I wasn't aware that the FBI had any mandate, or even legal authority to tap ISP lines. Has this changed? Or did Verio just bend over for them? Why does the FBI have any say in what Verio can do, anyway? Couldn't they just annul their agreement with the FBI and then go on their merry way?
But anyway, I personally don't really see a problem with the FBI wanting to snoop, its not like hackers, or even just the ISP itself can't listen in. Just use Encryption for everything you do. That would be a much better solution, in many respects. With encryption, the only one you have to trust is the guy who wrote the software, as opposed to some big, faceless ISP who had been making secret wiretapping agreements with the FBI.
"I think Microsoft should stay with its father." - Francis J. Beckwith, PhD, Trinity International University, 4/26/00
What the hell does that mean?
Some portion (I've heard different amounts) of the increase comes from regulation changes that require reformulation of gasoline. While I don't expect that accounts for all of it, it's always quite amazing how the government-good types always forget this.
There are several problems, it wasn't the new regulations themselves, but the need to destroy all the gas that wasn't up to spec. There were also problems with the pipes that lead into the central US. (as well as SUV driving fucks, and OPEC cutting supply) Basicaly, it was a convergence of many factors. Blaming the new Regs themselves would be moronic.
(I mean, if Minesweeper can crash, what about a rocket carrying a 1 billion $ satelite would do?.
I would think a self respecting geek would balance his parenthisis. Regardless, I've never seen, nor heard of an instance of Minesweeper crashing.
i believe the RIAA is trying to get an amendment tacked on to the Copyright Act of 1979 stating that they, not the artists, own the copyrights.
That is totaly, and completly wrong. They got that done months ago.
We don't know how bad things are in north korea, but here are some pictures of hungry children. -- CNN