So you would be in the it's better to possibly send an innocent man to jail than to set a dangerous precedent camp? Nice straw man you have there.
Just incidentally, why are you so sure he's innocent? What if he's guilty, but can pass a polygraph easily?
how about we acknowledge their weaknesses like any forensic tool and decide how best to use them to improve our justice system Their weakness is that they are unreliable. The only way to "best use them" is not at all.
I had a girlfriend whose father forbade her to marry me (not that it was going to happen anyway) because I wasn't a member of their (mainstream) church. Wow - your girlfriend's father was the head of a mainstream religion?
(After all - this discussion is about the *religion itself* banning who someone can contact - not which criteria someone's parents use to forbid them marrying.)
aren't Jehovah's Witnesses aren't allowed blood transfusions? That's a pretty big "can't see that doctor" to me. Sorry - what?!?!?
How - in any way, shape or form - are the statements "you are not allowed to have a blood transfusion from any doctor" and "you are not allowed to see Dr. XXXX" similar?
There is a lot of great work being done by the BSD folks and it would be quite impolite to tell them, "Hey thanks for your code, but you won't get anything back from us" Considering that's the entire goddamned point of the BSD license, how on earth could such an attitude be considered unethical?
Let's do some math, 10,000 packets, at a standard ethernet packet size of 1.5 K Sorry, what standard are you talking about?
If you're talking about MTU (which is 1500 bytes, not 1.5K), that's the maximum, not the standard.
The average packet size depends on type of network traffic. On most ethernet networks I've managed, average packet size was 700 to 800 bytes.
you would get a transfer rate of 1.5 MB/s, or in more appropriate data transfer units, about 12 Mb/s. That's way faster than most internet connections available on cosumer PCs. Even if your flawed assumptions about packet size were true, how about people with 100Mbps or gigabit networks that aren't downloading from the internet, but transferring files on a LAN?
I also know quite a few people with 10 Mb hubs still operating on their network. Ahh, and because there are a small number of people stuck with 1995-era equipment, then it's OK for everybody else to suffer horrible network performance?
If the accompanying text contains words like "young" or "teen", of course. Umm, last time I checked, the allowed age was 18, which "teen" and "young" would both apply to.
I'm sorry As you should be, spouting incorrect information like this.
the VIC 20 was 2k. I had one for a number of years. No. The Vic20 was 5K, with ~3.5K usable for programs (The exact amount usable by BASIC was 3583 bytes.) The rest of the RAM was used by the system, and for video memory.
most of the flack IBM caught was for being stuffy corporate drones I guess you're not old enough to remember IBM's antitrust suit then? IBM was at one time just as reviled as MS, and for similar behavior.
any time Microsoft even tries to do anything even reasonably associated with open source, the OSS community shits itself and starts with all the Admiral Ackbar "it's a trap" crap. They don't even get a chance. Yes because as everybody knows, if there's one thing that can stop a multi-billion-dollar corporation in it's tracks, it's a bunch of whiny geeks!
I mean, how on earth can a company with $7B to spend on research hope to accomplish anything when anonymous people on message boards start criticizing them?!?!
Got a clue for you: if MS *REALLY* wanted to play nice with the OSS community, they would. Yes, there would be complaints and verbal attacks, but eventually the community would accept them.
Just remember - it worked for IBM (who at one time held the exact same position.)
Everything has a cost. Couldn't agree more.
Linux generally costs me a lot of time -- more time than it's worth to me. Funny, I'd say the same about Windows.
When it comes to installing, Linux is much simpler and faster (and thus cheaper). When it comes to configuration, Linux is (again) easier and faster. Software installation? No contest (try comparing MS Office with OpenOffice packages.)
Then you have to factor in administration and update headaches (Linux is a one-stop-shop, updating in the background, whereas Windows update does the base OS, but then I have to update all of the other software manually.) Not to mention anti-virus and other associated headaches.
Even with a "$0" price tag, Windows costs *much* more than Linux.
"Then you just pick what you're going to have uniformed Marshall's deputies go out and seize, at gunpoint if necessary, to sell off." Which works only if the person who actually owns it doesn't decide to stop it getting seized, at bullet point if necessary. Oh yeah, that's likely - last time I checked, firing on uniformed law enforcement officers while they're performing their lawful tasks gets you a very quick one-way trip to either the morgue or PMITA-prison.
You really think that the RIAA will do that, rather than handing over the $68K?
how does hiring someone to do your searching for you differ from hiring someone to write your term papers for you? I'm pretty sure that nobody gets graded on how good their searches are.:)
How'd this make the front page?! Simple - and you answer it with the first sentence of your post:
The summary mentions a university using Exchange successfully. You're trying to say that this *isn't* front-page news?:)
Con never claimed SD was perfect. Care to share with the group where exactly Linus says he did? You use the words "utter shit" - seems that it's something you know a lot about. Or do you enjoy building straw men?
it's quite disgusting to see Linus make such sweeping statements to the contrary. Sadly, since Linus' word is gospel - even if he is speaking utter shit Funny, I read the email exchange, and I can't see *anyone* telling Linus that he's speaking "utter shit" - So why is it that if Linus is (as you claim) lying through his teeth about events that happened, that nobody calls him on it?
Linus pointed out problems with Con dismissing other people's problems, and nobody says "oh, that didn't happen" - except you. In fact, the general response was "well, that didn't happen very often."
Similarly, even people who are attacking Linus say that Ingo acted the way Linus says he acted in the same situation - in other words the main reason Linus rejected SD is confirmed by the very people who are arguing for SD.
then Con will get publicly slammed by people like you who think it's fine to comment on what they don't know about So it's OK for you to do it about Linus, but it's not OK for someone to do it about Con? Somehow the words "Pot. Kettle. Black." come to mind.
When you copy music from someone that doesn't own the copyright, then theres a problem too. So.... you're claiming that Itunes owns the copyright on all their downloads?
Distributing copies to other people, even though you have paid this fee, is still not legal Correct, but distributing originals is quite OK.
ie. you can make a copy for yourself, and lend (or give or sell) the original to someone else so they can make their own copy, and that's perfectly legal.
I don't understand why the artist should get extra money because I listened to the music I purchased from them on a different device. How about if you borrow a friend's CD to do the same?
Or got a CD from the library?
It doesn't matter where you got the original. The CPCC is quite clear - if you plan on space-shifting, don't purchase it in the first place - you're only paying twice.
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Just incidentally, why are you so sure he's innocent? What if he's guilty, but can pass a polygraph easily? how about we acknowledge their weaknesses like any forensic tool and decide how best to use them to improve our justice system Their weakness is that they are unreliable. The only way to "best use them" is not at all.
It all makes so much sense!
(After all - this discussion is about the *religion itself* banning who someone can contact - not which criteria someone's parents use to forbid them marrying.)
So, which mainstream religion was he the head of?
How - in any way, shape or form - are the statements "you are not allowed to have a blood transfusion from any doctor" and "you are not allowed to see Dr. XXXX" similar?
Perhaps he was a gardener.
They have the right to ask, and the customer has the right to refuse.
Long story short, Theo is a hypocrite.
If you're talking about MTU (which is 1500 bytes, not 1.5K), that's the maximum, not the standard.
The average packet size depends on type of network traffic. On most ethernet networks I've managed, average packet size was 700 to 800 bytes. you would get a transfer rate of 1.5 MB/s, or in more appropriate data transfer units, about 12 Mb/s. That's way faster than most internet connections available on cosumer PCs. Even if your flawed assumptions about packet size were true, how about people with 100Mbps or gigabit networks that aren't downloading from the internet, but transferring files on a LAN? I also know quite a few people with 10 Mb hubs still operating on their network. Ahh, and because there are a small number of people stuck with 1995-era equipment, then it's OK for everybody else to suffer horrible network performance?
It's the ones that have come out of the closet that wouldn't.
I mean, how on earth can a company with $7B to spend on research hope to accomplish anything when anonymous people on message boards start criticizing them?!?!
Got a clue for you: if MS *REALLY* wanted to play nice with the OSS community, they would. Yes, there would be complaints and verbal attacks, but eventually the community would accept them.
Just remember - it worked for IBM (who at one time held the exact same position.)
When it comes to installing, Linux is much simpler and faster (and thus cheaper). When it comes to configuration, Linux is (again) easier and faster. Software installation? No contest (try comparing MS Office with OpenOffice packages.)
Then you have to factor in administration and update headaches (Linux is a one-stop-shop, updating in the background, whereas Windows update does the base OS, but then I have to update all of the other software manually.) Not to mention anti-virus and other associated headaches.
Even with a "$0" price tag, Windows costs *much* more than Linux.
You really think that the RIAA will do that, rather than handing over the $68K?
You get graded on how well you integrate the results and show that you understand them.
Linus pointed out problems with Con dismissing other people's problems, and nobody says "oh, that didn't happen" - except you. In fact, the general response was "well, that didn't happen very often."
Similarly, even people who are attacking Linus say that Ingo acted the way Linus says he acted in the same situation - in other words the main reason Linus rejected SD is confirmed by the very people who are arguing for SD. then Con will get publicly slammed by people like you who think it's fine to comment on what they don't know about So it's OK for you to do it about Linus, but it's not OK for someone to do it about Con? Somehow the words "Pot. Kettle. Black." come to mind.
Others have pointed out your straw man, but nobody has pointed you to this, so I thought I might.
ie. you can make a copy for yourself, and lend (or give or sell) the original to someone else so they can make their own copy, and that's perfectly legal.
Or got a CD from the library?
It doesn't matter where you got the original. The CPCC is quite clear - if you plan on space-shifting, don't purchase it in the first place - you're only paying twice.