I would argue that virus and worm writers fulfill an important role in software ecology. Billions have been spent on making computers safer from Ninja, CodeRed and Sasser. Without these threats the money would not have been spent and nearly every PC would be wide open today. Can you see how much power that would give to those who do not fear the death penalty?
If we were to kill all harmful bacteria today, infections will go back dramatically. But when, in 80 years, a new strain happens to come into existence, nobody will have any immunity system and humanity will be wiped in 24 hours.
Can't say that I understand your math (disclaimer: I am a mathematician) but it would seem to me that $3,822,218 divided by 10,000 shares gives $382/share, not $3822/share.
Seems like a hefty loss to me, given they were originally worth $1,000/share.
There appears to be an innovation that may make HD production more efficient. So far so good. How is this made more relevant by the fact that it involves a chemical compount also found in green tea?
Yes, like blaming nuclear bombs for the explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Listen, this guy made a decision based on his conscience, regardless of personal loss. Maybe he did not want to be instrumental in helping others to kill people. Does that mean he shouldn't use the internet any more? You might disagree with his values, but the world would be a better place if more people listened to their conscience, preferably some of those in government.
In theory, electric motors are already 100% energy efficient: if you use the motor to drive an electricity generator you get back the full energy you put in. In practice there is, of course, some loss to resistance and friction, but not much. So this claim is clearly bogus.
OK, I'll bite. The Apple music store is not my friend.
It makes the RIAA richer. We should not support those who are working to take away our freedom.
It uses DRM, albeit in a mild form. DRM is evil.
It attempts to lock people to the iPod hardware. Jobs himself says that "Apple is the MS of portable music players"
Given all the crimes that the RIAA has committed, I, for one, am not prepared to grant them this lucrative truce. I want to see them destroyed and this crack is one victory on the way.
The parent has been modded +5 and I am going to modded to hell for this, but as a German I cannot let this stand.
Germany does not hate France and the French are not targets of our jokes except some good-natured ones on their accent when they try to speak german. The British do not hate France either, though they are wary of the Berlin-Paris axis. On the other hand, the french "jokes" from right-wing America were calculated propaganda, no better than the jewish "jokes" told in Hitler Germany. France is a proud nation. It will take time to forgive.
If they are licensing "their" contribution to linux, aren't they bound by the GPL, because it is inextricably linked with GPL'ed code?
Of course, if they do have rights to some code in Linux, then they can forbid everyone to use it, but they can't license it without putting it under the GPL.
What you're saying about copyright is correct; but that probably isn't what MS would come after you (and your open source project) for. It'd be patent and trade secret violations.
Patents are published information. If they have a patent on something you cannot use it, regardless whether you looked at their code or not.
The purpose of not looking at someone else's code is to prepare a defense against copyright allegations. If you can convince a judge that you never even glanced at the other party's code, then he will not find you guilty of copyright infringement, no matter how similar the code.
Douglas Hofstadter did this a long time ago, just not with computers but regular cameras and TVs. He got some interesting snapshots, published in Godel-Escher-Bach, chapter XV.
Does anyone honestly think that putting that bit of money elsewhere would solve whatever domestic problems you want fixed?
As a matter of fact, I do. Bill Gates once said that the development of Windows 2000 cost a billion dollars. A top game costs just a few millions.
With 1 billion dollars per year, the world could be moved from Windows to Linux very quickly. You could then use the savings on software licences to go to Mars a couple years later.
By definition, half of their customers are using above median bandwidth. In a case with an average, one user using 10 GBs of bandwidth and nine users using 1 GB of bandwidth, the average is 1.9 GB/user. One user is above average, and the rest are below.
And, in your example, which would be the five customers above the median?
'The movie industry, he said, has to ask itself what the music industry should have asked years ago: 'Why do they want to steal from us?' The answer, he said, is simple: 'Because you won't sell them what they want.'
If Jack Valenti had said the above, now that would be news indeed. However, the quote is acutally from Eric Garland, chief executive of BigChampagne, a company that tracks file-trading activity. Garland provides services for the MPAA, but he does not speak for them.
The Romans were able to create an island of civilization out of the natural world. No one was forced to live there. If you wanted to leave, you could.
WTF are you talking about. The Romans had millions of slaves, could they leave? In those times you had to be a rich guy to travel more than 100 miles (unless, of course, you signed up for the 25-year military service).
On the edonkey net, information about who has what files is collected and managed by edonkey servers. Since the server protocol is open, anyone could write a server that deliberately misinforms clients about the location of RIAA files.
A giant check from the U.S. to rebuild itself leapfrogged all the old primitive ideas still used by the U.S.
Just to keep the perspective here: Germany, for example, received about $1.5 billion from the US after the war, some of which were loans. Even taking inflation into account, this is only a small fraction on what Bush spends on wars nowadays.
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I would argue that virus and worm writers fulfill an important role in software ecology. Billions have been spent on making computers safer from Ninja, CodeRed and Sasser. Without these threats the money would not have been spent and nearly every PC would be wide open today. Can you see how much power that would give to those who do not fear the death penalty?
If we were to kill all harmful bacteria today, infections will go back dramatically. But when, in 80 years, a new strain happens to come into existence, nobody will have any immunity system and humanity will be wiped in 24 hours.
Can't say that I understand your math (disclaimer: I am a mathematician) but it would seem to me that $3,822,218 divided by 10,000 shares gives $382/share, not $3822/share.
Seems like a hefty loss to me, given they were originally worth $1,000/share.
There appears to be an innovation that may make HD production more efficient. So far so good. How is this made more relevant by the fact that it involves a chemical compount also found in green tea?
Yes, like blaming nuclear bombs for the explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Listen, this guy made a decision based on his conscience, regardless of personal loss. Maybe he did not want to be instrumental in helping others to kill people. Does that mean he shouldn't use the internet any more? You might disagree with his values, but the world would be a better place if more people listened to their conscience, preferably some of those in government.
In theory, electric motors are already 100% energy efficient: if you use the motor to drive an electricity generator you get back the full energy you put in. In practice there is, of course, some loss to resistance and friction, but not much. So this claim is clearly bogus.
Exactly. And the recording companies should not be appeased, they should be fought.
Last I heard, COBOL is still around.
It makes the RIAA richer. We should not support those who are working to take away our freedom.
It uses DRM, albeit in a mild form. DRM is evil.
It attempts to lock people to the iPod hardware. Jobs himself says that "Apple is the MS of portable music players" Given all the crimes that the RIAA has committed, I, for one, am not prepared to grant them this lucrative truce. I want to see them destroyed and this crack is one victory on the way.
There is no inconsistency because the GPL is, in fact, GNU's tool in the fight against copyright. It only uses copyright against itself.
In other words, we do not ask that you respect the "copyright of the GPL" but that you respect the freedom to distribute and modify our programs.
And if he worries that it might be too hot, let's just tell him he can go at night.
Germany does not hate France and the French are not targets of our jokes except some good-natured ones on their accent when they try to speak german. The British do not hate France either, though they are wary of the Berlin-Paris axis. On the other hand, the french "jokes" from right-wing America were calculated propaganda, no better than the jewish "jokes" told in Hitler Germany. France is a proud nation. It will take time to forgive.
If they are licensing "their" contribution to linux, aren't they bound by the GPL, because it is inextricably linked with GPL'ed code?
Of course, if they do have rights to some code in Linux, then they can forbid everyone to use it, but they can't license it without putting it under the GPL.
Sounds to me like Microsoft is the one being hurt.
I have bought two shuttles and I have exchanged emails with their technical support. And, yes, I do live in Germany.
I have never received an unsolicited mail from them.
Patents are published information. If they have a patent on something you cannot use it, regardless whether you looked at their code or not.
The purpose of not looking at someone else's code is to prepare a defense against copyright allegations. If you can convince a judge that you never even glanced at the other party's code, then he will not find you guilty of copyright infringement, no matter how similar the code.
Douglas Hofstadter did this a long time ago, just not with computers but regular cameras and TVs.
He got some interesting snapshots, published in Godel-Escher-Bach, chapter XV.
As a matter of fact, I do. Bill Gates once said that the development of Windows 2000 cost a billion dollars. A top game costs just a few millions.
With 1 billion dollars per year, the world could be moved from Windows to Linux very quickly. You could then use the savings on software licences to go to Mars a couple years later.
And, in your example, which would be the five customers above the median?
Free as in speech may be spelled with a capital F but free as in beer only deserves a lowercase f.
WTF are you talking about. The Romans had millions of slaves, could they leave? In those times you had to be a rich guy to travel more than 100 miles (unless, of course, you signed up for the 25-year military service).
Speaking of very large images, does anybody have a link to some really hi-res fractal images? (I am looking for something to decorate a 3m*5m wall...)
On the edonkey net, information about who has what files is collected and managed by edonkey servers. Since the server protocol is open, anyone could write a server that deliberately misinforms clients about the location of RIAA files.
Surely you meant "clever enough", not "dumb enough"
Just to keep the perspective here: Germany, for example, received about $1.5 billion from the US after the war, some of which were loans. Even taking inflation into account, this is only a small fraction on what Bush spends on wars nowadays.