If consumers would take a stand every once in a while instead of rolling over and demanding the government help them because they can't control themselves, you would find companies afraid of pissing off people instead of doing anything they can as long as they can get away with it from the government.
The government is what we citizens have established in order to establish rules. Citizens united can demand whatever behavior they want from the corporations to whom they grant legal status, using the full force of their government.
You can go be a powerless consumer, I'll remain an empowered citizen.
I think what you meant to say was that this is exactly what will happen if the telcos took over the internet. They would just not route any traffic to bittorrent at all.
What is this government take over of the internet you speak of? Or do you forget that the government invented the internet? Without the government, we would still be using AOL, Compuserv, and Prodigy. Which, coincidently is exactly what the anti-net neutrality folks would like to see returned.
Anti Net neutrality--proving that there are always people naive enough to hand great things over to corporations where they are ruined forever.
People do NOT vote with their money. They use it on the way to drop lil Suzie off at soccer practice, or what is on sale and will allow them to get an extra treat this week.
You may feel that people *should* vote with their dollars, but they don't. If you want to go basing an entire system on what YOU feel people *should* do, instead of what they *actually* do, you'll be attacking windmills.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs is running the show. Simple, immediate concerns have to be met BEFORE you can worry about altruistic concerns, or policy issues. That means you're going to stock your fridge with enough to eat, before you worry about what the farmers are getting paid.
Why doesn't my horse drawn buggy come with a mp3 player?
Can I get a Betamax VCR that does HDMI?
Your landline phones aren't getting updated technology because they are themselves outdated technology. They may not be entirely obsolete at this point, but don't expect to get technological advances into them on a regular basis.
You say the bill would have passed without him, like he only had a single vote to use. That is incorrect. He had a single vote, and one of the most effective bully pulpits we've seen in this country in a long time. He should have turned it into a campaign issue and beat McCain over the head with his cow towing to big corporate interests for the rest of the campaign. I was really hoping for more of a fighting spirit from the guy.
First, to be "outed", Valerie Plame would have had to be a covert operative. She wasn't at that time. You can check the Congressional Record to read the testimony of the author of the governing regulations. This is factually incorrect. According to the CIA, Plame was classified as covert. Who is this author, and why would they be a definitive source establishing a CIA operatives covert status? On March 16th, 2007 Gen Hayden, head of the CIA, released a statement saying that Plame was undercover, and her role classified. The CIA summary of her employment status was unclassified and entered into the court record of the Libby case on May. 29, 2007, and she was officially covert at the time of the outing in the Novak article.
Second, the ultimate classification authority is the President. This has a long history of precedent. If the President wishes to reveal something which is classified, that's his prerogative. The Soviet nuke missile sites in Cuba were classified information and JFK didn't need anyone's permission to reveal that. The classification of the information is only one of the issues involved. There is the small issue of using disproven evidence to try to bolster the case for war, not to mention a little thing called treason.
Third, it was Richard Armitage who revealed the information about Valerie Plame. Even the special prosecutor knew that before investigating.
This is a country of laws, It's the usA, not the usSR. So, the question remains, did Bush and Cheney use Armitage as their patsy, or did they seize on the opertunity of an Armitage slip to try to use the situation to push their case for war? Either way is impeachable.
I've found that running a program in a profiler and looking at the function call tree in a nice tool, like the profiler in netbeans 6, really helps to visualize where a program is spending its time, and what shape the call tree takes. I've really only started doing this with the netbeans profiler, so I'm not sure how much of this is just universal to all profilers, but when I've done it with netbeans, you can specify packages to exclude from profiling, so as not to create too many data points. So, I'll start by only profiling the program logic itself and excluding data collection on libraries.
What would be cool to standardize would be the 3D modeling language and behavior scripting representations. After that it is a matter of compiling the world models and behaviorisms into the games custom binary representation.
We aren't that far from this now. There are a number of *common* engines. Various generations of Quake and Unreal seem to be used in all sorts of games. If both of these could compile levels and models designed in a standard 3D editor, others would surely follow.
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So, what happens if you send something like ld.so, or your kernel into the recycling bin? Experimenting by randomly moving stuff you don't understand is never a good idea. Just sending it to some sort of recycling bin just gives folks a false sense of security and could lead them to completely hosing their entire install.
One of the most important things that I look at is how locked in to a particular product will I be if I use it extensivelly. This means:
1) If there are standards, support them. 2) If there are file formats, document them. 3) If there are APIs, expose them. 4) If you discontinue support, open source the code. 5) If the company goes belly up, open source everything.
Obviously this was not done by anyone that would regularly visit slashdot, because clearly any self-respecting slashdotter would have used this precious broadcasting time to make a plea to Natalie Portman to go out on a date with them.
Hearing this type of thing in combination with the ongoing rediculousness with regards to p2p file sharing. It demonstrates just how badly the entire music distribution channel needs to be replaced by something completely different.
I think the danger point in limitting a person's fredom to express radical views is when it infringes on the expression of an ideology. We should not try to limit what people think or hamper their ability to share their ideas, but it is more than just sharing an idea to talk about randomly showing up at such and such a location wearing such and such colored sheets.
CPU power is not the issue when it comes to portable computing. The real holy grail will be in acceptable display technology. Whether that be some sort of expanding/folding display technology or a lasar retinal display, something significantly better than our current technology is needed to really make a significant jump in usability and functionality.
I don't see new features as a compelling reason to upgrade software you currently own. I think most home users upgrade their office suite to match whatever version they happen to be running at work. The corporate IT upgrades to maintain compatibility with clients and partners. People would be less likely to upgrade if the new product maintained backwards compatability with the versions they already had. I think that that is part of the reason that new features (that will never be used by 99% of the users) are added. It gives the vendor a chance to break, or impair the backwards compatibility all in the name of 'innovation'.
But my stereo is going to have the most advanced software in the entire auto. Also, as far as I am concerned the stereo is the most significant component experiencially.
Ford in this case would be similar to a distribution. By your argument, calling the OS composed of gnu tools and a linux kernel 'Linux', would be like calling a Ford a Sony, because they happened to make the stereo. Naming an entire sum of parts after a single component part isn't always the most meaningful nomenclature.
The linux kernel is just that, a kernel. You really don't have a complete OS with just that. Generally gnu utilities and libraries are used to provide the rest of the OS. So, it is reasonable to refer to the OS as 'GNU/Linux' (or equally 'Linux/GNU').
So, when you get to a distribution (which is more than just an OS) you would have something like 'RedHat Gnu/Linux'
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If consumers would take a stand every once in a while instead of rolling over and demanding the government help them because they can't control themselves, you would find companies afraid of pissing off people instead of doing anything they can as long as they can get away with it from the government.
The government is what we citizens have established in order to establish rules. Citizens united can demand whatever behavior they want from the corporations to whom they grant legal status, using the full force of their government.
You can go be a powerless consumer, I'll remain an empowered citizen.
I think what you meant to say was that this is exactly what will happen if the telcos took over the internet. They would just not route any traffic to bittorrent at all.
What is this government take over of the internet you speak of? Or do you forget that the government invented the internet? Without the government, we would still be using AOL, Compuserv, and Prodigy. Which, coincidently is exactly what the anti-net neutrality folks would like to see returned.
Anti Net neutrality--proving that there are always people naive enough to hand great things over to corporations where they are ruined forever.
People do NOT vote with their money. They use it on the way to drop lil Suzie off at soccer practice, or what is on sale and will allow them to get an extra treat this week.
You may feel that people *should* vote with their dollars, but they don't. If you want to go basing an entire system on what YOU feel people *should* do, instead of what they *actually* do, you'll be attacking windmills.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs is running the show. Simple, immediate concerns have to be met BEFORE you can worry about altruistic concerns, or policy issues. That means you're going to stock your fridge with enough to eat, before you worry about what the farmers are getting paid.
Why doesn't my horse drawn buggy come with a mp3 player?
Can I get a Betamax VCR that does HDMI?
Your landline phones aren't getting updated technology because they are themselves outdated technology. They may not be entirely obsolete at this point, but don't expect to get technological advances into them on a regular basis.
You say the bill would have passed without him, like he only had a single vote to use. That is incorrect. He had a single vote, and one of the most effective bully pulpits we've seen in this country in a long time. He should have turned it into a campaign issue and beat McCain over the head with his cow towing to big corporate interests for the rest of the campaign. I was really hoping for more of a fighting spirit from the guy.
This is a country of laws, It's the usA, not the usSR. So, the question remains, did Bush and Cheney use Armitage as their patsy, or did they seize on the opertunity of an Armitage slip to try to use the situation to push their case for war? Either way is impeachable.
I've found that running a program in a profiler and looking at the function call tree in a nice tool, like the profiler in netbeans 6, really helps to visualize where a program is spending its time, and what shape the call tree takes. I've really only started doing this with the netbeans profiler, so I'm not sure how much of this is just universal to all profilers, but when I've done it with netbeans, you can specify packages to exclude from profiling, so as not to create too many data points. So, I'll start by only profiling the program logic itself and excluding data collection on libraries.
My roommate called Comcast to complain about our connection getting over 50% packet loss when pinging our gateway or dns servers.
Response: Your DHCP lease *is going to* expire in 1 hour. That is causing your problem. So wait an hour until your lease is renewed.
What would be cool to standardize would be the 3D modeling language and behavior scripting representations. After that it is a matter of compiling the world models and behaviorisms into the games custom binary representation.
We aren't that far from this now. There are a number of *common* engines. Various generations of Quake and Unreal seem to be used in all sorts of games. If both of these could compile levels and models designed in a standard 3D editor, others would surely follow.
So, what happens if you send something like ld.so, or your kernel into the recycling bin? Experimenting by randomly moving stuff you don't understand is never a good idea. Just sending it to some sort of recycling bin just gives folks a false sense of security and could lead them to completely hosing their entire install.
One of the most important things that I look at is how locked in to a particular product will I be if I use it extensivelly. This means:
1) If there are standards, support them.
2) If there are file formats, document them.
3) If there are APIs, expose them.
4) If you discontinue support, open source the code.
5) If the company goes belly up, open source everything.
Obviously this was not done by anyone that would regularly visit slashdot, because clearly any self-respecting slashdotter would have used this precious broadcasting time to make a plea to Natalie Portman to go out on a date with them.
With a name like snort he is probably making a bunch of money off of people who think they're buying some cocaine.
This technology is overrated. We should really be exploring the full potential of flip-book technology.
I'd launch a single for them for $1000. My only over head would be the disc, the duct tape, and the Estes Rocket.
Hearing this type of thing in combination with the ongoing rediculousness with regards to p2p file sharing. It demonstrates just how badly the entire music distribution channel needs to be replaced by something completely different.
I think the danger point in limitting a person's fredom to express radical views is when it infringes on the expression of an ideology. We should not try to limit what people think or hamper their ability to share their ideas, but it is more than just sharing an idea to talk about randomly showing up at such and such a location wearing such and such colored sheets.
CPU power is not the issue when it comes to portable computing. The real holy grail will be in acceptable display technology. Whether that be some sort of expanding/folding display technology or a lasar retinal display, something significantly better than our current technology is needed to really make a significant jump in usability and functionality.
I don't see new features as a compelling reason to upgrade software you currently own. I think most home users upgrade their office suite to match whatever version they happen to be running at work. The corporate IT upgrades to maintain compatibility with clients and partners. People would be less likely to upgrade if the new product maintained backwards compatability with the versions they already had. I think that that is part of the reason that new features (that will never be used by 99% of the users) are added. It gives the vendor a chance to break, or impair the backwards compatibility all in the name of 'innovation'.
I'll finally be able to have my own television station and rebroadcast 'Thundar the Barbarian' 24 hours a day! Oh, Joy!
Well, I guess that is one way to keep people from saying that your implementation isn't portable enough.
But my stereo is going to have the most advanced software in the entire auto. Also, as far as I am concerned the stereo is the most significant component experiencially.
Ford in this case would be similar to a distribution. By your argument, calling the OS composed of gnu tools and a linux kernel 'Linux', would be like calling a Ford a Sony, because they happened to make the stereo. Naming an entire sum of parts after a single component part isn't always the most meaningful nomenclature.
The linux kernel is just that, a kernel. You really don't have a complete OS with just that. Generally gnu utilities and libraries are used to provide the rest of the OS. So, it is reasonable to refer to the OS as 'GNU/Linux' (or equally 'Linux/GNU').
So, when you get to a distribution (which is more than just an OS) you would have something like 'RedHat Gnu/Linux'
If you get an accurate count of books sold, I'm guessing that the only thing you're going to see on the best-selling list is romance novels