it's kinda hard to find since it is only displayed in bold letters Donating Online, but i think you can handle it. i plan to begin donating as soon as i get done with grad school. dont let that stop you-you can start right now:)
i live nicely on $18,000 a year. i'm a grad student, and i dont really expect much. if the folks at lwn lived in a small town 36,000 a year would be plenty. not everyone needs 6 computers, a house, a pimped out car, etc.
i think it's important to note that the xbox sales increase came after the $100 price cut: Microsoft's blockbusting US launch line-up for Xbox has paid dividends across the pond, with the NPD Group reporting that Xbox has posted a sales increase of 131% in the US in the two months following its $100 price cut.
sure they can tell their investors that they increased their sails by 131%, and they would be telling the truth-or at least part of it. if they told their investors that they were loosing an extra $100 per sale on an item that was already being sold at a loss, then they would be telling the whole truth. this isnt really that big of a deal if they sell each person 4 games or so. if they manage to get linux installed and running on an unchipped box, i think ms will become very concerned though.
our webserver gets attacked all the time... those attacks are trying to exploit an iis bug, but i would consider them attacks non the less. so if more linux machines are getting attacked, then that might suggest there are more linux machines to be attacked. it doesnt really mean more successful attacks.
you left something off of your equation. the amount of negative loss or profit due to people who would not have purchased the software if they did not get the chance to try it before they buy.
The problem with usenet is storage. Your ISP does not like to store huge amounts of binaries. They clean out the big groups too often, causing parts to go missing. Often finding the missing part can take days or weeks.
thats where the pars come in. they can reconstruct missing rar files. also, if your isp doesnt have a good news server you can get a commercial one. i believe they cost around 10 or 15 dollars a month-if it's worth it to you.
Also, breaking big files up and reassembling them is a bit of a pain. It is *WAY* easier to just stick the file in your shared directory. Most users just go that path.
i could be wrong but i'm pretty sure there is an easy way to automate the breaking up portion. reassembling them isnt that hard:
#this recovers any missing rar files #as long as there are less than 'n' #rar files missing $par r base_file_name.part01.PAR
#this restors the rar's $rar x base_file_name.part01.rar
#cleaning up directory $rm -rf *.P* *.rar
really it's not that hard. hell with a little scripting it could be automated. i would imagine that windows has a point and click version.
Try watching the movie in sections at the same time. Can't do that.
while some movies might break up into convenient pieces for viewing, most dont. i personally wouldnt want to watch the first 15 minutes of a movie then the minutes:50 through 1:05, the catch up on:30 through:40, etc.
every movie would be like pulp fiction.
really though, for most people who get the bulk of their music from the net, downloading movies is really not that big of a deal. alot of them are students taking advantage of their fast connections at school or friends of people with fast connections.
way back before we had napster there was this thing called usenet.. there is still such a beast. there large files are broken up into smaller rar archives (normally in 10 and 15 meg chunks). in the last year or so par has creaped up. basically the people packing up the rar archive make a par archive of 'n' files that are the same size as the rar archive. if the rar archive is incomplete it can be recovered using the par archive. the par archive can be used to reconstruct the missing rar files.. up to 'n' of them.
so it's fairly easy to get movies and almost any other information split into useful chunks. alot of movies come with previews so you can see the quality of the movie befor you download the whole thing. you could probably argue that people havn't discovered usenet, but you can get movies just as conveniently using pan or agent.
if you really have alot of drives lying around we can use them. we build computers from old parts and send them off to mexico. if you really have alot of old drives and want to unload them, i'll pay for the postage. email me if you dont mind the hassel.
that finland had increased it's surface area to the size of the united states and replaced it's entire phone system with a wireless network. tell me did you annex a portion of the former soviet union?
it woludnt work here because the financial incentive isn't there to dump our preexsisting network. it must have cost alot, especially considering that here you would have to have the gsm network available _everywhere_ for people to go for it. people here are kind of silly. see they want their phones to work everywhere. not just in the city.
see the needs of finland are different than those of the united states. the solutions that work for you might or might not work for us.
the united states is very large and spread out. we have had a national telephone system that started forming before your own. this is something that is very expensive to replace, and it is difficult to justify that expense.
i'm sure finland differs from the united states in more than one or two ways. until they are equal, you cannot compare them directly.
i'm sorry you cannot communicate with your fellow programmers using sms. i dont think sms will help you much though. if you are working as a programmer and you email someone and it takes him 9 hours to respond i dont think he will respond much quicker with the sms thing. if you still think sms would solve this communication delima, feel free to mail my government with your concerns.
if they followed your advice, the teams would disappear. the people at the bottom quit.. then there is a new bottom... those people quit... pretty soon brasil is both the worst and the best because they are all alone.
do you think all these other countries instantly built a nation wide coverage?
some nations are wider than others.
also consider the benifit/cost ratio in countries that don't already have a nationwide coverage with land lines compared to those that do.
if a country starts with little infrastructure, it makes sense to pop up a wireless network. if you have a huge country that already has landline service, it's just not that financially feasible to construct a nationwide wireless network.
couple that with the nonstandard services and you are where we are today.
another thing to consider is that we really dont need all the extra crap: "I'm very disappointed to see that the majority of phones in the U.S. are black and white and four lines (of text)," said Satoshi Nakajima, chief executive officer of UIEvolution, a Bellevue company that develops software for Japanese wireless companies. "Then you'll never succeed."
well it depends on how you define success. if you define success as video at 1fps, then yes we will never succeed. if you are trying to give people phone access, then four lines of text are enough to succeed. personally i dont want a hot pink phone, with a hello kitty theme and a ringer that playes the theme from shaft. i really dont need the aformentioned phone with streaming video.. it's simply not necessary... for me.
just because someone has different needs doesnt mean the have failed. i guess you could say linux has failed since it's not running on the hello kitty phone.. i would say it's a success since it runs my webserver very well.
God gave skills and talents to both teams. This does not make it possible for both teams to win:-) If I were a Christian on the German team, I'd be saying thanks to God for getting me this far.
so what do the people at the bottom say? thanks for not smiting me?
I wouldn't say that - that is, I wouldn't say that "God works in mysterious ways" if something bad happened. For a start, whether something is "good" or "bad" is often only really found out long after the event. More than once, something has happened where I've thought "What on earth is God doing? That's not what I asked him to do at all", yet looking back now, I am privileged to see what it was he was trying to achieve.
so have we seen the result of gods plan for the native americans yet? i'm not sure what they should be thankful for alcoholism or the successful casinos they own?
Great to see several Brazilian players (and the entire team, if that enormous circle was a prayer circle, which it seemed to be) giving credit where it's due for their talents and gifts I didn't "credit God for Brazil's win", I said that it's great that they recognise that He gave them the talents they used to win. He gives everyone different gifts; theirs happen to be being good at football.
while you didn't say "god made it so the brasilians won", you did give god credit for the talent and skills of the brasilian players. since a significant portion of their preformance is directly related to their skills and what not, the following is not a strange conculsion:
god gives skills --> brasilians use skills --> brasilians win
or cut out the middle man:
god gives skills --> brasilians win
now that is from the brasilians perspective. i simply asked if it worked the other way: god gives skills --> brasilians use skills --> germans loose
i find it strange that when god helps christians they thank it, but when god does the opposite the christians simply say god works in mysterious ways. i am of the opinion that if god has that much control, then god is responsible. it seems very hypocritical to thank god for the good things and not attribute the bad things to it-they are all under gods control. sure you can say helping you wasnt part of gods 'plan'. i would say that when it does help you it just happens to be part of gods plan.
this is not ment as an attack on your religion, and i hope you do not see it that way.
ok god didnt give germany the talents, skill, whatever. i'm sure you believe it is within god's power to do so right? god in his omnipotence decided not to give them to germany. i would find it just as logical for germany were to blame god for not giving them the required skills as brasils crediting god for the _skills_ that enambled them to win.
does that work both ways?
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would it be ok if the germans gathered in a circle cursing god and jesus for their loss? i mean heck if you credit god for brasil's win, do you also give the big G credit for germany's loss? does it work out more like this:
good event = praise god. bad event = the lord works in mysterious ways.
more importantly we brought them God, and taught them that it is better to give than to recieve. when people tell me that foreigners are taking their jobs i ask them if they are going to return the land their house is on to the indians.
do we know there was gpl'ed sourcecode modified? sure they used linux. say they didn't and you ask them for the source all they have to do is give you the original source. say a cd with the kernel source and the source for various gnu tools. perhaps they'll just send you a slackware cd.
So what's the difference, in this instance, between the Microsoft EULA and the GPL? The only difference I see is that Microsoft is spelling out specifically what they intend to do.
as far as liability goes, there is not difference. that was the point i was trying to make. as far as sneeking stuff in there is a big difference since the source for the gpl'ed code is there for all to check. microsoft's source is locked up in a vault somewhere along with the recipe for the original coke formula.
i gave up windows a few years back. i reinstalled it 5 times in one weekend. when the 6th time rolled around i threw in the towel and never went back.
If you don't want Microsoft to "install digital rights management software, and [...] disable any other programs which may circumvent DRM on your computer" then don't use their software. Easy peasy Japanesy.
actually, i don't use their software.
i agree that this standard, but you said that microsoft ``is not making the end-user liable for anything, it is merely limiting Microsoft's liablity''. i feel that by limiting their (ms's) liability this increases the liability of the end-user. this increase may be indirect but the liability of the end user is still increased. therefor i think it is incorrect to say that microsoft or anyone with such clauses does not make the end-user liable for anything.
a lot of the software i use has been released under the gpl. as a result the authors have no responsibility for the damages i might encounter by using the software. i bear the full burden of any negative results from using the software. as a result i am liable if their software is broken.
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i think errors like this: /sbin/nologin
bin has a valid shell of
are kind of odd also.
how is nologin a valid shell? what should be there in it's place?
im also getting:
Graphical login not deactivated.
It is my workstation.
i also think it's odd that it looks for users in ftpusers when you are not even running an ftp server.
it's kinda hard to find since it is only displayed in bold letters Donating Online , but i think you can handle it. i plan to begin donating as soon as i get done with grad school. dont let that stop you-you can start right now :)
i live nicely on $18,000 a year. i'm a grad student, and i dont really expect much. if the folks at lwn lived in a small town 36,000 a year would be plenty. not everyone needs 6 computers, a house, a pimped out car, etc.
i think it's important to note that the xbox sales increase came after the $100 price cut:
Microsoft's blockbusting US launch line-up for Xbox has paid dividends across the pond, with the NPD Group reporting that Xbox has posted a sales increase of 131% in the US in the two months following its $100 price cut.
sure they can tell their investors that they increased their sails by 131%, and they would be telling the truth-or at least part of it. if they told their investors that they were loosing an extra $100 per sale on an item that was already being sold at a loss, then they would be telling the whole truth. this isnt really that big of a deal if they sell each person 4 games or so. if they manage to get linux installed and running on an unchipped box, i think ms will become very concerned though.
i do agree that we should not underestimate them.
our webserver gets attacked all the time... those attacks are trying to exploit an iis bug, but i would consider them attacks non the less. so if more linux machines are getting attacked, then that might suggest there are more linux machines to be attacked. it doesnt really mean more successful attacks.
you left something off of your equation. the amount of negative loss or profit due to people who would not have purchased the software if they did not get the chance to try it before they buy.
you mean WaReZ? yep we're pirates-eyepatch and everything.
The problem with usenet is storage. Your ISP does not like to store huge amounts of binaries. They clean out the big groups too often, causing parts to go missing. Often finding the missing part can take days or weeks.
thats where the pars come in. they can reconstruct missing rar files. also, if your isp doesnt have a good news server you can get a commercial one. i believe they cost around 10 or 15 dollars a month-if it's worth it to you.
Also, breaking big files up and reassembling them is a bit of a pain. It is *WAY* easier to just stick the file in your shared directory. Most users just go that path.
i could be wrong but i'm pretty sure there is an easy way to automate the breaking up portion. reassembling them isnt that hard:
#this recovers any missing rar files
#as long as there are less than 'n'
#rar files missing
$par r base_file_name.part01.PAR
#this restors the rar's
$rar x base_file_name.part01.rar
#cleaning up directory
$rm -rf *.P* *.rar
really it's not that hard. hell with a little scripting it could be automated. i would imagine that windows has a point and click version.
Try watching the movie in sections at the same time. Can't do that.
while some movies might break up into convenient pieces for viewing, most dont. i personally wouldnt want to watch the first 15 minutes of a movie then the minutes
every movie would be like pulp fiction.
really though, for most people who get the bulk of their music from the net, downloading movies is really not that big of a deal. alot of them are students taking advantage of their fast connections at school or friends of people with fast connections.
way back before we had napster there was this thing called usenet.. there is still such a beast. there large files are broken up into smaller rar archives (normally in 10 and 15 meg chunks). in the last year or so par has creaped up. basically the people packing up the rar archive make a par archive of 'n' files that are the same size as the rar archive. if the rar archive is incomplete it can be recovered using the par archive. the par archive can be used to reconstruct the missing rar files.. up to 'n' of them.
so it's fairly easy to get movies and almost any other information split into useful chunks. alot of movies come with previews so you can see the quality of the movie befor you download the whole thing. you could probably argue that people havn't discovered usenet, but you can get movies just as conveniently using pan or agent.
hey.
if you really have alot of drives lying around we can use them. we build computers from old parts and send them off to mexico. if you really have alot of old drives and want to unload them, i'll pay for the postage. email me if you dont mind the hassel.
that finland had increased it's surface area to the size of the united states and replaced it's entire phone system with a wireless network. tell me did you annex a portion of the former soviet union?
it woludnt work here because the financial incentive isn't there to dump our preexsisting network. it must have cost alot, especially considering that here you would have to have the gsm network available _everywhere_ for people to go for it. people here are kind of silly. see they want their phones to work everywhere. not just in the city.
see the needs of finland are different than those of the united states. the solutions that work for you might or might not work for us.
the united states is very large and spread out. we have had a national telephone system that started forming before your own. this is something that is very expensive to replace, and it is difficult to justify that expense.
i'm sure finland differs from the united states in more than one or two ways. until they are equal, you cannot compare them directly.
i'm sorry you cannot communicate with your fellow programmers using sms. i dont think sms will help you much though. if you are working as a programmer and you email someone and it takes him 9 hours to respond i dont think he will respond much quicker with the sms thing. if you still think sms would solve this communication delima, feel free to mail my government with your concerns.
if they followed your advice, the teams would disappear. the people at the bottom quit.. then there is a new bottom... those people quit... pretty soon brasil is both the worst and the best because they are all alone.
do you think all these other countries instantly built a nation wide coverage?
some nations are wider than others.
also consider the benifit/cost ratio in countries that don't already have a nationwide coverage with land lines compared to those that do.
if a country starts with little infrastructure, it makes sense to pop up a wireless network. if you have a huge country that already has landline service, it's just not that financially feasible to construct a nationwide wireless network.
couple that with the nonstandard services and you are where we are today.
another thing to consider is that we really dont need all the extra crap:
"I'm very disappointed to see that the majority of phones in the U.S. are black and white and four lines (of text)," said Satoshi Nakajima, chief executive officer of UIEvolution, a Bellevue company that develops software for Japanese wireless companies. "Then you'll never succeed."
well it depends on how you define success. if you define success as video at 1fps, then yes we will never succeed. if you are trying to give people phone access, then four lines of text are enough to succeed. personally i dont want a hot pink phone, with a hello kitty theme and a ringer that playes the theme from shaft. i really dont need the aformentioned phone with streaming video.. it's simply not necessary... for me.
just because someone has different needs doesnt mean the have failed. i guess you could say linux has failed since it's not running on the hello kitty phone.. i would say it's a success since it runs my webserver very well.
God gave skills and talents to both teams. This does not make it possible for both teams to win :-) If I were a Christian on the German team, I'd be saying thanks to God for getting me this far.
so what do the people at the bottom say? thanks for not smiting me?
I wouldn't say that - that is, I wouldn't say that "God works in mysterious ways" if something bad happened. For a start, whether something is "good" or "bad" is often only really found out long after the event. More than once, something has happened where I've thought "What on earth is God doing? That's not what I asked him to do at all", yet looking back now, I am privileged to see what it was he was trying to achieve.
so have we seen the result of gods plan for the native americans yet? i'm not sure what they should be thankful for alcoholism or the successful casinos they own?
this is what you said:
Great to see several Brazilian players (and the entire team, if that enormous circle was a prayer circle, which it seemed to be) giving credit where it's due for their talents and gifts
I didn't "credit God for Brazil's win", I said that it's great that they recognise that He gave them the talents they used to win. He gives everyone different gifts; theirs happen to be being good at football.
while you didn't say "god made it so the brasilians won", you did give god credit for the talent and skills of the brasilian players. since a significant portion of their preformance is directly related to their skills and what not, the following is not a strange conculsion:
god gives skills --> brasilians use skills --> brasilians win
or cut out the middle man:
god gives skills --> brasilians win
now that is from the brasilians perspective. i simply asked if it worked the other way:
god gives skills --> brasilians use skills --> germans loose
i find it strange that when god helps christians they thank it, but when god does the opposite the christians simply say god works in mysterious ways. i am of the opinion that if god has that much control, then god is responsible. it seems very hypocritical to thank god for the good things and not attribute the bad things to it-they are all under gods control. sure you can say helping you wasnt part of gods 'plan'. i would say that when it does help you it just happens to be part of gods plan.
this is not ment as an attack on your religion, and i hope you do not see it that way.
see these examples are part of the ``lord works in mysterious ways'' part of being god that i listed above.
ok god didnt give germany the talents, skill, whatever. i'm sure you believe it is within god's power to do so right? god in his omnipotence decided not to give them to germany. i would find it just as logical for germany were to blame god for not giving them the required skills as brasils crediting god for the _skills_ that enambled them to win.
would it be ok if the germans gathered in a circle cursing god and jesus for their loss? i mean heck if you credit god for brasil's win, do you also give the big G credit for germany's loss? does it work out more like this:
good event = praise god.
bad event = the lord works in mysterious ways.
to me it's an all or nothing thing.
more importantly we brought them God, and taught them that it is better to give than to recieve. when people tell me that foreigners are taking their jobs i ask them if they are going to return the land their house is on to the indians.
do we know there was gpl'ed sourcecode modified? sure they used linux. say they didn't and you ask them for the source all they have to do is give you the original source. say a cd with the kernel source and the source for various gnu tools. perhaps they'll just send you a slackware cd.
So what's the difference, in this instance, between the Microsoft EULA and the GPL? The only difference I see is that Microsoft is spelling out specifically what they intend to do.
as far as liability goes, there is not difference. that was the point i was trying to make. as far as sneeking stuff in there is a big difference since the source for the gpl'ed code is there for all to check. microsoft's source is locked up in a vault somewhere along with the recipe for the original coke formula.
i gave up windows a few years back. i reinstalled it 5 times in one weekend. when the 6th time rolled around i threw in the towel and never went back.
If you don't want Microsoft to "install digital rights management software, and [...] disable any other programs which may circumvent DRM on your computer" then don't use their software. Easy peasy Japanesy.
actually, i don't use their software.
i agree that this standard, but you said that microsoft ``is not making the end-user liable for anything, it is merely limiting Microsoft's liablity''. i feel that by limiting their (ms's) liability this increases the liability of the end-user. this increase may be indirect but the liability of the end user is still increased. therefor i think it is incorrect to say that microsoft or anyone with such clauses does not make the end-user liable for anything.
a lot of the software i use has been released under the gpl. as a result the authors have no responsibility for the damages i might encounter by using the software. i bear the full burden of any negative results from using the software. as a result i am liable if their software is broken.
actually by removing microsoft's liability, it is makeing the end-user liable for _everything_.