Everything should be a means to an end with the goal being to protect and support your family.
If your job pays good money, be a man and provider and sacrifice your happiness so your child can have a better life. Having 8 hours of boring yet high paying work is better than having 8 hours of fun yet low paying work, because the boring life is better for your wife and kids welfare. Man the US is obsessed with a black/white view of the world. Suppose for a second that the option is not going from 50K/yr to 30K/yr, but instead 100K/yr to 50K/yr. If you've taken your 100K/yr and not been stupid with it (rare I know) you could be sitting with a house and two cars that are paid for like me. (cars not SUVs, and house not McMansion). At that point your expenses are so low that you'd really only change the type of hotel you stay in on vacation and reduce the exess at Christmas.... oh and besides providing adequately for your family you can also be a role model.
If that's the way you look at it going in, maybe you shouldn't have a wife and kids. There's plenty of things I can think of that I'd hate doing for other people that doing for my wife and kids isn't a problem at all.
Not really the same thing at all. The cell uses one master to control several specialized units. Niagara is just what is sounds like. 8 cores on 1 piece of silicon. They all are the same and the all can run any Sparc code.... unlike the Cell which isn't compatible with anything and each unit can only work on what it is specialized in.
Say a new DMCA law is enacted that makes it illegal to disclose security flaws. Consider that companies can now fire all but a few of the people involved in security patches and boost profit. How many security flaws do you think will get fixed? How long after a worm is released since staff has been reduced?
Say that a new law (along the lines of collusion) is enacted that makes it illegal to only disclose to a company and not to the public since you are putting the public at risk by withholding information... thus helping said company. How many security flaws do you think will get fixed?
If I buy a bike lock that can be picked with an ordinary pen do I want to know about it? Will the company that makes it do anything until everyone knows?
People almost all of you are part of the problem. Not just non-geeks. Why do go around calling people consumers?? You've already been brainwashed. You're citizens or people!
Who the hell cares if you can't see some dumbass movie or the listen to the latest manufactured pop star's video???
I'm gonna be labelled a troll for sure, but hell this mentality burns my butt. The problem isn't DRM the problem is that you all believe you *need* to see the lame things being offered up.
Come on. You got better things to *do* than just be a content "consumer". And for those that don't they deserve all the DRM and rights violations that are happening. Look at where you've been lead to think. If you don't think the content is worth the price they are asking for it then clearly the answer isn't to fight DRM.... the answer is just don't buy it.
So they've won the right to force me to seek another provider that doesn't make me to buy what I don't want. As long as there is someone else who wants my money more then the phone companies do they'll be the only ones losing from this kind of practice.
How much you're willing to pay. Sooner or later companies are going to figure out *again* that selling at the right price basically eliminates piracy. It happened with VHS movies. It happened with software (anyone else remember how Borland started?). If you can get a perfect copy of a song, first try, at a great sample rate, with terrific download speed, and a simple payment method from a easy to use Sony.com, why would you even bother trying to get it P2P? Sony and the like just aren't ready to face yet what this means about the true value of their product and stock.
Lets not forget to include this new tax on diesel and trucks (who do the most damage to the roads anyway) too. Ya right. The government goes after the teamsters. Like that would happen. No go after the non-unionized individual consumers (remember that you're a consumer now. A consuming unit. Not a citizen). Yep legislate lower emissions and better economy and when that works (at great cost to everybody)legislate just giving your money to the government.
Can anyone else say "Instant underground gasoline market?"
Sheesh. Does nobody in government have even the slightest connection to reality?
Everyone here is collectively underestimating teenage kids in classic adult ways. The real question is: "Why do you all believe this will even work?" Highschool is so increadably boring and you introduce this new system that is just ripe with hundreds of ways to abuse it.... And you actually believe it won't be? That the noise and problems of the abuse methods won't drown out the increadably minor benefits? Sit back and watch it fail and laugh folks!
What else?!! I don't want it legal for *anyone* to install software on *my* machine without my consent. No matter what the purpose.
If a pimply faced highschool student does it they call it hacking. Why are corporations any different?
Besides companies will just split the work and then the law is useless. "Oh our company just gathers data on computer users to sell" Would be the magic defense. Nevermind that they guy owns another company that happens to be the only customer and they do... guess what... marketing.
Lets put Steven M's comments about Sun to the test. He see's everything at Sun needs to be changed and the company becomming increasingly irrelevant. Should we believe him? Clearly his own company doesn't even agree since they didn't and haven't downgraded Sun since his letter came out. Why people keep quoting this guy I haven't a clue.
Another simple test. If it is so clear that Sun is old news and doomed why are people so keen to write about it? Afterall how much do people even mention, say, SGI anymore?
Sun's real challenge is now executing. If they can get people on board for a complete enterprise line of software for $100/head/yr they're set. If their chip-multithreading processors work. They're set.
The only *real* problem Sun has right now is being at the wrong stage of product cycles to bring the huge $$. A year from now if things haven't changed then it's game over.
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Nortel that is now nothing but a bankrupt shell has another 16 million.
If your job pays good money, be a man and provider and sacrifice your happiness so your child can have a better life. Having 8 hours of boring yet high paying work is better than having 8 hours of fun yet low paying work, because the boring life is better for your wife and kids welfare. Man the US is obsessed with a black/white view of the world. Suppose for a second that the option is not going from 50K/yr to 30K/yr, but instead 100K/yr to 50K/yr. If you've taken your 100K/yr and not been stupid with it (rare I know) you could be sitting with a house and two cars that are paid for like me. (cars not SUVs, and house not McMansion). At that point your expenses are so low that you'd really only change the type of hotel you stay in on vacation and reduce the exess at Christmas.... oh and besides providing adequately for your family you can also be a role model.
If that's the way you look at it going in, maybe you shouldn't have a wife and kids. There's plenty of things I can think of that I'd hate doing for other people that doing for my wife and kids isn't a problem at all.
Not really the same thing at all. The cell uses one master to control several specialized units. Niagara is just what is sounds like. 8 cores on 1 piece of silicon. They all are the same and the all can run any Sparc code.... unlike the Cell which isn't compatible with anything and each unit can only work on what it is specialized in.
Say a new DMCA law is enacted that makes it illegal to disclose security flaws. Consider that companies can now fire all but a few of the people involved in security patches and boost profit. How many security flaws do you think will get fixed? How long after a worm is released since staff has been reduced?
Say that a new law (along the lines of collusion) is enacted that makes it illegal to only disclose to a company and not to the public since you are putting the public at risk by withholding information... thus helping said company. How many security flaws do you think will get fixed?
If I buy a bike lock that can be picked with an ordinary pen do I want to know about it? Will the company that makes it do anything until everyone knows?
People almost all of you are part of the problem. Not just non-geeks. Why do go around calling people consumers?? You've already been brainwashed. You're citizens or people!
Who the hell cares if you can't see some dumbass movie or the listen to the latest manufactured pop star's video???
I'm gonna be labelled a troll for sure, but hell this mentality burns my butt. The problem isn't DRM the problem is that you all believe you *need* to see the lame things being offered up.
Come on. You got better things to *do* than just be a content "consumer". And for those that don't they deserve all the DRM and rights violations that are happening. Look at where you've been lead to think. If you don't think the content is worth the price they are asking for it then clearly the answer isn't to fight DRM.... the answer is just don't buy it.
So they've won the right to force me to seek another provider that doesn't make me to buy what I don't want. As long as there is someone else who wants my money more then the phone companies do they'll be the only ones losing from this kind of practice.
How much you're willing to pay. Sooner or later companies are going to figure out *again* that selling at the right price basically eliminates piracy. It happened with VHS movies. It happened with software (anyone else remember how Borland started?). If you can get a perfect copy of a song, first try, at a great sample rate, with terrific download speed, and a simple payment method from a easy to use Sony.com, why would you even bother trying to get it P2P? Sony and the like just aren't ready to face yet what this means about the true value of their product and stock.
Lets not forget to include this new tax on diesel and trucks (who do the most damage to the roads anyway) too. Ya right. The government goes after the teamsters. Like that would happen. No go after the non-unionized individual consumers (remember that you're a consumer now. A consuming unit. Not a citizen). Yep legislate lower emissions and better economy and when that works (at great cost to everybody)legislate just giving your money to the government.
Can anyone else say "Instant underground gasoline market?"
Sheesh. Does nobody in government have even the slightest connection to reality?
Everyone here is collectively underestimating teenage kids in classic adult ways. The real question is: "Why do you all believe this will even work?" Highschool is so increadably boring and you introduce this new system that is just ripe with hundreds of ways to abuse it.... And you actually believe it won't be? That the noise and problems of the abuse methods won't drown out the increadably minor benefits? Sit back and watch it fail and laugh folks!
What else?!! I don't want it legal for *anyone* to install software on *my* machine without my consent. No matter what the purpose.
If a pimply faced highschool student does it they call it hacking. Why are corporations any different?
Besides companies will just split the work and then the law is useless. "Oh our company just gathers data on computer users to sell" Would be the magic defense. Nevermind that they guy owns another company that happens to be the only customer and they do... guess what... marketing.
Futilty detector is sounding... So it would be only illegal to collect this information for *marketing* purposes?!!!
That's a law that'll be useful.
Dig into the Walmart site. This isn't a dream. Sun is already doing it.
Lets put Steven M's comments about Sun to the test. He see's everything at Sun needs to be changed and the company becomming increasingly irrelevant. Should we believe him? Clearly his own company doesn't even agree since they didn't and haven't downgraded Sun since his letter came out. Why people keep quoting this guy I haven't a clue.
Another simple test. If it is so clear that Sun is old news and doomed why are people so keen to write about it? Afterall how much do people even mention, say, SGI anymore?
Sun's real challenge is now executing. If they can get people on board for a complete enterprise line of software for $100/head/yr they're set. If their chip-multithreading processors work. They're set.
The only *real* problem Sun has right now is being at the wrong stage of product cycles to bring the huge $$. A year from now if things haven't changed then it's game over.