And surely, you're right. The current page on the original location of the story reads:
The [name removed] Story
There is nothing here because a certain ex-pageant contest has obtained a temporary restraining order against me, forbidding me from posting anything referring to her name or her title, or linking to her page.
Seriously though, I would love to remove my foot from my mouth, but it's wedged tight by my other foot that was still in there. This is the second stupid reading mistake I make in a week, guess it's time for a time-out.
In the mean time: my appologies for my bad 'joke(s)'.
It seems as if you (and all current replies to your comment afaics) are missing something:
It's not so much the GPL that would cause them to lose their IP, but SCO's breaking of the rules with regard to licensing. Breaking another license might have rendered the same effect, albeit through another route (the courts).
If you break the rules, be prepared to face the consequences.
You are, of course, right. However, this kind of distributed 'attack' works on most anything which is depending on user input for ratings.
I don't think you can fault this particular system for being vulnerable to this type of manipulation any more than you can fault other systems including non-electronic forms.
Best recent example is, I think, that Google is conciously making a seperate category for Blogs within their search system because Blogs turn out to foul up the results. Google is reacting to it in the only reasonable way: seperate this particular influence out of the main search system but not doing away with it. It is this flexibility/adaptability without taking an axe to the core of the system that makes Google stand out. They 'just get it' and people know that.
Having a very elaborate rights structure within their filesystem, much better than the Unix variants have had (imho), having an 'executable' in it, and then not using it!
Default to setting it off on software coming from network connections, have the user explicitly turn it on when necesarry. Unfortunatly this would go against the grain of 'easy computing for everyone' which is the core bussiness of Windows.
So basically the answer to your question is: Microsoft is doing something wrong by wanting to cater for the lowest denominator computer user, no bars hold.
Good point. So a filter it is. Which makes this functionality next to useless because people will be 'Pissed Off' (pardon the pun) by systems that get their intent wrong most of the time. (Or if it takes typing in an almost complete word before it hits the right one).
One of the reasons people despise clippy is because it is constantly guestimating. badly...
If you want to believe in benchmarks, that is your right. I happen to think that synthetic benchmarking has the same value as using games as benchmarks. Actually, I think games are a fairer benchmark sinch they are real-world loads.
As long as there is no straightforward way of determining processor power (and I don't believe in SPEC) that everybody agrees on... though shit.
There's more to real world performance than SPEC. As usual there's also more to performance than a brand. And to top it all off, my comment was about making it easier to compare oranges and apples, which is exactly why I don't mind that you keep on treading the old path. You don't know any better.
You and I have no better way to offer so lets please hold our comments on what out-performs what to ourselfs since they are based on a fiction called a benchmark (as I pointed out before).
I am not a big fan of AMD processors, but I value the competition and
it's a shame the MHz myth cannot be shed so easily.
And there you hit the nail on the head. The MHz myth is what hurting the cpu market more than anything else. This myth, much to the detriment of PPC, Sparc, hell even the venerable alpha keeps on having a bigger impact than anything on competition.
The only solution seems to be to find a better way to compare apples and oranges in the processor world. Unfortunatly, great minds have tried and failed so unless somebody comes up with a 'eureka' moment it'll be bussiness as usual for the foreseeable future.
Disclaimer: I happen to be a big fan of AMD, but that's more to do with the fact that they seem to screw up less than performance.
In answer to your question: the benchmarks say it isn't as fast as the Intel part they've put it up against so I'd have to agree with you.
The surprise is in the price AMD is asking for this part. It's much lower than anticipated by the market. This could mean that AMD is well aware of the fact that this processor isn't up to snuff.
The question remains why they would want to shoot themselves in the foot so badly then and 'over-lable' the part. Tom's HW is legitimatly (imo) asking AMD to relable the part but I don't think that will happen.
I guess the marketing department has had something (too much?) to do with it...;-)
Tom's Hardware isn't so positive in their review. Quote from the conclusion:
"XP 2800+ would have been a more realistic label for the processor, which wouldn't have been a problem for anyone, if AMD still wants to go toe-to-toe with Intel's P4."
Oh well, the old adagium for benchmarks/statistics aplies I guess.
IE is integral enough that it cannot easily be replaced by any other browser without taking non-web-browsing functionality away from the operating system.
If you can't take a joke without walking away from the discussion that is your problem.
LOL! Actually, no. I just didn't have anything better on my hands (can't you tell? I'm on/. after all...) and there were no other stories of interest on/.. Not even duplicates to bark at.
I understand that it's a landmark case, but as far as I can see, the courts have done a good job for once. The fact that the loser wants to have another stab with what seems to be a low chance of success is not important.
Please wake me again if the Supremes take it on, that would be news.
Uhm. No. That part of my post wasn't meant to be insightfull either. Nor was your original post in my opinion. You conveniently 'forget' to respond to the rest of my reply which says enough I think.
I don't often reply to my own comments, but when I refer to the rating of a story as being 5, and 5 minutes later it's down to three I have some explaining to do:
What is even more amusing is your e-mail address being a hotmail address and the.Net exploit that just came out... Oh well, we all have to support some sort of cause.
In response to your reaction: I can easily get rid of Mozilla and use Opera instead if it turns out to be too buggy or even dangerous to use. IE is, according to MS, an integral part of the Operating System. In other words, a browser bug becomes a system bug. Not nice. Furthermore, one is forced to pay indirectly for IE, not so for Mozilla. I think I'll cut the free product a bit more slack.
Now there's a defence worth contemplating: it's far easier to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that certain code existed in Linux at some point in time than it is to prove the same for a closed pieces of software. This works both ways: the closed source owners can show it was in an open source repository but will they be able to prove it was in their repository before that?
There's an oportunity for a countersuit based on breaking the GPL in there somewhere...
A bit late in reacting so I hope you still read this:
Don't _ever_ use a laptop keyboard if you don't have to. In my experience they are awfull and induce RSI more than anything. I know it's a pain to attach an external keyboard but if you get an USB keyboard it' s reasonably ok.
Good luck with your hands, I've been through the pain too and it's no fun at all.
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MY EYES! MY EYES! I've gone blind to italics!
Seriously though, I would love to remove my foot from my mouth, but it's wedged tight by my other foot that was still in there. This is the second stupid reading mistake I make in a week, guess it's time for a time-out.
In the mean time: my appologies for my bad 'joke(s)'.
*tongue in cheek*
/., 'confess' that you are a Microsoft manager, for Mac IE no less and still you get modded up to +5!
/.er and that of the anti-MS and Mac community in particular that is an achievement...
I'm impressed. Not necesarrily by your job-description, I have no way of telling that it is true.
No, I'm impressed because you come onto
In the light of average rabiatness of the average
*/tongue in cheek*
It seems as if you (and all current replies to your comment afaics) are missing something:
It's not so much the GPL that would cause them to lose their IP, but SCO's breaking of the rules with regard to licensing. Breaking another license might have rendered the same effect, albeit through another route (the courts).
If you break the rules, be prepared to face the consequences.
And here's me sticking my foot in it. (Thankfully this is a typing interface, it's just that my leg gets in the way of my arms so badly while I type).
According to the latest Slashback, Google PR has now denied that it has such plans. My fault for believing The Register and I appologize.
You are, of course, right. However, this kind of distributed 'attack' works on most anything which is depending on user input for ratings.
I don't think you can fault this particular system for being vulnerable to this type of manipulation any more than you can fault other systems including non-electronic forms.
Best recent example is, I think, that Google is conciously making a seperate category for Blogs within their search system because Blogs turn out to foul up the results. Google is reacting to it in the only reasonable way: seperate this particular influence out of the main search system but not doing away with it. It is this flexibility/adaptability without taking an axe to the core of the system that makes Google stand out. They 'just get it' and people know that.
I'll bite.
Having a very elaborate rights structure within their filesystem, much better than the Unix variants have had (imho), having an 'executable' in it, and then not using it!
Default to setting it off on software coming from network connections, have the user explicitly turn it on when necesarry. Unfortunatly this would go against the grain of 'easy computing for everyone' which is the core bussiness of Windows.
So basically the answer to your question is: Microsoft is doing something wrong by wanting to cater for the lowest denominator computer user, no bars hold.
Good point. So a filter it is. Which makes this functionality next to useless because people will be 'Pissed Off' (pardon the pun) by systems that get their intent wrong most of the time. (Or if it takes typing in an almost complete word before it hits the right one).
One of the reasons people despise clippy is because it is constantly guestimating. badly...
If you want to believe in benchmarks, that is your right. I happen to think that synthetic benchmarking has the same value as using games as benchmarks. Actually, I think games are a fairer benchmark sinch they are real-world loads.
As long as there is no straightforward way of determining processor power (and I don't believe in SPEC) that everybody agrees on... though shit.
There's more to real world performance than SPEC. As usual there's also more to performance than a brand. And to top it all off, my comment was about making it easier to compare oranges and apples, which is exactly why I don't mind that you keep on treading the old path. You don't know any better.
You and I have no better way to offer so lets please hold our comments on what out-performs what to ourselfs since they are based on a fiction called a benchmark (as I pointed out before).
And there you hit the nail on the head. The MHz myth is what hurting the cpu market more than anything else. This myth, much to the detriment of PPC, Sparc, hell even the venerable alpha keeps on having a bigger impact than anything on competition.
The only solution seems to be to find a better way to compare apples and oranges in the processor world. Unfortunatly, great minds have tried and failed so unless somebody comes up with a 'eureka' moment it'll be bussiness as usual for the foreseeable future.
Disclaimer: I happen to be a big fan of AMD, but that's more to do with the fact that they seem to screw up less than performance.
In answer to your question: the benchmarks say it isn't as fast as the Intel part they've put it up against so I'd have to agree with you.
;-)
The surprise is in the price AMD is asking for this part. It's much lower than anticipated by the market. This could mean that AMD is well aware of the fact that this processor isn't up to snuff.
The question remains why they would want to shoot themselves in the foot so badly then and 'over-lable' the part. Tom's HW is legitimatly (imo) asking AMD to relable the part but I don't think that will happen.
I guess the marketing department has had something (too much?) to do with it...
Tom's Hardware isn't so positive in their review. Quote from the conclusion:
Oh well, the old adagium for benchmarks/statistics aplies I guess.
IE is integral enough that it cannot easily be replaced by any other browser without taking non-web-browsing functionality away from the operating system.
If you can't take a joke without walking away from the discussion that is your problem.
Perhaps, but courtcases seem to make my appetite for sex magically disappear. I wonder why?
LOL! Actually, no. I just didn't have anything better on my hands (can't you tell? I'm on /. after all...) and there were no other stories of interest on /.. Not even duplicates to bark at.
I understand that it's a landmark case, but as far as I can see, the courts have done a good job for once. The fact that the loser wants to have another stab with what seems to be a low chance of success is not important.
Please wake me again if the Supremes take it on, that would be news.
Given the amount of comments thusfar, nobody?
Uhm. No. That part of my post wasn't meant to be insightfull either. Nor was your original post in my opinion. You conveniently 'forget' to respond to the rest of my reply which says enough I think.
I don't often reply to my own comments, but when I refer to the rating of a story as being 5, and 5 minutes later it's down to three I have some explaining to do:
maybe not so smart after all!
Are you being smart or courteous to not say how much resepct you think they have due? Oh, wait... score=5 so that answers it neatly. :-D
Don't worry about the screws, or even other parts left over.
.It's a universal law that if you take something apart and put it together again enough times, you end up with two of it.
What is even more amusing is your e-mail address being a hotmail address and the .Net exploit that just came out... Oh well, we all have to support some sort of cause.
In response to your reaction: I can easily get rid of Mozilla and use Opera instead if it turns out to be too buggy or even dangerous to use. IE is, according to MS, an integral part of the Operating System. In other words, a browser bug becomes a system bug. Not nice. Furthermore, one is forced to pay indirectly for IE, not so for Mozilla. I think I'll cut the free product a bit more slack.
Now there's a defence worth contemplating: it's far easier to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that certain code existed in Linux at some point in time than it is to prove the same for a closed pieces of software. This works both ways: the closed source owners can show it was in an open source repository but will they be able to prove it was in their repository before that?
There's an oportunity for a countersuit based on breaking the GPL in there somewhere...
A bit late in reacting so I hope you still read this:
Don't _ever_ use a laptop keyboard if you don't have to. In my experience they are awfull and induce RSI more than anything. I know it's a pain to attach an external keyboard but if you get an USB keyboard it' s reasonably ok.
Good luck with your hands, I've been through the pain too and it's no fun at all.