Even though OSX will still be Unix, will they'll move away from BSD and toward Solaris?
I'm hoping not, since many things behave very oddly on Solaris. Non standard tools and such, but it would be one way to keep it from running on cracked PC's.
Don't get me wrong. I'm all in favor of addressing the digital divide, but the history of these things hasn't been stellar to say the least. The last time they tried this, they found out that all the kids were doing was surfing pr0n. I'm sure that's well worth spending money on - making sure that every elementary school kid world over can get their fair share of beaver shots.
In fact, I'm pretty sure that the story about it appeared on/. The hardware isn't an issue. The software obviously is.
Anyone and everyone who's worked with.Net knows that it has all kinds of issues and that Microsoft has never seriously considered fixing them. What makes you think they'll start now? They're just looking for another free hand out. It's the same they do when they make all Windows users be beta testers for their crappy operating systems.
Frankly, I'd rather see game companies pay some OT to get stuff out by the date its promised. It's actually MUCH cheaper than hiring more people. First off, you don't have the ramp up time that's required with a newbie to the project. Someone who's been there all along knows what's going on and doesn't need to spend days or weeks reading thousands of lines of code before they can start contributing. Secondly, since you don't have to provide another set of benefits (medical, dental, etc.) it's bottom line cheaper to pay OT to existing people than it is to hire new ones.
So you mean basically that they should stop doing what the Catholic church got booted out of doing....oh....let me see....500 years ago. I suppose that we get to wait and see who their Galileo will be.
We had FIOSS put in because the 7 MB/sec line was faster and cheaper than the T-1. They not only cut our copper, but they dug up and removed most of the copper cabling from the neighborhood. They said that with the price of copper, it would be recycled and it would keep it from being stolen since it wasn't being used anymore. It sounded suspicious to me, but I stood in what was then my front yard and watched them do it.
The project that I worked on was also concerned with who was able to access the data. For that reason, we used a wiki-like format, converted everything into text, using a variety of conversion methods, and assigned access controls to it via a in-house web based application.
This allowed for the full text to be searchable, provided a reference back to the original file. If it was in a digital format, like a Word document, it was also stored in the database. If it, it referenced a physical file. The user could suggest modifications to the searchable entry if an error was found. The archive team would investigate the suggested correction and usually implement it.
While I won't dispute that statement with you but the record companies are clearly set up to take advantage of musicans. Instead of putting them on this expensive grind, let them produce the songs inexpensively, distribute them through the internet cheaply and see what does well. OMFG, a business model that 1) might actually work and 2) cuts them almost entirely out of the loop.
Apple locked the phone on to the Cingular/ATT piece o' poo network because they were the only ones willing to give Apple part of the profits from the sale of the service to go with the device.
Frankly, I'm disappointed. I hate the AT&T network and think that they have over-sized huevos to advertise that they have fewer dropped calls than the other carriers. That was my main complaint with them. I've tried several devices and pretty much gave up. Since I changed carriers, using one of my old devices, I've not really had any problems.
Considering that most bands are lucky to see two or three cents per CD sale, I'd say that won't be too hard. I'm going to explain the recording industry for you folks. Follow along and see if you kids can keep up. Let's pretend for a few minutes that you're a musician. You bust your butt gigging, playing all over town and one day some guy walks up to you and says, "Hi! I'm with (fill in name of record company here), and we'd really like to sign you to a recording contract." Well, you get all excited and you sign your deal with the devil.
The devil says "Come to my recording studio and we'll cut the record." Once you get there, they've got the studio lined up, the producer, and a few other people to "help you" make your record. If you ask about how much is going to cost, you get told, as is standard in the recording industry that "it will come out of the profits." Then you cut your album and "you have to promote it". If you ask how much that's going to cost...you guessed it kids, "it comes out of the profits". Now that you have to market your album, you have to go on tour. That means a bus, lights, roadies, stage, sound equipment, etc. If you ask how much that's going to cost...you guessed it kids, "it comes out of the profits".
While you're on tour, you need to have T-shirts, posters, bumper sticker, etc. You also need to have hot dogs, twinkies, beer, and cokes for people to consume during the concert. If you ask how much that's going to cost...you guessed it kids, "it comes out of the profits". By the time they're through pulling all the costs out of "the profits", there usually aren't any profits left, which means all that the artist gets is what ever they get as a signing bonus. Not the advance - the signing bonus - since the advance comes "out of the profits", too.
The way that this works out is that if you're lucky, the artist on any given album might see 1 or 2 cents of the $16.99 you pay for CD of music at Wal-Mart. Given that the Internet is the ideal distribution medium for music, I'd rather just go to the artists web site and buy the songs directly from them. Then the artist would get the whole $16.99 for the album instead of $0.02. But you see, the RIAA can't allow that because in that $16.97 lies their profit margins. Without them, it's a brave new world for digital music.
Why do you and I have to pay a third party middleman to broker the transaction for nothing more than a song? Worse yet, we are required to continue to pay this middleman who threatens to sue both the consumer and the musician when we try to cut him out of the transaction. If the artist tries to sell their songs on the website the RIAA will try to sue them for contract violations. If you and I try to download the music, we get sued. The only reason for this is that it leaves the big, fat RIAA profit margin intact.
The RIAA complains that their sales are down and points an accusing finger at "piracy". I'd like to take a moment to dispel that myth. When Napster was operating at it's peak, music sales were up 20% without the RIAA doing any additional marketing. Viral, word-of-mouth would spread quickly about new bands and good new interesting music. People were buying CD's because they'd get a taste of some stuff and like it. Then they'd go to the store, find the artist and buy some stuff. Now, there's no place to share that isn't full of viruses, worms, trojans, fake files, etc. No more free marketing RIAA - you pretty much litigated the goose that laid the golden egg out of existence.
Compounding the problem is that the RIAA is key in determining what gets pushed to the public. Frankly, I think that they've lost the pulse. We don't care about Brittany Spears, although my husband was caught peering at her photos when she got snapped sans the undies. For some reason, the music industry has decided to cater to 14 year old girls. Why? I don't really know. When's the last time you saw a 14 year old that had more than $20 of disposable income at any given moment? If you
I wish I could rent a TIVO. The user interface on the TIVO far exceeds almost everything on the market. I don't know that I'd rent another company's DVR. I've used them at friend's houses and haven't been impressed.
They'll just become faster at the same price OR the software people want to use simply won't operate. Look at Vista...can you imagine trying to run that on a PII or PIII CPU? You'd want to slit your wrists out of sheer boredom due to having to wait on everything to load.
Wow, you mean I can put music the same music on my laptop, desktop, MP3 player, and burn a CD to listen to in my car with out having buy the same song 4 times???
Hmmm....this sounds a whole lot like Napster back in the day. Sheesh, it's only taken them six years to come up with a business model that works. Charging us for what we were doing on Napster anyway.
Most research is published by academics. Academics tend to work at universities. Universities usually tie promotions and career advancement to the number of publications. 300 citatations = Full Professor or some such thing. I don't know how willing they'd be to publish there if they don't get a citation out of it.
As an avid gamer, I have a utility which stores an image of my game DVD's on my hard drive, allowing faster game play since my SATA II drives are a lot faster than my DVD ROM. It also prevents my DVD's from being scratched or broken since we play at LAN parties.
Hah! He'll be in the cell next to Paris Hilton because it's currently seen as a "victimless" crime. What they don't realize is the wide reaching impact that this has. Most people in the country work for small to medium sized businesses. These are the employers that are hardest hit by this. Email infrastructures are melting down under the load. This means that companies are spending dollars on deploying spam filtering software, hardware, more bandwidth, etc. to deal with the problems. This is money that could be better used to hire employees, pursue R&D, improve their facility, etc. In the long run it siphons resources away from the rest of the operating budget. It's like a leech or a tapeworm.
In the case of hominids, it is quite likely that they didn't want to leave the forest that they were already adapted to quite well. Why would you *want* to do that? Why risk life and limb and probably extinction in an environment where you aren't adapted and aren't familiar? Why does anyone leave a nice comfy spot? Something drove them out. My bet is that it is was another tribe of apes. And yes, the losers migrate. Look at the Native Americans. They're quite a good model for this. Their roots can be traced both genetically and linguistically. They drove each other all over the continent and, yes the losers were the ones who migrated.
This is a HUGE problem with animals. Line breeding (breeding within a family line) is done cautiously by experienced breeders who are attempting to fix a desirable genetic trait in a blood line and these same breeders are very callous about the offspring - neutering any who show the slightest sign of defect since it will also be magnified in the offspring. Those are the responsible breeders. The irresponsible ones continue breeding with less than optimal specimens, disregarding the faults that they are also fixing into the genetic line.
Where do think the hip dysplasia in many breeds of dogs (German Shepards, etc.) comes from? It's from inbreeding. Mother to son, father to daughter, cousins to cousins over time. Now, it's so prevalent that many breeds cannot escape it. It's a known issue in humans as well. This very thing was the demise of several royal families. Hemopheilia is one such disease. Other diseases cause blindness and a host of other ills.
It also totally dismisses what we know - from modern biological science - about minimum genetically viable populations.
Actually, if you want to get picky about it, the OT was written in Aramaic and then translated into Hebrew once the Hebrew language developed an alphabet. Many of the stories are almost direct rip offs of Akkadian and Sumerian myths. If you want to spout scholarship, do you research.
One thing that most everyone conveniently overlooks in the book of Genesis is this:
Cain just killed his brother, Able and is confronted by God... (Genesis 4:14-15)
"Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me." But the LORD said to him, "Not so [a] ; if anyone kills Cain, he will suffer vengeance seven times over." Then the LORD put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him.
Now, riddle me this Batman - If Adam & Eve (his very own parents and family) are the ONLY other people who exist, who is going to see Cain, not recognize him and kill him? Why would God have to mark him to keep anyone else from killing him? Who is Cain worried about?
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Even though OSX will still be Unix, will they'll move away from BSD and toward Solaris?
I'm hoping not, since many things behave very oddly on Solaris. Non standard tools and such, but it would be one way to keep it from running on cracked PC's.
2 cents,
QueenB.
Linux is a superior operating system.
2 cents,
QueenB.
Don't get me wrong. I'm all in favor of addressing the digital divide, but the history of these things hasn't been stellar to say the least. The last time they tried this, they found out that all the kids were doing was surfing pr0n. I'm sure that's well worth spending money on - making sure that every elementary school kid world over can get their fair share of beaver shots.
/. The hardware isn't an issue. The software obviously is.
In fact, I'm pretty sure that the story about it appeared on
2 cents,
QueenB.
I guess "Discrimination" against people doesn't fall under the heading of "Do no evil" - the official Google motto.
2 cents,
QueenB
Anyone and everyone who's worked with .Net knows that it has all kinds of issues and that Microsoft has never seriously considered fixing them. What makes you think they'll start now? They're just looking for another free hand out. It's the same they do when they make all Windows users be beta testers for their crappy operating systems.
2 cents,
QueenB.
Frankly, I'd rather see game companies pay some OT to get stuff out by the date its promised. It's actually MUCH cheaper than hiring more people. First off, you don't have the ramp up time that's required with a newbie to the project. Someone who's been there all along knows what's going on and doesn't need to spend days or weeks reading thousands of lines of code before they can start contributing. Secondly, since you don't have to provide another set of benefits (medical, dental, etc.) it's bottom line cheaper to pay OT to existing people than it is to hire new ones.
2 cents,
QueenB.
So you mean basically that they should stop doing what the Catholic church got booted out of doing....oh....let me see....500 years ago. I suppose that we get to wait and see who their Galileo will be.
2 cents,
QueenB.
We had FIOSS put in because the 7 MB/sec line was faster and cheaper than the T-1. They not only cut our copper, but they dug up and removed most of the copper cabling from the neighborhood. They said that with the price of copper, it would be recycled and it would keep it from being stolen since it wasn't being used anymore. It sounded suspicious to me, but I stood in what was then my front yard and watched them do it.
2 cents,
Queen B.
The project that I worked on was also concerned with who was able to access the data. For that reason, we used a wiki-like format, converted everything into text, using a variety of conversion methods, and assigned access controls to it via a in-house web based application.
This allowed for the full text to be searchable, provided a reference back to the original file. If it was in a digital format, like a Word document, it was also stored in the database. If it, it referenced a physical file. The user could suggest modifications to the searchable entry if an error was found. The archive team would investigate the suggested correction and usually implement it.
2 cents,
QueenB.
While I won't dispute that statement with you but the record companies are clearly set up to take advantage of musicans. Instead of putting them on this expensive grind, let them produce the songs inexpensively, distribute them through the internet cheaply and see what does well. OMFG, a business model that 1) might actually work and 2) cuts them almost entirely out of the loop.
2 more cents,
QueenB
Apple locked the phone on to the Cingular/ATT piece o' poo network because they were the only ones willing to give Apple part of the profits from the sale of the service to go with the device.
Frankly, I'm disappointed. I hate the AT&T network and think that they have over-sized huevos to advertise that they have fewer dropped calls than the other carriers. That was my main complaint with them. I've tried several devices and pretty much gave up. Since I changed carriers, using one of my old devices, I've not really had any problems.
2 cents,
QueenB.
Considering that most bands are lucky to see two or three cents per CD sale, I'd say that won't be too hard. I'm going to explain the recording industry for you folks. Follow along and see if you kids can keep up. Let's pretend for a few minutes that you're a musician. You bust your butt gigging, playing all over town and one day some guy walks up to you and says, "Hi! I'm with (fill in name of record company here), and we'd really like to sign you to a recording contract." Well, you get all excited and you sign your deal with the devil.
The devil says "Come to my recording studio and we'll cut the record." Once you get there, they've got the studio lined up, the producer, and a few other people to "help you" make your record. If you ask about how much is going to cost, you get told, as is standard in the recording industry that "it will come out of the profits." Then you cut your album and "you have to promote it". If you ask how much that's going to cost...you guessed it kids, "it comes out of the profits". Now that you have to market your album, you have to go on tour. That means a bus, lights, roadies, stage, sound equipment, etc. If you ask how much that's going to cost...you guessed it kids, "it comes out of the profits".
While you're on tour, you need to have T-shirts, posters, bumper sticker, etc. You also need to have hot dogs, twinkies, beer, and cokes for people to consume during the concert. If you ask how much that's going to cost...you guessed it kids, "it comes out of the profits". By the time they're through pulling all the costs out of "the profits", there usually aren't any profits left, which means all that the artist gets is what ever they get as a signing bonus. Not the advance - the signing bonus - since the advance comes "out of the profits", too.
The way that this works out is that if you're lucky, the artist on any given album might see 1 or 2 cents of the $16.99 you pay for CD of music at Wal-Mart. Given that the Internet is the ideal distribution medium for music, I'd rather just go to the artists web site and buy the songs directly from them. Then the artist would get the whole $16.99 for the album instead of $0.02. But you see, the RIAA can't allow that because in that $16.97 lies their profit margins. Without them, it's a brave new world for digital music.
Why do you and I have to pay a third party middleman to broker the transaction for nothing more than a song? Worse yet, we are required to continue to pay this middleman who threatens to sue both the consumer and the musician when we try to cut him out of the transaction. If the artist tries to sell their songs on the website the RIAA will try to sue them for contract violations. If you and I try to download the music, we get sued. The only reason for this is that it leaves the big, fat RIAA profit margin intact.
The RIAA complains that their sales are down and points an accusing finger at "piracy". I'd like to take a moment to dispel that myth. When Napster was operating at it's peak, music sales were up 20% without the RIAA doing any additional marketing. Viral, word-of-mouth would spread quickly about new bands and good new interesting music. People were buying CD's because they'd get a taste of some stuff and like it. Then they'd go to the store, find the artist and buy some stuff. Now, there's no place to share that isn't full of viruses, worms, trojans, fake files, etc. No more free marketing RIAA - you pretty much litigated the goose that laid the golden egg out of existence.
Compounding the problem is that the RIAA is key in determining what gets pushed to the public. Frankly, I think that they've lost the pulse. We don't care about Brittany Spears, although my husband was caught peering at her photos when she got snapped sans the undies. For some reason, the music industry has decided to cater to 14 year old girls. Why? I don't really know. When's the last time you saw a 14 year old that had more than $20 of disposable income at any given moment? If you
I wish I could rent a TIVO. The user interface on the TIVO far exceeds almost everything on the market. I don't know that I'd rent another company's DVR. I've used them at friend's houses and haven't been impressed.
2 cents,
QueenB.
They'll just become faster at the same price OR the software people want to use simply won't operate. Look at Vista...can you imagine trying to run that on a PII or PIII CPU? You'd want to slit your wrists out of sheer boredom due to having to wait on everything to load.
2 cents,
QueenB.
so it really isn't surprising that they all have the same issues.
2 cents,
QueenB.
Parallels, which is a commercial product, is one of the slickest VM's I've seen for desktop use. No one ever mentions them, either.
2 cents,
QueenB.
Wow, you mean I can put music the same music on my laptop, desktop, MP3 player, and burn a CD to listen to in my car with out having buy the same song 4 times???
Hmmm....this sounds a whole lot like Napster back in the day. Sheesh, it's only taken them six years to come up with a business model that works. Charging us for what we were doing on Napster anyway.
QueenB.
Most research is published by academics. Academics tend to work at universities. Universities usually tie promotions and career advancement to the number of publications. 300 citatations = Full Professor or some such thing. I don't know how willing they'd be to publish there if they don't get a citation out of it.
2 cents,
QueenB.
As an avid gamer, I have a utility which stores an image of my game DVD's on my hard drive, allowing faster game play since my SATA II drives are a lot faster than my DVD ROM. It also prevents my DVD's from being scratched or broken since we play at LAN parties.
2 cents,
QueenB.
Hah! He'll be in the cell next to Paris Hilton because it's currently seen as a "victimless" crime. What they don't realize is the wide reaching impact that this has. Most people in the country work for small to medium sized businesses. These are the employers that are hardest hit by this. Email infrastructures are melting down under the load. This means that companies are spending dollars on deploying spam filtering software, hardware, more bandwidth, etc. to deal with the problems. This is money that could be better used to hire employees, pursue R&D, improve their facility, etc. In the long run it siphons resources away from the rest of the operating budget. It's like a leech or a tapeworm.
2 cents,
QueenB.
Wow! An uninhabited planet where we can rape all the resources, pollute as much as we want, and no one can complain!
ROCK ON!
2 cents,
QueenB.
In the case of hominids, it is quite likely that they didn't want to leave the forest that they were already adapted to quite well. Why would you *want* to do that? Why risk life and limb and probably extinction in an environment where you aren't adapted and aren't familiar? Why does anyone leave a nice comfy spot? Something drove them out. My bet is that it is was another tribe of apes. And yes, the losers migrate. Look at the Native Americans. They're quite a good model for this. Their roots can be traced both genetically and linguistically. They drove each other all over the continent and, yes the losers were the ones who migrated.
2 more cents,
QueenB.
This is a HUGE problem with animals. Line breeding (breeding within a family line) is done cautiously by experienced breeders who are attempting to fix a desirable genetic trait in a blood line and these same breeders are very callous about the offspring - neutering any who show the slightest sign of defect since it will also be magnified in the offspring. Those are the responsible breeders. The irresponsible ones continue breeding with less than optimal specimens, disregarding the faults that they are also fixing into the genetic line.
Where do think the hip dysplasia in many breeds of dogs (German Shepards, etc.) comes from? It's from inbreeding. Mother to son, father to daughter, cousins to cousins over time. Now, it's so prevalent that many breeds cannot escape it. It's a known issue in humans as well. This very thing was the demise of several royal families. Hemopheilia is one such disease. Other diseases cause blindness and a host of other ills.
It also totally dismisses what we know - from modern biological science - about minimum genetically viable populations.
2 more cents,
QueenB.
Actually, if you want to get picky about it, the OT was written in Aramaic and then translated into Hebrew once the Hebrew language developed an alphabet. Many of the stories are almost direct rip offs of Akkadian and Sumerian myths. If you want to spout scholarship, do you research.
2 more cents,
QueenB.
One thing that most everyone conveniently overlooks in the book of Genesis is this:
Cain just killed his brother, Able and is confronted by God... (Genesis 4:14-15)
"Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me." But the LORD said to him, "Not so [a] ; if anyone kills Cain, he will suffer vengeance seven times over." Then the LORD put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him.
Now, riddle me this Batman - If Adam & Eve (his very own parents and family) are the ONLY other people who exist, who is going to see Cain, not recognize him and kill him? Why would God have to mark him to keep anyone else from killing him? Who is Cain worried about?
2 cents,
QueenB.