I say we make it illegal to have two people that are gifted in the same area procreate. Say a Pro-Football player and a female track star. Nope, sorry, their kids would be too advantaged in athletics. So in that same line, I should find a beautiful swimsuit model, as of course we need just "average looking" people. I'm willing to do this for the equality of our society.
As much as it pains me to say it, getting internships and jobs can be a whole lot tougher if you are at a smaller school. That being said, you may want to check into local places for an internship. I found a job at a small community bank. Granted it wasn't in development, but at least it was experience, and yes it was paid (actually better paying than my current job). It was a small bank, so they unfortunatly did not have a position for another full time employee. My advice, take the experience wherever you can find it.
Another option might be to boost your resume by doing various kinds of work for community/charitable organizations.
Its been about a year since I graduated, finding a job was not easy, especially in this part of the country. Oh and by the way, start sending your resume to prospective employers, it took me about 700 (yes 700, the economy really sucks that much) to get my job.
That, and touring. Record sales do nothing... until you factor in the tour. When's the last time you spent $25 on cheaply made Wal-Mart T-shirt. Oh, and now with DVD and CDs of bands' live recordings, its a double hit. Just think some kid in Ukraine spent more money to see Dave Matthews Live in Austin (bought the DVD and CD) than the tickets cost.
I'm sorry, but it seems as if Mandrake the last few years has basically been begging for consumer support. While this is a much different approach to say, advertising, it makes me wonder how they are running their business. Don't get me wrong, I love their distro, but I wonder if they have had competant business men/women running the company. Anyone know where some of their financial records are??
Since the study is unclassified, and therefore public science anyway, MIT apparently feels that this is improper and pretty pointless.
You miss the mark, just because something is not classified does not mean that it is wide open to forein scrutiny/review. Case and point encryption technologies. If you are an American citizen, you can use very strong encryption, however you may not use the same encryption techniques for non-domestic products.
In the case of AI, there are serious security implications and advantages that the US would have. It only makes sense that they would want to protect their technology from being used against them. We have seen time and time again where foreigners have taken research secrets and technologies to their respective homelands. Does it not make sense for the government to check if they are a covert operative or terrorist?
As a taxpayer, I think that the government should be able to use its discression as to whom it will fund and as to the kinds of people it will allow to work on certain projects.
They have a valid argument for patenting this. With the ease of copying procedures/design/technologies on the internet, especially within web pages, Amazon has provided an "innovation" of sorts with this concept and should be granted a patent. Granted they would have to show proof that they were the first to do this and actually developed this concept. (much unlike AOL with their instant messenging, can you say wall?)
Frankly from a business standpoint all these TCO evaluations are pointless. Any SA worth his salt will easily be able to tell you that being a homogonous Win2k or Linux shop, or a heterogeneous shop has both its disadvantages as well as its advantages.
If your business is heavily dependant on proprietary Win apps, then of course making the switch to Linux will be costly. On the other hand if you are upgrading a service, ie building a new mailserver, then a switch to Linux/BSD whathaveyou, may be a resonable consideration.
Take a large bank for example. Banks use many different services. The obvious email and file sharing, but also specialty ones such as automatic funds transfer applications, credit approval programs, loan applications (Fanny Mae etc), county and municipal tax mainframes, and inter-bank loan applications. In addition as most banks have or are in the process of converting paper documents to electronic records, data integrity and security is of the utmost priority. To give a blanket statment of, "switch to Linux" is unreasonable because the bank is probably locked in to proprietary applications that they cannot have ported over due to the fact that they do not control their development. Surely some of the background services can be switched over, but most SA's that I know do not have the time to create another project when their current system is handling the [email, database, security, etc] at a satasfactory level.
Linux is not a silver bullet for most businesses, but rather it should be thought of as a viable tool for consideration when determining cost/productivity/use analysis.
sorry, that is impossible. weight is weight. maybe use a mass or volume / weight relationship and that might work. just a physics nerd who can't stand those kind of analogies
I realize this, however, even with discount pricing a PC for elementary school costs roughly $800 in software. For highschool, it can be as high as $3000 if the PC is used for Business/Science/Computer classes in the High School.
If the cost savings in licensing would only be $27k for Harrisburg, it makes me wonder either a: would they then pay for free software or b: why is that cost so low?
If a standard PC has Windows 98/2k ($100), MS Office Educators edition (~$300), Other classroom software ($200-2500). At maximum it would appear that Harrisburg 40-50 computers in their system. That is a big problem in itself. According to a recent article in CACM (not sure wich month), school districts should be shooting for a 1 to 1 pc to child ration but at least a 7 to 1 ratio is effective.
Hopefully the use of free software will allow the Harrisburg school district to reduce the ratio.
I actually would have no problem giving up some personal information in order to be less inconvenienced, especially when traveling. Heck if I could be dropped off from the cab and through security in 15 minutes I'm all for a traveler card.
While I think that the idea is a nobel one, especially for parents worried about their children, I think this legislation misses the point. Parents should be the ones responsible for monitoring what their kids, especially young ones, do. Kids don't need to have a PC with internet connection in their room, especially if the parents aren't technically capable of using simple monitoring techniques (snort etc.).
Additionally, I don't see the.kids.us domain as actually containing anything useful. It will probably end up being a conglomerate domain for marketing to kids, rather than containing useful information.
To say someone pre-discovered that which is not factual is sheer rubbish. Big-bang/darwinism on the macro level can not be proven scientifically, thus there is no possible way for anyone to "discover" these two theories, let alone pre-discover. Now they can be hypothicised. At the same time, the scientific community is ignorantly accepting some of these cosomological theories as fact when these theoris cannot be proven scientifically.
Now for those of you who are going to jump all over the previous statement, a scientific theory can only be proven by observable and repeatable circumstances. Thus, history itself cannot be scientifically proven.
To have a legal High Power station you now must have 100kW, a LPFM station pretty much is useless unless you are a college, since you are limited to a small geographic area. Ramsey transmitters are not the greatest, but for the price, it is ok.
If you do use a kit, you are breaking FCC regulations, and thus the law. Clearchannel et al are not forgiving and you will soon be looking at minimum an injunction and a big lawsuit at maximum a prison sentence.
I was station manager for my college's radio station and I have also helped start another radio station in the Milwaukee area (still waiting for our frequency).
Most likely if you live in any kind of metropolitian area of 100k people or more, then you probably are going to have to fork over big bucks to a radio conglomerate to even have access to a radio frequency (after deregulation, radio conglomerates bought up all available frquencies).
If you are able to obtain rights for a frequency from the conglomerate, or there are available frequencies, then you must applie to the FCC for control over the frequency. In the application you must choose if your station will be low or high power and if you will be a non or for profit station.
So now you got approval from the fcc, for lets say, a high power commercial station. Now you have to rent the use of a broadcast tower (big bucks). You also need to buy equipment, a transmitter, an amplifier. At minimum you will want to be able to play music, so you have a few more expenses.
You need to buy a soundboard at minimum something like a Mackie 1604 VLZ (wich runs about $700-1000 US). Cabling will run you anywhere from a mere $200 to over $5000. Oh and if you want to play anyone's music, you have to pay for your music or get record company demos, (no Napster mp3s here) and you must pay for royalties to a company like BMI, rates are based on revenues (a $500 minimum yearly fee).
IF, you can get thru all of the above (you are probably looking at startup costs of upwards of $50k-100k), and I probably left some things out, then you should be well on your way.
Here are some useful links:
BMI Licensing: http://www.bmi.com/licensing/
FCC Broadcast Radio Page: http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/
You pose a nice scenario of the typical "conspiracy theory" crowd that get their undies all in a bundle over supposed "loss of personal freedoms." Frankly I don't buy it. Having talked to librarians about this, they have told me that in fact the justice department (and the law enforcement agencies) have not gained ANY additional power to look at patron records. Frankly though, if it were the case that pre 9/11 law enforcement agencies were less empowered to find possible terrorists, I still would support this provision on the basis that anything done in public cannot have a reasonable air of privacy. If you have ever tried to get security clearance you would know what I am talking about. Granted getting security clearance and being investigated for terrorism are two completely different things (I digress).
Now on the subject of "personal liberties." Our society has changed much in the 60 some odd years of the computer revolution, and subsequently the society we live in is no where near what it was in the 20s or 30s. Additionally, the primary function of the government of the United States of America is to protect Life, Liberty, and the persuit of Happiness. Now, if that means that Big Brother watches bits and pieces of my life, fine, if that means that I can continue to live, pursue happiness, and yes have my liberties, then be it so. But one must be careful as to defining what our liberties are, to that look to the constitution. In the case of libraries, there is no such protection, for it is not a search or siezure of out property, a restriction on my freedom to speak, worship, etc.
Now to your point of the subpoena, it still requires a court order. And in actuality a warrant is much easier to obtain than a subpoena (look at the number of denied warrants compared to denied subpoenas in your local government). Yet still this small technicality is not the point. It is the fact that we live in a new world with new and more dangerous threats. If you don't believe me, even experts believe that a massive terrorist action could be committed soon, whether it be some kind of biological scare like the Anthrax ordeal (or something much worse like nerve or vx gas), suicide bombings like those that have plagued Israel, or some kind of nuclear detonation. I feel it is only time, unless the intelligence community can be correct 100% of the time. Rember, a terrorist only need be successful one time and we have a disaster.
I refuse to be a kool-aid drinker. I will not be spoon-fed my opinions by the national media, or even slashdot for that matter. The question I have for you is what have you done about it? While you may say "there's nothing I can do," you are misleading yourself. Unless you were one of the 12% who voted recently (yes I'm talking about your local primaries) then you do not even deserve to be complaining or even having a damn opinion on this subject.
If you have any humanity, you will care at minimum, about the lives that are close to you. If you have any humanity left over, take up a cause that actually matters in life, billions of people would dream of the day that they could live in the kind of lifestyle that we live in.
The FBI, and local authorities for that matter, have always been able to request library patron records with a warrant. Its not like the FBI can issue a warrant, a judge (federal in the case of the FBI I believe) only has the power to issue a warrant. Its still the same system of checks and balances. And frankly, if the feds were to look at my library record the only thing that they would find is that I'm a Geek interested in philosophy and political science.
Point one. Invalid. Games can be ported, its like saying that Linux/Solaris/MacOS suck because _______isn't available on that platform. Granted the XP controlers are bigger, but that is a design decision: Americans have bigger hands, and thus the controller is more ergonomically designed. Plus if you want smaller controllers, get the Japanese one.
Point two. True, XP (initially) was 2000 SP2 with a new GUI. But that GUI is actually more efficient (albiet not as efficient as OSX). Additionally, size of install is not even an issue, when 80G costs under $120 (US).
Point three. That's capitalism. Ever drive a Mercury. They are just more expensive versions of Fords. Then take a Jaguar, you can pay over $100k for a car, the thing that makes it so expensive is not just the quality, but also the brand identity. You can make similar comparisons to any other product. It is simple economics. The price you pay is related to its brand identity. The $500 you pay for XP covers both the cost of the development, but also things like marketing and anti-piracy measures. I realize that's a hefty price, but hey no one is forcing you to buy it. You are intelligent, build your own box and trow Linus or *BSD on it. Download OpenOffice if you want document compatibility. But don't complain about the price, because frankly there are alternatives for less or free.
Finally you state that piracy would be cut down if the software would be less expensive. This is a catch 22. The reason it is so expensive is because of piracy. Plain and simple there is NO moral justification for piracy (software or music). If you want free software, then use free software, if you want to download music, download music from an artist that allows it.
OK, so I need to rant. The Slashdot croud sometimes has their head up their asses when it comes to technology companies. Some hate/love everything one particular company does. But the problem is you condemn the product because it is made by a company rather than look at each product made by the company.
Case and point the Xbox. It is hands down the best video game system on the market. MS did their homework with this one. They looked at the little things, longer cords so the unit can sit on a shelf, bigger controlers for the bigger hands of the american market, top of the line graphics. And for the 99.9% of video game players that don't hack their systems, the license restrictions are not a big deal. (I realize that game selection differs, and for a FF player a PS2 is a better system)
Now look at their recent OS's. XP as an OS has improved exponentially over their old ones (NT/9x). Granted there are the security holes, but hey, us Linux users can't claim to have a perfect system when SSH has holes in it.
Now it comes to the defining line between MS and Linux. $$. MS has every right to charge for their product. The US is a "free market" (capitolist) society. And frankly Linux companies in the same light can charge what they want for Linux distros as well (granted they are governed by the GPL, so there are other restrictions). But still when it comes down to it, the reason why I use Linux is twofold 1) Price and 2) Development tools (at the same price).
Who knows, their switches, routers, wireless appliances might really be what the home network market needs (I know.... Airport). Just wait and look at the product before casting stones.
When I'm intoxicated in space will I: a- be more right? b- have to relieve myself as much? c- find that people are still just as ugly as when I am sober?
JAP - Just another proxy (web page is down, but you may be able to find the app out there)
Both of these apps create a local proxy which to my understanding fits the specs of the MIT project. My feeling is the more the merrier, as long as no spyware is added.
Slashdot Mirror
I say we make it illegal to have two people that are gifted in the same area procreate. Say a Pro-Football player and a female track star. Nope, sorry, their kids would be too advantaged in athletics. So in that same line, I should find a beautiful swimsuit model, as of course we need just "average looking" people. I'm willing to do this for the equality of our society.
As much as it pains me to say it, getting internships and jobs can be a whole lot tougher if you are at a smaller school. That being said, you may want to check into local places for an internship. I found a job at a small community bank. Granted it wasn't in development, but at least it was experience, and yes it was paid (actually better paying than my current job). It was a small bank, so they unfortunatly did not have a position for another full time employee. My advice, take the experience wherever you can find it.
Another option might be to boost your resume by doing various kinds of work for community/charitable organizations.
Its been about a year since I graduated, finding a job was not easy, especially in this part of the country. Oh and by the way, start sending your resume to prospective employers, it took me about 700 (yes 700, the economy really sucks that much) to get my job.
Its all about the merchandising.
That, and touring. Record sales do nothing... until you factor in the tour. When's the last time you spent $25 on cheaply made Wal-Mart T-shirt. Oh, and now with DVD and CDs of bands' live recordings, its a double hit. Just think some kid in Ukraine spent more money to see Dave Matthews Live in Austin (bought the DVD and CD) than the tickets cost.
I'm sorry, but it seems as if Mandrake the last few years has basically been begging for consumer support. While this is a much different approach to say, advertising, it makes me wonder how they are running their business. Don't get me wrong, I love their distro, but I wonder if they have had competant business men/women running the company. Anyone know where some of their financial records are??
Since the study is unclassified, and therefore public science anyway, MIT apparently feels that this is improper and pretty pointless.
You miss the mark, just because something is not classified does not mean that it is wide open to forein scrutiny/review. Case and point encryption technologies. If you are an American citizen, you can use very strong encryption, however you may not use the same encryption techniques for non-domestic products.
In the case of AI, there are serious security implications and advantages that the US would have. It only makes sense that they would want to protect their technology from being used against them. We have seen time and time again where foreigners have taken research secrets and technologies to their respective homelands. Does it not make sense for the government to check if they are a covert operative or terrorist?
As a taxpayer, I think that the government should be able to use its discression as to whom it will fund and as to the kinds of people it will allow to work on certain projects.
They have a valid argument for patenting this. With the ease of copying procedures/design/technologies on the internet, especially within web pages, Amazon has provided an "innovation" of sorts with this concept and should be granted a patent. Granted they would have to show proof that they were the first to do this and actually developed this concept. (much unlike AOL with their instant messenging, can you say wall?)
Frankly from a business standpoint all these TCO evaluations are pointless. Any SA worth his salt will easily be able to tell you that being a homogonous Win2k or Linux shop, or a heterogeneous shop has both its disadvantages as well as its advantages.
If your business is heavily dependant on proprietary Win apps, then of course making the switch to Linux will be costly. On the other hand if you are upgrading a service, ie building a new mailserver, then a switch to Linux/BSD whathaveyou, may be a resonable consideration.
Take a large bank for example. Banks use many different services. The obvious email and file sharing, but also specialty ones such as automatic funds transfer applications, credit approval programs, loan applications (Fanny Mae etc), county and municipal tax mainframes, and inter-bank loan applications. In addition as most banks have or are in the process of converting paper documents to electronic records, data integrity and security is of the utmost priority. To give a blanket statment of, "switch to Linux" is unreasonable because the bank is probably locked in to proprietary applications that they cannot have ported over due to the fact that they do not control their development. Surely some of the background services can be switched over, but most SA's that I know do not have the time to create another project when their current system is handling the [email, database, security, etc] at a satasfactory level.
Linux is not a silver bullet for most businesses, but rather it should be thought of as a viable tool for consideration when determining cost/productivity/use analysis.
sorry, that is impossible. weight is weight. maybe use a mass or volume / weight relationship and that might work. just a physics nerd who can't stand those kind of analogies
I realize this, however, even with discount pricing a PC for elementary school costs roughly $800 in software. For highschool, it can be as high as $3000 if the PC is used for Business/Science/Computer classes in the High School.
If the cost savings in licensing would only be $27k for Harrisburg, it makes me wonder either a: would they then pay for free software or b: why is that cost so low?
If a standard PC has Windows 98/2k ($100), MS Office Educators edition (~$300), Other classroom software ($200-2500). At maximum it would appear that Harrisburg 40-50 computers in their system. That is a big problem in itself. According to a recent article in CACM (not sure wich month), school districts should be shooting for a 1 to 1 pc to child ration but at least a 7 to 1 ratio is effective.
Hopefully the use of free software will allow the Harrisburg school district to reduce the ratio.
I actually would have no problem giving up some personal information in order to be less inconvenienced, especially when traveling. Heck if I could be dropped off from the cab and through security in 15 minutes I'm all for a traveler card.
While I think that the idea is a nobel one, especially for parents worried about their children, I think this legislation misses the point. Parents should be the ones responsible for monitoring what their kids, especially young ones, do. Kids don't need to have a PC with internet connection in their room, especially if the parents aren't technically capable of using simple monitoring techniques (snort etc.).
.kids.us domain as actually containing anything useful. It will probably end up being a conglomerate domain for marketing to kids, rather than containing useful information.
Additionally, I don't see the
To say someone pre-discovered that which is not factual is sheer rubbish. Big-bang/darwinism on the macro level can not be proven scientifically, thus there is no possible way for anyone to "discover" these two theories, let alone pre-discover. Now they can be hypothicised. At the same time, the scientific community is ignorantly accepting some of these cosomological theories as fact when these theoris cannot be proven scientifically.
Now for those of you who are going to jump all over the previous statement, a scientific theory can only be proven by observable and repeatable circumstances. Thus, history itself cannot be scientifically proven.
humans take up 83 percent of the Earth's land surface to live on, farm, mine or fish
How in the world can we fish on land???? I expect more from environmentalist wackos.
To have a legal High Power station you now must have 100kW, a LPFM station pretty much is useless unless you are a college, since you are limited to a small geographic area. Ramsey transmitters are not the greatest, but for the price, it is ok.
If you do use a kit, you are breaking FCC regulations, and thus the law. Clearchannel et al are not forgiving and you will soon be looking at minimum an injunction and a big lawsuit at maximum a prison sentence.
I was station manager for my college's radio station and I have also helped start another radio station in the Milwaukee area (still waiting for our frequency).
Most likely if you live in any kind of metropolitian area of 100k people or more, then you probably are going to have to fork over big bucks to a radio conglomerate to even have access to a radio frequency (after deregulation, radio conglomerates bought up all available frquencies).
If you are able to obtain rights for a frequency from the conglomerate, or there are available frequencies, then you must applie to the FCC for control over the frequency. In the application you must choose if your station will be low or high power and if you will be a non or for profit station.
So now you got approval from the fcc, for lets say, a high power commercial station. Now you have to rent the use of a broadcast tower (big bucks). You also need to buy equipment, a transmitter, an amplifier. At minimum you will want to be able to play music, so you have a few more expenses.
You need to buy a soundboard at minimum something like a Mackie 1604 VLZ (wich runs about $700-1000 US). Cabling will run you anywhere from a mere $200 to over $5000. Oh and if you want to play anyone's music, you have to pay for your music or get record company demos, (no Napster mp3s here) and you must pay for royalties to a company like BMI, rates are based on revenues (a $500 minimum yearly fee).
IF, you can get thru all of the above (you are probably looking at startup costs of upwards of $50k-100k), and I probably left some things out, then you should be well on your way.
Here are some useful links:
BMI Licensing: http://www.bmi.com/licensing/
FCC Broadcast Radio Page: http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/
In all, good luck.
You pose a nice scenario of the typical "conspiracy theory" crowd that get their undies all in a bundle over supposed "loss of personal freedoms." Frankly I don't buy it. Having talked to librarians about this, they have told me that in fact the justice department (and the law enforcement agencies) have not gained ANY additional power to look at patron records. Frankly though, if it were the case that pre 9/11 law enforcement agencies were less empowered to find possible terrorists, I still would support this provision on the basis that anything done in public cannot have a reasonable air of privacy. If you have ever tried to get security clearance you would know what I am talking about. Granted getting security clearance and being investigated for terrorism are two completely different things (I digress).
Now on the subject of "personal liberties." Our society has changed much in the 60 some odd years of the computer revolution, and subsequently the society we live in is no where near what it was in the 20s or 30s. Additionally, the primary function of the government of the United States of America is to protect Life, Liberty, and the persuit of Happiness. Now, if that means that Big Brother watches bits and pieces of my life, fine, if that means that I can continue to live, pursue happiness, and yes have my liberties, then be it so. But one must be careful as to defining what our liberties are, to that look to the constitution. In the case of libraries, there is no such protection, for it is not a search or siezure of out property, a restriction on my freedom to speak, worship, etc.
Now to your point of the subpoena, it still requires a court order. And in actuality a warrant is much easier to obtain than a subpoena (look at the number of denied warrants compared to denied subpoenas in your local government). Yet still this small technicality is not the point. It is the fact that we live in a new world with new and more dangerous threats. If you don't believe me, even experts believe that a massive terrorist action could be committed soon, whether it be some kind of biological scare like the Anthrax ordeal (or something much worse like nerve or vx gas), suicide bombings like those that have plagued Israel, or some kind of nuclear detonation. I feel it is only time, unless the intelligence community can be correct 100% of the time. Rember, a terrorist only need be successful one time and we have a disaster.
I refuse to be a kool-aid drinker. I will not be spoon-fed my opinions by the national media, or even slashdot for that matter. The question I have for you is what have you done about it? While you may say "there's nothing I can do," you are misleading yourself. Unless you were one of the 12% who voted recently (yes I'm talking about your local primaries) then you do not even deserve to be complaining or even having a damn opinion on this subject.
If you have any humanity, you will care at minimum, about the lives that are close to you. If you have any humanity left over, take up a cause that actually matters in life, billions of people would dream of the day that they could live in the kind of lifestyle that we live in.
The FBI, and local authorities for that matter, have always been able to request library patron records with a warrant. Its not like the FBI can issue a warrant, a judge (federal in the case of the FBI I believe) only has the power to issue a warrant. Its still the same system of checks and balances. And frankly, if the feds were to look at my library record the only thing that they would find is that I'm a Geek interested in philosophy and political science.
Point one. Invalid. Games can be ported, its like saying that Linux/Solaris/MacOS suck because _______isn't available on that platform. Granted the XP controlers are bigger, but that is a design decision: Americans have bigger hands, and thus the controller is more ergonomically designed. Plus if you want smaller controllers, get the Japanese one.
Point two. True, XP (initially) was 2000 SP2 with a new GUI. But that GUI is actually more efficient (albiet not as efficient as OSX). Additionally, size of install is not even an issue, when 80G costs under $120 (US).
Point three. That's capitalism. Ever drive a Mercury. They are just more expensive versions of Fords. Then take a Jaguar, you can pay over $100k for a car, the thing that makes it so expensive is not just the quality, but also the brand identity. You can make similar comparisons to any other product. It is simple economics. The price you pay is related to its brand identity. The $500 you pay for XP covers both the cost of the development, but also things like marketing and anti-piracy measures. I realize that's a hefty price, but hey no one is forcing you to buy it. You are intelligent, build your own box and trow Linus or *BSD on it. Download OpenOffice if you want document compatibility. But don't complain about the price, because frankly there are alternatives for less or free.
Finally you state that piracy would be cut down if the software would be less expensive. This is a catch 22. The reason it is so expensive is because of piracy. Plain and simple there is NO moral justification for piracy (software or music). If you want free software, then use free software, if you want to download music, download music from an artist that allows it.
OK, so I need to rant. The Slashdot croud sometimes has their head up their asses when it comes to technology companies. Some hate/love everything one particular company does. But the problem is you condemn the product because it is made by a company rather than look at each product made by the company.
Case and point the Xbox. It is hands down the best video game system on the market. MS did their homework with this one. They looked at the little things, longer cords so the unit can sit on a shelf, bigger controlers for the bigger hands of the american market, top of the line graphics. And for the 99.9% of video game players that don't hack their systems, the license restrictions are not a big deal. (I realize that game selection differs, and for a FF player a PS2 is a better system)
Now look at their recent OS's. XP as an OS has improved exponentially over their old ones (NT/9x). Granted there are the security holes, but hey, us Linux users can't claim to have a perfect system when SSH has holes in it.
Now it comes to the defining line between MS and Linux. $$. MS has every right to charge for their product. The US is a "free market" (capitolist) society. And frankly Linux companies in the same light can charge what they want for Linux distros as well (granted they are governed by the GPL, so there are other restrictions). But still when it comes down to it, the reason why I use Linux is twofold 1) Price and 2) Development tools (at the same price).
Who knows, their switches, routers, wireless appliances might really be what the home network market needs (I know.... Airport). Just wait and look at the product before casting stones.
What happens to a can of Pepsi in space?
When it is opened?
When you mix it with Jack?
How does space affect intoxication?
When I'm intoxicated in space will I:
a- be more right?
b- have to relieve myself as much?
c- find that people are still just as ugly as when I am sober?
I have not been affected one bit.
and finally cDc is coming out with an anonymous P2P network sometime this month. (at least they claim)
Yeah that's peekabooty at http://sourceforge.net/projects/peekabooty
Among those not mentioned (to my knowledge) are:
Peekabooty (http://sourceforge.net/projects/peekabooty/)
JAP - Just another proxy (web page is down, but you may be able to find the app out there)
Both of these apps create a local proxy which to my understanding fits the specs of the MIT project. My feeling is the more the merrier, as long as no spyware is added.