I mean as much as I love my Nvidia products, more competition and good competition always makes things better. Sad this. Oh well, hopefully someone else may be able to enter the fray with ATI and nvidia at some later date
If you read the article a bit more closly and check the comments for referance, you'll notive the article says that this study was done over a 5 year period of time. Windows 2000 wasn't out 5 years ago making this rather impossible and thus pretty hard to believe. And I can imagine that starting with Linux 5 years ago and using that till now probably would cost more than it would to start now and carry forward 5 uears because so much progress has been made. Were upgrades allowed? This article is very light on the details. Would a service pack be allowed then? Wouldn't this make Linux better because for free, you get better and better upgrades. Win 2000 only gives you a few services paks, unless you upgrade to XP (ha!)
So in the end I am really confused at how this is even possible and sort of able to believe part of it because of the severe age-ness of it. But really. Come on, we need way more detail before I'll actually believe it.
Not that I'm an entirly large fan of GNOME (I use Enlightenment myself), but, this has probably sold me enough on picking up Solaris 10 (and I might as well go all out geek and pick up some sexy peice of SPARC hardware to go with it:D). So sign me up in a year or what not.
SC2 still is one of my top favourite games ever. It is trully a timeless classic and work of genius that is still fun to play even by todays standards. This is a truly wounderful peice of news. I am unspeakably happy
The useability and benifits will come as more people migrate. If I am a developer, will I develope my package fro the 1.3.* or 2.0.* series. Right now, possible the 1.3.* series because that's where most of the people are. But if more people start using the 2.* series, than I'd have a large target audiancs (and a larger demand in general) so I might consider it.
Sometimes you simply have to start using something to make it viable.
Again, consider if some one introduces a new language. At first no one will learn it because no one else uses it. But as more people start to use it, more will want to use it because it is more viable.
(For referance, I am currently using apache 2.0.43 for my site. Had some dificulty getting php working, but it does, and so does perl, and thats about all I need so I'm good).:)
Damn... I just got into the show when Fox decided to play base ball instead of it. I was always out but taped ut, and after a few tapes worth of baseball, I just stopped and never quite got back into it. It's a shame because I'm sure given a bit more time I would have picked it up again.
What is it with american's obession with baseball?
How will they know about the "evils" and thus be protected from them if they can't learn about them. Knowledge is power and protection. You said it yourself you looked up things you felt guilty about include sex. Would you deny this to your own children? Lets face it. How can they feel free to explore when they are censored. If its not you looking over their shoulder, its the computer. Blocking them. You're raising you kids with holes of needed knowledge.
Also, no matter how much any one does this, it will never work. By nature the internet is free. Anyone can access it from anywhere to get the information. Fine, you've done a "great" job of locking down the library (lets face it, how many kids these days really go to the library) and you've probably locked down you're home. With "luck" even your child's school will be locked down. But really, how hard is it to find an access node that isn't. Kids have friends. One of them will have full access, and guess what. All the kids will just go there. This method is innefectual unless you lock down the whole internet which is impossible (but being tried any way care of the US). As long a it exists, the information on it will be free and people will find ways to access it.
By comparison, you are acting like the much "hated government of Chine.
There are several types of worms: the two biggies, e-mail worms, and the worms infecting ISS that he mentioned (Nimda and Code Red). Throtteling really won't make much of a difference for e-mail based worms. They don't scan so they'll just go through you'r email addreess book and mail everyone. Assuming they don't make one big coneciton to mail server and do it all at once,assuming each message gets its own connection, seriouly, how many people do you have in you address book. 200? Thats a lot. And guess what. It'll be over in just over 3 minutes. Not really enough time to stop it.
And what if it infects ISS or some other server (BIND? Sendmail?) These are not regular desktop machines. These are servers. You can't really limit a server like that. It'd be murder. So again, this really wouldn't work.
Fine, he set up a test with a 16 computer cluster and it worked, but he didn't acount for the fact that a real web site (not a web site that no one will see) cannot be limited like that.
So yeah. Nice try:)
But not practical as I see it.
Hrm... any one remember when MS shipped a whole country load of trojan infected copies of Visual Studieos out to like Vietnam or Korea or someplace? And those people were paying for it.
Got what they paid for I guess..
I think we've all seen some company pop up with a ridiculous patent for everything and try suing other companies for money. Typically, though, they stick to small companies who can't defend themselves, and make a bit of money. Do enough and it works out for you (evilly).
How ever, it doesn't really hold up, its just they have a larger legal team. Taking on Microsoft is ass stupid. If the US government couldn't deal with them comptetently, how the hell will this company. Especially since the US government had a valid case, and this company really doesn't most likely.
The odds of them winning this are probably in the zero range, and they deserve to get ass kicked for being so asinine as to try the stupid patent thing, and for then being so stupid as to start with the biggest company.
I'd eventually open source it because that may way more people will be able to pick through it andfind the potential bugs it may have, thus giving it a much better chance at being fool proof and secure. Thus, you'll have a better product behind your name.
Is this really bad. Some of the examples he uses, like the geek inability to defend the DMCA. Maybe no one who knows what they are talking about can defend it because it really shouldn't be. I mean, couldn't you bemoan that most all people think murder is bad, and thusm they are all sheep of the same flock. OR, maybe murder really is bad.
There are still plenty of issues to fight and flame and be different over, but there are now some points that we all share together. It makes us a closer knit community and will hold us together
if this goes through, won't it halt a lot of the American tech industry dead for a while? Basically giving all the other countries a lot of time to surpass the Americans? It's like shooting yourself in the foot. Isn't tech one of the states larger industries, and to go and kill it? I would laugh but its kind of sad at the same time...
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this sickens me. What is wrong with the american government. Every day it grows more and more orwellian.
I mean as much as I love my Nvidia products, more competition and good competition always makes things better. Sad this. Oh well, hopefully someone else may be able to enter the fray with ATI and nvidia at some later date
If you read the article a bit more closly and check the comments for referance, you'll notive the article says that this study was done over a 5 year period of time. Windows 2000 wasn't out 5 years ago making this rather impossible and thus pretty hard to believe. And I can imagine that starting with Linux 5 years ago and using that till now probably would cost more than it would to start now and carry forward 5 uears because so much progress has been made. Were upgrades allowed? This article is very light on the details. Would a service pack be allowed then? Wouldn't this make Linux better because for free, you get better and better upgrades. Win 2000 only gives you a few services paks, unless you upgrade to XP (ha!)
So in the end I am really confused at how this is even possible and sort of able to believe part of it because of the severe age-ness of it. But really. Come on, we need way more detail before I'll actually believe it.
Not that I'm an entirly large fan of GNOME (I use Enlightenment myself), but, this has probably sold me enough on picking up Solaris 10 (and I might as well go all out geek and pick up some sexy peice of SPARC hardware to go with it :D). So sign me up in a year or what not.
SC2 still is one of my top favourite games ever. It is trully a timeless classic and work of genius that is still fun to play even by todays standards. This is a truly wounderful peice of news. I am unspeakably happy
The useability and benifits will come as more people migrate. If I am a developer, will I develope my package fro the 1.3.* or 2.0.* series. Right now, possible the 1.3.* series because that's where most of the people are. But if more people start using the 2.* series, than I'd have a large target audiancs (and a larger demand in general) so I might consider it.
Sometimes you simply have to start using something to make it viable.
Again, consider if some one introduces a new language. At first no one will learn it because no one else uses it. But as more people start to use it, more will want to use it because it is more viable.
(For referance, I am currently using apache 2.0.43 for my site. Had some dificulty getting php working, but it does, and so does perl, and thats about all I need so I'm good).Damn... I just got into the show when Fox decided to play base ball instead of it. I was always out but taped ut, and after a few tapes worth of baseball, I just stopped and never quite got back into it. It's a shame because I'm sure given a bit more time I would have picked it up again. What is it with american's obession with baseball?
Actually, for arguments sake, I don't drive. I have a nice shiny bus pass. It's cheaper too.
How will they know about the "evils" and thus be protected from them if they can't learn about them. Knowledge is power and protection. You said it yourself you looked up things you felt guilty about include sex. Would you deny this to your own children? Lets face it. How can they feel free to explore when they are censored. If its not you looking over their shoulder, its the computer. Blocking them. You're raising you kids with holes of needed knowledge.
Also, no matter how much any one does this, it will never work. By nature the internet is free. Anyone can access it from anywhere to get the information. Fine, you've done a "great" job of locking down the library (lets face it, how many kids these days really go to the library) and you've probably locked down you're home. With "luck" even your child's school will be locked down. But really, how hard is it to find an access node that isn't. Kids have friends. One of them will have full access, and guess what. All the kids will just go there. This method is innefectual unless you lock down the whole internet which is impossible (but being tried any way care of the US). As long a it exists, the information on it will be free and people will find ways to access it.
By comparison, you are acting like the much "hated government of Chine.
There are several types of worms: the two biggies, e-mail worms, and the worms infecting ISS that he mentioned (Nimda and Code Red). Throtteling really won't make much of a difference for e-mail based worms. They don't scan so they'll just go through you'r email addreess book and mail everyone. Assuming they don't make one big coneciton to mail server and do it all at once,assuming each message gets its own connection, seriouly, how many people do you have in you address book. 200? Thats a lot. And guess what. It'll be over in just over 3 minutes. Not really enough time to stop it. And what if it infects ISS or some other server (BIND? Sendmail?) These are not regular desktop machines. These are servers. You can't really limit a server like that. It'd be murder. So again, this really wouldn't work. Fine, he set up a test with a 16 computer cluster and it worked, but he didn't acount for the fact that a real web site (not a web site that no one will see) cannot be limited like that. So yeah. Nice try :)
But not practical as I see it.
Nooo... But quaded rocket jumping? Provided you had a lot of health or god mode? Then, yeah, you could beat that thing. ;)
Hrm... any one remember when MS shipped a whole country load of trojan infected copies of Visual Studieos out to like Vietnam or Korea or someplace? And those people were paying for it. Got what they paid for I guess..
I think we've all seen some company pop up with a ridiculous patent for everything and try suing other companies for money. Typically, though, they stick to small companies who can't defend themselves, and make a bit of money. Do enough and it works out for you (evilly).
How ever, it doesn't really hold up, its just they have a larger legal team. Taking on Microsoft is ass stupid. If the US government couldn't deal with them comptetently, how the hell will this company. Especially since the US government had a valid case, and this company really doesn't most likely.
The odds of them winning this are probably in the zero range, and they deserve to get ass kicked for being so asinine as to try the stupid patent thing, and for then being so stupid as to start with the biggest company.
I'd eventually open source it because that may way more people will be able to pick through it andfind the potential bugs it may have, thus giving it a much better chance at being fool proof and secure. Thus, you'll have a better product behind your name.
Is this really bad. Some of the examples he uses, like the geek inability to defend the DMCA. Maybe no one who knows what they are talking about can defend it because it really shouldn't be. I mean, couldn't you bemoan that most all people think murder is bad, and thusm they are all sheep of the same flock. OR, maybe murder really is bad.
There are still plenty of issues to fight and flame and be different over, but there are now some points that we all share together. It makes us a closer knit community and will hold us together
if this goes through, won't it halt a lot of the American tech industry dead for a while? Basically giving all the other countries a lot of time to surpass the Americans? It's like shooting yourself in the foot. Isn't tech one of the states larger industries, and to go and kill it? I would laugh but its kind of sad at the same time...