Now you're living through the sequel - The Emperor's Son Strikes Back.
This is not a killer app - look at the Dreamcast
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We have been here before - with the Dreamcast.
MS was certainly a big DC booster and there were articles in MSJ lauding the DC's network abilities. And, indeed, they are impressive.
But it didn't sell consoles and it didn't sell many games to those already owning a DC.
Maybe because games are (primarily) for teenagers in their bedrooms alone (ie they want to be alone), who knows? Maybe the density of these things - amongst your friends - never gets high enough to work? Maybe because if people want a networked device they buy a PC? Whatever the answer it was not the killer app for the Dreamcast, and I doubt if it's going to rescue the X-Box either.
For those of you with Dreamcasts - look here for what you can do with it: LinuxDC
One of the most prominent and recurrent arguments of the copyright interests is that "digital piracy" is far worse than "analog piracy" and thus justifies the imposition of draconian paracopyright laws, such as the DMCA and CBDTPA. I refer to this argument as the "analog fallacy." The fallacy is that analog piracy is not nearly as threatening as digital piracy because analog copies degrade with every generation while digital copies remain pristine no matter how many copies are made. While true in a strict sense, the fallacy is that most of the assumptions necessary for this argument to be true are not realistic.
But surely the real 'threat' of digital media is actually the close-to-zero marginal cost of copying the original.
With a VCR each copy is a real, physical, medium. With digital everything is, well, virtual.
There are different responses to this - in software, free software is a response. Free software advocates accept that digital 'objects' can and will be copied, so build that in.
I'm not convinced that model works for music and movies though.
Free software is built on a pre-existing cultural norm - ie hacking - that doesn't exist for these other media.
Furthermore, no government contracts (the States), or direct support (elsewhere) is available to create the movie-making equivalent of MIT's AI lab.
I find all the "who cares" and "good" posts bizarre.
End of Moore's law - or 2/5/7/10 year hiatus - is very bad news.
It means an end to cheaper faster computing power - and that means an end to expansion of the embedded sphere and the increasing use of computing power in business.
In other words - slower growth, collapse of hardware industry (why buy a new machine if its not any faster) and programmers out of jobs (what do we need you for - we have all the word processors we need).
Now imagine you want to shootdown jets... You can't be guaranteed a hit because the pilot can dodge... With balloons, you could have a shell closer to the intended target, and then the pilot has less chance to dodge...
Yep, but we've been here before. In the Great War these things were largely abandoned because they cannot move and are too easy to shoot down.
When I started messing about with computers 8 bit chips were stanard on the desktop and 4 bit in the embedded sphere.
Within four years 16 bit was the emerging standard for the desktop and four more than that 32 bit was emerging.
In the 12 years since then, well...
32 bit rules in both the desktop world and in the embedded world. Can someone tell me why we aren't on 128 bit chips or more by now? Why do 64 bit chips not amke it - is this a problem of the physics of mobos or what?
Well, this is either the first great technological breakthrough of the 21st century or this year's cold fusion.
Presumably the possibilities for this are vast - could it be used to make very strong magnets (through high temperature superconductors) a realistic possibility at last?
Of course, given the amount of power (some of) you Americans waste on air conditioning and your (government's?) refusal to acknowledge global warming is real, it is good news for just about everyone - until the oil companies close it down, of course.
That's because it is wrong... the slave trade economically crippled everyone involved except the people who sold the slaves, and the very few plantation owners (but even they were not realizing their full wealth potential).
You are simply wrong. We are not talking about the American South in the second half of the 19th Century, but the Caribean in the 17th and 18th Centuries.
Anyone who has seen the houses of the whig plutocrats in the English countryside will know that they made millions - billions at today's prices - out of the slave trade.
there are only superficial differences technology wise between 15th and 18th century england
The key difference between these eras is the slave trade combined with plantations. They allowed English merchants to become fabulously wealthy and so accumulate the capital that powered the indutrial revolution.
Mainly that trade was based on exploitation and murder - but technology did make a difference - it's very difficult to sail accurately without the maritime technology that was created.
This is a bit of history they don't teach much of British schools!
No amount of liberty to give up is ever worth a false sense of security.
Really?
So one should be free to shout 'fire' in a crowded theatre - just in case there is one and nobody has detected it yet (or maybe the fumes have knocked them out already).
All reasonable people accept that there are limits on freedom, because in a world of scarcity, freedom is not limitless.
I suppose, because we've all got as far as/., we're all pretty experienced net users. But not everyone out there is and the idea behind this company doesn't seem too dumb.
(Though obviously it doesn't work.)
I well remember being told by someone that my web site didn't exist because when they typed in the url they got nothing back.
On closer examination it turned out they were typing the url into yahoo. They knew nothing else about the web (they were an important UK journalist) and presumably sombody had just made yahoo their home page left them to it.
In that sort of world, somebody doing the searching for them might have worked.
I find it sad that you can upgrade from other professional Linux platforms with $10 off, but not from Windows or anything else. It seems to me that Red Hat is taking a cheap shot at the other companies.
This is business, not charity. Face facts - it is in RH's interests for the other companies to exit the market.
As for Windows, the behemoth is not going to be killed for $10!
This would be interesting if it meant more commericial support for Linux on something other than ia32 machines - still something of a Cinderella - but it is difficult to draw that conclusion from this article alone.
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No, he's just a nutcase... really GNU/Linux?
I'm not defending his arguments. But they are hardly new, are they? Everyone knows that's what he thinks - so what's the fuss about?
But he has revolutionised the world of computing.
He has a fair point - and if you don't want to have the argument, don't invite him to speak.
Like the "free" copy of Windows you get with a PC.
Price cuts in this market are designed to drive out producers and so retain somebody's monopoly.
Sega used to be a big console maker and they got done in just this way.
Still, you can always run Linux on your Dreamcast.
Now you're living through the sequel - The Emperor's Son Strikes Back.
We have been here before - with the Dreamcast.
MS was certainly a big DC booster and there were articles in MSJ lauding the DC's network abilities. And, indeed, they are impressive.
But it didn't sell consoles and it didn't sell many games to those already owning a DC.
Maybe because games are (primarily) for teenagers in their bedrooms alone (ie they want to be alone), who knows? Maybe the density of these things - amongst your friends - never gets high enough to work? Maybe because if people want a networked device they buy a PC? Whatever the answer it was not the killer app for the Dreamcast, and I doubt if it's going to rescue the X-Box either.
For those of you with Dreamcasts - look here for what you can do with it: LinuxDC
The article says:
One of the most prominent and recurrent arguments of the copyright interests is that "digital piracy" is far worse than "analog piracy" and thus justifies the imposition of draconian paracopyright laws, such as the DMCA and CBDTPA. I refer to this argument as the "analog fallacy." The fallacy is that analog piracy is not nearly as threatening as digital piracy because analog copies degrade with every generation while digital copies remain pristine no matter how many copies are made. While true in a strict sense, the fallacy is that most of the assumptions necessary for this argument to be true are not realistic.
But surely the real 'threat' of digital media is actually the close-to-zero marginal cost of copying the original.
With a VCR each copy is a real, physical, medium. With digital everything is, well, virtual.
There are different responses to this - in software, free software is a response. Free software advocates accept that digital 'objects' can and will be copied, so build that in.
I'm not convinced that model works for music and movies though.
Free software is built on a pre-existing cultural norm - ie hacking - that doesn't exist for these other media.
Furthermore, no government contracts (the States), or direct support (elsewhere) is available to create the movie-making equivalent of MIT's AI lab.
I find all the "who cares" and "good" posts bizarre.
End of Moore's law - or 2/5/7/10 year hiatus - is very bad news.
It means an end to cheaper faster computing power - and that means an end to expansion of the embedded sphere and the increasing use of computing power in business.
In other words - slower growth, collapse of hardware industry (why buy a new machine if its not any faster) and programmers out of jobs (what do we need you for - we have all the word processors we need).
Bad, bad, bad...
Now imagine you want to shootdown jets... You can't be guaranteed a hit because the pilot can dodge... With balloons, you could have a shell closer to the intended target, and then the pilot has less chance to dodge...
Yep, but we've been here before. In the Great War these things were largely abandoned because they cannot move and are too easy to shoot down.
(sounds like we both started messing around with 8080's and 4040's :-)
Z80s actually. Was amazed to see that they are still in use - in Gameboys (though that too has gone 32bit now)
When I started messing about with computers 8 bit chips were stanard on the desktop and 4 bit in the embedded sphere.
Within four years 16 bit was the emerging standard for the desktop and four more than that 32 bit was emerging.
In the 12 years since then, well...
32 bit rules in both the desktop world and in the embedded world. Can someone tell me why we aren't on 128 bit chips or more by now? Why do 64 bit chips not amke it - is this a problem of the physics of mobos or what?
Shouldn't they be called Kewl Chips?
Well, this is either the first great technological breakthrough of the 21st century or this year's cold fusion.
Presumably the possibilities for this are vast - could it be used to make very strong magnets (through high temperature superconductors) a realistic possibility at last?
Of course, given the amount of power (some of) you Americans waste on air conditioning and your (government's?) refusal to acknowledge global warming is real, it is good news for just about everyone - until the oil companies close it down, of course.
That's because it is wrong... the slave trade economically crippled everyone involved except the people who sold the slaves, and the very few plantation owners (but even they were not realizing their full wealth potential).
You are simply wrong. We are not talking about the American South in the second half of the 19th Century, but the Caribean in the 17th and 18th Centuries.
Anyone who has seen the houses of the whig plutocrats in the English countryside will know that they made millions - billions at today's prices - out of the slave trade.
there are only superficial differences technology wise between 15th and 18th century england
The key difference between these eras is the slave trade combined with plantations. They allowed English merchants to become fabulously wealthy and so accumulate the capital that powered the indutrial revolution.
Mainly that trade was based on exploitation and murder - but technology did make a difference - it's very difficult to sail accurately without the maritime technology that was created.
This is a bit of history they don't teach much of British schools!
For that price or less you could buy a Dreamcast and, of course, run Linux or NetBSD on it.
There is even a thriving dev scene
Don't get your panties in a bunch. What's the big difference?
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They're both Fundamental Islamic regimes.
Hey, POTUS is posting to
No amount of liberty to give up is ever worth a false sense of security.
Really?
So one should be free to shout 'fire' in a crowded theatre - just in case there is one and nobody has detected it yet (or maybe the fumes have knocked them out already).
All reasonable people accept that there are limits on freedom, because in a world of scarcity, freedom is not limitless.
But try this in the valleys of South Wales and you'll soon realise that copper has its advantages.
Like IBM for instance?
Of course IBM are now A Good Thing but the only difference is that they had the money needed to hit back.
Time for some political will to sort this mess out.
I suppose, because we've all got as far as /., we're all pretty experienced net users. But not everyone out there is and the idea behind this company doesn't seem too dumb.
(Though obviously it doesn't work.)
I well remember being told by someone that my web site didn't exist because when they typed in the url they got nothing back.
On closer examination it turned out they were typing the url into yahoo. They knew nothing else about the web (they were an important UK journalist) and presumably sombody had just made yahoo their home page left them to it.
In that sort of world, somebody doing the searching for them might have worked.
If you mean Linux then that's not much use in an embedded environment.
I find it sad that you can upgrade from other professional Linux platforms with $10 off, but not from Windows or anything else. It seems to me that Red Hat is taking a cheap shot at the other companies.
This is business, not charity. Face facts - it is in RH's interests for the other companies to exit the market.
As for Windows, the behemoth is not going to be killed for $10!
Is very disappointing - it doesn't really explain him at all - other than to explain he is weird and has disgusting table manners (allegedly).
At least it doesn't suffer from the "we're all making millions cos we are brilliant" syndrome that infected even the latest edition of Rebel Code.
Forget this particular story, and what we might think of the Evil Empire, but isn't this ability to change quickly the point of online media?
If I read a story I don't want to see the inaccurate copy of yesterday, I want the up to date and full story.
This would be interesting if it meant more commericial support for Linux on something other than ia32 machines - still something of a Cinderella - but it is difficult to draw that conclusion from this article alone.
But that is right, isn't it?