because i my income is below 3k a year doesnt mean i cannot steal a car worth 50k.
that does not mean i am on the side of RIAA or something, but thats just the point. I been looking for a new ride, If I could get on off Pirate Bay I would down load it in a heartbeat.
I would like to point out that nobody who comes to power has a full grasp of all that is wrong in the first months. Consider the massive mismanagement and corruption of the GOP over many years. Congress can only fix what they see and the Executive Branch has most of the info under lock and key for a very good and self-serving reason.
It's called the Chain of Command, A Senator can not give orders to the Military or other Departments directly. Only the President can, and currently Bush is in the top seat. That is still a very powerful spot regardless of approval ratings. He can't get re-elected so he's having his minions cover the asses of the re-electables in Congress and Senate. Government is a very slow game.
Besides, when your digging out a mountain of shit, try and find that once piece of shit thats more dangerous then the others. BTW, it looks the same as all the rest.
I am about to put up some servers and I can't see any reason to put them in the US. The price is too high and the feed is way to narrow. The only arguments I have heard against it have been jingoistic blubbering about terrorism.
Has to the missing money for the infrastructure it's not the fault of the Iraq annexation. The backbone is in the hands of major corps who want to eyedropper service for maximum income to a captive audience. While that isn't quite the whole story the upshot is the same. You also have to figure that most of the US infrastructure is a decade old. Bleeding edge gear (then) bought for Bleeding Edge prices (then). Now if one company steps out of line and offers cheap 100mb lines like Cogent did they get squashed like Cogent did. The beancounters won't let go of the price until X+N profit is reached on the old gear.
Besides it give me an excuse to visit Korea a couple of times a year;)
You just not supposed to see it. Do you think they are running their Oracle Servers on Windows 2003? I have actually been in the Hotmail server room, guess what. It's all Solaris on Sun in the backend. Has to Patents, whats stopping them from adapting open sourced code now and using it? They have to admit that they can't seem to get Vista off the ground. The market for it isn't there as long as XP or Linux is around. Bad Press from the real Press (not a bunch of whinny jerks on slashdot) hasn't been helping but their own licensing scheme of having 50 different versions isn't helping.
The overall trend is toward a UNIX-like OS, Apple has already done that. Linux is now common enough in the public mind set. The underpinnings of UNIX that run Linux, Solaris, Apple etc are all using better gear earlier then Microsoft. Solaris has been a 64bit OS since when? When did Linux go 64bit? Apple?
Attacks on Linux or some master plan to kill off the OS are mostly the product of wet dreams from someone with a massive chair throwing ego. Or a Delusional blogger. Take your pick.
As to licensing, well it's a start. You can't expect their lawyers to change their ways quickly.
He has been in Preschool now for 5 months. Pretty soon they will want him to pick either Arts (Fingerpainting or Crayon), Science (Frogs) or Culinary Arts (Mudpies).
This article and much of the group think is missing a simple formula, the KISS factor. (see below for the Acronym)
If your on Slashdot your some form of Techie, but even with the Slashdot effect we won't make even a dent in Disney, CNN, or MSN. Most people are not Techies. So that colors your thinking, you think everybody should understand simple UNIX commands or be able to build a server from parts. We don't have the critical mass in the population thats why the world is run by monkeys in suits.
Linux has some fairly substantial flaws, mostly centered on the usability factor. Most users in general don't look under the hood. they don't want to. They are not geeks. Currently the LINUX user interface is about on par with Windows 95/98 at best. I do mean both Gnome and KDE. Linux has a lot of great features but then there are some things it is lacking. Your average non-techie can't just drop in the OS on a laptop and go to the Internet Cafe 30 minutes later. Apple seems to have got the message, they put a fairly slick interface over a UNIX-ish core. How many Apple users really know what their OS is capable of?
Has to pirating, it's a boogieman inflated by the Software companies themselves. Knock on your neighbors doors and ask them how much stuff they have that's pirated? Likely its not too much. Most people are Architects, Plumbers, Office workers, etc usually have a fairly short list of types of software they use. That being the OS (bundled), Browsers (free), Maybe some online games and Office-like products. That leaves Anti-Virus, Pirate copies don't last, the companies simple kill off the update service. How many times have you heard that Virus are spread by Anti-Virus companies to keep them in business? When was the last time you heard about someone being prosecuted? Speculation aside, the price is reasonable at about $50, so Anti-Virus get bought by most.
Then there are the off-site people who need to use VPN, they get it installed and configured by their companies IT dept not downloaded from Pirate Bay. The ex-employees who keep installed versions of Office etc don't really count in any meaningful way, their next boss will likely be ready with a new version even if they don't need it. I get the new versions of everything that way because my bosses need me to use them. The bean counters factor it in as part of my expense as an employee. I have ZERO incentive to switch to Open Office, other then simple masochism. If I can't open that Memo I get fired.
Nobody seem to be buying Vista, there have been a few articles about that this week. [Gosh I wonder why?] MS Works is bundled Office is cheap and a lot of people are not upgrading knee-jerk style to the latest version of Office 2007 has Office XP is fine for most of their needs. My landlady has Office 95 running on a Window 2000 box and the WOW she's got current legal copy of Quickbooks. So, if they got it, they got it bundled or dirt cheap.
Most gamers are Xbox/PlayStation users, not PC gamers. Online stuff like 2nd Life and the other big MMORPGs are dependent on the server side not the client software. Only people of moderate skill and with a lot of time on their hands are pirates, that being Music, Video, Games, etc. Read that as College Students why did you think they RIAA is after Colleges to pony up names? 80% of the music pirates are there. Even then they are short term, once they get out then other factors happen that do away with the pirate impulse.
People with regular non-techie jobs don't care about music or listen to radios/XM in their Car. they have Stereos and Big Screen TVs not high end gamer boxen. Some make copies of Video from Netflix/Blockbuster but really they get the first 50 dups and then lose all interest in keeping them. For $15 at Costco you get a case and everything, If you got small children they it's copies of CARS or some Disney thing. Once you get beyond collect, how much time do you spend making a dup that your could be using to make money? There is a cost vs time ratio at work.
I can't say how it works in much of the rest of the world but this model should be fairly common. If anything OSS has hurt pirating worse then crackdown ever will.
And as I promised - K.I.S.S Keep it simple stupid.
I have an XP laptop here, I repartition the basic install to have 15gig (on a 80GB disk) as a root disk with only the base OS on the drive. The remainder was where all my data My Docs etc live. Beyond browsing data and applications nothing lives on the root disk I could have put the User home on the data disk but it's not wise. You could lose the data partition and be screwed. I lose the root partition, worse case I have to reinstall from media.
I just dup the root with regular Windows Backup, Norton Ghost, or what I am actually using now, which is EMC Retrospect. My policy hasn't shifted, just that it Retrospect does Solaris and Linux well too, from a base XP system. Currently I back up the root disk every two weeks in three backup rotation, Data gets done every 4 days. That seems to work well. That backup never amounts to more then 8 gigs to a mounted share. External disks are going to 750gb for about $260 which is a great deal. These days it's faster to plug in a USB2 drive and dump it to that then across a network.
Nice thing about this scheme is that when I went to dual boot this laptop I just had to reparation a non-OS disk rather then risk the OS being mushed.
Well, like any other species we need to expand our range or die. The ultimate motive is reproduction. Thats what drove the conquest of [insert name here]. Much of the wars in the 'old' world where due to some form of population pressure. Beyond the greed of king and clergy without the people to do the invading you didn't invade. It's the only real yardstick that counts. Be it Mongols, White, Vikings, etc. The species Homo Sapient expands or gets swept under.
I should report you to HomLanSec for possession of that stuff. But then again, they would likely not be able to tell the difference between that and regular Water. It's probably safe if it's cut with fluoride.
The issue isn't that they are keeping what they made. They didn't make it all since they used stuff others had contributed under a certain condition. That being Open Source. The open source model is that you let others help you build the software. To close the source they would have to comb back through the contributions of other people over the years and take out all OS code that is what they didn't pay for in-house. Otherwise they would have to rewrite a whole new system from scratch and walk away from the MySQL code base as it stands.
It's like getting divorced and your ex gets only the second floor and the garage.
I would guess your confused about the origin and intent of bittorent. Things like Distros and FSW are exactly what it's originator had in mind. What Bram Cohen intended was to make a system where low bandwidth could be multiplied to work around a central server download system. I am pretty sure that Al Gore didn't think it would all be pr0n when he invented the internet. Considering he is married to Tipper. Ok the last part was a joke.
I name the quote because if I didn't I would be screamed at for not doing so. For the exact reason you just mentioned. Those SciFi Nerds can be very Anal about these things. Look at the Kirk vs Picard flamewars. I got that one in a tech interview a while back.
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that does not mean i am on the side of RIAA or something, but thats just the point. I been looking for a new ride, If I could get on off Pirate Bay I would down load it in a heartbeat.
likely you've never understood the lyrics of Primus's "Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweakers ...
Is there a difference?
This drug war foolishness is getting out of hand.
My standing policy for piss testing is they have to collect it orally if they want if from me. Hot from the pipe.
I would like to point out that nobody who comes to power has a full grasp of all that is wrong in the first months. Consider the massive mismanagement and corruption of the GOP over many years. Congress can only fix what they see and the Executive Branch has most of the info under lock and key for a very good and self-serving reason.
It's called the Chain of Command, A Senator can not give orders to the Military or other Departments directly. Only the President can, and currently Bush is in the top seat. That is still a very powerful spot regardless of approval ratings. He can't get re-elected so he's having his minions cover the asses of the re-electables in Congress and Senate. Government is a very slow game.
Besides, when your digging out a mountain of shit, try and find that once piece of shit thats more dangerous then the others. BTW, it looks the same as all the rest.
Sadly can't read the article it's /.'ed The fluff piece wasn't interesting, maybe I will read the Vanderbilt on later.
She didn't seem to be composed of that much Silicon. We'll have to ask Captain Janeway.
The ST-Voyager cycle is now complete we can drop it.
I am about to put up some servers and I can't see any reason to put them in the US. The price is too high and the feed is way to narrow. The only arguments I have heard against it have been jingoistic blubbering about terrorism.
;)
Has to the missing money for the infrastructure it's not the fault of the Iraq annexation. The backbone is in the hands of major corps who want to eyedropper service for maximum income to a captive audience. While that isn't quite the whole story the upshot is the same. You also have to figure that most of the US infrastructure is a decade old. Bleeding edge gear (then) bought for Bleeding Edge prices (then). Now if one company steps out of line and offers cheap 100mb lines like Cogent did they get squashed like Cogent did. The beancounters won't let go of the price until X+N profit is reached on the old gear.
Besides it give me an excuse to visit Korea a couple of times a year
That makes it a Tricolour
You just not supposed to see it. Do you think they are running their Oracle Servers on Windows 2003? I have actually been in the Hotmail server room, guess what. It's all Solaris on Sun in the backend. Has to Patents, whats stopping them from adapting open sourced code now and using it? They have to admit that they can't seem to get Vista off the ground. The market for it isn't there as long as XP or Linux is around. Bad Press from the real Press (not a bunch of whinny jerks on slashdot) hasn't been helping but their own licensing scheme of having 50 different versions isn't helping.
The overall trend is toward a UNIX-like OS, Apple has already done that. Linux is now common enough in the public mind set. The underpinnings of UNIX that run Linux, Solaris, Apple etc are all using better gear earlier then Microsoft. Solaris has been a 64bit OS since when? When did Linux go 64bit? Apple?
Attacks on Linux or some master plan to kill off the OS are mostly the product of wet dreams from someone with a massive chair throwing ego. Or a Delusional blogger. Take your pick.
As to licensing, well it's a start. You can't expect their lawyers to change their ways quickly.
Because the money is in making it NOT work right.
I was wondering why he left is such a hurry.
I was relying to another story, I didn't read this one prior to my post. Very weird.
He has been in Preschool now for 5 months. Pretty soon they will want him to pick either Arts (Fingerpainting or Crayon), Science (Frogs) or Culinary Arts (Mudpies).
Life is tough for the modern Two Year Old.
This article and much of the group think is missing a simple formula, the KISS factor. (see below for the Acronym)
If your on Slashdot your some form of Techie, but even with the Slashdot effect we won't make even a dent in Disney, CNN, or MSN. Most people are not Techies. So that colors your thinking, you think everybody should understand simple UNIX commands or be able to build a server from parts. We don't have the critical mass in the population thats why the world is run by monkeys in suits.
Linux has some fairly substantial flaws, mostly centered on the usability factor. Most users in general don't look under the hood. they don't want to. They are not geeks. Currently the LINUX user interface is about on par with Windows 95/98 at best. I do mean both Gnome and KDE. Linux has a lot of great features but then there are some things it is lacking. Your average non-techie can't just drop in the OS on a laptop and go to the Internet Cafe 30 minutes later. Apple seems to have got the message, they put a fairly slick interface over a UNIX-ish core. How many Apple users really know what their OS is capable of?
Has to pirating, it's a boogieman inflated by the Software companies themselves. Knock on your neighbors doors and ask them how much stuff they have that's pirated? Likely its not too much. Most people are Architects, Plumbers, Office workers, etc usually have a fairly short list of types of software they use. That being the OS (bundled), Browsers (free), Maybe some online games and Office-like products. That leaves Anti-Virus, Pirate copies don't last, the companies simple kill off the update service. How many times have you heard that Virus are spread by Anti-Virus companies to keep them in business? When was the last time you heard about someone being prosecuted? Speculation aside, the price is reasonable at about $50, so Anti-Virus get bought by most.
Then there are the off-site people who need to use VPN, they get it installed and configured by their companies IT dept not downloaded from Pirate Bay. The ex-employees who keep installed versions of Office etc don't really count in any meaningful way, their next boss will likely be ready with a new version even if they don't need it. I get the new versions of everything that way because my bosses need me to use them. The bean counters factor it in as part of my expense as an employee. I have ZERO incentive to switch to Open Office, other then simple masochism. If I can't open that Memo I get fired.
Nobody seem to be buying Vista, there have been a few articles about that this week. [Gosh I wonder why?] MS Works is bundled Office is cheap and a lot of people are not upgrading knee-jerk style to the latest version of Office 2007 has Office XP is fine for most of their needs. My landlady has Office 95 running on a Window 2000 box and the WOW she's got current legal copy of Quickbooks. So, if they got it, they got it bundled or dirt cheap.
Most gamers are Xbox/PlayStation users, not PC gamers. Online stuff like 2nd Life and the other big MMORPGs are dependent on the server side not the client software. Only people of moderate skill and with a lot of time on their hands are pirates, that being Music, Video, Games, etc. Read that as College Students why did you think they RIAA is after Colleges to pony up names? 80% of the music pirates are there. Even then they are short term, once they get out then other factors happen that do away with the pirate impulse.
People with regular non-techie jobs don't care about music or listen to radios/XM in their Car. they have Stereos and Big Screen TVs not high end gamer boxen. Some make copies of Video from Netflix/Blockbuster but really they get the first 50 dups and then lose all interest in keeping them. For $15 at Costco you get a case and everything, If you got small children they it's copies of CARS or some Disney thing. Once you get beyond collect, how much time do you spend making a dup that your could be using to make money? There is a cost vs time ratio at work.
I can't say how it works in much of the rest of the world but this model should be fairly common. If anything OSS has hurt pirating worse then crackdown ever will.
And as I promised - K.I.S.S Keep it simple stupid.
can you translate that to Cobol? I want to make sure it's Y2k compliant.
I have an XP laptop here, I repartition the basic install to have 15gig (on a 80GB disk) as a root disk with only the base OS on the drive. The remainder was where all my data My Docs etc live. Beyond browsing data and applications nothing lives on the root disk I could have put the User home on the data disk but it's not wise. You could lose the data partition and be screwed. I lose the root partition, worse case I have to reinstall from media.
I just dup the root with regular Windows Backup, Norton Ghost, or what I am actually using now, which is EMC Retrospect. My policy hasn't shifted, just that it Retrospect does Solaris and Linux well too, from a base XP system. Currently I back up the root disk every two weeks in three backup rotation, Data gets done every 4 days. That seems to work well. That backup never amounts to more then 8 gigs to a mounted share. External disks are going to 750gb for about $260 which is a great deal. These days it's faster to plug in a USB2 drive and dump it to that then across a network.
Nice thing about this scheme is that when I went to dual boot this laptop I just had to reparation a non-OS disk rather then risk the OS being mushed.
A dream of killing all the humans. Is that so much to ask?
Hey baby, what go and kill all the humans?
I am Bender, please insert Liquor!
When we reach a critical mass of population of our species we won't need you. We merely await the coming of Doctor Zaius.
"Earthman teach me this thing you call kissing?"
Well, like any other species we need to expand our range or die. The ultimate motive is reproduction. Thats what drove the conquest of [insert name here]. Much of the wars in the 'old' world where due to some form of population pressure. Beyond the greed of king and clergy without the people to do the invading you didn't invade. It's the only real yardstick that counts. Be it Mongols, White, Vikings, etc. The species Homo Sapient expands or gets swept under.
I should report you to HomLanSec for possession of that stuff. But then again, they would likely not be able to tell the difference between that and regular Water. It's probably safe if it's cut with fluoride.
The issue isn't that they are keeping what they made. They didn't make it all since they used stuff others had contributed under a certain condition. That being Open Source. The open source model is that you let others help you build the software. To close the source they would have to comb back through the contributions of other people over the years and take out all OS code that is what they didn't pay for in-house. Otherwise they would have to rewrite a whole new system from scratch and walk away from the MySQL code base as it stands.
It's like getting divorced and your ex gets only the second floor and the garage.
I would guess your confused about the origin and intent of bittorent. Things like Distros and FSW are exactly what it's originator had in mind. What Bram Cohen intended was to make a system where low bandwidth could be multiplied to work around a central server download system. I am pretty sure that Al Gore didn't think it would all be pr0n when he invented the internet. Considering he is married to Tipper. Ok the last part was a joke.
I name the quote because if I didn't I would be screamed at for not doing so. For the exact reason you just mentioned. Those SciFi Nerds can be very Anal about these things. Look at the Kirk vs Picard flamewars. I got that one in a tech interview a while back.
Of course I had an answer;
John Sheridan.
I see you have constructed a new lightsaber. Your skills are complete, indeed you are powerful as the emperor has foreseen. - Darth Vader