It seems (see the first result) that getting married to CmdrTaco is a stunningly effective way to beat out every model in the world in terms of popularity.
Nah. Ignoring the argument over common usage of the terms for the moment, legally, copyright infringment of software isn't theft, much less grand theft. Moreover, it certainly isn't going to get you sent to a maximum security prison.
The other post about it was bogus.
Though you're right...it's a bit ballsy trying to profit on illegal copies of something...the US judicial system really doesn't like it.
You're almost certainly right in this case, but there can also be interactions among genes, so it's *possible* that the "red hair" gene is also a crucial component of the "likes massive quantities of garlic" gene.
It makes more sense to have a "www" in front of the thing than not. Actually, any other machine name would be okay too -- it always seems weird to see the domain also point to an A record.
Ooops, that was five prostitutes at most, not three. It assumes he was responsible for all of them...the first three were done in a very close timeframe.
They hardly killed people for entertainment. And you won't find a single one burned alive, contrary to modern dramatic retellings.
In total, fewer than twenty people were executed, and all of them were hanged.
In general, older things like this get more press.
For example, I'm sure you heard of Jack the Ripper? He killed, at most, three prostitues. Not a match for even the US east coast sniper running around at the moment.
I kind of wish the whole Victorian sexual hang-up would finish melting away.
I'd much prefer a world where if the kid runs across some hard core porn, his parents can explain it reasonably and truthfully to him. Why the massive effort and billions of dollars and uncomfortable social situations all blown on trying to keep kids outside of a mass conspiracy?
There are a few ways, like nudity taboos, in which I'd say that we've actually regressed in pragmatism over the past few thousand years. Even more inexplicable is the covering of the female breasts...where's the point? There are plenty of scieties that managed just fine without covering the breast -- Sumerians, tons of African tribes, peoples around New Zealand.
The only reasonable arguments I can think of against the open discussion of sex and unrestricted nudity are that
A) It affords society a greater degree of contrast in body language in expressing desire to have sex. B) Potentially reduces sexual promiscuity, which might help reduce STDs. Not sure about this one way or the other. C) (Probably the biggie) Parents feel that they can keep kids from having sex by keeping them in the dark about it. D) Possibly advantageous to our (in historical terms) very old populace. There's more a clothed person can do to appear young and sexually appealing than an entirely nude person can do. Just a guess.
I'd like a child to be able to read "adult" content and be able to deal with it just as responsibly as they're generally allowed to do with, say, comic books, or novels.
If you really have a burning desire to try to shape a child's psyche, I strongly feel that you're better off with positive encouragement ("wow, those are some really nice photographs you've taken...can I look through them?" or "Next chess game, I'll teach you another opening that I like to use sometimes") than by trying to restrict information from them.
Acclaim has amended their previous announcement, stating that because of all the free publicity they got from the furor over their game, they were able to market it enough for it to sell well. Plans for a sequel are to be announced shortly.
First, that's a very nice, PC pan-ethnic logo they've got there.
Second, I'm not sure that using the phrase "workspace" is the greatest choice. Looking at Metrowerks' package design or the name "Sourceforge" gives you a neat, romanticized image of some code artist beating away on a big piece of iron, forging something new. Its designed to appear attractive to the person doing the work, not his manager -- not MS's strong point. "Workspaces"? Might appeal to the corporate world, but in the hobbyist market, out to write some good code and have fun, I think they're missing the mark.
Third, the terminology is once again corporate: "aply to join a Workspace"..."owner, administrator, and member"
Fourth, the liberal use of "sharing source" (Microsoft's favorite term) rather than "opening source" on the site is quite prominent -- "planning on sharing the source code".
Fifth, more MS-style favorite words -- "integrate" and prominent mention of Visual Studio: "How will Workspaces integrate with Visual Studio.NET?"
Sixth, why the hell does MS distribute all their documentation in Word format? So they made it in-house...big deal. I don't use Excel to write research papers -- it's the wrong tool. Word, with macro viruses, no font embedding, security issues, large file sizes and import issues with different versions of the software, is a really crummy "publication format". It makes sense in MS-centric workgroups for exchange of documents in progress, but not for final copies.
Which is the largest flaw in your own argument. A Libertarian candidate is simply not going to win. If you're pissed off with a Republican and vote Dem, they have a much more serious chance of going under.
You're effectively halving your political power -- you decrease the number of votes the candidate you don't like gets, but you are not able to increase the number of votes the candidate that *would* beat him will get, so you cost him one vote instead of two.
** Out of box: Linux: used to suck hard here. Traditionally, ran lots of services. You were supposed to know what you were doing and close what you didn't want. Now, unacceptable for new users. RH 5.2 shipped with tons of services, which people found holes in quickly. RH 8.0 ships with far less running. Windows: Fewer services than old Linux, but too many things running as "root" like IIS. A ridiculous amount of holes in IIS compared to Apache. XP is supposed to have (finally) proper permissions out of box.
** Granularity: Linux: normal UNIX stuff. Getting ACLs. Not very granular at all. You have the framework to hack up just about anything you want with sudo and scripts, but it isn't there out of box, and it isn't standardized. Windows: Nice. You can say "sally and bob can read this file, and mary can only write to it but not read it." ACLs may not be fast or easy to examine for mistakes, but they're powerful and easy to use.
** Easy of screwing up: Linux: UNIX is pretty easy to examine for irregularities, suid binaries, etc. Windows: Just like VMS, it's a *bitch* to know if you have some series of permission errors that screw you over somewhere.
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I like Becker's drivers, but I ran into a problem with his Tulip ones -- on a *massively* overloaded Ethernet, if you get 16 retransmits failing and so the transmit fails, the driver does a full reset of the card. This makes the card not send data for about two seconds, which means on an extremely overloaded Ethernet, the card isn't that useful.
Right now, I'm using a 3c905b card (though it isn't a Becker project) with great success.
I think Linus likes eepro cards, IIRC from lkml.
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Yeah, he does a lot of support on top of the stuff he writes.
And his drivers have much better diagnostic capabilities than anything else out there.
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Thanks for all the drivers. There are a *lot* of people (including me, with two cards that use your drivers) that really appreciate what you've done.
I was saying that your average Joe open source hobbyist giving away software is not predatory pricing -- he isn't a company. I wasn't saying that Microsoft wasn't using predatory pricing -- as a matter of fact, the point of my first post was that they were, in fact, doing so.
And protecting other businesses is how you protect consumers -- as long as there's competition, you (at least theoretically) force the market to give the consumer the best possible product and price.
1. Which are about a tenth as nice as the GNU toolset.
2. Try compiling some *modern* C some time and see. MS has publically stated that they're abandoning C, and aren't updating their compilers to support new additions to the language -- just C++.
3. Maybe you don't care about a non-Windows platform at the minute. However, Linux, at least, is a major player in the server space, and there's a pretty reasonably expectation that at least Linux is going to be a reasonable chunk of the desktop market in five years. Now, it's true that may be among poorer nations and companies not willing to spend lots of money, so you're looking at a less lucrative market, but it's something to consider, not just to laugh off.
No, there's specific issues. Predatory pricing occurse when (and I'm not an economist, so this is from vague memory of classes) (1) you're doing it for the direct reason of *killing off* competition, (2) you're losing money in the short term on it, and (3) you're a company -- these don't apply to non-businesses.
(1) Is hard to show -- there's a pretty obvious motive for writing OSS -- it's fun to use and write. (2) Most OSS people are doing this as a hobby -- this isn't a moneymaking/not moneymaking thing (3) Most OSS people aren't companies.
There may be more to it, but it doesn't apply to your home OSS hobbyist.
Hmm. I don't have much experience with the Heinz School of Business. I *am* TAing a computer security course for the Graduate School of Industrial Administration, and students in there are required to install *both* Linux and XP to do all their coursework, so I suppose that the more businessy you get, the less Linuxy.:-(
$750 support premium
Support premium? Weird -- never heard of it. Who gets the money, Heinz or Carnegie Mellon? It can't be Computing Services, which is CMU-wide...
If I want to change my departmental password, I have to go to the help desk and ask them to do it for me:-( Sorry, wasn't aware of this. The rest of CMU uses Kerberos for just about everything...
Actually, if their Windows strategy really is cost-effective, I wonder why they have to hit you with a $750 premium that doesn't affect the rest of the students?
Or take the other day, we were having a student rep election. Votes were submitted...did not work with Mozilla or Konqueror
Again -- I can't say anything. Has to be Heinz alone...I remember at one point you couldn't use an internal CMU-wide webpage w/o Javascript. I complained and they rewrote it...and that's the only time I can remember having issues.
CMU (not SCS, but Computing Services) officially supports at *least* Andrew Linux and Red Hat Linux. You might try the CMU-wide Computing Services if you need better support (or cmu.misc.market.computers, which gets a lot of support requests), or Zephyr one of the help channels.
You know, you generate more pure textual data per time unit than anyone I've ever seen on Slashdot.:-)
Wine is lightyears ahead of Cygwin, performance-wise
I'd be more inclined to say that the Linux underpinnings are lightyears ahead of the Windows underpinnings...running on an operating system without support for shared fork and a couple of other fundamental features, there's not a lot that the cygwin guys can do.
This may sound mean to the EQ coders, but I can't imagine what they're possibly doing that could require 500MB of RAM if they were coding properly. I mean, do they trickle-load levels at all? Where on earth could that be going?
Major portions of the operating system have roots in both Digital's VMS operating system and IBM's OS/2
Huh. Always thought that NT was a pretty direct child of VMS (at least the convoluted permissions system seems to be:-) ).
Furthermore, GCC may be a better tool than Visual Studio, but it's not an Integrated Development Environment.
How many people do you know that honestly use/need that IDE?
I used to think that IDEs and having a built in debugger were the cat's pajamas. Then I went to code on VMS in Ada. Different debugger, and eve for an editor. Then the Mac OS. New IDE, different debugger, had to get comfortable with the editor again. Then Visual Studio. Then various Linux environments. The problem with IDEs is that they change so damn much, go away, come back. The debugger works completely differently or you have to learn a new editor. If you can use gcc and a text editor that runs everywhere (note: I don't necessarily think that emacs or vi is the best choice for everyone, no), you'll be using that same knowledgebase for years to come. No relearning the damn toolset every time you start uing some new system.
The most useful component of IDEs that I've seen is that they frequently have good GUI builders built in, but after comparing the amount of time it takes to build a good GUI in VS versus a separate builder like, say, glade, I'm not so convinced that IDE-based approaches are that much better.
Oh, and you don't have to manually save source before compiling files. Not *that* much of an impediment.
If something in an IDE sucks, you're stuck with it. If you don't like how the editor works, you can't swap in one you like better.
Finally, if something in an IDE breaks, it can be a pain to track down.
Oh, and GNU's makefile system is a lot nicer and more powerful than the project files generated by most IDEs.
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It seems (see the first result) that getting married to CmdrTaco is a stunningly effective way to beat out every model in the world in terms of popularity.
Nah. Ignoring the argument over common usage of the terms for the moment, legally, copyright infringment of software isn't theft, much less grand theft. Moreover, it certainly isn't going to get you sent to a maximum security prison.
The other post about it was bogus.
Though you're right...it's a bit ballsy trying to profit on illegal copies of something...the US judicial system really doesn't like it.
I still argue that it's nonintuitive -- that the way DNS was intended to work was that only leaf nodes in the name tree are assigned to hosts.
You're almost certainly right in this case, but there can also be interactions among genes, so it's *possible* that the "red hair" gene is also a crucial component of the "likes massive quantities of garlic" gene.
Pubic and facial hair can naturally be different colors.
It makes more sense to have a "www" in front of the thing than not. Actually, any other machine name would be okay too -- it always seems weird to see the domain also point to an A record.
Step 1: Mod your computer
Step 2: Put computer on eBay
Step 3 (THE MISSING LINK!): Post story to Slashdot
Step 4: Profit!
Ooops, that was five prostitutes at most, not three. It assumes he was responsible for all of them...the first three were done in a very close timeframe.
They hardly killed people for entertainment. And you won't find a single one burned alive, contrary to modern dramatic retellings.
In total, fewer than twenty people were executed, and all of them were hanged.
In general, older things like this get more press.
For example, I'm sure you heard of Jack the Ripper? He killed, at most, three prostitues. Not a match for even the US east coast sniper running around at the moment.
Ah, well.
"Those are *evil* polygons you're looking at, Junior!"
I kind of wish the whole Victorian sexual hang-up would finish melting away.
I'd much prefer a world where if the kid runs across some hard core porn, his parents can explain it reasonably and truthfully to him. Why the massive effort and billions of dollars and uncomfortable social situations all blown on trying to keep kids outside of a mass conspiracy?
There are a few ways, like nudity taboos, in which I'd say that we've actually regressed in pragmatism over the past few thousand years. Even more inexplicable is the covering of the female breasts...where's the point? There are plenty of scieties that managed just fine without covering the breast -- Sumerians, tons of African tribes, peoples around New Zealand.
The only reasonable arguments I can think of against the open discussion of sex and unrestricted nudity are that
A) It affords society a greater degree of contrast in body language in expressing desire to have sex.
B) Potentially reduces sexual promiscuity, which might help reduce STDs. Not sure about this one way or the other.
C) (Probably the biggie) Parents feel that they can keep kids from having sex by keeping them in the dark about it.
D) Possibly advantageous to our (in historical terms) very old populace. There's more a clothed person can do to appear young and sexually appealing than an entirely nude person can do. Just a guess.
I'd like a child to be able to read "adult" content and be able to deal with it just as responsibly as they're generally allowed to do with, say, comic books, or novels.
If you really have a burning desire to try to shape a child's psyche, I strongly feel that you're better off with positive encouragement ("wow, those are some really nice photographs you've taken...can I look through them?" or "Next chess game, I'll teach you another opening that I like to use sometimes") than by trying to restrict information from them.
Just my two cents.
Acclaim has amended their previous announcement, stating that because of all the free publicity they got from the furor over their game, they were able to market it enough for it to sell well. Plans for a sequel are to be announced shortly.
First, that's a very nice, PC pan-ethnic logo they've got there.
.NET?"
Second, I'm not sure that using the phrase "workspace" is the greatest choice. Looking at Metrowerks' package design or the name "Sourceforge" gives you a neat, romanticized image of some code artist beating away on a big piece of iron, forging something new. Its designed to appear attractive to the person doing the work, not his manager -- not MS's strong point. "Workspaces"? Might appeal to the corporate world, but in the hobbyist market, out to write some good code and have fun, I think they're missing the mark.
Third, the terminology is once again corporate: "aply to join a Workspace"..."owner, administrator, and member"
Fourth, the liberal use of "sharing source" (Microsoft's favorite term) rather than "opening source" on the site is quite prominent -- "planning on sharing the source code".
Fifth, more MS-style favorite words -- "integrate" and prominent mention of Visual Studio: "How will Workspaces integrate with Visual Studio
Sixth, why the hell does MS distribute all their documentation in Word format? So they made it in-house...big deal. I don't use Excel to write research papers -- it's the wrong tool. Word, with macro viruses, no font embedding, security issues, large file sizes and import issues with different versions of the software, is a really crummy "publication format". It makes sense in MS-centric workgroups for exchange of documents in progress, but not for final copies.
Seventh, the damn thing is already Slashdotted.
These politicians only understand the vote count.
Which is the largest flaw in your own argument. A Libertarian candidate is simply not going to win. If you're pissed off with a Republican and vote Dem, they have a much more serious chance of going under.
You're effectively halving your political power -- you decrease the number of votes the candidate you don't like gets, but you are not able to increase the number of votes the candidate that *would* beat him will get, so you cost him one vote instead of two.
The problem is that there are a couple of issues:
** Out of box:
Linux: used to suck hard here. Traditionally, ran lots of services. You were supposed to know what you were doing and close what you didn't want. Now, unacceptable for new users. RH 5.2 shipped with tons of services, which people found holes in quickly. RH 8.0 ships with far less running.
Windows: Fewer services than old Linux, but too many things running as "root" like IIS. A ridiculous amount of holes in IIS compared to Apache. XP is supposed to have (finally) proper permissions out of box.
** Granularity:
Linux: normal UNIX stuff. Getting ACLs. Not very granular at all. You have the framework to hack up just about anything you want with sudo and scripts, but it isn't there out of box, and it isn't standardized.
Windows: Nice. You can say "sally and bob can read this file, and mary can only write to it but not read it." ACLs may not be fast or easy to examine for mistakes, but they're powerful and easy to use.
** Easy of screwing up:
Linux: UNIX is pretty easy to examine for irregularities, suid binaries, etc.
Windows: Just like VMS, it's a *bitch* to know if you have some series of permission errors that screw you over somewhere.
I like Becker's drivers, but I ran into a problem with his Tulip ones -- on a *massively* overloaded Ethernet, if you get 16 retransmits failing and so the transmit fails, the driver does a full reset of the card. This makes the card not send data for about two seconds, which means on an extremely overloaded Ethernet, the card isn't that useful.
Right now, I'm using a 3c905b card (though it isn't a Becker project) with great success.
I think Linus likes eepro cards, IIRC from lkml.
Yeah, he does a lot of support on top of the stuff he writes.
And his drivers have much better diagnostic capabilities than anything else out there.
Thanks for all the drivers. There are a *lot* of people (including me, with two cards that use your drivers) that really appreciate what you've done.
I think you'll find that you're agreeing with me.
I was saying that your average Joe open source hobbyist giving away software is not predatory pricing -- he isn't a company. I wasn't saying that Microsoft wasn't using predatory pricing -- as a matter of fact, the point of my first post was that they were, in fact, doing so.
And protecting other businesses is how you protect consumers -- as long as there's competition, you (at least theoretically) force the market to give the consumer the best possible product and price.
1. Which are about a tenth as nice as the GNU toolset.
2. Try compiling some *modern* C some time and see. MS has publically stated that they're abandoning C, and aren't updating their compilers to support new additions to the language -- just C++.
3. Maybe you don't care about a non-Windows platform at the minute. However, Linux, at least, is a major player in the server space, and there's a pretty reasonably expectation that at least Linux is going to be a reasonable chunk of the desktop market in five years. Now, it's true that may be among poorer nations and companies not willing to spend lots of money, so you're looking at a less lucrative market, but it's something to consider, not just to laugh off.
Heh.
No, there's specific issues. Predatory pricing occurse when (and I'm not an economist, so this is from vague memory of classes) (1) you're doing it for the direct reason of *killing off* competition, (2) you're losing money in the short term on it, and (3) you're a company -- these don't apply to non-businesses.
(1) Is hard to show -- there's a pretty obvious motive for writing OSS -- it's fun to use and write.
(2) Most OSS people are doing this as a hobby -- this isn't a moneymaking/not moneymaking thing
(3) Most OSS people aren't companies.
There may be more to it, but it doesn't apply to your home OSS hobbyist.
Hmm. I don't have much experience with the Heinz School of Business. I *am* TAing a computer security course for the Graduate School of Industrial Administration, and students in there are required to install *both* Linux and XP to do all their coursework, so I suppose that the more businessy you get, the less Linuxy. :-(
:-( Sorry, wasn't aware of this. The rest of CMU uses Kerberos for just about everything...
$750 support premium
Support premium? Weird -- never heard of it. Who gets the money, Heinz or Carnegie Mellon? It can't be Computing Services, which is CMU-wide...
If I want to change my departmental password, I have to go to the help desk and ask them to do it for me
Actually, if their Windows strategy really is cost-effective, I wonder why they have to hit you with a $750 premium that doesn't affect the rest of the students?
Or take the other day, we were having a student rep election. Votes were submitted...did not work with Mozilla or Konqueror
Again -- I can't say anything. Has to be Heinz alone...I remember at one point you couldn't use an internal CMU-wide webpage w/o Javascript. I complained and they rewrote it...and that's the only time I can remember having issues.
CMU (not SCS, but Computing Services) officially supports at *least* Andrew Linux and Red Hat Linux. You might try the CMU-wide Computing Services if you need better support (or cmu.misc.market.computers, which gets a lot of support requests), or Zephyr one of the help channels.
You know, you generate more pure textual data per time unit than anyone I've ever seen on Slashdot. :-)
Wine is lightyears ahead of Cygwin, performance-wise
I'd be more inclined to say that the Linux underpinnings are lightyears ahead of the Windows underpinnings...running on an operating system without support for shared fork and a couple of other fundamental features, there's not a lot that the cygwin guys can do.
This may sound mean to the EQ coders, but I can't imagine what they're possibly doing that could require 500MB of RAM if they were coding properly. I mean, do they trickle-load levels at all? Where on earth could that be going?
:-) ).
Major portions of the operating system have roots in both Digital's VMS operating system and IBM's OS/2
Huh. Always thought that NT was a pretty direct child of VMS (at least the convoluted permissions system seems to be
Furthermore, GCC may be a better tool than Visual Studio, but it's not an Integrated Development Environment.
How many people do you know that honestly use/need that IDE?
I used to think that IDEs and having a built in debugger were the cat's pajamas. Then I went to code on VMS in Ada. Different debugger, and eve for an editor. Then the Mac OS. New IDE, different debugger, had to get comfortable with the editor again. Then Visual Studio. Then various Linux environments. The problem with IDEs is that they change so damn much, go away, come back. The debugger works completely differently or you have to learn a new editor. If you can use gcc and a text editor that runs everywhere (note: I don't necessarily think that emacs or vi is the best choice for everyone, no), you'll be using that same knowledgebase for years to come. No relearning the damn toolset every time you start uing some new system.
The most useful component of IDEs that I've seen is that they frequently have good GUI builders built in, but after comparing the amount of time it takes to build a good GUI in VS versus a separate builder like, say, glade, I'm not so convinced that IDE-based approaches are that much better.
Oh, and you don't have to manually save source before compiling files. Not *that* much of an impediment.
If something in an IDE sucks, you're stuck with it. If you don't like how the editor works, you can't swap in one you like better.
Finally, if something in an IDE breaks, it can be a pain to track down.
Oh, and GNU's makefile system is a lot nicer and more powerful than the project files generated by most IDEs.