Ok, I singled your comment among the many "Go talk to a lawyer" comments because you asked seriously. And I will answer seriously.
Many of us at Slashdot have been in similar situations. As such, we know there are certain details to keep in mind regardless if the use of a lawyer or some other type of consultant is necessary. For example:
I play rugby and in a recent match I landed on my foot wrong and parts of my foot went numb. Now, I asked some friends of mine and what do you think they said? "Go talk to a fucking doctor?" No, because they have had past experience with similar situations. They gave me anecdotes about past injuries they had, how they felt, etc. some of which helped, some did not.
Now this is the same here, all of the info given here may not be helpful, but the few comments that are made could tremendously help the person asking the question. So please, if you have something to say about the situation, say it, if you don't, try to help in whatever way you can -- remember, we're a community here.
Actually the Playstation 3 is supposed to be clusterable. You'll be able to share processing power and thus be able to render stuff like this. I guess some of their R&D guys read Slashdot and thought "it'd be funny if you had a beowulf clust..."
I find it interesting that the first thing he did after theorizing a possibility is to patent that process. What has caused such a change in the scientific world? Since when have scientists become so entranced with being rich -- is that what is attracting people to science these days?
I used to think that science was the last field which blatant greed had not infested yet, and I am proven wrong yet again...
I've heard many arguments that the distances needed to be covered did not lend itself to high speed trains. Especially in California where frequent earthquakes occur, wouldn't it be better to simply work on a new air-based transportation?
Ok, I just looked at this box and laughed. It's the Shuttle SB51g with some stuff shoved in it, totaling (if my Pricewatching is correct) just over 800 dollars. Now, perhaps the new Media Center OS is cool -- but to the tune of 1000 more??? I can't find a reason to buy this because we at Slashdot (yes, a generalisation, deal with it) can build our own boxen. And we can run Mandrake 9.0 with KDE 3 and be very happy. *Sigh* Perhaps it's the alienware t-shirt?
I've found this to be true on my college campus. I started a Linux User Group last year, and we had about 15 people coming frequently. Many of them were curious and interested in "not having to pirate warez". Well, Microsoft just struck a deal with our school in which XP Pro costs 5 dollars and Office XP Full costs 10 dollars. Since then, our LUG is about 5 hardcore linux users and no one cares anymore because the price is so cheap.
On a similar note, I've always thought this would be a very productive way to market products to college students -- especially products like productivity suites, graphic design, and web design. Once you learn a program, you'll stick with it -- Once I get out, I will demand to work only with Photoshop, only with Dreamweaver, and I code ColdFusion. I didn't get these too legally (shoot! no one turn me in!) but once I start "the real world" my employer will shell out for it. On campus here, no one bothers to pirate XP anymore, we just buy it. Yet so many that once thought to look at Linux are back in the M$ camp.
In a recent article we discussed the futility of implementing a detector detector in a network. This seems that this would be one use that would actually help as an extra layer of defense.
I have a question about a possible Microsoft avenue. Do you think Microsoft could sell their source code to a company for x amount of dollars and also require licenses for the derivatives of that modified OS?
Example
ABC Widget company buys the source for XP Pro for $20,000 and then, after modifying XP to actually do the stuff they need, they use 100 copies of it, and they have to pay Microsoft for 100 licenses of XP. Wouldn't this work? I mean, it would allow companies to work on XP, but also allow them to keep making money. One concern might be that the source might "get out" but I'm sure they'd figure out some way to know how it got out and then sue the company for all their worth. Anyways, just an idea, I don't know what yall would think of that...
I noticed that in the article one of their "two" user groups were high end programmers/engineers. There was a quote from a Verizon guy saying: "moving 300 programmers at its nationwide IT facilities from expensive Sun and Hewlett-Packard (HWP) workstations to less expensive models running Linux.".
Is this really a viable option? I'm not talking about "can get along with" software, but truly impressive and equal/better than Sun boxes? If so, and if it's only down to software, where does Sun stand in this?
What about Starbucks? Howard Shultz brought in management (underneath and around him) to help build Starbucks -- he said in his book he just looked at companies 2x his size and found management from there. So, in their case it worked. Or is Starbucks still committed to it's core goal or has it changed?
Yeah, I do support for my university too, and I moved in this girl who has that new 20" from Sony and the worst is that you know that she's just going to be using to for AIM and solitaire...oh, and Morpheus...
Couldn't the same arguments be made for SCSI? And where is it now? Relegated to obscure servers and macs. It has to do with the price -- when will anyone ever realise that?
I had a portable minidisc player/recorder from Sharp and the main reason they didn't take off is the availibility of media. I had two retail MDs, a Rage Against The Machine disc and a Silverchair disc. No matter how hard I tried to find them, they simply did not exist in stores. It seems like a catch-22, no one has MD players, so no MDs are sold -- vice versa, no one has MDs so no players are sold.
Especially with mp3 players around, I have a Rio 800 w/ 256 mb and a Creative Nomad Jukebox w/ 20 gig -- I have a small one for running around and the big one for at home and on the road. You just can't compare the ease with which I d/l mp3s and throw it (within 20 seconds) onto my mp3 player and head out the door.
go to sudhian forums to see some freeBSD and Red Hat users discuss how clean it installed, but that there may be some driver issues.
---- Beware of women who pay their rent with one dollar bills
A previous study...
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The Aging Gamer
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· Score: 2, Informative
Here is a previous study that is much more interesting and factual, Alice in the Matrix. It's an interesting read with 330 responses that seems to affirm what the article had to say.
I wonder if there have been any studies into the age of gamers (console and PC and any difference there may be). I also wonder if it is a bell curve-shaped age distribution -- meaning, if the average gamer is over 35, does that mean there are just as many gamers older than 35 than younger than 35? Or does it mean that the mean is somewhere between 25-30 and where is the mode(s)? I mean, it could be inverted, with emphasis on the 10-14 yr. olds, and another emphasis on 30-35 yr. olds. Anyways, just doing my statistics hw and trying to find some usefulness for it...
I'm not saying that this "gizmo" is actually forcing the kids to play and that by their not having them would "save them from the cruelty." I'm merely saying that it is a known fact that kids are becoming busier and busier, and regardless of what you do, they will only emulate what our society has placed so much emphasis on. As such, should we not support them in their emulation of us?
I've been hearing some really mixed messages about Red Hat and this can mean only one thing: Red Hat is growing and is poised to be a major player. I know I'm preaching to the choir a little, but I think these differing reviews help to bring Red Hat to the forefront. As the guide for John and Jane user showed, Red Hat 8.0 is going to allow new users an opportunity to jump on the linux wagon because of it's simple setup and use. And the amazing thing is that us nerdz can still micromanage to our heart's content.
I think as a whole community we need to show more support for Red Hat because once people see the advantages of Red Hat, it's not a big jump to find your favorite distro (SuSe for me:-) ) and isn't this what we're wanting to happen?
I have had my Palm Vx since the week it came out when I was in the 8th grade, and it has not only become an important tool, but a necessity. I believe that the children that are being referenced are 13-18 year olds, as well as a nice cheap handheld for college students. We all know that kids are becoming over-involved and juggling many different roles is taxing and stressful on the child. For example, my Junior year of high school, I was class president, president of our schools Linux User Group (all 12 of us!), starting loose prop for our rugby squad, yell leader for our cheer squad, played bass in a band, took 4 AP classes along with the rest of my classes, and had a job with MTV. Now, if I didn't have my palm, I don't think I could have been able to do half of those. I was able to have all my class notes with me at all times (studying at odd times and any place), successfully organise my time, tune my bass guitar, read e-mails on the go, and just generally be more organised.
It is these kinds of students, of which we are seeing more and more, that Palm is finally marketing towards. And at 99 dollars, it's not that bad if it gets stolen -- mine was list at 349 when I bought mine, and I would get worried frequently:)
Now, one problem I see with this strategy is that Palm is going to get people interested in handhelds, but once the consumers see the other products which are clearly superior, they will quickly lose their new converts.
IANAL, but I think it was mentioned here a while ago that if you had direct consent from the artists, no webcasting fees were needed. That was discussed because of the idea of using unsigned bands who would rather get their name out. I know that I've been working on a station and just going to shows and talking to bands with this kind of idea. Good luck...
This is so true. I'm a white American but I grew up in Japan, all of my schooling was done in Japanese public school. I am still an outsider. Even though I speak Japanese better than most japanese-americans, I know the cultural nuances and everything, I am still an outsider. And yet the japanese-americans who grew up in suburbia, USA will have more respect than I will ever have.
And, yes, there is some bitterness in that...
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Many of us at Slashdot have been in similar situations. As such, we know there are certain details to keep in mind regardless if the use of a lawyer or some other type of consultant is necessary. For example:
I play rugby and in a recent match I landed on my foot wrong and parts of my foot went numb. Now, I asked some friends of mine and what do you think they said? "Go talk to a fucking doctor?" No, because they have had past experience with similar situations. They gave me anecdotes about past injuries they had, how they felt, etc. some of which helped, some did not.
Now this is the same here, all of the info given here may not be helpful, but the few comments that are made could tremendously help the person asking the question. So please, if you have something to say about the situation, say it, if you don't, try to help in whatever way you can -- remember, we're a community here.
Actually the Playstation 3 is supposed to be clusterable. You'll be able to share processing power and thus be able to render stuff like this. I guess some of their R&D guys read Slashdot and thought "it'd be funny if you had a beowulf clust..."
(Sees his karma rise, then drop)
I find it interesting that the first thing he did after theorizing a possibility is to patent that process. What has caused such a change in the scientific world? Since when have scientists become so entranced with being rich -- is that what is attracting people to science these days?
I used to think that science was the last field which blatant greed had not infested yet, and I am proven wrong yet again...
I've heard many arguments that the distances needed to be covered did not lend itself to high speed trains. Especially in California where frequent earthquakes occur, wouldn't it be better to simply work on a new air-based transportation?
Ok, I just looked at this box and laughed. It's the Shuttle SB51g with some stuff shoved in it, totaling (if my Pricewatching is correct) just over 800 dollars. Now, perhaps the new Media Center OS is cool -- but to the tune of 1000 more??? I can't find a reason to buy this because we at Slashdot (yes, a generalisation, deal with it) can build our own boxen. And we can run Mandrake 9.0 with KDE 3 and be very happy. *Sigh* Perhaps it's the alienware t-shirt?
On a similar note, I've always thought this would be a very productive way to market products to college students -- especially products like productivity suites, graphic design, and web design. Once you learn a program, you'll stick with it -- Once I get out, I will demand to work only with Photoshop, only with Dreamweaver, and I code ColdFusion. I didn't get these too legally (shoot! no one turn me in!) but once I start "the real world" my employer will shell out for it. On campus here, no one bothers to pirate XP anymore, we just buy it. Yet so many that once thought to look at Linux are back in the M$ camp.
In a recent article we discussed the futility of implementing a detector detector in a network. This seems that this would be one use that would actually help as an extra layer of defense.
I bet you they could patent the explanation of what happened before the Big Bang, seems the Patent Office is willing to buy anybody's story.
I have a question about a possible Microsoft avenue. Do you think Microsoft could sell their source code to a company for x amount of dollars and also require licenses for the derivatives of that modified OS?
Example
ABC Widget company buys the source for XP Pro for $20,000 and then, after modifying XP to actually do the stuff they need, they use 100 copies of it, and they have to pay Microsoft for 100 licenses of XP. Wouldn't this work? I mean, it would allow companies to work on XP, but also allow them to keep making money. One concern might be that the source might "get out" but I'm sure they'd figure out some way to know how it got out and then sue the company for all their worth. Anyways, just an idea, I don't know what yall would think of that...
I noticed that in the article one of their "two" user groups were high end programmers/engineers. There was a quote from a Verizon guy saying: "moving 300 programmers at its nationwide IT facilities from expensive Sun and Hewlett-Packard (HWP) workstations to less expensive models running Linux.".
Is this really a viable option? I'm not talking about "can get along with" software, but truly impressive and equal/better than Sun boxes? If so, and if it's only down to software, where does Sun stand in this?
What about Starbucks? Howard Shultz brought in management (underneath and around him) to help build Starbucks -- he said in his book he just looked at companies 2x his size and found management from there. So, in their case it worked. Or is Starbucks still committed to it's core goal or has it changed?
Yeah, I do support for my university too, and I moved in this girl who has that new 20" from Sony and the worst is that you know that she's just going to be using to for AIM and solitaire...oh, and Morpheus...
Couldn't the same arguments be made for SCSI? And where is it now? Relegated to obscure servers and macs. It has to do with the price -- when will anyone ever realise that?
Especially with mp3 players around, I have a Rio 800 w/ 256 mb and a Creative Nomad Jukebox w/ 20 gig -- I have a small one for running around and the big one for at home and on the road. You just can't compare the ease with which I d/l mp3s and throw it (within 20 seconds) onto my mp3 player and head out the door.
Aren't there Mac versions of Office and Internet Explorer? Wait, that means they're just boasting about the "wonderful" OS. Oh well...
go to sudhian forums to see some freeBSD and Red Hat users discuss how clean it installed, but that there may be some driver issues.
----
Beware of women who pay their rent with one dollar bills
Here is a previous study that is much more interesting and factual, Alice in the Matrix. It's an interesting read with 330 responses that seems to affirm what the article had to say.
I wonder if there have been any studies into the age of gamers (console and PC and any difference there may be). I also wonder if it is a bell curve-shaped age distribution -- meaning, if the average gamer is over 35, does that mean there are just as many gamers older than 35 than younger than 35? Or does it mean that the mean is somewhere between 25-30 and where is the mode(s)? I mean, it could be inverted, with emphasis on the 10-14 yr. olds, and another emphasis on 30-35 yr. olds. Anyways, just doing my statistics hw and trying to find some usefulness for it...
I'm not saying that this "gizmo" is actually forcing the kids to play and that by their not having them would "save them from the cruelty." I'm merely saying that it is a known fact that kids are becoming busier and busier, and regardless of what you do, they will only emulate what our society has placed so much emphasis on. As such, should we not support them in their emulation of us?
I think as a whole community we need to show more support for Red Hat because once people see the advantages of Red Hat, it's not a big jump to find your favorite distro (SuSe for me :-) ) and isn't this what we're wanting to happen?
I have had my Palm Vx since the week it came out when I was in the 8th grade, and it has not only become an important tool, but a necessity. I believe that the children that are being referenced are 13-18 year olds, as well as a nice cheap handheld for college students. We all know that kids are becoming over-involved and juggling many different roles is taxing and stressful on the child. For example, my Junior year of high school, I was class president, president of our schools Linux User Group (all 12 of us!), starting loose prop for our rugby squad, yell leader for our cheer squad, played bass in a band, took 4 AP classes along with the rest of my classes, and had a job with MTV. Now, if I didn't have my palm, I don't think I could have been able to do half of those. I was able to have all my class notes with me at all times (studying at odd times and any place), successfully organise my time, tune my bass guitar, read e-mails on the go, and just generally be more organised.
It is these kinds of students, of which we are seeing more and more, that Palm is finally marketing towards. And at 99 dollars, it's not that bad if it gets stolen -- mine was list at 349 when I bought mine, and I would get worried frequently :)
Now, one problem I see with this strategy is that Palm is going to get people interested in handhelds, but once the consumers see the other products which are clearly superior, they will quickly lose their new converts.
IANAL, but I think it was mentioned here a while ago that if you had direct consent from the artists, no webcasting fees were needed. That was discussed because of the idea of using unsigned bands who would rather get their name out. I know that I've been working on a station and just going to shows and talking to bands with this kind of idea. Good luck...
Dude, read the slashdot article that he linked to -- it's dated April 1. You need to stop, read, react. Same goes for everyone else on Slashdot.
This is so true. I'm a white American but I grew up in Japan, all of my schooling was done in Japanese public school. I am still an outsider. Even though I speak Japanese better than most japanese-americans, I know the cultural nuances and everything, I am still an outsider. And yet the japanese-americans who grew up in suburbia, USA will have more respect than I will ever have. And, yes, there is some bitterness in that...