Parent should have been modded up as insightful, rather than merely funny. How can MS with a straight face say they are about "long-term customer value" when they design for short-term (3 years or so) obsolescence?
Seti@Home packets are what, 700 kB? 700 kB * 140 / 1024 = 96 megabytes . If your computers turn around an average of 2 work units per day you get 192 megabytes per day. If you stagger the installations (which you will have to do anyway), you're likely to end up with a load of maybe 50 kB/s extra traffic on your network (rough guess; if you actually could distribute it perfectly it would be about 2300 bytes per second).
Hm, I can maybe see that as a problem.
My younger brother's cat fetches. Beads, mostly. I've got it on videotape, because I couldn't believe it at first. He also likes to sleep in the refrigerator (obviously they don't let that go on for more than 10 minutes).
U2, Peter Gabriel, and Rush have all had new albums in the past 18 months. Indeed, Gabriel has had 3 new albums since the millennium, though only one is a classic studio album (Ovo, the soundtrack to the millennium celebrations, which I think is at best overwrought; The Long Walk Home, the soundtrack to The Rabbit-Proof Fence, which is quite good, maybe as good as Passion, and Up, which is spectacularly good in places - e.g., Signal to Noise and Sky Blue). U2's new album was also quite good, if not quite up to the quality of say Achtung Baby or Joshua Tree.
The problem isn't the music, it's the marketing: the record companies only want to sell pablum to teenagers. There are good bands out there, the old ones still doing their stuff and new ones with real quality (Radiohead obviously isn't a "new" band, but they are a nineties - oughts band, and their work is head and shoulders above most of the stuff you find in your local record store, just to mention the most obviously commercial example). But the money is spent pushing JLo and Justin Timberlake and American Idol because the record companies have *created* the bands and can *control* them from start to finish.
One thing that a lot of people seem to ignore is that most people are pretty clueless about the relatively easy methods of circumvention.
Then again, for a while now those people are also the least likely to try to copy a CD so I guess there is some truthfulness to the original claim.
On the other hand, those same people probably wouldn't notice the difference between a digital copy and a simple analog copy; and so far as I can tell, noone is talking about CD copy protection that would ban analog copying.
Libertarian, probably. Librarian's knowledge, doubt it. He doesn't seem to be aware that fighting things like
Homelessness, hunger, youth without hope, etc.
have been considered part of the responsibility of states since the days when there was a grain subsidy in democratic Athens.
Ultimately in a state with an unregulated economy there will be a tendency for the economically strong to victimize the economically weak, as in a state without a system of justic there will be a tendency for the physically strong to victimize the physically weak (philosophical justifications for "might makes right" date back to the Chinese Legalists and the more abhorrent of the Greek Sophists). The purpose of a state is to provide an organizational framework for the weak many to fight back against the strong few, whether it is a tribe fighting hyenas in the paleolithic savannas, the swordless peasants fighting the well-heeled, and well-armed, nobility in 18th-century France or medieval China, a union fighting a robber baron in 19th century England or America, or a superpower fighting a BW-toting lunatic in the No-Fly Zone in the 21st century. The "power" that the state is meant to fight may manifest itself as military strength or economic dominance. The libertarian would divorce these kinds of power from one another, as though economic dominance cannot be used to oppress the weak. This is to forget one's medieval history.
You have to unlink these. What ESR does with his money is irrelevant to what Bill Gates does with his money. And on the level of knowing how to spend his money, Gates has to be given credit for donating a cool 1G$ to fight disease among children in 3d world countries. Maybe ESR also donates a good chunk of his income to charity. If so, they're both good people, and comparing them as philanthropists is nonsense.
Now, if you're asking about generosity with "intellectual property," it's hard to beat people like ESR, RMS, and TBL.
Keep in mind that a lot of these countries still haven't worked their way past the fruits of colonialism: corruption (inspired largely by abrupt transitions from colonialism to democracy without the development of a social and political infrastructure to fight corruption), ethnic violence (the boundaries of most of the debtor countries outside South America were the result of negotiations between colonial powers and do not reflect the geographical or cultural realities of the states that resulted from decolonialization), etc.
This at a time when places like Panama ban cheaper means of communication and places like India instead of combating absolute illiteracy and hunger, run out to make PDAs.
You think India is doing nothing to combat illiteracy and hunger?
By the way, why do you think they're building those PDAs? To make products that will be bought either by the developed world or bought by the wealthy in the developing world in place of imports from developed industrial countries. Either way, it puts more money in the pockets of locals, and diversifies the economy.
Google (essentially) does a single thing over and over again. unix is great for that. If I was building a chess playing computer or a FFT solver, I'd use a unix clone too, and probably a free one at that.
But don't compare that to general purpose business computing.
You're going to have to back that statement up, mumbles. Can you define a group of five "general purpose business computing" applications (meaning tasks rather than products) that a non-UNIX does better than a UNIX?
Does/. often post stories "previous version of Internet Explorer had 6 security bugs" when the current patch has already fixed them? Seems to me that Mozilla's response was pretty quick...
they'll probably be able to knock at least one CD off the distro if they do that (drop emacs in favor of vi).
Maybe so, but you'd lose functionality: you'd no longer be able to read your email and control your washing machine with one keybinding from the same text editor.
Whether it is a big deal or not all depends on how one defines "disclose." My own guess is that they will make one or two superficial changes and claim they've complied.
Well, Bushy got what he wanted, and I suspect that the judgment precludes any future administration from pursuing the case until such time as MS can be shown to be materially in violation of this agreement.
But IANAL, and a lawyer might have other ideas about this.
While I don't agree with it, I think what they are saying is that if a site doesn't publish a URL (usually through a link, but could be in print, etc) it is not public information and accessing it is unauthorised access.
Problem is, they are wrong. If I accidently include a page of proprietary information in a book that's not covered by an NDA, but don't list it in the table of contents, does that make it illegal for anyone else to read it? Nonsense. Posting to a publicly accessible un-passworded non-ip-filtered web site is *by definition* an act of publication. If they want to set up the site before going public, put it on a blocked-off development server or change the.htaccess file.
Without any new farscape episodes after the wrap up of this season, and if there were no more episodes of stargate sg1 after this series, would there really be anything worth watching anymore on scifi? (besides of course the good episodes of both when they are in reruns, but even that gets boring after repeated viewing)
No. In fact, I wouldn't include SG-1 in that list, which is at best a guilty pleasure. I'm just going to buy the Farscape DVDs and stop watching SciFi altogether.
Guy just handed me a disk to install. Didn't work on XP Pro. Called up ATTBI, they had me register the cable modem via their web site and set up on their proxy (which proxy I promptly dumped when I got off the phone). Didn't install anything else.
I probably didn't even have to worry about hiding my Linux boot disk.
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Parent should have been modded up as insightful, rather than merely funny. How can MS with a straight face say they are about "long-term customer value" when they design for short-term (3 years or so) obsolescence?
Seti@Home packets are what, 700 kB? 700 kB * 140 / 1024 = 96 megabytes . If your computers turn around an average of 2 work units per day you get 192 megabytes per day. If you stagger the installations (which you will have to do anyway), you're likely to end up with a load of maybe 50 kB/s extra traffic on your network (rough guess; if you actually could distribute it perfectly it would be about 2300 bytes per second). Hm, I can maybe see that as a problem.
Your version of lazy-admin syndrome is my version of smart admins use persistant URIs; or, as Tim Berners-Lee put it, "Cool URIs Don't Change."
My younger brother's cat fetches. Beads, mostly. I've got it on videotape, because I couldn't believe it at first. He also likes to sleep in the refrigerator (obviously they don't let that go on for more than 10 minutes).
And I'm going to buy it; books like this, and Dawkin's Blind Watchmaker, are absolutely essential.
U2, Peter Gabriel, and Rush have all had new albums in the past 18 months. Indeed, Gabriel has had 3 new albums since the millennium, though only one is a classic studio album (Ovo, the soundtrack to the millennium celebrations, which I think is at best overwrought; The Long Walk Home, the soundtrack to The Rabbit-Proof Fence, which is quite good, maybe as good as Passion, and Up, which is spectacularly good in places - e.g., Signal to Noise and Sky Blue). U2's new album was also quite good, if not quite up to the quality of say Achtung Baby or Joshua Tree.
The problem isn't the music, it's the marketing: the record companies only want to sell pablum to teenagers. There are good bands out there, the old ones still doing their stuff and new ones with real quality (Radiohead obviously isn't a "new" band, but they are a nineties - oughts band, and their work is head and shoulders above most of the stuff you find in your local record store, just to mention the most obviously commercial example). But the money is spent pushing JLo and Justin Timberlake and American Idol because the record companies have *created* the bands and can *control* them from start to finish.
One thing that a lot of people seem to ignore is that most people are pretty clueless about the relatively easy methods of circumvention. Then again, for a while now those people are also the least likely to try to copy a CD so I guess there is some truthfulness to the original claim.
On the other hand, those same people probably wouldn't notice the difference between a digital copy and a simple analog copy; and so far as I can tell, noone is talking about CD copy protection that would ban analog copying.
Leave it to the british to add up to ~140% on a poll graph.
The questions aren't exclusive, and people who copy software can also answer yes to copying audio.
On the other hand, it could just be that the poll is automajicly adding VAT.
/kalidasa ducks
Libertarian, probably. Librarian's knowledge, doubt it. He doesn't seem to be aware that fighting things like Homelessness, hunger, youth without hope, etc. have been considered part of the responsibility of states since the days when there was a grain subsidy in democratic Athens.
Ultimately in a state with an unregulated economy there will be a tendency for the economically strong to victimize the economically weak, as in a state without a system of justic there will be a tendency for the physically strong to victimize the physically weak (philosophical justifications for "might makes right" date back to the Chinese Legalists and the more abhorrent of the Greek Sophists). The purpose of a state is to provide an organizational framework for the weak many to fight back against the strong few, whether it is a tribe fighting hyenas in the paleolithic savannas, the swordless peasants fighting the well-heeled, and well-armed, nobility in 18th-century France or medieval China, a union fighting a robber baron in 19th century England or America, or a superpower fighting a BW-toting lunatic in the No-Fly Zone in the 21st century. The "power" that the state is meant to fight may manifest itself as military strength or economic dominance. The libertarian would divorce these kinds of power from one another, as though economic dominance cannot be used to oppress the weak. This is to forget one's medieval history.
You have to unlink these. What ESR does with his money is irrelevant to what Bill Gates does with his money. And on the level of knowing how to spend his money, Gates has to be given credit for donating a cool 1G$ to fight disease among children in 3d world countries. Maybe ESR also donates a good chunk of his income to charity. If so, they're both good people, and comparing them as philanthropists is nonsense.
Now, if you're asking about generosity with "intellectual property," it's hard to beat people like ESR, RMS, and TBL.
Keep in mind that a lot of these countries still haven't worked their way past the fruits of colonialism: corruption (inspired largely by abrupt transitions from colonialism to democracy without the development of a social and political infrastructure to fight corruption), ethnic violence (the boundaries of most of the debtor countries outside South America were the result of negotiations between colonial powers and do not reflect the geographical or cultural realities of the states that resulted from decolonialization), etc.
This at a time when places like Panama ban cheaper means of communication and places like India instead of combating absolute illiteracy and hunger, run out to make PDAs.
You think India is doing nothing to combat illiteracy and hunger?
By the way, why do you think they're building those PDAs? To make products that will be bought either by the developed world or bought by the wealthy in the developing world in place of imports from developed industrial countries. Either way, it puts more money in the pockets of locals, and diversifies the economy.
Google (essentially) does a single thing over and over again. unix is great for that. If I was building a chess playing computer or a FFT solver, I'd use a unix clone too, and probably a free one at that. But don't compare that to general purpose business computing.
You're going to have to back that statement up, mumbles. Can you define a group of five "general purpose business computing" applications (meaning tasks rather than products) that a non-UNIX does better than a UNIX?
It is also officially certified as a UNIX. So yeah, OS X = UNIX.
Does /. often post stories "previous version of Internet Explorer had 6 security bugs" when the current patch has already fixed them? Seems to me that Mozilla's response was pretty quick...
The human brain is never hardwired to look at a TV or movie screen at 24fps and think "this is a story."
For the record, NTSC is 29.97 fps.
How's that misuse of grok? I wouldn't put "truly grok" together, but I think Jubal does at least once.
BBEdit is great as far as it goes, but I like the fact that OS X can have both BBEdit and emacs.
they'll probably be able to knock at least one CD off the distro if they do that (drop emacs in favor of vi).
Maybe so, but you'd lose functionality: you'd no longer be able to read your email and control your washing machine with one keybinding from the same text editor.
emacs is very large: it contains multitudes.
Sounds like a candidate for Slashdot interviews to me.
I was under the impression that Enlightenment allows non-rectangular windows.
Whether it is a big deal or not all depends on how one defines "disclose." My own guess is that they will make one or two superficial changes and claim they've complied.
Well, Bushy got what he wanted, and I suspect that the judgment precludes any future administration from pursuing the case until such time as MS can be shown to be materially in violation of this agreement.
But IANAL, and a lawyer might have other ideas about this.
While I don't agree with it, I think what they are saying is that if a site doesn't publish a URL (usually through a link, but could be in print, etc) it is not public information and accessing it is unauthorised access.
Problem is, they are wrong. If I accidently include a page of proprietary information in a book that's not covered by an NDA, but don't list it in the table of contents, does that make it illegal for anyone else to read it? Nonsense. Posting to a publicly accessible un-passworded non-ip-filtered web site is *by definition* an act of publication. If they want to set up the site before going public, put it on a blocked-off development server or change the .htaccess file.
Without any new farscape episodes after the wrap up of this season, and if there were no more episodes of stargate sg1 after this series, would there really be anything worth watching anymore on scifi? (besides of course the good episodes of both when they are in reruns, but even that gets boring after repeated viewing)
No. In fact, I wouldn't include SG-1 in that list, which is at best a guilty pleasure. I'm just going to buy the Farscape DVDs and stop watching SciFi altogether.
Slashcode + Kuro5hin content = brak.slashdot.org
Guy just handed me a disk to install. Didn't work on XP Pro. Called up ATTBI, they had me register the cable modem via their web site and set up on their proxy (which proxy I promptly dumped when I got off the phone). Didn't install anything else. I probably didn't even have to worry about hiding my Linux boot disk.