but if Bill Gates says it too, it must be true:
*BSD is Dying!
It's already a nonfactor as far as BG is concerned.
That said, Linux fills a niche that could otherwise have been filled almost as well by a free / open BSD. (I say "almost" because the license of BSD has lead to fragmentation that created an opening for Linux).
You must be different than me. I find that so long as I'm busy with things I have to do, I relish my free time and always have lots I want to do with it. But when I'm cut loose and have nothing but free time, I waste it all. It's like having ice cream for breakfast lunch and dinner.
Giving people piles of cash in options, is one of the mistakes startups make over and over and over. And this is normal to the process.
Mistake? What are the startups to do then? They pay in options because they want the best people and don't have enough cash to pay them what they're worth.
Besides, for every company like google, there are a thousand other companies who ride their coattails by dangling visions of stock option riches in front of starry-eyed college college dropouts, and 99.9% of the time that big IPO never comes.
There are certain areas that make sense to be centralised;
And those areas are enumerated in the Constitution. Try actually reading the document to see what they are.
Let's not pretend that the Constitution still defines the federal government today, because it looks almost nothing like what the Constitution describes. It's simply easier to ignore the Constitution than to change it. For instance, the power to regulate interstate commerce was interpreted as a license for the federal government to impose civil rights legislation. Everboy knows the Constitution doesn't really give the federal government that power, but since it's for a good cause, what the heck we can ignore it. Education is increasingly the same.
Well airline security wasn't really an issue before Al-Queda's sightseeing tour of New York and DC, either
It was fairly important. That's why the terrorists were unarmed. The only thing that went wrong with airline security on 9/11 was that the pilots and passengers obeyed the terrorists because they were taught that was the best thing to do - except for the last plane, whose passengers got wise and probably stopped the plane from crashing into the White House or Congress.
The problem is that many PC users are doing the cybersecurity equivalent of what some idiot did near my home about fifteen years ago.
No, the "problem" is that "hit by malicious code" doesn't mean much. Lots of people already have spyware-infected computers, and occasionally incur email outages at work due to email virii. It's kind of a pain at the time, but simply doesn't justify the time and expense it would take to prevent or fix.
Imagine the whole country going without grid power for a month or two. Not a pretty picture.
Oh, but imagine if Godzilla went stomping through New York leaving a wake of destruction, it would be even worse.
There isn't going to be a "Digital Pearl Harbor." The important systems connected to the Internet, like banking and the stock market, are already under constant attack for purely financial reasons.
Your argument makes perfect sense to me, but the content producers don't think that way. They say online music service is hampered by the threat of piracy, when all it takes is for one single person to buy a completely unprotected CD at the mall and start uploading, and the cat is out of the bag. How would offering a legit music service worsen matters? Go figure.
Well, what was the situation with the rolls? Mr Rutan said that there was something special about his design that made the incident recoverable, and that the Shuttle would have been lost in the same situation. Based on that, it doesn't sound minor. But I have no idea what he really meant (maybe that Melville saved the craft by disengaging the rockets, which the shuttle's solid boosters cannot do?)
So what was the scoop with the rolls, and why are they not problem enough to delay a retry?
Releasing something newer and better, even ceasing to sell the old model is NOT the same as end-of-lifing! A decent company will continue to support products after it stops selling them for long enough to support most customers.
Imagine if Ford stopped making spare parts next week for the 2004 F150 because this year's model is all new. Nobody expects them to stop innovating, that's not the problem.
That is a bummer, but look at what they were doing for those 3 hours and 20 minutes: "PIM access, working with Pocket Word and Excel documents, viewing photos, watching 30 minutes of videos and surfing the web using WiFi for an hour."
That's a very laptop-like workload! Maybe it would have more traditional PDA battery life if it were tested on more traditional PDA tasks, like sitting in your pocket turned off most of the time until you fire it up for 10 seconds to look up an address.
That said, Windows users that don't want to pay are pirating Windows, so what else is new? Some of them have some more or less convincing, though not legal justifications, which you listed.
But my point is: this really has nothing to do with Linux.
Freenet's data is all encrypted. They wouldn't be able to prove you were sharing illegal content.
My point is that it doesn't matter whether it's encrypted. If a large fraction of the network content is illegal, and if the network randomly distributes the content, then the chance of NOT having any infringing files (or portions of them) is next to zero, easily beyond any reasonable doubt. In other words, willful ignorance of something you had good cause to know might not protect you.
how do they determine just where the thin line of knowingly and willingly is???
Well, I'd say a law like this is the end of distributed content systems like Freenet. Given the percentage of content that violates copyrights, and the way data is spread out and replicated, there is no chance of running a Freenet server without hosting infringing content.
Thus simply participating in the network constitutes "knowingly" distributing copyright material.
Of course precisely the same could be said for telephone networks - they run their services knowing (for certain) that on any given day, many people are using the phone network to break laws, from violations of the national "do not call" list to planning terrorist attacks.
If I vote for Nader, which I might, it will be partly because I didn't want to vote for Bush or Kerry. Like many others, I don't like Bush, but I happen to dislike Kerry equally. The nature of the Bush/Kerry debate is exactly what I don't like about them - they're completely phony.
I can't vote for the lesser of two evils, because I don't view either as much "less evil" overall. Besides, since neither my vote nor that of my entire state have ever mattered in an election, the practical implications of my vote are null. So why lodge a vote I don't feel good about?
Given this, I would be annoyed if my "third-party" vote were interpreted as belonging to Kerry in some way.
4800 DPI scanners yield over 34.5MP in 35mm format and fine grained black & white film can be scanned at even higher resolutions while showing more and more data.
He's a hero because he created something great, that benefits almost everybody.
Had he tried to captialize it, he would have failed to create something as great as the web. He would have created "Online Magazines for GEnie" (or AOL) or some other useless thing. The freeness and openness are precisely what make it great.
Google's a hack. No, really, it tries to extract meaning from web pages that really aren't engineered to store that kind of information.
Granted. Unfortunately, I think we're stuck with it, and the Semantic Web will never catch on.
Having interchangeable data with semantic information is actually a much bigger idea than the WWW itself, in fact. For intance, it would be nice to transfer information about purchases from any cash register to your PDA, then later to Quicken. Technically, it's not *that* hard, but it hasn't happened.
In fact, the Web itself has grown less semantic over time! The original idea for HTML was that you'd mark up content with a description of what it was, rather than how to display it. Then any device could use its "understanding" of the documented (conveyed for instance by paragraph tags) to render the page appropriately. This is an example of a (somewhat) semantic Web.
That idea has been rejected. In the end most Web creators preferred convenience and/or exact control over appearance, in preference over the ability to use the data more flexibly. The popularity of MS Word over TeX is another example. So is the anemic uptake of XML, and more importantly the even slower adption of standardized XML schemata.
Ultimately, semantic information about data has to come from somebody, so it's not free. You have to write extra tags, or put the data into a structured database, or some analogous process, and at this point people invariably do whatever is easiest and cheapest to accomplish the goal at hand.
And that's why we're stuck with (something like) google - because it processes data structured and annotated only about as much as necessary for a human being to use it.
This was a big problem with passive matrix screens.
No, read the article:
Note: This is different than an LCD's response time. Response time measures how quickly an LCD pixel can turn on and off. It's a measurement that is pretty much used to say how much "ghosting" you can expect.
He's talking about fast response time (no ghosting) but noticeable latency between when the signal goes into the monitor and when it starts to be displayed (so he thinks).
To which my question is this: if the monitor is running several frames behind the video card, where are those frames being stored? We're talking about many megabytes of image data here. A single 1600x1200x32bpp frame is over 7 megabytes. The monitor has no buffer that could do such a thing.
To me this points to a cause in the computer rather than the monitor, perhaps in the drivers as others suggested.
Compatibility, that really is the key here. But don't assume devices are compatible just because they are supposed to be! People are reporting very bad compatibility among dual layer DVD writers.
No use listing them if the users can't get there (that's if they're not using one of the proxy's)
Shame on google for supporting China's suppresion of free speech. More shame on google for explaining it away with corporate blabber ("creating the best possible search experience?" barf!) And finally, double shame on you for actually falling for it!
That's Ballmer not Allen. And though the ad is obviously meant to be a takeoff, it is funny to think where Ballmer and Allen would be be if not for MS (and not just to me). From a distance, they certainly seem to be real life Forrest Gumps - not retarded, just out of place at the top of the world. (Kind of like the current POTUS if I do say so.)
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That said, Linux fills a niche that could otherwise have been filled almost as well by a free / open BSD. (I say "almost" because the license of BSD has lead to fragmentation that created an opening for Linux).
You must be different than me. I find that so long as I'm busy with things I have to do, I relish my free time and always have lots I want to do with it. But when I'm cut loose and have nothing but free time, I waste it all. It's like having ice cream for breakfast lunch and dinner.
Mistake? What are the startups to do then? They pay in options because they want the best people and don't have enough cash to pay them what they're worth.
Besides, for every company like google, there are a thousand other companies who ride their coattails by dangling visions of stock option riches in front of starry-eyed college college dropouts, and 99.9% of the time that big IPO never comes.
There isn't going to be a "Digital Pearl Harbor." The important systems connected to the Internet, like banking and the stock market, are already under constant attack for purely financial reasons.
Your argument makes perfect sense to me, but the content producers don't think that way. They say online music service is hampered by the threat of piracy, when all it takes is for one single person to buy a completely unprotected CD at the mall and start uploading, and the cat is out of the bag. How would offering a legit music service worsen matters? Go figure.
So what was the scoop with the rolls, and why are they not problem enough to delay a retry?
On the day of Allawi's speech, The Daily Show also pointed out the similarity in verbiage with the President's speech writers .
Imagine if Ford stopped making spare parts next week for the 2004 F150 because this year's model is all new. Nobody expects them to stop innovating, that's not the problem.
That's a very laptop-like workload! Maybe it would have more traditional PDA battery life if it were tested on more traditional PDA tasks, like sitting in your pocket turned off most of the time until you fire it up for 10 seconds to look up an address.
But my point is: this really has nothing to do with Linux.
Thus simply participating in the network constitutes "knowingly" distributing copyright material.
Of course precisely the same could be said for telephone networks - they run their services knowing (for certain) that on any given day, many people are using the phone network to break laws, from violations of the national "do not call" list to planning terrorist attacks.
Well I do love to code. But frankly I still prefer high pay over low pay, call me crazy.
I can't vote for the lesser of two evils, because I don't view either as much "less evil" overall. Besides, since neither my vote nor that of my entire state have ever mattered in an election, the practical implications of my vote are null. So why lodge a vote I don't feel good about?
Given this, I would be annoyed if my "third-party" vote were interpreted as belonging to Kerry in some way.
Granted, you did say black & white film, and I couldn't find a comparo for that.
Had he tried to captialize it, he would have failed to create something as great as the web. He would have created "Online Magazines for GEnie" (or AOL) or some other useless thing. The freeness and openness are precisely what make it great.
Having interchangeable data with semantic information is actually a much bigger idea than the WWW itself, in fact. For intance, it would be nice to transfer information about purchases from any cash register to your PDA, then later to Quicken. Technically, it's not *that* hard, but it hasn't happened.
In fact, the Web itself has grown less semantic over time! The original idea for HTML was that you'd mark up content with a description of what it was, rather than how to display it. Then any device could use its "understanding" of the documented (conveyed for instance by paragraph tags) to render the page appropriately. This is an example of a (somewhat) semantic Web.
That idea has been rejected. In the end most Web creators preferred convenience and/or exact control over appearance, in preference over the ability to use the data more flexibly. The popularity of MS Word over TeX is another example. So is the anemic uptake of XML, and more importantly the even slower adption of standardized XML schemata.
Ultimately, semantic information about data has to come from somebody, so it's not free. You have to write extra tags, or put the data into a structured database, or some analogous process, and at this point people invariably do whatever is easiest and cheapest to accomplish the goal at hand.
And that's why we're stuck with (something like) google - because it processes data structured and annotated only about as much as necessary for a human being to use it.
To which my question is this: if the monitor is running several frames behind the video card, where are those frames being stored? We're talking about many megabytes of image data here. A single 1600x1200x32bpp frame is over 7 megabytes. The monitor has no buffer that could do such a thing.
To me this points to a cause in the computer rather than the monitor, perhaps in the drivers as others suggested.
Compatibility, that really is the key here. But don't assume devices are compatible just because they are supposed to be! People are reporting very bad compatibility among dual layer DVD writers.
That's Ballmer not Allen. And though the ad is obviously meant to be a takeoff, it is funny to think where Ballmer and Allen would be be if not for MS (and not just to me). From a distance, they certainly seem to be real life Forrest Gumps - not retarded, just out of place at the top of the world. (Kind of like the current POTUS if I do say so.)
Hey genius, "torrent" has nothing to do with IGS - except now you can use bittorrent to download a bootable GO CD which includes IGS clients.