Linus asserted a while back that he created the original Linux kernel using concepts from Tannebaum's Minix project, but implemented everything on his own without using the source from Minix. I hope I haven't misunderstood this, but I think his views on the BitKeeper thingy is the same.
Mark's argument "software doesn't steal music, people steal music" is the same as the argument that "guns don't kill people, people kill people". Let's get things into perspective. Technology by itself doesn't do anything unless it's applied. People make the decision to use the software and how to use it. The RIAA got it wrong. The MPSS got it right. Discourage people by educating them on how stealing movies is wrong. How you affect all the little guys. Nobody cares if Britney Spears and fat record execs make less money. Really, they don't.
If record companies stopped killing innovative music, then I think people would care about stealing their stuff. If all people can get it trash, and they see it as trash, then they will respect it as trash. Pop music has become trash. Since people see it this way, and that's the only stuff they can get, they steal it cuz it's worth nothing to them anyways.
I bought my PSP value pack for $299.99 from EB Games in Toronto, and I got a 1 year warranty for $30 too. Bought me Wipeout: Pure for $50 (which btw is not the same as Wipeout Fusion at all). I love my PSP. I am buying it for the music, photos, videos and games, not just games. Sony is selling us a portal convergence, not just a retreated PS2. I plan on using my PSP on the subway, which I spend 2 hours on every day. Can I do all of those things on a DS natively? No. I waited for this device because I knew I would put it to good use. I can do everything I would want to do on a portable system now. No wierd hacks. Just hook me up with a 512 MB MS Duo and I'm going to be watching 5 hours of Battlestar Galactica episodes next week!
I hate the theme song too, but I understand the message that it sends out. The spaceflight entrepeneurs have stated some very important things that we as a culture should consider. From Star Trek many things have been inspired by the show. I think Enterprise is getting really good this season, and it would be a shame to close it off without a fight. People want this show to live... I don't want to see it die either. That's why I donated my paltry $15, but hey, it'll pay that camera guy for 1/2 hour of his time. Star Trek has had a cultural impact on our lives, and it is a reflection of what we want to be as a culture and species.
I purposefully left out the part that I was Canadian... so I think my knee-jerk was also a bit emotional. I love Canada. I just wish more people from the US knew more about our great country, instead of just listening to some crap from some airhead about how Canada doesn't deserve to be on the same continent as the US. And the worst thing is that if enough American speople think that Canadians say "aboot" instead of "about" then it will end up in the dictionary. *sigh*
Yah well... I was eating my lunch and I knee jerked... something told me I may have missed the point of the sarcasm. The good news is that my point still stands, and I hope that the people who believe Canada is communist, like Ann Coulter etc., read my comments.
Wow... where did you dig up that up from? You should take a trip to Canada and see that country and meet the people before you spread such obvious disinformation about Canada. Your statements show off your obvious ignorance for a country who is very similar culturally to the US (it has universal healthcare, one of the main differences I think -- incidentally, so does Australia, but they have both a public and private system). If you don't think that the US has its share of lesbian potsmoking terrorist homosexual communists, think again, Mr. Land Of The Free.
Geez, for all the bellyaching I hear about this new service, have you all forgotten that it is in BETA? They're going to adjust the technology... it isn't perfect.
Consider that there are a ton of uber-virgin geeks watching movies that get Oscars... I really think that the industry needs a shot in the arm of credibility. Older gamers are getting sick of crappy game rags with cheat codes and adolescent banter. Magazines like "Play" are better for us older gamers. Shows like "Icons" on G4TechTV are really interesting... let's see more of that kind of analysis and research on our gaming mags!
The industry uses Windows in the office, so.NET is a logical choice. I happen to work for a healthcare services intermediary and I know that using Windows and.NET technologies is part of our ongoing strategy to developing tools to help both sides of the equation: providers of healthcare services and the payers of healthcare services. It's an easy choice. A small fraction of the healthcare market uses J2EE on a client level, and large hospital and physician networks want to use the technology standards that the vast majority speaks n: Microsoft.
Oh it's not branded as VoIP, but I bet the LD that is done through this service is conducted through VoIP. I originally thought VoIP would be competetive, but actually it seems as if everyone's jumping on the VoIP bandwagon.
Rogers has the best deal, if you're their customer
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Rogers has a "Better Bundle Deal" that gives you 15% off all their services if you have two or more services with them. If you are a "Better Bundle Deal" subscriber, then you qualify to get 1000 anytime minutes in North America per month for $0.05/minute up to a maximum of $5/month. The first 100 minutes are billed at the $0.05 rate, and the next 900 are free. After the 1000 minutes are used up, you get a rate of $0.05/minute. Probably the best deal I found so far. It lowered my Bell bill by $70/month!
The only problem I see is validating torrents. The system needs a way to validate if the seeded torrents are good or bogus (ie extra metadata). There's nothing to stop the RIAA and MPAA to releasing bogus material online as it is. This will just keep things working faster in general.
What I really like is that when you search for files that you want, you're searching the.torrent files, not the files the torrent represents. This results in huge performance increases. Also, if.torrents contained more detailed metadata about their contents, this could really improve the reliability of a search on the eXeem network.
Don't forget that bittorrent it is a very efficient protocol for P2P. Even if you're not finished downloading, you can be uploading to someone else:) This takes the burden off of a seeder to serve up a whole community from their own machine.
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Agreed, and also watching someone rub salt into their wounds is sure damn fun too:) The hilarity is that they still haven't fixed it! I'm sure I'm going to be reading about this even in eWeek!
When was the last time you remembered when SCO got "owned"? It's 8:53 as of this writing... does anyone know how long it's been since the defacement has been up?
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Linus asserted a while back that he created the original Linux kernel using concepts from Tannebaum's Minix project, but implemented everything on his own without using the source from Minix. I hope I haven't misunderstood this, but I think his views on the BitKeeper thingy is the same.
If the law dies, what will it's new name be?
Some suggestions I can think of:
Moore's un-Lawful
Moore's Limit
No Moore Room In The Die Law
Moore Or Less Atoms Law
Moore's Suggestion
I guess this says a harder look will be given to outsourcing before actually sending work overseas.
And Google technologies haven't given anything back to society?
People, not computers, have bad grammar. I am not a computer.
Mark's argument "software doesn't steal music, people steal music" is the same as the argument that "guns don't kill people, people kill people". Let's get things into perspective. Technology by itself doesn't do anything unless it's applied. People make the decision to use the software and how to use it. The RIAA got it wrong. The MPSS got it right. Discourage people by educating them on how stealing movies is wrong. How you affect all the little guys. Nobody cares if Britney Spears and fat record execs make less money. Really, they don't.
If record companies stopped killing innovative music, then I think people would care about stealing their stuff. If all people can get it trash, and they see it as trash, then they will respect it as trash. Pop music has become trash. Since people see it this way, and that's the only stuff they can get, they steal it cuz it's worth nothing to them anyways.
People steal music, not software.
I bought my PSP value pack for $299.99 from EB Games in Toronto, and I got a 1 year warranty for $30 too. Bought me Wipeout: Pure for $50 (which btw is not the same as Wipeout Fusion at all). I love my PSP. I am buying it for the music, photos, videos and games, not just games. Sony is selling us a portal convergence, not just a retreated PS2. I plan on using my PSP on the subway, which I spend 2 hours on every day. Can I do all of those things on a DS natively? No. I waited for this device because I knew I would put it to good use. I can do everything I would want to do on a portable system now. No wierd hacks. Just hook me up with a 512 MB MS Duo and I'm going to be watching 5 hours of Battlestar Galactica episodes next week!
Go here to ensure your voice is heard by MS! Tell them you want CSS2 in their new browser!
I hate the theme song too, but I understand the message that it sends out. The spaceflight entrepeneurs have stated some very important things that we as a culture should consider. From Star Trek many things have been inspired by the show. I think Enterprise is getting really good this season, and it would be a shame to close it off without a fight. People want this show to live... I don't want to see it die either. That's why I donated my paltry $15, but hey, it'll pay that camera guy for 1/2 hour of his time. Star Trek has had a cultural impact on our lives, and it is a reflection of what we want to be as a culture and species.
I purposefully left out the part that I was Canadian... so I think my knee-jerk was also a bit emotional. I love Canada. I just wish more people from the US knew more about our great country, instead of just listening to some crap from some airhead about how Canada doesn't deserve to be on the same continent as the US. And the worst thing is that if enough American speople think that Canadians say "aboot" instead of "about" then it will end up in the dictionary. *sigh*
Yah well... I was eating my lunch and I knee jerked... something told me I may have missed the point of the sarcasm. The good news is that my point still stands, and I hope that the people who believe Canada is communist, like Ann Coulter etc., read my comments.
Wow... where did you dig up that up from? You should take a trip to Canada and see that country and meet the people before you spread such obvious disinformation about Canada. Your statements show off your obvious ignorance for a country who is very similar culturally to the US (it has universal healthcare, one of the main differences I think -- incidentally, so does Australia, but they have both a public and private system). If you don't think that the US has its share of lesbian potsmoking terrorist homosexual communists, think again, Mr. Land Of The Free.
Geez, for all the bellyaching I hear about this new service, have you all forgotten that it is in BETA? They're going to adjust the technology... it isn't perfect.
Just thought I'd bring us back to reality.
Consider that there are a ton of uber-virgin geeks watching movies that get Oscars... I really think that the industry needs a shot in the arm of credibility. Older gamers are getting sick of crappy game rags with cheat codes and adolescent banter. Magazines like "Play" are better for us older gamers. Shows like "Icons" on G4TechTV are really interesting... let's see more of that kind of analysis and research on our gaming mags!
The most common computer users haven't even heard of Linux, let alone Firefox.
Definitely my favourite case mod from that series is the last one. Slick, small, and styling!
I think when I looked at the Slashdot profile, it's now #1 for users... 2130+ since I checked it last. We rule!
A case of prior art already exists on this one... Rockstar can't claim any rights for the graffitti patent this time.
The industry uses Windows in the office, so .NET is a logical choice. I happen to work for a healthcare services intermediary and I know that using Windows and .NET technologies is part of our ongoing strategy to developing tools to help both sides of the equation: providers of healthcare services and the payers of healthcare services. It's an easy choice. A small fraction of the healthcare market uses J2EE on a client level, and large hospital and physician networks want to use the technology standards that the vast majority speaks n: Microsoft.
Oh it's not branded as VoIP, but I bet the LD that is done through this service is conducted through VoIP. I originally thought VoIP would be competetive, but actually it seems as if everyone's jumping on the VoIP bandwagon.
Rogers has a "Better Bundle Deal" that gives you 15% off all their services if you have two or more services with them. If you are a "Better Bundle Deal" subscriber, then you qualify to get 1000 anytime minutes in North America per month for $0.05/minute up to a maximum of $5/month. The first 100 minutes are billed at the $0.05 rate, and the next 900 are free. After the 1000 minutes are used up, you get a rate of $0.05/minute. Probably the best deal I found so far. It lowered my Bell bill by $70/month!
Can we eventually inject chicken genes into a soy bean so we can make tofu taste like chicken?
The only problem I see is validating torrents. The system needs a way to validate if the seeded torrents are good or bogus (ie extra metadata). There's nothing to stop the RIAA and MPAA to releasing bogus material online as it is. This will just keep things working faster in general.
.torrent files, not the files the torrent represents. This results in huge performance increases. Also, if .torrents contained more detailed metadata about their contents, this could really improve the reliability of a search on the eXeem network.
:) This takes the burden off of a seeder to serve up a whole community from their own machine.
What I really like is that when you search for files that you want, you're searching the
Don't forget that bittorrent it is a very efficient protocol for P2P. Even if you're not finished downloading, you can be uploading to someone else
Agreed, and also watching someone rub salt into their wounds is sure damn fun too :) The hilarity is that they still haven't fixed it! I'm sure I'm going to be reading about this even in eWeek!
When was the last time you remembered when SCO got "owned"? It's 8:53 as of this writing... does anyone know how long it's been since the defacement has been up?