The language is sufficiently vauge such that either your interpretation, or the interpretation that Linus prefers x86-64 to IA-64 could be the correct interpretation. My guess is it's the latter. Too bad English isn't as precise as c++.
Although I don't think people should pirate software, I don't see p2p sharing of songs as a copyright violation, regardless of what the RIAA says. Since the RIAA pays to play this music on the radio, it seems to me they have effectively given up their copyright on the airplayed music, after which it is public domain. This doesn't include all the tracks on a CD, however, just the ones that get airplay. If you want the rest, you should have to buy the CD.
Whether or not your assertion is true, it's up to the company making the software whether it's worth it to give away software for educational purposes, even if they can make more money overall by giving it away. It's not up to some arbitrary government to decide to ignore software piracy in education, for "the public good", especially if the companies making the software don't reside in the country in question.
Ahh, The bill doesn't say anything about big business. I presume anyone holding a copyright to something could be exempt from prosecution if the DoS attack meets the criteria outlined in the bill
Even if you could justify DoSing machines that are ditributing your copyrighted material freely, you may also be blocking other perfectly legitimate services provided by that machine such as other web pages, mail, etc.
Why does everyone think they have a right to privacy while driving on a PUBLIC road. The govt. has the right to enact whatever measures they feel are necessary to promote safe driving. Since they can't afford to put a police officer in everyone's car, I think this is a good substitute. People who complain about this are similar to those who don't like the traffic light cameras that record a person running a red light. They just don't like the idea that they'll be caught 100% of the time.
Ahh. If you got a speeding ticket in the mail because your black box says you were doing 85 in a 65 MPH zone, that would be a deterent to bad driving. Hook up a breathalyzer to the ignition system and you'd really save a lot of lives.
Last I heard, hacking was illegal. What the Italian police did was a clear case of hacking against a US site, assuming they didn't have the Italian citizen's permission.
Your analogy is terrible. Micorsoft has a very legitimate solution to a real problem. Unfortunately, slashdot will post any conspiracy theory that's pro-linux over real news that's pro-Microsoft.
For a site which claims to present news, slashdot is very biased. The only articles about Palladium I've seen are about how it's going to kill open-source. Now, let's think rationally. Most hardware manufacturers do not like MS. Therefore it is unlikely they'll elect MS to be the person to keep the list of programs that are considered safe to run on your computer. Even if they did, there'll probably be an option in the BIOS to turn off Palladium if you don't want it. Then you can freely run linux just like before. On the other hand, if linux chooses to use palladium, then it will be much less vulnerable to being hacked.
Does the water pump use significantly more power than a fan? I wonder what the effect on the battery lifetime is.
Re:Near term chips won't be fully asynchronous
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Actually, you could use the techniques outlined in the article to pipeline asynchronously. However, the added hardware is cumbersome. Therefore, I think the best approach is still large synchronous block with asynchronous hand-shaking between them, as outlined in the article.
Whoever gave this jerk a 5 is a crappy moderator. It's obvious MAc fanatic BS. For instance, I can get a Windows compatible MP3 player for a lot cheaper than an iPod. Wireless networking has been available on Windows for some time. Under Windows, IM clients are available for free from a number of sources. AntiSpam software is also available. Wireless networking has been available for Windows for some time now. etc. When will Mac fanatics realize the concept of the Turing machine and stop buying overpriced hardware?
Near term chips won't be fully asynchronous
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In the near-term chips using this asynchronous approach will most likely still be clocked, but will have a number of different blocks with independent clocks, and some asynchronous hand-shaking interfaces between them. This is because pipelining is a useful technique for parallelizing operations at the instruction level, but is difficult to do without a clock. Without a clock you need to investigate wave pipelining.
A unix administrator probably makes about $20000
a year more than a windows administrator. If he's administering 100 machines, that's $200 per machine per year. If Windows is $500 every three years or so, you save a little money using Windows overall. The moral of the story. Make Linux simpler to maintain. It costs businesses money to hire someone who knows you need to edit/etc/hosts to change a machines IP, etc.
Since AT&T has had competition from MCI, Sprint, Verizon, etc., the price for a long distance call has dropped dramatically. And yet, despite which carrier I choose, I can call anyone I know with normal phone service, no matter which carriers they've chosen. I believe a similar system for the internet is the best way to lower costs, improve efficiency, etc. The govt. on the other hand doesn't have the same incentive if the internet were made a utility. Therefore, in this case, you get whatever they feel like giving you, at whatever price they decide to set. The govt. has no motivation to make it cheaper or better.
Competition is a great motivator. It gives a company incentive to improve its products in order to sell more units and make more money. In this instance, a govt. run internet has no competition, and therefore will remain just good enough, except maybe in election years, when politicians want votes.
I doubt a G4 is the best performing processor on the market. Just because you say so doesn't make it true. Show some benchmarks to back up your assertion. BTW,I put together a high end PC with
a 1.48 GHz Athlon, 256 MB RAM, 40 GB hard drive,,GeFORCE 3 Video Card, Windows, etc. for about $900. I don't think you can get a MAC that cheaply. You forgot to include Apples price maekup in your cost analysis. They charge more for a PC because they have no direct competition. You can thank Steve Jobs for that since he killed the Apple clone market.
Ahh, I bought WinXP for $90. Get your facts straight before you call someone stupid. You
might find out your the one who's stupid. Win
2000 is meant for servers, not home users.
I believe Apple will have no choice but to implement palladium as well so Mac users can
download movies from Blockbuster in a
manner compatible with the DRM set up by the
MPAA, Otherwise users will download movies
and share them with everyone else on the net.
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The language is sufficiently vauge such that either your interpretation, or the interpretation that Linus prefers x86-64 to IA-64 could be the correct interpretation. My guess is it's the latter. Too bad English isn't as precise as c++.
Although I don't think people should pirate software, I don't see p2p sharing of songs as a copyright violation, regardless of what the RIAA says. Since the RIAA pays to play this music on the radio, it seems to me they have effectively given up their copyright on the airplayed music, after which it is public domain. This doesn't include all the tracks on a CD, however, just the ones that get airplay. If you want the rest, you should have to buy the CD.
Whether or not your assertion is true, it's up to the company making the software whether it's worth it to give away software for educational purposes, even if they can make more money overall by giving it away. It's not up to some arbitrary government to decide to ignore software piracy in education, for "the public good", especially if the companies making the software don't reside in the country in question.
Ahh, The bill doesn't say anything about big business. I presume anyone holding a copyright to something could be exempt from prosecution if the DoS attack meets the criteria outlined in the bill
Even if you could justify DoSing machines that are ditributing your copyrighted material freely, you may also be blocking other perfectly legitimate services provided by that machine such as other web pages, mail, etc.
Where in my post did I claim you did?
Why does everyone think they have a right to privacy while driving on a PUBLIC road. The govt. has the right to enact whatever measures they feel are necessary to promote safe driving. Since they can't afford to put a police officer in everyone's car, I think this is a good substitute. People who complain about this are similar to those who don't like the traffic light cameras that record a person running a red light. They just don't like the idea that they'll be caught 100% of the time.
Ahh. If you got a speeding ticket in the mail because your black box says you were doing 85 in a 65 MPH zone, that would be a deterent to bad driving. Hook up a breathalyzer to the ignition system and you'd really save a lot of lives.
I'd love it if my insurance company told me they'd cut my rate in half if I installed a black box and it never reported any reckless driving.
Last I heard, hacking was illegal. What the Italian police did was a clear case of hacking against a US site, assuming they didn't have the Italian citizen's permission.
Your analogy is terrible. Micorsoft has a very legitimate solution to a real problem. Unfortunately, slashdot will post any conspiracy theory that's pro-linux over real news that's pro-Microsoft.
For a site which claims to present news, slashdot is very biased. The only articles about Palladium I've seen are about how it's going to kill open-source. Now, let's think rationally. Most hardware manufacturers do not like MS. Therefore it is unlikely they'll elect MS to be the person to keep the list of programs that are considered safe to run on your computer. Even if they did, there'll probably be an option in the BIOS to turn off Palladium if you don't want it. Then you can freely run linux just like before. On the other hand, if linux chooses to use palladium, then it will be much less vulnerable to being hacked.
Does the water pump use significantly more power than a fan? I wonder what the effect on the battery lifetime is.
Actually, you could use the techniques outlined in the article to pipeline asynchronously. However, the added hardware is cumbersome. Therefore, I think the best approach is still large synchronous block with asynchronous hand-shaking between them, as outlined in the article.
I spend much of my time at work designing clock recovery circuits. Guess I'll be joining the unemployed soon?!?
Whoever gave this jerk a 5 is a crappy moderator. It's obvious MAc fanatic BS. For instance, I can get a Windows compatible MP3 player for a lot cheaper than an iPod. Wireless networking has been available on Windows for some time. Under Windows, IM clients are available for free from a number of sources. AntiSpam software is also available. Wireless networking has been available for Windows for some time now. etc. When will Mac fanatics realize the concept of the Turing machine and stop buying overpriced hardware?
In the near-term chips using this asynchronous approach will most likely still be clocked, but will have a number of different blocks with independent clocks, and some asynchronous hand-shaking interfaces between them. This is because pipelining is a useful technique for parallelizing operations at the instruction level, but is difficult to do without a clock. Without a clock you need to investigate wave pipelining.
A unix administrator probably makes about $20000 a year more than a windows administrator. If he's administering 100 machines, that's $200 per machine per year. If Windows is $500 every three years or so, you save a little money using Windows overall. The moral of the story. Make Linux simpler to maintain. It costs businesses money to hire someone who knows you need to edit /etc/hosts to change a machines IP, etc.
Since AT&T has had competition from MCI, Sprint, Verizon, etc., the price for a long distance call has dropped dramatically. And yet, despite which carrier I choose, I can call anyone I know with normal phone service, no matter which carriers they've chosen. I believe a similar system for the internet is the best way to lower costs, improve efficiency, etc. The govt. on the other hand doesn't have the same incentive if the internet were made a utility. Therefore, in this case, you get whatever they feel like giving you, at whatever price they decide to set. The govt. has no motivation to make it cheaper or better.
Competition is a great motivator. It gives a company incentive to improve its products in order to sell more units and make more money. In this instance, a govt. run internet has no competition, and therefore will remain just good enough, except maybe in election years, when politicians want votes.
I doubt a G4 is the best performing processor on the market. Just because you say so doesn't make it true. Show some benchmarks to back up your assertion. BTW,I put together a high end PC with a 1.48 GHz Athlon, 256 MB RAM, 40 GB hard drive, ,GeFORCE 3 Video Card, Windows, etc. for about $900. I don't think you can get a MAC that cheaply. You forgot to include Apples price maekup in your cost analysis. They charge more for a PC because they have no direct competition. You can thank Steve Jobs for that since he killed the Apple clone market.
I prefer a Turing machine, myself. The infinite tape takes up a lot of space though.
Ahh, I bought WinXP for $90. Get your facts straight before you call someone stupid. You might find out your the one who's stupid. Win 2000 is meant for servers, not home users.
I believe Apple will have no choice but to implement palladium as well so Mac users can download movies from Blockbuster in a manner compatible with the DRM set up by the MPAA, Otherwise users will download movies and share them with everyone else on the net.