Mr. Edwards gained quite a reputation both in NC and nation wide as an extremely aggressive attorney. Living in NC for most of my life, I got to see many effects of his record setting medical settlements and jury awards on both the patients and doctors. If he can do the same things for Second Life, then it probably won't last much longer...:~}
iriver took them (ogg group) up on the offer and provided them some prototype players to use for testing and development. I own a T10 1GB flash based MP3/ogg player because they took the time to both seriously reach out to the OS community and then incorporate the efforts. They also listened to their user community and now offer a supported method for switching some of their players between MTP (ms transfer protocol WMP10) and standard usb flash drive modes. No more hoops to jump through for linux based transfers and I can easily switch back to the default DRM'd mode... *cough*
But, to be more on topic, I'm excited to see an outreach program from the OSS community with what seems to be a very professionally presented plan. If some companies were interested in expanding their market into the Linux/*BSD domain and had no clue about how to proceed, they now have some guidance and a reasonable path to explore.
Now I can take a well-configured Linux lappy to the airport, hook up through these bad guys, and make extra sure to do everything illegal, immoral, and dangerous I can think of over their pipe without a smidgen of guilt. Woo and yay!
Sounds like a great idea. If you have enough time between flights you may want to fire up nmap and nessus against *.fbi.gov and *.cia.gov and just wait... and watch...
Well, they would have a really difficult time turning my linux based portable into a zombie. I guess that would be risk free wifi for me, Yeah! Oh, and while in public, I use stunnel to a secure server. Sniff all of the data you want while I use your free wireless.
Hmmm, you may want to change banks. My account balance is always accurate, with two different banks. I don't know anyone that has a consistent problem with their account balance.
Aside from games that have fizzled, I lament the passing of both the Thief and System Shock series. Company (mis?)managment has probably killed most of the great gaming franchises that died in their prime. Hopefully Bioshock will make it to release and System Shock will kinda, sorta live again...
Remember that several game developers had their funding cut so Daikatana could see the light of day ( at a burn rate of $1,000,000US per month).
It will require a drop of your blood to authenticate the customized drm. As an added bonus, it will also perform a pregnancy test, which will be handy seeing as how you've just been fucked...
Killing creatures for *recreation* is fundamentally unethical because the hunter is inflicting suffering as a part of merely obtaining recreation.
That is not hunting, it's what punk kids do when shooting arrows at the geese in the park.
All of the hunters I know ( including myself) eat what we take. I've also shot wild boar that had moved into the woods next to a development where children routinely played. Even that was donated to a poorer family that did indeed eat most of the meat.
I've been to the namesys website and haven't found anything about the Hans Reiser arrest. If it is more than a one man show, then they should have a prominent statement about their intention to continue development regardless of the outcome. Not seeing something to that effect after this mych time would make me quite nervous if I had a business or product that relied on continued development of the ReiserFS line. Seems as if Namesys is accepting the inevitable demise of the whole organization at this point; I hope that changes.
I was using some real numbers to respond to the "1000A at a mere 60KV" comment of the parent and other posters. They were using some numbers that were way out of range for this application. Yeah, I also think that $0.18 KW/hr is a bit high around here too, but the area is nice.
Someone's math is a little off. Around here, $9 of juice is 50KW/hr or a 600KW charge rate for the 5 minute span described. With a 7200v feed line (fairly common power line), we are talking around 85A after figuring in some conversion loss. I would figure a longer 10 or 15 minute charge time would make for a more consumer friendly product and could easily be incorporated into existing business models, like McDonalds for instance. Go in with your family for a quick lunch and charge your car at the same time.
I gather it is because of the act of taking on the responsibility of making a solution fit the problem. In a commercial or consulting role, someone claims to have a solution ( or be capable of creating one) that will solve the problems at hand. When a manager ( especialy within the DoD) gives the okay for a canned solution, the responsibilites are already diluted, meaning that if the solution has already been working for others, it is safe to assume that it will work for your organization. If it fails to do so, the manager can point to the other successful implementations and list the differences between your actual needs and the products capabilities. The vendor can then tailor the app more closely to your needs and the manager still looks good.
If we apply the same standards to Opensource, we can look at established projects like Apache, Mysql or even Openoffice and they are still safe because others are successfully using the software, it is not really a matter of a central point for support. For a manager to okay a more obscure project for implementation means taking on a much greater and unknown responsibility.
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Mr. Edwards gained quite a reputation both in NC and nation wide as an extremely aggressive attorney. Living in NC for most of my life, I got to see many effects of his record setting medical settlements and jury awards on both the patients and doctors. If he can do the same things for Second Life, then it probably won't last much longer... :~}
Now, these are the features that should make SCOX afraid for their companies value.
iriver took them (ogg group) up on the offer and provided them some prototype players to use for testing and development. I own a T10 1GB flash based MP3/ogg player because they took the time to both seriously reach out to the OS community and then incorporate the efforts. They also listened to their user community and now offer a supported method for switching some of their players between MTP (ms transfer protocol WMP10) and standard usb flash drive modes. No more hoops to jump through for linux based transfers and I can easily switch back to the default DRM'd mode... *cough*
But, to be more on topic, I'm excited to see an outreach program from the OSS community with what seems to be a very professionally presented plan. If some companies were interested in expanding their market into the Linux/*BSD domain and had no clue about how to proceed, they now have some guidance and a reasonable path to explore.
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If you use a CA, stunnel is quite secure. If you search, certificates are available for less than $20/year.
Well, they would have a really difficult time turning my linux based portable into a zombie. I guess that would be risk free wifi for me, Yeah! Oh, and while in public, I use stunnel to a secure server. Sniff all of the data you want while I use your free wireless.
Hmmm, you may want to change banks. My account balance is always accurate, with two different banks. I don't know anyone that has a consistent problem with their account balance.
I just found a new article on Bioshock. It is great to see much progress on the project.
Aside from games that have fizzled, I lament the passing of both the Thief and System Shock series. Company (mis?)managment has probably killed most of the great gaming franchises that died in their prime. Hopefully Bioshock will make it to release and System Shock will kinda, sorta live again...
Remember that several game developers had their funding cut so Daikatana could see the light of day ( at a burn rate of $1,000,000US per month).
You mean MS BOB? Yeah, most of us saw it and the only good thing that came out of the project was Billy boy found his wife...
Vista RC2 was available via several legal methods. Why accuse them of running a pirated version?
Coming in the near future...
It will require a drop of your blood to authenticate the customized drm. As an added bonus, it will also perform a pregnancy test, which will be handy seeing as how you've just been fucked...
That is not hunting, it's what punk kids do when shooting arrows at the geese in the park.
All of the hunters I know ( including myself) eat what we take. I've also shot wild boar that had moved into the woods next to a development where children routinely played. Even that was donated to a poorer family that did indeed eat most of the meat.
No, wrong one. Ballmer obviously wants to be Steve Urkel
Actually, the three branches of the US government are: Executive, Legislative and Judical.
That would be a great disturbance in the Farce.
I've been to the namesys website and haven't found anything about the Hans Reiser arrest. If it is more than a one man show, then they should have a prominent statement about their intention to continue development regardless of the outcome. Not seeing something to that effect after this mych time would make me quite nervous if I had a business or product that relied on continued development of the ReiserFS line. Seems as if Namesys is accepting the inevitable demise of the whole organization at this point; I hope that changes.
Wow! No wonder time seems to really drag by when I pull my finger...
Hmmm, I wonder how long it will be before someone is able to get Wine to run the WGA utils well enough to get accepted as genuine.
42%? I guess that is why WGA should be described as "Mostly harmless" rather than "nearly flawless".
I was using some real numbers to respond to the "1000A at a mere 60KV" comment of the parent and other posters. They were using some numbers that were way out of range for this application. Yeah, I also think that $0.18 KW/hr is a bit high around here too, but the area is nice.
Someone's math is a little off. Around here, $9 of juice is 50KW/hr or a 600KW charge rate for the 5 minute span described. With a 7200v feed line (fairly common power line), we are talking around 85A after figuring in some conversion loss. I would figure a longer 10 or 15 minute charge time would make for a more consumer friendly product and could easily be incorporated into existing business models, like McDonalds for instance. Go in with your family for a quick lunch and charge your car at the same time.
I gather it is because of the act of taking on the responsibility of making a solution fit the problem. In a commercial or consulting role, someone claims to have a solution ( or be capable of creating one) that will solve the problems at hand. When a manager ( especialy within the DoD) gives the okay for a canned solution, the responsibilites are already diluted, meaning that if the solution has already been working for others, it is safe to assume that it will work for your organization. If it fails to do so, the manager can point to the other successful implementations and list the differences between your actual needs and the products capabilities. The vendor can then tailor the app more closely to your needs and the manager still looks good.
If we apply the same standards to Opensource, we can look at established projects like Apache, Mysql or even Openoffice and they are still safe because others are successfully using the software, it is not really a matter of a central point for support. For a manager to okay a more obscure project for implementation means taking on a much greater and unknown responsibility.
This is the reason that the Earth entry was changed from "Harmless" to "Mostly harmless".