"Any CD-based Linux distro can achieve the a similar effect with far more functionality."
Maybe I'm just ignorant, but I really doubt you can show me a live CD that can hand off to an installed Windows.
Furthermore, live CDs, while great, are not the solution to slow boot times.
And just cause it's related, I set up my VectorLinux (with kernel 2.6.1) to boot right into KDE, and timed it against Windows XP (on the same computer, so there's no hardware advantages). From pressing enter in Grub to being inside the WM, Linux won by about 15 seconds.
Speaking... hypodermically... IF the government was completely unethical, and IF the company handling the voting systems was completely unethical, THEN instead of getting a quality open-source voting system for free, the corrupt voting systems people could get some tax dollars, and the government could take a kickback and a guarantee of reelection. Then again, that would require the voting systems people to apply uncertified code to voting systems, right? Oh, wait...
I know very few Arabs, but the one I've talked to the most has lived in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the U.S. and Canada. He rates them in the following order, from best to worst: U.S. Canada Pakistan Saudi Arabia and he claims that there's quite a jump in each step. While I think he may be a tad off on Canada being worse than the States, the fact remains that he's COMPLETELY against the Saudi government. The fact that he's afraid to do anything about it (especially when in that country) is very different than supporting the apparently sexist, racist, and dictatorial values the Saudi government upholds.
Please note that he's the only person I know who's lived in Saudi Arabia, and having never been there myself, this is all the information I have about the place, and it's second hand.
Bittorrent does okay without any regulation, but that's because of it's Prisoner's Dilemma-style approach. I wonder if there's a good (or even remotely feasible) way to translate that to a system like this.
It seems to me that many of the people that would be willing to pay for such a service would then just become hotspots. Wouldn't that cause a very large drop in the demand, and thus the profit?
Um... Could it be cash? What else would "HP Licenses Apple's iPod & iTMS" mean?
I find it funny that capitalism has progressed far enough that people always talk about brand recognition and publicity and things like that as the end goals. It seems to me that when a company is directly receiving cash they're skipping the middlemen.
Wow, I wasn't convinced by your argument, but THAT clinched it for me.:P
Anyway, one other thing to think about: This particular case seems to me to be EXACTLY the kind of thing that patent laws, even originally, were trying to protect (i.e. company innovates and thus profits). So I hope you side wholly with Tivo on this, unless of course I'm missing something about this particular suit that makes it frivolous.
I'm saying that "I thought of it first" is fucking childish, and the legal enshrinement of it in patent law is a measure of how messed up our legal/political system is, and, by association, how messed up we are.
And, just because it's interesting, most people who argue with me about patents claim that the economy will stagnate if we remove the encouragement to innovate. In other words, my opponents generally claim the economy would be bad and stable.
'Our aim here is not to litigate everybody... but to further advance and seek commercial relationships so that people recognize the value of our intellectual property, and give us fair compensation.'
In other words, "We'll only sue you if you don't pay us lots first. We don't WANT to litigate everybody. But we will."
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Copyright and patent laws suck. I swear, if they're going to have IP laws like this, they should teach us NOT to share in Kindergarten.
Um... He (yay masculine assumption) isn't complaining about the sound quality of compressed audio. He wants lossless because he wants to make another generation copy and put it on an mp3 player. I don't really know, but a 128kbps mp3 of a 192kbps AAC might really suck. If you look up a few posts, it's right there.
I'm a reasonably happy user of XP (also Vectorlinux and Gentoo in case anyone cares), but I still disagree with pretty much all of what you have to say.
You claim that most users have no trouble with Blaster, spyware, and security. Frankly, most users haven't got the foggiest idea when their PC gets spyware. They tend to get lots of crap clogging their system tray and system resources, partly because they don't know any better, and partly because Windows does a very poor job of preventing such things.
In fact, I would claim that the users with the lack of knowledge and experience are generally the ones with the least complaints, because they haven't even figured out that they HAVE spyware.
Also, if people are forced to "turn into real users" in order to have a properly working XP, they (we) might as well learn to muck about with the nasty config files and command lines of Linux and get better native security for less cost.
As far as I know, nobody (least of all me) is saying they don't have the right to do what they're doing.
I'm not deriding the choice. I'm not even complaining. I just don't understand why someone would want Gnome and GTK over KDE, and given that this is a geek news discussion site, I figured someone may be able to enlighten me.
It seems to me (subjective experience, yadda yadda yadda) that KDE is less buggy, more feature-laden, more configurable, and with the new 3.2 betas even slightly faster than Gnome.
Does this have something to do with the QT developer license cost I've heard about? Is GTK devoid of such a cost?
While it is true that direct systems will in general be faster than indirect systems, I think your claim is worded slightly misleadingly.
In particular (whether MUTE achieves this or not), it is likely possible to design a private system that beats Gnutella for speed. Indeed, the ant analogy is an attempt to achieve SOME kind of speed "optimization" given the restrictions required by having privacy due to multiple nodes.
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That I'm ignorant???
:)
Alas, I think there are plenty that do already.
"Any CD-based Linux distro can achieve the a similar effect with far more functionality."
Maybe I'm just ignorant, but I really doubt you can show me a live CD that can hand off to an installed Windows.
Furthermore, live CDs, while great, are not the solution to slow boot times.
And just cause it's related, I set up my VectorLinux (with kernel 2.6.1) to boot right into KDE, and timed it against Windows XP (on the same computer, so there's no hardware advantages). From pressing enter in Grub to being inside the WM, Linux won by about 15 seconds.
I find it interesting that copyright seems to be an implicit version of that exact agreement.
From the article:
"We've had things put in place that counteract the things they talked about."
Gee, thanks for being specific. I'm convinced.
Get your tin-foil on for a moment. :)
Speaking... hypodermically... IF the government was completely unethical, and IF the company handling the voting systems was completely unethical, THEN instead of getting a quality open-source voting system for free, the corrupt voting systems people could get some tax dollars, and the government could take a kickback and a guarantee of reelection. Then again, that would require the voting systems people to apply uncertified code to voting systems, right? Oh, wait...
...100% of respondents (in this case, all qualified) say the system sucks, and the people in power say "Nah, go with it!"
The optimistic interpretation: The pentagon is full of idiots.
The pessimistic interpretation: The pentagon is full of corrupt people.
My interpretation: The pentagon is full of corrupt idiots.
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Preach on, brother (or sister).
I know very few Arabs, but the one I've talked to the most has lived in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the U.S. and Canada. He rates them in the following order, from best to worst:
U.S.
Canada
Pakistan
Saudi Arabia
and he claims that there's quite a jump in each step.
While I think he may be a tad off on Canada being worse than the States, the fact remains that he's COMPLETELY against the Saudi government. The fact that he's afraid to do anything about it (especially when in that country) is very different than supporting the apparently sexist, racist, and dictatorial values the Saudi government upholds.
Please note that he's the only person I know who's lived in Saudi Arabia, and having never been there myself, this is all the information I have about the place, and it's second hand.
"Without some form of regulation"
Bittorrent does okay without any regulation, but that's because of it's Prisoner's Dilemma-style approach. I wonder if there's a good (or even remotely feasible) way to translate that to a system like this.
And everyone would have to share their connections, and not be bastards about it.
Sounds kinda like communism. Would be great if effective safeguards against corrupt jackasses was built in.
I don't mean to be too harsh though, seriously. It might be possible to build in some such kind of safeguard, in which case it would be amazing.
No offense, but you obviously haven't read the article.
The proposed system involves giving free equipment AND free subscriptions to those willing to share their existing connection.
It seems to me that many of the people that would be willing to pay for such a service would then just become hotspots. Wouldn't that cause a very large drop in the demand, and thus the profit?
What I'M waiting for is some strong nuclear force waves. Now THOSE would be cool.
Um... Could it be cash? What else would "HP Licenses Apple's iPod & iTMS" mean?
I find it funny that capitalism has progressed far enough that people always talk about brand recognition and publicity and things like that as the end goals. It seems to me that when a company is directly receiving cash they're skipping the middlemen.
My new year's resolution is 1600 by 1200.
Oh dear god, I can't believe I just said that.
"And you'll be wrong every time you say it."
:P
Wow, I wasn't convinced by your argument, but THAT clinched it for me.
Anyway, one other thing to think about: This particular case seems to me to be EXACTLY the kind of thing that patent laws, even originally, were trying to protect (i.e. company innovates and thus profits). So I hope you side wholly with Tivo on this, unless of course I'm missing something about this particular suit that makes it frivolous.
I'm saying that "I thought of it first" is fucking childish, and the legal enshrinement of it in patent law is a measure of how messed up our legal/political system is, and, by association, how messed up we are.
And, just because it's interesting, most people who argue with me about patents claim that the economy will stagnate if we remove the encouragement to innovate. In other words, my opponents generally claim the economy would be bad and stable.
'Our aim here is not to litigate everybody ... but to further advance and seek commercial relationships so that people recognize the value of our intellectual property, and give us fair compensation.'
In other words, "We'll only sue you if you don't pay us lots first. We don't WANT to litigate everybody. But we will."
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Copyright and patent laws suck. I swear, if they're going to have IP laws like this, they should teach us NOT to share in Kindergarten.
Um... He (yay masculine assumption) isn't complaining about the sound quality of compressed audio. He wants lossless because he wants to make another generation copy and put it on an mp3 player. I don't really know, but a 128kbps mp3 of a 192kbps AAC might really suck. If you look up a few posts, it's right there.
I'm a reasonably happy user of XP (also Vectorlinux and Gentoo in case anyone cares), but I still disagree with pretty much all of what you have to say.
You claim that most users have no trouble with Blaster, spyware, and security. Frankly, most users haven't got the foggiest idea when their PC gets spyware. They tend to get lots of crap clogging their system tray and system resources, partly because they don't know any better, and partly because Windows does a very poor job of preventing such things.
In fact, I would claim that the users with the lack of knowledge and experience are generally the ones with the least complaints, because they haven't even figured out that they HAVE spyware.
Also, if people are forced to "turn into real users" in order to have a properly working XP, they (we) might as well learn to muck about with the nasty config files and command lines of Linux and get better native security for less cost.
It would ALSO be way too easy to make a crack about you actually getting karma for that... Wait a minute... Recursion... Killing brain...
*head explodes a la Scanners*
"You may want to take that into account when picking a system."
:)
Should a patriotic American support protectionist policies? Or support efficient economics? Either way it seems you're right.
Uh, hello?
As far as I know, nobody (least of all me) is saying they don't have the right to do what they're doing.
I'm not deriding the choice. I'm not even complaining. I just don't understand why someone would want Gnome and GTK over KDE, and given that this is a geek news discussion site, I figured someone may be able to enlighten me.
So please stop shitting in my cereal.
Hasn't anyone proposed removing Gnome?
It seems to me (subjective experience, yadda yadda yadda) that KDE is less buggy, more feature-laden, more configurable, and with the new 3.2 betas even slightly faster than Gnome.
Does this have something to do with the QT developer license cost I've heard about? Is GTK devoid of such a cost?
While it is true that direct systems will in general be faster than indirect systems, I think your claim is worded slightly misleadingly.
In particular (whether MUTE achieves this or not), it is likely possible to design a private system that beats Gnutella for speed. Indeed, the ant analogy is an attempt to achieve SOME kind of speed "optimization" given the restrictions required by having privacy due to multiple nodes.