The real question is... if the RIAA can have people DoS somebodies system or a network and that group or person in turn retaliates are they doing something illegal? Can they get in trouble even though the RIAA is technically doing illegal stuff as well.
I was VERY late in getting around to buying the movies since my brother had bought them previously so when I finally did buy the DVD's for FotR I bought the standard and extended editions at the same time. I think that if you ask a lot of the fans of the movie and book that really love the story they will still buy both and the 1,2,3,4 Profit scheme whatever will still be turning.
Undemocratic? So it's undemocratic for a car salesperson to make a better deal with one customer than another? It is wrong for a business to negotiate with another on price even though it's different from other deals? You are for one using democracy out of context. To have same prices for everything and nothing changes is more of a comunist idea than democracy. Go back to school little boy and study harder.
Microsoft is not doing anything horrible here. You speak of how destructive, restrictive or ill-priced these contracts might be, but that makes little to no sense whatsoever. If the contracts were so bad and overcharged the school could just buy licenses like any other mass computer distributor. They are bargaaining to give the schools a chance at a better price, but not give every school the same price. Say school X with 30,000 students may end up with a cheaper price/unit than school Y with 2,000 students because microsoft can make more profit total off of school X. Don't knock Microsoft for doing legitimate business. The real question is if the schools should be accepting the terms of the deals based on their legal responsibility to disclose information to the public... since it is the public who is buying a large portion of the schools suplies.
While Piracy does take away from some business it also generates others. It may not help the businesses that it "steals" from, but it doesn't truley damage them. A company such as Microsoft that makes billions of dollars really feels no pain. A ebook that has already been sold in stores for years does not miss a beat. I mean yeah it's nice to get something for free on the internet, but it is also really nice to get a brand new box of software, or a book still in it's plastic, or any number of other new bought from the store items
I get so tired of people talking about Bill Gates doing all this bad stuff for in the computer industry. It's gone from monopolies to just plain complaints about having to pay for software. Bill Gates is a business genius who has given the public everything they want in their operating systems, web browsers, and other important applications such as Excel. Yeah they have taken large portions of the world's computer users under their grasps, but only because they offer the public what they want and what works(for the most part, everythign has bugs). I just think people should lay off Bill Gates and the company he brought to life, government included and let Microsoft continue to provide us software that works.
Yes 64 bit CPU's for desktops will soon be the next new thing, but who really needs them? Grandma and grampa checking their email won't need something that fast and even the normal computer user will never experience such CPU intensive work to need a larger word size. Trust me I am not saying I won't be one of the first people to run out and get one, but there really is no need for the general public to have 64 bit processors.
While it is true that with a car like this there may be problems finding fuel at your local gas station that shouldn't be much of a problem. With a car that gets such good gas mileage you could probably find a way to order a 50 gallon drum or something and put it in your garage and it would last you for nearly 12000 miles. Not too bad if you ask me. Just a thought. In the end it could end up doing away with the need to take trips to the local gas station.
Imagine if you got a facetransplant from somebody you and your friends knew... then you'd have to change your name because people would recognize you as "Bill" instead of who you really are. Or if you are really good you could hook up with "Bill's" exgirlfriend saying that you really didn't die, just staged your death.
So help me and moderator's be kind, this is offtopic, but I'm pretty impressed that a Troll... which I am not... posted a message that got a Score:0, Troll was able to stem a conversation like it did. So if getting trolled for starting a 19 reply thread is what should be done I guess I will take it. The question was a honest one and I really did not know the value of Linux as an operating system for a supercomputer.
PS. NO I don't want to see Windows 98SE or any Windows for that matter on one, but I just did not know if it would be the greatest choice.
Don't get me wrong Linux is a great OS for a server and even a home computer, but is it really the best OS of choice for a new supercomputer? Will it be able to fully utilize all of the abilities. I assume in time that it would, but you would have to wait for the open source developers to catch up to the curve.
It is going to be bad when all music comes with a EULA thrown into the little booklet and the music companies decide that since you listen to the music in an unacceptable manor (ex: saved on your computer, on an unsupported portable device, etc.) that you are void from being able to listen to what you have bought... and the music is expired.
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The real question is... if the RIAA can have people DoS somebodies system or a network and that group or person in turn retaliates are they doing something illegal? Can they get in trouble even though the RIAA is technically doing illegal stuff as well.
I was VERY late in getting around to buying the movies since my brother had bought them previously so when I finally did buy the DVD's for FotR I bought the standard and extended editions at the same time. I think that if you ask a lot of the fans of the movie and book that really love the story they will still buy both and the 1,2,3,4 Profit scheme whatever will still be turning.
Undemocratic? So it's undemocratic for a car salesperson to make a better deal with one customer than another? It is wrong for a business to negotiate with another on price even though it's different from other deals? You are for one using democracy out of context. To have same prices for everything and nothing changes is more of a comunist idea than democracy. Go back to school little boy and study harder.
Microsoft is not doing anything horrible here. You speak of how destructive, restrictive or ill-priced these contracts might be, but that makes little to no sense whatsoever. If the contracts were so bad and overcharged the school could just buy licenses like any other mass computer distributor. They are bargaaining to give the schools a chance at a better price, but not give every school the same price. Say school X with 30,000 students may end up with a cheaper price/unit than school Y with 2,000 students because microsoft can make more profit total off of school X. Don't knock Microsoft for doing legitimate business. The real question is if the schools should be accepting the terms of the deals based on their legal responsibility to disclose information to the public... since it is the public who is buying a large portion of the schools suplies.
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While Piracy does take away from some business it also generates others. It may not help the businesses that it "steals" from, but it doesn't truley damage them. A company such as Microsoft that makes billions of dollars really feels no pain. A ebook that has already been sold in stores for years does not miss a beat. I mean yeah it's nice to get something for free on the internet, but it is also really nice to get a brand new box of software, or a book still in it's plastic, or any number of other new bought from the store items
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I get so tired of people talking about Bill Gates doing all this bad stuff for in the computer industry. It's gone from monopolies to just plain complaints about having to pay for software. Bill Gates is a business genius who has given the public everything they want in their operating systems, web browsers, and other important applications such as Excel. Yeah they have taken large portions of the world's computer users under their grasps, but only because they offer the public what they want and what works(for the most part, everythign has bugs). I just think people should lay off Bill Gates and the company he brought to life, government included and let Microsoft continue to provide us software that works.
Yes 64 bit CPU's for desktops will soon be the next new thing, but who really needs them? Grandma and grampa checking their email won't need something that fast and even the normal computer user will never experience such CPU intensive work to need a larger word size. Trust me I am not saying I won't be one of the first people to run out and get one, but there really is no need for the general public to have 64 bit processors.
While it is true that with a car like this there may be problems finding fuel at your local gas station that shouldn't be much of a problem. With a car that gets such good gas mileage you could probably find a way to order a 50 gallon drum or something and put it in your garage and it would last you for nearly 12000 miles. Not too bad if you ask me. Just a thought. In the end it could end up doing away with the need to take trips to the local gas station.
It'd be cooler if they did action movies with the lego characters moving them like clay figures.
Imagine if you got a facetransplant from somebody you and your friends knew... then you'd have to change your name because people would recognize you as "Bill" instead of who you really are. Or if you are really good you could hook up with "Bill's" exgirlfriend saying that you really didn't die, just staged your death.
So help me and moderator's be kind, this is offtopic, but I'm pretty impressed that a Troll... which I am not... posted a message that got a Score:0, Troll was able to stem a conversation like it did. So if getting trolled for starting a 19 reply thread is what should be done I guess I will take it. The question was a honest one and I really did not know the value of Linux as an operating system for a supercomputer. PS. NO I don't want to see Windows 98SE or any Windows for that matter on one, but I just did not know if it would be the greatest choice.
Don't get me wrong Linux is a great OS for a server and even a home computer, but is it really the best OS of choice for a new supercomputer? Will it be able to fully utilize all of the abilities. I assume in time that it would, but you would have to wait for the open source developers to catch up to the curve.
It is going to be bad when all music comes with a EULA thrown into the little booklet and the music companies decide that since you listen to the music in an unacceptable manor (ex: saved on your computer, on an unsupported portable device, etc.) that you are void from being able to listen to what you have bought... and the music is expired.
With a car like Bond's I could get layed and be a /. junkie.