I know that a good number of people on Slashdot like to think of themselves as Libertarians. And perhaps the Libertarian Party is the one that best supports the beliefs of our community. Realisticcally, I don't think the Libertarian party has a snowball's chance in hell that it will have a major say in politics, not while the GOP and the Democrats have more money and support.
That kind of thinking is PRECISELY why the US has primarily become a 2-party system, and why the barrier to entry for other parties is so high. The world is what we think it to be.
Those of us who believe strongly enough in some basic universal principles regarding freedom and self-determination are willing to stand up for what we believe in. The more of us that make that stand, the more our views will be noticed. For some people it's more important to make a stand for what is right than to "win" at something.
You are really, really out of touch. Please stop spreading false information on the internet. Please stop spreading false information yourself. Pentium IIIs have 512k L2 cache, not the 256k you stated.
Right now Intel has 84% marketshare, and AMD has 14%. Tom's suggestion that Intel is going to go to 0% marketshare and AMD is going to go to 97% marketshare is ludicrous because:
AMD DOES NOT HAVE THE MANUFACTURING CAPACITY TO SUPPLY THE ENTIRE PC INDUSTRY WITH CHIPS.
your statement tries to present the very weak arguement that because amd doesn't currently have the manufacturing capacity to outstrip intel, it never will. that is clearly a fallacious argument. as the demand, and the infrastructure support, for the athlon increases, amd will build more fabs. the one in dresden has already been tremendouly successful and is running ahead of schedule. i don't believe tom's was suggesting that the balance of power will shift overnight, or even this year.
i also think you fail to address the 3 main strength of tom's argument, that (1) the coppermine is near the end of its extendability cycle whereas the athlon will be improved in leaps and bounds (they're already showing off a 1.1 GHz Athlon), (2) for market reasons intel is disadvantaged in fighting in a low-margin arena, which amd (and possibly transmeta) are forcing them into, and (3) intel has made themselves hated by many people in the industry, including many of their top employees that are now at amd.
I agree with you that tom's presents an extreme view of the amd/intel situation, but I believe it'll prove to be a remarkably prescient one. In fact, I'm betting most of my money on it. already since october my amd shares have gone from 18 to 42.
But, say, some Columbian drug lord wanted to guage build up of DEA forces in area Foo. He could go through a proxy, but how deeply would the company check backgrounds for ppossible nefarious uses?
Since when is using information to AVOID conflict a "nefarious" use? Is it that you've bought the US government's line that "drugs are bad"? If that's the case, and you're willing to accept that in a supposedly free society the government can dictate to its adult citizens what chemicals they are legally able to ingest, perhaps you should consider that the abridgement of other freedoms are soon to follow.
And why should the company be required to do a background check AT ALL? The free flow of information is ESSENTIAL in a democracy. To suggest that the government has any place in censoring who has access to that data is INSANE! Too many people have bought the line that "it's in the National Interest(TM)" too many times. The sooner the USA is put on even footing with other nations in the world, the sooner we will be FORCED to deal with other nations as equals and treat them with respect, rather than acting as the global bully, expecting all other peoples of the world to comply with our wishes because we can wave the biggest guns around.
I totally agree. It borders on absurd how many people in America think that everyone else is responsible for them and their actions. Take the moron who spilled hot coffee on herself and collected $3 million from McDonald's, for example. Children have parents to look after them, then they get older and have schools to look after them, then they get older and still expect someone to look after them. Maybe the government, maybe corporations, anybody but themselves. It's really sad how some people get older but never become adults. And in their insecurity of wanting someone else to look after them they'll gladly flush their freedoms down the shitter, and the freedoms of everyone else, as well.
I don't see the connection alluded to by this article between a stock split and the success of the PSII. If I have 100 shares of Sony @$100 each, and it splits 2-for-1, I then have 200 shares@$50 each. Both before and after I have the exact same equity in the company, and the only difference is how investors view a $50 stock as opposed to a $100 stock. I can see that given this investor mindset a $50 stock is more likely to be dramatically affected by the success/failure of PSII. But in either case, the publicly owned shares of Sony are already owned by someone other than Sony, so how does it help/hurt the company? Anyone care to explain?
Maybe, but the fact that the policy doesn't officially go into effect until January doesn't preclude NSI from doing the right thing until then and/or arbitrarily shutting down domains when they feel like it.
The thing is, etoy did some things that certainly look like taking advantage of name confusion. For example, they put pictures of toys on their front page, and their selling of "shares" looks like it was prompted by the eToys IPO.
not necessarily. the fact that they are named eToy already shows that they have some kind of affinity for toys, and did so long before eToys. just because eToys shows up doesn't mean they somehow lose their right to display toys on their page. and it's not at all surprising that they'd want to do something related to IPOs as a social commentary/parody, that doesn't have anything to do with eToys.
The judge might simply tell them to stop putting pictures of toys on their site, put up a link to eToys, and go about their business.
for your sake and mine, I sure hope not! a judge has no place in regulating the content of an artist's website in any way, either in saying there's things they can't display there (toys) or saying there's something they MUST display there (a link to eToys).
Taking the site off-line was just a temporary measure until the case was heard.
sure, take their domain down for a couple of months. it's only a temporary measure. yeah, that's fair. maybe to be really fair both eToy AND eToys should have had their domains revoked until the dispute was resolved. now THAT would be a good way to resolve the dispute in a hurry...
Looking at their critereon for "Applicable Dispute", one wonders why they couldn't have used this as a basis for determining whether or not to get involved in the eToy case, yanking their domain from them for no good reason. It was pretty clear that II and III did not apply to eToy, and they say that all 3 elements must be proven to exist before they step in and get involved.
a.Applicable Disputes. You are required to submit to a mandatory administrative proceeding in the event that a third party (a "complainant") asserts to the applicable Provider, in compliance with the Rules of Procedure, that
i.your domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which the complainant has rights; and
ii.you have no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the domain name; and
iii.your domain name has been registered and is being used in bad faith.
In the administrative proceeding, the complainant must prove that each of these three elements are present.
While it sounds like a great idea, as of/1/3/00 20:00PST the main page of linux-help.org is shown as being a completely empty directory, no content anywhere...
The "spam your friends" part is optional - if you get 10 people to sign up the bridge is free.
There's no reason you can't buy one yourself. The one I'm using is about $250 - that pays for itself in 4 months of free DSL @ ~$60/month. If you can find a way around the advertising, that is.
If you have an older computer you're not using, why not install it with windoze, then install NAT software like Wingate, Winroute, or NAT32? The advertisers can send all their crap to the windoze box that you never look at anyway, and on the other side you have a perfectly good linux box with free DSL...
PIIIs can be used multiprocessor just like Xeons can. AFAIK, Xeons are only different in that they have larger L2 cache sizes. PIII cache = 512k, Xeon = 1MB or 2 MB level 2 cache.
Clearly, they're not telling the truth. If they HAD disabled that module, we wouldn't be getting a web page saying "Sorry, we have temporarily disabled this module.".
I think people who decide to switch to linux should just take what they get and not complain.
You can think whatever you like, but I am free to complain and I will do so if I choose.
They Chose to change OS's and if someone has a service for windows, then too bad. Don't complain! Accept it.
What's with your arrogant attitude of trying to tell other people not to complain and to "accept it". Whether or not I choose to speak out against something is my choice, not yours. Maybe people don't have manners in wherever you're from and it's accepted for people to push others around and tell them what to do, but among the people I know it's not acceptable to tell others what to do and think. Especially in such an ill-mannered way.
Don't make everyone cater to your needs.
We can't make anyone cater to our needs. But we have the option of asking sites to support certain basic standards, and many of us will continue to do so.
babies.
Yes, I can see that your mentality is obviously far more mature than anyone else's...
BTW, no one is forcing you to read the story. If you have nothing to add to the discussion, feel free to go elsewhere.
I think you're missing my point entirely, so I'll spell it out for you:
The eToy.com site is the virtual canvass of some Swiss artists. It's completely unfair to them to ask them to deface their art for the sake some clueless eToys.com shoppers who don't know where the hell they're going.
eToys is free to ask, of course, but if I ran eToy, I know I wouldn't do it.
It would be like Monet saying to Manet, "I want you to put a note on your paintings saying, 'if you really wanted to see Monet's paintings, you can view them at address such-and-such.'" No artist in their right mind (except Warhol, maybe!) would want this kind of useless noise incorporated into their art.
It would really be a kind of arrogance on the part of the requester of this kind of action that the site with the similar sounding name give them free advertising in this way.
They SHOULD HAVE just contacted eToy and asked them to put a link on their site for mistakes.
Perhaps they could have asked eToy to do so, but I know that if I ran a site like eToy I wouldn't want to have any link to eToys.
It would be like Monet saying to Manet, "I want you to put a note on your paintings saying, 'if you really wanted to see Monet's paintings, you can view them at address such-and-such.'" No artist in their right mind (except Warhol, maybe!) would want this kind of useless noise incorporated into their art.
It would really be a kind of arrogance on the part of the requester of this kind of action that the site with the similar sounding name give them free advertising in this way.
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How about 'Rhetorical Questions'?
Is THAT a rhetorical question?
I know that a good number of people on Slashdot like to think of themselves as Libertarians. And perhaps the Libertarian Party is the one that best supports the beliefs of our community. Realisticcally, I don't think the Libertarian party has a snowball's chance in hell that it will have a major say in politics, not while the GOP and the Democrats have more money and support.
That kind of thinking is PRECISELY why the US has primarily become a 2-party system, and why the barrier to entry for other parties is so high. The world is what we think it to be.
Those of us who believe strongly enough in some basic universal principles regarding freedom and self-determination are willing to stand up for what we believe in. The more of us that make that stand, the more our views will be noticed. For some people it's more important to make a stand for what is right than to "win" at something.
You are really, really out of touch. Please stop spreading false information on the internet. Please stop spreading false information yourself. Pentium IIIs have 512k L2 cache, not the 256k you stated.
Right now Intel has 84% marketshare, and AMD has 14%. Tom's suggestion that Intel is going to go to 0% marketshare and AMD is going to go to 97% marketshare is ludicrous because:
AMD DOES NOT HAVE THE MANUFACTURING CAPACITY TO SUPPLY THE ENTIRE PC INDUSTRY WITH CHIPS.
your statement tries to present the very weak arguement that because amd doesn't currently have the manufacturing capacity to outstrip intel, it never will. that is clearly a fallacious argument. as the demand, and the infrastructure support, for the athlon increases, amd will build more fabs. the one in dresden has already been tremendouly successful and is running ahead of schedule. i don't believe tom's was suggesting that the balance of power will shift overnight, or even this year.
i also think you fail to address the 3 main strength of tom's argument, that (1) the coppermine is near the end of its extendability cycle whereas the athlon will be improved in leaps and bounds (they're already showing off a 1.1 GHz Athlon), (2) for market reasons intel is disadvantaged in fighting in a low-margin arena, which amd (and possibly transmeta) are forcing them into, and (3) intel has made themselves hated by many people in the industry, including many of their top employees that are now at amd.
I agree with you that tom's presents an extreme view of the amd/intel situation, but I believe it'll prove to be a remarkably prescient one. In fact, I'm betting most of my money on it. already since october my amd shares have gone from 18 to 42.
Maybe some legislation to require ISPs to do this in the US and other countries is in order.
Yeah, great, more FCC laws regulating what ISPs can and can't do.
That's brilliant man, just brilliant.
But, say, some Columbian drug lord wanted to guage build up of DEA forces in area Foo. He could go through a proxy, but how deeply would the company check backgrounds for ppossible nefarious uses?
Since when is using information to AVOID conflict a "nefarious" use? Is it that you've bought the US government's line that "drugs are bad"?
If that's the case, and you're willing to accept that in a supposedly free society the government can dictate to its adult citizens what chemicals they are legally able to ingest, perhaps you should consider that the abridgement of other freedoms are soon to follow.
And why should the company be required to do a background check AT ALL? The free flow of information is ESSENTIAL in a democracy. To suggest that the government has any place in censoring who has access to that data is INSANE!
Too many people have bought the line that "it's in the National Interest(TM)" too many times. The sooner the USA is put on even footing with other nations in the world, the sooner we will be FORCED to deal with other nations as equals and treat them with respect, rather than acting as the global bully, expecting all other peoples of the world to comply with our wishes because we can wave the biggest guns around.
After spending nearly $200 in shopping at the local mall,
What did you spend the $200 on?
If I had a moderation point, I would moderate you as INCITEFUL...
I totally agree.
It borders on absurd how many people in America think that everyone else is responsible for them and their actions.
Take the moron who spilled hot coffee on herself and collected $3 million from McDonald's, for example.
Children have parents to look after them, then they get older and have schools to look after them, then they get older and still expect someone to look after them. Maybe the government, maybe corporations, anybody but themselves. It's really sad how some people get older but never become adults. And in their insecurity of wanting someone else to look after them they'll gladly flush their freedoms down the shitter, and the freedoms of everyone else, as well.
I don't see the connection alluded to by this article between a stock split and the success of the PSII.
If I have 100 shares of Sony @$100 each, and it splits 2-for-1, I then have 200 shares@$50 each.
Both before and after I have the exact same equity in the company, and the only difference is how investors view a $50 stock as opposed to a $100 stock.
I can see that given this investor mindset a $50 stock is more likely to be dramatically affected by the success/failure of PSII.
But in either case, the publicly owned shares of Sony are already owned by someone other than Sony, so how does it help/hurt the company? Anyone care to explain?
Maybe, but the fact that the policy doesn't officially go into effect until January doesn't preclude NSI from doing the right thing until then and/or arbitrarily shutting down domains when they feel like it.
The thing is, etoy did some things that certainly look like taking advantage of name confusion. For example, they put pictures of toys on their front page, and their selling of "shares" looks like it was prompted by the eToys IPO.
not necessarily. the fact that they are named eToy already shows that they have some kind of affinity for toys, and did so long before eToys. just because eToys shows up doesn't mean they somehow lose their right to display toys on their page. and it's not at all surprising that they'd want to do something related to IPOs as a social commentary/parody, that doesn't have anything to do with eToys.
The judge might simply tell them to stop putting pictures of toys on their site, put up a link to eToys, and go about their business.
for your sake and mine, I sure hope not! a judge has no place in regulating the content of an artist's website in any way, either in saying there's things they can't display there (toys) or saying there's something they MUST display there (a link to eToys).
Taking the site off-line was just a temporary measure until the case was heard.
sure, take their domain down for a couple of months. it's only a temporary measure. yeah, that's fair. maybe to be really fair both eToy AND eToys should have had their domains revoked until the dispute was resolved. now THAT would be a good way to resolve the dispute in a hurry...
Looking at their critereon for "Applicable Dispute", one wonders why they couldn't have used this as a basis for determining whether or not to get involved in the eToy case, yanking their domain from them for no good reason. It was pretty clear that II and III did not apply to eToy, and they say that all 3 elements must be proven to exist before they step in and get involved.
a.Applicable Disputes. You are required to submit to a mandatory administrative proceeding in the event that a third party (a "complainant") asserts to the applicable Provider, in compliance with the Rules of Procedure, that
i.your domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which the complainant has rights; and
ii.you have no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the domain name; and
iii.your domain name has been registered and is being used in bad faith.
In the administrative proceeding, the complainant must prove that each of these three elements are present.
While it sounds like a great idea, as of /1/3/00 20:00PST the main page of linux-help.org is shown as being a completely empty directory, no content anywhere...
The "spam your friends" part is optional - if you get 10 people to sign up the bridge is free.
There's no reason you can't buy one yourself. The one I'm using is about $250 - that pays for itself in 4 months of free DSL @ ~$60/month. If you can find a way around the advertising, that is.
If you have an older computer you're not using, why not install it with windoze, then install NAT software like Wingate, Winroute, or NAT32? The advertisers can send all their crap to the windoze box that you never look at anyway, and on the other side you have a perfectly good linux box with free DSL...
This guy really knows how to rough it.
What's he going to do for an encore, climb mount Everest?
Xeon - Multiprocessor P3.
PIIIs can be used multiprocessor just like Xeons can. AFAIK, Xeons are only different in that they have larger L2 cache sizes. PIII cache = 512k, Xeon = 1MB or 2 MB level 2 cache.
From Audi's site:
Sorry, we have temporarily disabled this module.
Clearly, they're not telling the truth. If they HAD disabled that module, we wouldn't be getting a web page saying "Sorry, we have temporarily disabled this module.".
I think people who decide to switch to linux should just take what they get and not complain.
You can think whatever you like, but I am free to complain and I will do so if I choose.
They Chose to change OS's and if someone has a service for windows, then too bad. Don't complain! Accept it.
What's with your arrogant attitude of trying to tell other people not to complain and to "accept it". Whether or not I choose to speak out against something is my choice, not yours. Maybe people don't have manners in wherever you're from and it's accepted for people to push others around and tell them what to do, but among the people I know it's not acceptable to tell others what to do and think. Especially in such an ill-mannered way.
Don't make everyone cater to your needs.
We can't make anyone cater to our needs. But we have the option of asking sites to support certain basic standards, and many of us will continue to do so.
babies.
Yes, I can see that your mentality is obviously far more mature than anyone else's...
BTW, no one is forcing you to read the story. If you have nothing to add to the discussion, feel free to go elsewhere.
Your idea is good in theory, but I don't think that eToy has either a trademark or a product.
I think you're missing my point entirely, so I'll spell it out for you:
The eToy.com site is the virtual canvass of some Swiss artists. It's completely unfair to them to ask them to deface their art for the sake some clueless eToys.com shoppers who don't know where the hell they're going.
And yes, Manet is an artist.
Wishing something fun would happen in Raleigh..
If something like this did happen in Raleigh, would you Raleigh to the cause?
eToys is free to ask, of course, but if I ran eToy, I know I wouldn't do it.
It would be like Monet saying to Manet, "I want you to put a note on your paintings saying, 'if you really wanted to see Monet's paintings, you can view them at address such-and-such.'" No artist in their right mind (except Warhol, maybe!) would want this kind of useless noise incorporated into their art.
It would really be a kind of arrogance on the part of the requester of this kind of action that the site with the similar sounding name give them free advertising in this way.
They SHOULD HAVE just contacted eToy and asked them to put a link on their site for mistakes.
Perhaps they could have asked eToy to do so, but I know that if I ran a site like eToy I wouldn't want to have any link to eToys.
It would be like Monet saying to Manet, "I want you to put a note on your paintings saying, 'if you really wanted to see Monet's paintings, you can view them at address such-and-such.'" No artist in their right mind (except Warhol, maybe!) would want this kind of useless noise incorporated into their art.
It would really be a kind of arrogance on the part of the requester of this kind of action that the site with the similar sounding name give them free advertising in this way.