What most of the people that subscribe to the "greed is good" philosophy is that they are not describing greed. Greed is one of the seven cardinal sins, it creates strife. What is really being described is ambition. Ambition created the middle class. Ambition has done more for the poor person. We should be rewarding ambition not greed.
I can't help but to think why there isn't a decentralized social network yet; possibly built on top of peer-to-peer infrastructure. That way, people would not need to rely upon Facebook/Twitter/etc... being gracious enough to allow you to express your opinions.
I agree that will only happen in a perfect world. This is probably what will really happen.
- Company sells devices leaving out the forced commercials
- Huge amount of people buy them
- Company gets hit with class action lawsuit (ending in settlement that only benefits the lawyers)
- Company continues business by adding a tiny warning label to the box
It is probably because of the Partner designation and the fact it is a server. My experience is they are great when it comes to fixing a server. If it is an application issue, it is a totally different matter. Of all of the service requests I've submitted, only one came back with a solution. The rest were either "uhh... gee.... I don't know. Let me know if you fix it." or "it is working as designed".
I collect D&D miniatures, which is a collectable game like Mage Knight (except you get the stats on a card). I have yet to play one game with these miniatures using the rules for their game. Instead, I use them in pen and paper campaigns during battles.
For 8 miniatures at $10, they are a very cheap alternative to buying a metal miniature and painting it (and with my painting skills, they usually are better painted).
If you include a text to voice synthesizer in the client. For example, AT&T has a good demonstration of their technology at http://www.research.att.com/projects/tts/demo.html . Maybe EQ2 will have something similar.
Once an item is sold it is no longer their property and must be removed from the white list - with todays pos tech this would be absurdly easy to implement.
As often as I get beeped while leaving my local WallyMart because the clerk "forgot" to disable the security tags, I think you're assuming too much.
From the article the teacher was quoted as saying, "Hacking into a system should be highest on the list of tampering violations. I believe the other students are now aware that the district takes this seriously and will not tolerate such misuse of our equipment." In addition to "Rollins told me that students had been using campus computers in unacceptable ways, and he hoped to make an example of Carl."
It looks like to me that the teachers can't/won't secure the computers and decided to throw the book at the first kid to do something that they were able to catch in hopes that it scares the others into submission.
I would like to know what development software packages they compared. Did they compare the most advanced offerings from Sun with all the bells and whistles to a copy of C#.Net standard edition? Did they compare full blown Oracle database with an access database? This is an exageration but it would be way to easy to skew numbers in Microsoft's favor (and vice versa).
For TCO, I have to comment on where it says that the total percentage cost for IT salaries is higher using Linux. Well duh... you don't have to spend as much on hardware and software which means IT salary will take a larger percent of what is spent.
When do you think the first "bug" will apprear that will break iTunes and/or Napster's music playback on Windows with an update to Windows Media Player?
Of course, these reports will be meaningless to the music execs. Instead of acknowledging that
the albums with only or two decent songs are on the way out, they'll continue to blame piracy for the
decline of CD sales. I recently signed on with iTunes (for Windows) and I'm enjoying it. iTunes has
(what I consider to be) reasonable use policies. I'm not about to give up my perfectly working MP3
player so I was wanting a service that will allow me to make MP3s using reasonable steps. Already,
I've purchased more music that I have the past couple of years. And get this... they're all songs
that I like; none of the filler crap.
Eventually, they'll "get it" and realize that their business model is changing and you'll see more
services like iTunes.
If I had information that I didn't want the public to see I would have at least made sure that the
information was not accessible by someone who is using a hex editor. I made a PDA program for myself
that stored passwords I had for various websites (when you have a different one for each site, it sometimes
gets a little hard to keep track of them in your head). However, before I actually started using it, I
looked at the binary image of the record or the PDA that was being created. Well, it turned out that the
mechanism for "securely" storing the information was just making it inaccessible through the API. In the
end, I had to write my own storage mechanism using a standard encryption technique. The moral of this story
is, just because you can't get to it doesn't mean it's not there for someone to find.
Of course the people/person at The Memory Hole will be labeled as a hacker/pirate/terrorist by the justice department.
While programs like EQ, DAoC, Counter Strike, etc... are probably a part of the reason, another reason
is because the current programming sucks. Most of the shows that they seem to be targeting that age range
seem, to me, be a bunch of teen-aged soap operas (OC comes to mind).
I guess they figured that if it worked for Beverly Hill 90210, it should work now. With the Internet
as it is today, people are expecting a more interactive form of entertainment. When I get home, I want
instant gratification. I don't want to wait until the predetermined date and time to watch a show when
I can load up DAoC and have fun.
When I read about this case earlier, the DMCA violation was only part of the case against SCC. So they might not be out of trouble yet.
When I read the case, part of what SCC copied into the chip was a program that was copywrited. Of course SCC can rewrite that program but there still was a violation there.
You're probably right. However, it will be settled out of court because those who paid for the law don't want to see it in court where it can be struck down. Unless of course it's a slam dunk victory for them.
Do you think it'll take for them to find something in SAMBA that infringes on their IP? What better way to improve products than to hijack someone else's work?
I agree.
Though IMHO, I think that if SCO continues down the current path, new support for SCO Unix should not be added to GCC. I think it would be wrong to remove support.
I have broadband but I have never installed any kind of P2P software on my computer. I use it mainly for playing online games such as DAoC and NWN. Is this overkill? probably. I can't find any reliable dial up services where I am. To me, a reliable connection and fast connection is worth the extra $20.
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And this is why the only reason you would use it is to keep the young kids from being able to play with the phone.
What most of the people that subscribe to the "greed is good" philosophy is that they are not describing greed. Greed is one of the seven cardinal sins, it creates strife. What is really being described is ambition. Ambition created the middle class. Ambition has done more for the poor person. We should be rewarding ambition not greed.
I can't help but to think why there isn't a decentralized social network yet; possibly built on top of peer-to-peer infrastructure. That way, people would not need to rely upon Facebook/Twitter/etc... being gracious enough to allow you to express your opinions.
if that was one of their laptops with firewire support.
I agree that will only happen in a perfect world. This is probably what will really happen.
- Company sells devices leaving out the forced commercials
- Huge amount of people buy them
- Company gets hit with class action lawsuit (ending in settlement that only benefits the lawyers)
- Company continues business by adding a tiny warning label to the box
It is probably because of the Partner designation and the fact it is a server. My experience is they are great when it comes to fixing a server. If it is an application issue, it is a totally different matter. Of all of the service requests I've submitted, only one came back with a solution. The rest were either "uhh... gee.... I don't know. Let me know if you fix it." or "it is working as designed".
I collect D&D miniatures, which is a collectable game like Mage Knight (except you get the stats on a card). I have yet to play one game with these miniatures using the rules for their game. Instead, I use them in pen and paper campaigns during battles.
For 8 miniatures at $10, they are a very cheap alternative to buying a metal miniature and painting it (and with my painting skills, they usually are better painted).
They're taking the term firewire literally.
If you include a text to voice synthesizer in the client. For example, AT&T has a good demonstration of their technology at http://www.research.att.com/projects/tts/demo.html . Maybe EQ2 will have something similar.
Once an item is sold it is no longer their property and must be removed from the white list - with todays pos tech this would be absurdly easy to implement.
As often as I get beeped while leaving my local WallyMart because the clerk "forgot" to disable the security tags, I think you're assuming too much.
From the article the teacher was quoted as saying, "Hacking into a system should be highest on the list of tampering violations. I believe the other students are now aware that the district takes this seriously and will not tolerate such misuse of our equipment." In addition to "Rollins told me that students had been using campus computers in unacceptable ways, and he hoped to make an example of Carl."
It looks like to me that the teachers can't/won't secure the computers and decided to throw the book at the first kid to do something that they were able to catch in hopes that it scares the others into submission.
I would like to know what development software packages they compared. Did they compare the most advanced offerings from Sun with all the bells and whistles to a copy of C# .Net standard edition? Did they compare full blown Oracle database with an access database? This is an exageration but it would be way to easy to skew numbers in Microsoft's favor (and vice versa).
For TCO, I have to comment on where it says that the total percentage cost for IT salaries is higher using Linux. Well duh... you don't have to spend as much on hardware and software which means IT salary will take a larger percent of what is spent.
When do you think the first "bug" will apprear that will break iTunes and/or Napster's music playback on Windows with an update to Windows Media Player?
Of course, these reports will be meaningless to the music execs. Instead of acknowledging that the albums with only or two decent songs are on the way out, they'll continue to blame piracy for the decline of CD sales. I recently signed on with iTunes (for Windows) and I'm enjoying it. iTunes has (what I consider to be) reasonable use policies. I'm not about to give up my perfectly working MP3 player so I was wanting a service that will allow me to make MP3s using reasonable steps. Already, I've purchased more music that I have the past couple of years. And get this... they're all songs that I like; none of the filler crap.
Eventually, they'll "get it" and realize that their business model is changing and you'll see more services like iTunes.
If I had information that I didn't want the public to see I would have at least made sure that the information was not accessible by someone who is using a hex editor. I made a PDA program for myself that stored passwords I had for various websites (when you have a different one for each site, it sometimes gets a little hard to keep track of them in your head). However, before I actually started using it, I looked at the binary image of the record or the PDA that was being created. Well, it turned out that the mechanism for "securely" storing the information was just making it inaccessible through the API. In the end, I had to write my own storage mechanism using a standard encryption technique. The moral of this story is, just because you can't get to it doesn't mean it's not there for someone to find.
Of course the people/person at The Memory Hole will be labeled as a hacker/pirate/terrorist by the justice department.
I thought it was because I should have had one build that bridge across the chasm. I didn't consider that the game had predators as well.
While programs like EQ, DAoC, Counter Strike, etc... are probably a part of the reason, another reason is because the current programming sucks. Most of the shows that they seem to be targeting that age range seem, to me, be a bunch of teen-aged soap operas (OC comes to mind).
I guess they figured that if it worked for Beverly Hill 90210, it should work now. With the Internet as it is today, people are expecting a more interactive form of entertainment. When I get home, I want instant gratification. I don't want to wait until the predetermined date and time to watch a show when I can load up DAoC and have fun.
I would have thought MSH == MicroSoft Hell
When I read about this case earlier, the DMCA violation was only part of the case against SCC. So they might not be out of trouble yet. When I read the case, part of what SCC copied into the chip was a program that was copywrited. Of course SCC can rewrite that program but there still was a violation there.
You're probably right. However, it will be settled out of court because those who paid for the law don't want to see it in court where it can be struck down. Unless of course it's a slam dunk victory for them.
You know, if I was him. I would tell Darl that I'll give the name of the person doing the DDoS if you give us the supposed lines of infringing code.
Player A: "Man, that last raid cost me $25" Player B: "J00 5U>0R5"
Do you think it'll take for them to find something in SAMBA that infringes on their IP? What better way to improve products than to hijack someone else's work?
I agree. Though IMHO, I think that if SCO continues down the current path, new support for SCO Unix should not be added to GCC. I think it would be wrong to remove support.
I have broadband but I have never installed any kind of P2P software on my computer. I use it mainly for playing online games such as DAoC and NWN. Is this overkill? probably. I can't find any reliable dial up services where I am. To me, a reliable connection and fast connection is worth the extra $20.