they said they had a thousand dollars, with the "lion's share" being 20's..
and yes, i'd say they are all pretty uniformly burned.. considering they were in a tight stack.. you know how if you don't seperate out the food in the microwave it doesn't heat up as quick?
how you got a +5, interesting is beyond me.. i'll probably be modded down to -1, troll, just for pointing out your poor arguments.
Ok, I won't claim to be an expert on the GPL, or as others put it, IANAL.. but this is making me nauseous.
Hey Darl, instead of clinging to decades-old code that YOUR COMPANY DIDN'T WRITE IN THE FIRST PLACE, that may or MAY NOT be in the kernel, why don't you spend some of that time and energy in DEVELOPING SOME NEW SOFTWARE?!
Accusing OSS of undermining national security is the most frusterating thing I could possibly think of to hear on a Friday morning.
Capitalism is built on competition. May the best man win. Develop a better mousetrap and you might have people who want to buy it from you. Treat customers with respect and you build a loyal base of consumers who RESPECT YOUR COMPANY. The GPL by no means (once again, IANAPL) stops people from getting paid for their work. Hell, there's plenty of OSS that I know of, using the good 'ol paypal method who don't seem to be that bad off...
This has got to stop, it's starting to worry me. Ad I don't even use linux that much!
As if the state of our society wasn't frusterating enough before all of this...
I'm building one as we speak, so I know a little more than most hearsay going on right now.
For not much more money, you can have the same exact performance, plus the added bonus of _burning_ recorded tv to dvd/vcd..
People saying it's expensive forget that as long as you have a hardware decoder, you're processor could literally be a pII.. hardware decoders do all the number crunching you need. the biggest requirement in this whole thing being a HUGE HDD.
on to my setup, i'm using my actual PC for now, slowly gathering all the parts.
heres why someone would do this insttead of tivo: (ms already knows this, hence MCE.) It's a tivo... it's a jukebox... it's a game console... it's A COMPUTER.
sure, if you think of it as just a tivo replacement, it's one hell of an expense.. but if you think of it as a PC with about $100 exta dollas wrapped up in it, it's one hell of a deal. Plus its very cool imho
it'd be interesting to see some company try to patent the shared processing "technology"... is SETI@home prior art, since it's basically completely backwards from what is going on here?
Her explanation may sound like that, but the technology shift itself sounds more like a reverse seti@home type of situation.
Instead of the data being sent to millions of end-user computers, it's being sent FROM the end users to large datacenters. (And as long as HP, IBM, et al don't monopolize on it, it would be a great market to get into.. large number-crunching data centers for use by the public/private sector.)
We'll see how this all turns out in about 15 years;)
I use random words for subjects quite often. I consider it a form of poetry when i'm writing to friends.. not completely random, but thought provoking in a semi-sensical way.
Guess I'll be filtered out soon..
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they said they had a thousand dollars, with the "lion's share" being 20's.. and yes, i'd say they are all pretty uniformly burned.. considering they were in a tight stack.. you know how if you don't seperate out the food in the microwave it doesn't heat up as quick? how you got a +5, interesting is beyond me.. i'll probably be modded down to -1, troll, just for pointing out your poor arguments.
Ok, I won't claim to be an expert on the GPL, or as others put it, IANAL.. but this is making me nauseous.
Hey Darl, instead of clinging to decades-old code that YOUR COMPANY DIDN'T WRITE IN THE FIRST PLACE, that may or MAY NOT be in the kernel, why don't you spend some of that time and energy in DEVELOPING SOME NEW SOFTWARE?!
Accusing OSS of undermining national security is the most frusterating thing I could possibly think of to hear on a Friday morning.
Capitalism is built on competition. May the best man win. Develop a better mousetrap and you might have people who want to buy it from you. Treat customers with respect and you build a loyal base of consumers who RESPECT YOUR COMPANY. The GPL by no means (once again, IANAPL) stops people from getting paid for their work. Hell, there's plenty of OSS that I know of, using the good 'ol paypal method who don't seem to be that bad off...
This has got to stop, it's starting to worry me. Ad I don't even use linux that much!
As if the state of our society wasn't frusterating enough before all of this...
I'm building one as we speak, so I know a little more than most hearsay going on right now.
For not much more money, you can have the same exact performance, plus the added bonus of _burning_ recorded tv to dvd/vcd..
People saying it's expensive forget that as long as you have a hardware decoder, you're processor could literally be a pII.. hardware decoders do all the number crunching you need. the biggest requirement in this whole thing being a HUGE HDD.
on to my setup, i'm using my actual PC for now, slowly gathering all the parts.
heres why someone would do this insttead of tivo: (ms already knows this, hence MCE.)
It's a tivo... it's a jukebox... it's a game console... it's A COMPUTER.
sure, if you think of it as just a tivo replacement, it's one hell of an expense.. but if you think of it as a PC with about $100 exta dollas wrapped up in it, it's one hell of a deal. Plus its very cool imho
it'd be interesting to see some company try to patent the shared processing "technology"... is SETI@home prior art, since it's basically completely backwards from what is going on here?
Her explanation may sound like that, but the technology shift itself sounds more like a reverse seti@home type of situation. Instead of the data being sent to millions of end-user computers, it's being sent FROM the end users to large datacenters. (And as long as HP, IBM, et al don't monopolize on it, it would be a great market to get into.. large number-crunching data centers for use by the public/private sector.) We'll see how this all turns out in about 15 years ;)
I use random words for subjects quite often. I consider it a form of poetry when i'm writing to friends.. not completely random, but thought provoking in a semi-sensical way. Guess I'll be filtered out soon..
"do you really think armed rebels would set up a fair democratic election? That would be the day."
it has happened over and over. revolutionaries overthrowing tyranical governments don't use twinkies.
our own country (i'm ass-u-me-ing here that you're an american also) is an example...
"fully active... as read only" sorry to be a nit picker, but.. it's what i'm good at.