there's not a huge amount of mainstream publicity The RIAA makes maximal publicity about these cases, but can they really draw attention away from one of them when it goes sour? Does the recording industry own the media?
IMHO, each case that goes our direction draws more attention than any of the many cases that break for the RIAA.
That sounds reasonable. My non-asshole take is that they're thinking two half measures add up to open source. (obsolete source + easily licensable SDK = open) If this is all really just a way to give BT leverage against malware authors and scammers who incorporate torrent functionality in their stuff, they might not be too far off the mark, although open source hardliners would certainly disagree...
And possibly for pragmatic reasons. I think that if uTorrent to advances while the rest of the field stagnates and grows less and less compatible, it will become a single point of failure upon which the media companies will focus their hungry lawyers and dirty tricksters.
BT might want to take a page from eMule's playbook and remember the fates of Napster, Kazaa, etc... The same holds true for the SDK itself; at the very least, the licenses for both hopefully contain spicy-pill provisions that activate by default to release the whole enchilada & all associated burritos into the wild in the case of BT's bankruptcy and in other adverse circumstances. Just my 2c.
I pasted text from the article. That text may have been a quote from somewhere else - nevertheless, it appears in the article. How is this hard to understand? You would know that it isn't, if, well...
From TFA:
"Q: How will this impact the BitTorrent open source development community as a whole?
A: There will be no impact to the BitTorrent open source development community. We are committed to maintaining the preeminent reference implementation of BitTorrent under an open source license." Slashdot editors, you are fucking retarded.
You do realize that the EC is hassling MS for abusing their alleged monopoly position, right?
If you must purchase a certain company's product in order for your business to survive, you wont pay a fair market price. Market distortion can prevent you from voting with your wallet if it forces you to pay whatever is demanded, lest your business perish. That, my friend, is called monopoly rent.
Now, if you worked from the unquestioned assumption that Microsoft is not a monopoly, what you said could have been relevant. However, the European Commission says that your premise is bullshit. You're welcome to take it up with them.
It seems that the microsoft fanbois are the only ones screaming about it, eh? Isn't that strange? Microsoft pointing out that Apple isn't open enough? Bwahahahahaha
Because they would have passed the cost on to consumers. To quote a Microserf friend, "we charge mondo for our dog food in Europe so that the EC wont forget that we are the big dog."
Not that we should expect MS to do otherwise. We fine them? They fine us.
Our civilization is in its technological infancy, and even we find radio rather slow and limiting. I can't imagine us leaving much of a radio footprint in another hundred years Indeed. By then, the rest of us will probably also have moved on to instantaneous POIUYTREWQ ASDFGHJKL Beta technology. I know, I know, POIUYTREWQ ASDFGHJKL Beta sounds like an improbable name, but remember, instantaneous communication allows information to be transmitted into the past.
And so, if you'll freaking listen, you'll here me telling you that it will be called POIUYTREWQ ASDFGHJKL Beta. It's fine if you don't believe me - in fact, I expect it, great great gramps. I suppose this would be a good time to tell you to buy land at least 20ft over sea level and, unless you like desert, north of 60 in the northern hemisphere. (avoid the southern). I know you wont listen, though... Also, GOOG, for you, is far from overpriced...
Well, that would explain the world-wide black stratum in the planet's rocks that make the K-T event so readily identifiable.
Or not. Does this theory merely half-explain what we already know or does it make other stuff that we couldn't explain come out right, too? Sounds like the former...
Neutrality is not a requirement to point out bias. It is if you want to be taken seriously; the GP seems a bit like the pot calling the kettle black.
That said, I'd rather have articles "obviously biased" than "subversively biased". OK... but how about impartiality? Would an impartial observer conclude that the submitter is biased? Who knows - all we have is some troll labeling everything he doesn't like "liberal."
But recently his postings were all about Canada turning less and less appealing to his kind. Would you care to elaborate on this? "His kind" ?!
many of the articles posted by Mr. Dawson are so obviously (left-)biased Right; you surely would brook no bias...
I used to write C/C++ compilation/optimisation stuff for a living, so I guess I know something about the topic.... Good guess. Name decoration and limited knowledge of c++'s origins led me to conclude that most C++ compilers still act as front ends. So, we don't all use C anymore...
1) Every linux kernel developer 2) Every *BSD kernel developer 3) John Carmack, for the core of every ID engine up to and possibly beyond Doom3 4) You, whenever you compile C++ code, as it is compiled to C before machine code (unless you are using an exotic compiler such as the Compaq AXP C++ compiler for TRU64).
The visual voicemail system alone required AT&T to update how their voicemail system works. Have you heard the quality of messages stored by this system? They are compressed beyond coherency - imagine trying to comprehend a phone call in a shoe box in a tin can underwater in a flushing toilet bowl. It's about 1000x worse than that. And, in all respects, AT&T's customer support is even less coherent.
Tying the iPhone to a single carrier is only to be expected considering Apple's history. When has Apple tied their other offerings to specific carriers? Would this be comparable to how Apple does not die their desktop offerings to AOL? Please elaborate.
Because then they couldn't hit you up for $899.99 for Vista Premium Gold Plus Gentleman's Edition + $1099.99 for Orifice Rear Entry Gentleman's Edition.
OK, so maybe these things don't sound appealing to you, but businesses love this stuff and execs absolutely adore them. If you don't believe me, you should check out Steve Ballmer, the current MS CEO, outlining the new Microsoft fellatio strategy.
The whole "VM" thing is something they should have done with an XP-esque release made in 1992. NT 3.1, the first NT version & the first fully 32 bit windows, wasn't released until '93. Since at least NT 3.5, Microsoft has included a VDM (Virtual Dos Machine) for 16 bit apps. In XP, this is visible in the task manager as wowexec.exe. Similarly, XP x64 edition includes WOW64 for 32-bit compatibility, as does XP 64 for Itanium (although the Itanium version performs instruction translation rather than just switching the CPU into 32bit x86 mode, which is impossible on all but the shittiest Itaniums).
So, the win7 VM model is anything but unprecedented. I expect that the win7 UI will be pure c# and extremely slow, just like Visual Studio 2005. Indeed, it will be like using a system written in Java and running on an extremely slow VM, which is fine by me. It should make my Apple stock go up some more - beyond the Vista failure bump-up:-) It's pretty cool that the modern economy allows one to benefit from slow-motion train wrecks, eh?
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"Because you're too demanding, man."
IMHO, each case that goes our direction draws more attention than any of the many cases that break for the RIAA.
That sounds reasonable. My non-asshole take is that they're thinking two half measures add up to open source. (obsolete source + easily licensable SDK = open) If this is all really just a way to give BT leverage against malware authors and scammers who incorporate torrent functionality in their stuff, they might not be too far off the mark, although open source hardliners would certainly disagree...
And possibly for pragmatic reasons. I think that if uTorrent to advances while the rest of the field stagnates and grows less and less compatible, it will become a single point of failure upon which the media companies will focus their hungry lawyers and dirty tricksters.
BT might want to take a page from eMule's playbook and remember the fates of Napster, Kazaa, etc... The same holds true for the SDK itself; at the very least, the licenses for both hopefully contain spicy-pill provisions that activate by default to release the whole enchilada & all associated burritos into the wild in the case of BT's bankruptcy and in other adverse circumstances. Just my 2c.
I pasted text from the article. That text may have been a quote from somewhere else - nevertheless, it appears in the article. How is this hard to understand? You would know that it isn't, if, well...
A: There will be no impact to the BitTorrent open source development community. We are committed to maintaining the preeminent reference implementation of BitTorrent under an open source license." Slashdot editors, you are fucking retarded.
You do realize that the EC is hassling MS for abusing their alleged monopoly position, right?
If you must purchase a certain company's product in order for your business to survive, you wont pay a fair market price. Market distortion can prevent you from voting with your wallet if it forces you to pay whatever is demanded, lest your business perish. That, my friend, is called monopoly rent.
Now, if you worked from the unquestioned assumption that Microsoft is not a monopoly, what you said could have been relevant. However, the European Commission says that your premise is bullshit. You're welcome to take it up with them.
It seems that the microsoft fanbois are the only ones screaming about it, eh? Isn't that strange? Microsoft pointing out that Apple isn't open enough? Bwahahahahaha
Respect our authoritae!
Oh no, this isn't even fair. *cringe* *WinCE*
Because they would have passed the cost on to consumers. To quote a Microserf friend, "we charge mondo for our dog food in Europe so that the EC wont forget that we are the big dog."
Not that we should expect MS to do otherwise. We fine them? They fine us.
And so, if you'll freaking listen, you'll here me telling you that it will be called POIUYTREWQ ASDFGHJKL Beta. It's fine if you don't believe me - in fact, I expect it, great great gramps. I suppose this would be a good time to tell you to buy land at least 20ft over sea level and, unless you like desert, north of 60 in the northern hemisphere. (avoid the southern). I know you wont listen, though... Also, GOOG, for you, is far from overpriced...
You must be new here.
Well, that would explain the world-wide black stratum in the planet's rocks that make the K-T event so readily identifiable.
Or not. Does this theory merely half-explain what we already know or does it make other stuff that we couldn't explain come out right, too? Sounds like the former...
Sir, do not trivialize this. Surely, you must understand that
MUSIC IS GOING DOWN THE INTERTUBES!
I don't know; he might have come off better without the bigoted language and labeling. Perhaps less... trollish.
Oh, gee, well, nobody except:
1) Every linux kernel developer
2) Every *BSD kernel developer
3) John Carmack, for the core of every ID engine up to and possibly beyond Doom3
4) You, whenever you compile C++ code, as it is compiled to C before machine code (unless you are using an exotic compiler such as the Compaq AXP C++ compiler for TRU64).
Except on Windows XP, where pipe performance degraded an order of magnitude as compared to Windows 2000.
I, for one, welcome our emasculated overlords.
Because then they couldn't hit you up for $899.99 for Vista Premium Gold Plus Gentleman's Edition + $1099.99 for Orifice Rear Entry Gentleman's Edition.
OK, so maybe these things don't sound appealing to you, but businesses love this stuff and execs absolutely adore them. If you don't believe me, you should check out Steve Ballmer, the current MS CEO, outlining the new Microsoft fellatio strategy.
So, the win7 VM model is anything but unprecedented. I expect that the win7 UI will be pure c# and extremely slow, just like Visual Studio 2005. Indeed, it will be like using a system written in Java and running on an extremely slow VM, which is fine by me. It should make my Apple stock go up some more - beyond the Vista failure bump-up