You can still have a good time at the arcade, if you know what you want.
Unfortunately, there aren't any arcades for miles around here because of a stupid ordiance that outlaws adult entertainment, and it classifies arcades as being such. But, when I do make it to one, I'll spend most of my time at pinball, and maybe a little bit of time at the racing games. (I'm a sucker for those..)
OT: Has anyone seen the Star Wars Epsiode I pinball machine? It plays movies for you on this screen as to distract you from the ball:(
Yes, but the people at the top of Virgin, BMG, and what other big label you can think of aren't the ones that will feel the hurt the most. These companies employ thousands of people, and if the label suffers, they suffer too. When you stop viewing the label as some huge monolithic entity and start viewing it as the collection of people that it is, maybe things will make more sense to you.
Label's dont mint their own money. If they don't get money from an artist, they'll stop funding them, and then the entire infrastructure gets hurt. The labels pay thousands of other people. Should the label not receive money from their investment, they'll either cut off the supply of money or not be able to afford as many expenses any more. Then everyone who relies on contracts from the label gets screwed.
We're talking about big-label bands, as that is what the majority of trades on Napster are. Given how many expenses are picked up by the label, you cheat them out of money if you circumvent them and pay the artist directly. And it's not the owner or CEO who's pocketbook hurts. It's the little guy who gets layed off to save money.
The problem is, you then only give money to the artist. It takes many, many people to develop the recording that you've downloaded on Napster, and if you give money to the recording artist only, you've screwed many people out of their money.
There are recording engineers that need to be paid. And everyone at the studio, including the janitors, managers, and security guards, need to be paid. The workers at the normal distribution method don't get paid either. That includes the company who delivers the CDs, the company that presses the CDs, the record store, and everyone who works at the above mentioned companies. So you all can complain about the artist only getting a little bit of cash- but the majority of the rest of the cash goes to many, many, many other people. It's not as if the head of the RIAA pockets $11 with every purchase, you know.
A temporary injunction isn't a determination of guilt, it's just a way of saying "Let's cool it while we sort this all out." Heck, look at the Slashdot headline: Napster Shut Down Until Trial. Nobody is being imprisoned, or fined. The injunction is issued because the court realizes that this matter is very serious, and to protect the plantiff (or the public) from further harm until the trial is over. It's merely a way to freeze a position in time while they sort things out.
If napster can prove their case, the injunction will be dissolved and they can drink and be merry.
I'm the lead developer for a project called chessd, and cheating has, believe it or not, always been somewhat of an issue with online chess servers. The concern is that when people are playing _very_ fast games, they'll push back their clock to gain some extra time. The obvious solution is to have the server determine how long they spent on the move, but then lag is not taken into consideration. 2-3 seconds can be the difference between a win or a loss in these games of chess. We've seen examples where someone lost by a tenth of a second..
The previous generation servers, that the earliest branches of chessd are based off of, solved this problem by what they call "timeseal". They distributed a closed source binary for a bunch of platforms to their users, and should they choose to use them, it would use the MOVE command in such a way where it would trust the time reported. This was a half assed solution, at best. Besides being easily reverse engineered, anyone who knows how to use their system's "date" command can fool it.
The crux of the matter is, at least in chessd's case, that we can't stop cheating. We can pretend to stop people using timers, but there's no way in heck we can stop people who use a chess engine to analyze their position, etc. Hence, in our rewrite we will be implementing a "trust" system. Either the user trusts the client and risks playing a cheater, or trusts the server and bites the lag bullet. We will, of course, be doing _some_ checking on the trusted moves to make sure they aren't obviously faked. (No negative times!)
We don't think that an E-Bay style recommendation system is needed, because frankly, the server admin can always ban someone who they have good reason to believe is cheating.
In conclusion, you should trust your opponent out of good faith. If you can't, you can either trust the server and bite the performance bullet, or not play at all.
Any benchmarks of ext2fs vs FFS with softupdates? They'd be interesting..
But, you need to remember, that with filesystems it's very hard to compare them. One filesystem may be better at large appends to a few number of files, while another can handle many small files with ease.
Linux goes through the same levels of development as any other operating system, the difference is that each step is available to everyone, and not locked up behind closed doors.
Oh, please. That troll is very old now. Exactly what do you base that on? The development of Free, Net, and OpenBSD is just as open, no, more open, than the development of Linux. With Linux, you get only the snapshots that Linus or Alan feels that you should get- with FreeBSD, you can get from CVS the version of any given day, hour, minute, and second.
No, all of the slides are in English. Didn't you even look at them? Oh, and Anonymous Cow my foot. I told Nik about this in http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/07/18/22402 16&threshold=-1&commentsort=3&mode=threa d&cid=4
But I guess I didn't use the proper submission form, so oh well:)
All valid points. On the flipside of the coin, you could be doing plain MP3 encoding- but on a not so modern CPU. Want to put some use to your 486/66 in the corner? Put an mp3 encoding card in it and you're in business.
I've always felt that if someone with that much computational power/intelligence skill so that they could crack my PGP keys or just take my HD, then I'm screwed anyway. It's just like how The Club won't keep professionals from stealing my car, but it'll stop the 99.99% of those hoodlums out there who just want to joyride.
Jupiter said it surveyed more than 2,200 online music fans about whether the money they spent on music purchases had increased, decreased or remained the same since they began visiting music destinations on the Web.
Ok kids, if you say you've bought more, you can still use Napster. Else, the RIAA will use this study to shut down Napster. Now, what is your answer?
My CD buying patterns have always been low, because it takes a lot to convince me. MP3s taken over what I used to tape off of the radio, or bootleg from a friend.
Bah! When the Harry Fox Agency shut down OLGA, nobody cared. It had one mention on slashdot, and that was it. Olga has been harassed for doing something which is actually honest. Comeon people, anyone who's been to Scour's page knows that they are definetly "piracy-friendly" and that the service is mainly being used for piracy. Look at the top searches, which they flaunt all over the page!
When a service that's of value to the "average slashdot user" is endangered, we'll see like six articles with updates, and interviews with the agency trying to shut them down. But when the little guy is actually getting screwed when they really aren't doing anything wrong, it gets shrugged off because it doesn't affect you people.
Scour may or may not be operating in the legal limits of the laws, but one can certainly see how it's service is questionable. But the precent (not a legal precedent, it's never been to court) set by OLGA scares me. It really, really does.
OLGA used to hold about 33,000 files. Now it holds about 1,500.
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Unfortunately, there aren't any arcades for miles around here because of a stupid ordiance that outlaws adult entertainment, and it classifies arcades as being such. But, when I do make it to one, I'll spend most of my time at pinball, and maybe a little bit of time at the racing games. (I'm a sucker for those..)
OT: Has anyone seen the Star Wars Epsiode I pinball machine? It plays movies for you on this screen as to distract you from the ball :(
Yes, but the people at the top of Virgin, BMG, and what other big label you can think of aren't the ones that will feel the hurt the most. These companies employ thousands of people, and if the label suffers, they suffer too. When you stop viewing the label as some huge monolithic entity and start viewing it as the collection of people that it is, maybe things will make more sense to you.
It's all interconnected, baby.
We're talking about big-label bands, as that is what the majority of trades on Napster are. Given how many expenses are picked up by the label, you cheat them out of money if you circumvent them and pay the artist directly. And it's not the owner or CEO who's pocketbook hurts. It's the little guy who gets layed off to save money.
There are recording engineers that need to be paid. And everyone at the studio, including the janitors, managers, and security guards, need to be paid. The workers at the normal distribution method don't get paid either. That includes the company who delivers the CDs, the company that presses the CDs, the record store, and everyone who works at the above mentioned companies. So you all can complain about the artist only getting a little bit of cash- but the majority of the rest of the cash goes to many, many, many other people. It's not as if the head of the RIAA pockets $11 with every purchase, you know.
How do you remove something? with pkg_delete or make deinstall inside the directory in the ports tree.
4.1 was not the first "endorsed FreeBSD" release that had SMP support, 3.1 was.
Invoke tcsh as csh or less as more, and you'll get the behavior you want. If you investigated a bit before posting, you'd know that ;)
If napster can prove their case, the injunction will be dissolved and they can drink and be merry.
The previous generation servers, that the earliest branches of chessd are based off of, solved this problem by what they call "timeseal". They distributed a closed source binary for a bunch of platforms to their users, and should they choose to use them, it would use the MOVE command in such a way where it would trust the time reported. This was a half assed solution, at best. Besides being easily reverse engineered, anyone who knows how to use their system's "date" command can fool it.
The crux of the matter is, at least in chessd's case, that we can't stop cheating. We can pretend to stop people using timers, but there's no way in heck we can stop people who use a chess engine to analyze their position, etc. Hence, in our rewrite we will be implementing a "trust" system. Either the user trusts the client and risks playing a cheater, or trusts the server and bites the lag bullet. We will, of course, be doing _some_ checking on the trusted moves to make sure they aren't obviously faked. (No negative times!)
We don't think that an E-Bay style recommendation system is needed, because frankly, the server admin can always ban someone who they have good reason to believe is cheating.
In conclusion, you should trust your opponent out of good faith. If you can't, you can either trust the server and bite the performance bullet, or not play at all.
Have Softupdates enabled? It'll create an increase in performance that's definetly noticable.
But, you need to remember, that with filesystems it's very hard to compare them. One filesystem may be better at large appends to a few number of files, while another can handle many small files with ease.
Back in the day? It was only two years ago.
Oh, please. That troll is very old now. Exactly what do you base that on? The development of Free, Net, and OpenBSD is just as open, no, more open, than the development of Linux. With Linux, you get only the snapshots that Linus or Alan feels that you should get- with FreeBSD, you can get from CVS the version of any given day, hour, minute, and second.
But I guess I didn't use the proper submission form, so oh well :)
All valid points. On the flipside of the coin, you could be doing plain MP3 encoding- but on a not so modern CPU. Want to put some use to your 486/66 in the corner? Put an mp3 encoding card in it and you're in business.
I've always felt that if someone with that much computational power/intelligence skill so that they could crack my PGP keys or just take my HD, then I'm screwed anyway. It's just like how The Club won't keep professionals from stealing my car, but it'll stop the 99.99% of those hoodlums out there who just want to joyride.
Ok kids, if you say you've bought more, you can still use Napster. Else, the RIAA will use this study to shut down Napster. Now, what is your answer?
My CD buying patterns have always been low, because it takes a lot to convince me. MP3s taken over what I used to tape off of the radio, or bootleg from a friend.
It's great for classics, and I use it for such, but it's not nearly the same thing as the one true OLGA.
When a service that's of value to the "average slashdot user" is endangered, we'll see like six articles with updates, and interviews with the agency trying to shut them down. But when the little guy is actually getting screwed when they really aren't doing anything wrong, it gets shrugged off because it doesn't affect you people.
Scour may or may not be operating in the legal limits of the laws, but one can certainly see how it's service is questionable. But the precent (not a legal precedent, it's never been to court) set by OLGA scares me. It really, really does.
OLGA used to hold about 33,000 files. Now it holds about 1,500.
You're looking for a Quartz clone, and yeah, Quartz is cool technology. How's the network support?
Only if you have a really, really, really, really lax definition of "unixy"
Presented at LinuxTag 2000, it's a bunch of unbiased benchmarks of FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Linux 2.2, Linux 2.4, Solaris 7, and Solaris 8.
It's certainly more of a worthy benchmark for the front page than the ones here.
Breaks? Getting you from point A to point B? Obviously you've never driven a Geo.
Have you read that license? It's not terribly different from a 3-clause BSD license.