agreed this terrorist bullshit has got to stop right now. this isn't iraq with IED's randomly around the place. this is an excuse to take our freedoms.
". If my tax dollars were paying for all of EMI's music to enter public domain," - that sentence makes no sense at all. this has nothing to do with your tax dollars. also, you think there isn't 67 million pounds to be made in selling mp3's?? pull your head out of your arse ok. i've never purchased anything from apples crappy store, but drm free mp3s in high quality? hell yes i'd buy up $100 worth right away.
there is nothing to lock you into goolge apps aside from contractual argreements. the web raises no technical barrier to change, hence it's not going to be an Ms style monopoly.
i can't see how this is anything but good. it gives me the power to influence how and what commercials get blasted at me by how i chose to skip them. this can only help improve the quality of them. now if they were identifying me in any way i'd be PISSED, but this is not the case.
your right, RMS is a wack job, he is something of a visonary yes but those people never live in the real world. it's the rest of us that take their idea's and make them a little more real. thankfully the OSS isn't dictated to by RMS.
this guy is probably just some middle managment dick, i can't imagine the "head" of any reasonably large customer service division having such piss poor people skills.besides, since when do heads of departments deal with such small matters?
i've seen many reports on this but i'm yet to see one of these letters published. the globalwarming crowd are certainly not above blatant lies. i see in the article that greenpeace are involved, so you can count out a large chunk of credability right there with those nuts. it's worth taking note that 30 years ago these same people were claiming an ice age was heading our way.
i can imagine him sitting their gritting his teeth at that comment "how dare he speak the truth!" blamer probably threw a chair in the background. face it bill, people know your OS is fuckin worthless.
these stupid articles piss me off, they always start out with the base assumption everything works on windows perfectly, which we all know to be untrue.i've used a freebsd desktop for years without problems, and it's more primitive then linux.
the torrent won't die because it's being seeded by a commerical system that's not gonna go offline. you also won't distribute it in mpeg2 format, that's insane, you will use mpeg4 or similar and it shouldn't be over 700 - 900megs. 1.8g isn't unreasonable to get something for nothing. it's true that cable people only have a low speed, but no scheme is perfect, and they can always just buy the movie and get it right away.
there's a simple way for movie studio's to distribute their content and make money from it without it being tied to "nasty" drm. simply release their own BT client which will allow you to 2 options - buy the movie outright and allow 10 copies of it to be burnt ( you can't call that unfair, who the fuck needs more then 10 copies ) OR you can view the movie for free after you have seeded 2x the size of the movie. that way they are assured there will be plenty of freeloaders out there to support the network, they won't need to invest tons in inferstructure and no one can accuse them of heavy handed drm.
postgresql has auto vacuum which does this in the background 99.999% of the time without you even noticing. all db's require vacuum, bar none. this is because when you update or delete a record the space that record consumes is not removed only it's data. if you update or delete a lot of records this can result in a huge database filled with nothing, slowing your queries down.
you do realise mysql requires vacuum just like postgresql, and all other dbs for that matter? postgresql just has AUTO vacuum so that you don't need to do it manually....
won't matter if they do, someone will fork the GPL version. ah the beauty of gpl. companys can totally fuck up a product and we will still get to use it as we please.
mysql has some nice things put into it recently that postgresql could learn from eg. paritions and it's distributed abilities. (i use postgresql personally and i'd love to see pg do similar things) I'd guess that they have 10,000 business customers who would want to either modify the code themselfs and not gpl it or have mysql write them customised versions of the db for them. those licenses aren't cheap, they'd be making a healthy profit on them to be sure.
no doubt some fucking ass will come on here and say this is yet more proof that god mad man as is, that we were never monkeys, because we are yet to discover a few pieces of the puzzle. they will also say how it's "just a theory" even though gravity is just a theory as well (wish some of them would test the theory of gravity by jumping off some cliffs, ridding us of their stupidity)
a company like cingular won't even care about 35k, hell they would drop that on a 60 second ad on tv. and those restrictions.. what a joke. they shouldn't be allowed to invade my pc with advertisments fullstop.
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linux playing catch up to solaris? on the desktop? are you fucking insane?
"we got nothing, someone think something up quick so we can steal it."
agreed this terrorist bullshit has got to stop right now. this isn't iraq with IED's randomly around the place. this is an excuse to take our freedoms.
". If my tax dollars were paying for all of EMI's music to enter public domain," - that sentence makes no sense at all. this has nothing to do with your tax dollars. also, you think there isn't 67 million pounds to be made in selling mp3's?? pull your head out of your arse ok. i've never purchased anything from apples crappy store, but drm free mp3s in high quality? hell yes i'd buy up $100 worth right away.
i know personally i don't know my own intentions some times, so how can a 3rd party claim to understand them?
israel - it's whole purpose is to be the jewish "homeland", and you can't live there if you aren't
there is nothing to lock you into goolge apps aside from contractual argreements. the web raises no technical barrier to change, hence it's not going to be an Ms style monopoly.
i can't see how this is anything but good. it gives me the power to influence how and what commercials get blasted at me by how i chose to skip them. this can only help improve the quality of them. now if they were identifying me in any way i'd be PISSED, but this is not the case.
your right, RMS is a wack job, he is something of a visonary yes but those people never live in the real world. it's the rest of us that take their idea's and make them a little more real. thankfully the OSS isn't dictated to by RMS.
this guy is probably just some middle managment dick, i can't imagine the "head" of any reasonably large customer service division having such piss poor people skills.besides, since when do heads of departments deal with such small matters?
do you honestly think the people who wrote this report were unpaid and had no bias of their own? take the blinders off.
i've seen many reports on this but i'm yet to see one of these letters published. the globalwarming crowd are certainly not above blatant lies. i see in the article that greenpeace are involved, so you can count out a large chunk of credability right there with those nuts. it's worth taking note that 30 years ago these same people were claiming an ice age was heading our way.
i can imagine him sitting their gritting his teeth at that comment "how dare he speak the truth!" blamer probably threw a chair in the background. face it bill, people know your OS is fuckin worthless.
these stupid articles piss me off, they always start out with the base assumption everything works on windows perfectly, which we all know to be untrue.i've used a freebsd desktop for years without problems, and it's more primitive then linux.
the torrent won't die because it's being seeded by a commerical system that's not gonna go offline. you also won't distribute it in mpeg2 format, that's insane, you will use mpeg4 or similar and it shouldn't be over 700 - 900megs. 1.8g isn't unreasonable to get something for nothing. it's true that cable people only have a low speed, but no scheme is perfect, and they can always just buy the movie and get it right away.
there's a simple way for movie studio's to distribute their content and make money from it without it being tied to "nasty" drm. simply release their own BT client which will allow you to 2 options - buy the movie outright and allow 10 copies of it to be burnt ( you can't call that unfair, who the fuck needs more then 10 copies ) OR you can view the movie for free after you have seeded 2x the size of the movie. that way they are assured there will be plenty of freeloaders out there to support the network, they won't need to invest tons in inferstructure and no one can accuse them of heavy handed drm.
postgresql has auto vacuum which does this in the background 99.999% of the time without you even noticing. all db's require vacuum, bar none. this is because when you update or delete a record the space that record consumes is not removed only it's data. if you update or delete a lot of records this can result in a huge database filled with nothing, slowing your queries down.
you do realise mysql requires vacuum just like postgresql, and all other dbs for that matter? postgresql just has AUTO vacuum so that you don't need to do it manually....
most real dba's have a lot more then a single server to look after. try about 10 or more. a dba's a heck of a lot cheaper.
won't matter if they do, someone will fork the GPL version. ah the beauty of gpl. companys can totally fuck up a product and we will still get to use it as we please.
mysql has some nice things put into it recently that postgresql could learn from eg. paritions and it's distributed abilities. (i use postgresql personally and i'd love to see pg do similar things) I'd guess that they have 10,000 business customers who would want to either modify the code themselfs and not gpl it or have mysql write them customised versions of the db for them. those licenses aren't cheap, they'd be making a healthy profit on them to be sure.
if you can't imagine using 20 gigs with a mobile device, then you simply lack imagination.
uh, and what is your transmitter going to talk to? you can't just transmit a phone call to a mobile phone.
no doubt some fucking ass will come on here and say this is yet more proof that god mad man as is, that we were never monkeys, because we are yet to discover a few pieces of the puzzle. they will also say how it's "just a theory" even though gravity is just a theory as well (wish some of them would test the theory of gravity by jumping off some cliffs, ridding us of their stupidity)
a company like cingular won't even care about 35k, hell they would drop that on a 60 second ad on tv. and those restrictions.. what a joke. they shouldn't be allowed to invade my pc with advertisments fullstop.