If I download Debian and install KDE at home, Do I owe money to TT?
If I download Debian and install KDE on my companies' file server, do I owe money?
If RedHat sells is a SAN solution, do they owe TT money?
If I buy RedHat or Suse, does TT get paid?
It's all so very confusing. Dual License seems to be the worst of both worlds.
The key to OSS is support. I'll pay a KDE guy to sit at a desk at my company and resolve any issues my clients have with KDE. Any code he writes is released back into the wild.
A slave can only serve one master. They are either out there to save lives or to make money.
If they want to save lives, they need to place their patents in the public domain and ensure as many people as possible use them. Lives will be saved that would have otherwise been lost.
If they want to make money, then keep the patents closed and charge as much as the market will bear for the technology. They will make money at the expense of the lives of thoes who could not afford to live.
Using a computer here is a real crutch. At least in the way you want. Pen & paper will save you gobs of time.
For lamps, TVs, computers, phones, etc, make sure you have the measurements for the power and network lines. Nothing worse than having a perfect layout only to discover that your phone is all the way across the room because that's the only jack.
If you want to be real geeky, use HalfLife2 and create a level of your apartment. Furniture won't be that hard and you walk around and get a feel for it. If you enable physics and tweak them a bit, you could even move furniture around inside the level.
Take pictures of your floor, walls, celing, couches, etc in order to texture everything properly.
You could probably do a HL2 level of your apartment in a few days.
It has been found that Debian is vulnerable to the 'rm -rf/' attack. Of course, you need to be logged in a root in order for it to work.
If you run SP2, and the firewall is off, you probably know what you are doing. If you are pre-SP2, you have issues and should run Windows Update. WU happens by default on a vanilla XP install and SP2 is finally up there.
If you are running SP2, and you have the firewall off, there are probably several hundred 'sploits out there.
A 4&3 is not a bad schedule. Even with 12-hour shifts.
It's the three-hour commute that's killing him.
For a lot of the last 10 years, I've worked a 3-on, 3-off, 2-on, 2-off schedule with 12s. It really isn't bad.
Look at it this way, with his schedule, he's working less than 50 hours a week. Most people work at least 9 hours a day. The employer takes an hour for lunch leaving you 40 hours. If you ever work a weekend or stay late more than twice a week, then you have gone over 48 hours.
But that commute...
It's simple: Live where you work. Get an apartment close to where you work and live there. If you have a family and are not willing to move, then quit.
Another idea is to get a hotel close to work once a week. If the pay is good enough to offset a $60 hotel room, then try it. Staying in a hotel the 3rd night of your week will feel like a dream.
What you really need to do is get some 15lb dumbells and start using them.
Do 10 pushups every other hour. Aim for 50 the first 2 weeks and add a few more each week after. Shoot for 20 pushups at a time and 120 per day.
Same with situps. If you work buisness casual, a towel will keep your shirt clean. Get a sit-up bar for your feet or just hook them under the edge of your desk.
Do curls, squats, upright rows, military presses, and other creative exercises with the dumbells. Agian, no more than 10 or 20 at a time. But you will be doing them throughout the shift.
It'll keep your metabolism high and make you feel a lot better.
Get some alcohol, talcum powder, hand lotion, and a clean rag for your drawer.
If you feel sweaty, use the rag doused with some alcohol to clean the sweat. Use talc to prevent sweat to begin with. Hand lotion is for your hands; push-ups and dumbells can wreak havoc on girly-hands.
The problem is that you don't really know what you are missing.
I was curious, so I benchmarked UT2k4 under Linux and WinXP. I ran the test at 640*480 up to 1280*1024. All options were set to full on.
Linux always beet WinXP in every test. I was amazed. But then I started looking at the details.
Under Linux, I was missing FSAA and FSAF. Sure, you can tweak the xf86config file, but under WinXP, it's an in-game option.
Under Linux, the scenes just looked shittier. Even with both platforms set with AA/AF off, the WinXP scene looked cleaner. Lights were brighter and hilights, shadows, particles, etc all looked better.
And don't even get me started on bump-mapping.
Anyway, under Linux, the games run at a decent framerate, but you are always missing a lot of things that add to the atmosphere of the game.
I would think that the knife laws do not apply to workers. After all, do you see the police arresting chefs or rading Wal-Mart?
No! The law was intended to apply as a secondary charge in cases where a criminal was being detained. "I'm gonna pat you down now. Will I find anything?" Boom, a knife. Automatic 24-hours in jail while they investigate other charges.
Kind of an "Atlas Shrugged" situation where they know you are acting in an illegal manner...It's what they want and need.
If a cop overlooks an obvious infraction of the law in one case and tries to enforce it in another, your lawyer could (pardon the pun) cut him to shreds.
In addition to that, the Constitution gives you the right to bear arms. Knives are arms. As long as it's being worn on the holster on your belt, it's not concealed.
My favorite feature is the one-handed opening. Basicly, you flick your wrist and the pliers drop out.
As for the blades inside, the serrated knife is my fave. In my cable plant, people were incredulous that I could go through 200-pair cable with a Gerber. Furthermore, I added that I could do it faster than the actual ratcheting cutter designed to go through 200-pair cable. I picked up the cable (about 4" thick) and started sawing. Took less than 30 seconds to go through.
A soft touch on the pliers will act as the best wire stripper ever.
The flat-bladed knife cuts through the shielding on fiber-optic cable with ease.
The best thing of all is that the tool can be completely disassembled in about 10 minutes and everything but the springs can go into the dishwasher. Add a bit of WD-40 when you put it back together and the damn thing looks and works better than new.
And cap the maximum donation at $1000. Don't allow Bill Gates to be any more powerful than a mid-west farmer. Each of them can drop their $1k and offer their vote, but nothing more.
Just having a patent does not mean riches. And it shouldn't.
If you invent something and sit on the idea, you don't deserve to make money.
Personally, I'd like to see a condition on patents that the idea has to be marketed within 5 years or the patent expires.
Fucking asshats coming up with a good idea then waiting on the world to beat a fucking path. It doesn't happen like that.
If anyone ever had a truly revolutionaly idea that they had faith in, they'd go batshit crazy trying to get the world to listen to them. Just take a look at that crazy Tesla fucker for a good idea of how to market something agianst all odds.
One day, you'll grow up and move out of mom's basement. On that day, you'll see that the real world is not fair. People who wine about it generally get crushed.
You may consider it unfair that I can spend an hour on e-bay and get an item that took you months to earn.
I consider it unfair that I have to work 50+ hours a week.
So, I'll make you a deal: You spend 50+ hours a week doing something else besides Fishing and Skinning in WoW, and I'll stop spending real money for virtual items.
They say there's a PA for every moment in your life:
Want a good buisness model? Take someone's GPL code. Modify it a bit. Begin charging to access the "perpetual beta" code. Promise to let people have access to the source once it's finalized...only it'll never be finalized.
To top it all off, threaten, DMCA, and generally shit all over the GPL and it's guarentee to allow everyone to redistribute.
Last I heard, they are rewriting everything as NVIDIA style modules to augment the GPLed firmware.
Anyway, it's really pissing in the pool of anyone who has ever contributed to the Linux kernel...and it's all technically within the GPL.
I really hate to nit-pick, but any editor should have caught that the arrows in the flow chart point the wrong way.
Anyway, I've often wondered why the OS insists on redetecting hardware when BIOS does it for me already. I've heard that the LinuxBios actually does away with the hardware detect phase; leaving it solely to the kernel.
If the most popular OSes out there are taking care of HW at the high level, why haven't BIOS makers taken advantage of this to reduce their workload?
It really is a lose-lose propisition. Gamers want something that they can play any time on any computer with minimal fuss. Publishers want to seel copies. Developers want to get paid for every copy that people are enjoying.
So, instead of bitching about the status quo, come up with a viable alternative.
You can require a CD in the drive. That sucks and is easily defeatable by Daemon Tools.
You can check for DT, but then you are violating my right to have my PC set up the way I choose. Imagine MS just outright refusing to run a non-MS app. That's what publishers are doing.
You can distribute online and hope piracy stays low. Of course, all the copies of WinZip and Cedega over at torrentreactor prove that doesn't work.
You can distribute online copies and require a server verification prior to launch. But what if you go bankrupt? Will you spend your dying breath releasing a patch to allow offline operation? More likely than not, your servers and their activation code will be auctioned off to somebody else who may or may not allow you to reactivate.
Personally, I prefer a random check. Let's say the game calls home after some random time span. The span will be hourly within the first week after install and maybe monthly a few months after release.
The trick is to really make pirates pay. Let them play for an hour or two. Then exit with a reboot if the server isn't found. The pirates will think it's a random crash. They relaunch and play some more...another crash.
Meanwhile, valid customers are playing just fine with no reboots.
Or maybe require an activation code to be used to access additional content. Imagine having to put in a code to download a patch. Then tag each patch with the code used to download it. If a patch gets in the wild, unregister that game code and release a new patch with additional content. The person releasing the patch gets screwed. Everone else is happy.
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While the popcorn idea sounds like fun, logistically speaking, baloons give a bigger bang for your buck.
1. Get an air compressor or 3 from your local equipment rental store.
2. Get a cylinder of helium.
3. Get a funnel.
4. Get some glitter.
5. Get some confetti (I prefer cross-shreded paper).
6. Get some shaving cream.
7. Get shit-tons of cardboard.
The basic theory is to use the air compressors to fill the majority of the baloons. A survey of the house and some simple math will give you a volume. A few test baloons will let you know how many you'll eventually need. Use the cardboard to block off the doors to the various rooms so you can fill them to the top.
The helium makes annoying baloons that are hard to get at.
The glitter and confetti make a fucking mess.
The shaving cream is for real revenge.
The big trick is to only fill a few with the goodies. Make every "pop" a real surprise.
BTW, to make the process more effecient, come up with a better way to seal vice tying. Most party stores have plugs you can use, but it might get expensive.
So, let me get this right. If, by some chance, the horribly overcomplicated shuttle breaks in orbit, we'll launch another horribly overcomplicated shuttle that *probably* has the same design flawas the first?
This is a perfect example of people trying to solve a problem that does not exist.
Since its introduction, two shuttles have been lost. That's about 15 years of operation per accident. I'd take thoes odds any day. But one fucking shuttle blows up because of a freak accident and then we have to spend millions of dollars to ensure the sound-byte-informed public that it won't happen agian.
It's just like that fucking terrorism thingy. We send billions on crap while more USians died on the roads in Sep 2001 ever died in terrorist attacks.
Pull your fucking heads out and spend the money where you can actually see some return.
The obvious response is that the networks will start including advertising within the programs. They do this now to some extent, but expect to see a "ticker" ala CNN sometime soon.
Then the encoders will program masks. to circumvent this.
After a while, the networks will resort to having the actors stop at random times to hold up a can of soda or order a polyphonic tone.
If you just stop watching, the networks see the decline and adapt. If you pirate the programming, the networks see a market, and come up with new ways to exploit it.
I also downloaded this. I had no problems with spyware. Checking the/windows/system32/adcache/ shows no files in there. Running AdAware and SpyBot turns up no spyware found. Searching the registry for "cydoor" turns up no results.
Maybe an early beta had Cydoor in it?
Maybe someone is just trying to get traffic by spreading rumors about a really nice tool.
There's a green circuit board thingy and a battery. Oh, and a switch and a headphone jack.
How about these guys do something semi-useful and try and list the components used on the PCB? How about figuring out what kind of battery and what the interface is.
Nope, nothing useful here. Just a bunch of boys smashing a toy.
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Seems confusing to me.
If I download Debian and install KDE at home, Do I owe money to TT?
If I download Debian and install KDE on my companies' file server, do I owe money?
If RedHat sells is a SAN solution, do they owe TT money?
If I buy RedHat or Suse, does TT get paid?
It's all so very confusing. Dual License seems to be the worst of both worlds.
The key to OSS is support. I'll pay a KDE guy to sit at a desk at my company and resolve any issues my clients have with KDE. Any code he writes is released back into the wild.
A slave can only serve one master. They are either out there to save lives or to make money.
If they want to save lives, they need to place their patents in the public domain and ensure as many people as possible use them. Lives will be saved that would have otherwise been lost.
If they want to make money, then keep the patents closed and charge as much as the market will bear for the technology. They will make money at the expense of the lives of thoes who could not afford to live.
I second this.
Using a computer here is a real crutch. At least in the way you want. Pen & paper will save you gobs of time.
For lamps, TVs, computers, phones, etc, make sure you have the measurements for the power and network lines. Nothing worse than having a perfect layout only to discover that your phone is all the way across the room because that's the only jack.
If you want to be real geeky, use HalfLife2 and create a level of your apartment. Furniture won't be that hard and you walk around and get a feel for it. If you enable physics and tweak them a bit, you could even move furniture around inside the level.
Take pictures of your floor, walls, celing, couches, etc in order to texture everything properly.
You could probably do a HL2 level of your apartment in a few days.
P&P would take an hour.
It has been found that Debian is vulnerable to the 'rm -rf /' attack. Of course, you need to be logged in a root in order for it to work.
If you run SP2, and the firewall is off, you probably know what you are doing. If you are pre-SP2, you have issues and should run Windows Update. WU happens by default on a vanilla XP install and SP2 is finally up there.
If you are running SP2, and you have the firewall off, there are probably several hundred 'sploits out there.
You gonna give each one the front-page treatment?
A 4&3 is not a bad schedule. Even with 12-hour shifts.
It's the three-hour commute that's killing him.
For a lot of the last 10 years, I've worked a 3-on, 3-off, 2-on, 2-off schedule with 12s. It really isn't bad.
Look at it this way, with his schedule, he's working less than 50 hours a week. Most people work at least 9 hours a day. The employer takes an hour for lunch leaving you 40 hours. If you ever work a weekend or stay late more than twice a week, then you have gone over 48 hours.
But that commute...
It's simple: Live where you work. Get an apartment close to where you work and live there. If you have a family and are not willing to move, then quit.
Another idea is to get a hotel close to work once a week. If the pay is good enough to offset a $60 hotel room, then try it. Staying in a hotel the 3rd night of your week will feel like a dream.
What you really need to do is get some 15lb dumbells and start using them.
Do 10 pushups every other hour. Aim for 50 the first 2 weeks and add a few more each week after. Shoot for 20 pushups at a time and 120 per day.
Same with situps. If you work buisness casual, a towel will keep your shirt clean. Get a sit-up bar for your feet or just hook them under the edge of your desk.
Do curls, squats, upright rows, military presses, and other creative exercises with the dumbells. Agian, no more than 10 or 20 at a time. But you will be doing them throughout the shift.
It'll keep your metabolism high and make you feel a lot better.
Get some alcohol, talcum powder, hand lotion, and a clean rag for your drawer.
If you feel sweaty, use the rag doused with some alcohol to clean the sweat. Use talc to prevent sweat to begin with. Hand lotion is for your hands; push-ups and dumbells can wreak havoc on girly-hands.
Anyway, good luck.
The problem is that you don't really know what you are missing.
I was curious, so I benchmarked UT2k4 under Linux and WinXP. I ran the test at 640*480 up to 1280*1024. All options were set to full on.
Linux always beet WinXP in every test. I was amazed. But then I started looking at the details.
Under Linux, I was missing FSAA and FSAF. Sure, you can tweak the xf86config file, but under WinXP, it's an in-game option.
Under Linux, the scenes just looked shittier. Even with both platforms set with AA/AF off, the WinXP scene looked cleaner. Lights were brighter and hilights, shadows, particles, etc all looked better.
And don't even get me started on bump-mapping.
Anyway, under Linux, the games run at a decent framerate, but you are always missing a lot of things that add to the atmosphere of the game.
I would think that the knife laws do not apply to workers. After all, do you see the police arresting chefs or rading Wal-Mart?
No! The law was intended to apply as a secondary charge in cases where a criminal was being detained. "I'm gonna pat you down now. Will I find anything?" Boom, a knife. Automatic 24-hours in jail while they investigate other charges.
Kind of an "Atlas Shrugged" situation where they know you are acting in an illegal manner...It's what they want and need.
If a cop overlooks an obvious infraction of the law in one case and tries to enforce it in another, your lawyer could (pardon the pun) cut him to shreds.
In addition to that, the Constitution gives you the right to bear arms. Knives are arms. As long as it's being worn on the holster on your belt, it's not concealed.
I can second the Gerber recomendation.
My favorite feature is the one-handed opening. Basicly, you flick your wrist and the pliers drop out.
As for the blades inside, the serrated knife is my fave. In my cable plant, people were incredulous that I could go through 200-pair cable with a Gerber. Furthermore, I added that I could do it faster than the actual ratcheting cutter designed to go through 200-pair cable. I picked up the cable (about 4" thick) and started sawing. Took less than 30 seconds to go through.
A soft touch on the pliers will act as the best wire stripper ever.
The flat-bladed knife cuts through the shielding on fiber-optic cable with ease.
The best thing of all is that the tool can be completely disassembled in about 10 minutes and everything but the springs can go into the dishwasher. Add a bit of WD-40 when you put it back together and the damn thing looks and works better than new.
And cap the maximum donation at $1000. Don't allow Bill Gates to be any more powerful than a mid-west farmer. Each of them can drop their $1k and offer their vote, but nothing more.
Just having a patent does not mean riches. And it shouldn't.
If you invent something and sit on the idea, you don't deserve to make money.
Personally, I'd like to see a condition on patents that the idea has to be marketed within 5 years or the patent expires.
Fucking asshats coming up with a good idea then waiting on the world to beat a fucking path. It doesn't happen like that.
If anyone ever had a truly revolutionaly idea that they had faith in, they'd go batshit crazy trying to get the world to listen to them. Just take a look at that crazy Tesla fucker for a good idea of how to market something agianst all odds.
One day, you'll grow up and move out of mom's basement. On that day, you'll see that the real world is not fair. People who wine about it generally get crushed.
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You may consider it unfair that I can spend an hour on e-bay and get an item that took you months to earn.
I consider it unfair that I have to work 50+ hours a week.
So, I'll make you a deal: You spend 50+ hours a week doing something else besides Fishing and Skinning in WoW, and I'll stop spending real money for virtual items.
They say there's a PA for every moment in your life:
http://penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2004-12-
But look at this as reality. You and I started the day it went live. Now you have a nice mount and I just made 25.
Your unfair advantage is that you are willing to play constantly.
My unfair advantage is that I have a good job.
Until there is a law that says the world has to be fair, I guess we are both fucked.
Just about every car audio head unit has a powered screen.
The government exists to keep people in line. What better way than to ensure everyone is violating some law at all times.
Then you can just arrest anyone at any time for any reason and have a valid law to back it up.
Want a good buisness model? Take someone's GPL code. Modify it a bit. Begin charging to access the "perpetual beta" code. Promise to let people have access to the source once it's finalized...only it'll never be finalized.
To top it all off, threaten, DMCA, and generally shit all over the GPL and it's guarentee to allow everyone to redistribute.
Last I heard, they are rewriting everything as NVIDIA style modules to augment the GPLed firmware.
Anyway, it's really pissing in the pool of anyone who has ever contributed to the Linux kernel...and it's all technically within the GPL.
I really hate to nit-pick, but any editor should have caught that the arrows in the flow chart point the wrong way.
Anyway, I've often wondered why the OS insists on redetecting hardware when BIOS does it for me already. I've heard that the LinuxBios actually does away with the hardware detect phase; leaving it solely to the kernel.
If the most popular OSes out there are taking care of HW at the high level, why haven't BIOS makers taken advantage of this to reduce their workload?
It really is a lose-lose propisition. Gamers want something that they can play any time on any computer with minimal fuss. Publishers want to seel copies. Developers want to get paid for every copy that people are enjoying.
So, instead of bitching about the status quo, come up with a viable alternative.
You can require a CD in the drive. That sucks and is easily defeatable by Daemon Tools.
You can check for DT, but then you are violating my right to have my PC set up the way I choose. Imagine MS just outright refusing to run a non-MS app. That's what publishers are doing.
You can distribute online and hope piracy stays low. Of course, all the copies of WinZip and Cedega over at torrentreactor prove that doesn't work.
You can distribute online copies and require a server verification prior to launch. But what if you go bankrupt? Will you spend your dying breath releasing a patch to allow offline operation? More likely than not, your servers and their activation code will be auctioned off to somebody else who may or may not allow you to reactivate.
Personally, I prefer a random check. Let's say the game calls home after some random time span. The span will be hourly within the first week after install and maybe monthly a few months after release.
The trick is to really make pirates pay. Let them play for an hour or two. Then exit with a reboot if the server isn't found. The pirates will think it's a random crash. They relaunch and play some more...another crash.
Meanwhile, valid customers are playing just fine with no reboots.
Or maybe require an activation code to be used to access additional content. Imagine having to put in a code to download a patch. Then tag each patch with the code used to download it. If a patch gets in the wild, unregister that game code and release a new patch with additional content. The person releasing the patch gets screwed. Everone else is happy.
Off Topic -- Manual Breaks
Some people use an external editor vice the slashdot comment box. It's easier to edit text in a familiar place then cut/paste into the comment box.
While the popcorn idea sounds like fun, logistically speaking, baloons give a bigger bang for your buck.
1. Get an air compressor or 3 from your local equipment rental store.
2. Get a cylinder of helium.
3. Get a funnel.
4. Get some glitter.
5. Get some confetti (I prefer cross-shreded paper).
6. Get some shaving cream.
7. Get shit-tons of cardboard.
The basic theory is to use the air compressors to fill the majority of the baloons. A survey of the house and some simple math will give you a volume. A few test baloons will let you know how many you'll eventually need. Use the cardboard to block off the doors to the various rooms so you can fill them to the top.
The helium makes annoying baloons that are hard to get at.
The glitter and confetti make a fucking mess.
The shaving cream is for real revenge.
The big trick is to only fill a few with the goodies. Make every "pop" a real surprise.
BTW, to make the process more effecient, come up with a better way to seal vice tying. Most party stores have plugs you can use, but it might get expensive.
So, let me get this right. If, by some chance, the horribly overcomplicated shuttle breaks in orbit, we'll launch another horribly overcomplicated shuttle that *probably* has the same design flawas the first?
This is a perfect example of people trying to solve a problem that does not exist.
Since its introduction, two shuttles have been lost. That's about 15 years of operation per accident. I'd take thoes odds any day. But one fucking shuttle blows up because of a freak accident and then we have to spend millions of dollars to ensure the sound-byte-informed public that it won't happen agian.
It's just like that fucking terrorism thingy. We send billions on crap while more USians died on the roads in Sep 2001 ever died in terrorist attacks.
Pull your fucking heads out and spend the money where you can actually see some return.
The obvious response is that the networks will start including advertising within the programs. They do this now to some extent, but expect to see a "ticker" ala CNN sometime soon.
Then the encoders will program masks. to circumvent this.
After a while, the networks will resort to having the actors stop at random times to hold up a can of soda or order a polyphonic tone.
If you just stop watching, the networks see the decline and adapt. If you pirate the programming, the networks see a market, and come up with new ways to exploit it.
I ran dual P3s for a while last year. While I loved the responsiveness of the system, I hated the lack of programs avalible to take advantage of SMP.
How is this year going to be different?
Even if you *could* get SMP aware versions of your software, would it be worth it? Lots of problems are harder to solve when you add SMP to the mix.
Gamers will be put off by the fact that games can't take advantage of SMP.
Home users will be put off by the fact that their $500 Dell surfs the world-wide e-mail just fine.
Buisness user may take advantage of this in servers, but there's only so much cooling and power you can provide to a 1-U server.
So, how is dual core going to ever be anything bigger than Itanium, Xeon, or any of the other technologies that fail to meet customer expectations?
Shooting a load every day keeps the proctologist away...
Exeem's website. No spyware in here...
I also downloaded this. I had no problems with spyware. Checking the /windows/system32/adcache/ shows no files in there. Running AdAware and SpyBot turns up no spyware found. Searching the registry for "cydoor" turns up no results.
Maybe an early beta had Cydoor in it?
Maybe someone is just trying to get traffic by spreading rumors about a really nice tool.
I'd pipe the code into a *.doc file and make the font about 48ish tahoma script.
Then print it on standard paper.
Hey, SCO, you might wanna bring a truck.
I second this vote.
There's a green circuit board thingy and a battery. Oh, and a switch and a headphone jack.
How about these guys do something semi-useful and try and list the components used on the PCB? How about figuring out what kind of battery and what the interface is.
Nope, nothing useful here. Just a bunch of boys smashing a toy.