Just a comment on point number 4: Have you really had enough trouble with building package [bar] (then checkinstalling it) from source that you had to resort to using an RPM?
The mass is the same. Try the experiment again, except this time measure the masses of the gaseous ash that is produced in the reaction. Also, very carefully measure the oxygen input to ensure accuracy.
ok. Runs in QEMU. Running it within VMWare is not going to be fast, nor will it have very reliable video, so no, Quake doesn't work from within VMWare. The QT Demo gave me some trouble too, but like said, it runs slow in a virtualized machine (not as slow as emulated, but hey) After a minute or so, the demo came up.
Also, it's not a linux distro. It's a technology demo. If it's buggy, it's cos they didn't have you in mind. (shame on them).
Additionally, the IAC is not the police. They CAN'T demand incriminating information from an ex employee, contract or not.
Hell, I don't even know how they could possibly prove the use of a secure deletion program if he was thorough enough (ie: using the secure deleter from a Bart PE). They were trying to enforce a draconian contract provision by attempting to trick him into incriminating himself.
Meanwhile, you can't 'preemptively' destory evidence. It's not evidence until someone recognizes it as such. If you get rid of it beforehand, it's called 'covering your tracks'.
What really annoys me about this is the concept that if people still want your 'IP' after nearly 95 years, you should still be entitled to royalties.
I don't see why. If you had a good idea 95 years ago and made a good bit of money for it, great. You should be using that money to come up with new ideas, seeing as that's the purpose of copyright law. But really, living your life off royalty checks from a single idea, song, etc., after the first five years is kinda like doing a load of dishes once to live in a house for years.
Sure, you did a nice thing once, but you're seriously starting to stink up the couch.
Actually, I was talking about the lack of any mass-to-energy conversion whatsoever, to which E=MC^2 is applicable. If you burn a kilo of wood with a kilo of oxygen, you end up with a 2 kilos of ash and smoke. No mass lost, no E=MC^2 here.
I agree with you, but I know what a detractor would latch onto: "I think it's morally acceptable to pirate when the pirated media is more convenient (with more features) than the regular media."
Response: "Oh, so it's ok to copy someone else's credit card because it's 'more convenient' than using your own?!"
Yeah. People are assholes.
Going to reiterate your point about media being exempt from the economics of scarcity. It's nonexcludable, people. You can sit around and dry hump a 95 year copyright term and the corporations that have put them into place, but frankly, I have no respect for a copyright law that doesn't let TGI Fridays sing me happy birthday, much less get free digital copies of 25 year old Jethro Tull albums.
Install it on my computer. Install it on my parents computer. Install it on my work computer. Fuck up my cpu and install it on my CPU again. New version, rinse and repeat. Download to expeirment with BartPE (Yay! I have live windows with a browser!). Download to experiment with UPX and repackage (I like my 'lite' version. 8M install.). Download it and fail to build Firefox-Qt from scratch. Download it and build the KMozilla part from scratch. Download and build Minimo for my PPC. New version; rinse and repeat.
Yeah. There are good reasons to download the same program a number of times, especially if the program gets new features.
In fact, that reminds me; I need to see how far along the Qt version has come. I'm really looking forward to the tighter integration with KDE.
If you think E=MC^2 has anything to do with an endothermic oxidation reaction, you had to have flunked basic chemistry.
You're adding energy in the form of the high potential energy found in the compounds in wood (cellulose is a good example); meanwhile, excess energy is being continuously added in the even higher-potential of a common diatom: oxygen.
Of course, you have to add energy to liberate the atoms in the first place, that being a match and the flame off your starter fluid and kindling.
Phrases like that are a hedge against the potential that a reporter will just copy a press release to print.
No, no, I'm not going to explain this. Seriously, you think that just 'cos its open source, they don't have dishonest, despicable marketing humans working for them?
This is the same magazine that says OS X is 'Doomed' because of a total of four (four?!) critical bugs in it.
Four.
Number one, I know that OS-X is a bit buggier than that; my Mac, while pretty stable, is far from Rock Solid.
Number two, four versus how many in Windows and Linux?!
Number three, given points one, two, and the present market spread between Windows, Linux, the BSDs and OS-X, I'm going to venture saying that OS stability has never been a selling point, just a griping point.
Fact: since 1980, the dollar has lost 61% its value (representing 154% inflation over 100%) Fact: since 1980, the average salary of a US citizen has risen from 15,757 to 41,400 (162% increase over 100%) Conclusion: in the last 26 years, the average buying power of an American citizen has increased by roughly 3.1%
Doing good, folks. Lets see if we can't make it 6% in another quarter-century.
I was reading Maxxuss's analysis of his work, and I gotta say:
Changing the initial value from '4' to '9' (or, for example, '14') would have done the job fine (the value gets changed only if it's a 'GenuineIntel'; as such, if you set it to '14', Intel processors would be crippled to 10 calls ^_^)
They're being alleged as a monopoly. The fact that Intel can sign an exclusionary deal is evidence supporting that (in non-concentrated markets, it's harder and more expensive, relative to profit ratio to sign exclusionary deals).
Meanwhile, you don't have to be the only provider to be a monopoly. Just the only provider that a significant (>sqrt(0.80)) of the market knows/cares about.
But grey areas are what legal systems are for. And if you're going into business, you ALWAYS take the risk of falling into one.
As for 'Who gets to decide what products are "alternative goods".', I'd guess the judge, but moreover, I think the 'Drop-in replacement' product that is normally AMD's stuff would be appropriate.
'And Intel can't know in advance how the market will be defined.'
I'm pretty certain that it's the job of managers to figure out how the market will be defined and respond accordingly to it.
'Confiscation of property is not supposed to happen without due process of law, not the whims of a jury listening to a fancy lawyer's speech.'
What country do you live in? In the US, 'due process of law' and 'whims of a jury listening to a fancy lawyer's speech' are more or less the same thing. There are steps after that in due process, but that's the first one.
Here's the thing: Intel has in one way or another paid Skype to bundle their product with theirs, providing extra functionality and locking that functionality from competing products without technical reason.
Show me how this is good for consumers (the only true test of valid market action), and I will agree that it's not abuse of monopoly to lock out competition.
Asymmetric information is like that. There's plenty of laws covering types of it, but there are also plenty of ways to not provide full disclosure and get away with it, at least legally.
Meanwhile, I'm strictly a 'vote with your dollar' person; the second I heard about this, I closed my skype account and grabbed a wengo client.
Actually its similar to housing or sales discrimination. It's at the very least a civil offense to refuse service to an entire class (or in this case, subnet) of people.
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Just a comment on point number 4:
Have you really had enough trouble with building package [bar] (then checkinstalling it) from source that you had to resort to using an RPM?
Electrons aren't actually matter. They're little energy vortices. Or something. Fucked if I know.
Incorrect, over.
The mass is the same. Try the experiment again, except this time measure the masses of the gaseous ash that is produced in the reaction. Also, very carefully measure the oxygen input to ensure accuracy.
ok. Runs in QEMU. Running it within VMWare is not going to be fast, nor will it have very reliable video, so no, Quake doesn't work from within VMWare. The QT Demo gave me some trouble too, but like said, it runs slow in a virtualized machine (not as slow as emulated, but hey) After a minute or so, the demo came up.
Also, it's not a linux distro. It's a technology demo. If it's buggy, it's cos they didn't have you in mind. (shame on them).
Actually, these guys seem to have developed and worked the major bugs out of the hover pad. What needs done now is to slap a car on them puppies.
Additionally, the IAC is not the police. They CAN'T demand incriminating information from an ex employee, contract or not.
Hell, I don't even know how they could possibly prove the use of a secure deletion program if he was thorough enough (ie: using the secure deleter from a Bart PE). They were trying to enforce a draconian contract provision by attempting to trick him into incriminating himself.
Meanwhile, you can't 'preemptively' destory evidence. It's not evidence until someone recognizes it as such. If you get rid of it beforehand, it's called 'covering your tracks'.
What really annoys me about this is the concept that if people still want your 'IP' after nearly 95 years, you should still be entitled to royalties.
I don't see why. If you had a good idea 95 years ago and made a good bit of money for it, great. You should be using that money to come up with new ideas, seeing as that's the purpose of copyright law. But really, living your life off royalty checks from a single idea, song, etc., after the first five years is kinda like doing a load of dishes once to live in a house for years.
Sure, you did a nice thing once, but you're seriously starting to stink up the couch.
Actually, I was talking about the lack of any mass-to-energy conversion whatsoever, to which E=MC^2 is applicable. If you burn a kilo of wood with a kilo of oxygen, you end up with a 2 kilos of ash and smoke. No mass lost, no E=MC^2 here.
Good monkey.
I agree with you, but I know what a detractor would latch onto: "I think it's morally acceptable to pirate when the pirated media is more convenient (with more features) than the regular media."
Response: "Oh, so it's ok to copy someone else's credit card because it's 'more convenient' than using your own?!"
Yeah. People are assholes.
Going to reiterate your point about media being exempt from the economics of scarcity. It's nonexcludable, people. You can sit around and dry hump a 95 year copyright term and the corporations that have put them into place, but frankly, I have no respect for a copyright law that doesn't let TGI Fridays sing me happy birthday, much less get free digital copies of 25 year old Jethro Tull albums.
Heh. Poke around at tvtorrents.com
Install it on my computer. Install it on my parents computer. Install it on my work computer. Fuck up my cpu and install it on my CPU again. New version, rinse and repeat. Download to expeirment with BartPE (Yay! I have live windows with a browser!). Download to experiment with UPX and repackage (I like my 'lite' version. 8M install.). Download it and fail to build Firefox-Qt from scratch. Download it and build the KMozilla part from scratch. Download and build Minimo for my PPC. New version; rinse and repeat.
Yeah. There are good reasons to download the same program a number of times, especially if the program gets new features.
In fact, that reminds me; I need to see how far along the Qt version has come. I'm really looking forward to the tighter integration with KDE.
*burst of realization*
O.O
DoN'T LoOk At MeEeE!
(meanwhile, slashdot's got a lameness filter that prevented me from making that all caps. Fascists.)
If you think E=MC^2 has anything to do with an endothermic oxidation reaction, you had to have flunked basic chemistry.
You're adding energy in the form of the high potential energy found in the compounds in wood (cellulose is a good example); meanwhile, excess energy is being continuously added in the even higher-potential of a common diatom: oxygen.
Of course, you have to add energy to liberate the atoms in the first place, that being a match and the flame off your starter fluid and kindling.
Hey, campfires are complex.
I believe this is called moral imperialism.
And we all know how amoral it is to be an imperialist.
So be quiet.
"Would it be okay ... to issue press release they know is misleading just because, unknown to them, their numbers are lower than they should be?"
I'm confused... they know, but don't know?
Phrases like that are a hedge against the potential that a reporter will just copy a press release to print.
No, no, I'm not going to explain this. Seriously, you think that just 'cos its open source, they don't have dishonest, despicable marketing humans working for them?
Really. Naive.
You know what I do? I divide any number SpreadFirefox give me by the number of times I personally have downloaded firefox (about 40 so far).
So, 'millions of new users every day' changes to 'tens of thousands of new users each day'
This is the same magazine that says OS X is 'Doomed' because of a total of four (four?!) critical bugs in it.
Four.
Number one, I know that OS-X is a bit buggier than that; my Mac, while pretty stable, is far from Rock Solid.
Number two, four versus how many in Windows and Linux?!
Number three, given points one, two, and the present market spread between Windows, Linux, the BSDs and OS-X, I'm going to venture saying that OS stability has never been a selling point, just a griping point.
Fact: since 1980, the dollar has lost 61% its value (representing 154% inflation over 100%)
Fact: since 1980, the average salary of a US citizen has risen from 15,757 to 41,400 (162% increase over 100%)
Conclusion: in the last 26 years, the average buying power of an American citizen has increased by roughly 3.1%
Doing good, folks. Lets see if we can't make it 6% in another quarter-century.
I was reading Maxxuss's analysis of his work, and I gotta say:
Changing the initial value from '4' to '9' (or, for example, '14') would have done the job fine (the value gets changed only if it's a 'GenuineIntel'; as such, if you set it to '14', Intel processors would be crippled to 10 calls ^_^)
They're being alleged as a monopoly. The fact that Intel can sign an exclusionary deal is evidence supporting that (in non-concentrated markets, it's harder and more expensive, relative to profit ratio to sign exclusionary deals).
Meanwhile, you don't have to be the only provider to be a monopoly. Just the only provider that a significant (>sqrt(0.80)) of the market knows/cares about.
But grey areas are what legal systems are for. And if you're going into business, you ALWAYS take the risk of falling into one.
As for 'Who gets to decide what products are "alternative goods".', I'd guess the judge, but moreover, I think the 'Drop-in replacement' product that is normally AMD's stuff would be appropriate.
'And Intel can't know in advance how the market will be defined.'
I'm pretty certain that it's the job of managers to figure out how the market will be defined and respond accordingly to it.
'Confiscation of property is not supposed to happen without due process of law, not the whims of a jury listening to a fancy lawyer's speech.'
What country do you live in? In the US, 'due process of law' and 'whims of a jury listening to a fancy lawyer's speech' are more or less the same thing. There are steps after that in due process, but that's the first one.
Here's the thing: Intel has in one way or another paid Skype to bundle their product with theirs, providing extra functionality and locking that functionality from competing products without technical reason.
Show me how this is good for consumers (the only true test of valid market action), and I will agree that it's not abuse of monopoly to lock out competition.
Asymmetric information is like that. There's plenty of laws covering types of it, but there are also plenty of ways to not provide full disclosure and get away with it, at least legally.
Meanwhile, I'm strictly a 'vote with your dollar' person; the second I heard about this, I closed my skype account and grabbed a wengo client.
Take that, intel-leg-humping bitches.
Perhaps, "So say us all"?
Actually its similar to housing or sales discrimination. It's at the very least a civil offense to refuse service to an entire class (or in this case, subnet) of people.