1. I thought torrents randomly sent chunks from all over the file, rather than as a stream. Wouldn't this make no sense unless you wanted to wait forever for the program to be completely downloaded ?
2. Given the large amount of copyrighted programs made available on torrent networks, isn't this an effort to make mainstream what might be otherwise illegal ? Does it make sense to put this amount of effort into support of what might be intended to be an illegal activity for most ?
I would have RTFA but its slashdotted, so I couldn't confirm for myself how torrents are an appropriate medium, and whether the issues of widespread support for copyright violations are addressed.
Sorry, but in 1991 I spent half my day on the internet on a Sun workstation that someone else paid for.
Doesn't matter how nifty or nice they are. I will take you at your word they are basically decent and good folk.
But someone who has the balls to claim they were 3rd, in 1991, when the internet had already existed for years as a combination of various tcp/ip service providers, oughta provide a bit more context for that claim, or use appropriate qualifiers, such as, "when they opened up the internet for little guys who could sell access to folx at home, we were 3rd" or something like that. I can at least see that possibility, but anything else without qualifiers or context is intentional stretching of the truth .
Ok, I went to their web page to read up on the story, and they say they were founded in 1991 as the world's first ISP.
I question this big time. Tons of the huge ISP's existed before 1991. So, in what way are they claiming to be 3rd ? Context is everything, if there is to be any amount of truth to a statement, assuming there is any truth.
On the other hand, at least they don't have the balls to say they are 1st or 2nd.
Since laptops tend to either be in someone's office, or being carried by the owner, I would think the same concerns about tracking an employee by RFID would apply here. By putting an RFID tage on the laptop, you track the employee as well as the equipment.
I believe this unintended consequence should be a factor in the equation when considering this issue. Aside from the ethics of the issue, the company's policies with respect to employee tracking devices, if such policies exist, would certainly apply.
There may also be unintended tracking outside of the corporate environment, where the tag could conceivably be tracked by 3rd parties. Imagine being able to tail and locate the laptops of all corporate officers, or key personnel ? Corporate espionage can take on newer dimensions. Its bad enough that the person can be tracked, but now you can know when the person and laptop are NOT together in the same area, with the latter possibly unattended.
Lets do the math! 3% original estimate, multipled
by 20 = 60%. So, someone is going to try to claim that 60% of jobs were lost to overseas outsourcing ? I find it so hard to believe that so many slashdot stories always have to include taglines like this that are so impossibly obvious trolling flamebait.
I agree with someome else from another topic, SLASHDOT needs a way to MOD stories posted.
The "months before the US gets them" is
attached to the "other cool games" portion
of the sentence, not the "GT" portion of the sentence. Excuse my ambiguous grammer;)
The x86 port has existed for years, with every
new Solaris release since 2.5 ? (maybe earlier)
At Solaris 2.5.1 there was a PowerPC port. It only
lasted that release though...
It would be cool to run Solaris on my Mac!!!
(Yes I can be perverted at times...but I always
thought Sun and Apple should join forces...Apple
makes a better desktop UNIX workstation now than
Sun ever could, and that used to be Sun's bread
and butter).
Just think of the loss of incentive the carmakers
have to produce new cars, and sequels of last year's
model, when people would rather buy a used car than
a new one!
And those that sell used cars, those are the most
immoral! They make a living destroying the new car
industry!
A playstation2 costs $199. That information is in your
local newspaper. Actually, sales peg it at $179 lately,
my mistake.
The playstation2, with 2 vector processing units, each
with 4 floats wide registers (128bit), capable of doing a
multiply-add operation per clock cycle on whole registers,
at 300mhz independant of the main CPU which still has its
own scalar floating point coproc, handily does 5.5GFLOPS,
and is well documented as such if you google around.
Check out http://playstation2-linux.com/
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1. I thought torrents randomly sent chunks from all over the file, rather than as a stream. Wouldn't this make no sense unless you wanted to wait forever for the program to be completely downloaded ?
2. Given the large amount of copyrighted programs made available on torrent networks, isn't this an effort to make mainstream what might be otherwise illegal ? Does it make sense to put this amount of effort into support of what might be intended to be an illegal activity for most ?
I would have RTFA but its slashdotted, so I couldn't confirm for myself how torrents are an appropriate medium, and whether the issues of widespread support for copyright violations are addressed.
Sorry, but in 1991 I spent half my day on the internet on a Sun workstation that someone else paid for.
Doesn't matter how nifty or nice they are. I will take you at your word they are basically decent and good folk.
But someone who has the balls to claim they were 3rd, in 1991, when the internet had already existed for years as a combination of various tcp/ip service providers, oughta provide a bit more context for that claim, or use appropriate qualifiers, such as, "when they opened up the internet for little guys who could sell access to folx at home, we were 3rd" or something like that. I can at least see that possibility, but anything else without qualifiers or context is intentional stretching of the truth .
...as the world's first ISP....
Oops sorry, meant to say "third". I should have previewed a 3rd time myself.
Ok, I went to their web page to read up on the story, and they say they were founded in 1991 as the world's first ISP.
I question this big time. Tons of the huge ISP's existed before 1991. So, in what way are they claiming to be 3rd ? Context is everything, if there is to be any amount of truth to a statement, assuming there is any truth.
On the other hand, at least they don't have the balls to say they are 1st or 2nd.
If we can't shoot it or drive it, what good is it ?
Since laptops tend to either be in someone's office, or being carried by the owner, I would think the same concerns about tracking an employee by RFID would apply here. By putting an RFID tage on the laptop, you track the employee as well as the equipment. I believe this unintended consequence should be a factor in the equation when considering this issue. Aside from the ethics of the issue, the company's policies with respect to employee tracking devices, if such policies exist, would certainly apply. There may also be unintended tracking outside of the corporate environment, where the tag could conceivably be tracked by 3rd parties. Imagine being able to tail and locate the laptops of all corporate officers, or key personnel ? Corporate espionage can take on newer dimensions. Its bad enough that the person can be tracked, but now you can know when the person and laptop are NOT together in the same area, with the latter possibly unattended.
Lets do the math! 3% original estimate, multipled by 20 = 60%. So, someone is going to try to claim that 60% of jobs were lost to overseas outsourcing ? I find it so hard to believe that so many slashdot stories always have to include taglines like this that are so impossibly obvious trolling flamebait. I agree with someome else from another topic, SLASHDOT needs a way to MOD stories posted.
He may have built this for remote locations
or heat filled rooms/closets. In those cases
you want decent space and decent airflow INSIDE
the box.
Laptops have neither, and tend to suffer heat
related problems easily enough.
Its good already that he went low power and
low thermal, and put it in a good solid spacious
chassis.
If dollars were a concern, going down to 1U
isn't bad, but no further for real applications.
The "months before the US gets them" is attached to the "other cool games" portion of the sentence, not the "GT" portion of the sentence. Excuse my ambiguous grammer ;)
Thats what I did. I bought GT:Prologue months ago. I also have GT:Concept Tokyo and many other cool games months before the US gets them ;)
Solaris X has been released I believe.
Err...thats Solaris 10...sorry...
The x86 port has existed for years, with every new Solaris release since 2.5 ? (maybe earlier) At Solaris 2.5.1 there was a PowerPC port. It only lasted that release though... It would be cool to run Solaris on my Mac!!! (Yes I can be perverted at times...but I always thought Sun and Apple should join forces...Apple makes a better desktop UNIX workstation now than Sun ever could, and that used to be Sun's bread and butter).
Just think of the loss of incentive the carmakers have to produce new cars, and sequels of last year's model, when people would rather buy a used car than a new one! And those that sell used cars, those are the most immoral! They make a living destroying the new car industry!
Awesome move by the tax office. Where is the link on how this is related to my rights online ?
A playstation2 costs $199. That information is in your local newspaper. Actually, sales peg it at $179 lately, my mistake. The playstation2, with 2 vector processing units, each with 4 floats wide registers (128bit), capable of doing a multiply-add operation per clock cycle on whole registers, at 300mhz independant of the main CPU which still has its own scalar floating point coproc, handily does 5.5GFLOPS, and is well documented as such if you google around. Check out http://playstation2-linux.com/
And it was introduced to consumers just a couple years
ago. Sorry, the AMD beowulf cluster at $100/GFLOP just
isn't that impressive.