I somehow doubt the courts see illegal file-sharing as "trade." If they were suing rival record companies for certain reasons, yes, but I don't see that prosecuting copyright cases jointly as a restraint on trade.
Brush up on critical reading. He wasn't saying "belief in god == having an invisible friend," he was saying "We can make fun of people who have imaginary friends, unless they call it 'god'." The point of the criticism was not in the incredulity of the belief but in the fact that two equally incredulous beliefs are treated so differently. All of your examples are irrelevant.
A computer-like move is one made to preserve tactical and material advantage by giving up strategic and positional advantage. Grandmasters typically play highly positional games with long-term strategies; the best computers nowadays try to positional thinking with point-value algorithms, but it is a poor imitation; how many pawns is having a bishop on the long diagonal really worth, for instance? It depends on a slew of things. Chess programs got exponentially more complex for an incrementally greater advantage, and as far as I can tell that has been the running theme ever since.
The really interesting idea behind computer chess-- teaching a computer to play chess [i]like a human[/i]-- is inefficient and far from competitive. So computers often make telltale, 'awkward' moves in order to fulfill one of their many "objectives" in a way a human wouldn't.
That is fantasy accounting. It probably goes like this, 1st month 1million, 2nd month 2 million wich can only lead you to conclude that in 48 months you must have reach 48 million. It is called making a future prediction with not enough historical data.
Close... but you underestimate the power of geometrical progression! If they actually see 1st month = 1mil, 2nd month = 2mil, well obviously the third month will be 4mil and the fourth 8! So in your 48 months' time advergaming will almost definitely* be worth $2.81x10^17 dollars a MONTH! Better get in on the ground floor...
*Technical fiscal prediction term meaning "I can say this with a straight face"
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There is no reason for them to purchase a browser and then open-source it. Trying to establish a developer's community around new code isn't a trivial task, and rewriting the current Opera code to make extending that code possible would be a significant resource sink which could be better used making the browser better, or adding functionality to mozilla.
Not that I think that google is really buying a browser, but the knee-jerk "open-source it" response is just ridiculous.
I was pointing out something I thought was funny; the marketing director made it sound like acting in Microsoft's self-interest was a tough call. They could have easily said "one license per virtual OR real cpu, whichever is fewer" in order to eliminate the supposedly few customers who will need to pay more for virtual licenses. They didn't and tried to phrase their decision as though that's what they really wanted, even though if they wanted it they could've done so easily.
Under Microsoft's existing licensing policy, the maximum number of licenses that a customer has to buy for one application is equivalent to the total number of processors in the box, Park said.
Microsoft struggled with that fact, said Zane Adam, a director of marketing in the company's Windows Server group.
Translation: "It was a tough call, but we decided not to limit the amount of money we can charge to run the same code. It wasn't an easy decision, but we'll take your money after all."
...state. Washington state. For you non-Americans, or victims of the public school system, that's not where the Congress meets. That's the District of Columbia, some 2,700 miles away. Hence the "Seattle Times" newspaper article.
But yeah, all that other irrelevant stuff is interesting, if also dated.
They're not two guys in a garage, they're 20 people in a 95 degree warehouse, slaving 8-11 sweltering hours a day to make all the spoiled children of the world happy THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
(I worked there over the summer, and yes: the temperature was often 90-100'F inside the warehouse)
I worked there over the summer, they built hundreds of dual opteron systems (most for a single client). They assemble the computer, update the firmware/drivers, memtest it overnight, and if you buy the OS with the computer do a software install including testing LAN, external ports, audio, video, and stress tests.
I don't know what they do when you don't buy an OS, except that they can still test the external (case-provided) usb/audio ports. I think they do load an OS to test the a/v/LAN but that was never my job so I'm not positive what happens.
I worked there over the summer as a system assembler (hope you guys liked your case interiors, they are sticklers for hiding loose wires). They generally do a memtest overnight after a system is assembled, then do software install, including latest drivers, test the audio, dvd, LAN, accessories etc. then let it run a 2d color test and then a 3d benchmark for a while (I only did assembly never actually got to do QA/QC/software load, so I don't know all the details, but Doom3 benchmarks and 3dmark were common sights).
They had a pretty steady stream of returns for repair, I'd guess maybe 1-2% of their production, certainly not much more. Honestly, a lot of those were from people doing stupid shit to their computers (somebody gets a barebones, when they install their stuff they cut wires along with the cable ties... lots of those got free PSU replacements) but I'm sure more than a few were just problems that aren't immediately apparent (during the burn-in process) or possibly caused by the drop-kick delivery method UPS sometimes seems to use.
Also, about booting a linux install CD, that's weird because their driver installation is actually a Linux boot CD with all the oodles of latest drivers and an hw-detection program, so necessarily the computer had already booted to a linux CD before you got it. And "bad memory" is not only the most common problem but the first one they check, every time. I'm guessing they just said "bad memory" after they rebuilt it from scratch or similar and it magically worked.
Why would you want to merge kde and gnome? It seems to me that the reason KDE and Gnome exist as separate options is because enough people want different things from their desktop. Cross-compatibility would be nice enough, but it would likely come at the expense of "bloat" in both desktops. I say they're fine as-is, since there aren't really any KDE-only tools that don't have gnome-equivalents nor vice-versa. Eliminating diversity of choice is not a good thing for anyone.
Just in case your comment is merely born of ignorance:
The Linux kernel and most applications associated with Linux (just about all in the debian Free repositories) are released under the GPL. All versions of those, even ones with modifications you make or a corporation makes, have to be released and the license they're released under has to be the GPL. Commercial desktop distributions can use non-free, proprietary software if they obtain appropriate licenses; this software is not released under the GPL and thus there is no necessity that it be released, even if there is a version of Linux that comes bundled with that software.
So yes, there is a "free version" of each distribution, but that version is going to lack the non-free components. Linspire's main selling point is that those non-free components are preconfigured to work with the OS, saving end users the necessity that they, god forbid, learn something about how their computer works! And also the massive headaches you can get trying to get sun's java to work with firefox on a debian release.
Um,
Taking someone's virginity would require you to perform a very specific action on their person-- I'm given to understand that people pay significants amount of money for similar services.
To wit,
Peter: "Where am I going to get $5000?"
Quagmire: "You could whore yourself out to a thousand fat chicks for fifty bucks a piece. Or fifty really fat chicks for a thousand bucks a piece. What? Don't look at me like that. Fat chicks need love too. But they gotta pay."
Neither of you are acknowledging what you're really arguing; vadim is presupposing that obscurity involves compromisable parts, which is wise for anything that hasn't been field tested extensively--assuming that the tunnel exists. Obscurity might be achieved by using a different kind of lock on the door; the method used may produce equivalently resilient locks, or better or worse; but the fact that they are unknown to attackers is a slight advantage.
Interesting statistic... Enough to make you wonder how they measured it. Most of the figures we've gotten so far are in people/km^2 rather than kilograms/person.
A fair point ideologically, but on the other hand, whose closed operating system is both flawed and popular enough to let those flaws cause massive monetary damage to other networks?
Your sig is entirely too appropriate to the discussion at hand.
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Still, it should check to make sure that you don't give a file permissions it doesn't have. A thousand different installation programs use "setup.exe"-- authorizing one of them shouldn't authorize every installer that comes along using that filename. Agnitum Outpost warns me every time I click on an installation that uses setup.exe, or when I patch games that require network access, to make sure some bogey program hasn't messed with my executables. If every virus had to have an "OK?!" dialogue to install, a few of the less-clueless might think to hit "cancel." Granted, the article made it seem like microsoft should be most concerned about idiotproofing, when there is a point past which all you are doing is making life more difficult for the powerusers.
Cease your heresy!
We are mooninites from the inner core of the Moon. Our race is hundreds of years beyond yours. Some would say that the Earth is *our* moon. But that would belittle the name of our Moon, which is the Moon. Point is, we're at the center, not you!
--Ignignot and one of Ur's lines, from that awesome episode of Aquat Teen Hunger Force
If you can get into orbit around the star, you can orient your sail in such a fashion as to decelerate, slowing you down and thus decreasing the radius of your orbit, bringing you closer to the star
Probably $75 out of that $90 is not going to cover the cost of the paper, binding, printing etc. of the textbook, it's going to cover the bookstore's overhead, the authors' time investment, and that author's university's investment.
Given that, textbook makers (Addison-Wesley & company) may start selling electronically distributed textbooks for, oh, $89.99 instead of $90, and let you pocket the difference.
That's odd, I saw a man tackled with an armful of DVDs trying to escape from target... Is this a local law, or does security routinely violate federal law in the execution of its job?
Not when the last 10% increases your costs twofold. Google is a company; they happen to have a moral directive, but their ultimate goal is money.
Still, who knows-- perhaps on of the google labs folks will use this project for their "10% time" to keep their company unix-friendly.
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I somehow doubt the courts see illegal file-sharing as "trade." If they were suing rival record companies for certain reasons, yes, but I don't see that prosecuting copyright cases jointly as a restraint on trade.
Brush up on critical reading. He wasn't saying "belief in god == having an invisible friend," he was saying "We can make fun of people who have imaginary friends, unless they call it 'god'." The point of the criticism was not in the incredulity of the belief but in the fact that two equally incredulous beliefs are treated so differently. All of your examples are irrelevant.
A computer-like move is one made to preserve tactical and material advantage by giving up strategic and positional advantage. Grandmasters typically play highly positional games with long-term strategies; the best computers nowadays try to positional thinking with point-value algorithms, but it is a poor imitation; how many pawns is having a bishop on the long diagonal really worth, for instance? It depends on a slew of things. Chess programs got exponentially more complex for an incrementally greater advantage, and as far as I can tell that has been the running theme ever since. The really interesting idea behind computer chess-- teaching a computer to play chess [i]like a human[/i]-- is inefficient and far from competitive. So computers often make telltale, 'awkward' moves in order to fulfill one of their many "objectives" in a way a human wouldn't.
Close... but you underestimate the power of geometrical progression! If they actually see 1st month = 1mil, 2nd month = 2mil, well obviously the third month will be 4mil and the fourth 8! So in your 48 months' time advergaming will almost definitely* be worth $2.81x10^17 dollars a MONTH! Better get in on the ground floor...
*Technical fiscal prediction term meaning "I can say this with a straight face"
There is no reason for them to purchase a browser and then open-source it. Trying to establish a developer's community around new code isn't a trivial task, and rewriting the current Opera code to make extending that code possible would be a significant resource sink which could be better used making the browser better, or adding functionality to mozilla.
Not that I think that google is really buying a browser, but the knee-jerk "open-source it" response is just ridiculous.
I was pointing out something I thought was funny; the marketing director made it sound like acting in Microsoft's self-interest was a tough call. They could have easily said "one license per virtual OR real cpu, whichever is fewer" in order to eliminate the supposedly few customers who will need to pay more for virtual licenses. They didn't and tried to phrase their decision as though that's what they really wanted, even though if they wanted it they could've done so easily.
...state. Washington state. For you non-Americans, or victims of the public school system, that's not where the Congress meets. That's the District of Columbia, some 2,700 miles away. Hence the "Seattle Times" newspaper article.
But yeah, all that other irrelevant stuff is interesting, if also dated.
They're not two guys in a garage, they're 20 people in a 95 degree warehouse, slaving 8-11 sweltering hours a day to make all the spoiled children of the world happy THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
(I worked there over the summer, and yes: the temperature was often 90-100'F inside the warehouse)
I worked there over the summer, they built hundreds of dual opteron systems (most for a single client). They assemble the computer, update the firmware/drivers, memtest it overnight, and if you buy the OS with the computer do a software install including testing LAN, external ports, audio, video, and stress tests.
I don't know what they do when you don't buy an OS, except that they can still test the external (case-provided) usb/audio ports. I think they do load an OS to test the a/v/LAN but that was never my job so I'm not positive what happens.
I worked there over the summer as a system assembler (hope you guys liked your case interiors, they are sticklers for hiding loose wires). They generally do a memtest overnight after a system is assembled, then do software install, including latest drivers, test the audio, dvd, LAN, accessories etc. then let it run a 2d color test and then a 3d benchmark for a while (I only did assembly never actually got to do QA/QC/software load, so I don't know all the details, but Doom3 benchmarks and 3dmark were common sights).
They had a pretty steady stream of returns for repair, I'd guess maybe 1-2% of their production, certainly not much more. Honestly, a lot of those were from people doing stupid shit to their computers (somebody gets a barebones, when they install their stuff they cut wires along with the cable ties... lots of those got free PSU replacements) but I'm sure more than a few were just problems that aren't immediately apparent (during the burn-in process) or possibly caused by the drop-kick delivery method UPS sometimes seems to use.
Also, about booting a linux install CD, that's weird because their driver installation is actually a Linux boot CD with all the oodles of latest drivers and an hw-detection program, so necessarily the computer had already booted to a linux CD before you got it. And "bad memory" is not only the most common problem but the first one they check, every time. I'm guessing they just said "bad memory" after they rebuilt it from scratch or similar and it magically worked.
Why would you want to merge kde and gnome? It seems to me that the reason KDE and Gnome exist as separate options is because enough people want different things from their desktop. Cross-compatibility would be nice enough, but it would likely come at the expense of "bloat" in both desktops. I say they're fine as-is, since there aren't really any KDE-only tools that don't have gnome-equivalents nor vice-versa. Eliminating diversity of choice is not a good thing for anyone.
Just in case your comment is merely born of ignorance: The Linux kernel and most applications associated with Linux (just about all in the debian Free repositories) are released under the GPL. All versions of those, even ones with modifications you make or a corporation makes, have to be released and the license they're released under has to be the GPL. Commercial desktop distributions can use non-free, proprietary software if they obtain appropriate licenses; this software is not released under the GPL and thus there is no necessity that it be released, even if there is a version of Linux that comes bundled with that software. So yes, there is a "free version" of each distribution, but that version is going to lack the non-free components. Linspire's main selling point is that those non-free components are preconfigured to work with the OS, saving end users the necessity that they, god forbid, learn something about how their computer works! And also the massive headaches you can get trying to get sun's java to work with firefox on a debian release.
Um, Taking someone's virginity would require you to perform a very specific action on their person-- I'm given to understand that people pay significants amount of money for similar services. To wit, Peter: "Where am I going to get $5000?" Quagmire: "You could whore yourself out to a thousand fat chicks for fifty bucks a piece. Or fifty really fat chicks for a thousand bucks a piece. What? Don't look at me like that. Fat chicks need love too. But they gotta pay."
Neither of you are acknowledging what you're really arguing; vadim is presupposing that obscurity involves compromisable parts, which is wise for anything that hasn't been field tested extensively--assuming that the tunnel exists. Obscurity might be achieved by using a different kind of lock on the door; the method used may produce equivalently resilient locks, or better or worse; but the fact that they are unknown to attackers is a slight advantage.
Interesting statistic... Enough to make you wonder how they measured it. Most of the figures we've gotten so far are in people/km^2 rather than kilograms/person.
Hypocrisy italicized.
A fair point ideologically, but on the other hand, whose closed operating system is both flawed and popular enough to let those flaws cause massive monetary damage to other networks?
Your sig is entirely too appropriate to the discussion at hand.
Still, it should check to make sure that you don't give a file permissions it doesn't have. A thousand different installation programs use "setup.exe"-- authorizing one of them shouldn't authorize every installer that comes along using that filename. Agnitum Outpost warns me every time I click on an installation that uses setup.exe, or when I patch games that require network access, to make sure some bogey program hasn't messed with my executables. If every virus had to have an "OK?!" dialogue to install, a few of the less-clueless might think to hit "cancel."
Granted, the article made it seem like microsoft should be most concerned about idiotproofing, when there is a point past which all you are doing is making life more difficult for the powerusers.
Cease your heresy! We are mooninites from the inner core of the Moon. Our race is hundreds of years beyond yours. Some would say that the Earth is *our* moon. But that would belittle the name of our Moon, which is the Moon. Point is, we're at the center, not you! --Ignignot and one of Ur's lines, from that awesome episode of Aquat Teen Hunger Force
If you can get into orbit around the star, you can orient your sail in such a fashion as to decelerate, slowing you down and thus decreasing the radius of your orbit, bringing you closer to the star
Probably $75 out of that $90 is not going to cover the cost of the paper, binding, printing etc. of the textbook, it's going to cover the bookstore's overhead, the authors' time investment, and that author's university's investment. Given that, textbook makers (Addison-Wesley & company) may start selling electronically distributed textbooks for, oh, $89.99 instead of $90, and let you pocket the difference.
That's odd, I saw a man tackled with an armful of DVDs trying to escape from target... Is this a local law, or does security routinely violate federal law in the execution of its job?
Not when the last 10% increases your costs twofold. Google is a company; they happen to have a moral directive, but their ultimate goal is money.
Still, who knows-- perhaps on of the google labs folks will use this project for their "10% time" to keep their company unix-friendly.