That's not true. I have a comic book shop. My customers usually read the comic (mostly japanese manga) online and several months later, when it's finally released here, they buy it. And they're not exactly cheap either!
DVD region codes were meant to keep you from watching a movie that was unreleased in your territory (OH NOES!), not to charge poor people less.
Back in the 90s, I bought my CDs online from Amazon,CD Universe, CDNOW because it was (much) cheaper for me to pay the $6 shipping than walk to the store 5 blocks away and buy it there.
I am pretty sure that at least in some cases drug companies (not exactly the least greedy companies around) charge less for things like AIDS medications in developing countries than they do in the US.
More likely they lobby the government to pay some sort of compensation, and sue their way into keeping local labs or universities from making generics. They are certainly the most disgustingly greedy companies out there. Pay or die.
NO SHIT? Someone has been reading my posts on slashdot? THIS is what I've been saying for YEARS, good God! Just look at my rant posts, I must have said that about 5 times at least.
I'm NOT paying half my monthly salary for a PS3 or XBOX game. Same way as I'm not paying $10-$20 for a movie ticket. That's why movie tickets in my country cost $3-$5 and people go to the movies, while very few don't pirate games. Charge me something I can pay, and I gladly will. Be a jerk and try to charge me twice or 4x as much as the US price and I won't buy it (PS3/XBOX 360 cost USD 800 here. Taxes are not the reason). For me a $100 game is like expecting the average american to pay $500 for a PS3 game. Ain't gonna happen.
Does that mean your employer doesn't provide you a computer to use?
Maybe they do, and maybe they're cool enought to let me use my own. Why bother lugging around 2 computers when I can just use mine?
Can you not run this application through some translation layer like WINE or similar derivatives?
Sometimes you just can't.
There certainly are uses for virtualization, but it should not garner nearly the market it has. It's pulling out the 20lb sledge for everything, when most tasks really only need a ball-peen. It comes right back to the old adage of the tool that does everything does nothing well.
Sure. I'll give you an example.
I have a Solaris server, which I use because I need ZFS. Sometimes I need to run some Linux apps - but oops! Solaris doesn't have the required libraries (many times they just won't compile) and I need to use Linux. So, I have a VM with linux to run those "things". I also use that machine as a download manager, for torrents and whatnot. I have the torrent program running in a Solaris Container (which is a more flexible chroot, like FreeBSD Jails), why? Because I have another NIC straight to a second internet connection. It's just much more easier to work that way than have a router with many WAN connections and route based on IP address or whatever.
I need to do it that way because I use ZFS (which is over anything that Linux can offer, including ZFS on linux, which doesn't quite work), and I'm not getting a second server to run linux.
A consumer need for virtualization generally indicates an incorrect choice of OS. If you find yourself using OSX or Linux, and having to use a VM to run Windows software, then the better options would be to either run Windows, or find an alternative program on your OS of choice
No. If I want to have a Mac and my company forces me to use a Windows app, I won't be dual-booting just to run the company's app.
A commercial need for virtualization generally indicates system operators taking the convoluted way out of a problem, rather than properly designing a system.
Wow.
If you want want to use rapidly allocatable 'coulds', then just write some simple tools to mount the relevant images, and chroot into it as needed.
Isn't that a convoluted way out of a problem? Why write (and test) things when you can virtualize and run your VMs within minutes.
If you think you need live migration of long running tasks, maybe you really just need to buy some dedicated hardware.
Gee! MAYBE I'm virtualizing to be ABLE to live migrate when I get new hardware?
The only reason someone should be running virtual machines would either be for cross platform development and testing, support of old no longer available hardware, or for use on hardware such as the Z-Machines, which have some sort of inherent architectural improvement, such as pervasive redundancy, that are not otherwise available on the architecture of choice.
Which shows why you just wrote a shitload of bullshit.
Go TRY virtualization and then come back. It's clear that your assumptions are based on what you read around the Internet and some experience with VMware/VirtualBox. And one more tip: change your attitude. Stop writing like an elitist douchebag, you certainly sound like one. I could have answered your post just saying "then why does virtualization exist in the first place?". There is a need, there are solutions, and yours are fine for many cases, but not for others.
I think all modern CPUs except the very cheapest ones (like, sub-$50) support hardware virtualization.
Not really. Intel likes to have a shitload of variations of the same CPU to please different customers. Sometimes a single digit in the model number means that particular processor doesn't have virtualization or whatnot.
I think it's the pressure from computer makers like Dell. I'm guessing the home Dell models don't support HW virt. I mean, if you're doing virtualization, you probably aren't a home user. And they have a business line for customers like you! It's the same crap as home models but with a different case and a non-capped CPU. Stupid, yes, but people keep buying from Dell, so...
Facebook will get replaced by the next "new thing" before too long.
Why?
I mean Google has been around for 13 years, with no signs of being replaced by a "new thing" anytime soon. Facebook is a different beast. It's the first time I see a "global scale" social network. No one gave a fuck about MySpace outside the US, but facebook is all over the place.
I actually like all those - and do use wikipedia to find out info about such stuff.
I don't see the point on making separate articles for different songs. For an album it's ok, and maybe for a popular song which has been versioned several times. But I don't see the point for a whole article on Lady Gaga's Bad Romance.
Games/Movies/Book/Plays Games about movies movies about games books about games plays about games characters in movies character of movies in videogames
As an example: back in the 90s a music CD was about $18-$24 (when the peso-usd parity was 1-1), while in the US the price was $10-$12. I used to buy from cduniverse.com, cdnow.com and amazon, it was cheaper to me to pay for the cd AND shipping ($6) than it was to go and get it at a local store.
Why?
Really, why?. Music and books aren't taxed, why should it cost more here?
More examples: Celine Dion's album... umm the one with the "titanic" song, had CD-TEXT info for the US version. It didn't have CD-TEXT in the local version. What the hell? Mexican singer "Fey". The american-mexican version came with a nice booklet, with alternating paper and... semi-transparent? pages. The CD had a nice print. The local version was a folded sheet with the album cover on the front and tracklist on the back. The CD was a generic "COLUMBIA RECORDS" CD, like when CDs didn't have their own art (early 90s, CD releases from vinyl).
Brazil got out of the list due to working hard to jail people selling pirated music, video and software. Well, due to new fangled Brazilian lobbying group in Washington too, but ignore this.
It's not about that, and here goes my usual rant again:
Companies DON'T GIVE A FUCK about countries like mine. We don't have itunes, netflix, lala, pandora, hulu, xbox live, nothing. We also don't have game stores (microsoft doesn't import the xbox 360 or games, so even if you have one, you can't buy games simply because there are no places to buy them). Blockbuster closed too.
Sony does import the PS3 (at USD 800) and games (2-3x the US price).
So in one hand we have a middle class, with money, willing to buy things. In the other hand we have 60-something investors which think we still live in trees and there is no market for their products, and decide just not to sell them, or a very small "luxury" market, like the PS3.
If companies one day decided to start selling their stuff, for a reasonable price, I know people will buy them. How do I know this? Because I have a comic book shop. My customers are mostly teenagers who want the latest Naruto episode, and can get it from free from the internet just hours after it's been released in Japan. We have a local Naruto edition (in paper I mean) and guess what? It sells out.
My dad's friend works at a BMW dealership. They sold all BMWs last year. There is even a waiting list!
I live in a city of 400,000 and I know there are at least 10 dvd rental stores, and even 1 bluray-only rental store. So much for poor people living in trees.
You know what the problem with piracy really is? People selling pirated movies in the street. That's the real problem, but movie studios can't do anything about them, because our government won't. And, you see, people selling pirated movies in the street or not, there are dvd rental stores doing just fine.
If Spain is on that list, it's for a reason (Gee, maybe because most of the piracy webs --forums really-- in Spanish are Spain-based? Like, vagos.es for example?)
And if Canada is too, i'm pretty sure there is a reason too.
You know, living west on the northern hemisphere doesn't make you automatically innocent. Same way as the "rest of the world", especially us, down south, aren't all crooks.
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That's not true. I have a comic book shop. My customers usually read the comic (mostly japanese manga) online and several months later, when it's finally released here, they buy it. And they're not exactly cheap either!
DVD region codes were meant to keep you from watching a movie that was unreleased in your territory (OH NOES!), not to charge poor people less.
Back in the 90s, I bought my CDs online from Amazon,CD Universe, CDNOW because it was (much) cheaper for me to pay the $6 shipping than walk to the store 5 blocks away and buy it there.
Those are Thursday-Sunday prices. Monday-Wednesday is $1,50 or so -- last time I checked. $5 even includes 3D glasses for 3D movies.
More likely they lobby the government to pay some sort of compensation, and sue their way into keeping local labs or universities from making generics. They are certainly the most disgustingly greedy companies out there. Pay or die.
NO SHIT? Someone has been reading my posts on slashdot? THIS is what I've been saying for YEARS, good God! Just look at my rant posts, I must have said that about 5 times at least.
I'm NOT paying half my monthly salary for a PS3 or XBOX game. Same way as I'm not paying $10-$20 for a movie ticket. That's why movie tickets in my country cost $3-$5 and people go to the movies, while very few don't pirate games. Charge me something I can pay, and I gladly will. Be a jerk and try to charge me twice or 4x as much as the US price and I won't buy it (PS3/XBOX 360 cost USD 800 here. Taxes are not the reason). For me a $100 game is like expecting the average american to pay $500 for a PS3 game. Ain't gonna happen.
Maybe they do, and maybe they're cool enought to let me use my own. Why bother lugging around 2 computers when I can just use mine?
Sometimes you just can't.
Sure. I'll give you an example.
I have a Solaris server, which I use because I need ZFS. Sometimes I need to run some Linux apps - but oops! Solaris doesn't have the required libraries (many times they just won't compile) and I need to use Linux. So, I have a VM with linux to run those "things". I also use that machine as a download manager, for torrents and whatnot. I have the torrent program running in a Solaris Container (which is a more flexible chroot, like FreeBSD Jails), why? Because I have another NIC straight to a second internet connection. It's just much more easier to work that way than have a router with many WAN connections and route based on IP address or whatever.
I need to do it that way because I use ZFS (which is over anything that Linux can offer, including ZFS on linux, which doesn't quite work), and I'm not getting a second server to run linux.
Some people think it's just magic. Ah, kids these days.
No. If I want to have a Mac and my company forces me to use a Windows app, I won't be dual-booting just to run the company's app.
Wow.
Isn't that a convoluted way out of a problem? Why write (and test) things when you can virtualize and run your VMs within minutes.
Gee! MAYBE I'm virtualizing to be ABLE to live migrate when I get new hardware?
Which shows why you just wrote a shitload of bullshit.
Go TRY virtualization and then come back. It's clear that your assumptions are based on what you read around the Internet and some experience with VMware/VirtualBox. And one more tip: change your attitude. Stop writing like an elitist douchebag, you certainly sound like one. I could have answered your post just saying "then why does virtualization exist in the first place?". There is a need, there are solutions, and yours are fine for many cases, but not for others.
Not really. Intel likes to have a shitload of variations of the same CPU to please different customers. Sometimes a single digit in the model number means that particular processor doesn't have virtualization or whatnot.
I think it's the pressure from computer makers like Dell. I'm guessing the home Dell models don't support HW virt. I mean, if you're doing virtualization, you probably aren't a home user. And they have a business line for customers like you! It's the same crap as home models but with a different case and a non-capped CPU. Stupid, yes, but people keep buying from Dell, so...
No.
You need HW virt for Xen. Otherwise it's just QEMU which is slower.
ark.intel.com
Example:
http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=42915
Me neither. Just get a fake facebook account.
Get a fake facebook account. Trollfag.
Why?
I mean Google has been around for 13 years, with no signs of being replaced by a "new thing" anytime soon.
Facebook is a different beast. It's the first time I see a "global scale" social network. No one gave a fuck about MySpace outside the US, but facebook is all over the place.
Last time I checked, Facebook doesn't ask for ID or verification. I don't see why you can't make a fake account and be happy.
BTW, google does ask for verification. They require your phone number and to verify it.
and he lives in California
And your comment is relevant to the topic because?
I don't see the point on making separate articles for different songs. For an album it's ok, and maybe for a popular song which has been versioned several times. But I don't see the point for a whole article on Lady Gaga's Bad Romance.
Also, separate articles for:
Artists
Albums
Songs
Song videos
Song remixes
Games/Movies/Book/Plays
Games about movies
movies about games
books about games
plays about games
characters in movies
character of movies in videogames
etc
No wonder it has 2 bazillion articles!
It's ridiculous, useless, and stupid.
Scouts badges for douchebags.
Look again. He also self-proclaims to be an exclusionist TOO!
As an example: back in the 90s a music CD was about $18-$24 (when the peso-usd parity was 1-1), while in the US the price was $10-$12. I used to buy from cduniverse.com, cdnow.com and amazon, it was cheaper to me to pay for the cd AND shipping ($6) than it was to go and get it at a local store.
Why?
Really, why?. Music and books aren't taxed, why should it cost more here?
More examples: Celine Dion's album... umm the one with the "titanic" song, had CD-TEXT info for the US version. It didn't have CD-TEXT in the local version. What the hell?
Mexican singer "Fey". The american-mexican version came with a nice booklet, with alternating paper and... semi-transparent? pages. The CD had a nice print. The local version was a folded sheet with the album cover on the front and tracklist on the back. The CD was a generic "COLUMBIA RECORDS" CD, like when CDs didn't have their own art (early 90s, CD releases from vinyl).
Yes. People in favelas all buy original.
What the fuck are you talking about? Clown.
It's not about that, and here goes my usual rant again:
Companies DON'T GIVE A FUCK about countries like mine. We don't have itunes, netflix, lala, pandora, hulu, xbox live, nothing. We also don't have game stores (microsoft doesn't import the xbox 360 or games, so even if you have one, you can't buy games simply because there are no places to buy them). Blockbuster closed too.
Sony does import the PS3 (at USD 800) and games (2-3x the US price).
So in one hand we have a middle class, with money, willing to buy things. In the other hand we have 60-something investors which think we still live in trees and there is no market for their products, and decide just not to sell them, or a very small "luxury" market, like the PS3.
If companies one day decided to start selling their stuff, for a reasonable price, I know people will buy them. How do I know this? Because I have a comic book shop. My customers are mostly teenagers who want the latest Naruto episode, and can get it from free from the internet just hours after it's been released in Japan. We have a local Naruto edition (in paper I mean) and guess what? It sells out.
My dad's friend works at a BMW dealership. They sold all BMWs last year. There is even a waiting list!
I live in a city of 400,000 and I know there are at least 10 dvd rental stores, and even 1 bluray-only rental store. So much for poor people living in trees.
You know what the problem with piracy really is? People selling pirated movies in the street. That's the real problem, but movie studios can't do anything about them, because our government won't. And, you see, people selling pirated movies in the street or not, there are dvd rental stores doing just fine.
As an Argentine, I am offended by your statement.
If Spain is on that list, it's for a reason (Gee, maybe because most of the piracy webs --forums really-- in Spanish are Spain-based? Like, vagos.es for example?)
And if Canada is too, i'm pretty sure there is a reason too.
You know, living west on the northern hemisphere doesn't make you automatically innocent. Same way as the "rest of the world", especially us, down south, aren't all crooks.