Bare in mind that the album has only been out for a short-time. I can't imagine that all of those 1.5 million purchases occurred in the same time-frame as we are looking at so far for this release. For example, I will probably go download the album but have not gotten around to doing so. Therefore, the $2.736 number will be increasing. And $2.736 is pretty close to $3.
I just purchased an iPhone here in the United States. There is a possibility I might get transfered to our London office. Will I be able to use my same iPhone in Europe simply with a different carrier? Or will I have to buy a UK iPhone?
Yeah, there's the thing. They are definitely after your hardware, not the software. Software is a pretty easy thing to steal without having to hold a gun to someone. If I were to steal a piece of hardware, I would probably make hard-drive dump of the data onto a DVD (just in case I stole someone's computer who has a lot of information that could be lucrative). I would then immediately wipe the hard-drive and sell the sucker to a fence. Not a single step in the above would require you to boot the computer.
Also, the difficulty with trackers is that the require an internet connection. I suspect that most thefts involve stealing the hardware, not the software. Afterall, if you have a password on your machine, they aren't going to easily boot up the computer. So, I doubt those sorts of things will even work all that well. I could be wrong though.
That said, my friend has a little piece of software on her MacBook where if you try to unlock it without the remote, the iSight camera takes a picture of you then emails the picture to her and starts sounding an annoying alarm. I'm not sure if it would be effective, but it is a case where no one else is involved. In other words, it's not connecting to some tracking system.
I can't help but wonder, with all of the free publicity he has kindly given to GTA, if he isn't on Take Two's bank-roll. Seriously, this is great advertising. I'm sure they intentionally released this information about the game simply to get JT to put up a stink. What brilliance on their part!
Has anyone else taken a peak at their market cap? It's 3.26M. By the time you read this, it's probably lower. That is so ridiculously cheap! Hell, not much longer and I could buy their company. I have been thinking about moving a few miles north to Orem, maybe I could convert their offices into a residence.
So, go ahead and fork the sucker. There's nothing preventing you from doing so. It's pretty clear though from the comments, that the majority of people here think that it's pointless. But there's the beauty of open-source. If it is of value to you, go ahead and fork it. Make something new. But, as for me and the majority of people I have heard from so far, we are quite content with the direction that Linux has and is taking.
Also, in response to your last comment, the GP doesn't need to fork linux because "stability... to protect the kernel from hacks and attacks" is already the direction Linux has taken.
It's so true. He should have done what R.A. Salvatore has done. Rather than taking his trilogy and making it 12 books long, he just wrote another trilogy using the same characters and then another. Then he wrote a prequel trilogy and so on ad infinitum. The end result is a story-line that is nearly as long as WoT, but is manageable because you take it in chunks. Each series of books is fairly self-contained, and tells a story in itself while still leaving enough loose ends on which to base another series of books.
Actually, now, as I am writing, I am reminded of the best at this, Terry Pratchett. You don't even have to read the books in order. He really is a genius at making every book completely self-contained, yet having them still sit in a larger story line. In many of his trilogies I have actually read the second or third before the first, and it made complete sense.
This is such a great question and I'm glad that it was broached here on Slashdot. There is clearly a libertarian lean here, so it seems like a valid question to ask here.
One thing I have considered with regards to this is whether people's social experience have something to do with being libertarian. I could just be setting myself up as flame-bait, but I wonder if people who have been loners (as many of the people on Slashdot have or are) are more likely to be libertarian. Libertarians generally believe in letting people do their own thing. There's no reason for the government to meddle with the affairs of individuals. This could very well partially come from the fact that nerds generally don't have a lot of social interaction. They have largely made their lives individually, without the help of others and feel that everyone else should do the same thing.
This could explain why I am most definitely not libertarian. I am very progressive. While I agree with libertarians on some points, my reasons for arriving at those issues are quite different. I believe in welfare, universal health care, and all of that sort of socialist stuff. But I have always been a very social person. As well as a software engineer I am also a professional actor. So, maybe that is the reason I am not a libertarian regardless of the fact that I am a total geek.
Of course, people are going to respond saying that they are very socially active, but nevertheless are libertarian. That's fine. The above is just a thought that maybe this is a component for some people, not all.
The problem is not with finding a way to prove string theory so much as find a way to falsify it. There are many ways to prove string theory, but seemingly no way to falsify it. Because every failed prediction it has made so far has been alright because both the failure and success have been within the realm of possibility of the theory. This is why I'm not a huge fan of string theory and generally feel that it is more akin to religion than science. But, then again, I'm not a physicist. So, what do I know? (not very much is the answer)
Actually, I did read it as a believing person. It has been a powerful tool in making me a non-believing person. What you have done is accept from the get-go that no matter what you read it will be right. From there, it really doesn't matter what you read because you have already assumed it to be good. Using this same sort of reasoning one could easily justify 9/11 and a whole host of other horrible acts throughout history.
I think it's odd that they are changing their name to show that they are not just a workstation company anymore. So, they are trying to exude diversity. That's respectable. So, what do they do? They change their name from a general name to a specific technology. Rather than highlight their diversity, this decision strikes me as saying, "All that we do now is Java." Very odd choice. That said, it is a cool ticker symbol.
I am all for scientists prefixing everything they say with "We theorize..." as long as religious people stop saying "God exists" and start saying "We theorize that God exists."
I love that the title of your comment is "Ya forgot to read the ending..." The ending of the Bible is Revelations. That's a pretty convoluted book that does more resemble a slasher novel than a love story. It makes a fitting end to the Bible.
With your above white-wash of the book, I am honestly questioning whether you have read the entire book. I have read the entire Bible (which probably puts me into something like a 10% group). While it does have the occasional uplifting section, the Be-attitudes, for example. But the truth is that the vast majority of it revolves around people slaughtering one another in one grotesque fashion after another. That would still fit with your above description, if it weren't for the fact that it is, more-often-than-not, God commanding people to do the killing. It's not as if the killing is occurring and God is disappointed. No, he is the one either commanding the killing (think Israel's destruction of Canaan) or even himself doing it (the flood).
You should read the whole book sometime. It's horrifying!
I was recently in China. I visit there every now and then. It was interesting talking to the people on the street about the issue of internet censorship. They all seemed to think of it as a big joke. They all knew about and used proxy servers on a daily basis. China's policy can't work. They're nothing more than a poor little dutchboy with his finger in the dike. Eventually they'll run out of fingers. It's only a matter of time.
Something along those same lines that bothers/amuses me is how whenever someone does anything good, the Christians are quick to say, "See? Deep down they do believe." It's impossible to analyse religion fairly because they claim that everything good comes from them and everything bad does not. They are quite good at selectivity in that sense.
Why should you have to? There's no good reason to require that I have an account on every damned social web site, for the privilege of seeing what my own friends want to share with me.
You actually don't have to. I post all of my photos I want to share on facebook. My parents don't have a facebook account. Nevertheless, they are able to view the album if I give them the URL to the album.
I am (for the most part) against privatization with regards to NASA. But the parent's argument is one of the poorest of which I can even conceive. I hate it when people with whom I agree make really poor arguments because it immediately reflects on me and my views. Then I have to spend time disavowing myself of poor arguments rather than trying to make my views heard.
Oh, the parent couldn't be more correct. I am so tired of people sending me messages through facebook rather than my email. The most frustrating thing for me is that I now have important information split across multiple locations. I have had the occasion where I was trying to find something that I knew someone had sent me. After searching in vane, I realize that they sent it to me on facebook.
Social networking sites are great, but they are not a replacement for email. Something can only function as a good replacement if it can accomplish everything that its predecessor does and more. It's like the whole WebOS thing that keeps running around. I think things like this get written because every writer wants to be the one who against all odds prophecies the next big technological revolution.
I'm sad in a way. Computers are tools, humans are well, humans. There must remain some ways we can think better.
A computer didn't solve checkers, a human did. Just as you said, a computer is a tool. Saying that a computer solved checkers is analogous to saying that a hammer built a birdhouse. Just because we use a tool doesn't mean that we are not ultimately the ones responsible.
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I know that people will disagree with you vehemently, but I agree 100%.
According to the article, the squid is 2 meters long. The 8.62 meter figure was clearly taken from the line in the article that reads: "Last year, fishermen off the Falkland Islands caught a complete animal measuring 8.62 meters."
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Bare in mind that the album has only been out for a short-time. I can't imagine that all of those 1.5 million purchases occurred in the same time-frame as we are looking at so far for this release. For example, I will probably go download the album but have not gotten around to doing so. Therefore, the $2.736 number will be increasing. And $2.736 is pretty close to $3.
Is there anyway to give you more than +5?
He can't post the actual nicknames because they are all CowboyNeal.
I just purchased an iPhone here in the United States. There is a possibility I might get transfered to our London office. Will I be able to use my same iPhone in Europe simply with a different carrier? Or will I have to buy a UK iPhone?
Yeah, there's the thing. They are definitely after your hardware, not the software. Software is a pretty easy thing to steal without having to hold a gun to someone. If I were to steal a piece of hardware, I would probably make hard-drive dump of the data onto a DVD (just in case I stole someone's computer who has a lot of information that could be lucrative). I would then immediately wipe the hard-drive and sell the sucker to a fence. Not a single step in the above would require you to boot the computer.
Also, the difficulty with trackers is that the require an internet connection. I suspect that most thefts involve stealing the hardware, not the software. Afterall, if you have a password on your machine, they aren't going to easily boot up the computer. So, I doubt those sorts of things will even work all that well. I could be wrong though.
That said, my friend has a little piece of software on her MacBook where if you try to unlock it without the remote, the iSight camera takes a picture of you then emails the picture to her and starts sounding an annoying alarm. I'm not sure if it would be effective, but it is a case where no one else is involved. In other words, it's not connecting to some tracking system.
I can't help but wonder, with all of the free publicity he has kindly given to GTA, if he isn't on Take Two's bank-roll. Seriously, this is great advertising. I'm sure they intentionally released this information about the game simply to get JT to put up a stink. What brilliance on their part!
Has anyone else taken a peak at their market cap? It's 3.26M. By the time you read this, it's probably lower. That is so ridiculously cheap! Hell, not much longer and I could buy their company. I have been thinking about moving a few miles north to Orem, maybe I could convert their offices into a residence.
So, go ahead and fork the sucker. There's nothing preventing you from doing so. It's pretty clear though from the comments, that the majority of people here think that it's pointless. But there's the beauty of open-source. If it is of value to you, go ahead and fork it. Make something new. But, as for me and the majority of people I have heard from so far, we are quite content with the direction that Linux has and is taking.
Also, in response to your last comment, the GP doesn't need to fork linux because "stability... to protect the kernel from hacks and attacks" is already the direction Linux has taken.
It's so true. He should have done what R.A. Salvatore has done. Rather than taking his trilogy and making it 12 books long, he just wrote another trilogy using the same characters and then another. Then he wrote a prequel trilogy and so on ad infinitum. The end result is a story-line that is nearly as long as WoT, but is manageable because you take it in chunks. Each series of books is fairly self-contained, and tells a story in itself while still leaving enough loose ends on which to base another series of books.
Actually, now, as I am writing, I am reminded of the best at this, Terry Pratchett. You don't even have to read the books in order. He really is a genius at making every book completely self-contained, yet having them still sit in a larger story line. In many of his trilogies I have actually read the second or third before the first, and it made complete sense.
This is such a great question and I'm glad that it was broached here on Slashdot. There is clearly a libertarian lean here, so it seems like a valid question to ask here.
One thing I have considered with regards to this is whether people's social experience have something to do with being libertarian. I could just be setting myself up as flame-bait, but I wonder if people who have been loners (as many of the people on Slashdot have or are) are more likely to be libertarian. Libertarians generally believe in letting people do their own thing. There's no reason for the government to meddle with the affairs of individuals. This could very well partially come from the fact that nerds generally don't have a lot of social interaction. They have largely made their lives individually, without the help of others and feel that everyone else should do the same thing.
This could explain why I am most definitely not libertarian. I am very progressive. While I agree with libertarians on some points, my reasons for arriving at those issues are quite different. I believe in welfare, universal health care, and all of that sort of socialist stuff. But I have always been a very social person. As well as a software engineer I am also a professional actor. So, maybe that is the reason I am not a libertarian regardless of the fact that I am a total geek.
Of course, people are going to respond saying that they are very socially active, but nevertheless are libertarian. That's fine. The above is just a thought that maybe this is a component for some people, not all.
The problem is not with finding a way to prove string theory so much as find a way to falsify it. There are many ways to prove string theory, but seemingly no way to falsify it. Because every failed prediction it has made so far has been alright because both the failure and success have been within the realm of possibility of the theory. This is why I'm not a huge fan of string theory and generally feel that it is more akin to religion than science. But, then again, I'm not a physicist. So, what do I know? (not very much is the answer)
Actually, I did read it as a believing person. It has been a powerful tool in making me a non-believing person. What you have done is accept from the get-go that no matter what you read it will be right. From there, it really doesn't matter what you read because you have already assumed it to be good. Using this same sort of reasoning one could easily justify 9/11 and a whole host of other horrible acts throughout history.
I think it's odd that they are changing their name to show that they are not just a workstation company anymore. So, they are trying to exude diversity. That's respectable. So, what do they do? They change their name from a general name to a specific technology. Rather than highlight their diversity, this decision strikes me as saying, "All that we do now is Java." Very odd choice. That said, it is a cool ticker symbol.
I am all for scientists prefixing everything they say with "We theorize..." as long as religious people stop saying "God exists" and start saying "We theorize that God exists."
I love that the title of your comment is "Ya forgot to read the ending..." The ending of the Bible is Revelations. That's a pretty convoluted book that does more resemble a slasher novel than a love story. It makes a fitting end to the Bible.
With your above white-wash of the book, I am honestly questioning whether you have read the entire book. I have read the entire Bible (which probably puts me into something like a 10% group). While it does have the occasional uplifting section, the Be-attitudes, for example. But the truth is that the vast majority of it revolves around people slaughtering one another in one grotesque fashion after another. That would still fit with your above description, if it weren't for the fact that it is, more-often-than-not, God commanding people to do the killing. It's not as if the killing is occurring and God is disappointed. No, he is the one either commanding the killing (think Israel's destruction of Canaan) or even himself doing it (the flood).
You should read the whole book sometime. It's horrifying!
I was recently in China. I visit there every now and then. It was interesting talking to the people on the street about the issue of internet censorship. They all seemed to think of it as a big joke. They all knew about and used proxy servers on a daily basis. China's policy can't work. They're nothing more than a poor little dutchboy with his finger in the dike. Eventually they'll run out of fingers. It's only a matter of time.
Does this go for employee agreements with similar clauses as well?
Something along those same lines that bothers/amuses me is how whenever someone does anything good, the Christians are quick to say, "See? Deep down they do believe." It's impossible to analyse religion fairly because they claim that everything good comes from them and everything bad does not. They are quite good at selectivity in that sense.
I am (for the most part) against privatization with regards to NASA. But the parent's argument is one of the poorest of which I can even conceive. I hate it when people with whom I agree make really poor arguments because it immediately reflects on me and my views. Then I have to spend time disavowing myself of poor arguments rather than trying to make my views heard.
Oh, the parent couldn't be more correct. I am so tired of people sending me messages through facebook rather than my email. The most frustrating thing for me is that I now have important information split across multiple locations. I have had the occasion where I was trying to find something that I knew someone had sent me. After searching in vane, I realize that they sent it to me on facebook.
Social networking sites are great, but they are not a replacement for email. Something can only function as a good replacement if it can accomplish everything that its predecessor does and more. It's like the whole WebOS thing that keeps running around. I think things like this get written because every writer wants to be the one who against all odds prophecies the next big technological revolution.
I know that people will disagree with you vehemently, but I agree 100%.
According to the article, the squid is 2 meters long. The 8.62 meter figure was clearly taken from the line in the article that reads: "Last year, fishermen off the Falkland Islands caught a complete animal measuring 8.62 meters."