Maybe... but when was the last Software update for anything Apple, or Firefox, that got you stuck in a reboot loop... Now how many times has this happened to people updating Windows?
... And it isn't because SGI has nothing to offer (unlike SCO). It is just what they have always done has practically become irrelevant. They made powerhouse workstations with special top-grade hardware, and software optimized for said hardware. The problem, the same problem that Sun has needed/needs to tackle is that x86 PCs are so dirt cheap, that even if they aren't the best of the best, you can just throw more hardware at it for a mere pittance.
Personally, I wouldn't mind such ridiculously long copywrite, if copywrites were non-transferable. This makes it so a copywrite can't be sold to a corporation whole doesn't have a life span... the only copywrites a corporation would own would be works for hire... and then you should be able to classify that as a different style of copywrite... after all, they have no lifespan.
Back to the topic a little more, why SHOULDN'T someone profit from something they created for that long? If people are actually still paying for it 90 years later, it has quite a significant value... it is obviously something special. Else, no one would care, so who cares.
Ok, it is easy to blather on (blah blah blah sheep blah cattle blah blah), but seriously, what the hell are we supposed to do? It isn't like I don't vote. It isn't like I don't write my senators and congressmen long, thought out, well worded letters.
It seems like the only option is to leave... yeah... where they require a passport for you to cross the canadian border on foot. Where a passport takes months to get. Where even if I go, I pretty much can't take my most valuables (AKA my computer), because they will likely look all through it or even take it.
Seriosly. We are already too far gone. Nothing can be done.
You must be daft. Apparently you are to anxious to plug your own agenda rather than actually listening. Qtopia has been around longer than you obviously realize. I ran it on my 200 mhz ARM Zaurus PDA... fast/complete as you could want.
Then they'll use that database to take out a second mortgage on your home, purchase a new car and open a few credit cards under your name.
I got that one covered. I just haven't paid several bills for a long while now. If someone tries to get credit with my credentials, all they will get is people laughing and pointing at them
Did you ever even use BeOS? Did't you see the "app_server", "net_server", "recyclebin_server", etc? What exactly do you think a microkernel is? BeOS made EVERYTHING a service.
I was contracted to make the firebird db able to work with OpenSSI. Quite frankly, it worked beautifully, and it didn't require that much work. The issue I was faced with was that the storage had to be remote, which wasn't necessarily a problem per se, because nothing ever failed while I was around. Now if the power went out on the storage server and a few nodes at random, I really have no idea the havoc it would have caused... I was told my job was done and they didn't have a need for any sort of fault tolerance work. Meh.
Well, you actually have a real option of alternatives to a GM car... when is the last time you went to *insert local computer friendly store here* and you saw a real alternative on sale for Windows/Office?
The nature behind it is rather simple. Imagine you have a mob of angry rioters walking down the street. No one really has a plan, but the mob moves together. More or less, no one individually generally wants to break off by themselves and smash in a window and take a TV from the appliance store. It is perceived as a risk of sorts. Eventually though, someone will want to do something enough that their want levels start matching or exceeding their perceived risk of breaking off of the mob. The person who begins to break off will be at an equilibrium of sorts... if the mob keeps going and are going to leave this person behind, either their want levels have to have a bit of increase, or they join back into the mob, because they don't want to be singled out. The other scenario is parts of the mob will notice said person breaking off and their perception of risk goes down, where more of the mob will follow... then the more that follow, the more that end up following.
I don't usually chime in with the following opinion, but I want to throw it out there and see how people react...
At the time, when Windows ME was a product being sold, I admit, it was garbage. They removed access to underlying DOS, compatibility issues arose where they absolutely shouldn't have, and honestly, it didn't offer me anything over Windows 98.
As a programmer, I do, however, have a handful of clients that use win9x, for whatever exotic reason, so I dug up my install CDs, found an unused Pentium III 800, and made a tri-boot system, with Windows 95C, Windows 98SE, and Windows ME, all with whatever updates were available.
This is, of course, years after 9x was dead, and probably no one cared, but seeing all three of these OS's run on the exact same machine, I have to say, I prefer Windows ME out of all of them. I will give you a few reasons why:
People seem to have forgotten how readily Win9x bluescreened. Sure, we all still joke about it, but there is a slight amnesia to how it really was. Windows 95 most specifically would bluescreen out of nowhere... just sitting there, doing nothing. And every so many bluescreens, something in the system directory would get corrupted, and you would have to reinstall... and did you ever notice that bringing up a DOS window, or running a native DOS app started your system on the downward spiral to hell? I have. But really, I am just talking about Windows 95 and 98... not ME. I have yet to have ME bluescreen on the described system. And if something happened to your system files? There was the Windows File Protection people now take for granted in Windows, so reinstalling wasn't necessary like it was on ME as it was with it's older brothers
Nextly, something you can only notice in the kind of setup I have... the GUI was flat out more responsive... both under load and not. I know that sounds kind of funny, but on Windows 98 especially, clicking a button took about 100ms to register... something you don't really notice, until you use Windows ME and see that clicking on everything causes a reaction more readily. Also, for whatever reason, my network throughput when booted into Windows ME is much much better. Under Windows 95/98, playing Quake2 over a cable modem, my lowest ping was practically the same as Windows ME, but the consistency on Windows ME was so prevalent, that if I play such on that machine, it HAS to be booted into Windows ME.
Honestly, I could drum up a multitude of things that I see NOW, that make ME better... but then, I agree, it wasn't. It is almost like it hit its peak abilities well after the market was gone.
They WANT you to think that... (standard IANAL disclaimer)
First you have to ask... how exactly do they know that the file was a copyright infringement? Did they listen to it? Do they even represent the artist that he is supposedly committing such an atrocity? And in that wing of logic, not knowing what the file contained, couldn't it be an 'intent to commit copyright infringement' by simply listening to the file and "verifying" it? After all, what if the file was called "Tool - Loud Noises.mp3" and it is his attempt to make music from his power tools... not from Tool the band. What gives them the right to download and listen to the file and not me? And how else would you positively know that copyright infringement is taking place?
That aside, you can't reasonably expect that I (or anyone) is going to have a receipt for their CD of Michael Jackson - Thriller that they bought in 1991. With that, nothing keeps someone from going to the local flea market and picking up an old used copy (providing they didn't have the original CD, whatever the reason).
The whole setup is a scam. People HAVE to be getting paid off for this to keep going forward the way it is... especially when the RIAA legal opposition grows by the day.
I think it comes down to one half of the brain fighting the other. On one side, you know the free software/support model potentially is a win for everyone. But the other side is simply taken off guard by it... even though deep down inside you knew what you were going to get, up front it seems to be a surprise.
Similar to that hot chick you have been chatting up for months online... when she told you "I am a little big, but cute", deep down, you know she is a cross between a human and a hippo, but when you finally meet her, you want to dig your eyes out with a mechanical pencil.
I doubt it. Our planet isn't in any kind of formation transition. The crust is cooled, the space debris is mostly gone. Our planet isn't going to go through any extraterrestrial influenced change, unless you cnsider something colliding with us and "breaking" the planet.
Boss: Look, we got a report from our monitors that you were... um... sexually excited, two days ago around 3pm. Just about the time we heard reports of grunting sounds from your cube.
Employee: uhhhhhhhhhh
Boss: This prompted us to install a logger on your machine. We were able to get your VPN password you were using to connect to your home, and noticed you have a thing for zombie midget porn.
Employee: errr
Boss: We were also able to detect that your... libido... rise when the one-legged secretary delivers your mail to your cube.
Employee:...
Boss: Wait till you see my wife's mother. She is coming in here with my wife in about fifteen minutes. You'll like her. She was in a car wreck a year or so ago and had a skin graft on 80% of her body!
I call horseshit. Not only does it sound like you got in no trouble for breaking a nose (sorry buddy, every school of every person I've ever talked about the subject to, if you are in a fight, win or lose, right or wrong, you are suspended too), but you say the picking stopped. It doesn't happen that way. They just leave it to the bigger guys.
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Not only did you put words in everyones mouth... you condemn them for you thinking they said/are saying it. Good show.
Maybe... but when was the last Software update for anything Apple, or Firefox, that got you stuck in a reboot loop... Now how many times has this happened to people updating Windows?
Exactly.
... And it isn't because SGI has nothing to offer (unlike SCO). It is just what they have always done has practically become irrelevant. They made powerhouse workstations with special top-grade hardware, and software optimized for said hardware. The problem, the same problem that Sun has needed/needs to tackle is that x86 PCs are so dirt cheap, that even if they aren't the best of the best, you can just throw more hardware at it for a mere pittance.
Personally, I wouldn't mind such ridiculously long copywrite, if copywrites were non-transferable. This makes it so a copywrite can't be sold to a corporation whole doesn't have a life span... the only copywrites a corporation would own would be works for hire... and then you should be able to classify that as a different style of copywrite... after all, they have no lifespan.
Back to the topic a little more, why SHOULDN'T someone profit from something they created for that long? If people are actually still paying for it 90 years later, it has quite a significant value... it is obviously something special. Else, no one would care, so who cares.
Ok, it is easy to blather on (blah blah blah sheep blah cattle blah blah), but seriously, what the hell are we supposed to do? It isn't like I don't vote. It isn't like I don't write my senators and congressmen long, thought out, well worded letters.
It seems like the only option is to leave... yeah... where they require a passport for you to cross the canadian border on foot. Where a passport takes months to get. Where even if I go, I pretty much can't take my most valuables (AKA my computer), because they will likely look all through it or even take it.
Seriosly. We are already too far gone. Nothing can be done.
You must be daft. Apparently you are to anxious to plug your own agenda rather than actually listening. Qtopia has been around longer than you obviously realize. I ran it on my 200 mhz ARM Zaurus PDA... fast/complete as you could want.
Then they'll use that database to take out a second mortgage on your home, purchase a new car and open a few credit cards under your name.
I got that one covered. I just haven't paid several bills for a long while now. If someone tries to get credit with my credentials, all they will get is people laughing and pointing at them
Did you ever even use BeOS? Did't you see the "app_server", "net_server", "recyclebin_server", etc? What exactly do you think a microkernel is? BeOS made EVERYTHING a service.
I was contracted to make the firebird db able to work with OpenSSI. Quite frankly, it worked beautifully, and it didn't require that much work. The issue I was faced with was that the storage had to be remote, which wasn't necessarily a problem per se, because nothing ever failed while I was around. Now if the power went out on the storage server and a few nodes at random, I really have no idea the havoc it would have caused... I was told my job was done and they didn't have a need for any sort of fault tolerance work. Meh.
Well, you actually have a real option of alternatives to a GM car... when is the last time you went to *insert local computer friendly store here* and you saw a real alternative on sale for Windows/Office?
They would be smart to take their cue from WeatherBug. Jesus bloody christ, its the only spyware Ive ever seen where the users fight me to keep it.
This is old.... OLD news. It is a simple mob effect. See Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams
The nature behind it is rather simple. Imagine you have a mob of angry rioters walking down the street. No one really has a plan, but the mob moves together. More or less, no one individually generally wants to break off by themselves and smash in a window and take a TV from the appliance store. It is perceived as a risk of sorts. Eventually though, someone will want to do something enough that their want levels start matching or exceeding their perceived risk of breaking off of the mob. The person who begins to break off will be at an equilibrium of sorts... if the mob keeps going and are going to leave this person behind, either their want levels have to have a bit of increase, or they join back into the mob, because they don't want to be singled out. The other scenario is parts of the mob will notice said person breaking off and their perception of risk goes down, where more of the mob will follow... then the more that follow, the more that end up following.
I don't usually chime in with the following opinion, but I want to throw it out there and see how people react...
At the time, when Windows ME was a product being sold, I admit, it was garbage. They removed access to underlying DOS, compatibility issues arose where they absolutely shouldn't have, and honestly, it didn't offer me anything over Windows 98.
As a programmer, I do, however, have a handful of clients that use win9x, for whatever exotic reason, so I dug up my install CDs, found an unused Pentium III 800, and made a tri-boot system, with Windows 95C, Windows 98SE, and Windows ME, all with whatever updates were available.
This is, of course, years after 9x was dead, and probably no one cared, but seeing all three of these OS's run on the exact same machine, I have to say, I prefer Windows ME out of all of them. I will give you a few reasons why:
People seem to have forgotten how readily Win9x bluescreened. Sure, we all still joke about it, but there is a slight amnesia to how it really was. Windows 95 most specifically would bluescreen out of nowhere... just sitting there, doing nothing. And every so many bluescreens, something in the system directory would get corrupted, and you would have to reinstall... and did you ever notice that bringing up a DOS window, or running a native DOS app started your system on the downward spiral to hell? I have. But really, I am just talking about Windows 95 and 98... not ME. I have yet to have ME bluescreen on the described system. And if something happened to your system files? There was the Windows File Protection people now take for granted in Windows, so reinstalling wasn't necessary like it was on ME as it was with it's older brothers
Nextly, something you can only notice in the kind of setup I have... the GUI was flat out more responsive... both under load and not. I know that sounds kind of funny, but on Windows 98 especially, clicking a button took about 100ms to register... something you don't really notice, until you use Windows ME and see that clicking on everything causes a reaction more readily. Also, for whatever reason, my network throughput when booted into Windows ME is much much better. Under Windows 95/98, playing Quake2 over a cable modem, my lowest ping was practically the same as Windows ME, but the consistency on Windows ME was so prevalent, that if I play such on that machine, it HAS to be booted into Windows ME.
Honestly, I could drum up a multitude of things that I see NOW, that make ME better... but then, I agree, it wasn't. It is almost like it hit its peak abilities well after the market was gone.
They WANT you to think that... (standard IANAL disclaimer)
First you have to ask... how exactly do they know that the file was a copyright infringement? Did they listen to it? Do they even represent the artist that he is supposedly committing such an atrocity? And in that wing of logic, not knowing what the file contained, couldn't it be an 'intent to commit copyright infringement' by simply listening to the file and "verifying" it? After all, what if the file was called "Tool - Loud Noises.mp3" and it is his attempt to make music from his power tools... not from Tool the band. What gives them the right to download and listen to the file and not me? And how else would you positively know that copyright infringement is taking place?
That aside, you can't reasonably expect that I (or anyone) is going to have a receipt for their CD of Michael Jackson - Thriller that they bought in 1991. With that, nothing keeps someone from going to the local flea market and picking up an old used copy (providing they didn't have the original CD, whatever the reason).
The whole setup is a scam. People HAVE to be getting paid off for this to keep going forward the way it is... especially when the RIAA legal opposition grows by the day.
I think it comes down to one half of the brain fighting the other. On one side, you know the free software/support model potentially is a win for everyone. But the other side is simply taken off guard by it... even though deep down inside you knew what you were going to get, up front it seems to be a surprise.
Similar to that hot chick you have been chatting up for months online... when she told you "I am a little big, but cute", deep down, you know she is a cross between a human and a hippo, but when you finally meet her, you want to dig your eyes out with a mechanical pencil.
I doubt it. Our planet isn't in any kind of formation transition. The crust is cooled, the space debris is mostly gone. Our planet isn't going to go through any extraterrestrial influenced change, unless you cnsider something colliding with us and "breaking" the planet.
Boss: Look, we got a report from our monitors that you were... um... sexually excited, two days ago around 3pm. Just about the time we heard reports of grunting sounds from your cube. ...
Employee: uhhhhhhhhhh
Boss: This prompted us to install a logger on your machine. We were able to get your VPN password you were using to connect to your home, and noticed you have a thing for zombie midget porn.
Employee: errr
Boss: We were also able to detect that your... libido... rise when the one-legged secretary delivers your mail to your cube. Employee:
Boss: Wait till you see my wife's mother. She is coming in here with my wife in about fifteen minutes. You'll like her. She was in a car wreck a year or so ago and had a skin graft on 80% of her body!
Screw the iPhone... when will there be a cellular add-on for my Gameboy Advanced
Why does it have to be a creature? Why can't it be a jelly bean? Or a Chinese meat cleaver?
Thinstall
The floating skull, Morte, was funny.
Anything like Murry the Demonic Skull?
Tell me that when it is your family that dies from his "WHOOPSY!"
It's right outside your door... NOW TESTIFY!
I cannot imagine my dna ever falling into the wrong hands.
You afraid they'll make a little clone of you?
I call horseshit. Not only does it sound like you got in no trouble for breaking a nose (sorry buddy, every school of every person I've ever talked about the subject to, if you are in a fight, win or lose, right or wrong, you are suspended too), but you say the picking stopped. It doesn't happen that way. They just leave it to the bigger guys.