I'm curious if Radiohead's Name-Your-Price album prompted the announcement, Apple thinking they could catch a bit of positive press while the anti-RIAA/DRM sentiments are flowing.
I'm not sure who you deal with on a daily basis, but it's ridiculous to suggest everyone knows what torrent/p2p is and how to use it.
There are many stumbling blocks built in:
1) Reading files with unknown / unregistered extensions (i.e..nfo) 2) Having software to handle RAR files 3) Windows Explorer competency to copy, rename, replace files 4) Ability to use common piracy-enabling software (Daemon-Tools, Alcohol, etc.) 5) Ability to intelligently download and install software in #4 without destroying your computer 6) Ability to avoid getting trojans / viruses that cripple computer by downloading crap on bogus p2p/warez sites 7) Ability to manage disk space and other basic Windows management 8) Rudimentary understanding of firewalls, product activation, serial numbers, and DRM 9) IP-blocking software 10) Understanding what patches do, how that effects the cracked/real product, need for these, etc. 11) Configuring torrent software to download reasonably efficiently 12) Forwarding ports from the router to the computer, setting up the firewall 13) Knowing the speed of the Internet connection (Up/Downstream)....
How many of these can Aunt Suzy who thinks someone must have installed Anti-Suzy software on her computer since it hates her and never works right truly accomplish which might let her have any successful long-run spell of pirating a few applications and handing them out over the years?
You can stiff Radiohead all day long, but the karma police will be out to get you.
You'll be living your life as a paranoid andriod, trying to come to grips with kittens tied to sticks in frozen winter shit.
And then one day, you'll change your price from $0 to $5 or $10, and everything will be in its right place.
Well, those shitty, basic computers that took up big rooms, remember those? No? Ok, well, if those were still here, this thing would be like 90239820 times smaller, cool huh?
How many of those are we going to have to hear before we come up with some new kind of comparison.
You know how fast a woman can plot a route around a detour using a map in a big city? Yeah? Well, this shit is like 939203902093902093092093 times faster.
We need more gov't transparency. Appointing stooges to the DOJ to fire the noncompliant, limiting free-speech, obfuscating information to the journalists, and distrusting the American public to the point of borderline treason, I would hope that somewhere, somehow, eventually true, honest, and open people get hold of information that will shed light on the gov't actions in the last 6 years./Woops... *removes tin foil hat, jumps in the ocean, swims, far*.
I'm not kidding, I actually yawned when I read tfa. Maybe I'm just tired, but poking holes in a loosely scientific tv show for those reasons is stupid. I mean, if you're taking results of Mythbuster experiments that seriously, I would urge you to find a secondary information source that might be better suited to that kind of analysis.
You're completely right. I am selfish and unconcerned with the problem facing people that use VOIP. I have a cell phone and that's good enough for me. Irritating commercials are a more than ample reason for me to boycott a product. I have used much more arbitrary criteria than that before.
I'm tired of their commercial and the absence of any QOS is stupid. I hope they go down quick so that irritating shit gets off the air and I don't have to mute my TV when it comes on.
Looks like we've got ourselves a reader.
I'd rather stab my eyes out than wait 15 minutes for someone to print a sub-standard crap edition of a book I'm going to buy.
Are you outraged at paying $90/month for sattelite or digital cable TV when *GASP* it's full of ads known as "commercials" which interrupt the programs you paid for?
That's like me bitching because Photoshop causes my computer to run hotter. Or that searching for a file makes my hard drive noisy. What "power management" features is he on about? Is there some sort of speed-step that isn't being utilized that otherwise would be in MAC OSX?
This is some sort of deranged attempt at bad mouthing Vista, so far as I can tell. I mean, my laptop gets "noticibly hotter" because of all sorts of shit. Even just playing videos increases the temperature kicking the fans in at marginally higher speeds....
I know countless people running all different sizes of business without a "palmtop computing platform", much less specifically a Blackberry or Treo 650. What a strange comment to make.
"Hurd on an UltraSparc under an emulated virtual enviornment" is pedestrian cool. I'm so super-hip, I have a straight-up, unpatched, first-release Windows 95 desktop. Talk about hardcore.
In the corporate world, using Open Office is like driving an electric scooter. Sure, some people think it's cool because it's not a gas-sucking-Hummer, but it's a piece of shit scooter.
Is there perfect compatibility between business users with Word. and OO? Absolutely not. It's totally unacceptable for corporate use with other folks that use MS Word regularly. Same with Excel and the OO varient. Especially if you're dealing with anyone "higher up" or you consult for folks, or you just want to know your files will be opened successfully, without requiring any extra effort from the person you sent it to.
Reccomending OO because MS Word has a critical flaw makes sense for SOME home users, people who don't share files with MS Word users, etc. But for the most part, it's a bad reccomendation unless you're just using OO like a slightly more advanced Notepad. As soon as you tap into truly in depth MS-Word features, compatibility problems arise. In my experience, all open/free/generic word processors are going to have to be used as glorified Notepads if you hope to attain high quality cross-product/platform compability.
The American system of government is founded on two counterbalancing principles: that the majority of the people governs, through democratically elected representatives; and that the power even of a democratic majority must be limited, to ensure individual rights.
Majority power is limited by the Constitution's Bill of Rights, which consists of the original ten amendments ratified in 1791, plus the three post-Civil War amendments (the 13th, 14th and 15th) and the 19th Amendment (women's suffrage), adopted in 1920.
The mission of the ACLU is to preserve all of these protections and guarantees:
* Your First Amendment rights-freedom of speech, association and assembly. Freedom of the press, and freedom of religion supported by the strict separation of church and state.
* Your right to equal protection under the law - equal treatment regardless of race, sex, religion or national origin.
* Your right to due process - fair treatment by the government whenever the loss of your liberty or property is at stake.
* Your right to privacy - freedom from unwarranted government intrusion into your personal and private affairs.
We work also to extend rights to segments of our population that have traditionally been denied their rights, including Native Americans and other people of color; lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgendered people; women; mental-health patients; prisoners; people with disabilities; and the poor.
If the rights of society's most vulnerable members are denied, everybody's rights are imperiled.
The ACLU was founded by Roger Baldwin, Crystal Eastman, Albert DeSilver and others in 1920. We are nonprofit and nonpartisan and have grown from a roomful of civil liberties activists to an organization of more than 500,000 members and supporters. We handle nearly 6,000 court cases annually from our offices in almost every state.
The ACLU has maintained the position that civil liberties must be respected, even in times of national emergency. The ACLU is supported by annual dues and contributions from its members, plus grants from private foundations and individuals. We do not receive any government funding. Learn more about joining the ACLU.
Business users rarely "really need" any new technology.
What they "really need" to do is work hard.
What is nice, is if the are more focused and save a little time from their computer being more responsive.
This isn't a debate.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=AKAM&annual
"That's why Akamai is making so much money, even though their market is still so small."
Revenue, maybe. Granted the '05 financials aren't there, but... they have a ton of liabilities and a history of considerable net losses.
Exactly how are you going to get a P4 3Ghz to serve up 110MB/sec sustained transfer from ordinary hard drive(s)?
Backup system for 10,000 $2000 servers
Network administrators for said facility
Rental / building costs, office-space, utilities, security systems, security gaurds, etc.
Electricity / year? What kind of PSU are you using / what is average wattage loads on these servers?
Air conditioning, special catastrophe protection, off-site backup system, etc.
Just to throw one number out... assuming 110 watt power draw (which is probably conservative) for these power servers that are going to push 110MB/sec sustained 24x7,10,000 servers would cost about $1,200,000.00 / year @ 110 watt power draw with 80% efficient PSUs (assuming $0.09 / kwh as national US average electricity rate). Then let's throw in cooling systems to keep that server room nice and chilly, and at least a few million in wages for the administrators and techs. Another couple million a year in replacement hardware... rental of the building.......
The points is, 10K servers isn't just 10K * $2000. It's more like 10K * $7000.
Oh, did you forget software licensing costs too?
Barely faster than my overclocked 7800GT @ 520Mhz/1.19Ghz. I'm sure a properly overclocked nVidia GTX would be just fine, at a much lower cost, by the time ATI can figure out how to push volume.
And at the rate nVidia is beating up on ATI, I find their ability to upset them highly suspect in the near-term.
Video cards are stupid. They come out every 18 months with something at least twice as good. They will always cost like $400-$800 for the newest one.
Get over it. Why do people bother with these stupid paper launches?
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I'm curious if Radiohead's Name-Your-Price album prompted the announcement, Apple thinking they could catch a bit of positive press while the anti-RIAA/DRM sentiments are flowing.
Who knows.
I'm not sure who you deal with on a daily basis, but it's ridiculous to suggest everyone knows what torrent/p2p is and how to use it.
.nfo) ....
There are many stumbling blocks built in:
1) Reading files with unknown / unregistered extensions (i.e.
2) Having software to handle RAR files
3) Windows Explorer competency to copy, rename, replace files
4) Ability to use common piracy-enabling software (Daemon-Tools, Alcohol, etc.)
5) Ability to intelligently download and install software in #4 without destroying your computer
6) Ability to avoid getting trojans / viruses that cripple computer by downloading crap on bogus p2p/warez sites
7) Ability to manage disk space and other basic Windows management
8) Rudimentary understanding of firewalls, product activation, serial numbers, and DRM
9) IP-blocking software
10) Understanding what patches do, how that effects the cracked/real product, need for these, etc.
11) Configuring torrent software to download reasonably efficiently
12) Forwarding ports from the router to the computer, setting up the firewall
13) Knowing the speed of the Internet connection (Up/Downstream)
How many of these can Aunt Suzy who thinks someone must have installed Anti-Suzy software on her computer since it hates her and never works right truly accomplish which might let her have any successful long-run spell of pirating a few applications and handing them out over the years?
What the hell did you just say? "Ravel is no Pom and his Bolero no English hymn" I can't even type that little fancy e.
You can stiff Radiohead all day long, but the karma police will be out to get you. You'll be living your life as a paranoid andriod, trying to come to grips with kittens tied to sticks in frozen winter shit. And then one day, you'll change your price from $0 to $5 or $10, and everything will be in its right place.
It's all fury and unkempt. At least they could have let me know and I would have trimmed it up!
Well, those shitty, basic computers that took up big rooms, remember those? No? Ok, well, if those were still here, this thing would be like 90239820 times smaller, cool huh? How many of those are we going to have to hear before we come up with some new kind of comparison. You know how fast a woman can plot a route around a detour using a map in a big city? Yeah? Well, this shit is like 939203902093902093092093 times faster.
We need more gov't transparency. Appointing stooges to the DOJ to fire the noncompliant, limiting free-speech, obfuscating information to the journalists, and distrusting the American public to the point of borderline treason, I would hope that somewhere, somehow, eventually true, honest, and open people get hold of information that will shed light on the gov't actions in the last 6 years. /Woops... *removes tin foil hat, jumps in the ocean, swims, far*.
I'm not kidding, I actually yawned when I read tfa. Maybe I'm just tired, but poking holes in a loosely scientific tv show for those reasons is stupid. I mean, if you're taking results of Mythbuster experiments that seriously, I would urge you to find a secondary information source that might be better suited to that kind of analysis.
You're completely right. I am selfish and unconcerned with the problem facing people that use VOIP. I have a cell phone and that's good enough for me. Irritating commercials are a more than ample reason for me to boycott a product. I have used much more arbitrary criteria than that before.
The only thing I'll buy from these dyed-blond pop-starlets for $22 is either porn or (age depending) illegal. So I agree with you there.
I'm tired of their commercial and the absence of any QOS is stupid. I hope they go down quick so that irritating shit gets off the air and I don't have to mute my TV when it comes on.
Looks like we've got ourselves a reader. I'd rather stab my eyes out than wait 15 minutes for someone to print a sub-standard crap edition of a book I'm going to buy.
Are you outraged at paying $90/month for sattelite or digital cable TV when *GASP* it's full of ads known as "commercials" which interrupt the programs you paid for?
That's like me bitching because Photoshop causes my computer to run hotter. Or that searching for a file makes my hard drive noisy. What "power management" features is he on about? Is there some sort of speed-step that isn't being utilized that otherwise would be in MAC OSX?
This is some sort of deranged attempt at bad mouthing Vista, so far as I can tell. I mean, my laptop gets "noticibly hotter" because of all sorts of shit. Even just playing videos increases the temperature kicking the fans in at marginally higher speeds....
I know countless people running all different sizes of business without a "palmtop computing platform", much less specifically a Blackberry or Treo 650. What a strange comment to make.
Hah. It's a great quote, but was somewhat troubling to get it to 255 chars.
"Hurd on an UltraSparc under an emulated virtual enviornment" is pedestrian cool. I'm so super-hip, I have a straight-up, unpatched, first-release Windows 95 desktop. Talk about hardcore.
Patch available: http://www.openoffice.org/
Why did that get modded insightful?
If anything, it's barely "informative".
In the corporate world, using Open Office is like driving an electric scooter. Sure, some people think it's cool because it's not a gas-sucking-Hummer, but it's a piece of shit scooter.
Is there perfect compatibility between business users with Word. and OO? Absolutely not. It's totally unacceptable for corporate use with other folks that use MS Word regularly. Same with Excel and the OO varient. Especially if you're dealing with anyone "higher up" or you consult for folks, or you just want to know your files will be opened successfully, without requiring any extra effort from the person you sent it to.
Reccomending OO because MS Word has a critical flaw makes sense for SOME home users, people who don't share files with MS Word users, etc. But for the most part, it's a bad reccomendation unless you're just using OO like a slightly more advanced Notepad. As soon as you tap into truly in depth MS-Word features, compatibility problems arise. In my experience, all open/free/generic word processors are going to have to be used as glorified Notepads if you hope to attain high quality cross-product/platform compability.
Why not appoint the guy that runs the ACLU?
From the ACLU website:
The American system of government is founded on two counterbalancing principles: that the majority of the people governs, through democratically elected representatives; and that the power even of a democratic majority must be limited, to ensure individual rights.
Majority power is limited by the Constitution's Bill of Rights, which consists of the original ten amendments ratified in 1791, plus the three post-Civil War amendments (the 13th, 14th and 15th) and the 19th Amendment (women's suffrage), adopted in 1920.
The mission of the ACLU is to preserve all of these protections and guarantees:
* Your First Amendment rights-freedom of speech, association and assembly. Freedom of the press, and freedom of religion supported by the strict separation of church and state.
* Your right to equal protection under the law - equal treatment regardless of race, sex, religion or national origin.
* Your right to due process - fair treatment by the government whenever the loss of your liberty or property is at stake.
* Your right to privacy - freedom from unwarranted government intrusion into your personal and private affairs.
We work also to extend rights to segments of our population that have traditionally been denied their rights, including Native Americans and other people of color; lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgendered people; women; mental-health patients; prisoners; people with disabilities; and the poor.
If the rights of society's most vulnerable members are denied, everybody's rights are imperiled.
The ACLU was founded by Roger Baldwin, Crystal Eastman, Albert DeSilver and others in 1920. We are nonprofit and nonpartisan and have grown from a roomful of civil liberties activists to an organization of more than 500,000 members and supporters. We handle nearly 6,000 court cases annually from our offices in almost every state.
The ACLU has maintained the position that civil liberties must be respected, even in times of national emergency. The ACLU is supported by annual dues and contributions from its members, plus grants from private foundations and individuals. We do not receive any government funding. Learn more about joining the ACLU.
Business users rarely "really need" any new technology. What they "really need" to do is work hard. What is nice, is if the are more focused and save a little time from their computer being more responsive. This isn't a debate.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=AKAM&annual "That's why Akamai is making so much money, even though their market is still so small." Revenue, maybe. Granted the '05 financials aren't there, but ... they have a ton of liabilities and a history of considerable net losses.
Exactly how are you going to get a P4 3Ghz to serve up 110MB/sec sustained transfer from ordinary hard drive(s)? Backup system for 10,000 $2000 servers Network administrators for said facility Rental / building costs, office-space, utilities, security systems, security gaurds, etc. Electricity / year? What kind of PSU are you using / what is average wattage loads on these servers? Air conditioning, special catastrophe protection, off-site backup system, etc. Just to throw one number out... assuming 110 watt power draw (which is probably conservative) for these power servers that are going to push 110MB/sec sustained 24x7,10,000 servers would cost about $1,200,000.00 / year @ 110 watt power draw with 80% efficient PSUs (assuming $0.09 / kwh as national US average electricity rate). Then let's throw in cooling systems to keep that server room nice and chilly, and at least a few million in wages for the administrators and techs. Another couple million a year in replacement hardware... rental of the building....... The points is, 10K servers isn't just 10K * $2000. It's more like 10K * $7000. Oh, did you forget software licensing costs too?
I am, and let me tell you, it's a lot more satisfying than arguing about this kind of shit.
Off I go.
I work for NASA.
/.ers believe anything they hear.
So I am really getting a kick out of most of these replies.
Some of you guys are very good at making it sound like you know what you are talking about.
But trust me.... You don't.
I think you just want to make yourself sound smart, when in reality you dont know what you are talking about.
This is how bad info gets passed around.
If you dont know about the topic....Dont make yourself sound like you do.
Cuz some
Barely faster than my overclocked 7800GT @ 520Mhz/1.19Ghz. I'm sure a properly overclocked nVidia GTX would be just fine, at a much lower cost, by the time ATI can figure out how to push volume. And at the rate nVidia is beating up on ATI, I find their ability to upset them highly suspect in the near-term. Video cards are stupid. They come out every 18 months with something at least twice as good. They will always cost like $400-$800 for the newest one. Get over it. Why do people bother with these stupid paper launches?