It isn't like the current system doesn't continously destroy "good things" because they don't fit the current market conditions. I'm sure there will be at least as many good things that will be enabled by such developments.
Fuck, if AT&T had been able to impose its view of centralized smart networking as it existed in the late 1960s (and was 100% owned by AT&T) then the internet would be far less functional today. But, despite AT&T trying to hold back the earlier implementations, in a fashion similar, but not as drastic as the RIAA is doing to music today, the internet which lets you call me a jackass would probably not be even a tenth of what it is today.
I say you are 100% wrong. I say that artificially limiting the functionality that digitization can provide is like saying, "I won't buy a car because cars are putting all those horse-and-buggy sellers out of business." I say that in order to move forward as a civilization we need to fully embrace the benefits of new technology and let new ideas about how to make a living using it emerge. DRM is just trying to stuff a square peg into a round hole. Instead, we should be concentrating on what new, never before thought of things the square peg will enable.
Just because you (and theoretically the RIAA/MPAA) can't see a way to run a profitable "content" business in a fully digital world doesn't mean it can't be done yet, it just means you haven't figured it out yet.
A shame that human nature is such that the first thing people think about when they see a nifty new service is how to shit in it and ruin it for everyone else.
Better it be the first thing so that it can be addressed than only discovered after some dedicated "evil-doer" realizes it in a private burst of creativity then abuses the hell out of it and all the work and money that had been invested must go to waste.
All those Wal-Mart hating liberals would probably say that if the law didn't make those workers "illegal" than the outsourcing company would not have been able to abuse them into working for less than market rates. Aren't Wal-Mart loving conservatives supposed to swallow the line that government interference in the market is a "bad" thing because the most efficient distribution of resources can only come from markets with no restrictions? Just food for thought. (see Cali for a prime example, hell, Enron did a bang-up job there IIRC)
Well, if he's not going to give his money to his children and family as inheritance and he's not going to give it to charity, what does Bill plan on doing with all that money? Burn it in a funeral pyre?
I'm pretty sure that wherever that $200M number comes from, it is buried away in a billionaire's equivalent of a mutual fund (or probably funds). But, on the other hand, if Bill really was so gosh-darn concerned about the people dying because they can't afford drugs then he ought to take a stand and not allow any of his money to be invested directly in the companies that keep the prices out of reach in the first place.
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I thoroughly disagree with Carr. There is still PLENTY of opportunity for IT to lead, just look at Homeland Security and TIA. IT has just barely begun to bring us the Big Brother that Orwell promised us. Any smart organization, commercial or public, should be pushing the limits of what IT can do today to bring on the oppressive survelliance society!
I don't know. I hope something very personal and very scary happens to people like McBride.
Whatchayall need is to get SCO to claim copyright infringement against the Church of Scientology. Somebody tell Darl that the Church's highest level doctrines contain SCO intellectual property. The $cienos will lay his company to waste.
You forget the beauty of Posix. Most of the standards encompassed by Posix are so vaguely defined that we can implement them just about anyway we want and still be Posix compliant.
But, all humor (true though it may be) aside -- Linux already owns enough mindshare such that "Linux is as Linux does" and that ain't no Forrest Gump reference either. You see other OSes like HPUX, AIX, IRIX, *BSD, even Solaris, providing "Linux compatibility" layers. So, right now, Linux is the defacto standard for unix compatibility.
Either that, or she thinks the electorate ought to be. I guess if we are all bent over with our heads in the sand, it makes it that much easier for people like her give it to us right in the ass.
All you guys celebrating this release and thinking it marks the begining the end of for Microsoft have got your head in the clouds.
There is no way MS would publish this information unless doing so is in their interest. They could had have played the same old games with accountants and auditing, etc, etc to hide this information if they had wanted to.
But no, they pretty much came right out with it and most of you have been taken hook, line and sinker. All this is not about any real pain that MS is feeling. No, it is about providing another justification for Palladium aka NGSCB "enscub" aka Next Generation Secure Computing Base.
MS can now point to how a lack of security is hurting their bottom line so whater bogus Palladium schemes they come up with to sell as increasing security (rather than just stealing control of your computer and divvying it up between MS, the MPAA and the RIAA) so of course Palladium will really provide better, more secure system becaue MS's ass is on the line too, see it if even says so in their SEC filings!
Many people are too stupid to understand that responding to telemarketing or spam for an item that they *do* want will only encourage more telemarketing and spam for items that they don't want.
There is a guy I know at work who has been getting telemarketing calls for DirecTV. He was actually going to call them back (the telemarketer) and take them up on their offer. No matter how many times I tried to explain it, he didn't think that:
a) he could probably get a better deal if he shopped around for like 5 minutes on the net b) that he'd probably end up on a "sucker list" and that this telemarketer would now call him to sell other things as well as sell his name/number to other telescummers to bother him with all kinds of stuff he didn't want
5 minutes of convenience today was enough for him to accept the hours of bother that was sure to come in the future.
But, if you ask him if telemarketing and spam piss him off, he complains just as much as the next guy. It is dumbshits like that which telemarketers and spammers are talking about when they say that do-contact lists are keeping them from people who want their services. Assmunches like that guy are the reason these annoyers are business.
Instead of a do not call list, I think we should pass a law that requires mandatory jail time for people who do buy stuff from telemarketers. (Fuck the constitution, Ashcroft's already done that, might as well get something good for society out of it!)
Hercules is not the company it once was. The original Hercules video card maker went bankrupt and Guillemot (a French pc-card maker) bought the name ONLY, to slap on their products. Prior to buying Hercules, Guillemot had developed a nice little rep for providing the shittiest support possible for their sound cards. Buying the Hercules name for a song was their way of trying to break free of their absolutely craptacular reputation.
You can paint a turd with gold paint, but it is still a turd and that's all Guillemot has done. Don't expect their drivers to work, don't ever believe them when they tell you a new release will fix the problems, and for God's sake don't expect to be able to use the product the way the promotional materials say you can!
You are far better off just keeping your money and looking elsewhere. If you don't believe me, just do a little research on the Guillemot Maxisound Pro and Maxisound Pro 64 cards and just how well they work. (Guillemot just plain gave up on supporting them after a couple of years of bullshit driver releases.)
If the lowest of us do not have the freedom of expression, then none of us have the freedom of expression, only a simulacrum that will fail us when it is needed most.
In most cities, the light goes green for the guy with the transmitter, but a white strobe light on the same pole goes off too. If all lights went red, but the strobe still went off, the should be enough to make the driver confident that all directions are indeed red.
I stick to Red Hat. It is *far* more stable and Red Hat has 6 of the top 10 kernel developers working for them.
As far as I'm concerned, that is a reason to avoid redhat. All we need is for one company to suck up all the top kernel talent, as that would certainly bias the direction of kernel development. Not a knock against redhat specifically, that's just human (and corporate) nature.
You do realize that you have backpedaled significantly here, right? You have now added the following to the list:
1) corrupt registry 2) privileged user operatins
You also seem to have moderated your, "never" to "should NOT."
Despite your rather large step back from the absolute of "never" you still haven't stepped back far enough. Just look at the lovesan worm as one example - it doesn't even have an account at all to start with. Of course it ends up "running" with privileges by the time it can cause a bsod, but really no program running on some other machine should be able to cause a kernel panic, period.
since Win2k you should never get a BSOD anymore unless your hardware is broken somehow.
Never? You must be smoking some primo shit, BillyG's hydroponic, ultra-pure, 50 generations of selective breeding, primo shit. Where can I get some of that?
Where does Mandrake ask people not to distribute these ISOs? Are you just assuming that? As someone who tried to give them money when I downloaded 9.0 (their site was so broken it wouldn't take, but that is another story) my goal in giving them money was not a desire for special treatment (real support contracts cost orders of magnitude more than most of these club memberships) but to generally support their efforts.
So, I think it entirely reasonable, and far more compatible with both the GPL's spirit, that limiting initial access directly from mandrake is not an incentive for payment but rather a reward of guaranteed easy access for those who have donated. In which case there is nothing unethical or immoral about setting up alternate methods of distribution that do not consume any of Mandrake's resources or otherwise impede club member's easy access.
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Tough shit.
It isn't like the current system doesn't continously destroy "good things" because they don't fit the current market conditions. I'm sure there will be at least as many good things that will be enabled by such developments.
Fuck, if AT&T had been able to impose its view of centralized smart networking as it existed in the late 1960s (and was 100% owned by AT&T) then the internet would be far less functional today. But, despite AT&T trying to hold back the earlier implementations, in a fashion similar, but not as drastic as the RIAA is doing to music today, the internet which lets you call me a jackass would probably not be even a tenth of what it is today.
I say you are 100% wrong. I say that artificially limiting the functionality that digitization can provide is like saying, "I won't buy a car because cars are putting all those horse-and-buggy sellers out of business." I say that in order to move forward as a civilization we need to fully embrace the benefits of new technology and let new ideas about how to make a living using it emerge. DRM is just trying to stuff a square peg into a round hole. Instead, we should be concentrating on what new, never before thought of things the square peg will enable.
Just because you (and theoretically the RIAA/MPAA) can't see a way to run a profitable "content" business in a fully digital world doesn't mean it can't be done yet, it just means you haven't figured it out yet.
Absolutely correct, glad to see that at least one person got the analogy.
Yes, and many of them end with them finally asking someone else, and the other person pointing it out within 10 seconds.
The best ones end with the author discovering the error in the middle of explaining the code and symptoms to the other person.
"So then it checks if the return value is... oh damn I left out the second equals sign!!"
A shame that human nature is such that the first thing people think about when they see a nifty new service is how to shit in it and ruin it for everyone else.
Better it be the first thing so that it can be addressed than only discovered after some dedicated "evil-doer" realizes it in a private burst of creativity then abuses the hell out of it and all the work and money that had been invested must go to waste.
All those Wal-Mart hating liberals would probably say that if the law didn't make those workers "illegal" than the outsourcing company would not have been able to abuse them into working for less than market rates. Aren't Wal-Mart loving conservatives supposed to swallow the line that government interference in the market is a "bad" thing because the most efficient distribution of resources can only come from markets with no restrictions? Just food for thought. (see Cali for a prime example, hell, Enron did a bang-up job there IIRC)
Well, if he's not going to give his money to his children and family as inheritance and he's not going to give it to charity, what does Bill plan on doing with all that money? Burn it in a funeral pyre?
I'm pretty sure that wherever that $200M number comes from, it is buried away in a billionaire's equivalent of a mutual fund (or probably funds). But, on the other hand, if Bill really was so gosh-darn concerned about the people dying because they can't afford drugs then he ought to take a stand and not allow any of his money to be invested directly in the companies that keep the prices out of reach in the first place.
I thoroughly disagree with Carr. There is still PLENTY of opportunity for IT to lead, just look at Homeland Security and TIA. IT has just barely begun to bring us the Big Brother that Orwell promised us. Any smart organization, commercial or public, should be pushing the limits of what IT can do today to bring on the oppressive survelliance society!
It turns out that hand tuning will ALWAYS get you the best optimizations
Given the rest of your post, I think you meant, "that hand waving will always get you the best optimizations."
I don't know. I hope something very personal and very scary happens to people like McBride.
Whatchayall need is to get SCO to claim copyright infringement against the Church of Scientology. Somebody tell Darl that the Church's highest level doctrines contain SCO intellectual property. The $cienos will lay his company to waste.
You forget the beauty of Posix. Most of the standards encompassed by Posix are so vaguely defined that we can implement them just about anyway we want and still be Posix compliant.
But, all humor (true though it may be) aside -- Linux already owns enough mindshare such that "Linux is as Linux does" and that ain't no Forrest Gump reference either. You see other OSes like HPUX, AIX, IRIX, *BSD, even Solaris, providing "Linux compatibility" layers. So, right now, Linux is the defacto standard for unix compatibility.
Tell that to Sonny Bono.
Linda Lamone is a fucking ostrich.
Either that, or she thinks the electorate ought to be. I guess if we are all bent over with our heads in the sand, it makes it that much easier for people like her give it to us right in the ass.
All you guys celebrating this release and thinking it marks the begining the end of for Microsoft have got your head in the clouds.
There is no way MS would publish this information unless doing so is in their interest. They could had have played the same old games with accountants and auditing, etc, etc to hide this information if they had wanted to.
But no, they pretty much came right out with it and most of you have been taken hook, line and sinker. All this is not about any real pain that MS is feeling. No, it is about providing another justification for Palladium aka NGSCB "enscub" aka Next Generation Secure Computing Base.
MS can now point to how a lack of security is hurting their bottom line so whater bogus Palladium schemes they come up with to sell as increasing security (rather than just stealing control of your computer and divvying it up between MS, the MPAA and the RIAA) so of course Palladium will really provide better, more secure system becaue MS's ass is on the line too, see it if even says so in their SEC filings!
Silly SCO - Hollywood only writes the copyright laws, they don't actually obey them themselves!
Many people are too stupid to understand that responding to telemarketing or spam for an item that they *do* want will only encourage more telemarketing and spam for items that they don't want.
There is a guy I know at work who has been getting telemarketing calls for DirecTV. He was actually going to call them back (the telemarketer) and take them up on their offer. No matter how many times I tried to explain it, he didn't think that:
a) he could probably get a better deal if he shopped around for like 5 minutes on the net
b) that he'd probably end up on a "sucker list" and that this telemarketer would now call him to sell other things as well as sell his name/number to other telescummers to bother him with all kinds of stuff he didn't want
5 minutes of convenience today was enough for him to accept the hours of bother that was sure to come in the future.
But, if you ask him if telemarketing and spam piss him off, he complains just as much as the next guy. It is dumbshits like that which telemarketers and spammers are talking about when they say that do-contact lists are keeping them from people who want their services. Assmunches like that guy are the reason these annoyers are business.
Instead of a do not call list, I think we should pass a law that requires mandatory jail time for people who do buy stuff from telemarketers. (Fuck the constitution, Ashcroft's already done that, might as well get something good for society out of it!)
Hercules is not the company it once was. The original Hercules video card maker went bankrupt and Guillemot (a French pc-card maker) bought the name ONLY, to slap on their products. Prior to buying Hercules, Guillemot had developed a nice little rep for providing the shittiest support possible for their sound cards. Buying the Hercules name for a song was their way of trying to break free of their absolutely craptacular reputation.
You can paint a turd with gold paint, but it is still a turd and that's all Guillemot has done. Don't expect their drivers to work, don't ever believe them when they tell you a new release will fix the problems, and for God's sake don't expect to be able to use the product the way the promotional materials say you can!
You are far better off just keeping your money and looking elsewhere. If you don't believe me, just do a little research on the Guillemot Maxisound Pro and Maxisound Pro 64 cards and just how well they work. (Guillemot just plain gave up on supporting them after a couple of years of bullshit driver releases.)
If the lowest of us do not have the freedom of expression, then none of us have the freedom of expression, only a simulacrum that will fail us when it is needed most.
In most cities, the light goes green for the guy with the transmitter, but a white strobe light on the same pole goes off too. If all lights went red, but the strobe still went off, the should be enough to make the driver confident that all directions are indeed red.
I stick to Red Hat. It is *far* more stable and Red Hat has 6 of the top 10 kernel developers working for them.
As far as I'm concerned, that is a reason to avoid redhat. All we need is for one company to suck up all the top kernel talent, as that would certainly bias the direction of kernel development. Not a knock against redhat specifically, that's just human (and corporate) nature.
You do realize that you have backpedaled significantly here, right? You have now added the following to the list:
1) corrupt registry
2) privileged user operatins
You also seem to have moderated your, "never" to "should NOT."
Despite your rather large step back from the absolute of "never" you still haven't stepped back far enough. Just look at the lovesan worm as one example - it doesn't even have an account at all to start with. Of course it ends up "running" with privileges by the time it can cause a bsod, but really no program running on some other machine should be able to cause a kernel panic, period.
since Win2k you should never get a BSOD anymore unless your hardware is broken somehow.
Never?
You must be smoking some primo shit, BillyG's hydroponic, ultra-pure, 50 generations of selective breeding, primo shit. Where can I get some of that?
Where does Mandrake ask people not to distribute these ISOs? Are you just assuming that? As someone who tried to give them money when I downloaded 9.0 (their site was so broken it wouldn't take, but that is another story) my goal in giving them money was not a desire for special treatment (real support contracts cost orders of magnitude more than most of these club memberships) but to generally support their efforts.
So, I think it entirely reasonable, and far more compatible with both the GPL's spirit, that limiting initial access directly from mandrake is not an incentive for payment but rather a reward of guaranteed easy access for those who have donated. In which case there is nothing unethical or immoral about setting up alternate methods of distribution that do not consume any of Mandrake's resources or otherwise impede club member's easy access.
Copyright is a temporary loan from the public domain, not property.
That is such an excellent summary of copyright. I'm going to register it.