It occurs to me that they aren't going to do this because they love Linux. They would do it to make money and I'm willing to bet that if they make their own version it would be designed to be difficult to move to other systems. They won't want to develop something at any expense and have someone else under cut their prices.
It might be nice to have the average user know what Linux is though.
It would be interesting to see if they could use the peltier effect to help cool it and add extra juice. I guess they would probably go for less efficient designs that weigh less though.
It is entirely possible, especially if they had set up orders if it fell below a certain price.
I wouldn't really call it sinister. This entire problem seemed to be automated. If the GOOG spiders opened an account to trade it, now that might be interesting.
Snatch up all the Apple itunes, Amazon MP3s, Rhapsody, et al before they go out of business. A shame too - Amazon was quite useful. Guess its back to Ebay.
I wouldn't call it evil. If they get a notice they have to presume its real, they don't have time to research 4,000 claims. Faking take down notices is fraud or criminal (not sure as IANAL). Since they have to assume they're legit they're doing the right thing by taking them down. Re-instating them is done when a counter-claim is received. They're just obeying the law, albeit a fairly poorly written one.
No-one uses billion = 10^12 any more, not even the UK government, otherwise we'd still be talking about millards instead of 10^9.
Take your pedantry elsewhere
Oh sure, next you're going to tell me that no one uses inches and pounds except us uppity colonies.
I'm not a fan of sending stuff out to them. I prefer the way PC Tools (free firewall / AV) handles this. They use a product called Threatfire to monitor all processes for unusual activity. It has the usual problem of the click to get rid of messages mentality, but they are fairly infrequent unless you install a plethora of applications. Basically you get the same protection (if you actually read what pops up) and as a bonus that secret document about your buried treasure won't be sent elsewhere if there is a macro in it.
52 billion is not really all that much. Granted its enough to make one person filthy rich, but I'm guessing there's more than a few billionaires in London. Plus its not like the investment won't reap huge benefits.
If you really want to be scared do research on what it would take to upgrade the interwebs in a country like Russia, Canada, China, or the US. Note the extra zeros at the end.
Regardless, what will end up happening is it will flood the populated areas and sparsely inhabited areas will have to wait years unless someone important to the government lives there.
I wonder if it costs more for a bunch of random people to open fake youtube accounts and post these videos or for their lawyers to post DMCA take downs. Maybe we could win the war by losing 10 million battles.
Haven't they proved this happening before by the fact that mad cow disease travels from tainted beef to humans? Or was that what they think caused the disease and they had no way of proving the jump with out risking someone's health?
Slashdot Mirror
It may be a clever way to clean out their bin spam by subtly letting users know that what they say might make to the front pages.
What am I thinking? They're probably getting double now from AC's waiting their fame.
Vista's failure means there are cracks appearing in their Windows
Don't get too excited yet, remember they have a huge ad campaign that may mention their company or products directly if they become popular.
It occurs to me that they aren't going to do this because they love Linux. They would do it to make money and I'm willing to bet that if they make their own version it would be designed to be difficult to move to other systems. They won't want to develop something at any expense and have someone else under cut their prices.
It might be nice to have the average user know what Linux is though.
You would probably be unaware of the obvious.
Glad someone else saw that. I assumed it was the millionth monkey making some progress on his typewriter.
820 isn't that many, it could be one person downloading it obsessively, even. I assume your using US numeric notation because you used a en-US link.
I prefer my online storage on ice, not with a twist.
It would be interesting to see if they could use the peltier effect to help cool it and add extra juice. I guess they would probably go for less efficient designs that weigh less though.
"That's no moon".
But everything on the interwebs is true!
It is entirely possible, especially if they had set up orders if it fell below a certain price.
I wouldn't really call it sinister. This entire problem seemed to be automated. If the GOOG spiders opened an account to trade it, now that might be interesting.
SHhhhh! Lets keep this on topic of how we can keep the Google did blank stories which mention chrome on the front page.
Snatch up all the Apple itunes, Amazon MP3s, Rhapsody, et al before they go out of business. A shame too - Amazon was quite useful. Guess its back to Ebay.
I wouldn't call it evil. If they get a notice they have to presume its real, they don't have time to research 4,000 claims. Faking take down notices is fraud or criminal (not sure as IANAL). Since they have to assume they're legit they're doing the right thing by taking them down. Re-instating them is done when a counter-claim is received. They're just obeying the law, albeit a fairly poorly written one.
Do you measure in 16ths or 10ths?
No-one uses billion = 10^12 any more, not even the UK government, otherwise we'd still be talking about millards instead of 10^9. Take your pedantry elsewhere
Oh sure, next you're going to tell me that no one uses inches and pounds except us uppity colonies.
I'm not a fan of sending stuff out to them. I prefer the way PC Tools (free firewall / AV) handles this. They use a product called Threatfire to monitor all processes for unusual activity. It has the usual problem of the click to get rid of messages mentality, but they are fairly infrequent unless you install a plethora of applications. Basically you get the same protection (if you actually read what pops up) and as a bonus that secret document about your buried treasure won't be sent elsewhere if there is a macro in it.
52 billion is not really all that much. Granted its enough to make one person filthy rich, but I'm guessing there's more than a few billionaires in London. Plus its not like the investment won't reap huge benefits.
If you really want to be scared do research on what it would take to upgrade the interwebs in a country like Russia, Canada, China, or the US. Note the extra zeros at the end.
Regardless, what will end up happening is it will flood the populated areas and sparsely inhabited areas will have to wait years unless someone important to the government lives there.
If it is predictable, then there's a series of characters its expected to send under a given condition and it can be cloned.
Otherwise it is random and can not be differentiated from others.
Was thinking the same thing, not so much 98 as ME / Vista.
-Weatherbug
Probably the biggest of all time: Solitaire
Please don't stop there.
Some people already leave PCs up and running with programs that keep disks spinning and monitors on. If so the loss is probably not really noticeable.
I wonder if it costs more for a bunch of random people to open fake youtube accounts and post these videos or for their lawyers to post DMCA take downs. Maybe we could win the war by losing 10 million battles.
Click on the score:# link and it pulls it up in a fancy window over the current one.
Haven't they proved this happening before by the fact that mad cow disease travels from tainted beef to humans? Or was that what they think caused the disease and they had no way of proving the jump with out risking someone's health?
Or do both. I think they'll be glad for any CPU and especially any GPU cycles.