Exactly. There's no way to change a fundamental fact: No matter what you do, pirates will always strip the DRM and upload it. Therefore this new DRM doesn't prevent piracy, and (they claim) it doesn't prevent fair use, so therefore doesn't it have absolutely no utility whatsoever?
An engineer is not going to lose their house unless they get laid off from their "real job" writing closed-source software. So anybody who's suddenly contributing less to OSS is also contributing less to CSS. If anything he's gonna sit on his severance package a few months and write that OpenOffice patch he hasn't had time to work on.
I just take exception to calling him too stupid to own a computer. Any number of backups can fail simultaneously. It's a tradeoff - the PITA of making backups vs the PITA of data loss divided by the product of MTBFs. There's no wrong answer, and my point is that 99% of people would pick the answer he picked. If 99% of people are too stupid to use a computer then the fault is with the computer.
Hold on now. He contracted the storage of his data to professionals (the ISP) and retained a personal backup. What's stupid about thinking that would be sufficient? What's wrong with thinking that the people you contracted and paid to store and serve your data would actually do those things?
It really pisses me off when something I use daily gets updated without my consent. And it has nothing to do with resistance to change. I'm still using KDE3 because 4 needs work - but on the other hand I'm running a beta Firefox that I had to compile from source. The point is, I get to choose when I upgrade.
I hope it works out, but I fear that this crapfest is the future of computing if this "cloud" thing catches on.
It's not harmless, nor does the article you linked suggest that. What it says is the WHO has decided it's harmless to people and that its benefits justify all the dead birds.
AFAIK WiMax supports a cellular configuration. They can start out with widely spaced towers, and wherever they have too many people connecting they fill in more towers. Just like cell phones. That or they can just buy a wider swath of spectrum, although it's a precious commodity these days.
bzzt. nope. Process names are half the distance between two adjacent DRAM cells. I know you're thinking CPU's don't even have any DRAM cells, but it is what it is. See: MOSFET and Front-end Process Integration by Zeitoff, Hutchby and Huff.
If you have a rack of servers, then you obviously have a reason to have separate machines with separate parts. If you want to start integrating things, there's no reason not to go all the way and get a mainframe. I don't see how it would be advantageous to mix and match.
You're overthinking Anonymous. It's a group of people whose only collective goal is epic lulz. It's like saying "the secret terrorist organization Every Slashdot Troll hacked Palin's email. Will this truly forward Every Slashdot Troll's agenda???" Um, well, technically yes, because it was lulzworthy.
I doubt you could ever write Japanese faster than you could type English. Nihongo might be 3 characters, but look at how fancy they are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Nihongo.svg The kanji is a little faster, but ni-ho-n-go is still 13 strokes.
But wasn't this all fairly obvious already? If you touch a fire and it burns you, you can either do science and test if it happens every time you touch it or just coincidence, or you can just be superstitious about not touching fire. Likewise wasn't it already suspected that vampire myths kept people away from rabid bats?
My friend who is obsessed with WoW, says he would switch to Linux if there was a native WoW client. Likewise I might try WoW if I didn't have to dick around with Wine. I think the studios need to realize that although most 'normal' people haven't heard of Linux, that their target audience, shockingly, contains a lot of nerds.
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Sure, but since there's a Wikipedia link right in the summary that does a wonderful job explaining it, this is just a simple case of RTFA.
Exactly. There's no way to change a fundamental fact: No matter what you do, pirates will always strip the DRM and upload it. Therefore this new DRM doesn't prevent piracy, and (they claim) it doesn't prevent fair use, so therefore doesn't it have absolutely no utility whatsoever?
ob. xkcd
Good point, forget that part. But I'm sticking with the first point, if you're homeless you're not gonna contribute much to closed source either.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fdiv_bug
An engineer is not going to lose their house unless they get laid off from their "real job" writing closed-source software. So anybody who's suddenly contributing less to OSS is also contributing less to CSS. If anything he's gonna sit on his severance package a few months and write that OpenOffice patch he hasn't had time to work on.
1. Steal doubloons
2. ???
3. Profit!
The answer there is also more RAM. File writes don't go directly to disk, they go directly to RAM and then are written at the OS's convenience.
(12.22 in) * (17.5 in) * (35.5 in) = 0.521657047 hogsheads
I just take exception to calling him too stupid to own a computer. Any number of backups can fail simultaneously. It's a tradeoff - the PITA of making backups vs the PITA of data loss divided by the product of MTBFs. There's no wrong answer, and my point is that 99% of people would pick the answer he picked. If 99% of people are too stupid to use a computer then the fault is with the computer.
Hold on now. He contracted the storage of his data to professionals (the ISP) and retained a personal backup. What's stupid about thinking that would be sufficient? What's wrong with thinking that the people you contracted and paid to store and serve your data would actually do those things?
It really pisses me off when something I use daily gets updated without my consent. And it has nothing to do with resistance to change. I'm still using KDE3 because 4 needs work - but on the other hand I'm running a beta Firefox that I had to compile from source. The point is, I get to choose when I upgrade.
I hope it works out, but I fear that this crapfest is the future of computing if this "cloud" thing catches on.
Which is it?
Uh.. Both. DDT is "not harmless" because it harms birds. DDT is "harmless to people" because it is... harmless to people. (practically)
What you're not realizing is that anything can be harmful, even water
I'm fully aware that water can be harmful. But thanks for insulting my intelligence.
everything can be useful in the right dose.
So I should start taking asbestos supplements? What's the useful dose?
It's not harmless, nor does the article you linked suggest that. What it says is the WHO has decided it's harmless to people and that its benefits justify all the dead birds.
AFAIK WiMax supports a cellular configuration. They can start out with widely spaced towers, and wherever they have too many people connecting they fill in more towers. Just like cell phones. That or they can just buy a wider swath of spectrum, although it's a precious commodity these days.
bzzt. nope. Process names are half the distance between two adjacent DRAM cells. I know you're thinking CPU's don't even have any DRAM cells, but it is what it is. See: MOSFET and Front-end Process Integration by Zeitoff, Hutchby and Huff.
Although they are related measurements, process names refer to the ram cell pitch, not the size of the transistors.
Perhaps you should... search for him?
If you have a rack of servers, then you obviously have a reason to have separate machines with separate parts. If you want to start integrating things, there's no reason not to go all the way and get a mainframe. I don't see how it would be advantageous to mix and match.
You're overthinking Anonymous. It's a group of people whose only collective goal is epic lulz. It's like saying "the secret terrorist organization Every Slashdot Troll hacked Palin's email. Will this truly forward Every Slashdot Troll's agenda???" Um, well, technically yes, because it was lulzworthy.
I said you can't write Japanese faster than you can type English/romanji. Point being, don't throw out your keyboard just yet.
Oops, s/kanji/katakana/g
I doubt you could ever write Japanese faster than you could type English. Nihongo might be 3 characters, but look at how fancy they are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Nihongo.svg
The kanji is a little faster, but ni-ho-n-go is still 13 strokes.
But wasn't this all fairly obvious already? If you touch a fire and it burns you, you can either do science and test if it happens every time you touch it or just coincidence, or you can just be superstitious about not touching fire. Likewise wasn't it already suspected that vampire myths kept people away from rabid bats?
My friend who is obsessed with WoW, says he would switch to Linux if there was a native WoW client. Likewise I might try WoW if I didn't have to dick around with Wine. I think the studios need to realize that although most 'normal' people haven't heard of Linux, that their target audience, shockingly, contains a lot of nerds.