But it is the French RIAA, Sony BMG, EMI, Universal, Time Warner, The BSA, etc. This is how they declare War(tm) and prepare to use the Nuclear(tm) option.
If it is a War(tm) they want, I say we give them a War(tm); Boycott all affiliates and promote, debug, code and document Free(tm) software; Create Free(tm) media, content, art, music, literature, movies, and training videos, etc; Use GPL(tm) style licenses that force any derivatives to remain Free(tm) and be relentless in your pursuits; This I implore of the Freedom(tm) loving people of this Earth(tm);
By the time all the hydrogen and oxygen on Mars leak out its atmosphere we would have solved global warming on Earth, cold fusion and how to make Duke Nukem Forever run on Linux.
It would be nice if half the F/OSS community, you know which half, would think for a moment before blindly following and believing Microsoft has changed its ways. They've done this sort of thing in the past, it is an excellent diversionary tactic. If it works and slows the adoption of the Open Document format I'm going to kick that half of the community in the teeth for being stupid.
Recently I built a single 2TB encrypted redundant filesystem with Linux software RAID for under $2000. I can lose up to 3 of the 12 drives in the RAID without losing data and its getting ~50MB/s I/O bandwidth. With a software RAID I can replace everything but the drives with cheap PC compatible parts and get access to my data, possibly without reconfiguring my OS (autodetection, etc). I also have several OSs to choose from as well as the option of building my own. So, for me, this is the most secure and cost effective solution available at this time.
Wouldn't that mean its getting faster? If it can run 8 viruses now on XP when it could only run 4 on 2000 I'd guess Windows was getting more efficient. My cousin was running 6 spyware applications at-the-same-time on Windows 98 on a 1000 Mhz system with 256 MB of RAM. And she still had enough resources to launch IE. Imagine what she could do with XP.
But not because the money, because they're against world peace. Why would we want to be peaceful with a christian or a republican or a democrate or a scientist or a homo or a hetro or an animal or a human? Kill 'em all and let God (if it exists) sort it out. God has some sort of dead sorting machine. I wonder if Alan Turing helped design it.
Yeah, like CNN or Fox have checks and balances. The only thing they check is whether Karl Rove agrees with their voice of opinion and the occational glance at the poll numbers to be sure they can get away with it.
Aside from the pajamas I see no difference between bloggers and "professional" journalists. Very few are investigative journalists and very few of those have the opportunity to investigate anything more interesting than cats getting caught in trees.
Do you want investigative journalism or business as usual?
If you want investigative journalism, like security and quality in software, support open source, support your bloggers. The media industry will compete when you ignore them and calmly explain how you can get an equivelent product/service from your friend for free. Once you "get it" that they're not really necessary, they'll "get it" and start doing their job for their customers like they always should have.
A good space movie isn't about people doing things in space. It's about what space does to people.
I liked that scene in Star Wreck where Captain Pirk beamed some red suit down to Mars to test if people were capable of colonizing it easily. Now that was a good space movie./grinz/
Is there a definitive point in history where we went from dealing with something, to trying to extort 'comfort money' from those that we deem responsible?
I'd take it a step further. If I'm paying that kind of money for it I want no more than 30 kids per classroom and a teacher that actually teaches, and educates and forces their subjects to comprehend.
With our understanding of psychology today we could literally program people if we put the effort into feeding them this information in a way they could use it. Usually this takes repetition and creative forms of media and broadcasting, or multicasting, if you will. Collaboration among teachers may also help. And shared forms of documentation that could easily be modified, perhaps even in some sort of wiki or something.
Also students should be able to challenge ideas and have them defended logically or be able to defeat old ideas and have their challenge recorded in the courseware.
I do care about Microsoft. I worked at Netscape. Microsoft is a convicted monopoly and their punishment did not fit the crime.
Why do you care so much for Microsoft that you want to try out their unreleased products, in a field in which they have no historical expertise, and free alternatives (that enforce liberty and fairness) already exist? Do you care more about a product's ease of use than about fair business practices? And what about the liberty of its end users?
So I take it you're for free market economics and survival of the fittest? Me too.
What do you think the guvmint or the cops will do when you block THEIR tracking, even symbolically?
I've been thinking about that far too long. I would rather not think about that. That's why, when I see these things in the news, I like to roll my own and smoke a phat blunt to celebrate another day of living.
We need to know this, we don't need to think about it. Its really quite simple, its human nature. What would you do if you were in their position. A look at psychology shows us what we have to look forward to. We should never forget that. The Price of Liberty is Eternal Vigilance.
God help you if your boss dress like a slob. I would take another job seriously.
I would trust the words I hear from someone dressed like a slob before someone in a suit and slacks any day. Trust is very important for me. I can work with people to improve their behavior and reevaluate their priorities, but I can't work with people I can't trust.
let's just wait and see what the licensing programs are when the product is released.
Yeah, you go do that.
I couldn't care less about this product.
I've already got one, you see..
Why should I support Microsoft or even take the time to look at their products and read their licenses? They are irrelevant today. They chose to be this way.
No PS3 for me. This was the straw that broke the camel's back. Sony and Lucas recently destroyed SWG and I bought a Sony DVD DL/DF DVD burner that won't burn DVD+R media even though it says so on the box and I hate DRM so much it makes me want to torture the Sony Exec who made the decision in my secret prison.
Sony just lost any possibility of purchases from me. If I find out a product is affiliated with Sony in any way I will look for alternatives. They are now considered worse than Microsoft, Sun, and possibly even SCO. I don't care what you do, I'm going to boycott.
It would be very costly for any corp to use their "nuclear option" against hundreds or thousands of Linux startups. Proving a patent violation is not trivial, especially when we're dealing with software patents. There's several decades of prior art to look through, for example. And not all countries have the same laws regarding software patents.
So the commercial interests in the market for portable video decided to add these features to their devices before thinking, "Hmmm, I wonder if I would watch TV on a 3" screen." What I find so interesting about this is it seems our market leaders are flying 50,000ft above the peas^H^H^H^Hconsumers. If they are this clueless about technology I wonder just how clueless they are about real world matters suck as security and what the pursuit of happiness really means.
Let them eat cake and watch TV on their cell phones. Captialism at its best.
The reason Linux is kicking ass today has more to do with the GPL vs. BSD than the monolithic vs. microkernel architecture debate.
Andy's still hung up on the mono v. micro thing? Well, as long as he's not trying to compete, that's cool. Nobody tell him, let's see if he figures it out on his own..
Sometimes I feel like our greatest minds are trapped, even lost, in time. Peer pressure and social psyche suck. If only Cannabis were abundantly legal, we'd make a lot more progress.
But its survival of the fittest, I guess. The natural order. Harsh, but fair.
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Fuckwits!
But it is the French RIAA, Sony BMG, EMI, Universal, Time Warner, The BSA, etc. This is how they declare War(tm) and prepare to use the Nuclear(tm) option.
If it is a War(tm) they want, I say we give them a War(tm);
Boycott all affiliates and promote, debug, code and document Free(tm) software;
Create Free(tm) media, content, art, music, literature, movies, and training videos, etc;
Use GPL(tm) style licenses that force any derivatives to remain Free(tm) and be relentless in your pursuits;
This I implore of the Freedom(tm) loving people of this Earth(tm);
Thank you,
Fuckwits!
By the time all the hydrogen and oxygen on Mars leak out its atmosphere we would have solved global warming on Earth, cold fusion and how to make Duke Nukem Forever run on Linux.
It would be nice if half the F/OSS community, you know which half, would think for a moment before blindly following and believing Microsoft has changed its ways. They've done this sort of thing in the past, it is an excellent diversionary tactic. If it works and slows the adoption of the Open Document format I'm going to kick that half of the community in the teeth for being stupid.
Recently I built a single 2TB encrypted redundant filesystem with Linux software RAID for under $2000. I can lose up to 3 of the 12 drives in the RAID without losing data and its getting ~50MB/s I/O bandwidth. With a software RAID I can replace everything but the drives with cheap PC compatible parts and get access to my data, possibly without reconfiguring my OS (autodetection, etc). I also have several OSs to choose from as well as the option of building my own. So, for me, this is the most secure and cost effective solution available at this time.
not to mention the number of viruses it can get.
Wouldn't that mean its getting faster? If it can run 8 viruses now on XP when it could only run 4 on 2000 I'd guess Windows was getting more efficient. My cousin was running 6 spyware applications at-the-same-time on Windows 98 on a 1000 Mhz system with 256 MB of RAM. And she still had enough resources to launch IE. Imagine what she could do with XP.
That's so cute..
You should buy one.
I think its still flat. Who's with me? Want the world to be flat, kids? Its real easy, all you got to do is have faith.
Yes.
But not because the money, because they're against world peace. Why would we want to be peaceful with a christian or a republican or a democrate or a scientist or a homo or a hetro or an animal or a human? Kill 'em all and let God (if it exists) sort it out. God has some sort of dead sorting machine. I wonder if Alan Turing helped design it.
Yeah, like CNN or Fox have checks and balances. The only thing they check is whether Karl Rove agrees with their voice of opinion and the occational glance at the poll numbers to be sure they can get away with it.
Aside from the pajamas I see no difference between bloggers and "professional" journalists. Very few are investigative journalists and very few of those have the opportunity to investigate anything more interesting than cats getting caught in trees.
Do you want investigative journalism or business as usual?
If you want investigative journalism, like security and quality in software, support open source, support your bloggers. The media industry will compete when you ignore them and calmly explain how you can get an equivelent product/service from your friend for free. Once you "get it" that they're not really necessary, they'll "get it" and start doing their job for their customers like they always should have.
A good space movie isn't about people doing things in space. It's about what space does to people.
/grinz/
I liked that scene in Star Wreck where Captain Pirk beamed some red suit down to Mars to test if people were capable of colonizing it easily. Now that was a good space movie.
Is there a definitive point in history where we went from dealing with something, to trying to extort 'comfort money' from those that we deem responsible?
Yeah, when we made it illegal to shoot them.
I'd take it a step further. If I'm paying that kind of money for it I want no more than 30 kids per classroom and a teacher that actually teaches, and educates and forces their subjects to comprehend.
With our understanding of psychology today we could literally program people if we put the effort into feeding them this information in a way they could use it. Usually this takes repetition and creative forms of media and broadcasting, or multicasting, if you will. Collaboration among teachers may also help. And shared forms of documentation that could easily be modified, perhaps even in some sort of wiki or something.
Also students should be able to challenge ideas and have them defended logically or be able to defeat old ideas and have their challenge recorded in the courseware.
Science is everything, etc.
I do care about Microsoft. I worked at Netscape. Microsoft is a convicted monopoly and their punishment did not fit the crime.
Why do you care so much for Microsoft that you want to try out their unreleased products, in a field in which they have no historical expertise, and free alternatives (that enforce liberty and fairness) already exist? Do you care more about a product's ease of use than about fair business practices? And what about the liberty of its end users?
So I take it you're for free market economics and survival of the fittest? Me too.
What do you think the guvmint or the cops will do when you block THEIR tracking, even symbolically?
I've been thinking about that far too long. I would rather not think about that. That's why, when I see these things in the news, I like to roll my own and smoke a phat blunt to celebrate another day of living.
We need to know this, we don't need to think about it. Its really quite simple, its human nature. What would you do if you were in their position. A look at psychology shows us what we have to look forward to. We should never forget that. The Price of Liberty is Eternal Vigilance.
God help you if your boss dress like a slob. I would take another job seriously.
I would trust the words I hear from someone dressed like a slob before someone in a suit and slacks any day. Trust is very important for me. I can work with people to improve their behavior and reevaluate their priorities, but I can't work with people I can't trust.
let's just wait and see what the licensing programs are when the product is released.
Yeah, you go do that.
I couldn't care less about this product.
I've already got one, you see..
Why should I support Microsoft or even take the time to look at their products and read their licenses? They are irrelevant today. They chose to be this way.
No PS3 for me. This was the straw that broke the camel's back. Sony and Lucas recently destroyed SWG and I bought a Sony DVD DL/DF DVD burner that won't burn DVD+R media even though it says so on the box and I hate DRM so much it makes me want to torture the Sony Exec who made the decision in my secret prison.
Sony just lost any possibility of purchases from me. If I find out a product is affiliated with Sony in any way I will look for alternatives. They are now considered worse than Microsoft, Sun, and possibly even SCO. I don't care what you do, I'm going to boycott.
I always felt kids have to protect their parents from the amount of parental guidance disinformation they allow their TV to program them with.
It would be very costly for any corp to use their "nuclear option" against hundreds or thousands of Linux startups. Proving a patent violation is not trivial, especially when we're dealing with software patents. There's several decades of prior art to look through, for example. And not all countries have the same laws regarding software patents.
So the commercial interests in the market for portable video decided to add these features to their devices before thinking, "Hmmm, I wonder if I would watch TV on a 3" screen." What I find so interesting about this is it seems our market leaders are flying 50,000ft above the peas^H^H^H^Hconsumers. If they are this clueless about technology I wonder just how clueless they are about real world matters suck as security and what the pursuit of happiness really means.
Let them eat cake and watch TV on their cell phones. Captialism at its best.
But if you always obeyed laws such as Newton's Law of Gravity or Einstein's Law of General Relativity you might never be able to drive faster than c.
I would choose to work smarter, not harder.
Always question authority.
People aren't stupid
Either people are stupid or all the Gods they believe in would exist here in reality.
It all comes down to authority. If you believe that there are forms of authority you should always obey, you might be stupid.
Perhaps he needs to get out more?
And we could calculate every subatomic particle to get the most accurate measurement of performance. But sometimes we just want an estimate.
Right now I'd P4 D 820 is where its at. AMD64 X2 3800+ is a close second and offers more max performance, this is what I'd choose.
The reason Linux is kicking ass today has more to do with the GPL vs. BSD than the monolithic vs. microkernel architecture debate.
Andy's still hung up on the mono v. micro thing? Well, as long as he's not trying to compete, that's cool. Nobody tell him, let's see if he figures it out on his own..
Sometimes I feel like our greatest minds are trapped, even lost, in time. Peer pressure and social psyche suck. If only Cannabis were abundantly legal, we'd make a lot more progress.
But its survival of the fittest, I guess. The natural order. Harsh, but fair.