The fact the Verizon and EFF are on the same side means that in this case, the interests of Verizon and the interests of the consumer just happen to coincide. Verizon wants to fend off 2 things: 1) Being forced to filter all content, detect and eliminate unauthorized copyrighted material. (Verizon understands that this is in fact impossible) and 2) Being forced to stand idly by while anyone claiming to be a "copyright holder" is allowed to launch DoS attacks bringing down their network.
The point here is that the RIAA is egotistical enough to think that they constitute an important industry, but if the piss off the telecoms (who do a couple orders of magnitude more business) then they'll find out who the REAL 800 pound gorilla is! I, for one, would love to see the Internet backbone providers simply start filtering out all the RIAA constituents' IP address, and see how quickly they back down...
Without access to the source, you left left at the mercy of Microsoft to tell you how thier poorly-documented software works. And I assure you, answers to those questions are NOT free. Yes, the (free access) Micro$oft knowledge base is usefull for problems that are have been well known for a long time, but it is not kept up to date. Trust me, I've written lots of Windows Apps, and I wouldn't refer to their documentation as "good". While voluminous, it is frequently inaccurate. Yeah, it's probably not much worse than IBM or Oracle documentation. In my experience, Sun documentation has been more thorough.
Nobody wants to pay $500 just to find out whether or not something works. If you want the maximum number of developers developing for your platform: 1) Give the SDK away for free or at cost of media.IBM killed OS/2 by charging $2500 for the SDK. Developer relations is NOT a profit center. 2) Support the developers. Give them a forum for questions, emails with tips, etc. Don't charge $3000/year for developer support (MSDN) like Micro$soft does. And don't charge $200/hour to people trying to report a bug like Novell. 3) Make sure the product works before you ship it. If they find problems with the preview release, they're not even going to bother looking at the production release.
Advantage: SCO appeals to all those business types out there that are uncomfortable with getting their operating system for free, and would rather pay money for their operating system.
Why hasn't SCO gone out of business yet? Beats me.
By law all faxes are supposed to report the sender's number... but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to change the number that the fax machine reports. What's to keep the fax-spammer from changing his number ID every day? (I suspect this company already does that.)
And this is a big win over simply typing what you want to say in on a keyboard and outputting it via a speech synthesizer? This sounds like yet another case of a solution in search of a problem to me.
We need to stop helping dictators around the world, and start promoting justice. Even if that means we don't make quite so much money.
So you're advocating helping to replace the dictators willing to sell us oil with populists that would refuse on principle to sell us oil? Man, I hope you don't own an SUV... Look, we support dictators when we see them as beneficial to us. Then, when they do something to demonstrate they are not beneficial to our interests (like invading Kuwait, fer instance) then we bomb them. Got it now?
Yes, the measure of true integrity/morality is doing what is right even if it adversely affects us... but that doesn't get you re-elected. On idealistic terms, I agree with you. Unfortunately the world is corrupt and unfair and in practical terms it doesn't work that way.
If you're leaking energy from the cable, fibre, you've got a bad piece of fibre, and the signal isn't propagating from one end to the other. Any heat coming out of the cable would have to come from attenuation of the signal. This isn't copper, there's no resistance heating effect.
As far as pressure melting the ice, that only happens if the ambient temperature is already near the freezing point. Otherwise, all the buildings at the south pole would already have sunk to the bottom of the ice! The buildings are exerting a lot more pressure per unit of surface area than a fibre is capable of withstanding without breaking.
McDonald's can't ban anyone from coming in there; restaurants can't ban people from coming there who come there and order cheap meals along with water to save money.
Ever see those "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone" signs? Fact is, if I own a property, I can tell anybody to get the hell out and come back, and if they come back, it is "criminal trespass"!!! Read the statutes for your state, I guarantee you you do not have a right to enter somebody else's property against their will! And if you really think you can't ban anyone, why not give out your address on the 'net, and we'll all come over and crash at your place for a couple weeks, ok?
Exactly which Linux file system are you refering to? Last time I check, Linux supported at least a dozen different file systems, including ones that mimic the silly behaviours of OS/2, Windows, and Macs...
Is el nino the same as El Nino? Is the internet the same as the Internet. You're assumption is false -- the case really DOES convey essential information in most languages.
Encode it into the "garbage" bits in your own DNA. Then, assuming you have decendents (unlikely, if you are a regular/. reader) the information will always be around. Remember, according to scientists, about 85% of the data in your DNA serves no usefull purpose -- maybe there are ALREADY messages in there!
"figured out how to factor large primes in seconds"
Bill Gates himself is submitting stories to slashdot!
(For those of you who haven't read his The Road Ahead, the earlier prints contained a phrase about a "breakthough in factoring large primes" making current encryption obsolete.)
Natural Emeralds are much more rare than natural diamonds -- and yet they cost half as much! This alone is proof of the sheer genius of the DeBeers marketing machine.
You obviously MUST be working for Microsoft, as money doesn't appear to be a factor to you. I take it Bill gives you all your hardware for free, then? The fact that Windows XP install is fully automated does me no good at all when it does not support my VooDoo 3000 or VooDoo 3500 video cards, or my 3Com 3C509 Ethernet cards, does it? Mandrake DOES support these -- straight off the CD (which was burned from an image downloaded for free off the internet.) Cost to add Linux to my 6 existing computers: $0. Cost to add Windows XP Pro: $1800 + cost of new Ethernet Cards + cost of new Video Cards + cost of new CD ROM drives... oh yeah, now THAT'S a real good deal! (By the way, the Win2K was "free" too, since it came from my $3000/year MSDN membership, which was discontinued before XP shipped.)
No, he's also counting the 30+ minutes it takes to download all the recommended security patches off the network, rebooting between each one because it will only let you do one at a time. So I'd say install time is greatly affected by your network bandwidth, as well as CD drive speed. Your milage may differ. In general, Mandrake now seems to ship with support for more devices than Windows 2000, but that's just my experience.
Dual-boot is much more complex to configure. If he was willing to let Linux take over the whole hard drive, it prompt him once, then repartition the drive automaticially. Note that Linux is much more friendly to dual boot than Windows. You MUST install Windows first; if you install Linux first, then the Windows installation will render Linux unbootable. Hard to say whether this is by design or just laziness, but it does point out a certain arrogance on the part of the Microsoft programmers.
Likewise, a Windows newbie would have no idea how to configure Windows. True, whichever OS you have the most experience with will seem easiest to you. Having experience with BOTH operating systems, I still find Mandrake easier to install than Windows 2000 -- and I have a lot more experience with Windows. Installing ANY operating system is not for the faint of heart. Of course, my DVD ROM drives don't seem to be able to boot a CD, which makes things harder.
Ask yourself if this is a symptom of "bloat": the Mandrake Linux installation requires 1 boot floppy. The Windows 2000 installation requires 4 boot floppies!
Doesn't retroactively abolishing the statute of limitations violate Article 1, section 9 of the U.S. Constitution: "No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed."
Does willfully acting to violate the U. S. Constitution make Ashcroft guilty of treason?
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The point here is that the RIAA is egotistical enough to think that they constitute an important industry, but if the piss off the telecoms (who do a couple orders of magnitude more business) then they'll find out who the REAL 800 pound gorilla is! I, for one, would love to see the Internet backbone providers simply start filtering out all the RIAA constituents' IP address, and see how quickly they back down...
Just what we need is another vector for animal diseases to pass over into humans.
Without access to the source, you left left at the mercy of Microsoft to tell you how thier poorly-documented software works. And I assure you, answers to those questions are NOT free. Yes, the (free access) Micro$oft knowledge base is usefull for problems that are have been well known for a long time, but it is not kept up to date. Trust me, I've written lots of Windows Apps, and I wouldn't refer to their documentation as "good". While voluminous, it is frequently inaccurate. Yeah, it's probably not much worse than IBM or Oracle documentation. In my experience, Sun documentation has been more thorough.
Nobody wants to pay $500 just to find out whether or not something works. If you want the maximum number of developers developing for your platform: 1) Give the SDK away for free or at cost of media.IBM killed OS/2 by charging $2500 for the SDK. Developer relations is NOT a profit center. 2) Support the developers. Give them a forum for questions, emails with tips, etc. Don't charge $3000/year for developer support (MSDN) like Micro$soft does. And don't charge $200/hour to people trying to report a bug like Novell. 3) Make sure the product works before you ship it. If they find problems with the preview release, they're not even going to bother looking at the production release.
Why hasn't SCO gone out of business yet? Beats me.
By law all faxes are supposed to report the sender's number... but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to change the number that the fax machine reports. What's to keep the fax-spammer from changing his number ID every day? (I suspect this company already does that.)
And this is a big win over simply typing what you want to say in on a keyboard and outputting it via a speech synthesizer? This sounds like yet another case of a solution in search of a problem to me.
So you're advocating helping to replace the dictators willing to sell us oil with populists that would refuse on principle to sell us oil? Man, I hope you don't own an SUV... Look, we support dictators when we see them as beneficial to us. Then, when they do something to demonstrate they are not beneficial to our interests (like invading Kuwait, fer instance) then we bomb them. Got it now?
Yes, the measure of true integrity/morality is doing what is right even if it adversely affects us... but that doesn't get you re-elected. On idealistic terms, I agree with you. Unfortunately the world is corrupt and unfair and in practical terms it doesn't work that way.
As far as pressure melting the ice, that only happens if the ambient temperature is already near the freezing point. Otherwise, all the buildings at the south pole would already have sunk to the bottom of the ice! The buildings are exerting a lot more pressure per unit of surface area than a fibre is capable of withstanding without breaking.
It won't go through thick brick and stone. It's also adversely affected by the plaster-on-chicken-wire construction popular in the 40s LA.
Ever see those "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone" signs? Fact is, if I own a property, I can tell anybody to get the hell out and come back, and if they come back, it is "criminal trespass"!!! Read the statutes for your state, I guarantee you you do not have a right to enter somebody else's property against their will! And if you really think you can't ban anyone, why not give out your address on the 'net, and we'll all come over and crash at your place for a couple weeks, ok?
Exactly which Linux file system are you refering to? Last time I check, Linux supported at least a dozen different file systems, including ones that mimic the silly behaviours of OS/2, Windows, and Macs...
Is el nino the same as El Nino? Is the internet the same as the Internet. You're assumption is false -- the case really DOES convey essential information in most languages.
Encode it into the "garbage" bits in your own DNA. Then, assuming you have decendents (unlikely, if you are a regular /. reader) the information will always be around. Remember, according to scientists, about 85% of the data in your DNA serves no usefull purpose -- maybe there are ALREADY messages in there!
Bill Gates himself is submitting stories to slashdot!
(For those of you who haven't read his The Road Ahead, the earlier prints contained a phrase about a "breakthough in factoring large primes" making current encryption obsolete.)
Natural Emeralds are much more rare than natural diamonds -- and yet they cost half as much! This alone is proof of the sheer genius of the DeBeers marketing machine.
You obviously MUST be working for Microsoft, as money doesn't appear to be a factor to you. I take it Bill gives you all your hardware for free, then? The fact that Windows XP install is fully automated does me no good at all when it does not support my VooDoo 3000 or VooDoo 3500 video cards, or my 3Com 3C509 Ethernet cards, does it? Mandrake DOES support these -- straight off the CD (which was burned from an image downloaded for free off the internet.) Cost to add Linux to my 6 existing computers: $0. Cost to add Windows XP Pro: $1800 + cost of new Ethernet Cards + cost of new Video Cards + cost of new CD ROM drives... oh yeah, now THAT'S a real good deal! (By the way, the Win2K was "free" too, since it came from my $3000/year MSDN membership, which was discontinued before XP shipped.)
Beleive me, I tried booting off the CD. Try reading the original post, which says "My DVD ROM drives don't seem to be able to boot a CD"
But did your mom configure it to dual boot? Nope, didn't think so...
No, he's also counting the 30+ minutes it takes to download all the recommended security patches off the network, rebooting between each one because it will only let you do one at a time. So I'd say install time is greatly affected by your network bandwidth, as well as CD drive speed. Your milage may differ. In general, Mandrake now seems to ship with support for more devices than Windows 2000, but that's just my experience.
Dual-boot is much more complex to configure. If he was willing to let Linux take over the whole hard drive, it prompt him once, then repartition the drive automaticially. Note that Linux is much more friendly to dual boot than Windows. You MUST install Windows first; if you install Linux first, then the Windows installation will render Linux unbootable. Hard to say whether this is by design or just laziness, but it does point out a certain arrogance on the part of the Microsoft programmers.
Ask yourself if this is a symptom of "bloat": the Mandrake Linux installation requires 1 boot floppy. The Windows 2000 installation requires 4 boot floppies!
Will it improve my game any?
Isn't "elite VB hacker" an oxymoron?
Does willfully acting to violate the U. S. Constitution make Ashcroft guilty of treason?