Norway (the promised land of freedom and liberty, my ass) enacted a similar law last april, and we're implementing it this very monent.
We've already seen mass-dna-screening using phone based location data (before the law was even in legislation; seems the police already had access to this kind of data..), and lobbying for making retained data accessible to rights holder organizations without a court process (our law lumps cell phone tracking and internet access tracking together).
After having my pc ruined by rootkits installed along with the game, DRM-"removal", i.e. patching out cd-checks or whatever just doesn't cut it for me.
Fuck you publishers, I'm not touching any of your DRM laden crap ever again..
Thought I'd write up a quick 'getting started' guide for anyone that wants to give bitcoin mining a go:
#1 - Download the bitcoin application from bitcoin.org, install and fire it up. It will connect and sync with the p2p network, downloading approximately 114700 blocks.
#2 - Download and install the OpenCL driver for your graphics card / OS. You might also need the full SDK, my drivers were supposed to include OpenCL support, but the GPU miner still didn't work. For AMD/ATI cards, this link should work: http://developer.amd.com/gpu/AMDAPPSDK/downloads/Pages/default.aspx
#4 - Using the bitcoin client, create a new 'receiving address' which you call 'mining income' to track payments.
#5 - Sign up for a mining pool. You'd rather have a few cents an hour than wait months for a random shot at 50 BTC. I'd go with: http://www.bitcoinpool.com/newuser.php as they're free, while the others charge a fee of 2-3%. Wallet ID is the thing you created in step 4.
You never hear stories about piracy hurting anything.
Sure you do.. I've seen several threads in the last couple of weeks about open source being marginalized by unlicensed MS software.;)
PC gaming is far from dead, the revenue was $13 billion in 2009, up from $11 bn in 2008. Has it ever been healthier, despite an ever-increasing range of activities (and consoles) competing for our time?
Go read the wikipedia pages on software-as-a-service, and I doubt you'll see piracy even mentioned. It's all about cutting costs through reduced overheads and specialization. While businesses can afford to pay for their software, 13-year old kids might not, but they still wouldn't be able to if the pirate bay wasn't an option. I simply don't buy the argument that copyright infringement equates to lost sales.
The way IP holders and their lobbyists are pushing us towards a totalitarian society, in an effort to keep their antiquated business model, is such a threat to our free society that I'm in favor of major revision/relaxation of our IP laws. Their stated purpose is to provide an incentive for creating art and driving research, but people would, and do, these things regardless of profit.
Because PostgreSQL's performance is not enough for large websites and transaction numbers (it will need many times more hardware). We have a website with 2 million members and 200 million page views a month (10,000 concurrent users sometimes). We tried to convert to PostgreSQL but it just did not provide even near to the MySQL's performance on the same hardware.
From my experience Postgres beats MySQL on single-query performance and is significantly better for high concurrency workloads. You must have been doing something wrong, or been depending on some mysql-ism like it's lower-overhead connections or the query result cache. Don't expect stellar results when your architecture clashes with the RDBMS..
And even if PG is faster, that's not why I use it. I choose PG because it's a mature, well-behaving, solid piece of engineering, that I can trust with my data.
AFAIK Timber Hill isn't involved in this, beyond losing some $$ by acting as a very naive market maker.
The two men were brought up on criminal charges for market manipulation, after the stock exchange flagged their trades as anomalous and reported them to the authorities.
There is no feature parity. MySQL does have decent range of features these days, but they are often tied to some specific storage engine, which means a lot of them are mutually exclusive.
Want full-text search and GIS? Sure, but you lose ACID and are stuck with table level locking..
Your observations on how the market moves are pretty much spot-on, but aren't specific to automated trading systems.
The market worked exactly the same back in the 20s [1], only a fair bit slower; You'd never see accenture drop to 1 cent in less than a minute back then.
Compare heroin prices in your neighborhood ghetto to bulk prices in Afghanistan (at _least_ 1500% -- what kind of interest rates do you see in your bank?). It might not be ethical, but it certainly could be rational -- even when you factor in the risk of getting caught, or killed by the competition.
No amount of tax payer money wasted on police and prisons can stop that kind of profit; all we manage to do is drive up prices, thus making recruitment even more lucrative.
If your library is GPL-licensed, you're barring people from using it; from finding bugs and contributing patches. What open source is all about imho.
Over the last two years, I've contributed to three different open source projects on my employers time. Granted, just small stuff, but improvements none the less. Had these projects been GPL-licensed, we'd never consider them. I'm sure my company is by no means unique. Would Apple be using, and contributing to, FreeBSD if it was GPL'ed, for instance..?
In the end, open is always more competetive, and BSD/MIT/Apache/LGPL/+++ are more open than GPL. It's as simple as that.
The JVM is pretty much ubiquitous. It is also free, open and mature.
There's of course Java, but you also have a multitude of other languages taking advantage of the JVM, e.g. JRuby, Groovy and Jython. See a more complete list here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages
My personal favorite is Clojure; a modern lisp taking full advantage of the JVM and Java's extensive libraries.
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Norway (the promised land of freedom and liberty, my ass) enacted a similar law last april, and we're implementing it this very monent.
We've already seen mass-dna-screening using phone based location data (before the law was even in legislation; seems the police already had access to this kind of data..), and lobbying for making retained data accessible to rights holder organizations without a court process (our law lumps cell phone tracking and internet access tracking together).
By "the game", I'm not referring to the witcher, I guess it could be read that way.
After having my pc ruined by rootkits installed along with the game, DRM-"removal", i.e. patching out cd-checks or whatever just doesn't cut it for me.
Fuck you publishers, I'm not touching any of your DRM laden crap ever again..
Thought I'd write up a quick 'getting started' guide for anyone that wants to give bitcoin mining a go:
#1 - Download the bitcoin application from bitcoin.org, install and fire it up. It will connect and sync with the p2p network, downloading approximately 114700 blocks.
#2 - Download and install the OpenCL driver for your graphics card / OS.
You might also need the full SDK, my drivers were supposed to include OpenCL support, but the GPU miner still didn't work. For AMD/ATI cards, this link should work:
http://developer.amd.com/gpu/AMDAPPSDK/downloads/Pages/default.aspx
#3 - Download and unpack "PyOpenCL bitcoin miner" somewhere. You'll find windows binaries here (7zip-compressed):
https://github.com/m0mchil/poclbm/downloads
#4 - Using the bitcoin client, create a new 'receiving address' which you call 'mining income' to track payments.
#5 - Sign up for a mining pool. You'd rather have a few cents an hour than wait months for a random shot at 50 BTC. I'd go with:
http://www.bitcoinpool.com/newuser.php
as they're free, while the others charge a fee of 2-3%. Wallet ID is the thing you created in step 4.
You'll find the other pools here:
http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?board=14.0
#6 - Stuff the following into a .bat file and run it. Might want to try from the console first, to make sure all is ok.
This of course assumes you're on windows, and installed to a directory named d:\bin\bitcoin\poclbm..
Setting the f options to a higher value will cause less stress on your system. 30 is the default, shoot for 120 if your screen is lagging too much.
The d option is the device id of your graphics card. Mine's device 0, it could also be 1, 2 or whatever.
If the above worked, you should see a console window containing output like this:
You never hear stories about piracy hurting anything.
Sure you do.. I've seen several threads in the last couple of weeks about open source being marginalized by unlicensed MS software. ;)
PC gaming is far from dead, the revenue was $13 billion in 2009, up from $11 bn in 2008. Has it ever been healthier, despite an ever-increasing range of activities (and consoles) competing for our time?
Go read the wikipedia pages on software-as-a-service, and I doubt you'll see piracy even mentioned. It's all about cutting costs through reduced overheads and specialization.
While businesses can afford to pay for their software, 13-year old kids might not, but they still wouldn't be able to if the pirate bay wasn't an option. I simply don't buy the argument that copyright infringement equates to lost sales.
The way IP holders and their lobbyists are pushing us towards a totalitarian society, in an effort to keep their antiquated business model, is such a threat to our free society that I'm in favor of major revision/relaxation of our IP laws. Their stated purpose is to provide an incentive for creating art and driving research, but people would, and do, these things regardless of profit.
Because PostgreSQL's performance is not enough for large websites and transaction numbers (it will need many times more hardware). We have a website with 2 million members and 200 million page views a month (10,000 concurrent users sometimes). We tried to convert to PostgreSQL but it just did not provide even near to the MySQL's performance on the same hardware.
From my experience Postgres beats MySQL on single-query performance and is significantly better for high concurrency workloads. You must have been doing something wrong, or been depending on some mysql-ism like it's lower-overhead connections or the query result cache. Don't expect stellar results when your architecture clashes with the RDBMS..
And even if PG is faster, that's not why I use it. I choose PG because it's a mature, well-behaving, solid piece of engineering, that I can trust with my data.
AFAIK this was a criminal case, and Timber Hill aren't involved beyond acting as a naive market maker.
AFAIK Timber Hill isn't involved in this, beyond losing some $$ by acting as a very naive market maker.
The two men were brought up on criminal charges for market manipulation, after the stock exchange flagged their trades as anomalous and reported them to the authorities.
There is no feature parity. MySQL does have decent range of features these days, but they are often tied to some specific storage engine, which means a lot of them are mutually exclusive.
Want full-text search and GIS? Sure, but you lose ACID and are stuck with table level locking..
To be honest I don't mind Oracle pushing this because I personally believe we'd see Google using Python to replace Java and I'd prefer that.
Let's just ignore the fact that most, if not all, of those patents would still apply to a Dalvik VM running Python..
The feds just print more money.
Who gives a crap if it's sustainable, as long as the private prison industry & politicians they have on retainer earns well..?
Then when the owners turn it off, they can't claim they didn't know what it meant.
Why should it matter whether they "know" or not?
ISP's aren't accountable for their what their users do, should it be any different for individuals who let their neighbours check mail or whatever?
Postgres, not Postgre.
The name comes from Postgres relation to the earlier Ingres database.
Your observations on how the market moves are pretty much spot-on, but aren't specific to automated trading systems.
The market worked exactly the same back in the 20s [1], only a fair bit slower; You'd never see accenture drop to 1 cent in less than a minute back then.
[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reminiscences_of_a_Stock_Operator
http://clojure.org/rationale
Compare heroin prices in your neighborhood ghetto to bulk prices in Afghanistan (at _least_ 1500% -- what kind of interest rates do you see in your bank?). It might not be ethical, but it certainly could be rational -- even when you factor in the risk of getting caught, or killed by the competition.
No amount of tax payer money wasted on police and prisons can stop that kind of profit; all we manage to do is drive up prices, thus making recruitment even more lucrative.
Selective enforcement is key here. Locking up anyone you don't like is easy when everyone's a criminal.
Flaky UIs - click on a button and nothing happens. Or things not drawing properly. These are my observations.
Unresponsive UIs tend to be written by naive/ignorant developers who don't understand threading.
I'm sure the timing isn't accidental. Whole lot of kids out there begging their parents to replace that bricked console now..
The USPTO is not your enemy, congress is.
If your library is GPL-licensed, you're barring people from using it; from finding bugs and contributing patches. What open source is all about imho.
Over the last two years, I've contributed to three different open source projects on my employers time. Granted, just small stuff, but improvements none the less. Had these projects been GPL-licensed, we'd never consider them. I'm sure my company is by no means unique. Would Apple be using, and contributing to, FreeBSD if it was GPL'ed, for instance..?
In the end, open is always more competetive, and BSD/MIT/Apache/LGPL/+++ are more open than GPL. It's as simple as that.
C#? Really..?
According to tiobe, Java, as well as C++, beats C# and VB combined..
http://www.tiobe.com/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
The JVM is pretty much ubiquitous. It is also free, open and mature.
There's of course Java, but you also have a multitude of other languages taking advantage of the JVM, e.g. JRuby, Groovy and Jython. See a more complete list here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages
My personal favorite is Clojure; a modern lisp taking full advantage of the JVM and Java's extensive libraries.
Yup, this is a question that _matters_. There's just no defense for their abuse of the broken us legal system.
Indeed. I'm completely against botting in online games, but not through such blatant abuse of copyright laws.
With two major releases coming up, Blizzard may want to consider what they're doing to their image..