I would easily do it if I hadn't filled my hard drive with crap movies I'll never watch. I'd just put a wget in a screen on my server and go on with my life. In a few days it'll be on my HD, ready to be removed the instant I need the space for more crap movies I'll never watch. It's not really a big deal.
Yeah, and if you have a recipe that calls for 160 grams of butter and you want to cut it by 1/4, then it's easy to use 40 grams. I don't understand the difference either.:)
I've yet to hear a vaguely plausible defence for replacing copyright by contracts. I've also never seen the idea seriously forwarded outside of Slashdot discussion.
So you've missed the various pirate parties getting mandates in many European nations in some places even nationwide, not to mention two seats in the European Parliament.
I'm sure that's where we're heading, but slowly. But there are some drawbacks selling directly to customers.
Dealing with whiny and irrational end customers can be a horrible experience. A company that can get away with it while still making money may very well feel that it's better to pay the overhead of a middleman. You also take a risk with your brand, if you don't spend enough on customer support, your brand is tarnished by that, even if your cars are solid.
Actually, the GPU is much faster, by far, than any* DSP setup. The GPU consists of hundreds or thousands of DSP building blocks, although more limited in what they can perform and in which order.
* Naturally you can build out a DSP system to match the speed of a GPU, as you can build a rack of CPUs to outperform a single GPU. That's not my point.
Megayear is actually very common in science circles when talking about time spans where using millions of years makes sense. It's usually written "Ma" or "mya".
That's not relevant. What's relevant is who the original creators wants to grant permission. They may very well be fine with people using these cats at random on the internet, that doesn't mean they have given everyone permission to use it in a commercial context by an anti-internet company.
What are you talking about? You specifically settle out of court just so that you're not setting a precedent. Legally, they would gain nothing doing this.
How do you even judge that something is "encrypted" if you are using a scheme that some grad student made up like a month ago?
This is a problem that has already been solved. The answer is: You treat it like it's simply "security by obscurity" and assume it will be broken any day soon. The sad fact is that this is true for most of the encryption schemes thought up over the years.
And honestly, if homomorphic encryption can't work with a well tested and analyzed encryption algorithm, I'm not sure I'm very impressed about it..
Every file system is/should be labled "experimental" in a way. The long answer from the btrfs FAQ is pretty good, and makes some sense:
Long answer: Nobody is going to magically stick a label on the btrfs code and say "yes, this is now stable and bug-free". Different people have different concepts of stability: a home user who wants to keep their ripped CDs on it will have a different requirement for stability than a large financial institution running their trading system on it. If you are concerned about stability in commercial production use, you should test btrfs on a testbed system under production workloads to see if it will do what you want of it. In any case, you should join the mailing list (and hang out in IRC) and read through problem reports and follow them to their conclusion to give yourself a good idea of the types of issues that come up, and the degree to which they can be dealt with. Whatever you do, we recommend keeping good, tested, off-system (and off-site) backups.
Yeah, it's not the privatization that's an issue, it's the profit part. You know, the incentive that according to the great invisible hand in the sky should improve quality and decrease overhead..
Pretty much anything open source. If you're not allowed to see the source (skype, hardware disk encryption, proprietary encryption, windows built-in encryption) you can bet that FBI has a master key.
Doesn't mean it's safe just because it's open source, but broken or bogus encryption solutions which are open source are quickly found out.
Scrolling all that text without 2D accelerated hardware (not likely to be in place that early) likely adds more to the startup time than loading and displaying a graphical progress bar, especially considering how any drive will read far more than necessary for booting in one go, so the extra load time will be virtually zero.
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I would easily do it if I hadn't filled my hard drive with crap movies I'll never watch. I'd just put a wget in a screen on my server and go on with my life. In a few days it'll be on my HD, ready to be removed the instant I need the space for more crap movies I'll never watch. It's not really a big deal.
Not the incompetence of the voters to vote for long term governments rather than short term tax cut promises?
So do your weight loss in grams. Lose thousands of grams in a month!
This is something that a lot of newspapers do, and it's so extremely silly every time you see it.
"He walked three thousand miles (4828 km)"
Yeah, and if you have a recipe that calls for 160 grams of butter and you want to cut it by 1/4, then it's easy to use 40 grams. I don't understand the difference either. :)
Doesn't sound like a problem, as much as a natural place to start.
I'm planning a kickstarter for a cloud based quantum software robot with an integrated 3D printer so it can print its own spare parts.
(Actually just posting nonsense to undo a faulty moderation I did..)
COBOL is similar to assembler because it lacks native block structure and recursion.
Which isn't that similar.
I've used recursion in assembler code plenty of times, not sure what you mean here.
print "Die!" foreach 1..3;
Maybe they will start to care when the journalists and certain political parties stop lying to them about what's actually happening.
I've yet to hear a vaguely plausible defence for replacing copyright by contracts. I've also never seen the idea seriously forwarded outside of Slashdot discussion.
So you've missed the various pirate parties getting mandates in many European nations in some places even nationwide, not to mention two seats in the European Parliament.
I'm sure that's where we're heading, but slowly. But there are some drawbacks selling directly to customers.
Dealing with whiny and irrational end customers can be a horrible experience. A company that can get away with it while still making money may very well feel that it's better to pay the overhead of a middleman. You also take a risk with your brand, if you don't spend enough on customer support, your brand is tarnished by that, even if your cars are solid.
Actually, the GPU is much faster, by far, than any* DSP setup. The GPU consists of hundreds or thousands of DSP building blocks, although more limited in what they can perform and in which order.
* Naturally you can build out a DSP system to match the speed of a GPU, as you can build a rack of CPUs to outperform a single GPU. That's not my point.
Megayear is actually very common in science circles when talking about time spans where using millions of years makes sense. It's usually written "Ma" or "mya".
That's not relevant. What's relevant is who the original creators wants to grant permission. They may very well be fine with people using these cats at random on the internet, that doesn't mean they have given everyone permission to use it in a commercial context by an anti-internet company.
What are you talking about? You specifically settle out of court just so that you're not setting a precedent. Legally, they would gain nothing doing this.
How do you even judge that something is "encrypted" if you are using a scheme that some grad student made up like a month ago?
This is a problem that has already been solved. The answer is: You treat it like it's simply "security by obscurity" and assume it will be broken any day soon. The sad fact is that this is true for most of the encryption schemes thought up over the years.
And honestly, if homomorphic encryption can't work with a well tested and analyzed encryption algorithm, I'm not sure I'm very impressed about it..
You can generally not compress an encrypted stream of data.
Good encryption masks all the structure/redundancy from the data, which the compressor needs in order to remove useless bits.
So how much did the slashdot ad cost, and how do I block this kind of ads with adblock?
Did timothy and Zothecula share the cash equally?
I thought that was what wikipedia was for.
Every file system is/should be labled "experimental" in a way. The long answer from the btrfs FAQ is pretty good, and makes some sense:
Long answer: Nobody is going to magically stick a label on the btrfs code and say "yes, this is now stable and bug-free". Different people have different concepts of stability: a home user who wants to keep their ripped CDs on it will have a different requirement for stability than a large financial institution running their trading system on it. If you are concerned about stability in commercial production use, you should test btrfs on a testbed system under production workloads to see if it will do what you want of it. In any case, you should join the mailing list (and hang out in IRC) and read through problem reports and follow them to their conclusion to give yourself a good idea of the types of issues that come up, and the degree to which they can be dealt with. Whatever you do, we recommend keeping good, tested, off-system (and off-site) backups.
Yeah, it's not the privatization that's an issue, it's the profit part. You know, the incentive that according to the great invisible hand in the sky should improve quality and decrease overhead..
Pretty much anything open source. If you're not allowed to see the source (skype, hardware disk encryption, proprietary encryption, windows built-in encryption) you can bet that FBI has a master key.
Doesn't mean it's safe just because it's open source, but broken or bogus encryption solutions which are open source are quickly found out.
Scrolling all that text without 2D accelerated hardware (not likely to be in place that early) likely adds more to the startup time than loading and displaying a graphical progress bar, especially considering how any drive will read far more than necessary for booting in one go, so the extra load time will be virtually zero.
That's been taken care of by modern file systems.
Also, do you apply security patches to your kernel on-the-fly somehow, or how come you don't have to reboot?