Huh? Am I missing something? Hollywood movies have been PG13 for years now. There is absolutely no risk they would make a new Natural Born Killers. The see the script, think "Rated R", and discard it.
Christ. Get the mp3s. If there are no mp3s og oggs, borrow the CD from someone and make mp3s and oggs and publish them. If we can make sure rapid dispertion of high-quality copies of copy-protected works - plus we don't buy the crippled hardware they offer us, then the effect of crippling the discs will be negative. All it takes is a high quality cd/dvd-player with digital output paired with a pc that accepts digital input. Then, you'll have a pretty good quality copy of any crippled cd even if they made it _impossible_ to play back on a computer.
Or, buy the disc, make a copy as described, and return it claiming it didn't work on your computer at work and that you primarily listen to music at work.
Maybe I should try that approach with the new Ed Harcourt CD? I used to convince myself that a simple boycott is enough. However, a bit of piracy of the supposedly "safe" format will make the business case for "copy protection" even worse..
They put up cameras in our public transportation system. All of a sudden, the kids stopped wreaking havoc in the trams and buses. The public transportation system saves money on maintenance, and we get cleaner transportation units and exist on videotape for a few days. I think it is a rather fair deal, at least until they start using the footage as evidence in otherwise unrelated cases.
So, indeed, cameras protect, but not against desparate and truly malicious individuals. However, if they prevent some petty crimes, the police will free more resources for dealing with the big stuff. At least that's the intention...
*cough* the security patches in Linux are generally easily applied without breakage. replace faulty lib with patched lib, and restart application. that's about it. the rpm even does it for you in most cases.
Basically, the computer industry has failed to deliver on time, on budget forever. Only, it's not getting (much) better.
We need real economists to create real business cases for our customers. Then we need to deliver. There are lots of big software projects that fail, either partially or totally.
It's unglorious and hard. But it needs to be done.
I bet they're envisioning it to act like a hub for interconnecting appliances or something. Its usefulness will be enhanced by "digital passports", however they end up being implemented. In brief - not exciting, but useful. Had our focus been on usefulness and profitability, the dotbomb (and dotcom wave) would not have happened.
PNG has three advantages over GIF - it's lossless, it's true-color and it supports 8-bit alpha channels. Yep - it is theoretically possible to do some _really_ sophisticated web pages with PNGs.
Unwarranted patents also hurt consumers. Don't forget that. If the patent is wide, there is little incentive in improving radically until the patent expires. That is certainly not in the best interest of the consumer.
Such a system would be a disaster for tinkerers and smaller, specialized companies. Frankly, patents should be harder to obtain but quite cheap. That way, we'll get more innovation.
How about those people that figure that their sector is so fsck'ed that they change careers altogether? Or just retire? The data is a best-case estimation, really. It could be a lot worse..
Wouldn't it be better to make an application that uses all the extra space on the corporate desktops for backup? Most people use only a fraction of the 80 gigs that comes on most desktops. Anybody heard of any products, or can prove to me that it's infeasible?
Interestingly, terrorism only really makes sense when used against democracies. The general idea is to shift public opinion against their leadership, at least initially. As always, brutality invariably becomes selfsustained until a victory is acheived by either party. What used to be a means, becomes a goal in itself.
That depends a bit. I would guess the single cpu system. That way, you can probably buy more RAM and faster harddisk for the price difference.
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As a matter of fact, I believe hyperthreading involves two processor cores.
I've heard about up to 30% improvement in performance, if you're CPU-bound AND highly concurrent. (I am, so I'm looking forward to benchmarking one of these babies that one customer bought)
The US is pissing of everyone (except a few handfuls of nations) with the Iraq attack. China is not impressed, so attacking Iraq made it harder to deal with North Korea later on.
XBox would fare better if Microsoft didn't make it. Technologically, it's superior. However, people see "microsoft" and think "solitaire" and "difficult, crashy computer".
Not really. It should have happened in 98 when he kicked out the inspectors.
Alternatively, at some time during the inspections when his games become more obvious.
Although I like neither Bush, it as right of Sr. to stop when his mandate had been achieved. However, it was wrong to encourage the uprising. The embargo was also wrong - at least in its implementation.
You know, neither one of you is correct. For some cynical people, religion is used to legitimize evil deeds. In other cases, evil deeds are done that make no sense without religion. Maintaining that condoms are evil in the age of HIV springs to mind.
Frankly, if you ship a bad product, middle and top management is ultimately to blame. That is not a free ticket to slacking off, but shipping bad code means that multiple layers of quality control has failed.
What if someone credible adviced you that "sendmail has a problem. we're not gonna tell what it is, but we recommend that consider switching to exim or qmail while we fix this crap."? We've been vulnerable for 2 months without knowing it.
You don't know for sure which is secure before the vulnerability is posted. Redundancy, redundancy, redundancy, fellow nerd. We thought OpenSSH was rock solid, until it had a buffer overflow.
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Huh? Am I missing something? Hollywood movies have been PG13 for years now. There is absolutely no risk they would make a new Natural Born Killers. The see the script, think "Rated R", and discard it.
Christ. Get the mp3s. If there are no mp3s og oggs, borrow the CD from someone and make mp3s and oggs and publish them. If we can make sure rapid dispertion of high-quality copies of copy-protected works - plus we don't buy the crippled hardware they offer us, then the effect of crippling the discs will be negative. All it takes is a high quality cd/dvd-player with digital output paired with a pc that accepts digital input. Then, you'll have a pretty good quality copy of any crippled cd even if they made it _impossible_ to play back on a computer.
Or, buy the disc, make a copy as described, and return it claiming it didn't work on your computer at work and that you primarily listen to music at work.
Maybe I should try that approach with the new Ed Harcourt CD? I used to convince myself that a simple boycott is enough. However, a bit of piracy of the supposedly "safe" format will make the business case for "copy protection" even worse..
Since when did Microsoft start making stuff named in British English? Good hoax, though.
They put up cameras in our public transportation system. All of a sudden, the kids stopped wreaking havoc in the trams and buses. The public transportation system saves money on maintenance, and we get cleaner transportation units and exist on videotape for a few days. I think it is a rather fair deal, at least until they start using the footage as evidence in otherwise unrelated cases.
So, indeed, cameras protect, but not against desparate and truly malicious individuals. However, if they prevent some petty crimes, the police will free more resources for dealing with the big stuff. At least that's the intention...
Now I'm just need to figure out a way to justify monitoring the sorority bathrooms for suspicious activity, then I'll sign up for watching yanks.
*cough* the security patches in Linux are generally easily applied without breakage. replace faulty lib with patched lib, and restart application. that's about it. the rpm even does it for you in most cases.
Learn that abbreviation. Return of Investment.
Basically, the computer industry has failed to deliver on time, on budget forever. Only, it's not getting (much) better.
We need real economists to create real business cases for our customers. Then we need to deliver. There are lots of big software projects that fail, either partially or totally.
It's unglorious and hard. But it needs to be done.
I bet they're envisioning it to act like a hub for interconnecting appliances or something. Its usefulness will be enhanced by "digital passports", however they end up being implemented. In brief - not exciting, but useful. Had our focus been on usefulness and profitability, the dotbomb (and dotcom wave) would not have happened.
If they acquire a nuclear weapon, they will blackmail. Nuking America is not going to achieve their goals.
And if they choose to use it, you can bet it will not be delivered by conventional means.
PNG has three advantages over GIF - it's lossless, it's true-color and it supports 8-bit alpha channels. Yep - it is theoretically possible to do some _really_ sophisticated web pages with PNGs.
JPEG beats PNG on size/quality for images.
Unwarranted patents also hurt consumers. Don't forget that. If the patent is wide, there is little incentive in improving radically until the patent expires. That is certainly not in the best interest of the consumer.
Such a system would be a disaster for tinkerers and smaller, specialized companies. Frankly, patents should be harder to obtain but quite cheap. That way, we'll get more innovation.
How about those people that figure that their sector is so fsck'ed that they change careers altogether? Or just retire? The data is a best-case estimation, really. It could be a lot worse..
Wouldn't it be better to make an application that uses all the extra space on the corporate desktops for backup? Most people use only a fraction of the 80 gigs that comes on most desktops. Anybody heard of any products, or can prove to me that it's infeasible?
Interestingly, terrorism only really makes sense when used against democracies. The general idea is to shift public opinion against their leadership, at least initially. As always, brutality invariably becomes selfsustained until a victory is acheived by either party. What used to be a means, becomes a goal in itself.
That depends a bit. I would guess the single cpu system. That way, you can probably buy more RAM and faster harddisk for the price difference.
As a matter of fact, I believe hyperthreading involves two processor cores.
I've heard about up to 30% improvement in performance, if you're CPU-bound AND highly concurrent. (I am, so I'm looking forward to benchmarking one of these babies that one customer bought)
The US is pissing of everyone (except a few handfuls of nations) with the Iraq attack. China is not impressed, so attacking Iraq made it harder to deal with North Korea later on.
XBox would fare better if Microsoft didn't make it. Technologically, it's superior. However, people see "microsoft" and think "solitaire" and "difficult, crashy computer".
Yep. I expect angry kids or intelligence agencies to start doing damage to the internet at some point if this war lasts.
Not really. It should have happened in 98 when he kicked out the inspectors.
Alternatively, at some time during the inspections when his games become more obvious.
Although I like neither Bush, it as right of Sr. to stop when his mandate had been achieved. However, it was wrong to encourage the uprising. The embargo was also wrong - at least in its implementation.
You know, neither one of you is correct. For some cynical people, religion is used to legitimize evil deeds. In other cases, evil deeds are done that make no sense without religion. Maintaining that condoms are evil in the age of HIV springs to mind.
Frankly, if you ship a bad product, middle and top management is ultimately to blame. That is not a free ticket to slacking off, but shipping bad code means that multiple layers of quality control has failed.
What if someone credible adviced you that "sendmail has a problem. we're not gonna tell what it is, but we recommend that consider switching to exim or qmail while we fix this crap."? We've been vulnerable for 2 months without knowing it.
You don't know for sure which is secure before the vulnerability is posted. Redundancy, redundancy, redundancy, fellow nerd. We thought OpenSSH was rock solid, until it had a buffer overflow.