This technology is complete, utter bullshit. Regular DVD audio tracks are just as capable of reproducing high fidelity music as this SACD and DVDA crap. DVD originally stood for Digital Versatile Disc. It has the needed capabilities and sound quality to function as the next generation high fidelity sound source.
These greedy bastards just want to suck an extra, uneeded device from us as well as reintroduce copy protection that ignores fair use.
I will ignore those SACDs and DVDAs until they are digitally copyable so that a scratch in my favorite record/song no longer will set me back 15 to 20 bucks.
Well. This is certainly not the first time Microsoft resorts to dubious marketing. Last time, it was signatures of deceased people, this time around, it's fake witness testimonial with a flipped image from a clipart gallery. Sadly, this is so usual it's hardly newsworthy anymore.
Certainly, but if we could make a tool that alerts about the most obvious, glaring troubles, that would still be improvements. IIRC, OpenSSH has been shipped with buffer overflows. That should never, ever happen.
Such audit-ware should at least be as good at spotting security flaws as an advanced script kiddie.
However, given your information, audit software could never fully guarantee security. Best effort still usually beats no effort if you qualify what best effort really is, though.
In fact, pushing all the responsibility down on the user is a very bad way of securing anything. Most poeple care more about functionality than security. We as developers need to pay more attention to finding ways of implementing non-intrusive security. It may include more lines of code, but it will certainly pay off in how many of your users end up screwed by an exploit in YOUR app.
I'm just waiting and hoping for automated code audit for security. That would possibly be the greatest contribution to computer security since encryption!
Do you think you could argue that Spain's EU membership makes independence for the various old kingdoms in Europe irrelevant? After all, the EU appears to be a guarantee against discrimination, since the lessened importance of borders and national governments would even the odds between different groups within a country?
That being said, I think it is cowardice of the EU not to interfere in some manner in the Batasuna case.
Everyone should have the freedom to succeed - and also be given a fair chance on achieving that. When the parent generation has generated an economical structure that makes things harder for the coming generation than it was for the parent generation - I think the coming generation is entitled to rant a little.
However, lying on your back and complaining will not improve matters.
We make our money from two sources - the fee we charge the store/bar/restaurant/whatever (merchant in our terms), and from people who are late on paying their credit card bills. If you pay your bills on time before interest starts running (we offer 40 days of interest free credit) and use your card a lot, you'll save money. Paying with your credit card also has the added bonus that stolen or copied cards will not empty your bank account. If you use your card as a consumer loan - you'll end up spending quite a bit of money on making us ever more profitable.
For your position to hold, the Chicken McGrill value meal would have to cost about 1.3 USD. So - my burgeronomics, the Indian Office XP is overpriced, probably by a factor of close to 2. It does not appear to be localized, either.
Btw - the reason why the Indians don't eat Big Mac is probably Hinduism - eating cattle is really, really karma. So - I had to settle for the Chicken McGrill, the only item I recognized. I guess globalization isn't quite as rampant as I thought;)
With IPv6, it will become impossible to remember the numbers. That will make life a little tougher for the home-lan enthusiast and small businesses. DNS will simply gain importance - also on the intranet.
Putting a substandard many-time-pad into production on false premises is irresponsible. If what you say is correct, then this invention should remain in the laboratory.
You risk exposing customers to risk created by cheap corporations who want to save expenses associated with OTP technology. This would be fundamentally broken technology. It is irresponsible to release technology that is fundamentally broken.
I spent a bit of time looking for quotes on Microsoft Software in India. I finally found something. Let's say you want to buy Microsoft Office XP Professional. That's 21000 rupies. Convert, and you've got 435 USD - while Microsoft USA think 580 USD is what US customers should pay. If we use the McDonalds scale, we can compare US to Mumbai, India. Mumbai is a large city, so we'll assume it's relatively expensive. In McDonalds in Mumbai - 49 Rupies for a Chicken McGrill value meal. That's about a buck, give or take. You'll need to check your local McDonald's to compare. I bet the India one is about the third the price. So - with all due respect, you appear to be wrong. We could of course cooperate on a more thorough comparative study if you wish.
In countries where the wages are lower, the licensing/hardware portion of the TCO will be larger. Linux runs on smaller iron, without licensing costs. It's very simple math.
Well - he blew it in Bolivia. I bet he'll try again, though.
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Mozilla is an excellent project to study. It failed to meet deadlines most of the time. It broke ground.
IMHO, the only reason Mozilla materialized, was the long-term vision of Netscape/AOL-TimeWarner. By sticking to their guns, they can soon cut loose IE technology from their AOL software. It has been a gutsy move, and it appears to be paying off.
When you are paid to do something, the one who pays usually at some point will feel that pressuring you to become more productive is justified by your paycheck. Rushes for deadlines leads to bugs.
That being said, usability could be better in some projects. I don't think paying the developers would pay off at all - you would rather need a clean application design and let GUI-oriented people deal with the user interaction. In Apache, it is not a problem. In Mozilla, I believe that is exactly what has been done (though I could be wrong..)
So, if I do get an xbox, I can have Bill Gates sponsor my hardware, and I will have a GNU-based development platform for making video-games? I realize they won't be speedy yet, nor run on non-chipped xboxes, but I will be able to use it for games development, right?
Eh. Counterpoint.EU involves giving up a bit of sovereignty.
Internet government is an interesting idea for us voters, but I don't see sufficient reasons for governments to give up their sovereignty in this case.
The Germans tried, but your Chuck Norris-loving prez didn't quite enjoy that.
That being said, war on terrorism is widely seen as internationally divisive from a non-US perspective. We feel that the war has not been carried out according to intentions.
Still, world against the US of A would be in interesting spectacle. You would be severely limited in your options by your access to oil on a medium-term basis.
Being a Norwegian, I must say that I suspect the Johansen prosecution is all about appeasing the USA. We are allied with the USA, and the USA is an important trade partner as well as defence partner.
If we did not attempt to prosecute Jon Johansen, it would look like we did not care about the views of the USA. Rather, we will try him in a Court of Law using Norwegian Law. Most domestic IT law experts expects Johansen to win. It will be trying for the poor kid, but he will go loose and the USA will be moderately satisfied we at least tried.
That being said, I believe the WTO agreements are the papers to look for when researching the scope of Intellectual Property law.
Once they have established precedence in one case, I believe that the following court trials will become more ceremonial than trial-like since the evidence would be overwhelmingly in favor of the prosecutor.
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Also, remind me not to look muslim and be critical of the US gov't while in the US of A.
You can get high quality recordings at Chesky. They sell hybrid recordings too, so that you can easily compare.
Uhhh huuuuh.. And standard DVDs don't support that? Check your sources, kid.
Besides, above about 20 bits / 90khz, there is no real difference that is perceptible.
This technology is complete, utter bullshit. Regular DVD audio tracks are just as capable of reproducing high fidelity music as this SACD and DVDA crap. DVD originally stood for Digital Versatile Disc. It has the needed capabilities and sound quality to function as the next generation high fidelity sound source.
These greedy bastards just want to suck an extra, uneeded device from us as well as reintroduce copy protection that ignores fair use.
I will ignore those SACDs and DVDAs until they are digitally copyable so that a scratch in my favorite record/song no longer will set me back 15 to 20 bucks.
Well. This is certainly not the first time Microsoft resorts to dubious marketing. Last time, it was signatures of deceased people, this time around, it's fake witness testimonial with a flipped image from a clipart gallery. Sadly, this is so usual it's hardly newsworthy anymore.
Certainly, but if we could make a tool that alerts about the most obvious, glaring troubles, that would still be improvements. IIRC, OpenSSH has been shipped with buffer overflows. That should never, ever happen.
Such audit-ware should at least be as good at spotting security flaws as an advanced script kiddie.
However, given your information, audit software could never fully guarantee security. Best effort still usually beats no effort if you qualify what best effort really is, though.
In fact, pushing all the responsibility down on the user is a very bad way of securing anything. Most poeple care more about functionality than security. We as developers need to pay more attention to finding ways of implementing non-intrusive security. It may include more lines of code, but it will certainly pay off in how many of your users end up screwed by an exploit in YOUR app.
I'm just waiting and hoping for automated code audit for security. That would possibly be the greatest contribution to computer security since encryption!
Do you think you could argue that Spain's EU membership makes independence for the various old kingdoms in Europe irrelevant? After all, the EU appears to be a guarantee against discrimination, since the lessened importance of borders and national governments would even the odds between different groups within a country?
That being said, I think it is cowardice of the EU not to interfere in some manner in the Batasuna case.
Everyone should have the freedom to succeed - and also be given a fair chance on achieving that. When the parent generation has generated an economical structure that makes things harder for the coming generation than it was for the parent generation - I think the coming generation is entitled to rant a little.
However, lying on your back and complaining will not improve matters.
We make our money from two sources - the fee we charge the store/bar/restaurant/whatever (merchant in our terms), and from people who are late on paying their credit card bills. If you pay your bills on time before interest starts running (we offer 40 days of interest free credit) and use your card a lot, you'll save money. Paying with your credit card also has the added bonus that stolen or copied cards will not empty your bank account. If you use your card as a consumer loan - you'll end up spending quite a bit of money on making us ever more profitable.
For your position to hold, the Chicken McGrill value meal would have to cost about 1.3 USD. So - my burgeronomics, the Indian Office XP is overpriced, probably by a factor of close to 2. It does not appear to be localized, either.
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Btw - the reason why the Indians don't eat Big Mac is probably Hinduism - eating cattle is really, really karma. So - I had to settle for the Chicken McGrill, the only item I recognized. I guess globalization isn't quite as rampant as I thought
With IPv6, it will become impossible to remember the numbers. That will make life a little tougher for the home-lan enthusiast and small businesses. DNS will simply gain importance - also on the intranet.
Putting a substandard many-time-pad into production on false premises is irresponsible. If what you say is correct, then this invention should remain in the laboratory.
You risk exposing customers to risk created by cheap corporations who want to save expenses associated with OTP technology. This would be fundamentally broken technology. It is irresponsible to release technology that is fundamentally broken.
I spent a bit of time looking for quotes on Microsoft Software in India. I finally found something. Let's say you want to buy Microsoft Office XP Professional. That's 21000 rupies. Convert, and you've got 435 USD - while Microsoft USA think 580 USD is what US customers should pay. If we use the McDonalds scale, we can compare US to Mumbai, India. Mumbai is a large city, so we'll assume it's relatively expensive. In McDonalds in Mumbai - 49 Rupies for a Chicken McGrill value meal. That's about a buck, give or take. You'll need to check your local McDonald's to compare. I bet the India one is about the third the price. So - with all due respect, you appear to be wrong. We could of course cooperate on a more thorough comparative study if you wish.
In countries where the wages are lower, the licensing/hardware portion of the TCO will be larger. Linux runs on smaller iron, without licensing costs. It's very simple math.
Well - he blew it in Bolivia. I bet he'll try again, though.
Mozilla is an excellent project to study. It failed to meet deadlines most of the time. It broke ground.
IMHO, the only reason Mozilla materialized, was the long-term vision of Netscape/AOL-TimeWarner. By sticking to their guns, they can soon cut loose IE technology from their AOL software. It has been a gutsy move, and it appears to be paying off.
When you are paid to do something, the one who pays usually at some point will feel that pressuring you to become more productive is justified by your paycheck. Rushes for deadlines leads to bugs.
That being said, usability could be better in some projects. I don't think paying the developers would pay off at all - you would rather need a clean application design and let GUI-oriented people deal with the user interaction. In Apache, it is not a problem. In Mozilla, I believe that is exactly what has been done (though I could be wrong..)
So, if I do get an xbox, I can have Bill Gates sponsor my hardware, and I will have a GNU-based development platform for making video-games? I realize they won't be speedy yet, nor run on non-chipped xboxes, but I will be able to use it for games development, right?
Eh. Counterpoint.EU involves giving up a bit of sovereignty.
Internet government is an interesting idea for us voters, but I don't see sufficient reasons for governments to give up their sovereignty in this case.
The Germans tried, but your Chuck Norris-loving prez didn't quite enjoy that.
That being said, war on terrorism is widely seen as internationally divisive from a non-US perspective. We feel that the war has not been carried out according to intentions.
Still, world against the US of A would be in interesting spectacle. You would be severely limited in your options by your access to oil on a medium-term basis.
Being a Norwegian, I must say that I suspect the Johansen prosecution is all about appeasing the USA. We are allied with the USA, and the USA is an important trade partner as well as defence partner.
If we did not attempt to prosecute Jon Johansen, it would look like we did not care about the views of the USA. Rather, we will try him in a Court of Law using Norwegian Law. Most domestic IT law experts expects Johansen to win. It will be trying for the poor kid, but he will go loose and the USA will be moderately satisfied we at least tried.
That being said, I believe the WTO agreements are the papers to look for when researching the scope of Intellectual Property law.
Given that this is a DMCA violation, wouldn't it be possible or even natural to bring this a federal court?
Once they have established precedence in one case, I believe that the following court trials will become more ceremonial than trial-like since the evidence would be overwhelmingly in favor of the prosecutor.
Oh please. Given sufficient proxies and automatic page simplification, I am sure they can devise ways to deal with the load.