This isn't intended to jinx you or anything -- but if anyone is going to get hit with a suit by the **AA's I hope it's a lawyer. They're the only ones who can afford to defend themselves. Most of the rest of us can't afford your industry's rates.
Absolutely correct. It's like having to sign a paper publicly admitting you have some socially unacceptable disease in order to receive the benefits of the suit. You shouldn't have to shame yourself -- or in this case expose yourself to risk of prosecution and/or increased review by lawyer-happy third parties interested in your online P2P activity. You would be painting a big target on yourself and if you were ever actually accused of distributing / downloading items via P2P you've just removed your "couldn't be me" defense.
5.25" floppy. 8" floppies were for things such as Radio Shack TRS-80's.
But otherwise, yeah, I remember using Stac Electronics' Stacker (instead of DoubleSpace), QEMM (to manage conventional and "high" memory), boot menus to launch CD-ROM drivers, set environment variables etc then finally run whatever. Good times.
Mod parent troll (sopssa as usual). If anything, typically it's proprietary software which releases your information to 3rd parties, not open source software. To say anything else implies you either don't know what you're talking about or are intentionally trying to spread anti-open source FUD. With sopssa's posting history, I'll wager it's the latter.
I won't be locked into a single vendor's solution, let alone a single vendor's product. Too much at risk, eggs in same basket and all. And given Microsoft's history of anticompetitive practices, of embrace-extend-extinguish, I avoid them wherever possible. I'm not the only person who feels this way, I'm sure.
Webapps are typically very limited. They just don't provide the power that thick apps do. Each browser implements a different set of capabilities, and some of those are implemented differently. Heck, IE still doesn't score well on Acid3! This weakness will mean we won't have truly rich web apps as a norm for some time, unless they're tied to a specific platform / browser -- which means you aren't gaining the browser independence that was the reason for implementing as a web app to begin with.
That's now an iPhone app, weighing in at over 500MB, if I recall correctly. Do you really think that's going to be a viable app to distribute as a web app?
Especially since when trying to download apps I sometimes run into the "file over 10MB" limit and they refuse to install over the phone network. You must enable wifi or download them from a computer to install.
Yep. Before I got an iPhone I got an iPod Touch 2G. I jailbroke the iPod almost immediately. But losing all my apps & settings with each update is such a PIA that I'm unlikely to ever jailbreak the iPhone. It's too bad, there are many programs (Categories, MobileTerminal, etc) from the jailbreak people that are SOOO much better than any of the apps in the App Store.
I went to the local recruiter's office (don't remember which branch of service), not sure of what I was going to do after graduation. I rode to the testing facility with a group of people and took my ASVAB; I scored a 98. Several other people had 30's and 40's. The recruiter told me that honestly the private sector had more than he could offer me.
I'm not saying it's like that everywhere, but in my case it was a wakeup call. The people who scored 30's and 40's were still in the recruiter's office when I left. And yes I know plenty of people -- even a colonel -- who are surprisingly uneducated and/or indecisive. I wouldn't want to depend on any of them in a hostile situation. Others have mean streaks and are random enough that I'm uncomfortable around them.
That said, I'm sure there are as many who are upstanding, competent people -- just like the environment we see in the business world. We can't judge them as a group, we must judge them as a collection of individuals, some of which aren't up to snuff.
You can't fix everyone. Some people should lose the right to live for their crimes. We use capital punishment far too little. Locking up people for 30+ years doesn't help anybody, they just learn how to be sneakier when they get out.
When has General Motors been declared a monopoly? Do you really not understand the conversation? Are you so thick you can't understand what being a convicted monopoly means? Wow.
Microsoft lost the right to control their software when they were convicted of running a monopoly and using it to harm competitors. Many good companies were forced out of business by Microsoft, and having them around to compete would have made today's market better for consumers.
...and if I recommended a third-party site to do Windows updates I'd be laughed at. The very first time there was a problem you can bet it would be blamed on the 3rd party app. Not a good idea.
Depending on your location an aircard may be another option. I think they're around $60 per month on our corporate plan. Mine's Sprint/Nextel. I'm using it now.
Creating a multithreaded PDF reader is only useful if you want to rasterise pages concurrently.
You can also rasterize multiple streams on the same page, which could prove useful depending on the number and type of streams. See this for a product which does exactly that ( http://www.iptech.com/Home/NT_Products/TurboRIP/turborip_-_adobe_postscript_3_.html ). With the average processor having multiple cores, and as many professional printers have adapted to a PDF workflow, I think we'll see more demand in that area.
Given that most PostScript printers come with something like a 50MHz MIPS processor, and the NeXTstation used PostScript for the entire display on a 25MHz 68040, I think you are vastly overestimating how difficult it would be for mobile devices to support.
You can't have it both ways. Either it takes sufficient enough processing power on CISC chips to process PostScript that vendors
target the PDF-like subset to reduce the CPU load running the resulting PostScript
or it doesn't. It would make no sense for a vendor to make the optimizations you claim -- just to lower CPU usage -- if that weren't an issue on modern CISC chips.
I have some experience with both PDF and PostScript so far as professional printing goes, and PostScript -- while yielding more accurate output in general -- tends to result in much larger print spool files and require larger total printer memory than PDF. That's exactly why the RIP market devices and pre-spoolers (Fiery etc) are used -- printing PostScript is extremely taxing on most devices. You may not be familiar with these devices ( http://www.wide-format-printers.org/EFI_postscript_RIP_servers/EFI_Colorbus_Splash_RIP.html lists a few). Maybe people buy these because the drivers are fat, but in that case you shouldn't see such a wide and developed market for those devices. In real-world use, PostScript is slow and fat compared to PDF.
RISC versus CISC is completely irrelevant
All RIP devices I've ever seen were RISC chips, and so were most of the in-printer PostScript boards. Just because recently we've seen more CISC chips in printers doesn't mean they're better... again there is a reason that the RISC chips have been used in the past: Performance. Do a Google search of "risc postscript rip +performance -cisco" and the same with "cisc postscript rip +performance -cisco" and see the number of related results.
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Yes. Unfortunately U.S. laws are usually written to favor corporations at the expense of individuals.
P2P is not proof of illicit activity, although the RIAA wants everyone to think it is.
Absolutely correct. But to the uneducated masses, P2P users are all downloading illegal materials. Just like Tor users.
Educating people is the only way to clear this up.
This isn't intended to jinx you or anything -- but if anyone is going to get hit with a suit by the **AA's I hope it's a lawyer. They're the only ones who can afford to defend themselves. Most of the rest of us can't afford your industry's rates.
Absolutely correct. It's like having to sign a paper publicly admitting you have some socially unacceptable disease in order to receive the benefits of the suit. You shouldn't have to shame yourself -- or in this case expose yourself to risk of prosecution and/or increased review by lawyer-happy third parties interested in your online P2P activity. You would be painting a big target on yourself and if you were ever actually accused of distributing / downloading items via P2P you've just removed your "couldn't be me" defense.
JPG files can be used to hide arbitrary binary data. See the example / howto at http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/hide-file-in-picture/ .
5.25" floppy. 8" floppies were for things such as Radio Shack TRS-80's.
But otherwise, yeah, I remember using Stac Electronics' Stacker (instead of DoubleSpace), QEMM (to manage conventional and "high" memory), boot menus to launch CD-ROM drivers, set environment variables etc then finally run whatever. Good times.
Mod parent up
...if for no other reason than because of the sig
Mod parent troll.
Biased much?
Mod parent troll (sopssa as usual). If anything, typically it's proprietary software which releases your information to 3rd parties, not open source software. To say anything else implies you either don't know what you're talking about or are intentionally trying to spread anti-open source FUD. With sopssa's posting history, I'll wager it's the latter.
I won't be locked into a single vendor's solution, let alone a single vendor's product. Too much at risk, eggs in same basket and all. And given Microsoft's history of anticompetitive practices, of embrace-extend-extinguish, I avoid them wherever possible. I'm not the only person who feels this way, I'm sure.
Webapps are typically very limited. They just don't provide the power that thick apps do. Each browser implements a different set of capabilities, and some of those are implemented differently. Heck, IE still doesn't score well on Acid3! This weakness will mean we won't have truly rich web apps as a norm for some time, unless they're tied to a specific platform / browser -- which means you aren't gaining the browser independence that was the reason for implementing as a web app to begin with.
That's now an iPhone app, weighing in at over 500MB, if I recall correctly. Do you really think that's going to be a viable app to distribute as a web app?
Especially since when trying to download apps I sometimes run into the "file over 10MB" limit and they refuse to install over the phone network. You must enable wifi or download them from a computer to install.
Yep. Before I got an iPhone I got an iPod Touch 2G. I jailbroke the iPod almost immediately. But losing all my apps & settings with each update is such a PIA that I'm unlikely to ever jailbreak the iPhone. It's too bad, there are many programs (Categories, MobileTerminal, etc) from the jailbreak people that are SOOO much better than any of the apps in the App Store.
Oh great I was just thinking about marshmallows and now I am thinking of horse hooves.
Mod parent up. We're one of the last to use this awful system. Going metric would be much simpler, and we wouldn't have as many Shuttle explosions.
I went to the local recruiter's office (don't remember which branch of service), not sure of what I was going to do after graduation. I rode to the testing facility with a group of people and took my ASVAB; I scored a 98. Several other people had 30's and 40's. The recruiter told me that honestly the private sector had more than he could offer me.
I'm not saying it's like that everywhere, but in my case it was a wakeup call. The people who scored 30's and 40's were still in the recruiter's office when I left. And yes I know plenty of people -- even a colonel -- who are surprisingly uneducated and/or indecisive. I wouldn't want to depend on any of them in a hostile situation. Others have mean streaks and are random enough that I'm uncomfortable around them.
That said, I'm sure there are as many who are upstanding, competent people -- just like the environment we see in the business world. We can't judge them as a group, we must judge them as a collection of individuals, some of which aren't up to snuff.
You can't fix everyone. Some people should lose the right to live for their crimes. We use capital punishment far too little. Locking up people for 30+ years doesn't help anybody, they just learn how to be sneakier when they get out.
Actually I would favor public execution for raping kids. That just might deter others.
UGH.
Microsoft's a convicted monopoly. Period. Get over it.
When has General Motors been declared a monopoly? Do you really not understand the conversation? Are you so thick you can't understand what being a convicted monopoly means? Wow.
Microsoft lost the right to control their software when they were convicted of running a monopoly and using it to harm competitors. Many good companies were forced out of business by Microsoft, and having them around to compete would have made today's market better for consumers.
...and if I recommended a third-party site to do Windows updates I'd be laughed at. The very first time there was a problem you can bet it would be blamed on the 3rd party app. Not a good idea.
Depending on your location an aircard may be another option. I think they're around $60 per month on our corporate plan. Mine's Sprint/Nextel. I'm using it now.
Creating a multithreaded PDF reader is only useful if you want to rasterise pages concurrently.
You can also rasterize multiple streams on the same page, which could prove useful depending on the number and type of streams. See this for a product which does exactly that ( http://www.iptech.com/Home/NT_Products/TurboRIP/turborip_-_adobe_postscript_3_.html ). With the average processor having multiple cores, and as many professional printers have adapted to a PDF workflow, I think we'll see more demand in that area.
Given that most PostScript printers come with something like a 50MHz MIPS processor, and the NeXTstation used PostScript for the entire display on a 25MHz 68040, I think you are vastly overestimating how difficult it would be for mobile devices to support.
You can't have it both ways. Either it takes sufficient enough processing power on CISC chips to process PostScript that vendors
target the PDF-like subset to reduce the CPU load running the resulting PostScript
or it doesn't. It would make no sense for a vendor to make the optimizations you claim -- just to lower CPU usage -- if that weren't an issue on modern CISC chips.
I have some experience with both PDF and PostScript so far as professional printing goes, and PostScript -- while yielding more accurate output in general -- tends to result in much larger print spool files and require larger total printer memory than PDF. That's exactly why the RIP market devices and pre-spoolers (Fiery etc) are used -- printing PostScript is extremely taxing on most devices. You may not be familiar with these devices ( http://www.wide-format-printers.org/EFI_postscript_RIP_servers/EFI_Colorbus_Splash_RIP.html lists a few). Maybe people buy these because the drivers are fat, but in that case you shouldn't see such a wide and developed market for those devices. In real-world use, PostScript is slow and fat compared to PDF.
RISC versus CISC is completely irrelevant
All RIP devices I've ever seen were RISC chips, and so were most of the in-printer PostScript boards. Just because recently we've seen more CISC chips in printers doesn't mean they're better... again there is a reason that the RISC chips have been used in the past: Performance. Do a Google search of "risc postscript rip +performance -cisco" and the same with "cisc postscript rip +performance -cisco" and see the number of related results.