Or...if DRM is "everywhere", the Military might do what the gun makers did before the ban on foriegn assualt rifles went into effect.
Build and ship a butt-load of items that are about to be banned.
I really think the author of the DRM was making crap up about which he knew not off.
But for the sake of argument, lets say on Jan 1 2008 everything has to have DRM. The USAF/USN/USMC would need about...say a million 486s to keep the fleet flying until the next generation of fighters comes out. Intel would cut the military a deal on that.
It's called a stockpile, the military and Federal Government already do it.
The fighters of today (F-16/F-15/F-18A-D/Rafale/F-14/Toranado/F-104/F-4/ Mirages) will be phased out from 2004 through 2050. That is, some of these planes will not be replaced and will keep some of thier current systems for 48 more years. In 1955 when the F-104 was built, do you think Lockheed thought it would be flying until 2007? Did people get all paranoid about a lack of vacuum tubes for the Starfighter when Intel started up? There may very-well be non-DRM chips flying for 50 more years.
And like I said above, when the Air Force is ordering a 486 for the F-15E, Intel has to ship that exact part for at least 15 years. So there will be non-DRM 386/486/PowerPC chips in production for at least 15 years after the F/B-22As are finished with production.
It is absolutly impossable to predict what will happen technology-wise, and it's a really big IF as to if DRM will happen or be forced with legislation on the United States.
My friends at Intel have told me that Intel already has a.13 micron process 386 and 486 strictly for these military applications and contracts. Also, if DRM does come down the path for everyone, the Military and Law Enforcement do not live by the same rules as Joe Shit and the Ragman do.
Another thing the author of the piece about DRM missed, when a bill goes up to Capital Hill, they don't just say US Code 802.11b Everything Has To Have DRM. They will come out of committee with all sorts of loopholes for special interests, the people of West Virgina, the Inuit of the Brooks Range, etc. I am sure the medical industry, military-industrial complex and law enforcement as well as the Hunkpapa Sioux will be exempt from DRM if the Special Interests have thier way.
Yes the Navy is using Pentium chips for ship control systems, however most of the parts used in the military are specially procured hardened chips. Due to the amount of electromagnetic interference and electronic warfare the ships must be able to emit and be able to get bombarded by and still function, the Navy isn't grabbing Boxed P4s at Fry's or CompUSA.
Look at generations and upgrades. Today's DDGs and CGs being built have a life-span of 25-35 years with a single mid-life upgrade in the middle. Most of the time the systems on the ship will not be upgraded until the mid-life upgrade, unless the ship is tasked with a special application or is damaged. Damaged ships are upgraded to the current standard of the ships in production.
So in 10-15 years some Navy ships will be upgraded to new systems, I doubt that in 10-15 years DRM will be a critical issue when it comes to military applications as it will either be outlawed, the Military Procurment system will have a workaround, or it will be bulletproof. One today can not say what will be existance in 10-20 years.
Submarines are usually upgraded when thier reactor is refueled - 6-11 years, Aircraft Carriers are up graded when thier reactor is fueled - 8-12 years. LHAs and other ships are 35-50 year ships, not sure what thier upgrade path is.
Also, the Windows used for military applications is not the Windows you and I have access to, it is developed for the military.
To some wild conclusions, the author of that piece linked does.
1. Most military gear does not use off the shelf CPUs. An example - F/A-18E/F - while SuperHornet uses armored Cat-6 cables and PowerPC chips, they are specially made hardened chips for military and commercial sat applications. F/B-22 uses 486s as does F-15E but they are special 486s that come out just for military applications. If you sell a part to the US military for a system, you must produce that system for 15 more years. Since the new F-15Es for the US/Israel/Korea are just delivering now, one can expect 486s without DRM for a while, since F-22 may be in it's current model production until 2011, expect 486s until 2026.
Parts for missiles and PDAs sold to the Military are under the same rules.
2. Medical equipment - Usually use embedded OSes and Dragonball, 486s, ARM or Mot 68000 series chips, not the latest and greatest from Intel/AMD. They sure won't be running Palladium. I found that arguement by the author to be, well stupid.
3 I had another point, but I've got to go to work, and I forgot it. Sorry.
Anyone that wants to use USB with Windows NT. It was coming with SP 6, then it was dropped because Windows 2000 was coming.
Energy Management was coming with NT 4, then it was dropped and put in Windows 2000.
Another big migrator is 3rd party software. Say HR is tied into some package and then the vendor says "Oh, those problems that have been making your life hell...those are fixed in the new upgrade that will only work with Windows 2000."
Alot of things once were on the todo list for NT4 and Service Packs that got moved to Win 2000 and thus people that to upgrade.
And don't forget the OEMs that Microsoft forced to bundle the OS of the week. My workplace wanted to standardize on Win2000 for laptops but MS forced the OEMs to WinXP, and some of the laptops get really bothersome when Win2000 is placed on them.
Looks like I got it right with ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge). At least according the US Federal Government, the State of Alaska, the envrionmental groups and people up there.
Second, yea 5 square miles, 10, 15 whatever, it's a drop in the bucket, a teeny-tiny percent of the total area in ANWR.
Do you have an oil well on your land? I do, a single well 6.5 miles North of Lantry South Dakota in a joint venture with another company. It was drilled in the early 1960s, then went silent, then reopened in the early 1980s.
The current plan for ANWR isn't to build a pipeline, not yet at least, although that would be the least invasive way to get the oil out.
You ask if I believe everything the industry says, I ask, do you believe everything environmental groups say?
I think Voyager would BS it's way to victory. Worf and DS9 would get Death Star'ed
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Watch the Geeks with slim VIAOs beat the livin' bejesus out of the Geek with the OS 10.2 PowerBook, then watch them bitch when they find out the HFS+ iPod won't mount under Windows without some software from Versiontracker!
Each week a Geek will be voted out of the house if they fail to meet a challenge.
First Challenge - Uninstall Easy CD Creator 5 from Windows XP without interupting the Metallica CD playing in the Optical Drive
Second Challenge - Vi vs Emacs - Defend your position
Let's not get too crazy here and think that the Rep is doing this out of the goodness of her heart.
"Silicon Valley Congresswoman introduces bill to respect consumer rights and expectations."
What we have here is a battle brewing between interest groups in California. Fritz Hollings is a patsy for Disney and the rest of Hollywood. I'm sure that Lofgren has some ties to Apple and other companies in the Valley that don't want DRM.
"The Semiconductor Industry Association has named her a "Congressional Leader" and the Business Software Alliance has called her one its "Cyber Champions."'
And lets not forget that the Supreme Court decided long ago that Corporations have rights as well as all citizens do.
I think this is the right idea, but don't kid yourself about heroic Representatives fighting the evil corporations for the good of the people.
"Before 10.2, the API had been reverse engineered and was being widely used by shareware developers. WeatherPop, for example, used it to show the current weather, while Homeland Alert shows the U.S. government's level of terrorist alert. These utilities were broken by the Jaguar update. Unsanity recently released a utility, Menu Extra Enabler, to restore them. "
Not true.
I've got both WeatherPop and Homeland Alert running on 10.2 and 10.2.1 without Menu Extra Enabler.
The the bit about the NG, well I'm saying that at Kent State, it wasn't the Government behind the trigger pulling, it was just guys in a militia. Big difference. Well unless it's a Milita in like Zim taking a Farm where the media will clearly make the distinction that the Milita isn't the Government.
No the Soviet Union wasn't created by spikes in trees, but for some reason a passive-agressive stance has been taken by Eco-Terrorists and Anarchist. My point was, that's not the way to win a revolution, some eggs must be broken and I do not see that any of the social change or revolutionary groups in the Western World have the courage to let some members die for the cause.
The Clean Air Act has nothing to do with the focus of the revolutionaries that annoy police at Economic meetings. The Clean Air Act and the Indian Independace was created by a MAJORITY of the people wanting a change. A majority in Imperial Russia wanted change, but it took the violence and ruthlessness of the Soviets to make it happen.
Now I don't mean to flame, or to degrade those killed at Kent State, however...
Those killed at Kent State were killed by the National Guard, the National Guard is pretty much the closest thing there is to the Milita as mentioned in the Constitution.
So it's not right IMO to say they were "murdered by the Government." Those at Ruby Ridge and Waco were murdered by the Government. Kent State was a simple set of murders by other people.
But otherwise, I agree. Todays rablerousers like the Anarchists and Eco-Terrorists don't have the guts to go into harms-way and die for a cause. They are soft, the children of the 60s and 70s activists that had some guts, or maybe it was the LCD...
It's not just the United States, its all the "movements" around the world. In Italy they whined when a demonstrator that was trying to brain a Cop with a brick got a Beretta to the head. In a truely radical movement, it would have sparked a revolt.
Activists, look at the '93 LA riots, if you remeber that far back, that's how you spark revolution, you kill indescrimantly. You Eco-Warriors think that the Sovet Union was formed by some spikes in trees or treehouses?
Meanwhile, I've got my M-4, Trijicon and Gen-3 Night Vision to keep those Eco-Warriors and Anarchists off my property. I'm willing to sacrifice some anachists for the cause.
his just came out, from Yahoo, 3dfx has announced that they will be sold to NVidia as soon as the deal is approved by its shareholders. From the release, "After aggressively pursuing a wide range of options that take into consideration the interests of our creditors, our shareholders, our employees and our customers," said Alex Leupp, president and CEO, 3dfx Interactive Inc., "we strongly believe that to reduce expenses, sell our assets and dissolve the company provides the highest return to our creditors, shareholders, and employees." I think we all saw this one coming. For more details, go to the press release
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Or...if DRM is "everywhere", the Military might do what the gun makers did before the ban on foriegn assualt rifles went into effect.
/ Mirages) will be phased out from 2004 through 2050. That is, some of these planes will not be replaced and will keep some of thier current systems for 48 more years. In 1955 when the F-104 was built, do you think Lockheed thought it would be flying until 2007? Did people get all paranoid about a lack of vacuum tubes for the Starfighter when Intel started up? There may very-well be non-DRM chips flying for 50 more years.
Build and ship a butt-load of items that are about to be banned.
I really think the author of the DRM was making crap up about which he knew not off.
But for the sake of argument, lets say on Jan 1 2008 everything has to have DRM. The USAF/USN/USMC would need about...say a million 486s to keep the fleet flying until the next generation of fighters comes out. Intel would cut the military a deal on that.
It's called a stockpile, the military and Federal Government already do it.
The fighters of today (F-16/F-15/F-18A-D/Rafale/F-14/Toranado/F-104/F-4
And like I said above, when the Air Force is ordering a 486 for the F-15E, Intel has to ship that exact part for at least 15 years. So there will be non-DRM 386/486/PowerPC chips in production for at least 15 years after the F/B-22As are finished with production.
It is absolutly impossable to predict what will happen technology-wise, and it's a really big IF as to if DRM will happen or be forced with legislation on the United States.
My friends at Intel have told me that Intel already has a .13 micron process 386 and 486 strictly for these military applications and contracts. Also, if DRM does come down the path for everyone, the Military and Law Enforcement do not live by the same rules as Joe Shit and the Ragman do.
Another thing the author of the piece about DRM missed, when a bill goes up to Capital Hill, they don't just say US Code 802.11b Everything Has To Have DRM. They will come out of committee with all sorts of loopholes for special interests, the people of West Virgina, the Inuit of the Brooks Range, etc. I am sure the medical industry, military-industrial complex and law enforcement as well as the Hunkpapa Sioux will be exempt from DRM if the Special Interests have thier way.
Yes the Navy is using Pentium chips for ship control systems, however most of the parts used in the military are specially procured hardened chips. Due to the amount of electromagnetic interference and electronic warfare the ships must be able to emit and be able to get bombarded by and still function, the Navy isn't grabbing Boxed P4s at Fry's or CompUSA.
Look at generations and upgrades. Today's DDGs and CGs being built have a life-span of 25-35 years with a single mid-life upgrade in the middle. Most of the time the systems on the ship will not be upgraded until the mid-life upgrade, unless the ship is tasked with a special application or is damaged. Damaged ships are upgraded to the current standard of the ships in production.
So in 10-15 years some Navy ships will be upgraded to new systems, I doubt that in 10-15 years DRM will be a critical issue when it comes to military applications as it will either be outlawed, the Military Procurment system will have a workaround, or it will be bulletproof. One today can not say what will be existance in 10-20 years.
Submarines are usually upgraded when thier reactor is refueled - 6-11 years, Aircraft Carriers are up graded when thier reactor is fueled - 8-12 years. LHAs and other ships are 35-50 year ships, not sure what thier upgrade path is.
Also, the Windows used for military applications is not the Windows you and I have access to, it is developed for the military.
To some wild conclusions, the author of that piece linked does.
1. Most military gear does not use off the shelf CPUs. An example - F/A-18E/F - while SuperHornet uses armored Cat-6 cables and PowerPC chips, they are specially made hardened chips for military and commercial sat applications. F/B-22 uses 486s as does F-15E but they are special 486s that come out just for military applications. If you sell a part to the US military for a system, you must produce that system for 15 more years. Since the new F-15Es for the US/Israel/Korea are just delivering now, one can expect 486s without DRM for a while, since F-22 may be in it's current model production until 2011, expect 486s until 2026.
Parts for missiles and PDAs sold to the Military are under the same rules.
2. Medical equipment - Usually use embedded OSes and Dragonball, 486s, ARM or Mot 68000 series chips, not the latest and greatest from Intel/AMD. They sure won't be running Palladium. I found that arguement by the author to be, well stupid.
3 I had another point, but I've got to go to work, and I forgot it. Sorry.
Right to be left alone.
Show me that in the US Constitution or any State Constitution.
Had to upgrade?
Anyone that wants to use USB with Windows NT. It was coming with SP 6, then it was dropped because Windows 2000 was coming.
Energy Management was coming with NT 4, then it was dropped and put in Windows 2000.
Another big migrator is 3rd party software. Say HR is tied into some package and then the vendor says "Oh, those problems that have been making your life hell...those are fixed in the new upgrade that will only work with Windows 2000."
Alot of things once were on the todo list for NT4 and Service Packs that got moved to Win 2000 and thus people that to upgrade.
And don't forget the OEMs that Microsoft forced to bundle the OS of the week. My workplace wanted to standardize on Win2000 for laptops but MS forced the OEMs to WinXP, and some of the laptops get really bothersome when Win2000 is placed on them.
Theres an Apple Switch campaign waiting to happen.
"I used to pay for security patches with Windows, but since I moved to an iMac with OS X I get them for free."
I couldn't recall if it was ANWR or ANWAR.
: //www.anwrnews.com/t p://www.anwr.org/
Looks like I got it right with ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge). At least according the US Federal Government, the State of Alaska, the envrionmental groups and people up there.
http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=anwr
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http://www.kaktovik.com/
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Second, yea 5 square miles, 10, 15 whatever, it's a drop in the bucket, a teeny-tiny percent of the total area in ANWR.
Do you have an oil well on your land? I do, a single well 6.5 miles North of Lantry South Dakota in a joint venture with another company. It was drilled in the early 1960s, then went silent, then reopened in the early 1980s.
The current plan for ANWR isn't to build a pipeline, not yet at least, although that would be the least invasive way to get the oil out.
You ask if I believe everything the industry says, I ask, do you believe everything environmental groups say?
Oil drilling is about the least "rapist" of any form of mineral extraction there is.
Once the road is in, the total well site is about the size of a missile silo or large house.
In ANWR the total planned developed area was under 5 square miles.
Which Federation?
Kirk
Picard
Worf and DS9
Voyager
I think Voyager would BS it's way to victory.
Worf and DS9 would get Death Star'ed
Watch the Geeks with slim VIAOs beat the livin' bejesus out of the Geek with the OS 10.2 PowerBook, then watch them bitch when they find out the HFS+ iPod won't mount under Windows without some software from Versiontracker!
Each week a Geek will be voted out of the house if they fail to meet a challenge.
First Challenge - Uninstall Easy CD Creator 5 from Windows XP without interupting the Metallica CD playing in the Optical Drive
Second Challenge - Vi vs Emacs - Defend your position
Third Challenge - KDE vs Gnome - Defend your GUI
If Gordon Jump is in it, I'll watch it!
What about the guy that played Andy as David Boies?
Oh, I won't watch MTV films unless Jack Black or talking roaches are in it.
Jooooeeeesss Apartment (in little roach voice).
I didn't say that an "opinion" about customer service was slander.
But if the business owner thinks it was, then he does have that right to take them to court.
Freedom of Speech does not protect one from slandering another.
If this place's service sucks, then the posts and things about it aren't slanderous, but that is for a jury or a judge to determine.
Liberty for more than corporations?
Let's not get too crazy here and think that the Rep is doing this out of the goodness of her heart.
"Silicon Valley Congresswoman introduces bill to respect consumer rights and expectations."
What we have here is a battle brewing between interest groups in California. Fritz Hollings is a patsy for Disney and the rest of Hollywood. I'm sure that Lofgren has some ties to Apple and other companies in the Valley that don't want DRM.
"The Semiconductor Industry Association has named her a "Congressional Leader" and the Business Software Alliance has called her one its "Cyber Champions."'
And lets not forget that the Supreme Court decided long ago that Corporations have rights as well as all citizens do.
I think this is the right idea, but don't kid yourself about heroic Representatives fighting the evil corporations for the good of the people.
Not only were most Kaleidescope interfaces crap, running it or a custom mouse arrow slowed a machine way down in 8-9.
From a support stand point, I like the fact that the users can't do to much to thier GUI in OS X.
"Before 10.2, the API had been reverse engineered and was being widely used by shareware developers. WeatherPop, for example, used it to show the current weather, while Homeland Alert shows the U.S. government's level of terrorist alert. These utilities were broken by the Jaguar update. Unsanity recently released a utility, Menu Extra Enabler, to restore them. "
Not true.
I've got both WeatherPop and Homeland Alert running on 10.2 and 10.2.1 without Menu Extra Enabler.
I have a hard time sometimes with a dark room and my 55 inch Mitsubishi.
Throw in active movement and it'd be rough.
No screwdrivers with that puppy, OJ makes me get extra motion sickness.
I'm not trollin' honest.
My Opinion.
The the bit about the NG, well I'm saying that at Kent State, it wasn't the Government behind the trigger pulling, it was just guys in a militia. Big difference. Well unless it's a Milita in like Zim taking a Farm where the media will clearly make the distinction that the Milita isn't the Government.
No the Soviet Union wasn't created by spikes in trees, but for some reason a passive-agressive stance has been taken by Eco-Terrorists and Anarchist. My point was, that's not the way to win a revolution, some eggs must be broken and I do not see that any of the social change or revolutionary groups in the Western World have the courage to let some members die for the cause.
The Clean Air Act has nothing to do with the focus of the revolutionaries that annoy police at Economic meetings. The Clean Air Act and the Indian Independace was created by a MAJORITY of the people wanting a change. A majority in Imperial Russia wanted change, but it took the violence and ruthlessness of the Soviets to make it happen.
That was the point of my morning rant.
I did.
I have like 5 LCDs around me and I got a brain lock. Umm 17 inch Apple LCDs...LCD iMac...PowerBook G4....IBM 17 inch black....arrrrggggaaaah
LSD. It's bad kids!
Now I don't mean to flame, or to degrade those killed at Kent State, however...
Those killed at Kent State were killed by the National Guard, the National Guard is pretty much the closest thing there is to the Milita as mentioned in the Constitution.
So it's not right IMO to say they were "murdered by the Government." Those at Ruby Ridge and Waco were murdered by the Government. Kent State was a simple set of murders by other people.
But otherwise, I agree. Todays rablerousers like the Anarchists and Eco-Terrorists don't have the guts to go into harms-way and die for a cause. They are soft, the children of the 60s and 70s activists that had some guts, or maybe it was the LCD...
It's not just the United States, its all the "movements" around the world. In Italy they whined when a demonstrator that was trying to brain a Cop with a brick got a Beretta to the head. In a truely radical movement, it would have sparked a revolt.
Activists, look at the '93 LA riots, if you remeber that far back, that's how you spark revolution, you kill indescrimantly. You Eco-Warriors think that the Sovet Union was formed by some spikes in trees or treehouses?
Meanwhile, I've got my M-4, Trijicon and Gen-3 Night Vision to keep those Eco-Warriors and Anarchists off my property. I'm willing to sacrifice some anachists for the cause.
Don't hold your breath for Apple to swtich to Intel.
Wow. NPR scooped by a made for TV movie from the 70s.
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0078496
It's a good movie, covers the subjects well. It was on the History Channel a while back.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/15/224425 6&mode=nested&tid=137
his just came out, from Yahoo, 3dfx has announced that they will be sold to NVidia as soon as the deal is approved by its shareholders. From the release, "After aggressively pursuing a wide range of options that take into consideration the interests of our creditors, our shareholders, our employees and our customers," said Alex Leupp, president and CEO, 3dfx Interactive Inc., "we strongly believe that to reduce expenses, sell our assets and dissolve the company provides the highest return to our creditors, shareholders, and employees." I think we all saw this one coming. For more details, go to the press release