I thought TIVO was not just using OSS, but was using GPL'd software and one of the points in the GPL was that you had to distribute the code if requested AND be able to modify it and use it on the device. Assuming GPL v2.1, how is TIVO not in violation of 0.6.b.2:
"will operate properly with a modified version of the library, if the user installs one, as long as the modified version is interface-compatible with the version that the work was made with."
If there is a kernel check that prevents your code from operating, how is that not in violation?
"Journalist are there to report, not support."
Typical. I love it when freedom loving right wingers get on their high horse and tell everyone how the world is supposed to work. I love how quickly they give up on their free market ideals when things don't go their way. If you think the press has EVER been unbiased, you need to study history a little closer.
Also, if you don't "know Obama" at this point, you are just stupid. Not just ignorant to history, but really stupid. About the only think you can't know about him is what he is actually thinking inside his head. If that is how you judge whether you know someone, maybe you should give yourself a test: Did you know McCain was going to pick Palin? Did you know McCain was going to suspend his campaign? Do you know how often McCain goes to church? Do you really "know" McCain?
People that think an open-source solution will solve this problem are delusional. You can never have a 100% solution no matter how many keys or security mechanisms you dream up. In fact, the more you try to secure it, the more incentive there is to find a way to break it. Don't you people learn anything from all the stories that are posted about cracking DRM?
The only thing that is reasonably secure is create a ballot the voter can verify, have a machine or person tabulate the ballots repeatedly and reliably, and create a place for observers to minimize tampering. That's it, that's all you can do.
Is Apple preventing you from creating a gopher client? There are clients for RDP and VNC so I doubt they are. The fact they didn't implement it doesn't mean you can't get it if YOU implement it. If you want Flash, implement a browser with Flash support. If you want Java, knock your self out.
Whether she goes back to him or not, she is still a victim asshole. Why don't you take a few minutes, turn off your Ann Coutler podcast, and learn some the psychology abuse victims suffer from.
Ok, for you nitwits that have less than a 7th grade level of reading comprehension, or the inability to focus for more than two paragraphs, here is the summary of the article you might be able to grasp:
The author is saying we are approaching the point where we can use raw computational power to mine enormous amounts of data for answers to increasingly complex questions. We can use this instead of the scientific method, because in the end, they produce the same thing: an approximation. The author then sites examples where this process was applied with degrees of success (i.e Google Searches).
"...by an margin amply large to change the result of the primary"
Ahhhh, no. Unlike Republicans, all Democratic primaries and caucuses use a proportional delegate system. Winners and losers aside, both Clinton and Obama ended up with 9 delegates. There would have to be a much larger error to to "change" the result of the primary here.
"Motion control, in the sense that the Wii has it, is new, as in never been done before in a console." Where am I? 1989? A little history lesson for you son, the Wii controller is just an incremental improvement over the joystick, the gamepad, the light gun I used to play Duck Hunt and Hogan's Alley, and the current incarnation of this ugly thing (http://youtube.com/watch?v=93iDhnBcMGo) that no one would be caught dead with wearing. The only thing Nintendo managed that was revolutionary with the Wii is that they got all of you suckers to pay a $150 for a remote control with a repackaged last-generation $99 GameCube. That had truly never been done in the history of the console.
Actually, this has nothing to do with failed engineering or Microsoft and everything to do with all of you cheap end users that don't want to shell out money for hardware accelerated audio. Software audio solutions require fine grained timing in order to minimize the mixing latency. Hardware solutions only require big buffers of data to achieve virtually zero CPU usage. I just want to know how many of you suckers out there paying more $1000 out there for a 5% faster CPU instead of $50-$75 for a sound card which would have probably given you then same 5%. Sure you get more generalized CPU processing time for those massive Linux compiles, but the instant you do anything multimedia related you can kiss it goodbye.
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I thought TIVO was not just using OSS, but was using GPL'd software and one of the points in the GPL was that you had to distribute the code if requested AND be able to modify it and use it on the device. Assuming GPL v2.1, how is TIVO not in violation of 0.6.b.2: "will operate properly with a modified version of the library, if the user installs one, as long as the modified version is interface-compatible with the version that the work was made with." If there is a kernel check that prevents your code from operating, how is that not in violation?
"Journalist are there to report, not support." Typical. I love it when freedom loving right wingers get on their high horse and tell everyone how the world is supposed to work. I love how quickly they give up on their free market ideals when things don't go their way. If you think the press has EVER been unbiased, you need to study history a little closer. Also, if you don't "know Obama" at this point, you are just stupid. Not just ignorant to history, but really stupid. About the only think you can't know about him is what he is actually thinking inside his head. If that is how you judge whether you know someone, maybe you should give yourself a test: Did you know McCain was going to pick Palin? Did you know McCain was going to suspend his campaign? Do you know how often McCain goes to church? Do you really "know" McCain?
People that think an open-source solution will solve this problem are delusional. You can never have a 100% solution no matter how many keys or security mechanisms you dream up. In fact, the more you try to secure it, the more incentive there is to find a way to break it. Don't you people learn anything from all the stories that are posted about cracking DRM? The only thing that is reasonably secure is create a ballot the voter can verify, have a machine or person tabulate the ballots repeatedly and reliably, and create a place for observers to minimize tampering. That's it, that's all you can do.
Is Apple preventing you from creating a gopher client? There are clients for RDP and VNC so I doubt they are. The fact they didn't implement it doesn't mean you can't get it if YOU implement it. If you want Flash, implement a browser with Flash support. If you want Java, knock your self out.
Whether she goes back to him or not, she is still a victim asshole. Why don't you take a few minutes, turn off your Ann Coutler podcast, and learn some the psychology abuse victims suffer from.
Ok, for you nitwits that have less than a 7th grade level of reading comprehension, or the inability to focus for more than two paragraphs, here is the summary of the article you might be able to grasp: The author is saying we are approaching the point where we can use raw computational power to mine enormous amounts of data for answers to increasingly complex questions. We can use this instead of the scientific method, because in the end, they produce the same thing: an approximation. The author then sites examples where this process was applied with degrees of success (i.e Google Searches).
"...by an margin amply large to change the result of the primary"
Ahhhh, no. Unlike Republicans, all Democratic primaries and caucuses use a proportional delegate system. Winners and losers aside, both Clinton and Obama ended up with 9 delegates. There would have to be a much larger error to to "change" the result of the primary here.
In the right hands, nuclear power can be wondrous. In the wrong hands you get stuff like this: http://todayspictures.slate.com/inmotion/essay_chernobyl
Ya, I'm hoping for a 486SX version myself.
"Motion control, in the sense that the Wii has it, is new, as in never been done before in a console." Where am I? 1989? A little history lesson for you son, the Wii controller is just an incremental improvement over the joystick, the gamepad, the light gun I used to play Duck Hunt and Hogan's Alley, and the current incarnation of this ugly thing (http://youtube.com/watch?v=93iDhnBcMGo) that no one would be caught dead with wearing. The only thing Nintendo managed that was revolutionary with the Wii is that they got all of you suckers to pay a $150 for a remote control with a repackaged last-generation $99 GameCube. That had truly never been done in the history of the console.
Actually, this has nothing to do with failed engineering or Microsoft and everything to do with all of you cheap end users that don't want to shell out money for hardware accelerated audio. Software audio solutions require fine grained timing in order to minimize the mixing latency. Hardware solutions only require big buffers of data to achieve virtually zero CPU usage. I just want to know how many of you suckers out there paying more $1000 out there for a 5% faster CPU instead of $50-$75 for a sound card which would have probably given you then same 5%. Sure you get more generalized CPU processing time for those massive Linux compiles, but the instant you do anything multimedia related you can kiss it goodbye.