No way... Look at the moveable LED construction signs on the sides of the road--those have solar panels the size of a car roof (and a battery pack the size of a fat kid's ass). You think the power draw from an 8x3 character LED screen comes anywhere close to giving the power needed to assist a gasoline engine in a car???
Honestly, I'd be shocked if cars could increase their gas mileage by 5% with solar cells on the roof & an electric motor assisting the gasoline engine using today's technologies...
Three reasons companies are tied to M$-Office... VBA, MS-Access, and Outlook. Sure, 90% of Word & Excel files are simple documents with basic formatting, but it's the 10% that are the most important and likely to trip up an office clone. Like it or not, Microsoft has done a great job of locking people into Office and until someone comes up with a feature-for-feature clone, nobody will switch...
That's why I said that WINE's priorities are screwed up. Hell, even M$ might have an incentive to invest in WINE and get it working with Office--instead of spending $$$ putting together a Mac version MS-Office for ~5% of the Office software market, they could port WINE to OSX and run Office that way...
So, would a Windows port of WINE mean the potential exists that I could run Office 2007 or IE7 on W2K?
Am I the only person who believes that WINE has their priorities screwed up??? You can't run any recent version of M$-Office (probably the 2nd-most-used application on the planet, behind IE) on Linux, but hey--you'll be able to run DX10 games on XP--or maybe even W2K! WTF?
However, their longevity is a testament to 70's electronics. If these were made with components of today, they probably would of failed decades ago.
Honestly, I don't think that's totally true... The Mars Rovers http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/home/ are still going strong in a much more inhospitable climate, today's cars are WAY more reliable than cars were in the '70s, and so on. (And my examples don't even consider the technological advances...)
It boils down to how well something is designed... Back then, consumer products were designed with longevity in mind. But just because few presently are doing it with consumer and other products doesn't mean that it can't be done... Entities like NASA have to do it--with surprisingly good results...
[...] The source should already have been public and heavily scrutinized. I don't want my government spending my tax money and wasting time in court, to get convictions based on evidence from mysterious unaudited machines. Why? Because sooner or later, some defendant is going to want the mystery peeled back. Some defendant is eventually going to want a fair trial. Might as well give that fair trial to the first one, so that a bunch of expensive shit doesn't have to get re-done (or so that a bunch of guilty people don't end up walking free, simply because the cops used a defective machine that ended up collecting untrustworthy "evidence").
You know, I was thinking the same thing. Chicago recently put up red-light cameras where if you violate, you get a ticket in the mail. But before I get burned, I was thinking of filing a Freedom of Information Act request to get the source code and/or the "version info"/bugfix list, along with the version info for every red-light camera in the city--and info on how the computer operating systems & how they are networked. (Please don't say they run XP and are networked using the Internet in some way!!!) I've seen other peoples' tickets and the picture always includes the software version number on top. What if I knew that particular version had a bug where one camera snaps the picture 1 second before the others do (or something like that)??? Now, I have even more reason to ask for the source code!
If the hardware does not allow me, its owner, to override the wishes of the content manufacturer, it is not the hardware I want.
You'll find no argument from me... However, I have yet to come across a DVD player that overrides the chapter/title/whatever's ban on skipping or seeking. Does that mean you'll go back to VHS? No bans there. Hell, if a VHS tape has an ad or a preview at the beginning, you could even open up the tape, cut out the "offending" content, and splice the tape back together. Now you can claim to control the content. But alas, I doubt you would go thru all that effort...
So you won't be going to HD-DVD. But according to your argument, you shouldn't even be using DVDs...
And you might have noticed that some DVD players don't let you skip ads, previews and other nuisances.
It's not that the DVD players don't let you skip these nuisances, it's that the chapter/title/whatever tells the DVD player to not let you skip them. There are valid reasons why you shouldn't be allowed to skip chapters on some DVDs (i.e. a DVD-video based game played on your TV, or an educational DVD that tests you and your answers determine the next question, etc.) but, IMHO, no DVD movie that you paid $$$ for has a valid reason for not allowing you to skip chapters. The studios are just abusing the system and pissing off their customers... (Hence the popularity of DVD movie backup software that lets you rip the feature film only...)
Except the "jury of your peers" are often a) the perpetually unemployed; b) homeless. Both A & B are looking for the $10/day and free lunch. They don't give a crap who they vote for. Anyone with a real job (especially someone who doesn't get paid the difference between jury pay and their own pay) feins some sort of pre-conceived reason to not get selected (i.e. "I am racist" or "I can't send anyone to jail on a Tuesday, which is today"). To add, juries are intentionally uninformed. Why have educated people who understand CDMA technology when you can have some poor homeless guy get eju-mi-ca-did by lawyers for the next 6 weeks on why Broadcom is right and Qualcomm is wrong...
Frankly, we should have an educated jury pool based on data from the Census. (To a certain extent, the IRS already collects this data--they ask you for your professional title...)
Could someone file a class-action against the RIAA and/or Mediasentry since apparently everyone in the US is at risk for their extortion practices? The class would be everyone in the US, or everyone in the US with Internet access, who has NOT been targeted by the RIAA... Since the RIAA's tactics are becoming public knowledge as people have defended themselves and counter-sued, and since Mediasentry amounts to nothing more than a bunch of computer hackers, would this be possible? The goal here would not be to extract $$$ (although that would be a nice benefit), but to get an injunction against their practices. (Can an injunction be laid against someone to prevent them from filing more lawsuits?) What about trying to have the RIAA declared to be a malicious litigant? (I believe there's a better term for this but I can't remember...)
Guess what? Most did. Linux and OS X are still not viable options for many businesses. We'll see how it goes when Vista finally matures.
Honestly, I'd love to see Sun or Apple or someone with deep pockets REALLY throw some serious cash at the WINE project. It's the little apps that are a huge headache. Having Solaris on desktops running some home-grown Microsoft Access 2003 app by way of WINE would go a long way in adopting a non-Microsoft OS.
Remember, 32-bit apps have been common for over a decade now. Excluding.NET or DirectX, WINE could have Win32 app compatibility down to a science if someone really threw some resources at the project!
Maybe Apple, Sun, & Linux folks should band together to show their collective strengths in fighting Windows and fund projects like WINE to their collective benefit--instead they fight each other. (Then again, Jobs' ego would prevent such an unholy union...)
And why do we need this? BMW proved with their 5-Series a few years ago that an automotive OS is a bad idea. Seriously, how much cheaper could power windows (no pun intended) get??? What is wrong with the traditional "push button, complete circuit, window goes up" or "engine provides mechanical energy to run power steering"???
Personally, I HATE this idea. Imagine having the "automotive OS" go down or a short somewhere in the system results in your brakes, windows, airbags, navigation system, cruise control, steering, fuel pump, automatic transmission, anti-theft system, speed gauges, radio, turn signals, headlights, interior lights and brake lights all failing simultaneously--all while going down the highway doing 70MPH in the middle of the night... Even if you do coast to a stop without killing yourself or someone else, imagine the diagnostic charges! And that assumes your car hasn't been hacked or has a virus!
Separate systems are much easier to diagnose ("I push the button and the window won't go up...") and aren't prone to malicious activity.
Borland deserved to die as well. While it had a fantastic DOS/protected mode compiler and runtime it never understood the idea that future will be ruled by resource editors and visual controls.
From a consumer standpoint, I disagree. Quattro Pro/DOS, Sidekick, etc. were light-years ahead of what Lotus was offering. While 1-2-3 was tight code (supposedly written mostly in assembler), Borland was able to utilize a pseudo-virtual memory scheme, even on XTs. (Borland's VROOMM scheme would dump unused objects from memory--but unlike Windows, it wouldn't write anywhere. The 1-2MB v/m file, Q.VRM, already had the memory dumps of the objects so only reads had to take place. This solution cut disk I/O in half since nothing was ever written... And that was important when working on an MFM drive connected to an 8-bit ISA controller with a maximum sustained transfer of 160 KB/sec!)
On a 640K XT, Quattro Pro had ~150K more memory to load spreadsheets than the equivalent 1-2-3 of the era. Also, don't forget that Quattro Pro included everything that 1-2-3 didn't. How we've quickly forgotten the bad-old-days of Lotus 1-2-3 r2.2 and having to buy 3rd party plug-ins to... 1) Print sideways with Allways; 2) Use basic VGA 640x480 rendering (pseudo-WYSIWYG instead of 80x25 text); etc. Hell, Quattro Pro/DOS could even embed sounds (not MIDI, but actual sound files) into cells--and it used something similar to RealSound to play them using a PC speaker!
You firmly believe that you could never bring a lawsuit against a TV station for something that was advertised on it? IANAL, but such an action (falsely advertising one company then redirecting to another) is illegal. If they were totally not liable (at least in the US), then TV stations could accept ads from drug dealers, prostitutes, bookies, chop-shops, cock fighters, doctors who loosely write prescriptions, Chinese toothpaste manufacturers, etc.
Yet, for some reason, they don't... So there's some level of verification and corporate responsibility (and CYA) going on. In this instance, Google has shown no such actions.
Bullsh!t. The suicide bombers meet with people who teach them how to make bombs, give them money, help provide cover, etc. None of these Islamic cells operate in a total vacuum devoid of outside contact/help.
Sure, the bomber may have blown himself up, but now there are additional clues as to who their acquaintances are. Now we can also go after the bomber's family, who just hit paydirt...
should I be disallowed to by a mod chip simply because I "could" pirate games with it?
Should I be disallowed from buying alcohol because I "could" get into a drunken bar fight? Should I be disallowed from buying a car because I "could" hit an old lady crossing the street? Honestly, I don't see the difference...
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Good point... And 7200rpm 2.5" HDs definitely put out more heat than 4200 or 5400rpm ones.
Nannynazi?
Linux 2.6.x = UNIX System V
No way... Look at the moveable LED construction signs on the sides of the road--those have solar panels the size of a car roof (and a battery pack the size of a fat kid's ass). You think the power draw from an 8x3 character LED screen comes anywhere close to giving the power needed to assist a gasoline engine in a car???
Honestly, I'd be shocked if cars could increase their gas mileage by 5% with solar cells on the roof & an electric motor assisting the gasoline engine using today's technologies...
Three reasons companies are tied to M$-Office... VBA, MS-Access, and Outlook. Sure, 90% of Word & Excel files are simple documents with basic formatting, but it's the 10% that are the most important and likely to trip up an office clone. Like it or not, Microsoft has done a great job of locking people into Office and until someone comes up with a feature-for-feature clone, nobody will switch...
That's why I said that WINE's priorities are screwed up. Hell, even M$ might have an incentive to invest in WINE and get it working with Office--instead of spending $$$ putting together a Mac version MS-Office for ~5% of the Office software market, they could port WINE to OSX and run Office that way...
So, would a Windows port of WINE mean the potential exists that I could run Office 2007 or IE7 on W2K?
Am I the only person who believes that WINE has their priorities screwed up??? You can't run any recent version of M$-Office (probably the 2nd-most-used application on the planet, behind IE) on Linux, but hey--you'll be able to run DX10 games on XP--or maybe even W2K! WTF?
I can see corporate desktop Linux taking off if MS-Office could run flawlessly using WINE... Yet, to this day, there are no "platinum" ratings for any version of MS-Office on WINE's AppHQ... (Office 2003 comes close with one "silver" rating).
It boils down to how well something is designed... Back then, consumer products were designed with longevity in mind. But just because few presently are doing it with consumer and other products doesn't mean that it can't be done... Entities like NASA have to do it--with surprisingly good results...
God, that was a stupid movie! The background "music" sounds like some bad TurboGrafx-16-inspired acid trip.
Real crap, meet virtual crap...
Yeah, but if that source code were to get "leaked" then somebody would probably truly pick it apart...
So you won't be going to HD-DVD. But according to your argument, you shouldn't even be using DVDs...
Frankly, we should have an educated jury pool based on data from the Census. (To a certain extent, the IRS already collects this data--they ask you for your professional title...)
Homer Simpson would never allow it... "In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!"
IANAL, so this may be a stupid question...
Could someone file a class-action against the RIAA and/or Mediasentry since apparently everyone in the US is at risk for their extortion practices? The class would be everyone in the US, or everyone in the US with Internet access, who has NOT been targeted by the RIAA... Since the RIAA's tactics are becoming public knowledge as people have defended themselves and counter-sued, and since Mediasentry amounts to nothing more than a bunch of computer hackers, would this be possible? The goal here would not be to extract $$$ (although that would be a nice benefit), but to get an injunction against their practices. (Can an injunction be laid against someone to prevent them from filing more lawsuits?) What about trying to have the RIAA declared to be a malicious litigant ? (I believe there's a better term for this but I can't remember...)
Remember, 32-bit apps have been common for over a decade now. Excluding
Maybe Apple, Sun, & Linux folks should band together to show their collective strengths in fighting Windows and fund projects like WINE to their collective benefit--instead they fight each other. (Then again, Jobs' ego would prevent such an unholy union...)
And why do we need this? BMW proved with their 5-Series a few years ago that an automotive OS is a bad idea. Seriously, how much cheaper could power windows (no pun intended) get??? What is wrong with the traditional "push button, complete circuit, window goes up" or "engine provides mechanical energy to run power steering"???
Personally, I HATE this idea. Imagine having the "automotive OS" go down or a short somewhere in the system results in your brakes, windows, airbags, navigation system, cruise control, steering, fuel pump, automatic transmission, anti-theft system, speed gauges, radio, turn signals, headlights, interior lights and brake lights all failing simultaneously--all while going down the highway doing 70MPH in the middle of the night... Even if you do coast to a stop without killing yourself or someone else, imagine the diagnostic charges! And that assumes your car hasn't been hacked or has a virus!
Separate systems are much easier to diagnose ("I push the button and the window won't go up...") and aren't prone to malicious activity.
On a 640K XT, Quattro Pro had ~150K more memory to load spreadsheets than the equivalent 1-2-3 of the era. Also, don't forget that Quattro Pro included everything that 1-2-3 didn't. How we've quickly forgotten the bad-old-days of Lotus 1-2-3 r2.2 and having to buy 3rd party plug-ins to... 1) Print sideways with Allways; 2) Use basic VGA 640x480 rendering (pseudo-WYSIWYG instead of 80x25 text); etc. Hell, Quattro Pro/DOS could even embed sounds (not MIDI, but actual sound files) into cells--and it used something similar to RealSound to play them using a PC speaker!
I live in Chicago. Half the cops here are crooks, and the other half would never snitch on their crooked friends...
So, yes, such white-listed malware is bound to get into the hands of crooks--especially if it's in the hands of cops.
Yet, for some reason, they don't
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Bullsh!t. The suicide bombers meet with people who teach them how to make bombs, give them money, help provide cover, etc. None of these Islamic cells operate in a total vacuum devoid of outside contact/help.
Sure, the bomber may have blown himself up, but now there are additional clues as to who their acquaintances are. Now we can also go after the bomber's family, who just hit paydirt...