Would it convert the 1080i60 to 720p60 or to 720p30? If you convert to 720p60, you're going to end up with a jittery picture (you could adjust the scaling by a half-scanline, but edges would still seem jittery). From the description of "throwing one field away", it sounds like it's downsampling to 720p30, and it would provide the most consistent viewing experience (equally good or bad at rendering every 1080i60 stream).
Nonsense. Even today, given sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead.
WindowsKey+R brings up the run dialog, from there you can run anything.
Other useful ones include cmd.exe (command prompt, of course), devmgmt.msc (Device manager), gpedit.msc (Group policy editor in XP Pro), and eventvwr.exe. In particular, I like running cmd.exe, "set DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1" and then "devmgmt.msc". Then in device manager, you can show hidden devices, and it'll show even non-connected devices.
There are a few other hotkeys that are handy though.
For Windows XP only, Win+L locks your workstation (or goes back to the "welcome" screen if you have fast user switching on). Ctrl-Shift-Esc will bring up task manager even when connected to a domain (ctrl-alt-del does the same on non-domain workstations, but will bring up the Windows NT Security screen on domain members). Then there's the classics that almost everyone knows, like alt-F4 to close, and alt-spacebar to bring up the current window menu (alt-spacebar, x is a fast way to maximize the current window using only the keyboard and are conveniently clustered together.)
Laws that allow creators to benefit from their works.
A useful means for expanding the state of art and science.
Laws that mean companies must innovate to succeed.
Except when the protections and terms get longer and longer that companies can sit back and simply collect rent on their old creations. Reasonable limited terms are useful to ensure that this doesn't become the norm. As for the people who want copyrights to last so long that they can 'provide for the authors dependants', I don't know about you, but I have to work, if I want to eat.
Laws that allow people to own ideas that are the result of their time.
As long as those ideas must be renewed and expanded through market forces over time rather than just collecting monopoly rent in perpetuity.
The patent may have a life of up to 20 years. The rules to determine if the patent qualifies for a 20 year life or a 17 year life based on a filing from 1987 are too complex for me to figure out. All new patents filed in any TRIPS signatory nations have 20 year terms.
There are a surprising number of constructs in Java and now.NET that just cover over the fact that not everything NEEDS to be an object. So-called utility classes are a prime example. They're not OO in any sense of the word, but immensely useful in the otherwise OO-enforced world of those languages. Although, I have to admit, it's rather amusing seeing an OO-purist get into a huff when you give them a program which uses printf or open/read/close from the standard C library in a C++ program.
Video chat is the next big thing? Seriously, something like this is perfectly expected from a modern OS.
I don't really expect it from the OS, but rather from any competitive IM client.
Longhorn will ship (so they say) for x86, IA64, Itanium and probably more...
Not to pick nits or anything, but IA64 is Itanium. You probably mean x86-64 (AMD) or IA32e/EM64T/[whatever the rename it to next] (Intel). I think x86-64 will catch on far better than any of Intel's brand names at this point. Just look at how well the a IA32 terminology has supplanted i386 or x86.
No, IE isn't integrated into the kernel, but it IS deeply integrated into the shell. IE problems can prevent you from using the start menu, folder windows, control panel, or anything else that depends on MSHTML.DLL, SHDOCVW.DLL, or SHELL32.DLL. I have seen very many machines so infested with spyware that simply displaying the desktop is enough to bring the machine to it's knees.
It would cost us $50,000 to have a contractor develop this whereas we could buy a commercial solution that does what we want for $10,000.
That's a perfectly reasonable response. If the $10,000 OS does everything you need, it makes no business sense to pay $50,000 for the feature you need in the free OS. But let's be completely honest here. A company does not (or should not) choose their OS based on ideology, but rather based on if it meets their needs or not. Moreover, CA's concerns are not that of a typical user, but rather from their perspective as a software vendor.
Unfortunately not. Ramping up CPU production takes a very long time, because you have to build big, complex, factories.
What would stop AMD from contracting another party to manufacture their chips to pick up the slack in AMD's production capabilities. TSMC and UMC are both in that business, and many other parties use them with great success.
The choice of CPU in the box means as much to Dell as the choice of compressor in a Siemens fridge means to Siemens. [snip] if you have n million invested in robots that can install one brand of compressor and not another, are you going to switch?
It really depends. Are you going to save more money in the end by switching? Is your supplier for the compressors playing pricing games? What we see here is just Dell giving Intel a "friendly suggestion" that they'd like for Intel to improve the discounts and/or co-marketing funds that Dell receives.
Dell don't sell PCs because they make the best ones. They sell them because they make them very cheap, and can deliver huge orders on time, even when those orders are semi-custom.
You'd be surprised how few people understand this. Dell is the Walmart of the PC world.
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I don't believe that's the reason, either. AMD would ramp up production if the demand was there. I believe this is far more about getting the best price possible out of Intel rather than really wanting any AMD chips. AMD is just a bargaining chip to use against Intel to ensure that Dell remains a primary beneficiary of Intel co-marketing (a.k.a. market development funds, promotions, etc) and to negotiate better volume discounts.
Let's be completely honest. All Dell announcements regarding AMD have nothing to do with AMD at all. It's all about Intel.
Because the filters are not perfect, and anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to sell you something. In many cases completely legitimate sites were blocked either because of a keyword match (such as politician Richard "Dick" Armey's website), or some other equally useless method. Some products even blocked searches for things like cucumbers and sextants because of banned embedded words in them. When tested, these same products, which had incorrectly blocked several sites, let a large portion of porn sites through.
I guess the trucker had better not have a last name of Sexton or similar, or they will never be e-mailing their wife/husband while on the road.
I was just kidding, you know. I don't think they'd do anything. I mean, read their FAQ.
I want to put your images on my homepage without crediting you or acknowledging you in any way, so that I can do my small part to violate the copyrights of your photographers and whoever else might have a commercial interest in your intellectual property. How cool is that?
It is okay with us provided you promise to throw an online tantrum when we ask you politely to stop.
While it wasn't a company, Microsoft did send the developer of VirtualDub a nastygram telling him to remove the ASF support from his program because they had a patent on it. If he did not, they warned that they would file against him. He, of course, caved into their pressure.
The Supreme Court of Canada struck down this law, whereupon the Quebec Speech Nazis invoked the "Notwithstanding" clause in the Constitution to trump the court.
Yes, and because of the backlash from using the "notwithstanding" clause, the Quebec government backed down, and adopted the suggestions the supreme court made (namely the requirement that French be more prominant on the signs). Today, a sign can be in any language, but it must also be in French, and the French text must be more prominant. It's not great, but it is better than it was.
Now, Quebec is a rather strange place within Canada to begin with. They do not use the common law system the rest of Canada uses, but rather rely on civil law. Their government is subtly different. The majority of it's people speak French. Frankly, if you choose to do business in Quebec, the language laws are just another cost of doing business.
This, perhaps, brings us to another point. There's no "killer app" that people need a faster machine for. Anything beyond 1GHz is pretty much the same for the vast majority of computer users. Until something shows up that everyone's gotta have, there's no driving force.
Even in Canada, which you named, there is a province with laws to censor your private speech if it is in the wrong language
Which province is this? Quebec's law only requires prominant labelling in French on commercial production, signing and advertising. Private speech is not affected. The federal "Hate Speech" laws are far more controversial from a free expression point of view than Quebec's law. Commercial speech has always been treated differently -- that's why we have truth in advertising laws (but lying is free speech!), trademark law, etc.
It would appear I missed an important part of the license when I first read through it. Section 1.9 lays out how modifications interact on file boundaries during the definition of the term "modifications". The fact that Larger Works was not a defined term still strikes me as a little strange.
The CDDL appears to be a very effective license in ensuring that bug fixes are contributed back into the mainline, but is really no more effective at getting features re-integrated than a simple BSD license. I suspect that was their intention. The patent clauses are pretty good, too. Too bad the GPL doesn't have any -- it's a real deficiency these days.
Hey, there are plenty of reasons to bash CA. I mean, have you ever tried to use Arcserve (now Brightstor)? They couldn't have made it more unintuitive if they had tried.
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Would it convert the 1080i60 to 720p60 or to 720p30? If you convert to 720p60, you're going to end up with a jittery picture (you could adjust the scaling by a half-scanline, but edges would still seem jittery). From the description of "throwing one field away", it sounds like it's downsampling to 720p30, and it would provide the most consistent viewing experience (equally good or bad at rendering every 1080i60 stream).
Nonsense. Even today, given sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead.
Unfortunately newegg does not ship to Canada, or anywhere else outside the States. TigerDirect does.
The patent may have a life of up to 20 years. The rules to determine if the patent qualifies for a 20 year life or a 17 year life based on a filing from 1987 are too complex for me to figure out. All new patents filed in any TRIPS signatory nations have 20 year terms.
There are a surprising number of constructs in Java and now .NET that just cover over the fact that not everything NEEDS to be an object. So-called utility classes are a prime example. They're not OO in any sense of the word, but immensely useful in the otherwise OO-enforced world of those languages. Although, I have to admit, it's rather amusing seeing an OO-purist get into a huff when you give them a program which uses printf or open/read/close from the standard C library in a C++ program.
I don't really expect it from the OS, but rather from any competitive IM client.
Not to pick nits or anything, but IA64 is Itanium. You probably mean x86-64 (AMD) or IA32e/EM64T/[whatever the rename it to next] (Intel). I think x86-64 will catch on far better than any of Intel's brand names at this point. Just look at how well the a IA32 terminology has supplanted i386 or x86.
No, IE isn't integrated into the kernel, but it IS deeply integrated into the shell. IE problems can prevent you from using the start menu, folder windows, control panel, or anything else that depends on MSHTML.DLL, SHDOCVW.DLL, or SHELL32.DLL. I have seen very many machines so infested with spyware that simply displaying the desktop is enough to bring the machine to it's knees.
Or perhaps he lives near this place. It's worse.
Let's be completely honest. All Dell announcements regarding AMD have nothing to do with AMD at all. It's all about Intel.
I guess the trucker had better not have a last name of Sexton or similar, or they will never be e-mailing their wife/husband while on the road.
I've purchased some of their calendars (didn't get this year's because it's all old designs), and they're always funny, and far, far too true.
No one ever got fired for buying IBM^WMicrosoft. No one could cause IBM^WMicrosoft to lose their position in the market.
There could be problems trying to use a part with similar specs, but different dimensions and screw holes.
While it wasn't a company, Microsoft did send the developer of VirtualDub a nastygram telling him to remove the ASF support from his program because they had a patent on it. If he did not, they warned that they would file against him. He, of course, caved into their pressure.
Now, Quebec is a rather strange place within Canada to begin with. They do not use the common law system the rest of Canada uses, but rather rely on civil law. Their government is subtly different. The majority of it's people speak French. Frankly, if you choose to do business in Quebec, the language laws are just another cost of doing business.
This, perhaps, brings us to another point. There's no "killer app" that people need a faster machine for. Anything beyond 1GHz is pretty much the same for the vast majority of computer users. Until something shows up that everyone's gotta have, there's no driving force.
The CDDL appears to be a very effective license in ensuring that bug fixes are contributed back into the mainline, but is really no more effective at getting features re-integrated than a simple BSD license. I suspect that was their intention. The patent clauses are pretty good, too. Too bad the GPL doesn't have any -- it's a real deficiency these days.
Hey, there are plenty of reasons to bash CA. I mean, have you ever tried to use Arcserve (now Brightstor)? They couldn't have made it more unintuitive if they had tried.