A truck being shipped out of country would not be equipped with a tracking device... it's not like auto manufacturers don't already make all kinds of changes far more drastic than some GPS add-on to same model cars sold in different countries. I think you're reading WAY too much into this.
Smith HAS been through the previous 5, because the previous The Ones made a different choice than Neo, which didn't lead to Smith's destruction. He also says things in Reloaded that imply he knows about the cycle and what to expect, as someone already pointed out.
I'm sorry but I had no trouble understanding all the parts you say have no explaination: *Neo stopped the sentinels because, apparently, his powers are not limited to just the matrix, but are actually in the real world too.
Well, thank you, Captain Obvious, whatever would we do without you. Yes, Neo has the same power in the realworkd as he does in the Matrix. His power in the Matrix exist because he can manipulate the computer world, in a way that at least geeks can understand. It's just bits. But how does he do this in the real world? Are we left to conclude that the real world isn't real, but just another layer, a la 13th Floor?
Besides, if I installed different software to access my USB printer/scanner, I'd expect the current software to stop working... *shrug*
What?! What kind of logic is that? If I have software A talking to my scanner, and I install software B, I'd expect BOTH to keep working. If I want to scan with A I launch A and it still works, even though B was installed later. Scanners come with scanning software, even the cheapest ones. Corel PhotoPaint, for example, comes with its own scanner utility. You can choose which one you want to use when you hit the Scan button in Corel. At any time, you can use the original one. At no point does either piece of software cease to work.
I don't think very many reasonable people are arguing against cleaning up. I don't like smog. I don't like the stink of diesel and factory exhausts. I don't like not being able to eat fish I catch in lakes and rivers, or not having any fish at all.
Someone above said that if you had some symptoms of cancer, would you check yourself out or wait for ALL the symptoms? That's fine, but we're not sticking our head in the sand here. We ARE checking things out. We're seeing some signs now. But those signs are far from unambiguous. Moving to cleaner fuels and energy sources is great, and we're doing that. Accelerating it is great. This is all part of 'checking yourself out' and cleaning up your lifestyle to avoid major trouble and improve your overall quality of life.
But some of the things that are being proposed amount to waging full scale warfare against something we have no clue about. If you're feeling a bump where there wasn't one on your body, or have some cancer symptoms, you don't start full on chemo. You get things checked out. It's the reasonable thing to do, because the cure can kill you, and if you're not sick that would suck.
I'm with you on configuring anything that isn't out of the box in Linux. I'm not a computing lightweight either, I'm quite used to compiling my own software on every platform imaginable, when I HAVE TO or really want to. I always compile my own Apache and PHP, so that an individual web process is under 3MB as opposed to the stock 8+.
But things that would be nice, I don't have time to bother with. I COULD get sound working, if I had time or inclination to figure the stupid thing out. I COULD have 3D acceleration working, if I cared enough or had any games to play. But fuck me if I'm going to figure out the model number and firmware revision of every piece of equipment that isn't automatically recognized.
Recently, after RH8->9 upgrade I've noticed some issues. Graphical grub boot no longer shows up properly, it's just a bunch of coloured noise on screen until kernel starts booting. If I ever can't bring the system up and need to go into single user mode or change kernel parameters (ugh) I'm pretty much fucked. But I'll be damned if I even know where to START looking for a solution. Another issue is that every 5 minutes a line gets logged and printed to the console to the effect that 'process "x" is respawning too fast'. The "x" is literal. Fuck me if I know where it came from. But it's there, every five fucking minutes.
Shit like this, that should just work or shouldn't happen, I have no patience for. I'm perfectly happy to dive in and make things work, but this is too much. It's like the 'detected mouse button click, must reboot windows for changes to take effect' joke. Funny thing is, I don't have weird issues like that with Windows. The only complaint I have is that after a while some stuff in the Add/Remove Programs applet can't uninstall because it's missing some files. Again, fuck me if I'm going chasing for hours or days to track down the problem. It should just work.
It's not a rant gainst Linux specifically, but Linux certainly is my biggest thorn. I've been 'in the industry' a long time now, and I'm sick of this nonsense. I'm very technically adept and capable, but when basic stuff doesn't work, I'll just throw up my hands and deal with it. After 20 years of computing you'd think we would get some things down to a science.
All email originating from dialup IPs is decidedly not spam.
It most decidedly is. Dialup users (or any non-business users) have no business sending email from their connections. That's hat ISP's mail servers are for.
Start up the multimedia equivalent of the Gutenburg project and start ripping DVDs and CDs on the most insane scale you can imagine - every title ever produced totally clean and ready to download.
Project Gutenberg is completely legit. It electronically publishes works that are out of copyright.
Our eventual goal is to provide Public Domain Etext editions a short time after they enter the Public Domain.
What you are proposing is outright copyright infringement.
I have to wonder who will pay for this 'fat pipe' you speak of, and how long the upstream will last.
World Wrestling Entertainment, for example, went public, but the McMahon family has the controlling interest... so when other stockholders bitch at them they basically say "Oh, really? Too bad."
Yeah, until someone wises up and organizes a shareholder lawsuit. As long as WWE makes money things are good, but all that can change overnight.
effectively allowing the reviewer to pick up the real deal item off the shelf at a real store, yet have the full cost picked up by the manufacturer.
Effectively making the manufacturer pick up the retailer's profit margin bill. The samples manufacturer's usually send out are direct from the warehouse/factory, so the cost is significantly smaller.
VBR is part of the original mp3 spec. The only reason CBR became popular was because back in 1997/98, the processing power required for VBR wasn't there, and good free VBR encoders didn't exist.
VBR is not part of any spec per se. MP3 streams have a bitrate field in every frame header, so by definiton they are VBR.
The reason we've been stuck with CBR so long is not because of CPU power (each MP3 frame is the same as any other). It's because it was easier to encode from algorithmic point of view. Perceptual codecs have advanced far enough that you can get a good sounding VBR file.
Xing popularized VBR, and added its own header/tag to help with playback a little. These days we also have ABR (ave bit rate), which really needs two passes to do a good job of allocating the bits.
This slippery slope thing is a little over the top. I think the worse that will happen, in the short run anyways, is that the bit will basically always stay on. Whether is broadcasting commercials, news, documentary, emergency broadcast, infomercial or pattern screen.
So to give a less obfuscated example:)... if the CIA has a super-secret coassified satellite in space taking pictures, by default all images coming from it will be classified, even if they don't show anything.
Things may become classified because the fact that some info exists may lead to other classified info. I don't see how classifying newspaper clippings would be justified, but some innocuous info may very well lead to questions or conclusions which expose other sensitive or classified data. For example, some perfectly innocent picture may be classified because if it were examined it may reveal equipment, techniques or knowledge that no one new existed at the time it was taken. So it's just easier to classify the whole shwack. When someone asks why, well, we can't tell you why, that's classified.
You're lucky. I can't even start the damn thing. I just get an error popup... something about needing to create a directory in the Music folder. Beats the heck out of me. Running Win2000 here.
The concept is old and well known. Applying it to an 'allowance' scheme is actually restrictive. The general idea is that you allow only a certain amount to be chanrged to a CC, and you lock the owner of the account from using the card. You're basically pre-paying someone else's account. I don't think this needs a patent. It's too cumbersome to implement on anything but the largest scale, and in combination with a few other forms of payment.
You haven't seen it done before because Internet purchases to date have mostly been done by people old enough to have credit cards of their own.
Of course MS is not excluded from bidding, that's just silly. When the government is taking bids for some shuttle parts supplier, is Joe from Joe's Landscaping pissed that he's excluded from bidding? If the government is looking for open source software, and MS is not capable, or willing, to make the product sought, then they can't bid.
Well, I was away for a few days, so who know what will happen to my response...
My post had a specific purpose, trolling or 'looking for info' was not it.
Basically, to repeat with less ambiguity, the MS page has instructions on how to disable AutoRun, not copy protection, hence no reason to sue MS. It's not telling you 'to prevent copy protection kicking in and restricting your ability to copy or rip, hold shift while inserting CD'.
Infrastructure companies made the investment to install the wires to an area. Let them make their money from renting those wires to other companies that provide services.
But infrastructure is not where the money is to be made. All the 'value-add' and bundling and market stratification is what makes the highest margins.
Everything about this company, its software, its claims and statements, its employees/contributors, and its supporters, rubs me the wrong way. There's something wrong what the picture ES5 presents.
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A truck being shipped out of country would not be equipped with a tracking device... it's not like auto manufacturers don't already make all kinds of changes far more drastic than some GPS add-on to same model cars sold in different countries. I think you're reading WAY too much into this.
Smith HAS been through the previous 5, because the previous The Ones made a different choice than Neo, which didn't lead to Smith's destruction. He also says things in Reloaded that imply he knows about the cycle and what to expect, as someone already pointed out.
Well, thank you, Captain Obvious, whatever would we do without you. Yes, Neo has the same power in the realworkd as he does in the Matrix. His power in the Matrix exist because he can manipulate the computer world, in a way that at least geeks can understand. It's just bits. But how does he do this in the real world? Are we left to conclude that the real world isn't real, but just another layer, a la 13th Floor?
What?! What kind of logic is that? If I have software A talking to my scanner, and I install software B, I'd expect BOTH to keep working. If I want to scan with A I launch A and it still works, even though B was installed later. Scanners come with scanning software, even the cheapest ones. Corel PhotoPaint, for example, comes with its own scanner utility. You can choose which one you want to use when you hit the Scan button in Corel. At any time, you can use the original one. At no point does either piece of software cease to work.
This is really strange logic and reasoning.
I don't think very many reasonable people are arguing against cleaning up. I don't like smog. I don't like the stink of diesel and factory exhausts. I don't like not being able to eat fish I catch in lakes and rivers, or not having any fish at all.
Someone above said that if you had some symptoms of cancer, would you check yourself out or wait for ALL the symptoms? That's fine, but we're not sticking our head in the sand here. We ARE checking things out. We're seeing some signs now. But those signs are far from unambiguous. Moving to cleaner fuels and energy sources is great, and we're doing that. Accelerating it is great. This is all part of 'checking yourself out' and cleaning up your lifestyle to avoid major trouble and improve your overall quality of life.
But some of the things that are being proposed amount to waging full scale warfare against something we have no clue about. If you're feeling a bump where there wasn't one on your body, or have some cancer symptoms, you don't start full on chemo. You get things checked out. It's the reasonable thing to do, because the cure can kill you, and if you're not sick that would suck.
I'm with you on configuring anything that isn't out of the box in Linux. I'm not a computing lightweight either, I'm quite used to compiling my own software on every platform imaginable, when I HAVE TO or really want to. I always compile my own Apache and PHP, so that an individual web process is under 3MB as opposed to the stock 8+.
But things that would be nice, I don't have time to bother with. I COULD get sound working, if I had time or inclination to figure the stupid thing out. I COULD have 3D acceleration working, if I cared enough or had any games to play. But fuck me if I'm going to figure out the model number and firmware revision of every piece of equipment that isn't automatically recognized.
Recently, after RH8->9 upgrade I've noticed some issues. Graphical grub boot no longer shows up properly, it's just a bunch of coloured noise on screen until kernel starts booting. If I ever can't bring the system up and need to go into single user mode or change kernel parameters (ugh) I'm pretty much fucked. But I'll be damned if I even know where to START looking for a solution. Another issue is that every 5 minutes a line gets logged and printed to the console to the effect that 'process "x" is respawning too fast'. The "x" is literal. Fuck me if I know where it came from. But it's there, every five fucking minutes.
Shit like this, that should just work or shouldn't happen, I have no patience for. I'm perfectly happy to dive in and make things work, but this is too much. It's like the 'detected mouse button click, must reboot windows for changes to take effect' joke. Funny thing is, I don't have weird issues like that with Windows. The only complaint I have is that after a while some stuff in the Add/Remove Programs applet can't uninstall because it's missing some files. Again, fuck me if I'm going chasing for hours or days to track down the problem. It should just work.
It's not a rant gainst Linux specifically, but Linux certainly is my biggest thorn. I've been 'in the industry' a long time now, and I'm sick of this nonsense. I'm very technically adept and capable, but when basic stuff doesn't work, I'll just throw up my hands and deal with it. After 20 years of computing you'd think we would get some things down to a science.
It most decidedly is. Dialup users (or any non-business users) have no business sending email from their connections. That's hat ISP's mail servers are for.
Project Gutenberg is completely legit. It electronically publishes works that are out of copyright.
What you are proposing is outright copyright infringement.
I have to wonder who will pay for this 'fat pipe' you speak of, and how long the upstream will last.
Microsoft recognizes the value of Google's online search and advertising market share. Technology has little to do with it at this point.
Yeah, until someone wises up and organizes a shareholder lawsuit. As long as WWE makes money things are good, but all that can change overnight.
Effectively making the manufacturer pick up the retailer's profit margin bill. The samples manufacturer's usually send out are direct from the warehouse/factory, so the cost is significantly smaller.
VBR is not part of any spec per se. MP3 streams have a bitrate field in every frame header, so by definiton they are VBR.
The reason we've been stuck with CBR so long is not because of CPU power (each MP3 frame is the same as any other). It's because it was easier to encode from algorithmic point of view. Perceptual codecs have advanced far enough that you can get a good sounding VBR file.
Xing popularized VBR, and added its own header/tag to help with playback a little. These days we also have ABR (ave bit rate), which really needs two passes to do a good job of allocating the bits.
This slippery slope thing is a little over the top. I think the worse that will happen, in the short run anyways, is that the bit will basically always stay on. Whether is broadcasting commercials, news, documentary, emergency broadcast, infomercial or pattern screen.
So to give a less obfuscated example :)... if the CIA has a super-secret coassified satellite in space taking pictures, by default all images coming from it will be classified, even if they don't show anything.
Things may become classified because the fact that some info exists may lead to other classified info. I don't see how classifying newspaper clippings would be justified, but some innocuous info may very well lead to questions or conclusions which expose other sensitive or classified data. For example, some perfectly innocent picture may be classified because if it were examined it may reveal equipment, techniques or knowledge that no one new existed at the time it was taken. So it's just easier to classify the whole shwack. When someone asks why, well, we can't tell you why, that's classified.
You're lucky. I can't even start the damn thing. I just get an error popup... something about needing to create a directory in the Music folder. Beats the heck out of me. Running Win2000 here.
The concept is old and well known. Applying it to an 'allowance' scheme is actually restrictive. The general idea is that you allow only a certain amount to be chanrged to a CC, and you lock the owner of the account from using the card. You're basically pre-paying someone else's account. I don't think this needs a patent. It's too cumbersome to implement on anything but the largest scale, and in combination with a few other forms of payment.
You haven't seen it done before because Internet purchases to date have mostly been done by people old enough to have credit cards of their own.
Of course MS is not excluded from bidding, that's just silly. When the government is taking bids for some shuttle parts supplier, is Joe from Joe's Landscaping pissed that he's excluded from bidding? If the government is looking for open source software, and MS is not capable, or willing, to make the product sought, then they can't bid.
Well, I was away for a few days, so who know what will happen to my response...
My post had a specific purpose, trolling or 'looking for info' was not it.
Basically, to repeat with less ambiguity, the MS page has instructions on how to disable AutoRun, not copy protection, hence no reason to sue MS. It's not telling you 'to prevent copy protection kicking in and restricting your ability to copy or rip, hold shift while inserting CD'.
Hmm, that Microsoft page doesn't say anything about how to bypass SunnComm copy protection. Just some stuff about CD AutoRun.
Hmm... ok... and I assume you're volunteering to be one of the first people to write fake data to the mag stripe on their drivers licence?
But infrastructure is not where the money is to be made. All the 'value-add' and bundling and market stratification is what makes the highest margins.
You don't need to compromise a proxy, just set up your own.
Everything about this company, its software, its claims and statements, its employees/contributors, and its supporters, rubs me the wrong way. There's something wrong what the picture ES5 presents.
So, are we just getting better at spotting these things, even if it's after the fact, or is there just more stuff flying at us?