I certainly wouldn't put 100 back-of-the-warehouse IDE drives into production without a warranty
Ah, but if you have good fail-over software on the 100-node cluster, you still have a very cheap and very reliable setup; probably even moreso than some commercial fail-safe systems. You just swap out the broken xbox and throw it away. And if the fail-over software is good enough, it'll get the new replacement xbox up to speed in short order.
Right, but if your only intention is to disable Pd in order to have an "open" system, you should just put together a non-Pd system from the beginning (or disable it). Then you can still install linux or Win2K or whatever, but you won't get access to any software which requires an active, authorized key.
Did you read the article? That key will be disabled. Not to mention that they can run arbitrary code on all Pd-compliant machines, allowing them to "fix" the problem remotely on any "infected" machine.
- Inicially the majority of the software out there will not require Paladium/DRM. Only new programs might require that.
A new program is released on the net (say Windows Media Player 9). The ??AA companies, now confident of the security of Pd, dump tons of high quality material onto the net, served up by this application.
Non-Pd authorized users can see small, low-quality preview clips of this material, but Pd-compliant systems will play all of this free media in complete detail, at highest quality.
The software constantly bombards the user to upgrade to a Pd system to get access to tons of free, current full-length media. Users hear from their early-adopter friends that it's "so awesome" and that they got to watch the newest Britney Spears movie right from their home PC, only one month after it came out in the theatre "!!"...
The sheep flock in masses to buy Pd-compliant systems so they can all experience the full-length (instead of preview) movies and songs for free.
(a year later) The majority now own Pd-compliant systems, all enjoying the wealth of free media being given so generously by the ??AA's. It's like the napster days all over again, except it's so much easier, more reliable, and it's all high quality.
The ??AA's pull the plug. All full-length media is shutdown. Now you must pay $3.99 to view any movie, and $2.99 to purchase a song.
The addicted masses fork over all of their money to the ??AA's so they can continue to experience what they had become so addicted to.
Some people may not give in, but they will be in the minority.
Everyone lives happily ever after... err.. well the ??AA executives do anyway..
All quicktime "movie player" applications have sucked. Until they release codecs for Windows Media Player 6.x (one of the few clean and elegant players, I refuse to upgrade to WMP7 or 8), I'll continue to irrationally generalize that "Quicktime Sucks". As far as that goes, any overdone GUI that tries to metaphor itself to look "prettier" at the expense of efficiency and elegance, sucks.
That doesn't necessarily mean it will be a dead-end limitation though, they just need to predict the effects of the waveguides and then find out how to make that work for them in a computing environment. I expect that these quantum effects will probably be exploited to further increase the computational capacity of chips when they reach this point. It just means a depature from the current electrical model to a more electro-quantum model. Taken to the extreme, it may eventually lead down the roadway to quantum computing.
I don't expect that some day we're going to hit a roadblock and all these chip manufacturing companies are going to just give up and say "well, we've come a long way, but physics won't let us go any further; it's been fun!" This is just one of the gateways into a slow transition into a more quantum-based computer chip.
That's it. Forget this... I'm not going to bother with any (re)writable DVD[+-]* formats. I'm going to just stick with CD-R until I can find either the 27G capacity blue-laser discs announced recently here, or the flourescent multilayer discs which have been (slowly) coming along and should be due any time now, or something else...
According to many dictionaries, it's not really considered strictly an acronym unless it is easily pronouncable; otherwise, it's just an abbreviation. Personally, if it's an abbreviation where the letters are the first letters of most of what it's abbreviating, I call it an acronym whether it's pronouncable or not.
As far as what to call "SQL", I think most of us are intelligent enough to know what someone means if they say either "ess cue ell" or "sequel".
One thing I wish the Palm devices would do in the reminder dept, is to have several alarms for the same event. I always wind up putting in four entries for an important event, such as a doctor's appointment - one week in advance (so I remember to ask for time off work), one day in advance (so I remember to be ready for the appt tomorrow, such as fasting), an hour in advance (so I know to get in the car and start driving to get there in time), and the actual event time itself.
Actually, I've been able to become much less of a pakrat since eBay came along... I can justify getting rid of stuff now becuase I know (for example) I'll always find some kook who collected all his Amiga Format magazines and is willing to sell me that one issue with a demo of Megalomania in case I ever have the urge to give it another run.
I agree with the parent comment; I have Adelphia, but I'd gladly pay for reasonably priced metered usage if they'd just remove this damn 128kbps upload cap! I'd really like to listen to my mp3 collection from work, but it's not really possible unless I re-encode everything to 96kbps, which is crap.
I'm disappointed that they didn't take this opportunity to finish the original engine they created for SimCity 3000, which was completely 3D. That system was cancelled and SC3K was delayed a year becuase the computer systems at the time were not up to par to run the game. However, today many of us have our GeForce cards and and GHz processors which I'd be quite sure could handle the job.
I still have the screenshots of the orginal SC3k saved on my computer at home. I come across them now and than and wonder if that kind of sim will ever become a real product. I can tell from those screenshots that my GF4/4400 would probably handle the job quite well.
I'd love to see an MMOG based on Frontier: Elite 2. Anyone know of something like this? The closest thing I can think of could possibly be the first expansion pack for Star Wars Galaxies.
I ordered my copy on January 2, 2001 and have frequently been lamenting to my co-workers every time it got put back. I was well known for shouting out "where the hell is my fuc*ing wolfram book?" in the office in moments of temporary insanity brought on by yet another delay.
I eventually wrote Wolfram Science an email, partly out of jest:
Where's my ####ing wolfram book!!??? I ordered it on Amazon a year ago...
Only problem was that I originally wrote it without censoring myself, then corrected the censor in my email body, but not my subject. Despite the vulgarity, I still managed to get a very professional response:
Dear Mr. Faulkner,
Well, your emotions might be shared by Dr. Wolfram as well
given the fact that the time frame in his case is ten years and,
when he started writing he did not know that it would take him
this long. He has literally been working on this book full time for
the entire decade (and running his company).
[... clipped...]
Thank you very much for interest in "A New Kind of Science."
Sincerely,
David Reiss, Ph.D.
Scientific Communications Director
Stephen Wolfram Science Group
I'm probably going to make myself look completely oblivious by asking this, but has anyone seen the editor to Morrowind? At first glance, it seems an order of magnitude more sophisticated than this (e.g. fully arbitrary positioning - not tile based, and there are so many settings for each object). Someone please tell me what NWN is going to have over MW? The only thing I can see that is superior in NWN is multiplayer capabilities and I see it has a sophisticated programming language built into the editor. I'd assume that these could potentially make up for it, but I'm just curious:)
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Ah, but if you have good fail-over software on the 100-node cluster, you still have a very cheap and very reliable setup; probably even moreso than some commercial fail-safe systems. You just swap out the broken xbox and throw it away. And if the fail-over software is good enough, it'll get the new replacement xbox up to speed in short order.
It's not much different from your everyday streetcorner drug dealer. :)
Right, but if your only intention is to disable Pd in order to have an "open" system, you should just put together a non-Pd system from the beginning (or disable it). Then you can still install linux or Win2K or whatever, but you won't get access to any software which requires an active, authorized key.
Yeah, because Microsoft has never required that before...
Is it just me, or did anyone else find it ironic that this guy's name is Juarez? (assuming a latin-american pronunciation)
Did you read the article? That key will be disabled. Not to mention that they can run arbitrary code on all Pd-compliant machines, allowing them to "fix" the problem remotely on any "infected" machine.
You're assuming the private key will be physically attached to the motherboard. They could put a smartcard reader on all motherboards.
All quicktime "movie player" applications have sucked. Until they release codecs for Windows Media Player 6.x (one of the few clean and elegant players, I refuse to upgrade to WMP7 or 8), I'll continue to irrationally generalize that "Quicktime Sucks". As far as that goes, any overdone GUI that tries to metaphor itself to look "prettier" at the expense of efficiency and elegance, sucks.
I don't expect that some day we're going to hit a roadblock and all these chip manufacturing companies are going to just give up and say "well, we've come a long way, but physics won't let us go any further; it's been fun!" This is just one of the gateways into a slow transition into a more quantum-based computer chip.
That's it. Forget this... I'm not going to bother with any (re)writable DVD[+-]* formats. I'm going to just stick with CD-R until I can find either the 27G capacity blue-laser discs announced recently here, or the flourescent multilayer discs which have been (slowly) coming along and should be due any time now, or something else...
According to many dictionaries, it's not really considered strictly an acronym unless it is easily pronouncable; otherwise, it's just an abbreviation. Personally, if it's an abbreviation where the letters are the first letters of most of what it's abbreviating, I call it an acronym whether it's pronouncable or not.
As far as what to call "SQL", I think most of us are intelligent enough to know what someone means if they say either "ess cue ell" or "sequel".
One thing I wish the Palm devices would do in the reminder dept, is to have several alarms for the same event. I always wind up putting in four entries for an important event, such as a doctor's appointment - one week in advance (so I remember to ask for time off work), one day in advance (so I remember to be ready for the appt tomorrow, such as fasting), an hour in advance (so I know to get in the car and start driving to get there in time), and the actual event time itself.
Actually, I've been able to become much less of a pakrat since eBay came along... I can justify getting rid of stuff now becuase I know (for example) I'll always find some kook who collected all his Amiga Format magazines and is willing to sell me that one issue with a demo of Megalomania in case I ever have the urge to give it another run.
P.S. If, and this is a big IF, I ever got one of those new emacs, I'd partition that with Mandrake first thing.
Mandrake comes with emacs, not the other way aroundThis could be possible with a generalized instruction set or virtual machine, however then our data files could be more prone to hosting viruii :)
I wonder if She's taken? ;-)
I'll have to check it out. How does it compare with Cool Edit?
Re-read the article and determine whether it was written to draw some attention to a music genre, or as advertising for DigiDesign and Apple.
I agree with the parent comment; I have Adelphia, but I'd gladly pay for reasonably priced metered usage if they'd just remove this damn 128kbps upload cap! I'd really like to listen to my mp3 collection from work, but it's not really possible unless I re-encode everything to 96kbps, which is crap.
Actually, if they implemented the delay time required for construction, that would add a lot to the game.
I still have the screenshots of the orginal SC3k saved on my computer at home. I come across them now and than and wonder if that kind of sim will ever become a real product. I can tell from those screenshots that my GF4/4400 would probably handle the job quite well.
I'd love to see an MMOG based on Frontier: Elite 2. Anyone know of something like this? The closest thing I can think of could possibly be the first expansion pack for Star Wars Galaxies.
I eventually wrote Wolfram Science an email, partly out of jest:
Only problem was that I originally wrote it without censoring myself, then corrected the censor in my email body, but not my subject. Despite the vulgarity, I still managed to get a very professional response:Oops... ]:)
I'm probably going to make myself look completely oblivious by asking this, but has anyone seen the editor to Morrowind? At first glance, it seems an order of magnitude more sophisticated than this (e.g. fully arbitrary positioning - not tile based, and there are so many settings for each object). Someone please tell me what NWN is going to have over MW? The only thing I can see that is superior in NWN is multiplayer capabilities and I see it has a sophisticated programming language built into the editor. I'd assume that these could potentially make up for it, but I'm just curious :)
I pay $25/month to the EFF to watch movies, so there :-P