Finding the redundancy in a month's worth of TV is a remarkably similar task to finding the adverts... if any 5 or more seconds occurs more than (say) 5 times thenI think it's highly likley to be an advert, trail or station ident.
If this thing can be modded to adblock TV, then I'm buying it just for that, any PVR features are just a bonus.
There are many good reasons to criticise the UK Govt, but putting those two together makes a pretty weak argument when you consider we have quite good cctv pictures of the terrorists so we can catch them. They would, incidentally, all have qualified for a legal UK id card.
I suspect it's probably legal. But on the other hand, I suspect it would also be legal for the ISP's customers to ask for their money back, since they are paying for access to the internet and not getting it.
Well there's an easy way to find out... try the exploit on OSX and Linux. I think it's quite significant that the article completely fails to mention any OS other than Windows.
In a way, I hope the identical problem is present in all of Win/Lin/OSX, as it would give us a very nice way to compare how good and quick the fixes are. I'm not too worried that Microsoft have a headstart on a fix:-)
It's a quote from the late great Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, who was notoriously slow at delivering books to his publisher: "I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by."
Why learn from a bad OS when you can learn from a good one?
1) I'd love a text based application switching menu top right, rather than the pointless single application menu that puts junk like 'ChineseTextConverter' in the most promient position and slides the far more important 'File' menu about depending on the length of the application name.
2) Bring back the old customisable Apple menu.
3) Put the wastebasket on the desktop.
and most importantly...
4) Let me turn the dock off!
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There are 40 N-Gage games in the shops and only 32 PSP ones, therefore the N-Gage is better than the PSP. The same logic also shows that Snake is a better game than Half-Life, and ants are more intelligent than people*
* which in the case of the autuor of this article might actually be true.
Actually, that hits the nail on the head, I'd LOVE to have a link to my latest album in my slashdot sig, and for Ampfea (the collective we are dscussing) to be the place that link goes to. Seamless, easy to use torrent system would be the ideal way to do that without breaking the bank.
This is one of the problems of being a collective - we might not all have the same definition of "totally free" (I use the word 'we' because I'm on a couple of Ampfea.org mailing lists, and I share the occasional bit of my own music there).
I think the intent is to keep everything under Ampfea's direct control. If this needs hardware or bandwidth, we'll have a whip round (and not stick ads on anything) to fund it, if it breaks, Ampfea's tech guys will fix it. In short, if it's in-house, everything will be done by people we know, doing it for the love of our music not for money or fame.
Why isn't the solution to the blade tip speed issue simply to have more, shorter blades?
Why does it matter if some parts of the rotor are giving negative lift as long as the average overall is still positive - can't the issue of tipping over be simply solved by having 2 contra-rotating sets of blades?
Well, here's what the WebObjects home page has this to say on the subject:
"..extends your reach by ensuring flexible, maintainable design... build or use standards-based web services.. enable code-free generation, configuration and testing... standards-based web services... opening up enterprise development... on a classic three-tier architecture with intrinsic clustering support... deliver maintainable, scalable applications... create enterprise-level web services backed by robust business logic...object-oriented frameworks to transparently use the automated data persistence..."
Having read that, I can quite confidently say that I have NFI.
TPM isn't really necessary to lock OSX, when Apple are likely to continue making their own custom motherboards. I expect Apple's hardware to be sufficiently different to cause near insurmopuntable compatibility problems anyway. Tiger can't even run on my Beige G3, let alone a machine built by qa 3rd party!
It's one thing to port OSX to a specific intel box, it's a completely different task to port it to *every* intel box.
This track reached no.2 in the British charts about 5 years ago, and pretty much consisted of one riff sampled from a Commodore 64 game ("Lazy Jones") with a heavy drum beat added.
The C64's SID chip has something of a cult following, and has been turned into a musical instument in it's own right by these guys
Apple are staking their entire company on OSX not being pirated to other x86 platforms. OSX will not support any non-Apple hardware, so it's not a threat, unless you count possible increased Apple market share due to lower prices.
If you knew the law well, you'd know about the Tesco v Levi case, where Levi pulled exactly the same crap to stop us from buying 501s at real-world prices and won.
Maybe Apple won't abadon it, but developers will. I've been through this before, with the move to OSX. As soon as OSX appeared, even before it was stable and usable, OS9 support started to vanish. Critical prorgams went OSX only, and even mainstream software like Mozilla stopped getting upgrades. I have 2 perfectly usable, 'fast enough for what I want to do' Apple machines here that I can no longer reliably use to browse websites, because there is NO upto-date browser for OS9 anymore.
Who is going to bother coding for PPC when there wil be no PPC machines by 2007?
This sends a very clear message to potential Mac buyers... Do not buy until these machines ship in 2006, or you'll get an obsolete machine, like I just did.
Microsoft bought Connectix (authors of the VirtualPC software that lets Macs emulate Wintel boxes) and then quickly dropped their main product for no readily aparrent reason (other than pure spite). Now we know that the Xbox360 is PPC based, that acquisition suddenly makes a lot of sense, since backward compaitbility with the Xbox is an issue of getting x86 code to run on PPC, and Connectix's business was all about doing exactly that.
This leaves Apple with a VirtualPC shaped hole in their 'switch' marketing campaign.
Conclusion: Apple are going to revisit the x86 co-processor idea. The launch could be a PCI card, but that's not really all that 'sexy'... I'm guessing something like a headless PC running Windows that will talk to it's host over that nice thick gigabit ethernet pipe that Apple have in almost their whole range now, just like OSX server does with headless Xserves. A pentium-M in a Mac Mini-sized box maybe? Relying on the host for drives, ports and graphics means the box would need only processor, ram and ethernet and some glue in it, making it cheap (and quite possibly fanless too?).
Apple sold a lot of G4s to nervous switchers on the understanding thatthey could run all their x86 software under Connectix's Virtual PC software. Microsoft bought Connectix and Virtual PC for OSX hasn't exactly been top of Microsoft's priorities (I assume the Connectix staff are probably working on making the Xbox360 run Xbox software).
This leaves Apple with a hole in it's marketing. If Apple does launch a Mac with an x86 in it, I'm betting it's there as an addition to the G5s, and being effectively a hardware accellerator for an own-brand 'Virtual PC'. It wouldn;t be the first time Apple has done this.
A cheap, headless x86 coprocessor in a Mac Mini sized box that lives on the other end of a firewire cable could be a very interesting proposition.
While Microsoft and Sony are pouring billions into hardware, which they expect to lead to game sales, Nintendo keep on doing what they always have done, making games their first priority, and hardware second.
Maybe Nintendogs is the next in the line of Pokemon/Zelda/Mario/Tetris, maybe it's not. The point is that Nintendo is putting it's effort into coming up with this stuff while the other 2 players are competing over how many extra polys they can render in their new WW2 FPS game.
I can see Nintendo winning the next gen war by making a good, cheap console with great games that PS3 and Xbox360 owners buy as their second machine.
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Finding the redundancy in a month's worth of TV is a remarkably similar task to finding the adverts... if any 5 or more seconds occurs more than (say) 5 times thenI think it's highly likley to be an advert, trail or station ident.
If this thing can be modded to adblock TV, then I'm buying it just for that, any PVR features are just a bonus.
There are many good reasons to criticise the UK Govt, but putting those two together makes a pretty weak argument when you consider we have quite good cctv pictures of the terrorists so we can catch them. They would, incidentally, all have qualified for a legal UK id card.
It's a bit early for PlayStation 4 hype isn't it?
I suspect it's probably legal. But on the other hand, I suspect it would also be legal for the ISP's customers to ask for their money back, since they are paying for access to the internet and not getting it.
Well there's an easy way to find out... try the exploit on OSX and Linux. I think it's quite significant that the article completely fails to mention any OS other than Windows.
:-)
In a way, I hope the identical problem is present in all of Win/Lin/OSX, as it would give us a very nice way to compare how good and quick the fixes are. I'm not too worried that Microsoft have a headstart on a fix
It's a quote from the late great Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, who was notoriously slow at delivering books to his publisher: "I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by."
Why learn from a bad OS when you can learn from a good one?
1) I'd love a text based application switching menu top right, rather than the pointless single application menu that puts junk like 'ChineseTextConverter' in the most promient position and slides the far more important 'File' menu about depending on the length of the application name.
2) Bring back the old customisable Apple menu.
3) Put the wastebasket on the desktop.
and most importantly...
4) Let me turn the dock off!
There are 40 N-Gage games in the shops and only 32 PSP ones, therefore the N-Gage is better than the PSP. The same logic also shows that Snake is a better game than Half-Life, and ants are more intelligent than people*
* which in the case of the autuor of this article might actually be true.
Actually, that hits the nail on the head, I'd LOVE to have a link to my latest album in my slashdot sig, and for Ampfea (the collective we are dscussing) to be the place that link goes to. Seamless, easy to use torrent system would be the ideal way to do that without breaking the bank.
This is one of the problems of being a collective - we might not all have the same definition of "totally free" (I use the word 'we' because I'm on a couple of Ampfea.org mailing lists, and I share the occasional bit of my own music there).
I think the intent is to keep everything under Ampfea's direct control. If this needs hardware or bandwidth, we'll have a whip round (and not stick ads on anything) to fund it, if it breaks, Ampfea's tech guys will fix it. In short, if it's in-house, everything will be done by people we know, doing it for the love of our music not for money or fame.
It's not like the IRA ever tried to blow up the tallest office building in the country is it?
I'm intruiged.
Why isn't the solution to the blade tip speed issue simply to have more, shorter blades?
Why does it matter if some parts of the rotor are giving negative lift as long as the average overall is still positive - can't the issue of tipping over be simply solved by having 2 contra-rotating sets of blades?
The BBC version of the story reports the same speech quite differently.
Mr Moore actually said Microsoft could reach the 10 million mark in 12 to 16 months.
Is there a database that comes with it too?
... on a classic three-tier architecture with intrinsic clustering support... deliver maintainable, scalable applications... create enterprise-level web services backed by robust business logic ...object-oriented frameworks to transparently use the automated data persistence..."
Well, here's what the WebObjects home page has this to say on the subject:
"..extends your reach by ensuring flexible, maintainable design... build or use standards-based web services.. enable code-free generation, configuration and testing... standards-based web services... opening up enterprise development
Having read that, I can quite confidently say that I have NFI.
Well it does sound better than 'nearly as powerful as 41 playstation 3s'
TPM isn't really necessary to lock OSX, when Apple are likely to continue making their own custom motherboards. I expect Apple's hardware to be sufficiently different to cause near insurmopuntable compatibility problems anyway. Tiger can't even run on my Beige G3, let alone a machine built by qa 3rd party!
It's one thing to port OSX to a specific intel box, it's a completely different task to port it to *every* intel box.
This track reached no.2 in the British charts about 5 years ago, and pretty much consisted of one riff sampled from a Commodore 64 game ("Lazy Jones") with a heavy drum beat added.
The C64's SID chip has something of a cult following, and has been turned into a musical instument in it's own right by these guys
The only Linux this is a threat to is Yellow Dog.
Apple are staking their entire company on OSX not being pirated to other x86 platforms. OSX will not support any non-Apple hardware, so it's not a threat, unless you count possible increased Apple market share due to lower prices.
If you knew the law well, you'd know about the Tesco v Levi case, where Levi pulled exactly the same crap to stop us from buying 501s at real-world prices and won.
Here's the BBC's write up on the case
Maybe Apple won't abadon it, but developers will. I've been through this before, with the move to OSX. As soon as OSX appeared, even before it was stable and usable, OS9 support started to vanish. Critical prorgams went OSX only, and even mainstream software like Mozilla stopped getting upgrades. I have 2 perfectly usable, 'fast enough for what I want to do' Apple machines here that I can no longer reliably use to browse websites, because there is NO upto-date browser for OS9 anymore.
Who is going to bother coding for PPC when there wil be no PPC machines by 2007?
This sends a very clear message to potential Mac buyers... Do not buy until these machines ship in 2006, or you'll get an obsolete machine, like I just did.
Microsoft bought Connectix (authors of the VirtualPC software that lets Macs emulate Wintel boxes) and then quickly dropped their main product for no readily aparrent reason (other than pure spite). Now we know that the Xbox360 is PPC based, that acquisition suddenly makes a lot of sense, since backward compaitbility with the Xbox is an issue of getting x86 code to run on PPC, and Connectix's business was all about doing exactly that.
This leaves Apple with a VirtualPC shaped hole in their 'switch' marketing campaign.
Conclusion: Apple are going to revisit the x86 co-processor idea. The launch could be a PCI card, but that's not really all that 'sexy'... I'm guessing something like a headless PC running Windows that will talk to it's host over that nice thick gigabit ethernet pipe that Apple have in almost their whole range now, just like OSX server does with headless Xserves. A pentium-M in a Mac Mini-sized box maybe? Relying on the host for drives, ports and graphics means the box would need only processor, ram and ethernet and some glue in it, making it cheap (and quite possibly fanless too?).
Sounds like a lot until you think of it as 'nearly as powerful as eleven playstation3s'
I'm amazed that IBM isn't pushing this as an advert for the CELL architecture, with some much, much bigger (but rather meaningless) numbers attached.
Apple sold a lot of G4s to nervous switchers on the understanding thatthey could run all their x86 software under Connectix's Virtual PC software. Microsoft bought Connectix and Virtual PC for OSX hasn't exactly been top of Microsoft's priorities (I assume the Connectix staff are probably working on making the Xbox360 run Xbox software).
This leaves Apple with a hole in it's marketing. If Apple does launch a Mac with an x86 in it, I'm betting it's there as an addition to the G5s, and being effectively a hardware accellerator for an own-brand 'Virtual PC'. It wouldn;t be the first time Apple has done this.
A cheap, headless x86 coprocessor in a Mac Mini sized box that lives on the other end of a firewire cable could be a very interesting proposition.
While Microsoft and Sony are pouring billions into hardware, which they expect to lead to game sales, Nintendo keep on doing what they always have done, making games their first priority, and hardware second.
Maybe Nintendogs is the next in the line of Pokemon/Zelda/Mario/Tetris, maybe it's not. The point is that Nintendo is putting it's effort into coming up with this stuff while the other 2 players are competing over how many extra polys they can render in their new WW2 FPS game.
I can see Nintendo winning the next gen war by making a good, cheap console with great games that PS3 and Xbox360 owners buy as their second machine.