Um, maybe I don't have extensive enough knowledge of XP, but I don't remember it ever saying that. Tests are written by testers, code is written by developers. On the last project I managed, I took the assignment only because my management guaranteed up front (and kept their word) that developers would never be asked to write any of the tests.
I insisted on this because developers and testers are at cross-purposes: The developer tries to prove the code works; the tester tries to prove it doesn't. You can't do both in one brain.
Oh, and we were able to have the tests ready at the time the code was ready, primarily because developers and testers coordinated between themselves exactly which new features would be worked on when. It worked both ways. Sometimes the testers followed developers' leads, other times the developers coded what the testers were more ready to test.
Note: I'm no XP evangelist. It has some neat ideas, but many of those don't apply well to really large projects, or mature projects with a lot of legacy cruft to work around, and it doesn't work well when you've got one guru for every two slackers and five rookies.
And the name made me immediately think of those guys on snowboards in freefall, hacking on their laptops while doing all those loops and spins.
I know all about tamper-resistant hardware, and resin-encasing in particular. Even with that, someone who wants to badly enough will get in.
But the other poster's point about the PITA factor is very well taken (I wish I could have modded it up). Put up enough roadblocks, and the only people who wil break through will be those who do it just because they're there. Of course, those are the ones the media will then portray as the uber-bad guys, they'll get thrown in jail, etc....
OK, so later in the article he accedes to this. So why does his original quote make it sound like pushing encrypted digital signals as far down the signal path as possible would be a good thing from a DRM standpoint?
"For example, instead of sending analog signals to your speakers, you send an encrypted stream of digital data, and the decryption is done in a sealed module built right into the speaker," he says. "Video is done the same way: Encryption is done in a sealed module built right into the monitor, so you can't bypass the encryption by tapping into the monitor cables..."
Right. I guess he hasn't heard of a soldering iron. If the endmost device in the chain takes an analog input, like a CRT or speaker driver, then someplace there has to be an analog signal. Who cares if you can't capture an unencrypted bitstream?
But before we get that far, I'm with the other folks who have said that when hardware comes out that enforces DRM, don't buy it.
It emits at 514nm, 488nm, and 457nm (it's an Ar+).
Don't forget that GORGEOUS purple line that I always wished I could get in some useable quantity. (Well, there's always dye lasers, but I don't feel like blowing up my basement.)
...which gives us a perect data point: The same machine with Windows XP home edition is $599. Therefore, we can assume that the M$ tax on machines you can't buy without XP is $100.
Too bad they don't tell you what motherboard it uses. Wouldn't it be ironic if Wal-Mart was the only mass marketer of great Linux-ready platforms other than the "Joe Halitosis PC Qwik-E-Mart" shops?
I know what the audience's reaction to the higher frame rate is. It's a very weird psychological effect. You want to go down and touch the screen.
Remember the Showscan format from the 80's? 60fps on 35mm film.
The first Showscan film I saw started with curtains separating to reveal an empty stage, where a guy came out and introduced the movie. Almost none of us realized it was the movie. No perceptible motion blur, and no jerkiness like you see on 24fps digital video from the lack of motion blur. It was like you were watching it live, right in front of you.
I wonder if 60fps DLP would be that realistic looking, or if there'd be other psychological effects from the reduced color space...
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A couple weeks ago, I thought up a device that makes it much easier to remove the tiles from a Deluxe Scrabble board (no, not the mesh bag or box top). It may or may not be patentable, but if I so choose, I should be able to apply for a patent on it even though I don't own a plastics fab plant in which to build one.
As a certified Old Fart(tm), I remember when J&J had to enforce this on themselves. In their own commercials, they changed "I am stuck on Band-Aid 'cuz Band-Aid's stuck on me" to the less rhythmic "I am stuck on Band-Aid brand 'cuz Band-Aid's stuck on me" (and no, for some reason, they didn't add "brand" to the second reference to Band-Aid).
IIRC, brand names are adjectives, not nouns, which is why there's no such thing as a Frisbee--it's a Frisbee [brand] flying disc.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I was in the middle of Scrabble brand crossword game.
ObTopic: Katz is probably a "contributing something-or-other" as opposed to a direct employee, so their relationship should be flexible enough to deal with VA's changes.
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The one pictured on the HP site looks like a real snoozer, especialy with the 12ms access time.
This is exactly why I think SETI won't turn anything up. Think of the odds against us being precisely the right distance from some populated system for their little (geologically speaking) blip of EM radiation to pass over us while SETI is active.
That works on two levels. Yes, you can pander, and a lot of top-40 clubs do that. But there is a sort of feedback loop between a DJ and the dance floor, and the DJ is constantly reading this to decide what track will work best next. Very few DJs can get away with "I'm going to play this and you're going to like it," but a DJ doesn't have to be a human jukebox either.
I wonder how it'll distinguish positive from negative reactions. Think of blown mixes, a jungle track sneaking into a trance set, etc., versus something really good brilliantly mixed, or (in a more mainstream club setting) a really popular track being played.
[dig dig dig] Ahh, here it is, my listing of the first useful program I ever wrote, on a 2000F back in 1976: How to program (using front-panel keys) the first programmable Bearcat police scanner. All that on 20 minutes of 110baud connect time per month.
Are we saying that Microsoft is a special large organization that should have *MORE* power than the government?
Depends on what you mean by "more". If you're asking whether corporations should be above the law, then no. If you're asking whether corporations should have broader powers over their day-to-day operations than governments have over them, then yes. Otherwise all the corporate intervention in our lives (like repressive EULAs) will be replaced by equally repressive government intrusion, with the big difference that under corporations you can vote with your feet more easily than you can with governments.
According to this, you can't register a second level.name domain at all, so bill@gates.name is impossible. (Or has the policy changed since July?)
It looks like you can get around it if you have a multipart last name, though, like osama@bin.laden.name. Speaking of which, did they not even stop to coinsider cultures that don't have a distinct given_name+surname format?
According to their FAQ, the project started out as a lightweight replacement for X. This makes sense: Windoze graphics run fast because they took out the abstraction layers, threw a lot of it into the kernel, and run it all right on top of the hardware (at the expense of flexibility and functionality, of course).
So now that Berlin is a heavyweight replacement for X, with obviously different goals, what else is out there that's lightweight?
I was thinking about this when trying to run SuSE 7.2/KDE on an old P133 laptop with 32MB of RAM. It'd be great to have a fully functioning modern Linux on this box, but it couldn't handle the graphics overhead (it ran, but way slow). If there were a graphics system that didn't tax the system any more than Windows' does, this poor machine might not be put out to router pasture or some other text-only use.
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I insisted on this because developers and testers are at cross-purposes: The developer tries to prove the code works; the tester tries to prove it doesn't. You can't do both in one brain.
Oh, and we were able to have the tests ready at the time the code was ready, primarily because developers and testers coordinated between themselves exactly which new features would be worked on when. It worked both ways. Sometimes the testers followed developers' leads, other times the developers coded what the testers were more ready to test.
Note: I'm no XP evangelist. It has some neat ideas, but many of those don't apply well to really large projects, or mature projects with a lot of legacy cruft to work around, and it doesn't work well when you've got one guru for every two slackers and five rookies.
And the name made me immediately think of those guys on snowboards in freefall, hacking on their laptops while doing all those loops and spins.
But the other poster's point about the PITA factor is very well taken (I wish I could have modded it up). Put up enough roadblocks, and the only people who wil break through will be those who do it just because they're there. Of course, those are the ones the media will then portray as the uber-bad guys, they'll get thrown in jail, etc....
I know. That's why I said "CRT".
OK, so later in the article he accedes to this. So why does his original quote make it sound like pushing encrypted digital signals as far down the signal path as possible would be a good thing from a DRM standpoint?
"For example, instead of sending analog signals to your speakers, you send an encrypted stream of digital data, and the decryption is done in a sealed module built right into the speaker," he says. "Video is done the same way: Encryption is done in a sealed module built right into the monitor, so you can't bypass the encryption by tapping into the monitor cables..."
Right. I guess he hasn't heard of a soldering iron. If the endmost device in the chain takes an analog input, like a CRT or speaker driver, then someplace there has to be an analog signal. Who cares if you can't capture an unencrypted bitstream?
But before we get that far, I'm with the other folks who have said that when hardware comes out that enforces DRM, don't buy it.
Fourth place was two weeks in Russia, meals included.
Don't forget that GORGEOUS purple line that I always wished I could get in some useable quantity. (Well, there's always dye lasers, but I don't feel like blowing up my basement.)
...which gives us a perect data point: The same machine with Windows XP home edition is $599. Therefore, we can assume that the M$ tax on machines you can't buy without XP is $100.
Too bad they don't tell you what motherboard it uses. Wouldn't it be ironic if Wal-Mart was the only mass marketer of great Linux-ready platforms other than the "Joe Halitosis PC Qwik-E-Mart" shops?
Remember the Showscan format from the 80's? 60fps on 35mm film.
The first Showscan film I saw started with curtains separating to reveal an empty stage, where a guy came out and introduced the movie. Almost none of us realized it was the movie. No perceptible motion blur, and no jerkiness like you see on 24fps digital video from the lack of motion blur. It was like you were watching it live, right in front of you.
I wonder if 60fps DLP would be that realistic looking, or if there'd be other psychological effects from the reduced color space...
Not always.
"Paint"? Cinderblocks and corrugated galvanized sheetmetal don't need paint.
A couple weeks ago, I thought up a device that makes it much easier to remove the tiles from a Deluxe Scrabble board (no, not the mesh bag or box top). It may or may not be patentable, but if I so choose, I should be able to apply for a patent on it even though I don't own a plastics fab plant in which to build one.
As a certified Old Fart(tm), I remember when J&J had to enforce this on themselves. In their own commercials, they changed "I am stuck on Band-Aid 'cuz Band-Aid's stuck on me" to the less rhythmic "I am stuck on Band-Aid brand 'cuz Band-Aid's stuck on me" (and no, for some reason, they didn't add "brand" to the second reference to Band-Aid).
IIRC, brand names are adjectives, not nouns, which is why there's no such thing as a Frisbee--it's a Frisbee [brand] flying disc.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I was in the middle of Scrabble brand crossword game.
Sure it is. The answer is "layoff fodder". :(
ObTopic: Katz is probably a "contributing something-or-other" as opposed to a direct employee, so their relationship should be flexible enough to deal with VA's changes.
The one pictured on the HP site looks like a real snoozer, especialy with the 12ms access time.
This is exactly why I think SETI won't turn anything up. Think of the odds against us being precisely the right distance from some populated system for their little (geologically speaking) blip of EM radiation to pass over us while SETI is active.
That works on two levels. Yes, you can pander, and a lot of top-40 clubs do that. But there is a sort of feedback loop between a DJ and the dance floor, and the DJ is constantly reading this to decide what track will work best next. Very few DJs can get away with "I'm going to play this and you're going to like it," but a DJ doesn't have to be a human jukebox either.
I wonder how it'll distinguish positive from negative reactions. Think of blown mixes, a jungle track sneaking into a trance set, etc., versus something really good brilliantly mixed, or (in a more mainstream club setting) a really popular track being played.
[dig dig dig] Ahh, here it is, my listing of the first useful program I ever wrote, on a 2000F back in 1976: How to program (using front-panel keys) the first programmable Bearcat police scanner. All that on 20 minutes of 110baud connect time per month.
Now, where'd I put those ASR-33 paper tapes?
Uphill. Both ways.
So they'd be OK if the buffer were made of core memory? I've got some old core planes; might be an interesting hack...
Depends on what you mean by "more". If you're asking whether corporations should be above the law, then no. If you're asking whether corporations should have broader powers over their day-to-day operations than governments have over them, then yes. Otherwise all the corporate intervention in our lives (like repressive EULAs) will be replaced by equally repressive government intrusion, with the big difference that under corporations you can vote with your feet more easily than you can with governments.
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All your Qa'eda are belong to US.
It looks like you can get around it if you have a multipart last name, though, like osama@bin.laden.name. Speaking of which, did they not even stop to coinsider cultures that don't have a distinct given_name+surname format?
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All your qa'eda are belong to US!
You can see the lyrics here.
What's the difference between a violin and a viola?
The viola burns longer.
According to their FAQ, the project started out as a lightweight replacement for X. This makes sense: Windoze graphics run fast because they took out the abstraction layers, threw a lot of it into the kernel, and run it all right on top of the hardware (at the expense of flexibility and functionality, of course).
So now that Berlin is a heavyweight replacement for X, with obviously different goals, what else is out there that's lightweight?
I was thinking about this when trying to run SuSE 7.2/KDE on an old P133 laptop with 32MB of RAM. It'd be great to have a fully functioning modern Linux on this box, but it couldn't handle the graphics overhead (it ran, but way slow). If there were a graphics system that didn't tax the system any more than Windows' does, this poor machine might not be put out to router pasture or some other text-only use.