They still have the fundamental similarity in that they are easily duplicated but require a lot of up front funding/resource to be sunk into their construction. Software requires either a lot of time and/or money to produce the first build. Music/movies require a lot of up front funding to produce the master copy. The investment has to be recouped somehow. Sure, in the case of small free software projects the authors have no desire to recoup the investment, but I'm sure they would be a little more interested in doing so if they had donated several million dollars worth of their time to something.
I used to get the 6ish hours of battery use by carrying around a travel battery. I got a new Macbook. Now, I get the same battery life without an extra battery and I'm sure that I was a minority use case even carrying one spare battery around. I can't imagine many people carry 2 or more spare batteries around.
Consider the flipside, designing a codec is Really Hard Work. Google also has Really Deep Pockets. By doing this they have effectively dumped a codec that is good enough onto the market. While part of me is cheering that Google is taking one of the team in terms of opening their codec up they have basically ensured that only someone else with equally deep pockets has the time and money to engineer something so clearly better that they can recoup the time investment by surpassing VP8.
I don't think its nearly as simple as you claim. Having read this piece. It made me re-evaluate the point of it. To basically sum up, yes, this locks developers on the iPhone OS. On the other hand, these meta-platforms hurt Apple's ability to improve their devices. It makes them depend on a 3rd party runtime too to actually provide support for the new features. As we've all see with flash, Adobe has no desire to provide runtimes on time that actually work. So yeah, its platform lock-in. But it's also more than that. Apple hates being beholden to anyone else and this move could be seen as ensuring their independence.
There is a similar method currently in effect. It is possible to convene a caucas of state representatives in order to ammend the consitution. I believe the bar is set at 3/4ths but if enough states felt strongly enough they could ammend the constitution in such a way to guarantee that the law would be declared unconstituional.
I would think even better than unique IP addresses would be something like requests for an update to a component guaranteed to be installed in the base system like say grub or the kernel. That way, if you have 3 computers behind a NAT you will, hypothetically, eventually get 3 counts.
Its playing catch-up to google in some areas, but some of the new interface tweaks in google as of late are highly reminiscent of Bing at launch. Bing still has some cool features like searching for plane tickets. I did it once just to see and clicking on links will take you directly to the carriers sign up page with the relevant flight information filled in. Plus, it gives you trends on the ticket prices. While Bing still needs to catch up on the general goodness of its results, to think Bing hasn't done anything clever or innovative at all is just silly.
I'm pretty sure that is a myth for complicated stuff. Otherwise the ATI drivers that are open source wouldn't be crap and Intel's drivers would break every other version.
Uh? You entered government property. Just as you have the right to subject anyone entering your own house to whatever probing you desire before admittance so too does the government before you enter its property. You were not in public; you were in a government owned building. The government cannot randomly search you out on the street because it feels like it.
Google for Cornhusker kickback for 1 reason why it is extremely controversial. The short story is that the rest of the country is now subsidizing healthcare in Nebraska.
Do you really think it's that simple? Do you think, somehow, that students couldn't figure out how to similarly disable whatever software is running to active the webcam if they had known about it. The machine is user configurable. Similarly, having the source is no guarantee of security either unless you think mystic code audit gurus are going to step through the portal from geek nirvana to audit the entire software loadout of every system. As we have seen on numerous previous occasions, having the source is no guarantee of security.
All that is needed is the ability to audit what external connections a program is making. And, since this was discovered there is a class action suit against it. Presuming they win, which imo seems likely, I doubt any other school district will try this.
No, they can't. No matter what Microsoft does they will always be trashed by people who believe Microsoft is the devil incarnate in technology co. form. You'd think releasing their file formats for broad use under legally binding promises and other software projects under OSI approved licenses would have been enough.
Ok. How much does it cost to maintain the plants and below what threshold of power generation do they become inefficient. I simply can't imagine that having backup energy sources for around 40% of energy needs is effective.
Uh? The only thing the two systems share that is relevant is support for OpenGL 2.1. They each have their own windowing systems as you mentioned, however, OS X also has CoreAudio while Linux has some stuff that may or may not work or play sound and varies across distributions. And if by userland, you mean in the sense that they both usually have bash and awk and sed. I'm sure those are all things that have tremendous utility in modern game programming. It doesn't help either that as far as I can tell, Linux programs tend to make extensive use of environmental variables while OS X essentially doesn't use them outside of bash sessions.I'm also curious if there are applications for GCD and OpenCL in the Source engine which are available on newer OS X but not so much on Linux. Still, the fact remains that pretty pictures are only a small part of the equation.
In comments to the Ars article one of their tech guys says that they don't run ads that play sound without user interaction and they load all of their ads in iframes so a slow ad won't delay page loading.
It depends heavily one what you are doing with your computer at the time of writing. Windows does not allow you to write executable files that are currently running and I believe there is a similar restriction for.dlls that are loaded into memory. At least you are notified of the need to reboot. I may be incorrect but I believe the only thing that triggers a reboot on ubuntu are changes to a specific set of packages. As such, its always possible to install updates and still have vulnerable code loaded into memory.
I'm not sure about the failing to install. The only time I've ever seen an update fail to install is when I'm doing a re-install and do something like install a cumulative service pack for a program like Visual Studio that is getting brought down the windows update pipeline as well. I would be interested in knowing what types of updates usually fail.
I've always wondered why we have term limits for the president and no one else in the government. Granted, I can see the point of having Judicial appointments for life since you effectively have to make a career out of being a Judge. On the other hand, the founding fathers didn't believe in a career politician and it was several decades before they first appeared (John Quincey Adams being the first one I believe).
Enacting term limits for all elected officials in the Federal government removes the incentive to continually win elections at the expense of good policy. Unfortunately, the cynic in me doesn't believe it will ever happen. Congressmen and Senators have to a swanky job that they will never vote to limit their own terms and the hopes of a state caucus amendment is unlikely to happen either since so many at the state level want to move up to the big house in DC.
I think there are people that way on both sides of the debate. In fact, regardless of the position you take you are going to be torn down by someone. If you don't believe in warming, you are an industry shill, if you do believe in warming, you are a communist out to destroy people's livelihoods.
I just wish all this carbon credit and sustainability nonsense would go away until we've dealt with things like heavy metal toxicity, industrial runoff, and other environmentally destructive things happening now . Once the fish kills and red tides that happen regularly now are taken care of we can start worrying about things that will, at worst, affect the planet several decades from now in the most outlandish doomsday scenarios. As an added bonus there will be decades more data to base trend prediction on to silence once and for all any debate from either side about not having reliable data to fit projections to.
The problem is that the 3rd party package has to be correctly constructed and play nice with other packages in the repository. I've had all sorts of problems with this using the OpenOffice.org from PPA. It does weirdness with the language packages and after installing from the PPA it would be impossible to get localization configuration to believe the languages were properly installed. The same thing can happen where a system breaks because a non-repository package writes a file and suddenly you can't install other packages that need to put a file there.
Self-contained bundles alleviate these problems since its impossible for 3rd party packages to trample over things the system may need.
Evolutionary psychology? Living organisms are driven to perpetuate the species. It makes sense that there would be a powerful inbuilt need in humans to achieve goals rationalized as ensuring the survival of the species.
I know that I for one sometimes stop and look around at the truly extraordinary things humanity has accomplished over our brief span on earth. We can bend the environment around us almost to our will, we can travel around the world in a day or so and many more impressive feats. Is there some reason that the civilization that has achieved that shouldn't be preserved?
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They still have the fundamental similarity in that they are easily duplicated but require a lot of up front funding/resource to be sunk into their construction. Software requires either a lot of time and/or money to produce the first build. Music/movies require a lot of up front funding to produce the master copy. The investment has to be recouped somehow. Sure, in the case of small free software projects the authors have no desire to recoup the investment, but I'm sure they would be a little more interested in doing so if they had donated several million dollars worth of their time to something.
And how precisely does that work when svchost works by loading other .dll's and executing them?
I used to get the 6ish hours of battery use by carrying around a travel battery. I got a new Macbook. Now, I get the same battery life without an extra battery and I'm sure that I was a minority use case even carrying one spare battery around. I can't imagine many people carry 2 or more spare batteries around.
No it can't be forked. If you fork it, you've modified the standard making a new codec.
Consider the flipside, designing a codec is Really Hard Work. Google also has Really Deep Pockets. By doing this they have effectively dumped a codec that is good enough onto the market. While part of me is cheering that Google is taking one of the team in terms of opening their codec up they have basically ensured that only someone else with equally deep pockets has the time and money to engineer something so clearly better that they can recoup the time investment by surpassing VP8.
Legitimate points. However, I'm more inclined to put the blame on Flash, since Silverlight somehow doesn't seem to have any of these problems on Mac.
I don't think its nearly as simple as you claim. Having read this piece. It made me re-evaluate the point of it. To basically sum up, yes, this locks developers on the iPhone OS. On the other hand, these meta-platforms hurt Apple's ability to improve their devices. It makes them depend on a 3rd party runtime too to actually provide support for the new features. As we've all see with flash, Adobe has no desire to provide runtimes on time that actually work. So yeah, its platform lock-in. But it's also more than that. Apple hates being beholden to anyone else and this move could be seen as ensuring their independence.
There is a similar method currently in effect. It is possible to convene a caucas of state representatives in order to ammend the consitution. I believe the bar is set at 3/4ths but if enough states felt strongly enough they could ammend the constitution in such a way to guarantee that the law would be declared unconstituional.
I would think even better than unique IP addresses would be something like requests for an update to a component guaranteed to be installed in the base system like say grub or the kernel. That way, if you have 3 computers behind a NAT you will, hypothetically, eventually get 3 counts.
Its playing catch-up to google in some areas, but some of the new interface tweaks in google as of late are highly reminiscent of Bing at launch. Bing still has some cool features like searching for plane tickets. I did it once just to see and clicking on links will take you directly to the carriers sign up page with the relevant flight information filled in. Plus, it gives you trends on the ticket prices. While Bing still needs to catch up on the general goodness of its results, to think Bing hasn't done anything clever or innovative at all is just silly.
You've never seen the political spectrum represented as a circle before?
I'm pretty sure that is a myth for complicated stuff. Otherwise the ATI drivers that are open source wouldn't be crap and Intel's drivers would break every other version.
Uh? You entered government property. Just as you have the right to subject anyone entering your own house to whatever probing you desire before admittance so too does the government before you enter its property. You were not in public; you were in a government owned building. The government cannot randomly search you out on the street because it feels like it.
Google for Cornhusker kickback for 1 reason why it is extremely controversial. The short story is that the rest of the country is now subsidizing healthcare in Nebraska.
Do you really think it's that simple? Do you think, somehow, that students couldn't figure out how to similarly disable whatever software is running to active the webcam if they had known about it. The machine is user configurable. Similarly, having the source is no guarantee of security either unless you think mystic code audit gurus are going to step through the portal from geek nirvana to audit the entire software loadout of every system. As we have seen on numerous previous occasions, having the source is no guarantee of security.
All that is needed is the ability to audit what external connections a program is making. And, since this was discovered there is a class action suit against it. Presuming they win, which imo seems likely, I doubt any other school district will try this.
No, they can't. No matter what Microsoft does they will always be trashed by people who believe Microsoft is the devil incarnate in technology co. form. You'd think releasing their file formats for broad use under legally binding promises and other software projects under OSI approved licenses would have been enough.
Ok. How much does it cost to maintain the plants and below what threshold of power generation do they become inefficient. I simply can't imagine that having backup energy sources for around 40% of energy needs is effective.
So, my question for you is: How much back up capacity sits there doing absolutely nothing on days when you are getting 50+% of your energy from wind?
Uh? The only thing the two systems share that is relevant is support for OpenGL 2.1. They each have their own windowing systems as you mentioned, however, OS X also has CoreAudio while Linux has some stuff that may or may not work or play sound and varies across distributions. And if by userland, you mean in the sense that they both usually have bash and awk and sed. I'm sure those are all things that have tremendous utility in modern game programming. It doesn't help either that as far as I can tell, Linux programs tend to make extensive use of environmental variables while OS X essentially doesn't use them outside of bash sessions.I'm also curious if there are applications for GCD and OpenCL in the Source engine which are available on newer OS X but not so much on Linux. Still, the fact remains that pretty pictures are only a small part of the equation.
In comments to the Ars article one of their tech guys says that they don't run ads that play sound without user interaction and they load all of their ads in iframes so a slow ad won't delay page loading.
It depends heavily one what you are doing with your computer at the time of writing. Windows does not allow you to write executable files that are currently running and I believe there is a similar restriction for .dlls that are loaded into memory. At least you are notified of the need to reboot. I may be incorrect but I believe the only thing that triggers a reboot on ubuntu are changes to a specific set of packages. As such, its always possible to install updates and still have vulnerable code loaded into memory.
I'm not sure about the failing to install. The only time I've ever seen an update fail to install is when I'm doing a re-install and do something like install a cumulative service pack for a program like Visual Studio that is getting brought down the windows update pipeline as well. I would be interested in knowing what types of updates usually fail.
I've always wondered why we have term limits for the president and no one else in the government. Granted, I can see the point of having Judicial appointments for life since you effectively have to make a career out of being a Judge. On the other hand, the founding fathers didn't believe in a career politician and it was several decades before they first appeared (John Quincey Adams being the first one I believe). Enacting term limits for all elected officials in the Federal government removes the incentive to continually win elections at the expense of good policy. Unfortunately, the cynic in me doesn't believe it will ever happen. Congressmen and Senators have to a swanky job that they will never vote to limit their own terms and the hopes of a state caucus amendment is unlikely to happen either since so many at the state level want to move up to the big house in DC.
I think there are people that way on both sides of the debate. In fact, regardless of the position you take you are going to be torn down by someone. If you don't believe in warming, you are an industry shill, if you do believe in warming, you are a communist out to destroy people's livelihoods.
I just wish all this carbon credit and sustainability nonsense would go away until we've dealt with things like heavy metal toxicity, industrial runoff, and other environmentally destructive things happening now . Once the fish kills and red tides that happen regularly now are taken care of we can start worrying about things that will, at worst, affect the planet several decades from now in the most outlandish doomsday scenarios. As an added bonus there will be decades more data to base trend prediction on to silence once and for all any debate from either side about not having reliable data to fit projections to.
The problem is that the 3rd party package has to be correctly constructed and play nice with other packages in the repository. I've had all sorts of problems with this using the OpenOffice.org from PPA. It does weirdness with the language packages and after installing from the PPA it would be impossible to get localization configuration to believe the languages were properly installed. The same thing can happen where a system breaks because a non-repository package writes a file and suddenly you can't install other packages that need to put a file there. Self-contained bundles alleviate these problems since its impossible for 3rd party packages to trample over things the system may need.
Evolutionary psychology? Living organisms are driven to perpetuate the species. It makes sense that there would be a powerful inbuilt need in humans to achieve goals rationalized as ensuring the survival of the species. I know that I for one sometimes stop and look around at the truly extraordinary things humanity has accomplished over our brief span on earth. We can bend the environment around us almost to our will, we can travel around the world in a day or so and many more impressive feats. Is there some reason that the civilization that has achieved that shouldn't be preserved?