What your saying is that speed differential causes a problem, and you are correct.
That means the person going 45 MPH on a highway is just as unsafe as someone going 75 MPH, assuming everybody else is travelling 60 MPH.
However, what you're also implying is that posted speed is somewhat irrelevant; what's more critical to safety is the average speed that drivers are actually driving.
If you're on some interstate in Montana where most drivers are travelling at 80MPH, it is a danger in the extreme to be going 55MPH.
But nobody seems comfortable to admit the obvious.
Actually CGA allowed 4 colors on screen at once, and the pallette was fixed.
As I recall, there were 2 color schemes... one that had pink/blue/white/black the other scheme has green/yellow/red/black.
Of course, CGA had other text modes as well.
There were some games done for CGA, notably the Sierra Online graphic adventure games, but not much.
Later, EGA came out, but because it required an all new monitor and graphics card that you'd have to buy separately, it never took off except for people who ran things like AutoCAD. I'm trying to remember EGA's resolution, I believe it was 640x400 (?) with 16 colors.
Graphics on the PC took off when IBM introduced VGA, which was still only 640x480 16 colors OR 320x240 with 256 colors, but it was enough. Later, SVGA came out from the cloners and resolution and graphics have crept up over the years.
But when CGA was king of the PC world, nobody bought a PC for games, you bought an Amiga or Atari ST, or you had a Nintendo.
Generally, companies don't allow employees to start patching on their own, it goes through an internal Q&A process, and then is pushed out from internal sites, not direct from MS.
Just the bandwidth alone would force companies to use internal update sites!
Putting up a web site is inherently a public thing; sites that are private or require a membership generally require some sort of authentication to gain access. So lets assume that isn't true and that a web site exists with no passwords and all the world can go to it.
1) If you are a commercial site, presumably you want traffic because you benefit somehow. Selling ads, selling memberships, brand-awareness. This kind of site probably enjoys the mention
2) If you are a private website that talks about your hobby, then I can see a problem, but that's the risk of running a public site.
I look at it this way...If I put a circus in the front yard, free for whomever stops by, I can't be shocked to find out a bunch of people show up to see the circus. If I wanted better control, I'd put the circus in the backyard with a fence around it. I mean, you can't have it both ways.
Ester Dyson is mainly known as the inventor of the word "vaporware". She was relevant about 20 years ago, but I don't think she's come with anything witty or relevant since.
I think her pitch now is "I knew Bill G and Steve J when they were just starting" kind of thing. I suppose that nets you $25K speaking gigs, but you wouldn't take their advice for anything that involved money...
I have Sirius, and while I understand the compression technology is different between XM and Sirius, the underlying fidelity isn't significantly different.
Despite what the services (and other people) tell you, its not CD quality. Its not close to CD quality. People who can't tell the difference should be happy, because they can't tell the difference.
If I can describe the sound, at its best, it sounds like something that is somewhat better than FM. The Dynamic Range is better than FM usually is, but not what FM really can be.
As to the sound, Imagine a 96-128 VBR MP3, and I think that it kind of pegs it. Now, there are times when it sounds like a 96kb/s MP3 run through a shortwave transmitter. Its a combination of digital artifacts and some sort of weird phase thing that reminds me of short wave.
Sirius fiddles with their compression all the time. Constantly. Channels will be good one day, and virtually unlistenable the next. Some people seem more bothered by this, others never seem to notice.
But the bottom line is that this would be no better than taping from FM radio, although the DJ's talk somewhat less, so I guess you'd have less chatter. If the RIAA is worried about people taping from satellite radio, then they just have too much time on their hands.
" Let us not forget that an improperly wired CRT will emit X Rays."
According to this link:
http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/consumer/TVRad.html
There's never been a case where this has happened. Is this because its not possible to do, or because all TV repairmen are licensed and all exercise extreme caution when wiring CRTs?
Incidentally, do you know anyone who has ever rewired a CRT? When is a re-wiring advisable? Is it an annual thing, or just when the wires get old?
"...lower insurance rates for those of us that obey traffic laws, aren't the cause of accidents (even in no-fault states) I am all for it."
1) How does it know if you're obeying traffic laws? the only thing it could track is whether you're under the speed limit, and that isn't really the primary determination of whether you're a safe driver.
2) When has your insurance rates ever been lowered for any reason? I've been driving for almost 30 years, and they've never gone down. How will you know they've gone down? What will trigger a rise? You drove 61MPH in a 60MPH zone. Your insurance goes up at that point?
This does nothing except make the entire population more trackable and erodes privacy for no valid reason.
"None of the customers are gonna risk a $50k accounting package gettign messed up to see if it works on something else."
Well, that isn't really the customer's job, that's the ISV's isn't it?
Seems to me that an ISV that doesn't have a migration plan away from SCO already is one that I wouldn't want to do business with. They should have been migrating to something else 2-3 years ago.
And even if SCO were to win the lawsuit against IBM, how does that help their core business? More to the point, how are current SCO customers helped by a win?
"Richard Stallman has used his wealth (in terms of programming time, energy) to create software that is free-er, and is much more powerful than he would have been had he not done it. "
Sure, and for his trouble, he's called names from every end of the political spectrum.
He paints a grandiose scheme of how apple is somehow attempting to control all these different elements to sit in the middle of all content being the gatekeeper and toll-taker.
The trouble is, the planets would have to align in a very precise way for this to happen.
Here's where I think he runs into trouble:
1) People who live and die by their cellphone think everybody does too. Perhaps this is generational, but most people don't take *any* devices when they go someplace. The idea that more than a minority of people think they need to be always connected is shortsighted.
2) People will not forget they can own their music. The idea of a pay-per-listen model probably gives the RIAA members chills up and down their spine, but people haven't gone for this in sizeable numbers since the 45 RPM vinyl single was produced. People can own a sizeable stack of music in almost perfect digital form on CD today without any hints of DRM or usage restrictions. I don't think people will move towards this model without getting something in return. For example, I might go to a pay-per-listen model provided the "listen" cost so little that I didnt' even have to think about it... say 5 cents or less per listen. But clearly, this is less money than the record company gets today, so where is the incentive for them?
3) People who are really into iTMS think the whole world is now downloading music. They're not. I think its great apple figured out a way to get people to download music and pay for it. But the amount they sell probably doesn't come close to what Wal-Mart does on their own.
4) Finally, the biggest flaw with this op piece is that it assumes companies can act intelligently enough over a long-enough period of time to fundamentally change the market. But Apple has never demonstrated this kind of consistency over a period of decades; heck, they've not been around long enough. Fundemantally, I doubt any one company has this power, if only because other companies will not let Apple achieve a position of dominance. Arrayed against Apple are all the tech companies, the record companies, and probably a handful of agencies that control the artists.
Now to be sure, this guy paints an interesting series of events, and who knows... maybe Apple believes it can be the new mega-entertainment power. Well, all I can say is that for all of Apple's visions and execution, they still can't get a significant portion of PC sales, so I don't believe the company really has the ability to execute in the content business. It isn't even core to Apple, how can they have any credibility in the entertainment arena?
How the hell are you? What are you up to these days?
Been forever since I saw you at the Amiga Developer's Conferences.
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They bought Tektronix's color laser printer. Tektronix was way ahead of the game with their laser and wax printers, and I think it was cheaper for Xerox to buy them then develop their own line of printers.
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What your saying is that speed differential causes a problem, and you are correct.
That means the person going 45 MPH on a highway is just as unsafe as someone going 75 MPH, assuming everybody else is travelling 60 MPH.
However, what you're also implying is that posted speed is somewhat irrelevant; what's more critical to safety is the average speed that drivers are actually driving.
If you're on some interstate in Montana where most drivers are travelling at 80MPH, it is a danger in the extreme to be going 55MPH.
But nobody seems comfortable to admit the obvious.
"so Microsoft shipped a runtime version of Windows with Excel. "
This predates Windows 3.x. What you're talking about happened, but it was around the time that Windows/286 and Windows/386 were released.
Actually CGA allowed 4 colors on screen at once, and the pallette was fixed.
As I recall, there were 2 color schemes... one that had pink/blue/white/black the other scheme has green/yellow/red/black.
Of course, CGA had other text modes as well.
There were some games done for CGA, notably the Sierra Online graphic adventure games, but not much.
Later, EGA came out, but because it required an all new monitor and graphics card that you'd have to buy separately, it never took off except for people who ran things like AutoCAD. I'm trying to remember EGA's resolution, I believe it was 640x400 (?) with 16 colors.
Graphics on the PC took off when IBM introduced VGA, which was still only 640x480 16 colors OR 320x240 with 256 colors, but it was enough. Later, SVGA came out from the cloners and resolution and graphics have crept up over the years.
But when CGA was king of the PC world, nobody bought a PC for games, you bought an Amiga or Atari ST, or you had a Nintendo.
Generally, companies don't allow employees to start patching on their own, it goes through an internal Q&A process, and then is pushed out from internal sites, not direct from MS.
Just the bandwidth alone would force companies to use internal update sites!
So I'm not sure what the story is here.
I agree with you in principle, but that's why you grab an MD5 and compare.
"I think what Iliad is saying here is that consumers really don't care if their browser supports de facto fringe standards"
If that's the attitude, how the heck does he (and Microsoft) plan on selling consumers on the benefits of Longhorn?
Putting up a web site is inherently a public thing; sites that are private or require a membership generally require some sort of authentication to gain access. So lets assume that isn't true and that a web site exists with no passwords and all the world can go to it.
1) If you are a commercial site, presumably you want traffic because you benefit somehow. Selling ads, selling memberships, brand-awareness. This kind of site probably enjoys the mention
2) If you are a private website that talks about your hobby, then I can see a problem, but that's the risk of running a public site.
I look at it this way...If I put a circus in the front yard, free for whomever stops by, I can't be shocked to find out a bunch of people show up to see the circus. If I wanted better control, I'd put the circus in the backyard with a fence around it. I mean, you can't have it both ways.
Ester Dyson is mainly known as the inventor of the word "vaporware". She was relevant about 20 years ago, but I don't think she's come with anything witty or relevant since.
I think her pitch now is "I knew Bill G and Steve J when they were just starting" kind of thing. I suppose that nets you $25K speaking gigs, but you wouldn't take their advice for anything that involved money...
I thought (and I could be wrong) that when you published a commercial, publically available website, you try to get more people to look at it.
You can do this through search engines, through placements in other web sites or in print.
When then, would you not want a site to link to you?
I have Sirius, and while I understand the compression technology is different between XM and Sirius, the underlying fidelity isn't significantly different.
Despite what the services (and other people) tell you, its not CD quality. Its not close to CD quality. People who can't tell the difference should be happy, because they can't tell the difference.
If I can describe the sound, at its best, it sounds like something that is somewhat better than FM. The Dynamic Range is better than FM usually is, but not what FM really can be.
As to the sound, Imagine a 96-128 VBR MP3, and I think that it kind of pegs it. Now, there are times when it sounds like a 96kb/s MP3 run through a shortwave transmitter. Its a combination of digital artifacts and some sort of weird phase thing that reminds me of short wave.
Sirius fiddles with their compression all the time. Constantly. Channels will be good one day, and virtually unlistenable the next. Some people seem more bothered by this, others never seem to notice.
But the bottom line is that this would be no better than taping from FM radio, although the DJ's talk somewhat less, so I guess you'd have less chatter. If the RIAA is worried about people taping from satellite radio, then they just have too much time on their hands.
" as there is a huge market for it. Just ask HMV, Tower, and Virgin"
Isn't Tower Records in Chapter 11 bankruptcy?
It sounds like the publisher checked with their attorney and found out there was no legal way to take the domain.
I doubt it had to do with any kind of moral sense or justice.
" Let us not forget that an improperly wired CRT will emit X Rays."
According to this link:
http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/consumer/TVRad.html
There's never been a case where this has happened. Is this because its not possible to do, or because all TV repairmen are licensed and all exercise extreme caution when wiring CRTs?
Incidentally, do you know anyone who has ever rewired a CRT? When is a re-wiring advisable? Is it an annual thing, or just when the wires get old?
Its not clear if the G3 PB line is supported; it might be nice to get this for the Pismo line which can be a hair too slow for OS.X.
Any experience out there?
"...lower insurance rates for those of us that obey traffic laws, aren't the cause of accidents (even in no-fault states) I am all for it."
1) How does it know if you're obeying traffic laws? the only thing it could track is whether you're under the speed limit, and that isn't really the primary determination of whether you're a safe driver.
2) When has your insurance rates ever been lowered for any reason? I've been driving for almost 30 years, and they've never gone down. How will you know they've gone down? What will trigger a rise? You drove 61MPH in a 60MPH zone. Your insurance goes up at that point?
This does nothing except make the entire population more trackable and erodes privacy for no valid reason.
"On the way back a drunken homeless man driving at 200 km/h hits her head on,"
I'm imaging this poor drunken sod, that has no money, no home, just enough for some booze, and he's magically doing 200km/h.
Is he falling off a building? Or did he just steal some bitchin' Nike's that he can go that fast?
"None of the customers are gonna risk a $50k accounting package gettign messed up to see if it works on something else."
Well, that isn't really the customer's job, that's the ISV's isn't it?
Seems to me that an ISV that doesn't have a migration plan away from SCO already is one that I wouldn't want to do business with. They should have been migrating to something else 2-3 years ago.
And even if SCO were to win the lawsuit against IBM, how does that help their core business? More to the point, how are current SCO customers helped by a win?
Perhaps SCO is not sueing any more customers because they've pretty much reached the end of their list of customers?
"Richard Stallman has used his wealth (in terms of programming time, energy) to create software that is free-er, and is much more powerful than he would have been had he not done it. "
Sure, and for his trouble, he's called names from every end of the political spectrum.
Do we hate Real today or do we love them?
He paints a grandiose scheme of how apple is somehow attempting to control all these different elements to sit in the middle of all content being the gatekeeper and toll-taker.
The trouble is, the planets would have to align in a very precise way for this to happen.
Here's where I think he runs into trouble:
1) People who live and die by their cellphone think everybody does too. Perhaps this is generational, but most people don't take *any* devices when they go someplace. The idea that more than a minority of people think they need to be always connected is shortsighted.
2) People will not forget they can own their music. The idea of a pay-per-listen model probably gives the RIAA members chills up and down their spine, but people haven't gone for this in sizeable numbers since the 45 RPM vinyl single was produced. People can own a sizeable stack of music in almost perfect digital form on CD today without any hints of DRM or usage restrictions. I don't think people will move towards this model without getting something in return. For example, I might go to a pay-per-listen model provided the "listen" cost so little that I didnt' even have to think about it... say 5 cents or less per listen. But clearly, this is less money than the record company gets today, so where is the incentive for them?
3) People who are really into iTMS think the whole world is now downloading music. They're not. I think its great apple figured out a way to get people to download music and pay for it. But the amount they sell probably doesn't come close to what Wal-Mart does on their own.
4) Finally, the biggest flaw with this op piece is that it assumes companies can act intelligently enough over a long-enough period of time to fundamentally change the market. But Apple has never demonstrated this kind of consistency over a period of decades; heck, they've not been around long enough. Fundemantally, I doubt any one company has this power, if only because other companies will not let Apple achieve a position of dominance. Arrayed against Apple are all the tech companies, the record companies, and probably a handful of agencies that control the artists.
Now to be sure, this guy paints an interesting series of events, and who knows... maybe Apple believes it can be the new mega-entertainment power. Well, all I can say is that for all of Apple's visions and execution, they still can't get a significant portion of PC sales, so I don't believe the company really has the ability to execute in the content business. It isn't even core to Apple, how can they have any credibility in the entertainment arena?
We've given the FCC veto power over consumer electronics.
We've given the RIAA, MPAA, and virtually everybody who owns "content" veto power over consumer electronics.
Why should I pay for something that I don't control? If I pay all that money for a Tivo, don't I have the right to decide what to do with it?
Apparently not.
If not for this hidden article in the Post, how many people would even be aware how much intrusion into our lives is happening via these folks?
You either let your congressman/senator know now, or yet another right will be lost. If it isn't already.
Dude, the NY Times is not the arbitrar of legal. And neither are you.
You might say, "The NY Times thinks its illegal, and so do I, but I am a fucktard and so its just my moronic opinion".
Or you might keep your trap shut.
Leo,
How the hell are you? What are you up to these days?
Been forever since I saw you at the Amiga Developer's Conferences.
They bought Tektronix's color laser printer. Tektronix was way ahead of the game with their laser and wax printers, and I think it was cheaper for Xerox to buy them then develop their own line of printers.