I'm sure they do want to force the motherboard manufacturers off APM onto ACPI. ACPI is needed (or at least helps) for a lot of the more advanced power management/hibernate functions, and they don't want motherboards to get the "Designed for Windows XP" logo if they don't support all of the OS features in that regard.
If the option to disable ACPI was there then you can bet some lazy motherboard manufacturers would ship it in the disabled mode just to avoid the trouble of getting ACPI to work properly.
If you ask me, the solution here is to fix whichever isn't handling ACPI properly, FreeBSD or the motherboard BIOS, not to complain about Microsoft..
Very little spam actually comes from web-based providers like that - although the messages very often list those in the From tag, that means nothing, you can put anything you want in there. Spam that comes from North America is almost invariably sent through some throwaway dialup account, connecting directly to the recipient's mail server. I think that Asian spam is often sent through some kind of fixed link with an ISP that doesn't care about spamming.
Most modern OSs, when the CPU is idle, will issue a halt instruction to the CPU. In this state, the CPU uses very little power. Linux certainly does this, and I believe Windows 98/2000 and later does as well, at least if ACPI is enabled. In older OSes, the CPU was indeed run around in a loop when it was idle.
Your second last paragraph doesn't make much sense. The reason chips use power is that whenever one CMOS transistor switches from one state to the other, it uses a small power surge, so the overall power usage depends on the CPU clock speed and how many of the transistors are switching around.
I should note, though, that the CPU uses 30-60 watts of power at the most (Pentium III/Celeron are in the 30 watt range, while Pentium 4 and Athlon chips get into the higher end - some other chips like PowerPC use considerably less). Certainly you should worry less about this than the people who leave their monitor on all the time without using the power management function..
I would imagine not - the system to move the heads is very different, HDs use a voice coil which is almost the same as that used in a speaker, only it moves the head instead of a speaker cone. Floppy drives use a stepper motor..
If they released software which they made from it, they would have to include source. However, if it is used only on their servers they have no obligation to release either source or binary versions.
Don't be so sure that Windows code must use a ton of language extensions - Visual C++ does have some extensions to the standard, but generally (always?) by default it spits out warnings ("warning: nonstandard extension used:...") whenever you use them - GCC doesn't do that with its extensions..
Where are people getting these ideas? Hello, NASA and their partners paid for the station, it's their responsibility - do you really expect them to let any wacko who's got the cash go up there?
If Millionare Wackos Inc. decide to scrounge up a few billion to put up their own space station, fine, but not on the ISS..
I don't think that's true for most (or any) digital cable systems - all the channels are just streamed continously. Especially since they're generally usable even on cable systems with no upstream capability (some of these systems use a phone modem for upstream, but that's only for things like purchasing pay-per-view movies).
I agree, 128 isn't enough for playback on a decent stereo, but 320 really is excessive. Especially considering that there have been double-blind listening tests done with 256 kbit MP3s where it was found people couldn't distinguish them from the original, 320 is just a waste of space.
If you want higher quality with smaller space usage, you can use VBR, that way those high bit rates are only used for the parts of the song that actually need it.
Linksys routers, for one, allow you to set the WAN MAC address of the router to be anything you want (like the MAC of the NIC that used to be hooked directly to the modem), which would defeat this..
I marked for a first year computer science course once.. the funniest set of cheaters that I caught was detected when I noticed that both their programs had exactly the same number of compiler errors (30 something)..
You'd think if you were going to cheat, you would steal somebody's program that actually COMPILED..
It will be lossy, if they're using MP3 encoding. Depending on the bitrate they used, the quality loss may be, for all practical purposes, inaudible, but there is still theoretically some quality loss. (Otherwise they'd have to put two full copies of the music on the disc, which would halve the playing time..)
No, no, that's not it. I believe basically they've got intentional errors on the CD, which most audio CD players will interpolate around, supposedly with no audible effect, but which many CD drives will not interpolate around while ripping, causing pops and clicks in the audio.
The computer playback program uses an entirely different copy of the music, which uses encryption/DRM/whatever to prevent it from being copied.
That call isn't part of.NET, that's just a standard Win32 call to a DLL entry point. Apparently in the future Windows will recognize a.NET executable on its own and automatically process it, without needing an easily infectable native stub in the app to start itself up.
There's some question of legal interpretation here, however. If the licensee for the software under the GPL is considered to be the company, not the employees, then giving the app to employees is not distribution, they're just part of the company. If an employee takes the code and distributes it without the company's permission, then how is that different from a case where an individual takes GPL code, modifies it, doesn't distribute the modified app or source, and then somebody steals the software off their hard drive?
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I'm sure they do want to force the motherboard manufacturers off APM onto ACPI. ACPI is needed (or at least helps) for a lot of the more advanced power management/hibernate functions, and they don't want motherboards to get the "Designed for Windows XP" logo if they don't support all of the OS features in that regard.
If the option to disable ACPI was there then you can bet some lazy motherboard manufacturers would ship it in the disabled mode just to avoid the trouble of getting ACPI to work properly.
If you ask me, the solution here is to fix whichever isn't handling ACPI properly, FreeBSD or the motherboard BIOS, not to complain about Microsoft..
FireWire is only 400 megabits - that's a potential bottleneck for some of the faster drives out now..
Very little spam actually comes from web-based providers like that - although the messages very often list those in the From tag, that means nothing, you can put anything you want in there. Spam that comes from North America is almost invariably sent through some throwaway dialup account, connecting directly to the recipient's mail server. I think that Asian spam is often sent through some kind of fixed link with an ISP that doesn't care about spamming.
Most modern OSs, when the CPU is idle, will issue a halt instruction to the CPU. In this state, the CPU uses very little power. Linux certainly does this, and I believe Windows 98/2000 and later does as well, at least if ACPI is enabled. In older OSes, the CPU was indeed run around in a loop when it was idle.
Your second last paragraph doesn't make much sense. The reason chips use power is that whenever one CMOS transistor switches from one state to the other, it uses a small power surge, so the overall power usage depends on the CPU clock speed and how many of the transistors are switching around.
I should note, though, that the CPU uses 30-60 watts of power at the most (Pentium III/Celeron are in the 30 watt range, while Pentium 4 and Athlon chips get into the higher end - some other chips like PowerPC use considerably less). Certainly you should worry less about this than the people who leave their monitor on all the time without using the power management function..
Don't hollow-point rounds not work very well against someone wearing armor/flak jacket, though? At least, that's what the Rainbow Six game implies..
I would imagine not - the system to move the heads is very different, HDs use a voice coil which is almost the same as that used in a speaker, only it moves the head instead of a speaker cone. Floppy drives use a stepper motor..
It's not ATA-133 vs. 100 actually, that's a separate issue. Maxtor has something they call the BigDrive extension..
They convert it to 60 fps (well, 59.something actually): 3 fields of one frame, 2 from the next, 3 from the next, etc (3-2 pulldown).
If they released software which they made from it, they would have to include source. However, if it is used only on their servers they have no obligation to release either source or binary versions.
If I remember correctly, the Klingons got the cloaking technology from the Romulans..
Don't be so sure that Windows code must use a ton of language extensions - Visual C++ does have some extensions to the standard, but generally (always?) by default it spits out warnings ("warning: nonstandard extension used: ...") whenever you use them - GCC doesn't do that with its extensions..
Where are people getting these ideas? Hello, NASA and their partners paid for the station, it's their responsibility - do you really expect them to let any wacko who's got the cash go up there?
If Millionare Wackos Inc. decide to scrounge up a few billion to put up their own space station, fine, but not on the ISS..
If you read the article, you'll see that these guidelines were developed and agreed upon by all the space station partners, including the Russians..
I don't think that's true for most (or any) digital cable systems - all the channels are just streamed continously. Especially since they're generally usable even on cable systems with no upstream capability (some of these systems use a phone modem for upstream, but that's only for things like purchasing pay-per-view movies).
I agree, 128 isn't enough for playback on a decent stereo, but 320 really is excessive. Especially considering that there have been double-blind listening tests done with 256 kbit MP3s where it was found people couldn't distinguish them from the original, 320 is just a waste of space.
If you want higher quality with smaller space usage, you can use VBR, that way those high bit rates are only used for the parts of the song that actually need it.
Linksys routers, for one, allow you to set the WAN MAC address of the router to be anything you want (like the MAC of the NIC that used to be hooked directly to the modem), which would defeat this..
What state allows you to license a car with no muffler?
I marked for a first year computer science course once.. the funniest set of cheaters that I caught was detected when I noticed that both their programs had exactly the same number of compiler errors (30 something)..
You'd think if you were going to cheat, you would steal somebody's program that actually COMPILED..
LAME would have been used to encode the songs, not play them, so there would be no reason for the player app to contain any LAME code.
It will be lossy, if they're using MP3 encoding. Depending on the bitrate they used, the quality loss may be, for all practical purposes, inaudible, but there is still theoretically some quality loss. (Otherwise they'd have to put two full copies of the music on the disc, which would halve the playing time..)
No, no, that's not it. I believe basically they've got intentional errors on the CD, which most audio CD players will interpolate around, supposedly with no audible effect, but which many CD drives will not interpolate around while ripping, causing pops and clicks in the audio.
The computer playback program uses an entirely different copy of the music, which uses encryption/DRM/whatever to prevent it from being copied.
I think the point was that the name was spelled wrong..
That call isn't part of .NET, that's just a standard Win32 call to a DLL entry point. Apparently in the future Windows will recognize a .NET executable on its own and automatically process it, without needing an easily infectable native stub in the app to start itself up.
Read the post again. It's not necessary to replace the actual su executable, only to create another fake one and put it on the user's path somewhere.
There's some question of legal interpretation here, however. If the licensee for the software under the GPL is considered to be the company, not the employees, then giving the app to employees is not distribution, they're just part of the company. If an employee takes the code and distributes it without the company's permission, then how is that different from a case where an individual takes GPL code, modifies it, doesn't distribute the modified app or source, and then somebody steals the software off their hard drive?