My impression was that it was not a matter of OS, but a matter of confusing the drive's firmware. Of course, somebody somewhere will find a drive that's immune and use it (even if it means using the analog CD-->Sound Card connector). Surley the record companies know that these attempts are futile. I mean, with a decent, sheielded headphone cable, a sound card with a low signal to noise ratio, and a wav recorder, it will be hard to detect the difference from a digital rip. Or, people might use a high end cd player with optical out, and a sound card with optical in. In that case, the difference will be even smaller. Such technologies are NOT going to stop piracy. Rather, they will limit legal fair use rights, piss consumers off, and make it hard to even listen to the music in the first place (as more and more people use DVD players and CD drives).
While I certainally do understand their desire to protect their intellectual property, I can't see this as being the way to do it. If I were offered downloads in a lossless, portable, non-restricted (e.g. I can play it wherever, and whenever I please) format for maybe 50 cents a song, I would be more than happy to pay for it. But of course, the danger in such a system is that it bypasses the record companies -- an artist can set up his or her own system with any number of pay-per-download systems already out there. This, more than piracy, is what the record companies fear.
If you had read the article, you would know that this has nothing do with open source vs. closed source. This "feature" isn't being coded INTO IE, Netscape (which IS essentially open source). It said quite clearly that no other software would be required, which means it will essentially be hijacking browsers. In fact, Konqueror too might be susceptible. We just don't know yet. I would hope, however, that if this becomes commonplace, Microsoft, AOL, and the others would issue security patches.
Be sure you make the distinction between what Windows was and what it now is. In the old days on Windows 3.x and earlier, it was soley an ad-on to DOS - a window manager. Then with Win95-WinME, while it technically still relied on DOS, it was it's own operating system. With NT 3 all the way to XP today (essentially NT 5.1), Windows is NOT an addon to a basic operating system! It IS the operating system. It has it's own kernel, filesystem, etc. Therefore, it cannot simply be ported to Linux. While it might be possible to create a Windows-like window/task/user manager for Linux, without the native support kernel, filesystem, etc., Windows wouldn't be nearly as powerful as XP is.
Look, even if Microsoft's tactics are reprehensible, Windows XP *is* a decent product (though it certainally does have its flaws), and talking about all these scaled back versions and whatnot is really quite ignorant of the facts. But getting back to the replacing X with Windows idea, while I like it (God knows I've spent more time that I should have had to to get X working right), if you want to use Windows, why bother with Linux at all? Most people that use it either do it for a hate of Microsoft or a desire for better security -- this solution provides for neither.
Almost all companies sell their software at HUGE discounts to students. Take Office XP. The academic version of it is only like $140. I go to school in Wisconsin, and we get an even better deal through a program called WiscNet. It's a deal with Microsoft, Apple, Macromedia, and Adobe for super cheap software. For instance, Microsoft Office XP Pro with Frontpage costs $35. Visual Studio
Pro 6 with Visual Basic, C++, J++, and all the utilities is $25. At those prices, there's just no reason to pirate!
I attend a University with an exceptionally good software engineering program. By the curriculum, we are REQUIRED to learn how to develope for both Windows and UNIX systems, along with the cross-platform Java. Approximately equal amounts of time are spent on each, using C, C++, Java, some Asm and even some Maple, along with the standard web languages. Any school that tries to teach development for only one platform (that includes a Linux-only curriculum) or language is shortchanging the students. In the ever-changing world of technology, you can't afford to be a stickler about what platforms you will or can program on. The vast majority of CS students will be employed by a company when they graduate -- not doing self-employed work. This means that you program on whatever platform your employer tells you to program on, and if you can't or won't, you won't be able to keep your job for very long.
The reason they're "selling out" is because it's a harsh economic REALITY that running a website such as Slashdot is EXPENSIVE (all that hardware) and that it DOESN'T GENERATE REVENUE. It's that simple. It's not a matter of selling out or being hypocritical or abandoning one's principals. With as many hits as they get, they need good servers and that costs money. If you can't see that, you're a fool. I don't like it either, but if you have a better way to keep Slashdot running, I'm sure they would love to hear it.
That's exactly what it is. It's been in Media Player for CDs since the first version of Windows 95, which must have been Media Player 4 or 5. Back then, you had to manually type in the disc info, then somewhere along the line they changed it so that WMP would also have the ability to get disc information online.
Other programs such as Audiograbber make use of this file for disc identification too. It's not just WMP and it's been around for years, so I'm not sure what the big fuss is about. I wish people would quit bashing Microsoft on an issue they know nothing about. Save it for a time when it's actually needed.
Ok, a Beowulf cluster is multiple COMPUTERS (or at least partial computers) that are linked together to do distributed computing. A RAID Array is multiple HARD DRIVES linked together to emulate one large hard drive with redundancy. There's a big difference.
I don't know...a Dolby Digital EX or a DTS sound played through 6 sets of these could be cool (and über geeky)...don't know about the ".1" though. I think you'd have a hard time finding a hard drive head driver that could produce that low of a frequency!
It's not very informative.
It's not funny.
While it is underrated,
it's not that insightful (any idiot knows to say this).
While I'm pretty sure I'm not being a troll,
I do know that it's very very very very very
redundant, in it's own way.
But of course, I would be a fool to not say it, would I not?
So I'll say it again:
Congratulations, and I hope you have a great life together!
Well, I hate to point out the obvious (and maybe I'm just faling for a troll here), but:
1) We don't even know if this will work out in the way we all want
2) Bush's list was for embryonic stem cells. Do you really think anybody would be dumb enough to claim that these cells should be limited by that decision too? The only moral implications with Adult stem cells is what might happen if the technology progressed to the point where it could create a new social rift.
I am dissapointed to find out that these DVDs are in full frame only. While today full frame is more popular, what about in a couple years? If a program was shot in widescreen, it needs to be presented in widescreen, at least as an option on DVDs. Also, I don't like the face that the episodes are out of order and the fact that the box height doesn't match that of a normal DVD case. Other than than, they look great, but at $100/season, I for sure expect widescreen and standardized cases/episode ordering.
I'm not completely sure what to say here. I guess there were two thing that really troubled me. One was how many emergency response persons were killed after responding to the first crash. I have the deepest respect and reverence for the firefighter, police, military, emergency response, and volunteer persons that were killed. Secondly I am wondering why after the first crash, air traffic control staffers didn't throw up a red flag.
Oh, and at the time of posting, there have been 4953 comments posted on this topic.
I know this has been touched on somewhat in other comments, but I'll go ahead and post anyway.
Really, people. I wouldn't consider this article to be very indicative of the true stability of various platforms. For instance, Windows NT 4 is a very old NOS. It was released sometime around 1996. And guess what? It sucks in many ways. But most anyone that has used Win2k (I.E. NT 5) in either a workstation or server environment will tell you that is much more stable and secure.
And what of other *nix and open source operating systems? In general, I consider the BSD distributions to be far more secure than you standard, out-of-the-box Linux distibution.
It would be very interesting to see a breakdown of major OS/NOS systems, with a "security level" rating. I wouldn't consider any study noteworthy that didn't include all of the following: Linux, WinNT, Win2k, BSD, OS X, consumer Windows (9x/Me/XP), and proboably Solaris. It is completely unfair to lump all *nix systems together and all Windows systems together.
This guy is a troll. The link reveals a picture of two naked guys giving anal and oral sex to a toy barney doll. Sick, if I may say so. I suppose if this sort of thing makes you happy, go for it, but personally I wish I haden't clicked on it.
I know that for video, I really like WMP 6.4. WMP 7 was too much of a bloated program and it removed the menu link to the properties of the codecs, which I really liked because you could easially adjust properties like saturation and brightness of movies. Does WMP 8 fix these things?
Yes, this has me worried. Even if Winamp is not bundled along with AOL or Netscape or anything else, I hope they at least allow it to continue to be developed. It would be a real shame to see it go. For audio-only purposes, it really is a better player that Windows Media Player. I haven't tried WMP 8 yet, but I suspect this is still true.
I suppose instead of simply saying "media" one should refer to the complete environment a person is subject to. Various stimuli will impact and influence a person to varying degrees. For the average person, you bet a bully is worse than a video game.
I guess we just have to look at the big picture both in terms of cause and effect; it is important to take into account both what drives people to do what they do (anyone know ol' Sigmund's phone number?) and what the effects of attempting to restrict people are. In this case, the cause is not completely known. The effect, however, is. Placing the fulcrum on the great balance of saftey vs. freedom is a tricky thing. Each person will place his or her fulcrum in a slightly different place; debating the exact location is useless. What we need is some sort of compromise, if such a thing is even possible in this case.
Yeah, a sliding scale would be better than an all-or-nothing cutoff.
I think I'm going to go to bed now. Happy debating, people! I'm tired. Sleep now.
-James
Four of the biggest causes of violent (i.e. murder) crime:
4) As you stated, basic greed and jealosy.
3) The mistaken belief that murdering someone will somehow make things better.
2) Bad influence of environmental stimuli, including but of course not limited to PARENTING, peers, experiances, and yes, media (including video games). I never said video games were the only cause. I didn't even say they were the primary cause. I just said that video games and media in general DO play a major role in violent youth crimes.
1) THE PRIMARY FACTOR: The yearning for attention. Although the attention a murderer recieves after committing a murder is negative attention, it is still attention. Negative attention is better than no attention at all.
-James
PS: My second cousin was murdered when he was 19 too. They never found the murderer. Oh, the irony. Anway, you've said it. There are a lot of screwed up people out there.
Oh, I agree with you on almost all points. First, about mental maturity. My suggestion of 12 as the cutoff is only an approximation. Some children will mature faster, and some slower. For logistical reasons, however, there would have to be a set age, either a mode or mean.
Ah, let's talk parents. Parents *are* the best way to prevent youth violence. But let's face it: there are a hell of a lot of parents out there that either don't care or do a crappy job. I would much rather leave it up the parents, but in today's society that just doesn't cut it. What if you lived in a neighborhood with 20 houses (we'll assume one parent & child per house for now), where there were 14 decent parents, 5 that were just bad parents, and one that is a raving alchoholic. The child of the 20th parent is enough to completely ruin or even eliminate the lives of the other 19 children. Just because you're doing your job, that doesn't mean that those around you are. It also doesn't mean that you or your children should have to pay the price for Mr. Idiot Jr.'s poor upbringing. IMHO, it's better to be a little safe that really sorry.
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My impression was that it was not a matter of OS, but a matter of confusing the drive's firmware. Of course, somebody somewhere will find a drive that's immune and use it (even if it means using the analog CD-->Sound Card connector). Surley the record companies know that these attempts are futile. I mean, with a decent, sheielded headphone cable, a sound card with a low signal to noise ratio, and a wav recorder, it will be hard to detect the difference from a digital rip. Or, people might use a high end cd player with optical out, and a sound card with optical in. In that case, the difference will be even smaller. Such technologies are NOT going to stop piracy. Rather, they will limit legal fair use rights, piss consumers off, and make it hard to even listen to the music in the first place (as more and more people use DVD players and CD drives).
While I certainally do understand their desire to protect their intellectual property, I can't see this as being the way to do it. If I were offered downloads in a lossless, portable, non-restricted (e.g. I can play it wherever, and whenever I please) format for maybe 50 cents a song, I would be more than happy to pay for it. But of course, the danger in such a system is that it bypasses the record companies -- an artist can set up his or her own system with any number of pay-per-download systems already out there. This, more than piracy, is what the record companies fear.
If you had read the article, you would know that this has nothing do with open source vs. closed source. This "feature" isn't being coded INTO IE, Netscape (which IS essentially open source). It said quite clearly that no other software would be required, which means it will essentially be hijacking browsers. In fact, Konqueror too might be susceptible. We just don't know yet. I would hope, however, that if this becomes commonplace, Microsoft, AOL, and the others would issue security patches.
Be sure you make the distinction between what Windows was and what it now is. In the old days on Windows 3.x and earlier, it was soley an ad-on to DOS - a window manager. Then with Win95-WinME, while it technically still relied on DOS, it was it's own operating system. With NT 3 all the way to XP today (essentially NT 5.1), Windows is NOT an addon to a basic operating system! It IS the operating system. It has it's own kernel, filesystem, etc. Therefore, it cannot simply be ported to Linux. While it might be possible to create a Windows-like window/task/user manager for Linux, without the native support kernel, filesystem, etc., Windows wouldn't be nearly as powerful as XP is.
Look, even if Microsoft's tactics are reprehensible, Windows XP *is* a decent product (though it certainally does have its flaws), and talking about all these scaled back versions and whatnot is really quite ignorant of the facts. But getting back to the replacing X with Windows idea, while I like it (God knows I've spent more time that I should have had to to get X working right), if you want to use Windows, why bother with Linux at all? Most people that use it either do it for a hate of Microsoft or a desire for better security -- this solution provides for neither.
Almost all companies sell their software at HUGE discounts to students. Take Office XP. The academic version of it is only like $140. I go to school in Wisconsin, and we get an even better deal through a program called WiscNet. It's a deal with Microsoft, Apple, Macromedia, and Adobe for super cheap software. For instance, Microsoft Office XP Pro with Frontpage costs $35. Visual Studio Pro 6 with Visual Basic, C++, J++, and all the utilities is $25. At those prices, there's just no reason to pirate!
I attend a University with an exceptionally good software engineering program. By the curriculum, we are REQUIRED to learn how to develope for both Windows and UNIX systems, along with the cross-platform Java. Approximately equal amounts of time are spent on each, using C, C++, Java, some Asm and even some Maple, along with the standard web languages. Any school that tries to teach development for only one platform (that includes a Linux-only curriculum) or language is shortchanging the students. In the ever-changing world of technology, you can't afford to be a stickler about what platforms you will or can program on. The vast majority of CS students will be employed by a company when they graduate -- not doing self-employed work. This means that you program on whatever platform your employer tells you to program on, and if you can't or won't, you won't be able to keep your job for very long.
The reason they're "selling out" is because it's a harsh economic REALITY that running a website such as Slashdot is EXPENSIVE (all that hardware) and that it DOESN'T GENERATE REVENUE. It's that simple. It's not a matter of selling out or being hypocritical or abandoning one's principals. With as many hits as they get, they need good servers and that costs money. If you can't see that, you're a fool. I don't like it either, but if you have a better way to keep Slashdot running, I'm sure they would love to hear it.
That's exactly what it is. It's been in Media Player for CDs since the first version of Windows 95, which must have been Media Player 4 or 5. Back then, you had to manually type in the disc info, then somewhere along the line they changed it so that WMP would also have the ability to get disc information online.
Other programs such as Audiograbber make use of this file for disc identification too. It's not just WMP and it's been around for years, so I'm not sure what the big fuss is about. I wish people would quit bashing Microsoft on an issue they know nothing about. Save it for a time when it's actually needed.
True, but I guess to me the joke does make sense until you make it: ... Ahh nevermind."
:)
"A RAID array of
Br
Ok, a Beowulf cluster is multiple COMPUTERS (or at least partial computers) that are linked together to do distributed computing. A RAID Array is multiple HARD DRIVES linked together to emulate one large hard drive with redundancy. There's a big difference.
I don't know...a Dolby Digital EX or a DTS sound played through 6 sets of these could be cool (and über geeky)...don't know about the ".1" though. I think you'd have a hard time finding a hard drive head driver that could produce that low of a frequency!
It's not very informative. It's not funny. While it is underrated, it's not that insightful (any idiot knows to say this). While I'm pretty sure I'm not being a troll, I do know that it's very very very very very redundant, in it's own way.
But of course, I would be a fool to not say it, would I not? So I'll say it again:
Congratulations, and I hope you have a great life together!
Well, I hate to point out the obvious (and maybe I'm just faling for a troll here), but: 1) We don't even know if this will work out in the way we all want 2) Bush's list was for embryonic stem cells. Do you really think anybody would be dumb enough to claim that these cells should be limited by that decision too? The only moral implications with Adult stem cells is what might happen if the technology progressed to the point where it could create a new social rift.
It's called Autoplay and it's been around since 1995. You can turn it off if you want to, but I don't think it's that big a problem.
I heard that VOY began shooting in Widescreen in the third season but it was just always aired in full screen.
I am dissapointed to find out that these DVDs are in full frame only. While today full frame is more popular, what about in a couple years? If a program was shot in widescreen, it needs to be presented in widescreen, at least as an option on DVDs. Also, I don't like the face that the episodes are out of order and the fact that the box height doesn't match that of a normal DVD case. Other than than, they look great, but at $100/season, I for sure expect widescreen and standardized cases/episode ordering.
I'm not completely sure what to say here. I guess there were two thing that really troubled me. One was how many emergency response persons were killed after responding to the first crash. I have the deepest respect and reverence for the firefighter, police, military, emergency response, and volunteer persons that were killed. Secondly I am wondering why after the first crash, air traffic control staffers didn't throw up a red flag.
Oh, and at the time of posting, there have been 4953 comments posted on this topic.
Yes...I suppose I would agree that *nix administrators are in general more well trained than Windows administrators, so I can see your point.
If you read the article, you would note that they are mainly talking about Win NT 4. That was my whole point.
I know this has been touched on somewhat in other comments, but I'll go ahead and post anyway.
Really, people. I wouldn't consider this article to be very indicative of the true stability of various platforms. For instance, Windows NT 4 is a very old NOS. It was released sometime around 1996. And guess what? It sucks in many ways. But most anyone that has used Win2k (I.E. NT 5) in either a workstation or server environment will tell you that is much more stable and secure.
And what of other *nix and open source operating systems? In general, I consider the BSD distributions to be far more secure than you standard, out-of-the-box Linux distibution.
It would be very interesting to see a breakdown of major OS/NOS systems, with a "security level" rating. I wouldn't consider any study noteworthy that didn't include all of the following: Linux, WinNT, Win2k, BSD, OS X, consumer Windows (9x/Me/XP), and proboably Solaris. It is completely unfair to lump all *nix systems together and all Windows systems together.
Thoughts?
Anybody with the least bit of restraint will not click on it. I would rather be warned. Fortunately, it has now been modded down.
This guy is a troll. The link reveals a picture of two naked guys giving anal and oral sex to a toy barney doll. Sick, if I may say so. I suppose if this sort of thing makes you happy, go for it, but personally I wish I haden't clicked on it.
I know that for video, I really like WMP 6.4. WMP 7 was too much of a bloated program and it removed the menu link to the properties of the codecs, which I really liked because you could easially adjust properties like saturation and brightness of movies. Does WMP 8 fix these things?
Yes, this has me worried. Even if Winamp is not bundled along with AOL or Netscape or anything else, I hope they at least allow it to continue to be developed. It would be a real shame to see it go. For audio-only purposes, it really is a better player that Windows Media Player. I haven't tried WMP 8 yet, but I suspect this is still true.
I suppose instead of simply saying "media" one should refer to the complete environment a person is subject to. Various stimuli will impact and influence a person to varying degrees. For the average person, you bet a bully is worse than a video game.
I guess we just have to look at the big picture both in terms of cause and effect; it is important to take into account both what drives people to do what they do (anyone know ol' Sigmund's phone number?) and what the effects of attempting to restrict people are. In this case, the cause is not completely known. The effect, however, is. Placing the fulcrum on the great balance of saftey vs. freedom is a tricky thing. Each person will place his or her fulcrum in a slightly different place; debating the exact location is useless. What we need is some sort of compromise, if such a thing is even possible in this case.
Yeah, a sliding scale would be better than an all-or-nothing cutoff.
I think I'm going to go to bed now. Happy debating, people! I'm tired. Sleep now.
-James
Four of the biggest causes of violent (i.e. murder) crime:
4) As you stated, basic greed and jealosy.
3) The mistaken belief that murdering someone will somehow make things better.
2) Bad influence of environmental stimuli, including but of course not limited to PARENTING, peers, experiances, and yes, media (including video games). I never said video games were the only cause. I didn't even say they were the primary cause. I just said that video games and media in general DO play a major role in violent youth crimes.
1) THE PRIMARY FACTOR: The yearning for attention. Although the attention a murderer recieves after committing a murder is negative attention, it is still attention. Negative attention is better than no attention at all.
-James
PS: My second cousin was murdered when he was 19 too. They never found the murderer. Oh, the irony. Anway, you've said it. There are a lot of screwed up people out there.
Oh, I agree with you on almost all points. First, about mental maturity. My suggestion of 12 as the cutoff is only an approximation. Some children will mature faster, and some slower. For logistical reasons, however, there would have to be a set age, either a mode or mean.
Ah, let's talk parents. Parents *are* the best way to prevent youth violence. But let's face it: there are a hell of a lot of parents out there that either don't care or do a crappy job. I would much rather leave it up the parents, but in today's society that just doesn't cut it. What if you lived in a neighborhood with 20 houses (we'll assume one parent & child per house for now), where there were 14 decent parents, 5 that were just bad parents, and one that is a raving alchoholic. The child of the 20th parent is enough to completely ruin or even eliminate the lives of the other 19 children. Just because you're doing your job, that doesn't mean that those around you are. It also doesn't mean that you or your children should have to pay the price for Mr. Idiot Jr.'s poor upbringing. IMHO, it's better to be a little safe that really sorry.
-James