Even if the DMCA does not prohibit sharing TV shows, regular copyright law probably does. However, software and hardware which allows TV show sharing might be legal to sell if this article is right. OTOH, they didn't need the DMCA to shut down Napster, so my guess is that the TV networks will use similar contributory infringement arguments if they want to go after ExtractStream and friends.
Performance per clock doesn't really matter, because lengthening the pipeline allows higher frequencies. I think a better metric is maximum performance in the same process, and the Pentium 4 wins there (unless you care about cost; then it gets tricky...).
Am I the only one who finds this stuff easier to understand when the author just explains what actually happens instead of using analogies? I thought the Hennessey & Patterson version of this was better, but then it wasn't free...
802.16 looks like it ought to support more clients/base station than 802.11 because it uses TDMA instead of CSMA/CA. This Vivato antenna has the advantage of being compatible with existing equipment, though.
The problem is that the cable company chooses what kind of box you will get, and as you pointed out their incentive is to give you the cheapest box. Want a better cable box? Sorry. Passage and OpenCable are trying to solve this problem, so you can buy a fancy Sony cable box if that's what you want.
No one has said so explicitly so far, but presumably each firewire cable is a simple peer to peer connection. So to connect 3 computers, you need two cables, and at least one computer with 2 or more firewire ports. That central computer would then route IP packets between the two end computers.
That's not how it works. All the machines in a FireWire chain are essentially sharing a single broadcast medium, like Ethernet.
Nope; Cat5 can't support the 400MHz signaling rate that 1394 uses (IIRC). That's why 1394 cables are shielded. Maybe you could run at S100 speed over Cat5, but I'd rather use Ethernet in that case.
Bugs have been found in previous versions of PGP. Hopefully the source code release will allow the bugs in PGP 8.0 to be found sooner rather than later.
Most Java developers don't want to use the Java-GNOME API; they want to use Swing and have their apps run on all platforms and yet look native. What Sun really announced in that article is probably a Gtk AWT and Swing PLAF, which would allow portable Java apps written using the standard APIs to use Gtk.
If you make GNOME so similar to CDE that you can switch desktops on someone without them noticing, then what have you gained? The reason Sun is switching to GNOME is because it is better (i.e. different).
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The above comment is a cut-and-paste from the R16000 story.
They announced that new models introduced after Jan 1, 2003 would only boot into OS X. That doesn't mean they will update the entire line.
I believe as long as you are not selling it fair use applies.
People have argued this both ways, but your interpretation seems to be losing.
Besides most TV shows are broadcast across the airwaves making them public domain, since anyone could intercept them.
No. That's not how copyright law works.
Basicly everyone has a license to view TV programming.
To view it, but not to redistribute it.
Even if the DMCA does not prohibit sharing TV shows, regular copyright law probably does. However, software and hardware which allows TV show sharing might be legal to sell if this article is right. OTOH, they didn't need the DMCA to shut down Napster, so my guess is that the TV networks will use similar contributory infringement arguments if they want to go after ExtractStream and friends.
Which will come first - Apple cracking down or them getting WindowServer to run on i386?
I'm betting that WindowServer is a PPC binary; good luck running it on x86.
The new power connector is needed for hot-swap.
Performance per clock doesn't really matter, because lengthening the pipeline allows higher frequencies. I think a better metric is maximum performance in the same process, and the Pentium 4 wins there (unless you care about cost; then it gets tricky...).
Am I the only one who finds this stuff easier to understand when the author just explains what actually happens instead of using analogies? I thought the Hennessey & Patterson version of this was better, but then it wasn't free...
If they were using H.263 or MPEG-4, you should be able to use a variety of players instead of needing the Crossover hack.
BitTorrent is a great tool for file downloading, but it doesn't do live streaming.
802.16 looks like it ought to support more clients/base station than 802.11 because it uses TDMA instead of CSMA/CA. This Vivato antenna has the advantage of being compatible with existing equipment, though.
Because it's a lot of work for apps that most Mac users don't want.
SWT for GTK is already available.
The problem is that the cable company chooses what kind of box you will get, and as you pointed out their incentive is to give you the cheapest box. Want a better cable box? Sorry. Passage and OpenCable are trying to solve this problem, so you can buy a fancy Sony cable box if that's what you want.
Cable is already full of DRM, only they call it conditional access (CA). I don't think Sony can make it any worse.
Can you actually attach anything to that FireWire port?
Now that Apple and Microsoft are giving away RFC 2734 implementations, I can't see why Unibrain would bother to write one.
The NetTopBox project claims to be working on this, but I haven't seen any results yet.
No one has said so explicitly so far, but presumably each firewire cable is a simple peer to peer connection. So to connect 3 computers, you need two cables, and at least one computer with 2 or more firewire ports. That central computer would then route IP packets between the two end computers.
That's not how it works. All the machines in a FireWire chain are essentially sharing a single broadcast medium, like Ethernet.
Nope; Cat5 can't support the 400MHz signaling rate that 1394 uses (IIRC). That's why 1394 cables are shielded. Maybe you could run at S100 speed over Cat5, but I'd rather use Ethernet in that case.
The iPod doesn't have a networking stack, so that would require a lot of work.
Bugs have been found in previous versions of PGP. Hopefully the source code release will allow the bugs in PGP 8.0 to be found sooner rather than later.
Most Java developers don't want to use the Java-GNOME API; they want to use Swing and have their apps run on all platforms and yet look native. What Sun really announced in that article is probably a Gtk AWT and Swing PLAF, which would allow portable Java apps written using the standard APIs to use Gtk.
If you make GNOME so similar to CDE that you can switch desktops on someone without them noticing, then what have you gained? The reason Sun is switching to GNOME is because it is better (i.e. different).
Try changing an Ethernet interface's MAC address using ifconfig. Whoops.