I know, I'll set up a new Internet (with blackjack and hookers, natch) where I'm a monopoly so everyone has to pay me. Why should ICANN and IANA and telcos have all the fun?
At least it will serve as a lesson to anyone clueless enough to get scammed by these people.
I think I have heard this rumor for every new version of OS X. "10.2 was too easy to copy; Apple's going to have activation in 10.3." And yet it never comes true. Even the rumor sites don't believe it. This idea is probably made up by people who think they can run Apple's business better than Apple can.
The revocation system is itself problematic anyway. A person seeking to damage the system itself would try to crack the most popular player, even if it's more difficult than other players. The cost of a massive recall - plus the fines the manufacturer would pay for their player being the one cracked - would heavily discourage the use of the revocation system.
I see no one here has read the AACS spec. Each individual player has a different key, not each model. When The Man revokes an individual player, millions of regular consumers are totally unaffected.
I think this thread boils down to a single issue: Microsoft's "Genuine Advantage" program is threatening to remotely self-destruct people's computers. Apple isn't.
AT&T and other phone providers don't seem to NEED a new "franchise agreement" from any local government because they pretty much already HAVE one and have had it ever since copper wires were laid in.
We're talking about a video franchise agreement. Since AT&T was not previously selling video services, they don't have one.
So for example 200 versions of a word doc with sounds and pictures that got revised over 6 months get stored in maybe 3x the space of the last revision.
Applications usually rewrite the whole file when you save, which causes ZFS to allocate a complete new copy on disk. ZFS doesn't know that the new data happens to be the same as the old data.
Emails with the same attachments get stored in just a few k rather than taking a meg each....
Nope; if you write the same contents to two different files, ZFS stores two copies. What you're talking about is de-duplication, which ZFS does not do.
Here's a one-line implementation of "Time Machine", works on any UNIX filesystem: rsync -a --link-dest=/mnt/backup/yesterday/home/mnt/backup/today
That scans your entire directory structure, which may take a while and pollute your cache (especially if you do it every hour). Time Machine uses callbacks from the kernel to know when files are modified (AFAIK).
If your data is on a ZFS RAIDZ volume (~ RAID 5), then if the checksum fails you can rebuild the data from the parity information.
Since the checksum is over the whole stripe, if the checksum is wrong you don't necessarily know which sector within the stripe is corrrupted and needs to be recovered. However, silent disk corruption seems to be much rarer than outright disk failures.
Blu-ray uses a different, more expensive lens than HD-DVD, but you never hear about that.
Also, if the demand for HD-DVD players is ~200K units and the demand for PS3s is ~2M units, then it's easy to imagine that one is facing a shortage and the other is not.
Even if the ISA is documented, writing an optimizing shader compiler is not easy. But my impression is that there are still some 3D-specific, fixed-function parts in the GPU that aren't triggered by instructions and thus aren't being documented, so the driver problem remains.
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Yes, it runs Linux.
I know, I'll set up a new Internet (with blackjack and hookers, natch) where I'm a monopoly so everyone has to pay me. Why should ICANN and IANA and telcos have all the fun?
At least it will serve as a lesson to anyone clueless enough to get scammed by these people.
I think I have heard this rumor for every new version of OS X. "10.2 was too easy to copy; Apple's going to have activation in 10.3." And yet it never comes true. Even the rumor sites don't believe it. This idea is probably made up by people who think they can run Apple's business better than Apple can.
The revocation system is itself problematic anyway. A person seeking to damage the system itself would try to crack the most popular player, even if it's more difficult than other players. The cost of a massive recall - plus the fines the manufacturer would pay for their player being the one cracked - would heavily discourage the use of the revocation system.
I see no one here has read the AACS spec. Each individual player has a different key, not each model. When The Man revokes an individual player, millions of regular consumers are totally unaffected.
I think this thread boils down to a single issue: Microsoft's "Genuine Advantage" program is threatening to remotely self-destruct people's computers. Apple isn't.
AT&T and other phone providers don't seem to NEED a new "franchise agreement" from any local government because they pretty much already HAVE one and have had it ever since copper wires were laid in.
We're talking about a video franchise agreement. Since AT&T was not previously selling video services, they don't have one.
FIOS TV is old-fashioned RF over fiber.
So for example 200 versions of a word doc with sounds and pictures that got revised over 6 months get stored in maybe 3x the space of the last revision.
Applications usually rewrite the whole file when you save, which causes ZFS to allocate a complete new copy on disk. ZFS doesn't know that the new data happens to be the same as the old data.
Emails with the same attachments get stored in just a few k rather than taking a meg each....
Nope; if you write the same contents to two different files, ZFS stores two copies. What you're talking about is de-duplication, which ZFS does not do.
Here's a one-line implementation of "Time Machine", works on any UNIX filesystem: rsync -a --link-dest=/mnt/backup/yesterday /home /mnt/backup/today
That scans your entire directory structure, which may take a while and pollute your cache (especially if you do it every hour). Time Machine uses callbacks from the kernel to know when files are modified (AFAIK).
Or you could just run Retrospect like other Mac users.
If your data is on a ZFS RAIDZ volume (~ RAID 5), then if the checksum fails you can rebuild the data from the parity information.
Since the checksum is over the whole stripe, if the checksum is wrong you don't necessarily know which sector within the stripe is corrrupted and needs to be recovered. However, silent disk corruption seems to be much rarer than outright disk failures.
Theora != VP6.
The telcos/ISPs write the laws, so "common carrier" means whatever they want it to mean.
You don't need to know which patents you're infringing; you just need to know that they exist and if you pay MS you get a license for all of them. :-/
FFMPEG now contains an open-source WMV9 decoder.
How many Internet-connected computers are in Africa? How many in Prudential?
Those unused addresses are being consumed at an ever-increasng rate, and will be gone by 2009-2012.
The source code is here: https://openjdk.dev.java.net/hotspot/
The binary downloads are going to remain under that clickwrap; only the source code is GPL.
Blu-ray uses a different, more expensive lens than HD-DVD, but you never hear about that.
Also, if the demand for HD-DVD players is ~200K units and the demand for PS3s is ~2M units, then it's easy to imagine that one is facing a shortage and the other is not.
The PS3/Linux market is extremely small; indie game developers would be much better off developing for OS X.
OpenID is based on URLs that are based on DNS that is owned by VeriSign.
Yeah, SET worked great last time so let's do it again.
The idea is that the service provider (e.g. MySpace) does it for them.
iCal or Mozilla Lightning as the client, Leopard Server or OSAF Cosmo as the server.
Even if the ISA is documented, writing an optimizing shader compiler is not easy. But my impression is that there are still some 3D-specific, fixed-function parts in the GPU that aren't triggered by instructions and thus aren't being documented, so the driver problem remains.