Forbes is the lowest of the low. Like everybody else, they pick something that's "hot" and write articles about it, but unlike everybody else they do not consider expertise to be an important part of their job.
A friend of mine from college called me around 2002 and asked me what Linux was because Forbes' tech section writers were supposed to mention Linux in their articles if at all possible.
Now AJAX is hot, and they need to tell their idiotic PHB readers about the "hot" new thing without rocking the boat too much. Do I understand correctly that this is geared towards small businesses, but they aren't mentioning Joyent? Joyent needs to get their PR together.
Anyway, Forbes articles are not news. Please do not force me to address this again.
I thought HDCP was just the protection mechanism for consumer electronics, and had nothing to do specifically with decrypting either of those formats.
You could build an extremely high bandwidth peice of custom hardware that let you record the decrypted, uncompressed video stream coming out of your player. Then you could recompress it & distribute.
You could build an extremely high bandwidth decrypter pass-through that allowed you to use DVI devices wherever you're forced to use HDCP otherwise.
But cracking HDCP isn't going to let you play your Blu-Ray or HD-DVD movie on any computer that couldn't play it anyway.
Unless there's something I'm missing, HDCP being cracked won't help adoption of Blu-Ray or HD-DVD.
Many GTK applications will install their own GTK on Windows. GIMP & Gaim have completely painless installers (although not necessarily painless first run experiences, but whatever).
And installing the Java Runtime is not brain surgery.
So you're asking for a program that can perfectly convert SVGs to whatever and are installable and usable by computer illiterates? Sortof a different target.
Well, I believe that Microsoft's Share Point initiative is something similar to what Google might be about to unleash.
That's just as valid a belief as any other belief about Microsoft's Share Point initiative. Their marketting has been perfectly clear that it will be all things to all people always, starting Real Soon Now.
And it is. In its current incarnation, it's a veritable wiki of flexibility. Allowing you do anything and everything, with no one clear benefit or purpose.
I believe Microsoft's Share Point initiative is something similar to what my toaster might be about to unleash.
I was a bit boggled by the list of patches, but no, I wasn't aware of problems with them.
Last year, my company had several machines (out of like 300 desktops) get adware per week. Now we have like one incident per month, viruses + adware. Whatever gripes I have about our company not running OS X everywhere, security isn't one of them. Anymore.
The reason you'd use Google everything as a small business, isn't because you'd save $<small> on MS Office. It's because you'd save $<large> on servers & an IT Department.
Would you rather set up exchange, some open source calendaring app, or goocal?
Me too.
So you're right, it's cost vs secrecy, but the cost savings is gigantic.
I'm sure, dude, but anti-adware is not piles and piles of anything, and that's really all it takes. Pick one of Windows Defender, Adaware, or Spybot, and set your computer to automatically patch you.
I'm not trying to say that there are not ways you can get viruses on a PC, especially with a few users of varying wariness, but Windows users, in general, are not pissed off and struggling with spyware and viruses lately.
It used to be a constant problem. Now it's not. The only Windows users that I hear bashing Macs anymore are the "Huh huh. Can you even do anything with that toy?" knuckle draggers. And yes, sometimes they say, "But Macs COULD be vulnerable to viruses. Theoretically." and I will agree that is inane. But they are few.
Some people in the West seem to forget that even poor Chinese laborers...
I swear, I considered that obvious enough to not bear mentioning. It still shouldn't exactly alleviate his suspicions. I can see that my comment might have read like that was sarcasm or something, but it wasn't. That's all I meant.
In response to the allegations, we immediately dispatched an audit team comprised of members from our human resources, legal and operations groups to carry out a thorough investigation of the conditions at the manufacturing site.
So we don't know how immediate they were, but they seem to have similar concerns.
It found that that the #1 complaint from employees was that there was not enough overtime work in slow periods. I guess that shouldn't exactly alleviate your suspicions.
The only significant change that the audit will cause is a reduction in the amount of overtime that workers are allowed to work.
This isn't necessarily wrong, but I thought it was interesting.
But I really hope that the results of the audit are honest and true for the sake of all those people working there.
Is there any chance that the California government will limit overtime in the same lucrative way (i.e., lucrative for the employees)?
It already does. If you are paid hourly, you are paid overtime. If you are salaried, you aren't necessarily paid overtime. Salaried employees cannot have their vacation time or paycheck docked if they work less than a full day. (Or, they can, but then they get overtime.)
There are various exceptions, but it's 1.5x base pay
windows users are pissed off because they are still struggling with exploits and viruses
Things are aces on Windows lately. It's been a year or two where even mildly savvy users don't get pwnd on Windows either. Hell, Internet Explorer has been secure-ish.
There just isn't much way for security researchers to get attention lately. Everyone was skeptical of this when it was initially announced. I didn't see the slashdot story, but I bet it was almost civil.
Can virtualized operating systems take advantage of GPU acceleration? Seems like that would be necessary for such an application, as OS X is somewhat less impressive for demo purposes without its GPU-accellerated eye candy.
As per misleb, yes, it would be possible to allow a virtualized operating system to take advantage of GPU acceleration. It would require a graphics driver for the guest operating system that could pass OpenGL calls up to the host operating system. In a host OS w/ buffered graphics, the virtual machine might not even need to have it's own framebuffer. I always fantasized about MacOnLinux w/ bufferless graphics, but no one took the baton from Samuel Rydh. Probably for some good reason.
I don't know if any virtual machine has ever actually done this. Does VMWare on Windows? Can you run Doom III in a virtual machine & only get a ~ 20 percent framerate hit?
The onus is on them to be respectful at all times, but if you go into the encounter with the feeling "this pig is going to wreck my day, so I'll wreck his right back" you WILL get the Rodney King Special.
You don't need to provide incentives to produce things that already exist.
Ah, but that's where you're wrong. Why would anyone bother producing a newly remastered Rush compilation box set if the originals were in the public domain? Obviously the financial incentives provided by a monopoly lasting forever minus a day are of crucial economic motivation to copyright owners.
Yes, I'm kidding, but that's the argument they use. I believe the rerelease of Fritz Lang's Metropolis was the example used in Eldrich v Ashcroft. There are a myriad reasons that they're still full of shit, but the argument has to compare the immense harm to this infinitessimally small benefit. That was the crux of the amicus brief from various economists.
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Forbes is the lowest of the low. Like everybody else, they pick something that's "hot" and write articles about it, but unlike everybody else they do not consider expertise to be an important part of their job.
A friend of mine from college called me around 2002 and asked me what Linux was because Forbes' tech section writers were supposed to mention Linux in their articles if at all possible.
Now AJAX is hot, and they need to tell their idiotic PHB readers about the "hot" new thing without rocking the boat too much. Do I understand correctly that this is geared towards small businesses, but they aren't mentioning Joyent? Joyent needs to get their PR together.
Anyway, Forbes articles are not news. Please do not force me to address this again.
I thought HDCP was just the protection mechanism for consumer electronics, and had nothing to do specifically with decrypting either of those formats.
You could build an extremely high bandwidth peice of custom hardware that let you record the decrypted, uncompressed video stream coming out of your player. Then you could recompress it & distribute.
You could build an extremely high bandwidth decrypter pass-through that allowed you to use DVI devices wherever you're forced to use HDCP otherwise.
But cracking HDCP isn't going to let you play your Blu-Ray or HD-DVD movie on any computer that couldn't play it anyway.
Unless there's something I'm missing, HDCP being cracked won't help adoption of Blu-Ray or HD-DVD.
Macs have had autosensing NICs since the first iMac, if I recall correctly.
w/ PCs I have no idea.
Many GTK applications will install their own GTK on Windows. GIMP & Gaim have completely painless installers (although not necessarily painless first run experiences, but whatever).
And installing the Java Runtime is not brain surgery.
So you're asking for a program that can perfectly convert SVGs to whatever and are installable and usable by computer illiterates? Sortof a different target.
I think the Libertarian Party & The Rand Corporation both disagree with you.
But yeah.
And it is. In its current incarnation, it's a veritable wiki of flexibility. Allowing you do anything and everything, with no one clear benefit or purpose.
I believe Microsoft's Share Point initiative is something similar to what my toaster might be about to unleash.
I was a bit boggled by the list of patches, but no, I wasn't aware of problems with them.
Last year, my company had several machines (out of like 300 desktops) get adware per week. Now we have like one incident per month, viruses + adware. Whatever gripes I have about our company not running OS X everywhere, security isn't one of them. Anymore.
At home, my NAV serves no purpose whatsoever.
Not if you're still worth the money.
The reason you'd use Google everything as a small business, isn't because you'd save $<small> on MS Office. It's because you'd save $<large> on servers & an IT Department.
Would you rather set up exchange, some open source calendaring app, or goocal?
Me too.
So you're right, it's cost vs secrecy, but the cost savings is gigantic.
I'm sure, dude, but anti-adware is not piles and piles of anything, and that's really all it takes. Pick one of Windows Defender, Adaware, or Spybot, and set your computer to automatically patch you.
I'm not trying to say that there are not ways you can get viruses on a PC, especially with a few users of varying wariness, but Windows users, in general, are not pissed off and struggling with spyware and viruses lately.
It used to be a constant problem. Now it's not. The only Windows users that I hear bashing Macs anymore are the "Huh huh. Can you even do anything with that toy?" knuckle draggers. And yes, sometimes they say, "But Macs COULD be vulnerable to viruses. Theoretically." and I will agree that is inane. But they are few.
I want to read the report now. If they really didn't want this report publicised, the correct response is "whatever".
It found that that the #1 complaint from employees was that there was not enough overtime work in slow periods. I guess that shouldn't exactly alleviate your suspicions.
The only significant change that the audit will cause is a reduction in the amount of overtime that workers are allowed to work.
This isn't necessarily wrong, but I thought it was interesting.Ditto.
There are various exceptions, but it's 1.5x base pay
There just isn't much way for security researchers to get attention lately. Everyone was skeptical of this when it was initially announced. I didn't see the slashdot story, but I bet it was almost civil.
Pornotube was kindof flakey before /. mentioned it.
I know this via mental telepathy, and by no other means.
(See subject.)
I don't know if any virtual machine has ever actually done this. Does VMWare on Windows? Can you run Doom III in a virtual machine & only get a ~ 20 percent framerate hit?
Is this name supposed to be a reference to Ali Baba and the forty theives?
"Is this testing whether I'm a virtual machine or a lesbian, Mr. Dowd?"
Yes, I'm kidding, but that's the argument they use. I believe the rerelease of Fritz Lang's Metropolis was the example used in Eldrich v Ashcroft. There are a myriad reasons that they're still full of shit, but the argument has to compare the immense harm to this infinitessimally small benefit. That was the crux of the amicus brief from various economists.