Until the cost of the action is >$5k does it become a criminal case (or some physical, etc crime against an individual, others, and so on), prior to that it's a misdemeanor, or possibly a civil case (depending upon the circumstances). Also it depends upon what you claim as "jail", I'm sure that in most EU states if you are a drunken beligerent "football hooligan" you can goto jail to cool off and other such stupditiy, but I think that you were really meaning more like what we would meant to be sentences to a prison stay.
"FUN" also known as swag, the kind you give to get people to write positive articles about your product. Why goto a convention where you know you wouldn't get paid off to write gloriously about the latest and greatest, same-old-same-old game.
president used the pretext of 'national security' to regard as suspicious any journalist who questioned his 'war on terrorism.
That's not a bit of yellow-yournalism is it? The examples they give are very different than what the above sentence says, in fact they don't give any examples of reporters being treated suspiciously for merely questioning his "war on terrorsim", they do give examples of other things that are bad.
Relations between the media and the Bush administration sharply deteriorated after the president used the pretext of "national security" to regard as suspicious any journalist who questioned his "war on terrorism." The zeal of federal courts which, unlike those in 33 US states, refuse to recognise the media's right not to reveal its sources, even threatens journalists whose investigations have no connection at all with terrorism. Freelance journalist and blogger Josh Wolf was imprisoned when he refused to hand over his video archives. Sudanese cameraman Sami al-Haj, who works for the pan-Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera, has been held without trial since June 2002 at the US military base at Guantanamo, and Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein has been held by US authorities in Iraq since April this year.
By tring to throw in a completely un-needed "soundbite hook" like that they really do a disservice to their report, and it makes it look like they are doing a biased hatchet job than rather than a real report. That sentence does nothing for their report at all, other than give an opportunity for people to dicredit it.
Umm... have you ever been able to get 1.25MB through a 10mb connection? You can't, there's a reason I put a "~" in front of the 8, that character stands for approximately, and approximately.8MB is the effective maximum bandwidth of data that you can get through a 10mb isp connection. Packet headers alone take up ~6% of the theoretcial max, then you start adding in switch latency for each packet, etc and you get ranges from ~80-94% of theoretical max. If you have cheap nics, switches, small packet size, etc you often get worse than that.
If I would have mean exactly.8MB I wouldn't have put the lovely "~" sign in front of it. I did check my numbers, and they remain to be correct even after your supposed "correction".
I think you answered your own question, the reason why MS is introducing the Zune when a pocket pc can do the same stuff is the same reason why an ipod has been so successful when a pocket pc can do the same stuff an ipod can do. Just because it can do it, doesn't mean that it's an enjoyable experience. Apple re-invented the wheel (pocket pc can play an mp3 just as easily), grabbing massive market share. What a pocket pc lacks is ease of use, the ipod had much less functionality than a pocket pc, but it was infinately easier to use to acquire & play and mp3. MS is doing the same thing, make it stupid simple (I'm assuming) remove all the complexity that a pocket pc has and sell it to joe-schmoe who doesn't want to open up a spreadsheet, he wants to be entertained.
The quad-core Core 2 Extreme QX6700 is only showing about a 14% performance advantage over the dual core X6800 chip in the base CPU test module . We should note that an Athlon 64 FX-62 dual core processor scores around 5700 in the PCMark05 CPU test module.
The overall score actually shows the QX6700 slightly slower than the dual core Core 2 chip.
I'd wonder what your workstation configuration was, as VM portability is the main focus of VMware. A VM should always be portable between different physical hardware, that's the whole point, they are so stubborn about protability that they won't incorporate certain changes because it requires OS modifications. Everything except for the CPU is virtualized using the same across the board, motherboard type, ethernet card, etc. I regularly take win & linux VM's running on our HP DL585 opteron ESX server, copy them to my Sun Opteron Linux box and to my Intel Windows laptop running vmware server with no problem, in the past I did the same with workstation (with different hardware win intel laptops to linux intel workstation). I've never heard of the problem that you are having, with the exception of people using different versions of vmware (create vm on newer version of vmware, and run it on older version without reinstalling vmware tools), and using raw SATA disk paritions instead of vmdk disk files.
Actually it's not "free" content, you are paying for the content with advertising information. Just like Google, yahoo, MS Live, etc are not "free", you are paying them with your personal information which they then will sell to others. They don't have signups, cookies, etc just for annoyance and nobody ever looks at them, that data actually pays for the content.
Looks at list of kernel developers from the poll result link...
#1 Linux Torvalds gives the v3 draft a -2.5 (somewhere between really dislike it and thinks that v3 is much worse than v2) #2 Alan Cox gives the v3 draft a -2 (thinks v3 is much worse than v2)
I'd maybe go with that if he hadn't been so entwined with the whole content protection thought process that previous administration brought into play "DMCA, Sonny Bono act, v-chip, etc" along with the 5 dems that were the author of the DMCA2 (SSSCA/CBDTPA) which he was for as well. I will agree that Martin is not angel as the broadcast flag passed with no votes against it (which means he voted for it).
Earlier this year in regards to the broadcast flags hearings, 2 dems (Stevens & Inouye) stood up and basically said that "having no broadcast flag is a terrible thing content providers will stop providing, so we have to pass this as soon as possible". Which repub Sununu later said (I'll directly quote it because it is so good):
"The suggestion is that if we don't do this, it will stifle creativity. Well...we have now an unprecedented wave of creativity and product and content development...new business models, and new methodologies for distributing this content. The history of government mandates is that it always restricts innovation...why would we think that this one special time, we're going to impose a statutory government mandate on technology, and it will actually encourage innovation?"
The problem I see is everybody tries to pin *everything* on Bush, you trip on a crack and it's his fault, etc. Critize him for the correct things, and you will get people to listen, the witch hunt for trying to tie anything & everything to him is a problem because now people are tuning out because "the sky is falling" has been called and attributed to him too many times. I try to keep a little more of an open mind where I can then actually say "Bush is an ass because of this" and directly point to it, rather than say basically everything is his fault.
but the python kids also tend to be isolated and close minded, refusing to be free in the world around them, never trying down a different road less traveled, always rigid and exact... Quite the sad lot actually, often found sitting in the corner at parties looking at their shoes making sure each loop is exactly the same length and every picture hanging on the wall is perfectly level, while the perl kids run naked around them screaming "party on" with a bikini-clad lady in each arm.
You do of course realize that the chairman of the FCC in 2004 had been appointed by Bill Clinton in 1997 don't you? You were just joking because you really aren't so stupid to just say that it's Bush's policy when he's actually from a previous administration because that would really make you look like a true idiot.
Now it makes a bit more sense. You were actually meaning to say "The 1080i is displaying as 540p", which from a bandwidth perspective is correct, technically using the same amount of bandwidth; but you'd be hardpressed to find people that say 1080i == 540p, as there are double the lines of resolution displayed, you are getting half the jaggies at the expense of some combing effects (I sit in the 1080/30 rather than the 720/60 camp because most of my content isn't high motion, more res = win).
Still didn't answer squat, you ranted and raved on and on, but you never answered the question. Is it in the best interest of the people to cripple the security of an OS to prop up 3rd party addons? Choice is one thing, but to intentionally be forced to remove security features, so that you than have to go buy them somewhere else?
But is it in the best interest of the public to cripple the security of an OS because a market around bugs has cropped up? Is it in the best interest of the people to remove security out of a product so that they individuals will have to turn around and buy something? Seems pretty darn insane if you ask me.
Ummm.... you are incorrect. 1080i is the highest resolution allowed for broadcast, 1080p is currently only allowed for non-broadcast private. 1080p until earlier this very year (when the first HD-DVD came out), there wasn't a single consumer device that would give 1080p output (a computer yes, nothing else). I'm completely baffled where you think 1080i is the lowend of the HD, officially 480p, 540p 720p & 1080i are the broadcast resolutions. 1080i is the highest broadcast allowed and is the 2nd highest current resolution (behind 1080p, which again had it's first consumer products come out just a few months ago).
I'd be much less concerned about game creators not being able to actually give the proper lines of resolution, and more about the display itself (for the next few years). The amount of TV's who say than can take a 1080i/720p signal but actually scale that signal down because they can't natively display it at the inbound resolution (which is one of the dirty little secrets of the AV industry).
There hasn't been an OS that I dealt with that has never crashed due to an application issue yet. From personal experience Irix, Solaris, Linux, BSD & Windows have all crashed at some time due to a problem in an application that effectively took down the os. There is theory and saying that it should "*NEVER* crash because of an APPLICATION" and then there is real life where applications do take down systems. Some operating systems are better resilient to crashes, but *never* is word that should not cross anybody's lips.
Wonders out loud... how many updates to in the past 8 months. Everytime I turn around bits of KDE, GNOME, etc are getting updated on an almost daily basis, that's just one part, just one.
For anybody to be arguing that the number of updates you get to an operating system is how you should be judging it, is completely stupid, really, really dumb. The linux 2.6 kernel has had 94 released patches against it since December 03 (goto kernel.org if you don't believe me), or getting close to an average of 3x per month (1x every 10-11 days). Using your logic, I should be rediculing linux because it's releasing kernel patches averaging ~3x a month for something so core to the OS (and you don't get that much part of the Operating System than that), heck just last month August alone there were 2.6.17.8, 2.6.17.9, 2.6.17.10 & 2.6.17.11 releases (3x of the 4x in august deal with some pretty serious issues, kernel oops, memory corruption, panics, etc not trivial things we are talking about). Patches in reality don't really mean much, it's simply a way of life and anyone who has been in the computer industry for *any* length of time knows this, only somone who hasn't been in the real world with computers has ignorance of this.
And nice little try at a dig, you failed miserably as I would actually have to care about what you think to be concerned (and you showed me that I should laugh at you rather than respect you).
Have you ever looked at the number of updates to any linux distribution over a single year time? Have you ever seen an article about MS getting sued because they included something that was previously a "third-party software accessory"? (WMP over realplayer, etc)
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Umm... no, neither myself of the parent said that. If you re-read what I posted:
I think that you were really meaning more like what we would meant to be sentences to a prison stay.
Until the cost of the action is >$5k does it become a criminal case (or some physical, etc crime against an individual, others, and so on), prior to that it's a misdemeanor, or possibly a civil case (depending upon the circumstances). Also it depends upon what you claim as "jail", I'm sure that in most EU states if you are a drunken beligerent "football hooligan" you can goto jail to cool off and other such stupditiy, but I think that you were really meaning more like what we would meant to be sentences to a prison stay.
"FUN" also known as swag, the kind you give to get people to write positive articles about your product. Why goto a convention where you know you wouldn't get paid off to write gloriously about the latest and greatest, same-old-same-old game.
That's not a bit of yellow-yournalism is it? The examples they give are very different than what the above sentence says, in fact they don't give any examples of reporters being treated suspiciously for merely questioning his "war on terrorsim", they do give examples of other things that are bad.
By tring to throw in a completely un-needed "soundbite hook" like that they really do a disservice to their report, and it makes it look like they are doing a biased hatchet job than rather than a real report. That sentence does nothing for their report at all, other than give an opportunity for people to dicredit it.
Umm... have you ever been able to get 1.25MB through a 10mb connection? You can't, there's a reason I put a "~" in front of the 8, that character stands for approximately, and approximately .8MB is the effective maximum bandwidth of data that you can get through a 10mb isp connection. Packet headers alone take up ~6% of the theoretcial max, then you start adding in switch latency for each packet, etc and you get ranges from ~80-94% of theoretical max. If you have cheap nics, switches, small packet size, etc you often get worse than that.
.8MB I wouldn't have put the lovely "~" sign in front of it. I did check my numbers, and they remain to be correct even after your supposed "correction".
If I would have mean exactly
Umm.... maybe your math doesn't
.8 = ~4375.36 seconds
10mb ethernet = ~.8 MB/sec
3500MB /
4375.36 = ~ 1.2 hours
or the reverse
3500MB * 8 (convert MB to mb) = 28000mb
28000mb/ 10800 (seconds in 3 hours) = ~2.592mb/sec sustained required over 3 hours
I think you answered your own question, the reason why MS is introducing the Zune when a pocket pc can do the same stuff is the same reason why an ipod has been so successful when a pocket pc can do the same stuff an ipod can do. Just because it can do it, doesn't mean that it's an enjoyable experience. Apple re-invented the wheel (pocket pc can play an mp3 just as easily), grabbing massive market share. What a pocket pc lacks is ease of use, the ipod had much less functionality than a pocket pc, but it was infinately easier to use to acquire & play and mp3. MS is doing the same thing, make it stupid simple (I'm assuming) remove all the complexity that a pocket pc has and sell it to joe-schmoe who doesn't want to open up a spreadsheet, he wants to be entertained.
Maybe you might want to proofread again:
The quad-core Core 2 Extreme QX6700 is only showing about a 14% performance advantage over the dual core X6800 chip in the base CPU test module . We should note that an Athlon 64 FX-62 dual core processor scores around 5700 in the PCMark05 CPU test module.
The overall score actually shows the QX6700 slightly slower than the dual core Core 2 chip.
I'd wonder what your workstation configuration was, as VM portability is the main focus of VMware. A VM should always be portable between different physical hardware, that's the whole point, they are so stubborn about protability that they won't incorporate certain changes because it requires OS modifications. Everything except for the CPU is virtualized using the same across the board, motherboard type, ethernet card, etc. I regularly take win & linux VM's running on our HP DL585 opteron ESX server, copy them to my Sun Opteron Linux box and to my Intel Windows laptop running vmware server with no problem, in the past I did the same with workstation (with different hardware win intel laptops to linux intel workstation). I've never heard of the problem that you are having, with the exception of people using different versions of vmware (create vm on newer version of vmware, and run it on older version without reinstalling vmware tools), and using raw SATA disk paritions instead of vmdk disk files.
VMware workstation has some "experimental" hooks that can be turned on to allow direct access to the video card.
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http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/ws_vidsoun
Actually it's not "free" content, you are paying for the content with advertising information. Just like Google, yahoo, MS Live, etc are not "free", you are paying them with your personal information which they then will sell to others. They don't have signups, cookies, etc just for annoyance and nobody ever looks at them, that data actually pays for the content.
Looks at list of kernel developers from the poll result link...
#1 Linux Torvalds gives the v3 draft a -2.5 (somewhere between really dislike it and thinks that v3 is much worse than v2)
#2 Alan Cox gives the v3 draft a -2 (thinks v3 is much worse than v2)
I'd maybe go with that if he hadn't been so entwined with the whole content protection thought process that previous administration brought into play "DMCA, Sonny Bono act, v-chip, etc" along with the 5 dems that were the author of the DMCA2 (SSSCA/CBDTPA) which he was for as well. I will agree that Martin is not angel as the broadcast flag passed with no votes against it (which means he voted for it).
Earlier this year in regards to the broadcast flags hearings, 2 dems (Stevens & Inouye) stood up and basically said that "having no broadcast flag is a terrible thing content providers will stop providing, so we have to pass this as soon as possible". Which repub Sununu later said (I'll directly quote it because it is so good):
"The suggestion is that if we don't do this, it will stifle creativity. Well...we have now an unprecedented wave of creativity and product and content development...new business models, and new methodologies for distributing this content. The history of government mandates is that it always restricts innovation...why would we think that this one special time, we're going to impose a statutory government mandate on technology, and it will actually encourage innovation?"
The problem I see is everybody tries to pin *everything* on Bush, you trip on a crack and it's his fault, etc. Critize him for the correct things, and you will get people to listen, the witch hunt for trying to tie anything & everything to him is a problem because now people are tuning out because "the sky is falling" has been called and attributed to him too many times. I try to keep a little more of an open mind where I can then actually say "Bush is an ass because of this" and directly point to it, rather than say basically everything is his fault.
but the python kids also tend to be isolated and close minded, refusing to be free in the world around them, never trying down a different road less traveled, always rigid and exact... Quite the sad lot actually, often found sitting in the corner at parties looking at their shoes making sure each loop is exactly the same length and every picture hanging on the wall is perfectly level, while the perl kids run naked around them screaming "party on" with a bikini-clad lady in each arm.
You do of course realize that the chairman of the FCC in 2004 had been appointed by Bill Clinton in 1997 don't you? You were just joking because you really aren't so stupid to just say that it's Bush's policy when he's actually from a previous administration because that would really make you look like a true idiot.
I sense that sarcasm is lost upon you my child...
Just like the ipod was a complete and utter failure because it has DRM.
Now it makes a bit more sense. You were actually meaning to say "The 1080i is displaying as 540p", which from a bandwidth perspective is correct, technically using the same amount of bandwidth; but you'd be hardpressed to find people that say 1080i == 540p, as there are double the lines of resolution displayed, you are getting half the jaggies at the expense of some combing effects (I sit in the 1080/30 rather than the 720/60 camp because most of my content isn't high motion, more res = win).
Still didn't answer squat, you ranted and raved on and on, but you never answered the question. Is it in the best interest of the people to cripple the security of an OS to prop up 3rd party addons? Choice is one thing, but to intentionally be forced to remove security features, so that you than have to go buy them somewhere else?
But is it in the best interest of the public to cripple the security of an OS because a market around bugs has cropped up? Is it in the best interest of the people to remove security out of a product so that they individuals will have to turn around and buy something? Seems pretty darn insane if you ask me.
Ummm.... you are incorrect. 1080i is the highest resolution allowed for broadcast, 1080p is currently only allowed for non-broadcast private. 1080p until earlier this very year (when the first HD-DVD came out), there wasn't a single consumer device that would give 1080p output (a computer yes, nothing else). I'm completely baffled where you think 1080i is the lowend of the HD, officially 480p, 540p 720p & 1080i are the broadcast resolutions. 1080i is the highest broadcast allowed and is the 2nd highest current resolution (behind 1080p, which again had it's first consumer products come out just a few months ago).
I'd be much less concerned about game creators not being able to actually give the proper lines of resolution, and more about the display itself (for the next few years). The amount of TV's who say than can take a 1080i/720p signal but actually scale that signal down because they can't natively display it at the inbound resolution (which is one of the dirty little secrets of the AV industry).
My 5+ year old TV (Toshiba 50HX70) that has neither HDMI or 1080p but I can say there is a significant difference between 1080i & 480p.
There hasn't been an OS that I dealt with that has never crashed due to an application issue yet. From personal experience Irix, Solaris, Linux, BSD & Windows have all crashed at some time due to a problem in an application that effectively took down the os. There is theory and saying that it should "*NEVER* crash because of an APPLICATION" and then there is real life where applications do take down systems. Some operating systems are better resilient to crashes, but *never* is word that should not cross anybody's lips.
Wonders out loud... how many updates to in the past 8 months. Everytime I turn around bits of KDE, GNOME, etc are getting updated on an almost daily basis, that's just one part, just one.
For anybody to be arguing that the number of updates you get to an operating system is how you should be judging it, is completely stupid, really, really dumb. The linux 2.6 kernel has had 94 released patches against it since December 03 (goto kernel.org if you don't believe me), or getting close to an average of 3x per month (1x every 10-11 days). Using your logic, I should be rediculing linux because it's releasing kernel patches averaging ~3x a month for something so core to the OS (and you don't get that much part of the Operating System than that), heck just last month August alone there were 2.6.17.8, 2.6.17.9, 2.6.17.10 & 2.6.17.11 releases (3x of the 4x in august deal with some pretty serious issues, kernel oops, memory corruption, panics, etc not trivial things we are talking about). Patches in reality don't really mean much, it's simply a way of life and anyone who has been in the computer industry for *any* length of time knows this, only somone who hasn't been in the real world with computers has ignorance of this.
And nice little try at a dig, you failed miserably as I would actually have to care about what you think to be concerned (and you showed me that I should laugh at you rather than respect you).
Have you ever looked at the number of updates to any linux distribution over a single year time?
Have you ever seen an article about MS getting sued because they included something that was previously a "third-party software accessory"? (WMP over realplayer, etc)