> Perhaps Kurzweil should have defined a ROM > standard for samples
Which would make it even more expensive to produce the media.
> or a Smartcard standard.
Yeah, DirecTV hasn't had any problems with that.
> The fact of the matter is, that depends entirely > on what the something is, how you market it, and > how much other people are charging for something > comparable.
If you read the post, they were selling it for way less. And still people made pirate copies.
The real story here is if you're a small business shipping some kind of media, it's going to get ripped. And people will rationalize the pirating any way they can.
> Google got in bed with MS on this one as they only > cache MS Office type docs.
MSFT released filters allowing developers to get at the content of Office docs. Office is the prevalent productivity suite used. Why is GOOG in bed with MSFT?
> GDS runs as a system service and has access to > everything.
No, there's an entry in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\...\CurrentVersion\Run that starts everything. That means it runs as the current user.
But...if your end goal is to connect to another computer of yours on the net and you wanted to make sure that connection was encrypted and you weren't going to leave traces on the "temporary host," this seems like a good way to do it.
For example, if I want to connect to my IMAP server securely without this device, my option is web mail over SSL...even then, who knows what keystroke loggers are running on the public machine I might be using. Plug in this, reboot and unless there's some Van Eck device around, chances are much better I'm going to have a secure transaction.
All of these tools and vendors have been around longer than C# and.NET.
> pushing it (forget the OpenSource crap argument, > those guys are too in love with Perl, Python, > and Ruby - Java could become the child nobody > wants to talk about if Sun dies) - right now > that's C# and the.NET Framework ---
> Whats the alternative , driving for an hour to > the warehouse and climbing over the shelves?
No, opening Listen Rhapsody and clicking on "other artists in this genre."
> for some geek like you to say they add no value > shows how out of touch you are with a large > percentage of humanity.
I like browsing for books in real life. Amazon.com is a success. So is eBay.
Because you like browsing doesn't mean everybody does, especially when I can pay $10/month for unlimited listening instead of browsing and buying one used CD for the same money.
Sometimes I miss my job where they let me run whatever I wanted...for a while, I was running BeOS (this is a few years ago), somebody was running FreeBSD and another guy was running Linux. And that was one of the most productive teams I've ever been a part of.
> The problem is, this code doesn't come from MS, it > comes from an MS employee. What rights does he > have? We can be pretty sure that he doesn't have > the right to entail patents.
I was starting to think it's safe to read/use this code, since it appears to be covered by the GPL.
Then I looked in cpl.txt and found this:
----------------
Recipient understands that although each Contributor grants the licenses to its Contributions set forth herein, no assurances are provided by any Contributor that the Program does not infringe the patent or other intellectual property rights of any other entity.
----------------
So...you're telling me I can go ahead and use this thing, but at any point in time the entity who really owns the IP can come after me for patent infringement?
Now, I think I'm being paranoid in this case. But that's more than a little frightening.
* "Reliability is more than just "we're more stable than Windows." - anybody else remember the eCache problems? At a former employer, we applied every patch and none of them fixed the issue. The machines were still spontaneously rebooting when I left six months ago. Sun's response was "upgrade to new hardware at full price."
* "we need to be able to solve the problem in as little time as possible with the lowest cost to the customer and Sun." - a co-worker spent a month corresponding with Sun to get them to admit there's a bug in SunOne AppServer (it compiles JSP pages even if they existed on the server in jar files).
Again, it took him a month to enter a bug into the system. They're not going to fix it, but they've admitted it's a bug.
> The first time some bonehead cuts you off when the > computer is driving or any of a bunch of stuff > just seems like it's gonna be trouble.
Current vehicles have yaw control, radar cruise...the car could easily respond and stop quicker than most of the population, and the cars behind it could stop instead of spacing out and causing a pileup.
I was worried about the newer automated airliners until somebody pointed out the majority of the accidents are human error and happen at takeoff/landing, when computers weren't driving...
But Sun could have the best marketing on the planet and still not be selling their products (hardware and OS), which have been largely commoditized. Yes, they have high-end servers...but years ago, cheaper Intel/AMD boxes weren't considered "server-class" hardware like they are now.
There is a larger issue: Sun's ability to "pull an IBM" and figure out how to leverage the changing software/hardware world instead of defending their market share.
> Here's a clue to help you validate this fact: look > at what geographic regions vote Republican (aka > fly over country, or the "Red states" which the > elitists aka Democrats point out are rural > schmucks not worth their time).
That's thanks to Karl Rove's spinning that makes working class folks think Bush is The Man.
The irony here is the Republican party in New Hampshire recently admitted to using a contractor to autodial Democrat phone lines during an election to prevent people from registering/voting...karma will get back to you.
> Whereas, one XP box is pretty much the same as the > next, and not far removed for Win2k.
Until you migrate to Active Directory. Or you have to actually grovel through users, domains and groups. For a company that has been through three owners, has all three names, has locations around the world, etc.
> If 3000 lines of dense mathematically rich C were > checked in and a dozen lines acted in concert to > create a miscalculation, how much expertise would > be needed to catch that?
I would imagine that the military actually tests weapons before using them.
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> Perhaps Kurzweil should have defined a ROM
> standard for samples
Which would make it even more expensive to produce the media.
> or a Smartcard standard.
Yeah, DirecTV hasn't had any problems with that.
> The fact of the matter is, that depends entirely
> on what the something is, how you market it, and
> how much other people are charging for something
> comparable.
If you read the post, they were selling it for way less. And still people made pirate copies.
The real story here is if you're a small business shipping some kind of media, it's going to get ripped. And people will rationalize the pirating any way they can.
> Google got in bed with MS on this one as they only
> cache MS Office type docs.
MSFT released filters allowing developers to get at the content of Office docs. Office is the prevalent productivity suite used. Why is GOOG in bed with MSFT?
> GDS runs as a system service and has access to
> everything.
No, there's an entry in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\...\CurrentVersion\Run that starts everything. That means it runs as the current user.
But...if your end goal is to connect to another computer of yours on the net and you wanted to make sure that connection was encrypted and you weren't going to leave traces on the "temporary host," this seems like a good way to do it.
For example, if I want to connect to my IMAP server securely without this device, my option is web mail over SSL...even then, who knows what keystroke loggers are running on the public machine I might be using. Plug in this, reboot and unless there's some Van Eck device around, chances are much better I'm going to have a secure transaction.
http://blogs.msdn.com/cyrusn/archive/2004/10/11/24 0673.aspx
Then tell me how much you want to push C# to production.
> should be the support it has behind it, in terms
.NET.
.NET Framework ---
> of IDE, tools, api, and longevity of the vendor
Eclipse/IntelliJ/Together
Apache/Tomcat, WebSphere, BEA
RedHat/Suse/Mandrake/Debian
All of these tools and vendors have been around longer than C# and
> pushing it (forget the OpenSource crap argument,
> those guys are too in love with Perl, Python,
> and Ruby - Java could become the child nobody
> wants to talk about if Sun dies) - right now
> that's C# and the
You misspelled "FUD."
> Whats the alternative , driving for an hour to
> the warehouse and climbing over the shelves?
No, opening Listen Rhapsody and clicking on "other artists in this genre."
> for some geek like you to say they add no value
> shows how out of touch you are with a large
> percentage of humanity.
I like browsing for books in real life. Amazon.com is a success. So is eBay.
Because you like browsing doesn't mean everybody does, especially when I can pay $10/month for unlimited listening instead of browsing and buying one used CD for the same money.
That's where the value is.
Not to restate the blindingly obvious, but this wouldn't stop a conspirator from getting a license and giving it to somebody who might be on a list.
Loving it:
> A car of this type
> rests as from spirit hand
> over the motorway
Sometimes I miss my job where they let me run whatever I wanted...for a while, I was running BeOS (this is a few years ago), somebody was running FreeBSD and another guy was running Linux. And that was one of the most productive teams I've ever been a part of.
> The problem is, this code doesn't come from MS, it
> comes from an MS employee. What rights does he
> have? We can be pretty sure that he doesn't have
> the right to entail patents.
I was starting to think it's safe to read/use this code, since it appears to be covered by the GPL.
Then I looked in cpl.txt and found this:
----------------
Recipient understands that although each Contributor grants the licenses to its Contributions set forth herein, no assurances are provided by any Contributor that the Program does not infringe the patent or other intellectual property rights of any other entity.
----------------
So...you're telling me I can go ahead and use this thing, but at any point in time the entity who really owns the IP can come after me for patent infringement?
Now, I think I'm being paranoid in this case. But that's more than a little frightening.
* "Reliability is more than just "we're more stable than Windows." - anybody else remember the eCache problems? At a former employer, we applied every patch and none of them fixed the issue. The machines were still spontaneously rebooting when I left six months ago. Sun's response was "upgrade to new hardware at full price."
* "we need to be able to solve the problem in as little time as possible with the lowest cost to the customer and Sun." - a co-worker spent a month corresponding with Sun to get them to admit there's a bug in SunOne AppServer (it compiles JSP pages even if they existed on the server in jar files).
Again, it took him a month to enter a bug into the system. They're not going to fix it, but they've admitted it's a bug.
> The first time some bonehead cuts you off when the
> computer is driving or any of a bunch of stuff
> just seems like it's gonna be trouble.
Current vehicles have yaw control, radar cruise...the car could easily respond and stop quicker than most of the population, and the cars behind it could stop instead of spacing out and causing a pileup.
I was worried about the newer automated airliners until somebody pointed out the majority of the accidents are human error and happen at takeoff/landing, when computers weren't driving...
From ask.com:
> Search Just Got Personal. Take the MyJeeves Tour!
Ok, the whole line is the same style (plain red text). Why do I have to mouseover the last two words to figure out it's a link?
> How the OS is written will make some difference,
/ 09 /13/228780.aspx
> but HT is not some supper technology that makes
> slower processors act like faster ones.
If the OS equates a single hyperthreaded CPU with multiple CPUs, there could be a performance hit:
http://weblogs.asp.net/oldnewthing/archive/2004
This patch has been around for a while by the looks of it:
http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/391/972
> But it isn't just Sun, surely.
There's dumb marketing everywhere.
But Sun could have the best marketing on the planet and still not be selling their products (hardware and OS), which have been largely commoditized. Yes, they have high-end servers...but years ago, cheaper Intel/AMD boxes weren't considered "server-class" hardware like they are now.
There is a larger issue: Sun's ability to "pull an IBM" and figure out how to leverage the changing software/hardware world instead of defending their market share.
http://www.localband.net/
After four months of commuting on I93, I would love one.
> The trend seems to becoming widespread, I guess
> 10 years and all the old wires are gonna start
> to be taken down."
Judging by the century old infrastructure around my neighborhood, those lines will be there for a long time to come.
> Here's a clue to help you validate this fact: look
> at what geographic regions vote Republican (aka
> fly over country, or the "Red states" which the
> elitists aka Democrats point out are rural
> schmucks not worth their time).
That's thanks to Karl Rove's spinning that makes working class folks think Bush is The Man.
Doesn't have anything to do with reality.
See my other post for the link.
The Republicans were tying up phone lines of a service that gives people a ride to the place where they can vote.
Last time I checked, owning a car isn't a requirement for voting.
This is what happens when you block phone lines so Democrats can't get rides to the polls.
The irony here is the Republican party in New Hampshire recently admitted to using a contractor to autodial Democrat phone lines during an election to prevent people from registering/voting...karma will get back to you.
> Whereas, one XP box is pretty much the same as the
> next, and not far removed for Win2k.
Until you migrate to Active Directory. Or you have to actually grovel through users, domains and groups. For a company that has been through three owners, has all three names, has locations around the world, etc.
> If 3000 lines of dense mathematically rich C were
> checked in and a dozen lines acted in concert to
> create a miscalculation, how much expertise would
> be needed to catch that?
I would imagine that the military actually tests weapons before using them.
From the patent:
> communications with a multiplicity of
> independently-operated servers via a
> non-proprietary network
Hmmm. Would you consider Mac/Windows Update "proprietary networks," or a proprietary protocol on a non-proprietary network (TCP)?