Probably not well. While he did push for funding for what became the Internet, he was also big on preventing the people from using encryption unless the government had a key for it too.
The DOJ request was very broad, and as we've seen from another company-not-to-be-named, such data does allow the identification of search habits for many regular citizens.
However, a CIA request could have been for searches by specific suspects (read: known terrorists) or maybe a run of a datamining program that could catch relations between terrorist sites in Google's database, thus having nothing to do with actual searches by people.
I have a problem with any search engine complying with the former, but not necessarily the latter.
Small hint: Buttons are a great thing. They don't rely on being held steady to function properly.
I was talking about pressing a button and holding it. So instead of, for example, pressing FF once for 2x, twice for 4x, etc., and play (or FF/RW a couple more times) to resume play, you just hold the FF/RW button and tilt the controller however fast and far you want to go. If you drop it then you are no longer holding the button, and it stops the FF/RW.
I gave the regular listed max. Many are less, but some are bank-switched to allow several times that amount. The NES could address 32KB of ROM at a time, making that the actual maximum using simple addressing, but one game actually had a 1 MB ROM.
Non-profits can be just as bad as for-profits. Also, their cause can be one that you abhor.
Differentiate between "lawsuit" and small claims court. Small claims court is simply: you have a grievance, you file, you serve, you get your few minutes in front of the judge to make your case, judgment made. No lawyers, no juries, little time and expense, designed for grievances of small value, which is exactly what these calls are.
NES was about 48 KB per cartridge, TurboGrafx 2.5 MB, SNES & Genesis 4 MB, N64 64 MB. I know many are less, and bank switching lets it go higher, so I just used the standard max size.
Looks like I should be able to put a lot of games on a 1 GB memory module. But we're going to have problems if they start releasing CD titles for those systems that had that option.
This would be cool with the wiimote. Press a button for FF/RW and tilt your controller to make it go faster or slower in either direction. In another mode you could zip through scenes by moving the controller back and forth, and increase/decrease the volume by moving/pointing the controller up or down. And of course you just point the controller at the menu selections you want.
how is this different from preventing people to know what is REALY going on in Iraq? or in guantanamo? or in the CIA torture prisons?
Nice attempt at misdirection.
The US government does not try to prevent Americans from getting publicly available information in any of these cases. The government simply not releasing information it has is not censorship. Whether the decision to withhold information is right or not is a different issue.
in China and I experienced very little cencorship on the internet
China gives greater Internet access to foreigners.
but not that's not neccesarily against the will of the general public.
Tyranny of the majority is okay then. When they try to prevent the people from knowing what really happened at Tiananmen Square or how they are ruthlessly persecuting Falun Gong members, they are trying to force the will of the people by keeping them ignorant.
This isn't about the will of the people, it's about the power of the government to keep those people in line.
So, when they're sitting on the United Nations Human Rights Council, do they say "We do not have capital punishment. I have heard that some people die while in prison, but we do not know the reason why. We will look into it."
all it really did was update the firewall, add a Welcome Center, and recompile some DLLs
This list of fixes in SP2 is HUGE, in addition to improvements to IE, Outlook Express, and automatic updates (not that I use any of them). It also did a lot with wi-fi and bluetooth.
You said SMP before, not Hyperthreading.
No, I said "symmetric multithreading," and "Hyperthreading" is just Intel's brand of it.
Again, bundling in a CD writing wizard is hardly a major feature. Bundling a crippled firewall isn't a major feature, either. Wow! Zip support!
They all add up.
I dismissed Server 2003 because we were talking about the difference between 2000 and XP.
Leopard will be available in both client and server versions. It is only fair to count Windows client and server versions.
The integrated graphics in the MacBook and mini do support hardware CoreImage acceleration, although obviously performance won't be as good as with a discrete GPU.
I'd like to know the source, because everything I've read says they don't. They do support the GPU-accelerated UI though.
if that's the case, why not make a cheap blu-ray player and leave out all the expensive/hard to make PS3 parts?
Blu-Ray was the big expensive part, and because of it Sony will be taking a loss on every PS3 sold. Sony can't afford to take a loss on just regular Blu-Ray players, where they get don't get the licensing fees and accessory sales that will allow them to make up for that loss with the PS3.
The UN, if given control, will probably have an Internet governing council. This council, aside from running the technical aspects of the Internet with the UN's usual bureaucratic incompetence, will be comprised of a rotating set of members. It is these members that will be responsible for policies, such as freedom of speech.
The UN Commission on Human Rights counted among its members Cuba, China and Saudi Arabia. After much criticism over the membership of such countries where mass violation of human rights is policy, it was replaced with the Human Rights Council, which includes in its membership -- you guessed it -- Cuba, China and Saudi Arabia.
The UN apparently believes in using the fox to guard the hen house. Does anybody really want Cuba and China to have a say in our freedom of speech?
, this is about as low on most people's totem pole of political importance as gay marriage
Maybe your totem pole, but there's a huge chunk of our population that cares about gay marriage, one way or the other. I'm not among either group, but I know they exist, and many are single-issue about it.
Better security doesn't count because SP2 which came years later. DLL backup was in 2000, as was symmetric multithreading. CD writer support was in 2000 (I assume you mean built-in CD writer support, which is a minor feature). The firewall was in 2000, and System Restore came from Windows ME and is hardly a major feature by itself.
I count through SP2 since it was free (like saying advances with 10.4.8 don't count).
W2K hyperthreading didn't really work, it just saw two processors, meaning upgrading your 2xSMP box to hyperthreading chips put you beyond 2K's two-processor limit. Some 2K boxes wouldn't even work right with hyperthreading, and it could even hurt performance. XP understood hyperthreading and could really take advantage of it, and would see that system as two processors with two logical processors each.
For CD writers, you had to have a CD writing program for 2K, not so for XP.
By firewall I didn't mean the advanced TCP/IP settings, I meant the ZoneAlarm copy.
And system restore works better in XP than ME.
And don't forget remote assistance and included ZIP (finally got something I had with Norton Desktop in the early 90s).
And you dismissed all the improvements in Server 2003, and they should be included since there will be an OS X 10.5 Server.
I think the comparison is apt, and gets the point across to MS-only users who can't understand paying for a dot release just because it has a dot in it.
In addition to what was said in the other comments, Apple has been specifically tweaking the kernel to better handle all the threads flying through it, and that has been giving better performance every time. In addition, Apple has been offloading more and more of the UI to the video card. As of Leopard, not only will almost all UI heavy lifting be on the video card via OpenGL, but it will automatically spin the little work that the CPU must do onto a different thread that can be run on another core (all Macs are now at least dual core).
Job-specific performance increases also exist. Anyone doing video filters and page transitions with an application that uses Apple's Core Image library will see the effects in real-time due to their being offloaded onto the video card. This works in all Intel Macs except the MacBook and Mac mini, but Core Image does degrade gracefully by switching to the CPU for processing when the GPU isn't capable (no need for the developer to worry about whether GPU acceleration exists on the user's computer).
Ars Technica said Quartz 2D Extreme was there and possible to use, just not enabled because it probably hadn't been completely worked out by Apple yet.
But given fact #1, that Ars said that Q2DE is basically like running your whole desktop as an OpenGL scene, and fact #2, that Leopard will have "resolution-independent interfaces," I'm betting that Q2DE is fully running and implemented in 10.5.
Upgraded UI, symmetric multithreading, better security (if you count SP2), CD writer support, Remote Desktop, firewall, fast user switching, system restore, DLL backup, etc. Plus if you count Server 2003 you get the very re-worked IIS 6 and some more toys.
IOW, Windows 2000 to Windows XP is about the same jump as a dot release in OS X, and both cost money.
California had a recent study saying that the extreme regulations they plan will bring all sorts of jobs into the state, and actually help the economy. That one looked like junk science, too, starting with the broken window fallacy.
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The United Nations, because censorship will be world-wide if it does get control of the Internet.
Enlighten me, but without replacing Cuba and China with "other countries."
Probably not well. While he did push for funding for what became the Internet, he was also big on preventing the people from using encryption unless the government had a key for it too.
The DOJ request was very broad, and as we've seen from another company-not-to-be-named, such data does allow the identification of search habits for many regular citizens.
However, a CIA request could have been for searches by specific suspects (read: known terrorists) or maybe a run of a datamining program that could catch relations between terrorist sites in Google's database, thus having nothing to do with actual searches by people.
I have a problem with any search engine complying with the former, but not necessarily the latter.
I was talking about pressing a button and holding it. So instead of, for example, pressing FF once for 2x, twice for 4x, etc., and play (or FF/RW a couple more times) to resume play, you just hold the FF/RW button and tilt the controller however fast and far you want to go. If you drop it then you are no longer holding the button, and it stops the FF/RW.
I gave the regular listed max. Many are less, but some are bank-switched to allow several times that amount. The NES could address 32KB of ROM at a time, making that the actual maximum using simple addressing, but one game actually had a 1 MB ROM.
Non-profits can be just as bad as for-profits. Also, their cause can be one that you abhor.
Differentiate between "lawsuit" and small claims court. Small claims court is simply: you have a grievance, you file, you serve, you get your few minutes in front of the judge to make your case, judgment made. No lawyers, no juries, little time and expense, designed for grievances of small value, which is exactly what these calls are.
This is small claims. It's like saying you shouldn't self-medicate with ibuprofen, mostly harmless and with a good possibility of positive results.
NES was about 48 KB per cartridge, TurboGrafx 2.5 MB, SNES & Genesis 4 MB, N64 64 MB. I know many are less, and bank switching lets it go higher, so I just used the standard max size.
Looks like I should be able to put a lot of games on a 1 GB memory module. But we're going to have problems if they start releasing CD titles for those systems that had that option.
This would be cool with the wiimote. Press a button for FF/RW and tilt your controller to make it go faster or slower in either direction. In another mode you could zip through scenes by moving the controller back and forth, and increase/decrease the volume by moving/pointing the controller up or down. And of course you just point the controller at the menu selections you want.
I want one!
Nice attempt at misdirection.
The US government does not try to prevent Americans from getting publicly available information in any of these cases. The government simply not releasing information it has is not censorship. Whether the decision to withhold information is right or not is a different issue.
China gives greater Internet access to foreigners.
Tyranny of the majority is okay then. When they try to prevent the people from knowing what really happened at Tiananmen Square or how they are ruthlessly persecuting Falun Gong members, they are trying to force the will of the people by keeping them ignorant.
This isn't about the will of the people, it's about the power of the government to keep those people in line.
Chinese journalists do have freedom of expression equal to ours in the USA. They are equally free to criticize the United States government.
So, when they're sitting on the United Nations Human Rights Council, do they say "We do not have capital punishment. I have heard that some people die while in prison, but we do not know the reason why. We will look into it."
This list of fixes in SP2 is HUGE, in addition to improvements to IE, Outlook Express, and automatic updates (not that I use any of them). It also did a lot with wi-fi and bluetooth.
No, I said "symmetric multithreading," and "Hyperthreading" is just Intel's brand of it.
They all add up.
Leopard will be available in both client and server versions. It is only fair to count Windows client and server versions.
The integrated graphics in the MacBook and mini do support hardware CoreImage acceleration, although obviously performance won't be as good as with a discrete GPU.
I'd like to know the source, because everything I've read says they don't. They do support the GPU-accelerated UI though.
if that's the case, why not make a cheap blu-ray player and leave out all the expensive/hard to make PS3 parts?
Blu-Ray was the big expensive part, and because of it Sony will be taking a loss on every PS3 sold. Sony can't afford to take a loss on just regular Blu-Ray players, where they get don't get the licensing fees and accessory sales that will allow them to make up for that loss with the PS3.
The UN, if given control, will probably have an Internet governing council. This council, aside from running the technical aspects of the Internet with the UN's usual bureaucratic incompetence, will be comprised of a rotating set of members. It is these members that will be responsible for policies, such as freedom of speech.
The UN Commission on Human Rights counted among its members Cuba, China and Saudi Arabia. After much criticism over the membership of such countries where mass violation of human rights is policy, it was replaced with the Human Rights Council, which includes in its membership -- you guessed it -- Cuba, China and Saudi Arabia.
The UN apparently believes in using the fox to guard the hen house. Does anybody really want Cuba and China to have a say in our freedom of speech?
Maybe your totem pole, but there's a huge chunk of our population that cares about gay marriage, one way or the other. I'm not among either group, but I know they exist, and many are single-issue about it.
Better security doesn't count because SP2 which came years later. DLL backup was in 2000, as was symmetric multithreading. CD writer support was in 2000 (I assume you mean built-in CD writer support, which is a minor feature). The firewall was in 2000, and System Restore came from Windows ME and is hardly a major feature by itself.
I count through SP2 since it was free (like saying advances with 10.4.8 don't count).
W2K hyperthreading didn't really work, it just saw two processors, meaning upgrading your 2xSMP box to hyperthreading chips put you beyond 2K's two-processor limit. Some 2K boxes wouldn't even work right with hyperthreading, and it could even hurt performance. XP understood hyperthreading and could really take advantage of it, and would see that system as two processors with two logical processors each.
For CD writers, you had to have a CD writing program for 2K, not so for XP.
By firewall I didn't mean the advanced TCP/IP settings, I meant the ZoneAlarm copy.
And system restore works better in XP than ME.
And don't forget remote assistance and included ZIP (finally got something I had with Norton Desktop in the early 90s).
And you dismissed all the improvements in Server 2003, and they should be included since there will be an OS X 10.5 Server.
I think the comparison is apt, and gets the point across to MS-only users who can't understand paying for a dot release just because it has a dot in it.
You mean I can go outside where there is room enough to play frisbee, and have it show up on my game console? Cool!
Of course, if I'm already outside playing frisbee with my friends then why the hell would I care about some imaginary frisbee game on my console?
In addition to what was said in the other comments, Apple has been specifically tweaking the kernel to better handle all the threads flying through it, and that has been giving better performance every time. In addition, Apple has been offloading more and more of the UI to the video card. As of Leopard, not only will almost all UI heavy lifting be on the video card via OpenGL, but it will automatically spin the little work that the CPU must do onto a different thread that can be run on another core (all Macs are now at least dual core).
Job-specific performance increases also exist. Anyone doing video filters and page transitions with an application that uses Apple's Core Image library will see the effects in real-time due to their being offloaded onto the video card. This works in all Intel Macs except the MacBook and Mac mini, but Core Image does degrade gracefully by switching to the CPU for processing when the GPU isn't capable (no need for the developer to worry about whether GPU acceleration exists on the user's computer).
Ars Technica said Quartz 2D Extreme was there and possible to use, just not enabled because it probably hadn't been completely worked out by Apple yet.
But given fact #1, that Ars said that Q2DE is basically like running your whole desktop as an OpenGL scene, and fact #2, that Leopard will have "resolution-independent interfaces," I'm betting that Q2DE is fully running and implemented in 10.5.
There were major differences between XP and 2000?
Upgraded UI, symmetric multithreading, better security (if you count SP2), CD writer support, Remote Desktop, firewall, fast user switching, system restore, DLL backup, etc. Plus if you count Server 2003 you get the very re-worked IIS 6 and some more toys.
IOW, Windows 2000 to Windows XP is about the same jump as a dot release in OS X, and both cost money.
California had a recent study saying that the extreme regulations they plan will bring all sorts of jobs into the state, and actually help the economy. That one looked like junk science, too, starting with the broken window fallacy.