It'd be a lot more fair if every nation that could legally be outsourced to played by the same rules. But they don't, and that's the issue most have with outsourcing-- there's no way for Americans to compete because it's impossible to survive on the kind of salaries those in India, China or wherever are getting paid.
In the long run it balances out, but in the short term it's very painful.
I'm sorry.. information, in it's natural state, is free. Be it words you speak in front of an audience or songs someone sings on a stage-- once someone hears it, lots of luck taking it away from them. That technology has found a way to "record" these bits of information (and more recently in a perfectly lossless format) changes nothing of the original point. The reason you're likely of the mind that information has "value" is because of the amount of time we've endured government sponsored monopolies (like Copyright).
I hope P2P (and like-technologies) puts Copyright on it's ear and forces the "industry" to adapt to something that's actually valuable to end users rather than trying to maintain the status quo of selling us shiny little discs at an incredible markup.
Would I want to get paid for writing and performing a song in front of people without the possibility of one of them recording it and giving it to all their friends? Sure. But that's not realism, that's greed; I performed it once and it got recorded-- now I don't have to perform it again, and the recording will sound as good on the first playback as it does on the millionth. Why should I be compensated for each time it's played?
Copyright only serves one purpose that I find value in-- it promotes people to create by giving them a limited-time monopoly on their creation. On it's face, it sounds reasonable. But it's been utterly destroyed in the 200+ years since the US was formed-- pretty soon Copyrights will last so long you'll be lucky if your grandkids can use something created in your lifetime without breaking the law. It should really only last 10 years-- in this day and age of technology it shouldn't take you and your offsprings entire lifetimes to find a market for your "work".
Exactly, the built-in monitor/LCD/whatever it is is the problem. If your monitor or LCD goes out (or begins having issues), you're stuck with replacing the whole thing.
I'd never heard of a Brontobyte before, just Yottabyte.
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Another prediction is the drive for a space race, the fastest and the furthest into space.
Why is it this made me think of the possibilities of NASCAR in space.:P
You're on the right track though.. rather than simply reproducing it the same way every year, each contest should build off of previous ones. Yes this may make some other groups work inapplicable, but it's also possible they could retool or redesign with little impact and compete again.
Others have already said it, but I'd go for higher and higher altitudes until you reach the minimum altitude to enter orbit, then go further (the moon, etc). Obviously this competition has really helped excite people to compete, and I'd hate to see this be "the end" of major innovation.
Posts like yours are why there should be a way to mod posts beyond +5. (AKA: I couldn't agree more with what you said).
The case for shrinkwrap license agreements was flimsy at best because you had to buy the product, take it home and open the box to get to read the license agreement (but so long as you didn't break the "shrink wrap" of the media, you could still return it). The case for "clickwrap" license agreements is non-existant. Retailers trap you by instituting no-return policies for opened software, and returning it to the vendor involves more steps than it ought to (e.g. - packing it in a box, paying shipping, etc).
Between the RIAA/MPAA and the software industry we'll probably have no individual freedoms whatsoever in another 15 years.
Unless I've missed something it seems to me that in order for WinFS to work it's not JUST the operating system that needs to have a framework in place, but 3rd party applications need to play nice and reveal details on what their documents contain.
This seems very unlikely that 3rd parties would be willing to give up that kind of control to Microsoft. Not to mention, getting every popular 3rd party app to conform even if they didn't mind publishing that kind of data about documents seems like it'd be a long and tedious task.
Yeah, but to access those new registers you need to use the new REX opcode which increases code size (reducing the amount that can be kept in cache). And I haven't seen any benchmarks, but I imagine anything that uses the REX opcodes is probably slower than just using the original registers (EAX, EBX, ECX, EDX, ESI, EDI, ESP, EBP).
I'd love to see some benchmarks/timings for AMD64 instructions (especially a comparison between using the original 8 registers vs. the 8 new registers).
grin, the address I use for MSN is a Hotmail account (as the other replier suggested), an account I never read or check, but which I do occasionally use when being forced to sign up for things.:P
ICQ can do offline messaging, which MSN can't without an annoying add-in installed.
This is probably the number one reason I still like ICQ (I run Trillian, but I always try to get people I have on other networks to give me their ICQ #'s if they have one they use). It's nice being able to send a message offline without having to send an e-mail (especially with people whom you may not have an e-mail address for).
Technology would help the moment we replaced our antiquated mail delivery system (SMTP) with something that required trust and/or authorization from the receiver for the e-mail to even be accepted by the server. A method of tracking that was more closely tied to mail stores (with the goal being to make it impossible to forge an e-mail address) would also help a ton.
SMTP is far too trusting and allows far too much to be specified by the sender.
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Hopefully it'd be too hard to composite Hayden into the scene, so that wouldn't be an issue.
There have been a few floating around the pirate scene for awhile now that were ripped from the original trilogy LD's.
As to how hard it would be to do yourself, IIRC the problem is that all laserdisc players use analog video outputs (AFAIK anyways). That means going from what was on the laserdisc, to analog, then back to digital on your PC. After that, you could probably perform some adjustments on the captured video (adjust sharpness, color, contrast, etc. to give it a better look if possible; obviously not so much that it distracts from the movie), then encode to MPEG-2 (TMPGEnc or CinemaCraft Encoder), encode the audio to AC3 (though, and I don't recall, but I coulda swore laserdiscs DID (optionally) store AC3 audio, so if there was a way to rip that directly without going digital -> analog -> digital, that'd be ideal), then author it to a DVD.
That'd get a nice watchable copy of the original trilogy-- as opposed to the crap coming out next month.
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What kills me about this seemingly innocent change (the ghost of Anakin being changed to Hayden Christensen from Sebastian Shaw) is that there'll probably be no explanation as to how Luke knows that the Hayden Anakin is the same guy he de-masked on the Death Star.
For me, I'm going to be imagining Luke saying "who the hell is that guy?" as the Hayden Anakin ghost appears.
Heh, I was just about to reply saying the same thing. Just because Microsoft offers an API to turn off or disable the firewall doesn't mean it's any less secure than just doing what you described. In fact, doing what you described is far easier (or stopping/disabling the service, etc).
Saying it's a bad idea for the reason stated in the write-up is just plain ignorant.
I went and installed it over my existing installation and everything updated-- user-agent and all. It was my experience in previous versions that installing over an older copy didn't update those critical settings (and in the case of AdBlock, seemed to require plugins to be reinstalled), but going from 0.9.2 to 0.9.3 was painless.
Yeah, I did that.. the point is, the check shouldn't have been there to begin with. Windows Server 2003 has been out for how long now?
As to your earlier comment, I've rarely had trouble running games on Windows 2000. If you're talking about running games that were designed for Windows '95 or Windows '98 on Windows 2000, sure, that's going to be ripe with problems (totally different kernels), but it's still possible. In the case of Windows NT -> Windows 2000 -> Windows XP -> Windows Server 2003, the lineage is obvious. There's very little in Windows Server 2003 that would break compatibility with Windows XP (in fact, WS2003 could be thought of as Windows XP for servers).
So what's the problem with leaving it up to users to decide if there's a problem with installing the app?
Well gee... it's hard to imagine it not working on what is effectively the newest Microsoft OS... Besides, those spec's are usually written as a lowest common denominator. This is the first time I've heard of something newer not being supported (even through compatibility mode!).
I got IM'd by someone actually who pointed me to a solution at the installer level. You need to download Microsoft's Orca MSI database editor (part of the Installer SDK). You then delete the "LaunchCondition" entry (or entries) which are what tell the installer not to run on anything but Windows XP or Windows 2000. After that, installer worked fine. Thinking of burning a DVDR of all 3 CD's so I can avoid CD hell (except for needing CD1 to play of course). =)
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It'd be a lot more fair if every nation that could legally be outsourced to played by the same rules. But they don't, and that's the issue most have with outsourcing-- there's no way for Americans to compete because it's impossible to survive on the kind of salaries those in India, China or wherever are getting paid.
In the long run it balances out, but in the short term it's very painful.
I'm sorry.. information, in it's natural state, is free. Be it words you speak in front of an audience or songs someone sings on a stage-- once someone hears it, lots of luck taking it away from them. That technology has found a way to "record" these bits of information (and more recently in a perfectly lossless format) changes nothing of the original point. The reason you're likely of the mind that information has "value" is because of the amount of time we've endured government sponsored monopolies (like Copyright).
I hope P2P (and like-technologies) puts Copyright on it's ear and forces the "industry" to adapt to something that's actually valuable to end users rather than trying to maintain the status quo of selling us shiny little discs at an incredible markup.
Would I want to get paid for writing and performing a song in front of people without the possibility of one of them recording it and giving it to all their friends? Sure. But that's not realism, that's greed; I performed it once and it got recorded-- now I don't have to perform it again, and the recording will sound as good on the first playback as it does on the millionth. Why should I be compensated for each time it's played?
Copyright only serves one purpose that I find value in-- it promotes people to create by giving them a limited-time monopoly on their creation. On it's face, it sounds reasonable. But it's been utterly destroyed in the 200+ years since the US was formed-- pretty soon Copyrights will last so long you'll be lucky if your grandkids can use something created in your lifetime without breaking the law. It should really only last 10 years-- in this day and age of technology it shouldn't take you and your offsprings entire lifetimes to find a market for your "work".
I've always wondered what would happen to society if we could harness the raw inert power in every penis on Earth.
And so the ladies don't feel left out, I'm sure there's some power to be had from the vagina as well.
Exactly, the built-in monitor/LCD/whatever it is is the problem. If your monitor or LCD goes out (or begins having issues), you're stuck with replacing the whole thing.
Not fun. No thanks.
Yeah but P2P is such a generic term. P2P isn't an inherent vulnerability.
Sigh.. linked--
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http://www.pcsndreams.com/Pages/Articles/Megabyte
It's some site trying to advertise something, but this seems to be the most comprehensive listing of "sizes" for storage--
t es .htm
http://www.pcsndreams.com/Pages/Articles/Megaby
I'd never heard of a Brontobyte before, just Yottabyte.
Why is it this made me think of the possibilities of NASCAR in space. :P
You're on the right track though.. rather than simply reproducing it the same way every year, each contest should build off of previous ones. Yes this may make some other groups work inapplicable, but it's also possible they could retool or redesign with little impact and compete again.
Others have already said it, but I'd go for higher and higher altitudes until you reach the minimum altitude to enter orbit, then go further (the moon, etc). Obviously this competition has really helped excite people to compete, and I'd hate to see this be "the end" of major innovation.
Posts like yours are why there should be a way to mod posts beyond +5. (AKA: I couldn't agree more with what you said).
The case for shrinkwrap license agreements was flimsy at best because you had to buy the product, take it home and open the box to get to read the license agreement (but so long as you didn't break the "shrink wrap" of the media, you could still return it). The case for "clickwrap" license agreements is non-existant. Retailers trap you by instituting no-return policies for opened software, and returning it to the vendor involves more steps than it ought to (e.g. - packing it in a box, paying shipping, etc).
Between the RIAA/MPAA and the software industry we'll probably have no individual freedoms whatsoever in another 15 years.
Unless I've missed something it seems to me that in order for WinFS to work it's not JUST the operating system that needs to have a framework in place, but 3rd party applications need to play nice and reveal details on what their documents contain.
This seems very unlikely that 3rd parties would be willing to give up that kind of control to Microsoft. Not to mention, getting every popular 3rd party app to conform even if they didn't mind publishing that kind of data about documents seems like it'd be a long and tedious task.
Yeah, but to access those new registers you need to use the new REX opcode which increases code size (reducing the amount that can be kept in cache). And I haven't seen any benchmarks, but I imagine anything that uses the REX opcodes is probably slower than just using the original registers (EAX, EBX, ECX, EDX, ESI, EDI, ESP, EBP).
I'd love to see some benchmarks/timings for AMD64 instructions (especially a comparison between using the original 8 registers vs. the 8 new registers).
I believe this is what you were looking for--
IFS Kit - Installable File System Kit
grin, the address I use for MSN is a Hotmail account (as the other replier suggested), an account I never read or check, but which I do occasionally use when being forced to sign up for things. :P
This is probably the number one reason I still like ICQ (I run Trillian, but I always try to get people I have on other networks to give me their ICQ #'s if they have one they use). It's nice being able to send a message offline without having to send an e-mail (especially with people whom you may not have an e-mail address for).
There's not a whole lot of active 81-year old directors these days. I'm betting he retired.
Technology would help the moment we replaced our antiquated mail delivery system (SMTP) with something that required trust and/or authorization from the receiver for the e-mail to even be accepted by the server. A method of tracking that was more closely tied to mail stores (with the goal being to make it impossible to forge an e-mail address) would also help a ton.
SMTP is far too trusting and allows far too much to be specified by the sender.
Hopefully it'd be too hard to composite Hayden into the scene, so that wouldn't be an issue.
Hopefully...
There have been a few floating around the pirate scene for awhile now that were ripped from the original trilogy LD's.
As to how hard it would be to do yourself, IIRC the problem is that all laserdisc players use analog video outputs (AFAIK anyways). That means going from what was on the laserdisc, to analog, then back to digital on your PC. After that, you could probably perform some adjustments on the captured video (adjust sharpness, color, contrast, etc. to give it a better look if possible; obviously not so much that it distracts from the movie), then encode to MPEG-2 (TMPGEnc or CinemaCraft Encoder), encode the audio to AC3 (though, and I don't recall, but I coulda swore laserdiscs DID (optionally) store AC3 audio, so if there was a way to rip that directly without going digital -> analog -> digital, that'd be ideal), then author it to a DVD.
That'd get a nice watchable copy of the original trilogy-- as opposed to the crap coming out next month.
What kills me about this seemingly innocent change (the ghost of Anakin being changed to Hayden Christensen from Sebastian Shaw) is that there'll probably be no explanation as to how Luke knows that the Hayden Anakin is the same guy he de-masked on the Death Star.
For me, I'm going to be imagining Luke saying "who the hell is that guy?" as the Hayden Anakin ghost appears.
Heh, I was just about to reply saying the same thing. Just because Microsoft offers an API to turn off or disable the firewall doesn't mean it's any less secure than just doing what you described. In fact, doing what you described is far easier (or stopping/disabling the service, etc).
Saying it's a bad idea for the reason stated in the write-up is just plain ignorant.
*slaps self*
I went and installed it over my existing installation and everything updated-- user-agent and all. It was my experience in previous versions that installing over an older copy didn't update those critical settings (and in the case of AdBlock, seemed to require plugins to be reinstalled), but going from 0.9.2 to 0.9.3 was painless.
I hope it went as well for everyone else.
If you install over an old version it's been my experience that the user-agent and other settings don't get updated for whatever reason.
I'll confess, updating should be painless for Firefox/Mozilla, but it's not.
Yeah, I did that.. the point is, the check shouldn't have been there to begin with. Windows Server 2003 has been out for how long now?
As to your earlier comment, I've rarely had trouble running games on Windows 2000. If you're talking about running games that were designed for Windows '95 or Windows '98 on Windows 2000, sure, that's going to be ripe with problems (totally different kernels), but it's still possible. In the case of Windows NT -> Windows 2000 -> Windows XP -> Windows Server 2003, the lineage is obvious. There's very little in Windows Server 2003 that would break compatibility with Windows XP (in fact, WS2003 could be thought of as Windows XP for servers).
So what's the problem with leaving it up to users to decide if there's a problem with installing the app?
Well gee... it's hard to imagine it not working on what is effectively the newest Microsoft OS... Besides, those spec's are usually written as a lowest common denominator. This is the first time I've heard of something newer not being supported (even through compatibility mode!).
I got IM'd by someone actually who pointed me to a solution at the installer level. You need to download Microsoft's Orca MSI database editor (part of the Installer SDK). You then delete the "LaunchCondition" entry (or entries) which are what tell the installer not to run on anything but Windows XP or Windows 2000. After that, installer worked fine. Thinking of burning a DVDR of all 3 CD's so I can avoid CD hell (except for needing CD1 to play of course). =)