Wow, nicely said. Is this close enough to make binaries interchangable or are they two separate platforms? Either way I am 100% sure that things are exactly as they are.
On Windows (I haven't looked into the issues, if any, on *nix), yes. 64-bit executables on Windows utilize the PE32+ format which can be flagged with a machine type. Up until AMD64/EM64T the most common machine type was IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_IA64 (for Intel's Itanium architecture). But AMD64/EM64T compilers emit images with the machine type set to IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_AMD64. In other words, they're pretty much one and the same.
That having been said, there's still a few minor differences, but AFAIK most compiled code shouldn't run into them. For example, Intel's 64-bit extensions offer a CMPXCHG16B instruction where AMD's doesn't (though recent updates to AMD's technical docs for AMD64 seem to indicate that they're supporting this extension as well as SSE3 in future AMD64 processors).
And you can expect future extensions ala MMX/SSE/SSE2/SSE3/3DNow! to come down the pipe on just Intel or AMD's processors-- it'll be up to software to detect the processor capabilities when/if these become an issue.
Why does common sense dictate this? It says "NO LATE FEES". If I return something late, say, a month late, and I get charged a fee, isn't that the exact opposite of what their advertising is claiming?
Isn't that unfair to their competitors that they can advertise something they have no intention of living up to?
Oh, and that "whiney malcontent" "fucking jerkoff" suing them is an Attorney General of a state in the United States. It's not a citizen crying foul, it's an AG seeing an obvious violation of consumer protection laws (not to mention unfair business practice; or are we saying it's OK to advertise anything now to put your competitors out of business even if you never actually live up to your offers?).
The Harrier was presented onscreen with it's 'Points value', just like the leather jacket (and the other prizes). There was absolutely NO indication that it was a joke. Was the leather jacket a 'joke', too?
Yeah, really. Who'd honestly believe you could get a great leather jacket for free just by drinking Pepsi.
Yes, that attitude is still prevalent in the newsgroups they run. Make a suggestion: get shot down in flames until someone inside Borland suggests it, and then the attitudes change such that you'd think the person inside Borland came down from the mountain with the idea engraved in stone.
It's really sad.
And speaking of Kaster, give QualityCentral a look some time. Here's a place where, supposedly, you can make suggestions and get your peers to vote on them and have them taken seriously. And yet when your report gets a very respectable number of votes, you're still told by the newsgroup goons that your idea is without merit, is awful, or in some other way never going to happen.
Why even ask for suggestions guys if you're just going to shoot people down?
Those of us in "reality" will stick with the notion that "no late fees" means "no cost, at all, under any circumstances, if you return your rental late". Now, if they'd said--
"NO LATE FEES (but only if you bring it back within a week of the due date)"
or even--
"NO LATE FEES*
*only if returned within a week of the due date"
We wouldn't be where we are right now.
If Pepsi says every person who buys a 2 litre bottle of soda gets a million dollars on 8/7/2005, they don't get to make all sorts of exceptions unless they advertise those exceptions. Businesses shouldn't advertise things unless they're willing to live up to their end of the bargain (which is where consumer protection laws, like those being enforced here, come into play). Otherwise businesses would just advertise anything to try and put their competitors out of business.
"Oh hey, who needs to use NetFlix when going to the corner Blockbuster is so much easier, and cheaper now, I mean, it's not a big deal that I return 'Fried Green Tomatoes' a few weeks late! Whoohoo!"
Like I said a few posts above, I think MPAA and RIAA deserve what's coming to them, and if they crumble, it's probably a good thing. However, they have every right to crack down on crime. It's their thoughts, they can choose what to do with their thoughts.
Right, and if they choose to make their thoughts public I don't see why a government that's supposed to be "for the people" should be protecting something they put out in the open. "Intellectual property" is a sham played out on the people of the world to the benefit of the few. There were still stories, music and plays long before copyright ever existed, and there'll still be books, music and movies after copyright eventually fails.
If true, at least they're being consistant (even though copyright infringement is still arguably less criminal than outright theft). Leave it to the Europeans to make sense.;)
The new proposal would allow fines and a maximum penalty of three years in prison for violating copyrights and engaging in computer piracy.
Bringing up the subject of a recent Slashdot article-- what's the penalty for actual theft in the traditional "go in, take it and walk out without paying for it" sense in Norway? Would the penalty for copyright infringement be worse or better by comparison?
Because somebody has to balance out all you people that are so god damn childish and unethical.
There's nothing unethical about copyright infringement. What's unethical is the government trying to tell us what we can do with things we store in our own head-- if I read a book and want to write down portions (or the whole thing if I can recall all of it) to give to a friend, why is the government making that illegal?
I've had about enough of thoughts being turned into "intellectual property". I have an idea for the MPAA/RIAA members-- if you don't want your ideas or stories shared, don't let them escape from your head into mine.
Oh, I'm sure other manufactuers put them out, but if you go to a regular department store like Target, Wal-Mart or such, I've only ever found Sony branded media. I wasn't trying to say they were the only ones making it, just that because of their investment in the media format with their camcorders, that they're already ramped up and ready to go with media.
It'd be in a lot better shape if there were a way to write your own UMD media (especially if it were an RW format so you could reuse the media a couple thousand times). MemoryStick sucks.
I'll never understand why they didn't adopt 8cm DVD media. IIRC, UMD only holds 1.8 GB, while DVD-1 (single layer) can hold 1.46 GB and DVD-2 (dual layer) can hold 2.66 GB. And Sony already uses this media for some of their camcorders (and the only 8cm media I can find in the store is made by... Sony!).
This is exactly what I was thinking. Paramount just recently (in January) began selling syndication of the currently finished seasons to TV stations and my understanding was that they did quite well. So why not move the whole series to syndication-- get it off UPN (which is obviously going for a totally different crowd, one which I suspect even they can't put their finger on) and let it continue on as TNG and DS9 did.
You know, those Law and Order shows have been doing great so far for NBC, maybe Paramount should do a Law and Order-type show where you see Starfleet lawyers and investigators doing their day to day thing. No multi-episode story arcs, keep it all self-contained in a single hour-long episode.
Though obviously it'd be more ala JAG since Starfleet is military and all. But you get the idea. And imagine the possibilities with having to deal with different cultures laws from time to time. Fun, fun!
Stealing infers that by getting your copy you are depriving the original owner of theirs. This isn't the case. If I take someones bicycle, they are deprived of the bicycles use. If I download a perfect digital copy of someones movie, they are still fully capable of watching the movie as well or attempting to sell it to others.
Please don't mis-apply the words "steal", "theft" or any variation thereof.
As far as how I'd feel if someone took a book I wrote and copied it and gave it away to others? I wouldn't care. I can't stop people from thinking or talking with others. Is it any different if they can't make a page by page copy of the book but instead tell their friends the entire story, including the conclusion? I don't think so. Technology has brought us to the point where it's cheap and easy to make copies of intellectual works, we should embrace that technology and remove the shackles of copyright law that inhibit, not promote, creativity.
You talk about how the "writers don't suck," but you seem to neglect the history Trek has. BSG was able to trash the canon developed by the original series because a) said existing canon was awful (BSG 1980 anyone?) and b) BSG had far fewer fans than Trek. Writers who are forced to respect the previous history of the show are really limited. As for the "setting and mood", again, a direct result of being able to totally overhaul the series-- if someone could overhaul (or "reinvent") Trek I think you'd have just as much chance at enjoying it as you do BSG.
You can't fault Trek for being what it is-- Trek. And don't treat it like a competition, there's too little quality Sci-Fi on TV. It's not like we're making a choice between BSG or Enterprise; you can try enjoying both for what they are.:P
Does anyone really care? I'm sorry but with Battlestar Galactica reinventing the science fiction genre in the same fashion the Sopranos did to the gangster genre - it's hard to watch anything Trek related. It's the visual equivalent of listening to Cyndi Lauper records from the '80s - you can't believe people ever liked the stuff when you look at it with some hindsight.
First, let me say, I thoroughly enjoy Battlestar Galactica. But I take offense to the idea that just because BSG discovered that handheld style camera movements makes for a more dramatic show makes it worthy of being presented as "reinventing" science fiction. Take away the handheld camera style and you're still left with your traditional sci-fi drama. BSG is just lucky in that it doesn't have to respect canon and can kill off or change characters however it sees fit.
So give Trek a break, it's doing a lot better this season story-wise with Manny Coto, and if there is a season 5 I'm sure we can expect a whole lot from him.
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On Windows (I haven't looked into the issues, if any, on *nix), yes. 64-bit executables on Windows utilize the PE32+ format which can be flagged with a machine type. Up until AMD64/EM64T the most common machine type was IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_IA64 (for Intel's Itanium architecture). But AMD64/EM64T compilers emit images with the machine type set to IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_AMD64. In other words, they're pretty much one and the same.
That having been said, there's still a few minor differences, but AFAIK most compiled code shouldn't run into them. For example, Intel's 64-bit extensions offer a CMPXCHG16B instruction where AMD's doesn't (though recent updates to AMD's technical docs for AMD64 seem to indicate that they're supporting this extension as well as SSE3 in future AMD64 processors).
And you can expect future extensions ala MMX/SSE/SSE2/SSE3/3DNow! to come down the pipe on just Intel or AMD's processors-- it'll be up to software to detect the processor capabilities when/if these become an issue.
Why does common sense dictate this? It says "NO LATE FEES". If I return something late, say, a month late, and I get charged a fee, isn't that the exact opposite of what their advertising is claiming?
Isn't that unfair to their competitors that they can advertise something they have no intention of living up to?
Oh, and that "whiney malcontent" "fucking jerkoff" suing them is an Attorney General of a state in the United States. It's not a citizen crying foul, it's an AG seeing an obvious violation of consumer protection laws (not to mention unfair business practice; or are we saying it's OK to advertise anything now to put your competitors out of business even if you never actually live up to your offers?).
Yeah, really. Who'd honestly believe you could get a great leather jacket for free just by drinking Pepsi.
Yes, that attitude is still prevalent in the newsgroups they run. Make a suggestion: get shot down in flames until someone inside Borland suggests it, and then the attitudes change such that you'd think the person inside Borland came down from the mountain with the idea engraved in stone.
It's really sad.
And speaking of Kaster, give QualityCentral a look some time. Here's a place where, supposedly, you can make suggestions and get your peers to vote on them and have them taken seriously. And yet when your report gets a very respectable number of votes, you're still told by the newsgroup goons that your idea is without merit, is awful, or in some other way never going to happen.
Why even ask for suggestions guys if you're just going to shoot people down?
Those of us in "reality" will stick with the notion that "no late fees" means "no cost, at all, under any circumstances, if you return your rental late". Now, if they'd said--
"NO LATE FEES (but only if you bring it back within a week of the due date)"
or even--
"NO LATE FEES*
*only if returned within a week of the due date"
We wouldn't be where we are right now.
If Pepsi says every person who buys a 2 litre bottle of soda gets a million dollars on 8/7/2005, they don't get to make all sorts of exceptions unless they advertise those exceptions. Businesses shouldn't advertise things unless they're willing to live up to their end of the bargain (which is where consumer protection laws, like those being enforced here, come into play). Otherwise businesses would just advertise anything to try and put their competitors out of business.
"Oh hey, who needs to use NetFlix when going to the corner Blockbuster is so much easier, and cheaper now, I mean, it's not a big deal that I return 'Fried Green Tomatoes' a few weeks late! Whoohoo!"
So, basically, they'll know something happened after it's already happened.
I think they made that breakthrough though with the advent of the newspaper.
In that case this new law is crap. Hopefully Norway can avoid slipping into copyright hell.
Right, and if they choose to make their thoughts public I don't see why a government that's supposed to be "for the people" should be protecting something they put out in the open. "Intellectual property" is a sham played out on the people of the world to the benefit of the few. There were still stories, music and plays long before copyright ever existed, and there'll still be books, music and movies after copyright eventually fails.
If true, at least they're being consistant (even though copyright infringement is still arguably less criminal than outright theft). Leave it to the Europeans to make sense. ;)
Bringing up the subject of a recent Slashdot article-- what's the penalty for actual theft in the traditional "go in, take it and walk out without paying for it" sense in Norway? Would the penalty for copyright infringement be worse or better by comparison?
There's nothing unethical about copyright infringement. What's unethical is the government trying to tell us what we can do with things we store in our own head-- if I read a book and want to write down portions (or the whole thing if I can recall all of it) to give to a friend, why is the government making that illegal?
I've had about enough of thoughts being turned into "intellectual property". I have an idea for the MPAA/RIAA members-- if you don't want your ideas or stories shared, don't let them escape from your head into mine.
If there's an inconsistancy between the dictionary and the law, I think that says more about the law than the dictionary.
Oh, I'm sure other manufactuers put them out, but if you go to a regular department store like Target, Wal-Mart or such, I've only ever found Sony branded media. I wasn't trying to say they were the only ones making it, just that because of their investment in the media format with their camcorders, that they're already ramped up and ready to go with media.
I suppose the GameCube warez I see are all in my imagination then...
It'd be in a lot better shape if there were a way to write your own UMD media (especially if it were an RW format so you could reuse the media a couple thousand times). MemoryStick sucks.
I'll never understand why they didn't adopt 8cm DVD media. IIRC, UMD only holds 1.8 GB, while DVD-1 (single layer) can hold 1.46 GB and DVD-2 (dual layer) can hold 2.66 GB. And Sony already uses this media for some of their camcorders (and the only 8cm media I can find in the store is made by... Sony!).
This is exactly what I was thinking. Paramount just recently (in January) began selling syndication of the currently finished seasons to TV stations and my understanding was that they did quite well. So why not move the whole series to syndication-- get it off UPN (which is obviously going for a totally different crowd, one which I suspect even they can't put their finger on) and let it continue on as TNG and DS9 did.
Whenever I see this show on TV I become physically ill. Whenever I see someone mention it I become nauseous.
That show is vile.
You know, those Law and Order shows have been doing great so far for NBC, maybe Paramount should do a Law and Order-type show where you see Starfleet lawyers and investigators doing their day to day thing. No multi-episode story arcs, keep it all self-contained in a single hour-long episode.
Though obviously it'd be more ala JAG since Starfleet is military and all. But you get the idea. And imagine the possibilities with having to deal with different cultures laws from time to time. Fun, fun!
Well shit, you never mentioned WoW before. Carry on.
Interesting. BSG doesn't come on till after Enterprise. So how can watching BSG be your excuse for not watching Enterprise?
Stealing infers that by getting your copy you are depriving the original owner of theirs. This isn't the case. If I take someones bicycle, they are deprived of the bicycles use. If I download a perfect digital copy of someones movie, they are still fully capable of watching the movie as well or attempting to sell it to others.
Please don't mis-apply the words "steal", "theft" or any variation thereof.
As far as how I'd feel if someone took a book I wrote and copied it and gave it away to others? I wouldn't care. I can't stop people from thinking or talking with others. Is it any different if they can't make a page by page copy of the book but instead tell their friends the entire story, including the conclusion? I don't think so. Technology has brought us to the point where it's cheap and easy to make copies of intellectual works, we should embrace that technology and remove the shackles of copyright law that inhibit, not promote, creativity.
Thanks for the tip on Firefly, I hadn't watched it before. (I really try to avoid watching TV, heh, but Trek, and now BSG, are my weakness).
You talk about how the "writers don't suck," but you seem to neglect the history Trek has. BSG was able to trash the canon developed by the original series because a) said existing canon was awful (BSG 1980 anyone?) and b) BSG had far fewer fans than Trek. Writers who are forced to respect the previous history of the show are really limited. As for the "setting and mood", again, a direct result of being able to totally overhaul the series-- if someone could overhaul (or "reinvent") Trek I think you'd have just as much chance at enjoying it as you do BSG.
:P
You can't fault Trek for being what it is-- Trek. And don't treat it like a competition, there's too little quality Sci-Fi on TV. It's not like we're making a choice between BSG or Enterprise; you can try enjoying both for what they are.
First, let me say, I thoroughly enjoy Battlestar Galactica. But I take offense to the idea that just because BSG discovered that handheld style camera movements makes for a more dramatic show makes it worthy of being presented as "reinventing" science fiction. Take away the handheld camera style and you're still left with your traditional sci-fi drama. BSG is just lucky in that it doesn't have to respect canon and can kill off or change characters however it sees fit.
So give Trek a break, it's doing a lot better this season story-wise with Manny Coto, and if there is a season 5 I'm sure we can expect a whole lot from him.
LOL.
I know that BSG is a great show and all that, but c'mon.. there's room for more than one good sci-fi show on TV you know...
There's 168 hours in a week, I'd like to have more than just 43 minutes of good/decent sci-fi, thank you.