I agree. The biggest point mostly missed is the one on if piracy were eliminated, then everyone would need to buy their own copy...... BZZZT...
That is the assumption. The reality is if piracy is eliminated, then there would be fewer titles in circulation and the support buzz and community would erode. Do you really think Microsoft would have had a chance at all if they had eliminated piracy from day one? They would be in great company of Lotus 123, Framework, and other market leaders that got replaced.
What can people do? The best would be a flashmob where everybody using Linux in USA would just call the "copyright police" and denounce themselves in one go.
I've pretty much done that with SONY. I picked up a copy of Open Season and couldn't play it due to the new copy protection experiment they did. When they had the backlash, and offered free replacement DVD's, I called them and ordered my replacement. They asked what player I had trouble with. I told them, Mplayer on Linux. I got my copy in the mail with no further questions. I'm sure, I'm not the only one who let them know what player their incompatible copy protection broke. This reporting should be the norm, not the exception. Demand standards and return anything broken.
They turn it on, and within minutes, they smell something burning.
The better one was the Tom's Hardware one where they tested an AMD chip and Intel chip by removing the heatsink on a running game. This was right after Intel came out wiht the Speed Step tech stuff that everyone scoffed as it would slow down the processor. It slowed down all right, but didn't fry in a second like the AMD chip did.
I would love to see a repeat test with the low power chip line-up. The 1 watt VIA processor against the new 4 watt Intel Atom. I would guess the Atom would slow down to reduce power, but not self destruct. Playing video may crash as it would no longer keep up, but it would be unharmed and re-bootable after the heatsink was replaced.
Anyone care to run a side by side test and post the video including the reboot after crash?
That whooshing sound was the sarcasm and wry humor streaking over your head.
Point well taken. I do however remember in the PC XT days (No CMOS) where the BIOS was a plug in chip. It was great fun to unplug the BIOS and replace the copywright message with something like my name with a bit editor and burn it back into a blank EPROM. Those days are gone forever..
Not a very difficult fix for any tech savvy person with surface mount device reworking equipment - or a soldering iron, a steady hand and a great deal of faith in their ability (or practical experience) to rework SMDs with the wrong kit.
Truly spoken by someone who hasn't tried to buy a programmed flash part for a made in China board. Hint, the replacement board can be purchased but the replacement chip containing IP firmware is a little harder to obtain. Custom parts on the board (flash memory) are not imported in a programmed state. If you can extract the image from the executable without the aid of the boot loader, many of these blank chips and flash upgrade don't come with any way to install the initial code to load the initial firmware.
A new blank BIOS chip doesn't contain enough firmware to boot a floppy, USB memory stick, or CD ROM to flash the BIOS. You need a BIOS image and device programmer. Since neither is supplied and both are needed, your chances of obtaining a BIOS image and installing the firmware are slim to none.
A Blank clock flash memory chip from Mouser does not make a bricked board bootable enough to flash the new BIOS firmware.
The upturn in Apple market share started long before Vista's loud and thunderous flop.
With OSX, I fully agree that Apple was on the uptick before Vista's flop. However, Ubuntu and Apple got a great boost with Vista's flop. I now run 3 Ubuntu machines, 2 dual boot with Windown 2K and Windows 98 SE. The 3rd machine is a new build Digital Audio Workstation without Windows due to the flop. Vista is unreliable for audio multitrack recording and production. Most interfaces don't come with Vista support. Ubuntu Studio comes with the real time kernel for low latency multi-track recording.
My dad picked up an Apple Laptop when his XP laptop died, again because of problems with Vista. I think much of the Apple uptick is due to growth of the OSX platform and applications, and the rest is from Vista's flop.
Honestly, Apples are overpriced for what hardware and software they contain. Sure they may use a stable UNIX based OS,
They are selling simply because they come pre-configured, work, and are not Vista. They can directly thank Microsoft for this one. Vista failure and announced end of XP left little else ready to run.
1) This CPU runs on **4 watts!** I'm not sure my cell phone can run on 4 watts in standby.
I'm thinking auto NAV/Entertainment PC. My 1KW inverter uses 4 watts on standby and I leave it on all the time. Think of it as a no boot time GPS NAV unit/media box. With a hard drive, I could load all 20 or so map CDs for my TOPO map and be all set for some serious backroads fun.
If anything, it would only increase the amount of crap traffic and excess traffic (mostly caused by peer reconnects, re-establishment of connections lost, seeking new available connections, etc)...
Here is how it works.. BT is broken on Comcast. Nothing downloads fully except the super popular DL of the day such as the latest Ubuntu release on day one. After the D/L is done, within 3 hours your UL is dead. Total UL was only 75 Meg. Felt like a leach for providing so little. (Tested with Gutsy. Mirror DL was 5X as fast. Ran both to test.). You quit using B/T because peer reconnects, re-establishment of connections lost, seeking new available connections, etc reliably fail.
BT traffic and retries simply stop. Comcast wins until DSL is run in my area.
Follow the link in the article to the photo. scroll down to the other photos. Look at the mad hatter's photo. At first it doesn't look like much, but it has been photoshopped to include lots of hidden stuff. If you have trouble, zoom in in the sidewalk cracks to get a start. There are at least 2 bunnies in each sidewalk joint. Have fun.
I found the egg in the basket with bunnies painted on it. I still need to find the purple bunny.
i would take old laptops, install Linux on it with a bittorrent client, load it with lots of mp3 & mpeg files that make the MPAA & RIAA really angry and find a good wifi hotspot and plug the AC adapter to a spare outlet and abandon it, (be sure to wipe any fingerprints off beforehand)...
Even better is to do it on a school campus somewhere. (they are not targeting specific schools, but are filtering for school net blocks.) Some permit using the Internet Proxy (set up for autoproxy to test) without logging in. Wait for school to receive the letters and provide a username. Smile. Use a very large hard drive (External USB) and let the students find the open FTP port. Leave instructions to take a song, leave a song. Seed it with a few songs. It will soon fill. Place it off campus and link in with an old satelite dish. See how long it lasts.
You could easily use the same reasoning to prove that Indie labels cost the record labels money. Or that food store sales cost the record companies money. Or that oil companies cost the record companies money.
Why stop there? The fact is they are trying to keep the prices scaled to what they were in the 1960's. The problem is they now have serious competition for the entertainment dollar. A few things that didn't exist in the 1960's that take the money include video games, cell phones, internet subscripiton, flatscreen TV, DVDs, digital cameras, PDAs, Camcorders, Computers, Software, Color printer supplies,....
It doesn't take a rocket scientest to understand why their slice of the pie is smaller. Piracy is only a tiny part of the loss.
They would rather fight piracy than provide a competitive product.
I was under the impression that a sonic boom was caused by something travelling faster than sound, so by the time you heard the boom, whatever caused it had gone
An object traveling at the speed of sound produces a shockwave that travels from the object at the speed of sound. (may need to read it twice)
As the plane passes overhead, the shockwave reaches the ground at the same time the plane has moved forward the same distance as the distance from the plane to the ground. The plane isn't gone. Look off 45 degrees in the direction of the sound and you will see the plane leaving. It is still high in the sky and not gone. I watched them go lots of times. Sometimes I would see them arriving and wait for the boom.
https://www.relakks.com/?lang=en does exactly what you've described. I believe the cost is $10/month US.
Their netblock is known. Connections to the service for the VPN is a red flag. The system is designed to monitor both directions of a connection and associate them. How many ways can a VPN connection be intercepted by a man in the middle attack where all initial handshakes is known to the man in the middle?
Yes, they. It's 92 minutes long, but the film lists who they are. The electric vehicles were here, leased and not sold, and when people attempted to buy them, they were pulled and crushed. See the sad story here. Someone pulled the strings to pull the electric cars from production, lease, or sale.
Try to buy an electric production vehicle. Get the words from those who leased them and wanted to keep them. Yes, somewhere in the backrooms power players, they pulled the Electric Vehicle. See who they are here;
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I run large electromagnetic finite element problems on a machine with 16GB of DDR2 with two Xeon Dual Cores at 2.66 GHz on XP64. One job takes about four days. I can run two in parallel before memory gives out. If my firm had $20K available I'd get a machine with 64GB of DDR3 at "1600 MHz" and dual quad-core at 3.2GHz. I could run larger jobs or more in parallel and they might take only three days - two iterations per week.
For the money, maybe you need to consider a cluster instead. I think 16 to 32 cores may be a better investment for the computing power you need. Pixar is running a large Linux cluster for the rendering farm.
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Q How fast were you going?
A 1 hour
The power consumption is NOT linear with the voltage but square. So if you lower U by 17% then P gets lower by 21%.
Mentioning Voltage and not mentioning the Resistance make the comparison bad. If the memory is the same resistance in both, then the math holds up. If the resistance (affecting current drawn)isn't the same, then that is like comparing 2 cars. One runs 4 hours and the other runs 6 hours. Which gets better gas milage? What size is the tanks? What speed and distance were traveled?
Here is an example for you. I have 2 light bulbs in a box. One is 12 volt and draws 9 amps. The other is 120 volt and draws 0.9 amps. Which is more effecient? Hint, Not enough data was given. The Lumens per bulb was not given to calculate the Lumens per Watt.
Not enough data was given to calculate power use by the memory or power per cycle.
The argument he seems to be making is that everyone should adopt it right now, not because it actually gets them much for their money but because their investment will enable him to buy even faster stuff for a lower price later.
Over the years I've learned to let the other guy pay the R & D cost. I've watched the prices drop on several items of high tech. Instead of overclocking, I just wait.
I waited until 4 banger calculators were under $100 before I bought one that ate 4 AA batteries in 6 hours. (That's add subtract multiply and divide)
I waited until digital watches were under $100. Then the LCD ones came out, so my first digital watch was LCD instead of LED. Wow, no pressing a button to see the time and longer battery life. It was waiting for.
My first hard drive was a 30 Meg RLL version. I waited past the 10, 15, and 20 Meg full height drives and went with the later model.
Looking back, my waits cut my cost for the tech by 3/4. Most of the time in addition to cost savings, what I got was over double the performance. For the money, I'll wait.
I have a life and a spouse. (ohhh spouse on/.???) so I am not on an unlimited cutting edge budget. The quad core stuff is out. My newest machine is dual core. My oldest in regular use is still running Windows 95. My laptop is a PIII running Ubuntu. I have the latest version of Ubuntu, but hardware can wait for price reasons. It's often worth the wait.
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All of you guys have COMPLETELY missed his point.
I agree. The biggest point mostly missed is the one on if piracy were eliminated, then everyone would need to buy their own copy...... BZZZT...
That is the assumption. The reality is if piracy is eliminated, then there would be fewer titles in circulation and the support buzz and community would erode. Do you really think Microsoft would have had a chance at all if they had eliminated piracy from day one? They would be in great company of Lotus 123, Framework, and other market leaders that got replaced.
What can people do? The best would be a flashmob where everybody using Linux in USA would just call the "copyright police" and denounce themselves in one go.
I've pretty much done that with SONY. I picked up a copy of Open Season and couldn't play it due to the new copy protection experiment they did. When they had the backlash, and offered free replacement DVD's, I called them and ordered my replacement. They asked what player I had trouble with. I told them, Mplayer on Linux. I got my copy in the mail with no further questions. I'm sure, I'm not the only one who let them know what player their incompatible copy protection broke. This reporting should be the norm, not the exception. Demand standards and return anything broken.
How many Linux users actually use this?http://geexbox.org/en/index.html
It boots faster than Vista on a fast DVD drive.
Is linking to it going to get me jail time?
Carefull Anonymous Coward. You have stirred up plenty of trouble in the past. Do you want to get banned?
"Line forms spontaneously at NYC Apple Store" It sounds like a headline on The Onion!
Or simply another Improv Everywhere stunt like the 80 blue shirts that showed up at a local Best Buy.
http://improveverywhere.com/2006/04/23/best-buy/
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/rawfisher/2006/05/best_prank_of_the_year_so_far.html
They turn it on, and within minutes, they smell something burning.
The better one was the Tom's Hardware one where they tested an AMD chip and Intel chip by removing the heatsink on a running game. This was right after Intel came out wiht the Speed Step tech stuff that everyone scoffed as it would slow down the processor. It slowed down all right, but didn't fry in a second like the AMD chip did.
I would love to see a repeat test with the low power chip line-up. The 1 watt VIA processor against the new 4 watt Intel Atom. I would guess the Atom would slow down to reduce power, but not self destruct. Playing video may crash as it would no longer keep up, but it would be unharmed and re-bootable after the heatsink was replaced.
Anyone care to run a side by side test and post the video including the reboot after crash?
That whooshing sound was the sarcasm and wry humor streaking over your head.
Point well taken. I do however remember in the PC XT days (No CMOS) where the BIOS was a plug in chip. It was great fun to unplug the BIOS and replace the copywright message with something like my name with a bit editor and burn it back into a blank EPROM. Those days are gone forever..
Anybody want some blank 2764's?
Why would flashing even be allowed through remote management?
This is common on leased and subscription based stuff where you are not the owner even when you think you are.
This remote intentional bricking is not new. The only part new is spoofed sources for the updates and bricking by a third party instead of the owner.
Refrence.. Sure;
http://www.satisfied-mind.com/directv/news/articles/Hackers.htm
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/143 Remote bricking article from 2001
Not a very difficult fix for any tech savvy person with surface mount device reworking equipment - or a soldering iron, a steady hand and a great deal of faith in their ability (or practical experience) to rework SMDs with the wrong kit.
Truly spoken by someone who hasn't tried to buy a programmed flash part for a made in China board. Hint, the replacement board can be purchased but the replacement chip containing IP firmware is a little harder to obtain. Custom parts on the board (flash memory) are not imported in a programmed state. If you can extract the image from the executable without the aid of the boot loader, many of these blank chips and flash upgrade don't come with any way to install the initial code to load the initial firmware.
A new blank BIOS chip doesn't contain enough firmware to boot a floppy, USB memory stick, or CD ROM to flash the BIOS. You need a BIOS image and device programmer. Since neither is supplied and both are needed, your chances of obtaining a BIOS image and installing the firmware are slim to none.
A Blank clock flash memory chip from Mouser does not make a bricked board bootable enough to flash the new BIOS firmware.
If you want to try it, Pick up a blank unit here; Good luck
http://www.epn-online.com/page/new56862/mouser-stocks-silicon-laboratories-c8051f9xx-line-of-mcus.html
The upturn in Apple market share started long before Vista's loud and thunderous flop.
With OSX, I fully agree that Apple was on the uptick before Vista's flop. However, Ubuntu and Apple got a great boost with Vista's flop. I now run 3 Ubuntu machines, 2 dual boot with Windown 2K and Windows 98 SE. The 3rd machine is a new build Digital Audio Workstation without Windows due to the flop. Vista is unreliable for audio multitrack recording and production. Most interfaces don't come with Vista support. Ubuntu Studio comes with the real time kernel for low latency multi-track recording.
My dad picked up an Apple Laptop when his XP laptop died, again because of problems with Vista. I think much of the Apple uptick is due to growth of the OSX platform and applications, and the rest is from Vista's flop.
Refrences, Of course;
http://www.steinberg.net/1045+M52087573ab0.html Support for MAC and Windows XP.
http://www.m-audio.com/news/en_us-1267.html Support for OS X
http://www.m-audio.com/news/en_us-1194.html Wow, some Vista support, but with a bug list. Best stated as improved and improving.. Unlike drivers for other OSes
Why would you want linux running in windoze? Isnt this backwards?
It can be done, but only for older versions.
http://win4lin.net/content/
I haen't tried it. I use windows so seldom that I couldn't justify the cost. I simply dual boot instead for free.
Honestly, Apples are overpriced for what hardware and software they contain. Sure they may use a stable UNIX based OS,
They are selling simply because they come pre-configured, work, and are not Vista. They can directly thank Microsoft for this one. Vista failure and announced end of XP left little else ready to run.
1) This CPU runs on **4 watts!** I'm not sure my cell phone can run on 4 watts in standby.
I'm thinking auto NAV/Entertainment PC. My 1KW inverter uses 4 watts on standby and I leave it on all the time. Think of it as a no boot time GPS NAV unit/media box. With a hard drive, I could load all 20 or so map CDs for my TOPO map and be all set for some serious backroads fun.
If anything, it would only increase the amount of crap traffic and excess traffic (mostly caused by peer reconnects, re-establishment of connections lost, seeking new available connections, etc)...
Here is how it works.. BT is broken on Comcast. Nothing downloads fully except the super popular DL of the day such as the latest Ubuntu release on day one. After the D/L is done, within 3 hours your UL is dead. Total UL was only 75 Meg. Felt like a leach for providing so little. (Tested with Gutsy. Mirror DL was 5X as fast. Ran both to test.). You quit using B/T because peer reconnects, re-establishment of connections lost, seeking new available connections, etc reliably fail.
BT traffic and retries simply stop. Comcast wins until DSL is run in my area.
Follow the link in the article to the photo. scroll down to the other photos. Look at the mad hatter's photo. At first it doesn't look like much, but it has been photoshopped to include lots of hidden stuff. If you have trouble, zoom in in the sidewalk cracks to get a start. There are at least 2 bunnies in each sidewalk joint. Have fun.
I found the egg in the basket with bunnies painted on it. I still need to find the purple bunny.
i would take old laptops, install Linux on it with a bittorrent client, load it with lots of mp3 & mpeg files that make the MPAA & RIAA really angry and find a good wifi hotspot and plug the AC adapter to a spare outlet and abandon it, (be sure to wipe any fingerprints off beforehand)...
Even better is to do it on a school campus somewhere. (they are not targeting specific schools, but are filtering for school net blocks.) Some permit using the Internet Proxy (set up for autoproxy to test) without logging in. Wait for school to receive the letters and provide a username. Smile. Use a very large hard drive (External USB) and let the students find the open FTP port. Leave instructions to take a song, leave a song. Seed it with a few songs. It will soon fill. Place it off campus and link in with an old satelite dish. See how long it lasts.
You could easily use the same reasoning to prove that Indie labels cost the record labels money. Or that food store sales cost the record companies money. Or that oil companies cost the record companies money.
....
Why stop there? The fact is they are trying to keep the prices scaled to what they were in the 1960's. The problem is they now have serious competition for the entertainment dollar. A few things that didn't exist in the 1960's that take the money include video games, cell phones, internet subscripiton, flatscreen TV, DVDs, digital cameras, PDAs, Camcorders, Computers, Software, Color printer supplies,
It doesn't take a rocket scientest to understand why their slice of the pie is smaller. Piracy is only a tiny part of the loss.
They would rather fight piracy than provide a competitive product.
I was under the impression that a sonic boom was caused by something travelling faster than sound, so by the time you heard the boom, whatever caused it had gone
An object traveling at the speed of sound produces a shockwave that travels from the object at the speed of sound. (may need to read it twice)
As the plane passes overhead, the shockwave reaches the ground at the same time the plane has moved forward the same distance as the distance from the plane to the ground. The plane isn't gone. Look off 45 degrees in the direction of the sound and you will see the plane leaving. It is still high in the sky and not gone. I watched them go lots of times. Sometimes I would see them arriving and wait for the boom.
https://www.relakks.com/?lang=en does exactly what you've described. I believe the cost is $10/month US.
Their netblock is known. Connections to the service for the VPN is a red flag. The system is designed to monitor both directions of a connection and associate them. How many ways can a VPN connection be intercepted by a man in the middle attack where all initial handshakes is known to the man in the middle?
'll simply change to an isp who doesn't block it.
You are lucky and in the minioriy who can choose from several broadband providers. I have a choice also.
It's Comcast of any of several dial-up offerings in the area.
Have you tried to do P-P on 0.3 Kbs dial-up lately?
Ugly - Damn those evil girl scouts and their cookies. The spawn of satan they be! FIRE AT WILL!
How about the girl scout's mom who happened to be carying a loaded shotgun in the car?
Funny video.
"they"?
Yes, they. It's 92 minutes long, but the film lists who they are. The electric vehicles were here, leased and not sold, and when people attempted to buy them, they were pulled and crushed. See the sad story here. Someone pulled the strings to pull the electric cars from production, lease, or sale.
Try to buy an electric production vehicle. Get the words from those who leased them and wanted to keep them. Yes, somewhere in the backrooms power players, they pulled the Electric Vehicle. See who they are here;
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7202740060236675590&q=who+killed+the+electric+car&ei=HtYnSJXZFJGMqwPkgoCvCQ&hl=en
I run large electromagnetic finite element problems on a machine with 16GB of DDR2 with two Xeon Dual Cores at 2.66 GHz on XP64. One job takes about four days. I can run two in parallel before memory gives out. If my firm had $20K available I'd get a machine with 64GB of DDR3 at "1600 MHz" and dual quad-core at 3.2GHz. I could run larger jobs or more in parallel and they might take only three days - two iterations per week.
For the money, maybe you need to consider a cluster instead. I think 16 to 32 cores may be a better investment for the computing power you need. Pixar is running a large Linux cluster for the rendering farm.
http://www.macobserver.com/article/2003/02/10.7.shtml
Q How fast were you going?
A 1 hour
The power consumption is NOT linear with the voltage but square. So if you lower U by 17% then P gets lower by 21%.
Mentioning Voltage and not mentioning the Resistance make the comparison bad. If the memory is the same resistance in both, then the math holds up. If the resistance (affecting current drawn)isn't the same, then that is like comparing 2 cars. One runs 4 hours and the other runs 6 hours. Which gets better gas milage? What size is the tanks? What speed and distance were traveled?
Here is an example for you. I have 2 light bulbs in a box. One is 12 volt and draws 9 amps. The other is 120 volt and draws 0.9 amps. Which is more effecient? Hint, Not enough data was given. The Lumens per bulb was not given to calculate the Lumens per Watt.
Not enough data was given to calculate power use by the memory or power per cycle.
The argument he seems to be making is that everyone should adopt it right now, not because it actually gets them much for their money but because their investment will enable him to buy even faster stuff for a lower price later.
/.???) so I am not on an unlimited cutting edge budget. The quad core stuff is out. My newest machine is dual core. My oldest in regular use is still running Windows 95. My laptop is a PIII running Ubuntu. I have the latest version of Ubuntu, but hardware can wait for price reasons. It's often worth the wait.
Over the years I've learned to let the other guy pay the R & D cost. I've watched the prices drop on several items of high tech. Instead of overclocking, I just wait.
I waited until 4 banger calculators were under $100 before I bought one that ate 4 AA batteries in 6 hours. (That's add subtract multiply and divide)
I waited until digital watches were under $100. Then the LCD ones came out, so my first digital watch was LCD instead of LED. Wow, no pressing a button to see the time and longer battery life. It was waiting for.
My first hard drive was a 30 Meg RLL version. I waited past the 10, 15, and 20 Meg full height drives and went with the later model.
Looking back, my waits cut my cost for the tech by 3/4. Most of the time in addition to cost savings, what I got was over double the performance. For the money, I'll wait.
I have a life and a spouse. (ohhh spouse on