I'd think they'd use something like 32 bit unsigned, maybe 64. 16 was probably realistic, in the sense of 10 years ago when people didn't look to storage of documents on PCs, but rather microfilm. Archiving our reports and other documents to CD is rapidly becoming procedure and this is a painful limitation. PDF was a beautiful choice because it wasn't platform dependent, particularly where each page containing images is concerned. Assuming extralarge content is packaged for availibility on the internet i.e. all of the 2001 federal budget, how do you do it?
For now we'll break it up into pieces, but that's an unhappy compromise.
Just burned some CD's for official distribution at work, and got word that some pages are missing...
PDF format only seems to allow 32767 pages. 32767 should look familiar to some, to others it's the maximum positive value for 16 bit integer.
So when the DoJ was talking about it being a burden to publish items in the Federal Register, pertaining to a certain other case, there's probably a point.
For other long works which could be published on the internet, how would this be addressed?
Last but not least: A 16 bit integer? $#@!, that is so &%#* early 80's!!!! #@$&!!
Fair use: how about copy of the Miranda Rights on each, along with the DMCA?
From the article: Licensing is expected to start around spring 2002.
At the speed of these industries, expect to see these on shelves in time for next Christmas...
Dear Santa,
I will haven been a good boy, my pirate friends I didden not haven will inturning to the feds. Please give me a blu-ray with hacked regional code detection and a malfunctioning ID checker. Thanks.
Sheesh, with 37 days left to the auction, they probably haven't even been built. Wassup with that? Another Tucker? Driven from the face of the business world by evil automobile and oil tyrants colluding with bought-n-paid for public officials?
Nah, give em a chance. I'm wondering how long before they go bust because the price of these things is so damn high. I mean, what makes these things cost so much? I'd want to know I can park it somewhere without it being stolen because the parts are worth mucho. The battery? Special motor?
I live in California's central coast, I grew up in Michigan.
In Michigan nearly every hotrodded car had a Chevy 350 with a Holly 4 barrel carb, headers, glasspacks, etc. (I myself had a '65 Olds Dynamic 88, 425 with a Holly 4 barrel, dualies, just to be the geek 8) Probably due to the straight nature of the roads and ready supply of Novas, Chevelles, etc. to start from.
On the Cal. central coast, the cars of choice are Accords, Civics, Accuras, Sentras, Ecclipses, and the occasional VW. Probably due to the curvy nature of the roads and ready supply of cars to start from.
Let's roll a head about 5-6 years after the Segways have been out, prices have dropped and used ones are all over the place for a fraction of the new cost. It's the perfect vehicle for geek projects, cuz it's electric. Future slashdot features?:
Segway with Linux console
Beowulf cluster of 802.11b Segways
Fuelcell Segway
Segway wars (robot controlled, heavy plastic mayhem)
Cyberpunk gangs rove neighborhoods on Segways
Hey! Your big chance! Come up with slang terms for all these and beat the pros (like Jon Katz) so every now and then you get to hear your name in the news (the '5k00t3rz' term was coined on slashdot by...)
The major players are behind Blu_Ray, who do you expect to support FMD? Rogue chinese and east european manufacturers? The big two, essentially, are Sony and Matsushita (Panasonic), taking them on together is suicidal. Sorry.
The Opium War was a whole different set of circumstances, thank you very much.
Not so much. As the european traders didn't have anything to trade with the chinese they brought them dope. After seeing the effect this had on erroding society (and therefore the emperor) the chinese sent a weak little army out to fight the british. The army lost and China was subsequently and essentially carved up by capitalists.
Think about the internet and why the central government wants a tight rein on it. Once it errodes the goverments grip even the PLA won't be able to stop it and then China could be carved up by greedy telcos.
I expect they'd have to. But don't count on your bright shiny new DVD player you just bought to work with 27G/side disks. Assuming this becomes a reality (hopefully faster than IBM rolls out stuff.)
Personnally I'd love one just for backups, I wonder how stable the media will be.
...that is, until the RIAA and MPAA chew on consumers with a govt. permitted tax on blank media and/or all mfrs agree to build it all the copy protection crap that will take hackers about 24 hours to bypass...
Ironically, some of those with unclean hands got off without so much as a slap on the wrist because of the immediate cold war and need to build up Germany in the face of the Soviet threat.
It's our job to stop buying Cisco products in protest, or take advantage of SNMP flaws and Cisco's bugs to topple the Chinese government mwahahahaha!
No, no it's not. What our job would be is to as open and honestly as we can, explain the value of freedom to those who don't have it and let them make their own decisions about throwing the bums out. Either that or see how fast Ashcroft emulates thier system and we all defect to China because it's a freer state.
Then you wouldn't have any problems with ITT building prisons in China, right?
My only axe to grind is that in the interest of furthering U.S. trade within China the U.S. governemnt, which has the power to regulate what U.S. businesses do as that trade, seem perfectly willing to do what is unthinkable here in the U.S.
Fine. At least it's american companies making the $$$ rather than british, german, french or spanish.
BTW, does any of this remind you of what lead up to the Opium War?
It always amazed me why China connected to the public internet anyways if they are going to censor everything except the stuff _they_ want their citizens to see.
The leadership recognises that to compete in the world the China must interact with the rest of it, but to preserve their positions in power the leaders restrict it. Keep in mind that there are conservative elements in the Beijing goverment who are opposed to many of these advances. Once the government loses more of these people and they're replaced with leaders from the new middle and upper classes, well, things should change.
On another note... I wonder if any chinese leaders have mod points on slashdot?
Social change only succeeds where and when the people are ready for it. Forcing democracy on people who aren't fed up with their present system only creates chaos.
Though in a sci fi book I read, there's some arguement for various types of governance in certain societies, due to population and density. A presidential election in China would be quite the thing to supervise, particularly after a state like Florida had so much trouble. Possibly a different makeup where provinces elect senators (or MP's) who elect the PM or president. As I hear and read tho, the central government is already less of an influence, as mayors and provincial leaders have gained significant political muscle, and corruption. When the people get tired of the corruption then it will change.
Democracy in Russia wasn't so much that they cast-off the old authoritarian state if favor of it, they just cast off the old authoritarian state because they were sick of it. Russians are still trying democracy on for size, and will keep what they like and ditch what they don't.
Ok, so they forget that the free exchange of ideas is what made them the successes they are today and for a few yuan will sell citizens of another country down the river, an effort that would have put some executives on the firing line in the cold war. Seems Clinton's, and now Bush's, administrations have selective sets of morals in this regard. We want to do business with them, but we won't do more than give lip service for their rights, and let 'em into the WTO.
Well, eventually Yertle the Turtle will fall in Beijing and some people will remember who helped keep him there. As it is, the chinese are working hard to displace the U.S. as #1 in many fields and they'll probably suceed in a few, just out of shear determination. Maybe it's the fear of that which makes the U.S. foreign policy the conumdrum that it is with regard to China.
It'll be interesting to see how this goes if the Compaq merger goes through. I'm not so interested in a 'Home PC'¹ as I'd be in workstations. For now the only real option is build it yourself. Not that there's much wrong with that for the hobbiest, but it's a hard sell on the suits.
Home PC defined as something the average house ape can work with.
It might end at computer shredding software it doesn't like.;)
Oh come on now! Don't beat around the bush, we know which software company you're refering to. If you're going to say it, say it. Oh, and by the way, it seems as many have noted the ballyhooed security program is mostly PR anyway.
I'd like self terminating spam, but we know we can trust spammers. Maybe the direct mailers assn. would adopt something like that, just to attempt to hold something even glancingly respectable.
Meanwhile, in the
50-off-your-next-freedom-of-speech-suit dept. this site is threatened with the C&D letter, give 'em your support.
I miss the old Russian sub crew commercials, where they show up at an appliance store. (These were run in the 80's IIRC and are still a source of humor among my friends and I)
Sub Captain: Hello, you! We require jumbo savings!
Salesman well come right this way...
a bunch of stuff shown, the Russian crew is back on the sub
Sub Captain: Plotchnik, where Plotchnik?
cut back to the store where a russian sailor is attempting to kiss the hand of a woman
You assume they don't check out these threads on slashdot and learn from it. I would. I use the dummy email addr here to keep it down. Still want a way to senddummy email on usenet posts tho.
Slashdot Mirror
For now we'll break it up into pieces, but that's an unhappy compromise.
PDF format only seems to allow 32767 pages. 32767 should look familiar to some, to others it's the maximum positive value for 16 bit integer.
So when the DoJ was talking about it being a burden to publish items in the Federal Register, pertaining to a certain other case, there's probably a point.
For other long works which could be published on the internet, how would this be addressed?
Last but not least: A 16 bit integer? $#@!, that is so &%#* early 80's!!!! #@$&!!
From the article: Licensing is expected to start around spring 2002.
At the speed of these industries, expect to see these on shelves in time for next Christmas...
Nah, give em a chance. I'm wondering how long before they go bust because the price of these things is so damn high. I mean, what makes these things cost so much? I'd want to know I can park it somewhere without it being stolen because the parts are worth mucho. The battery? Special motor?
In Michigan nearly every hotrodded car had a Chevy 350 with a Holly 4 barrel carb, headers, glasspacks, etc. (I myself had a '65 Olds Dynamic 88, 425 with a Holly 4 barrel, dualies, just to be the geek 8) Probably due to the straight nature of the roads and ready supply of Novas, Chevelles, etc. to start from.
On the Cal. central coast, the cars of choice are Accords, Civics, Accuras, Sentras, Ecclipses, and the occasional VW. Probably due to the curvy nature of the roads and ready supply of cars to start from.
Let's roll a head about 5-6 years after the Segways have been out, prices have dropped and used ones are all over the place for a fraction of the new cost. It's the perfect vehicle for geek projects, cuz it's electric. Future slashdot features?:
Segway with Linux console
Beowulf cluster of 802.11b Segways
Fuelcell Segway
Segway wars (robot controlled, heavy plastic mayhem)
Cyberpunk gangs rove neighborhoods on Segways
Hey! Your big chance! Come up with slang terms for all these and beat the pros (like Jon Katz) so every now and then you get to hear your name in the news (the '5k00t3rz' term was coined on slashdot by ...)
The major players are behind Blu_Ray, who do you expect to support FMD? Rogue chinese and east european manufacturers? The big two, essentially, are Sony and Matsushita (Panasonic), taking them on together is suicidal. Sorry.
Not so much. As the european traders didn't have anything to trade with the chinese they brought them dope. After seeing the effect this had on erroding society (and therefore the emperor) the chinese sent a weak little army out to fight the british. The army lost and China was subsequently and essentially carved up by capitalists.
Think about the internet and why the central government wants a tight rein on it. Once it errodes the goverments grip even the PLA won't be able to stop it and then China could be carved up by greedy telcos.
I expect they'd have to. But don't count on your bright shiny new DVD player you just bought to work with 27G/side disks. Assuming this becomes a reality (hopefully faster than IBM rolls out stuff.)
Personnally I'd love one just for backups, I wonder how stable the media will be.
At least it's a standard... like death and taxes.
Ironically, some of those with unclean hands got off without so much as a slap on the wrist because of the immediate cold war and need to build up Germany in the face of the Soviet threat.
No, no it's not. What our job would be is to as open and honestly as we can, explain the value of freedom to those who don't have it and let them make their own decisions about throwing the bums out. Either that or see how fast Ashcroft emulates thier system and we all defect to China because it's a freer state.
My only axe to grind is that in the interest of furthering U.S. trade within China the U.S. governemnt, which has the power to regulate what U.S. businesses do as that trade, seem perfectly willing to do what is unthinkable here in the U.S.
Fine. At least it's american companies making the $$$ rather than british, german, french or spanish.
BTW, does any of this remind you of what lead up to the Opium War?
The leadership recognises that to compete in the world the China must interact with the rest of it, but to preserve their positions in power the leaders restrict it. Keep in mind that there are conservative elements in the Beijing goverment who are opposed to many of these advances. Once the government loses more of these people and they're replaced with leaders from the new middle and upper classes, well, things should change.
On another note... I wonder if any chinese leaders have mod points on slashdot?
Though in a sci fi book I read, there's some arguement for various types of governance in certain societies, due to population and density. A presidential election in China would be quite the thing to supervise, particularly after a state like Florida had so much trouble. Possibly a different makeup where provinces elect senators (or MP's) who elect the PM or president. As I hear and read tho, the central government is already less of an influence, as mayors and provincial leaders have gained significant political muscle, and corruption. When the people get tired of the corruption then it will change.
Democracy in Russia wasn't so much that they cast-off the old authoritarian state if favor of it, they just cast off the old authoritarian state because they were sick of it. Russians are still trying democracy on for size, and will keep what they like and ditch what they don't.
Well, eventually Yertle the Turtle will fall in Beijing and some people will remember who helped keep him there. As it is, the chinese are working hard to displace the U.S. as #1 in many fields and they'll probably suceed in a few, just out of shear determination. Maybe it's the fear of that which makes the U.S. foreign policy the conumdrum that it is with regard to China.
Any chinese slashdotters?
Being as UCSC is in HP's backyard (well, AMD's, too...) I was a bit taken aback that it's not HP.
Home PC defined as something the average house ape can work with.
After looking in on Rob's journal this morning, this comes up. Is there a coincidence how things get broken at Rob's? Kathleen are you reading this? ;)
A look back and tale of the tape:
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13 of 22, I've yet to see these threads for metamoderation, but will find this one interesting later.
As soon as she shows him who the boss is, now. ;)
He's learned to craft self shredding legislation, i.e. the M$+DoJ settlement terms.
Oh come on now! Don't beat around the bush, we know which software company you're refering to. If you're going to say it, say it. Oh, and by the way, it seems as many have noted the ballyhooed security program is mostly PR anyway.
I'd like self terminating spam, but we know we can trust spammers. Maybe the direct mailers assn. would adopt something like that, just to attempt to hold something even glancingly respectable.
Meanwhile, in the 50-off-your-next-freedom-of-speech-suit dept. this site is threatened with the C&D letter, give 'em your support.
Sub Captain: Hello, you! We require jumbo savings!
Salesman well come right this way...
a bunch of stuff shown, the Russian crew is back on the sub
Sub Captain: Plotchnik, where Plotchnik?
cut back to the store where a russian sailor is attempting to kiss the hand of a woman
Plotchnik: Fifty watts per channel, babycakes.
Woman yanks her hand away and leaves
You assume they don't check out these threads on slashdot and learn from it. I would. I use the dummy email addr here to keep it down. Still want a way to senddummy email on usenet posts tho.
2075: Time Travel invented
2002: Time Travel invented, again