Even maybe go sofar as letting them have no say in it whatsoever.
Often in such matters the defendant's counsel will negotiate or, in the event punishment seems unduly harsh or unfair, appeal, thus dragging it out further. As they're ready to make some sort of amends, it would probably be asking too much to whack them with a rubber chicken and tell them to wait outside while their punishment is decided.
With the shear weight of Microsoft dependent technology consultants, retailers, etc. it would actually be pretty hard to dodge Microsoft products getting into the distribution somewhere.
I'd say just give them the money. Untargeted. This would in theory relieve taxpayer burden, by providing money to schools that taxpayers didn't have to shell out. Tho, we know darn well then the villains would be state governments, which would yank that % of money out of school budgets, leaving them where they already were, and shifting money into their own pet projects, like Texas building it's own missile defense shield against Colorado, or tax cuts for fat cats. Best to have a provision that states which accept such deals cannot offset the gain by swiping it (as was the deal with the Michigan lottery until a few years back, way to go voters!)
Please note that I said in theory, please direct all flames to/dev/null
To answer the other half of your question, from the article:
The HP dvd100i also uses RPC-2 for region protecting. This means that the drive's region is
stored in the firmware itself. You can change the drive's region five times and after that you
cannot change it anymore.
Woe to those businesses, individuals or organizations who chose this as their archival
medium...
While the article is informative, certainly helping me understand what's what, I wouldn't rule out DVD-RAM drives as a serious backup solution for information shops. I seriously doubt many people have a 9 track 6250BPI tape drive at home, but it's still an accepted standard, tho probably few use one for backups, usually they're for data exchange. There's also 4mm DAT tapes specifically for backups, which are certified, tho we used to buy the regular ones at the discount store, if one got eaten and the service tech found it in the drive they could cancel our service countract (it was written in the terms.) So if these media survive because they have value, I'd expect DVD-RAM to survive in niches, as well.
Still a bit. Maybe if I do something notable and get some sponsorship or other funding I might look into a high end package, for now I'd like to get back to some of the artwork I did back in the early 90's.
If I'm going to move up to Maya, the first money I'll spend toward it is taking a class in using it. No point dropping that kind of loot and trying to learn how to use it by reading the manual.
Once I've bought the hardware, what's free or low cost is what I'll be running. PoV, Blender, Gimp, etc. I do plan to do some coding to fill the gap between what I can get and what I'll need. Choice of Linux is three-fold: 1) Small, fast kernel, low overhead O/S 2) Program in c (which is included in Linux distros I have) rather than have to buy language compiler for Windows 3) Since I plan to do this for fun, it fits my business model.
My first experience with PoV (and dkbtrace) was on a 25MHz 386. Complex scenes (due to objects, textures, solids and such) could take an entire weekend to render, which now take a few minutes on a 933MHz PIII (at work, but can't be doing that here) I'd run thumbnails, which took 10-15 minutes until I was pretty sure of what I was getting then launch it on Friday evening before heading home, one scene finished about an hour after I got in on Monday morning (had to busy myself shuffling paper or something;) Yeah, you could do this on a 386/486, but why would you want to, when people are throwing away Pentium 133 machines?
You might as well get a hefty gaming card, because all the professional cards cost $2k
and up, and can usually only be bought inside a machine.
My observation as well. I can shave expenses on the workstation, but the OpenGL cards are murder on the pocketbook, equalling the cost of all other hardware.
But unless you're willing to fork out the cash, a GeForce 3 Ti500
would PROBABLY give you what you need, since it's polygon handling abilities are
inline with the best of the pro market (though it only does a small part of opengl in
hardware, and has a fraction of the ram).
This was why I paid keen attention to this article from last week.
Rich in imagination, poor of pocketbook, particularly this time of year.
I'm putting together my list for a 3D workstation/renderer and occasional game playing (but not the Quake variety, think Scorch15 or whatever that really cool EGA risk-type game was years ago (if anyone know what this was and where to find it I'd be in your debt, maybe even order you a pizza delivery if you find the right one))
Leaning toward Athlon MP, 1 processor at first, then add second later. Primary OS will be some flavor of Linux. Shopping list will include:
SCSI drives, CD burner
DVD burner (when prices gets down there)
Pile o' memory
19" monitor
Gyro mouse (providing there's a linux driver for it, if not looking for another wireless mouse)
Decent video card, not necessarily the Game type, but professional graphics quality
If they tried it in California, no doubt someone would winge about the energy crisis, though maybe elsewhere it could be just the shot in the arm Enron needs.;)
There was rain and the notorious marine layer (low cloud cover which slips in off the Monterey Bay) around where I live. I took a trip to the high desert and north of Mohave, CA, I camped in the back of my pickup (due to a late start for Death Valley) It was clear and cool, and with the camper window open I could watch a good slice of the sky while lying in bed (sub-zero sleeping bag)
You have fair warning this is coming, take a trip, but bring your alarm clock so you don't sleep through it once you get to a good viewing place.
Hopefully someone can set you up with a way to do it, but what I've seen is often worse than buying a good used one at a Hamfest. You should get in touch with ARRL folks in your neck of the woods and find out when and where Hamfests take place. Granted, you may have to shell if you want a good storage scope, but some decent scopes can be found. My dad has a soft spot for Tektronix scopes.
Ha ha ha. Already read it. What you fail to see is what affect upon Linus having a wheelbarrow full of thousand dollar bills rolled out in front of him could have. Nobody can predict that, probably not even Linus himself. He's a daddy now and that can make a difference, particularly if Transmeta folds.
I wouldn't even suppose to deny him the right to be bought out, though I hope he's successful and content enough that it never comes to that.
Of course, it couldn't be Microsoft which does such a thing, with antitrust sentiment the way it is. One more such blatant move by Gates & Co. and it splitting the company would be the least of their worries. It's the next Microsoft in the wings I'm thinking about.
Somehow the phrase "Microsoft
Office for Linux" has gotten people all fired up. Do you
really want a version of Office for Linux? Really?
Sure, Open Source tho:o)
Seriously, I'd see that as a "Great Corruptor" as if many commercial interests got into proprietary formats, interfaces, etc., Linux would lose a lot of lustre. It's convenient to have Windows as a whipping boy. Having Linus tempted by billions of dollars, and corporate goons dictating the next kernal would just be awful.
I imagine they have to confirmed by the
senate, but I don't think it's every much of an issue.
Customarily, they're also a donor of large sums to campaigns who feel the urge to meddle in foreign affairs. The real voice behind that throne is the state department and Senate Foreign Affairs Committee chair (until recently, the fossil known as Jesse Helms.) Ambassadors have been castrated or empowered depending to what degree those in Washington care about what the rest of the world thinks or telling the rest of the world how to think.
We know our good allies CHina will avoid this like the plague and we will still get
movies on DVD in China Town while the movie is still at theatres....
Sure, as a condition of joining the WTO China has to respect Intellectual Property and crack down on piracy *wink* *wink*
The hard fact for the masses who have, up to now, illegally copied and sold music, movies (with the backs of other peoples heads and various noises thrown in as a bonus) and software (lacking manuals, but the first rule is to toss those behind a filing cabinet, anyway, right?) will now be obligated by treaty to pay bribes to their local officials, rather than it being optional or only when their Lexus bearing a New Jersey license plate draws attention on the streets of Shanghai.
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creditors and gotten them to exchange their debt for equity...
I guess newspapers will stop calling the company 'Linux' all the time.
Just imagine the confusion of having a ticker symbol of LNUX if you don't identify that anywhere in your company name. As LNUX is up to 2.84, this morning, I'd say they're safe from the NASDAQ axe, which accidentally chopped off Sedona the other day.
It's understandable, that you would like to have everyone speak positively about you or not at all (like the Church of $ientology, to name an extreme example.) But considering how valuable references can be in the business community it's in their best interests to ignore detractors, unless of course there's slanderous or libelous content.
IIRC even Google would prefer you to link to them in a method acceptable to them and everyone knows slashdotters love Google so much that if their offices were next door they would bring the staff hot coffee and doughnuts everyday.
Something I thought about a few years back would be broadcast digital media, i.e. like the web, only not interactive, you selected different channels for different content. Simple enough in urban areas, requiring satellite in remote areas, like north of Mohave or Death Valley.
I was keen to follow what's happening in sports and news as I putted along highway 190 (a road so remote that in November you can just pull off to the side of the road for a pee break and not worry about anyone seeing you, as you're probably with the only vehicle for 20 miles either way), nothing against the Sierra Nevada and the desert, but after a few hours a little other stimulus is welcome.
So, cycle through broadcast digital media, which would need to be fairly compact, like a ticker, but the receiver would identify the header of each item and buffer it. I think it's got potential, particularly with how limited radio and TV are, especially after seeing a minivan with built in TV for the backseat passengers.
California is pretty densely populated and has these fine things along the coast. What are you going to do between Bakersfield and Mohave? Or north to Lone Pine? Even my AM/FM station scanning at points cycled through two passes without so much as a fuzzy infomercial. Places like Nebraska, Iowa, and western Kansas... We need something more, what could fill these voids?
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Often in such matters the defendant's counsel will negotiate or, in the event punishment seems unduly harsh or unfair, appeal, thus dragging it out further. As they're ready to make some sort of amends, it would probably be asking too much to whack them with a rubber chicken and tell them to wait outside while their punishment is decided.
With the shear weight of Microsoft dependent technology consultants, retailers, etc. it would actually be pretty hard to dodge Microsoft products getting into the distribution somewhere.
Please note that I said in theory, please direct all flames to /dev/null
Checkout the DVD+RW Alliance's page for more info.
The HP dvd100i also uses RPC-2 for region protecting. This means that the drive's region is stored in the firmware itself. You can change the drive's region five times and after that you cannot change it anymore.
Bummer.
While the article is informative, certainly helping me understand what's what, I wouldn't rule out DVD-RAM drives as a serious backup solution for information shops. I seriously doubt many people have a 9 track 6250BPI tape drive at home, but it's still an accepted standard, tho probably few use one for backups, usually they're for data exchange. There's also 4mm DAT tapes specifically for backups, which are certified, tho we used to buy the regular ones at the discount store, if one got eaten and the service tech found it in the drive they could cancel our service countract (it was written in the terms.) So if these media survive because they have value, I'd expect DVD-RAM to survive in niches, as well.
If I'm going to move up to Maya, the first money I'll spend toward it is taking a class in using it. No point dropping that kind of loot and trying to learn how to use it by reading the manual.
Once I've bought the hardware, what's free or low cost is what I'll be running. PoV, Blender, Gimp, etc. I do plan to do some coding to fill the gap between what I can get and what I'll need. Choice of Linux is three-fold: 1) Small, fast kernel, low overhead O/S 2) Program in c (which is included in Linux distros I have) rather than have to buy language compiler for Windows 3) Since I plan to do this for fun, it fits my business model.
My first experience with PoV (and dkbtrace) was on a 25MHz 386. Complex scenes (due to objects, textures, solids and such) could take an entire weekend to render, which now take a few minutes on a 933MHz PIII (at work, but can't be doing that here) I'd run thumbnails, which took 10-15 minutes until I was pretty sure of what I was getting then launch it on Friday evening before heading home, one scene finished about an hour after I got in on Monday morning (had to busy myself shuffling paper or something ;) Yeah, you could do this on a 386/486, but why would you want to, when people are throwing away Pentium 133 machines?
You'd do well to check out Comp.graphics.rendering.raytracing Look in the FAQ for more info on cheep or free tools.
My observation as well. I can shave expenses on the workstation, but the OpenGL cards are murder on the pocketbook, equalling the cost of all other hardware.
But unless you're willing to fork out the cash, a GeForce 3 Ti500 would PROBABLY give you what you need, since it's polygon handling abilities are inline with the best of the pro market (though it only does a small part of opengl in hardware, and has a fraction of the ram).
This was why I paid keen attention to this article from last week.
Rich in imagination, poor of pocketbook, particularly this time of year.
I'm putting together my list for a 3D workstation/renderer and occasional game playing (but not the Quake variety, think Scorch15 or whatever that really cool EGA risk-type game was years ago (if anyone know what this was and where to find it I'd be in your debt, maybe even order you a pizza delivery if you find the right one))
Leaning toward Athlon MP, 1 processor at first, then add second later. Primary OS will be some flavor of Linux. Shopping list will include:
SCSI drives, CD burner
DVD burner (when prices gets down there)
Pile o' memory
19" monitor
Gyro mouse (providing there's a linux driver for it, if not looking for another wireless mouse)
Decent video card, not necessarily the Game type, but professional graphics quality
Powersupply, case, keyboard, etc.
Then it could flash the ultimate symbol of our culture: ©
If they tried it in California, no doubt someone would winge about the energy crisis, though maybe elsewhere it could be just the shot in the arm Enron needs. ;)
You have fair warning this is coming, take a trip, but bring your alarm clock so you don't sleep through it once you get to a good viewing place.
Hopefully someone can set you up with a way to do it, but what I've seen is often worse than buying a good used one at a Hamfest. You should get in touch with ARRL folks in your neck of the woods and find out when and where Hamfests take place. Granted, you may have to shell if you want a good storage scope, but some decent scopes can be found. My dad has a soft spot for Tektronix scopes.
I wouldn't even suppose to deny him the right to be bought out, though I hope he's successful and content enough that it never comes to that.
Of course, it couldn't be Microsoft which does such a thing, with antitrust sentiment the way it is. One more such blatant move by Gates & Co. and it splitting the company would be the least of their worries. It's the next Microsoft in the wings I'm thinking about.
Sure, Open Source tho :o)
Seriously, I'd see that as a "Great Corruptor" as if many commercial interests got into proprietary formats, interfaces, etc., Linux would lose a lot of lustre. It's convenient to have Windows as a whipping boy. Having Linus tempted by billions of dollars, and corporate goons dictating the next kernal would just be awful.
Customarily, they're also a donor of large sums to campaigns who feel the urge to meddle in foreign affairs. The real voice behind that throne is the state department and Senate Foreign Affairs Committee chair (until recently, the fossil known as Jesse Helms.) Ambassadors have been castrated or empowered depending to what degree those in Washington care about what the rest of the world thinks or telling the rest of the world how to think.
movies on DVD in China Town while the movie is still at theatres....
Sure, as a condition of joining the WTO China has to respect Intellectual Property and crack down on piracy *wink* *wink*
The hard fact for the masses who have, up to now, illegally copied and sold music, movies (with the backs of other peoples heads and various noises thrown in as a bonus) and software (lacking manuals, but the first rule is to toss those behind a filing cabinet, anyway, right?) will now be obligated by treaty to pay bribes to their local officials, rather than it being optional or only when their Lexus bearing a New Jersey license plate draws attention on the streets of Shanghai.
This is NOT a SPAM! Buy shares in the worlds largest prison network! With the adoption of the WIPO Treaty there will be enormous need for prisons to keep violators in while they await speedy trials, which could take years to come about!
Sure, you're asking yourself how could I make money in this enterprise! World governments would be required to apprehend violators by the order of their masters, the likes of Adobe, Microsoft, RIAA, MPAA and Scientology International! In what will surely be the largest roundup since the Holocaust there will need to be a place to keep them! As a private industry AND and innovator, World Prison Systems would house these vermin and collect fees from these same governments! Act now, as we plan to have a copyright of our own awarded soon on this business process!
To join in send $1,000 to:
World Prison Systems, LLC
8467 Frogfenster Road
Wampley Upon Grimulet
Ponzishire AYBRB2U
UNITED KINGDOM
Maybe this could be a model for new IPO's... ;)
Just imagine the confusion of having a ticker symbol of LNUX if you don't identify that anywhere in your company name. As LNUX is up to 2.84, this morning, I'd say they're safe from the NASDAQ axe, which accidentally chopped off Sedona the other day.
IIRC even Google would prefer you to link to them in a method acceptable to them and everyone knows slashdotters love Google so much that if their offices were next door they would bring the staff hot coffee and doughnuts everyday.
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Which new satellite radio thingy would that be?
Something I thought about a few years back would be broadcast digital media, i.e. like the web, only not interactive, you selected different channels for different content. Simple enough in urban areas, requiring satellite in remote areas, like north of Mohave or Death Valley.
I was keen to follow what's happening in sports and news as I putted along highway 190 (a road so remote that in November you can just pull off to the side of the road for a pee break and not worry about anyone seeing you, as you're probably with the only vehicle for 20 miles either way), nothing against the Sierra Nevada and the desert, but after a few hours a little other stimulus is welcome.
So, cycle through broadcast digital media, which would need to be fairly compact, like a ticker, but the receiver would identify the header of each item and buffer it. I think it's got potential, particularly with how limited radio and TV are, especially after seeing a minivan with built in TV for the backseat passengers.
California is pretty densely populated and has these fine things along the coast. What are you going to do between Bakersfield and Mohave? Or north to Lone Pine? Even my AM/FM station scanning at points cycled through two passes without so much as a fuzzy infomercial. Places like Nebraska, Iowa, and western Kansas... We need something more, what could fill these voids?