Well as far as MP3 playback goes, they'll probably include a memory stick slot, which would also be used for saving game progress. Of course that means you assimilate to the memory stick, but that's not their problem is it?
For 7.1 sound...well, if you hook it up to your receiver to play MP3's, then you'd want that support I guess. Also, I'm sure that the "current" generation of audio DSP's is up to (or getting close to) 7.1 for commodity ASICs, so why not? Plus it's a marketing Good Thing that you can put a bullet next to on the pamphlet;)
About that target though...HP has been respected in the business information services industry for quite some time (although merging with Compaq perhaps tarnished that, but hey that's another story;) So really, companies who are not so familiar with SCO other than their recent run of litigations will see the lawsuit as more frivolous, and start to ignore it more and more.
Really, the greatest side effect of major players lining up against SCO is that it will help undo the bad rep SCO gave Linux with the PHB's who don't know anything about tech other than what they see in the Wall Street Journal.
At least I could still look at my ascii pr0n with your system!
This is offtopic, but when I was in college I remember all the guys that would actually print out porn to the shared printers in the computer labs...but they were too dumb to turn off their banner pages. It was funny to stand by the printer and name people off...
I'm not at all supporting the idea of collecting this data, especially not for insurance purposes.
But I did want to bring up one point...
The funny thing is about recording speeds is that you don't know how fast the person was supposed to be going;) As long as you never went say ~80MPH or higher, you technically could have been fine. Like say going 50MPH in a 25MPH neighborhood, they would never know that you weren't on a country road. Hell, even with 80MPH+ you could say you were in Montana...
The only way that just collecting speeds is a big deal is if they have *PERFECT* GPS data that can tell that you are on the freeway and not the service drive 15 feet away from it going the same direction with a speed limit 40 MPH less. They're a long way away from that so there's time to nip this in the bud before the technology for that arrives.
You're absolutely right, you'll never be able to afford real automation to do what you did. I was more referring to the people who think this is a good idea to open/lock doors, control AC/heat without manual intervention, etc., installing water valves and other things that are done in a professional home automation setting.
It's just something that deserves care, but for controlling lights/video/MP3's this is a perfect solution.
Depending on how tightly you integrate home automation, and how *removeable* you make it, the resale value of your home will drop. Nobody wants to buy a house that isn't under their control and requires intricate knowledge to work and troubleshoot.
As a second tip...I work professionally in industrial automation, and have designed and worked on control systems for years. This control hardware is unreliable at best...remember, it is your house after all, and you DO get what you pay for when it comes to this kind of hardware! Using this to automate a few lights and such won't hurt you one bit, but as the scope increases, so will the problems. Obviously you don't want to spend an arm and a leg on it, but maybe that should say something about whether you really want to take the plunge or not;)
You'd want to do this with *real* automation hardware if you were going to do your whole house, with backup redundancy and a switch that "turns everything back to manual mode". It's not a problem really, you'd just have to wire all your switches back to a main panel and control every light/outlet with a relay. You'd be doing that anyway with a whole-house automation system, so building in a backup would be part of the game.
Anyway I'm just saying, before you spend many hours putting in X-10, that crappy PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) he uses, or something like AutomationDirect offers, consider the consequences!
Links to real (and also expensive) automation hardware:
Allen Bradley (used by most major amusement parks and many large companies)
I would dislike it if it were inaccurate as to the relative speed compared to a P4. But, given that they were quite conservative in general, I don't think it's a problem at all.
Consider that the general public is still fairly computer illiterate (how many times have you been asked, "How much mega-hurts (sic) does that computer have?" by someone?) they need a figure that shows the speed to Joe Homie. MHz and PR don't matter to anyone as long as they can get an idea of how decent something is for the price they are paying.
Congrats on finding Notepad, could you please help me out on that last level of Minesweeper now? I can't seem to do it in under 53 seconds, isn't there a reg key or something that I can set to put my name in?
When was the last time you heard of a crowd in the USA _stampeding_? Oh right it doesn't happen.
There is always violence associated with sports especially when alcohol is present. I'll definitely give you that. The observation is just that hooliganism in "football" is quite a bit worse than in other sports, and that is especially so in the United States.
People in the United States don't hate all you people from elsewhere, at least not in general. However, people in the US do (in general) dislike "football", why that is I can't guess, although I played it for quite some time when I was younger I can't seem to stomach it now.
Oh well, no sense in beating on you people who do enjoy it. Just like there is no sense in beating on someone who criticizes the game. Just leave it at that, a game, and move on;)
Actually, ground battles are unpopular but necessary. What you fail to remember is that we've pretty much taken on small, disorganized, underfunded governments and their armies. That's fairly easy to do with quick strikes and cruise missiles, but if you ever need to take out a major target you just plain have to land ground troops.
Besides, there is no way to occupy territory from the air. What, do you want to sit out on a boat 30 miles off shore and broadcast, "HEY, YOU ALL BEHAVE IN THERE!!!" without anything on the ground to back it up? Sorry, but ground force becomes inevitable, regardless of how the American public seems to forget that not only do people die in war, but it's a lot scarier in real life than on CNN.
Out of curiosity, compared to the number of morons driving SUV's at 90+ MPH down the highway doing a quadruple-lane-change without a turn signal while talking on the cell phone and trying to eat Wendy's, how many semi-truck drivers have you seen doing crazy stuff? Not many.
In general I think that truck drivers are some of the more safe and conscientious drivers on the road. You know that metal bar on the back of the trailer? Yeah that's what is supposed to protect you from being decapitated, all trucks have them. There has been quite an effort to increase the awareness of trucks on the road, including the lights you mentioned.
I drive I-94 between Detroit and Chicago on a regular basis, and that is one of the most busy truck routes in the country. I've never had any trouble with trucks, I'd rather be around trucks than oblivious soccer moms or crazy ass teenagers any day.
Why do you think he left Purdue, there were too many problems created by the install of M$ products. I think it was the same ass that tried to switch Purdue's CS department completely over to Java too since it is "the way of the future". Pure and utter BS.
I think it's like the check-boxes hidden between 3 flash ads of some photographically enhanced woman in an X-10 Cam advertisement that says, "YES I WOULD LIKE TO RECIEVE YOUR STUPID NEWSLETTERS AND PLEASE SELL MY ADDRESS TO 3RD PARTIES IN ASIA".
If you don't specifically Opt-OUT, they opt you in by default;) The problem is that you don't know what you have to opt-out on until you start getting the spam, and by then it's too late.
I mentioned that in my reply, but thanks for reminding me.
I was replying to the poster's assertion that there is never a need for more than one operating system, not the fact that anyone who would actually need that would actually buy from a PC manufacturer.
I have a clue, and I'm terribly sorry but here's what my Windows 2000 command line spits out:
E:>ver
Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
E:>kill -? 'KILL' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
E:>
How about that? And I haven't had the luck you have with "99% of the time" either, it's more like 75% depending on what you're doing and what crashes. Hell, Active Desktop has crashed on me more than once thanks to Outlook, and it hard-locks.
Some people might need more than just games and basic office suite components, just so that you're informed of anomalies such as this. Take for example the people who develop software...they may want to develop on a stable OS that will let them run their test code in a protected environment, so they run a *nix variant...but then they want to turn around later that evening and bust out some CounterStrike with their friends. Some people need dual boot. If you've ever tried to stop a program in windows that you're developing that managed to find a nice infinite loop or something you fat-fingered, and it gives you the message "This application has refused the shutdown command." you'd know what I mean. Kill -9, where are you?
I'm not saying that the people who need dual boot would buy from one of the pee-cee manufacturers either, but hey, there are uninformed people out there who don't understand why someone would need more than one "tool" in their box, so I can't assume anything.
Yes, he was probably merely suggesting that enforcing something as vague as "software that is insecure" would be nearly impossible to do in any legal system.
However, that does not mean that companies should not be held accountable for their negligence.
In this case, with Microsoft being as ubiquitous as it is in the desktop world, holes and flaws that allow full access to the end-users' computers are beyond just the "whoops, sorry" point. They are under obligation to test their code fully until it is bullet-proof before releasing it to the public, but instead they are on some kind of aggressive release schedule where they come out with a new OS every year or so...I mean, did Windows 2000 ever really penetrate the market before they released XP? No. And IMHO, Windows 2000 is the best product MS has ever released.
All we ask is for them to test the most obvious cases (which they don't seem to do)...you're never going to pre-emptively close EVERY hole, but you can sure try, instead of having a supposedly mature product (Internet Explorer) being subject to as many simple holes as it is.
Just my opinion.
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what about those "idiots" that aren't computer literate and that dont know what a firewall even is?
...which is actually becoming more and more common since DSL/cable have skyrocketed in the last couple of years. I know at least half the people I know at work have high-speed connections, and they are all confused when they can't access their networked drives on their laptops when they aren't plugged into the network ("how come it says my E: drive isn't available? I just put stuff there a minute ago!")
Who cares about an antiquated benchmark like Q3? That game practically went out of style a couple of years ago, and its engine (while respectable) is outdated.
All this shows is that you need to take *all* benchmarks into account, the synthetics (SPEC, 3dMark, etc) as well as other real-world benchmarks when you are trying to determine which card is the fastest. Of course, there are other things you should consider, like stability, driver support, and image quality, as well as cost and expected life. As much as I hate supporting a monopolistic system (which NVIDIA is enjoying right now IMHO) ATI is known for terrible drivers, they always have been.
As for the rigging of benchmarks, I think that is unethical. The reason for this is that the motivation behind rigging the driver to perform better in one and only one benchmark is *not* to benefit the end user by eeking them 10% more performance, but to *appear* better to joe average.
From the BBC Article (I assume you meant that when you wrote "BBS"...)
"The decision by the Bush administration reverses the Clinton White House legal strategy against Microsoft. "
Considering Bush is the leader (at least by definition if not in reality) of the "Bush Administration", one could assume that he is directly responsible.
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Well as far as MP3 playback goes, they'll probably include a memory stick slot, which would also be used for saving game progress. Of course that means you assimilate to the memory stick, but that's not their problem is it?
;)
For 7.1 sound...well, if you hook it up to your receiver to play MP3's, then you'd want that support I guess. Also, I'm sure that the "current" generation of audio DSP's is up to (or getting close to) 7.1 for commodity ASICs, so why not? Plus it's a marketing Good Thing that you can put a bullet next to on the pamphlet
Folding@Home lets you scale your CPU usage with a slider bar...
I don't know about SETI though, I never considered it to be worth anything enough to try it.
About that target though...HP has been respected in the business information services industry for quite some time (although merging with Compaq perhaps tarnished that, but hey that's another story ;) So really, companies who are not so familiar with SCO other than their recent run of litigations will see the lawsuit as more frivolous, and start to ignore it more and more.
Really, the greatest side effect of major players lining up against SCO is that it will help undo the bad rep SCO gave Linux with the PHB's who don't know anything about tech other than what they see in the Wall Street Journal.
At least I could still look at my ascii pr0n with your system!
This is offtopic, but when I was in college I remember all the guys that would actually print out porn to the shared printers in the computer labs...but they were too dumb to turn off their banner pages. It was funny to stand by the printer and name people off...
I'm not at all supporting the idea of collecting this data, especially not for insurance purposes.
;) As long as you never went say ~80MPH or higher, you technically could have been fine. Like say going 50MPH in a 25MPH neighborhood, they would never know that you weren't on a country road. Hell, even with 80MPH+ you could say you were in Montana...
But I did want to bring up one point...
The funny thing is about recording speeds is that you don't know how fast the person was supposed to be going
The only way that just collecting speeds is a big deal is if they have *PERFECT* GPS data that can tell that you are on the freeway and not the service drive 15 feet away from it going the same direction with a speed limit 40 MPH less. They're a long way away from that so there's time to nip this in the bud before the technology for that arrives.
Just food for thought...
You're absolutely right, you'll never be able to afford real automation to do what you did. I was more referring to the people who think this is a good idea to open/lock doors, control AC/heat without manual intervention, etc., installing water valves and other things that are done in a professional home automation setting.
It's just something that deserves care, but for controlling lights/video/MP3's this is a perfect solution.
Something to remember...
Depending on how tightly you integrate home automation, and how *removeable* you make it, the resale value of your home will drop. Nobody wants to buy a house that isn't under their control and requires intricate knowledge to work and troubleshoot.
As a second tip...I work professionally in industrial automation, and have designed and worked on control systems for years. This control hardware is unreliable at best...remember, it is your house after all, and you DO get what you pay for when it comes to this kind of hardware! Using this to automate a few lights and such won't hurt you one bit, but as the scope increases, so will the problems. Obviously you don't want to spend an arm and a leg on it, but maybe that should say something about whether you really want to take the plunge or not ;)
You'd want to do this with *real* automation hardware if you were going to do your whole house, with backup redundancy and a switch that "turns everything back to manual mode". It's not a problem really, you'd just have to wire all your switches back to a main panel and control every light/outlet with a relay. You'd be doing that anyway with a whole-house automation system, so building in a backup would be part of the game.
Anyway I'm just saying, before you spend many hours putting in X-10, that crappy PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) he uses, or something like AutomationDirect offers, consider the consequences!
Links to real (and also expensive) automation hardware:
Allen Bradley (used by most major amusement parks and many large companies)
Siemens (the standard in most of Europe)
I would dislike it if it were inaccurate as to the relative speed compared to a P4. But, given that they were quite conservative in general, I don't think it's a problem at all.
Consider that the general public is still fairly computer illiterate (how many times have you been asked, "How much mega-hurts (sic) does that computer have?" by someone?) they need a figure that shows the speed to Joe Homie. MHz and PR don't matter to anyone as long as they can get an idea of how decent something is for the price they are paying.
Congrats on finding Notepad, could you please help me out on that last level of Minesweeper now? I can't seem to do it in under 53 seconds, isn't there a reg key or something that I can set to put my name in?
MCSE == Minesweeper Certified Solitaire Expert
right?
When was the last time you heard of a crowd in the USA _stampeding_? Oh right it doesn't happen.
;)
There is always violence associated with sports especially when alcohol is present. I'll definitely give you that. The observation is just that hooliganism in "football" is quite a bit worse than in other sports, and that is especially so in the United States.
People in the United States don't hate all you people from elsewhere, at least not in general. However, people in the US do (in general) dislike "football", why that is I can't guess, although I played it for quite some time when I was younger I can't seem to stomach it now.
Oh well, no sense in beating on you people who do enjoy it. Just like there is no sense in beating on someone who criticizes the game. Just leave it at that, a game, and move on
Considering that Slashcode munged the shtml part and not the poster...
Try to go read the article, the words are exactly as Carmack said without reference, that seems to me worth modding down.
Actually, ground battles are unpopular but necessary. What you fail to remember is that we've pretty much taken on small, disorganized, underfunded governments and their armies. That's fairly easy to do with quick strikes and cruise missiles, but if you ever need to take out a major target you just plain have to land ground troops.
Besides, there is no way to occupy territory from the air. What, do you want to sit out on a boat 30 miles off shore and broadcast, "HEY, YOU ALL BEHAVE IN THERE!!!" without anything on the ground to back it up? Sorry, but ground force becomes inevitable, regardless of how the American public seems to forget that not only do people die in war, but it's a lot scarier in real life than on CNN.
You know, you can also "pump" fluid using electromagnetic fields...
Out of curiosity, compared to the number of morons driving SUV's at 90+ MPH down the highway doing a quadruple-lane-change without a turn signal while talking on the cell phone and trying to eat Wendy's, how many semi-truck drivers have you seen doing crazy stuff? Not many.
In general I think that truck drivers are some of the more safe and conscientious drivers on the road. You know that metal bar on the back of the trailer? Yeah that's what is supposed to protect you from being decapitated, all trucks have them. There has been quite an effort to increase the awareness of trucks on the road, including the lights you mentioned.
I drive I-94 between Detroit and Chicago on a regular basis, and that is one of the most busy truck routes in the country. I've never had any trouble with trucks, I'd rather be around trucks than oblivious soccer moms or crazy ass teenagers any day.
I think I'll pass on navy.yourcountry.prn, that brings up too many nasty things altogether.
Why do you think he left Purdue, there were too many problems created by the install of M$ products. I think it was the same ass that tried to switch Purdue's CS department completely over to Java too since it is "the way of the future". Pure and utter BS.
I think it's like the check-boxes hidden between 3 flash ads of some photographically enhanced woman in an X-10 Cam advertisement that says, "YES I WOULD LIKE TO RECIEVE YOUR STUPID NEWSLETTERS AND PLEASE SELL MY ADDRESS TO 3RD PARTIES IN ASIA".
;) The problem is that you don't know what you have to opt-out on until you start getting the spam, and by then it's too late.
If you don't specifically Opt-OUT, they opt you in by default
I mentioned that in my reply, but thanks for reminding me.
I was replying to the poster's assertion that there is never a need for more than one operating system, not the fact that anyone who would actually need that would actually buy from a PC manufacturer.
I have a clue, and I'm terribly sorry but here's what my Windows 2000 command line spits out:
E:>ver
Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
E:>kill -?
'KILL' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
E:>
How about that? And I haven't had the luck you have with "99% of the time" either, it's more like 75% depending on what you're doing and what crashes. Hell, Active Desktop has crashed on me more than once thanks to Outlook, and it hard-locks.
So sorry, YOU get your facts straight.
Exactly why you may need more than one tool...
Some people might need more than just games and basic office suite components, just so that you're informed of anomalies such as this. Take for example the people who develop software...they may want to develop on a stable OS that will let them run their test code in a protected environment, so they run a *nix variant...but then they want to turn around later that evening and bust out some CounterStrike with their friends. Some people need dual boot. If you've ever tried to stop a program in windows that you're developing that managed to find a nice infinite loop or something you fat-fingered, and it gives you the message "This application has refused the shutdown command." you'd know what I mean. Kill -9, where are you?
I'm not saying that the people who need dual boot would buy from one of the pee-cee manufacturers either, but hey, there are uninformed people out there who don't understand why someone would need more than one "tool" in their box, so I can't assume anything.
Yes, he was probably merely suggesting that enforcing something as vague as "software that is insecure" would be nearly impossible to do in any legal system.
However, that does not mean that companies should not be held accountable for their negligence.
In this case, with Microsoft being as ubiquitous as it is in the desktop world, holes and flaws that allow full access to the end-users' computers are beyond just the "whoops, sorry" point. They are under obligation to test their code fully until it is bullet-proof before releasing it to the public, but instead they are on some kind of aggressive release schedule where they come out with a new OS every year or so...I mean, did Windows 2000 ever really penetrate the market before they released XP? No. And IMHO, Windows 2000 is the best product MS has ever released.
All we ask is for them to test the most obvious cases (which they don't seem to do)...you're never going to pre-emptively close EVERY hole, but you can sure try, instead of having a supposedly mature product (Internet Explorer) being subject to as many simple holes as it is.
Just my opinion.
what about those "idiots" that aren't computer literate and that dont know what a firewall even is?
Who cares about an antiquated benchmark like Q3? That game practically went out of style a couple of years ago, and its engine (while respectable) is outdated.
All this shows is that you need to take *all* benchmarks into account, the synthetics (SPEC, 3dMark, etc) as well as other real-world benchmarks when you are trying to determine which card is the fastest. Of course, there are other things you should consider, like stability, driver support, and image quality, as well as cost and expected life. As much as I hate supporting a monopolistic system (which NVIDIA is enjoying right now IMHO) ATI is known for terrible drivers, they always have been.
As for the rigging of benchmarks, I think that is unethical. The reason for this is that the motivation behind rigging the driver to perform better in one and only one benchmark is *not* to benefit the end user by eeking them 10% more performance, but to *appear* better to joe average.
Oops, I recind my previous statement. Please ignore me in the future.
From the BBC Article (I assume you meant that when you wrote "BBS"...)
"The decision by the Bush administration reverses the Clinton White House legal strategy against Microsoft. "
Considering Bush is the leader (at least by definition if not in reality) of the "Bush Administration", one could assume that he is directly responsible.