The same thing always happens in a price war. Companies get killed and prices go down for the consumer. I fail to see how this could possibly be a bad thing.
Whiskey and Bourbon are not synonyms for each other, despite the fact people misuse these two often. As I recall from someone explaining it to me after a few in some bar, Bourbon has to be distilled in one of a few countys in Kentucky and goes through an additional stage of filtering through charcoal I believe.
...to let whoever they feel like in, and should be able to keep out whoever they want for whatever reason they want. What's the problem with this? Oh, that's right, freedom is a bad thing for corporations, but is good for individuals.
Puh-leez.. what is it about privacy issues that gets all the holy rollers coming out of the wood work talking about the end of the world? Here is a hint people... It's a fairy tale!!!!!!!
MySql is a toy, nothing more. It is like running MS Access as a database. OK for a few people working in a small workgroup setting, nothing more. Oracle is the heavy iron.
I kind of have a problem with MySql saying on their web site how they support standard SQL. My handy-dandy SQL 92 reference lists COMMIT and ROLLBACK as commands, but MySql won't have any part of them.... Plus not having stored procedures bites, it forces you to code your business rules in the application, which leads to having to release new versions of software just becuase of a business rule change, rather than just updating a stored procedure in the database.
I'll take that bet. How much do you want to put on it? Make it easy on yourself. How about 1000 shares of MS stock. If you are right, they will be worthless and you won't be out anything.
Isn't one of the profit motives at work for authors, artists, etc... the chance of a really large payoff? Doesn't each writer, artist, etc.. think they could potentially be the next Tom Clancy, Beatles, etc? with the potential to sell a boatload of their book/record so that they can sit back and rake in the dough? With this system, it would seem to forclude this happening, since there doesn't seem to be any motivation to contribute after the predetermined asking price for the next portion/chapter has been hit. It seems like while to you are setting a floor price for the next portion you are also effectively setting a ceiling price as well.
I understand that both DVDs and this new SDMI format use some sort of encryption.
Well, thanks for clearing that up.
. But, as we have seen, seemingly unbreakable encryption schemes have been broken by the likes of distributed.net.
No they haven't. Distributed.net just showed how long it takes to break certain types of encryption, none of which ever claimed to be unbreakable.
I really don't know the technical details of the encryption schemes used by DVDs and SDMI, but, given Moore's law, how long will it be before we can decrypt these files in a reasonable amount of time on an ordinary computer?
Answer: a damn long time.
We're only a few months away from 1 GHz Alpha processors, remember, and only a year or two (hopefully) from a "reprogrammable" Transmeta chip that could theoretically be reprogrammed to just crack codes.
And a 1Gz Alpha, is what? 2 to 3 times faster than your current box. Now you've gone from 24 years to 8 years. Oh, and your talking out of your ass about the Transmeta "reprogrammable" chip to boot...
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The same thing always happens in a price war. Companies get killed and prices go down for the consumer. I fail to see how this could possibly be a bad thing.
Slightly off this topic but...
Whiskey and Bourbon are not synonyms for each other, despite the fact people misuse these two often. As I recall from someone explaining it to me after a few in some bar, Bourbon has to be distilled in one of a few countys in Kentucky and goes through an additional stage of filtering through charcoal I believe.
...to let whoever they feel like in, and should be able to keep out whoever they want for whatever reason they want. What's the problem with this? Oh, that's right, freedom is a bad thing for corporations, but is good for individuals.
Oh bullshit.... CPU heat and CPU load have no relationship to each other. Man, the stuff you hear on /. these days...
What am I missing here? SS numbers are bad Primary Keys if you have non-US employees...
Puh-leez.. what is it about privacy issues that gets all the holy rollers coming out of the wood work talking about the end of the world? Here is a hint people... It's a fairy tale!!!!!!!
Good, glad to see at least some of my tax dollars are being used properly.
Yes, I can confirm you don't know what you are talking about.
Mosquitos are good, they take resources from large animals, and return them to a fairly low level of the food chain.
Oh, I get it.. like Socialists.
MySql is a toy, nothing more. It is like running MS Access as a database. OK for a few people working in a small workgroup setting, nothing more. Oracle is the heavy iron.
I kind of have a problem with MySql saying on their web site how they support standard SQL. My handy-dandy SQL 92 reference lists COMMIT and ROLLBACK as commands, but MySql won't have any part of them.... Plus not having stored procedures bites, it forces you to code your business rules in the application, which leads to having to release new versions of software just becuase of a business rule change, rather than just updating a stored procedure in the database.
Try a search engine... and try doing you own homework too..
that's gnuFree software, thanks very much.
You forgot about Men at Work and Yahoo Serious.
I'll take that bet. How much do you want to put on it? Make it easy on yourself. How about 1000 shares of MS stock. If you are right, they will be worthless and you won't be out anything.
Kind of like Mozilla, in its own way...
We must have different definitions of program. I can't get the Magna Cara, Bible or Declaration of Independence to compile, much less run.
No it isn't, its not like you have to have a CD.
Didn't anyone's parents teach them that stealing was wrong?
1) Because he was a religious gun nut
Because he was an religious unlicensed gun nut.
2) So becuase New York police are violent... um, what does this have to do with privacy again?
3) Packet Storm was broght down becuase it voilated the TOS of its Host, maybe the threat of legal action helped this along, but that is irrelavant.
4) Again, NYC can fall into the ocean for all I care.
5) Probably, if the public defender had gotten 12 more juriors who had the intellegence of the common carrot.
1) Yeah, it wasnt't he potshots that took at the ATF or anything like that...
2) I don't know what you are talking about, but I'm sure its bullshit anyway.
3) Sure, a kid born in poverty has as much freedom of speech as anyone else. No one is going to listen to him, but that isn't that point.
4) Bullshit, the cops can't do their job becuase every criminal cliamns they've been beaten if the cops do so much as look at them funny.
5) Every lawyer who represents someone has passed the bar, so is by definition competent.
Thanks for the liberal propaganda though.
Yeah, I saw the X-Files movie to... let me give you a free clue... it's not real.
Isn't one of the profit motives at work for authors, artists, etc... the chance of a really large payoff? Doesn't each writer, artist, etc.. think they could potentially be the next Tom Clancy, Beatles, etc? with the potential to sell a boatload of their book/record so that they can sit back and rake in the dough? With this system, it would seem to forclude this happening, since there doesn't seem to be any motivation to contribute after the predetermined asking price for the next portion/chapter has been hit. It seems like while to you are setting a floor price for the next portion you are also effectively setting a ceiling price as well.
This got a two?????
I understand that both DVDs and this new SDMI format use some sort of encryption.
Well, thanks for clearing that up.
. But, as we have seen, seemingly unbreakable encryption schemes have been broken by the likes of distributed.net.
No they haven't. Distributed.net just showed how long it takes to break certain types of encryption, none of which ever claimed to be unbreakable.
I really don't know the technical details of the encryption schemes used by DVDs and SDMI, but, given Moore's law, how long will it be before we can decrypt these files in a reasonable amount of time on an ordinary computer?
Answer: a damn long time.
We're only a few months away from 1 GHz Alpha processors, remember, and only a year or two (hopefully) from a "reprogrammable" Transmeta chip that could theoretically be reprogrammed to just crack codes.
And a 1Gz Alpha, is what? 2 to 3 times faster than your current box. Now you've gone from 24 years to 8 years. Oh, and your talking out of your ass about the Transmeta "reprogrammable" chip to boot...
Boy I love FSF double speak... its free software, but we want you to pay a tax on it. They are worse than MS in their own way.