I think this is a great idea and all, but it sounds like a liability suit waiting to happen, even if the students do sign waivers. Only time before some kid soulders a digit to a piece of hardware.
Couldn't this hurt the XBox Live strategy. I mean, if people don't have to subscribe to any services on the PC to play Halo multiplayer, this sounds like it could hurt Microsoft. I guess it depends if the profits from the PC market will offset those lost in the Xbox market.
Granted, you can get some stuff from benchmarks, but I don't really believe them anymore. I mean, you can make a benchmark look good for you by simply using programs that run well w/ it. Don't take this as Linux bashing, because it isn't. I'm just saying that I don't trust benchmarks that much anymore.
I'd imagine that whatever Microsoft is trying to claim can't really be backed that well. I doubt that the code for the fragment shading and the vertex programming is precisely the same as whatever MS has. If they are claiming just the idea, wouldn't that be like someone trying to patent addition and subtraction? The only thing that MS has for them is popularity. A lot of people seem to believe that whatever MS says is The Truth.
They say it will be secure, but they said the same about Windows XP, Windows 2000, Outlook (after each patch they issue), and everything else, not just Microsoft. It just takes time before a security flaw is found, nothing is every truly *secure*.
According to the draft bill, such Webcasting "is not an infringement of copyright"--if temporary copies are made only to facilitate music distribution and if the copies are stored only for a time that's necessary for the broadcast.
The problem w/ the legal system is they leave too many areas for interpretation. What if I think that "necessary time" is long enough to make sure that no one gets cut off, which could be longer than the actual broadcast. Also, what if something goes wrong and your buffer copy doesn't get deleted automatically. Are you now liable for software failure? I doubt anyone would want to sit there and watch the cache to ensure that every single buffer copy is appropriately deleted.
The law needs to start using definite time frames. If they would quit using generalized times, and start using something physical, such as a day/month/year, they could have a lot more pull in lawsuits.
I think it looks pretty legit. The background has obviously been changed (because you can see different backgrounds in different pictures) but there doesn't seem to be any editing of the case of the device, other than the logoing of the websites.
If you look at the other pictures,they are on different backgrounds. My guess is that someone just didn't want a picture of it sitting on their desk or something.
I really hope that those pictures on it are just poor quality. They are very pixelicious. It looks like Palm is developing very nicely, they have came up with a very sleek design, anyway. Also, I wonder what the blurred out part beside "Oslo" used to be.
One thing about Perl that I think helps keep it in competition w/ PHP is it's ability to handle POP3 so much easier. I've wanted to write a POP3 web-gateway in PHP, but I've read that to write one in PHP, switch to Perl. Granted, PHP can handle IMAP, or at least I think it can, but nothing makes getting POP3 simple, from what I've looked at, that is.
IMHO, the same thing that is keeping the gnutella network, and similar networks, alive is the same thing that will keep them from growing as fast. Because there isn't The Server to index all the files available, the searches take too much time for a typical, impatient user. But this also protects it from being shutdown, so I guess it's the handoff you have to make/accept. If it can make searches faster, I think that it will take off and hopefully still be insusceptible (sp) to the RIAA's wrath-o-evil.
Not to be a shameless Linux promoter, but it seems that to a point, most of the people who are competent admins are running Linux servers, and not MS. Note that this does not insist that all competent users are running Linux, or that all users running Linux are competent.
I should really hope it's sarcasm. If I were the one saying it, it would be with a very sarcastic voice, anyway. Outlook itself should just be considered a virus.
If Microsoft would just do good encrypting on the address book, and update it every once and a while for new encryption, stuff like this wouldn't happen because the virii wouldn't be able to get the addresses of every person using Outlook. At the least, this would slow a virus down.
I guess that since MSNBC has declared it dead, we had all better switch to Windows now. No sense in continuing to use Linux if it will just sit there and rot.
You kinda have to wonder if all of this publicity of someone getting money because their system had been compromised before will spur an onslaught of similar lawsuits, possibly from the same people who got into the system. The trend seems to be, where the media goes, the people will follow.
...that we end up going back to old technology? I mean, this is basically an old printing press, only on the microscopic, technological, not old side. One would think that sometime such as a laser would be the first thing to accomplish this goal. But hey, who's going to argue with cheap parts?
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True true, but if they will actually be putting them in combat, like in BBs, then the risk becomes greater. Stray metal shards can be hot and sharp.
I think this is a great idea and all, but it sounds like a liability suit waiting to happen, even if the students do sign waivers. Only time before some kid soulders a digit to a piece of hardware.
Couldn't this hurt the XBox Live strategy. I mean, if people don't have to subscribe to any services on the PC to play Halo multiplayer, this sounds like it could hurt Microsoft. I guess it depends if the profits from the PC market will offset those lost in the Xbox market.
I thought Japan was just the one coming out with the high tech stuff. Hmm, I guess a lot changes in 9 days.
Granted, you can get some stuff from benchmarks, but I don't really believe them anymore. I mean, you can make a benchmark look good for you by simply using programs that run well w/ it. Don't take this as Linux bashing, because it isn't. I'm just saying that I don't trust benchmarks that much anymore.
I'd imagine that whatever Microsoft is trying to claim can't really be backed that well. I doubt that the code for the fragment shading and the vertex programming is precisely the same as whatever MS has. If they are claiming just the idea, wouldn't that be like someone trying to patent addition and subtraction? The only thing that MS has for them is popularity. A lot of people seem to believe that whatever MS says is The Truth.
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They say it will be secure, but they said the same about Windows XP, Windows 2000, Outlook (after each patch they issue), and everything else, not just Microsoft. It just takes time before a security flaw is found, nothing is every truly *secure*.
According to the draft bill, such Webcasting "is not an infringement of copyright"--if temporary copies are made only to facilitate music distribution and if the copies are stored only for a time that's necessary for the broadcast.
The problem w/ the legal system is they leave too many areas for interpretation. What if I think that "necessary time" is long enough to make sure that no one gets cut off, which could be longer than the actual broadcast. Also, what if something goes wrong and your buffer copy doesn't get deleted automatically. Are you now liable for software failure? I doubt anyone would want to sit there and watch the cache to ensure that every single buffer copy is appropriately deleted.
The law needs to start using definite time frames. If they would quit using generalized times, and start using something physical, such as a day/month/year, they could have a lot more pull in lawsuits.
I think it looks pretty legit. The background has obviously been changed (because you can see different backgrounds in different pictures) but there doesn't seem to be any editing of the case of the device, other than the logoing of the websites.
If you look at the other pictures,they are on different backgrounds. My guess is that someone just didn't want a picture of it sitting on their desk or something.
I really hope that those pictures on it are just poor quality. They are very pixelicious. It looks like Palm is developing very nicely, they have came up with a very sleek design, anyway. Also, I wonder what the blurred out part beside "Oslo" used to be.
Now all we need are robots that can sing and sound like our favorite artists and screw the RIAA.
One thing about Perl that I think helps keep it in competition w/ PHP is it's ability to handle POP3 so much easier. I've wanted to write a POP3 web-gateway in PHP, but I've read that to write one in PHP, switch to Perl. Granted, PHP can handle IMAP, or at least I think it can, but nothing makes getting POP3 simple, from what I've looked at, that is.
"Most development done on i860 simulator running on OS/2 1.2 (took about 30 minutes)"
to write the code? makes sense...
I can see Bill Gates squirming with uneasiness alreayd that anything relevant to his *precious software* be spread without him getting compensation.
IMHO, the same thing that is keeping the gnutella network, and similar networks, alive is the same thing that will keep them from growing as fast. Because there isn't The Server to index all the files available, the searches take too much time for a typical, impatient user. But this also protects it from being shutdown, so I guess it's the handoff you have to make/accept. If it can make searches faster, I think that it will take off and hopefully still be insusceptible (sp) to the RIAA's wrath-o-evil.
Not to be a shameless Linux promoter, but it seems that to a point, most of the people who are competent admins are running Linux servers, and not MS. Note that this does not insist that all competent users are running Linux, or that all users running Linux are competent.
I should really hope it's sarcasm. If I were the one saying it, it would be with a very sarcastic voice, anyway. Outlook itself should just be considered a virus.
If Microsoft would just do good encrypting on the address book, and update it every once and a while for new encryption, stuff like this wouldn't happen because the virii wouldn't be able to get the addresses of every person using Outlook. At the least, this would slow a virus down.
Trial customers in the 80-square-kilometre area will receive movies, music videos and entertainment shows on-demand to their living room.
They didn't mention what everyone will really be using it for: high-speed p0rn.
I guess that since MSNBC has declared it dead, we had all better switch to Windows now. No sense in continuing to use Linux if it will just sit there and rot.
You kinda have to wonder if all of this publicity of someone getting money because their system had been compromised before will spur an onslaught of similar lawsuits, possibly from the same people who got into the system. The trend seems to be, where the media goes, the people will follow.
...that we end up going back to old technology? I mean, this is basically an old printing press, only on the microscopic, technological, not old side. One would think that sometime such as a laser would be the first thing to accomplish this goal. But hey, who's going to argue with cheap parts?
Then why not give credit where credit is due. Or at least take it out of first person.