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Video: 3gp (used by most cell phones), MPEG4 (.mp4,.m4v), wmv, avi and MPEG2 (.mpg,.mpv,.mpeg) Audio: mp3, aac/m4a, wma, wav Pictures: jpg, gif, png, bmp I'm hoping they add PDF support someday. I have a few PDFs using a DRM system called "KeyringPDF" that makes it pretty much impossible to backup (although they have a scary, use-once backup "bookmark" system that you can use to reclaim your media), and you can't even do the screenshot trick -- your screen captures nothing but "Protected by KeyringPDF". I finally backed it up to JPGs via a second copy of WinXP and "Virtual PC 2007", though.
I mean, if it says "MoxFulder has responded to 100% of people who contacted him who meet his criteria", presumably MoxFulder is either (a) a slut, or (b) really desperate. Or... (c) polite enough to turn down people with an email rather than ignoring them.
I know assuming promiscuity is fun and all, but one must make room for the possibility of good manners, however rare they may be.:)
Torrents do that anyway. That is the reason why comcast have to beat them on the head. Each segment in the download is small enough to fit its "booster" criteria.
Actually, there is nothing wrong with this approach. This means that interactive services and casual browsing are favoured vs bulk downloads. That is what every ISP wants to do anyway. Yeah, this is exactly what you want as an ISP. Your real customers aren't the college assclowns on Napster / Animesuki / etc, they're the Grandmas wanting to load Genealogy.com fast, and the professors wanting their students to be able to load Wikipedia fast enough to do research. (As some overgeneralized examples.)
Broadband, like dialup, is subsidized by the low use casual customers. Come to think of it, so's World of Warcraft, which I wish more of those "ubers" would realize before it's too late.
How are we so sure that advances in computers will continue at such a rapid pace. Computer miniaturization is hitting against fundamental quantum-mechanical limits and it's crazy to expect 2008-2028 to have progress quit as rapid as 1988-2008.
Short of major breakthroughs on the software end, I don't expect AI to be able to pass a generalized Turing Test anytime soon, and I'm pretty certain the hardware end isn't going to advance enough to brute-force our way through. Stuff already passes Turing Tests.
Whether you like Rush or hate him (I find him amusing), I'm actually quite interested that he not only uses Macs, but has a network of them. He's only amusing until you realize that
a. He's serious 2. There are people who actually believe him.
Ah, but given a sun of half the size, and the fact that the system's two largest planets are orbiting at about half the distance of *our* system's two largest planets, it stands to reason that if that system has smaller planets, there's likely one that's orbiting at about half the distance Earth is from Sol -- and being closer to its sun would make up for the cooler nature of the sun itself, making it more likely for said currently-theoretical planet to be within that sun's liquid-water zone. That's an interesting theory, but I wonder how much energy output and the like would be affected. I'd really love to find out if terrestrial style plants would be able to survive on one of these worlds, say on a hypothetical terran-like one that you suggested. I mean, assuming that there's water, the temperature is ok, the air isn't methane, etc etc, would there be enough sunlight?
The summary shows anti-trust regulation for what it is : people with guns raiding private property. Did we see Intel raiding AMD offices with guns ? No. Did we see Intel raiding their customers with guns ? Hell, no! Why would Intel need guns when they have the patented Intel Lawyer Ninjas?
* The so called "Underwater stage"? Supposedly this was cut in lieu of your creature moving from cell to the beach... * Flying critters, or otherwise critters with wings? * The length of each stage? In the latest interview he talks about difficulty levels and how that will affect it, so... How long will it take each stage on the average difficulty?
...what everyone thought, I suppose. I'm wondering: did any of the legislators consult a single tech guy? I don't agree with filtering, but this is just embarrassing.
I'm certain they did. And they kept consulting with single tech guys, until they found one that would tell them what they wanted to hear.
And seriously, if you were a tech guy, what would you do, actually put forth a herculean effort to attempt to violate the very policies that make up the internet so some twit politicians can block a PERFECTLY LEGAL WEBSITE, a block which would be bypassed almost instantly, or set up a token effort that gets you a nice paycheck and lets everyone save face? They both pay the same, both are just as effective, why not go the easy route?
Needs work before it's ready for primetime, really. It's a good idea, though. Or Gnutella? Or PERFECT DARK? Or Share? Or that one by Nullsoft before AOL had a conniption?
So... Comcast is saying that 5% of its customers aren't customers at all? It sure feels that way doesn't it? I just can't grasp why it's so hard to publish their transfer limits. If they publish them, they are held to them. They want the ability to limit REAL problem customers (the jackasses who won't take a hint and just open Emule and Bittorrent and Gnutella and whatever -- not that you can really throttle them without outright blocking them) to port 80 traffic at 1k a second until they give up and quit. They want the flexibility to screw their customers over if "needed".
If the info was confidential it probably had a confidentiality notice at the bottom of it, stating that if you are not the intended recipient that you aren't allowed to do anything with the email. I saw one of those sig's today and started to wonder if that was legally binding in any way. Maybe we will find out now! Of course it's not. The people who put those on them are hoping that the people who might see it are too stupid to realize that just because a lawyer says something, doesn't make it legally binding. That, and it gives them leverage if they decide to sue you later -- "But your honor, we WARNED HIM"...
So they start up something like this, knowing the public doesn't want and can't really afford it, waste $1,000,000,000 USD, then when Obama/Hillary take over in 2009, they shut it down (well, Obama will anyway... Not 100% about Hillary), only to get accused of "wasting" $1B USD.
If someone cannot take the time to devote a minimum amount of effort to fill out a ballot properly, perhaps they should not vote at all.
A frivolous lawsuit.
Disenfranchising the minuscule number of people who cannot fill out a paper ballot pails in comparison with the threat posed by computerized voting systems. The ACLU has their priorities all wrong.
That's not the point. The point is pulling all these in a central database makes it absolutely trivial to rig an election. There's a reason people are asking for a paper TRAIL not just paper ballots.
>> There can be NO END to the verys to describe how much of a very, very, VERY bad idea making a CounterStrike map of your school/mall/town/etc would be.
The crazy old men from florida have won:(
Perhaps, but remember, the children they're currently insulting the intelligence of on a near daily basis will be tomorrow's crazy old men from Florida. Going the long view, society trends towards liberation -- of ideas, of people, of religions, of morals.
I wanted to say "society trends towards liberalism" but I donno if that fits correctly. Certainly a modern day conservative would be considered quite liberal 200 years ago?
Why not say that this behavior is the inadvertent result of placing 2 products, an SMTP gateway, and an antivirus client, side by side on the same server? the gateway stores the mail in a temporary store, whereupon the antivirus just happens to sanitize it, before the mail is again sent on it's way. This is obviousness in the extreme.
That's a good idea, you should patent it.
"Virus scanning of cache and temporary files before end user utilization."
Wow, can you imagine how cool this would be with respect to video games? Drop in some photos, crank up the customized first person shooter, and zoooom! You could even take photos or shots from movies and do the same thing (e.g., using Star Wars stills).
There can be NO END to the verys to describe how much of a very, very, VERY bad idea making a CounterStrike map of your school/mall/town/etc would be.
But if you delete the file, then for example cat/dev/urandom >/mnt/sdd/largefile on the drive, it will keep 'catting' until the drive is full. Lather, rinse, repeat...
So all I have to do is every time I want to delete a file, wait for a 15-319 gig file to write to the drive?
Woo, Thank god I get extra performance out of Solid State Drives.
In all seriousness, working in tech support, I am much less concerned about data security per say and somewhat more about "whoops, my SSD drive died, wonder if I can recover anything?"
I'd figure the same as with regular harddisks apply. One pass and gone the data is.
Except that unlike normal HDDs, SSDs intentionally fragment the data across the drive to avoid writing to a specific section of the drive repeatedly (an attempt to avoid over-writing to the flash). Assuming you don't fill up the ENTIRE DRIVE, your data might very well still be there.
I'd love to ask Ontrack or Drivesavers about it, to be honest.
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Pictures: jpg, gif, png, bmp I'm hoping they add PDF support someday. I have a few PDFs using a DRM system called "KeyringPDF" that makes it pretty much impossible to backup (although they have a scary, use-once backup "bookmark" system that you can use to reclaim your media), and you can't even do the screenshot trick -- your screen captures nothing but "Protected by KeyringPDF". I finally backed it up to JPGs via a second copy of WinXP and "Virtual PC 2007", though.
I know assuming promiscuity is fun and all, but one must make room for the possibility of good manners, however rare they may be.
Actually, there is nothing wrong with this approach. This means that interactive services and casual browsing are favoured vs bulk downloads. That is what every ISP wants to do anyway. Yeah, this is exactly what you want as an ISP. Your real customers aren't the college assclowns on Napster / Animesuki / etc, they're the Grandmas wanting to load Genealogy.com fast, and the professors wanting their students to be able to load Wikipedia fast enough to do research. (As some overgeneralized examples.)
Broadband, like dialup, is subsidized by the low use casual customers. Come to think of it, so's World of Warcraft, which I wish more of those "ubers" would realize before it's too late.
Short of major breakthroughs on the software end, I don't expect AI to be able to pass a generalized Turing Test anytime soon, and I'm pretty certain the hardware end isn't going to advance enough to brute-force our way through. Stuff already passes Turing Tests.
Sort of, anyway.
Chris Date is far more of an authority on databases than Jim Gray is. To call Jim gray the leading authority is very misleading.
I would argue that it's also very subjective.a. He's serious
2. There are people who actually believe him.
Did we see Intel raiding AMD offices with guns ? No.
Did we see Intel raiding their customers with guns ? Hell, no! Why would Intel need guns when they have the patented Intel Lawyer Ninjas?
So, any news on the following?
* The so called "Underwater stage"? Supposedly this was cut in lieu of your creature moving from cell to the beach...
* Flying critters, or otherwise critters with wings?
* The length of each stage? In the latest interview he talks about difficulty levels and how that will affect it, so... How long will it take each stage on the average difficulty?
...what everyone thought, I suppose. I'm wondering: did any of the legislators consult a single tech guy? I don't agree with filtering, but this is just embarrassing.
I'm certain they did. And they kept consulting with single tech guys, until they found one that would tell them what they wanted to hear.And seriously, if you were a tech guy, what would you do, actually put forth a herculean effort to attempt to violate the very policies that make up the internet so some twit politicians can block a PERFECTLY LEGAL WEBSITE, a block which would be bypassed almost instantly, or set up a token effort that gets you a nice paycheck and lets everyone save face? They both pay the same, both are just as effective, why not go the easy route?
-- John Gilmore "But what if censorship is in the router?"
-- Seth Finkelstein
Needs work before it's ready for primetime, really. It's a good idea, though. Or Gnutella? Or PERFECT DARK? Or Share? Or that one by Nullsoft before AOL had a conniption?
So they start up something like this, knowing the public doesn't want and can't really afford it, waste $1,000,000,000 USD, then when Obama/Hillary take over in 2009, they shut it down (well, Obama will anyway... Not 100% about Hillary), only to get accused of "wasting" $1B USD.
I don't want to be obsolete.
now I know how Windows feels.
And now, having made the comparison, you know how WOMEN feel.
The solution is clearly to blame microsoft for it.
If they didn't make it so easy for complete and utter fools to use PCs, maybe so many fools wouldn't do so much damage with them?
If someone cannot take the time to devote a minimum amount of effort to fill out a ballot properly, perhaps they should not vote at all.
A frivolous lawsuit.
Disenfranchising the minuscule number of people who cannot fill out a paper ballot pails in comparison with the threat posed by computerized voting systems. The ACLU has their priorities all wrong.
That's not the point. The point is pulling all these in a central database makes it absolutely trivial to rig an election. There's a reason people are asking for a paper TRAIL not just paper ballots.
>> There can be NO END to the verys to describe how much of a very, very, VERY bad idea making a CounterStrike map of your school/mall/town/etc would be.
:(
The crazy old men from florida have won
Perhaps, but remember, the children they're currently insulting the intelligence of on a near daily basis will be tomorrow's crazy old men from Florida. Going the long view, society trends towards liberation -- of ideas, of people, of religions, of morals.
I wanted to say "society trends towards liberalism" but I donno if that fits correctly. Certainly a modern day conservative would be considered quite liberal 200 years ago?
Why not say that this behavior is the inadvertent result of placing 2 products, an SMTP gateway, and an antivirus client, side by side on the same server? the gateway stores the mail in a temporary store, whereupon the antivirus just happens to sanitize it, before the mail is again sent on it's way. This is obviousness in the extreme.
That's a good idea, you should patent it.
"Virus scanning of cache and temporary files before end user utilization."
They also run spam servers... http://xkcd.com/250/
Meh, I read somewhere that that was debunked.
Wow, can you imagine how cool this would be with respect to video games? Drop in some photos, crank up the customized first person shooter, and zoooom! You could even take photos or shots from movies and do the same thing (e.g., using Star Wars stills).
There can be NO END to the verys to describe how much of a very, very, VERY bad idea making a CounterStrike map of your school/mall/town/etc would be.
But if you delete the file, then for example cat
Lather, rinse, repeat...
So all I have to do is every time I want to delete a file, wait for a 15-319 gig file to write to the drive?
Woo, Thank god I get extra performance out of Solid State Drives.
In all seriousness, working in tech support, I am much less concerned about data security per say and somewhat more about "whoops, my SSD drive died, wonder if I can recover anything?"
I'd figure the same as with regular harddisks apply. One pass and gone the data is.
Except that unlike normal HDDs, SSDs intentionally fragment the data across the drive to avoid writing to a specific section of the drive repeatedly (an attempt to avoid over-writing to the flash). Assuming you don't fill up the ENTIRE DRIVE, your data might very well still be there.
I'd love to ask Ontrack or Drivesavers about it, to be honest.