You can install Android on the Nokia N800/N810, if you want. A phone-less G1 wouldn't be $100 BTW, as there'd be no reason for a phone company to subsidize it. An unsubsidized G1 is around the $400 mark, so you'd be looking at something closer to $300 for a phone-less G1.
Both of the non-partisan links you point to show a senator who generally either votes with his party or doesn't bother to vote. The National Journal's claim that Obama is the "most liberal senator" follows a great tradition of claiming that every Democratic nominee is the most liberal, and was widely ridiculed when it came out, even in the MSM which was largely in the tank for McCain last year.
Obama doesn't have much of a voting record. His expressed viewpoints seem fairly moderate to me, certainly in line with most of the country. And your ridiculous claims about "having seeked out marxists and leftists" make you look like a kook.
the same split memory between the user and the kernel
You sure VMS isn't a rip-off of Linux?
the same method of demand-paged virtual memory
They both have demand-paged VM, like most modern operating systems
the same executive layer
They both have executive layers.
the same 32 levels of interrupts
Wow, so Intel was in on it too?
the same scheduling priorities
They both have scheduling priorities, like most modern operating systems - they both happen to have 32 levels.
the same object representation of system resources
Oh come on!
Things you missed: they both have kernels, they both have file systems, they both support filesystems that have a dot separating the name from the extension, they both use ".EXE" as an executable file type, they both have command lines, they both...
I'll say it again, slowly: VMS is a monolithic operating system. Windows NT uses a microkernel. Like all operating systems, you can find features of one that's in the other. But NT resembles VMS about as much as it resembles Unix. Most of the key components do not resemble one another in any way, the file system, shell (and role of the shell), API, and general architecture are so completely different I'm amazed people continue to bang on with this garbage. You can even SEE WHERE THE SODDING THINGS CAME FROM. Win32 is the Windows API, upgraded to a 32 bit version. Have you seen it? It predates Cutler joining Microsoft by about seven years. It was developed by people who'd seen more Unix than they'd seen VMS. The file system? An advancement on DOS, complete with 8.3 filenames and basic "stream of characters" type files (no indexed record-based file system for you.) The shell? Again, based on DOS, itself based originally on CP/M but with minor modifications, and the shell has little or no use by the operating system itself, unlike VMS where its central to the operating system's operation.
There's no comparison. They're not the same operating system. People come up with ways they're similar, but ignore the fact that you can compare any two operating systems and find similarities. AmigaOS also has an executive, is a microkernel, and has 32 levels of process priority. Is it based on VMS, or was Windows NT based on AmigaOS?
Do you realize the Fed was created in 1913, the big crash happened in the late 1920s. And now Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are government entities - that with various acts starting with the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 under Carter and getting amendments over time, encouraged lending to the risks a normal banker would see a mile away?
The Fed was created in response to numerous crashes and bank failures that had preceded it. Here's a thought - look at the economic history of the US post Fed and then look at it pre-Fed. Which economy was the more stable?
This financial downturn has been predicted by free marketeers since 2002 by the likes of Ron Paul and Peter Schiff:
Since 2002? Obviously you didn't read the numerous Ron Paul Newsletters when it was revealed what vile garbage the man spouted during the early nineties. 'cos he was predicting economic collapses then too.
If you sit there predicting economic collapses due to government intervention every day, then when there's a crash and it's in a country with a government, you are pretty much guaranteed to be able to claim you predicted the crash and that it was due to government intervention. Here's reality though: various unregulated banks sold crappy ARMs to people without checking (or rather, without caring) if they were able to pay back the loans.
Is the solution to allow all banks, including the biggest, to sell awful mortgages to everyone and never verify they can pay the loans back, or is it to outlaw (regulate) those kinds of practices?
(Or is it to blame ethnic minorities by claiming a law against discrimination which only affected regulated banks, and which mandated credit checks anyway, had some kind of role in this? 'cos despite the complete dishonesty of such an argument, that seems to be where the right wing are heading at the moment. It's the 1930s all over again, and I'm not talking about the American 1930s either...)
Then I tell them to imagine having to go to the DMV, and like with the above...wait often for hours in long lines with govt. workers who are drones that dont' give a shit, and yet have them in control of dispensing your medical care...what Dr. to see...what prescription to fill, etc.
Or, like, going to the post office and waiting often for minutes in short lines with government workers who are helpful and fri... wait, that wouldn't back up your example.
Or that other institution I stopped going to, er, what was the name? The one that sells you stuff but has unhelpful workers who don't give a shit, where you wait in long lines to buy anything, and which doesn't care what it sells you (working, non working, whatever.) What was that government institution called again?
Oh yeah, Wal-mart.
I think it's intellectually dishonest to find one example of a government department that's bad at its job (and then only in certain areas. Honestly, I don't normally have to wait for hours at any DMV I've been to) and treat that as typical, and ignore the fact the free market doesn't exactly produce the best results either. And, here's the thing, it's not as if healthcare is particularly well run at the moment. Who hasn't been through the "Who pays of this?" mill.
I don't know about anyone else, but the "mav'rick" thing really bothered me. Who describes themselves as a "maverick"? It's a term you apply to other people. It's like describing yourself as a "genius" or a "natural leader".
Yeah yeah, the old "VMS=WNT" bullshit. The problem with the "NT is a copy of VMS" complaint is that it's crap. Anyone who's seen the two operating systems knows they have very, very, little in common.
And VMS has a monolithic architecture. NT was originally a microkernel based system with personalities running over the top that implemented the Win32, Win16, and OS/2 subsystems. They couldn't be less like one another.
But the basic OS architecture is lifted straight from OS/2.
OS/2 has a monolithic architecture. NT was originally a microkernel based system with personalities running over the top that implemented the Win32, Win16, and OS/2 subsystems. They couldn't be less like one another.
NT was a ground up rewrite. There's little OS/2 has in common with NT, even though the original intent was that NT be OS/2 version 3. Early in the project, Microsoft ditched the idea, and all that's left of OS/2 is a user-space subsystem that provides most of the OS/2 API with the glaring exception of Presentation Manager (the OS/2 GUI.)
Microsoft's decision to throw away OS/2 and stop working on it in favour of NT is why Microsoft and IBM split, and then ended up hating one another and acting like children.
I understand where you're coming from, but it probably will make Blu-ray less attractive.
The issue with BD+ is it's the equivalent of the hacks game writers used to put into games for 8-bit computers in the 1980s that would do little timing loops and check various memory locations to make sure that nobody's plugged in any hardware they shouldn't. These hacks were almost always universally awful, with users having to screw around trying to find combinations of things that'd work to play games afflicted with these "copy prevention" methods. And, whenever Commodore or Sinclair released an updated computer, it'd break a certain percentage of those games.
Right now there are tens of models of Blu-ray player. BD+ has posed to be a problem even so, but for the most part the problems have been "containable" with manufacturers releasing firmware updates to fix the issues as they've come up. Another thing that's made this containable has been the fact that the system hasn't been universally deployed - indeed, the vast majority of discs do not have this ACM applied - and where applied the hacks have been simple checks of the "I run, therefore I am" type. The only VM they've been looking for is Slysoft's.
Now two things are going to happen. The first is that the BD+ scripts are going to get ever more complicated. This increases the number of Blu-ray models that'll get false positives. Worse, the false positives will increasingly be because of a bug in the script, not the player, which will make player manufacturers a little less happy about patching their firmware to fix the problems.
The second - unrelated to BD+ being cracked - is that the number of Blu-ray player models is going to increase, and the number of manufacturers involved in Blu-ray will start to become somewhat greater than the "We're all a bunch of happy Blu-ray supporters" group that currently make players. Virtually everyone making Blu-ray players today wants Blu-ray to succeed enough to be prepared to do anything to do it. This is unlike, say, DVD where most player manufacturers know that DVD has succeeded and therefore just want to make money.
Taken together: we're looking at increasingly unreliable scripts, with many, many, more opportunities (player configurations) to fail, and consumers rioting because they're finding the only way to watch every movie they buy or rent is to own two or three players, or a Playstation 3 (which'll probably be the only Blu-ray player everything gets tested on.)
CSS was a predictable algorithm that could only be implemented one way. When it was cracked, that was not a disaster for DVD, indeed it probably helped the format.
AACS is a predictable algorithm that can only be implemented one way. When it was cracked, that was not a disaster for HD DVD or Blu-ray, indeed it probably helped the HD formats.
BD+ is an unpredictable algorithm based upon technologies that have failed in the past, will continue to fail, and which have failed for Blu-ray already. The ONLY way the Doom9 crack is going to be helpful for Blu-ray is if it convinced Fox et al to drop the technology. As for me, it's on my list of reasons why I'm not going to get Blu-ray. If the BDA removes BD+, and works on Blu-ray's other flaws, I might reconsider my stance. But everything's going to get worse, and Hollywood will blame pirates in the same way as some idiot who accidentally shoots and kills his wife because he didn't expect her to enter the house via the backdoor blames "criminals" for making him scared in the first place.
And here's the hilarious part: as soon as they (the movie publishing industry) do start trying to be clever with BD+ attacks trying to find the Doom9 VM and variants thereof, they'll screw up discs so they're unplayable on numerous legitimate players. Pretty much the only thing that hasn't sunk BD+ so far is the fact that there are very few different models of player in circulation. As it is, it's still fallen over before.
Nitpick: H.264 is an MPEG4 standard. H.264 is MPEG 4 Part 10. What you're probably comparing it to is MPEG 4 Part 2, though the latter is actually more CPU intensive than H.264 for the same level of quality due to the complex macroblock compensation algorithm it employs. In practice, most implementations of Part 2 ignore that part of the standard, leading to poor quality at the same bitrates compared to Part 10.
Well, yeah, but you're not going to have that much luck creating useful cross platform code that runs on both a DS and PS3. If you genuinely try to write a game targeted at both, you're going to have to limit your cross platform part to a well abstracted core that'll be interpreted by code custom written for the platform.
For PS3, GNU/Linux, and Macs, Mono is going to serve you as a starting point for porting an XNA based game. For Wii, your major problem is going to be the lack of a port of GNU/Linux. I'm not familiar with the PSP specs, but for DS the environment is so tight I don't think cross platform development is going to be at the top of your agenda.
It also means that you'll have to completely rewrite the source code if you want to run it on anything but an Xbox 360, a PC running Windows Vista, or a comparatively recent PC running Windows XP. If you want to port to DS, PSP, Wii, Mac, Linux, or PS3, that's a complete rewrite because they can't run C# easily if at all.
Anything that can run GNU/Linux can run C#, thanks to that awful Mono project, so that's "Linux" and PS3 taken care of. I believe it's possible to run Mono on Mac OS X though it's clumsy and not well integrated with the Mac environment.
On the other hand, XNA is a tad more than just C#/.NET.
I've taken a look at the specs and it's pretty impressive actually. They're using ROT-26 encryption, and you manage copies using commands called "cp", "mv", and "rm". These commands look at a set of user rights before they operate - read, write, and execute permissions are set separately and the content owner can also assign permissions to groups or even the whole world.
The only major fly in the ointment is that apparently DVD Jon has already released a beta of a tool called "chmod" that can change all of those permissions.
Sure, like all those users of Kazaa who were expecting the music industry to sue them...
Not that I think the cases are in the same ball-park. Psystar has legitimately bought copies of Mac OS X and their "crime" appears to be violating the EULA, not breaking copyright law. But...
AT&T has swatches of 1700MHz spectrum themselves, I expect they'll be putting UMTS on it in the medium term. Unlike T-Mobile they're not in a hurry to do so as they already had plenty of spectrum and so were able to roll out UMTS on their existing frequencies.
Before you poo-poo the question, bear in mind you don't have to use Android Marketplace to install software on an Android phone. Android Marketplace is a trusted, easily accessible, application store. A kill-switch in that context makes sense, you've downloaded something from a trusted authority and it turns out it's malware, Google has an obligation to hit the kill switch or else at minimum destroy the credibility of the store.
From the reports, it doesn't appear as if the kill switch applies to non-marketplace software, as the switch only applies - according to Google's ToS - to software that violates the GM developer agreement.
I'm seriously not seeing the problem here. The phone is open - you can install anything you like on it. If you choose to have your hand held, Google will hold your hand for you, but you don't have to.
The US constitution by definition applies to the US government. It is a framework defining what the US government is and what its powers are. There are phrases in the constitution that are ambiguous and may possibly refer only to citizens, and one or two that unambiguously only apply to citizens, but generally the Bill of Rights applies to anyone the US government might reasonably otherwise have power over.
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Why would anyone care about a naked streaker (from the DoRD, no doubt...) running across the ice if they're listening to it on the radio?
You can install Android on the Nokia N800/N810, if you want. A phone-less G1 wouldn't be $100 BTW, as there'd be no reason for a phone company to subsidize it. An unsubsidized G1 is around the $400 mark, so you'd be looking at something closer to $300 for a phone-less G1.
I think falcon got it right to be honest.
Both of the non-partisan links you point to show a senator who generally either votes with his party or doesn't bother to vote. The National Journal's claim that Obama is the "most liberal senator" follows a great tradition of claiming that every Democratic nominee is the most liberal, and was widely ridiculed when it came out, even in the MSM which was largely in the tank for McCain last year.
Obama doesn't have much of a voting record. His expressed viewpoints seem fairly moderate to me, certainly in line with most of the country. And your ridiculous claims about "having seeked out marxists and leftists" make you look like a kook.
They both have I/O managers
You sure VMS isn't a rip-off of Linux?
They both have demand-paged VM, like most modern operating systems
They both have executive layers.
Wow, so Intel was in on it too?
They both have scheduling priorities, like most modern operating systems - they both happen to have 32 levels.
Oh come on!
Things you missed: they both have kernels, they both have file systems, they both support filesystems that have a dot separating the name from the extension, they both use ".EXE" as an executable file type, they both have command lines, they both...
I'll say it again, slowly: VMS is a monolithic operating system. Windows NT uses a microkernel. Like all operating systems, you can find features of one that's in the other. But NT resembles VMS about as much as it resembles Unix. Most of the key components do not resemble one another in any way, the file system, shell (and role of the shell), API, and general architecture are so completely different I'm amazed people continue to bang on with this garbage. You can even SEE WHERE THE SODDING THINGS CAME FROM. Win32 is the Windows API, upgraded to a 32 bit version. Have you seen it? It predates Cutler joining Microsoft by about seven years. It was developed by people who'd seen more Unix than they'd seen VMS. The file system? An advancement on DOS, complete with 8.3 filenames and basic "stream of characters" type files (no indexed record-based file system for you.) The shell? Again, based on DOS, itself based originally on CP/M but with minor modifications, and the shell has little or no use by the operating system itself, unlike VMS where its central to the operating system's operation.
There's no comparison. They're not the same operating system. People come up with ways they're similar, but ignore the fact that you can compare any two operating systems and find similarities. AmigaOS also has an executive, is a microkernel, and has 32 levels of process priority. Is it based on VMS, or was Windows NT based on AmigaOS?
The Fed was created in response to numerous crashes and bank failures that had preceded it. Here's a thought - look at the economic history of the US post Fed and then look at it pre-Fed. Which economy was the more stable?
Since 2002? Obviously you didn't read the numerous Ron Paul Newsletters when it was revealed what vile garbage the man spouted during the early nineties. 'cos he was predicting economic collapses then too.
If you sit there predicting economic collapses due to government intervention every day, then when there's a crash and it's in a country with a government, you are pretty much guaranteed to be able to claim you predicted the crash and that it was due to government intervention. Here's reality though: various unregulated banks sold crappy ARMs to people without checking (or rather, without caring) if they were able to pay back the loans.
Is the solution to allow all banks, including the biggest, to sell awful mortgages to everyone and never verify they can pay the loans back, or is it to outlaw (regulate) those kinds of practices?
(Or is it to blame ethnic minorities by claiming a law against discrimination which only affected regulated banks, and which mandated credit checks anyway, had some kind of role in this? 'cos despite the complete dishonesty of such an argument, that seems to be where the right wing are heading at the moment. It's the 1930s all over again, and I'm not talking about the American 1930s either...)
Or, like, going to the post office and waiting often for minutes in short lines with government workers who are helpful and fri... wait, that wouldn't back up your example.
Or that other institution I stopped going to, er, what was the name? The one that sells you stuff but has unhelpful workers who don't give a shit, where you wait in long lines to buy anything, and which doesn't care what it sells you (working, non working, whatever.) What was that government institution called again?
Oh yeah, Wal-mart.
I think it's intellectually dishonest to find one example of a government department that's bad at its job (and then only in certain areas. Honestly, I don't normally have to wait for hours at any DMV I've been to) and treat that as typical, and ignore the fact the free market doesn't exactly produce the best results either. And, here's the thing, it's not as if healthcare is particularly well run at the moment. Who hasn't been through the "Who pays of this?" mill.
I don't know about anyone else, but the "mav'rick" thing really bothered me. Who describes themselves as a "maverick"? It's a term you apply to other people. It's like describing yourself as a "genius" or a "natural leader".
Yeah yeah, the old "VMS=WNT" bullshit. The problem with the "NT is a copy of VMS" complaint is that it's crap. Anyone who's seen the two operating systems knows they have very, very, little in common.
And VMS has a monolithic architecture. NT was originally a microkernel based system with personalities running over the top that implemented the Win32, Win16, and OS/2 subsystems. They couldn't be less like one another.
OS/2 has a monolithic architecture. NT was originally a microkernel based system with personalities running over the top that implemented the Win32, Win16, and OS/2 subsystems. They couldn't be less like one another.
NT was a ground up rewrite. There's little OS/2 has in common with NT, even though the original intent was that NT be OS/2 version 3. Early in the project, Microsoft ditched the idea, and all that's left of OS/2 is a user-space subsystem that provides most of the OS/2 API with the glaring exception of Presentation Manager (the OS/2 GUI.)
Microsoft's decision to throw away OS/2 and stop working on it in favour of NT is why Microsoft and IBM split, and then ended up hating one another and acting like children.
As long as those who don't have that privilege aren't answerable to the laws set by those who can vote, that's absolutely fine.
No government is legitimate if it does not have the mandate of the governed.
I understand where you're coming from, but it probably will make Blu-ray less attractive.
The issue with BD+ is it's the equivalent of the hacks game writers used to put into games for 8-bit computers in the 1980s that would do little timing loops and check various memory locations to make sure that nobody's plugged in any hardware they shouldn't. These hacks were almost always universally awful, with users having to screw around trying to find combinations of things that'd work to play games afflicted with these "copy prevention" methods. And, whenever Commodore or Sinclair released an updated computer, it'd break a certain percentage of those games.
Right now there are tens of models of Blu-ray player. BD+ has posed to be a problem even so, but for the most part the problems have been "containable" with manufacturers releasing firmware updates to fix the issues as they've come up. Another thing that's made this containable has been the fact that the system hasn't been universally deployed - indeed, the vast majority of discs do not have this ACM applied - and where applied the hacks have been simple checks of the "I run, therefore I am" type. The only VM they've been looking for is Slysoft's.
Now two things are going to happen. The first is that the BD+ scripts are going to get ever more complicated. This increases the number of Blu-ray models that'll get false positives. Worse, the false positives will increasingly be because of a bug in the script, not the player, which will make player manufacturers a little less happy about patching their firmware to fix the problems.
The second - unrelated to BD+ being cracked - is that the number of Blu-ray player models is going to increase, and the number of manufacturers involved in Blu-ray will start to become somewhat greater than the "We're all a bunch of happy Blu-ray supporters" group that currently make players. Virtually everyone making Blu-ray players today wants Blu-ray to succeed enough to be prepared to do anything to do it. This is unlike, say, DVD where most player manufacturers know that DVD has succeeded and therefore just want to make money.
Taken together: we're looking at increasingly unreliable scripts, with many, many, more opportunities (player configurations) to fail, and consumers rioting because they're finding the only way to watch every movie they buy or rent is to own two or three players, or a Playstation 3 (which'll probably be the only Blu-ray player everything gets tested on.)
CSS was a predictable algorithm that could only be implemented one way. When it was cracked, that was not a disaster for DVD, indeed it probably helped the format.
AACS is a predictable algorithm that can only be implemented one way. When it was cracked, that was not a disaster for HD DVD or Blu-ray, indeed it probably helped the HD formats.
BD+ is an unpredictable algorithm based upon technologies that have failed in the past, will continue to fail, and which have failed for Blu-ray already. The ONLY way the Doom9 crack is going to be helpful for Blu-ray is if it convinced Fox et al to drop the technology. As for me, it's on my list of reasons why I'm not going to get Blu-ray. If the BDA removes BD+, and works on Blu-ray's other flaws, I might reconsider my stance. But everything's going to get worse, and Hollywood will blame pirates in the same way as some idiot who accidentally shoots and kills his wife because he didn't expect her to enter the house via the backdoor blames "criminals" for making him scared in the first place.
And here's the hilarious part: as soon as they (the movie publishing industry) do start trying to be clever with BD+ attacks trying to find the Doom9 VM and variants thereof, they'll screw up discs so they're unplayable on numerous legitimate players. Pretty much the only thing that hasn't sunk BD+ so far is the fact that there are very few different models of player in circulation. As it is, it's still fallen over before.
Nitpick: H.264 is an MPEG4 standard. H.264 is MPEG 4 Part 10. What you're probably comparing it to is MPEG 4 Part 2, though the latter is actually more CPU intensive than H.264 for the same level of quality due to the complex macroblock compensation algorithm it employs. In practice, most implementations of Part 2 ignore that part of the standard, leading to poor quality at the same bitrates compared to Part 10.
Same company, different division, but same shareholders.
Well, yeah, but you're not going to have that much luck creating useful cross platform code that runs on both a DS and PS3. If you genuinely try to write a game targeted at both, you're going to have to limit your cross platform part to a well abstracted core that'll be interpreted by code custom written for the platform.
For PS3, GNU/Linux, and Macs, Mono is going to serve you as a starting point for porting an XNA based game. For Wii, your major problem is going to be the lack of a port of GNU/Linux. I'm not familiar with the PSP specs, but for DS the environment is so tight I don't think cross platform development is going to be at the top of your agenda.
Anything that can run GNU/Linux can run C#, thanks to that awful Mono project, so that's "Linux" and PS3 taken care of. I believe it's possible to run Mono on Mac OS X though it's clumsy and not well integrated with the Mac environment.
On the other hand, XNA is a tad more than just C#/.NET.
I've taken a look at the specs and it's pretty impressive actually. They're using ROT-26 encryption, and you manage copies using commands called "cp", "mv", and "rm". These commands look at a set of user rights before they operate - read, write, and execute permissions are set separately and the content owner can also assign permissions to groups or even the whole world.
The only major fly in the ointment is that apparently DVD Jon has already released a beta of a tool called "chmod" that can change all of those permissions.
Sure, like all those users of Kazaa who were expecting the music industry to sue them...
Not that I think the cases are in the same ball-park. Psystar has legitimately bought copies of Mac OS X and their "crime" appears to be violating the EULA, not breaking copyright law. But...
AT&T has swatches of 1700MHz spectrum themselves, I expect they'll be putting UMTS on it in the medium term. Unlike T-Mobile they're not in a hurry to do so as they already had plenty of spectrum and so were able to roll out UMTS on their existing frequencies.
He's not being literal, he's referring to any maker of dairy products.
Does OpenMoko even have an app store?
Before you poo-poo the question, bear in mind you don't have to use Android Marketplace to install software on an Android phone. Android Marketplace is a trusted, easily accessible, application store. A kill-switch in that context makes sense, you've downloaded something from a trusted authority and it turns out it's malware, Google has an obligation to hit the kill switch or else at minimum destroy the credibility of the store.
From the reports, it doesn't appear as if the kill switch applies to non-marketplace software, as the switch only applies - according to Google's ToS - to software that violates the GM developer agreement.
I'm seriously not seeing the problem here. The phone is open - you can install anything you like on it. If you choose to have your hand held, Google will hold your hand for you, but you don't have to.
The US constitution by definition applies to the US government. It is a framework defining what the US government is and what its powers are. There are phrases in the constitution that are ambiguous and may possibly refer only to citizens, and one or two that unambiguously only apply to citizens, but generally the Bill of Rights applies to anyone the US government might reasonably otherwise have power over.
Well, the US Army generally has a reputation for being full of fairly right wing individuals. And it's New York we're talking about.
Take out == go to a fancy restaurant and wine and dine with them. ;-)