The problem with not including a floppy diskette is that for many third-party mass storage devices without a driver in the preloaded packages (i.e anything newer than the OS you're running...like SATA controllers on Windows XP) you need to specify a driver at install time, to be able to install onto that device.
Windows Setup requires this file to be on a floppy diskette in your A: drive. You may not specify a CD-ROM to pull txtsetup.oem from. Hardware suppliers include the requisite driver disk with their hardware...but if it can't be used, there's no point.
Granted, on a Dell, most people won't be adding a 3ware SATA-RAID controller or anything of the sort, so this issue is somewhat irrelevant. People who need them, will always have them; people who don't need them will move onto something better.
Nothing that I'm aware of (proprietary Creative to Creative connections aside) can accept multple S/PDIF PCM streams and reconstruct these into a surround sound stream.
Thus, the on-the-fly digital encoding is an amazing feature for those of us with dolby digital decoders in our equipment already -- a single digital connection to allow the signal to travel to the decoder and be processed by its hardware.
That's precisely what I've wanted for YEARS. I have an Audigy 2, it doesn't do it, I don't think my nForce2 sound does either.
As a Windows admin with complete and utter control and understanding of everything my box does, and why, I will indeed grant you that Windows does *allow* you to believe it's all magic.
It does not, however, keep you out of the nitty-gritty if you're willing to go looking for it. Tools to see startup items and their properties, tools to directly manipulate the LDAP database and XML schema of an AD domain, all exist.
If anything, MS admins have to be better problem solvers than Linux admins -- simply because it's a lot less obvious what's going on, you have to do a lot more looking. But doing so gives you a very good understanding of the internal workings of the system.
Microsoft Virtual PC 2005 for Mac is a damn good emulation layer for X86. You can install any OS in it...and the emulated PC can generally talk to the host PC through extensions or TCP/IP if you are so inclined -- so you can transfer data.
It seems to me that if this codec is required for compliance with the standard, than it is probably going to be licensed without royalties?
i.e. MS wants to control this particular format...probably pressure content distributors to license it because it'll be { better | more secure | other } but allow players to be developed for free.
Maybe these could be used to improve the efficiency of power plants that exploit the gravitational potential energy of the earth (i.e.: hydroelectric power plants)
Kind of like an afterburner on the power plant...these could be placed inline after the turbines and generate an extra kick. Plus, that energy is basically "free" since the stored energy comes from its position in the earth, presumably energy that was placed there through natural, renewable processes (as opposed, say, to pumping it up the side of a mountain just to let it flow down again.)
The problem is that unless every player used the same general-purpose CPU, the codecs wouldn't be portable.
While your idea is an amazingly smart one (It would allow content mfgr's to DRM discs in whatever way they want), and still have them play perfectly in set-top boxes as intended...and presumably in computer DVD player applications (but not for ripping)
However, the logistics of this will prevent it from ever happening.
No. You should not be able to use whatever tool you want to check your mail. You should be able to use whatever tools they want you to use to check it.
Why?
Because it's their service. You're not paying for it, they're giving it to you, thus, they can restrict what you may or may not do with it.
Good point you raised. As the author, he is within his legal rights to terminate the GPL at his discretion, and thus revoke your rights to use and distribute the package.
Someone should countersue SCO under a malicious prosecution law.
Those carry MAJOR penalties...It's illegal to use the court system to conduct a vendetta for which there is no legal reason for doing so. I.e. SCO is talking out of their ass and using the courts to do it, that's not legal.
There is one exceptionally weakly typed programming language that lets you redefine arbitrary symbols...effectively, you *can* make the number 2 into the number 3 (or 2.1, 2.5, 2.6, etc)
This sort of thing seems more like the killer app for augmented reality (computer-assisted vision) than for cell phones and SMS messages.
Caveat emptor: Augmented reality does not yet exist in a workable fashion (but it's getting there.)
Combine one of these: http://eyetap.org/ with a geolocation service, and you could do things like, looking at a building and gathering information about its ammenities, contact information (a phone number, a Zagatsurvey rating, etc) and also a list of who, on your contact list, may be inside/in the proximity.
The quote in my signature ("'Java is the Packard Bell of programming languages' - John Slattery") is an example of the adversity of change.
The man I attribute that quote to, was one of the developers of post-relational theory and worked on database design projects in the 1980s.
He is a big-time C/C++ guru, and very, very skilled at SQL (he writes all the queries for annual reports generation by hand, some of which as I have seen, can be over two pages long.)
He absolutely hates Java, because "it's too clean." He can't get access to memory locations, pointers, etc. This makes him feel powerless. He can't adjust to the fact that there are defined methods for doing things such as binary trees, linked lists, etc. whereas he used to roll his own every chance he got.
The language isn't the problem, the problem is that he's so set in his ways, he won't adapt to using a new language because of his preconcieved notions of it's capability and usefulness.
I think that is a bigger problem than the author of the article admits.
Admins can deploy ZAP packages which can include settings, etc. You create them with a tool in the deployment utilities, as a component of RIS.
The ZAP packages may be published as GPOs the same way MSI's may, although I don't think they have the ability to be managed *after* the initial installation.
It's been a little while since I've done this so my knowledge is a bit rusty.
My High School english classes were often irrelevant and pointless. We'd read feminist literature or classical Greek myths.
College, on the other hand, was much more interesting. We read Fight Club and the Last American Man, watched Family Guy, etc and plotted their significance in society.
I advise you all to read the patent application more carefully.
It talks about OS routines and passing those routines literally between places.
OS kernel function calls, i.e. driver installations, which require privlidge levels of Administrator for the most part, would fall into this category.
It's a proxy RPC system for allowing users to call privlidged commands they may not otherwise have use for *to the operating system*, not to run any given program as a superuser.
It's probably going to make its way into some new security API, not be a seperate application.
Think of money in the economic sense, not the social one.
Money is a store of value.
Thus, these people do such things because they believe there will be some value returned to them (money) by doing so.
Just because it costs $0 doesn't mean it's not valuable, and just because it costs $0 doesn't mean you can't use it to make money (service contracts, consulting, hiring, etc)
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The problem with not including a floppy diskette is that for many third-party mass storage devices without a driver in the preloaded packages (i.e anything newer than the OS you're running...like SATA controllers on Windows XP) you need to specify a driver at install time, to be able to install onto that device.
Windows Setup requires this file to be on a floppy diskette in your A: drive. You may not specify a CD-ROM to pull txtsetup.oem from. Hardware suppliers include the requisite driver disk with their hardware...but if it can't be used, there's no point.
Granted, on a Dell, most people won't be adding a 3ware SATA-RAID controller or anything of the sort, so this issue is somewhat irrelevant. People who need them, will always have them; people who don't need them will move onto something better.
I just bought the book for $15 based on your recommendation, from Amazon.com. It looked interesting.
:)
Hope it's worth it
Nothing that I'm aware of (proprietary Creative to Creative connections aside) can accept multple S/PDIF PCM streams and reconstruct these into a surround sound stream.
Thus, the on-the-fly digital encoding is an amazing feature for those of us with dolby digital decoders in our equipment already -- a single digital connection to allow the signal to travel to the decoder and be processed by its hardware.
That's precisely what I've wanted for YEARS. I have an Audigy 2, it doesn't do it, I don't think my nForce2 sound does either.
Soft, spongey, squishy structures probably don't have a resonance frequency; if anything, they'd dampen vibrations.
I think, IIRC, only rigid structures can resonate.
I resent that.
As a Windows admin with complete and utter control and understanding of everything my box does, and why, I will indeed grant you that Windows does *allow* you to believe it's all magic.
It does not, however, keep you out of the nitty-gritty if you're willing to go looking for it. Tools to see startup items and their properties, tools to directly manipulate the LDAP database and XML schema of an AD domain, all exist.
If anything, MS admins have to be better problem solvers than Linux admins -- simply because it's a lot less obvious what's going on, you have to do a lot more looking. But doing so gives you a very good understanding of the internal workings of the system.
What's funnier than the reference itself, is that the comment was moderated "insightful"
Microsoft Virtual PC 2005 for Mac is a damn good emulation layer for X86. You can install any OS in it...and the emulated PC can generally talk to the host PC through extensions or TCP/IP if you are so inclined -- so you can transfer data.
It seems to me that if this codec is required for compliance with the standard, than it is probably going to be licensed without royalties?
i.e. MS wants to control this particular format...probably pressure content distributors to license it because it'll be { better | more secure | other } but allow players to be developed for free.
Maybe these could be used to improve the efficiency of power plants that exploit the gravitational potential energy of the earth (i.e.: hydroelectric power plants)
Kind of like an afterburner on the power plant...these could be placed inline after the turbines and generate an extra kick. Plus, that energy is basically "free" since the stored energy comes from its position in the earth, presumably energy that was placed there through natural, renewable processes (as opposed, say, to pumping it up the side of a mountain just to let it flow down again.)
The problem is that unless every player used the same general-purpose CPU, the codecs wouldn't be portable.
While your idea is an amazingly smart one (It would allow content mfgr's to DRM discs in whatever way they want), and still have them play perfectly in set-top boxes as intended...and presumably in computer DVD player applications (but not for ripping)
However, the logistics of this will prevent it from ever happening.
No. You should not be able to use whatever tool you want to check your mail. You should be able to use whatever tools they want you to use to check it.
Why?
Because it's their service. You're not paying for it, they're giving it to you, thus, they can restrict what you may or may not do with it.
Don't like it?
Don't use gmail.
Good point you raised. As the author, he is within his legal rights to terminate the GPL at his discretion, and thus revoke your rights to use and distribute the package.
Someone should countersue SCO under a malicious prosecution law.
Those carry MAJOR penalties...It's illegal to use the court system to conduct a vendetta for which there is no legal reason for doing so. I.e. SCO is talking out of their ass and using the courts to do it, that's not legal.
My reading of that is that once they EOL the product, the final patch for it will be to disable requiring it to be activated.
Thus, once it's so old it's not making money any more, they're not going to stop people from pirating it and activating it.
There is one exceptionally weakly typed programming language that lets you redefine arbitrary symbols...effectively, you *can* make the number 2 into the number 3 (or 2.1, 2.5, 2.6, etc)
Slashdot isn't global. It's globally accessible, but it's a U.S. site.
This sort of thing seems more like the killer app for augmented reality (computer-assisted vision) than for cell phones and SMS messages.
Caveat emptor: Augmented reality does not yet exist in a workable fashion (but it's getting there.)
Combine one of these: http://eyetap.org/
with a geolocation service, and you could do things like, looking at a building and gathering information about its ammenities, contact information (a phone number, a Zagatsurvey rating, etc) and also a list of who, on your contact list, may be inside/in the proximity.
a kind of personal tracking sort of thing.
Office 2003 documents are backwards-compatible with Office 2000/XP. Any 2003-specific formatting is ignored.
The quote in my signature ("'Java is the Packard Bell of programming languages' - John Slattery") is an example of the adversity of change.
The man I attribute that quote to, was one of the developers of post-relational theory and worked on database design projects in the 1980s.
He is a big-time C/C++ guru, and very, very skilled at SQL (he writes all the queries for annual reports generation by hand, some of which as I have seen, can be over two pages long.)
He absolutely hates Java, because "it's too clean." He can't get access to memory locations, pointers, etc. This makes him feel powerless. He can't adjust to the fact that there are defined methods for doing things such as binary trees, linked lists, etc. whereas he used to roll his own every chance he got.
The language isn't the problem, the problem is that he's so set in his ways, he won't adapt to using a new language because of his preconcieved notions of it's capability and usefulness.
I think that is a bigger problem than the author of the article admits.
Admins can deploy ZAP packages which can include settings, etc. You create them with a tool in the deployment utilities, as a component of RIS.
The ZAP packages may be published as GPOs the same way MSI's may, although I don't think they have the ability to be managed *after* the initial installation.
It's been a little while since I've done this so my knowledge is a bit rusty.
My High School english classes were often irrelevant and pointless. We'd read feminist literature or classical Greek myths.
College, on the other hand, was much more interesting. We read Fight Club and the Last American Man, watched Family Guy, etc and plotted their significance in society.
Really a fascinating class.
I advise you all to read the patent application more carefully.
It talks about OS routines and passing those routines literally between places.
OS kernel function calls, i.e. driver installations, which require privlidge levels of Administrator for the most part, would fall into this category.
It's a proxy RPC system for allowing users to call privlidged commands they may not otherwise have use for *to the operating system*, not to run any given program as a superuser.
It's probably going to make its way into some new security API, not be a seperate application.
Logitech io.
'nuff said.
Think of money in the economic sense, not the social one.
Money is a store of value.
Thus, these people do such things because they believe there will be some value returned to them (money) by doing so.
Just because it costs $0 doesn't mean it's not valuable, and just because it costs $0 doesn't mean you can't use it to make money (service contracts, consulting, hiring, etc)
Service Pack is like a kernel update.
The individual updates released are simple patches; Service Packs actually raise the kernel version.
Linux is the same way, they just don't call them service packs, they call it Kernel 2.8.1 or whatever.