I subscribe to a service here in NZ which works exactly the same way, and its great.
But for the big new release movies, such as Revenge of the Sith, Mr and Mrs Smith, and War of the Worlds, I want to see them the same as my friends and workmates do, not 3-6 months later. So I download them.
I want to see the big new release movies, when they are still new releases, and yet its not practical to go to the cinema. So I download them.
Ok, I worded that badly - I don't mean to be taking some moral high ground here - I don't have much of a problem downloading movies, but if there was a legitimate alternative, I'd take it.
I beleive they should be (financially) rewarded for their efforts. But having to compete with a free service should hopefully make them eventually provide an alterative that isn't too pricey or restrictive.
If that free alternative wasn't there, or people didn't use it, then the movie industry would have no incentive to start making these deals.
I have a 4-month old daughter at home, so my wife and I don't really get to go out to the movies any more - so I download new releases and we watch them at home, and we can still keep up with our childless friends who go to the movies:)
I do this without any guilt, because if the MPAA etc would get off their arses and build a decent delivery system where I could pay (a reasonable fee - not the full cost of a cinema ticket!!) to download the latest movies then I would.
... At TechEd New Zealand. IIS7 looks really smart, with pluggable modules to provide all of its functionality, as the submitted mentioned. Ouf of the box pretty much everything will be disabled, and you enable only the modules you need.
IIS6 (win 2003) has already done away with the metabase and gone to an XML file for all of the configuration settings.
IIS7 goes one further, by allowing you to put configuration files in each virtual directory or website to over-ride the parent setting (if permitted) - this allows a website owner to configure their own website, without affecting the other websites on the box, or having to ask the administrator to make the changes for them.
The MS guy told me they are trying to make management as easy as possible for servers containing thousands of seperate sites. He also said they hope to release IIS7 for Win2003 R2.
Loads of other management things are coming in too, such as the ability to examine currently execting requests, and kill them without restarting the site or server (VERY usefull if a script is looping)
MS's new approach to security seems to be really paying off - IIS6 was re-written from the ground up, and how many security holes have there been? I can't remember any.
Stop Treating Women Like Whores -....... If you can't stop demeaning women (with skimpy outfits and hyper-sexuality) and men (by glamorizing massive musculature and testosterone-dripping masculinity)....
Not that I dissagree with the sentiment (far from it infact), but isn't mainstream movies and TV even worse than games in general, ESPECIALLY in the US?
At least in games things are obviously fantasy. A lot of TV/Movies are also fantasy, but dressed up as fact.
(ok, the article says 40, but on the news tonight the figure quoted was 32%)
Also, a quote from the linked article " As of August 2004, OPEC has been communicating that its members have little excess pumping capacity, indicating that the cartel is losing influence over crude oil prices"
Most of the source code for.Net is available here - Its called "rotor" and is Microsoft's open source implementation of.Net. It doesn't cover the complete framework, but it includes the runtime, C# compiler, and the parts of the framework that were submitted to ECMA.
Anyone is free to download, modify and distribute rotor, it compiles on OSX and BSD. I believe someone has modified it to compile and run on Linux. Unfortunately the license prohibits commercial use...
The major differences between Rotor and the full framework are a simplified garbage collector, and a simplified JIT compiler. Microsoft aren't saying how much of the framework code is shared between Rotor and the full version, but I've been told by people with access to the source that the answer is "pretty much all of it"
Yeah, most albums have distinct gaps between tracks - but not all. One I can think of is Pink Floyd - The Wall. Quite a few tracks run together, with absolutely no gap between the songs. If you don't know the album, you won't even notice that a new track is now playing.
Also house/trance albums (which is what I mainly listen to) don't have a gap between the songs AT ALL. The DJ's mix the tracks together so one track starts about 30 seconds BEFORE the previous track ends.
Another example is live albums. In all of these cases, you don't want to hear a slight pause between songs.
I'm guessing car makers will be putting in all sorts of restrictions in their cars to prevent you installing any unauthorised (by them) code.
It will probably be something like today's consoles, where the code has to be signed by the manufacture, locking out any homebrew apps - and most likely enthusiasts will find ways to "mod" their cars to allow modifications & additions to the car's software that the manufacturer never intended.
So the possibilities of code "accidentially" being run on your car will be remote.
Why shouldn't I read his links? Yes, he's a google adwords whore, but he does find interesting articles, he always gives a link to the original article, and it doesn't cost me anything.
He's found a great way to make money from the internet, and no-one loses. Whats the problem?
My friend who is an optometrist has told me the major reason why CRT monitors give you eyestrain and eventually damage your eyes is because of the thickness of the glass.
The image is projected onto the inside of the glass tube, which is nearly 1cm thick. Your eyes are continually shifting focus between the front of the glass, and the back (where the image is). Keeping your monitor clean helps a lot, as it stops the eye focusing on the front of the glass so much (less grime to focus on).
LCDs have glass that is very thin, so you don't get eyestrain
A while ago I was setting up a win2k server on my connection at home with an external ip address (yes I patched it before I went online:D).
One of the last things I did was disable FTP, and then on some whim I checked the ftp logs...
Someone (no doubt a bot) had connected to my ftp server with anonymous, created a directory, changed into the directory to make sure it really existed, then deleted the directory and logged out.
No doubt my IP address was now on some list of open ftp servers.
I was very tempted to leave FTP going for a while and see what turned up there, but then I realised I probably wouldn't like what I found so I left it disabled
Yeah, I have my laptop set up to suspend when I close the lid, and I never normally turn it off or hibernate. It can last about a week suspended if I forget to plug it in, and then it automatically hibernates if the battery gets too low.
Its an old laptop (dall lattitude C600), but its got enough memory and CPU for everything except games, it weighs around 2.5kg and it lasts 3-4 hours on a battery charge. Its hard to justify an upgrade.
Both techniques (discarding unused memory and compressing used memory) are used by windows xp, which is why it is so fast to hibernate/resume (less than 10 secs for my p3/512mb laptop)
nope - you're using grams, not kg, making you 1000x out. its 5*c^2, not 5000*c^2
As someone else on this thread has pointed out, you actually have do double that, because 5kg of normal matter is destroyed as well.
But from the link that someone else provided (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter_weapon) 60% of the yeild of an antimatter explosion escapes as neutrinos, and most of the rest as gamma rays so its not nearly as dangerous (or practical, if desctruction is your goal...) as a regular H-Bomb.
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"Of course have a project that compile a dll larger then 100K can cause reference issues."
Err WHAT are you talking about?? I to have been doing.Net development for 3-4 years, and I've never heard of this.
The project I'm working on currently (windows client) has an EXE and 22 DLLS, totalling over 8mb. there are a 3 DLLs over 1mb, and one over 2mb.
Never seen or heard of the problem you're describing. VS can be a bit flakey at times, but I've got nothing but praise for the.net framework itself. It Just Works (tm). No unreproduceable weirdness like with COM.
It says you cannot travel AT the speed of light. Important distinction there. Subatomic particles can change velocity instantly without acceleration, one day it may be possible for macroscopic objects to hop up to FTL travel, without actually passing through through the "light barrier".
Another potential possibility is the Alcubierre Drive although you'd need a large quantity of negative energy to make this work. (Negative energy is a scientific fact, but not in these quantities... as far as we know (look up the casimir effect))
These theories are far, far in advance of our current abilities, and may well not be achievable - but we simply don't know enough to discard the possibility.
I find it very interesting though that a theoretical physicist has come up with a potential faster-than-light drive that may just be possible, and it appears to be very similar to the "warp drive" used in star trek:) This teaches us something about the true value of science fiction.
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I subscribe to a service here in NZ which works exactly the same way, and its great.
But for the big new release movies, such as Revenge of the Sith, Mr and Mrs Smith, and War of the Worlds, I want to see them the same as my friends and workmates do, not 3-6 months later. So I download them.
I want to see the big new release movies, when they are still new releases, and yet its not practical to go to the cinema. So I download them.
Ok, I worded that badly - I don't mean to be taking some moral high ground here - I don't have much of a problem downloading movies, but if there was a legitimate alternative, I'd take it.
I beleive they should be (financially) rewarded for their efforts. But having to compete with a free service should hopefully make them eventually provide an alterative that isn't too pricey or restrictive.
If that free alternative wasn't there, or people didn't use it, then the movie industry would have no incentive to start making these deals.
This sort of thing legitimizes p2p networks.
:)
I have a 4-month old daughter at home, so my wife and I don't really get to go out to the movies any more - so I download new releases and we watch them at home, and we can still keep up with our childless friends who go to the movies
I do this without any guilt, because if the MPAA etc would get off their arses and build a decent delivery system where I could pay (a reasonable fee - not the full cost of a cinema ticket!!) to download the latest movies then I would.
... At TechEd New Zealand. IIS7 looks really smart, with pluggable modules to provide all of its functionality, as the submitted mentioned. Ouf of the box pretty much everything will be disabled, and you enable only the modules you need.
IIS6 (win 2003) has already done away with the metabase and gone to an XML file for all of the configuration settings.
IIS7 goes one further, by allowing you to put configuration files in each virtual directory or website to over-ride the parent setting (if permitted) - this allows a website owner to configure their own website, without affecting the other websites on the box, or having to ask the administrator to make the changes for them.
The MS guy told me they are trying to make management as easy as possible for servers containing thousands of seperate sites. He also said they hope to release IIS7 for Win2003 R2.
Loads of other management things are coming in too, such as the ability to examine currently execting requests, and kill them without restarting the site or server (VERY usefull if a script is looping)
MS's new approach to security seems to be really paying off - IIS6 was re-written from the ground up, and how many security holes have there been? I can't remember any.
Not that I dissagree with the sentiment (far from it infact), but isn't mainstream movies and TV even worse than games in general, ESPECIALLY in the US?
At least in games things are obviously fantasy. A lot of TV/Movies are also fantasy, but dressed up as fact.
What was the story? Got a link to a previous comment or something?
FPS games are definitely getting harder, as gamers get more skilled at this type of game (on average).
Dig out Doom and give it a try again. I did a while back, and it was almost laughably easy.
OPEC only supplies 30-40% of the world's oil.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPEC
(ok, the article says 40, but on the news tonight the figure quoted was 32%)
Also, a quote from the linked article
" As of August 2004, OPEC has been communicating that its members have little excess pumping capacity, indicating that the cartel is losing influence over crude oil prices"
Most of the source code for .Net is available here - Its called "rotor" and is Microsoft's open source implementation of .Net. It doesn't cover the complete framework, but it includes the runtime, C# compiler, and the parts of the framework that were submitted to ECMA.
Anyone is free to download, modify and distribute rotor, it compiles on OSX and BSD. I believe someone has modified it to compile and run on Linux. Unfortunately the license prohibits commercial use...
The major differences between Rotor and the full framework are a simplified garbage collector, and a simplified JIT compiler. Microsoft aren't saying how much of the framework code is shared between Rotor and the full version, but I've been told by people with access to the source that the answer is "pretty much all of it"
Yeah, most albums have distinct gaps between tracks - but not all. One I can think of is Pink Floyd - The Wall. Quite a few tracks run together, with absolutely no gap between the songs. If you don't know the album, you won't even notice that a new track is now playing.
Also house/trance albums (which is what I mainly listen to) don't have a gap between the songs AT ALL. The DJ's mix the tracks together so one track starts about 30 seconds BEFORE the previous track ends.
Another example is live albums. In all of these cases, you don't want to hear a slight pause between songs.
Wish I had mod points to give to ya.
Non-biological oil si an intriging theory, and I think there is enough evidence for this theory to move it well out of crackpot-land.
Is this a recursive story or something?
I'm on a plan by the same provider (telstraclear). Its static, as in you don't use dhcp.
Its fully routable, pretty reliable, and quick. I run serveral domains on a box at home.
I'm guessing car makers will be putting in all sorts of restrictions in their cars to prevent you installing any unauthorised (by them) code.
It will probably be something like today's consoles, where the code has to be signed by the manufacture, locking out any homebrew apps - and most likely enthusiasts will find ways to "mod" their cars to allow modifications & additions to the car's software that the manufacturer never intended.
So the possibilities of code "accidentially" being run on your car will be remote.
Funniest post on this thread, its on 0, and I have no mod points. What a tragedy.
Why shouldn't I read his links? Yes, he's a google adwords whore, but he does find interesting articles, he always gives a link to the original article, and it doesn't cost me anything.
He's found a great way to make money from the internet, and no-one loses. Whats the problem?
My friend who is an optometrist has told me the major reason why CRT monitors give you eyestrain and eventually damage your eyes is because of the thickness of the glass.
The image is projected onto the inside of the glass tube, which is nearly 1cm thick.
Your eyes are continually shifting focus between the front of the glass, and the back (where the image is).
Keeping your monitor clean helps a lot, as it stops the eye focusing on the front of the glass so much (less grime to focus on).
LCDs have glass that is very thin, so you don't get eyestrain
A while ago I was setting up a win2k server on my connection at home with an external ip address (yes I patched it before I went online :D).
One of the last things I did was disable FTP, and then on some whim I checked the ftp logs...
Someone (no doubt a bot) had connected to my ftp server with anonymous, created a directory, changed into the directory to make sure it really existed, then deleted the directory and logged out.
No doubt my IP address was now on some list of open ftp servers.
I was very tempted to leave FTP going for a while and see what turned up there, but then I realised I probably wouldn't like what I found so I left it disabled
Yeah, I have my laptop set up to suspend when I close the lid, and I never normally turn it off or hibernate. It can last about a week suspended if I forget to plug it in, and then it automatically hibernates if the battery gets too low.
Its an old laptop (dall lattitude C600), but its got enough memory and CPU for everything except games, it weighs around 2.5kg and it lasts 3-4 hours on a battery charge. Its hard to justify an upgrade.
Yes, it is a good book. But whats it got to do with 3 suns?
Both techniques (discarding unused memory and compressing used memory) are used by windows xp, which is why it is so fast to hibernate/resume (less than 10 secs for my p3/512mb laptop)
nope - you're using grams, not kg, making you 1000x out. its 5*c^2, not 5000*c^2
As someone else on this thread has pointed out, you actually have do double that, because 5kg of normal matter is destroyed as well.
But from the link that someone else provided (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter_weapon) 60% of the yeild of an antimatter explosion escapes as neutrinos, and most of the rest as gamma rays so its not nearly as dangerous (or practical, if desctruction is your goal...) as a regular H-Bomb.
Nope. .net 2.0 supports generics, which are similar, but not the same.
"Of course have a project that compile a dll larger then 100K can cause reference issues."
.Net development for 3-4 years, and I've never heard of this.
.net framework itself. It Just Works (tm). No unreproduceable weirdness like with COM.
Err WHAT are you talking about?? I to have been doing
The project I'm working on currently (windows client) has an EXE and 22 DLLS, totalling over 8mb. there are a 3 DLLs over 1mb, and one over 2mb.
Never seen or heard of the problem you're describing. VS can be a bit flakey at times, but I've got nothing but praise for the
Relativity does NOT preclude FTL.
:)
It says you cannot travel AT the speed of light. Important distinction there. Subatomic particles can change velocity instantly without acceleration, one day it may be possible for macroscopic objects to hop up to FTL travel, without actually passing through through the "light barrier".
Another potential possibility is the Alcubierre Drive although you'd need a large quantity of negative energy to make this work. (Negative energy is a scientific fact, but not in these quantities... as far as we know (look up the casimir effect))
These theories are far, far in advance of our current abilities, and may well not be achievable - but we simply don't know enough to discard the possibility.
I find it very interesting though that a theoretical physicist has come up with a potential faster-than-light drive that may just be possible, and it appears to be very similar to the "warp drive" used in star trek
This teaches us something about the true value of science fiction.
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