Well, if they make radio more "regulated" either by quality, consumer exposure, or fees, their music will also likely get less widely spread. Sounds strange to me, but OTOH, these are the guys that want nothing more than make legal music far harder to listen to than the pirated counterparts.
At a cost of over $4 Billion, is this system really going to offer any major advantages over GPS, or is it merely a politicised 'anything you can do we can do better' by the European Space Agency?"
So far I've heard three things: - Accuracy - Not military dependent; won't risk being shut down partially if the US military says so - Cheaper (? I heard it anyway, unsure of by how much or why)
I wouldn't call it very "hidden" though. Here I was thinking of something ROT13 encrypted, or at least baked into a TPM-related file. Not a file they've dropped into/System/Library/Extensions/Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext as XML. Actually, since it was in XML, I have to wonder if it's not intended to show up at some place in the OS as a warning.
If you want a good antivirus, I suggest AVG or Avast. Both are excellent free products that are nowhere near as invasive as Norton.
However, I'm not sure if there are other products more suitable for corporate use. But maybe these have special "editions" for that too. I'm talking mostly about server centralized immunizing features. But I agree with Norton/Symantec having poor security products. The defaults in.. get this... Symantec's anti virus tool blocked VNC and Remote Desktop connections for me once. Found it out after turning Smoothwall inside out trying to see what the hell was the problem, but it was apparently doing what it should all along.
Btw, another good, free, non-invasive and rather resource efficient one suitable at least for home use is Antivir. For Windows 98/Me/NT/XP/2000/NT, and also Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris.
Actually, even the free stuff is curiously enough blocked from India, France, Germany, South Korea, and China due to "legal issues". I could imagine China and their shitty gov't, but some on this list is a bit strange, and I wonder what it's all about, and if it's about the same legal matter.
Ironically enough, you can use Google to view Google Video in countries blocked from this service. Just go here: http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=v ideo.google.com
Spending 45 minutes to put together a group, followed by a half hour to get the group to the hunting location, only to have a wipeout because one player doesn't have a clue, followed by another half hour of recovery... then log off as my two hours of game time runs out... Definately fun, fun, fun.
Yes, this isn't fun, but fortunately there's great and friendly gaming communities out there, that's even nice enough to *want* you to have fun. I'm a member of one myself. There's people from all over the world in it, kids as well as parents. When we go out on a quest, we always try to cover each others backs, don't try to blame people at first opportunity, patiently wait if someone has to go for some unexpected real-life business, etc. In short, it has a lot to do with which community you play with. Playing just with random pickup groups can be alright, but often is not, unfortunately.
That makes it sound a lot like they're just trying milk people on money by making it a MMORPG, when heavily instanced games like GW and Diablo has clearly proven that even with regular updates, you can make them free to play and find alternative business models with e.g. expansions.
One of the reasons I always hesitate before purchasing a MMORPG is because I feel the developers may intentionally have slowed down the game and gone overboard in making repetitive actions so players will play the game for a longer time => more money for them. They can't think like that if they just base it on expansions, which e.g. GW has shown. At least with WoW, this seem to be the case. That game has ridiculous amounts of FedEx quests. Fetch me 10 purple flowers, fetch me 8 gargoyle hearts, fetch me 12 kitten paws, fetch me 9 sparkly rocks, kill a wizard and fetch me 1 tome,... *sigh*
Something I have to wonder about though is how, with this huge flexibility they get, interfaces will be standardized. Maybe we'll get a "web in 1997" era with colorful flashy programs before it settles down a bit.:)
Hm, but one has to admit that anyone looking for silent PC's has an easy time to get them today. We do that for our work PC's all the time to keep a reasonably pleasant environment and haven't anytime been in the situation of "oh damn, what are we going to do now".
But of course, if you go for el cheapo stuff all the time, you will get el cheapo quality stuff. Loudness, hardware failures, sure, the whole package.
Win 98 SE Win 2k Workstation and Server(s) Win XP Home and Pro Win Vista??
If one develop in.NET (and obviously don't make direct OS calls or use incompatible third party libraries), a single application compile will run on all these operating systems. Even the latest.NET Framework 2.0 released in November 2005 (IIRC) fully supports Windows 98 SE.
If you use the WinFX classes though, you need at least XP or Server 2003 due to new kernel changes made since the Windows 9x model.
If you want to make Linux applications using Mono I strongly recommend using GTK#. Beagle and F-Spot use GTK#.
Yes, if you're mainly developing on Linux that's a good choice, and don't forget that there's a GTK# port for Windows and OS X too. It's not much harder than to supply that framework with the apps you ship, and you'll have a currently more "stable" framework than Windows Forms.
Yes, as far as I know, there are no plans to clone "WinFX" at this point for Vista compatibility.
WinFX is far from required for "Vista compatibility". Basically no applications will use WinFX when Vista is released, and I have to wonder how many Windows developers are actually ready to jump ship from unmanaged C++ to.NET and WinFX. The new WinFX development models with e.g. Windows Presentation Foundation and XAML for UI development, etc. are totally incompatible with current C++ applications. It feels like several years ahead at the very least.
As for the Windows.Forms namespace, it's well underway actually. In the November 2005 status report, word is:
Windows.Forms is the only piece that is holding us from officially renaming Mono to Mono 1.2, it is still missing a few features. Our plan is to complete the missing features by the end of this month and then move to bug fixing and testing open source our publicly accessible Windows.Forms applications. We are planning on spending three months on bug fixing at this point.
This hardly sounds too unattainable to me.
And before anyone asks, no, Windows Forms 2.0 support isn't required for "Vista compatibility" either.
I guess one *could* call it "explained", although involving this "mysterious dark matter" is much like explaning how the Sun can shine as "we now know the Sun get fueled by some mysterious nuclear process".
This explanation only highlights our problems with dark matter even more, and things get especially funny if it's later discovered if it didn't exist. Then watch a number of theories fall apart during a night.
He conveniently skips discussing things such as Windows Scripting Host and that the Windows Shell is scriptable, along with most COM applications (and they're plenty), when discussing scriptability.
I'm not sure what problem he's having with installing Python either. Python's poor installer error messages is hardly a Windows problem anyway.
I also don't see what he means about the Windows UI being "pretty". He must have horrible experiences from Linux in that case.
Anyway, I wonder what would've been thought of this review if it bashed Linux and was written by a huge Windows fan.
With all this, how can the RIAA still say they're losing money? I don't see how their argument works anymore.
Why don't you think they're losing money compared to before Internet?
I can agree with their claims to why may be skewed a bit much to piracy when there are other factors, but where in these news do you find that RIAA makes more revenue now from iTunes and other such sites than traditional places in the past?
I would wager that no single movie has had more digital releases than Fifth Element. From normal DVD to Bitstream to other special ediitons, it seems like a new version arrives about twice a year.
It's all about supply & demand...
Demand = see Milla's boobflashes in higher and higher resolution. Supply = re-re-releases.
Just imagine how much improved this post would've been with HDTV links, and it's easy to explain what you're observing!
Slashdot Mirror
Well, if they make radio more "regulated" either by quality, consumer exposure, or fees, their music will also likely get less widely spread. Sounds strange to me, but OTOH, these are the guys that want nothing more than make legal music far harder to listen to than the pirated counterparts.
At a cost of over $4 Billion, is this system really going to offer any major advantages over GPS, or is it merely a politicised 'anything you can do we can do better' by the European Space Agency?"
So far I've heard three things:
- Accuracy
- Not military dependent; won't risk being shut down partially if the US military says so
- Cheaper (? I heard it anyway, unsure of by how much or why)
I wouldn't call it very "hidden" though. Here I was thinking of something ROT13 encrypted, or at least baked into a TPM-related file. Not a file they've dropped into /System/Library/Extensions/Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext as XML. Actually, since it was in XML, I have to wonder if it's not intended to show up at some place in the OS as a warning.
If you want a good antivirus, I suggest AVG or Avast. Both are excellent free products that are nowhere near as invasive as Norton.
However, I'm not sure if there are other products more suitable for corporate use. But maybe these have special "editions" for that too. I'm talking mostly about server centralized immunizing features. But I agree with Norton/Symantec having poor security products. The defaults in.. get this... Symantec's anti virus tool blocked VNC and Remote Desktop connections for me once. Found it out after turning Smoothwall inside out trying to see what the hell was the problem, but it was apparently doing what it should all along.
Btw, another good, free, non-invasive and rather resource efficient one suitable at least for home use is Antivir. For Windows 98/Me/NT/XP/2000/NT, and also Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris.
Bah. The Slashbusted link should be this. Come on, Slashdot. | isn't an invalid character in URL's...
blocked to European users (!!)
v ideo.google.com
Actually, even the free stuff is curiously enough blocked from India, France, Germany, South Korea, and China due to "legal issues". I could imagine China and their shitty gov't, but some on this list is a bit strange, and I wonder what it's all about, and if it's about the same legal matter.
Ironically enough, you can use Google to view Google Video in countries blocked from this service. Just go here: http://www.google.com/translate?langpair=en|en&u=
The interface is very bad, with paid and free videos mixed together.
Click "free movies" to see only free stuff, click "commercial movies" (or whatever it said) to view those.
Spending 45 minutes to put together a group, followed by a half hour to get the group to the hunting location, only to have a wipeout because one player doesn't have a clue, followed by another half hour of recovery... then log off as my two hours of game time runs out... Definately fun, fun, fun.
Yes, this isn't fun, but fortunately there's great and friendly gaming communities out there, that's even nice enough to *want* you to have fun. I'm a member of one myself. There's people from all over the world in it, kids as well as parents. When we go out on a quest, we always try to cover each others backs, don't try to blame people at first opportunity, patiently wait if someone has to go for some unexpected real-life business, etc. In short, it has a lot to do with which community you play with. Playing just with random pickup groups can be alright, but often is not, unfortunately.
He seems to be mostly talking about Guild Wars though, and there's hardly more to pay for that game than an off-line game.
That makes it sound a lot like they're just trying milk people on money by making it a MMORPG, when heavily instanced games like GW and Diablo has clearly proven that even with regular updates, you can make them free to play and find alternative business models with e.g. expansions.
... *sigh*
One of the reasons I always hesitate before purchasing a MMORPG is because I feel the developers may intentionally have slowed down the game and gone overboard in making repetitive actions so players will play the game for a longer time => more money for them. They can't think like that if they just base it on expansions, which e.g. GW has shown. At least with WoW, this seem to be the case. That game has ridiculous amounts of FedEx quests. Fetch me 10 purple flowers, fetch me 8 gargoyle hearts, fetch me 12 kitten paws, fetch me 9 sparkly rocks, kill a wizard and fetch me 1 tome,
If it's like GW and clearly more instanced than, say, WoW, why is it pay-to-play exactly?
Something I have to wonder about though is how, with this huge flexibility they get, interfaces will be standardized. Maybe we'll get a "web in 1997" era with colorful flashy programs before it settles down a bit. :)
Those who use teleconferencing and web radio for example...
How's this for Google intelligence, HUH?! :)
:)
It once gave me these words of wisdom:
"Humor frequently satirizes snobs and snails, slugs, squids, and cuttlefish fillet."
If you get bored by bad sentences, check out the top lists.
You're one hour late, dude ;-)
Hm, but one has to admit that anyone looking for silent PC's has an easy time to get them today. We do that for our work PC's all the time to keep a reasonably pleasant environment and haven't anytime been in the situation of "oh damn, what are we going to do now".
But of course, if you go for el cheapo stuff all the time, you will get el cheapo quality stuff. Loudness, hardware failures, sure, the whole package.
And then you aren't even mentioning the recent MSNBC article about the five year MS/Apple software pact.
'How can I do my thesis now?' a university student asked on another Chinese website."
1. Don't JUST rely on Wikipedia!
2. The world didn't stand still before Wikipedia.
Win 98 SE
.NET (and obviously don't make direct OS calls or use incompatible third party libraries), a single application compile will run on all these operating systems. Even the latest .NET Framework 2.0 released in November 2005 (IIRC) fully supports Windows 98 SE.
Win 2k Workstation and Server(s)
Win XP Home and Pro
Win Vista??
If one develop in
If you use the WinFX classes though, you need at least XP or Server 2003 due to new kernel changes made since the Windows 9x model.
If you want to make Linux applications using Mono I strongly recommend using GTK#. Beagle and F-Spot use GTK#.
Yes, if you're mainly developing on Linux that's a good choice, and don't forget that there's a GTK# port for Windows and OS X too. It's not much harder than to supply that framework with the apps you ship, and you'll have a currently more "stable" framework than Windows Forms.
WinFX is far from required for "Vista compatibility". Basically no applications will use WinFX when Vista is released, and I have to wonder how many Windows developers are actually ready to jump ship from unmanaged C++ to
As for the Windows.Forms namespace, it's well underway actually. In the November 2005 status report, word is:
This hardly sounds too unattainable to me.
And before anyone asks, no, Windows Forms 2.0 support isn't required for "Vista compatibility" either.
I guess one *could* call it "explained", although involving this "mysterious dark matter" is much like explaning how the Sun can shine as "we now know the Sun get fueled by some mysterious nuclear process".
This explanation only highlights our problems with dark matter even more, and things get especially funny if it's later discovered if it didn't exist. Then watch a number of theories fall apart during a night.
He conveniently skips discussing things such as Windows Scripting Host and that the Windows Shell is scriptable, along with most COM applications (and they're plenty), when discussing scriptability.
I'm not sure what problem he's having with installing Python either. Python's poor installer error messages is hardly a Windows problem anyway.
I also don't see what he means about the Windows UI being "pretty". He must have horrible experiences from Linux in that case.
Anyway, I wonder what would've been thought of this review if it bashed Linux and was written by a huge Windows fan.
With all this, how can the RIAA still say they're losing money? I don't see how their argument works anymore.
Why don't you think they're losing money compared to before Internet?
I can agree with their claims to why may be skewed a bit much to piracy when there are other factors, but where in these news do you find that RIAA makes more revenue now from iTunes and other such sites than traditional places in the past?
I would wager that no single movie has had more digital releases than Fifth Element. From normal DVD to Bitstream to other special ediitons, it seems like a new version arrives about twice a year.
It's all about supply & demand...
Demand = see Milla's boob flashes in higher and higher resolution.
Supply = re-re-releases.
Just imagine how much improved this post would've been with HDTV links, and it's easy to explain what you're observing!