So, just to get this straight, Inq's comment about the consequences of avoiding reading from local...
This can lead to contention issues for the main memory bus, and all sorts of nightmarish to debug performance problems. Basically, if this Sony presentation to PS3 devs shown to us is correct, it looks like PS3 will be hobbled in a serious way.
Not even a point in judging Sony when they tell the devs to not read from local memory, and doesn't mention upcoming steppings to solve this? That seem to tell me that this will be a real issue. If not, it seems to me they'd rather have been very eager to tell it was being worked on.
1. Microsoft doesn't want the web to enable something that will threaten its monopoly in OS and Office software.
It's kind of funny they're behind this whole asynchronous XML technology then. It's the closest to at least a widely adopted de facto standard doing what you describe that I've seen at least.
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Yes, and that things gets harder to shut down isn't a one time occurence either.
We got centralized Napster to introduce P2P to the masses, then things like Kazaa, Gnutella, eDonkey and Overnet, with them shifting focus more and more to decentralized implementations. Now we have BitTorrent which has a centralized tracker, but intelligently set up to not host or transmit anything copyrighted, which can both put it in a legal grey zone, and also make it quite easy to set up. And that's not even the cutting edge P2P tools -- these would be the existing and upcoming anonymous clients.
With a future, at least in Sweden where I live, of 10 and 100 Mbps connections fairly common, there's tons of redundant bandwidth all over in case you can accept e.g a 0.5-1 Mbps down/up speed which is more than enough for reasonably efficient piracy. And that extra bandwidth could probably be enough for "anonymizing" clients.
And once you get a fresh new P2P client to get very popular and using encryption with onion routing, I think that's the final nail in the coffin against **AA's "shut down" or even lawsuit strategy. They won't even know whom to sue, unless they venture into the painful realm of tracing through proxies. For effiicent shutdowns or suits, they simply have to move into banning encryption and proxies, and then I suspect pirates will finally find peace, because that won't happen. Tracing people through a maze of proxies in a popular anonymous P2P net is also something I seriously doubt even the police have the resources for on a massive scale.
It would be very interesting to hear **AA commentary on what they think of anonymous nets, something they've had the pleasure of not having overly popular yet due to less performance. But performance will increase proportionally to how popular the network is and how many can share their bandwidth.
Here I'm not even sure the costs of developing HDMI interfaces, starting the DRM industry, developing DMCA laws, etc, is low enough to not be above what's actually lost on piracy (in reality, not theory), but being overprotective about music videos just have to be stopping more advertising value than what money they lost due to free exposure. Do anyone really get tired of music from YouTube videos?:-p That would be a seriously pathetic way to listen to music given the audio quality, which surely matter most?
Yes, some of the large Linux distros are huge, multi-CD behemoths. But they include just about every piece of free software under the sun. For your comparison convenience, here's a list of programs usually included with a mega-distro
Yes, but much of the reason the Vista install has grown is because they're including much more bundles in this one than before, so yes, Linux may include even more, but the reason both grows is the same. Vista will compared to XP also include: a search based on Windows Desktop Search, Windows Defender, Windows SideShow, Windows Calendar, Windows Photo Gallery, Windows DVD Maker, Windows Collaboration, BitLocker, new games (Chess, Mahjong, Purble Place), Services for UNIX.
So it's unfair to say that it's unfair to say that only Linux is gaining size from bundles.;-)
Personally, I thought the idea of overly many bundles were idiotic, Windows and Linux editions/distros alike.
Instead release free/cheap "Addon Packs" to order on CD's for those who want, or via a slick OS integration for direct downloads if you have a good connection. For Linux/Windows to assume that everyone should want the bundled Movie Maker or other esoteric applications is just plain stupid IMHO.
This is egregious. Think about this. China belongs to the WTO. They use slave labor, actively kill and imprison union organizers. They allow massive pollution. They built the environmental holocaust the three gorges dam which now clogs itself with Yangtze river silt. They ban its citizens from owning firearms and use the military and as a police force.
But how many dollars do US lose on these activities?
This is about the World Trade Organization -- making money.
100mbps is available to home users, but not that common.
Uh, where I live, in a small ass town in Sweden (far from large urban area), basically everyone in apartments can get 100 Mbps. Everyone that can get 10 Mbps should easily be able to get 100 Mbps, if you're talking the largest broadband provider in Sweden.
Oh, and one more thing. There's not even a link to the infringing material in the torrents either (and hence on TPB). Just a hash. That should realistically tie torrent files to the actual material, not like direct links, but more like a description a person gives for a piece of software.
Now, it gets even better than this. According to people over there the national police happen to keep whingeing about not having enough manpower, etc. to enforce problems like drug trafficing, etc. and little gets done about real problems- but they can muster 50(!) people to "bust" a place that doesn't do anything illegal per their laws as a result of pressure being put on them from MPAA and others in the US. It's my understanding that there's a lot of people pissed about it over there right now.
Agreed, I'm a Swede and there are problems with police shortage in many cities here. Ours would basically celebrate if we got as few as 10-20 more our way to, you know, handle abuse and rape and drug cases.
To make matters worse, the Swedish police have also earlier said they aren't intending to prioritize these cases too much, which made a lot of sense given the overall situation. Then this happens, where they get 50 officers to arrest 3 people and clean 1 server hall. If it weren't for the serious matters here, I'd start trying to come up with "how many Swedish police officers does it take to screw in a lightbulb", but I'm to annoyed to be in the mood right now.:-p
Anyway, thankfully, the case with piracy involved hasn't scared away politicians, and a political party member has contacted the Parliamentary Ombudsman part for these reasons, part for others in this controversial move (like not granting lawyer defense for one of the arrested, but still for another), and it remains to be seen whether any actions will be taken against Thomas Bodström.
The Swedish Police site, www.polisen.se, was taken out for a day with a sustained DoS attack. An investigation has been started.
Although you don't say so, as an IRC visitor seeing things on EFNet #piratbyran.org, I'd just like to add that neither the Pirate Bay, the Swedish Piracy Party or the Swedish Piracy Bureau was behind this. (wow, we're starting to have a lot of those organizations!)
Just saying, because it's easy to draw conclusions.:-)
I'd call it more like a work of scriptkiddies who don't know that attacking our Police is only drawing attention from the real issue at hand with how the attack on our legal system was made, and unecessarily making pirates look like assholes DDoS'ing sites as soon as they have a backlash. Actually, people behind the "Piracy Bureau" felt strongly about this DDoS attack for this reason, and them ruining their work in trying to discredit Thomas Bodström about this.
I've kept myself from banning Flash, because I've noticed that is a video distribution medium quite many start to agree on. Sure, you can ban all sorts of mediums and codecs, but then you won't get much video at all.:-p To get decent coverage, focus just on a few (1-3 or so) that's common.
I don't like the User Account Controls either, but this is coincidentally one of the areas in Vista that has seen most work on it the past few months, and Microsoft claims they understnad it's a problem and will keep trying to reduce the annoyance.
OK, you may now proceed the bashing for annoying UAC's in this beta.:-)
As for the tasks VB are not suited for (again, I only know VB6, not VB.Net) the biggest glaring omission in my experience was the lack of decent Regular Expressions, or Hash Tables / "Dictionaries"--unless you link to the VBScript/IE6 library like everyone used to.
Just FYI about.NET:
VB.NET directly supports dictionaries, even by using generics.
It also suports reasonably powerful regular expressions via the System.Text.RegularExpressions namespace.
Wow, 50 police men... That's more than we have on duty in our city, and they're too few. And they're supposed to handle, you know, abuse and stuff. Something here feels pretty wrong.
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Not even a point in judging Sony when they tell the devs to not read from local memory, and doesn't mention upcoming steppings to solve this? That seem to tell me that this will be a real issue. If not, it seems to me they'd rather have been very eager to tell it was being worked on.
It's still to this day talked about, and it's not even out yet! :-p
1. Microsoft doesn't want the web to enable something that will threaten its monopoly in OS and Office software.
It's kind of funny they're behind this whole asynchronous XML technology then. It's the closest to at least a widely adopted de facto standard doing what you describe that I've seen at least.
Use Lynx.
Yes, and that things gets harder to shut down isn't a one time occurence either.
We got centralized Napster to introduce P2P to the masses, then things like Kazaa, Gnutella, eDonkey and Overnet, with them shifting focus more and more to decentralized implementations. Now we have BitTorrent which has a centralized tracker, but intelligently set up to not host or transmit anything copyrighted, which can both put it in a legal grey zone, and also make it quite easy to set up. And that's not even the cutting edge P2P tools -- these would be the existing and upcoming anonymous clients.
With a future, at least in Sweden where I live, of 10 and 100 Mbps connections fairly common, there's tons of redundant bandwidth all over in case you can accept e.g a 0.5-1 Mbps down/up speed which is more than enough for reasonably efficient piracy. And that extra bandwidth could probably be enough for "anonymizing" clients.
And once you get a fresh new P2P client to get very popular and using encryption with onion routing, I think that's the final nail in the coffin against **AA's "shut down" or even lawsuit strategy. They won't even know whom to sue, unless they venture into the painful realm of tracing through proxies. For effiicent shutdowns or suits, they simply have to move into banning encryption and proxies, and then I suspect pirates will finally find peace, because that won't happen. Tracing people through a maze of proxies in a popular anonymous P2P net is also something I seriously doubt even the police have the resources for on a massive scale.
It would be very interesting to hear **AA commentary on what they think of anonymous nets, something they've had the pleasure of not having overly popular yet due to less performance. But performance will increase proportionally to how popular the network is and how many can share their bandwidth.
Here I'm not even sure the costs of developing HDMI interfaces, starting the DRM industry, developing DMCA laws, etc, is low enough to not be above what's actually lost on piracy (in reality, not theory), but being overprotective about music videos just have to be stopping more advertising value than what money they lost due to free exposure. Do anyone really get tired of music from YouTube videos? :-p That would be a seriously pathetic way to listen to music given the audio quality, which surely matter most?
Too bad that no corporation can control "different distribution channels" on the Internet then.
Sure, they can try, like they did with The Pirate Bay, but it's a different question if they'll succeed.
Yes, some of the large Linux distros are huge, multi-CD behemoths. But they include just about every piece of free software under the sun. For your comparison convenience, here's a list of programs usually included with a mega-distro
;-)
Yes, but much of the reason the Vista install has grown is because they're including much more bundles in this one than before, so yes, Linux may include even more, but the reason both grows is the same. Vista will compared to XP also include: a search based on Windows Desktop Search, Windows Defender, Windows SideShow, Windows Calendar, Windows Photo Gallery, Windows DVD Maker, Windows Collaboration, BitLocker, new games (Chess, Mahjong, Purble Place), Services for UNIX.
So it's unfair to say that it's unfair to say that only Linux is gaining size from bundles.
Personally, I thought the idea of overly many bundles were idiotic, Windows and Linux editions/distros alike.
Instead release free/cheap "Addon Packs" to order on CD's for those who want, or via a slick OS integration for direct downloads if you have a good connection. For Linux/Windows to assume that everyone should want the bundled Movie Maker or other esoteric applications is just plain stupid IMHO.
This is egregious. Think about this. China belongs to the WTO. They use slave labor, actively kill and imprison union organizers. They allow massive pollution. They built the environmental holocaust the three gorges dam which now clogs itself with Yangtze river silt. They ban its citizens from owning firearms and use the military and as a police force.
But how many dollars do US lose on these activities?
This is about the World Trade Organization -- making money.
100mbps is available to home users, but not that common.
Uh, where I live, in a small ass town in Sweden (far from large urban area), basically everyone in apartments can get 100 Mbps. Everyone that can get 10 Mbps should easily be able to get 100 Mbps, if you're talking the largest broadband provider in Sweden.
Oh, and one more thing. There's not even a link to the infringing material in the torrents either (and hence on TPB). Just a hash. That should realistically tie torrent files to the actual material, not like direct links, but more like a description a person gives for a piece of software.
Actually, to be completely correct, isn't a .torrent file copyrighted by the person creating it? :-)
I think copyright defense is automatic for created material.
Now, it gets even better than this. According to people over there the national police happen to keep whingeing about not having enough manpower, etc. to enforce problems like drug trafficing, etc. and little gets done about real problems- but they can muster 50(!) people to "bust" a place that doesn't do anything illegal per their laws as a result of pressure being put on them from MPAA and others in the US. It's my understanding that there's a lot of people pissed about it over there right now.
:-p
Agreed, I'm a Swede and there are problems with police shortage in many cities here. Ours would basically celebrate if we got as few as 10-20 more our way to, you know, handle abuse and rape and drug cases.
To make matters worse, the Swedish police have also earlier said they aren't intending to prioritize these cases too much, which made a lot of sense given the overall situation. Then this happens, where they get 50 officers to arrest 3 people and clean 1 server hall. If it weren't for the serious matters here, I'd start trying to come up with "how many Swedish police officers does it take to screw in a lightbulb", but I'm to annoyed to be in the mood right now.
Anyway, thankfully, the case with piracy involved hasn't scared away politicians, and a political party member has contacted the Parliamentary Ombudsman part for these reasons, part for others in this controversial move (like not granting lawyer defense for one of the arrested, but still for another), and it remains to be seen whether any actions will be taken against Thomas Bodström.
Well, you could read up on contributory copyright infringement, safe harbor provisions and other elements of US copyright law.
Oh come on!
BitTorrent.com struck a deal even with MPAA a while ago, to make this thing legal:
http://bittorrent.com/
Now tell me, how the fuck is this providing any less of a safe harbor for copyright holders?
The Swedish Police site, www.polisen.se, was taken out for a day with a sustained DoS attack. An investigation has been started.
:-)
Although you don't say so, as an IRC visitor seeing things on EFNet #piratbyran.org, I'd just like to add that neither the Pirate Bay, the Swedish Piracy Party or the Swedish Piracy Bureau was behind this. (wow, we're starting to have a lot of those organizations!)
Just saying, because it's easy to draw conclusions.
I'd call it more like a work of scriptkiddies who don't know that attacking our Police is only drawing attention from the real issue at hand with how the attack on our legal system was made, and unecessarily making pirates look like assholes DDoS'ing sites as soon as they have a backlash. Actually, people behind the "Piracy Bureau" felt strongly about this DDoS attack for this reason, and them ruining their work in trying to discredit Thomas Bodström about this.
Although the mods don't agree with me, while a bit funny, I believe there's at least as much of "Insightful" in there too.
Especially when talking piracy, which always seem to be related to the trends of falling music sales and cinema visits.
Why? Because the statistics tell so.
But it's Firefox! :-p
I've kept myself from banning Flash, because I've noticed that is a video distribution medium quite many start to agree on. Sure, you can ban all sorts of mediums and codecs, but then you won't get much video at all. :-p To get decent coverage, focus just on a few (1-3 or so) that's common.
Come on Yahoo, to compete with the others, you need to offer something they don't do.
:-)
It is time to unlock the holy grail of video broadcasting.
The unfailing solution.
It is time to allow porn uploads!
Thanks for that! :-)
:-p
Yes, I saw it was one of those
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And they of all people have the guts to complain about a "maze" in Vista.
I don't like the User Account Controls either, but this is coincidentally one of the areas in Vista that has seen most work on it the past few months, and Microsoft claims they understnad it's a problem and will keep trying to reduce the annoyance.
:-)
OK, you may now proceed the bashing for annoying UAC's in this beta.
Yep, this sounds about right. I recall installing the DevilsOwn final release sometime in September. :-)
As for the tasks VB are not suited for (again, I only know VB6, not VB.Net) the biggest glaring omission in my experience was the lack of decent Regular Expressions, or Hash Tables / "Dictionaries"--unless you link to the VBScript/IE6 library like everyone used to.
.NET:
Just FYI about
VB.NET directly supports dictionaries, even by using generics.
It also suports reasonably powerful regular expressions via the System.Text.RegularExpressions namespace.
Wow, 50 police men... That's more than we have on duty in our city, and they're too few. And they're supposed to handle, you know, abuse and stuff. Something here feels pretty wrong.