Yes, but music will outlive these people. Art and entertainment is a human adventure, it has value beyond dollars and sense. Part of the reason why marijuana is illegal in the US is a racial slur and detainment of musicians http://www.google.com/search?q=marijuana+illegal+j azz+musicians
It cracks me up that when I go to a concert, the law and everybody knows what we do there, but they mostly tolerate it. They bust a token number of people for stupid stuff, but _let_ 99.999% of us do what we want, simply because everybody wants to have the time that we do even though they "can't".
Music is as much of a part of the human experience as fire. Some sociologists theorize that division of labor and society came together so that we could hang out around a fire at night and get drunk, dance, and participate in music. But people that cannot provide these things but are good at power and money continually try to get more money and emphasize their power by suppressing us, but we always win. "The kids will dance and shake their bones. It's all too clear were on our own."
The sad thing is that even some of the musicians are getting into the greed thing. Do a search on Bob Weir and archive.org with their soundboard releases of Grateful Dead shows. John Barlow, the cofounder of EFF, http://www.eff.org/ says "Its bad karma to go against deadheads".
I just woke up and am hung over from drinking and listening to music last night, sorry for the incoherence in this post.
The good thing is that music will live and we will still do it with or without a "music industry". The bad thing is that money and power and greed will also live.
Sadly, it's more like 0.1% (although most citizens seem to be pretty familiar with the Simpsons).
It could be much lower than that:
The telephone survey of 1,000 adults was conducted Jan. 20-22 by the research firm Synovate and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Maybe you should look at your nations history and ask yourself how America got to the place it is and what the Patriot Act actually signifies.
The US got where it is by land acquisition and military force. We have good land, lots of resources like food and oil, safe from physical attack. You don't think the US is in the middle of world maps by accident, right? (that was humor).
We also have a good higher education system, and plenty of slave labor domestically and abroad.
I bet 98% of people posting here can't name two provisions in the Patriot Act.
1) Warrantless wiretaps 2) Warrentless detainment by the government without arrest or right to legal council
I'm rather tired of people going nuts over the Patriot Act when their only source for information is the Daily Show with John Stewart. To have an informed opinion, do at least some of the following: (1) Read the bill (2) Read analysis by law PROFESSORS (not tv-journalists) (3) Read analysis by lawyers nationally regarded as experts.
Name me two senators that did more than one of the above, if that.
I saw the Daily Show where a Democratic senator said that he was against the USA PATRIOT Act (see signature for acronym expansion). His main reason he was against it was because he did read it.
To expect an average american citizen to do the 3 things listed above is ridiculous. The average american works hard, makes a moderate amount of money, has 2 kids, has only a HS education, believes Saddam did 9/11/01 stuff, thinks Brittney Spears was good before she got married and pregnant, and has NEVER heard of the patriot act.
Since when does reading illegal and unconstitutional legislation supersede reading and abiding by the constitution? If our elected leaders cannot do these things, how can the average american be expected to do them?
Before, it was always a bit sketchy comparing Win/*nix apps against OSX apps due to hardware differences. Now that the hardware is starting to become more "common", direct comparisions will take on more meaning.
What? If it takes 20 seconds to do something on one OS/computer combination, and 10 seconds to do the same thing on another OS/computer combination, what is so difficult to compare?
I regularly do benchmarks across different OSes, hardware, and compilers. I've always assumed that the lowest numbers were better. Am I doing my job wrong?
Not to mention bring and take, as in the university laptop article earlier today.
You take to somewhere, you bring something along with you.
You don't bring something to somebody. This is _wrong_ "Bring this to your boss." The correct is "Take this to your boss." Bring is a passive verb, take is an active one.
The vocabulary of people has at least halved or more over the past 100 years. It seems as though they can use the right words and put them in the right order. Also, our language is so much more terse than it used to be. Simple sentences, maybe a compound one from time to time. That is usually what I use when I write.
I know I'm going to get modded down by the Google fanboys in this crowd, but please put down the koolaid and think about it.
I'm a Google fanboy, but am not affected by your post in the least. I hate koolaid.
Google has no authority to sue for fraud, that is a criminal thing, not a civil one. Google has worked hard against scamming SEO people, and its a cat and mouse game. Remember how Google.de unlisted bmw.de from their search engine? No lawsuit required. AFAIK, every business has the right to choose who they want to do business with.
Now with AdSense, so what if silly fly by night webfronts pay google for ads on their cheesy site? These sites will never gain real popularity (typosquating anybody??) They are the business parallel to scavengers. All in all they are benign, albeit annoying at times.
Look at the ads here on slashdot from time to time. I saw one this morning advertising to us geeks for email and a remote desktop solution that is now up to 2x as fast. WTF? If people on this site don't know how to do remote things on their computer or access email, nobody will, even with a service that does it for you. Oh, and still to this day, even off of the google.com domain, the ads are not CPU hogging flash animations or shaking animated gifs that look like a Windows dialog box withdrawing from heroin. Granted, I haven't seen the latter yet on slashdot, but plenty of ads for stuff that I think is quasi fraudulent and worthless.
Have faith in the system, do your work, do it honestly.
The problem is that many/most people work the system backwards.
In other words, its the eternal ends vs means thing. For some reason, people equate money or desired goods with happiness and success. Few people realize that humans are social animals, and real joy (and money) comes from doing good things for people, and they gladly pay you for it.
Deception and greed will get you nowhere. The only benefit is that you are so busy being selfish and keeping track of and hiding your lies and deceit that you don't realize how miserable you are until that one day...
it sounds like they're really pushing them on the students.
No, they are only requiring them. Its much easier for the campus to maintain a standard student image and just reclone their computer when they hose it. The IT geeks have all of the drivers and patches stable and standard software that the students use, in the end its cheaper and for a student to go with such a program.
Isn't this just making senders pay postage costs? We don't object to that in the real world -- why the outrage now?
Computers are logical, humans are not. A majority of humans logic abilities and intelligence halves in front of a computer. (The same goes with mobile phones I guess).
Would anybody drive a car if it crashed as often as a computer? A calculator? A TV? Nope.
Try explaining email forwarding to someone who has moved and filed a change of address and never got their mail, but they don't trust or understand the email forwarding.
Try explaining to media moguls that there are things like portable digital music players, DVRs, and HTPCs, but they refuse to sell content for those platforms.
Try to explain that computers are incapable of reliably adding numbers to determine who got the most votes.
Try to explain why people open their snail mail by the trashcan and trow a majority of it in the trash without opening it or thinking about it, but they open emails from anybody, and repeatedly open malware that is packaged with them.
Try to explain that computer viruses are curable, AIDS and other real human viruses are not.
Try to explain to someone who just had their laptop stolen that they would have lost their data anyway because it was not backed up, and that laptop theft is orders of magnitude less likely to happen than the inevitable harddisk crash.
An anonymous reader writes "Indiana State University will become the first public university in the state to require all students to have notebook computers, beginning with incoming freshmen in fall 2007. Guess which laptop is the preferred one..." I started bringing laptops to class around my Junior year. I'm unconvinced that they helped me with my grades.
I'm talking about the private key which is what is needed to sign a driver.
Ah, now I see it. I trust my systems implicitly, at least for system software/drivers and stuff, I have not experience with signed drivers and whatnot.
But yes, the parent is completely right. If I make a simple off by one correction in a driver, and my system is more stable now, I could not get that driver signed very easily.
Odds are there will be a way around this. But it does kill the fix it yourself model.
I've been beta testing Vista for a while now. After installing Vista, I swear to God - the OS cached every single EXE file on my computer in a folder in the root of Vista's installation drive. Each EXE file is given its own subfolder in this folder, with the same name as the file followed by a unique hash. Each subfolder contains the EXE file and several accompanying files, at least two of which are XML documents.
When all was said and done, this folder took up nearly 5GB on disk. I can't even open this drive in Explorer. I let it sit for about 20 minutes once and my PC slowed to a crawl
Whatever this godawful "feature" is, I hope it is removed for the final version.
This "feature" is the supposed "trusted" applications thing.
I used to do the same thing with downloading pictures off of alt.binaries newsgroups.
What I would do is use a unix command called 'suck' and suck down the entire newsgroup since the last time I sucked it down. It would then do md5 checksums of the decoded pictures and store them in a MySQL database. Duplicate md5 checksums were automatically deleted. Either I had seen the pic before, or more than likely it was spam. Hey, even porn spam is cool sometimes, but once is more than enough. This was not resource intensive for a basic 64bit machine in the late 90s.
The thing is, that this did not need to be a 5 Gig slowing a machine to a crawl feature. Doing the checksum on a binary and storing it into a simple db is not that tough. Its a good idea. I run md5 checksums on all of my binaries every night to tell if something has changed. Its valuable when multiple people have root, so you know when something is screwed up and the binary just changed, odds are....
Anyway, it sounds like a good idea, but a very poor execution of the idea. Kinda sounds like the registry?
However, Vista pesters you for permission to run just about every exe out there for the very first time, assumedly before it has been registered as 'safe'.
Windows pesters users with "information", questions, exclamations, and tips.
The registered as "safe" thing will be meaningless as soon as one of MSs "safe" apps has a vulnerability, or the "safe" thing is bypassed, or whatever. Microsoft's batting average for hitting desired goal to actuality is pretty low -- except for sales and marketshare and vendor lockin.
Obviously the latter has something significant in this world.
I can pretty much guarentee that no freeware developer or OSS project can or will support a $500/year certificate that has to remain secret or be revoked.
There are many OSS projects that can pay $500/year for a cert. It just seems stupid to pay that. Linux, apache, freebsd, tons of other OSS projects can and would pay for it if it were worthwhile.
Remaining secret? Public keys are public, all of public/private keys are basically the same, you keep your private key private, preferably on a hardware tamperproof hardware device that zeros out the data on intrusion. Something like this, or some other FIPS compliant device.
WTF hardware are you running that has 9TB cache? Netapp 980 tops out at only 16GB, Sun StorEdge 9990 System tops out at 128GB, IBM DS8300 tops out at 256GB, Hitachi TagmaStore tops out at 256GB, and EMC Symmetrix DMX-3 tops out at 512GB. If there's a SAN player I'm not aware of that has 38 times the capacity of EMC's biggest box I would be VERY suprised.
Generic PCs running modified Linux kernels.
The cache is aggregate between the tape silos and the users, its not RAM.
Sorry for the confusion, if any. Electron accelerators dump bunches of data, and even I get lost in the shuffle from time to time.
I don't. There is a difference between deserving to die, and actually doing so. MS can keep DirectX alive for a LOOOOONG time, for no good reason at all.
Yeah, but if nobody uses it, then its dead.
What compelling reason is there to use DirectX over open standards and being able to sell more copies of a game to more platforms?
DirectX, like most all of MS's formats are a moving target. They get slower over time, but Win2k was killed because it did not support MS's own latest and greatest DirectX.
Who cares? Windows is just what comes with the cheap PCs. People that care know better.
The whole kernel has been reorganized and rewritten to help prevent software from affecting the system in unsavory ways.
I personally made up the X.uhoh term for untested software that is released to the public. You might have heard of it.
The dialog box of the defragmenter (who still does this in 2006 anyway?) is still confusing.
What is different from "OK" and "Defragment Now"? If unsure, hit OK.
Media center updates?
That is a separate product, one of the 6 that will be offered.
Audio now does not BSOD? What is a BSOD? Who invented that, and why is that useful?
Better audio fidelity? The ones are pointier and the zeros must be rounder.
I believe Direct X will die in lieu of OpenGL. OS X runs on x86 now, and game developers will probably embrace an open and portable platform vs a proprietary one. Incidentally, in 1996 or 7 a Direct X "upgrade" that hosed my system is when I stopped using windows personally.
Security? I'll believe it when I hear about it. I thought MS was going to charge monthly for security?
The only compelling feature that I thought was interesting about Vista would have been WinFS, but that seems to be missing from this release.
I doubt I will "upgrade" from OS X or Linux despite their issues.
My current "NAS" offerings consist of 2 400 Gig hds connected to my Mac and shared over wireless and wired network through my house. I have "big boy" NASs at work. 9 TB cache servers and robot tape silos and whatnot for just shy of infinite storage.
I don't see how a NAS-in-a-box could be more robust or cost effective, but what do I know?
It took computer makers 15 years with regular television sets, and I'm beginning to think it will take another 15 years for HD (if ever).
Maybe it did take 15 years, but it seemed like the entire home PC business started with TV monitors. The home PC came out in what, 1978? TV based models, Atari and commodore used TV monitors in the early 80s or earlier. Console games used TVs from day one.
Whoever wants to have a true media center HD computer has to be able to handle all inputs including component, overscan, and picture balance right from the remote.
My DVR does this.
It's either going to be SED or OLED displays with 4 HDMI inputs and built in cablecard3/ATSC tuners, and cheap enough to think that everyone has one. The content industry is trying to kill off component and DVI entirely, and I'm beginning to think they will succeed.
The display technology is a mute issue. As long as the crap gets on the screen and looks good or "good enough for the cost" who cares if its SED, OLED, LCOS (which I believe is best), CRT, or crayons. The FCC has embraced the "analog hole" in the US, and requires DVRs to have some kind of archival output. The content morons kill me. I pay over $150/month for cable/DVR/internet and telephone to the same company for content that is mostly advertiser supported. Is that not enough? They can raise the price, but I will not pay any more, its hard to justify what I spend today, but I believe that the content and time convenience to watch it is currently worth it. I could always cut cable and read a book, I've done it before and gone without TV/cable for years at a time. Its not that big deal, but I enjoy spending time with friends watching cool stuff in HDTV. Its very difficult to hang out, drink beer, and read books together.
I don't know or care if they have fixed the deleting user under Tiger. I don't have the desire to test it when its just as easy for me to archive the data myself.
I've issued bug reports for the finder with Apple, and they told me it was a "known issue", and they have done some updates to improve it, but it now has new bugs.
Granted, the scrolling may be a preference I set, I could test it under a new user to see if it is an issue I introduced.
Does the parent know something about Tiger that I don't? I mean, how can it be said that these known bugs are not bugs?
I'm not knocking the parent, but I would prefer a more robust environment like Panther provides with the features of spotlight. And if its something unique to me, I would like to know.
I do not see how bad RAM would cause scrolling to go to fast, or antialiased fonts to be fuzzy, or archiving a user's home directory slowly without any feedback, or any of these issues.
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what better pent-up group of emotions than pre-adolescent, innocent females would there be to manipulate?
My how times have changed....
"I'm not that innocent"
-- Britney Spears
Yes, but music will outlive these people. Art and entertainment is a human adventure, it has value beyond dollars and sense. Part of the reason why marijuana is illegal in the US is a racial slur and detainment of musicians http://www.google.com/search?q=marijuana+illegal+
It cracks me up that when I go to a concert, the law and everybody knows what we do there, but they mostly tolerate it. They bust a token number of people for stupid stuff, but _let_ 99.999% of us do what we want, simply because everybody wants to have the time that we do even though they "can't".
Music is as much of a part of the human experience as fire. Some sociologists theorize that division of labor and society came together so that we could hang out around a fire at night and get drunk, dance, and participate in music. But people that cannot provide these things but are good at power and money continually try to get more money and emphasize their power by suppressing us, but we always win. "The kids will dance and shake their bones. It's all too clear were on our own."
The sad thing is that even some of the musicians are getting into the greed thing. Do a search on Bob Weir and archive.org with their soundboard releases of Grateful Dead shows. John Barlow, the cofounder of EFF, http://www.eff.org/ says "Its bad karma to go against deadheads".
I just woke up and am hung over from drinking and listening to music last night, sorry for the incoherence in this post.
The good thing is that music will live and we will still do it with or without a "music industry". The bad thing is that money and power and greed will also live.
These calls are legitmate, authorized in writing by patients
Let me guess. That written authorization comes somewhere on the two page "privacy policy" that ends with the phrase:
We may change this policy at any time without your consent.
I hand them my privacy policy instead.
Sadly, it's more like 0.1% (although most citizens seem to be pretty familiar with the Simpsons).
It could be much lower than that:
The telephone survey of 1,000 adults was conducted Jan. 20-22 by the research firm Synovate and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Maybe you should look at your nations history and ask yourself how America got to the place it is and what the Patriot Act actually signifies.
The US got where it is by land acquisition and military force. We have good land, lots of resources like food and oil, safe from physical attack. You don't think the US is in the middle of world maps by accident, right? (that was humor).
We also have a good higher education system, and plenty of slave labor domestically and abroad.
I bet 98% of people posting here can't name two provisions in the Patriot Act.
1) Warrantless wiretaps
2) Warrentless detainment by the government without arrest or right to legal council
I'm rather tired of people going nuts over the Patriot Act when their only source for information is the Daily Show with John Stewart. To have an informed opinion, do at least some of the following:
(1) Read the bill
(2) Read analysis by law PROFESSORS (not tv-journalists)
(3) Read analysis by lawyers nationally regarded as experts.
Name me two senators that did more than one of the above, if that.
I saw the Daily Show where a Democratic senator said that he was against the USA PATRIOT Act (see signature for acronym expansion). His main reason he was against it was because he did read it.
To expect an average american citizen to do the 3 things listed above is ridiculous. The average american works hard, makes a moderate amount of money, has 2 kids, has only a HS education, believes Saddam did 9/11/01 stuff, thinks Brittney Spears was good before she got married and pregnant, and has NEVER heard of the patriot act.
Since when does reading illegal and unconstitutional legislation supersede reading and abiding by the constitution? If our elected leaders cannot do these things, how can the average american be expected to do them?
Before, it was always a bit sketchy comparing Win/*nix apps against OSX apps due to hardware differences. Now that the hardware is starting to become more "common", direct comparisions will take on more meaning.
What? If it takes 20 seconds to do something on one OS/computer combination, and 10 seconds to do the same thing on another OS/computer combination, what is so difficult to compare?
I regularly do benchmarks across different OSes, hardware, and compilers. I've always assumed that the lowest numbers were better. Am I doing my job wrong?
Grammar nazi prewarning.
Not to mention bring and take, as in the university laptop article earlier today.
You take to somewhere, you bring something along with you.
You don't bring something to somebody. This is _wrong_ "Bring this to your boss." The correct is "Take this to your boss." Bring is a passive verb, take is an active one.
The vocabulary of people has at least halved or more over the past 100 years. It seems as though they can use the right words and put them in the right order. Also, our language is so much more terse than it used to be. Simple sentences, maybe a compound one from time to time. That is usually what I use when I write.
end grammar nazi war for me at least
I know I'm going to get modded down by the Google fanboys in this crowd, but please put down the koolaid and think about it.
I'm a Google fanboy, but am not affected by your post in the least. I hate koolaid.
Google has no authority to sue for fraud, that is a criminal thing, not a civil one. Google has worked hard against scamming SEO people, and its a cat and mouse game. Remember how Google.de unlisted bmw.de from their search engine? No lawsuit required. AFAIK, every business has the right to choose who they want to do business with.
Now with AdSense, so what if silly fly by night webfronts pay google for ads on their cheesy site? These sites will never gain real popularity (typosquating anybody??) They are the business parallel to scavengers. All in all they are benign, albeit annoying at times.
Look at the ads here on slashdot from time to time. I saw one this morning advertising to us geeks for email and a remote desktop solution that is now up to 2x as fast. WTF? If people on this site don't know how to do remote things on their computer or access email, nobody will, even with a service that does it for you. Oh, and still to this day, even off of the google.com domain, the ads are not CPU hogging flash animations or shaking animated gifs that look like a Windows dialog box withdrawing from heroin. Granted, I haven't seen the latter yet on slashdot, but plenty of ads for stuff that I think is quasi fraudulent and worthless.
Have faith in the system, do your work, do it honestly.
The problem is that many/most people work the system backwards.
In other words, its the eternal ends vs means thing. For some reason, people equate money or desired goods with happiness and success. Few people realize that humans are social animals, and real joy (and money) comes from doing good things for people, and they gladly pay you for it.
Deception and greed will get you nowhere. The only benefit is that you are so busy being selfish and keeping track of and hiding your lies and deceit that you don't realize how miserable you are until that one day...
it sounds like they're really pushing them on the students.
No, they are only requiring them. Its much easier for the campus to maintain a standard student image and just reclone their computer when they hose it. The IT geeks have all of the drivers and patches stable and standard software that the students use, in the end its cheaper and for a student to go with such a program.
Isn't this just making senders pay postage costs? We don't object to that in the real world -- why the outrage now?
Computers are logical, humans are not. A majority of humans logic abilities and intelligence halves in front of a computer. (The same goes with mobile phones I guess).
Would anybody drive a car if it crashed as often as a computer? A calculator? A TV? Nope.
Try explaining email forwarding to someone who has moved and filed a change of address and never got their mail, but they don't trust or understand the email forwarding.
Try explaining to media moguls that there are things like portable digital music players, DVRs, and HTPCs, but they refuse to sell content for those platforms.
Try to explain that computers are incapable of reliably adding numbers to determine who got the most votes.
Try to explain why people open their snail mail by the trashcan and trow a majority of it in the trash without opening it or thinking about it, but they open emails from anybody, and repeatedly open malware that is packaged with them.
Try to explain that computer viruses are curable, AIDS and other real human viruses are not.
Try to explain to someone who just had their laptop stolen that they would have lost their data anyway because it was not backed up, and that laptop theft is orders of magnitude less likely to happen than the inevitable harddisk crash.
Thank god computers are logical.
An anonymous reader writes "Indiana State University will become the first public university in the state to require all students to have notebook computers, beginning with incoming freshmen in fall 2007. Guess which laptop is the preferred one..." I started bringing laptops to class around my Junior year. I'm unconvinced that they helped me with my grades.
Bring/take, PowerBook/Chinese rebranded ThinkPad, notebook/laptop
Its all the same.
BTW, don't a number of universities require notebooks already? I know my local state funded one does.
I double checked the appearance tab, no scrolling speeds there.
I created a new account and DNDed a link in safari to a new tab, and it scrolled 1/4 of the way up the page before landing on the tab.
I guess my system is screwy, its too fast or something.
I'm talking about the private key which is what is needed to sign a driver.
Ah, now I see it. I trust my systems implicitly, at least for system software/drivers and stuff, I have not experience with signed drivers and whatnot.
But yes, the parent is completely right. If I make a simple off by one correction in a driver, and my system is more stable now, I could not get that driver signed very easily.
Odds are there will be a way around this. But it does kill the fix it yourself model.
I've been beta testing Vista for a while now. After installing Vista, I swear to God - the OS cached every single EXE file on my computer in a folder in the root of Vista's installation drive. Each EXE file is given its own subfolder in this folder, with the same name as the file followed by a unique hash. Each subfolder contains the EXE file and several accompanying files, at least two of which are XML documents.
When all was said and done, this folder took up nearly 5GB on disk. I can't even open this drive in Explorer. I let it sit for about 20 minutes once and my PC slowed to a crawl
Whatever this godawful "feature" is, I hope it is removed for the final version.
This "feature" is the supposed "trusted" applications thing.
I used to do the same thing with downloading pictures off of alt.binaries newsgroups.
What I would do is use a unix command called 'suck' and suck down the entire newsgroup since the last time I sucked it down. It would then do md5 checksums of the decoded pictures and store them in a MySQL database. Duplicate md5 checksums were automatically deleted. Either I had seen the pic before, or more than likely it was spam. Hey, even porn spam is cool sometimes, but once is more than enough. This was not resource intensive for a basic 64bit machine in the late 90s.
The thing is, that this did not need to be a 5 Gig slowing a machine to a crawl feature. Doing the checksum on a binary and storing it into a simple db is not that tough. Its a good idea. I run md5 checksums on all of my binaries every night to tell if something has changed. Its valuable when multiple people have root, so you know when something is screwed up and the binary just changed, odds are....
Anyway, it sounds like a good idea, but a very poor execution of the idea. Kinda sounds like the registry?
However, Vista pesters you for permission to run just about every exe out there for the very first time, assumedly before it has been registered as 'safe'.
Windows pesters users with "information", questions, exclamations, and tips.
The registered as "safe" thing will be meaningless as soon as one of MSs "safe" apps has a vulnerability, or the "safe" thing is bypassed, or whatever. Microsoft's batting average for hitting desired goal to actuality is pretty low -- except for sales and marketshare and vendor lockin.
Obviously the latter has something significant in this world.
I can pretty much guarentee that no freeware developer or OSS project can or will support a $500/year certificate that has to remain secret or be revoked.
There are many OSS projects that can pay $500/year for a cert. It just seems stupid to pay that. Linux, apache, freebsd, tons of other OSS projects can and would pay for it if it were worthwhile.
Remaining secret? Public keys are public, all of public/private keys are basically the same, you keep your private key private, preferably on a hardware tamperproof hardware device that zeros out the data on intrusion. Something like this, or some other FIPS compliant device.
Cheers!
WTF hardware are you running that has 9TB cache? Netapp 980 tops out at only 16GB, Sun StorEdge 9990 System tops out at 128GB, IBM DS8300 tops out at 256GB, Hitachi TagmaStore tops out at 256GB, and EMC Symmetrix DMX-3 tops out at 512GB. If there's a SAN player I'm not aware of that has 38 times the capacity of EMC's biggest box I would be VERY suprised.
Generic PCs running modified Linux kernels.
The cache is aggregate between the tape silos and the users, its not RAM.
Sorry for the confusion, if any. Electron accelerators dump bunches of data, and even I get lost in the shuffle from time to time.
I don't. There is a difference between deserving to die, and actually doing so. MS can keep DirectX alive for a LOOOOONG time, for no good reason at all.
Yeah, but if nobody uses it, then its dead.
What compelling reason is there to use DirectX over open standards and being able to sell more copies of a game to more platforms?
DirectX, like most all of MS's formats are a moving target. They get slower over time, but Win2k was killed because it did not support MS's own latest and greatest DirectX.
Who cares? Windows is just what comes with the cheap PCs. People that care know better.
I thought the scrolling could be a preference and looked for it, I'll double check that.
The other things are known issues, many verified with Apple via their bug reporting system.
From the FTA:
The whole kernel has been reorganized and rewritten to help prevent software from affecting the system in unsavory ways.
I personally made up the X.uhoh term for untested software that is released to the public. You might have heard of it.
The dialog box of the defragmenter (who still does this in 2006 anyway?) is still confusing.
What is different from "OK" and "Defragment Now"? If unsure, hit OK.
Media center updates?
That is a separate product, one of the 6 that will be offered.
Audio now does not BSOD? What is a BSOD? Who invented that, and why is that useful?
Better audio fidelity? The ones are pointier and the zeros must be rounder.
I believe Direct X will die in lieu of OpenGL. OS X runs on x86 now, and game developers will probably embrace an open and portable platform vs a proprietary one. Incidentally, in 1996 or 7 a Direct X "upgrade" that hosed my system is when I stopped using windows personally.
Security? I'll believe it when I hear about it. I thought MS was going to charge monthly for security?
The only compelling feature that I thought was interesting about Vista would have been WinFS, but that seems to be missing from this release.
I doubt I will "upgrade" from OS X or Linux despite their issues.
My current "NAS" offerings consist of 2 400 Gig hds connected to my Mac and shared over wireless and wired network through my house. I have "big boy" NASs at work. 9 TB cache servers and robot tape silos and whatnot for just shy of infinite storage.
I don't see how a NAS-in-a-box could be more robust or cost effective, but what do I know?
It took computer makers 15 years with regular television sets, and I'm beginning to think it will take another 15 years for HD (if ever).
Maybe it did take 15 years, but it seemed like the entire home PC business started with TV monitors. The home PC came out in what, 1978? TV based models, Atari and commodore used TV monitors in the early 80s or earlier. Console games used TVs from day one.
Whoever wants to have a true media center HD computer has to be able to handle all inputs including component, overscan, and picture balance right from the remote.
My DVR does this.
It's either going to be SED or OLED displays with 4 HDMI inputs and built in cablecard3/ATSC tuners, and cheap enough to think that everyone has one. The content industry is trying to kill off component and DVI entirely, and I'm beginning to think they will succeed.
The display technology is a mute issue. As long as the crap gets on the screen and looks good or "good enough for the cost" who cares if its SED, OLED, LCOS (which I believe is best), CRT, or crayons. The FCC has embraced the "analog hole" in the US, and requires DVRs to have some kind of archival output. The content morons kill me. I pay over $150/month for cable/DVR/internet and telephone to the same company for content that is mostly advertiser supported. Is that not enough? They can raise the price, but I will not pay any more, its hard to justify what I spend today, but I believe that the content and time convenience to watch it is currently worth it. I could always cut cable and read a book, I've done it before and gone without TV/cable for years at a time. Its not that big deal, but I enjoy spending time with friends watching cool stuff in HDTV. Its very difficult to hang out, drink beer, and read books together.
The antialiasing is a known issue.
I don't know or care if they have fixed the deleting user under Tiger. I don't have the desire to test it when its just as easy for me to archive the data myself.
I've issued bug reports for the finder with Apple, and they told me it was a "known issue", and they have done some updates to improve it, but it now has new bugs.
Granted, the scrolling may be a preference I set, I could test it under a new user to see if it is an issue I introduced.
The CoreAudio bugs seem to be a known issue as well.
Does the parent know something about Tiger that I don't? I mean, how can it be said that these known bugs are not bugs?
I'm not knocking the parent, but I would prefer a more robust environment like Panther provides with the features of spotlight. And if its something unique to me, I would like to know.
I do not see how bad RAM would cause scrolling to go to fast, or antialiased fonts to be fuzzy, or archiving a user's home directory slowly without any feedback, or any of these issues.