IIRC, the sucking-performance-killing-a-product problem was what caused Infocom's Cornerstone database software to be largely a flop. By the time they'd gotten towards solving performance issues, the company was virtually dead...
That is the list of passwords I've been getting mine from for years. They must have it backwards, they're the passwords you're *supposed* to use. Right?
Everybody use those passwords, they're safe. Nobody knows about them.
Umm../me makes a worried face and starts running 'passwd' alot...
But then its MY choice, not the kernel nazis. I thought that is what Linux was all about, Free as in speech, not as in beer.
So remove the GPL_ONLY protection stuff from your kernel. That is your freedom. And pass it around to your friends so they don't have to patch it themselves.
The majority of the work looks like it's done in the Win32 CryptoAPI anyway, which would most likely be C++.
So whether it's C++ or C# or C is pretty moot.
(Actually someone posted the source above in a comment, looks pretty clean! Without having used C# or.NET at all before I think I have a pretty good idea of how the program does its magic). That to me is a decent sign of a decent language / API, which is often more important than speed.
Having ported other (admittedly small) apps from Linux to OSX, I'd have to say that it's highly unlikely that any work that is done for the OSX/X11 is "wasted", as most of the porting is likely to be from the library/kernel differences, not from moving from one XFree86 install to another.
The waiting-on-2.0 is because 2.0 will have an abstraction layer above the UI toolkit, which will also allow native Gtk/Qt builds.
If nothing else, this can help them gather interest (and thus developers) *now* instead of in a year or more, when the native version might be ready. Except it won't without help...
He will then be able to direct his intentions, his thoughts into the machine.
Umm... I already can. Infact, I am doing so right now... Sure it's thought->fingers->keyboard->machine, but it's still my thoughts being directed into the machine...
What people fail to remember with all these remastered CD re-releases, is all the equipment used for the remastering process is better - it's not just the CD format.
And I can personally testify to that... my family has bought a number of SA-CDs in the past months, sometimes of albums we already owned on CD. Even on a regular CD player, they sound absolutely awesome in comparison. The SA- part makes it sound better again in a proper player, of course:-).
Then again, how many people have stereos that can really benefit from this? I do, but my computer rarely goes near it. IMHO the biggest advantage will be for gamers with satellite systems... not for the reproduction, just for the number-of-supported-speakers. Higher supported sampling rates are probably just checkboxes "we must have these or product [X] will be considered superior".
I just hope these babies work better than the AC97 based system on my motherboard:-)
Hmm... storing a lot of home-theatre-quality, progressive-scan video with 6.1 sound on a hard drive doesn't fit today's drive capacities or wireless speeds. Won't be feasible without drives hit the terabyte range and gigabit wireless.
Nah. If DVDs take up [at most!] 8-9GB, and I have 120GB+ of storage (not uncommon amongst me & my friends) then I think you'll find we can store quite a bit. DVD bitrates max out at 10Mbps, which 802.11b can theoretically handle (11Mpbs) and 802.11g should be able to handle just fine.
SDTV has miserably low bitrates (~1.2Mbps IIRC?).
I recently had some DVDs that wouldn't play on any of my DVD players (faulty discs, they've since been returned) - luckily my PC's DVD-ROM drive is a bit better with them. I did a rip-to-divx, fling-over-wireless-to-laptop, display-on-TV, and the quality wasn't all that bad. I really should have upped the bitrate, but hey I was slack:)
Of course, it all changes if you want to do multiple streams... and 25 DVDs-worth may not be considered "a lot" of data.
GSM can still calculate your position almost as accurately by measuring signal strength.
Not when you're not sending or receiving data - ie. in a call. Other than that, you'd be lucky to get much more than a cell area.
In a call, on the other hand, your position can be tracked down to a couple of metres - including elevation, if you're lucky. Can. Not always - much like GPS, it depends how many base stations can get your signal.
I personally use Gaim under X11 on OSX. It's... not the best? There will hopefully be a native Aqua Gaim in a few months though, after the core/UI split.
I was under the impression that one of the options in Mac MSN (3.5 at least) was to turn off the advert pane?
That means that OpenOffice or any other competitor would be allowed to crack their encryption in order to allow their users to read.doc files. Right?
MS / The US / whoever would probably take the view that since the code can be freely viewed / modified, it can be used as a simple circumvention program. (OOo could never force the DRM-enforcement features to actually _work_, since some random stranger with the source tarball could just remove the restrictions).
That explains alot. I don't only use my iPod with headphones, I very often use it with external (unpowered) speakers. And guess what? It's damn soft! I have to turn off Sound Check to get the last few % of volume.:-@
And my left headphone bud is starting to rattle...:-(
The scary thing is, a very good friend of mine explained how one of his teachers in high school (only a few years ago) claimed time and time again that MS Office was written in VB...
My guess on the timeline was that this was when VBA was introduced into Excel, so he got all muddled. Poor guy;-)
And you expect six billion people to do that every five-ten years as the "standard" format changes?
And what happens when people die? What if there are no next-of-kin?
IMHO the best thing would be to have a "spare" HDD that is just "old stuff". Every time you upgrade, copy your HDD over (like many people do anyway). When you die (or whatever) the gov'ts of the world can dump it in a multi-exabyte datastore that they keep upgrading for ever and ever.
And the data lives happily ever after. As long as you don't like privacy too much, and don't have HDD crashes!:-D
I know many people who routinely click "No" because they don't want to be bothered and/or don't want to send any information to MS about their box. I suspect that many more people see that dialog box than click "Yes." Thus, crashes are under-reported.
Well then it's fair - MSFT won't count people who click "No", and they also won't count the 'n' million pirated installs:-)
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IIRC, the sucking-performance-killing-a-product problem was what caused Infocom's Cornerstone database software to be largely a flop. By the time they'd gotten towards solving performance issues, the company was virtually dead...
That is the list of passwords I've been getting mine from for years. They must have it backwards, they're the passwords you're *supposed* to use. Right?
/me makes a worried face and starts running 'passwd' alot...
Everybody use those passwords, they're safe. Nobody knows about them.
Umm..
Nah he's talking about the Express one. Lookout is a totally separate product from Outbreak Express.
Personally my money's on Atlantis being located beneath the antarctic...
:)
Nah. They looked there already, there was a second Stargate, and a base they could launch defensive weapons from, but it wasn't Atlantis.
I think finding Atlantis is gonna be the season eight premise
Precisely.
Just because "not enough people" want to home-brew DTV stuff, or DVD/DVR stuff, or whatever, it's suddenly OK to make laws prohibiting them?
Wow.
Not many people like SCO. Let's make it illegal!
But then its MY choice, not the kernel nazis. I thought that is what Linux was all about, Free as in speech, not as in beer.
So remove the GPL_ONLY protection stuff from your kernel. That is your freedom. And pass it around to your friends so they don't have to patch it themselves.
The majority of the work looks like it's done in the Win32 CryptoAPI anyway, which would most likely be C++.
.NET at all before I think I have a pretty good idea of how the program does its magic). That to me is a decent sign of a decent language / API, which is often more important than speed.
So whether it's C++ or C# or C is pretty moot.
(Actually someone posted the source above in a comment, looks pretty clean! Without having used C# or
It can't peek inside encrypted sessions.
From the Slashdot summary:
'Jacobson said the identification process would not work on an encrypted network, such as is used in several newer file-swapping programs.'
Isn't it about time we ditched FTP for something better? - SFTP
...
Isn't it about time we ditched floppy disks for something better? - email, USB keys
Isn't it about time we ditched IDE drives for something better? - SATA (kinda IDE but hey)
Isn't it about time we ditched x86 for something better? - PPC
Isn't it about time we ditched Microsoft Windows for something better? - Linux
Isn't it about time we ditched CDs for something better? - Email, DVD, etc.
Isn't it about time we ditched telnet for something better? - SSH
Isn't it about time we ditched CRTs for something better? - LCDs
Isn't it about time we ditched 20-year-old TV sets for something better? - 36" Widescreen Philips HDTV
Isn't it about time we ditched COBOL for something better? - Java, Python,
Isn't it about time we ditched BASIC for something better? - Python
Isn't it about time we ditched SCO Unix for something better? - Hahaha. SCO Linux?
Isn't it about time we ditched DOS for something better? - Linux
Isn't it about time we ditched Dubya for something better? - John Howard. Oh cr*p.
Note - all but SATA are mine. SATA is my mate's.
Having ported other (admittedly small) apps from Linux to OSX, I'd have to say that it's highly unlikely that any work that is done for the OSX/X11 is "wasted", as most of the porting is likely to be from the library/kernel differences, not from moving from one XFree86 install to another.
The waiting-on-2.0 is because 2.0 will have an abstraction layer above the UI toolkit, which will also allow native Gtk/Qt builds.
If nothing else, this can help them gather interest (and thus developers) *now* instead of in a year or more, when the native version might be ready. Except it won't without help...
He will then be able to direct his intentions, his thoughts into the machine.
Umm... I already can. Infact, I am doing so right now... Sure it's thought->fingers->keyboard->machine, but it's still my thoughts being directed into the machine...
There is never a "worst time" for nude Natalie Portman pictures.
Sure there is. It's when your Girlfriend/Wife/Mother walks in the room...
What people fail to remember with all these remastered CD re-releases, is all the equipment used for the remastering process is better - it's not just the CD format.
:-).
:-)
And I can personally testify to that... my family has bought a number of SA-CDs in the past months, sometimes of albums we already owned on CD. Even on a regular CD player, they sound absolutely awesome in comparison. The SA- part makes it sound better again in a proper player, of course
Then again, how many people have stereos that can really benefit from this? I do, but my computer rarely goes near it. IMHO the biggest advantage will be for gamers with satellite systems... not for the reproduction, just for the number-of-supported-speakers. Higher supported sampling rates are probably just checkboxes "we must have these or product [X] will be considered superior".
I just hope these babies work better than the AC97 based system on my motherboard
> specs which could foresee future futher away than say 4-6 years
LOL! Good grief man... the client I'm working with, their specs can't see past 4-6 weeks!
Youuuu were Lucky!
When I was a kid, we had clients who couldn't work out what they wanted Yesterday!
We had to build the software before they even came to us with a tender!
Surely you'd need the private key to get at the encrypted MP3s? Unless you just want to make sure that the voices are signing with the right key... ;-)
Hmm... storing a lot of home-theatre-quality, progressive-scan video with 6.1 sound on a hard drive doesn't fit today's drive capacities or wireless speeds. Won't be feasible without drives hit the terabyte range and gigabit wireless.
:)
Nah. If DVDs take up [at most!] 8-9GB, and I have 120GB+ of storage (not uncommon amongst me & my friends) then I think you'll find we can store quite a bit. DVD bitrates max out at 10Mbps, which 802.11b can theoretically handle (11Mpbs) and 802.11g should be able to handle just fine.
SDTV has miserably low bitrates (~1.2Mbps IIRC?).
I recently had some DVDs that wouldn't play on any of my DVD players (faulty discs, they've since been returned) - luckily my PC's DVD-ROM drive is a bit better with them. I did a rip-to-divx, fling-over-wireless-to-laptop, display-on-TV, and the quality wasn't all that bad. I really should have upped the bitrate, but hey I was slack
Of course, it all changes if you want to do multiple streams... and 25 DVDs-worth may not be considered "a lot" of data.
GSM can still calculate your position almost as accurately by measuring signal strength.
Not when you're not sending or receiving data - ie. in a call. Other than that, you'd be lucky to get much more than a cell area.
In a call, on the other hand, your position can be tracked down to a couple of metres - including elevation, if you're lucky. Can. Not always - much like GPS, it depends how many base stations can get your signal.
I personally use Gaim under X11 on OSX. It's... not the best? There will hopefully be a native Aqua Gaim in a few months though, after the core/UI split.
I was under the impression that one of the options in Mac MSN (3.5 at least) was to turn off the advert pane?
That means that OpenOffice or any other competitor would be allowed to crack their encryption in order to allow their users to read .doc files. Right?
MS / The US / whoever would probably take the view that since the code can be freely viewed / modified, it can be used as a simple circumvention program. (OOo could never force the DRM-enforcement features to actually _work_, since some random stranger with the source tarball could just remove the restrictions).
I doubt there would be quite so many divx movies on kazaa etc. if it weren't for DeCSS.
:-)
I love it, myself, and use it regularly to watch DVDs on my Linux and OSX computers. (Apple's DVD player won't play outside of my region, VLC will).
But yes, it has had bad side effects. I just happen to think it's more important that it's free
That explains alot. I don't only use my iPod with headphones, I very often use it with external (unpowered) speakers. And guess what? It's damn soft! I have to turn off Sound Check to get the last few % of volume. :-@
:-(
And my left headphone bud is starting to rattle...
The scary thing is, a very good friend of mine explained how one of his teachers in high school (only a few years ago) claimed time and time again that MS Office was written in VB...
;-)
My guess on the timeline was that this was when VBA was introduced into Excel, so he got all muddled. Poor guy
*sigh*
I didn't go through "hoops", I bought an iBook.
:-)
I may have paid an "Apple tax", but at least I can see where my money is going - and I like their software.
(I've since bought a 30GB iPod).
Go Apple!
And you expect six billion people to do that every five-ten years as the "standard" format changes?
:-D
And what happens when people die? What if there are no next-of-kin?
IMHO the best thing would be to have a "spare" HDD that is just "old stuff". Every time you upgrade, copy your HDD over (like many people do anyway). When you die (or whatever) the gov'ts of the world can dump it in a multi-exabyte datastore that they keep upgrading for ever and ever.
And the data lives happily ever after. As long as you don't like privacy too much, and don't have HDD crashes!
I know many people who routinely click "No" because they don't want to be bothered and/or don't want to send any information to MS about their box. I suspect that many more people see that dialog box than click "Yes." Thus, crashes are under-reported.
:-)
Well then it's fair - MSFT won't count people who click "No", and they also won't count the 'n' million pirated installs