Really it is a small news story at best and the tv news are run by media companies so they have no interest in making a big deal out of it. Shows like the Daily Show should be making a field day of this. But they are in the entertainment business so they have no motivation to go up against their own.
The RIAA really have NOTHING to loose and everything to gain. If they loose the 70,000 big deal. But if they win they show that even if you win your case you loose so it is better to pay up.
You also left out the huge costs involved. Each satellite costs a LOT of money. Each launch costs a lot of money. They only have so many of these birds in orbit at a time. Even for a military officer booking time on one of them is difficult. Your local cop will not get the opportunity to task one of these to track a specific car just because a teenager used foul language. That is even if it could track track a specific car. But it just isn't worth the effort to use fact when faced with mindless fear.
Yes but then the 8051 then is probably out numbers the X86 and the Arm. The Mips, Arm, Power, and even the 68k still exists in the embedded market. For example the Power is in all three of the new game consoles. Arms are in a lot of the WAPs. I keep wondering if we will see the a CPU the size of the latest AMD but containing 16 or more ARM cores. Sort of a T1 competitor.
I don't believe that ISA doesn't matter. If for no other reason than the X86 has a real shortage of GP registers. To gain the extra registers you must run in 64 bit mode so you must live with 64 bit addressing even if you really don't need it. As you said the X86 is fast which is also what I said. The ISA is very messy and and a real pain to write code for. There will always be some people that must write assembly. Yes the x86 is really fast even without a good ISA. It is also be updated over the years to keep up with current software needs. Hence it is the worlds fastest pig with lipstick.
So Quicken got wipped out by Microsoft Money? Microsoft doesn't have a perfect record at killing the competition. They are not some all powerful monster that you must fear at all costs.
"Doesn't need to, he has the address from the state ID, he just needs to track the vehicle by color when he's bored sitting on his ass. Find it parked in front of the house and keep tabs on it. Watch it park at a party, show up, check the plates, bust the party and arrest him for a noise violation or anything really. Shows up at a bonfire? Call every local fire department and charge him with not having a permit. Etc, etc." Wow you really don't have more than say a 5th grade understanding of physics. Spy satellites don't hover. They are expensive and there are just not that many of them. You can not use one to monitor a home in realtime! Also you can not believe that a cop on the beat will have access to a real time data feed form an imaging satellite. If you wish to "fight" 1984 I really suggest that you learn a little about what the heck you are so worried about!
"Correlating all that data is the biggest problem, but I have no doubt that they have been used to peep on nude roof sunbathers at one time or another. What kind of people do you think engineered, programmed and tested the bloody things?" That is a myth. Even with active optics that kind of resolution is impossible. Even if was possible looking straight down it is impossible at the slant angle you would need to see a license plate.
"Your son gets a speeding ticket & tells a cop to "go fuck himself." There's nothing exactly illegal with that. Annoyed and upset, the policeman writes down the vehicle's make, model & license plate." 1. My son would have to apologize to the police officer. It is rude, uncalled for, and stupid. 2. How it any different than the officer just watching out for him. This would be a case of stupidity being it's own reward.
Now for a little more reality How the heck is a spy satellite going to read a license plate? They are over head the slant angle they would need to see license plate would make it very unlikely that they could spot it. So unless they are going to start requiring people to pant a BIG id number on the top of there car I am not going to worry all that much.
Well we had the 68000 family which had much better instruction set then the X86. We have the Power and PowerPC which had a much better instruction set than the X86. We have the ARM which is a much better instruction set then the X86. We have the MIPS which is pretty nice. And we had the Alpha and still do for a little while longer. The problem with all of them is that they didn't run X86 code. Intel and AMD both made so much money from selling billions of CPUs that they could plow a lot of money into making the X86 the fastest pig with lipstick that the world has ever seen. What made the IA-64 such a disaster was that it was slow running X86 code.
Longhorn may be a codename but Microsoft used it in public a lot. To me a codename should only be used internally.
"SAP and Oracle are company names, and products inherit from that." Actually Oracle was the product name the company changed it's name to that of it's flagship product. It is a Greek mythology reference so I put that high up on the geek scale.
Access is just annoying since it is the second Microsoft product to use that name. The first was a terminal emulator. And yes there was an Oracle at Delphi.
If you want to go on with other dumb tech product names that we don't think are dumb anymore how about the Apple, Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, Leopard, Panther, and Cheetah. Two fruits, two nouns with an i stuck on them, and three large cats. The whole point is that product names only sound strange until they are familiar. Thare are just so many logical names you can give a database, word processor, content management system, or goodness knows how many other programs. Of course back in the crazy.net times I wanted to start a company called Enanogentec.com just to see how much venture captial would get thrown at me.
"-> Silverlight That's a very visual name so to speak, inspiring thoughts of majesty and beuty, isn't silverlight a visually oriented tech? " Please it sounds like an super hero. "Hey Sliverlight you and Yellowjacket go cover the bank while Dr. Magic and I take care of the super tanker."
"-> Oracle Hmm, getting information. Nope, don't see what that has to do with oracles..." Greek mytholgy reference? Yea that isn't geeky.
"-> Access Data accession, and access... Nope, don't see a pater there either". Yea it was such a good name that Microsoft used it twice! Once for a terminal program and once for Database.
"> SAP That's an acronym:" And what is more geeky than an acronym?
So we should lock out a competitor too keep choice and competition? You do know how strange that sounds. I am all for a free open standard to replace Flash but I just don't see how Silverlight is any worse the Flash. If it is open enough then it will be better then Flash. Frankly as a development language Flash is just nasty.
And the FOSS community should support Adobe because they? 1. Have opensouced the flashplayer? 2. Have ported their tools to Linux even as closes source? 3. Provide support for Linux equal to the support they provide to Windows and MacOSX? Right now Adobe has a slightly better record than Microsoft when it comes to Linux support. They have updated their flash player for Linux. However the have not ported their Shockwave player, Flash development tools, Photoshop, or any of their tools.
Well I am just going by what I heard so thanks for the extra information. Still kind of freaky from an US citizens point of view. The idea that the government would keep track of who as a TV or not is just count to our culture and ideas on freedom. I do understand why they do it in the UK but it is just not part of our culture here. But if it works for you guys it is none of my business.
I am not a resident or citizen of the UK but I think I know some of the reasons. 1. The BBC is funded by a licenses fee. I know it sounds weird but you have to pay every year just to have a TV that can pick up broadcasts! They have vans that drive around that can detect TVs and such. I saw it many many years ago on an episode of the Young Ones. The concept is totally alien to people in the US but that is how BBC is funded. 2. The BBC is sort of like PBS in the US but much better funded. It is an independent government agency. I am guessing that it is run by the government for the benefit of the people of the UK however it's content is not under government control. The government doesn't decide what news stories are covered or what shows are allowed. This allows the BBC to report things that would embarrass the government without fear of reprisal. This allows the BBC to have it's well deserved reputation for integrity. 3. This new system will not work on the Apple Mac or Linux. So to view this content online you must have a PC running Windows and IE. This probably rubs a lot of people in the UK the wrong way. I can understand why. Let's imagine that somebody want to make a "slingbox" type device in the UK for viewing BBC content. A company in the UK would have to pay an US company to make a device to sell in the UK to watch BBC content. 4. DRM. Just annoying because it prevents people in the UK from downloading a show and putting in on their iPod, notebook, and or Zune.
And the big one. I don't have to understand. I am not a citizen of the UK so I have no say in this matter. I hope that they choose well and get a system that they like. If it is FOSS and DRM free then I will be pleased because I feel that technically it is a better way to go but in the end it isn't any of my business.
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Probably not. But I have to wonder if they where using FTP where they also using telnet? FTP and telnet's time have passed. They are useful for a very limited sub set of users. SCP and SSH are the LEAST that anyone should do as far securly accessing a remote server.
Apache, PHP, Perl, Postgres, MySQL, Linux, and the list goes on and one. Notice that where FOSS was to market early, Apache, PHP, and Perl, or where they produced a replacement for a hyper expensive product Linux, Postgres and MySql FOSS does well.
Sliverlight is client side not server side. It is a competitor to Flash and Ajax. It doesn't compete with LAMP since LAMP is serverside.
Silverlight like Flash is useful for things like video "YouTube" and "rich" interfaces. It is also regularly abused for ads, and other such total BS.
SVG "Pretty much killed by Adobe" and the Ogg Theora tag would be my ideal replacements for Both Flash and Silverlight. The Open Source community have been too slow in developing them so Microsoft has this opportunity. We shouldn't complain when we leave Microsoft a huge opening like this. It is a market niche that they where bound to exploit sooner or later. If there had been a great FOSS product already filling that need then Microsoft would have a much harder time. The only competitor is Flash which is even less Open than Sliverlight!
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Well it is only a bug in that they where still using FTP. FTP should be as dead as Telnet. SCP is far more secure and should be the only way one can up load a file to a system. FTP is fine for downloads but that is about it.
I belive them but not for the reasons you do. I don't think Novell is walking on "eggshells" because of the open source zealots. Novell had produced some of the very best FOSS out there and has for years. Evolution, Yast, Tomboy, Banshee, F-Spot, Beagle, and all of the love it or hate it Mono project. "I am not a fan but there has been some really good software written for Mono." They have been very friendly to open source and it was Novell that really killed the SCO case. The deal with Microsoft seem to have brought Novell some cash while not really helping Microsoft at all.
I would agree. Too bad that others don't understand. Somebody modded my original post as "Flamebait" I guess that I once again offended one of the faithful. Give a person that says "I am biased but I am trying to overcome it, I am prejuduce but I don't like it, I don't know but I am trying to learn" any day.
I have written software that ONLY runs on Linux. So does that mean that my software must be GPL? VMWare also runs under Windows last time I checked so this seems like so much baloney. I wonder if this was inspired by Microsoft. Does nothing but help them push Virtual PC running under Windows.
I tend to use iGoogle as my homepage and I also have a my.yahoo homepage. I have to say that I like the my.yahoo homepage a little more but then I have very good ad blocking so Yahoo probably doesn't like me all that much. What I want to know is does anyone actually use the Google homepage for searching? I have Google set as my default search engine in Firefox so I almost never go to www.google.com
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Really it is a small news story at best and the tv news are run by media companies so they have no interest in making a big deal out of it.
Shows like the Daily Show should be making a field day of this. But they are in the entertainment business so they have no motivation to go up against their own.
The RIAA really have NOTHING to loose and everything to gain. If they loose the 70,000 big deal. But if they win they show that even if you win your case you loose so it is better to pay up.
You also left out the huge costs involved. Each satellite costs a LOT of money. Each launch costs a lot of money. They only have so many of these birds in orbit at a time.
Even for a military officer booking time on one of them is difficult. Your local cop will not get the opportunity to task one of these to track a specific car just because a teenager used foul language. That is even if it could track track a specific car.
But it just isn't worth the effort to use fact when faced with mindless fear.
Yes but then the 8051 then is probably out numbers the X86 and the Arm. The Mips, Arm, Power, and even the 68k still exists in the embedded market. For example the Power is in all three of the new game consoles. Arms are in a lot of the WAPs. I keep wondering if we will see the a CPU the size of the latest AMD but containing 16 or more ARM cores. Sort of a T1 competitor.
I don't believe that ISA doesn't matter. If for no other reason than the X86 has a real shortage of GP registers. To gain the extra registers you must run in 64 bit mode so you must live with 64 bit addressing even if you really don't need it. As you said the X86 is fast which is also what I said. The ISA is very messy and and a real pain to write code for. There will always be some people that must write assembly. Yes the x86 is really fast even without a good ISA. It is also be updated over the years to keep up with current software needs. Hence it is the worlds fastest pig with lipstick.
So Quicken got wipped out by Microsoft Money? Microsoft doesn't have a perfect record at killing the competition. They are not some all powerful monster that you must fear at all costs.
"Doesn't need to, he has the address from the state ID, he just needs to track the vehicle by color when he's bored sitting on his ass. Find it parked in front of the house and keep tabs on it. Watch it park at a party, show up, check the plates, bust the party and arrest him for a noise violation or anything really. Shows up at a bonfire? Call every local fire department and charge him with not having a permit. Etc, etc."
Wow you really don't have more than say a 5th grade understanding of physics. Spy satellites don't hover. They are expensive and there are just not that many of them. You can not use one to monitor a home in realtime! Also you can not believe that a cop on the beat will have access to a real time data feed form an imaging satellite.
If you wish to "fight" 1984 I really suggest that you learn a little about what the heck you are so worried about!
"Correlating all that data is the biggest problem, but I have no doubt that they have been used to peep on nude roof sunbathers at one time or another. What kind of people do you think engineered, programmed and tested the bloody things?"
That is a myth. Even with active optics that kind of resolution is impossible. Even if was possible looking straight down it is impossible at the slant angle you would need to see a license plate.
"Your son gets a speeding ticket & tells a cop to "go fuck himself." There's nothing exactly illegal with that. Annoyed and upset, the policeman writes down the vehicle's make, model & license plate."
1. My son would have to apologize to the police officer. It is rude, uncalled for, and stupid.
2. How it any different than the officer just watching out for him.
This would be a case of stupidity being it's own reward.
Now for a little more reality How the heck is a spy satellite going to read a license plate? They are over head the slant angle they would need to see license plate would make it very unlikely that they could spot it. So unless they are going to start requiring people to pant a BIG id number on the top of there car I am not going to worry all that much.
Well we had the 68000 family which had much better instruction set then the X86.
We have the Power and PowerPC which had a much better instruction set than the X86.
We have the ARM which is a much better instruction set then the X86.
We have the MIPS which is pretty nice.
And we had the Alpha and still do for a little while longer.
The problem with all of them is that they didn't run X86 code. Intel and AMD both made so much money from selling billions of CPUs that they could plow a lot of money into making the X86 the fastest pig with lipstick that the world has ever seen.
What made the IA-64 such a disaster was that it was slow running X86 code.
Longhorn may be a codename but Microsoft used it in public a lot. To me a codename should only be used internally.
.net times I wanted to start a company called Enanogentec.com just to see how much venture captial would get thrown at me.
"SAP and Oracle are company names, and products inherit from that." Actually Oracle was the product name the company changed it's name to that of it's flagship product. It is a Greek mythology reference so I put that high up on the geek scale.
Access is just annoying since it is the second Microsoft product to use that name. The first was a terminal emulator.
And yes there was an Oracle at Delphi.
If you want to go on with other dumb tech product names that we don't think are dumb anymore how about the Apple, Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, Leopard, Panther, and Cheetah. Two fruits, two nouns with an i stuck on them, and three large cats.
The whole point is that product names only sound strange until they are familiar. Thare are just so many logical names you can give a database, word processor, content management system, or goodness knows how many other programs. Of course back in the crazy
"-> Silverlight
That's a very visual name so to speak, inspiring thoughts of majesty and beuty, isn't silverlight a visually oriented tech? "
Please it sounds like an super hero. "Hey Sliverlight you and Yellowjacket go cover the bank while Dr. Magic and I take care of the super tanker."
"-> Oracle
Hmm, getting information. Nope, don't see what that has to do with oracles..."
Greek mytholgy reference? Yea that isn't geeky.
"-> Access
Data accession, and access... Nope, don't see a pater there either".
Yea it was such a good name that Microsoft used it twice! Once for a terminal program and once for Database.
"> SAP
That's an acronym:"
And what is more geeky than an acronym?
So we should lock out a competitor too keep choice and competition?
You do know how strange that sounds.
I am all for a free open standard to replace Flash but I just don't see how Silverlight is any worse the Flash. If it is open enough then it will be better then Flash.
Frankly as a development language Flash is just nasty.
And the FOSS community should support Adobe because they?
1. Have opensouced the flashplayer?
2. Have ported their tools to Linux even as closes source?
3. Provide support for Linux equal to the support they provide to Windows and MacOSX?
Right now Adobe has a slightly better record than Microsoft when it comes to Linux support. They have updated their flash player for Linux.
However the have not ported their Shockwave player, Flash development tools, Photoshop, or any of their tools.
Well I am just going by what I heard so thanks for the extra information. Still kind of freaky from an US citizens point of view. The idea that the government would keep track of who as a TV or not is just count to our culture and ideas on freedom. I do understand why they do it in the UK but it is just not part of our culture here. But if it works for you guys it is none of my business.
Yea Longhorn, Vista, Silverlight, Oracle, Excel, Access, SAP, and Delphi are so much more descriptive and less geeky.
I am not a resident or citizen of the UK but I think I know some of the reasons.
1. The BBC is funded by a licenses fee. I know it sounds weird but you have to pay every year just to have a TV that can pick up broadcasts! They have vans that drive around that can detect TVs and such. I saw it many many years ago on an episode of the Young Ones. The concept is totally alien to people in the US but that is how BBC is funded.
2. The BBC is sort of like PBS in the US but much better funded. It is an independent government agency. I am guessing that it is run by the government for the benefit of the people of the UK however it's content is not under government control. The government doesn't decide what news stories are covered or what shows are allowed. This allows the BBC to report things that would embarrass the government without fear of reprisal. This allows the BBC to have it's well deserved reputation for integrity.
3. This new system will not work on the Apple Mac or Linux. So to view this content online you must have a PC running Windows and IE. This probably rubs a lot of people in the UK the wrong way. I can understand why. Let's imagine that somebody want to make a "slingbox" type device in the UK for viewing BBC content. A company in the UK would have to pay an US company to make a device to sell in the UK to watch BBC content.
4. DRM. Just annoying because it prevents people in the UK from downloading a show and putting in on their iPod, notebook, and or Zune.
And the big one.
I don't have to understand. I am not a citizen of the UK so I have no say in this matter. I hope that they choose well and get a system that they like. If it is FOSS and DRM free then I will be pleased because I feel that technically it is a better way to go but in the end it isn't any of my business.
Probably not. But I have to wonder if they where using FTP where they also using telnet?
FTP and telnet's time have passed. They are useful for a very limited sub set of users.
SCP and SSH are the LEAST that anyone should do as far securly accessing a remote server.
Apache, PHP, Perl, Postgres, MySQL, Linux, and the list goes on and one.
Notice that where FOSS was to market early, Apache, PHP, and Perl, or where they produced a replacement for a hyper expensive product Linux, Postgres and MySql FOSS does well.
Sliverlight is client side not server side. It is a competitor to Flash and Ajax. It doesn't compete with LAMP since LAMP is serverside.
Silverlight like Flash is useful for things like video "YouTube" and "rich" interfaces. It is also regularly abused for ads, and other such total BS.
SVG "Pretty much killed by Adobe" and the Ogg Theora tag would be my ideal replacements for Both Flash and Silverlight. The Open Source community have been too slow in developing them so Microsoft has this opportunity. We shouldn't complain when we leave Microsoft a huge opening like this. It is a market niche that they where bound to exploit sooner or later. If there had been a great FOSS product already filling that need then Microsoft would have a much harder time. The only competitor is Flash which is even less Open than Sliverlight!
Well it is only a bug in that they where still using FTP. FTP should be as dead as Telnet. SCP is far more secure and should be the only way one can up load a file to a system. FTP is fine for downloads but that is about it.
I belive them but not for the reasons you do. I don't think Novell is walking on "eggshells" because of the open source zealots. Novell had produced some of the very best FOSS out there and has for years. Evolution, Yast, Tomboy, Banshee, F-Spot, Beagle, and all of the love it or hate it Mono project. "I am not a fan but there has been some really good software written for Mono." They have been very friendly to open source and it was Novell that really killed the SCO case. The deal with Microsoft seem to have brought Novell some cash while not really helping Microsoft at all.
I would agree. Too bad that others don't understand. Somebody modded my original post as "Flamebait" I guess that I once again offended one of the faithful. Give a person that says "I am biased but I am trying to overcome it, I am prejuduce but I don't like it, I don't know but I am trying to learn" any day.
Nothing like like a good old MkI air gap for security.
I have written software that ONLY runs on Linux. So does that mean that my software must be GPL?
VMWare also runs under Windows last time I checked so this seems like so much baloney.
I wonder if this was inspired by Microsoft. Does nothing but help them push Virtual PC running under Windows.
I tend to use iGoogle as my homepage and I also have a my.yahoo homepage. I have to say that I like the my.yahoo homepage a little more but then I have very good ad blocking so Yahoo probably doesn't like me all that much.
What I want to know is does anyone actually use the Google homepage for searching? I have Google set as my default search engine in Firefox so I almost never go to www.google.com