And yours is less portable, much more susceptable to vibration, etc. No, I'm not knocking what you've got (While I don't have a Rio, I do happen to have a CD MP3 player...), but don't think it's the only or best answer. It might be the best answer for you, but it's not for everybody.
Somebody at Fort Hood and elsewhere should be cooling their heels in a stockade.
Classified documents are NOT supposed to be on machines exposed to the Internet- PERIOD. Machines of that nature are not considered to be at a trust level sufficient for those sorts of things. Forget the security of the machines; the security of classified documents is supposed to be much higher than this appears to have been handled.
OS X is rather slow on my Old World G3 tower. YDL is more than usable- one might say snappy and responsive. With all the software available on the distribution and the ability to run MacOS 9 as a VM, it's a good alternative to OS X.
Or you could just not live in the U.S. Problem solved.
Aren't they trying that Norwegian kid for DeCSS?
The problem isn't solved by moving elsewhere because these players are worldwide and they tend to have other organizations and seem to be getting their way elsewhere as we speak. The solution is to affect them directly- in a manner they understand, hitting their bottom line.
I just wish people would stop believing that any company exists for the sole reason of increasing the wealth of its shareholders. It used to be that people believed in ethics -- that there are societal responsibilities that compete with shareholder equity. Of course it used to be that the primary purpose of a company was to produce something, which something would hopefully allow a profit.
You know it is possible -- and ethical! -- to not do something because it goes too far. Or is HP obligated to murder someone if it increases shareholder profit? And before you say, "Well, the law imposes too high a cost", answer me this: What if you could prove the legal sanction was less than the profit realized? Should HP kill the person? Must they?
You know, in many ways, you're right. In so very many ways, the original poster is also right.
There are companies out there that don't worry about things like increasing shareholder wealth- many of those are privately held companies. There are also a lot of companies that seem to be much more concerned with the short-term stock market valuations, etc. and will do anything to "improve" their valuations short-term, including mass-layoffs, cooking the books, screwing the people of an entire state over to make their bottom line look better, etc. While it's not 100% true, there IS a reason why a lot of people think that companies solely exist to increase shareholder wealth.
In the case of the burglary tools, they have a fixed purpose (i.e. unlocking locks without the requisite key...) whereas, many of the "tools" for which one can circumvent DRM with have other useful purposes.
A black Sharpie(TM) permanant marker, for example, is something that could get you a felony charge with the law in question. (No, it's not likely anyone in their right mind would charge someone with the proposed criminal act- but the wording of the law allows for it all the same and someone not in their right mind (which appears to be going about these days with all the bad laws, bad judicial decisions, etc.) can and would likely press charges and get you a nasty sentence for your troubles.) This is a bad idea, really.
Infringement is already illegal. Why in the hell do we need more laws making it illegal- it's not going to make it any more illegal than it is already.
("Sharpie" is a registered trademark of Sanford...)
...the game can be hacked. Source doesn't make it much easier from what I can see- there seems to be enough hacks and "trainers" out there for the games out right now. These cheating tools end up showing up fairly quickly after the game comes out and so far, all of these games are closed source. Simply put, securing things is a difficult proposition at best (curtailing performance, etc.) if you rely on the client side being clean, etc.- having source only makes it slightly easier.
Check the Jobs link. It's not asking for teams, it's asking for specific things like "Lead Developer", "Lead Designer", etc. That's not asking for teams.
'Again, this can be said for any set of competing languages. I could also say, "I have yet to meet a serious VB developer who does not have a huge interest in.NET".'
This is really a poor choice of analogy considering that VB is also supposed to be.NET language option... (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/)
"That's why those plexiglas and aluminum cases are not such a, um, hot idea -- they don't exchange heat as well as steel."
I believe the plexiglas part, but the aluminum part is bogus. The thermal coefficient for steel is poorer than Aluminum's. An aluminum case would be like an overglorified heatsink- and better yet would be a copper case (though it would definitely be too soft for normal usage...).
If it's a Geode based machine, they didn't alter much of anything GPLed- much of the work is done with specialized hardware, possibly supplied by Sigma Designs or someone like them. There is no way that those machines have anywhere near the muscle needed to do PVR otherwise.
The MNG spec is for animated images, not entire documents (although you can use it that way...). MNG is a multi-image format extention to PNG which is not geared for all the needs of document imaging.
For example, PNG combines RGBA per each pixel. TIFF allows for seperate planes of Red, Green, Blue, and Alpha as would be used by rasterization engines or would be produced by high-end scanners.
It all depends on what they're doing with the images- PNG may not fit the bill all the way around.
Document imaging systems use the TIFF annotation features for things like "smart" redactions (You burn the redaction into the image while keeping a copy of the unredacted portion, which is then accordingly compressed and then encrypted. That encrypted image is then stored as an annotation that can only be shown if you've got the password, etc.
There's a lot more that you can do with annotations, etc.
Suffice it to say, PNG's good, but they didn't account for document imaging in that format- TIFF did.
Actually, that'd be harder than you think...
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OpenGL 2.0 is a shader language specification amongst other things. In order to support Doom3, you're going to very likely have to support all of it pretty well- it'd be like someone stripping out features from GCC or VC++ so that it compiled Doom3 better than anything else.
There was a spinlock deadlock in one of the earlier versions of their drivers. You had to wait for them to get around to fixing it. Now, the same could be said of the ATI drivers, but someone skilled enough could go and fix that bug.
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...it's not going to be as fast. In fact, MacOS slows some things down for some reason. Mandrake PPC on the G4 I have at work here does slightly better (15% or so) on distributed.net's client than my PIII-600- and it's got a 500 MHz processor. The MacOS version of the cruncher that uses the Altivec is nearly 3.5 times faster than that.
It's all in what you're using of the CPU.
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I didn't say they committed an offense by way of not doing a Linux version- not once in that message.
(Next time read the message more carefully before commenting...)
I just really don't have a desire to buy software for anything other than Linux. Now, as far as Loki's demise, it had less to do with a lack of market and more to do with pure mis-management (I know a lot of the goings on there while they were still in business- I've got more than a couple of online acquaintances that worked there and they said all kinds of things that map back to what's been said, etc.). Now, what I am saying is offensive is that they're suing the bnetd people, claiming infringement, etc.
That's bogus, they know it, but since they've got money and lawyers, they're going to try and beat down the little guy anyway. THAT is what I definitely won't be doing- paying for a corporate bully. I don't buy/use Disney stuff for the same reason.
You're not serious- others may be different...
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...in that regard. Games are not so important to me to sacrifice my principles over them.
If it doesn't run on Linux, I'm not terribly interested in buying it. If a company's going to pull the stunts Blizzard has went at lengths to do, I'm definitely not going to buy it.
Unless you're documenting things extensively to show that they're coming up with fantasies, they can put just about anything into your HR file that they think they can get away with. A non-termination contract will give them incentives to come up with stuff to get you fired or to drive you to quit when they have your replacement in house.
Strictly speaking, you should play counter-offer deals by ear and take/reject them accordingly.
I've been offered one counter offer that was a joke (it was 1/4 what the other place was offering...)- I didn't accept because of the subtle changes in the corporate culture and the sheer size of the other company's offer. The place I was working for did a layoff 7 months later. Had I accepted, knowing the corporate culture at that place and how it'd changed, I would have been on the short list for that one.
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And yours is less portable, much more susceptable to vibration, etc. No, I'm not knocking what you've got (While I don't have a Rio, I do happen to have a CD MP3 player...), but don't think it's the only or best answer. It might be the best answer for you, but it's not for everybody.
Somebody at Fort Hood and elsewhere should be cooling their heels in a stockade.
Classified documents are NOT supposed to be on machines exposed to the Internet- PERIOD. Machines of that nature are not considered to be at a trust level sufficient for those sorts of things. Forget the security of the machines; the security of classified documents is supposed to be much higher than this appears to have been handled.
OS X is rather slow on my Old World G3 tower. YDL is more than usable- one might say snappy and responsive. With all the software available on the distribution and the ability to run MacOS 9 as a VM, it's a good alternative to OS X.
Or you could just not live in the U.S. Problem solved.
Aren't they trying that Norwegian kid for DeCSS?
The problem isn't solved by moving elsewhere because these players are worldwide and they tend to have other organizations and seem to be getting their way elsewhere as we speak. The solution is to affect them directly- in a manner they understand, hitting their bottom line.
While it's a slang term for something sexual, it's also latin for "with". It's being misused in this context.
You know, in many ways, you're right. In so very many ways, the original poster is also right.
There are companies out there that don't worry about things like increasing shareholder wealth- many of those are privately held companies. There are also a lot of companies that seem to be much more concerned with the short-term stock market valuations, etc. and will do anything to "improve" their valuations short-term, including mass-layoffs, cooking the books, screwing the people of an entire state over to make their bottom line look better, etc. While it's not 100% true, there IS a reason why a lot of people think that companies solely exist to increase shareholder wealth.
I just checked and got in...
It's refusing connections now...
In the case of the burglary tools, they have a fixed purpose (i.e. unlocking locks without the requisite key...) whereas, many of the "tools" for which one can circumvent DRM with have other useful purposes.
A black Sharpie(TM) permanant marker, for example, is something that could get you a felony charge with the law in question. (No, it's not likely anyone in their right mind would charge someone with the proposed criminal act- but the wording of the law allows for it all the same and someone not in their right mind (which appears to be going about these days with all the bad laws, bad judicial decisions, etc.) can and would likely press charges and get you a nasty sentence for your troubles.) This is a bad idea, really.
Infringement is already illegal. Why in the hell do we need more laws making it illegal- it's not going to make it any more illegal than it is already.
("Sharpie" is a registered trademark of Sanford...)
...the game can be hacked. Source doesn't make it much easier from what I can see- there seems to be enough hacks and "trainers" out there for the games out right now. These cheating tools end up showing up fairly quickly after the game comes out and so far, all of these games are closed source. Simply put, securing things is a difficult proposition at best (curtailing performance, etc.) if you rely on the client side being clean, etc.- having source only makes it slightly easier.
Check the Jobs link. It's not asking for teams, it's asking for specific things like "Lead Developer", "Lead Designer", etc. That's not asking for teams.
'Again, this can be said for any set of competing languages. I could also say, "I have yet to meet a serious VB developer who does not have a huge interest in .NET".'
.NET language option... (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/)
This is really a poor choice of analogy considering that VB is also supposed to be
He ran that line of thought recently in User Friendly.
"That's why those plexiglas and aluminum cases are not such a, um, hot idea -- they don't exchange heat as well as steel."
I believe the plexiglas part, but the aluminum part is bogus. The thermal coefficient for steel is poorer than Aluminum's. An aluminum case would be like an overglorified heatsink- and better yet would be a copper case (though it would definitely be too soft for normal usage...).
If it's a Geode based machine, they didn't alter much of anything GPLed- much of the work is done with specialized hardware, possibly supplied by Sigma Designs or someone like them. There is no way that those machines have anywhere near the muscle needed to do PVR otherwise.
The MNG spec is for animated images, not entire documents (although you can use it that way...). MNG is a multi-image format extention to PNG which is not geared for all the needs of document imaging.
For example, PNG combines RGBA per each pixel. TIFF allows for seperate planes of Red, Green, Blue, and Alpha as would be used by rasterization engines or would be produced by high-end scanners.
It all depends on what they're doing with the images- PNG may not fit the bill all the way around.
Document imaging systems use the TIFF annotation features for things like "smart" redactions (You burn the redaction into the image while keeping a copy of the unredacted portion, which is then accordingly compressed and then encrypted. That encrypted image is then stored as an annotation that can only be shown if you've got the password, etc.
There's a lot more that you can do with annotations, etc.
Suffice it to say, PNG's good, but they didn't account for document imaging in that format- TIFF did.
OpenGL 2.0 is a shader language specification amongst other things. In order to support Doom3, you're going to very likely have to support all of it pretty well- it'd be like someone stripping out features from GCC or VC++ so that it compiled Doom3 better than anything else.
There was a spinlock deadlock in one of the earlier versions of their drivers. You had to wait for them to get around to fixing it. Now, the same could be said of the ATI drivers, but someone skilled enough could go and fix that bug.
Try Tungsten Graphics instead as that's who they've become.
Congressman Villanueva's response to MS' letter opposing the law up for a vote in Peru's Congress is telling.
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http://www.pimientolinux.com/peru2ms/villanueva
...it's not going to be as fast. In fact, MacOS slows some things down for some reason. Mandrake PPC on the G4 I have at work here does slightly better (15% or so) on distributed.net's client than my PIII-600- and it's got a 500 MHz processor. The MacOS version of the cruncher that uses the Altivec is nearly 3.5 times faster than that.
It's all in what you're using of the CPU.
I didn't say they committed an offense by way of not doing a Linux version- not once in that message.
(Next time read the message more carefully before commenting...)
I just really don't have a desire to buy software for anything other than Linux. Now, as far as Loki's demise, it had less to do with a lack of market and more to do with pure mis-management (I know a lot of the goings on there while they were still in business- I've got more than a couple of online acquaintances that worked there and they said all kinds of things that map back to what's been said, etc.). Now, what I am saying is offensive is that they're suing the bnetd people, claiming infringement, etc.
That's bogus, they know it, but since they've got money and lawyers, they're going to try and beat down the little guy anyway. THAT is what I definitely won't be doing- paying for a corporate bully. I don't buy/use Disney stuff for the same reason.
...in that regard. Games are not so important to me to sacrifice my principles over them.
If it doesn't run on Linux, I'm not terribly interested in buying it. If a company's going to pull the stunts Blizzard has went at lengths to do, I'm definitely not going to buy it.
Unless you're documenting things extensively to show that they're coming up with fantasies, they can put just about anything into your HR file that they think they can get away with. A non-termination contract will give them incentives to come up with stuff to get you fired or to drive you to quit when they have your replacement in house.
Strictly speaking, you should play counter-offer deals by ear and take/reject them accordingly.
I've been offered one counter offer that was a joke (it was 1/4 what the other place was offering...)- I didn't accept because of the subtle changes in the corporate culture and the sheer size of the other company's offer. The place I was working for did a layoff 7 months later. Had I accepted, knowing the corporate culture at that place and how it'd changed, I would have been on the short list for that one.