Whatever the outcome, the USA surely does not want to let China or the EU get ahead in that field...
It's already bound to happen. We're killing innovation in the US with a suffocating tidal wave of patents and litigation, and completely de-emphasizing mathematics and sciences in the educational curriculums... putting up an appearance of being ahead in space flight can only last for a few more years. The foundation is rotting away.
During the few millionths of a second that it operated, the 650-ton Atlas pulsed-power generator discharged about 19 million amps of current through an aluminum cylindrical shell about the size of a tuna can.
Sounds like the love scene from a Bulwer-Lytton romance novel contest.
Learning another typing layout doesn't make you lose your ability to type on a Qwerty keyboard anymore than learning German might make you forget how to speak English.
However, wearing lenses that reverse image up/down for an extended period DOES make your brain reverse imagery as an adaptation, corrected only by removing the lenses for an extended period. Not trying to be argumentative, but I wonder which (inverted glasses vs new language) is necessarily a better model for guessing/explaining how easily one could switch between layouts.
"As of this writing (1996) a clock rate of more than about 10 kHz seems utterly ridiculous, although this observation will no doubt seem quaintly amusing one day,"
Huh? They had 200 MEGAherz machines in 1996... what was this person talking about?
Last week I noticed that several of my downloads in bittorrent just kept downloading and downloading, despite showing that they had downloaded 3x original file size. I found myself wondering if someone was crapflooding, sending bad data that caused the eventual every-9-megabytes checksum to be bad and start the segment over. Anyone else notice this?
Could Apple's Intel Desktop Threaten Linux?... The Linux Desktop Community must encourage such initatives massively to compete against Mac OSX and Windows.
Linux - and more generally, OSS - doesn't "need" marketshare. Any OSS project will continue as long as at least one person builds and distributes the project's software. Which I guarantee for Linux will be for the rest of our lives at least.
That the headline is worded "[could] threaten Linux" is a sensationalist sky-might-be-falling spin which implies that Linux might somehow be wiped out if we're not careful. Not only is this implication untrue, but it distorts what I think is a more appropriate view to have of open source, which is that OSS is a success as long as people are free to use OSS to whatever degree they personally want. The real dangers would be if the right to use OSS was legislated away by corrupt politicians... not that a prettier proprietary desktop with better scrollbars will render OSS dead.
They're taking out "my" because Trusted Computing makes the computer into Microsoft's beeotch, instead of the user's. But their marketing department thought that naming everything "Microsoft's Computer", etc, would be too blatant. So just dropping the "my" is a compromise.
I've tried two of the utilities you mention (G*) and in each case gave up on getting them to function. I'm sure with enough time and fiddling it would have happened, but getting them to work wasn't high-enough priority for me to warrant putting in lots of time. If this new winamp thing "just works", no compilation/configuring involved, I would consider that a big step forward.
One 8Gb ROM chip would have sufficient storage capacity to store the contents of an entire movie using H.264 encoding.
Um, seeing as how 2.5+ hours of video compressed with mpeg2 encoding can fit on a *4* Gb dvd, and H264 is a large improvement on mpeg2, it would seem that the above statement is rather modest. I'd bet that eight movies could be stored in H264 on an 8Gb chip.
So do you ALSO complain when you read the Illiad or the Odyssey because Homer was *GASP* really writing propaganda for greek religious beliefs!! SAY IT AIN'T SO! Why is that Christianity is the only religion it is still ok to hate?
Because our government isn't being hijacked by Greek Orthodoxy.
To turn it around: what good will this new id card do?
To any extent that it facilitates better tracking (or whatever), it's not too hard to come up with a scenario where that greater tracking is abused.
More generally, this intiative smells like any of a number of garden-variety post-9/11 "anti-terrorist security" notions that piss people off because they're showboating in the name of security while in fact simply taking away freedoms (and yes, anonymity is a freedom). Our "greater airport security", for example, deters nobody from hijacking or bombing airplanes but the stupid and impulsive, and the folks who pulled off 9/11 were neither. Don't even get me started on the patriot act.
Rest assured that your complacency about this issue in no way placates me.
You can be unhappy with the way your fellow citizens vote, but corporations aren't electing these people into Congress. Other people in your community are.... Money is just a megaphone. If you're spouting garbage, it will just make the garbage stinkier.
Disagreed; instead of a megaphone, a better analogy is that money is (also) a window dressing, and it can spin garbage into pleasant little poptarts that will be dutifully swallowed by people who don't have time to figure out whether "paid for by citizens for better blah blah" is in fact a sinister corporate-backed initiative or an honest attempt by a grass roots concern. I'm not even a PR person and I guarantee you I can smother any issue in so much tongue twisting, calls to action, superlatives/derogatives, and sound bytes that it will come out sounding as positive or negative as I want it without any of it necessarily being provably, strictly false. Money is indeed electing people.
It's mildly interesting that they were able to thwart the ridiculously inane classified protections, but it's telling that they didn't find anything that further incriminated the U.S. service personnel.
Just so somebody says it once: we have no proof that this whole thing isn't just a plant. I.e., perhaps the weak "protection" was purposefully included, with the "real opinions" redacted but discoverable intentionally... so that the *truily real* opinions are never suspected.
You do realize "It's not stealing, Your Honor, it's just copyright infringement" isn't a valid legal defense, don't you?
It's perfectly valid, if indeed what you did was not stealing and was instead copyright infringement. If someone accuses you of murder and what in fact you did was shoplift, then it's to be expected that you'd say "It's not murder, Your Honor, it's just shoplifting". Doesn't make shoplifting legal, but that's not the point is it?
The actual statement directed at Linus was that he's got to "cool it now," and that he'd better "watch out" because he's "gonna lose control."
Furthermore, it wasn't Perens who said this. It was actually Bobby Brown.
No, it was.38 Special, and the statement was to "hold on loosely but don't let go, if you cling too tightly you're gonna lose control". Get it right.
Wait a minute. Why are they bitching about this? Apple PIONEERED this technique with the iPod. You cannot do this with the iPod so why are they trashing the sony players for doing the SAME LIMITATION? This story has BIASED written all over it.
I agree that ipods are similarly limited, but I'm not sure this story submission rises to bias. Regarding the non-transferrability of songs off of a disk-based ipod, it's a weak protection... the songs are intact/unswizzled, and accessible if you simply look in a hidden directory; don't know if the sonys are more prohibitive or not. Regarding the shuffle's disallowing of editing a given list on more than one machine, it may be the case that the submitter didn't realize this and assumed it was the same as the disk-based ipods... presumptive, but not unreasonably so... so again not necessarily biased.
[Sony's new flash-based players] surely look like a serious attempt to regain territory lost to the iPod.... But wait -- you cannot just put your MP3s onto the device, you have to run them through Sony's obfuscation software first... [and] you can't just move them around, share them with your friends, whatever.
Just so the record is straight on this, all of the above are pretty much true of the ipod shuffle:
You have to install mp3s on a shuffle via itunes... no simply file drag copying allowed. This is true of all ipods.
Unlike non-flash ipods, once in possession of the songs the shuffle only allows its contents to be seen and edited on the very same machine that was used to copy the songs over to begin with; if you attempt to use a different machine, itunes will force you to wipe out the contents and start over.
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It's already bound to happen. We're killing innovation in the US with a suffocating tidal wave of patents and litigation, and completely de-emphasizing mathematics and sciences in the educational curriculums... putting up an appearance of being ahead in space flight can only last for a few more years. The foundation is rotting away.
Sounds like the love scene from a Bulwer-Lytton romance novel contest.
Minor nitpick: the decay is *square* over distance, i.e. energyAbsorbed=k/(Distance*Distance).
Just so people using a headset with a 3-(unit length) cord realize they're absorbing 1/9th the energy they would without, rather than 1/27th.
Despite the tremendous lockdown effots, these books got into the wild. To quote one of the people in Jurassic Park: "Life found a way."
However, wearing lenses that reverse image up/down for an extended period DOES make your brain reverse imagery as an adaptation, corrected only by removing the lenses for an extended period. Not trying to be argumentative, but I wonder which (inverted glasses vs new language) is necessarily a better model for guessing/explaining how easily one could switch between layouts.
Huh? They had 200 MEGAherz machines in 1996... what was this person talking about?
Last week I noticed that several of my downloads in bittorrent just kept downloading and downloading, despite showing that they had downloaded 3x original file size. I found myself wondering if someone was crapflooding, sending bad data that caused the eventual every-9-megabytes checksum to be bad and start the segment over. Anyone else notice this?
Linux - and more generally, OSS - doesn't "need" marketshare. Any OSS project will continue as long as at least one person builds and distributes the project's software. Which I guarantee for Linux will be for the rest of our lives at least.
That the headline is worded "[could] threaten Linux" is a sensationalist sky-might-be-falling spin which implies that Linux might somehow be wiped out if we're not careful. Not only is this implication untrue, but it distorts what I think is a more appropriate view to have of open source, which is that OSS is a success as long as people are free to use OSS to whatever degree they personally want. The real dangers would be if the right to use OSS was legislated away by corrupt politicians... not that a prettier proprietary desktop with better scrollbars will render OSS dead.
They're taking out "my" because Trusted Computing makes the computer into Microsoft's beeotch, instead of the user's. But their marketing department thought that naming everything "Microsoft's Computer", etc, would be too blatant. So just dropping the "my" is a compromise.
I guess these guys didn't get the memo about the TPS reports.
And The Hobbitt was so much better than The Phantom Menace to start with. Go figure.
I've tried two of the utilities you mention (G*) and in each case gave up on getting them to function. I'm sure with enough time and fiddling it would have happened, but getting them to work wasn't high-enough priority for me to warrant putting in lots of time. If this new winamp thing "just works", no compilation/configuring involved, I would consider that a big step forward.
Um, seeing as how 2.5+ hours of video compressed with mpeg2 encoding can fit on a *4* Gb dvd, and H264 is a large improvement on mpeg2, it would seem that the above statement is rather modest. I'd bet that eight movies could be stored in H264 on an 8Gb chip.
Nope. And it's not a football game so I don't see it in terms of "winning everything". Nuff said.
Because our government isn't being hijacked by Greek Orthodoxy.
Yeah, but I was born a Mr Microphone man and I'll die a Mr Microphone man: 'Hey good lookin', we'll be back to pick ya up later!'
To turn it around: what good will this new id card do?
To any extent that it facilitates better tracking (or whatever), it's not too hard to come up with a scenario where that greater tracking is abused.
More generally, this intiative smells like any of a number of garden-variety post-9/11 "anti-terrorist security" notions that piss people off because they're showboating in the name of security while in fact simply taking away freedoms (and yes, anonymity is a freedom). Our "greater airport security", for example, deters nobody from hijacking or bombing airplanes but the stupid and impulsive, and the folks who pulled off 9/11 were neither. Don't even get me started on the patriot act.
Rest assured that your complacency about this issue in no way placates me.
Disagreed; instead of a megaphone, a better analogy is that money is (also) a window dressing, and it can spin garbage into pleasant little poptarts that will be dutifully swallowed by people who don't have time to figure out whether "paid for by citizens for better blah blah" is in fact a sinister corporate-backed initiative or an honest attempt by a grass roots concern. I'm not even a PR person and I guarantee you I can smother any issue in so much tongue twisting, calls to action, superlatives/derogatives, and sound bytes that it will come out sounding as positive or negative as I want it without any of it necessarily being provably, strictly false. Money is indeed electing people.
Just so somebody says it once: we have no proof that this whole thing isn't just a plant. I.e., perhaps the weak "protection" was purposefully included, with the "real opinions" redacted but discoverable intentionally... so that the *truily real* opinions are never suspected.
It's perfectly valid, if indeed what you did was not stealing and was instead copyright infringement. If someone accuses you of murder and what in fact you did was shoplift, then it's to be expected that you'd say "It's not murder, Your Honor, it's just shoplifting". Doesn't make shoplifting legal, but that's not the point is it?
No, it was .38 Special, and the statement was to "hold on loosely but don't let go, if you cling too tightly you're gonna lose control". Get it right.
Thanks. fyi, I weighed in against others' propositions that this submission was biased.
I agree that ipods are similarly limited, but I'm not sure this story submission rises to bias. Regarding the non-transferrability of songs off of a disk-based ipod, it's a weak protection... the songs are intact/unswizzled, and accessible if you simply look in a hidden directory; don't know if the sonys are more prohibitive or not. Regarding the shuffle's disallowing of editing a given list on more than one machine, it may be the case that the submitter didn't realize this and assumed it was the same as the disk-based ipods... presumptive, but not unreasonably so... so again not necessarily biased.
Just so the record is straight on this, all of the above are pretty much true of the ipod shuffle: