I have a nvidia 6600GT AGP that's already been replaced once but still suffers from dramatic heat problems and crashing at stock speeds - ATI doesn't hava a monopoly on problems
I think the real question is if an installation like this is even remotely possible or practical for something like a commuter transit system. We put up with long lines and big delays for air travel, but surely the daily volume on something like the tube dwarfs the daily volume through heathrow. Not to mention the install costs would likely be a pittance compared to the costs of hiring people to operate the equipment and scan every passenger.
Seems to me this is very unlikely to actually come to pass. If it does I think it's probably a shame. The truth is the world will always be somewhat dangerous, terrorists or no. We don't all walk around encased in bubble wrap.
exploit doesnt effect PHPBB, so this is unrelated - there are plenty of other phbb exploits. Similar to the grandparent, those were unrelated scans for an unprotected base php install.
as far as it being "in the wild" since the web page explains exactly how to perform it in a few lines of code, that should qualify as in the wild.
Who in their right mind is going to use a format like mp3 for a music subscription service exactly? You do understand how these oprate, right? You pay a fixed monthly fee ($6-$15/mo depending on the service and features) for unlimited access to their entire music library of usually one million plus tracks. Except if you stop paying you can't listen to them anymore. Surely you don't believe that anyone would green light a project that gave you a quarter of the US in print catalog to download for $6 and then you could listen to them forever? The truth is DRM enables some applications that would otherwise never exist.
I guess that's true if you consider IBM down 0.61% to be down the drain and INTC down 0.70% to be way up. AAPL has been above friday's close for a short time today but as of now is also trading 0.29% down. Truth is both IBM and INTC sales volume cover AAPL sales volume easily either with recent console deal or just with their general market, big winner or loser probably falls on AAPL but it will take years for the move to really sort itself out.
actually they very frequently do. These were results from 1Q05.
If you read the article linked to that we're discussion you'd see that:
"LINDON, Utah, June 1/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The SCO Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX), owner of the UNIX operating system and a leading provider of UNIX-based solutions, today reported results for its fiscal second quarter ended April 30, 2005."
The second quarter ended on april 30, 3 months after the first quarter ended.
Not really true if you compare quarters, though i am no specific fan of va linux.
Comparing the quarter ending jan 31, 2005 SCOX showed total revenue of $8.9M with a net loss of $3M while LNUX posted total revenue of $9.9M with a net loss of $700k.
The real future of SCOX is probably best laid out in the following excerpt from their 10Q:
"We are unlikely to generate significant revenue from our SCOsource business unless and until we prevail in our SCO Litigation. Additionally, the success of these initiatives may depend on the strength of our intellectual property rights and contractual claims regarding UNIX, including the strength of our claim that unauthorized UNIX source code and derivative works are prevalent in Linux."
I like how he spends a few paragraphs talking about the idea of a software labor union and then apparently completely forgets about that idea instead focusing on how mad people writing letters got an article pulled. Maybe his next labor union will be formed by christians angry at broadcast TV?
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entire slashdot community trolled, news at 11. it sure is easy to get you guys all upset
ITMS is a break even business for apple that serves only to drives sales of their portable - not the other way around. While I don't own an ipod or any other type of portable, it's silly to discount the effect of branding, industrial design and marketing that makes products breakout successes. Why do you think everyone owned a walkman in the 80's and a nokia phone in the late 90's and early 00's.
somewhat related i guess, my bank card pin to this day is a portion of a telephone number of a BBS i used to call daily back in '87 or '88 some 1500 miles away from my house (though i couldn't for the life of me remember the rest of the number now). my poor parent's house was searched six months after i had left home for college for related activities. at the time local MCI long distance cards used an improbable 4 digit long phone card number - you could manually find a new number in just a few minutes with a touch tone telephone. the proliferation of dedicated 56k+ arpa/internet links and cheap computing arrived just in time to keep me out of trouble as an adult.
Ahh, I must have misunderstood. You suggest that the only answer to a broadcast television model is to cease broadcast, fire all sponsors and provide content exclusively through on demand digital delivery. I suggest practical factual reasons that won't work and your response is "I have more social obligations than you HAHA!" Obviously.
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"I'm betting this will surprise you [...]"
sure no one has heard of people recording video programs for later watching, thank you for your time and insight!
"iTunes is demonstrating the feasibility of delivering paid-for digital media over the Internet"
True. I'm not sure anyone has argued that it is technically possible for it to be done. However, you might be interested in the fact that ITMS has been explained by apple as being no better than break even. They are unable to make a profit with the service. As far as apple is concerned it exists solely to promote sales of their iPod hardware device. Content interests have repeatedly protested that ITMS sales perform poorly compared to retail sales. So literally there is no corporate interest in ITMS barring sales of the portable. Not really a great example for on demand television unless you sell a portable video player.
"Windows Media Center [...] offering DVR [...] released on DVD"
Some good examples of the PVR/DVR market. Let's explain why PVR works now while on demand may not.
98.2% of households own a TV (US 1990) 74.9% of households have some kind of Internet (US 2004) 45.2% of households have broadband (US 2004)
obviously broadband on demand delivery has a major hurdle to take care of before it could replace broadcast + PVR timeshifting
Even if broadband penetration was 98.2%, which could take decades, could current digital infrastructure support each television household consuming 2-6 hours of on demand 1mbps-6mbps video content? No. While it may work for you to download a show or two, it would all fall apart if all of your neighbors were doing the same thing. Infrastucture can't support it (yet)
"If you charge for access to a service like this nobody can 'steal' content by fast-forwarding through commercials because there won't be any."
Broadcast television revenues: US$54.4B (US 2004) Premium television revenues: US$8.5B (worldwide 2002) PPV television revenues: US$2.4B (worldwide 2002)
I'm not sure I'd like to explain to shareholders how the only answer to sustaining my business is to abandon a $54B market to chase a $2B-8B market (at best) with higher costs.
Also ratings would fall drastically: highest rated show 5/9-5/15: CSI (CBS) 26.4M viewers highest rated premium tv show 5/9-5/15: below public reporting threshold, below 3.1M viewers
So in summary: * no example of profitable major on demand broadband video delivery * infrastructure does not support it * penetration is less than half of broadcast * current market revenue is 5%-20% of broadcast
I dont think broadcast will be going away anytime soon.
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There are dozens of major pay and free channels that don't run commercials. None of these have a video on demand service for their content library. Why? Maybe because spending a maximum of two minutes explaining how to save an industry from the perspective of a sassy outsider isn't actually going to yield insightful or constructive results.
When showcased at the Version 05 arts festival in Chicago, viewers suggested using the system for internet sex. Experts dismiss the whole idea as silly.
"Current haptic displays typically allow a user to interact with a virtual or remote environment through a tool," says Allison M. Okamura, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Johns Hopkins University. "Hence, the systems feel like you are poking at the world through a stick. A major challenge is providing the user with more delicate tactile sensations, such as feeling that occurs when one draws her finger over a rough or smooth surface. This kind of realism is difficult to achieve."
Well I am by absolutely no means a lawyer, but my impression is that you can sue anyone for any amount of damages, and then the result must be decided in court. While I agree there is most likely a great need for tort reform in the United States the issue is by no means specific to the music industry. And it certainly doesnt provide the basis for the lowest possible price for a comparable product from a competing vendor being the ceiling on damages for intellectual property.
As far as shoplifting punishment goes it brings up a good argument versus the article... As far as the law is concerned if you get caught shoplifting you cant just say fine here I'll pay the price of the item and go off on your merry way. If that was the case it would make the most sense to just shoplift everything and only pay when you get caught. The article goes even further really implying you should be able to say "well sure the store i stole it at charges $20 for this item but i saw it on sale somewhere else for $5 so i'll only pay you that". In the end it makes sense that the punishment for failing to pay for something exceeds the price you would pay legally.
This is just for local broadcast HDTV - current service both HD and NTSC will continue being sent on existing birds using mpeg2. While they havent said anything about future plans for using H.264 for non hd feeds, one can easily assume that if/when they do that they will tune the encoding of each channel to an appropriate bitrate and resolution. Saving bandwidth is their primary driving factor in launching H.264 service - not simplifying production or easing client side requirements.
Considering you are complaining about metro, as a competitor to acrobat (which doesnt swing from a trapeze) running under a version of windows (which arent being installed in a wall) called longhorn (which doesnt graze) as a competitor to tiger (which doesnt have claws) made by apple (which doesnt have a days RDA of vitamin C), I think your tirade is either pretty misplaced or comes 100 years too late.
been there done that www.desktop.com It didn't make it in the bubble its not going to make it now. Its just a lot easier and more appealing for people to use a dekstop model as opposed to a terminal model.
Between this announcement and the microsoft one I know at least one of the fine readers out there has cancelled all of their appointments for the next three days and has a case of mountain dew and a copy of worms for dummies under their arm whistling happily.
err, so you arent the guy that saying two weeks ago that you deserved to rip off any song you wanted because thats just how it is and if the musicians want money they they have to go on tour and play 5,000+ seat arenas 4-5 nights a week? No I am pretty sure you are, does that mean you changed your mind?
I never said i thought the idea of a subscription was terrible. In fact, I think with certain bands with a large hardcore audience it would be good. If you go back and look at my post i took issue your statements that that a) no one will buy mp3s b) that bands that sell less than 20,000 or 100,000 albums suck c) that enough of the fans of an indie act would subscribe to make it viable
Centralized is the way to go. Having 25,000 albums at your fingertips is really an awesome experience for a music lover. When i worked with a slightly different database of 11,000 albums you could pretty much search for anything you might think of and as long as it wasn't too obscure you had a better than 50/50 chance of it being there. The total number of in print albums in the US is only about 250,000+. The only thing holding them back from having a vast majority of the us/world catalog online is continued support from the labels which will be forthcoming if people are willing to pay and not pirate.
The other advantages of a centralized service are clear, a standard user interface, no dealing with micropayments which are too costly for merchants, professionally ripped with standard amplitude, fast performance from managed servers, click on the bands like this button (or a hyperlink in the artist bio or comments) and instantly listen to something you've never heard of that might become your new favorite, the list goes on.
Maybe you meant network centralized ala vs p2p networks? Lets face it p2p networks suck, outbound bandwidth for most users is way too low to support the demand and performance sinks to the crapper. Not to mention people who put up music that sounds like crap or cuts off 30 seconds before the end, or who only share the one hit song when you want to listen to the album. As long as they can afford to pay the bandwidth bills i'd rather listen to music thats been professionally QA'd and comes down at 4mbit. If you use a more typical delivery mechanism instead of their proprietary one it's trivial to run edge caches inside the networks of major ISP's to localize the traffic flow.
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??? You have to ask that? This is a political appointment, no position that high up or even several levels below would ever be considered technical.
I have a nvidia 6600GT AGP that's already been replaced once but still suffers from dramatic heat problems and crashing at stock speeds - ATI doesn't hava a monopoly on problems
I think the real question is if an installation like this is even remotely possible or practical for something like a commuter transit system. We put up with long lines and big delays for air travel, but surely the daily volume on something like the tube dwarfs the daily volume through heathrow. Not to mention the install costs would likely be a pittance compared to the costs of hiring people to operate the equipment and scan every passenger.
Seems to me this is very unlikely to actually come to pass. If it does I think it's probably a shame. The truth is the world will always be somewhat dangerous, terrorists or no. We don't all walk around encased in bubble wrap.
exploit doesnt effect PHPBB, so this is unrelated - there are plenty of other phbb exploits. Similar to the grandparent, those were unrelated scans for an unprotected base php install.
as far as it being "in the wild" since the web page explains exactly how to perform it in a few lines of code, that should qualify as in the wild.
they are called FPS games
I guess that's true if you consider IBM down 0.61% to be down the drain and INTC down 0.70% to be way up. AAPL has been above friday's close for a short time today but as of now is also trading 0.29% down. Truth is both IBM and INTC sales volume cover AAPL sales volume easily either with recent console deal or just with their general market, big winner or loser probably falls on AAPL but it will take years for the move to really sort itself out.
actually they very frequently do. These were results from 1Q05.
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The SCO Group, Inc.
If you read the article linked to that we're discussion you'd see that:
"LINDON, Utah, June 1
(Nasdaq: SCOX), owner of the UNIX operating system and a leading provider of
UNIX-based solutions, today reported results for its fiscal second quarter
ended April 30, 2005."
The second quarter ended on april 30, 3 months after the first quarter ended.
Not really true if you compare quarters, though i am no specific fan of va linux.
Comparing the quarter ending jan 31, 2005 SCOX showed total revenue of $8.9M with a net loss of $3M while LNUX posted total revenue of $9.9M with a net loss of $700k.
The real future of SCOX is probably best laid out in the following excerpt from their 10Q:
"We are unlikely to generate significant revenue from our SCOsource business unless and until we prevail in our SCO Litigation. Additionally, the success of these initiatives may depend on the strength of our intellectual property rights and contractual claims regarding UNIX, including the strength of our claim that unauthorized UNIX source code and derivative works are prevalent in Linux."
I like how he spends a few paragraphs talking about the idea of a software labor union and then apparently completely forgets about that idea instead focusing on how mad people writing letters got an article pulled. Maybe his next labor union will be formed by christians angry at broadcast TV?
entire slashdot community trolled, news at 11. it sure is easy to get you guys all upset
ITMS is a break even business for apple that serves only to drives sales of their portable - not the other way around. While I don't own an ipod or any other type of portable, it's silly to discount the effect of branding, industrial design and marketing that makes products breakout successes. Why do you think everyone owned a walkman in the 80's and a nokia phone in the late 90's and early 00's.
somewhat related i guess, my bank card pin to this day is a portion of a telephone number of a BBS i used to call daily back in '87 or '88 some 1500 miles away from my house (though i couldn't for the life of me remember the rest of the number now). my poor parent's house was searched six months after i had left home for college for related activities. at the time local MCI long distance cards used an improbable 4 digit long phone card number - you could manually find a new number in just a few minutes with a touch tone telephone. the proliferation of dedicated 56k+ arpa/internet links and cheap computing arrived just in time to keep me out of trouble as an adult.
Ahh, I must have misunderstood. You suggest that the only answer to a broadcast television model is to cease broadcast, fire all sponsors and provide content exclusively through on demand digital delivery. I suggest practical factual reasons that won't work and your response is "I have more social obligations than you HAHA!" Obviously.
"I'm betting this will surprise you [...]"
sure no one has heard of people recording video programs for later watching, thank you for your time and insight!
"iTunes is demonstrating the feasibility of delivering paid-for digital media over the Internet"
True. I'm not sure anyone has argued that it is technically possible for it to be done. However, you might be interested in the fact that ITMS has been explained by apple as being no better than break even. They are unable to make a profit with the service. As far as apple is concerned it exists solely to promote sales of their iPod hardware device. Content interests have repeatedly protested that ITMS sales perform poorly compared to retail sales. So literally there is no corporate interest in ITMS barring sales of the portable. Not really a great example for on demand television unless you sell a portable video player.
"Windows Media Center [...] offering DVR [...] released on DVD"
Some good examples of the PVR/DVR market. Let's explain why PVR works now while on demand may not.
98.2% of households own a TV (US 1990)
74.9% of households have some kind of Internet (US 2004)
45.2% of households have broadband (US 2004)
obviously broadband on demand delivery has a major hurdle to take care of before it could replace broadcast + PVR timeshifting
Even if broadband penetration was 98.2%, which could take decades, could current digital infrastructure support each television household consuming 2-6 hours of on demand 1mbps-6mbps video content? No. While it may work for you to download a show or two, it would all fall apart if all of your neighbors were doing the same thing. Infrastucture can't support it (yet)
"If you charge for access to a service like this nobody can 'steal' content by fast-forwarding through commercials because there won't be any."
Broadcast television revenues: US$54.4B (US 2004)
Premium television revenues: US$8.5B (worldwide 2002)
PPV television revenues: US$2.4B (worldwide 2002)
I'm not sure I'd like to explain to shareholders how the only answer to sustaining my business is to abandon a $54B market to chase a $2B-8B market (at best) with higher costs.
Also ratings would fall drastically:
highest rated show 5/9-5/15: CSI (CBS) 26.4M viewers
highest rated premium tv show 5/9-5/15: below public reporting threshold, below 3.1M viewers
So in summary:
* no example of profitable major on demand broadband video delivery
* infrastructure does not support it
* penetration is less than half of broadcast
* current market revenue is 5%-20% of broadcast
I dont think broadcast will be going away anytime soon.
There are dozens of major pay and free channels that don't run commercials. None of these have a video on demand service for their content library. Why? Maybe because spending a maximum of two minutes explaining how to save an industry from the perspective of a sassy outsider isn't actually going to yield insightful or constructive results.
When showcased at the Version 05 arts festival in Chicago, viewers suggested using the system for internet sex. Experts dismiss the whole idea as silly.
"Current haptic displays typically allow a user to interact with a virtual or remote environment through a tool," says Allison M. Okamura, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Johns Hopkins University. "Hence, the systems feel like you are poking at the world through a stick. A major challenge is providing the user with more delicate tactile sensations, such as feeling that occurs when one draws her finger over a rough or smooth surface. This kind of realism is difficult to achieve."
Well I am by absolutely no means a lawyer, but my impression is that you can sue anyone for any amount of damages, and then the result must be decided in court. While I agree there is most likely a great need for tort reform in the United States the issue is by no means specific to the music industry. And it certainly doesnt provide the basis for the lowest possible price for a comparable product from a competing vendor being the ceiling on damages for intellectual property.
As far as shoplifting punishment goes it brings up a good argument versus the article... As far as the law is concerned if you get caught shoplifting you cant just say fine here I'll pay the price of the item and go off on your merry way. If that was the case it would make the most sense to just shoplift everything and only pay when you get caught. The article goes even further really implying you should be able to say "well sure the store i stole it at charges $20 for this item but i saw it on sale somewhere else for $5 so i'll only pay you that". In the end it makes sense that the punishment for failing to pay for something exceeds the price you would pay legally.
This is just for local broadcast HDTV - current service both HD and NTSC will continue being sent on existing birds using mpeg2. While they havent said anything about future plans for using H.264 for non hd feeds, one can easily assume that if/when they do that they will tune the encoding of each channel to an appropriate bitrate and resolution. Saving bandwidth is their primary driving factor in launching H.264 service - not simplifying production or easing client side requirements.
Considering you are complaining about metro, as a competitor to acrobat (which doesnt swing from a trapeze) running under a version of windows (which arent being installed in a wall) called longhorn (which doesnt graze) as a competitor to tiger (which doesnt have claws) made by apple (which doesnt have a days RDA of vitamin C), I think your tirade is either pretty misplaced or comes 100 years too late.
been there done that www.desktop.com It didn't make it in the bubble its not going to make it now. Its just a lot easier and more appealing for people to use a dekstop model as opposed to a terminal model.
Heh. Once again you open your mouth and remove all doubt. Go get em tiger!
Between this announcement and the microsoft one I know at least one of the fine readers out there has cancelled all of their appointments for the next three days and has a case of mountain dew and a copy of worms for dummies under their arm whistling happily.
err, so you arent the guy that saying two weeks ago that you deserved to rip off any song you wanted because thats just how it is and if the musicians want money they they have to go on tour and play 5,000+ seat arenas 4-5 nights a week? No I am pretty sure you are, does that mean you changed your mind?
I never said i thought the idea of a subscription was terrible. In fact, I think with certain bands with a large hardcore audience it would be good. If you go back and look at my post i took issue your statements that that a) no one will buy mp3s b) that bands that sell less than 20,000 or 100,000 albums suck c) that enough of the fans of an indie act would subscribe to make it viable
Centralized is the way to go. Having 25,000 albums at your fingertips is really an awesome experience for a music lover. When i worked with a slightly different database of 11,000 albums you could pretty much search for anything you might think of and as long as it wasn't too obscure you had a better than 50/50 chance of it being there. The total number of in print albums in the US is only about 250,000+. The only thing holding them back from having a vast majority of the us/world catalog online is continued support from the labels which will be forthcoming if people are willing to pay and not pirate.
The other advantages of a centralized service are clear, a standard user interface, no dealing with micropayments which are too costly for merchants, professionally ripped with standard amplitude, fast performance from managed servers, click on the bands like this button (or a hyperlink in the artist bio or comments) and instantly listen to something you've never heard of that might become your new favorite, the list goes on.
Maybe you meant network centralized ala vs p2p networks? Lets face it p2p networks suck, outbound bandwidth for most users is way too low to support the demand and performance sinks to the crapper. Not to mention people who put up music that sounds like crap or cuts off 30 seconds before the end, or who only share the one hit song when you want to listen to the album. As long as they can afford to pay the bandwidth bills i'd rather listen to music thats been professionally QA'd and comes down at 4mbit. If you use a more typical delivery mechanism instead of their proprietary one it's trivial to run edge caches inside the networks of major ISP's to localize the traffic flow.