I don't have a problem with the concept of copyrights and patents.
The problem is that the terms are unreasonable, and the enforcement is simply ludicrous.
Copyright violations that don't involve charging money should be a civil fine only, and should certainly not involve the FBI. Go after people selling pirated DVD's though, by all means.
Patents should not have the one-size-fits-all problem that currently exists. One-click and a cure for cancer that has gone through the trial system certainly don't deserve the same protection.
Last time I checked, in our area (Utah, Qwest), a T-1 has a guaranteed response time of 4 hours. However, if a DSL line goes down they will guarantee NOT to do anything for 5 days or so.
The Democratic party is in bed with Hollywood. Not in the sense that Republicans try to say ("they're all libruls"), but when it comes to the RIAA/MPAA agenda, it is completely true.
1) The ATSC specs don't provide a 60 frame 1080p mode - only 24p. 2) There isn't a lot of content that can use 1080p - and it is likely to just be movies, which are 24p.
There is one benefit of getting a 1080p display though: MythTV does a good job of deinterlacing 1080i to 1080p. You will probably also want to get some equipment to remove the MPEG artifacts too, which is not cheap.
Australia is actually the Saudi Arabia of Uranium. However, they have been reluctant to mine it.
They are just now starting to allow a little bit more mining.
Re:Which is why India's looking at thorium...
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Uranium is quite abundant - there is enough to power the earth for millions of years (though at some point it will require more advanced techniques). This is a temporary shortage due to over-reaction from Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.
Temporary but quite painful for countries who are chasing down oil instead of locking up Uranium supplies (i.e. the USA).
The government taxes and spends a LOT of money to prosecute the war on drugs. Virtually every department gets a cut.
It is only logical that a county attorney would want to continue prosecuting these cases, otherwise he might have to cut staff and save the taxpayers a few bucks.
As far as handouts go, this pales in comparison to the many billions of dollars given to the phone companies to provide fiber into every home in the country. Foolishly, the government gave them the money first - so the fiber part was never built out.
I am the most anti-Microsoft person around, going back to getting burned when they abandoned OS/2.
However, I think this is great news. I wouldn't object to Microsoft becoming the #1 software producer for Linux - by making Office etc. work in Mono and licensing their C# Win32 libraries for a reasonable price. I would probably start using Outlook right away because our corporate overlords insist on Exchange.
Commodity software like operating systems are a losing proposition in the long term. If Microsoft can focus on a way to bring in licensing revenue from multi-platform software, I think everyone would be happy. I'm sure their C# stuff will always run better on Windows, but it potentially could be "good enough" on Linux and the Mac. As long as the device drivers and such are all GPL, that is good enough for the "open source" crowd. Stallman will still rightfully complain, of course.
I would love to see a standard that would allow 100 ft cables for both video & USB. This would make it easy to move a loud computer into a different room, and you could hook up a DVD drive via local USB.
I would imagine that free software users are more likely to reject right-left politics altogether. Political "debate" these days sounds like crips vs. bloods - a disinction without a difference.
An R-tard like George W. Bush would be just as bad if he were from the Democratic party.
It is great for replacing things like DNS servers that are mostly CPU. However, don't try running two busy database machines on the same disk - you can't divide it up nearly as well as CPU or bandwidth use.
Also, make sure to try OpenVZ before you try Xen. If you are virtualizing all Linux machines, then VZ is IMO a better choice.
Who are the idiots working on this project?
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Motherboard support is the most important thing to be working on. I have wanted to use LinuxBIOS for > 5 years now, but the supported hardware list is laughably small.
Backbone ISP's that can't keep up with have to either upgrade or lose business. Same with local ISP's. This is called a "free market".
What needs to happen is a two tiered bandwidth scheme, sort of similar to the local-vs-long-distance telephone issues.
1) incredibly fast access from the ISP to their customers (similar to local phone service). 2) slower access to other ISP's.
It is insanity that I pay one price for relatively slow DSL that works the same whether I am connecting next door or to Japan. We should all have 100 megabit links and be connecting to local caching devices a la Akamai or whatever Google is up to. Local ISP's can also provide these services.
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I don't have a problem with the concept of copyrights and patents.
The problem is that the terms are unreasonable, and the enforcement is simply ludicrous.
Copyright violations that don't involve charging money should be a civil fine only, and should certainly not involve the FBI. Go after people selling pirated DVD's though, by all means.
Patents should not have the one-size-fits-all problem that currently exists. One-click and a cure for cancer that has gone through the trial system certainly don't deserve the same protection.
Windows is not a server platform - it is for desktops only.
Last time I checked, in our area (Utah, Qwest), a T-1 has a guaranteed response time of 4 hours. However, if a DSL line goes down they will guarantee NOT to do anything for 5 days or so.
Yes, it is a scam.
The Democratic party is in bed with Hollywood. Not in the sense that Republicans try to say ("they're all libruls"), but when it comes to the RIAA/MPAA agenda, it is completely true.
There are several problems:
1) The ATSC specs don't provide a 60 frame 1080p mode - only 24p.
2) There isn't a lot of content that can use 1080p - and it is likely to just be movies, which are 24p.
There is one benefit of getting a 1080p display though: MythTV does a good job of deinterlacing 1080i to 1080p. You will probably also want to get some equipment to remove the MPEG artifacts too, which is not cheap.
Mark
Perhaps random startup companies no longer fear Microsoft, but there is a reason why it is virtually impossible to buy Linux pre-loaded.
It is the fear of a sudden $500 million increase in Windows licensing fees, a la what happened to IBM in the mid 1990's.
I have a PVR250 and I have sampled recordings from my old standalone Tivo, which was the same signal type as a VCR.
Reasonable pricing, pretty reliable.
Sad but true. The environmentalists who used to hate nuclear so much will end up being the greatest proponents.
Of course VMware and Xen are going to be slow - that is the tradeoff you get when you want the ability to run both Windows and Linux at the same time.
http://openvz.org/ - it does a much better job of virtualizing IMO. The only minus is that all VM's have to use the same kernel version.
Australia is actually the Saudi Arabia of Uranium. However, they have been reluctant to mine it.
They are just now starting to allow a little bit more mining.
Uranium is quite abundant - there is enough to power the earth for millions of years (though at some point it will require more advanced techniques). This is a temporary shortage due to over-reaction from Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.
Temporary but quite painful for countries who are chasing down oil instead of locking up Uranium supplies (i.e. the USA).
The government taxes and spends a LOT of money to prosecute the war on drugs. Virtually every department gets a cut.
It is only logical that a county attorney would want to continue prosecuting these cases, otherwise he might have to cut staff and save the taxpayers a few bucks.
I'm sure LG had lobbyists pushing this.
As far as handouts go, this pales in comparison to the many billions of dollars given to the phone companies to provide fiber into every home in the country. Foolishly, the government gave them the money first - so the fiber part was never built out.
I am the most anti-Microsoft person around, going back to getting burned when they abandoned OS/2.
However, I think this is great news. I wouldn't object to Microsoft becoming the #1 software producer for Linux - by making Office etc. work in Mono and licensing their C# Win32 libraries for a reasonable price. I would probably start using Outlook right away because our corporate overlords insist on Exchange.
Commodity software like operating systems are a losing proposition in the long term. If Microsoft can focus on a way to bring in licensing revenue from multi-platform software, I think everyone would be happy. I'm sure their C# stuff will always run better on Windows, but it potentially could be "good enough" on Linux and the Mac. As long as the device drivers and such are all GPL, that is good enough for the "open source" crowd. Stallman will still rightfully complain, of course.
How long can HDMI cables be?
I would love to see a standard that would allow 100 ft cables for both video & USB. This would make it easy to move a loud computer into a different room, and you could hook up a DVD drive via local USB.
Just learn how to set CFLAGS when you build a Debian package and quit wasting time with Yet Another Distro.
I would imagine that free software users are more likely to reject right-left politics altogether. Political "debate" these days sounds like crips vs. bloods - a disinction without a difference.
An R-tard like George W. Bush would be just as bad if he were from the Democratic party.
It is great for replacing things like DNS servers that are mostly CPU. However, don't try running two busy database machines on the same disk - you can't divide it up nearly as well as CPU or bandwidth use.
Also, make sure to try OpenVZ before you try Xen. If you are virtualizing all Linux machines, then VZ is IMO a better choice.
Motherboard support is the most important thing to be working on. I have wanted to use LinuxBIOS for > 5 years now, but the supported hardware list is laughably small.
How much would it cost to cover your car with this?
That would be a huge win. However, I think Ballmer would lose his mind if this happened.
Are they distributing in high definition, or at least DVD quality? Or is this yet another "advancement" where all they do is lower the quality?
The files are Windows-only. What a disaster.
Backbone ISP's that can't keep up with have to either upgrade or lose business. Same with local ISP's. This is called a "free market".
What needs to happen is a two tiered bandwidth scheme, sort of similar to the local-vs-long-distance telephone issues.
1) incredibly fast access from the ISP to their customers (similar to local phone service).
2) slower access to other ISP's.
It is insanity that I pay one price for relatively slow DSL that works the same whether I am connecting next door or to Japan. We should all have 100 megabit links and be connecting to local caching devices a la Akamai or whatever Google is up to. Local ISP's can also provide these services.