It seems you didn't look at the press release at all. The sub-title of which being "Physical Review E publishes paper on fusion experiment conducted with upgraded measurement system". So, in case you have trouble interpreting that, what they are saying is that this has been peer reviewed, and it will be published, in a respectable journal.
If you're maxing out your upload, as you state that you are, you're likely not leaving enough room for the overhead that BT needs to request packets. You should use the command line options to limit the number of active uploads and upload rate to give yourself some leeway. If you set the max upload to a half or three-quarters of what your line can handle you ought to get much better downloads. This link would normally be of use, but it appears he's maxed his outbound for the month. In the mean time you can start here.
How does trying to make a living selling a BIOS make this guy a weasel?
...but it's a bit of a wake-up call for those who still believe companies like AMI give a rat's ass about the average geek buying a motherboard.
He's got absolutely no reason to care and never has. Do you want to know why? He's not selling motherboards. In fact he can't afford to worry with whether or not TCPA is going to fuck consumers in the ass. If he doesn't put it in his BIOS then his BIOS doesn't get sold, his company makes no money, and he doesn't eat. It's kinda hard to explain to your stomach you've got no food based on spurious moral reasoning.
But, I honestly think that this guy is struggling to some degree with the morallity of TCPA and related technologies and isn't just spindoctoring. It might have just been rationalization when stated multiple ways in which TCPA can be beneficial to consumers, but I think he has a point. But, whether or not the goal of it is for Palladium or for the RIAA and the MPAA to be able to sell us content and control how we use it can't be his focus. He doesn't have that luxury.
The point you should be focusing on is that TCPA is really the only hardware issue that we have to worry about right now and it can be turned off and/or used by anybody that wants to use it. In other words, it poses no threat to people who use open source software.
You make some interesting points but altogether your argument is flawed. Somehow you managed to make the same jump from TCPA to DRM that most other people around here do so easily. DRM does not require TCPA and TCPA was not sole designed for DRM. That's not to say that TCPA won't make certain DRM schemes harder to circumvent.
[T]he mere inclusion of it as a standard feature in a bios will encourage the DRM software author to say: "If you don't enable your bios control, you won't get any standard functionality out of our software."
If the standard functionality of a program requires TCPA enabled DRM to function then either it wouldn't work without it (e.g. secure methods for copy control) and there is no getting around it or it would work without it, in which case a competitor could easily copy the functionality and market or give away that same functionality without the annoyance of having TCPA enabled.
The mere fact that it is in the bios will be enough to spur software development in that direction.
The demand for DRM is already there. From the [MP|RI]AA and from people who just plain want to get paid for their work. Including TCPA is not spurring on DRM, however useful it is to that end. In effect, you are using the same logic used by the MPAA against DeCSS. Just because it can be used in an illegal manner doesn't make it bad altogether.
If implementers could guarantee me that using it means I can safely shut out Microsoft or any other company from doing *anything* (via the Internet) in my system without my express advance permission...
How about this: If you don't want Microsoft doing anything on your computer of which you don't approve, don't run Microsoft software.
After installing Windows XP and installing Half-Life I started noticing that the menu system didn't function the way it was supposed to all the time.
Sometimes the buttons would not draw correctly. Sometimes I was left with a blank screen and would have to <ALT>+<TAB> out, kill, and restart the program.
So I figured I would try out compatibality mode for 98se to see if that would fix the problem.
The next time I played Half-Life my computer promptly blue screened. I decided that that could have been coincidence and tried it again; blue screen again. Needless to say I decided to just deal with menu issues.
Did anybody else notice that their way out is a window the size of a small pet door. Of course the malnutritioned (sp?) geeks can fit through that but they don't really want to. It's the managers that are supposed to want to get away from *nix and they'd never fit through that hole.
Maybe the managers are just supposed to shove as many IT guys out the window as they can and hope for the best.
I'm not even a Mac user and your post offended me.
How do you get off calling Apple an "insecure company" or saying that there "hasn't been a new application of any note for a decade", or even that Mac hardware is "grossly overpriced"? Besides the fact that 2 out of 3 of those comments aren't even applicable to this debate, they don't have anything to back them up.
And to address the comments about applications. What about iTunes and iPhoto, while curiously named, they have been acclaimed to be some of the easiest to use programs for managing music and digitial photos around in the two of the most expanding sectors of digital commerce.
To get back to the point, your comments damning people who want users to be sheep and by association those users has already been addressed. Computers should be easy for non-technophiles. People don't want to know about drivers and interrupts or even document types. They just want to surf the web, print their documents, play their games, and not be bothered with the details. The OS that did this first and best was been Windoze. Now that it has monopoly power, they have been able to bully their competition away and it won't be easy to overtake their position. But if anyone is going to do it is going to be by providing ease of use. Free doesn't mean anything if you can't use it.
I think that the linux desktop manufacturers hit the wrong time frame. Linux was too immature when they were trying to sell linux only desktops and the people who would have bought them could have made their own computer and installed it themselves.
If linux as it is now is going to excel it needs to come preinstalled with all the drivers set up properly so that John Q. Luser can fire it up open Konquerer/Mozilla/Opera and start browsing.
It also needs to see some floor space in CompUSA/Office Max/Circuit City with a price tag that is significantly lower than that of a comprable windows machine so that Ma can go in look at two side by side machines try both of them out, find them to do about the same thing, and decide that $700 is about $200 less than $900.
Anyway just my opinion mod up or down as you please.
I was in Greece two summers ago and the tour guide told us all about how the Oracles would breath in the noxious vapors from the then somewhat active volcano and then dance around as they spouted forth their 'great prophecies' to those who came seeking 'wisdom'.
Also FYI, she also told us that real Greeks pronounce the name Delfee.
First of all I have seen a small number of Zim episodes and was not impressed. While it does have it's moments (I enjoy GIR), most of the material in it was loud-obnoxious-gross-out stuff, kinda like Ren and Stimpy in their bad episodes. I just don't know how people call this inspired. Again, I could be missing something. Please enlighten me.
Secondly, all the posts about Zim being the best cartoon in years must not realize that Adult Swim exits and in particular the hour from 11-12p.m EST that they show "Williams Street" productions.
I highly recommend checkin it out Sunday and Thursday nights on the Cartoon Network. That's not to mention that they play Cowboy Bepop for you anime fans.
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Maybe I haven't looked hard enough
It seems you didn't look at the press release at all. The sub-title of which being "Physical Review E publishes paper on fusion experiment conducted with upgraded measurement system". So, in case you have trouble interpreting that, what they are saying is that this has been peer reviewed, and it will be published, in a respectable journal.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2003-04 -16&res=l
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http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2002
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If you're maxing out your upload, as you state that you are, you're likely not leaving enough room for the overhead that BT needs to request packets. You should use the command line options to limit the number of active uploads and upload rate to give yourself some leeway. If you set the max upload to a half or three-quarters of what your line can handle you ought to get much better downloads. This link would normally be of use, but it appears he's maxed his outbound for the month. In the mean time you can start here.
But, I honestly think that this guy is struggling to some degree with the morallity of TCPA and related technologies and isn't just spindoctoring. It might have just been rationalization when stated multiple ways in which TCPA can be beneficial to consumers, but I think he has a point. But, whether or not the goal of it is for Palladium or for the RIAA and the MPAA to be able to sell us content and control how we use it can't be his focus. He doesn't have that luxury.
The point you should be focusing on is that TCPA is really the only hardware issue that we have to worry about right now and it can be turned off and/or used by anybody that wants to use it. In other words, it poses no threat to people who use open source software.
Heh... "Compatability" mode.
After installing Windows XP and installing Half-Life I started noticing that the menu system didn't function the way it was supposed to all the time.
Sometimes the buttons would not draw correctly. Sometimes I was left with a blank screen and would have to <ALT>+<TAB> out, kill, and restart the program.
So I figured I would try out compatibality mode for 98se to see if that would fix the problem.
The next time I played Half-Life my computer promptly blue screened. I decided that that could have been coincidence and tried it again; blue screen again. Needless to say I decided to just deal with menu issues.
Just something I found humorous.
Did anybody else notice that their way out is a window the size of a small pet door. Of course the malnutritioned (sp?) geeks can fit through that but they don't really want to. It's the managers that are supposed to want to get away from *nix and they'd never fit through that hole.
Maybe the managers are just supposed to shove as many IT guys out the window as they can and hope for the best.
Anyways, back to M$ bashing.
impto, suspected troll
Could we please get a proper spelling of the name of that boat in the Title. I believe the submitter has it correct as "Titanic" only two t's.
I'm not even a Mac user and your post offended me.
How do you get off calling Apple an "insecure company" or saying that there "hasn't been a new application of any note for a decade", or even that Mac hardware is "grossly overpriced"? Besides the fact that 2 out of 3 of those comments aren't even applicable to this debate, they don't have anything to back them up.
And to address the comments about applications. What about iTunes and iPhoto, while curiously named, they have been acclaimed to be some of the easiest to use programs for managing music and digitial photos around in the two of the most expanding sectors of digital commerce.
To get back to the point, your comments damning people who want users to be sheep and by association those users has already been addressed. Computers should be easy for non-technophiles. People don't want to know about drivers and interrupts or even document types. They just want to surf the web, print their documents, play their games, and not be bothered with the details. The OS that did this first and best was been Windoze. Now that it has monopoly power, they have been able to bully their competition away and it won't be easy to overtake their position. But if anyone is going to do it is going to be by providing ease of use. Free doesn't mean anything if you can't use it.
I think that the linux desktop manufacturers hit the wrong time frame. Linux was too immature when they were trying to sell linux only desktops and the people who would have bought them could have made their own computer and installed it themselves.
If linux as it is now is going to excel it needs to come preinstalled with all the drivers set up properly so that John Q. Luser can fire it up open Konquerer/Mozilla/Opera and start browsing.
It also needs to see some floor space in CompUSA/Office Max/Circuit City with a price tag that is significantly lower than that of a comprable windows machine so that Ma can go in look at two side by side machines try both of them out, find them to do about the same thing, and decide that $700 is about $200 less than $900.
Anyway just my opinion mod up or down as you please.
No kidding.
I was in Greece two summers ago and the tour guide told us all about how the Oracles would breath in the noxious vapors from the then somewhat active volcano and then dance around as they spouted forth their 'great prophecies' to those who came seeking 'wisdom'.
Also FYI, she also told us that real Greeks pronounce the name Delfee.
Must be a slow news day.
Of course you know pr0n brings people together. There is more and more evidence of this every day.
Today's lesson is that XxX is spelled the same in every language.
I hope you all feel better knowing this.
First of all I have seen a small number of Zim episodes and was not impressed. While it does have it's moments (I enjoy GIR), most of the material in it was loud-obnoxious-gross-out stuff, kinda like Ren and Stimpy in their bad episodes. I just don't know how people call this inspired. Again, I could be missing something. Please enlighten me.
Secondly, all the posts about Zim being the best cartoon in years must not realize that Adult Swim exits and in particular the hour from 11-12p.m EST that they show "Williams Street" productions.
I highly recommend checkin it out Sunday and Thursday nights on the Cartoon Network. That's not to mention that they play Cowboy Bepop for you anime fans.
just my opinion, ignore it or mod it down at will
impto
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