As I tried to indicate with (regardless of the truth) I realize that is not an accurate perception. However, it is a perception, and it is a barrier to acceptance amongst the corporate types.
With MP3, joe sixpack could copy his CD collection onto his hard drive without additional equipment, and the alternatives were all closed and proprietary. Plus, MP3 files could be simply downloaded via Napster even with a regular dial-up modem.
With DivX, if you want to copy your video collection, your hard drive is likely too small, plus you need special equipment to record. The alternatives are open as the linked article demonstrates. Via KazaA (or Gnutella, or whatever), Video files (even a 22 minute Simpsons episode) take a long time to download via cable modem, and is not realistic for the majority of people who use dial-up connections.
Don't get me wrong, DivX;) is great, just as MP3 is. All I'm saying is that the differences are big enough to prevent DivX from being entrenched at this stage of the game.
Is DivX;) entrenched in the market? Well, how many non-technical people have heard of it? How many PCs is it bundled with? It has a reputation for being primarily used for pirated video (regardless of the truth). So, the answer is a resounding "no, it isn't entrenched".
I definately know what you mean, I work in a similar environment and have gone through what you are talking about. I work for a concrete company with trucks roaring past constantly. Plus, in Canada the daylight hours are shrinking rapidly and I don't have a window office, so I barely see the sun. That being said, I have a few suggestions that you might find helpful.
Exercise. At work, try to walk around at least every few hours. Sitting in one spot is bad for the psyche, and your general health! Outside of work, do some cardio exercise (walking, running, biking, hiking, swimming, etc).
Back off the caffeine. Don't drink pints of coffee and pop pengiun pills all day. It stimulates the nervous system and makes you more alert, but more stressed at the same time. It's similar to a constant adrenaline rush, which is helpful for a few minutes but very poisonous for a long period of time.
Get human contact. Duh! In your spare time, chat up the cute secretary, or ask your co-workers how their weekends were. Even if you are an introvert you need human contact that can't be fufilled through/.
Eat Right. Back off the fatty foods, try eating carbohydrate-rich breakfasts and lunches. Don't skip either. Drink lots of water. Try drinking a little bit of caffeinated beverages in the morning (don't overdo it).
Play right. In your off-work time, don't spend all of your time playing video games and watching television. At least once a day call a friend on the telephone, or even better visit one in person.
Get a LCD. Of course, this might be beyond your budgetary constrainsts, but if you are staring at a screen all day it might as well be one that doesn't strain your eyeballs! A flat-screen monitor or a laptop might be what the doctor ordered. And if you are running on a windows platform, consider upgrading to WinXP which has ClearType support, which really does improve the clarity and readability of LCD screens. For me, that alone was worth the price of the upgrade (please don't flame).
Listen to "wordless" music while working. It really helps, you'd be surprised! I'm suggesting classical or electronic music, whatever your preferences. Of course, not everyone can do this, but listening to Ludwin Van can really help you concentrate.
My intranet server (NT4/MSSQL/IIS) has an uptime of 63 days (since a power outage). Before that, I had a running uptime of 121 days. My WinXP laptop has not crashed for over two weeks now, and I'm running a #%@#load (cursing of your choice) of software including Oracle8i, MSSQL7, Cygnus, IIS, VS.NET, VS6, Mozilla, Office2K, and Embedded VC++. A well configured system using any modern Microsoft OS (not of the Win9X line) is quite stable. And, they don't have to be rebooted for every little upgrade.
Yes, they have had problems in the past, and I curse every time I have to deal with Win95/98/ME. But please stop knocking the product just because of it's predecessors.
Beer is the giver of life. And a day without bacon is a day without joy! Really, these are positives, not negatives... there must be some confusion.
P.S. Please stop sending all those cold air masses across our border.
In fact, it is me that is sending them to you... but they keep bouncing back up for some reason. I don't want 'em, so I send them down south. You can keep 'em!
Excite @Home is the corporation that supports @home.com e-mail. It is operating in bankruptcy and it is unknown how long it will continue to support the @home.com e-mail. Over the last year Shaw has been building its own Data Centre to support e-mail, provisioning web space, etc. and given, the circumstances with Excite @Home, we are accelerating the migration of our customers over to our Shaw infrastructure which includes transitioning email addresses to @shaw.ca. We are asking our customers to complete an Email Quickstep process and then begin using their new @shaw.ca email address to ensure that impact is minimized in the event that the Excite@Home corporation is unable to continue supporting their @home email service.
Not only will there be no service downtime, but they took preventative measures to avoid this in advance of any problem. Don't you wish you live in Canada?
As a Win32 programmer, it is a good thing that Microsoft is following the lead from free software. While obviously they didn't invent the process (they didn't claim to either) I am very happy that the learning process is taking place. With free software taking UI and usability clues from Microsoft, and Microsoft taking feedback and compatibility (XML/SOAP etc) clues from free software... the world is getting better software from both sides! As a developer I congratulate both.
Of course, servers are also paying for their bandwidth, so any savings there would likely be helpful to them. It would be a tradeoff though, between increased server processing and decreased bandwidth costs.
Maybe you didn't read the article. It was asking for links between scifi and real world technology. The AI portrayed by 2001 is remarkable unsimilar to "real-world" AI. The Y2K problem isn't technlogy, so it doesn't really fit. The space elevator doesn't exist in the real world. Corporate space travel as seen in 2001 doesn't exist in the real world. So the only item remaining on your list is communications satellites, which actually is a real-world technlogy.
You will still be able to record MP3 at 56bitrate, but of course WMA will be the default install. WMA will be defaulted to copy-protection, but can be removed with a checkbox (until the next version, methinks).
In any case, I switched to WMA a while back in a fit of MP3 fury -- but then after ripping 5 cds I realized that there was no Linux player. So now I use Ogg, Ogg, and more Ogg. 10GB and counting.
No there is not. This is why I rip to Vorbis. I liked WMA (actually prefer the sound) but I don't want to get locked in. Apparently MS has not released the specs at all, and no one has bothered to reverse-engineer it yet (DCMA?)
...is that when you uninstall it, it installs another program under a different name and icon that does the same thing gator does. It takes two uninstalls and reboots to remove it from your system, and how long will it take the average user to notice that unidentified icon among the 20 or so others. If you ask me, this self-replication and concealment is nothing more than a virus disguised as a "legitimate" program in a grey area of the law.
Not to sound too cynical or naive (depending on your perspective), but I have a hard time believing that a "legitimate" company would be that evil. But it did get modded up to five, so it begs the question: Has anyone else had experiences similar to this with Gator?
Of course the GNU is unenforcable... its not even unix!
Have you ever tried to explain to a "joe user" what GNU stands for? "It's a recursive acronym" makes no sense to most people, and I've got some pretty blank stares.
Once you get past the name, people usually appreciate what GNU and the GPL are trying to do -- but it's no wonder that most GNU/Linux distros avoid the GNU label completely.
score order has nothing to do with the validity of the opinions.
That is _CLEARLY_ false. Score order means a lot. This does not mean that every (Score:5, Insightful) is correct and the best explanation for something. But it is at least much more plausible than something that exists at -1, 0, or 1.
Of course like everything else in the world there are exceptions, and often you will see some clueless luser modded up to 5. Overall though the system works very well. IMHO. IANAL.
The truth is though that Microsoft only accounts for 20% of the servers out there
Nope, infact the number is much higher in this case. You are probably close on the number of "normal" web servers, but the problem pointed out in the article was not with administered corporate/personal sites. Instead the problem is with people who are using WinNT/Win2K and have IIS installed running as a service but may not even know it.
Check back next month to see Apache hit >70% on the Web Server Survey.
I doubt it will have that much impact, as much of the damage comes from domains such as rr.net and home.com.
software, as they contend, then why did they tell the Russians to upgrade to a newer version to solve the problem???
I don't think it was dropping 1/1000 transactions, I think it was confusing the sort order of the query 1/1000 times due to the complexity of the application. This caused some the information to get missed, but it was never lost.
MS was not willing to support 6.5, so they got them to upgrade to 7.0. And it was a bug, but it was not the fatal bug that the Russians made it sound that they had.
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As I tried to indicate with (regardless of the truth) I realize that is not an accurate perception. However, it is a perception, and it is a barrier to acceptance amongst the corporate types.
With DivX, if you want to copy your video collection, your hard drive is likely too small, plus you need special equipment to record. The alternatives are open as the linked article demonstrates. Via KazaA (or Gnutella, or whatever), Video files (even a 22 minute Simpsons episode) take a long time to download via cable modem, and is not realistic for the majority of people who use dial-up connections.
Don't get me wrong, DivX ;) is great, just as MP3 is. All I'm saying is that the differences are big enough to prevent DivX from being entrenched at this stage of the game.
Is DivX ;) entrenched in the market? Well, how many non-technical people have heard of it? How many PCs is it bundled with? It has a reputation for being primarily used for pirated video (regardless of the truth). So, the answer is a resounding "no, it isn't entrenched".
"flamebait" Yup, I can say it. I even tried saying it out loud, and it still works. Whew!
Yes, they have had problems in the past, and I curse every time I have to deal with Win95/98/ME. But please stop knocking the product just because of it's predecessors.
The ClawHammer and SledgeHammer processors are going to be 64bit processors as well, don't forget to include the competition!
Beer is the giver of life. And a day without bacon is a day without joy! Really, these are positives, not negatives... there must be some confusion.
P.S. Please stop sending all those cold air masses across our border.
In fact, it is me that is sending them to you... but they keep bouncing back up for some reason. I don't want 'em, so I send them down south. You can keep 'em!
As a Win32 programmer, it is a good thing that Microsoft is following the lead from free software. While obviously they didn't invent the process (they didn't claim to either) I am very happy that the learning process is taking place. With free software taking UI and usability clues from Microsoft, and Microsoft taking feedback and compatibility (XML/SOAP etc) clues from free software... the world is getting better software from both sides! As a developer I congratulate both.
Of course, servers are also paying for their bandwidth, so any savings there would likely be helpful to them. It would be a tradeoff though, between increased server processing and decreased bandwidth costs.
should be http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7978672.html
Maybe you didn't read the article. It was asking for links between scifi and real world technology. The AI portrayed by 2001 is remarkable unsimilar to "real-world" AI. The Y2K problem isn't technlogy, so it doesn't really fit. The space elevator doesn't exist in the real world. Corporate space travel as seen in 2001 doesn't exist in the real world. So the only item remaining on your list is communications satellites, which actually is a real-world technlogy.
I miss it too. I've got a really fucking huge diary entry though.
You will still be able to record MP3 at 56bitrate, but of course WMA will be the default install. WMA will be defaulted to copy-protection, but can be removed with a checkbox (until the next version, methinks).
In any case, I switched to WMA a while back in a fit of MP3 fury -- but then after ripping 5 cds I realized that there was no Linux player. So now I use Ogg, Ogg, and more Ogg. 10GB and counting.
No there is not. This is why I rip to Vorbis. I liked WMA (actually prefer the sound) but I don't want to get locked in. Apparently MS has not released the specs at all, and no one has bothered to reverse-engineer it yet (DCMA?)
I guess that means that I (and others, judging from the moderation) fell for a troll. Not the first time, that's for sure. OH well, thanks jon c.
Not to sound too cynical or naive (depending on your perspective), but I have a hard time believing that a "legitimate" company would be that evil. But it did get modded up to five, so it begs the question: Has anyone else had experiences similar to this with Gator?
Have you ever tried to explain to a "joe user" what GNU stands for? "It's a recursive acronym" makes no sense to most people, and I've got some pretty blank stares.
Once you get past the name, people usually appreciate what GNU and the GPL are trying to do -- but it's no wonder that most GNU/Linux distros avoid the GNU label completely.
That is _CLEARLY_ false. Score order means a lot. This does not mean that every (Score:5, Insightful) is correct and the best explanation for something. But it is at least much more plausible than something that exists at -1, 0, or 1.
Of course like everything else in the world there are exceptions, and often you will see some clueless luser modded up to 5. Overall though the system works very well. IMHO. IANAL.
Nope, infact the number is much higher in this case. You are probably close on the number of "normal" web servers, but the problem pointed out in the article was not with administered corporate/personal sites. Instead the problem is with people who are using WinNT /Win2K and have IIS installed running as a service but may not even know it.
Check back next month to see Apache hit >70% on the Web Server Survey.
I doubt it will have that much impact, as much of the damage comes from domains such as rr.net and home.com.
... perhaps the best one I've heard of so far in this discussion. If I had mod points I'd give 'em to you.
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I don't think it was dropping 1/1000 transactions, I think it was confusing the sort order of the query 1/1000 times due to the complexity of the application. This caused some the information to get missed, but it was never lost.
MS was not willing to support 6.5, so they got them to upgrade to 7.0. And it was a bug, but it was not the fatal bug that the Russians made it sound that they had.