In the end they both answer to Microsoft, period. If Windows won't run or won't play lots of media because the CPU doesn't support something then AMD will support it, whatever it takes to sell units. If you think people are going to migrate away from Windows because this, think again.
Really? Ok then that's seriously lame, we don't have the V-chip here, but can see much more on broadcast TV than the US, we have a few parental groups and right-wing nuts but everyone just ignores them and tells them to switch their TV off. The FCC just has no possible argument for what they do, it makes no sense, how do they justify it??
The rough translation of what he's saying is "While we could simply ignore non-subscription viewers and stick our own broadcast flags on our own sat/cable set-top box equipment and let the market decide, we think that its better to make all TV's equal for the viewers own good." What gets me is that while the FCC is debating a mandatory broadcast flag, they've totally ignored this equipment update opportunity to mandate an 'adult' flag which would effectively solve _ALL_ censorship and 'indecency' issues on next-gen TV and let everyone have their cake and eat it, yet they prefer to stick to the old method of stupid parents groups pushing everyone else around - if you're offended by what you see, then you've obviously changed the setting on your TV from the default 'block adult flag scenes'. So basically they don't want you saying fuck or recording people not saying fuck, and that corresponds to what definition of freedom?
Yes but either way you're going to need to do some learning for C# - to find out exactly what is managed etc, its another thing to learn so they've not really solved any problems, they've just invented a new language. C++ is such a nice language because you can go as high or low level as you want (within reason) you can use special memory managed wrappers and classes and practically have a high level 'easy' language or you can ignore OOP and pretty much drop down into C, and mix the two. C# just isn't C or C++, or even Java, I don't see any advantage in using it - Java is more platform independent, C is more powerful and C++ is more versatile, and a properly coded C/C++ program can be very portable.
Your just lucky that in the UK you have a legal right to see what they recorded of you and know what they're going to do with it. In some countries they can post it on the net quite legally and you'll have to get your credit card out to see 'hotnakedterrorsuspects.com' pictures of your girlfriend..
Frankly id rather take the fucking risk that terrorists will hijack another plane, than have to be put through and have my girlfriend put through this peep-hole. Unless, and this is the only exception: EVERYONE goes through it, and that means Bush, Blair, their families, important business people & Hollywood stars (yes even if they have a private jet or Air Force One they still go through this), and the Saudi Royal Family (who so graced America with their early exit after 9/11). Oh and theirs no exception for pregnant women (if its going to be harmful to them then I ain't taking the risk with me) and children - pedophilic security operators? well you should have thought of that before - no exceptions.
This will start out at airports, it will start out as optional, but sooner or later it will be mandatory for flying, then for entering many buildings, schools, trains, and eventually it will find its way to the street.
It's all starbucks fault. I swear they take up half of London with their shit coffee and overpriced net access forced down our throats, you know what needs to be done - operation 'Saturate Starbucks With Your Own Free WiFi Until They Are Full of Squatters'
Well they're gonna have to accept that policing it will never get any more effective than simply scaring people into submission. The PC is just not a locked system so there's always going to be ways to break any copy-protection you throw at it and there will always be ways to communicate with people without being caught. I think mobile phones will take over as the music platform of choice - they're already merging with pda's and mp3 players (which are a passing fad) and they are easier to lock down than PC's (although obviously not 100%). People are more likely to impulse buy on a mobile because they have it on their person 24/7, you might be in a shop or at a party and you like the music so you'll take out your phone and buy it on the spot in 20 seconds, music recognition software and debit from your mobile account will mean this takes only a few button presses, instead of waiting until you're at home or in a music shop by which time you will have forgotten. The mobile platform will be attractive to the music industry because they will have more of a chance of locking it down, making sure only their software is used, but what makes it a good idea is that while people can hack it if they want, its far more convenient for most people just to pay, I'm pretty sure more people in the world now have mobile phones than PC's with net access.
I don't necessarily want my refigerator and TV to be uniquely identifyable
Also subnets mean you can have several billion uniquely identifiable toasters in your house with IPv4, if v6 is all about longer addresses then I don't see much of a need..
If anyone is going to take the desktop market from Microsoft its going to be Apple, no-one else comes close. Windows is popular because anyone can install just about anything in seconds, it might not be perfectly configured or even very secure, but it works. Same with OSX, you just drag an icon representing the application from the CD/image onto your computer and that's it, all the workings of the program are hidden and the whole thing is encapsulated in one object like it should be. I don't know how they handle various library/dependency issues but the user should not be involved.
People are going to buy this shit (and que up for weeks in advance) no matter how many movies are made, In 2015 there will have been another trilogy and another plan for more, and people will be complaining that episodes -3,-2 & -1 weren't as good as the 'classics' of 1, 2 & 3 or even the remakes of 4, 5, & 6 (although there will be those that claim the remastered versions of 4, 5 & 6 were the all time classics) Studios don't mess around when they've found a winning formula.
I think most of the PDA market has lost its way, everyone is just producing poor clones, and all windows CE has done is increase the need for memory (hum yes a calculator in 1.5 MB sure) We need something good from someone like Apple (who also haven't changed their name).
Gets my vote - i mean the Chinese government wants to firewall the country anyway, so why not just go the whole hog and cut it off from the outside world completely - we're happy, they're happy.
Yes and who makes money when they get handed a poorly planned program to port? Incompetence is what drives the IT industry, without it a great many people would be out of a job.
Yeah i remember once (10+ years ago) reading about this magic thing called 'C' and how it was supposed to be this thing called 'portable'. I wonder how that turned out?
Sounds like a pretty stupid idea to me - the 'dot net' languages are all essentially brand-new languages, someone who knows C, or even C++ is going to have to do some learning for C#. It just sounds to me like a language 'skin' on a byte-code base. Well we already have plenty of languages that can communicate with each other when compiled for real, most of them (well the ones we actually use the most) are all virtually the same, if you understand the concepts and conventions behind if() in C then you can pretty much learn 'IF' for any language in 3 minutes.
I think they do it so customers will get desperate for the old brand and come back in droves when the name is returned. Kinda like New Coke, they probably knew it was shit and people would start stocking up on old Coke and when they came back with the original, people were desperate for it. Actually I don't really think that, its far more likely that the people in charge are idiots.
And as usual with 99% of company name changes I could have told them (for free!) that changing their name to PalmOne was a stupid idea. And as usual the company realises this and wastes millions more changing it back. One day I hope to be a 'company image advisor' so I can stop this sort of thing. I bet they're all going to palm one out tonight over their new increased stock value.
Not it comes with every computer and is turned on by default for email etc. Eventually encryption will be like that and you won't be able to suspect someone purely on the grounds that their data is unreadable.
This is why we need to drop the outdated idea of passwords as soon as possible and start using fingerprint scans, the only way someone can steal your finger print is by lifting it from something you've touched or putting a gun to your head, or cutting your finger off, and that's all in the realm of science fiction and left wing propaganda...
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In the end they both answer to Microsoft, period. If Windows won't run or won't play lots of media because the CPU doesn't support something then AMD will support it, whatever it takes to sell units. If you think people are going to migrate away from Windows because this, think again.
How many more times will slashdot get it wrong?
Really? Ok then that's seriously lame, we don't have the V-chip here, but can see much more on broadcast TV than the US, we have a few parental groups and right-wing nuts but everyone just ignores them and tells them to switch their TV off. The FCC just has no possible argument for what they do, it makes no sense, how do they justify it??
Thank goodness i like in the UK and there's not DMCA here (yet)
I think the British or European parliament rushed something similar through a year or two ago - don't want to behind America eh?
The rough translation of what he's saying is "While we could simply ignore non-subscription viewers and stick our own broadcast flags on our own sat/cable set-top box equipment and let the market decide, we think that its better to make all TV's equal for the viewers own good." What gets me is that while the FCC is debating a mandatory broadcast flag, they've totally ignored this equipment update opportunity to mandate an 'adult' flag which would effectively solve _ALL_ censorship and 'indecency' issues on next-gen TV and let everyone have their cake and eat it, yet they prefer to stick to the old method of stupid parents groups pushing everyone else around - if you're offended by what you see, then you've obviously changed the setting on your TV from the default 'block adult flag scenes'. So basically they don't want you saying fuck or recording people not saying fuck, and that corresponds to what definition of freedom?
LCD monitor drivers are less important than graphics drivers. Find me a graphics card that works under linux but not under windows.
Yes but either way you're going to need to do some learning for C# - to find out exactly what is managed etc, its another thing to learn so they've not really solved any problems, they've just invented a new language. C++ is such a nice language because you can go as high or low level as you want (within reason) you can use special memory managed wrappers and classes and practically have a high level 'easy' language or you can ignore OOP and pretty much drop down into C, and mix the two. C# just isn't C or C++, or even Java, I don't see any advantage in using it - Java is more platform independent, C is more powerful and C++ is more versatile, and a properly coded C/C++ program can be very portable.
Your just lucky that in the UK you have a legal right to see what they recorded of you and know what they're going to do with it. In some countries they can post it on the net quite legally and you'll have to get your credit card out to see 'hotnakedterrorsuspects.com' pictures of your girlfriend..
Frankly id rather take the fucking risk that terrorists will hijack another plane, than have to be put through and have my girlfriend put through this peep-hole. Unless, and this is the only exception: EVERYONE goes through it, and that means Bush, Blair, their families, important business people & Hollywood stars (yes even if they have a private jet or Air Force One they still go through this), and the Saudi Royal Family (who so graced America with their early exit after 9/11). Oh and theirs no exception for pregnant women (if its going to be harmful to them then I ain't taking the risk with me) and children - pedophilic security operators? well you should have thought of that before - no exceptions.
This will start out at airports, it will start out as optional, but sooner or later it will be mandatory for flying, then for entering many buildings, schools, trains, and eventually it will find its way to the street.
It's all starbucks fault. I swear they take up half of London with their shit coffee and overpriced net access forced down our throats, you know what needs to be done - operation 'Saturate Starbucks With Your Own Free WiFi Until They Are Full of Squatters'
Well they're gonna have to accept that policing it will never get any more effective than simply scaring people into submission. The PC is just not a locked system so there's always going to be ways to break any copy-protection you throw at it and there will always be ways to communicate with people without being caught. I think mobile phones will take over as the music platform of choice - they're already merging with pda's and mp3 players (which are a passing fad) and they are easier to lock down than PC's (although obviously not 100%). People are more likely to impulse buy on a mobile because they have it on their person 24/7, you might be in a shop or at a party and you like the music so you'll take out your phone and buy it on the spot in 20 seconds, music recognition software and debit from your mobile account will mean this takes only a few button presses, instead of waiting until you're at home or in a music shop by which time you will have forgotten. The mobile platform will be attractive to the music industry because they will have more of a chance of locking it down, making sure only their software is used, but what makes it a good idea is that while people can hack it if they want, its far more convenient for most people just to pay, I'm pretty sure more people in the world now have mobile phones than PC's with net access.
I don't necessarily want my refigerator and TV to be uniquely identifyable
Also subnets mean you can have several billion uniquely identifiable toasters in your house with IPv4, if v6 is all about longer addresses then I don't see much of a need..
If anyone is going to take the desktop market from Microsoft its going to be Apple, no-one else comes close. Windows is popular because anyone can install just about anything in seconds, it might not be perfectly configured or even very secure, but it works. Same with OSX, you just drag an icon representing the application from the CD/image onto your computer and that's it, all the workings of the program are hidden and the whole thing is encapsulated in one object like it should be. I don't know how they handle various library/dependency issues but the user should not be involved.
He may be bad at dialogue, but you know you're going to watch episode 3 and thats what counts in the bank balance..
People are going to buy this shit (and que up for weeks in advance) no matter how many movies are made, In 2015 there will have been another trilogy and another plan for more, and people will be complaining that episodes -3,-2 & -1 weren't as good as the 'classics' of 1, 2 & 3 or even the remakes of 4, 5, & 6 (although there will be those that claim the remastered versions of 4, 5 & 6 were the all time classics) Studios don't mess around when they've found a winning formula.
I think most of the PDA market has lost its way, everyone is just producing poor clones, and all windows CE has done is increase the need for memory (hum yes a calculator in 1.5 MB sure) We need something good from someone like Apple (who also haven't changed their name).
Gets my vote - i mean the Chinese government wants to firewall the country anyway, so why not just go the whole hog and cut it off from the outside world completely - we're happy, they're happy.
Yes and who makes money when they get handed a poorly planned program to port? Incompetence is what drives the IT industry, without it a great many people would be out of a job.
Yeah i remember once (10+ years ago) reading about this magic thing called 'C' and how it was supposed to be this thing called 'portable'. I wonder how that turned out?
Sounds like a pretty stupid idea to me - the 'dot net' languages are all essentially brand-new languages, someone who knows C, or even C++ is going to have to do some learning for C#. It just sounds to me like a language 'skin' on a byte-code base. Well we already have plenty of languages that can communicate with each other when compiled for real, most of them (well the ones we actually use the most) are all virtually the same, if you understand the concepts and conventions behind if() in C then you can pretty much learn 'IF' for any language in 3 minutes.
I think they do it so customers will get desperate for the old brand and come back in droves when the name is returned. Kinda like New Coke, they probably knew it was shit and people would start stocking up on old Coke and when they came back with the original, people were desperate for it. Actually I don't really think that, its far more likely that the people in charge are idiots.
And as usual with 99% of company name changes I could have told them (for free!) that changing their name to PalmOne was a stupid idea. And as usual the company realises this and wastes millions more changing it back. One day I hope to be a 'company image advisor' so I can stop this sort of thing. I bet they're all going to palm one out tonight over their new increased stock value.
..but wasn't the whole point of dot net platform independence !?!
Not it comes with every computer and is turned on by default for email etc. Eventually encryption will be like that and you won't be able to suspect someone purely on the grounds that their data is unreadable.
This is why we need to drop the outdated idea of passwords as soon as possible and start using fingerprint scans, the only way someone can steal your finger print is by lifting it from something you've touched or putting a gun to your head, or cutting your finger off, and that's all in the realm of science fiction and left wing propaganda...