Actually, the Fed would agree with me. You need to do a little more research about "Fair Use" with regards to the copying of media. I only wish it was as simple as you believe it to be.
Microsoft also announced a new head of sales and marketing for Office. Little is know if this new hire... however, people believe his name to be Davrus or Debross, something like that. We'll let you know after the press conference. The new president wants to make sure the everyone attends. Supposedly the name of the Corel plugin engine will be Lorec... a natural evolution of the original plugin.
Fair use is often cited as a reason why people can supposedly do whatever they want with purchased media. However, fair use is NOT a law. In fact it is entirely subjective and CAN fluctuate (change) depending on each case.
When you purchase the media containing content you did not purchased the ability to do whatever you want with the media. That includes viewing or playing of the media. That is a right granted to you by the copyright holder of the material on the media and IS revocable.
Question is, with the coming of digital media broadcasts, how much longer will we have any control (legal or otherwise) to do things like ripping content or using DVRs/PVRs?
Tell you the truth, I stand alone on this issue (really... I do). You see, while all of my media is purchased legally, surveys that I've participated in show that the vast majority of people obtain media content illegally and a significant portion of those distribute media illegally. Sigh.... folks, you are just giving ammunition to those who are restricting our "fair use" rights.
So... please reply IF you can honestly say that all of your rips and reencodings are of purchased media and are only used for your own viewing (yes, that means NOT shared among your family... that is, no multiple copies of rips on multiple devices for different people).
I believe the Sun was forced to file a 10K because of new Sarbox regulations. Thus the quiet period. The Moon has been asked to stop reflecting, but hasn't made their filing... could face a delisting notice.
We use both here equally. It is VERY true that the SUSE boxes are a lot simpler to integrate into our Active Directory. While all of the tools underneath are similar, SUSE has done a better job with the glue ware to make is very seamless.
Can you join a Red Hat (RHEL) box to the domain and have it work with Windows? Sure. Did Red Hat think of everything? No. Therefore, if you are using Red Hat, you DO have to do a bit more work to make everything just right.
If I'm targeting a mixed OS environment, I prefer to use SUSE over Red Hat... politics aside. It's just more polished (easier) with regards to enterprise level complexities. However, there is a market for Linux-only... and in those cases, it really doesn't matter which Linux you choose.
We have more customers running Red Hat (IMHO, due to reputation, not for technical reasons).
If you've ever worked with the brilliant engineers at Sun you know that some of them are top notch. Some very brilliant people there.
However, we also know that Sun likes to sit on their hands. They like to bask in their past accomplishments, sometimes for a VERY, very long time. Also, historically, Sun tends to drop things like a hot potato. Some example of these kinds of things are Solaris, which until 10, was pretty stagnant.... showing no signs of real functional growth, definitely NOT pursuing the desktop in any way. Also consider their Opteron workstations. For example, the w2100z, which is only a few years old, yet over a year ago, Sun pretty much dropped total support for the platform. Also, remember Sun's track record of support x86. 3rd time's a charm?? We'll see.
Sun is brilliant, inconsistent, unreliable, cocky, idle... there are a lot of bad qualities within the Sun culture. Unlike people in the Linux community, Sun engineers are more likely to live inside of a box. Yes, they develop some really neat things inside of that box... BUT because they can NEVER look outside of the box, they are totally unaware of what is happening around them. Up until a year or two ago, I'd say that >90% of all Sun engineers experience with Linux was with Red Hat 5.0. With that said, Sun seems to be interested in their platform again, and they SEEM to moving in the right direction. Will it last? History says no.
Internally, a lot of the brilliant engineers at Sun are very tied to the long standing Sun goal of global domination. If you remember the late eighties when Sun made their bid to capture all of Unix (and fortunately failed), then you know that this is a company that believes they are the ONLY player. This hinders Sun somewhat in that their platform isn't the best one for integrating with a whole lot of disparate technologies and platforms. Again, Sun is pretty clueless about systems outside of their realm. Sun's best friend is Sun. Their best partner is Sun. All is Sun at Sun. Very similar to another company located in the NW of the USA.
Sun likes to TALK. They will SAY just about anything at anytime... often contradicting what they said only a few months earlier. So... beware. Sun is a company of promises, but not highly valued promises.... cheap promises that aren't worth much.
Will OpenSolaris compete against Linux. Certainly. Do they have the technical know-how to pull it off? Certainly. Are they more technically savvy than Linux developers? I'd say yes. Are they lazy? Yes. Are the unreliable? Yes. Are they untrustworthy? Yes.
This is how I see Sun. I love them... but I love some of the Microsoft engineers as well (and IMHO, there's more to fear from Sun than from Microsoft... fear Microsoft's money, but fear Sun's tactics).
And yet not only is NTFS is still one of the best FS for handing fragmentation, ever, it has a well managed and fast file table indexing system.
Huh? NTFS is one of the WORST filesystems for handling fragmentation!
Go read up on NTFS, and Windows NT before you come back, you are only embarrasing yourself, and that is hard to do on Slashdot when talking about Windows and NT.
I think it's only a question of who's face is redder.
They are working on a simplified one cog model made out of plastic that is a part of the 'One Enigma Per Child" project. It will run a custom Linux with an interface called Ugars.
First versions will also come in lime green and 'Hello Kitty' pink.
Software RAID - does well in benchmarks, but it does rely on the CPU. This has gotten better with the advent of multi-core and especially multi-cpu + multi-core, but the other thing to keep in mind is that the OS IS doing other things. What this means is that an errant program does have a chance of affecting your RAID. Could be absolutely disastrous. RAID (true RAID, not RAID0) only works if the RAID manager is doing what it is supposed to do. I wouldn't rely on OS software RAID. There are too many variables. Also, things like hot swapping might not be available. A RAID where you have to bring the system down to do a harddrive replace isn't all that beneficial IMHO.
Hardware RAID card - This works in conjunction with an OS driver. Combined with hotswap capable backplanes, this can be a pretty good solution. The problem with HW RAID is that the processing power of the cards is often times week. Upgrading to a faster processor sometimes isn't possible without compromising the entire RAID set (esp. true if changing vendors). End user machines (until PCIe) were somewhat bandwidth limited. 33Mhz PCI, which is what most (somewhat older) desktop machines have is not enough oompf for a large RAID. Linux driver support can be spotty... and buggy. LSI, for example, has made some interesting RAID products, and while Linux users enjoy using older equipment, LSI pretty much doesn't support some of their older cards anymore. Granted, those older cards (which were top of the line 5 years ago), probably aren't that great today, but the fact that they are losing their driver support is frustrating.
JBOD - Well.... not much to say here... there isn't much benefit. However, realize that if you can separate disk pathways AND you layout your disks to use each drive efficiently (e.g./usr/bin on one disk,/usr/lib on another, etc.) you can get some pretty dramatic performance gains, even without RAID striping.
RAID subsystem - This is the one not specifically mentioned and it's what I recommend. The benefits of an external RAID subsystem is the flexibility. These units can often times be shared across multiple machines (and NO I'm not talking NAS... I'm talking direct attached SCSI, iSCSI or Fibre channel), can support large amounts of cache and can offer good RAID levels. Since the device manages it's own space, the device itself can notify you of hardware failures and such with relying on coordination with a proprietary driver. Since the computer device just sees a normal drive, there are no driver issues. I can completely saturate (easily) a 2Gbps fibre with one of these (with a relatively small array). There a several manufacturers out there that use inexpensive SATA drives... but there are SCSI and fibre drive based units out there too. I like Nexsan, http://www.nexsan.com/ probably the most. I have also used VERY inexpensive Arena based units, http://www.maxtronic.com./ Both work really well. Pretty easy to get 100MB/s to 200MB/s with these devices and still have almost equally as fast writes while using RAID 5 or RAID 6. If you are looking for a cheap mirroring INTERNAL subsystem, I have used Accordance ARAID systems. I recommend those as well if you just need a two drive mirror. Obviously you get more of performance hit.... but good if you want OS independent HW subsystem RAID that is internal, http://sewelldirect.com/araid-2000-sata-raid-1.asp ?source=froogle&utm_source=Froogle&utm_medium=cse.
I can pretty much guarantee that once you've switched to a HW RAID subsystem, you'll probably never use anything else. The extra money spent on those is well worth it (IMHO). To keep costs down, ebay is obviously your friend. I've purchased 4 drive Arena units for less than $400. I
When AMD released it's 64bit line of processors, they laid down a pretty high card. Not a trump, but still, looked like they'd win the hand.
BUT, when AMD released their dual core product line... ah hah!! There's a trump card. Beat that!
And Intel was afraid. Mainly afraid of themselves because they had sat back for so long enjoying the successes of their monopoly.
So... Intel struck back. And struck back hard. And when AMD was trying to get back up, they struck hard again, and again, and again, and again. You might even say brutal.
AMD is working on some new technology. A quad core... in fact it's a quad core they had in development before Intel even dreamed of doing a quad core.... but AMD was basking in the joys of their (very) short lived success from playing the dual core trump card..... they just forgot that the game wasn't over.
Now Intel has a quad core. Technically, is it as good on paper as AMD's hopefully soon to be release quad? I would say not. There's a lot of good technology in AMDs quad. HOWEVER, is it a trump card? I don't think it is. I think AMD is still heading for some troubling times.
AMD releases dual core, but does not set the new bar to BE the dual core until AFTER Intel has caught up.
AMD develops quad core CPUs, but decides that temporarily pleasing their investors is a better game plan.
AMD buys ATI, alienating Nvidia, the reason for much of AMDs success.
AMD's acquisition of ATI (potentially) weakens ATI's stranglehold on the server side with onboard video on Intel boxes (opening the door for Intel's own GPUs) We'll have to see if this one happens
I think that what is selling today certainly does support the idea that bad gaming sells. Sad but true. Doesn't mean there aren't some good games out there. But if you ask me to name something recent that was "good", I might not be able to name a single one.
Easier to be negative...
For example, the much anticipated Doom 3 was merely a complete rehash of Doom I, which was a marvel because low end boxes could do 3d.... but everyone expected something different gameplay wise with regards to Doom 3, and all it was was a pretty face on Doom I. Very sad.
Artwork and graphics definitely have taken precedence over gameplay (IMHO).
You have to understand that a Christian CAN be a scientist. There actually is quite a bit of evidence for a young earth. I don't think that a true scientist can say that evolution is fact. There are just too many contradictions. And in fact, more recent scientific discoveries tend to suggest that evolution is the religious dogma of blind zealots. Rather than accepting evolution as blind fact, scientists should be doing experimentation to support the idea of evolution... however, many of the experiments are done with faulty reasoning and make assumptions (of things that are not even good theory).
Evolution is a hypothesis at best. The world has truly forgotten what the scientific method is. Now... we accept things as theories based on the popularity of the scientist. Which is sad.
So... what will the future hold. Today's science is founded more and more on popularity. It has become more and more like science fiction. Science (those that do not believe in God) want to make sure that God does not exist... so, as evolution continues to fall apart (because humans DO like to learn and explore... so TRUE scientists will exist), the scientific community WILL undoubtably have to come up with another Godless answer to the creation of humanity. Personally, given our infatuation with science fiction, I believe that the next big popular "theory" will be the space seed theory. While it does not answer original creation, it will help satisfy the evidence of a young earth and a history that only goes back 4,000 years.
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b. Your company is a gross misspelling of the word "novel" (e.g. Novell).
c. Your company's logo is a single letter (e.g. a red 'N').
d. An agent of your company has been within 20 feet of anyone working for a company within a 10 mile radius of Seattle, WA (e.g. Redmond).
e. Half of your employees do not remember the name of your current CEO.
You may apply for a special exemption specifically from Richard Stallman of the FSF, but only if he's wearing a disk platter on his head at the time of the application.
2. If you own a patent, deal with patents, or can even spell the word patent, you may not use this license at all, in fact you are not to read it... stop reading here.... (thanks).
3. If you use cryptography, encryption or anything else related to digital rights management, you cannot use the terms of this license unless you give us the keys for your access.
4. XEmacs sucks. It just does. They used my code without permission. They're evil. Don't use it. Note: #4 may be the most controversial part of GPLv3.
The theme of Vista seems to be simple: Annoy the hell out of he end user. You want to run an application, is that okay? You want to copy a file, is that okay? You want to change your desktop background, is that okay? You want to copy text from IE7, is that okay? You want to delete an old text file, is that okay? You want to paste text into a form field in IE7, is that okay? The list goes on and on. Almost every action in Vista is actually compose of two separate actions: the one you want to do, and the confirmation to do it.
After getting Windows Vista installed, I took an hour or so to configure my personal settings and install a couple of applications. I had to acknowledge somewhere between 50 and 100 dialog boxes asking me if it was okay to do what I was doing. No, I'm not exaggerating.
Microsoft plans to fix this problem by extending the Microsoft Windows Installer with dynamic plugins you can get off the web. However, the EU has already said that Microsoft will need to separate the installer from Windows before it can be sold there.
Microsoft has countered that the installer is now a fundamental part of Windows and cannot be removed.
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Actually, the Fed would agree with me. You need to do a little more research about "Fair Use" with regards to the copying of media. I only wish it was as simple as you believe it to be.
Microsoft also announced a new head of sales and marketing for Office. Little is know if this new hire... however, people believe his name to be Davrus or Debross, something like that. We'll let you know after the press conference. The new president wants to make sure the everyone attends. Supposedly the name of the Corel plugin engine will be Lorec... a natural evolution of the original plugin.
Fair use is often cited as a reason why people can supposedly do whatever they want with purchased media. However, fair use is NOT a law. In fact it is entirely subjective and CAN fluctuate (change) depending
on each case.
When you purchase the media containing content you did not purchased the ability to do whatever you want with the media. That includes viewing or playing of the media. That is a right granted to you by the copyright holder of the material on the media and IS revocable.
Question is, with the coming of digital media broadcasts, how much longer will we have any control (legal or otherwise) to do things like ripping content or using DVRs/PVRs?
Tell you the truth, I stand alone on this issue (really... I do). You see, while all of my media is purchased legally, surveys that I've participated in show that the vast majority of people obtain media content illegally and a significant portion of those distribute media illegally. Sigh.... folks, you are just giving ammunition to those who are restricting our "fair use" rights.
So... please reply IF you can honestly say that all of your rips and reencodings are of purchased media and are only used for your own viewing (yes, that means NOT shared among your family... that is, no multiple copies of rips on multiple devices for different people).
Welcome to the USA, the land of freedom.
I believe the Sun was forced to file a 10K because of new Sarbox regulations. Thus the quiet period. The Moon has been asked to stop reflecting, but hasn't made their filing... could face a delisting notice.
Actually creditors have not only seized Darl's tongue, but the cat as well. Rumors are circulating that Darl's buttocks may be next. We'll see.
We use both here equally. It is VERY true that the SUSE boxes are a lot simpler to integrate into our Active Directory. While all of the tools underneath are similar, SUSE has done a better job with the glue ware to make is very seamless.
Can you join a Red Hat (RHEL) box to the domain and have it work with Windows? Sure. Did Red Hat think of everything? No. Therefore, if you are using Red Hat, you DO have to do a bit more work to make everything just right.
If I'm targeting a mixed OS environment, I prefer to use SUSE over Red Hat... politics aside. It's just more polished (easier) with regards to enterprise level complexities. However, there is a market for Linux-only... and in those cases, it really doesn't matter which Linux you choose.
We have more customers running Red Hat (IMHO, due to reputation, not for technical reasons).
If you've ever worked with the brilliant engineers at Sun you know that some of them are top notch. Some very brilliant people there.
However, we also know that Sun likes to sit on their hands. They like to bask in their past accomplishments, sometimes for a VERY, very long time. Also, historically, Sun tends to drop things like a hot potato. Some example of these kinds of things are Solaris, which until 10, was pretty stagnant.... showing no signs of real functional growth, definitely NOT pursuing the desktop in any way. Also consider their Opteron workstations. For example, the w2100z, which is only a few years old, yet over a year ago, Sun pretty much dropped total support for the platform. Also, remember Sun's track record of support x86. 3rd time's a charm?? We'll see.
Sun is brilliant, inconsistent, unreliable, cocky, idle... there are a lot of bad qualities within the Sun culture. Unlike people in the Linux community, Sun engineers are more likely to live inside of a box. Yes, they develop some really neat things inside of that box... BUT because they can NEVER look outside of the box, they are totally unaware of what is happening around them. Up until a year or two ago, I'd say that >90% of all Sun engineers experience with Linux was with Red Hat 5.0. With that said, Sun seems to be interested in their platform again, and they SEEM to moving in the right direction. Will it last? History says no.
Internally, a lot of the brilliant engineers at Sun are very tied to the long standing Sun goal of global domination. If you remember the late eighties when Sun made their bid to capture all of Unix (and fortunately failed), then you know that this is a company that believes they are the ONLY player. This hinders Sun somewhat in that their platform isn't the best one for integrating with a whole lot of disparate technologies and platforms. Again, Sun is pretty clueless about systems outside of their realm. Sun's best friend is Sun. Their best partner is Sun. All is Sun at Sun. Very similar to another company located in the NW of the USA.
Sun likes to TALK. They will SAY just about anything at anytime... often contradicting what they said only a few months earlier. So... beware. Sun is a company of promises, but not highly valued promises.... cheap promises that aren't worth much.
Will OpenSolaris compete against Linux. Certainly. Do they have the technical know-how to pull it off? Certainly. Are they more technically savvy than Linux developers? I'd say yes. Are they lazy? Yes. Are the unreliable? Yes. Are they untrustworthy? Yes.
This is how I see Sun. I love them... but I love some of the Microsoft engineers as well (and IMHO, there's more to fear from Sun than from Microsoft... fear Microsoft's money, but fear Sun's tactics).
Men are less likely to become pregnant than women.
You heard it here first!
Come on! Did somebody really have to do a survey to figure this one out?
I tried to post a comment on this story, but was unable to upload my video response.
(sigh)
But... they're still waiting to see if their Music from Meatloaf patent gets approved. But such is the life of the great innovators.
First versions will also come in lime green and 'Hello Kitty' pink.
I can pretty much guarantee that once you've switched to a HW RAID subsystem, you'll probably never use anything else. The extra money spent on those is well worth it (IMHO). To keep costs down, ebay is obviously your friend. I've purchased 4 drive Arena units for less than $400. I
When AMD released it's 64bit line of processors, they laid down a pretty high card. Not a trump, but still, looked like they'd win the hand.
BUT, when AMD released their dual core product line... ah hah!! There's a trump card. Beat that!
And Intel was afraid. Mainly afraid of themselves because they had sat back for so long enjoying the successes of their monopoly.
So... Intel struck back. And struck back hard. And when AMD was trying to get back up, they struck hard again, and again, and again, and again. You might even say brutal.
AMD is working on some new technology. A quad core... in fact it's a quad core they had in development before Intel even dreamed of doing a quad core.... but AMD was basking in the joys of their (very) short lived success from playing the dual core trump card..... they just forgot that the game wasn't over.
Now Intel has a quad core. Technically, is it as good on paper as AMD's hopefully soon to be release quad? I would say not. There's a lot of good technology in AMDs quad. HOWEVER, is it a trump card? I don't think it is. I think AMD is still heading for some troubling times.
Easier to be negative...
For example, the much anticipated Doom 3 was merely a complete rehash of Doom I, which was a marvel because low end boxes could do 3d.... but everyone expected something different gameplay wise with regards to Doom 3, and all it was was a pretty face on Doom I. Very sad.
Artwork and graphics definitely have taken precedence over gameplay (IMHO).
You have to understand that a Christian CAN be a scientist. There actually is quite a bit of evidence for a young earth. I don't think that a true scientist can say that evolution is fact. There are just too many contradictions. And in fact, more recent scientific discoveries tend to suggest that evolution is the religious dogma of blind zealots. Rather than accepting evolution as blind fact, scientists should be doing experimentation to support the idea of evolution... however, many of the experiments are done with faulty reasoning and make assumptions (of things that are not even good theory). Evolution is a hypothesis at best. The world has truly forgotten what the scientific method is. Now... we accept things as theories based on the popularity of the scientist. Which is sad. So... what will the future hold. Today's science is founded more and more on popularity. It has become more and more like science fiction. Science (those that do not believe in God) want to make sure that God does not exist... so, as evolution continues to fall apart (because humans DO like to learn and explore... so TRUE scientists will exist), the scientific community WILL undoubtably have to come up with another Godless answer to the creation of humanity. Personally, given our infatuation with science fiction, I believe that the next big popular "theory" will be the space seed theory. While it does not answer original creation, it will help satisfy the evidence of a young earth and a history that only goes back 4,000 years.
1. This license can be applied except in circumstances where:
a. Your company's name starts with 'N' and/or ends in 'll' (e.g. Novell).
b. Your company is a gross misspelling of the word "novel" (e.g. Novell).
c. Your company's logo is a single letter (e.g. a red 'N').
d. An agent of your company has been within 20 feet of anyone working for a company within a 10 mile radius of Seattle, WA (e.g. Redmond).
e. Half of your employees do not remember the name of your current CEO.
You may apply for a special exemption specifically from Richard Stallman of the FSF, but only if he's wearing a disk platter on his head at the time of the application.
2. If you own a patent, deal with patents, or can even spell the word patent, you may not use this license at all, in fact you are not to read it... stop reading here.... (thanks).
3. If you use cryptography, encryption or anything else related to digital rights management, you cannot use the terms of this license unless you give us the keys for your access.
4. XEmacs sucks. It just does. They used my code without permission. They're evil. Don't use it.
Note: #4 may be the most controversial part of GPLv3.
Half of the people I work with are 85% "sheep"....
May have to change our hiring practices. Probably will have to change 'domestic partner' in the politically correct sections of our benefits booklet.
Can you copy my stuff without my permission and then redistribute it?
The answer is no (unless I've licensed it for such).
So I think you have to side with the holder of the copyright. Otherwise, it makes the law meaningless.
Didn't we all see this coming when Google bought YouTube... I mean... DUH!!!
We went home. Now I wish we had bought some while it was on sale.
Sun is also warming up to the open source community. Go Sun! Go!
Microsoft has countered that the installer is now a fundamental part of Windows and cannot be removed.
No... it probably wasn't a duck... at least I don't think it was a duck. /desiring +5 funny
What is really hard to believe is that only 2 days after the successful overclock, Microsoft sent him (for free) a Ready for Vista decal for his PC.