The Register is one of the most bias, spinning tech news sites Ive ever read, and I first started reading it 6 years ago - its only got worse since then. I actually refuse to browse the site these days, only reading their articles when directly linked and pretty much all of them have some really evil spin on them.
Egyptologists are pretty certain the Pyramids werent built using slave labour, but using Egypts entire labour effort as a massive public works project to honour the leadership.
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However, American publishers continued to regard the work of a foreign (i. e., non-resident) author as unprotected 'common' property. Thus, although the Berne Convention greatly simplified the copyright process among European nations, numerous unauthorized American re-prints continued to appear until 1891, when the United States finally agreed to discontinue sanctioning literary piracy. In 1896 the American Congress joined the international copyright union, after petitions directed at it by such noted British novelists as Maria Edgeworth, Benjamin Disraeli, and Charles Dickens, beginning in 1837. Their pleas had fallen on deaf ears in the American government until joined by those of Americans such as Mark Twain, who complained that he was fed up with publishers' ignoring American works in favour of those of English writers, whose books could be re-printed more cheaply because there were no royalty costs. A further point of exacerbation for Twain was Canadian piracies of his works, which he attempted to prevent by establishing temporary residence in Canada on the date of publication of each of his works.
Yes because, to throw an analogy into the works, NTFS, Ext3, Fat32, Resier and XFS are all the *same* format because they can all be stored on the same platter and read by the same disk heads.
Apples lawsuit isnt about damages, they arent seeking monetory compensation from loggers, they are seeking the name of the person in their organisation that obviously cannot keep their mouth shut even tho they are paid to do exactly that. Yes the information would have come out eventually, but its the time and manner of that release which is what makes the information so important - it enables competitors to alter their own strategies to compete and thus gives them an unfair advantage that they wouldnt have had otherwise.
Yes the product named in the information is lame, yes it probably hasnt resulted in major financial loss for Apple, but it highlighted the fact that Apple has an untrustworthy person in possession of information - its the future products that pass through that person that Apples worried about. That person needs to be fired, removed from the chain forceably.
Thats why this lawsuit is not frivolous. You may take me as an Apple zealot, but I would be saying exactly the same if it were any other company.
Freedom of speech doesnt mean freedom from consequence, even if you are a journalist. A journalist still has freedom of speech, but they can be jailed for refusing to disclose sources among other things, they must accept the consequences of their actions - and true journalists do and are prepared to go to jail to protect sources.
Bloggers should realise they cant continue to step on everyones toes without consequence, they should have realised by now that corporations dont like to sit back while their privileged information is disseminated to everyone.
Similiar to the solar turbine I think, where you have a 1000ft tall hollow metal tube, and a the top you have a wind turbine. The sun would heat the tube which would heat the air inside, causing it to rise and it will continue to heat as it does, causign it to go faster. The only place it has to go is through the turbine and thus power is generated.
Hasnt Windows NT had user-group-world access rights for... well, the earliest NT I used was Windows 2K and it was in that. Pretty sure Ive heard in passing it was in earlier NT versions as well, so how is it only just being included now '30 years after Unix'?
The question is then, are Nvidia or ATI pushing to have their binary drivers included in the first place? If not, whats the issue beside some groups have an ideological problem with binary drivers overall.
Thats still a fairly significant number of hits, and the probability is that the firewalls on those systems talk to each other, so it can still be put down to a defensive measure.
240 times over a half hour period is a high rate of connections per server (8 per minute per server), especially for email servers, so is it possible that Yahoo!'s servers were simply defending themselves against a perceived threat? Connection throttling was the first thing that came to mind on reading the blurb.
Why give something away when people will put down money for it? Just because it doesnt fit their core doesnt make it something you cant make an income on.
I will agree with that, read both the two books over a 2 week period and I came away with the thought that Nigel and Ozzie was Jobs and Woz:) Very good series, and I await the next installment (hoping there is one of course).
Currently there are three US ships laden with asbestos and waste oil in a British port untouched for the same reasons. They were brought over from the US to be stripped, decontaminated and cut up for scrap, but various environmentalist groups have blocked the action, so they sit there gradually decaying rather than being safely taken apart.
Microsoft have distributed many GPLed applications, including GCC, for some time as part of the Software for Unix package. Hells still going strong, and provides central heating for the sun.
What in the PPC based Apples were any different? Apple still designs the cases and the motherboards and does systems integration, jsut like before. All thats changed is who they buy the CPUs and chipsets from.
So you dont think a hardware MMU gave any benefits to computing today, because the same function can be done in software? Oh, and theres no way to circumvent software security, right? Get real. TPM is another tool in the box that can be used, sure it isnt the ultimate and it shouldnt be used alone, but dont think we shouldnt use it if its available.
Your assertion that TPM exists solely to remove control from us is also marketing, but from a different quarter. Dont think its any different, its one view or opinion, not reality.
TPM has some great potential uses
I disagree entirely.
Then I guess you also dont see any good uses for passwords, permission levels, memory management and various such security measures operative in most OS's these days. TPM would be a fantastic hardware assistance in securing your environment further, and would be a boon in this manner in the corporate environment (imagine a server only allowed to run one single service under one userid and nothing else, you wouldnt ever have to worry about overflow execution exploits or remote access exploits ever again). As I said, its the abuses, where the control is removed from you, that I dont agree with.
90% of OSX Intel relies on having the TPM chip present and active, if you disable it you are going to have a very inoperative OS very quickly - unless you use one of the hacked versions. Personally, my problem is the abuse, not the technology - TPM has some great potential uses, but only the ones certain people have a problem with seem to get column inches on slashdot.
Can anyone explain what exactly gravity is, how mass creates it and how an object exerts a force on other objects through gravity? Ive always been under the impression that while we know gravity *exists* and that there is a direct strength linkage to the mass of an object, we dont actually know much about it at all unlike magnetism etc. Am I under a false impression?
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The Register is one of the most bias, spinning tech news sites Ive ever read, and I first started reading it 6 years ago - its only got worse since then. I actually refuse to browse the site these days, only reading their articles when directly linked and pretty much all of them have some really evil spin on them.
The Mythbusters did actually do the Rocket Car myth, using several commercially available model rocket engines and a remote controlled car.
It is the 'United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland' so Northern Ireland is part of the UK.
Egyptologists are pretty certain the Pyramids werent built using slave labour, but using Egypts entire labour effort as a massive public works project to honour the leadership.
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However, American publishers continued to regard the work of a foreign (i. e., non-resident) author as unprotected 'common' property. Thus, although the Berne Convention greatly simplified the copyright process among European nations, numerous unauthorized American re-prints continued to appear until 1891, when the United States finally agreed to discontinue sanctioning literary piracy. In 1896 the American Congress joined the international copyright union, after petitions directed at it by such noted British novelists as Maria Edgeworth, Benjamin Disraeli, and Charles Dickens, beginning in 1837. Their pleas had fallen on deaf ears in the American government until joined by those of Americans such as Mark Twain, who complained that he was fed up with publishers' ignoring American works in favour of those of English writers, whose books could be re-printed more cheaply because there were no royalty costs. A further point of exacerbation for Twain was Canadian piracies of his works, which he attempted to prevent by establishing temporary residence in Canada on the date of publication of each of his works.
It certainly happened, and here is a fairly comprehensive history on the subject: http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/pva/pYes because, to throw an analogy into the works, NTFS, Ext3, Fat32, Resier and XFS are all the *same* format because they can all be stored on the same platter and read by the same disk heads.
Apples lawsuit isnt about damages, they arent seeking monetory compensation from loggers, they are seeking the name of the person in their organisation that obviously cannot keep their mouth shut even tho they are paid to do exactly that. Yes the information would have come out eventually, but its the time and manner of that release which is what makes the information so important - it enables competitors to alter their own strategies to compete and thus gives them an unfair advantage that they wouldnt have had otherwise.
Yes the product named in the information is lame, yes it probably hasnt resulted in major financial loss for Apple, but it highlighted the fact that Apple has an untrustworthy person in possession of information - its the future products that pass through that person that Apples worried about. That person needs to be fired, removed from the chain forceably.
Thats why this lawsuit is not frivolous. You may take me as an Apple zealot, but I would be saying exactly the same if it were any other company.
Freedom of speech doesnt mean freedom from consequence, even if you are a journalist. A journalist still has freedom of speech, but they can be jailed for refusing to disclose sources among other things, they must accept the consequences of their actions - and true journalists do and are prepared to go to jail to protect sources.
Bloggers should realise they cant continue to step on everyones toes without consequence, they should have realised by now that corporations dont like to sit back while their privileged information is disseminated to everyone.
Similiar to the solar turbine I think, where you have a 1000ft tall hollow metal tube, and a the top you have a wind turbine. The sun would heat the tube which would heat the air inside, causing it to rise and it will continue to heat as it does, causign it to go faster. The only place it has to go is through the turbine and thus power is generated.
Hasnt Windows NT had user-group-world access rights for ... well, the earliest NT I used was Windows 2K and it was in that. Pretty sure Ive heard in passing it was in earlier NT versions as well, so how is it only just being included now '30 years after Unix'?
The question is then, are Nvidia or ATI pushing to have their binary drivers included in the first place? If not, whats the issue beside some groups have an ideological problem with binary drivers overall.
Thats still a fairly significant number of hits, and the probability is that the firewalls on those systems talk to each other, so it can still be put down to a defensive measure.
240 times over a half hour period is a high rate of connections per server (8 per minute per server), especially for email servers, so is it possible that Yahoo!'s servers were simply defending themselves against a perceived threat? Connection throttling was the first thing that came to mind on reading the blurb.
Why give something away when people will put down money for it? Just because it doesnt fit their core doesnt make it something you cant make an income on.
I will agree with that, read both the two books over a 2 week period and I came away with the thought that Nigel and Ozzie was Jobs and Woz :) Very good series, and I await the next installment (hoping there is one of course).
Currently there are three US ships laden with asbestos and waste oil in a British port untouched for the same reasons. They were brought over from the US to be stripped, decontaminated and cut up for scrap, but various environmentalist groups have blocked the action, so they sit there gradually decaying rather than being safely taken apart.
Microsoft have distributed many GPLed applications, including GCC, for some time as part of the Software for Unix package. Hells still going strong, and provides central heating for the sun.
What in the PPC based Apples were any different? Apple still designs the cases and the motherboards and does systems integration, jsut like before. All thats changed is who they buy the CPUs and chipsets from.
So you dont think a hardware MMU gave any benefits to computing today, because the same function can be done in software? Oh, and theres no way to circumvent software security, right? Get real. TPM is another tool in the box that can be used, sure it isnt the ultimate and it shouldnt be used alone, but dont think we shouldnt use it if its available.
Your assertion that TPM exists solely to remove control from us is also marketing, but from a different quarter. Dont think its any different, its one view or opinion, not reality.
TPM has some great potential uses I disagree entirely.
Then I guess you also dont see any good uses for passwords, permission levels, memory management and various such security measures operative in most OS's these days. TPM would be a fantastic hardware assistance in securing your environment further, and would be a boon in this manner in the corporate environment (imagine a server only allowed to run one single service under one userid and nothing else, you wouldnt ever have to worry about overflow execution exploits or remote access exploits ever again). As I said, its the abuses, where the control is removed from you, that I dont agree with.90% of OSX Intel relies on having the TPM chip present and active, if you disable it you are going to have a very inoperative OS very quickly - unless you use one of the hacked versions. Personally, my problem is the abuse, not the technology - TPM has some great potential uses, but only the ones certain people have a problem with seem to get column inches on slashdot.
Firefox/Mozilla didnt have those to start with either, yet they came.
Can anyone explain what exactly gravity is, how mass creates it and how an object exerts a force on other objects through gravity? Ive always been under the impression that while we know gravity *exists* and that there is a direct strength linkage to the mass of an object, we dont actually know much about it at all unlike magnetism etc. Am I under a false impression?