Monopolistic overreaching of power, or fantastic move to combat viruses? It doesnt really matter, as MS is going to be both praised and sued for this move, even tho it may turn out to be a great one. You cant satisfy all of the people all of the time.
Ive heard this arguement a lot, and i have to ask this: If you continued this, at what point does it stop becoming free advertising? Playing songs on radio, free advertising. Copying CDs, free advertising. Kazaa, free advertising. Concerts, free advertising. WHEN ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GET PAID?! Everything advertises something else.
The DVD copying software (DVD Xcopy i presume, as thats the one that was in the news recently) was ruled illegal because it circumvented copy protection measures, and under current statutes (DMCA) its an open-and-shut case, there isnt much else the Judge could have done. It didnt make 1:1 backup copies, because it did two things: transcoded the contents to make it fit, and allowed you to choose what you wanted copied. If it could make 1:1 copies, and that was all it did, then it would probably have passed ok, as it didnt surcumvent any acts. Dont blame me, dont blame the judge, blame the person who signed the law.
Uhm, didnt i read somewhere that Intel licensed AMDs 64bit extensions? Just the same as AMD license ia-386 stuff from Intel? This may be covered in the article, which I cant currently get to, and i just cant be bothered to google.
Nope, there was a NT3.0, which had a windows3.1 like GUI, NT3.5 had the Win95 tacked on. Releases prior to NT3.0 were internal MS releases, jsut the same as some products have irregular release version jumps, not all are public (and why do they need to be?).
The navajo indian code talkers did not "simply speak their native language". They actually had a code book to work from to translate english based orders into almost unrelated navajo words, so you get a sort of two level code system. The japanese captured several non code talking navajo indians in the course of the conflict, and these proved to be useless at decoding the talk.
In a similiar situation, one time pad encoded transmissions by Allied and Soviet spies during and after WW2 were dual encoded, first each word was encoded from plain text into a 4 digit number, and from there added to the onetime pad. This ended up with a situation where you could break the one time pad cyphers due to sloppy reuse of the pads on the soviet part, but then you had the task of matching up the numbers to words using a code book you can never see. Its not as easy as people make it out to be, less than 1% of all Venona traffic captured was ever broken, and then most were only broken by a word, thus useless.
The BBCs website is really fantastic, so much so that other news media moguls in the UK are trying to get it shut down, saying the BBC overstepped their mark. When I last spoke to someone there, they had somewhere in the region of 2 million individual web pages within the bbc.co.uk domain, which is a fair amount. Not content with this publically available information, it also provides specialised content to other UK broadband providors (pipex, easynet etc).
THe BBC also provide peering and transit to a lot of UK companies (they have one HELL of an internal network, its FAST!!), and have direct hooks into Telehouse London, so you could say that they are here to stay. The public content is just a small part of the BBC online, so there isnt any chance of them charging for it.
I personally think that this show could pull up some suprises. SG1 is pretty much all about introducing us to the concept, and fighting the Goa`uld, which they are just about done doing. Atlantis could go in a different direction, finding out more information about the stargate network (There are 9 chevrons on the stargate, 7 are in normal use, 1 more was activated to meet the Asgard, whats the ninth for?), discovering stuff about the ancients (it was surmised in one episode that modern humanity could be descended from a pre ascended ancient species, i would like to see more on that).
SG1 went military because thats where the film left off, Atlantis can be trememdously different.
If you take a season to be a year, after seven years of working with something, you would think they would, to some extent, work out how the technology works. Quite a few times it has been pointed out that Earths gate does not quite work as a normal gate does, due to the lack of a DHD, and it has also been said on the show that there are rudimentary understandings of how the gate works.
Bear in mind that one of the missions of the SG teams is to collect alien tech so Earth can protect itself from other races, again this leads us to beleive that they would actually go to some extent to learn about the tech they find.
I think the way they have done it is very good. Treat it as magic in the first few series and then gradually explain it. Pretty much how it would work in real life, I expect.
Looking at the number of companies or governments we hear about making the switch to linux (and the size of those rollouts), the number of linux distros and the number of boxed copies of linux on the shelves down at my nearest PC superstore, I wouldnt exactly be comfortable in calling MS a monopoly now. 4 years ago maybe, but not now. I personally beleive that governments should leave MS alone, people can and do install other players as they want to, or they use the built in ones. This is over regulation to the hilt, and they should concentrate on regulating the non luxury items markets, such as food or medicine.
There were several non MS USB subsystems released for win95, most of them with a fair few drivers, and at least one took the 98 version drivers with a special installer for them.
No, the API changes way too much. You do not ever need to make an API totally incompatable with previous versions to add stuff to it, ever heard of backwards compatability? Indeed, add a second API that can be used, deprecate the old one, and add warnings that it is to be discontinued in the next major release of the kernel, it isnt hard. That way you only have an old and new API hanging around at anyone time, and modules work a lot longer with less work than the current situation.
Its not just Binary modules that suffer. Think of the amount of man hours that go into maintaining the current GPLed modules to allow usage in newer versions of kernels, its horrendous amounts. Yes its free labour, but that labour could be going to providing more features, code cleanups, auditing, anything but keeping older code working because the kernel coders want to cripple binary modules.
Yes, a fixed module API across versions would benifit binary modules, but it would also have massive benefits for the GPLed modules out there that more than outweigh the downside of having binary modules. Dont ever think that something done to harm one side leaves the other side untouched.
The older codebase is not the same base for the 3.0 or current code base. He stopped development suddendly around v2.5 citing personal issues and left a load of people hanging. Thus the current 3.0 codebase only follows the older MysqlFront in name, and not anything that matters. The new codebase sucks in more than one way.
No it doesnt, it gets them a legal warning that they should either Opensource the kernel, or remove the code. It doesnt make anything opensource by default. And do you really think that opensourcing the windows kernel will help WINE all that much? Considering most of the win32 API is buried in DLLs and not the kernel, i wouldnt have thought it would help them all that much.
Whats so wrong with Sky showing it on Sky Movies? At least it wont be broken to show adverts. I dont see how SkyOne getting 24 hurts you either, it would have aired on E4 anyway, with C4 not getting it for the same length of time as its going to take to be shunted to C4 anyway.
I use MysqlFront extensively, but only the old codebase. I cannot get used to the new codebase, its just not as good as the old one. I wish the bloke would release the code, anyone know why he chose not to?
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Monopolistic overreaching of power, or fantastic move to combat viruses? It doesnt really matter, as MS is going to be both praised and sued for this move, even tho it may turn out to be a great one. You cant satisfy all of the people all of the time.
Nope, they are using it to promote something that will financially reward them.
Ive heard this arguement a lot, and i have to ask this: If you continued this, at what point does it stop becoming free advertising? Playing songs on radio, free advertising. Copying CDs, free advertising. Kazaa, free advertising. Concerts, free advertising. WHEN ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GET PAID?! Everything advertises something else.
The DVD copying software (DVD Xcopy i presume, as thats the one that was in the news recently) was ruled illegal because it circumvented copy protection measures, and under current statutes (DMCA) its an open-and-shut case, there isnt much else the Judge could have done. It didnt make 1:1 backup copies, because it did two things: transcoded the contents to make it fit, and allowed you to choose what you wanted copied. If it could make 1:1 copies, and that was all it did, then it would probably have passed ok, as it didnt surcumvent any acts. Dont blame me, dont blame the judge, blame the person who signed the law.
Uhm, didnt i read somewhere that Intel licensed AMDs 64bit extensions? Just the same as AMD license ia-386 stuff from Intel? This may be covered in the article, which I cant currently get to, and i just cant be bothered to google.
Nope, there was a NT3.0, which had a windows3.1 like GUI, NT3.5 had the Win95 tacked on. Releases prior to NT3.0 were internal MS releases, jsut the same as some products have irregular release version jumps, not all are public (and why do they need to be?).
The navajo indian code talkers did not "simply speak their native language". They actually had a code book to work from to translate english based orders into almost unrelated navajo words, so you get a sort of two level code system. The japanese captured several non code talking navajo indians in the course of the conflict, and these proved to be useless at decoding the talk.
In a similiar situation, one time pad encoded transmissions by Allied and Soviet spies during and after WW2 were dual encoded, first each word was encoded from plain text into a 4 digit number, and from there added to the onetime pad. This ended up with a situation where you could break the one time pad cyphers due to sloppy reuse of the pads on the soviet part, but then you had the task of matching up the numbers to words using a code book you can never see. Its not as easy as people make it out to be, less than 1% of all Venona traffic captured was ever broken, and then most were only broken by a word, thus useless.
Uhm, that was kindof my point :P
The BBCs website is really fantastic, so much so that other news media moguls in the UK are trying to get it shut down, saying the BBC overstepped their mark. When I last spoke to someone there, they had somewhere in the region of 2 million individual web pages within the bbc.co.uk domain, which is a fair amount. Not content with this publically available information, it also provides specialised content to other UK broadband providors (pipex, easynet etc).
THe BBC also provide peering and transit to a lot of UK companies (they have one HELL of an internal network, its FAST!!), and have direct hooks into Telehouse London, so you could say that they are here to stay. The public content is just a small part of the BBC online, so there isnt any chance of them charging for it.
I havent heard of a season 8, got any links on that? (Not doubting, just truely interested! As far as I knew, the end of season 7 was it).
I personally think that this show could pull up some suprises. SG1 is pretty much all about introducing us to the concept, and fighting the Goa`uld, which they are just about done doing. Atlantis could go in a different direction, finding out more information about the stargate network (There are 9 chevrons on the stargate, 7 are in normal use, 1 more was activated to meet the Asgard, whats the ninth for?), discovering stuff about the ancients (it was surmised in one episode that modern humanity could be descended from a pre ascended ancient species, i would like to see more on that).
SG1 went military because thats where the film left off, Atlantis can be trememdously different.
If you take a season to be a year, after seven years of working with something, you would think they would, to some extent, work out how the technology works. Quite a few times it has been pointed out that Earths gate does not quite work as a normal gate does, due to the lack of a DHD, and it has also been said on the show that there are rudimentary understandings of how the gate works.
Bear in mind that one of the missions of the SG teams is to collect alien tech so Earth can protect itself from other races, again this leads us to beleive that they would actually go to some extent to learn about the tech they find.
I think the way they have done it is very good. Treat it as magic in the first few series and then gradually explain it. Pretty much how it would work in real life, I expect.
So its OK for the GPL to impose restrictions, but not for other licenses to?
Looking at the number of companies or governments we hear about making the switch to linux (and the size of those rollouts), the number of linux distros and the number of boxed copies of linux on the shelves down at my nearest PC superstore, I wouldnt exactly be comfortable in calling MS a monopoly now. 4 years ago maybe, but not now. I personally beleive that governments should leave MS alone, people can and do install other players as they want to, or they use the built in ones. This is over regulation to the hilt, and they should concentrate on regulating the non luxury items markets, such as food or medicine.
Most people on here do that with music and films, so whats so bad about a bit of comment copying?
There were several non MS USB subsystems released for win95, most of them with a fair few drivers, and at least one took the 98 version drivers with a special installer for them.
No, the API changes way too much. You do not ever need to make an API totally incompatable with previous versions to add stuff to it, ever heard of backwards compatability? Indeed, add a second API that can be used, deprecate the old one, and add warnings that it is to be discontinued in the next major release of the kernel, it isnt hard. That way you only have an old and new API hanging around at anyone time, and modules work a lot longer with less work than the current situation.
Its not just Binary modules that suffer. Think of the amount of man hours that go into maintaining the current GPLed modules to allow usage in newer versions of kernels, its horrendous amounts. Yes its free labour, but that labour could be going to providing more features, code cleanups, auditing, anything but keeping older code working because the kernel coders want to cripple binary modules.
Yes, a fixed module API across versions would benifit binary modules, but it would also have massive benefits for the GPLed modules out there that more than outweigh the downside of having binary modules. Dont ever think that something done to harm one side leaves the other side untouched.
The older codebase is not the same base for the 3.0 or current code base. He stopped development suddendly around v2.5 citing personal issues and left a load of people hanging. Thus the current 3.0 codebase only follows the older MysqlFront in name, and not anything that matters. The new codebase sucks in more than one way.
No, but it would be easy for them to get there if samba were running........
No, MS likes the BSDs, since they can use the BSD licensed code from them freely. And rightly so in my opinion.
No it doesnt, it gets them a legal warning that they should either Opensource the kernel, or remove the code. It doesnt make anything opensource by default. And do you really think that opensourcing the windows kernel will help WINE all that much? Considering most of the win32 API is buried in DLLs and not the kernel, i wouldnt have thought it would help them all that much.
Whats so wrong with Sky showing it on Sky Movies? At least it wont be broken to show adverts. I dont see how SkyOne getting 24 hurts you either, it would have aired on E4 anyway, with C4 not getting it for the same length of time as its going to take to be shunted to C4 anyway.
I use MysqlFront extensively, but only the old codebase. I cannot get used to the new codebase, its just not as good as the old one. I wish the bloke would release the code, anyone know why he chose not to?
Because its not the editors jobs to falsify partnership links.