Youtube uses flash, making it like youtube would be far preferable as flash is far more accessible and widely supported than silverlight. Flash also has an open specification available for anyone to implement at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf/
So i would consider using flash, just like youtube, to be a perfectly valid way to stream the video, which would support far more users than silverlight.
Flash and Java run on more devices, so while not perfect they are a better choice. The Flash specification has been available for years, and recently the terms were relaxed to permit using the spec to produce a player... Java is now open source and free for anyone to port to a new platform if they wish.
The makers of Flash and Java want their systems to be ported to new platforms... They want it to spread far and wide. The makers of silverlight want it to be tied to their platform, so it can be used as another weapon to prevent people going to competing platforms.
In order for a new platform to support java or flash, developers would need to read the existing documentation or possibly port some existing code... In order to support silverlight they would need to reverse engineer the existing implementation, and risk being sued for violating patents.
Silverlight has a very tiny installbase right now.... The fact that many *could* install it if they wanted to isn't terribly important.
The same argument is used against making sites that use modern css features and sending out files in opendocument formats and such, only in this case an even larger percentage of users *could* install supported apps if they wanted.
Linux and BSD may have a small percentage of the desktop market, but what about the sub desktop, ie mobile phones, small tablets (like nokia's), set top boxes etc... By using silverlight you are excluding all these users... Flash may not be perfect, but it has much wider support on such devices.
Where are those options? I can enable 802.11n only (5GHz), but there is no wide channels options and in 5ghz mode auto is the only channel available...
Use your fixed line phone when your in the house, some cell operators can automatically route calls to your fixed line when your at home... You can get tinfoil backed insulation, put that in your walls, it will reduce the leakage of your wireless signal to the outside (for hackers to pick up) and reduce the level of interference coming in.
What, with ISPs implementing traffic caps these days, a connection shared between 10 users won't work very well... Would be better to maintain several connections to multiple isps, for redundancy if nothing else.
At a family member's place i get TERRIBLE signal on all the 2.4ghz channels, being across the hall (line of sight) results in packet loss and high latency.. There are no other wifi networks around, could there be some other source of noise on the 2.4ghz band, and how would i detect it? Perhaps the presence of a high level of noise on the band is the reason why i don't pick up any other wifi, im sure some of the nearby houses must have it.
I have an airport extreme and it supports the 5ghz band, as does my macbook pro (the two are designed to work together) but i don't get 270mb speeds out of it either... My eee 901 will do 802.11n but only on the 2.4ghz band, annoyingly.
Then why add it in the first place? There are now some compatibility problems, due to any program designed for win2k or xp pre sp2 which used raw sockets... And yes, 2k did have it so at least 1 previous version.
If there's lots of 802.11b/g networks around you on the 2.4ghz band, and probably a lot of other 2.4ghz non wifi equipment (lots of wireless cameras use an analog transmisssion on the 2.4ghz band for instance), why not try using 5ghz 802.11a instead? I can't detect any 802.11a networks here other than my own, so i get much better performance than on the crowded 2.4ghz bands.
That's weird, IE seems to render it properly within the browser window, but not in the address bar or tab bar... Looks like it renders it on a black background for some reason... At first glance it looks like a swastika, too.
You can sell OO for any amount of money you want, and in any country you want... It's legal in the US too you know... It's up to users to do their research to realise you can get it for free. There are loads of instances where someone charges more than someone else, this is no different.
Not at all.. If operated correctly a government store can be more efficient than a commercial one. There are no shareholders pushing for higher profits, a government store that breaks even or generates a small profit while keeping people employed and providing good value to the people would be a win win.
Of course, most previous attempts at government run operations have ended up horrendously inefficient and incompetently or corruptly managed. But the potential is there.
NFS by default doesn't time out, it just waits indefinitely for the server to come back... I believe this is designed so that you don't lose data. There is a mount option called intr (interrupt) which will let you interrupt a process that's locked due to a dead NFS server.
Some laptops, like the eee 901, has a feature in the bios to cache the results of these probes... Makes sense in a laptop where the hardware is unlikely to change much, perhaps a usb device or two...
For every artist like the ones you mention, who won't make new content because they can't afford to... There are several more who won't make new content or perform because they're already making enough from something they produced years ago. So they can just sit on their lazy asses doing drugs... While much of what you say is true, the current model is also deeply flawed. Something needs to change, what it changes to i don't know...
It doesn't necessarily cost money to tour... You start small and play in a few local bars as many small bands do, people who work for radio stations and larger venues will hear you, and if you're any good book you to play.
While it may cost money to make an album, virtually all other forms of advertising cost money too. Why should music be any different from any other business? And once you have produced recordings, distributing them doesn't need to cost anything. And unlike most other forms of advertising, you don't need to force/trick people into seeing it, if your music is good people will actively seek it out and spread it among themselves, all it takes is for a few people to download it from a "fresh uploads" list and like what they hear to start you off.
On the other hand, if your music is garbage people won't like it, wont spread it around and wont tell their friends to download it, music which noone likes will fail as it should.
The current system, which as you pointed out rewards labels, ensures that it's hard for people to enter the market, no matter how talented or dedicated they are... Do you think this is fair? There are thousands of hard working talented bands out there, playing in clubs and bars for pitiful appearance fees, while the majority of money in the industry goes to fat cat middlemen and big name artists who haven't produced new material or performed live (ie done any actual work) in years.
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Youtube uses flash, making it like youtube would be far preferable as flash is far more accessible and widely supported than silverlight.
Flash also has an open specification available for anyone to implement at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf/
So i would consider using flash, just like youtube, to be a perfectly valid way to stream the video, which would support far more users than silverlight.
Flash and Java run on more devices, so while not perfect they are a better choice.
The Flash specification has been available for years, and recently the terms were relaxed to permit using the spec to produce a player...
Java is now open source and free for anyone to port to a new platform if they wish.
The makers of Flash and Java want their systems to be ported to new platforms... They want it to spread far and wide.
The makers of silverlight want it to be tied to their platform, so it can be used as another weapon to prevent people going to competing platforms.
In order for a new platform to support java or flash, developers would need to read the existing documentation or possibly port some existing code...
In order to support silverlight they would need to reverse engineer the existing implementation, and risk being sued for violating patents.
Silverlight has a very tiny installbase right now.... The fact that many *could* install it if they wanted to isn't terribly important.
The same argument is used against making sites that use modern css features and sending out files in opendocument formats and such, only in this case an even larger percentage of users *could* install supported apps if they wanted.
Linux and BSD may have a small percentage of the desktop market, but what about the sub desktop, ie mobile phones, small tablets (like nokia's), set top boxes etc... By using silverlight you are excluding all these users... Flash may not be perfect, but it has much wider support on such devices.
Where are those options?
I can enable 802.11n only (5GHz), but there is no wide channels options and in 5ghz mode auto is the only channel available...
If your on the same electrical circuit as your neighbors, you might run into the exact same problems as with wireless...
Use your fixed line phone when your in the house, some cell operators can automatically route calls to your fixed line when your at home...
You can get tinfoil backed insulation, put that in your walls, it will reduce the leakage of your wireless signal to the outside (for hackers to pick up) and reduce the level of interference coming in.
What, with ISPs implementing traffic caps these days, a connection shared between 10 users won't work very well...
Would be better to maintain several connections to multiple isps, for redundancy if nothing else.
Ohh, but linux is hard, windows is easy and noone ever needs to use the commandline on windows... Commandline is so archaic!
At a family member's place i get TERRIBLE signal on all the 2.4ghz channels, being across the hall (line of sight) results in packet loss and high latency.. There are no other wifi networks around, could there be some other source of noise on the 2.4ghz band, and how would i detect it?
Perhaps the presence of a high level of noise on the band is the reason why i don't pick up any other wifi, im sure some of the nearby houses must have it.
I have an airport extreme and it supports the 5ghz band, as does my macbook pro (the two are designed to work together) but i don't get 270mb speeds out of it either...
My eee 901 will do 802.11n but only on the 2.4ghz band, annoyingly.
Then why add it in the first place?
There are now some compatibility problems, due to any program designed for win2k or xp pre sp2 which used raw sockets...
And yes, 2k did have it so at least 1 previous version.
If there's lots of 802.11b/g networks around you on the 2.4ghz band, and probably a lot of other 2.4ghz non wifi equipment (lots of wireless cameras use an analog transmisssion on the 2.4ghz band for instance), why not try using 5ghz 802.11a instead?
I can't detect any 802.11a networks here other than my own, so i get much better performance than on the crowded 2.4ghz bands.
That's weird, IE seems to render it properly within the browser window, but not in the address bar or tab bar... Looks like it renders it on a black background for some reason...
At first glance it looks like a swastika, too.
I believe XP has tcp window scaling turned off by default, whereas modern Linux kernels and Vista have it turned on.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_window_scale_option
This can make a massive difference if there is more than a tiny amount of latency on the line...
Bandwidth tests just download the data to ram and discard it, they don't try to write it to the drive.
He should remove 256mb of ram from the Ubuntu box and try again...
Infact, he should dual boot both machines and run his benchmarks again.
You can sell OO for any amount of money you want, and in any country you want... It's legal in the US too you know...
It's up to users to do their research to realise you can get it for free. There are loads of instances where someone charges more than someone else, this is no different.
She also has the right to return the goods and receive a refund.
And MS removed raw socket support from SP2.... If it was insignificant, why did they bother removing it?
Not at all.. If operated correctly a government store can be more efficient than a commercial one. There are no shareholders pushing for higher profits, a government store that breaks even or generates a small profit while keeping people employed and providing good value to the people would be a win win.
Of course, most previous attempts at government run operations have ended up horrendously inefficient and incompetently or corruptly managed. But the potential is there.
What version do you need to downgrade to? And does downgrading open you up to any security flaws or incompatibility?
NFS by default doesn't time out, it just waits indefinitely for the server to come back... I believe this is designed so that you don't lose data.
There is a mount option called intr (interrupt) which will let you interrupt a process that's locked due to a dead NFS server.
Some laptops, like the eee 901, has a feature in the bios to cache the results of these probes... Makes sense in a laptop where the hardware is unlikely to change much, perhaps a usb device or two...
If i'm going to be making the submissions, i think i'll just get the grant for myself and keep 100% of the grant money thanks.
For every artist like the ones you mention, who won't make new content because they can't afford to... There are several more who won't make new content or perform because they're already making enough from something they produced years ago. So they can just sit on their lazy asses doing drugs...
While much of what you say is true, the current model is also deeply flawed. Something needs to change, what it changes to i don't know...
It doesn't necessarily cost money to tour... You start small and play in a few local bars as many small bands do, people who work for radio stations and larger venues will hear you, and if you're any good book you to play.
While it may cost money to make an album, virtually all other forms of advertising cost money too. Why should music be any different from any other business?
And once you have produced recordings, distributing them doesn't need to cost anything. And unlike most other forms of advertising, you don't need to force/trick people into seeing it, if your music is good people will actively seek it out and spread it among themselves, all it takes is for a few people to download it from a "fresh uploads" list and like what they hear to start you off.
On the other hand, if your music is garbage people won't like it, wont spread it around and wont tell their friends to download it, music which noone likes will fail as it should.
The current system, which as you pointed out rewards labels, ensures that it's hard for people to enter the market, no matter how talented or dedicated they are... Do you think this is fair? There are thousands of hard working talented bands out there, playing in clubs and bars for pitiful appearance fees, while the majority of money in the industry goes to fat cat middlemen and big name artists who haven't produced new material or performed live (ie done any actual work) in years.