I'd be really impressed if a company accuratley predicted the number of NT client licences it needed 5 years in advance, and was willing to cough up cash for licences it didn't need then but might 5 years in the future. Especially as there was no reasonable expectation that MS would discontinue support for the old licensing model in favor of the new subscription/money-gouging model.
It's simple - the recording industry only makes money because it controls distribution of music - you CAN'T get your CD into stores on any reasonable scale without a recording contract. You just can't. They provide alot of other services (publicity, promotion, etc) but all that can be gotten via an add agency without signing a recording contract, and they do have studios and such, but the low-and-getting-lower cost of digital equipment means that you can create a proffesional-sounding album in your basement for a reasonable cost. But they still control distribution! However, with the advent of p2p networks and broadband, theres a no-cost, no-barrier-to-entry way of distrubuting music. They're crapping their pants up there. They realize they can't control music anymore, and that means that their industry might go away. So they're trying thier damndest to hide in the sand and hope they can get these networks out of buissness. The fact that it's at least as likely that Napster HELPED album sales as hurt them isn't relevant, what they're scared of is the new paradigm of distribution by any old person without controls.
Sort of... it compiles to VB bytecode, not to machine language. VB.NET will compile to.NET bytecode. You still need an interperter to make it machine-executable (thats the "VB runtime library"). The fact that the interperter runs as a dll and acts on VB bytecode rather than being a seperate executable that parses text doesn't mean it's not interperted.
The article says it's part of win2k, but you COULD do it in hardware, storing the print in WORM memory, rather than writing it all into BIOS firmware. Of course, you'll need some sort of hardware level security as well, otherwise someone can just open up the case, take out the reader, and insert thier own....
It all depends on what you train yourself to. I spend alot (a LOT) of time typing, and not just code, but actual sentences and conversations and what not (mudder:P). I don't even think about the typing, to me having my fingers move to type what I want to say is as natural as actually saying it, sometimes even more so. And of course for technical documents, like code, or even for formatting, vorec just isn't as efficent - the work thats being done with optical icons (using laser optics to track what you're looking at) is alot more exciting, imo.
As for people having to learn to sign - people have to learn to type right now - read Tad Williams Otherland for an example of this kind of technology combined with VR.
In Judaism, masturbation, wet dreams, and lots of other stuff is considered unclean, as well as the farm animals. Incest, however, is just fine:) (well, not blood incest. But marrying your dead brothers wife.) </nitpick>
While I disagree with the specific ages for alot of age-restricted activities, I agree with the reasoning behind them - there has to be some sort of age limit on certain activities. You said some "discretion" - who's discretion? I agree, it's silly that you be illegal to do something one day and legal the next, but thats a neccesary silliness. Any reasonable DA won't prosecute a case like that anyway.
Now, as to how odd the ages we choose are... you can, (in CA) legally get married(with parent permission) before you can legally have sex (whether your parent agrees or not). You can be drafted before you can vote(this one really bothers me). You can't drink until AFTER you can vote! (If I'm capable of making political choices, I'm capable of making personal choices)
Since they mention that you might not support images, seems pretty clear that they're using the server-side tracking of page/image gets that people have been talking about. Therefore, this would also screw people using proxies or on ISPs that use them. Also, people who block adds for bandwidth reasons are up the creek, but you could still request the image and just have your content-manager stick those tags in.
One of the "free money" sites did exactly this - much more reasonable from them, of course, as they are basically giving away money. Monkeyloot.com or some such. You'd get 10 clicks to see if you won anything, then you'd get an add. Every 100 clicks or so, if you didn't click on any adds, they'd yell at you. Not deny you or anything, just yell at you.
Try pencil whipped.
Also, you could try some of the less-gothic UT maps - Galleon comes to mind, and the Assault map with the boat - especially in spectator mode.
You might want to take a minute or three and actually learn something about socialism and communism then, so you can actually talk about them like a normal person and not a McCarthy era lunatic. Oh, and the US is not a democracy and never was.
The EULA doesn't mention the WMA format anywhere. All it says is "Secure Content". The XP one specifically refers to third parties, so it's not just thier format. And we all know, from the DMCA, that ANYTHING can be considered "Secure Content" - even, with the right judge, MP3s.
I consistently get wanded and pattted down at airports - every time I've been in one for the last 2 years (about 8 times) for a variety of reasons - steel toed boots, forgetting I had spare boxcutter blades on me, and so on. Considering the quality of the search, I could EASILY have gotten a knife in on every occasion, and a gun on a couple - told the lady I had steel toe boots on, she wanded by boots, it beeped, and off I went. You're gonna get complacency with 1000 false matches a day (see my other post).
According the the JFK airport homepage, they flew about 34 million passengers this year. If the match rate is 99.99% (which is REALLY good, and I wonder if it could be that high taking into account things like false beards, etc.) thats still over 900 false matches/missed matches (don't really know what that accuracy rate measures) a DAY. And since traffic isn't spread out over a full 24 hours, most of those are gonna occur during a relatively small timeframe. It'd probably be cheaper to just high the extra, higher-trained, better paid security you're gonna need to deal with all those matches anyway.
Most major chains (you might have trouble at a mom & pop store, they run on a MUCH tighter budget, or at a small outlet store) you can get pretty much anything you want if you keep bitching long enough. I saw this happen many times during my short sojurn into the world of retail. Oddly, little old ladies are the worst about it. Punk teens in leather and chains are pretty easy going.
Which would make sense if they had any intention of reducing CD prices. As it is, pirating is a convenient excuse. I've not seen any real data on how Napster/etc has affected music industry sales, anyone have some?
Not quite true. If the record company tells you that you can't copy it for fair use, you can safely ignore them, because your right to fair use is protected. HOWEVER, there seems to be now law from them making it REALLY HARD to exercise your right to fair use. I'm not sure how the DMCA would apply here, since it does specifically authorize fair use, but I rather expect it'd be treated the same as DeCSS - the court will assume it's being used for pirating and shut it down.
Toyota has these obnoxious random Flash things on MP3.com, that just write over the web page. I actually thought the site had been hacked when I first ran into one...
When I'm hacking late at night and it's really cold, I stick my toes on the power supply for modem, and hang my legs over the my (open) case. Keeps me toasty.
The issue is not so much the logging and snooping of email and browsing habits, but doing so without informing your employees of it. The courts determing, iirc, that unless your employer makes a policy clear to you, you DO have a reasonable expectation of privacy. Some companies would rather snoop without telling, for whatever reason.
Mine, like many others, gave me a nice paper to sign when I started work that says that they retrain the right to monitor all my usgae of company assets, including email and internet access, and I had to sign it.
The whole police thing is a totally different issue - I'm not using a police workstation to browse the web.
Most probably, the computers not always in "voice activated" mode, only for for private areas such as the captains quarters. As for the escape character, I'd assume that "computer" is an escape character.
Although, I confess I would have liked to see something like Larry Nivens "Smoke Ring", where officers used "Prikyzvat"(sp?), which is apparently Russian for "Command" to activate and speak to the AI.
I for one would buy alot more CDs if they dropped the price a few bucks. Last I heard, there was a class action suit against the RIAA for price fixing on CDs, but no word if anything came of it...
Thats the most moronic, public-relations flack, stupidest thing I've ever heard. Encryption, at least until QUITE recently, was the (near) exclusive province of the military - Caesars famous use of ROT-13 was for military ciphers - and the internet was originally developed for military purposes. If nobody on the Joint Chiefs ever had the great idea of sending attack orders across the internet, I'll eat my shorts
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I'd be really impressed if a company accuratley predicted the number of NT client licences it needed 5 years in advance, and was willing to cough up cash for licences it didn't need then but might 5 years in the future. Especially as there was no reasonable expectation that MS would discontinue support for the old licensing model in favor of the new subscription/money-gouging model.
It's simple - the recording industry only makes money because it controls distribution of music - you CAN'T get your CD into stores on any reasonable scale without a recording contract. You just can't. They provide alot of other services (publicity, promotion, etc) but all that can be gotten via an add agency without signing a recording contract, and they do have studios and such, but the low-and-getting-lower cost of digital equipment means that you can create a proffesional-sounding album in your basement for a reasonable cost. But they still control distribution! However, with the advent of p2p networks and broadband, theres a no-cost, no-barrier-to-entry way of distrubuting music. They're crapping their pants up there. They realize they can't control music anymore, and that means that their industry might go away. So they're trying thier damndest to hide in the sand and hope they can get these networks out of buissness. The fact that it's at least as likely that Napster HELPED album sales as hurt them isn't relevant, what they're scared of is the new paradigm of distribution by any old person without controls.
Sort of... it compiles to VB bytecode, not to machine language. VB.NET will compile to .NET bytecode. You still need an interperter to make it machine-executable (thats the "VB runtime library"). The fact that the interperter runs as a dll and acts on VB bytecode rather than being a seperate executable that parses text doesn't mean it's not interperted.
The article says it's part of win2k, but you COULD do it in hardware, storing the print in WORM memory, rather than writing it all into BIOS firmware. Of course, you'll need some sort of hardware level security as well, otherwise someone can just open up the case, take out the reader, and insert thier own....
It all depends on what you train yourself to. I spend alot (a LOT) of time typing, and not just code, but actual sentences and conversations and what not (mudder :P). I don't even think about the typing, to me having my fingers move to type what I want to say is as natural as actually saying it, sometimes even more so. And of course for technical documents, like code, or even for formatting, vorec just isn't as efficent - the work thats being done with optical icons (using laser optics to track what you're looking at) is alot more exciting, imo.
As for people having to learn to sign - people have to learn to type right now - read Tad Williams Otherland for an example of this kind of technology combined with VR.
In Judaism, masturbation, wet dreams, and lots of other stuff is considered unclean, as well as the farm animals. Incest, however, is just fine :) (well, not blood incest. But marrying your dead brothers wife.) </nitpick>
While I disagree with the specific ages for alot of age-restricted activities, I agree with the reasoning behind them - there has to be some sort of age limit on certain activities. You said some "discretion" - who's discretion? I agree, it's silly that you be illegal to do something one day and legal the next, but thats a neccesary silliness. Any reasonable DA won't prosecute a case like that anyway. Now, as to how odd the ages we choose are... you can, (in CA) legally get married(with parent permission) before you can legally have sex (whether your parent agrees or not). You can be drafted before you can vote(this one really bothers me). You can't drink until AFTER you can vote! (If I'm capable of making political choices, I'm capable of making personal choices)
I know it's expensive when you're used to free as in beer, but 60 bucks a seat is a pretty cheap license :P
Since they mention that you might not support images, seems pretty clear that they're using the server-side tracking of page/image gets that people have been talking about. Therefore, this would also screw people using proxies or on ISPs that use them. Also, people who block adds for bandwidth reasons are up the creek, but you could still request the image and just have your content-manager stick those tags in.
One of the "free money" sites did exactly this - much more reasonable from them, of course, as they are basically giving away money. Monkeyloot.com or some such. You'd get 10 clicks to see if you won anything, then you'd get an add. Every 100 clicks or so, if you didn't click on any adds, they'd yell at you. Not deny you or anything, just yell at you.
Try pencil whipped. Also, you could try some of the less-gothic UT maps - Galleon comes to mind, and the Assault map with the boat - especially in spectator mode.
You might want to take a minute or three and actually learn something about socialism and communism then, so you can actually talk about them like a normal person and not a McCarthy era lunatic. Oh, and the US is not a democracy and never was.
The EULA doesn't mention the WMA format anywhere. All it says is "Secure Content". The XP one specifically refers to third parties, so it's not just thier format. And we all know, from the DMCA, that ANYTHING can be considered "Secure Content" - even, with the right judge, MP3s.
If you read your EULA carefully, MS can deny you support, cause your hard drive to wipe, and then give you 5 bucks for your efforts.
I consistently get wanded and pattted down at airports - every time I've been in one for the last 2 years (about 8 times) for a variety of reasons - steel toed boots, forgetting I had spare boxcutter blades on me, and so on. Considering the quality of the search, I could EASILY have gotten a knife in on every occasion, and a gun on a couple - told the lady I had steel toe boots on, she wanded by boots, it beeped, and off I went. You're gonna get complacency with 1000 false matches a day (see my other post).
According the the JFK airport homepage, they flew about 34 million passengers this year. If the match rate is 99.99% (which is REALLY good, and I wonder if it could be that high taking into account things like false beards, etc.) thats still over 900 false matches/missed matches (don't really know what that accuracy rate measures) a DAY. And since traffic isn't spread out over a full 24 hours, most of those are gonna occur during a relatively small timeframe. It'd probably be cheaper to just high the extra, higher-trained, better paid security you're gonna need to deal with all those matches anyway.
Most major chains (you might have trouble at a mom & pop store, they run on a MUCH tighter budget, or at a small outlet store) you can get pretty much anything you want if you keep bitching long enough. I saw this happen many times during my short sojurn into the world of retail. Oddly, little old ladies are the worst about it. Punk teens in leather and chains are pretty easy going.
Which would make sense if they had any intention of reducing CD prices. As it is, pirating is a convenient excuse. I've not seen any real data on how Napster/etc has affected music industry sales, anyone have some?
Not quite true. If the record company tells you that you can't copy it for fair use, you can safely ignore them, because your right to fair use is protected. HOWEVER, there seems to be now law from them making it REALLY HARD to exercise your right to fair use. I'm not sure how the DMCA would apply here, since it does specifically authorize fair use, but I rather expect it'd be treated the same as DeCSS - the court will assume it's being used for pirating and shut it down.
Toyota has these obnoxious random Flash things on MP3.com, that just write over the web page. I actually thought the site had been hacked when I first ran into one...
When I'm hacking late at night and it's really cold, I stick my toes on the power supply for modem, and hang my legs over the my (open) case. Keeps me toasty.
The issue is not so much the logging and snooping of email and browsing habits, but doing so without informing your employees of it. The courts determing, iirc, that unless your employer makes a policy clear to you, you DO have a reasonable expectation of privacy. Some companies would rather snoop without telling, for whatever reason. Mine, like many others, gave me a nice paper to sign when I started work that says that they retrain the right to monitor all my usgae of company assets, including email and internet access, and I had to sign it. The whole police thing is a totally different issue - I'm not using a police workstation to browse the web.
Most probably, the computers not always in "voice activated" mode, only for for private areas such as the captains quarters. As for the escape character, I'd assume that "computer" is an escape character. Although, I confess I would have liked to see something like Larry Nivens "Smoke Ring", where officers used "Prikyzvat"(sp?), which is apparently Russian for "Command" to activate and speak to the AI.
I for one would buy alot more CDs if they dropped the price a few bucks. Last I heard, there was a class action suit against the RIAA for price fixing on CDs, but no word if anything came of it...
Thats the most moronic, public-relations flack, stupidest thing I've ever heard. Encryption, at least until QUITE recently, was the (near) exclusive province of the military - Caesars famous use of ROT-13 was for military ciphers - and the internet was originally developed for military purposes. If nobody on the Joint Chiefs ever had the great idea of sending attack orders across the internet, I'll eat my shorts