This is a pet peeve of mine. Some ISPs claim to offer unlimited bandwidth. Since "bandwidth" typically means the maximum data transferrate, this is impossible. ISPs who claim to have "unlimited bandwidth" plans actually mean "unlimited data transfer" (and this typically isn't accurate, either).
I don't understand why the marketdroids can't just call it "more data transfer per month than most people need".
So, at least in that statement, he wasn't lying. Splitting hairs yes, lying no.
This is a weak argument. I don't care what words he used. He communicated untrue information, therefore, he lied.
However, since his sex life had nothing to do with his job as President, I think he's entitled to lie about it, because IMHO the question should not have been asked.
Perhaps the point of this spec is not to prevent that, but to give people what they really want in the first place: an convenient way to pay for information.
Not to mention that we also pulled the plug on developing a W2K-based webserver clustering setup, after several months of development, because it turned out to be much less reliable than running people's websites on a single W2K box, and just rebooting every so often.
No, I'm not thinking about WinXP. I'm talking about Windows 2000, which is all I worked with when I worked at a Windows web hosting company. The problem occurred running IIS with customer-supplied libraries. Eventually, both core IIS functions stopped working correctly, and our own internal maintenance scripts would stop working correctly. Rebooting usually fixed the problems.
...or Gava Desktop. Once this happens, a competing Kava Desktop will be released which has a better UI, but which requires you to write code in C++ instead of Java.
That depends on what you mean by "Vorbis". IIRC, the Vorbis spec (and thus, all compliant decoders) supports wavelet encoding. However, oggenc doesn't encode using wavelets yet, so users won't see the benefits of wavelet encoding quite yet.
The reason I mention this is that if you buy one of these Vorbis-capable devices now you should (theoretically) be able to reap the benefits of Vorbis files which use wavelet encoding, as soon as people start making them.
Our head of department once gave me a lecture over playing Flash games online cos they "could be virus-infected". If there's a way that this is possible, someone please tell me.
As someone else pointed out, tou could have a vulnerability in the Flash player.
However, my attitude toward running a Windows environment is that it (Windows) really can't be relied upon to be secure, stable, or virus free, so you pretty much have to use disk-imaging software like Norton Ghost regularly anyway. In other words, my answer to "what if it has a virus?" is:
"So what?" Any Windows-based network architecture which is fatally vulnerable to virus infection is inherently flawed and should be replaced as soon as possible.
I'm likely to talk about the Amiga in a bitter fashion, since I'm very bitter about Commodore, and a few other unrelated things going on in my life at the time. I actually swore off computers for 7 years and went and got a life.
I'm really surprised this hasn't been patented. After all, it's a novel idea, and it would be extremely difficult to find any prior art. Hell, I'm sure you could make all the usual arguments for software patents for this concept.
You can only get infected if you happen to plug your computer on a LOCAL AREA NETWORK with one or more "evil hosts", that could subsequently try to own you. But think, my friend, think hard: WHAT ARE THE FUCKING ODDS of this happening?
Plug your Mac laptop into a public or semi-public network (like at a university, for example), and the odds skyrocket.
But isn't selling a computer you own (with all associated software, regardless of copyright licence) considered to be the the same as selling a book you own? I would think you could sell a computer and its hard drive's contents as-is without copyright law even applying.
Would you even need to go so far? The GPL states, "The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for
making modifications to it." I really doubt a print-out would qualify, even if it was machine-readable to some extent.
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I don't understand why the marketdroids can't just call it "more data transfer per month than most people need".
"'This comment is a dupe.' is a dupe." is not a dupe.
This is a weak argument. I don't care what words he used. He communicated untrue information, therefore, he lied.
However, since his sex life had nothing to do with his job as President, I think he's entitled to lie about it, because IMHO the question should not have been asked.
How much video memory is on your video card?
Perhaps the point of this spec is not to prevent that, but to give people what they really want in the first place: an convenient way to pay for information.
Not to mention that we also pulled the plug on developing a W2K-based webserver clustering setup, after several months of development, because it turned out to be much less reliable than running people's websites on a single W2K box, and just rebooting every so often.
No, I'm not thinking about WinXP. I'm talking about Windows 2000, which is all I worked with when I worked at a Windows web hosting company. The problem occurred running IIS with customer-supplied libraries. Eventually, both core IIS functions stopped working correctly, and our own internal maintenance scripts would stop working correctly. Rebooting usually fixed the problems.
I happen to like the analogy. Ever tried to do anything useful with a big rock?
Win2k typically doesn't crash outright. It just starts doing weird things and rebooting fixes it.
...or Gava Desktop. Once this happens, a competing Kava Desktop will be released which has a better UI, but which requires you to write code in C++ instead of Java.
The authors of Microsoft-product-exploiting worms might have more computing resources available than any government by now.
primability test, eh? Is that like a probabilistic algorithm for testing primaility?
1KB = 2^10bytes namely 1024...
1MB=2^20 and so on....
Nope. Not since 1998.
That depends on what you mean by "Vorbis". IIRC, the Vorbis spec (and thus, all compliant decoders) supports wavelet encoding. However, oggenc doesn't encode using wavelets yet, so users won't see the benefits of wavelet encoding quite yet.
The reason I mention this is that if you buy one of these Vorbis-capable devices now you should (theoretically) be able to reap the benefits of Vorbis files which use wavelet encoding, as soon as people start making them.
As someone else pointed out, tou could have a vulnerability in the Flash player.
However, my attitude toward running a Windows environment is that it (Windows) really can't be relied upon to be secure, stable, or virus free, so you pretty much have to use disk-imaging software like Norton Ghost regularly anyway. In other words, my answer to "what if it has a virus?" is:
"So what?" Any Windows-based network architecture which is fatally vulnerable to virus infection is inherently flawed and should be replaced as soon as possible.
You didn't miss much...
It's (arguably) liberal to have parents who are not responsible for their children.
I love the US patent system.
Plug your Mac laptop into a public or semi-public network (like at a university, for example), and the odds skyrocket.
That's a "straw man" argument. Red Hat Linux is not exactly the most well-designed distro out there.
But isn't selling a computer you own (with all associated software, regardless of copyright licence) considered to be the the same as selling a book you own? I would think you could sell a computer and its hard drive's contents as-is without copyright law even applying.
Would you even need to go so far? The GPL states, "The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it." I really doubt a print-out would qualify, even if it was machine-readable to some extent.
False, I think. Mainly because UTC is based on atomic time, and GMT was not (GMT officially no longer exists).
Wikipedia has a decent explanation of the different time scales
Patents are monopolies on ideas. Copyrights are monopolies on information (data).