i doesn't matter if you've found a flaw in his logic. his article still is reasonable. it's talking more about general legal implications and how the consumer can or should respond. this doesn't necessarily have to do with "locked down" versus not.
"Here are a couple of proposals that I'd consider more realistic. Both of these really do involve voting with your wallet. (1) If there are no options that avoid DRM and lockdowns, don't buy. This is my current attitude about the Kindle and iPod. I'll buy one when there is a non-DRM'd library of books available for it that is roughly the same size as Amazon's current catalog. (2) Buy the lesser of two evils. E.g., I believe Android is significantly less locked down than iPhone, so if I were choosing between the two, I'd buy an Android. "
sounds good. i'd go further and only buy it, if there are proper import and export functions in an open format (pdf, txt, etc).
But what about the variation in sound quality? Can't the ear distinguish between quickly shifting bit-rates? In other words, doesn't the CBR sound "smoother"?
increase* latency ofc. that and once you're part of a botnet u wanne wipe ur machine clean with a reinstall. or else the malware will just spread on further.
the problem is, that the 10% of features varies from one user to the next, so much, that essentially it's necessary to add them, sooner or later to the core OS. look at linux: there's many utilities, that developers rely on (and as a result end users), it's just more modular there.
the faa process is impressive.. i took a look at their "nas system engineering manual". what kind of systems require level A certification? that sounds like a huge endeavor..
except he's talking about modern technology, and i think voltaire is generalizing about everything.. i wouldn't even agree to voltairs statement, since perfection is achievable.
amen. an end user shouldn't be required to pop into a bash shell and edit text files, setup commands with various command line arguments, then read through man pages and have to deal with things like: killing processes, dealing with access to hardwire in/dev/, etc. os x, windows, and even freebsd are easier to configure in regard to this. for example in "os x": lets say i get internet access over ethernet and want to share it over wireless. the gui makes this easy, to let the user share this connection in ad hoc mode over wireless with encryption. how would i do this in linux? either setup a bridge or use nat with iptables. for a techie this might not be too difficult, but for others impossible. but then u've got to setup a dhcp server too and know how to configure this, and have a decent understanding in networking (routing, subnets), and you've got to play with the firewall to let ports open. its hard for linux in this regard, since its a problem of unifying the various desktop environments (LSB), and the question: what do u do, when a certain driver, which doesnt support all the features of the hardware (like: ad hoc master mode in wireless)?
speaking of free software: for debian there's a little tool that checks your locally installed packages, and reports how much % of them are 100% free software, written by i think RMS himself?
sounds impressive =) "Tilera claims that the Tile64 outperforms Intel's dual-core Xeon processor by a factor of 10, while offering 30 times better performance per Watt." and "The Tile64 is available now, in three variants differentiated by I/O mix and clock. Pricing starts at $435 in 10,000 quantities". where can i buy this?
Shame on them ISPs. Makes me wanna signup to proxify, so that I can opt out of the ridiculous eavesdropping that's taking place.
incase consumers don't know, here are some tools to protect yourself:
Scroogle with HTTPS, -> i use this as my primary interface for searching on google, since your search queries reveal alot of personal information and gets used for marketing purposes.:(
Tor Anonymity Network, with Firefox plugin to quickly enable/disable anonymous browsing.
Proxify with HTTPS, although for advanced stuff they want you to signup to their service:(
Last but not least: GnuPG, for encrypting your private data.
rant:
yep. in my university only the self tought programmers get further. the teachers (in my uni of course) nowadays just give an overview of topic X, without going into any detail (most the stuff you can read from wikipedia what they teach).
for example: nobody in my class knew what a function pointer in C is, all they got was primitive assignements.
to get into real programming, you teach it yourself and look elsewhere (think challenging programming assignments, like SICP thought at MiT).
there should ideally be a p2p network, that connects to proxies outside of china to forward http connections. users can anonymously connect via an encrypted connection (so content filters can't read data) to this network. problem: how to find multiple high bandwidth proxies outside of china, who won't get detected?
from the licence:
"e. "Excluded Products" are software products or components, or web-based or hosted services that perform primarily the same general functions as the Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Access software applications, and that are created or marketed as a replacement for any or all of those Microsoft applications."
i'm not sure if openoffice was created or marketed as a replacement to ms office. from their mission statement: "To create, as a community, the leading international office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format."
sure you can start out with a pair of shure e2 inear-monitors. they will cancel out alot of background noise.
however i find them to be uncomfortable. i certainly wouldn't want them all day in my ears, as they produce some pressure in the ear canal, similar to regular ear plugs (ohropax). YMMV
as a musician playing in a loud band, i've recently read alot about the topic. and sofar the most comfortable solutions seems to be, to go to an ear doctor and get a custom ear print. then get a silicon tip, for example the elacin ER 15, or ER 25, which effectively blocks 25db of sound. the advantage is a comfortable fit to the ears, and you can change out the filters for more or less dampening. however they aren't cheap (160-220 euros in my area).
another advantage is that you can later add an inear-monitor for listening to music. you simply add the inear-plugs on top of the elacin silicon. in effect: comfortable linear noise blocking + music. (make sure the inear-monitor is compatible with the elacin (eg: voicetronic vt-03) and some prefer the larger "conche"-elacin silicon for a tighter fit.)
the article was overall an interesting read. it points out the importance that new multicore-CPUs will bring to application developers, and their threading implications. made me get interested in threading issues with cores, and how they have chosen a Hybrid Threading direction. also, notice the focus on improved AI and realism this brings to games. i see here a shift from gpu based rendering, to more cpu based rendering with improved AI and particle systems (see the rain video in the article).
agreed. firefox is so slow. i don't know if it's all the extensions i used, or bad management of cache/cookies/bookmarks/history.
opera, on the other hand can properly zoom images, has full screen mode, proper "page cache", so hitting the back button immediately displays the previous page, unlike firefox. i also prefer the download manager.
i have however noticed a crash when loading a java applet (max os x here). also, sadly, opera isn't open source. i've tried sending bug reports to them, but there is no bugzilla or any way to fix it yourself. also i miss some extensions like adblock and for some web development (firebug!).
so for casual browsing i use opera, and all other cases firefox.
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i doesn't matter if you've found a flaw in his logic. his article still is reasonable. it's talking more about general legal implications and how the consumer can or should respond. this doesn't necessarily have to do with "locked down" versus not.
"Here are a couple of proposals that I'd consider more realistic. Both of these really do involve voting with your wallet. (1) If there are no options that avoid DRM and lockdowns, don't buy. This is my current attitude about the Kindle and iPod. I'll buy one when there is a non-DRM'd library of books available for it that is roughly the same size as Amazon's current catalog. (2) Buy the lesser of two evils. E.g., I believe Android is significantly less locked down than iPhone, so if I were choosing between the two, I'd buy an Android. "
sounds good. i'd go further and only buy it, if there are proper import and export functions in an open format (pdf, txt, etc).
But what about the variation in sound quality? Can't the ear distinguish between quickly shifting bit-rates?
In other words, doesn't the CBR sound "smoother"?
increase* latency ofc. that and once you're part of a botnet u wanne wipe ur machine clean with a reinstall. or else the malware will just spread on further.
nowadays bot net controllers are hard to track, since they use peer to peer methods and hierachies. going through a proxy will lower latency :s
the problem is, that the 10% of features varies from one user to the next, so much, that essentially it's necessary to add them, sooner or later to the core OS. look at linux: there's many utilities, that developers rely on (and as a result end users), it's just more modular there.
as of this version, windows nt 4 will no longer be supported :-(
the faa process is impressive.. i took a look at their "nas system engineering manual". what kind of systems require level A certification? that sounds like a huge endeavor..
except he's talking about modern technology, and i think voltaire is generalizing about everything..
i wouldn't even agree to voltairs statement, since perfection is achievable.
A guy wrote an article just on this in the IEEE Software magazine. Looking at the graph, roughly 10% of the source code is white space and 22% are comments. See http://elis.share.googlepages.com/IEEE.Software.M.Vol.25.No.4.torrent
amen. an end user shouldn't be required to pop into a bash shell and edit text files, setup commands with various command line arguments, then read through man pages and have to deal with things like: killing processes, dealing with access to hardwire in /dev/, etc.
os x, windows, and even freebsd are easier to configure in regard to this. for example in "os x": lets say i get internet access over ethernet and want to share it over wireless. the gui makes this easy, to let the user share this connection in ad hoc mode over wireless with encryption. how would i do this in linux? either setup a bridge or use nat with iptables. for a techie this might not be too difficult, but for others impossible. but then u've got to setup a dhcp server too and know how to configure this, and have a decent understanding in networking (routing, subnets), and you've got to play with the firewall to let ports open.
its hard for linux in this regard, since its a problem of unifying the various desktop environments (LSB), and the question: what do u do, when a certain driver, which doesnt support all the features of the hardware (like: ad hoc master mode in wireless)?
speaking of free software: for debian there's a little tool that checks your locally installed packages, and reports how much % of them are 100% free software, written by i think RMS himself?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrms
sudo aptitude install vrms
sounds impressive =) "Tilera claims that the Tile64 outperforms Intel's dual-core Xeon processor by a factor of 10, while offering 30 times better performance per Watt." and "The Tile64 is available now, in three variants differentiated by I/O mix and clock. Pricing starts at $435 in 10,000 quantities".
where can i buy this?
Shame on them ISPs. Makes me wanna signup to proxify, so that I can opt out of the ridiculous eavesdropping that's taking place. incase consumers don't know, here are some tools to protect yourself:
Scroogle with HTTPS, -> i use this as my primary interface for searching on google, since your search queries reveal alot of personal information and gets used for marketing purposes.
Tor Anonymity Network, with Firefox plugin to quickly enable/disable anonymous browsing.
Proxify with HTTPS, although for advanced stuff they want you to signup to their service :(
Last but not least: GnuPG, for encrypting your private data.
rant: yep. in my university only the self tought programmers get further. the teachers (in my uni of course) nowadays just give an overview of topic X, without going into any detail (most the stuff you can read from wikipedia what they teach). for example: nobody in my class knew what a function pointer in C is, all they got was primitive assignements. to get into real programming, you teach it yourself and look elsewhere (think challenging programming assignments, like SICP thought at MiT).
there should ideally be a p2p network, that connects to proxies outside of china to forward http connections. users can anonymously connect via an encrypted connection (so content filters can't read data) to this network. problem: how to find multiple high bandwidth proxies outside of china, who won't get detected?
1.wikipedia
2.bittorrent
3.sshd
4.apache
5.firefox
6.del.icio.us
7.html
8.subspace/continuum
9.nat
10.netcat
(worst: dhcp)
yea good point. journalists: please cut down on the attention seeking drama titles!
from the licence:
"e. "Excluded Products" are software products or components, or web-based or hosted services that perform primarily the same general functions as the Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Access software applications, and that are created or marketed as a replacement for any or all of those Microsoft applications."
i'm not sure if openoffice was created or marketed as a replacement to ms office. from their mission statement: "To create, as a community, the leading international office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format."
applets, modified for fullscreen w/ an easier alternative to swing.
i was watching those auctions, and one PS3 just sold for $15099, wow!
sure you can start out with a pair of shure e2 inear-monitors. they will cancel out alot of background noise. however i find them to be uncomfortable. i certainly wouldn't want them all day in my ears, as they produce some pressure in the ear canal, similar to regular ear plugs (ohropax). YMMV
as a musician playing in a loud band, i've recently read alot about the topic. and sofar the most comfortable solutions seems to be, to go to an ear doctor and get a custom ear print. then get a silicon tip, for example the elacin ER 15, or ER 25, which effectively blocks 25db of sound. the advantage is a comfortable fit to the ears, and you can change out the filters for more or less dampening. however they aren't cheap (160-220 euros in my area).
another advantage is that you can later add an inear-monitor for listening to music. you simply add the inear-plugs on top of the elacin silicon. in effect: comfortable linear noise blocking + music. (make sure the inear-monitor is compatible with the elacin (eg: voicetronic vt-03) and some prefer the larger "conche"-elacin silicon for a tighter fit.)
the article was overall an interesting read. it points out the importance that new multicore-CPUs will bring to application developers, and their threading implications.
made me get interested in threading issues with cores, and how they have chosen a Hybrid Threading direction.
also, notice the focus on improved AI and realism this brings to games. i see here a shift from gpu based rendering, to more cpu based rendering with improved AI and particle systems (see the rain video in the article).
agreed. firefox is so slow. i don't know if it's all the extensions i used, or bad management of cache/cookies/bookmarks/history. opera, on the other hand can properly zoom images, has full screen mode, proper "page cache", so hitting the back button immediately displays the previous page, unlike firefox. i also prefer the download manager. i have however noticed a crash when loading a java applet (max os x here). also, sadly, opera isn't open source. i've tried sending bug reports to them, but there is no bugzilla or any way to fix it yourself. also i miss some extensions like adblock and for some web development (firebug!). so for casual browsing i use opera, and all other cases firefox.
since when in computing has there been an upper limit to resources?