Xbox is probably containing the exact same technology as Palladium and this is testing ground for the PC version. Thus its of vital importance for MS to show that its unhackable to keep support from music/movie industry on palladium.
If it shows that Palladium is just another dongle and fail as DRM its going to dissapear.
Since Linux and open source in general is a grounds up movement its hard to fight for Microsoft. They target the big players instead. When the snowball starts and some big agency adopts linux and it falls out well there will be no way in h'll to stop it. Microsoft needs to fight general adoption of linux. The day linux get widespread is the day when all the other players curently developing for windows only will throw an eye onto linux too.
One thing i have hard to understand is how they can prise interoperability on one hand and not demand open standards at the same time.
I too have a hard time realizing that most people have already forgot how networks was in the 60-80'ies. To be tied into any vendor is a bad thing longterm because when other companies builds new great products you cant get them because your current tech isnt compatible with anything but themselves.
Even if im against censor this isnt really censorship. You can choose if you want your kids to see blood squirting 3 feet or if you want them to just see a movie without gore that (mostly) hasnt any real connection to the story. I can also see a great demand for this among people from religions where nekkidness is something dirty.
Many religions and groups have stayed where we wore some 50 years ago when it comes to violence and sex. What says that we are right and they are wrong?
Just as i dont want anyone to force censor upon me i dont want anybody to be forced to watch things thy dont want to see.
Most people cant afford a 40" widescreen TV. To draw use of HDTV you need a big telly or you wont notice much difference from 3 meters away. Big televisions are expensive and hasnt really taken off except at stuff crazy youngsters and cinefanatics.
Most content is of pretty poor quality on most channels (many not even stereo). To expect that everyone owning a television should run out in a buying frenzy just to get sharper picture on otherwise pretty fscked up content (jeopardy in HDTV?) are just plain stupid. It is a dream conceived by manufacturers and Hollywood over a bong the size of Wembley Bowl.
What eludes atleast me is what are the benefits for the comsumer?
I can see better sound and picture being good while you watch movies but most people just watch shows and where are the benefit there?
3D Tv would be another thing but just slightly better sound and picture doesnt really cut it for the big masses.
Sure they are a pain in the ass to calculate and not many is up to the task but built right it hurts to listen to them. The punch you get out of a quarts wave pipes (simplest horns) is pretty amazing.
I think the reason hornes arent that popular is that they are hard to calculate and very difficult to build. Take the time and you have a speaker that blows most others away.
My first speaker was a smack horn. The effiency of a horn is much higher than a closed or ported speaker. I got 104 Db at 1 Watt at 1 meter when a normal speaker only makes about 90 Db. Since Decibel is not linear thats a very big difference. Need i to say that it was well worth the hassle? My old Marantz tuner could play the pants of off any mates systems even if it only had 100 Watt output because of the high efficiency of the speakers.
To build a complicated case is more expensive for a speaker manufacturer than to put in a speaker element that handles higher power. For your amplifier its better to have a nicer load.
Novell has other fetures i like more. The ability to install an application on ONE desktop and then load all register keys onto any computer with windows that uses that program when it loads is a pretty good feture. You install an application once and it then works without hassle on all other machines.
NDS is pretty souped up too and makes AD and LPAD look silly in comparison. It can handle silly amounts of objects in the tree without crumbling. Its enough to drive a whole e-commerse site on.
NDS exists for linux too so interoperability is not an issue. A client for linux would be just what linux needs. My dream network would be Netware on linux and linux clients. A better network to administer cant exist.
The companies that hoose novell and installs AD is in for a bigtime dissapointment because of the extreme lack of fetures in windows like filesystem limitations etc.
Languages evolves and nothing we do can change that. Look at the difference between UK english and American english. Compared to eachother UK english seems very uptight and American english as childish school yard slang.
Let the languages evolve, its perfectly normal and nothing that will end the world. My native language, swedish, has evolved so much in the last 200 years that old written swedish is hardly readable today. Since communication is so much faster today its inevitable that the evolution in the language goes much faster too. What in those days took 200 years may now take a mere 20 years.
""There was a story last year that mentioned Microsoft was working on Win-WiFi - 802.11b hardware that exported some of the processing to the CPU in much the same manner as a winmodem, and thus was cheaper to produce.""
To make use of a modern CPU on a desktop is really hard unless you compile or game. An even slower windows would be hard to do without deliberatly toss in loops into it. Intel and Microsoft lives on the upgradecycle and without it they would both be much smaller since you wouldnt buy a new computer every year, just new software like games etc. Right now i cant think of a single application that i use that can take advantage of my current 650 Mhz even. When i compile something bigger i do it over night.
The only application that demands something faster than todays 2 Ghz is poorly written games. My solution would be to write them better but some people tends to think throwing more hardware on fautly code is an excellent solution.
Microsoft needs to use all the cpu cycles it can and still perform good in benchmarks. This way of loading the processor with other tasks better done in hardware than in software fits their and Intel perfectly. Intel needs somthing that demands faster CPUs and Microsoft need new hardware that ships with their OS.
How can it be theft? If i toss my copies of my secret papers of off a tall building i cant really blame the pople below for spying if they read them. likewise i cant really blame someone if they snoop on my poorly configured wireless network.
That aside i arent that impressed of wireless networks inside offices. Wireless is maybe god where people move around all the time but in an office people tends to work at the same place. It has its place but today everybody and his mother is installing it without thinking about pros and cons even a single second.
Well in my imagination the monsters was soo much better rendered and the elfes was prettier ond so on bla bla bla. Do you see what i meant? You cant transfer peoples imagination to a screen. Books leaves for your own imagination to fill the blanks and thats why what i read can never be put on film. My interpretion of a book doesnt match any others.
I didnt say the movie was bad in any way i just meant that the books in my opinion was so much better. They are true masterpieces and even a half assed movie out of those books is a movie much better than 99% of every film made.
LOTR is one of the best movies i ever have seen. The books is much better. But thats just my opinion. Douglas Adams is ahole other story, where do you find anyone in hollywood with humor? Bill and Teds producer?
Maybe the US should spend some amount of efforts in being good world citizens and stop meddling about just to get cheap oil? The US have also been very efficient in alienating countries on account of other partner countries they like to protect.
If there are threats against the US its not only because muslims and other non wealthy countries are evil by nature. Something has brought them to this conclusion and its not just the koran or lack of money that is to blame here.
The US is working hard to have a reason to fight Iraq when most other countries dont want war in that region.
I would build an army of fluffy penguins on the redmond lawn infront of the main entrance. Just to see the reaction on the PHB's when they get to work. Maybe with some nice voice abilitys too and make them chant
If the averege user is ever gonna use Linux it has to be a distribution out there for the newbie. If they use it and later feel the would like something harder/more configurable there are dozens of very good distros to try later on. As a beginners dist i think Xandros seems pretty good and it might even work handy dandy for regular users too.
No matter what we personally think about these distros they have a huge benefit for us who are a bit more advanced in linux. Something that many übernerds tend to forget is that with comercialism we also get some benefits as a spinoff.
A bigger userbase gives us better drivers, more comercial apps and overall better support for linux and i cant imagine that being bad. If they fsck up then adios amigos with them and we pick something else to use.
The diversity of linux is what makes it great and thats something we really should hold precious. Not to the expence of compability. Stick to the LSB and we should be just fine even with thousands of different distributions.
Douglas Adams books is among the most screwed up books ive ever read in my life and i read quite a lot of books. The language and the totally cranked up fantasy of the books makes it pretty hard to make a movie that makes them justice. For us that has read them its almost bound to be ugly since we all have our own picture of how a vogon looks etc.
LOTR was in my opinion pretty good but it didnt do the books justice. To make good books into a good movie is almost impossible because the different ways the work. A good book can be almost without visual references but you yourself fills the blanks with whatever suits you. A movie serves everything on a dish and can if it dont match your imagination dissapoint very much.
Hollywood havent been that good at sticking to whatever the book is but rather what the big star and the producer want to see in the movie. I suspect that this movie will be like most other hollywood movies. A frency in effects and not much work on the real script. Its almost like the scripts is worked out around the FX and not the other way.
Give the script to the same guys that made LOTR and maybe it rocks but hollywood? The same guys that gave us Roxanne?
While i can admit that the package manager is too complicated for the averege user it reflects something vital. Versioning and installing of programs in linux needs a standard that makes it esier to install applications. I have no problems whatsoever but i can imagine how frustrated a newbie could get. It should be possible to change the versioning system to someting more coherent and easier. If you polish todays system it wont help the underlying problems of dependencies and versioning. automatic download of depending packages solves the problem but in a very advanced way. There must be a simpler way to fix this. Small programs should be compiled statically since an increse of a couple of megs is well worth not having to grind your teeth over missing packages.
I was more tinking about the movie/music industry. They had a golden chance to use the internet in about 5 years ago but instead they just sat on their tush. Actually when you think about it what industry has been leading in delivering movie and other content over the net until today?
The porn industry, thats where the development lies today and its kind of sad really.
So the porn industry is the only content makers who are bold enough to venture and do something new? That figures, when porn studios have higher moral than the music industry we are really down the drain. I mean, its not like the music industry has done anything to use the internet. They have been to obsessed with keeping there old revenue model to make up something new and fresh.
Intel has pushed numerus innovations out the door before and only to be forced to take them off the market by Microsoft. This gadget will collide with microsofts dream of being in everybodys home. It will dissapear soon believe me. The biggest thing Microsoft destroyed from Intel was their effort on building an platform ontop of their processors that would enable crossplatform applications between all sorts of processors. Like JAVA but on hardware level and thus extremely faster. MS stopped it cold by threeting to not support intel in windows.
Think of the hardware we could have had if Intel had been able to drop x86 10 years ago?
We have a radioshow here in sweden that plays only this kind of music. I listen to it every time and now with this avaliable i can totally scrap my mp3 collection of Britney Spears!
If the users dont want palladium it wont fly. No company selling stuff will force people into something they dont want if it makes the numbers look bad. How many will toss their old PC to buy a brand new that cant do the same things as their old one? If there are enough restrain against it initially it wont ever fly. I think the demand for non palladium processors would be enough to support a manufacturer in taiwan or whatever to make these and market them.
Either way information to common users is the key and if we could get backing from major privacy organisations it would help.
I dont find the installation of drivers and apps painful. One must remember that until recently linux have been developed by nerds for nerds. For me that are pretty darn good at the inner workings of an x86 its clear ass glass.
The commynity didnt sat down and thought:
"Hey! Ill build a desktop OS so that stupid Joe User that doesnt bother to read the manual enough even to set the time on his VCR can use it!"
I would think that most developers made something they wanted to use and not something dumbed down and stupified. That work has just begun and i do think it will pickup speed soon. Gnome2 is in my opinion really easy to setup and use. Rpm can be made even esier by using a GUI RPM installer that downloads missing libs from the net by automagic. RedCarpet almost does that now.
Linux will be even esier to use and that is probably inevitable with the growing interest to use it on corporate desktops and as a way to cut prices on desktops in general.
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Xbox is probably containing the exact same technology as Palladium and this is testing ground for the PC version. Thus its of vital importance for MS to show that its unhackable to keep support from music/movie industry on palladium.
If it shows that Palladium is just another dongle and fail as DRM its going to dissapear.
ROTFL!
Google you gotta love em!
I think that was the funniest any search engine has done in years for me =))
Give the post +5 funny stupid moderators!
Since Linux and open source in general is a grounds up movement its hard to fight for Microsoft. They target the big players instead. When the snowball starts and some big agency adopts linux and it falls out well there will be no way in h'll to stop it. Microsoft needs to fight general adoption of linux. The day linux get widespread is the day when all the other players curently developing for windows only will throw an eye onto linux too.
One thing i have hard to understand is how they can prise interoperability on one hand and not demand open standards at the same time.
I too have a hard time realizing that most people have already forgot how networks was in the 60-80'ies. To be tied into any vendor is a bad thing longterm because when other companies builds new great products you cant get them because your current tech isnt compatible with anything but themselves.
Even if im against censor this isnt really censorship. You can choose if you want your kids to see blood squirting 3 feet or if you want them to just see a movie without gore that (mostly) hasnt any real connection to the story. I can also see a great demand for this among people from religions where nekkidness is something dirty.
Many religions and groups have stayed where we wore some 50 years ago when it comes to violence and sex. What says that we are right and they are wrong?
Just as i dont want anyone to force censor upon me i dont want anybody to be forced to watch things thy dont want to see.
Most people cant afford a 40" widescreen TV. To draw use of HDTV you need a big telly or you wont notice much difference from 3 meters away. Big televisions are expensive and hasnt really taken off except at stuff crazy youngsters and cinefanatics.
Most content is of pretty poor quality on most channels (many not even stereo). To expect that everyone owning a television should run out in a buying frenzy just to get sharper picture on otherwise pretty fscked up content (jeopardy in HDTV?) are just plain stupid. It is a dream conceived by manufacturers and Hollywood over a bong the size of Wembley Bowl.
What eludes atleast me is what are the benefits for the comsumer?
I can see better sound and picture being good while you watch movies but most people just watch shows and where are the benefit there?
3D Tv would be another thing but just slightly better sound and picture doesnt really cut it for the big masses.
What about real hornes?
Sure they are a pain in the ass to calculate and not many is up to the task but built right it hurts to listen to them. The punch you get out of a quarts wave pipes (simplest horns) is pretty amazing.
I think the reason hornes arent that popular is that they are hard to calculate and very difficult to build. Take the time and you have a speaker that blows most others away.
My first speaker was a smack horn. The effiency of a horn is much higher than a closed or ported speaker. I got 104 Db at 1 Watt at 1 meter when a normal speaker only makes about 90 Db. Since Decibel is not linear thats a very big difference. Need i to say that it was well worth the hassle? My old Marantz tuner could play the pants of off any mates systems even if it only had 100 Watt output because of the high efficiency of the speakers.
To build a complicated case is more expensive for a speaker manufacturer than to put in a speaker element that handles higher power. For your amplifier its better to have a nicer load.
Novell has other fetures i like more. The ability to install an application on ONE desktop and then load all register keys onto any computer with windows that uses that program when it loads is a pretty good feture. You install an application once and it then works without hassle on all other machines.
NDS is pretty souped up too and makes AD and LPAD look silly in comparison. It can handle silly amounts of objects in the tree without crumbling. Its enough to drive a whole e-commerse site on.
NDS exists for linux too so interoperability is not an issue. A client for linux would be just what linux needs. My dream network would be Netware on linux and linux clients. A better network to administer cant exist.
The companies that hoose novell and installs AD is in for a bigtime dissapointment because of the extreme lack of fetures in windows like filesystem limitations etc.
Languages evolves and nothing we do can change that. Look at the difference between UK english and American english. Compared to eachother UK english seems very uptight and American english as childish school yard slang.
Let the languages evolve, its perfectly normal and nothing that will end the world. My native language, swedish, has evolved so much in the last 200 years that old written swedish is hardly readable today. Since communication is so much faster today its inevitable that the evolution in the language goes much faster too. What in those days took 200 years may now take a mere 20 years.
""There was a story last year that mentioned Microsoft was working on Win-WiFi - 802.11b hardware that exported some of the processing to the CPU in much the same manner as a winmodem, and thus was cheaper to produce.""
To make use of a modern CPU on a desktop is really hard unless you compile or game. An even slower windows would be hard to do without deliberatly toss in loops into it. Intel and Microsoft lives on the upgradecycle and without it they would both be much smaller since you wouldnt buy a new computer every year, just new software like games etc. Right now i cant think of a single application that i use that can take advantage of my current 650 Mhz even. When i compile something bigger i do it over night.
The only application that demands something faster than todays 2 Ghz is poorly written games. My solution would be to write them better but some people tends to think throwing more hardware on fautly code is an excellent solution.
Microsoft needs to use all the cpu cycles it can and still perform good in benchmarks. This way of loading the processor with other tasks better done in hardware than in software fits their and Intel perfectly. Intel needs somthing that demands faster CPUs and Microsoft need new hardware that ships with their OS.
How can it be theft? If i toss my copies of my secret papers of off a tall building i cant really blame the pople below for spying if they read them. likewise i cant really blame someone if they snoop on my poorly configured wireless network.
That aside i arent that impressed of wireless networks inside offices. Wireless is maybe god where people move around all the time but in an office people tends to work at the same place. It has its place but today everybody and his mother is installing it without thinking about pros and cons even a single second.
Well in my imagination the monsters was soo much better rendered and the elfes was prettier ond so on bla bla bla. Do you see what i meant? You cant transfer peoples imagination to a screen. Books leaves for your own imagination to fill the blanks and thats why what i read can never be put on film. My interpretion of a book doesnt match any others.
I didnt say the movie was bad in any way i just meant that the books in my opinion was so much better. They are true masterpieces and even a half assed movie out of those books is a movie much better than 99% of every film made.
LOTR is one of the best movies i ever have seen. The books is much better. But thats just my opinion. Douglas Adams is ahole other story, where do you find anyone in hollywood with humor? Bill and Teds producer?
Maybe the US should spend some amount of efforts in being good world citizens and stop meddling about just to get cheap oil? The US have also been very efficient in alienating countries on account of other partner countries they like to protect.
If there are threats against the US its not only because muslims and other non wealthy countries are evil by nature. Something has brought them to this conclusion and its not just the koran or lack of money that is to blame here.
The US is working hard to have a reason to fight Iraq when most other countries dont want war in that region.
Whos the warmonger now?
I would build an army of fluffy penguins on the redmond lawn infront of the main entrance. Just to see the reaction on the PHB's when they get to work. Maybe with some nice voice abilitys too and make them chant
"developers! developers! developers!"
If the averege user is ever gonna use Linux it has to be a distribution out there for the newbie. If they use it and later feel the would like something harder/more configurable there are dozens of very good distros to try later on. As a beginners dist i think Xandros seems pretty good and it might even work handy dandy for regular users too.
No matter what we personally think about these distros they have a huge benefit for us who are a bit more advanced in linux. Something that many übernerds tend to forget is that with comercialism we also get some benefits as a spinoff.
A bigger userbase gives us better drivers, more comercial apps and overall better support for linux and i cant imagine that being bad. If they fsck up then adios amigos with them and we pick something else to use.
The diversity of linux is what makes it great and thats something we really should hold precious. Not to the expence of compability. Stick to the LSB and we should be just fine even with thousands of different distributions.
Douglas Adams books is among the most screwed up books ive ever read in my life and i read quite a lot of books. The language and the totally cranked up fantasy of the books makes it pretty hard to make a movie that makes them justice. For us that has read them its almost bound to be ugly since we all have our own picture of how a vogon looks etc.
LOTR was in my opinion pretty good but it didnt do the books justice. To make good books into a good movie is almost impossible because the different ways the work. A good book can be almost without visual references but you yourself fills the blanks with whatever suits you. A movie serves everything on a dish and can if it dont match your imagination dissapoint very much.
Hollywood havent been that good at sticking to whatever the book is but rather what the big star and the producer want to see in the movie. I suspect that this movie will be like most other hollywood movies. A frency in effects and not much work on the real script. Its almost like the scripts is worked out around the FX and not the other way.
Give the script to the same guys that made LOTR and maybe it rocks but hollywood? The same guys that gave us Roxanne?
Puuleese!
While i can admit that the package manager is too complicated for the averege user it reflects something vital. Versioning and installing of programs in linux needs a standard that makes it esier to install applications. I have no problems whatsoever but i can imagine how frustrated a newbie could get. It should be possible to change the versioning system to someting more coherent and easier. If you polish todays system it wont help the underlying problems of dependencies and versioning. automatic download of depending packages solves the problem but in a very advanced way. There must be a simpler way to fix this. Small programs should be compiled statically since an increse of a couple of megs is well worth not having to grind your teeth over missing packages.
I was more tinking about the movie/music industry. They had a golden chance to use the internet in about 5 years ago but instead they just sat on their tush. Actually when you think about it what industry has been leading in delivering movie and other content over the net until today?
The porn industry, thats where the development lies today and its kind of sad really.
So the porn industry is the only content makers who are bold enough to venture and do something new? That figures, when porn studios have higher moral than the music industry we are really down the drain. I mean, its not like the music industry has done anything to use the internet. They have been to obsessed with keeping there old revenue model to make up something new and fresh.
Intel has pushed numerus innovations out the door before and only to be forced to take them off the market by Microsoft. This gadget will collide with microsofts dream of being in everybodys home. It will dissapear soon believe me. The biggest thing Microsoft destroyed from Intel was their effort on building an platform ontop of their processors that would enable crossplatform applications between all sorts of processors. Like JAVA but on hardware level and thus extremely faster. MS stopped it cold by threeting to not support intel in windows.
Think of the hardware we could have had if Intel had been able to drop x86 10 years ago?
We have a radioshow here in sweden that plays only this kind of music. I listen to it every time and now with this avaliable i can totally scrap my mp3 collection of Britney Spears!
If the users dont want palladium it wont fly. No company selling stuff will force people into something they dont want if it makes the numbers look bad. How many will toss their old PC to buy a brand new that cant do the same things as their old one? If there are enough restrain against it initially it wont ever fly. I think the demand for non palladium processors would be enough to support a manufacturer in taiwan or whatever to make these and market them.
Either way information to common users is the key and if we could get backing from major privacy organisations it would help.
I dont find the installation of drivers and apps painful. One must remember that until recently linux have been developed by nerds for nerds. For me that are pretty darn good at the inner workings of an x86 its clear ass glass.
The commynity didnt sat down and thought:
"Hey! Ill build a desktop OS so that stupid Joe User that doesnt bother to read the manual enough even to set the time on his VCR can use it!"
I would think that most developers made something they wanted to use and not something dumbed down and stupified. That work has just begun and i do think it will pickup speed soon. Gnome2 is in my opinion really easy to setup and use. Rpm can be made even esier by using a GUI RPM installer that downloads missing libs from the net by automagic. RedCarpet almost does that now.
Linux will be even esier to use and that is probably inevitable with the growing interest to use it on corporate desktops and as a way to cut prices on desktops in general.
I was barking about UT 2003, i have UT already.