Except with optical drives on modern controllers, sharing the channel hardly matters. I always shared the second channel before I moved to SATA/SCSI disks and realized I had a PATA channel doing nothing.
All the article seems to talk about is the controversy. Same with the discussion I see here. I'm more interested in how RCA plans to implement this. Bleeping out swears, ok, I can see how that might work, but how the hell are they going to recognize and skip nudity? Maybe I'm not thinking creatively enough today, but I can't imagine how they're going to do what they advertise...
Whether you care about that last 5% or not, it still exists, and combined with the Windows 90% (to which OpenGL is most definitely available) you get 95% availability for OpenGL versus 90% availability for Direct3D. See, even with your faulty made-up numbers, OpenGL still comes out on top.
Oh thats absurd. While we're at it, lets make all the doctors live in the hospital, and the firemen can sit in their trucks 24/7. Somehow I don't think too many people will take those jobs.
Its remarkable what gets modded 'Insightful' sometimes...
Word to all that. I got the same mobo a few months ago and I'm loving it. Was terrified to leave my precious 440BX behind, but its worth it. This one's got performance, features *and* stability, though I'll readily admit that it gave me all kinds of trouble with Linux to start with, but I guess thats just the cost of moving to modern hardware.
Sad that these otherwise snazzy NForce3s don't have near as nice onboard sound as the NF2s though.
Well, I think they're a little more similar than you make out. For all intents and purposes, they *did* kill plenty of English citizens, given that the colonies were in fact English at the time. The act of tar-and-feathering government officials is well known, not to mention the harassment of citizens still loyal to the British (Tories), and I defy you to explain that as anything but terrorism. The Boston tea party was less extreme, though somewhat along the same lines. I'm sure any British paper at the time would have been happy to call it terrorism.
As far as the publicity aspect, I don't buy that at all. Osama bin Laden never made any great effort to conceal his dislike for the western nations or his intent towards them. And isn't it kind of traditional for some terrorist group to claim responsibility for a bombing? About the "nice note", how many videos have we seen of the aforementioned bin Laden explaining that we all need to die?
Simple truth: One man's terrorist is another man's revolutionary.
Okay, but first the script would have to get root somehow. In windows its probably already at administrator level. Nevermind that the probability of it being executed in the first place is inherently lower, since no Linux mail client I know of will fail to complain when you ask it to execute an attachment. Further, I'm betting the permissions on the file default to non-executable, so you'd have to chmod it (or GUI equivalent)....
In any case, no study on OS security should care too much about vulnerabilities that are caused by fundamentally dumb users. If I were studying Windows vulnerabilities, the only email exploits I would include are the ones that execute without any user intervention, i.e. where you've done nothing more than preview/open the email.
I don't know where the author gets that, or why it needed to be included. Nobody's property is being destroyed, damaged, or defaced, and the authors certainly aren't sacking Rome! Ok, maybe the guy who uses this to decrypt a file he bought and put it on Kazaa, he could be some sort of "IP vandal", but c'mon... software is what it is. Don't fling invective words around.
As for WMA becoming the standard... who says nobody can crack Microsoft's DRM? Hell, somebody has cracked just about everything MS ever came out with, whether it was really necessary or not.
Personally, I don't care either way. I'm not buying sub-CD quality music anytime soon, and even if I was none of this DRM junk plays in Linux.
Yeah, maybe, but 10 to 1 those UltraSparcs will still be slooowwww, as they have been for years now. In this day and age, if you want commercial UNIX, why bother with Sun when you can still go IBM and get AIX (a very solid UNIX in its own right), and much more powerful hardware.
I doubt Sun can continue to be the bastion of UltraSparc for much longer. They'll have to convert to somebody else's architecture or die.
Looking quickly though, the license may indeed be a bit "viral". Which is understandable... if I were Microsoft and somebody did neat stuff to my installer, I'd want to use it too. Whats more interesting though is that I suspect (though IANAL) that someone could just take this source and relicense it GPL if they wanted to. Thats particularly amusing given Microsoft's previous FUD concerning the GPL.
Its not *really* a big deal. Lots of software is still using bits of the old Loki installer, and that seems to work fine. The only thing is, because our package management systems are so good, I and many others would much rather use one of those than the windows style installer crap, so we hold out till somebody makes one. As a developer, best bet is just to release the source, and if people want your app they'll build it. If lots of people want it, then the distros will start to package it and you have no worries.
OSS is all about the source. Its not a bad system, its just not like Windows.
Games cost $300 because of scarcity mostly. No box office ticket costs anywheres near that much. Its all the aftermarket stuff (ebay, etc) where the price gets up there, at least for baseball. For something like football its because there's 8 total games and thats what people will pay. And they gouge you for refreshments pretty much at any event, even college games. And nobody's holding a gun to your head and demanding you buy 6 beers either.
Oh, the reason a tech union doesn't work whereas pro-sports or entertainment industry does? Well, obviously... people have this whole deal where they want to see the celebrities, the stars they know and love, which of course gives said celebrities a de-facto monopoly and makes their bargaining position that much more secure. It sucks, sure, but who's going to watch the Yankees if they don't have A-Rod, Jeter, Giambi, Mussina, Brown, Sheffield, and all their other stars? More on topic, who's going to watch the Simpsons without Azaria, Smith, Shearer, Castellaneta, Kavner, etc?
Few tech jobs last for decades, particularly these days.
Benefits? Okay, but you get less and less of that every year it seems. Half of Americans already don't have health insurance, and those that do likely lose a big chunk of their paycheck over it.
Pension? Who gets a pension plan anymore? You get 401k, and thats it.
Absolutely they can ask for more money. They can strike if they want to. But that doesn't mean we should feel bad for the "poor starving artists".
Yeah sure, over the last 10 years there have been tons of great episodes. Over the last 3? You get one, maybe two a season. And even those two aren't, as you mention, sideshow bob quality (including the last few sideshow bob episodes, which were dumb). Hell, these days they're reduced to repeating themselves as often as not, and even stealing plot ideas from Family Guy (death, anyone?), which is especially sad considering so much of Family Guy is ripped off the Simpsons to begin with. The show's just marginally watchable these days. I'd be shocked if their ratings aren't slipping horribly already.
Definitely. Its the wave of the future (or present, really). Seems like every technology that *can* use that model is these days. Look at inkjet printers, cable/satellite TV with DVR, cell phones, video game consoles, and a buncha other stuff I'm too dumb to remember.
This is just another way of stating Bill's longtime goal, software by subscription. Once you're paying $40/mo to Microsoft for Windows and Office, they can start selling you the "Microsoft Tablet PC" for $99.95. Naturally they'll have an appropriate early-termination fee attached to your Windows subscription.
Of course, this is only possible if they can sufficiently lockdown the platform (with DRM, etc) so that it is for all intents and purposes a Windows appliance, much as my DVR is a TiVo appliance. On the other hand, maybe it doesn't even need to be that locked down... as long as they sign you to that juicy contract, it doesn't really matter if you keep running windows or not. And how many people decided to get DirecTV because they wanted TiVo and the DVR is only $99 with subscription? I know I did...
The technical reason *is* the user input devices. Anybody will tell you that FPS games are terrible on consoles because of the controller, but strategy games really suffer the same problem. I would cry if I had to play Civ3 without a mouse, nevermind RTS games.
If consoles would do a standard USB interface and let me plug in a keyboard and mouse, then they could really take over the market. They won't, though, because thats exactly not the way they're designed to be used. The mantra of a good console system is to do one thing and do it well, and the keyboard and mouse are not part of that plan, nor do I think they will be. Even if they were introduced, chances are the console manufacturer wouldn't allow standard parts, so you'd have to buy the "XBox" USB mouse, which will of course run you $40 at a minimum. Adoption will be sparse, and people will continue to play Warcraft on their PC's, because lets face it, the PC platform isn't going to disappear, it does so much more than just play games.
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Except with optical drives on modern controllers, sharing the channel hardly matters. I always shared the second channel before I moved to SATA/SCSI disks and realized I had a PATA channel doing nothing.
Two funny things about this:
1. If you're going to all that trouble, why not just get Mozilla or Opera?
2. None of the solutions you describe will protect you from the help system, which is what this vulnerability is about.
All the article seems to talk about is the controversy. Same with the discussion I see here. I'm more interested in how RCA plans to implement this. Bleeping out swears, ok, I can see how that might work, but how the hell are they going to recognize and skip nudity? Maybe I'm not thinking creatively enough today, but I can't imagine how they're going to do what they advertise...
Whether you care about that last 5% or not, it still exists, and combined with the Windows 90% (to which OpenGL is most definitely available) you get 95% availability for OpenGL versus 90% availability for Direct3D. See, even with your faulty made-up numbers, OpenGL still comes out on top.
Oh thats absurd. While we're at it, lets make all the doctors live in the hospital, and the firemen can sit in their trucks 24/7. Somehow I don't think too many people will take those jobs.
Its remarkable what gets modded 'Insightful' sometimes...
Word to all that. I got the same mobo a few months ago and I'm loving it. Was terrified to leave my precious 440BX behind, but its worth it. This one's got performance, features *and* stability, though I'll readily admit that it gave me all kinds of trouble with Linux to start with, but I guess thats just the cost of moving to modern hardware.
Sad that these otherwise snazzy NForce3s don't have near as nice onboard sound as the NF2s though.
Oh please... and your whole argument against his post is unsubstantiated statistics, paraphrasing, and an obscene amount of exclaimation points.
Well, I think they're a little more similar than you make out. For all intents and purposes, they *did* kill plenty of English citizens, given that the colonies were in fact English at the time. The act of tar-and-feathering government officials is well known, not to mention the harassment of citizens still loyal to the British (Tories), and I defy you to explain that as anything but terrorism. The Boston tea party was less extreme, though somewhat along the same lines. I'm sure any British paper at the time would have been happy to call it terrorism.
As far as the publicity aspect, I don't buy that at all. Osama bin Laden never made any great effort to conceal his dislike for the western nations or his intent towards them. And isn't it kind of traditional for some terrorist group to claim responsibility for a bombing? About the "nice note", how many videos have we seen of the aforementioned bin Laden explaining that we all need to die?
Simple truth: One man's terrorist is another man's revolutionary.
Okay, but first the script would have to get root somehow. In windows its probably already at administrator level. Nevermind that the probability of it being executed in the first place is inherently lower, since no Linux mail client I know of will fail to complain when you ask it to execute an attachment. Further, I'm betting the permissions on the file default to non-executable, so you'd have to chmod it (or GUI equivalent)....
In any case, no study on OS security should care too much about vulnerabilities that are caused by fundamentally dumb users. If I were studying Windows vulnerabilities, the only email exploits I would include are the ones that execute without any user intervention, i.e. where you've done nothing more than preview/open the email.
I don't know where the author gets that, or why it needed to be included. Nobody's property is being destroyed, damaged, or defaced, and the authors certainly aren't sacking Rome! Ok, maybe the guy who uses this to decrypt a file he bought and put it on Kazaa, he could be some sort of "IP vandal", but c'mon... software is what it is. Don't fling invective words around.
As for WMA becoming the standard... who says nobody can crack Microsoft's DRM? Hell, somebody has cracked just about everything MS ever came out with, whether it was really necessary or not.
Personally, I don't care either way. I'm not buying sub-CD quality music anytime soon, and even if I was none of this DRM junk plays in Linux.
> it's defeating one of the most liberal copyright-protection schemes in existance.
What about actual copyright law?
Yeah, maybe, but 10 to 1 those UltraSparcs will still be slooowwww, as they have been for years now. In this day and age, if you want commercial UNIX, why bother with Sun when you can still go IBM and get AIX (a very solid UNIX in its own right), and much more powerful hardware.
I doubt Sun can continue to be the bastion of UltraSparc for much longer. They'll have to convert to somebody else's architecture or die.
Looking quickly though, the license may indeed be a bit "viral". Which is understandable... if I were Microsoft and somebody did neat stuff to my installer, I'd want to use it too. Whats more interesting though is that I suspect (though IANAL) that someone could just take this source and relicense it GPL if they wanted to. Thats particularly amusing given Microsoft's previous FUD concerning the GPL.
Its not *really* a big deal. Lots of software is still using bits of the old Loki installer, and that seems to work fine. The only thing is, because our package management systems are so good, I and many others would much rather use one of those than the windows style installer crap, so we hold out till somebody makes one. As a developer, best bet is just to release the source, and if people want your app they'll build it. If lots of people want it, then the distros will start to package it and you have no worries.
OSS is all about the source. Its not a bad system, its just not like Windows.
'Course, afaik portage is all python, so there should be little porting involved. Just start making a repository.
Games cost $300 because of scarcity mostly. No box office ticket costs anywheres near that much. Its all the aftermarket stuff (ebay, etc) where the price gets up there, at least for baseball. For something like football its because there's 8 total games and thats what people will pay. And they gouge you for refreshments pretty much at any event, even college games. And nobody's holding a gun to your head and demanding you buy 6 beers either.
Oh, the reason a tech union doesn't work whereas pro-sports or entertainment industry does? Well, obviously... people have this whole deal where they want to see the celebrities, the stars they know and love, which of course gives said celebrities a de-facto monopoly and makes their bargaining position that much more secure. It sucks, sure, but who's going to watch the Yankees if they don't have A-Rod, Jeter, Giambi, Mussina, Brown, Sheffield, and all their other stars? More on topic, who's going to watch the Simpsons without Azaria, Smith, Shearer, Castellaneta, Kavner, etc?
And you gotta remember who your audience is...
Few tech jobs last for decades, particularly these days.
Benefits? Okay, but you get less and less of that every year it seems. Half of Americans already don't have health insurance, and those that do likely lose a big chunk of their paycheck over it.
Pension? Who gets a pension plan anymore? You get 401k, and thats it.
Absolutely they can ask for more money. They can strike if they want to. But that doesn't mean we should feel bad for the "poor starving artists".
Yeah sure, over the last 10 years there have been tons of great episodes. Over the last 3? You get one, maybe two a season. And even those two aren't, as you mention, sideshow bob quality (including the last few sideshow bob episodes, which were dumb). Hell, these days they're reduced to repeating themselves as often as not, and even stealing plot ideas from Family Guy (death, anyone?), which is especially sad considering so much of Family Guy is ripped off the Simpsons to begin with. The show's just marginally watchable these days. I'd be shocked if their ratings aren't slipping horribly already.
APT is two steps... open shell, type apt-get install gaim
Or, with a GUI like synaptec: open synaptec, double-click gaim.
Ah, but with APT you still have to teach the users the concept of superuser priviledges... which I might add you really *don't* want to teach them.
Definitely. Its the wave of the future (or present, really). Seems like every technology that *can* use that model is these days. Look at inkjet printers, cable/satellite TV with DVR, cell phones, video game consoles, and a buncha other stuff I'm too dumb to remember.
This is just another way of stating Bill's longtime goal, software by subscription. Once you're paying $40/mo to Microsoft for Windows and Office, they can start selling you the "Microsoft Tablet PC" for $99.95. Naturally they'll have an appropriate early-termination fee attached to your Windows subscription.
Of course, this is only possible if they can sufficiently lockdown the platform (with DRM, etc) so that it is for all intents and purposes a Windows appliance, much as my DVR is a TiVo appliance. On the other hand, maybe it doesn't even need to be that locked down... as long as they sign you to that juicy contract, it doesn't really matter if you keep running windows or not. And how many people decided to get DirecTV because they wanted TiVo and the DVR is only $99 with subscription? I know I did...
The technical reason *is* the user input devices. Anybody will tell you that FPS games are terrible on consoles because of the controller, but strategy games really suffer the same problem. I would cry if I had to play Civ3 without a mouse, nevermind RTS games.
If consoles would do a standard USB interface and let me plug in a keyboard and mouse, then they could really take over the market. They won't, though, because thats exactly not the way they're designed to be used. The mantra of a good console system is to do one thing and do it well, and the keyboard and mouse are not part of that plan, nor do I think they will be. Even if they were introduced, chances are the console manufacturer wouldn't allow standard parts, so you'd have to buy the "XBox" USB mouse, which will of course run you $40 at a minimum. Adoption will be sparse, and people will continue to play Warcraft on their PC's, because lets face it, the PC platform isn't going to disappear, it does so much more than just play games.
Fair enough, but what have they done for us lately? IE4 is so 1996.
> Now imagine converting google... it would be a clusterf**k.
No pun intended?
Now, Hi-def video games... THOSE will be cool.