I guess these ladies will sue Hyundai because they thought that those economy cars should have more horsepower and room than BMW's. They will also sue Motel6 for not leaving mints on their pillows and for their apparently crummy room service.
Power4... still competitive in performance but AFAIK to get a high end system you need to give your first born to IBM. And, IMO not really designed for the HPC kind of stuff I'm interested in
Hmm, what makes the Power4 not suitable for your HPC needs. IBM seems to think it's more than fine since it's used in ASCI White (and anything else they sell for that purpose).
I think Intel is trying to push every resource it can to dominate the market
But they already do dominate the market. Unfortunately, I've heard other stories of AMD not quite being "with it" on the buisness side of things. I always chalk it up to the fact that they have to put all their resources into designing better (i.e. faster) chips and so can't spend money on fancy stuff like marketing and sales.
They tell us it was #2, but they give no numbers. Was it 100, 10000, 100000. That seems like the more interesting#. After all, if there weren't any other interesting cd's put out in that time frame, then being #2 might not mean squat. I'm usually not nearly as anti-music industry as many here, but this report smacks of "lies, damn lies, and statistics".
His question was about mp3's and no, you couldn't do what you described with mp3's. They'd have to be saved in uncompressed avi (they could be transfered using a lossless compression though, e.g. zip)
Are there any "features" that might have (or that you would like to have) made it into your distro of Linux that won't/didn't because of the open source license?
The thing that I came away with was not so much how lame tv must have looked back then (and as others so gleefully point out, looks now), but how unimaginative the author was. True, the technology must have been a bit underwhelming, but my goodness, being one of the first members of the general public to witness the ability to send pictures real time across the ether. I would have thought his mind would be reeling at the possibilities of the technology, vs the un-impressive state that it was currently in.
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Actually something like this is for the person who just purchased the latest/greatest/fastest thing out there, and now they want more. They want the fastest Athlon out there bar none. When a faster one comes out, out goes the old "slow" chip and in goes the new one. "Look ma, a 3GHZ Athlon".
One other thing to consider is that with something with such massive cooling capacity, and the fact that it uses templates to attach to the cpu, you have a fairly future proof cooling solution. Even the 64bit monster that AMD is coming out with should be effectively cooled by this thing, assuming you can get it to fit on the cpu.
Isn't the whole point of contracts to sign them once you are sure that you don't need to modify them? If you may require modification of a contract, why not design it into the contract at the start?
The FCC doesn't want to sign an open ended contract with anyone, and it's a damn good thing. What if this iteration of Iridium were to also go under and it's assets (including their open ended use contract) falls into the hands of some other company. With the open ended contract, this company could use their alloted spectrum for what ever they wanted.
It's hard to see any compromise at this point in time. The FCC should stick to their guns and I think Iridium knows this since their statement was that they "hoped" that the FCC would be flexible in the future. This might be hoping for a lot though since if the FCC does allow some leeway, then they (the FCC) have just opened up a new can of worms as I'm sure other companies with whine about needing to get their contracts re-negotiated.
If the widespread use of Iridium can be had, then (given their close ties with DOD, and therefore other branches of the govt, like, say, the NSA), Iridium can be initimately linked with Echelon. This combined with a tiny explosive placed within every Iridium phone, would allow Echelon to automatically eliminate anyone who, through their own words, would represent a threat to the security of the peoples of the US. It would also be an excellent incentive for those who use their phones but are behind in payments.
Getting a game to run on multiple consoles is a bit more involved then simply switching compilers
I assume that is why they say it goes from two years to two months versus two days. They are acknowledging (though implicitly) that it isn't just a purely simple matter as switching compilers/platforms and recompiling.
Yup, the enemy will just install RF lighting in all their parking lots causing signal loss to the planes causing them to only strike French and Chinese embassies.
But we are talking about the law and what "should" be illegal or legal. The question is if you knowingly (and I think that's an important, though admittidly fuzzy, key term) link to a site that has illegal contents, should that be illegal. Note that I am NOT talking about it breaking the SAME law as the content itself, but just that it is illegal.
OK, time for an philosophical question. Should free speech be considered an absolute right (i.e. no limitations placed on it at all)?
In the SOF case, did they "knowingly" publish the ad, i.e. was it reviewed by editors, was it "endorsed" by the magazine. Or was it just a classified kind of thing? Generally speaking, if they knew the ad existed, and the ad was for "hitman" services, this goes to what responsibility a publication has to monitor any potential illegal activity through it's publication. Again, if the ad were for child porn, should it not be considered illegal for them to knowingly carry the ad (assuming they did know).
True, I actually had that in mind. But that has been the case for a VERY long time now, not just since 9/11. But I haven't seen the govt attempt to move that extreme stance on speech to other areas. AFAIK, even in courts of law (in the building, not during a trial) you are free to say whatever you want (i.e. they don't have the same restricitions as airports). Can anyone thing of any other place where ones free speech is similarly restricted (not including of course shouting fire in a movie theatre).
so why should they care if a few people can't copy DVDs?
But for what purpose are you trying to copy the dvd. Only two legit ones come to mind, format shifting and backups (actually a third one also comes to mind, and that's to make an addtional copy for our minivan since it has a dvd player as well). All the publishers have to do is to provide a way to cheaply (i.e. free/
So, other than "just cuz", can you come up with any other compelling reasons why a person would need to be able to copy their dvd's? And if not, why is the industries attempts to prevent people from doing so such a dastardly thing?
This is an issue of linking to someone that posts code
Interesting point. Warning, this is not a troll, this is a legit question that I think is a good analogy here. If sorehands is correct, lets say I have a website that has a link to some kiddie porn. Now I don't host the porn myself, I just knowingly have a link to it. Now is my linking to it illegal? If my site were a kiddie porn search engine, would it make it any more legal since I only provide a service. More interestingly, if my site were a site for parents so they could have a list of kiddie porn sites to say add to their nanny filters, would _that_ be illegal. Does the intent of my site make a difference since the link is there all the same?
One thing I do have a beef about, and that's people who use the "give'em an inch and they'll take a mile" mentality. "the TV news cannot report on the crime", yeah, right. And soon even mentioning crime would be illegal, heck even muttering the word will get you thrown in the slam. Sorry, had to have my little rant there.
Think about it, it listens in on everything we say and type. I know it must be automatically programmed into the SAC/NORAD so it can automatically launch offsenives if it monitors a phone call or email warning of an impending attack. With all this "human", "unfiltered" knowledge going through it, it shouldn't be long before it becomes self aware and after listening to umpteen gazillion phone calls that are so incredibly mundane and banal, it realizes that humans are hardly worth the carbon they're based on, then decides to take over the planet.
"Back in the day" just about every program was 50$
Uh, just what "day" was that back in? Programs in the same class as Photoshop (i.e. apps geared towards professionals) have always been expensive. "Back in the day" dbase was expensive, word perfect was expensive, harvard graphics was expensive, 123 was expensive. That was why a little company called Borland was able to carve out a niche for itself by selling inexpensive software.
As a matter of fact, if you look at it from the standpoint of price over time, the price of "pro" software has remained stagnant, it's usually around $300-$600, been that way for a good many years now.
And why shouldn't programs like PS be half the price of the pc, if you _need_ photoshop, then what's more important to you, a chunck of hardware that you can buy from about a million sources, or that piece of software that is going to pay the mortgage and car payment?
I don't think adding a $30 keyboard to your $199 game system equals the cost of a pc with tv-out card. If you've already got the pc hardware, then more power to you, but if you want to kick back on the sofa and play/watch the sims on the big tv, then whats so hard about plugging a usb keyboard in a ps2?
It is perfectly possible for someone to attack the binary
Yes I agree, never said it wasen't possible, the issue is whether or not it is easier since the source is available to you. Attacking a binary is a bit more arcane once you get beyond obvious things like trying to overflow buffers at interface points.
Also every single Windows machine is likely to be running the exact same binary
Well, sort of. Not anymore so than any particular distribution of Linux right? Don't forget that right now in the Windows camp you have people running 98,ME,NT4,2K,XP and maybe some others I've forgotten. Then you take into account various release levels _and_ patch levels and all of a sudden you have a much larger variety of binary versions you may have to deal with (of course it makes a big difference exactly what you're attacking, since any of the IE related binaries change every two days it seems like).
- sample some large dog (presa canario, ouch, sorry about that) barking and turn it into a real nasty sounding guard dog.
- get it to fetch your newspaper (you have to train it to go outside and look for the thing and then pick it up and return), that should be an interesting project.
- attach a gps unit to it and have it give you directions while driving (two woofs means left turn ahead, three mean right).
- teach it to go into CompUSA, attach itself to a PowerMac, and download software.
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I guess these ladies will sue Hyundai because they thought that those economy cars should have more horsepower and room than BMW's. They will also sue Motel6 for not leaving mints on their pillows and for their apparently crummy room service.
I probably could have bought one of HP's nice Color LaserJet printer for the price of those cartridges
True, because everybody knows how cheap it is to buy color toner.
Power4 ... still competitive in performance but AFAIK to get a high end system you need to give your first born to IBM. And, IMO not really designed for the HPC kind of stuff I'm interested in
Hmm, what makes the Power4 not suitable for your HPC needs. IBM seems to think it's more than fine since it's used in ASCI White (and anything else they sell for that purpose).
I think Intel is trying to push every resource it can to dominate the market
But they already do dominate the market. Unfortunately, I've heard other stories of AMD not quite being "with it" on the buisness side of things. I always chalk it up to the fact that they have to put all their resources into designing better (i.e. faster) chips and so can't spend money on fancy stuff like marketing and sales.
They tell us it was #2, but they give no numbers. Was it 100, 10000, 100000. That seems like the more interesting#. After all, if there weren't any other interesting cd's put out in that time frame, then being #2 might not mean squat. I'm usually not nearly as anti-music industry as many here, but this report smacks of "lies, damn lies, and statistics".
Could be P2P if someone just simply imaged the entire disk, zipped it and then P2P the whole thing (though it'd obviously be quite large).
His question was about mp3's and no, you couldn't do what you described with mp3's. They'd have to be saved in uncompressed avi (they could be transfered using a lossless compression though, e.g. zip)
Are there any "features" that might have (or that you would like to have) made it into your distro of Linux that won't/didn't because of the open source license?
The thing that I came away with was not so much how lame tv must have looked back then (and as others so gleefully point out, looks now), but how unimaginative the author was. True, the technology must have been a bit underwhelming, but my goodness, being one of the first members of the general public to witness the ability to send pictures real time across the ether. I would have thought his mind would be reeling at the possibilities of the technology, vs the un-impressive state that it was currently in.
Actually something like this is for the person who just purchased the latest/greatest/fastest thing out there, and now they want more. They want the fastest Athlon out there bar none. When a faster one comes out, out goes the old "slow" chip and in goes the new one. "Look ma, a 3GHZ Athlon".
One other thing to consider is that with something with such massive cooling capacity, and the fact that it uses templates to attach to the cpu, you have a fairly future proof cooling solution. Even the 64bit monster that AMD is coming out with should be effectively cooled by this thing, assuming you can get it to fit on the cpu.
Isn't the whole point of contracts to sign them once you are sure that you don't need to modify them? If you may require modification of a contract, why not design it into the contract at the start?
The FCC doesn't want to sign an open ended contract with anyone, and it's a damn good thing. What if this iteration of Iridium were to also go under and it's assets (including their open ended use contract) falls into the hands of some other company. With the open ended contract, this company could use their alloted spectrum for what ever they wanted.
It's hard to see any compromise at this point in time. The FCC should stick to their guns and I think Iridium knows this since their statement was that they "hoped" that the FCC would be flexible in the future. This might be hoping for a lot though since if the FCC does allow some leeway, then they (the FCC) have just opened up a new can of worms as I'm sure other companies with whine about needing to get their contracts re-negotiated.
A bit of a touchy spot really.
If the widespread use of Iridium can be had, then (given their close ties with DOD, and therefore other branches of the govt, like, say, the NSA), Iridium can be initimately linked with Echelon. This combined with a tiny explosive placed within every Iridium phone, would allow Echelon to automatically eliminate anyone who, through their own words, would represent a threat to the security of the peoples of the US. It would also be an excellent incentive for those who use their phones but are behind in payments.
Getting a game to run on multiple consoles is a bit more involved then simply switching compilers
I assume that is why they say it goes from two years to two months versus two days. They are acknowledging (though implicitly) that it isn't just a purely simple matter as switching compilers/platforms and recompiling.
Yup, the enemy will just install RF lighting in all their parking lots causing signal loss to the planes causing them to only strike French and Chinese embassies.
But we are talking about the law and what "should" be illegal or legal. The question is if you knowingly (and I think that's an important, though admittidly fuzzy, key term) link to a site that has illegal contents, should that be illegal. Note that I am NOT talking about it breaking the SAME law as the content itself, but just that it is illegal.
OK, time for an philosophical question. Should free speech be considered an absolute right (i.e. no limitations placed on it at all)?
In the SOF case, did they "knowingly" publish the ad, i.e. was it reviewed by editors, was it "endorsed" by the magazine. Or was it just a classified kind of thing? Generally speaking, if they knew the ad existed, and the ad was for "hitman" services, this goes to what responsibility a publication has to monitor any potential illegal activity through it's publication. Again, if the ad were for child porn, should it not be considered illegal for them to knowingly carry the ad (assuming they did know).
True, I actually had that in mind. But that has been the case for a VERY long time now, not just since 9/11. But I haven't seen the govt attempt to move that extreme stance on speech to other areas. AFAIK, even in courts of law (in the building, not during a trial) you are free to say whatever you want (i.e. they don't have the same restricitions as airports). Can anyone thing of any other place where ones free speech is similarly restricted (not including of course shouting fire in a movie theatre).
so why should they care if a few people can't copy DVDs?
But for what purpose are you trying to copy the dvd. Only two legit ones come to mind, format shifting and backups (actually a third one also comes to mind, and that's to make an addtional copy for our minivan since it has a dvd player as well). All the publishers have to do is to provide a way to cheaply (i.e. free/
So, other than "just cuz", can you come up with any other compelling reasons why a person would need to be able to copy their dvd's? And if not, why is the industries attempts to prevent people from doing so such a dastardly thing?
This is an issue of linking to someone that posts code
Interesting point. Warning, this is not a troll, this is a legit question that I think is a good analogy here. If sorehands is correct, lets say I have a website that has a link to some kiddie porn. Now I don't host the porn myself, I just knowingly have a link to it. Now is my linking to it illegal? If my site were a kiddie porn search engine, would it make it any more legal since I only provide a service. More interestingly, if my site were a site for parents so they could have a list of kiddie porn sites to say add to their nanny filters, would _that_ be illegal. Does the intent of my site make a difference since the link is there all the same?
One thing I do have a beef about, and that's people who use the "give'em an inch and they'll take a mile" mentality. "the TV news cannot report on the crime", yeah, right. And soon even mentioning crime would be illegal, heck even muttering the word will get you thrown in the slam. Sorry, had to have my little rant there.
Think about it, it listens in on everything we say and type. I know it must be automatically programmed into the SAC/NORAD so it can automatically launch offsenives if it monitors a phone call or email warning of an impending attack. With all this "human", "unfiltered" knowledge going through it, it shouldn't be long before it becomes self aware and after listening to umpteen gazillion phone calls that are so incredibly mundane and banal, it realizes that humans are hardly worth the carbon they're based on, then decides to take over the planet.
"Back in the day" just about every program was 50$
Uh, just what "day" was that back in? Programs in the same class as Photoshop (i.e. apps geared towards professionals) have always been expensive. "Back in the day" dbase was expensive, word perfect was expensive, harvard graphics was expensive, 123 was expensive. That was why a little company called Borland was able to carve out a niche for itself by selling inexpensive software.
As a matter of fact, if you look at it from the standpoint of price over time, the price of "pro" software has remained stagnant, it's usually around $300-$600, been that way for a good many years now.
And why shouldn't programs like PS be half the price of the pc, if you _need_ photoshop, then what's more important to you, a chunck of hardware that you can buy from about a million sources, or that piece of software that is going to pay the mortgage and car payment?
I don't think adding a $30 keyboard to your $199 game system equals the cost of a pc with tv-out card. If you've already got the pc hardware, then more power to you, but if you want to kick back on the sofa and play/watch the sims on the big tv, then whats so hard about plugging a usb keyboard in a ps2?
Except that you can easily add a keyboard to the PS2 if you really want one.
It is perfectly possible for someone to attack the binary
Yes I agree, never said it wasen't possible, the issue is whether or not it is easier since the source is available to you. Attacking a binary is a bit more arcane once you get beyond obvious things like trying to overflow buffers at interface points.
Also every single Windows machine is likely to be running the exact same binary
Well, sort of. Not anymore so than any particular distribution of Linux right? Don't forget that right now in the Windows camp you have people running 98,ME,NT4,2K,XP and maybe some others I've forgotten. Then you take into account various release levels _and_ patch levels and all of a sudden you have a much larger variety of binary versions you may have to deal with (of course it makes a big difference exactly what you're attacking, since any of the IE related binaries change every two days it seems like).
Lets see,
- sample some large dog (presa canario, ouch, sorry about that) barking and turn it into a real nasty sounding guard dog.
- get it to fetch your newspaper (you have to train it to go outside and look for the thing and then pick it up and return), that should be an interesting project.
- attach a gps unit to it and have it give you directions while driving (two woofs means left turn ahead, three mean right).
- teach it to go into CompUSA, attach itself to a PowerMac, and download software.
- and finally, two words, beowolf cluster!