This doesn't sound like much after all he's been through
It sounds like much more than he deserves if he really started spreading FUD after it was clear that he was going to lose his job.
The only way to decide whether he is a whistle blower or a liar that tries to make some cash by blackmailing his former employer and Airbus is to have an independent review of the chip in question. Airbus said they did that but of course they're biased.
If the movie industry started making all new DVD releases as hybrid discs, there could be a very easy transition, and it could happen soon, from the sounds of things.
If they make those hybrid discs they're gonna cost as much as it would to buy both the DVD and the HD release. Why? Because that's the way it's done in the eyes of the movie industry.
When I first heard about the mandatory "managed copy" feature for HD-DVD I thought "yeah, right" but I have to admit there was this tiny little bit of hope somewhere in the more naive parts of my brain. No more:
Jordi Ribas, director of technical strategy for the Windows Digital Media Division, told me that while the feature is mandatory, the studios will have the option of charging for it
Buy HD-DVD, much better than Blu-Ray, get two, pay two!
Oh, and I no longer trust Ars's coverage since they had the two page HD-DVD ad disguised as article on their frontpage (yes, they added a disclaimer later but I don't read Ars for press releases disclaimer or not)
Also Konqueror struggles with some pages, rendering them really slowly.
echo "KDE_NO_IPV6=true" >>/etc/environment
But I think they did something about it anyway; I've recently installed SuSE again and at first forgot to set the variable but I've yet to find a page with the painfully slow rendering that was caused by the ipv6 lookup lags in earlier versions.
Also SuSE (well their performance enhanced version; get it here) has the fastest KDE I've ever seen.
Try a live-cd with KOffice. Lots of them ship with it. Unfortunately strange KDE errors on RedHat are all too often Redhat specific. I don't know what they're doing to manage that but they've got the most severe problem of NIH syndrome I've ever seen so....*cough*
The cablecos and satellite companies have settled on Apple supported H.264 as the HD codec of choice over Windows Media
In other news, house builders worldwide use Apple backed white instead of the greens and blues of WinXP another victory for Apple. Get real, H.264 is part of the MPEG-4 AVC profile. MPEG as in MPEG-2 (you might know it from DVDs, digital satellite, cable and terrestial TV) or mp3. Apple's embraced MPEG-4 and had some influence in writing the specification (especially the file format) but it was a small fish in a big pond.
The Microsoft supported DVD+R spec did not trump the Apple backed DVD-R format and now combo drives are the norm.
Oh, you should tell the DVD+RW Alliance that they've forgotten Microsoft on their homepage.
DVD-R had a number of troubles in the beginning and didn't get off the ground so half its backers jumped ship; there were other reasons of course. I don't remember Microsoft favoring + or -.
And Apple's iPod/iTunes support of Dolby's AAC audio codec has seriously frakked up Microsoft's WMA format dominating the MP3 player market.
Cool, instead of listening to their mp3s on an mp3-player that also plays wmv they listen to their mp3s on an mp3-player that also plays aac. I know there is a difference if you buy music online because mp3 lacks a working drm framework but while AAC may be a standard, Apple's drm isn't. Score one for the good guys.
If Corporate America ever is successfully persuaded to switch to Linux or OS X and open source application suite software, Microsoft will be toast
If 90% of the supporters of the GOP are successfully persuaded to become Democrats, the GOP will be toast...
So what your saying is that if Microsoft loses its most important business segment (without specifying why that should happen) they're in trouble? Insightful.
I've used Reiser4 for my root partition about half the time over the last year (I was trying out different distros but now I'm back to Debian =). No problems, no mysterious files appearing or disappearing, seems rock solid. It's only anecdotal evidence but with all the other posters saying the same thing...
Kanotix (a Knoppix spin-off, 100% debian-unstable compatible, I don't know whether Knoppix itself also offers Reiser4) offers Reiser4 out of the box if you want to try it out without recompiling your kernel and shuffling your root partition around. Launch the graphical installer, choose your installation settings, save the settings to a file, open the config file and set the root filesystem to reiser4 (it's documented in the config file it's just not offered in the graphical installer), restart the graphical installer, load the config file. Much easier and faster than my last stunt with vanilla debian.
Now having read all of the ML discussion in the link GP posted I still don't see how it shows Reiser's immaturity. He may be a bit overconfident about his ideas but that's not necessarily a bad thing. That said I wanted to add that the link is a very good read and it is about features of Reiser4 that may be more important than raw speed (especially raw speed according to benchmarks on Reiser's own homepage =).
Anything more specific? I'm the first to admit that he can be rather immature, spoiled and inflammatory but a quick look at the link you offered showed none of these attitudes. Actually the discussion sounded quite civilized, so what's the problem?
You can reduce the payloads and the side effects of nuclear weapons that's not the problem.
The problem is that you lower the threshold for their use and there's almost no upper limit for escalation. When in 50 years the United Parishes of Jesusland and the Berkeley Socialist Republic decide to duke it out and suddenly one side starts to flatten the cities of the other with thermonuclear warheads in the 100MT+ range then everyone else is gonna jump on those bastards and use the opportunity to nuke all their other enemies too. Chances are they're gonna have some inhibitions to become the reason for the end of the human race.
With new low yield, low radiation nukes the danger is that the UPJ use a bunker buster the BSR retaliates with a tactical nuke against troop concentrations the UPJ then uses one against dug-in defenders in a city the BSR starts using H-bombs against industrial installation and after that both simply nuke everything. Humans generally don't like to take that first big step but a dozen smaller ones seem easier.
No Gnome dialog box should ever have "yes," "no," and cancel as buttons.
Actually I'm not sure I agree. Yes the standard dialogs ("do you want to save", "do you really want to quit", "congratulations, every single one of your programs crashed at once") should have descriptive buttons so I don't have to read them again and again. But there are dialogs which actually contain information which tell you something new. Trying to put all that in a single word, which absolves the user of actually reading the dialog, seems dangerous. jm2c
In addition I'd like to add that speaking from my experience as ex-teenager the lesson learned from tactics like these (first scare them then let them off the hook to teach them a lesson, make an example, send a message etc) is that the system is fucked up. And IMHO that's the correct conclusion.
A: great question! the thing to remember that while we designed a no compromises game system, a huge percentage of our customers are not like the folks in this chat room. recognize that more than 75% of the folks on xbox have not played halo. by introducing the core system we are sending a signal to the market that we are committed to this part of the market just like with the xbox 360 premium bundle that we are committed to you
Yay bullshit, here we come! They sold enough copies of Halo so that 25% of all Xbox owners should have a copy.
This means MS either believes
that noone's ever rented the game, borrowed it from a friend or played a cracked version, or
that, while many people have played Halo that way, the MS DVDs with the game were so crappy that most Halo owners had to buy two copies of the game, or
that we're so stupid and actually think that J Allard tells us the truth instead of weaseling his way out of a question.
Q: Why even offer the core package, its seems quite useless
Because $299 is a much nicer price to throw around in "buy our console" pissing contests with Sony. Sony did the same with the PSP and MS knows a brilliant idea to rip of customers when they see one.
Well, at least we don't call ourselves senior analysts for/. Research.
Actually, we could try that some time. Noone's gonna take advise from "some dude on/." but from an "Excellent Karma Advisor" with "the Taco Group". You can get the most ridiculous things on the front pages if you put an "XYZ Group" somewhere. Just ask Rob Enderle.
Well, in addition Londoners will read about the AU price, worry whether video-"interactive entertainment software" are the end of the world, watch the interesting documentary "Wildlife in the US National Park Named after the Mountain Where the Greek Gods Resided, You Know What We Mean, Wink, Wink". Heck, the only word they won't miss is "summer"
What if Google (GOOG) wanted to give Wi-Fi access to everyone in America? And what if it had technology capable of targeting advertising to a user's precise location?
And it doesn't sound like the author hasn't any further proofs or even rumors.
What if Google wanted to install cameras all over the world and call itself Big Google henceforth? What if Google launched a Mars mission and secured themself exclusive rights for the whole planet? What if they bought Blizzard and released the MMORPG World of Google where virtual elves can search a virtual Azeroth-Net for magic potions?
What if Google didn't anything that would cost more than their market capitalisation, instead concentrated on remaining a search engine with new searches for kitchensinks and lost pets and perhaps a cooperation agreement with some other companies (Apple, publishers for their library project, etc) along the way? Or is that last one too far-fetched?
No, it's accurate. They're testing Yahoo's claim of how many pages they've indexed, which just means that all indexed pages that contain the requested words should be returned from the search request. If yahoo returns fewer unique pages, yahoo has indexed fewer pages.
No it's not. For some more unusual terms over half the results google offers are sites that don't have the word anywhere it's just on pages linking to the site. Most of the time that's not what you want and I've never had a useful result that didn't contain all search terms.
In addition, perhaps yahoo is just better at filtering out meta-tag abuse. There are topics were google only returns dialers, web farms and similar stuff for the first three pages. Incidentially that's also often the case if you're searching for uncommon combinations that don't tend to appear naturally on sites not related to the (also uncommon) topic you're interested in.
What you're talking about is measuring the effectiveness of page ranking, which is a completely different measure of how good a search engine is.
No, I'm talking about the quality of the results. This does mean page ranking for search terms with 1 Mio+ results but it also means indexing especially if there are only 5-10 useful sites on the web
Note: Google wins on that measure too.
Now that settles it. Very in depth. Note: I never doubted that. As I said I use google, but this study sounds like a kneejerk reaction to a perceived attack on Google's supremacy. Action stations! Action stations! Yahoo at the gates! All geeks to the rescue!
And Nutshell42's New Amazing Search Engine gives you even more results. Even though my index size is only 1.something million. I simply return every single wikipedia article in every language as result no matter what you search.
Concluding that Yahoo's index has to be smaller because they return fewer results seems a bit overzealous. Only a thorough study comparing results and how useful they were (which is hard to do, expensive and time consuming) has any meaning that goes beyond producing lots of funny numbers and percentages.
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It sounds like much more than he deserves if he really started spreading FUD after it was clear that he was going to lose his job.
The only way to decide whether he is a whistle blower or a liar that tries to make some cash by blackmailing his former employer and Airbus is to have an independent review of the chip in question. Airbus said they did that but of course they're biased.
If they make those hybrid discs they're gonna cost as much as it would to buy both the DVD and the HD release. Why? Because that's the way it's done in the eyes of the movie industry.
When I first heard about the mandatory "managed copy" feature for HD-DVD I thought "yeah, right" but I have to admit there was this tiny little bit of hope somewhere in the more naive parts of my brain. No more:
Jordi Ribas, director of technical strategy for the Windows Digital Media Division, told me that while the feature is mandatory, the studios will have the option of charging for it
Buy HD-DVD, much better than Blu-Ray, get two, pay two!
Oh, and I no longer trust Ars's coverage since they had the two page HD-DVD ad disguised as article on their frontpage (yes, they added a disclaimer later but I don't read Ars for press releases disclaimer or not)
echo "KDE_NO_IPV6=true" >> /etc/environment
But I think they did something about it anyway; I've recently installed SuSE again and at first forgot to set the variable but I've yet to find a page with the painfully slow rendering that was caused by the ipv6 lookup lags in earlier versions.
Also SuSE (well their performance enhanced version; get it here) has the fastest KDE I've ever seen.
No, they have the Sony Enforcement Division to take care of such problems.
Try a live-cd with KOffice. Lots of them ship with it. Unfortunately strange KDE errors on RedHat are all too often Redhat specific. I don't know what they're doing to manage that but they've got the most severe problem of NIH syndrome I've ever seen so....*cough*
Like everyone I also miss DS9 (my favorite Trek) and I don't even want to start about the order (what's Voyager doing up there?!)
"I for one welcome our Almighty Buck overlords... personally. Just keep sending them my way."
Don't forget ICQ (everyone I know in Germany or Poland uses ICQ)
In other news, house builders worldwide use Apple backed white instead of the greens and blues of WinXP another victory for Apple. Get real, H.264 is part of the MPEG-4 AVC profile. MPEG as in MPEG-2 (you might know it from DVDs, digital satellite, cable and terrestial TV) or mp3. Apple's embraced MPEG-4 and had some influence in writing the specification (especially the file format) but it was a small fish in a big pond.
The Microsoft supported DVD+R spec did not trump the Apple backed DVD-R format and now combo drives are the norm.
Oh, you should tell the DVD+RW Alliance that they've forgotten Microsoft on their homepage. DVD-R had a number of troubles in the beginning and didn't get off the ground so half its backers jumped ship; there were other reasons of course. I don't remember Microsoft favoring + or -.
And Apple's iPod/iTunes support of Dolby's AAC audio codec has seriously frakked up Microsoft's WMA format dominating the MP3 player market.
Cool, instead of listening to their mp3s on an mp3-player that also plays wmv they listen to their mp3s on an mp3-player that also plays aac. I know there is a difference if you buy music online because mp3 lacks a working drm framework but while AAC may be a standard, Apple's drm isn't. Score one for the good guys.
If Corporate America ever is successfully persuaded to switch to Linux or OS X and open source application suite software, Microsoft will be toast
If 90% of the supporters of the GOP are successfully persuaded to become Democrats, the GOP will be toast...
So what your saying is that if Microsoft loses its most important business segment (without specifying why that should happen) they're in trouble? Insightful.
For a more permanent solution, on most distributions adding
to yourKanotix (a Knoppix spin-off, 100% debian-unstable compatible, I don't know whether Knoppix itself also offers Reiser4) offers Reiser4 out of the box if you want to try it out without recompiling your kernel and shuffling your root partition around. Launch the graphical installer, choose your installation settings, save the settings to a file, open the config file and set the root filesystem to reiser4 (it's documented in the config file it's just not offered in the graphical installer), restart the graphical installer, load the config file. Much easier and faster than my last stunt with vanilla debian.
Now having read all of the ML discussion in the link GP posted I still don't see how it shows Reiser's immaturity. He may be a bit overconfident about his ideas but that's not necessarily a bad thing. That said I wanted to add that the link is a very good read and it is about features of Reiser4 that may be more important than raw speed (especially raw speed according to benchmarks on Reiser's own homepage =).
Anything more specific? I'm the first to admit that he can be rather immature, spoiled and inflammatory but a quick look at the link you offered showed none of these attitudes. Actually the discussion sounded quite civilized, so what's the problem?
The problem is that you lower the threshold for their use and there's almost no upper limit for escalation. When in 50 years the United Parishes of Jesusland and the Berkeley Socialist Republic decide to duke it out and suddenly one side starts to flatten the cities of the other with thermonuclear warheads in the 100MT+ range then everyone else is gonna jump on those bastards and use the opportunity to nuke all their other enemies too. Chances are they're gonna have some inhibitions to become the reason for the end of the human race.
With new low yield, low radiation nukes the danger is that the UPJ use a bunker buster the BSR retaliates with a tactical nuke against troop concentrations the UPJ then uses one against dug-in defenders in a city the BSR starts using H-bombs against industrial installation and after that both simply nuke everything. Humans generally don't like to take that first big step but a dozen smaller ones seem easier.
n/t
If you mean a virtual desktop, setting "Virtual" in your xorg.conf should do it, for all DEs.
Actually I'm not sure I agree. Yes the standard dialogs ("do you want to save", "do you really want to quit", "congratulations, every single one of your programs crashed at once") should have descriptive buttons so I don't have to read them again and again. But there are dialogs which actually contain information which tell you something new. Trying to put all that in a single word, which absolves the user of actually reading the dialog, seems dangerous. jm2c
Use Xine, it caches CSS keys.
In addition I'd like to add that speaking from my experience as ex-teenager the lesson learned from tactics like these (first scare them then let them off the hook to teach them a lesson, make an example, send a message etc) is that the system is fucked up. And IMHO that's the correct conclusion.
Yay bullshit, here we come! They sold enough copies of Halo so that 25% of all Xbox owners should have a copy.
This means MS either believes
- that noone's ever rented the game, borrowed it from a friend or played a cracked version, or
- that, while many people have played Halo that way, the MS DVDs with the game were so crappy that most Halo owners had to buy two copies of the game, or
- that we're so stupid and actually think that J Allard tells us the truth instead of weaseling his way out of a question.
Q: Why even offer the core package, its seems quite uselessBecause $299 is a much nicer price to throw around in "buy our console" pissing contests with Sony. Sony did the same with the PSP and MS knows a brilliant idea to rip of customers when they see one.
Actually, we could try that some time. Noone's gonna take advise from "some dude on /." but from an "Excellent Karma Advisor" with "the Taco Group". You can get the most ridiculous things on the front pages if you put an "XYZ Group" somewhere. Just ask Rob Enderle.
Well, in addition Londoners will read about the AU price, worry whether video-"interactive entertainment software" are the end of the world, watch the interesting documentary "Wildlife in the US National Park Named after the Mountain Where the Greek Gods Resided, You Know What We Mean, Wink, Wink". Heck, the only word they won't miss is "summer"
And it doesn't sound like the author hasn't any further proofs or even rumors.
What if Google wanted to install cameras all over the world and call itself Big Google henceforth? What if Google launched a Mars mission and secured themself exclusive rights for the whole planet? What if they bought Blizzard and released the MMORPG World of Google where virtual elves can search a virtual Azeroth-Net for magic potions?
What if Google didn't anything that would cost more than their market capitalisation, instead concentrated on remaining a search engine with new searches for kitchensinks and lost pets and perhaps a cooperation agreement with some other companies (Apple, publishers for their library project, etc) along the way? Or is that last one too far-fetched?
No it's not. For some more unusual terms over half the results google offers are sites that don't have the word anywhere it's just on pages linking to the site. Most of the time that's not what you want and I've never had a useful result that didn't contain all search terms.
In addition, perhaps yahoo is just better at filtering out meta-tag abuse. There are topics were google only returns dialers, web farms and similar stuff for the first three pages. Incidentially that's also often the case if you're searching for uncommon combinations that don't tend to appear naturally on sites not related to the (also uncommon) topic you're interested in.
What you're talking about is measuring the effectiveness of page ranking, which is a completely different measure of how good a search engine is.
No, I'm talking about the quality of the results. This does mean page ranking for search terms with 1 Mio+ results but it also means indexing especially if there are only 5-10 useful sites on the web
Note: Google wins on that measure too.
Now that settles it. Very in depth. Note: I never doubted that. As I said I use google, but this study sounds like a kneejerk reaction to a perceived attack on Google's supremacy. Action stations! Action stations! Yahoo at the gates! All geeks to the rescue!
Concluding that Yahoo's index has to be smaller because they return fewer results seems a bit overzealous. Only a thorough study comparing results and how useful they were (which is hard to do, expensive and time consuming) has any meaning that goes beyond producing lots of funny numbers and percentages.
96.34% of all percentages are completely useless.
btw. I use google, not yahoo