But it strikes me that cutting costs in this manner could hurt more than help. A lot of people watch TV news (I don't, but then, I have./) for the weather report. There is a reason they leave the weather until the end (always pissed me off), and competition for the State would be harsh. Anyway, I'm not advocating TV broadcasting corps, 'cause they are money-grubbing sobs, but the economy they provide is not insignificant. Advertizements would cost more, since they'd have fewer viewers, and ads theoretically help drive the little guys in the economy.
I support their efforts, for a safer and more informed existance, but I hope they look at the ramifications before potentially displacing a market.
Columbia, South America. Know why? 'Cause not even aliens will mess up their special "crop." Or maybe it's cause the dumbass drunks plodding around fields wearing snowshoes all get shot for damaging the crop and being mistaken for theives.
Since most people are looking at this from the consumer angle, I'm going to back-track a bit. The television 'channels' are bands of specified width and position in the UHF/VHF spectrums. A tuner uses simple demodulation, which filters out all other frequencies, and allows the single band to pass through and be converted to a digital signel (modern ones do, anyway).
If archival is what you want, you can capture whatever size band you want and demodulate it later, rather than converting every band seperately to mpeg or whatever. I'm no expert, but I can tell you hardware that can do that will be specialized and probably pretty expensive. The cost might be less, though, than a rack full of computers, and the captured waveform should take up about the same amount of space (compression should work), or maybe less. Perhaps someone else here can better answer those questions, or you can google for 'demodulator tv' - I got lots of hits w/products - or something like that.
The only possibilities I can visualize stem from one stage or another of a spectacular end of one civilization or another. Frozen or baked wasteland. Full of green or purple life. Totally obliterated. The rest are only glimmers.
I'd like to point out that blindly coding is *not* the answer. To use the battle analogy again: Good soldiers do not necessarily make cunning tactitians.
Gates is a tactitian. Linus is somewhat one himself, with his dabbling in hardware at transmeta. The OSS model puts the position of being cunning on all of us. We must *all* decide which direction to go, else we are a mindless mob.
This is the eighth leaked letter concerning reactions to OSS! If MS is not using these letters to carefully manuever the public, they have all got to be totally stupid. For us to believe that they aren't would make us even more so.
Here is the introduction:
----- Everybody remember the Gandhi quote?
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Gentlemen and ladies, this newest leaked memo from Microsoft confirms that we are advancing through GandhiCon Three. As usual, highlights are in red and comments are in {green, also bracketed for the color-blind}. Also as usual, the memo is otherwise unedited and exactly as I received it, with one exception: in the text version I was sent, the last bullet item was inexplicably positioned after the sender sig "Orlando".
Some analysis follows the memo.
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Gandhi's words *are* wise, but the problem it that we (the OSS community) are the ones who are laughing. We're so secure in the fact that OSS can't be touched in the traditional method that we're just sitting back and taking every inch of their retreat as a victory. But it's a tactical retreat! Clearly MS is doing something tricky with palladium, and the gods know what else. I'd be not so quick to dismiss the "inexplicably positioned" bullet item, nor would I say the "then we win" step is so near.
I don't mean to sound paranoid or anything, but it's bloody foolish to be overconfident.
Anyone know what sort of processing power this thing has? I checked all the sites besides the flash one, 'cause it doesn't work on my browser, and found nothing. With all that functionality, though, it would need a beefy CPU, no?
I just got an assignment to research mono's ability to serve ASP in linux. Ten minutes later decided to browse/., and *BAM* it's right there on the front page.
By the way, how well does mono deal with C# programs writen specifically for Windows? My research group has a lot of Windows stuff, which we'd like to port over. Theoretically it should be trivial, but I'd greatly appreciate a comment from someone who's actually done it. Any hitches I should know about?
"spam is certainly a problem for personal email accounts but not for company provided email accounts."
That's because a single person won't sue a spammer. You piss off a company which has much more money than a little guy, though, and you're going to have trouble. Spammers are perhaps evil, but usually not stupid.
"Ninety million tonnes of water swept down the narrow valley into Lynmouth on 15 August, 1952, destroying whole buildings."
That's like, what, five inches of rain? Who in their right mind builds houses at the bottom of vallies anyway?
How was a '2 - Funny' overated?
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Come on, that was funny. Maybe off topic, but not unfunny. I bet the guy didn't even follow the link. Or maybe he's a MS lackey. Either way, it's bad karma, eh? That's where real karma does a better job of judgement than/. karma.
The idea behind immobots seems to take it a bit further than that by actually reducing the amount of control neccessary.
Whereas mobile robots (Mobots) require more human interaction. Exactly how does a computer not provide a service which any businessman with half a brain or more wouldn't have an administrator/engineer oversee?
Warping the definition of robot
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Wouldn't an immobile robot just be a computer, then? It seems as though they are just discussing AI, eh.
This almost makes hopeful that Linux will truly be able to compete with Windows prior to the release of Paladium.
[gripe] Paladium will be a total disaster for us, the users, otherwise. For instance, their recent "leaked" document about music sharing may be to get users to forget that Paladium will likely prevent various types of file sharing. I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't kill some critical function of linux. Any hardware they get to only run with Paladium will be very bad. Encrypted RTC? Encrypted access to RAM? [/gripe]
I think, though, if linux provides the features the masses want (aparently we are getting close), hardware manufacturers will stop and consider their adoption of Paladium more carefully.
I guess that's expected since he did all those 3d models/renderings of it. Do you think those are just progress shots with the background whited out, or results of autocad fun?
I have friends who are, which probably explains how my perspective is skewed.;)
But seriously, speaking from experience, geeks have too much time on their hands.
How many hours did this guy put in? Scope out those diagrams! Most archetects don't use that much detail when designing a building. Just goes to say that dorks have too much time on their hands.
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But it strikes me that cutting costs in this manner could hurt more than help. A lot of people watch TV news (I don't, but then, I have ./) for the weather report. There is a reason they leave the weather until the end (always pissed me off), and competition for the State would be harsh. Anyway, I'm not advocating TV broadcasting corps, 'cause they are money-grubbing sobs, but the economy they provide is not insignificant. Advertizements would cost more, since they'd have fewer viewers, and ads theoretically help drive the little guys in the economy.
I support their efforts, for a safer and more informed existance, but I hope they look at the ramifications before potentially displacing a market.
Columbia, South America. Know why? 'Cause not even aliens will mess up their special "crop." Or maybe it's cause the dumbass drunks plodding around fields wearing snowshoes all get shot for damaging the crop and being mistaken for theives.
Since most people are looking at this from the consumer angle, I'm going to back-track a bit. The television 'channels' are bands of specified width and position in the UHF/VHF spectrums. A tuner uses simple demodulation, which filters out all other frequencies, and allows the single band to pass through and be converted to a digital signel (modern ones do, anyway).
If archival is what you want, you can capture whatever size band you want and demodulate it later, rather than converting every band seperately to mpeg or whatever. I'm no expert, but I can tell you hardware that can do that will be specialized and probably pretty expensive. The cost might be less, though, than a rack full of computers, and the captured waveform should take up about the same amount of space (compression should work), or maybe less. Perhaps someone else here can better answer those questions, or you can google for 'demodulator tv' - I got lots of hits w/products - or something like that.
The only possibilities I can visualize stem from one stage or another of a spectacular end of one civilization or another. Frozen or baked wasteland. Full of green or purple life. Totally obliterated. The rest are only glimmers.
"else we are a mindless mob" meant to read: "else we are a mindless mob to be steered by rumor"
I'd like to point out that blindly coding is *not* the answer. To use the battle analogy again: Good soldiers do not necessarily make cunning tactitians.
Gates is a tactitian. Linus is somewhat one himself, with his dabbling in hardware at transmeta. The OSS model puts the position of being cunning on all of us. We must *all* decide which direction to go, else we are a mindless mob.
This is the eighth leaked letter concerning reactions to OSS! If MS is not using these letters to carefully manuever the public, they have all got to be totally stupid. For us to believe that they aren't would make us even more so.
Here is the introduction:
-----
Everybody remember the Gandhi quote?
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Gentlemen and ladies, this newest leaked memo from Microsoft confirms that we are advancing through GandhiCon Three. As usual, highlights are in red and comments are in {green, also bracketed for the color-blind}. Also as usual, the memo is otherwise unedited and exactly as I received it, with one exception: in the text version I was sent, the last bullet item was inexplicably positioned after the sender sig "Orlando".
Some analysis follows the memo.
-----
Gandhi's words *are* wise, but the problem it that we (the OSS community) are the ones who are laughing. We're so secure in the fact that OSS can't be touched in the traditional method that we're just sitting back and taking every inch of their retreat as a victory. But it's a tactical retreat! Clearly MS is doing something tricky with palladium, and the gods know what else. I'd be not so quick to dismiss the "inexplicably positioned" bullet item, nor would I say the "then we win" step is so near.
I don't mean to sound paranoid or anything, but it's bloody foolish to be overconfident.
Anyone know what sort of processing power this thing has? I checked all the sites besides the flash one, 'cause it doesn't work on my browser, and found nothing. With all that functionality, though, it would need a beefy CPU, no?
I'm sure the RIAA is sitting back right now, feeling very good about itself.
Forgot to mention, specifically, we'll be porting to Linux (RH), not over to mono for Windows.
I just got an assignment to research mono's ability to serve ASP in linux. Ten minutes later decided to browse /., and *BAM* it's right there on the front page.
By the way, how well does mono deal with C# programs writen specifically for Windows? My research group has a lot of Windows stuff, which we'd like to port over. Theoretically it should be trivial, but I'd greatly appreciate a comment from someone who's actually done it. Any hitches I should know about?
Thanks!
"spam is certainly a problem for personal email accounts but not for company provided email accounts." That's because a single person won't sue a spammer. You piss off a company which has much more money than a little guy, though, and you're going to have trouble. Spammers are perhaps evil, but usually not stupid.
"Ninety million tonnes of water swept down the narrow valley into Lynmouth on 15 August, 1952, destroying whole buildings."
That's like, what, five inches of rain? Who in their right mind builds houses at the bottom of vallies anyway?
Come on, that was funny. Maybe off topic, but not unfunny. I bet the guy didn't even follow the link. Or maybe he's a MS lackey. Either way, it's bad karma, eh? That's where real karma does a better job of judgement than /. karma.
I wonder why all the articles which hold predictions are "bold."
I've heard this is the best SQL server around. Is it really better than MySQL?
Follow the link. The kid with his balls in a vice is the one on the lower left at the top of the page.
It might have your balls in a vice.
Ever fallen asleep typing a paper in MS Word and awaken to find a blue screen of death or similar? I'm sure some college kids can relate.
The idea behind immobots seems to take it a bit further than that by actually reducing the amount of control neccessary.
Whereas mobile robots (Mobots) require more human interaction. Exactly how does a computer not provide a service which any businessman with half a brain or more wouldn't have an administrator/engineer oversee?
Wouldn't an immobile robot just be a computer, then? It seems as though they are just discussing AI, eh.
This almost makes hopeful that Linux will truly be able to compete with Windows prior to the release of Paladium.
[gripe] Paladium will be a total disaster for us, the users, otherwise. For instance, their recent "leaked" document about music sharing may be to get users to forget that Paladium will likely prevent various types of file sharing. I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't kill some critical function of linux. Any hardware they get to only run with Paladium will be very bad. Encrypted RTC? Encrypted access to RAM? [/gripe]
I think, though, if linux provides the features the masses want (aparently we are getting close), hardware manufacturers will stop and consider their adoption of Paladium more carefully.
Be nice, now. That's not clever, anyway ;)
I guess that's expected since he did all those 3d models/renderings of it. Do you think those are just progress shots with the background whited out, or results of autocad fun?
I have friends who are, which probably explains how my perspective is skewed. ;)
But seriously, speaking from experience, geeks have too much time on their hands.
How many hours did this guy put in? Scope out those diagrams! Most archetects don't use that much detail when designing a building. Just goes to say that dorks have too much time on their hands.