Note that this only affects public chatrooms and not the MSN Messenger service - I say this now not because it's not obvious to those who read the article, but that because this is slashdot and people won't:)
I have two Compact Flash cards from Sandisk, one is labelled 30Mb and was bought in 1999, the other was bought last year and is labelled 32Mb - guess what, they are both the same capacity.
So sometime between then and now, they've decided to change from an honest reporting of size to a dishonest one. It wasn't a matter of "it's always the way its been", someone there made a conscious decision to mislead.
(oh yeah, and I'm angry because that 2Mb could store half a digitized song!)
I have had a horrible thought - all that Microsoft would need to do would be persuade Macromedia/Adobe/etc to licence their code to embed within the Internet Explorer application. Doing so would mean that no external applet is loaded and that would mean the patent does not apply.
Now assume that the use of this requires exchange of $$$ (or even, I am sure they have thought of it, Microsoft buying Macromedia) - and suddenly you have the situation where IE could become the only browser that can display Flash content (assuming that Eolas didn't give Open Source permisson to continue as normal).
But if I remember right, whenever you see any writing in the Star Wars movies it's all in a strange alpahbet, so how come the ships are named (and shaped!) after the Roman alphabet.
What a pointless statistic. I bet you would find a month-on-month increase in P2P usage as more non-techy people out there discover how ridiculously easy it is.
I got one of those Microsoft "Natural Keyboards" back in about 1998 and I am still using it - previously I had suffered from bad RSI after long bouts of typing, but with this keyboard it actually does make it much easier to type.
It has additional benefits - firstly the twisted layout puts people off using it, and secondly most of the letters on the bottom row of the keyboard have worn off the keys - end result - noone else touches my computer when I am away!
The replicators are probably loving all the harsh publicity they are getting in Slashdot and around the Linux community, anything they do to upset and aggrivate the Open Source world will probably score them bonus points with Microsoft. The more we bitch about them here, the more Microsoft will love them.
However, they'll need to be careful, dealing with Microsoft is not something I would envy - I met someone once who used to work with them, and he told me that ".. the only time M$ wouldn't piss all over you is if you were on fire."
but the issue here is digital downloads. I can sit here in the UK and pay online to renew my, um, website subscription and not have to pay any VAT. How are Customs and Excise going to know?
Jolyon
A prime example of a technology that has great benefits, but now that it's defined as a 'standard' is being pushed for use into areas where non XML formats would be far simpler, more efficient and equally easy to understand.
Well, if Microsoft did an Xbox handheld, you'd need a damn strong right hand to hold it. Still, I guess if the market is adolescent makes, requiring a strong right hand isn't a problem.
Don't worry about your firmware upgrades
on
802.11g Slows Down
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It appears from the comments here that quite a few people haven't bothered to read the article (slashdot users commenting before reading the article? there's a suprise!).
This is NOT a proposal that's going to slow down all the 54Mbps cards out there to 10-20Mbps, all it's saying is "Hey, we were a little optimistic, these g cards have never been 54Mbps, and it would be a little more honest at this point to tell people that they're only 10Mbps-20Mbps cards."
So hold off on your firmware upgrades if you wish, but you still won't have 54Mpbs wireless!
Back in the early 1990s I was an Amiga CDTV/CD32 multimedia developer and Nimbus, the CD replication company, told us they had developed a system for mastering far >700Mb on a CD. The trick was simple - make the spiral tracking groove tighter and you can fit more data on. The specifications for CD were written in the 70s, and the technology has improved so much that CD pickups can focus with far more accurate control than is necessary for the standards, allowing them to cram more onto a disk.
Nimbus' system had a limit of 99 minutes of music on a disc - purely because they didn't want to break two-digit LCD displays in CD Players!
However their project was killed off by Sony/Phillips (either or both, I can't remember) who told them quite bluntly they weren't allowed to master CDs that didn't follow the Red Book rules for the CD standard exactly, and that meant a max of just over 80 mins of audio.
The difference nowdays is that you can record such disks on your own burner, in those days this could only be done when making the glass master.
Slashdot Mirror
Yep, it's just you.
The dialog box has nothing to do with security - it's just there because Microsoft's lawyers have told them to put it there.
I would make the language get fixed
I would make the grammar get fixed too.
Jolyon
It should say: FILE "BeOS5PEMaxEdiionV3.iso" BINARY
Is there a typo in your correction of the typo?
Jolyon
Note that this only affects public chatrooms and not the MSN Messenger service - I say this now not because it's not obvious to those who read the article, but that because this is slashdot and people won't :)
I have two Compact Flash cards from Sandisk, one is labelled 30Mb and was bought in 1999, the other was bought last year and is labelled 32Mb - guess what, they are both the same capacity.
So sometime between then and now, they've decided to change from an honest reporting of size to a dishonest one. It wasn't a matter of "it's always the way its been", someone there made a conscious decision to mislead.
(oh yeah, and I'm angry because that 2Mb could store half a digitized song!)
I have had a horrible thought - all that Microsoft would need to do would be persuade Macromedia/Adobe/etc to licence their code to embed within the Internet Explorer application. Doing so would mean that no external applet is loaded and that would mean the patent does not apply.
Now assume that the use of this requires exchange of $$$ (or even, I am sure they have thought of it, Microsoft buying Macromedia) - and suddenly you have the situation where IE could become the only browser that can display Flash content (assuming that Eolas didn't give Open Source permisson to continue as normal).
Jolyon
So, sure it's all big and clever to use a scanner as a microscope, but is it really that big and clever to pull the wing off a bee?
I'm shocked! This sort of behaviour should not be promoted on Slashdot!!!!
This could have more negative impact for the RIAA than a thosand slashdot-inspired protests.
This is the first time I've seen a national media article from one of the major networks portraying the RIAA clampdown in a negative light.
Watch how quickly the RIAA backpeddle on this one...
Jolyon
And how do we know this story is true?
Here in the UK, they're called "cash machines" or "cash points" or just the "hole in the wall" Jolyon
"While I'm glad to see the ATM machine made the list"
And what does the M in ATM stand for again?
But if I remember right, whenever you see any writing in the Star Wars movies it's all in a strange alpahbet, so how come the ships are named (and shaped!) after the Roman alphabet.
:)
Oh hang on, am I taking things too seriously?
Jolyon
What a pointless statistic. I bet you would find a month-on-month increase in P2P usage as more non-techy people out there discover how ridiculously easy it is.
Jolyon
I got one of those Microsoft "Natural Keyboards" back in about 1998 and I am still using it - previously I had suffered from bad RSI after long bouts of typing, but with this keyboard it actually does make it much easier to type.
It has additional benefits - firstly the twisted layout puts people off using it, and secondly most of the letters on the bottom row of the keyboard have worn off the keys - end result - noone else touches my computer when I am away!
Jolyon
The replicators are probably loving all the harsh publicity they are getting in Slashdot and around the Linux community, anything they do to upset and aggrivate the Open Source world will probably score them bonus points with Microsoft. The more we bitch about them here, the more Microsoft will love them.
However, they'll need to be careful, dealing with Microsoft is not something I would envy - I met someone once who used to work with them, and he told me that ".. the only time M$ wouldn't piss all over you is if you were on fire."
Jolyon
I guess it depends on the size of the breasts of the person at the other end.
What is most amusing is that Microsoft page on "Alternatives to Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP" appears to have been slashdotted already.
Now, of course, if they hadn't been hosting it on IIS/ASP.NET...
Ah,
but the issue here is digital downloads. I can sit here in the UK and pay online to renew my, um, website subscription and not have to pay any VAT. How are Customs and Excise going to know? Jolyon
if companies in the US, especially small etailers, don't bother?
A prime example of a technology that has great benefits, but now that it's defined as a 'standard' is being pushed for use into areas where non XML formats would be far simpler, more efficient and equally easy to understand.
Well, if Microsoft did an Xbox handheld, you'd need a damn strong right hand to hold it. Still, I guess if the market is adolescent makes, requiring a strong right hand isn't a problem.
It appears from the comments here that quite a few people haven't bothered to read the article (slashdot users commenting before reading the article? there's a suprise!).
This is NOT a proposal that's going to slow down all the 54Mbps cards out there to 10-20Mbps, all it's saying is "Hey, we were a little optimistic, these g cards have never been 54Mbps, and it would be a little more honest at this point to tell people that they're only 10Mbps-20Mbps cards."
So hold off on your firmware upgrades if you wish, but you still won't have 54Mpbs wireless!
Jolyon
The serious time-shifting listeners aren't listening today, they'll be listening next week.
"Sorry I'm late to work - I had my radio time-shifted by two hours and I thought it was 7am when I woke up"
Back in the early 1990s I was an Amiga CDTV/CD32 multimedia developer and Nimbus, the CD replication company, told us they had developed a system for mastering far >700Mb on a CD. The trick was simple - make the spiral tracking groove tighter and you can fit more data on. The specifications for CD were written in the 70s, and the technology has improved so much that CD pickups can focus with far more accurate control than is necessary for the standards, allowing them to cram more onto a disk.
Nimbus' system had a limit of 99 minutes of music on a disc - purely because they didn't want to break two-digit LCD displays in CD Players!
However their project was killed off by Sony/Phillips (either or both, I can't remember) who told them quite bluntly they weren't allowed to master CDs that didn't follow the Red Book rules for the CD standard exactly, and that meant a max of just over 80 mins of audio.
The difference nowdays is that you can record such disks on your own burner, in those days this could only be done when making the glass master.
Jolyon