A proposal in a speech doesn't mean much. The last State of the Union address talked about funding for hydrogen cars on par with the Manhatten project. Maybe if hydrogen cars would track down evildoers and smoke them out.... but I digress.
The moon was an appealing target in the 1960s to show the USSR did not have superiority. No offense to other countries, but we just don't have that challenge anymore. Today's enemies are camel-fuckers living in tents in some 3rd world country.
According to the register (a reliable source, if ever there was one), Apple doesn't make much (if any) money from iTMS directly -- it's a gateway for iPods, where they do make money. So it's not surprising HP has mp3 (wma) players along with their music store.
However, Napster, BuyMusic, Dell, and HP should be shitting their pants now that MS will be in the business. They're all dealing with the same DRM (wma files), the same catalog, and the same music. MS has the resources to make sure they wind up on top.
On my Xp/2.4 ghz machine, mozilla is pretty snappy. I stopped using IE and switched to mozilla after I installed kerio personal firewall... IE takes *forever* to download html with kerio. No idea why, Nothing is filtered for IE, but oddly enough, IE uses UDP for some stuff.
I've heard that IE sends fucked up packets so it can connect to IIS websites, maybe that's the problem, but on modern machines, mozilla is fast enough for me. On my PII/233, IE kicks the shit out of mozilla, though.
my bounty: I'm sick of clicking on links and not being redirected to goatse. I will pay $50.00 to anyone who can submit a patch to mozilla.org (and they accept it) so clicking on a link will randomly redirect me to http://goatse.cx. Ideally, the screen would also maximize and the back button would be disabled as well, and maybe a really loud beep so other people will know I'm a sick pervert.
NGSCB is an operating system kernel within an operating system kernel -- the larger of which will resemble the conventional Windows system. But the other part, which Manferdelli called the "Nexus mode" and said is entirely optional for the user, is the "trusted computing" model that Microsoft, Intel, and organizations such as the Record Industry Association of America are so hot to get the general public to use. Why? Because it will allow only one user per system and per application, and it will be much easier to track music, video, and other entertainment files as they move from retailer to listener.
I hate to break it to you, RIAA, but the problem isn't people re-distributing DRM music from iTMS, Napster 2.0, etc.
However, many programs create temporary files and then promptly delete them -- so many times that it would be ridiculously inefficient (both in space and fragmentation levels) to put them into the trash.
Actually, there is an OS that lets you specify that a file is temporary, though I can't remember offhand which one (VMS? NT? OS X? dragonfly BSD?). Or maybe I'm thinking of SQL - for small temporary tables, you can often have them stored in memory.
Anyhow, you could add an fcntl flag to indicate a file is temporary, so unlink would work as normal; otherwise unlink would copy the file to your trash folder. It's fairly trivial to have a pre-loaded user-library overide a system call, but it could be done in the kernel too.
give me a fucking break. He's not a historian, he's not an analyst, he's a journalist. He can throw together a summary of what he's read elsewhere, add in some predictions, and spell check it.
natural diamonds have imperfections and impurities that make them look nicer, but are useless for scientific purposes. Manufactured diamonds are pure , or can have controlled impurities, making them scientifically useful, but they still don't look nice in a ring.
"At 5-nanometer gate dimension, I would have to agree with them," said Craig Sander, vice president of process technology development for AMD. "I think we will find applications that don't require that we stay on such an aggressive roadmap."
Typical strawman argument. Too bad 5-nm isn't the bottleneck.
I guess people have gotten bored declaring Apple and *BSD dead and have moved on to Moore's Law.
Linux isn't a company, so it's not as simple. If I (as an enduser) use RH or debian or suse, I shouldn't be liable for anything they might have done wrong. But what if you modify and recompile your linux kernel? That makes you more akin to Ford Motor Company than just a schmuck that drives a Taurus.
I'd say, given the nature of Linux development, if Linux does contain SCO/Unix IP, the individual that submitted the code is liable. Maybe we'll find out.
I think google might be a juicier target because they're looking at an IPO. SCO may be hoping paying them off (in cash or stock) would be easier than doing an IPO with a potentially costly lawsuit hanging over their heads (even though the lawsuit has no merit).
Or perhaps an even better example, has any drunk driving accident victim sued the bar which sold them the drink?
It happens, but usually only when the driver was at a restaurant/bar, and they kept serving him when he was obviously too drunk. Bar's are liable for that sort of thing.
It's a poor example, though, since drunk driving is a crime against society (ie, you can be arrested and tried in criminal court), whereas downloading britney spears' latest and greatest is a civil offense (not to mention bad taste in music).
If Apple makes solid Ogg Vorbis support available for iPods, they are afraid that people will start clamoring for unprotected files.
Slashdot readers are already "clamoring" for DRM-less files (are unprotected files like unprotected sex?). But then again, slashdot readers are clamoring for unrestricted, non-lossy (FLAC, WAV, or AIFF) songs for $0.25 each. Meanwhile Apple sells millions of 128kbps, DRM songs. iTunes/iPod already support both DRM-less AAC and MP3 files, as well as AIFF and WAV.
Whatever reason Apple has for not supporting ogg has nothing to do with a handful of cranks and kooks.
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parsing any text involves character-by-character analysis. No amount of geekdom code rewriting can change that. If an XML file is 3-times as large as a CSV file, it will take 3-times as long to parse. And both will be magnitudes slower than a binary record.
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The moon was an appealing target in the 1960s to show the USSR did not have superiority. No offense to other countries, but we just don't have that challenge anymore. Today's enemies are camel-fuckers living in tents in some 3rd world country.
IE seems to use UDP port 4666 for some reason.
- They were the first one with RIAA songs
- They use AAC files, which locks* you in to iTunes or iPod
All the Windows look-a-likes are left competing based on who has the cooler logo.* sure, you can burn to a CD and re-rip, but that takes work
Not likely. The HP music store DRM files will be wma. The best you can hope for is linux binary to uploads mp3s.
However, Napster, BuyMusic, Dell, and HP should be shitting their pants now that MS will be in the business. They're all dealing with the same DRM (wma files), the same catalog, and the same music. MS has the resources to make sure they wind up on top.
I've heard that IE sends fucked up packets so it can connect to IIS websites, maybe that's the problem, but on modern machines, mozilla is fast enough for me. On my PII/233, IE kicks the shit out of mozilla, though.
I hate to break it to you, RIAA, but the problem isn't people re-distributing DRM music from iTMS, Napster 2.0, etc.
http://www.goatse.cx.
some asses require more covering than others.
maybe it's really just an attempt at making that other over-hyped piece of shit (segway) look trendy?
Actually, there is an OS that lets you specify that a file is temporary, though I can't remember offhand which one (VMS? NT? OS X? dragonfly BSD?). Or maybe I'm thinking of SQL - for small temporary tables, you can often have them stored in memory.
Anyhow, you could add an fcntl flag to indicate a file is temporary, so unlink would work as normal; otherwise unlink would copy the file to your trash folder. It's fairly trivial to have a pre-loaded user-library overide a system call, but it could be done in the kernel too.
Now you know why he fits in at slashdot.
If you get a law named after you, you probably did something very bad, or someone did something very bad to you.
natural diamonds have imperfections and impurities that make them look nicer, but are useless for scientific purposes. Manufactured diamonds are pure , or can have controlled impurities, making them scientifically useful, but they still don't look nice in a ring.
Typical strawman argument. Too bad 5-nm isn't the bottleneck.
I guess people have gotten bored declaring Apple and *BSD dead and have moved on to Moore's Law.
There's also the urban legend about getting straight A's for the semester if your college roommate dies.
I'd say, given the nature of Linux development, if Linux does contain SCO/Unix IP, the individual that submitted the code is liable. Maybe we'll find out.
It happens, but usually only when the driver was at a restaurant/bar, and they kept serving him when he was obviously too drunk. Bar's are liable for that sort of thing.
It's a poor example, though, since drunk driving is a crime against society (ie, you can be arrested and tried in criminal court), whereas downloading britney spears' latest and greatest is a civil offense (not to mention bad taste in music).
The real question: does "linus" rhyme with "penis" or "vaginas"?
Don't worry, there's more than enough colon here!
you won't have the vanity of familysmith.com, but if your parents have a macintosh, iPhoto does makes web photo journals nice and easy.
Slashdot readers are already "clamoring" for DRM-less files (are unprotected files like unprotected sex?). But then again, slashdot readers are clamoring for unrestricted, non-lossy (FLAC, WAV, or AIFF) songs for $0.25 each. Meanwhile Apple sells millions of 128kbps, DRM songs. iTunes/iPod already support both DRM-less AAC and MP3 files, as well as AIFF and WAV.
Whatever reason Apple has for not supporting ogg has nothing to do with a handful of cranks and kooks.
parsing any text involves character-by-character analysis. No amount of geekdom code rewriting can change that. If an XML file is 3-times as large as a CSV file, it will take 3-times as long to parse. And both will be magnitudes slower than a binary record.