You want dating? I'd love it if I could get "Ironside", "Cannon", "Baretta", "Streets of San Francisco", "Kojak", "Rockford Files", "Barnaby Jones", "Emergency", and a whole host of other 70's cop-type action shows on DVD. Quinn Martin, Jack Webb, and Stephen Cannell were da bomb back then.
I read it as saying that 1 out of every 3300 packets would get garbled, meaning the transmitter won't get an ACK and thus would retransmit up to 5 times as per the spec unless it was a broadcast message, but I don't imagine those will be very plentiful. Given that the packet has a CRC and thus receiver can tell whether it got good data or not, I'd think that the incidence of devices doing something they're not supposed to would be vanishingly low.
How would you define "premier"? Vorbis isn't any better than the other lossy encoders
I disagree - in my experience, Vorbis has been the only one that doesn't smear the low end to crap at all but high (> 192K) bit rates, and I hear a lot less aliasing on the highs too. Given the choice, I would rather use Vorbis just because it sounds better to me. The Vorbis rips I make from CD at quality 5-6 sound *loads* better than the iTMS downloads I get in AAC, and usually take less space to boot.
With highspeed digital cell networks becoming more common, music could be directly downloaded to the customers device without syncing to a PC. That right there is a BIG deal because it makes things even easier for the consumer.
Certainly it would be more convenient, but the cellular providers are not just going to give this bandwidth away. I think most people are going to be quite content with downloading music into their devices via PC if it costs extra to do it over the cell networks. I certainly would. The only way I'd see direct downloads working is if the cellular providers are selling the content itself, and I just don't see them being price-competitive with iTMS. They're just too greedy to realize the long-term benefits of offering reasonable pricing.
It's the damn "downloading is stealing", car, and etc etc advertisements that are a pain in the ass.
Oh, you got that right. There's nothing I like more than being preached to about piracy by some stuntman right after I've shelled out $30 for my wife and I to see a movie. It's been several months since I saw a movie since A.) I have Netflix, and B.) I haven't seen anything that looks appealing, which is the main problem I see. I've owned the boxed set of all three Lord of the Rings films for some time, and I'd *still* pay to see them in a theater. A large percentage of the films I own on DVD I would pay to see, because they're "theater" movies. I'd love it if I could see "Predator" or "The Wrath of Khan" - I suspect those would be two great theater flicks.
Sure, maybe they aren't the best company, I'm not arguing that at all, but the EU is raping them.
I disagree. MS knew what the European laws were, and chose to conduct business in Europe anyway. Having broken said laws, the European governments are now holding the company accountable for its behavior (a somewhat rare occurrence in the US). A US judge has rightly said that the matter is not within US jurisdiction or otherwise before a US court, so it's not something the US court system needs to be involved in. No one forced MS to do business anywhere, and they apparently were betting on the EU being as pliable as the US was in regards to anti-trust matters. The EU seems to take anti-trust issues seriously, so it looks like MS lost that bet. I fail to see a problem, and I would fail to see a problem whether it was MS, Apple, SCO, RedHat, or any other American company. If you play in someone else's yard, you have to play by their rules.
But what if they never sold a single program again, their stock froze in value, they had no investments whatsoever and their land value stayed constant? Then they'd have enough reserves to last about 50 to 60 years, assuming they paid every single day and neither side backed down.
200 million euros at the current exchange rate is about $1.20 or so, meaning MS is looking at a fine of $240 million per day. MS's market cap is about $281 billion, meaning that if they could somehow completely convert all of that into real money right now, they'd last less than 3.25 years at that rate.
No matter what happens, I think MS is looking at having to shell out a lot of money soon.
And what legal basis is there anyway? MSFT has secured copyrights, you can't remove them unless there is a copyright infringement or some other IP-related issues.
I'm not a lawyer and I know precious little about European law, but Microsoft (and other companies) insist on treating copyrights, patents, and such as intellectual property with characteristics similar to that of real property (has value, can be owned, bought, sold, etc.). I'd ask that if they levied fines against MS and MS refused to pay, is it not possible that the UK government could simply look at the Windows and Office copyrights as seizable property with real value?
Wal-Mart does sell mainstream brand names, but if you look at them you'll notice it's generally one or more of a) a low-quality brand, b) an obsolete model, or c) no cheaper than you could get the same thing anywhere else (and often more expensive).
Not always. Ruger manufactures a special version of their 10/22 rifle just for WalMart that I feel is actually a better rifle than Ruger's other 10/22 models that are available at any gun shop. It has the same receiver as a stock 10/22, but has a 22" stainless steel barrel in combination with a birch sporter stock. I have no idea why Ruger doesn't sell this combination outside of WalMart, as it's a damn good product. Interestingly, WalMart sells it for substantially less than you'll find an 16" or 18" stainless 10/22 with the ugly banded stock anywhere else.
Assuming you're American, exactly how much of the United States Code and Code of Federal Regulations do you know off the top of your head? How many Executive Orders are you familiar with? How often do you read the Federal Register? How much of your state constitution, state statutes, and county/city ordinances can you quote?
There's no one in the entire world that has a handle on all of the laws that any citizen in the US is subject to, nor the case law that may or may not apply, so cut the guy some slack.
What many of us forget is that the people are the true guardians of the Constitution.
Spot on. Unfortunately, there is so much ignorance and apathy in the US today that more and more people are mere sheep to be led around as those in power desire. Of those that do truly understand how things are getting, fewer still are those that are willing to go to the mat to change it. I really have no idea how to change things when people are more worried about what a particular celebrity wore to some awards show than they are with whether their government acts within the law or not. It's all bread and circuses, and empty promises of security.
Given the sheer physical volume of the US Constitution and amendments, it is already unaccessible to most citizens.
The Constitution + amendments is only a very few thousand words, and in spite of our government's attempt to obfuscate it and unwillingness to abide by it, it's actually pretty easy to read and understand for anyone with average intelligence. I think you actually meant to say "United States Code" and "Code of Federal Regulations", which define federal law and are both are a complete and total mess. Hell, there's not anyone on the planet that fully understands just Title 26 of the CFR (commonly known as the Internal Revenue Code) and that's just one title out of 50.
Yet laughing at the pain of others when they don't find it funny is part and parcel of that whole genre of comedy called "slapstick". Just because someone finds something funny that someone else doesn't, doesn't make that person a sociopath. It's sad that *that* has to be explained.
they aren't going to force their customers to rewrite all of their php/apache/mysql web sites in asp/iis/sql server
No need to - the "AMP" part of LAMP runs on Windows as well. I much prefer using Linux for server stuff (using RDC in particular is a PITA), but I haven't run into any real difficulties using Windows with the tools you mentioned.
Count me as a libertarian that agrees with your statements re: corporations - I've made these very same points here on/. before. If you want to remove limits on corporate regulation, fine, but you should also be willing to forgo the corresponding protections offered by the government. I don't know whether it would be practical to hold individual shareholders responsible, but it would certainly be possible to hold at least the board members personally liable.
Also, the threat of losing the corporate charter and by extension the right to do business should be something tangible, instead of ineffectual fines that are often just accepted as a cost of doing business and simply passed down to the customer.
No, if it was Fark there'd be an "IRONIC" tag followed by 100+ comments of people slamming the submitter for not knowing what "ironic" means, along with some obligatory Alanis Morrisette references, one or two "HA-HA" Photoshops, someone bringing out the "I work for XXX, and I'm getting a laugh..." quote, and half a dozen "O RLY" owl variations.
Complicating this is that a lot of geeks are libertarians, and a lot of self-styled libertarians think unions have the smell of socialism. Which is stupid, of course; unions are in fact an admirably free-market solution to the problem of employer-employee conflicts.
I consider myself to be something of a libertarian, but I have mixed feelings about unions. On the one hand, collective bargaining can be truly necessary in those situations where the disparity in power between the employer and employee is such that the employer looks upon their workers as faceless, replaceable biological machines that perform a given task and refuses to treat them as human beings. On the other hand, I've seen firsthand the productivity hit and general attitude of entitlement that can result from a strong union, and many unions appear to embody an "us vs. them" mentality that makes it difficult to come to a compromise when the employer's needs/wants need to be taken into consideration, even when they're entirely reasonable.
Having said all of that, one thing that a lot of self-styled libertarians seem to gloss over is the inherent advantage that government confers upon corporations, specifically corporate personhood and all of the stuff that falls out from that, and the fact that corporations exist without fear of any kind of real punishment for criminal acts. I fail to see why some people don't see that for the government intrusion that it is, and then turn around and complain about other government involvement in free markets such as tariffs on imported goods.
So just check the timestamp counter, perform a priveleged instruction, then check the timestamp counter again.
Wouldn't it be a reasonable assumption that whatever rootkit has control could also be trapping the RDTSC instruction as well (RDTSC can be set up as a privileged instruction), and would thus be able to provide a fudged counter value consistent with the un-emulated instructions? Over time, you might still be able to determine a discrepancy between how many ticks the CPU reports and some independent real time source, but it'd take a while.
We used to write fully functional terminal programs, with file transfer and screen capture, in less than 40k. Most BIOSs have plenty of room for a 40k insertion.
And then you also have Applesoft BASIC - a fully functional, full featured BASIC interpreter that lived in about 10K of memory, or 22K if you count the machine's ROM as well.
I'm not sure I understand why it never became standard practice to bring the ROM write enable line out to a connector on the motherboard that could be jumpered to enable ROM updates and left open to prevent them. Run that out to a switch on the front panel, and it becomes trivial for the owner of the machine to prevent anyone from screwing with the ROM while still allowing him to flash it if needed.
To raise cash as the long distance market was disintegrating AT&T spun off AT&T Wireless into a seperate company. That seperate company was aquired by Cingular and now operates under that name.
AT&T Wireless was bought by Cingular, which in turn is owned by BellSouth. Thus, AT&T will in fact have a significant cellular presence in the U.S. if the BellSouth merger goes through.
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You want dating? I'd love it if I could get "Ironside", "Cannon", "Baretta", "Streets of San Francisco", "Kojak", "Rockford Files", "Barnaby Jones", "Emergency", and a whole host of other 70's cop-type action shows on DVD. Quinn Martin, Jack Webb, and Stephen Cannell were da bomb back then.
I read it as saying that 1 out of every 3300 packets would get garbled, meaning the transmitter won't get an ACK and thus would retransmit up to 5 times as per the spec unless it was a broadcast message, but I don't imagine those will be very plentiful. Given that the packet has a CRC and thus receiver can tell whether it got good data or not, I'd think that the incidence of devices doing something they're not supposed to would be vanishingly low.
Most of the workforce that could apply for it then as now are still forced to drive to work and be directly supervised
Don't forget that the peons are also not allowed to deduct the legitimate expenses they incur in doing so (fuel, etc.).
Needless to say, they're now locked into a 5 year multi-million dollar contract, AND have hired back new system admins to replace the layoffs
And yet, I'll bet the fools that cost the shareholders all that money still somehow have their jobs.
How would you define "premier"? Vorbis isn't any better than the other lossy encoders
I disagree - in my experience, Vorbis has been the only one that doesn't smear the low end to crap at all but high (> 192K) bit rates, and I hear a lot less aliasing on the highs too. Given the choice, I would rather use Vorbis just because it sounds better to me. The Vorbis rips I make from CD at quality 5-6 sound *loads* better than the iTMS downloads I get in AAC, and usually take less space to boot.
With highspeed digital cell networks becoming more common, music could be directly downloaded to the customers device without syncing to a PC. That right there is a BIG deal because it makes things even easier for the consumer.
Certainly it would be more convenient, but the cellular providers are not just going to give this bandwidth away. I think most people are going to be quite content with downloading music into their devices via PC if it costs extra to do it over the cell networks. I certainly would. The only way I'd see direct downloads working is if the cellular providers are selling the content itself, and I just don't see them being price-competitive with iTMS. They're just too greedy to realize the long-term benefits of offering reasonable pricing.
It's the damn "downloading is stealing", car, and etc etc advertisements that are a pain in the ass.
Oh, you got that right. There's nothing I like more than being preached to about piracy by some stuntman right after I've shelled out $30 for my wife and I to see a movie. It's been several months since I saw a movie since A.) I have Netflix, and B.) I haven't seen anything that looks appealing, which is the main problem I see. I've owned the boxed set of all three Lord of the Rings films for some time, and I'd *still* pay to see them in a theater. A large percentage of the films I own on DVD I would pay to see, because they're "theater" movies. I'd love it if I could see "Predator" or "The Wrath of Khan" - I suspect those would be two great theater flicks.
A compressor/limiter would fix that problem right up.
Sure, maybe they aren't the best company, I'm not arguing that at all, but the EU is raping them.
I disagree. MS knew what the European laws were, and chose to conduct business in Europe anyway. Having broken said laws, the European governments are now holding the company accountable for its behavior (a somewhat rare occurrence in the US). A US judge has rightly said that the matter is not within US jurisdiction or otherwise before a US court, so it's not something the US court system needs to be involved in. No one forced MS to do business anywhere, and they apparently were betting on the EU being as pliable as the US was in regards to anti-trust matters. The EU seems to take anti-trust issues seriously, so it looks like MS lost that bet. I fail to see a problem, and I would fail to see a problem whether it was MS, Apple, SCO, RedHat, or any other American company. If you play in someone else's yard, you have to play by their rules.
But what if they never sold a single program again, their stock froze in value, they had no investments whatsoever and their land value stayed constant? Then they'd have enough reserves to last about 50 to 60 years, assuming they paid every single day and neither side backed down.
200 million euros at the current exchange rate is about $1.20 or so, meaning MS is looking at a fine of $240 million per day. MS's market cap is about $281 billion, meaning that if they could somehow completely convert all of that into real money right now, they'd last less than 3.25 years at that rate.
No matter what happens, I think MS is looking at having to shell out a lot of money soon.
And what legal basis is there anyway? MSFT has secured copyrights, you can't remove them unless there is a copyright infringement or some other IP-related issues.
I'm not a lawyer and I know precious little about European law, but Microsoft (and other companies) insist on treating copyrights, patents, and such as intellectual property with characteristics similar to that of real property (has value, can be owned, bought, sold, etc.). I'd ask that if they levied fines against MS and MS refused to pay, is it not possible that the UK government could simply look at the Windows and Office copyrights as seizable property with real value?
Wal-Mart does sell mainstream brand names, but if you look at them you'll notice it's generally one or more of a) a low-quality brand, b) an obsolete model, or c) no cheaper than you could get the same thing anywhere else (and often more expensive).
Not always. Ruger manufactures a special version of their 10/22 rifle just for WalMart that I feel is actually a better rifle than Ruger's other 10/22 models that are available at any gun shop. It has the same receiver as a stock 10/22, but has a 22" stainless steel barrel in combination with a birch sporter stock. I have no idea why Ruger doesn't sell this combination outside of WalMart, as it's a damn good product. Interestingly, WalMart sells it for substantially less than you'll find an 16" or 18" stainless 10/22 with the ugly banded stock anywhere else.
Assuming you're American, exactly how much of the United States Code and Code of Federal Regulations do you know off the top of your head? How many Executive Orders are you familiar with? How often do you read the Federal Register? How much of your state constitution, state statutes, and county/city ordinances can you quote?
There's no one in the entire world that has a handle on all of the laws that any citizen in the US is subject to, nor the case law that may or may not apply, so cut the guy some slack.
What many of us forget is that the people are the true guardians of the Constitution.
Spot on. Unfortunately, there is so much ignorance and apathy in the US today that more and more people are mere sheep to be led around as those in power desire. Of those that do truly understand how things are getting, fewer still are those that are willing to go to the mat to change it. I really have no idea how to change things when people are more worried about what a particular celebrity wore to some awards show than they are with whether their government acts within the law or not. It's all bread and circuses, and empty promises of security.
Given the sheer physical volume of the US Constitution and amendments, it is already unaccessible to most citizens.
The Constitution + amendments is only a very few thousand words, and in spite of our government's attempt to obfuscate it and unwillingness to abide by it, it's actually pretty easy to read and understand for anyone with average intelligence. I think you actually meant to say "United States Code" and "Code of Federal Regulations", which define federal law and are both are a complete and total mess. Hell, there's not anyone on the planet that fully understands just Title 26 of the CFR (commonly known as the Internal Revenue Code) and that's just one title out of 50.
Yet laughing at the pain of others when they don't find it funny is part and parcel of that whole genre of comedy called "slapstick". Just because someone finds something funny that someone else doesn't, doesn't make that person a sociopath. It's sad that *that* has to be explained.
they aren't going to force their customers to rewrite all of their php/apache/mysql web sites in asp/iis/sql server
No need to - the "AMP" part of LAMP runs on Windows as well. I much prefer using Linux for server stuff (using RDC in particular is a PITA), but I haven't run into any real difficulties using Windows with the tools you mentioned.
Count me as a libertarian that agrees with your statements re: corporations - I've made these very same points here on /. before. If you want to remove limits on corporate regulation, fine, but you should also be willing to forgo the corresponding protections offered by the government. I don't know whether it would be practical to hold individual shareholders responsible, but it would certainly be possible to hold at least the board members personally liable.
Also, the threat of losing the corporate charter and by extension the right to do business should be something tangible, instead of ineffectual fines that are often just accepted as a cost of doing business and simply passed down to the customer.
No, if it was Fark there'd be an "IRONIC" tag followed by 100+ comments of people slamming the submitter for not knowing what "ironic" means, along with some obligatory Alanis Morrisette references, one or two "HA-HA" Photoshops, someone bringing out the "I work for XXX, and I'm getting a laugh..." quote, and half a dozen "O RLY" owl variations.
Complicating this is that a lot of geeks are libertarians, and a lot of self-styled libertarians think unions have the smell of socialism. Which is stupid, of course; unions are in fact an admirably free-market solution to the problem of employer-employee conflicts.
I consider myself to be something of a libertarian, but I have mixed feelings about unions. On the one hand, collective bargaining can be truly necessary in those situations where the disparity in power between the employer and employee is such that the employer looks upon their workers as faceless, replaceable biological machines that perform a given task and refuses to treat them as human beings. On the other hand, I've seen firsthand the productivity hit and general attitude of entitlement that can result from a strong union, and many unions appear to embody an "us vs. them" mentality that makes it difficult to come to a compromise when the employer's needs/wants need to be taken into consideration, even when they're entirely reasonable.
Having said all of that, one thing that a lot of self-styled libertarians seem to gloss over is the inherent advantage that government confers upon corporations, specifically corporate personhood and all of the stuff that falls out from that, and the fact that corporations exist without fear of any kind of real punishment for criminal acts. I fail to see why some people don't see that for the government intrusion that it is, and then turn around and complain about other government involvement in free markets such as tariffs on imported goods.
So just check the timestamp counter, perform a priveleged instruction, then check the timestamp counter again.
Wouldn't it be a reasonable assumption that whatever rootkit has control could also be trapping the RDTSC instruction as well (RDTSC can be set up as a privileged instruction), and would thus be able to provide a fudged counter value consistent with the un-emulated instructions? Over time, you might still be able to determine a discrepancy between how many ticks the CPU reports and some independent real time source, but it'd take a while.
We used to write fully functional terminal programs, with file transfer and screen capture, in less than 40k. Most BIOSs have plenty of room for a 40k insertion.
And then you also have Applesoft BASIC - a fully functional, full featured BASIC interpreter that lived in about 10K of memory, or 22K if you count the machine's ROM as well.
I'm not sure I understand why it never became standard practice to bring the ROM write enable line out to a connector on the motherboard that could be jumpered to enable ROM updates and left open to prevent them. Run that out to a switch on the front panel, and it becomes trivial for the owner of the machine to prevent anyone from screwing with the ROM while still allowing him to flash it if needed.
yeah, but Saffron *did* have it goin' on, after all...
Damn kids and your "servers". When *I* was young, it was a bit tougher - ever tried to root an abacus?
To raise cash as the long distance market was disintegrating AT&T spun off AT&T Wireless into a seperate company. That seperate company was aquired by Cingular and now operates under that name.
AT&T Wireless was bought by Cingular, which in turn is owned by BellSouth. Thus, AT&T will in fact have a significant cellular presence in the U.S. if the BellSouth merger goes through.