Tires are in fact speed rated. I.e. you're supposed to use tires on your Jaguar (pronounced Jag-wire in ordinary trailer parks across America) that are speed rated for them. Put tires that are underrated, and you take not only a safety risk but break the law.
Oh yeah, and older ARM and x86 processors don't even have FP built-in. So much for "portable".
Unless you can point to a current processor, or even a large install base of older processors with this 'problem' I think you're raising a pretty obsolete point there.
Now why would I want to run a dual-headed Sparc box with 24 bit color framebuffers in 256 color mode?
The CG14 'support' in XFree86 should be stamped 'broken' with a big red rubber stamp. Not that I complain loudly very often, as *I* haven't dug in and done it myself...
You mean, when that script kiddie roots my box, not only do I have to worry about becoming a DDOS zombie, he's gonna head on over and start yanking out drives and SIMMs??
the base laguage is simple (especially C) and all the complicated stuff is in libraries.
To add to this, it takes the standards committees considerable work to hammer out what the standard should be just in a 'small simple' language like C. I can't imagine how a proper standard can be hammered out, let alone how vendors can be hoped to comply with said standard.
The point of Palladium is that you will not longer have "root" access to your own machine.
What a pitiful, poorly thought out metaphor.
You already don't have "root" access to your own machine, unless you can hand code assembly language and know the registers and other particulars of your particular architecture.
Have you done a walk-through of the machine code in your bios? And any bios extensions loaded at boot time from ROMs on expansion cards like your video hardware?
How about the embedded controller machine code in your hard drive?
If not, you don't have "root" access and you'd better get crackin'.
Don't be alarmist. This will go a long way towards people being able to download and view 'DRM-required' media content. If you install an 'untrusted' OS on the computer, it will work fine, but DRM-required media content won't play on it.
The whole thrust of this is that all-layer security must be implemented down to the BIOS level for the whole 'trusted hard/software' scheme to work.
It's shocking how flames of ignorance are fanned here in this supposedly tech-aware community purely so some FUD can be manufactured.
My rickety old SS10 is a SS10BSX, so it would be a true waste to run anything but Solaris. In addition to two processors it has dual CG14 video hardware on the motherboard and there isn't a 'free' X server out there that supports single, let alone dual CG14 on a SS10.
The whole Internet culture of 'RFC's is part of why the 'net doesn't scale well to the whole world. You can't base an entire world network on consensus. Consensus doesn't scale well beyond a community. It's the sad truth.
I think I once even read Stallman sniping at O'Reilly for publishing all the important Unix books (i.e. the X11 series). They 'removed the itch' for people to write the free books that RMS would have preferred. That said, I am pretty sure the GNU Emacs Manual on my bookshelf (mine is Sixth Edition, Version 18 March 1987) costs money. Yep, the order form in the back says I can order it for $10. And the GNU Emacs source on 1600bpi industry standard magnetic tape in tar format for $150. But that's from the June 1988 price list. Prices may have changed.;)
Knuth is in hardcovers. So is Tannenbaum, Jolitz and Jolitz, and most of the Prentice-Hall books on my shelf that are really important. Granted Schneier and all the O'Reilly books are softcover, but so are all those disposable Windows books (any book with the version number in it's title is a disposable book).
I used to have a Hewlett-Packard scientific desk calculator that had core memory in it. It was one of the early models with a small CRT for the display, and tons and tons of discrete parts (diodes and transistors) in it instead of ICs. I always wondered- if this diode (picking one at random) was snipped out, would certain square roots no longer calculate correct, or what?
You can repopulate the inside of an old case (lets say that you got an old case with no computer in it from some salvage shop) with a Pee Cee mobo and then run an emulator on it to pretend it's the real deal.
It's a good thing you added "lets' say that you got an old case with no computer in it from some salvage shop...". There is a special dark corner in hell for people who core out classic computer hardware to do something 'clever' like throw shitty Intel motherboards in it. It's amusing for a few months, then it's another obsolete discard, and not even an interesting one from a technical point of view.
I sold one of my SYM-1 single boards to somebody in Japan a few months ago through eBay. I was sort of surprised that somebody that far away would bid on it.
I don't find a link for people who want to create highly compatible Bourne Shell scripts that don't include the creeping extend-embrace features of BASH.
I meant, of course: 'put the music and movies out on LP vinyl or 16mm motion picture film.' Needless to say the video could be digitally encoded as audio on LPs but it'd take awhile and people would get tired of just the trailer alone needing 750 LPs.
The whole thing conjures up the image of the time that I saw disk 47 out of a copy of Microsoft Word for Windows on a 5-1/4" low density floppy diskette at a surplus store...
Further, they ("Hollywood") should be required to support legacy devices such as DVDs and CDs.
Well, I have a solution: put out the movies on the new 'protected' media. For people who refuse to use said media or who just plain cannot, put the movies out on LP vinyl or 16mm motion picture film.
Maybe we should just let things alone, and let people who grew up in this environment figure out a way to benefit from it. Let the principles of capitalism find a way.
Quoting from the article:
This year, several of the major music companies have said they plan to begin embedding copy-protection technologies on a sizable percentage of their CD's.
Looks like they already are. And boy what an outrage it created in the little subcultures that get their kick out of cracking and distributing that stuff.
Remember those play once, then throw away DVDs called DivX? We all stayed away from them in droves.
DivX was too early on the market, and limited to a single outlet (Circuit City). People have had the time now to get used to watching movies on shiny discs. If a widely distributed form of DivX were to appear, it might succeed tremendously. It's one of those unanswerable 'what if...' questions, but claiming that DivX failing was a victory for 'us' is like the dog who feels just great because he chased away another car that went by his fence on the road.
Read any comprehensive history of the Civil War. It was not a war fought to 'free the slaves' though there's a large body of propaganda out there that claims so.
Back in the early 80's when I lived in a house full of people who rode our bikes everywhere, 12 months a year, and this was Minnesota... we'd snort at anybody who spent more than $50 on a bike.
Prices haven't gone up enough on bikes (an under $50 bike then is probably about the same as an under $50 bike now) for that to have changed much.
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Tires are in fact speed rated. I.e. you're supposed to use tires on your Jaguar (pronounced Jag-wire in ordinary trailer parks across America) that are speed rated for them. Put tires that are underrated, and you take not only a safety risk but break the law.
Unless you can point to a current processor, or even a large install base of older processors with this 'problem' I think you're raising a pretty obsolete point there.
Well, yeah. It has. In 256 color mode.
Now why would I want to run a dual-headed Sparc box with 24 bit color framebuffers in 256 color mode?
The CG14 'support' in XFree86 should be stamped 'broken' with a big red rubber stamp. Not that I complain loudly very often, as *I* haven't dug in and done it myself...
"Root" means hardware permissions?
You mean, when that script kiddie roots my box, not only do I have to worry about becoming a DDOS zombie, he's gonna head on over and start yanking out drives and SIMMs??
To add to this, it takes the standards committees considerable work to hammer out what the standard should be just in a 'small simple' language like C. I can't imagine how a proper standard can be hammered out, let alone how vendors can be hoped to comply with said standard.
Or is this one of those single sourced projects?
How did this ignorant comment get modded up? I read at +2 to try to block out stuff like this.
The point of Palladium is that you will not longer have "root" access to your own machine.
What a pitiful, poorly thought out metaphor.
You already don't have "root" access to your own machine, unless you can hand code assembly language and know the registers and other particulars of your particular architecture.
Have you done a walk-through of the machine code in your bios? And any bios extensions loaded at boot time from ROMs on expansion cards like your video hardware?
How about the embedded controller machine code in your hard drive?
If not, you don't have "root" access and you'd better get crackin'.
Don't be alarmist. This will go a long way towards people being able to download and view 'DRM-required' media content. If you install an 'untrusted' OS on the computer, it will work fine, but DRM-required media content won't play on it.
The whole thrust of this is that all-layer security must be implemented down to the BIOS level for the whole 'trusted hard/software' scheme to work.
It's shocking how flames of ignorance are fanned here in this supposedly tech-aware community purely so some FUD can be manufactured.
My rickety old SS10 is a SS10BSX, so it would be a true waste to run anything but Solaris. In addition to two processors it has dual CG14 video hardware on the motherboard and there isn't a 'free' X server out there that supports single, let alone dual CG14 on a SS10.
The whole Internet culture of 'RFC's is part of why the 'net doesn't scale well to the whole world. You can't base an entire world network on consensus. Consensus doesn't scale well beyond a community. It's the sad truth.
No. I programmed on an HP85A back in the days. That's a real full portable computer. This was an HP calculator with RPN and all that.
I think I once even read Stallman sniping at O'Reilly for publishing all the important Unix books (i.e. the X11 series). They 'removed the itch' for people to write the free books that RMS would have preferred. That said, I am pretty sure the GNU Emacs Manual on my bookshelf (mine is Sixth Edition, Version 18 March 1987) costs money. Yep, the order form in the back says I can order it for $10. And the GNU Emacs source on 1600bpi industry standard magnetic tape in tar format for $150. But that's from the June 1988 price list. Prices may have changed. ;)
Knuth is in hardcovers. So is Tannenbaum, Jolitz and Jolitz, and most of the Prentice-Hall books on my shelf that are really important. Granted Schneier and all the O'Reilly books are softcover, but so are all those disposable Windows books (any book with the version number in it's title is a disposable book).
I used to have a Hewlett-Packard scientific desk calculator that had core memory in it. It was one of the early models with a small CRT for the display, and tons and tons of discrete parts (diodes and transistors) in it instead of ICs. I always wondered- if this diode (picking one at random) was snipped out, would certain square roots no longer calculate correct, or what?
It's a good thing you added "lets' say that you got an old case with no computer in it from some salvage shop...". There is a special dark corner in hell for people who core out classic computer hardware to do something 'clever' like throw shitty Intel motherboards in it. It's amusing for a few months, then it's another obsolete discard, and not even an interesting one from a technical point of view.
I sold one of my SYM-1 single boards to somebody in Japan a few months ago through eBay. I was sort of surprised that somebody that far away would bid on it.
Umm, this makes IE and IIS faster. Not just look faster.
I thought RFC stood for 'Request For Comment.'
That doesn't sound like a rule to me. And obviously, Microsoft has made their comment.
I don't find a link for people who want to create highly compatible Bourne Shell scripts that don't include the creeping extend-embrace features of BASH.
I meant, of course: 'put the music and movies out on LP vinyl or 16mm motion picture film.' Needless to say the video could be digitally encoded as audio on LPs but it'd take awhile and people would get tired of just the trailer alone needing 750 LPs.
The whole thing conjures up the image of the time that I saw disk 47 out of a copy of Microsoft Word for Windows on a 5-1/4" low density floppy diskette at a surplus store...
Further, they ("Hollywood") should be required to support legacy devices such as DVDs and CDs.
Well, I have a solution: put out the movies on the new 'protected' media. For people who refuse to use said media or who just plain cannot, put the movies out on LP vinyl or 16mm motion picture film.
Now, be nice to those dirty hippies in the street wearing big puppet costumes.... It's all they know....
Quoting from the article:
This year, several of the major music companies have said they plan to begin embedding copy-protection technologies on a sizable percentage of their CD's.
Looks like they already are. And boy what an outrage it created in the little subcultures that get their kick out of cracking and distributing that stuff.
Remember those play once, then throw away DVDs called DivX? We all stayed away from them in droves.
DivX was too early on the market, and limited to a single outlet (Circuit City). People have had the time now to get used to watching movies on shiny discs. If a widely distributed form of DivX were to appear, it might succeed tremendously. It's one of those unanswerable 'what if...' questions, but claiming that DivX failing was a victory for 'us' is like the dog who feels just great because he chased away another car that went by his fence on the road.
Read any comprehensive history of the Civil War. It was not a war fought to 'free the slaves' though there's a large body of propaganda out there that claims so.
Back in the early 80's when I lived in a house full of people who rode our bikes everywhere, 12 months a year, and this was Minnesota... we'd snort at anybody who spent more than $50 on a bike.
Prices haven't gone up enough on bikes (an under $50 bike then is probably about the same as an under $50 bike now) for that to have changed much.