I'm constantly amazed by the number of projects on sourceforge with nothing to show but vague descriptions and good intentions.
Why? What's the harm? It's not hard to make a sourceforge page, nor should it be. I don't think the number of crappy projects on sourceforge proves anything about anything, except that it's not hard to start a project on sourceforge. Good.
Fine. Stick a GPS on a cop car and see if they like it. After all, you could have tailed the cop car personally, right? You just didn't, that's all. Do that and I guarantee you will be charged with some crime or other.
The claim has yet to be upheld (enforced) by any court or other governmental body.
Uh, that's the whole point of the DMCA - cutting out the "middleman" (aka justice system) so copyright holders can go straight to web hosting companies to have whatever they want taken down with a mere allegation.
We could debate that all day since economics is basically alchemy. But regardless of the merits, why was this all done in secret, with not even those voting on the bill knowing it was custom-crafted for a particular company? That doesn't seem right to me.
Sure feel free to get up in arms about marketing companies knowing what an anonymous hashed identity is watching.
That's one solution. I prefer simply to use my own recording and playback equipment, thankyouverymuch.
Please note, that the supermarkets do exactly the same thing. Why do you think loyalty cards exist?
What's your point? My guess almost all the people who would resent TiVo doing this also resent "loyalty cards."
These days when somebody's charged of a crime these days you often hear "Mr. Jones did a web search for [insinuating search term] 3 days before the crime." Now that purchasing and viewing habits are recorded, I wonder how long until they're used to incriminate and convict people? (Or does that happen already?) I can easily imagine a lawyer running the most gory or emotional scene from a movie for the jury and saying, "now we know what was on Mr. Jones' mind on the day of the crime."
Previous work. But as you said, not for $250. I don't think the Wii is useful for this though, it's just a crude accelerometer. Good enough to distinguish between distinct gestures but not to record trajectories.
"If they are not interested in the everyday home user then why on earth would they be currently in the middle of ploughing through half a billion dollars woth of mass market TV adverts trying to convince people to go "Wow" when they first see Vista?"
This reminds me of some ads I've seen "BASF... We don't make the things you buy, we make the things you buy better." Remember those? It was like they were purposely saying, "99% of you within the sound of our voice, we don't care about you... you can't even choose to buy our products or not, because they're everywhere in everything. To the other 1%... look how much we can waste on this - that's how big we are."
Or remember Enron saturating the airwaves with ads for their new bandwidth commodities market? How many of the viewers were really commodities traders? I think it's just a "show of force."
Is Microsoft really trying to accomplish anything or spread any message, or simply maintaining their larger-than-life image?
If Michael Dell can bring customer support back to what it was long back, then am sure Dell will rock.
Yes, I wonder what his priorities are?
I think it will be interesting to watch Dell going into the future, to see if the CEO is all that important. It's always hard to separate leadership qualities from the circumstances. Is Dell's current CEO part of the problem? I don't know. But HP has adopted many of Dell's successful tactics, and that is definately a problem (for Dell).
I think supporting multiple hardware platforms is a good thing, and does not detract from an OS. Especially if the hardware in question has awesome floating point performance. A beefy dual-core processor plus6 RISC stream processors thrown in? Sign me up. Since the PS3 isn't panning out as a game machine, perhaps Sony should refocus its marketing on the scientific community:) Or port RenderMan to it.
Counting the number of different visiting IP addresses is something every website out there has been doing for ages, with little ruckus. So if you're implying this is just like tracking more personal data such as a central repository of every website you visit, well, it isn't.
It's laughable to discuss whether Apple has a monopoly in the cellphone market. Apple hardly even has a presense in the cellphone market. All they have is one insignificant product (the Rokker (sp?)) and one product announcement. It's amazing to me how many people assume Apple will be a big success in cellphones, just because they hit the jackpot once with the iPod. Who's to say the iPhone won't be more like the Netwon?
The only difference is, video on the Internet has already arrived. Visit cnn.com, there it is. Youtube was maybe the biggest Internet story in 2006. I have a friend who subscribes to a Usenet binaries service instead of Cable TV. Major TV companies have shows for download. iTunes has them too.
The only major component still lacking is a slick set-top box with Internet integration. But 5 years is a pretty safe guesstimate for that to happen IMHO.
I see it is possible, though, to set a different value for n within the default scheduling class (ionice -c2 -n5 sh -c 'ionice $$'). I'd rather be able to put things down into the "idle" class though.
Unlike "nice", both ionice and iptables require root-level access, even to run a process with reduced priority. I hope one day it's as simple as "nice myproc" (as a normal user). I think it's more reasonable to assume a low-priority process should have low priority to everything, than to manage every resource separately.
You've been able to set process priority through the Task Manager since at least NT4
Forget CPU sheduling priority, that is indeed old hat. What I saw in this article that really makes me jealous, as a Linux user, is I/O priority. Why have the systems people iterated for decades on CPU scheduling, and sorely neglected scheduling more precious resources like the network and disk? I can "nice" my system backup script, but what difference does it make when it's hogging the disk so much I can hardly load a new application? Process priorities should by default apply not only to the CPU, but to the disk and outbound network queues.
Money changes everything. When you bring in money, you bring in the motivation to subvert the system by whatever means necessary to turn a buck.
Get ready to see your own videos reposted by others in their name. Of course, that's what "piracy" essentially is, so get ready to see the contenet industry filing a lot of lawsuits. Get ready to see the video recommendation system skewed to big-name media-backed "artists." Get ready to see annoying youtube links posted everywhere on the web.
Of course, there will probably be a lot more skillfully-produced and well thought-out material on youtube, too. But will it drown out the cool crazy stuff that's there now?
Russia did allow a diplomat with diplomatic immunity to be tried in Washington DC after he killed someone while drunk driving. He was tried, convicted, and spent time in a US prison.
Was there an extradition any where in there? They say possession is 9/10 of the law.
Well that's the question, isn't it? Why do you think they were abuse?
If people look up "facist," they should get Hitler or Stalin, even if those guys never called themselves that, and there's no precise definition. It's what people think about them.
I can see how musicians can earn money by performing, but that doesn't apply to the movie industry. Reproductions are all they have. What business model do you propose?
Slashdot Mirror
Fine. Stick a GPS on a cop car and see if they like it. After all, you could have tailed the cop car personally, right? You just didn't, that's all. Do that and I guarantee you will be charged with some crime or other.
We could debate that all day since economics is basically alchemy. But regardless of the merits, why was this all done in secret, with not even those voting on the bill knowing it was custom-crafted for a particular company? That doesn't seem right to me.
These days when somebody's charged of a crime these days you often hear "Mr. Jones did a web search for [insinuating search term] 3 days before the crime." Now that purchasing and viewing habits are recorded, I wonder how long until they're used to incriminate and convict people? (Or does that happen already?) I can easily imagine a lawyer running the most gory or emotional scene from a movie for the jury and saying, "now we know what was on Mr. Jones' mind on the day of the crime."
Previous work. But as you said, not for $250. I don't think the Wii is useful for this though, it's just a crude accelerometer. Good enough to distinguish between distinct gestures but not to record trajectories.
Or remember Enron saturating the airwaves with ads for their new bandwidth commodities market? How many of the viewers were really commodities traders? I think it's just a "show of force."
Is Microsoft really trying to accomplish anything or spread any message, or simply maintaining their larger-than-life image?
I think it will be interesting to watch Dell going into the future, to see if the CEO is all that important. It's always hard to separate leadership qualities from the circumstances. Is Dell's current CEO part of the problem? I don't know. But HP has adopted many of Dell's successful tactics, and that is definately a problem (for Dell).
I think supporting multiple hardware platforms is a good thing, and does not detract from an OS. Especially if the hardware in question has awesome floating point performance. A beefy dual-core processor plus 6 RISC stream processors thrown in? Sign me up. Since the PS3 isn't panning out as a game machine, perhaps Sony should refocus its marketing on the scientific community :) Or port RenderMan to it.
It's laughable to discuss whether Apple has a monopoly in the cellphone market. Apple hardly even has a presense in the cellphone market. All they have is one insignificant product (the Rokker (sp?)) and one product announcement. It's amazing to me how many people assume Apple will be a big success in cellphones, just because they hit the jackpot once with the iPod. Who's to say the iPhone won't be more like the Netwon?
The only major component still lacking is a slick set-top box with Internet integration. But 5 years is a pretty safe guesstimate for that to happen IMHO.
Right, it's only -c3 I would expect to work. Perhaps your kernel is newer? I'm on 2.6.18-1.2869.fc6, the default fedora core 6 kernel.
I see it is possible, though, to set a different value for n within the default scheduling class (ionice -c2 -n5 sh -c 'ionice $$'). I'd rather be able to put things down into the "idle" class though.
That's a no-op. 2 is the default scheduling class, and 0 is the default nice value.
I agree, that man page does give that impression. But try this: ionice -c3 ls. I get ioprio_set: Operation not permitted.
Unlike "nice", both ionice and iptables require root-level access, even to run a process with reduced priority. I hope one day it's as simple as "nice myproc" (as a normal user). I think it's more reasonable to assume a low-priority process should have low priority to everything, than to manage every resource separately.
Get ready to see your own videos reposted by others in their name. Of course, that's what "piracy" essentially is, so get ready to see the contenet industry filing a lot of lawsuits. Get ready to see the video recommendation system skewed to big-name media-backed "artists." Get ready to see annoying youtube links posted everywhere on the web.
Of course, there will probably be a lot more skillfully-produced and well thought-out material on youtube, too. But will it drown out the cool crazy stuff that's there now?
If people look up "facist," they should get Hitler or Stalin, even if those guys never called themselves that, and there's no precise definition. It's what people think about them.
I can see how musicians can earn money by performing, but that doesn't apply to the movie industry. Reproductions are all they have. What business model do you propose?