The 'privacy nerd circle'.... do you realize how ignorant you look?
That you have no idea why privacy is important -- and ESSENTIAL to liberty and freedom, only shows people how ill-educated, and uninformed, the average 'facebook'-nerd or social-site-nerd is. And you'll wonder why you have problems finding a job...
Being directly involved in reporting multiple bugs against this issue, it's a false idea that putting plug-ins in a separate process is a first step other than in your mind. Plug-ins have never been something that slowed down my firefox -- MAYBE on _A_ specific site, but if I was on that site and it was running a plug-in (usually multimedia), I almost have to be on that webpage because many multi-media plugins are auto-start. So you won't NEED to have them in background on a separate process!!!
What you need and for 2 years have claimed is 'too hard' (then you've got a problem -- you have a non-object oriented, monolithic core of code that is trying to emulate (run) objected oriented, separate tasks? You don't see that as being a fundamental design issue? Even the linux kernel can split off sub-processes to do work -- it doesn't try to do everything in 1 event loop, certainly it should be easier to achieve this in a browser (though I'd guess there are a few more people working on the lk, than on ff).
Each website needs to run in its own instance -- separate it out by domain. Cross domain communication becomes inter-process communication. Any website that owns a 'frame' would be in its own process -- and inherently, it would limit would each website could monitor about other websites, to those things allowed by specification, not by browser leakage.
The UI -- is a separate process that allows the display port of a subprocess attached to a website to attach to it in an allowed window (with hooks to allow HW accell). It all fits with the new HTML5 'Displayport' model. The user could have multiple rectangular viewports into websites that could be mapped on to an area of the main window , hidden (as in a tab), or sent off to another window. The browser provides the I/O shell, and the IPC, But each 'displayport' has it's own javascript engine. Only global namespace items would be those communicated to the 'master' (presumably the GUI, though the gui could attach to a ff-daemon master as well).
Anyway, that's what is needed -- separate processes by domain, so different windows could be opened on same domain, and all would share the same object vars...
I hope this gives you an idea of what is wanted/needed and why bringing out plugins are being in separate processes really pours salt on the wound (as it was, and still is accompanied by less stable performance than when a website's plug-in's were in the same process as the website they were running on).
I'm glad Anakin Jobs is gone....not dead...but gone.... he did much to make Apple into the evil it is today. MS was bad, under-handed, but compared to Apple, they were a push-over.
Now much of that might be because the government trained it's sights on MS, as did the EU, while Apple gets a free pass....
They've never been 'nice'...always suing the little guy...anyone who tries to make a compatible machine or OS...Apple's lawyers have been there much more so than MS ever did...if Samba had been a compat layer for Apple, it'd be a dead project by now. Cleanroom design didn't matter...the fact that it was compatible violated their patents on compatibility!... Bleh...
Wozniak was the only good thing about Apple....Jobs...more akin to Ballmer. Though I think Ballmer is human. There were many times I wasn't certain about Jobs.
Jobs gets poor grades for his steerage of Apple into constantly CLOSING up all interfaces -- that was the battle...
Jobs was ANTI-OPEN anything....Wozniak wanted an open PC like system... Jobs wanted something with proprietary, patented screws, that no one could open so the systems were sealed.
That ANYONE in the open source community WOULDN'T agree with Stallman, is pathetic!
Gawd...is slashdot really turning into a 'tech-wanna-be place completely?...'...
This isn't rocket science. If you hold offshore companies to the same quality standards and liability standards as US companies, then we'd be on equal footing. Too often, people go offshore to escape the burden of regulation, then we buy from places that have low quality and are stuck with inferior products.
If the law was constructed in a way to require the same level of quality, and, perhaps, even similar quality of working conditions -- wouldn't we be alot more on the same footing?
The only reason the corporate-pork is getting fat off these moves is that they can *exploit* places where they don't have workplace safety and health laws and use that to get cheaper products at the expense of human life. How many deaths were there at Foxconn due to working conditions? Weren't they rather harsh by US standards?
People poopoo Europe's "socialist ways", in having 2x the holidays and 2-3x the paid vacation/years (often) that we get.
But do you think you'll get the same quality of materials and production if you require 12-14 hour days, and 6 days/week as a 5day/40 hour week here? *cough*...what am I talking about...I'm in the SW industry...that doesn't apply to us...
But hey, the Foxconn folk were in manufacturing where that would apply -- don't people tire out and get burnt out and doesn't quality suffer as a result?
The argument could easily be made that we didn't or wouldn't want to accept products made under exploitative conditions.
Yeah...that could happen...** hey, me -- wake up! not in your lifetime! **...
While searching for some foreign music, I ran into a 'catchall' on Google...
They'd gotten a take-down notice for including search results about licensed anime, on blog and database sites -- that included no downloads or links to downloads...
Now we are talking not just going after linkers, but linkers to people who even talk about the content.
"doesnt that America have this great stuff about monopolies and such in place already"
The corporations made it part of doing business the Washington way for their own people to be put in charge of oversight of these laws -- and people in those positions are given 'cushy' permanent 'retire' positions based on their performance in office after they leave office.
Washington has been bought and sold by the corps and most people don't care. It seems like a majority of those who care are also a bit on the loony side or have no power (or both). Anyone who gets power seems to be corrupted by it -- haven't found any good contrary examples yet.
America's political system is corrupt, and growing more so every day. It is hard to see that reversing, though all things must end, though I think the reversal of this will not be pleasant.
"So it isn't really Microsoft that can lock you out, it's device manufacturer. Likewise they could lock you out of Windows if Linux was the OS that came with computer. "
Except that it doesn't. Could easily about white rabbits locking people out of their PC's if they by a PC with a white rabbit pre-installed on it. Yeah...so common!
When white rabbits become as populous on PC's as Windows is, you'll have a point, Until then, you are a complete fool. MS owning your PC from before the boot has been a goal of control since or before MS started courting hollywood and other content execs for a place at the table as a premier media OS. That requires complete lockdown. The features went into Windows 7. All they need to do is require that the keys to at least some key part of the hardware NOT be given to customers (but be a locked down key or (less likely, one known to MS). You need to replace the OS -- get a new motherboard. The HW manufacturers will love it -- you want to run Win8-media edition? Gotta give up your keys. Wanna play those shiny new games with DRM from Ubisoft or whoever? Guess what -- they only play on a 'protected PC'...etc...
You will rue the day you made light of this (not that making heavy of it would really change much, but you really should take it a bit more seriously. If you don't, who will? Joe consumer? *bwahahahaha*
If the repo doesn't change, and has a fixed-binary that people can download, then probably not much defense along these lines,
However, if it is source only, then it is not a program -- in that it can't be run...it's a "spec" for a program that has to be compiled. Each instance of a program that is compiled is different.. if only by the date & time stamps in the modules -- but these days, given everything is dynamically linked, and different people use different compilers/linkers/libraries, it's all but impossible to get identical binary copies of the same program on 1 machine as on another if they both start from source -- unless both machines have the exact same build and runtime environment.
As the license fee is attached to distribution of the "product", and the source is NOT the product, but a way to create a product, then how would the licensing fee apply?
An obvious point that the developer should only distribute 1 copy of it to a server. From there, each server would have to make sure...that the source is passed on...maybe torrents would be best...then you'll never have anyone hitting the 100,000 limit.
That sounds shady in multiple ways -- since if the software has been given to the community under a 'free-sw' license (i.e. it's under Gnu/BSD), then the individual developer isn't "distributing" anything -- it's in a CVS repo and others are taking it and distributing it.
Only large companies that distribute more than 100,000 companies should have to worry about that.
At least that would be within the spirit of the _claimed intentions_ of the group -- now that doesn't mean they might not balk at such, but, do you really consider 'Linus' to have personally distributed all the copies of linux out there? That would be absurd!
I'm not saying you don't have a point, but I think anyone with a half a brain fighting some bogus attempt to collect would not have hard time that there is little centralized distribution of software in the free SW environment, and as a result, it's unlikely that any distributor would ever distribute 100K copies.
The MOST likely might be some company like redhat or suse... who would then have to tell the user where to go and download the codecs if they wanted to use them, as they couldn't legally incur the risk of distribution -- much like they do now with the original MS web fonts and a few other things...
last I heard any H.264 decoder for consumers was un-encumbered for non-commercial use. They claimed the problems arose if you tried to create a movie on just about any home device these days, as it stores it in the encumbered format -- so if you go to sell/offer the movie commercially, then you had to pay ridiculously high fees.
It certainly very far from a 'free format', but to day that it is unlawful to use seems deliberately misleading -- unless something has changed in their publicly published stance on the matter.
The laptop couldn't handle a 52Mb/s Hard disk equiv?
That's pretty slow.
How can laptop be expected to use 280MB/s flash drives, when they can't even handle 52MB/s? (One would presume the same I/O offload on network chips as we have on disk drives being available if the speed were there. -- so to claim it's about the HW, is really STUPID!
My desktop can easily handle 600-800MB/s in a hard disk -- so...for bits/sec, I could benefit, AT LEAST up to 5-6Gbps... likely more...
My home network is crying out for 10Gbps already!...get a home server -- put a few T's on it, and see how fast that Xfers over a 1Gbit network...Not real fast. 125MBps is max I've measured and that was on writes. (where I can have multiple writes outstanding so RTT doesn't hurt as much).
So I'd guess that someone is trying to come up with reasons why they should spend money in infrastructure -- better to throw on caps and claim they don't have sufficient bandwidth for those higher BW users....
Why should Amazon be forced to do California's job when California doesn't pay them to do it?
Amazon isn't a state business but you seem to think they should be subject to the laws of California.
That goes against the constitutional protections against states interfering with commerce.
Does amazon receive police and fire protection for the work they do in collecting taxes? Oh, you're going to claim that their compliance with out of state laws costs them nothing?[
What a joke.
That they folded is truly sad.
From a CA resident who doesn't enjoy paying one of the highest rates in the state. Sales tax is a regressive tax that taxes people with lower income disproportionately to income.
This isn't about corporations paying their way -- its about the rich in California forcing through tax cuts for the wealth that have locked up California's finances -- through which CA has to resort to cutting basic resources like schools and public transportation -- and raise sales tax -- all of which hurt the largest and least affluent segment of the income.
Yeah...lets tax those those books and CD's...cuz we know that's where the rich people spend all their money!
As far as 'being part of the problem or the solution'... I saw some people on another forum (can't remember what it was, but I did post)... where they were harshing on google for NOT having bought into the patent-pool of MS-Apple-HP-SamSung..and whoever...
This was in regards to them defending a lawsuit on the Android...that seems to be mostly (?) in open source code. Yet these other players are suing google to stop it's market penetration as they claim that 200-300 Android tablets don't begin to cover the extra 200-400 in license fees they'd have to tack sell a device as a member of the patent-pool club.
Someone else said google was going to have to stop stealing other's IP and begin to pay up.....blah blah blah...
(those dirty pirates)...(does this sound like the RIAA/MPAA/Movie shills shoving laws down N.Z and Australia so the US capitalists can continue to live on producing nothing?
Not saying google is a saint, BUT they maybe aren't old school enough to have been bought off completely yet.
It seemed by NOT buying into a the patent-protection racket that the other biggies were pushing, they were (perhaps inadvertently) being part of the solution.
It's interesting.. the rise of IP. I suspect (though I haven't researched it well enough to say for sure, that as using humans as slaves as become less well regarded (in became illegal in law in the US, but not everywhere, and then came decades of game playing -- that still continues to this day where groups of people are systematically underpaid -- allowing that form of "capitalist profit" to still survive -- but it's getting alot harder with unions and all those pesky 'liberal'-ish worker rights laws....
So...lets try to sell the idea that ideas are 'property' to be bought and sold! Producing physical products has always been a less than stellar way to easy street...but if you don't have to product a physical product and can get laws passed to recognize/acknowledge 'IP', then we can REALLY make money from nothin, and still continue to grow the disparity between 'working class' and those who don't have to work for a living.
Just a new form of slavery... as we work our lives for imaginary property!...(or so they are trying...)
Um...so if you open 50-60 pages,.... that's um....well over a minute...
That's dead slow for something like "opening 5 pages", considering, I can open 400+ mailboxes and search through them in under 4 seconds -- as for display -- who could read that fast? But about 200K of 'moderate pages (has to skip through headers even for short messages...
So 1-2/secs/page really sucks.
and you wondered what I was gonna do w/my parallel cpu's...
Human beings are based on algorithms. Without them we couldn't live.
Do you think about how to walk or balance everytime you get up?
All those things that are programmed into our "autonomic nervous system" take the load off our mind so we can think about what's important.
Sure -- algorithms get mis-programmed -- people get irrational fears, phobias, behaviors...etc....but w/o those algorithms that are learned by a child as a baby and throughout life... We'd be basket cases in constant sensory overload.
The fact is as the world becomes more complex NEED better algorithms to help us deal with the mundane stuff so we can pay attention when attention is needed....
Otherwise we end up burned-out, defocused, and constantly distracted.
The question is not whether or not we should have more algorithms in our lives -- but how to better have the algorithms that know when their programmed bounds are exceeded and ask for 'executive function'...
That could partly explain the difference between the passion I felt for computer science, and what I felt was the 'lack of caring' about software' of 'many programmers around me'....(its just a job).
I was always horrified at the increasingly horrified at those who did coding just to churn it out and hand off to others, whereas I'd be regarded as overly cautious or slow to call something 'finished'....
Definitely caused a crimp, as those who like to throw things 'over the wall', don't take it as personally when things don't work 'just right'....
That was a dump from window's sysinternals process explorer -- which is configured with the dll for the debugger you mention (C:\Program Files\Debugging Tools for Windows (x64)\dbghelp.dll) and with downloaded symbols in standard location (C:\Symbols)
So....I might get more out of winDbg, but since procexp seems to use the same.dll and symbols, wouldn't be extremely convinced of the need to go about doing it in winDbg (though I have used it to examine kernel core dumps...(such joy!)...
It depends on where you live and the time of the year.
If it is 80+out -- I agree.
But if it is 60-70, a white car -- you just open the windows or turn on the vent, but w/black pain -- you are going to want the AC much more often.
Of course if you are one of those type who can be bothered by open air, well...an open window might be too radical, but for people who don't mind windows @ slower speeds or vent @ higher....which put's off the time needed before turning on the AC.
It certainly doesn't eliminate the need by any stretch of the imagination, but in fair weather...it's nice to have fresh air from the outside (depending on where you live --- there can always be exceptions...)
But running the heater takes no extra gas -- you use the excess heat of the motor, running the AC requires a substantial energy to run a compressor.
I have a feeling (having lived in Illinois, and Alaska -- so I do know a little bit about 'cold'), that the car color there would only make a difference in being 'seen' against a background of 'white', as the sun is very weak in the winter, and would have substantially less contribution to the cars temperature than it would in the summer -- AND -- in most place, it's cloudier in winter (at least in those places where they get snow with any frequency).
I live in the west, not the south.
More importantly, the time that you might turn on your car before leaving is, in MOST places (a smaller amount of time than you will spend on the road or (especially in urban areas), stuck in traffic.
It might not have as MUCH of a benefit in colder areas, but if you really want to have your cake and eat it too -- throw a black car cover over your car in the winter. Would absorb much more heat than shiny metallic surface painted black.
But then you might just be interested in disagreeing with my point, in which case there is no solution I can offer you other than to say 'we disagree'.;-)
Indeed!... If you put on white shingles vs. the standard darker ones, your roof can last 5-10 years longer due to remaining cooler in the sun, and not disintegrating as quickly!
Found this out about 4-5 years back when needed a new roof -- guess what color I chose!
Same goes for cars too BTW -- white takes less gas & energy to run/cool and the paint will last longer --
Cuz 32-bit version runs out of memory when you have it open for several days and 100's of windows/tabs?
Cuz, the 32-bit version doesn't work well on 64-bits because it isn't aligned right and suffers terrible performance penalties?
(during a bogdown today, where it had it's cpu 'peg'ed...(why the windows threading model doesn't support multiple cpu's is... well, linux really lucked out in choosing their 1thread/proc model) Here's the stack trace:
(It never recovered from it's peg -- finally just crashed, but notice that out of the above 17 calls, 3 are for misaligned access's handed by exception handlers (x86 machines still get misaligned access exceptions when you access words that aren't hw aligned, they are just normally handled 'automatically' by all x86 OS's that then patch the pieces together -- at the expense of entering a system exception handler that has to glue things back together.
So Maybe it's because of issue's like the above, but compiling for 64-bit usually gives a ~15% performance boost over 32 bit code, and in the above trace 17% of the call stack nest is due to misaligned code/data.
Anyway, the baloney that they don't know what to expect is just that -- it's them spewing garbage for being way late in getting a Win64 version out -- as they've had a 64-bit linux version (coexisting with a 32-bit version for at least a few years -- and they also have had 64-bit on MacOS....so it wouldn't be "doing" something different, it would be bringing the windows platform up to parity with the linux and Mac platforms.
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The 'privacy nerd circle'.... do you realize how ignorant you look?
That you have no idea why privacy is important -- and ESSENTIAL to liberty and freedom, only shows people how ill-educated, and uninformed, the average 'facebook'-nerd or social-site-nerd is. And you'll wonder why you have problems finding a job...
*shakes head*...
But at the time you engage in a transaction you incur a debt. If you didn't, you wouldn't owe anything.
Being directly involved in reporting multiple bugs against this issue, it's a false idea that putting plug-ins in a separate process is a first step other than in your mind. Plug-ins have never been something that slowed down my firefox -- MAYBE on _A_ specific site, but if I was on that site and it was running a plug-in (usually multimedia), I almost have to be on that webpage because many multi-media plugins are auto-start. So you won't NEED to have them in background on a separate process!!!
What you need and for 2 years have claimed is 'too hard' (then you've got a problem -- you have a non-object oriented, monolithic core of code that is trying to emulate (run) objected oriented, separate tasks? You don't see that as being a fundamental design issue? Even the linux kernel can split off sub-processes to do work -- it doesn't try to do everything in 1 event loop, certainly it should be easier to achieve this in a browser (though I'd guess there are a few more people working on the lk, than on ff).
Each website needs to run in its own instance -- separate it out by domain.
Cross domain communication becomes inter-process communication. Any website that owns a 'frame' would be in its own process -- and inherently, it would limit would each website could monitor about other websites, to those things allowed by specification, not by browser leakage.
The UI -- is a separate process that allows the display port of a subprocess attached to a website to attach to it in an allowed window (with hooks to allow HW accell). It all fits with the new HTML5 'Displayport' model. The user could have multiple rectangular viewports into websites that could be mapped on to an area of the main window , hidden (as in a tab), or sent off to another window. The browser provides the I/O shell, and the IPC, But each 'displayport' has it's own javascript engine. Only global namespace items would be those communicated to the 'master' (presumably the GUI, though the gui could attach to a ff-daemon master
as well).
Anyway, that's what is needed -- separate processes by domain, so different windows could be opened on same domain, and all would share the same object vars...
I hope this gives you an idea of what is wanted/needed and why bringing out plugins are being in separate processes really pours salt on the wound (as it was, and still is accompanied by less stable performance than when a website's plug-in's were in the same process as the website they were running on).
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I'd have to say I'd agree with Stallman.
I'm glad Anakin Jobs is gone....not dead...but gone.... he did much to make Apple into the evil it is today. MS was bad, under-handed, but compared to Apple, they were a push-over.
Now much of that might be because the government trained it's sights on MS,
as did the EU, while Apple gets a free pass....
They've never been 'nice'...always suing the little guy...anyone who tries to make ...if Samba had been a compat layer for Apple, it'd be a dead project by now. Cleanroom design didn't matter...the fact that it was compatible violated their patents on compatibility!...
a compatible machine or OS...Apple's lawyers have been there much more so than MS ever did
Bleh...
Wozniak was the only good thing about Apple....Jobs...more akin to Ballmer. Though I think Ballmer is human. There were many times I wasn't certain about Jobs.
Jobs gets poor grades for his steerage of Apple into constantly CLOSING up all interfaces -- that was the battle ...
Jobs was ANTI-OPEN anything....Wozniak wanted an open PC like system...
Jobs wanted something with proprietary, patented screws, that no one could open so the systems were sealed.
That ANYONE in the open source community WOULDN'T agree with Stallman, is pathetic!
Gawd...is slashdot really turning into a 'tech-wanna-be place completely?...'...
This isn't rocket science. If you hold offshore companies to the same quality standards and liability standards as US companies, then we'd be on equal footing. Too often, people go offshore to escape the burden of regulation, then we buy from places that have low quality and are stuck with inferior products.
If the law was constructed in a way to require the same level of quality, and, perhaps, even similar quality of working conditions -- wouldn't we be alot more on the same footing?
The only reason the corporate-pork is getting fat off these moves is that they can *exploit* places where they don't have workplace safety and health laws and use that to get cheaper products at the expense of human life. How many deaths were there at Foxconn due to working conditions? Weren't they rather harsh by US standards?
People poopoo Europe's "socialist ways", in having 2x the holidays and 2-3x the paid vacation/years (often) that we get.
But do you think you'll get the same quality of materials and production if you require 12-14 hour days, and 6 days/week as a 5day/40 hour week here? *cough*...what am I talking about...I'm in the SW industry...that doesn't apply to us...
But hey, the Foxconn folk were in manufacturing where that would apply -- don't people tire out and get burnt out and doesn't quality suffer as a result?
The argument could easily be made that we didn't or wouldn't want to accept products made under exploitative conditions.
Yeah...that could happen...** hey, me -- wake up! not in your lifetime! **...
*sigh*...
While searching for some foreign music, I ran into a 'catchall' on Google...
They'd gotten a take-down notice for including search results about licensed anime, on blog and database sites -- that included no downloads or links to downloads...
Now we are talking not just going after linkers, but linkers to people who even talk about the content.
The takedown notice to google (to block search results -- freedom of speech),
shows the list of sites I first ran into...then I ran into a real hilarious one --
one against TWITTER -- and multiple 'twitters' that were deemed
infringing content!! Like I be they were distributing movies 140 bytes
at a time!
Yeah...must be some serious 'intent' going on here...
Oh yeah...lest I forget...the takedowns against Music Blogs almost 12,000/month -- musta been writing about the lyrics...
Yeah, right...
For every 'pirate' out there, there, there are 10-100 corporate pirates stealing the rights of the rest of us...
The corporations made it part of doing business the Washington way for their own people to be put in charge of oversight of these laws -- and people in those positions are given 'cushy' permanent 'retire' positions based on their performance in office after they leave office.
Washington has been bought and sold by the corps and most people don't care. It seems like a majority of those who care are also a bit on the loony side or have no power (or both). Anyone who gets power seems to be corrupted by it -- haven't found any good contrary examples yet.
America's political system is corrupt, and growing more so every day. It is hard to see that reversing, though all things must end, though I think the reversal of this will not be pleasant.
You said:
Except that it doesn't. Could easily about white rabbits locking people out of their PC's if they by a PC with a white rabbit pre-installed on it. Yeah...so common!
When white rabbits become as populous on PC's as Windows is, you'll have a point, Until then, you are a complete fool. MS owning your PC from before the boot has been a goal of control since or before MS started courting hollywood and other content execs for a place at the table as a premier media OS. That requires complete lockdown. The features went into Windows 7. All they need to do is require that the keys to at least some key part of the hardware NOT be given to customers (but be a locked down key or (less likely, one known to MS). You need to replace the OS -- get a new motherboard. The HW manufacturers will love it -- you want to run Win8-media edition? Gotta give up your keys. Wanna play those shiny new games with DRM from Ubisoft or whoever? Guess what -- they only play on a 'protected PC'...etc...
You will rue the day you made light of this (not that making heavy of it would really change much, but you really should take it a bit more seriously. If you don't, who will? Joe consumer? *bwahahahaha*
If the repo doesn't change, and has a fixed-binary that people can download, then probably not much defense along these lines,
However, if it is source only, then it is not a program -- in that it can't be run...it's a "spec" for a program that has to be compiled. Each instance of a program that is compiled is different .. if only by the date & time stamps in the modules -- but these days, given everything is dynamically linked, and different people use different compilers/linkers/libraries, it's all but impossible to get identical binary copies of the same program on 1 machine as on another if they both start from source -- unless both machines have the exact same build and runtime environment.
As the license fee is attached to distribution of the "product", and the source
is NOT the product, but a way to create a product, then how would the licensing fee apply?
An obvious point that the developer should only distribute 1 copy of it to a server. From there, each server would have to make sure...that the source is passed on...maybe torrents would be best...then you'll never have anyone hitting the 100,000 limit.
That sounds shady in multiple ways -- since if the software has been given to the community under a 'free-sw' license (i.e. it's under Gnu/BSD), then the
individual developer isn't "distributing" anything -- it's in a CVS repo and others are taking it and distributing it.
Only large companies that distribute more than 100,000 companies should have to worry about that.
At least that would be within the spirit of the _claimed intentions_ of the group -- now that doesn't mean they might not balk at such, but,
do you really consider 'Linus' to have personally distributed all the copies of linux out there? That would be absurd!
I'm not saying you don't have a point, but I think anyone with a half a brain fighting some bogus attempt to collect would not have hard time that there is little centralized distribution of software in the free SW environment, and as a result, it's unlikely that any distributor would ever distribute 100K copies.
The MOST likely might be some company like redhat or suse... who would then have to tell the user where to go and download the codecs if they wanted to use them, as they couldn't legally incur the risk of distribution -- much like they do now with the original MS web fonts and a few other things...
That's $.20 added on as a 'tax' for "for pay" services where you are already being charged money for the content.
It doesn't apply to 'free' content.
But if you are purchasing the content, then the provider must pay them $.20 /subscriber ... so that would be added to your subscription cost.
You ***DID*** read the link you posted, didn't you?
Personally I don't think that is unreasonable, BUT, I'm very willing to change my mind if a circumstance comes up where it does seem unreasonable.
The only lawful response is cancel?
Excuse me?
Are you a lawyer?
last I heard any H.264 decoder for consumers was un-encumbered for non-commercial use. They claimed the problems arose if you tried to create a movie on just about any home device these days, as it stores it in the encumbered format -- so if you go to sell/offer the movie commercially, then you had to pay ridiculously high fees.
It certainly very far from a 'free format', but to day that it is unlawful to use seems deliberately misleading -- unless something has changed in their publicly published stance on the matter.
The laptop couldn't handle a 52Mb/s Hard disk equiv?
That's pretty slow.
How can laptop be expected to use 280MB/s flash drives, when they
can't even handle 52MB/s? (One would presume the same I/O offload
on network chips as we have on disk drives being available if the speed were there. -- so to claim it's about the HW, is really STUPID!
My desktop can easily handle 600-800MB/s in a hard disk -- so...for bits/sec, I could benefit, AT LEAST up to 5-6Gbps... likely more...
My home network is crying out for 10Gbps already!...get a home server -- put a few T's on it, and see how fast that Xfers over a 1Gbit network...Not real fast. 125MBps is max I've measured and that was on writes. (where I can have multiple writes outstanding so RTT doesn't hurt as much).
So I'd guess that someone is trying to come up with reasons why they should spend money in infrastructure -- better to throw on caps and claim they don't have sufficient bandwidth for those higher BW users....
Why should Amazon be forced to do California's job when California doesn't pay them to do it?
Amazon isn't a state business but you seem to think they should be subject to the laws of California.
That goes against the constitutional protections against states interfering with commerce.
Does amazon receive police and fire protection for the work they do in collecting taxes? Oh, you're going to claim that their compliance with out of state laws costs them nothing?[
What a joke.
That they folded is truly sad.
From a CA resident who doesn't enjoy paying one of the highest rates in the state. Sales tax is a regressive tax that taxes people with lower income disproportionately to income.
This isn't about corporations paying their way -- its about the rich in California forcing through tax cuts for the wealth that have locked up California's finances -- through which CA has to resort to cutting basic resources like schools and public transportation -- and raise sales tax -- all of which hurt the largest and least affluent segment of the income.
Yeah...lets tax those those books and CD's...cuz we know that's where the rich people spend all their money!
Right!...
Get a frickin clue!
Can't say for sure, but it could be that if they were to pay them the same rate, they would afowl against minimum hour-wage laws.
As far as 'being part of the problem or the solution'...
I saw some people on another forum (can't remember what it was, but I did post)... where they were harshing on google for NOT having bought into the patent-pool of MS-Apple-HP-SamSung..and whoever...
This was in regards to them defending a lawsuit on the Android...that seems to be mostly (?) in open source code. Yet these other players are suing google to stop it's market penetration as they claim that 200-300 Android tablets don't begin to cover the extra 200-400 in license fees they'd have to tack sell a device as a member of the patent-pool club.
Someone else said google was going to have to stop stealing other's IP and begin to pay up.....blah blah blah...
(those dirty pirates)...(does this sound like the RIAA/MPAA/Movie shills shoving laws down N.Z and Australia so the US capitalists can continue to live on producing nothing?
Not saying google is a saint, BUT they maybe aren't old school enough to have been bought off completely yet.
It seemed by NOT buying into a the patent-protection racket that the other biggies were pushing, they were (perhaps inadvertently) being part of the solution.
It's interesting .. the rise of IP. I suspect (though I haven't researched it well enough to say for sure, that as using humans as slaves as become less well regarded (in became illegal in law in the US, but not everywhere, and then came decades of game playing -- that still continues to this day where groups of people are systematically underpaid -- allowing that form of "capitalist profit" to still survive -- but it's getting alot harder with unions and all those pesky 'liberal'-ish worker rights laws....
So...lets try to sell the idea that ideas are 'property' to be bought and
sold! Producing physical products has always been a less than stellar way to easy street...but if you don't have to product a physical product and can get laws passed to recognize/acknowledge 'IP', then we can REALLY make money from nothin, and still continue to grow the disparity between 'working class' and those who don't have to work for a living.
Just a new form of slavery ... as we work our lives for imaginary property!...(or so they are trying...)
Um...so if you open 50-60 pages, .... that's um....well over a minute...
That's dead slow for something like "opening 5 pages", considering, I can open 400+ mailboxes and search through them in under 4 seconds -- as
for display -- who could read that fast? But about 200K of 'moderate pages (has to skip through headers even for short messages...
So 1-2/secs/page really sucks.
and you wondered what I was gonna do w/my parallel cpu's...
Human beings are based on algorithms. Without them we couldn't live.
Do you think about how to walk or balance everytime you get up?
All those things that are programmed into our "autonomic nervous system" take the load off our mind so we can think about what's important.
Sure -- algorithms get mis-programmed -- people get irrational fears, phobias, behaviors...etc....but w/o those algorithms that are learned by a child as a baby and throughout life... We'd be basket cases in constant sensory overload.
The fact is as the world becomes more complex NEED better algorithms to help us deal with the mundane stuff so we can pay attention when attention is needed....
Otherwise we end up burned-out, defocused, and constantly distracted.
The question is not whether or not we should have more algorithms in our lives -- but how to better have the algorithms that know when their programmed bounds are exceeded and ask for 'executive function'...
That could partly explain the difference between the passion I felt for computer science, and what I felt was the 'lack of caring' about software' of 'many programmers around me'....(its just a job).
I was always horrified at the increasingly horrified at those who did coding just
to churn it out and hand off to others, whereas I'd be regarded as overly
cautious or slow to call something 'finished'....
Definitely caused a crimp, as those who like to throw things 'over the wall', don't take it as personally when things don't work 'just right'....
Geez....
Pampered, aren't we?
That was a dump from window's sysinternals process explorer --
which is configured with the dll for the debugger you mention
(C:\Program Files\Debugging Tools for Windows (x64)\dbghelp.dll)
and with downloaded symbols in standard location
(C:\Symbols)
So....I might get more out of winDbg, but since procexp seems to use .dll and symbols, wouldn't be extremely convinced of the need to go about doing it in winDbg (though I have used it to examine kernel core dumps...(such joy!)...
the same
It depends on where you live and the time of the year.
If it is 80+out -- I agree.
But if it is 60-70, a white car -- you just open the windows or turn on
the vent, but w/black pain -- you are going to want the AC much more often.
Of course if you are one of those type who can be bothered by open air, well...an open window might be too radical, but for people who don't mind
windows @ slower speeds or vent @ higher....which put's off the time needed before turning on the AC.
It certainly doesn't eliminate the need by any stretch of the imagination,
but in fair weather...it's nice to have fresh air from the outside (depending
on where you live --- there can always be exceptions...)
But running the heater takes no extra gas -- you use the excess heat
of the motor, running the AC requires a substantial energy to run a compressor.
I have a feeling (having lived in Illinois, and Alaska -- so I do know a little bit about 'cold'), that the car color there would only make a difference in being 'seen' against a background of 'white', as the sun is very weak in the winter, and would have substantially less contribution to the cars temperature than it would in the summer -- AND -- in most place, it's cloudier in winter (at least in those places where they get snow with any frequency).
I live in the west, not the south.
More importantly, the time that you might turn on your car before leaving is, in MOST places (a smaller amount of time than you will spend on the road or (especially in urban areas), stuck in traffic.
It might not have as MUCH of a benefit in colder areas, but if you really want to have your cake and eat it too -- throw a black car cover over your car in the winter. Would absorb much more heat than shiny metallic surface painted black.
But then you might just be interested in disagreeing with my point, in which case there is no solution I can offer you other than to say 'we disagree'. ;-)
Indeed!... If you put on white shingles vs. the standard darker ones, your roof can last 5-10 years longer due to remaining cooler in the sun, and not disintegrating as quickly!
Found this out about 4-5 years back when needed a new roof -- guess what color I chose!
Same goes for cars too BTW -- white takes less gas & energy to run/cool and the paint will last longer --
Cuz 32-bit version runs out of memory when you have it open for several days and 100's of windows/tabs?
Cuz, the 32-bit version doesn't work well on 64-bits because it isn't aligned right and suffers terrible performance penalties?
(during a bogdown today, where it had it's cpu 'peg'ed...(why the windows threading model doesn't support multiple cpu's is ... well, linux really lucked out in choosing their 1thread/proc model)
Here's the stack trace:
0) ntoskrnl.exe!memset+0x64b
1) ntoskrnl.exe!KeWaitForMultipleObjects+0xd52
2) ntoskrnl.exe!KeWaitForSingleObject+0x19f
3) ntoskrnl.exe!__misaligned_access+0xba4
4) ntoskrnl.exe!__misaligned_access+0x1821
5) ntoskrnl.exe!__misaligned_access+0x1a97
6) js3250.dll!JS_IsAboutToBeFinalized+0x38
7) xul.dll!??_7gfxPDFSurface@@6B@+0x34600
8) xul.dll!?sDPI@gfxPlatform@@1HA+0x1d0
9) xul.dll!NS_LogInit_P+0x388d
10) nspr4.dll!PR_AssertCurrentThreadOwnsLock+0x12
11) js3250.dll!JS_IsAboutToBeFinalized+0x38
12) js3250.dll!JS_DHashTableEnumerate+0x6c
13) xul.dll!?TimerCallback@?$nsExpirationTracker@\
VgfxFont@@$02@@CAXPAVnsITimer@@PAX@Z+0x239f
14) xul.dll!?GetUnderlineOffset@gfxWindowsFontGroup@\
@UAENXZ+0xcbfe
15) xul.dll!NS_LogInit_P+0x388d
16) js3250.dll!JS_SetPrototype+0x29c
17) xul.dll!?SetLineBreaks@gfxTextRun@@UAEHIIHHPANPA\
VgfxContext@@@Z+0x1b6
(It never recovered from it's peg -- finally just crashed, but notice that out of the above 17 calls, 3 are for misaligned access's handed by exception handlers (x86 machines still get misaligned access exceptions when you access words that aren't hw aligned, they are just normally handled 'automatically' by all x86 OS's that then patch the pieces together -- at the expense of entering a system exception handler that has to glue things back together.
So Maybe it's because of issue's like the above, but compiling for 64-bit usually gives a ~15% performance boost over 32 bit code, and in the above trace 17% of the call stack nest is due to misaligned code/data.
Anyway, the baloney that they don't know what to expect is just that -- it's them spewing garbage for being way late in getting a Win64 version out -- as they've had a 64-bit linux version (coexisting with a 32-bit version for at least a few years -- and they also have had 64-bit on MacOS....so it wouldn't be "doing" something different, it would be bringing the windows platform up to parity with the linux and Mac platforms.