The music industry is plagued by an enormous problem of legacy. Creativity has been stifled by the labels' continuing drive towards commercialization. We have "artists" like Gwen Stefani releasing cover after cover, first covering Talk Talk's It's My Life then covering If I Were A Rich Man from Fiddler on the Roof, and both covers are atrocious. These are examples of an industry which is creatively bankrupt and where profit is the bottom line. It seems like nowadays the only place you can find creativity is in underground music, before the industry has commercialized and destroyed it.
Music needs a new distribution model, one where the artist is in the driver's seat and has complete creative control over their work. The Internet has rendered traditional music labels obsolete, they're aware of this, and they're fighting their eventual downfall tooth and nail. They will lose.
DRM is based around cryptographically unsound principles. In order to play DRM encrypted music you need the encrypted content and the key on your local system. Given this you have everything you need to unlock the encrypted data, it's only through obfuscation in the client that the key is hidden.
Eventually the industry will have to come to terms with this fact and the fact that their distribution model is antequated and obsolete. We need people to continue proving DRM is an unsound technology so eventually they give up on it entirely.
Apple merely locked out all clients not using the iTMS 4.7 protocol, which previous versions of PyMusique didn't support. The new version of PyMusique merely adds support for the new protocol revision. The unencrypted, DRM free songs are still sent to the client from the music store.
The only way for Apple to actually fix this hole is to handle DRM encryption server side, unless you consider the problem is unresolved due to the fact that DRM is a fundamentally flawed concept.
SJS Directory Server can provide integration with Active Directory, allowing your Windows and Unix networks to seamlessly interoperate. Furthermore, SJS Messaging Server and SJS Calendar Server provide complete Outlook/Exchange compatiblity. Solaris provides complete LDAP integration as a client. And with Solaris 10's massively expanded hardware compatibility on x86/AMD64, it certainly makes a compelling alternative to Linux for those who are looking for better enterprise management. Solaris 10 also features binary compatibility with Linux through the Janus subsystem.
For $150 you can add a 7200RPM 2.5" Hitachi TravelStar drive. Surprisingly, these drives run cooler than many 5400RPM 2.5" drives while providing the performance of a typical 7200RPM desktop drive. Best of all, you won't have to hack up your Mini (thereby violating the warranty) to install it.
That's a correct description of the long-since deprecated 95/98/ME series of Windows releases. However, it's no longer pertinent and almost none of those descriptions match the history of Windows NT, which forms the basis for the latest series of Windows releases (2000,XP,2k3) and Longhorn.
Windows NT was originally developed for Intel's x86 successor processor, the i860, which fizzled due to project management problems at Intel. This processor was, for the time, a fully-featured RISC processor which indeed implemented protected mode. Windows NT was originally a microkernel which pro-actively utilizes multitasking to offload kernel chores into userspace wherever possible. Over time the microkernel functionality, including the display server, would all be eliminated as everything was eventually factored into the kernel itself.
Windows NT was designed with isolated (and therefore relatively trusted) business networks in mind. Although not initially designed as such, mid-90's releases featured multi-user support( although not in the traditional sense of a time-sharing operating system) through NT LAN Manager, allowing centralized administration and logins on a business network. And indeed, the 4.x series brought full multi-user support with Terminal Server Edition.
The drastic change in requirements, which I noted in my first post, was a move from isolated, relatively trustworthy business networks to the commodity Internet, a completely untrustworthy network. This was coupled with development of a browser which, sadly, was designed with ease-of-use in mind over security, for tasks as dangerous as installing software and upgrading the operating system, something previously unheard of via the web.
These two problems, the dramatic design paradigm shift in NT from isolated business networks to the commodity Internet and the misprioritization of IE's design and implementation goals, which accomplished their short-term business ends (crushing Netscape) extremely well, are the reason Windows is being plagued by the problems it has today.
Bingo. The reason Windows is so problematic is that it's still largely built on a codebase that was never designed to be connected to an enormous untrusted network like the Internet. The only way to fix Windows is get rid of this codebase and reimplement it as managed code which will dramatically lessen the problems of their current legacy native code implementation.
Longhorn will be the first release of Windows authored completely after Microsoft began their Trusted Computing Initiative and released.NET. Longhorn will reimplement and convert major Windows subsystems to managed code. This alone will substantially improve security of the operating system, as while the APIs will remain the same legacy Win32 apps will end up talking to managed code beneath the Win32 API (yes,.NET makes this possible)
This will dramatically lessen the exploitation potential of code flaws in the Windows application libraries. Microsoft has to maintain support for legacy application, but that doesn't mean they can't get a fresh start on the underlying code, and doesn't mean that existing Microsoft applications can't be converted to managed code as well.
How depraved are you to alter the quote? I am speechless, are Christians so incensed at the thought that people think differently as to REWRITE HISTORY in order to favor them?
Here is the entire letter which you altered and distorted to change the meaning, linked to a source where it may be verified:
On January 1, 1802, in response to the letter from the Danbury Baptist Association, Thomas Jefferson wrote:
Gentlemen:
The affectionate sentiments of esteem and approbation which are so good to express towards me, on behalf of the Danbury Baptist Association, give me the highest satisfaction. My duties dictate a faithful and zealous pursuit of the interests of my constituents, and in proportion as they are persuaded of my fidelity to those duties, the discharge of them becomes more and more pleasing.
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God; that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship; that the legislative powers of the government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should `make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between church and State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore man to all of his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.
I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection and blessings of the common Father and Creator of man, and tender you and your religious association, assurances of my high respect and esteem.
Thomas Jefferson
Honestly, it's impossible to argue with Christians because they pull shit like this...
You wish to distort reality and pretend like the founding fathers were Christians, not Deists. Here's another Thomas Jefferson quote to chew on:
"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter."
-- Thomas Jefferson (letter to J. Adams April 11,1823)
I'm frankly infuriated that people are so self-deluded as to post such tripe in a vain attempt to distort reality. You should truly be ashamed of yourself, realize your attempts to distort reality around your ideology are flawed, repent, and accept a scientific view of reality. Otherwise, you are doomed to madness.
The Establishment Clause is the very first line in the Bill of Rights and it surprises me that no one I talk to really seems to understand it.
Most Christians I talk to seem to assume that "seperation of church and state" is some made up popular conception which doesn't really exist as Constitutional precedent. "Show me where in the Constitution it says the words 'seperation of church and state'!" they scream. They forget that the Constitution was designed to be an evolving document interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court, and here is what they had to say:
From The United States Supreme Court Everson v. Board of Education of Ewing decision:
The "establishment of religion" clause of the First Amendment means at least this: Neither a state nor the Federal Government can set up a church. Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another. Neither can force nor influence a person to go to or to remain away from church against his will or force him to profess a belief or disbelief in any religion. No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or non-attendance. No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion. Neither a state nor the Federal Government can, openly or secretly, participate in the affairs of any religious organizations or groups and vice versa. In the words of Jefferson, the clause against establishment of religion by law was intended to erect "a wall of separation between church and State."
Never mind this system uses a 1GHz CISC CPU, the Cyrix-derived Eden processor. Compare this to a 1.42GHz RISC CPU with a 128-bit vector unit for which the OS and all applications are pro-actively optimized for. The x86 world has only caught up to AltiVec with SSE3 and Eden processors don't even implement SSE2.
If you want something to compare to the G4, how about a 1.5GHz Pentium M at the very least?
...the first three results are accurate, but the total count (31,800) is off by 2300 entries from the value given in the page (29,500)
The inescapable question is, if you are notifying Slashdot of a new Google feature, why wouldn't you link to it on Google's web site instead of an alleged "copy" of a page on a random blog?
I would say what this is fundamentally saying is that the interrelationships of the stock market mimic the interrelationships of the spontaneously broken symmetries of the universe.
This can especially be seen in M-theory, the successor to string theory, which states that what we perceive as the background noise of the universe, fluxuations in the fabric of space-time itself, result not from perturbations of the big bang but the interactions of structures called "branes" which span multiple universes which we perceive as 2-dimensional vibrating strings.
These relationships can be likened to the stock market where the valuations of particular stocks affect the valuations of other related stocks, and the only way to gain a gestalt view is to analyze and derive the interrelationships of the entire system.
This is the real question which is oft ignored. There is far too great an emphasis of being able to manage n CPUs rather than how effectively kernel services operate on n CPUs.
The answers have to do with fine grained locking of kernel services, so that the number of resource contentions between processors can be mitigated through a diverse number of locks with the hope that diversifying locks will ensure that fewer will be likely to be held at a given time, or designing interfaces that don't require locking of kernel structures at all.
At any rate, Amazon successfully powers their backend database with Linux/IA64 running on HP servers. YMMV, but if it's good for what most would consider the preminent online merchant, it's probably good enough for you too.
One of the big differences between 5 and 6 will be a substantially shorter release cycle. According to this report, 6.0R should be available in August:
For the 6-CURRENT development branch as well as all future development and stable branches, we are planning to move to a schedule with fixed timelines that move away from the uncertainty and wild schedule fluctuations of the previous 5.x releases. This means that major branches will happen at 18 month intervals, and releases from those branches will happen at 4 month intervals. There will also be a dedicated period of testing and bug fixing at the beginning of each branch before the first release is cut from that branch. With the shorter and more defined release schedules, we hope to lessen the problem of needed features not reaching users in a reasonable time, as happened too often with 5.x. This is a significant change in our strategy, and we look forward to realizing the benefits of it. This will kick off with the RELENG_6 branch happing in June of 2005, followed by the 6.0 release in August of 2005.
I've stopped liking Modified Discrete Cosine Transform-based codecs like Vorbis, MP3(+), etc. even though they (i.e. aoTuV Vorbis) consistently win in low bitrate listening tests among random listeners. Why? Well, unfortunately, I've been listening to audio encoded with this transform for so long that I can't help but hear the distortions they create, namely pre-echo (which is often described as a 'muddiness' or an 'underwater' sound) and distorted treble detail (often described as 'twinkling')
Call me crazy, but I insist that there are certain 'killer' tracks where I can hear this distortion even at higher bitrates in advanced MDCT codecs like Vorbis, namely Led Zeppelin / Rock and Roll whose drumline consists of a ridiculous number of cymbal crashes in rapid succession.
The way I see it, the future is lossless. With hard drives burgeoning to over 500GB and Fiber-to-the-Home becoming a reality within the near future, why bother saving a little extra space at the cost of degraded quality, which, the more you listen to audio compressed with a certain transform, the more likely you are to hear distortions? I think in the future we'll see a greater trend towards lossless audio compression with codes like FLAC and its ilk.
The number of technical issues which can arise with CRT televisions is substantially higher. You have convergence issues to worry about, distortion from magnetic fields, and the fact that you're basically firing non-ionizing radiation at yourself, being protected by only a phosphor barrier, and the fact that CRTs cause considerably more eyestrain than LCDs.
That said they're heavier and more cumbersome to move, they use substantially more electricity, produce substantially more heat, and take up more space that could be better used in a variety of ways... despite being CRT free my living room is cramped as it is.
There are many compelling reasons to purchase LCDs even if you don't take into account that the quality of CRTs degrades much quicker than LCDs, and without regular tuneups the initial difference in picture quality will become relatively meaningless.
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The music industry is plagued by an enormous problem of legacy. Creativity has been stifled by the labels' continuing drive towards commercialization. We have "artists" like Gwen Stefani releasing cover after cover, first covering Talk Talk's It's My Life then covering If I Were A Rich Man from Fiddler on the Roof, and both covers are atrocious. These are examples of an industry which is creatively bankrupt and where profit is the bottom line. It seems like nowadays the only place you can find creativity is in underground music, before the industry has commercialized and destroyed it.
Music needs a new distribution model, one where the artist is in the driver's seat and has complete creative control over their work. The Internet has rendered traditional music labels obsolete, they're aware of this, and they're fighting their eventual downfall tooth and nail. They will lose.
DRM is based around cryptographically unsound principles. In order to play DRM encrypted music you need the encrypted content and the key on your local system. Given this you have everything you need to unlock the encrypted data, it's only through obfuscation in the client that the key is hidden.
Eventually the industry will have to come to terms with this fact and the fact that their distribution model is antequated and obsolete. We need people to continue proving DRM is an unsound technology so eventually they give up on it entirely.
The only way for Apple to actually fix this hole is to handle DRM encryption server side, unless you consider the problem is unresolved due to the fact that DRM is a fundamentally flawed concept.
He's likely acting as a front for another group doing the grunt work who doesn't want the legal exposure.
Given the current legal precedent he's acquired in Norway, it's highly unlikely Apple will be able to prosecute.
The motor is rated at 6kW = ~8HP. Harleys average about an order of magnitude more horsepower than that.
Wait, what the fuck is so special about 11:11:11?
SJS Directory Server can provide integration with Active Directory, allowing your Windows and Unix networks to seamlessly interoperate. Furthermore, SJS Messaging Server and SJS Calendar Server provide complete Outlook/Exchange compatiblity. Solaris provides complete LDAP integration as a client. And with Solaris 10's massively expanded hardware compatibility on x86/AMD64, it certainly makes a compelling alternative to Linux for those who are looking for better enterprise management. Solaris 10 also features binary compatibility with Linux through the Janus subsystem.
...from the Okama GameSphere
I'll switch to Arch as soon as it supports something like TortoiseSVN on Windows, which provides shell-integrated access to Subversion repositories.
For $150 you can add a 7200RPM 2.5" Hitachi TravelStar drive. Surprisingly, these drives run cooler than many 5400RPM 2.5" drives while providing the performance of a typical 7200RPM desktop drive. Best of all, you won't have to hack up your Mini (thereby violating the warranty) to install it.
One of the best NIS tools available, the only thing you can get better are... commercial Snort derivatives. Not mentioned, WTF?
http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/winserver2k3_g old1.asp
Windows NT was originally developed for Intel's x86 successor processor, the i860, which fizzled due to project management problems at Intel. This processor was, for the time, a fully-featured RISC processor which indeed implemented protected mode. Windows NT was originally a microkernel which pro-actively utilizes multitasking to offload kernel chores into userspace wherever possible. Over time the microkernel functionality, including the display server, would all be eliminated as everything was eventually factored into the kernel itself.
Windows NT was designed with isolated (and therefore relatively trusted) business networks in mind. Although not initially designed as such, mid-90's releases featured multi-user support( although not in the traditional sense of a time-sharing operating system) through NT LAN Manager, allowing centralized administration and logins on a business network. And indeed, the 4.x series brought full multi-user support with Terminal Server Edition.
The drastic change in requirements, which I noted in my first post, was a move from isolated, relatively trustworthy business networks to the commodity Internet, a completely untrustworthy network. This was coupled with development of a browser which, sadly, was designed with ease-of-use in mind over security, for tasks as dangerous as installing software and upgrading the operating system, something previously unheard of via the web.
These two problems, the dramatic design paradigm shift in NT from isolated business networks to the commodity Internet and the misprioritization of IE's design and implementation goals, which accomplished their short-term business ends (crushing Netscape) extremely well, are the reason Windows is being plagued by the problems it has today.
Longhorn will be the first release of Windows authored completely after Microsoft began their Trusted Computing Initiative and released .NET. Longhorn will reimplement and convert major Windows subsystems to managed code. This alone will substantially improve security of the operating system, as while the APIs will remain the same legacy Win32 apps will end up talking to managed code beneath the Win32 API (yes, .NET makes this possible)
This will dramatically lessen the exploitation potential of code flaws in the Windows application libraries. Microsoft has to maintain support for legacy application, but that doesn't mean they can't get a fresh start on the underlying code, and doesn't mean that existing Microsoft applications can't be converted to managed code as well.
Remember the good old days when the /. mods would at least check the headlines before posting stories?
Here is the entire letter which you altered and distorted to change the meaning, linked to a source where it may be verified:
http://www.sullivan-county.com/nf0/nov_2000/jeff_w all.htm
On January 1, 1802, in response to the letter from the Danbury Baptist Association, Thomas Jefferson wrote:
Honestly, it's impossible to argue with Christians because they pull shit like this...
You wish to distort reality and pretend like the founding fathers were Christians, not Deists. Here's another Thomas Jefferson quote to chew on:
http://www.deism.org/foundingfathers.htm
I'm frankly infuriated that people are so self-deluded as to post such tripe in a vain attempt to distort reality. You should truly be ashamed of yourself, realize your attempts to distort reality around your ideology are flawed, repent, and accept a scientific view of reality. Otherwise, you are doomed to madness.
Most Christians I talk to seem to assume that "seperation of church and state" is some made up popular conception which doesn't really exist as Constitutional precedent. "Show me where in the Constitution it says the words 'seperation of church and state'!" they scream. They forget that the Constitution was designed to be an evolving document interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court, and here is what they had to say:
From The United States Supreme Court Everson v. Board of Education of Ewing decision:
If you want something to compare to the G4, how about a 1.5GHz Pentium M at the very least?
VIIV is one of the worst marketing names I can imagine.
Skype uses end-to-end cryptography on all calls, up to 2048-bit RSA for the public key exchange and 256-bit AES thereafter.
Skype offers probably the highest strength seamless encryption around.
http://grugnog.com/search?complete=1&hl=en&lr=&saf e=off&c2coff=1&q=traktor&btnG=Search
Substituting www.google.com for grugnog.com we get:
http://www.google.com/search?complete=1&hl=en&lr=& safe=off&c2coff=1&q=traktor&btnG=Search
Which does NOT display any image results. This should contain all the original parameters passed to the page which generated the results.
Following the images link from the page:
http://images.google.com/images?q=traktor&complete =1&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&sa=N&tab=ii&oi=imag est
The inescapable question is, if you are notifying Slashdot of a new Google feature, why wouldn't you link to it on Google's web site instead of an alleged "copy" of a page on a random blog?
FAKE!
This can especially be seen in M-theory, the successor to string theory, which states that what we perceive as the background noise of the universe, fluxuations in the fabric of space-time itself, result not from perturbations of the big bang but the interactions of structures called "branes" which span multiple universes which we perceive as 2-dimensional vibrating strings.
These relationships can be likened to the stock market where the valuations of particular stocks affect the valuations of other related stocks, and the only way to gain a gestalt view is to analyze and derive the interrelationships of the entire system.
The answers have to do with fine grained locking of kernel services, so that the number of resource contentions between processors can be mitigated through a diverse number of locks with the hope that diversifying locks will ensure that fewer will be likely to be held at a given time, or designing interfaces that don't require locking of kernel structures at all.
At any rate, Amazon successfully powers their backend database with Linux/IA64 running on HP servers. YMMV, but if it's good for what most would consider the preminent online merchant, it's probably good enough for you too.
Landover Baptist has to be the most prominent religious parody on the Internet and yet people still believe it's real...
Call me crazy, but I insist that there are certain 'killer' tracks where I can hear this distortion even at higher bitrates in advanced MDCT codecs like Vorbis, namely Led Zeppelin / Rock and Roll whose drumline consists of a ridiculous number of cymbal crashes in rapid succession.
The way I see it, the future is lossless. With hard drives burgeoning to over 500GB and Fiber-to-the-Home becoming a reality within the near future, why bother saving a little extra space at the cost of degraded quality, which, the more you listen to audio compressed with a certain transform, the more likely you are to hear distortions? I think in the future we'll see a greater trend towards lossless audio compression with codes like FLAC and its ilk.
That said they're heavier and more cumbersome to move, they use substantially more electricity, produce substantially more heat, and take up more space that could be better used in a variety of ways... despite being CRT free my living room is cramped as it is.
There are many compelling reasons to purchase LCDs even if you don't take into account that the quality of CRTs degrades much quicker than LCDs, and without regular tuneups the initial difference in picture quality will become relatively meaningless.