But what happens when you can't buy any old nails because they don't sell them anymore? And they start selling wood that isn't compatible with the old nails, so even if you have old nails you can't use them, because it doesn't work with the new wood.
Doesn't he feel bad that he has to pay hundreds of dollars for a new version of MS Word every couple of years. I mean, that's a lot of money to be spending on a tool that hasn't changed much in the last 10 years (at least in terms of the functionality that most people use). Could you imagine if you had to pay $100 for a hammer, and that even if you didn't use the hammer that much, you still had to buy a new one every 3 years?
That's a pretty smart Idea. It's a pretty good way to protect against Word Macro viruses too. I'm pretty sure the viewer doesn't support Macros, and even if it does, only the computer processing the documents would get infected, and that machine could be reimaged every night if it was a real problem.
What are the implications if it does get adopted as a standard? Can anybody implement for free? Can MS get fined for saying they support the standard when in fact their software actually does not (ala, Java, CSS, HTML, Kerberos, and others). If we could just get MS to follow some standard and actually implement it as the standard as written, then I think we could get long way to interoperability with MS word. If it's an open standard, and MS can't just go ahead and change it whenever, and they have to actually follow it, then what does it matter who made up the standard?
That depends on whether it's one whole day continuously, or one day total, but spread out over the 99 days evenly. I guess that still ends up being 14 minutes a day, which isn't great, but not unheard of for many systems that are still in use. I've seen systems that aren't accessible for an entire day every week. I'm not really sure who designs these systems, but when you see stuff like that, it makes you happy to see systems that are up 99% of the time. However, is it worse to have a system that has a known downtime 1 day out of 7 or a system that is up 99 days out of 100, but you don't know which day will be the day it's down. Granted even the systems i've seen with 1 day of scheduled maintenance every week have their down time, so I guess 99 out of 100 is pretty good.
indicates that in five minutes, the isolated fish enzyme killed 99 percent of H5N1 viruses
You missed part of the sentence there, which completely changes the meaning. 99 percent was killed of within 5 minutes, it doesn't really state how much more was killed off after that, but it seems to me that if 99% of it was killed off in 5 minutes, that the rest of it could be pretty easily killed off.
That was the whole point of the episode. There was even the scene where the aliens were telling people that voting for an independent party was throwing their vote away. It was a big joke about the presidential race, where no matter who you vote for, you are screwed, because both parties are evil, and you can't vote independent, because they will never win.
On the same note, I really liked the Alone in the Dark series. It's amazing how the right mixture of music and sound effects can immerse you in a games, even when they're only using 10 polygons to draw a person. I liked the first two the most, don't think I ever played number 3, and then I started to play 4, but really didn't like it, as the start of the game starts you off with 8 bullets, and 4 dogs attacking you, each of which takes 3 bullets to kill. Games don't really need good graphics, but they need a good story, and good atmosphere. I just checked, and it seems as though they are releasing AITD 5, but I'll have to wait and how close it stays to the original games.
I still haven't seen the features I want from internet explorer. So what if they have tabs. That's so old school. How about proper CSS support. How about a nice plugin system like Firefox has. If MS has a plugin system, it sure it going under utilized. How about a theming system, again, if it exists, I haven't seen any indication that it actually exists.
I think the speed up you notice is probably due to the amount of optimization that is done for the compiled executable. For the x86 code, they usually only optimize for pentium processors and above, or sometimes even just for 386, however, when they compile for x86-64, they know that there won't be anybody running it on a 368, and that all the processors support a pretty high level of optimization, so this is probably why there's such a difference.
Well, you can also program macros in Python an Javascript if you like. Nobody said you had to use StarBasic, or OO.O basic, which is what it's called on my version.
If you can do that, why not just stick with the DVD and upgrade the players to play MPEG4? Why are we creating new media when we could easily store an HD movie on a dual layer DVD?
Again, that's just like dubbing tapes. You'll always be able to get around the copy protection with the analog hole, the problem is that people don't want to take the time to do this. This is the reason why we always used high-speed dubbing on our tapes, because we just wanted the copy quickly and didn't want it to take an hour for each tape. Most people wouldn't bother copying DVDs, or at least wouldn't copy every DVD that they saw, if it required hooking it up to the computer and waiting 2 hours, for it record. I'm not saying its a way to stop all piracy, but just make it inconvenient enough for most people so that they don't bother. Same with Macrovision, easily defeated, but twarts attempts made by most people.
I've done it. It doesn't take 2 hours to do the encoding, at least not on my Athlon 3200. Takes about 1 hour. The quality isn't up to par with DVDs, but if I had to choose between paying $5 for this and paying $15 for the actual DVD, I would rather just pay the $5. Simple thing is give people the option. There's plenty of people who download ASF Cam Rips of movies, and watch those. I don't need super hi quality all the time. Sometimes its nice, but if I had a cheaper option, I might get more quantity. If the movie studio can sell more copies by offering different quality versions at different prices, then maybe there wouldn't be so much piracy.
I think that the only real solution is to not allow the movies to be played on a computer. Only on dedicated set top boxes. I realize that the cat is out of the bag now, but I think this is the only way to prevent these movies from being copied by the average Joe. Look at the GameCube and it's proprietary discs. While it's possible to get pirated games, it's just too much trouble for the average joe to bother. As it stands right now, I don't think too many people would buy into a technology that wouldn't play on your computer, since we already have DVD, and that plays fine on the computer. There was a lot less piracy going on when you had to dub the tape, instead of just clicking on a link. There is a big difference in terms of how much stuff you can pirate when you are putting music on tapes versus putting them on a hard disk. And the quality of the copy was pretty inferior.
If they had a service where you could download the movie in DIVX, or XVID or some other MPEG4 Format, which the program would convert to MPEG2 to put on a DVD, then I think they could make a lot of headway. The movies would be a lot smaller (less bandwidth is good for the server and the client), and people would be able to watch them on the TV. They still wouldn't be as good quality as getting the actual DVD, but if they sold them for around $5-$10, I could see a lot of people opting for this over the DVD.
However, if you assume the "curve" is a straight vertical line, right up until you know 100%, then you instantaneously know everything, which means it's extremely easy to learn. However if the learning curve is very gradual, it takes a very long time before you learn enough (maybe 50%, or whatever) where you can actually get some work done. I would much rather use a program where I knew how to use all the features withing a few hours than one where it took me 10 hours to figure out one feature.
If you can do all this SQL stuff in Excel 2007, then why do we need access at all? I think they should just merge them together into one application called MS Tables, that can either work in Database mode, or single table mode. It seems that they've grown to the point where there's so much overlapping functionality that it would be better to have them as 1 application. As it stands now, I think the only reason people use Excel over Access so much is that you can't make the nice pretty charts in Access. (or can you?)
Exactly my opinion. I think that the fact that Excel only supported 65K rows a feature. It's bad enough having people who don't understand databases making databases in Access, it's even worse when people try to use Excel to create a database.
That's why the whole MS lock-in thing is such a problem. All their applications are so tightly integrated together that if you want to use one, you have to use them all. Want to use Sharepoint, you have to use MS Office, want to use Exchage, you have to use Outlook, Want to use any of these, you have to use Windows. It would all be much better if you could use one application without being forced to use another application to get all the functionality.
Except that there's also training costs for your IT department to learn to deal with Linux and OO.o. A lot of Windows admins that I've seen would never be able to deal with a Linux system. The users might not have much trouble switching to Linux with OO.o, because of the simplicity of the tasks, but the IT department that's used to dealing with Windows and MS Office would have a very hard time dealing with the switch.
However, there is one problem, the software that people already bought will have to have an update that updates the key. It's pretty easy to get the key if you know that it's in the update file. Also, if they could get the old player key, they can get the new one. They can't just keep on giving out new player keys every week. Unless they decide to do away with software players altogether, this is effectively a crack.
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But what happens when you can't buy any old nails because they don't sell them anymore? And they start selling wood that isn't compatible with the old nails, so even if you have old nails you can't use them, because it doesn't work with the new wood.
Doesn't he feel bad that he has to pay hundreds of dollars for a new version of MS Word every couple of years. I mean, that's a lot of money to be spending on a tool that hasn't changed much in the last 10 years (at least in terms of the functionality that most people use). Could you imagine if you had to pay $100 for a hammer, and that even if you didn't use the hammer that much, you still had to buy a new one every 3 years?
That's a pretty smart Idea. It's a pretty good way to protect against Word Macro viruses too. I'm pretty sure the viewer doesn't support Macros, and even if it does, only the computer processing the documents would get infected, and that machine could be reimaged every night if it was a real problem.
What are the implications if it does get adopted as a standard? Can anybody implement for free? Can MS get fined for saying they support the standard when in fact their software actually does not (ala, Java, CSS, HTML, Kerberos, and others). If we could just get MS to follow some standard and actually implement it as the standard as written, then I think we could get long way to interoperability with MS word. If it's an open standard, and MS can't just go ahead and change it whenever, and they have to actually follow it, then what does it matter who made up the standard?
That depends on whether it's one whole day continuously, or one day total, but spread out over the 99 days evenly. I guess that still ends up being 14 minutes a day, which isn't great, but not unheard of for many systems that are still in use. I've seen systems that aren't accessible for an entire day every week. I'm not really sure who designs these systems, but when you see stuff like that, it makes you happy to see systems that are up 99% of the time. However, is it worse to have a system that has a known downtime 1 day out of 7 or a system that is up 99 days out of 100, but you don't know which day will be the day it's down. Granted even the systems i've seen with 1 day of scheduled maintenance every week have their down time, so I guess 99 out of 100 is pretty good.
That was the whole point of the episode. There was even the scene where the aliens were telling people that voting for an independent party was throwing their vote away. It was a big joke about the presidential race, where no matter who you vote for, you are screwed, because both parties are evil, and you can't vote independent, because they will never win.
On the same note, I really liked the Alone in the Dark series. It's amazing how the right mixture of music and sound effects can immerse you in a games, even when they're only using 10 polygons to draw a person. I liked the first two the most, don't think I ever played number 3, and then I started to play 4, but really didn't like it, as the start of the game starts you off with 8 bullets, and 4 dogs attacking you, each of which takes 3 bullets to kill. Games don't really need good graphics, but they need a good story, and good atmosphere. I just checked, and it seems as though they are releasing AITD 5, but I'll have to wait and how close it stays to the original games.
I still haven't seen the features I want from internet explorer. So what if they have tabs. That's so old school. How about proper CSS support. How about a nice plugin system like Firefox has. If MS has a plugin system, it sure it going under utilized. How about a theming system, again, if it exists, I haven't seen any indication that it actually exists.
I think the speed up you notice is probably due to the amount of optimization that is done for the compiled executable. For the x86 code, they usually only optimize for pentium processors and above, or sometimes even just for 386, however, when they compile for x86-64, they know that there won't be anybody running it on a 368, and that all the processors support a pretty high level of optimization, so this is probably why there's such a difference.
Actually, the maximum file size on FAT32 is 4GB, but that's still pretty small.
Well, you can also program macros in Python an Javascript if you like. Nobody said you had to use StarBasic, or OO.O basic, which is what it's called on my version.
If you can do that, why not just stick with the DVD and upgrade the players to play MPEG4? Why are we creating new media when we could easily store an HD movie on a dual layer DVD?
Again, that's just like dubbing tapes. You'll always be able to get around the copy protection with the analog hole, the problem is that people don't want to take the time to do this. This is the reason why we always used high-speed dubbing on our tapes, because we just wanted the copy quickly and didn't want it to take an hour for each tape. Most people wouldn't bother copying DVDs, or at least wouldn't copy every DVD that they saw, if it required hooking it up to the computer and waiting 2 hours, for it record. I'm not saying its a way to stop all piracy, but just make it inconvenient enough for most people so that they don't bother. Same with Macrovision, easily defeated, but twarts attempts made by most people.
I've done it. It doesn't take 2 hours to do the encoding, at least not on my Athlon 3200. Takes about 1 hour. The quality isn't up to par with DVDs, but if I had to choose between paying $5 for this and paying $15 for the actual DVD, I would rather just pay the $5. Simple thing is give people the option. There's plenty of people who download ASF Cam Rips of movies, and watch those. I don't need super hi quality all the time. Sometimes its nice, but if I had a cheaper option, I might get more quantity. If the movie studio can sell more copies by offering different quality versions at different prices, then maybe there wouldn't be so much piracy.
I think that the only real solution is to not allow the movies to be played on a computer. Only on dedicated set top boxes. I realize that the cat is out of the bag now, but I think this is the only way to prevent these movies from being copied by the average Joe. Look at the GameCube and it's proprietary discs. While it's possible to get pirated games, it's just too much trouble for the average joe to bother. As it stands right now, I don't think too many people would buy into a technology that wouldn't play on your computer, since we already have DVD, and that plays fine on the computer. There was a lot less piracy going on when you had to dub the tape, instead of just clicking on a link. There is a big difference in terms of how much stuff you can pirate when you are putting music on tapes versus putting them on a hard disk. And the quality of the copy was pretty inferior.
If they had a service where you could download the movie in DIVX, or XVID or some other MPEG4 Format, which the program would convert to MPEG2 to put on a DVD, then I think they could make a lot of headway. The movies would be a lot smaller (less bandwidth is good for the server and the client), and people would be able to watch them on the TV. They still wouldn't be as good quality as getting the actual DVD, but if they sold them for around $5-$10, I could see a lot of people opting for this over the DVD.
However, if you assume the "curve" is a straight vertical line, right up until you know 100%, then you instantaneously know everything, which means it's extremely easy to learn. However if the learning curve is very gradual, it takes a very long time before you learn enough (maybe 50%, or whatever) where you can actually get some work done. I would much rather use a program where I knew how to use all the features withing a few hours than one where it took me 10 hours to figure out one feature.
If you can do all this SQL stuff in Excel 2007, then why do we need access at all? I think they should just merge them together into one application called MS Tables, that can either work in Database mode, or single table mode. It seems that they've grown to the point where there's so much overlapping functionality that it would be better to have them as 1 application. As it stands now, I think the only reason people use Excel over Access so much is that you can't make the nice pretty charts in Access. (or can you?)
Why not use Access to open the CSV, where you can sort and run formulas much easier. You can even do complex queries to find that data you want.
Exactly my opinion. I think that the fact that Excel only supported 65K rows a feature. It's bad enough having people who don't understand databases making databases in Access, it's even worse when people try to use Excel to create a database.
That's why the whole MS lock-in thing is such a problem. All their applications are so tightly integrated together that if you want to use one, you have to use them all. Want to use Sharepoint, you have to use MS Office, want to use Exchage, you have to use Outlook, Want to use any of these, you have to use Windows. It would all be much better if you could use one application without being forced to use another application to get all the functionality.
Except that there's also training costs for your IT department to learn to deal with Linux and OO.o. A lot of Windows admins that I've seen would never be able to deal with a Linux system. The users might not have much trouble switching to Linux with OO.o, because of the simplicity of the tasks, but the IT department that's used to dealing with Windows and MS Office would have a very hard time dealing with the switch.
However, there is one problem, the software that people already bought will have to have an update that updates the key. It's pretty easy to get the key if you know that it's in the update file. Also, if they could get the old player key, they can get the new one. They can't just keep on giving out new player keys every week. Unless they decide to do away with software players altogether, this is effectively a crack.