Actually, grand parent post is true. In Canada, you are legally allowed to copy your friend's CD for your own use - notice, though, that you cannot copy CDs for others.
Here's a FAQ about CD Levys where it talks about legality of copying, and here's a Article in College Newspaper (pdf, first page, bottom right) in which Canadian Heritage Minister Sheila Copps says that in her opinion, the levy meant that record companies and music labels are being compensated for music piracy, nullifying the negative aspect of copying music for free.
I think the real question is what will Yahoo! do with all the search engines it now has. If I remember correctly, Yahoo! bought Inktomi not too long ago. Add Overture + FAST/Alltheweb + AltaVisa...
It seems like the market is consolidating into Google vs. Yahoo! vs. Microsoft (There have been rumours of Microsoft developing its own algorithm-based search engine) and couple of other players like AskJeeves.
Honda used to compete for World Solar Challenge in Australia (and more or less decimated the other competitors). From my understanding, a lot of that knowhow went into building of the Honda Insight, especially things like the motor.
Newer and more expensive cells (triple junction, GaAs) can manage to extract power even if it's cloudy. Also, solar cars have maximum power point trackers to extract maximum amount of power from the array as well as battery to run the car off from. For instance, during the qualifier a month back at Topeka Kansas, Midnight Sun Solar Car from University of Waterloo qualified for the race running solely off the battery power.
Cloudy days will put a damper on things and will limit the speed at which the solar cars will travel, but it doesn't mean that they'll be dead in the water either.
Have you ever looked at the copyright notices in books? If so, did you ever notice that it says Copyright by So and So Author, NOT Random House or Penguin or some other publishing company?
And how did you get 20% to 30% figure from "12 cents on a dollar" anyway?
That's the exact reason why there's a movement to create Software Engineering as a real Professional Engineering discipline. I for one would be glad to know that software systems that I depend my life on have a certified engineer behind it who has assumed technical and ethical responsibilities for it.
More interesting, I thought, was the part about it costing about 40 cents a show to watch soap operas and other streaming video programs.
With internet connections going up to 40 megabites per second (synchronous, even!), you can bet that those videos would be of pretty high quality. 40 cents per 30 minute tv program - at 40 cents, you wouldn't even think twice about before catching that show you've missed. If the broadband infrastructure was there, this could be the kind of thing that'll kill TiVo (or even Cable TV for that matter)
Mini-ITX isn't exactly cheap especially if you want a nice case to go with it. The VIA CPUs are not fast enough to watch DVDs with and slim DVD drives aren't that cheap either.
If you want to build a comparable machine using available parts, you'll have to send at least twice the cost of XBox.
"the amount of Internet traffic generated by one account is huge" - Well, it would be if all the 1 million music files were stored in one guy's computer. But in this case, they were only providing links to the files. Actual file transfer would show up as localized file transfers between different nodes of the campus LAN.
More I read about what RIAA is saying about this, more I feel that people at RIAA, at least ones at the top, don't really understand what these programs actually do.
Just to add, in top of graduation from accredited program, you also need at least 4 years of experience in doing engineering work under another professional engineer.
Only after the university and the 4 years of experience, you are allowed to write an ethics exam. Once you pass, you are then allowed to call yourself an Engineer in Ontario.
Actually, in Ontario, Canada, even if you don't graduate from accredited engineering school, you can take a series of exam to become an engineer. I would think that a lot of other provinces/states would have similar programs, as after all, all "accredited University" means that it teaches a set of topics to students that the Professional Engineering governing body finds acceptable.
I genuinely am surprised that something like this could've slipped through the cracks.
Service Packs are suppose to be stable, extensively tested set of updates unlike hotfixes, and the bug description makes it sound like it could be a programming logic error, not a programming bug. I mean, they must've noticed *something* if certain programs take up to 10 times as long...
Actually, your definition of synchronous and asynchronous is off. When you say a CPU is synchronous, it means that it requires a common clock. So, when you have your Pentium 200MHz, the clock signal is running 200 million times a second and that's what regulates the entire processor. At everyone of these "ticks", usually one of the stages of pipeline gets processed.
Now, what asynchronous does, is removing all the clocks. You are limited by the speed at which electrons move over the wires. It's a lot more difficult because instead of having a clock which guarantees that something will finish at a given tick, you have to worry about weird race conditions and things like the fact that you have to have a 3rd state (on, off, and not yet determined). If I remember correctly, there are some CPUs where parts of ALU already is asynchronous, due to the extra speed (if an addition can be finished in 0.1 ticks, wouldn't you rather be able to get it at that time instead of waiting for the tick?)
As another posted mentioned, the two CPU does not have to be same clock - what I'd be worried, is the complexity of OS which would result, as well as I/O things like memory access. OS would have to know how much 32/64 bit a given program uses and assign processors accordingly.
I was wondering about that too. What the lawyer requests sounds like a policy change, something left for elected officials and not for lawyers / courts to decide...
The fact that services like congent communication exist means that even with shared resources, companies can make money off people while providing unlimited service (of course, the question now is whether cogent does in fact make money providing non-metered connections).
However, the cost probably adds up when you need mission critical servers requiring connections to several backbones. Now, you need to take into account several links to several service providers as well as the extra hardware, etc. I think that's the reason why brand-name colocation/hosting bandwidth is so much more expensive as compared to, say, getting a quote for a T1 to your basement.
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Yeah, the specs doesn't look too different from Compaq iPaq which has been out for more than 2 years now. However, it is quite a bit cheaper, and it seems like the point of this device is to bring computing to the masses. If you don't have reliable power... etc, PDA just might be the answer.
Hopefully you do realize that once AMD goes down, Intel will most likely jack up the prices way, way up.
There are way more "mindless mainstream users" than techies, and without them, there's no AMD. I've rather have them advertise more, charge me extra $5 per chip, and develop a better faster chip through competition that would've cost me extra $50 if AMD wasn't around.
As the report says, it will take couple of more years before the database vendors will be fearful of MySQL or PostgreSQL.
MySQL, in particular, is missing quite a bit of essential functionality like views and stored procedures that - this is the key - makes it more difficult for other applications to use it as one of the data sources. A lot of enterprise products supports one or more of these expensive databases, and unless those enterprise software are changed to use PostgreSQL or MySQL as the database for it, the big db companies will still have years of guaranteed revenue.
They may be able to take away some of the lower end market, but until the time when likes of SAP and OpenText supports MySQL and PostgreSQL as well as Oracle and DB2, I don't think the db companies will seriously be challenged.
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Actually, grand parent post is true. In Canada, you are legally allowed to copy your friend's CD for your own use - notice, though, that you cannot copy CDs for others. Here's a FAQ about CD Levys where it talks about legality of copying, and here's a Article in College Newspaper (pdf, first page, bottom right) in which Canadian Heritage Minister Sheila Copps says that in her opinion, the levy meant that record companies and music labels are being compensated for music piracy, nullifying the negative aspect of copying music for free.
I think the real question is what will Yahoo! do with all the search engines it now has. If I remember correctly, Yahoo! bought Inktomi not too long ago. Add Overture + FAST/Alltheweb + AltaVisa...
It seems like the market is consolidating into Google vs. Yahoo! vs. Microsoft (There have been rumours of Microsoft developing its own algorithm-based search engine) and couple of other players like AskJeeves.
Honda used to compete for World Solar Challenge in Australia (and more or less decimated the other competitors). From my understanding, a lot of that knowhow went into building of the Honda Insight, especially things like the motor.
Newer and more expensive cells (triple junction, GaAs) can manage to extract power even if it's cloudy. Also, solar cars have maximum power point trackers to extract maximum amount of power from the array as well as battery to run the car off from. For instance, during the qualifier a month back at Topeka Kansas, Midnight Sun Solar Car from University of Waterloo qualified for the race running solely off the battery power.
Cloudy days will put a damper on things and will limit the speed at which the solar cars will travel, but it doesn't mean that they'll be dead in the water either.
Have you ever looked at the copyright notices in books? If so, did you ever notice that it says Copyright by So and So Author, NOT Random House or Penguin or some other publishing company?
And how did you get 20% to 30% figure from "12 cents on a dollar" anyway?
So you'd rather have Hynix close up its 1.6 BILLION fab in Eugene, Oregon?
Things are not as simple as you imagine it to be.
That's the exact reason why there's a movement to create Software Engineering as a real Professional Engineering discipline. I for one would be glad to know that software systems that I depend my life on have a certified engineer behind it who has assumed technical and ethical responsibilities for it.
Lol, "THIS SITE USES COOKIES. YOUR IP ADDRESS HAS BEEN LOGGED" Actually, I don't think there was any cookie assigned from the site.
What would be especially funny, is if the background image that they use was pirated off from somewhere.
More interesting, I thought, was the part about it costing about 40 cents a show to watch soap operas and other streaming video programs.
With internet connections going up to 40 megabites per second (synchronous, even!), you can bet that those videos would be of pretty high quality. 40 cents per 30 minute tv program - at 40 cents, you wouldn't even think twice about before catching that show you've missed. If the broadband infrastructure was there, this could be the kind of thing that'll kill TiVo (or even Cable TV for that matter)
Mini-ITX isn't exactly cheap especially if you want a nice case to go with it. The VIA CPUs are not fast enough to watch DVDs with and slim DVD drives aren't that cheap either.
If you want to build a comparable machine using available parts, you'll have to send at least twice the cost of XBox.
Exactly!
"the amount of Internet traffic generated by one account is huge" - Well, it would be if all the 1 million music files were stored in one guy's computer. But in this case, they were only providing links to the files. Actual file transfer would show up as localized file transfers between different nodes of the campus LAN.
More I read about what RIAA is saying about this, more I feel that people at RIAA, at least ones at the top, don't really understand what these programs actually do.
Just to add, in top of graduation from accredited program, you also need at least 4 years of experience in doing engineering work under another professional engineer.
Only after the university and the 4 years of experience, you are allowed to write an ethics exam. Once you pass, you are then allowed to call yourself an Engineer in Ontario.
Actually, in Ontario, Canada, even if you don't graduate from accredited engineering school, you can take a series of exam to become an engineer. I would think that a lot of other provinces/states would have similar programs, as after all, all "accredited University" means that it teaches a set of topics to students that the Professional Engineering governing body finds acceptable.
I genuinely am surprised that something like this could've slipped through the cracks.
Service Packs are suppose to be stable, extensively tested set of updates unlike hotfixes, and the bug description makes it sound like it could be a programming logic error, not a programming bug. I mean, they must've noticed *something* if certain programs take up to 10 times as long...
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"He said the desktop with a smart card reader capability would have Mad Hatter, Linux, Gnome, Evolution and Java's star office products."
Actually, your definition of synchronous and asynchronous is off. When you say a CPU is synchronous, it means that it requires a common clock. So, when you have your Pentium 200MHz, the clock signal is running 200 million times a second and that's what regulates the entire processor. At everyone of these "ticks", usually one of the stages of pipeline gets processed.
Now, what asynchronous does, is removing all the clocks. You are limited by the speed at which electrons move over the wires. It's a lot more difficult because instead of having a clock which guarantees that something will finish at a given tick, you have to worry about weird race conditions and things like the fact that you have to have a 3rd state (on, off, and not yet determined). If I remember correctly, there are some CPUs where parts of ALU already is asynchronous, due to the extra speed (if an addition can be finished in 0.1 ticks, wouldn't you rather be able to get it at that time instead of waiting for the tick?)
As another posted mentioned, the two CPU does not have to be same clock - what I'd be worried, is the complexity of OS which would result, as well as I/O things like memory access. OS would have to know how much 32/64 bit a given program uses and assign processors accordingly.
You do know that there's no such thing called Internet Privacy Act, right?
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I'll take that as a joke.
I was wondering about that too. What the lawyer requests sounds like a policy change, something left for elected officials and not for lawyers / courts to decide...
The fact that services like congent communication exist means that even with shared resources, companies can make money off people while providing unlimited service (of course, the question now is whether cogent does in fact make money providing non-metered connections).
However, the cost probably adds up when you need mission critical servers requiring connections to several backbones. Now, you need to take into account several links to several service providers as well as the extra hardware, etc. I think that's the reason why brand-name colocation/hosting bandwidth is so much more expensive as compared to, say, getting a quote for a T1 to your basement.
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Electronic Arts Canada (EAC), the largest development studio in the EA family, is located in beautiful British Columbia. (emphasis are mine)
Er, I thought the plane engine compresses the air which is then circulated through the cabins.
So unless they go really really high, in which case the engine would fail due to lack of oxygen, they'll never run out of air.
Yeah, the specs doesn't look too different from Compaq iPaq which has been out for more than 2 years now. However, it is quite a bit cheaper, and it seems like the point of this device is to bring computing to the masses. If you don't have reliable power... etc, PDA just might be the answer.
Hopefully you do realize that once AMD goes down, Intel will most likely jack up the prices way, way up.
There are way more "mindless mainstream users" than techies, and without them, there's no AMD. I've rather have them advertise more, charge me extra $5 per chip, and develop a better faster chip through competition that would've cost me extra $50 if AMD wasn't around.
You have to remember that this is the kind of thing that MySQL is designed for. Lots and lots of SELECTs, almost no INSERT or UPDATEs.
As the report says, it will take couple of more years before the database vendors will be fearful of MySQL or PostgreSQL.
MySQL, in particular, is missing quite a bit of essential functionality like views and stored procedures that - this is the key - makes it more difficult for other applications to use it as one of the data sources. A lot of enterprise products supports one or more of these expensive databases, and unless those enterprise software are changed to use PostgreSQL or MySQL as the database for it, the big db companies will still have years of guaranteed revenue.
They may be able to take away some of the lower end market, but until the time when likes of SAP and OpenText supports MySQL and PostgreSQL as well as Oracle and DB2, I don't think the db companies will seriously be challenged.