Personally, I have an iPod specifically because it's NOT Microsoft. I view WMA capability as an undesirable feature and choose products that don't have it. I realize that I fall into a small group of users, most iPod's sell because "that's what P Diddy or my cousin Bob has", but I go with non-MS solutions whenever possible. That said, I think your point about an "open" DRM managed by the RIAA (I know... I'll burn in hell) is probably the panacea to all this. They can manage the private keys and just just leave the spec open. Without a key to decrypt the music, you wouldn't get far anyhow. As for the "people will use the space to re-encode the files and share them", well, they're doing that now even without an open spec.
Wow... didn't realize so many people got their starts on the same box as me!!! My uncle gave me a Sinclair ZX-81, and it really set the course for my future. My parents refused to buy us an Atari, so I taught myself to program at age 12, basically writting very crude games. I went big league a few years later on an HP-150. That was my first PC with a diskette drive, really a big deal back then. I think my first app was a database driven maze game that I wrote with some really crude ASCII graphics. I think the database was rBASE. Anyhow, it's ironic that the Sinclair and games brought me into this fold. I can't imagine the new gen bragging that they wrote a game in which a cannon '%' throws an 'o' at an 'x' or that '|_-=\/' mean walls and stairs.
That's probably true, but it will really just shift the performance burden to application developers. Writting multi-core apps is not going to be as easy as writing multithreaded apps we're all used to. Regardless, it's good since it will bring back a bit of new-ness to writing PC apps, the last several years has been kinda stale. Someone should start a pool as to when the first "Requirements: Dual-core or higher CPU" boxed software shows up at your local BestBuy.
Nice misleading name for a book title. This is about adding shiney bells and whistles to.NET apps, not integrating artificial intelligence into.NET apps. Somebody wake me up when Building Self-Aware.NET Applications gets published.
Wish I had mod points, you're one of the few who gets "it". In-vitero results mean very little. In-vivo results, that's a whole other ball of wax. Even, getting these CSA compounds into the body and having them target the virus without wreaking havoc on the patient is only half of the battle. One of HIVs nastiest tricks is that it can go into a latent state where the immune system's ability to bind to the virus is disrupted. Unless CSAs can go beyond mimicing the immune response and actually interfere with HIVs HDAC response, the virus will never be fully eliminated from the patient, and as such there will be no cure..
Well, I don't know if we're in "the majority" but we use OSS specifically to enable us to do deep customizations. Cost is not a factor in this, we spend a lot of jack on MS and Oracle as well. The vast majority of the customized code is customer facing. It's a sad reality, internal users (employees) we tell to "like it or leave", but we need to differentiate our wares for our external users (customers) or they will ignore/leave/whatever. OSS is a differentiator for us, not an economic advantage. On that note, we do use Linux (mostly) vanilla in a cluster of disposable servers, and that is partially a cost thing but also because Linux fits very nicely in clustered setups.
Google is not in any way shape or form a multi-sector monopoly, just like Yahoo isn't. Also, they do not antagonize their customers, they may antagonize content providers and ISPs (well BellSouth anyhow), but their advertisers (read: customers) appear to be plenty happy given GOOG's revenue increases. One last thing, the lion's share of MS revenue comes from corporate purchases of Office and bundling deals with OEMs. In the MS scale of things, individuals actually going out and phyiscally puchasing XP and/or Office at BestBuy is not a major source of revenue.
Matter does not come from non-matter, unless you subscribe to an omnicient deity with the power to create.
Actually, quantum electrodynamics has shown that electrons, positrons, and photons can spontaneously come to exist and cease to exist within a quantum vaccuum. It's really freaky stuff, but it shows that matter can come from nothing on a temporary basis, much to the chagrin of creationists. Wait... unless, that is, God is still busy creating subatomic particles after all these years. There are even theories that the matter of the universe itself is the result of these virtual particles.
sometimes I wish I could install RedHat on my iBook, so I can test Oracle server products
That's a really really good point. I do a lot of Oracle work and Linux gives me the closest to a portable server env that I can get. The idea of an Intel Mac revived my interest in Macs, particularly since the Crossover team is working on porting WINE to it, but I didn't stop to consider the other big closed source vendor I need to have, Oracle. I wonder if the Oracle X86 Linux binaries can be made to run on the Intel Macs under BSDs Linux emulation?
Pssst, FF isn't GPL... it's MPL... but they'd have to show their cards... I mean code, nonetheless. That said, I'd shit a brick if IE7 was based on FF, too much of IE is entangled into the core API set for them to rip it out at this point.
"But if companies violate the license, the consequences can be more severe than they think. If companies are violating the GPL, they don't have the right to use that software. And if they don't have the right to use the software, they're violating federal law if they claim that they do."
Well no poop? So they're saying that violating the GPL is like violating an EULA... wow... stop the presses!!! The GPL is eeeeeeeevil!!! Morons.
This is why I'm all for having to have a license to have a child.
The only problem is that you don't need a license to have sex which is a prereq for having a child. If you "accidentally" knock someone up, is the state going to mandate an abortion because you don't have a "child license"? Are they going to issue a fine for the pregnancy? If so, who's responsible for paying? The male? The female?
Anyhow, you see the point, the focus shouldn't be on having the child, but on raising the child. If your kid downloads porn and you raise a fuss about it, YOU need to spend some time in parenting rehab until you learn how to be responsible for your kid. The solution lies somewhere in making irresponsible parents pay.
The site I co-admin shows just under 40% Firefox for external hits. IE still leads but FF has been ramping steadily since I last checked. Internally, we're mandated to use IE, so internal hits on the same site are heavily skewed for IE.
I've found 2.6.11 to be very stable for server purposes. I have 2 high load prod boxes going strong for about 6 months now without a hiccup. Yeah, 2.6 had a bit of a rough start, but all the surprises seem to be out of it now. Anybody who jumps on a new major version of ANYTHING for production purposes without giving it a chance to mature runs a solid risk of getting burned.
After scanning the doc on LINQ, this is basically just a rip-off of Hibernate for Java. The problem with these highly abstracted APIs is that they mask too much native DB functionality. Unless you can code NATIVE sql, these kind of object abstractions will never be able to displace mid level interfaces like JDBC/ODBC. Even then, there's a whole vendor specific API that's only available in interaces like OCI for Oracle. I'm sure there's more to C# 3.0 than just LINQ, but this feature won't be the java "killer".
If it's so "open", then they surely wouldn't mind releasing the sources, I mean shit, they still own the key servers which is the crux of the scheme right? Even better, take a page from MP3 and only license the encoders, make the player runtimes free, no? Don't get me wrong, Apple's just as bad, but I've yet to hear a key based DRM scheme that wasn't an invitation to vendor lock-in. The fairest solution, at least in my eyes, is digital fingerprinting, do what you want with the music you buy, but upload it to the general public and we'll know who you are. Yeah, somebody will write a program to erase finger prints, but the plethora of DRM removal progs out there doesn't prove hard DRM is any iota better.
Overall, Canada's health care system is okay but its not a Godsend. I am living in California now with Kaiser HMO and it is roughly twice as good as Canada's health care system. I truly feel sorry for people without medical insurance because they will go bankrupt if they get sick though.
From what I've heard from Canadian's down here, the health care system in Canada has really started to tear itself apart over the last decade, apparently it was pretty dmaned good before that. Sadly, it's a mirror image of what's happening here in the US. We, as employees, are having to pay a larger and larger share of our health bills. It nothing close to horrendous yet, a bit over $2000 a year factoring in co-pays for 2 people in my case.There are still wait times, but they're really very minor, a week or 2 tops for an MRI. As a hockey player I've had several, and a few surgeries to top it off, but never a bill over a few hundred bucks total in all that time. Now, if I was unemployed, life would be a far cry less funny, healthcare wise, that if I were unemployed in Canada.
I think you will find that more people watch the History Channel, the Science Channel, and Discovery than you think.
Absolutely... it's the chrisitan channels, shopping network, game show network, lifetime, and all of those "must have" channels that are headed for extinction. That in mind, this will affect the ability of new channels to emerge since they'd have to self fund right out of the gate. That means other potential channels like say The Astronomy Channel and The Invention Channel will likely never get a fighting chance.
Most likely because the new MySQL version used a glibc function not existing in the previous version
I find that EXCEEDINGLY hard to believe considering that the req was:
"In the Linux case, the component required an upgrade of the MySQL database component from version 3.23 to version 4.1"
and MySQL 4.1 works fine when compiled against GLIBC 2.2 which is what SLES 8 ships with. Truth be told, the study admins choose to hunt down precompiled RPMs for MySQL 4.1 rather than download the sources and do a simple configure/make install. If they REALLY wanted RPMs, they could even have grabbed the SRPM from SuSE, ran it through alien,subbed in the new tgz, and rebuild a fresh RPM. Thus, my long standing position that there is no such thing as a "good" admin who hasn't also done some development work.
You're thinking too far outside the box! Think of some bored geeky alien kid picking up the SETI signal and simply wanting to show his/her/it's alien pals what a 133t h4x0r he/she/it is by pwning a prehistoric (to them) civilization.
ATI's drivers are lousy, but they work... for gaming only... I use xorg's for everything else in order to be able to suspend to ram, not get occasional screen corruptions, etc. That said, there is a linux punk-buster client, it's linked into Enemy Territory, so I know it exists. The problem for Cedega is that it needs to get the Windows version of Punk Buster to work under it's emulator since that's what's linked into the Windows binary. I used to sub to Cedega but stopped after getting my votes largely ignored. I am a loyal Crossover Office sub now, they donate almost all their code back to Wine and when they get DX working in an upcoming ver, hopefully it'll take some of that sub $$$ away from Transgaming and redirect it to guys who value OSS.
Oh man... the few hockey games that do get broadcast in HD are soooooo worth it. Granted, for plain-old sitcoms, HD doesn't add much, but for sports, the image quality is definitely worth it. Now, if they could find a way to make those behind the net "safety" nets invisible, we'd be really cooking. Overhead wire cams, a-la NFL would also be cool, but probably insanely annoying for those who forked out 2 bills to actually be at the game.
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Personally, I have an iPod specifically because it's NOT Microsoft. I view WMA capability as an undesirable feature and choose products that don't have it. I realize that I fall into a small group of users, most iPod's sell because "that's what P Diddy or my cousin Bob has", but I go with non-MS solutions whenever possible. That said, I think your point about an "open" DRM managed by the RIAA (I know ... I'll burn in hell) is probably the panacea to all this. They can manage the private keys and just just leave the spec open. Without a key to decrypt the music, you wouldn't get far anyhow. As for the "people will use the space to re-encode the files and share them", well, they're doing that now even without an open spec.
Wow ... didn't realize so many people got their starts on the same box as me!!! My uncle gave me a Sinclair ZX-81, and it really set the course for my future. My parents refused to buy us an Atari, so I taught myself to program at age 12, basically writting very crude games. I went big league a few years later on an HP-150. That was my first PC with a diskette drive, really a big deal back then. I think my first app was a database driven maze game that I wrote with some really crude ASCII graphics. I think the database was rBASE. Anyhow, it's ironic that the Sinclair and games brought me into this fold. I can't imagine the new gen bragging that they wrote a game in which a cannon '%' throws an 'o' at an 'x' or that '|_-=\/' mean walls and stairs.
That's probably true, but it will really just shift the performance burden to application developers. Writting multi-core apps is not going to be as easy as writing multithreaded apps we're all used to. Regardless, it's good since it will bring back a bit of new-ness to writing PC apps, the last several years has been kinda stale. Someone should start a pool as to when the first "Requirements: Dual-core or higher CPU" boxed software shows up at your local BestBuy.
Nice misleading name for a book title. This is about adding shiney bells and whistles to .NET apps, not integrating artificial intelligence into .NET apps. Somebody wake me up when Building Self-Aware .NET Applications gets published.
Wish I had mod points, you're one of the few who gets "it". In-vitero results mean very little. In-vivo results, that's a whole other ball of wax. Even, getting these CSA compounds into the body and having them target the virus without wreaking havoc on the patient is only half of the battle. One of HIVs nastiest tricks is that it can go into a latent state where the immune system's ability to bind to the virus is disrupted. Unless CSAs can go beyond mimicing the immune response and actually interfere with HIVs HDAC response, the virus will never be fully eliminated from the patient, and as such there will be no cure..
Well, I don't know if we're in "the majority" but we use OSS specifically to enable us to do deep customizations. Cost is not a factor in this, we spend a lot of jack on MS and Oracle as well. The vast majority of the customized code is customer facing. It's a sad reality, internal users (employees) we tell to "like it or leave", but we need to differentiate our wares for our external users (customers) or they will ignore/leave/whatever. OSS is a differentiator for us, not an economic advantage. On that note, we do use Linux (mostly) vanilla in a cluster of disposable servers, and that is partially a cost thing but also because Linux fits very nicely in clustered setups.
Google is not in any way shape or form a multi-sector monopoly, just like Yahoo isn't. Also, they do not antagonize their customers, they may antagonize content providers and ISPs (well BellSouth anyhow), but their advertisers (read: customers) appear to be plenty happy given GOOG's revenue increases. One last thing, the lion's share of MS revenue comes from corporate purchases of Office and bundling deals with OEMs. In the MS scale of things, individuals actually going out and phyiscally puchasing XP and/or Office at BestBuy is not a major source of revenue.
Matter does not come from non-matter, unless you subscribe to an omnicient deity with the power to create.
... unless, that is, God is still busy creating subatomic particles after all these years. There are even theories that the matter of the universe itself is the result of these virtual particles.
Actually, quantum electrodynamics has shown that electrons, positrons, and photons can spontaneously come to exist and cease to exist within a quantum vaccuum. It's really freaky stuff, but it shows that matter can come from nothing on a temporary basis, much to the chagrin of creationists. Wait
sometimes I wish I could install RedHat on my iBook, so I can test Oracle server products
That's a really really good point. I do a lot of Oracle work and Linux gives me the closest to a portable server env that I can get. The idea of an Intel Mac revived my interest in Macs, particularly since the Crossover team is working on porting WINE to it, but I didn't stop to consider the other big closed source vendor I need to have, Oracle. I wonder if the Oracle X86 Linux binaries can be made to run on the Intel Macs under BSDs Linux emulation?
Pssst, FF isn't GPL ... it's MPL ... but they'd have to show their cards ... I mean code, nonetheless. That said, I'd shit a brick if IE7 was based on FF, too much of IE is entangled into the core API set for them to rip it out at this point.
From TnotFA:
... wow ... stop the presses!!! The GPL is eeeeeeeevil!!! Morons.
"But if companies violate the license, the consequences can be more severe than they think. If companies are violating the GPL, they don't have the right to use that software. And if they don't have the right to use the software, they're violating federal law if they claim that they do."
Well no poop? So they're saying that violating the GPL is like violating an EULA
This is why I'm all for having to have a license to have a child.
The only problem is that you don't need a license to have sex which is a prereq for having a child. If you "accidentally" knock someone up, is the state going to mandate an abortion because you don't have a "child license"? Are they going to issue a fine for the pregnancy? If so, who's responsible for paying? The male? The female?
Anyhow, you see the point, the focus shouldn't be on having the child, but on raising the child. If your kid downloads porn and you raise a fuss about it, YOU need to spend some time in parenting rehab until you learn how to be responsible for your kid. The solution lies somewhere in making irresponsible parents pay.
The site I co-admin shows just under 40% Firefox for external hits. IE still leads but FF has been ramping steadily since I last checked. Internally, we're mandated to use IE, so internal hits on the same site are heavily skewed for IE.
I've found 2.6.11 to be very stable for server purposes. I have 2 high load prod boxes going strong for about 6 months now without a hiccup. Yeah, 2.6 had a bit of a rough start, but all the surprises seem to be out of it now. Anybody who jumps on a new major version of ANYTHING for production purposes without giving it a chance to mature runs a solid risk of getting burned.
After scanning the doc on LINQ, this is basically just a rip-off of Hibernate for Java. The problem with these highly abstracted APIs is that they mask too much native DB functionality. Unless you can code NATIVE sql, these kind of object abstractions will never be able to displace mid level interfaces like JDBC/ODBC. Even then, there's a whole vendor specific API that's only available in interaces like OCI for Oracle. I'm sure there's more to C# 3.0 than just LINQ, but this feature won't be the java "killer".
If it's so "open", then they surely wouldn't mind releasing the sources, I mean shit, they still own the key servers which is the crux of the scheme right? Even better, take a page from MP3 and only license the encoders, make the player runtimes free, no? Don't get me wrong, Apple's just as bad, but I've yet to hear a key based DRM scheme that wasn't an invitation to vendor lock-in. The fairest solution, at least in my eyes, is digital fingerprinting, do what you want with the music you buy, but upload it to the general public and we'll know who you are. Yeah, somebody will write a program to erase finger prints, but the plethora of DRM removal progs out there doesn't prove hard DRM is any iota better.
Hey McFly! Everbody knows this has well documented prior art!!! :D
Wish I had mod points, you make one hell of a convincing argument here!
Why would a company arbitarily cut an annual check to Microsoft?
Annual support contract, most companies have them.
Overall, Canada's health care system is okay but its not a Godsend. I am living in California now with Kaiser HMO and it is roughly twice as good as Canada's health care system. I truly feel sorry for people without medical insurance because they will go bankrupt if they get sick though.
From what I've heard from Canadian's down here, the health care system in Canada has really started to tear itself apart over the last decade, apparently it was pretty dmaned good before that. Sadly, it's a mirror image of what's happening here in the US. We, as employees, are having to pay a larger and larger share of our health bills. It nothing close to horrendous yet, a bit over $2000 a year factoring in co-pays for 2 people in my case.There are still wait times, but they're really very minor, a week or 2 tops for an MRI. As a hockey player I've had several, and a few surgeries to top it off, but never a bill over a few hundred bucks total in all that time. Now, if I was unemployed, life would be a far cry less funny, healthcare wise, that if I were unemployed in Canada.
I think you will find that more people watch the History Channel, the Science Channel, and Discovery than you think.
... it's the chrisitan channels, shopping network, game show network, lifetime, and all of those "must have" channels that are headed for extinction. That in mind, this will affect the ability of new channels to emerge since they'd have to self fund right out of the gate. That means other potential channels like say The Astronomy Channel and The Invention Channel will likely never get a fighting chance.
Absolutely
Most likely because the new MySQL version used a glibc function not existing in the previous version
I find that EXCEEDINGLY hard to believe considering that the req was:
"In the Linux case, the component required an upgrade of the MySQL database component from version 3.23 to version 4.1"
and MySQL 4.1 works fine when compiled against GLIBC 2.2 which is what SLES 8 ships with. Truth be told, the study admins choose to hunt down precompiled RPMs for MySQL 4.1 rather than download the sources and do a simple configure/make install. If they REALLY wanted RPMs, they could even have grabbed the SRPM from SuSE, ran it through alien,subbed in the new tgz, and rebuild a fresh RPM. Thus, my long standing position that there is no such thing as a "good" admin who hasn't also done some development work.
You're thinking too far outside the box! Think of some bored geeky alien kid picking up the SETI signal and simply wanting to show his/her/it's alien pals what a 133t h4x0r he/she/it is by pwning a prehistoric (to them) civilization.
ATI's drivers are lousy, but they work ... for gaming only ... I use xorg's for everything else in order to be able to suspend to ram, not get occasional screen corruptions, etc. That said, there is a linux punk-buster client, it's linked into Enemy Territory, so I know it exists. The problem for Cedega is that it needs to get the Windows version of Punk Buster to work under it's emulator since that's what's linked into the Windows binary. I used to sub to Cedega but stopped after getting my votes largely ignored. I am a loyal Crossover Office sub now, they donate almost all their code back to Wine and when they get DX working in an upcoming ver, hopefully it'll take some of that sub $$$ away from Transgaming and redirect it to guys who value OSS.
Oh man ... the few hockey games that do get broadcast in HD are soooooo worth it. Granted, for plain-old sitcoms, HD doesn't add much, but for sports, the image quality is definitely worth it. Now, if they could find a way to make those behind the net "safety" nets invisible, we'd be really cooking. Overhead wire cams, a-la NFL would also be cool, but probably insanely annoying for those who forked out 2 bills to actually be at the game.