I agree it's a funny statement, but that may be shortchanging it as well. Taking statements like those made by "Peter de Jager" with a grain of salt is no longer truly standard operating procedure. If he didn't sound like a luddite who was bashing the advancement of technology I might begin to agree with him... that is until I looked twice at the cherubic picture. This is the last guy I want to hear about checks and balances relating to technology or obesity!!!
That little quote at the end of the article has me worried.
" Designers will likely continue to increase the number of transistors on a chip by stacking them." What is the density of transistors going to do for the problem of generating too much heat when they are getting layered in the third dimension? Can I begin to expect the need for a cooling tower outside my apartment to handle the job of heat exchange?
I just want to say thanks for the tireless efforts of the EFF in this case. In so many instances they are the only real force to bring intelligent discussion to the judicial system about technology and it's uses. If you don't yet contribute to the EFF coffers, perhaps this should convince you!
I think you should learn to shop around more. While the interface on the iPod felt cheap and insignificant to me the solid metal feel of my Nomad Jukebox Zen NX has a much more significant quality. It is only slightly cheaper per GB of storage but I don't mind spending for a quality product, especially when I don't have to worry about that plastic face.
To put it simply, I don't see the 128-bit AAC version of the tracks they have available as worth 1$. Of the tracks they have the only ones that would be worth the 1$, I already own a copy of the CD. If they expand their offering to include more music that I am interested in then perhaps they will get some of my money. Until that happens I will continue to watch their progress and keep giving my money to the local music store that can actually provide the content that I desire.
I have some faith that Apple's iTunes store for Windows will attain a fairly significant portion of the available market share for online downloads of music. My problem with all of the current and proposed offerings is the complete and utter lack of any music worth listening to. I enjoy at most 4 bands on major labels and for all of their releases I am not going to an online distribution mechanism as I really want to get my grubby hands on the artwork in the liner notes. Until the music industry gets the idea that everything sounding the same since the early 90's isn't going to advance the industry then they aren't getting my money. I will continue to support those artists that actually make music that I consider worth my time and money. Until iTunes (et al) really has a wealth of independent artists and labels on offer, I will peruse but not buy.
So show me where Kazaa or Sharman Networks have made these ridiculous claims. You can indeed use the FastTrack network with a Kazaa client(please wipe the adware crap first people) and access free as in beer music. Granted you can't grab the new 50 cent album as that isn't distributed under a free to try license. That isn't Sharman Networks problem. As was stated previously about their EULA. They aren't responsible if one kid allowed uploading of his rip of the new album. The actual claims made by/about Kazaa and by/about Sharman are quite understandable and will hold up in court.
It seems you need to alter that last statement. If admins knew what they were doing the HTML,CSS, etc would already be compressed with mod_gzip or they would stop using IIS.
I agree with you that Waking Life is closer to a cubist aesthetic than the entirely overhyped MR. I have one point of contention with your perception of Waking Life casting aside a traditional narrative structure. There is indeed plenty going on in the movie that segue's to and from the narrative of the main character. Those extra scenes are important to provide more perspective on the narrative that is a completely integral and necessary part of the film. The technique used to create the 'alternate reality' of the film was to digitally paint on the frame and using rotoscoping to place the pieces into a 3-dimensional space in relation to the camera.
I'll get in on this IRV rating of OSS advocate figureheads. Perens is #1! He's got an awesome sense of humor. His views on politics and religion don't tend to color his speaking about OSS. Stallman is #2! He has the most crisply defined view on what "Free as in Speech" really should mean that meshes most with mine. ESR is #3! Sometimes he can be as funny as Perens, though in a totally different way. Sometimes his attitude is infectious, but sometimes it seems nasty. They are all intelligent guys who like technology so they are all pretty damn cool in my book. Will someone please force SCO into court so we can get this crap over with! On to better topics for these 3 to talk about!
I think you are both right on the point about parse tree comparison being the way to go, but is there a way to truly stop the motivated code stealer? Though this would allow simple variable name changes to be caught, couldn't any amount of code become obfuscated just by a simple alteration of semantics. Though with all that work the creative CS student would probably know a lot more about how the code works.
Yeah but I'd much rather see this implemented with the carbon nanotube memory module hardware vaporware than the MRAM not much faster than quad piped DDR vaporware.
That makes two of us.... if one of the locals here doesn't pick up the syndication on it. I'd do almost anything to get a regular dose of opus and co. again. Now if only there could be a Calvin and Hobbes return to glory tour.
I'm not trying to flame you or pester you, but could you please change the backround on your site the next time you go through a redesign process... I hate it when you are watching me read about your work.
I know you were offtopic and everything, but I would rather that someone (Bush or Gore or Nader or whomever) who was elected to our highest office would have the morality and intelligence to realize that killing McVeigh was letting him off easy and by locking him in a little box until he either killed himself or died of old age would be a much more suitable punishment than using the death penalty to preemptively end his physical existence. I can keep hoping.
Ummm... not that the availability of games for macs hasn't been traditionally terrible. And they have been getting better with the move to OSX, but I still have a problem with this augur conclusion.
How is running a dual proc machine going to help software that isn't traditionally multi-threaded? The OS might have a fun time swapping which proc gets the game for the next 10 million cycles, but auguring well for performance.... what a farce.
I agree that it ranks in the top twenty worst articles to reach the frontpage of/. I won't let it take the top spot until we see the dupe of this article on friday!
johnnyb, do you work in a properly managed windows shop? I do and the machines used as workstations are kept at a recent enough performance level to allow for real-time virus scanning. Internal Auditing, change-management procedures, IT approved and handled application installations, etc... are all part of a properly run IT shop whether they are unix based, bsd based, mac based or linux based. The fact that you have a preconception that these policies force situations where the users are waiting for application installations is a fallacy. A properly managed IT department is not lacking in the funds to purchase the level of hardware and software that the users need or the funds required to employ professionals who can meet the work load of the environment. The users whether they ride OSX,M$,BSD,or Linux(GNU/Linux if you prefer) don't care what the machine is doing so long as the GUI is responsive. There will never be an environment of IT people supporting end users who are as technologically savvy as the IT personnel. To presume that making them use another OS would improve their intelligence is quite silly. They don't want to know how it works and they do want a support unit that they know does know how things work and that they can trust that support mechanism to take care of them... and not by blowing their problems off. Receiving attachments is safe if you make it safe for them.... and if you have unaware users like most of us do, that is best practice. Not leaving attachments unscanned and expecting the end user to not get socially engineered into unleashing the malicious code onto the network.
SO why wasn't getting a properly managed virus scanning client on every workstation part of your departments 'MSBlaster Clean-sweep'? Why are reports on windows worms still getting on the front page... its a waste of our time. We all know windows is continually going to have vulnerabilities to atack by malicious hackers/script kiddies and virii. We all also know that following best practice as an administrator will turn the possibility of attack into a moot point. So Jucius, was the failure to prepare your machines for the next round of attack your fault or the short-sightedness of your manager?
I think this sentiment is one of the big problems our current federal and state legislators have with the process of creating effective legislation. The use of legislation as a moral or ethical deterrant is seriously flawed. High school kids will continue getting drunk at parties for the rest of the time this society exists on this rock. The key focus of trying to protect these kids from themselves should be education and awareness of the effects. The smart ones will live responsibly and the rest are darwin awards candidates... to claim that having the laws on the books is a good thing just because it "may" stop someon from using or trying something illegal is foolish. Especially when one of your examples is marijuana legislation that is keeping scores of middle-class americans locked away in prisons living off my tax dollars when they were doing nothing to harm or affect anyone/anything other than their own bodies!
As all that they are demonstrating is a few lines of comments from their system v code where is the IP infringement? Comments may be part of the source, but am I wrong in assuming that comments are not included in the 'IP' concept that is being argued in SCO's case? If I copied just the notes in the margins of one of davinci's notebooks into the margins of my copy of 'stranger in a strange land 2: a parody by me' would that be infringement? Is SCO's claim really this weak, or are we really not going to see Code before IBM's lawyers drag it out of the SCO lawyers in an actual courtroom?
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I agree it's a funny statement, but that may be shortchanging it as well. Taking statements like those made by "Peter de Jager" with a grain of salt is no longer truly standard operating procedure. If he didn't sound like a luddite who was bashing the advancement of technology I might begin to agree with him... that is until I looked twice at the cherubic picture. This is the last guy I want to hear about checks and balances relating to technology or obesity!!!
That little quote at the end of the article has me worried.
" Designers will likely continue to increase the number of transistors on a chip by stacking them."
What is the density of transistors going to do for the problem of generating too much heat when they are getting layered in the third dimension? Can I begin to expect the need for a cooling tower outside my apartment to handle the job of heat exchange?
I just want to say thanks for the tireless efforts of the EFF in this case. In so many instances they are the only real force to bring intelligent discussion to the judicial system about technology and it's uses. If you don't yet contribute to the EFF coffers, perhaps this should convince you!
I think you should learn to shop around more. While the interface on the iPod felt cheap and insignificant to me the solid metal feel of my Nomad Jukebox Zen NX has a much more significant quality. It is only slightly cheaper per GB of storage but I don't mind spending for a quality product, especially when I don't have to worry about that plastic face.
To put it simply, I don't see the 128-bit AAC version of the tracks they have available as worth 1$. Of the tracks they have the only ones that would be worth the 1$, I already own a copy of the CD. If they expand their offering to include more music that I am interested in then perhaps they will get some of my money. Until that happens I will continue to watch their progress and keep giving my money to the local music store that can actually provide the content that I desire.
I have some faith that Apple's iTunes store for Windows will attain a fairly significant portion of the available market share for online downloads of music. My problem with all of the current and proposed offerings is the complete and utter lack of any music worth listening to. I enjoy at most 4 bands on major labels and for all of their releases I am not going to an online distribution mechanism as I really want to get my grubby hands on the artwork in the liner notes. Until the music industry gets the idea that everything sounding the same since the early 90's isn't going to advance the industry then they aren't getting my money. I will continue to support those artists that actually make music that I consider worth my time and money. Until iTunes (et al) really has a wealth of independent artists and labels on offer, I will peruse but not buy.
yeah, shouldn't that be with an extra 2 Megabytes of pr0n
So show me where Kazaa or Sharman Networks have made these ridiculous claims. You can indeed use the FastTrack network with a Kazaa client(please wipe the adware crap first people) and access free as in beer music. Granted you can't grab the new 50 cent album as that isn't distributed under a free to try license. That isn't Sharman Networks problem. As was stated previously about their EULA. They aren't responsible if one kid allowed uploading of his rip of the new album. The actual claims made by/about Kazaa and by/about Sharman are quite understandable and will hold up in court.
It seems you need to alter that last statement. If admins knew what they were doing the HTML,CSS, etc would already be compressed with mod_gzip or they would stop using IIS.
I agree with you that Waking Life is closer to a cubist aesthetic than the entirely overhyped MR. I have one point of contention with your perception of Waking Life casting aside a traditional narrative structure. There is indeed plenty going on in the movie that segue's to and from the narrative of the main character. Those extra scenes are important to provide more perspective on the narrative that is a completely integral and necessary part of the film. The technique used to create the 'alternate reality' of the film was to digitally paint on the frame and using rotoscoping to place the pieces into a 3-dimensional space in relation to the camera.
I'll get in on this IRV rating of OSS advocate figureheads.
Perens is #1! He's got an awesome sense of humor. His views on politics and religion don't tend to color his speaking about OSS.
Stallman is #2! He has the most crisply defined view on what "Free as in Speech" really should mean that meshes most with mine.
ESR is #3! Sometimes he can be as funny as Perens, though in a totally different way. Sometimes his attitude is infectious, but sometimes it seems nasty.
They are all intelligent guys who like technology so they are all pretty damn cool in my book.
Will someone please force SCO into court so we can get this crap over with! On to better topics for these 3 to talk about!
I think you are both right on the point about parse tree comparison being the way to go, but is there a way to truly stop the motivated code stealer? Though this would allow simple variable name changes to be caught, couldn't any amount of code become obfuscated just by a simple alteration of semantics. Though with all that work the creative CS student would probably know a lot more about how the code works.
Yeah but I'd much rather see this implemented with the carbon nanotube memory module hardware vaporware than the MRAM not much faster than quad piped DDR vaporware.
That makes two of us.... if one of the locals here doesn't pick up the syndication on it. I'd do almost anything to get a regular dose of opus and co. again. Now if only there could be a Calvin and Hobbes return to glory tour.
Sorry but the business CCTV security market has had PC-based DVR solutions for years. This was the feeling lucky google link cause I'm lazy! Makes me wonder what to do with 8 CCTV cameras recording all the time
I'm not trying to flame you or pester you, but could you please change the backround on your site the next time you go through a redesign process... I hate it when you are watching me read about your work.
I know you were offtopic and everything, but I would rather that someone (Bush or Gore or Nader or whomever) who was elected to our highest office would have the morality and intelligence to realize that killing McVeigh was letting him off easy and by locking him in a little box until he either killed himself or died of old age would be a much more suitable punishment than using the death penalty to preemptively end his physical existence. I can keep hoping.
Ummm... not that the availability of games for macs hasn't been traditionally terrible. And they have been getting better with the move to OSX, but I still have a problem with this augur conclusion.
How is running a dual proc machine going to help software that isn't traditionally multi-threaded? The OS might have a fun time swapping which proc gets the game for the next 10 million cycles, but auguring well for performance.... what a farce.
I agree that it ranks in the top twenty worst articles to reach the frontpage of /. I won't let it take the top spot until we see the dupe of this article on friday!
johnnyb, do you work in a properly managed windows shop? I do and the machines used as workstations are kept at a recent enough performance level to allow for real-time virus scanning. Internal Auditing, change-management procedures, IT approved and handled application installations, etc... are all part of a properly run IT shop whether they are unix based, bsd based, mac based or linux based. The fact that you have a preconception that these policies force situations where the users are waiting for application installations is a fallacy. A properly managed IT department is not lacking in the funds to purchase the level of hardware and software that the users need or the funds required to employ professionals who can meet the work load of the environment. The users whether they ride OSX,M$,BSD,or Linux(GNU/Linux if you prefer) don't care what the machine is doing so long as the GUI is responsive. There will never be an environment of IT people supporting end users who are as technologically savvy as the IT personnel. To presume that making them use another OS would improve their intelligence is quite silly. They don't want to know how it works and they do want a support unit that they know does know how things work and that they can trust that support mechanism to take care of them... and not by blowing their problems off. Receiving attachments is safe if you make it safe for them.... and if you have unaware users like most of us do, that is best practice. Not leaving attachments unscanned and expecting the end user to not get socially engineered into unleashing the malicious code onto the network.
SO why wasn't getting a properly managed virus scanning client on every workstation part of your departments 'MSBlaster Clean-sweep'? Why are reports on windows worms still getting on the front page... its a waste of our time. We all know windows is continually going to have vulnerabilities to atack by malicious hackers/script kiddies and virii. We all also know that following best practice as an administrator will turn the possibility of attack into a moot point. So Jucius, was the failure to prepare your machines for the next round of attack your fault or the short-sightedness of your manager?
I think this sentiment is one of the big problems our current federal and state legislators have with the process of creating effective legislation. The use of legislation as a moral or ethical deterrant is seriously flawed. High school kids will continue getting drunk at parties for the rest of the time this society exists on this rock. The key focus of trying to protect these kids from themselves should be education and awareness of the effects. The smart ones will live responsibly and the rest are darwin awards candidates... to claim that having the laws on the books is a good thing just because it "may" stop someon from using or trying something illegal is foolish. Especially when one of your examples is marijuana legislation that is keeping scores of middle-class americans locked away in prisons living off my tax dollars when they were doing nothing to harm or affect anyone/anything other than their own bodies!
As all that they are demonstrating is a few lines of comments from their system v code where is the IP infringement? Comments may be part of the source, but am I wrong in assuming that comments are not included in the 'IP' concept that is being argued in SCO's case? If I copied just the notes in the margins of one of davinci's notebooks into the margins of my copy of 'stranger in a strange land 2: a parody by me' would that be infringement? Is SCO's claim really this weak, or are we really not going to see Code before IBM's lawyers drag it out of the SCO lawyers in an actual courtroom?
sorry bout that.... left off the S. the Canon EOS-1DS... now please reply again :)