Most of the class failed. I was credited with bsb2ppm (actually libbsb) and jpegtoavi. After 300 hours of work and an A average on the exams, I expect to fail the course.
Define "failed." They failed to find holes? Or they failed the course?
I seriously doubt a prof would fail an A average student for not being able to find a hole for an assignment. Extra credit, maybe, but an F? I mean, WTF?
Yes, consumers should. But DRM is fact of life for copyrighted content sold over the internet[*]. More importantly though, I can see MS taking advantage of the fractured DRM space, and pushing their own DRM through Windows. How do you fight a DRM standard that comes with every copy of Windows?
* I know of and like magnatune.com. But most of legal on-line music isn't sold this way.
has begun. DRM is the best method for companies to lock their customers to their format, so much more effectively than Beta/VHS, CD/DVD/HD-DVD, DAT/Minidisc et al. And the winner will be the One who bundles Their DRM with Their Operating System. Guess who'll win?
Which means companies should be working together, not against each other. Because traditionally MS has done very well in controlling fractured markets. And consumers (hopefully) will choose non-DRM formats among all the confusion.
I agree about client software. Especially ones that run only on Windows and then only on certain VERSIONS of windows. Argg...
Although the smarter companies are catching on. I just bought an iRiver player that has a UMS firmware available on-line. To a PC it just looks like a portable thumbdrive. Now I just drag and drop songs in the file browser.
Toyota released a similar vehicle called
PM at the Tokyo Auto show while back. I think Toyota is interested in these Personal Vehicles because in emerging markets like China or India, where population is very dense and poor, even small compact cars will be too large and too expensive. And considering how well the small SMART vehicles have done in Europe, I think they believe there is a market for a nimble vehicle sized between a motorcycle and a normal car. I would love to see them try!
Is this the same paper that claimed the Russians were responsible for the missing stockpile of conventional weapons and even the WMD? Does this paper have any credibility left as anything but a Republican Mouthpiece (a la Fox News?) And this gets front page?
I'm not sure if that was a real question or not, but I'll answer anyway (because I'm a geek): Centrino wasn't any sort of new technology. To become a "Intel Centrino" laptop, it had to use the Pentium M processor, Intel 855 chipset, and Intel wifi chip. Some notebook companies wanted to use a different wireless chip, since Intel's wasn't the best out there, but then it didn't meet the "Centrino" spec. Customers, after being barraged with million$ in marketing, thought Centrino was a New Technology and thus started demanding it, which basically gave Intel a monopoly on laptop chipsets and integrated wifi chips. This is the story of Centrino marketing "Success". Now this marketing genius CEO is going to change Intel. Yeah, and HP is an innovative technology leader. Yep.
After reading the article, it sounds like Otellini isn't any better. He comes from marketing background, and his only success is the Centrino--which is basically a marketing strategy, not a new technology. And now he talks about platforms and mobile devices--Intel's potential new markets. What, are they not interested in CPU's anymore? No wonder they are chasing AMD. Good riddens.
This is the exact reason I have consciously decided not to purchase DVD's. Even as DVD standard was being finallized, Hollywood knew it couldn't support Hi-Def. There was some concern about antagonizing the consumer who had to buy the same movie multiple times--first digital, then HiDef--but to combat VCD and SVCD piracy, they went ahead anyway. And unlike VHS which lasted many years, DVD's would be made obsolete in about 5 years, to the introduction of Hi-def DVD format.
Since I knew I'll end up buying HD versions 5 years later, I've been just renting my DVD's from Netflix and Blockbuster, and holding off building a movie collection. When HiDef dvd's become standardized and popular, I'll purchase movies again.
I read the parent post as about regular folks leaving the passport in their pockets, thinking there would be no metal in there. I wonder if electro-static bags would trigger metal detectors. I would think because they are not laminar, they won't. I should try this out the next time I fly.
The bill is not on Sales tax on internet purchases but rather the access tax. I think if that revenue is used to increase broadband access all over the country, it would be a great idea. I mean, gas is taxed to pay for the roads. The same should work with internet.
I'm glad more musicians are seeing the benefit of online distribution. I just hope more of them release songs in lossless form, without DRM. Magnatune.com works this way (and artists get %50 of sale price) and I hope more artists choose to follow this model.
Of course not. On a biochemical level, all mammals are pretty much the same.
In fact, plants will need MORE genes than animals because more genes mean more chemical reactions they can perform and plants need a lot (flowering, mating, chemical signaling, anti bacterial/fungal chemicals--pretty much everything they DO is chemical), whereas in animals lot of the tasks can be done behaviorally (washing hands).
It is surprising to me that scientists though thumans would have more genes than animals. The reason humans have most complex behavior is through larger brain size, not diverse chemical reactions. I guess it's just knee jerk arrogance on our part.
AFAIAC, digital camera reviews are nearly worthless, no matter who is doing the review
Wow, that's a strong statement from someone who's never googled for "digital camera review". The first hit is dpreview.com. They have fewer reviews for different camaras (ie, they don't test every single camera out there), but their tests are lot more thorough, with measurements on lens resolution, distortion, white balance, fringing, etc. Sure, their focus is more higher end cameras, but they do cover point-and-shoot models if they are deemed worthy. Give their reviews a try before buying your next camera.
Anyone remember Jeff Arnold's CDRWIN program? His program was popular years ago for its ability to copy Playstation games. As his program became popular target for pirates, he implemented something similar. But as I recall, the user outrage was enormous, and he had to remove the new "feature". Even then, people didn't trust his software for a long time afterwards.
I see lots and lots of posts about population density vs land mass vs corporate greed, yada yada yada.
You are all missing the most fundamental point. In order for businesses to thrive, there has to be good infrastructure to support it. Take the US Highway system, for example. It was built with massive government subsidy and public money. It was expensive to build hundreds of miles of smooth highways that pass through middle-of-the-desert Neveda. Population density there is about zero. But once it's finished, the value it adds to the overall economy is probably worth many more times than the outlay.
These other governments who push broadband saw the highway analogy early on, and realized that in order to support the future information economy or virtual society or whatever, they needed good infrastructure. And in terms of capital outlay, it's relatively cheap infrastructure. Laying a mile of fiber is definately cheaper than laying a mile of highway. US will eventually realize this, I just hope it happens sooner than later.
FreeBSD 5.2[3] will also introduce a software layer that lets Windows network drivers work with FreeBSD. This layer, dubbed Project Evil, means that wired and wireless network cards should be able to work with FreeBSD even if the manufacturers have not written any drivers for the operating system.
This is totally awesome! FreeBSD network drivers are very reliable, but hard to come by for very new devices (eg. wifi). I would totally use this feature even with some reliability sacrifice.
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Most of the class failed. I was credited with bsb2ppm (actually libbsb) and jpegtoavi. After 300 hours of work and an A average on the exams, I expect to fail the course.
Define "failed." They failed to find holes? Or they failed the course?
I seriously doubt a prof would fail an A average student for not being able to find a hole for an assignment. Extra credit, maybe, but an F? I mean, WTF?
Yes, consumers should. But DRM is fact of life for copyrighted content sold over the internet[*]. More importantly though, I can see MS taking advantage of the fractured DRM space, and pushing their own DRM through Windows. How do you fight a DRM standard that comes with every copy of Windows?
* I know of and like magnatune.com. But most of legal on-line music isn't sold this way.
has begun. DRM is the best method for companies to lock their customers to their format, so much more effectively than Beta/VHS, CD/DVD/HD-DVD, DAT/Minidisc et al. And the winner will be the One who bundles Their DRM with Their Operating System. Guess who'll win?
Which means companies should be working together, not against each other. Because traditionally MS has done very well in controlling fractured markets. And consumers (hopefully) will choose non-DRM formats among all the confusion.
I agree about client software. Especially ones that run only on Windows and then only on certain VERSIONS of windows. Argg...
Although the smarter companies are catching on. I just bought an iRiver player that has a UMS firmware available on-line. To a PC it just looks like a portable thumbdrive. Now I just drag and drop songs in the file browser.
Or I may just be getting my hopes up.
Yes, yes you are.
Um, when did I even mention Tenet in my reply? There was no mis-information in my post.
Toyota released a similar vehicle called PM at the Tokyo Auto show while back. I think Toyota is interested in these Personal Vehicles because in emerging markets like China or India, where population is very dense and poor, even small compact cars will be too large and too expensive. And considering how well the small SMART vehicles have done in Europe, I think they believe there is a market for a nimble vehicle sized between a motorcycle and a normal car. I would love to see them try!
Is this the same paper that claimed the Russians were responsible for the missing stockpile of conventional weapons and even the WMD? Does this paper have any credibility left as anything but a Republican Mouthpiece (a la Fox News?) And this gets front page?
I'm not sure if that was a real question or not, but I'll answer anyway (because I'm a geek):
Centrino wasn't any sort of new technology. To become a "Intel Centrino" laptop, it had to use the Pentium M processor, Intel 855 chipset, and Intel wifi chip. Some notebook companies wanted to use a different wireless chip, since Intel's wasn't the best out there, but then it didn't meet the "Centrino" spec. Customers, after being barraged with million$ in marketing, thought Centrino was a New Technology and thus started demanding it, which basically gave Intel a monopoly on laptop chipsets and integrated wifi chips. This is the story of Centrino marketing "Success". Now this marketing genius CEO is going to change Intel. Yeah, and HP is an innovative technology leader. Yep.
After reading the article, it sounds like Otellini isn't any better. He comes from marketing background, and his only success is the Centrino--which is basically a marketing strategy, not a new technology. And now he talks about platforms and mobile devices--Intel's potential new markets. What, are they not interested in CPU's anymore? No wonder they are chasing AMD. Good riddens.
This is the exact reason I have consciously decided not to purchase DVD's. Even as DVD standard was being finallized, Hollywood knew it couldn't support Hi-Def. There was some concern about antagonizing the consumer who had to buy the same movie multiple times--first digital, then HiDef--but to combat VCD and SVCD piracy, they went ahead anyway. And unlike VHS which lasted many years, DVD's would be made obsolete in about 5 years, to the introduction of Hi-def DVD format.
Since I knew I'll end up buying HD versions 5 years later, I've been just renting my DVD's from Netflix and Blockbuster, and holding off building a movie collection. When HiDef dvd's become standardized and popular, I'll purchase movies again.
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I read the parent post as about regular folks leaving the passport in their pockets, thinking there would be no metal in there.
I wonder if electro-static bags would trigger metal detectors. I would think because they are not laminar, they won't. I should try this out the next time I fly.
RFID are too small to trigger airport metal detectors. I walk through them all the time with my RFID tag.
The bill is not on Sales tax on internet purchases but rather the access tax. I think if that revenue is used to increase broadband access all over the country, it would be a great idea. I mean, gas is taxed to pay for the roads. The same should work with internet.
I'm glad more musicians are seeing the benefit of online distribution. I just hope more of them release songs in lossless form, without DRM. Magnatune.com works this way (and artists get %50 of sale price) and I hope more artists choose to follow this model.
hopefully the market can agree on a disc by the time they go to market
You mean like how the egg chose the chicken?
Well, Ubuntu linux screen shots show hot chicks, and I guess everyone else is trying to see if other distros do too. And so far they haven't.
...going to do a surface magnetic scan to look for the Monolith?
Of course not. On a biochemical level, all mammals are pretty much the same.
In fact, plants will need MORE genes than animals because more genes mean more chemical reactions they can perform and plants need a lot (flowering, mating, chemical signaling, anti bacterial/fungal chemicals--pretty much everything they DO is chemical), whereas in animals lot of the tasks can be done behaviorally (washing hands).
It is surprising to me that scientists though thumans would have more genes than animals. The reason humans have most complex behavior is through larger brain size, not diverse chemical reactions. I guess it's just knee jerk arrogance on our part.
AFAIAC, digital camera reviews are nearly worthless, no matter who is doing the review
Wow, that's a strong statement from someone who's never googled for "digital camera review". The first hit is dpreview.com. They have fewer reviews for different camaras (ie, they don't test every single camera out there), but their tests are lot more thorough, with measurements on lens resolution, distortion, white balance, fringing, etc. Sure, their focus is more higher end cameras, but they do cover point-and-shoot models if they are deemed worthy. Give their reviews a try before buying your next camera.
Anyone remember Jeff Arnold's CDRWIN program? His program was popular years ago for its ability to copy Playstation games. As his program became popular target for pirates, he implemented something similar. But as I recall, the user outrage was enormous, and he had to remove the new "feature". Even then, people didn't trust his software for a long time afterwards.
The time is all wrong. The explosion happend 11am local time on the Sep 9, and that's 2am UT. The "something" happens at 4pm UT.
I see lots and lots of posts about population density vs land mass vs corporate greed, yada yada yada.
You are all missing the most fundamental point. In order for businesses to thrive, there has to be good infrastructure to support it. Take the US Highway system, for example. It was built with massive government subsidy and public money. It was expensive to build hundreds of miles of smooth highways that pass through middle-of-the-desert Neveda. Population density there is about zero. But once it's finished, the value it adds to the overall economy is probably worth many more times than the outlay.
These other governments who push broadband saw the highway analogy early on, and realized that in order to support the future information economy or virtual society or whatever, they needed good infrastructure. And in terms of capital outlay, it's relatively cheap infrastructure. Laying a mile of fiber is definately cheaper than laying a mile of highway. US will eventually realize this, I just hope it happens sooner than later.
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FreeBSD 5.2[3] will also introduce a software layer that lets Windows network drivers work with FreeBSD. This layer, dubbed Project Evil, means that wired and wireless network cards should be able to work with FreeBSD even if the manufacturers have not written any drivers for the operating system.
This is totally awesome! FreeBSD network drivers are very reliable, but hard to come by for very new devices (eg. wifi). I would totally use this feature even with some reliability sacrifice.