Don't delude yourself - there's nothing 'open source' about SenderID - it's going to be an IETF standard - it has nothing to do with source code of any kind.
Funny how the open source community feels the need to grab on to anything that seems good. To bad that this whole idea is the result of several corporations trying to solve the spam problem (Microsoft, Yahoo, and others.) The end result will be a compromise between what these companies want and will be an internet standard.
The open source community is just sitting on the sidelines - waiting for the standard - so that they can copy it just like they do with everything else.
What, as if Microsoft hasn't already ported the NT platform to PowerPC, Alpha, MIPS, Itanium... NT was a portable platform from the start - they don't need to practice porting it with a console.
If they can give me HD VOD Movies I will never rent or buy another DVD again. Well, until there are lots of HD DVDs available - but who knows when that's really going to happen.
It doesn't even have to be 18mbit - WMV has been shown to provide the same level of quality somewhere between 6 and 8mbit as HDTV streams provide at 18.
10 years is a long time - I have no doubt that we will have sufficient bandwidth to the home well before that.
Libertarians are NOT a branch of the far right. I have (conservative) friends who like to refer to me as a 'Liberal-tarian' - the views of the liberatarian party basically boil down to "freedom comes first." The 'right' would like you to be free as long as you follow their religion and morality - the 'left' would like you to be free as long as you hand over your earnings for their own version of social morality. (Gross over-simplification, there are obviously many other issues involved.)
In the traditional meaning of 'liberal' (which is completely different from what the media potrays / what people take it to mean today) the libertarian party is about as liberal as it gets. Given the two parties that we hear the most about you'd think it was as simple as being left, right, or somewhere in between - but it isn't - look up what the libertarian party actually represents.
I think very little of both the Republican and Democrat parties - not because they are 'extreme' and I'm in the middle - but because they both have an agenda that is fundamentally opposed to the concept of freedom that this country was founded on - they do this in some different ways - though they share a remarkable amount of common ground when it comes to telling people what to do to serve a supposed common good.
The 'Public Record' is maintained (in the US) by your state, town, or county. It is not a newspaper.
Marriages, Births, Name changes, even real estate property purchases are all on 'public record.' Anyone who wants to can go down to the clerks office and get any info on public record. Some of this info is available online in some places - for example - all real estate transaction info is available in Washington's King County (Seattle).
However, none of this is published in any newspaper. If you want a marriage published in a newspaper you need to ask them (and possibly pay them.)
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One of the things that makes XP start apps very quickly is this:
It watches applications startup and monitors what they read from the disk - it notes this in a log. During idle time it moves the sectors around on disk so that they will all be in the same place for the next time you start that app. When you start the app later it runs out and reads everything that it believes the app will want to read all at once. This pre-reading and disk order optimization makes XP start apps a heck of a lot quicker than previous versions of the OS did.
It also does exactly the same thing for the boot process. There's even a tool you can download from MS's web site that will allow you to force the system to clear what it thinks about the boot process, reboot, and force the ordering to take place immediately rather than during idle time.
Required to publish a name change in a newspaper? Newspapers are private entities - no law requires you to put anything in a newspaper - sounds pretty silly to me.
Besides, as far as I am concerned paper newspapers and magazines are dead...
I agree with you completely on the story construction. In fact, this is just what I thought when I saw the first preview... 'man they're trying really hard to justify a sequel to a movie that finished with most of the loose ends tied up.'
It had it's funny moments - but it was just another funny animation - something about the original Shrek made it a stellar movie that I can see people still watching years from now - the same can't be said for Shrek 2... In my opinion.
Personally I think the thong gag was dumb... 'oh my god he's wearing women's clothing' gags are pretty lame IMO.
I do think that actually visiting the Muffin Man was pretty cool - esp. given that the conversation about the Muffin Man in Shrek 1 was so funny and memorable.
Gimme a break. I took my 3 year old to see Shrek 2 - The *previews* we had to sit through did more mental damage than anything in the movie. It was extremely harmless - more so than the first one was. My wife skips through the 'fight' scenes in the first Shrek when my son is watching, there wasn't much of any of that stuff in Shrek 2.
People really need to get over this 'scary sex' thing - why is it we think sex is somehow worse than violence?
All that said, I wasn't that impressed with Shrek 2 - I *really* liked the first one, this one was more slap-sticky... or maybe the problem was I had seen all of the previews so it often felt like I was watching the jokes I had already seen and the scenes in between them. It was a good movie, just not as good as the first one IMO.
Apart from their TVs I have never heard anyone who actually did their homework find Sony to be the 'better product' - Sony's quality is middle-of-the road. Sony's marketing is top-notch. Their products don't suck - but they cost more than an equivalent (features and quality) product from another company.
You do hear about the 'Dodge Caravan', the 'Gilette Sensor', the 'Nikon CoolPix' - in fact the company name is often prepended when it would not otherwise be all that clear what the product was. What's a 'Sensor' if it's not from Gilette? Would a 'CoolPix' sound like anything more than a disposable camera if it wasn't called the 'Nikon CoolPix'?
There are plenty of examples of company names being used or not used. In 1985 calling a product just plain 'Windows' might leave you thinking that it was a something used when building houses.
The Insight is the only Aluminum Hybrid. The Prius and Civic Hybrid are steel. In fact the Civic Hybrid has the same body as the normal Civic.
I have a 2003 Civic Hybrid and it averages 44mpg. It has an automatic (CVT) transmission and I do not play games to improve fuel effeciency - the numbers I am seeing, while somewhat lower than advertized, should be pretty much consistent with what most 'normal' drivers would get.
A few more corrections (read: actual facts):
- The Insight is available with either a manual transmission or a CVT Automatic. - The Civic is available with either a manual transmission or a CVT Automatic. - The Prius is only available with a CVT automatic.
None of these cars are available with 'normal' automatic transmissions (i.e. a set number of ratios)
For the Insight and the Civic the city milage is better with CVT and the highway milage is worse - the average is about the same or marginally lower for the CVT. Regardless the highway milage is always better than the city milage for these two cars.
For the Prius the City milage is significantly better than the Highway milage. This is the only car I know of that has the numbers reversed like this. Unfortunatly people have documented experiences indicating that if you only drive the Prius for short trips ( 10 mins or so) that the milage will not be nearly as good - and people who drive mostly in the city are pretty likely to be driving short trips.
The Prius is also significaly more complicated than the Honda cars are - the gas engine and the electric engine can be disconnected from one another. This is why it is the only one of these three cars that can drive (at low speeds) on the electric motor alone. All of the cars can drive on the gas engine alone if something goes wrong with the electric motor.
I think that was just a convenient side effect that they were able to work in... similar to having XP SP1 block known pirate keys - they didn't create SP1 just so that they could block pirate keys.
They need to do periodic redesigns to cut the costs down when the potential cost reduction is significant.
Apple was not the first to market with an online music store. There were several WMA format stores out there before anyone had even heard of iTunes. PressPlay was one of them.
As to your comparison of the quality of AAC vs. MP3. No online store with major label music has ever used the MP3 format so the comparison is silly. WMA is on the same par with AAC. Some would argue WMA is better.
The DRM system for WMA files is certainly far more versatile and far more secure than AAC. It allows the content owner to set up a wide variety of lisencing terms rather than the one-size-fits-all approach of iTunes. No one has a working crack - though the burn/rip approach works as long as the content owner allowed burning (which they generally do unless the songs are being given out as a free time limited promo - i.e. download this album for free, it will be playable for 2 weeks)
That isn't true - if you don't have phone service there is no dial tone at all. It is possible that if you phone service is cut off for non-payment the dial tone and ability to call 911 may remain, but if you cancel your land line there is definitely no ability to call anywhere, not even 911.
Actually, that's exactly what windows does for CDs that don't have 'autorun info' on them (it says 'what would you like to do with this... view pictures, music, etc based on what content is on the CD)
From a security perspective it would probably be wise to give this simple prompt all of the time. With the 'autorun abuse' we've seen with CDs installing copy-protection measures we are seeing that even commercially produced media can be damaging with autorun.
I wouldn't be suprised to see AutoRun disabled (or turned into a prompt) by default in SP2 regardless of any patent issue.
There's also a function of time. NASA didn't abandon the pieces of Columbia spread around the country... they were actively seeking them.
If we leave a lander on Mars for decades and eventually someone gets there and finds it... at least by the current laws I think it's theirs.
Of course the laws will probably change by then - once people start going into space governments will make laws concerning space. And I can see one of the first ones saying that 'all early spacecraft belong to the people who sent them' - and it might not be unreasonable given that retrieving them is impossible now so we have no choice but to abandon them.
Really - how do pre-release moveies end up on internet shares? People they trust with them leak them. Those are the people they should prosecute if they had any common sense.
Why can't they use their brains? If you're going to give out 100 copies of a movie to reviewers pre-release then maybe you ought to watermark them so the reviewers have some reason to not give them out.
There's plenty of options for DRM they could apply to their pre-release copies but they don't - perhaps this is proof that the RIAA will never really manage to sell DRM content to the masses... they can't even manage to use DRM in limited quantities to known parties.
I strongly disagree. I heard about Toy story as being 'the first completely rendered movie' and all the rumors that went with it (way to many sparcs stacked up in closets, etc) - when I finally saw it the fact that it was a really good movie was simply a bonus - I thought it was great.
I saw Toy Story 2 recently and was simply not impressed. The fact that it is rendered is no longer fascinating and the story did not hold up to the original (that is: the original had a unique idea - that the toys have a life of their own when people are not around - the sequel just repeated that idea - nothing new to see.)
David
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Don't delude yourself - there's nothing 'open source' about SenderID - it's going to be an IETF standard - it has nothing to do with source code of any kind.
Funny how the open source community feels the need to grab on to anything that seems good. To bad that this whole idea is the result of several corporations trying to solve the spam problem (Microsoft, Yahoo, and others.) The end result will be a compromise between what these companies want and will be an internet standard.
The open source community is just sitting on the sidelines - waiting for the standard - so that they can copy it just like they do with everything else.
What, as if Microsoft hasn't already ported the NT platform to PowerPC, Alpha, MIPS, Itanium ... NT was a portable platform from the start - they don't need to practice porting it with a console.
If they can give me HD VOD Movies I will never rent or buy another DVD again. Well, until there are lots of HD DVDs available - but who knows when that's really going to happen.
It doesn't even have to be 18mbit - WMV has been shown to provide the same level of quality somewhere between 6 and 8mbit as HDTV streams provide at 18.
10 years is a long time - I have no doubt that we will have sufficient bandwidth to the home well before that.
David
Libertarians are NOT a branch of the far right. I have (conservative) friends who like to refer to me as a 'Liberal-tarian' - the views of the liberatarian party basically boil down to "freedom comes first." The 'right' would like you to be free as long as you follow their religion and morality - the 'left' would like you to be free as long as you hand over your earnings for their own version of social morality. (Gross over-simplification, there are obviously many other issues involved.)
In the traditional meaning of 'liberal' (which is completely different from what the media potrays / what people take it to mean today) the libertarian party is about as liberal as it gets. Given the two parties that we hear the most about you'd think it was as simple as being left, right, or somewhere in between - but it isn't - look up what the libertarian party actually represents.
I think very little of both the Republican and Democrat parties - not because they are 'extreme' and I'm in the middle - but because they both have an agenda that is fundamentally opposed to the concept of freedom that this country was founded on - they do this in some different ways - though they share a remarkable amount of common ground when it comes to telling people what to do to serve a supposed common good.
David
The 'Public Record' is maintained (in the US) by your state, town, or county. It is not a newspaper.
Marriages, Births, Name changes, even real estate property purchases are all on 'public record.' Anyone who wants to can go down to the clerks office and get any info on public record. Some of this info is available online in some places - for example - all real estate transaction info is available in Washington's King County (Seattle).
However, none of this is published in any newspaper. If you want a marriage published in a newspaper you need to ask them (and possibly pay them.)
One of the things that makes XP start apps very quickly is this:
It watches applications startup and monitors what they read from the disk - it notes this in a log. During idle time it moves the sectors around on disk so that they will all be in the same place for the next time you start that app. When you start the app later it runs out and reads everything that it believes the app will want to read all at once. This pre-reading and disk order optimization makes XP start apps a heck of a lot quicker than previous versions of the OS did.
It also does exactly the same thing for the boot process. There's even a tool you can download from MS's web site that will allow you to force the system to clear what it thinks about the boot process, reboot, and force the ordering to take place immediately rather than during idle time.
David
Required to publish a name change in a newspaper? Newspapers are private entities - no law requires you to put anything in a newspaper - sounds pretty silly to me.
...
Besides, as far as I am concerned paper newspapers and magazines are dead
David
Parent is factually incorrect.
Lisences for purchased music in other online stores (including Napster) are not lost if you discontinue service.
I agree with you completely on the story construction. In fact, this is just what I thought when I saw the first preview ... 'man they're trying really hard to justify a sequel to a movie that finished with most of the loose ends tied up.'
... In my opinion.
... 'oh my god he's wearing women's clothing' gags are pretty lame IMO.
It had it's funny moments - but it was just another funny animation - something about the original Shrek made it a stellar movie that I can see people still watching years from now - the same can't be said for Shrek 2
Personally I think the thong gag was dumb
I do think that actually visiting the Muffin Man was pretty cool - esp. given that the conversation about the Muffin Man in Shrek 1 was so funny and memorable.
David
Gimme a break. I took my 3 year old to see Shrek 2 - The *previews* we had to sit through did more mental damage than anything in the movie. It was extremely harmless - more so than the first one was. My wife skips through the 'fight' scenes in the first Shrek when my son is watching, there wasn't much of any of that stuff in Shrek 2.
... or maybe the problem was I had seen all of the previews so it often felt like I was watching the jokes I had already seen and the scenes in between them. It was a good movie, just not as good as the first one IMO.
People really need to get over this 'scary sex' thing - why is it we think sex is somehow worse than violence?
All that said, I wasn't that impressed with Shrek 2 - I *really* liked the first one, this one was more slap-sticky
David
Sony? High Quality?
Apart from their TVs I have never heard anyone who actually did their homework find Sony to be the 'better product' - Sony's quality is middle-of-the road. Sony's marketing is top-notch. Their products don't suck - but they cost more than an equivalent (features and quality) product from another company.
David
There is no product called 'X-windows'
The correct name is the 'X Window System' or 'X' for short.
Nevertheless I agree that renaming "Lindows" to be "Linspire Windows" would be a more defensible poisition.
David
Bull.
You do hear about the 'Dodge Caravan', the 'Gilette Sensor', the 'Nikon CoolPix' - in fact the company name is often prepended when it would not otherwise be all that clear what the product was. What's a 'Sensor' if it's not from Gilette? Would a 'CoolPix' sound like anything more than a disposable camera if it wasn't called the 'Nikon CoolPix'?
There are plenty of examples of company names being used or not used. In 1985 calling a product just plain 'Windows' might leave you thinking that it was a something used when building houses.
David
The Insight is the only Aluminum Hybrid. The Prius and Civic Hybrid are steel. In fact the Civic Hybrid has the same body as the normal Civic.
I have a 2003 Civic Hybrid and it averages 44mpg. It has an automatic (CVT) transmission and I do not play games to improve fuel effeciency - the numbers I am seeing, while somewhat lower than advertized, should be pretty much consistent with what most 'normal' drivers would get.
A few more corrections (read: actual facts):
- The Insight is available with either a manual transmission or a CVT Automatic.
- The Civic is available with either a manual transmission or a CVT Automatic.
- The Prius is only available with a CVT automatic.
None of these cars are available with 'normal' automatic transmissions (i.e. a set number of ratios)
For the Insight and the Civic the city milage is better with CVT and the highway milage is worse - the average is about the same or marginally lower for the CVT. Regardless the highway milage is always better than the city milage for these two cars.
For the Prius the City milage is significantly better than the Highway milage. This is the only car I know of that has the numbers reversed like this. Unfortunatly people have documented experiences indicating that if you only drive the Prius for short trips ( 10 mins or so) that the milage will not be nearly as good - and people who drive mostly in the city are pretty likely to be driving short trips.
The Prius is also significaly more complicated than the Honda cars are - the gas engine and the electric engine can be disconnected from one another. This is why it is the only one of these three cars that can drive (at low speeds) on the electric motor alone. All of the cars can drive on the gas engine alone if something goes wrong with the electric motor.
David
If only you understood the first thing about encryption. The key is never transmitted.
Look up public/private key systems.
David
I think that was just a convenient side effect that they were able to work in ... similar to having XP SP1 block known pirate keys - they didn't create SP1 just so that they could block pirate keys.
They need to do periodic redesigns to cut the costs down when the potential cost reduction is significant.
David
Apple was not the first to market with an online music store. There were several WMA format stores out there before anyone had even heard of iTunes. PressPlay was one of them.
As to your comparison of the quality of AAC vs. MP3. No online store with major label music has ever used the MP3 format so the comparison is silly. WMA is on the same par with AAC. Some would argue WMA is better.
The DRM system for WMA files is certainly far more versatile and far more secure than AAC. It allows the content owner to set up a wide variety of lisencing terms rather than the one-size-fits-all approach of iTunes. No one has a working crack - though the burn/rip approach works as long as the content owner allowed burning (which they generally do unless the songs are being given out as a free time limited promo - i.e. download this album for free, it will be playable for 2 weeks)
David
That isn't true - if you don't have phone service there is no dial tone at all. It is possible that if you phone service is cut off for non-payment the dial tone and ability to call 911 may remain, but if you cancel your land line there is definitely no ability to call anywhere, not even 911.
David
re: "Would you like to play this CD?"
... view pictures, music, etc based on what content is on the CD)
Actually, that's exactly what windows does for CDs that don't have 'autorun info' on them (it says 'what would you like to do with this
From a security perspective it would probably be wise to give this simple prompt all of the time. With the 'autorun abuse' we've seen with CDs installing copy-protection measures we are seeing that even commercially produced media can be damaging with autorun.
I wouldn't be suprised to see AutoRun disabled (or turned into a prompt) by default in SP2 regardless of any patent issue.
David
There's also a function of time. NASA didn't abandon the pieces of Columbia spread around the country ... they were actively seeking them.
... at least by the current laws I think it's theirs.
If we leave a lander on Mars for decades and eventually someone gets there and finds it
Of course the laws will probably change by then - once people start going into space governments will make laws concerning space. And I can see one of the first ones saying that 'all early spacecraft belong to the people who sent them' - and it might not be unreasonable given that retrieving them is impossible now so we have no choice but to abandon them.
David
Then where exactly are the leaked copies coming from?
Really - how do pre-release moveies end up on internet shares? People they trust with them leak them. Those are the people they should prosecute if they had any common sense. Why can't they use their brains? If you're going to give out 100 copies of a movie to reviewers pre-release then maybe you ought to watermark them so the reviewers have some reason to not give them out. There's plenty of options for DRM they could apply to their pre-release copies but they don't - perhaps this is proof that the RIAA will never really manage to sell DRM content to the masses ... they can't even manage to use DRM in limited quantities to known parties.
The Nomad Jukebox (Hard Drive based) was out before the iPOD - see article for reference:
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http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/oct
The Archos Jukebox (also hard drive based) was also out before the iPOD but I don't have a refernece to prove it.
I strongly disagree. I heard about Toy story as being 'the first completely rendered movie' and all the rumors that went with it (way to many sparcs stacked up in closets, etc) - when I finally saw it the fact that it was a really good movie was simply a bonus - I thought it was great. I saw Toy Story 2 recently and was simply not impressed. The fact that it is rendered is no longer fascinating and the story did not hold up to the original (that is: the original had a unique idea - that the toys have a life of their own when people are not around - the sequel just repeated that idea - nothing new to see.) David
Incorrect.
There were several HD based portale MP3 players out before the iPOD. Archos and Creative both had products out well before the iPOD appeared.