"It will simply prevent consumers from illegal piracy, from mass distribution over the Internet, which is the problem with the music file sharing"
Personally I don't think I need "protecting" from piracy. What do these marketroids think we're on? Anyway, there's another promising technology killed by The Man.
For some stupid reason, the pink stripes on HDD and floppy ribbon cables are on different sides (HDD to the right, floppy to the left looking at the back of the drives. Not all cables and drives have keyed connectors and you *can* plug them in upside down! Roll on S-ATA.
If you RTFA, it's 1% efficient (worse than a little turbine, for instance) and you need to pressurize the water first. Which means some kind of elastic vessel, since water isn't compressible. So you need a big balloon attached to your laptop...
I was at university, DOS was the latest thing and I didn't know anything except BBC Basic. I wanted to delete my files from the LAN at the end of the year and after trying various permutations of "delete" and "del" with different punctuation, I found something that didn't give an unrecognized command error.
It was
del *.*
On the root directory. They never found out it was me...
Imagine patching 20,000 desktops and 2,000 servers before someone writes an exploit - that's what a large corporation has to do now [1]. I'm amazed, in the litigious US, that no-one has tried to sue MS for the cost of doing this.
[1] your corporate firewall should keep any exploiting worm out but there are still floppy drives, possible unauthorised modems and third party connections that *may* allow the thing in, so you'll have to patch to be on the safe side.
The pictures aren't the same without the clipped middle-class British accents of the announcers. It's virtually impossible to find anyone over here who speaks like that anymore, so I suspect they were putting it on for effect;-)
We've been doing this for a few years, mandated by Oftel (the occasionally useful telecoms regulator). The networks kicked up a fuss at first but eventually realised they could find other ways to screw money out of their customers. In practice I hear the transfer process is quite slick, only takes a couple of weeks, and is free.
eBlaster is a similar piece of software that can be remotely installed...it has the same purpose such as keeping tabs on your kids, finding out if your wife is shagging the milkman etc. Although it's legitimate commercial software, it is truly evil. Apparently eBlaster is recognizable by its main program file, which is URLMKPL.DLL (486k), in the Windows/System folder. ZoneAlarm will also complain when eBlaster tries to send reports on your activity. The Windows XP firewall will not help one bit.
No incentive to improve at all. And they've got away with it almost scot-free, unless the EU manages to pin them down. I mean, look at the history of IE:
IE1 - didn't work
IE2 (came with NT4!) - didn't really work
IE3 - worked, but was worse than Netscape.
IE4 - oh great, takes Windows down with it when it crashes. Which it does. A lot.
IE5 - bugfixed IE4, Netscape's dead now so we can ease off a bit
IE6 - IE5 with P3P. Which hardly any webmasters understand. Same lack of standards.
The things I hate most about IE are ActiveX, possibly the most evil concept ever invented for a personal computer, and the myriad index.dat files it buries all over your hard drive. Clear History? I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that.
I was bored the other day and calculated that a PC consuming 150W of power (probably a conservative figure for a modern fast CPU, 7200rpm hard drive and CRT monitor) results in 2 tons of carbon dioxide being emitted each year, if it's left on 24/7. (This assumes 35% efficiency in generation and transmission, and that the electricity is generated from burning coal). Scary.
In contrast, my car has only added 2.7 tons of CO2 to the atmosphere in more than two years. Admittedly I live fairly close to work, but I'd have to drive 8,500 miles a year to equal the CO2 emissions of the PC. I suppose the moral is to turn on all the power saving options!
You forgot to allow for the time dilation effect when you're trapped in a pr0n vortex. It may seem like 30 days to you, but in the outside world 5 years have passed.
Mod parent up! The byte is really a special case of word length...and no modern computer uses an 8 bit word, so perhaps we should have changed the standard to a 32-bit byte in the early 1990s, and it's ripe for changing to a 64-bit byte.
Well, the article doesn't tell us anything we didn't know already. The only critical point is that 1GB in marketing-speak != 1024 x 1024 x 1024 bytes, and that is still outrageous after all these years. "Easy to understand"...I don't think so.
Now if the drive manufacturers really wanted to go decimal, they'd use a 10 bit byte...but that would mean they had to give you a bigger drive for your money!
Oh yeah, and did anyone else laugh like a drain when the author used "IBM", "hard drive" and "reliable" in the same paragraph?;-)
Pentels are quite nice; rollerball, liquid ink, come in some slightly unusual colours. Although I wrote my final year design project at university using a fountain pen with an italic nib. Oh how my hand hurt afterwards.
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Woah, you like totally Melvyn'd me there, dude!
But is their Amazing Spy Camera any good?
Scumware! Seriously, this one is in common usage.
Personally I don't think I need "protecting" from piracy. What do these marketroids think we're on? Anyway, there's another promising technology killed by The Man.
Then I expect forwarding the Claire Swire e-mail to all your friends means being hanged at lunchtime in the staff canteen.
IBM did this in a hard disk with the GXP75 ;-)
For some stupid reason, the pink stripes on HDD and floppy ribbon cables are on different sides (HDD to the right, floppy to the left looking at the back of the drives. Not all cables and drives have keyed connectors and you *can* plug them in upside down! Roll on S-ATA.
If you RTFA, it's 1% efficient (worse than a little turbine, for instance) and you need to pressurize the water first. Which means some kind of elastic vessel, since water isn't compressible. So you need a big balloon attached to your laptop...
I bet the crack will be out in less than a month.
As we say in Britain, "Quite good!"
It was
del *.*
On the root directory. They never found out it was me...
[1] your corporate firewall should keep any exploiting worm out but there are still floppy drives, possible unauthorised modems and third party connections that *may* allow the thing in, so you'll have to patch to be on the safe side.
It could be worse...I hear Edsel 0.1 is in development ;-)
And following the usual suggestion, would you give your credit card number to what is, after all, not the *most* respectable of businesses?
The pictures aren't the same without the clipped middle-class British accents of the announcers. It's virtually impossible to find anyone over here who speaks like that anymore, so I suspect they were putting it on for effect ;-)
We've been doing this for a few years, mandated by Oftel (the occasionally useful telecoms regulator). The networks kicked up a fuss at first but eventually realised they could find other ways to screw money out of their customers. In practice I hear the transfer process is quite slick, only takes a couple of weeks, and is free.
eBlaster is a similar piece of software that can be remotely installed...it has the same purpose such as keeping tabs on your kids, finding out if your wife is shagging the milkman etc. Although it's legitimate commercial software, it is truly evil. Apparently eBlaster is recognizable by its main program file, which is URLMKPL.DLL (486k), in the Windows/System folder. ZoneAlarm will also complain when eBlaster tries to send reports on your activity. The Windows XP firewall will not help one bit.
The things I hate most about IE are ActiveX, possibly the most evil concept ever invented for a personal computer, and the myriad index.dat files it buries all over your hard drive. Clear History? I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that.
In contrast, my car has only added 2.7 tons of CO2 to the atmosphere in more than two years. Admittedly I live fairly close to work, but I'd have to drive 8,500 miles a year to equal the CO2 emissions of the PC. I suppose the moral is to turn on all the power saving options!
You forgot to allow for the time dilation effect when you're trapped in a pr0n vortex. It may seem like 30 days to you, but in the outside world 5 years have passed.
Mod parent up! The byte is really a special case of word length...and no modern computer uses an 8 bit word, so perhaps we should have changed the standard to a 32-bit byte in the early 1990s, and it's ripe for changing to a 64-bit byte.
Now if the drive manufacturers really wanted to go decimal, they'd use a 10 bit byte...but that would mean they had to give you a bigger drive for your money!
Oh yeah, and did anyone else laugh like a drain when the author used "IBM", "hard drive" and "reliable" in the same paragraph? ;-)
Are you sure you wouldn't prefer a nice game of chess?
Three words: "What's Evian backwards?"
Pentels are quite nice; rollerball, liquid ink, come in some slightly unusual colours. Although I wrote my final year design project at university using a fountain pen with an italic nib. Oh how my hand hurt afterwards.