The paradox is that "too weak, easily cracked" requires stronger DRM than "too strong, lock out legit users".
The only rational option is to realize that the crackers will always win, and your best bet is making customers happy saving your money for features, not idiotic DRM schemes that don't work.
I gather what they really mean is "Rocky planet larger than Earth", which is something not seen in our solar system. Using the term "Earth" is sensationalistic, obviously.
You don't need a blind test. Ethernet is digital. You cannot get better than "0 dropped packets" no matter how good the cable is, and given modern error correction techniques, even with some dropped packets, the actual bits that get delivered and turned into sound will be identical.
"Prediction" markets are very good at putting numbers on the conventional wisdom of who is going to win, but not that good at predicting who is actually going to win. All you have to do is look at the Obama graph on the second link. Just look at the graphs for the Democratic nomination. It 2007, intrade predicted that Clinton would be the winner.
This is not to say that they aren't valuable. They are really good at codifying who people *think* will win at any particular time, and the closer you get to the actual event, the more accurate they tend to be. I've no doubt that the night before the election, the intrade prediction will pan out, but right now, its "predictions" are fairly meaningless.
Yes. That is all true. But given that everyone knows that Congress *won't* exert its authority, and that impeachment *won't* happen regardless of whether or not Kucinich puts forth this measure, it is, as I said, pointless grandstanding.
He won't be impeached. Period. That has nothing to do with whether he is guilty (he certainly is). It has nothing to do with whether Kucinich puts forth an impeachment bill. It has everything to do with the Republicans controlling enough votes to avoid impeachment. As long as that is the case, impeachment won't happen, despite the wishful thinking of people like Kucinich.
Everyone knows this won't pass. Everyone knows that this will get tabled at the first opportunity. Everyone knows Bush will be gone in seven months. What's the point?
Most likely, in February there will be a Democratic president and a more heavily Democratic congress. That's the time to open up investigations, because that's the time when investigations will actually have teeth.
I'm right there with you. When I was young, I was camping out in order to get the best tickets. Now I won't spend $1.99 for the guitar hero tracks. I'll never give those fuckers a dime again.
It is very important to understand that hardware limited the address space to 1 megabyte. He could have chosen an address hire then 640k, but it would have been something like 768k. It is not like he could have designed in a substantially hire value given the hardware that IBM was providing. It's not like he chose 640k thereby preventing people from having 2 GB systems. His mistake wasn't thinking that people would never need 640K. His mistake was not realizing that within ten years, people would be so crammed for memory that they'd want every bit of that 1 MB address space.
It's important to note that this was the common technique at the time. The Apple ][+ did the exact same thing, yet you never hear fake quotes from Woz saying "16k is enough for everybody!"
When you do Object1.copy(Object2), Object1 is a distinct object even if it is completely identical to Object2. If you then destroy Object2, you've got a copy, sure, but the original object is gone.
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The only rational option is to realize that the crackers will always win, and your best bet is making customers happy saving your money for features, not idiotic DRM schemes that don't work.
I gather what they really mean is "Rocky planet larger than Earth", which is something not seen in our solar system. Using the term "Earth" is sensationalistic, obviously.
Mountain lions not a threat? hmmm....
Not feral dogs so much as coyotes. The hills around there are full of coyotes, not to mention mountain lions.
You don't need a blind test. Ethernet is digital. You cannot get better than "0 dropped packets" no matter how good the cable is, and given modern error correction techniques, even with some dropped packets, the actual bits that get delivered and turned into sound will be identical.
"Prediction" markets are very good at putting numbers on the conventional wisdom of who is going to win, but not that good at predicting who is actually going to win. All you have to do is look at the Obama graph on the second link. Just look at the graphs for the Democratic nomination. It 2007, intrade predicted that Clinton would be the winner.
This is not to say that they aren't valuable. They are really good at codifying who people *think* will win at any particular time, and the closer you get to the actual event, the more accurate they tend to be. I've no doubt that the night before the election, the intrade prediction will pan out, but right now, its "predictions" are fairly meaningless.
Yes. That is all true. But given that everyone knows that Congress *won't* exert its authority, and that impeachment *won't* happen regardless of whether or not Kucinich puts forth this measure, it is, as I said, pointless grandstanding.
He won't be impeached. Period. That has nothing to do with whether he is guilty (he certainly is). It has nothing to do with whether Kucinich puts forth an impeachment bill. It has everything to do with the Republicans controlling enough votes to avoid impeachment. As long as that is the case, impeachment won't happen, despite the wishful thinking of people like Kucinich.
Everyone knows this won't pass. Everyone knows that this will get tabled at the first opportunity. Everyone knows Bush will be gone in seven months. What's the point?
Most likely, in February there will be a Democratic president and a more heavily Democratic congress. That's the time to open up investigations, because that's the time when investigations will actually have teeth.
This is just pointless grandstanding.
Yeah, you're right, it is strange how the stream of Microsoft bashing has slowed so much lately around here.
One in a billion odds means "something that happened to roughly six people".
I'm right there with you. When I was young, I was camping out in order to get the best tickets. Now I won't spend $1.99 for the guitar hero tracks. I'll never give those fuckers a dime again.
How many people own our latest album?
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Without Slashdot, I would have missed Pizza Huts' advertising campaign!
Can you alert me next time Coke has one of those bottle-cap things? I always miss those...
Though personally I'm more excited about downloading the demo for Civ: Revolution tonight.
Heh. That message kept me from posting for nearly a year.
I will declare a far pointer in its honor.
I pine for the days when Usenet contained useful technical information and you needed a Unix shell account and "rn" to get to it.
How was that a disaster? The woman made a shit-load of money and got a shit-load of attention for no work.
I didn't mean to. I was trying to say the exact opposite.
It is very important to understand that hardware limited the address space to 1 megabyte. He could have chosen an address hire then 640k, but it would have been something like 768k. It is not like he could have designed in a substantially hire value given the hardware that IBM was providing. It's not like he chose 640k thereby preventing people from having 2 GB systems. His mistake wasn't thinking that people would never need 640K. His mistake was not realizing that within ten years, people would be so crammed for memory that they'd want every bit of that 1 MB address space.
It's important to note that this was the common technique at the time. The Apple ][+ did the exact same thing, yet you never hear fake quotes from Woz saying "16k is enough for everybody!"
Yes, but not every imaginable magic is achievable with advanced technology.
When you do Object1.copy(Object2), Object1 is a distinct object even if it is completely identical to Object2. If you then destroy Object2, you've got a copy, sure, but the original object is gone.
I'd be more impressed if it were an actual shell.
I want them only as a conversation piece. Lord knows I used those floppies enough to know all their failings at the time.