By providing something easily trashable, it allowed hundreds of reviewers to write hundreds of mild-to-very amusing reviews trashing it.
I have personally spent probably a total of twenty minutes being entertained by reviewers topping each other at amusing anecdotes of the filmatic crapulence of this film. And I didn't even have to spend a dime! Multiply that by the millions who encountered reviews and you get something that entertained many more than would have a merely mediocre film.
While it is true that Microsoft is largely responsible for the current technological state of affairs, I suspect we don't share the opinion as to whether or not this is a good thing.
As far as I can tell, they've singlehandedly set the software industry back 5-10 years.
I expect the appeal to be filed tomorrow, so we could know in a month when the supreme court will get this.
No, Microsoft is in bigtime stall-mode. They'll submit the appeal in exactly four months.
I think there is a very good case that the Supremes will simply let the whole thing stand, without comment. They'd almost certainly do that instead of nitpicking second-guesses of Jackson's opinion. They'll only hear the case (which will take a hell of a lot of their time, remember) if they think there is a chance that they'll substantially disagree with Jackson.
I'm willing to bet that the elapsed time varies wildly for novices and not very much at all for gurus.
Part of being a guru is being adept enough at the language that your design flows almost immediately into code, and your design is invariably one that is easy to adapt to the language.
Thus, all the time is spent understanding the problem.
There's a huge difference between a person signing a letter "Anonymous Coward" and "William J. Clinton". In the former case, you are merely hiding your identity. That's usually ok. In the latter case, you are trying to convince the reader you are someone you are not. That's usually illegal.
By signing "Anonymous Coward", you delude no one. It is obvious you're anonymous. By signing someone else's name, you are fraudulantly claiming to be someone else.
Technically speaking, it is not an issue of digital being "too perfect". The issue is that with a digital format, you've got a set level of quality. Below that, the picture/sound gets blocky.
With analog, on the other hand, the theoretical level of quality is pretty much infinite. Those audiophiles who prefer phonographs are essentially making two claims. 1) That human beings can detect something of better quality than CD level digital. 2) That a superior phonograph setup can exceed CD levels of quality.
(The other problem being, of course, that a digital signal can be corrected when it degrades while an analog signal cannot. That's most of what "CD quality" really means. With a phonograph, the needle slowly destroys the record.
The only innovation between 1990 and 2000 was at Microsoft? Wasn't there a little thing called a "browser" invented somewhere around there outside of Microsoft?
Usually the goal is to shut the person up permanently. A DoS attack won't itself do that, as it can't be maintained indefinitely. But if the ISP on which the target resides kicks them off, well...
Dropping the user may solve their immediate problem, but it also hands victory to the attacker, thereby encouraging him, thereby guaranteeing more attacks in the future.
What a great way to promote DoS attacks. User A does something to piss off a script kiddie. Script kiddie launchs a DoS attack against User A's ISP. The ISP kicks User A off. The script kiddie congradulates himself on his own success.
And tells his friends.
And soon we see even more DoS attacks.
Just like the worst response to real terrorism is to give in to the terrorists, the worst response to virtual terrorism is to give in to the terrorists.
The highest frequencies people can hear various quite a bit over the individual. It may well be that some people will miss stuff dropped out of the high end that the average person would not be able to detect.
Which is not to say that I don't think you're right. For every person who can actually detect it, there are likely ten who claim they can (or even subconciously think they can) to feed their own sense of self-importance. (The only useless sense.)
Remember that a VHS video recorder also significantly reduces picture quality. Yet I'd bet that 90% of the public not only is not bothered by it, they are not even aware of it.
350 Mb is a little much to download, though, even with DSL. But with 40 Gig hard drives selling for $259 at CostCO, some of those MPAA fears about copyright infringement may not be so far-fetched.
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Yes, but it clearly does not work. I had a whole case of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale in my refridgerator, and it still reported it "not found".
I demand an update from the Enlightenment team immediately.
You think that's sad...I've got one of those from a junior high typing class, circa 1978.
Produced on a manual typewriter...
By providing something easily trashable, it allowed hundreds of reviewers to write hundreds of mild-to-very amusing reviews trashing it.
I have personally spent probably a total of twenty minutes being entertained by reviewers topping each other at amusing anecdotes of the filmatic crapulence of this film. And I didn't even have to spend a dime! Multiply that by the millions who encountered reviews and you get something that entertained many more than would have a merely mediocre film.
Judge Jackson was not appointed by Clinton. He was appointed by Ronald Reagan.
1. Micro (For the apps group, reflecting their worth.
2. Soft (For the OS group, reflecting their security model.
While it is true that Microsoft is largely responsible for the current technological state of affairs, I suspect we don't share the opinion as to whether or not this is a good thing.
As far as I can tell, they've singlehandedly set the software industry back 5-10 years.
No, Microsoft is in bigtime stall-mode. They'll submit the appeal in exactly four months.
I think there is a very good case that the Supremes will simply let the whole thing stand, without comment. They'd almost certainly do that instead of nitpicking second-guesses of Jackson's opinion. They'll only hear the case (which will take a hell of a lot of their time, remember) if they think there is a chance that they'll substantially disagree with Jackson.
I'm willing to bet that the elapsed time varies wildly for novices and not very much at all for gurus.
Part of being a guru is being adept enough at the language that your design flows almost immediately into code, and your design is invariably one that is easy to adapt to the language.
Thus, all the time is spent understanding the problem.
Redundant? Jesus Christ, it's so bad these days that plain old common sense deserves insightful, not redundant.
You're initial assumption is bad. A DVD weighs about 1/2 an ounce, or 32 to the pound. That gives 1.67 Terabytes/sec.
Why that just means that you must be a genius. :)
There's a huge difference between a person signing a letter "Anonymous Coward" and "William J. Clinton". In the former case, you are merely hiding your identity. That's usually ok. In the latter case, you are trying to convince the reader you are someone you are not. That's usually illegal.
By signing "Anonymous Coward", you delude no one. It is obvious you're anonymous. By signing someone else's name, you are fraudulantly claiming to be someone else.
It's real ham, actually. It is all those unappetizing parts of the pig smooshed together and spiced so as you don't notice.
As they say, the largest bandwidth that can be achieved is a 747 with a cargohold full of DVDs.
Technically speaking, it is not an issue of digital being "too perfect". The issue is that with a digital format, you've got a set level of quality. Below that, the picture/sound gets blocky.
With analog, on the other hand, the theoretical level of quality is pretty much infinite. Those audiophiles who prefer phonographs are essentially making two claims. 1) That human beings can detect something of better quality than CD level digital. 2) That a superior phonograph setup can exceed CD levels of quality.
(The other problem being, of course, that a digital signal can be corrected when it degrades while an analog signal cannot. That's most of what "CD quality" really means. With a phonograph, the needle slowly destroys the record.
Amiga was innovative. A new Amiga would not be. That's the very nature of innovation.
We worship innovation far too much. We need to ask ourselves, is it a worthwhile innovation.
(Though Amiga was, IMHO.)
The only innovation between 1990 and 2000 was at Microsoft? Wasn't there a little thing called a "browser" invented somewhere around there outside of Microsoft?
Usually the goal is to shut the person up permanently. A DoS attack won't itself do that, as it can't be maintained indefinitely. But if the ISP on which the target resides kicks them off, well...
I think you are thinking of slate.com, Microsoft's political mag. I don't recall Salon.com ever charging.
Dropping the user may solve their immediate problem, but it also hands victory to the attacker, thereby encouraging him, thereby guaranteeing more attacks in the future.
What a great way to promote DoS attacks. User A does something to piss off a script kiddie. Script kiddie launchs a DoS attack against User A's ISP. The ISP kicks User A off. The script kiddie congradulates himself on his own success.
And tells his friends.
And soon we see even more DoS attacks.
Just like the worst response to real terrorism is to give in to the terrorists, the worst response to virtual terrorism is to give in to the terrorists.
Yeah, I read all those things. Do kids still read them, or are all the kids around here saying "What the hell is Encyclopedia Brown"?
Which is not to say that I don't think you're right. For every person who can actually detect it, there are likely ten who claim they can (or even subconciously think they can) to feed their own sense of self-importance. (The only useless sense.)
350 Mb is a little much to download, though, even with DSL. But with 40 Gig hard drives selling for $259 at CostCO, some of those MPAA fears about copyright infringement may not be so far-fetched.
I now have this image in my head of a FPS version of "Commander Keen". Shooting slugs with stun-rays in modern, Quake-style graphics.
(Though I suspect the screen wobble caused by the pogo stick will just make people hurl.)