Disclaimer: I'm a developer on the SQL Server team at MS.
You can get a lot more out of SQL Server and MySQL if you tailor your design to take advantage of the features that each has to offer. Properly tuning your database can help you avoid having to throw more hardware at the problem. I'm not sure what the best books are for MySQL, but for SQL Server be sure to check out the "Inside SQL Server 200?" series (there are editions for 2005 and 2008). If you read and understand those 5 books you will understand the best practices for designing SQL Server databases.
Sorry, I'm about to rant. The parent has no idea what is available:
I have a Toshiba HD DVD player (had it for OVER A YEAR). I also have an HD camcorder (had it for OVER A YEAR). I also have an Apple (FOR OVER A YEAR). Guess what? I record movies on the camcord, make HD DVDs on the apple, and play them on the HD DVD player. BlurRy can't do this yet, but it's been working great for me with HD DVD for OVER A YEAR.
Ummmm... You do know that if one was blacklisted it would mean that ONE customer came in. It would NOT mean that every single player was blacklisted. Each hardware player has its own unique key.
Yes, but you forgot to mention other facts about some of those companies:
Apple - Makes DVD Studio, which includes support for making HD-DVDs
Dell - Only cares about data, not movies
Hewlett-Packard - Only cares about data, not movies
Hitachi - Only cares about data, not movies
LG - Released the first combo HD-DVD/BluRay player (which they have promised to update with better HD-DVD support).
Samsung - Recently announced that they are going to be releasing an HD-DVD player for the holidays.
Warner Bros. - Releases on both HD-DVD and BluRay, but is only releasing many of their most popular movies (including the Matrix trilogy) on HD-DVD due to the lack of interactivity available on BluRay players.
Sun - Only involved because they managed to get Java into the BluRay spec. Some of you may know what a pain it is trying to release Java programs that work well on different versions of the JDK. Well, guess what, it's even worse on BluRay. Read this link to find out how much fun it is for the studios trying to use BDJ, they end up writing the same thing 8 different ways in the hopes that one of them will work in the version of Java on your player: http://www.blueboard.com/bluray/qa_dragonslair.htm If this is any indication of what will be required of them then I imagine that most of the BluRay studios will soon be jumping to HD-DVD.
My understanding is that the price is caused by Sony. They are the only company that has mastered the equipment to manufacture Blu-Ray. So they are currently charging all of the production companies a fortune for it. HDDVD does not have this problem. If a title doesn't need all of the space then they can use a standard 3xDVD-ROM and manufacture it on the same equipment that they use for DVD. Additionally, Blu-Ray yields are much lower - a few months ago the manufacturers were only getting about 70% yields out of their equipment (meaning 30% of what they produced was unplayable and thrown out). HDDVD yields have consistently been in the upper 90% range.
The Blu-Ray production lines are also slower, they run at about 1/2 the rate of DVD/HDDVD production lines.
Thank you! I'm so tired of hearing how bad DRM is. If you don't like it don't use it. If you want to use it then do. Who am I (or anyone else here) to tell other people not to use it?
The studios think they will make more money if they use it. They think that piracy will be a bigger problem without it, and that this differential is enough to offset the users who won't purchase because of DRM. Are they right? I don't know and I don't care.
I enjoy my HD-DVDs and I don't feel that any "freedom" has been taken away from me by AACS.
Check his profile. He is "Program Manger for Video Encoding in the Professional Content Group at Microsoft". Which he needs to update since Professional Content Group is now Consumer Media Technology.
In that case your parent's should be happy with HDDVD since it does not have region coding. This is in fact one of the huge benefits to HDDVD over BluRay. Many movies are licensed for distribution by BluRay only studios inside the US, but in other markets the distribution rights have been sold to other studios and those other studios are releasing them in Europe and Japan on HDDVD. Since there is no region coding you can order them from other regions in the format of your choice.
This was actually one of the considerations taken into account when designing HDDVD, and you can rest assured that your pet-peeve will probably cease to be a problem within the next year. The specification is designed so that content can be referenced from the disc or the network. The idea was that studios could include trailers from the network, that way when you watch the movies (even in 10 years) you will see trailers for upcoming movies.
This might help you sync with your Mac. If you check the screenshots section under WM5 it shows it syncing with a Cingular 8125, which is the same kit as your TMobile SDA. http://www.markspace.com/products.html/
Programming and Customizing PICmicro Microcontrollers by Myke Predko
Available on Amazon. The book icludes a PCB and parts list for building a PIC programmer. It includes a dos program (runs fine in wine) for transfering your programs to your pics.
This book is a lot of fun if your into this type of thing. I highly recommend it.
I loved that program. It was my first word processor, and I too spent the hours typing it in. Compute magazine was way ahead of its time, they were into open source before GNU was even around (of course it wasn't called open source). They also had an extremely cool terminal program called xterm that I used daily to connect to the bulliten boards. Unfortunately, I sold the commodore years ago, along with 400 disks worth of programs I had either typed in or downloaded from BBSs:-(
The keybindings comment really caught me off gaurd, I never would have known that, but I think it explains my fondness for emacs. The thing that really got me about speedscript though, was that the program had a number of undocumented features. I was constantly trying out different keysequences that weren't in the article to see what they did. I remember having 3 pages of notebook paper filled with the undocumented commands, but sadly I no longer remember any of them.
I ran into this recently in Debian too. It seems that the open source software just doesn't quite cut it for my TDK drive. I could write cds fine with cdrecord, but it would fail with an "unrecognized media" or some such error when I tried to burn a dvd. I was using dvdrecord (based on cdrecord), but it doesn't work with a lot of drives. The really frustrating thing is that cdrecord supports writing dvds with my drive, just not in the opensource version. You can get the "pro" version here it is free for non-commercial use and it works well (there is a readme file with more info).
Here is a tip from another *nix geek stuck with a windows desktop. Convince them to set you up with Cygwin (make sure you include the X server). Run ssh-keygen in cygwin to create a public/private keypair. Copy the public key to one of the linux boxes you admin that has an X server (it should be in $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys). On the windows machine create a.xinitrc file in your cygwin home directory that contains the following line only:
xterm -iconic -e ssh -X username@linuxbox "blackbox"
Now all you need to do is startx in cygwin and you get your nice *nix desktop:) If you don't like blackbox substitute in gnome-session, startkde, fluxbox, or whatever you prefer. Cygwin is nice, but I find that many things don't work quite right: ctrl-c is always grabbed so the only way I can quit emacs is F10 f e which is a pain and my esc and backspace don't work right in vi so that isn't an option either. It all works beautifully in an Xsession though. Besides, it just feels good to treat windows as a terminal.
You may need to tweek the firewall/# X sessions allowed/ssh settings/etc on the server. However, I think you will find it will make Windows much more comfortable for you. I have a dual monitor setup and frequently one monitor is X/Linux and the other Windows. If you can get them to give you Cygwin then give it a shot (if not then I pity you). I've found that it doesn't get much better than that for Windows. As always, YMMV.
These are of course significant, but I wouldn't call them "apps". "Apps" are word processors, mail clients, web browsers, file-sharing software, etc.; in short: client stuff.
They may lack market share, but there are mail clients, web browsers, file sharing, and numerouswordprocessorsavailable. In fact, if you follow those links you will find a couple of complete office suites written in Java. IBM/Lotus used to offer eSuite, which was an entire office package written in Java. Oracle has a huge marketshare and is very focused on Java/Linux as well.
You may not have personally used any of these programs, but give them a shot before you write off the language. Chances are many people use Java applications with no knowledge that they are doing so (Limewire users come to mind). If the language lacks applications, it is the fault of developers, not the language. That is the point of ESR's letter: there would be much wider use/acceptance of Java if it were open and the incompatibilities between the implementations were fixed.
Not true. I purchase quite a lot of closed source software for Linux. Some of it I run under Wine, but where possible, I buy Linux versions.
When I was working on my CS degree I purchased copies of Matlab and Mathematica, I also would have purchased Maya (went to the lab instead) if it had been less than $400 for the student version. All my windows friends found them on irc/p2p.
I used to purchase my copies of Redhat, I have the boxed sets (other than those I gave away) for every release between 5 and 7.3. However, I quit using Redhat since I received the exact same benefits for buying it as someone that downloaded it for free. I would have stuck with them if they had allowed me a year of priority access to up2date with the box set purchase. They didn't. I left. I now use Debian and am much happier with it. It isn't because I want something for free, but because I when I pay I want something more than is given away for free. If I get something better for a few dollars than I could get for nothing then I'll pay a few dollars. That is why my display is running Accellerated X. The display drivers in Xfree86 could not handle my laptops screen/videocard (1400x1050 lcd with an intel i830M graphics card) and left a nasty black border around the screen. I tried the Accellerated X demo and it worked perfect.
There IS software available to purchase for Linux. Much of it is better than the free stuff, and lots of us use it. Many people have no idea that some of it even exists. I think that many of the companies that sell Linux software and have superior products just need to spend a little more on marketing so they get some name recognition (this means you XIG). The companies also tend to get "stuck" on a distro. Many of them only release RPMs and refuse to provide instructions for other non-RPM distros, even when it works perfectly on the distro (this means you again XIG).
"Respondents who are male, aged 35 or more, use broadband, and are college educated (some college or more) are far more likely to be aware of Linux than the rest of the population" to the tune of 43% awareness of Linux in techies versus 15% in the rest of the population.
That result is so far of base I can't even begin. 43% amoung techies? Hmmm... where did you give this survey? Was it only posted on some Windows tech site? Did you send it out as HTML formatted SPAM? Give me a break. Techies work with computers, they love computers, they spend time learning about them. This is akin to saying that only 43% of jockeys are aware of Palaminos or that only 43% of mechanics are aware of Lotus. Sure, they may not be intimately familiar with it, but they most certainly ARE aware of it. Christ, even the most non-techie people I support at work (the ones that need support when the dialog box that only has an "ok" button on it comes up) have heard of it.
BTW, what was the name of your company? I want to make sure they I never pay attention to any of the stats you post. After all, 43% of us know you made them up:)
No need to go to Ikea. The "custom computer cable tube" is called split loom. You can find it at most electronics stores, car/home stereo shops, auto parts stores, etc... Look under the hood of your car and you will find the manufacturer used it extensively as it is also great at reducing the heat on the cable and keeping the nasty chemicals off. Here is the first link to a place that sells it that I found on google. It does work great.
The problem is not that the sites are vulnerable, its that law enforment will not step in to enforce the laws and so the DDOS continues. So why don't we go with this idea but find a server that they might care about to store the data on. If the blacklists were distributed by p2p, signed with gpg/pgp and the key was stored on a high profile server it might work. This is assuming that law enforcement would take an attack on this machine more seriously (not at all garunteed). There might be an even better server (maybe a.gov or.mil) where the key could be served from. I think the idea could work, if it is done properly.
and another beautiful woman like Brandi Chastain takes off her shirt in the game then I would expect you'll find plenty of clips available... However, I doubt that you will find a live feed. As far as I know the broadcasters prevent that from happening, or at least I've never seen it.
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Disclaimer: I'm a developer on the SQL Server team at MS. You can get a lot more out of SQL Server and MySQL if you tailor your design to take advantage of the features that each has to offer. Properly tuning your database can help you avoid having to throw more hardware at the problem. I'm not sure what the best books are for MySQL, but for SQL Server be sure to check out the "Inside SQL Server 200?" series (there are editions for 2005 and 2008). If you read and understand those 5 books you will understand the best practices for designing SQL Server databases.
Sorry, I'm about to rant. The parent has no idea what is available: I have a Toshiba HD DVD player (had it for OVER A YEAR). I also have an HD camcorder (had it for OVER A YEAR). I also have an Apple (FOR OVER A YEAR). Guess what? I record movies on the camcord, make HD DVDs on the apple, and play them on the HD DVD player. BlurRy can't do this yet, but it's been working great for me with HD DVD for OVER A YEAR.
Ummmm... You do know that if one was blacklisted it would mean that ONE customer came in. It would NOT mean that every single player was blacklisted. Each hardware player has its own unique key.
Yes, but you forgot to mention other facts about some of those companies:
m If this is any indication of what will be required of them then I imagine that most of the BluRay studios will soon be jumping to HD-DVD.
Apple - Makes DVD Studio, which includes support for making HD-DVDs
Dell - Only cares about data, not movies
Hewlett-Packard - Only cares about data, not movies
Hitachi - Only cares about data, not movies
LG - Released the first combo HD-DVD/BluRay player (which they have promised to update with better HD-DVD support).
Samsung - Recently announced that they are going to be releasing an HD-DVD player for the holidays.
Warner Bros. - Releases on both HD-DVD and BluRay, but is only releasing many of their most popular movies (including the Matrix trilogy) on HD-DVD due to the lack of interactivity available on BluRay players.
Sun - Only involved because they managed to get Java into the BluRay spec. Some of you may know what a pain it is trying to release Java programs that work well on different versions of the JDK. Well, guess what, it's even worse on BluRay. Read this link to find out how much fun it is for the studios trying to use BDJ, they end up writing the same thing 8 different ways in the hopes that one of them will work in the version of Java on your player: http://www.blueboard.com/bluray/qa_dragonslair.ht
My understanding is that the price is caused by Sony. They are the only company that has mastered the equipment to manufacture Blu-Ray. So they are currently charging all of the production companies a fortune for it. HDDVD does not have this problem. If a title doesn't need all of the space then they can use a standard 3xDVD-ROM and manufacture it on the same equipment that they use for DVD. Additionally, Blu-Ray yields are much lower - a few months ago the manufacturers were only getting about 70% yields out of their equipment (meaning 30% of what they produced was unplayable and thrown out). HDDVD yields have consistently been in the upper 90% range.
The Blu-Ray production lines are also slower, they run at about 1/2 the rate of DVD/HDDVD production lines.
Thank you! I'm so tired of hearing how bad DRM is. If you don't like it don't use it. If you want to use it then do. Who am I (or anyone else here) to tell other people not to use it?
The studios think they will make more money if they use it. They think that piracy will be a bigger problem without it, and that this differential is enough to offset the users who won't purchase because of DRM. Are they right? I don't know and I don't care.
I enjoy my HD-DVDs and I don't feel that any "freedom" has been taken away from me by AACS.
Check his profile. He is "Program Manger for Video Encoding in the Professional Content Group at Microsoft". Which he needs to update since Professional Content Group is now Consumer Media Technology.
In that case your parent's should be happy with HDDVD since it does not have region coding. This is in fact one of the huge benefits to HDDVD over BluRay. Many movies are licensed for distribution by BluRay only studios inside the US, but in other markets the distribution rights have been sold to other studios and those other studios are releasing them in Europe and Japan on HDDVD. Since there is no region coding you can order them from other regions in the format of your choice.
This was actually one of the considerations taken into account when designing HDDVD, and you can rest assured that your pet-peeve will probably cease to be a problem within the next year. The specification is designed so that content can be referenced from the disc or the network. The idea was that studios could include trailers from the network, that way when you watch the movies (even in 10 years) you will see trailers for upcoming movies.
This might help you sync with your Mac. If you check the screenshots section under WM5 it shows it syncing with a Cingular 8125, which is the same kit as your TMobile SDA.
http://www.markspace.com/products.html/
Programming and Customizing PICmicro Microcontrollers by Myke Predko
Available on Amazon. The book icludes a PCB and parts list for building a PIC programmer. It includes a dos program (runs fine in wine) for transfering your programs to your pics.
This book is a lot of fun if your into this type of thing. I highly recommend it.
I loved that program. It was my first word processor, and I too spent the hours typing it in. Compute magazine was way ahead of its time, they were into open source before GNU was even around (of course it wasn't called open source). They also had an extremely cool terminal program called xterm that I used daily to connect to the bulliten boards. Unfortunately, I sold the commodore years ago, along with 400 disks worth of programs I had either typed in or downloaded from BBSs :-(
The keybindings comment really caught me off gaurd, I never would have known that, but I think it explains my fondness for emacs. The thing that really got me about speedscript though, was that the program had a number of undocumented features. I was constantly trying out different keysequences that weren't in the article to see what they did. I remember having 3 pages of notebook paper filled with the undocumented commands, but sadly I no longer remember any of them.
In that case I think I'll change my name to one of these:
Hercules Rockefeller
Rembrandt Q. Einstein
Handsome B. Wonderful
Max Power
Which one would be best? Should I post an AskSlashdot?
I thought that was what the Xserver was for. Am I missing something?
>Mamma
>the President's a fool
>why do I have to keep
>reading these technical manuals?
That sig just made you my friend. I read it right as the song was queuing up.
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Time is linear
memories are strange
history is for fools
man is a tool
in the hands of the great God almighty
I ran into this recently in Debian too. It seems that the open source software just doesn't quite cut it for my TDK drive. I could write cds fine with cdrecord, but it would fail with an "unrecognized media" or some such error when I tried to burn a dvd. I was using dvdrecord (based on cdrecord), but it doesn't work with a lot of drives. The really frustrating thing is that cdrecord supports writing dvds with my drive, just not in the opensource version. You can get the "pro" version here it is free for non-commercial use and it works well (there is a readme file with more info).
Here is a tip from another *nix geek stuck with a windows desktop. Convince them to set you up with Cygwin (make sure you include the X server). Run ssh-keygen in cygwin to create a public/private keypair. Copy the public key to one of the linux boxes you admin that has an X server (it should be in $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys). On the windows machine create a .xinitrc file in your cygwin home directory that contains the following line only:
xterm -iconic -e ssh -X username@linuxbox "blackbox"
Now all you need to do is startx in cygwin and you get your nice *nix desktop :) If you don't like blackbox substitute in gnome-session, startkde, fluxbox, or whatever you prefer. Cygwin is nice, but I find that many things don't work quite right: ctrl-c is always grabbed so the only way I can quit emacs is F10 f e which is a pain and my esc and backspace don't work right in vi so that isn't an option either. It all works beautifully in an Xsession though. Besides, it just feels good to treat windows as a terminal.
You may need to tweek the firewall/# X sessions allowed/ssh settings/etc on the server. However, I think you will find it will make Windows much more comfortable for you. I have a dual monitor setup and frequently one monitor is X/Linux and the other Windows. If you can get them to give you Cygwin then give it a shot (if not then I pity you). I've found that it doesn't get much better than that for Windows. As always, YMMV.
They may lack market share, but there are mail clients, web browsers, file sharing, and numerous word processors available. In fact, if you follow those links you will find a couple of complete office suites written in Java. IBM/Lotus used to offer eSuite, which was an entire office package written in Java. Oracle has a huge marketshare and is very focused on Java/Linux as well.
You may not have personally used any of these programs, but give them a shot before you write off the language. Chances are many people use Java applications with no knowledge that they are doing so (Limewire users come to mind). If the language lacks applications, it is the fault of developers, not the language. That is the point of ESR's letter: there would be much wider use/acceptance of Java if it were open and the incompatibilities between the implementations were fixed.
Not true. I purchase quite a lot of closed source software for Linux. Some of it I run under Wine, but where possible, I buy Linux versions.
When I was working on my CS degree I purchased copies of Matlab and Mathematica, I also would have purchased Maya (went to the lab instead) if it had been less than $400 for the student version. All my windows friends found them on irc/p2p.
I used to purchase my copies of Redhat, I have the boxed sets (other than those I gave away) for every release between 5 and 7.3. However, I quit using Redhat since I received the exact same benefits for buying it as someone that downloaded it for free. I would have stuck with them if they had allowed me a year of priority access to up2date with the box set purchase. They didn't. I left. I now use Debian and am much happier with it. It isn't because I want something for free, but because I when I pay I want something more than is given away for free. If I get something better for a few dollars than I could get for nothing then I'll pay a few dollars. That is why my display is running Accellerated X. The display drivers in Xfree86 could not handle my laptops screen/videocard (1400x1050 lcd with an intel i830M graphics card) and left a nasty black border around the screen. I tried the Accellerated X demo and it worked perfect.
There IS software available to purchase for Linux. Much of it is better than the free stuff, and lots of us use it. Many people have no idea that some of it even exists. I think that many of the companies that sell Linux software and have superior products just need to spend a little more on marketing so they get some name recognition (this means you XIG). The companies also tend to get "stuck" on a distro. Many of them only release RPMs and refuse to provide instructions for other non-RPM distros, even when it works perfectly on the distro (this means you again XIG).
That result is so far of base I can't even begin. 43% amoung techies? Hmmm... where did you give this survey? Was it only posted on some Windows tech site? Did you send it out as HTML formatted SPAM? Give me a break. Techies work with computers, they love computers, they spend time learning about them. This is akin to saying that only 43% of jockeys are aware of Palaminos or that only 43% of mechanics are aware of Lotus. Sure, they may not be intimately familiar with it, but they most certainly ARE aware of it. Christ, even the most non-techie people I support at work (the ones that need support when the dialog box that only has an "ok" button on it comes up) have heard of it.
BTW, what was the name of your company? I want to make sure they I never pay attention to any of the stats you post. After all, 43% of us know you made them up :)
No need to go to Ikea. The "custom computer cable tube" is called split loom. You can find it at most electronics stores, car/home stereo shops, auto parts stores, etc... Look under the hood of your car and you will find the manufacturer used it extensively as it is also great at reducing the heat on the cable and keeping the nasty chemicals off. Here is the first link to a place that sells it that I found on google. It does work great.
The problem is not that the sites are vulnerable, its that law enforment will not step in to enforce the laws and so the DDOS continues. So why don't we go with this idea but find a server that they might care about to store the data on. If the blacklists were distributed by p2p, signed with gpg/pgp and the key was stored on a high profile server it might work. This is assuming that law enforcement would take an attack on this machine more seriously (not at all garunteed). There might be an even better server (maybe a .gov or .mil) where the key could be served from. I think the idea could work, if it is done properly.
I just noticed that this really might happen. Guess it's time to watch soccer. :-)
and another beautiful woman like Brandi Chastain takes off her shirt in the game then I would expect you'll find plenty of clips available... However, I doubt that you will find a live feed. As far as I know the broadcasters prevent that from happening, or at least I've never seen it.