The various browser implementations of HTML5 still haven't matured enough to reliably replace browser plugins in all cases. Specifically video playback support is still a mess due to all the codec patent issues. A recent project I worked on required us to encode the video in three different formats to cover all the major browsers. If we used Flash we would have only had to encode once. There is also no DRM solution for HTML5 video. This is a non-starter for many streaming companies like Netflix.
HTML5 get better everyday though, it's only a matter of time.
Bottom line: manned space colonisation doesn't offer any short-term survival advantage, but it does increase the number of immediate threats we face. In the very long term it might be worth investigating.
A short-term survival advantage would be making a game-changing discovery like extraterrestrial life or some form of cheap energy (H3 maybe?).
It's presumptuous to assume there is nothing out there that can't help us right now this very instant. Earth is but a tiny sample of the what the Universe has to offer us. Who knows what is out there that could solve our current problems and radically change the world. The short expeditions we've taken into our solar system haven't even scratch the surface. It's only through long term human presence in space that we can even begin to understand how it will effect society as a whole.
Exploration is human nature for a good reason. The benefits often outweigh the risks.
Earth will be incinerated by the Sun in a couple billion years. Humans are nature's way of spreading Earth's unique lifeforms to other parts of the universe.
Of course humans could fail at this task, but then nature has time to evolve a few more sentient races before the end.
I've been using Proxmox for a few years in production systems. It's an OpenVZ/KVM solution wrapped in a nice web interface. Supports live migration/clustering/automatic backups and a bunch of other nice enterprise features. All free and open source of course.
I have a standard 6mb cable connection and the latency hasn't been an issue for me. Been playing various first person shooters and it's all been rather smooth.
I think the coolest feature is the "Arena". It's a live video wall that let's you browse and view other player's gaming sessions. It's actually fairly entertaining watching other players play the games, and it gives you a good idea if you'd like the game. It's also an impressive technical feat to be able to see 20 or so live play sessions on your screen at once.
A client side bot's input looks exactly the same as a normal player's input from the server's perspective. Most bots are clever enough not to cause inputs that are humanly impossible, pressing a button to fast, rapid combinations of hot keys, etc. There are delays and randomization programmed into most bots to avoid server side detection.
Also, the whole key logger issue, no way for the server to detect that.
We've designed our world around two hands, and two feet. Buildings, vehicles, tools, etc. Makes sense to design our robots to utilize the existing infrastructure we've already built.
Microsoft, being the nice fat company they are, is a ripe target for patent lawsuits. If I was them I would also patent all the idiotical things I could get away with, because if I don't someone else will. Use the system or it will bite you in the ass.
I highly doubt Microsoft would ever try to enforce this patent on anyone... But there are plenty of smaller companies out there that make money by hitting up the big guys on these silly patents.
So anyway the patent system is broke, we know this, what are we going to do about should be the question...
I don't know if this is real or not, but anyway...
I seriously feel for you and your family. I can only imagine how hard something like that is to go through.
That being said, the writing has been on the wall for quite a while now. The second someone could digitally copy a CD to a computer the record industry's old bussiness model was ruined. Illegal or not, right or wrong, the cat is out of the bag and it's not going back.
You say you want to save your industry. What you really are saying is you want to save your industries old business model. You, and your industry in general, are all afraid of change. All the signs of change were ignored until it was to late and now you strike out in anger. It's interesting how your lashing out at young punks, mirrors the RIAA's rounds of lawsuits. It's all amounts to nothing more than the last futile roars of some trapped and injured beast.
My point is you and the RIAA should have seen the trap before you got caught in it.
Of course it might not be to late for you or the RIAA to adapt to the changes. This will mean accepting the fact your world has changed, and like it or not it's not going back to how it used to be.
$3000-$4000 is a WAY over exagerated price for a gaming PC, but you do make some good points.
I always liked computer games for a few reasons.
1. Lock-out chips. I like homebrew games and I like that fact that I can program my own games for the PC (without a mod chip). Lack of license fees will, IMHO, make the PC platform a very popular choice for companies in the forseeable future.
2. Screen resolution. With a TV your basically stuck at a 560 x 420ish very blurry looking resolution. Sucks for RTS games or any game that wants to display a lot of information on the screen at once. I suppose once consoles embrace HDTV this will change, but until then...
3. I have a computer anyway. The consoles are never going to fully replace a PC. So since I have a PC anyway, I might as well play games on it.
First off, the technology isn't really meant for archival purposes. Noone is going to have a shelf full of e-ink books. That would defeat the whole purpose of e-ink, which is to allow one physical book to represent an infinite number of books.
Second, the content, I imagine, will come in the popular e-book formats. There are many different competing e-book formats and I doubt some secret government corporation can control them all.
Even IF they could...
You can just backup your e-book files on a CDR. Store the CDR in a safe somewhere and you don't have to worry about your books "magically" changing on you.
Though, the dye based CDRs may degrade all by themselves, but that's a whole other issue..;-)
Found this post in the Google USENET cache... Funny...
In article, BOFH wrote: >On 16 Oct 1995, Christopher Choi Chung wrote: >> Hi, >> Here's a silly question. Does Linux have a unofficial Mascott? > >If I remember correctly it's a Platypus.
Well, the platypus is certainly one of the unofficial ones. There are other ones: some people advocated the seagull (it can be found on some of the logos floating around), and others liked the 3D shark-logo somebody made.
I personally like penguins, but I seem to be in a minority of one.
I used to respect the Daily Show as one of the last bastions of fair and balanced (TM) news reporting available. Jon Stewart and the other correspondents seem to be the only (fake) news reporters that actually tell things the way they are...
You're kidding right? The Daily Show is a COMEDY SHOW, it's just an extended version of the SNL Weekend Update. It's very funny, but in no way a bastion of "fair and balanced" news reporting. They consantly photoshop images and edit videos for laughs. You never know what they are making up and what actually happened.
It's pure entertainment, there are no journalistic obligations to present an unbasised view or any view at all for that matter. That would take all the fun out of the show.
If you want to laugh watch the Daily Show, if you want real news watch the BBC or something...
Any fork from the Java specifications would simply not be Java anymore.
I would imagine Sun would act as a gatekeeper if Java went open source. Anything code that breaks compatibility would not be included in the "offical" Java feed.
As the grandfather post stated, this is more about portability than anything.
"Big Broadband can carry full motion video, download pictures of Paris or Hilton Hotels or Paris Hilton (whoever that is), and provide web page access that feels like flipping pages of a magazine."
To wordy, just replace this sentence with "Big Broadband can carry lots of pr0n". People will get the idea.
Also, I doubt this is the DRM answer to everything. As soon as their is a PC reader you can copy the contents of one of these things to any format you want. Digital is digital doesn't matter the format.
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The various browser implementations of HTML5 still haven't matured enough to reliably replace browser plugins in all cases. Specifically video playback support is still a mess due to all the codec patent issues. A recent project I worked on required us to encode the video in three different formats to cover all the major browsers. If we used Flash we would have only had to encode once. There is also no DRM solution for HTML5 video. This is a non-starter for many streaming companies like Netflix.
HTML5 get better everyday though, it's only a matter of time.
Would make sense if the rumors of a Steam Box are true.
With just a tag? No, not possible. In combination with javascript? Very possible.
There are plenty of javascript libraries out there that might get you most of the way there, like this one here.
Bottom line: manned space colonisation doesn't offer any short-term survival advantage, but it does increase the number of immediate threats we face. In the very long term it might be worth investigating.
A short-term survival advantage would be making a game-changing discovery like extraterrestrial life or some form of cheap energy (H3 maybe?). It's presumptuous to assume there is nothing out there that can't help us right now this very instant. Earth is but a tiny sample of the what the Universe has to offer us. Who knows what is out there that could solve our current problems and radically change the world. The short expeditions we've taken into our solar system haven't even scratch the surface. It's only through long term human presence in space that we can even begin to understand how it will effect society as a whole. Exploration is human nature for a good reason. The benefits often outweigh the risks.
Your analogy doesn't quite illustrate the risk involved. It would be more like pacing an Indy 500 race with a moped.
Earth will be incinerated by the Sun in a couple billion years. Humans are nature's way of spreading Earth's unique lifeforms to other parts of the universe. Of course humans could fail at this task, but then nature has time to evolve a few more sentient races before the end.
I've been using Proxmox for a few years in production systems. It's an OpenVZ/KVM solution wrapped in a nice web interface. Supports live migration/clustering/automatic backups and a bunch of other nice enterprise features. All free and open source of course.
a use for one of the most useless animals in nature.
http://www.mono-project.com/Companies_Using_Mono
I've also been playing with the free trial.
I have a standard 6mb cable connection and the latency hasn't been an issue for me. Been playing various first person shooters and it's all been rather smooth.
I think the coolest feature is the "Arena". It's a live video wall that let's you browse and view other player's gaming sessions. It's actually fairly entertaining watching other players play the games, and it gives you a good idea if you'd like the game. It's also an impressive technical feat to be able to see 20 or so live play sessions on your screen at once.
A client side bot's input looks exactly the same as a normal player's input from the server's perspective. Most bots are clever enough not to cause inputs that are humanly impossible, pressing a button to fast, rapid combinations of hot keys, etc. There are delays and randomization programmed into most bots to avoid server side detection.
Also, the whole key logger issue, no way for the server to detect that.
We've designed our world around two hands, and two feet. Buildings, vehicles, tools, etc. Makes sense to design our robots to utilize the existing infrastructure we've already built.
Don't blame Microsoft, blame the patent system.
... But there are plenty of smaller companies out there that make money by hitting up the big guys on these silly patents.
...
Microsoft, being the nice fat company they are, is a ripe target for patent lawsuits. If I was them I would also patent all the idiotical things I could get away with, because if I don't someone else will. Use the system or it will bite you in the ass.
I highly doubt Microsoft would ever try to enforce this patent on anyone
So anyway the patent system is broke, we know this, what are we going to do about should be the question
Someone want to explain to me why it's so hard to verify where to sound is coming from?
Move the needle off the cell. If the sound stops then you know the sound wasn't coming from the surronding fluid or the tip of the microscope.
Am I missing something?
I don't know if this is real or not, but anyway ...
I seriously feel for you and your family. I can only imagine how hard something like that is to go through.
That being said, the writing has been on the wall for quite a while now. The second someone could digitally copy a CD to a computer the record industry's old bussiness model was ruined. Illegal or not, right or wrong, the cat is out of the bag and it's not going back.
You say you want to save your industry. What you really are saying is you want to save your industries old business model. You, and your industry in general, are all afraid of change. All the signs of change were ignored until it was to late and now you strike out in anger. It's interesting how your lashing out at young punks, mirrors the RIAA's rounds of lawsuits. It's all amounts to nothing more than the last futile roars of some trapped and injured beast.
My point is you and the RIAA should have seen the trap before you got caught in it.
Of course it might not be to late for you or the RIAA to adapt to the changes. This will mean accepting the fact your world has changed, and like it or not it's not going back to how it used to be.
Looks like Lindows likes to plan ahead...
Domain Name: LINDOS.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
Status: ACTIVE
Updated Date: 08-may-2003
Creation Date: 09-jun-1998
Expiration Date: 08-jun-2005
$3000-$4000 is a WAY over exagerated price for a gaming PC, but you do make some good points.
...
I always liked computer games for a few reasons.
1. Lock-out chips. I like homebrew games and I like that fact that I can program my own games for the PC (without a mod chip). Lack of license fees will, IMHO, make the PC platform a very popular choice for companies in the forseeable future.
2. Screen resolution. With a TV your basically stuck at a 560 x 420ish very blurry looking resolution. Sucks for RTS games or any game that wants to display a lot of information on the screen at once. I suppose once consoles embrace HDTV this will change, but until then
3. I have a computer anyway. The consoles are never going to fully replace a PC. So since I have a PC anyway, I might as well play games on it.
First off, the technology isn't really meant for archival purposes. Noone is going to have a shelf full of e-ink books. That would defeat the whole purpose of e-ink, which is to allow one physical book to represent an infinite number of books.
...
;-)
Second, the content, I imagine, will come in the popular e-book formats. There are many different competing e-book formats and I doubt some secret government corporation can control them all.
Even IF they could
You can just backup your e-book files on a CDR. Store the CDR in a safe somewhere and you don't have to worry about your books "magically" changing on you.
Though, the dye based CDRs may degrade all by themselves, but that's a whole other issue..
Wow, she invented the freaking COMPILER!!
;-)
:-)
Probably while at sea, under bombardment from Nazi warships, and with one hand tied behind her back..
I like her..
You're kidding right? The Daily Show is a COMEDY SHOW, it's just an extended version of the SNL Weekend Update. It's very funny, but in no way a bastion of "fair and balanced" news reporting. They consantly photoshop images and edit videos for laughs. You never know what they are making up and what actually happened.
It's pure entertainment, there are no journalistic obligations to present an unbasised view or any view at all for that matter. That would take all the fun out of the show.
If you want to laugh watch the Daily Show, if you want real news watch the BBC or something...
Any fork from the Java specifications would simply not be Java anymore.
I would imagine Sun would act as a gatekeeper if Java went open source. Anything code that breaks compatibility would not be included in the "offical" Java feed.
As the grandfather post stated, this is more about portability than anything.
"Big Broadband can carry
full motion video, download pictures of Paris or Hilton Hotels or
Paris Hilton (whoever that is), and provide web page access that
feels like flipping pages of a magazine."
To wordy, just replace this sentence with "Big Broadband can carry lots of pr0n". People will get the idea.
Any idea on the data read rate of these things?
Also, I doubt this is the DRM answer to everything. As soon as their is a PC reader you can copy the contents of one of these things to any format you want. Digital is digital doesn't matter the format.
Well that doesn't really look like the entire code listing for Windows 2000... Even if it's legit....
This was interesting...
win2k/private/shell/shdocvw/
If it's real.. then someone has a good portion of the rendering engine behind IE....
Hmmmm.....
Also
win2k/private/shell/explorer/
Looks like there is the shell for windows also...
I don't see any kernel level stuff though...
Just a quick analysis though..