... a console that has free downloads of demos and previews and other content?... a console that has free online services?... a console with free online multiplayer?... a console that has a built-in backup feature to let you back up all of your content, including DRM'd content to an external drive?... a console that lets you install a 3rd party OS onto it legitimately?... or maybe a console whose online multiplayer games include 1080p and 4 player split-screen with simultaneous online play with up to 32 players (40 for other games).
Thanks for that reply -- I'm getting pretty sick myself of people forgetting why we have due process and legal rights in the first place. People who don't believe people are innocent until proven guilty but rather guilty by virtue of someone pointing their finger at you.
What ever happened to the belief that the police are a necessary evil and should be severely limited in what they can do and that courts and juries of our peers and due process in general are valuable assets in the fight for justice for all?
How about forever? I've had sessions like that (I do the same thing with Google News myself) that eat up over a gig of RAM and never let it go, even after every tab is closed. One time I closed all my Firefox windows except the download status window just to keep the app running at all, and left it like that for two days -- still no memory released.
Closing that last window of course released all my RAM. Luckily, I have a couple gig available, but its just stupid.
No actually, every single disc does not have the flag set. I've seen lists, you can find them if you want. Unrestricted output is available for quite a few movies -- and you still get 540p, not just 480p, its still lower than you'd like but its not as bad as DVD.
For the record, the file is set to expire in about 12 weeks from the first time you fetch it but as it supplies both Last-Modified and an ETag, there's no reason to fetch a new copy (it hasn't changed in 424 weeks).
You're assuming I want my SQL server on the Internet at all. Internet -> Firewall -> Web server -> Firewall -> SQL server
There's a need for LANs either way unless we all start running IPSec tunnels as VLANs instead, but I can't imagine that's better than a $50 ethernet switch.
We bypass this by running an alternate SMTP server on a non-standard port with SMTP-AUTH support for our customers when they're travelling so they can leave their SMTP server settings alone and still bypass local ISP issues.
The USB spec includes audio. The USB spec includes human interface devices (keyboards, mice, funny wheels for controlling your music selection, etc. There's no problem with the iPod just registering itself as a few USB devices (a storage device + an audio source, etc.).
Since Linux OSs are developed by users and not paid employees, there's a tendancy for them to support everything those types of users could possibly want.
In general, that's a lot.
If you have a specific itch, scratch it, or pay a developer to do it.
I'm with you -- mini and micro USB is much more standard than the iPod and there's no reason Apple couldn't have used USB instead. It would've possibly cost more, sure, so they did something proprietary like everyone else.
Ditto on the charger for the Nintendo DS whose plug is a very slight variation from a standard mini USB jack.
That's a very apt comparison -- Google links to content and ranks it much like reviewers rank and list movie information. They provide a listing of content available and their own "personal" opinion on that content. If you really want to FIND the content, you could just type in the address or use a specialized index or directory and not depend on Google.
If you don't want ranked information in your searching, don't use a search engine. That said, I could see Google adding options like "sort by oldest entry / most recent / smallest / largest / most commonly clicked / most recently updated" in addition to their trade secret sorting method to get around complaints.
There's a rub to the private copy laws. It is written (but IANAL) in such a way to imply that if I borrow your CD collection and rip it all to my PS3, that's fine. But if I rip my CDs and give the copies out, that's wrong. Personally that makes sense.
The problem comes down to P2P filesharing. Is the copy you're downloading of a song an original and therefore your copy is the private copy allowed of that original? Or is this a copy they've made and therefore you're making an illegal copy of a copy?
Now of course, musicians and activist groups in Canada who want to make this money grab don't distinguish between legal and illegal music downloading, but there/is/ such a thing as illegal music downloading despite the private copy levy and I've often explained how it works to my friends, and have in fact made sure that my music copies are from originals and my friends borrow mine in the same way.
The levy is designed to make it legal to swap music with your buddies the way you think you should be allowed to do, and not to simply make music free as a result of mass sharing. This new levy would be designed to cover the latter, but I agree that its more of a money grab.
Almost every time I've ever had a passenger say 'watch out' it has not been something I hadn't myself noticed and was already responding to and in some cases it almost caused me to react poorly (slam on the brakes inappropriately, for example), since "Watch out!" doesn't imply "swerve, brake, speed up" or any other specific action on the driver's part.
All behaviour inside the automobile are distracting at some level to the driver, whether having a hands-free conversation or zoning out to your favourite tunes or yelling at the interviewer on the radio for being a moron. Cell phone usage most certainly does not get the top spot in poor driving behaviour; I've seen people apply make-up, eat cereal or soup (two hands), paint their nails, search for CDs on the floor of their van, look for the brush they dropped, etc. while driving down the highway.
I'll take a side of reality and hold the fear mongering.
In Canada the copying is not illegal in the first place, so your point loses a lot of merit there.
The private copying levy and associated laws mean that making personal private copies of works is in fact perfectly legitimate. We don't get sued for downloading music, or for recording TV shows like baseball and football either. All over the air broadcasts are also free to redistribute unmodified. We're a lot more open minded about these things, much like the early Americans were about designing their Copyright laws.
I was thinking the same thing. I have a hard time explaining to Windows users that its "See Colon Backslash" because "\" is a "back slash" not "slash".
If I told you to use a "slash" in a sentence, you'd write he / she not he \ she, but for some reason there's this brain fart that requires people to believe that a backslash is a slash.
I'd mod you up if I could -- I've made that same comment a dozen times to friends and family. I can carry a conversation in the car in normal traffic situations but there are times when I tell everyone to shut up because the roads are bad or the traffic is terrible and I need more concentration power. The same applies to my cell phone. The same applies to drinking coffee, or listening to the radio, or enjoying a good CD.
Know your limits, drive within them.*
*blatantly stolen from the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation's slogan "Know your limits, play within them"
That doesn't make it a fight not worth having though.
I remember saying to someone after 9/11, "that's not so bad considering drunk driver deaths in New York the same year" and he thought I was insane.
A lot of people lost their lives to a basically unpreventable accident, as happens every day on highways and streets and roads all over America in much greater numbers from preventable causes (like drunk driving).
Imagine a road safety campaign with the budget of the War on Terror.
I personally simply hate the fact how router vendors don't put enough emphasis on how important wireless security is! The only thing that most router manuals say about encryption is that it will slow down the speed of the wireless network.
I just opened my new D-Link DI-724GU wireless router and gigabit switch today and was honestly impressed at the warning posted inside that pointed out how any wireless networking product can leave your network exposed to third parties and insecure and that proper security measures should be taken (with some basics like how to configure passwords and WPA).
OpenGL deserves a lot more credit for its extensibility than it receives. Most people I've encountered who think DirectX is the cat's meow have only ever developed for one version (never moved from 8 to 9 or 9 to 10) and have never actually used OpenGL for real programming.
I'd love to see OpenGL get more press, personally.
Vista is part of the plan Microsoft had for Windows since 1999, sure, but it was originally derived from XP (which was also supposed to be what Microsoft had wanted Windows to be since the 80's; a merger of Windows and NT technology).
Windows Vista was taken over by Jim Alchin mid-way and he demanded a rewrite a good chunk of the code to make it a more stable project (and more power to him) but that ended up causing the semi-famous loss of all those special features it was supposed to have (like the new easily searchable file system).
Vista is as a result a more stable system, and possibly more well designed (but I have no access to source code to verify this), but also a derivation of the on-going work Microsoft has been doing over the years on the Windows API and interfaces.
-- Disclaimer: I use no Microsoft products at home, but I have been following them since the 80's devoutly as I always wanted to believe in the goals of the Windows API.
Actually its not just the dying, but the ending of COD4 is even more convincing. Pretend as you watch that final sequence that you just played through those battles WITHOUT dying (ha!), and that's the ending you get.
Your buddies are dead, you're seriously maimed and nothing's really been accomplished. Welcome to war.
Did you notice the huge stretches of barren residential land in COD4 too? Now picture the women and children hiding in the corners of those rooms while the shooting's going on and you're even closer to the "fun" of war.
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... a console that has free downloads of demos and previews and other content? ... a console that has free online services? ... a console with free online multiplayer? ... a console that has a built-in backup feature to let you back up all of your content, including DRM'd content to an external drive? ... a console that lets you install a 3rd party OS onto it legitimately? ... or maybe a console whose online multiplayer games include 1080p and 4 player split-screen with simultaneous online play with up to 32 players (40 for other games).
Naw, that'd be too good to be true.
Thanks for that reply -- I'm getting pretty sick myself of people forgetting why we have due process and legal rights in the first place. People who don't believe people are innocent until proven guilty but rather guilty by virtue of someone pointing their finger at you.
What ever happened to the belief that the police are a necessary evil and should be severely limited in what they can do and that courts and juries of our peers and due process in general are valuable assets in the fight for justice for all?
How about forever? I've had sessions like that (I do the same thing with Google News myself) that eat up over a gig of RAM and never let it go, even after every tab is closed. One time I closed all my Firefox windows except the download status window just to keep the app running at all, and left it like that for two days -- still no memory released.
Closing that last window of course released all my RAM. Luckily, I have a couple gig available, but its just stupid.
No actually, every single disc does not have the flag set. I've seen lists, you can find them if you want. Unrestricted output is available for quite a few movies -- and you still get 540p, not just 480p, its still lower than you'd like but its not as bad as DVD.
For the record, the file is set to expire in about 12 weeks from the first time you fetch it but as it supplies both Last-Modified and an ETag, there's no reason to fetch a new copy (it hasn't changed in 424 weeks).
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You're assuming I want my SQL server on the Internet at all. Internet -> Firewall -> Web server -> Firewall -> SQL server
There's a need for LANs either way unless we all start running IPSec tunnels as VLANs instead, but I can't imagine that's better than a $50 ethernet switch.
We bypass this by running an alternate SMTP server on a non-standard port with SMTP-AUTH support for our customers when they're travelling so they can leave their SMTP server settings alone and still bypass local ISP issues.
The USB spec includes audio. The USB spec includes human interface devices (keyboards, mice, funny wheels for controlling your music selection, etc. There's no problem with the iPod just registering itself as a few USB devices (a storage device + an audio source, etc.).
Since Linux OSs are developed by users and not paid employees, there's a tendancy for them to support everything those types of users could possibly want.
In general, that's a lot.
If you have a specific itch, scratch it, or pay a developer to do it.
I'm with you -- mini and micro USB is much more standard than the iPod and there's no reason Apple couldn't have used USB instead. It would've possibly cost more, sure, so they did something proprietary like everyone else.
Ditto on the charger for the Nintendo DS whose plug is a very slight variation from a standard mini USB jack.
That's a very apt comparison -- Google links to content and ranks it much like reviewers rank and list movie information. They provide a listing of content available and their own "personal" opinion on that content. If you really want to FIND the content, you could just type in the address or use a specialized index or directory and not depend on Google.
If you don't want ranked information in your searching, don't use a search engine. That said, I could see Google adding options like "sort by oldest entry / most recent / smallest / largest / most commonly clicked / most recently updated" in addition to their trade secret sorting method to get around complaints.
There's a rub to the private copy laws. It is written (but IANAL) in such a way to imply that if I borrow your CD collection and rip it all to my PS3, that's fine. But if I rip my CDs and give the copies out, that's wrong. Personally that makes sense.
/is/ such a thing as illegal music downloading despite the private copy levy and I've often explained how it works to my friends, and have in fact made sure that my music copies are from originals and my friends borrow mine in the same way.
The problem comes down to P2P filesharing. Is the copy you're downloading of a song an original and therefore your copy is the private copy allowed of that original? Or is this a copy they've made and therefore you're making an illegal copy of a copy?
Now of course, musicians and activist groups in Canada who want to make this money grab don't distinguish between legal and illegal music downloading, but there
The levy is designed to make it legal to swap music with your buddies the way you think you should be allowed to do, and not to simply make music free as a result of mass sharing. This new levy would be designed to cover the latter, but I agree that its more of a money grab.
Almost every time I've ever had a passenger say 'watch out' it has not been something I hadn't myself noticed and was already responding to and in some cases it almost caused me to react poorly (slam on the brakes inappropriately, for example), since "Watch out!" doesn't imply "swerve, brake, speed up" or any other specific action on the driver's part.
All behaviour inside the automobile are distracting at some level to the driver, whether having a hands-free conversation or zoning out to your favourite tunes or yelling at the interviewer on the radio for being a moron. Cell phone usage most certainly does not get the top spot in poor driving behaviour; I've seen people apply make-up, eat cereal or soup (two hands), paint their nails, search for CDs on the floor of their van, look for the brush they dropped, etc. while driving down the highway.
I'll take a side of reality and hold the fear mongering.
In Canada the copying is not illegal in the first place, so your point loses a lot of merit there.
The private copying levy and associated laws mean that making personal private copies of works is in fact perfectly legitimate. We don't get sued for downloading music, or for recording TV shows like baseball and football either. All over the air broadcasts are also free to redistribute unmodified. We're a lot more open minded about these things, much like the early Americans were about designing their Copyright laws.
Read up a little and decide which is unjust.
I was thinking the same thing. I have a hard time explaining to Windows users that its "See Colon Backslash" because "\" is a "back slash" not "slash".
If I told you to use a "slash" in a sentence, you'd write he / she not he \ she, but for some reason there's this brain fart that requires people to believe that a backslash is a slash.
I loved mars as well and frequently fantasized about future space flight games that would feature fractally rendered landscapes of its ilk.
I was most amazed by the speed with which it generated what were at the time very high quality 3D graphics.
I'd mod you up if I could -- I've made that same comment a dozen times to friends and family. I can carry a conversation in the car in normal traffic situations but there are times when I tell everyone to shut up because the roads are bad or the traffic is terrible and I need more concentration power. The same applies to my cell phone. The same applies to drinking coffee, or listening to the radio, or enjoying a good CD.
Know your limits, drive within them.*
*blatantly stolen from the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation's slogan "Know your limits, play within them"
I've been doing the same thing with qmail for at least 10 years with McAfee before ClamAV.
I agree completely, unfortunately.
That doesn't make it a fight not worth having though.
I remember saying to someone after 9/11, "that's not so bad considering drunk driver deaths in New York the same year" and he thought I was insane.
A lot of people lost their lives to a basically unpreventable accident, as happens every day on highways and streets and roads all over America in much greater numbers from preventable causes (like drunk driving).
Imagine a road safety campaign with the budget of the War on Terror.
I just opened my new D-Link DI-724GU wireless router and gigabit switch today and was honestly impressed at the warning posted inside that pointed out how any wireless networking product can leave your network exposed to third parties and insecure and that proper security measures should be taken (with some basics like how to configure passwords and WPA).
Credit to the people who bother.
In other news, some people don't use their signal lights properly when changing lanes.
Misuse of a meter may cause personal panic. Misuse of a car frequently causes death.
Why do we care about all the wrong things?
OpenGL deserves a lot more credit for its extensibility than it receives. Most people I've encountered who think DirectX is the cat's meow have only ever developed for one version (never moved from 8 to 9 or 9 to 10) and have never actually used OpenGL for real programming.
I'd love to see OpenGL get more press, personally.
Now you're a little lost.
Vista is part of the plan Microsoft had for Windows since 1999, sure, but it was originally derived from XP (which was also supposed to be what Microsoft had wanted Windows to be since the 80's; a merger of Windows and NT technology).
Windows Vista was taken over by Jim Alchin mid-way and he demanded a rewrite a good chunk of the code to make it a more stable project (and more power to him) but that ended up causing the semi-famous loss of all those special features it was supposed to have (like the new easily searchable file system).
Vista is as a result a more stable system, and possibly more well designed (but I have no access to source code to verify this), but also a derivation of the on-going work Microsoft has been doing over the years on the Windows API and interfaces.
--
Disclaimer: I use no Microsoft products at home, but I have been following them since the 80's devoutly as I always wanted to believe in the goals of the Windows API.
Actually its not just the dying, but the ending of COD4 is even more convincing. Pretend as you watch that final sequence that you just played through those battles WITHOUT dying (ha!), and that's the ending you get.
Your buddies are dead, you're seriously maimed and nothing's really been accomplished. Welcome to war.
Did you notice the huge stretches of barren residential land in COD4 too? Now picture the women and children hiding in the corners of those rooms while the shooting's going on and you're even closer to the "fun" of war.
I sympathize, not that your 6 digit fellows are always that much better :-)
awaits the inevitable 4 and 3 digit replies.