Your assumptions, mine and PJs are obviously different because we have different life experiences and worldviews.
I'd like to point out however that your "So you think..." is fallacious; I made no such connection to the generality "would file a lawsuit". My comment revolved around "who" and "why" and therefore the reasonability of the person or entity doing the suing.
As a result of my thinking, if the person or entity in question is not rational in their decision making, is willing to use invalid attempts at harming others close to it in its struggle to survive and seems to be backed into a life-or-death corner, then yes, I'd conclude that such an entity is capable of many horrific deeds in its attempt to survive.
Murdering a journalist may in fact be a much more effective way to stay in business (when you're publicly traded and dependant on outside investment) than suing customers.
Its also fairly simple to note that someone clicked a link then immediately returned to the results list by noting the "if-modified" request from the user's browser.
A quick return would indicate that the page was not in fact what the user had requested.
I don't think you're reading what she's written correctly.
In fact, PJ has specifically stated that she would never commit suicide (on the front page right now), and if any such act happened, it was not her.
Being paranoid is in fact intelligent when you have the likes of SCOg attacking you. They're the types who'd sue their own customers to make money (Chrysler, et al).
Quicktime had better streaming 5 years ago than anyone else. Quicktime still has better streaming than most technologies when used without a specialized server.
Sony is one of the few console companies to ever release a cheap SDK for their unit and actually supported a Linux distribution on their gaming platform.
Neither was perfect, but I'd never say that Sony doesn't give a rat's ass about homebrew markets.
Its not up to the foundation, its up to you and I.
I have a copy of the source on my machine and didn't notice this bug -- so its partly my fault. Its partly yours if you didn't download a copy and understand C++ in the first place.
That statement is a red herring every time its brought up.
Most people who post it don't realize that your CPU is context switching dozens of times per second when idle in your OS already. Simply letting two cores handle different interrupts is a benefit for system responsiveness.
How often is your CPU wanting to do more than one thing at a time? All the time in an OS like Linux or Windows.
If you're running Linux, run vmstat and check the context switches per second.
If you install a second CPU, you may not see a 2x performance increase, but you wouldn't if you doubled your CPU speed either.
You *will* however see a much more responsive machine, because of how the system handles load better.
to suggest that the browser should ignore the server that sends a header 'never cache this page, you must always load it from the server' is just silly.
Its only silly if all that server software out there were properly designed to, as you say, in most circumstances not use the no-cache headers. That is not always the case however.
Actually, go read the FAQs on their site -- several files on the CD are Copyright RedHat and not GPL'd. Those files must be removed if you wish to redistribute the rest.
You only have distribution rights for the GPL'd and other binaries with open licenses -- some are not.
Any intelligent web form would notify you on re-submission that the session was already expired, or the action already taken.
Besides, I've forgotten to print out that little "print this for your receipt" page and clicking "back" should get me that page up if its in the cache.
For that matter, just pop up the little warning bar at the top of the page and put in "this page was served from the cache -- it may no longer be valid. click reload to check"
At the very least, you can usually go buy a version of the motherboard that doesn't have various options on it.
I've bought nice ASUS motherboards that didn't have on-board audio or LAN for example, but the solder points were there still. Might have saved me $20 or so, but that's still money.
To be the devil's advocate, you answered your own question. Internet2 is about researching new and interesting ways to do the Internet thing. Dowloading huge movies in a few minutes is a new and interesting "thing" to do with the Internet.
One of the biggest bragging rights of Internet2 is always how much bandwidth they can push -- but working on the algorithms to keep pushing that much data at full speed with low overhead across millions of people is hard. Having students downloading movies is arguably research.
Let me remind everyone -- if you don't protect your trademarks, you lose them.
If Tiger Direct *didn't* sue Apple over this (and settle, or whatever), it would set a precedant that they didn't care about their trademark and they'd essentially lose it.
It makes most sense to calculate it per unit per second in the moving system in question.
If you pump a litre a second of one liquid that can absorb x joules of energy per second, that's not better than a liquid you can pump 100 litres per second of with half the original energy absorption characteristics.
If the material is moving, it makes a difference when the heat is constantly being generated -- think wind chill.
I've noticed that Toshiba and a few others are releasing 7 color wheels and "true black" options for DLP now.
One of the nice features of DLP technology is that it scales well -- at a cost.
If you're willing to put the hardware into it, you could have a 15 base color wheel for better color calibration and two "DLPs" inside the set doing SLI. There's no "cross-talk" between the light beams like there would be with CRTs and the poor magnets already working full-tilt.
If I may be so silly, I'm still waiting for 2160p to be available. At that resolution, I can upscale 720p easily (x3) and 1080i easily (x2) without artifacting.
Interlaced material is temporally displaced, not just spacially.
If you want to "deinterlace" the material without losing data, you'd want to display each field of the 1080i back to back, which is precisely what their projector does (although 540->720 conversion is problematic).
I've heard many people say the same thing as you -- but most of what you're seeing in the credits is the vertical resolution (up-scrolling text).
The horizontal scaling isn't affecting you at all really in those cases.
The other issue is that true HD is so much better than SD that most people are plenty happy enough with ED and not true HD. Most people would be very happy with 540p downscaled from 720p/1080i (which is what many "HD-ready" TVs are).
However, there *is* still a difference to true HD, it just might not be necessary, or worth it budget-wise yet (for you).
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Your assumptions, mine and PJs are obviously different because we have different life experiences and worldviews.
..." is fallacious; I made no such connection to the generality "would file a lawsuit". My comment revolved around "who" and "why" and therefore the reasonability of the person or entity doing the suing.
I'd like to point out however that your "So you think
As a result of my thinking, if the person or entity in question is not rational in their decision making, is willing to use invalid attempts at harming others close to it in its struggle to survive and seems to be backed into a life-or-death corner, then yes, I'd conclude that such an entity is capable of many horrific deeds in its attempt to survive.
Murdering a journalist may in fact be a much more effective way to stay in business (when you're publicly traded and dependant on outside investment) than suing customers.
If your browser can render it, so can the thousands of servers running in Google's farms.
Its also fairly simple to note that someone clicked a link then immediately returned to the results list by noting the "if-modified" request from the user's browser.
A quick return would indicate that the page was not in fact what the user had requested.
Phone numbers and addresses are *not* public information. They are made public unless you object, which PJ obviously does.
PJ has repeatedly said that her identity is not to be published or pursued and that she does not wish to be a public figure.
Your privacy is to be respected and acknowledged as a law abiding citizen.
I don't think you're reading what she's written correctly.
In fact, PJ has specifically stated that she would never commit suicide (on the front page right now), and if any such act happened, it was not her.
Being paranoid is in fact intelligent when you have the likes of SCOg attacking you. They're the types who'd sue their own customers to make money (Chrysler, et al).
Censuring the editor that signed off on the article comes to mind as well.
Quicktime had better streaming 5 years ago than anyone else. Quicktime still has better streaming than most technologies when used without a specialized server.
Sony is one of the few console companies to ever release a cheap SDK for their unit and actually supported a Linux distribution on their gaming platform.
Neither was perfect, but I'd never say that Sony doesn't give a rat's ass about homebrew markets.
PHP "programmers" have a lot to answer for.
Of course, Zope is no better, but soon should be better.
Its not up to the foundation, its up to you and I.
I have a copy of the source on my machine and didn't notice this bug -- so its partly my fault. Its partly yours if you didn't download a copy and understand C++ in the first place.
IMHO
That statement is a red herring every time its brought up.
Most people who post it don't realize that your CPU is context switching dozens of times per second when idle in your OS already. Simply letting two cores handle different interrupts is a benefit for system responsiveness.
How often is your CPU wanting to do more than one thing at a time? All the time in an OS like Linux or Windows.
If you're running Linux, run vmstat and check the context switches per second.
If you install a second CPU, you may not see a 2x performance increase, but you wouldn't if you doubled your CPU speed either.
You *will* however see a much more responsive machine, because of how the system handles load better.
Its even more significant if you're buying a few million of them.
Think Google.
Its only silly if all that server software out there were properly designed to, as you say, in most circumstances not use the no-cache headers. That is not always the case however.
Actually, go read the FAQs on their site -- several files on the CD are Copyright RedHat and not GPL'd. Those files must be removed if you wish to redistribute the rest.
You only have distribution rights for the GPL'd and other binaries with open licenses -- some are not.
Any intelligent web form would notify you on re-submission that the session was already expired, or the action already taken.
Besides, I've forgotten to print out that little "print this for your receipt" page and clicking "back" should get me that page up if its in the cache.
For that matter, just pop up the little warning bar at the top of the page and put in "this page was served from the cache -- it may no longer be valid. click reload to check"
They *do* cost more, at least in parts.
At the very least, you can usually go buy a version of the motherboard that doesn't have various options on it.
I've bought nice ASUS motherboards that didn't have on-board audio or LAN for example, but the solder points were there still. Might have saved me $20 or so, but that's still money.
Destruction of evidence won't get you far either.
To be the devil's advocate, you answered your own question. Internet2 is about researching new and interesting ways to do the Internet thing. Dowloading huge movies in a few minutes is a new and interesting "thing" to do with the Internet.
One of the biggest bragging rights of Internet2 is always how much bandwidth they can push -- but working on the algorithms to keep pushing that much data at full speed with low overhead across millions of people is hard. Having students downloading movies is arguably research.
Let me remind everyone -- if you don't protect your trademarks, you lose them.
If Tiger Direct *didn't* sue Apple over this (and settle, or whatever), it would set a precedant that they didn't care about their trademark and they'd essentially lose it.
It makes most sense to calculate it per unit per second in the moving system in question.
If you pump a litre a second of one liquid that can absorb x joules of energy per second, that's not better than a liquid you can pump 100 litres per second of with half the original energy absorption characteristics.
If the material is moving, it makes a difference when the heat is constantly being generated -- think wind chill.
I've noticed that Toshiba and a few others are releasing 7 color wheels and "true black" options for DLP now.
One of the nice features of DLP technology is that it scales well -- at a cost.
If you're willing to put the hardware into it, you could have a 15 base color wheel for better color calibration and two "DLPs" inside the set doing SLI. There's no "cross-talk" between the light beams like there would be with CRTs and the poor magnets already working full-tilt.
If I may be so silly, I'm still waiting for 2160p to be available. At that resolution, I can upscale 720p easily (x3) and 1080i easily (x2) without artifacting.
...
Bandwidth requirements be damned
Interlaced material is temporally displaced, not just spacially.
If you want to "deinterlace" the material without losing data, you'd want to display each field of the 1080i back to back, which is precisely what their projector does (although 540->720 conversion is problematic).
You'd also need double the fps to pull it off.
I've heard many people say the same thing as you -- but most of what you're seeing in the credits is the vertical resolution (up-scrolling text).
The horizontal scaling isn't affecting you at all really in those cases.
The other issue is that true HD is so much better than SD that most people are plenty happy enough with ED and not true HD. Most people would be very happy with 540p downscaled from 720p/1080i (which is what many "HD-ready" TVs are).
However, there *is* still a difference to true HD, it just might not be necessary, or worth it budget-wise yet (for you).
I've been watching prices drop on tube-based HD sets. Any personal recommendations?
I'm sure most of Slashdot would like to know as well.