this is a narrow minded and obtuse approach if i ever saw one. they're already paying him for his time, so the entire time it takes him to get it working on x86 is time that they're already paying him. that = $0 to 'the people upstairs'.
making management change their mind is very often impossible. at my company there is no way linux will be in widespread use on servers in less than a decade, and no amount of pushing will make it happen any sooner.
My point, which you've missed, is that the journalist has done nothing wrong. the blame and punishment here should go to the Apple employee who broke his NDA. Apple should have no beef with the journalist. The journalist didn't sign an NDA with Apple. The journalist doesn't know what he's reporting is covered under NDA...
As I just mentioned before.
you act as if this is a response to your earlier post. it is not.
I think the freedom of press is more important, since it is a constitutional right. The Constitution does not say that a journalist has the right to keep his/her sources secret, but this has been upheld in court countless times... If you punish the press for being the mouth of someone else, you're not solving anything.
If you have trade secrets, you need to be very careful who you give them to, period. If a person you trust releases their secrets, its because you didn't do a good enough job of understanding that person.
If I were a journalist, I'd go to my grave with my sources, if they wanted to remain anonymous. Freedom of speech also includes the freedom to shut up. That goes for corporations and journalists.
whoa hold on there.. i'm against a society that for the most part works like a dog to stay right where they are financially, giving up some of that money to keep a not-that-great television show on the air. that seems extraordinarily silly and bereft of thought to me.
i'm very much in love with science fiction and art and history, culture, and all things intellectual.
fans paying for the production of a television show is not an intellectual move. it is not a move for the benefit of science fiction, it is not a move for the benefit of art or history or culture, or anything intellectual. it is a move, that if successful, will cause more trouble that it was worth. a bunch of nerds paying money to see their show stay on the air is a logistical nightmare. who decides how the scripts will be written? who decides how the actors get paid? who directs? who produces? who decides who is going to direct or produce? who decides what expensive writing staff to let go to cut costs? I'm telling you now that no one related to Star Trek series production will take orders from someone who knows what the third sentence of episode 27 of TOS was, no matter how much money they have contributed.
+10 points to you for stretching what i said into something i didn't say.
I'm ALL FOR science, education, increasing original thoughts, and keeping good television on the air, but come on. Spend that money publishing novelists, or hosting an art gallery, or giving schools better learning materials, you know, something USEFUL. something that will actually help the children and the future and increase the overall intelligence level in this country. don't waste it on a TV show that will still only be seen by a small amount of people who will delete it from their tivos as soon as they see it.
its nowhere near as common as that statement, that's for sure. Somehow those that use this statement seem to believe that they in fact do have common sense because they can note the lack of common sense in others. This is often a false assumption.
Human spyware detection is a learned thing, not common sense. There is no part of common sense that distinguishes between the installation of program X vs. the installation of program Y. When my wife installs eXeem she has no idea that spyware is included. Neither did I until I scanned afterwards.
I remember a time when browser popups were beneign. The day the first popup activex exploit installed spyware on my machine was long after the day I started using Mozilla, and was the exact day that someone else used my computer. lack of common sense had nothing to do with it. Spyware will find its way into almost everyone's computer.
for crying out loud, why does a 5 MB MP3 take 60+ MB of memory to play?
because that's the size of the uncompressed waveform. You don't play the MP3, you play the waveform that is compressed inside the MP3. iTunes just decompresses the file all at once, and puts that into memory, instead of a bit at a time like some players.
you're exactly right, you don't need to squeeze every last bit of performance out of your hardware anymore, and as soon as there's a reasonable amount of spare CPU time, some new whiz-bang graphical do-nothing is put in to use it up.
I think if folks quit relying on the compilers of the world to optimize their code for them that things would suddenly get worse, then over time get a lot better.
bottom line is that efficient, quick code takes longer to develop and therefore costs more money. its not justifiable to people who do the books.
Microsoft is keeping close creative control over the script writing process.
since we all know that microsoft is well known for coming up with ideas on its own and implementing them on its own, this script will be highly original and will feature new actors in very creative and intriguing scenes and scenarios....
the point of the pro-tivo arguements (which you've apparently purposefully ignored) is that the intial cost of a TiVo is MUCH lower in parts (and especially labor) than a mythtv solution. for someone with only $150, one hour, and the desire to own a PVR, the tivo or replaytv is the only way to go. If you have several hours (or several days, depending on skill) to set everything up, make your own IR reciever (WTF??!?!), tuck it all neatly behind your entertainment center, get it all working 100%, then yeah maybe MythTV is for you. If you don't have the time or desire to spend that kinda time for something I already have, like me, MythTV is a bad idea.
Perhaps this is a business opportunity for someone. Prebuild and sell MythTV solutions. Handle the remote control situation for them, and put it all in a black or silver (beige is for losers) case that looks nice alongside their stereo and sell them. One time fee, no recurring charges.
do I totally deny the possibility that I could own a mythtv setup in the future? hell no, i want one, I just don't have the time to set one up.
Do you totally deny the logic behind anyone ever owning a tivo for any reason whatsoever? yes, it seems so.
yeah you can have your mythtv do all of that. for no monthly fee yes.
but the initial cost of your mythtv box is at least 10x what the initial cost of a tivo is. that's a large barrier of entry.
computer with dvd burner, large hard disk, tuner cards, video card with tv-out, costs a lot more than a tivo.
very tired of this 'mythtv is better than everything else in the whole wide world, and if you don't use it you are an idiot' business that is going on here.
Also I hear that FreeVo and MythTV are doing fairly well, even if the most vocal of their supporters seem to be elitists.. and they don't even have corporate backing at all, or native interfaces with cable or satelite!
Yeah you're right. TiVo is toast. I mean just look at all the other DVR companies that have gone down in flames because they're not integrated with cable. There's Replay.. no they're still around.. there's... hmm. There aren't any.
Everything Douglas Adams wrote, he rewrote differently later. Readers have come to expect a certain level of change from him... to not get that amount of change in HHGG's next incarnation would be a greater change, and blasphemy.
To not change HHGG per incarnation would be too great of a change.
I'm not kidding. I would be disappointed if the movie were exactly like the book. DA did not intend it to be exactly like the book.
equal weight is the only way to get people to listen.
if people sense bias (this sense is dulled in some folks) they won't believe a word they hear.
people know when they're being lied to. they might not let on that they know, and they might vote for the liars, but they know when they're being lied to. they just choose to ignore the lies, and see things their way. if people choose to ignore evidence, they get what's coming to them.
the environmentalists of the world just have to take caution and present a believeable case with as little embellishment as possible. environmentalists should paint the true picture, not the doomsday picture. i'm an environmentalist (born on Earth day, no less) and we've been saying that the world is ending for a while now, but we're all still here.
i dunno... i'm filled with nyquil. i won't even remember this post in an hour. moderate to your hearts content.
it has been known for a while that the Venus Flytrap uses electrical signals to trigger the closure, but no one knew exactly how the mouth actually closed. No one knew what the mechanics of the mouth were. Now we know how the mouth closes, but not the exact method that initiates the closure.
It is now known (since this study) that the mouth is poised to close most of the time and just given that final miniscule nudge to flip shut when something touches two hairs inside. in the article they describe a soft contact lens; push on its center and it resists, until a point where the lens suddenly inverts. the point just before the inversion is where the Venus Flytrap spends most of its time. just a few small cells fill with water (this is the unknown bit, how that happens) and its enough to push the internal structure of the mouth over the edge, slamming shut.
Killing people is killing people. Doesn't matter if they're gay, Jewish, whatever. Any leader that kills people because of any reason other than war (and even war is iffy in some cases) is.. well there is no word for that kind of evil, that i know of.
saying stalin was better than hitler is like saying "Being killed by falling into a giant puddle of lava is better than being killed by falling into a giant puddle of molten lead." they're both very, very, very bad and probably very very painful, even if just for a moment.
killing people is wrong no matter how you look at it. kill one person out of hatred and you are no different than someone that has killed millions out of hatred.
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this is a narrow minded and obtuse approach if i ever saw one. they're already paying him for his time, so the entire time it takes him to get it working on x86 is time that they're already paying him. that = $0 to 'the people upstairs'.
making management change their mind is very often impossible. at my company there is no way linux will be in widespread use on servers in less than a decade, and no amount of pushing will make it happen any sooner.
help him with the problem he asked about.
Watergate. Know who the source is? Neither does anyone else.
there are MANY. go search through PACER.
My point, which you've missed, is that the journalist has done nothing wrong. the blame and punishment here should go to the Apple employee who broke his NDA. Apple should have no beef with the journalist. The journalist didn't sign an NDA with Apple. The journalist doesn't know what he's reporting is covered under NDA...
As I just mentioned before.
you act as if this is a response to your earlier post. it is not.
I agree, Apple was wronged. But they weren't wronged by the journalist. They were wronged by the person who broke the NDA they signed with Apple.
I think the freedom of press is more important, since it is a constitutional right. The Constitution does not say that a journalist has the right to keep his/her sources secret, but this has been upheld in court countless times... If you punish the press for being the mouth of someone else, you're not solving anything.
If you have trade secrets, you need to be very careful who you give them to, period. If a person you trust releases their secrets, its because you didn't do a good enough job of understanding that person.
If I were a journalist, I'd go to my grave with my sources, if they wanted to remain anonymous. Freedom of speech also includes the freedom to shut up. That goes for corporations and journalists.
Reminds me of Pokey the Penguin.
whoa hold on there.. i'm against a society that for the most part works like a dog to stay right where they are financially, giving up some of that money to keep a not-that-great television show on the air. that seems extraordinarily silly and bereft of thought to me.
i'm very much in love with science fiction and art and history, culture, and all things intellectual.
fans paying for the production of a television show is not an intellectual move. it is not a move for the benefit of science fiction, it is not a move for the benefit of art or history or culture, or anything intellectual. it is a move, that if successful, will cause more trouble that it was worth. a bunch of nerds paying money to see their show stay on the air is a logistical nightmare. who decides how the scripts will be written? who decides how the actors get paid? who directs? who produces? who decides who is going to direct or produce? who decides what expensive writing staff to let go to cut costs? I'm telling you now that no one related to Star Trek series production will take orders from someone who knows what the third sentence of episode 27 of TOS was, no matter how much money they have contributed.
+10 points to you for stretching what i said into something i didn't say.
I'm ALL FOR science, education, increasing original thoughts, and keeping good television on the air, but come on. Spend that money publishing novelists, or hosting an art gallery, or giving schools better learning materials, you know, something USEFUL. something that will actually help the children and the future and increase the overall intelligence level in this country. don't waste it on a TV show that will still only be seen by a small amount of people who will delete it from their tivos as soon as they see it.
people will do ANYTHING to avoid the realities of life and substitute in fictional realities these days, it seems.
the only tv shows that ever have or ever will make me surrender money are on PBS.
But, alas, common sense isn't that common.
its nowhere near as common as that statement, that's for sure. Somehow those that use this statement seem to believe that they in fact do have common sense because they can note the lack of common sense in others. This is often a false assumption.
Human spyware detection is a learned thing, not common sense. There is no part of common sense that distinguishes between the installation of program X vs. the installation of program Y. When my wife installs eXeem she has no idea that spyware is included. Neither did I until I scanned afterwards.
I remember a time when browser popups were beneign. The day the first popup activex exploit installed spyware on my machine was long after the day I started using Mozilla, and was the exact day that someone else used my computer. lack of common sense had nothing to do with it. Spyware will find its way into almost everyone's computer.
for crying out loud, why does a 5 MB MP3 take 60+ MB of memory to play?
because that's the size of the uncompressed waveform. You don't play the MP3, you play the waveform that is compressed inside the MP3. iTunes just decompresses the file all at once, and puts that into memory, instead of a bit at a time like some players.
you're exactly right, you don't need to squeeze every last bit of performance out of your hardware anymore, and as soon as there's a reasonable amount of spare CPU time, some new whiz-bang graphical do-nothing is put in to use it up.
I think if folks quit relying on the compilers of the world to optimize their code for them that things would suddenly get worse, then over time get a lot better.
bottom line is that efficient, quick code takes longer to develop and therefore costs more money. its not justifiable to people who do the books.
Microsoft is keeping close creative control over the script writing process.
since we all know that microsoft is well known for coming up with ideas on its own and implementing them on its own, this script will be highly original and will feature new actors in very creative and intriguing scenes and scenarios....
laugh, its funny.
$14.95/month, you know that.
the point of the pro-tivo arguements (which you've apparently purposefully ignored) is that the intial cost of a TiVo is MUCH lower in parts (and especially labor) than a mythtv solution. for someone with only $150, one hour, and the desire to own a PVR, the tivo or replaytv is the only way to go. If you have several hours (or several days, depending on skill) to set everything up, make your own IR reciever (WTF??!?!), tuck it all neatly behind your entertainment center, get it all working 100%, then yeah maybe MythTV is for you. If you don't have the time or desire to spend that kinda time for something I already have, like me, MythTV is a bad idea.
Perhaps this is a business opportunity for someone. Prebuild and sell MythTV solutions. Handle the remote control situation for them, and put it all in a black or silver (beige is for losers) case that looks nice alongside their stereo and sell them. One time fee, no recurring charges.
do I totally deny the possibility that I could own a mythtv setup in the future? hell no, i want one, I just don't have the time to set one up.
Do you totally deny the logic behind anyone ever owning a tivo for any reason whatsoever? yes, it seems so.
which one of us is being more reasonable?
windows HAS competing products. that's why MS management appears to be getting a little chafed by the idea that their minions use a competing product.
drop the wiseassery and RTFA next time.
it seems that every late model laptop has a trackpad these days. which sucks because i can't stand trackpads.
thinkpads (and probably most laptops) let you disable the trackpad, in favor of the mouse button, which i greatly prefer, personally.
so while finding one without a trackpad might be difficult, getting a laptop with a mouse "nipple" and disabling the trackpad is definitely possible.
yeah you can have your mythtv do all of that. for no monthly fee yes.
but the initial cost of your mythtv box is at least 10x what the initial cost of a tivo is. that's a large barrier of entry.
computer with dvd burner, large hard disk, tuner cards, video card with tv-out, costs a lot more than a tivo.
very tired of this 'mythtv is better than everything else in the whole wide world, and if you don't use it you are an idiot' business that is going on here.
Never heard of DirecTiVo?
... hmm. There aren't any.
Also I hear that FreeVo and MythTV are doing fairly well, even if the most vocal of their supporters seem to be elitists.. and they don't even have corporate backing at all, or native interfaces with cable or satelite!
Yeah you're right. TiVo is toast. I mean just look at all the other DVR companies that have gone down in flames because they're not integrated with cable. There's Replay.. no they're still around.. there's
its an SDK. since when does an SDK do anything useful other than show you how to do things with the SDK?
They're not features for everyone, they're examples. That's part of what SDKs do, give examples.
it must be exhausting to stay up on that high horse all the time...
i like my tivo. it cost less than a new pc and a new tuner card would cost, at least in the short term.
Everything Douglas Adams wrote, he rewrote differently later. Readers have come to expect a certain level of change from him... to not get that amount of change in HHGG's next incarnation would be a greater change, and blasphemy.
To not change HHGG per incarnation would be too great of a change.
I'm not kidding. I would be disappointed if the movie were exactly like the book. DA did not intend it to be exactly like the book.
any real DA fan would know this.
read the forward in the book. they were written in unison.
equal weight is the only way to get people to listen.
if people sense bias (this sense is dulled in some folks) they won't believe a word they hear.
people know when they're being lied to. they might not let on that they know, and they might vote for the liars, but they know when they're being lied to. they just choose to ignore the lies, and see things their way. if people choose to ignore evidence, they get what's coming to them.
the environmentalists of the world just have to take caution and present a believeable case with as little embellishment as possible. environmentalists should paint the true picture, not the doomsday picture. i'm an environmentalist (born on Earth day, no less) and we've been saying that the world is ending for a while now, but we're all still here.
i dunno... i'm filled with nyquil. i won't even remember this post in an hour. moderate to your hearts content.
it has been known for a while that the Venus Flytrap uses electrical signals to trigger the closure, but no one knew exactly how the mouth actually closed. No one knew what the mechanics of the mouth were. Now we know how the mouth closes, but not the exact method that initiates the closure.
It is now known (since this study) that the mouth is poised to close most of the time and just given that final miniscule nudge to flip shut when something touches two hairs inside. in the article they describe a soft contact lens; push on its center and it resists, until a point where the lens suddenly inverts. the point just before the inversion is where the Venus Flytrap spends most of its time. just a few small cells fill with water (this is the unknown bit, how that happens) and its enough to push the internal structure of the mouth over the edge, slamming shut.
Killing people is killing people. Doesn't matter if they're gay, Jewish, whatever. Any leader that kills people because of any reason other than war (and even war is iffy in some cases) is .. well there is no word for that kind of evil, that i know of.
saying stalin was better than hitler is like saying "Being killed by falling into a giant puddle of lava is better than being killed by falling into a giant puddle of molten lead." they're both very, very, very bad and probably very very painful, even if just for a moment.
killing people is wrong no matter how you look at it. kill one person out of hatred and you are no different than someone that has killed millions out of hatred.
It doesn't. You have to configure it to allow non-localhost connections.