Better yet, some states sell the actual images and personal data they put on driver's licenses. Buy up a copy of that database, lift out the data for every representative, senator, and celebrity, and send that in. (Imagine the RIAA getting data on every member of Metallica.)
Then find a sympathetic notary public who is willing to ruin his reputation by taking part in this scheme. What are the penalties for falsifying notarized documents again? Don't forget the conspiracy charge!
Maybe it's just the manufacturers that don't realize that this is an issue for the end user. Packaging and websites seem to leave out whether or not the full capacity of large drives is supported. Even the cited Kingwin enclosure's website is silent on the point.
Seems the only way to be sure is to get an enclosure that already contains a large drive, buy from a place that accepts returns, or trust the experiences of strangers. And I'm having to resort to the lattermost.
Re:What about Panther gains for the G4s?
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I'm getting a G5 for my home, but that's because I do heavy video editing and effects, which should benefit a LOT from the faster system.
And you're not concerned with the 50% reduction in internal drive bays as compared to the G4? I already have 650 GB shoehorned into my Blue & White G3 for video (upgraded to a G4 processor), and that's not counting the boot drive. The G5 only has two hard drive bays and one optical drive bay compared to the four and two in the G4.
Though I'd love to have digital audio I/O, for video editing more internal drive bays is winning out. And that I have a sizeable investment in non-serial ATA drives and the video data upon them.
Add to that that I still can't find any external Firewire drive enclosures with large (>137 GB, >128 GiB) drive support (existence so far is only rumored, not substantiated).
When you're wiring up your home so that you can have high-quality, practically uncompressed high definition video coming from a central video server such that every room can be watching a different stream simultaneously, while some may be actively editing data and rerendering, you're going to want the fastest, fattest pipe you can get.
And who knows what bandwidth-hungry LAN application you're going to want to do in the future. Have you any idea how long it takes to render a cup of tea, Earl Grey, hot in spacetime over a 100 Mbit/sec connection? I can tell you one thing: it's not going to be hot.
More bandwidth than you'll ever need is always better than not enough. Especially when you aren't leasing it from an outside party!
They actually go about trespassing in people's bean fields spraying plants with glysophate. They follow up a week or so later, and if the plants didn't die...
Ah yes, the ages old method commonly known as the Salem test.
"I spray your crop with glysophate. If it survives, it was an illegal crop and will be burned in the field. If it dies, a letter of apology will be written," though lacking any legal admission of responsibility.
I guess it's easier than testing the crop to see if it weighs the same as a duck. Or, say doing genetic testing of a sample in a lab, especially to determine whether the resistance was engineered or evolved.
As long as the hardware can still be programmed as if it were binary based, using other bases only as needed, then it might be worthwhile. But if you have to completely rethink how you program everything to handle other-base logic, it won't take off. We'd have to be eased into it.
People can also grow their own fruits and veggies, but look how many people actually do.
Read up on orange blight. Basically anyone with an orange tree too close to an orange grove gets their tree cut down in order to stave off a disease that gives oranges cankers. The only effect on the fruit apparently is that it makes it unattractive. Any tree within a defined radius of an infected tree can be cut down without notice or recourse.
I have two stalks of corn growing in my backyard. I have no idea of their genetic history; they came with the house. I hope I don't get sued by Monsanto.
These are just some disincentives against growing your own free food outside of a taxed farm. Be sure the food industry would like all private growing of food plants be made illegal.
What about poor Mars? What if something collided with Earth while it was this close to Mars? Couldn't it send fragments of Earth close to Mars? Has anyone considered that possibility?
If something were to hit Earth so hard as to cause bits of Earth to end up on Mars, I'd be more worried about Earth than Mars, Mars being at a higher potential in the Sun's gravity well than is Earth.
Bits of Earth landing on Venus is more likely. And still there's Earth's gravity well to escape from.
We focus energy to specific vectors on getting out of the gravity well. Think of the amount of unfocused energy it would take to have enough at the right vector to get out, and that's just instantaneous force, not continuous.
Poor Mars? Poor Earth, I'd say.
Back to the grandparent, consider that it takes time for matter to travel in space. If something were to happen on Mars to eject a large portion of its mass, the best chance for it to land on Earth is if it occurred ahead of Earth's orbit, allowing enough time for the ejecta to drift into our orbital path. As it is now, it would take over a year for such material to be a hazard to Earth, if at all.
Let's see now. Ogilvy states that "The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one..."
And since according to Professor Pierson, "[T]he chances against [living intelligence as we know it existing on Mars] are a thousand to one," so then the chances of living intelligences coming from Mars is a milliard to one (or a billion to one on this side of the pond).
Unless of course the probability for the first changed between 1898 and 1938, or both changed by 2003. Where are those new Intel processors when you need them?
With the time I wait for X11 to start up, I might as well be running my paid versions of Word 5.1 and Excel 98 under Classic.
Have you used the spreadsheet? Full-screen redraws for something that causes cells to recalculate. Actually, half-screen, then full-screen.
For those of us using third-party USB scrolling mice, scrollwheeling scrolls twice for every ratchet of the mouse, and the redraws are so slow you find it's buffered your impatient scrolling and you're pages from where you wanted to be.
Inserting/deleting rows occurs on the row with the selected cell, not on the row you right-clicked. And slow full-screen redraws as you do it, undo it, and do it again.
And each time I open it, the window gets taller. Eventually it gets so tall that the resize widget is off the screen. I just had to scale it down manually again yesterday as it was getting too close to the edge of the screen.
Did I mention the redraws are slow? Quartz Extreme must be amazing if that's tolerable with it enabled. My system is PCI-based, not AGP.
I also have no idea if 1.1 is going to fix these problems because they don't promote builds for 1.1 RC3 for Mac X11--the links from the download page for 1.1 RC3 for Mac go to the 1.0 page--and attempting to download what looks like it could have been the 1.1 build (only 79.4 MiB) failed to complete overnight (over DSL).
"Why would we ever include DVD playback in our videogame system?... If someone buys a DVD and watches it on the Nintendo GameCube, we wouldn't receive any revenue from that. We'd rather have them play our games."
How'd this guy become a marketing VP? If you sell a product with the intent that it become a continuous node of revenue for you, people will reject it. They can recognize a device that serves only the company's profit interest.
Successful products that have ongoing expenses give the user something more, something they can use without draining their pocketbooks. Entice with the free features and they're more likely to opt in for the pay features. You have to give something freely before you can take. Preferably something the end user values more but which costs you little or nothing to give. Lock the user into your profit model and he will resist.
You can catch more flies with honey and a vacuum cleaner than you can with just a vacuum cleaner.
Only the most blind advocate would suspect that somebody wrote new code in a black box and then stole comments that coincidentally happened to match correctly.
Why not that they stole the comments and then wrote new code around them that did what the comments described? It's not unreasonable to think that someone thought that, since comments aren't code, they could reimplement the code while maintaining the comments and not be infringing.
Of course this would from the mindset of the closed-source programmer who wouldn't notice that the comments would become public and that the comments are protected by copyright as well. If your source is closed, your sins are concealed from scrutiny. If your source is open, you're publishing stolen comments. But that doesn't mean the code around those comments is stolen.
Face it. There is stolen code in Linux.
Or there's stolen code from Linux in SCO's code. We have documentation when the code entered Linux and from whom, right? Do we have the same accountability for how SCO came into possession of the same code?
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...DVD Studio Pro 2 also starts shipping today. Requirements include a 733 MHz or faster PowerPC processor (G4 minimum) and AGP graphics card, just shy of Shake 3's minumum 800 MHz G4.
Question is, if you're editing video, do you want a G4 or a G5, when the former has twice as many internal drive bays than the latter? Or is someone putting out Firewire enclosures that can fully utilize >128 GiB drives?
The people who spell it "an historic" aren't pronouncing the "h". I say it and spell it the way you do, but AFAIK they're both valid pronounciations.
That's fine if you're quoting someone who doesn't pronounce the "h", but according to dictonaries such as this one, pronouncing it without the "h" is not recognized as valid.
They're only doing it to protect themselves from the upcoming attack. They fully realize that future worm writers won't be able to figure out another server to attack.
And holding up Akamai's Linux servers as a proverbial human shield for their own?
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Great, just do that to the whole Earth and it will be just as clean as is Mars today!
God-like associations, man do I hate god-like associations. I'll trade a congresscritter for a god-like association any day.
Better yet, some states sell the actual images and personal data they put on driver's licenses. Buy up a copy of that database, lift out the data for every representative, senator, and celebrity, and send that in. (Imagine the RIAA getting data on every member of Metallica.)
Then find a sympathetic notary public who is willing to ruin his reputation by taking part in this scheme. What are the penalties for falsifying notarized documents again? Don't forget the conspiracy charge!
Maybe it's just the manufacturers that don't realize that this is an issue for the end user. Packaging and websites seem to leave out whether or not the full capacity of large drives is supported. Even the cited Kingwin enclosure's website is silent on the point.
Seems the only way to be sure is to get an enclosure that already contains a large drive, buy from a place that accepts returns, or trust the experiences of strangers. And I'm having to resort to the lattermost.
I'm getting a G5 for my home, but that's because I do heavy video editing and effects, which should benefit a LOT from the faster system.
And you're not concerned with the 50% reduction in internal drive bays as compared to the G4? I already have 650 GB shoehorned into my Blue & White G3 for video (upgraded to a G4 processor), and that's not counting the boot drive. The G5 only has two hard drive bays and one optical drive bay compared to the four and two in the G4.
The G4 has twice as many internal storage bays.
Though I'd love to have digital audio I/O, for video editing more internal drive bays is winning out. And that I have a sizeable investment in non-serial ATA drives and the video data upon them.
Add to that that I still can't find any external Firewire drive enclosures with large (>137 GB, >128 GiB) drive support (existence so far is only rumored, not substantiated).
When you're wiring up your home so that you can have high-quality, practically uncompressed high definition video coming from a central video server such that every room can be watching a different stream simultaneously, while some may be actively editing data and rerendering, you're going to want the fastest, fattest pipe you can get.
And who knows what bandwidth-hungry LAN application you're going to want to do in the future. Have you any idea how long it takes to render a cup of tea, Earl Grey, hot in spacetime over a 100 Mbit/sec connection? I can tell you one thing: it's not going to be hot.
More bandwidth than you'll ever need is always better than not enough. Especially when you aren't leasing it from an outside party!
They actually go about trespassing in people's bean fields spraying plants with glysophate. They follow up a week or so later, and if the plants didn't die...
Ah yes, the ages old method commonly known as the Salem test.
"I spray your crop with glysophate. If it survives, it was an illegal crop and will be burned in the field. If it dies, a letter of apology will be written," though lacking any legal admission of responsibility.
I guess it's easier than testing the crop to see if it weighs the same as a duck. Or, say doing genetic testing of a sample in a lab, especially to determine whether the resistance was engineered or evolved.
As long as the hardware can still be programmed as if it were binary based, using other bases only as needed, then it might be worthwhile. But if you have to completely rethink how you program everything to handle other-base logic, it won't take off. We'd have to be eased into it.
Oh yes, a LAN tax, because Florida retirees love their LAN parties.
"Excuse me, ma'am, I'm here to read your LAN meter?"
People can also grow their own fruits and veggies, but look how many people actually do.
Read up on orange blight. Basically anyone with an orange tree too close to an orange grove gets their tree cut down in order to stave off a disease that gives oranges cankers. The only effect on the fruit apparently is that it makes it unattractive. Any tree within a defined radius of an infected tree can be cut down without notice or recourse.
I have two stalks of corn growing in my backyard. I have no idea of their genetic history; they came with the house. I hope I don't get sued by Monsanto.
These are just some disincentives against growing your own free food outside of a taxed farm. Be sure the food industry would like all private growing of food plants be made illegal.
...through the corporate property law backdoor, and everyone in the US (and soon the world, assuredly) is an implied signatory.
What about poor Mars? What if something collided with Earth while it was this close to Mars? Couldn't it send fragments of Earth close to Mars? Has anyone considered that possibility?
If something were to hit Earth so hard as to cause bits of Earth to end up on Mars, I'd be more worried about Earth than Mars, Mars being at a higher potential in the Sun's gravity well than is Earth.
Bits of Earth landing on Venus is more likely. And still there's Earth's gravity well to escape from.
We focus energy to specific vectors on getting out of the gravity well. Think of the amount of unfocused energy it would take to have enough at the right vector to get out, and that's just instantaneous force, not continuous.
Poor Mars? Poor Earth, I'd say.
Back to the grandparent, consider that it takes time for matter to travel in space. If something were to happen on Mars to eject a large portion of its mass, the best chance for it to land on Earth is if it occurred ahead of Earth's orbit, allowing enough time for the ejecta to drift into our orbital path. As it is now, it would take over a year for such material to be a hazard to Earth, if at all.
Let's see now. Ogilvy states that "The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one..."
And since according to Professor Pierson, "[T]he chances against [living intelligence as we know it existing on Mars] are a thousand to one," so then the chances of living intelligences coming from Mars is a milliard to one (or a billion to one on this side of the pond).
Unless of course the probability for the first changed between 1898 and 1938, or both changed by 2003. Where are those new Intel processors when you need them?
...a processor that can has the probabilty necessary to support a DWIM (Do What I Mean) instruction!
So what's wrong with the X11 version?
With the time I wait for X11 to start up, I might as well be running my paid versions of Word 5.1 and Excel 98 under Classic.
Have you used the spreadsheet? Full-screen redraws for something that causes cells to recalculate. Actually, half-screen, then full-screen.
For those of us using third-party USB scrolling mice, scrollwheeling scrolls twice for every ratchet of the mouse, and the redraws are so slow you find it's buffered your impatient scrolling and you're pages from where you wanted to be.
Inserting/deleting rows occurs on the row with the selected cell, not on the row you right-clicked. And slow full-screen redraws as you do it, undo it, and do it again.
And each time I open it, the window gets taller. Eventually it gets so tall that the resize widget is off the screen. I just had to scale it down manually again yesterday as it was getting too close to the edge of the screen.
Did I mention the redraws are slow? Quartz Extreme must be amazing if that's tolerable with it enabled. My system is PCI-based, not AGP.
I also have no idea if 1.1 is going to fix these problems because they don't promote builds for 1.1 RC3 for Mac X11--the links from the download page for 1.1 RC3 for Mac go to the 1.0 page--and attempting to download what looks like it could have been the 1.1 build (only 79.4 MiB) failed to complete overnight (over DSL).
"Why would we ever include DVD playback in our videogame system?... If someone buys a DVD and watches it on the Nintendo GameCube, we wouldn't receive any revenue from that. We'd rather have them play our games."
How'd this guy become a marketing VP? If you sell a product with the intent that it become a continuous node of revenue for you, people will reject it. They can recognize a device that serves only the company's profit interest.
Successful products that have ongoing expenses give the user something more, something they can use without draining their pocketbooks. Entice with the free features and they're more likely to opt in for the pay features. You have to give something freely before you can take. Preferably something the end user values more but which costs you little or nothing to give. Lock the user into your profit model and he will resist.
You can catch more flies with honey and a vacuum cleaner than you can with just a vacuum cleaner.
1) When it infects machines, 99% of the time it is unable to download the patch. This makes it pointless.
No, I don't know why, I guess its because windows update URL has changed?
Imagine if it hadn't. Then the DDoS would have become a DDfS (Distributed Demand for Service), with the same result as was intended by the first.
Yup, the Information Superhighway to Hell is laid with good intentions.
Only the most blind advocate would suspect that somebody wrote new code in a black box and then stole comments that coincidentally happened to match correctly.
Why not that they stole the comments and then wrote new code around them that did what the comments described? It's not unreasonable to think that someone thought that, since comments aren't code, they could reimplement the code while maintaining the comments and not be infringing.
Of course this would from the mindset of the closed-source programmer who wouldn't notice that the comments would become public and that the comments are protected by copyright as well. If your source is closed, your sins are concealed from scrutiny. If your source is open, you're publishing stolen comments. But that doesn't mean the code around those comments is stolen.
Face it. There is stolen code in Linux.
Or there's stolen code from Linux in SCO's code. We have documentation when the code entered Linux and from whom, right? Do we have the same accountability for how SCO came into possession of the same code?
Remember Megadodo Publications v. StarBix Cereal?
Yes, it's still a worm and could cause traffic or computer problems, but it's nice to see one with good intentions.
Yes, good to know that the construction of the Information Superhighway to Hell is proceeding apace.
What two things go better together than Star Wars and sex?
"I put on my robe and wizard hat"?
...DVD Studio Pro 2 also starts shipping today. Requirements include a 733 MHz or faster PowerPC processor (G4 minimum) and AGP graphics card, just shy of Shake 3's minumum 800 MHz G4.
Question is, if you're editing video, do you want a G4 or a G5, when the former has twice as many internal drive bays than the latter? Or is someone putting out Firewire enclosures that can fully utilize >128 GiB drives?
The people who spell it "an historic" aren't pronouncing the "h". I say it and spell it the way you do, but AFAIK they're both valid pronounciations.
That's fine if you're quoting someone who doesn't pronounce the "h", but according to dictonaries such as this one, pronouncing it without the "h" is not recognized as valid.
Okay then, Akamai's Linux servers acting as paid bodyguards rather than human shields. Still doesn't say much for the robustness of Microsoft's ware.
They're only doing it to protect themselves from the upcoming attack. They fully realize that future worm writers won't be able to figure out another server to attack.
And holding up Akamai's Linux servers as a proverbial human shield for their own?