What about them? They have no money. Why go after the ones with no money when that's the game you're playing?
Seems to me, Netscape was the first to introduce the plugin technology (albeit about 6 months after the patent in question was filed). But Netscape is now defunct, and AOL Time Warner is losing money hand over fist.
That said, the others, and any W3C standards will have to change to reflect it since maintaining 2 different code streams is bad enough with JavaScript and DOM. BUT they can probably take the opportunity to hold a greater market share by supporting BOTH methods. That way, anybody that doesn't switch right away will still be viewable by someone.
Whether MS wins the appeals or not, this change *should* be a great opportunity for competing browsers to gain some ground and some momentum.
I'd say that without knowing more about how the electronic ink paper actually works, reponse times and so on, it's still too early to tell what the minimum acceptable refresh rate to achieve a stable image is. Or how palatable the actual reconfiguration will be to the human eye. Might not look like flicker at all! (Might look horrible, who knows).
From the ARTICLE:
Switching between dark and bright states takes only about ten milliseconds - fast enough to produce sharp video images.
So, if it takes 10 milliseconds, although I doubt it could do this switch 1000 times/second, I think it would be safe to assum 80 Hz would be incredibly easy for it.
Here is the motherboard that HotHarware used. Note that it has 4 DIMM sockets supporting up to 8GB RAM. It's only a matter of time before RAM manufacturers (perhaps with DDR2) allow for more than 2GB per stick. Before there wasn't much point when no system could handle more than 4GB, but now....the sky's the limit (where sky:= 1 TB)
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The 64-bit app is a lot bigger and slower, since all the pointers doubled in size, so less code fits in cache, and I'm using more memory bandwidth.
Of course, in a situation where you might want more than 4 GB of RAM (not me, but a good number of people), the 1 TERABYTE of RAM cap on the 64-bit machine sounds pretty enticing. I'm not really sure how allowing more RAM, and upping the on-chip cache, moving the DDR RAM controller to the cpu die, and optimizing the instruction set will cause things to move slower, even if you have a higher storage/instruction requirement.
Space is cheap. Time is not. Space gets cheaper and cheaper. Time is worth more and more every day.
I only wonder why they had to do this today...I look silly drooling on my keyboard at work.
SO wait, if you are out to prove yourself really good at somethign, out to impress your friends (which is the only reason I can think of for these immature morons to create virii), are you going to attack the easiest target? Not likely. It's not impressive...actually it's rather sad. More likely you'll attack what will get you the most press..and well, windows is that target. Nothing else really affects enough people for the mass media to give a damn.
No, it'd be nice if they said "What's that?" Then you could tell them all about how great it is and convince them to give it a try...an honest try....which means serious use for 2+ weeks. If they still don't get it, they'll go back to windows, no cost = no loss. If they get it and like it, they'll stick with it -- one more convert.
Unfortunately, more likely is they'll call you a geek and walk away. Oh well, poor ignorant fools.
Both OS's can hold up the 'come to us, we've had our shots, we'll never get worms' flags
Never is a very long time.
Apart from the fact that I'm very pissed off at the people that think they're kewl just cuz they can wreak havoc on the computing world when all they're doing is causing headaches for other techies, this is a rather impressively laid-out virus.
What I'd like to see, rather than other OSes taking advantage of the misfortunes of M$, is everyone in the IT/techie/world community band together and put an end to this childish screwing around with other people's computers. Not only is it counter-productive, but it's incredibly rude and should, under no circumstances be encouraged.
I'd like to be the first to say to these immatures S.O.B.'s: Piss off! You're not welcome in my world! You give the rest of us a bad name, and you waste our valuable time.
If you want to "help" by pointing out flaws in software, join the team...help out...be an asset rather than a liability. And for God's sake, GROW UP!
Of course, it can -- and does happen that bank machines forget to reduce the balance of your bank account after you withdraw money. Ever look at your receipt? (btw, DON'T DO THIS! IT IS A CRIME TO KNOWINGLY DEFRAUD THE BANK MACHINE! If you see the problem, do not keep taking money out...go to the nearest bank and tell them so some other greedy bastard doesn't do it)
Hopefully the switch to windows doesn't result in more of these and similar errors. Either way, this looks like the beginning of the end for OS/2.
Can you please elaborate on how sliced bread helped the literary world?
Didn't hurt. But more than that, it meant authors didn't have to slice their bread themselves...putting in great jeopardy those precious fingers with which they write.
Or, perhaps, you could explain again how sheep's bladders can be employed to prevent earthquakes...
This one's tougher. But you see, there are a lot of sheep in New Zealand and, well, not a lot of earthquakes there. It would follow that sheep's bladders prevent earthquakes. My guess would be that the urine absorbs something from the bladder which, when applied to the soil, stabilizes the land, preventing earthquakes.
What you see on the TV isn't *really* what americans like.
Unfortunately you're wrong: TV execs don't give a shit what americans like. They put on what will make them most profitable. Since it's the only thing on, they'll be able to market it well enough to make people watch it.
It also occurs to me that some of the more idiotic things on american tv (certain game shows, reailty tv, etc...) actually originated in Europe in one way or another.
I've enjoyed the hell out of british shows like, sharp's rifles, mr bean/black adder/thin blue line, danger uxb, all creatures great and small, yes minister.
...and Fawlty Towers...that's a classic. And coming away from TV, we have the late Douglas Adams, possibly the best thing to happen to the literary world since...sliced bread.
I'd also like to mention that Eric Idle was just in London, Ontario about a week ago doing his Greedy Bastard series (possibly as part of the comedy festival they had, but that might have been over by then), and they interviewed him on the radio...was quite an interesting interview.
Maybe in canada. In the US it is not a LAW that the ratings be enforced for video games or movies.
To be honest, I don't know what the laws are here about that -- but the ratings are certainly enforced in movie theatres.
I see no problem selling them to minors. Seems kinda silly to me personally.
The problem with children is that they are (most of them), inherently highly impressionable. Gambling, alcohol, etc... are highly influential, to the point of being addictive, even in adults. That's not to say that, used correctly, these things can make life a lot more interesting and not be dangerous at all. Some people just can't handle them. Does that mean that they should be taken off the market? A resounding NO! Does that mean that parents need to beat some sensibility into these people? Probably not, in our politically correct society. Does this mean that people who cannot handle these things should stay away from them? YES!
Children, however, as well as being highly impressionable making them even more susceptible to the effects of these activities, are also very curious...which is a good thing...except that it tends to make them want things they should not have. It is the job of the parents to make sure their children do not get ahold of something they cannot handle (not to say that some kids can't safely partake in the above activities with no problems at all -- but many cannot).
I agree that the movies, games, etc... are not responsible for what these kids do (in fact, that was my point in my first post in the thread). The reason they are not responsible is that most people are expected to have common sense and realize the consequences of their actions. Some people, unfortunately, either have no common sense, or simply don't give a shit...and these are the people who cannot handle these things and should either not be allowed to watch them, or should be made to realize that actions have consequences -- which falls back on the parents of course. However, if a 12 y/o kid walks into a video store and rents a particularly violent game...and this kid is an idiot, he/she can blame whatever he/she does on the game...perhaps the clerk should have enforced the rating on the game (which is there for a reason -- and kids don't often go home and ask their parents before they play a game). They may not be legally responsible, but everybody is somewhat socially responsible for children (in one way or another). Do you walk into daycare centers and start swearing a blue streak? I hope not.
Now, all that said, if a 30 y/o man did what these kids did and blamed it on a video game, I'm not sure what the consequences would be -- he would either be put in a looney bin, or he would be sentenced to life in prison (or the death sentence in those places in the world). I'd like to think that the court system would realize that this guy is an idiot, and that the game had nothing to do with it -- this is the same thing I'd like to see with these kids, though that is unlikely to happen.
The difference b/w the 30 y/o man and the kids is that kids, and the reason there is an age limit on certain things is, statistically, children are more likely to fall victim to the influential content of alcohol, gambling, movies, and games. This is not to say that most kids cannot handle it, but, of course, in a world where auto insurance for men is double that of women, regardless of driving record, simply due to the statistic that men typically drive more, that hardly seems to matter.
Um, what responsibility does walmart have to raise someone elses children?
What responsibility does anyone have to not sell a gun to a minor (or person w/o a license)? What responsibility does the clerk at the LCBO (in Ontario, naturally) have to reject sales to persons under 19? What responsibility does the corner store clerk have to not sell lottery tickets to people under 18 (perhaps the most appropriate example here). The fact is there are regulations in place. The ratings on the game box are put there by an authoritative organization, and the law has stated that it should not be sold to minors.
When I went to see Jackass: The Movie, I was carded twice because the film regulation board was there keeping an eye on things. The fact is, these organizations exist, and they exist for a reason. That is why I called the person who sold the game to a minor negligent -- I am still putting the parents at fault.
where did they get the money to buy it in the first place?
It is perfectly normal (and in many cases expected) that a 16 y/o person has a certain amount of money saved for education or future living expenses. A lot of kids these days get summer jobs, etc. I think that answers your question in a perfectly legitimate way.
In even more related news: Parents sue CNN when their kids shoot 2 men. The parents claim that their kids were just imitating what the saw during the war coverage in Iraq.
CNN reportedly responded that they are suing George Bush for starting the war, and the U.S. government in general for allowing them to give such up-close and personal coverage.
George Bush, in his defense, claimed that he was suing Saddam's parents for giving birth to such a powerful dictator and forcing him to go to war in the first place. He is looking into the possibility of suing all of the past presidents (including his father) for going to war and, like something out of Canadian Bacon, inspiring him to do the same.
WHY THE HELL DID THE KIDS HAVE THE GUNS IN THE FIRST PLACE?
Okay, say what you will about bad video games, and negligent parents who bought the video games, or negligent walmart clerks that sold the game to the kids (about which I am in full agreement), but this wouldn't/couldn't have happened if the kids hadn't had guns.
The reality is that kids in the U.S. can get ahold of guns pretty easily, but nobody would go suing the gun manufacturer because their kid shot someone (or maybe I'm wrong here -- they certainly wouldn't win). Guns aren't even rated M for Mature (though they are controlled by laws).
It just puzzles me that people are so worried about the video games warping people's minds when maybe they should be worrying about a bigger issue -- irresponsible children with guns.
To me, giving either a Mature game, or a gun, or even a license or whatever to a child who is not old/mature enough to handle it properly are equally dangerous, but everybody decides to pick one and try to get it off the market. Conversely, a responsible human being can safely operate a car, gun, or video game, and have a helluva lot of fun doing it. Why should the responsible ones suffer because some idiot let their kid screw around with something they weren't ready for?
If some negligent parents let their 10 y/o kid drive, and that kid killed someone, who is at fault? The car manufacturer? I think not! Okay, you don't need a license to play a video game, but the rating on it (just like a R-rated movie) should be just as effective. In most places you also need a license to handle a gun.
I've reiterated my point several times because it just bothers me when people misplace blame -- which in this case should go first to the kids, second to the parents, and third to the store who sold the game to the kids (unless the parents bought it, in which case the parents take another hit on the blame). NEVER, under (at least) these circumstances should the game maker or sony be at fault.
That said, maybe Sony could have done something about it -- put a v-chip-like device on the console, thereby rendering it unusable for Mature games w/o parental consent (though I imagine those are less effective than they claim).
I'm just impressed as hell there's some *real* technology R&D going on which has nothing to do with military/defence/ridding the world of the terrorist threat, which is all I hear about coming out of the U.S. oh wait -- "Magink, which has research operations in England and Israel..."..but at least they mentioned a couple of U.S. companies involved in a similar technology.
They've got some lighting issues to work out, but this technology opens the door to a *lot* of applications and could start a major domino effect in the IT industry which will have nothing to do with advertising. To quote one of my profs: "This is like, so cool."
I just can't wait 'til next year when we see some of this stuff on the market...and then I can't wait 'til it's affordable.
Given that, why doesn't MSIE, Mozilla, etc... just move their world-wide headquarters to...say...Canada... Since they're not selling their browser, who's to stop it being distributed to the US?
hmm....This patent was issued in late '94, and Netscape (who beat Microsoft to plugins) released their first browser to contain plugins (v2.0) in mid '95. Microsoft was somewhat later. Given the length of time it likely took to perfect the plugin process, I wonder who stole from whom?:-) (Just playing Devil's Advocate here). I know, it only matters who gets in the door at the PTO first.
Also, if this is specific to web browsers, it could be argued that Mozilla is more than a web browser...it's a general purpose file viewer/email reader/editor (which it is). The same could be said about MSIE...it is a general purpose file viewer.
While the timing evidence looks bad, I don't think this lawsuit will succeed...especially agains M$ lawyers.
I watched the miniseries on Space when they showed it about a month ago (I was studying for exams:-))
It was pretty good, much less boring the the original Dune movie with Patrick Stewart imho, but still not the most exciting bit of movies. Somehow this story doesn't transform into television/movie very well...it's too slow-paced...too long to watch, but excellent to read.
What about the Dune series? I've just started reading it, but from what I see and what I've heard there is a HUGE focus on character development, and very little on the technology. It's pretty old, but good sci-fi.
even a consumer automobile can withstand a direct hit from a bolt of lightning
Okay, the frame can, but how do the electronics hold up? There are a lot of vehicles these days that are rendered completely useless w/o their electronics.
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Seems to me, Netscape was the first to introduce the plugin technology (albeit about 6 months after the patent in question was filed). But Netscape is now defunct, and AOL Time Warner is losing money hand over fist.
That said, the others, and any W3C standards will have to change to reflect it since maintaining 2 different code streams is bad enough with JavaScript and DOM. BUT they can probably take the opportunity to hold a greater market share by supporting BOTH methods. That way, anybody that doesn't switch right away will still be viewable by someone.
Whether MS wins the appeals or not, this change *should* be a great opportunity for competing browsers to gain some ground and some momentum.
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From the ARTICLE: Switching between dark and bright states takes only about ten milliseconds - fast enough to produce sharp video images.
So, if it takes 10 milliseconds, although I doubt it could do this switch 1000 times/second, I think it would be safe to assum 80 Hz would be incredibly easy for it.
Now if only microsoft would pick up on the idea...
Here is the motherboard that HotHarware used. Note that it has 4 DIMM sockets supporting up to 8GB RAM. It's only a matter of time before RAM manufacturers (perhaps with DDR2) allow for more than 2GB per stick. Before there wasn't much point when no system could handle more than 4GB, but now....the sky's the limit (where sky := 1 TB)
Of course, in a situation where you might want more than 4 GB of RAM (not me, but a good number of people), the 1 TERABYTE of RAM cap on the 64-bit machine sounds pretty enticing. I'm not really sure how allowing more RAM, and upping the on-chip cache, moving the DDR RAM controller to the cpu die, and optimizing the instruction set will cause things to move slower, even if you have a higher storage/instruction requirement.
Space is cheap. Time is not. Space gets cheaper and cheaper. Time is worth more and more every day.
I only wonder why they had to do this today...I look silly drooling on my keyboard at work.
SO wait, if you are out to prove yourself really good at somethign, out to impress your friends (which is the only reason I can think of for these immature morons to create virii), are you going to attack the easiest target? Not likely. It's not impressive...actually it's rather sad. More likely you'll attack what will get you the most press..and well, windows is that target. Nothing else really affects enough people for the mass media to give a damn.
Unfortunately, more likely is they'll call you a geek and walk away. Oh well, poor ignorant fools.
Never is a very long time.
Apart from the fact that I'm very pissed off at the people that think they're kewl just cuz they can wreak havoc on the computing world when all they're doing is causing headaches for other techies, this is a rather impressively laid-out virus.
What I'd like to see, rather than other OSes taking advantage of the misfortunes of M$, is everyone in the IT/techie/world community band together and put an end to this childish screwing around with other people's computers. Not only is it counter-productive, but it's incredibly rude and should, under no circumstances be encouraged.
I'd like to be the first to say to these immatures S.O.B.'s: Piss off! You're not welcome in my world! You give the rest of us a bad name, and you waste our valuable time.
If you want to "help" by pointing out flaws in software, join the team...help out...be an asset rather than a liability. And for God's sake, GROW UP!
Hopefully the switch to windows doesn't result in more of these and similar errors. Either way, this looks like the beginning of the end for OS/2.
Can you please elaborate on how sliced bread helped the literary world?
Didn't hurt. But more than that, it meant authors didn't have to slice their bread themselves...putting in great jeopardy those precious fingers with which they write.
Or, perhaps, you could explain again how sheep's bladders can be employed to prevent earthquakes...
This one's tougher. But you see, there are a lot of sheep in New Zealand and, well, not a lot of earthquakes there. It would follow that sheep's bladders prevent earthquakes. My guess would be that the urine absorbs something from the bladder which, when applied to the soil, stabilizes the land, preventing earthquakes.
Unfortunately you're wrong: TV execs don't give a shit what americans like. They put on what will make them most profitable. Since it's the only thing on, they'll be able to market it well enough to make people watch it.
It also occurs to me that some of the more idiotic things on american tv (certain game shows, reailty tv, etc...) actually originated in Europe in one way or another.
I've enjoyed the hell out of british shows like, sharp's rifles, mr bean/black adder/thin blue line, danger uxb, all creatures great and small, yes minister.
I'd also like to mention that Eric Idle was just in London, Ontario about a week ago doing his Greedy Bastard series (possibly as part of the comedy festival they had, but that might have been over by then), and they interviewed him on the radio...was quite an interesting interview.
To be honest, I don't know what the laws are here about that -- but the ratings are certainly enforced in movie theatres.
I see no problem selling them to minors. Seems kinda silly to me personally.
The problem with children is that they are (most of them), inherently highly impressionable. Gambling, alcohol, etc... are highly influential, to the point of being addictive, even in adults. That's not to say that, used correctly, these things can make life a lot more interesting and not be dangerous at all. Some people just can't handle them. Does that mean that they should be taken off the market? A resounding NO! Does that mean that parents need to beat some sensibility into these people? Probably not, in our politically correct society. Does this mean that people who cannot handle these things should stay away from them? YES!
Children, however, as well as being highly impressionable making them even more susceptible to the effects of these activities, are also very curious...which is a good thing...except that it tends to make them want things they should not have. It is the job of the parents to make sure their children do not get ahold of something they cannot handle (not to say that some kids can't safely partake in the above activities with no problems at all -- but many cannot).
I agree that the movies, games, etc... are not responsible for what these kids do (in fact, that was my point in my first post in the thread). The reason they are not responsible is that most people are expected to have common sense and realize the consequences of their actions. Some people, unfortunately, either have no common sense, or simply don't give a shit...and these are the people who cannot handle these things and should either not be allowed to watch them, or should be made to realize that actions have consequences -- which falls back on the parents of course. However, if a 12 y/o kid walks into a video store and rents a particularly violent game...and this kid is an idiot, he/she can blame whatever he/she does on the game...perhaps the clerk should have enforced the rating on the game (which is there for a reason -- and kids don't often go home and ask their parents before they play a game). They may not be legally responsible, but everybody is somewhat socially responsible for children (in one way or another). Do you walk into daycare centers and start swearing a blue streak? I hope not.
Now, all that said, if a 30 y/o man did what these kids did and blamed it on a video game, I'm not sure what the consequences would be -- he would either be put in a looney bin, or he would be sentenced to life in prison (or the death sentence in those places in the world). I'd like to think that the court system would realize that this guy is an idiot, and that the game had nothing to do with it -- this is the same thing I'd like to see with these kids, though that is unlikely to happen.
The difference b/w the 30 y/o man and the kids is that kids, and the reason there is an age limit on certain things is, statistically, children are more likely to fall victim to the influential content of alcohol, gambling, movies, and games. This is not to say that most kids cannot handle it, but, of course, in a world where auto insurance for men is double that of women, regardless of driving record, simply due to the statistic that men typically drive more, that hardly seems to matter.
What responsibility does anyone have to not sell a gun to a minor (or person w/o a license)? What responsibility does the clerk at the LCBO (in Ontario, naturally) have to reject sales to persons under 19? What responsibility does the corner store clerk have to not sell lottery tickets to people under 18 (perhaps the most appropriate example here). The fact is there are regulations in place. The ratings on the game box are put there by an authoritative organization, and the law has stated that it should not be sold to minors.
When I went to see Jackass: The Movie, I was carded twice because the film regulation board was there keeping an eye on things. The fact is, these organizations exist, and they exist for a reason. That is why I called the person who sold the game to a minor negligent -- I am still putting the parents at fault.
where did they get the money to buy it in the first place?
It is perfectly normal (and in many cases expected) that a 16 y/o person has a certain amount of money saved for education or future living expenses. A lot of kids these days get summer jobs, etc. I think that answers your question in a perfectly legitimate way.
CNN reportedly responded that they are suing George Bush for starting the war, and the U.S. government in general for allowing them to give such up-close and personal coverage.
George Bush, in his defense, claimed that he was suing Saddam's parents for giving birth to such a powerful dictator and forcing him to go to war in the first place. He is looking into the possibility of suing all of the past presidents (including his father) for going to war and, like something out of Canadian Bacon, inspiring him to do the same.
Okay, say what you will about bad video games, and negligent parents who bought the video games, or negligent walmart clerks that sold the game to the kids (about which I am in full agreement), but this wouldn't/couldn't have happened if the kids hadn't had guns.
The reality is that kids in the U.S. can get ahold of guns pretty easily, but nobody would go suing the gun manufacturer because their kid shot someone (or maybe I'm wrong here -- they certainly wouldn't win). Guns aren't even rated M for Mature (though they are controlled by laws).
It just puzzles me that people are so worried about the video games warping people's minds when maybe they should be worrying about a bigger issue -- irresponsible children with guns.
To me, giving either a Mature game, or a gun, or even a license or whatever to a child who is not old/mature enough to handle it properly are equally dangerous, but everybody decides to pick one and try to get it off the market. Conversely, a responsible human being can safely operate a car, gun, or video game, and have a helluva lot of fun doing it. Why should the responsible ones suffer because some idiot let their kid screw around with something they weren't ready for?
If some negligent parents let their 10 y/o kid drive, and that kid killed someone, who is at fault? The car manufacturer? I think not! Okay, you don't need a license to play a video game, but the rating on it (just like a R-rated movie) should be just as effective. In most places you also need a license to handle a gun.
I've reiterated my point several times because it just bothers me when people misplace blame -- which in this case should go first to the kids, second to the parents, and third to the store who sold the game to the kids (unless the parents bought it, in which case the parents take another hit on the blame). NEVER, under (at least) these circumstances should the game maker or sony be at fault.
That said, maybe Sony could have done something about it -- put a v-chip-like device on the console, thereby rendering it unusable for Mature games w/o parental consent (though I imagine those are less effective than they claim).
They've got some lighting issues to work out, but this technology opens the door to a *lot* of applications and could start a major domino effect in the IT industry which will have nothing to do with advertising. To quote one of my profs: "This is like, so cool."
I just can't wait 'til next year when we see some of this stuff on the market...and then I can't wait 'til it's affordable.
Given that, why doesn't MSIE, Mozilla, etc... just move their world-wide headquarters to...say...Canada... Since they're not selling their browser, who's to stop it being distributed to the US?
Sorry, NS2 was released in May '96. My fault for not doing better research. This looks very bad indeed. Oh well.
Also, if this is specific to web browsers, it could be argued that Mozilla is more than a web browser...it's a general purpose file viewer/email reader/editor (which it is). The same could be said about MSIE...it is a general purpose file viewer.
While the timing evidence looks bad, I don't think this lawsuit will succeed...especially agains M$ lawyers.
That way you can kill germs and change your tv channel all while playing Half-Life. Brilliant!
Perhaps when you can find mp3s to download from the kazaa website, then, and only then, you are truly savvy.
It was pretty good, much less boring the the original Dune movie with Patrick Stewart imho, but still not the most exciting bit of movies. Somehow this story doesn't transform into television/movie very well...it's too slow-paced...too long to watch, but excellent to read.
What about the Dune series? I've just started reading it, but from what I see and what I've heard there is a HUGE focus on character development, and very little on the technology. It's pretty old, but good sci-fi.
Okay, the frame can, but how do the electronics hold up? There are a lot of vehicles these days that are rendered completely useless w/o their electronics.