Obviously, you are unaware (as was I) of the recall field notice for all Cisco 7401ASR's with a model number less that '-10'. They screwed up the L3 cache logic which causes memory corruption (and thus random reboots and even complete hardware lockups.) So much for QA and customer support -- we wen't notified of the notice for over three months.
Oh, and I've seen an ethernet module in a cat5000 suddenly start turning every packet into a broadcast packet. Oh, that was a day in hell.
But, on the whole, the hardware is impressive and stable. The software provided is a very different story.
Wouldn't "lending the original CD-ROM" be covered by the "first sale doctrine"?
No. You are not tranfering ownership of the disc. You are handing the disc to someone with the expectation that they are going to return it at some (near term) later date.
See, you may own the actual physical metal and plastic disc, but you do not own the data it contains. The industry believes you don't own anything at all. They've leased the disc and contents to you and they have the right to terminate that lease at will.
If I want to resell, lend, use for target practice...
What you do for your own exclusive use is your business only. Just as my right to swing my fist stops where your nose begins, your right to do as you please with that disc ends where someone else gets involved.
used records stores and libraries
... are very specific exceptions. It's perfectly legal to transfer ownership. So, the store itself is perfectly legal -- however the person selling their CDs are very likely to be violating copyright by still holding duplicates. Libraries and rental stores are explicit exceptions. Libraries don't make a profit lending things nor are they likely to have new, "exclusive" content -- in fact, a lot of libraries don't have anything until someone donates it. Rental stores have explicit permission to run their business -- and they pay a premium for "first available" content (5 to 10 times what you will pay at WalMart.)
Making a tape from a CD isn't "duplication" either. They are certainly correct in saying you make copies for your own personal use. Lending them to friends isn't exactly "your personal use".
There's a big difference between what laws exist and what laws are enforcable. If I copy a CD and give it to a friend, how will the fuzz know to come arrest me?
Yes, there is a bit in the data to lock the UI. This was put there only for the FBI warning (copyright crap.) However, the entire industry began abusing this instantly. Disney is, by far, the worst of the lot locking the UI for over 10 minutes of previews, promos, and other useless shit on some DVDs. Someone should sue the industry for misuse of the technology -- of course, the DVDCCA won't allow that sort of thing to happen. (and only a licensee could bring such a suit which would require disclosure of at least part of the secret book.)
Actually, if you pay close attention to the fine print (or fast talking at the end of something like an NFL game), it's not legal for you to "show" your recording. You can record it for your viewing, but nothing more. In reality, those clauses are intended for "public broadcast" of your recording -- i.e. renting a theater and showing last weeks Friends episode to anyone who walks in. Of course, it's perfectly legal for you to have 100 of your friends, neighbors, and random people found in a nearby mall over to watch said Friends episode as it's aired.
An analogy is between sharing songs with friends (legal) and putting up Napster...
Again, read the fine print. The copyright notice on every CD I've ever read specifically prohibits lending the disc to someone else. The purchaser is granted the right to listen to the thing, but nothing more. I'm sure someone is going to get the dim idea to sue people for playing said diccs where things other than the purchaser can hear it.
when the stop lights go down, do traffic accidents start happening?
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This depends greatly on where you live and what kind of idiots are driving on your streets. It's not very common for traffic lights to lose power, however, every time it has happened in Raleigh NC there have been wrecks.
By law, without the light, that white stripe of paint (the "stop line") becomes your stop sign, but almost no one pays that any attention.
Based on what program officials now tell us about FAA's intentions, we are concerned with the inexactitude and ambiguity inherent in the "not perfect but acceptable" standard, as well as the implications it may have for air traffic controllers and maintenance technicians.
Looks like the George W. dictionary was used as well.
Having seen both systems (i think) years ago at RDU, yes, the new systems dolook better. However, functionally, they were a joke.
The one I watched for a few minutes was tracking the runways. It was constantly screaming about collisions. The system was not aware of runway assignments for landing aircraft. It was also using a 2D vectored tracking system so it couldn't tell the aircraft would be several hundred feet underground before they would cross much less cross paths at the same altitude.
To make them even worse, the display was unreadable in a lit room. In the control center, that's not a problem, but up in the tower, that's a huge problem. Which leads me to ask what's wrong with monochrome? Monochrome monitors have much higher contrast and resolution. They are cheaper (esp. for huge displays) and far less complex (thus easier to repair.)
I cannot believe the amounts of time and money that have been wasted creating a new system. Frankly, a tracking system just isn't that damned complicated. Guys with slide rules built a system with, basically, duct tape and bubble gum that we still use today. But we, with our 2.4GHz Pentium processors and wall sized LCD monitors, cannot create anything nearly as functional. Give me a break.
Unless they erase the flash ROM, the crypto chip, the modem data pump ROM, etc. While it would be very difficult to make it catch fire on command, it's very easy to render a tivo mostly useless. While I (and maybe you too) can replace the surface mounted ROM without damaging the tivo, most people cannot. The crypto chip is essential to the operations of the tivo software -- and more so with every new revision.
TiVo isn't crazy enough to do any of these types of things, tho'. (Yet.)
They want ALL the money, not just A LOT of the money. And to date, I've yet to see any actual proof of the numbers the various industries throw around.
I don't care how much you pray to the god's of Sun; NFS will always suck.
As for upgrade cycles, every OS requires periodic upgrades. Some (read: M$) require the entire OS and all applications to be updated and reinstalled. I have linux boxes that are over 5 years old and none of them have ever been completely rebuilt -- if you keep up with things, there's little need to wipe your system and start over. [These machines pre-date glibc (libc4) and the whole ELF migration.]
Bullshit. The DMCA doesn't apply to something that isn't actually there. It's merely space the recorder subtracts from the space available to the user. (A simple binary edit of tivoapp will completely remove all that reserved BS and give you your 10G of space back.)
Personally, I don't mind the loss of that 10G. I do, however, hate them wasting that space with multiple copies of the same crap. How many times has your tivo recorded the Best Buy commercials? (I watched mine record it three times -- neat barcode screens!)
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Negative. She's wearing a pinkish skirt. It's really hard to see from such a small jpg.
Quick answer: at least as long as the manufacturer's warranty.
Most modern IDE drives aren't rated for continuous use. They tend to last one or two years before they begin to show mechanical failure (drive bearing fail.) The IDE drives of old are pretty tough creatures as long as they don't experience any shock during operation.
As I've said many times, I've never (in 20 years) had a SCSI drive fail right out of the box. I've had numerous IDE drives not work right out of the box (and even RMA replaced drives show up broken.) And when you've seen how manufacturers determine MTBF, you stop looking at those worthless numbers.
You obviosly haven't worked for the same "idiots" that I have... a building full of Sun E2xx and E4xx systems all with the freakin' expensive creator 3d gfx cards in them wired to a console switch. Every one of them running a full CDE setup (all 20million bugs and all.) People want the gui because they have been poisoned by the world of Microsoft where you have no choice but have a gfx card and manage it by standing directly in front of it. (That's begun to change over the years as more and more companies have made millions providing remote management products. Now M$ wants all that money.)
It's suprising the amount of money that's poured into development of gui management applications just so an admin can click two check boxes instead of firing up vi and changing two "no"s to "yes"s. One of the biggest interview questions for any unix admin is the familiarity with vi.
Servers use SCSI because they need to be able to queue multiple commands to the drive (read: multi-user environment.) Add to that the quality and lifespan of your agerage SCSI drive, and the price is well worth it.
Sitting right here with my dual PIII-800 IDE (ATA100) feed W2k box, IDE works just fine as long as there's only one thing playing with the disk. When the index engine fires up, the box is no longer usable. (It's actually very annoying.) On the dual PII-450 SCSI (U2) feed W2k box, I cannot tell when the indexer is running.
Provide a picture of these warnings. I've never seen one. As for the CDDA logo... every one of my cd cases has a CDDA logo on the disk holding insert. Out of the half dozen music CD cases in front of me, none of them have a CDDA logo visable on the retail packaging. There's a logo on the actual disk in most cases -- however that cannot be seen without opening the product which requires purchasing it.
And the warning (reportedly) does not indicate it will cause damage or void warranties. As I said, there's a huge difference between "won't work" and "will break". A DVD-ROM disk placed in a CD-ROM drive "won't work" -- it's simply will not recognize it. The drive isn't likely to throw sparks and set the neighbor's cat on fire.
Now, the most likely scenerio is that the copy protection garbage is tripping the firmware's update proceedure. Pioneer makes a lot of stand alone hardware where this sort of firmware update proceedure is common place. Why the nuts would leave that part in the firmware of a consumer PC component is beyond me.
Actually, I'd hold them both to blame. The copy protection technology fucked up the cdrom's firmware, so they are obviously responsible. The idiots that wrote the firmware that can be fucked up by the data on the disk loaded in the drive are also responsible for such idiotic programming.
I've seen a number of (very old) plextor drives freak out and crash when presented copy protected content (PC games.) However, none have ever rewritten their firmware. (And the 6plex isn't field rewritable... you have to pull the EEPROM out.) Later models (8plex through 32plex) have write-protect jumpers.
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Obviously, you are unaware (as was I) of the recall field notice for all Cisco 7401ASR's with a model number less that '-10'. They screwed up the L3 cache logic which causes memory corruption (and thus random reboots and even complete hardware lockups.) So much for QA and customer support -- we wen't notified of the notice for over three months.
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Oh, and I've seen an ethernet module in a cat5000 suddenly start turning every packet into a broadcast packet. Oh, that was a day in hell.
But, on the whole, the hardware is impressive and stable. The software provided is a very different story.
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- Wouldn't "lending the original CD-ROM" be covered by the "first sale doctrine"?
No. You are not tranfering ownership of the disc. You are handing the disc to someone with the expectation that they are going to return it at some (near term) later date.See, you may own the actual physical metal and plastic disc, but you do not own the data it contains. The industry believes you don't own anything at all. They've leased the disc and contents to you and they have the right to terminate that lease at will.
- If I want to resell, lend, use for target practice...
What you do for your own exclusive use is your business only. Just as my right to swing my fist stops where your nose begins, your right to do as you please with that disc ends where someone else gets involved.- used records stores and libraries
... are very specific exceptions. It's perfectly legal to transfer ownership. So, the store itself is perfectly legal -- however the person selling their CDs are very likely to be violating copyright by still holding duplicates. Libraries and rental stores are explicit exceptions. Libraries don't make a profit lending things nor are they likely to have new, "exclusive" content -- in fact, a lot of libraries don't have anything until someone donates it. Rental stores have explicit permission to run their business -- and they pay a premium for "first available" content (5 to 10 times what you will pay at WalMart.)Making a tape from a CD isn't "duplication" either. They are certainly correct in saying you make copies for your own personal use. Lending them to friends isn't exactly "your personal use".
There's a big difference between what laws exist and what laws are enforcable. If I copy a CD and give it to a friend, how will the fuzz know to come arrest me?
- making copies of music for friends is legal
No, it isn't. It's just nearly impossible to enforce.Lending them the original is what the fine print prohibits. Making "mix tapes" is open for debate.
Yes, there is a bit in the data to lock the UI. This was put there only for the FBI warning (copyright crap.) However, the entire industry began abusing this instantly. Disney is, by far, the worst of the lot locking the UI for over 10 minutes of previews, promos, and other useless shit on some DVDs. Someone should sue the industry for misuse of the technology -- of course, the DVDCCA won't allow that sort of thing to happen. (and only a licensee could bring such a suit which would require disclosure of at least part of the secret book.)
- An analogy is between sharing songs with friends (legal) and putting up Napster...
Again, read the fine print. The copyright notice on every CD I've ever read specifically prohibits lending the disc to someone else. The purchaser is granted the right to listen to the thing, but nothing more. I'm sure someone is going to get the dim idea to sue people for playing said diccs where things other than the purchaser can hear it.It's a very stupid, greedy world we live in.
Actually, I vaguely remember seeing "tubes" at RDU when I got a tour a decade ago. (They weren't in use if they were there.) It's so Brazil of them :-)
- when the stop lights go down, do traffic accidents start happening?
YESThis depends greatly on where you live and what kind of idiots are driving on your streets. It's not very common for traffic lights to lose power, however, every time it has happened in Raleigh NC there have been wrecks.
By law, without the light, that white stripe of paint (the "stop line") becomes your stop sign, but almost no one pays that any attention.
Based on what program officials now tell us about FAA's intentions, we are concerned with the inexactitude and ambiguity inherent in the "not perfect but acceptable" standard, as well as the implications it may have for air traffic controllers and maintenance technicians.
Looks like the George W. dictionary was used as well.
Having seen both systems (i think) years ago at RDU, yes, the new systems do look better. However, functionally, they were a joke.
The one I watched for a few minutes was tracking the runways. It was constantly screaming about collisions. The system was not aware of runway assignments for landing aircraft. It was also using a 2D vectored tracking system so it couldn't tell the aircraft would be several hundred feet underground before they would cross much less cross paths at the same altitude.
To make them even worse, the display was unreadable in a lit room. In the control center, that's not a problem, but up in the tower, that's a huge problem. Which leads me to ask what's wrong with monochrome? Monochrome monitors have much higher contrast and resolution. They are cheaper (esp. for huge displays) and far less complex (thus easier to repair.)
I cannot believe the amounts of time and money that have been wasted creating a new system. Frankly, a tracking system just isn't that damned complicated. Guys with slide rules built a system with, basically, duct tape and bubble gum that we still use today. But we, with our 2.4GHz Pentium processors and wall sized LCD monitors, cannot create anything nearly as functional. Give me a break.
Unless they erase the flash ROM, the crypto chip, the modem data pump ROM, etc. While it would be very difficult to make it catch fire on command, it's very easy to render a tivo mostly useless. While I (and maybe you too) can replace the surface mounted ROM without damaging the tivo, most people cannot. The crypto chip is essential to the operations of the tivo software -- and more so with every new revision.
TiVo isn't crazy enough to do any of these types of things, tho'. (Yet.)
They want ALL the money, not just A LOT of the money. And to date, I've yet to see any actual proof of the numbers the various industries throw around.
or, c) they want more money and thus do their best chicken little "everything is being pirated" dance.
I don't care how much you pray to the god's of Sun; NFS will always suck.
As for upgrade cycles, every OS requires periodic upgrades. Some (read: M$) require the entire OS and all applications to be updated and reinstalled. I have linux boxes that are over 5 years old and none of them have ever been completely rebuilt -- if you keep up with things, there's little need to wipe your system and start over. [These machines pre-date glibc (libc4) and the whole ELF migration.]
On modern laptops, you don't have a choice. They are 100% ACPI. If you use APM to suspend, then the laptop usually will never recover.
My VAIO doesn't work one way or the other. Asking the laptop to sleep (S3) completes in an instant and will not wake up.
Bullshit. The DMCA doesn't apply to something that isn't actually there. It's merely space the recorder subtracts from the space available to the user. (A simple binary edit of tivoapp will completely remove all that reserved BS and give you your 10G of space back.)
Personally, I don't mind the loss of that 10G. I do, however, hate them wasting that space with multiple copies of the same crap. How many times has your tivo recorded the Best Buy commercials? (I watched mine record it three times -- neat barcode screens!)
Negative. She's wearing a pinkish skirt. It's really hard to see from such a small jpg.
Quick answer: at least as long as the manufacturer's warranty.
Most modern IDE drives aren't rated for continuous use. They tend to last one or two years before they begin to show mechanical failure (drive bearing fail.) The IDE drives of old are pretty tough creatures as long as they don't experience any shock during operation.
As I've said many times, I've never (in 20 years) had a SCSI drive fail right out of the box. I've had numerous IDE drives not work right out of the box (and even RMA replaced drives show up broken.) And when you've seen how manufacturers determine MTBF, you stop looking at those worthless numbers.
Ummm, 68pin is a wide connector. And U160 also means it's wide scsi.
Well, if they sell it for 3k$ then it might be worth it. Anyone have a link to anything on these critters?
(For comparison, ExaDrives are in the 25k$ range.)
SCSI or IDE drives?
You obviosly haven't worked for the same "idiots" that I have... a building full of Sun E2xx and E4xx systems all with the freakin' expensive creator 3d gfx cards in them wired to a console switch. Every one of them running a full CDE setup (all 20million bugs and all.) People want the gui because they have been poisoned by the world of Microsoft where you have no choice but have a gfx card and manage it by standing directly in front of it. (That's begun to change over the years as more and more companies have made millions providing remote management products. Now M$ wants all that money.)
It's suprising the amount of money that's poured into development of gui management applications just so an admin can click two check boxes instead of firing up vi and changing two "no"s to "yes"s. One of the biggest interview questions for any unix admin is the familiarity with vi.
Servers use SCSI because they need to be able to queue multiple commands to the drive (read: multi-user environment.) Add to that the quality and lifespan of your agerage SCSI drive, and the price is well worth it.
Sitting right here with my dual PIII-800 IDE (ATA100) feed W2k box, IDE works just fine as long as there's only one thing playing with the disk. When the index engine fires up, the box is no longer usable. (It's actually very annoying.) On the dual PII-450 SCSI (U2) feed W2k box, I cannot tell when the indexer is running.
Provide a picture of these warnings. I've never seen one. As for the CDDA logo... every one of my cd cases has a CDDA logo on the disk holding insert. Out of the half dozen music CD cases in front of me, none of them have a CDDA logo visable on the retail packaging. There's a logo on the actual disk in most cases -- however that cannot be seen without opening the product which requires purchasing it.
And the warning (reportedly) does not indicate it will cause damage or void warranties. As I said, there's a huge difference between "won't work" and "will break". A DVD-ROM disk placed in a CD-ROM drive "won't work" -- it's simply will not recognize it. The drive isn't likely to throw sparks and set the neighbor's cat on fire.
Now, the most likely scenerio is that the copy protection garbage is tripping the firmware's update proceedure. Pioneer makes a lot of stand alone hardware where this sort of firmware update proceedure is common place. Why the nuts would leave that part in the firmware of a consumer PC component is beyond me.
Actually, I'd hold them both to blame. The copy protection technology fucked up the cdrom's firmware, so they are obviously responsible. The idiots that wrote the firmware that can be fucked up by the data on the disk loaded in the drive are also responsible for such idiotic programming.
I've seen a number of (very old) plextor drives freak out and crash when presented copy protected content (PC games.) However, none have ever rewritten their firmware. (And the 6plex isn't field rewritable... you have to pull the EEPROM out.) Later models (8plex through 32plex) have write-protect jumpers.