Its a retarded inefficient way to access disks over the network. You have to pile a whole bunch of layers on top of it to get anything functional.
You're far better off using SMB or NFS which cuts own a slew of layers and redundant traffic. Your server doesn't need to read all the meta-data required over ethernet to start streaming a file in either direction, it just needs to say 'go get this file!'.
Gah, ZFS on FreeBSD. Solaris is an unstable buggy pile of shit.
The real bit of importance here is ZFS, not so much the OS. Linux is out due to the retarded nature of GPL unless you want to use FUSE, in which case you get what you deserve.
If you can make Solaris stable on your hardware, good for you, use it, but its unlikely.
I agree 100%, the limited number of people who can and will do this don't really matter.
All they have to do is worry about large sites that distribute ripped content and file sharing networks... basically the things that make it easier to pirate their content than get it legitimately.
The only browsers that won't will be firefox and opera. In case you haven't noticed, while not dead, firefox is losing out and has no direction, they are too busy acting like Sun/Nutscrape/AOL and Opera has never really mattered to anyone but a small percentage of geeks. Little of value will be lost.
Not that I expect them to jump ship, its just not worth the effort and HTML5 support is still rather limited as you said, IE doesn't do it YET. Hopefully there will never be any way to do DRM in HTML 5 but thats unlikely.
I'm personally split on the DRM issue for purchased content, but for 'free' content its retarded. Hulu does however need a way to make sure the general public doesn't side step them and not watch any commercials or anything else. Slashdot would do to realize without the advertisers there is no Hulu. SOMEONE has to pay SOMEWHERE to employ all the people involved, that just seems to be lost here.
Most of Hulu's reasons are bunk. Tracking adverts is a new feature, not something they would be losing from broadcast television. They also have no protection for content I DVR, copy, replay, skip commercials, ect. Apple has done a fine job of showing how to do dynamic bitrates based on available bandwidth and the spec is open so anyone can implement it on their web servers. Theres no need to tell the server how much you need to buffer, the client just buffers it and slows down when its got enough for safe playback, its always been this way.
The only real argument they have is protecting the content enough to make money, which is the only part that I'm on the fence about. I see their point of view, but they already go over the top with what they do (but its not a lot different than watching live TV, its a little better actually but not much).
If they stop going so crazy on DRM, go without it and go after big distributors of rips and such then they'll make plenty of money. Once they stop going after grandma and spending thousands of dollars in court so they can get a million dollar judgement that she's never going to pay they'll be a lot better off.
People have always exchanged personal copies of electronic media, they won't stop it, they just need to accept a small amount of sharing and stop the massive sharing from things like PirateBay or what have you and it'll be no different than 20 years ago. Everyone will do fine and most of us will be happy, the only ones who won't be are the whackos that want EVERYTHING to be FREE and OPEN because they think they are entitled to everything in the world for themselves.
If they treat digital copies more like reality rather than like highly expensive physical copies then the whole thing won't be a big deal and money will still be made.
If you understand the math, it shouldn't take more than 8-12 hours total reading time.
If you don't, sure it'd be considerably longer if you wanted to understand it, but 1k printed pages really isn't a lot of reading if you can actually read.
They've already committed themselves to SVG support in IE9, though I don't remember anything about MathML it doesn't interest me directly so I may have just ignored/overlooked that bit.
As far as WP implementing it... does the current software work and fill the needs that need to be filled? If so perhaps they simply did the intelligent thing and didn't try to fix what was working fine.
You'll find a lot of people don't upgrade software just because someone rewrote it.
Toyota's system is just like every other car on the planet in this respect. Its not closed from external access, its closed in that you don't get to see the source to the controllers... like every other car in existence.
Toyota is the same as everyone else in this respect.
ODB-II (And I to a lesser extent before it was superceded) exists for that exact reason.
Every manufacture used to do their own random proprietary crap. Governments who wanted to access the computer for emmisions controls started requiring them to standardize so they didn't have to buy new crap and codes every time the manfucature decided to change things just to make it so you have to buy stuff from them.
The government basically stepped in and stopped the DRM up front, which is why these ports are actually useful in the first place.
You have a car without manual door locks in it? I'm pretty sure thats illegal in the states for obvious safety reasons. I've seen plenty without manual window controls but thats a little different since you should be able to open the door and you can certainly break the window with the headrest on your seat. (Pull it out and use the metal posts that hold it in the seat back)
Please to be shutting the fuck up and panicing people.
I WANT my car to allow me to do those things. Thats why I have an ODB-II dongle hooked up between my car and the PC thats in it... so I can control my cars features the way I want.
Being that the ODB port is generally directly under the drivers side dash, its rather hard for someone to plug into it without it being noticed. If they've plugged into it, they've got physical access to your car, which means they can do a lot more damage than fucking up your heater and blasting you with hot air.
You said you didn't want to spread fear and panic, and you're lying, thats exactly your goal, and to use that to get attention for yourself.
This isn't anything new, its been this way for at least 10 years if not longer (I haven't tried anything on older models) maybe all the way back into the ODB-I days and probably well before that when some cars had interfaces of their own standard.
... Read the rest of this thread... or every other thread on slashdot about Steam... or do a simple google search... its rather well known by everyone not licking Gabe's balls. They know it too, but they're too busy to speak and they mumble when they try.
Your friends would be liars, as we've noticed with all the iPhone buzz more of the time it turns out that you get the same contract style offers there OR the option to buy the phone outright for a lot more money.
Ok, so they aren't really lying, but you certainly aren't presenting the full story.
Go ask them how many buy $600 smart phones without a contract rather than $100 phones with a contract.
Really, people need to stop trying the 'locked into a contract' bullshit.
Yes, you have a contract, you were going to have service anyway so having a contract doesn't make you pay more, the whole thought is retarded and does nothing but make logical, intelligent people think less of your points.
Most of the time it goes to organizations the give out grants to companies to do the research and testing. Unfortunately what happens is it gets given out to Glaxo and the like, which then uses the money to research and test... and patent what they come up with.
Some of the money goes to universities who research it, patent it, and sell it to drug companies so they can raise their own salaries.
This would be all fine and dandy if the drug companies gave back.
They do give back, but they don't give back anything like they get. They give back just enough to say 'we give back' in little strategic bits that make for good publicity.
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Its a retarded inefficient way to access disks over the network. You have to pile a whole bunch of layers on top of it to get anything functional.
You're far better off using SMB or NFS which cuts own a slew of layers and redundant traffic. Your server doesn't need to read all the meta-data required over ethernet to start streaming a file in either direction, it just needs to say 'go get this file!'.
Gah, ZFS on FreeBSD. Solaris is an unstable buggy pile of shit.
The real bit of importance here is ZFS, not so much the OS. Linux is out due to the retarded nature of GPL unless you want to use FUSE, in which case you get what you deserve.
If you can make Solaris stable on your hardware, good for you, use it, but its unlikely.
Yea, in 1992 maybe ... not sure what version of Windows you're comparing too but that hasn't been true for years.
I agree 100%, the limited number of people who can and will do this don't really matter.
All they have to do is worry about large sites that distribute ripped content and file sharing networks ... basically the things that make it easier to pirate their content than get it legitimately.
IE will do h264 as well with IE9.
The only browsers that won't will be firefox and opera. In case you haven't noticed, while not dead, firefox is losing out and has no direction, they are too busy acting like Sun/Nutscrape/AOL and Opera has never really mattered to anyone but a small percentage of geeks. Little of value will be lost.
Not that I expect them to jump ship, its just not worth the effort and HTML5 support is still rather limited as you said, IE doesn't do it YET. Hopefully there will never be any way to do DRM in HTML 5 but thats unlikely.
I'm personally split on the DRM issue for purchased content, but for 'free' content its retarded. Hulu does however need a way to make sure the general public doesn't side step them and not watch any commercials or anything else. Slashdot would do to realize without the advertisers there is no Hulu. SOMEONE has to pay SOMEWHERE to employ all the people involved, that just seems to be lost here.
Most of Hulu's reasons are bunk. Tracking adverts is a new feature, not something they would be losing from broadcast television. They also have no protection for content I DVR, copy, replay, skip commercials, ect. Apple has done a fine job of showing how to do dynamic bitrates based on available bandwidth and the spec is open so anyone can implement it on their web servers. Theres no need to tell the server how much you need to buffer, the client just buffers it and slows down when its got enough for safe playback, its always been this way.
The only real argument they have is protecting the content enough to make money, which is the only part that I'm on the fence about. I see their point of view, but they already go over the top with what they do (but its not a lot different than watching live TV, its a little better actually but not much).
If they stop going so crazy on DRM, go without it and go after big distributors of rips and such then they'll make plenty of money. Once they stop going after grandma and spending thousands of dollars in court so they can get a million dollar judgement that she's never going to pay they'll be a lot better off.
People have always exchanged personal copies of electronic media, they won't stop it, they just need to accept a small amount of sharing and stop the massive sharing from things like PirateBay or what have you and it'll be no different than 20 years ago. Everyone will do fine and most of us will be happy, the only ones who won't be are the whackos that want EVERYTHING to be FREE and OPEN because they think they are entitled to everything in the world for themselves.
If they treat digital copies more like reality rather than like highly expensive physical copies then the whole thing won't be a big deal and money will still be made.
Easy enough and has already been done using virtualbox and a custom display front end.
You really can't stop the bumrush now that VirtualBox is as well done as it is and open source so anyone can write a front end for audio and video.
If you understand the math, it shouldn't take more than 8-12 hours total reading time.
If you don't, sure it'd be considerably longer if you wanted to understand it, but 1k printed pages really isn't a lot of reading if you can actually read.
They've already committed themselves to SVG support in IE9, though I don't remember anything about MathML it doesn't interest me directly so I may have just ignored/overlooked that bit.
As far as WP implementing it ... does the current software work and fill the needs that need to be filled? If so perhaps they simply did the intelligent thing and didn't try to fix what was working fine.
You'll find a lot of people don't upgrade software just because someone rewrote it.
Toyota's system is just like every other car on the planet in this respect. Its not closed from external access, its closed in that you don't get to see the source to the controllers ... like every other car in existence.
Toyota is the same as everyone else in this respect.
ODB-II (And I to a lesser extent before it was superceded) exists for that exact reason.
Every manufacture used to do their own random proprietary crap. Governments who wanted to access the computer for emmisions controls started requiring them to standardize so they didn't have to buy new crap and codes every time the manfucature decided to change things just to make it so you have to buy stuff from them.
The government basically stepped in and stopped the DRM up front, which is why these ports are actually useful in the first place.
You have a car without manual door locks in it? I'm pretty sure thats illegal in the states for obvious safety reasons. I've seen plenty without manual window controls but thats a little different since you should be able to open the door and you can certainly break the window with the headrest on your seat. (Pull it out and use the metal posts that hold it in the seat back)
Please to be shutting the fuck up and panicing people.
I WANT my car to allow me to do those things. Thats why I have an ODB-II dongle hooked up between my car and the PC thats in it ... so I can control my cars features the way I want.
Being that the ODB port is generally directly under the drivers side dash, its rather hard for someone to plug into it without it being noticed. If they've plugged into it, they've got physical access to your car, which means they can do a lot more damage than fucking up your heater and blasting you with hot air.
You said you didn't want to spread fear and panic, and you're lying, thats exactly your goal, and to use that to get attention for yourself.
This isn't anything new, its been this way for at least 10 years if not longer (I haven't tried anything on older models) maybe all the way back into the ODB-I days and probably well before that when some cars had interfaces of their own standard.
... Read the rest of this thread ... or every other thread on slashdot about Steam ... or do a simple google search ... its rather well known by everyone not licking Gabe's balls. They know it too, but they're too busy to speak and they mumble when they try.
Really? I use images all the time without working cd/dvd drives.
Your friends would be liars, as we've noticed with all the iPhone buzz more of the time it turns out that you get the same contract style offers there OR the option to buy the phone outright for a lot more money.
Ok, so they aren't really lying, but you certainly aren't presenting the full story.
Go ask them how many buy $600 smart phones without a contract rather than $100 phones with a contract.
Really, people need to stop trying the 'locked into a contract' bullshit.
Yes, you have a contract, you were going to have service anyway so having a contract doesn't make you pay more, the whole thought is retarded and does nothing but make logical, intelligent people think less of your points.
Apple charges $30 for data ... since when did sprint start charging $20 for unlimited data?
Yea, just like comcast sells you unlimited service.
Unlimited means they just don't tell you the limit, not that its actually unlimited.
Yep, helloworld.c isn't teaching C. Anyone who says otherwise is probably employed as a professor at MIT.
Siebel eh? Hope you enjoy the upgrade treadmill or getting no support.
Viagra is another example of treating the symptoms and not resolving the problem.
Thats what drug companies love the most, treating the symptoms only and not doing anything to resolve the actual problem.
There is no profit in cures, just treat the symptoms and make them dependent on you.
It would also put the drug companies produce the cure in a really crappy spot.
This is why medical research should be publicly funded and public property.
Most of the time it goes to organizations the give out grants to companies to do the research and testing. Unfortunately what happens is it gets given out to Glaxo and the like, which then uses the money to research and test ... and patent what they come up with.
Some of the money goes to universities who research it, patent it, and sell it to drug companies so they can raise their own salaries.
This would be all fine and dandy if the drug companies gave back.
They do give back, but they don't give back anything like they get. They give back just enough to say 'we give back' in little strategic bits that make for good publicity.
http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=224701036&printable=true&printable=true
Next time guys, save us the effort and use the link that doesn't require us to click next 4 times to read an article that fits on half a page.
Oh ... timothy, nevermind.
At one point in time I used it as a reference.
Or did you want me to point out an idiot other than myself? :)