So... when the entire file is different, on every copy... what do you do then? Why do I ask? Because thats how it works. Its not that there are a few bytes changed here and there, the whole file is slightly modified, not a few bytes here and there.
Watermarking and cryptography is slightly more advanced than you realize I think.
I can "buy" a season of a particular show, but I can't just pay to watch it once.
You can rent movies on iTunes, probably can't do it for a TV show because the cost would be so low its not worth their effort.
but it also puts me on the hook to store and maintain a copy. Sure, I can throw it away if I really only want to watch it once, but then I've payed "buying" price for a "rental".
And you are paying a price thats lower than most rental fees anyway, so you aren't paying more for less. You are paying less for more, on iTunes.
I might actually be convinced to spend $20 on a movie on iTunes if I knew that I could re-download it whenever I wanted (if the original file was lost or deleted)
Who replaces your DVD now when it is lost or scratched, for free, forever?
is buy free access
Oxymoron, does not compute.
that they quit trying to force me to re-buy the same movie over and over again.
With this system, there is no motivation for them to ever provide a higher quality version. There is no additional income from doing so. They would never bother releasing a higher quality version.
Why should I spend $20 on a 720p version when I know a 1080p version exists and there's no predefined upgrade path.
So don't buy it. They are not required to provide you with anything, and you are not required to buy it, welcome to capitalism. Wait for the 1080p release if you want that format. You always pay a few to be the first adopter, get used to it.
I would, I could go to France and enjoy the country rather than going to France and dealing with a bunch of ass mongrels that make Americans seem humble compared to their arrogance.
They don't practice that way, they practice on dead bodies and living people, with supervision from a board certified doctor far after school has ended. Only after they have performed many surgeries on living people under supervision are they allowed to do it themselves.
They don't use mannequins at any US medical school I'm aware of, not in graduate school anyway. Undergrad doesn't count, you aren't actually IN a medical program at that point.
Why are they going to do nothing? Do people on the ISS sit around and do nothing while they are there?
They would most certainly be running experiments for the duration of the trip, both directions. It would waste a lot of time if they just sit there, and all the energy expended to get the thing up there and moving on its way could at least be useful to some experiments.
Don't think of it as sending a ship to Mars. Think of it as sending the ISS to Mars. There would likely be plenty to do.
You think lag is bad now, just going to the moon gives you an 8 second lag, the sun is 8 minutes one way. Depending on where Earth and Mars are in their orbits during the trip, the lag could be well over 10 minutes in one direction.
Thats going to make playing an MMO rather... bad, even without the twitch associated with a FPS.
That is EXACTLY why I use it regularly to make sure it doesn't work for them. I can quickly scan a host and see what they may be able to take advantage of.
What do you do? How do you know that you've installed every patch. MS doesn't even TELL you about ever patch, let alone include them in Windows Update. Does all of your other software auto update as well? Do you have some mystical application that makes sure you never make a configuration mistake that opens an exploit? My IIS servers don't return customized version information, is it just supposed to look at that and know what it really translates to and what patches I have installed on it.
You sir, are not a system admin. You may be employed as one, but you certainly shouldn't be. The mere thought that patching is enough by itself is retarded. Assuming that you have perfect configurations that never change and will be safe forever after you set them up is retarded. Pretty much no matter how you look at it, your argument is one of extreme lack of experience.
Every high security environment in the world does penetration testing, as do lower security environments who would rather be safe than sorry. Banks, the government, health care providers to name a few, ALL do penetration testing, both by software, and social engineering, all the way down to trying to actually break into a physical location.
Fuck you and your arrogant ignorance about security, come back to us when you get out of pointy-headed-boss-school or secretary school, whichever you happen to be in.
The servers have to get the scene assets somehow. That is why modern video cards use high bandwidth PCI Express slots, so the assets of the scene can be sent quickly when needed without adding delay.
Just displaying the video is pretty low bandwidth compared to that, although if you were to try and feed me video over the internet for the same resolution that I play games at, I'd need at least 4 times the bandwidth Time Warner lets me burst to right now. 4 times probably won't cut it since you rarely ever get those speeds, and never for an extended period of time.
Video requires far more bandwidth than you realize, even when you are just playing a movie in high quality.
Hulu is low quality. Just because it looks okay when they display it in a tiny area of your web browser doesn't mean its high quality or needs much bandwidth. Icons can look awesome, even if they are 32x32 pixels, as long as you don't try to display them fullscreen.
Video cards need high bandwidth to get textures, models and arrays into memory when needed. If the server farm already has all this in memory, then your just updating some state arrays to indicate the state of those objects, which lowers your bandwidth drastically.
Your video subsystem has massive amounts of bandwidth to deal with the instantaneous needs that require huge amounts when the scene changes completely. If you're just standing there in some game, looking at the same spot and not moving, almost no bandwidth is required. Likewise, if your card has enough memory to store all the models, textures and other data onboard, your bandwidth usage drops drastically and your frame rates stay high.
If Quake 16 is designed to use a server farm elsewhere to render itself, then theres a good chance that server farm elsewhere is also going to be smart enough to have all the assets stored locally rather than having the client PC resend them all the time.
This sort of thing would be great for small movie makes to get some rendering time, but games aren't going this way any time soon, just like Office isn't going all web based any time soon. Any of us in the industry for a while have already been down that road, and it sucks at the worst possible time.
The Wright brothers kept trying because they were dealing with a new field and improvements to technology were being made.
Driving with a stick is not a new field, a little history and you'd notice that cars started out this way. Steering wheels were the progression AWAY from driving with a stick. To top it off, nothing has changed to improve the technology. Adding computers and fly by wire actually makes it worse, unless you add even more technology to make it essentially the same as before you added the computer.
This is roughly the same as arguing that its a good idea to put the engine the Wright brothers used in the Flyer into your modern day Cessna and trying to fly it.
You are correct, if no one tried there would never be any improvements... problem is, they already tried, and the improvement was NOT TO USE A STICK.
The reality is that a joystick will allow a twitch of your arm to go from full right turn at full throttle to full left turn at full brake.
Thats not something that people can do currently with a wheel and peddles, AND THATS A GOOD THING. Don't believe me? Get in your car, get up to 70mph or so on an isolated road (don't want to hurt anyone other than yourself) and turn your steering wheel back and forth from full left to full right.
$20 says you can't even get it all the way to one extreme before losing control at 45/mph, let alone highway speeds.
So now they are going to have to do it more in a fly by wire kind of setup so that it can turn down the sensitivity at higher speeds for safety... which then takes control away from the driver that may be useful.
Finally, there are other vehicles that occasionally use something other than a steering wheel for steering, NONE of them are intended to be driven by the guy off the street, they aren't stable enough to allow for that.
syslogd on every modern unix is capable of routing to a specific log file for a specific app. If the basic syslogd isn't enough, your loghost can run syslog-ng or any of the other more powerful syslog daemons. You only have to replace the one on the server, the other clients should just be forwarding EVERYTHING to it.
Of course at this sort of level, you'd probably save yourself a metric assload of trouble if you implemented a proper network monitoring/management server.
Myself, having only 15 or so hosts to deal with, most of which aren't chattery just use ssh + a colorizer script I wrote for my purposes. I typically leave it running on a spare monitor all the time.
You sir have not drank enough of Stallman's special coolaid. Here, have a glass, and don't worry about feeling sleepy, the space ship behind the comet will beam you up soon.
What actions are those? Make small fortune selling it to someone then bitching about what they did with it?
In cause you didn't notice while you were writing it just now, that ideal neutral third party did EXACTLY what he's complaining about.
There is no neutral third party in business, the idea is silly in and of itself. Software is a tool and owning the code is an asset, both of which will be used to make the most money possible, ESPECIALLY in a public traded company where making the share holders money IS the priority, by law.
If he really didn't expect something like this to happen eventually, he's simply retarded and should be hospitalized.
We know thats not the case, so we must assume he's just a whiney little bitch.
So... basically, you're 10 years out of touch with reality, that is what you are saying, yes?
Linux is statistically irrelevant compared to Windows on the planet, yet I'm sure you'll rave about how awesome it is and how its better than everything else.
Fanboys suck, and you sir, are a fanboy. Not even a fanboy with accurate information.
While the 'entire fucking world' was adopting MySQL, PostgreSQL surpassed MySQLs sad little feature set and became a DB server with real enterprise level features.
PostgreSQL IS an Oracle competitor. MySQL isn't.
To Oracle, MySQL is a bit like Access is to MS SQL server, they may both be database engines, but they aren't anywhere close to teh same class of product and they certainly don't serve the same purpose to anyone with half a clue.
And this is different than MySQL has been for years?
The commercial version of MySQL has always had more features than the GPL version.
It is CURRENTLY stuck as the less featured, less capable freebie that Sun gives away. It sells the more feature rich version.
The situation you describe as a concern is the situation that already exists. Funny part is, when MySQL went this route originally everyone bitched and moaned, RMS included. Now he's promoting it as a requirement for MySQLs survive.
Earth shaking to who? Most people knew this all along. Most os/. may be blinded to it, but no one else is surprised.
The idea that the whole 'support' based sales is the way to go is silly, IF it were the way to go, the massive global companies that do JUST THIS SORT OF THING as their only business model would have done it long long ago.
Thats what these guys DO, and they don't bother. It is possible they are just slightly more clueful.
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So ... when the entire file is different, on every copy ... what do you do then? Why do I ask? Because thats how it works. Its not that there are a few bytes changed here and there, the whole file is slightly modified, not a few bytes here and there.
Watermarking and cryptography is slightly more advanced than you realize I think.
You can rent movies on iTunes, probably can't do it for a TV show because the cost would be so low its not worth their effort.
And you are paying a price thats lower than most rental fees anyway, so you aren't paying more for less. You are paying less for more, on iTunes.
Who replaces your DVD now when it is lost or scratched, for free, forever?
Oxymoron, does not compute.
With this system, there is no motivation for them to ever provide a higher quality version. There is no additional income from doing so. They would never bother releasing a higher quality version.
So don't buy it. They are not required to provide you with anything, and you are not required to buy it, welcome to capitalism. Wait for the 1080p release if you want that format. You always pay a few to be the first adopter, get used to it.
I would, I could go to France and enjoy the country rather than going to France and dealing with a bunch of ass mongrels that make Americans seem humble compared to their arrogance.
They don't practice that way, they practice on dead bodies and living people, with supervision from a board certified doctor far after school has ended. Only after they have performed many surgeries on living people under supervision are they allowed to do it themselves.
They don't use mannequins at any US medical school I'm aware of, not in graduate school anyway. Undergrad doesn't count, you aren't actually IN a medical program at that point.
I'd be more concerned about the Moscow health system than being in space with a serious problem. I'll take my chances in space.
A mutant star goat perhaps, or perhaps the Earth is going to be swallowed by the sun ... or was it the moon?
If you're going to quote the guide, at least do it properly.
Why are they going to do nothing? Do people on the ISS sit around and do nothing while they are there?
They would most certainly be running experiments for the duration of the trip, both directions. It would waste a lot of time if they just sit there, and all the energy expended to get the thing up there and moving on its way could at least be useful to some experiments.
Don't think of it as sending a ship to Mars. Think of it as sending the ISS to Mars. There would likely be plenty to do.
You think lag is bad now, just going to the moon gives you an 8 second lag, the sun is 8 minutes one way. Depending on where Earth and Mars are in their orbits during the trip, the lag could be well over 10 minutes in one direction.
Thats going to make playing an MMO rather ... bad, even without the twitch associated with a FPS.
You are right, it gets used by script kiddies.
That is EXACTLY why I use it regularly to make sure it doesn't work for them. I can quickly scan a host and see what they may be able to take advantage of.
What do you do? How do you know that you've installed every patch. MS doesn't even TELL you about ever patch, let alone include them in Windows Update. Does all of your other software auto update as well? Do you have some mystical application that makes sure you never make a configuration mistake that opens an exploit? My IIS servers don't return customized version information, is it just supposed to look at that and know what it really translates to and what patches I have installed on it.
You sir, are not a system admin. You may be employed as one, but you certainly shouldn't be. The mere thought that patching is enough by itself is retarded. Assuming that you have perfect configurations that never change and will be safe forever after you set them up is retarded. Pretty much no matter how you look at it, your argument is one of extreme lack of experience.
Every high security environment in the world does penetration testing, as do lower security environments who would rather be safe than sorry. Banks, the government, health care providers to name a few, ALL do penetration testing, both by software, and social engineering, all the way down to trying to actually break into a physical location.
Fuck you and your arrogant ignorance about security, come back to us when you get out of pointy-headed-boss-school or secretary school, whichever you happen to be in.
Such a hurry to post you didn't even read the summary, not even the first sentence.
Its about cloud computing, not rendering cloud images.
The servers have to get the scene assets somehow. That is why modern video cards use high bandwidth PCI Express slots, so the assets of the scene can be sent quickly when needed without adding delay.
Just displaying the video is pretty low bandwidth compared to that, although if you were to try and feed me video over the internet for the same resolution that I play games at, I'd need at least 4 times the bandwidth Time Warner lets me burst to right now. 4 times probably won't cut it since you rarely ever get those speeds, and never for an extended period of time.
Video requires far more bandwidth than you realize, even when you are just playing a movie in high quality.
Hulu is low quality. Just because it looks okay when they display it in a tiny area of your web browser doesn't mean its high quality or needs much bandwidth. Icons can look awesome, even if they are 32x32 pixels, as long as you don't try to display them fullscreen.
Video cards need high bandwidth to get textures, models and arrays into memory when needed. If the server farm already has all this in memory, then your just updating some state arrays to indicate the state of those objects, which lowers your bandwidth drastically.
Your video subsystem has massive amounts of bandwidth to deal with the instantaneous needs that require huge amounts when the scene changes completely. If you're just standing there in some game, looking at the same spot and not moving, almost no bandwidth is required. Likewise, if your card has enough memory to store all the models, textures and other data onboard, your bandwidth usage drops drastically and your frame rates stay high.
If Quake 16 is designed to use a server farm elsewhere to render itself, then theres a good chance that server farm elsewhere is also going to be smart enough to have all the assets stored locally rather than having the client PC resend them all the time.
This sort of thing would be great for small movie makes to get some rendering time, but games aren't going this way any time soon, just like Office isn't going all web based any time soon. Any of us in the industry for a while have already been down that road, and it sucks at the worst possible time.
All cars have yaw control, thats what the steering wheel does.
Perhaps you're thinking of Roll or Attitude control.
Personally I think most drivers need a little attitude control, and they really need to roll faster in most cases as well.
The Wright brothers kept trying because they were dealing with a new field and improvements to technology were being made.
Driving with a stick is not a new field, a little history and you'd notice that cars started out this way. Steering wheels were the progression AWAY from driving with a stick. To top it off, nothing has changed to improve the technology. Adding computers and fly by wire actually makes it worse, unless you add even more technology to make it essentially the same as before you added the computer.
This is roughly the same as arguing that its a good idea to put the engine the Wright brothers used in the Flyer into your modern day Cessna and trying to fly it.
You are correct, if no one tried there would never be any improvements ... problem is, they already tried, and the improvement was NOT TO USE A STICK.
History is hard, lets go shopping!
The reality is that a joystick will allow a twitch of your arm to go from full right turn at full throttle to full left turn at full brake.
Thats not something that people can do currently with a wheel and peddles, AND THATS A GOOD THING. Don't believe me? Get in your car, get up to 70mph or so on an isolated road (don't want to hurt anyone other than yourself) and turn your steering wheel back and forth from full left to full right.
$20 says you can't even get it all the way to one extreme before losing control at 45/mph, let alone highway speeds.
So now they are going to have to do it more in a fly by wire kind of setup so that it can turn down the sensitivity at higher speeds for safety ... which then takes control away from the driver that may be useful.
Finally, there are other vehicles that occasionally use something other than a steering wheel for steering, NONE of them are intended to be driven by the guy off the street, they aren't stable enough to allow for that.
syslogd on every modern unix is capable of routing to a specific log file for a specific app. If the basic syslogd isn't enough, your loghost can run syslog-ng or any of the other more powerful syslog daemons. You only have to replace the one on the server, the other clients should just be forwarding EVERYTHING to it.
Of course at this sort of level, you'd probably save yourself a metric assload of trouble if you implemented a proper network monitoring/management server.
Myself, having only 15 or so hosts to deal with, most of which aren't chattery just use ssh + a colorizer script I wrote for my purposes. I typically leave it running on a spare monitor all the time.
You sir have not drank enough of Stallman's special coolaid. Here, have a glass, and don't worry about feeling sleepy, the space ship behind the comet will beam you up soon.
What actions are those? Make small fortune selling it to someone then bitching about what they did with it?
In cause you didn't notice while you were writing it just now, that ideal neutral third party did EXACTLY what he's complaining about.
There is no neutral third party in business, the idea is silly in and of itself. Software is a tool and owning the code is an asset, both of which will be used to make the most money possible, ESPECIALLY in a public traded company where making the share holders money IS the priority, by law.
If he really didn't expect something like this to happen eventually, he's simply retarded and should be hospitalized.
We know thats not the case, so we must assume he's just a whiney little bitch.
So ... basically, you're 10 years out of touch with reality, that is what you are saying, yes?
Linux is statistically irrelevant compared to Windows on the planet, yet I'm sure you'll rave about how awesome it is and how its better than everything else.
Fanboys suck, and you sir, are a fanboy. Not even a fanboy with accurate information.
While the 'entire fucking world' was adopting MySQL, PostgreSQL surpassed MySQLs sad little feature set and became a DB server with real enterprise level features.
PostgreSQL IS an Oracle competitor. MySQL isn't.
To Oracle, MySQL is a bit like Access is to MS SQL server, they may both be database engines, but they aren't anywhere close to teh same class of product and they certainly don't serve the same purpose to anyone with half a clue.
And this is different than MySQL has been for years?
The commercial version of MySQL has always had more features than the GPL version.
It is CURRENTLY stuck as the less featured, less capable freebie that Sun gives away. It sells the more feature rich version.
The situation you describe as a concern is the situation that already exists. Funny part is, when MySQL went this route originally everyone bitched and moaned, RMS included. Now he's promoting it as a requirement for MySQLs survive.
And people continue to follow him ... so sad.
What low priced alternative would be in conflict. MySQL is NOT an alternative to Oracle, they are in completely different classes.
If you don't know this already I suspect you know very little about database servers in general.
If you think the only reason Oracle bought Sun was to kill a perceived competition from MySQL then you are seriously out of touch with reality.
Yea, so is BSD, netcraft confi ...
oh hell, why do I even bother anymore
Earth shaking to who? Most people knew this all along. Most os /. may be blinded to it, but no one else is surprised.
The idea that the whole 'support' based sales is the way to go is silly, IF it were the way to go, the massive global companies that do JUST THIS SORT OF THING as their only business model would have done it long long ago.
Thats what these guys DO, and they don't bother. It is possible they are just slightly more clueful.
Okay, I've got my firesuit on, you may flame now.
And what other OSS has Apple done this with exactly?
Go ahead and track it down, I'll wait.