While it is clear you don't like this example of our lawmakers working hard (or hardly)... your comparison to the GPL isn't entirely well founded, and neither is my critique - but hey, this is/......
Basically if you were to change a GPL'd work you would still have to adibe by the license, you are redistributing it - not changing the license.
The folks who edit a movie and resell it (ignoring DMCA / encryption breaking laws) are realistically no different to selling old CD's (or buying them) from a CD exchange. First Sale is a very important thing to me. CD's are generally scratched to some degree from these places - thus altering the data, intentionally or not - are they evil too? Besides, most places are very upgront about the media being edited, as well as making available lists of what they do edit.
Now for software that does this on the fly, or rentals... well I think that is a bit more of a gray area. I haven't fully fleshed out what I think is right or wrong there, but personally I don't have a problem with these methods - but then again I am the kind of person who definitely prefers the "airplane version" or a film to the theatrical/DVD edition of the film.
Of course, I haven't read the article or the bill itself, nor I am even a lawyer so my comments are nothing more than karma burning / whoring.
If you are running Windows, go take a visit to www.asp.net and look at WebMatrix. It also includes a small web server called Cassini that can serve up.NET content as well.
I believe it was Xandros waaaaaaay back when it was first released that included solitaire as part of the install, instead of watching the packages decompress and install themselves. You could still monitor the progress, but it gave you a chance to do something while it installed instead of twiddling away....
Do they still have solitaire or something else equally interesting and unique in their installer? I must say, that has forever engrained itself on my memory, and is always compared when checking out another distro.
I think it is a little unfair to outright declare HTTP pipelining to be bad (except to a proxy server). HTTP pipelining certainly has it's place, and for a lot of single server websites it will result in better performance for the end user - AND the web server as well.
The big problem comes in with load balancing, as you say, but is that really a problem with pipelining or with half-baked attempts at providing scalability?
Personally, I have used pipelining in the mozilla products for several years now, and I have yet to be able to pinpoint a single problem due to pipelining. I also think it is worse to enable a great many initial connections (I have seen recommendations as high as 40!). If you are going to nitpick a feature, let it be that one. Two connections seems quite reasonable for me.
Personally I tend to stop at Gamespot for the large part of my initial game reviews, not because I like their editors (I think they generally fall somewhere between mediocre and stink) but because they have lots of easy to access screenshots and movies, and quite frankly - their video reviews are pretty decent. They also have reader reviews, forums and other informational bits all nicely tied up so I can explore as much or as little as I want.
The bottom line in my opinion is that we really need both hand fed, just give me the stinking average rating of the game, and immersive, make you think and decide for yourself movies and demos.
And for my soapbox speech, reviews very rarely mention the in game music (partly because it isn't part of games like it used to be). Sound effects generally get a mention, but music rarely. When a reviewer actually reviews the music, and heaven forbid actually takes it into account when giving their stamp of approval on the game - the nostalgia runs thick and rich. Lets not forget about all the elements of gameplay, not just story and graphics!
Firefox not installing plugins by default using an unprivileged thing is a GOOD THING. I think the poster of this article needs to step back and look at the security model and why it exists, not only that it exists.
Many of the OSS apps I work with, work fine as long as you play by the rules (which is a huge part of security!). Can we mod an entire story as Troll?
For all those who may not know, The Sun is a British TABLOID - and as such is often publishing material in that rather dark shade of gray... Big surprise they didn't get it right.
The more interesting story to me would be to follow-up with the father who purchased the Gameboy and cartridge, and find out where he purchased the goods. I mean come on, if you are really concerned about your kids why are you buying something from a less than reputable source. Is there even a story if he bought it off some street vendor?
ISPs have had the ability to deal with this for a long time. Many home users even take advantage of an easy bandage (probably not a fix) - simply prioritize packets. As an example, ACK's get priority whereas the next packet in your 3GB Linux ISO gets bumped by a millisecond or two. Net result: Your connection is still usable and responsive, even though it is being pushed near capacity. Heck, I was behind a transparent proxy for awhile (didn't bother me, but that is another story) that would simplify routing as well. Most home users would never even know (or care about) the difference. Most are proxied at work some way or another as it is.
ISPs can simply log their data, see where it is going and what it looks like and write some prioritization rules to give the end users some help. Yes it is more work for the ISP, but it is right in line with something they should be doing anyway.
Now if there was a way to do proper QoS on the internet at large, that would be an interesting proposition as well...
Why not use SFTP/SCP or somthing to transfer the.ISO (or equivalent image) to a secure site? Or why not send them on protable 2.5" hard disk or something more reliable than CD's if you are having these issues? Heck, even compact flash is cheap these days, 1GB shouldn't set you back too much and it is quite easy to determine if the file exists properly. Let the manufacturers worry about getting the image right, it is their butt on the line after all.
Another thing would be to simply burn it, then use a tool to verify that the disc was burned correctly and reliably. Heck you could even do your own sample test and do other interesting metrics like how long it takes to complete the verification - possibly an indicator of how many errors were encountered in the read process.
Better yet, just offer the files up on your web site and let customers burn their own CD's if they feel they really need them.
I have one of these (actually got in on one of the first shipments!) and I must say it is SWEET! At first I had it hooked to a geForce 3 but that wouldn't drive the DVI at 1600x1200 (native res), so I upgraded on the cheap ($20 at the time) to a FX5200 that would. DVI made all the difference at that high of a res, I didn't notice the difference that much below it.
About a month ago I finally scored a 6800GT and I must say that I play UT2004 1600x1200 quite regularly (and some other games) and there is no ghosting at all. Halo, which is notoriously bad for, I don't notice any ghosting. I also watch movies and again, no ghosting. Very, very nice monitor.
The age is here, and the recent Dell deals have had this particular monitor down in the low 600's. If you can afford that chunk of change, as well as a video card powerful enough to drive it, life will be great. A 19" would certainly be a more modest purchase.... but since when have gamers cared about that?
Apparently neither of us know the myth of creation as I quoted your 6000 year reference. (Hint, God rested on the seventh day).
Regardless of that, how can you back up your arguments that He is not bound by the physical laws. Hopefully you realize there is an awful lot about the universe and physics that we just don't understand. Why should our own lack of understanding cause us to block out the opportunity to explore thoughts and ideas? What is there to say that invisble pink unicorns don't exist somewhere in the universe?
On a personal note, I certainly feel as though I know certain things, and recognize in other areas I have a lot of room to grow. Religion and Science are both fascinating to me - especially how they interact together as more is discovered (or revealed if that is your cup of tea). I have contemplated many of these issues for a number of years and have formed my own beliefs (hypotheses?) which may or may not entirely agree with a given religion/scientific view. While perhaps my evidence isn't a stark as blood-stained carpet to you, it is more than sufficient to allow me to examine the possibility that there is something much bigger than myself out there.
I find it very closed minded to think that science would consider it understood because "God did it". Quite the opposite really, as science would (should?) continue to try to figure out how it was done.
Let me pose this question to you AC - what if God were bound to physical laws (as I believe he is). Not some magical mythical creature that could bend reality as he sees fit. Assuming he had a perfect understanding of the universe around him, why couldn't he have started a supernova in action long before the "6000 year" creation period of OUR PLANET?
Personally, contemplating evolution, physics, gravitation, the Stars, the Cells, everything is absolutely more beautiful when you know that there is rhyme and reason behind it. Not to mention how the impulse to dig deeper and understand more how it all relates is ver satisfying to me.
Before closing your mind, try opening it a little wider.
What more likely happened is they designed the engine in such a way that on-line, or even LAN co-op would require too much state being sent back and forth. Really their levels aren't that big, nor are there that many enemies that sending AI state would be a huge issue, I mean multiplayer games generally have support for at least 32-64 players simulataneously, and you wouldn't even suffer from bad lag on a couple of them (or maybe all of them if your connection sucks?). Perfect example, Serious Sam often has well in excess of 50+ enemies on the playing field, but it can somehow manage to send the state of those players.
The more likely story is they picked up where they left off with the Halo 1 code and tweaked it to add in the new features and bump the graphics up a notch. Co-op over the wire wasn't supported then, isn't supported now and most likely will never be supported in the Halo series.
After a bit of googling and actually reading the articles (gasp!) - here is some info that I found rather interesting:
The sun cycle is about 11 years. The length isn't fixed, it has varied between 9 and 14 years.
The next minimum was expected in late 2006, so this is coming about a year early.
Scientists don't understand the solar year, or what really causes it - so this could be a fluke or something else. So far it is just an interesting observation.
The linked article is good, but the Wiki link needs some help. Any solar physicists out there that want to contribute?
1. Not favorable; unpropitious.
2. Troublesome; adverse: an untoward incident.
3. Hard to guide or control; unruly.
4. Improper; unseemly.
5. Archaic. Awkward.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=untowar d
Well, in an effort to feed several of the trolls in this topic, think about this:
Linux is having a very painful time being "desktop ready". BSD, particularly OpenBSD is a farther stretch to land on the desktops of the ministry of defense.
Seriously, if they want it for servers, firewalls, etc. Great. But Mandrake is a French company as well as linux is better suited to the desktop. Besides, Mandrake would interface flawlessly with a BSD box using NFS or your protocol/app of choice.
Well, in an effort to feed the troll - virtualizing the graphics card WILL give a huge benefit to the speed of the application. Assuming you run at 800x600 (Which XP likes to default to), that is an awful lot of computations being TRANSLATED (not virtualized) from x86ish to PowerPC and then the result spit back. Just being able to VIRUTALIZE that will in fact give a noticeable speed boost I would imagine. Certainly VPC and the running applications will feel a lot more responsive if nothing else.
And the thought of Microsoft releasing "a version of windows for the mac that runs as a.app" - I think the community at large knows that isn't going to happen for simple reasons like marketing and more complex reasons like trying to run an OS as a native.app. Right....
Check out http://www.webtc.com/DVHS/default.htm - they have some examples of how to setup your PC and record/play using DirectShow filters. Not the absolute brain dead click one button approach you might like, but it could get you started.
I would also like to cast my vote that avsforums is the place to look. You will likely spend many hours searching and reading, but you will likely find a tons of useful info from people who are already doing more or less what you are trying to pull off.
I wonder if this is why they delayed test 2 a week (the 20th is when it is scheduled to be available in ISO goodness). They said that the freeze would allow GNOME 2.8 in.... now if I could just find out if xorg6.8 as well as KDE 3.3 will be included.
FreeBSD i386 can use binary Ethernet and WLAN network drivers written to the Windows XP NDIS 5.1 specification. It is a little cumbersome to convert a NDIS driver into a FreeBSD Kernel Loadable Module (KLD): (By: wpaul)
# ndiscvt -O -i neti557x.inf -s neti557x.sys -n intel0 #/* Compile and install new kernel with "options NDIS" */ # kldload intel0
Well, as the author was asking for a free as in beer way of running a windows environment on *nix systems, bochs satisfies his request. Particularly if he is trying to run wincode on a SPARC or PPC chip.
However, in an attempt to feed the Troll, there is a project called plex86 which attempts to virtualize the hardware, as well as a forked version that is much faster and lighter but only designed to run linux variants. Obligatory links:
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.hackiis6.com/
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GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.hackiis6.com
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While it is clear you don't like this example of our lawmakers working hard (or hardly)... your comparison to the GPL isn't entirely well founded, and neither is my critique - but hey, this is /. .....
... well I think that is a bit more of a gray area. I haven't fully fleshed out what I think is right or wrong there, but personally I don't have a problem with these methods - but then again I am the kind of person who definitely prefers the "airplane version" or a film to the theatrical/DVD edition of the film.
Basically if you were to change a GPL'd work you would still have to adibe by the license, you are redistributing it - not changing the license.
The folks who edit a movie and resell it (ignoring DMCA / encryption breaking laws) are realistically no different to selling old CD's (or buying them) from a CD exchange. First Sale is a very important thing to me. CD's are generally scratched to some degree from these places - thus altering the data, intentionally or not - are they evil too? Besides, most places are very upgront about the media being edited, as well as making available lists of what they do edit.
Now for software that does this on the fly, or rentals
Of course, I haven't read the article or the bill itself, nor I am even a lawyer so my comments are nothing more than karma burning / whoring.
If you are running Windows, go take a visit to www.asp.net and look at WebMatrix. It also includes a small web server called Cassini that can serve up .NET content as well.
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WebMatrix
http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/default.aspx?tabInde
Cassini Web Server
http://www.asp.net/Projects/Cassini/Download/
I believe it was Xandros waaaaaaay back when it was first released that included solitaire as part of the install, instead of watching the packages decompress and install themselves. You could still monitor the progress, but it gave you a chance to do something while it installed instead of twiddling away....
Do they still have solitaire or something else equally interesting and unique in their installer? I must say, that has forever engrained itself on my memory, and is always compared when checking out another distro.
I think it is a little unfair to outright declare HTTP pipelining to be bad (except to a proxy server). HTTP pipelining certainly has it's place, and for a lot of single server websites it will result in better performance for the end user - AND the web server as well.
The big problem comes in with load balancing, as you say, but is that really a problem with pipelining or with half-baked attempts at providing scalability?
Personally, I have used pipelining in the mozilla products for several years now, and I have yet to be able to pinpoint a single problem due to pipelining. I also think it is worse to enable a great many initial connections (I have seen recommendations as high as 40!). If you are going to nitpick a feature, let it be that one. Two connections seems quite reasonable for me.
Personally I tend to stop at Gamespot for the large part of my initial game reviews, not because I like their editors (I think they generally fall somewhere between mediocre and stink) but because they have lots of easy to access screenshots and movies, and quite frankly - their video reviews are pretty decent. They also have reader reviews, forums and other informational bits all nicely tied up so I can explore as much or as little as I want.
.
The bottom line in my opinion is that we really need both hand fed, just give me the stinking average rating of the game, and immersive, make you think and decide for yourself movies and demos
And for my soapbox speech, reviews very rarely mention the in game music (partly because it isn't part of games like it used to be). Sound effects generally get a mention, but music rarely. When a reviewer actually reviews the music, and heaven forbid actually takes it into account when giving their stamp of approval on the game - the nostalgia runs thick and rich. Lets not forget about all the elements of gameplay, not just story and graphics!
Firefox not installing plugins by default using an unprivileged thing is a GOOD THING. I think the poster of this article needs to step back and look at the security model and why it exists, not only that it exists.
Many of the OSS apps I work with, work fine as long as you play by the rules (which is a huge part of security!). Can we mod an entire story as Troll?
For all those who may not know, The Sun is a British TABLOID - and as such is often publishing material in that rather dark shade of gray... Big surprise they didn't get it right.
The more interesting story to me would be to follow-up with the father who purchased the Gameboy and cartridge, and find out where he purchased the goods. I mean come on, if you are really concerned about your kids why are you buying something from a less than reputable source. Is there even a story if he bought it off some street vendor?
ISPs have had the ability to deal with this for a long time. Many home users even take advantage of an easy bandage (probably not a fix) - simply prioritize packets. As an example, ACK's get priority whereas the next packet in your 3GB Linux ISO gets bumped by a millisecond or two. Net result: Your connection is still usable and responsive, even though it is being pushed near capacity. Heck, I was behind a transparent proxy for awhile (didn't bother me, but that is another story) that would simplify routing as well. Most home users would never even know (or care about) the difference. Most are proxied at work some way or another as it is.
ISPs can simply log their data, see where it is going and what it looks like and write some prioritization rules to give the end users some help. Yes it is more work for the ISP, but it is right in line with something they should be doing anyway.
Now if there was a way to do proper QoS on the internet at large, that would be an interesting proposition as well...
Why not use SFTP/SCP or somthing to transfer the .ISO (or equivalent image) to a secure site? Or why not send them on protable 2.5" hard disk or something more reliable than CD's if you are having these issues? Heck, even compact flash is cheap these days, 1GB shouldn't set you back too much and it is quite easy to determine if the file exists properly. Let the manufacturers worry about getting the image right, it is their butt on the line after all.
Another thing would be to simply burn it, then use a tool to verify that the disc was burned correctly and reliably. Heck you could even do your own sample test and do other interesting metrics like how long it takes to complete the verification - possibly an indicator of how many errors were encountered in the read process.
Better yet, just offer the files up on your web site and let customers burn their own CD's if they feel they really need them.
I have one of these (actually got in on one of the first shipments!) and I must say it is SWEET! At first I had it hooked to a geForce 3 but that wouldn't drive the DVI at 1600x1200 (native res), so I upgraded on the cheap ($20 at the time) to a FX5200 that would. DVI made all the difference at that high of a res, I didn't notice the difference that much below it.
About a month ago I finally scored a 6800GT and I must say that I play UT2004 1600x1200 quite regularly (and some other games) and there is no ghosting at all. Halo, which is notoriously bad for, I don't notice any ghosting. I also watch movies and again, no ghosting. Very, very nice monitor.
The age is here, and the recent Dell deals have had this particular monitor down in the low 600's. If you can afford that chunk of change, as well as a video card powerful enough to drive it, life will be great. A 19" would certainly be a more modest purchase.... but since when have gamers cared about that?
Apparently neither of us know the myth of creation as I quoted your 6000 year reference. (Hint, God rested on the seventh day).
Regardless of that, how can you back up your arguments that He is not bound by the physical laws. Hopefully you realize there is an awful lot about the universe and physics that we just don't understand. Why should our own lack of understanding cause us to block out the opportunity to explore thoughts and ideas? What is there to say that invisble pink unicorns don't exist somewhere in the universe?
On a personal note, I certainly feel as though I know certain things, and recognize in other areas I have a lot of room to grow. Religion and Science are both fascinating to me - especially how they interact together as more is discovered (or revealed if that is your cup of tea). I have contemplated many of these issues for a number of years and have formed my own beliefs (hypotheses?) which may or may not entirely agree with a given religion/scientific view. While perhaps my evidence isn't a stark as blood-stained carpet to you, it is more than sufficient to allow me to examine the possibility that there is something much bigger than myself out there.
I find it very closed minded to think that science would consider it understood because "God did it". Quite the opposite really, as science would (should?) continue to try to figure out how it was done.
Let me pose this question to you AC - what if God were bound to physical laws (as I believe he is). Not some magical mythical creature that could bend reality as he sees fit. Assuming he had a perfect understanding of the universe around him, why couldn't he have started a supernova in action long before the "6000 year" creation period of OUR PLANET?
Personally, contemplating evolution, physics, gravitation, the Stars, the Cells, everything is absolutely more beautiful when you know that there is rhyme and reason behind it. Not to mention how the impulse to dig deeper and understand more how it all relates is ver satisfying to me.
Before closing your mind, try opening it a little wider.
I am just waiting to see who wins the redskins game....
What more likely happened is they designed the engine in such a way that on-line, or even LAN co-op would require too much state being sent back and forth. Really their levels aren't that big, nor are there that many enemies that sending AI state would be a huge issue, I mean multiplayer games generally have support for at least 32-64 players simulataneously, and you wouldn't even suffer from bad lag on a couple of them (or maybe all of them if your connection sucks?). Perfect example, Serious Sam often has well in excess of 50+ enemies on the playing field, but it can somehow manage to send the state of those players.
The more likely story is they picked up where they left off with the Halo 1 code and tweaked it to add in the new features and bump the graphics up a notch. Co-op over the wire wasn't supported then, isn't supported now and most likely will never be supported in the Halo series.
Bungie was a much better studio pre-MS.
After a bit of googling and actually reading the articles (gasp!) - here is some info that I found rather interesting:
The sun cycle is about 11 years. The length isn't fixed, it has varied between 9 and 14 years.
The next minimum was expected in late 2006, so this is coming about a year early.
Scientists don't understand the solar year, or what really causes it - so this could be a fluke or something else. So far it is just an interesting observation.
The linked article is good, but the Wiki link needs some help. Any solar physicists out there that want to contribute?
un-to-ward
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Pronunciation Key (n-tôrd, -trd)
adj.
1. Not favorable; unpropitious.
2. Troublesome; adverse: an untoward incident.
3. Hard to guide or control; unruly.
4. Improper; unseemly.
5. Archaic. Awkward.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=untowa
Well, in an effort to feed several of the trolls in this topic, think about this:
Linux is having a very painful time being "desktop ready". BSD, particularly OpenBSD is a farther stretch to land on the desktops of the ministry of defense.
Seriously, if they want it for servers, firewalls, etc. Great. But Mandrake is a French company as well as linux is better suited to the desktop. Besides, Mandrake would interface flawlessly with a BSD box using NFS or your protocol/app of choice.
Well, in an effort to feed the troll - virtualizing the graphics card WILL give a huge benefit to the speed of the application. Assuming you run at 800x600 (Which XP likes to default to), that is an awful lot of computations being TRANSLATED (not virtualized) from x86ish to PowerPC and then the result spit back. Just being able to VIRUTALIZE that will in fact give a noticeable speed boost I would imagine. Certainly VPC and the running applications will feel a lot more responsive if nothing else.
.app" - I think the community at large knows that isn't going to happen for simple reasons like marketing and more complex reasons like trying to run an OS as a native .app. Right....
And the thought of Microsoft releasing "a version of windows for the mac that runs as a
Check out http://www.webtc.com/DVHS/default.htm - they have some examples of how to setup your PC and record/play using DirectShow filters. Not the absolute brain dead click one button approach you might like, but it could get you started.
I would also like to cast my vote that avsforums is the place to look. You will likely spend many hours searching and reading, but you will likely find a tons of useful info from people who are already doing more or less what you are trying to pull off.
You do realize, that the latest updates to Mandrake were also /.'d
I wonder if this is why they delayed test 2 a week (the 20th is when it is scheduled to be available in ISO goodness). They said that the freeze would allow GNOME 2.8 in.... now if I could just find out if xorg6.8 as well as KDE 3.3 will be included.
http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/schedule/
NDIS Binary Compatibility
/* Compile and install new kernel with "options NDIS" */
FreeBSD i386 can use binary Ethernet and WLAN network drivers written to the
Windows XP NDIS 5.1 specification. It is a little cumbersome to convert a NDIS driver
into a FreeBSD Kernel Loadable Module (KLD): (By: wpaul)
# ndiscvt -O -i neti557x.inf -s neti557x.sys -n intel0
#
# kldload intel0
Man ndis(4), ndisapi(9), ndiscvt(
Well, as the author was asking for a free as in beer way of running a windows environment on *nix systems, bochs satisfies his request. Particularly if he is trying to run wincode on a SPARC or PPC chip.
However, in an attempt to feed the Troll, there is a project called plex86 which attempts to virtualize the hardware, as well as a forked version that is much faster and lighter but only designed to run linux variants. Obligatory links:
Bochs is known to run Win95, I would imagine it would run other Windows flavors as well, perhaps with varying degrees of success.