Bingo. That why like here in MN, the season ticket waiting list for the Wild is years long. I actually was not able to purchase a ticket this year from TicketMaster, not even one, and I tried often. The only three games I saw live were vendor perks.
I don't know how live viewership is doing in other states really, but if in MN the NHL is in no way on life-support for live viewership. Of course, that may just be good news for the XCEL center, not the NHL. Come to think of it I wonder what the NHL's revenue difference is from ticket sales vs. TV networks running the feed...
What were the doing? Verifying identities of course! By means of making you enter a phone number and then enter the code on the screen when it's called, or making you scan and email a utility bill! YES! These are actually two different methods I've used buying certs before.
So you are indeed correct, there has been no reason to trust a cert before, but they haven't actually fixed anything either;)
So the verification is crap, but who cares, Joe User never checks the certs anyway, and probably dosen't notice the padlock. In fact, Joe User (in my experience) will not check the cert, check the sitename, click the seal, and check the URL to make sure the verification page came from a CA. If Joe knows what a CA is... or dosen't just jump under the desk and cry when he sees the cert's fingerprint presented to him in hex pairs after clicking the padlock.
Okay, so Joe dosen't know how to verify a site and dosen't give a rip, but who cares, no matter how well you can verify your own identity, someone can still impersonate you well enough to reel in the suckers.
Trusted third party identification only works if that trusted third party can identify EVERYONE, not just those who have opted for identification. The security companies probably all know this, but the current method hasn't exausted it's power to generate income.
The only way for trusted third party identification to actually work is to be able to identify every site within the browser's scope. Since verification is opt-in, then the only remaining way to do this is to limit the scope of the browser. Example: and this is a quick idea, it probably could be improved quite a bit, but for starters: Have a browser button to turn on secure browsing mode, and with it on you cannot visit any unidentified site. Across the top of every page you visit there is about a 100px tall banner displaying the legal name and address of the verified site owner. That is something Joe can understand.
Haha, maybe DRM for a few years was an attempt to brainwash the public into thinking that ceasing to DRM music is somehow value-add (as opposed to removed value reduction). If you're eating only bread and water for a year, SPAM and Ramen noodles with a can of soda would be a gormet meal!
Just conjecture, but this particular song made the news (here anyway) no because of the personalization, but because of the DRM free download.
In fact, in the open source world, this is where competition is probably going to go. Since the products are developed by the community, and some markets are flooded with options for product choice (media players, GUI dekstops, etc), the next real way to compete is going to be offering support for OSS products that someone _else_ is already offering support for.
It's not a hijack, its a competing service! Granted this situation is like a wal-mart moving into town, but it's still capitalism.
Just because most people don't read the whole patent, dosen't mean it isn't rediculous mind you. I decided to indulge your elitism, and read the patent. Now I'm even more pissed about this being granted? Why? Because I have several of these things around my office. This "patent" looks a whole damn lot like a REQUIREMENTS DOCUMENT.
At my business all of our outgoing calls travel over virtual lines provided by the VoicePulse Connect service. We get to set up the line(s) as an IAX connection and all you do is buy minutes. Better yet, for outgoing calls you have as many lines as you attempt to use, it just uses 1 minute each minute per active line.
I didn't look through the article to see if you can do this with DV, but with Voice Pulse the quality of service has been superb! Kudos to them!
I've actually used a Lipsum generator for passwords for a long time on sensitive machines. Because they consist of very pronouncable latin roots, its easy to remeber them. One I don't use anymore for example was Etiam_Tristique_Turpis. Not easy to crack for I imagine, but easy for me to remeber.
You know, I took some heat once because I had a comment like that which was taken incorrectly by some of my fellow developers. The comment was// REALLY FREAKIN' BROKEN!!!.
I wrote it there because I had not completed the method and wanted to get the class running so I could test the rest of it (as that particular part was fairly complex, but mundane, therefore boring). I was going to get back to it because it was more of a detailed feature than a critical functionality.
The problem was is that someone else (who wasn't even working on that part of the program, just utilizing it) was looking over the code and thought that I just meant that the method was broken, and was meant to be left as such until the next itteration. Well, it was gone and finished by time I heard about it (the next day), but some people were pissed thinking that I was just going to start a method, not finish it, and just stick some silly comment in there and expect people not to use it.
Wow, talk about fanaticism! I mean, I like Star Trek too, but when was the last time you saw a bunch of desperate couch potatos try to put $80 mil together for medical research, space exploration, or charitable distribution? Seriously, luxuries beyond beer seem like a major drain on mankind sometimes...
Microsoft software can talk to mainframes and minicomputers from IBM and other manufacturers; other operating systems such as the Mac OS and various UNIXes including Linux; NetWare or AppleTalk networks and...
That's just distrubing... he dosen't seem to mention that his software's interoperability with *NIXs and Macs are the result of countless hours of work from OSS contributors and Apple software engineers, and has absolutly nothing to do with Microsoft's software.
Since, ya know, the last time I logged into my Linux machine from Windows I didn't use... Putty, Samba, WinSCP, OpenVPN Windows, etc. Oh, and the last time I logged into my Mac from Windows I certainly used, Microsoft Mac Interoperability Toolkit? No.
I had a real shock with a recent Linux experiment here. I was to get Linux running on some verry verry new hardware. From past experiences, I expected this is fail hard.
I setup both Gentoo and Fedora (no I'm not talking about Gentoo for Joe Windows, but it was one of the test ditros) on the machine no problem at all. The compliment was an Athlon FX-55, Gigabyte Board with the nForce4 SLI chipset and PCI-E, four SATA2 drives, and a nVidia GeForce 6600. I seriously just about had a heart attack when the first install (Fedora) went right through without a problem! (forcedeth seems to be working just peachy too).
I have found the ability to embed the database in the application exceptionally useful for a recent J2EE deployment we worked on.
I liked the idea of just being able to plop the org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedXADataSource class into my connection pool and have a database. I like that I can tell the suits that the database is built by IBM and that's all I hear about it. And I like that once this venture grows and starts to make more money I can switch fairly seemlessly to DB2.
It probably should not be considered a security measure, but there is also a certain level of security gained since there is no actualy database server that can be accessed seperately from the application server
Hmm, then I wonder why the largest compact flash cards are actually just containers for micro hard disks...
Flash memory density is increasing rapily, but so is the cost. Look at solid state drives from M-Systems
-- They are rediculously expensive. I have used them for storage in hostile environment experiments, as that is what they are made for, but they are wayyy to expensive for consumer use. Obviously, the prices will come down. However, the prices to make postage stamp size hard disks with many gigabytes of storage are very low. Lower cost will win in the end, no matter how dense flash memory is.
combine it with a more sophisticated (for todays' audiences) computer-based plot
I remember seeing The Matrix Reloaded in the theatre and I was the only one who let out a cheer when I saw that Trinity was actaully using an ssh command from a bash terminal when hacking in to shut down the power to that building. =P
I'm surprised some of these movie makers don't realize that a remake like this is going to get most of its support from the nostalgia (IMHO).
The Doom movie had always interested me because I would throw my $7 at someone showing a Doom movie in a microsecond. Then I heard that they were bastardizing the plot, from fighting demons from hell on Mars to fighting mutants from Earth on Earth. Needless to say I don't have any interest in the project anymore.
Not that I believe that homosexuality is a result of genetic overpopulation controls. However, how then did the eye become and evolve to detect photonic radiation that priviously could not be detected by the organisim or its cells?
Hmm, sounds like an Aqua/GTK and Aqua/QT wrapper would be a pretty significant thing. I build a great deal of my favorite OSS apps under my OS X environment, and have always thought that this would be a nice feature. Granted, the X11 shock dosen't affect me because I worked almost all summer for tow summers on Tru64 (which was a shcok from Linux/Gnome2 =P)
Apple did a _beautiful_ job at this with their Aqua/Swing wrapper for Java. (My Swing based Java applications look exactly like OS X applications, and are more portable than Cocoa based Java)
No kidding, I couldnt believe this when I read it. That and the other whinings on his list. A computer is a highly sophisicated tool for performing exceedingly complex tasks. His list's whole motif seems to be that any person should be able to sit in front of any computer, with no experience with the tool or the task, and complete the task with perfection. Damn I half expected one of them to be that "I paid a lot of money for a brand new computer and it DID NOT DO WHAT I WANTED IT TO DO WHEN I WILLED IT TO BE DONE!". This person is a fool.
Oh well, yes, they are quite weighty. However, I'm certain you are talking about a wiring harness for the whole car's electronics system, not just the video system. I suppose that maybe there is a large enough impact if they are mentioning it in the article, it is just too devoid of details as to how fiber is going to make a significant weight difference over copper.
Wow, they're bragging up the reduction of weight of a wiring harness in a car. That's just awesome. Holy crap don't want to go over GVWR in the Nissan with a copper cabling system. Pardon me while I go shopping for light weight optical camping gear as not to kill my gas milage.
It's SUPPOSED to be like that! Can't you see that this is an open expression of the Microsoft Server platform??? It is built with fixed, proprietary parts that, while they connect well to each other, cause the final product to only operates in one out of the three ways you'd expect it to, require external help to keep it from falling apart, and weigh much more than and be much larger than what would actually work! Geeze go take an art appreciation class.
Actually, I have had experience with both single and dual processor G4 and G5 machines, and the speed boost is no small deal
I was skeptical at first too, given that on Windows machines I am used to an intensive application sucking up all of one processor and just letting the other take care of mouse clicks in the GUI. However, with Apple software, and actaully a lot of non-apple software I have found that it thread very, very well, and utilizes both processors to their maximum almost all of the time during an intensive process.
Just a FYI that I have noticed working with these in the past
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Bingo. That why like here in MN, the season ticket waiting list for the Wild is years long. I actually was not able to purchase a ticket this year from TicketMaster, not even one, and I tried often. The only three games I saw live were vendor perks.
I don't know how live viewership is doing in other states really, but if in MN the NHL is in no way on life-support for live viewership. Of course, that may just be good news for the XCEL center, not the NHL. Come to think of it I wonder what the NHL's revenue difference is from ticket sales vs. TV networks running the feed...
What were the doing? Verifying identities of course! By means of making you enter a phone number and then enter the code on the screen when it's called, or making you scan and email a utility bill! YES! These are actually two different methods I've used buying certs before.
;)
... or dosen't just jump under the desk and cry when he sees the cert's fingerprint presented to him in hex pairs after clicking the padlock.
So you are indeed correct, there has been no reason to trust a cert before, but they haven't actually fixed anything either
So the verification is crap, but who cares, Joe User never checks the certs anyway, and probably dosen't notice the padlock. In fact, Joe User (in my experience) will not check the cert, check the sitename, click the seal, and check the URL to make sure the verification page came from a CA. If Joe knows what a CA is
Okay, so Joe dosen't know how to verify a site and dosen't give a rip, but who cares, no matter how well you can verify your own identity, someone can still impersonate you well enough to reel in the suckers.
Trusted third party identification only works if that trusted third party can identify EVERYONE, not just those who have opted for identification. The security companies probably all know this, but the current method hasn't exausted it's power to generate income.
The only way for trusted third party identification to actually work is to be able to identify every site within the browser's scope. Since verification is opt-in, then the only remaining way to do this is to limit the scope of the browser. Example: and this is a quick idea, it probably could be improved quite a bit, but for starters: Have a browser button to turn on secure browsing mode, and with it on you cannot visit any unidentified site. Across the top of every page you visit there is about a 100px tall banner displaying the legal name and address of the verified site owner. That is something Joe can understand.
Haha, maybe DRM for a few years was an attempt to brainwash the public into thinking that ceasing to DRM music is somehow value-add (as opposed to removed value reduction). If you're eating only bread and water for a year, SPAM and Ramen noodles with a can of soda would be a gormet meal!
Just conjecture, but this particular song made the news (here anyway) no because of the personalization, but because of the DRM free download.
Hijack? This is free enterprise!
In fact, in the open source world, this is where competition is probably going to go. Since the products are developed by the community, and some markets are flooded with options for product choice (media players, GUI dekstops, etc), the next real way to compete is going to be offering support for OSS products that someone _else_ is already offering support for.
It's not a hijack, its a competing service! Granted this situation is like a wal-mart moving into town, but it's still capitalism.
Just because most people don't read the whole patent, dosen't mean it isn't rediculous mind you. I decided to indulge your elitism, and read the patent. Now I'm even more pissed about this being granted? Why? Because I have several of these things around my office. This "patent" looks a whole damn lot like a REQUIREMENTS DOCUMENT.
At my business all of our outgoing calls travel over virtual lines provided by the VoicePulse Connect service. We get to set up the line(s) as an IAX connection and all you do is buy minutes. Better yet, for outgoing calls you have as many lines as you attempt to use, it just uses 1 minute each minute per active line.
I didn't look through the article to see if you can do this with DV, but with Voice Pulse the quality of service has been superb! Kudos to them!
I've actually used a Lipsum generator for passwords for a long time on sensitive machines. Because they consist of very pronouncable latin roots, its easy to remeber them. One I don't use anymore for example was Etiam_Tristique_Turpis. Not easy to crack for I imagine, but easy for me to remeber.
You know, I took some heat once because I had a comment like that which was taken incorrectly by some of my fellow developers. The comment was // REALLY FREAKIN' BROKEN!!!.
I wrote it there because I had not completed the method and wanted to get the class running so I could test the rest of it (as that particular part was fairly complex, but mundane, therefore boring). I was going to get back to it because it was more of a detailed feature than a critical functionality.
The problem was is that someone else (who wasn't even working on that part of the program, just utilizing it) was looking over the code and thought that I just meant that the method was broken, and was meant to be left as such until the next itteration. Well, it was gone and finished by time I heard about it (the next day), but some people were pissed thinking that I was just going to start a method, not finish it, and just stick some silly comment in there and expect people not to use it.
Wow, talk about fanaticism! I mean, I like Star Trek too, but when was the last time you saw a bunch of desperate couch potatos try to put $80 mil together for medical research, space exploration, or charitable distribution? Seriously, luxuries beyond beer seem like a major drain on mankind sometimes...
Altivec == Velocity Engine
And is part of every G4
Your bank's kernel clearly does not support $$tables .
Microsoft software can talk to mainframes and minicomputers from IBM and other manufacturers; other operating systems such as the Mac OS and various UNIXes including Linux; NetWare or AppleTalk networks and ...
That's just distrubing... he dosen't seem to mention that his software's interoperability with *NIXs and Macs are the result of countless hours of work from OSS contributors and Apple software engineers, and has absolutly nothing to do with Microsoft's software.
Since, ya know, the last time I logged into my Linux machine from Windows I didn't use ... Putty, Samba, WinSCP, OpenVPN Windows, etc. Oh, and the last time I logged into my Mac from Windows I certainly used, Microsoft Mac Interoperability Toolkit? No.
I had a real shock with a recent Linux experiment here. I was to get Linux running on some verry verry new hardware. From past experiences, I expected this is fail hard.
I setup both Gentoo and Fedora (no I'm not talking about Gentoo for Joe Windows, but it was one of the test ditros) on the machine no problem at all. The compliment was an Athlon FX-55, Gigabyte Board with the nForce4 SLI chipset and PCI-E, four SATA2 drives, and a nVidia GeForce 6600. I seriously just about had a heart attack when the first install (Fedora) went right through without a problem! (forcedeth seems to be working just peachy too).
I have found the ability to embed the database in the application exceptionally useful for a recent J2EE deployment we worked on.
I liked the idea of just being able to plop the org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedXADataSource class into my connection pool and have a database. I like that I can tell the suits that the database is built by IBM and that's all I hear about it. And I like that once this venture grows and starts to make more money I can switch fairly seemlessly to DB2.
It probably should not be considered a security measure, but there is also a certain level of security gained since there is no actualy database server that can be accessed seperately from the application server
Hmm, then I wonder why the largest compact flash cards are actually just containers for micro hard disks...
Flash memory density is increasing rapily, but so is the cost. Look at solid state drives from M-Systems
-- They are rediculously expensive. I have used them for storage in hostile environment experiments, as that is what they are made for, but they are wayyy to expensive for consumer use. Obviously, the prices will come down. However, the prices to make postage stamp size hard disks with many gigabytes of storage are very low. Lower cost will win in the end, no matter how dense flash memory is.combine it with a more sophisticated (for todays' audiences) computer-based plot
I remember seeing The Matrix Reloaded in the theatre and I was the only one who let out a cheer when I saw that Trinity was actaully using an ssh command from a bash terminal when hacking in to shut down the power to that building. =P
I'm surprised some of these movie makers don't realize that a remake like this is going to get most of its support from the nostalgia (IMHO).
The Doom movie had always interested me because I would throw my $7 at someone showing a Doom movie in a microsecond. Then I heard that they were bastardizing the plot, from fighting demons from hell on Mars to fighting mutants from Earth on Earth. Needless to say I don't have any interest in the project anymore.
Not that I believe that homosexuality is a result of genetic overpopulation controls. However, how then did the eye become and evolve to detect photonic radiation that priviously could not be detected by the organisim or its cells?
Hmm, sounds like an Aqua/GTK and Aqua/QT wrapper would be a pretty significant thing. I build a great deal of my favorite OSS apps under my OS X environment, and have always thought that this would be a nice feature. Granted, the X11 shock dosen't affect me because I worked almost all summer for tow summers on Tru64 (which was a shcok from Linux/Gnome2 =P)
Apple did a _beautiful_ job at this with their Aqua/Swing wrapper for Java. (My Swing based Java applications look exactly like OS X applications, and are more portable than Cocoa based Java)
No kidding, I couldnt believe this when I read it. That and the other whinings on his list. A computer is a highly sophisicated tool for performing exceedingly complex tasks. His list's whole motif seems to be that any person should be able to sit in front of any computer, with no experience with the tool or the task, and complete the task with perfection. Damn I half expected one of them to be that "I paid a lot of money for a brand new computer and it DID NOT DO WHAT I WANTED IT TO DO WHEN I WILLED IT TO BE DONE!". This person is a fool.
I'm a goofy goober YEAH!
In Soviet Russia, you take picture of camera!
Oh well, yes, they are quite weighty. However, I'm certain you are talking about a wiring harness for the whole car's electronics system, not just the video system. I suppose that maybe there is a large enough impact if they are mentioning it in the article, it is just too devoid of details as to how fiber is going to make a significant weight difference over copper.
Wow, they're bragging up the reduction of weight of a wiring harness in a car. That's just awesome. Holy crap don't want to go over GVWR in the Nissan with a copper cabling system. Pardon me while I go shopping for light weight optical camping gear as not to kill my gas milage.
It's SUPPOSED to be like that! Can't you see that this is an open expression of the Microsoft Server platform??? It is built with fixed, proprietary parts that, while they connect well to each other, cause the final product to only operates in one out of the three ways you'd expect it to, require external help to keep it from falling apart, and weigh much more than and be much larger than what would actually work! Geeze go take an art appreciation class.
sorry, I couldn't help it =$
Actually, I have had experience with both single and dual processor G4 and G5 machines, and the speed boost is no small deal
I was skeptical at first too, given that on Windows machines I am used to an intensive application sucking up all of one processor and just letting the other take care of mouse clicks in the GUI. However, with Apple software, and actaully a lot of non-apple software I have found that it thread very, very well, and utilizes both processors to their maximum almost all of the time during an intensive process.
Just a FYI that I have noticed working with these in the past