If you read the fine article:) they say that a technique like this tends to produce a rather jittery, jumpy effect where backgrounds aren't sufficiently similar, and the noise on them moves around way too much to be aesthetically pleasing.
Well, according to this article from the EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic History, In the 1800s, many Americans worked seventy hours or more per week and the length of the workweek became an important political issue. Since then the workweek's length has decreased considerably. Now, this isn't the 1960s, but I still have reason to doubt your raw productivity increase figures.
Dad check stuff into lockers. Mom brings the kids to the bathroom. After reaching the top, Mom realizes the urgent need for a diaper bag. So Dad gives her the key and keeps an eye on the rest of the family while Mom runs down with the infant for a quick change. Except, there is no key. Darn.
Wow, you car people are never satisfied. You complain and whine about our rollover risk and low horsepower and gas mileage. So we put a governor on so it won't go over 25 miles per hour, and take out some of the chairs, and you complain even louder. Will you never be satisfied?
That's what Digital Rights Management technology is for. It's currently called the "Next-Generation Secure Computing Base for Windows", formerly known as Palladium, formerly known as just Trusted Computing.
If you listen to Microsoft (blah blah FUD blah blah stupidity blah FUD blah) they apparently envision a future where hardware is free, and people pay for their software. And then there's Free Software, free in more ways than one. I don't really consider this business model sane, but if they base any plans on this sort of stuff happening, then Linux+etc will really rain on their parade.
"What do you mean you use to be a man? Nah, no big deal, I'm cool with that...although I did always wonder why I caught you reading/. --that explains it."
According to the local DMV (North Carolina), car insurance is actually mandatory. You just have to be able to pay in the event of a wreck. They do some sort of check into your ability to do so. Insurance is still highly reccomended.
It doesn't matter too much if you lose all your data when "all your data" means a few dozen megabytes of save-games. If you're using the machine for real work, however...
What I would like to see is anti-malware that bites back, hard.
Well, you could feed the spyware's controllers some fudged data, but how do you think you're going to get a SETI@Home-like model to "generate the data needed to put these goofs in jail"? Please, explain how repeated computation of fast Fourier transforms will do anything to uncover the spyware's owner.:)
Suppose we managed to get your nice antispyware software to collect data on the spyware's owners. What form do you think that data will take? I'm guessing it would be little more than IP addresses. Perhaps you can convince the authorities to subpeona the ISP for the owners of those addresses, but I doubt it. Good luck.
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So, I'll bet, you don't, like, old Star, Trek, episodes and, movies, either?
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The issue here is that the publisher thinks they can force her to turn over the domain name, which is positively ludicrous.
What's more, it reeks of extortion. "Things will only get worse"? That sounds like a threat to me, anyway.
If it's like any of the other Disney electronics, it will incessantly play its cheery, bippy, sub-MIDI-quality theme tunes nonstop as long as you have it on and drive everyone in the house absolutely crazy.
Seriously, I've seen MickyMouse-ized TVs, TV/VCRs, and even telephones (my mom actually HAS a Mickey Mouse telephone). Is Disney actually manufacturing this computer instead of just licensing it? Even then, I really, really do not see Disney becoming a Big Name in the computer industry, kids or no kids.
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BAH! I can't middle-click or control-click on it to open the ads in a new tab. What good is that?!? :)
If you read the fine article :) they say that a technique like this tends to produce a rather jittery, jumpy effect where backgrounds aren't sufficiently similar, and the noise on them moves around way too much to be aesthetically pleasing.
Well, according to this article from the EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic History, In the 1800s, many Americans worked seventy hours or more per week and the length of the workweek became an important political issue. Since then the workweek's length has decreased considerably. Now, this isn't the 1960s, but I still have reason to doubt your raw productivity increase figures.
Dad check stuff into lockers. Mom brings the kids to the bathroom. After reaching the top, Mom realizes the urgent need for a diaper bag. So Dad gives her the key and keeps an eye on the rest of the family while Mom runs down with the infant for a quick change. Except, there is no key. Darn.
And when you accidentally squish the silly putty out of shape, how do you get your stuff back?
Wow, you car people are never satisfied. You complain and whine about our rollover risk and low horsepower and gas mileage. So we put a governor on so it won't go over 25 miles per hour, and take out some of the chairs, and you complain even louder. Will you never be satisfied?
That's what Digital Rights Management technology is for. It's currently called the "Next-Generation Secure Computing Base for Windows", formerly known as Palladium, formerly known as just Trusted Computing.
If you listen to Microsoft (blah blah FUD blah blah stupidity blah FUD blah) they apparently envision a future where hardware is free, and people pay for their software. And then there's Free Software, free in more ways than one. I don't really consider this business model sane, but if they base any plans on this sort of stuff happening, then Linux+etc will really rain on their parade.
How about just, say, "News for Nerds"?
That's nothing. The Apache section is much worse.
And by "normal", I mean the applications which zombify your PC and make it send spam.
Sir (or madam):
That was too much information.
Since this is Sun we're talking about, will we end up with Power Architecture Java as a result?
According to the local DMV (North Carolina), car insurance is actually mandatory. You just have to be able to pay in the event of a wreck. They do some sort of check into your ability to do so. Insurance is still highly reccomended.
Cool!
Well... with Gecko, at least they try.
It doesn't matter too much if you lose all your data when "all your data" means a few dozen megabytes of save-games. If you're using the machine for real work, however...
Well, you could feed the spyware's controllers some fudged data, but how do you think you're going to get a SETI@Home-like model to "generate the data needed to put these goofs in jail"? Please, explain how repeated computation of fast Fourier transforms will do anything to uncover the spyware's owner. :)
Suppose we managed to get your nice antispyware software to collect data on the spyware's owners. What form do you think that data will take? I'm guessing it would be little more than IP addresses. Perhaps you can convince the authorities to subpeona the ISP for the owners of those addresses, but I doubt it. Good luck.
So, I'll bet, you don't, like, old Star, Trek, episodes and, movies, either?
What's more, it reeks of extortion. "Things will only get worse"? That sounds like a threat to me, anyway.
I disagree. I find that Don Bluth has had much, much better mice, from a design perspective. Disney mice are all marketing. =b
Isn't quality control sort of about... erm, fixing these bigs?
Seriously, I've seen MickyMouse-ized TVs, TV/VCRs, and even telephones (my mom actually HAS a Mickey Mouse telephone). Is Disney actually manufacturing this computer instead of just licensing it? Even then, I really, really do not see Disney becoming a Big Name in the computer industry, kids or no kids.
They've been paid off (indirectly) by Microsoft.
What kind of a Tolkein fan are you? The elves are taller than men.