... for not having to manage, install or roll-out this software. It saves time when setting up, but that time is possible then transferred to when the thing breaks. Not that in-house software breaks, but I guess at least then it's up to you to fix it, as opposed to some guys in a fancy building half-way around the world.
Because the Microsoft "junk" is hardly limiting them, considering how popular it is. Trying for any other platform other than MS would be limiting them.
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If you're speeding, you deserve a ticket. It's that simple. Whether the cop's hiding or not does not affect the guilt of the individual. If the municipalities get so much of an income, then that's purely down to people speeding. Speeding is selfish, and frowned upon for a good reason.
It's great that it's an open standard, but that doesn't help anyone who's audio player doesn't play it. Most, if not all, audio players play MP3, so why not just release it in that format?
I think you'll find they just made a breakthrough with their notebook cores, and realised that people wanted lower-power, faster chips, and the gigahertz race that was on at the time wasn't yielding the performance people wanted. So they came up with their core 2 duo. Saying they were trying to pull the wool over our eyes is a bit rude, considering there's no evidence for it at all. They're a business, not an evil cabal looking to destroy all that is good. I know this is slashdot, but c'mon:)
I'm neither stupid NOR lazy. I use IE because as the market leader, sites are more likely to work with it. It has nothing to do with which browser is evil or not, or which is open-source or not. I just find IE more responsive, quicker to load, and quicker to navigate than firefox. This is just my opinion, I'm not trolling. I just don't like people making ridiculous generalisations that are clearly wrong, and getting modded insightful for the trouble. IE is not perfect, as we all know very well, but when it works, it works admirably. I don't give a rat's ass if it's binary is pre-loaded by Windows, or any other "dirty tricks" that make it seem to be faster than FireFox. If I'm more productive using it, then it works for me:) I do use FireFox occasionally, for a music-streaming site I wrote that uses heavy DOM manipulation, which FireFox is *muuuch* faster at than IE. I believe in using the right tool for the right job, and as long as IE is the right tool for 99.99% of websites I visit, I'll keep using it, as opposed to using FireFox and having to put up with messages as seen in the article. I'm not making a statement with my browser, I'm just trying to get web pages.
You didn't read the article very well, then! There was a graph that showed exactly what happened when the dual-core beat the quad-core, and they explained exactly what they were doing to get those results, and exactly how they achieved them. SSE4 is the answer, coupled with DivX's codec being re-written to utilise SSE4. Encoding to DivX is what beats the pants off the quad-core, which is rather interesting, as the quad-core chips are frequently sold as the heart of video-editing.
It's pretty silly to think you're either totally free or in a police state with no freedom. It's not so black and white as that. Americans aren't completely free, so by that logic is America a police state? Gun control doesn't make a police state. If the people don't want to have to be their own police force (with all the responsibility that entails, frequently un-met by many gun owners in the US and around the world), then why should they have to be? When freedom allows a minority to control, hurt or even threaten a majority, then the majority is no longer free, but subjugated by the minority in question. Some people would rather have the freedom of not being shot at than the freedom to shoot at people who shoot at them, and make sure they have a police force, who are paid, well-trained, well-armed, not drunk, not mentally unstable, and physically capable, to act as their guardians.
The UN has a definition of WMD that these folks should look at. Emotive mis-use of technical terms is fucked up, especially when people's crimes get blown out of all proportion. It's stupid.
Yeah, I know about freenet, but I was suggesting applying it to downloading large binaries on current P2P networks. If this concept of allowing someone to proxy through your box was applied to an eDonkey or BitTorrent client, then we could try to stem the flow of litigation we're currently seeing. Using freenet is no alternative, even if the software makes it a great distribution platform. The technology should follow the releases for a quick-fix, as the other way round would take ages to happen, even if these benefits were possible. In short: people ain't going to swap BitTorrent or eDonkey for freenet:)
No, of course I don't think the US is the only selfish player out there. I do think, however, that is no excuse for the hypocrisy of the US. You, on the other hand, seem to think as long as you're not the only one doing wrong, you can continue without guilt. Excellent reasoning. Selfish behaviour breeds selfish behaviour, and this has serious effects on people on the brink of existence, and you end up getting problems like we're seeing today. Yay for your logic! Yippee!
The US's hundreds of vetoes at the UN security council, while screaming at other countries to abide by the international community's wishes. That's enough, surely. I'm not being a rabid-anti-American (I'm married to one) - this is a massive problem that affects many "large players" on the world scene. This culture needs to be stopped, as the injustice it causes (or even perceived injustice) can flare up in very bloody fashion. Countries need to make no difference between themselves and other countries, or indeed the citizens of either country. Selfish behaviour, while easy to sell, is not good for anyone in the long-run. Shit, the British Empire was a great example of this sense of entitlement some nations seem to feel. It was great for Britain, but shitty (real shitty) for the places it touched. The logic that "it's ok for us to do what we want" was the same logic that the Brits had when they set sail for the first time, until the empire fell. It's also the same reasoning the Germans used (fuck Godwin). It's clearly not good.
... then there could be no claim to the owner of the IP actually being the one downloading, regardless of whether the P2P app was actually proxying at the time or not. If all client->proxy communication was encrypted, then even the ISP couldn't sniff it and know what's going on, should they be subpoenaed for such information. Then the only thing the user would be guilty of is running an open proxy on the ISP's network, as opposed to being sued for millions. And if the ISP doesn't give a rat's ass, then there is no problem. Just a formal "tut tut" letter from the ISP. Or am I being naive?
And that's why people all over the world don't take kindly to US forces being near them, regardless of their expressed intent. Collateral damage might only be paperwork to the US forces, but to those directly affected, it's just another reason to fight back. Each death makes a whole family your enemy.
And if by winning you flush the morals of your country down the drain? That's cool? So by your logic the Germans were damned-right in killing 6,000,000 jews, the Americans were spot-on destroying countless villages in Vietnam, the British were fine having concentration camps in the Boer War, and Mao was cool killing 60,000,000? 'Cos they had to win, and nothing else mattered, so it's all good. Brilliant logic.
You're confusing filenames with binary metadata stored in the file. P2P uses hashes of the complete file at its most permissive (and some protocols include the filename in the hash, also). That means if you change the artist information in your ID3 tags, the file will have a different hash. Change the filename, and for some protocols you have a different hash. P2P uses hashes to match binary-duplicate files, and then download from those sources. If they don't take the filename into account when generating the hash, then files with the same contents but different names will also be added as sources. So I would imagine that's what you've noticed.
Doesn't the international court of justice just try people for doing stuff towards other countries? I didn't think it gave a damn about issues of freedom of speech of member nations' citizens interacting with other citizens in their own country, just if those same citizens (or leaders) start fucking with, say the fictional country of Schmiraq I just made up. It's not supposed to be a global law governing everyone's day-to-day actions, just a way for one nation to solve a problem with another nation without reaching for the gun.
Regardless of the implications for the US, if the US is not willing to participate in the global community with any responsibility, it should stop crying when it thinks others aren't doing so. That's hypocrisy.
It's not just the WTO. The US uses these organisations when it suits them, then ignores their verdicts when brought against the US. That's one of the major reasons the world has a less-than-great view of the US - most other nations try their best to adhere to judgements and arbitration that find against them, regardless of how it will affect them. The understanding is you take the good with the bad, otherwise you just piss people off. The US seems to not give a shit, then acts all surprised when other countries get pissed off with them. Selfish foreign policy. It sounds like a rabid leftist mantra, but it's fucking accurate.
You're spot-on! I couldn't believe it when Microsoft did the same with the XBox, and now everyone's running them in their homes and offices instead of real PCs. Jesus, Microsoft! Let a console be a console!
It is possible for Apple to have both HD and SD versions of media, and deliver the correct version when media is purchased. Apple releasing SD media on a barely-HD-capable box seems a little 2002-y to me, that's all. I thought they'd make something better than this. Is 1080p too much to ask for? Decent picture processing? Is Apple even trying with this product?
Islam's problem is more that we export our influence to Muslim countries. Usually it has nothing to do with the countries being Muslim, and more to do with their location. Oil is a big example - many of the countries it's under are primarily Muslim in belief, so if we are interested in Oil, we seem to be interested in Islam and its followers. Couple that with the west's previous desire to make the middle east nothing but a colony (thanks Britain, France, and the US), and we have a history of us fucking with the middle east. No-one can expect anyone anywhere to behave or react rationally to such pressures, and many people may attribute the causes incorrectly - and it appears that the middle east is taking our "interest" in their oil as us wanting to fuck with them, just to fuck with them. Then throw in the cases of us fucking with non-middle-east Muslim countries (in Asia), and their paranoia increases. People who feel threatened, in any way, get insecure, and group together. It doesn't help that Islam has a notion of brotherhood between all Muslims in all countries (hard to believe when you look at Iraq, but it is the case for other Muslims not so severely threatened), which means any perceived "attack" on any Muslims in any country, by anyone, is an attack on ALL Muslims who feel fraternity with those "attacked" Muslims. I personally can't blame anyone for feeling insecure after their country has been plunged into chaos for reasons not explained, with motives that are rarely, if ever, altruistic in nature towards the indigenous population.
People are the same all over the world - when they get, or even feel, threatened as a people, they group together and fight back. It feels like the only thing to do - and it's not a purely Muslim trait. Northern Ireland saw Christian terrorists fighting each other, killing the shit out of innocent people, and each other. It's pressure, with no way to stop it peacefully, that causes terrorism, not one particular group of people.
But we have the technology to do that already - better processors and better graphics cards than are used in the Apple TV. The real issue is why they didn't use those, and get a decent product to market, instead of going for the cheapest offer and killing the product in the mean-time. Whatever the cause, it's shitty for consumers. 1.0 is no excuse.
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... for not having to manage, install or roll-out this software. It saves time when setting up, but that time is possible then transferred to when the thing breaks. Not that in-house software breaks, but I guess at least then it's up to you to fix it, as opposed to some guys in a fancy building half-way around the world.
Because the Microsoft "junk" is hardly limiting them, considering how popular it is. Trying for any other platform other than MS would be limiting them.
If you're speeding, you deserve a ticket. It's that simple. Whether the cop's hiding or not does not affect the guilt of the individual. If the municipalities get so much of an income, then that's purely down to people speeding. Speeding is selfish, and frowned upon for a good reason.
It's great that it's an open standard, but that doesn't help anyone who's audio player doesn't play it. Most, if not all, audio players play MP3, so why not just release it in that format?
I think you'll find they just made a breakthrough with their notebook cores, and realised that people wanted lower-power, faster chips, and the gigahertz race that was on at the time wasn't yielding the performance people wanted. So they came up with their core 2 duo. Saying they were trying to pull the wool over our eyes is a bit rude, considering there's no evidence for it at all. They're a business, not an evil cabal looking to destroy all that is good. I know this is slashdot, but c'mon :)
I'm neither stupid NOR lazy. I use IE because as the market leader, sites are more likely to work with it. It has nothing to do with which browser is evil or not, or which is open-source or not. I just find IE more responsive, quicker to load, and quicker to navigate than firefox. This is just my opinion, I'm not trolling. I just don't like people making ridiculous generalisations that are clearly wrong, and getting modded insightful for the trouble. IE is not perfect, as we all know very well, but when it works, it works admirably. I don't give a rat's ass if it's binary is pre-loaded by Windows, or any other "dirty tricks" that make it seem to be faster than FireFox. If I'm more productive using it, then it works for me :) I do use FireFox occasionally, for a music-streaming site I wrote that uses heavy DOM manipulation, which FireFox is *muuuch* faster at than IE. I believe in using the right tool for the right job, and as long as IE is the right tool for 99.99% of websites I visit, I'll keep using it, as opposed to using FireFox and having to put up with messages as seen in the article. I'm not making a statement with my browser, I'm just trying to get web pages.
You didn't read the article very well, then! There was a graph that showed exactly what happened when the dual-core beat the quad-core, and they explained exactly what they were doing to get those results, and exactly how they achieved them. SSE4 is the answer, coupled with DivX's codec being re-written to utilise SSE4. Encoding to DivX is what beats the pants off the quad-core, which is rather interesting, as the quad-core chips are frequently sold as the heart of video-editing.
There is more than one "society" on this planet, fyi.
It's pretty silly to think you're either totally free or in a police state with no freedom. It's not so black and white as that. Americans aren't completely free, so by that logic is America a police state? Gun control doesn't make a police state. If the people don't want to have to be their own police force (with all the responsibility that entails, frequently un-met by many gun owners in the US and around the world), then why should they have to be? When freedom allows a minority to control, hurt or even threaten a majority, then the majority is no longer free, but subjugated by the minority in question. Some people would rather have the freedom of not being shot at than the freedom to shoot at people who shoot at them, and make sure they have a police force, who are paid, well-trained, well-armed, not drunk, not mentally unstable, and physically capable, to act as their guardians.
The UN has a definition of WMD that these folks should look at. Emotive mis-use of technical terms is fucked up, especially when people's crimes get blown out of all proportion. It's stupid.
Yeah, I know about freenet, but I was suggesting applying it to downloading large binaries on current P2P networks. If this concept of allowing someone to proxy through your box was applied to an eDonkey or BitTorrent client, then we could try to stem the flow of litigation we're currently seeing. Using freenet is no alternative, even if the software makes it a great distribution platform. The technology should follow the releases for a quick-fix, as the other way round would take ages to happen, even if these benefits were possible. In short: people ain't going to swap BitTorrent or eDonkey for freenet :)
No, of course I don't think the US is the only selfish player out there. I do think, however, that is no excuse for the hypocrisy of the US. You, on the other hand, seem to think as long as you're not the only one doing wrong, you can continue without guilt. Excellent reasoning. Selfish behaviour breeds selfish behaviour, and this has serious effects on people on the brink of existence, and you end up getting problems like we're seeing today. Yay for your logic! Yippee!
This isn't the playground. Pointing out someone who smells worse than you doesn't stop you from smelling. Grow up.
The US's hundreds of vetoes at the UN security council, while screaming at other countries to abide by the international community's wishes. That's enough, surely. I'm not being a rabid-anti-American (I'm married to one) - this is a massive problem that affects many "large players" on the world scene. This culture needs to be stopped, as the injustice it causes (or even perceived injustice) can flare up in very bloody fashion. Countries need to make no difference between themselves and other countries, or indeed the citizens of either country. Selfish behaviour, while easy to sell, is not good for anyone in the long-run. Shit, the British Empire was a great example of this sense of entitlement some nations seem to feel. It was great for Britain, but shitty (real shitty) for the places it touched. The logic that "it's ok for us to do what we want" was the same logic that the Brits had when they set sail for the first time, until the empire fell. It's also the same reasoning the Germans used (fuck Godwin). It's clearly not good.
... then there could be no claim to the owner of the IP actually being the one downloading, regardless of whether the P2P app was actually proxying at the time or not. If all client->proxy communication was encrypted, then even the ISP couldn't sniff it and know what's going on, should they be subpoenaed for such information. Then the only thing the user would be guilty of is running an open proxy on the ISP's network, as opposed to being sued for millions. And if the ISP doesn't give a rat's ass, then there is no problem. Just a formal "tut tut" letter from the ISP. Or am I being naive?
And that's why people all over the world don't take kindly to US forces being near them, regardless of their expressed intent. Collateral damage might only be paperwork to the US forces, but to those directly affected, it's just another reason to fight back. Each death makes a whole family your enemy.
And if by winning you flush the morals of your country down the drain? That's cool? So by your logic the Germans were damned-right in killing 6,000,000 jews, the Americans were spot-on destroying countless villages in Vietnam, the British were fine having concentration camps in the Boer War, and Mao was cool killing 60,000,000? 'Cos they had to win, and nothing else mattered, so it's all good. Brilliant logic.
I patented patents, so you owe me a shitload of money. So pay up MORE!
You're confusing filenames with binary metadata stored in the file. P2P uses hashes of the complete file at its most permissive (and some protocols include the filename in the hash, also). That means if you change the artist information in your ID3 tags, the file will have a different hash. Change the filename, and for some protocols you have a different hash. P2P uses hashes to match binary-duplicate files, and then download from those sources. If they don't take the filename into account when generating the hash, then files with the same contents but different names will also be added as sources. So I would imagine that's what you've noticed.
Doesn't the international court of justice just try people for doing stuff towards other countries? I didn't think it gave a damn about issues of freedom of speech of member nations' citizens interacting with other citizens in their own country, just if those same citizens (or leaders) start fucking with, say the fictional country of Schmiraq I just made up. It's not supposed to be a global law governing everyone's day-to-day actions, just a way for one nation to solve a problem with another nation without reaching for the gun.
Regardless of the implications for the US, if the US is not willing to participate in the global community with any responsibility, it should stop crying when it thinks others aren't doing so. That's hypocrisy.
It's not just the WTO. The US uses these organisations when it suits them, then ignores their verdicts when brought against the US. That's one of the major reasons the world has a less-than-great view of the US - most other nations try their best to adhere to judgements and arbitration that find against them, regardless of how it will affect them. The understanding is you take the good with the bad, otherwise you just piss people off. The US seems to not give a shit, then acts all surprised when other countries get pissed off with them. Selfish foreign policy. It sounds like a rabid leftist mantra, but it's fucking accurate.
You're spot-on! I couldn't believe it when Microsoft did the same with the XBox, and now everyone's running them in their homes and offices instead of real PCs. Jesus, Microsoft! Let a console be a console!
It is possible for Apple to have both HD and SD versions of media, and deliver the correct version when media is purchased. Apple releasing SD media on a barely-HD-capable box seems a little 2002-y to me, that's all. I thought they'd make something better than this. Is 1080p too much to ask for? Decent picture processing? Is Apple even trying with this product?
Islam's problem is more that we export our influence to Muslim countries. Usually it has nothing to do with the countries being Muslim, and more to do with their location. Oil is a big example - many of the countries it's under are primarily Muslim in belief, so if we are interested in Oil, we seem to be interested in Islam and its followers. Couple that with the west's previous desire to make the middle east nothing but a colony (thanks Britain, France, and the US), and we have a history of us fucking with the middle east. No-one can expect anyone anywhere to behave or react rationally to such pressures, and many people may attribute the causes incorrectly - and it appears that the middle east is taking our "interest" in their oil as us wanting to fuck with them, just to fuck with them. Then throw in the cases of us fucking with non-middle-east Muslim countries (in Asia), and their paranoia increases. People who feel threatened, in any way, get insecure, and group together. It doesn't help that Islam has a notion of brotherhood between all Muslims in all countries (hard to believe when you look at Iraq, but it is the case for other Muslims not so severely threatened), which means any perceived "attack" on any Muslims in any country, by anyone, is an attack on ALL Muslims who feel fraternity with those "attacked" Muslims. I personally can't blame anyone for feeling insecure after their country has been plunged into chaos for reasons not explained, with motives that are rarely, if ever, altruistic in nature towards the indigenous population.
People are the same all over the world - when they get, or even feel, threatened as a people, they group together and fight back. It feels like the only thing to do - and it's not a purely Muslim trait. Northern Ireland saw Christian terrorists fighting each other, killing the shit out of innocent people, and each other. It's pressure, with no way to stop it peacefully, that causes terrorism, not one particular group of people.
But we have the technology to do that already - better processors and better graphics cards than are used in the Apple TV. The real issue is why they didn't use those, and get a decent product to market, instead of going for the cheapest offer and killing the product in the mean-time. Whatever the cause, it's shitty for consumers. 1.0 is no excuse.