I thought 3dfx were the ones that went after whoever made those glide wrappers for some other card. Anyway, the reason I don't like 3dfx cards is that they're PCI, they're 3D only, they're expensive, and their 2D+3D solutions all seemed to get bad reviews. I'm not sure what the case is with their new products.
So whenever there's a story with Sony's memory stick, someone whinges about its proprietariness.
Tell me, is there any 'open' standard memory device of similar size and as widely used? Anyway, how much DOES it cost to produce memory that size with current technology? I would imagine that anyone else trying to create a similar product will end up selling it at a similar price anyway
So, they're going to more or less run a WinVNC server somewhere with all your apps on it, and give you a viewer you can use from any computer in the world.
OK, so they can run a server 24/7 for me, and I can't. Apart from that, why are they reinventing someone elses wheel again?
Major Studio A will now hire goons to go steal previews of movies made by its competitor Major Studio B and release it on the internet before it is released in the theatres.
Now Major Studio B will be disqualified from getting any awards for that movie!
Isn't that silly? (I wonder if they have a clause about this type of situation)
If we have to have our computers on to feed the stuff to the 'player', then why would we not use the computer and sound card to play the stuff anyway? If you are worried that your sound card doesn't sound good enough for you, then you would probably also not be satisfied with the quality of MP3s and also of the equipment that Dell makes. After all, Dell aren't audio experts. For $200, the device doesn't seem to offer too great a deal on features.
Well, there were patches you said you could add. Why didn't you use them? MS considers W98 to be a different product from W95, so it's no wonder that they want you to pay to 'upgrade'.
If you had owned W3.1, would you still feel that you had a right to get W98 for free so that you could use your USB device?
Given that MS sells betas of its OS to testers, you should consider yourself lucky that a patch exists to add USB to W95.
Send yourself a picture of your own face. This will trigger the software, which will disable your computer. Then call the support team, who will fix the problem within 24hrs, and take the rest of the day off.
1: What color is 'skin' exactly? From albinos to blacks, that's a lot of colors you have to check for. What if there's more than one person there, of different colors?
2: What if I have a picture of a naked *gasp* pig?! That should be close enough to skin tone.
Here, we encrypt files with a random pad, and distribute the 'key' via some secure medium.
How is this different to encrypting with any other algorithm, or even just zipping the file in question with a password?
In either case, there is an encrypted version of something easily available, which a person with enough time can crack. The key to this thing is distributed securely.
Why then, do we not just distribute the whole file in question via our secure distribution network? What's the point of putting the encrypted format out for the public anyway, if only a selected few (who have privileges to the key) can read it and only after using our secure network?
This is a great thing, because while there will be people who will crack this thing and start distributing it, at least they are giving a try to this new business model.
The average mum and dad who love using their computers can now CHOOSE to rent their movies via the internet instead of going out to their rental store. The content on the internet has the potential to be better than the rental copies, in quality, and also interactive extras they can add on.
If they survive long enough, other companies will start looking at doing the same thing, and soon these mp3 and DeCSS lawsuits will no longer be relevant.
In any format, there will always be bootleg copies, but there will also always be enough people who want to pay for it legally for the companies involved to survive. They just have to give it a go!
Wouldn't it be great if they started off by integrating their 2 IM thingies? We have half the world on ICQ and the other half on AIM. There is nothing stopping them from integrating the 2 together. NS would also be good if it came with ICQ instead of AIM. I don't know anybody that uses AIM who doesn't have AOL.
When NS6 preview came out on here, hyping skins and all, half the posts were from ppl who wanted to turn them off. Well, lets see how much of it we can switch off here.
Why are skins so hyped? After all, when we're browsing, we're looking at the site, and the skin your browser is wearing shouldn't be important. What, is the skin going to turn/. blue or something? If I wanted something flashy in my browser, I'd go look at banner ads.
Sure, some stuff like.xxx etc may be useful as noted by other posts, but what about the others?
When you think of say, Microsoft, do you think whether it's a.com or.net or.org? Do you even bother to see who owns the.net or.org names? Who cares?
How many people want to distinguish companies with the same name by their TLD? How many companies actually enjoy having to register under every single TLD (and sometimes under every country too) to protect against 'evil' ppl?
In the end, one name is taken by one company. When we want to see XYZ, we go to XYZ, we don't worry about whether we want the.net or the.org versions. The only time extra TLDs become useful is when we want to trick users from other sites - ie.org and.net versions have sites supporting opposite views on a topic. But that's not a 'useful' application of TLDs.
You also have to remember that Lego blocks have to be pretty precise in shape and size for them all to fit with each other. They have to fit so that theyr'e tight enough not to fall apart, but not so tight that it's too hard to take them apart.
The clones that I see often don't stick together very well, and some blocks are even harder to take apart than stubborn Lego blocks. Plus they don't have the sturdy feel of Lego blocks anyway
The article doesn't seem to go into much detail, but it appears the work of the WIPO is to take domain names from the ordinary citizens of the world and give them to famous people or large organisations in the case of the sports sites.
The way they claim to 'fast track' everything is a bit worrying. What happens when they get a case where there's no clear cut case of squatting? What if I share a name with a celebrity? What if I have a bakery with the same name as a multinational corp? What if I was there first?
There are good reasons that current cases take time, that is to look at all sides of the story.
Hmmmm...... Isn't the title a bit misleading? The guy said if MS is split to keep IE with the OS part instead of the applications part. The title tries to imply that he said they should keep IE integrated with the OS (in which case it would be interesting.) The current story has enough merit on its own without having to use Jim and NS's name next to IE and MS in order to trick users into reading it.
Just because CNet uses sensationalised titles for their stories, it doesn't mean we have to follow them. I hate the feeling when I read a title and think "wow thats interesting" and when I read the body I think "bah what a waste of time"
Apple loves hardware. When they decided to listen to you and license their hardware x years ago, immediately a dozen or more 'clone' vendors popped up. Prices fell, customers were happy with cheap macs.
Then what happened? Apple started eating its young. Now, I think there is only a couple of clone makers still out there. The rest were killed or bought by Apple.
The reasoning? Opening their hardware was supposed to let the clone makers steal marketshare from windows. It didn't. They took market from Apple. Duh, of course they're going to take market share from Apple at first. Apple started with 100% marketshare for Apple hardware. It could only have gone down.
History will teach us that Apple do not have a good reason to want to give their hardware away to intel clones, who wouldn't even have to pay them a license fee.
That's great, but you are a developer. The average mum and dad user does not want customization to that level. Most of them don't even want to change the colors of their windows titlebars. The average user would love to get a mac for the price of a pc.
Same for workplace. Many workplaces do NOT allow ANY customization of ANYTHING at all. They want every computer exactly the same, so as to please the support people, and also make it easy for the snoop programs to check your HD for pr0n when you go home. That goes for both NT and Unix boxes - no privileges to do anything.
You are one of the lucky ones to be allowed to customize for what you do.
When my dad bought his first computer (from compaq) 4 years ago, it didn't come with any OS on disc. It was installed with Win95 and a few win95 and win3.1 software. Whenever he had a problem (quite often), he would call up support, and they would come and use the said recovery disc and trash everything. After about a dozen times in 6 months, the support gave him the recovery disc, told him how to use it, and never to call support again!!
I fixed the computer when I installed Win95 fresh and told him not to install any of those win3.1 software on it. I told him that he bought Win95 with the computer, and has the right to the original CD. I told him to make sure they give him an original the next time he bought a computer.
Unfortunately, he bought a computer this year. Again, it was recovery disc deal. He was attracted by the bundled net access deal, min contract 2 yrs or whatever. At least this time they gave him the recovery disc upfront. I guess they worked out it was cheaper to stamp one of these things than to get a support guy rocking up to everyone that had a problem...
EU law prohibits the transfer of data to the United States and other non-EU countries that don't meet EU standards for protecting personal information.
Without this agreement, companies in the EU would have some difficulties in doing ebusiness with the US. This agreement just allows US companies in the EU to export data from the EU, even tho they are recognised not to meet EU standards.
In effect, they are saying 'what you are doing does not meet our minimum requirements, and normally we would prosecute you, but since you're a US company, we'll let you off if you promise to be good'
It was noted in another article that other countries, like Japan and Australia, would not get safe harbour status so easily. I'm not sure if their standards meet the EU laws anyway, but it would be interesting how their gov'ts react if they don't get a similar exemption quickly.
There was a story a while back on the P of Sealand. It talked of a scam where some internet site was selling passports or somewhat for the PoS. Then some idiot who got caught robbing a bank or something tried to claim diplomatic immunity. It didn't work.
This would suggest to me that nobody recognises this PoS, and certainly the UK gov't will be pressured to take them down if any offensive (to the corps) material is hosted there.
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I thought 3dfx were the ones that went after whoever made those glide wrappers for some other card. Anyway, the reason I don't like 3dfx cards is that they're PCI, they're 3D only, they're expensive, and their 2D+3D solutions all seemed to get bad reviews. I'm not sure what the case is with their new products.
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So whenever there's a story with Sony's memory stick, someone whinges about its proprietariness.
Tell me, is there any 'open' standard memory device of similar size and as widely used? Anyway, how much DOES it cost to produce memory that size with current technology? I would imagine that anyone else trying to create a similar product will end up selling it at a similar price anyway
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So, they're going to more or less run a WinVNC server somewhere with all your apps on it, and give you a viewer you can use from any computer in the world.
OK, so they can run a server 24/7 for me, and I can't. Apart from that, why are they reinventing someone elses wheel again?
Except that VNC runs on unix, Win9x/NT, and mac.
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Major Studio A will now hire goons to go steal previews of movies made by its competitor Major Studio B and release it on the internet before it is released in the theatres.
Now Major Studio B will be disqualified from getting any awards for that movie!
Isn't that silly? (I wonder if they have a clause about this type of situation)
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If we have to have our computers on to feed the stuff to the 'player', then why would we not use the computer and sound card to play the stuff anyway? If you are worried that your sound card doesn't sound good enough for you, then you would probably also not be satisfied with the quality of MP3s and also of the equipment that Dell makes. After all, Dell aren't audio experts. For $200, the device doesn't seem to offer too great a deal on features.
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Well, there were patches you said you could add. Why didn't you use them? MS considers W98 to be a different product from W95, so it's no wonder that they want you to pay to 'upgrade'.
If you had owned W3.1, would you still feel that you had a right to get W98 for free so that you could use your USB device?
Given that MS sells betas of its OS to testers, you should consider yourself lucky that a patch exists to add USB to W95.
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Send yourself a picture of your own face. This will trigger the software, which will disable your computer. Then call the support team, who will fix the problem within 24hrs, and take the rest of the day off.
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1: What color is 'skin' exactly? From albinos to blacks, that's a lot of colors you have to check for. What if there's more than one person there, of different colors?
2: What if I have a picture of a naked *gasp* pig?! That should be close enough to skin tone.
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Here, we encrypt files with a random pad, and distribute the 'key' via some secure medium.
How is this different to encrypting with any other algorithm, or even just zipping the file in question with a password?
In either case, there is an encrypted version of something easily available, which a person with enough time can crack. The key to this thing is distributed securely.
Why then, do we not just distribute the whole file in question via our secure distribution network? What's the point of putting the encrypted format out for the public anyway, if only a selected few (who have privileges to the key) can read it and only after using our secure network?
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I wonder how the food on the shuttle is...
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Hmm. It it's so bad that stuff like stoves can go crazy, what happens to people with bionic ears and pacemakers?
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This is a great thing, because while there will be people who will crack this thing and start distributing it, at least they are giving a try to this new business model.
The average mum and dad who love using their computers can now CHOOSE to rent their movies via the internet instead of going out to their rental store. The content on the internet has the potential to be better than the rental copies, in quality, and also interactive extras they can add on.
If they survive long enough, other companies will start looking at doing the same thing, and soon these mp3 and DeCSS lawsuits will no longer be relevant.
In any format, there will always be bootleg copies, but there will also always be enough people who want to pay for it legally for the companies involved to survive. They just have to give it a go!
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Wouldn't it be great if they started off by integrating their 2 IM thingies? We have half the world on ICQ and the other half on AIM. There is nothing stopping them from integrating the 2 together. NS would also be good if it came with ICQ instead of AIM. I don't know anybody that uses AIM who doesn't have AOL.
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When NS6 preview came out on here, hyping skins and all, half the posts were from ppl who wanted to turn them off. Well, lets see how much of it we can switch off here.
/. blue or something? If I wanted something flashy in my browser, I'd go look at banner ads.
Why are skins so hyped? After all, when we're browsing, we're looking at the site, and the skin your browser is wearing shouldn't be important. What, is the skin going to turn
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Sure, some stuff like .xxx etc may be useful as noted by other posts, but what about the others?
.com or .net or .org? Do you even bother to see who owns the .net or .org names? Who cares?
.net or the .org versions. The only time extra TLDs become useful is when we want to trick users from other sites - ie .org and .net versions have sites supporting opposite views on a topic. But that's not a 'useful' application of TLDs.
When you think of say, Microsoft, do you think whether it's a
How many people want to distinguish companies with the same name by their TLD? How many companies actually enjoy having to register under every single TLD (and sometimes under every country too) to protect against 'evil' ppl?
In the end, one name is taken by one company. When we want to see XYZ, we go to XYZ, we don't worry about whether we want the
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You also have to remember that Lego blocks have to be pretty precise in shape and size for them all to fit with each other. They have to fit so that theyr'e tight enough not to fall apart, but not so tight that it's too hard to take them apart.
The clones that I see often don't stick together very well, and some blocks are even harder to take apart than stubborn Lego blocks. Plus they don't have the sturdy feel of Lego blocks anyway
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I propose that from now on, files which need to be shared will be locked with the password 'asdfg', typed in 1 second intervals.
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The article doesn't seem to go into much detail, but it appears the work of the WIPO is to take domain names from the ordinary citizens of the world and give them to famous people or large organisations in the case of the sports sites.
The way they claim to 'fast track' everything is a bit worrying. What happens when they get a case where there's no clear cut case of squatting? What if I share a name with a celebrity? What if I have a bakery with the same name as a multinational corp? What if I was there first?
There are good reasons that current cases take time, that is to look at all sides of the story.
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Just because CNet uses sensationalised titles for their stories, it doesn't mean we have to follow them. I hate the feeling when I read a title and think "wow thats interesting" and when I read the body I think "bah what a waste of time"
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Apple loves hardware. When they decided to listen to you and license their hardware x years ago, immediately a dozen or more 'clone' vendors popped up. Prices fell, customers were happy with cheap macs.
Then what happened? Apple started eating its young. Now, I think there is only a couple of clone makers still out there. The rest were killed or bought by Apple.
The reasoning? Opening their hardware was supposed to let the clone makers steal marketshare from windows. It didn't. They took market from Apple. Duh, of course they're going to take market share from Apple at first. Apple started with 100% marketshare for Apple hardware. It could only have gone down.
History will teach us that Apple do not have a good reason to want to give their hardware away to intel clones, who wouldn't even have to pay them a license fee.
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That's great, but you are a developer. The average mum and dad user does not want customization to that level. Most of them don't even want to change the colors of their windows titlebars. The average user would love to get a mac for the price of a pc.
Same for workplace. Many workplaces do NOT allow ANY customization of ANYTHING at all. They want every computer exactly the same, so as to please the support people, and also make it easy for the snoop programs to check your HD for pr0n when you go home. That goes for both NT and Unix boxes - no privileges to do anything.
You are one of the lucky ones to be allowed to customize for what you do.
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in spacing of 0.01 angstroms, how do we go about laying the 'path' for them to follow accurately enough so that they don't fall off?
I thought we had a problem with the wavelength of light used in current technologies being too large.
We have to be able to guide these bugs accurately for them to lay paths that are of any use to us.
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When my dad bought his first computer (from compaq) 4 years ago, it didn't come with any OS on disc. It was installed with Win95 and a few win95 and win3.1 software. Whenever he had a problem (quite often), he would call up support, and they would come and use the said recovery disc and trash everything. After about a dozen times in 6 months, the support gave him the recovery disc, told him how to use it, and never to call support again!!
I fixed the computer when I installed Win95 fresh and told him not to install any of those win3.1 software on it. I told him that he bought Win95 with the computer, and has the right to the original CD. I told him to make sure they give him an original the next time he bought a computer.
Unfortunately, he bought a computer this year. Again, it was recovery disc deal. He was attracted by the bundled net access deal, min contract 2 yrs or whatever. At least this time they gave him the recovery disc upfront. I guess they worked out it was cheaper to stamp one of these things than to get a support guy rocking up to everyone that had a problem...
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Without this agreement, companies in the EU would have some difficulties in doing ebusiness with the US. This agreement just allows US companies in the EU to export data from the EU, even tho they are recognised not to meet EU standards.
In effect, they are saying 'what you are doing does not meet our minimum requirements, and normally we would prosecute you, but since you're a US company, we'll let you off if you promise to be good'
It was noted in another article that other countries, like Japan and Australia, would not get safe harbour status so easily. I'm not sure if their standards meet the EU laws anyway, but it would be interesting how their gov'ts react if they don't get a similar exemption quickly.
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There was a story a while back on the P of Sealand. It talked of a scam where some internet site was selling passports or somewhat for the PoS. Then some idiot who got caught robbing a bank or something tried to claim diplomatic immunity. It didn't work.
This would suggest to me that nobody recognises this PoS, and certainly the UK gov't will be pressured to take them down if any offensive (to the corps) material is hosted there.
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