If it isn't separated from the shell, and doesn't have it's own filetype registry, for starters, then Microsoft hasn't learned a damn thing from their mistakes, and there'd be no reason to believe it would be any more secure that version 3, 4, 5, 5.5, or 6... As all of those releases were supposedly more secure than their predecessor. The extra features can wait, let's see some real solid core code in IE first.
If Microsoft can't even do this, then I hope version 8 is an IE uninstaller.
I always thought it was there to dispense justice, regardless of stature. "Justice is blind", etc etc. Other than that, if a law is passed specifically to favor one party (protectionsim) we shouldn't be surprised when it used that way.
Boom! Right on the... er, money! Probably didn't help that there is no demo. But, back to your point. They apparently think this is the game console industry. Sorry, PC users are a tad more savvy, and more inclined to violate copyright.
Exactly. And this is entirely stupid, because it increases their cost of doing business, which means they'll be able to offer less in trade. Which means our exporters will be taking a pay cut. Which, of course, means that people will lose their job. But you won't hear about those jobs, because they don't all "vanish" at once, so there's no political advantage to pointing it out.
I'm simplifying here, there are quite a few more good and bad effects of this.
The problem here is that overly restrictive protectionism destroys the economy, because it forces us/them to continue trying to compete in old, obsolete jobs which are being done cheaper and better elsewhere. And what's more, we see that modern governments are more apt to add tariffs (more protectionist policies) to the mix when this begins happening, instead of the correct response.
If technology isn't allowed to create new jobs, and increase productivity per worker, we are going to be in for some seriously hard economic times. Draconian enforcement isn't going to fix anything, especially when there aren't clearly definied boundries of ownership in something like software design, which often borrows heavily from contemporaries.
Funny that you use the term "sedition", and then go on to express your outrage over the loss of liberty through the PATRIOT Act. If you want a classic example of an outrageously un-Constitutional law, do a little research on the Alien and Sedition Act. Far, far worse than the PATRIOT Act, and also flagrantly illegal. In fact, I'm finding a lot of similarities between how we conducted ourselves in the late 18th century and now.
Fortunately, the US population at that time had better sense than to become militarily and economically intertwined with unstable nations full of angry revolutionaries.
I seriously doubt there is anything revolutionary here, and most likely you're trading one thing for another. If I disable XP system restore and file indexing, I get better load times, but I don't have the capability to restore the previous configuration, and my searches take longer. I don't care about those, so I disable them, and it's a win for me. But I thought one of the improvements of NT-family desktop operating systems was not allowing UI stuff to hog so much processor time. Sounds like a step backwards to me. And higher framerates aren't everything. I'd rather trade 10 frames if it means I'm not losing client update packets to choke, or that my keyboard input isn't being ignored.
The socket 754 will simply move into the budget category, replacing the xp line.
One problem with this, the s754 line stops at the 3500+, the majority of the s754 Athlons aren't available in the s939 package. Right now the best price/performance combination that also has an upgrade future is the s940 Opteron 100 series. Which is really confusing to me. I wish AMD would re-release some of the sub-$200 Athlon 64s in s939, so I can start with something that is worth the price but also has upgrade potential. I'm also looking forward to the day when s939 K8T800 mainboards are sold for less than $150.
"Second, from what I remember, the disk failure virus simply ran the drive until it failed. It didn't overspin it, it just wrote and wrote and wrote until the drive gave up."
Quote: "Hard disks could be spun to the point of failure, etc."
Your words, not mine. Note that I refrain from calling you "retarded" and I haven't challenged your reading ability. I'm not sure how constant usage of the drive is any different than regular usage. Either way, the internals have a rating for typical lifetime before failures. If the drive failed early, it was defective to begin with. But we're talking thousands of hours here, so if the user didn't figure out something was wrong and power off the PC, he was probably comatose.
Second, mismatched video adapters and monitors are a problem caused by the user, not a virus. There was as great a chance that the user would accidentally bake the display than some rare malware program, which explains why manufacturers started adding protection across entire product lines.
So this is slightly off the topic (but I've seen a lot of blender demo work as rendered scenes already - nice stuff). Anyway, has anyone else used some of these OSS modelling tools for game modding? The biggest problem seems to be the lack of converters to the industry defacto standard of 3DS Max binary format.
False and false. Monitors could only be driven to the point of failure if the video card supported higher frequencies than the monitor could support and no protection circuitry. Hard disk motor speed is not directly adjustable on any PC I've ever worked with, so you can't "spin it to the point of failure". The "Chernobyl" virus was only harmful on machines which 1) had a flashable BIOS, and 2) where the builder/user left the flash write jumper enabled. Even then, it didn't really damage anything. If you had the original BIOS image and a flash writer, it was fixable.
Jesus guys, it's not that hard. Don't use anything larger than 15W. Get a pencil-point tip for your iron. And don't hold it in one place for more than 10 seconds.
The RIAA expects the customers to hand over cash for overpriced CDs, appealing to morality for justification, and yet in act of gross duplicity it gives libraries crud just to spite them because they lost a court case.
Unfortunately this is how we get ourselves in trouble. While I think that the CDs are trash, and worth about a quarter of the sticker price, millions of people apparently don't. And while that revenue continues to come in, the RIAA will have money to hire lawyers and lobbyists. Voting with your wallet certainly works, but unfortunately the majority of consumers are voting "yes" instead of "no".
It's obivious that they don't value a lot of the stuff they actually produce. Just goes to show, a release is worth $0 until the one payola-promoted song is on the CD, then it's worth $20. What's seriously funny about this is that the RIAA and crew are actually screwing themselves, because music production, distribution, and promotion is so vertical (and apparently expensive), that there is little opportunity to either let someone else experiment, or to get feedback from consumers. Well, they got their feedback when they didn't sell millions of "Willenium" CDs, but it was a tad late by then.
I can't say that I believe they don't value public libraries, but they certainly have no idea how they work. Public libraries get their funding based primarily on how much they circulate. They wouldn't need any more than maybe one copy of Willenium per 5,000 patrons. You could use anything in that example - one book title, one audio cassette title, whatever. This is good and bad. It's good because it rewards the libraries that best serve the taxpayers. It's bad because libraries are no longer a big archive of collected books (costs too much to track all those dusty titles), and have something more like a B&N store.
Anyway, that explanation aside... Anything donated beyond a handful is really worth nothing, since it is going to circulate. I think the RIAA's message is, "public libraries are an evil hotbed of piracy!" I still maintain that this was a terrible settlement idea, I have no idea what libraries have to do with price fixing when I (former CD buyer) am seeing no benefits, and the government got what it deserved for trying to directly fix the situation.
Is there a way we can get Hatch to be accountable for this? Where is his representation in Utah? Where is the public support abroad? Utah is especially important, because those folks voted him in. How do they feel? My guess is, like most of the population, they are indifferent. While I'm a Republican, and I like reduced government and tax cuts, I'd like to borrow the Democrat characterization "fiscally irresponsible" and make a slight change. Hatch, like many of his fellow congresscritters, is not "irresponsible", he's "fiscally simpleminded." Tax cuts are great, but on the other end we have protectionist legislation being proposed that will not only obstruct the regular, healthy progress of the economy, but also make the government responsible for maintaining the status quo. We've already paid our taxes for decades so the courts could hear the numerous cases surrounding copyright and electronic medium. Now we're going to pay while the government takes over a job from a private industry. Hatch can stuff it.
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If that is the case, what about this old tidbit:
It's false. What about it?
If it isn't separated from the shell, and doesn't have it's own filetype registry, for starters, then Microsoft hasn't learned a damn thing from their mistakes, and there'd be no reason to believe it would be any more secure that version 3, 4, 5, 5.5, or 6... As all of those releases were supposedly more secure than their predecessor. The extra features can wait, let's see some real solid core code in IE first.
If Microsoft can't even do this, then I hope version 8 is an IE uninstaller.
I always thought it was there to dispense justice, regardless of stature. "Justice is blind", etc etc. Other than that, if a law is passed specifically to favor one party (protectionsim) we shouldn't be surprised when it used that way.
The biggest problems I have is firstly there is no originality whatsoever (half-life + system shock with better graphics)
Funny, I always thought Half-Life was Quake + Duke Nukem's monsters.
Now, if the article were talking about people walking into stores and pocketing the whole box, that would be thievery.
Oddly enough, neither would it be "piracy". And you would in fact have a "legal" copy of the game.
Consider the plot of the game. A man without duct tape would certainly be in Hell.
Boom! Right on the... er, money! Probably didn't help that there is no demo. But, back to your point. They apparently think this is the game console industry. Sorry, PC users are a tad more savvy, and more inclined to violate copyright.
Exactly. And this is entirely stupid, because it increases their cost of doing business, which means they'll be able to offer less in trade. Which means our exporters will be taking a pay cut. Which, of course, means that people will lose their job. But you won't hear about those jobs, because they don't all "vanish" at once, so there's no political advantage to pointing it out.
I'm simplifying here, there are quite a few more good and bad effects of this.
The problem here is that overly restrictive protectionism destroys the economy, because it forces us/them to continue trying to compete in old, obsolete jobs which are being done cheaper and better elsewhere. And what's more, we see that modern governments are more apt to add tariffs (more protectionist policies) to the mix when this begins happening, instead of the correct response.
If technology isn't allowed to create new jobs, and increase productivity per worker, we are going to be in for some seriously hard economic times. Draconian enforcement isn't going to fix anything, especially when there aren't clearly definied boundries of ownership in something like software design, which often borrows heavily from contemporaries.
Sad to see the Ozzies get the shaft like this.
Funny that you use the term "sedition", and then go on to express your outrage over the loss of liberty through the PATRIOT Act. If you want a classic example of an outrageously un-Constitutional law, do a little research on the Alien and Sedition Act. Far, far worse than the PATRIOT Act, and also flagrantly illegal. In fact, I'm finding a lot of similarities between how we conducted ourselves in the late 18th century and now.
Fortunately, the US population at that time had better sense than to become militarily and economically intertwined with unstable nations full of angry revolutionaries.
I seriously doubt there is anything revolutionary here, and most likely you're trading one thing for another. If I disable XP system restore and file indexing, I get better load times, but I don't have the capability to restore the previous configuration, and my searches take longer. I don't care about those, so I disable them, and it's a win for me. But I thought one of the improvements of NT-family desktop operating systems was not allowing UI stuff to hog so much processor time. Sounds like a step backwards to me. And higher framerates aren't everything. I'd rather trade 10 frames if it means I'm not losing client update packets to choke, or that my keyboard input isn't being ignored.
Hmmm. Checking copyright law... Nope... Don't see any only-one-parody-per-item limit.
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"Hard disks could be spun to the point of failure, etc."
And that's relevant because...? I don't seem to recall any power supplies burning out on any equipment that I owned.
So this is slightly off the topic (but I've seen a lot of blender demo work as rendered scenes already - nice stuff). Anyway, has anyone else used some of these OSS modelling tools for game modding? The biggest problem seems to be the lack of converters to the industry defacto standard of 3DS Max binary format.
False and false. Monitors could only be driven to the point of failure if the video card supported higher frequencies than the monitor could support and no protection circuitry. Hard disk motor speed is not directly adjustable on any PC I've ever worked with, so you can't "spin it to the point of failure". The "Chernobyl" virus was only harmful on machines which 1) had a flashable BIOS, and 2) where the builder/user left the flash write jumper enabled. Even then, it didn't really damage anything. If you had the original BIOS image and a flash writer, it was fixable.
Jesus guys, it's not that hard. Don't use anything larger than 15W. Get a pencil-point tip for your iron. And don't hold it in one place for more than 10 seconds.
I would have returned the PC immediately. That must have been a seriously cheap PSU.
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I heard she got a job modelling for Nvidia.
It's obivious that they don't value a lot of the stuff they actually produce. Just goes to show, a release is worth $0 until the one payola-promoted song is on the CD, then it's worth $20. What's seriously funny about this is that the RIAA and crew are actually screwing themselves, because music production, distribution, and promotion is so vertical (and apparently expensive), that there is little opportunity to either let someone else experiment, or to get feedback from consumers. Well, they got their feedback when they didn't sell millions of "Willenium" CDs, but it was a tad late by then.
I can't say that I believe they don't value public libraries, but they certainly have no idea how they work. Public libraries get their funding based primarily on how much they circulate. They wouldn't need any more than maybe one copy of Willenium per 5,000 patrons. You could use anything in that example - one book title, one audio cassette title, whatever. This is good and bad. It's good because it rewards the libraries that best serve the taxpayers. It's bad because libraries are no longer a big archive of collected books (costs too much to track all those dusty titles), and have something more like a B&N store.
Anyway, that explanation aside... Anything donated beyond a handful is really worth nothing, since it is going to circulate. I think the RIAA's message is, "public libraries are an evil hotbed of piracy!" I still maintain that this was a terrible settlement idea, I have no idea what libraries have to do with price fixing when I (former CD buyer) am seeing no benefits, and the government got what it deserved for trying to directly fix the situation.
Is there a way we can get Hatch to be accountable for this? Where is his representation in Utah? Where is the public support abroad? Utah is especially important, because those folks voted him in. How do they feel? My guess is, like most of the population, they are indifferent. While I'm a Republican, and I like reduced government and tax cuts, I'd like to borrow the Democrat characterization "fiscally irresponsible" and make a slight change. Hatch, like many of his fellow congresscritters, is not "irresponsible", he's "fiscally simpleminded." Tax cuts are great, but on the other end we have protectionist legislation being proposed that will not only obstruct the regular, healthy progress of the economy, but also make the government responsible for maintaining the status quo. We've already paid our taxes for decades so the courts could hear the numerous cases surrounding copyright and electronic medium. Now we're going to pay while the government takes over a job from a private industry. Hatch can stuff it.
Actually, I was comparing it with Linux 2.4, not the FreeBSD kernel.