If Palladium's goal is to increase security then it is a worthy idea, but not if users can't control it. Put an entry in the computers bios to allow the depth of control the hardware will allow. This is sort of what we have now with bios virus detection. You have to turn this off to install some software, you can turn it back on when the system is up and running. In an IT setting the computer bios could be set to allow such hardware control, the bios password could be setup and users wouldn't be able to mess with the settings as the ID dept. would hold the passwords. End user geeks would be able to do what they want, opting out at their own perl to viri that the hardware/software would protect them from.
Of course the virus writers could steal signatures and the whole system would be for naught. When you consider that PC hardware is used in embedded products with custom software it becomes clear that an opt-out to Palladium hardware is needed or this thing just won't sell. Want to run Windows? Then you might HAVE to opt-in. That's ok, if your trust MS.
Lets see about this. Most libraries in this country are Public, owned and operated by local, county, state, or federal governments. Let's see the publishers try and sue the government. You can only sue the government IF THEY LET YOU! (Or if a higher court such as federal vs state lets you.) I think the publishers would have a snowball's chance in hell here.
What the hell are you mad about? You say you do not swap music files, and all your music is legally obtained. The RIAA is after those that steal music, and you proudly brag that you are NOT a crook. I always thought that Napster was as crooked as the CEO and board of directors at Enron. They claimed their service was not about stealing music, yet their logo was a cat with earphones! Right! Napster was about only one thing, they should have put the jolly roger on their logo as well.
The ONLY area where I disageee with the RIAA (and MPAA) is where my rights to store and use legally purchased music software are trampled on. I should have every right to rip my CD's to make MP3's FOR MY OWN EXCLUSIVE USE. Also to make custom compilations of music on a single CD from others I have purchased. In other words every thing I used to do with LP's and cassette tapes. (except swapping tapes with friends, just another form of crime).
I rarely get a window seat when I fly, especially if I'm on a wide body. I'd rather be near the isle anyway (easy access to the bathroom!). With the wide seating this thing would look like a move theatre anyway, so put a huge screen up front and give us a cockpit's eye view of the ground during takeoff and climb out from a tv camera with a wide angle lens. And when we reach crusing altitude just put on the latest 'trek' movie and I'll be happy.
Facts not quite right. The B35 was a prop version. The YB-49 was the jet powered version, and THIS was the one seen in the war of the worlds movie.
Oh and he left out the B2 bomber, today's version of the flying wing. BTW the early flying wings were not quite ready for prime time. They were NOT stable platforms, although they did fly well enough under normal conditions. The B2 is the perfection of the flying wing because of improvements not available 50 years ago such as computer controled flight servo systems, and new aerodynamic devices such as drag rudders (not thought of back then).
Ya but if you were to uncap your modem AND use it 24/7 you would be a REAL bandwidth hog.
Actually what the ISP should have done is to yank the service of ANYONE found with an uncapped modem. In most cases when you violate the service agreement they just yank your service. Going alitte overboard calling in the FBI. Imagine if Microsoft were to call in the FBI on everyone trying to register a stolen copy of XP? Then again, maybe they will.
I have bought memory from auctions on ebay. No problems, just make sure the memory is a brand name, not generic. Also check the sellers feedback!
Another good supply for memory is from vendors such as compusa, bestbuy, office depot and office max. They often have lose leaders on good memory advertised in the sunday paper. True these often involve mail in rebates, but I have gotten good 256meg pc133 sticks for $25 this way. (that sale was exceptional, recent price for these now run about $35-$45).
Oh size DOES matter. You can't fit a 5.25" disk in a digicam, and the 3.5" disks make for a bulky mess (Sony's CD digicam is a little to big to fit in your pocket). With a coin size disk they will work nicely in the average pocket size digicam. I think the disk will have to be enclosed in a little plastic case (about the size of a compact flash or smart media card) or they will get lost in your pocket and damaged.
I bought my Laser Disc player (you know those 12" video discs?) when the studios were pushing the technology by offering the software for half the price of vhs tape. (remember when new releases on vhs sold for $50-$70 each!). Then K-mart started discounting movies on vhs. Today whenever a new movie comes out you can find it discounted SOMEWHERE. Harry Potter was on discount for $9.99 ON DVD two weekends in a row by CompUsa! Makes you wonder what the markup on DVD's are.
The point is price matters. If the software is priced right it will sell. Why bother making a pirate copy (or buying one) when you can have the real thing cheaply.
According the the link to ATI on this product it also supports TV and Video capture. I hope these features end up supported by any open source drivers as well. I am looking for a good TV IN/OUT video capture card, I'd like to build my own digital tv recorder.
When the Verrazano bridge was proposed in NYC it was argued that if the bridge was destroyed it would block access to the ocean from the Brooklyn Navy Yard (which doesn't matter anymore since the Brooklyn Navy Yard has been closed for years now). Anyway the designers of the bridge showed that nothing short of a DIRECT HIT by an atomic bomb would destroy the bridge (and IF that were to happen the Navy Yard would have gotten vaporized as well). So the US Navy dropped any objection to the project.
I am much closer in age to retirement then the age when I entered my chosen profession of software engineering (programming). I do NOT feel that I am no longer able to be productive. Maybe the younger programmers are the ones that are on the cutting edge of things, or produce code that "walks on water" (or they THINK so!). The difference is I have worked on projects that were DESIGNED rather than just HACKED TOGETHER. (The word 'hack' has many meanings. A hack can be a true brainstorm, but it can also be sloppy. There is NO place for undocumented slop in ANY software product.) How many of you have used design tools such as RationalRose (is there an open source version of this?) to DESIGN your software project before writing a line of code? Or did you just start to throw together some routines and tie them together without documenting ANYTHING you did? That's the difference between the younger mind and the older one. I can't keep as many balls up in the air as I used to, but if I DESIGN and DOCUMENT what I do before actually trying to compile anything first, my code comes together correctly when I finally flesh out my software design. Maybe that's why I spend LESS time debugging it, it WORKS 95-99% correctly THE FIRST TIME. I found the bugs in the design before I cemented them into code! In fact ususally my only software bugs are TYPOS.
I'd love to work for a company that uses Linux or makes software to run under Linux, but I've mostly worked for places doing embedded software. Not glamorous, but still satisfying.
The trick is to keep abreast of new technology. Do alot of reading. It IS possible to keep current.
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In some parts of the country the cablemodem service is NOT available UNLESS you already have basic cable. (with three you get eggroll?) Similar idea to DSL, you can't get just the dsl, you have to have a line with dialtone first. Of course I once had IDSL without any dialtone service on the IDSN line, but then again ISDN is another ballgame.
I havn't bought any new cd's an a looooong time. We bought the kids the "Uhcle Kracker" cd (they were hooked on the song 'follow me'.) I just grabbed the cd and looked at it. On the CD itself the 'compact disk/digital audio' logo is missing, but it is present stamped on the plastic box that the cd came packed in. IANAL, but I think that nails Atlantic records, this better be a real cd!
Many of the newer CD's don't have the logo on the CD itself because the graphic design artists have claimed the entire front surface of the CD as their canvas.
Anyway this cd DOES play fine on my kid's computer (runs windows 98), though I havn't tried it under CDparanoia yet.
The reason that the russian space shuttle was canceled was that the booster rocket used to get it into space was unreliable and too costly to use. Without a booster, the shuttle is kinda useless eh?
We had the same problem with the Nova rocket. Never heard of the Nova? It was a larger version of the Saturn V that would have had 7 F1 engines (instead of the SV's 5) and would have produced over 10 million lbs of takeoff thrust. Enough to send 3 men to land on the moon (instead of only 2). When the Nova was cancelled Nasa had to re-invent the lunar landing program.
I think you are refering to the Longfellow bridge over the Charles river. Legend has it that one night a student got so drunk that his buddies had to carry him back to his dorm. When they reached the river they rolled him over the bridge and counted how many revolutions he made on the way. The drunken student's last name was "Smoot" so the marks on the bridge are called "Smoot marks". Every year some of the freshmen class get to repaint the 'smoot marks' on the bridge as part of frat hazing. My brother went to MIT.
but try doing interlocked operations on several ide drives. That's what RAID is about, and IDE will SUCK big time at it because you can't do interlocked io over several disks. With SCSI you can have operations going on on several devices on the same bus, but IDE is strickly a one at a time affair. So in a computer with a single disk IDE might win, but in a system needing a disk farm there is only one choice.... SCSI.
It's called copyright law. If they find someone violating their copyrights, they have the law on their side. Sue. Have them arrested. etc.
You can't make the tools which COULD be used to commit a crime illegal if those tools have legimate use. And this is what they want? True the cost of protecting their copyrights will end up being passed on to consumers who will then decide that the price of their goods is too high and will then just stay away in droves. Guess a new business model is needed after all.
I think the FCC should allow encryption of DTV signals and that the TV sets and VCR's should then have to decrypt them. Close the devices that directly handle the signals, but give consumers fair use rights within those devices. Just leave our computers alone.
If you are only building one or a few computers this might be an acceptable idea. If you are planning on several dozen or more forget it. If you are buying a single MB you probably won't run the risk of getting a DOA unit. But if you are buying a quanity you will run into bad units, and then will have to run the gantlet of returning the bad units and getting replacements. Ditto for memory, video cards, etc. The Tawain row outlets don't have the quality control that big guys like Dell and Gateway have. And you don't have the clout of ordering parts in the 1000's to get quick turn around on DOA parts. Unless you want the headaches of becomming a OEM buy your computers ready to go from trusted channels.
Another route, is to go used/reconditioned/surplus on last years models. Try http://www.compgeeks.com I've bought systems from them and they are great. Don't know if they can supply in the quantity you need, but give them a try!
IMHO the ONLY legal purpose of burning your own CD's is to make collections of songs that YOU want on a single disk, to make MP3 collections (can stuff a LOT more music on a CD in MP3 format), or perhaps to back up your CD's if you are paranoid that they will go bad (I havn't had a single CD go bad in over 20 years, though I have gotten some that never played right in the first place).
Most CD-R's sold are the data kind. You CAN use them on a computer to burn audio cd's and they do play in most audio only CD decks (Hey RIAA that's one way to make some trouble, insure that audio cd players will ONLY play CD-Rs' and RW's that are of the 'music' kind that carry an extra tax to buy). But most of these data CD-R's are being used for computer data backup's, making copies of computer CD roms (Pirate copies of Windows and MS Office?) such as Linux iso's, and digital pictures off loaded from your digi-cam. Also small software companies that can't afford to press 1000 silver copies of their software for sale burn them on CD-R's instead.
Actually inorder to make a copy of a DVD onto a VCD they DO have to decrypt the video. They need the raw video stream to encode into the mpeg format they are using on VCD or SVCD. In a sense they need the same software that plays a DVD on a computer inorder to make the backup copy. So they ARE using a form of DeCSS. If they obtained a license to make and sell a DVD player then part of what they are doing is legal. I wonder if they honour region codes?
Sounds like the first court case against the DMCA under the issue of fair use.
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There have been many proposals to put solar power stations in space and beam the energy to earth using microwaves. Just what we need, to live under a microwave oven. Actually the beam would be dispersed over a large distance and the power level at any point within low, but you can imagine the claims of new cancers and the time all the lawyers will be having. Putting the station on the moon would cause problems with beam dispersion since the moon is ten times distant than any proposed earth orbit station. Still there is more room on the moon for a higher gain antenna to condense the beam width. However an earth orbiting station could be put in an orbit that would enable sending the beam so it lands over low population areas. The moon is not in geosychronous orbit so that also imposes a tracking problem.
I don't have a mastercard. I have two visa cards. I like visa better. This only proves my wisdom. Maybe when consumers start shreding their mastercards and apply for visa cards, MC will wake up and smell the coffee.
Duron was AMD's low end Athlon, sort of what Intel did to the Pentium with the Celeron.
The Hammer series cpus will be 64 bit extensions of the IA32 compatible processors. While Intel went with a totally new (and incompatible) cpu design for their 64 bit chips, AMD extended the Athlon to 64 bits adding larger registers and new instructions. The Hammers will be backward compatible with Athlons and Pentiums and will boot 32 bit Windows and Linux with no software patches. They can also run new 64 bit software and even run 32 bit software under a 64 bit OS, switching modes on the fly! (Sortof like the 386 and up running real mode software under protected mode in a virtual cpu box).
It remains to be seen which 64 bit design will be better, but my vote is for the hammers!
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If Palladium's goal is to increase security then it is a worthy idea, but not if users can't control it. Put an entry in the computers bios to allow the depth of control the hardware will allow. This is sort of what we have now with bios virus detection. You have to turn this off to install some software, you can turn it back on when the system is up and running. In an IT setting the computer bios could be set to allow such hardware control, the bios password could be setup and users wouldn't be able to mess with the settings as the ID dept. would hold the passwords. End user geeks would be able to do what they want, opting out at their own perl to viri that the hardware/software would protect them from.
Of course the virus writers could steal signatures and the whole system would be for naught. When you consider that PC hardware is used in embedded products with custom software it becomes clear that an opt-out to Palladium hardware is needed or this thing just won't sell. Want to run Windows? Then you might HAVE to opt-in. That's ok, if your trust MS.
Lets see about this. Most libraries in this country are Public, owned and operated by local, county, state, or federal governments. Let's see the publishers try and sue the government. You can only sue the government IF THEY LET YOU! (Or if a higher court such as federal vs state lets you.) I think the publishers would have a snowball's chance in hell here.
What the hell are you mad about? You say you do not swap music files, and all your music is legally obtained. The RIAA is after those that steal music, and you proudly brag that you are NOT a crook. I always thought that Napster was as crooked as the CEO and board of directors at Enron. They claimed their service was not about stealing music, yet their logo was a cat with earphones! Right! Napster was about only one thing, they should have put the jolly roger on their logo as well.
The ONLY area where I disageee with the RIAA (and MPAA) is where my rights to store and use legally purchased music software are trampled on. I should have every right to rip my CD's to make MP3's FOR MY OWN EXCLUSIVE USE. Also to make custom compilations of music on a single CD from others I have purchased. In other words every thing I used to do with LP's and cassette tapes.
(except swapping tapes with friends, just another form of crime).
I rarely get a window seat when I fly, especially if I'm on a wide body. I'd rather be near the isle anyway (easy access to the bathroom!). With the wide seating this thing would look like a move theatre anyway, so put a huge screen up front and give us a cockpit's eye view of the ground during takeoff and climb out from a tv camera with a wide angle lens. And when we reach crusing altitude just put on the latest 'trek' movie and I'll be happy.
Facts not quite right.
The B35 was a prop version. The YB-49 was the jet powered version, and THIS was the one seen in the war of the worlds movie.
Oh and he left out the B2 bomber, today's version of the flying wing. BTW the early flying wings were not quite ready for prime time. They were NOT stable platforms, although they did fly well enough under normal conditions. The B2 is the perfection of the flying wing because of improvements not available 50 years ago such as computer controled flight servo systems, and new aerodynamic devices such as drag rudders (not thought of back then).
Ya but if you were to uncap your modem AND use it 24/7 you would be a REAL bandwidth hog.
Actually what the ISP should have done is to yank the service of ANYONE found with an uncapped modem. In most cases when you violate the service agreement they just yank your service. Going alitte overboard calling in the FBI. Imagine if Microsoft were to call in the FBI on everyone trying to register a stolen copy of XP? Then again, maybe they will.
I have bought memory from auctions on ebay. No problems, just make sure the memory is a brand name, not generic. Also check the sellers feedback!
Another good supply for memory is from vendors such as compusa, bestbuy, office depot and office max. They often have lose leaders on good memory advertised in the sunday paper. True these often involve mail in rebates, but I have gotten good 256meg pc133 sticks for $25 this way. (that sale was exceptional, recent price for these now run about $35-$45).
Oh size DOES matter. You can't fit a 5.25" disk in a digicam, and the 3.5" disks make for a bulky mess (Sony's CD digicam is a little to big to fit in your pocket). With a coin size disk they will work nicely in the average pocket size digicam. I think the disk will have to be enclosed in a little plastic case (about the size of a compact flash or smart media card) or they will get lost in your pocket and damaged.
I bought my Laser Disc player (you know those 12" video discs?) when the studios were pushing the technology by offering the software for half the price of vhs tape. (remember when new releases on vhs sold for $50-$70 each!). Then K-mart started discounting movies on vhs. Today whenever a new movie comes out you can find it discounted SOMEWHERE. Harry Potter was on discount for $9.99 ON DVD two weekends in a row by CompUsa! Makes you wonder what the markup on DVD's are.
The point is price matters. If the software is priced right it will sell. Why bother making a pirate copy (or buying one) when you can have the real thing cheaply.
Well have you seen what Imsai's are currently going for on Ebay? This one is cheap. Of course where are you going to find any S100 cards?
According the the link to ATI on this product it also supports TV and Video capture. I hope these features end up supported by any open source drivers as well. I am looking for a good TV IN/OUT video capture card, I'd like to build my own digital tv recorder.
When the Verrazano bridge was proposed in NYC it was argued that if the bridge was destroyed it would block access to the ocean from the Brooklyn Navy Yard (which doesn't matter anymore since the Brooklyn Navy Yard has been closed for years now).
Anyway the designers of the bridge showed that nothing short of a DIRECT HIT by an atomic bomb would destroy the bridge (and IF that were to happen the Navy Yard would have gotten vaporized as well). So the US Navy dropped any objection to the project.
I am much closer in age to retirement then the age when I entered my chosen profession of software engineering (programming). I do NOT feel that I am no longer able to be productive. Maybe the younger programmers are the ones that are on the cutting edge of things, or produce code that "walks on water" (or they THINK so!). The difference is I have worked on projects that were DESIGNED rather than just HACKED TOGETHER. (The word 'hack' has many meanings. A hack can be a true brainstorm, but it can also be sloppy. There is NO place for undocumented slop in ANY software product.) How many of you have used design tools such as RationalRose (is there an open source version of this?) to DESIGN your software project before writing a line of code? Or did you just start to throw together some routines and tie them together without documenting ANYTHING you did? That's the difference between the younger mind and the older one. I can't keep as many balls up in the air as I used to, but if I DESIGN and DOCUMENT what I do before actually trying to compile anything first, my code comes together correctly when I finally flesh out my software design. Maybe that's why I spend LESS time debugging it, it WORKS 95-99% correctly THE FIRST TIME. I found the bugs in the design before I cemented them into code! In fact ususally my only software bugs are TYPOS.
I'd love to work for a company that uses Linux or makes software to run under Linux, but I've mostly worked for places doing embedded software. Not glamorous, but still satisfying.
The trick is to keep abreast of new technology. Do alot of reading. It IS possible to keep current.
In some parts of the country the cablemodem service is NOT available UNLESS you already have basic cable. (with three you get eggroll?) Similar idea to DSL, you can't get just the dsl, you have to have a line with dialtone first. Of course I once had IDSL without any dialtone service on the IDSN line, but then again ISDN is another ballgame.
I havn't bought any new cd's an a looooong time. We bought the kids the "Uhcle Kracker" cd (they were hooked on the song 'follow me'.) I just grabbed the cd and looked at it. On the CD itself the 'compact disk/digital audio' logo is missing, but it is present stamped on the plastic box that the cd came packed in. IANAL, but I think that nails Atlantic records, this better be a real cd!
Many of the newer CD's don't have the logo on the CD itself because the graphic design artists have claimed the entire front surface of the CD as their canvas.
Anyway this cd DOES play fine on my kid's computer (runs windows 98), though I havn't tried it under CDparanoia yet.
We had the same problem with the Nova rocket. Never heard of the Nova? It was a larger version of the Saturn V that would have had 7 F1 engines (instead of the SV's 5) and would have produced over 10 million lbs of takeoff thrust. Enough to send 3 men to land on the moon (instead of only 2). When the Nova was cancelled Nasa had to re-invent the lunar landing program.
I think you are refering to the Longfellow bridge over the Charles river. Legend has it that one night a student got so drunk that his buddies had to carry him back to his dorm. When they reached the river they rolled him over the bridge and counted how many revolutions he made on the way. The drunken student's last name was "Smoot" so the marks on the bridge are called "Smoot marks". Every year some of the freshmen class get to repaint the 'smoot marks' on the bridge as part of frat hazing. My brother went to MIT.
but try doing interlocked operations on several ide drives. That's what RAID is about, and IDE will SUCK big time at it because you can't do interlocked io over several disks. With SCSI you can have operations going on on several devices on the same bus, but IDE is strickly a one at a time affair. So in a computer with a single disk IDE might win, but in a system needing a disk farm there is only one choice .... SCSI.
If they find someone violating their copyrights, they have the law on their side. Sue. Have them arrested. etc.
You can't make the tools which COULD be used to commit a crime illegal if those tools have legimate use. And this is what they want?
True the cost of protecting their copyrights will end up being passed on to consumers who will then decide that the price of their goods is too high and will then just stay away in droves. Guess a new business model is needed after all.
I think the FCC should allow encryption of DTV signals and that the TV sets and VCR's should then have to decrypt them. Close the devices that directly handle the signals, but give consumers fair use rights within those devices. Just leave our computers alone.
If you are only building one or a few computers this might be an acceptable idea. If you are planning on several dozen or more forget it. If you are buying a single MB you probably won't run the risk of getting a DOA unit. But if you are buying a quanity you will run into bad units, and then will have to run the gantlet of returning the bad units and getting replacements. Ditto for memory, video cards, etc. The Tawain row outlets don't have the quality control that big guys like Dell and Gateway have. And you don't have the clout of ordering parts in the 1000's to get quick turn around on DOA parts. Unless you want the headaches of becomming a OEM buy your computers ready to go from trusted channels.
Another route, is to go used/reconditioned/surplus on last years models. Try
http://www.compgeeks.com I've bought systems from them and they are great. Don't know if they can supply in the quantity you need, but give them a try!
IMHO the ONLY legal purpose of burning your own CD's is to make collections of songs that YOU want on a single disk, to make MP3 collections (can stuff a LOT more music on a CD in MP3 format), or perhaps to back up your CD's if you are paranoid that they will go bad (I havn't had a single CD go bad in over 20 years, though I have gotten some that never played right in the first place).
Most CD-R's sold are the data kind. You CAN use them on a computer to burn audio cd's and they do play in most audio only CD decks (Hey RIAA that's one way to make some trouble, insure that audio cd players will ONLY play CD-Rs' and RW's that are of the 'music' kind that carry an extra tax to buy). But most of these data CD-R's are being used for computer data backup's, making copies of computer CD roms (Pirate copies of Windows and MS Office?) such as Linux iso's, and digital pictures off loaded from your digi-cam. Also small software companies that can't afford to press 1000 silver copies of their software for sale burn them on CD-R's instead.
Real BULLSHIT statistic RIAA!
Actually inorder to make a copy of a DVD onto a VCD they DO have to decrypt the video. They need the raw video stream to encode into the mpeg format they are using on VCD or SVCD. In a sense they need the same software that plays a DVD on a computer inorder to make the backup copy. So they ARE using a form of DeCSS. If they obtained a license to make and sell a DVD player then part of what they are doing is legal. I wonder if they honour region codes?
Sounds like the first court case against the DMCA under the issue of fair use.
There have been many proposals to put solar power stations in space and beam the energy to earth using microwaves. Just what we need, to live under a microwave oven. Actually the beam would be dispersed over a large distance and the power level at any point within low, but you can imagine the claims of new cancers and the time all the lawyers will be having. Putting the station on the moon would cause problems with beam dispersion since the moon is ten times distant than any proposed earth orbit station. Still there is more room on the moon for a higher gain antenna to condense the beam width. However an earth orbiting station could be put in an orbit that would enable sending the beam so it lands over low population areas. The moon is not in geosychronous orbit so that also imposes a tracking problem.
I don't have a mastercard. I have two visa cards. I like visa better. This only proves my wisdom.
Maybe when consumers start shreding their mastercards and apply for visa cards, MC will wake up and smell the coffee.
Duron was AMD's low end Athlon, sort of what Intel did to the Pentium with the Celeron.
The Hammer series cpus will be 64 bit extensions of the IA32 compatible processors. While Intel went with a totally new (and incompatible) cpu design for their 64 bit chips, AMD extended the Athlon to 64 bits adding larger registers and new instructions. The Hammers will be backward compatible with Athlons and Pentiums and will boot 32 bit Windows and Linux with no software patches. They can also run new 64 bit software and even run 32 bit software under a 64 bit OS, switching modes on the fly! (Sortof like the 386 and up running real mode software under protected mode in a virtual cpu box).
It remains to be seen which 64 bit design will be better, but my vote is for the hammers!