From tfa, apparently there will big a long list of different versions of longhorn, stuff like starter, home, small business, professional, premium, media, tablet etc. and all of these, except starter, will be released in 64-bit and 32-bit versions.
Personally, I can't help but thinking that running longhorn on any box would be a mistake.
Maybe they are trying to move away from a system where a three letter suffix determines what application opens a file. Maybe they are heading to a more unix style system?
Channel 4 has had their broadband offering for a while http://www.channel4.com/broadband/.
It costs a monthly flat fee and the selection isn't fantastic. Although I think they did let viewers watch 24/7 big brother with it last year.
Anyone used it?
Not exactly what I was talking about, but iMP (interactive media player) http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/askbruce/articles/bbc.co.uk/imp_1.shtml
by the BBC will let viewers download tv shows up to seven days after they have been aired and watch them as many times as they like within those seven days.
Unfortunately "The BBC is still testing the application and a decision on whether to fully launch it is expected later in 2005." So we can only hope it will get launched.
I downloaded one of the free clips (3 mins long) and it's a whopping 896K/sec up to 1539kbps/sec VBR at 768 x 432 with 96kbps WM audio. Even if the content isn't that great, the quality is damn good. Considering they could have passed us off with some crappy res, little real media file, this is a fantastic offering.
Provided this isn't a total flop, hopefully it will lead the way for other networks to do the same which hopefully will lead to downloading whole programmes.
I thought I read a while ago that the BBC (and possibly Channel 4) were going to open up their archives for watching clips/programmes online. Anyone know what happened to that?
I think this can be explained by heat loss.
As we all know, cold atoms move slower than warm atoms, so it stands to reason that cold batteries will hold their charge for longer than warm batteries.
With peer to peer apps like bittorrent letting people all over the world download episodes of various tv shows; why do we even need "tv"? Couldn't a band of sci-fi fans get together and start making their own 45min episodes?
What is the biggest barrier to entry here? Cost, time or original ideas?
I'm sure even a fraction of the £30 million required to save enterprise (is it really that much?!) could help solve some of those problems, spawning a wealth of "tv-like" episodes, much like fan fics.
If there is so much demand for being able to download movies/tv episodes, then why the hell don't the distribution companies take advantage of it and let poeple downlaod things legally at a fair price?
Maybe they trained an artificial neural network using an un-supervised method of learning (such as the kohonen network, which performs clustering) to give them their results. That fits into the artificial intelligence realm.
Maybe you didn't read the article, but with 20 input vectors, they would be learning in 20 dimensional space. Or is there a way to describe 20 vectors in just 3 without giving a bias to any of them?
In the earlier days of the transition to win2k/xp, there were quite a few apps that were designed for 95/98 that I used, that just plain refused to install on the nt based system, because it had been written for 95/98.
I bet microsoft annoyed a fair few developers by abandoing 95/98 and making them spend time and effort re-coding for a new OS - although I guess the companies in turn then had a pretty good reason to charge customers for the new products.
One solution would be for the computer to look at the sound output of the computer and take that signal away from the input from the microphone. Although, this wouldn't help things like your dog barking in the back ground, or if your hi-fi plays your music instead of your pc.
Maybe the best solution is just to get a decent microphone that cancels out a lot of back ground noise?
Several years ago on tomorow's world I saw a microphone which worked on vibrations of the jaw for environments like concerts so that the security people could still communicate with each other. Something like that could be ideal.
Doesn't anyone else find it really stupid that computers are such a big part of people's lives, yet the majority of machines are held to ransom by one company that is getting rich off of the digital revolution?
Isn't it about time that the government started help funding open source solutions so that the citizens dont have to put up with the microsoft tax?
With a whole universe and a whole timeline to play with, they could be creative and keep the startrek franchise around by trying something different, like not having the main characters as humans.
The suggestion of a story with the romulans is a good idea. Why not a series that focused on the romulan wars? Or another point in history like the romulan split from vulcan?
Maybe they should consider only commisioning six or eight episodes, like british tv shows, so they can focus on getting the writing good for those episodes?
The first time I read that I read it as SoftwareOfDoomDay - was kinda scary for a minute.
The thought of the UN really cleverly hiding a software of doom day inside a software freedom day to turn the world into one big brother state over night.
Yeah, work is kinda dull sometimes.
I recently went to a presentation by Microsoft and the representative told us that recently Mcrosoft told all their developers to stop coding and read some big book on security. Once they had read the book, they could continue. Anyone not complying to what the book said about secure code was sacked.
If the story is true, SP2 should have been developed looking out for common security problems during development, meaning that this great new secure development process they have going on, isn't that great after all.
On the otherhand, this is Slashdot and kicking Microsoft is the thing to be done!
I would have thought that Microsoft actually like to have pirated copies of windows out there. If everyone is running windows, then it will be very hard for other operating systems to get a foot hold, where as, if they alienate everyone not running a legit copy of windows, then they will either have to pay, or turn to an alternative. If they stop using windows, then windows stops being the defacto standard and that is currently microsoft's big advantage on the market.
Should they provide support to people that pirate their products? No. But if it means losing out on their user base; shouldn't they?
I always wondered why stuff like the msn protocl hasn't been turned into a standard library by someone, then all im clients could use this library without worrying about re-inventing the wheel. It would be the end of people choosing different clients because the one they want lacks an important function, like file sending or recieving. The client writers could then focus on other issues, like adding cool features like the translator function in kopete.
It's not been updated in a while, but the summary goes:
You need to buy a controller, the one that came with the device won't do. They cost more than an lcd screen itself, so unless you're desperate to recycle, you might as well buy.
As for ideas what to do; I always thought i'd be cool to have a little display of system statistics cpu/ram/disk usage, maybe any new emails that have arrived - basically most of the features that superkaramba gives you, except you'd be able to see it when running full screen apps.
Maybe adding some kind of time-related knock; so that if anyone does capture the packets, without knowing how to relate the current time to the knock, their list of ports is useless.
Eg if the time is 13:00, port 1300 could be the 13th port to knock on so as an extra layer?
More complex versions could have the time having some function performed on it, and could have a relationship to where it is in the knock.
The age-old "security through obscurity" still applies (the same amount as a plaintext password), but this makes it up to the user to encrypt their 'password' some how.
I may be wrong, but I was under the impression that all knocked ports were closed and a cron job watched logs, and then opened a port if it noticed the correct knock. This is great for linux, were things are logged, but does windows have a loging facility of this kind?
If not, the ports must be open for a program to know if someone has tried to connnect, which defeats the point. With most trojans being on windows, it seems that this isn't a viable feature to add.
BTW, I'd like to just point out that I haven't touched a P+P game since I was 12
At first, when my friends started getting in to it a few years ago, I didn't really see the attraction in dnd; I thought "if there isn't a physical representation of what is going on, it must be uber lame." But, since then they persuaded me to play a couple of games and I've really enjoyed them - we play whenever we get the chance (not often due to being at different universities). Sure, it maybe a little geeky, but then again, when was sitting around with your mates and having a beer and a laugh geeky?
I'd recommend it for anyone to have a go; my girlfriend even volunteered to play, but I'm not sure she know what she's getting herself into!
While I love NWN, it just not the same as dnd; even in multiplayer mode at a lan party. Personally I attribute that to things like combat being different; in dnd you can take your time deciding what to do next turn, but in NWN (and i assume, other games) combat can be over really quickly. It's nice to have a fast moving game, but you miss out on the thinking time. Not to mention the social activity.
In my opinion, computer games are currently a complement to real dnd, maybe something to do when you cant meet up, not a replacement.
Aren't the FSF around to help out stuff like this? Don't they give legal aid to open source developers? Wouldn't they be interested in defending the GPL in a case which seems so cut and dry? Wouldn't that help in the GPL and the whole community in the long run?
(Obligatory Starwars reference)
Even if it isn't strong, and it fails in court, something tells me that if you strike the GPL down, if will become more powerful than we can possibly imagine....
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This would lead to expensive equipment being ruined, just so they could salvage it for parts.
From tfa, apparently there will big a long list of different versions of longhorn, stuff like starter, home, small business, professional, premium, media, tablet etc. and all of these, except starter, will be released in 64-bit and 32-bit versions.
Personally, I can't help but thinking that running longhorn on any box would be a mistake.
Maybe they are trying to move away from a system where a three letter suffix determines what application opens a file. Maybe they are heading to a more unix style system?
Not released yet :(
I read somewhere they were trialing it, so maybe search on peer 2 peer programs for it?!
Channel 4 has had their broadband offering for a while http://www.channel4.com/broadband/.
It costs a monthly flat fee and the selection isn't fantastic. Although I think they did let viewers watch 24/7 big brother with it last year.
Anyone used it?
Not exactly what I was talking about, but iMP (interactive media player) http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/askbruce/articles/bbc .co.uk/imp_1.shtml
by the BBC will let viewers download tv shows up to seven days after they have been aired and watch them as many times as they like within those seven days.
Unfortunately "The BBC is still testing the application and a decision on whether to fully launch it is expected later in 2005." So we can only hope it will get launched.
I downloaded one of the free clips (3 mins long) and it's a whopping 896K/sec up to 1539kbps/sec VBR at 768 x 432 with 96kbps WM audio. Even if the content isn't that great, the quality is damn good. Considering they could have passed us off with some crappy res, little real media file, this is a fantastic offering.
Provided this isn't a total flop, hopefully it will lead the way for other networks to do the same which hopefully will lead to downloading whole programmes.
I thought I read a while ago that the BBC (and possibly Channel 4) were going to open up their archives for watching clips/programmes online. Anyone know what happened to that?
I think this can be explained by heat loss.
As we all know, cold atoms move slower than warm atoms, so it stands to reason that cold batteries will hold their charge for longer than warm batteries.
With peer to peer apps like bittorrent letting people all over the world download episodes of various tv shows; why do we even need "tv"? Couldn't a band of sci-fi fans get together and start making their own 45min episodes?
What is the biggest barrier to entry here? Cost, time or original ideas?
I'm sure even a fraction of the £30 million required to save enterprise (is it really that much?!) could help solve some of those problems, spawning a wealth of "tv-like" episodes, much like fan fics.
If there is so much demand for being able to download movies/tv episodes, then why the hell don't the distribution companies take advantage of it and let poeple downlaod things legally at a fair price?
Maybe they trained an artificial neural network using an un-supervised method of learning (such as the kohonen network, which performs clustering) to give them their results. That fits into the artificial intelligence realm.
Maybe you didn't read the article, but with 20 input vectors, they would be learning in 20 dimensional space. Or is there a way to describe 20 vectors in just 3 without giving a bias to any of them?
In the earlier days of the transition to win2k/xp, there were quite a few apps that were designed for 95/98 that I used, that just plain refused to install on the nt based system, because it had been written for 95/98.
I bet microsoft annoyed a fair few developers by abandoing 95/98 and making them spend time and effort re-coding for a new OS - although I guess the companies in turn then had a pretty good reason to charge customers for the new products.
One solution would be for the computer to look at the sound output of the computer and take that signal away from the input from the microphone. Although, this wouldn't help things like your dog barking in the back ground, or if your hi-fi plays your music instead of your pc.
Maybe the best solution is just to get a decent microphone that cancels out a lot of back ground noise?
Several years ago on tomorow's world I saw a microphone which worked on vibrations of the jaw for environments like concerts so that the security people could still communicate with each other. Something like that could be ideal.
Doesn't anyone else find it really stupid that computers are such a big part of people's lives, yet the majority of machines are held to ransom by one company that is getting rich off of the digital revolution?
Isn't it about time that the government started help funding open source solutions so that the citizens dont have to put up with the microsoft tax?
With a whole universe and a whole timeline to play with, they could be creative and keep the startrek franchise around by trying something different, like not having the main characters as humans.
The suggestion of a story with the romulans is a good idea. Why not a series that focused on the romulan wars? Or another point in history like the romulan split from vulcan?
Maybe they should consider only commisioning six or eight episodes, like british tv shows, so they can focus on getting the writing good for those episodes?
The first time I read that I read it as SoftwareOfDoomDay - was kinda scary for a minute.
The thought of the UN really cleverly hiding a software of doom day inside a software freedom day to turn the world into one big brother state over night.
Yeah, work is kinda dull sometimes.
I recently went to a presentation by Microsoft and the representative told us that recently Mcrosoft told all their developers to stop coding and read some big book on security. Once they had read the book, they could continue. Anyone not complying to what the book said about secure code was sacked.
If the story is true, SP2 should have been developed looking out for common security problems during development, meaning that this great new secure development process they have going on, isn't that great after all.
On the otherhand, this is Slashdot and kicking Microsoft is the thing to be done!
I would have thought that Microsoft actually like to have pirated copies of windows out there. If everyone is running windows, then it will be very hard for other operating systems to get a foot hold, where as, if they alienate everyone not running a legit copy of windows, then they will either have to pay, or turn to an alternative. If they stop using windows, then windows stops being the defacto standard and that is currently microsoft's big advantage on the market.
Should they provide support to people that pirate their products? No. But if it means losing out on their user base; shouldn't they?
I always wondered why stuff like the msn protocl hasn't been turned into a standard library by someone, then all im clients could use this library without worrying about re-inventing the wheel. It would be the end of people choosing different clients because the one they want lacks an important function, like file sending or recieving. The client writers could then focus on other issues, like adding cool features like the translator function in kopete.
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It's not been updated in a while, but the summary goes: You need to buy a controller, the one that came with the device won't do. They cost more than an lcd screen itself, so unless you're desperate to recycle, you might as well buy.
As for ideas what to do; I always thought i'd be cool to have a little display of system statistics cpu/ram/disk usage, maybe any new emails that have arrived - basically most of the features that superkaramba gives you, except you'd be able to see it when running full screen apps.
Maybe adding some kind of time-related knock; so that if anyone does capture the packets, without knowing how to relate the current time to the knock, their list of ports is useless. Eg if the time is 13:00, port 1300 could be the 13th port to knock on so as an extra layer? More complex versions could have the time having some function performed on it, and could have a relationship to where it is in the knock. The age-old "security through obscurity" still applies (the same amount as a plaintext password), but this makes it up to the user to encrypt their 'password' some how.
I may be wrong, but I was under the impression that all knocked ports were closed and a cron job watched logs, and then opened a port if it noticed the correct knock. This is great for linux, were things are logged, but does windows have a loging facility of this kind? If not, the ports must be open for a program to know if someone has tried to connnect, which defeats the point. With most trojans being on windows, it seems that this isn't a viable feature to add.
BTW, I'd like to just point out that I haven't touched a P+P game since I was 12 At first, when my friends started getting in to it a few years ago, I didn't really see the attraction in dnd; I thought "if there isn't a physical representation of what is going on, it must be uber lame." But, since then they persuaded me to play a couple of games and I've really enjoyed them - we play whenever we get the chance (not often due to being at different universities). Sure, it maybe a little geeky, but then again, when was sitting around with your mates and having a beer and a laugh geeky? I'd recommend it for anyone to have a go; my girlfriend even volunteered to play, but I'm not sure she know what she's getting herself into! While I love NWN, it just not the same as dnd; even in multiplayer mode at a lan party. Personally I attribute that to things like combat being different; in dnd you can take your time deciding what to do next turn, but in NWN (and i assume, other games) combat can be over really quickly. It's nice to have a fast moving game, but you miss out on the thinking time. Not to mention the social activity. In my opinion, computer games are currently a complement to real dnd, maybe something to do when you cant meet up, not a replacement.
Aren't the FSF around to help out stuff like this? Don't they give legal aid to open source developers? Wouldn't they be interested in defending the GPL in a case which seems so cut and dry? Wouldn't that help in the GPL and the whole community in the long run?
(Obligatory Starwars reference)
Even if it isn't strong, and it fails in court, something tells me that if you strike the GPL down, if will become more powerful than we can possibly imagine....