I'm lost why you would want hardware in the mix. Why not use WMP, Real or Quicktime to do it on standard PC's? VOD streaming can be facilitated and tracked through a web interface for login, so you can retain some sort of quota system on Netflix side. If you were to entertain hardware, wouldn't it need to be a partnership deal with Tivo or somebody, to grab and decode the files using MPEG-4 AVC codec. I think Tivo stores in MPEG-2 today. I could be wrong on that.
Cisco? For firewalls?
Websense? For content filtering?
Juniper? For routers?
Checkpoint? Federal Express? UPS? Avaya?
I want to know so I can check out the stock.
I agree. What is a DVD movie in Gb? If it takes anywhere on the order of 24 hours to select and have a movie downloaded to your machine over broadband at DVD quality, it seems a wash to me. I can go 48 hours and have a DVD sent to me in the post and use the bandwidth on my cable modem for my Vonage and PC web traffic.
If, however, there was an option to stream movies using WMP9's last codecs or some Divx technology, something really high, like a 1Mb/s stream that looked good in a box, and that would start on demand, immediately - THAT could be interesting. There are a whole host of movies from the Netflix collection that I really don't want to take the trouble to add to my 3-disc queue, but would happily start watching on my PC in a window, and if I got bored with it, just stop. Quicktime movie trailers on Apple's site are high enough quality for that, maybe slightly larger than that.
That would take some fat pipes on Netflix side to do, but it's just one order of magnitude greater than what iFilm is doing, and the time is right for something like that.
As an American in a political job, I can attest to this. The rule is, essentially, never cop to anything. Always, always spin it back at them. The metaphor is tennis. Admit no error, or fault, or weakness, or tradeoff. Doube speak is the order of the day.
If you do speak honestly, you are marginalized. Instantly. Welcome to the machine.
The University of Michigan's Web AFS system. Kerberos based authentication, although it can use LDAP as well, using widely available AFS clients as well as a web interface.
I know you already discount the Yahoo idiots. But seriously, is there a bigger wasteland of idiocy than the Yahoo message boards? The financial boards are even worse, because the ignorance there is more pronounced. I start subconsciously humming Baba O'Riley every time I visit. Teeenage wasteland... it's a teenage wasteland...
These kids hack, because they are at the age of destructiveness. They don't have the vision and maturity to reach the creativity stage, because they have no role models to do so. This kid's skills are good enough to make him a skilled security professional, and he didn't know enough to hand Sasser over to a Secunia and make himself well known in the process and probably have job offers. I'd like to hear his rationale for releasing it into the wild before deciding on how to treat him, butmost of these kids do it for the kicks and respect of disfunctional peer groups (i.e. other hacking clans). Need to show them a better way.
George, baby, love that flick in the theaters now. Yeah, brilliant baby, that whole cpaitalist pig dog thing, and the gore, man you are the best...
George, baby, I was wondering if we could take lunch next week with you and Stephen. Yeah, we got this new story based on real life, we think it's right up your alley...
I once had a O/S, or should I say, it once had me
It showed me it's colors, wearing a hood, norweigan's should
It asked me to stay and where did I want to go today?
So I looked around and I noticed there wasn't a docking bay
I sat on the rug, biding my time, rebooting for WINE
I set jumpers until two, and then I said, let's put this to bed
It told me it worked for corporations and clippy started to laugh
I told it I didn't and crawled off to post my wrath (on Slashdot, of course)
And when I awoke, I was still stoned, but Linux driver support had grown
So, I lit my EULA on fire, isn't that good, norweigan's could (too).
You've obviously not met a Cisco sales droid at the end of a quarter trying to make his number. Cisco has a rigid quota system for the sales pukes. He'd sell guns to terrorists if it would help him.
I think every article I quoted referenced the fact that the Real Estate market in the mentioned nations is booming and that there are many for whom getting in on the boom is not feasible. Japan, especially, real estate tends to be a poor investment, often losing value. Which doesn't seem to make sense. Other articles talk about affordable housing initiatives and one guy in SE Asia making himself very wealthy converting unused land into an affordable ownership model.
The Western vs. Eastern thing is probably misleading and should have been omitted. Germany actually has one the lowest per capita home ownership rates in Western Europe, at something like 40%, which is far far lower than most places. The dynamics of how it happens is complex, and doesn't tie to GDP but rather to other factors, such as land mass, world currency status, primary industry, etc.
My other rather simple point, is that something is happening in Japan and China that I do not purport to understand. The most popular game people told me about when I was last in Hong Kong is a game you play where it's like a MMORPG, but combat is non-existent. It's about your avatar, getting cool new clothes and a new hairstyle. Somebody showed it to me, help me out here, it seemed kind of like the Sims but it had more hooks. Your avatar could go into your phone as your caller-id, a whole slew of things. The thought I drew was that it seemed very very important to have a projection of status in the virtual world. I haven't studied it enough to compare, but if you were to go into the Sims, my guess is you'd find some virtual counterpart to the slacker. Grunge guy, dirty, old clothes, facial hair, skateboard. I wonder if there are virtual bums in the Sims, players who reject the acquisition premise of the game, and just roam around, crashing at other people's places etc.
Enough on this. I'm sure there is more room for study, but I refuse to reject my original premise, which is that the real life real estate market drives an underlying cultural attitude, which may or may not be tied to the part of the world, that affects how virtual property is regarded.
I think we may be missing something here. The power of the notion of land ownership. In some societies, namely China, Japan, the Phillpines, the idea of land ownership is beyond fathoming for many people, who can otherwise afford broadband and computers.
To them, the notion that land "exists" in the virtual world connects to their ideas of self-worth in a very tangible way.
Cassettes held on longer than people expected, along with mini cassettes for recording conversations. People liked to record things, pre-digital camera days.
So, logic tells us that they key to VHS being obsolete is....
being able to pull your Tivo recordings off for posterity to DVD. i.e. the next wave of technology will be the Tivo meeting the DVD burner, at speeds that don't suck. I should be able to Tivo something, and not move it off to my hard drive as is common now (that's for geeks, not for gramma) but rather pop a DVD-RW in the front of my Tivo unit, and have that disc pop back out in some reasonable time, say 5 minutes, for a 60 minute show.
Discs must be as cheap as tapes (they are already) and be easy to label and re-label (jewel cases meet this requirement), they should be able to use easy to follow software to amend stuff to, so you can pop the same disc in and add stuff to it.
Getting the MPEG off into Adobe or something, that's all gravy. It needs to work like I described. And to do that... well for one... DVDs burn slowly. 8x or 16x, it still takes 2 freakin hours to burn a DVD of 60 minutes. That has to go from 2:1 to something like 1:3. It should take 20 minutes. That means faster burners, more memory in these units, faster CPUs, etc.
That's the killer app for PS3 and Xbox 2, etc etc. A combined Tivo, game, and DVD burner.
Here's what I think the relevance of that planet is. It's not very far away from a light year standpoint, and yet it's "rocky". It's far too close to the star, with surface temps near 800F. If another planet was in that solar system, say one that supported humans, we can't see it. Yet.
That's just nearby. We found another planet just next door. That suggests the probability of another habitable planet for humans is, well... it has to be considered higher than it was before encountering this planet. We don't have any statistics as to the probability of a habitable planet forming around the different classes of stars, but there are trillions and trillions of planets. Too far to get to, perhaps, but the chances that they exist have to be considered greater than originally thought.
That was interesting. I didn't know Disney was into plagarism. So bereft of ideas and creativity, I chalk it up to Eisner and his bean counters who strangled the life out of the place.
National Public Radio in the U.S. ran a story about how Merck ran a campaign to pressure M.D.s who were doing research showing Vioxx was a problem in patients, causing damage to the heart.
The story is right here and it outlines a major problem with all scientific research, but most acutely in the pharmaceutical industry, where the Bush administration has gutted the FDA and made them the lapdog of the drug companies. Capital markets use science and statistics as weapons, and objective evidence of problems exists only when other drug companies that compete fund research to show problems.
Bush said last week that he still wasn't interested in a Kyoto like treaty, because global warming needed more "research" and study. And, of course, the report that shows that an employee of the American Petroleum Council was sitting inside the EPA censoring reports that showed any causality between burning fossil fuels and global warming. Can't have that.
Corrupt scientists. No objective sources of information. And people wonder why there is a skyrocketing reliance on religion by our political leaders, who pander and are willing to teach nonsense like "Intelligent Creation" alongside scientific evidence of darwinism and natural selection. Divinity sells. And a assailable scientific community only makes it easier.
We seem to be leaving an age of reason, and entering a new Dark age. Instead of Thomas Aquinas we have Dr. Phil.
The only one that was in that league of lameness, is Information Security Decisions by Information Security magazine. Another free conference. Horrible. Avoid at all costs.
"What was the important thing about open source? It was that the code was available, and that is something positive," he said. "That was the original innovation. Now open source is a complete mess in which too many people try to do many things."
Huh? So far, with Linus at the helm, the Linux codebase has not forked. Open source has done lots of other things not related to Linux, such as OpenOffice and Firefox.
There are tons of projects on Sourceforge, some of which get orphaned, true, but many others which come to fruition. How can you have too many people working on Open Source? Maybe he'd like to appoint himself as the guy who says Gnome is dead, all you guys go start working on KDE, but that is not going to happen. He seems to somehow misunderstand the whole concept of laissez-faire and quality coming from the constant interaction of individuals. It's not possible to have too many people working on open source, or to have a single direction aka Bill Gates architect. This guy needs to go watch the Matrix on loop about 6-7 times and get that.
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I'm lost why you would want hardware in the mix. Why not use WMP, Real or Quicktime to do it on standard PC's? VOD streaming can be facilitated and tracked through a web interface for login, so you can retain some sort of quota system on Netflix side. If you were to entertain hardware, wouldn't it need to be a partnership deal with Tivo or somebody, to grab and decode the files using MPEG-4 AVC codec. I think Tivo stores in MPEG-2 today. I could be wrong on that.
Cisco? For firewalls?
Websense? For content filtering?
Juniper? For routers?
Checkpoint? Federal Express? UPS? Avaya?
I want to know so I can check out the stock.
I agree. What is a DVD movie in Gb? If it takes anywhere on the order of 24 hours to select and have a movie downloaded to your machine over broadband at DVD quality, it seems a wash to me. I can go 48 hours and have a DVD sent to me in the post and use the bandwidth on my cable modem for my Vonage and PC web traffic.
If, however, there was an option to stream movies using WMP9's last codecs or some Divx technology, something really high, like a 1Mb/s stream that looked good in a box, and that would start on demand, immediately - THAT could be interesting. There are a whole host of movies from the Netflix collection that I really don't want to take the trouble to add to my 3-disc queue, but would happily start watching on my PC in a window, and if I got bored with it, just stop. Quicktime movie trailers on Apple's site are high enough quality for that, maybe slightly larger than that.
That would take some fat pipes on Netflix side to do, but it's just one order of magnitude greater than what iFilm is doing, and the time is right for something like that.
As an American in a political job, I can attest to this. The rule is, essentially, never cop to anything. Always, always spin it back at them. The metaphor is tennis. Admit no error, or fault, or weakness, or tradeoff. Doube speak is the order of the day.
If you do speak honestly, you are marginalized. Instantly. Welcome to the machine.
The University of Michigan's Web AFS system. Kerberos based authentication, although it can use LDAP as well, using widely available AFS clients as well as a web interface.
http://mfile.umich.edu/
Show me a story of a kid, under 21, who runs a meth lab of his own volition, not under the direction of an adult.
I know you already discount the Yahoo idiots. But seriously, is there a bigger wasteland of idiocy than the Yahoo message boards? The financial boards are even worse, because the ignorance there is more pronounced. I start subconsciously humming Baba O'Riley every time I visit. Teeenage wasteland... it's a teenage wasteland...
Sentence the kid to a computer science school.
These kids hack, because they are at the age of destructiveness. They don't have the vision and maturity to reach the creativity stage, because they have no role models to do so. This kid's skills are good enough to make him a skilled security professional, and he didn't know enough to hand Sasser over to a Secunia and make himself well known in the process and probably have job offers. I'd like to hear his rationale for releasing it into the wild before deciding on how to treat him, butmost of these kids do it for the kicks and respect of disfunctional peer groups (i.e. other hacking clans). Need to show them a better way.
As opposed to you, who has a gun rack in his pickup and secretly admires the BTK killer.
From the Desk of Paramount Studios:
George, baby, love that flick in the theaters now. Yeah, brilliant baby, that whole cpaitalist pig dog thing, and the gore, man you are the best...
George, baby, I was wondering if we could take lunch next week with you and Stephen. Yeah, we got this new story based on real life, we think it's right up your alley...
I once had a O/S, or should I say, it once had me
It showed me it's colors, wearing a hood, norweigan's should
It asked me to stay and where did I want to go today?
So I looked around and I noticed there wasn't a docking bay
I sat on the rug, biding my time, rebooting for WINE
I set jumpers until two, and then I said, let's put this to bed
It told me it worked for corporations and clippy started to laugh
I told it I didn't and crawled off to post my wrath (on Slashdot, of course)
And when I awoke, I was still stoned, but Linux driver support had grown
So, I lit my EULA on fire, isn't that good, norweigan's could (too).
You've obviously not met a Cisco sales droid at the end of a quarter trying to make his number. Cisco has a rigid quota system for the sales pukes. He'd sell guns to terrorists if it would help him.
I think every article I quoted referenced the fact that the Real Estate market in the mentioned nations is booming and that there are many for whom getting in on the boom is not feasible. Japan, especially, real estate tends to be a poor investment, often losing value. Which doesn't seem to make sense. Other articles talk about affordable housing initiatives and one guy in SE Asia making himself very wealthy converting unused land into an affordable ownership model.
The Western vs. Eastern thing is probably misleading and should have been omitted. Germany actually has one the lowest per capita home ownership rates in Western Europe, at something like 40%, which is far far lower than most places. The dynamics of how it happens is complex, and doesn't tie to GDP but rather to other factors, such as land mass, world currency status, primary industry, etc.
My other rather simple point, is that something is happening in Japan and China that I do not purport to understand. The most popular game people told me about when I was last in Hong Kong is a game you play where it's like a MMORPG, but combat is non-existent. It's about your avatar, getting cool new clothes and a new hairstyle. Somebody showed it to me, help me out here, it seemed kind of like the Sims but it had more hooks. Your avatar could go into your phone as your caller-id, a whole slew of things. The thought I drew was that it seemed very very important to have a projection of status in the virtual world. I haven't studied it enough to compare, but if you were to go into the Sims, my guess is you'd find some virtual counterpart to the slacker. Grunge guy, dirty, old clothes, facial hair, skateboard. I wonder if there are virtual bums in the Sims, players who reject the acquisition premise of the game, and just roam around, crashing at other people's places etc.
Enough on this. I'm sure there is more room for study, but I refuse to reject my original premise, which is that the real life real estate market drives an underlying cultural attitude, which may or may not be tied to the part of the world, that affects how virtual property is regarded.
Fuck you.
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http://www.geocities.com/japanfaq/FAQ-Prices.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4075536.stm
http://www.japanwindow.com/archives/2005/02/
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/GE17Ad01.html
http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/95/0818/biz1.htm
I strongly disagree to your disagreement. So, here we go: http://www.geocities.com/japanfaq/FAQ-Prices.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4075536.stm http://www.japanwindow.com/archives/2005/02/ http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/GE17Ad01.html http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/95/0818/biz1.html
Ah, geez. Whatta ya know. Nothing like a bibiolography to bring a house of cards down.
I think we may be missing something here. The power of the notion of land ownership. In some societies, namely China, Japan, the Phillpines, the idea of land ownership is beyond fathoming for many people, who can otherwise afford broadband and computers.
To them, the notion that land "exists" in the virtual world connects to their ideas of self-worth in a very tangible way.
But NASA has not yet decided what vehicles will be used to reach the moon...
There's a giant Big Boy statue down the road you can use...
Cassettes held on longer than people expected, along with mini cassettes for recording conversations. People liked to record things, pre-digital camera days.
So, logic tells us that they key to VHS being obsolete is....
being able to pull your Tivo recordings off for posterity to DVD. i.e. the next wave of technology will be the Tivo meeting the DVD burner, at speeds that don't suck. I should be able to Tivo something, and not move it off to my hard drive as is common now (that's for geeks, not for gramma) but rather pop a DVD-RW in the front of my Tivo unit, and have that disc pop back out in some reasonable time, say 5 minutes, for a 60 minute show.
Discs must be as cheap as tapes (they are already) and be easy to label and re-label (jewel cases meet this requirement), they should be able to use easy to follow software to amend stuff to, so you can pop the same disc in and add stuff to it.
Getting the MPEG off into Adobe or something, that's all gravy. It needs to work like I described. And to do that... well for one... DVDs burn slowly. 8x or 16x, it still takes 2 freakin hours to burn a DVD of 60 minutes. That has to go from 2:1 to something like 1:3. It should take 20 minutes. That means faster burners, more memory in these units, faster CPUs, etc.
That's the killer app for PS3 and Xbox 2, etc etc. A combined Tivo, game, and DVD burner.
Then, VHS is gone.
Here's what I think the relevance of that planet is. It's not very far away from a light year standpoint, and yet it's "rocky". It's far too close to the star, with surface temps near 800F. If another planet was in that solar system, say one that supported humans, we can't see it. Yet.
That's just nearby. We found another planet just next door. That suggests the probability of another habitable planet for humans is, well... it has to be considered higher than it was before encountering this planet. We don't have any statistics as to the probability of a habitable planet forming around the different classes of stars, but there are trillions and trillions of planets. Too far to get to, perhaps, but the chances that they exist have to be considered greater than originally thought.
That was interesting. I didn't know Disney was into plagarism. So bereft of ideas and creativity, I chalk it up to Eisner and his bean counters who strangled the life out of the place.
National Public Radio in the U.S. ran a story about how Merck ran a campaign to pressure M.D.s who were doing research showing Vioxx was a problem in patients, causing damage to the heart.
The story is right here and it outlines a major problem with all scientific research, but most acutely in the pharmaceutical industry, where the Bush administration has gutted the FDA and made them the lapdog of the drug companies. Capital markets use science and statistics as weapons, and objective evidence of problems exists only when other drug companies that compete fund research to show problems.
Bush said last week that he still wasn't interested in a Kyoto like treaty, because global warming needed more "research" and study. And, of course, the report that shows that an employee of the American Petroleum Council was sitting inside the EPA censoring reports that showed any causality between burning fossil fuels and global warming. Can't have that.
Corrupt scientists. No objective sources of information. And people wonder why there is a skyrocketing reliance on religion by our political leaders, who pander and are willing to teach nonsense like "Intelligent Creation" alongside scientific evidence of darwinism and natural selection. Divinity sells. And a assailable scientific community only makes it easier.
We seem to be leaving an age of reason, and entering a new Dark age. Instead of Thomas Aquinas we have Dr. Phil.
It's true. It's that bad.
The only one that was in that league of lameness, is Information Security Decisions by Information Security magazine. Another free conference. Horrible. Avoid at all costs.
the pid should be 42 as well.
#top
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
561 ganesh 13 0 58876 25000000M 1044 S 0 0.7 95.1 68:51 universe
"What was the important thing about open source? It was that the code was available, and that is something positive," he said. "That was the original innovation. Now open source is a complete mess in which too many people try to do many things."
Huh? So far, with Linus at the helm, the Linux codebase has not forked. Open source has done lots of other things not related to Linux, such as OpenOffice and Firefox.
There are tons of projects on Sourceforge, some of which get orphaned, true, but many others which come to fruition. How can you have too many people working on Open Source? Maybe he'd like to appoint himself as the guy who says Gnome is dead, all you guys go start working on KDE, but that is not going to happen. He seems to somehow misunderstand the whole concept of laissez-faire and quality coming from the constant interaction of individuals. It's not possible to have too many people working on open source, or to have a single direction aka Bill Gates architect. This guy needs to go watch the Matrix on loop about 6-7 times and get that.