But if it's a corporate machine it wouldn't have valuable data on it's local hard drive and so this hack would not be effective.
Of course that's just the theory behind corporate machines, people often do find ways to save to the local disk but I imagine the sensitive information would have proper access controls which would be independent of any local privilege escalation hacks.
I would think terabit ethernet would become mighty handy on the backbone although you certainly wouldn't need it in the home. Distributed computing can and eventually will take up this bandwidth. You're right, for most tasks gigabit is enough. Course with my 72port gigabit switch connecting to my backbone, now I'd need 72gigabit at least to sustain full bandwidth which I can't achieve. So I bottleneck it at the IDF with dual 10gig links. Of course the main bottleneck is the server then as dual gig nics can't service even 10gig so now it's time to upgrade the NICs in the servers since PCI-E can actually handle the increased throughput. Of course the SAN back-end can keep up without a problem.
I definitely think free software can generate the same wealth. I also support Linux afterall. As a consumer of free software if it does what I need well then I make money faster, the Gimp example however counts against it although I don't think you referenced it. The Gimp is rather pale in comparison to Photoshop and I'm unsure of any free-software alternatives to Illustrator or InDesign.
The increased profit motive from selling software does tend to produce results but as we've seen from the likes of Apache and Mozilla that great quality products can still be produced when they become well organized. Of course there is also the Qmail argument, the software was free, deemed perfected, and then left to go on it's merry way. Of course others have picked up the cause and started adding much needed functionality to it and now you have products like the Qmail toaster which make it a snap to deploy. So to me it sounds like either path eventually gets you where you want to be.
I will add one more item, more defending free software since Adobe has been the company of choice for graphics. With their CS3 product line the thing calls home needlessly and is full of bloat slowing the whole thing down. This is not something you see with too many free software products so you can argue that while profit driven software development gets you there faster, free software keeps its path intact. Although there is definitely free software with plenty of bloat out there.
I totally agree with your notion that you can make money supporting free software. I was refuting the parent specifically for stating that Microsoft doesn't create wealth when in fact they do create quite a bit.
So in short, we agree and all is well in the universe for a change.
I believe the parent poster was referring to the fact that I make a good salary supporting Microsoft installations, along with Oracle software, Sonicwall, and the thousands of other programs are out there. Furthermore, our business couldn't make as much money as it does if we went the all paper route. The automation that the software tools give us save us a ton of both time and money allowing us to grow faster which is illustrated by the fact that our workforce has doubled now in three years. I would definitely say Microsoft creates a lot of wealth for a great money people and not just people that benefit from supporting the software directly. Adobe has enabled a good number of people as well. The graphics design industry exploded cause of Photoshop and Illustrator.
Drug dealing is just a sink, there is no money generated from anything consumed, the money is moved around. With software I license my copy of Photoshop and then make my money back 1000 times adding zeroes by creating more designs without having to continually reinvest like I would if I was a drug addict. Of course that's oversimplified.
I've had similar experiences with most Linux distros and I use various distros for servers but on the desktop it just seems to slow me down. As I recall the reason a lot of the codecs are missing though is not because of technical problems, but due to copyright and patent infringement. Can't have MPEG2 out of the box for example. So if IP wasn't such a problem right now Linux would be in a much better place on the desktop.
How many computers do you keep around for 20 years? Same with servers, a 3 year lease leaves you paying for 80% of the value of the product and you get refreshed with new hardware after the term is up. As a result you always have hardware under warranty and you get to take advantage of increased processing ability. Of course not every business grows as fast as the one I'm responsible for. We just started leasing hardware as we're finding it to be far simpler all around. Don't have to worry about Windows or Office licensing, it's all built-in.
Leasing makes a lot of sense, especially when you consider that you're not forced to run the new software on the new hardware. You always have the ability to use an older version. That is the reason a Vista license is valid for XP with a simple phone call if you're a single sap at home or through the VL site if you're a business customer.
Of course you do pay for the convenience but it's quite worth while. That NT4 license from the 90s isn't all the useful to me now. Same with Netware 3, of course I do get a number of servers without an OS and use Debian for my workhorse servers. Then I don't have to worry about expiring licensing and all I have to do is remap the LUN when I get the new server to replace it.
You proved my point perfectly, a 27" has the same pixels as a 60", so the pixels are smaller and thus less perceptible. This is why you only notice the change as the TV size gets larger. On a 72" screen you see a big difference for instance. You might also notice that there is no clarity difference on any computer monitor when you go from 640x480 to 1920x1024 or whatever resolution of choice. The picture just appears smaller the higher up you go with resolution, this is why you don't see too many people running that high of a resolution on a 14" monitor because they wouldn't be able to see a lot of the commonly displayed items such as text. You can achieve the same clarity with SD resolutions by changing your encoding format which is pretty much exactly what they are doing with Blue-ray except they also bumped the resolution to make it look better on larger screens which are getting more common.
Also, when making an argument and attacking someone you might want to make sure your sentence structure makes sense.
There is no gap, most people are buying 42" or smaller TVs and your plasma claim is highly dubious as plasma is known for brightness and not clarity which is why they suck so bad as second monitors for computers.
I've done side by side comparisons and the difference is too small for the majority of people to care enough to blow a grand on a new TV and another couple hundred on a Blue-ray player just to achieve that mediocre gain in quality.
For the record I can see a difference but I'm comparing commercial grade LCDs to any plasma I've encountered. Last year we had 50 plasma screens at our event. This year we had 50 LCDs and the clarity difference was astounding. Outside displays still need to be plasma as you do need the contrast. Using an upscaling DVD player versus a blue-ray and you'll not see a huge difference in clarity. Color saturation is a function of the TV although I'll grant you that it does depend a bit on the source. Of course we have professional grade color-corrected LCDs here as well for broadcast purposes and I can say that the color is not all that different depending on what level of brightness and contrast you use.
Of course the upscaling player can also be the limiting factor as they are not all created equal. The fact that there is even a discussion should be enough evidence, you wouldn't find too many people saying there was no difference between DVD and VHS.
I will challenge you to produce an HD-DVD or Blueray disc that is a dramatic improvement over an upscaling DVD player on a 42" TV. Unless you have a 60" or bigger TV you will simply not notice an improvement. That is what the parent was getting at by saying DVDs are still the media of choice and will continue to be for the near future. There is a marked improvement from VHS to DVD, not such an improvement from DVD to HD. Then of course you have the added pain of the crappily conceived HDMI connector and encryption causing problems on every player.
By your logic there would be no software for the Mac and Apple would have long died. Producing an HD-DVD once you've got your Blu-ray already made does not significantly increase the cost of production. It would be easy to see a return on your investment with 30% of the market wanting your product in HD-DVD format.
Except that Microsoft doesn't sell a license to downgrade to XP. It's the same with all Microsoft products, if you buy the latest version you can use an older version without worry. A lot of SQL 2005 buyers ran into that as a lot of apps still require SQL 2000. All you do is call up MS and they give you a product key that will work for the older app. Depending on how you purchased it you can even download it from their VL site.
Also, a stock valued as high as Microsoft's moving 3% is quite a big deal but that's irrelevant. If they were doing as badly as many people think then their stock wouldn't go up at all.
You really think that is simply obstruction of justice if it means details about the selling of nuclear secrets to unstable regions? The person doing the selling obviously committed treason, I'm not sure how far it goes if you cover it up but obstruction of justice is hardly the right term here. Corruption at the level you are now referring to is quite different than the corruption to which you referenced in the past. Now the selling of arms by the same past president could be a more intelligent argument.
I'll agree there is massive corruption on all sides right now but make no mistake, the government is far worse now than it was as torture wasn't publicly sanctioned then along with all the other constitutionally assured rights that have been cast aside. It is completely unknown what the current administration wouldn't do for money but right now it looks like they have but one care and it comes in the color of money.
Cheers to you man, looks like you've run into all the same issues I have over the last few years. That's why we standardized on SDI here at work. Optical cabling is great, we do all of our long range distro with it breaking out to SDI at both ends.
In short, HDMI sucks, the cables die easy, they come out easy, and all the weird DRM screws with everything in the home although I don't have that problem in the HD video production world./p.
Monsanto wouldn't accept the contract as it would destroy their business. Poison one country and all the other countries who are currently customers suddenly have very little interest in your product. There's no going back after a move like that.
Is it really that inefficient? They've already consumed the food. So it's already gone, why not get back a little something extra depending on how much that costs of course.
Sure looks like you missed the entire point of the discussion there chief. The idea was to change power generation methods and to reduce consumption of petroleum. Trams, not all of which are electric, have their power generated and if that price tag drops then they get deployed more and more as a cheap method of easy transportation. The Trams here in Scottsdale are not electric, they run on LP.
The point was that the addition of geothermal power means that using more electricity is a viable option as a replacement for gasoline. If you can't generate the power first then none of the options can ever come into existence so we can't begin to replace current hardware. That was exactly what I was referring to when I mentioned that it was shortsighted to say that geothermal energy would have zero impact on oil consumption. There's no magic involved and not immediate impact but we're looking for a long term solution and this is part of it.
You are correct however older analog cell phones did put out a lot more radiation than modern cell phones. Enough to cause cancer even in the earliest models. I'll agree everything we use now is perfectly harmless though.
I'm aware there are alternatives but they aren't heavily used. Most plastics you find from the case around my monitor to my cable tv box to the lid on a can of Planters' Nuts are all made out of oil-based plastic. If they all switched then that alone would significantly drop our level of consumption.
That's pretty short-sighted. With more abundant electricity available other options become more feasible like electric trams for mass transit in addition to electric cars. Picture induction on all our roads to keep the things powered. If we can generate enough electricity then our oil imports will indeed fall. Of course plastics are still a big problem but not as toxic as burning fossil fuels.
I'll also add that all forms of energy production used today have their raw materials shipped to them either by truck or train and there the price of oil does have a rather immediate impact.
Haha, cause there's been no flooding up that way killing people or a billion other things that happen everywhere like say bombings, sword fights, all the good stuff. I seem to recall a heatwave killing a few people back a couple of years. Every place has it's natural and man-made disasters. This of course proves nothing as God created the world so his doorstep is some unknown place outside this universe so he can shit anywhere he likes here.
That's funny because I have the exact same error on an XP machine. Turns out it was the hard drive going bad. This is not a product of the DRM. The DRM only applies to media which employs the DRM. It doesn't magically apply it to all media.
Or the automated control mechanism already pleasant retracts the kite if wind is insufficient to keep it up. This would also prevent it from falling into the water.
This thing is 1000' up, you'll have plenty of time to react if wind isn't sufficient. As another poster said as well, if the wind is unpredictable then they wouldn't launch. If wind became unpredictable then the system pulls it all back in.
The real concern with this is durability of the kite. Hold long before it needs replacement, what's it take to tear it? Those kinds of concerns over the long haul at also impact ROI.
Thank you for clarifying that for the parent. It looks like that person was confusing a PBX for a switch. Connections can't magically go from SIP to POTS, there has to be conversion somewhere and if he's running an Asterisk server then his connection comes from a Dialogic board connected to the POTS line or through a SIP connection to another provider doing the same thing. The POTS line still has to be provided unless you get yourself a switch and then become a CLEC.
Actually it looks like you don't understand it. Just because it's SIP doesn't mean calls can magically get routed to it, you still have to pay a provider to route it for you. That is what the parent was getting at. It takes a lot more than just an Asterisk server to route DIDs. In other words, you have to be a CLEC to get numbers ported to you.
How would Vonage port your number to your Asterisk server? Surely you must have a POTS line, that's all Vonage has on their end along with an Internet connection of course. If you have a POTS line then you can port your number to the POTS provider no problem. Of course take your pick, PRI, ISDN, whatever for a phone network connection.
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But if it's a corporate machine it wouldn't have valuable data on it's local hard drive and so this hack would not be effective.
Of course that's just the theory behind corporate machines, people often do find ways to save to the local disk but I imagine the sensitive information would have proper access controls which would be independent of any local privilege escalation hacks.
I would think terabit ethernet would become mighty handy on the backbone although you certainly wouldn't need it in the home. Distributed computing can and eventually will take up this bandwidth. You're right, for most tasks gigabit is enough. Course with my 72port gigabit switch connecting to my backbone, now I'd need 72gigabit at least to sustain full bandwidth which I can't achieve. So I bottleneck it at the IDF with dual 10gig links. Of course the main bottleneck is the server then as dual gig nics can't service even 10gig so now it's time to upgrade the NICs in the servers since PCI-E can actually handle the increased throughput. Of course the SAN back-end can keep up without a problem.
I definitely think free software can generate the same wealth. I also support Linux afterall. As a consumer of free software if it does what I need well then I make money faster, the Gimp example however counts against it although I don't think you referenced it. The Gimp is rather pale in comparison to Photoshop and I'm unsure of any free-software alternatives to Illustrator or InDesign.
The increased profit motive from selling software does tend to produce results but as we've seen from the likes of Apache and Mozilla that great quality products can still be produced when they become well organized. Of course there is also the Qmail argument, the software was free, deemed perfected, and then left to go on it's merry way. Of course others have picked up the cause and started adding much needed functionality to it and now you have products like the Qmail toaster which make it a snap to deploy. So to me it sounds like either path eventually gets you where you want to be.
I will add one more item, more defending free software since Adobe has been the company of choice for graphics. With their CS3 product line the thing calls home needlessly and is full of bloat slowing the whole thing down. This is not something you see with too many free software products so you can argue that while profit driven software development gets you there faster, free software keeps its path intact. Although there is definitely free software with plenty of bloat out there.
I totally agree with your notion that you can make money supporting free software. I was refuting the parent specifically for stating that Microsoft doesn't create wealth when in fact they do create quite a bit.
So in short, we agree and all is well in the universe for a change.
I believe the parent poster was referring to the fact that I make a good salary supporting Microsoft installations, along with Oracle software, Sonicwall, and the thousands of other programs are out there. Furthermore, our business couldn't make as much money as it does if we went the all paper route. The automation that the software tools give us save us a ton of both time and money allowing us to grow faster which is illustrated by the fact that our workforce has doubled now in three years. I would definitely say Microsoft creates a lot of wealth for a great money people and not just people that benefit from supporting the software directly. Adobe has enabled a good number of people as well. The graphics design industry exploded cause of Photoshop and Illustrator.
Drug dealing is just a sink, there is no money generated from anything consumed, the money is moved around. With software I license my copy of Photoshop and then make my money back 1000 times adding zeroes by creating more designs without having to continually reinvest like I would if I was a drug addict. Of course that's oversimplified.
I've had similar experiences with most Linux distros and I use various distros for servers but on the desktop it just seems to slow me down. As I recall the reason a lot of the codecs are missing though is not because of technical problems, but due to copyright and patent infringement. Can't have MPEG2 out of the box for example. So if IP wasn't such a problem right now Linux would be in a much better place on the desktop.
How many computers do you keep around for 20 years? Same with servers, a 3 year lease leaves you paying for 80% of the value of the product and you get refreshed with new hardware after the term is up. As a result you always have hardware under warranty and you get to take advantage of increased processing ability. Of course not every business grows as fast as the one I'm responsible for. We just started leasing hardware as we're finding it to be far simpler all around. Don't have to worry about Windows or Office licensing, it's all built-in.
Leasing makes a lot of sense, especially when you consider that you're not forced to run the new software on the new hardware. You always have the ability to use an older version. That is the reason a Vista license is valid for XP with a simple phone call if you're a single sap at home or through the VL site if you're a business customer.
Of course you do pay for the convenience but it's quite worth while. That NT4 license from the 90s isn't all the useful to me now. Same with Netware 3, of course I do get a number of servers without an OS and use Debian for my workhorse servers. Then I don't have to worry about expiring licensing and all I have to do is remap the LUN when I get the new server to replace it.
You proved my point perfectly, a 27" has the same pixels as a 60", so the pixels are smaller and thus less perceptible. This is why you only notice the change as the TV size gets larger. On a 72" screen you see a big difference for instance. You might also notice that there is no clarity difference on any computer monitor when you go from 640x480 to 1920x1024 or whatever resolution of choice. The picture just appears smaller the higher up you go with resolution, this is why you don't see too many people running that high of a resolution on a 14" monitor because they wouldn't be able to see a lot of the commonly displayed items such as text. You can achieve the same clarity with SD resolutions by changing your encoding format which is pretty much exactly what they are doing with Blue-ray except they also bumped the resolution to make it look better on larger screens which are getting more common.
Also, when making an argument and attacking someone you might want to make sure your sentence structure makes sense.
There is no gap, most people are buying 42" or smaller TVs and your plasma claim is highly dubious as plasma is known for brightness and not clarity which is why they suck so bad as second monitors for computers.
I've done side by side comparisons and the difference is too small for the majority of people to care enough to blow a grand on a new TV and another couple hundred on a Blue-ray player just to achieve that mediocre gain in quality.
For the record I can see a difference but I'm comparing commercial grade LCDs to any plasma I've encountered. Last year we had 50 plasma screens at our event. This year we had 50 LCDs and the clarity difference was astounding. Outside displays still need to be plasma as you do need the contrast. Using an upscaling DVD player versus a blue-ray and you'll not see a huge difference in clarity. Color saturation is a function of the TV although I'll grant you that it does depend a bit on the source. Of course we have professional grade color-corrected LCDs here as well for broadcast purposes and I can say that the color is not all that different depending on what level of brightness and contrast you use.
Of course the upscaling player can also be the limiting factor as they are not all created equal. The fact that there is even a discussion should be enough evidence, you wouldn't find too many people saying there was no difference between DVD and VHS.
I will challenge you to produce an HD-DVD or Blueray disc that is a dramatic improvement over an upscaling DVD player on a 42" TV. Unless you have a 60" or bigger TV you will simply not notice an improvement. That is what the parent was getting at by saying DVDs are still the media of choice and will continue to be for the near future. There is a marked improvement from VHS to DVD, not such an improvement from DVD to HD. Then of course you have the added pain of the crappily conceived HDMI connector and encryption causing problems on every player.
By your logic there would be no software for the Mac and Apple would have long died. Producing an HD-DVD once you've got your Blu-ray already made does not significantly increase the cost of production. It would be easy to see a return on your investment with 30% of the market wanting your product in HD-DVD format.
Except that Microsoft doesn't sell a license to downgrade to XP. It's the same with all Microsoft products, if you buy the latest version you can use an older version without worry. A lot of SQL 2005 buyers ran into that as a lot of apps still require SQL 2000. All you do is call up MS and they give you a product key that will work for the older app. Depending on how you purchased it you can even download it from their VL site.
Also, a stock valued as high as Microsoft's moving 3% is quite a big deal but that's irrelevant. If they were doing as badly as many people think then their stock wouldn't go up at all.
You really think that is simply obstruction of justice if it means details about the selling of nuclear secrets to unstable regions? The person doing the selling obviously committed treason, I'm not sure how far it goes if you cover it up but obstruction of justice is hardly the right term here. Corruption at the level you are now referring to is quite different than the corruption to which you referenced in the past. Now the selling of arms by the same past president could be a more intelligent argument.
I'll agree there is massive corruption on all sides right now but make no mistake, the government is far worse now than it was as torture wasn't publicly sanctioned then along with all the other constitutionally assured rights that have been cast aside. It is completely unknown what the current administration wouldn't do for money but right now it looks like they have but one care and it comes in the color of money.
Cheers to you man, looks like you've run into all the same issues I have over the last few years. That's why we standardized on SDI here at work. Optical cabling is great, we do all of our long range distro with it breaking out to SDI at both ends.
In short, HDMI sucks, the cables die easy, they come out easy, and all the weird DRM screws with everything in the home although I don't have that problem in the HD video production world. /p.
Monsanto wouldn't accept the contract as it would destroy their business. Poison one country and all the other countries who are currently customers suddenly have very little interest in your product. There's no going back after a move like that.
Is it really that inefficient? They've already consumed the food. So it's already gone, why not get back a little something extra depending on how much that costs of course.
Sure looks like you missed the entire point of the discussion there chief. The idea was to change power generation methods and to reduce consumption of petroleum. Trams, not all of which are electric, have their power generated and if that price tag drops then they get deployed more and more as a cheap method of easy transportation. The Trams here in Scottsdale are not electric, they run on LP.
The point was that the addition of geothermal power means that using more electricity is a viable option as a replacement for gasoline. If you can't generate the power first then none of the options can ever come into existence so we can't begin to replace current hardware. That was exactly what I was referring to when I mentioned that it was shortsighted to say that geothermal energy would have zero impact on oil consumption. There's no magic involved and not immediate impact but we're looking for a long term solution and this is part of it.
You are correct however older analog cell phones did put out a lot more radiation than modern cell phones. Enough to cause cancer even in the earliest models. I'll agree everything we use now is perfectly harmless though.
I'm aware there are alternatives but they aren't heavily used. Most plastics you find from the case around my monitor to my cable tv box to the lid on a can of Planters' Nuts are all made out of oil-based plastic. If they all switched then that alone would significantly drop our level of consumption.
That's pretty short-sighted. With more abundant electricity available other options become more feasible like electric trams for mass transit in addition to electric cars. Picture induction on all our roads to keep the things powered. If we can generate enough electricity then our oil imports will indeed fall. Of course plastics are still a big problem but not as toxic as burning fossil fuels.
I'll also add that all forms of energy production used today have their raw materials shipped to them either by truck or train and there the price of oil does have a rather immediate impact.
Haha, cause there's been no flooding up that way killing people or a billion other things that happen everywhere like say bombings, sword fights, all the good stuff. I seem to recall a heatwave killing a few people back a couple of years. Every place has it's natural and man-made disasters. This of course proves nothing as God created the world so his doorstep is some unknown place outside this universe so he can shit anywhere he likes here.
That's funny because I have the exact same error on an XP machine. Turns out it was the hard drive going bad. This is not a product of the DRM. The DRM only applies to media which employs the DRM. It doesn't magically apply it to all media.
Or the automated control mechanism already pleasant retracts the kite if wind is insufficient to keep it up. This would also prevent it from falling into the water.
This thing is 1000' up, you'll have plenty of time to react if wind isn't sufficient. As another poster said as well, if the wind is unpredictable then they wouldn't launch. If wind became unpredictable then the system pulls it all back in.
The real concern with this is durability of the kite. Hold long before it needs replacement, what's it take to tear it? Those kinds of concerns over the long haul at also impact ROI.
Thank you for clarifying that for the parent. It looks like that person was confusing a PBX for a switch. Connections can't magically go from SIP to POTS, there has to be conversion somewhere and if he's running an Asterisk server then his connection comes from a Dialogic board connected to the POTS line or through a SIP connection to another provider doing the same thing. The POTS line still has to be provided unless you get yourself a switch and then become a CLEC.
Actually it looks like you don't understand it. Just because it's SIP doesn't mean calls can magically get routed to it, you still have to pay a provider to route it for you. That is what the parent was getting at. It takes a lot more than just an Asterisk server to route DIDs. In other words, you have to be a CLEC to get numbers ported to you.
How would Vonage port your number to your Asterisk server? Surely you must have a POTS line, that's all Vonage has on their end along with an Internet connection of course. If you have a POTS line then you can port your number to the POTS provider no problem. Of course take your pick, PRI, ISDN, whatever for a phone network connection.