This is exactly the social networking I want. I have my professional face, my personal face, my friendly face, my political nutjob face, and my horribly bad joke face. Never should they mix...
When a software company embeds DRM into an application, there ought to be an SLA they are held to. Things like: 1) Availability of DRM servers 2) A warning that unavailability of DRM servers could prevent gameplay
If we must have DRM, can we at least have some level of service with that DRM so we can actually *use* the product?
Apple is accelerating JavaScript in Safari, but not UIWebView. In fact, I think there's a bug they're working on that apps on the home screen that use UIWebView are REALLY slow.
IMHO, what was once considered SciFi (Tech related) has moved more mainstream and become, in some cases, traditional fiction.
As well, I believe that SciFi authors continue to present not only technically challenging new idea, but moral questions around the use of technology. An era of tech enlightenment forthcoming?
Lastly, I'd offer up that fewer SciFi authors are being published because SciFi is being muddled with Fantasy. I don't know why they're doing it, perhaps that hard SciFi traditionally had a predominately male readership; while fantasy has broader appeal?
I believe we see less innovative SciFi books not because they're not being written, but because they're not being published.
There's less competition in the book world, or at least it seems that way from where I sit. Amazon, B&N, Walmart... I sometimes find hard SciFi at my local supermarket.
When Snow Crash was published, it was a different market.
I am so sick of these arrogant dumbasses who got their Jesus phone only to violate the TOS, etc. because it wasn't *exactly* what they wanted.
So, they intentionally violated the license - intentionally altered the source the device runs despite it being unsupported - and now *demand* to see source code?
I agree with a previous post - they should ask for a pony and ice cream while they're at it.
A large ping cylindrical member of the male anatomy should be repeatedly slapped back and forth across their foreheads.
If you have to hack it to like it - then how great is it?
Is hacking it a violation of the DMCA? Could it be construed as one?
Apple fanboy conversation:
"look, look how superior my iphone is" "Wow, all those apps must have been expensive! That's super cool!" "Naw, I hacked it so it's actually the phone that I want. So I can install anything, like on a windows mobile smartphone!" "Uh; Soooo, it's not the iphone that's the Jesus phone, but the *hacked* iphone...? So... the iphone sucks if it's not hacked?"
There are numerous federal & state projects and services that rely on tax revenue from smoking. If it works - be prepared for taxes on such things as sodas, fast food, and other unhealthy things to go up. They'll have to offset the lost revenue.
Is it safe? I would almost bet my house on it.
The Tobacco Lobby and others in government who's districts rely heavily on federally excised Tobacco taxes will have taken every possible shot at this to keep it from coming to market.
I'm sure the FDA has been under a lot of pressure to keep this from being released.
So I'd bet it's had to go very well.
Now, another question - if you had a kid would you give them this vaccine or let them choose?
I'm over 40, and have smoke since I was about 14. I quit for a few years, and a few stretches at a time - but have never shaken it.
The problem is, I *LIKE* to smoke. I *KNOW* its bad for me, but I love the buzz.
Mustering the willpower to quit comes along, but I know that after a few beers or a night out I'm going to wake up with a half smoked pack.
I have a friend that works for Glaxo - the *SECOND* this hits the market I'm getting the name of a doctor and scheduling an appointment to get it.
Knowing that no matter what bad choices I make, I'll never get that buzz again from a smoke... there will be no more reason to smoke.
I'll just keep smoking till it just sucks to keep putting burning leaves and paper in my mouth (sounds funny when I put it that way).
Without the buzz, I suspect I'll someday just put them down and never pick them up again.
And there's another reason to quit besides your lungs. Diabetes. Read how your body reacts when nicotine enters the bloodstream.
Just thinking out loud here, but to get to 30k RPM what if you spun the read heads in the opposite direction of the spindles?
Yes, yes, yes, there are many, serious engineering challenges to this; but it if the platters are spinning clockwise at 15k RPM, and the read heads spun counter-clockwise at 15k RPM; you effectively have 30k RPM.
It'd probably have a large impact on the physical dimensions of the drive itself.
Read head arm technology would have to undergo a complete redesign, and there's be warping and stretching of metal at such speeds.
Or perhaps the read head is completely replace by a read platter. Alternating platters with several read heads dispersed across both sides in a pattern, spun in the opposite direction.
Only thing I can think of to move data up and down the central bus would be some type of optics, and leverage the kinetic energy of the "read platter" to power the electronics at the center of it.
Or another idea, a read drum that spins opposite of the platters. The drum's heads aren't mounted perpendicular towards the center, but are angled to the head is mounted via multiple points.
Uh, there's more to science than computers. Perhaps your missing the point of BW's article. We need more hard science.. the kind of stuff that was done 30 years ago that delivered the "mobile PCs" your reference.
I'm currently doing sysadmin work, but am looking to move back to dev.
About 6 years ago I left a dev position to do sysadmin work.
My thinking told me you can dev anywhere - but you'll always need someone in the server room to physically touch the servers.
Well, IMHO, what's matured are the tools that make server administration more mindless. I'm not saying it's a good thing, but the perception is that you don't need to have an experienced, well paid sysadmin when XYZ company will monitor your HW. Security is usually an afterthought, and I think cloud computing has the potential to reduce the importance of quality sysadmin to many businesses also.
I think consumer broadband has contributed to the decreased perceived value in a quality sysadmin aslo; many bosses have the mentality of "I built a network at home, how hard is this person's job, really?"
From my perspective development offshoring seems to have slowed down; at least from what I can tell. Another maturity has happened as companies have begun to calculate the costs of off shoring and realized that most of the time those projects take longer and are of lower quality. Combined with the fact that many off shoring shops have figured out they're halfway around the world and double or triple book clients and get away with it, and you have a situation where another "maturing" that's taken place. This maturing is happening in the cube farms in India.
A good sysadmin is worth his weight in gold IMHO.
A good developer is also worth his weight in gold.
From a businesses' perspective, they almost always see the developer as someone who understands their business better and so is therefore more valuable.
So, I'm swinging back towards development. And I think I'll stay with it this time, for good.
Because frankly, a leader with an attitude like this isn't going to drive innovation from the top down. In a few years, they'll be easy pickings because they'll be so locked down in policies and procedures that they'll be slow to compete when new opportunities present themselves.
Well, today, for the first time, I purposely found a cheat for a game because was "over the line" ocd about it.
I was spending too much time working for higher scores. And since it was web based, I kept opening it instead of working.
Greasemonkey to the rescue. This is the first time I've ever purposely "ruined" the game for myself.
When I have total domination of an AI opponent, I'll sometimes hold off on winning and make purposefully stupid strategic errors to see if/how the AI will take advantage of them.
It's burned me more than once but was very revealing about the AI's logic.
Like friggin' banks.
When a company gets so big that it can manipulate markets or it's failure would hurt the economy as a whole, the Sherman act is supposed to protect the citizens by empowering the government to step in.
Instead of Google, how about Goldman Sachs?
Man, the priorities in D.C. are seriously out of whack..
Amen.
People arguing that the drug companies don't need to recoup costs for the MILLIONS in R&D for any drug in question PLUS the MILLIONS in R&D for the NUMEROUS drugs that NEVER MAKE IT TO MARKET are simply ignorant about the state of medicine and the science of medical research.
I saw an argument about video cards, and it was an excellent one.
However, the primary difference is when it comes to chip manufacturers etc. their science is more exacting and precise. If their system fails, boo hoo; you get smoked playing half life or your machine crashes.
Despite the advances in science, medicine and mankind's understanding of how the body works are in their infancy. Secondly, as nature changes and adapts to our attempts to stifle those elements that would kill us; so the fight is constantly changing.
Then, you have a sue happy civilization forcing these companies to have to hoard cash to offset any risks from unforeseen side effects, etc.
Are people really this ignorant as to not understand any of this?
My bitches would be that when a drug's patent runs out, it should be easier for generic manufacturers; and for terminally ill patients to be able to cut through red tape for last ditch effort experimental drugs.
Score 5 for Interesting as in as interesting as a train wreck.
That has to be the most short sighted,ignorant statement I've read on/. in a while.
Do you *seriously* think that the rich, who you obviously consider evil, wouldn't love the fact they didn't have to provide benefits in order to be competitive in the job market?
Your argument only holds water if the individuals in question have no individual freedoms.
Uh, by your own words, it's not cents to manufacture. Simple accounting.
It's cents PLUS the MILLIONS spend on R&D of that drug PLUS the MILLIONS spend on the R&D of numerous OTHER drugs that never made it to market.
Have you tried the free partition imaging tool from Microsoft, WDS?
Build a server with DHCP, install WDS and configure PXE boot.
Then, after each step, you can boot off the network and create a WIM file.
The nice thing is you can mount the WIm files on "mount points" which appear as folders.
This is very handy as you can then do deep analysis of the files at a bit level.
You could literally compare two folders and all contents and tag only the files that have changed.
of note:
WDS and ImageX only capture the files. If you are doing rootkit or virus research, some of these may do some funky stuff with the file system which may not be picked up by ImageX.
But Otherwise; this is a free solution with the added benefit of using the same tool (imagex) to allow you to "mount" a WIM file for analysis.
HTH!
Marble68
So basically, the question I have (not being an iTunes user), will all the songs people have purchased simply copy over to their new MS player and work?
Or, will one companie's DRM effectively stake claim to an entire market segment of hostage consumers?
If the latter, DRM is going to stifle competition and create unreasonable barriers of entry to new commers.
"This entertainment medium will only work with this model (and our future models until we decide to drop support)"?
Boy, that's sucks for everyone; except who controls the DRM... But it's not like we didn't know it already; just that I didn't think about MS potentially being a victim.
Maybe DRM will screw all it's proponents one day when someone new makes the "next" ipod.
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This is exactly the social networking I want. I have my professional face, my personal face, my friendly face, my political nutjob face, and my horribly bad joke face. Never should they mix...
When a software company embeds DRM into an application, there ought to be an SLA they are held to.
Things like:
1) Availability of DRM servers
2) A warning that unavailability of DRM servers could prevent gameplay
If we must have DRM, can we at least have some level of service with that DRM so we can actually *use* the product?
THIS THIS THIS..
No, not serious.
I use my Harmony with XBMC and have ZERO issues and programming was a breeze.
Just tell the Harmony it's using a MCE keyboard. Then, in the Harmony SW you can modify the buttons to your liking.
It couldn't be simpler. Start here http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=77519
Apple is accelerating JavaScript in Safari, but not UIWebView.
In fact, I think there's a bug they're working on that apps on the home screen that use UIWebView are REALLY slow.
Check out this blog post: http://inzi.com/2011/03/will-phonegap-apps-seemingly-suck-because-of-uiwebview-in-ios-4-3/
The Safari browser has Nitro JavaScript acceleration while UIWebView doesn't.
I also read that some think Apple doesn't like the web based apps cause it can bite into their app store revenue. I don't know if that's true or not.
Just like the borg-gates - we need the facist apple or facist jobs icon.
Apple - like so many times before - are going to micromanage themselves into a small market share.
What a frackin' joke.
We are all less intelligent for having read this post.
I think not.
IMHO, what was once considered SciFi (Tech related) has moved more mainstream and become, in some cases, traditional fiction.
As well, I believe that SciFi authors continue to present not only technically challenging new idea, but moral questions around the use of technology. An era of tech enlightenment forthcoming?
Lastly, I'd offer up that fewer SciFi authors are being published because SciFi is being muddled with Fantasy. I don't know why they're doing it, perhaps that hard SciFi traditionally had a predominately male readership; while fantasy has broader appeal?
I believe we see less innovative SciFi books not because they're not being written, but because they're not being published.
There's less competition in the book world, or at least it seems that way from where I sit. Amazon, B&N, Walmart... I sometimes find hard SciFi at my local supermarket.
When Snow Crash was published, it was a different market.
I am so sick of these arrogant dumbasses who got their Jesus phone only to violate the TOS, etc. because it wasn't *exactly* what they wanted.
So, they intentionally violated the license - intentionally altered the source the device runs despite it being unsupported - and now *demand* to see source code?
I agree with a previous post - they should ask for a pony and ice cream while they're at it.
A large ping cylindrical member of the male anatomy should be repeatedly slapped back and forth across their foreheads.
If you have to hack it to like it - then how great is it?
Is hacking it a violation of the DMCA? Could it be construed as one?
Apple fanboy conversation:
"look, look how superior my iphone is"
"Wow, all those apps must have been expensive! That's super cool!"
"Naw, I hacked it so it's actually the phone that I want. So I can install anything, like on a windows mobile smartphone!"
"Uh; Soooo, it's not the iphone that's the Jesus phone, but the *hacked* iphone...? So... the iphone sucks if it's not hacked?"
There are numerous federal & state projects and services that rely on tax revenue from smoking.
If it works - be prepared for taxes on such things as sodas, fast food, and other unhealthy things to go up. They'll have to offset the lost revenue.
Is it safe? I would almost bet my house on it.
The Tobacco Lobby and others in government who's districts rely heavily on federally excised Tobacco taxes will have taken every possible shot at this to keep it from coming to market.
I'm sure the FDA has been under a lot of pressure to keep this from being released.
So I'd bet it's had to go very well.
Now, another question - if you had a kid would you give them this vaccine or let them choose?
I'm over 40, and have smoke since I was about 14. I quit for a few years, and a few stretches at a time - but have never shaken it.
The problem is, I *LIKE* to smoke. I *KNOW* its bad for me, but I love the buzz.
Mustering the willpower to quit comes along, but I know that after a few beers or a night out I'm going to wake up with a half smoked pack.
I have a friend that works for Glaxo - the *SECOND* this hits the market I'm getting the name of a doctor and scheduling an appointment to get it.
Knowing that no matter what bad choices I make, I'll never get that buzz again from a smoke... there will be no more reason to smoke.
I'll just keep smoking till it just sucks to keep putting burning leaves and paper in my mouth (sounds funny when I put it that way).
Without the buzz, I suspect I'll someday just put them down and never pick them up again.
And there's another reason to quit besides your lungs. Diabetes. Read how your body reacts when nicotine enters the bloodstream.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=538874
On XDA developers, there's a nice little *free* (as in beer) app for WM6.1 / WM6.5 that lets you share your 3G connection as Wifi.
Handy, and no cost.
Just thinking out loud here, but to get to 30k RPM what if you spun the read heads in the opposite direction of the spindles?
Yes, yes, yes, there are many, serious engineering challenges to this; but it if the platters are spinning clockwise at 15k RPM, and the read heads spun counter-clockwise at 15k RPM; you effectively have 30k RPM.
It'd probably have a large impact on the physical dimensions of the drive itself.
Read head arm technology would have to undergo a complete redesign, and there's be warping and stretching of metal at such speeds.
Or perhaps the read head is completely replace by a read platter. Alternating platters with several read heads dispersed across both sides in a pattern, spun in the opposite direction.
Only thing I can think of to move data up and down the central bus would be some type of optics, and leverage the kinetic energy of the "read platter" to power the electronics at the center of it.
Or another idea, a read drum that spins opposite of the platters. The drum's heads aren't mounted perpendicular towards the center, but are angled to the head is mounted via multiple points.
Again, the bus and power have to be addressed.
Dunno, just spit balling...
Amen... And many of these are the same type of uninformed nationalist who decry the free market as a broken system. The ignorance is suffocating.
As opposed to what?
Uh, there's more to science than computers. Perhaps your missing the point of BW's article. We need more hard science.. the kind of stuff that was done 30 years ago that delivered the "mobile PCs" your reference.
True that - get ready for a big pay cut.
:(
I'm in N. Texas and sysadmin salaries have dropped around 20% in the past 9 months.
It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario.
I'm currently doing sysadmin work, but am looking to move back to dev.
About 6 years ago I left a dev position to do sysadmin work.
My thinking told me you can dev anywhere - but you'll always need someone in the server room to physically touch the servers.
Well, IMHO, what's matured are the tools that make server administration more mindless. I'm not saying it's a good thing, but the perception is that you don't need to have an experienced, well paid sysadmin when XYZ company will monitor your HW. Security is usually an afterthought, and I think cloud computing has the potential to reduce the importance of quality sysadmin to many businesses also.
I think consumer broadband has contributed to the decreased perceived value in a quality sysadmin aslo; many bosses have the mentality of "I built a network at home, how hard is this person's job, really?"
From my perspective development offshoring seems to have slowed down; at least from what I can tell. Another maturity has happened as companies have begun to calculate the costs of off shoring and realized that most of the time those projects take longer and are of lower quality. Combined with the fact that many off shoring shops have figured out they're halfway around the world and double or triple book clients and get away with it, and you have a situation where another "maturing" that's taken place. This maturing is happening in the cube farms in India.
A good sysadmin is worth his weight in gold IMHO.
A good developer is also worth his weight in gold.
From a businesses' perspective, they almost always see the developer as someone who understands their business better and so is therefore more valuable.
So, I'm swinging back towards development. And I think I'll stay with it this time, for good.
Because frankly, a leader with an attitude like this isn't going to drive innovation from the top down. In a few years, they'll be easy pickings because they'll be so locked down in policies and procedures that they'll be slow to compete when new opportunities present themselves.
Well, today, for the first time, I purposely found a cheat for a game because was "over the line" ocd about it.
/how the AI will take advantage of them.
I was spending too much time working for higher scores. And since it was web based, I kept opening it instead of working.
Greasemonkey to the rescue. This is the first time I've ever purposely "ruined" the game for myself.
When I have total domination of an AI opponent, I'll sometimes hold off on winning and make purposefully stupid strategic errors to see if
It's burned me more than once but was very revealing about the AI's logic.
Like friggin' banks. When a company gets so big that it can manipulate markets or it's failure would hurt the economy as a whole, the Sherman act is supposed to protect the citizens by empowering the government to step in. Instead of Google, how about Goldman Sachs? Man, the priorities in D.C. are seriously out of whack..
Amen. People arguing that the drug companies don't need to recoup costs for the MILLIONS in R&D for any drug in question PLUS the MILLIONS in R&D for the NUMEROUS drugs that NEVER MAKE IT TO MARKET are simply ignorant about the state of medicine and the science of medical research.
I saw an argument about video cards, and it was an excellent one.
However, the primary difference is when it comes to chip manufacturers etc. their science is more exacting and precise. If their system fails, boo hoo; you get smoked playing half life or your machine crashes.
Despite the advances in science, medicine and mankind's understanding of how the body works are in their infancy. Secondly, as nature changes and adapts to our attempts to stifle those elements that would kill us; so the fight is constantly changing.
Then, you have a sue happy civilization forcing these companies to have to hoard cash to offset any risks from unforeseen side effects, etc.
Are people really this ignorant as to not understand any of this?
My bitches would be that when a drug's patent runs out, it should be easier for generic manufacturers; and for terminally ill patients to be able to cut through red tape for last ditch effort experimental drugs.
Score 5 for Interesting as in as interesting as a train wreck. That has to be the most short sighted,ignorant statement I've read on /. in a while.
Do you *seriously* think that the rich, who you obviously consider evil, wouldn't love the fact they didn't have to provide benefits in order to be competitive in the job market?
Your argument only holds water if the individuals in question have no individual freedoms.
Uh, by your own words, it's not cents to manufacture. Simple accounting. It's cents PLUS the MILLIONS spend on R&D of that drug PLUS the MILLIONS spend on the R&D of numerous OTHER drugs that never made it to market.
Yeah, because the leaders in socialist China are brilliant, altruistic geniuses.
That's such an ignorant statement I'm not sure where to start.
Have you tried the free partition imaging tool from Microsoft, WDS? Build a server with DHCP, install WDS and configure PXE boot. Then, after each step, you can boot off the network and create a WIM file. The nice thing is you can mount the WIm files on "mount points" which appear as folders. This is very handy as you can then do deep analysis of the files at a bit level. You could literally compare two folders and all contents and tag only the files that have changed. of note: WDS and ImageX only capture the files. If you are doing rootkit or virus research, some of these may do some funky stuff with the file system which may not be picked up by ImageX. But Otherwise; this is a free solution with the added benefit of using the same tool (imagex) to allow you to "mount" a WIM file for analysis. HTH! Marble68
So basically, the question I have (not being an iTunes user), will all the songs people have purchased simply copy over to their new MS player and work?
Or, will one companie's DRM effectively stake claim to an entire market segment of hostage consumers?
If the latter, DRM is going to stifle competition and create unreasonable barriers of entry to new commers.
"This entertainment medium will only work with this model (and our future models until we decide to drop support)"?
Boy, that's sucks for everyone; except who controls the DRM... But it's not like we didn't know it already; just that I didn't think about MS potentially being a victim.
Maybe DRM will screw all it's proponents one day when someone new makes the "next" ipod.