So what happens when the latest e-mail worm redirects the feedback URL in your hosts file, and then proceeds to crash the computer, sending extremely detailed diagnostic information back to some random address? Is MS going to somehow ensure this "black box" information doesn't fall into the wrong hands?
Tell me... how would packet shaping away the trojans/worms piss off their client base? Suddenly, everyone's network connection is much faster, and there are fewer ads/spam mails appearing. Seems to me 98% of their client base would *love* this.
This is the same argument that goes on in every other area where there are digital and analog ways of storing data.
Just remember -- you don't see the same colours with your eyes that I see with mine; even the colour skew will be slightly different.
As for quality of enlarged photographs, digital images have pixel halos, but these can be compensated for with digital algorithms; with a digital camera, *every* aspect of what has been recorded is a fixed known value.
With Film-based photographs, there are many uncontrollable variables that go into the recording process; not all films are identical, film is not 100% even across its surface, and most importantly, film is not your retina. When enlarging images recorded on film, there will be a grain effect caused by lack of information in the film. To combat this grain effect, many people *digitally scan* the film and use a computer algorithm to reconstruct the lost pieces. Sound familiar?
The main thing is that film and digital imaging are *both* lossy, and store different bits of visually captured information. Both can be of exceptionally high quality (much higher than the human eye can detect), but both have different limitations on what data actually gets recorded. Film has been around long enough that we accept it, with all its flaws, as "standard". Eventually, this spot will probably fall to digital imaging/storage, as a new generation of people who aren't used to seeing film-based images grow up.
Hmm... interesting idea; people always bash the politicians, but bureaucracy is where the power is really wielded. Why not privatize bureaucracy, but insist that all work done by it be open source?
I just said that X needed better drivers, and maybe a way to do this is to wrap the Windows drivers.
That would be Windows IAx86 drivers, hmm? Although I guess embedded Linux doesn't really need those drivers, and PPC driver support can be a fork; but wouldn't some sort of plugin system akin to kernel plugins work better? --a "wrapper" plugin could be one of the options.
Actually, all they have to do is generate random files with random hashes, and make those match against one of the millions of legitimate files out there -- rename junk hash file to match found p2p file, and they're set. Still a lot of work, but nowhere near as much as it would take to find collisions with a single file.
Then again, the article says nothing about hashed files; they're most likely doing what the RIAA already does, and just creating files that look similar to other files when no hash is applied.
Traffic jams "in-flight" will be extremely rare if NASA's software works as touted. However, humans tend to clump to maximum density -- and this type of vehicle increases maximum density. So what happens when there are suddenly a few million of these things trying to park at the same time in the downtown core... some with their gas gagues on E due to having to wait for so long in a holding pattern while trying to find a parking spot?
Mac hardware is totally proprietary. You can't just go replace bits and have it work, so even the tweaking is still a step up from mac regarding hardware.
And you called him a silly rabbit?
If, by Mac Hardware, you mean the motherboards, you're correct. Pretty much every other piece of Mac hardware meets one industry spec or another and can be swapped out for stuff you'd normally find in an X86 PC. Even the PPC chip used can be swapped/overclocked; you just have to change some jumper settings on the motherboard.
Then again, you could probably build a Mac-compatible motherboard; after all, the PearPC guys did it in software. All it takes is a PPC interface, connections to all the standard I/O (PCI/X, USB, Firewire), and a chipset that supports OpenFirmware. Not easy, but possible.
As another poster mentioned, those 2^32 keys have to be generated and applied to the encryption of each DVD starting with the first DVD released with this spec -- otherwise, new players won't play old DVDs.
This technology is most likely to keep the manufacturers from ignoring their contracts and adding extra features to their players.
That's odd; in my upgrade cycle, I usually find I want to upgrade my monitor, keyboard and mouse around the same time I want to upgrade my graphics card and CPU. This makes the iMac a great value for me, as they're selling the thing for not too much more than their monitor by itself. Now if only Apple had a 2-button plus scrollwheel option in their bundles....
I seriously doubt you own 40 legit gigs. If you're using the iPod for photos, sure I can understand how the gigs get eat up in a hurry, but it's just not like that for even high quality sample rate audio.
If everything he owns is in AIFF format, and he owns audiobooks, live recordings, personal works, etc. as well as stuff produced by major labels, he could *easily* top 40GB in storage.
I think the idea with the small capacity iPods is that they hold enough music that you don't have to listen to repeats between syncs with your computer -- just set up a smart playlist in iTunes, and each time you dock the pod, it gets a new set of music on it.
Unless you're storing your music on the iPod in AIFF format, 1GB should be good enough for daily listening. For roadtrips you might need 4-8 GB, but not more.
2) Digital Video over Firewire [IEEE 1394] is supposed to have a "direct to disk" feature, so that the intermediate "signal -> MPEG" compression layer is not necessary.
signal -> MPEG2 compression is not necessary because the signal being captured is already streamed as MPEG2 video. Firewire enables this to stream directly to a HDD. As far as streaming analog NTSC to a HDD, at some point it has to stop being analog, so DSP is needed. It would indeed be neat if someone could come up with a digital algorithm for representing an analog NTSC electrical signal however.
Now, making ice in your home isn't illegal. Downloading copyrighted music that you haven't purchased is. So the analogy falls apart there. However, the RIAA's approach to solving his is akin to the ice delivery services trying to get in-home freezers banned because it's screwing up their business model.
Did I miss something? Does copyright now make receiving intellectual works illegal? Does this mean that anyone who listens to a live concert where the performers didn't pay the cover fees automatically breaks the law? I thought it was the act of copying copyrighted music (this would be all non-public-domain music) in a way that doesn't comply with copyright law, and any exceptions the holder is willing to make to that law, that was illegal. Of course, I'm not in the US, so I have no clue how the DMCA and other laws have mutated the term "copyright" there.
If you live in an area that has it, there's also Fido Wireless Broadband; it works quite well. Plus, there are a lot of smaller companies that lease DSL access from Telus and resell it. Telus and Shaw are not the only options for broadband (unless you live in a small rural area), no matter how much they try to tell you they are.
Well, the original poster was posting personal experience. Yours differs.
However, if you feel so bad about letting your Mini "go to waste", why not install Darwin/OpenBSD/NetBSD/Debian/Ubuntu/YellowDog/Gent oo etc. which all work on PPC hardware? You don't even have to limit yourself to dual boot -- OpenFirmware can easily support you running *all* these OSes on the machine.
My guess is that if you feel that OS X is not what you thought it would be, you probably don't have much experience in the BSD world -- you can easily disable Aqua in OS X, and run Xfree86 instead, and only run kde/gnome/xfce/whatever -- almost all the proprietary software running on top of the kernel is optional and can be removed/reconfigured -- as can the BSD layer. If you're saying that OS X doesn't contain the default software configuration that fits your needs, and you don't want to reconfigure it, go get something like Ubuntu, and install that.
However, most people choose cheap x86 hardware if they prefer Linux over OS X. Of course, this isn't in the embedded market. I'd really like to see something Free along the lines of QNX for the PPC architecture. PPC is definitely lacking in the Free RTS area.
If you're saying you prefer hacking a linux-style monolithic kernel to HURD or MACH, then yes; OS X really isn't for you. However, it wasn't ever advertised as a monolithic solution in the first place.
But when you buy a computer, if you want games or certain software, you normally buy it at the store. Most people who use computers don't want to have to download the software, even if it is free. Plus, it might require having to get a faster internet connection, because 56k modem is too slow, or go somewhere and burn a cd. Most people don't want that hassel. In the store, Windows looks like the best choice because everything you want is right there, and it looks like less of a hassel.
And therein lies the difference between the two systems. In the Mac world, buying boxed software is quite rare; much of what you need comes preinstalled on the computer, and pretty much everything else is available online. It's been this way for the past 10 years.
On the Macintosh, Shareware isn't synonymous with badly programmed VB apps that have limited functionality -- many gaming houses provide their games solely via online download.
Now, this also means that as file sizes get larger, broadband is becoming close to a requirement for OS X users; if you install vanilla 10.3 on a Mac, the software updates alone are around 300MB. Of course, this includes updates for the web browser, instant messenger, video editing program, music management program, photo management program, text editor/word processor, etc.
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So what happens when the latest e-mail worm redirects the feedback URL in your hosts file, and then proceeds to crash the computer, sending extremely detailed diagnostic information back to some random address? Is MS going to somehow ensure this "black box" information doesn't fall into the wrong hands?
And how are his political views supposed to negatively influence design specifications for future communications protocols and equipment?
Tell me... how would packet shaping away the trojans/worms piss off their client base? Suddenly, everyone's network connection is much faster, and there are fewer ads/spam mails appearing. Seems to me 98% of their client base would *love* this.
Just remember -- you don't see the same colours with your eyes that I see with mine; even the colour skew will be slightly different.
As for quality of enlarged photographs, digital images have pixel halos, but these can be compensated for with digital algorithms; with a digital camera, *every* aspect of what has been recorded is a fixed known value.
With Film-based photographs, there are many uncontrollable variables that go into the recording process; not all films are identical, film is not 100% even across its surface, and most importantly, film is not your retina. When enlarging images recorded on film, there will be a grain effect caused by lack of information in the film. To combat this grain effect, many people *digitally scan* the film and use a computer algorithm to reconstruct the lost pieces. Sound familiar?
The main thing is that film and digital imaging are *both* lossy, and store different bits of visually captured information. Both can be of exceptionally high quality (much higher than the human eye can detect), but both have different limitations on what data actually gets recorded. Film has been around long enough that we accept it, with all its flaws, as "standard". Eventually, this spot will probably fall to digital imaging/storage, as a new generation of people who aren't used to seeing film-based images grow up.
Hmm... interesting idea; people always bash the politicians, but bureaucracy is where the power is really wielded. Why not privatize bureaucracy, but insist that all work done by it be open source?
That would be Windows IAx86 drivers, hmm? Although I guess embedded Linux doesn't really need those drivers, and PPC driver support can be a fork; but wouldn't some sort of plugin system akin to kernel plugins work better? --a "wrapper" plugin could be one of the options.
I've been asking myself that for years now :D
Then again, the article says nothing about hashed files; they're most likely doing what the RIAA already does, and just creating files that look similar to other files when no hash is applied.
Time to look up defuse and diffuse.
Traffic jams "in-flight" will be extremely rare if NASA's software works as touted. However, humans tend to clump to maximum density -- and this type of vehicle increases maximum density. So what happens when there are suddenly a few million of these things trying to park at the same time in the downtown core... some with their gas gagues on E due to having to wait for so long in a holding pattern while trying to find a parking spot?
And you called him a silly rabbit? If, by Mac Hardware, you mean the motherboards, you're correct. Pretty much every other piece of Mac hardware meets one industry spec or another and can be swapped out for stuff you'd normally find in an X86 PC. Even the PPC chip used can be swapped/overclocked; you just have to change some jumper settings on the motherboard.
Then again, you could probably build a Mac-compatible motherboard; after all, the PearPC guys did it in software. All it takes is a PPC interface, connections to all the standard I/O (PCI/X, USB, Firewire), and a chipset that supports OpenFirmware. Not easy, but possible.
This technology is most likely to keep the manufacturers from ignoring their contracts and adding extra features to their players.
Then again, if the parent doesn't know about iMovie/iDVD, he's probably never used OS X/PPC hardware, so any arguments would be silly.
That's odd; in my upgrade cycle, I usually find I want to upgrade my monitor, keyboard and mouse around the same time I want to upgrade my graphics card and CPU. This makes the iMac a great value for me, as they're selling the thing for not too much more than their monitor by itself. Now if only Apple had a 2-button plus scrollwheel option in their bundles....
If everything he owns is in AIFF format, and he owns audiobooks, live recordings, personal works, etc. as well as stuff produced by major labels, he could *easily* top 40GB in storage.
That being said, you're probably right ;)
Unless you're storing your music on the iPod in AIFF format, 1GB should be good enough for daily listening. For roadtrips you might need 4-8 GB, but not more.
signal -> MPEG2 compression is not necessary because the signal being captured is already streamed as MPEG2 video. Firewire enables this to stream directly to a HDD. As far as streaming analog NTSC to a HDD, at some point it has to stop being analog, so DSP is needed. It would indeed be neat if someone could come up with a digital algorithm for representing an analog NTSC electrical signal however.
Did I miss something? Does copyright now make receiving intellectual works illegal? Does this mean that anyone who listens to a live concert where the performers didn't pay the cover fees automatically breaks the law? I thought it was the act of copying copyrighted music (this would be all non-public-domain music) in a way that doesn't comply with copyright law, and any exceptions the holder is willing to make to that law, that was illegal. Of course, I'm not in the US, so I have no clue how the DMCA and other laws have mutated the term "copyright" there.
If you live in an area that has it, there's also Fido Wireless Broadband; it works quite well. Plus, there are a lot of smaller companies that lease DSL access from Telus and resell it. Telus and Shaw are not the only options for broadband (unless you live in a small rural area), no matter how much they try to tell you they are.
I think various laws make posting that sort of information illegal ;)
However, if you feel so bad about letting your Mini "go to waste", why not install Darwin/OpenBSD/NetBSD/Debian/Ubuntu/YellowDog/Gent oo etc. which all work on PPC hardware? You don't even have to limit yourself to dual boot -- OpenFirmware can easily support you running *all* these OSes on the machine.
My guess is that if you feel that OS X is not what you thought it would be, you probably don't have much experience in the BSD world -- you can easily disable Aqua in OS X, and run Xfree86 instead, and only run kde/gnome/xfce/whatever -- almost all the proprietary software running on top of the kernel is optional and can be removed/reconfigured -- as can the BSD layer. If you're saying that OS X doesn't contain the default software configuration that fits your needs, and you don't want to reconfigure it, go get something like Ubuntu, and install that.
However, most people choose cheap x86 hardware if they prefer Linux over OS X. Of course, this isn't in the embedded market. I'd really like to see something Free along the lines of QNX for the PPC architecture. PPC is definitely lacking in the Free RTS area.
If you're saying you prefer hacking a linux-style monolithic kernel to HURD or MACH, then yes; OS X really isn't for you. However, it wasn't ever advertised as a monolithic solution in the first place.
And therein lies the difference between the two systems. In the Mac world, buying boxed software is quite rare; much of what you need comes preinstalled on the computer, and pretty much everything else is available online. It's been this way for the past 10 years.
On the Macintosh, Shareware isn't synonymous with badly programmed VB apps that have limited functionality -- many gaming houses provide their games solely via online download.
Now, this also means that as file sizes get larger, broadband is becoming close to a requirement for OS X users; if you install vanilla 10.3 on a Mac, the software updates alone are around 300MB. Of course, this includes updates for the web browser, instant messenger, video editing program, music management program, photo management program, text editor/word processor, etc.
It sounds more like they're trying to create a reality distortion field to rival Steve's -- but they still have some bugs to iron out.
And then there's the fact that US dictionaries now have slew as synonymous for slough.
Why the left one; and the scroll wheel lets me select which options I want (print to PDF, Email PDF, etc.).