I agree ram does more for performance for the time being, if and only if you don't meet a minimum level of said performance, but at this point if you are a gamer/programmer/autocad user/etc you're going to want to look at a solid state drive in the next 3 years anyway. Since 30 or 60 gigs of ram isn't *THAT* cheap yet, although that day will probably come as well but be at a relatively similar percentage of storage as it is now (since all data will likely increase in size/complexity). Unless we all get 500GB ram drives anytime soon, which I'd estimate to be an easy 5 years + away.
Examples: Autocad - Want to load a 3GB design/drawing/etc? I'm pretty sure solid state would be a lot nicer for things that big. Working on many big drawings/designs/etc? I'm pretty sure that'll save more than a few minutes almost instantly.
Gaming - Played Fury lately, or Team Fortress 2? Newer games are starting to have significant load times even with Sata2. Fury even on fast computers take 30+secs to load between maps, minimum. And that represents the new Unreal engine 3.
Hey morally people don't like lots of things. There are laws to protect in extreme situations but no, people should not be given excessively retarded laws so specific because then it really IS the problem with "protect the children" laws. This is a waste of taxpayer money and politician time.
As a result if such laws if someone is a sexual predator or even accused in error, their life and those of all of their family members is effectively brought to a lower standard of life.
So that's the solution? Let most human beings fall victim to the predatory few? What about people who don't have access to technological education? What about people whose only offense was having a credit card? Where are you trying to go with this? People without access to technological education often don't have technological access. If people wanted to learn, they'd ask someone who knows. I am not some computer genius but it isn't hard to find someone else who is and ASK them. If you don't want to ask, you don't want to learn. Idealistic morals won't do jack for reality sessions.
Moot point. People already do fall to the predatory few in millions of different fashions. You can try to claim idealistic societies all you want but in every situation "predatory" which can simply mean "superior" situations basically succeed.
The physically strong wouldn't be able to exploit the mentally strong indefinitely, those situations incite rebellion. Look at dictatorships aka tibet or china for examples of that. Tanks may kill people but they don't stop conscious thought.
Can you explain to me how you say we're benefiting off the backs of humanity specific to the internet? I don't really get where you're going with that. either.
as usual, in a way, Darwin has the correct answer. Evolve or die. Learn to protect yourself or don't. Learn to not leave a system open likely by getting a virus and asking people how to deal with it, or formatting, or etc, or googling the answer, etc.
Nobody's born a techie, but some people are too stubborn to evolve/learn. Usually we call them Jehova's Witnesses or bible thumpers.
if I had mod points, I would simultaneously mod you troll, funny, and underrated:P
However, is this like jewish golem, or like asimov robot? And is this in any sort of overlord, or merely functional and sentient?
Let me check my CDs, I believe it was the first build that it was Mandriva or it may have been during the mandrake days (I'll check the cd later), but I had to edit the config (whether that was grub or lilo I don't remember). However, I had a harddrive with dual boot at the time and it wouldn't give me the option of XP without editing grub/lilo, which wasn't that bad but still.
How does this compare to say Ubuntu for people who are still somewhat new to Linux? Last time I remember Mandriva requiring manual editing of the grub file off the bat which isn't so bad now, but I question if it'll put off new users.
details are a bit sketchy. According to the actual microsoft partner website it seems that the license is not for vista or anything, just for XP. Which is completely pointless since you can download updates without validating your system anyway, not to mention shady depending on more "hidden updates" that break features. Just get the list of updates that haven't been done and download. Voila.
In addition another of sketchy aspect is the questionable nature whether this will be used as a marketing tool for MSFT, aka "we sold xyz more copies of windows, even though we nobody really bought anything". They claim "40 million is lost in piracy" from their own bullshiat study which was debunked about a million times .
Why does it also talk about financing for the actual copies of XP that companies will receive won't be free, as they original stated? I suspect they will go after people who inquire but don't follow through.
I'm very intrigued reading everyone's views on this. My question is, if we are to produce some sort of universal translator, how will it change the multilingual situation?
I agree that certain phrases are hard to express in other languages, and I highly suspect that we're not about to head into an "everyone speaks english" situation. In fact, some RPG's have gotten it right: there are a few "common" languages, and then there are specialized/unique. This applies to all languages in one form or another anyway. Clearly the world is heading towards that fashion. Speak russian/french/etc, but have english for basic communication between individuals. In reality, all people know more than just english. They just forget about certain other forms of communication (body language/slang for unfortunate examples). Not that I advocate learning only english but I agree that in america where we are so spread out geographically (as far as languages) there isn't much reason to learn other languages out here (not to mention poor scholastic support of a second language). Meanwhile, I am an american, and I value other languages. However, with insufficient amount of populate around to learn the language off, its hard to get it correct. If I know no polish individuals nearby how am I to ensure I am speaking it properly? etc. (which is actually my current situation/problem)
So lets play Devil's advocate for a minute, other than things continuing down the same trend (unused/not maintained languages get abandoned, commonly used ones stay alive)....will a translator even affect things any more than it does currently? Also if you don't speak another language (in reference to your last phrase), where are you supposed to formulate the appropriate question? I think you basically brought out the rationalist vs empiricist debate with that one. There's no fair unbiased answer to that one, really.
While I agree not supporting China's stance is a good thing, there are better ways to make your impact known than simply "not giving them your money". In fact, I think if China had less money in some way or fashion, it wouldn't make a difference to the overall society.
On the same note, replace china with anything. Even Iraq/Syria/Iran. Does fueling a country mean it is automatically (insert negative verb). Is giving money to a (noun related to same verb) even going to help when it is resources they need, not economy? If you give a (noun from above) a physical resource is one thing, if you give them money is another. Etc etc.
If someone makes a quality product, are you going to deny it because of where it is made? Sadly, reforms are needed in a country, and purchasing power speaks nil about anything as far as ethics when it comes to grey areas of opinion. I mean like it or not but the asian market makes (some) great electronics parts. Are you just going to not use electronics?
Asus makes nice laptops too. I've had great experience with a c90. I'd suggest going to notebookreview.com or forum.notebookreview.com and looking through some reviews to see what laptops are good to go with, from that perspective.
easy example for that one: vegas, the 70's.
we have prior history of gov't regulation helping out industries, people just don't like it. People try to call prostitution "morally wrong" yet vegas is the only place you can find one and not have to worry as much about herpes/etc
I don't respond to AC posts, my apologies if that wasn't you. If you read the companies website it directly contradicts their "we don't do evil" equivalent motto. go to http://puddingmedia.com/policies.html and you'll see that they are not so "we don't track". They said things EXACTLY as they meant it. They said "we dont track the call or store information from it". That doesn't mean "we don't track anything". But then again doing some research probably isn't slashdot's forte.
Sheeple indeed. Check out their privacy policy!. We don't track anything my ass.
From the policy:
" * Pudding Media may collect personally identifiable information, or PII, from partners and clients in order to answer questions, send product updates, and generally communicate about our products and services.
* This Website uses cookies and other technologies to enhance our visitors' experiences, to learn more about their use of our site, and to improve quality.
* Pudding Media collects non-identifying information from site visitors including Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and language, and operating system."
So yes, they do track, and will track. They just said they won't track the call, because they don't have to. They have all the information without even needing to peek at the call. Look at the advertising, the keywords, how easy it that! Sure smart slashdotters wont get tracked but the average joe is another story.
Also, on the advertising side: "Pudding Media's technology is based on speech recognition, so the process is completely automated, doesn't involve humans and doesn't record calls." I wonder what other systems use similar speech recognition, hmm?
And how, based on that last sentence, are you supposed to believe they aren't storing information that indeed can be proven to further things? You just proved it. "The company is not keeping recordings or logs of the content of any phone calls, he said, so advertisements only relate to current calls, not past ones, and will only arrive during the call itself."
And what do you suppose these keywords could be that they keep track of? Surely you'll need to analyze the data to make sure the keywords are relevant and of course you never know which word could be relevant when it's said, right?
I mean after all, they're not going to violate your privacy or possibly work with the government agencies on this because there may be nothing in legislation about keywords, right? And I'm sure there's no way the words being tracked could possibly be given to another agency (thus keeping his statement accurate),right? I don't mean to spread FUD but lets think about this here a little. When has anyone ever been in a position of abusable power and not abused it when it came to eavesdropping?
yes, but if as is the case with the RIAA, if a large number of people outside of your own "group" punch holes in both your logic and morals, then obviously something is wrong. Just because people can't look at themselves from a 3rd person perspective doesn't exclude them from seeking that from others.
Thats why judges are impartial and what they are there for. If the RIAA has a legitimate reason behind what they're doing as opposed to false information, etc, court would be different. However, they're doing immoral work and it shows on all sides of the equation. And trumping copyright law, fair use, first amendment, is not something that fits into the "legitimate reason" category.
I indeed understand where you are coming from. FYI, there are car stereo units that read AAC. (or ogg, or both) There are many and they aren't rediculously expensive. Maybe 30-50$ more than just an MP3/WMA head unit. This one even supports ID3. Last I checked, that might be a tad cheaper than buying a new Ipod, no? Also AAC for head units has been around for as long as AAC's been around, just was only on like high end pioneer units and has moved down to mainstream as all technology evolves.
What's the enormous benefit of controlling that way through your stereo when your ipod does it better? I'm not a fan of the pod, but the way the wheel interacts can't really be matched on your stereo. Any stereo that supports ID3 supports directory up/down and sometimees playlist navigation. There are no systems that can mimic the Ipod via the car, because it simply isn't the ipod itself. Make a scroll wheel on the back of a car steering wheel and I would buy one and an Ipod myself. However, it might be hard to do (I wouldn't know).
Beyond that, cars don't play quality above 128kbps very noticably well. Even a $500 speaker system in a car coupled with a 500$ head unit won't match supersampled audio @ home theatre. What's the point of acting like Ipod represents some sort of extreme quality when even if you did 256kbps aac through your stereo, your audio can't truly play such quality? Reencoding from a lossy codec to a lossless, means you don't lose quality.You already lost your quality by the time it was encoded into the lossy format (aac). Where ya goin with that one? Also note the difference can (codec dependant) be beyond minute and still have a small amount of lossy quality going on. That is something certain types of AAC happen to be superb at, FYI.
Issues that become non-issues means they were trivial in the first place and unlikely that normal consumers will notice or care. I'm not trying to flame you, both of us perhaps have misconceptions to squash regarding the Ipod.
You can get that stuff easily for any player. Chargers, cases, FM transmitters are not special to ipod. It's just that IPOD ones only work with IPOD (proprietary connection) whereas a non-Ipod transmitted (which is usually less expensive) will work with anything including the Ipod. That's called lock-in, ala microsoft.
Trust me, IPOD isn't special. I like the wheel, its a great thing that stupidly no other MP3 player has decided to support, aka "hmm, maybe they want to jump through the playlist really fast". Apparently that logic never caught on, instead it's "hmm, maybe after holding down next for 10 seconds we should speed up the search", as well as pitiful playlist support. I'll still never buy an IPOD, but people really need to realize the true benefits. Also, Ipod's don't play a lot of formats that other players (such as creative vision) do, and apple DRM's the stuff so that you can't transfer it to other people (creative could care less).
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I hope they won't, but I agree with mixed skepticism. It would be bad for Havok's business to drop 3rd party support, but it would not be unlike any large corporation to gain an asset that was previously neutral to add favor to themselves (and probably abuse such a system for 5-10years till they slip and do something illegal). Curious, what did Havok do for PPC?
aye, its likely that it won't, but it creates new avenues, subpoena potential, etc.
all this info needs to do is sneak into 1 successful non-quash subpoena and it's gg for mediadefender (assuming its not already)
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Are our servers still the largest by users?
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It's small relative to other eMule servers. The # of users listed is
around 19,000.
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Is this a small server?
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Apparently the server that you're not- "Gigasources emule server" 19K
users. It's just free flowing without interruption.
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What server where you connected to?
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Guys,
Why can I go on to eMule and easily down our tracks? I just checked our
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it's almost as if they are not even being protected. I haven't ran into
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1st 30 copies. Please advise.
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I'm questioning how this comes into play after statements like this one or this one? ?
Is Novell going to have an even stronger case against them since they never said once anything about bankruptcy? Beyond the judge having to make some calls on monday due to this, does this get SCO off the hook? (I'd hope not)
There is nothing that can be done to DMCA this. Please take note of the fact that you own your own product and can do whatever you want with it, and can cry DMCA all day if you want. If you go public with the crack, you'd have to prove 0 in court, but this would not be unlike the cell phone issue. There's also nothing that you are circumventing. They are just making the IPOD not display things properly. If you enable this, you'd actually be fixing things, not circumventing any form of protection whatsoever.
From what I understand (correct me if I'm wrong), its a rewrite to how the kernel handles process thread priority and resources, something that was an issue before. Not intentionally but certain programs would put themselves far above where was needed or something. Made little to no effect on anything because it wasn't a huge change, it was a huge forum debate but more of a small thing (like deciding to use 91 octane instead of 89 in a car - this is not even remotely a life or death situation). Obviously changing this priority could improve or degreade performance randomly depending on the processor and program run, but it's unlikely that it's going to make a huge difference on the performance of a program in the first place. This is in comparison to the previous scheduler
So we have the list of files. Does anyone have a summary of WHAT was changed to compare the old and new DLL files? That would be more helpful than the anti-MS going around and simple list of files. I hate MS too, but for my dual box I wouldn't mind knowing what they did.
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Remains to be seen? laptops already represent significant consumer demand for solid state for almost 2 years and that would indeed be on a consumer level. Hybrid has ways of long term potential but solid state has far more long term potential (less moving parts as well).
I agree ram does more for performance for the time being, if and only if you don't meet a minimum level of said performance, but at this point if you are a gamer/programmer/autocad user/etc you're going to want to look at a solid state drive in the next 3 years anyway. Since 30 or 60 gigs of ram isn't *THAT* cheap yet, although that day will probably come as well but be at a relatively similar percentage of storage as it is now (since all data will likely increase in size/complexity). Unless we all get 500GB ram drives anytime soon, which I'd estimate to be an easy 5 years + away.
Examples: Autocad - Want to load a 3GB design/drawing/etc? I'm pretty sure solid state would be a lot nicer for things that big. Working on many big drawings/designs/etc? I'm pretty sure that'll save more than a few minutes almost instantly.
Gaming - Played Fury lately, or Team Fortress 2? Newer games are starting to have significant load times even with Sata2. Fury even on fast computers take 30+secs to load between maps, minimum. And that represents the new Unreal engine 3.
Hey morally people don't like lots of things. There are laws to protect in extreme situations but no, people should not be given excessively retarded laws so specific because then it really IS the problem with "protect the children" laws. This is a waste of taxpayer money and politician time.
As a result if such laws if someone is a sexual predator or even accused in error, their life and those of all of their family members is effectively brought to a lower standard of life.
So that's the solution? Let most human beings fall victim to the predatory few? What about people who don't have access to technological education? What about people whose only offense was having a credit card?
Where are you trying to go with this? People without access to technological education often don't have technological access. If people wanted to learn, they'd ask someone who knows. I am not some computer genius but it isn't hard to find someone else who is and ASK them. If you don't want to ask, you don't want to learn. Idealistic morals won't do jack for reality sessions.
Moot point. People already do fall to the predatory few in millions of different fashions. You can try to claim idealistic societies all you want but in every situation "predatory" which can simply mean "superior" situations basically succeed.
The physically strong wouldn't be able to exploit the mentally strong indefinitely, those situations incite rebellion. Look at dictatorships aka tibet or china for examples of that. Tanks may kill people but they don't stop conscious thought.
Can you explain to me how you say we're benefiting off the backs of humanity specific to the internet? I don't really get where you're going with that. either.
as usual, in a way, Darwin has the correct answer. Evolve or die. Learn to protect yourself or don't. Learn to not leave a system open likely by getting a virus and asking people how to deal with it, or formatting, or etc, or googling the answer, etc. Nobody's born a techie, but some people are too stubborn to evolve/learn. Usually we call them Jehova's Witnesses or bible thumpers.
if I had mod points, I would simultaneously mod you troll, funny, and underrated :P
However, is this like jewish golem, or like asimov robot? And is this in any sort of overlord, or merely functional and sentient?
Let me check my CDs, I believe it was the first build that it was Mandriva or it may have been during the mandrake days (I'll check the cd later), but I had to edit the config (whether that was grub or lilo I don't remember). However, I had a harddrive with dual boot at the time and it wouldn't give me the option of XP without editing grub/lilo, which wasn't that bad but still.
Anyone have a copy of "Why trolls post anonymously?" I've been looking all over for a copy and could use it right about now.
How does this compare to say Ubuntu for people who are still somewhat new to Linux? Last time I remember Mandriva requiring manual editing of the grub file off the bat which isn't so bad now, but I question if it'll put off new users.
details are a bit sketchy. According to the actual microsoft partner website it seems that the license is not for vista or anything, just for XP. Which is completely pointless since you can download updates without validating your system anyway, not to mention shady depending on more "hidden updates" that break features. Just get the list of updates that haven't been done and download. Voila.
In addition another of sketchy aspect is the questionable nature whether this will be used as a marketing tool for MSFT, aka "we sold xyz more copies of windows, even though we nobody really bought anything". They claim "40 million is lost in piracy" from their own bullshiat study which was debunked about a million times .
Why does it also talk about financing for the actual copies of XP that companies will receive won't be free, as they original stated? I suspect they will go after people who inquire but don't follow through.
I'm very intrigued reading everyone's views on this. My question is, if we are to produce some sort of universal translator, how will it change the multilingual situation?
I agree that certain phrases are hard to express in other languages, and I highly suspect that we're not about to head into an "everyone speaks english" situation. In fact, some RPG's have gotten it right: there are a few "common" languages, and then there are specialized/unique. This applies to all languages in one form or another anyway. Clearly the world is heading towards that fashion. Speak russian/french/etc, but have english for basic communication between individuals. In reality, all people know more than just english. They just forget about certain other forms of communication (body language/slang for unfortunate examples). Not that I advocate learning only english but I agree that in america where we are so spread out geographically (as far as languages) there isn't much reason to learn other languages out here (not to mention poor scholastic support of a second language). Meanwhile, I am an american, and I value other languages. However, with insufficient amount of populate around to learn the language off, its hard to get it correct. If I know no polish individuals nearby how am I to ensure I am speaking it properly? etc. (which is actually my current situation/problem)
So lets play Devil's advocate for a minute, other than things continuing down the same trend (unused/not maintained languages get abandoned, commonly used ones stay alive)....will a translator even affect things any more than it does currently? Also if you don't speak another language (in reference to your last phrase), where are you supposed to formulate the appropriate question? I think you basically brought out the rationalist vs empiricist debate with that one. There's no fair unbiased answer to that one, really.
While I agree not supporting China's stance is a good thing, there are better ways to make your impact known than simply "not giving them your money". In fact, I think if China had less money in some way or fashion, it wouldn't make a difference to the overall society. On the same note, replace china with anything. Even Iraq/Syria/Iran. Does fueling a country mean it is automatically (insert negative verb). Is giving money to a (noun related to same verb) even going to help when it is resources they need, not economy? If you give a (noun from above) a physical resource is one thing, if you give them money is another. Etc etc. If someone makes a quality product, are you going to deny it because of where it is made? Sadly, reforms are needed in a country, and purchasing power speaks nil about anything as far as ethics when it comes to grey areas of opinion. I mean like it or not but the asian market makes (some) great electronics parts. Are you just going to not use electronics? Asus makes nice laptops too. I've had great experience with a c90. I'd suggest going to notebookreview.com or forum.notebookreview.com and looking through some reviews to see what laptops are good to go with, from that perspective.
easy example for that one: vegas, the 70's. we have prior history of gov't regulation helping out industries, people just don't like it. People try to call prostitution "morally wrong" yet vegas is the only place you can find one and not have to worry as much about herpes/etc
I don't respond to AC posts, my apologies if that wasn't you. If you read the companies website it directly contradicts their "we don't do evil" equivalent motto. go to http://puddingmedia.com/policies.html and you'll see that they are not so "we don't track". They said things EXACTLY as they meant it. They said "we dont track the call or store information from it". That doesn't mean "we don't track anything". But then again doing some research probably isn't slashdot's forte.
Sheeple indeed. Check out their privacy policy!. We don't track anything my ass. From the policy: " * Pudding Media may collect personally identifiable information, or PII, from partners and clients in order to answer questions, send product updates, and generally communicate about our products and services. * This Website uses cookies and other technologies to enhance our visitors' experiences, to learn more about their use of our site, and to improve quality. * Pudding Media collects non-identifying information from site visitors including Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and language, and operating system." So yes, they do track, and will track. They just said they won't track the call, because they don't have to. They have all the information without even needing to peek at the call. Look at the advertising, the keywords, how easy it that! Sure smart slashdotters wont get tracked but the average joe is another story. Also, on the advertising side: "Pudding Media's technology is based on speech recognition, so the process is completely automated, doesn't involve humans and doesn't record calls." I wonder what other systems use similar speech recognition, hmm?
And how, based on that last sentence, are you supposed to believe they aren't storing information that indeed can be proven to further things? You just proved it. "The company is not keeping recordings or logs of the content of any phone calls, he said, so advertisements only relate to current calls, not past ones, and will only arrive during the call itself."
And what do you suppose these keywords could be that they keep track of? Surely you'll need to analyze the data to make sure the keywords are relevant and of course you never know which word could be relevant when it's said, right?
I mean after all, they're not going to violate your privacy or possibly work with the government agencies on this because there may be nothing in legislation about keywords, right? And I'm sure there's no way the words being tracked could possibly be given to another agency (thus keeping his statement accurate),right? I don't mean to spread FUD but lets think about this here a little. When has anyone ever been in a position of abusable power and not abused it when it came to eavesdropping?
Yes, trust indeed. I'll pass.
yes, but if as is the case with the RIAA, if a large number of people outside of your own "group" punch holes in both your logic and morals, then obviously something is wrong. Just because people can't look at themselves from a 3rd person perspective doesn't exclude them from seeking that from others. Thats why judges are impartial and what they are there for. If the RIAA has a legitimate reason behind what they're doing as opposed to false information, etc, court would be different. However, they're doing immoral work and it shows on all sides of the equation. And trumping copyright law, fair use, first amendment, is not something that fits into the "legitimate reason" category.
I indeed understand where you are coming from.
FYI, there are car stereo units that read AAC. (or ogg, or both) There are many and they aren't rediculously expensive. Maybe 30-50$ more than just an MP3/WMA head unit. This one even supports ID3. Last I checked, that might be a tad cheaper than buying a new Ipod, no? Also AAC for head units has been around for as long as AAC's been around, just was only on like high end pioneer units and has moved down to mainstream as all technology evolves.
What's the enormous benefit of controlling that way through your stereo when your ipod does it better? I'm not a fan of the pod, but the way the wheel interacts can't really be matched on your stereo. Any stereo that supports ID3 supports directory up/down and sometimees playlist navigation. There are no systems that can mimic the Ipod via the car, because it simply isn't the ipod itself. Make a scroll wheel on the back of a car steering wheel and I would buy one and an Ipod myself. However, it might be hard to do (I wouldn't know).
Beyond that, cars don't play quality above 128kbps very noticably well. Even a $500 speaker system in a car coupled with a 500$ head unit won't match supersampled audio @ home theatre. What's the point of acting like Ipod represents some sort of extreme quality when even if you did 256kbps aac through your stereo, your audio can't truly play such quality? Reencoding from a lossy codec to a lossless, means you don't lose quality.You already lost your quality by the time it was encoded into the lossy format (aac). Where ya goin with that one? Also note the difference can (codec dependant) be beyond minute and still have a small amount of lossy quality going on. That is something certain types of AAC happen to be superb at, FYI.
Issues that become non-issues means they were trivial in the first place and unlikely that normal consumers will notice or care. I'm not trying to flame you, both of us perhaps have misconceptions to squash regarding the Ipod.
example: Itrip - 50$. Same transmitter @ ebay = 6$. Non Ipod ebay example? 10$ w/car charger. Similar non Ebay? 20$ .
Trust me, IPOD isn't special. I like the wheel, its a great thing that stupidly no other MP3 player has decided to support, aka "hmm, maybe they want to jump through the playlist really fast". Apparently that logic never caught on, instead it's "hmm, maybe after holding down next for 10 seconds we should speed up the search", as well as pitiful playlist support. I'll still never buy an IPOD, but people really need to realize the true benefits. Also, Ipod's don't play a lot of formats that other players (such as creative vision) do, and apple DRM's the stuff so that you can't transfer it to other people (creative could care less).
I hope they won't, but I agree with mixed skepticism. It would be bad for Havok's business to drop 3rd party support, but it would not be unlike any large corporation to gain an asset that was previously neutral to add favor to themselves (and probably abuse such a system for 5-10years till they slip and do something illegal). Curious, what did Havok do for PPC?
aye, its likely that it won't, but it creates new avenues, subpoena potential, etc. all this info needs to do is sneak into 1 successful non-quash subpoena and it's gg for mediadefender (assuming its not already)
its actually on their blog page already
Subject: RE: eMule -poor efficacy results From: "Octavio Herrera" Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:51:33 -0700 To: "qa" Delivered-To: mdjaym@gmail.com Received: by 10.114.136.2 with SMTP id j2cs476172wad; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:51:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.30.5 with SMTP id d5mr6727589wxd.1177707085841; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:51:25 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: from mdexch01.mediadefender.com (MDEXCH01.MEDIADEFENDER.COM [65.120.42.14]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 74si5018335wra.2007.04.27.13.51.24; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:51:25 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: best guess record for domain of octavio@mediadefender.com designates 65.120.42.14 as permitted sender) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: Thread-Topic: eMule -poor efficacy results Thread-Index: AceJCPupCKuOB+QZSs+sYQ/TE86p4AAAH4IlAAAvnWAAAGjXmwAAE9vQAABm2BA= Status: RO X-Status: RC Are our servers still the largest by users? -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Lee Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 1:40 PM To: Octavio Herrera; qa Subject: RE: eMule -poor efficacy results It's small relative to other eMule servers. The # of users listed is around 19,000. -----Original Message----- From: Octavio Herrera Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 1:37 PM To: qa Subject: Fw: eMule -poor efficacy results Is this a small server? ----- Original Message ----- From: Dong.Jang@sonybmg.com To: Octavio Herrera Cc: Jasper Paloyo; Ben Grodsky Sent: Fri Apr 27 13:29:32 2007 Subject: RE: eMule -poor efficacy results Apparently the server that you're not- "Gigasources emule server" 19K users. It's just free flowing without interruption. ________________________________ From: Octavio Herrera [mailto:octavio@mediadefender.com] Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 4:20 PM To: Jang, Dong SONY BMG; Jasper Paloyo; Ben Grodsky Subject: Re: eMule -poor efficacy results What server where you connected to? ----- Original Message ----- From: Dong.Jang@sonybmg.com To: Jasper Paloyo; Ben Grodsky Cc: Octavio Herrera Sent: Fri Apr 27 13:16:47 2007 Subject: eMule -poor efficacy results Guys, Why can I go on to eMule and easily down our tracks? I just checked our top two selling tracks Avril Lavigne Girlfriend and Daughtry Home and it's almost as if they are not even being protected. I haven't ran into a single file that doesn't download and have been able to download the 1st 30 copies. Please advise. Thanks, Dong ________________________ Dong Il Jang SonyBMG Music Entertainment Global Digital Business Group 550 Madison Ave., 30th Fl. New York, NY 10022 Ph. 212.833.4976 Fx. 212.833.4608 www.sonybmg.com
Is Novell going to have an even stronger case against them since they never said once anything about bankruptcy? Beyond the judge having to make some calls on monday due to this, does this get SCO off the hook? (I'd hope not)
If they DMCA'd your site, you'd have even more against them. Especially if you publish the formula/code for the crack/cipher , there's not a lot you can do.
From what I understand (correct me if I'm wrong), its a rewrite to how the kernel handles process thread priority and resources, something that was an issue before. Not intentionally but certain programs would put themselves far above where was needed or something.
Made little to no effect on anything because it wasn't a huge change, it was a huge forum debate but more of a small thing (like deciding to use 91 octane instead of 89 in a car - this is not even remotely a life or death situation). Obviously changing this priority could improve or degreade performance randomly depending on the processor and program run, but it's unlikely that it's going to make a huge difference on the performance of a program in the first place. This is in comparison to the previous scheduler
So we have the list of files. Does anyone have a summary of WHAT was changed to compare the old and new DLL files? That would be more helpful than the anti-MS going around and simple list of files. I hate MS too, but for my dual box I wouldn't mind knowing what they did.