A Windows OEM install costs Dell about $100, again according to Michael Dell. I'm not sure what a Vista OEM costs them, but one way or another, they're not getting 100% back. Vista Home Basic costs $89 if you or I buy one copy.
In fact I think he's lying about the $100 (if he ever said it) and Windows costs Dell nearer to $50. Remember it's in his interest to claim he pays more. And Microsoft probably don't want other OEMs to know he gets a steep discount. Which he's really worked for it - he buys millions of copies and has threatened Microsoft with preinstalling Linux or even FreeDOS as an alternative to paying the OEM fee.
The only link I've seen about the cost of Windows to Dell puts the price at $50
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070525-windows-tax-is-50-according-to-dell-linux-pc-pricing.html
So it turns out that not including Windows saves the consumer $50 from the regular list price. This amount is not too far off from what a large OEM like Dell would pay for a volume discount for Windows Vista Home Basic (the regular OEM price is about $95) Now customers can get other editions of Vista, but they have to pay a premium for them. So just maybe the OEM's cost is completely covered by trialware.
It'll be OK if they hired technical people rather than (shudder) Business Method consultants. Mind you, the idea of Web 2.0 people being put on a death march to ISO 9001 certification fills me with demonic glee.
I wonder what they mean by "elegant filesystem-based approach"? Part of me thinks "what a load of pretentious bullshit" and part of me thinks "wow, some lucky bastard will have fun coding that".
Well enterprise customers probably pay. Consumers don't because trialware subsidizes consumer Windows. I don't see the fact that it doesn't subsidize enterprise Windows affects this.
I think twitter is a parody to some extent. Maybe some embittered Microsoft shill created him as a comment on the whole slashdot phenomemon. Actually it's bigger than that, it's spread to all the soi disant nerd blogs.
It's sad really. Being a nerd used to mean someone who ignores fashion and tries to avoid joining a clique - at least that's what it meant when I was at school. Since nerds didn't believe in cliques we didn't agree on much, if anything. But that was ok, because arguing was fun.
But the web 2.0 nerd thing is the opposite of that. It is a clique. If you want to join the clique you need to have clique approved opinions on politics and technology. And the arguments are not about fun, it's about being angry at non clique approved things. And it doesn't matter how good the arguments are any more, any argument that is against politically incorrect things is amplified and any argument that is for them is suppressed.
It's like some of the other cliques at school. If you were in those any argument against clique defined politically incorrect things was applauded, regardless of how dumb it was. The web 2.0 nerd thing is much more like the popular people at school than the nerds.
And special this month I'll throw in an ethernet cable impedance tester to tell you when you need to replace your cables due to oxidation.
Will that work with nuclear as well as hydro-powered oxidation? I've heard that oxidation from nuclear power is much drier than hydro power, so rust doesn't form as easily, but oxidation happens twice as fast.
Thanks!
Holy shit. I love the idea of selling audiophiles electricity from the right sort of power station.
You know, back when I was young and foolish I'd hear about engineering projects where customers had asked for all sorts of strange features. And I'd explain at nauseam to anyone who'd listen how those features were pointless and messed up the original design. But now I just regard that sort of thing as a business opportunity. I mean, I like hacking stuff to do things it wasn't orginally meant to do. And I get paid to do it. And they want the features.
I was referring to commodity market in terms of commodity PCs. In any event, both of the points you mention have already been addressed. No they haven't. Where?
I can sell you an isotopically pure copper Ethernet cable which I have personally tested for warm sound when streaming MP3s.
Normal price, $100 per foot. But I have a 50% discount for AVS Forum posters. And special this month I'll throw in an ethernet cable impedance tester to tell you when you need to replace your cables due to oxidation.
The commodity (aka home) PC market has OS license costs subsidized by crapware. The enterprise (aka work) market is less price sensitive (judging by how much I know they spend on buying mediocre laptops from their preferred supplier) and in any case doesn't pay a per seat cost, it's more like an all you can eat deal.
So here is a challange, nobody have yet solved: Find 3 webpages that works now in ie6 and ie7, but will give problems if ie8 start in standard complience mode He has a picture of Google Maps all fubar in IE8. Gmail is broken too, according to this
http://spanring.eu/blog/2008/03/06/no-google-maps-for-ie-8-beta-1/
One problem that IE8 might encounter, is that some webpages might delivery html/css with workarounds for bugs in ie6 and ie7, but that problem is easy to work around. Microsoft just need to change their browser agent string to something that will not trigger theese. The problem is that people detected IE6/7 and served up their rather non standard dialect of HTML. That doesn't work anymore in IE8.
b: Not work in any other browser. And the reason must be due to difference in behavier in html/css handling. Sites that require active-x or special ie plugins will not qualify, as theese will also work in ie8.
c: Have a header, that causes it to be in "standards complience mode" because the quirks mode in ie8 will most like be like the one in ie 6 and 7. b: I don't see why this applies. If the user had IE7 and pages work and they upgrade to IE8 and they stop then from their point of view IE8 is broken.
c: No, that's not what the article says. It says that IE8 will be in standards compliant mode by default, which means all the sites that serve non standard HTML to IE break. Google maps worked in Firefox because it uses CSS and it works in IE6/7 because it uses the Microsfot html extensions they invented as an alternative to CSS. Now you can argue about the wisdom of jumping the gun by inventing their own version of CSS and then ignoring the standard, but changing to support (by default) only standard CSS now and not their proprietary extensions is suicide for IE8. People will try it, find a bunch of sites don't work and stop using it. They won't give a shit if those sites are using the wrong sort of html and they won't wait for them to be fixed. They'll stop using IE8 and go back to IE7, or switch to Firefox or Opera.
China starts lots of projects like this. They serve only to demonstrate to the world how advanced China is, and how they don't need the rest of the world. They spend tons of money to develop far inferior (but domestically developed!) alternatives to easily and cheaply available western technology. It never goes anywhere.
Their EVD (IIRC) format comes to mind. It was based on incompatible use of DVD tech to give a trivial capacity boost, and the (terribly poor performing yet lower quality than MPEG-2) AVS video codec it used. Considering that JPEG is ancient and patent-free tech, and independently re-implementing inter-frame compression is so simple I could do a halfway decent job of it myself in a week, I'm stunned by how little China has achieved despite how much money they have spent. Large retailers in their own country defy the government mandate to carry them, because demand in nil, and the higher performance and non-standard decoding hardware required is far more expensive.
I guess I'd better end this rant here... That's good to know. Taiwan is cleaning up with things like the Asus EEE Pc. And an absolute buttload of ODM work for well known brands.
Bullshit. You regular take your discs to "Circ City and Best Buy" and play them?
1: If you're looking for a new player, what's stopping you from buying one? According to you, they ALL work.
2: Why is this a "regular" activity for you? Are you worried that the display model will have it's firmware upgraded and the compatibility might be shot to shit? I know I hate having to wait for the cock jockeys in red/blue + khaki to finish the firmware updates on the display models. I go in to experience true HD and I end up waiting!
3: So they let you pop in a random disc into a player to see if it works? Gee, could that purple disc you sloppily labeled with a Sharpie be a pirated copy of something? Porn perhaps? Sure, go ahead and pop it in - we'll display it on this 60" plasma over here, with the 7.1 system that 8 year old just cranked up to 11. Oh, what's that? You have a disk? Well those don't typically fit in these players, but let's try it anyway. I dunno, even if it were true the GP would still be fairly average on the autism spectrum for this site. Over at kuro5hin he'd actually be too normal.
Cracking DRM is illegal in some countries. Is George Ou saying its better to break the law in this way than not have access to certain media? No, he isn't, and I'm beginning to see why he gets angry arguing with people who don't understand what they are talking about and won't read what he says.
Let's take the whole thing from the top.
1) Microsoft's marketing department decided that Vista needs to support BluRay. 2) The BluRay Disk association said that if they want to do this they need to support protected media paths and all the other nonsense. 3) Microsoft did that. 4) The net result is that you can Windows Vista and a software player to play BluRay DVDs. You don't need to crack anything to do this, or break any laws.
If they hadn't implemented PMP et al, you would need to crack to watch the disks because no software players would have been licensed by the BluRay consortium. I read somewhere that with DVD they originally planned not to allow software players because they were scared the keys would leak. And they were right, the Xing Mpeg player was hacked and the key was discovered.
So they sort of had a good case for only allowing hardware players. But Microsoft convinced them that PMP and so on would avoid cracks. Inevitably one of the software players was cracked.
Note that Windows DRM is 100% ineffective against this sort of thing, which is why PMP is a bit of a con. You can always use WinDbg to kernel mode debug a Windows machine and read every single byte of memory. But from what I can tell, the AACS key was extracted from the user mode software player, so even this wasn't necessary.
But you don't need to know the crack anything to play BluRay discs on Vista. Just use the BluRay player software that came with the machine. But that player would not have been licensed if Microsoft hadn't implemented DRM in the OS.
Now Linux can't implement DRM that will satisfy the BluRay consortium that a user won't get the keys. So to play BluRay discs on Linux you must rely on the crack. But cracked software isn't exactly user friendly. It's illegal to link to it in the US and the studio will keep tweaking the disks so it breaks and you need to download a new version.
If Microsoft hadn't implemented DRM the Windows users would be in the same boat.
Now if Blu Ray is like DVD then writable disks will only allow unencrypted content. So to copy a Blu Ray disk you'd need to crack. But just to watch a disk you don't.
Personally I pretty much rent or buy the odd DVD and watch cable. I'm in Asia and BluRay isn't too common here. I think the technology is overpriced and the requirment that the whole playback path be protected makes the whole process too fiddly. I can't see much difference in quality between HD and normal content. So I'm not going to buy it. But let's not get carried away. Windows users will watch BluRay disks in a userfriendly way. Pirates and Linux users will be able to copy/watch it too, it will just take a bit more work.
I think it is assume it is similar to this one,since it is the same company. And since they seem to prefer the older chip designs,300Mhz would make it a P2? Not necessarily. The other module seems to use a "Super486" at 150Mhz. Which is probably a UMC 486 core with a bunch of custom hardware and bigger caches. But a 486 with a 16KB cache at 300Mhz will pretty much suck running anything modern. You have more processing power in your cellphone.
Wasn't there a greenlit article on LMOS? IIRC they used slashdot friendly buzzwords like "open source" and "linux boot sector" and relied on the fact that the editors were too lazy to look up what "Last Measure" means.
The other thing they did I thought was funny was getting CNN to run shocked exposé on their jewsdidwtc site which is a blatant paraody of Time Cube and other babbling mad conspiracy sites. Some of the web pages that CNN showed on TV was very obviously a joke, even though they only showed them for a few seconds. You can find it on youtube.
Personally, I think putting a Windows machine directly into a potentially hostile network (and the internet is such a network) is asking for trouble. Especially when there are tried and proven ways that first of all predate Windows firewall and second are so diverse that even if one such firewall service should be hacked, it doesn't immediately become the pandemic that a hack in the Windows firewall would mean. Diversity is actually a good thing when trying to fight untargeted (read: not directed at YOU but at "as many as possible") threats. Well yeah, but a NAT firewall comes (almost) free with a decent ADSL/Wifi routers these days. There's a lot of diversity in routers.
And I hope we can agree that the Windows firewall doesn't present any sensible protection against unwanted outgoing traffic. No it doesn't. But so what. I said it was useful if there's an endemic worm attacking an exploit in some Windows service and you have nothing else protecting you. This is true. For people that use ADSL modems instead of NAT routers it probably makes their machine much more secure since it reduces their attack surface. Which is the reason it was turned on in SP2.
Actually I've never needed to block outgoing connections from home, so it's fine for me, if a bit redundant with the NAT in the router.
Dude, this is China. In a democracy you use flash crowds and encryption to disrupt things like this. In China they'd break up flash crowds with paramilitary police and trace encrypted connections inside the routers and send gangs of thugs to disappear the person that set them up at 5am.
Ok, I admit, I have no idea how to do it in Windows. I just saw some QoS feature on Windows some time ago, could well be that it's as much a placebo as its firewall feature. The Windows firewall isn't a placebo if there's an endemic worm exploiting a flaw in the the RPC service. Back when Blaster came out I needed to enable the firewall on my home machine to be able to download the fix without it getting blasted. This was back before SP2 when it was enabled by default. With the firewall most machines don't have any ports exposed to the internet. And it's much less likely that someone finds a exploit in the firewall than some random network service.
I've set QoS up on my (Gentoo) router manually using tc, and it helps a bit but the internet is definately a lot slower when people are torrenting. I'm not even talking about stuff with low latency requirements - simple web browsing becomes several times slower, and if someone's set their BT client to unlimited upload then even with my QoS, about a third of HTTP connections time out or never establish in the first place. Can't you make the router forge RST packets to the torrent users, like Comcast does?
Why is slashdot linking to stories by a troll like George Ou? His treatment of Peter Gutmann is unforgivable. What's so bad about his treatment of Gutman? Gutman wrote a crazy tinfoil hat piece about how Vista's DRM will steal your soul and George flamed the hell out of him. From your link.
http://www.cypherpunks.to/~peter/zdnet.html
Schneier is a moron if he thinks telling Hollywood no will force them to use non-DRM content. All you need to do is look at the CableCard fiasco. You give Hollywood the finger and they give you the finger right back because they'd rather NOT have any content on the PC to begin with. Like Apple, Microsoft will humor Hollywood so they come join the party. Once they're in, they'll get screwed out of their DRM protections because Microsoft won't patch the DRM holes and let their customers bypass DRM. The latest DRM stripper for Windows Media has worked for almost 2 months now and Microsoft hasn't patched it yet. Ok, so it's nasty to call someone a moron. And it's not really true either. It's ideology that causes Schneier and all the Web 2.0 'experts' to say this. He's no fool but he can't differentiate between it would be good if something being true and something being true. It would be good if Hollywood would give up on flakey DRM schemes. But if Microsoft and Apple had somehow agreed to boycott them, then Windows and Mac users would just have been left with no way to play HD content, because Hollywood is mortally afraid of people ripping HD content and uploading it to Pirate Bay. But George Ou is right that once stuff gets on open platforms like the PC it will get cracked anyway, so the OS vendors were just humouring them. And they probably knew it.
FOR THE LAST TIME, I want the DRM on my system so I can play my DVDs, HD DVDs,and Blu-ray like MOST people.
You don't want it, more power to you. I've given you the links to the software you need get avoid enabling MFPMP at all. I've shown you the lower CPU utilizations using cheaper hardware. I don't know what else you want. ...
You know, you are a f***ing moron. End of discussion. Well, he's certainly tactless and outright rude. But he's also right about the following -
* Hollywood forced OS vendors like Microsoft and Apple to add DRM to allow playback of HD content. * Both did, because it would be hard to sell an OS which can't play next generation content.
But this doesn't really matter because
* DRM will be cracked anyway. * It doesn't have any effect on the OS if you don't use HD content.
He's only get flamed because he's defending Vista which is the subject of the current geek 3 minute hate. Now I don't really like Vista compared to XP, you don't need to believe that it 'causes global warming' as he puts it to dislike it.
BluRay is a product. If you don't like, don't buy and don't use the content distributed over it. I know I won't. And if you don't want Vista as a bundled OS, buy a computer it doesn't come on (like a Dell) or build your own.
Killing to save yourself or family is debatable in that we are not to judge whose life is more "valuable". To nature, all life carries the same value. Umm, you what? My life is subjectively much more valuable to me than someone else's. Also if someone attacks me I'm quite entitled to defend myself. And my children share my DNA and thus I will protect them, if necessarily by killing you.
Anyhow, we're all basically machines anyway. We're programmed to survive and reproduce. You think you have free will, but free will extends to you convincing yourself that someone trying to kill you or your kids has a right to life and post about that theory on the internet. But if I attacked you or your kids, you'd defend yourself because evolution programmed you to. And if you didn't you fail as an organism.
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I don't think it costs Dell $100.
In fact I think he's lying about the $100 (if he ever said it) and Windows costs Dell nearer to $50. Remember it's in his interest to claim he pays more. And Microsoft probably don't want other OEMs to know he gets a steep discount. Which he's really worked for it - he buys millions of copies and has threatened Microsoft with preinstalling Linux or even FreeDOS as an alternative to paying the OEM fee.
The only link I've seen about the cost of Windows to Dell puts the price at $50
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070525-windows-tax-is-50-according-to-dell-linux-pc-pricing.html So it turns out that not including Windows saves the consumer $50 from the regular list price. This amount is not too far off from what a large OEM like Dell would pay for a volume discount for Windows Vista Home Basic (the regular OEM price is about $95) Now customers can get other editions of Vista, but they have to pay a premium for them. So just maybe the OEM's cost is completely covered by trialware.
It'll be OK if they hired technical people rather than (shudder) Business Method consultants. Mind you, the idea of Web 2.0 people being put on a death march to ISO 9001 certification fills me with demonic glee.
For a while we swapped memes and were happy. But then the pedants arrived.
Well enterprise customers probably pay. Consumers don't because trialware subsidizes consumer Windows. I don't see the fact that it doesn't subsidize enterprise Windows affects this.
I think twitter is a parody to some extent. Maybe some embittered Microsoft shill created him as a comment on the whole slashdot phenomemon. Actually it's bigger than that, it's spread to all the soi disant nerd blogs.
It's sad really. Being a nerd used to mean someone who ignores fashion and tries to avoid joining a clique - at least that's what it meant when I was at school. Since nerds didn't believe in cliques we didn't agree on much, if anything. But that was ok, because arguing was fun.
But the web 2.0 nerd thing is the opposite of that. It is a clique. If you want to join the clique you need to have clique approved opinions on politics and technology. And the arguments are not about fun, it's about being angry at non clique approved things. And it doesn't matter how good the arguments are any more, any argument that is against politically incorrect things is amplified and any argument that is for them is suppressed.
It's like some of the other cliques at school. If you were in those any argument against clique defined politically incorrect things was applauded, regardless of how dumb it was. The web 2.0 nerd thing is much more like the popular people at school than the nerds.
Will that work with nuclear as well as hydro-powered oxidation? I've heard that oxidation from nuclear power is much drier than hydro power, so rust doesn't form as easily, but oxidation happens twice as fast.
Thanks!
Holy shit. I love the idea of selling audiophiles electricity from the right sort of power station.You know, back when I was young and foolish I'd hear about engineering projects where customers had asked for all sorts of strange features. And I'd explain at nauseam to anyone who'd listen how those features were pointless and messed up the original design. But now I just regard that sort of thing as a business opportunity. I mean, I like hacking stuff to do things it wasn't orginally meant to do. And I get paid to do it. And they want the features.
I can sell you an isotopically pure copper Ethernet cable which I have personally tested for warm sound when streaming MP3s.
Normal price, $100 per foot. But I have a 50% discount for AVS Forum posters. And special this month I'll throw in an ethernet cable impedance tester to tell you when you need to replace your cables due to oxidation.
They use a PIC18F2455. A PIC18 with 24KB of flash and 2KB Ram and USB for about $5.
http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=1335&dDocName=en010273
You can use C too, judging from the app notes. Handy for USB stuff.
The commodity (aka home) PC market has OS license costs subsidized by crapware. The enterprise (aka work) market is less price sensitive (judging by how much I know they spend on buying mediocre laptops from their preferred supplier) and in any case doesn't pay a per seat cost, it's more like an all you can eat deal.
Find 3 webpages that works now in ie6 and ie7, but will give problems if ie8 start in standard complience mode He has a picture of Google Maps all fubar in IE8. Gmail is broken too, according to this
http://spanring.eu/blog/2008/03/06/no-google-maps-for-ie-8-beta-1/ One problem that IE8 might encounter, is that some webpages might delivery html/css with workarounds for bugs in ie6 and ie7, but that problem is easy to work around. Microsoft just need to change their browser agent string to something that will not trigger theese. The problem is that people detected IE6/7 and served up their rather non standard dialect of HTML. That doesn't work anymore in IE8. b: Not work in any other browser. And the reason must be due to difference in behavier in html/css handling. Sites that require active-x or special ie plugins will not qualify, as theese will also work in ie8.
c: Have a header, that causes it to be in "standards complience mode" because the quirks mode in ie8 will most like be like the one in ie 6 and 7. b: I don't see why this applies. If the user had IE7 and pages work and they upgrade to IE8 and they stop then from their point of view IE8 is broken.
c: No, that's not what the article says. It says that IE8 will be in standards compliant mode by default, which means all the sites that serve non standard HTML to IE break. Google maps worked in Firefox because it uses CSS and it works in IE6/7 because it uses the Microsfot html extensions they invented as an alternative to CSS. Now you can argue about the wisdom of jumping the gun by inventing their own version of CSS and then ignoring the standard, but changing to support (by default) only standard CSS now and not their proprietary extensions is suicide for IE8. People will try it, find a bunch of sites don't work and stop using it. They won't give a shit if those sites are using the wrong sort of html and they won't wait for them to be fixed. They'll stop using IE8 and go back to IE7, or switch to Firefox or Opera.
Their EVD (IIRC) format comes to mind. It was based on incompatible use of DVD tech to give a trivial capacity boost, and the (terribly poor performing yet lower quality than MPEG-2) AVS video codec it used. Considering that JPEG is ancient and patent-free tech, and independently re-implementing inter-frame compression is so simple I could do a halfway decent job of it myself in a week, I'm stunned by how little China has achieved despite how much money they have spent. Large retailers in their own country defy the government mandate to carry them, because demand in nil, and the higher performance and non-standard decoding hardware required is far more expensive.
I guess I'd better end this rant here... That's good to know. Taiwan is cleaning up with things like the Asus EEE Pc. And an absolute buttload of ODM work for well known brands.
You regular take your discs to "Circ City and Best Buy" and play them?
1: If you're looking for a new player, what's stopping you from buying one? According to you, they ALL work.
2: Why is this a "regular" activity for you? Are you worried that the display model will have it's firmware upgraded and the compatibility might be shot to shit? I know I hate having to wait for the cock jockeys in red/blue + khaki to finish the firmware updates on the display models. I go in to experience true HD and I end up waiting!
3: So they let you pop in a random disc into a player to see if it works? Gee, could that purple disc you sloppily labeled with a Sharpie be a pirated copy of something? Porn perhaps? Sure, go ahead and pop it in - we'll display it on this 60" plasma over here, with the 7.1 system that 8 year old just cranked up to 11. Oh, what's that? You have a disk? Well those don't typically fit in these players, but let's try it anyway. I dunno, even if it were true the GP would still be fairly average on the autism spectrum for this site. Over at kuro5hin he'd actually be too normal.
Let's take the whole thing from the top.
1) Microsoft's marketing department decided that Vista needs to support BluRay.
2) The BluRay Disk association said that if they want to do this they need to support protected media paths and all the other nonsense.
3) Microsoft did that.
4) The net result is that you can Windows Vista and a software player to play BluRay DVDs. You don't need to crack anything to do this, or break any laws.
If they hadn't implemented PMP et al, you would need to crack to watch the disks because no software players would have been licensed by the BluRay consortium. I read somewhere that with DVD they originally planned not to allow software players because they were scared the keys would leak. And they were right, the Xing Mpeg player was hacked and the key was discovered.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xing_Technology
So they sort of had a good case for only allowing hardware players. But Microsoft convinced them that PMP and so on would avoid cracks. Inevitably one of the software players was cracked.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy
Note that Windows DRM is 100% ineffective against this sort of thing, which is why PMP is a bit of a con. You can always use WinDbg to kernel mode debug a Windows machine and read every single byte of memory. But from what I can tell, the AACS key was extracted from the user mode software player, so even this wasn't necessary.
But you don't need to know the crack anything to play BluRay discs on Vista. Just use the BluRay player software that came with the machine. But that player would not have been licensed if Microsoft hadn't implemented DRM in the OS.
Now Linux can't implement DRM that will satisfy the BluRay consortium that a user won't get the keys. So to play BluRay discs on Linux you must rely on the crack. But cracked software isn't exactly user friendly. It's illegal to link to it in the US and the studio will keep tweaking the disks so it breaks and you need to download a new version.
If Microsoft hadn't implemented DRM the Windows users would be in the same boat.
Now if Blu Ray is like DVD then writable disks will only allow unencrypted content. So to copy a Blu Ray disk you'd need to crack. But just to watch a disk you don't.
Personally I pretty much rent or buy the odd DVD and watch cable. I'm in Asia and BluRay isn't too common here. I think the technology is overpriced and the requirment that the whole playback path be protected makes the whole process too fiddly. I can't see much difference in quality between HD and normal content. So I'm not going to buy it. But let's not get carried away. Windows users will watch BluRay disks in a userfriendly way. Pirates and Linux users will be able to copy/watch it too, it will just take a bit more work.
That's really fascinating.
$50 is what Dell claim Windows costs.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070525-windows-tax-is-50-according-to-dell-linux-pc-pricing.html
So does that mean that Windows is paid for by the crapware vendors? Cool.
True but enterprises probably use Corporate Volume Licensing, so they don't pay a per seat cost.
Wasn't there a greenlit article on LMOS? IIRC they used slashdot friendly buzzwords like "open source" and "linux boot sector" and relied on the fact that the editors were too lazy to look up what "Last Measure" means.
... good times ...
The other thing they did I thought was funny was getting CNN to run shocked exposé on their jewsdidwtc site which is a blatant paraody of Time Cube and other babbling mad conspiracy sites. Some of the web pages that CNN showed on TV was very obviously a joke, even though they only showed them for a few seconds. You can find it on youtube.
Good times
Actually I've never needed to block outgoing connections from home, so it's fine for me, if a bit redundant with the NAT in the router.
Dude, this is China. In a democracy you use flash crowds and encryption to disrupt things like this. In China they'd break up flash crowds with paramilitary police and trace encrypted connections inside the routers and send gangs of thugs to disappear the person that set them up at 5am.
http://www.cypherpunks.to/~peter/zdnet.html Schneier is a moron if he thinks telling Hollywood no will force them to use non-DRM content. All you need to do is look at the CableCard fiasco. You give Hollywood the finger and they give you the finger right back because they'd
rather NOT have any content on the PC to begin with. Like Apple, Microsoft
will humor Hollywood so they come join the party. Once they're in, they'll
get screwed out of their DRM protections because Microsoft won't patch the DRM
holes and let their customers bypass DRM. The latest DRM stripper for Windows
Media has worked for almost 2 months now and Microsoft hasn't patched it yet. Ok, so it's nasty to call someone a moron. And it's not really true either. It's ideology that causes Schneier and all the Web 2.0 'experts' to say this. He's no fool but he can't differentiate between it would be good if something being true and something being true. It would be good if Hollywood would give up on flakey DRM schemes. But if Microsoft and Apple had somehow agreed to boycott them, then Windows and Mac users would just have been left with no way to play HD content, because Hollywood is mortally afraid of people ripping HD content and uploading it to Pirate Bay. But George Ou is right that once stuff gets on open platforms like the PC it will get cracked anyway, so the OS vendors were just humouring them. And they probably knew it. FOR THE LAST TIME, I want the DRM on my system so I can play my DVDs, HD DVDs,and Blu-ray like MOST people.
You don't want it, more power to you. I've given you the links to the
software you need get avoid enabling MFPMP at all. I've shown you the lower
CPU utilizations using cheaper hardware. I don't know what else you want. ...
You know, you are a f***ing moron. End of discussion. Well, he's certainly tactless and outright rude. But he's also right about the following -
* Hollywood forced OS vendors like Microsoft and Apple to add DRM to allow playback of HD content.
* Both did, because it would be hard to sell an OS which can't play next generation content.
But this doesn't really matter because
* DRM will be cracked anyway.
* It doesn't have any effect on the OS if you don't use HD content.
He's only get flamed because he's defending Vista which is the subject of the current geek 3 minute hate. Now I don't really like Vista compared to XP, you don't need to believe that it 'causes global warming' as he puts it to dislike it.
BluRay is a product. If you don't like, don't buy and don't use the content distributed over it. I know I won't. And if you don't want Vista as a bundled OS, buy a computer it doesn't come on (like a Dell) or build your own.
Anyhow, we're all basically machines anyway. We're programmed to survive and reproduce. You think you have free will, but free will extends to you convincing yourself that someone trying to kill you or your kids has a right to life and post about that theory on the internet. But if I attacked you or your kids, you'd defend yourself because evolution programmed you to. And if you didn't you fail as an organism.
tl;dr: Hippies need to read some Richard Dawkins.