Why are you scrolling. The entire point of storing configuration in a text file is that you can search (using your favorite text editor's find feature) for the exact option you need. With GUI's searching for a specific option isn't simple if you haven't written down the exact menu path that you went down last time.
And throughput is affected by latency. Which was the original poster's point. A huge round-trip time will affect the number of Megabits/sec that you can get through a pipe regardless of how big the pipe is.
Not necessarily. Given that these are pretty reliable links, you can set the transmission window relatively high without incurring very many penalties. That way, even if there is significant latency in the connection, you can maximize bandwidth.
No thanks. I would rather not move to a country that has 4 security cameras for every person. Heck you guys are even adding capabilities that allow the cameras to talk back. It just seems a bit Orwellian...
So why can't I have my phone unlocked after I've paid for it, including the subsidy?
I know that, with T-Mobile they will allow you to unlock your phone once the contract with that phone is done. My old cell phone is unlocked, as that contract expired and I chose to upgrade my phone upon renewal.
I'm not opposed to the V-Chip, per se. I am opposed to forcing it onto every consumer who buys a TV, as per current law.
If the V-Chip specs and HW/firmware/SW are open
This is coming from an administration that is more secretive than Nixon's. What are the odds that anything will be open?
<sarcasm> Don't you realize that if we have any kind of open standard, kids will be able to view porn, and terrorists will be able to spread propaganda? Why do you hate freedom?</sarcasm>
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You don't get it. Only lockpickers can steal physical property. Lockpicking is a fairly specialized skill that takes a long time to master. However, with digital property, only one person has to "pick the lock", and its the same as if everyone had the skill to pick the lock. Its that distinction that makes DRM untenable.
Its the difference between an idea and a realization. For example, take automatic harvesters - when John Deere patented his automatic harvester, others were still free to create other automatic harvesters that worked differently. In software, though, a patent covers an algorithm, rather than the particular implementation. Example: if I patent the MP3 algorithm, then no one can build a software MP3 encoder or decoder without paying me. That's exactly why Linux distros in the US don't come with MP3 codecs; the algorithm has been patented by the Fraunhofer institute and one is supposed to pay royalties for using that algorithm.
this is in similar realms of stupidity of trying to get onto a plane with a gun
What? Have you been completely brainwashed by the MPAA? Walking onto a plane with a gun is stupid because a gun is a weapon, and if it goes off, it places people's lives at risk. A camera does no such thing.
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Which is exactly why they feel they have to make it harder to copy.
That's exactly the point I'm trying to make — that making items more difficult to copy doesn't do anything because as long as a single person can crack it, its as if everyone has cracked it.
Also, it is impossible to make something absolutely uncrackable with DRM because, in the end the message recipient and the attacker are the same person.
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Bad analogy. You see, digital media can be copied for zero cost. Physical objects cannot. Therefore, as long as one person cracks the DRM, then essentially everyone has because that one person can the redistribute the DRM-free media for free. In fact, its even worse than that because not only can that one person distribute, but every person that the first person gives it to can also redistribute, and so on and so forth.
Did anyone else see a resemblance between the weapon pictured in the screenshot and a paintball gun? Are these guys afraid of Jack Thompson or something?
Atari didn't have 1/10th the installed base of computers today. Also, Atari didn't control 90%+ of the computers at the time. There were viable alternatives, such as Commodore.
I suspect Microsoft will fade with a whimper, rather than a bang, as web technologies and open standards slowly make one's choice of operating system transparent.
However, I would say that safe languages, in the end, have the effect of keeping you, the developer, away from the hardware. If you code in a safe language, you are denying yourself access to the CPU instructions, registers and memory of your hardware platform, which is a good thing if you're ignorant of such things, but in the end can keep you from writing the most optimal or fastest code on the platform.
Argh! I am so sick and tired of hearing this argument used to defend unsafe languages and programming practices. Face it: CPU instruction sets these days are not really optimized for you, the programmer. They're optimized for your compiler. Unless you're writing a compiler, you have very few reasons to be getting that close to the hardware.
One thing I hate is the mentality of "it just works". Which is great, if it does, but when it doesn't, well, you're shit out of luck because we didn't even bother putting any UI components in to help you diagnose what the problem is, because there's not supposed to be any problems!
I recently encountered this on my iPod Nano. The sensitivity of the touch-wheel is non-tuneable. Now, I know that the touch-wheel is made by Synaptics, who also makes the touchpad on my laptop. My laptop touchpad can adjust its sensitivity. Why can't I do the same for my iPod? Its really annoying, because I find the iPod touch wheel to be too sensitive, especially when I'm going running.
It's a great alternative that only computer literate people will every try, and that most businesses will ignore because it doesn't matter for them.
And then the alternative will gain marketshare to the point that even mainstream consumers are trying it out, which will cause businesses to notice.
Honestly, the analogy I'd think of is Imperial vs. Metric. The rest of the world isn't nearly as wedded to Microsoft as the US is. Therefore, we're likely to see uptake of ODF become significant elsewhere before it becomes significant in the USA.
If there's no extradition treaty for $RANDOM_CRIME, then, sure. And, as far as I know, corporations themselves cannot be extradited - only their actual executives can be targeted. So, in other words, Bill Gates doesn't get to go to Hungary any time soon.
Would a large company like MSFT be willing to absolutely refuse demands from a policing body, be it American, the E.U., or Hungary?
Well, I don't know about Microsoft, but Apple was willing to pull out France and the Netherlands completely rather than make iTunes compatible with other devices to comply with the law in those nations. So, as long as Hungary does not represent a significant portion of Microsoft profits, I think Microsoft would be all too willing to leave rather than comply.
As to the minimum size of the policing body, the jurisdiction of said body must be large enough such that leaving the market would make a non-trivial impact on Microsoft's bottom line.
In the end, the two questions come down to the same cost-benefit calculation: is it cheaper in the long run to leave or to comply?
Well, I got my idea of government from John Adams, who said that government should step in to save the little guy from the big moneyed interests. Teddy Roosevelt also had this idea.
Face it, without government, "free markets" would collapse into oligopolies, where the producers would collaborate to screw the consumers. The response, consumers banding together to exert power over the producers, smells an awful lot like government, don't you think?
Drug dealers have a pretty good idea that people will get hooked on their product.
And thanks to incompatible file formats, Microsoft is assured of this too. That was the reason Word included only import filters for WordPerfect - once you got in, you couldn't get out.
It might also help that the iPhone is large enough for you to get a firm grip on while operating. I've found that the Nano is actually too small for my hands and will slide around as I'm operating it. This is especially troubling when I exercise with it, as my hands become sweaty, exacerbating the effect.
I've also found that having moisture on your hands interferes with touchpad operation, but it doesn't seem to affect button presses nearly as much. Perhaps moisture interferes with the capacitative effect that touchpads rely on.
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Why are you scrolling. The entire point of storing configuration in a text file is that you can search (using your favorite text editor's find feature) for the exact option you need. With GUI's searching for a specific option isn't simple if you haven't written down the exact menu path that you went down last time.
And throughput is affected by latency. Which was the original poster's point. A huge round-trip time will affect the number of Megabits/sec that you can get through a pipe regardless of how big the pipe is.
Not necessarily. Given that these are pretty reliable links, you can set the transmission window relatively high without incurring very many penalties. That way, even if there is significant latency in the connection, you can maximize bandwidth.
No thanks. I would rather not move to a country that has 4 security cameras for every person. Heck you guys are even adding capabilities that allow the cameras to talk back. It just seems a bit Orwellian...
So why can't I have my phone unlocked after I've paid for it, including the subsidy?
I know that, with T-Mobile they will allow you to unlock your phone once the contract with that phone is done. My old cell phone is unlocked, as that contract expired and I chose to upgrade my phone upon renewal.
Remember, these are universities, so they get access to the Internet2 pipes.
I'm not opposed to the V-Chip, per se. I am opposed to forcing it onto every consumer who buys a TV, as per current law.
If the V-Chip specs and HW/firmware/SW are open
This is coming from an administration that is more secretive than Nixon's. What are the odds that anything will be open?
<sarcasm> Don't you realize that if we have any kind of open standard, kids will be able to view porn, and terrorists will be able to spread propaganda? Why do you hate freedom?</sarcasm>
You don't get it. Only lockpickers can steal physical property. Lockpicking is a fairly specialized skill that takes a long time to master. However, with digital property, only one person has to "pick the lock", and its the same as if everyone had the skill to pick the lock. Its that distinction that makes DRM untenable.
Its the difference between an idea and a realization. For example, take automatic harvesters - when John Deere patented his automatic harvester, others were still free to create other automatic harvesters that worked differently. In software, though, a patent covers an algorithm, rather than the particular implementation. Example: if I patent the MP3 algorithm, then no one can build a software MP3 encoder or decoder without paying me. That's exactly why Linux distros in the US don't come with MP3 codecs; the algorithm has been patented by the Fraunhofer institute and one is supposed to pay royalties for using that algorithm.
this is in similar realms of stupidity of trying to get onto a plane with a gun
What? Have you been completely brainwashed by the MPAA? Walking onto a plane with a gun is stupid because a gun is a weapon, and if it goes off, it places people's lives at risk. A camera does no such thing.
Which is exactly why they feel they have to make it harder to copy.
That's exactly the point I'm trying to make — that making items more difficult to copy doesn't do anything because as long as a single person can crack it, its as if everyone has cracked it.
Also, it is impossible to make something absolutely uncrackable with DRM because, in the end the message recipient and the attacker are the same person.
Bad analogy. You see, digital media can be copied for zero cost. Physical objects cannot. Therefore, as long as one person cracks the DRM, then essentially everyone has because that one person can the redistribute the DRM-free media for free. In fact, its even worse than that because not only can that one person distribute, but every person that the first person gives it to can also redistribute, and so on and so forth.
Oddly enough, I don't see any Linux vendors on that list. Does this mean that OSX is more Unixy than Linux?
Great, as if hentai tentacle rape wasn't detailed enough...
Did anyone else see a resemblance between the weapon pictured in the screenshot and a paintball gun? Are these guys afraid of Jack Thompson or something?
Atari didn't have 1/10th the installed base of computers today. Also, Atari didn't control 90%+ of the computers at the time. There were viable alternatives, such as Commodore.
I suspect Microsoft will fade with a whimper, rather than a bang, as web technologies and open standards slowly make one's choice of operating system transparent.
Original poster says "Windows is over," though. I somehow don't think that's going to happen anytime soon.
However, I would say that safe languages, in the end, have the effect of keeping you, the developer, away from the hardware. If you code in a safe language, you are denying yourself access to the CPU instructions, registers and memory of your hardware platform, which is a good thing if you're ignorant of such things, but in the end can keep you from writing the most optimal or fastest code on the platform.
Argh! I am so sick and tired of hearing this argument used to defend unsafe languages and programming practices. Face it: CPU instruction sets these days are not really optimized for you, the programmer. They're optimized for your compiler. Unless you're writing a compiler, you have very few reasons to be getting that close to the hardware.
One thing I hate is the mentality of "it just works". Which is great, if it does, but when it doesn't, well, you're shit out of luck because we didn't even bother putting any UI components in to help you diagnose what the problem is, because there's not supposed to be any problems!
I recently encountered this on my iPod Nano. The sensitivity of the touch-wheel is non-tuneable. Now, I know that the touch-wheel is made by Synaptics, who also makes the touchpad on my laptop. My laptop touchpad can adjust its sensitivity. Why can't I do the same for my iPod? Its really annoying, because I find the iPod touch wheel to be too sensitive, especially when I'm going running.
It's a great alternative that only computer literate people will every try, and that most businesses will ignore because it doesn't matter for them.
And then the alternative will gain marketshare to the point that even mainstream consumers are trying it out, which will cause businesses to notice.
Honestly, the analogy I'd think of is Imperial vs. Metric. The rest of the world isn't nearly as wedded to Microsoft as the US is. Therefore, we're likely to see uptake of ODF become significant elsewhere before it becomes significant in the USA.
The funny smell is probably ozone generated by the high-voltage element inside the printer. Its the same smell that surrounds CRT monitors.
AFAIK, the toner particles in question are too small to be smelled.
If there's no extradition treaty for $RANDOM_CRIME, then, sure. And, as far as I know, corporations themselves cannot be extradited - only their actual executives can be targeted. So, in other words, Bill Gates doesn't get to go to Hungary any time soon.
Would a large company like MSFT be willing to absolutely refuse demands from a policing body, be it American, the E.U., or Hungary?
Well, I don't know about Microsoft, but Apple was willing to pull out France and the Netherlands completely rather than make iTunes compatible with other devices to comply with the law in those nations. So, as long as Hungary does not represent a significant portion of Microsoft profits, I think Microsoft would be all too willing to leave rather than comply.
As to the minimum size of the policing body, the jurisdiction of said body must be large enough such that leaving the market would make a non-trivial impact on Microsoft's bottom line.
In the end, the two questions come down to the same cost-benefit calculation: is it cheaper in the long run to leave or to comply?
Well, I got my idea of government from John Adams, who said that government should step in to save the little guy from the big moneyed interests. Teddy Roosevelt also had this idea.
Face it, without government, "free markets" would collapse into oligopolies, where the producers would collaborate to screw the consumers. The response, consumers banding together to exert power over the producers, smells an awful lot like government, don't you think?
Drug dealers have a pretty good idea that people will get hooked on their product.
And thanks to incompatible file formats, Microsoft is assured of this too. That was the reason Word included only import filters for WordPerfect - once you got in, you couldn't get out.
It might also help that the iPhone is large enough for you to get a firm grip on while operating. I've found that the Nano is actually too small for my hands and will slide around as I'm operating it. This is especially troubling when I exercise with it, as my hands become sweaty, exacerbating the effect.
I've also found that having moisture on your hands interferes with touchpad operation, but it doesn't seem to affect button presses nearly as much. Perhaps moisture interferes with the capacitative effect that touchpads rely on.