For good reason. VoIP has much higher data overhead than regular phone service. AT&T and Apple have said that there are worries about network stability if all the iPhone users suddenly start using VoIP for all their calls. Specifically in areas where the 3G service is still not great.
Like it or not there are any number of application types that could completely thrash the phone network if they got popular. I think it is fair enough for AT&T to limit things that could cause service outages. You will not that they have no problem with you using VoIP, just as long as you do it in a way that won't fuck with their network.
The French government is afraid of its people, and thus responsive, because every couple years the French have a great big riot, just to prove they still can. Hell, the current system is called the French Fifth Republic. Why the fifth? Because they replaced the other 4. The last time they kicked their entire government out of office and replaced the system was only 50 years ago.
Anyone rushing to provide ActiveX support? How exactly does someone rush to provide a fully compliant alternate version of a closed source system? If it was that easy to seamlessly duplicate ActiveX there would be ActiveX plugins for Firefox and Opera and this whole conversation would never have come about.
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Always depends on what you are measuring. Just sticking with Sourceforge you would get reasonable numbers for tracking the shift of old projects between GPL2 and GPL3, as well as the percentage of new projects using each. If you are trying to track all OSS licences you would need a bigger sample size.
That is only true if you assume the two players are making the same level of mistakes. If both players are regularly hitting the same shots witht he same amount of error, yes everything will even out. But let's say player A can consistently serve and hit the ball to within 2 cm of the out line, but player B often misjudges and goes 1 cm over. In this case, having player A's shots consistently called 'out' or player B's shots consistently called 'in' would be consistent, but it would also make a major change in the outcome of the match. And not the type of change that gets statistically evened out over games played.
To be fair, if I was browsing around for an open wireless network to use, my last choice would be the one named 'virus'. After all, since when is tempting fate the smart option.
Multitouch? This is the big thing that will sell the next windows? This is not a OS feature. This is a driver for a specific class of hardware. People with Wacom Cintiq tablets have been doing the exact same thing for years now.
Not to mention that there is no support for this. After all, how many people/corporations buying commodity windows hardware are going to pay the premium to get all their screens with high quality touch?
Also, pie menu is interesting, but problematic. Does it float over the other windows or sit under? Can it be moved around? Will we have to alt-tab to get to the Start menu? How nice will it play with multiple screen setups and other non standard desktop layouts?
For what it's worth, I can sympathize with his lack of interest for anything he has to compile himself. I'd consider myself quite computer literate. I can and have compiled programs in the past and likely will again in the future. Still, when I am trying to figure out what software to go with, anything I have to compile (or run in any other non-direct/standard fashion) is always going to be at the bottom of the list. This goes double for smaller software projects. If I run into any problems installing or running, the last thing I want to have to trouble-shoot is if I screwed something up compiling it or if the package wasn't quite complete or if a dependency is missing or god knows what.
In my experience and with rare exceptions, anything that needs to be compiled by the end user or anyone directly working for the end user is either not ready for prime time or so specialized and niche that it is almost unavoidable.
Well, the one thing Apple consistently does well is taking the little things that everyone else is doing, bringing them all together and making it work. It's rare that they are the first ones with an idea. It's common that they are the first ones to make an idea workable. Now, they may or may not do it, but if in a few years they are repeating the iPor/iPhone success in a household setting and all the critics are saying 'they are not doing anything new, why does this version seem to click for everyone' I wouldn't be too surprised.
Well, some of the new Nvidia and ATI cards will offload almost the entire H.264 and VC-1 decoding. Max out the RAM and I think this thing has a shot at doing smooth 1080p. Won't know for sure until someone does some serious benchmarks.
I apologize for the transposition. It should have been HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection). It's the protected path DRM that BluRay needs to output properly. I blame the entire IT industry for running out of distinctive acronyms.
Hmmmm. Assuming I could get your hands on a PCI graphics card with a modern chipset to offload the video decoding to, any bets on whether one of these would make a nice little media box? As long as the heavy lifting was done off chip I think it could handle 1080p. Heck, assuming said video card was DHCP compliant I could bundle one of these with a BluRay drive, already have all my media on a network drive. Be a nice little all-in-one media center front end box. Low power so should be whisper quiet.
Now, anyone know where I could get my hands on a modern graphics card with a PCI interface? Or what the obvious flaw in my thought process is?
But what does preserving the history mean? In a case like this, the history is extremely well documented. Not only that, but the value of the site itself lies solely in the fact that it IS well documented. The building and grounds are not inherently historically valuable.
When you talk about preserving a site like this it's not the same way you would talk about preserving an area of Greek or Roman ruins. It's not like they are going to excavate it at a later date and discover unknown relics.
Without the knowledge of what has happened there, the site is meaningless. And if you have the documentation the site becomes more about the emotional and symbolic attachment than historical value.
And eventually it gets down to the fact that if we faithfully preserved every place that anything interesting had ever happened at it wouldn't be long before our entire society would be static.
And if your platform of choice doesn't hold much future/value for Nvidia, you will continue to not really interest them.
The only people who run Linux without access to a Windows/OSX box tend to be the ones who are only willing to run/support Open Source/Free software. This is also the group least likely to buy commercial games, even if they were released for Linux.
No games -> No market share for high end graphics cards with big margin -> The graphics cards companies don't care
Sometimes the line between telling a joke and being a twat gets crossed. This is one of those times. It wasn't funny. It wasn't funny when the meme first appeared. The poster might have thought it was funny. He is now being told otherwise. Perhaps with work and practice and further negative feedback someday he may actually be funny. That day is not now.
The argument is only valid if you view 'the government' as a single faceless monolithic entity. I'll guarantee that 90% of edits coming from various government IP addresses are interns on their coffee breaks.
For what it's worth, OSX has the same thing in what is roughly the equivalent place. I don't think it is unreasonable to assume that most users are going to have some content on their computer. Or that they are going to want to keep that content organized. And it's a fairly standard place to put said folders. If you want them somewhere else, feel free.
I hate to break it to you, but that $200,000 doesn't even buy you one episode of most decent ongoing series, let alone a pilot episode.
Audience financing is going to happen, but realistically it is more likely to center around producers, much like every other form of entertainment has for the last century. One or two producers get together and put up the 1-2 million needed to green light a 6 episode miniseries. Those shows get sold over iTunes or some other service as they come out. DVD sets with bonus material/commentary follow right after that.
If those episodes pay for themselves then series 2 gets the go. If not, they move on to other projects.
Let's figure that for that 6 episode 'season' they can get an average of $10 per viewer. For a two million dollar production that's 200,000 viewers needed to break even. Why do it this way? Because it's far easier to get 200,000+ people to pony up their $10 for something already made than it is to get that many people to effectively preorder something that does not exist in any way shape or form.
I suspect that in the coming years we are going to see a move towards short 2-4 month seasons that stand alone. More like the current Japanese and British model than the traditional American studio/network system.
Just so you know, all those NBC and ABC clips you like don't play for people outside of the United States. I'm not sure about the Comedy Central ones. Sometimes they work for me (in Canada) and sometimes not, so I'm not sure if they have sketchy ID technology or a sketchy server streaming the clips.
Same reason as the BBC; they licence by region.
Really, it's a losing battle. Everyone I know who enjoys BBC shows grabs them from torrents as they come out then picks up the DVD sets when they get released. Most of us don't even bother watching the North American broadcast if it even gets one. Not only do they tend to be six months to a year behind but they are also edited. The BBC doesn't have advertisements like our TV does so when they get broadcast over here they have to be cut for time to make more room for the commercials. Also the occasional content or swear word.
For anyone who likes Doctor Who it is particularly bad. They had to cut an entire B plot from last season along with many, many character scenes. It's great on the forums. Every once in a while you get a new poster who can't figure out what the hell everyone else is talking about and it usually comes out that they have only seen the American cut.
Just wait until something breaks. Something minor like a fan. And taking to the nearest Mac approved retailer, handing to the actual tech who will fix it and picking it up the next day. No phone calls to automated systems. No shipping.
Happened to my MacBook. Was completely my turning point from 'this is kind of nice' to 'from my cold, dead hands'.
Well yes. But I'd love to be a fly on the wall when the IT guy tells the boss that from now on purchasing decisions for the office will be based on their philosophical merits. After all, working WiFi is a practical concern and what place does that have when weighed against your computing soul?
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For good reason. VoIP has much higher data overhead than regular phone service. AT&T and Apple have said that there are worries about network stability if all the iPhone users suddenly start using VoIP for all their calls. Specifically in areas where the 3G service is still not great.
Like it or not there are any number of application types that could completely thrash the phone network if they got popular. I think it is fair enough for AT&T to limit things that could cause service outages. You will not that they have no problem with you using VoIP, just as long as you do it in a way that won't fuck with their network.
The French government is afraid of its people, and thus responsive, because every couple years the French have a great big riot, just to prove they still can. Hell, the current system is called the French Fifth Republic. Why the fifth? Because they replaced the other 4. The last time they kicked their entire government out of office and replaced the system was only 50 years ago.
Anyone rushing to provide ActiveX support? How exactly does someone rush to provide a fully compliant alternate version of a closed source system? If it was that easy to seamlessly duplicate ActiveX there would be ActiveX plugins for Firefox and Opera and this whole conversation would never have come about.
Always depends on what you are measuring. Just sticking with Sourceforge you would get reasonable numbers for tracking the shift of old projects between GPL2 and GPL3, as well as the percentage of new projects using each. If you are trying to track all OSS licences you would need a bigger sample size.
That is only true if you assume the two players are making the same level of mistakes. If both players are regularly hitting the same shots witht he same amount of error, yes everything will even out. But let's say player A can consistently serve and hit the ball to within 2 cm of the out line, but player B often misjudges and goes 1 cm over. In this case, having player A's shots consistently called 'out' or player B's shots consistently called 'in' would be consistent, but it would also make a major change in the outcome of the match. And not the type of change that gets statistically evened out over games played.
To be fair, if I was browsing around for an open wireless network to use, my last choice would be the one named 'virus'. After all, since when is tempting fate the smart option.
Multitouch? This is the big thing that will sell the next windows? This is not a OS feature. This is a driver for a specific class of hardware. People with Wacom Cintiq tablets have been doing the exact same thing for years now.
Not to mention that there is no support for this. After all, how many people/corporations buying commodity windows hardware are going to pay the premium to get all their screens with high quality touch?
Also, pie menu is interesting, but problematic. Does it float over the other windows or sit under? Can it be moved around? Will we have to alt-tab to get to the Start menu? How nice will it play with multiple screen setups and other non standard desktop layouts?
For what it's worth, I can sympathize with his lack of interest for anything he has to compile himself. I'd consider myself quite computer literate. I can and have compiled programs in the past and likely will again in the future. Still, when I am trying to figure out what software to go with, anything I have to compile (or run in any other non-direct/standard fashion) is always going to be at the bottom of the list. This goes double for smaller software projects. If I run into any problems installing or running, the last thing I want to have to trouble-shoot is if I screwed something up compiling it or if the package wasn't quite complete or if a dependency is missing or god knows what.
In my experience and with rare exceptions, anything that needs to be compiled by the end user or anyone directly working for the end user is either not ready for prime time or so specialized and niche that it is almost unavoidable.
Well, the one thing Apple consistently does well is taking the little things that everyone else is doing, bringing them all together and making it work. It's rare that they are the first ones with an idea. It's common that they are the first ones to make an idea workable. Now, they may or may not do it, but if in a few years they are repeating the iPor/iPhone success in a household setting and all the critics are saying 'they are not doing anything new, why does this version seem to click for everyone' I wouldn't be too surprised.
Well, some of the new Nvidia and ATI cards will offload almost the entire H.264 and VC-1 decoding. Max out the RAM and I think this thing has a shot at doing smooth 1080p. Won't know for sure until someone does some serious benchmarks.
I apologize for the transposition. It should have been HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection). It's the protected path DRM that BluRay needs to output properly. I blame the entire IT industry for running out of distinctive acronyms.
Hmmmm. Assuming I could get your hands on a PCI graphics card with a modern chipset to offload the video decoding to, any bets on whether one of these would make a nice little media box? As long as the heavy lifting was done off chip I think it could handle 1080p. Heck, assuming said video card was DHCP compliant I could bundle one of these with a BluRay drive, already have all my media on a network drive. Be a nice little all-in-one media center front end box. Low power so should be whisper quiet.
Now, anyone know where I could get my hands on a modern graphics card with a PCI interface? Or what the obvious flaw in my thought process is?
But what does preserving the history mean? In a case like this, the history is extremely well documented. Not only that, but the value of the site itself lies solely in the fact that it IS well documented. The building and grounds are not inherently historically valuable.
When you talk about preserving a site like this it's not the same way you would talk about preserving an area of Greek or Roman ruins. It's not like they are going to excavate it at a later date and discover unknown relics.
Without the knowledge of what has happened there, the site is meaningless. And if you have the documentation the site becomes more about the emotional and symbolic attachment than historical value.
And eventually it gets down to the fact that if we faithfully preserved every place that anything interesting had ever happened at it wouldn't be long before our entire society would be static.
You must forgive them. After all, with Fox as the main 'news' station their perspectives on all media have to be somewhat skewed.
And if your platform of choice doesn't hold much future/value for Nvidia, you will continue to not really interest them.
The only people who run Linux without access to a Windows/OSX box tend to be the ones who are only willing to run/support Open Source/Free software. This is also the group least likely to buy commercial games, even if they were released for Linux.
No games -> No market share for high end graphics cards with big margin -> The graphics cards companies don't care
Aero takes more graphics support than some games. Even some new games if you look at some smaller niche titles.
Sometimes the line between telling a joke and being a twat gets crossed. This is one of those times. It wasn't funny. It wasn't funny when the meme first appeared. The poster might have thought it was funny. He is now being told otherwise. Perhaps with work and practice and further negative feedback someday he may actually be funny. That day is not now.
The argument is only valid if you view 'the government' as a single faceless monolithic entity. I'll guarantee that 90% of edits coming from various government IP addresses are interns on their coffee breaks.
You mean handed off to a respected colleague to be finished in an appropriate and respectful manner?
For what it's worth, OSX has the same thing in what is roughly the equivalent place. I don't think it is unreasonable to assume that most users are going to have some content on their computer. Or that they are going to want to keep that content organized. And it's a fairly standard place to put said folders. If you want them somewhere else, feel free.
I hate to break it to you, but that $200,000 doesn't even buy you one episode of most decent ongoing series, let alone a pilot episode.
Audience financing is going to happen, but realistically it is more likely to center around producers, much like every other form of entertainment has for the last century. One or two producers get together and put up the 1-2 million needed to green light a 6 episode miniseries. Those shows get sold over iTunes or some other service as they come out. DVD sets with bonus material/commentary follow right after that.
If those episodes pay for themselves then series 2 gets the go. If not, they move on to other projects.
Let's figure that for that 6 episode 'season' they can get an average of $10 per viewer. For a two million dollar production that's 200,000 viewers needed to break even. Why do it this way? Because it's far easier to get 200,000+ people to pony up their $10 for something already made than it is to get that many people to effectively preorder something that does not exist in any way shape or form.
I suspect that in the coming years we are going to see a move towards short 2-4 month seasons that stand alone. More like the current Japanese and British model than the traditional American studio/network system.
Just so you know, all those NBC and ABC clips you like don't play for people outside of the United States. I'm not sure about the Comedy Central ones. Sometimes they work for me (in Canada) and sometimes not, so I'm not sure if they have sketchy ID technology or a sketchy server streaming the clips.
Same reason as the BBC; they licence by region.
Really, it's a losing battle. Everyone I know who enjoys BBC shows grabs them from torrents as they come out then picks up the DVD sets when they get released. Most of us don't even bother watching the North American broadcast if it even gets one. Not only do they tend to be six months to a year behind but they are also edited. The BBC doesn't have advertisements like our TV does so when they get broadcast over here they have to be cut for time to make more room for the commercials. Also the occasional content or swear word.
For anyone who likes Doctor Who it is particularly bad. They had to cut an entire B plot from last season along with many, many character scenes. It's great on the forums. Every once in a while you get a new poster who can't figure out what the hell everyone else is talking about and it usually comes out that they have only seen the American cut.
Just wait until something breaks. Something minor like a fan. And taking to the nearest Mac approved retailer, handing to the actual tech who will fix it and picking it up the next day. No phone calls to automated systems. No shipping.
Happened to my MacBook. Was completely my turning point from 'this is kind of nice' to 'from my cold, dead hands'.
Well yes. But I'd love to be a fly on the wall when the IT guy tells the boss that from now on purchasing decisions for the office will be based on their philosophical merits. After all, working WiFi is a practical concern and what place does that have when weighed against your computing soul?