students are one example, so are late teenagers who for whatever reason are still living at home bt don't wan't to interact with the family as much as they used to.
so picture the situation your living in one room and you'd rather not have to get all your entertainment alongside the others in your house/block/whatever. So you wan't your own private entertainment and the less kit you need to have (bearing in mind the room may be quite small as may be the budget) the better. Your TV is likely a small portable so quality isn't a huge issue anyway and a console pad will easilly reach the place where you sit to watch it.
In the situation the PS2 dvd feature is fine, similarlly if you've already been forced to make room for a PC in that situation (for work,study or because you simply feel you can't live without one) and you don't have a PS2 adding a DVD drive to the PC is highly attractive.
meanwhile those with living rooms where they don't normally use games consoles (except maybe when friends are round to play) are going to wan't a player to dedicate to the living room.
all widely successfull new av mediums have offered sigificant advantages other than quality over the format before. They have also had wide support from the media industry.
Vinal brought us long playing times or smaller size depending on the particular record. tape brought us home recording and a reduction in size, CD brought US automated seeking, a further reduction in size (at least if you don't keep them in jewel cases) and much greater logevity.
similarlly in home video since the original format wars, the only major success so far has been DVD which brought to video the automated seeking,longevity and small size that CD brought to audio.
to the stallman like fanatics it reffers to anything controlled in any way by,copyright, patents trade secrets etc.
to others it means something thats controled by one company or a small cabel and not licenseable under "reasonable and non discriminatory" terms.
take MPEG for example, its the closest thing to a standard the video industry has but its certainly patent encumbered. The same goes i'm sure for physical formats like CD and DVD.
or if that fails buy on ebay (i heartilly reccomend the nokia 8210 btw if you wan't a phone thats reasonablly simple small and light and your buying in the used market)
you forgot 5: gained sale, user who used pirate photoshop ends up getting a legitamate copy (either bought themselves or bought for thier use) either because they feel they should, they join a company with a strict no piracy policy or they themselves are afraid of getting audited.
Afaict the only reason MS is trying to clamp down on piracy is that they have no other growth mechanism left.
You left out Google Talk. I think including a chat program that uses an open standard, with no ads and a nice interface is a good addition. btw have google opened up interaction with other jabber servers or is it still a closed system.
infringement sounds rather "soft" compared to stealing.
Exactly and thats the point
most of the public have very little reason to care about copyright infringement. They do not directly own any copyrights of significant value and have little hope of doing so.
OTOH most of the public do have experiance about being a victim of theft, either first hand or from close friends. They think of stealing as a nasty crime that must be severely punished.
So the media conglomerates run a massive FUD campaign to try and convince people that copyright infringement=stealing=very bad. Those who belive copyright is a system of temporary monopolies to encorage creation thats been badly abused (retroactive extentions anyone) rather than a fundamental right rightly try to counter this FUD campaign.
#1. You're running different speeds on the same switch (why?). lets see:
you have an older but still functional and economical to run printer with a 10base2/T combo card in it and for which a replacement card would be either expensive or unobtainable.
you have 100mbit to most of the desktops because your wiring wasn't done well enough for gig-e to cope.
you have gigabit to your servers
you have a 10 gigabit backbone link.
also even if a switch is cutting through a lot of packets its still going to have to queue those that arrive while another packet is going out onto the backbone (assuming you have a hierachical network and most traffic is client-backbone). So i can't imagine the peak memory needs would be that much lower.
not if they wan't compatibility with existing jvms they won't.
If you can make a pointer system that gets past the bytecode verifier then there is nothing to stop you implementing it now. Free java compilers are not in short supply its the libs that are the issue.
Strangely, I have never been sensitive to the 30hz video refresh rate, and I have no idea why. video is interlaced so you get a field rate of 60hz even though the frame rate is 30hz (reduce theese to 50 and 25 if your in a pal country), i'd imagine field rate is more important than frame rate for this (since to some extent the two fields blur into each other).
As you've noticed a 60hz field rate on a TV with slow phosphers is not a problem, 60hz on a computer monitor intended for higher rates most certainly is.
With debian (and its derivitives) all of the xfree86 packages were built from one source package drawing off the X11 tarball and its monolythic build system.
so while as a sibling post said distros can (and do to some extent though perhaps not as much as they should) split stuff up after building. the single source package means that they all have to go in or none of them do to avoid a source/binary desync (something debian avoid due to problems for anyone who wan'ts to rebuild debian and potential licenseing issues with some packages). For debian that translates as 1: more work for autobuilders (especially significant for testing-proposed-updates, secure-testing and stable-security). 2: unnessacery new versions of packages for end users (last time a security bug happened in stables X it did to the security distribution server what/. does to unsuspecing websites). 3: longer waits to get enhancements into testing. 4: longer package build times for anyone who wants to fix anything
they certainly view it as an improvement as it allows them to package it but they aren't going to change the DFSG to let it into main or anything like that.
and the sarge installer doesn't even offer non-free in a standard install any more! So installing its still going to require manually editing sources.list
the trouble with fission is you have a big block of highly fissable (not as fissable as weapons grade stuff but still pretty nasty) fuel that can run away all too easilly.
with fusion you don't have that. If containment is lost then a tiny ammount of plasma hits the reactor vessel and thats pretty well then end of it.
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1: there are (or at least were) a number of memory stick variants. Theres the magicgate (drm supporting) variant needed for thier md walkman, another variant for the 2nd gen aibo (to stop you copying the accessory programs they sell) then theres pro and duo.
2: memory sticks have always been more expensive than other types of memory.
3: memory sticks are largely sony specific (you see multiformat readers that support them but not much else from other brands). It can make life a lot easier if all your kit uses the same format and if you choose memory stick as that format then you've basically locked yourself into sony.
bluej is a nice concept (the object bench rocks) but a buggy heap of crap, try terminating a hung program sometime (iirc after doing this you generally ended up restarting bluej before it would work again). and it only highlights one line as an error per compile and when you start typing that line gets erased unless you click first.
seems to me a lot like trying to teach your hardware guys circuit design without using VHDL, Xilinx, and the other automated tools that make this a heck of a lot easier. and guess what in the first year here at the university of manchester thats exactly what they do. An entire module on manual logic design.
Then in the second year they teach you the automated tools to do it for you along with more advanced design concepts..
And some processes are still often done manually, for example while altium situs will certainly route a board for you if you give it enough room to play with manual routing often allows more compact layouts and less vias (vias are BAD for reliability))
spell checkers aren't generally introduced until people are already at a very advanced stage of learning english. Hell we have classes in primary school that are PURELY about spelling.
As a native speaker writing essays means you've been learning written english for several years at least. Maybe english courses for foriegners are a bit more rushed but i bet they don't encourage spellcheckers early on either.
assuming we are talking about proffessional ides here (rather than syntax highlighting editors with compile buttons) then yes they do a huge ammount for you.
taking eclipse as an example:
all your import statements are done for you if you use ctrl+space (no need to actually build up a feel for what classes will be in what packages)
no need to learn the full names of anything or the casing conventions of the language.
pinpoint error reporting (red line under the bad code!) so you don't have to do any thinking about where your errors are.
powerfull debugging features so people don't have to think about where a bug is likely to be.
all theese are things that help people who don't know what they are doing cobble together code.
its a lot easier to throw together something that sort of works and therefore manages to scrape a minimal passing mark with the help of a powerfull IDE than without.
Its a bit like graphic calculators in maths. The student can find out a graphs shape by getting thier calculator to brute force it rather than by actually thinking about its properties.
A syntax highlighting newbie useable (e.g. notepad like interface) editor with buttons to invoke the compiler (avoiding the need to screw with the command line directly) seems like a bloody good idea.
Full IDEs with powerfull debuggers and pinpoint resoloution error reporting are imo something that should be saved for later.
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students are one example, so are late teenagers who for whatever reason are still living at home bt don't wan't to interact with the family as much as they used to.
so picture the situation your living in one room and you'd rather not have to get all your entertainment alongside the others in your house/block/whatever. So you wan't your own private entertainment and the less kit you need to have (bearing in mind the room may be quite small as may be the budget) the better. Your TV is likely a small portable so quality isn't a huge issue anyway and a console pad will easilly reach the place where you sit to watch it.
In the situation the PS2 dvd feature is fine, similarlly if you've already been forced to make room for a PC in that situation (for work,study or because you simply feel you can't live without one) and you don't have a PS2 adding a DVD drive to the PC is highly attractive.
meanwhile those with living rooms where they don't normally use games consoles (except maybe when friends are round to play) are going to wan't a player to dedicate to the living room.
all widely successfull new av mediums have offered sigificant advantages other than quality over the format before. They have also had wide support from the media industry.
Vinal brought us long playing times or smaller size depending on the particular record. tape brought us home recording and a reduction in size, CD brought US automated seeking, a further reduction in size (at least if you don't keep them in jewel cases) and much greater logevity.
similarlly in home video since the original format wars, the only major success so far has been DVD which brought to video the automated seeking,longevity and small size that CD brought to audio.
to different people
,copyright, patents trade secrets etc.
to the stallman like fanatics it reffers to anything controlled in any way by
to others it means something thats controled by one company or a small cabel and not licenseable under "reasonable and non discriminatory" terms.
take MPEG for example, its the closest thing to a standard the video industry has but its certainly patent encumbered. The same goes i'm sure for physical formats like CD and DVD.
voice bitrate for GSM is iirc 14.4kbps (traditional GSM data has extra error checking giving 9.6kbps)
the codecs are probablly getting quite long in the tooth now though (for comparison standard landline is 64kbps, uncompressed 16khz 8 bit).
or you just keep your old one...........
or if that fails buy on ebay (i heartilly reccomend the nokia 8210 btw if you wan't a phone thats reasonablly simple small and light and your buying in the used market)
you forgot
5: gained sale, user who used pirate photoshop ends up getting a legitamate copy (either bought themselves or bought for thier use) either because they feel they should, they join a company with a strict no piracy policy or they themselves are afraid of getting audited.
Afaict the only reason MS is trying to clamp down on piracy is that they have no other growth mechanism left.
You left out Google Talk. I think including a chat program that uses an open standard, with no ads and a nice interface is a good addition.
btw have google opened up interaction with other jabber servers or is it still a closed system.
infringement sounds rather "soft" compared to stealing.
Exactly and thats the point
most of the public have very little reason to care about copyright infringement. They do not directly own any copyrights of significant value and have little hope of doing so.
OTOH most of the public do have experiance about being a victim of theft, either first hand or from close friends. They think of stealing as a nasty crime that must be severely punished.
So the media conglomerates run a massive FUD campaign to try and convince people that copyright infringement=stealing=very bad. Those who belive copyright is a system of temporary monopolies to encorage creation thats been badly abused (retroactive extentions anyone) rather than a fundamental right rightly try to counter this FUD campaign.
Copyright's a convenient place for it to reside, but not the basis of its workings.
copyright is the only thing that gives the GPL any power whatsoever.
with copyright you have to agree to the GPL or you can't legally redistribute the work.
without copyright you could just redistribute the code in any form you liked without ever having to agree to the GPL.
short of getting everyone who obtained a copy to verifiablly agree to a contract without copyright you would be totally unprotected.
#1. You're running different speeds on the same switch (why?).
lets see:
you have an older but still functional and economical to run printer with a 10base2/T combo card in it and for which a replacement card would be either expensive or unobtainable.
you have 100mbit to most of the desktops because your wiring wasn't done well enough for gig-e to cope.
you have gigabit to your servers
you have a 10 gigabit backbone link.
also even if a switch is cutting through a lot of packets its still going to have to queue those that arrive while another packet is going out onto the backbone (assuming you have a hierachical network and most traffic is client-backbone). So i can't imagine the peak memory needs would be that much lower.
not if they wan't compatibility with existing jvms they won't.
If you can make a pointer system that gets past the bytecode verifier then there is nothing to stop you implementing it now. Free java compilers are not in short supply its the libs that are the issue.
Strangely, I have never been sensitive to the 30hz video refresh rate, and I have no idea why.
video is interlaced so you get a field rate of 60hz even though the frame rate is 30hz (reduce theese to 50 and 25 if your in a pal country), i'd imagine field rate is more important than frame rate for this (since to some extent the two fields blur into each other).
As you've noticed a 60hz field rate on a TV with slow phosphers is not a problem, 60hz on a computer monitor intended for higher rates most certainly is.
it makes it easier for distros to get fixes in.
/. does to unsuspecing websites).
With debian (and its derivitives) all of the xfree86 packages were built from one source package drawing off the X11 tarball and its monolythic build system.
so while as a sibling post said distros can (and do to some extent though perhaps not as much as they should) split stuff up after building. the single source package means that they all have to go in or none of them do to avoid a source/binary desync (something debian avoid due to problems for anyone who wan'ts to rebuild debian and potential licenseing issues with some packages). For debian that translates as
1: more work for autobuilders (especially significant for testing-proposed-updates, secure-testing and stable-security).
2: unnessacery new versions of packages for end users (last time a security bug happened in stables X it did to the security distribution server what
3: longer waits to get enhancements into testing.
4: longer package build times for anyone who wants to fix anything
does the gamecube vga lead use the "digital" port?
you could build a computer on a new kind of CPU and OS and compile up a version of the JVM without having to ask Sun's permission.
but as soon as you wan't to distribute that computer outside your organisation you do need suns permission.
this new license is for binary redistribution (including repackageing) of official sun builds only!
they certainly view it as an improvement as it allows them to package it but they aren't going to change the DFSG to let it into main or anything like that.
and the sarge installer doesn't even offer non-free in a standard install any more! So installing its still going to require manually editing sources.list
the trouble with fission is you have a big block of highly fissable (not as fissable as weapons grade stuff but still pretty nasty) fuel that can run away all too easilly.
with fusion you don't have that. If containment is lost then a tiny ammount of plasma hits the reactor vessel and thats pretty well then end of it.
1: there are (or at least were) a number of memory stick variants. Theres the magicgate (drm supporting) variant needed for thier md walkman, another variant for the 2nd gen aibo (to stop you copying the accessory programs they sell) then theres pro and duo.
2: memory sticks have always been more expensive than other types of memory.
3: memory sticks are largely sony specific (you see multiformat readers that support them but not much else from other brands). It can make life a lot easier if all your kit uses the same format and if you choose memory stick as that format then you've basically locked yourself into sony.
bluej is a nice concept (the object bench rocks) but a buggy heap of crap, try terminating a hung program sometime (iirc after doing this you generally ended up restarting bluej before it would work again). and it only highlights one line as an error per compile and when you start typing that line gets erased unless you click first.
seems to me a lot like trying to teach your hardware guys circuit design without using VHDL, Xilinx, and the other automated tools that make this a heck of a lot easier.
and guess what in the first year here at the university of manchester thats exactly what they do. An entire module on manual logic design.
Then in the second year they teach you the automated tools to do it for you along with more advanced design concepts..
And some processes are still often done manually, for example while altium situs will certainly route a board for you if you give it enough room to play with manual routing often allows more compact layouts and less vias (vias are BAD for reliability))
Would you rather have the students memorize all the method calls BufferedReader has?
no just the one that they'd actually be likely to use
Or how to spell their reallyLongMethodName?
do you have any examples of a 4 word method name that a newbie is likely to have to use?
spell checkers aren't generally introduced until people are already at a very advanced stage of learning english. Hell we have classes in primary school that are PURELY about spelling.
As a native speaker writing essays means you've been learning written english for several years at least. Maybe english courses for foriegners are a bit more rushed but i bet they don't encourage spellcheckers early on either.
assuming we are talking about proffessional ides here (rather than syntax highlighting editors with compile buttons) then yes they do a huge ammount for you.
taking eclipse as an example:
all your import statements are done for you if you use ctrl+space (no need to actually build up a feel for what classes will be in what packages)
no need to learn the full names of anything or the casing conventions of the language.
pinpoint error reporting (red line under the bad code!) so you don't have to do any thinking about where your errors are.
powerfull debugging features so people don't have to think about where a bug is likely to be.
all theese are things that help people who don't know what they are doing cobble together code.
its a lot easier to throw together something that sort of works and therefore manages to scrape a minimal passing mark with the help of a powerfull IDE than without.
Its a bit like graphic calculators in maths. The student can find out a graphs shape by getting thier calculator to brute force it rather than by actually thinking about its properties.
A syntax highlighting newbie useable (e.g. notepad like interface) editor with buttons to invoke the compiler (avoiding the need to screw with the command line directly) seems like a bloody good idea.
Full IDEs with powerfull debuggers and pinpoint resoloution error reporting are imo something that should be saved for later.