It's not going to be as bad as you think. The Free Market is an amazing thing. Gasoline prices are on the rise, and eventually, OilPeek or not, we are going to see $3/gal again. At $3/gal the economics of fuel start to change.
A car that gets 28 mpg on $3/gal gas costs 10.7 cents per mile, or $1286 per year in fuel (assuming 12k miles).
An electric car that gets 6 m/KWh on $0.10/KWh costs 1.7 cents per mile, or $200 per year in fuel costs. The $1086 saved per year would be $3,000-$5,000 over the life of the batteries (currently averaging 3-5 years). Battery pack prices vary (elcheapo's can be built for ~$1000, high end li packs can go for $10,000 but have much longer life spans) So the money saved would go right back into the car.
And they break even. At $3/gal (Currently $2.45 here) and $0.10/KWh (Currently 8.5 cents here). The electric system will likely have lower maintainence costs as well, but it's harder to measure that at this point with the limited market segment and history.
Katrina was a good thing in that respect, it created a huge boom in alt energy companies and funding in the US.
That post was good for a laugh, then I realized it was +4 informative, not +4 funny.
Gif has been an extremely important graphic standard for a long time; Small animations (used for more then just those annoying adds), transparency, and custom color palets. Yeah, I wish it would be fully replaced, but PNGs have always had support issues, and other options have never really made an impact.
Agreed. I see this as upper management knowing their stock is greatly over valued. They've done a spectacular job of moving the stocks while demand was huge. If they off loaded those quantities of stocks now, the price would plumet, the stock value would correct itself (and then some), and the CES would be investigating to make sure that the sell off of billions of dollars of stock was not initiated by insider knowledge.
Maybe we can solicit opinions from people who actually have some knowledge on the subject. I mean, they might as well just have asked my garbage man, or a egronomist, or a CEO. Sure, the guy is a doctor, but his degree ain't in law.
"It's difficult to see how This Film Is Not Yet Rated--which ended up with an NC-17 rating for graphic sexual content--is being harmed."
Call me sceptical, but if I were a ratings association and wanted a film exposing my practices burried, I would slap an NC-17 label on it and make sure it was tucked far away from public sight. But now that this article has surfaced, I want to see it, to see if it really does have graphic secual content, or if the MPAA was just trying to hush a movie.
Imagine giving your children a cell phone with a web server that hosts a web service that will respond with the GPS info. I could goto MyKid.ringdev.com and see exactly where they are. Obviously you would need some serious security. You wouldn't want just anyone to get that GPS info. But it would be great for finding a lost/stolen phone too.
"But we are talking about Microsoft Vista, not Rick's Vision."
Which is why I said I agree with you;)
"If the media companies actually trusted their customers, none of this stuff would be happening."
If the media companies actually trusted their customers we would see more casual pirating (ie: Illegal music downloads). Not to the growth rate from a few years ago as there are more legal options, but consumers have already shown how trust worthy they are.
"Your vision of 'soft DRM' or whatever, while it might be nice, isn't DRM. It's something else. Make up a new name for it because DRM is taken"
Works for me. Hominus Dominus, I name the 'Soft DRM'.
-Rick
"Doubtful is not the right phrase. "Not a chance in hell" is more like it. DRM only works if you eliminate access to the raw audio. Apply your own codec to a DRM'd audio file? Ah ha ha ha ha! That's rich. Not if Microsoft has any say about it."
I agree with your answer but disagree with your view of DRMs. DRMs don't need to be totalitarian tools to enforce the law. See my journal for my extended vision.
-Rick
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I would hazard a guess that what you daughter is actually showing an interest in is spending time with you. She would probrably be just as interested in working on your car, pulling cable, wood working, etc... if you were doing it with her. And besides, Quality time > chess skillz.
"It's not just that. There is all sorts of common and cool things which require access to the raw audio. Wanted to try out that cool new audio visualization plugin? Sorry. A cross-fade plugin? Nope, can't do it. Normalize the volume? That's a no-no now. Because the only way for restricted audio to work is if you make sure that no third-party code ever gets access to the raw audio. They are now basically restricted to writing glorified remotes."
That's what I want to know. The DRIVER has to be signed, but how will that effect applications? Can I write an application that calls an API that tells the driver what to do? That way my application doesn't need to be signed. The problem is if I create an app that tells the driver to spit out music from a DRM'd audio file as a bit stream. Can my app take that stream, apply a new codec and write to disk? doubtful. That's where the question comes in, how is the developer's interaction with the Driver going to be affected?
I'm a pretty strong MS backer. All things considered they have done some amazing things and brought products to the people. But I must agree with you, by putting this limitation into applications it will likely drive a lot of the younger crowd, especially developers, to linux (the future of Ubuntu looks bright).
I would have to see how it plays out at the application level to know more. Can I use the Windows API and play a CD's audio tracks from a home brew.Net app? Or do I need to create a corporate entity to get a license for my own undistributed application?
If the application level is unaffected by this, then its not that bad. And it will likely be good for security. But if they are enforcing restrictions to the application layer, this could really stiffle non-professional windows development.
AMD is a chip manufacturer. em64t is a memory system. x86 is a chipset architexture. Perhaps Vista is designed to run on multiple 64b architextures (itaniam, sparc, ppc AND x86). In which case, the "x" in x64 represents the underlying architexture.
It matters on a lot of things. Take South Africa for example. Early European settlers were shocked by the treeless terrain so they spread pine, oak, and other water hungry plants around the country side. Those trees drink a lot more water then the native plants and have cause rivers to dry up to nothing more then trickles. With less water flowing down stream other plant life suffers and the landscape is drying out.
There are now government programs that are going through cutting back these huge trees. The effects have been amazing. Not only have the rivers started flowing more water, but the native plant life is bouncing back and some of South Africa's unemployed are getting jobs and training.
There seems to be a bit of a missunderstanding. I am NOT preaching security via desirability. I am suggesting that that was what the person in the summary was talking about. And while I think that lowering your appeal to criminals is a good idea, your connect speed is NOT going to have an effect.
Also, yes, homeless people get robbed. It was a poor example on my part. But for anyone who has parked their car in a bad neighborhood, you may have done things like putting your radar detector and sterio face under your seat. Placing your (easily hocked) valuables out of sight is an easy way to reduce your risk of getting robbed. It reduces your desirability.
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It's not going to be as bad as you think. The Free Market is an amazing thing. Gasoline prices are on the rise, and eventually, OilPeek or not, we are going to see $3/gal again. At $3/gal the economics of fuel start to change.
A car that gets 28 mpg on $3/gal gas costs 10.7 cents per mile, or $1286 per year in fuel (assuming 12k miles).
An electric car that gets 6 m/KWh on $0.10/KWh costs 1.7 cents per mile, or $200 per year in fuel costs. The $1086 saved per year would be $3,000-$5,000 over the life of the batteries (currently averaging 3-5 years). Battery pack prices vary (elcheapo's can be built for ~$1000, high end li packs can go for $10,000 but have much longer life spans) So the money saved would go right back into the car.
And they break even. At $3/gal (Currently $2.45 here) and $0.10/KWh (Currently 8.5 cents here). The electric system will likely have lower maintainence costs as well, but it's harder to measure that at this point with the limited market segment and history.
Katrina was a good thing in that respect, it created a huge boom in alt energy companies and funding in the US.
-Rick
That post was good for a laugh, then I realized it was +4 informative, not +4 funny.
Gif has been an extremely important graphic standard for a long time; Small animations (used for more then just those annoying adds), transparency, and custom color palets. Yeah, I wish it would be fully replaced, but PNGs have always had support issues, and other options have never really made an impact.
-Rick
LOL, whoops. Slight type-o. That should be the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission)
-Rick
Agreed. I see this as upper management knowing their stock is greatly over valued. They've done a spectacular job of moving the stocks while demand was huge. If they off loaded those quantities of stocks now, the price would plumet, the stock value would correct itself (and then some), and the CES would be investigating to make sure that the sell off of billions of dollars of stock was not initiated by insider knowledge.
-Rick
"Steve Brinn, a Cincinnati pediatrician"
Maybe we can solicit opinions from people who actually have some knowledge on the subject. I mean, they might as well just have asked my garbage man, or a egronomist, or a CEO. Sure, the guy is a doctor, but his degree ain't in law.
-Rick
Someone needs to +Funny that post. Freaking awesome!
-Rick
"It's difficult to see how This Film Is Not Yet Rated--which ended up with an NC-17 rating for graphic sexual content--is being harmed."
Call me sceptical, but if I were a ratings association and wanted a film exposing my practices burried, I would slap an NC-17 label on it and make sure it was tucked far away from public sight. But now that this article has surfaced, I want to see it, to see if it really does have graphic secual content, or if the MPAA was just trying to hush a movie.
-Rick
GPS info isn't "tracked". The GPS antena on the phone picks up signals from the GPS satelites and determines it's location.
-Rick
Imagine giving your children a cell phone with a web server that hosts a web service that will respond with the GPS info. I could goto MyKid.ringdev.com and see exactly where they are. Obviously you would need some serious security. You wouldn't want just anyone to get that GPS info. But it would be great for finding a lost/stolen phone too.
-Rick
My IP is nothing special (5), but the IP as a bitmap looks like someone flipping the bird.
-Rick
Agreed, the summary headline is waaaaaaay off.
In other news the Department of Transportation is cutting up to 30,000 jobs. Companies affected include Ford.
-Rick
I'm not sure, I have two possible responses.
1) Here's your star, now go stand in the corner.
or
2) Say that to an 80 year old Jewish person and check their response.
It lends you much more credit to say "I disagree with you because..." than "I'm going to kill your cat and burn your mf'ing house down!"
-Rick
"But would you take having a "Circle R" shop have some "magic artifacts"?"
;)
Maybe at the portal keep
-Rick
"But we are talking about Microsoft Vista, not Rick's Vision." Which is why I said I agree with you ;)
"If the media companies actually trusted their customers, none of this stuff would be happening."
If the media companies actually trusted their customers we would see more casual pirating (ie: Illegal music downloads). Not to the growth rate from a few years ago as there are more legal options, but consumers have already shown how trust worthy they are.
"Your vision of 'soft DRM' or whatever, while it might be nice, isn't DRM. It's something else. Make up a new name for it because DRM is taken"
Works for me. Hominus Dominus, I name the 'Soft DRM'.
-Rick
The latest Need for Speed games have all had advertising in game. I always thought it was neet to pull into a Best Buy and spin a couple of 360s.
But if I'm tromping through Midgard and see a Radio Shack add, I'm going to be annoyed.
-Rick
Well then don't read posts with titles about parenting. Duh.
-Rick
"Doubtful is not the right phrase. "Not a chance in hell" is more like it. DRM only works if you eliminate access to the raw audio. Apply your own codec to a DRM'd audio file? Ah ha ha ha ha! That's rich. Not if Microsoft has any say about it."
I agree with your answer but disagree with your view of DRMs. DRMs don't need to be totalitarian tools to enforce the law. See my journal for my extended vision.
-Rick
I would hazard a guess that what you daughter is actually showing an interest in is spending time with you. She would probrably be just as interested in working on your car, pulling cable, wood working, etc... if you were doing it with her. And besides, Quality time > chess skillz.
-Rick
"It's not just that. There is all sorts of common and cool things which require access to the raw audio. Wanted to try out that cool new audio visualization plugin? Sorry. A cross-fade plugin? Nope, can't do it. Normalize the volume? That's a no-no now. Because the only way for restricted audio to work is if you make sure that no third-party code ever gets access to the raw audio. They are now basically restricted to writing glorified remotes."
That's what I want to know. The DRIVER has to be signed, but how will that effect applications? Can I write an application that calls an API that tells the driver what to do? That way my application doesn't need to be signed. The problem is if I create an app that tells the driver to spit out music from a DRM'd audio file as a bit stream. Can my app take that stream, apply a new codec and write to disk? doubtful. That's where the question comes in, how is the developer's interaction with the Driver going to be affected?
-Rick
Wow, I'd rate you +1 insightful just for cramming all that FUD into one post. Well done!
-Rick
As per TFA:
...
"Included in this white paper:
How to Disable Signature Enforcement during Development"
We'll have to see what the WDK offers when it becomes available.
-Rick
I'm a pretty strong MS backer. All things considered they have done some amazing things and brought products to the people. But I must agree with you, by putting this limitation into applications it will likely drive a lot of the younger crowd, especially developers, to linux (the future of Ubuntu looks bright).
.Net app? Or do I need to create a corporate entity to get a license for my own undistributed application?
I would have to see how it plays out at the application level to know more. Can I use the Windows API and play a CD's audio tracks from a home brew
If the application level is unaffected by this, then its not that bad. And it will likely be good for security. But if they are enforcing restrictions to the application layer, this could really stiffle non-professional windows development.
-Rick
AMD is a chip manufacturer. em64t is a memory system. x86 is a chipset architexture. Perhaps Vista is designed to run on multiple 64b architextures (itaniam, sparc, ppc AND x86). In which case, the "x" in x64 represents the underlying architexture.
-Rick
It matters on a lot of things. Take South Africa for example. Early European settlers were shocked by the treeless terrain so they spread pine, oak, and other water hungry plants around the country side. Those trees drink a lot more water then the native plants and have cause rivers to dry up to nothing more then trickles. With less water flowing down stream other plant life suffers and the landscape is drying out.
There are now government programs that are going through cutting back these huge trees. The effects have been amazing. Not only have the rivers started flowing more water, but the native plant life is bouncing back and some of South Africa's unemployed are getting jobs and training.
-Rick
There seems to be a bit of a missunderstanding. I am NOT preaching security via desirability. I am suggesting that that was what the person in the summary was talking about. And while I think that lowering your appeal to criminals is a good idea, your connect speed is NOT going to have an effect.
Also, yes, homeless people get robbed. It was a poor example on my part. But for anyone who has parked their car in a bad neighborhood, you may have done things like putting your radar detector and sterio face under your seat. Placing your (easily hocked) valuables out of sight is an easy way to reduce your risk of getting robbed. It reduces your desirability.
-Rick