When your systems are *already* running OSS then Microsoft can't discount themselves into them, because they would have to give away all their software and licences for free just to match what you're already paying. This is why MS's western-world strategy can not work in BRIC economies.
In the west MS's software is already in business and government systems and the costs and training requirements (or FUD-driven perceived costs, at least) to migrate _away_ from MS _to_ OSS is what MS has traditionally relied on to retain and - through interoperability lockin - expand their customer base.
MS here has the reverse problem, rather than trying to keep existing customers locked in to the MS ecosystem they have to embrace the concept of OSS interoperability just to get a foot in the market. Extend can not work here though, because the critical mass will ignore MS extensions that do not interoperate with _their_ existing systems.
This is the tipping point. This is MS's nightmare scenario.
This is the compromise I predicted and am in favour of.
This essentially means that Cable companies can sell you 1Mb "internet" and 10Mb "our cable channels and partner sites" BUT they have to advertise it in that format and they can not fuck with that 1Mb. Eventually, one day, in the future, on-the-ground competition between providers will mean that that 1Mb gets bigger, and remains unwithfuckable, eventually.
WTF? According to the fine article instead of playing the very decent Chocolate Doom he played a flash version, without sound. The sound - alongside playing in a room where your monitor is the only light source - is one of the most important parts of the experience. I still remember cowering in a dark corner of E1M2 for what seemed like an age, terrified by the imps i could hear around me, but not see.
Imagine his job was being a pizza delivery guy, and the pizza company owned the delivery car. And then after being fired he refused to hand over the car keys to the duty manager because he was too dumb or incompetent to be able to deliver the pizza in less than 30 minutes without crashing the car and embarrassing the company.
Sure he was trying to protect the integrity of the holy 30 minute rule, but it was no longer his job, or his problem, he should have handed over the keys.
Yes I'm sure it'll be slow, routing will take an eon as you bounce across a thousand cells just to get to your destination, but every server that talks to you must do so by encrypting their payload with your public key and because it's massively distributed there will be no Middle for the MITM attack to work.
As someone who works out the max price they're willing to pay, subtracts shipping and sticks that number into the Place Bid box I've noticed that the likelihood of my max being outbid decreases the closer I place it to the end time. What I tend to do because I'm never usually in a hurry, is bid up to the same maximum on a series of the exact same product over several weeks until I finally win one!
Sealed bids would make this problem go away, but overinflated prices due to people getting carried away are in ebaypal's interest as they take a percentage chunk, so it's never going to happen unfortunately.
First it was invite-only for an age and when it finally did open up to the public the first thing I did was try to search for topics, groups and people to join in with. Which was impossible. The only thing you could do, after much searching was type "with:public" into the top box, which just gave you a list of all the public discussions about every topic on the planet ever with no obvious way to filter it.
If I couldnt figure it out, and I'm a physics graduate who works on the internet, then sure as shit could nobody else
Combine the flip problem with the fact that in wipeout you are floating in some kind of hover craft the obvious solution to any hardcore PS1 fan would be to emulate Rollcage instead. when the car flips you could easily swap the steering by using a ball bearing and a tube with contacts in, or somesuch.
Still can't figure out what your gripe is (disclaimer, i have a honeypot facebook account that contains nothing but my name, dob and what to search for on google to find me). If you can use facebook chat with XMPP then it's XMPP. it's an interface standard. Next you'll be griping that Samba doesnt impliment SMB properly because they dont force you to use NTFS underneath it.
Which is great until you are listening to some music output by the PC/laptop/satellite-radio/xbmc and want to turn the TV off.
I have 5 things going into a nice, old school chunky buttoned SCART switch box, including the audio from my pc, and that box has stereo RCA out alongside a SCART out. RCA to amp, SCART to TV. Dead simple.
The TV itself is pretty much used as a monitor as the only broadcast television I watch (which is rare) comes from the sat box, so i dont need to worry about being able to play audio from *inside* the TV
regarding the charge/discharge there's nothing preventing the battery having a chip that marshalls the process and reports 0-100% charge when the true internal state is 10-85%, it can even cut off power to whatever its plugged into when it reaches the "external" 0% mark. Essentially each battery would have the charging circuit and all this built in, rather than rely on every one else to not stuff it up.
I said this before and I'll say it again. KDE did the right thing with KDE 4.0.
Yes the history of software programming has developed into this bizzaro political sport where unles your point-zero release of something is perfect then you have failed but the KDE bods decided not to play that game. It was 4.x because it was different tech to 3.x, and instead of pulling a Microsoft and pretending that their new shiney version was perfect, then needing 3 service packs to get it right (I'm not intentionally MS bashing here, it was just an example I pulled out of my ass) they said, "OK everyone, this is the first release of our new OS Tech, but it's not totally finished yet, so carry on using 3.x for a while if you're worried about that".
What happened is that a LOT of individuals and distros went with 4.0 because of the oh-new-shiney factor instead of actually reading the label on the tin. And then promptly turned around and made a lot of complaining sounds EVEN THOUGH THEY'D BEEN WARNED
calling that release KDE 4.0 was not a mistake. Compared to actual human language sentences describing the software at hand and the state it is in random numbers with/out the word alpha or beta tacked on the end are meaninigless, no matter how much you believe in software politics. Some of us don't.
ok, so caps subject was unwarranted but I get it now. In the movie Cobb has woken up and is visiting his real family. The reason we don't get to see the spinning top fall is because it's not reality: It's a movie, it's taking place in Nolan's head.
There wasn't hardly anything in the way of special effects in "Inception" too. There's a bit of Paris bending over and a few (occasionally crumbley) cityscapes and that's it, nearly all the rest is pure hard graft. Though it was only my second viewing (last night) that I realized this.
This is not your usual unit shifting mega star summer blockbuster. This is a damned good film made by a bloody good director who's worked hard within the system enough to be able to negotiate enough cash and freedom to make whatever movie he pleases. THIS is what we want more of. Not Piranha 3D
If you forget the ending and look at the rest of the movie as a whole it makes sense the backstory and emotional journey is tied up, the mission is complete and that Saito honoured the agreement with both he and Cobb jointly remembering the conversation they had in the warehouse. The whole plot of the film is nicely tied up and resolved. Though interestingly Saito only said Cobb would have no trouble getting through customs, not that he'd make all the charges go away, but besides, there seems to be a cultural phenomenon where if a film has a happy ending it's somehow a Bad Thing, what's that about?
Anyway, in the immediate prior scene the top is shown on Saito's Limbo Table spinning indefinitely, very smoothly and without a sound. On the table at the end it's making a fair bit of noise and is distinctly about to fall. The cut before it does is just Mr Nolan messing with us.
On the other hand, remember that the whole film is essentially a dream, as in it's a movie, a work of fiction designed by an architect and into which we were drawn...
You are correct, the ruling states however that unlocking a phone whilst under contract is an issue of contract law, and that anti-copyright-theft law can not be used to prevent it, so on a *technical* level, it's legal to unlock your phone
The general thread running through the ruling, re: DVD encryption cracking / jailbreaking smartphones / firmware tinkering etc. is the word "noncommercial"
So whilst (commercial sale of) console mod chips themselves might be an issue, softmodding or soldering your own console (or heck, even your DRM'd print cartridges) to "jailbreak" it for private noncommercial use is something that naturally should be deemed OK going forwards. It's possible to extract this further to see that one day private noncommercial copies of copyrighted works (e.g. DVDs ripped to your HTPC setup) will be solidly (and not wishey washily as it is now) enshrined in law.
Though I'm sure it'll take some more kicking and screaming through the courts to get there the broad point at least now has a very solid precedent.
Saw it for the second time last night and when Old-Saito spins the top it is shown spinning perfectly still in place, at the end it's noisy and wobbly, having spun for quite a while and so is about to topple.
Also, the group dream on the plane was nearing an end and the train incident showed that dying in limbo would wake you up, not send you to deeper limbo, so when Old-Saito picks up the gun it's to shoot Cobb and then himself.
That's my interpretation, YMMV, on both viewings I was perfectly satisfied that he was awake and that the cut to black was just Nolan fucking with us.
Replying to myself, here is my dead simple Primer explanation:
For clarity we refer to Aaron as Ron. Each timeline starts slightly later on monday morning than the one before it though it's not made clear when the failsafe is activated, it could well be sunday daytime, giving plenty of time for the user to prepare to intercept their other selves in the night.
1. Abe spends day in hotel room. Use time machine to travel back to morning. Abe shows Ron the time machine, bad stuff happens at party. Ron goes back to start
2. Ron drugs Attic-Ron. Records days conversations, Abe shows Ron the time machine, bad stuff still happens at party, Ron goes back to start again
3. Ron fights Loser-Ron and gets him to leave. [This is where the film first joins the sequence of events] Abe shows Ron the time machine. Ron is reenacting day's conversations using tapes. Ron is hero at party. Abe and Ron trade stock market for a couple of days. Future Grainger shows up. Abe goes waaaay back to start
4. Abe gasses Closet-Abe. Abe meets Ron in the park and collapses. Both of them reenact the day using the tapes. Abe tags along to party where Ron becomes hero.
- Ron moves to France.
- Abe hangs around to sabotage things.
- Closet-Abe wakes up.
- Attic-Ron wakes up.
- Loser-Ron phones Attic-Ron and leaves a long answerphone message having followed the main two around and recorded their conversations (inc Abe telling Ron about the timeline[3] Grainger incident in timeline[4]).
Future-Grainger's arrival in [3] is the trigger that makes Abe decide to use the machine and as soon as the device is used the timeline ends, so the future that he came from ceased to exist. It is likely that in that erased timeline Ron showed the device to Grainger with the intent on selling the tech to him, as per a conversation Abe and Ron have in the library.
I don't think the timeline is complicated. It only appears complicated because the film is using a false protagonist. We are watching events unfold from the point of view of Abe, but if you simply rearrange events into the sequence observed by 'Ron (and throw in the cul-de-sac-timeline that that 'Ron misses but Abe tells him about) then it's a lot easier on the brain.
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When your systems are *already* running OSS then Microsoft can't discount themselves into them, because they would have to give away all their software and licences for free just to match what you're already paying. This is why MS's western-world strategy can not work in BRIC economies.
In the west MS's software is already in business and government systems and the costs and training requirements (or FUD-driven perceived costs, at least) to migrate _away_ from MS _to_ OSS is what MS has traditionally relied on to retain and - through interoperability lockin - expand their customer base.
MS here has the reverse problem, rather than trying to keep existing customers locked in to the MS ecosystem they have to embrace the concept of OSS interoperability just to get a foot in the market. Extend can not work here though, because the critical mass will ignore MS extensions that do not interoperate with _their_ existing systems.
This is the tipping point. This is MS's nightmare scenario.
CNN is bigger globally than Fox News,.I live in europe and was watching live coverage of Gulf War 1 on CNN via analogue satellite way back when
This is the compromise I predicted and am in favour of.
This essentially means that Cable companies can sell you 1Mb "internet" and 10Mb "our cable channels and partner sites" BUT they have to advertise it in that format and they can not fuck with that 1Mb. Eventually, one day, in the future, on-the-ground competition between providers will mean that that 1Mb gets bigger, and remains unwithfuckable, eventually.
WTF? According to the fine article instead of playing the very decent Chocolate Doom he played a flash version, without sound. The sound - alongside playing in a room where your monitor is the only light source - is one of the most important parts of the experience. I still remember cowering in a dark corner of E1M2 for what seemed like an age, terrified by the imps i could hear around me, but not see.
Imagine his job was being a pizza delivery guy, and the pizza company owned the delivery car. And then after being fired he refused to hand over the car keys to the duty manager because he was too dumb or incompetent to be able to deliver the pizza in less than 30 minutes without crashing the car and embarrassing the company.
Sure he was trying to protect the integrity of the holy 30 minute rule, but it was no longer his job, or his problem, he should have handed over the keys.
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More words:
Yes I'm sure it'll be slow, routing will take an eon as you bounce across a thousand cells just to get to your destination, but every server that talks to you must do so by encrypting their payload with your public key and because it's massively distributed there will be no Middle for the MITM attack to work.
As someone who works out the max price they're willing to pay, subtracts shipping and sticks that number into the Place Bid box I've noticed that the likelihood of my max being outbid decreases the closer I place it to the end time. What I tend to do because I'm never usually in a hurry, is bid up to the same maximum on a series of the exact same product over several weeks until I finally win one!
Sealed bids would make this problem go away, but overinflated prices due to people getting carried away are in ebaypal's interest as they take a percentage chunk, so it's never going to happen unfortunately.
First it was invite-only for an age and when it finally did open up to the public the first thing I did was try to search for topics, groups and people to join in with. Which was impossible. The only thing you could do, after much searching was type "with:public" into the top box, which just gave you a list of all the public discussions about every topic on the planet ever with no obvious way to filter it.
If I couldnt figure it out, and I'm a physics graduate who works on the internet, then sure as shit could nobody else
Combine the flip problem with the fact that in wipeout you are floating in some kind of hover craft the obvious solution to any hardcore PS1 fan would be to emulate Rollcage instead. when the car flips you could easily swap the steering by using a ball bearing and a tube with contacts in, or somesuch.
I'm fairly certain that within each 24 hour rotation there's an approximately 8 hour long block where you are not using your iPad
Still can't figure out what your gripe is (disclaimer, i have a honeypot facebook account that contains nothing but my name, dob and what to search for on google to find me). If you can use facebook chat with XMPP then it's XMPP. it's an interface standard. Next you'll be griping that Samba doesnt impliment SMB properly because they dont force you to use NTFS underneath it.
Which is great until you are listening to some music output by the PC/laptop/satellite-radio/xbmc and want to turn the TV off.
I have 5 things going into a nice, old school chunky buttoned SCART switch box, including the audio from my pc, and that box has stereo RCA out alongside a SCART out. RCA to amp, SCART to TV. Dead simple.
The TV itself is pretty much used as a monitor as the only broadcast television I watch (which is rare) comes from the sat box, so i dont need to worry about being able to play audio from *inside* the TV
regarding the charge/discharge there's nothing preventing the battery having a chip that marshalls the process and reports 0-100% charge when the true internal state is 10-85%, it can even cut off power to whatever its plugged into when it reaches the "external" 0% mark. Essentially each battery would have the charging circuit and all this built in, rather than rely on every one else to not stuff it up.
I said this before and I'll say it again. KDE did the right thing with KDE 4.0.
Yes the history of software programming has developed into this bizzaro political sport where unles your point-zero release of something is perfect then you have failed but the KDE bods decided not to play that game. It was 4.x because it was different tech to 3.x, and instead of pulling a Microsoft and pretending that their new shiney version was perfect, then needing 3 service packs to get it right (I'm not intentionally MS bashing here, it was just an example I pulled out of my ass) they said, "OK everyone, this is the first release of our new OS Tech, but it's not totally finished yet, so carry on using 3.x for a while if you're worried about that".
What happened is that a LOT of individuals and distros went with 4.0 because of the oh-new-shiney factor instead of actually reading the label on the tin. And then promptly turned around and made a lot of complaining sounds EVEN THOUGH THEY'D BEEN WARNED
calling that release KDE 4.0 was not a mistake. Compared to actual human language sentences describing the software at hand and the state it is in random numbers with/out the word alpha or beta tacked on the end are meaninigless, no matter how much you believe in software politics. Some of us don't.
ok, so caps subject was unwarranted but I get it now. In the movie Cobb has woken up and is visiting his real family. The reason we don't get to see the spinning top fall is because it's not reality: It's a movie, it's taking place in Nolan's head.
It's fucking Meta
There wasn't hardly anything in the way of special effects in "Inception" too. There's a bit of Paris bending over and a few (occasionally crumbley) cityscapes and that's it, nearly all the rest is pure hard graft. Though it was only my second viewing (last night) that I realized this.
This is not your usual unit shifting mega star summer blockbuster. This is a damned good film made by a bloody good director who's worked hard within the system enough to be able to negotiate enough cash and freedom to make whatever movie he pleases. THIS is what we want more of. Not Piranha 3D
The credits lists two sets of kids or does nobody else stick around to read them except me? Thought so...
If you forget the ending and look at the rest of the movie as a whole it makes sense the backstory and emotional journey is tied up, the mission is complete and that Saito honoured the agreement with both he and Cobb jointly remembering the conversation they had in the warehouse. The whole plot of the film is nicely tied up and resolved. Though interestingly Saito only said Cobb would have no trouble getting through customs, not that he'd make all the charges go away, but besides, there seems to be a cultural phenomenon where if a film has a happy ending it's somehow a Bad Thing, what's that about?
Anyway, in the immediate prior scene the top is shown on Saito's Limbo Table spinning indefinitely, very smoothly and without a sound. On the table at the end it's making a fair bit of noise and is distinctly about to fall. The cut before it does is just Mr Nolan messing with us.
On the other hand, remember that the whole film is essentially a dream, as in it's a movie, a work of fiction designed by an architect and into which we were drawn...
You are correct, the ruling states however that unlocking a phone whilst under contract is an issue of contract law, and that anti-copyright-theft law can not be used to prevent it, so on a *technical* level, it's legal to unlock your phone
The general thread running through the ruling, re: DVD encryption cracking / jailbreaking smartphones / firmware tinkering etc. is the word "noncommercial"
So whilst (commercial sale of) console mod chips themselves might be an issue, softmodding or soldering your own console (or heck, even your DRM'd print cartridges) to "jailbreak" it for private noncommercial use is something that naturally should be deemed OK going forwards. It's possible to extract this further to see that one day private noncommercial copies of copyrighted works (e.g. DVDs ripped to your HTPC setup) will be solidly (and not wishey washily as it is now) enshrined in law.
Though I'm sure it'll take some more kicking and screaming through the courts to get there the broad point at least now has a very solid precedent.
Saw it for the second time last night and when Old-Saito spins the top it is shown spinning perfectly still in place, at the end it's noisy and wobbly, having spun for quite a while and so is about to topple.
Also, the group dream on the plane was nearing an end and the train incident showed that dying in limbo would wake you up, not send you to deeper limbo, so when Old-Saito picks up the gun it's to shoot Cobb and then himself.
That's my interpretation, YMMV, on both viewings I was perfectly satisfied that he was awake and that the cut to black was just Nolan fucking with us.
Replying to myself, here is my dead simple Primer explanation:
For clarity we refer to Aaron as Ron. Each timeline starts slightly later on monday morning than the one before it though it's not made clear when the failsafe is activated, it could well be sunday daytime, giving plenty of time for the user to prepare to intercept their other selves in the night.
1. Abe spends day in hotel room. Use time machine to travel back to morning. Abe shows Ron the time machine, bad stuff happens at party. Ron goes back to start
2. Ron drugs Attic-Ron. Records days conversations, Abe shows Ron the time machine, bad stuff still happens at party, Ron goes back to start again
3. Ron fights Loser-Ron and gets him to leave. [This is where the film first joins the sequence of events] Abe shows Ron the time machine. Ron is reenacting day's conversations using tapes. Ron is hero at party. Abe and Ron trade stock market for a couple of days. Future Grainger shows up. Abe goes waaaay back to start
4. Abe gasses Closet-Abe. Abe meets Ron in the park and collapses. Both of them reenact the day using the tapes. Abe tags along to party where Ron becomes hero.
- Ron moves to France.
- Abe hangs around to sabotage things.
- Closet-Abe wakes up.
- Attic-Ron wakes up.
- Loser-Ron phones Attic-Ron and leaves a long answerphone message having followed the main two around and recorded their conversations (inc Abe telling Ron about the timeline[3] Grainger incident in timeline[4]).
Future-Grainger's arrival in [3] is the trigger that makes Abe decide to use the machine and as soon as the device is used the timeline ends, so the future that he came from ceased to exist. It is likely that in that erased timeline Ron showed the device to Grainger with the intent on selling the tech to him, as per a conversation Abe and Ron have in the library.
I don't think the timeline is complicated. It only appears complicated because the film is using a false protagonist. We are watching events unfold from the point of view of Abe, but if you simply rearrange events into the sequence observed by 'Ron (and throw in the cul-de-sac-timeline that that 'Ron misses but Abe tells him about) then it's a lot easier on the brain.