"The costs of one such act of piracy can be astronomical."
He is perfectly right that a single upload (I don't agree with the "piracy" and "astronomical" parts) is sufficient to start the illegal distribution.
And this means that all this DRM stuff won't stop the illegal file sharing, but they will only hurt the fair use rights of honest citizens.
Everyone please remember that IE/Mac is a very different browser than IE/Win, and back in 1999/2000 it was one of the most standards-compliant browsers around.
The virtual machine that will run Perl 6 is Parrot, an innovative register-based JITed VM optimized for dynamic languages.
It can also run a subset of Python (compiled with Pirate), Ruby, Tcl, brainf*ck, Ook!, Common LISP, BASIC, Lua, m4 and a few others, all of which are more or less incomplete.
XML is not the answer. It is not even the question. To paraphrase Jamie Zawinski on regular expressions, "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use XML." Now they have two problems." -- Phillip J. Eby
Granted, he was talking about Python, not PHP... but still...
A lot of people have the programs md5sum and sha1sum installed, but they often don't have equivalent programs for the SHA-2 family. To calculate those you can use the command:
Concentrating on just Windows alone we can see that Microsoft have done a very thorough job of converting their user base to the most recent iteration of the software. Windows XP accounts for just under 70.5% of the Windows requests, and Windows 2000 a further 17.4%. That means in total around 88% of users of Microsoft Operating System products are using the two most recent consumer releases.
Windows 98 features in 7% of requests made from a computer running a version of Windows, and after that the figures are very small in terms of market share. In fact the next largest figures is a clump of 'Windows other' including Windows CE, and various unspecific Windows NT user-agents that I couldn't pin down to a precise version.
Operating System Share of Windows Requests to the BBC Homepage
Windows XP - - - 70.5%
Windows 2000 - - 17.4%
Windows 98 - - - 6.99%
Windows (Various versions including CE, 3.1 and ambiguous UAs) - 2.23%
Windows NT - - - 1.90%
Windows NT5.2 -- 0.63%
Windows 95 - - - 0.21%
Windows Vista -- 0.16%
Chart illustrating the version share of visits to the BBC homepage using Windows software
Mac Operating System Share
I was frustrated in my attempts to similarly breakdown the different versions of the Mac OS that people were using to request the BBC homepage. I established that from the requests we saw I could identify Panther as supplying 31%, Tiger supplying 21%, with Jaguar lagging behind at 3%. However there were 41% of requests where I could identify that the computer was a Mac, but not the specific version. That is because Safari helpfully supplies in the user agent string the WebKit build, allowing the precise version of the OS to be identified, but most other browsers do not.
Linux Requests To The BBC Homepage
The number of Linux requests to the BBC homepage was very small, representing only 0.41% - less than 100,000 - of the 32 million requests included in this study. With such a comparatively low number I didn't take the time to delve into which different distributions were driving the requests.
The figures may, however, mask a slightly higher use of Linux. Since the user agents generated are more likely to be unique, they are more likely to have fallen into the statistical long tail. However I should add that my random samples of the tail did not show that it consisted entirely of Linux, in fact as I mentioned earlier, a lot of corporate-branded Windows networks show up in the tail.
Legacy OS Systems
We have some fairly strict standards for supporting legacy technology at the BBC on the client-side - but the long tail of older OS software visiting the BBC homepage is amazing. We still saw over 300 requests for the BBC homepage coming from machines claiming to be running Windows 3.1, and around 200 requests from machines claiming to be persevering with 0S/2 Warp.
I have downloaded 1.0.0 through 1.0.7, does that count as seven downloads?
If you have used the Firefox update system it counts as one download (the first one), if you have manually downloaded and installed it each time, that count as eight (not seven, obviously) downloads.
That doesn't mean that the Dark Matter doesn't exist. Also the neutrino smelled like ether when it was first postulated: something that was only used to "fix" the angular momentum in some equations. (I mean: "come on! A particle without charge, with almost no mass and almost no interactions with the rest of the universe?!")
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He is perfectly right that a single upload (I don't agree with the "piracy" and "astronomical" parts) is sufficient to start the illegal distribution.
And this means that all this DRM stuff won't stop the illegal file sharing, but they will only hurt the fair use rights of honest citizens.
Obviously the **AAs know this very well.
It seems a bit strange to me that an "all metal aircraft" can have sufficient heat insulation for an orbital re-entry... someone can clarify this?
Everyone please remember that IE/Mac is a very different browser than IE/Win, and back in 1999/2000 it was one of the most standards-compliant browsers around.
According to The Web Standards Project it helped to start the "CSS layout revolution".
The Beagle 2 lander was part of the very successful European Space Agency (ESA) Mars Express mission.
Mars Express contains 7 different scientific instruments and, amongs other things, it has already:
The virtual machine that will run Perl 6 is Parrot, an innovative register-based JITed VM optimized for dynamic languages.
It can also run a subset of Python (compiled with Pirate), Ruby, Tcl, brainf*ck, Ook!, Common LISP, BASIC, Lua, m4 and a few others, all of which are more or less incomplete.
More details on the Parrot site and the Wikipedia page on the Parrot VM.
If you like that sort of things, you can help!
If you can, please, mod the article "-1, Troll".
Thanks.
Don't forget isoHunt.
FYI the urls are:
You can find almost everything on those sites, including very fast legal torrents of Linux distros.
Please mod the parent up, thanks.
Granted, he was talking about Python, not PHP... but still...
A lot of people have the programs md5sum and sha1sum installed, but they often don't have equivalent programs for the SHA-2 family. To calculate those you can use the command:
or you can download a dedicated program: http://www.ouah.org/~ogay/sha2/.
No. You can link LGPLed software with proprietary software, but you must still distribute the sources of at least the free software (free as in RMS).
I was wondering when we will have our daily Sony DRM story!
Electron microscopic image of the lichen after the flight.
No, it wasn't: it was an unmanned spacecraft.
More info from ESA.
Maybe this will change if you explain to people that a manned mission will cost more and have a lower chance to succeed.
Manned missions make sense for (preparing to) colonization, but if you need a simple job done a robot is the Right Tool.
If anyone is wondering what the hell is he talking about: John Titor.
Funny joke, BTW.
I usually walk in the shop and ask: "what's the cheapest AMD processor that you have?"
This works just fine for me.
The googlebot UA string currently is (remove the space in "ht tp"):
or:
Yahoo:
MSN:
The table, reformatted:
* Before this date, Firefox & other Mozilla were lumped together.
Windows Operating System Share
Concentrating on just Windows alone we can see that Microsoft have done a very thorough job of converting their user base to the most recent iteration of the software. Windows XP accounts for just under 70.5% of the Windows requests, and Windows 2000 a further 17.4%. That means in total around 88% of users of Microsoft Operating System products are using the two most recent consumer releases.
Windows 98 features in 7% of requests made from a computer running a version of Windows, and after that the figures are very small in terms of market share. In fact the next largest figures is a clump of 'Windows other' including Windows CE, and various unspecific Windows NT user-agents that I couldn't pin down to a precise version.
Mac Operating System Share
I was frustrated in my attempts to similarly breakdown the different versions of the Mac OS that people were using to request the BBC homepage. I established that from the requests we saw I could identify Panther as supplying 31%, Tiger supplying 21%, with Jaguar lagging behind at 3%. However there were 41% of requests where I could identify that the computer was a Mac, but not the specific version. That is because Safari helpfully supplies in the user agent string the WebKit build, allowing the precise version of the OS to be identified, but most other browsers do not.
Linux Requests To The BBC Homepage
The number of Linux requests to the BBC homepage was very small, representing only 0.41% - less than 100,000 - of the 32 million requests included in this study. With such a comparatively low number I didn't take the time to delve into which different distributions were driving the requests.
The figures may, however, mask a slightly higher use of Linux. Since the user agents generated are more likely to be unique, they are more likely to have fallen into the statistical long tail. However I should add that my random samples of the tail did not show that it consisted entirely of Linux, in fact as I mentioned earlier, a lot of corporate-branded Windows networks show up in the tail.
Legacy OS Systems
We have some fairly strict standards for supporting legacy technology at the BBC on the client-side - but the long tail of older OS software visiting the BBC homepage is amazing. We still saw over 300 requests for the BBC homepage coming from machines claiming to be running Windows 3.1, and around 200 requests from machines claiming to be persevering with 0S/2 Warp.
Yes, they are.
Old versions of Opera that identify themselves as IE by default use a user agent string like this:
So the "Opera" string is here and easily identifiable.
New versions should simply use the proper Opera UA string by default.
If you use Opera I suggest to check that it sends the "correct" Opera UA string: the sky will (mostly) not fall down.
If you have used the Firefox update system it counts as one download (the first one), if you have manually downloaded and installed it each time, that count as eight (not seven, obviously) downloads.
Mozilla Corp. press release about the 100 million downloads.
Yes.
That doesn't mean that the Dark Matter doesn't exist. Also the neutrino smelled like ether when it was first postulated: something that was only used to "fix" the angular momentum in some equations. (I mean: "come on! A particle without charge, with almost no mass and almost no interactions with the rest of the universe?!")