It sounds like they're doing it that way so they can restrict which shows you can use the service with (like lock out new episodes of network shows).
From the article:
The New York Times, which was the first to report the details of AOL's Mystro project, said it would allow networks to determine which shows could be rescheduled and to insert commercials into replays.
There's your answer. They don't want people skipping commercials, and they want full control over rescheduling.
As long as people are not willing to sacrifice fundamental liberties for a temporary sense of safety...
They are. Welcome to the real world. In my experience, most people long for safety and stability, not liberty and truth. I would be more than delighted to be proven wrong, though.
No, I just read the article and checked the Adobe webside for what they say about Windows vs. Mac. I forgot to check the filename in the URL. Silly me.
"Adobe software got its start on the Macintosh computer. Today, the Macintosh platform remains important for Adobe and our customers. Since the introduction of Mac OS X, Adobe has delivered more than 13 Mac OS X native applications. This strong support of the Mac OS X platform is a demonstration of Adobe's commitment to customers on the Macintosh platform."
"Abobe has picked Windows as the preferred platform for running Photoshop, After Effects, and Illustrator. I don't know how many Mac people this will upset, but given the large hold Apple has on design pros and film, this seems like a bad move on Adobe's part."
The article linked says nothing like that at all. It just states that in a test performed in July 2002 a Pentium 4-based workstation outperformed a G4 workstation. It does not say that Adobe has picked Windows as the preferred platform.
To begin at the beginning, a couple of questions: What costs less than a dial-up connection, but gives you broadband Internet access upto 10 MB per second? What uses your TV set to offer Real-Video-on-Demand, SMS, email, chat, unlimited MP3s, online gaming, video-conferencing, telephony, and interactive education? What doubles up as your VCD, Web cam, Karaoke system, jukebox and VCR?
Your a bit mentally deficient if you expect people to actually choose death over working for a propietary software company. They may SAY they will, but their actions will LOUDLY speak otherwise.
The point is: I don't expect people to do that, but I'm so tired of hearing people saying they have no choice. You always have a choice. Saying you don't just shows an unwillingness to take responsibility for your own actions.
Do you know how many people work shit jobs that they hate because they have no choice?
No, please enlighten me. You say that they "have no choice". Does that mean that they would be dead if they chose to leave that job? You're saying that people have no choice. That's bullshit. Even dying is a choice.
Don't throw any "you can do anything you set your mind to" bullshit at me.
Could you please point out exactly where I said such a thing?
Let me break it to you: These are hard times we are living in. A job is just a job. You earn your shit from 9-5 and get out of there, it's what you do to pay the bills so that you don't sit at home twiddling your knob all day bored out of your skull, so that you can afford a roof, to eat, and buy funky cool things.
Let me break it to you: Morale is not something you can just throw away when the going gets tough. (And no, I'm not saying that there exists such a thing as an absolute morale, I'm talking about your personal morale.) A job is not "just a job", it is something you choose to do. What you do during work hours matters, just as much as what you do during your spare time. Having a hard time is the only true test of your own morale.
This architecture results in query speeds that many people won't believe until they see for themselves: some benchmarks point out that it's 9000 times faster than a fully-cached-in-RAM Oracle database, for example. Good thing is: they can see it for themselves.
Yes, I've seen it. The page on www.prevayler.org only took about 30 seconds to load. Does that mean that a fully-cached-in-RAM Oracle database would spend 75 hours loading that page...?
The most interesting is Cartsen Standfuss's CSSX-1.
Translation from Babelfish:
Hello of people, we look forward much you to our homepage to welcome to be allowed. Since, as can see it, our project takes slowly forms, we did not want to withhold it from anybody and you here on these sides from now on up to date will hold. Much fun... the Euronauten
The small cruiser is awake sank 1901 due to a Kollison during a fleet maneuver. Those is awake on request national office for soil care of monuments of the Mecklenburg Vorpommern only once with the data base was theoretically determined. Then regained by that private Wracksuchkutter Viney Peglar 1996 by means of Sidescan sonar before ruegen in the Baltic Sea only few hundred meters apart from the calculated position. The trunk of the Wrackes is not still very well received - superstructures. (source of photo: Kroschel Evers the German fleet 1848-1945)
Yes, hello of people. We also try to keep our data base theoretically determined. And we really appreciate that you look forward to welcome to allow us to your homepage. Much fun!
Consumers with affected units can identify them by the model markings on the front of the unit and by the serial numbers located on the bottom of the unit.
If the unit already is on fire and the outer casing has melted, please try to extinguish before checking the serial number. Do not try to lift burning unit to check serial number. Failure to follow these directions may lead to injury.
The team hopes to begin human trials by the middle of next year, following the completion of animal tests. Trials have been successfully conducted on cadavers.
"So far, no animals have volunteered, but since we're using Linux we expect lots of penguins to sign up." said Dr Yeo Tseng Tsai. In a subsequent interview RMS pointed out that if they had used the correct term GNU/Linux, they might have had more volunteers from the Gnu community. "I told you so. That's what happens when you leave out the GNU part.", explained RMS.
Banning universal TV remote controls? (TV manufacturers "protecting" communication between remote and TV)
How about computer peripherals? (No, you'll have to use a GreedyCorp(R) keyboard with that GreedyCorp(R) computer. And don't you try to circumvent the "protection" mechanism!)
Don't know if we already have this or not, but don't we first need a common voice protocol that is agreed upon and used by all? Kind of like something as ubiqious as TCP?
The IETF has quite a few RFC's on the subject:
For transport: RTP
For call setup: SIP
For resource reservation: RSVP
SIP is actually being used in UMTS networks for call setup.
I sincerely doubt that this is true for a number of reasons. First of all, if they were hired to write the software for RIAA, don't you thing secrecy would both, be part of the agreement, and be completely necessary?
Have you considered the possibility that they were hired by the RIAA to *claim* that they wrote the software, to scare people away from p2p networks?
One stipulation: That the new system use more flexible and current programming languages--Java and the Extensible Markup Language-- rather than OS 390 to gather, compute and deliver data to the media outlets.
Ah, yes. The programming language OS 390. Are there any O'Reilly books on that subject?
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It sounds like they're doing it that way so they can restrict which shows you can use the service with (like lock out new episodes of network shows).
From the article:
The New York Times, which was the first to report the details of AOL's Mystro project, said it would allow networks to determine which shows could be rescheduled and to insert commercials into replays.
There's your answer. They don't want people skipping commercials, and they want full control over rescheduling.
As long as people are not willing to sacrifice fundamental liberties for a temporary sense of safety...
They are. Welcome to the real world. In my experience, most people long for safety and stability, not liberty and truth. I would be more than delighted to be proven wrong, though.
The University of Toronto has an article about this.
Have you looked at the link
http://www.adobe.com/motion/pcpreferred.html
No, I just read the article and checked the Adobe webside for what they say about Windows vs. Mac. I forgot to check the filename in the URL. Silly me.
Adobe supports Mac OSX
"Adobe software got its start on the Macintosh computer. Today, the Macintosh platform remains important for Adobe and our customers. Since the introduction of Mac OS X, Adobe has delivered more than 13 Mac OS X native applications. This strong support of the Mac OS X platform is a demonstration of Adobe's commitment to customers on the Macintosh platform."
"Abobe has picked Windows as the preferred platform for running Photoshop, After Effects, and Illustrator. I don't know how many Mac people this will upset, but given the large hold Apple has on design pros and film, this seems like a bad move on Adobe's part."
The article linked says nothing like that at all. It just states that in a test performed in July 2002 a Pentium 4-based workstation outperformed a G4 workstation. It does not say that Adobe has picked Windows as the preferred platform.
To begin at the beginning, a couple of questions: What costs less than a dial-up connection, but gives you broadband Internet access upto 10 MB per second? What uses your TV set to offer Real-Video-on-Demand, SMS, email, chat, unlimited MP3s, online gaming, video-conferencing, telephony, and interactive education? What doubles up as your VCD, Web cam, Karaoke system, jukebox and VCR?
Linux!
Your a bit mentally deficient if you expect people to actually choose death over working for a propietary software company. They may SAY they will, but their actions will LOUDLY speak otherwise.
The point is: I don't expect people to do that, but I'm so tired of hearing people saying they have no choice. You always have a choice. Saying you don't just shows an unwillingness to take responsibility for your own actions.
Do you live a sheltered life or what?
No, I've had my fair share of hard times.
Do you know how many people work shit jobs that they hate because they have no choice?
No, please enlighten me. You say that they "have no choice". Does that mean that they would be dead if they chose to leave that job? You're saying that people have no choice. That's bullshit. Even dying is a choice.
Don't throw any "you can do anything you set your mind to" bullshit at me.
Could you please point out exactly where I said such a thing?
I believe the word you're looking for is morality. From what I hear, morale [reference.com] is consistently pretty high at Microsoft.
Yes, you are absolutely right. English is not my native language. Sorry about that, but I hope you got the point anyway.
Let me break it to you: These are hard times we are living in. A job is just a job. You earn your shit from 9-5 and get out of there, it's what you do to pay the bills so that you don't sit at home twiddling your knob all day bored out of your skull, so that you can afford a roof, to eat, and buy funky cool things.
Let me break it to you: Morale is not something you can just throw away when the going gets tough. (And no, I'm not saying that there exists such a thing as an absolute morale, I'm talking about your personal morale.) A job is not "just a job", it is something you choose to do. What you do during work hours matters, just as much as what you do during your spare time. Having a hard time is the only true test of your own morale.
One of the offices, for instance, has a mountain scene painted on the wall. Another has red walls and a disco ball.
Disco ball? Please don't tell me that's one of the DISCO developers...
Did anyone (including the person who posted this story) actually read the article?
Hi, you must be new here. Hope you find this site interesting.
This architecture results in query speeds that many people won't believe until they see for themselves: some benchmarks point out that it's 9000 times faster than a fully-cached-in-RAM Oracle database, for example. Good thing is: they can see it for themselves.
Yes, I've seen it. The page on www.prevayler.org only took about 30 seconds to load. Does that mean that a fully-cached-in-RAM Oracle database would spend 75 hours loading that page...?
The most interesting is Cartsen Standfuss's CSSX-1.
Translation from Babelfish:
Hello of people, we look forward much you to our homepage to welcome to be allowed. Since, as can see it, our project takes slowly forms, we did not want to withhold it from anybody and you here on these sides from now on up to date will hold. Much fun... the Euronauten
The small cruiser is awake sank 1901 due to a Kollison during a fleet maneuver. Those is awake on request national office for soil care of monuments of the Mecklenburg Vorpommern only once with the data base was theoretically determined. Then regained by that private Wracksuchkutter Viney Peglar 1996 by means of Sidescan sonar before ruegen in the Baltic Sea only few hundred meters apart from the calculated position. The trunk of the Wrackes is not still very well received - superstructures. (source of photo: Kroschel Evers the German fleet 1848-1945)
Yes, hello of people. We also try to keep our data base theoretically determined. And we really appreciate that you look forward to welcome to allow us to your homepage. Much fun!
In other news, the export of Pringles, laptops and speedboats to the Persian Gulf region has increased dramatically.
Consumers with affected units can identify them by the model markings on the front of the unit and by the serial numbers located on the bottom of the unit.
If the unit already is on fire and the outer casing has melted, please try to extinguish before checking the serial number. Do not try to lift burning unit to check serial number. Failure to follow these directions may lead to injury.
The team hopes to begin human trials by the middle of next year, following the completion of animal tests. Trials have been successfully conducted on cadavers.
"So far, no animals have volunteered, but since we're using Linux we expect lots of penguins to sign up." said Dr Yeo Tseng Tsai. In a subsequent interview RMS pointed out that if they had used the correct term GNU/Linux, they might have had more volunteers from the Gnu community. "I told you so. That's what happens when you leave out the GNU part.", explained RMS.
Banning universal TV remote controls? (TV manufacturers "protecting" communication between remote and TV)
How about computer peripherals? (No, you'll have to use a GreedyCorp(R) keyboard with that GreedyCorp(R) computer. And don't you try to circumvent the "protection" mechanism!)
Don't know if we already have this or not, but don't we first need a common voice protocol that is agreed upon and used by all? Kind of like something as ubiqious as TCP?
The IETF has quite a few RFC's on the subject:
For transport: RTP
For call setup: SIP
For resource reservation: RSVP
SIP is actually being used in UMTS networks for call setup.
the vast majority of p2p users dont read bugtraq.
No, but the story has already reached the tech news sites, and might well reach the mainstream media as well.
I sincerely doubt that this is true for a number of reasons. First of all, if they were hired to write the software for RIAA, don't you thing secrecy would both, be part of the agreement, and be completely necessary?
Have you considered the possibility that they were hired by the RIAA to *claim* that they wrote the software, to scare people away from p2p networks?
If 95% of all p2p-participating hosts are infected (as the article claims) then the answer must be yes.
(Simple math: If the answer is "no", then that would mean that 5% or less of p2p-participating hosts run Windows. That is not the case.)
One stipulation: That the new system use more flexible and current programming languages--Java and the Extensible Markup Language-- rather than OS 390 to gather, compute and deliver data to the media outlets.
Ah, yes. The programming language OS 390. Are there any O'Reilly books on that subject?
From the article:
Test heavy: Put it through at least 10 times as much activity as you really expectYeah, that sounds clever. Make sure to buy at least 10 times more hardware than you really need.