Do your research - your point is pretty much ass-backwards. The manufacturers are quoting their sizes in gigabytes, which are SI units defined as 10^9 bytes. A gibibyte is the familiar 2^30, 1024MB unit that we all associate as being a gigabyte. Actually, 1 GiB=1024 MiB. That's the whole issue of this case. MB!=MiB, as with kB and KiB, and GB and GiB. The difference between a GB and a GiB is roughly 6.87%, yet when you hit the TB/TiB level, the difference is roughly 9.05%. The greater the prefix, the more the inconsistency between the two units of measurement. I view this case as preventative action for the soon coming terabyte and tebibyte hard drives. As sizes grow, so do our losses (although, technically, they are advertising correctly, and the OS makers are using improper notation).
It's Mbits, not Mbytes. Therefore, 128/8*1024/1400~11.7
Also, they specified DVD movies. Rips from DVDs are usually called AVIs, DivX, XviD, or whatever. If you compress a standard 2 layer DVD down to a little less than a single layer, then you might be able to get 4 crammed in that space, but there'd be some heavy compression.
I'm sure Jack would say that the R rated movies are all made by gamers or inspired by violent video games, that they probably found the pR0n by looking for video games online, and the bullies used GTA or Bully to practice.
One of the most lacking things in Linux is out-of-the-box GPU support. Yes, they will usually work, but rarely to their full potential. I feel that this is one of the biggest things holding Linux back from mainstream adoption. Like it or not, eye candy sells people. Look at OS X or Vista. Both are loaded with eye grabbing features (not that it's helped MS's sales of Vista as much as they've wanted).
The other reason decent graphical support is key is due to games. Windows supporters often say that they need it to play games and there aren't any games for Linux or OS X. OS X is slowly gaining support since its switch to Intel, and Mac sales have improved likewise. Linux may arguably support more graphics cards than OS X, but the big difference is with OS X, you can tell by looking at the box whether it'll work or not. Linux often involves more detailed searching with Google to find compatibility. Not an issue for most slashdotters, but for our friends and relatives who don't like to tinker with forums, the dreaded command line, and technical settings, it can be a major headache.
Aside from persuading people to try Linux, graphics can be a bottle neck on systems and lead to performance and stability issues. Having a better graphical support system may also help developers in creating a more unified UI layer.
It can be viewed as both, much like the Firefox memory leak feature/bug. It is a feature in that it allows people to use VOIP and have it display the name and phone number and allows businesses to change the name/number to be appropriately displayed (EG someone located outside of a department physically calling someone and having the correct department number/name show). It also can be abused by phone phishers posing as charities or legitimate businesses to steal credit card info. The fact that it can be done without the approval or consent of the phone company or the government is what should be at issue, not the technology itself.
If the law passes some legitimate uses will be forfeit, such as the funny ad calls you can set up on some commercial websites (Snakes on a Plane and the Wii game Red Steel both had that feature), along with VOIP and other uses.
Indeed. When it didn't work for me, I just launched DVDFab Decrypter, temporarily copied it to my computer, and it played perfectly. Ironic that the only way I could watch a movie I had legally rented was to illegally copy it.
While it is true that the developers were responsible for Kazaa, currently Skype is owned by eBay. They bought them on Oct. 14, 2005 for around $2.6 billion.
This is a random guess, but it could be part of skype determining the make and model of your CPU. They had made a deal with Intel a while back to only allow large conferences on their processors, and the BIOS reading could be part of that or anticipation of other deals to come.
Imagine what a computer virus attacking that could do. Now in addition to having pop-ups, loud noises, and other issues, your computer can smell like vomit when you visit that unscrupulous porn or warez site!
1) Every company needs some fresh blood, even if they are the most successful company in the world (which MS argueably is). The reason is that without a changing of the guard they can become fat and happy. This leads to a decrease in quality and other issues. See also: MSIE. See also: Windows security. See also: X-box/X-box 360 launch issues.
2) Bill Gate is trying to do something good for the world. Yes, there are many people who donate a larger percentage of their money/income/potential income to charity, but this is one instance where size does matter. True, someone who barely makes anything who donates $100/year to charity is doing his share of good deeds, but even 1000 people doing that won't touch what Billy boy could do without breaking a sweat.
3) He is NOT going to be entirely leaving the company. I know I am going out on a limb here as to why this could be a good thing, but hear me out. First off, he is going to be getting more involved with a charity. Something like that can have a tendency to change a person. While I don't see it happening anytime in the near future, this could lead to a greater acceptance of open source from M$. Many people would argue that open source projects can bring technology out of the reach of the masses, due to cost, into a reasonable possition. If it wasn't for Apache, how many hobbyists would be setting up home webservers? Projects such as The GIMP allow people who can't afford PhotoShop to learn graphic design. OpenOffice.org provides an office tool to those who can't afford MS Office. If Gates realizes that these things are helping people, and he also GENUINELY wants to help people, he could open up to open source. I think his problem is that he views open source purely as competition, not as a symbiotic relationship where both can benefit from the advances of the other.
I think that should cover it for the most part. I don't think Bill Gates is a saint by any stretch of the word, but I think that he still can redeem himself and his company from Microsoft's past actions.
I guess this means that someone is going to have to hack a Linux bootloader to boot Windows. Maybe something with elilo. It's be kinda cool for these guys to say, "Sure. You can run Windows on an Intel Mac. You just gotta install Linux first!"
...it was recently announced that Linux had been ported to run on a standard wrist watch. Developer John I. Ronman stated, "This is really only a tech demo. Currently, the display only shows 18:88:88, but we are confident that not only will this allow the watch to display the time, but it will be Open Source time!"
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I couldn't watch the whole thing. It just gave me an uncontrollable urge for Fanta...
Actually, I reread TFA, and saw they combined 16 of the 64 Gbit chips to make a 128 Gbyte chip. The point still stands about DVDs != movie files.
It's Mbits, not Mbytes. Therefore, 128/8*1024/1400~11.7
Also, they specified DVD movies. Rips from DVDs are usually called AVIs, DivX, XviD, or whatever. If you compress a standard 2 layer DVD down to a little less than a single layer, then you might be able to get 4 crammed in that space, but there'd be some heavy compression.
I'm sure Jack would say that the R rated movies are all made by gamers or inspired by violent video games, that they probably found the pR0n by looking for video games online, and the bullies used GTA or Bully to practice.
One of the most lacking things in Linux is out-of-the-box GPU support. Yes, they will usually work, but rarely to their full potential. I feel that this is one of the biggest things holding Linux back from mainstream adoption. Like it or not, eye candy sells people. Look at OS X or Vista. Both are loaded with eye grabbing features (not that it's helped MS's sales of Vista as much as they've wanted).
The other reason decent graphical support is key is due to games. Windows supporters often say that they need it to play games and there aren't any games for Linux or OS X. OS X is slowly gaining support since its switch to Intel, and Mac sales have improved likewise. Linux may arguably support more graphics cards than OS X, but the big difference is with OS X, you can tell by looking at the box whether it'll work or not. Linux often involves more detailed searching with Google to find compatibility. Not an issue for most slashdotters, but for our friends and relatives who don't like to tinker with forums, the dreaded command line, and technical settings, it can be a major headache.
Aside from persuading people to try Linux, graphics can be a bottle neck on systems and lead to performance and stability issues. Having a better graphical support system may also help developers in creating a more unified UI layer.
Not sure about the accuracy of this page, but it's got almost all of the drinks I've ever seen. http://www.energyfiend.com/the-caffeine-database/
It can be viewed as both, much like the Firefox memory leak feature/bug. It is a feature in that it allows people to use VOIP and have it display the name and phone number and allows businesses to change the name/number to be appropriately displayed (EG someone located outside of a department physically calling someone and having the correct department number/name show). It also can be abused by phone phishers posing as charities or legitimate businesses to steal credit card info. The fact that it can be done without the approval or consent of the phone company or the government is what should be at issue, not the technology itself. If the law passes some legitimate uses will be forfeit, such as the funny ad calls you can set up on some commercial websites (Snakes on a Plane and the Wii game Red Steel both had that feature), along with VOIP and other uses.
Indeed. When it didn't work for me, I just launched DVDFab Decrypter, temporarily copied it to my computer, and it played perfectly. Ironic that the only way I could watch a movie I had legally rented was to illegally copy it.
While it is true that the developers were responsible for Kazaa, currently Skype is owned by eBay. They bought them on Oct. 14, 2005 for around $2.6 billion.
This is a random guess, but it could be part of skype determining the make and model of your CPU. They had made a deal with Intel a while back to only allow large conferences on their processors, and the BIOS reading could be part of that or anticipation of other deals to come.
These go up to 11. [/spinal tap]
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Mmmmm..... Bacon....
Imagine what a computer virus attacking that could do. Now in addition to having pop-ups, loud noises, and other issues, your computer can smell like vomit when you visit that unscrupulous porn or warez site!
I see this as nothing but good. Here's why:
1) Every company needs some fresh blood, even if they are the most successful company in the world (which MS argueably is). The reason is that without a changing of the guard they can become fat and happy. This leads to a decrease in quality and other issues. See also: MSIE. See also: Windows security. See also: X-box/X-box 360 launch issues.
2) Bill Gate is trying to do something good for the world. Yes, there are many people who donate a larger percentage of their money/income/potential income to charity, but this is one instance where size does matter. True, someone who barely makes anything who donates $100/year to charity is doing his share of good deeds, but even 1000 people doing that won't touch what Billy boy could do without breaking a sweat.
3) He is NOT going to be entirely leaving the company. I know I am going out on a limb here as to why this could be a good thing, but hear me out. First off, he is going to be getting more involved with a charity. Something like that can have a tendency to change a person. While I don't see it happening anytime in the near future, this could lead to a greater acceptance of open source from M$. Many people would argue that open source projects can bring technology out of the reach of the masses, due to cost, into a reasonable possition. If it wasn't for Apache, how many hobbyists would be setting up home webservers? Projects such as The GIMP allow people who can't afford PhotoShop to learn graphic design. OpenOffice.org provides an office tool to those who can't afford MS Office. If Gates realizes that these things are helping people, and he also GENUINELY wants to help people, he could open up to open source. I think his problem is that he views open source purely as competition, not as a symbiotic relationship where both can benefit from the advances of the other.
I think that should cover it for the most part. I don't think Bill Gates is a saint by any stretch of the word, but I think that he still can redeem himself and his company from Microsoft's past actions.
-Led
I guess this means that someone is going to have to hack a Linux bootloader to boot Windows. Maybe something with elilo. It's be kinda cool for these guys to say, "Sure. You can run Windows on an Intel Mac. You just gotta install Linux first!"
Me too. I am planning on a RAID 5 configuration for the speed and reliability benefits.
...it was recently announced that Linux had been ported to run on a standard wrist watch. Developer John I. Ronman stated, "This is really only a tech demo. Currently, the display only shows 18:88:88, but we are confident that not only will this allow the watch to display the time, but it will be Open Source time!"